Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 38, Petersburg, Pike County, 10 February 1893 — Page 1

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E. P. Bichabdso*. j A. H. Taixob RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ikd. Prompt attention given to ail business. A Notary Public constantly in the office. Office In Carpenter Building, Eighth and Main. DENTISTRY. W. H. STONECIPHER, PROFESSIONS I. J. T. KIKE, U- D., Physician and Surgeon, OEO. B. ASHBY, ATTORNEY AT LAW PETERSBURG, IND. % v>V:* . i Prompt Attention Given ‘.o ail Business, AEOffice over Barrett Ss Son's store. Fbakc^ B. Ioset. Dewitt Q Chappeli. JSEY & CHAPPELL, ttoWeys at Law, \* / Peteksbuko, INd. Will practlee In sly he courts. Special attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in tile office. Ap’Office— Ou first floor Bank Buirdlng. ELT. 8. 6. Davsnfobz & DAVENPORT, LAWYERS, Petersburg, Ikd. .fiacQffice over J. R: Adams A SotV drug store. Prompt attention given to all busipetebsbdro, ran. - V A WOffice In Hank building, first floor. W1U be found at office day or night. •O » IN ADVANCE. NO RATES:

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. Office m rooms6 and 7 In Carpenter BuildIns- Operations first-class. All work warranted. Anaesthetics used for painless extraction of teeth. I. H. LaMAR, - Physician and Surgeon Fetebsburo, Ind. Will practice In Pike and adjoining connties. Office in Montgomery Building. Otfice hours day and night. •3-Diseases of Women and Children a specialty. Chronic and difficult cases solicited. NELSON STONE, D. V. S., PETERSBURG, IND. Owing to long practice and the possession of a fine library and case of instruments, Mr. Stone is well prepared to treat all Diseases of Horses and Cattle SUCCESSFULLY. He also keeps on hand a stock of Condition Powders and Liniment, which he sells at reasonable prices. Office Over J. B. Young & Co.'s Store.

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THIS PAPER IS ON FILE IN CHICAGO AND NEW YORK AT THE OFFICES OF A. I. KELLOGG NEWSPAPER CO. TBUSTECS' NOTICES OF OFFICE DAT. XT OTICE la hereby givbn that I will attend 1“ to the duties o( the office ot 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. M. M. GOWEN, Trustee. NOTICE it hereby given to all parties Interested that I trill attend at my office in Btendal, EVERY STAURDAY, To transact business connected with 4he office of trustee of Lockhart township. All persons having business with said office will please take notice. J. 8. BARBETT. Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties concerned that I will be at myresidence. EVERY TUESDAY, To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of Monroe township. GEORGE GRIM. Trustee. XT OTICE Is hereby given that I will be at Xs my residence EVERY THURSDAY To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of Logan township. WFoaitively no baseness transacted except on office days. SILAS KIRK, Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby given to all parties concerned that I will attend at my residence EVERY MONDAY To transact buainess connected with the office of Trustee of Madison township. JVFositively no business transacted except office days JAMES RUMRLE. Trustee XT OTICE is hereby given to all persons inJ.v teres tet that I will attend in my office in Yelpen, , EVERY FRIDAY, To transact business connected with the office of Trustee of Marlon township. All persona having business with said office will please take notice. W. F. BROCK, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all person* concerned that I will attend at my offloe EVERY DAI To transact business connected with tbs office ol Trustee of Jefferson township. R. W. HARRIS, Trustee.

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Castoria. * Castoria la an excellent medicine for children. Mothers hare repeatedly told me of it» good effect upon their children.” Da. G. C. Osooon, Lowell, Mas*. 11 •• Castoria is the best remedy for children of which I am acquainted. I hope the day is not far distant when mothers will consider the real interest of their children^and use Castoria instead of the variousquaclcnostrums which are destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful Agents down their throats, thereby sending them to premature graves.” Dr. J. F. Kinchklok, Conway, Ark.

