Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 36, Petersburg, Pike County, 18 January 1895 — Page 2

€h(gifer Goirntg fknuwtat X. McC. 8TOOP8, Editor sad Proprietor. PETERSBURG. - - - INDIANA. On the 8th, the Bellaire (O.) waterworks powerhouse was flooded, and the entire water supply of the city was cut off. The democratic house caucus in Washington, on the 7th, adopted the resolution offered by Mr. -Crisp favoring the Carlisle currency bill, as amended, by a vote of 81 to 59. On the 9th Gov. Nelson of Minnesota emphatically denied the rumor that he had pardoned Cole Younger, the bank robber and murderer, and spd such a thought had never entered his head. The third annual convention of the National League of Commission Merchants opened at the Metropolitan hotel in New York on the 9th. There were about eighty delegates present. _ ““*-1™ The schooner 'Francis L. Godfrey sailed from Philadelphia three weeks ago for Salem, Moss., and up to the 9th, had not been heard ol She carried » crew of six or seven men, besides Gapt. Corson. , Mb. and Mbs. (itADiTOSB from the Charing Cross station, London, on the 8th, at 10:30 a. m., for Cannes, France. Lord Roseberry was among those who were at the station to see them off. 1 A dispatch from Yokohama that some Japanese! newspapers printed a report, on the 10th, that the king o Corea had been assassinated, while other papers asserted that he had been prostrated with epilepsy. The Kansas legislature convened on the 8th. The house organization was perfected by the election of the officers previously nominated in the repub- ' licnn caucus. The senate was reorganized with practically the same officers that it had last year. The funeral of &rs. Mary T. Lathrap, late preside nt of the W. C. T. U. of Michigan, took place in Jackson, on the 7th, and wfis one of the largest gatherings of the kind ever held in that city. Many persons prominent in temperance work in the state were . present.

It was stated, on the 9th, that the Aragon Mining Co. of Norway, Mich., would suspend work, on the 12th, for an indefinite period, throwing 300 miners, mostly heads of families, out of work, with scant prospect of obtaining other employment until spring or summer. L. Thoman's crop report, issued on the jOth, places farm reserves of wheat January 1 at 207,000,000 bushels, against 172,000,000 bushels at the same date last-year. The surplus wheat in this country above food and seed requirements up to July 1 next is estimated n& 170,000,000 bushels. Aaron L. Dennison, “the father of American watchmaking,” died in Birmingham, England, on the 10th. It was in his genius that the mammoth watch factory at Waltham, Mass., and its offshoot, the.great factory at Elgin, I1J., originated. He was born in Freeport, Me., March 12, 1812. The French bombarded Fort Farafatra, four miles inland from Tamatave, Madagascar, on December 28. * The Hovas defended the fort, replying to the French fire with well-di-rected shots from the seven guns comprising the armapient of the fort, but - eventually retired with heavy loss. Ex-Secretart of War Stephen B. Elkins was nominated for: United States senator, on the night of the 11th, by the republican caucus at Charleston, W. Vr. He had no opposition, and was put in nomination by State Senator Whitaker, who had been talked of for United States senator. The.first bill passed by the Kansas house of representatives at the present session, was aimed at the destruction of the gigantic lottery enterprises which have grown up on the Missouri river border at Kansas City, Kas. The hill was passed, on the 10th, and promptly sent to the senate for its action.

Senator Lodge (rep., mess.) introduced a bill in the senate, on the 8th, making it unlawful to remove or to request the resignation of any letter carrier, post office clerk or railway postal clerk, except when arrested for crime, until' written charges have been preferred and acted on by the post office department. In the Oklahoma territorial legislature, on thp 11th, bills were introduced providing for the calling of a constitutional convention and the election of state officers, congressmen and United States senators; and a memorial was adopted asking congress to pftss an enabling act granting Oklahoma immediate statehood. Henrt E. Alford, recently elected president of the Oklahoma agricultural college at Guthrie, tendered his resignation to' the governor, on the 11th, because of corruption and mismanagement among the board of regents. He charged that $50,000 had been squande red and misappropriated in three, years. Political favorites have been put in office with no duties whatever, arid paid $100 to $200 per month. , ' Advices from Alaska say the recent arrival at Juneau of a.British government surveying party is looked upon with distrust by the inhabitants. The object of the party is announced to be the survey of the trail into the Yukon region. Lieut.-Gov. Rollerts says the party will not be interfered with if it simply baiJdt, trails, but if it attempts to lay claim to any American territory, be will tnrn the native* Indians loose on them *

