Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 52, Petersburg, Pike County, 20 May 1891 — Page 1

VOLUME XXI. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY. MAY 20, 1891. ■.. • f. NUMBER 52. . 'll J. L. MOUNT, Editor and Proprietor. "Our IVtotto is Efonestfb Devotion to Principles of Right.” 0FFI0E, over J. B. YOUM & G0.sS Store, Main Street Pike County

—-ii I——..' r PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT ■-- — ISSUED EVERY WEDNESDAY. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Foronejrear......01 a For >U months..... « For three months... St INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. mutlUlKU BATU: One square (9 lines), one insertion....O 00 Each additional insertion. 60 A liberal reduction made on adTertlaemeata canning three, six and twelve months. legal and Transient advertisements mast be said lor in advance.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS. J. T. KIME, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, . PETERSBURG, 1X1). WOlflce in Bank building, fire! floor. Will bo louuU at office day or night. Tbakcis It. Fosei Dewitt Q. cuarprli. POSEY ft CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, PKnutCwm, Ini>. Will practice i.» all the courts. Special att?1*.*.?" S'vco *t> all bushiuss. A Notary Public ron*tn»iiy In the ottlee. **-Offloe— Ou Ilr3t flour Wink Building. E. A. Ext. s. g. Davksi-okt. ELY ft DAVENPORT, LAWYERS, Petersburg, lift). over J. R. Adams ft Son’s drug store. DxnMT.pt attention given to all business. K. P. Lichardson. A. H. Taylor RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. Prompt attention given to all business. A Kotory Public constantly in the office. Office in Carpenter'Building, Eighth and Main. :_ v DENTISTRY. DR. WOODRY,

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IXD. Office over J. I*. Young's Store, Main Street £9H)tBee hours from 9 o'clock a. m. to 4 o'clock p. in. IE. J. HARIRIS,

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

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. Office in roomsS and 7 in Carpenter Build lug. Operations first-class. All work warranted. Anaesthetics used lor painless extraction ol teeth. I. II. LaMAR, Physician and Surgeen Petersburg, Ind. k v, Will practice in Pike and adjoining counties. Ojlice in Montgomery Building. Office hours (lay and ni:*ht. - tyrDiteases of Women and Children a specialty. Chronic and difficult cases solicited.

$6600.60 a jm i» being made by John R. Goodwln,Troy.N.y.*»t work for us. Header, you immv not make as much, but «( can iieoekjuuqiiii-kir livw to earn from IS to ' $10 a day at the'start, and more as you gro on. Kotb sexes, all aces, lu any |«rt of |An»erk-a. you can commence at borne, girting all yotir lbue,«r span: hm incuts only to tl»e work. All b new. t.reat pay M RF for ererr worker. We start yon. furnishing everything. KA8ILY, SI P Vi.lLY learned. FAItllllLAltS FREE. Address at once, ST1&SOX * to., 10KTLAM), IA1AJL

THIS PAPER 18 ON FILE IN CHIGI60 AND NEW YORK AT THE OFFICES OF A. H. KELLOGG NEWSPAPER CO. TKl’S I EES’ NOTICES OF OFFICE OAT. NOTICE Is hereby given tliat I will attend to tlie duties of the office of trustee of Clay township at Union on EVERY SATURDAY. « All persons who have busiuess with the office will take notice that I will attend to business on ho other day. M. M. GOWEN, Trustee. "VT OTICE Is hereby given to all parties InlY terested that I will attend at ray 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. J. S. BARRETT. Trustee. NOTICE is hereby irivon to all parties concerned that I will be at ray residence. EVERY TUESDAY, To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of Monroe township. GEORGE GRIM, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given that 1 will be at ray residence -EVERY THURSDAY To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of Logan township. ^-Positively no business transacted except on office days. SILAS KIRK, Trustee. OTICE is 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 no business transacted except office days „ _ ' JAMES RUMBLE, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all persons Interested that I will attend in ray office in Yrlpen, _ EVERY FRIDAY, To transact business connected with the office of Trustee of Marlon township. All persons having business with said office will please take notice. W. F. BROCK, Trustee. OTICE is hereby given to all persons concerned that I will attend at my office EVER* DAT To transaat busine-s connected with the office of Trustee of Jefferson township. R. W. HARRIS, Trustee.

THE WORLD AT LARGE Summary of the Daily News. ■WASHINGTON NOTES. M A4. P. It Downing, collector of San Pedro, Chi, died recently. He is the fourth collector under this administration to die just when entering upon the < duties of his office. The Italian consul at New Orleans, Signor Cbrte, has been notified to return home in order to furnish the Italian government with £n exact account of the events which have taken, placesince the murder of Chief of Police Hennessy. A88I8TANT SECRETARY SPAUOMNG has: informed an Ohio firm that in the opinion of the treasury department the term "horses” as used in paragraph 24? of the act of October 1,' 1888, includes Shetland ponies. _ Tun last of the troops gathered at the time of the Sioux outbreak have been ordered to return to their former posts. Secretary Foster has decide! to reduce the forces employed in collecting the customs so as to avoid a deficiency. Boston will first feel the cut. The United States government will keep a considerable naval force in Chilian waters during the present troubles. State department officials deny that there has been any suggestion of arbitration between the United States and Italy. The matter has not gone that far as yet B. C. Duncan, of Washington, aged 27, was recently detected in the act of murdering his wife on Mount Snowden, in Wales. The woman was unconscious, her head being badly fractured. Duncan was said to he well connected in Washington. Green B. Baum, Jr., has resigned his position in the pension bureau. Secretary Foster has notified the collector of cutoms at Philadelphia to dispense with ten of his weighers and has also directed the appraiser to reduce his force. The president returned to Washington exactly on schedule time from his southern and western trip on the 15th. He had made 139 speeches since he left the capital April 14 and took an opportunity to make an even 140 as he reached home. Justice Brewer, of the United States supreme court, has allowed a writ of error to issue in the case of the contested governorship of Nebraska.

