Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 29, Petersburg, Pike County, 9 December 1892 — Page 1

__________ .. _ . . .. - ... . .— ft M. STOOPS, Publisher. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1892. VOL. XXIII.-NO. 29.

W : fifce County fimowat PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. 8CB8C1HPTION TERMS: One year. .... Biz months.... Three months. INVARIA *8 . 84 ADVANCE. ADVERTISING KATES! On* square (0 lines), one Insertion.tl 00 Eachadditions! ln^ejllgn...”... 00 A liberal reduction made on advertisements running three, six and twelve months. liecaland transient advertisements must ha puH for In advance.

—- - Hwfifc&ratrtjfflttwwt JOB WORK OF ALL KINDS NEATLY EXECUTED RBiASOisrAjar.B3 rates, notice! rSro2Sft i5 ^ that the time oI their eubecriptlon hu expired.

rnoiessionai, cAituit. J, T. KIME. Physician and Surgeon, PETERSBURG, ISO. lj*OWct In Rank building, first floor. Will be loOnd at office day or night. GEO. U. ASHBY, ATTORNEY AT *LAW PETERSBURG, IND. Prompt Attention Giysn to all Businas*. aarOfBco over Barrett & Son's store. Erakcis b. toset. Dewitt q. Chatteli. POSEY & CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. Will practice In all the courts. Special attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly In the office. WOffloc— On first floor Rank Building. E. A. EbT. fl. G. DAVRNrOBX ELY A DAVENPORT, LAWYEES, PETERSBURG, IKD. RR-Offlee over .T. R. Adams A Soch drug store. Prompt attention given to all business. E. 1'. Richardson A. H. Tay£or RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Inu. Prompt attention given To ail.buslness. A Kotary Public constantly in tho office, office In Carpenter Building, Eighth and Main. DENTISTRY. W. H. STONECIPHER,

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. Office in rooms B ami 7 In Carpenter Build--Ing. Operations first-class. All work warranted. Aiiiesthetica used tor painless extraction of teeth. I. H. LaMAR, Physician and Surgeon 'Pbtkisshubg, Ind. Wilt praotlco In l'iko and adjoining connlien. Ollleo In Montgomery Building. Ollioe hours day and night. gJ-Dlseases of Women and Children aspociuliy. Chronic and difficult casus solicited. NELSON STONE, D. V. S., PETERSBURG, IND. Owing to long practice and the possession of * fine library and case of instruments, Mr. Stone is well prepared to treat all Diseases of Horses and Cattle STJCCESSK’XJIjX^Y. He also keeps on hand a stock of Condition Powders and Liniment, which ho sells at reasonable-prices. ^ Office Over J. B. Young & Co.'s Store.

f 6000.00 a year in being made by John It. Goodwin,'Tro.v,N.Y.,nt work fur ue. Ifcadar, k you uia,v not make aa imu-li, but we can I leach you quickly liow to earn from *5 to I if 10 a (toy at the Hart, and more a* you go Ton. lloth sexes, all age*. In rny j>art of ■ A me in-«, you can coinmnicc at home, gt*- ; ■lug all your time,or aj>»re momrnis only to j "Hie work. All i* new. Great jay St l(b fo» j everv worker. We Hart yon, furuUbing i everythin*. KA8II.Y, SI'b'r.lJU.Y learned. J\Ai;i'HbLAK8 b'hl-.r.. Addreaaat once, bll.NbUM * 10., 10UTUMI, SIAIMiU

THIS PAPER IS ON PILE IN CHICAGO AND NEW YORK AT TUE OFFICES OF A. N. KELLOGG NEWSPAPER CO. THUS! EES’ NOTICES OF OFFICE OAT. NOTICE is hereby given that I will attend to the duties of the ofUce of trustee of Clay township nt homo on EVERY MONDAY. All persons who have business with the olHee will tuke notice that I wilt attond to business on no other day. M. M. GOWEN. Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby given to all parties Intercsted that I will attend at my ufllee In Btettdal, EVERY STAURDAY, To transact business connected with the office of trusteo'of Dock hint township. All persons having busincsi with said offloo will please take notice. ™ J. 8. BARRETT. Trustee. - NOTICE Is hereby given to all parties con • corned that I will he at my residence. EVERY TUESDAY, / To attend to business connected, with tbs office of Trustee of Monroe township. GEORGE GRIM, Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby given that I will be at my residence EVERY THURSDAY ■To attend to business connected with the ■office of Trustee of Lo^an township. AaFPositlvely no bus’ness transacted e*. ept on office days. * 1 SIf.AS KIRK. Trustee. r OTICK Is hereby given to all parties conI ceroed that I will attend at my residence EVERY MOVDAY transact business connected with the Bee of Trustee of Madison township. Positively no business transacted cat office days JAMES RUMBLE. Trustee. [OTICK le hereby given to all persons inI tercstei that 1 will attend In my office in EVERY FRIDAY, transact business connected with the re of Trustee of Marlon township. All ■one having business with suld office ■ please tske notice. W. F. BROCK, Trustee. 'ICE If hereby j^iven to ell persons bneerned that I will attend ar mj office | EVERY DAY ransact business connected with the ■ of Trustee of Jefferson township. JL W. HARRIS, Trusted

