Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 34, Petersburg, Pike County, 5 January 1894 — Page 2

Sht I’ihc County grnomt M- McC. STOOPS, Editor and ProprietorPETERSBURG. - - INDIANA. ,. i ——-i-immmmmmmm The license of the Monmouth Park Racing association at Trenton, N. J-, has been revoked. The Nictheroy sailed, on the, 25th, from Pernambuco, Brazil, for the south. Her destination was not known to any of her crew except her commander. At its meeting, on the 26th, the €*maha (Neb.) Commercial club started a movement for the circulation of a petition to congress for penny postage. The foreign ministers at Rio de Janeiro met, on the 26th, and decided rgainst recommending that the insurgents be accorded belligerent rights. When the majority of the committee on ways and means come together again it is said that a decision will be reached as to what kind of an income i»x will be agreed upon. ‘ The New York & Northern milroad was sold at auction at Yonkers, N. Y., on the 28th, to J. Pierpont Morgan, representing the New York Central Railroad Co., for $1,600,000. An expedition will soon start from Cairo to the Soudan to liberate the Austrian merchant, Herr Neufelder, and Slating Bey, who have long been held as slaves by the Mahdists.

James Morris, commonly known as James Rice; a jformer slave, died in Lyons, N. Y., on the 34th, aifed 121. He was born on the Rice plantation in Virginia, near Roanoke, , on June 18, 1772. The Pennsylvania Railroad Co. will go out of the year 1898 without any floating debt, and with nothing out the ordinary obligations growing out of its traffic and current relations w ith other companies. Maj. Forbes, commanding the field forces of the British South Africii, Co., says that the Matabeles have Ijeen completely subjugated, and that King Lobeajgula has fled, and apparently has no intention o? "^turning. Court William Bismarck, youngest son of Prince Bismarck, received a letter, on the 28th, in which the writer threatened to blow up the count’s house with dynamitp. Measured have been taken to protebt the house. Huoo LoEwiv.the Berlin banker who was recently Iconvicted of fraudulent bankruptcy, hfas been convicted of further swindling and sentenced to five years’ penal Servitude and six years’ depriyation oi his civil rights. Rear-Admiral Stanton will leave New London,; Conn., on the 3d, to go to Port-au-Prince, Hayti, where he will meet the Kearsarge, upon which he will hoist his’ flag and proceed to the scene of the trouble in San Domingo. Warren 4 Ladd, one of the bestknown citizejps of New Bedford, Mass., and father o/i ex-Gov. Ladd, of Rhode Island, had the privilege of reading his own obituary, to the extent of a column, published, on the 28th, by mistake. To avoid I the payment of ten cents fare, on ther 26th, Bub Togue, , a coal miner of Zanesville, O., swung around the end of a Cincinnati & Muskingum Valley passenger car, to hide from the conductor. 1 He was knocked off by a bridge and [killed. After the jury in trial at In a verdict, The court announce! ceived wit sing out for twelve hours ihe Annie Wagner murder lianapolis, Ind , brought in In the 28th, of not guilty. >m was crowded, and the snt of the verdict was recheer after cheer. >

The Albanians have severed all Communication with Montenegro, and are prepared to make an organized attack npon the ? principality. - Montenegro has declared that she win hold Turkey responsible lor any overt act made against her by the Albanians. WRrrTEk threats to destroj’ various, public buildings in Paris and elsewhere jn France, continue to be made by anarchists. The latest buildings threatened are the stations of the Eastern railway, and every precaution has been taken to prevent the threats being put into execution. ' By the aid of friends on the outside, and after shooting and severely wounding an officer, Chris Evans, the notorious tram robber and .outlaw, who killed so many men Ijefore his capture, broke jail at Fresno, Cal., on the 28th, and made good his escape. A number of armed posses were organized and Sent in pursuit. A boat from the American schooner Henry Crosby, attempting to land on the coast of San Domingo, on the 11th, about 10 miles from Azua, in search of information, was fired upon by a file of soldiers* in the uniform of the Dominican artny, and an officer and a seaman were severely wounded. Further casualties were prevented only by a hasty retreat. There was filed in the office of the recorder of deeds in St. Louis, on- the’ 26th. a mortgage from the Walter A. Wood Mowing and Reaping Machine Co. of Ntw Ifork to the United States Trust ok of New York to secure $2,000,000 in 0 per cent 12-year gold bonds. The bonds are in denomination of $1,000, dated Decemljer 1,1893, and maturing December 1, 190ft. . ’ Gen. John W. Sprague, formerly of . Milan, O., and of late years a resident of Tacoma, Wash., died, on the 26th. Gen. Sprague went out iis a captain of the Seventh Ohio infantry. He was one of ' the founders of the regiment. He was : promoted colonel of the Sixty-third Ohio infantry, and came out of the war major general, promoted for gallant andmeritoriou* services.