TILE EAST. The Lumber Trade association has commenced the lockout and boycott which, its members assert, will cause a total cessation of building operations in New York before long. The fifteenth annual convention of the millers’ national association* began in New York on the 11th with a large attendance. Ex-Pbesldent Cleveland addressed the democracy at Buffalo, N. Y., on the night of the 12th, denouncing the alleged extravagance of the last congress as a menace to the nation. Fifty of the leading millers of America have sailed from New York for a two months’ business trip in Europe. All the cigarmakers of New Hampshire have struck or are preparing to strike for increased wages. At Albany, N. Y., while laying a carpet, William J. Murphy had his mouth full of tacks. Something caused him to laugh and several went into his lung's. His death was almost certain. Gen. Lemuel Todd, a noted lawyer and a pioneer republican of Carlisle, Pa., is dead. Levy Bros. & Co., one of the largest wholesale clothing firms on lower Broadway, New York, closed their doors on the 13th, owing more than $800,000. The strike of machinists at the National tube works, Pittsburgh, Pa., after fifteen weeks ended in favor of the men. Philadelphians have complete d all the arrangements for a bourse on the European plan. It will be housed in an eleven story building to cost 452,000,000. The Belmont oil works, Philadelphia, have ben destroyed by fire. A dispatch from Punxsutawney, Pa, says that sixty miles of forest land were on fire. . Six men were severely burned by an explosion of gas in a sewer in New York City.

THE WEST. The Bel den Motor & Manufacturing Co. of Chicago has assigned with $175,000 liabilities and unscheduled assets. Cause, two bad fires. The strike on the Midland railroad in Indiana is extending. A passenger train was stopped at New Brass and travel is now completely blocked. E. M, Wii-son, an old miner and prospector 6t New Mexico, was shot dead by assassins at Las Placitas, N. M. The world’s fair labor committee has decided to take prompt action to compel the fair directors to agree to fix a minimum rate of wages. All the carpenters of Duluth and other lake cities of Minnesota have decided to strike June 1, unless granted a nine hour day. The opera house, four warehouses and two dwellings in Plano, III, were burned the other day. All the section hands between Stevens’ Point and Cmppewa Falls, Wis., are on a strike for ten cents a day more. Eight more soldiers have been arrested by the military authorities for complicity in the lynching of Hunt at WaUa Walla, Wash. This makes sixteen in custody. The National Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, in session in Indianapolis, has adopted a system of apprenticeship. The Iowa coal mine strikers are estimated to number 10,750. Frank and Harris Burns, convicts in the penitentiary at Jeffersonville, Ind., sawed their way from their cells and escaped. Two men were killed near Florissant, Col, by being struck by a train while riding on a hand car. The grand jury of Meade county, S. D., has returned five indictments for murder against the assailants of Few Tails, a friendly Indian, and his band, killed last winter by cowboys when on a hunting expedition. THE BOOTS. Mrs. Bell, a young woman, has been whipped to death by whitecaps at Ducktown, Term. Three of the Bell boys, who were fired on, will die of their wounds. Much excitement existed oveV the affair. Three men and a boy were killed by a boiler explosion at Wilson’s sawmill near Germania, W. Va - Ret- J- P. Morton, of the Methodist Episoopal ohurch at Lake Charles, La, waa run over and killed on the Kansas Citv A Watkins railroad, jie wm lately WoW***

The 100th anniversary of the first meeting' of the legislature of South Carolina, at Columbia, began Oh the tilth, Kingman - won the Kentucky derby at Louisville on the ISth. Senator Arthur P. M. Gorman, Maryland's senior representative in the upper house of congress, has been preM^pfirvith a superb silver service of pieces in honor of his efforts in the defeat of the elections MIL Ant the drivers and handlers of the Adams Co, at Louisville, Ky., have struck. This was the result of the rej cent order requesting their employes to ^furnish bond. The strike was likely to spread over the country. John Young Brown, ex-congTessman, has been nominated by the Kentncky democrats for governor. Rev. Thomas F. Gayloe, chancellor of the University of the South, has been elected Episcopal bishop' of Georgia. Rufus Moore was publicly hanged before 5,000 people at Trenton, Ga., for the murder of a rival in love. One school boy was fatally injured and four badly hurt in Birmingham, Ala., by the fall of a lot of bricks from a building next to the school. general. Signor Quintieri has given notice in the Italian chamber of deputies of an interpellation regarding Premier Rttdini’s intentions in view of Mr. Blaine’s latest communication on the New Orlearns affair. The holy see is disposed to make representations to the various powers with a view to obtaining compcnsat on from the Italiawgovernment for the"damage done to the Vatican building, etc., by the rcceDt powder explosion. A t Japanese fanatic attacked the ezarewitch about six miles from Kioto, while the heir to the Russian throne was traveling in Japan. No political cause was assigned, but the czarewitch was dangerously wounded. During the recent financial panic at Lisbon a dynamite bomb was exploded, doing considerable damage and causing much alarm. Lieut. George A: Bicknelu, connected with the foundering of the Galena and Nina, has been found gnilty oi negligence. There has been a panic on the Paris bourse, due to the depreciation in Spanish and Portuguese securities. In the -elections held in Spain foi members of the conneils-general, the republicans were successful in ovei forty leading towns, including Madrid. The two Irish factions have left the evicted tenants in Ireland in a deplorable condition. The tenants are everywhere making the best terms they can for reinstatement • .