Castoria. “Csstorlalssowell adapted to children that t Teoomme&d it as superior to any prescription tun to aft.” H. A. Abcheb, M. D., Ill So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. 1. “ Our physicians in the children's department have spoken highly of their experience in their outside practice with Castoria, and although we only hare among cur medical supplies what is known as regular products, yet wo are free to confess that the merits of Castoria has won us to look witl favor upon it." Uxrrxn Hospital ard Disponun, Boston, Hass Allen C. Surra, Pres.,

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SEWS AND NOTES. A Summary of Important Events. FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Is the senate, on the 31st, the tong-pending anti-option bill was taken bp aa the special order, and after several amendments offered had been rejected,the bill was passed—yeas.40; nays, 29. The foriifications bill was then taken up -** — In the house a resolution was adopted calling on the secretary of the interior for in* formation as to whether manufacturer* and re(finer? of sugar have refused to answer ques* tions propounded to them by census official*, and, if so, wnat steps have been taken to compel them to answer them. The house then resumed, m committee of the whole, consideration of the sundry civil appropriations bill. In the senate, on the l9t. immediately upon the completion of routine business, the fortifications bill was taken up and passed. The army appropriation bill was then passed, with an amendment increasing the monthly pay of sergeants. The District of Columbia bill came next, and all the amendments save ona were agreed to.In the honse the sundry civil bill Was taken up in committee of the whole, and the entire day was devoted to discussion of Its provisions. In the senate, on the 2J, the Chandler HaWa* iian resolution was referred to th* committee on foreign relations. Mr. Carlisle's resignation as senator from Kentucky was presented. The District of Columbia appropriation bill was then taken up and passed. The remainder of the day was spent in executive session, considering the French and Swedish extraditi6n treaties, and incidentally the Hawaiian question.In the honse Mr. Hatch's motion for a conference on the anti-option bill developed a sharp and vigorous opposition to the measure. The sundry civil appropriation bill was then taken up and an amendment offered by Mr. Fitch, which was regarded by Mr. Bon tells as an entering wedge to the repeal of all the laws relative to federal supervision of elections, was passed, Mr. Fitch remarking that the demo- ' crats made no secret of thoir purpose to repeal the federal election laws. In the senate, on the 3d, a bill t > pay the award of the court of claims in the French spoliation cases was fl»c®d °n the calendar. House bill to ratify an agreement with the Kickapoo Indians was passed, as was house bill to protect settlement rights where two or three persons settle upon the same subdivision. Some time was taken up in a discussion of the repeal of the Sherman act, after which the senate proceeded to other business.Ip- the honse the bill establishing a court of appeals in the District of Colombia was agreed to. The deficiency appropriation bill was considered in committee of the whole, and when the committee rose an amendment granting one month's extra pay to employes of the senate and house was adopted. In the senate, on the 4th, the president's message was apportioned among several committees. A number of house bills were passed. The conference report on the bill concerning testimony in criminal cases under the interstate commerce law was agreed to. The senate subs'.itnte for honse bill to ratify an agreement with the Cherokee nation was amended and passed — In the honse an unusual scene was presented in the speeches, in committee of the whole, in eulogy of Mr. Blount, chairman of the committee on foreign affairs, who ends a service of twenty years, to accept a federal appointment. The military academy bill was passed without division, and business was suspended to pay tribute to the memory of the late J. W. Kendall, of Kentucky. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Smallpox has taken a new start in Akron, O., six new cases of the disease having been reported. Up to the SlsL nearly fifty cases and ten deaths had occurred. Eighty Bohemian miners met instant death by an explosion in the Fortschritt mine at Dux, in Bohemia, on the 24th, and scores of others were fatally injured. Gov. Osborne of Wyoming, on the Slst, denied the petition for the revocation of the requisition issued upon Gov. Flower of New York for the surrender of Charles A. White, who married Mrs. Nagle, of Cheyenne, Wyo., for her money and succeeded in getting $75,000 of it. Mrs. Nagle is attempting to make White return the money, which she claims was fraudulently obtained. Mrs. Langtry’s yacht arrived at Marseilles, on the 31st, from Cowes after a tempestuous voyage. The deck was swept almost constantly by heavy seas. Water poured into the cabin and ruined most of the gorgeous furniture and carpets. Mrs. Langtry has postponed her voyage until the damage can be repaired. One robber held up the clerk in a jewelry store in Sacramento, Cal., on the night of the 3lst, with a revolver, while a confederate got away with $6,000 worth of diamonds. The will of the late Gen. Benjamin F. Butler had been filed in the Middlesex probate court at East Cambridge, Mass, It bears the date of 1854, with a codicil added in 1862. All his estate, real and personal, is left to relatives, including a wife and mother, since dePOO caH

