Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 24, Petersburg, Pike County, 27 October 1893 — Page 2

<Thr £ifct Count's §* mocrat K- HcC. 8T00P8, Editor and ProprietorPETERSBURG, - - INDIANA. It i8 said on unquestioned authority that Mr. P. D. Armour, of Chicago, will give *600,000 to the Armour institute, which he has already handsomely equipped. Mbs. Lucv Stqnk-Blackweia, the well-known woman’s suffragist, died at her home in Dorchester, Mass., on the night of the 18th, after a protracted illness. • The council of administration decided, on the 18th, to continue to admit visitors to the World’s fair for one day after the 80th, the day to be observed as Columbian day and as closing day. Gen. Davis P. Burke, a veteran of the rebellion, who commanded an Irish brigade which went to the front from New York, died in that city on the 19th. He had been ailing for some * time. The mayor of Brooklyn and sheriff of Kings county, N. Y., met, on the 19th, and decided to prevent the Cor-bett-Mitchell fight from taking place at the Coney Island Athletic club in December. At a meeting between the members of the demolition committee of the Columbian exposition and the South park board of commissioners, on the 19th, it was agreed that the fair should officially end October 30. The Riverside glass works at Wellsburg.W.Va., the largest concern of the kind in the vicinity, resumed operations, non-union, on the 16th, seven shops working. Only two of the former employes reported for work. Cholera has reappeared in Moscow, Kieff and northeast Hungary. In Moscow the outbreak is most serious. There were thirty-two cases and eleven deaths in the convict forwarding prison at that city between the 1st and 11th It is stated that ex-Senator James G. Pair, of California, has stricken a clause from his will which bequeathed half his estate, amounting to something like *15,000,000, to his son Charles D., and has substituted one giving him •100. A dispatch from rfio de Janeiro to the Exchange Telegraph Co. of London states that alleged telegraphic stories of destruction and carnage are absolutely without foundation. The contending parties are awaiting the result of the election.

The Hawaiian royalists are becoming’ satisfied that United States Minister Willis, when he arrives, will give them no help, and with this prospect before them they are endeavoring to arrange means to help themselves by seizing the government. The govern- , ment party are confident. Marshal McMahon, a noted soldier and president of France from 1873 to 1879, died in Paris on the 17th. He was born in 1808, and was the son of a peer of France. In the war with ' Prussia he was defeated at Worth, August 6, 1870, and at Sedan, where he was severely wounded, September 1. The Cunard line steamer Lucania, Capt. McKay, from New York, October 14, for Liverpool, arrived at Queenstotvn at 4:24 a. m. on the 20th. Her log shows that her daily runs were: 808, 468, 491, 501 and 353 miles, and her exact time was 5 days, IS hours, 80 minutes, again breaking the record. The Ameer of Afghanistan is selling as slaves the prisoners captured by his forces during the recent rebellion of the Hazara tribes, and appropriating the proceeds to recoup himself for the heavy expenses incurred in putting down the rebellion. Ten thousand prisoners have already been thus disposed of. ) Elijah Dalton, James Dalton and George Holsapple, each for five years; Edward Bolling, for three years, and Otto Barnett, for two years, were received at the Indiana prison, south, on the 17th. They are the five whitecappers who inhumanly whipped Mrs. Elijah Dalton at her home near Borden, Ind., two months ago. A strong box, supposed to contain 960,000 in gold and currency, shipped by the American Express Co. from a New York bank to New Orleans, was found upon its arrival at the latter place, on the 16th, to contain nothing but trash. How or when the money was stolen was a profound mystery to the officers of the company.

