Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 27, Petersburg, Pike County, 25 November 1892 — Page 1

lUUMNMIWHIWMMMMMi M. M STOOPS, Publisher. INDIANA,

111 ""IV^ ilte (Stomtg frowst PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. •UBSCRimON terms; INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. ADVERTISING RATES! One square (9 lines), one insertion. ..01 00 Beeh additional insertion. 00 A liberal reduction made on advertisements rawing three, six and twelve months. Legal and transient adve ' woonta mast be pafl forin advance.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS. ► J. T. KIMS, M D, Physician and Surgeon, PETERSBURG, IND. IpOIHcc In llank building, first floor. Will be tountl at office da; or night. GEO. B. ASHBY, ATTORNEY AT LAW PETERSBURG, IND. Prompt Attention Given to all Business. AST Office over Barrett A Son's store. Frascm B. Toskt. dbwitt Q. Giurrcu. POSEY & CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law* Petersburg, Ind. Will practice In nil the courts. Special attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly,In the office. AR-Office— Ou first floor Bank Building. E. A. Ely. 8. G. Dave.Nr out ELY & DAVENPORT, LAWYERS, V . Petersburg, Ind. ea-Offlce over J. R. Adams A Soth drug Store. Prompt attention given to all business. E. P. Richardson. A. H. Tatlob RICHARDSON A TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law* Petersuurg, Ind. Prompt attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in the offleo. Office In Carpenter Building, Eighth and Main. DENTISTRY. W. IF. STONECIPHER,

* Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. Office >n rooms6 and 1 In Carpenter Building. Operations first-class. All work war«an tod. Amesthotlos used tor painless oxruction of teeth. L II. LaMAR, Physician and Surgeon Petebsmuro, iNn. Will practloo in Pike nnj ndi.litlng conn* ties. Office In Montgomery Building. Ollloe hours day and night. *J-DI-, rases or Women and Children asps* daily. Chronic and difficult eases solicited. *■ __' NELSON STONE, D. V. $., PETERSBURG, IND. V Owing to long practice and the possession of a fine library and case of instruments, Mr. Stone is woll prepared to treat all Diseases of Horses and Cattle SHOCKS SKUlaZaY. Be also keeps on hand a stock of Condition Powders and Linimont, which he solk at reasonable prices. Office Over J. B. Young & Co.'s Store.

$8000.00 « year U being mad* bjr John It Goodwin,Troy,N,Y.,af work for u». Header, you may not make m imnli, l>ut we can teach yon quickly how to rant IVont #5 to *IU a tiny at the atari, and mot* a* you pa on. l)olu *e»ea, all aye*. In any part of lAtoericn. you tau commence at home, giving all your tiiue,«>r i|«tt motnenu only la the work. All i* now. Great pay M UK foi averv worker. atari you, furnishing every tiling. KAS1I.Y, 8HEKMI.Y learned. I'A UTU t'bAKM FHKK. Aildrcaa at once, ^ bllAKON A tO., lUKt UMI, 1U INK.

THIS PAPER 18 ON FILE IN r - CHfCifiO AND NEW YORK AT THE OFFICES OF A. N. KELLOGG NEWSPAPER CO. TJiUSl *S8* NOTICES of OFFICE DAT. ■VTOTICE I* horeby (Oven that I will attend to the duties ot the offlou of trustee of CUy township nt homo on EVERY MONDAY. All persons who here business with the oftlce will take notice that I will attand to business on no othor day. M. M. GO WEN, Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby (riven to all purtlos Interested that I will attend at uiy office In Stendal, . EVERY STAUBDAY, * To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Eocklinrt township. AH^ persons having bnsinesi with said office will please take notice. J. 8. BARRETT. Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby (ft von to nil parties concerned that I will be at iny residence. EVERY TUESDAY, To attend to business connected with the offlna of Trustee of Monroe township. GEORGE GRIM, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given that I will be ut my residenee EVERY THURSDAY To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of Logan township. 88"Positively no hus'noss transacted except on office days. SILAS KIRK, Trustee^ NOTICE Is hereby given to all partloscon. earned that I will attend at my residence EVERY MONDATf To transect business connected with the office of Trustee of Mad I son township. “TPosItlvely no business transacted except office days JAMES RUMBLE. Trustee. "VTOTICE Is hereby klren to all persons InIN terest»£ that I wilt attend In my office la tlP#n’ EVERY FRIDAY, To tranenot business connected with the office of Trustee of Marlon towneb p. All persons having business with said office will please take notice. will ptea w , BROCK. Trustee. Is hereby given to alt persons l that 1 will attend at my offloa EVERY DAY . ^ . business connected . . | mss connected with the towns lop.^ .KomnuSsat

la Dr. Samuel Pitcher’s prescription for Infants and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic snbstanco. It Is a harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil. It is Pleasant. Its gnarautoo Is thirty years’ use by Millions of Mothers. Cast orlaxtcst ro vs TVorms and allays feverishness. Castorla prevents vomiting Sour Curd, cures Diarrhooa and Wind Colic. Castorla relieves teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency. Castorla assimilates tho food, regulates the stomach and bowels, giving healthy and natural sloep. Castoria is tho Children’s Panacea—the Mother’s Friend.