Senator McMahon, chairman of the New York legislative committee which has investigated the coal combination, submitted the committee’s report to the legislature on the 1st. The report says that the railroads included in the combine control about TO per cent, of the entire tonnage of coal annually taken to tide water. The committee introduced a bill in the senate which is intended to prevent the combination from carrying out its plans. To punish his 11-year-old son a laborer in Contreras, Mexico, hung him by the heels from a rafter over a heated brazier, obliging him to inhale charcoal fumes. To add to the boy’s agony the inhuman father placed red pepper on the brazier. The man will be punished. The condemned United States steamer Palos was recently put up at auction at Nagasaki, Japan, but as only one-half of her reserved price of $7,000 was offered, she was withdrawn. The house of Ulysses S. Brunson, at Anderson, Ind., was completely wrecked, at midnight of the 31st, and five persons were seriously hurt, by an explosion of gas. About ^300 houses were recently destroyed byjfire in the town of Shibushi, Japan, and many lives were lost. Two hundred houses were also burned at the Japanese town of Mivamotcho. Four prominent young men of Cheboygan, Mich., who went, on the 1st, to fish through the ice in the straits, had failed to return up to the 2d, and were supposed to have frozen to death. On the 2d, the president nominated Howard E. Jackson, of Tennessee, to succeed the late L. Q. C. Lamar as Associate justice of the supreme conrt of the United States. The fast east-bound passenger train on the Fort Wayne & Chicago road ran into a west-bound freight near Loudonville, G , on the 2d, while going at a very high rate of speed. Engineer David Peppard of the limited was badly hurt, and the firemen of both trains were injured. Sib Edward Gray, parliamentary secretary of the British foreign offlee, replying to an interpellation in parliament, on the 2d, said that “the government* considered that the lives and property of British subjects in Hawaii were safe under American protection.” Martin For was sentenced at Ballston, N. Y., on the 2d, to be electrocuted at Dannemora prison during the week beginning March 12. lie was a race follower, and in a fit of jealousy killed hin sweetheart, Henrietta Wilson.

Tub Pittsburgh (Pa. )Art society, on the 2d, tendered Andrew Carnegie a i magnificent reception as a mark of its appreciation of liis gift of a $100,001) 11j brary to that city, Mr, Carnegie made a speech otk art and its benefits, bat didn’t touch on labor or its demands. Judge Dundy at Lincoln, Neb., on the 2d, admitted to bail in the sum of $10,000 C. W. Mosher, president of the broken Capitol national bank, who was indicted by the federal grand jury for the misappropriation of $250,000 of the bank's funds. JI'he mills and mines of the HarneyPeak Tin Co., at Deadwood, S. D., were closed down indefinitely on the 3d. The case of Miss Sallie Moore, the young Kentucky girl who disappeared in New York city under such mysterious" Circumstances on January 16, promises to develop into one of the remarkable incidents in the criminal history of New York. Her relatives have received information which would seem to indicate most conclusively that the young woman is being forcibly detained in or near the city for a ransom of $5,000. Manual Saaverdba, ex-minister of justice and magistrate of the supreme court of Mexico, died on the 2d. Morris Cohen, his wife, Sophia, and" their baby Esther were suffocated by a. fire at their home, 188 Orchard street, New York, on the 8d. Three other persons were badly injured. A QUANTITY of alcohol in the engine room of the National museum at Washington became ignited, on the 3d, and exploded. Three workmen in the room were injured, two slightly, and the third was burned so seriously that it is thought he cannot recover. " I. N. Terrill, ex-speaker of the house of representatives of the first Oklahoma legislature and the slayer of Geo. Embree, was, on the 3d, denied a new trial by Judge Green at Stillwater, Okla. Terrill murdered Embree in front of the land office at Guthrie two years ago while his brother held Embree's arms. The killing was the result of a land contest in which Embree testified agaihst the Terrills, and took place in full view of a hundred spectators. The steamship City of Peking was still on the missing