' At a political meeting held in Christiana, on the night of the 16th, speeches were made by ex-Minister .Stein and State Councillor Ovam, both of whom declared that Norway must be independent, so far as foreign affairs were concerned, and that the 'liberals must deprive the Stang ministry of means to execute Swedish rale in Norway. v , . While walking through a secluded portion of their estate in Pomerania, Prussia, Count^BlTkpher and his wife were both sho/and fatally wounded by a gardener who had Recently been discharged from the count's service for gross misconduct The murderer, 8 after committing the terrible deed, . made his way to the castle and there .'shot himself dead The countess died soon after being shot Lord Dunraven was royally entertained at the New York Yacht club(house, on the night of the 17th, on the ,eve of his departure for home. He iwent there with C. Oliver Iselin, the amateur skipper of the American yacht Vigilant with whom he dined early in the evening, and held an informal reception -in the spacious rooms of the •hib. Then his lordship was elected an honorary member of the club and {was mads to feel nerfectly at home.

CURRENT TOPICS THE NEW8 IN BRIEF. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. (Extra Session.) In the senate, on the l«th, a joint resolution , firing the qualifications to vote and to hold office in the Cherokee outlet was passed. Other business of minor importance was transacted, when the silver purchase-repeal bill was taken up and occupied the senate until 10 o'clock at night, when adjournment pot an end to a bootless debate, interspersed with roll calls to ascertain if a quorum were present.In the house the McCreary bill was put to a vote and passed by 1<2 to 10 In the senate, on the 17th. a long and somewhat acrimonious discussion over the approval of the journal (which was finally approved) was followed by an extended debate on the cloture rule, during which Mr. Morgan promised to offer an amendment to the silver pur-chase-repeal bill for the repeal of the entire Sherman act. To avoid a night session the senate then adjourned to meet at 10 a. m. on the 18th_In the house the bill amending the revised statutes so as to dispense with proof of loyalty during the rebellion by pension claimants or applicants and applicants for bounty, was amended and passed. In the senate, on the 18th. the question of approving the journal of the 17th was again taken up. and after discussion the Dolph resolution to amend the journal was laid on the table. In further considering the question of approving the journal the discussion took a wide range, and when, at 5:15 p. m.. the senate took a recess until 10 o'clock on the 10th. the journal of the 17th had not yet been approved. .In the -house the bill to amend the revised statutes relating to clerks’ and other fees was passed The New Jersey bridge bill was amended and passed, after which the house resumed consideration of the printing bill. In the senate, on the 19th (legislative day of the 17th). the question of approving the minutes occupied the greater part of the session. Mr. Teller s motion to amend the journal was withdrawn and the journal was approved. Consideration of the repeal bill occupied the remainder of the session.In the house a resolution making the bankruptcy bill a continuing order for the 23d was adopted. A bill was passed granting certain lands to the territory of Arizona. The printing bill was taken up. but was laid aside, and the house proceeded to pay its tribute of respect to the memory of the late William Mutchler, of Pennsylvania. In the senate, on the 20th (legislative day of the 17th continued), a bill to facilitate the collection of debts of the aided Pacific railroad companies to the United States, was introduced and referred. Mr. Voorhees offered a cloture resolution to amend the rules, practically the same as ‘heretofore presented by Mr. Hill. The senate then went into executive session.In the house an urgent deficiency bill was passed. The bill requiring railway companies operating lines through the Cherokee Outlet to locate and maintain stations at the towin sites laid out by the interior department. was passed. The joint resolution to remit half the duty on goods exhibited at the World’s fair and sold by the exhibitors, was amended and passed. PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Sen or del Valle, the new leader of the radical party in Argentina, made it a condition precedent to accepting the leadership that the party should abandon violent methods. Mbs. Timothy Donovan, of Morris River, Pa., died at Jackson, Mich., on the 17th. She is the thirteenth victim of the recent wreck. It is believed her spine was dislocated in the crash. Edward Thompson was killed, and several others were injured, three of them probably fatally, by the collapse of a'span of the new wagon bridge over the Des Moines river at Ottumwa, la., on the 18th. President Dole of Hawaii returned to Honolulu from his six weeks’ mountain trip, on the 11th, greatly recuperated in health. Benjamin Deitz, a grocer of Dayton, Q., returned from the World's fair on the 17th and discovered that nearly $4,000 in money and notes, which he had drawn from the bank and hid in a stove, had been stolen. A blue book just issued in London detailing the condition of farm laborers in thirteen counties of Ireland, says that their position is better now than at any former time. Ora Richards, of Galveston, Ind., was arrested, on the 19th, charged with attempting to wreck a Panhandle passenger train by throwing a switch at Galveston just before a fast passen® ger train was due. There were thirty-one new cases and one death from yellow fever in Brunswick, Ga., on the 19th. Twentysix of these cases were colored and five white. The battle monument at Trenton, N. J., was dedicated, on the 19th, with impressive pomp and splendor. The great cotton mill hi Shanghai has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $500,000; no insurance. The paid admissions to the World's fair on the 19th were 807,417. Andrew Dursk and John McManus were smothered to death by a cave-in while digging a trench in the Carnagie steel works at Homestead, Pa., on the 19th. A large amount of gold coin, said to be $5,000,000, was received by the New York subtreasury, on the 19th, from San Francisco. It was carried by Hie Wells Fargo Express Co. Unusual care was taken to keep secret the fact of the shipment and the express company declined even to state by what rbute the precious burden had been

