Pike County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 13, Petersburg, Pike County, 19 August 1891 — Page 1

toElOBj orer 1. B. 4 M Stole, Main Stmt. “Otlt- Motto is Mohest i)fevotibn to Principles of Ki&ht. J. L. MOITirr, Editor and Proprietor. SaSdBESHpfa PETERSBURG, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 19, 1891 SOMBER 13. VOLUME XXII

ADVKitll»lNU One square (9 lines), one Bach additional Insertion A liberal reduction made on Waotai three, six and Legal and Transient pnal for in advance. ASM

REASONABLE RATES, KOTIOBi »oa# rsceirln* a copy ol tbia papa* lOtica enmd in lead pencil an M Jw> $Uoe «1 their wibacrlwuoe bu era

VBOFE*SIO!(Al CAROS. J. T. KIMB, M. IX. Physician and Surgeon, PETERSBURG, ISO. . ROBff ill Bank building. first floor. WIU bo iouutl at office day or night. riu.vcis a 1‘OSET. DEWITT Q. CllAPFltM. POSEY & CHAPPELL, , Attorneys at Law, l'rrntsBUKo, Ino. Will practice In al) the eonrts. Special attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in tbs office. ta~Office— On first floor Bank Building. K. A. Err. . 8. G. Davenport. ELY & DAVENPORT, ~ LAWYERS, PETERSBURG, IND. gWOfflee over J. K. Adams St Son’s drag store, Prompt attention given to all busisets E. P. BlCHAKOSPH. A. II. TATLOB RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at La , PETERSBURG, INIA Prompt attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly In the office. Office In Carpenter Building, Eighth and Main. 1>12 XTIST1& Y* DK. WOODRY,

Surgeon Dentist, lsKTKllSBURO, 1ND. Office over J. B. Young’s Store, Main Street. 40-Offico hours from 9 o'clock a. m. to 4 O'clock ]>. m. E. J. HARRIS,

Resident Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. ALL WORK WARRANTED. * IvTlf^^^EClPHER,

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. Office in rooms 6 anti ? in Carpenter Bulltl* Ing. Operations first-class. All work warranted. Anaesthetics used for painless extraction of teeth. l n. lamak, Physician and Sargeon Petebsbijro, Inix »i^ .,ELacMc<> Wko and adinintng counties. Office In Montgomery Building. Office hours day anti night i*^D*?S**e" of Women and Children aspodaily. Chronic and difficult cases solicited.

THIS PAPER IS ON FILE IN CHIGI60 MD NEW YORK AT THE OrriCES OF 1. M. KELLOGG NEWSPAPER CO. TRUSTEES' NOTICES Or OFFICE DAY. XronCE ta hereby given that I will attend i.” to the duties of the office of trustee of Clay township at Union on EVERY SATURDAY. AH persons who hare business with the office will take notice that I will attend to business on no other day. * M. m GOWEN, Trustee. XJOT3UE Is hereby Riven to all parties in. At terested that I will attend at uy office In Stendal, EVERY STAUKDAY. To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Lockhart township. All persons having business with said office will please tak e not lee. J. S. BARRETT. Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given toa!lj>artlesconcerned 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 it my residence EVERY THURSDAY To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of Logan township. WPosltlvely no business transacted except on office days. SILAS KIRK, Trustee. XIOTICE Is hereby given to all parties con ■ it earned that I s ill attend at __ my residence EVERY MONDAY To traneact business connected with office of Trustee of Madison township. «rPositively no business transacted ex cept office days the JAMES BUMBLE, Trustee. _CR is hereby given to all persons interested that I will attend In my office in V ipen, , „ EVERY FRIDAY, To transact business connected with the < fflee of Trustee of Marion township. All persons having business with said office will please take notice. W. F. BROCK, Trustee. XJOTlCK la hereby given to all persona concerned that I will attend at my office EVERY DAY To transact business connected office of Trustee ol^J

THE WORLD AT LARGE, Summary of the Doily Newa wasiuncmk rotes. Consular reports received at Wash- . off toe oa tie Uth state that heavy rains have caused great havoc in the Herman empire and hold cut no promise for average crops. In Anstria-Hun-gary the cereal crops will! this year be under the average, rye being the worst crop ever known. The drops of Spain win be at least 18. per cent under the average. The August condition Of crops in France are worse than in July, through heavy rains Tbs rye crop in Russia is exceedingly deficient and for the first time known wheat and rye prices are on the same level. In India tho threatened famine has been arrested by timely rains. rli«E fourth annual meeting of the American society of micros copists began •on the 11th at Washington The attorney for ike Pacific Mail Steamship Co. has laid before the president tbe facta in connection with the government of Salvador holding the steamship City of Panama. At the conclusion of the interview the president telegraphed the secretary of state to instruct the minister at Salvador to famish a full report The secretary of the navy was also telegraphed to keep 6the cruiser Charleston ready for any service that might be required of her. The president, upon the recommendation of the civil sorvice commission, has made important changes in the rules governing the classification service. All promotions of clerks are to be made only after examination. Inquiry at the treasury department develops tho fact that Secretary Foster’s plan for continuing per cent, loans at 2 per cent has so far failed to meet with the favor that was anticipated by its advocates. Fred Dour.t,ass has expressed himself favorably towards the projected granting of pensions to ex-slaves. The national land office officials worn colored men not to try to buy homesteads in Oklahoma, of alleged vendors.

