Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 33, Petersburg, Pike County, 6 January 1893 — Page 1

*s$r 4 if. tv Jvf'N*- & Be". STOOPS, Publisher. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, FRIDAY. JANUARY 6, 1893. _: : 1__ . . - ft; . . . _ _- ___‘ :_ VOL. XXIII.—NO. 33.

©to fife* dMtttg femowat PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. -SUBSCRIPTION TERMS! On* year. Six month*__ Three months 4X» «S .. » I IN VARIABLY ill ADVANCE. ADVERTISING RATES: On* square (9 lines), onetasertion.$1 00 ' Each additional Insertion. DO A liberal reduction made on adrertiaementi running three, six and twelve months. Legal and transient advertisements most b* VaB lor In advance. ritoiE'SioNAi, caru*. m — .- J. T. KIME. If St, Physician and Surgeon, JfETERSBUBG, IND. *J-0151 ce In Bank building, first floor. Will be lound at office day or night. Geo. b. asuby, . s’ ^ r ; ’ AnORNEY AT LAW PETERSBURG, IND. Prompt Attention Given '.o all Basinsst. *3-Offico over Barrett Sc Son’s store. Francis B. roset. Dkwitt q. Chappell. 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. 4®“Office— On first floor Bank Building. E. A. Ely. S. G. DATEtfPOaT ELY A DAVENPORT, LAWYERS, Petersburg, Ind. gS-Offlcc over. J. B. Adams A Sot s drug tv'rcw Uronapc attention given to all busies*. K. 1*. Richardson. A. Hi Taylor RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. Prompt attention given to nifcbusiness. A Notary Public constantly in the office. Office In Carpenter Building, Eighth and Main. DENTISTRY. W. II. STONECIPHEBi i

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. — ' Office in roomsC and 7 In Carpenter Building!. Operations first-class. All work warranted. Ameatbetics used for painless tcxtraction of teeth. i. n. Lamar, » , Physician and Saigeon Petersburg, Ind. I • Will practice In Pike and adjoining counties. Office in Montgomery Building. Office hours day and night Diseases of Women and Children a specially. Chronic and difficult cases solicited. NELSON STONE, D. V. $., PETERSBURG, IND. Owing to long practice and the possession of a Qne library and case of instruments, Ur. ■ Stona is well prepared to treat all Diseases of Horses and Cattle SUCCESSFULLY. Bo also keeps on band a stock of Condition Powders and Liniment, which he sells at > reasonable prices. Office Over J. B. Young & Co/s Store.

90000.00 « rear Is being made by John It. Goodwin,Troy.N.Y.,a! work for us. Header, i yon nn*y not make as much, but we can ■ teach you quickly how to earn from 9& to 1910 • day at the atari, and more as you go Ion. lioth arses, all ages. In any |>art o# ■ America, you can commence at home, giv- • injr all your time,or spare momenta only to ' the work. AH U new. Great jvftv MHk for every worker. \Ye start you, furnlabing everything., KA81I<Y, 81'likoiLY learned. 1*AItlTtSJlUAK8_ HtbE. A.ddreaa at oueft, SiI.ASON * tO., 10KTU.ND, 3UIML

€' f Tills PAPER IS ON FILE IN CHICAGO AND NEW YORK j AT THE OFFICES OF A. N. KELLOGG NEWSPAPER CO. TRUST EES’ NOTICES OF OFFICE DAT. NOTICE is hereby given that I will attend to tiie duties of the office of trustee of Clay township at home on EVERY MONDAY. ♦ All persons who have business with the office will take notice that I will attend to business on no other day. U. M. GOWEN, Trustee. NOTICE is hereto given to all parties Interested that I will attend at my office In Stendal, * * ’ EVERY STAURDAY, To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Lock liar t township. All persons having businest witli said office will please take aotlce. J. 8. BARRETT. Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties concerned that I will be at my residence. EVERY TUESDAY. To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of Monroe township. GEORGE GRIM, Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby given that I will be at my residence EVERY TdUJtSDAY » To attend to business connected with tht office of Trustee of Logan township. ^Positively no bus ness transacted except on office days. SILAS KIRK,"Trustee. ^T^OTICE is hereby given to all parties eon it cerned that I will attend at my residence EVERY MONDAY To transact business connected with tlie office of Trustee of Madison township. ^•Positively no business transacted except office days JAMES RUMBLE, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all persons Interested that I will attend in my office ia Yulpen, _, EVERT FRIDAY. T<> transact business connected with the office of Trustee of Marlon township. All persons having businesf with said offloe will please take notice. _ _ W. W. BROCK, Trustee. ■fcJOTICK Is hereby given to all persons I will attend ar my offloe A' concerned that EVERY DAI To transact business connected with tl office of Trustee of Jefferson township. R. W. BARKIS, Trustee. —

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Samuel Pitcher’s prescription for Infants and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphino nor other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor OIL It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years’ use by Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays feverishness. Castoria prevents vomiting S«ur Curd, cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. *tastorla relieves teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency. Castoria assimilates tho food, regulates tho stomach and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Castoria is tho Children’s Panacea—tho Mother’s Friend.

