Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 3, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 June 1892 — Page 1

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if PROFESSIONAL cards. J. T. KIMH. M. IX, Physician and Surgeon, PKTKRSBUB«, IND . WOfflce in Bank building, first floor. Will be touml at office (lay or night. GEO. B. ASHBY. ATTORNEY AT LAW PETERSBURG, IND. Prompt Attention GItoh to all Bnsinesa aiTOfficc over Barrett & Son's store.

Francis B. Poset. Dewitt Q. Cnirrim POSEY ,fc CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, \ Petkkkburu, Ixd. ■^Ull prnctieo in nil the courts. Special attenlon given to all business. A Notary PutSc constantly in the otlice. 49*Offlcc— On lftst floor Bank Built! Ing. ELyfli KLT. \ mr~ S. G. DAVisrORT, ELY A DAVENPORT, LAWYER, PetersbVro, Ind. 49-Oflicc over J. It. Attains A Son's drug store. l’rompt attention given to all business. IS. P. Richardson. a. II. Tatlor RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petkhsburo, Ind* Prompt attention given to ail business. A Kot^ry Public* constantly in the office. Office in Carpenter Untiding, Eighth and Main. DENTISTRY. W. If. STOJiECIPIIER,

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. Office In rooms6 and 7 In Carpenter BuildIns. Operations first-elms. All work warranted. Anaesthetics used for painless Extraction of tectli. I. H. LaMAR, Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG, INB. Will practice In I’ike and adjoining counties. Office in Montgomery Building. Office hours day and night. *>“DI>eases of Women and Children especially. Chronic and difficult cases solicited.

NELSON STONE, D. V. S., PETERSBURG, IND. Owing to long practice and the possession of a fine library and case of instruments, Mr, Stone is well prepared to treat all diseases of Horses and Cattle SUCCESSFULLY. Be also keeps on hand a stock of Condition Powders and Liniment, which he sells at reasonable prices. Office Over J. B. Young & Go.'s Store.

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THE WORLD AT LARGE. Summary of tho Dally Nevhi WASHUttttbS NOTES. ThK |ii«*ident and party have returned to Washington. Mn. Wu.soN, of Cincinnati, chairman of the bill of lading commithse of the national board of trade and transportation, urged the house to pass a bill r^ quiring railroads to adopt a Uniform bill of lading and do Hw*y With all conditions In bills of lading limiting the common law liability of common carrier's. Representative E.noi.ish, of New Jersey, has reported from the committee on Indian affairs a bill providing that persons going or remaining upon lands of the five civilised tribes without authority of the United States Of bf the Indian nation, shall be subject to fine and imprisonment. The president directed the retirement from active service on account of illnefeS of Col. II. Remey, Jrtdge’adVocato-gen-eral of the nftVjl, Attn Lieut. S. C. bendy is mentioned as his most likely sue

ecssur. The commissioner of internal revenue reports the payment to date of 2,81** claims for sugar bounty amounting to $7,271,095, leaving unsettled 015 claims involving $54,681. Secretary Elkins issued a general ovder to the army announcing the re* tirement of Brigadier General II. S. Stanley and paying a high tribute to his military services. The house committee on territories has reported favorably a bill making three cents per mile the maximum rate for carrying passengers In the Indian territory. The Missouri, Kansas A Texas and tit Louis & San Francisco roads have been charging five cents and a number of petitions from wholesale houses doing business in that country have asked congress for relief. Secretary Foster's wife and daughter and Secretary Rusk’s daughter and Mrs. Leland Stanford have sailed for Europe da the City of Paris. The public debt statement issued on June 1 shows the aggregate of interest and non-interest bearing debt $969,859.* 253, a decrease of $889,130. The aggregate of debt, including certificates dhd treasury notes, $1,603,440,970. Cash balance in the treasury $126,005,883, k decrease during the ntortth of $5,513,275. Miss It*A Crkagan, at present a clerk In the census bureau, stated before the house committee recently that she had at first been appointed for three months. She had received $50 a month. For the first two months she had paid to Miss Conover, a relative of Chief Clerk Childs, $12.50 a month of vher salary. She had done so because Miss Conover said that she would endeavor to have her retained. Secretary Blaine held u conference with the Canadian commissioners, This conference uias in reference to alleged discrimination at Montreal against American merchants. There Were present the British minister, Hon. George E. Foster, Canadian minister of finance, and lion. McKenzie Bowell, minister of customs. Th is government was represented by Secretary Blaine and Gen. J.