Castoria. "Castorta la an excellent medicine for children. Mothers have repeatedly, told me of Ita good effect upon their children.” Da. O. C. Osooon, Lowell, Mas-, •* ctutorin Is the best remedy for children of which I am acquainted. I hope the day is not far distant when mothers will consider tho real interest of their children, and use Castoria Instead of tho various quack nostrums which are destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful events down their throats, thereby sending (hem to premature graves.” Dr. J, F. K ittciutLOB, Conway, Ark.

Castoria. “ Castoria la ao well adopted to children that I recommend It as superior toon; prescripts known to me." It. A. Archer, K. U., lit So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. 7. “Our physicians in the children's department have spoken highly of thoir experience in their outside pnietlco with Castoria, and although we only hare among cur medical supplies what is known as regular products, yet we nro free to confess that tbs merits of Castoria has won us to look witt favor upon it." » United Hospital and Disprnsart, Boston, Slsss Allen C. Surra, Prtt.,

Vh« Centaur Company, TT Murray Street, now xoraurcy* JOHN HAMMOND. OOOIDS OS’ B’VBIS'Sr lOEItTEi To which he directs Attention. Ills DRY COODSare ttrst-cluss, and the stock Is jrery Hurt Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Notions. Give him acall, and you will he convinced tnnt he Is giving BARGAINS on his entireetoct SOLID GOODS AT HOW PRICES. C.aTbTJROER & BEO, THE FASHIONABLE MERCHANT TAILORS Peterthnrg, Indiana, Have a Large Stock of Late Styles of Piece Goods Consisting of the very host Suiting and Piece Goods Perfect Fits, Styles Guaranteed.

O. Sz 3^L. OHIO* MISSISSIPPI RAILWAY. TKB FAST BjSBTS! EAST & WEST. 4 Solid, Dollf Tral»s to Claclnnattl, 4 Solid Dally Trains to St, teals, 9 Solid Dally Trains to Loalarille. Connectlnc I" Union Depots, with trains, of nil llnosfor t he East, West, • North and South. Throush Yestlbulo nay Coaches, Pullman Parlor Cars attd H’.iei>crs on nil Train*. DOUBLE DAILY LINE. Pullman Vestibule Buffet Sleepers B ow St. Louis ami Stations ou Slain Line -toWashington, Baltimore, Philadelpba and Nov York, vithEASTWARD Fnott WASHIKGTOR No .8 Accommodation 12.SJP, M. No. 2. Day Express <18 D. M No. 4. Nl«h«. Express 1257 A. M. No. 8 Fast Express \ 2.05. A. M. Westward Form Washington No. T Accommodation 1242 P. M. No. 1 Day Express 12 57 P. M No. 8-Nlltht Express 12Bh A M. No. 5 Fast Express 2tfi A m. Home Seekers

MOVINU VVESi. Should take this line as U has less changes of cures and better accommodations than other mutes. , . * Our Vestibule oars arc a luxury, which tnav be enjoyed by all. without extra charges, und every attention Is given our passengers to make their Journey pleasant uml comfortabOur agents will take pleasure In answering Inquiries In regard t<> rates for both passengers and freight, time, routes and oonneeflons; call at your home If desired and attend to shipping freight by the most direct rentes and cheer-king baggage, w I them t oh atge fbr any assistance they n.uy be able to ronB.—Passengers shodld purchase tickets before entering the cars, as the ticket rate 1 ten cents less than the train rate, _. Communications addressed to Ihe under signed will weeta prompt attention. THOMAS DONAHUE, Ticket Agent Q. A M. R’y Washington Ind C. O*Jones, District Passenger Agt. Vincennes Ind. J. F. BARNARD, W. B. 8HATTU0 Pres, and M’gr. Ge’n- p*‘* A*‘ C1NCINNATTI OHIO. Ashby & Chappell, Real Estate Agents. Fire. Life, and Live Stock Insurance Agents. Collections awl Abstract* of Titles a Specialty.

