Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 35, Petersburg, Pike County, 20 January 1893 — Page 1

H, let. SIMPS, Publisher. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, FRIDAY. JANUARY 20, 1893. VOL. XXIII.—NO. 35.

INVARIABLY IN ADVANOS. ADVERTISING BATES: 4 hie square (t l use), one insertion.H OS !iscbadditional insertion...—.. SO A liberal reduction mado on *dTorttaemects l anniae three, six and twelve months. Legal end transient edrertieemeata mart be

PROFESS!OXAlf C1BM. j. t. ikr, u d., Physician and Surgeon, ' . PETERSBURG, IXD. •y Office In Bank building, first floor. Will be lound at office day or night. GEO. B. ASHBY, ATTORNEY AT LAW PETERSBURG, JND. Prompt Attention Given io all Business, ^TOffice over Barrett & Son’s store. F&akcis B. Fosey. Dewitt Q. Cdafpell. POSEY & CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, PETERSBURG, JND. Will practice In all the conrts. Special attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly +n the office. JtyOffice— On first floor Bank Building. E. A. Ely. 8. G. Daybnfoxx ELY A DAVENPORT, LAWYERS, l’ETEKSBUr.O, Ini>. AS^Offil'r over J. R. Adams & Sor. * drug Sktfrc. Prompt attention given to all busiE. P. RtCHAEDSOJI. A. H. TAYLOB RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. ‘ Ifompt attention given to all buslines**. A Notkiry Public constantly in the office. Office in Carpenter Buildiug, Eighth and Main. g=V'.— \ DENTISTRY. H. STONECIPHER,

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. Office in rooms6 and 7 In Carpenter BuildIni'. Operations first*class. All work warranted. Anaesthetics used for painless extraction of teeth. L H. LaMAE, « Physician and Surgeon Petersburg, Ind. Will practico in Pike and adjoining counties. Office in Montgomery Building. Office hours day, and night. ^-Diseases of Women and Children a specialty. Chronic and difficult cases solicited. NELSON STONE, D. V. S„ 4 PETERSBURG, IND. Owing to long practice and the possession of ft fine library and dase of instruments, Mr. Stone is well prepared to treat all Diseases of Horses and Cattle SUCCESSFUL!.V. He also keeps on hand a stock of Condition Powders and Liniment, which he sells at reasonable prices. Office Over J. B. Yeung & Co.'s Store.

W#CO. 00 « year is being: mad* by John 1L I‘ 6oodnr)i:, t lor Ji.¥.,at woik for us. ICnd«r, you umy not make as mui b, but we can teach you quickly bow to earn from f 5 to flu a day at the siarf, and more as you go ou. Both sexes, all ages, hi any jmrt oi America, you cau commeucr'at home, giving all your time,or spare moments only to the work. All is new. Greet jay fel KK for every worker. We start you,, fornishiug everything. EA811-Y, Sl’k'fclllLY learned. 1-Aki lCl LAKS i'ltEE. Address at coca, ^ S1IASON * to., 1 OBILA.ND, malax.

THIS PAPER IS ON FILE IN CHICAGO AND NEW YORK AT THE OFFICES 'OF A. I. KELLOGG NEWSPAPER CO. IBUSTCeS1 NOTICES OF OFFICE DAT. *VTOTICE is hereby given that I will attend Xv to the duties of the office of trustee of Claj township at home on EVERY MONDAY. AU persons wbo have business with the office will take notice that 1 wilt attend to business on no other day. M. M. GOWEX. Trustee. VI OTICE is hereby given to all parties iniv terestsd that 1 will attend at my office la Stendal, 1 ’ EVE BY STAURDAY, To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Lockhart township. AH persons having bnsinesi withsaid office will please take notiee. J. 8. BARRETT. Trustee. VJ OTICE is hereby given tqa’.i parties coni. Y cerned that 1 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 a* my residence r EVERY THURSDAY To attend to business connected with th« office of-Trostce of Logan township. aarPositively no bus'ness transacted e» kept on office days. SILAS KIRK, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby giv£s» to all parties concerned that I will attend at my residence EVERY MOYDAY To transact business connected with the office of Trustee of Madison township. gy Positively no business transacted except office days JAMES RUMBLE. Trustee. VF OTICE is hereby given to all persons Init ti.-reatet. that 1 will attend in my office in Ycipeo, _ EVERT FRIDAY, To transact business connected witb the (Wee of Trustee of Marion township. AH persons having business with said office will please tske notice. W. r. BROCK, Trustee. VT OTICE is I 9 AY concerned that J i hereby given to alt persons . rill attend ar my office EVERY DAY - To Irenes jt bustnc>s oonntctco with th« Office’of Trustee of JCSerson townsh.p, & W. HARRIS, Trustee.

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What is Castor la is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Infants and (Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine 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 Sour Curd, cures piarrhcea and Wind Colic. Castoria relieves teething troubles, cures eonstipation and flatulency. Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach and i,bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Castoria, is tho Children’s Panacea—the Mother’s Friend.

