Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 4, Petersburg, Pike County, 16 June 1893 — Page 2

She §? ike Cmmttj §t uw* rat 11. McC. STOOPS, Editor »nd Proprhtor. PETERSBURG. - - INDIANA. The war department has decided to 6end the entire eorps of cadets from West Point to the World’s fair at Chicago about the middle of August. Mbs. Gresham, mother of the secretary of state, was reported very ill, on the 9th, at her home at Lanesville, Ind. She is past 80 years of age The opinion of the majority of the supreme court on the Chinese exclusion and restriction act, announced by Justice Gray, had not, up to the 5th. been filed with the qlerk of the court. James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New York Herald, fell from a coach in Paris, on the Tth, sustaining injuries which, on tfie 9th, his physicians said rendered his condition critical. Fnoons continue to cause great destruction in the Austrian duchy of Bukowina. Large numbers of the persons hare been drowned, while thouL,'f sands are homeless, and the loss of property is very great. » During a storm at Mizquinaula, a small town in the st^te of Hidalgo, Mexieo. a man named Miraureo and his wife and child sought refuge in a cave. A cloudburst filled the cave with water in a few seconds, drowning all three. ” Isaac Morton, ex-president of the Cleveland A Marietta railroad, died at Columbus, O.. on the 7th. He was 83' years old, and for many years was promine«rt in Ohio politics, He was best known by his sobriquet of ‘‘Gov. Morton.” v The marriage of Jeannette, daughter of Maj. E. W. Halford, formerly private secretary to President Harrison, t® Edmund A. Benedict, of New York, took place, on the Tth. in the cathedral church of St. Mary's, Nottingham, England.

The courtesies of the World’s fair were extended to the Infanta Eulalie. on the 8th. and the celebration of “Princess Day” in her honor was a complete success. Thousands of flairs were displayed on the 'different building's, the Spanish colors predominating. Tee $10,000 souvenir half-dollar, owned by an eastern firm of typewriter. manufacturers, was installed in Manufactures hall at the World's fair on the 5th. A special guard was placed in charge of the precious piece, and a watch will be kept over it until the end of the fair. Emvix Thomas Booth, the great tragedian. who had been lying very ill at the Players’ club, in New York, for several weeks, died at 1:05 a. m.. on the 7th, surrounded by his daughter, Mrs. (irossman, and her husband and many intimate and loving friends. He was 60 years old. At the request of Secretary of War Lamont, Adjt,-Gen. Williams, on the 8th, selected a number of regular army officers for .duty at the World's fair, where they' will assist in increasing the efficiency of the Columbian guards without adding further to the expense of that organization. > Secretary Koke Smith has tfaade a decision repealing a former order construing “disability not of service origin."’ so as to limit it to disabilities preventing the applicant from learning 6npport by manual labor. It! is believed this will reduce pension payments from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000. Clearikghovke returns for seventyfive principal cities of the United States, as reported by Bradstreet’s, for the week ended on the 9th, aggregated $1,156,384,858, of which amount New York city returned $045,S34,032, Chicago $104,3S1.206, Boston $93,979,577, Philadelphia $79.109.987 and St. Louis $25,035,062. The Central Traffic association has taken the initiative in the matter of lowering the rates to Chicago to a single tare for the round trip; and it is expected in official circles that this will prove the entering wedge which will lead to unifojmrand general action on the part of all] the trunk lines. It is mentioned as a significant coincidence that Secretary Lamont, the head of the war department, should be right on the spot at a time when there is a possibility that his department may be called upon to back up the judicial branch of the government in enforcing Sunday closing at the World's fair.

Following the experimental efforts of Prof. Jewell, at Meade, Kas., covering a period of five days, a heavy rain began to fall; on the 5th, a* 7:30 p. m., and continued for the best part of the night, giving the soil in the vicinity a thorough drenching, This terminated Jewell’s experiments in southwestern Kansas. The Ihfanta Eulalie and her suite, accompanied by Commander Davis, the president’s representative, arrived in Chicago, on the 6th, at 12:10 p. m. The princess met with a royal reception oh the part ofg^he municipal government and was greeted by a greater throng than assembled to welcome the duke of Veragua or President Cleveland on their recent visits. The federal court at Chicago, on the Sth, passed upon the question of Sun-day-closing of the World’s fair, Judges Woods and Jenkina holding that under their contract with the government the local directory could not legally pass a Sunday-opening order; and Judge Grosscup claiming that In keeping back a portion of the souvenir half dollars appropriated by congress to the fair directors the government has broken faith and relieved the directory of the obligati* n assumed.