F. A. SHANDY. pmimm FAMILY GROUP AND RES/- „ 0£WC£S A SPECIALTY. All kinds of out-door work, por* trails, copying and oniargingf rom oldj pioturos &c. Birthday and surprise party groups a spooialty. Satisfaction guaranteed or no pay. Give me a call, or address F. A. SHANDY, Petersburg Indiana. Iff. J. BRADY, Photographer, Petersburg, Indiana, Will make you Photos In any number at most reasonable rates.

ltomem' &• that my work is war» ranted. U»oj want PORTRAITS enlarged call ttnd .ave the work done right. All work guaranteed to stand the teat ot ages and still l>e as bright as when taken from the gallery. Studio equipments of standard modern makes. Our motto—“The Best Ia As flood Aa Any,and Always the Cheapest." M. J. BRADY, Gallery In Klsert’s Building, upstairs, on Main, between Sixth and Seventh Monuments Best material, most reasonable prices, sat. Isfaetion guaranteed Ot l*e»«>r»ilMtrg M»r ble Works J. A 11. YOUNG, Proprietors. IMfSDTIQEDQ or othe,a.who wish toexamhn HSj veil I IwEltw this paps,,cr obtain estimates on advertising space when In Chicago, wilt find It on fie at ^, wRndophS laCRO&THOJMS. '‘WAdrortialngAgorerof I Machinist AND Blacksmith. i< red to do the best of work with action guaranteed in all kinds of Blacksmithing. Also lowing ml Reaping Mints waartSWo® home to |

NEWS AND NOTES. A Summary of Important Events. PERSONA!. AI^D GENERAL. George Burton, a grocer of East Liverpool, O., who had been on a spree for a week, returned home, on the morning of the 17th, and accused his wife of being drunk and threatened kill her if she did not tell where she got the drink. Mrs. Burton protested on her knees that she had not tasted drink, but the inhuman husband pulled out a revolver and shot her twice in the region of the heart, inflicting mortal wounds. T. J. Wendeia and Ilenry Buek, expressmen, wore driving on tho road a mile east of Wheeling, Va., on the 17th, when their horses becamo frightened and threw the wagon over a cliff twenty feet high. Both horses were killed and Wendell and Buck were frightfully crushed. Their injuries are probably fatal. The lfith was observed as a national holiday throughout the Hawaiian kingdom, it being the birthday anniversary of the late King Kalakaua. On the 17th the president appointed Louis MeComas, of Maryland, to be associate justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, vice Montgomery, resigned. It is announced in Washington with the utmost positiveness that Presidentelect Cleveland has decided to appoint Gen. Isaac S. Catlin, of Brooklyn, N. commissioner of pensions. S. V. White, the well-known New York speculator, has commenced to pay off his Chicago indebtedness in full. His western creditors consented some time ago to accept fifty cents on the dollar in settlement, but Mr. White is now sending the remaining fifty cents, with interest Mr. and Mrs. Ira Ward, of New Haven, Conn., on the 17th rounded out their three-quartors of a century of wedded bliss.' They greeted many friends-and relations, who gathered to help celebrate the diamond wedding of the happy old couple. The society of tho Army of the Tennessee, at its session in St Louis, on the 17th, elected Gen. G. M. Dodge president and selected Chicago as tho place of meeting next year. The members and invited guests partook of an enjoyable banquet at the Lindell hotel by way of a wind-up of their reunion. Mrs. Wiiaiam Wood, the wife of a prominent farmer, died at Martinsville, Ind., on the 17th. She -was married when 14 years old, and though only 85 when, she died she had been a grandmother for two years. A bio discovery of gold has been made at the Caribou mines, about thirty miles from Truro, Nova Scotia. It surpasses anything yet discovered in the province, and is expected to turn out the biggest and richest gold mine ever opened in Canada, as the lead gradually increases in richness and thickness, and shows every indication of continuing to a great-depth.