list up to the night of the 3d. She was then twenty-four days out from Yokohama* and should have arrived at San Francisco in fourteen days. The latest authentic reports received from the City of Peking were dated Yokohama, January 10, when she left that port for San Francisco. The Oceanic Steamship Co.’s steamer Mariposa sailed on the 3d for Honolulu and Australia. Among the passengers were Capt. Day, who is to relieve Capt. Wiltz, in icommand of the Poston, and a number of newspaper correspondents. Wallace W., Holmes, the wife murderer, was hanged at Springfield, Mass., on the 3d. Holmes, who was a Cripple, walked to the g.illows on cfutches. lie met his fate without flinching. Death was caused by strangulation. Letters to the state department from United States Minister Stevens at Honolulu show that the representatives of the United States were hot in that city during the inception, of the movement that resulted in the revolution, but were absent, on the Boston, on a visit to some of the neighboring islands. Louis B. Levy, of New York, former president of the Life Union Benefit association and another assessment insurance company, has been arrested and held in default of $10,000 bail on a charge of misappropriating $10,141 of the funds of the Life Union. Fishing in any manner whatever in the waters of the Mississippi river during the months of March, April and May of each year is made unlawful under a bill introduced by Senator Stockbridge, chairman cf the fisheries committee. A telegram from Fergus Falls, Minn., says the Northern Pacific passenger train, west-bound, was wrecked, on the 4th, necr Vining station. Seven-pas-sengers are reported as seriously injured. The DeLand chemical works at Fairport, N. Y., were destroyed by fire on the 4th. causing a loss of $200,000. Exports of gold from New York for the week ended on the 4 th were $+.008,665; of silver, $557,350. Imports of gold were $20,804; of silver, $180,676.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. Isr the' senate, on the 6th, Mr. Hill moved the consideration of the bill to repeal the Sherman silver-purchase act, but the motion was defeated by a nearly two-thirds majority. The quarantine bill was passed without a ytivision; and a bill for the paymejjjyasf local taxes on lands held by Ind||mpn severalty was also passed.In the house the day was consumed by filibustering motions by Mr. Kilgore of Texas. - George June, the operator on the Central railroad of New Jersey who was charged by a coroner’s jury with the death of Jaffrey Blewitt, on January 19, by a collision on the Hackensack meadows, between a New York local and the Cheaspeake & Ohio express, was arrested at Jersey City, on the 6th, charged with manslaughter, and in default of $1,0H0 bail was committed to the county jail. , Grover Cleveland, Cornelius Vanderbilt, George Peabody Wetmore, E. Randolph Robinson, H. McK. Twomblcy, George H. Bend, George G. Haven, Thomas S. Cushing, Buchanan Winthrop and Edward Wickes officiated as pall-bearers at the funeral of Mrs exSecretary Whitney, on the 7th. These thousand colonists in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, armed with rifles and also having possession of some cannon, have risen in revolt against the wheats tax. A body of troops With artillery' were sent to Santa Fe, on the 6th, to quell the insurrection. On the Merrimac river at Lowell, Mass., on the 6th, Frank Looney beat the world’s amateur record for a running jump on skates, clearing 16 feet 1 inch.' The best previous record, 15 feet a inches, was made by S. D. Seaton, on Cormand lake, N. Y., January 17, 1885. Capt. Benjamin F. Howet, a prominent republican and manufacturer at Belvidere. N. J„ died oh the 6th, aged 68. Deceased was an ex-member of congress, representing the fourth district of New Jersey. Mrs. Margaret Cassidy Gillespie, of Upland, Pa., more than a century old, who was christened when an infant by the venerable founder of Methodism, John Wesley, died the other nighb The Union iron works at San Francisco were notified, on the 6th, that the coast-defense vessel Monterey had been officially accepted

INDIANA STATE NEWS. At Anderson Charley, alias “Skinny” Flemming w as sentenced to one year in the penitentiary for passing a counterfeit $50 bill on a railroad agent Heis only eighteen years old. The empire bakery, of Indianapolis, was burglarized and the police had a hard fight with Louis Scott, Harry and Prank Kukemiiler before they could be arrested. The animal which chased a sleighing party near Red Key about a week ago, was killed near Collett by Thomas. Finch. It was a Canada lynx of large vise. W. Hi Link, of Martinsville, has an autograph letter of Andrew Jackson, date, Hermitage, June 1, 1S37, indorsing th^ democratic integrity of Hon. William L. May, of Illinois. , John Hamilton, living east of Greenfield, went hunting, and along in the , afternoon came in contact with a large grey eagle in the woods. The bird was eating a lamb, but attacked Hamilton, who killed it after a desperate