THE EAST. Hurinc. the twenty-four hours ended at midnight of 1h6 10th there were forty cases of heat prostration in New York city, all of which proved fatal. A test was made on the 11th at Willett's Point, N. Y., of a new electric torpedo boat which It is expected will be -accepted by the government, ft is known as the BdlsoU'-Sirrts invention. The contract made with the government calls for a speed of e ighteen miles per hour. Tho test was pronounced successful and it was stated that the boat can travel at least twenty mile* an hour. It was rumored at N«\V York that the Hudson County Jockey club had purchased the Saratoga track. The exact price paid is not stated, but it is believed to be about $200,003. A special to the New York World from Saratoga gives an itth-wUAV which its correspondent had with 0. C. Shane, the ■wealthy fur merchant, in which he snid he had been informed by the agent of a satin'and silk importing house that the importers in New York have raised 5500,000 to defeat McKinley, Jim Corrrtt has deposited §1,000 with the New York World to fight any man above ground. Marquis of Qneensbury rules, to a linish or a limited number of rounds. He prefer. tdrtVlft or Mitchell. A SQUALL Oft Long Island sound blew the anpportfc of a steamer’s deck down on which a large body of excursionists were enjoying themselves and fourteen persons were killed and many others injured. Georg is JoKM, editor of the New York Tithes, died at Poland Springs, Me., on the 12th. lie overthrew the Tweed ring. James Russell Lowell, the wellknown contributor to literature, died at Cambridge, Mass., on the 12th. He was born February 22-, ISlik Tsano D1n0 'And Ong Mo Loy, two Chinamen who were taken from Mott street dives to the Charity hospital. New York, were after a careful examination by the doctors, pronounced lepers Charity hospital authorities released the men declared lepers because, as they say, they have no power to hold them. A dispatch from Eric, Fa, says: ExCongressman Scott’s condition is slightly improved. Mr. llrand, his physician, says: “I am confident Mr. Scott wilt recover, though his recovery will be necessarily slow.” The engagement of Hr. Paul Thorndyke, of Boston, formerly of Milwaukee, to Miss Rachel Sherman, daughter of the late Gen. Sherman, is announced. Col Frederick Puistiir. of New York, lias been appointed adjutantgeneral of the G. A. R. — An express on the Reading railroad collided with a freight, at Egg Harbor City, N. J., on the 14th. Several passengers were injured, two probably fatally. Tim IIopkinb has decided to contest the will of his adopted mother, Mrs. Hopkins-Searles. The funeral services over the remains of James Russell 'Lowell took place at Harvard university. Interment was in the family lot at Mount Auburn. There was a free fight lasting several hours at a recent farmeis’ reunion at Pennsville, N. J. Just before the steameir Buffalo lift Jamestown, N. Y., for tho illuminated fleet display at Chautauqua a section of the deck, crowded with people, gave way, throwing ahout thirty persons in the water. A scene of excitement ensued, but by prompt act ion all were rescued alive. TUE WEST. Revenue olliccra have seized $9,000 worth of opium in Shasta, Cal., and broken up nine Chinese factories. A dispatch was received by Senator Fnrwcll at Chicago on the 11th from Prof. Hyrenfiirth, at Midland, Tex., •where he went to produce rainfall by the tiring of dynamite in aalloons sent up for that purpose. The experiment proved a complete success, rain falling copiously for several hours. The steamer Major Powell, which was taken to Green river; Utah, by rail to, navigate that stream and grand river. was launched on the 12th. It is intended to investigate the ancient cliff dwellings along those rivers and reach tho Colorado river if possi ale. Parties from the Chid asaw Nation say the Byrd party was victorious fn the late election, having secured every ise of the

Tons of wool and tallow and thorn sands of hides were destroyed by fire In the big Warehouses of George and H. M. Uosick at Chicago bn the 13th. The loss is estimated at about $200,000. W. W. Armstrong, who it was claimed was the oldest living Odd Fellow in the United States, died at Salem, Ore., on the 11th, aged 89. He was initiated in* to the order at Buffalo, H. Y., in 1831. Thrrk is war among the brewers la K ansas City, Mo., and beer has tumbled from seven dollars & barrel to four dollars. Outside brewers wanted to raise the price to eight dollars; local brewers would not agree to it, hence the war. A special committee of the Southwestern Railway & Steamship association was in session at St Louis on the 13th for the purpose of considering the adjustment of rates on grain, packing house products, etc., from joints in Kansas to Texas. RsV. Dr. A. I* Lindslby, a professor in the Presbyterian theological school of Oakland, Cab, and one of tbe mosL prominent ministers on the Pacific coast is dead. The St John & Marsh Lumber Co., Chicago, Kansas and Colorado, has failed. Liabilities and assets abotit $150,000, KbOESfe H. Bon rick and his wife, Glace, committed suicide at Denver, Cot, by taking poison. Both were yonng and there was some trouble with their families. The miners of the Virginias at Ouray, Cot, struck to the number of over 100 because the management tn* quired them to use {amps instead of candles In the Workings, they claiming the stUoke from the lamps made them tick. W. If. Woodward, having in charge tile arrangements for . bringing delegates to the sovereign grand loilge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at St Louis announces that all fait1 roads wilt, transport members foP Une fare for the round trip. A fkltRlRLK windstorm visited Keokuk, la, on the afternoon of the 13th. J. Finley Hoke, the. rtttlbd forger from Peoria, ill., Completed his five JWnf Sentence in the Joliet penitentiary, but was rearrested on a bench warrant instigated by the Merchants* national bank of Peoria There are nine indictments hanging over him, the bonds for which aggregate Sot.ftoo. Stills & DtrttLNfeLEk’S furhitrtre factory, Cincinnati, has been destroyed by fire, boss, Sso,ooo. febbsworth, Minn., has been ravaged by a windstorm. The town was left a wreck. SeVen houses in Camps, near San Diego, Cab, were washed away by a 1 cloudburst. No lives WVfb lost

