Pike County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 12, Petersburg, Pike County, 12 August 1891 — Page 1

6 S8 888 T ----- J. L. MQUIT, Siitot tod Proprietor. VOLUME XXII. “Our Motto is Honest Devotion to Principles of Right.” PETERSBURG, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1891.

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rttOlK'SlOtfAt. CARDS. J. T. KIME, M. IX, PhysiGian and Surgeon, PETERSBURG, IND. _ ftOBw in Rank building, first floor. Wtll be fouud at office day or night. Xbaxcis B. Posbt. Dewitt Q. CHimu I'OSEY A CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ixn. W-Ill practice In ail the courts. Special attention given to all business. A Notary Public-constantly In tilt office. *#-Offlce— On first floor Bank Building. K. A. Ktr. S. G. Davenport. ELY & DAVENPORT, WOlllee over J. B. Adams A Son’s drag ■tore. Prompt attention given to all business. E. I*. Richardson. A. II. tailor RICHARDSON A TAYLOR, Attorneys,at Law, Petersburg, Ind. Prompt attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in the office. Office in Carpenter Building, Eighth anil Main. DENTISTRY. DR. WOODRY,

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, 1ND. Office over J. B. Young’s 8tore, Main Street ^Offico hours from 9 o’clock a. m. to 4 o’clock p. m. E. J. HARRIS,

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

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. Office in rooms6 and 7 in Carpenter Build* lug. Operations first*class. All work warranted. Anaesthetics used for painlessaex* traction of teeth. I. H. LaMAR, Physician and Surgeon 0 Petersburg, Ind. Will practice in Tike ami adjoining counties. Office in Montgomery Building. Office hours day and night. *j-Dlseases of Women and Children especially. Chronic and difficult cases solicited.

00 • year is twin* made by John R. Good win,Troy.N.Y.,.it work for us. Reader, tyou may not make as much, but we can teach you quickly how to cam from #5> to $10 a day at the start, and more as you go ou. Roth seats, all apes. In any part of America, you can commence at home, giving all your time,or spare moments only to the work. AJJ is new. Great pay Stitt for everv worker. We start you, furnishing everything. KASII.Y, MkV.MLY learned. 1’A It lit'L'LA US FREE. Address st once, STINSON Jk 10., TOITLANR, 14UX.

THIS TAPER 16 ON FIE* IN CHICA60 AND NEW YORK AT THE OFFICES OF k. N. KELLOGG NEWSPAPER CO. ms iEEV NOTICES OF OFFICE OAT. NOTICE I* hereby Riven that I will attend to the duties of the office of trustee of Clay township at Union on EVERY SATURDAY. All persons who have business witb the office will take notice that 1 will attend to business on no other day. U. M. GOWEN. Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties Interested that I will attend at my office in S ten dal, EVERY STAURDAY, To transact business connected with the offiee of trustee of EoCkhnrt township. All persons having businest with said office will please tuke notice. * J. 8. BARRETT. Trustee. ^ OTICE Is hereby given to all parties concerned that I will be at my residence. EVERY TUESDAY, 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 ol Trustee ol Logan township. •^-Positively no business transacted except on office days. SILAS EIRE, Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby given to all parties concerned that 1 will attend at my residence EVERY MONDAY To transact business connected with the office of Trustee of Madison township. •^-Positively no business transacted exct pt office daya JAMES RUMBLE, Trustee. TkTOTICE is hereby given to all persons In1V| terested that I will attend la my office In V.lpen, , EVERY FRIDAY, To transact business connected with the < fflee of Trustee of Marlon township. All p rsons having business with said office will please take notice. * W. r. BROCK, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given,to alt persons concerned that 1 will attend at my office EVERY DAI T» transact busine.-s connected with the office of Trostee of Jefferson township. & W. HARRIS, Trustee.

