Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 30, Petersburg, Pike County, 6 December 1895 — Page 2

--- 2 €bt fife* Counts §M«rat X. MeO. STOOPS, Editor and Proprietor. PETERSBURG. • - • INDIANA. A dispatch from yictoria, B. C., •ays that none of the sealing fleet will go into Behring sea next season. They did not pay expenses this year. Orders hare been issued from the treasury department to thoroughly overhaul and^repair the revenue cutters of the Behring Sea patrol fleet Tiie pope presided at a secret consistory at the Vatican on the 29th. His holiness was in- his normal state of health. A number of'cardinals, including Satolii, were created.

The build imp in which an art exhibition was being held at Douglbss, Isle of Man, was burned, on the 25th, together with the large exhibit of atatuary and object# of art. The total receipts of the late YalePrinceton football contest in New York city amounted to S39,000. The expenses were $11,000, leaving $14,000 each for the contesting clubs. There is talk among the populists of Indianapolis, Ind., of reorganizing the party with the understanding that Eugene Debs shall be made its candidate for governor if he will accept. The London board of6 agriculture has issued an order forbidding the importation of sheep from the United States and Canada, unless the animals are slaughtered at their port of landing _ Chief Engineer R., R. Leitch of the cruiser Boston has been added to the long list* of naval engineers whose health has been ruined by overwork resulting from insufficient appropriations. , Failures for the week ended on the 29th, as reported by R. G. Dun & Co., were: tFor the United States, 279, as compared with 289 for the corresponding week last year, and for Canada 47, against 8G last year. Tei.egrams received at Constantinople from Anitab, sixty miles from Aleppo, on the 25th. said that the Americans there were perfectly safe owing to the protection afforded them by the government authorities. Nothing is known at the British colonial office in London of the alleged statements of the administrator of British Guiana that the imperial government is prepared to assert her rights against. Venezuela b3” force of arms. The funeral of the late Gen. Thomas Jordan took place at St. Francis Xavier church. New York city, on the 29th. The* ceremonies, in accordance with the wishes of the general expressed during his illness, were without pomp or show. Capt. Whealtox refused, on the 25tli, to accept the release of the suspected schooner J. W. Foster, at Lewes. Del., and abandoned her to the government* The ciew remained, and Capts, Wheal ton went to Philadelphia to seek legal redress.

Special dispatches received from Shanghai, on the 29th, said it was reported there that no railway concessions had been granted to foreigners in China, and that the Chinese government intended henceforth to keep the railway building in its own hands. Rev. Julius Feicke who was, until recently, the pastor of the First German Evangical Reform church in Jersey City, N. J., has opened a saloon in Hoboken, "because there is more money in the salqpn.” As a minister he received a salary of S700 per an num. United States Minister Terrell asked the porte for a permit allowing the United States cruiser Marblehead to proceed to Constantinople, “ but the request-was refused on the ground that only powers signatory to the treaty of Paris can expect such permits. The schooner-yacht Coronet, owned by D. Willis James and his son, Arthur C. James, of New’ York city, which defeated the schooner-yacht Dauntless in a midwinter race across the Atlantic in 18S6, is being fitted out for an expedition to the coast of Japan to view the eclipse of the sun Augusts next The state department received advices, on the 29th, by cable; from* Minister Terrell, saving that the mission school of science at Marash was burned on the 19th inst, but that the missionaries were safe. He also telegraphed that the Aintab college was protected. Both of these are American institutions. According to advices received at Key West,Fla., Martinez Campos a few weeks ago issued an order that captured insurgents should be given the alternative of acting as guides for Spaniards or being shot. Many of the prisoners since taken, it is said, have refused to aid the Spaniards and have been immediately shot. Advices from Bogota state that a Colombian physician, Dr. Carrasquilla, has discovered an effective cure for leprosy. The efficacy of the remedy has been proven, the dispatch asserts, by the cure of two persons suffering from the disease. The leading physicians of Bogota admit that a valuable discovery has been made. When Capt McAllister, of Anderson, Ind., awoke on the morning of the 25th, he found the iron fence which inclosed his three lots in the southern part of the city gone. It is difficult to tell how the theft was accomplished. It had been less than a week since a house, foundation and all, was stolen at Muncie, Ind., in the same manner.