battle. The eagle measured eight feet from tip to tip of its wings. The executive committee of the Seventieth regiment, at Martinsville, decided to change the place of holding the reunion next summer from Bethany Park to Indianapolis. The date fixed was Wednesday, September 6, the week of the national encampment. Bulletins have been issued of the DePauW university extcntion courses and of the DePauw summer school for 1893, at Greencastle. The summer school is a new departure, which will supply a long felt need. There are many young people free during the ysummer months who can now have the privileges of the university during their unoccupied time. On application to President John, at Greencastle, a full description of the courses offered, both in the summer school and the department of university extension, can be obtained. Butler Hubbard, one of the pioneers in Indiana, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. E. E. Parker, .Richmond, early the other -morning. He was born in Guildford county. North Carolina, id 1810, and has resided in Indiana since 1831. He represented Henry county in the constitutional convention e>f 1851, and was twice elected to the general assembly and served two terms as recorder of Henry county. Dr. Frank Glass, a prominent young physician of Greentown, Howard county, mysteriously disappeared Ike other day, deserting his wife. He told her he was going to drive out in the country to see a patient. Instead of that he went to Kokomo, put his rig in a stable and took a train for the west In the circuit court at Columbus, the ’other day, a suit was brought that Caused considerable of a sensation, and which will cause two or three parties some trouble. The suit was brought by Jas. S. Brown, for the purpose of being relieved of any further liability on the bond of Daniel McClintick, trustee of Clifty township, Bartholomew county, whom it is alleged has gone wrong and misplaced funds belonging to the schools of his township. McClintick was given by his bondsman until a few days ago to make a showing of what he has done with the funds in his hands, and failing to do so the suit -was brought The amount for whiirh t he bondsman will be held Triable under the bond given is $7,000. Madison McClintock died at his home in Lagro township, near Wabash, from acute mania and cold contracted by jumping out of a window the other night and walking to Andrew, nearly ten miles, clothed only in undershirt, drawers and socks. He had been pronounced of unsound mind, and application for bis admission to the insane hospital had beenjmade. John Massey, a'young man of Princeten, can hardly believe he is among the living, so close was his escape from death the other night He was driving from Owensville home. As he crossed the track, two miles south of Princeton, the midnight passenger, running about forty miles an hour, struck the front part of the buggy, killing both horses and completely demolishing the buggy. The engineer of the -train claims Massey was thrown clear over the engine. Massey did not receive a scratch. The senate apportionment committee has begun work on the new apportionment bill, and Senator Stewart, chairman, says that it will be constitutional. The committee is working on the theory that 11,020 votes constitute the ideal senatorial district, and 5,510 the representative. It proposes that no senatorial district shall contain in excess of 13,224 votes nor less than 8,816. while the maximum strength of representative districts shall not go beyond 6,612 votes nor the minimum fall below 4,408. Each district will be made up of contiguous counties.

OEiATOB JUVliUA, icrre iiuutc, has prepared and will introduce into the legislature a joint resolution which is of big import to Indiana, ft will ask congress for a preliminary survev for. a ship canal from the headwaters of navigation on the W abash river to Lake Michigan, with plans and specifications and estimates of the cost, with a view to ultimate completion of the work. The plan not only proposes a deep canal from the Upper Wabash to Lake Michigan, near Chicago, but also a system of locks and dams to deepen the Wabash nine feet, so that the largest lake vessels can go directly from Chicago through the canal down the Wabash, Ohio and Mississippi rivers to the Gulf of Mexico. The body of Edward Fikentscher was found lying in the road near Lakeville, the other morning. One of his hands which were crossed on his breast, held a revolver and there was a bullet-hole in his head. Fikentscher was arrested some years ago for the murder of a brother, but was not convicted, “Jack the Peeper” is scaring Huntington people by peering through the windows at night. Officers have chased him, but he escaped. Farm er Taylor McCornnaha, W ayne county, went to Bichmond, several days ago,- and sold a horse for $135, since when he has not been seen. His domestic relations were strained. James Garrett, aged twenty-three, a young-'Jhrmer of Adams township, living a few miles south of Andertan, fell dead while working in a eld. He had been snbjeet to heart disease. J$>e McGbarnahak, aged seventeen, was on a bill coasting in Anderson and his sled s truck Mrs. Thomas Barnett, knocking her a distance of twenty feetShe struck on her head and v as insensible when taken home. At Shelbyville, Wm. Me Comas, a farm hand, shot the top of his head off with a double-barrelled shotgun. Poverty was '

