Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 43, Petersburg, Pike County, 18 March 1891 — Page 1

J. L. MOUNT, Editor and Proprietor. ‘Our Motto is Honest Devotion t:> Principles of Right.”?, OFFICE, over J. B. YOffiSS & CO.'S Store, Main Street. VOLUME XXI. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1891. NUMBER 43. —;- County

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THE WORLD AT LAME. Summary of the Daily News. WASHINGTON NOTES. Maj. J. C. McGregor has resigned his position as chief of the customs division of the treasury department. The supreme court has advanced and assigned for argument on the fourth Monday in April the cases of Boyd, Sutton & Co. and Sternback & Co. against the collector of customs at New York, brought for the purpose of testing the constitutionality of the McKinley tariff law. Secretary Blaine has received a cable message from Tokio, Japan, announcing the death of United States Minister John F. Swift. It is denied that the junketing congressmen attending Senator Hearst’s remains to California acted unbecomingly. A Washington special says that the names of ex-Congressmun Morrow and ex-Senator Ingalls are mentioned in connection with a successor to Minister Svysft, who died at his post in Jap&n. Miss Nannie * Bayari>, youngest daughter of ex-Secretary Bayard, is engaged to Count Lcwenhaupt, of Sweden. President Harrison and party returned to Washington on the 18th. No ducks were killed during the day. THE EAST. The Italian contract labor inspector, Antonio Sichini, appeals to the New York authorities to protect him from the Mafia, which seeks his life because of his having returned contract Italians. A baggage and mail car on the Chicago express of the New York Central railroad was burned near Cranesville, N. Y., and much mail for the west was destroyed. Gov. Russell, of Massachusetts, has signed a bill preventing illegal marriages and divorces by Jewish rabbis. Dudley Hall & Co., for years leading tea importers of Boston, have assigned with §400,000 liabilities and ample assets. The senior partner had indorsed too much paper for personal friends. Burt's five story building at Court and Pearl streets, Buffalo, N. Y-, has been destroyed by fire. Loss, §325,000; insured. The Maine assembly has defeated the Australian ballot bill. Seaboard, a New York newspaper, says that Mr. Austin Corbin will establish the finest transatlantic steamship line by building eight 13,000 ton steel American steamships to run from Montauk Point, L. L, to Milford Haven, England, in five days. The condition of the four rescued miners at Jeansville (Pa.) hospital was such that Dr. Mears allowed them to get out of bed for the first time. It is more than likely that their terrible; fast and experience will leave serious results with some, if not all of them. Lowell Mason, brother of Jack Mason, sailed from New York the other morning on the steamer Lahn for Bremen. He was accompanied by the 11-year-old daughter of Marion Manola. The child had been abducted from her father’s house and has been taken across the ocean to her mother. At Pittsburgh, Pa., the other night an explosion of gas caused the destruction by fire of the Weldon block, the board of trade and other buildings. The loss amounted to §500,000. The anti-Pinkerton bill has passed the lower house of the New York assembly by a vote of 98 to 12.

vaidr wtoiivii i i r ci, vi «uv nuuuv Island supreme court, has resigned. The steamship Venezuela, which has arrived at New York from Curacoa, reports that Charles Leblanc, of New Orleans, ex-United States consul at Porto Cabello, died at Curacoa on March 8 and was buried there. The entire front of a hotel at Williamsport, Pa., in course of demolition collapsed and four of the workmen tvere buried beneath the debris. They were rescued, badly injured. Eight hundred weavers of the Atlantft mills, Providence, R. I., have struck against alleged excessive fines. A stay of execution has been granted in the eases of Smiler and Slocum, who were sentenced to electrocution at New York'during the week beginningMarch 18. Judge Lacombe gave them until March 23 to appeal to the United States supreme court. At Friedensberg, Pa., Birdie Miller, a school girl, was attacked by a bulldog and a bloodhound and bitten so badly that she will likely die. Asbuby Park-(N. J.) police are patroling the streets armed with rifles and shooting all unmuzzled dogs. Twenty dogs have been bitten by alleged mad dogs. An earthquake shock was felt at Newburg and Cornwall, N. Y., on the ■ isth. East Boston is having a rumpus over the recent town election, prior to which certain merchants signed a paper advocating the election of anti-Catholic