THE SOUTH. The Alabama state alliance re-elected ill its old officers. The president, & M. Adams, made a fierce attack dfi j Senator Morgan, declaring,. Mb KMffiln seller his arm id 1'ilHi off before he Would Support him. His cause of complaint was Morgan's opposition to the sub-treasury scheme. There is a great scarcity of money in all the lower Rio Grande Section of Texas. There has beed no fain td Spfenit of fr Veighteen h* oh til's tttid the ranchVhe. Jw till in debt and the farmers have been unable to raise enough for their actual needs of money and pro: visions, clothing, et<£ Ex-BtlXAlon Bruce, of Mississippi, bpposes the schemes of negro emigration to Liberia and says Bishop Turner is the oniy prominent colored man Itt this country who advocates it. Mr. Bruce says the American negroes ate Americana. They are African iff hbthV lug but,theif ediof. . TIie Maryland farmers’ convention has indorsed Senator Gorman. The jury in the case of Dr. Baker, of Abington, Va, charged with the murder of his wife, brought in a verdict of guilty. The verdict was largely on the evidence of Mias Gtlttlel', it I Sidy hi (kvelal prohiiiicncc, IVho confessed her Criminal intimacy with the accused and declared he bad admitted killing his wife. Henry Cl Miles has been appointed United States judge of the nprthern and southern districts of Mississippi MfcS. Sarah Cl Polk, widow of James K. Polk, tenth president of the United States, died at Nashville. Tenn., on the Hth. The sanitary and other arrangements of the mines at Briceville. Tenn., Aot being up to. requirements orders have been issued to withdraw the convicts instantly. The large powder mill at Kellogg, W. Va., was blown up by an accidental discharge of powder. Two lives were lost, and many buildings destroyed. GENERAL. Mexico's first linen, mill has been opened near the City of Mexico. The Charleston has been ordered to Yokohoma and will leave August 18 for Shanghai owing to missioiiary troubIVs at points along the Yang Tse Kiting river. The London press is Unanimously of the opinion that Mr. billon has made a bold bid for the Irish leadership and that he will without doubt be successful A dispatch on the 11th said that the Poles were greatly excited over the possible erection of a monument by the Russian government to Count Muravieff, known as the “Hangman of Poland. ” The Poles generally construe it as a national insult An ukase has just been issued by the Russian government prohibiting from August arpthe exportation from Russia of rye and rye meal of all kinds and brands. A recent London dispatch said that the large emigration to America was causing a shortage of labor and rise of wages in some parts of southern Italy, The Swiss government has nearly completed the work of fortifying Mount St Gothard, thereby making it impossible for a hostile army to descend into Switzerland from that quarter. Very Rev. Gilbert Elliott, Ol R, the well known English churchman, is dead. He was born in 1800, was appointed dean of Bristol in 1850 and held that office ever since. James Rumell Lowell was reported much worse on the 11th and the physicians had little hope of his recovery. A special train from London conveyed many persons well known in the musical and literary world to Craig-y-nos, where Mme. Patti has built in the north wing of her eastie a little theatre In the Italian style, fitted with all the newest appliances in the dra

SlR Hector LijiAKvix, of Ontario, has resigned from the ministry. The London Daily News, com menting on the action of Russia in prohibiting the export of rye, says the farmers of America are mas* ters of the situation, and it is to be hoped that they wilt nne their strength mercifully. The making ol corners in the necessaries of life is never laudable, itnd ili the pivsenji ^1^0*0 it would be little short of ndish. * In the demography division of the hygiene congress at London Mr. Lay* hew Smith, of. America, spoke on the difficulty experienced in the United States in consequence of the large amount of undesirable pauper immlgra* tion. it is announced that salaries must fch Cut add a dumber of employes dropped if the national world’s fair commission is to avoid a big deficit at the close of the fiscal year ending June SO, 1893. The estimates already prepared show an apparent deficiency of 833,340. < Mr. Harrington, presiding at a meet* ihg of the league at Dublin, announced thakjtic whs obliged for the present td discontinue griints to cVifctfed tenants, iib shid that an appeal would be made forthwith to start a daily paper in Mr. Parnetl’s interest Enormous forest fires arc raging in the vicinity of Toulon, Prance, and a great quantity of valuable timber hast already been destroyed. Troops of sot* diers and many sailors are employed id digging a treneh around the burning Tais latest London advices from southeastern Africa tell of appalling barbarities by the Portuguese with a view of bringing the natives to subjection. Timely rains have changed the prospects in the Madras presidency for the better. Teliitibtfe stohles ttf distress feOntinne to come firom Russia and Germany, in consequence of the dearth of grain. Russia has prohibited the eRpoHkiidtt of ryw A dispatch from Pekin says that the representatives of the several powers there addressed a fresh joint note to the Chinese government in fetation td the outraged tiffed the missions in the Vang Tse Ktang vnllfey, demanding that China take immediate starts id p rot feet the liiifeg dnli prphel'ly UffOreigneFs. Tllfe Sires in the vicinity of Toulon, France, have been extinguished. The Novosti, of St Petersburg, in an article on European politics, takes occasion to review the course followed by the Salisbury government Mid fitly? that if ,it id the policy of lire at Britain tS continue her present attitude toward France and Russia the peace of Europe will be guaranteed for a long time to come. PorTI’OAt has prohibited the importation of wheat until the native crop hte been feopSttmed'. .. . ■; TltE senaputty of Manipur and the Tongalc general were hanged at Muni* dur, India, on the 13th for the murder of the British commissioners a few months ago. An immense eCowd of natives was present at the execution i StebRFt Ordfers hire heed ffefeelvfed by '. —- ^ thfe police; which will H»fee tta); cfifecl of expelling every Jew from the Mos: cow district within two months. Mrs. Thoi^aS U. Cabrothers has been arrested at Rat Portage, Man., charged with having killed her husband. The rise of the price of grain promises splendid returns to Austrian grain exporters, add especially as the Haitian harvests promise to be excellent and Sufficient for the Austrian home consumption. IIiPPpLYTE Goneales, Fermin Pcre* and llonafacio Valdez, who were convicted of kidnapping, have been executed at Havana, Cuba. Business failures (Dim’s report) for the sCvett days ended August id numbered Sat,, compared ftithjisi, tim ttfej vibiis week and i»t the corresponding week of last year. Nearly all the salmon fishermen near Kodiak. Alaska, have struck because the canning faetory owners refused to take all the fish they could capture A mono those besmirched by the Canadian scandals is Premier Mercier of Ouokeo.

