Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 41, Petersburg, Pike County, 4 March 1891 — Page 1

J. L. MOUNT, Editor and Proprietor. ‘Our Motto is Honest Devotion tp Principles of Right.’ OFFICE, over J. B. YOUNG As CO.’S Store, Main Street. VOLUME XXI. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 4, 1891. — NUMBER 41.

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THE WOULD AT LARGE. Summary of the Dally Newa congress. Thb senate on the 2tU agreed to the conference report on the bill for the allotment of lands to Indiana. After an executive session the senate took up the sundry civil bill, ’which was discussed until 11 p- m. and the senate adjourned.... ...The house agreed to the conference report on the Indian allotment bill and went into committee of the whole on the deficiency bill. Before concluding it the committee rose, and the house passed the post olfice appropriation bill and at the evening session considered the immigration bill. - THB senate on the 24th passed with a substitute the house bill to establish a United States land court and to provide for a judicial investigation and settlement of privato land Claims in Utah. Sew Mexico, Colorado, Nevada and Wyoming, and then further considered the sundry civil bill. The death of Representative Watson (Pa.) was announced, eulodss delivered and the srnate adjourned. ....The house passed the senate bi 1 grantIns pensions to the members of I'oweli’s battalion of mounted volunteers of Missouri who served in the Mexican war, and the direct tax bill was taken up for Immediate consideration and passed by a vote of 172 yeas to 101 nays. The conference report on the naval appropriation bill was agreed te. a conference on the direct tax bill a™ pointed, and after ordering a further conferencc on the District of Colombia bill the house adjourned. The suddon death of SenatorJWilson. of Maryland, suspended all business In the senate on the 5Sth. Mr. Gorman announced the death of his colleague in a few timely remarks and Mr. Spooner paid a tribute to the dead senator. Resolutions were adopted, a committee appointed to attend the funeral and the senate adjourned.In the house a resolution was reported from the committee on rules for the disprs.il of the shipping subsidy bill, when Messrs. Blount (Ga.) and McMillan (Tenn.) entered a vigorous protest against, such a manner of rushing bi ll through, but said the minority was powerless Aftera lively talk the resolution was adopted and the house went into committee of the whole on the immigration bill. During the debate that follow*da lively tilt took place between Mr. Kunston and Mr. Butterworth. Pending eon-ideration of the bill the death of Senator Wilson was announced and the house adjourned until H o’clock p. m. At the evening session the agrlenllnral appropriation Ibiil was passed, and the general deficiency bill considered until adjournment AFTER routine business the Senate on tho I th further considered the sundry civil hill, which after being amended by adding many minor items was agr cdtoand passed Then the legislative, executive and jud eial bill was discussed and completed with the exception of a few minor, details, and laid aside. The conference report on the military academy bill was agreed to andnt9:4"> p m. the Senate adjourned for want of a quorum_After routine business the bouse resumed debate on the shipping bill, in committee of the whole, wliicii continue I until after 10 o’clock In the evening. The deficiency bill passed and at li o’elot-k the bouse adjourned. When the senate met bn the 27tli a message was received from the president vetoing the hill to establish tho record and pension office of the war department. Mr Sbtr.nun stati d that in view of the impossibil .ty of the house taking action In the matter the Nicaragua canal bill would not be further pushed at this time. Consideration of the legislative appropriation bill was then resumed and it finally passad. The pure food hill was thou taken up, and tbe senate soon after went Into executive session. When the doors were opened a motion was agreed to to eonsiiUr the Indian appropriation bill, (thus displacing the pure food bill). House bills were considered until 5 o’clock and a number disposed of, when the Indian hill was further considered. It was near midnight when the senuta adjourned_The house passed a number of local bills and resumed consideration of the shipping bill, which was variously amended. The house substitute (ibe postal subsidy l>it.) was finally adopted, an I upon third reading passed by a vote of 110 to 120. Pending action on tire mot ion for a oon ferenee the house, at midnight, adjourned. [The shipping bill as passed by the house is radically different from the measure sent to that body by the senata. It merely authorises the postmaster-general io enter into a contract for not less than five nor more than ten years with American citizens, tor carrying the mails on American steamships between United States ports and foreign ports (Canada excepted). The vessels must bo American build and officered by Americans]. WASHINGTON NOTES. Thk house committee on the census has decided that New York is not entitled to a census recount. Senator E. K. Wii.son, of Maryland, died of heart disease at Washington on the night of the 94th. lie was‘born in Worcester county. Md., December 23, 1831. The house committee on invalid pensions has re ported a bill granting a pension of $2,500 per annum Jp the widow of the late Admiral Porter. The nomination of Charles Poster as secretary of the treasury has been confirmed by the senate. The president has approved the act making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense and for the procuring of heavy ordnance and the regular army appropriation bill. Senator Sherman has announced his intention to retire from public life at the end of his present term. Civil Engineer Robert E. Peary, of the navy, has been granted a leave of absence for eighteen months, and, will lead an Arctic expedition from Whale sound, on the west coast of Greenland through the ulterior of that island in a northeasterly direction, hoping to reach the highest latitude yet attained, and perhaps reach the pole itself. The woman suffrage convention opened at Albaugh’s opera house, Washington, on the 26th. The president has nominated John A. Anderson, of Kansas, to be consul-gen-eral at Cairo, Egypt Senator Voorhees, who has been indisposed for some time, has left Washington for Hot Springs, Ark., to be gone several weeks. Senator Blair has been nominated and confirmed minister to China.