candidates. Boycotts are in order. Thebe is great stagnation in iron and coke and its effects are felt on Pennsylvania railroads, many lines discharging numbers of men. Edwin Booth gave pond for Actor Charles Webster, of New York, accused of murdering his wife’s alleged paramour. Lyman B. Goff has declined the republican nomination for lieutenantgovernor of Rhode Island. THE WEST. Capt. S. E. Mason, of Troop E., Fourth cavalry, died at Vancouver, Wash., recently of Bright's disease. A company headed by W. J. Murphy, of Grand Forks, N. D., has purchased the Mipneapolis Tribune fropa Alden J. Blethen for (400,000. It is stated that ex-Senator Pierce, of North Dakota, will take the editorial management. The starch house and sugar refinery of the Peoria (111.) Grape Sugar Co. burned the other night. The loss was (100,000, fully insured. One employe was fatally burned. Judge Grebham declined the nomination of the citizens’ committee for mayor of Chicago. It is understood the nomination was afterward tendered exSenator Farwell, who also refused to allow his uame to be used. The Rawiirig tax bpl has passed the Ohio Senate and has nr w become a law. It is a decided victory for the Farmers’ alliance. The California senate has passed the bill drawn up by the attorney-general excluding the Chinese. The prolonged contest ever the United States .tenet rship in the Illinois legislature ended on the 11th in the election of fie’. John M l’a rat r. blw democratic car ditlaic, C. ehrcl and Moore firsPy Petjcing t> ‘ i> r ' ; i » ■■ i. *»i-»» —ti \

The wrapping paper manufacturers of the west at a meeting in Chicago decided to shut down the mills for a week. The coroner’s inquest on the body of Nicholas T. Eaton resulted in a verdict of suicide. Eaton wqs found shot through the brain a few miles south of Kansas City, Mo., and it was doubtful whether he had been attacked by highwaymen or had committed suicide. Fort Wayne, Ind., and vicinity is suffering from la grippe of an aggravated type and 113 of the inmates of the Catholic orphans’ home are reported as dangerously affected. A number of deaths are reported. Cei.ebtine Kaltenbach, the oldest postmaster in the northwest, died at his home in Potosi, Wis., aged 85. lie was appointed postmaster at Potosi in 1838, and with the exception of two years held the position until his death. Samuel II. McCrea, one of the oldest members of the Chicago board of trade, died recently. He had long been a sufferer from Bright’s disease. The collector of San Francisco, Mr. Phelps, states that during the last four months 90,000 pounds of prepared opium has been legally imported into that city. This opium is valued 91,800,000. Dr. A. J. Mever discharged three patients who had been inmates of the Koch hospital at Denver, CqI. They are entirely cured, no trace of consumption remaining. One of those discharged is Small, a Chicago policeman of Ilaymarket fame. Gen. John W. Fuller died recently at Toledo, O. He distinguished himself by defeating Forrest in Tennessee in 1803 and again at the battle of Corinth. Eight men descending a coal shaft at LaSalle, 111., fell a distance of 400 feet. All were badly bruised, several having broken legs. The Wisconsin assembly session was recently taken up with the civil rights bill, which puts the black man on an equality with white men. An amendment restricting the provisions of the bill to land and water traffic accommodations, proposed by the democrats of the judiciary committee, was agreed to. Chicago boss plasterers are preparing for the general strike in the trade. About 818,000 has been raised to pay for the transportation of plasterers to Chicago. The secretary has been authorized to invite journeymen everywhere to come to Chieagq, as there will be plenty of work. The women of Mt. Etna, ten miles from Huntington, Ind., armed with clubs and axes, beat down a saloon door, emptied vessels, demolished furniture and gave notice that all dramshop would share a similar fate. No one interfered with their proceedings. In a forty-four round glove contest that took place in San Francisco recently, Jake Kilrain, of Baltimore, knocked ’ out the colored pugilist of Boston, Ueorge Godfrey. Henry Hall, a decrepit old man of Council Bluffs. Ia., has been sentenced to the penitentiary for life for killing his aged wife. His daughters were forced to testify against him. Michael Ovkrmyer, a wealthy farmer who had just been married, was shot dead by a robber at Rochester, Ind. The man got 8300. Mrs. William Baker, aged 34, was burned to death in her house near Fostoria, O., in trying to light a fire with coal oil. The heaviest snow of the year fell at Cleveland, O. Street car traffic was almost stopped.