W. Foster. The census bureau recently issued a bulletin on assessed valuation of property in the United States in 1890. The bulletin shows thet the assessed valuation of all property, excluding railroad property except in certain specified states, has increased from $ltt,003,998,643 in 1880 to $34,051,585,485 in 1890, an increase during the decade ol $7,748,591,933 or 45.84 per cent the east. Wlt.VT is known as the “Anti-snap" convention of New York democrats met at Syracuse and elected seventy-two delegates to the Chicago convention. The third anniversary of the Johnstown flood was celebrated. The feature of the ceremonies was the unveiling of the monument to the unknown victims of the disaster. Gov. Heaver and many prominent members of the flood commission were present. The procession marched to Grand View cemetery, where addresses were delivered by Gov. Pattison, ex-Gov. Heaver and Flood Commissioner Ogden. There were very few mourning decorations in the city. The monument weighs thirty-t\vo.tons, is ol westerly granite and is surrounded by three figures representing faith, hope and charity. Friends of Walt Whitman celebrated his 78d birthday at a dinner and organised the “Walt Whitman Reunion.” The high water mark monument was dedicated at Gettysburg, Pa., the other day. Gen. Heaver delivered the oration. A negro named Hob Jackson was lynched at Port Jervis, N. Y., for assaulting in a brutal manner a young lady. Rev? Thomas Dixon, Jr., pastor of the Twenty-third Street Baptist church, of New York, has been held in $1,000 bail on a charge of criminal libel preferred by Excise Commissioner Joseph Josh, who claims that the reverend gentleman libelled him criminally in one of his recent sensational sermons. The long talked of combination of wall ^»iper manufacturers has become an accomplished fact and a certificate has been filed with the secretary of state of New York incorporating the National Wall Paper Co. with a capital of $14,000,000 divided into $100 shares. Work on the construction of the East river,New York, tunnel has begun. It is expected that the work will be completed in twp years. THE WEST. Indianai’ous has been visited by a heavy electric storm. When .Mr. Charles Block opened the grave of his wife in Hazlewood cemetery, near Montezuma, la., he found the coffin full of water and his wife's remains petrified to solid stone. Sixty-two business houses of Mason City, la., were closed the other day on i$&ount of a religious awakening sweeping over the city. During the previous eight days there had been 350 conversions. Evangelist® Munhall, and Birch, assisted by Drs. Parsons, Milliken and Johnson, conducted the work. The floods in Indianapolis and vicinity, the result of heavy rains, caused the loss of at least three lives Carl -Weaver, aged 9, was the first victim. He was drowned while catching driftwood in Fall creek. John Henderson and his six-year-old son were also drowned by the slipping away of part of the bank. Frank Chaves, an ex-sheriff and collector for Santa Fe county, N. M., was his home the other

Au. the roadbed Wading Into feast Sh Lou is will be rdisetl three leet to preVcdt future trouble with high water. A MtisT disastrous wreck occurred the other day on the Deadwood Central, a few miles from Deadwood, which resulted in the killing of James Scott and the probably fatal injury to William Thomas. At the time of the accident the single coach was filled with passenger* Who escaped With Irvin or Wounds. The Accident was caused by a frosty thick Which caused the train to slide. Two freight trains collided near Summitville, (X Engineer John Liptag, of Cleveland, and llrakcman Wilcox, of Wellsville, were killed and Fireman W. T. Star, cif Cleveland, was badly injured. The two trains caught fire and were entirely consumed. Udv, PkOk, of Wisconsin, lias Issued a proclamation calling. * special sessidd bf the legislature Jude «S to h^appoh tion the state into Sedate find assenibly districts. StockHe:* find citizens flatly deny that another exjaedition against the rustlers is going on in Johnson county, Wyo. A CYChoJiE passed through Earlville, 111. The Catholic and Lutheran churches were badly injured, houses, barns and outbuildings were wrecked, but no lives were lost. Excessive rains caused the rivers in Oklahoma to rapidly rise. It is reported that a woman, name unknown, and her three children, were carried down In the Canadian rivet Add droWfled. Hepresenyative Tarsney ha» made arrangements for Senator Carlisle and John It. Fellows to speak at Kansas City on the 2ith Inst; The people’s party df the First Kansas ddngressional district nominated Fred Close on the o'ghth ballot. A REroRT from Murphysboro, 111., says that the high water in the Mississippi river has made 1,000 families destitute and they are falling for aid from their more fortunate neighbors. No estimate can jet be put Upon the property destroyed, but it will reach Ihr beyond anything ever knowtt ih this codn

The amount', of money obtained by the train robbers at Red Rock, I; T., is said to have amounted only to a few hundred dollars. It is doubtful if the robbers will be cailght; • The board of directors of the Chicago Railway and Stockyards Co. have declared a dividend of 8 per cent, upon the preferred sto^jjjfod 4 per cent, upon the company At a sp.-,'iaW^P&^of the San Francisco ehambe^ol cdfaamerce resolutions indorsing as #safe investment B per cent, trusft bonds issued by the Nicaragua Canal Construction Co. were adopted. The prohibitionists of Minnesota have nominated a state ticket. Commander-In-Chief Palmer, of the Grand Army of the Republic, has isstted a special Order suspending the jiihior, vice commander of the department of Louisiana and Mississippi. The llillinga and Great Falls, Montana, stage has been held up and the treasury box and mail sacks taken after one horse was shot. The passengers were not molested and were allowed to proceed with the: remaining horses. The robbery occurred on Painted Robe hill, niue miles south of Mussel Shell river. Frank D. Tao s art, a prominent lawyer of Cheyenne, Wyo., has been arrested charged with giving a revolver and ammunition to Kinch McKinney, a prisoner in the Laramie county jail. McKinney fired at the guard, attempted to escape and held control of the jail for eight hours. Taggart confessed to the charge. He was paid $800 by MeKinney for the revolver. The penalty for the offense is fourteen years’ imprisonment A. B. McFarland, an amateur naturalist of Chandler, Ok., attempted to catch a rattlesnake and the reptile bit him on the arm. Medical aid was procured, but to no avail. He suffered terrible agony for ten hours and died. Special Inspector Davis, of the interior department, has returned from the Cherokee strip to Guthrie, Ok. He found a large number of cattle grazing there, but all have been ordered off and if they do not go at once will be ejected by troops. The soldiers have compelled the Cherokees to stop quarrying stone and confiscated all their machinery. The annual conference of German Kaptists, or Dunkards, has been in session at Cedar Rapids, la.