THK LATEST. The clreumstanees eurrcmiMting the death ill Denver, Col., of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene II. Bennick, begin to assume a mysterious appearance as investigation proceeds, and it is now believed that Mrs. Bennick poisoned her husband and then took the fatal drug herself. It was shown at the inquest that the meddling Of i’eUUves had much to do with the doable suicide, or murder and iiiieide, as the case may be. Warren P. Cork, the lax-eoUectdr of S iugusi MnSSi, WbO lledt Wfcdhtljr; Waving an Alleged shortage df 93(1.000, is living in Windsor, Ont He adihitt a shortage, bnt says the athphdt it hot so much as AMstetli Had if he had been gWeh a reasonable time he could have arranged for a settlement in fnlL The miners of the Aberdare district ■>f South Wales, WhOfS extensive collieries add iron and tin works are situated, have gone on strike. About 10,000 men are out. Tbis action is taken in spite of the lessened demand for coal caused by the stoppage of many factories. The celebration of the seven hundredth anniversary of the founding of • the city of BernOi SWitifSrlandi bbbttrrcd on the lath. ’t'hferU Werb a number of American delegates in the historical procession. Elaborate fetes were held. The city council of Victoria, B. C., has decided to submit to the people bylaws appropriating nearly 13,000,000 for railway subsidies. One million is? to the Victoria A American railroad, said to be a part of the Northern Pacific. Wallace Williams’ house in Severn county, Ga., was strnek by lightning on the i5th. Three amis of Wuilams, all preachers, WCre in the house at the time. One was killed, another is dying and the third is badly injured. Jno.IL Tollman, the oldest printer in Lynn, Mass., died, on the 15th, aged 34. The “Tollman fund, to be used for the suppression of illegal liquor selling in Lynn,” had given him a wide reputation. The estate of Lord Lurgan, situated in counties Armagh and Down, Ulster, has been sold under the provisions of the Irish land-purchase act The 306 tenants agree to pay £385,000 for the property. Austrian grain exporters anticipate large profits, owing to the rise in the price of cereals and to the abundance of the Balkan harvest for both Austrian consumption and ” The services of 600 e. ofil

INDIANA STATE NEWS. The prosecuting attorney has an nonneed that the liquor law is to be vigorously enforced in. LaFayetto. For a long time the law has been openly violated. C'HAS, RWAXdOlt, aged 4f years and ttfie erf Elkhart's oldest gfocery men. died ret* sudderily OS heart disease in kid storfc ihb othet ffloinirig: Nike thousand dollars have been subscribed toward establishing a canning factory in Edinburg. The frog farmers along the Kankakee river have a big business this year. One man recently shipped 1,800 dozen In a day. A boo belonging to Henry Terstezze, Nbdr Atbariy, ran It peach thief up a tree, The fellow Shot the dog, which was valued at $100, and escaped. W. S. Cmi'MAS, a business man of Goshen, was drowned while bathing. The skeletons of two victims of a murder In 1831 were found near Muncie. The next show: that- pitches its tent at Charleston will have a hard time getting S crowd Siitoe the last circus tht'te hdd it folibwihg of fcroolts who buncoed a number of prominent but gullible citizens out of several large rolls of greenbacks. Near Scottsbnrg, Scott county, while milking tbe cows, Mrs. Morgan Phillips, aged 60, fell deal WAl.fRk Stevens, Oged SO years, accidentally shot himself at LogaBsport, the Other night. He was hammering an Hhtitjtihted rfc+blVef jvfaen .it. tTfas, discharged, the ball lodging in his head. He will die. Isaac Pesch, of Evansville, drove his family ont of his room and took a dose of rough on ruts, from which he died. Ma* W. W» Carter, a prominent labryof and feptiblii ah politieiaB Of ferazil, is dedd. He rrfip Appointed fCFenue collector by. Pfesidedt Arthur; .l\rARBEN fck}pdA§( fbiidff nierchSnt it Goshen, was drowned while, bathing. David Fudge, an insane man, is at large in the woods near Columbus. A lead mine is rciKfrtsd to have been difecBVefed ifl th» hill a fle9r Hitglisit TiRtoN’s strbets nib not lighted exfcfept bb citizens In fi+Wt bf their places df.bHsfe , . „ Madison’s new public building will cost $30,000. At a special election, held the other day, Butler decided 1o put in waterworks, with only eighteen dissenting. doilN Ly.WH and ,1 e any VanSieklen, fliigeS bf lh“ gyps Lis, weie hiariietl ih the woods, near Hanover. Thomas Ammon, of, Spencer county, found a tortoise on I is farm with the figures 1810 carved on bis shell. The DePattWs denaf that afiy affddgeineritS hate been nidcU to transfer tkfeir biate-giass works frent New Albany to Aitdersoii. The natural gas mains laid through the streets of Vernor , two years ago, to conduct the supply of gas to the tjfrious factories and residences for fnei) *r*w bcinif d**g up . and reidpvhd, the supply oi gas liaVing b66ii exhausted: ... .RipdEttLCE has a blind of boy bhhThe barn of Mark Rollings, near Franklyn, burned, and along with it six horses. A storm visited Marion county, the other evening, doing incalculable damage td JBrOps Rnd bfopefty gedcfdlly. The ipln Sntl ttihtt .tvfeft? t igrWfift A ebuffch seven miles from Indianapolis was split through the middle as if by a knife and lifted clean off its foundation. A farm Hwidedee nearby, pas totally destroyed by lightning and wind.' In Indianapolis a business block was badly wrecked, telegraph poles knocked down and hundreds of shade trees destroyed , Albany have been laStructed to file conlplSlSm Sgaiitjffa-iiinN running through city limits faster tha'il five miles an hour. Two barns were struck by lightning and destroyed by fireatCrawfordsville, two horses bcinir burned.