THE SOUTH. At Augusta, Ga., mills have been closed because of high water, which was thirty-five feet above low water mark. Representatives of the people of Atlanta, Ga., have presented at Pensacola, Fla., to the United States cruiser Atlanta, a magnificent silver service. John Gi.over and his wife weje killed by a railroad train near Holly Oak, Del., the other night. Henry C. Lamar and Miss Louise King Connelly were drowned while rowing in the canal, two miles above Augusta. Ga. Lamar was a graduate of Princeton college of the class of 1885 and a well known athlete. Miss Connelly was the daughter of the late John P. King, ex-United States senator from Georgia, and a niece of the marchioness of Anglesey. , Congressman Breckinridge, of Kentucky, is reported quite sick at Pensacola, Fla. Danid H. Poston, who was shot by CoL H. Clay King at Memphis, Tenn., died at his home. King in his cell at the jail received news of his victim’s death in the same cool manner that had characterized his bearing since the tragedy occured. At Kilgore, near Catlettsburg, Ky., six men were shot at a merry making, and four will probably die. There had been much drinking, and the fight arose from a quarrel over the selection of partners for a dance. The Pacolet cotton mills at Pacolet, S. C., have been destroyed by an incendiary fire. The loss was 890,000. A train on the BeUaire & Zanesville railroad ran off the track near Caldwell, W. Va., injuring twenty passengers, none fatally. A similar accident occurred at the same place a week before. The levee at Conley’s lake, thirty miles south of Memphis, Tenn., gave way and the water poured into the little village, completely fl coding everything. The tracks of the Louisville, New Orleans & Texas road were completely submerged. Gen. Isaac P. Moore committed suicide recently at Baltimore, Md. In the Mafia trials at New Orleans for the murder of Police Chief Hennessy the jury acquitted six of the prisoners and failed to agree on the cases of the other three. There has been a heavy snow in northern Texas. Fruit was considerably damaged. . The insane asylum a| Nashville, Tenn., burned on the night of the 18th. Six unfortunate inmates perished. The Arkansas senate kiUed the bill to allow juries in murder cases to fix the penalty at death or life imprisonment. Rumors of an additional shortage fn the accounts of ex-Treasurer Woodruff, of Arkansas, are again flying fast and vigorous. It is said he is short more than 8100,000 in scrip. GENERAL* j It is reported that Justice Stephen, of England, whose mind is said to have been unhinged by the worry incident to the trial of the May brick case, will soon be enabled to enjoy a prolonged vacation in the hope that the rest wUl be of benefit to him. The London police have stopped the proposed driving match between Lord Shrewsbury and Lord Lonsdale for •BOO on the Yoaid of bin'Gance to public trafl'.u I

Two Paris jewelry firms have brought suit in attachment against federal officials at Chicago to obtain possession of smuggled diamonds obtained by fraud from the foreign dealers. Brazilian newspapers have been received at the state departmenf containing a decree by the Brazilian president declaring the ports of that country free and open to the imports from the United States that were included in the recent reciprocity agreement. •» . The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad has decided to follow in the footsteps of the Burlifigton in the matter of retrenchment. The working forces are being reduced, and many old time employes are being replaced by new and cheaper hands. Dr. Wixdthobst, the famous leader of the center, or Catholic party, m the German reiehstag, is suffering from congestion of the lungs. His condition is very critical and the sacrament of extreme unction has been administered to him. ’ Dks. Hunters and Lane and their families, American missionaries, have been driven from the city of Chinaning Fu, China. Tup British ship Bay of Panama has been ‘wrecked off Falmouth, England, and the captain, his wife and twelve of the crew have been drowned. Some 300 Chinese pirates and robbers were beheaded in Kwantung province during the last few days of the old Chinese year. The German reiehstag has rejected the petition to admit women to the liberal professions. . * White law Reid, United States minister to France, has written an introduction to an English edition of Talleyrand’s memoirs. The Paris Temps says that the negotiations between France and England on the Newfoundland question have resulted in an agreement, which will be submitted to'the French and English parliaments. Lord Salisbvbv has received, it is stated officially, dispatches of a very satisfactory character from Sir Julian Pauncefote relative to the Behring sea negotiations. It is said .that both America and England wilt unite on an international arrangement for the protection of the seal. Brotherhood telegraphers of the Union Pacific have been ordered by General Manager Clark to drop the order on pain of dismissal. The Societe des Depots des Comptes Courants, of Paris, has been in trouble similar to the Barings. The bank was helped out by French financiers. A private telegram received in Hamburg from Chili announced the assassination of President Balmaceda. Seventv lives were lost off the British coasts during the storms of the 11th and lath. The census of the Austrian empire showed 4a,000,000. Hungary made three per cent, greater increase than the rest of the country. The holy synod of the Russian church has issued an order that all converted Jews shall attend public worship of the orthodox faith once in every week, or be deemed to have relapsed into Judaism, when they will be punished. Business failures (Dun’s report) for the seven days ended March 12 numbered 273, compared with 265 the previous week and 252 the corresponding week of last year. The court at Dublin has adjudicated Mr. William O’Brien a bankrupt on the petition of Lord Salisbury in the latter’s suit to recover the sum of £1,700, the costs in the action for libel brought against him by Mr. O’Brien, and in which the latter was non-suited. Parnell went on another of his mysterious disappearances. He was supposed to be with Mrs. O’Shea. His friends were greatly disconcerted. Fortv million dollars have been subscribed to the new- national loan and the financial situation at Buenos Ayres is better. Gold 350. Violent floods and storms prevail throughout Spain. A cyclone has done great damage at Placentia and a bridge over the Gerte was washed away. Sugar has gone up one cent. The negroes of the Comoro islands, near Zanzibar, have revolted -and declared themselves free. The sultan of the islands has fled.