THU SOUTH* Rogers & Pottimger, jewelers of Louisville, Ky., were robbed of $5,000 worth of diamonds and other jewels. Two wallets of loose stones were taken from the false bottom of one. of the showcases. There is no clew to the thieves. The theft occurred in the afternoon, when the proprietors, with a full foree of clerks were on the floor where the robbery occurred. German-Americans in Texas demand more liberal laws TwKStxr Mexicans have been convicted by-Texas-conrts for violations of the neutrality law. „ The body ‘of James Kelly, a noted moonshine informer of Larue county, Ky., has been found in Green river with his head crushed in. At Durango. Tex., a family of eight, father, mother and six children, were killed by a tornado, George W. Pendleton has been nominated by a democratic convention as successor in the lower |iouse to Senator Mills Mr. Pendleton is at present lieutenant-governor of Texas Bishop Quintard and Secretary Tracy at Annapolis, Md., addressed the graduating class of cadets The diplomas were then delivered to the cadets beginning with the honor man, Naval Cadet John D. Beuret, of Ohio, and to the members of the class in order. After that the bestowal was made without regard to merit. During the recent storm at Lufkins, Tex., several persons were injured, a number of them fatally, and a number of buildings demolished. Blasco reports a number of houses destroyed and at least twenty persons badly injured, six fatally. The little child of Mrs Cullenbach was thrown on a redliot stove and burned to death, its mother and three other children being probably fatally injured. The path of the storm is now a desolate waste, all vegetation being destroyed. Appeals for aid have been made. > GENERAL. German socialists attempted to rosiue a convicted fellow member from the police after he was sentenced and a riot ensued. An international art exhibition was opened in Munich the other day with great ceremony by theeprinee regent of Bavaria. - Cat*. E. H. Randolph, of the Prince of Wales North Staffordshire regiment, litted suicide by lumping into the

fciOH+ EnropeaB governments hav8 accepted the invitation to participate in it monetary convention. Tim steamship Mirandia, which arrived from Central American ports, reports that a revolution has broken out in the town of Puerto Cortez, Honduras. Ah accident occurred at the famous Blrkenbefg silver ifiifi«5 Hear Prizbrani; in iiohemia. five hurtdred men were forking in the mine and all but forty succeeded in making their escape. The timbers used in supporting the roof of the mine caught fire and the escape of the men working there was cut off. Thk twelfth annual report of directors of the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific railroad for the fiscal year ended March 81, 1893, showed that the total gross earnings were $18,300,075, against |lfs478,6S4 for the previous fiscal year, An idefease of $1,316,441. Operating expenses and taxes amounted to $18,147,056, an increase of $788,853, while the iict earnings were $5,558,01S, an increase of $488,179, The net receipts of land sold were $70,000, and the interest received from the Chicago, Kansas A Nebraska railway was $53,300, making the net income $5,665,309. The surplus for the year was $548,557. Thk mail train from Agram to Brod, Austria, was struck by a cyclone while at the Nowska station. The terrible force of the wind is shown by the fact that two of the carriages composing the train were lifted bodily iuto the air find hurled doWfi rtfi einbaUkiUeiitj cdUsirig the greatest corisieriiatiori among the passengers. Other carriages wete knocked over by the violence of the Storm and were badly smashed. Twenty of the persons on the train were badly injured, some of them fatally. A conskrvativk estimate of the amount of damage caused by the loss from high waters from Kansas City to New Orleans will reach the enormous sum of $50,000,000. Actihg Gov. Jkrminsham’s letter to the lord mayor of London appealing for help for the sufferers in Mauritius says that oVer 36,00(1 people are home5 less and that 3,006 houses iii Port Louis are iii ruins. Rose Hill, after Port Louis, suffered the worst, Three hundred people were killed there, it todk six days to bury the 606 victims in Port

Louis. The bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church have decided to make the following changes of residence: Bishop Ninde leaves Topeka and will reside at Detroit; Bishop Mallalieu goes from New Orleans to Buffalo; Bishop Fowler from San Francisco to Minneapolis; Bishop Vincent from Buffalo to Topeka, Kan., and Bishop Fitzgerald from Minneapolis to New Orleans. Bishop Goodsell will be at Fort Worth, Tex., for a time and then go to San Francisco. Pope Leq XIII has determined to send un important exhibit froth the Vatican to the Columbian exposition. Ix a fistic encounter in London Jack Slavin, of Australia, brother of Frank Slavin, who was defeated by Peter Jackson, worsted in the nineteenth round Con Riordan, an American boxer well known on the Pacific coast Mercantile agencies report that collections throughout the country are improving. An important battle has been fought on the prairies near Valencia, Venezuela, resulting in the defeat of Palacio’s forces. There was terrifie fighting all along the line, and the rout of the government troops was complete. The town of Maturin, in the state of Bermudez, is in the hands of the rebels. On the other hand Los Tabios has been re Liken by the government. Ex-Presi-dent Rojas Paul has come out openly in favor of the rebellion. Ax anarchrist named Drouet who had been arrested in Paris for connection with a dynamite conspiracy has disclosed the hiding place of a quantity of dynamite which had been stolen by anarchists from one of the government arsenal oflieers, went to the place indicated and unearthed 141 dynamite cartridges, sixty-six detonators and twen-ty-seven fuses. There have been over 3,003 deaths from cholera in Calcutta. The strike of the Toronto brickmakers has been terminated after lasting two months. Keeper Buck, of Dannemora prison, who has been on trial for assisting O’Brien to escape, has been found guilty. THE LATEST. The senate was not in session on the 4th.In the house the post office appropriation bill was passed, after which several hours were frittered away in filibustering against a motion made by Mr. Hatch to take up his anti-option bill. The filibusterers were finally successful and Mr. Hatch was forced to move an adjournment.