THE WOULD AT LAME. Surfimary of the Daily Nowa WASHINGTON NOTES. The United s tates treasury continue* the daily shipment of small notes to the west for use in moving the crops. The total amount so far sent is $2,803,000. Tns Catholic Total Abstinence union met in convention at Washington on the 5th. Last year the applications for patents, etc., were: For letters patent, 39,696; for design patents, 1,146; for reissue patents, lfl; for registration trade ma ks, 1,355; for registration of labels, 808; caveats, 9.333; total, 45,949. There were 85,31" patents granted, 1,744 trade marks registered and 3S9 labe a registered. Neari.y 4,000 Indians depredations claims have so far been filed before the national court o E claims in Washington. It is understood that the president has signed the papers in the Choctaw and Chickasaw claim case and instructed the treasury to issue warrants for the amount, nearly £3,000,000. Secretary Foster was absent on a visit to Ohio, but it was said he would on his return issue the necessary order to pay the claim. A letter has been received at the treasury department signed “King of the Tramps,” containing particulars of an attempt' progressing to rob tho treasury._ THE EAST. Fire in Millvaile, Pa, destroyed two factories and eight frame dwellings. Loss, £35,000. Rev. Dr. J. H. Worcester has formally notified the directors of the Union theological seminary of his acceptance of the professorship tendered him. William L. Buck, a well known citizen of Delaware eounty and cashier of the First National bank of Darby, was killed on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, near Cullingdale, Pa., while walking on the track. Pitcher Person, of Syracuse, has jumped his club and gone home to Boston. He served Buffalo the same trick last season. A train conveying a Sunday school excursion from Ellcnburg and Rouse’s Point and intervening stations on the Central Vermont railroad, ran into a mail train at Champlain, N. Y. Two persons were killed and about twenty injured. A cloudburst occurred between Harrisburg and Rockville, Pa., and caused Paxt n creek to rise so rapidly that the railroad tracks and many houses in South Harrisburg were flooded. There were several narrow escapes from drowning. The White Star line steamer Majestic, which left Liverpool July 29, arrived at New York on the 5th, breaking the record from Q :eenstown to New York. Her time was five days, eighteen hours and eight minutes. The green glass bottle makers and factory owners split at their conference in Pittsburgh and a, lockout is probable. Both members of the assigned banking firm of Schall & Danner, of York, Pa., have been arrested charged with receiving money from John B. Walsh, of New York, when on the verge of insolvency. Proctor Knott, the celebrated race horse, died at Horse Haven, Saratoga, N. Y., on the 6th, of pneumonia. The St Louis express on the West. Shore at Port Byron, near Syracuse, N. Y., ran into a disabled freight train. Fire added a terrible horror to the wreck. Twelve persons were killed, all but one being Italians About twenty were injured, mostly of the 6ame nationality. A run was made on the New Jersey Trust & Safe Deposit Co. at Cape May, N. J., caused by a lad, John M. Love, employed at the Stockton, starting a groundless story that the bank was in trouble. Love was put in jail. Nine insane convicts of the state insane asylum a.t Auburn, N. Y., overpowered their keeper, secured his keys and escaped Five of the escaped conviets were recaptured The sloop Banwood. while being towed up the North river, New York, capsized and sank. She was loaded with railroad ties owned by C. L. Buck and the loss was £139,000. Norman Campbell, a member of the Consolidated stock and petroleum exchange, committee! suicide in Prospect park, Brooklyn. His family stated that the suicide was probably occasioned by business troubles Abraham Backer, the New York broker who failed recently, is accused of shady work. W. E. Schmertz, an extensive shoe manufacturer of Pittsburgh, Pa., has failed. He confessed judgment to the amount of £333,000. Ex-Gov. Axtell, of New Jersey, is dead.

THE WEST. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul has filed suit at Chicago against the Pullman Car Co. for an accounting. It is claimed that the: Pullman company is concealing its overcharges. While John Wag oner, an employe of the Cerealine mills at Columbus, Ind., was inside one of the boilers cleaning it, another employ e, not knowing that Wagoner was there, turned a stream of hot water in on him, almost cooking him alive. The drought in south central Illinois has been broken by a heavy rain. Corn has been put in good shape again. The court martial which tried Lieut Alexander Dean for drunkenness while on duty in the Yosemite valley has recommended that he be reprimanded. Dean has been released from arrest and temporarily assigned to the Fourth cavalry at the Presidid Two battalions of cavalry have left £1 Reno, Ok., with instructions to drive the cattle from this Cherokee outlet. There is a prospect of a collision between the cavalry and the cattlemen and Indians. The third annual convention ol letter carriers occurred ah Detroit, Mich., on the 5th. The Pacific Short Lino railroad will be sold at public auction by its receiver September 1. Thu line runs from Sioux City, la., west through Nebraska 120 miles Jim Cbow packers of Chicago are combining to force better terms out of the Union Stock Yards Do., as did the “Big Three” with the Tolleston, Ind., bluff. The Jim Crows threaten to go to Stiekney. Applications have been made at Kansas City, Ma, for receivers for the Winner enterprises.