INDIANA LEGISLATURE, Indiana *olis, Jan. :.L~ Senate—* lie senate Monday act the teal of 1ta approva upon -the Hatch ant -optioi bill, designed to do avay with puts and ci .11s, a ad to discotnage grain and stool gambling of all kinds, '’he question tame up in the shape < f a jtint resolution, instructing Indiana's sen itors s nd represents ives :n Congress to vote for the Hatch bill. The resolution jiassed by a vote of 3o to 6. The committee on rights c.nd priviliges, which had u reler consideration the house joint resolution asking Indiana * senators and representaiivitt to vote for an aisendmsnt to the constitution looking to Jhe elec :ion of U. & senators by the people, reported it favor of the resolution, anJ the report was con :urred iaHocsk— a successful attempt was made Monday morning d> resuscitate Mr. Hard's biil providing penalties for the discharge of employes because they uro not member * of labor organizations. A bill had te^p pa, sed looking to the jrotecticn of organized labor against discharge, and Mr. Hard's bill was iitrodueed as an equalizer. Bills, introduced: Ijo prevent racing in winter, era nice meeting a any time of the year lasting more than sixty d:;ys; to repeal the law providing for county institutions: to compel ttie support of indigent pitrenis by children: also to tax decedents 'estates for the benefit of certain state institutions. Indianapolis, Feb. L—senate—The senate spent ill cay on si proposed amendment to the ballot law, providing that the pop\ili*ts und prohibition is ,s mirht have watchers at he count. The majority was clearly in lUvor of it, but sudderLv Senator Magee made a motion to table the whole tiling, and the lieutenant-gov-ernor decla red it carried on a viva voce vote. Anothor bill directed against the Blaby track was introduced. House—The house Tuesday passed h “valued policy” Insurance bill, introduced by Mr. Cullop requiring insurance companies. i’J. cases of total loss, to pay the face of tjieir polices and pro rata on such portion of the property as is destroyed. This bill will probably die inr the senate. Indiana policies at present are simply Indemnity bonds, and it is claimed that this pill would put a premium on arson. The “Spejjak Easy” bill urged by the state liquor league,^requiring all druggists and others holding a government license to take out a state license of 1100, was killed in tho house by a motion to 5 trike out the enacting clause. Adopted on a riva voce vote. ' ■ . Indian \i*oLis, Feb. 2. —The hoise is enthc McClean gaged in a handsome row over bill, restcyiag. the^ patronage of stale institutions to the governor, which passed he senate on Monday- This is practically the same measure an the Cullop bill, which he house democratic caucus sat upon two weel:s ago by a vote of 47 to 2. .. Since then the g cvetnor's fiends have been at work, and low have twenty democratic votes pledged t< • the bill, which, witi the thirty-five republican votes, will pass. The opponents of the m insure declare that if the caucus action is smashed on this it will be smashed for the whole session, and they wili vote as they pie ase on 3pportionment and other political meas ires. _The. bill will be favorably reported by tho’committee in charge, and the fight will b i on: The ways and means committee Wednesiay voted to report against; the bill appropriat ng 150,000 to help entertain the G. A. H. encampment next September, the democratic merabc rs^voting against the bill and the republicans f ;r it The house We in esc lay passed a bill making the railroad receiving a shipment respon sible for it all the way threugh, and the senate spent the day discuss ing f. bill to license drug; is ts, upon which no action was taken Indianapolis, Feb 3.—The great struggle which the ecun :y officers of the state are making to secure relief fro m burdensomi .* discriminations in the fee and salary lav received a set bade in the senate ThurscL tj Li the indefinite postponement reports by the committee having bills in relief under consideration. Some of the bills i elated to local discriminations while others looked to a revision of the entire law. The nosi comprehensive of these bills was one ty Senator Moore relating to salaries of state o Seers. It had been <1 raw a with great care and was regarded as an honest effort to correct -numerous alleged inequalities. This bill shared ijtie fate of indefinite oostponment the same as the others- The talk of an extra sessi- >n is again revived. There are a number of important measures before the legislature anefc it is claimed that the governor will be compelled to. to carry or state affairs without an appropriation unless ho agrees to an extri session. Thursday the governor was sound'd Cn the probabilities of calling an extra sess on &nd he talked unfavorably. He said there rasjno necessity for it r.ndbelieved that need.'ul Ijbgislatioli could be accompli shed during tie Regular meeting. IndiaNAPOLI3, Feb. 4.