Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 37, Petersburg, Pike County, 25 January 1895 — Page 2

Chef ike Count! ftrauttat JL MoC. BTOOP8, Editor sad Proprietor. PETERSBURG. - - - INDIANA. Thk French cabinet resigned Ju a body on the 14 th. / Thk stock room of *the Clipper'Plow Co. at Defiance, O., was burned on the 16tb. Loss, 820,000; small insurance. Abscukt on the constitutionality of the income tax law was concluded on the 10th. before Judge Hagner, of Washington, in equity court No. 2, and the judge said he would render his : decision on the 23d. Thk duke of Orleans, pretender to the throne of France, left Stowe house, London, on the 16th. It is believed that the -royalists of France are preparing to take some decisive action in vfbw of the crisis in France. Unable to solve the problem presented by the resignation of Premier Dupuy, M. Casimir-Perier, bn the 15th, resigned the office of president of the French republic. The announcement caused consternation in Paris. A general, movement is on foot to have all Central American countries annul existing extradition treaties with the United States; but nothing will be done Until the? result of Castellano’s mission to Washington is learned. . The directors of the Galveston cotton exchange recommend to the planters of Texas and the cotton-growing states a reduction of 25 per cent, in acreage to be planted this year as the only way of restoring prices to a compensating basis. * Lee Mantle, of Butte, and T. H. * Carter, of Helena, were, on the 16th, elected United States senators by the Montana legislature in joint assembly. Both are republicans. Mantle was chosen for the short term and Carter for the long one. , 1 The legislature of Michigan, in joint session, on the 15th, re-elected lion. ^James McMillan United States senator for the long term by a unanimous vote, John Donovan, of Ray, the done democrat, voting for him. Hon. Julius Ceesar Burrows Was elected for the short term.

Mr.>Fraxcois Felix Facre was, on the 17th, chosen president of the French republic by the national assembly, convoked in Versailles for that purpose, to succeed President Casimir-Perier. resigned. The proceedings were marked by strong socialist and monarchist demonstrations. On the 18th the members of the Spanish chamber of deputies from Porto Rico asked that Porto Rico be not included in the modus vivepdi between ^ Spain and the United States. .This request was made upon the ground that Porto Rico sugar goes to Canada and not the United States. Br the sudden flooding of the Diglake colliery at Hanley, England, on the 14th, 100 of the 240 miners employed therein were cut off from escape, and their fate could only be known after the water was pumped from the pit. It was feared that most of the imprisoned men were drowned. The house appropriations committee, on the 15th, completed the sundry civil appropriations bill for the coming fiscal year. As reported the bill carries an appropriation of $38,340,721, being $7,843,793 less than the estimates on which it is based, and; $4,286,245 above the amount carried by the bill for the year 1895. \ Secretary Carlisle submitted to the house, on the 16th, E plan of reorganization of the immigration bureau as provided for by an adt passed by congress at its last session. Twentynine inspectors aie provided for at an _ aggregate salary ol $44,800. For the entire service the appropriation asked is $324,000. . ■

The terrible explosion at Butte* Mont., greatly alarmed the people of Swansea, a suburb of Tacoma, Wash., where the powder magazine of the Judson company of San. Francisco is located. The company was notified, on the 18th, that unless the magazine was removed forthwith the people would destroy it. A jury in the United States district court at Chicago, created a sensation, on the 16th, by jdef^ing? the distinct command of Judge Seaman and .refusing to bring in a verdict in accordance with the court’s instructions. They afterwards, under duress and protest, found as the court demjanded, excepting one man, who was ordered under arrest for contempt. I Advices from the orient received by the steamer Empress of Japan, which arrived at Vancouver, B. C., on the l?th, state that since the arrival of Lui Kun Yieh, Li Hung Chang's greatest enemy, the situation at Pekin had grown more complicated. A decree had been issued condemning to death for cowardice Admirals Ting,* Rung and Tao-Tai and all the other surviving commanders of divisions at Port Arthur. The oft-predicted and long-dreaded* revolution in Hawaii broke out, on the 5th. when 500 native Kanakas, armed with repeating Winchesters landed within 6 „ miles of Honolulu, prepared to march upon the city. They were promptly met by thte government forces, and after four days’ desultory fighting were completely rputed and dispersed. Among those killed on the government side was Charles Lamb Carter, one of annexation commissioners, son of the ex-Hawaiian minister to Washington and a young man of great promise.. The principal witnesses of Ambassador Blount against the provisional government Were amcog the insurrection is ts. r