borne. Capt. Hugh L. Rogers died at Fort Smith, Ark., on the night of the 18th, aged 82 years. Fifty years ago he was a prominent turfman and owned a half interest in Peytonia, which ran second in the Peyton stakes at Nashville in 1844. He was captain of the steamer Osprey that carried the Mormons away from Nauvoo, 111. A Baltimore & Ohio engine collided with a Big Four freight train at Cumminsville, O,, on the 19th. Sevenjears were. smashed and one loade<fwith $500 worth of fireworks caught fire and exploded, driving away the firemen who attempted to extinguish ifi. No one was injured. J Maj. E. S. Hosford, a well-known railroad man, formerly division superintendent of the Mobile & Ohio, but lately with the freight department of the Illinois Central, died suddenly at Jackson, Tenn., on the 19th, from a stroke of paralysis. Three masked men held up everyone in Joseph Ausferder’s saloon at La Crosse, Wis., on the night of the 19th, shot two persons,one of them perhaps fatally, cleaned out the money drawer'and made their escape before their victims could give an alarm.

Os the lbth Charles H. Wells, the millionaire lumberman and capitalist, while out with a hunting party of friends on Bow String lake, Minn., was drowned by the upsetting of his canoe. A story was published in Denver, Col., on the 19th, on the authority of Charles N. Chandler, of Thompson Center, Conn., that when the casket supposed to contain the remains of Dr. T. Thatcher Graves, charged with the murder of Mrs. Barnaby, was opened prior to interment, it contained nothing but a log of wood. Early on the morning of the 19th a battle between officers and burglars at Lincoln. Neb., resulted in the killing of a thief named Charles Ryan, alias Daley. Ryan and two companions ransacked a jewelry store and were met at the entrance of an alley by the officers, and the battle began. The other two were captured. Rev. Wii.i.iam Pettit, the wife murderer, was granted a new trial, on the 19th, by the Indiana supreme court. He was sentenced to the penitentiary for life, and died there just before he hearel of the court’s decision. Thomas W. Dewitt, Ohio superintendent of the Wells-Fargo Express Co., who has been in Cincinnati investigating the shortage of Orchard, the absconding clerk, completed his work on the 19th. and reported that a little over $5,000 had been taken. Twenty-six persons were killed— many of them being pinioned in the wreck and oremated—and a large number of others were more or less injured by a head-end collision at Battle Creek, Mich., early on the morning of the 20tb. on the Chicago & Grand Trunk railroad, between a west-bound Pacific express and an east-bound World's fair special. Disobedience of orders by train officials caused the accident. Patrick Kanaley died at St Joseph’s hospital, Syracuse, N. Y., on the 19th, being choked with a sponge, which an attendant let slip down his throat while he was undergoing amputation of his legs. The Farmers’ Loan and Trust Co. of New York has begun a foreclosure suit at Milwaukee against the Northern Pacific on second general and consolidated mortgages. Another riot between Hindoos and Mahommedans occurred at Calcutta, on the 20th, the trouble growing out of an attack by Hindoos upon a Mahommedan mosque.