CURRENT TOPICS THE HEWS DT BRIEF. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. (Second Session. | In the aenat e,on the 7th.i n U»> absence of VicePresident St evenson and President Pro Ten*. Harris. Mr. Hansom was elected nresident pro tem. The la tter soon vacated the chair in favor of Mr. Msinderson (rep.. Neb.). Mr. Lodge's Hawaiian resolution was taken from the calendar, but its consideration was postponed one day. Mr. Peffer occupied the remainder of the morning hour with a speech in favor of his “service pension. “ Mr. Mitchell then spoke in fnvor of the Nicaragua canal bill; after which resolutions were adopted in relation to the death of Representative Post, of Illinois, and the senate adjourned.In the house the proceedings were brief and unim portant until the death of Representative Post was announced, after which appropriate resolutions were adopted and the bouse adjourned. In the senate, on the 8th. the speech of Mr. Palmer (den.. 111.) In opposition to the Lodge resolution an to the withdrawal of American war vessels from the Hawaiian islands was the only mutter of much Interest. The remainder of the session was devoted to eulogies on the late Senator Cplqult. of Georgia: after which the customary renditions were adopttsd;and as » further mark of resjsct the senate adjvNurned.In the house the gd^erfil debate on (be currency and banking bill was resumed. and concluded with the afternoon’s adjournment. nil the** de£tkJ&fr to speak In its fnvor having been heard, bdj quite a number opposed to the measure being fibut out An evening session was held for the reading of the codification of pension laws which it !$ protQ enact into one general statute. Jk the senate, on the 8th, Mr, Quay gave notice oi an aine&cltnehi which he proposed to offer to the urgent deficiency appropriation bill facilitating the testing of the constitutionality of the income tax. The “Sibley tent" bill was taken up an<| di'c.^sed until the cjosj ^ jtoornlng n<yJT. fte "Nicaragua canal bill was hitagght forward, but an effort to have the final vote fixed for the 12th failed ...... In the house the fate of the currency and banking bill was practically decided adversily on a test vote: the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill, carrying a total of ll.50i.118.7C. and the post office appropriation bill, carrying 180,442,962.86. were passed, and the conference report upon the military academy appropriation bill was agreed to. In the senate, on the 10th, a motion by Mr. Peffer (pop., Kas.) to lay on the table the Quay amendment, offered by Mr. Hill (dem., N. Y.) proving that nothing in any law to the contrary shall preclude a court of the United States from considering and determining the constitutionality and validity of the income tax law, was defeated; whereupon the hill and the amendment went over without action—Mr Quay giving notice of other amendments, among them one to re-enact the McKinley law. . In the house the Hawaiian^ correspondence. made public on the 8th. was referred to the committee on foreign affairs. A number of minor bills were passed, after which the most of the session was spent in consideration of the District of Columbia appropriation bill, the last of the general appropriation bills on the calendar.

in the senate, on tne nth, tne debate on tne income tax occupied almost five hours, speeches being made by Messrs. Hill, Sherman. Dubois. Mitchell and Quay. A point of order was made against the bill introduced by Mr. Hill, of New York, that it was general legislation on a general appropriation bill, which was suspended by the chair and an appeal taken, when the whole matter went over for one day.In the bouse it was private-bill day, and three hours were spent in committee of the whole in unavailing consideration of a bill for the payment of $13,000 for stores and supplies taken from a loyal Tennesseean during the war. as adjudged by the court of claims. A number of unimportant bills were passed. An evening session was held for the consideration of private pension bills. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Charles F. Warwick, city solicitor, was nominated for mayor of Phila delphia by the republican convention on the 9th. | The special agent of the agricultural department who has been investigating the American dressed meat trade with Germany, has made his report to Secretary Morton. It shows, as a result of careful inquiry on the part of the consignees, butchers and even some of the veterinarians themselves, that both the dressed beef and the cattle received from this country were of exceptionally good quality. A Paris newspaper, oh the 9th, announced the death, at Nice, of Franklin Johnson, son of the cashier of the First national bank of Boonville, N. Y. The young man, it would seem, had arrived at Nice about two weeks previous and went to Monte Carlo, where he was plied with w ine, dragged and robbed of over $900. Several big German societies and many of Pittsburgh's (Pa.) leading Germans are mourning the disappearance of Bruno Wall, who, for a year or more, has been editor of the Freibeits Freund, the best German paper 'of the city. Wall seems to have improved his time, as when he disappeared he left the town several thousands noorer.