Ex-CoXSRESSMAN Harrison B. Kkllby, of Kansas, has renounced the rc* publican party for the people’s party. He said the republican party did not keep Its promises -with regard to passing1 the elections bill, Tnk town sit-eYs of West Guthrie, Ok., hare won in their contest with Mark 8. Cohen and fourteen other agricultural claimants. The Bock Island's new route to Denver, Col., via Omaha, will be opened August 10. Miss Nellie Boise, daughter of the circuit judge of'Salem, and William Steel, son of Postmaster Steel, of Port* land, were drowned while bathing at Long Beach, Wash. Six other persons were carried out by the undertow but were rescued. m There has been another serious fire In the Unfortunate town of GrlnnCU) la. The tlrinaell eart factory was the heaviest loser. TllE 0. A. R. national encampment in session at Detroit, Mich.,selected Washington for t£e next convention. Commander-in-Chief Veazey recommended separate departments in Louisiana and Mississippi as a means of avoiding frictions on account of color. Mrs. Helen A. Gougar Will follow Maj. McKinley all through Ohio dnring the campaign and talk low tariff and increased wages for workingmen. Comanche, C.inton county, la., was reported on fire on the night of the 6th. The famous Moqni Indian snake dance commenced recently on the reservation in Arizona and was to contittne sixteen days. It is said that no more will be allowed. Hundreds of bogs about BellbroOk. 0., are dying of cholera. Only one farmer’s drove.Aas been untouched so far. Father Quay, a Catbolie priest of Snohomish, near Seattle, Wash., has been tarred and feathered for immorality. He was removed from a charge in North Dakota for similar practices. Returns are now in from the districts of the Cherokee cation. The nationals were routed. The Downings carried seven. out of nine districts. Chief Mayes was re-elected for four years with a working majority in the senate and conncil. Capt. John Palmer, of New York, was chosen by the Grand Army encampment at Detroit, Mich., for the commander-in-chief. The encampment decided not to permit separate departments on account of race differences In the south. The people’s party of Ohio nominated John Seitz for govornor. Frank Rist, a compositor on the Cincinnati Post, was nominated for lieutenant-governor. Tub split in the democratic party at Chicago has been healed by a love feast. The party lost two elections in consequence of the Carter Harrison and Cregier factions. The Helwig chair factory at Indianapolis, Ind., has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $100,000. Twenty-fivr saloons closed at Sioux City, la., having learned that the law and order league was after them. The conditions were very similar to those existing in 1880. Liquor was being sent across the Missouri to Covington, Neb., in large quantities. - A wild flurry in western passenger circles was created by the announcement of the Chicago & Alton that its harvest excursion rates would he one fare for the round trip and that it would run three excursions instead of two. Letter carriers in session at Detroit, Mich., voted in favor of an equalization of salaries. The Bly-Myer Ice Machine Co,, of Cincinnati, has made an assignment. The company had an extensive trade all over the United S ates and South America. The liabilities are $330,000; the assets $600,000. At Homer, I1L, the New York and Boston sleeper on the Wabash collided with a freight train. No passengers were injured, but quite a number of trainmen were badly hurt and a tramp stealing a ride was killed. The New York and Chicago limited express ran into a number of gondola cars at Palestine, O., and was wrecked. A passenger was instantly killed and the engineer and fireman badly injured. A switch had been left open. The Chicago express on the Big Four road ran into a horse and buggy at Evansdale, near Cincinnati. In the vehicle were Lewis Duckhorn and Thomas Goodpastor. Both men were fatally injured. Fred Lewitcu. one of the editors of the Western Poultry Journal, was drowned at Cedar Rapids, la., while bathing in the Cedar river.

THE SOUTH. Mississippi Talley lumbermen have purchased 1,000,000 acres of land in Oregon for timber, farms /and ranches. A fierce rainstorm ih Louisville, Ky., caused $30,000 damage by flooding of basements. At Smith’s Grove, near Bowling Green, Rev. William M. Perry, pastor of the Central Presbyterian church, fell dead in the pnlpit frolta heart failure. He appeared perfectly well up to the moment of death. The Kentucky bureau of agriculture in its report says: Corn, acreage, 100; condition, 103; wheat, acreage, 105; quality last year, 110; tobacco, acreage compared with average, 90; condition and stand, 100; hemp, condition, 7a The alliance men of Tennessee seem to be holding wheat for higher prices. One result is that the milllcrs are forming a league to buy western grain, the price having gone up from 82% cents to 90 cents in a week and flour having advanced 25 cents per barrel. ’ The thirteen Russiau Hebrew immigrants who arrived on the Dnteh steamer Zaandam at Baltimore, Md., were allowed to land, the state board, of immigration having been given satisfactory assurances that the immigrants would not become a public charge. A number of general freight agents of Texas roads appeared before the railroad commission at Austin and protested against the proposed reduction in rates. Several lumber men thought the proposed lumber rate would serve to equalize the conditions between northeast and southwest Texas mills. Senator George, of Mississippi, has been badly beaten at the county primaries, Barksdale, the alliance candidate, even carrying George’s home county. The report that Senator George was defeated in the Mississippi primaries was declared without foundation. He failed to carry his county (Carroll), which was entirely due to a large alliance majority. The vote stands to date: George, 66; Barksdale, 22. It requires 99 .to elect and George is certain to get 120 instructed votes. Hos. Thomas W. Royer, for fourteen