I he majority oi me oosia mca c»uinet favor refusing the extradition of the embezzler Weeks until a treaty is arranged with the United States. The senate, on the 19th, by a vote of S3 to 22, confirmed the appointment of J. J. Van Alen to be ambassador to Italy. Paid admissions to 'the World’s fair on the 20th were 256,844. Sir Andrew Clark, a celebrated physician, was stricken with paralysis, on the 19th, at his residence, 16 Caven^ dish square, Bondon. He was talking with a patient, when he suddenly fell insensible. The remains of ex-Congressman John K. Luttrell, United States commissioner of fisheries for Alaska, who died at Sitka, October 4, arrived at Port Townsend, Wash., on the 19th, in charge of his wite and son, en route east, via San Francisco. Prof. Smith, of Cincinnati, says he will appeal his case to the general assembly of the Presbyterian church, not for any personal advantage, for he is indifferent as to what the church may do with him, but to make the way easier for the next heretic placed on trial. LATE NEWS ITEMS. In the senate, on the 21st - (legislative day of the 17th), as soon as a quorum was obtained, the silver purchase repeal bill was taken up and Hr. Peffer continued his speech in opposition to it, but yielded the floor for the passage of the house joint resolution for the restoration of personal property (*300,000 now in the hands of a receiver) to the Morman church in Utah for charitable uses. Mr. Peffer then resumed and concluded his speech. He was followed by Mr. Jones (Nev.). Mr. Harris arose to a personal explanation. after which the senate adjourned. In the house a bill suspending the requirements as to labor of the mining bill was sent to conference. The bill to divide in two the eastern judicial district of Texas was passed, as- was the bill authorizing the secretary of the treasury to build a revenue cutter to cost *175,000 for use on the New England coast. The bill to let the printing of the executive departments to private parties was reported and the house adjourned. The weekly statement of the associated banks of New york, issued on the 21st, shows the following changes: Reserve, increase, *8,774,725; loans, decrease, 11,676,300; specie, Increase, *5,339,100; legal tenders, increase, *5,713,300; deposits, increase, *9,280,799; circulation, decrease, *266,300. On the same date the banks held *42,640,775 in excess of the requirements of the 25

per-cent. rule. As, the result of a confession by James B. Stone, the nearest neighbor of the Wrattan’s, in Daviess county, Ind., seven of the alleged murderers of the family were arrested, on the 33d, and locked up in the Jeffersonville jail. Their names are: Alonzo Williams, Wm. Kays, J. B. Stone, Martin Yarbere, John M. White, Gfibson Clark and Gradison Cosby. The Brazilian men-of-war at La Plata have been manned with new officers, chosen by President Peixoto, and ordered to co-operate in an attack to be made upon Admiral Mello’s fleet in the harbor of Bio de Janeiro. The cracked Liberty Bell will leave Chicago at 9 o’clock of the 81st for Philadelphia, via Cincinnati, Columbus, Pittsburgh, Altoona and Harrisburg. The president has approved the act granting settlers on certain lands in Oklahoma territory the right to commute homestead entries. The paid admissions to the World's fair on the 31st were 290,817. On the DSd the admissions were 140,578. > . v