V CURRENT TOPICS. THE NEWS IN BRIEF. PERSONAL .AND GENERAL. The recent raid en the savings banks of Chicago and other cities will hurt the banks lessi in the long run than it wiH the depositors who have drawn out their money. A month or so hence, or perhaps earlier, they will - be back at the banks again with their cash. Meanwhile they will have lost the interest, while the principal was never seriously endangered. Attachments’were served, on the 7th, upon fifty elevators and all other property of the Northern Pacific Elevator Co. in North Dakota in a suit on claims aggregating $400,000, brought at the instance of banks in Montreal, Minneapolis and Duluth. On the 8th less than $1,000,000 remained to be subscribed to the $15,000,000 syndicate organized to underwrite an eqp£l amount of trust notes which are to4>e sold by the Northern Pacific Railroad Co., to pay the debt and provide the company with working capital. There were severe runs on several Chicago savings banks, on the 5th, but none of the national banks were affected. A jury having been secured, the trial of Miss Lizzie Borden for the alleged murder of her father and step-mother in August last was begun at New Bedford, Mass., on the 6th, by a formal statement of the case upon which the prosecution relies for conviction. At the close of the opening speech court was adjourned to allow the jury to visit the scene of the tragedy at Fall River. lx the second race, on the 6th, between the prince of Wales’ cutter the Britannia and the Iverna, Calluna, Santanita and the Valkyrie, the latter again won, beating the Britannia, which crossed the line second, by 2 minutes and 26 seconds. On the 5th, over the same course, the Valkyrie beat the Britannia by 1 minute. Paul Johnstone, the mind-reader, who, on the 4th, went with a party of five into the Big Wind cave at Hot Springs, S. I)., to find a pin that had been secreted by a member of the committee. expecting to bt gone twelve or thirteen hours, had not returned up to the 6th. and great solicitude for the safety of the party Mias felt. The Kansas Grain & Land Co., with

unices ax- lidicinson., ivus., ictiieu on me 5;t’n. «■ j ■ ' Br the arrival at • 'San Francisco, on tjhe 6th. of the steamer (htelic, from Hong' Kong and Yokohama, via Honolulu, information is received that Minister Blount iias come, heartily to approve'of the revolution and probably justifies nearly all of the acts of his predecessor. ex-Minister- Stevens, in connection therewith, lie will not restore the monarchy, and the possibility of his reeommeding annexation is also hinted at. The Russian extradition treaty, which has been the subject of negotiation between the contracting parties for more than six years, which has been amended again and again, and which was threatened with defeat in its final Stages, has at last been formally proclaimed, a nd will henceforth be the law of the land until it is superseded by another treaty. A'thunderstorm . of extraordinarv violence visited New Y'ork on the afternoon of the Cth. The big guns of the warships in the Hudson were as pop guns compared to the crashing asid booming of the artillery - of the sky, and with every ^thunderclap there was a flash of lightning that extended from one end of t Ke city “to the other. Much damage was done to property. The c)tv of Fargo, N. D-, suffered from a (53,000.000 conflagration on the 7th. Tire entire business portion of file townvvas gutted, and thousands of persons weye rendered homeless. Many persons were injured. ’ On the 0th the directors of the Whisky trust fiied an $8,000,000 mortgage with the recorder of Peoria conntv, 111. It is whispered that the bonds, to secure which the mortgage was given, had already been sold at a very low figure to intimate’ friends of the directors. Reparation, pecuniary and by apology, has been asked of the department of state by the British ambassador at Washington fer the action of the captain of night inspectors in New Orleans, on May 2, in arresting First Mate R. E. Maeli -of the steamship Nigretia and locking him up in the city jail without proper cause. Hon. Moody Merrill, who for thir-ty-four years has been connected with the business interests of Boston as a lawyer, street railway president, legislator and agitator for public improvements and reforms, is missing. He left his business affairs in a very bad con