Castoria. “ Castor)n la an excellent medicine for children. Moti ere have repeatedly told me of its food effect apon their children.1* , 4 Da. O. C. Osgood, Lowell, Mast, “ Castorb. Is the best remedy for children of which I am acquainted. I hope the day is ':ot far distant,'vhcn mothers will consider the real interest of their children, and use Castoria instead of the variousquack nostrums which are destroying :heir loved ones, by forcing opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful Cgents dovn their throats, thereby sending them to premature graves.” Da. J. F. Kixchiloe, Conway, Ark.

Castoria. " Castoria Is so well adapted to children that ' I recommend it as superior to any prescriptici known to me." H. A. Archer, JL D., Ill So. Oxford St. Brooklyn, N. T. “ Our physicians in the children's department have spoken highly of their expertence in their outside practice with Castoria, and although wo <Snly have among cur medical supplies what is known as regular products, yet we are free to confess that the merits of Castoria has won us to look Witt favor upon it.” United Hospital and Dispensary, Boston, Mass Allen C. Smith, fVea,

Th» Centaur Company, TT Murray Street, Now Tort City. JOHN HAMMOND, of ETTBiRr icxste) To which ha directs Attention. His DRY COODSare first-class, and the stock Is .very lart Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Notions. Give him acall, and you will be convinced mat he is giving BARGAINS on his entire atact SOLID GOODS AT LOW PRICES. C. A.. BURGER & 33RO., THE FASHIONABLE MERCHANT TAILORS Petersburg, Indiana, Have a Large Stock of Late Styles of Piece Goods ■m Consisting of the very best Suiting and Piece Goods Perfect Fits, Styles Guaranteed.

O. Sz IMOHIO & MISSISSIPPI RAILWAY. ' ! . tss Fast XiXars EAST & WEST. 4 Solid.. Dally Trains to Clnclnuattt, 4 Solid Daily Trains to St, Louis, 2 Solid Daily Trains to Louisville. Connecting in Unipn Depots, with traces, of all llnesfor the Easty West, North and South. Through Vestibule i>ay Coaches, Pullman Parlor Cars aud Sleepers on all Trains. DOUBLE DAILY LINE. —or— Pullman Vestibule Buffet Sleepers from St. Louis and Stations on Main LiM —TO— Washington, Baltimore,Philadelpha and New York, with- • out change,

Eastward From Washington No .8 Accommodation 12. 57 P, M. N<v2. Pay Express 4 16 P. M. No. 4. Nigh* 1: x press 1257 AJ1. No. 6 Fast Express 2. 65. A. M. Westward Form Washington No. 7 Accommodation 12 42 P. M. No. 1 Day Express 12 57 P. M No. 8 Night Express, 1288 A M. No.5 Fast Express 205 A m. Home Seekers MovinG WesT Should take this line as It has less changes nf cares amt better accommodations than othecroutes. Our Vestibule ears are alnxury, which may be enjoyed by aH. without extra charges, and every attention is given our passengers to make th’eirJourney pleasant and- comfortable. Our agents will take pleasure In answering Inquiries In regard to rates for both passengers and freight,-time, routes and connections; call at your homq If desired and attend to shipping freight by the most direct routes and eheeckinghaggage.wlthout charge for any assistance they may be able to rens. B.—Passengers should purchase tickets bcfbrc entering the cars, as the ticket rate 1 ten cents less than the train rate. Comnmcleatlons addressed to the under signed trill receve prompt attention, THOMAS DONAHUE, Ticket Agent Q. A M.R’y Washington hid C. O. Jones, Distrtot Passenger Agt. Vincennes Ind. J. F. BARNARD). W. B, SHATTUC Prss. and M’gr. Ge’n. Pa’s Agt C1NCINNATTI OHIO. Ashby & Chappell, Real Estate Agents. Fire, Life, and Live Stock Insurance Agents. ('•llertkns ud Abstracts af Title* a Specialty. Das C, Ashby, Pension and U. 8. Cl Agents.

F. A. SHANDY. rimpm. GROUP AND RESIDENCES A SPECIALTY. AH kinds of put-door work, por^ traits, 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, Photographer, Petersburg, Indiana, Will make yon Photos In any number at most reasonable rates. s Ketnero' vi ijnted. IfvojW call and .ave the that mv work is wir'd PORTRAITS enlarged irk dune right. Alt work guaranteed to stand the teat ol ages and still be as bright as when taken from the gallery. Studio equipments of standard modern makes. Our motto—“The Best Is As QbodOis 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, satisfaction guaranteed at Peicrshnrc itlnr ble Works . J. A B. YOUNG, Proprietors ADVERTISERS; Of others.who wish to* this paper, cf obtain estimate* •n advertising space when in Chicago, will find it on tlo it ^^“"LORD&THOiAS. '•sAdwrtising Agsrcj of | Machinist ANl) Blacksmith, I am prepared to do the best of work, with, satisfaction guaranteed in all kinds of Blacksmithing. Also ^ Mowing and Reaping Machines Repaired m the best of work maushlp 1 employ none but first-class workmen. Do not co from home to get your work, but call Ol nlWwt my shop on Main 8»re«t, Petersburj WAS. VEECK. ,