fiJt.NKRAU COAL dealers are talking as if they Mill expected the railroads to yield to their demands add redded the rate od hard coal front $3.8'.) to 13 90 per tod« Chicago to the Missouri river. A traffic official says that the caal men are entertaining- a false hope. A cheat deal of apprehension is felt in Mexico in regard to crop prospects owing- to long continued droughts. Speaking for the sugar trust inter* ests Mr. Searles, the secretary, denied any war or attempted competition between the trust and Clans Spreckcls, Adding that the most friendly relations existed between them. A paper of Berlin says that Chancellor Von Capriri has told Mr. Phelps, the American minister, that the Emperor William will perhaps visit the world's fait- at Chicago This statement, however, lacks confirmation. Crop prospects in the south of Russia are improving. England and France are negotiating to take joint action for the protection of their subjects in China if such action should become necessary. It is stated that Germany will join England and France in this work. Three Jews were killed and the Jewish quarters looted By a mob at Elieabethgrad, Russia Tub British parliament .has been prorogued. In the speech the queen says that proposals have been made by her government to that of the United States looking to the settlement by arbitration of the differences relating to fisheries in Behring straits. Two Russian banners captured by the French during the Crimean war have been returned to Russsia It is stated that Bulgaria is making great preparations for war. Ttie Morning News, of Belfast, Ireland, has come ont against Parnell, of whem for years it had been an ardent supporter. There is no hope of averting a disastrous famine in Madras, India Men and animals were perishing of hunger. A waterspout on one of the islands of the Azores group has caused much damage and resulted in the killing of six persona The river Yarra has overflowed its banks at Melbourne, Australia One thousand families were flooded out and $3,000,000 damage done. Prince Borghese and his family have disappeared from Italy since his failure became known. His liabilities amount to 37,000,000 lire and his assets to 34,000,000 lire. It has been positively decided that Parnell will visit the United States during the autumn and conduct a campaign. Mrs. Parnell will accompany him, making her debut as a politician. Parnell will be accompanied by at least two ol bis followers in parliament, but a selection bas not yet been made. The famous Tokay vineyards in Hungary have been ravaged by phylloxera and almost entirely destroyed. The Russian imperial council has decided to prohibit the exportation of wheat, owing to the bad harvest in Russia, which has caused a scarcity .of this cereal. A telegram from Buenos Ayres a> serts that Chili will declare war against Bolivia because the government of the latter country has recognized the congressional party of Chili as belligerents. Business failures (Bun’s report) for the seven days ended August 6 numbered 231, compared with 247 the previous week and 308 the corresponding week of last year. Mr Duesing, a theological student in one of the Roman Catholic colleges in Rome, was drowned recently. His home was in St Louis. Lieut. 1‘hil.ip Hodges, of the English navy, committed suicide by jumping into the sea July 84 while being sent home from Australia for a breach ol discipline. Guatemala proposes to spend $130,000 for a world’s fair exhibit The three Baronesses Horvath, sisters, were drowned recently while bathing in the river Nyarad at Madaras, Hungary. During a heavy storm in. Manitoba two women were killed by lightning. It is announced that the American Sugar Refining Co. bas advanced the price of sugar, except cut loaf and crashed, 1-16.

THE LATEST. The San Francisco Examiner states that Balmaceda, through Minister Egan, offered the United States $4,000,000 for the cruiser Baltimore. The offer was refused. Influenza is raging in Moscow, Russia. There are about 500 cases daily. While two local pugilist were fighting at Manchester, England, on the 7 th, one of them struck the other a blow on the head which caused him to fall dead. The men were of little note. The man slayer was arrested. The Cooper house at Cooperstown, N. Y., was burned between 7 and 8 a. m. on the 8th. The hotel was crowded with guests, but no one was injured. Partly through the protection of ward politicians and gamblers only five out of every fifty men arrested in Baltimore, Md., during the past six months, charged with selling policy slips, have been bent to jail to await trial. Two famous St. Bernard dogs, one the sire of the other, died on the 7th. Prince Regent succumbed in New York city from gastric fever, and Scottish Prince, His son, expired at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., from paralysis and exhaustion, caused, it is believed, by lack of exercise. He was owned by Col. Ruppert, host $8,000 in Europe and was a champion. Judg^ Pugh, of Columbus, O., overruled the motion for a new trial in the Elliott murder case, on the 8th, and sentenced W. J. Elliott to imprisonment for life. Henry D. Fiksel, justice of the peace and clerk of the Council of the borough of Lansdale, Pa., is reported to have absconded, after misappropriating $1,000 of the funds of the Lansdale lodge of odd fellows, of which he was secretary, and getting into debt to the extent ol about $10,000. He left behind him a wife and five children who are absolutely destitute. The king of Greece, the prince and princess of Wales, the czar and czarina, and the princesses Victoria and Maud of Wales will be among the guests of the king of Denmark in Copenhagen next month. This State of Pennsylvania has begun suit against ex-Treasurer Bardsley for $837,034 and against the county of Philadelphia for $033,000 taxes, said to bo dne the state. •T1; A telegram from Belfast says it is stated that Messrs. Dillon and O’Brien have persuaded four prominent leaders of the Paraellite faction of the Irish the gentlemen are got firs*.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. A JtONt'MENT Weighifig 50,000 pounds Will be eftctdd dVer the grave of CoL kcaUedy iJrovefl, at BCddingthri. 8am Loirrcs, of Lawrenceburg, bad a fight with muskrats and they got the best of him . The ditch being made to drain Pulaski, Whi te and Jasper counties is to be 35 miles long, and will drain 100,000 acres of land. Batik Edmunds, of near Leavenworth, lost his speech twelve years ago, and he regained it a few days ago by being frightened on the discovery that his bairn was burning, A Committee of Pendleton citiietts are negotiating with Dr, Gattling to secure the location of his gun factories at that place The first fatal accident oh the new $300,000 courthouse at Richmond occurred the other morning. John Gaines, * colored hoi-carrier, was on a runway, three or four feet wide, near the top of the second si ory, when his barrow ran against the wall, throwing him off his equilibrium, and he fell off, between the wide-apart iron joist to the basement, thirty-eight feet below. A scalp wound and an abrasion over the left eye told tltuvt he ' lighted on his head. Bis neck was broken, yet he lived forty minutes. Southern Indiana is a great fruit center, the output so far this season being the heaviest ever known. J, F. SfcLT has been re-elected superihtehdent Of the Decatur county poor farm by the commissioners. Ckazt-patch socials have become alarmingly popular in Jeffersonville. No one can say exactly wbat the new fad is, but e verybody admits having, “Oh, the loveliest time!” A regular Kansas grasshopper was found at Crawfordsville a few days ago. It is three inches long, and is probably the advance guard of an army of invaders. Miss Bessie Parky, of Muncie, has received a small box of choice wedding cake, sent her from Wales. It was a bridal cake, made by a cousin that was married nearly two weeks before. The treat was forwardel in a tin-plate box and was in good condition. William Rape, aged “4 years, dropped dead at his home at Tipton, the Other day of heart failure. He was one of the pioneers, having been a resident of that county forty years. . The annual reunion of the One-hnn-dred-and-fifteenth, One-hundred-and-sixteenth,One-hundred-and-seventeenth and One-hundred-and-eighteenth Indiana regiments—the “Persimmon Brigade”—together with Wilder's brigade, and the Fourteenth and Ninety-seventh Indiana regiments, will be held at Worthington on the 26th, 27th and 2Sth days of August. The day set apart specially for-the reunion and eamp-fire is August 27. Two empty mail pouches slit open were found in a sewer at Ft Wayne. John Wagner was fatally scalded in the Cerealine mill at Columbus. A mouse frightened Minnie Flora at Mauckport and she lost her speech. Allen Stanley, aged sixty-five a grass-widower, residing at 265 South Brown street Anderson, suicided the other night by hanging. Mr. Stanley has been a cripple for twenty-five years, and constant brooding over his condition is the cause of the tragedy. Main street in South Bend will be paved with brick. Dr. Gatijng is looking for an Indiana location for his gun factory. A fine maple tree, through which passes the power-wire used for conducting the current that operates fhe Highland railway, at New Albany, has become thoroughly charged with electricity, on account of defective insulation, and has become a fairly powerful battery, capable of giving a plainly perceptible shock. The current has been sufficiently strong to kill the tree, which is about thirty-five feet high and ten inches in diameter. _tv.