ftfetfiif l;WP Ih'lian* n. A- R< wen were in the parade at Detroit. Cohn will be king- in Indiana this fall Manj sections will turn out sew enty bushels to the acre. Anderson clergymen are waging war sgaiflst spiritualist* „ ... Indiana gives more fruit tins fear than ever before known. The melon crop about Vincennes is unprecedently large. The law office of John C. Manning,©! P^pdlotent was blown up by dynamite. The increase of the assessmeni on railroads will not be less than 5100,000,ooa Ft-. Wayne has a century plant in fchioi& Sf. a. fcftEVORT, fdrnteriy ft fidttt Sehobl b»f ffi Cbittnibtlst Ho# 8tie W.tM Wealthiest fai-mers in the sihte, hits jtisi conijileieti harvesting thirty-five thousand bushels of wheat. Ilia firiti consists of five thousilnd aereS; idckted in thii bbttoms of White river, in Knox county. Which he purchased for a mere song years ago, and made tillable by constructing the longest levee in the state; Upon his farm reside sixty tenants in neat cottage residences, whose children are educated in a neat aebool building of two rooms with three teachers. A large church has also been erected Upon the farm, where religious WMWifies are held at stated intervals; Brevort is a graduate of Butlef tifliVersity. to which institution he recently donated $7,600. Abner Bowman, a Greencastle boy, climbed upon a freight train at the junction the other day, and, falling befieath tiffi wheels ini Head Was severed completely from his body. While Mrs. Sylvania Shipley, who resides near Nashville, Brown county, was engaged in a rough play with her sea Ike, a chair, which they were wrestling for. accidentally struck a little grandchild of Mrs. Shipley od the head, knocking the child senseless and inflicting injuries from which it died two days later. A boy and a match caused the burning of three bams valued at $5,000, at Bluffton. Thirteen trainmen for drinking beer in cabooses were discharged by the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan Co. • Edward Smith, a young lad who has charge of the city gasoline lamps at La Porte, was frightfully burned in filling a lamp He spilled some gasoline on his elothes and on the lamp post When he had filled the lamp he lighted a match to see if it was all right when his Clothes tqok fire, and he was horrb Wm. FAHLSigO, Richmond, has fallen heir tolfcOOO gpoij Reman thyh about S^ooa - * '