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Jenks, a New Alba ay sa» loon keeper, conceived the idea of ex* hibiting two polecats in his window. On complaint of a neighbor the case went through two courts, ending in a fine of 11 and costs and a rule for the re moral of the animals. _ A disastrous fire occurred at Winfield, in which a livery barn was consumed and nine valuable horses burned. Loss, *5,000. A. C. Humberger, a prominent resident of Kokomo, missing for several days, was found dead in an open field the other evening. He was eighty-two years old. J. It Nelson, aged 50, died of smallpox at the hospital in Muncie, the other night This is the nineteenth death out of 187 cases. Miss Ada Brill, daughter of Dr. Brill, of Pittsboro, took a large capsulful of strychnine, the other evening, mistaking it for quinine, {and died in a few minutes. ? The employee of the defunct Darnell iron works at Muncie were made happy the other night by Receiver A. L. Johnson, who distributed over *3,000 due them for wa&es when the mill closed. All were paid in full. In clearing away the ruins of the Waynestown fire, the other morning, human remains were founds They were discovered in the cellar of the Hornell & Henry hardware store, where the flames originated and where the explosion occurred. The remains are almost consumed, and the coroner has been notified. Wm. Hammonds, while drunk, went to sleep the other night upon the Indianapolis and Vincennes track at Martinsville. A through freight ran over him and cut his head off. J. J. Brown, an influential farmer of Dick Johnson township, near Brazil, met with a horrible accident the other day. While' hauling logs a chain broke, which held a large log on the wagon. It rolled off and crushed Mr. Brown to death, mangling his body be

yond recognition. The following fourth-class postmasters were appointed the other day: Wm. Chandler, New Marion, Ripley county, vice Theodore Brown, resigned; J. M. Srnelser, Ohio Falls, Clark county, vice W. M. Reynolds, removed. After January 1, all prisoners in the penitentiary north ufill be provided with the regulation tare. This plan will abolish the custom of convicts being supplied with delicacies by outside friends and by purchase. This step will be taken in the belief that better discipline can be maintained. The management ha6 also decided to uniform the prison attaches, and to prescribe regulations for the appointment of guards, At Huntington, John, the 19. year-old son of Daniel Drshall, was shot in the abdomen, the other day, while cleaning a revolver in whi<&i were some unexploded cartridges. His injury is regarded as fatal. The town of Windfall, near Kokomo, had a bad fire a few days aga A hotel, livery stable, two stores and the Masonic building were destroyed. Eight horses were burned to death. The celebrated white cap trial at Salem closed the other morning. Judge Voyles gave Elijah Dalton, who stood by to see his wife whipped and is believed to have paid for it, five years in the prison south. His brother, James Dalton, who held Mrs. Dalton, and Holsapple, who whipped her, get each five years. Bolling, who was present, but did not interfere, gets three, and Barrett, who was present, but was too drunk to help, gets two years. Peyton, for turning state’s evidence, escapes. The public approves the sentence. Welcome Wood, while hunting at Juno Lake, near Goshen, accidentally shot himself through the body, expiring almost instantly. Mbs. August Triebas, of Hobart, was taken to Crown Point, she being the plaintiff in a divorce case against her husband. The lady was unable to appear in court, and Judge Gillett sent two attorneys and a stenographer to the hotel to take her testimony. After viewing the testimony, the judge granted the divorce. A messenger was dispatched to the hotel to inform the lady of her success, when she dropped from her chair dead, having had an attack of heart disease. The news of her death reached the courtroom before the ink was dry on the court docket granting the decree. At Huntington, Mrs. Cal Lyon obtained judgment against the Chicago and Erie railroad for 19,000, for the death of her husband, an engineer, who was killed in a collision at Huntington. The verdict has been set aside by the judge on the grounds of insufficient evidence. Caleb S. Denny was sworn in as mayor of Indianapolis the other day, and Thomas L. Sullivan stepped down and out. Mayor Denny states that he will not announce any of his appointments for a few days, and the members of the present boards have been requested to hold on until their successors are appointed. Lee Nixon, as clerk, and George Stubbs as police

JUU^c, were awvuu m. iuojo first official act was to. instruct superintendent of Police Colbert that the saloons are to be closed at 11 o’clock at night and on Sunday, and that gambling is to be suppressed. The new mayor emphasized it that the order was to go into effect at once and permanently. 9 Emery Roffett, a notorious tough of Brazil, who has committed many crimes, and is reported to have assisted in grave crimes in Illinois, was tried in the superior court the other day on a charge of grand larceny, and was sentenced to Jeffersonville penitentiary for five years and fined *500. He served a term in the penitentiary some time since, and aft^t* his released became very religious find eshorted in several revival meetings and was a persistent Church worker for several months, but finally returned to wiokedness and Crimea y Little S immy Tarkinson was gored to death bv a bull near Spiceland.

