Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 51, Petersburg, Pike County, 13 May 1891 — Page 1

Pike Democrat J. L. JJOUHT, Editor and Proprietor. •'Out* Motto is Honest Devotion to Principles of Right.’ OFFICE, mr J. E. I0IF10 fe 00.5B 8tore, Mom Street. . VOLUME XXI. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY. MAY 13, 1891. NUMBER 51.

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT 1 JOB 'WORK of all wma Neatly REASONABLE RATES. NOTICE! Persons receirlnx a eopj of thin paper with this notice orossed in lend pencil are noil Bed mat the time of their anbacription haa expired.

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT ISSUED EVERY WEDNESDAY. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: fotOBejw...,;....(] ^ For six months.' (5 For thru, months... 35 INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. AUVhttllslMU B.'.IKS: <*• square (* Mnes). one insertion...11 00 Bach additional insertion..... ao A liberal reduction made on advertisements running three, six and twelve months. Legal and Transient advertisements mast be #eid (or In advanoe. ■. ft. — TltOIESSIONAl CARDS. J. T. KIME, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, PF.TKUSBURG, IND. K *a-OIBce in Rank building, first floor. Will ho round at office day or night. Francis R Poset. . pivm Q. Cutrmi. POSEY A CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, I no. ^ Will practice in all the courts. Special attention given to all bnsiness. A Rotary Public constantly In the ofllcc. WOfiloe— On first flour Bank Building. E. A. ELY. S. G. 1UVBNPOBT. ELY & DAVENPORT, LAWYERS, Petersburg, Ind. BFOfflee over J. R. Adams A Son's drug »iore. Prompt attention given to all bnsiness. E. p. Richardson. a. H. Taylor RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. Prompt attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in the ofllcc. Dfllce in Carpenter Building, Eighth and Main. DENTISTRY* DR. WOODRY,

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. Office over J. B. Youngs Store, Main Street. 4®~Offlce hour a from 9 o'clock a. in. to 4 •o'clock p. m. _ E. J. HARRIS,

Resident Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. ALL WORK WARRANTED. W. II. STONECIPHER,

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. Office in roouise and Tin-Carpenter BuildIns. Operations first-class. All work warranted. Anaesthetics used (or painless extraction of teeth. I. H.*LaMAR, * Physician and Surgeon PETEK8BUKG, Isd. Will practice In Pike and adjoining counties. office in Montgomery Building. Office hours day and night. VjrDiseases of Women and Children especially. Chronic and difficult cases solicited.

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THIS PAPER IS ON FILE IN CHICA80 AND NEW YORK AT THE OFFICES OF A. N. KELLOGG NEWSPAPER CO. TKUSIEES^ NOTICES OF OFFICE DAT. NOTICE Is hereby given that I will attend to the duties of the office of trustee of Clay township at Union yin ^ EVERY SATURDAY. Ail persons who have business with the office will take notice that I will attend to business oh no other day. M. M. GOWEN, Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby given to all parties Interested that I will attend army office In Stendal, EVERY STAURDAY, To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Lockhart township. All persons having business with said office will please take notice. a. S. BARRETT. Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties concerned that I will be at my residence. EVERY 1UE8DAY, To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of Monroe township. GEORGE GRIM. Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby given that I will be at my residence EVERY THURSDAY To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of Logan township. Ap-Posltlvely no business Transacted except on office days SILAS KIRK, Trustee. NOTICE la hereby given to all parties concerned that I will attend at my residence EVERY MONDAY To transact business connected with the office of Trustee of Madison township. Positively nt> business transacted except office days JAMES BUMBLE. Trustee. IJOTICE is hereby given to all persons inti terested that I will attend in my offlee in elpen, EVERY FRIDAY. To transact business connected with the office of Trnstee of Marion township. All persons having business with said offlee will please take notice. W. F. BROCK. Trustee. XTOT1CE is hereby given to all persons J.V concerned that 1 w ill attend at my offlee EVERY DAI To transact business connected with the office of Trustee of Jefferson township. R. W. HARRIS, Trustee.

THE WORLD AT LARGE. Summary of tho Dally Nown. WASHINGTON NOTES. It is positively stated that Associate Justices Field and Bradley, both of whom have passed the age which an* titles them to retire on full pay, will resign in October, when the supreme court will resume the hearing of arguments. Mr. Edmunds, it is believed, will succeed Justice Bradley and some western jurist will be chosen to succeed Justice Field. The United States government has instructed Mr. Egan, minister to Chili, to offer to mediate between the combs tents in that country in the interest of peace and good order. The United States minister at Berlin has been instructed to bring to the attention of the German government the case of Nicholas Bader, a convict sent to this country by the authorities of Stansack, Germany. Secretary Foster has signed a warrant for $1,654,711 in favor of the governor of the state of Pennsylvania, this being that state’s share of the direct tax fund. The American Medical association in convention at Washington, elected Dr. N. S. Davis, of Chicago, president; Dr. Millard, of St. Paul, secretary and treasurer; A. McLean Tiffany, of Baltimore, first vice-president; J. 0. Herper, second vice-president.

