Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 40, Petersburg, Pike County, 24 February 1893 — Page 1

PETERSBURG, INDIANA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24 STOOPS, Publisher. H. M

tnotistio:;Ai tabu*. J. T. KUdB. M- D., Physician and Surgeon, FETEBSBUBG, IND. Office In Bank building:, first floor. WU/ bo found at office day or night. OEO. B. ASHBY, ATTORNEY AT LAW * PETERSBURG, XND. Prompt Attention Given to all Business, 4W Office over Barrett ft Son's store. PEAKCIS B. I ©SET. D*WITT Q. CHAPFILL. POSEY & CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Isd. Will practice In all the courts. Special attentioti given to all business. A Notary Public constantly In the office. ^“OfficeOn IIrat floor Bank Building. S. A. Ely. S. G. Davbnpo&z ELY & DAVENPORT* LAWYERS, Petersburg, Ixd. /WOfflcIa oTer J. B. Adams ft Son'S drug -store. Prompt attention giscn to all business. it i K. r. EfCHARDSOS. A. H. Tatlob EiCHARDSON & TAYLOR, \ ■' Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ixd. Prompt attention given, to all business. A Notary Public constantly in the office. Office In Carpenter Building, Eighth and Main. DENTISTRY. W. H. STONE0IPHER, 888

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. Office m rooms6 and 7 in Carpenter BandIni'. Operations first-class. All work warranted. Anaesthetics used for painless extraction of teeth. I H. LaMAR, Physician and Surgeon Petersburg, Iso*. Win practice Ip Pike and adjoining counties. Office in Montgomery Building. Office hours day and night. *3rDileases ol Women and Children aspecialty. Chronic and difficult cases solicited. -- ■ - ■ _' NELSON STONE, D. V. S., " ; r -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 SUCCESSFUUiY. 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.

88000.00 a year is being: made by John TL *' Goodwin,Trow ,N.Y^31 work for ua. Header, yvti may not make aa muck, but we can teach youquickly how to earn from 83 ti» 810 a day at the start, and more as you go a. Both sexes, ail ages. In a By part o I merics, you caa commence at home, ghr»8 all yoisr time,or spare moments only to fha work. All is »>«*> . Great pay WKI for cverr worker. We start you. furnishing every tiling. EASILY, Sl'Eki>lLY learned. 1'Alt 1' K'l. LAItS FBEE. Address at once, k bilASOX * to., i'UKTlASD, lilML

THIS PAPER 1st 02? PILE IS CHICAGO AND NEW YORK AT THE OFFICES OF A. I. KELLOGG NEWSPAPER CO. trustees* notices of office dat. "VTOTICE is hereby given that I will attend i.v to the duties of the,office of trustee of Clay township at home on c EVERT MONDAY. Ail persons who have business with the cffiee will take notice that I will attend to business on no other day. M. M. GOWEN, Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby 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 Lockhart township. All persons having businesi with said office will please take notice. '[ . J. 8. BARRETT. Trustee. XTOTICl AVeerne CE is hereby given to all parties con ■ l that I wilt be st 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 nay residence EVERY THURSDAY To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of log an township. 40-Poaltivety no bus‘ness transacted aueept oa office days. SILAS KIRK, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties concerned that I ivIII attend at my residence EVERY MOVDAY To transact business connected with the efflee of Trustee of Madison township. RFFositlvely no business transacted except office days JAMES RUMBLE, Trustee. OT1CE ia hereby given to all persons interested that I will attend in my office is ▼ripen. EVERY FRIDAY, __ _ business connected with the office of Trustee of Marlon township. All having business with said office i take notice. VT. V. BROCK, Trustee. la hereby given to all persons that 1 will attetd at my office EVERY DAI business connected with the of Jefferson township. R. W. HARRIS, Trustee,

What is > Castorla is Dr. Samuel Pitcher’s prescription for Infants and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substahcc. 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 provents vomiting Sour Cord, cores Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. Castoria .relieves teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency. Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Castoria is the Children’s Panacea—the Mother’s Friend.

Castoria. “ Castoria is aa excellent medicine for children. Mothers have repeatedly told me of its food effect upon their children.'’ Da. G. C. Osgood, Lowell, Mass, “ Castoria is the best remedy for children of which I am acquainted. 1 hope the day is not far distant when mothers wiUieonsider the real interest of their children, ami use Castoria instead of thevariousquack nostrums 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.” Da. J. F. Eescsxloc, Conway, Ark.