Vice-President Stevenson’s family are all at Asheville, N. C., at the bedside of Miss Stevenson, except the son, Lew is 6. Stevenson, who is unable to leave the bedside of his wife, also dangerously ill, in Bloomington, 111., and whose recovery has been despaired of. For the first time in fifteen years the United States patent office finds its work completed up to date. This means that in all of its thirty-three examining divisions the work is in sncb a condition that a new application filed to-day will be acted upon on its merits within three days and an amepdment to-day will receive attention within two weeks. Rorkrt Henry, the negro who tried to wreck the train on which Senator Hill was returning to Washington from the south in December last, was arrested at Jacksonville, Fla., on the 9tli. The attempt at train wrecking was made near Florence, S. C. The Carlisle substitute currency bill was given a decidedly knockout blow in the house, on the 9th, when that body refused to adopt a rule to bring the measure to a vote. There was a majority of five against the rule. The house committee on public buildings and grounds, on the 10th, ordered favorably reported a bill appropriating $365,000 for the purchase of a site for a government printing office at Washington, D. C. Gov. Uphah’s message was delivered and read in both houses of the Wisconsin legislature on the 10th. It contains aboilt 7,000 words, and is considered an able and business-like document. A concurrent resolution was introduced in the Kansas house of uMrcsentatives, on this 10th, giving y the impoverished settlers of westmp Kansas all of the surplus coal at me state mines at Lansing.

M. Chaixem Lacock was, on th* 10th, re-elected president o£ the French senate. Both houses of the California leg islature assembled in joint session, on the 10th, and canvassed the state returns. Jatgjftes EL Bndd was declared governor amid great enthusiasm. The South Dakota house and senate, on the 10th, suspended the rules and passed a joint resolution offering $3,000 for the arrest and delivery of the defaulting treasurer, W. W. Taylor. He is about 5 feet § inches in height, weighs 300 pounds, has brown hair, small mustache, blue or gray eyes and florid complexion. He was last heard of in New York. « ^ Three oil men were instantly killed on the Priscer farm, three miles west of Wapakoneta, O., on the 10th. Frank Logan, John Pettigrew and W. J. McNally endeavored to thaw out 100 qnarta of frozen intro-glycerine with hot Water. It exploded, tearing them all into fragments, together with $ team of horses. The post office-department, on the 10th, received official notification that Cape Colony, regarded as the most important acquisition in Africa for the Universal Postal union, owing to its position as the entrance for all African mails, had joined the union on January 1. > * A modus Vivendi between the United States and Cuba has been agreed upon at Madrid, pending only the settler^t of the question of the date u^q xchic]j it shall become operati^ £y the of the Cuba concedes the aeeoH'1 column tariff in return for the tnOsi-favored-nation treatment. ** Reports from the immigration^authorities at New York show the whole number of immigrants arrived during December was 11,106. Of this number 116 were debarred entrance as paupers and 53 as contract laborers, 10 were admitted on bond. The town of Turtle Creek, 10 miles east of Pittsburgh. Pa,, was badly gutted by fire on the night of the 10th. The town post office, valued at $10,000, was torn down by the citizens to prevent further spread of the flames. The damage will reach $100,000. A dispatch from Shanghai, on the 10th, said that severe fighting had taken place near Jehol, Mongolia, 130 miles northeast of Pekin. Hundreds of wounded Chinese were reported to be arriving at Tien-Tsin daily.