THE EAST. Gov. Hill, of New York, has declined to honor a Connecticut requisition lor an alleged criminal, bearing the signature of Morgan G. Bulkley on the ground that he did not recognize Mr. Bulkley its governor of the state of Connecticut. Or the four miners rescued alive after nineteen days of subterranean imprisonment at Jeamsville, Pa., only one is in a precarious condition and his ravings are pitiable. William West, a negro, was hanged at Washington, Pa., for a treble murder committed May 14, 1890. The convict attempted suicide by cutting his throat the night previous to his execution. The rope broke at the first attempt, causing a horrible scene. The mind of the well known Anna Dickinson has become deranged and she has been placed in the Danville insane asylum for treatment. A special in the New York World from Washington says Treasurer Hustcd has again tendered his resignation. This resignation was handed in by Mr. flqsted in person, who called at the White House for that purpose. Akthur Buddenbiek, aged 11, a son of Charles A. Buddensiek, the New York contractor who is now serving a term of ten years in Sing Sing prison in New York for building houses with “mud” instead of mortar, fell through a hatchway in his father’s barn at Kahway. N. J- and broke his neck

The 25th -vas an exciting day' in the coke strike at Seottdale, Pa., the main body of strikers forcing the reluctant men at Rainey’s works to stop. Two or three assaults occurred. • The Mohawk Talley, N. Y., was flooded on the 26th. The house in lioston in which Paul Revere is popularly supposed to have been born is shortly to be torn down and a more pretentious and better renting structure erected on its site. The house is at Nos. 19 and 31 North square. Inspector Byrnes, of New York, has been knighted by the King of Italy. Striking Hungarian coke workers at bcottdale. Pa., beat a man named Holliday in a frightful manner because they thought he was a non-striker. THE WEST. The five story brick block owned by Sol Smith Russell at Minneapolis, Minn., has been destroyed by fire. The iEtnp powder mills near La Porte, Ind., exploded recently. No one was hurt. The Eleventh Iowa Farmers' Alliance conference met at Sioux City on the 25thT*B. K, Farrow, president .of the Iowa alliance, and other prominent leaders being present. It was resolved to put a full state ticket in the field in Iowa this fall and to continue to adhere to prohibition and low tariff. Hail, the heaviest for years, fell in and about Virginia, 111. Great damage was done. Low sections of Kalamazoo, Mich., have been inundated and great damage has been done. Several hundred farmers of McLean county, 111., have left there with their families for Iowa and Nebraska, where they will take up cheaper lands. The St. Louis Union Depot Company has already begun work on a new depot. Hon. A. C. Ayjies, a prominent memberr of the board of trustees of the university of South Dakota, fell dead after delivering a speeeh, exactly as did Secretary Windom. A terrible aceddent occurred on the Richmond division of the Panhandle railroad at Hagerstown, sixteen miles from Richmond, Ind., on the 25th. the fast train from Chicago going off the track. Four persons were killed and about twenty badly injured. Immense snow slides demolished the quarry mill of the Red Jacket mine near Baker City, Ore. Hugh Curran, foreman; H. Holstein, watchman, and Jules Olstein, boarding house keeper of the mine, were killed. The late Secretary Windom’s will has been filed for probate at Winona, Wis. The gross value of the estate is from •9150,000 to 9175,000. When the debts are paid the estate will yield a revenue of 95,000 a year. In a prize fight at Nelsonville, O., Dave Seville killed Art Majesty. The latter was 82 years of age, and proprietor of an athletic training school at Toledo. His skull was fraetured. Four out of a party of five laborers were recently frozen to death in Two Medieine mountains,Northern Montana. They were traveling in search of work when overtaken by a storm. A tornado recently passed through Indiana. At Utica much damage was done. Rev. U. W. Hicks, superintendent of the Baptist mission, about fifteen miles north of Anadarko, I. T., writes that the Wichita, Caddo, Delaware and Kechis Indians are still dancing. These dances commenced during the Sioux troubles, and have continued sinee with only temporary intermission. They have recently gained a new impetus. In the North Dakota house the woman suffrage committee to which was referred the bill prohibiting prize fighting, etc., made two reports, the majority in favor of the measure. The house adopted the minority report,,the argument being that the legislature was attempting to deprive the. people of all kinds of luxuries and amusements. Cai*t. A. E. Woodson denies the report from Little Rock that there is much suffering in the Cherokee strip. Yuma. Ariz., was reported in a critical condition on the 26th, owing to the floods, I John I). Miller, of Greensburg, has been appointed by Gov. lloVey to till the vacancy on the Indiana supreme bench caused by the death of Judge Berkshire. Judge Miller was graduated from Hanover college in 1661. A passenger train on the Dead wood Central, S. D., collided" with a switch engine, two coaches being wrecked. Three persons were hurt, one fatally. The Consolidated Mutual Fire Insurance Co., of Chicago, is on the verge of dissolution. Suit has been begun at Chicago against, about 6,000 delinquent subscribers to the stock of the world's fair company. As a rule, the delinquents had only one share each. It is probable that there will be a confederate demonstration in connection with the Grand Army display at the dedicatory exercises at the world’s fair. A movement with that end in view is on foot.