CURRENT TOPICS. THE HEWS IN BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Sherman Armour was arrested in Everett, Wash., on the 25th, on the charge of post office robbery committed at Gains Mill and Vienna, W. Va. lie admitted his identity, and consented to go back to West Virginia. Mrs. Harriet A. Haynes, whose father ran the first steamer on the Hudson river, the Experiment, died in St. Thomas, Ont., on the 25th. She lacked two months of being1300 years old. Arthur Arnaud, the noted French cdmmunard, died in Paris on the 25th. By a head^nd collision, on the 26th, on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad, just east of Shoemaker, N. M., between the east-bound Chicago limited and a freight train, both engines were destroyed, and two persons were killed and two fatally and a large number seriously injured. The 5-year-old daughter of Frank Owen^ living near Chalmers, Ind.. picked up a stick of dynamite on the 26th. It exploded, tearing off her hand and otherwise inflicting dangerous injuries, F. A. Bailey, of Chicago, who has grown oranges in Florida for twenty yea rsf estimates that the usual crop of 6.000. 000 boxes has this year fallen to 100.000. as the result .of last winter’s frosts. Lloyd Montgomery, aged 18, in jail at Albany, Ore., has confessed to the murder of his father, for scolding him, and of his mother and Daniel MeKeecher. for taking his victim’s part. Wyoming is to be again hunted over for elk, deer and moose, to restock the Scottish highland preserves, owned by wealthy Englishmen. W. C. Bird, labor commissioner of the state of Kansas, has filed suit for divorce from his wife, Sarah M. Bird, alleging cruelty. On the 25th an earthquake shock, lasting fifteen secouds, was felt at Greely, Col. No damage was done. The directors of the Childs-Drexel home for union printers decided, on the 26th, at a meeting in Indianapolis, Ind., after the evidence before them had been carefully considered, to send a committee to Colorado Springs to investigate the charges that have been preferred against Superintendent Shuman of the home. A number of the colored friends, in Washington, of Mrs. John T. Waller, the wife of the ex-consul to Madagascar, who is imprisoned in France, are taking steps to have a benefit performance given her in that city. It seems that Mrs. Waller is completely out of funds for immediate needs, and has no available resources.

Reports from Union county, Tenn., say that revenue officers captured a still, twenty persons and 1,000 gallons of whisky. The still was located near a church, a deacon of the church being the leader of the moonshiners. Jhe treasury officials have received information from Atlanta, Ga., that the Chinese theater at the exposition has proved a pecuniary failure, and twenty-three of the Chinese women connected with it have gone to San Francisco. Harry Hayward, who is to be hanged at Minneapolis, Minn., in December, for the murder of Catherine Ging, and who ha/Hiil along protested that he was innocent, has confessed his guilt, the confession being made public on the 26th. The queen regent of Spain has been agreed upon by the governments of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru to act as arbitrator in the delimitation of the boundaries of those countries. Herr Stadthagex, a member of the German reichstag, has been sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for insulting Prussiau ministers. Miss Josepha Philip A Papy, of St Augustine, Fla., has just entered upon the first year of the second century of her life. She was born in St Augustine, and in all her 100 years she has never been outside the limits of that eity. Dr. Ahlwabdt, the anti-Semitic leader in the German reichstag, is a passenger on board the steamer Spree, which sailed from Bremen,on the 26th, for New York. Latest details of the explosion at Palma, on the island of Majorca, make it certain that eighty lives were lost Some of the victims were * blown to atoms, and few of the bodies could be identified because of multilation. It is decided that the world’s skating championship contest will be held at St. Petersburg this winter, with the Understanding that Montreal, Can., is to have it next winter. It is said the recent illness, of the pope was due to lack of vitality, which

condition is increasing. Harry Hayward has confessed that lie procured the murder of Catherine Ging at Minneapolis, for which he stands sentenced to hang. Schlatter has been positively identified at Green Horn, Col., journeying to Albuquerque, N. M.. where it is said he will fast for forty days. Both New York and Missouri have laid claim to the youngest member of congress, New York in the person of Representative' George N. South wick, of Albany, and Missouri, Norman A. Mozely, of Dexter. New York, however, is entitled to the distinction. Mr. Southwick was 35 years old when elected and Mr. Mozely 38.

The errand Jury ha* returned Indict* ments for bribery against Couneilmen Adam Lorch and J. T. Callahan, of New Orleans. The sultan has consented to the doubling of the number of foreign guardships in the Bosporus. Alexandre DuMA8,the noted French authur, died in Paris peacefully on the evening of the 27th, surrounded by his family. While his physicians and friends had become convinced that his case was hopeless and death only a question of time, it was not expected that the end would come so soon. The number of lives sacrificed in Armenia is roughly estimated up to November 15 at 13.200. In Trebisond and vicinity 1U00 Christians were killed; Baiburt, 800; Gurnush Bane, 550; Erzingan, 1.900; Bitlis, 1,200; Khnous, *00; Boulinak, 400; Harput, 1,000; Sivas, 300; Palu, 550; Diarbekr, 3,000; Albistan, 400; Erzeroum, 1,200, and Curfa, 400; or a total of 13,200. Wilmington, Del., was thrown into intense excitement, on the 28th, by the announcement made by the police that three well-known officials of the state ' asylum for the insane at Farnhurst | had been arrested and locked up charged with the murder of an insane j patient who had been placed under their care for treatment. The th was set apart at the Cotton States exposition as Atlanta and South Carolina day combined. Over 100,000 visitors were? present, more strangers than were ever in Atlanta before. | South Carolina covered herself with | glory, excelling all other states that haVe had special days at the fair in