Nicklc Plate road, was instantly killed at Green Springs the other night by falling between the cars. He was the son of Louis Maples, the founder of the town where he lives. While Gus Flederman was feeding a threshing machine, four miles south of Me tarn ora, his hand caught in the cylinder and it took his arm off at the elbow. A farmer living near Coldwater had fifteen prize cattle poisoned the other night by some fiend, who had fed them paris green and salt. They were all found dead in the morning. Louis Dixon was drowned the other afternoon in White river, near Seymour, while bathing. His body was recovered after several hours. He leaves a wife and two children. James Godfrey, one of the last of the tribe of Miami Indians, July 30 was dying at his home on the Godfrey reserve, just west of Ft. Wayne, ol cholera morbus His father was a noted Miami chief, and his mother was the daughter of a chief. Years ago several hundred acres of land were given tc Chief Godfrey, which has since grown into great value, and he leaves a valuable estate. His wife was a daughter of Lablonde, a famous civil chief of the Miamis. He leaves several sons and daughters. Clay Miller, a prominent farmer of Peru, who has been suffering for some time with a cancer on his foot, had his leg amputated in order to save his life. The reports of the cattle disease prevalent in Lawrence county, have been exaggerated. The dispatch from that locality say cattle have been dying by the hundreds. This is erroneous. Cattle everywhere in that county are afflicted by a strange disease, but so far none of the animals have died. They are sick four or five days and then re cover. The LaPorte city council voted down the ordinance to increase the liquor license to $350. George Strother, aged 05 years, a prominent citizen of Spencer, dropped dead the other day at his home. Heart trouble is the supposed cause. An effort wiU be made to have the next annual encampment of the state militia held at New Albany. Marshall Johnson, who passed the forged check for $31.80 on the Delaware County bank, in Muncie, a few days ago, was caught at Marion by Marshal James Miller, of Muncie. A number of prominent Allen county farmers were interviewed a few days ago, and it was learned that it is true that the grasshoppers are seriously injuring the crops, particularly oats. Harvey Turner, of Pleasant township, says that they have already ruined one entire * w *ow in w»ott*ef