jlhe uen-Kuuwn opamsu political economist. Coolie, has written a lettei in which he says that Portugal has a colossal deficit for ruinous loans contracted upon humiliating terms and that she is confronted by monetary, industrial and political crises of the most threatening kind. Mb. Robert C. Porter, the United States minister at Rome, is preparing tc spend the summer in the highlands near Roca de Papa. He has no idea ol leaving Italy. Riaz Pasha, president of the Egyptian council of ministers, and at the same time president of the ministry ol finance, has resigned. The supreme treasurer of the Catholic Knights of America is accused ol placing cash balances on interest and absorbing the proceeds. A dispatch from lluenos Ayres says that that city is practically insolvent. The government employes have not been paid for many weeks, and there is now due to them nearly §1,000,000 ir salaries and wages. Mrs. ISatchkllor, the wife of the United States minister to Portugal, was seriously injured in a carriage accident. Miss Batchellor ' was also hurt, but she was not severely injured. A priest of Dunmore, Ireland, has refused to administer the sacrament tc Parnellites. The funeral of Grand Duke Nicholas was a grand affair at St. Petersburg, One hundred thousand troops salutec the body. The newspapers of St Petersburg warmly, praise the gallantry of Princ* George of Greece, the companion of th< czarewitcli, who felled the latter’s assailant at Otsu, Japan, to the ground by hitting him over the head with f heavy walking stick and thus prevent ing the fanatic from inflicting possiblj more severe wounds. The emperor of Germany is expeetet to visit London June 10. A deputation of Moscow merchant! waited on the Russian ministers pray ing that they suspend the ruinous de eree of expulsion, which'affects Jewisl bills of exchange. The ministers de dined to interfere. Information has reached Rome tha during the progress of a fierce store which recently visited Massowah, i building used as a barracks and con taining a number of soldiers, collapsed Six men were killed and ten seriouslj injured. Financial, matters were reportei n^pjraipt at Lisbon ^iitSs in the island of Corfu con tinue excesses against the Jews. Jewish refugees in Austria showei no sign of grief on hearing of the czare witch’s misfortune in Japan.

I HERE was an unconnrmea report oi the 13th that the Charleston had me and sunk the Data. A government magazine in Count] Down, Ireland, was exploded by dy namite recently. The authorities wen looking for a suspected American. ■A revolt is reported in Dutch Guiana Ax anti-European riot occurred a Woo Hoo, China. The Catholic missioi and several houses were burned. The Belgian government has threat ened to expel Gen. Boulanger from thi country unless ho is silent on politics matters. The South Wales miners' conference by a vote 87 to 37, has resolved to con tinne the agitation for a working da; of eight hours. A general strike of ironworkers ha been ordered throughout Belgium. President ’HirroLVTE, of Hayti while in company with a few officer was fired upon by concealed assassin near Jacmel. Two of his companion were killed, but the president escaped So did the assassins. The Prince of Wales is suffering Iron influenza The National Press, of Dublin, say that Lord Welseley sees no danger ii homo rule. The British ship Mentena was sunl during a dense fog off the coast o France the other day. No lives weri lost. It was owing to misapprehension tha the work of expelling the Jews fron Moscow was suspended. They art again being driven mt tialiy, aUhougl 11<m force is applied,