TRADE REVIEW. n>« Condition of Business Throughout the Country u Reflected Through It C. Dan A Co’*., Weekly Review— Much Cain In Hope. Hat Uttle In Actant Business—Caitoni and Internal Revenue Receipt* Materially Decreased— Business Failures. Etc. New York, Oct. 81.—E. G. Dun ft Co.’s weekly review of trade, issued today, says; There has been much {rain In hope and a little In business. Assurances that the repeal bill will soon be passed have been received by traders as a reason for buying things speculative at higher prices^ and with money abundant on call—♦88,000.000 having been received In this city within ten weeks—speculation In stocks and products has an unusual stimulus tnd would have expanded more but for con- , tlnued embarrassment of Industries. Stocks have gained during the week 85 cents per share on the average lor railroads, with sales of 1,000,000 shares. The receivership for the Union PnclOc had been anticipated, and the s.reet reasons that many other stocks nre selling on a receivership basts already, and that In general the worst that Is likely to happen has been discounted. Wheat has risen 14 cents, helped by heavy foreign purchases, and in spite of better crop prospects corn is rating stroger. Pork has been lifted so far that another collapse Is feared by some. Petroleum has been advanced 1 cent %nd Brazil speculators are supposed to be utilizing bombardments to Increase the value of coffee. With these good signs are some not so good. Renewals of maturing notes to a larger amount are forced upon the banks here, though practically all the clearinghouse certificates have been retired here and at Boston. Business is so slow that merchants are asking for few new loans, and yet the aggregate of commercial indebtedness must still/be large. The state of the-treasury excites remark, its gold surplus having fallen to ££1.325.7*8. Ifnports are far behind those of last year, and the accumulation of goods iu bon'd Is unusually large, so that customs as well as internal revenue receipts decrease heavily. The root of the difficulty Is the decrease In consumption of all kinds, and In that respect the week has brought no perceptible change. This shrinkage appears less in cotton here titan in some other branches of manufacture, and during the

wcck inert' wus sugni improvement in iae market for some goods. But some large mills which recently resumed have slopped again, and while the number reported in operation increases. the condition of the markets Indicates plainly that few are working at their full capacity. The - reduction of wages has been general, and docs not tend to increase the consumption of goods. The caution of boot and shoe manufacturers, it is believed, has enabled that industry to work into a safe position, but while the stocks of dealers are unquestionably very low. orders received are not enough to fully employ the shops in operation. Some Improvement is reported and the decrease in eastern shipments compared with last year is but 22 per cent, for the week. In silks, mixed textiles and knit goods, the situation ..has not changed, and the demand is small. In woolens, a slight improvement is perceived in orders given and the number of cutters employed, but about as many mills are closing as resuming work, and the sales of woo! at the three chief mills have been 3.028.900 pounds, against 8.03&.000 last year. There has been some buying at the west, and one or two carpet houses are starting since the export of 26,000 rolls has upset the Knglish market, but if the home market were in normal condition the exports would not now have been tried. The exchanges at the principal clearing houses show a decrease of 25.5 per cent, for the week, which is less than appeared some weeks ago, though it may be partially due to the unusual volume of payments deferred and now made only in part. The failures this week number 348 in the United States, against 5^10 last year; and 28 in Canada, against 25 last year. NOT SO BAD. The Illinois Central Wreck Near Kankakee Proves Not to Have Been as Bad as at First Reported, Chicago, Oct. 31.—The New Orleans limited of the Illinois Central road was wrecked by colliding' with a coal train S miles beyond Kankakee at 11 o’clock j Thursday night. Two persons were seriously and six others slightly injured. This is the list of injured: SERIOUSLY INJURED. J. D. Davis, Flippen, Ga.; head cut, legs bruised and back injured. L. B. Saffer, Fisher, II .; back hurt and internal injuries. SLIGHTLY INJURED. Mrs. R. B. Slayton, Wichita Falls, Tex.; head bruised and left hip badly bruised. Mrs. T. F. Brown, Newton, 111.; left hjp bruised and ankle cut. C, E. Little, Chicago; scalp wounds, right hip bruised and right leg crushed. J. W. Brown, baggageman; hip bruised and left ankle sprained. J. M. Marley, Plano, 111.; right hip and leg bruised, face cut. J. C. Loisea. Nashville, Tenn.; cut on