Castoria. "Castoria la an excellent medicine for ehil- I dren. Mothers have repeatedly told mo of its I good effect upon their children.” Da. Q. C. Osnoon, Lowell, Mas*. “ Castoria Is the best remedy for children of which I am acquainted. I hope the day is r.ot far distant when mothers will consider the real interest of their children, and use Castoria instead of the variousquack nostrums which are destroying their loved ones, by foreiagopium, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful (*ents down their throats, thereby sending them to premature graves.” ■ Da. J. F. Kinchelox, Conway, Ark.

Castoria. S .- "Castoria ta so well adapted t children that I recommend it assuporiortoai y preecripttos known to me.” j II. A. Ar chbr. M. D., Ill So. Oxford St, Jjrooklyn, N. 7. "Our physicians in the ch idren’s depart, ment hare spoken highly oj! their experience in their outside practice with Castoria, mid although wo only hava among cur mediStt supplies what is kntjwn as regular product^, yet we are freo to confess that the merits of Castoria has won is to look Witt favor upon it.” | United HospifaJ, and' Di speniaet, • 1 Boston, Mast Allen C. Smith, IVet.,

The Centaur Company. TT Murray Street, Now Tort 0**7* JOHN HAMMOND. 1TEW OOpiDS OP ZETTESETT EZEfcTE) To which ha directs Attention. His DRY COODSare ilrst-class, and the stock is very lari Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Notions. Give him a call, and you will be convinced mat he is giving BARGAINS on his entire atoct SOLID GOODS AT LOW PRICES. O. A.. BURGEE & BEO., THE FASHIONABLE MERCHANT TAILORS ® PeterOiur^, Indiana, Have a Large Stock of Late Styles of Piece Goods ' • | i Consisting of the very best Bulling and Piece Good* Perfect Fits, Styles Guaranteed.

O- Sz OHIO 4 MISSISSIPPI RAILWAY. TKS FAST XiXXTE EAST & WEST. 4 Solid, Dally Trains to Ctoclnnattl, 4 Solid Daily Trains to St, Louis, 5 Solid Dally Trains to Louisville. Connecting In Union Depots, with tratos. of all llnesfor t he East, West, North and South. Through Vcstibfile nay Coaches, Pullman Tarlor Cars and K1 nepers on all Train*. DOUBLE DAILY LINE. -OF" Pnllninn Vestibule Buffet Sleepers from St. Louis and Stations on Main Line_ —TO— Washington, Baltimore, Philadelpha and Net York, with- - out change, KASTWA JlJ> Fro* WASHINGTON No .8 Accommodation -12 57 P, M. No. 2. Day Express 4 16 P. M. No. 4. Nltrht li xpress 1257 A. M.; No. 6 Fast Express 2. 05. A. M. W estiva mi Fopm Washington No. 7 Accommodation No. 1 Day Express No. 8 Night Express No. 6 Fast Express 12 42 P. M. 12 57 P. M 12 38 A M. 2 05 A m.

Home Seekers MovinG WesT Should take tMs line an It has less changes nr cares and better accommodations than other routes. , . . . Onr Vestibule cars are alnxury, which may be enjoyed by all. without extra charges, and nvery attention is given our passengers to make their Journey pleasant and comforta- ' our agents will take pleasureMn answering Inquiries In regard to rates for both passengers an I freight, time, routes and connections; call at your home If desired and attend to shipping freight by the most direct routes and clieecklng baggage,without charge for any assistance they may be able to renB.—Passengers should purchase tickets before entering the cars, as the ticket rate 1 ten cents less than the train rate. Communications addressed to the under signed will reeeve prompt attention, ■ THOMAS DONAHUE, Ticket Agent 0. A M. B’y Washington Ind G. Q. Jones, District Passenger Agt. Vincennes Ind. J. F. BARNARD, W. B. SHATTUC Pres, and M ’gr. Oe’n. Pa’s Agt CINCINNATTI OHIO. Ashby & Chappell, Real Estate Agents. Fire, Life, and Live Stock Insurance Agents. Collett**118 A»d Abstracts of Title! 1 a Specialty. Das C. Ashby, Pension and D. 8. Cl Agents. Call on them st Room K*- »• Second flaw Batik Building. .