Smig Httla fefiKMilit'nbeHiMlfat work for *.*«, by Anna |Vf(. Autiii bToM*. and Jno. Itouii. To>oa«, Obto. “ coat Other* arc fold* aawcJl. Way tout* earn over f 6tH>. W • ‘ i work *■* lira

Castoria Is Dr. Samuel Pitcher’s prescription for Infants And Cliildron. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor (other Karcotio substance. It Is a harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil. It is Pleasant. Its guarantoo is thirty years’ uso by Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays feverishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd, cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. Castoria relieves teething troubles, cures constipation and'flatulency. Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Castoria is tho Children’s Panacea—the Mother's Friend.

Oastoria. « Pastorls Is an excellent medietas tor children. Mothers hare repeatedly told Hie of ita good effect upon their children." Da. O. C. Osooon, Dowell, Ma*. » Castorln Is the best remedy for children of which I am acquainted. I hopo tire day is r.ot far distant when mothers will consider tho real Interest of their children, nnd uso Custoria instead of the various quack nostrumswhich are destroying their lorod ones, by forcing opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful pgents down their throats, thereby sending them to premature graves.” v Dn. J. F. Ktscninox, Conway, Ark.

Castoria. *' Castoria is so well adapted to children that I prcommciid it as superior toauy prescriptici known to me.” IT. A. Arcnsn, M. D., Ill So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. •> Our physicians in the children's department have spoken highly of their experience ia their outside practice with Castoria, and although wo only havo among cur medical supplies what is known as regular products, yet we aro froo to confess that the merits of Castoria has won us to look witl favor upon it.” United Hosistad add DispEKtunT, Boston, Mass Ai.lkn C. Sjhtu, fVra.,

The Centaur Company, T7 Murray Street, Now York City. JOHN HAMMOND. OP BTTEIS’Sr To which he directs Attention. Ills DRY GOODS lire tlrst-chiss, and the stock Is yery lari Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Notions, (ilve him neall, and you will be 'convinced lunt he Is givinjr BARGAINS ouIlls entireatocl SOLID GOODS AT LOW PRICES. cTa. BURGEE & 33TIO., THE FASHIONABLE MERCHANT TAILORS Petersburg, Indiana, Have a Large Stock of Late Styles of Piece Goods $ Consisting of the very best Suiting anti PleeeGooai # Perfect Fits, Styles Guaranteed.

O. 3z %A1. OHIO&MISSISSIPPI RAILWAY. THE FAST SjXSTE EAST & WEST. 4 Solid, Dally Trains to Ourlnaottl, 4 Solid Daily Trains lo St, Louts, 8 Solid Dally Trains to Louisville. Connecting In Union Depots, with trains, of nil llnasfor the East, West, North nnd South. Through Vestibule nay Couches, Pullman Parlor Cars ami Siaepcrs on all Trains. DOUBLE DAILY LINE. i’tillmaii Vestibule Buffet Sleepers from St. Louis nntl Statious ou Slain Lino Washington,Baltimore,Philadelplia and New York, without change, Kaviward Fans WASHIKOTOW No .8 Accommodation 12.071’, M. No. 2. l>ny Express 4 lfi I*. M. No. 4. Night li xprcsa 1207 A.M. No. 6 East Express 2.05. A. M. WEHTWAKP Foust WASHINGTON No. 7 Accommodation 12 42 P. M. No. 1 I'ast Express 12 57 P. M No. 8 Night Express 1288 A M. No. 5 Fast Express 2 05 A m. Home Seekers MovinG WesT Should take this line ns It has less changes #f cares and belter accommodations than other mules. . , Our Vestibule ears are a luxury, which may • i __.1 1_..11 ...St Avti-n. nliilt'trou Ml Iff . ..in Lill’' niv «» » " ... S3 enjoyed by all, without extra charges, and ivery attention Is Riven our passengers to " ■ I .. .. 14 .. ,1 AAi.klASI every oueinion rivch «»»«* make their Journey pleasant ami comfortaU Our agents will take pleasure In answering liKiulries In regard to rates for both passengers and freight, ttrhe, routes and connections: call at your home If desired and attend to shipping freight by the most direct routes and elieeclilng baggage, without charge for any assistance they may he able to rcu11.—Passengers should purohase .tickets before entering the cars, as the ticket rato 1 ten cent* less than the train mte, Communications addressed to the nnder signed will roeeve prompt attention, THOMAS DONAHUE, Ticket. Agent O. A M. K’y^ Washington Ind C. O. Jones, District Passenger A*t. Vincennes Ind. J. F. BARNARD, W. B, 8HATTU0 Pres, and M’giv- Ge’n. Pa’s Agt C1WISN8TTI OHIO. by & Chappell Real Estate Agents, Fire, Life, and Live Stock Insurance Agents. <ol lections and Abstract* of TlUct