Twenty persona were dangerously poisoned at Columbus, O., on the 18th, by eating canned meat. Although none of them died, there was much apprehension for a time, as theiir sufferings were intense. An investigation was instituted. On the 17th the wife of Leonard Hills, of Holland, N. Y„ put a wet dynamite cartridge in the oven to dry before her husband used it. Shortly after the cartridge exploded with fearful result. Ralph, a son of about 10 years, was killed, and Mrs. Hills was so badly injured it was feared she could not recover. The house was shattered. WnxiAM Maiek, the young baker who murdered his bride of six months in Wheeling, \Y. Va., on April 5 last, was hanged there on the 18th. Ho professed religion and expressed a hope to meet his wife' in Heaven. His neck was broken by the fall. PABI8 anarehists threaten the English embassy with dynamite in revenge for the extradition by England of Francois, an accomplice of Ravachol. Bernard Muller, a Russian Jew, died at Bellevue hospital in New York city from anthrox, a disease in which the veins and muscles becomo infested with unimalculfo. The recent desecration of soldiers’ graves at Wilbur, Ind., by painting the tombstones red was Rnly a small part of a broad and preconcerted outrage in Morgan and Hendricks counties. Five other cemeteries were similarly visited and were similarly abused. The headpiece over every soldier’s grave within a range of twenty miles in tho western part of Morgan county and eastern part of Hendricks was painted red and flags over the graves were dipped in the paint. Mii.ton Saylor, formerly congressman from Ohio, died very suddenly at his boarding-houso in New \ork city on the 17th. Mr. Saylor was about 60 years old. The cause of death is said to have been heart failure. Mr. Saylor had lived in New York for several yenrs, but it is understood that his wife and family live in Cincinnati.

A neati^y-dressed man cation at me banking house of Dubois & Co. in Washington, on the lsth, and presented a check for *100, made payable to Hon. James G. Blaine, and bearing the forged indorsement of that statesman. The note was signed “D. S. Carraway, Pension Accountant" He was placed under arrest, and then he frankly admitted that he had forged the name of James G. Blaine to the note. The Charleston (S. C.) News and Courier has had an exhaustive examination made of the condition of the cotton crop of the south. It shows that the crop is short far beyond the calculation of experts; that the greater part has been picked and rushed to market, and that the late crop will amount to practically nothing. Mrs. Eijzabeth Cannon, residing six miles north of Mason City, la., committed suicide on the night of the 18th. She arose from her bed. stripped and went out into the cold, and when found, thirty rods from the house, was frozen stiff. Gen. Eoskobans, register of the treasury, was removed to Portress Monroe, Va., on the 18th, in the hope that the change will remove the present danger in his case of paralysis. He has lost the uso of his hands, and is almost helpless. From testimony adduced before Coroner Kramer at Allentown, Pa., on the 18th, in relation to the death ofWm. F. Kick, who died in jail on the eve of the date of his execution for murder, it seems reasonably certain that death was the result of arsenical poisoning. Fibk, on the morning of the 19th, destroyed the warehouse of the Graham Paper Co. in »t. lands, used for the storage of rag# and paper stock, A numb _ vtolnltfi

A fearful prairie Are i» the southwest pvt of Woodruff county, la., was finally gotten under control, on the ISth. after a duration of twenty-four hours. It burned over an area of twelve miles Ion? and in places several miles wide. The town of Sloan narrowly escaped burning. The loss on buildings, grain, bridges, etc., will b« fully $50,000. C. W. Ridgeway, general manage! at Helena, Mont, of the Rocky Mountain Telegraph Co., a connection ol the Postal company, is missing, and is said to be several thousand dollars short in his accounts. A widow accompanied him in his flight Nothing had been heard, up to the 19th, of the propeller Pontiac, the sister ship of the Gilcher, which recently went down with all board in Lake Michigan. The Pontiac cleared from Marquette, Mich., on lihe 17th, and it is feared she is lost Tiie pension of $37,000 voted to Win. H. Beers, formerly piresident of the •New York Lifo Insurance Co- by the company’s board of trustees, was, on the 19th, declared invalid by the general term of the supreme court of New York. A terriffic conflagration raged in Cardiff, Wales, on the 19th, destroying the Merchants' exchange and thirty offices and warehouses, the latter nearly all full of goods. The marquis of Bute, who owns the greater part of Cardiff, is a heavy loser. A cave-in occurred in the Hazeldell colliery at Centralia, Pa., on the morning of the 19th, and seven or eight men were imprisoned in the mine. Two others were taken out ljadly injured. , Thr president, on the 19th, appointed ex-Gov. Gear, of Iowa, assistant secretary of the treasury 1m succeed Judge Crounse, who resigned to make the gubernatorial canvass in Nebraska. Fredonia, Tenn., was almost entirely destroyed by a tornado on the 18th. No lives were lost, but every building in the town, with two or three exceptions, was wrecked. Highbinders, on the night of the 18th, fatally shot Chin How Han, a Chinese shrimp dealer in San Francisco, because ho refused to pay blackmail. On the 19th the president appointed Wm. M. Stone, of Knoxville, la., to be commissioner of the general land office, vice Thomas H. Carter, resigned. A JURY was secured; in the Curtis murder case in San Francisco, on the 18th, iftid the trial was begun on the 31st As the result of a mee ting in Chicago, on the 18th, the Trans-Missouri association is a thing of the past Through the blunder of jo no one, resulting in a terrible collision between two heavily loaded freight trains on the Beit Lino railway near the Archeravenue crossing, in Chicago, at 3 o’clock on the morning of the 90th, three lives were lost anfl-tS^o men were injured so seriously that th eymaynot recover. -