CURRENT TOPICS. THE HEWS IH BRIEF. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. (Second SeislM.1 Ik ti e senate, on the 114th. flee hours .’neve consumed by the speeches; of Senators Gorman and Hi LI on the subject of Mr. Hill's amendment to the urgency deficiency bill, by which be melts to confer on the United States courts jurisdiction (in .vlvanee of the collection of the income tax) to declare upon its constitutionality and validity; but at the hour of adjournment no toi* bad been reached.In the house Mr. Grouts' oleomargarine bill failed to reach a rote in. the consideration morning hour, and lost its favored place. Objection was made to granting unanimous consent to consider the pure-’ood bill. The bill for the rpdistricttng Indian territory, etc., was passed with amendments. and the bill to make an additional judicial district of Kentucky was taken up. In the senate, on the 15th. no action was taken on the income tu amendment. Mr. Call (dem . Fla.) made a speech directed largely to the evils of the ungual distribution of wealth in the United States and England.which be attributed to franchises and monopolies created bv legislation. Mr. Allen (pop.. Neb.) defended his party against the charge of being a party of vagaries, and ridiculed both the old parties for their confesned imbecility.In the house most of the session was devoted to discussion of the Indian appropriation bilL The sundry civil appropriations bill was reported and-placed on the calendar. President Cleveland's veto of the hill authorizing the entry of public lands for reservoirs and gravel pits etc., was referred to the committee on public lands. Several unimportant bills were passed. IN the senate, on the 16th.' Senator Hill’s amendment to the urgent deficiency bill, in reference to testing the constitutionality of the income tax. was rejected by an overwhelming majority. The bill was then passed.In the house a number of unim portant bills, reported from the committee on military affairs, were ^passed, and the. bill to establish a national park on the Gettysburg battle Held was made the order for .the 17th in the morning hour. The Indian appropriation hill was then taken up. and its discussion occupied the remainder of the day's session. I s the senate, on the 17th, two financial bills —one by Mr. Sherman and one by.Mt. Pugb^were introduced, read in full and referred. The peusion appropriation bill, with an amendment making the minimum disability pension six dWlars per month, and carrying an appropriation of IHO.Oto.OCO was passed. The army appropriation bill was taken up.In the house consideration of the Indian appropriation bill nnder the five-minute rule occupied most of the session, several amendments being adopted, among them one to pay the first installment, due March 1. 18», upon the purchase of the Cherokee outlet. By unanimous consent the bill to establish a national park at Gettysburg, Pa., went over. 1

is the senary, on the i»tn, two nours were . spent in secret session considering the question of ratifying the pending Japanese treaty. The army appropriation bill was passed, as was a joint resolution to revive (for the benefit of Maj. Gen. Schofield) the title of lieutenant general of the army. Another financial bill was introduced bv Mr. Peffer (Kas.). The Nicaragua canal bill was taken up. and after discussion, an ineffectual effort was made to ■have a time fixed for taking a final vote on the bill.._In the house the District of Coluihbia was given the right of way, but surrendered the floor before 3 o'clock, and the rest of the day was spent in further consideration of the Indian appropriation bill in committee of the whole. An evening session, for the consideration of private pension bills, was held.1 PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The ways and means committee of the house of representatives, on the 15th, by a strict party vote, agreed to report favorably the bill abolishing the diffei^ntial duty of one-tenth of It cent a pound on sugars imported from countries paying an export bounty. The house committee on judiciary, on the 15th, by a voje of 7 to 6, decided to present to the house resolutions of impeachment agaipst Judge Ricks, of the porthern district of Ohio. As the result of a fire that started in the Royal Milling Co.’s warehouse in Montana Central yards at Butte, Mont., on the 15th, ajftl which spread to cars and o^her property, three explosions occurred, causing a loss of nearly 100 lives and the injury of probably as jmany more. Nearly the entire fire department was wiped out. The property loss will exceed $1,000,000. Mayor Strong of New York city, on the 15th, returned Police Superintendent Byrnes’ resignation with a letter expressing the utmost confidence in that official’s ability to reorganize the police force. He told Byrnes to go on with his work and to show what he can do toward enforcing the laws and improving the discipline of the force.