I "Castoria Is so well adapted to children that ' I recommend it assuperiortoanr prescripts I known to me." H. A. Ancon, M. ft, ' 111 So, Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. T. “Our physicians in the children's depart ment have spoken highly of their expect ence in their outside practice with Castoria, and although we only have among ccr medical supplies what is known as regular products, yet we are free to confess that th* merits of Castoria has won us to look wit! favor upon it." Vbitxo Hosrrrjj. in Onrenm, Boston, Hast *rt.aw c. Surrn, Free.,

The Centaur Company, TI Murray Street, Kern York City. JOHN HAMMOND. ZLTETXT OOOIDS OIF1 3CX2T3D - To which he directs attention. His DRY COODS are^flrst-class, and the stock Is yery l*r» Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Notions. Glee him acall, and you will be convinced tnat he is giving BARGAINS on his entirestocJ SOLID GOODS AT LOW PRICES. O. .A. -BTJRdrER & BRO., THE FASHIONABLE MERCHANT TAILORS Petersburg, Indiana, Have a Large Stock of Late Styles of Piece Goods Consisting of the very best Sniting and Piece Goods y ■ . Perfect Fits, Styles Guaranteed.

O. <2z OHIO* MISSISSIPPI RAILWAY. EAST & WEST. 4 Solid, Daily Trains to Clarlnaattl, 4 Solid Daily Trains to St, Lonis, 1 Solid Daily Trains to loaisrille. Competing iu Union Depots, with tratjs, of alt linesfor the East, West, North and South. Through Vestibule nay Coaches, Pullman Parlor Cars and Sliepers on all Trains. DOUBLE DAILY LINE. Pullman Vestibule Buffet Sleepers from St. Lonis and Stations on Slain Line —to— pha and Hei York, liftoat change, EinwARA Fit©* Wasiiikgtos Ko A Accommodation 12. 57 P, M. No. 2. .Day Cipress 4 16 P. M. No. 4. Nigbil'. xprcwi 1257 A. M. No. 6 Fast Express -2.05. A. M. Wistvabp Fokm Washington No. 7 Accommodation 12 42 P. M. No. 1 Day Express 12 57 P. M No. $ Night Express 12:38 A M. No. 5 Fast Express 205 A m. Home Seekers MovinG WesT Should take this line as it has less changes af cares and better accommodations than other routes. Our Vestibule ears are a tuxarv, which may be enjoyed by all, without extra charges, and every attention is given our passengers to make their Journey pleasant and comfortal> Our agents will take pleasure In answering Inquiries In resard to rates for both passenfers an l freight, time, routes and connections; call at your home if desired and attend to shipping freight by the most direct routes and clieeeking baggage,without charge for any assistance they may be able to render. N- B-—Passengers should purchase tickets before entering the cars, as the ticket rate i ten cents less than the train rate. Communications addressed to the under signed will receve prompt attention, THOMAS DONAHUE, Ticket Agent O. A M. R’y Washington Ind C. G. Jones, District Passenger Agt. Vincennes Ind. J. r. BARNARD. W. B, SHATTUC Pres, and M’gr. Ge’n. re’s Agt C1HCINNATTI OHIO. Ashby & Chappell, Real Estate Agents. Fire, Life, and Live Stock Insurance Agents. (tollettlMS and Abstracts *r TIUe* a Specialty.

F. R. SHRNDY. FEOIOpiEL FAMILY GROUP AND RESIDENCES A SPECIALTY. AH kinds of out-door work, portraits, 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. BEADY, Petersburg, Indiana, Will make you Photos ia any number at most reasonable rates. £V-Ketnero' e.- that my work Is warranted. If rt-j want PORTRAITS enlarged cal) and Uave the work done right. All work guaranteed to stand the test 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 Good As Any,and Always the Cheapest.*’ M. J. BRADY. Gallery ia Eisert’s Building, upstairs, on Main, between Sixth and Seventh Monuments Best material, most reasonable prices,satisfaction guaranteed at Petersburg Blur ble W.rks J. A B. YOUNG,Proprietors. ADVERTISERS SXrSLTSS wi advertising space when In Chicago, will GnditonfbU ^^^LQRP&THOIUS. Machinist AND Blacksmith. I mm prepared to do the best of work, with satisfaction guaranteed in all kinds of Black smithing. Also Moving and Heaping Machines