FAMILY GROUP AND RESIDENCES A SPECIALTY. All kinds of out-door work, por(rails, copying and enlargingf rom oldj pictures &e. Birthday and surprise party groups a spocialty. Satisfaction guaranteed or no pay, Givo me a call, or address F. A. SHANDY, Petersburg Indiana. M. J. BRADY, ^Petersburg, Indiana, Will make yon Photos in any number at most reasonable rates. «0-ltemcm' 9.- that mv work Is war. ranted. If vou want PORTRAITS enlarged call ami .are the work done right. All work guaranteed to stand the teat ot nges and still he as bright as when taken from the gallery. Studio equipments of standard modern makes, Our motto—“The Pest la As Good A* Anv,and Always the Cheapest." M. J. BRADY. Gallery is Kisert’s iluildlng, upstairs, on Main, between Sixth and Seventh Monuments Best material, most reasonable prices, sat* I faction guaranteed at l'cicrsbiir# Itlnr Me Works J. A 11. YOUNG, Proprietors, ADVERTISERS o'o'h0!,'"hov*Mo'”imu* this paper, cr obtain estimate* <»n advertising apace when in Chicago, will find it on f leaf tr^r^iLORD&THOiUS. Machinist AND Blacksmith.

A piemen from Turin, tinted the 4th, reported Lonia Kossuth to body* in?. Lizzie Uordeh was indicted on two counts for the murder of her father and step-mother, by the grand jury at Taunton, Mass., on the 2d. Mr. Gould leaves six children, four sons and two daughters. George is the eldest son, and will likely take up the management of the Gould properties where his father left ofl. Surgeon-General Wyman in his annual report will favor the suspension of immigration during one year as a means of preventing the introduction of cholera into this country. The affairs of the Lima (O.) national hank, which failed last March, were wound up, on the SOth, and taken out of the hands of the receiver by the payment of a second and final dividend of 50 per cent. President Palmer of the World’s fair national commission is preparing estimates to submit to the next.session of congress in connection with the appropriation to be mado for the national commission. A dispatch from JTong Kong says that seventy-four lives were lost by the wreck of the Japanese dispatch boat Chisiraakan, which was sunk in the Japan sea in a collision with the English steamer Ravenna. M. ItmssoN confessed, on the 9d, his inability to form a cabinet, and the announcement caused a feeling akin to consternation and increased apprehension of danger to the French republic in the prolongation of the crisis. Zimmerman, the American bicycle champion, is confined to his homo in Mannsquan, N. J,, far from a well man. lie is in no condition to race, or even to get himself into shape, and will not race again until next season. Mrs. Catherine Hendricks, mother of Rev. Thomas Hendricks, of Rochester, N. Y.: Rev. J. W. Hendricks, of Livonia, N. Y.. and Peter Hendricks, florist, of Now York city, died at the homo of her son at Livonia on tlio 1st. The announcement of the death of Jay Gould was received in London a few minutes after it occurred. It had no marked effect on the stock market. Union Pacific shares sustained a fractional relapse, but recovered immediately afterwards.

The business failures occurring throughout the country {luring the seven days ended on the 2d, numbered, for the United States, 23d. and for Canada, 33: or a total of 289, ns compared iv ith 209 for the previous week, and 230 for the corresponding week of last year. T?ev. Dis. John Witherspoon Scott, the venerable father-in-law of Uresident ITarrison died at 4:10 o’clock on the afternoon of the 29th, at the age of 93 years. He passed away at the executive mansion, where he went with his daughter and son-in-law when they made it their home. Tiie remains of the late Rov. Dr. Scott, father-in-law of President Harrison, were interred in the Washington (Pa.) cemetery on the 2d. The casket remained for forty-five minutes at the house of Joshua Wright, where the face of the dead man was viewed by many of his old friends. The delegates of the powers forming the-Latin union, composed of France, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland, met at the Belgian foreign office, in Brussels, on the 2d, to agree upon a concert of action in respect to the proposals of Mr. Alfred Rothschild, and also the Moritz and Levy propositions. The church of-Si. Michael, one of the finest in the city of Vienna, and which has been visited by tourists from all parts of the world, was destroyed by fire on the night of the 80th. It was originally erected in the Romanesque style in 1219-31. Tho loss to the city is irreparable, and causes much regret among all classes. Mr&. J. Spies, a prominent society womah of Wellsburg, W. Va., was arrested, on the 1th, charged with the murder of Lenora Starr, a .’-year-old adopted child, whose skull she fractured, in a savage assault with a shovel. Witnesses swore that both Mr. and Mrs. Spies treated the child with tho utmost cruelty.