mt. uty ana ihubviuc wwx visited, »t 2 o’clock on the morning of the 5th, by a terrible calamity. The bursting of a dam seven miles up Oil creek caused a sudden flood which inundated a large portion of the cities resulting in the destruction of much property and the loss of many lives. While the flood was at its height, the bursting of several oil tanks and the ignition of the fluid, which spread abroad upon the surface of the waters, carried death in its most horrible form and devastation everywhere. The loss of human life was terrible, various estimates placing it at from fifty to nearly 200. > Secretary of State Blaine tendered his resignation to the president, on the 4th, and it was promptly accepted: In an interview Mr. Blaine was made to say that his action was in no way the result of the near approach of the Republican national nominating convention, but was caused by the false light in which he was made to appear before the public by reason of his constant mention in connection with the presidency and its implied treachery to the administration of which he was a member becoming unbearable. No Advices had been received, up to the 4th, from Capt Lugard relative to the alleged excesses committed in Uganda. The East Africa Co. has decided to withdraw its expedition at the end of the year, and has notified the church missionary society, which subscribed £16,000 toward the cost of the Lugard expedition and to protect the missionaries, that the latter must thereafter fight their own battles. Franck is calling the English government to an account for recent massacres of French Catholic missionaries in Africa by British Protestant soldiers. The coming conference between the czar of Russia and the emperor of Germany is believed to have a deep political significance. RobemnJjouis Stevenson, who has been there, describes the government of Samoa as a sort of comic opera affair. The victims of the fire m the BerkenST *•

fcONSRESS. Kpitome or the Proceedings of Bottj noawe the Pact Week. Til* senate was not In session on the S8th— at tike house the legislative appropriation bill was reported by Mr. Forney, of Arkansas, and referred to the committee of the whole. The post office appropriation bill was then taken up >nd discussed until adjournment. Tnsdiytfl the sSnate on the sist was devoted to the silver question, Mf ShermaH Haf; Ing the floor in opposition to free towage..;:,, rhe post office appropriation bill was before the house The free delivery clause gave ris^ to a good deal of discussion and a vote op a motion to increase the appropriation for the purpose disclosed the fact that there was less than a majority of members attending the business of the house. The committee on Indian iffairs reported favorably a substitute for Culberson's bill to punish intruders in the five drilled tribes in the Indian territory. The bill ■eported gives ninety days after passage of the till tor intruders to get out; and all intf uders are subject to a line bf ffqm K30 to fi.CbO; bne-thitd o go to the tribe in which the intrude# Is found; ■r.elhtrd to the informant ani the rematndcf to the treasury of the United States. The »urt is also empowered to sentence to the pent-' cniiary for one year. The bill has beeii urged by the Indian agents from the tribes, who insist that they are being imposed upon by the tres]»sscrs, and the number of intruders has recently been increasing qutte rapidly. There is to be no vote on the free silver coinage ldll or on any amendment to i( until after the Minneapolis convention shall have closed: and in all probability will be none until after the Chicago convention shall also come to an end-the senate having voted on the 1st on the suggestion of Mr. Aldrich, and without a single dissent from either side of the chamber, that no vole should be taken on that bill until after the llthof June. An apparently innocent looking house bill ta fegulate the manner in which property shall bb sold under decrees. ttf United States courts had been taken from the calendar and was about to be passed Without ijuestibil; when Mr. Teller offered an amendment requiring officials to receive legal tender money in satisfaction of judgments. Mr. Shkrman was prompt to notice as an effect of the amendment that it might be a violation of possible conditions in note or mortgage that the debt should be paid in gold. Bnt Mr. Morgan moved to proceed to its consideration, notwithstanding Mr. Sherman's objection, and it was on that motion that Mr. Hill voted with the free silver men.... The post office appropriation bill was before the bouse. Almost the entire day was consumed in discussion of points of order. In the senate on the £d Mr. Turner's resolu