THE EAST. The bell boys in the Quincy bouse, Boston, have struck because their wages were not increased with an addition to their hours of labor. The great Arbuckle building and ad* joining property at Pittsburgh, Pa., was destroyed by fire on the night of the 5th. The loss amounted to 8750,000. The Christ M. E. church on Pennsylvania avenue went down in the flames. Noel Sousi, Theodore Forbes and John Forbes, of Charlotte, N. Y., were drowned in Braddock’s bay, Lake Ontar o,'by the capsizing of a boat. The remains of Dr. Joseph Leidy, the famous scientist, and those of his brother, Dr. Philip Leidy, were cremated at the crematory of the Philadelphia crematory society. This was done according to the expressed desire of the two eminent physicians. The second annual convention of the Catholic press association of America began in New York on the 6th. A DESTRUCTIVE fire ravaged property at Long Island City on the nig-ht of the Hth, starting in Doncaster's iron foundry and1 burning thirteen blocks. The loss was put at 81,000,000. A crank named Charles J. Dickson has been arrested at New York for announcing his intention to kill Jay Gould unless he was paid 860,000 and Gould made arrangements to distribute the rest of his wealth around. The senate committee on finance met behind closed doors at New York on the 6th to consider the workings of the new tariff act. The inquiry would be extended to many other cities. John Stephenson, the veteran car and carriage builder, was confined to his home at New Rochelle, N. Y., suffering with an attack of grippe, combined with a weakening of the action of the heart. Mr. Stephenson is now in his 83d year. The iron molders and foundrymen decided to strike in all the shops in New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City unless certain demands are complied with. The strike involves 7,000 men. Joseph Barondes, the cloakmakers’ union leader of New York, has been sentenced to one year in prison for extortion. The national association of machinists in session in Pittsburgh, Pa., has voted, 85 to 29, to exclude colored men, Mr. William Jacques, of Newton, Mass., and his daughter were assaulted recently by a mob white out driving in Florence, Italy. The daughter was severely hurt in defending her father. The long strike in the New Jersey potteries has ended. Tije houses of French residents of Topsham, Me., have been stoned by masked men and one woman was frightened into miscarriage. The rioters are of the best families. The journeymen plumbers of Pittsburgh, Pa., have struck against obnoxious rules. The carpenters' strike is unchanged. The Spring Garden and Penn Trusf banks at Philadelphia have been forced to suspend. Acting Governor Bui.klky, of Connecticut, has promised to supply the funds for the state insane asylum until the legislature makes an appropriation. The Massachusetts state board of health reports that there were seventeen deaths from hydrophobia during the past year. This is the highest number of deaths from this disease that has ever been recorded in that state. " Hungarians and Italians made a combined raid on the ruins of the recent fire in Pittsburgh, Pa., and boldly carried away large quantities of lard, hams, condiments and coffee.

This body of David Cook, of Boston, who was lost last fall near Silver Plume, CaL, was found under six feet of snow partly eaten by wolves. Mask Larkin, a young’ Irishman who eloped .with Minnie Coffman, daughter of a wealthy farmer living near Columbus, Ind., has disappeared and it is feared he has been murdered. The Nebraska supreme court decided the Thayer-Boyd case adversely to Boyd on the ground that he was not a citizen of the United States when elected governor. On receiving the writ of ouster Boyd handed over the office to Thayer. Much surprise was caused in Cincinnati by the announcement that the Knights of Labor in Ohio had ordered 400 delegates to attend the third party convention and that the order had done likewise in many other states Returns from elections in second and third class cities throughout Indiana show general democratic gains with the exception of New Albany and Jeffersonville where the republicans made a clean sweep Con. Galcatcher, a venerable Cherokee, said to be 101, died recently at his home near Tahleqnab, 1. T. The twenty-ninth international T. M. C. A. convention assembled at Kansas City, Mo., on the Oih. Five seamen of the schooner Atlanta were lost In upper Lake Michigan oft Sable Bank. Mrs. John Crubkn, living near Danville, 111, was burned to death while fighting a forest fine. Analysis at Cincinnati indicates that the fatal poisoning of six persons at the Herr wedding at Louisville, K' f was i> vtilenUi—-due to totting food *n «ttfouer kettle