The Wisconsin legislature convened at noon, on the 11th, and the organiza-' tion in both branches was perfected by the democrats in accordance with th« caucus programme. - ; ^ ; H. Clay Evans, of Tennessee, recently appointed first assistant postmaster general, arrived in Washington^ on the 12th, and immediately entered upon the duties of his office. The United States steamer Constellation, having on board works of American artists in Italy'and France for exhibition at the Chicago World’s fair, sailed from Havre, France, for New York oh the 12th. The will of Jay Gould was admitted to probate on the 13th. Special Guardian Rollin M. Morgan was given $800 and Special Guardian Mapes $1,000 for services in the probate proceedings before Surrogate Ransom of New York. With the thermometer down to zero, at St- Mary’s, O., on the 12th, the main which leads natural gas into the city burst, leaving the people of the town at the mercy ‘of the frigid weather, there being little wood or coal in the city. - The pope has appointed Rev. S. Rocker, of Albany, N. Y., secretary to the mission of Mgr. Satolli, the papal ablegate to the United States. Father Rocker is vice-rector of the American college in Rome. He has already started for News York. RobertIIcbbard Nelson, a member of the junior class of Yale university, died, on the 12th, from overstudy, at New Haven, Conn. He was to have been one of the contestants in the YalaHarvard debate, and his health broke down under the strain. The impending trouble between the Big Four telegraph operators and the company has been averted, and it is a question as to which side won the victory. The operators did not get all they asked, but got an increase that the company say will aggregate $24,000 a year.

Ichang, China, has been the scene oi another anti-foreign riot, but the disturbance was soon qftelled by a force of blue jackets from a British man-of-war. The riot was started by an old woman, who proclaimed to her countrymen that the foreigners had desecrated the grave of one of her ancestor^. .Senator John E. Kenna, of West Virginia, died in Washington, about 3 o’clock on the morning of the 11th, of heart disease, from which he had been for years an acute sufferer, so much so that for long intervals he had been compeled to abandon his duties as senator and forego all mental exertion. John Huntington, of Cleveland, O., who was very wealthy and prominent among the financiers of the country, and who had been in Europe for the last two years for his health, which he was supposed to have entirely recovered, started from Dresden for home, on the 10th, and died suddenly in London on the 11th. Four Russian nihilists who were arrested in Paris at the instance of the Russian ambassador, were escorted to Calais, on the 7th. by a number of policemen and placed on board a steamer bound for England. The officers waited until the steamer was well out in the channel before starting on their return to Paris. It was developed, on the 11th, that the firm having the cohtract to supply Cincinnati’s poor families with coal had not delivered any for several days, claiming inability to obtain supplies. Meanwhile, with a stock of 40,000 tons on hand, it was selling to others at double price and allowing the'eity’s poor to freeze. On the 10th a delegation of congre-c gational clergymen waited upon the Toronto presbytery, in session at Toronto, Ont., and made overtures looking to a union between tbe Presbyterian and Congregational bodies in Canada. The reception given to the delegation was hearty, and a joint conference was arranged for. Gen. Dodds, who conducted the recent successful French campaign against King Behan zin of Dahomey, telegraphed to the ministry of marine, on the 11th, that he had made a tour of .Dahomey as far as Grand Popo, traveling the entire distance without an escort, from which fact it is thought the pacification of the tribes is complete.

The business failures occurring throughout the country during the seven days ended on the 18th, number, for the United States, 286, and for Canada, 20; or a total of 306, as compared with total of 340 for the previous week. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 830, representing 287 failures in the United States and 48 in the Dominion of Canada. At the session of the independent labor party at Bradford, England, on the 14th, the miners’ committee reported in fayor of the abolition of overtime,piecework and drill work; the establishment i at forty-eight hours as a legal week’s work; the making of provision for the sack and disabled and for orphans and aged widows; the collective ownership of land; adult suffrage, and the abolition of the house of lords. It is announced that under the rule of Trustee Duss, of the Economite society, of Economy, Pa., the'pursuits of husbandry and fine stock raising, which have not been profitable for some time, are to be abandoned, while the brick-yards, saw-mills and all the manufacturing interests that have lot involved an actual loss to the society will be retained and operated with, renewed vigor and on approved ples»r _ ■" • These is profound relief in republican circles in France over the statement of Charles de Lesseps implicating Arthur Meyer, editor of the Gaulois, as having received 106,000 francs from the Panama company. This, at last, brings the royalists into the dragnet and shows, what the friends of therepuhlio have claimed from the beginning of the scandal, that the republican officials and journalists did not have a monopoly of the Panama corruption fund. Ok the 10th a Baltimore A Ohio local freight ran away bn a.heavy grade at Bowman station, on top of the Allegheny mountains, and dashed into a coal train just ahead, killing Fireman Brown of ^the Jocal freight and injur- ■