concerns. smaller Co. ana numerous Loss, $500,000. Chauncey H. Andrews, multimillionaire and foremost business man in Youngsr He l?'uilt several ive career, tners in the northeastern Ohio, died town Christman morning, four railroads and establish iron concerns during his ad He was one of the first Standard Oil Co. Fire near Kittanning, Pa., on the 25th, destroyed the stables on the Keystone stock farm, owned by Bowser Bros., of Manor township. Twentytwo horses were cremated, some of which were the finest stock! in western Pennsylvania. , . The Paris Moniteur Vipicol.e publishes full returns of the yield of the French vineyards. The crop is estimated a! £225,000,000 gallons, against 650,000,000 gallons last year. The total value of this crop is over $250,000,000, the best since 187T.. The fortieth annual meeting of the Indiana State Teachers’ association began in the hall of the house of representatives at Indianapolis on the 26th. During the three days’ session many kindred associations, branches of the general association, met. • Quantities of war material are being shipped from the Italian arsenals to Massowah, on the Red sea, to be used in {he operations aga inst the dervishes. Four minor election officers were ary' rested in New York cityj on the 26thycharged with violation of the law at the recent election, making- a total of now indicted on these sixty-one charges: > I The president, accompanied by Secretaries Gresham and Carlisle atad Capt Robley D. Evans, of the lighthouse board, left Washington, on the 26th, on a trip down the Potomac. They were intent on duck-sliooting a few days. Y ' An attempt to assassinate Mayor Tyler of Louisville,! Ky., w|as made by a crank at the city hall, on the 26th. The man drew a revolver and attempted to fire, but was quickly overpowered and locked up. The Washington police made a raid on the Ivy City race track, on the 26th, after the first race, and captured a bookmaker and his assistants. Miss Louise Houleiierq, aged 82 years, died suddenly at Terre Haute, Ind., on the 26th, from strangulation. While eating breakfast a morsel of

iooa xoagea in ner inroat, ana Deiore aid could be summoned she died. Sixteen women, members of the First M. E. church of Wichita, Kas., where a revival has been in progress, on the 26th visited three of the leading saloons and sang and prayed in front of the bars, after the style of the crusade of twenty years ago. ' They announced their intention of visiting0 every saloon in the city. A DYNAMITE storage depot, 4 miles from Montevideo, Uruguay, was exploded by accident on the 26th. No one was killed, but great damage was done to surrounding property. The cruiser New York finished taking on coal at the Brooklyn navy yard, on the 26th, and sailed immediately for Rio. Nine prisoners escaped from the county jail at Lincoln, Neb., at an early hour on the morning of the 26th. Four were convicted burglars, tlse others vags serving short sentences. The escape was made via the ceiling, roof and a rope made of blankets. Mr. Overton Price, late cashier of the wrecked Citizens’ national bank of Hillsboro, 0., died in Cincinnati on the night of the 25th, from nervous prostration resulting from mortification over the bank’s failure. Two men entered a gambling house at No. 20 Quincy street, Chicago, the other night secured $2,200 in cash, and with revolvers still leveled at a badly-frightened group of three faro dealers, backed out of the door and made their escape. A St. Petersburg dispatch $o the London Chronicle says that hosts of Jews are being expeled Kieff. The expulsions from St' Petersburg continue, but upon a tailder scale. Jews in the interior are being provided with tickets to the! frontier by the government for speedier riddance. Wm. D. Murray, a veteran Chicago board of trade man, died at Pass Christian, Miss., Christmas night. He was at one time a prominent trader in Chicago, and ran the first million-dollar wheat corner made on the Chicago board.. Murray was bom'near Rochester, N. Y., fifty-nine years ago, and began his career in Chicago as a bookv*eper for N. K. Fairbank.