NEWS AND NOTES. A Summary of Important Events. FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Is the senate, oa the 14th. consideration «{ the sundry ciril appropriations bill was proceeded with, bat alter nearly hall ot the bill bad been disposed of it went over and the Nicaragua bill was taken np. A short execntiro session was held, alter which the disctrision ol the canal bill was resumed .—In the house the republicans, by a resumption of filibustering tactics, secured a compromise by which general debate on the invalid pension hiilarasto close at 3 o’clock on the 15th, six hours ol the intervening time to be at the disposal of the minority. The bill was then taken up. IK the senate, on the 13th. the Nicaragua canal bill gave way to the sundry civil appropriations bill JAil amendments reported by the committee (including the World’s lair items), were disposed of except the series relating to river and harbor improvements. A message from the president relating to Hawaiian affairs was received, and the senate immediately went into executive session .In the house the invalid pension appropriation bill was taken up, but the general debate ended without action. In the senate, on the 16th, consideration of the sundry civil appropriations bill occupied the s9ssiou. The rartons amendments recommended by the committee on appropriations to reduce the amounts inserted by the house of representatives for some of the great international improvements were discussed and voted down. An amendment involving the continuance of the office of supervisor of elections gave rise to a long and heated political discussion.In the house the session was almost entirely devoted to the consideration of the pension appropriation bill, the feature of the day being a personal collision between Turpin, of Alabama, and Waugh, of Indiana, which bub for the prompt intervention of friends might have resulted seriously. Itr the senate, on the ITth, the sundry civil bill occupied the exclusive attention of the members. The amendment which bad been dtscnssed on the 13th, and in eff ct is to continue in force the law for federal supervision of elections, was carried by a party vote. All the committee amendments having been discussed, the hill was opened to general amendment. In the house, after a stormy session, the pAjl •ion appropriation bill was pass*:! and the post office appropriation bill was considered without action. lit the senate, on the 18th, five or six hours were consumed in the debate on the 3 per cent, issue amendment to the sundry civil appropriations hill. The Sherman amendment was agreed to and the bill went over without final action.In the house consideration of the post office appropriation bill progressed quietly nntil the item of $196,000 for special facilities on the trunk lines from Springfield, Mass., to New Orleans was reached, and the debate on this item was interrupted, the house proceeding to pay tribute of respect to the memory of Representative John C. Warwick, of Ohio. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The island of Samotheki in the Grecian Archipelago was shaken by an earthquake on the 14th. All the buildings on the island were destroyed and many lives were lost. Several severe shocks were also felt in Zante. The senate, on the 15th, passed the house bill incorporating the American university, of which Bishop John F. Hurst, of the Methodist Episcopal chnreh, is the chancellor and active promoter.

£\ «hxlkx resuiuuuu nos ai iuc Wisconsin senate, on the 15th. favoring the proposition to annex the 'Hawaiian Elands, and thereby prevent their passing under the control of a foreign power. Joserh Qjesphie, a Russian, who was found rambling around the town of Norwich, N. Y., on the 15th, suffering from a well-developed case of leprosy, was sent to the Chenango county poor farm.- — The New York cbamberof commerce has appointed a committee of prominent citizens to receive and entertain well-known foreigners who may visit this country to attend the World’s fair. Two bold thieves smashed the plate glass show wiudow of a Cincinnati jewelry store, at S o’clock on the night of the 14th, with a brick, and made off with $3,000 worth of diamonds. The coast defense vessel Monterey was formally placed in commission at Mare Island, Cal., on the 14th, under command of Capt. Louis Kempt. Her complement of 16T men marched aboard and the work of loading stores was immediately commenced. The Kentucky legislature, in joint session, on the 15th, elected Judge William Lindsay, of Frankfort, United States senator to succeed John G. Carlisle, resigned. D. Lancaster Drew, the cashier of the Central Savings Fund and Trust Co. of Philadelphia; who absconded recently with $12,000 of the institution’s money, was arrested in New York city on the 15th. Prof. Lesderschmidt, the founder and director of the Rcwan-German Central museum, of Berlin, died on the 15th. i J. C. Schaffer, who has occupied President Harrison’s home at Indianapolis, Ind., during the latter’s incumbency of* the presidency, has moved out, and the house is being repaired and made to look as much as possible like the old home as it was under Mrs. Harrison’s care. Labor troubles are anticipated in Japan. The natives, who work twelve to seventeen hours daily for a few cents, are now beginning to realize that shorter hours are in f»ce in other countries, and intend to agitate for lawj shortening the hours of labor and regulating the pay. The pope celebrated mass at St. Peter’s church, in Rome, on the 16th, in the presence of 6,000 Italian pilgrims, four cardinals and forty bishops. Shirley Quilling and James Swing settled a quarrel, on the 16th, by fighting it out with pistols. They met near the honse of Swing’s father, John Swing, a wealthy and prominent man, four miles from Catlettsburg, Ky. It was a duel to the death. Both parties fired and Swing fell dead, shot through the heart. Quilling was mortally wounded and died an hour afterward. One of the articles of the annexation treaty with Hawaii, made public on the 16th. provides for an annual pension of $20,000 to ex-Queen Litiuokalani during her, life and the payment of the lump sum of $150,000 to Princess Kaiaulant, the deposed queen’s niece and heiress presumptive to the Hawaiian throne. The Chicago and California express bn the Santa Fe road, running at the rate of fifty miles an hour, was wrecked, on the 16th, a mile east of Rntledge, Mu, by spreading rails. The chair, tourists’, three sleeping and a dining car were thrown from the track. Several persons were injured, but none killed. The Japanese press relations bill forbids women from publishing newspapers, confining^ this work to men over 21 years of age. The jury in the McDonald will case, at Danville, Ind., after being out all night, returned a verdict* on the 17th, for the plaintiffs, Malcuhm McDonald and other heirs of the late Senator Joseph E. McDonald. The praeti " - to declare bv Mrs. *