THE GERMAN OOfTN BHTIE& i Late Reports from Berlin Indicate that the German Government is Preparing to Surrender to Public Demand, to a Certain Extent, for the lteductlon of the Corn Duties—The Pressure Becoming Overwhelming. Lont>ox, Aug. 17.—It to reported from Berlin that the government to preparing to surrender to a certain extent on the question tit cofri duties.The clamor hasi become so overwhelm* ing that Chancellor Citgfivi can hard!V ; maintain himself ^gainst it. It ts said that the kaiser has referred the matter entirely to the chancellor, to act in his discretion. Both the kaiser and the chancellor would rather give Anstria and Hungary the exclusive benefit of the German demand tor foreign corn, under the Commercial treaty SOOrt to go in force*,- and this has been the' chief motive for delay; but the distress ori account of the high price of hretid to sd great and growing that prolonged waiting may, it is feared, result in riots and bloodshed. Hence a probable mitigation of the corn dnties within a few days. The government itself feels 'the pressure of seantity owing to the higher priced paid f3f‘. gfaiu . #W. the army, and wbuld undoubtedly tie a large purchaser in foreign grain at lesser rates, should a rcductWd bf duties take place. The report that American farmers are hoarding grain causes no little anxiety, not only in Germany, but in all European countries, as It to felt that the demand from America this year will undoubtedly be large". AcmceS freed RtisgiS jireserit ibe sit* nation in Uo there ?av6fahje light id Astrakhan, near the tiispiaS sea; several villages are reported to bd almost depopulated, many of the people having died of hunger, and others having left for better favored regions. IU Voihynitt Where the Russian maneuvers are to he held, it is said that the ' cOiiiihissariat branch of the army has fblind fitst ilii SuppjieS Cad totally be obtained for the troops, and liilit all (food will have to be brought from a distance. A GRAVE CHARGE. s„-pich»tK rirOttiisi iiicM WhU-1i Led i« (he ArreSt dr D». 4. P. c iCiiledts. df Meiuphtti, -fron ^ nH the, f-MSf*# df ll»*ios Perpctralfil.lii!* Kobbefy iff. It. liftdleg rt-ayser aj ttiv Gurejo Hotel; After Extorting j* latfoVsemeut t4>:a Cheek. Chicago, Aug. IT.—A SjlbPiei to* the Tribune from Memphis, Tenn., says; Thursday R. Dudley Frayser, president of the Memphis City bank was induced to visit room. No. S*H Gayoso hotel, ostensibly to hwsast business^ with one calling himseif J. A. Morris. Of New Orleans, and who demanded that Mr. Frayser sign a check for $5,000. As a compromise Mr. Frayser indorsed the stranger's cheek for *aoo, The check Was hot Mailed grid thjmartthen cbiof^oiUied ME FraySCi' Last liigilt f)r- j: E:, Clement^ practicing physician of tills NflHP arresteil at his home on VancFstSei for the erimei On August A Clements doped Ms frOfil Shtiilers usd sent hw Wife to Hdiiy SpritigA fititfSdny meriting ciepienls left Mis house, tearing 9 Hold WHK a Heigfebkrf that he Worfld not retttrii until night, ft Wtie CUny THWsday morning that Morris registered at the* hotel. That evening at dark Clements’ neighbors noticed that his beard was dyed. Friday morning they observed that he had his beard shared off entirely. . lie had also shed his dark suit for 8 light t*uu Hud Jnkj east fcide the derby hat he wore in lavd? ttf !t eiilf. It vVas these suspicious circumstances that led to his arrest. He was identi 6«* hr hotel employes'os “Morris,’ the recent g'u’s?: toff Frayser is now absent from the city. Clements denies that he is the robber. Clements and bis wife are both highly connected. He came from Louisfiiip, Where his father, Dr. J. M. cietti£u{fi, fe « prominent physician, with Mrs. mta&tia tier..father is Maj. R. J. Evaifs, vice-president tH the' Texas & Sabine railroad, of Longview,

t THE REESE MURDER. V Thi rt oen- Yrwr-tifd Hit$ T#tlS Mw.H«n of the <,'rli»e— His t’onslu hikI 8 FWfhito Compintou luptlcatwl In the Horrible’ Deed. Greensboro, Pa., Am?. 16.—Chief of PtfHe** Cannon of I.atrobe last evening nrreslcft Citeflib' liffljktt ft 18-year-old boy, on suspicion of fits beirtg httplicated in the murder of Samuel Reese; at Ebensburg, Pa., last Thursday- In the presence of several witnesses the boy confessed to a full knowlege of the murdh'f, saf in? that his cousin Elmer llruner did the killing Charlie mys that his cousin and a woman named Anri Jackson have been travelling together through eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York for several nioiitlts, st<?sti£ig horses and then selling tile animals. Oil teaching the Reese residence El* iriCr prdpdseA burglarising the house and the xVofaiari keeping ft look-otth jfr. Reese atteiripted to shririt Elaier. whereupon the latter shot the did gentleman through the head,killing him instantly. Elmer then ransacked the house. ‘ Elmer and Miss Jackson went on to Wall’s station, near Pittsburgh, while Charles intended remaining in Latrobe over Sunday. Chief Cannon has gone after Elmer and Miss Jackson, and will doubtless arrest them before to-morrow morning. The parents of Charles and Elmer are highly respected people nnd reside in Pittsburgh. The Great Stallion Nelson a Comlnsr itee-ord-Beater. Independence, la., Aug. IT.—Saturday afternoon the stallion Nelson trotted ft inile in 2:10 flat. The day was one of the most perfect of the season, still and warm, and the track was os smooth as a billiard table. The great stallion was accompanied by a runner, but as there was no apprehension that he would show such form the quarters were not timed. His owner is greatly pleased with the performance, and now believes that his horse will beat the record of Maud S, before he leaves Independence. Singular Coincidence In Connection with the Denth of Mrs. Polk. Washington, Aug. 16.—A queer coincidence was noted Friday by the employes at the White house in connection with the ► death of Mrs. James 1C Polk. Friday morning’s mail brought to the mansion, among other packets, a letter addressed to that lady, care of the White house. It was forwarded without attracting any particular notice beyond the comment that it was odd that anyone should sand mail matter to Mrs. Polk here after forty years had elapsed since her pattoo of the nreaideqVs io»nsi ; ,, - L-i ;