Mbs. Alfred Hedbebo, wi low of Capt. Hedberg, the army ofBc * who was shot and killed at Fort Sheridan, Chicago, by Lieut. Maney sot le time ago, is in Washington with the avowed intention of making trouble for the officials by whom Maney is to be tried, and who, she claims, are hot ardent in their prosecution. The tradition that Cayuga lake never gives up its dead has at last b ien up* set, for at noon on the ‘-6th tie body of Miss Mary L. Yeargin, who, in company with Instructor Merriam. of Cornell, was drowned in the lake November 18, was found by a Lehigh Valley track walker on the east side of the lake, about 3 miles from Ithaca N. Y. Frascis J. Dewks, the wealth, * Chicago brewer, received word at New Orleans that his child was dying k Chicago, and, chartering an Illinois Central train, the tracks were clearec and Mr. Dewes and his wife were whi led over the 1,000 miles at the rate of a nJEle a minute. He paid about >1,000 for the trip and broke all records between Ne vr Orleans and Chicago, making the run in 25 hours and 30 minutes As a measure of precaution against a possible dynamite outrage, the public securities in the custody of the Bank of France have been removed to the Place Ventadour, where there is an immense strong room. The estimated value of the securities is upwards of 4,000,000,000 francs As unconfirmed report was published in Lisbon, on the 27th, that the Count d’Arces, Portuguese minister to Brazil, who was making preparations to depart from Rio de Janeiro on leave of I

absence, had been detailed by order of President Feixoto. The Hanging Rock stove foundry at Iron ton, 0., was burned to the grounct on the 27th. Sixty men re thrown out of employment. • Loss, $70,000 on foundry, and $40,000 on stock and patterns. The foundry will not be rebuilt. One thousand families, representing 4,000 persons, will be provided for bj the Indianapolis committee having charge of the care of the poor of tha city. The nineteenth annual convention of the Northwestern Commercial Travelers’ Insurance association began in Chicago on the 27th. Prime Minister Cribpi of Italy is arranging in Germany to float a loan cl £24,000,000. W. W. Lloyd, a noted Shakespea * ean essayist, died in London on the 27 th. * ‘ John Puening, a saloon-keeper and treasurer for the corporation of Elmwood, a suburb of Cincinnati, embe zzled $5,000, the entire funds Of the town, and disappeared on the 27th. Mrs. Margaret Martin, relict >f the late William Martin, one of the most eminent women in the Methodbt Episcopal church south, and author if many books on Methodism, died ;n Columbia, S. C., on the 27th. She w is born in Scotland in 1807. Bank Examiner Kimball said, >n the 28th, that the rumors that certa in “New York city national banks were in Jarouble was unfounded. AH the national banks of that city, he sa d, without exception, were in good condition. The large elevators and flour m ills of A. W. Doherty & Bro., at Ladoga, Ind., were totally destroyed by fire onthe 28th; loss, $40,000, with about $15,000 insurance. They will be rebuilt. Samuel McKoon died at San Diego, Cal., on the 28th, aged 91. j He was the oldest Free Mason in the linited States, having been admitted as a membe r in 1823. LATE NEWS ITEMS. Thomas & Richards, one of the largest dry goods houses in Lima, O., was taken possession of. on the 29th, by the ’ H. B- Claflin Co., of New York, who hold chattel mortgages on the firm’s stock for over $75,000. The stores of MaUcellus Thompson, senior partner, at Kenton, was closed to satisfy the claim. Other creditors will get nothing.

A telegram was received at the headquarters of the Knights of Labor in Phiadelphia, on the 29th, stating that General Master Workman Sovereign had been taken quite ill at Haste* ton, Pa., where he had gone on business for the order, and upon the advice of physicians, had hastily taken a train for his home at Des Moines, la. , The JStna, Standard and Laughlin iron and steel mills and Spence Son’s foundry at Martin’s Ferry; 6.,. resumed operations, on the 29t,h, giving employing to 1,500 men. The prospects for a loner and steady run are considered good. The entire plant of the Carnegie steel works at Homestead, Pa., resumed work on the 1st. Notices yrere posted, on the 29th, of- a reduction of two and one-half cents an hour in the wages of machinists and two cents an hour for laborers. « The Pennsylvania steel works at Steel ton, Pa., closed down, on the 29th, for an indefinite period. Operations will be resumed as soon as sufficient orders are received to warrant the corapany in running the various departments. The funeral of Henry Pettit, the well-known English dramatist, who died in London on Christ mas Eve, from typhoid fever, took place, on the 29th, at Brompton. A large number of distinguished actors were present. Col. Alfred A. Wtkse died at his home in Sumpter, Tern*., on the 29th, aged 94 years. He was a son-in-law.'of Gen. James Winchester, of the war of 1812, and a personal friend of Gen, Andrew Jackson. The members of the diplomatic corps in London called upon Premier Gladstone, on the 29th, at his Down-ing-street residence and ct ngratulated him upon his attaining hi. 84th birthday anniversary. State Treasurer-elec c Colvin, of New York, has appoints. Charles W. Anderson, a colored man it New York eity, as his private secret jury. Fifteen persons were drowned, on the 28th, during a dense fog that prevailed over the city of tmsterdam is the Znyder Zee- i