Failures for trie week enaeci on tne 11th, as reported by R. 6. Dun & Co., were, for the United States, 420, against 474 for the corresponding week of last year; and for Canada, 54, against $7 last year. 1 Chester Allen, aged 78 years, for many years a prominent citizen of Paw Paw, Mich., died on the 11th. He was formerly a railroad man, and helped to erect the first railroad buildings at Detroit. • He helped to construct the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road and the first works at Pullman, 111. He was wealthy at one time, but died poor. Engineer C. Woolman was killed and Fireman J. R. Nettles injured, on the Hth, by a collision between a switch engine and a Wabash passenger train in the Hannibal yards at Kansas City, Mo. The passengers were badly shaken up. o A sensation was* sprung in the Washington legislature, on the 11th, when it was announced that Gov. John H. McGraw had himself entered the race for United States senator. McGraw’s friends maintained that neither Ankeny, Wilson or Allen could be elected, and that McGraw was the only acceptable candidate for the place. LATE NEWS ITEMS* In the senate, O.v the 12th, Mr. Teller (rep., Col.) spoke three hours in opposition to the Carlisle currency bill. Mr. Lodge (rep,, Mass.) spoke against the income tax, and Mr. Stewart, (pop., Nev.) in favor of the full restoration of silver as money as the only possible remedy for existing financial troubles. .In the house, Mr. Hatch (dem., Mo.) attempted to secure the passage of Mr. Grout’s biH to make oleomargarine, etc., subject to the laws of states into whieh imported, but failed to reach a vote. A resolution asking the secretary of agriculture to give to the drought-stricken regions of the northwest an extra quantity of seeds allotted to him was referred. The bill codifying the pension laws and four private pension bills were passed. Eulogies were pronounced upon the life and services of the late Representative Shaw, of Wisconsin, and the house, as a further mark of respect to his memory, adjourned.

A gentleman who resides in the Hocking valley, in Ohio, and is pretty familiar with the condition of the miners there, said, on the 13th, that the miners had been in destitute circumstances for some time and that the matter was reported to the United Mineworkers, but they practically ignored the matter, probably because they did not comprehend the real truth. Gov. McKinley finally took the matter in hand, and needed relief was promptly forwarded. Orders were received in Connellsville. Pa., on the 13th, from the general manager’s office of the Baltimore & Ohio road to close the company’s shop at that place until the 1st. The cause for the suspension is a general curtailment of , expenses all along the Baltimore & Ohio system. Five hundred men are affected by the order. New Year's, according to the Russian calendar, occurred on the 13th, and was noteworthy in official circles for the distribution of the usual New Year's honors. Bosco, a conspicuous socialist, who was sent to prison by the court-mar-tial trying the leaders of the revolution in Sicily last winter, was, on the 13th, elected to the chamber of deputies in Rome. He polled 400 votes more than did his monarchist rival. Bradford, Pa., was visited, on the 13th, by a very destructive fire. Several persons leaped from the windows of the Sheehan house, some of them receiving severe injuries, and many of the firemen had their hands and ears frozen. ’

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Kiss Alice Lane. daughter of 8. 6. Lane, one of the best known insurance and real estate agents in Northern Indiana, committed suicide at Kokomo by shooting himself through the heart during the temporary absence of the family. Her father, on returning home, attempted to shoot himself with the same revolver, four men being required to hold him* Alice was his favorite daughter and housekeeper, twentytwo years of age and a tireless church worker. No motive is known. Dak Becker, Shelbyville, extracted from the ear of his little daughter a grain of corn which had resisted all attempts at removal for over five years. Ulysses Lind all climbed a tree for a dead squirrel at Shelbyville. He fell 30 feet and may die. * V 5 James Vax Hook has been cleared of the murder of Anton Schaeffer, of Charlestown. Self defense. Ft vuaht still has a.fyv^eaaca of scarlet fever. > Schmitt & Heffley, proprietors of the Golden Rule dry goods stores, Logansport closed their doors the other morning. The assets and liabilities I are cremated equally at about 535.000. Miss FAiqrc* v i t, daughter of Thomas Marshall, who has a grocery and drug store at Coxville, Parke cJdunty, suicided by taking morphine. She and her lover quarreled about some trivial matter, which was the direct cause of self-destruction. She was about 16 years old. Ax unknown benefactor of a Catho-; lie church in Hammond has donated an 5800 altar to the church. Ax operator made a bull on a message about Mrs. Ed Ayres, of Hartford City, then on a visit, and said she was dead. Airangements were made for the funeral and the mourners had assembled, when Mrs, Ed walked in on them. South Bkxd manufacturing industries have petitioned the city council * for better fire protection. Mishawaka wants sewers and a city charter. Miss Zora White, near She byville, fell down the cellar stairs at ^ as^home and was seriously injured. I brother ran to her assistance and acc lentally kicl&d a coeoanut so that it s' uck the girl in the mouth,, knocking out her teeth. ■ * • - „