—The bill to ccnjpel oK railroad trains to stop at county sea ts, ijtgainst which the railroad lobby has made su .‘hajjstrong fight, died a (‘uiet death in the hou: e The railroad committee reported it ad and the house acquiesced wit no’ bate. In he same way it killed a bi 111< the safeguards of the Austral an law about primary elections and i.omj conventiocs. In both houses thev<»rk day was purely negative, consisting ing of numerous minor bills. The se: ta ,cial apportionment committee Friday its gerrymancer of the courts. re( uci|g the number of judicial circuits, from f ftyfour to forty-sere; t. 'the judges lkt out t an hot be legislated out of office, but the legif latere will declino to app ropriate monefy for the r salaries, thus compjllirg them to retnre. The governor has appoint'd ^Philip H. Kirsch, of Columbia City, stafe fish commissi.oi^r, vice Col. Dennis; of- Richmond. Kirsch’s selecttipn was Recommended by Prof. Jordan- and I>enbis. The natural gas ffant of Lebanon has been sold to eastern c£ pitjilists, generally supposed to be the Standard Oil Co, Consideration $125,000 to to Gov. Matthews sent his firs b the Indiana legislature a few da; the bill vetoed being one whid rel courts ta continue causes where fidavit was filed showipg that anlattorney on either side was a meml erfpf the legislature and absent in the performance of £ tate duties. The Noblesville foundry anc machine works were sold the other Tay|by R. M. Hinds, receiver, to the Mcl Iw^ine & Richards Ca, of Indianapo is.| The plant is in excellent condition aijd will be operated by the purchasers | Judge TaYlok, of the circuit court, at Terre Haute, decided, against th| state tax commissioners in tests suit 3 brought by the First national bank me Terre Haute Brewing Co., of Ter -e fiiaute. The court held that the stat< btjard of tax commissioners had no origi na'; jurisdiction to alter the assessment m ide by Vigo county board raising is, Except by upon a p roper appeal. As he -e waa po appeal allowed the complai nai its, he held the injunction good. A temporary restraining order was issued against defendants about a month ag>, enjoining them ''rout levying on plaintiff *s property for the collection o: taxes on the raise made by the state t *x

HISTORICAL FACTS. | Is thirty-sis years south Australia has had forty-five administrat ions. At the time Shakespeare 'vrcte his plays th ;re were not in all the w >rld as many English-speaking people as; there are now in New York and New . ersey. To-day mere than 100,000,0(0 people speak English. The Sabbath day s jourrny of the Jews was 3,000 yards, the traditional distance from tpefepd oFthe A rk of the Covenant to theVfarther shie pf the Israelite’s.camp.ufbrre they h id faade a stop in the tvildernbrs, the pont where the Sabbat cal lav Was given. Hiaooomjss was the first Ir dieo convert to Christianity in New Er g-land. When the iirst white settlers lar ded at Martha s V ineyard (1043) he' vat there, and he nvas converted under tie preaching of Thomas Mayhew. He ,* earned to read, and hi 1845 he began to pnach to his conr.trymen. Is bieoldng up the Volti, (in old wooden cruiser ct the French navy, a loaded ihell was foend in her-timbers. It is believed the shell was Cr td into hfsr at the bombardment of nine yercs ago. '

— — Wu filtef aunty JOB WORK OF ALL KINDS NEATLY EXECUTED REASONABLE RATES. NOTICE! Persons recsifing n oopy of tW» paper wftk (lii« notice crossed in lead pencil are notified that the time of their su bscription hat exotred. SAFELY IN PORT. Arrival at San Francisco of the Long Overdue FarMc Mail steamship City of Peking—Her Shalf lSroke Twelve Hundred Miles from San Francisco, and She Made tlie Ilest of the Voyage Under Sail Until She Met the Tng Vigilant* San Francisco, Feb. 7.—The Pacific Mail steamer City ;of Peking-, which sailed from Yokohama on January 10 last, and which had heen long overdue, causing considerable anxiety, ia safe at her dock, having reached there in tow early last evening. The tug Vigilant -with several others went out in search of the Peking several days ago. Early yesterday morning she found the Peking coming along slowly under sail and took her in tow. About 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon the Vigilant and her valuable tow passed jn. and an hour later she was at her dock. Capt. R. R. Searle at oncSTsent the following report to the merchants’exchange:, “We sailed from Yokohama January 10. at 11 a. m. We had west- , erly winds for ten days. At 6:05 a. m. on the 21st, in latitude 40 deg., longitude 14(5 deg. 16 min., 1.120 miles from Snn 'Francisco, our shaft broke in the sh-eeve and we were under sail. From that time until arriving we experienced northeast