Ditrixg a friendly scuffle in the operating room of the Western Union Telegraph Co.in Chicago,on the 7th,Thomas Stack,who had an open pocket-knife in his ‘hand, accidentally stabbed and killedGeorge Crain. Both were messenger boys. Crain "made an ante-mortem statement, declaring the stabbing accidental and exonerating Stack from all blame. The postmaster general has formally announced that disease germs, or other things of like character, no matter how securely put up, are of the nature of poisons and extremely dangerous to health, and that they are. therefore, absolutely unmailable. Postmasters are instructed to see that no such things are allowed to enter into the mails. The bodies of William G. Gray, aged 28, and Miss Dora A. Velsie, aged 22. the latter but partly dressed, were found lin a room over an undertaking establishment in Grand Rapids, Mich., on the 7th. Both had been shot through the head, as is supposed, by the^woman. About a dozen fine residences, most of which were of recent construction, were destroyed by fire in San Francisco early on the morning of the 7th Three firemen were instantly killed by a falling chimney, and a fourth waa badly burned.

SArioxr. AlARTEr.ro was executed by electricity in Dannemora (X. Y.) prison at 11:51 a. m., on the'Cth, for killing a fellow Italian named Giovanni Parello on March 5, 1893, in Saratoga. D. B. Monroe, leader of the miners in the Coal Creek \Tenn.) war last August, was sentenced at Clinton, Tenn.^'j on the 7th, to the penitentiary for seven j years. The sentence is regarded by many persons as a light one. Kecen.tj.v Tom Curtis, the veteran safe blower, and “Kid” Smith were arrested in Detroit, Mich., in the act of passing spurious money, with which the city had for some time been flooded. On the 8th the police raided a house in Dane street and arrested an old man named Jackson and his son. A search of the house revealed a quantity of bogus money and a good lay out of counterfeiting apparatus. !8_ Samoan advices received, on the 8th, per steamer Alameda, from Apia, May 24, says: It may be safely predicted that Samoan affairs are approaching a climax. Indeed, before this reaches America, Malietoa and Mataafa may have tried conclusions, and the all-im-portant qhestion as to which is the stronger party may have been decided j forever. I An arrangement was perfected, on the 8th, by the representatives of the Pennsylvania. Big Four, Chicago, Hamilton & Dayton and Monon railroads providing for cheap excursions to the World's fair from Cincinnati, Dayton, Louisville and other points. Returns for May to the London board of trade show that imports to i the United Kingdom increased £1.800,- ; 000; and exports increased £40,000, as Compared with May. 1802. A new ministry was appointed in the Argentine Republic, on the 8th, to take the place of the cabinet’ which resigned on the 7th. Worthington Ford, of Brooklyn, said to be worth nearly $1,000,000. inherited lecentlv from his father's estate, was appointed, on the 8th, by Secretary . Carlisle, chief of the bureau of statistics, treasury department.

By the sunden collapse, on the 9th, of the third, second and ground floors of tiie old Ford theater building in Washington, in which President Lincoln was assassinated by the actor J; Wilkes liooth, 200 or 300 clerks of the war department, who were employed there, tvere precipitated into the cellar, twenty-two of whom were killed outright and forty-five others injured, many of them fatally. The accident occurring on the day of the funeral of Mi-. Edwin liooth is mentioned as at least a singular coincidence. The Washington Post of the 9tk says: The ultimatum of the federal court at Chicago, to the effect that the World's fair can not be opened on Sunday. is final, and will be backed up by force of arms if necessary. Wm. L. Sherwood, dealer in cloth at 141 Fifth avenue, Chicago, assigned, on the 9th. to John C. Williams. Assets are placed at (1,000 and liabilities at $40,000.. The president has recognised O. J. 11. Price as Belgian consul at Green Bay, Wis., for the states of Wisconsin, Minnesota and the two Dakotas. Sixty deaths from cholera occurred in Mecca on the Sth. Five deaths from diseases of a choleraic nature occurred, on the fth. at Cette, France, a place with a considerable coastwise and foreign trade, in w hich choleraic diseases have already been reported. W. J. Fokbes, of Duluth. Minn., hasbeen appointed receiver of the Northern Pacific & Red River Valley Elevator Co. LATE NEWS ITEMS. Babe Hawkins, the desperado, with ; a gang of about thirty men armed ; to the teeth, surprised the town of Shelbyville. Ind.. on the 10th, by appearing on the streets for the purpose of avenging the death of his brother Charles Hawkins, who was lynched a i year ago for shooting the city marshal. After a desperate fight with a couple of ■ ex-sheriffs and about 500 citizens who i rallied to their support, the desperado j was disarmed and captured. He was afterwards released under bonds. By digging out of his cell in the Tombs prison m New York city and escaping undetected. John Myers accomplished a feat which will make his name memorable in the history of crime in that city. His is the first successful attempt to break out of this prison since it was built, nearly sixty ; years ago. The forty-first convention of the International Typographical cuion. which 1 met in Chicago cn the 12th, was in point of numbers, tbe largest in the history of the organization. The exposition drew to Chicago representa- | tives from every subordinate union. Reports from Paris, on the 11th, represented the condition of James Gordon BenUett, who was so badly injured by falling from a coach, as steadily improving, and it was thought by his friends that the sufferer was out of danger.