F. A. SHANDY. PH BIO pm FAMILY- GROUP AND RESIDENCES A SPECIALTY. All kinds of ont-door work, por* trails, copying and enlargingf rom Old} pictures &c. Birthday and surprise party groups a specialty. Satisfaction guaranteed or no pay. Give me a call, or address F. A. SHANDY, Petersburg Indiana. M. J. BRADY, Petersburg, Indiana* Will make you Photos in any nnmber at most reasonable rates. I^Hompm1 e;* that my work Is warranted. If vo j want PORTRAITS enlarged call,and .ave the work clone right. All work guaranteed to stand the test ot ages and still be as bright as when taken from the gallery. Studio equipments of standard modern makes. Our motto—“The Best Is As Good At Any,and Always the Cheapest.” M. J. BRADY. Gallery in Eisert’s Building, upstairs, on Main, between Sixth and Seventh

Monuments Best material, most reasonable prices, sat« Isfactlon guaranteed at Peierabnrg lWar ble Werkv J. & D. YOUNG, Proprietors. iAVEDTICEBC or others,who wish toexamU* fiUIE.il I SO til W this paper, cr obtain estimate n Mortising space when in Chicago, wilt find it on ft* at 45 to 49 Randolph St. ^Advertising Agercy of LORD & THOMAS. Machinist AND Blacksmith. I am prepared to do the beet of worb with satisfaction guaranteed Inal] kinds of Blaok< smithing. Also smithing. loving and Reaping Machines Repaired in the best of workmanship 1 employ none bot Ant-class workmen. Do not So from home to get your work, but call oi meatmy shop on Main Street, Petersburg Indiana. CHAS. VEECK.

John Moors, of Cascade, la., u%s instantly killed by falling' on a sidewalk, on the 38th, and fracturing1 his skujl. Cases of cholera still occur in St Petersburg, and it is feared that the seeds of death sown last summer will yield a fruitful harvest in the spring. The funeral of Detective Synnott, ■who lost his life in the explosion in Dublin, was held on the 38th, afid was one of the largest funerals held in that cityi n many years. Labor Commissioner Peck of New York will seek vindication through suits for libel against various newspapers which criticised his course in the last campaign. George J. Gould, Helen M. Gould and Howard Gould appeared before Prolate Clerk Finney of New York city, on the 39th, and qualified, by taking the customary oath, as executors of the will of their father, the late Jay Gould. "Henry C. Payne, vice-president and manager of the Milwaukee Street Railway Coj, has made a written statement, based on the testimony of employes, in which he admits that the fire in the compary's barns, on the 28th, w#s not incendiary. ■At a. meeting of a number of the leading citizens of Montreal, Can., on the night of the 29tli, it was decided to form a Canadian national league to promote national sentiment. A large number gave their support to the movement. Anxiety gave way to fear on the mornin|g of the 29th, for the safety of the Cu^parder Umbria, which with her 570 passengers was five days overdue. She sillied from Queenstown December 18, and1 under ordinary circumstances should lhave reached New York on the 25th. -- Marquis Leonard Charles de Bournonville died recently at Lyons, France leaving Charles F. Bournonville, of Great Falls, Mont., a legacy of 500,000 francs. Bournonville has been cook at the county jail, carpenter, contractor and proprietor of a peanut Stand. The first and final accounting of the esta te pf the late Congressman Samuel J. Randall, of Pennsylvania, filed in Philadelphia on the 28th, shows that he left property valued at 8780 84, while tihe fees of undertakers and physicians who attended him were tl,104.15. 1 Orders have been given to German array officers not to supply sentries with ball cartridges after the end of the present, year. This step is taken in view of tb<e much too frequent affrays between civilians and soldiers, In which the la it jr usually use their firearms with fa*®! effect. A r eport from the White House, on the £ itlb, said no material change had occu.mjd in the condition of Martina Ha prison, the president’s fever-stricken grandchild, and the family were san'/uine that the patient would safely pass the various stages of the disease to ultimate recovery. A ‘■Report was current at New Laredo, Tc-x., oh the 27th, that a battle had taken place near Los Animos, Mexico, east o|f Guerrero, between 800 Mexican troops and 250 revolutionists, in which thirteen soldiers were killed and many wounfied, several of the revolutionists being |ulso killed and wounded. A book has been discovered in the offices of the Panama Canal Co., in Paris, containing copies of letters compromising a large number of senators. It contains the most valuable evidence that bias yet fallen into the hands of the go vernment, and will result in a large number of additional prosecn1 tious.