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Prof*. L. A. Smart, principal of the Wind fall public schools, was tried on the charge of assault and battery upon James C. Clark, aged 14 years, one of his pupils whom he had whipped fcr disobeying the rules. The charge was preferred by Henry Clark, the boy’s father. The prosecution claimed that the whipping* was done with an unlawful instrument and was unnecessarily severe. It was a late hour before the trial, in which several lawyers were engaged, was ended by the acquittal of Prof. Smart. CoiLVMBt's is the home of two remarkable men, Washington Polen, aged 85, and Minas Linn, aged 62. Each is the father of twenty-two children. Mr. Polen was married twice, twelve children being born by his first wife and ten by the last. Fourteen of these children are still living: file has sixtyfive grandchildren and twenty great grandchildren. Mr. Linn has been married four times, having four children by his first wife, two by the second. six by the third, and ten by the last,, only four of whom are still living. A large scaffold built across the White river by the Indiana Bridge Co, at Muncie, for the construction of the new Elm street bridge, collapsed and several men had a miraculous escape from death. A large derrick and a steam engine used in the work went down with the timbers and into the rivdr. The loss will amount to several

uuLiureu uuuara. ^ . Charley Hollkn, living- at Winslow, nine miles south of Petersburg, was killed the other morning by being run over by a train of caTS on the Air Line railroad. He was drunk at the time, and had laid down and gone to sleep on the track. | , Two unknown tramps fell'udder a Lake Shore freight tr^fn^iand! were killed at Valparaiso. * John Rudy, a dry goods clerk of Muncie, is insane as the result of a joke played by some companions. They had a bogus officer arrest him for horsestealirig. j * T. J. Walters, of Indianapolis, colored, a merchant policeman, was killed by two burglars. He was stabbed in the breast and back, his body showing the marks of five thrusts. The murderers have not yet been detected. Michael D. Wagner, a saw mill man, aged 40, living four miles east of Milton, committed suicide by hanging. William Russell and family, living one mile north of “Cold Springs, were poisoned by jimson seed and may die. One of Russell’s horses was sick, and he ground some jimson seed in the coffeemill to make a poultice His wife being away from home, his 12-year-old daughter, Anna, prepared supper. Not knowing the mill had been used to grind the seed, she ground coffee in it and served it at supper. The whole family were taken very sick and a physician hastily summoned. They are Still in a dangerous condition. Joseph .Wilson has brought suit against the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Co. to recover $10,000 damages. Wilson was run down by a train at Briant, one year ago, and one of his legs cut off. Miss Rose Page, of Brooklyn, brought suit against Hiram Gregory for $5,000' damages for breach of marriage contract Gregory was married . in July to another young, woman of Brooklyn. After being out twelve hours the jury returnea-a verdict giving Miss Page $*5. Miss Emma Vance, one of the efficient teachers in the Noblesville schools, daughter of WL C. Vance, leading grocer of Noblesville, became wildly insane. Typhoid fever was the cause. During a free fighl at Asherville on Christmas eve, in which many persons took part, Wm. McClelland was dealt a heavy blow on the head and fatally injured. His skull is crushed, but he is still alive. Several other of the participants received severe, but not fatal, injuries. Much excitement prevails at this little hamlet, as McClelland was a prosperous citizen of the place and quiet when sober. It is not known who dealt the fatal blow, but all that were engaged in the altercation will be