■without asking any questions, which has prevailed for many years in Covington, Ky., is likely to be broken up by a suit instituted by Mr. Raymond, of Gabon,O., whose 18-year-old daughter was one of the victims of the practice. If Mr. Raymond’s suit prevails, it is said thousands of couples will find it necessary to be remarried. At 3 a. m. on the soth, fire was discovered in a grocery store in Cincinnati kept by Mrs. Solomon Levi. The department responded promptly and succeeded, after much difficulty, in taking from the building sixty people : who were sleeping when the fire was discovered. There was every evidence that the fire was of incendiary origin, and Mrs. Levi’s daughter is suspected. Robert Oi.sen, otherwise “Buck,” was hanged in the jail yard at Dorchester, N. B., on the 1st, for the murder of Policeman Joseph Steadman, in Monroe, August 1. As the black cap was being adjusted, “Buck” said to the hangman: "Lot her go.” He left a confession with his lawyer which will reveal his true name and a history of his life. During the panic and terrible suspense following the breaking of a shaft on the North German Lloyd stenmer Spree, from Southampton, bound for New York,i and which waatowed back to Quecntown, by Lake Huron, when even the officers feared that the disabled vessel could not outlive the storm, and knew thatto take to the (boats would be certain death, the services [held iby the evangelist Moody, which were ftranslated to every (group of foreigners present, did more than anything else toward steadying the courage of the imperiled passengers. The special committee chosen by the monetary conference in Brussels to consider the plans of Alfred de Rothschilds, Adolph Soetboer and Moritz Levy for the rehabilitation of silver, closed their worf ntte

NEWS AND NOTES A Summary of Important Eveuta. PERSONAL AND GENERAL, Chahi.es Bratuen, a discharged street-car conductor, of Minneapolis, Minn., while under the influence of liquor on the night of the 29th, shot George F. ICellar, cashier of the Monahan Bottling Co., and Michael Montague, a cleric in the same establishment. Kellnr was shot through the chest and will probably die. Montague's right elbow was shattered and he will lose his arm. TnE final count of the Carbon county (Wyo.) vote makes the legislature republican on joint ballot, which \yill insure the election! of a republican to the United States senate unless the democrats and populists, who. will control the lower house, unseat a number of the republicans. Senator Jones, of the American delegation to tho Brussels conference, submitted, on the 80th, for the use of the committee on tho Rothschild and othor plans a special statement on the production and consumption of silver. A fragment of Biela's comet must have passed through New Castle, Col., on the evening of the 29th, from the fact that it left one of its mementoes in the shape of an immense bowlder. Tho bowlder is buried in the earth, how deep no one knows, but the earth is sunken two to three feet and broken from three to five feet around it. The bowlder or stone is of a slate or mouse color, and was very warm. The relatives of Baron Reinach, the rich Paris suicide, while opposing the disturbance of his body, will, it is said, not offer any vexatious resistance to tho authorities, should an autopsy be determined upon. The Hamilton Woolen Co. of Amesbury, Mass., controlling sixteen mills, has increased the wages of all employes, except spinners, 7 per cent. The spinners were recently given an increase of 10 per cent Mrs. Armstrong Gregg, an eccentric woman of Dover, Wis., recently left her home on a trip to Milwaukee. On the way she was taken sick, carried to a farm house and died. An examination of her premises brought to light large sums of money hidden in all sorjts ot improbable places, tho aggregate proving her to have been quite wealthy.

It. l. Kvxn, tneAliegneny (ra.j lumber merchant, who recently failed for over $100,00!), nnd who is charged with having committed^ forgeries aggregating over $20,009, which is said by some will, when all the returns are in, amount to over $50,000, has not fled to Canada as alleged, but is confined in an eastern asylum, suffering from a serious and probably incurable case of paresis. Tup. experts who have been examining the accounts of W. F; Snyder, confidential bookkeeper in the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton freight ofiiee, at Indianapolis, Ind., up to the 25th discovered a shortage aggregating $7,400, and the inquiry was not half concluded. The company's money was lost in the gambling houses of the city. Fire on the evening of the SOth destroyed the Dos Moines (la.) Water Power Co.’s electric plant, causing a loss of probably $50,000. The building was full of valuable electric machinery, whieh is practically a total loss. Ex-Skcretary Blaine is gradually recovering from his recent illness. lie is up and about the house every day nnd is rapidly regaining his strength. Ttie unseating of Mr. Nathaniel George Clayton, conservative member of the British parliament, by the court was because he provided hat cards or servers to his adherents, and also money used in getting up a picnic. Grand army posts in Hendricks, Morgan, Putnam and other counties in Indiana where the gravestones of Union soldiers were recently painted red, have passed resolutions of condemnation and employed legal talent to prosecute the vandals if captured. . The Japanese war vessel. Chishimarukan, from France for Japan, was sunk in a collision with the British steamer Kavenua. The Ravenna was badly injured and her passengers were transferred to the British steamer Empress of Japan, bound for Shanghai. The supreme court of California rendered an opinion, on the SOth, affirming the decision of rrobato Judge Coffee in the matter of the estate of Thos. H. Blythe, that Florence Blythe was the legitimate daughter of the deceased millionaire, and entitled to inherit his estate, valued at $4,000,000.