The smallpox epidemic* at V slkerton cost St. Joseph county 83.<XX besides depleting the Walkerton trea ary. The merry war against th ■ saloons in Lafayette is still in pyogre s. The feet of Alice Hart, t ged 6, of Anderson, are said to be t trning to stone. Bartholomew county still has outstanding $10,000 in unpaid g itvel road bonds. Mrs. Dax White, of Lebanon, attempted suicide by swallowing chloroform. Saved. The Soldiers’home at Marion is so crowded that notanother m; .n can be received. > A purchase of $6,500 worth of onecent stamps was made at South Bend, the other week, by a local establish*, ment. There is a movement on fgox to annex Gosport to Monroe county. Kokomo militia company, having finished three years of service, have reorganized. The date of the state G. A. R. encampment, to be held in Munpie next March, has been changed from the 27th and 28th to the 28th and 29th. The change is made to enable the encampment to get the Wyser Grand Opera house for the camp fire. The theater seats 1.500 people, being the largest available room in the city. A xumberoL interesting su .ts have been filed in Carroll county, growing out of the hog cholera epidemic that has swept through that section of the state. A month or so ago Thomas J. Chissom and Harry McCain, t wo wellknown stock dealers, brought ^several carloads of hogs from western states and sold them to farmers there. Subsequently cholera broke out among them, and those nrhd bought the hogs allege that they not only lost the hogs they purchased but that the disease spread and carried off other swine. Suit has been brought for the purchase money of the imported -togs and the value of the others that diid of the disease, the allegation being ;bat the hogs were diseased when sold.

Petek J. Clark appeared before Judge Taylor, of Lafayette, the other morning and was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of $2,000. The charge against him was assault and battery, with intent to murder, George Rudolph at the time of the riot there. According to the evidence, Clark was the ringleader, or one of the leaders, of the riot which took pltce at the Lafayette Opera house on the night of January 24, 1893, when ex-Priest Geo. P. Rudolph was mobbed and shot at and his meeting broken up. j Mrs. Geo. Rowell, aged 73. one of Goshen’s-oldest residents, died the other afternogp. She and her husband had lived.iogethpr 53 years. A very nbtable celebration occurred at Daleville. It was the occasion of the Stewart family reunion and the celebration of the ninety-third anniversary of Uncle “Jimmy” Stewart. Johx Lively, a wealthy citizen of Knightstown, who recently attempted suicide by shooting himself, died at his heme the other night from the effects of his injuries. The Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis Consolidated Railroad Co. is preparing to build its own depot at Princeton. The company has been using the Evans»ille and Terre Haute depot, and, not liking the rrnt charged, has decided to build its own structure. The printing office known as the Republic, just started at Knights* town, was wrecked by unknown parties the other night, who effected an entrance through a rear window., The paper will be discontinued for the present. Axderson’s two theater contracts are to be let soon.

STARVING MINERS. riMrtr Impoverished Condition Lsrtrtl MMsUetfd, bat Their SsflWrlnpi Are Terrible, and Mow to Not the Time to lesk for Ceases, hat for Prompt Aid— The Real Sufferers Sot Responsible foe Their Condition. j Columbus, Os.-, Jan. 14.—A gentleman who resides in the Hocking valley and is Metty familar with the condition of the miners there, was here yesterday. He says the miners have been in destitute circumstances for some time and that the matter was reported to the officials of the United Mineworkers, but they practically ignored the matter, probably because thejr did not comprehend the real truth; and when they failed to take action, the miners themselves appointed committees who for the last two months have been going quietly about the Country soliciting aid, which they claimed was for Hocking Valley railroad men who lost their situations by reason of the strike on that road last summer. ' k This, the gentleman claimed, was done in order that the public might not know that th$ miners were in impoverished eircumstaaoat The gentleman said he had heard it charged that the United MineworUers’ union officials had advised that the matter be kept from the public, but he doubted the truth of this. He further says the destitution in the Sunday Creek valley completely overshadows that in the Hocking valley or in and about Xelsonville, where the first appeal came from. He thinks the destitute there will have to be cared for till spring at least A newspaper man Who has arrived from the scene says the destitution is widespread, and that no writer could draw a picture horirible enough to do the matter justice. He says it is impossible to conceive how- such conditions could exist in a civilized countrjr, pnd that it is a disgrace to the state of dhiti. * The well-to-do citizens in the impoverished district charge that much of the suffering there can be traced to the drinking habit. They say many of the miners in prosperous times seem to have no other desire than to enrich the saloonkeepers, cud made no attempt to prepare for adversity. -__ _•_1_H AL.4