J. C. Arnold, guard at the United States prison on McNiel's island, and two ■ prisoners, Charles Oleson and Charles Barrett, were drowned in the sound at Tacoma, Wash., while attempting to reach the main land in a sail boat, which capsized during a squall. Three persons have died from trichinosis in the vicinity of Ida Grove, la., many others being sick. They had been eating bologna sausage made torn a diseased hog. Yuma, Ariz., was almost totally ruined by the floods, only two houses remaining. The night of the 27th was bitterly cold for the time of year in Nebraska, Kansas and the western part of Missouri. The blizzard followed a warm spell of a few hours. TUB SOUTH. J John A. Williams has been sentenced at Texarkana, Ark., to ninety-nine years’ imprisonment. He was concerned in the Cotton Belt train robbery in June last. The state agricultural college at Lexington, Ky., has been seriously damaged by fire. The court martial of Captain Henry Wessels, Third cavalry United States army, at San Antonio, Tex., on charges of insubordination, his been dissolved on account of a technical error in the accusing papers, the president not having signed them. A tornado swept over Sunbury, Gates county, N. C., the other night. Two children were killed near Sunbury, and it was reported that a number of people were killed further east. An exodus of negroes to Oklahoma from Arkansas is in progress. The other night 100 left Pulaski county by the way of Texarkana, and 500 more will leave shortly. A receiver has been appointed for the Belknap & Dumesnill Stone Co., of Louisville. Kv,

At 6 o'clock on the morning of the 97th the thermometer at Clinton, La., stood at 30 degrees, ice formed and the ground was frozen. Many of the fruit trees were in bloom and will doubtless be badly damaged. Ex-State Treasurer Woodruff, of Arkansas, has been arrested on the charge of violating the law in the improper use of the public funds during his term. The shortage of over 363,000 was paid by his bondsmen. tlKNKRAL. Prince Bismarck has declined to run for the German reichstag for personal and domestic reasons. Tii'Catholic church of the province of Quebec has taken steps in favor of the Macdonald government and against the talk of annexation. Ex-Empress Frederick, of Germany, expresses herself pleased with her reception in. Paris. The subscriptions to the new German loan are forty-five times the amount of the-iean. Ohio & Mississippi railroad officials deny positively that the road is in any danger of going into the hands of a receiver. The Brazilian assembly has adopted the proposed constitution. After a trial lasting several days at Warsaw, Prince Bartinieff was found guilty of the murder of the actress Wisnowska in July last. He was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment at hard labor. His defense was that the actress implored him to kill her. Demf.trio Jauregui, leader of a band of six bandits who terrorized the entire state of Jalisco, Mexico, has been killed with all his band by soldiers. The captain of a steamship which arrived at Marseilles from Madagascar reports that as a result of a revolt upon the part of the natives the governor of Nossi-Be, an island and French colony off the northwest coast of Madagascar, has caused the execution of over ^100 rebels and killed their wives and children. A dispatch from Vienna says: Two clergymen were devoured by wolves while sleigh riding near Mesvar. Two night watchmen of that city were also eaten by wolves. Premier di Rudixi, of Italy, expresses especial friendship for England and declares that his government wants only peace. Gen. Da Foxseca has been formally elected president of Brazil. A ^Financial article in the London Standard says: “We believe that the cloud has again lifted from the city and that another slow and painful liquidation of excessive commitments has been passed without aceident. The Bank of England has not helped temporarily the overloaded house,, but it has been helped.” ^ A mysterious lady has joined Gen. Boulanger in Brussels. The government will expel the general from Belgium if he engages in any political intrigues. The pope has informed the propaganda that he is exceedingly displeased with the last nominations for bishops made in the United States and sent for his approval. The German government, expecting strikes of miners, has ordered large supplies of coal from England. The Peiravaca pine forest near Mentone is on fire. An Alpine battalion made^unsueeessful attempts to extinguish the flames. A sergeant and two privates belonging to the battalion were suffocated. Business failures ’(Dun’s report) for the seven days ended Feuruary 36 numbered 390, compared with 397 the previous week and 801 the corresponding week of last year. The trade and navigation returns of Canada for 1890 were issued recently. The exports were $97,748,149, and the imports $138,858,341. The imports increased last year by $7,500,000 and the exports increased about the same. The balance of trade against Canada was 835,109. Canada’s exports to the United States were 840,000,000 and imports $53,000,000. The suit of Timothy Harrington, M. P., against the Insuppressible, of Dublin, for libel in making certain charges about the handling of league funds resulted in a verdict of five pounds damages against the defendant. THE LATEST,. In the senate, on the 38th, the house bill granting a pension of $3,500 a year to the widow of Admiral Porter was passed. The house amendment to the direct-tax bill was agreed to. House bill for the reorganization of the artillery of the army, with senate substitute taking in the infantry, was passed. Conference reports on the bill to regulate the jurisdiction of United States courts and establish a United States laifd court were agreed to, as was the conference report on the bill to repeal the timber-culture laws. The Indian appropriation bill was passed.In the house the shipping bill,the sundry civil appropriation bill and the legislative bill were sent to conference. The Hawaiian cable amendment to the diplomatic bill was nan-concurred in and conferees were appointed. The conference reports on the Indian depredations claim bill and