George A. Morse, ox Minneapolis, Minn., a well-known real-estate dealer and loan agent for eastern capitalists, has confessed that he has forged his father’s signature to paper aggregating *135,000, all of which has been negotiated with local banks and money lenders. The emperor of Germany has consented to send to the World’s fair what will be one of the most remarkable and attractive features to be seen in Chicago next year. It will consist of a collection of presents received by his grandfather, the first William, his father, Emperor Frederick, and himself from their fellow sovereigns in Europe. The collection will consist of jewels and other personal ornaments, silver plate, decorations and an infinite variety of other articles, and is worth millions of dollars. The committee of investigation regarding the Panama canal corruption fund has succeeded in tracing two checks, each for £400,000, as far as the Rothschilds, but for what uses they were drawn have not been ascertained. They also traced a check for £1,000 to the credit raobilier. President Dias of Mexico, who was inaugur.itcd, on the 1st, for the fourth term, wrote to Sub-secretary of Foreign Affairs Afhiraz declining to accept the resignation of the members of the cabinet, and requesting the subsecretary to thank the members for their pmst services, and request them to remain in office. All of the members consented to do so. The steamer Haytian Republic, from Portland, Ore., on arrival at Seattle, Wash., on the night of the 30th, ran into linker's wharf, entirely destroying it, together with a large warehouse and contents, yaluod at *50,000. The steamer was not damaged. Vice-President Ci.ouoh of the Great Northern railroad says he expects to have the road completed to Seattle, Wash., by the 31st, when the business men of St. Paul will hold a groat demonstration in honor of the event. Fire in a tenement house in Flushing avenue, Brooklyn, on the morning of the 2d, resulted in the death of two persons—father and child—and the serious injury of at least a ball dozen Others.

The steamer Chileat arrived at Seattle, Wash., on the 1st, from Alaska, with 2,509 cases of salmon, the last pack of the season. She reported severe weather at Juneau, with two feet of snow on the level. Jay Gon.n, the great financier and American railroad king, died at the Gould mansion on Fifth avenue, New York city, at 9:15 a. m. on the 2d, of pulmonary consumption. He was in his fifty-sixtl? year. The official count of the vote of Wisconsin has been completed, and is as follows: Peck (dem.), for governor, 178,19S; Spooner (rep), 170,854; Peek’s plurality. 7,841. Maj. E. Heinrich, of the Fourth Silesian infantry (Germany), has been sentenced by court-martial to one year's imprisonment for causing the death of seven privates last summer. Heinrich commanded his whole battalion to swim the river Niesse in all their accoutrements, and the seven men were drowned. The number of arrests for post office burglaries in the past year was 303, as against 173 the preceding year; 1,108 post offices were reported to have been entered during the year. There was only <5,029 complaints of all kinds received during the year, which is 877 The annual report of the fourth assistant postmaster general shows that the number of establishments of new post offices during the past year was 4,105, a greater number than during any previous year, with the exception of 1S90, when it was 4,427. Commodore W. M. Foloer, chief of ordnance, returned to New York, on tile 2d, from Bethlehem, Pa., after accepting a lot of barbette armor for the new war ships. He says the result of the tests was in the line of general excellence which has characterized the nickel steel armor from the first. James Stratheb, keeper of a saloon in Grecneastle, Ind., was shot and mortally wounded, on the night of the 1st, by a tramp who entered the saloon at tlie hour of closing, and demanded Strather’s money. The latter reached for his pun, but was shot before he could use it. The assassin escaped. George I. Bagi.ey, the 8100,000 express robber, was arraigned, on the 2d, before Judge Charles Watterman of the district court at Davenport, la., and pleaded not guilty. As far as known the defense will be insanity. Some days will elapse before the trial begins.

A fihe m mo tenement nouse oiw Flushing avenue, Brooklyn, at 1 o’clock on the morning’ of the 2d, resulted in the death of Michael Doyle, 40 years old, and Nellie Doyle, 8 years old—father and child—and the serious injury of at least half a dozen others. The steamer Graystokd, of London, was wrecked at the mouth of the river Elbe, on the 2d, and her entire crew of twenty-three persons were drowned. Jim Cooper, living on a ranch near Bassett, Neb., went into town, on the 4th, and walking up and down the streets with a rifle and revolver,ordered everyone to stand back. Sheriff HHarris was sent for and Cooper took refuge in a room in the Valley house. The sheriff ordered him three times to put his gun down, and when he refused shot him through the heart. Cooper had said that he would kill anyone who attempted to arrest him. Thu,ke homeless men jcvho made a living by doing odd jobs round New Durham, N. J., were given permission to sleep in a barn owned by Henry Ashcroft. Early on the morning of the 4th the barn was destroyed by fire and one of the men was burned to death. The other two escaped and ran away. It is believed that they fired the barn by accident. The Italian steamer Glavia arrived at Now York, on the 3d, from Naples, Messina, etc., bringing 924 steerage passengers, all Italians. Four children died on the voyage and three others were sick of diphtheria. The vessel was held for disinfection 'Highly valuable deposits of coal have been discovered at Tuchel, West Prussia. Brig.-Gen. W. W. Brice, retired, died in Washington, on the 4th, aged 85. The influenza has appeared in Hamburg. LATE NEWS ITEMS,