“A SECOND JESSE JAMES." llufltlg Batik Robbery, Aeeulu |iaute<l with Sfirdvn ArVomplInhed Single-Handed at Otlimbu Grope, Oi—The I'.ubbvf E»cnp*~* Lbating a Trail of His Victims* Blood to Spdr His Pursuers On-Hls itootji Amounted to •l.BCO. Toledo, O., A up. -9.—A Lima (O.) special to the Bee (fives particulars of a most daring robbery that occurred at Columbus Grove yesterday. Cashier T. J. Mahle was just opening the Exchange bank when a stranger, entered the door aud fired two shots at the cashier, who fell wonnded in the arm and right side, A farmer named Wm. Vandemark, Who was in the bank, was shat dead. The desperado then grabbed $1,600 in money from the counter and left the bank, shouting as he ran: *'l am a second Jesse James." Htishihg down the^strefct, be eluded his pursuers and fired a bullet into Henry Back, a bystander, and Made his escape. He was a short, heavy-set man, with a black alpaca cap, black sack coat, blue pants and no vest. Posses are now scouring the country for him, and it is possible that he will be shot if found. Cashier Maple had opened the bank a few minutes before the usual time In order to accommodate Vandemark, who wanted a check cashed and who lived some distance in the country and wished to get home. Mr. Maple had opened the bank vault and Was placing the currency on the counter, which is protected by a wire screen, when the robber entered. Vandemark was stand* ing OU the outside of* the counter, almost directly in front Of the door. As the bandit came in he drew two heavy revolvers, and levelling them at Maple ordered him to hold up his hands. Maple dodged down behind the counter, and Vandemark, of whom' the robber had taken no notice, sprang toward the door, probably with the intention of giving an alarm. As he did so the man wheeled and fired at him, killing him instantly. By this time Mr. Maple had recovered from his first fright and was attempting to elose the door of the vault, when the robber fired twice at him, both shots taking effect, .one in the arm and one in the right side near the hip. Maple fell to the floor and the robber ran behind the counter and seized $1,500 which Mr. Maple had been unable to replace in the safe. A crowd had began to gather, attracted by the shooting', bnt the bandit, flourishing his revolvers, sprang through it and dashed down the street. Henry Buck had rnn up a side street on hearing the commotion, and reached the main street just as the murderer came along. Evidently thinking Bnek’s purpose was to stop him, the man fired at him, hitting him in the leg and seriously "wounding him. Other by kept way, aud the nH to the woods at^W the town, where he posse was quickly gotf^Wgetrier and^ now sconriug the woods in the vicinity^ Telegrams have been sent to the authorities of neighboring towns, and it is believed that the bandit can not escape. If he is captured by the party from Columbus Grove he will undoubtedly be lynched, as both Vandemark and Maple were highly respected and prominent citizens. Buck’s wound is not believed to be fatal. HOT ON THE TRAIL. Pursuit of the Columbus Grove Bank Robber and Murderer. Columbus Grove, O., Ang. 9.—Early this morning the men in pursuit of the fugitive bank robber and now murderer were awake and resumed the chase of the criminal. William Vandemark, the farmer shot yesterday, died at four o'clock this morning, and by bis death new zest was given to the man-hunters, and a stronger determination that he should be taken dead or alive. Word was received by telegram that he had been traced to a small area near Beaver Dam, a small village 11 miles south of this place, and to that point everybody that could get a vehicle went At 11 o’clock a joint meeting was held between the president of the board of county commissioners of Putnam county, the mayor and council of this village and the president of the Exchange bank, and a reward was agreed upon and is offered as foUows: The county offers $500, the municipality $250 and the bank $200. Besides this a subscription paper has been started among the people, which, in connection with the official amount offered, aggregates considerably above a thousand dollars.

The Desperado Beyond Bench. Columbus Grovb, O.. Aug. 10.—It is Bow stated that the desperado is beyond reach and it is questionable if he is ever caught at all. After the chase was given up Saturday night, the man Stopped with some laborers building a pipe line, about 2 miles east of Beaver Dam, and at the crossing of the Lake Erie railroad at a point one mile west of Bluffton. He went into a pasture and stole a black mare at one o’clock yesterday morning 4 miles east of Bluffton. He followed a farmer and his family home who bad been attending a show, and with his ready revolver competed them to get him a meal. The stolen horse was tied to the branches of a tree by a rope halter during his stay at this place, and an attempt was made to buy a buggy and harness or even a bridle from the father, but without success. It is highly probable that the hunted man has ridden his horse into Findlay, jumped a train and is by this time far away. A Basel's Flight. Philadelphia, Aug. 9.—Henry D. Fiesel, justice of the peace and clerk of the council of the borough of Landsdale, Montgomery county. Pa., is reported to have absconded after misappropriating 84,000 of the funds ol the Landsdale lodge of odd fellows, of which he was secretary, and getting into debt to the extent of about 810,000. Ue has left behind him a wife and five children, who are absolutely destitute. Charges are insinuated against him of misappropriating the council’s money and the books arc to be examined. Qeorge D. Tillman Kvlileutlv Not a ThlrtJ Flirty Alan. Charleston, S. C., Aug. 9.—Congressman George D. Tillman, the brother of the farmer governor, spoke at ar alliance meeting at Perkville on Thursday. He said God Almighty never made a grander {scoundrel than Macune. II the alliance at the south wants to serve its friends at the north, let it give its support to Campbell, of Ohio. He denounced Senator Pfeffer aa an exthicken thief and hater of soothers men. The third party, he said, was projected \*t political aeeaaMhi Widen) pritft