uu me um iu rrg uituc auu ucuuc me jurisdiction of United States courts and the bill to establish a private land claim court were agreed to. A resolution was reported for the impeachment of Alex. Boarman, United States district judge of Louisiana, and eulogies were delivered on the late Representative Phelan, of Tennessee. Uvmp, the Fort Wayne (Ind.) faster, who wagered Cl,000 with Col. Geary that he could fast thirty days, gave up, on the 28th, at the end of the twenty-fifth day. He was rapidly going into a decline, and his physicians advised him to quit. The money was to have been used in paying off a mortgage on his parents’ home. Chancellor Von Caprivi’s order to increase the rigidity with'which passport regulations are enforced on the French frontier has greatly excited the Parisian press. Violent articles attributing to the kaiser a desire to provoke hostilities have appeared in several journals. An attempt was made on the night of January 31 to set fire to the China Navigation Co.’s steamer Pekin at Shanghai, and it is now believed that the burning of the steamer Shanghai recently, whereby 300 people lost their lives, was the work of an incendiary. Sir Joseph Bazelgette, the eminent English civil engineer, died in London on the 28th. Among his great works was the planning and execution of the extensive main drainage system of London. A large and enthusiastic meeting of citizens was held in Vicksburg, Miss., on the evening of the 38th,to protest against the appointment of James Ilill, coloreg, as postmaster,

INDIANA STaIE NEWS. Charlh^ Williams of Martinsville, aged ten, vrhile walking along Leatherwood creek bank when it was at flood height, fell in and wa s drowned. David Holt, Oscar Seppe and Wm: Bremning were sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for larceny, and Wm. Yard received the same sentence for cutting with intent to kill, at Peru. The freshman class at Wabash college banquetted the other night without their president, K. Howard Taylor, of Philadelphia. He was captured early in th* evening by a party of sophmores and-, was spirited out into the country four miles. He got back at three o’clock in the morning, too late for the banquet. tv Samvel McKibben, a wfpdthy farmer of Ne% Paris, was killed by a Cincinnati, Wflbash and Michigan train at Warsaw. 1 The pritSVy gmde&iof the public schools of Danville have been closed on account of an epidemic of diphtheria that is prevailing to an alarming extent. Mrs. Maria Nicholson, an aged lady living in Myers addition to London, attempted suicide by jumping jnto an open cistern. The family residing in the same house heard the dash of water, and upon examining found the lady in water up to her ears, and rescued her in time to save her life. Albert Weddel, of Crumstown, St. Joseph county, was probably fatally shot at a dance at North Liberty. Frank Elder was arrested for doing the shooting. Samvel Wilson, alias Langly, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for four years for grand lareeny from Winchester. He has done time in the Ohio penitentiary. Jacob Williams, the Washington county giant, is but twenty-two years old, and stands seven feet six inches in his boots. This People's theater. Evansville, burned the other morning. The fire broke out at 5:30. The building is completely gutted. The Journal office adjoining was badly damaged. The type was lost and the machinery injured. L. Fritsoh’s tailoring establishment also succumbed to the flames. Loss is estimated at $75,000: origin of fire is unknown. Charles ’ Hammond, of Campbell township, near llooneville. committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a revolver. He was twenty-one years old and single. Hydrophobia is i-aging in Brandywine township, Shelby County. Severn al farmers have lost hogs and cattle which were bitten by a mad dog. John Reinhart lost two fine horses from the bites of the dogs. Many stock ave being killed to pi-event the spread cl the disease. John Potter, at the trial at Madison, v,-as acquitted oil complicity in the murder of Orril Selg. Wm. Stewart, who escaped, is still at large. The amount collected and to be refunded to Indiana by the direct tax bill is $709,144. Mrs. Rebecca Miller, one of the first white women that settled in the Wabash valley, died at Pern, a few days ago, a ged 93. The furnace ,»t the Locust-street church, Greencastlc, was flooded with water from the recent heavy rains, and the gas jets had to be utilized daring Sunday for the supply of heqft to the congregation. '■ In the woods, near the falls of the Ohio, are thousands of robins on their way north. As the binds arrive at the roosts they are so weakened by their long flights from the south that they can be knocked down w ith sticks. John Philups, of Clay township, Morgan county, hss a wooden clock that has kept time accurately for sev-enty-two years. The clock is of the wall-sweep pattern, eing seven feet high. A company, headed by D. J. Mackey, will develop the cancel-coal fields of Daviess and Martin co rnties. Representative Hr wn, of Indiana, submitted a favorable report on the bill to pay to J. & O. F. Cobb, of Aurora, $5,441 for barges destroyed by. Gen. BOyle on the Ohio rive: • in 1863. Liveryman M. L. I avis goes from Tipton to take his slice of an English fortune of $60,000. At Huntington Win. Haley and John Stewait were sentenced to one year each in the penitentiary for stealing a buggy robe. Nelson Pyle, a farn er near New Albany, died of hydrophobia. -He was bitten by a rabid dog December 9, 1890. The sexton of Montm :>renci cemetery, near Lafayette, dropped dead while digging a grave.