In Hie senate, on the 5th, after the opening prayer, Vice-President Morton - administered the statutory oath bo Senator-elect Redfield Proctor. The customary resolutions instructing the secretary to inform the house that the senate was ready to proceed to business, and appointing a joint committee to inftSrm the president that a quorum of each house was present and that congress was ready to receive any communication he might have to make were passed, and the senate took a its* cess until 1 o’clock. On reassembling Mr. Iiale reported that the president would send his message on the following morning at the opening of congress, and the senate adjourned.In the house, similar committees being appointed and an identical answer being received from the president, the house adjourned. Sm John Tawes, in his review of the agricultural situation warns English agriculturists against expecting an improvement soon, and the Mark Lane Express indorses this view. The average price for English wheat up to November 37 had been, the Mark Lane Express says, from ten shillings to ten shillings and one peqny lower than in 1891 and two shillings and three pence lower than any other November in the present century. Representative Blanchard, of Louisiana, chairman of the house committee on rivers and harbors, says there will bo no "new river and harbor improvements authorized at this session of congress. Sixteen million dollars will be required to carry on existing contracts, and this amount.will be provided for in the sundry civil appropriations bill. Senator Chandler; chairman of the committee on immigration and naturalization, has prepared a bill which he will introduce at the first opportunity suspending and prohibiting immigration into the United States, except from the countries of North and South America, for one year from March 8, 1898. Lord Ddnraven’s challenge for the America’s cup arrived at the New York Yacht club, on the 5th, and was referred to the secretary of'the committee, A. Cass Canfield, who immediately called a meeting of the committee to take action upon it Ex-Mayor, Charles Evans, of Reading, Pa., aged 59 years, and one of Reading’s best known citizens was (ound dead in his room at the Hotel

INDIANA STATE NEWS. OFFICIAL FIGURES. The Result of tne Late Election In Thla State. The official vote of Indiana, by connties, oast at the recent election, is shown in the followin'? table: a s Adams. . Allen. Bartholomew_ Benton . Blackford . Boone. Browne.....!.... Carroll.... Cass.. Clark..... Clay...... Clinton. Crawford..,. Dayless_..... ! Dearborn. Decatur’.. DeKalb. Delaware. Debols. Elkhart.. Fayette.r. Floyd.. Fountain. Franklin. Fulton. Gibson. Grant... Greene.. Hamilton. Hancock.. Harrison. Hendricks. Henry. Howard. Huntington. Jackson.. Jasper. Jay. Jeffcraon. Jennings. Johnson . Knox. Kosciusko_ Lagrange. Lake. Laportc.. Lawrence. Madison. Marion. Marshall. Martin . Miami. Monroe.. Montgomery_ Morgan..... Newton. Noble., Ohio.«s.J Orange.. Owen.. Parke., Perry.. Pike. Porter.. Posey. Pulaski. Putnam. Randolph. Ripley. Rush. St. Joseph. Scott. Shelby . Spencer.. Stark. Steuben. Sullivan. Switzerland. Tippecanoe. Tipton. Union. Vanderburgh ... VermiHlon. Vigo. Wabash. Warren. Watriek. Washington. Wavne. Wells. White. Whitley. 8,00a 10.010 8,217 1,»1 1.810 3, lot 1,378 2,301 4,006 4.013 3,V>8 3.060 1, B» 2,408 3.SS? 2.SS3 2,801 2.862 2.84 3, S' 1,493 4,219 2,731 2, a* 2,247 2.460 S.S90 2,tl„S 2,492 2,329 2,446 i028 1,871 2,331 3.460 3,363 937 2,398 2,39 1,381 2,6c6 3,417 5.061 1,438 MIC 4,703 2,134 5.753 23.426 3,113 1,391 3,433 1.917 8,811 2.014 879 2,8*9 006 1,628 1,738 2,013 2,07! 1,9)7 1.937 2,560 1.&V8 2.754 1,99! 2.442 2,210 6,677 1.WS 3.49.. 2,496 1,003 1.261 3.159 1,58)' 4,386 2.0. 8 839 6.160 1,437 6,598 2.413 979 2.166 2,322 St726 1.876 2,234 1,247 5,486 2,797 1,617 1,9"“ 8,1 656 2.230 3,961 3,28 3.005 3,221 1,2,0 2610 2,274 2,519 2.499 4,108 1,081 3,873 1,813 2,928 2.579 1.610 2.063 2.738 4,916 2.8 9 3,627 1,932 7,114 8.I5W 3.316 3,576 3.181 2,233 1,371 2,414 2,508 1,785 2.093 2,651! 2.8 3 ?r 3,5^8 2,? 29 5,887 19,551 3.558 vm 2.974 2.017 2,377 1.181 2,823 662 1 022 1.569 2,503 1,880 2,138 2,187 2,077 883 2,28.) 4,0? 8 2,250 8,660 5,22o 727 2,350 2,478 850 2,100 1,781 1,407 4,856 1,796 981 6,175 1,723 6,159 3,687 1.849 2.018 ir 5.714 1,668 1.8J7 1,958 lot. 176 129 1C8 €8 I 191 291 74 K3 232 18 55 78 142 m *«) 330 66 74 72 53 115 243 515 67 411 71 219 240 307 275 19 66 253 59 3^ 157 2.8 121 147 104 34 286 f 81 123 45 189 9.5 106 71 7*3 190 4 20 52 278 34 6* 145 78 261 51 151 215 37 292 24 29 208 128 19 208 126 63 101 81 96 230 43 60 26 335 210 173 173 214 449 45 65 324 367 93 £37 453 48 460 391 200 98 52 3t 746 335 160 193 a 95= 323 17 43 598 394 481 123 198 183 93 614 785 134 76 $62 753 1-3 196 243 523 66 132 45 103 157 829 363 99 194 118 347 84 173 125 103 3 213 247 266 86 234 129 379 215 193 405 £35 79 107 43 107 169 35 196 391 53 53 570 11 £85 194 574 329 51 477 257 2*3 318 227 30 Totals .. 262,8171353.920 13,044 22,198