NEWS AND NOTES. A Summary of Important Events. FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. In the senate, on the lOSh, after half an hour spent in unimportant routine business, the bill granting additional powers and imposing additional duties upon the Marine hospital service was taken np and, after several amendments has been concurred In, the bill was passed. The anti-option bill was then taken np, bnt noquornm being present, no action was taken upon it.In the house the bill allowing the Norfolk & Western Railroad Co. to extend its lines into the District of Colombia was passed,1 and the joint resolution Changing the time for the meeting of congress and for the inauguration of the president was defeated. In the senate, on the 11th, the death of Senator Kenna was announced by Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky, in the absence in West Virginia of the dead senator's ^colleague, Mr. Fanlkner. Th9 senate thereupon, after adopting the* usual reso'ntions and appointing the usual committees, adjourned ... In the house no bnsines3 bnt the reception of the banking committee's majority and minority reports on the repeal of the Sherman act was transacted before Senator Kenna's death was announced, and the house then adjourned. In the senate, on the l$th, business was laid aside while the body participated in ^he funeral services over the remains of the late Senator Kenna. of West Virginia.In the house in the morning hour consideration of the bill to promote the efficiency of the militia was resumed, bnt no action was taken, and at 12:46 the honse in a body proceeded to the senate chamber to attend the funeral of Senator Kenna. After which, as a further mark of reI spect to the memory of deceased, the house adjourned. iv In the senate, on the 13th, a bill to extend to the North Pacific ocean the provisions of the statute for the protection of fur seals and other fur-bearing animals was passed. After a short consideration of the McGarrahan bill, the anti-option bill was taken no. An amendment whi li would have the effect to restrict the operations 6f the bill to “gambling operations1' was debated but went over witho t action.In the house the republicans filibus* tered all day against the consideration of private war claims with the result that nothing was accomplished. In the senate, on the 14th, Mr. Donelson Caf- ■ frey. the senator from Louisiana, appointed to fill the unexpired term of Senator Gibson, de1 ceased, took the oath of office. Most of the 1 session was occupied by aspaecta by Mr. Mor1 garf on the Nicaragua canal bill.In the , house the session was principally consumed in ! the consideration of the btil ratifying the agreement with the Cherokee nation of Indians for the cession to the United States of the tract ^of land known as the “Cherokee outlet.** Tbe government appropriates $S,003,(£)0 to carry out its part of the contract. The measure was amended so as to allow the United States six years in which to pay the comnensa- | tion; in the meantime the government to pay j 5 per cent, interest upon that sum.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The cold spell which was inaugurated at Christmas has evidently had the effect of freezing the hearts of those on whom the people depend for their supply of that which is so necessary to bring measurable eomfort into the pesnle’s homes, for on every hand we learn of combinations, not only to restrict the output of coal, but also to put the prices of stocks on hand at a ruinous figure to those compeled to ' buy. This combination business will reach the danger line some day. Mbs. Bushev died in the town of Georgia, Vt., recently. She was the oldest woman in the state, possibly in the United States, having lived 110 years. A*'daughter 80 years old and a son of 75 survive. Mrs. Bushev outlived three husbands. At the time of her death her hair was burnished gold color and her skin as yellow as parchment, freeVTrom wrinkles, but tightly drawn over the face. Philip Kudie, proprietor of a barber shop in East Liverpool, O., who had< buried his wife less than two weeks previous, eloped on the 10th with his stftibuxom mother-in-law, Mrs. JosephHkuek, who drew several hundred dollars from the bank before leaving. A dynamite bomb placed in front of the building occupied by the Catholic club at Sera mg, Belgium, exploded, on the 10th, completely wrecking the front of the structure and otherwise causing great damage. Fortunately not a single person was hurt. A tame dove belonging to Andrew Fairchilds, of Fallasburg, Mich., flew from the dovecot into his house, on the 10th, and alighted upon a cradle which contained an infant. No one was in the room except Mrs. Fairchilds. She, attracted by the baby’s cry, ran to the cradle and found the dove picking at the child’s eyes, one of which waspuncI tured and ruined forevCr. ' Messrs. Allen and Sachelben, the two St. Louis bicycle-riders who have ridden across Europe and Asia, are en ; route from San Fr%aeiseo for New | York. The ride will be down the coast to Los Angeles. Thence across Arizona,•New Mexico and Texas to New Orleans and through the southern States to Pennsylvania, their final destination being New York, when they will have made the circuit of the world. Amid royal pomp and splendor, and surrounded by European sovereigns or their representatives, Princess Marie of Edinburgh was married, on the 10th, at Sigmaringen, to Prinee Ferdinand, crown prince of Kouinania.