Tins gold medal swarded by Pcsi-master-General Wanamaker to the railway postal clerk making the best record in the Fifth division, in 1S92 was awarded at Cincinnati, on the evening of the 14th, to J. C. Edgerton, of Athens, (X Is the tax snit contempt cases in South Carolina, where the sheriffs, acting under Gov. Tillman's instructions, seized railroad property in charge of receivers appointed by the federal courts, for taxes, a decision was rendered, on the 16th, against the state, the property ordered returned to the receivers and the sheriffs found guilty of contempt and fined $500. It-is stated that Gen. Roeliff Brinkerhoff, of Mansfield, O., will succeed the late Rutherford B. Hayes as president of the National Prisoners’ Aid association. The situation at Topeka, Kas., up to the morning of the 17th, was that of an armed truce, the populist governor having been checkmated in his endeavor to use the military force of the state to fight a political battle. The United States revenue steamer Hudson was launched from the ship yard of John H. Dialogue & Son, Camden, N. J., on the 17th. She will be used as a boarding vessel in New York harbor in place of the Manhattan. Her bows are strengthened with two heavy plates made to resist ice. Marseilles newspapers of the t7th declare that there is not the least trace of sickness bearing a suspicion of cholera in that city, and they protest against the establishment of a quarantine in foreign ports against vessels from Marseilles. The Philadelphia common council, on the 17th, by a vote of 70 to 2, passed an ordinance prohibiting the employment by contractors on municipal works of other than American citizens. Ox the 10th martial law was declared off by the provisional government of Hawaii. Everybody was anxiously awaiting news from the United States, and the sentiment in favor of annexation was steadily growing1. :L. M. Damon, minister of finance dn the late Thurston cabinet, has been appointed vice-president of the Hawaiian provisional government by the executive and advisory councils. Mr. Damon is one of the commissioners now in Washington. The United States steamer Mohican, which sailed from Mare Island navy yard January 20, arrived at Honolulu on the 10th, but there was apparently no need for any increase of naval force. Got. McKixlet of Ohio is said to be financially ruined, every dollar’s worth of property he owned being swept away by the failure of Robert L. Walker, a banker of Youngstown, (X, whose paper Gov. McKinley had indorsed to the extent of $59,000. Hos. E. Barksdale, ex-congressman from Mississippi, died on his plantation in Yazoo county, Miss., on the 17th. He assisted in drafting the confederate constitution in 1861. Mrs. J. H. Hilton, aged 26, met with a horrible death at her home, near

Shawnee, O., on the 18th. She was subject to fits, and having one during the absence of her husband, fell against the grate,where her clothes caught fire, and she was slowly burned to death in the presence of two helpless children. Charles C. Goodwin, for many years the captain of the Cleveland ((X) lifesaving station, and who has been instrumental in saving a number <xf lives off that port, died suddenly, on the 18th, of heart failure. A series of earthquakes have been felt in the Yellowstone national park during the last few weeks, one of which was of the most terrific force. Judge Jackson’s appointment as associate justice of the United States supreme court was confirmed by the senate. on the 18th, without opposition. Joseph Besson, employed as hookeron at the Rankin wireworks in Pittsburgh, Pa., was working near a set of rolls, on the 18th, when a red-hot bar of iron, half an inch in thickness, fiew out and struck him under the left ear. It passed entirely through his neck, protruding several feet on the opposite side- A fellow workman succeeded in pulling the bar out after Benson had sunk to the ground unconscious, but physicians pronounced the injury fatal. LATE NEWS ITEMS. In the senate, on the 20th, all the amendments offered making appropriations for, or increasing the limit of cost of public buildings, were adopted. The sundry civil appropriations bill was then taken up and occupied the remainder of the day._..In the house the New York and New Jersey bridge bill was passed, when, after the disposition. of some private bills, the naval and agricultural appropriation bills were called up under suspension of the rules and passed. The Beading railroad interests were, on the 20th, as the resnlt of a suit by the third mortgage bondholders, represented by ex-Senator Platt, placed in the hands of receivers. Chief-Justice Paxson of Pennsylvania, President McLeod of the corporation, and Elisha P. Wilbur, president of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Co., are the receivers. Rolix Robinson, of Palmyra, Mich., died at Adrian.Mich., on the 20th, aged 83. When a boy he worked in the Wayne Sentinel office at Palmyra, N. Y., and assisted in printing the first edition of the “'Book of Mormon,” or gold Bible for Prophet Joseph Smith. Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard, the wellknown confederate commander who enjoyed the distinction of having begun the actual hostilities of the civil war by directing the bombardment of Fort Sumter, died at New Orleans, on the night of the 20th, aged T5 years. Minister Lincoln presented William Waldorf Astor and Lieutenant-Com-mander Wm. S. Cowles, the recentlyappointed naval attache at the American legation in Lqpdon, to the prinee of Wales at the levee held at St. James’ palace, on the 20th, by the prinee. , Defutt Zkrebi, whose name had been prominently connected with tb#' bank of Rome scandal, died on the 20th. His death excites surprise similar to that caused in France by the death of Baron Reiuach. The second trial, at Denver, CoL, of Dr. T. Thatcher Graves few the alleged murder of Mrs. Barnaby, has been set for May 22. Meanwhile the prisoner will remain in jail, having refused all offers of hail. The government of the republic of Colombia has granted a temporary extension of the Panama canal concession. The extension is until March 5. Ok the 22d, the whisky trust investigation, which had been delayed several days owing to the absence of witnesses from Washington, was resumed.