Senator John E. jusnna, or west Virginia, whose state of health gave rise to alarming rumors, during the 20tli, was found, on inquiry later, to be considerably better. Baron Jacques Dereinach, a Parisian financier of considerable note, died on the 20th. The cause of death has been carefully kept secret. lie was implicated in the formation of the Panama canal scheme, and to a certain extent as a conspicuous stockholders and it is rumored that he committed suicide for fear of investigation of the canal company's business by the government. TnK hole in the ground in Silver Mountain, Boise county, Idaho, whieh, several years ago, the notorious Matt Graham salted so artistically that a British company eagerly wasted over $1,000,000 on it, has been pronounced by an export sent over to examine it to be utterly worthless. Emperor William was, phfitographed, on the 20th, in the uniform of a cuirassier of Frederick the Great. In the picture he is surrounded by six adjutants. This is said to be the 1510th picture of William since His accession to the throne. The bodies of nineteen adults were found, on the 20th, burittd in tho sand in a cellar in Lublin, Russian Poland. LATE NEWS ITEMSWhims the body of Joshua Summers was being taken into the eemetery at Brown City, Mich., for interment, on the 20th, the horses attached to the heaiso became frightened and ran away. The horses and. hearse were thrown into a ditch; the casket crashed through the glass window and the corpse fell out of the coffin and was badly mutilated by the vehicle rolling over it A fearful powder explosion occurred, during the noon hour on the 31st, in the Blanche coal mine, located at the west end of Colliers, W. Ya. Twenty-five kegs of powder exploded, causing the instant death of three miners and the serious wounding of eight others, three of them probably fatally.

The Bristol county (Mass.) (fraud jury, which has been examining the Borden case, was dismissed, on the 21st. until December 1. It is presumed that the officers have struck a new lead and that this brief adjournment is to give them a chance to present more definite evidence before the grand jury. A statement printed in the Son Francisco Examiner to the efTect that the state deportment had been for six weeks in correspondence with the llawaiian authorities with the object of annexing the islands was, on the 81st, denied by>Secrotnry Foster. The governor of Maryland, on the 21st, postponed until January 8, the execution of the eight murderers of Dr. Hill, of Annapolis, who were to hang at Hestertown during Chirstmas week. Dozens of policemen were on guard in Chinatown (San Franciseo), on the night Of the 20th, to keep the highbinders’ societies from indulging in one of their periodical battles. Cholera is again showing itself in Belgium. There have been two deaths from the disease in that city, recently, and several cases are reported in Bruges and Mans. Mankind H. Rose, of Ohio, chief clerk of the general land office, has boon appointed assistant commissioner, vice Stone, promoted to be commissioner. It was announced scmi-officially, on the 81st, that the British government had resolved to retain Ugandi. In this event a special committee will ibe sent out Bictcust W. C. Sanger, of Milwaukee, has accepted Timmerman's challenge to race for All the del iso. international M

INDIANA STATE NEWS. A YOUNG son of M. Shirk, living south of Elkhart, while handling a gun, accidentally discharged it in the face of his 2-ycar-old sister, destroying her eye. The shot scattered, or the result would nave been fatal. This general offices of the northern division of the Big Four railway were removed from Elkhart to Anderson, where they can bo operated to greater advantage in connection with the company’s headquarters at Cincinnati Jar. Costkm.o, of Anderson, was shot and instantly killed by Wm. Woods, the other day, for insulting the latter's sister. Tn* city council of Portland has passed an ordinance giving permission to J. M. Gardiner to put in a complete street railway system. A Young Men’s Christian association is being organized at Huntington. Over 250 names have already been secured and success seems positive. The Grand Lodge I. O. O. F., completed its work and adjourned Hon. George Ford, of South Bend, who was elected grand master, declined, and Enoch Hogate, of Danville, was elected in his .place. Other grand officers were elected as follows: Deputy grand master, Will H. Talbott, of Orleans, grand warden. M. A. Chipman, of Anderson; grand secretary, B. F. Foster, of Indianapolis; grand treasurer, Theodore P. Haughey, of Indianapolis The grand master appointed the following: Grand chaplain. C. G. Hudson, Ndblesville; grand marshal, J. M. Fowler, Newburg grand conductor, W. K. Stringer, Indianapolis; grand guardian, H. C. Humes, Muncie; grand herald, D. M. Bell, Dunkirk; grand instructor, W< H. Leedy, Indianapolis; representative to the grand lodge, W. SS. Wiley, of Fowler. A number of small boys built up a Httle club house several days ago at Anderson. The other day someone placed a stick of dynamite in the stovepipe and the little building was blown up. No clew to the vandals. Edward Gimber, 70, residing at Straws Mill, eight miles from Jeffersonville, fell from a horse and was trampled so badly that he died of his injuries.