A refort from Vienna says the exe- : quater of Max Judd, the new consul general of the United States to Austria, had been signed by Count Taafe, and would be delivered to Mr. Judd soon. Edgar R. Sisson, a prominent i churchman, and well known in South Bend (Ind.) business circles, is wanted for forgeries aggregating about $5,000. He is believed to be in Canada. More than 2.000 men quit work in the coal mines at Kladnow, Bohemia, on the 10th, and the strike was spreading rapidly. Troops were ordered to the mines from Prague. Sanger, the American cyclist, was beaten in the mile scratch race at Herne Hill, England, on the 10th, by Harris, the Englishman. Time, 2:34. Chief Justice Fuller issued a stay of proceedings in the World's fair Sun-day-closing case, on the 10th, and the fair was opened on the 11th. ON the 10th the New York city banks held $14,429,500 in excess of the requirements of the 25 per cent. rule. Cholera has appeared at Norbonne, France, on the railway from Berdeaur to Cette.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Ihdiaxai’olis seems to be suffering from a wave of murders. For two months they hare come at the rate of one or two per week. Early the other •pnoming John Tarpey, street commissioner of Hnughville, a suburb of Indianapolis, was shot dead in his tracks by an unknown thief, whom he and three others surprised in the act of robbing Shaw's saloon. The murderer, in the confusion, made good his* escape and has not been caught. A few nights ago, at North Indianapolis, another suburb, John Mackey, white, was shot and probably fatally Grounded by Ed Miller, colored. Miller had a squatters shuntv near the canal, and while he was up town the shanty caught fire and burned. While the fire was in progress Miller came rushing wildly among the crowd that had collected, flourishing a revolver, and let go at the first man in his way, who happened to be Mackey. He was at once overpowered by the crowd and turned over to the police. His only reason for his crazy action is that he thought the crowd had set fire to his shanty. The United States and Pacific Depot Express Coos office in Peru was entered by thieves the other night during the absence of clerks at lunch, and. by skilful manipulation of the large safe. $8C0 in money and valuable check books were stolen. The whole things was done in 80 minutes, with the depot platform filled with passengers. There is no clew to the thieves. J At Jeffersonville, Geo. Johns and his j wife were attacked by a mad cow. Later in the day the cow died. The following postmasters were named the other day: Cheadle, Clinton county, George Land; Coatsville. Hendricks county, N. N. Patrick: Freedom, Owen county, J. H. Courim; Pekin, Washington county, C. B. Elrod; Springport, Henry county, Wm. Pickenpaugh. Jas. Morroney, a well-to-do farmer of Morristown, suicided by hanging himself to a beam in his barn. He leaves a family. The cause is said to be despondency, caused by disease and re