The, first case prosecuted under the modus vivendi for entering Behring sea last snmmcr was heard, on the 29th, in the admiralty court at Victoria, B. C. The icase was against the schooner Oscan and Hattie, seized by the United States cruiser Mohican at Atu. The defenjsejwas that the schooner only put in for supplies. Tns many destructive fires that have occurred in Milwaukee lately have led to much speculation as to their origin, but Chief Jansen of the police department, believes the only firebugs at work there are dishonest owners of property who have taken advantage of excessive insurance to burn their buildings for the insurance. Tee White House at Washington was still,; jn the 37th, in a state of quarantine, and bade fair to remain so fon at least, three weeks to come. Red cards saying “Scarlet fever within” were conspicuous on the entrance to the private part of the mansion on the first and second doors, and the outside doors displayed small notices to the effect that the house was closed to the public. '‘.Souvenir coins will be as plentiful as blackberries in summer time,” says a prominent official of the mint. “It will Ibe impossible to prevent them from being counterfeited, and the fancy prices they are bringing is an incentive Ito counterfeiters. They can, too, put as much silver in the counterfeit as is contained in the genuine coin and Ctillimnke 3s per cent on each coin. AT a recent council of the Italian ministry it was decided to take special measures to protect the pilgrims going ¥to I^aly on the occasion of the jubilee of Pope Leo, who was preconized as archbishop of Damietta, in partitfus, January 27, IS43. It is expected that about 40,000 pilgrims will visit Rome in the latter part of January and in February to attend the celebrations. The treasury department is gradually recovering the gold it lost by the recent heavy shipments abroad, having received, up to the 24th, (1,500,009 from New Orleans and *1,000,000 from Philadelphia. The heavy disbursements, however, have reduced the net cash to *26,1300,000. Pension payments continue Jo be the chief source of drain, *13,1656,000 having been paid out on this account this month. Pension payments will reach *14,000,000 before the month is out. . This rat& if continued, will make the pensionjpby ments *188,000/000 per annum. Fred Bauer, a butcher of Marshfield, Wit. got up in his sleep and walked eight miles on the Greenwood branch of 'the Wisconsin Central. When ha awpke, at 8:30 a. m., he was standing on ithe railroad track. He had on two overcoats, but no coat or vest

NEWS AND NOTES. -,» __ A Summary of Important Events. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. John D. Rockefeller pave as a Christmas present to the Chicago university one thousand $1,000 bonds as an addition to its endowment fund. This makes $8,000,000 given by Mr. Rockefeller to that institution. According to advices received from Paris on the 27th, there appears to be no longer any doubt that Haron de Reinaeh was deliberately murdered by some persons connected with the Panama canal.scandal to whom the baron living was a menace. It is improbable that Lizzie Horded will be arraigned for the murder of her father and step-mother at Taunton, Mass., until the. attorney-general, who is ill, i6 able to attend court. Tijjsdreibund nations, Germany, Italy and * Austria, regard the situation in France as menacing the peace of Europe, and are exchanging frequent notes on the subject- They have decided to hold themselves in readiness to act promptly if the necessity arises. While Charles Griffith was watering his horse at a public tank in Ottumwa, la., on the 27th, he was kicked in the head and fatally injured. His wife was injured in a street-car wreck a short time ago and was awarded heavy damages. The body of R. J. Cutts, postmaster of Ardmore, I. T., who mysteriously disappeared about a week previous, was found frozen in the ice in,one of*' the culverts of the Santa Fe railroad, near the depot, on the morning of the 27th. A shortage in accounts, together with lihrd drink since the election and domestic troubles, are supposed to have driven him to suicide Jjy morphine. The official statement of California’s vote at the last election was given out on the 27th. It shows that one Harrison and eight Cleveland electors were chosen. The vote was ‘in favor of the direct election of a United States senator by the people by over 170,000 majority. Six persons are known to have been_ killed outright and many others were" injured by an explosion of dynamite in the yards of the New York & Long Island Tunnel Co., in Long Island City, on the 28th. The disaster was caused by a careless attempt to thaw frozen dynamite. Loring Pickering, one of the proprietors of the Morning Call and Evening llulletin of San Francisco, died in that city, on the SStti, aged 81 years Interest in the new gold discoveries in southern tltah is at fever heat in the mining communities of the west, and is growing every day. At 2 o’clock on the morning of the 28th fire was discovered in the Milvwlukeo Street Railway Co.’s shops, which destroyed the entire plant, entailing a loss of $500,000. Like the other terrible fires with which Milwaukee has been visited recently, this one was apparently of incendiary origin. Orange Judd, the widely known editor of the Orange Judd Farmer, of Chicago, and a pioneer western journalist, died on the 27th. Death resulted from a hemorrhagic complication known as Nerlthoff’s disease. He was 70 years of age. Gov. Russell of Massachusetts, on the 28th, signed The pardon of James Dunlap, the Northampton bank robber, who has served twelve years of a twenty years’ sentence for that famous crime. Murderer William McEwan,' who coaxed to his home, in Glasgow, Scotland, one night last October an unfortunate woman, and murdered and horribly mutilated her, was found guilty, on the 28th, and sentenced to death. Orders have been given to German army officers of Berlin not to supply sentries with ball cartridges after the end of the present year. The step is taken in view of the much too frequent affrays between’-civilians and sentries, in which the latter usually use their firearms with fatal effect. Outrages upon the public of Burlington, la., are b§iog enacted every night, and the police force seem unable to cope with the situation. On the night of the 28th Mr! Meeres, of the Austin Furniture Co., was held up by footpads, and when he resisted them was shot, but not fatally hurt.