it Is reported that a great sy-dicale has beCn formed in England an I France to control the California brandy trade. The switchmen on the Chicago & Northwestern were paid off and suddenly discharged on the morning of the 14th. The company had been prepaid ing for a stepof the kind fbr sometime. Announcement was made that discrimination would he made in re-engage* ment. Despite nil the efforts of the govern* ment to. stamp out the disease, triehi* nosis continues to exist in some parte of Germany. Six persons have recently died from the malady in Meiningen and fourteen more are suffering from its attacks. The United States legation in London officially states that there are in the Bank of England no large sums of money awaiting claimants. The total amount in chancery belonging to un* known persons is less than $5,000,000. It is learned that two more Jews have been murdered at Corfu and that bodies of several Jews who died at that place from starvation lie unburied. It is also learned that the troops continne to keep a cordon about the Ghetto, or Hebrew quarter. W. J. Bexdall, governor of the Colony of Barbadoes, has addressed a letter to Lord Knutsford, secretary of state for the co'onies, in London, in which he urges the establishment of a reciprocity treaty between Barbadoes and the United States. It is said the assassins of Minister Belticheff, of Bulgaria, have been captured in Roumania. As a result of the investigation.made into the anti-Hebrew troubles at Corfu, the governor of that island and the mayor of Corfu, its capital, have been dismissed. Greek warships having infantry on board have been sent to Corfu. While the kaiser was driving to Potsdam in the carriage presented to him by the czar, the horses balked and the carriage collided with a tree. The kaiser was falling out when his adjutant caught him in his arms and saved him from injury. • Gem. Wells Legget, the noted patent lawyer and once president of the Brush Electric Light Co., is dead. A tobacco smuggler near the frontier at Gibraltar was shot dea 1 by the guards. The inhabitants of the neighboring villages, who are in sympathy with the smugglers, attacked the guards, wounding two of them. The officials returned the fire, killing two villagers and woupding many others. The guards were in the employ of the tobacco companv.

Several lively battles between workmen and police occurred in Brussels. Many men were arrested. Bulgaria denies tbat any peaceful Russians have been expelled. Eighty-four members of the British parliament are suffering from la grippe. VARNisniXG day in the Paris salon on the Champ de Mars was a brilliant success. The crowd was enormous. Os the Dneiper river in Russia a flat boat containing a number of workingmen collided with a steamer bound up ' the stream and sank almost immediately, drowning nineteen of its occupants. The captain of the steamer is blamed for the accident. Business failures (Dun’s report) for the seven days ended May 14 numbered 387, compared with 343 the previous week and 313 the corresponding week of last year. By an explosion in the Moss colliery at Ashton-under-Lyne, England, one workman was killed and a number seriously injured. The Fanfulla of Rome violently denounces the Louisiana authorities and condemns the New Orleans grand jury’s reply to Consul Corte's letter. The influenza epidemic is seriously increased in the south of Russia. In Russian Poland the disease has decimated the population of many villages. Balmaceha’s troops have been defeated again by the congress forces in Chili and the commander put to death. The combine has decided to restrict the production' of anthracite coal and advance prices SI a ton October 1. r The inikado’s physician reports that the czarewitch’S wound is trifling. Algeria is again devastated by locusts. A caravan from Morocco traversed through swarms of locusts for thirly-two days. . THE LATESTAh inquiry is to be instituted to ascertain the truth of the rumors respecting the teachings of Rev. R. llebcr .Newton, D. D- rector of All-Soul$’ parish of New York city. The points in Dr. Newton’s teaching that are to be submitted to the bishop are his alleged denial of the miraculous conception of Christ and of the resurrection of Die human body of Jesus. Liverpool newspapers state that the steamship companies are exercising an unusual amount of caution with regard to emigrants, and that the sale of Dck- ‘ ets has been refused in a number of cases The emigration from Ireland at present is nearly all composed of young men and young women, strong and healthy looking. The log cabin, once the homes of Ulysses S. Grant, near Webster Groves, Mo., will be removed to Old Orchard, a , suburb of St. Louis, and set up in a park. It was offered to the world’s

lair commissioners, but a private citizen of St. Lonis outbid them. Numerous applications have been received at the interior department for the position of assistant chief cTbrk of . the pension office, which will be vacant . on the expiration of the thirty days’ leave of absence granted to Green B. Baum, jr., the incumbent. . Letters from Florence, Italy, state , that the mob which threw stones at Mr. Jacques, of Newton, Mass., and . hurt his daughter, were workingmen . who had just had a conflict with the pol lice on account of May-day troubles. Mrs. Richard C. Duncan, the lady who was murderously assaulted by her . American husband recently at Bettws- , y-Coed, Wales, and whose life was despaired of, is reported as being out of , danger. The Indiana World’s fair commission- , ers organized, on the 16th, with Clem : Studebaker, of South Bend, as presii dent. Gov, Hovey was first elected to > the office but declined to serve. Another large shipment of destitute Russian Jews arrived in London, on the ! 18th, from Hamburg. A few -will come to the United States, but most of them i will remain in England. , Henry Sampson, proprietor of the well-known London sporting and drac matic journal The Referee died, on the f 16th, of influenza. > The New Orleans grand jpry has again indicted John Cooney for attemptt, ing to bribe jurors, i Rear-Admiral Daniel L. Brains ! was placed on the retired list og the i Ifyth. Snow fell in Chicagj on the 16th,

ti.tilANA -STATE NEWS. Martin Greiner killed his mistress, Mrs. Anna Keister, at Logansport, and then shot himself. Dogs to the nombef- of 1.55A, including pugs, are wearing license tags ill Evansville. Chas. Mitchell, sentenced to the Indiana pen for stealing wheat, suicided in the Rochester jail. The little son of Frank Weber, of Fort Wayne, upset a tea-kettle of boiling water and was horribly scalded over the face and body. The child died next day, after suffering terrible agony. Bile Masters, a local tongh, broke the seal of an L.. E. and W. freight car that was standing in the yards near Muncie, and entered it for the purpose of robbery. The watchman, Henry Longering, seeing the thief enter the car, ran up and closed the door, thereby making Masters a prisoner. A switch engine was procured and brought the prisoner to the city, when the thief was tnmccl over to Officer Heffner, who placed him in jail.