verses. Mrs. Amos Thompson, widow, residing’with her son Cyras, near Crawfordsville, was killed by a horse the other evening'. She went to the barn to_feed the animal, and entered the stall where the horse was tied. She had a shawl over her head, and it is supposed the j horse became frightened at her appear- j ance. and knocking her against the pal-- ; tition stunned her so that she fell down 1 under the animal's feet. It then pawed her head and breast into a mass. A hired hand, on coming into the barn, j noticed the horse pawing, and on examination found the remains of Mrs. ! Thompson. He attempted to enter the stall, and was kicked against the barn. Calling for Cyrus Thompson, he came, j and after pacifying the beast carried I out the body of his mother. Moses Crane, a young farmer, was j found dead the other morning.at Kil- ; more, four and one-half miles north of Frankfort. He was badly mutilated. The body was lying on the depot plat- i form, where, the supposition is, it had j been thrown after being struck by a 1 Vandalia freight train. He leaves a wife and one child. Two boys, James Watson and Homer * Thomas, aged 11 and 15 years respectively, while fishing on a raft of logs at the river front, at Madison, were both drowned the other evening, Watson fell in the river and Thom: s made a heroic effort to rescue him. but the swift current carried both beneath the raft. Alonzo Myers, of Riehland, while out hunting the other day. accidentally shot himself through the abdomen with a rifle, causing instant death. A cyclone completely razed the residence of Mr. Lowe at Economy. A blind man who is an expert pool ! player lives in Decatur county. A barn near Laporte belonging to j Henry Biege was set on fire by tramps, destroying two horses. Loss over JSOO, partially Insured. Ex-Gov. Ira J. Chase has been in- j dieted for embezzlement and false pretenses. Th# grand jury investigating the affairs of the Greentown bank re- j turned bills against him, John N. Paris i and Cashier Lewis S. Walden. Chase is indicted on three counts—embezzle- I ment directly in appropriating funds of the bank: embezzlement indirectly through his agent, Cashier Walden, and false pretenses in securing deposits by falsely representing the stability of ; the bank. Paris is indicted in five counts for the same crimes, and Cashier Walden is charged with embezzlement and false pretense. Chase is in Pennsylvania lecturing. He will be arrested by the sheriff when found.

At Columbus, just alter returning from church, Mrs. Marshall Fultz and i three daughters partook of a light lunch and retired. In a few minutes all were taken deathly sick. Their symptoms were tho.ie of arsenical poisoning, and for some hours it looked as though all would die. The mother pnd eldest daughter will recover, but too hopes are entertained for the two younger. All efforts to locate the cause of the strange affliction have failed. The little three-year-old girl of Edward Livengood, living seven miles east of Lebanon, was choked to death the other morning by a coffee grain lodging in her windpipe, The operation cf tracheotomy was performed, but too late to save her life. Mbs. Charles Stark, of Portland, is the owner of a four-legged chicken. The little fowl is only a week'old, but is as lively as those that are not so abundantly supplied. The extra pair of legs come out just behind the others. Gen. James C. Veatch and wife celebrated the fifty-fourth anniversary of their marriage at their home in Rockport a few days ago. The general is 78 years of age, and Mrs. Veatch is 72 years of age. Gen. Veatch served his country faithfully as a brigadier-gen-eral in the late civil war. Gov. Matthews will try to suppress the Roby race-track and the athletic club.

A VERY WEAK CASE. the Local Comment on the Borden Mar. der Trial—The Defense Provided with a Bomb AVhlch They will Shortly Explode In the Camp olf the Authorities—The Dress-Burning Incident Explained—The Hatchet Stories* Fall River, Mass., June 11.—‘Ail day long talk has been plentiful on the there can be no denial that it is a general opinion about town that the prosecution th’is far has a very weak case. This opinion is being strengthened by rumors current here to the effect that Lizzie Borden's counsel will shortly explode a bomb-shell in the camp of the authorities. It is hinted that the defense will sh<pv conclusively that Lizzie Borden purchased some paint a few days before the murder and that it was notan uncommon thing to burn dresses in the Borden household. Then the fact that the girl burned the dress in the daylight, while officers surrounded the house, will also be cited to show there was not the slightest concealment. The defendant's lawyers do not attempt to disguise their joyful feelings because of the present status of the case, and the girl's friends here are jubilant. The hatchet incident, with its accompanying denials, is also a source of much comfort. But while the prisoner's friends are buoyant the spirits of the police authorities are by no means downcast. Officer Maulley's strange, unexpected statement about finding the handle, is, they say. in keeping with the general tone of the testimony given by him before in court. He has been known several times to take a position in less important cases, in defiance of the fact that five or six other officers and witnesses testified positively that he was wrong. One of the police authorities thinks so little of the circumstance t/lij. he says he will not advise the disjffTct attorney to contradict Maulley's alleged erroneous stateBorden murders, and