Leopold BeoGm, the well known Chicago board of trade operator, has announced his retirement from active I^H^eias. He has accumulated a for-tune-‘estimated at considerably over $1,000,000 in sixteen years, most of which he made in “scalping,41 The Michigan hottse nas refused to appropriate $30,000 df the direct -tax 'fund for the Grand Army national encampment entertainment. Foub children of Henry Hurrin, of East Tawas, Mich., who started for a sail have not been heard from since and have probably been lest. President Harrison was given a huge reception in Portland, Ore., after which he left for Tacoma, where he was given a notable reception. The only thing known at Pueblo* Col., of Charles Dickson, who wanted to kill Jay Gould, is that at one time he was in the grocery business and afterward a real es‘ ate dealer. He left Pueblo about a year ago, and was not then considered insane. He is a native of Kentucky. * It is reported that ex-Senator John J. Ingalls, of Kansas, has been engaged by Major Pond to deliver fifty lectures in the principal cities of the United States, to begin early next October. A carload of provisions for the Pennsylvania coke strikers has been raised at Chicago Four thousand foreigners are now working in the region. TnK safe of the iron works at Marinette, Wis., was blown open by burglars and $7,000 secured. During April there were 8,430 deaths in Chicago—more than double the number in April, 1890. The Moline Plow, the Deere & Mansur Implement and the Deere & Co Harvester Cos., of Moline, 111., are to be consolidated, with $3,500,000 capital. T. E. Tarsney. ex-congressman and one of the most prominent lawyers of Saginaw, Mich., has been taken by his friends to a retreat for the intemperate. In a collision between the limited mail westbound and a passenger train on the Panhandle road near Denison, O., Baggagemaster Daniel Longenecker was killed, several persons were injured, both engines were wrecked and four cars demolished. . A Freight train went through a trestle in a Chicago suburb reeent'y, and the engine, several cars and the trestle were burned. Fire at Winona, Minn., destroyed the entire plant of Schroth & Ahrens’ Mill Co. The loss was $100,000; insurance between $40,000 and $50,000. Because her father was recently sent to prison Minnie Whittaker, of Indianapolis, Ind., a girl of 15 years, committed snicide by taking morphine. The strike of stonecutters of Milwaukee has been settled by mutual concessions. Other settlements are expected to follow. Ex-Congressman Lawler,of Chicago, is figuring on starting a morning paper to boom Harrison and represent his cause. Newton Kline, a prominent merchant of Cleveland, O., committed suicide by shooting himself. „ Fifteen two story dwellings in the southwestern part of Chicago were destroyed by fire, boys having set a barn on fire. The next international Y. M. C. A- is to be held at Indianapolis, Ind. Special dispatches from Sherman, Evart, Lakeview, Wheeler and a dozen other towns in Michigan report heavy damage to pine and hard wood timber by forest fires. Nineteen horses perished in the burning of August Hunzman’s barn in Mason, la., the other night

THE SOUTH. Judge M. H. Owstry, the prominent lawyer of Kentucky, died of pneumonia at Lancaster, Ky. He was a candidate for the nomination for governor in 1S83 and was barely defeated by Knott. He leaves a widow and four children. Miss Belle McCune, the adopted daughter of J. B. McCune of Mound City, I1L, was arrested at Paducah, Ky., as she was boarding a steamboat for Dyersburg, Tenn. She left home a day or two ago and did not return. Miss McCune was arrested at the request of her father, who claims that she is stage struck. Great forest fires are reported to be raging in the vicinity of Davis, Tucker county. W. Va., and threaten to consume the sawmills of the Beaver Creek Lumber Co., together with the j^jwder magazine of Wilson & Co. The grand jury investigating the lynching of Italians at New Orleans issued a voluminous report on the 5th, virtually exonerating the lynchers and declaring that the people were compelled to act because of the existence of the Mafia aud its corrupting influence in the administration of regular justice. The Lake Concordia levee at Farra-.-day?s> near Natchez, Miss., gave away and the water is rushing through with the greatest velocity. From S o’clock to 0 the break had attained a width of about ninety feet when the caving ceased. CA8HIEB Brantley, of the land department of the Iron Mountain road, with headquarters at Little Rock, Ark., is alleged to be $30,000 short in his accounts. The Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co. has declined the English offer of $3,500,000 for the property. Great damage to fruit, gardens and grain was done in Kentucky by the recent frost. In an explosion in a mine near Clarksburg, W. Va., four men were killedand several injured. Mrs. George Carter, living near Louisa, Ky., tried to poison her family. All were saved by the physicians. The street railway stables of Austin, Tex., and twenty-two cars and thirtyfour mules were destroyed by fire. Loss, $30,000. Locke Ezell, a United States deputy marshal, was waylaid and kiUed south of Russellville, Ky.* recently.

£|IA1« Berlin advices give the significant information that the kaiser has abandoned his intended visit to Italy and King Humbert and that the reason is that Italy is friendly to France. The greatest discontent prevails in Berlin with the policy of the Marqqis Rudini, who is regarded as too favorable to France and too hostile toward Austria. The woods surrounding Halifax, N. S., are on fire in a dozen different places. . .. The Rome correspondent of the London Chronicle says that it is reported that Minister Porter will shortly vacate the United States legation there, leaving the secretary in charge The employes on public works in Madrid, Corunna, Saragossa, Cadiz and Alicante have struck. No disorder, however, prevails among the men in any of these place*

A bibb in the price of bread caused a riot at Parma, Italy. Women marched in procession to the town hall and demanded a reduction of the price. Many were arrested before the crowd was dispersed. TttB famine in Madras Continues. It is feared the monsoon will fail, in which event the distress will be intensified. The London Times and Standard both approve the government’s attitude on the Newfoundland question. Eight of the leaders of the late troubles at Fortune bay, N. F., have been arrested. A REroBT was current at Halifax, N. 8., that the British warship Pelican, How in Newfoundland waters, had been fired upon by the Newfoundland bait catchers in Fortune bay. * ~ The authorities have suddenly suspended the expulsion of Jews from Moscow. Advices state that a French scientific expedition in Terre del Fuego was recently attacked by Indians, and it is reported that only two members, Raussen and Willens, escaped. In the Austrian Reichstag Herr Masaryk gave notice that he would interpellate the government as to whether it was aware that subjects of AustriaHungary in the state of Virginia, the United States of America, were treated as slaves, and if so, what measures .would the government take to obtain redress for such treatment of AustroHungarian subjects.