The National bank at jNew berry, a. C., has declared a dividend of 50 per cent., payable after January 1.' This means the surplus of the bank will be reduced by $75,000, and that the policy of the present state administration of taxing1 banks and other corporations is having the effect of. reducing their taxable property. Geobge Meserve, a well-known Adirondack driver, who for several years has been at Paul Smith's, will go to Washington as coachman for President Cleveland. A. Byri-ey,-whose father is a wealthy farmer at Agency, la., was found dead ai, the Laclede hotel in Ottumwa, la., on the 28th. He had turned on the ga3 ■while endeavo#ihg to turn off the electric light and went to sleep without detecting it. A servant heard him moaning, but thought him sick, and rescue came too Tate. J. L. Garrett, of Battle Creek, la., went into the Journal office at Sioux City on the evening of the 28th, and after telling a romantic story of his life to a reporter, drew a bottle of laudanum and attempted to swallow it. The-re-porter caught his hand and, after a hard struggle, prevented him from tak- [ ing the drug. Garrett was arrested. Fire was discovered under the stage I of Palmer’s theater at 2:15 o’clock on the morning of the 29tli. It seemed to be under control, although the smoke was thick, and many streams were kept playing upon it. Reports from the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys show tl*at the damage by flood will go above $1,000,000. The capital city is safe, but all along the river fine wheat land is covered with water. In Sutter county, a few miles below Colusa, the levee broke on the 28th, and 50,000 acres of the most fertile lands in the state was inundated. An explosion at 1:80 o’clock on the morning of the 29th, in the hall leading to the suite of offices between the ground floor and second floor of the Paris prefecture of police, caused b sensation. The authorities are not-decided asT to whether the explosion was the work of an incendiary or merely an accident caused by a leakage of gas. The' station house at Brighton, five miles east of Sacramento, Cal., was burned, on the 29th, and the remains of Miss E. A. Aiers, the agent and operator, were found burned almost to a crisp in the ruins. It is believed Miss Aiers was murdered, as she is repprted to have had qppsiderable money about the station

A man named Griffith, residing in Butler county. Kas., went with his j wife to visit a neighbor, on the night of i the 21st, and left their three small chil- ; dren at home. While they were gone the house caught fire and burned up■ the three children. Caft. J. G. Bourke, Second cav alrv/ had an interview with Adjt-Gen. Williams at the war department in Washington, on the 28th, and left at once * for his station at San Antonio, Tex. It is understood that he conveys secret in-' structions for the guidance of Gen. Wheaton in the conduct of his campaign against the Mexican revolutionists. x . ' Bob Slavin, the comedian, died suddenly in Toledo, O., on the 29th. He was once one of the most popular minstrel men in the country, but fop years had had nothing but h trd luck, and his slid death was caused principally by a broken heart. Peter Routirr died on the night of the 28th, at his home in Indianapolis, Ind.,aged57. For many years he was the leading architect and contractor of the state. He built more than' 1,500 houses^ and was one of the state capitol contractors/ John ®. Sharpstein, associate judge of the supreme coujrt of California, died at San Francisco, On the 29th, from the effects of a paralytic stroke. He was 69 years of age and had served thirteen years on the supreme bench. While a party of-men were blasting rock on a coal stripping at-Milnesville, Pa., on the 29th, three of them were ' dangerously and six less seriously hurt by the premature explosion of a charge of dualim . ©apt. Jones of the British steamship Galileo died, on the 19th, of heart disease.* He was buried at sea on the 20th. He was 42 years old and a native of Bristol. ^ Mrs. Lilly Langtry, who is ill in England, was, on the 29th, reported to be worse and in imminent danger of death. The Hamburger Nachrichten denies the statement in a Milwaukee newspaper to the effect that Prince Bismarck has an interest in a Milwaukee street railway company. A plot to burn up the city of Buenos Ayres was discovered recently and on the SOth a number of policemen and firemen were arrested on the charge of being connected with the conspiracy. The plan of the conspirators was to set fire to the city in several different places at once, and they had selected^ as places at which to apply the torch some of the principal buildings of the city, including the customhouse, the police office and the archbishop s palace. The object of, the conspirators was plunder. The ferry steamer Hite, while fighting ice on her first trip from Jeffef sonville, Ind., to Louisville, on the SOth, lost her rudder and became helpless, drifting toward the tails. A panic ensued among the passengers,'and great crowds gathered on shore at the sound of the distress whistle. Just in the nick of time the helpless boat was caught by a tug and a bad calamity was averted. Tije New York presbytery, on the 80th, sitting as a court of trial of Prof. Briggs, of Union Theological seminary, voted against sustaining any of the charges of heresy alleged against the reverend doctor. The case will be appealed to the general assembly. The overdue Cilnard steamer Umbria was sighted off Fke island at midnight of the 30th, and came to anchor at quarantine. New York harbor, at 3 a. m. of the 81st reach ing her slip at, the Cunard dock in North river at 8 a. m. All well on board. J. M. Bacon, a w ealthj* residen t of Sioux City. Ia, committed suicide, on the night of the 30 th, at the Sanitarium in San Diego, Cal., by blowing out his brains with a pistol. Despondency is supposed to have been the cause. Marian Fairchild, a New York teamster, was instantly killed by the explosion of a dynamite cartridge, on the SOth, while passing pier 14. James O’Brien and John Semicole, ore dumpers, were fatally injured, and four laborers were less seriously hurt by a runaway car of ore on an inclined railroad track at Edith furnace, Woods Run, Allegheny City, Pa, on the SOth.