It is charged against De Gueryille, correspondent of the New York Herald, that he tried to betray Creelman, the New York World correspondent, into the hands of the Japanese and have him killed as a spy. It transpires that Isaac F. Abbott, the defaulting cashier of the Dover (N. H.) national bank, who killed himself, on the 14th, when about to be arrested, in addition to his other crimes looted the treasury of the Five-Cent savings bank, stealing in all about $100,000 and wiping out the capital of both institutions. Mrs. Meyer, wife of the poisoners Dr. Henry C. F. Me$er, who is serving a life sentence in Sing Sing, N. Y., for causing the death of Ludwig Brandt,; was discharged from custody, on the 16th, by Judge Ingraham in the New 'York court of oyer and terminer. Ox the 15th Emperor William of Germany gave audience to Senor Curbide, the new Mexican minister, who presented his credentials. Oxe man was killed and three injured by a boiler explosion in the 40inch mjh of the: Carnegie steel works at Homestead, Pa., on the 16th. The boiler room |was completely wrecked, entailing a loss of $10,030. The two houses of the Nebraska legislature met in joint Convention, on the 16th, at noon, and formally elected John M. Thurston as United States senator. The ‘“National Farmers’ Protective Federation of the United States” was organized in Chicago on the 16th. The ! following officers were elected: Presi- | dent, J. JS. Furrow, of Iowa; vice-pres- | ident, F. H. Palmer, of Illinois; secre- | tary, Milton George, of Chicago; treasurer, W. R. Hostetter, of Illinois. The organisation is to be nonpolitical and j nonsecret. * , A sKXSATiox has been caused in Spain by the discovery that 24,000,000 spurious Spanish silver dollars are in ; circulation. The coins are to the fuU j mint weight; many are even slightly i superior to the standard. They are | supposed to be produced in France and America, and certain bankers are un- ; der suspicion of complicity. ?

--*-«- Two or Jndgt Ricks' attorneys. Virgil P. Kline and Judge William 11. Skinner, left Cleveland, Q., for Washington, on the 16th. to look after the inter* eats of their client. It was said that the action of the house judiciary commit? tee recommending impeachment proceedings prompted the trip. Ix compliance with the request of Gen. Campbell, of the Transmississippi department and on suggestions by Generals John B. Cordon and Fitzhugh Lee, the date ol the confederate reunion, which this, year meets in Houston, Tex., has been definitely fixed far May 20. Sophie Lyons, alias Kate Lonrongie, Mme: de Verney and any number of other names, the notorious confidence woman and crook, was given hours to leave St. Louis, on the 16th, the police not being able to fasten anything to her so that it would stick. The surviving members of Mosby's famous command, the Forty-third Virginia cavalry, held a reurion at Alexandria, Va., on the 16th. The old guerilla chieftain was there, and there were many pathe tic scenes among the comrades. Winnie Smith, for the murder of Western B. Thomas, a prominent and wealthy citizen of Anderson. Ind., in Indianapolis last July, was. on the 16th, sentenced to eighteen years' imprisonment. The trial lasted ten days. Henry McCaillkt, the oldest man in Michigan, died at Battle Crbek on the 17th. He was 10*2 years old, and was remarkably active np to the time of his death. Gold withdrawals at New York, on the 17th, for export, amounted to £1,500,000, reducing the gold reserve in the United States treasury at the close of business on that day to $74,ITS,316. Sixteen or seventeen car loads of supplies had been donated at New Orleans, up to the 17th, for the relief of Nebraska sufferers, and additional donations wefe still pouring in. The Idaho legislature passed a resolution, .on the'17th, to SH'omitthe woman suffrage question to a vote of the people of the state. — , Signor Celli, attorney general of the province of Milan, Italy, was found murdered in his office in Milan on the I 17th. His body Was horribly mutilated. There was, every indication that the murder Was the work of anarchists. President FaEkk. on the 18th, summoned MM. Brisson and Lacour for the purpose of conferring with them in regard to the formation of a new ministry. Later in the day M. llour■geois consented to try to form-a cabinet.