this is true in a great many instances, but the wives and children of such men—who are the teal sufferers now— are not responsible for this condition. But while these charges are made, those making them proclaim that this Is not a time to inquire after cause. The effect alone must be considered. AN APPEAL FOR AID. - Gov. McKinley Auk* Help for the Hunery Miner* in the Hocking and Sunday Creek Valley*. Columbus, O., Jan. 14.—;Last night Gov. McKinley received a telegram from Chairman Coultrap of the relief committee at Xelsonville urging that supplies be sent to Shawnee and Gloucester gt once, as well as to Nelsonville. Immediately the governor sent Mayor Blee of Cleveland the following telegram: . “There is much suffering for provisions and clothing among the miners of the Hocking and Sunday Creek valleys of this state. It is of such a character that I feel constrained to call upon the generous people of Ohio to render assistance. The carload of supplies sent last week has been already exhausted. Columbus will send a carload to-night, and Cincinnati will commence shipping her contributions tomorrow. Contributions can be either money, provisions e or clothing. Can Cleveland be ready to ship supplies by Wednesday or otherwise contribute as it may deem best by that time? t will later indicate to what points the shipments should be made.” The carload of provisions that was to leave here yesterday morning was not sent, but will go to Gloucester tomorrow morning. *'■ . MINISTER HATCH, OF HAWAII

And His Mission to the Government of the United States. San Francisco. Jan. 14.—George H. Young, who arrived here on 4 the steamer Australia from Honolulu with F. M. Hatch, minister of foreign affairs for Hawaii, says it was generally understood among the passengers that Hatch’s mission concerning the cable was merely a blind. The real purpose was to convey to Minister Thurston at Washington an important dispatch which the ministry was afraid to trust to the mails. “There are unmistakable evidences,” says Young, “of an impending revolt in the islands, and the government is seriously alarmed. It is believed that the dispatch to Thurston is in the nature of a request that a United States war vessel be sent to Honolulu immediately.” Mr. Hatch, in an interview yesterday, stated that the object of his visit is to see what, aid the American government will give in laying a cable between Honolulu and San Francisco. He refused to admit that there existed any immediate danger of revolution in the islands, and declined to say anything about the nature of the dispatches he had for Minister Thurston. He, however, thought the conspiracy recntly discovered amounted to nothing, and although there are now no war vessels at the island he : did not fear a rising. NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH Of a Feni»l« Aeronaut Whose Parachute Fell lu the St. John's River. Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 14.—Virgie McCardell, a female • aeronaut, came near losing her life yesterday, by her parachute falling into the St. John’s river, after leap from the clouds. A strong breeze was blowing and her fall was fully f*00 yards from the point of ascension. The balloon was perhaps 2,003 feet in midrair when Mias McCardell assayed her parachute leap. The aeronaut was badly'‘•exhausted when rescued by a boat from the there.