EabIiT the other morning Laura Walker, aged 18, daughter of W. Walker, died from the results of hemorrhages of the nose. r* The Indiana Bicycle Co,, of Indianapolis, has been made defendant in a suit in the federal courts for infringement of patent. .The plaintiff is Albert H. Overman, of Springfield, Mass., who asks that the Indiana Co. be restrained from using the Hughes patent improvement in bearing for wheels. Damages in the amount of 810,000 also are asked. There was a battle between trainmen and ttamps at Edinburg, and one tramp and trainman were fatally injured. Wii. Fountain, a farmer near Bedford, hanged himself in a bam. lie was suffering from measles. Christopher Baber, Jeffersonville boy with too many thumbs on one hand, underwent a surgical operation and parted with one. R. C. Harris, the leading physician of Ellettsville, fell from the roof of his wood-house, breaking both arms and dislocating both wrists. Muncie has its second democratic mayor in: its history, owing to a split among local republicans. Jos. George, a weU-known farmer of Whitley county, while bringing a sawlog to Columbia City on a wagon, the vehicle broke down.aind he was thrown under the log and instantly killed. The supreme court of Indiana has sustained the new law limiting a days’ work to eight hours. The complainant in the case, John Griswall, testified that he had worked for the Noel Flour and Feed Co. at the rate of 81.25 a day; -that during the time he was kept busy eleven hours a day. When he was discharged he demanded pay for the extra hours, and, under the court’s decision, he recovered the amount claimed. The court holds that, unless there is an expressed agreenient to the contrary, employes who are required to work more than eight houna day must be pail extra. A half-bozen boys at Huron, ate wild parsnips in the woods and one, Chas. King, is dead. Jos. Noonan, employed at Jaap’s stone works, Fort Wayne, was instantly kiUed by a large block of stone weighing fifteen hundred pounds slipping from a wagon, catching his 1 ead, crushing it and breaking his neck. He' leaves a wife in destitute circumstances. Tirfc two young sons of H. C. Miller, of Knight’s Addition to Brazil, took their little nine-months-old sister riling in the baby carriage. The carriage got away from' the children at the top of a high and steep hill. , It rushed vith lightning speed down the incline, v hen the wheels struck a rock, throwing the baby out. It was picked up for deac but recovered consciousness. The in fant was terribly cut and bruised, and received internal injuries that may result fninllw

Isaac Miller, aged 87, and Si rah Graves, aged 79, were married at Ladoga. The Indiana pharmaceutical asst 'elation elected president, Wm. C. Bui tin, of Terre Haute; vice-presidents, I>. H. Lohman, of Lafayette, E. Brnnsknofel, of New Albany, and John Kennedy, of Vincennes; secretary, F. W. Meisher, of Lafayette; treasurer, G. G. Allen, o:: Indianapolis; executive committee, J. N. Hurty and F. H. Carter, of Indianapolis, and August J. Detzer, of Ft. Wayne. Farmer Stevens, near Walkerton, has struck oil on his place. Ground has been broken for the new theological hall of DeFauw University. At the city election at ^Vaynetown, Montgomery' county, the other day, Wm. Simms and Frank Hollowell tied for the office of treasurer, each gentleman receiving 3251 votes. To decide the question as to which one should hold the office a foot race was held a few days later between the men. The race was a 200-yard dash, and several thousand people were on the ground betting on the outcome. Simms seemed a sure winner until he tripped and fell when within three yards of the goal. Hollowell fell over him, but crawling over the line won the race amid the howls and cheers of the crowd. Hollowell was duly sworn in. At Goshen two hundred voters out of 1,214 failed to stamp their ballots properly. Frank Cooper, a would-be saloonkeeper of Covington, was refused a license in the commissioner’s court, but won his case on an appeal to the circuit court A colored man in Crawfordsville, besides carrying a rabbit’s foot and other voodoo articles, has lately secured the dried hand of a child, which he keeps in his vest pocket He secured this human relic in the west and considers it a charm more powerful than the incantations of a voodoo doctor. Jackson Bust, of Jeffersonville, found an Indian skeleton in the creek, it having been washed down during high waters from an old burying* ground. A new bank has been organized at Bedford with a capital stock of .560,000. Col. A. C. Vorcis is the president and J. C. Vorcis cashier. Minnie Whita ker, a country girl, who went to Indianapolis to secure money in any way possibe to aid her father, who had lieen sentenced to the penitentiary for theft, committed suicide the other morning by taking morphine She was 15 years old and beautiful to an exceptional degree. The other day at 5 White Creek, ten miles west of Seymour, Joseph Frederick, who has been insane for some time, escaped from the house, and going to the creek near by jumped in and was drownedNew Albany hits 7.801 BohooHhddrent .*