At Lincoln, Neb., on the 10th, on motion of Mrs. Ada, P. Blttenbender. Mrs. Alice A. Miniek. thefirs>Iady graduate of the law department, of the Nebraska university, was admitted to practice in the United States circuit court. The second trial, at Goshen, Ind., of the damage suit of Martin Peterson against the Lake Shore Railroad Ca resulted, an tlie:10th, in a verdict for the plaintiff of $10,000. The plaintiff lost both arms at the shoulders by being pushed from a moving freight train by the brakeman. The first trial resulted in a verdict for-the plaintiff of $S,000. A terrific explosion occurred on the evening of the 9th in a coal mine at King, four miles from Como, Col. Twenty-seven dead bodies 'were taken out, and there were others supposed to be yet in the mine. Of the twentyseven dead only eleven could be idenden tilled. The Minnesota house of representatives passed a resolution, on the 11th, indorsing “the Washburn anti-option bill. United States Treasurer Nebe- . keb reported to Secretary Foster,on the 11th, that the account of the legal tender notes of the denomination of $500, series of 1874, shows an excess of $54,,000 redeemed over the issue, and an investigation is in progress to discover the cause thereof. Secretary Tracy of the navy department has awarded the contracts for the construction of the cruiser Brooklyn and the battleship Iowa to Cramp & Sons, of Philadelphia, they being the lowest responsible bidders in both cases. A tremendous ice floe gorged opposite Jeffersonville, Ind., on the 11th, ' extending about 600 feet above the Louisville and Jeffersonville bridge piers. The stoppage of ice made the situation alarming, the coal fjppt being in danger of being cut oat. » » -'-‘l -J’j n:~- £- r.

Rev. Father Honnehax, pastor ol St Augustine’s Catholic church at Clinton, Wis., deranged and at large with a . loaded revolver in his hands, was eaptnred on the Kith. His hands were so badly frozen that he was nnable to use thie pistol. Both feet and his face were also frozen. The steamer _ Gaelic, arrived at San Francisco, on the 12th, from Hong Kong, brings news of the burning of a spinning mill at Osoka, Japan, on December 20 last with a lass; of 125 lives. Most of the victims were young girls. Two hundred and seventy houses in the vicinity of the mill caught fire from sparks and were destroyed. A Burro loaded with $5,000 worth ol silver bars strayed away from a pack train en route from the Animas mine to Durango,^ Mexico, and, unless relieved by robbers, is still wandering around with Its precldiis load/ The trial of Hugh llempsev, district master workman of the Knights of Labor, and J. M. Davidson and Robert Beatty, cooks, charged with poisoning non-union workmen in the Homestead (Pa.) steel mill during last August, began in Pittsburgh, on the 12th. Sexob Marco Avei.i.anada. the confidential agent seat by the federal-gov-ernment of the Argentine republic to Corrientes, has succeeded in inducing the rebels to lay down their arms and the attempted revolution is at an end. I^iESIDENT-EI.ECT CLEVELAND arrived at Lakewood, N. J., on the 13th, accompanied by Mrs. Cleveland and Baby Ruth. They have taken up their residence for the winter in the “Little White House,” as their cottage is now called, and will remain there until they start for Washington. Mr. Cleveland, it is said, will only receive politicalcallers at his New York office. The greatest interest is shown in Madyidjn the trialj&f the Panama directors ahd in the disclosures affecting high officials in France. Seldom have Spanish monarchists shown so clearly their antipathy to French republicanism and their desire to see an Orleanist restoration in France. The sloop Shawmut was burned, on the 13th, while lying at the wharf at Boston. Two of her crew, Frederick Alichrist and Charles Benlteson, who were sleeping in the cabin, perished in the flames.