A revolution has broken out in Costa Rica. The general tenor of the press comments on the report of the grand jury at New Orleans was condemnatory. The report was considered apologetic of lawlessness in general In an explosion in a mine near Saarbrucken, Prussia, eight persons were killed and seven injured. Northwestern railroad officials are figuring on a huge wheat crop this summer. The British house of commons will take up the case of Capt. Edmund Verney. Much excitement was caused at Valparaiso, Chili, by an attempt to assassinate the leading members of the cabinet by means of a bomb thrown at them in the street. No one was hurt The queen regent of Spain having been appointed umpire in the dispute between Colombia and Venezuela over the boundary lines between those two republics, has rendered her decision, which is in favor of Colombia. She establishes the boundary lines along the rivers Orinoco, Atabapo and Rio Janeiro, which gives Colombia the whole of the Faustino and Aurico territory. Orleans, France, on the 7th celebrated the 4G2d anniversary of the raising of the siege of that city by Joan of Arc. S. L. Clemens (Mark Twain) and family will sail for Europe on June 6 and will probably reside abroad for several years. Business failures (Dun’s report) for the seven days ended May 7 numbered 242, compared with 255 the previous week and 209 the corresponding week of last year. The Newfoundland assembly met and discussed the Lord Knutsford coercion bill at length, and amid much excitement .finally adopted resolutions denunciatory of the action proposed to be takenjjy the British parliament T^J^ortuguese government has authorized the Bank of Portugal to coin and issue $2,500,009 in silver and to exchange notes for three months owing to the scarcity of gold. The supposed assault on an American in Florence, Italy, has been explained. Mr. Jacques was out driving and’happened to get in a turbulent mob where arrests were being made and received a portion of the missiles being thrown. The state bonded warehouse at Rotterdam, Holland, and the greater part of its contents was destroyed by fire. The loss was estimated at $1,250,000. The expulsion of Jews from Russia continues. Harsher measures are expected. Neither baptism nor appeal to foreign consuls avails to secure escape. All the printers of Vienna are on a strike for nine hours as a work day and no overtime. Mme. Blavatsky, the well known theosophist, is dead.

XHK UTEKThe south-bound train on the Santa Fe road was held up about 11:30 o’clock , on the night of the 9th, by five masked men, supposed to have been the notorious Dalton boys. They boarded the train at Wharton, detached the engine and express car, and then proceeded two miles south, where they robbed the express car of all the money it contained. It is believed that the amount stolen is not very large. The passengers were not molested. Buenos Ayres advices are to the effect that the Chilian troops have violated the neutrality of the Argentine Bepublic by invading the province of San Juan de la Frontiers. An official investigation is being made. The Paris Journal Des Debates states that the Rothschild contract with Russia is already signed and the issue is therefore only delayed for the opportune moment, the choice of which rests with the sydicate. Edward McPherson, last surviving executor of the estate of Thadeus Stevens, filed a final account at Lancaster, Pa., on the 9th, after nineteen years* service. The balance on hand is $50,349. i/. J. 6. Harris, formerly purser in the United States navy, and at one time associate editor, with Andrew Jackson, of the Nashville (Tenn.) Union, died on the 8th, at Nashville, aged 81 years. Oh the 9th the German reichstag, by a vote of 148 to 143, accepted the proposition of the centrist party, which involves the gradual extinction, within five years, of the sugar bounties. The bank of Portugal has beat authorized by the Portuguese government to coin and issue $2,800,000in silver and to change notes for three months, owing to the dearth of gold. The New Hampshire insurance commissioner has decided to grant no licenses to bond, investment and certain endowment organizations to do business in that state. The Italian consul at New Orleans, Signor Corte, has made himself so obnoxious in the lynching affair that this government is likely to ask for his recall The Hamburg-American Packet Co.’s new steamer, Furst Bismarck, sailed from Hamburg, on the 8th, on her maiden voyage to New York. Private Chili cables say that President Balmaceda is arranging to flee from Santiago, and to sail to London by the way of Buenos Ayres. Almost the entire business portion of RfmEr*"****'<

INDIANA STATE NEWS. The other night two hoys, about sixteen years old, had a figh, over who should accompany a girt home from a certain church in Crawfordsville. While the boys were fighting it out the girt strolled on home and both youngsters were left. A max living near Jamec town would not go to the funeral of his daughter because she did not die at home. A Crawfordsville woman rushed into her burning dwelling and rescued a canary-bird, thereby recei ving several ugly burns. The prison south contains 599 inmates, the largest number since Warden Patten assumed charge. Thou. Sterxberrt, a hostler at Brasil, was cornered and kicled into insensibility by a vicious hon e. Mbs. Albert Nelson, c f Anderson, who was afflicted with la (rtppe at the time of her confinement, became a maniac and has since been secured by chains. Luther T. Bbowx, of Mi dison county. sentenced for life for {hu murder of Eli B. Cummins, has been paroled by the governor. Ax unknown Italian w;is run down by the Lake Erie & Western express, near Noblesville. John Tindel's gold find, at Edinburg, has been assayed and pronounced a good article. A poor and needy scissors-grinder died at Goshen, aged seventy-two In his belt were found papers proving him to be worth $31,000 in land and good securities. A drove of wild dogs is terrorizing the people ffl the vicinity of Columbus. Ix the Third ward of Vincennes last spring a republican tied a democrat for councilman. Upon a new election being held, the democrat was declared to have won by three majority. A contest followed and the court has just decided that the republican was entitled to three more votes, makingthe result