winds, increasing at times to the force of a gale, and at no time did we have forty-eight hours of westerly winds. During fifteen days from the time of the accident the ship made 1^-' 340. miles under sail.” Chief Engineer McClure gave to the tJnited Press reporter the following report of the disaster: “We experienced rough weather after we left Yokohama. We got through it all right. On the 21st, when it was perfectly calm, the propeller broke short.off. We were then 1,120 miles from San Francisco. We put - sail on, and did pretty well until we met the storm. Then we had a hard time and the wave's broke over us repeatedly. We did not stop at Honolulu. We made for the China's route, hoping to be picked up by her. All hands had plenty to eat and as you see are looking well. Nobody was hurt, and hut for delay and storm it was a pleasant trip." The passengers all speak in the highest terms of the officers and management of the Ship. All say that they were pdt at all uneasy. Yesterday afternoon -Spreckels Bros, ordered the Fearless out to look for the San Juan, which is going under slow speed hoping to meet the missing Steamer, and it is possible that the Fearless may overhaul her. V A SERIOUS WRECK. A Broken Flange Causes a Bad Wreck on the Michigan Division of the Big Four Near Niles, Mich.—The Debris Ignited from the Stove and Burned—Several Trainmen Badly Injured. Wabash, Ind., Feb. 7.—Sunday night g a serious and perhaps fatal wreck occurredon the Michigan division of the Big Four, 3 miles north of- Niles. The train, consisting of one freight qa./ and a caboose, was coming south at tukpeed of twenty miles an hour, when a flange on one of th'e wheels of the freight car broke and threw the car and the caboose ofSthe track. At the point where the accident happened there is an embankment twenty feet high, down w hich the caboose and freight car rolled, the_stove in the latter upsetting and igniting the debris, which was entirely consumed. _>> At the time there were in the caboose James Scott, conductor; Fred Scott, brukeman, and William Palmer, brakeman, all of this city, and Frank Hammond and Henry C. Price, attorneys, of Benton Harbor. Fred Scott was so badly cut, bruised and burned that he cannot move in his bed. James Scott had his nose broken and the bone of, his right leg fractured, while he was so badly cut, bruised and burned on the head that the doctors say he will,not recover. The two attorneys escaped with trifling cuts and bruises. . The engine, deprive d ofSts train, ran to Niles for jaedical assistance, and the patients are now- in that place. / /

THE RAILS SPREAD. One Yotmg Lady Killed and Many Per* son* Injured by a Wreek on the Union Paciiic Near Weiser, Idaho. Boise. Idaho, Feb. 6.—Word was received here to-night of a bad break on the Union Pacific road thirteen miles west of Weiser. The east-bound passenger train w*as wrecked' by the spreading of the rails, owing to defective ties. One young lady. Miss Emma Egan, from Chicago, was killed, and fifteen were badly injured. As soon as those who were not injured, together with the trainmen, could recover from the shock they immediatly went to - the assistance of those who were less fortunate, and found that of all the passengers aboard there was but one killed. Those most seriously injured were: Mrs. Kehoe, of Portland, Ore., who was caugh t under one of the chairs in such a manner that her feet were doubled up under her head resting on them. She was in such a position that she had to be cut out with axes; J. C. Roddell, of Markville, Minn.; L. J. Lewis, of Cornwallis, Minn. While their injuries were painful they will recover. Among those suffering from slight bruises are: Joseph Pahn, New York city; M. F. Gremt. of Weiser, Idaho; B. F. Ips. of La Grande, Ore., C. P. Fifer, of Nebraska, and John Cullen Daniels, of Huntington, Ore., the baggageman, was burned about the head, hand and. arms by the coal-stove. • ' Hank Receivers Appointed. Washington, Feb. 7.—Comptroller Hepburn yesterday appointed Logan H. Boot receiver of the first national bank of Little Bock, and J. D. McFarland recei^pr of the Capitol national bank of Lincoln. Mr. Boot was former president of the Little Bock bank and since its reorganization again accepted the presidency in the hope of saving it from ruin. He is reputed to be worth $1,000,000. Mr. McFarland was indorsed for receiver : of the Lincoln bank by twothirds of' of the stockholders, a majority of the depositors and many otbc;s., Father. Mother and 'Son Asphyxiated at Lima, O, Lima, O.. Feb. 7.—Mhe entire family of Charles Mehr, consisting of father, mother and son, was asphyxiated by gas yesterday morning. The trouble was caused by a defective meter. The family arose at an early hour but shortly after each complained of feeling sick and laid down to sleep. Aid o’clock yesterday afternoon when a sister of M rs. Mehr called at the bouse she found it filled with gas. Efforts to ususcitate the inmates failed with the exception of Mehr, who it is thought vill recovar.