tion calling for tne ccrrcsponaence wiu xiaju, Colombia and VencsuMa regarding reciprocity was taken up and when the moyer had spoken at length it was adopted. At 2 p. m. the fred coinage hill was taken up and Mr. Stewart resumed his argument Senate bill to provide for two additional associate Judges of the supfemB court of the territory tit Oklahoma was passed. _In the house Mr. Hatch, ot Missouri, reported the agricultural appropriation bill and it was ordered printed and recommitted. On motion of Mr. Kem the senate bill was passed granting i*cstyasro» of ;Se-ForA. Sydney tary rcservalton to the City of Sydney, Neb. tor cemetery purposes. The house went into committee of the whole on the post ofllce appropriation hill. Mr. Livingston, of Georgia moved to increase by ROJ.003 the appropriation for star route service Agreed to, 101 to 200. adjourned. The senate was not in session on the 3d.... After some morning business the house went into committee of the whole on the post office appropriation bill. The pending amendment was that offered by Mr. Blount ot Georgia, reducing by 12,310,000 the appropriation for transportation hy railroad routes and providing that the postmaster-general be authorized td id' adjust the compensation to be paid after July 1, 1333, Tor transportation of the mail on railroad routes by reducing the compensation to all railroads for the transportation of mail ten per cent, from the rate established oh the basis Of the average vreight llxed and allowed bv the act Of June 17, 1 7A Rejected-57 to 121. Pending action the committee roso and the house adjourned. _ ON THE EVE OF DISSOLUTION. The Tenor of the Information In tlegard to the British Parliament. London, June 4.—The last session of the present parliament virtually closed yesterday. The desire of a section of the cabinet, strongly supported by Mr. Chamberlain and the unionist party, to pass the Irish local government bill so that they would be able to go before the constituencies with their Irish pledges redeemed, has failed to prevail against electoral exigencies. The radicals have decided not to oppose the passing of the estimates, which will be voted in the desultory fashion in which millions are usually voted at the fag end of a session. Tlie queen will curtail her stay at Balmoral and will return to Windsor on June 22, in order to avoid the necessity of the ministers traveling to Scotland to tender their resignations. The formalities of the dissolution of parliament are certain to occur before Jnnq 25 and the electoral contest has already commenced. BURNED _TO DEATH. The Tearful Accident Whereby a Soubrette Artist Lost Her Life. Providence, R. I., Junes.—A terrible accident occurred at the City hotel at an early hour yesterday morning, which resulted in the death of one of the best known soubrette artists on the Aineri

can stage. Mi ss Polly McDonald, one of the leading ladies in Lester & Williams' Me and Jack: company, now playing an engagement at Westminster theater; was the victim, and by a lighted match igniting Mr night dress she was literally baked from feet to neck, causing injuries which resulted in death at 8:30 o’clockMiss McDonald had occasion to light the ffas about 3:30 o’clock and then she threw the match, as she thought, into a cuspidor, but it fell on her night dress and before assistance could reach her she was terribly burned. Miss McDonald was a native of England, 25 years old and had been with Tony Pastor, Hallen & Hart and other companies Aid for Kansas Cyclone Snlftrart. Wellington, Kan., June 4.—The city council of Salina last evening appropriated $100 for the cyclone sufferers here. Atchison sends word that a car load of provisions and clothing will be forwarded in a few days. Chanute raised $200 for the cyclone sufferers here and at Harper and will send a cou*~ ’’man to see to its distribution. ILLUSTRIOUS AMERICANS. Gen. Horace Poster in a single month swelled the Grant monument fund by *200,000. Charles A. Dana recently returned this answer to a dinner invitation, writing it on the back of the request: “Why, of course.” Among the most prominent victims of the grim reaper is John Lyle King, said to be one of the best trial lawyers of Chicago’s bar. He was sixty-seven years of age. Inspector Steers, New York’B new chief of detectives, vice Byrnes, promoted!, has been on the force since 1857. One year he rescued thirteen people from drowning. ' “UstCLE Jerrt" Rusk, secretary of agriculture, never misses a game of baseball that comes his way. He was one of the best players in Wtsoon-1 sin ip his day, and isn’t above mounting hn umpire now if a decision that he considers unfair is rendered. The last surviving “hero of Harper’s Ferry,” Richard W. Howard, who was with John Brown in his descent on and capture of the United States arsenal at that place, 1b living in retirement in the Rhode Island town of Warwick, where he wos for years » manufacturer pf woolen

INDIANA STATE NEWS. At Muncie, {he other Evening, wiiiW Richard and Albert George, dged rtfrieteen and seventeen, were shooting at a mark with revolvers, the former was fatally shot in the left groin ,'yith a 38caliber ball by the accidental discharge Of the weapon. The young man’s parents reside ifl Ohio, but are now at ^totfrit t'armei, near iirodkville. this state. Richard tv Ss, visiting his Udcle, Antwell tleorge', ih Muncie; Charles Taylor, a veteran conductor of the Vandalia system, was run over by his freight train a few miles north of Terre Haute, on the Logansport division. He died from his injuries soon after being taken home. Mostipello people are fighting for a fleUr court house. ^fiiE mayor of Seymour receives only $300 a year salary. Chaiu.es HoOt-Eti, df iiiOoriiingtofi, wto burglarized the offices t>f ttf. italic* and t>r. Craig, was sfenieitcCd to prfeiofl for eighteen months, at Martinsville'. Peter Flynn, of Marion, has offered to give $10,000 to start a fund for a $30,000 free library. G. W. Smith, living near Columbus, sold to a St. Louis firm 190 head of cattle that netted $13,000. Mrs. Dvrbrock was shot in the heart at Brazil by a neighbor boy while he was fboling with a revolver. William M. Wright, deputy prosecutor aud a young attorney of Rosedale, Parke county, was arrested and is In jail 611 the charge of forgery. lie forged notes to the aniount of $13,000, with the nameSof President MeKeeri, of the Vandalia railroad; Auditor Catllll, of Rockville, and other wealthy metL The paper was sold to Alonson Davis, a wealthy farmer, who will loose over $5,000. Maggie Burns, of Columbus, shot her lover, John Tolen, and then attempted