The Lotus club, a swell organization of Crawfordsville, will soon erect a handsome club house. Four mail carriers will make a free delivery of mail, at Michigan City, after December 1. Adam Lamar, the messenger who robbed the post office, at Ft. Wayne, was bound over in $1,000. Geo. Stuck, a farmer just cast of ' Columbus, who was thrown from a horse, the other day. died nest morning from injuries received. He came from Chicago two years ago. While Frank Moore was bicycling on the street, at Indianapolis, the other day a dog made a spring at him, and 'was-ertttshu'between the spokes of the rear wheel. Moons "was thrown heaifily' against the curb, fatally fracturing his skull. At Clayton some dastard painted the gravestones of 18 union soldiers a deep red. Columbus gets a free mail delivery December 1. THEjury acquitted Geo. Henley at Madison, charged with the murder of Lawson Clarkson. SHEimvYiLLE is to have free delivery of mails beginning December 1. The mail-bags and boxes have arrived,while the appointment of the carriers is expected every day. Postmaster Dunn has recently put in a new outfit, at a cost of $1,500. J. M. Lewis, postmaster at Cope, near Martinsville, for seven years, resigned the day after the election. He first took it after much persuasion. The expenses of keeping it up have been $80 a year, and the pay amounts to but $2g. He would have remained longer, butdemocrats daubed his house with red paint and threatened to dismiss him after March 4. Five prisoners were pardoned by Gov. Chase. Dan West, colored, a “lifer;" Cnarles Pfeiffer, convicted of manslaughter; C. L. Arbuckle, a bigamist; W. F. Roberts and Joseph A. Brown, theft, were the lucky ones. Bert Earley, who disappeared from Ft Wayne some time ago, has been heard from in Nebraska. Fleming Riggs. 78, an Mabel Preddy, 18, eloped from Munfordvillo and were married at Jeffersonville. The mangled remains of Chauncey Hart were found beside the Niekel Plate track at Ft Wayne. Foul play is suspected. Riley Gray, a bachelor fifty yearn old. of Kokomo, fell unconscious on the streets of that city, and died within a few minutes. The work on the reservoir for the new water-works at North Vernon has commenced, and by July 1, 1898, the works will be in operation.

The Crawfordsville Water and Light Ca has announced it will commence to manufacture water-gas on January 1, for both light and fuel. Diphtheria of a most peculiar and fatal kind has been getting in its deadly work at Reeds; death haying resulted in every case. Diphtheria has made its appearance at Lawrenceburg, but, with proper precautions, will not become epidemic. Harvey Plummer, a Big Pour brakeman, was fatally pinched while coupling cars at Indianapolis. He died in the ambulance while en route to the hospital. At Wabash, Charles Farr, who was arrested for taking a horse belonging to George W. Dales, and held in bond of $500 by Mayor Moore, of Marion, recently,, has brought suit for $5,000 damages Dales is an Indian, and while drunk traded horses with Farr, and when he sobered up imagined that Farr had stolen his horse. Mrs. Maria Flatters, a native of England, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Burleigh, at Martinsville, aged 90. John Reinhart, living in Jackson county, while out hunting, fell and discharged his gun into his neck, dying instantly. A prisoner in an Indiana jail, who is sentence for a life term, has fallen heir 'to $18,000, the estate of his first wife. At Jeffersonville, John D. Ingram, general superintendent and purchasing agent of the Ohio Falls Manufacturing Ca, while serving as marshal in a democratic jollification, was struck in the face,by a ball from a discharged Roman candle and burned to such an extent tfeat he will Jrobably loso his sight irkrt UfAND, a farinar of ,n county, iie hi