AT ACAPULCO. The Cruiser Charleston Reaches Acapolca. Mexico, Without Haring; Overhauled the Itata—The Insurgent Cruiser Esmeralda There* However, and Her Commander Intimates that the Esmeralda will Have to be Sunk Before the Itata Can be Taken. . Washington, May IT.—The navy de* partment yesterday afternoon received a dispatch announcing- the arrival of the United States steamer Charleston at Acapulco. The dispatch stated that the insurgent man-of-war, Esmeralda, was also in that port, but gave no information as to the whereabouts of the I tata. The Esmeralda, it is stated, is badly in need of coal, and it is understood that the Mexican government has refused to allow her to procure it at any of their ports. Her only object in remaining in the neighborhood of Acapnlco now seems to be to connect with the Itata and relieve her of her cargo.' No information can be obtained at the navy department in regard to the futare movements of the Charleston. She will, it is thought, remain in the vicinity of Acapuleo and will wait for the Itata to make her appearance. Considerable speculation is also going on as to what action the Esmeralda will take in case the Itata makes her appearance and the Charleston endeavors to capture her. Some say that the Esmeralda is in no condition to fight and will not attempt it. It is claimed by others, however, that it is a ease of life and death with the Esmeralda, and that she will surely fight in case the Charleston tries to capture the Itata. Further developments in the ease are daily looked forward to by state and naval officials. A cablegram was also received at the navy department yesterday afternoon announcing the arrival of the cruisers San Francisco and Baltimore at Iqniqne. _ Capt. Remy Will Fight. San Francisco, Mdy 1ft.—A telegram from an officer on the Charleston at Acapnlco says that, the Itata had not been seen or heard from at S a. m. When the Charleston entered the harbor she passed near the Chilian war Vessel Esmeralda. The Charleston went to quarters and loaded her battery for an emergency. The Esmeralda speaks all vessels she meets. Two days ago she attempted to buy coal at Acapulco, but failed to get any because of a lack of coin. Soon after the Charleston anchored the Esmeralda steamed ’into port and Capt. Remy had an interview with her commander. The latffer said frankly that the Charleston wonld never take the Itata until the Esmeralda was sunk. Capt; Remy replied that his orders were to take the Itata, and it wonld make no difference whether the Esmeralda was in Acapulo or not. The Charleston is ready for action, as every one expects a fight if the Itata appears. LATER. It is rumored that the Esmeralda had communication at sea with the Itata yesterday, and that the latter steamed south after receiving provisions from be Itata. Arrived From the Went Indies. New York, May 17.—The-United States cruiser Philadelphia, with . Admiral Gherardi on board, arrived in the harbor yesterday morning, havingcome from St. Thomas. During the trip, Flag-I-iient. Alan G. Paul died. His remains were brought here for interment. The dead officer was a brother of Mrs. William Waldroff Astor. While at Port an Prince President ilippolyte paid the Philadelphia an official visit. An episode of the visit was the action of the commanding officer of the British wardship Pleiades, who took his vessel to sea to avoid saluting the president. The Philadelphia fired a salute and its officers received their gnest with great honors.

The I tat a Thought to Have Passed Acapulco. City of Mexico, May 18.—The published rumors to the effect that the Esmeralda succeeded in buying' a limited supply of coal at Acapulco are denied by the government. The officials says she was ordered out of port and now lies in neutral waters. The Esmeralda’s steam launch was "patrolling all Friday night. The impression prevails at Acapulco that the Itata has passed that place and rone south, and that the Esmeralda is waiting for the Charleston. The telegraph at Acapulo has been freely used hy the officers of the Chilian warship. a Peculiar case. An Alleaed Case of Violation of the Extradition l aw by Canada. Washington, May 17.—Barrister .J. fl. Pillet, of Montreal, was at the state department yesterday in conference with Assistant Secretary Moore on a very peculiar extradition case. Some time ago the husband of Leda La Montaigne was murdered by her brother, and Leda was an eyewitness of the crime. When her brother was on trial Leda refused to testify. Lena was acquitted of nuy complicity in the crime and went to Boston, where she secured employment. Last August a warrant for arson was issued against Leda, under which she was extradited and placed in jail at Sherbrooke, Can. The brother will be convicted without the woman’s evidence and will be hanged. The lawyer claims that the woman, instead of betried for arson wai sentenced to a year's imprisonment for contempt of court in refusing to testify against her brother, and therefore her imprisonment is illegal and that she should be liberated. >

Gen. Grant’s Log Cabin Not to Go to Chicago. St. Louis, May 17.—The log cabin that was built by and for Ulysses S. Grant will .not be moved to Chicago from its present site near Webster Groves, Mo. It was sold on Thursday by its owner, Butler H. Conn, to Mr. E. Joy. The price paid by Mr. Joy was $5,000. He will, in the course of a week or two, move the cabin to Old Orchard, about three and.one-half miles from its present location, and set it down in Old Orchard park on as nearly perfect a reproduction of its original site as it is oossible to construct. 4 Division of Opinion Apparent on thn Coming Cincinnati Conference. Kansas City, Mo., May 17.—The Jackson county Farmers’ Alliance had a lively meeting at Alliance Friday. The object of the meeting was to select delegates to the Cincinnati conference. About thirty of the sub-all i a nc<|s re fused to be represented at the meeting. The farmers of this county are strongly opposed to the Cincinnati conference, as they cohsidor it a third party move. The county is entitled to eight delegates, but so strong was the opposition that the meeting adjourned after selecting ontv