THE CONTEST IN OHIO. (niici epos WkM the Coming War Will S5e Waged. ?b*t the democrats of Ohio would set their faces jKfuiast the McKinley tariff, and against protective tariffs in general, and would renominate Gov, Campbell were conclusions anticipated before the meeting of their state convention. What position they would take on the silver question was a matter of doubt- The platform adopted favors free coinage, but this result was secured only after a stout battle on the part, of the opponents of that policy, the majority bring ninety-nine in a convention of seven hundred. This is not conclusive of the attitude of the party in Ohio next year, when the issue will become more pertinent than it Is now, bat It is something which cannot he overlooked. The significance of the Ohio Campaign will depend very much tfperti the .way in Which it Is • conducted. 1t is possible for the campaign managers to give such prominence to the tariff issue that the silver question will be lost sight of for the time being, and this seems to be the most probable course of events. The republicans, by nominating Mr. McKinley, have taken their stand on the measure which bears his name, and the democrats have in express terms accepted the issue so tendered. "We accept.’* they say, “the issue tendered to us by the republican party on the subject of the tariff, as represented by the so-called MeKlnlev tariff act. confident that the verdict of the people of Ohio will be recorded against the iniquitous policy of socalled protection, championed by the republican party in the interest of favored classes against the masses. ” If the speeches made in the convention may be taken as the keynote of the campaign there will' be, as there ought to be, an illuminating and enlivening discussion of the items of the McKinley bill, and the republicans will be put on the defensive at a hundred different points. So long as the controversy is waged over abstractions very little headway will be made, but when the particular things in this measure are brought under review, it will be found to bo essentially a dishonest measure. It is not necessary to a®rm. -and we do not affirm, that the persons who voted for it, or who now support it, are dishonest The greater part of of them are as honest as other people, but five measure itself reeks with dishonesty from beginning to end, as nearly all ihe protective-tariff taxes ever .passed by congress do. The reason why they are filled np with swindling provisions is perfectly plain. When congress attempts to overhaul all the industries of the country every man ■eeial pecuniary interest t togo to Washington to elf. Congressmen are rt lawyers having little ith business, and even ich acquaintance with eral they could not have it with each particular trade. Probably the one having the most varied information in the last congress was Senator Aldrich. Yet the blunders be made in dealing with particular things were in many coses startling and always pernicious Probably in each such case be took the word of same interested party and made no independent investigation, for which, indeed, there was no time.

A» muMraiiiug m*. •=> kT «r ° arriving at the troth and as exhibiting the dishonesty of protective tariffs in general, we recall for a moment a confession made by that senator when somebody asked him how the duty on iron ore had been fixed at seventy-five cents per ton in the tariff of 1833. Both houses had voted for fifty' cents per ton, although in different bills. Not a vote had been taken authorizing any higher rate of duty. Morally, the committee of conference, to which the subject was finally referred, was bound to report the duty at fifty cents, neither more nor less. But wheD the bill was reported this particular item had been raised to seventy-five cents, and it was necessary for congress to adopt that rate and take the risk of its far-reach-ing consequences or tc reject the bill altogether. When Senator Aldrieh wus asked why this had been done he said that it was done at the suggestion qf “Billy” Msbone, of Virginia, who was not a member of the committee, although he was a member of the senate at that time. There is no reason apparently why any particular rate of duty, once agreed to by both houses, should not he increased in this underhand way at the suggestion of anybody, either in or out of congr ess. There are several items in the McKinley tariff involving very large int.-rests that were smuggled into the bill surreptitiously in the same way as -Mihose's iron-ore tax was in the tariff of 18SS. The duty on tin plate was a swindle from the outset. The mainspring of that increased duty was not the hope and expectation of starting the tinplate industry in this country, but of compelling people to use galvanized iron instead of tin for roofing purposes. The wool items of the tariff are full of deceptive and swindling provisions which have been repeatedly exposed in the public prints and by manufacturers who ar»; themselves protectionists. The fact that these deceptive and under-' hand provisions have brought no benefit to those whom they were intended to help, and have yielded only heartburnings and mutual crimination' -between wool-growers and manufacturers, ought to be, and we doubt not will be, effectively used in the Ohio campaign. if McKinley is put to explaining seriatim all the bad things in his bill, he #111 he left with a large arrearage of overdue accounts.—N. Y. Post. RAUM’S FIGURES EXAMINED. Startling Conclusions from Sir Bountiful's Statistics, Gen. Green B. Baum, commissioner of pensions, estimates that 1,208,701 soldiers of the union are now living, and that i,0*4X»>8 soldiers were killed in battle or have died during the war and since. According to this estimate, 9,319,3®5 men bore arms in the northern armies during the civil war. But in 1J60, the year before the war began, the? total white male population of the military age of all the states and territories was estimated by the eighth census at only 5,324.066. Deducting the fighting population of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana. Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas sod Virginia, and half the fighting popular ton of the border states, Delaware, E*nt4eky, .tjaryt&nd, Missouri amt Teruwweo the entire military population available far the nnior, earns* at the Wfcianieg of th% conflict would he «,S62,4W, Even this apportionment &» hetwasa aovfi* #ad Math, tewaa to the T • _ ' , '