• THE LATEST. Popular indignation in New Orleans over the acquittal (believed to have been effected by bribery) of the alleged assassins of Chief of Police Hennessy found bloody expression, on the 14th, in the visit of a mob, composed largely of the better class of citizens, to the jail"where the prisoners were still held upon other charges. After effecting an entrance to the prison the ten men were hunted out of their cells and shot down like ddgs. The president contemplates leaving Washington on his California trip between the 5th and 10th of April. Mrs. 1 Harrison will accompany him. He j will be absent about six weeks. He will go by way of Atlanta, and stop one day each at Atlanta and New Orleans, and possibly make short stops at other points. From New Orleans he will go to California by way of the Southern Pacific railroad. On the 15th, the Italian cabinet instructed by cable the Italian minister at Washington, Baron de Fava, to protest vehemently against the murder of Italians in ~ the prison at New Orleans on the 14th. Baron Fava cabled in reply that he had presented the protest to the government of the United States, and bad received in reply the promise that full satisfaction would be given. ** Br the burning of the Lippincott lamp chimney works at Findley, O.. on the 14th, 150 persons are temporarily thrown out of out employment. Amodg the property destroyed were six freight cars of the Toledo, Columbus & Cincinnati railway, which were loaded with fine engraved lamp chimneys. The loss will reach $50,000; partly covered by insurance. Assistant Secretary Spaulding has decided that tAMt^i^naged goods are abandoned within teffM^s after arrival they are liable to duty and the treasury department can afford the importer no relief. ■'. ~ * The residence of Gen. E. B. Fowler, at Lynn, N. Y., was partly burned, on the 15th, and the general’s son William, aged 22, perished in the flames. The other members of the family were rescued with difficulty. Loss, $8,000. P. T. Babnum, of Bridgeport, Conn., closed a contract with architects, on the 14th, for the erection of a building to cost $125,000 as a gift from him to the scientific and historical societies of that city. The Dublin Irish Times says that Mr. Parnell’s last effort to win freedom for Ireland by constitutional means begins where all these mpTonents begin spd ond—in a fund.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Judge James Cheney, of Ft. Wayne, is the richest man in Indiana, managing in an humble way to struggle along oil savings amounting to $14,000,000. This Terre Haute trotting association lis s decided to abandon its spring meeting because the improvements to the tin elk and buildings can not be finished iii timel Twenty thousand dollars is h.iing spent on the grounds. At l is tesvili e John Dirsehrel, in a rage of jeiilo usy, shot his wife, her grandmother, his 'three-year-old child, and then c l' his own throat. He and his child me dead. The women may recover. Oolii in small quantities has been found on the farm of John Milinan, near C y, itsville. SKyelal months ago Rev. S. C. Kennedy. oi Martinsville, traded some valuable }j -operty in Mooresville for some worthless Kansas land. As soon as the swindle was discovered he began suit to i ecover. In court he was given $5,000. Me. George W. Greater, proprietoi of the 3 tizens” street railway, at Vincennes sold the property, franchise and every tl ing connected therewith to a new company, the other day. composed of Capt. Allen Tindolph. of Vincennes, and 15. <5. Hudnnt and D. C. Greiner, oi Terre H rate. The new company immediately 1 ook possession. Indianapolis has completed its reorganisation under the new city charter. South Bend is planning a corporation rail hunt. The Madison county farmers’ alliance has reorganized its printing company. A county and state paper for farmers and laborers will be published. Mrs. Mary Bell died of old age at her home near Groveland the other day. She was the oldest person in Hendricks county, having attained her one-hun-dred and eighth year. Her youngest son, now living, is aged sixty-five. MuncIe has secured another valuable industry. The. Cooper engine and boiler works, of St. John, Mich., have closed the contract causing the removal of their entire plant to Muncie. About fifty skilled mechanics are now employed by the firm, who will largely increase their facilities. William IIixger, jr., aged 17, son ol Wm. llinger, sr., ot Indianapolis, was found dead in his home the other night, with a pistol shot through his brain. The supposition is suicide. Two hundred and twenty-five convex sions is the result of a revival meeting at the first M. E. church at Seymour. Mrs. Edward Lashox, of Lebanon, suicided the other night by cutting her throat with a butcher-knife. Her reason had become dethroned on account of the recent death of her son. She leaves three small children. The officers for state institutions, elected in joint session of the assembly, are: State librarian, Jacob P. Dunn; trustee central insane hospital. Dr. E. P. Hauser: trustee northern insane hospital, David Holt; trustee southern insane hospital, Perry H. Blue; director prison north, John Brodie; director prison south. Floyd Parks: trustee blind institute, John B. Stoll; trustee deaf and dumb institute, Joseph L. Blaze. Upon motion of Senator Kopieke the election of trustee for the eastern insane hospital was deferred. A number of the survivors of the Forty-seventh Indiana regiment met at Huntington, a few days ago, to make arrangements for the reunion to'beheld May 15.