TRICKERY IH THE TREASURY. fcf&iiCarf MVfitoi&Tf H»b4U»s «hc F«tSfgf Ftaaned*. There is rea-oe tat the' siieriee' rjf f6publican organs lit regard id lb* etfrtdition of the federal treasury under tkd management at their party. To deceive their readers they will repeat tho statement of their secretary of the treasury that ite h**kU »* large surplus Rift which to meet-current liabilities. But trtseri called fcpon to eiplffifi the figures given to the pdblie the orgatb grinders are as dumb sS ;-i tints at high tide. The Times first called attdbtioh to the peculiar’ methods adopted by the present administration to cover the results of congressional extravagance. It showed that the federal treasury w*5 absolutely bankrupt under the rules properly applied to such institutions This stdtecteilS was substantiated by interview# fi'itlf Straw of Chicago's Wddiri;* bankers. Not * word ttf denial or explarfatiow has ever appeared Id il republican organ, Sad yet the treasury has continued to pour out trwst funds and lessen its ability to meet its current obligations Referring to this matter some months ago the Times prophesied that ifl a short time one trust fund covered into itte treasury hy a law of the recent bitliori-dollaii'eoslgress would be practically omitted in the ffioirfbly statements of tho treasury given to the public. s By reference to the .?iiM*rnent so published lately, it appears that this prophecy baa been fulfilled. As telegraphed from the treasury department there in MO njeutkw made of the fund deposited with toe treasury for the rede mptiori -of safkwtsl batik notes. By the pnhtbd tepoft. wticib has been furdivWed this atotoib severtll days later than usual, fht* shim appears, amt hi given as $S8,4«t,ST5.S3; I* reduction of nearly £4,000,000 since June i. The reduction between the two dates iS.s sufficient answer to the pretense that this is not a current liability. Every month shows a reduction in the ttmohftt, pfoVifi# that it is an active aid current iiHoBIty. But this Is not the only item removed {fotti the current liabilities for the purpose of nidk> ing a false showing of financial strength. In the latest debt statement will be found no reference to the item of debt matured and Interest on the same yet unpaid. It is a small amount, dOt Cmfee'ding possibly £0,000.000. but' it is enough to tttese its disappearance from the published state* meats. T!?0 two sums already mentioned amount toiler 644,000,000, and there is still a further iteiii to be deducted from the secretary's elsinipd balance of cash. In that balance is named $19:80*.441,05 of subsidiary coin. This is not an available asset with which to discharge current liabilities, and tju^contr&ry would not be assert* td«g to furnish honest Ma|HHHBh|tUug this amount to SS&#tab''''vu to a ,','SBKPb have nearly 1 *'£" BraBres to 1*.* met with The assjHHpW8».Ti5.90 ' Wet cash

Bad as this fe iiw? remains another factor in the fcdferal finstfcia' problem. The public base been assured erf the ftbHity of their government to meet the tiettiuIMS OB the treasury caused by the maturing npttafl trf payment on the 4)f ftsftmk bonds. fly tha statement of the seeveSaft Of {fie freasWty It appear* that he has‘only fet’d able to extend $11,679,509 of these bonds utldtff bis offei of a 2 per eeul bond in ‘ieu of the old issue. This leaves $37,681,950 of the 4%' pet1 eat, bonds which have been ‘‘called * by ft treasury having a deficit SimA? Hi nearly $19,900,009 In its available tSsfe TW Tmies has asked its repnblican coutettijifit’ftrte's to explain this condition of the frifeFfit finances. It has calied attention of the fb-fpthj to the fact that the published stateiSltStf? Of ffe treasury department aud the cnrreBt SbfiStifeiite of the republican organs have fec'ft Sftiefilftted to deceive* it believes this peofEi* intelligent to be humbugged with false statements of the actual condition* 6# the national treasury. And it charges ifef tfe vf&i&at methods of mistatement are oaopfetl for .tlie purpose of affecting the minds trf eiiizet*8 called upon this year to express their views on national questions. It is too Ifttf* to enpeet any answer to this charge or expiafiSb*M4 of these figures of the treasury departmfff* from republican organs. They bare provtkf ft ftjtlingness to adopt a policy of silence ing the whole matter, relying upon the failure of republicans to note the proofs f walshed by opposition papers. But the Time's isbftlieages any republican to explain away tfe figures here* in given as evidence of the acttldi htufk* rnptey of the national treasury. A# was stated by a prominent banker recently: ‘‘The same conditions existing in a national bank would cause the examiner to close it at ohC<\" —Chicago Times. A RIDICULpUS STATEMENT. The Political Kutcrpriw of Pension Commir,sinner Bwum. Cten. Baum pretends to state both the Stiifibef of union soldiers who have died during and siuce the end of the war, and the number of those who arc still living. He puts the dead veterans at 1,004,658 and the survivors at 1.308.707, making a total of 3,253,865 individuals who here arms in' the northern armies at some time daring the foul1 years between 1861 and 1885. We have shown why it is probable that this estimate, and consequently the estimate of surviving veterans, is grossly exaggerated. If 3,313.363 men went to the front, as Hen. Baum alleges, then, on the basis of the census figures of 1880, if follows that just about one-hal f of the total male population of the north of the military age Wore the bine and carried muskets. This is a preposterous supposition, as anybody with common sense will perceive at the first glance. |j£ The truth is that no official statistician, no unofficial student of military history, no person in or oat of the war department, the navy department or the pension bureau, oc» human being anywhere, knows the number of soldiers who fought ono time or another ii; the federal armies. The number of enlistments ia knows with some approximation to accuracy. In round numbers the enlistments am reenlistments were 2.S.*>,««0. But this totalis far from signifying that 3,800, 009 different individuate went into tb< away. It reckons as two soldiers everj individual who enlisted and reenlisted; as three soldiers every individual who enlisted and reenilstod twice; as four soldiers every in dividual mho enlisted first for thirty days, then tor ninety, then for tw«. years, and tfc*c for the war, and so on. But »o vetorao is entitled. «»d«r ao.