Eckstein Norton, the noted railroad man and financier, died suddenly at liis home in New Brighton, Staten Island, on the 12th, of heart disease. Clay Hopper, the young man who had been lying Sn Toledo, O., in a socalled tranct for two weeks, after hearing his funeral sermon preached,flied on the 13th. A dispatch from St. Paul de Loanda, Angola, West Africa, reports a collision pn a down grade, between a locomotive on the Congo railway and a wagon loaded with dynamite and gunpowder the concussion exploding the dynamite and causing the death of fifty persons, including M. Liq ueue, head of the Society Anoyme Beige. At :i meeting of the French cabinet, on the 11th,, M. Tirard, min|ster of finanoe, presented for consideration his bill taxing bargains on the bourse ten centimes per 1,000 francs, and another bill, limiting the note issue of the bank of France to 4,000,000,000 francs. Pope Leo is said to be, greatly interested in the situation in America and desirous of putting an end to the existing differences here. With this purpose the pope is preparing an encyclical to the American episcopate advising harmony. Russia will send three war ships to New York to take part in the naval demonstration in connection with the Columbian fetes. These vessels will be under the command of Admiral Kazenakoff. Kokneix, Loth, a Hungarian, 26 years old, was electrocuted at Dannemora, N. Y., on the 16th, for the murder of Mrs. Ettie Eemasck, at her home in Schenectady. Fire broke out in the town hall at Brewster, N. Y., on the 15th, and before it could be checked had destroyed the town hall, Smith & Bra’s, store, H. A. Lobsdell’s store, S. A. Merrett’s bottling establishment, the post office and the printing office of the Brewster Standard, entailing a loss of upwards oftlOO.OOO, with insurance of a bout S75,000- * __ LATE NEWS ITEMS. In the senate, on the 16th, the read-l ing of three prepared speeches occu>ied much of the session. Considerable progress was made on the anti-option Pill, some amendments^pffered by Mr. Washburn, one of them fixing-the 1st -, of July, 1893, as the Bme when the biH\ is to go into effect, were agreed to.. In the house a resolution calling upon the executive departments for information as to the number and amoufit of war claims allowed or disallowed by such departments was passed. ,A joint resolution for a constitutional amendment for the election of United States senators by popular vote was carried without division.

A bill was introduced in tne nousw of representatives, on the 16th, to suspend, do fihg the first year of each presidential term, all civil-service laws, rules and regulations, so far as they restrict or interfere with the free exer* eise by the president or heads of departments of the power to remove or appoint officers or employes of the government The deepening of navigation in the St. Lawrence and elsewhere, is to be completed upon a uniform 14-foot basis, and in three years’ time vessels of 2,900 tons burden will be able to steam from Great Britain into Lake Superior. When the postmaster of Williamstown, Mass., entered his office, on the morning of the 15th, he found that the safe had beei\ blown open and the entire stock of stamps, some 5,000 in number, had been stolen. ThsT Chinese government is having some difficulty in getting anyone to come to the United States to act as minister to Washington. The present minister, Mr. Tsui Owo Yen, will soon return toChina. The funeral of Gen. Kufus Ingalls, late quartermaster of the army, who died in New York on the 15th, took: place at Arlington cemetery, Washington, on the 11th. A swift line of ocean steamers is to be established between Capada. and Great Biitain, completing the through Canadian line from Great Britain to Asia. Pikbcs Ckotty died suddenly in New York on the 16th. He was 108 years of age, was born in Ireland and lived in New York city eighty-two years. Mgr. Satolli confirms the belief that the pope is seriously displeased at the manner in which his legate to America has been treated- j Frances Ann Kemble (Jffirs. Pierce Butler), the wed-known pctresa, died in London on the 16th,

INDIANA STATE NEWS. TKE United States ExpressCa, which has had the Michigan division of the Big Four ever since its construction as the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan, twenty years ago, a ill, on February X, be supplanted by the American Ca, which operates over the remainder of Idle Big Four system. At Indianapolis “Sheeney” Armstrong, the mail \<vx robber, was sentenced to three years in prison. George Roberts, a carpenter, died suddenly at Indianapolis from a peculiar cause. He was subject to epilepsy. He jokingly tosscc a block of wood at his wife and she returned it with more vigor. The missile struck him on the head, rupturing an artery of the brain. He eras seized with convulsions later and died. The democratic caucus to nominate a camdidate for Unhed States senator was an entirely one sided affair, Senator Turpie being renominated without a struggle: The caucus was thrown open to the public. At Jeffersonville a severe earthquake shock was felt 1,1, eighty o’clock the other night. The shdek rattled the doors and windows and sbqok houses. Persons waking ia the stireet felt the tremor. J. K. Henbt has entered suit for f!2,500 against the .'Western Union Telegraph Ca at Crawfordsyille, for slowness in delivering a telegram. He alleges that a messaga was sent to Ladoga from New Ro»>, summoning a doctor to come and c.dminister to a sick race-horse name “Swister.” The telegram was sent at night, and was not delivered until near;morning, anclwhen the doctor arrived the horse was dead. An overheated gas stove caused a t20,000 fire at Knights town, Henry county, early the other morning, Wile Crump, a young colored! man, forced an entrance into his father-in-law's, house at Evansville, where his’ wife was staying, and shot his wife and ■ her mother with a double-barreled shot-! gnn. Both women were wounded. Mrs. Crump, who is but 17 years old, has both hands shot eff at the wrist, and she will probably die. Crump escaped. Mr E. P, Bick.’i ell, late of the Indianapolis News, has purchased thi Jonesboro News, and takes possession:; soon. . ' H