A “FRIENDLY** COMPACT* flu Clique That Engineer* the Aflhin of the Nation. p The sealskin scandal recalls public attention to the fact that the men who are closest to Mr. Blaine politically eonstUnte a clique which embraces some of the most daring speculators in America. Its existence first became notorious during' the period of the star route scandal. Prior to that time Mr. Blaine, as is well known, had taken a very considerable financial interest in the affairs of Arkansas in connection with Little Bock railroad securities ! and with easting anchors to windward in the formation of national banks. In this connection he made close friends of some of the most notorious carpetbag politicians of Arkansas, and from Arkansas operations were extended to New Mexico, where his friends raided the public sands in mueh the same style as one of their number—District Attorney Clayton—made his debut in Oklahoma under this administration. This clique, bound together by common affiliation with Mr. Blaine and having headquarters both in Wall street and Washington, has operated through resident members in West Virginia, in New Mexico, in Arkansas, in Montana, in Oklahoma, and wherever else there was an opportunity to turn a penny through politics, as is now being done through Mr. Blaine's sealskin diplomacy. In -its personnel the connection is made between those engaged in Mr. Blaine’s deals with Fisher, in his guano diplomacy, and in the star route contracts. PrW to the nomination of Mr. Benjamin Harrison, his son, Mr. Bussell B. Harrison, was taken into fall fellowship and into open partnership with Elkins in the Montana operations of the syndicate which in Montana was active in land schemes and in polities. Young Harrison, who went*to Montana to hold a minor fed-rat office, had no capital of bis own. and when he wa v taken into the clique there is little' or no doubt that the deal for the nomination of his father had already been made. °In pursuance of this deal Mr. Morton, the. American representative of the French syndicate engaged in the guano deal, was made vice president through the same influence which made Mr. Harrison president—the influence of Stephen a. Elkins as the political familiar of Mr. Blaine. The history of the Harrison administration shows how the deal has been carried out. We need not go beyond Arkansas ■and Missouri to find & sufii-' cient j^wki-ation of how all-powerful has jjXjBttie influence of these speen1 ato3Bver' Mr. Harrison. They have been trie power behind the throne of the second of the Harrison dynasty. They have dictated appointments; he hits merely assented. The patronage of the administration has been onder

their control, and they hare used it to j promote their private ends, regardless of party as of public welfare. Such notorious facts make it a very serious question how far Messrs. Blaine and Harrison are free agents in connection with the extensive political and speculative’ operations of these men. The weight of the evidence tends to show that Mr. Blaine acts under compulsion. He seems to be literally “in the hands of his friends;’’ of the men whom in the past he has used for his own purposes; whom now, when tlic end of his career is in sight, when he has opportunities to make an honorable record in closing it, he might gladly shake off if he could. But it is inevitable that when a public mau of national reputation makes such alliances he becomes the slave of those he expected to use only as tools. Desperate men, with no regard for public opinion, caring nothing for what is said of them, bent on getting the largest possible amonnt of unearned money in the shortast possible time, they are not. to he trifled with, as Mr. Blaine well knows after his experience with Ei&her. Having once “got a cinch” on him they use it either to control him or ruin him—to control him regardless of whether it ruins him or not. His humiliations under such circumstances must he extreme. H» is the victim of these men and of the deal they made in his name in nominating Mr. Harrison. On Mr. Harrison the hold they have was established prior to this deal, and it has been strengthened since through the speculative operations in which Bussell B. Harrison is used with what is clearly- studied ostentation, leaving no doubt that he is played as a stool pigeon by experienced operators whose designs he is not capable of understanding. — Whatever the bitterness privately felt towards each other by members of such combinations, it cannot manifest itself in open rupture. The same influences which nominated Mr. Harrison bind him and Mr. Blaine together. No matter how much they may distrust and dislike each other, they cannot separate. Mr. Blaine will not desert Mr. Harrison nor will Stev Elkins desert Mr- Blaine. The operations of Mr. Elkins and his associates in Behring’s sea show how ruthlessly Mr. Blaine is used. The governing idea of these speculators is to make all they can while the Harrison administration lasts, and they arc utilizing every opportunity, regardless of the scandal created when it becomes no longer possible to conceal the fact that the machinery of the government of a great people is prostituted to the private ends of a band of financial freebooters.—St. Louis Republic.

A POLICY OF GREED. -» Financial Blunder* of Republican Surplus- ; Spenders. To the mind of the average republican editor there is nothing quite so perfect as the financial policy of his party.' It is to this the orator turns ■when needing a rounded period to excite npplaase that shall afford him rest for 1 ds nest flight. It is to this tho grea; editor looks when he would entire!;? demolish his democratic contemporary. But the time has come to check these voluble ranters. They have as little knowledge of financial questions as the woodchuck of Arabic. They have seen their party straddle every financial debate and cheered always for the wise statesmanship of their partisans. If it were asked that the crowd should shout over the platform of 1858 then did the welkin ring in behalf of a policy that was disowned before it hqd been telegraphed across the country. Was there rejoicing because of the issuance of the trade dollar? it was equaled when the party had succeeded in foisting over thirty million dollars on the small dealers !ind plain people of, the country for the direct benefit of a patriotic firm of $ea exporters in New York, and then reduced their value while in the hands o? the poorer classes. Let these shoutej be uM that pa fiswieiiti wt ot the re