The Vatican is entirely satisfied with the election of M. Felix Fanre to the French presidency, and the pope, on the 18th, instructed the papal nuncio in Paris to congratulate him on his success, 'j Miss Mary L„ Stevenson, the 21-year-old daughter of Vice-President Adlai E. Stevenson, died, after a lingering and painful illness, at Asheville, N. C., on the 18th. On the 18th the miners’ organization of Massillon, O., through its president, issued an appeal to the public, in which it said: “Our people have been existing on light rations for months, and the limit of endurance has been reached. Our storekeepers have carried many along, until now they are about bankrupt. It will be a month before the men have any pay. They can not work when their stomachs are empty; hence this appeal.” The first and second Japanese armies are said to be working under a mutual arrangement regardingoperations against Mew Chwang and King Kow LATE NEWS ITEMS* In the senate, on the 19th, Mr. Frye (Me.) introduced a resolution expressing “profound indignation” at the attempt to restore the queen of Hawaii, and declaring that the president should at once order American ships'of war to %the islands. Objection was raised and the resolution went over. The Hawaiian situation was discussed until the close of the morning hour. The rest of the day was devoted to the deJivery of eulog ies on the late Senator Vance, of North Carolina..In the house the Hawaiian question gave rise to an excited colloquy between Messrs.V Boutelle and McCreary, who were finally sharply called to order by the* speaker. The Indian appropriation bill was taken up. but its consideration was not concluded.

As A result of the revolt in Hawaii, resolutions casting' implied censure upon the government for not keeping war ships at Honolulu for the protection of American interests on the islands were introduced in both kousesof congress, on, the 19th. and in both bodies precipitated hot debate upon the subject of protection and annexation. „■ Thu weekly statement of the New York associated banks for the week ended on the 19th shows the following changes: Reserve, increase, $8,672,875; | loans, increase, $640,300; specie, increase, $2,442,600; legal tenders, increase, $2,955,100; deposits, increase, $6,900,300; circulation, increase, $14,400. Geokge Devot, London, Onb, died, | on the 20th, making the fifty-seventh i death from the terrible powder explosion at Butte, Mont. On the same day an additional quantity of charred bones were taken from the wreck. The coroner began his investigation | on the 21st. The steam er State of Missouri struck a rock and sink in the Ohio river, near Alton, Ind., on the evening of the 19th. i Thirty-five persons were reported to : have been drowned. On the 19 th the United States war ship Philadelphia was ordered to proceed to Honolulu to protect American interests in the Hawaiian islands. A dispatch from Shanghai says a Japanese war ship fired upon Teng-Chow-Foo on the 19th. No damage was done. On the 19th the banks of New York held $45,465,075 in excess of the requirements of the 25-per-cen. rule. The Pullman Palace Car Co. has declared a dividend of two dollars, payable Febru;iry 15. II

INDIANA STATE JEWS. Wuxjtrous. Jar. 11.—Senate The senate was called ta order by-Lieut-Gov Nje, president exofflclo of the body. The senators wort svorn by Judge McCabe, of the supreme court The senate proceeded to complete its ontanlzfr tion by the election of Kollo B. Oglesbi principal secretary: W. & Eannes. assistant secretary: K. & Hatcher, was selected as treading clerk: Albert C White, as journal clerk, and C. J. Daugherty, as minute clerk, and were installed la their positions A number of resolutions of minor importance were presented. One referred to the intended action m amending the imw so ns to inakc the statue permit the appointment of eight doorkeepers instead of three, as at present. A committee was appointed to act jointly with the house committee for the same purpose. KorsJi—It was 10: K> o'clock Thursday morning when Secretary of State Myers rapped upon the marble in the house of representatives and declared the Fifty-ninth general assembly In order. Following the Invocation, while still stand in g. Judge Howard, of the supreme court, administered the oath of office to those present. Adams was elected speaker. Bobert A. Brown, clerk: Jonathan C. Wright, assistant clerk: David L. Wright, doorkeeper. These officers were called to the bar of the house and the oath administered. Committees were appointed to notify the senate and Got. Matthews that the house was organized and ready for business. A resolution to the same effect wss received from the senate. After Srther discussion of unimportant resolutions. e house adjourned. The republican# lmme diately went into caucus for the purpose of setting the time for a joint caucus for the election of a state librarian. Wm. H. Leedy. of Marion, was made permanent ebairmun of the house caucus. The joint caucus will be held Friday afternoon. Indianapolis. Jan. 12.—Sin at*—The legislature met in joint session Friday morning to hear the message of Gov. Matthews read by the governor himself. It required one hour and thirty-five minutes for its reading. Senator Haggard introduced the first bill Friday afternoon: appropriating #175,000 for the state soldiers' tome at. i&fayette. H. A. Strohm, editor of the republican organ at Kentland. was Friday appointed file clerk in the senate, and William Koons will serve temporarily as minute clerk. Senator Haggard late Friday afternoon introduced a resolution "for an investigation of the amount of fees collected by the retiring attorney general. Greene Smith. His report to the governor showed *72,000 collected by him in four years, but it is charged by many that his receipts from the office for his own use was #250.000. Senator Ray introduced a bill abolishing free railroad passes to members. _ . a Hoes*—The legislative caucus. Friday, nominated Mrs. Emma L. Davidson for state librarian, after fotir ballots, in which her chief competitor was Miss Nancy Baker, of this city, a daughter of the late Gov. Baker. She has announced that her deputies will be Miss Lizzie Fitzgerald, of Madison, Ind., and Miss Lillian Weltoa. of Vincennes. A bill was passed appropriating #100.000 for the expenses of the legislature, also a bill regulating the number of employes Representative Merrill, of Lagrange, introduced a bill appropriating #48.000 to relieve the governor of his personal liability for the money borrowed to pay the troops.