Johr Freehere.3, of Rockport, one of ; the wealthiest bn finess men of southern Indiana, died suddenly, the other” day, at Louisville. ■ Edwin Green, s.lias Edward Davis, was arrested at Vsi paraiso, for bigamy. He is believdd to have at least five wives in Michigan: and Indiana, The Order of Railway Telegraphers of the Big Four held a meeting at Indianapolis and accepted the new schedule of wages and riles presented by the railway company. George Gougebr# in an intoxicated condition, appeared at the home of George N. Hicks, at Elkhart, and stated that he, together with a companion, had been assaulted by thieves, and desired Hicks, who was 70 years of age, to go with him to the rescue of the other man. The story so excited Hicks that he was immediately taken sick and died before he could be pat to bed. Engineer Geo. Sxith and Fireman ffn Warren, both of Terre Haute, met with frightful deaths at Jessup, on the Vandalia branch road, a short distance north of Terre Haute. They were on a coal service engine drawing five cars, and, while it was i-unning at full speed, the'engine left the track, turned over and crushed both, men to death instantly. None of the other employes were injured. The accident was probably .flue to spreading rails. The wrecked train is made up«t Terre Haute, and goes to Rosedale each morning at 6 o’clock, returning at night. Engineer Smith is an old engineer, and has been on the Vandalia many years. He leaves a wife and family. Fireman Warren is a young unmarried man. This is the first fatal accident for many years on the Vandalia line, which has an unusual record in that regard. r The new law abolishing fees for the delivery of prisoners to the penitentiary has gone in to effect, and hereaftei sheriffs will have no inducement to sene them one at a tine. t 1 The most terrific and bloody fight ii the history of Madison county occufret. right after communion services the other day at Forest Chapel church -si:: miles southwest of Anderson. The communion table; had just been cleared away when a row sprung up between the Lawsons on one side and the Swinffopis^ Smears and Hartzells on the oth • Cr! It was a terrific fight, and, as a result, Irvin Lawson and Sanford Mani > are itr a critical: condition, and the latter is almost suie to die. The fight wa2 the result of an old feud between th} Lawsons and the other parties namec, Following is the list of injured: Bil l Lawson, two cuts on head, nose mashel and other injuries; Sant Manis, bruise! and cut about head and face, seriously

hurt; Arthur Lav-son, several Druises and cuts, vfsak from loss of blood; Irvin Lawson, seven bad cuts on scalp, supposed :o be dangerously hu:.-* Joe Swinford. ear nearly cut off,by a slungshot, face cut aad severely hu*;; Albert Swinford, cut on head and net It, dangerously hurt, may nos live; Lous Swinford, black eyes, several cuts at d bruisesyMatthew Swinford was knock i d down and skull fractured; Joe Hartze U (son of Georgs Hartzell), badly hui t, may die. . The franchises of the citizens’ Natural Gas Cto., at Anderson, have been annulled, owing t a the inadequate supply. ^Vm. FjojrrEBi iek>, while at work at the Shelby ville ice-houses, became sntangled in the hoist, which broke E. id carried him about twenty-five feet iito the river. It was only after bard work that he was res iued, badly bruised. Kurus, the eighteen-year-old son of David Lawrence, living ntsnr Warrtn, Huntington county, was- lcieked by a horse, receiving injuries that resulted 'in his death. The Centilver Brewing Ga, at <’4 Wayne, struck a strong flow of natu -al gas at a dey t tr of 1,114 feet. T . ey will Shoot the wea This is the only well within 40 miles of the city flowi ag gas. Mibb Ida a Dubeam, of Darling; in, has entered set for $5,000 against 8, G. Kersey for breach of promise. It is now thought that Charlec H. Enoblaek, found hanging in his l irn at South Bem: was poisoned, and 1»en hanged there. s Eurico PobAJm, who swindled a number of Italians out of consider ble sums of money in Indianapolis, Cii liunati, Louisville, Pittslurgh and Isewhere, and who was anally oapt red in St Louis,: was couriered of g ant larceny in tb. criminal court at lac an npolis, and w s fined *100 and sente .eet ■to two yeiws % State’s prison. I' ' . .

A SIGNIFICANT -LETTER, 1 fhlch Indicates that the Carnegie Company is Paying the Witnesses Giving Kvldeoce la tho So-Called PsUauiat Casas on Trial at Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 16.—The altereys for the defense in the eaae of lugh F. Dempsey,. district master workman, Knights of Labor, on trial or complicity in the Homestead poisonOffs, were surprised yesterday by an nexpectedvisitor from lialtimore, iho came here to lay before them a : 1 atter, which will throw a very differ- ;< nt light on the trial now in progress The letter shows that at least one Witness for the prosegfttion and an imf >ortact one, top, was well paid for < oming to Pittsburgh to testify. Wil- ‘ iam C. Kaiss, a wealthy coal merchant >f Baltimore, is the man who brought he letter on, and he says humanity mpeled him to come. The letter in question was received >’ >y Mr. Kaiss, from Dr. James Cooper, | he Baltimore physician, who treated - ; Christopher Spaid, an alleged victim | the poisoning, and who testified hat Spaid was suffering undoubtedly .Tom arsenical poisoning. He was poei- | tivc in his statement and would not ; recede from H under searching crossexamination by attorney Porter of the | defense, who quoted authorities to show the doctor where he was wrong. Dr. Cooper owed Mr. Kaiss 118.78 for ,'oal since last April, and the latter : says he was never able to collect the bill. On Saturday last he received a letter inclosed in a Central hotel envelope and postmarked Pittsburgh, January 12, which is the,day on which Dr.yCodjer gave his testimony. The letter is as follows: Ckstsax, Hotel. I - - n. u.! ' Pittsburgh, PaJ, Jan. Gextlemen Pleas - send me one bn-bel ot coat I think it is Sanb-rry No. 2. I will e«B on yon and settle the old account soon, u) have just drawn s check for SSOJonthe Carnegie company. I will not return until Fridpt morning, when I will ston in. / Yours faithfully, Jambs Coorra, 1353 Hull street Mr. Kaiss laid this information before Attorney Porter, Mr. Dempsey's attorney, last night.