arrested. The Belvedere hotel, Columbus, one of the largest and finest in Indiana, under the management of D. Iv. Johnson, formerly of/Cincinnati, changed hands the other d|ay. John Scrump becomes the owner, Mr. Johnson retiring. Joseph Decker, swell-known citizen «of Valparaiso, received a letter a few days ago from his ''sister, saying his mother had died in Bavaria, Germany, and had bequeathed to him $35,000. Cel. Moore, while celebrating Christmas at Petersburg, shot himself through the right thigh. A panic was narrowly averted at the Presbyterian church Portland- An Imitation Ferris wheel was being used to distribute Christmas presents from, and it caught fire from the candles# A rush for the door and windows followed, but no one was hurt. Fire in Montpelier, at an early hour the other morning, burned the Commercial hotel, a restaurant, a saloon and a furniture store. Loss, $12,000. The infant child of John Darnell, living near Washington, was found dead m bed the other morning. It had been suffocated by being drawn too near its mother's breast while sleeding. Wm. Peacock, who was injured by a train at Scottsburg, died of gangrene. A farmer named Cole, living in the vicinity of Butler, was robbed of 47 turkeys. At Elkhart, the other day, a shock was distinctly felt and considerable damage resulted in broken window glasses. It still remains ^matter of doubt what occasioned the shock. Some express their belief that it was an earthquake; others claim it to have been caused by a meteor exploing in that vicinity. Jacob Holwager, 52, fell dead the other morning in his store at Madison. Harry George, a. noted pickpocket, arrested at Muncie during the National Bunker meeting, must go to the state prison for two years. Judge Boons has overruled hhi motion for a new trial.

, PKENERQAST’S DOON. Thu Jury Say the AimmId of Mayor Har* rlnon of Chicago Is Guilty of Wilful Murder and that He Must Fay t ie Paialty with His Life—Aa Impress! e Scene In Judge Brentano’s Court Wl eu the Jury Returned* After a Brief i .bsenoe. with the Expected Verdict. / Chicago, Dec. 29.—The deatl waAch sits to-night in the cell of Patrick Eocene Johnss-Prendergast. tl e murderer of Cartd||menry Harris *n. He must die on the gallows. Twe <ve representative citizens of Chicago a I judged him responsible to the law for tis coldblooded, cowardly-deed the tight of October 2S. The verdict was agreed upon after the jury had deliberated a little over an hour. The morning of the last da jr of the trial was allotted to Alfred S. Trude. who pleaded eloquently for justice and argued concisely to convince the twelve men before him that the miserable wretch knew he was committing a crime when he took the life of the lawyer’s friend. Judge Brentano followed with instructions to the jury, lengthy, but explicit, providing for every contingency or doubt which might arise in the minds of those who were Prengergast’s judges. The texts of all verdicts for and against the prisoner which could be rendered in his case were given to th<Ptwelve peers, and they retired at 1:25 p. ns to consider which one they should return, according to the law and the evidence. Prendergast sat

sullen and silent through this last scene hut one in the trial. He was hemmed in by officers of the law, who had no sympathy for him, and farther away sat well-dressed men and women who came to hear the eloquent Trude. The contempt for the ugly-facfed assassin may have been tempered witHaS^ little pity, but their hearts were steeled to receive a verdict of guilty and death. While the judge wa$ reading his carefully prepared instructions the prisoner’s face betrayed the keenest anxiety. His open mouth twitched nervously, and he turned his misshapen head at every sound coming from the entrance to the crowded court room after the. jury had retired. He was fearful of a speedy agreement, as he realized that it would be significant of a “guilty” verdict. After awhile he was taken back to his dell in the adjoining jail and the tension which had kept the men and women subdued was relaxed. Suddenly at 2:28 o'clock, in the midst of general conversation and laughter, came a'bailiff's shrill voice calling: “Take seats now, gentlemen.” The meaning of the order was well understood. It had the effect of an electric shock. “That means guilty sure,” “It’s a hanging,” were the words which passed from mouth to mouth. Every eye was turned towards the door and the buzz of excitement and conversation died away. f Instead a solemn stillness pervaded the chamber. From the door came a procession of stern-faced men. Judge Breqtano led the way, followed by the jury and bailiffs. - . Walking with guards in front of him and guards behind him, Prendergast returned slowly to his seat. Jail Clerk Ben Price, who accompanied the asssassin, urged him to “Brace up and keep your mouth shut.” Prendergast obeyed the latter injunction only. His bravado and vanity had* fled. The mask had been torn from his face by fear of an adverse verdict and he stood before Court and jury natural— a cowering coward afraid to hear his doom pronounced. The countenance of every juror was sphynx-like. No sign of hope for Prendergast could be detected there. ^Je dropped into his seat against the wall and the guards stood over him. His protruding lower jaw became limp, so that his lips hung wide apart. The silence was impressively intense. It was broken by the voice, of Judge Brentano saying: “Have you agreed upon a verdict, gentlemen?”