suicide. Carrie Hoped, aged 13, of Muncic. made a lied spread containing 1,143 spiders and 3,053 Wheels. Thomas Cbayton, a Brazil priddler, became too free with his grin ifl a saloon rind injured several pCrsoflS, but was fatally shot himself. W. J. Harness, a Kokomo ball player, Wris struck on the head with a ball and tendered insane. At Indianapolis he^rlefl tb throW himself under a car. Moses and ls5iuT"'!5flt£tz, Noblestille twins, married twin sisterSv The men celebrated their SOth birthda^with a re-union at which fifty brothers, sisteES, children, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren were present John H. Ogden, ex-recorder of La Porte county, died suddenly the other day. Thus. Ludwig, a boy, of South Bend, was badly injured by being caught in a revolving shaft with which he was fooling. P. K. May's hardware store at Wilkinsoii was burglarized of a quantity of fire-arms and cutlery. South Wabash, which was recently annexed to that quiet eanal town, is now kicking and will petition to be disannexed. The Underwood cabinet works at Wabash was burned a few days ago. John Matthews, a well-known Crawfordsvillc man, created a sensation in the Presbyterian church by going in while drunk and presenting the minister with a bouquet and wreath during the sermon. Bedfohd people voted against a 1 per sent, tax for a belt railroad. AnDersoN and surrounding country Were Visited by a terrific thunder storm the other night. Trees were uprooted and buildings were overturned, and the rain fell in such torrents as to destroy thousands of dollars’ worth of roads and bridges, tieorga Harbig’s large barn, north of Anderson, was struck by lightning early the other morning and burned to the ground. Seven horses perished in the flames. The electrical

storm that accompanied tne wrnu uuu rain was simply awful. Flashes of lightning were continuous. Rosa Rauxkb, of Ft. Wayne, ran a piece of glass in her arm three years aga She had it removed the other day. An eastern syndicate has leased 10,000 acres of land in Adams and Jay counties to drill for oil. At Columbus Joe Burney blew open a saw-log with powder the othc-r day and was blown several feet in the air and badly mangled. He may die. A bill was reported to- the senate a few days ago appropriating $150,000 for the erection of a public building at Mnncie. The state prohibition convention made the following nominations the other day. governor—Aaron Worth, of Jay; Lieutenant Governor—(has. W. Culbertson, of Shelby county: secretary of state—.Tames W. Cormiek, Gibson county; auditor—Frank Taggart, Brown county; treasurer—II. H. Moore, Benton county; I attorney general—Cutler S. Dobbins, Martin eounty: reporter supreme court-—John IV. llaier, Newton county; superintendent public instruction—E. A. Devore, Sullivan county; state statistician—M. E. Shiel, of Marion county; supreme judge. Third District—Robert Denny, Marion county; Judge First Appellate district—John Baker of Knox county: Third district, John Gcugar, of Tippecanoe county; Fifth district, John J. Joyce, Miami county. The usual platform was adopted. Jons Young, a Lawrenceburg cooper, was knocked down and robbed. Tom McKinney, of Lawrenceburg, was kidnaped by two men, but made his escape. Greencasti.e prohibitionists want saloons open to public view, so “boozers” can be seen. - A smooth stranger worked off an old confederate $50 bill on the ticket agent at Anderson. Goshen will soon have a lateral railroad two miles in length. Max Gkaiiam, of Bentonville, hanged himself in his bam. Bi.oomington's council voted against the proposed water works. A daily paper is to be one of Alexandria's new enterprises. Milk sickness has appeared among sheep near Farmland. ! A flax mill is being built, at Bluffton. Postmaster John Suhi.f.ttk. of Advance, has hoisted the stars and stripes over his post office in accordance with Mr. Wanamaker's suggestion. The threc-year-old daughter of .Scott. Gilbert, near Cannelton, fell out of a window only three feet , from the ground, and when they picked har up the child was dead. At Hagerstown a gas machine in the .Baptist church got out of order and created a panic. A number of children (vere tramped upon. THE Y. M. C. A. conference closed at | Undersoil and about decided tA erect ft 1 4no bu'idtai .

BLAINE STEPS OUT fame* G« D i»ln9 Kwigns Ills Portfolio w Secretary o# S>t*te~The Br«l*rn»Uoo Injiineriiatf-fj AecfijrtM by th« President —Intense CiHiiM St U»o Capital aJh.in the »«« BrtihS* Washington; iwa£ S. — Secfefaty Blaine resigned the portfolio of the state department shortly before i o’elock yesterday. At that hoiif Mr.Dent, private secretary to Secretary Blaine, with Mr. Blaine’s resign atioti i« hk pocket, came into the fooiii 6f imitate Secretary Halford at liib fexfecdtite ihariSioh afKl haflded him a cdihidnidca tknt iiicJoOetl ia SB official envelope oif the depaftiSefit of state, Mr. Halford immediately, witlitnif showing its contents, took it into the press* dent’s room adjoining and handed it to President Harrison, who was sitting at his desk. He opened it, read the contents, which were in the handwriting