r rank Cooper, of Attica, made application some days ago for a liquor license in Covington. The ladies of the place have heen exceedingly active in opposition to the granting o% the license, and recently nearly forty of them appeared before the commissioners to urge their plea. The license was refused. The other morning Chief of Police Robinson, of Muneie, learned that a mysterious bundle, consigned to E. L. Morton, Muneie, marked “castings” was at the IT. S. express office, where left the day before by a man saying he would send for it. The officer opened the carefully-wrapped bundle,and-fonnd the two alleged gold bricks which the paii* of sharpers attempted to sell U. C. Vonmillion and his banker son, of Anderson. The bricks were solid brass, covered with gold foil, weighing each thirty-five pounds, and would have netted the owners over $30,000 had the sale progressed a minute farther. Each of the bricks had holes bored in them, from where the pure gold had been removed. and stood the test. While returning home, intoxicated, early the other morning. Geo. Graves, a well-to-do farmer, of McGrawsville, near Peru, fell asleep on the Pennsylvania tracks. His mutilated remains were found along the track next morning. At South Bend the other night, a Grand Trunk freight train ran into a sleigli containing John Johnson, a Swede, and Jas. Ballinger, instantly killing both, of them. Roiiekt Pickk.n has obtained judgment for $400 against the city of Tipton. The perennial fight against licensing saloons is on again at Charlestown. Six hundred new houses will go up at Frankfort this spring. A mad dog created something of a panic on Main street at Terre Haute the other day. Walter Burge and Robert Nichols have been arrested at Valparaiso for highway robbery. This governor on the 6th made public that he would appoint Col. I. N. Walker, of Indianapolis, and Joshua L. Gwynn, of New Albany, state tax commissioners, as provided by the new general taxation law. The governor on the 6th refused to commission Dr. Z. H. Houser trustee of central hospital, and John Brodie director prison north, recently elected by the legislature, he adhering to his old claim that the right to appoint rests with the chief executive. Another appeal will be made to the courts. As immense cave, as yet unexplored, has teen discovered in Owen county, on the farm of J. W. Beem, near Spencer. Roiiekt Westerfield fell from a haymow near Danville and was impaled upon the broken end of a pitchfork, suffering fatal injuring. Late the other afternoon, at Pine Village, John Sheets, a brakeman on the Chicago and Indiana Coal railroad tell from the top of a car and was cut into four pieces. He resided at Attiea, and leaves a family. Th e other day Mrs. Wm. Hudson, in putting a long pole into a cistern, was horri fied upon taking it out to discover on the end the body of her three-year-old child, which had beep drowned p few' minutes lie fora

INDIANA LEGISLATURE Indianapolis. March 4.—Senate—Bills passed: Prohibiting trustees of academies from mortgaging property; amending the election law to permit of the use of pasters; to re* imburse Samuel Williams, ex-trustee of New Garden township, Wayne county, for $600 of public funds lost by the collapse of the Coffin bonk of Richmond; applying the provisions of the Barrett law for the construction of streets and sewers tothe construction of ditches; giving to the state geologist the care and custody of the battle flags of Indiana: appropriating 1457 30 to construct cases in which to ^reserve the battle flags of Indiana; giving city c i incite authority to construct drainage. House—Bills passed: Providing for the appointment of administrators de bonis non in cases where assets are discovered after estates have been once settled; requiring the registration of dogs, and prohibiting their running at large unattended by their owners or owners’ agents; for the protection of birds, their nests and eggs; amending the horse thief act to permit the detention of persons suspected until a warrant can be procured; authorizing incorporated towns to issue bonds to buy fire engines ancToiher apparatus. Indianapolis. March 5.—Senate —Bills passed: Authorizing cities of over ten thousand to lay ofit parks; prohibiting railroad companies from making overcharges for freight; providingfor liens against real estate for labor and material for drains, wel s, etc.: levying a tax of six cents on each $100 for tho maintenance of the benevolent and reformatory institutions of the state; authorizing the superintendent of public institutions to set aside $15,0C0 for the sur£ort of the state normal; making it a misdemeanor for persons not entitled thereto to wear G. A, R, and other secret speiety badges: divesting warden and superintendents of reformatory institutions of such perquisites ns s’op contracts, etc.; providing penalties for the counterfeiting of labels, trade-marks, bic. House—S mate bill 189, apportioning the state for congressional purposes, came up in the house, and was amended as follows: Jefferson county is transferred from the fourth district to the third; Rush, from the sixth, and Shelby, of the seventh, were transferred to the fourth, and Union was transferred from the fourth to j the sixth. The amendments were concurred in j by the senate. The only bill of importance j passed was that applying the provisions of the j metropolitan police law to the fire department of Evansville. The house spent the afternoon in the committee of the whole in consideration of the appropriation bills. Indianapolis. March 6. — Senate — Bills passed: Requiring railroad companies to place ' flagmen at all crossings where therd are more than two tracks or where switching i%dorie; making the published decisions of the supremo court of Indiana evidence in certain cases; amending an act providing for the election'of clerks of the circuit court legalizing records a«£ acknowledgments of deeds not properly certified; legalizing the acts of all minors acting as deputy County officers; amend ng the civil code by providing that when an attorney releases a judgment it shall be a complete sr. isfaction to all parties to the suit, whether or not he receives the money. House—Bills passed: Appropriating $25,009 for the maintenance of the state militia; fixing the compensation of township assessors at two dollars per day; authorizing associations of the Protestant Episcopal church organized for the maintenance of superanuated ministers and their families, to hold and convey real estate, making itw felony for any banking institution to receive deposts when said institution is known to be insolvent; authorizing the prompt application of sinking funds to the redemption of bonds of incorporated cities; defining incest, and fixing the penalty at fjj^ptwo to five years. Indianapolis. March u — Senate. — Bills passed: Requiring physicians to take out a license for the practice of medicine and requiring a diploma of some reputable medical institution, or a ten years’ practice to render the candidat? eligible; requiring ten days’ notice te heirs of a sale of real estate by an exeeutor to pay debts; authorizing common councils to require railroad companies to make their tracks conform to the grade of streets; requiring tho registration of voters sixty days before an election; prohibiting bunting on inclosed premises, except wet lands, without the written consentof the owner; requiring city clerks to publish a list of receipts and disbursements on the 1st of June of each year. House —Bills passed: Providing for the publication in newspapers for three consecutive weeks of notices of intention to construct gravel and macadamized roads; enlarging the powers of corporations so as to a1 low them to borrow money; appropriating $13,910 to-purchase materials, tools and machinery to fit up rooms atfd to pay for skilled instructors in the institutions for ihe deaf and dumb, blind and feebleminded youth in the industrial arts. The $13 GOO is apportioned as follows: $8,000 to the institution for the deaf and dumb; $3,000 for the institution for the blind and $2,000 for the feebleminded.