LATE NEWS ITEMS, The new lord mayor of Dublin was installed in office, on the 2d, with all the pomp and ceremony that anciently attended the taking of office by the city’s chief dignitary. The procession that was formerly a part of the installation ceremony was revived, and met with the hearty approval of the people, who displayed great enthusism over the spectacle, and this was added to by the presence of the lord mayor of London, who was the guest of Dublin’s lord mayor and who rode in the procession. Fifteen hundred anarchists held a reunion, on the evening of the 1st, in Barcelona, Spain, %o celebrate the new year. There was much incendiary talk, and several Of the speakers predicted a reign of bloodshed and terror in Spain during the year just opened. The leading anarchist, one Molas, declared that he meant to inaugurate 1893 with a baptism of blood. Great shouts of approval and torrents of denunciation of the grandees and middle classes followed this declaration. Detective John A. Dier, who claims to have spent $1,600 in. the search for Tascott, the supposed murderenof Snell, says: “Wn>. B. Tascott did not murder Millionaire A. J. Snell. The man who murdered Snell lives in Chicago, and is well known. He does not want to have Tascott caught, and he is furnishing him money all the time to keep away from Chicago.” “Deacon” S. V. White, of New York, recently mailed the last check due his creditors. Mr. White failed September 22,1891, owing $1,750,000. He attempted to corner the corn market, but was not successful.' His creditors received their principal with legal interest. „ The mayor of the city of Limerick, gave a banquet, on the evening of HR 2d, to Parneilite and anti-Parnellite priests. The principal toast of the evening was "IrelaAd, a Nation.” All the customary toasts to the queen, etc., were omitted. Four persons were killed and one seriously injured, on the 2d, by the wreck of a snow plow on the Great Northern railroad, near Java station, sixty miles east of Kalispell, Mont., by an avalanche from an overhanging mountain. A warrant was isfeued in Vienna, on the 2d, for the arrest of Earnest Roederer, a journalist, who is accused of swindling John Simeon Bergheim, an American miner, out of 9100,000. John Obadiah Westwood, M. A..F. L. S-. honorary president of the British Entomological society, died in London | on the 2d. Prof. Westwood was born lip Sheffield in 1805.,^

INDIANA STATf NEWS. 'William Bokhev. a son of James Borrey, superintendent of S. W. Well?’ glass factory, Greenfield, blew a sheet of glass 50x76 inches, double thickness. This is considered By good judges to l>e the largest sheet of glass ever blown : a the gas belt Borreyis only IS years of age. ‘ Edw. C. Scott, of Indianapolis, aged 30, married and a drummer, is missing. He is said to be short several thousand dollars. ^ Mjg. ,r)'J. Smith discovered a thief coolly plundering her apartments it the residence of Dr. W. B. .Rawls, Indianapolis, and, as she started toward him, he fired three times at her, but toe bullets went wild. The scoundrel escaped, carrying off $17 in cash, two j valuable watches and some jewelry. j Gov. Chase has issued requisitions for the-return of the following Iron Hallers: Freeman D. t omerby, Joseph . Gladin, C. H. Baker and A. H. Eckers y, of Philadelphia, - to Indiana Similar documents were also drown on the chief executive of New Jersey for J, Henry Hayes, of Camden, and on Maryland's governor for Amos H. Hosmcr and E. , L. Rouse, of Baltimore. JContractor Geo. Noble, who fied from Muneie some time "ago, was or- j rested at Alexandria the other day. Officer Franklin, of Mv ccie, got him as far as Camack station, returning home, where Noble jumped froin the train and escaped. TJie executive board of the Industrial legion will appoint drganizers in every section of the country. Henry Vincent, chairman of the state central committee, was chosen chief o;-ganizer. The coroner of Indianapolis is investigating the mysterious death of a colored babe left at Mrs. Mary A. Britton’s “farm” by Mrs. Jahey Carr. At Marion Golda Given was allowed $2,500 because John Sohn promised her his name and then backed out *Cora Griffith, twenty-eight years of age, went to Indianapolis with her parents eight months ago. Siuce then both of them have died. The other day she spent her last dollar for a dancing lesson, begged her supper at a restaurant and going to, her room swallowed an ounce of morphine. She was found dead in bed the next morning. The Miami school building, at IVV bash. built in 1888, together with the contents, was burned the other morning. 'The building took fire from a gas heater, and, though an alarm was promptly turned in and the fire department arrived within ave minutes, the water works pressure was so low that the stream could not be forced to the second floor windows, and the structure vJhich was supposed to be nearly fireproof, was slowly consumed. The loss an the building and contents is $21,000. The Plainfield Creamery Co. has placed its business in the hands of ;i receiver for the benefit of eredilors, The liabilities and asset?, are unknown. William Townsend has been appointed by Judge John V. Hadley to closs up the business of the concern. The Cassatt house, formerly the Central hotel, at Edinbu -g, was damaged $500 and the furnishings of the house about $1,000 by fire a few days ago. In all probability a bill will be introduced in the legislature to give Terre Haute a special charter, modeled on the plan of the one under which Indianapolis is governed. The road congress off the first district of Indiana, embracing counties in the southern part of the suate, began a two days’ convention at Evansville the other day. Abont two hundred delegates were present They were welcomed by Mayor Hawkins and President Kelsey, of the Business Men s association. Better roads in the state is the object The legislature this winter will be asked to legislate in that direction. Papers were read by J udge J. B. Elliott of Posey county, and Hon. Phil Zoercher, of Perry county. Delegates were given a reception at night by the Business Men’s association. A son of Farmer Schissler, near Evansville, went into a well thirty feet deep to do some work. While hoisting dirt the rope broke and the young man was crushed to death. Nellie Goble, of Rockford, was horribly burned while starting a fire with coal oil. J -