Ex-SeertUirsi of State James G. Elaine. of Mr. Blaine, written on the official paper of the department of state. The president did not, either in word or actioh, express any surprise, but handed the letter to Private Secretary Halford, Who then for the first time was made ft ware of its significant Import, It was then a few ffiimites of 1 o’clock, the hour the president receives Visitors id the East room. He descended the private stairs of the executive mansiori and went into the East room, where he shook by the hand some ‘300 people who had assembled there, He did not show the least nervousness or appear as if anything unusual had occurred. -After the reception in the East room the president went to lunch, as Is hie wont. About 1>2? o’clock the president went to his desk aj!&in..und taking up a sheet of official paper hedfi^t} “Executive Mansion" indited a reply aiSfpJhjg^ Mr. Blaine's resignation as secretary of state. This letter was hander! to Mr. Blaine in person at his residence on Lafayette square by Mr. Halford. It Was then about 1H5 o’clock. As sooiAas the resignation of Mr. Blaine had heed 6<!eepted an official telegram was sent from the executive mansion to the several departments announcing the fact to the several secretaries. Within a few minutes after 2 o’clock Attorney-General Miller called and had an earnest talk with the president. Secretary Elkins arrived as the at-torney-general was leaving. He remained- with the president for some time, and emerging from the president's room, indited a number of telegrams which were sen ton from the executive mansion. The telephone, tqp, was kept busy with messages to the various departments. The news of Mr. Blaine’s resignation created the most Intense excitement throughout the city. It was a surprise so big that few would at first believe it. Mr. Blaine's most intimate friends did not anticipate it, and were perhaps more surprised than the general public, who have been unable to see how Mr. Blaine could remain in the cabinet occupying the attitude to the republican nomination that he did. The consensus of opinion hers is that Mi-. Blaine has thrown down the gauntlet and that his resignation is a declaration that he is now an avowed candidate. The news *f Mf. Blaine’s resignation was given by the secretary himself to the press.

In response to a summons ny telephone a representative of the United Press called at Mr. Blaine's residence at 2:40 and was handed a copy of the correspondence in a sealed envelope marked “Important.” Surmising its contents the reporter asked if there was anything to add, to which the reply was, ' “Nothing.” Mr. Blaine looked Swell and walked tip and down his library as if he felt the importance ol the step he had taken. The letters themselves, though courteous in tone, are utterly devoid of rhetorical flourish or expression of regret and good wishes, the usual formal termination of such communications. They are as formal as the most ordinary business letters. A gentleman who is ordinarily considered as close to Mr. Blaine was greatly surprised when told the news an hour or so after its announcement. This was taken to indicate that Mr. Blaine had not consulted many of his friends. The effect of Mr. Blaine’s resignation upon the situation at Minneapolis is eagearly canvassed; friends of both Mr. Harrison and Mr. Blaine express the fear that if either is nominated the friends of the other will be loo sore to go actively into the campaign, and say that it will be necessary to choose some other man upon whom both sides can unite. FATAL COLLISION. A Sunday Eioumicn Train Meets with a Serious Accident. Evansville, End., June A special to the Courier from Owensboro, Ky., says: A colored excursion train oi three coaches and a baggage car, which left here at 7:80 o'clock yesterday morning, collided with the regular northbound passenger on the Owensboro & Nashville road, near South Carrollton, about 9 o’clock, w ith very serious results. Hugh Barclay, fireman, and Henry Estley (colored), porter on the excursion train, were killed. Terrible Time Along the Lehigh River. Allentown, Pa., June 5.—A fearful rain-storm, attended by several cloudbursts, covered an area sixty miles along the Lehigh river Friday afternoon, from White Haven to Easton. The lower part of the town of White Haven is four feet under water end cellars are fall of water. On the opposite side of the river the small streams running down the mountain sides are swelled and are washing out the Lehigh Valley railroad tracks ia several place! and delaying all trains, Qravet train! were put tq wora* at 9«oe to repw towages

CLEVELAND’S FRIENDS, Now Y,.'rfc Democrats to Line fOr Trim- at Syracuse. Antl-Hlil Men Cond-mu »>“ February Convention and Resolve *° S«f port the Ex-President at Chicago. The Cleveland democrats of Net Fork held an anti-Hill convention at* Syracuse on May 81. and proclaimed^ heir determination to work for their candidate at the coming national conreutlon, and denounced the Hill con-i iretltion in February last as an abuse* K trust and a violation of democratic dgbts In the state. During the meeting John 0. Kernan, of Oneida county, j xmporary chairman, spoke as follow^ TWs convention is a halt In the march to the rational flerabiratic convention at Chioagoof an trmy ol 200,0® >**w XOTk democrats, and ot as nany more enlisted »ytn«S> thirers. They goto rage war against their disfranchisement in that convention by loaders who have made unwise »nd t ratty use of party machinery for personal tnds, and who have overridden- time-honored iusto as arid naogcs of the democratic F*1’**We claim that the call for and manipn'ethm Wth< Fcbmiry convention was an abuse pt. irusf md a violation of democratic rights ih this state: that its proceedings then misrepresented larg a clement ol disftranchfewl (temowats upo now r misrepresent ari overwhelming sentiment, thich since thfn has gtown to vast proportions liirou, 'howt tl* state. If Ottv strength ffld no* Be in he iffifot the peoplc. the son would shine *t mic night Before the loyal democratic rank and 0 o of this state wotOd don the garb of con* •estnt ts and give tothiaeattse its unpreceoentet! tt* vtb and its clearly matfcsd intensity of