Indianapolis. laaren a. —senate—ine v ty-seventh general assembly is an <->' .« of the past. The adjournment sue die came this evening and was mark) d with great confusion in the house, the members indulging in all sorts of boyish pranks. A series of resolutions pn posing four amendments to the constitution passed both branches of the general assembly this afternoon. Amendment No. 1 proposes to amend section 29, ar icle 4, to extend legislative seasons from sixly to one hundred days. Amendment 2 proposes to amend section 1, article K), 60 that corporations may be taxed on their net or gross earnings. Amendment 3 proposes to amend section 1, article 0, so as to make the terms of all state officers, except the attorney general and superintendent of public instruction, four years, and making officers ineligible for more than one ■ term in succession. Amendment 4 proposes t o amend section 2, article 6, so as to make the^ terms of all county officers four years, and to*', make officers ineligible to more than one teruva in snccession. Gov. Hnvey sent in a messaffi vetoing the fee and salary bill. The bill waSprpassed over the veto. The governor Bred his farewell veto at the legislature this afternoon. It was in reference to the bill authorizing Ite appointment of a natural gas inspector by the state geologist, the ground taken i .he veto being that this was a usurpation of the governor’s prerogative. The bill passed. A remarkable explosion occurred in Hartford City, the other day. Superintendent Ford, of the glass works, Walnut street gas lin#, started to thaw out the pipes. He opened the gate and the well pressure did the rest. An explosion followed that was heard all over the city. Chunks of ice formed in the big main were thrown hundreds of feet, as if from a cannon. Workmen at the mouth of this natural gas ordnance were covered with mnd, but fortunately, no one was seriously injured. . The delegates from the Ladies’ club of Crawfordsville to the state eonvea- _ tion of Women’s clubs, at Terre Haute, are Mrs. A. B. Anderson, and Mrs. E. i>. Thompson. Francis Murphy concluded his ten days’ temperance work in Wabash, by holding a monster farewell meeting in the Presbyterian ehurch the other night. Romeo Stuart, who served during the recent senatorial session as reading clerk, has been appointed secretary of the commissioners of publie safety, and I). E. Snyder, clerk of the old hoard of police commissioners, was continued as assistant secretary. Dr. S. E. Earp was ehosen' police surgeon, and Bart Parker was appointed clerk of the board of public works of Indianapolis, Rev. Mr. Kenney, of Moore's Hill, Has invented a perpetual calendar. At a glance the day of the week can be found on which must fall any given date from the year 1 to the end of time. The new bank at Darlington will be opened for business in April. Mrs. Frederick Fields, of Brooklyn, Morgan county, wrote her Arne on some eggs before selling them. Mrs. Fields has received a letter from a young lady in Massachusetts informing her that the youDg lady was the purchaser. An ewe near Seymour recently gave birth to a lamb with two distinct bodies. - The lamb died and investigation showed a complete set of vital organs in efch body. While working in the timber, Steve Moosan, residing five miles north of Frankfort, was caught by a falling tree and instantly killed

BOGUS M’KINLEY PRICES. & Protection!** Attempt to Show That the McJtlutey Law Has Reduced Prices—A ‘■Cheap and Nasty” Humbug; to Deceive the Ignorant. The American protective tariff league is circulating in the newspapers of the country some price lists taken from the St. Paul Journal of Commerce, to show that prices are lower now than a year ago. Abouthalf of these listsare devoted to cotton cloths of various kinds. The price of each kind in January 1890 and 1891, is given in. parallel columns. But this comparison is a very cheap dodge. The items in the comparison of cotton cloth prices are only forty-eight in all; whereas a full report of the cotton cloth market, as printed in the New York Commercial Bulletin, contains some 1,600 separate items. Naturally in a market report covering somany articles and sc many different grades there will be found forty-eight or even more cases where prices are lower now. An actual examination of two such reports in the Commercial Bulletin, one for February 28, 1890, and the other for February 13, 1891, shows that-most brands of cotton goods are sold at the same prices now as last year, also that some are lower, hut that others are higher. Among the forty-eight brands which this bogus protectionist comparison represents as lower, some are found to be the same as last year. But why should not cotton cloth be cheaper now than last year? Middling upland cotton is now quoted in New York at 9M cents per pound, while a year ago the price was 11 5-16 cents. Cotton being more than two cents a pound lower, cotton cloth ought to be considerably lower all around; but it is not so. Most prices are unchanged, while some are actually higher. This bogus comparison is printed under the