To ai YOU-, WU.KSS. Cleveland’s plurality, 8,838. The official returns al30 show that Cleveland led Matthews for governor 5,281 votes, and' Harrison led Chase 383. - At Hobart, Lars Jensen, an employe of the Garden City Brick Co., was crushed to death by the caving in of a clay pile in the yards. Mits. Jane Burke, of Huntington, got a verdict of $860 at Wabash against the city of Huntington for injuries received by a fall on a sidewalk in that city. The suit was for $5,000, and a change of venue taken. The state auditor made public, tlie other day, that he had revoked tho license of the Ohio Farmers’ Insurance Co., to do business in this state. Bob Burdette, in jail for turkey stealing at Kokomo, is now charged with having attempted to wreck a PanHandle train near therejfbvember 19. A drunken glass-blower invaded the Weimer hotel, at Gas City, and’ riddled the windows With bullets. The house was packed with boarders, and several narrowly escaped death. Town Marshall Hickson, assisted by Ed. Glore, corralled the tough in McClellan’s saloon, where he was filling up for more fun. In the absence of a lockup, he was tied to a post until a warrant could be procured. John A. Garvey, city editor of the Daily Evening News, Ft Wayne, was killed in the Nicklo Plate yards the other day, being run over by an engine. Ole Olkson, a Laporte Norwegian, was killed by cars while intoxicated. The tramp arrested at Staunton, suspected as the man who shot and killed Saloon-keeper Strother at GreenCastle, proved to be innocent Marshal Starr, of Greencastle, went to Staunton and brought the tramp to Brazil, where he proved that he was in Brazil when the crime was committed.

JAMES OTttUTnfiK was* ttoaoawuawu the other night in his saloon near the Vandalia depot, Greencastle, and now lies at the point of death. Strother was about to close the saloon, when the assassin entered it and called for a glass of beer. With a drawn revolver he demanded the surrender of the money in the till. The saloon-keeper drew his gun, but before he could use it was shot in the bowels. Several shots were exchanged by the two men. The assassin escaped without securing his booty. George Myers, foreman in one of the largo factories at South Bend, was killed by the explosion of an oil tank on a Standard Oil Co.’s wagon. Gas generated and blew out the end, which struck him with terrific force. A THRRE-STDRY- double brick house at Lafayette, occupied by D. H. Lohman, druggist, collapsed the ether day. The building sank in the center and is a complete loss. The front wall fell over to the sidewalk and crushed Carrie Daugherty,the thirteen-year-old daughter of H. C. Daugherty, who was passing, to death. After the collapse the debris was ignited by the natural gas fire. Lee Rkdmaster, a well known coal miner of Washington, was instantly killed by a fall of slate in No. 4 mine. H. H. Bcsheb, the C., H. & D. cash'ier, of Indianapolis, was arrested, ^charged with complicity in the recent big steal. Jessie Avert, a wealthy stock raiser land farmer east of Martinsville, died ithe other morning, after six weeks’ ill;ness with typhoid fever. Mr. Avery was bom on the farm where' he died in *1838, and had resided there ever since, i The reunion of the 134th Indiana volfunteer infantry and 15th Indiana batstery closed at Winchester the other day. iThe total enrollment reached 134, and many very interesting letters of regret were received from absent ones. The grand jury will bfe asked to take action on the recent desecrators of soldflfcs’ graves in Hendricka, Putnam