In regard to the elf or being made at Union City, to have the Ohio Legislature authorize a new st rvey of the line between Indiana and Ohio, claiming that the line should he f rom one to eight miles west of the old recognized line, Hont John M. Smith, an attorney of Portland, claims that the matter was settled in the United States courts, Fourth Howard's D. S„ Reports, in a dispute between Massachusetts and Rhode Island. They decided that while the line between the two States was wrong, it had been acquiesced in for years, and the case was dismissed. The new line, as proposed, would make a change in Indiana in favor of the Republicans of over five thousand votes. Abraham Neal, John Potter and Wm. Stewart have been indicted for the murder of Marcus Selig near Madison. Hon. John G. Berkshire, one of the judges of the Supreme Court, died at his home at North Vernon the other evening. He served eighteen years in succession as circuit court judge, then practiced law six yegrs, and was then elected Supreme Court Judge on the Republican ticket in 1888, and had served in-that capacity about two years. His sickness was typhoid pneumonia, superinduced by a heavy cold, and was of about ten days' duration. He was 69 years of age. This is the second death on the Supreme Bench in the past two months. It is announced that a new savings bank will be started in Fort Wayne. Mr. ani> Mrs. Amos Hunt, aged and respectable people, were attacked in their house, near Muncie, by hoodlums and Mrs. Hunt was seriously injured by a blow from a stone. George Lantz, a merchant of Markley, boarded a train at Huntington and accidentally fell from the platform. The wheels passed over him and severe^ both legs below the knees. The business men of Huntingburg have organized a Business Men's Association, for the purpose of developing the coal and clay resources of the vicinity, which are said by scientific experts to bo the best in the country*