publican party will stand lair investigation. And if the people would appreciate the tergiversation <Sf an average republican financier let them turn to. the outgivings of the present secretary of the treasury, who is extolled as a statesman because he has the happy faculty of m^ney-getting through the sale of cottons. Mr. Foster indorses the statement of a subofficial regarding the condition of the national finances. He agrees there need be no lifficulty in carrying on the operations of the government because of the expenditures of the billion-doUar. congress. It is only necessary to note one of the means to be adopted by this rapacious financier to understand how fully he meets the requirements of republican policy. He says: As to the tlQO.(X».oqO of gold reserve, it is wUl against the $350,000,000 greenbacks. Bnt ihese notes outstanding are legal tender, and :he government can and would use this gold reKnve it"it needed to on a pinch. It should. iherefore, appear in the debt statement tvailable cosh. No fiatist need ask better indorsement of his absurd claims than is presented here by. the republican secretary of the treasury. In this declaration from the head of the treasury departnent is found full warrant for the assertion by the fiatists that the so-called •esetve would never be of value to the lolders of the greenbacks should occasion require its use by the government these extremists will find in the position of Mr. Foster incitement to further attempts to unsettle the financial :o tdition of the country by demanding the withdrawal of the gold reserve for the payment of the interest-bearing se curities of the government. If they succeed in placing power in the hands t>f ignorant demagogues by this exhibit iop of financial policy, then will the republicans controlling affairs under this administration find it difficult to satisfy the people that they have erred through mere ignorance. There is a blunder that trenches closely on crime. If it were needless to maintain the i coin reserve, then have the people beentaxed unnecessarily for the last twenty pears. If it were necessary, then must the sum be held sacred for the uses of the people when wanted.—Chicago Times.

AN EXPENSIVE LUXURY. f rrottieate Practice* of a SpendthrMV Administration. It is very diffcult for the consumers of the United States to appreciate the extent of the burden imposed upon them by the billion-dotlar congress. It was supposed by the fathers of the republic, and the belief was current until very recently, that the maintenance of the federal government would cost comparatively little: that the principal taxes would be levied for state and local purposes. Times have changed, however, and taxes have changed with them. The expenditures authorized;6by the Fifty-first congress will amount to about $16 for each individual in the country. This is the per capita tax for two years, so that really the average individual’s annual contribution to the expenditures of the federal government is about $8. This is a very large tax. It is a tax of about ?40 on the head of each family. It is also, according to the census of 1S80, a much larger tax than was then paid by the average, citizen of the United States for state and local purposes. The average per capita tax levied in the country i* 1880 for state, county, town and city purposes was ^ $i>.23. In New England it was $10.47; in the middle states, $8.63; in the southern states, $3.46; in the western states, $6.97; in the territories, $4.36. . The federal government is collecting this tax for pensioners, a large part of whom are not worthy old soldiers; for the protection of manufacturers who buy republican seats in congress and the presidency; for river and harbor improvements, many of which do not- - benefit commerce; for public buildings that are not needed; for subsidies to swell the profits of a few ship owners, and for increased salaries to a great swarm of tax eaters. These favorites of the party are costing the taxpayers more than their local governments, m county governments and state govern* ' ments added together. The largesse and bounties given away by the republican congress cost the country more than it is paying for its state administrations, for its town and- village officers, for its city governments, for its police, its health boards, its docks, its canals and all the elements of home administration. if to the tax actually and directly collected we add the bounties to the ^ tariff-protected manufacturers and the sugar growers we will realize that the federal government under republican rule is our most expensive luxury, but just how expensive no one can tell. And every„dollar of it must come from the earnings of the people.—N. Y. World.

POLITICAL OPINION. -President Harrison's fanner's wagon scheme does not seem to be thusiastically taken up by the aUl^® ances.—Louisville Courier-Journal. -The administration is vigorously scraping up the half-dollars, quarters and dimes and spending them. They are all that is left in the treasury, and when they are exhausted Mir. Foster will inform Mr. Harrison that tho pinch has come.—St Louis Republic. -Republican organs are quarreling over the question whether Blaine or Harrison should be given the doubtful honor of originating the limited reciprocity scheme. As a matter of fact neither of them should have it If it goes to whom belongs it will be , given to the necessity of the high taxers.—Chicago Times. —-The democrats went out of power in 1886 leaving in the treasury oito hundred million dollars’ surplus of the people’s money. At the end of two years of republican misrule the administration organs are only able to say that “Uncle Sam will worry through” by raking together his small change and securing an extension of maturing obligations.—Buffalo Tiines^ _-While a republican congress has been piling up the burdens of the nation to an extent unprecedented in history, squandering a surplus of nearly two hundred million dollars, accumulated under President Cleveland, and rendering a suspension of the process of paying off the national debt indispensable in order to save the treasu from a deficit, the democratic party i trusted with the government of empire state has practically gnished the debt of the state, ished the general expenditure, ferred the cost of government from 1 back if labor tc'the shoulders wealtffWd accomplished a reduction t the tax rate to the lowest point i wace the yew lW,-»rooklyit