head. The New Orleans limited was due at the Twelfth-street depot at 12:20 a. m. It had seven coaches and two sleepers, all filled. At Otto Junction the Bloomington division branches off the main line. A icoal train, under charge of Conductor Gallard, of Bloomington, neared the junction as the limited got under way, after having stopped for the signal. The passenger train had the right pof way, and Engineer Smith of the limited expected the coal tram would stop before reaching the crossing. For some reason the coal train forged ahead, running half its length upon the main track, when the passenger train struck it. Both trains were going at a fair speed and the shock threw the passenger coaches off the track. The engine was derailed and the sides of the mail car, baggage, ex press car and two of the coaches were torn out by the flat cars loaded with coal. Most of the passengers were asleep and the shock threw them to the floor. The splintering of the cars and the flying glass did the worst damage. Those in the forward car and smoker suffered the most Those injuied w ere taken from the side next the coal train. At 5:45 a. m. the-train bearing the injured reached this city. They were at once conveyed to St Luke’s hospital in ambulances. None of the injured are expected to die. A Cold-Blooded Wife Harder at St. Paul, Mian. Sx. Paul, Minn., Oct 21.—A particularly cold-blooded murder occurred shortly after 10 o’clock Thursday night at the corner of Milton and James streets. William Haenggi, a carpenter, was the murderer and his wife the victim. The cause for the terrible deed is not known, but it is supposed they had a dispute after retiring and he shot her. Clothed in a night dress, she rushed to the house of a neighbor, where she died in a few minutes The murderer escaped, but later-gave himself up to the police

AN ENGLISH VIEW. A Lntllng Rnicllah Banking? Authority Talks About the FlunncUl stringency In the United States—D*»es Not Attribute the Situation Entirely to the SUtM Policy. London, Oct. 2?;.—A leading member of the banking- house of J. S. Morgar & Co., of London, was interviewed by a United Press represeniative yesterday on the sib.-er situation in tho United Statfes. The gentleman alluded to said he doubted the truth of the report that I “resident Cleveland intended to suspend the purchase of si'cer. At the same time he thought that such a proceeding was not impossible, and that in the present state of publio i" opinion the president might not feel any great risk in adoptin it that course. Such an aotjpn would be similar to Gladstone's in overcoming the opposition to the abolition of the custom of purchasing commissions ip the army. The American house would probaby support President Cleveland in suspending the silver-porchase clause just as willingly as the English supports! Gladstone in altolishing the purchase of army commissions. “Nevertheless,” continued the gentleman, “I am not disposed to believe more than the presiden t has himself declared. The president is a siucere man, with the good of the country at heart, and I hope he will succeed. It is surprising that the United Staves feel the pressure of the situation so severely. The secretary of the treasury's statement suggesting a deficit js m >st serious. I can net say that I attribute this situation entirely to the silver policy. The feeling is largely due to the general contraction of trade, but the situation is necessarily aggravated by the position of silver, as was shown by the improvement on the outlook immediately after ref ;al was expected .nd the subsequent relapse. It is not in the nature of things that any government finding. its evenues lessening from general rai ses would view ci.ltnly the existence <%’ a statutory arrangement requiring ‘ he government to purchase periodically the silver which the ebuntry-does iot want, and which only increases .he greatly-depreciated stocks in vaults.”