INDIANA LEGISLATURE. INDIANAPOLIS Feb. IE—SENATE — Bills pass* Raising the salaries of prison wardens from 0 8)0 to *.*.500, and of deputy wardens from tuna to 0.89 >. and providing that these >Hlce s shall have no perquisites whatever; elding imprisonment of from ten to thirty days 0 the penalty provided tor selling liquor wiito jut license; providing tor turning into the general fund surplus funds assessed and collected fortlie eons’ ruction Of free gravel roads; permitting guardians to sell the property of wards worth less than O.000 without giving legal notice ; providing a tine of *8 to (5) for hunting on inclosed lands without the written consent of the owner. House—Bills passed; Providing that Sinking Fund Commissioners may use funds to buy bonds tor which sueh funds were levied, at the market price at any time; appropriating i 1,0(10 to advertise for the publication of certain textbooks: re pooling the law which holds the estates of insane persons liable tor their maintenance in insane asylums; widening the jurisdiction of city courts in cases whero not more than 81,010 is involved; making it unlawful for railroad companies to heat coaches, cabooses or mail cars with stores; establishing the office of Natural Gas Inspector, at 81,209 per year; snid inspector to be appointed by tbe State Geologist. Indiana poms. Feb. l*. — Senate — Bills passed: Giving to the widow of tbe man who dies intestate one-third of bis property, subject to debts, and permuting such wt low to select tbe property she will take; exempting one-story buildings from the operations of the act requiring the doors of public buildings to swing outward; providing for tbe return to owners of stolen property and the destruction of gamblers* and counterfeiters’ tools and lascivious books; abolishing water works boards in cities and towns of less than 5,000; providing a fine of from 810 to 8100 for spectators at-prize ligh's; authorizing attornejs to receipt for judgments. ‘House—Bills passed': Repealing ibesection of tbe law requiring physicians to take out license in tbe county in which they practice; making tbe Slate Geologist custodian of the battle flags of Indiana; Authorizing counties, cities and other municipal corporations to fund their indebtedness ; providing that it shall not be necessary tor material men to give the owners of bouses notice that tbey are furnishing material tor the construction of sueh houses; Requiring unexpended taxes collected for the construction of good roads to be returned to the lax-payers; appropriating f4o.K5.99 to complete the equipment or the Southern insane hospital and pay for work already done. Indianapolis. Feb. SO. — Senate — The House resolution requesting the National Congress to pass the Butierworth Anti Option and Grain Gambling bill, was taken up and indorsed without opposition. Senator Guron demanded that his bill prohibiting Sunday base-ball bo printed, and carried bis point Senator Kopelko pressed through a resolution instructing tbe Committee on Revision or the Constitution to report not later than Monday oa the status of the constitutional amendments passed two years ago, but cot mado operative. A number of memorials were received fiom various po nts of ibe State. House—The turbulent struggle in tbe House last evening immediately preceding adjournment over tbe Fee and Salary Bill showed signs ofrenewal This morning, after the members had been called together and the Speaker had announced that the same bill was stilt a special order, scores of men sprang to their feet demanding recognition by the Chair. The sections relating to county officers were then taken up in detail. Mr. Zoereher, of Perry, suddenly moved that the bill be engrossed, and on that demanded the previous question. Carried. Indianapolis, Feb. Si.—Baring the fortysix days thus far consumed by the legislature, about twenty^Ae bills hare passed both branches, have^Ren signed by the governor and have or wiil become laws. The cost of maintaining these hundred and fifty law makers, with the crew of door keepers, janitors and others is about 81,750 per dar, and tbe expenses to date are about $75,009. Only thirteen working days remain of the present session oi tbe legislature. Governor Hovey bas given it eut that he will not call an extra session. Under no circumstances wiil ihe legislature be extended beyond the sixty days prescribed bylaw. Ample notice of this determination bas been given. Indianapolis, Feb 88. —Senate—Senator Gilman Introduced a bill which, if passed and enforced, would probably reduce if it did not entirely obliterate tbe white cap infamy.. Tbe bi 1 provides thnt where a man is taken out and whipped by wbite caps bo may recover from the county from two to five thousand dollars, and .a woman who is subjected tb brutalities by these demons may recover from five to ten thousand dollars. The cigarette bill, upon which the Senate has wasted almost two full working days, was disposed of in short order this morning. On motion the bill was indefinitely postponed, and to clinch the matter, a motion lo reconsider was made and tabled. House.—The consideration of Represensative Oppenbeim's tax revision bill was resumed in committee of the whole, with Mr. McCollough in tbe chair. This discussion continued until S o'clock this afternoon, when the motion of Mr. Gent to recommit was defeated by a vote of 37 to 88. The bill was then passed to engrossment. The fee and salary bill came up this afternoon and was passed without debate, the vote was 77 yeas to 10 nays. The amerdmeut to the Metropolitan police bill applying its provisions to cilies sh .wing a school enumeration of 14,009 (Terre Haute), passed the house this afternoon, and now requires only the signature of the governor to become a law. Indianapolis. Feb. 24.—Senate—Memorials were presented signed by several hundred employes of the Pennsylvania railway system west of Pittsburgh, remonstrating against the so-called Kelly bill, which militates against the voluntary relief department of the Pennsylvania lines operated by the employes A bill passed providing that counties with populations In excess of 80,000 and an indebtedness aggregating one percent, of total tables may fund such indebtedness by issuing bonds payable by tbe county. Tbe special order was tbe general taxation bill already passed by the bouse, and the senate resolved itself into a committee of tbe whole, with Senator Magee in the chair. Tbe remainder of the day .Mas passed in considering the same by sections^and tbe only radical changes fnm tbe bill, as approved by the house, was in exempting private banks from tax on deposits and ordering the appraisment of real estate every five years. House—Mr. Beasley moved to reconsider the rote by which Fippen’s bill (providing that cities may operate natural gas plants, electrio light plants, etc.,) passed the House. This bill was found to contain two dangerous provisions —one allowing cities to make such purchases without proper limitations, and the other assessing the cost of such improvements against special property. The bill was recalled and reconsidered. During the afternoon, the legislative appropriation bill was eilied up. and 1 minority and majority repor.s were submitted by the committee having it in charge. The bill was passed under a suspension of the rules by a strict party vote.

Efforts to get a jury in a murder case at Logansport developed a man who lived within six miles of where the crime was committed and never had heard of it. John Beecher’s store at Valentine, near Lagrange, an Alliance enterprise, was burned out Loss $7,000. Years ago Anthony Fuller, now of Terre Haute, brought suit against his wife, Alevia Fuller, in Clark County, 111., for divorce, and his lawyer informed him that he had won the suit Since then he has married and become the father of several children. The other day he discovered that his first suit had been dismissed and he has applied to the courts for relief. The Delaware County Farmers’ Institute closed a most successful meeting at Muncie, a few days ago. Ada Johnson, of Jeffersonville, aged 23, committed suicide by taking poison. Disappointment in love is the supposed cause. A stock company has been formed, with a capital stock of $100,000, and has purchased the Dan Yount woolen-mills, at Yountsville,near Crawfordsville. The stockholders are: Andrew Yount, T. L. Hanna, Geo. M. Cowan, I. C. Elston and C. M. Crawford. * Wm. Teeters has been sent to tho penitentiary for one year and find $1 for robbing a saloon near Crawford sville. He pleaded guilty, hut his attempt to implicate another person failed. A N’lMBERof dynamite cai tridges were found tinder the L.' E. & W. depot at Muncie,