again a tie. J. A. Thornton, one of the oldest members of the Laporte bar, has been declared insane. There is a probability of a tin plate plant being established at Elwood. Col. Conger, of Akron, O., is president of the company. Maud Jones, 20, died at Anderson of a peculiar disease which caused the muscles to grow to the bone. Republicans elected the majority of the city council at Wabash. A bullet from the gun of a midnight assassin fatally wounded tough Dick Adams in bed at Reachdale. At Anderson democrats elect two of the three councilmen. Coyinoton republicans elect all but one councilman. W. Coleman, of Bedford, charged with corresponding with Edward J. Evans, of Lafayette, for the purpose of buying counterfeit money, was fo$hd guilty at Indianapolis. The bodies of three petrified women have been found in a vault out of active use for many years in Greenlawn cemetery, Indianapolis. One of them is a colored woman known to have been entombed fourteen years ago. The features an; nearly perfect, but the skin, formerly quite black, has turned a chalky white. The flesh is hard, but not heavy. The other two women were white, and, while the features are scarcely recognizable, the flesh is perfectly solid and hard as stone. 1 At Lebanon the republicans elected councilmen in all the wards by majorities ranging from 19 to 8L Kokomo is whooping up a new barrel factory. Miss Lizzie Babkett, of Crawfordsville, while attempting to pass .a mule team in an alley, was kicked in the breast. She fell under the wagon, and the team starting np, pulled the wagon loaded with coal over her. She was seriously injured, and declares that she is going to die, while the doctor says she will certainly recover. Miss Barnett belongs to the Salvation army and tells fortunes. Ever since January she has claimed to have been warned in a vision that she would not live through this year. She now seems determined to die so as to establish her repntation as a prophetess. Jesse Thompson, of Danville, while plowing on a farm four miles north of that place, turned up a lot of stone arrow and spear heads to the number of eighty-three. The largest flint was 8K by 5 inches. About twenty feet from the spot where these were found was discovered an Indian fireplace. A large circle was marked off with stones closely set together. Inside of this was a fire-place: with a bottom of stone and containing charcoal. Many arrow-heads have been found on this farm, but this is the largest and most interesting discovery. The field where these.articles were found had never liefore been plowed. A beautifully made scalping knife was one of the implements found. The flint was of the finest quality. The horse of Dr. L. II. Dilly, of Linton, ran away and killed the phye.cian. ‘Kokomo Pulp works turn out 60,000 ‘ pounds of pulp every twenty-four hours. Anderson will soon make tin plate. Judge Joseph Brackenridge, of Ft Wayne is dead. Perry Bashong, a farmer, was rim over by a passenger train at Lagrange and ground into mince meat and scattered along the track for half a mile. Jerry M. Floyd has driven the Paof stage 122,530 miles i> the past fourteen years. The three months’ old c’jild of Marion Wilson, living near Muncie, fell from its elevCn-year-old sister's arms, and was killed by its head striking the

At Fern, the other day, John Johnson was sentenced to one year in the peni-tential-r and disfranchised for two years for the theft of a bushel of potatoes which he sold for ninety-fire cents. Four hundred union painters and tinners struck at Ft Wayne because their demands for eight hours for a day’s w ork and pay for extra time, at thirty-fire cents for the former and twenty-nine cents for the latter, were not complied with. During a terrific electrical storm, late the other night, the large barn of ex-State Treasurer Matthew L. Brett, situated near Washington, was struck by lightning and entirely consumed by fire, together with three fine horses, two cows and a number of vehicle* and agricultural implements. Dick Adams, a notorious character, and former saloon-keeper in Roachdale, in the northern part of Putnam county, was assassinated the other night at a late hour. He was shot four times. Frahik Lake, residing east of Stoekwell, near Lafayette, and teem were killed by lightning the other afternoop.