INDIANA STATE NEW& I. league of young- ladies has been to -med in Shelbyville with thirty-one sij ners up to date, who say they will n< t wear hoopskirts. Sow is Stuart, manager of the opera h< nse, a prominent Elk and a wellki own actor, died at his home in Logi nsport, x>t paresis. He was buried in Cl icago. Iexry Nelson, a workman at the St ner chilled plow works, in South R nd, was fatally injured by the frag* m ;nts of a broken emery wheel One cl eek was crushed, and the right eya w 11 have to be removed. Little riyeryis up, and ten squares of H mtington are flooded. Albert Glick’a ti o-story house and a barn on Samuel J< hnsQn's property were demolished. H ?avy ice did the business. The Cleveland club, of Indianapolis, h s been assigned to the first division, n xt to Tammany, in the inaugural p .rade. At Martinsvitle Mrs. Jos. Felix, aged S years, fell on the icy pavement a ft w days ago She thought she wa» li tie, if any, hurt at first. Later, one o her limbs turned real black and she w jnt to bed, dying in great agony. She ! left a husband and two children. A mail pouch thrown off at Orleans was cut open and robbed. The Fielding sisters, evangelists, are doing good work in the vicinity of West Fork. The people of Dublin are up in arms about the starting of a saloon there. The Indiana house of representatives passed a bill taxing the receipts of foreign building and loan association?, also subjecting them to inspection and requiring them to deposit $50,000 with the auditor to protect local shareholders. The new city directory will give Mancie a population of 19,763. The census report of ’SO gave Mnncie 5,219. In ’90 the population was 1I.S45; eighteen months ago tie Emerson directory people issued a. book that gave the city about 14,000. The growth is wonderful. Milan is about to begin a bank. At a meeting held recently to inaugurate the enterprise ninety-one shares of stock were subscribed. Milan is a village of 300 to 400 inhabitants. There are banks at Versailles. Osgood and Batesville, in the same county. The body of Saloonist Kobinson was found in a gravel pit pond at Anderson.. Suicide. John P. Johnson and A. S. Hughes, were arrested at ColuiAbus by a deputy United States marshal for violation of the United States revenue laws. Charles E. Graves has been appointed receiver of the New Aveline house at Fort Wayne, by consent of all parties concerned; and has taken charge of the hotel.

At a contest the other evenin'! E. G. Davis of Crawfordsville, was chosen to represent Wabash college in the state oratorical contest. Bis subject was “The Conflict of the Closing Century— Capital and Labor.” Otto Faulkenbuko, upon a charge of assaulting John Underhill in the form of white-capping near. Branchville on February 15, 1893, pleaded guilty the other morning in court. Ha implicates four others, including Marsh Land, a local lawyer, as well as two cousins and a brother-in-law. The evidence of Linton Caix, the defendant’s brother-in-law, agreed with Underhill and the state's witnesses that Faulkenburg was the leader. Underhill displayed his arm in which a shot is still lodged. The defendant was sentenced to five years in the state’s prison. Charles Kqhlmeyek, a young farmer of Knox county, was killed by being' kicked in the breast by a Texas pony. As A result of the recent gas explosion at Lebanon the Lebanon Light, Heat and Power Co. is made defendant in a suit by Martin Hohl for $35,000 damages; $15,000 for personal injuries and $10,000 for damage to his property. The controller's certificate authorizing the Merchants’ national hank, of Muncie, to begin business, was issued a few days ago. Hardin Roads is the president of the new bank, and a capital of $100,000 will be employed. It is semi -officially annonneed that the quartermaster-general of the United States army, through congress, will establish a military post at Jeffersonville, where recruits for the army can enlist. Seventy-five acres of ground necessary for barracks and other buildings and parade grounds will be donated to the United States by local capitalists at the proper time. The ground in question is located three miles west of Jeffersonville, fronting on the line of the P., C., C. and St. L. railroad and tha Ohio river. John Strahle, aged seventy-nine, a pioneer of Elkhart, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor, nearly severing his head. A few days before he placed himself in front of an approaching passenger train for the purpose of being run over, but was palled from the track in time to save him Daring the night he tried to strangle himself to death with a handkerchief. Ill health and the recent , death of his wife are supposed to have unsettled his mind. Thousands of fine carp were set free in the White river, near Columbus, several days ago by the breakingof a levee which destroyed a large fishery. Zora Peyton has been appointed postmistress at Riddle. Some miscreant placed a dynamite cartridge under the C. & J. C. depot, at Brazil, but it was discovered before an explosion took place. The heavi est verdict ever returned in Madison county for personal damages was given by a jury, at Anderson, in the case of Joseph Beck, of Lebanon, against the Big Four Rail way Co. It amounted to $5,500. At Columbus Ed Saladine, a tinner, 18 years old, fell from a scaffold that was fifty feet high and broke his back. His right arm and leg were also broken, the bones protruding through the flesh. He will die. «* A careful estimate of the wheat crop of southern Indiana places 70 per cent, of the crop as good and 13 per cent as fair. This shows no change in the autumn condition. The Marion Jar and Bottle works was destroyed by fire, throwing out of employment 500 men. Loss, $£0,000. Jas Williams, a resident of Norwalk, Oi, employed in Muncie. was a©eidentally shot in the left leg, by Andrew Cateing, who was recklessly handling a revolver. Gladys Bbayeb, five years old,whose parents reside on Superior street. Ft Wayne, and whose lot slopes t o the St Mary’s river bank, lost her foe ting and slid down the ice into the Ever the other day. Si a rolled under the ice drowned in sight of hc» ' eel