ENDED Eft A MISTRIAL. The Trial «f Outvies F. Vail for WlfeMortler in St. L«iib EaM In a Failure by the Jury to Flail a VerdJefc-One . Juror who mm So Firmly Convinced of tile Guilt of the Accused tint He Could Mat be Shake® from HU Position. St. Louis, March i.—As foreshadowed in these dispatches the Vail wifemurder trial has resulted in a disagreement of the jury, who have been discharged, and the whole tedious process has to he gone over again. All but one of the jurors arrived at the conclusion, after being locked up thirty-nine hours, to give the accused the benefit of the doubt, but the twelfth man could see no doubt ami therefore refused absolutely to go over to the majority. When the criminal court convened at 10 a. m., Judge Normile sent an officer to bring- Vail up from the jail, and sent a messenger for Attorneys McDonald and Johnson, representing the defense and prosecution. On their arrival , afev.- moments later, the judge announced he had received two communications from the jury. ■ The jury was then brought before the court, and the judge read a communication dated 10 p. m., February 37, signed by Juror Hicke, foreman, stating the jury could not possibly agree upon a verdict. The judge then read a second note, dated 8 a. m.. February 38, signed by the same foreman, and stating the jury was still unable to agree, and it was the opinion of its members they could not agree, even if kept in the jury-room six months. The judge inquired of each juror if the communication were in accordance with his present belief, and each juror said “yes," whereupon the judge discharged the jury and ordered court adjourned. Vail’s face, for the first time during the trial, showed signs of emotion, and when Judge Normile read the first Dote from the jury, showing the jury had disagreed, his face blanched to chalky whiteness, and he trembled from head to foot for an instant. Then, bracing himself by a terrible effort, his nerves became quiet, and his faee assumed the same placid, cool look which he has so remarkably maintained during the trial. After the eonrt had been adjourned the jailer called for Vail and took him back to jail to await retrial. The jury took the ease at 7 p. m. Thursday, and on the first ballot of the twenty-one taken the jury stood eight for acquittal and four for conviction. The four voting for conviction being Jurors Phelps, Wilson, Knapstad and Foreshaw. The vote remained unchanged for three ballot' and ou the fourth ballot Juror Phelps joined the majority, and voted for acquittal, That ended the balloting on Thursday night. On the first ballot Friday morning, and the fifth altogether, Knoppstad voted for acquittal, and the jury then stood ten to twelve for acquittal until Friday night. s On the fourteenth hallot Friday night, Juror Wilson gave np and voted for acquittal, saying there might be a possible doubt as to the prisoner’s guilt, and he would give him the benefit of the doubt and vote for acquittal, in order to settle the ease. Juror Foreshaw could not find any sort of a doubt as to Vail’s guilt, and said on Friday night that he could not, under his oath as a juror, agree to an acquittal, and he remained firm in that conviction until the end, and a notice of the disagreement was therefore sent to the judge. ____ A YOUNG BORGIA. Arrest of Pearl I,eeonrt, iynl Nineteen, at Kevere, Mass,, Charged with Poisoning the Rest of the Family, One of Whom Is Head. Boston, March 1.—Chief of Police Burrell of Kevere arrested Pearl Lecourt, aged 19, on suspicion of having administered arsenic to the members of her father’s family, from the effects of which her brother,' Arthur, aged 3, has died and other members of the family have been made very ill, Pearl alone having suffered no effects from poisoning. No motive is directly given for the girl to commit the crime unless one can be implied by certain reports that Pearl has intimated that Jf ~ ecourfc is not her own father. A drug elerk in Chelsea, upon being confronted with the girl, positively stated that the girl visited his store and purchased arsenic before the family was taken sick, and once since. A chemical analysis of the stomach of the dead boy and of certain articles used about the house is being made, and some important developments may result. At present the remaining members, eonsistingof Mr. and Mrs. Leconrt and two children, arc rapidly recovering.

OBITUARY. Death of John It.'Stuff, the Well-Known Railroad Conductor, at Boston. Boston, Maueh 1. — Mr. John K. Duff, the well-known railroad contractor, died suddenly at the Quincy hotel at 11:30 o’clock Friday evening' of heart disease. He was born in Boston and was a son of the iate John Duff, a millionaire. His railway experience began with the taking of sub-eontraets in Massachusetts: subsequently be obtained the contract to build the Hannibal & St. Joseph raBroad. In 1883 Mr. Duff gained considerable notoriety through a suit against William J. Hutchinson, of Sew York, for 51,000,000, which Mr. ftulf alleged the defendant, in his capacity as a banker, bad misappropriated. The deceased was 60 years of age. President Pro Tempore Ingalls' SueCMsor* Washington, March 1.—The republican senators held a caucus last night at the capitol for the purpose of determining upon.,» candidate to succeed Mr. Ingalls as president pro tempore of the senate. There was a good attendance and several ballots were taken, with Senators Manderson, Hoar and Frye as candidates, before a decision was reached. At the third ballot Mr. Manderson received a majority of the votes east and on motion his nomination was made unanimous and the caucus adjourned. Klton O’Nell Townsend Cremated In His Residence at Florence, S. C. Flobencf, S. C., March 1.—Elton O’Neil Townsend, a prominent young lawyer, who was well connected in this state, was burned to death in his residence Friday night. Fire was discovered in his house about 10 o’clock. Every door was unlocked except that of Townsend’s chamber, where the fire originated. His wife and children were away from home at the time. He was 30 years old. His book of poems was warmly commended by Longfellow and Howells. The origin of the fire is a prefousd mystery. . ,