Oaf soldier. and to anoWurr on ae -otmt of his second enlistment for a longer period. «' The total strength of the onion Sftales at each of the various stages *»f the war is also known. It reached the highest poigt in the spring of 1865, jast before disbandment, when there were nominally more than 1,000,000 men in the service. The effective strength of the armies, however, was nearly a quarter of n million Wes. It is simply ridiculous for the pension commissioner to pnt forward such figures as those which he nses to ttrter and excuse still fnrther political enterprises in the way of governmental bounty. What is definitely and exactly known, on the authority of Gen. Ranm himself, is that now, twentysix years after the dose of the war, anti thirty years after it6 beginning, the bureau is granting pension claims at the rate of 360,000 a year—as many »cw pensioners in a single year as there were deaths in the union armies from wounds in battle and all other causes daring the entire war.—ft. Y. San. PUTTINcTtHE “SCREWS'* ON. Th» Role Assumed by Harrison to Uto Stngele for R«n<harfnttto«. When Secretary of the Treasury Foster forced a vacancy in the New York eollectorship to give Mr. Harrison m chance for amnesty from Boss Piatt, the republican farce began to develop its motif, as the theatrical critics say. In hW struggle for renomination Mr. Harrison t» playing what he thinks a leading role, hut the republican basses are having great sport with him. Ho was high and mighty enough with them, after his first accession to power. Ho kept his dignity in Indiana kid gloves Its dealing with them. The capital 1 o'. his sell,sufficiency was very large indeed. Now they are '"taking the starch out" of him. One by one they are bringing him to terms. The enthusiastic Blaine resolutions adopted: in republican meetings in Pennsylvania and elsewhere arc not nearly as spontaneous as they seem. It is true that among republicans Blaiao is regarded as a very great man and Harrison as a very small one. but the Blaine "boom” is being worked to luring Mr Harrison to a realizing sense of thefact that self-sufficiency and kidgloved arrogance, however natural in a man of the' intellectual stature of five feet two, ate ont of place toi» person who Is hustling for a i-enotni-natiem. Mr, Harrison may know well enough that he has such » “cinch” on Mr. Blaine that the latter cannot possibly go into the the convention a$ a candidate against him. But, sharpened as his political faculties are by his own ambitions, he cannot fail to realize that it wiU be all over with bis chances if the opposition to him holds together on Blaine long enough to deliver its strength to some other candidate. In organizing a Harrison machine of office-holders to force his renomination, he has lost sight of the interests of powerful republicans who are now preparing to teaeh him that there are other interests in politics to serve besides his own. They are giving him a lesson in “reciprocity.” Although he is the grandson of one Harrison and the great-grandson of another, they are petting ready to show him that his

Must be denied. And set-aside. And mortitted. They are telling him ns plainly .ns i( they wrote it in a round robin with all their signatures to it that he most deeend from his high horse and take off his kid gloves when he shakes hands with them or else rely on the liethel Sunday-school and his friend Wanar tsaiief io renominate him. They «w getting’ ready to make him crawl flat on the supine abdomen of his second term ambition. If he gets down flat enough they may give a more favorable consideration to his case. But after i (ttvrtt has given its ten thousand’ plurality fee the reelection of Boise, nothing7 that they can do. or that the officeholder's machine cm do. will give him | a new lease of political Jife.—St. Louis Republic. _ PASSING POINTERS. —»J*». Quay explains that he did not wish ft* resign under lire. He waited under firt? Until at last he was swept up and removed to the garbage heap.—St. Louis Republic. "^Secretary Foster pnts M»J. MoKintejr» majority in Ohio at seventy's ve thousand. That estimate looks aft most as queer as • revised treasury debt statement.—Albany Argus. —~A good crop year is always, hailed with joy by the republican leaders for two special reasons: To harvest it diverts the attention of the people, and when harvested there is that much more for the politicians to tax.—N. Y. World. * «—The biggest card Maj. McKinley ean playln Ohio is to get some bona fide workingman whoee wages have been increased by his bill and exhibit him throughout the state. He would indeed be a curiosity and prove a drawing attraction.—Indianapolis Sentinel. -While tellingagainthe twice-told tale of bow Blaine smashed his hat because McKinley bade fair to smash the republican party it should not be forgotten that part of the secretary's historic utterances on that occasion was: “Pass this bill and in 1893 there will not lie a man in a’l the party so beggared as to accept your nomination for the presidency.” The indications are, however, that the secretary of state has reconsidered his opinion. —Chicago -The republican party must witness the retirement of Quay and Dudley with deep regret. It was Quay with his campaign fat in New York in 1888 and Dudley with his blocks-of-fivo in Indiana that enabled it to elect Harrison, pass the McKinley bill and give the country Tom Reed and a billiondollar congress. No two men ever did more for a political party, and, deprived of theft services in distributing fat and manipulating blocksof-flve, the republicans would stand hut a poor chance in the campaign next year.— Chicago Heralds -Republican papers complain that so many old republicans are sow prominent in the democratic {Asrty, end instance Senator Palmer and Lots. Campbell and Boies They would be delischted if democrats bad similar cause for complaint, but there are no democrats who have changed their polities since reconstruction and lieeome notable as republicans. The republican party originally was a one-idea party, and had no opinions upon such questions as the tariff, currency -and prohibitum., When it is forced into the open flMttRdi « »n I°wa> 4 is 1)011114 to_ 1060