INDIANA LEGISLATIVE. Ihmanafcus. Feb. 11 - Both branches of CM feneiikasseiBbly adjourned at an early hour Saturday. senator Crai or Introduce l a till looking to th j comiMdsdr;' education of children and making ita-mindemeansr for the pi rents or guardians to refuse to send to school. Notice vras given In the house by Mr. Haggard of a motion to reconsider the rote by which the wiping out the fnsurance sfstem of the Pennsylt anjanwBwa:;- was ordered engrossed. A bill -rAS introduced by Mr. Decry, c?rreeting the errors in the firemen's fun i law recently held a be unconstitutional by the Mar ion superior court. A majority and; ninorl ty report from tho committee on ways an l meats, on the bill to require »a accounting from the state board of agriculture developed the lack of a quorum and adjournment was hast eneti. INDI ASA PIOUS, Feb. It. — Sksat j. — The amendments to the city charter of led: anapclis was the bene of contention over wiich :he members of he s« nate ta Iked loud am. long all day Mondsy. The amendments were the special order of 1 o'clock. Senator Magee, to save time, introduced a resolution restricting speeches to :lveminutes on committee reports, but several senators were loaded with speeches and consideiation of the resolution was postponed until id ter the charter matter lad been disposed of. Hoes®—Tie house Monday took up and imposed of the tour amendments to the ronstitution which passed the general assen.bly two years ago. Amendment No. 1 autho ized the levy of a tatt on die grots receipts of corporations. Amendment No, If extends th; regular session of the general assembly from 60 te 100 dgys, and siieeial sessions to 40 days. Amendment Xo. 3 proposed to extend the ter as of all state officer, to four years. Amendm mt No 4 proposed to jxtecd the terms of all bounty offlcers to four nears The first two were adopted. The last two wrote killer:. Having pased two legislatures :hn first two, if they pass the senate, as they probt.My will, will be submitted to a vote of tho people at the next general election. The till to legislate the state board of agriculture out of office then came b -fore tlie house. The call t f the rc U showed the tnajo ri ty report adopt ed by a ^otc of 40 to 40. ISDiAKAP'jt.is, Feti t5 —Sssate—T ic senate spent the g-eater part af Tuesday dscusdng Senator Gif ord’s bill to regulate foi eign and domestic building and loan associat ons, the main purpose of which, is to require st: stemomts from foreign association:: doing business in the state and placiig them under the sur .-elllance of th< state auditor. The bill was engrossed. Tie amendment to the ele< tion taw prohibiting the printing of sample balots was voted down. Adjournment: came while the *:natewas discussicg mincrity represen- atior. on the election hoards: Hotrsk^Tuesday afteiuoon the ho' se committee recommended certain amendments to the patronage bill, by wliich the gener il ass embly will continue to elect the librarian and engineer. Th< bill and rocommendatuns v-ere then laid on the speaker's table, sublet t to call at any time. The house began prtceedugs Tuesday with the eo-eiaployes liability bill, against whith a strong fight was tu ie by the railway companies, and it was ordered engrossed by t. vote of 75 to 1* A numbt t of new bills were introduced anti included in ho resolutions. There was one looking to del nlng the northwest boundary line between Indiana and Illinois. A repo.-t recoimnending tht abolishment of the stare sanitary live stock commission was concurred in, and the proposition looking to taxation of building association money was killed. A number of toil Is Were passed, amoog them one proyiding that persons convicted of tran-wrecMng may be sentenced for life.