purpose. _ The February tonvcntion was a mistake from every standpoint; in some respects it was » crime, indictable at CMcaga. Such convention*, accorc ing to party usage, are held in April, late, or move usually in May; noneia modern times was e1 er held so early. No one before ever attempt <1 to put the party in a hole by such • device as a February convention. At font season of the year caucus material 1* Scarce and generally confined to the bad Quality that d( es some one's bidding. When days are short, nights long,-roads drifted, and’the national convention four months distant, the duty and pc Utica! occupation of democrats in this state, t s cite where, is to watch and weigh the drift of events, to Be {students of every phase of passing political history, to seek conviction and to drat inspiration fro® the air currents of dcmocrttic sentiment that sweep over the country x The delegates of that convention go to urge what tb 8 politicians wanted in February; the wiiui Mia |wmwvi»ud --«• delegate» of this convention to state whaf tnssa people ifl Wetv York want now. They peopiK U new x vim ^ ^ shout for ofealit regularity, and the forms. Shadows and coverings of things. We will plead th vt justice, equity »«d the substance ot democracy b« rccogniaed ss having the better title. Trey will Suggest that danger of defeat in November will darken the pathway wbicti they do ] lot dictate. We will insist that the assurance of certain victory will brighten the road whereon democrats will march after that convention, behind its banner, upon which shall be written in letters of living light sound Ocmoera tie principles and the name of a candidate** whom those principles shall be bone ~ bone and flesh of his flesh, whoever h~ ’ if we » re to fight dflr guns for all worth, who but Cleveland should comm 'u. 'Mppv? Who should stand at the candida^^^ r he ma the* ;

the olcl Siw s»Usi lnto.?"® ffl NoveirWM§*t. wi!h victory s^ her mast lead, uJ* t he in the midst of* waves of tempestu

tionr As I drove one nigh' ft politico i meeting I asUCT leared that universal sunn tife. Speaking witK*kat earm

so of ten 2 ttftisea clemfl fore then in this very city grandeur of his ifiagHiflcence

“No, sir, I have no such (ear, the —_ under universal suffrage, is the safest for the decision of political questions ever dej vised by the wit of mar: the people are r'“" in their p:rceptions, but, in the end, are nright in their conclusions than ally selected 1 of men over can be.” That is he kind of democratic faith that aett ated ti rover Cleveland when he trusted tit*] pie in 1881! The der lands of those who believe in democratic principles, which are a century old! and have been forged la contests from Jefferson to Clevela td, are these: „ „- They de; bund sound currency, In which sliver shall have fair play, but not a policy which shall attempt to protect against “gold bugs’ by creating “silver bugs,” nor pay such a bounty to silver producers as to force a day laborer to accept *1.» worth of coin for work worth r>oa L»t or must be paid par in value, no matter what metal is used. \ They demand not the prayerful and sniveling pretenses of Wanumaker, hut practical civil service reform, wherein"fitness shall be the thief rec< mmendation for official position; ^ wherein o Tensive partisanship shall be cause for resnovs 1, and whereunder an administrattonJ subject to these limitations, shall ho in t hands of ts friends and not of its enemh They dem mdabroad and just pensionjjnli _ Which shal, however, protect the treasury from frauds and sharks A striking difference between the republican and the democratic party is this: The republic- , an press o nd party sang hymns of praise and _ thlnksgivirg during the orgies of the billiondollar tong -css, because the policy of the party was being i arried out, the surplus left byClevelnndwas vanishing, the need for tax reduction was disnpi tearing, and the conseiehoe of tw party approved, and was serene. When, however, a democratic congress takes a step In that direction t! e democratic press and its followers growl and c ill a halt Such ext -avagance goes against the grain of democracy and is regarded as a sin to be repented of: ter this reason is it that the democratic part r is at heart a treasury guardian against ex ravagant tendencies in or out of itself. _ After denouncing republican fraud, corruption, political tyranny and the McKinley tariff the platform says: The recem change in the policy of the republican party 1 rom a general system of high tariff taxes to the reciprocity system is an admission of the vast b mefits to be derived from the extension of oc r foreign trade and of the justice of the tariff reform principle. We appro, a the use of both gold and silver aa money, and 're demand that all dollars, whether gold or silver, shall be equal in value to each other in fact as well as by declaration of law. We are oppo cd to the free coinage of sliver by * the United S:atcs alone at tlfe existing rate of sixteen to ore, liecause we believe that free coinage at th it ratio will result In the immediate disappeai anee of gold from the business of this country, and the use of silver will entail loss to even wage-earner and every savings bunk depositor'with impairment of credit and disastrous d sturbanoe of business of every kind. We demand the repeal of the Sherman silver bill of 1890 as an obstruction of International bimetallism and because it is rapidly

with all of its attending evils. We recognii e the necessity of a through which the party may dire! _ hut when sncl an organization claiffi^ party itself in tend of its instrument, wh suppresses tht voice and represents the f of the party, v hen it calls the caucases a* I customed seas >r.s and upon Insufficient noil

wnen, regaratess ot me votes cast, » upon the conviction and admits to the a t>on only those who, without respect to voice and wit hes of their constituents.^ ijprce in advai cc to support the scheme oligarchy it ha s established, when it gives tices in advanc a that they who will not agree t he as subservient will not be admitted—then-i ceases to be re iresentattve, creates discontent arouses resenti tents and imperils the success of the party. In this emergency it becomes the I duty of the orij inal elements of the party to take such notie as will restore to it just relations between its members and their agents. We demand fai primartes,falr conventions, fair elections, fair l turns and the faithful observance of the vei lict of the ballot. The democrat c party retains unshaken confld.’uoe in the abil tty end lofty integrity©! Grover Cleveland and n his devotion to publio duty' An overwhelm! g majority of the de mocrats of New York ai d the country have send deuce ’n his ability to arry the state triumphantly in November. We believe that by nominati him to lead the tarty in the approaching t test-for the pres ienpy the national ( will carry out th i almost unanimous the party and be -t consult the welfare country. We pledge ourt elves to support the c homlrtated toC by this convent’ acooiding to t SS ‘