THE POSTAL SERVICE. Pottmuttr-Osoml Waatmtker 8ammitrizvs the Results Achieved la His Department In His Annual Report to the President—An Ideal Service Looked Forward to In the Future. Washington, Dec.6 -Postmaster-Gen-eral Wanamaker summarizes the results achieved by his department as follows: Five million dollars added to the gross revenue; the deficit reduced nearly a million; money orders increased two-ihirds, or from 10,070 to 18,089; eighty-two cities supplied with free delivery; 2,790 new offices established; 283 offices advanced to the presidential grade; 16,750,000 milesof additional service; 1,590 new mail routes established, embracing 89,009 miles of new service; ocean mail service extended; >and pneumatic tube service introduced. In the last four years 5,051 new mail routes have been established, tAversing 29,090 miles, the number of post-offices has grown by over 8,600; the number of money order offices over 8,200, and the numbed of free delivery offices has almost doubled. The new foreign mail service contracted for applies to eleven lines, comprising, when completed, forty-one ships necessary to make the service contracted for frequent enough and quick enough to comply with the terms agreed upon. Of his proposition to divide the country into postal districts Mr. Wannamaker says its adoption can only be a question of time. Each district would be put in charge of a postal supervisor or director, and the regular inspectors of the department should assist these supervisors as they might be needed. Then all matters relating to th$establishment and discontinuance of postoffices; the' establishment of stations, appointments and removals; the best utilization of, and changes rules; the putting on and taking off of service; the right i: pretation of the regulations; i: ities and, in general, the who! ness conduct of the service, - superintended personally by trict supervisors with th#assis met supervisors with thy assisting pv the regular inspectors of all the pc^N^fdB masters in the district, who would feel as never before, that their efforts on behalf of adequate facilities and economical and enterprising, management would find appreciation.

me custrict supervisors eouia act under rules without reference to the department at Washington and without useless delay; they would be the counsellors of the department, the general medium of communication with it, and the first assistant postmaster general should be constituted the comptroller to whom thp supervisors • should report The members of congress would find themselves relieved of no end of disagreeable* departmental drudgery and the depart- , ment would come directly in touch ' with the postal employes, and they in turn would be better in touch with the people served. The first objection to such a departure'is that it is said to increase the civil list by 100 men. This expense would be infinitely small compared with the savings which would actually result from this closer supervision of the service and the slight increase in tlio civil list would bo counterbalanced many times over by the consolidation of the forces and by the better performance of the work by fewer employes. New buildings and a pneumatic or an electrical service of some kind is strenuously advocated for New York. Chicago and other cities. It is pointed out that there can bo no adequate relief without the application of these methods. "The postal telegraph and postal telephone are, of course, strenuously advocated, as formerly. On the one cent postage question ho says: “The present letter rate pays actually double the cost and by this overpay serves as a protective rate to the department to cover the underpay from doing an express business for periodicals and books and carrying ad-^"** * vertising sheets at one cent per pound, that in point of fact are nothing more than business circulars that load the mails enormously. All such mail is not only carried at a loss of six cents a pound, but it interferes materially with the business of the express and railroad companies which are properly, carriers of heavy packages and freight. Something to take the place of fractional currency for the remittance of small sums is very desirable. He urges the issue of a money postal card of denominations of ten cents, twenty-five cents, fifty cents and $1.00, and of the form of the present small cards and exactly similar to the ordinary postal chrd on the address side, and on the reverse side an order on the postmaster of the city addressed for a fixed sum payable on the signature of the payee named in the address. A

une report closes wnn ine louowrap “My ideal for the American postal service is a system modeled upon a district plan with fewer offices and under thorough supervision. By this means at least 20,000 offices could be abandoned that produce nothing to the department. In the place of every abolished non-money oijder and non-regis-try office might be set up an automatic stamp-selling machine and a letter box to receive mail. With the money saved should be instituted a system of collection and delivery by mounted carriers, bicycles and star route and messenger contractors to gradually spread the free delivery all over the country. The classes of postage should be reduced the world over to one cent for each half ounce, t would indemnify to the extent of $10 for every lost registered letter. ( sU The Curtis Murder Case. San Francisco, Dec. 6.—In the Curtii murder trial yesterday the prosecution concluded its evidence, and Attorney Gonight made the opening statement for the defense. He outlined the evidence to be submitted by Curtis, went over tho story of the shooting, saying that he would show that the footpad who had attacked Curtis was the man who had shot Officer Grant, The strongest efforts of the defense will be directed toward the impeachment of J. B. Can’s testimony. They claim to have interesting testimony relating to Can’a past history. KnfflteH A*rl. Little Encourascment for cultortkU. London, Dec. Sir John Tawea, in^ his review of the agricultural situat warns agriculturists against < an improvement soon. The V Express indorses this view, age for English wheat up to No 27 has been, the Mark Lane Express says, from ten shillings to ten shillings and one penny lower than in 1891 and two shillings and three pence lower than any other November in the ] ent century. October’s low average been further reduced quarter.