Indianapolis, Feb. 16.—Sknat*— rhe senate Wednesday engrossed the bill ineo perating loan, trust and safety deposit companies and enabling the® to act as trustees of tbs estates of deceased'persons and as guardian > of persons of unsound mind, etc. The senate also took approvng action on the bill givitg minority parties the right of representatkii. on election boards. Disapproval was had in t: te senate of the judiclbl apportionment bill, and itwasreferred to a committee on organization' if courts, to report at an -arty d.te. The bill: mep ling “the Kangaroo election law,” so as to proride for the preservation of uncounted ballots was defeated— 22 to 24. Hous*—The gtneral tpproprlation bill was introduced to the house by the ways a id moans committee, and was male by special order for Friday at 2 ]x m. Serious reductions w ire made all along thii lino. The senate bill irovtling for elections but inco eviry four year; in c ties and towns auu making present officer! hoi ling' oner till 1866 was engrossed. Tbe horse cidled up the majority and minority reporis of the committee on the bill appropriating J50.IWD in aid of the Natlot ai encampment, 6. ou. R, and themajority report recommending an indefinite postponement, was^ipprovedyiy a vote of 51 to 15. A bill has passed the house, hows ver, empowering the city council to levy a special tax of 115,600 in aid ol the proposes encampment. The bill creating the office of toiler inspector anti calling for the inspect on of all steam boileis in the state passed. Indianapolis Feb. I t—Ssnate.—The first step towai-d cs.ving a hole in the g< neraI appropriation bill, reported in the house Werdeaday, was taien t.pThursday, when tlie senate passed a bill appreciating i 55,COS for the Indiana exhibit at tt* World's Fiir. The general bill contained, an item o f2£'i,00fi ThebUi came be'ore the senate with thre-r reports recommending ai:. appropriatio tof TlO,COO, another recommending anc another recommend .ngm«0- nte first rep art, being voted upon, was not adopted. The ecoiu- report was adopteii, and, under suspens on of the' rules, the bill was passed Hods*—Senator McHugh’s bill exte ndinj the terms of ail city office rs to four yea s, passed and now awai's the governor's signature. The natural gas bill wail ordered to engross ment Thursday, after tt had been shotr its most objectionable features. Tie legalizing meter measurement was stifleout, as wan also that authorizing gas companies to slid (St whole districts uni rss if' was first- proven that the supply of gas is iiadequaTCv Thi majority re pert of the sp 'Clalremmittee appt inted to investigate the 1 loby.racetrack, presented Thursday. was to the Beet that existing laws are sufficient to me*', the cases if they are enforced, and the rt port; was adopted. IndianAiroLli, Feb. If .—Sknat*- -Tlie Senate had an animated time Friday mot ning ;over the house bill extending tae saloon elosinii law from it o’rioek p m. to midnight i t th^j city and Evansville. There were maj< rity and minority reports On a motion to subs itute the minority rei-ort, wh .ch opposed ai y cf^tnge, fully twenty senators veiled affirraatii eiy, ivliile but three o r fou:- voted no. These thi ee o? four shouted with tie full rigor of lung lowe r and the president ol the senate ruled ir the r far vor. Instaitly here w;is & row wtth he .liveliest kind of pretesting against the i altar, but the chairman claimed tol cve erred i inoci nUy. Senator Bxird introduced a bill to p ever t the manufacture aid sale of “hoop-ski‘Is” ' n the state. The penalty tor violating thf law was fixed at a maximum cif 81,000 fine vlth thirty days’ imprisonment. Hods*—The l ouse lob another wb 10k r t the bill wiping out nhe Pennsylvania Cen ‘.rai insurance business; and it undid the work of Tiursday by which the Question of insurin r with the company was left optional with the empioye. This is the second time the bill has t len reconsidered. each time with different res' fits. The co-employes liability jilt was pass'd hr the house, 68 tc IT, without discussion. I’onsideration of the get era! aiipropriations has gone over until Monday. Mm IV. <1 Babtoh, wife of the rominect carpenter and cont: •actor of Ivansvirie, attempted toeommi t su cide ,y jumping into the swollen Obi) at he foot of Bay lets street she was esorted jy n Negro named Jii a .Black, rho saw her plunge into ths water nd who hurried to her aid in a skiff, fra Barton says she was despondent Oka Eankes, died at Seymour fter a brief illn ssi of pn< n media, ged 7ft. For yearn he has rep reseiifed ifferent wholesale notion firm s of Cininnati. He was a member ot- the (asonie i rate mi ty and aleadin f Me thoTh* otiwsr night liiold robbers dro ve a agon to FsirnorJ ohn Lindsa f’s tarn, :ar Mciicie, and ailed it with tlOO orth of clover an i timothy iced. As ey wen driving off the bin i axlo of e wagon broke, The min panted their boisrei and 1< ft eakneck speed. Lindsay is * w igon in session at Leb i tan te- be i sue b ar of that itte iter