heading, “McKinley Prices.” But the McKinley law does not make a great change in the duties on cotton cloth. Many are unchanged. Some are lower and some are higner. To claim that the increase of duty on some kinds of cloth has already produced competition and thus lowered prices, according to the orthodox protection doctrine, is In the highest degree absurd. As a simple matter of fact this has not occurred. A part of this blundering comparison of “McKinley prices” is devoted to drugs and paints. Here sulphate q! quinine is given at 42 to 47 cents an ounce last year, and 37 to 42 cents this year. Bat how can this be a “McKinley price,” as quinine has been on the free list since 1880? It is rather a free trade price. Another item is castor oil, on which a reduction in price of from five to ten eents a gallon is claimed. But the McKinley duty on chstor oil is precisely the same as the old duty. That duty is 80 cents a gallon, which is equal to BOO per cent, ad valorem on the oil imported. Where the McKinley law does not change a duty it is only a piece of cheap humbug to claim that any change in price is a “McKinley price.” Another part of this list is given to groceries. The only two commodities on which a comparison is attempted here are sugar and soap. Thirteen different makers of soap are given, and a slight redaction is claimed on each. But how can this be a “McKinley price,” since McKinley left the duty on soap unchanged, except a very slight increase on castile soap? The reduction in the price of sugar is undoubtedly due to the fact that the McKinley law removes the sugar duty on April 1. The fall in price before dnty is actually re-, moved only emphasizes the truth that the tariff is a tax. The “McKinley price” in this case is another free trade price. But whyjshould this protective tariff league claim that lower prices are “McKinley prices?” Does it not know that this same McKinley is going about the country trying to persuade the people that cheapness is an evil which we must struggle against—that cheap and nasty go together? —

A TARIFF COMPARISON. 4. Comparison of the Old Tariff, the SEills Bill, and the SIcKIniey Law-McKin’ey-!snt Reduced to Ad Valorems—Compound Unties Simplified —A Tariff Study For. Tariff Inquirers. The average of duties under a tariff law is a much simpler matter to calculate than many people suppose. The Average is not gotten by taking the duty on each separate article, adding these up, and dividing the result by the number of articles. It is a much shorter process. The total value of all dutiable articles imported being known, the total amount of duties collected upon them, is simply calculated as a certain percentage of that value. In this way we reach the result, so often stated, that under’the old tariff tax the average duty was 47 per cent. This was the average for 1887; for 1889 the average was somewhat above 43 per cent., the dutiable imports for that year being valued at $434,856,768, and the duties collected being $220,576,989. What the average is under the McKinley law nobody knows or can know until the figures of imports and of duties for a given time are known. Senator Carlisle has ventured to predict that the average will be about 60 per cent. The main difficulty in understanding just how high a duty is, arises from the fact pat when a duty is given as so much per pound or per yard we must first know the price of the pound or the yard before we can know whether the duty is high or low. For' example, when, we read in the tariff law Pat tin bars are to pay a duty of 4 cents a pound after July 1, 1893, we do not know whether to regard Pis as a high duty or as a low one, unless we know the price of tin. When we find that the price of our imports in 1890 was 19.7 cents per pound we easily determine that the duty of 4 cents is eqnal to 23 pev cent, ad valorem, or 20 cents on the dolivr, which is certainly not a high duty as duties go. Such a calculation of all the articles under the tariff schedules has been made .by Mr. J. A. Lindquist and has been published by the Keform Club, of New York. This pamphlet serves as a sort of tariff dictionary in which one esn find the ad valorem equivalents of the duties on all the articles where a specific dr a compound duty is laid. The pamphlet is called “ComparisonItem by Item.” It gives in parallel columns the duty on each article under the old law, the same as proposed by the Mills bill, pe present McKinley duty, and the ad Valorem equivalent of each. The articles in each schedule are given together and the duties are given in adjoining columns. The way this comparison seems to bring out the iniquities of Pe McKinley tariff law may be seen from an extract from the tobacco sohedule. In the following table Pe column for Pe Mills VUi is omitted, Pe fcetof P*