latter section only 1,261,899 men t* draw upon, and supposes a numerical superiority on tiie part of the north at nearly four to one. The deaths in the army from all causes during the period between 1860 and 1S61 have been stated by Adjt Gen. Drum as 808.938. This may ba below the truth, but the point we wish to make is that the deaths during that period were enough, or nearly enough, to balance the normal increase in the population of military age, so that at the end of the war, or 6V any time during the war, the northern population available for military purposes was not greatly in excess of the eighth census’ figures for 1S60. The fact is that in 1870, after five years of peace, this element of the population, estimated upon the same basis, had increased only from 4,363.470 to 5,341,160. The deduction is obvious and it is virry striking- I* Gen. Raum does not exaggerate the number of union soldiers who bore arms in the great conflict, then it is true that of the entire northern population fit for military service one man out of ewif two men was at the front. Does any sane person believe that such was the ease? It is reasonable to assume that there is nothing excessive in the pension commissioner’s estimate that abont a million men who served In the union armies either perished during the war or have died during the quarter of a century since the war. It would not suit the purpose of the pension spendthrifts to exaggerate the number of union soldiers who are outside the reach of any pension. The object is rather tq swell the total of survivors nu l thus to enlarge the apparent field for governmental bounty. But even assuming that there are now alive 1,308,707 union soldiers, and leaving out of sight the general principle that those most deserving of pensions as a rule are nob those who survived the war by twenty-six years, we reach some startling conclusions from Raum’s own statistics. Of the alleged number of surviving veterans, 478,356 are actually on the t olls dnd in receipt of pensions. Nearly forty per cent, of the northern survivors of the war arc partly or wholly supported at government cost. There are now pending in Gen. Ranm's bureau claims for pen dons as follows, leaving out of consideration all widows’ claims, and all claims for increase of pension to those already on the rolls: Original elatms under old laws....108.9Tt Original claims under disability bill..119.314 Total new claims.. .,..918,1* “ Add total already pensioned.......4T8,3M 839.545 This amounts to saying that more tiian two-thirds of all the surviving union veterans are now either in receipt of pensions or are applicants for pensions. The applicants are getting provided with pensions, as the commissioner informs ns at the rate of 30,000 a month, or 360,000 a year. New applications are pouring in at a rate whieh we can only conjecture. New laws extending the scope of the government’s expenditure are in process of incubation. How long will it be, if the present game of grab continues, before each of the 1,308,707 who Ranm says served in the northern armies and’ are still alive will be a pensioner j cn the rolls?—N. Y. Sun.

CURRENT PRESS MOTES. Porter's ——Clarkson is not sneh an improvement over Quay that the moral elements of the republican -party will be greatly gratified by the change. Both are rery practical politicians—i. e., unscrupulous spoilsmen.—Troy Press. -The election of Clarkson is a stab in the back, for Harrison. Clarkson accepted office under Harrison as a remuneration for the part he took in the corrupt presidential election, was forced out of office, and is now for Blaine.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. -When the next democratic congress sets about investigating the rottenness of the present administrating a great deal of valuable testimony : be obtained from the diseliar census clerks on Mr. methods of helping the republican party by falsifying statistics in his department.—Albany Argus. -The magnanimity and patriotism of the bondholders in giving Uncle Samuel further time on his bonds svill be long remembered by a. grateful country. In these perilous times of peace, the nation’s honor has been preserved, and the empty treasury has been given another chance.—Louisville Courier-J ournal. -Was there ever anything more impudent and shameless than the resolutions adopted by the republican, national committee in eulogy of Qfaky and Dudley—two men who were forced out of the committee by the indignant public opinion of their own party? Has the republican national committee no respect for public opinion?—Buffalo Courier. -President Harrison has written to ex-Coileetor Erhardt that he bah always held him in the highest esteem. The national committee has assured Quay and Dudley that their resignations are accepted with poignant regret. and that they will always be remembered as persons of the highest integrity ^or at any r^te as persons who are as honest as the average man in public life. The crocodile tears having been properly shed and the baggage j sent to the rear the grand old party will now return to the business of trying to carry elections by the aid of the federal offices.^Chicago Times. Maine's,Ideal Policy. G Reciprocity has been his hobby, as ill the world has known, but disclosure >f his plans in full would be a surprise ,o the public. Their magnitude ha * seen a source of wonder to Mr. Harfif son, who was unable to grasp the idea, l’he policy Mi. Blaine would have fo’iowed in pursuit of his reciprocity thje>ry was bold even for him. In his mind’s eye he has seen the people of a hemisphere bound together almost as a nation. He has never sought reciprocity with Canada, but has expecte 1 to come about unsought; and, persps, more than reciprocity. To him anaitla was “an apple on a swinging imb, which would fall into his lap vhen ripe if he waited; but which could spring out of reach if he stoo l in tip-toe to touch it.” But, o the south, a vigorous and age mlicy was suggested. To be nut ,nd persistent, leaving noth '- o extend our trade and inft istions of Central and Sooth ,nd to all the islands about us, : deal policy. Ta hav%a brttlla ipldly analysed, modified end — Iowa to fit a commonplace perception laa irritated him beyond expression.** Philadelphia Taiwan .all