YUMA IN RUINS. Knrtjr Three Hundred Ruined Hmtnni <e Turns, Arli., and Several Hundred lev pie Homeless as the Result of the ®nprecedented Rise in the G lla—Desolat lorv in the Gila VaUey—Hundreds of Coeopaha Indians Drowned. Yuma, Ariz., Marcji 2.—Over :i50 houses are in ruins in this place and 1,400 people are homeless. It is feared that hundreds of lives have been lost in the valley. No reliable reports can be obtained from that locality as the roads are impassable and all the wires are down. Above Yuma the river is 7 miles wide, and below the town the water covers the country as one gTaud lake over 50 miles across. Over 1,000 persons are being fed daily at the Southern Pacific, and the town has provisions sufficiently for eight days more. The blockade of west-bound trains, it-is expected, will be raised in about four days, but it will be at least two weeks before they can go east. Reports from Jakuno, seventeen miles above here, are to the effect that the flood drove the people into the hills. It is estimated that anywhere between thirty and 100 lives were lost in the valley. Desolation reigns supreme all along the valley. , Every house on the hills has been thrown open to receive the homeless, < ilnd hundreds are quartered in tents and in the old' government building. Tho merchants have opened their goods tthe streets in order to help thp suffers. The water is still high for 800 miles east of this point, and, as all of this must pass here, many fear that the worst is yet to come. The losses in this county will foot up nearly $2,000.000 and the damage suffered by the railroad. company will amount to moro than $250,000. ’ >J The common loss has brought alll classes of citizens together, and all have worked with a will, first, in trying to save the town by constructing a, rude levee, and when that effort' proved futile, in saving as much as possible . from the rains. The old town yill probably not be rebuilt, as both merchants and residents will erect their stores and houses on the hills in order to get out of reach of any further damage. In this city the rain has been almost complete, the Catholic church being the only building left standing in the ruins. The adjoining school stood the wear of the waves for many hours, but finally crumbled into ruins- The i’ama Sentinel moved its office four time yesterday, but finally succeeded in getting out on the hill to-day. The Times was less fortunate, and its office and material went down in the wreclc. Fears were entertained that the fine railroad bridge would be carried away, but fortunately the piers st and unless some extra should lodge on the sup cause a dam it will not be ] The officers of Fort Yun everything in their power sufferers, and fortunately^ good supply of tents on ha were at once placed at the the homeless families, and i ing thereby prevented, be no further rainfall it is hoped that there will be little further loss, and that with the restoring of communications with the west, sufficient relief will be brought in from San Francisco and Los Angeles to prevent any serious trouble. A boat which arrived yesterday from Mohawk, 60 miles up the Gila river, brings reports of terrible- loss of life, all through the country under water. The greatest sufferers are the poor Mexicans whose houses have been swept away and who have nothing to put on their backs. The loss will probably prove of appalling magnitude. Reports from the valley of the Colorado below this place state that hundreds of the Cocopaha Indians have been drowned. They are located about 60 miles south of heor6, and their tribe is about 5,000 strong. Their villages are all on loir land,and as there are no hills on which the Indians could take refuge- an immense number of them must have been caught in the flood and swept away. The water rose six feet in twelve hours, and came oil them almost without warning. WHOLESALE ROBBERY. Railroad Men Arrested for Stealing from Cars in Transit. Puu.adei.phia, March 3.—Since last June the wife of a Reading railroad brakeman has probably sold more valuable silks, laces and velvets than the , richest lady in the land has purchased in the same time. She was the medium through whom an organized gang of train robbers in the railroad service disposed of their wholesale plunder. Part of the gang are under arrest and will have a final hearing at Boylestown todav.

l’or months past complaints hare been nude to the officials of numerous theftss of merchandise from freight cars, and claims hare been presented to the company for the loss of cloths, velvets, silks, hosiery, etc., lost in transit over the road. The case was placed in the hands of Chief John G. O’Brien of the Reading’s special officers to ferret out. The clews were traced to the trains on. the North Pennsylvania branch, and the thefts located as taking place in Bucks county from trains between New York and Philadelphia. On Monday morning Lewis Hansell. William Coyle and Abraham Kulp, brakemen, were arrested and taken to Doylestown an given a preliminary hearing, and bound over for a further hearing to-day. The value of the goods taken will amountto many thousands of dollars. Nkw York, March 2.—A swindler, giving the name of Max Rothschild, is under arrest in this city for defrauding dry goods merchants in the west. The prisoner, who has an office at No. 834 Broadway, had a drummer traveling about the country offering to sell cotton goods at a rate forty per cent, cheaper than they could be purchased from any other house. The drummer announced that he represented William Rothschild & Qo., Who owned large i . cotton mills in Maine. The scheme was to collect money before the goods ordered were delivered. The Mississippi River Booming. Nkw York, March 2.—T. J. Keman, attorney for the Louisville, New Or-, leans & Texas Railroad Co., telegraphed to the officials of that company in this city, from Baton Rouge, La., yesterday -8 gauge now reads 31X feet, and rising. This is only five feet lower than the high-water mark of 1890, when the highwater mark was raised higher than ever before known. The top notch of high water in 1890 was not reached until April 21, and naturally apprehension i* fe|t here and all along th^Uey,” A Swindler Arrested. -