Indianapolis, incL. Jan. —senate.—senator Haggard introduced a resolution calling tor a survey of a route for a ship canal from the lake to the headwaters of the Wobsush river. Senator Wishard introduced his bill for the repeal of the apportionment law enacted two years ago in the face of the decision of the supreme court declaring the same political division unconstitutional Senator Shively. one 6f the new men, but a coming leade.\ began his career with a bill for non-pcj tisan control of the state institutions. He proposes that the hospitals for the insane should all be placed under one board. Another of his bills: provides for non-partisan control of police boards. Some sixty bills were introduced Monday Among the most important of those introduced was a senate bill, introduced by Senator Boyd, providing for the establishment of a state home for dependent children. By this bill the county from which the child comes is to be charged twenty-live cents a day for its maintenance. Children from other states will be received upon the payment of the same fee. - House—Not enough representatives showed up to hold a session in the morning. In the afternoon about sixty "bills were introduced, among the most prominent being the taxation pf greenbacks: amending election laws; bonds, notes, etc., shall be stamped by assessor^ for taxation, and all evidences of indebtedness not thus stamped shall be void and uneollec table. Indianapolis. Jan. 1&—Senate—Bills introduced: Requiring prescription clerks in drug stores to secure a license from a commission certifying that they are capable: providing for tie payment of salaries to justices of the peace in order not to put a premium, as the Senator explained, on convictions for the sake of the fees: giving all political parties representation on election boards; providing for the creation of a firemen's pension fund in cities with a population of over thirty-five thousand. House—Representative Howe, of Morgan Introduced in the house Tuesday morning a joint resolution providing for t ie calling of a constitutional convention. Mr. Hamrick introduced a bill requiring insurance companies to pay the full face of a policy in case of a total loss. Mr.. Leedy introduced a resolution for the investigation of the office of the attorney-ireneral and other state officers. Mr. Stakebakc introduced .a hill requiring all trains to stop at county /seats. Representative Cardwill introduced a bill providing for the election cf members of the legislature on a new basis. Mr. Cardwill's resolution provides that the senate shall be composed of sixty members e'ected from twenty districts, three members from each district. There is provision for minority representation that there shall not be more than two senators from one political party from any one district,

A 15-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl were married at Delphi. Clay county has authorized the issuing1 of bonds in $20,000 for a Ww iail. The Henry county stock lawSs—nQvy/ in effect. Petitions are in circulation in Clark county asking Auditor Oglesby to compromise with the bohdsmen of A. W. Smitha and the late; A1 Jenkins, defaulting ex-treasurers. John R Moffett, of St. Joseph county, was attacked by a vicious boar and badly bitten. __ - . Near Kokomo fifty people were attending a party at George Smith's residence, when it caught on fire. The guests fled out into the cold without their wraps. Grant Harris went upon the roof to fight the fire, fell through and was seriously injured. Indi ana may quarantine against Chicago; Smallpox. 5 Black diphtheria is raging at Centerville, Wayne county.' A twelve-year-old boy of Anderson went ; skating, fol in the water and was about to drown when a stray dog came along and rescued him. It is rumored that there is a genuine case of leprosy in Jasper county. Nineteen marriage licenses were issued in Hancock county, last year. Princeton experienced two earthquake shocks, the other day, the vibration traveling northeast. A Bloomington paper wants the legislature to pass a law placing a direct tax on old bachelors. A South Bend youth has contrived an attachment to be put on a bicycle so that it can be ridden on snow or ice.