HEADED EASTWARD. The President and Party Tare Their . Paeee Toward the Rising Ban- -Welcomed by Indians In Oregon. Some of Whom Present Grievances—A Cold Morning M Warm Welcome at Boise City, Idaho-— Secretary Rusk Out Again. Pendleton, Ore., May 9.—Upon his arrival here President Harrison made a brief reply to. an address of welcome. Postmaster-General Wanamaker also made a brief address. The chiefs of the Cayuses and Peo and Umatilla Indians made brief speeches at the close of the postmaster-general’s address. The chief of the first named tribe complained that the agreement between his . people and the government had been broken by the latter, because of the character of certain portions of the reservation allotted to them. The chief of the Umatilla Indians declared that his tribe entertained the most kindly of feelings for the government. Mrs. Harrison bought a number of trinkets from the squaws during the stay of the party. Twenty Minutes nt Pocatello. Pocatello, Ore., May 10.—Two hundred Indians, bucks, squaws and children, assisted the people in greeting the president when he arrived here at 7 o'clock last evening. The Indiana were attired in gaudy blankets and mounted on horses and presented a picturesque appearance. Among them i was a detachment of Indian poliee, who carried a large American Sag, W. H. Savidge, of the Union Pacific railroad, introduced the president, who was given three rousing cheers. The president made a short speech, and calls for Messrs. Wanamaker and Busk secured brief remarks from these gentlemen. Mrs. Harrison and ladies were also introduced. Large delegations from Salt Lake City and Ogden were introduced to the president before the train left. They preceded the president on a special train. The stop at Pocatello lasted twenty minutes. A Cold Morning, Bnt Warm Welcome nt Boise City. Boise CIty, Idaho, May 10.—President Harrison wore a thick overcoat yesterday morning when he stepped from his special train into the cool, nipping air of Boise City. It was a perfect morning, bnt very chilly. The train arrived here at 7 o'clock, mountain time, or 9 o'clock eastern time, and was met at the station by Gov. Wiley, Mayor Pinney, Maj. Schoup and a reception committee, who escorted the presidential party from the station to the town. Two troops of the Fourth cavalry formed the escort of the party, and G. A. B. posts, national guard companies, firemen and other organizations met the president inside the corporate limits, and became an additional escort to the state capitol. Nearly every house along the line of march was profusely decorated, and all the public buildings were covered with hunting. Opposite the capitol, where about 9,000 people had assembled, the reviewing stand had been erected, and from this the addresses of welcome were delivered by the governor and the mayor. The president made an eloquent response, which was heartily cheered, and Messrs. Wanamaker and Bnsk spoke briefly. The president then assisted the school children of the city in their arbor day exercises by planting a tree in the park of the capitol, and proceeded tc the inside of the building, where he held a largely attended public reception, calla lilies, fleur-de-lis, pansies and tulips were distributed in profusion about the house of Mr. Sherman, where Mrs. Harrison and the ladies of the party held a reception. At the conclusion of the speaking, «t J:80, an escort was formed, and the party went to the train, which left for Salt Lake City at 1 o’clock. Secretary Busk, went out in iihe open air yesterday for the first time since j the party left Seattle, where h 3 caught t a severe cold. He has entirely reeov- j sred.

THE FLIGHT OF THE ETATA. The Vessel’s Departure Not So Sensational as Reported* Sak Diego, Cal., May 10.—The news sent ont about the manner of t ie Etata leaving this port was more sensational than the facts warranted. She had no concealed arms or cannon with which to make herself formidable, nor were there any men concealed abor t her for use in emergency. She had sixty-five men when she came into port, but half a dozen of them deserted, so she left with about sixty men. The pilot who took her ont was not forced but went aboard by prearrangement. She in communication with the Bobert and' Minnie, while in port, bnt the United States marshal does not seem to have known it. The marshal sailed aroind the schooner near the- Coronado sland in Mexican waters with a stean tng on Wednesday evening, and the captain of the schooner made signals of contempt and defiance. The marshal said that his orders to detain the Etata were emphatic. but she was allowed tc lie in the stream two days with steam up, and when ready, had nothing to do bus weigh anchor and go. The customs officers say they took charge of the Etata when they boarded her, and say that the statement about her having arms and men concealed are ridiculous. The Etata left here headed toward San Clemente island, where she will probably meet the schooner with the arms and ammunition.

A Bis Land Deal. Huron, S. D., May 9.—William G)aa» gow, of.Hall, England, sold to the New York Land & Irrigation Co., through its representatives, C. W. Harringer and A. W. Wilmarth, 85,000 acres of land in the James Biver valley. This is the largest sale ever made in this part of the northwest by private individuals. The company now has over 100,000 acres in this locality, and is arranging to irrigate all of it by artesian wells. Practical irrigationists from Colorado will arrive in a few daya to superintend the sinking of wells and putting the land into shape for irrigation. j Dixon to Well Connected. Hartford, Conn., May 9. —Chas. J. Dixon, arrested in New Yorl as an insane person for having threatened tha life of Jay Gonld, unless the latter at once paid him a certain sum of money, is the son of the late Rev. Or. Dixos. The latter died in the insane asylum at Long Meadow, Mass., where he was t> patient. United States Senator Dixon is nl«» an uncle of the man that h»c threatened. Mr. Gonld. Chan. J. D'xo t visited his relatives, who pr^very wealthy people, last week. At 'that time he showed m signs of naebtai rPBgemeoV