IN CHICAGO1.1? SLUMS. Eight Memberfi of the W. C. T. V. .Vtolfc the Worst Di«trlcte of Chicago Uider Police Protection—Overcome by V'hat They Saw. Chicago, Oct 33.—1 light members of the Women’s, Christian Temper:.nee congress, which closed its session Sat- ■ '£ urday night in the Art institute, will carry away from Chie ago a knowledge of itsidarker side wh.cli will no doubt become the foundation of many addresses in advocacy of social purity and temperance. Tie new experience which the “new style” crusadersgs ined were found in a series of “slumming” tours under police protection. through the ‘ ‘Levee” district, that part of * ‘I >arkest Chicago.’ bounded by Harrisor and Twelfth streets on toe north and s outh and Clark and State streets or the west and east. The seven courageous women were overcome by what, they saw. To most of them the ham: ts of vice were unknown, except thiough vague newspaper hiats, and the el readful realities of the sin-smitten districts1of a great city came upon them with jj* appalling force. Even as they proceeded they sought to do missi >nary work among the fallen and besought charity from the wealthy and notorious keepers "of the resorts visited. The party comprised the following well-known members of the Indiana Women's. Chris-’ tian Temperance union: Miss Mollie Hay of Indianapolis: MrsiE. L. Calkins, of South Iteud, vice-prasident of the state union: Miss Ella MoWe, of Lakeville; Miss Emily Tompki is, of Elkhart: Miss Addle Fiels, oflidianapolis; Mrs. Leonora Ayers, of 1 adianapolis; Miss Mendenhall, of Richmond, and Alias Gertrude Fulton, of Richmond. Tliey were escorted by Detectives Trshorn and Niggeme ,’er of the Central station, and Charles L. Steven, of the ‘Levee,” and Ros. Fulton, of Richmond, Ind. The Colored Sister. Chicago. Oct 5.2.—The eoloi question rather disturbed the piacidityof the Woman's Christian Tern ye ranee Union congress at the Art institute yesterday. The question came ip over the appointment of superintendents. There? was not a colored woman on the list and that brought Mrs. Thurber, of Tennessee, to her feet at once. She made an i mpassioned speech, in which she said that she did not ask fo,- social equality for the colored’ worn an, hut, she did want them given the same advantages as others in the W Oman’s Christian Temperance union. At= the conclusion of her speech the congress: passed a resolution asking the executive committee to create a department of colored work and to put a colored woman ir. charge of it.

A Significant Suggestion. Cape Town, Out. 23.—Gen, Tulloch, commanding ths forces of Firt Vic—-, toria, Maslionaland, has declined an offer mac e him by the Bepdiro (Australia) militia to furnish 100 men to assist in the operations against the Matabeh s. Gei. Tulloch. in decliningthe offer thank-id the militia for their pro fife tec assistance which; le said, proved that federation of the^mperial colonies already existed. He f advised, however, that tie men resene themselves for the pi otection of Australia, or hold themselves in readiness to assist in preserving India. Ton Pnrsona Injured. Lima, 0., Oct 28.—Tea persons were injured in a wreck on the Pi .tsburgh. Fort Wayne nnd Chicago nad in a dense foj at Monroeville, west of this city, at an car y hour yesterday morning. EtAt-bouad train. No, ‘ collided with the second section of west-bound train No. 25, which was staading on the Monroeville switch. The injured trainmen wire taken to the Fort Wuyne hospital. But two of the passengers were injur id. They were Mrs. Annie Smith, of North Jackson, and Miss Nettie Wilson of Allegheny, Pa.*