nuaK a ncruHi. Byaopus of the Fourth Annual Report of Secretary Rook of the Agricultural Department—A Valuable Document for Farmers—Millions on the Credit Side of the Farmer's and Stock Grower's ledger.! as the Result or the Depart, meats labors. Washington, Nov. 81.—Secretary Rusk has sought to make his fourth and last annual report as head of the department of agriculture a valuable document and has grouped together many interesting facts to show the agricultural people what we are and what a proper thing it was to make the commissioner of agriculture a cabinet officer. He says we sent abroad last year 8800,000,000 of products more than we had to import from foreign nations, and SO per cent, of these products were agricultural. He claims some credit for that, because he shows an increase of 40,000,000 pounds weight of pork sent to countries which formerly excluded American pork, and $40,000,000 value increase in our exports of live cattle. All this comes from the increased precautions to secure healthfulness of American food products. The regu lations enforced for the prevention of Texas fever alone have saved cattlegrowers more than three times the cost of running the whole department. Notwithstanding the assertions to the contrary of wicked and prejudiced London newspapers, he again declares that cpleuro-pneumonia does not exist in the United States This result, he claims, has been obtained at a cost leas by $100,000 than was paid out by Great Britain during seven years as indemnity for slaughtered cattle alone. He also points out that the total loss to tho cattle-growers of Great Britain in deaths alone has amounted to not less than a half billion of dollars, and that this is the only country in the world where the disease, having once gained a foothold, has been entirely eradicated. He explains why our wheat did not realize the big hopes raised by the short crops in various European countries in 1801, by saying that those anticipations of enhanced prices failed to take into account the changed conditions now surrounding the production and marketing of the world’s wheat crop.

“Taking the world throughout the fat crops more than equaled the lean crops of 1891 so that there was actually more wheat grown in that year than in tf>90. Even the exports from Russia, where famine existed in so large a section and where exports were for a time prohibited, amounted to "105,000.000 bushels, nearly as much as the average of the past four years and more than the average for the past ten yOars.” He says: “The conditions which have at last overwhelmed cotton growers sow confront wheat growers. Hence the American farmer must reduce the wheat acreage and so bring production down to the normal demand. White-insisting that southertLCatlOB, growers nu&TT'SeBtifl'Wto reduce the acreage of cotton planted, he has some encouragement to offer them in the shape of new varieties of cotton seed. He has undertaken experiments with imported seed to secure the production of a home-grown eotton, which will meet all the requirements for which Egyptian and other cottons are now imported. He also wants the United States to raise its own raw silk instead of sending $95,000,000 a year abroad for the raw material; and he thinks we might also save $07,000,000 a year which we how spend on imported fibers He has some hopes of getting the Germans to use our Indian corn. Many difficulties have attended the introduction of a new food, heretofore generally regarded in Europe as not suitable for human consumption. A mixed oorn and rye bread was found necessary to secure keeping qualities in a country whore all bread is made and gold by the bakeries, and corn-grind-ing machinery purchased in America is now in use in several mills in that country; one result is the maintenance of the price of corn in the face of largely increased exports, conditions which have heretofore always accompanied a great depreciation in price. The corn exports for 1890, the only year in which the®- have equaled those of the present year, brought the price down to a fraction under 49 cents a bushel at the port of shipment, against a fraction over 55 cents a bushel this year, a difference aggregating on the exports of the past fiscal year, not less than $10,000,000. The report is the first from the cabinet to find its way to the president’s desk. Secretary Rusk throws cold water on the rain-makers. The experiments are being loyally made as congress directed, but the faots-in his possession do not justify the anticipations formed by the believers in this method of artificial rain-making. As his lasfc&word, the secretary expresses his profound appreciation of the cordial sympathy and broad intelligence with which the president has uniformly, throughout his administration, heeded the needs of agriculture, and he predicts that the people of this country will learn to appreciate more rmd more the fact that the first administration during which the department of agriculture held the rank of an executive department of the government was presided over by a ehief executive who never failed to appreciate the importance of agriculture, its dignity and its value to the country at large.

The Tonn( Dak* or Marlboro ajth. London, itov. 81.—The young duke of MarlborOTgh inherits the sporting proclivities of his late father. He hns already declared his intention of increasing, rather than decreasing, the racing stud he inherited. So much for the studious habits and {esthetic manner ascribed to the youth when his father’s death brought him into prominence. His mother, who procured a divorce from the late duke, again reigns at Blenheim. It is stated that she appreciates the changes brought about by the disbursements of the money of the dowager duchess. A Disastrous Fire,' Nevada, Mil, Not. 81—This town eras visited by a disastrous fire at 4 o’clock yesterday morning. The Hildebrandt block, on Cherry street, was totally destroyed, containing Sannder’s barber be Bust,