“We have, jour honor," replied Foreman J. Sutter, handing fhe fatal document to the judge, who transmitted it to the clerk. That officer quietly opened it in the midst of breathless suspense, and read as follow: We. the jury, find the defendant. Patrick Eugene Prendergast. guilty of murder in manner and form as charged In the indictment, and wa ttx his punishment at death. When the clerk uttered the word “death,” Prendergast made the Catholic sign of the cross over his breast with his right hand. His demeanor was abject apd pitiful. "He looked indeed a miserable wretch in human form. Not a word escaped his lips. The effect of the death verdict kept the spectators silent. No one rose to jo. Quickly the guards took hold of the trembling prisoned, and were hurring him back to jail when the voice of the judge was heard again. “Bring the prisoner back!” he commanded, and the. condemned creature was led back to his seat. The formality of “polling the jury” had not been complied with. '■ It was soon over, each juror answering “Yes” to the question “Was and is this now your verdict?” Prendergast did not sit down the second time. He stood pale and ter-ror-stricken close to his chair, stretching his hand for support against the wall, while a guard held the other arm. After the removal of the guilty wretch Attorney Wade entered the for-mak-mrjtion for a new trial, which will be argued next week. Then the satisfied crowd quietly dispersed. Preston Harrison was the first to approach Mr. Trude and thank him earnestly for his able services and personal interest in meting out justice to the murderer of his father. His remarks were free from exultant feeling. He believed that justice only had been done. Prendergast created no scene when he was returned to his cell, and the verdict was kept from his fellow-pris-oners as long as possible. They soon received word through visitors, however, and Jailer Morris removed the condemned man to-night to “Murderer’s Row,” his cell being next to that of George Painter.

■ _ ... __ I .I* THE YEAR PAST. The xAgtnnlnr ud Ending of IM8 P»» a BAIhm* Star dpoint, m Relowed by R. G. Dun * Co.-It Bogan with tb« Lari;e«t Tilde Ever Known »»d Inde-i In tike Midst of the Worst, Depression of Oar Industries Experienced to Fifty Tear— Business Failures, Etc. Siw York, Dec. 30,—R. G. Don <fe Co.’s weekly review of trade, issued today, says under the caption, “The Year 1893: ’ r ■ V Starting with the largest trade ever knows, mills crowded with work and all business stimulated by htgii hopes, the year 1908 baa proved, in sudden shrinkage of trade, in commercial disasters and depression of industries,, the worst for fifty years. Whether the final, results of the panic of 1837 were relatively more severe, the scanty records of that timer do not Nearly show. The year closes with prices of many products the lowest ever known, w.th millions of workers seeking in vain for work, aud with charity laboring to keep back suffering and starvation in all our cities. All hope the new year may brinif brighter days, but the dying year leaves only a dismal record. t . ‘ The review of the different departments of trade given to- day exhibits a collapse of industry and business which is almost without precedent. The iron industry sustained a weekly production of 181.551 tons of pig May 1. but by October 1 the output had fallen to 73.8# tons, and the recovery to about 1 Oh00b tons December 1 still leaves 40 per cent, of the fens* unemployed. Over half the woolen manufacturers are idle, and, excepting a brief recovery in November, have been ever since new wool in May ; for 0A sales at the three chief markets in the eight mouths have been but 106,705.480 pounds, partly for speculation, the price having fallen 20 jier cent, for fleece to the lowest point ever known*