WARNING TO ROYALTY. L Revolution Impending In Belgium that May Fir* the Train* Leading to tho Throne* of Other European Nation*— The Right* of Mankind as Against Mvlleged Classes Mart be Asserted. London, May 11.—Thirty-eight suf’rage meetings were held yesterday in Brussels and other cities of Belgium, tnd tiie attendance numbered hundreds >i thousands. Many of the speeches made were of the most violent character, the Speakers urging that the working people must at any hazard issert their right to a share in the govsrnment. The upper classes werowarned that their oligarchy was approaching a close, and nothing short of aoiversai suffrage, promptly granted, Would be likely to avert a revolution. A socialist orator in Brussels asserted that the day was not far distant when royalty would be brought down as it bad been brought down by the French revolution and that the bayonets employed to prop up thrones would be turned against those who sat on thrones. The utterances were enthusiastically cheered. At Ohent, where the suffrage agitation has heretofore been comparatively undemonstrative, the people assembled in thousands and in such a threatening manner as to call for the interference at the military and police to prevent rioting. In Antwerp, Ghent, Liege and Charleroi, as well as Brussels the garrisons were kept ready for instant service, and the police were reinforeed by gendarmes. The miners on strike assembled as on May-day, but without fcny serious exhibition of violence, ofThe utmost anxiety is felt by the a-n thoritiCs as to the? future, and It is said that both king and Cabinet favor ample concessions on the suffrage issue as a means of placating the working classes; The majority of parliament is, however, still stubbornly opposed to the surrender of the powers and privileges which the upper orders in Belgium have so long possessed exclusively, and the farthest they are willing to go is to place the suffrage within reach of the lesser tax payers, still excluding the vast majority of the workingmen. In England and Germany the situation is viewed with equal anxiety, and it is felt that the agitation is favorable to France, and that the socialist element would rise en masse in behalf of France in the event of a war.

THE GREATEST OF ALL. WbUlont of Similar Character—The Foreign Interest In the Enterprise Both Widespread and Enthusiastic—Our South American Sisters Will be Well Represented. Washington, May 12.—The World's Columbian exposition at Chicago bids lair to be the greatest exhibition ever held in any country: greater even than the Paris exposition of 1S89. Advices already received at the bureau of American republics here attest a remarkable and astonishing interest in the exposition on the part, not only of the South American republics, but of continental Europe and China and Japan as well. Every country on this continent south of the United States from Mexico to the Argentine republic has been heard from, and are making great preparations to place exhibits at Chicago. In Europe, Great Britain has already appointed a commission, with the Prince of Wales at the head of it, to prepare a wonderful exhibif for the fair. The Russian government has set apart two millions and a half, and leading merchants and manufacturers of Strausberg and Moscow are pledged for as much more, for the purpose of sepding here the greatest, most diversified and novel exhibit ever collected by a single government Germany will be present with a wonderful display, and France has given assurance of bringing a great exhibit On this continent Mexico will probably lead her sister republics in size and diversity of display, and has appropriated $1,000,000 to do so. Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, Salvador and | Costa Riea will erect their own buildings at the fair,and Barbadoes, Jamaica and the other British West India islands propose to place their exhibit inf a typical building which they will erect to be {‘ailed “The West Indian Court.” Although the opening of the exposition . is two years hence, the assurances are complete for one of the, greatest exhibitions the world has ever seen. Novel Grounds Set Forth for Their Expulsion from the Realms or the Car —Their Fecundity Is Too Great. • JLondon, May 11.—A plausible statement has been published defending on la novel ground Russian persecution of the Jews. It is to the effect that at the rate of increase of Jewish families, compared with the increase of the Russians proper, the empire, in the course of a few generations, would be mainly Jewish, and the orthodox subjects of the czar would be in a hopeless minority. A St. Petersburg letter says that the officials are making the most absurd excuses everywhere for the persecution of the Jews. One of the reports started at Kieff was that there had been a mysterious disappearance of several Russian children, and that the children were kidnaped by the Jews for the purposes -of sacrifice. It was even alleged that the calcined bones of a victim had been found. The stories were readily believed by the more ignorant, and had much to do with the cruel treatment of emigrant Jewa by the populace. Fair K»t Indications the World's tleago will Eclipse All Previous THE RUSSIAN JEWS.

-yi-Fifty-KIts Colonists Lost on n Foundered Vessel. Misnkafous, Mian., May 11.--A special to the Tribune from Tacoma, Wash., says: The steamer Lucy Lowe has foundered in the straits of Jnan de Fs.es, with fifty-fire colonists on hoard. The party,' numbering: fifty-six, left Tacoma April 31, to settle on land near the mouth of the Guestahes river, but were beaten back by high seas and became short of food. John N. Grant, of Tacoma, the only survivor, returned here Saturday. He believes the entire party has been lost, A search party is being fitted out. 5uec«*af«i Train Robbery at Whartoa, Oklahoma. Gvthjue, Okla., May 11.—The southbound train on the Santa Fe road was held up Saturday night about 11:30 o’clock by five masked men. The gang is supposed to have been the notorious Dalton boys, who have been seen in this neighborhood recently. They boarded the train at Wharton, and detached the engine and express ear. and then proceeded two miles south and robbed the express car of all the money it contained. It is believed that the Hnionat stolen i» not very large, Tb* pa*»nfws^fS9t "