FARMER’S TARIFF. seme in it as in the the extract: Leaf tobacco, ot which Uc.o 3 oft:* requisite also end of the necessary /Indies* and texture tdbO suitable for cigar wrappoew, and ot which no ,* titan 100 leaves are required to welsh a pound: Tariff of 1883 M< Kinlev If not stemmed, per pound.... If stemmed, per «d. er tobacco in leaf, unmanufactured If not stemmed, per pound_ If stemmed, per pound. 11.00 The transformation of the duties into their eq uivalent tod duties gives the following results in tna case of a few articles, ^ Article. Tin plates.... Cotton ties.. Steel rails.. i ommon window class not exceeding 10x15... Above that and not ex:cet ding 16x1.. Al ove that and not exceeding 24x30.. Above that and not exceeding 21x36..... All above that.. Cleaned rice... Corn starch. Binder twine... 2 2 10c. per ft 3-10c. per i ft One excellent thing that this comparison does to give the equivalent of the compound duties. As these duties ara go much per yard or pound and so mnch per cent., they are less readily understood by the average reader. Here ara a few McKinley compound duties oix woolen goods reduced to a single ad valorem equivalent: , Compound equivalent* duty. ad valorem. Woolen cloth valued at 30c per lb.33e and in f Valued at 10c..3Stic and 40 Valued at 80c......_41c and 501 On blankets the ad valorem equivalent ranges from 91 to 119 per cent.; on hats, from 66 to 118 per-cent.; on flannels, 75 to 130 per cent.; on women’s and children’s dress goods, from 75 to 128 per cent. Any one who wishes to make a study of the tariff pain phi THE ehe Agricultural Produce Not Raised by McKinley’s Duties—A Protectionist Paper Exposes the Fraud of the “Fa er’s Tariff”—Figures of Expoj ports of Farm Products. A protectionist organ to show that the MeKin lias not raised prices pr articles which are as cheaper than a year ago. thing about this list is thal up entirely of articles pr farm. Of course McKinleyl farm product have had no t ing prices. How could they have when ohr. farmers are exporting every year vast quantities of their products, and our imports of those products amount in most cases to almost nothing? Let every farmer examine the following fighres of exports and imports, and old and new duties of agricultural products and see if he can discover any substantial reason in them why the McKinley law should have been expected to help the farmer. The figures forex-, ports and imports in the following summary are taken from the official report of the treasury department for the, fis? cal year ended June 30, 1890: Harley—Old'' duty 10 cents a bushel, McKinley duty 30 cents; imports, 11,330,000 bushels; exports, 1,400,000 bushels. ,

McKinley duty 25 cents a bushel; imports, 157,000 bushels; exports, 54,880,000 bushels. Flour—Old duty 20 per .cent., McKinley duty 25 per cent; imports, 1,919 barrels; exports, 12,231,080 barrels. Hay—Old duty $2 per ton, McKinley duty 54; imports, 124,000; exports, 30,000 tons. Hopsr-Old duty 8 cents per pound, McKinley duty 15 cents; imports, 6,539,000 pounds; exports, 7,540,000 pounds (in 1889, imports, 4,000,000 pounds; exports, 12,500,000 pounds). Potatoes—Old duty 15 cents per bushel, McKinley duty 25 cents; Imports, 3,415,000 bushels; exports, 406,000 bushels. Apples—Old duty none, McKinley duty 25 cents per bushel; imports, none reported; exports, 453,000 barrels. Dried apples—Old duty none, McKinley duty 2 cents a pound; imports, hone^ reported; exports, 20,800,000 pounds. Butter—Old duty 4 cents per pound, McKinley duty 6 cents; imports, 75,523 pounds; exports, 29,748,042 pounds. Cheese—Old duty 4 cents, McKinley duty 6 cents; imports, 9,263,573 pounds; exports, 95,376,053 pounds. Bacon—Old duty 2 cents, McKinley duty 5 cents; imports, too insignificant to get into the Treasury reports, but all “meat products” were about 5500,000 worth; exports, 531,899,000 pounds. Hams—Old duty 2 cents, McKinley duty 5 cents; imports, none reported; exports, 76,591,000 pounds. Beef—Old duty 1 cent, McKinley duty 2 cents; imports, none reported; exports, 353,500,000 pounds. Mutton—Same duties as beef; imports, none reported; exports, 256,000 pounds. Tallow—Old duty and McKinley duty 1 cent per pound; imports, none reported; exports, 112,000,000 pounds. Pork (fresh and pickled)—Same duties as beef; imports, none reported; exports, 80,000,009 pounds. Lard—Old duty 2 cents, McKinley duty 9 cents; imports, none reported; exports, 471,000,000 pounds. The above fijjures cover the princi] articles of faim production. In o. three commodities—barley, hay and tatoes—do our imports exceed our ports. It will he seen that McKin raised the duties on nearly all th* ab articles, and now the protectionist pa above referred to undertakes the vi easy task of showing that McKinlc “Farmers’ Tariff” has not raised pru This paper is the Navy York Press, i merlv edited by that rabid protect! ist, Robert P. Porter, and Rs eolun are seen mainly by city people, who interested in having farm produce ehe hence the Press’ exposure of the woi lessness of MoKtuky'a duties OS U Com—Old duty 10 cents, McKinley duty 15 cents; imports, 1,626 bushel?; exports, 101,900,000 bushels. Oats—Old duty 10 cents, McRfpiey, duty-15 cents; imports, 21,000 bushels; exports, 13,690,000 bushels. Oat Meal—Old duty a half cent per pound, McKinley duty 1 cent per pound; imports, 2,360,000 pounds; exports, 25,460,000. . Wheat—Old duty 20 cents a bushel,