against 212,339,008 pounds in the same months last year. Sales of cotton goods are folly a quarter belo - the usual quantity. The small advance attempted in boots a 2d shoes a year ago. was not sustained, but with prices as low as ever, the shipments of boots and shoes from Boston were St per cent, less than last year in December, and though in November th< decrease was but HO. 8 per cen'^ it has been 22 per cent, for the lastfour mouths. Not only iD&hufactured goods as a whoje but the most importaut farm products are so low that produc ers find little comfort. Official and other repot .s gave the notion that the crops of last year .vere so short that famine prices could be realized on purchases. Enormous stocks wen> bought and held with the aid of banks till iteavy receipts in the spring caused a collapse of wheat, pork and cotton pools. Disastrous failures helped to produce the alarm which soon made money Impossible to get, but even at the worst hour of the panic, prices were scarcely lower than they are now. Wheat ’ as repeatedly sold here and at Chicago at tli slowest price ever known, and is but half t, cent above it now. Pork fell $7 in aj| hour when the speculation burst, but sells lower yet to-day. Cotton was -lifted a cent with accounts of scarcity in September, but has lost most of the gain and sells below 3 cents. Thus, unreasonable speculations, by preventing the sale of surplus products, have proved r great injury to farmers, at a time when th ir enforced curtailment is disastrous to all ot ter industries Monetary transactions appeared to cause the panic, ai d became epidemic when doubts were raised! April sbouTTSedemption of treasury notes in silver. Western tanks had given reason 'or distrust by connection with real estate, produce and stock ventures Deposits’ in national banks alone decreased in five months nearly $300,000,000. Purchases for consumpti n shrunk so much, so many hands were out of work or earning reduced wages, and business of all kinds was so reduced that the accumulation of idle money became the greatest eve • known, exceeding $300,000,000 in New York. , ; • The ransnctiohs through all clearinghouses outsid New York-in January was 12.5 per cent, larger than last year and 6.5 per sent, larger than the first quarter: sligntly larger in the second quarter; 3.7 per cent, smaller in the third quarter, and 22 per cent, smaller in the last quarter. Clei r evidence of the shrinkage in the different bi inches of business is afforded by answers already received to several thousand circulars requesting figures of sales for 1893 and 1892. Fell information of the resuits will be given here: ter, but returns of textile goods already show sales amounting to $43,813,875 this yeer. agair >t $70,317,882 last year, a decrease of 37 per cent. f Iron returns thus far aggregate $40,853,180, against $65,520,921 last year, a decrease of 33 per coat. Reports thus far of jewelry 3how a decrease of 29 per cent.; of furniture. 26per cent, of dry goods. 20 per cent.; of hats. 19.5 per ent; of hardware, 19 per cent: of shoe man factures, 18 per cent, and of clothing, 10 per cent ' '■ .->• r’ It is curious that the only trade showing an Incrase is in groceries, the aggregate sales being 1 per cent larger than in theiast half of 1892. In thirty-seven years, covered by the record* of his agency, the number of failures has only once risen a little above 16.660, The aggregate of the liabilities, in all failures reported has in six years risen above $290,000,000, and this year the strictly commercial liabilities alone have exceeded $331,422,939.- The liabililies of banking and financial institutions have been $210,956.86*. The average of liabilities in manufacturing is $50,000,000. in legiti mate trading, $8,000,000, and ia other failures $11,900,000.

FRAUDULENT MORTGAGES. A dwindling Scheme by Which j ThoOlandi B*n Bmu Benllied. ( wcinxati, Dec. 39.—The grand jury ha about concluded its investigation into the giving oi fraudlent mortgages to die Old Men’s and Widows’ homes, by which the treasuries of these institutions have been swindled out of thousands of dollars. It is said that six, pei-sons have been indicted, among whom are some of the most prominent in the city. It. appears that George N. Leighton, now in Chicago, w:.s the arch-schemer of the crowd. Assisted by ex-District Attorney Burnet, which assistance Burnet claims to have been perfectly legitimate, and st reral others, he is credited with having swindled various institutions out. 0 : a total of 160,000. It is understood that steps will be immediately taken h compel the appearance of Leighton and Burnet in court The men indicted are said, to be Will A. Thompson, C iorge, N. Leighton, W. B Burnet J. Don McNeale, F. J. Mitchell and James Yost The matter that led to the indictrents was the Melbonrne Stone Co. tiansaction. In that Mr. Sargent, treasurer of the Widows’ home, was induced to purchase a $13,80tf mortgager c i a barren bluff. J. Don McNeale iss son-in-law of Mr. Sargent and also the attorney for the Widows’ home. ii . Notorious Outlaw and Others Ar« rested. Augusta, Ky., Dec. 30.—Sheriff S heev and a posse of twenty men raided the Ohlahoma neighborhood, ? thiscounty, Thursday, sad arrested the notorious outlaw John Boone, with Frank 1 [bDowell and Nola, the undivorced viife of both men. Boone and his gang l ive terrorized and disgraced that section of Bracken county for several i onths, selling whisky without a license, and the good people have been, powerless. To prevent a lynching 1 oone was taken to the Covington ( £y.) jail yesterday morning. I :