nc men ounnenuem The strlkeut Homestead Finally ] Off— Looking; Starvation la tk< The Men. Without Kmplayment. ' nut Menus, With No Prospect of! ln» Work, Contemplate the for 14.'*. Homestead, Pa., Not. 22.—The great Homestead strike, or lockout "brought to an end yesterday at a meeting presided over by Richard Hotchkiss, the new chairman of the strikers’ advisory board. Secretary Kilgallen, Vice-President Carney and Treasurer Madden, national officers of the Amalgamated association, were present. The lookout had reached its one hundred and forty-fourth day. Its history is known the world over. The vote that opened the Homestead steel works to Amalgamated men stood 101 tool. The meeting was a red-hot one all the way through, and at one time it looked ns if Burgess Boilingshead would have to assert his official authority to prevent serious oonfllet. Charges and countercharges were the order of the day. Newspaper representatives were excluded, but the information is reliable that those wishing to declare the mill open barely succeeded in carrying their point. Now that the agony is over the men are not backward about expressing their opinions of the men who have posed ns leaders, confidently promising a victory when they knew for a certainty that the battle was hopelessly lost. It is expected that the amalgamated men will join in the rush for positions According to Superintendent Wood of the Homestead works not more than 800 or 900 of the total number of old employes will he able to secure employment. Before the break of last Thursday . there were left in Homestead about2,800 of the original 8,800 men who were locked out on the 25th day of June. Of these 2,800 men 2,200 men were mechanics and laborers, and 000 Amalgamated association men. Up to date 1,100 men have applied-for work, and it is estimated that not more than !'.50 havo been supplied with employment.

■ Saturday's meeting was attended exclusively by Amalgamated association members, much to the chagrin and dieappointment of the sympathetic mechanics who were turned aside. They turned to their homes in silence, hope dead within them. The meeting waa not a large one, and considerable surprise attended the announcement of the resignation of Chairman CrhwTSad.' When his resignation had been accepted. a striker arose and moved that the lockout be declared at an end, and that the men bo allowed to seek employment in the Homestead mill. Discussion of this question continued until 6 o’olook, when the meeting adjourned without result. Yesterday morning the same question was taken up, but those for and against it were afraid to force the question to a vote, ^so evenly were they divided. Oqly about 800 men attended yesterday’s ip^eting. Those opposed to bringing theTBffMJ0 an end struggled hard to prevent a^ballot, pleading, arguing and predicting thefjteintegration of the Amalgamated association' the event of such action. Those patriotic steel workers who repeatedly have stated that they would prefer nakedness and starvation rather than aoknowledge defeat were in tho minority and they knew it. They pleaded with their brethren to stand firm to show the world that they had not forgotten the men who were lying in prison cells awaiting trial. It was of no avail. The question waa put and the vote was a standing one. When Vice-President Carney ai nounced the result there was no jo; ous outburst. There was no del stration as that following the vote the mechanics declaring themseV inde pendent of the Amalgamated ciation. Fora few minutes the sat and stared at each other. Then followed angry denunciations. The men slowly left tho hall in twoa and threes. They seemed loth to leave the building, the very ratters of which have quivered with the declarations mado a thousand times that victory was theirs if they would only be par tient. Yesterday afternoon and evening the men stood in small groups about the streets, discussing the plight they found themselves in. With winter upon them, they see nothing in store now but a struggle for existence, which may assume the proportions of a famine: The oft-repeated declarations of the Carnegie officials that the nonunion men will not be displaced to give employment to strikers renders absolutely no hope in Homestead for 9,000 of the defeated steel workers. Assistant Superintendent Wood said last night: “I do not think that more than 800 or 000 men can secure employment, unless business brightens up so as to enable us to run onr plant to. its utmost capacity. Some yard improvements are also contemplated that -will give temporary employment to some of the men. The company held out no inducement whatever for the men to return. The men realized that the strike was lost;had no money; winter wma upou them and they saw the only open was to try to obtain work. At time has there been over 9,600 new in the works since the start waa made in Jnly. Counting every man employed since the strike the total will not. exceed 8,600.” >» f

Some One Blundered. Chicago, Not. 22.—Through the blunder ol some one, and the terrible collision of two heavily 1 trains on the Belt Line the ArCher-avenue crossing at 3 o' yesterdaj1 morning, three lives were lost and two men were injured so seriously that they may not recover. Those who wero killed are: John Beauchamp, conductor. Richard A. Otto, brakeman. Louis Obits, fireman. Those who were injured are: The*. Garland, engineer: John Deat, brake man, badly scalded; may not recover. Train No. 14 had come to a stop, ai it is supposed that Beauchamp Otto were asleep in the caboose, they failed to flag No. 3ft, which following them. The force of the collision was rifle, and a dosen cars were to kindling wood. The bodies of champ and Otto were taken from the debris terribly mangled, and 01 ‘ found crushed between the boiler tender of his engine. Best, who wer