Mr. Kaiss has all along sided with the Carnegie company during the Homestead troubles. Dr. Cooper, he says, is not comparatively well known in Baltimore, as his practice lis mostly among the poorer classes. He was surprised when he received Cooper’s letter at th« statement ofhis getting 1500 from ths Carnegie corhpanjvror testifying against the defense. Mr. /Kaiss at once changed his feelings toward the Carnegie company and hastened for Pittsburgh.' Attorney Porter will lay the mattei before the court in the morning and try and show that at least one witness for the prosecution was well paid by the Carnegie company for his testimony. This will eause a big sensation. A Laxy Vagabond Fatally Wounds Hit Father and Mother and Shoots Hit Sister at Chester, Pa. Chester, /Pa., Jan. 16.—A tragedy was enacted here yesterday afternoon which will result in the loss of two lives and the conviction of Thomas i Rodgers as.a double parricide. The l latter is a yon-fig) man, 24 years of age, and the viptigiSjire his father, Thomas Rodgers, 60 yeani) of age, his mother, i Martha Ann Rodgers, of about the same age, and his married sister, Mrs. William Kildey. Thortias sat back of the stove in the kitchen of his parents’ home just after tlie noonday meal, when his father reprimanded him for his laziness, declaring raat he must go to work. out,” andj going upstairs, secured his brother-iffl-law’s revolver- The wife and daughter attempted to save Mr. Rodgers, but the young villain poshed them aside and'deliberately fired two bullets into his father at short range. After his fatheKbad fallen to the floor young Rodgers Wicked him in the lace. The mother attempted to escape by the cellar door, but a bullet from her son’s revolver struck her in the back and penetrated her left lung. The sister, Mrs. Kiltfey, fled from the house by the front door and her brothei pursued and shot her. The bullet glanced pn the shoulder blade and this saved the young woman’s life. The revolver now empty, the wouldbe mi-rderenran up the street to an aldermarfs'Office, two blocks distant, and entering, locked the door against a large crowd which followed- The police werfi notified and Rodgers was. locked The prisoner said the attack was the result of a family row, and that he intended to, kill the old man. He gave no reason, however, for the assault .on his AN AWFUL CRIME, “You can’t put ma mother and sister.

Sue*'«« of the New Remedy for Actoo. . omyeoale. Washington, Jan. Id.'—SecretaryEnsk has received from Dr. Salmon, chief dgtife bureau of animal industry, a report on the experiments and investigations being made in Chicago in the treatment of cattle for actonomycosia, or “lumpy jaw.” The report conclude* . that the remedy tried—iodide of potassium—is a remarkable success, 63 per cent, of the cattle there treated having been cured. The greater part of then were very seriously affected when taken for treatment. The report show % the cost of treatment to be trifling by comparison with the results, «,and it is also proved-that the disease is net contagious, twenty-one head of healthy cattle having been con fin'id in elo»e quarters with the diseased for three months without showing any signs of being infected. Hn William De Courcay Cremated la Her Hume at Baltimore, Md. Baltimore, Md., Jan. 15.—Mre. William DeCourcey met a horrible death in her home at 1719 Etting street. A kerosene lamp exploded, setting fire to the house. Mr. and Mrs. DeCourcey escaped safely, but left’two children behind. They rushed hack to save the little ones, and the father succeeded h bringing both to the street in safety, but the mother was overcome by smoke and her charred body was found by the firemen an hour later. The father and children were badly burr.ed, and may not recover. The Proprietor of a Chicago (Shooting ’ Gallery Found Murdered. Chicago, Jan. SB. —John Bussell, proprietor of a shooting gallery at 1J9 South Halstead street, was murdered at his place of business Saturday night under circumstances that indieate the successful accomplishment of a- daring and well-planned crime. The body was found yesterday morning at 11:80 with a bullet wound in the beck of the head, and its condition' showed that Bussell must have been dead fifteen hours, thus fixing the time of the shooting at about 8 o’clock Saturday evening. Half « ewwt* occupy the building. MGKfliS