I .THE INCOME TAX. rt» F»Unr« of (oacrtts to Appropriate Money f«r KxponM Cot* So Figaro te Its Collectloa. And Thao* Who Inuglnn L It Does Will If lad Themselves fVaatteed When ITnele Hem's Amwaort CoaM to Deal With Them. ; Washixgtox, Jan. 14.—Senator GorI don, of Georgia. hi conversation with senators, called attention2 to certain provisions in the income tax law. Which compel tax-payers to make returns and pay their taxes upon incomes whether the pending appropriation (lasses'in' not. •‘The defeat,” he said, “of the appropriation will not defeat the collection of the income tax from the people. Under section 29 oi the law all persons and corporations with incomes above 5X500 are required to make returns according to the form prescribed by the revenue department and, the secretary of the treasury.* „ f “This is made,” said the general, “the plain- duty of citizens and the mere failure of congress to appropriate . money for the more efficient collection of the income tax can not, of course defeat the operation of the law, B°r the -tithing of the heavy penalty provided for on failure to make such returns. The only possible way for the opponents ol the ‘income tax to save the people from paying this tax is to re- i peal the law itself. Those who hope to escape payment of income taxes through failure .of congress to make ' the appropriation asked for and who ‘are thus led to neglect making their returns at the time fixed by law, will find themselves involved 50 percent, heavier taxes, and will be competed to . pay them. Failure by congress to appropriate money to collect the income tax will hot prevent such collection, and it is a cruel wrong to the people to mislead thenj into tUis matter,’* B»LL COOK CAPTURtO. Taken Near Fort Stanton, Lincoln County, N. M.—Surprised in Ida Camp at Sauset— When Mo Fount! I wapr Impossible Ho Admitted Hi* Identity and Agreed to Return to OkUhoiBA Without Any FornrUtty. .

| Ar.BCQCERQrS, A. -M., ,laa. 14. —tHU CoOk. train robber* murderer and allaround desperado. was captured near Fort Stanton, Lincoln county. X. M., last Friday night by Sheriff Perry of Chavere county. Cook entered New Mexico by out-of-the-way trails, until he reached the Pecos river. Entering Chavere county he made his way across the valley unrecognized, and following the Rio Hondro in the course of a few days made camp near Fort Stanton. Sheriff Perry learned Jtbat Cook had entered New Mexico, add after hunting about struck t ie trail. It was cautiously followed, and Perry laid his plans to snrprise the desperado, and by snnset Friday evening had bagged the villain who had so long defied the law. -v Cook, when he found that escape was impossible, admitted his identity and decided to return to Oklahoma without any formality. THE JAMISON MURDER. J Reward Offered end Efforts Slade for the Arrest of the Murderers. Columbi'8. Jan. 14.—The murder of James Jamison at Dublin by robbers following so closely the murder of Isaac You ka’m about three weeks ago, in the same neighborhood, and in a similar manner, has caused much excitement there and has led the county commissioners to offer a reward for the arrest of the desperadoes. Parties in the vicinity of the outrage are suspected, and yesterday afternoon, Detective Bauer, of this city, ! went there, confident he would have ■» at least one of the men before this morning. In the event he fails. Detective Murphy says he will arrest a man here w hom he suspects and who has acted very strangely since the crime was committed. A suspect was arrested here Saturday" night, but proved an alibi, and was released. FIRE AND FREEZE. The Meet Destructive Coofluentlou that Ever Visited Raraeavllle, O. Barnk.svii.lk. O., Jan. 17.—The most destructive fire that ever visited Barnesville started at 11:30 Saturday night. The .office of the Barnesville Enterprise was diE&^vered to be on fire. The firp department was immediately called, but delay was caused by the water freezing in the hose.^-~ The flames spread with lightning-like rapidity and notwithstanding the most valiant efforts of the department, the entire business block, excepting the large fire-proof building of Bradfield Bros., was soon destroyed. The fire originated in the store of M. T. Ward, and is supposed to have been caused by natural gas. The loss is estimated at from 875,000 to 8100,000, partly covered by insurance. The night was extremely cold, and the firemen labored under the most trying difficulties. ‘ -

INDIAN TEACHERS' SALARIES. Their Readjustment Recommended bj the Secretary of the Interior. Washington, Jan. IS.—1The secretary of the interior yesterday sent a communication to the house recommending' a readjustment of the salaries of superintendents of Indian schools. They now receive the same salaries regardless of the number of pupils attending the schools. This is considered unbusinesslike and unjust, and it is recommended that the salaries be graded according to the number of pupils, the salaries lo range from $1,200 to 82,000. " MRS. HEJNSHAW DEAD. Mm Borg:Jar's Bullet Froved Fatal—Mr. llelnshavr Can Not Recover. “ Indianapolis, Ind.. Jan. M.—The , wife of Rev. VV, E. Heinshaw died Friday night of the bullet wound received in her contest with robbers Thursday morning at Belleville- Mr. Heinshaw, who was shot and badly cut and stabbed by oue of the robbers, is in a critical condition, and there is little chance for his recovery. The people believe the crime was committed by some one in that vicinity. The attempt to track the robbers failed.