Mrs. Millon; a widow living m js.xwood, left her three children alone in the house for a short time, while she stepped across to a neighbor’s to invite them to a Christmas dinner an her house. During her absence the youngest son lit a match and set his little sister’s clothes on fire. Before the mother returned the. little one was fatally burned. Neighbors heard the screaming child and succeeded in extinguishing the flames. The child died after suffering terribly for four hours. The. trunk and head wete burned aw fully. Thirty-one matches had been lit by the little one before he succeeded in setting her clothes on fire. ■Jim explosion of a stove in the farmhouse of Andrew Bickel, near Valparaiso, the other morning resulted in Mrs Bickel and two children receiving serious; if not fatal injuries. Flying pieces of the stove broke every glass in the house, tore a hols in the roof, and badly demolished the walla Tfce explosion completely wrecked the stove, breaking it into chunks of iron, which were hurled with terrific force in every direction. Mrs. Bickel receive! several painful gashes in the head. The two children, it is feared from the nature of injuries, will be rendered )lind. The explosion was caused by dynamite, Bobt. Emmett, sheriff of Id ariofi county, has directed his attorneys to bring suit to test the constitutionality of the fecund salary bill enacted by the legislature of 1991. He will be backed by all the sheriffs in the state, whose enrollments have been greatly reduced by the existing law. Emmett is the first officer in that county whom the new law affects. Under it he is allowed <13,000. Under the old law the office is worth twice that amount Gen. John P. Hawkins, whom the president promoted to the head c f the subsistence department of the United States army, with the rank of brigadiergeneral, is a native of this state. An oak tree was recently cut on a farm near Bedford, which yielded a log 40 feet in length, 6)4 feet in diameter, and feet at the top. The log is without knot or blemish of any kind, apd will be exhibited at the World’s flair. Alex. Robertson, an engine hostler, was cooked by escaping steam from a locomotive at Brazil. At Crawfordsville, Henry Mcf'amee, a gambler, fractured Cal Wilson’s skull with a billiard cue. A mad dog has made its appearance at Vincennes and his bitten savei al fine 'cattle.