WRECKED ON A ROCK, The Steamer State of VlMoari Gam. to Wwe», C«Mitaln« Her Uvlnj Krrtstit to the Engalflnc Wave*—At Least Thirtyflve Persona Drowned— A Ufr-anU-Drath Straggle for Seats In the Boats. OwEtSBOEO, Ky., Jan. 21.—Brief and5 fragmentary details of the destruction of the big passenger steamer State of Missoari. Saturday evening at 6 o’clock, at Alton, Ind., 100 miles above here, have been receive!. She struck a rock and sank in fifty feet of water. The reports say that at least thirtyseven persons were drowned, but no names are given. The State of Missouri is a very large stern wheeler plying between Cincinnati and New Orleans. She bad on; board a fairly large cargo of freight and twenty-two passengers besides a crew of seventy-eight. At Alton the river narrows and the water being high, an extremely swift current results. This threw the stern of the boat in toward the Indiana shore. Before the pilot could regain control of the boat, she hit a rock, tearing a long hole in the hull at the water line. The shock was terrific, and the boat trembled from bow to stern. Consternation seized upon the passengers, and in a moment they were frantic. Without regard to consequences they rushed to the upper decks, in the hope of delaying the inevitable, as the boat was rapidly sinking. Women and children were trampled npon, but it is believed all got out of the cabin. Then the scramble for scats in the yawls began. It was a light for life, in which many combatants are believed to have gone to tlieir death. The first yawl launched was sunk within twenty feet of where it struck the water. It is believed everyone in it was drowned in sight of the affrighted people huddled together on the sinking steamer. \ A second yawl was then pushed off. It contained four women. This is believed to have reached shore. dust when there seemed some hope that by means of this yawio the passenjrers could be saved, the steamer gave another terrific lurch and literally broke into pieced, and in ten minutes from the moment the rock was struck nothing^but the hull remained. The cabin, texas and pilot house floated away, dragging down the into the waiter every one upon it. 1

lhe lighter freight ivaswasneu irom the main (leek and on this the men, women and children clnng as best they,could,many, however, only to fall hack into death's * embrace. Several succeeded by this means in getting into the willows and trees, and were rescued by farmers and passing steamers. On the City of Owensboro which passed here last night were four of the passengers who had been rescued from the trees. Two of them were W. C. Leathers, of liopkins county, Ky., and Mr. Gregory, of Cave-in-Rock, 111. The names of the other two could not be learned. Mr. Leathers thinks at least thirtyfive people were drowned. He saw four men go under within five feet of him;' but the current was so swift he could render no assistance. Mr. Leathers says there were fifteen cabin passengers, seven deck passengers and a crew of seventy-two on board. The steamer Tell City, bound for Louisville, hove in sight early yesterday moruing./aiid took most of the survivors to Louisville. The terrific current running at time can be partly appreciated by the fact that the wreckage began passing here early yesterday, which would indicate at least ten miles an hour. The normal is about four miles. Alton, Ind., where the wreck occurred is thirty miles from a telegraph station with almost impassable roads. SAVED BY A PASSING STEAMER. Survivors of the Wreck of the State of Missouri Rescued.