ment. The matter of wrapping* up the hatchet, testified in two ways by Medley and, Desmond, can be easily explained. They say both ihfcii did wrap up the hatchet. Desmond wrapping* it up first and passing it to Medley ,-yfrho afterwards opened it in the cellar to show another officer. It is a frequently expressed opinion here that the defense has built a mine under Medley's ■testimony and will set it off before the case is finally submitted. THE MASSACHUSETTS. The.Launching: of the Great Battle-Ship Massachusetts at the Cramps’ Yards—A Slsier. Ship of the Indiana and Oregon— A Powerful War Kiiglne. Phil adel phi As June 11.—The big battleship Massachusetts was successfully launched from the ship yard at the Cramps at 9:59 o'clock, in the presence of Secretary of the Navy Herbert, Attorney-General Olney. the latter representing the state of Massachusetts, a number of distinguished naval and army officers, and a multitude of 15,000 people. Miss Leila Herbert, daughter of the head of the navy department, christened the vesvel with the customary and prettilydecorated bottk^of champagne. The Massachusetts is the second of the three 10.200-ton .tattle-ships which were authorized to be constructed during Secretary Tracy's termsas the head of the naval department. She is the sister ship to the Indiana, recently launched by the Crumps, and to the Oregon, new being built at San Francisco, and her leading chardcteriscits are great battery power and her enormously heavy armor, which is 18 inches thick at the water line. The redoubts, which project 3*4 feet above the main deck, and protect the turning gear of the turrets, are 17 inches thick, as also are the turrets themselves. There is a heavily-sloping Steel prot ective deck. 414 feht below the water line, at the sides, vhiie coal bunkers are worked over the belt deck, and ocff'rdaxDS of water-excluding material are placed on the IjBlopes of the armor deck, forward and aft. There is a powerful ram below. The armored conning tower is of Id-inch plates. The military mast has two tops for rapid-tire machine guns, the ammunition for whitfh is sent to them inside the masts. Many water-tight compartments aid the defensive strength of the vessel. Admirable as is the protective strength of the Massachusetts, even more striking, if possible, te her aggressive power. She can throw at a single discharge 6.924 pounds of projectiles, or more than three tons, with a total energy of 210.000 foot tons. The armament w$ll consist of four 13-inch, eight 8-inch and four G-inch breech-loading rifles, twenty 6-pounders and four 1-pounder rides, four Gatling guns ana six torpedo tubes. The 13-inch guns are to to mounted in pairs in two turrets, one forward and one aft. The turrets are at such a height that the guns ar? 17 feet-8 inches above the load water line and 6 feet above the deck, over which they Are. The guns can be loaded in any position or horizontal train, which advantage is possessed by few. if any foreign battle-ships, the largest guns of which can be loaded in one position

The 8*inch guns are to he mounted in pairs in armored turrets. They are to he 2* feet 0 inches above the water, and can lire over the turrets on the deck below. The 6-inch guns are to te mounted 14 feet 10 inches alove the water cn the main deck without any superstructure. As to speed, the contract requirement is a sustained average, through the trial, of 15 knots. The engines of the Massachusetts, which are to develop 9,000-horse-power at the maximum, are of the twin-screw vertical, triple expansion, direct acting, inverted cylinder type, in watertight compartments, separated by £ull$ heads. The diameters of the cylinders are: High pressure. 34y% inches; intermediate, <8 inches. There are four double-ended and two single-ended auxiliary steel boilers of the horizon'al. return-lire tube type, all constructed for a working pressure of 160 pounds per square inch.’ Electric light and ventilation are properly cared fer, and the system of draiua ge is simplified, while any compartment can be pumped out either by hand or steam. The quarters for the officers and crew are unusually commodious and comfortable, and from stem to stem the vessel will be fitted with all the latest improvements adapted to the steamers. The Massachusetts has a length of 348 feet; a breadth of 60^4 feet, and a mean draught of 24 feet, giving her a displacement of 10.200 tons. Her draught is suited for some of the shallower harbors, and yet she can take the sea in all weathers. ' The Cramps secured the contract for the warship October 1. 1890, on a bid of 13,020,000.

Another Triumph for American War Ship Builders. New London. Conn.. June 12.—The oificial run of the Machias was made at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The corrected average time of the sixty miles cf the course was 15 040-1.000 knots. This lacks only a trilie of bein g 2 1-2 knots in excess of the required speed, but the builders only get a bonus on 21-4 knots at* 55,000 per quarter knot—a total of 545,000. The performance is considered the most remarkable in the history of the new navy. The Machias sailed for Batb at 7 o'clock yesterday evening.