. J MILLIONS ABLAZE. ForMt Flni of Unprecedented Extant and DMtraetlTMMn IU|>n| In Northern Michigan—Million* of Acres AMasa and the People Helpless to Star the March of the Destroyer. Detroit, Mich., May 10.—A Are is raging- in the upper central counties of the lower peninsula the like of which was never before known. The flames reach almost without a break from Mason county,” on Lake Michigan, to Iosco connty, on Lake Huron, with the forests of Lake, Osceola, Clare, Gladwin, Ogemaw and Alcona, where General Alger owns large interests, all ablaze. A fire of scarcely less magnitude exists in the upper peninsula* The incline of the Duluth, South Shore dfc Atlantic railroad, through Marquette, Houghton. Baraga and Ontanagon counties, is in the path of the flames. Two railroad bridges have already gone on the line, and the telegraph lines are in < bad shape. Fears are entertained that the fire will reach the town of Meredith InClay conn ty. Tait township, in I osco county, is also in danger. Friday night the flames swept into Oscoda and burned ont $200,000 worth of property. Two , houses and 7,000,000 feet of lumber were burned. Great apprehension is felt at An Sable. An appeal for help has been sent'-' to Alpena. It is feared the city will be - swept away if the wind shifts. Millions of acres of pine are burning. Ludington, Mich., May 11.—Walkerville, a small town in Ocean county, the terminus of Butler & Peters’ logging camp, was almost totally destroyed by forest fires Saturday afternoon. The hotel, stores, lively barn, saloons, blackmith shops, and all but a few dwellings went up in smoke. Five „ hundred thousand hardwood logs were also burned. Fires are raging in the woods over the country and doing incalculable damage. Kitzinger’s mill at Free Soil was also destroyed-by forest fires. Gbaxb Rapids, Mich., May 11.—The Chicago & West Michigan station at Shields, near White Cloud, was destroyed by forest fires Saturday afternoon. Eighteen Chicago & West Michigan freight cars were burned at Lilley, j on the Chicago & West Michigan, and 4000,000 feet of logs owned by Dunshern, Bolinder & Co., of Muskegon, were destroyed Saturday afternoon.

FALSE AND RIDICULOUS. The Assertion that No Sane Person Haa Ever Been Unlawfully Imprisoned In an Insane Asylum Combatted by the Secretary of the Anti-Kidnaping League of New York. •' ‘ » , r New York, May 10.—The anti-kid-naping league’s lawyer, Mr. Albert llach, will to-morrow publish a card replying to the statement of the national convention of the insane asylum superintendents at Washington, D. C., that no sane person has ever been unlawfully imprisoned in an asylum. Mr. Bach denounces the statement as false and ridiculous, and cites the cases of Mrs. Clarissa C. Lathrop, author of “Secret Institutions,” and Miss Anna E. Dickinson, both of whom, he says, are shown by the record, to have been imprisoned without any legal authority, and that of Mrs. Harriet E. Beach, wife of the editor of the Scientific American, who has just been released from Bloomingdale asylum on a habeas corpus obtained by the antikidnaping league and adjudged by the court to be entirely sane, as Mrs. Lathrop previously was. Mr. Bach says hundred of such cases are on record; that the league is in possession of evidence that many persons are unlawfully confined in the very asylums whose superintendents deny that .^sueh a thing had ever happenwl, and that they are investigating these cases. He states thpt in another case the league has positively ascertained that the physician who consigned a lady to an asylum certified that she was insane without ever having seen her, and that the league have called the attention of the authorities to the. matter and are working to have this physician indicted and punished. ' ' i EXPLOSION AT A FIRE. A Large Number of Chicago Firemen Severely Injured by an Explosion of , Chemicals. Chicaoo, May 11.—Several firemen and members of the fire insurance patrol were badly burned, Saturday afternoon, by ah explosion of chemicals in the basement of a dyeing establis^- - ment at 43 North Clark street. An alarm of fire was turned in, a blare of a minor character having started among . the garments loosely strewn about the place. As soon as the firemen got to the scene a dozen of them descended the stairs. Nobody warned them of the dangerous character of the chemicals ;• stored there. No sooner had they all got well into the room than a loud explosion was heard, and a moment later, the bystanders were horrified to seethe jpoor fellows run wildly for the open air, with hairless faces, blistered features and clothes almost burned from their bodies. The names of the fire insurance patrol men injured are: Frank Lee, fatally; CapL O’NeiU, John Ruane. W. Ackle and Geo. Furnal, aU seriously. The firemen injured are: Assistant Fire Marshal Musham; CapL James Thorn, Lawrence Stafford, Truckman Ryan, and two firemen, and two truckmen, names not ascertained. No particular damage was done to the store or building. VJ _ .•«

An Inmate of the Milwaukee Soldier*' Home Found Murdered. Milwaukee, May 11.—Henry Anlfus. an inmate of the soldiers’ home, was missed from that institution Saturday evening. Shortly after noon yesterday his body was found in Honey creek, about four miles from the home, head, and his hands and feet were tied ^0l Several deep gashes were found on his 4 with a stout rope. It is supposed he was murdered and then thrown into the creek. He was a member of company K, Twenty-eighth Ohio, and about 55 years of age. No motive for the crime is known. No Truth In the Report. Mount Pleasant, Pa., May lft.—Reports having reached Gov. Pattisonthat the coke operators were keeping their cnen in the mines without letting them come to the surface, and in some cases that the men were chained to prevent them from leaving the mines, Gov. Pattison yesterday morning sent Adjt.Gen. McClelland here to make an investigation. In company with a number of labor officials the adjutant-gen-eral visited the different mines, and alter a thorough investigation reported to Gov. Pattison that there was not ‘ word of troth to the mtttonl II