JOB WORK | ' OF Al it KINDS NIIATLY EXECUTED : -.A-T- ' Y •; ■ 1 itffi-i'i.SONAHM: BJLTKS. xcucn Pe X'DI receiving noopjr of two papar iritt UUo iMiO* CfOMM ti erf •- that *9 timo of thek THE SNEl.L MURDER. The Chlcego Tragedy Recalled—A Deteotir.i’a story of tlu Crime—He Areia IJut Taicott. Did Not Do tjie Deed. Hut that the Sian who Dili It; la Now Lltinf In «;h cago and Pacing Taseott to Keep 0«:i of the Way. CiIicago, Jan. Y.—Whether Wn. B. pislottis in Alas' cn or not he dM not mnr lor Millionaire A. J. Snell: The mac who murdered Snell lives in Chicago rflnd is well known. He does not want to have Taseott caught and he is furbishing him money all the time to kepg away Chicago.” Laid Detective John A. Dier, after being shown the dispatch from Spojtane, Wash., to the effect that Ju 1(5 Beauvois, t, miner, recently returned from Alas ta, declared that in Sitka, Juneau ant. other places he saw and conversed with Taseott. Detective Die: passed more than two years making? investigations of the mysterious roViery and assassination and , in king for the murderer. B#iscont that Tascort was not the slayer [illionairp Snell, and J^^ually ive that the deed w£K^ommitted man stillliv ngys*fuis city, les BeauvQH'knew Taseott in Chianti shpXkl, therefore, he able to izeMm in \lnska, although Tasis much thinner-faced than he was the murder was committed.” I’ou have seer him, then, since the murder of Snell?” ‘>| did not say so, did If’ laughingly replied Mr. Dier. "T have kept pretty close track of him, though, and he could have^been arrested a dozen times rvitpiin the past ,wo years if anybody half wanted him very bad. I have no by li further interest in the Snell-Tascott eas| than a desire to see the right man bremght to justice for that murder. I wofjlted two years on the case, and spent $1,600 of ray own money in following up the matter. As a result, I am epabled to declare that Taseott neWer murdered Snell. The man who did the killing lives in Chicago, and hag spent a fortune keeping Taseott out of he way and n covering up his own tracks. * - ‘inhere were lour men implicated in thej robbery and murder—the man whe did? the killihg,' two other men and« Taicott, Taseott was taken into the -scheme under the pretense that robbery alcie was cc ntemplated. He was placed on watt h on the outside of the ho ise and the other three men enter:;!. After rifling the safe of valuable!; papers they made a noise, which brought old ma r Snell into the room, an } this man to whom I have aUuded killed himi At the sound of the shots Ta scott, according to his own story an/i from other evidence 1 have secured,'1 rat"; away. He met a policeman not fat: distant and inquired if the officer half heard any shooting in the block. Taseott remained in town a^day or two an4 then went to St Paul, where he remained three weeks, during which title, he received by express a big package of money ;rom Chicago, with instructions to leave the country.; OUTRAGE IN IRELAND. .Wtlnllghter* Inaugurate the New Year hi an- Attack on Helpless Females an by Wrecking ?lub Houses and Public Halls at Tullat, County Clare. * " Dublin, Jan. 3.—Another outrage by moonlighters is reported fromTullah, a small town in County Clare. On Saturday night a bar d of moonlighters who had a grudge against a man employed as a. servant by the family of the late Judge Browne,, visited the residence of the Brownes, which is situated a short distance from the town. One of the band, who was in disguise, entered tho house and demanded to know the whereabouts oi the man servant. The only occupants were the daughters of the deceased magistrate. They informed the moonlighter that the man h was looking for was not in the house. This information seemed .to enrage the moonlighter, who drew a revolver and fired upon one of the girls. Fortunately his aim was had and the bullet

went wide of its mark. He then amused himself by firing at random about the room until his weapon waa empty, when le withdrew and joined the gang that was awaiting him outside. When they learned that the man they wanted vras not in the house the moonlighters withdrew without making any further trouble. The Misses Browne as scon as possible notified the, authorities of, the affair, but as yet no arrests hare been made, A party of Parnellites at Kilrush who were celebrating the new year Sunday night 'necame imbued with bitter political animosity after they had filled themselves With Irish whisky,' and determined to wreak vengeance on their political enemies, the anti-Par-nellites. They marched in a body to the rooms occupied by the Workmen’s club and made an Attack with stones upon the building, smashing all the w indows and d oing other damage. The mob gained fresh accessions while the attack was going on, and when a proposal was made to attack Temperance hall it was received with shouts of approval. In a short time the latter building was in as bad a state of wreck a the Workmen’! club. The police were absent, and the Hotel's had everything their own way. Gaining cour,a< re from the fact that no opposition was offered to their rowdyism, the mob attacked the town commissioners, who are supporters of Mr. Timothy Healy, and the houses of other men who have . been active opponents of the Parnell tes. Considerable damage was done. r Swept the Bridge Away and Communication Cut Off. yx. New Brunswick, N. J., Jan. 2.— Creaking ice and the flood in the Raritan river caused the complete washing sway ef the temporary bridge across the Raritan a ; New Brunswick early this morning. The worknen on the temporary bridge who rad .been expecting a break, fled in terror and did so jnst before the crash come. The loss Will tie $35,000 to t’le contractors. All com{tunipation between all the towns on the east side of the river and New Bruns wick has been cut off. Tlie I) nvIihM Repulsed. i Cairo, Jan 3.—The dervishes in southern Egypt' are displaying rein wed activity. On Saturday a large [larty of then attacked the village of flemai, pear Wady-Half a, but were repulsed after a fierce fight in which serial of them were killed. Before they onid he driven off. howejfer, they had , nt a number of telegraph wires and ione,other m scliief. On Sunday a second Attack vas made on Gemai, but he i-aiders w ire again driven off after i number of them had been killed. The second attack on the vill*»e waa nade by a dlifcreat band. mm