BKC'tESSIOXAl. CAKDS. J. T. KIMB, M. D„ Physician and Surg on liETERSBCRG, ind. *** «“Office In Bank builtlinp, first fio<;r. Will* be iouud at office day or night. GEO. B. ASHBY, j t—• ATTORNEYAT LAW ■ PETERSBURG, INtt Prompt Attention Given to all Brines®. over Barrett & Son's «t< lie. Francis B. Posey. Dewitt Q. ChIItpeixPOSEY * CHAPPELL, j Attorneys at L iw3 Petersburg, Ixd. ft TT(11 pracrice fit all the courts. .Social attention ,giv?n to all business. - A Notary? Public const antly in the office. 4bftOffiee—*On first floor Bank Btiildiug. K E. A. Ely. 8. G. DA’ -ENrOKTS* ELY <& DAVENPORT, LAWYERS, Petersburg, Ixd. O’Office over J. R. Adams & Sol’s drug; ttore. Prompt attention given to all bust? ness'. ! E. 1*. Richardson. A. IT. FaTI.OB RIC; ARDSON & TAYLCl, Attorneys at Law,, PETERSBURG, IXD. Prompt attention given to all bm inpss. ^ Sotary Pu »l c constantly in the office. Office* .n Carpenter Building, Eighth* uuU _J Iain. DENTISTRY. W. II. ST0NE€1P11ER.

Surgeon Denitsst, PETERSBURG^ IXt>: , OffiCP tn rooms 6'and 7-in Carpenter Build- ! linr.' Operations first-<iass. Ail vh.rk .war-. I runted. At testheti.es used Tor j>a ii leas .ex-^ truetion of teet.h. NELSON SJONE, D. V. S., PETERSBURG, IKD. Owing to long practice and the possession of a fine Hbraiy and-case of instruuJonts, Mr. Stcn? is well prepared to treat idl Diseases of Horses ant Cattia SCJCCESS^UEIA'. Ee also keeps on hand a stock cf Cone it ion Powder 3 and Liniment, which he s el Is at , reasonable prices. Office Over J. B. Young & Cc.’> Store. ISaac b ini st AND Blacksmith. 1 am prepared to dp the best of work, witfe satisfaction guaranteed in all kind* of Black* smithing. Also i >. j Kowing and Reaping HaiiMnes Repaired ir. the best of workrnanshi p 1 eraplov none but first-class workme i. Do nojj go from home to get your work.bu. call os me Ht my shop ou Main Street, *€ tersburgf Indiana. CHAS. veecb:. TKUSTEES* NOTICES OF OFFICE DAY* NOTICE is hereby giveti that I wifi attends to the duties of the office of trustee or Clay township at home on EVEKY MONDAY. f All persons who have busines* with theo office wjll take notice that I wil. JitUrnd to* business on no other day. M. M. GO WEN, Trustee.

'\JOTICJS is hereby given to all lurties interes ttd that 1 will attend at :ny office in Stend*.l, EVERY STAURDAY, To transact business connected with ttaeoffice of trustee of Lockhart tow iship. A1B persons having business with salt c dice \vil£ please take notice. J. S. BARRETT. Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all put ties concerned that I will bent iuv resile nee. EVERY TUESDAY, To attend to business connected with the*office of Tiustee of Monroe townVnip. GEORGE GRIM. Trustee. __%- NOTICjS is hereby given that I will be atx my residence EVERY THURSDAY To attend to business connected with the*office of Trustee of Logan townsl ip. 4®“Positlveiy no business transacted except on office days. SILAS KIRK, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all par ties con-cerned-that I will attend at my residence.*EVERY MONDAY To .tiraiiiiaet business connected with the office of Trustee of Madison towns nip. 49»l*ositively no business trai saeiod ex*cept office iaj'a JAMES RUMBLE Trustee. XTOTICK is herebygiven to all jierso'ns in1\ teres :e<l that I will attend in iuy office ii* Velpen, EVERY FRIDAY, To trairiaH business conuecte 1 with th* office of Trustee of Marion tow in hip. Alfi persons having business with said office will please take notice. W. F. BROCK Trustee. N OTICE is hereby give** to all parson* concerned that I will attend tt :«y office EVERYDAY To trac;n:t business connected with the office oI Trustee of Jefferson tov o aiip. R. W». HARR2*, I’riMt#*.