UWEX8BORO, ivy., Jan. '.’i.-rour survivors of the wyeck of the State of Missonri, which sunk at Wolf Creek, above here, were on the mail packet City of Owensboro when she passed here yesterday. They saved their lives by swimming1 and managed to catch to a tree some distance below. One managed to reach shore, but the other three remained in the tree until rescued. It is believed by them that from twenty to forty lives were lost. A yawl, containing a woman and children, was upset by men tryihg to i^limb in and all were drowned, they think. There were 100 people on the . boat, according to their estimate. \ The cabin and upper works of the boat floated away. The texas and pilot house were towed ashore at /Eoekport. The city of Owensboro got out part of the freight, from the cabin deck. One of the men recovered his overcoat, which he had left behind when the boat sank. Most of the passengers saved went up the river on the Tell City. '■ V INDIGNANT VETERANS : Get Back at the Congressmen Who Hava Spoken Against Pensions. Con* mbits, O., Jan., 21.—The G. A. R. post at Liverpool, O., has adopted,resolutions protesting against confederates being admitted into the parade at the national G. A. R. encampment to be held at Louisville, Ky. It is elaimed this action is one of the results of the recent speeches in congress by southern democrats with reference to pensions. Other posts in Ohio are considering similar resolutions. - . * HE STOLE STAMPS And was S**«neneed to Tlirrt Years and Six Mouths* Imprisonment. Washington, Jan. 21.—William B. Smith, an employe of the bureau of engraving and printing, convicted of being the principal in the larceny of 70,000 two-cent stamps from the government, has been sentenced by Judge McComas to three * years and six months’ imprisonment in the Albany penitentiary. Leach, Smith’s accomplice, has been convicted of receiving stolen stamps and will be sentenced later. 5

rROFKSnWAl CASSMt* J. T. KXMB, M. Dl, Physician and Surgeon, PETFRHil EG, IRIX fiVOOee In Bank building 9rst Hoar WII M sound at office day Or ui^m. GEO. B, ASHBY, ATTORNEY AT LAW PETERSBURG. IND. Prompt Attention Giron to nil Bruunos*fi9~Office over Barrett A Son's store. Paavos B. Poset. Diwrrx Q. Cn troan POSEY A CHAPPELL. Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ixd. Will practice in all the courts. Sr eclat at* tentlon given f to all business. A NotaryPublic constantly In the office. .WOfllce— On first floor Bank Building. B. A.ELT. • 8. G. DavEJrpoa* ELY A DAVENPORT, LAWYERS. Peteusbcbo, Ixd. 49-0fflee over J. R. Adams At Son's drug, store. Prompt attention given to ailbusiK. P. HlCBAIDtOil H Tatu» RICHARDSON A TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ixd. Prompt attention given to all business, fir Notary Public constantly in the office*. Office in Carpenter Building, Eighth and £»». = jDE.VriSTKW. W, H. STOSECIPHER,

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. Office In rooms S and 7 In Carpenter Buildin k- Operations first-class. AH work war* ranted. Anaesthetics used foe painless ex* traction of teeth. NELSON STONE, D. V. S •* PETERSBURG, IND. Owing to long practice and the po3sess:on of a fine library and case of instruments, Mr. •r Stone is well prepared to treat all Diseases of Horses and Cattle STJCCESSP'tTLX.Y* He also keeps on hand a stock of Condition Powders and Liniment, which he sells at reasonable prices. Office (her J. B. Yoons & Co.’s Store. -

Ww»riierjinr5fwfi»»i<f*in«»>w«ti lor lurntu tarn W. J.SOKSC, hUlata,aiutlKIK,lnI«)b vxAKi taa viis&mHy TRUSTEES* NOTICES OF OFFICE DAT. NOTICE is hereby given tbaM will attend ' to tbe duties of the office of trustee ot Clay township at home on * : EVERY MONDAY. AU persons who have business with the office will take notice that I will attend to cosiness on no other day. M. M. GOWEX, Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby given to all parties interested that I will attend at my office in Stendal. ' _ '• EVERY STAURDAY, To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Lockhart township. All persons having business with said office wiU please take notice. * . J. 8. BARRETT. Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties concerned that I will be at my residence. / EVERY TUESDAY. To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of Monroe township. GEORGE GRIM, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given that I will be at my residence ‘ - EVERY THURSDAY To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of Logan township. AS-Positively no business transMcted except on office dayh SILAS KIRK, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all parti<jfeco». cerneti that I will attend at iuy residener EVERY MONDAY To transact business connected with ths office of Trust©* of Madison township. ggyPosithrely ad business transacted ex cept office days. JAMES RUMBLE. Trustee. NOTICE ia hereby given to ail persons interested that I will attend in my office ia Vclpen, _ EVERY FRIDAY. To transact business connected with the office of Trustee of Marlon township. All persons having bnslnesa with said office will please take notice. W. F. BROCK. Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all persons concerned that I wilt attend at my office EVERY DAT To transact busine-s connected with the office of Trustee of Jefferson township. , & W. UibBlb. Trustee