JOB WORK O P ALL K INDS NEATLY EXECUTED —ATJtKAtiONABDZ BATK8. 4 READING CALLED DOWN. One of the tireatmt Railroad Comblnatl'.'os Ever Attempted Goes to Smash After’ One Brier Tear of Existence— The Format lou or the Coal Treat aad the Bold Invasion of New England Ter. rltoh Precipitated the Crash—Tho Iff tern lu the Hands or Receivers. New York, Feb, 20.—Th^/PhUhdelphi;i A Reading railroad is in tho hands of receivers. Its credit and its power in the financial world are (rone, and the ownership of its panic-blown, widelyscattered stock is unknown. The rise ami fall of one of the most extensive I and ambitious railroad combinations ever attempted are embraced in the comparatively brief period of one year and a fortnight. It was just a year ago this month thot the formation of the great Bead-ing-Jersey Central-Lehigh Valley alliance was publicly announced. Bailroad men and Wall street financiers were surprised and impressed with the magnitude of the combination. In mi eage, it was the largest railroad system in the east, and its ownership of coal mines made it apparently the arbitrator of the coal markets of the country. The hand of J. Pierrepont Morgan was frankly disclosed in the new combination and the prestige of his name added much to the public confidence in | the stability of the statement. Never did such an enterprise start under more favorable conditions. Conservative men hi Wall street were inclined to believe that the unfortunate and much-buffeted road was at last to bo guided into the haven of solvency. Archibald McLeod was hailed as the savior' of the Beading and praised as the coming railroad magnate of tho world. His simple declaration of what he intended to do was popularly ae- ° cep ted as the statement of a thing accomplished- » Mr. McLeod has not been j indolent injhis high estate. His brief i career ps president of the Eead- ! ing system has been marked by an uncommon exhibition of activity, energy and personal self-reli-ance. Ills administration forms a unique and theatrical chapter in tho histpry of American railroads. Tho dissolution of the Beading combination, which culminated yesterday, was begun by'the opposition of the New Jersey authorities and the courts to the formation of a coal trust. Although Mr. McLeod and his associates pooh-poohed: that opposition for awhile, they finally « had to give way to it. and a complete ; severance of the relations between tho Reading and the Jersey Central was i announced. The facts relating to- the Beading's incursion in :o New England, the series of ’brilliant moves which apparently placed the new Poughkeepsie bridge, the Boston & Maine railroad, the New York & New England railroad and tho Connecticut Rive*! railroad in the control of the great combination, are still familiar events in the public mind. It was this New England extension, which practically was a declaration of war against the powerful New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad corporation, that caused the successive uprising of obstacles over which Mr. McLeod has been stumbling for tho post few months. By invading the territory of the consolidated system ho antagonized strong financial interests represented by Drexel, Morgan & Cot, which at the outset Jhad been a most powerful backer. The relations between Mr. Pierrepont Morgan and tho Beading management at once became strained, and it was not long before McLeod found his feet slipping off his financial basis. ' ’ r Th$ Philadelphia syndicate who were carrying the stock of the Beading company found themselves overweighted with rapidly acquired subsidiary properties in New England and elsewhere, and the need of more money was felt Heav^ obligations approached maturity, and some quick returns had to be made to escape'direet default Tho resources of Mr. Morgan were no longer interested in protecting Reading’s credit if the earnings failed to come up to his expectations, and the prestige of the Beading combination began to fade. Quite natnroHy the heavy selling of Beading shares in the stock exchanges here and at Philadelphia last Friday and Saturday, and the rapid decline in prices suggested financial weakness on the part of the management of the property. All doubts on that point were removed ; yesterday when it was learned that an application had been made to a Pennsylvania court for the appointment of A receiver. ,

Receivers Appointed. ... Phila»e:lphia, Feb. 21.—A meeting of the board of directors of the Reading & Philadelphia company was held and the result of the meeting and the eonj elusion reached was shown when in the United States district court an application wa.s made for a receiver. The application for a receiver was made by the company and in the petition to the court asking that the receiver be appointed it was stated that it was believed that the best interest of thestoekholders of the road would be preserved by the ap- : print moot of a receiver. The court granted the application and appointed as receivers A. A. McLeod, president of the Philadelphia & Reading; Edward Paxaoo, chief justice of the supreme court of the state of Pennsylvania, and E. P. Wilbur, of the Lehigh Valley division of the Reading. Justice Pstsson. on receipt of his appointment as receiver, immediately resigned his judicial position. The Kansas Republicans will Elect a Tu tted States Senator. Topeka, Kas., Feb. 21.—The republicans in ca’ieus last night decided, to elect another senator this week. The cause of this action is the assurance from national democratic leadersthat if the republicans will ^ elect a stalwart democrat he will b.; seated: over John L Martin. Thv