the number of visitors contributed and in the military display made. During the progress of a church fair in the City armory at Wooster, 0., on the evening of the 28th, a lamp was overturned and the burning oil set fire to one of the booths. The 1,500 per* sons in the building became panicstricken at the sight of the flames, and a number of women and children were injured. Tub cruiser Minneapolis passed out through the Chesapeake capes, on the morning of the 28th, bound for Turkey. She probably will make the trip in about fifteen days, touching perhaps first at Gibraltar for mail. George W. Barnes, a pioneer, dropped dead in the M. E. church at Barnesville, O., on the 28th, while attending services held by Rev. Sam Small. Texas Siftings is to be removed from New York city, where it has been published for many years, to Dallas, Tex. In Sing Sing N. Y. prison, where pne of the strictest rules is that silence must at all times be preserved, the prisoners were allowed, by special permit, to make all the noise they desired by singing, laughing, shouting, etc., between 3 and 5 o’clock on Thanksgiving afternoon. They availed themselves of the privilege to the full. At Lancaster, 0., on the 29th, Win. Blootn, who was taken before Squire Brown on complaint of his wife who charged him with assaulting her, threw an inkstand at the court, drove him from the room and then struck him with a rock, inf icting probably fatal injuries. U Griswold & Gillktt, of New York city, agents for Charles Camraell & Co., of Sheffield, England, have sold 10,000 tons of steel rails of English make for use on an American road. This is the first sale of English rails under the Wilson tariff. A cave-in occurred at Brewster, N. Y., on the 29th, in the Tilly Foster mine, by which eleven men were killed and several injured. LATE NEWS ITEMS. '1HR weeiciy statement of the associated banks of New York city for the week ended on the 30th showed the following changes; Reserve, decrease, 5981,650; loans, decrease, $2,682,800; specie, decrease, $183,100; legal tenders, decrease, $1,944,200; deposits, decrease, $4,882,600; circulation, increase,

$5,600. It is announced that the employes of the Colorado Midland are to receive a 38}$ per cent, cut on the first of the year. This is said to be because they are receiving- excessive wages, amounting in some instances, with extra work, to $200 and 8300 per month. A strike is not probable. John W. Flood, the defaulting cashier of the Doaohue-Kelly bank at San Francisco, has given up the fight, and will serve his sentence of seven years in prison. Accordingly his appeal for a new trial has been withdrawn from the California supreme court. Mbs. Thedim, widow of the Portuguese minister who died in Washington, recently, has left that city en route to Portugal. The corpse of the dead diplomat, which is to be transported to Portugal, was conveyed to ; New York on an earlier train. Thk steamer State of California, which has been running between New York and the Clyde for the Allan line since she left the hands of her builders four years ago, has been sold to the Japanese government and will be converted into a cruiser. Dr. Donaldson Smith, of Philadelphia, the African explorer, has arrived in London, having been absent on his African tour since the letter part of May, 1894. He brought with him an extraordinary collection of naturalhistory specimens. A dispatch from Odessa says that 500 persons were drowned by the recent storms and floods in southern Russia, and that the people in the devastated districts are in great distress. The damage to property can hardly be estimated. A bjeport from Montreal, Can., says that the Knights of Labor there have decided to secedo from the general assembly and form a purely Canadian order. Thk Christian Endeavorers of the Dominion of Canada united in prayer to God, on the 1st, for the conversion of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll. On the SOlh the associated banks of New York city held $18,618,800 in ex- | cess of the requirements of the 25-per-cent. rule.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Princeton report* plenty of work for every one. Two more oil wells are to be bored at McCordsville. Geneva is having all kinds of trouble with firebugs. The Lowry murder is furnishing work for Kokomo policemen. • Tkrbk Haute may have a running meet instead of a trot next fall. Jacob Travgott, a saloon-keeper of Indianapolis, has started for Austria to assist in settling his father’s estate, the old man dying two years ago. The estate lies in Drokobier, Galicia, Austria, and consists of lands, coal mines, etc., estimated in value in excess of 5350.000. Twelve children are heirs thereto, of whom seven are in this country, and four in Indianapolis. The trouble existing between the cigar makers’ union and all the large factories of Evansville, has been amicably adjusted. The trouble was the result of manufacturers having their union goods duplicated in name by non-union workmen in other cities. The trouble has existed since last January. Both sides make concessions,

and the strike is declared off. Mrs. Lii.liax Vincent, widow of Frank Vincent, killed in a rear-end collision on the I., I. <& I. road in Stark • county, January 31, has brought sui£ in the St. Joseph circuit court for S10.- ! 000 damages. She alleges that the accident was wholly through neglect, the section of the train that ran into Mr. Vincent’s train being drawn by a locomotive in a bad state of repair and uncontrollable. Vincent was a conductor on the road and the widow resides in Kankakee. The new Baptist church, in Peru, has been dedicated. The church complete cost about $45,000. Geo. tV. Nkwhocse and wife, of Rush county, met with a fatal accident. While driving home from Shelbyvill© their horse backed off a high embankment The buggy and its occupants fell onto the rocks below. Newhouse and his wife were instantly killed and their bodies terribly mangled. The case against the horse slaughterers came up for trial at .Crown Point, and Amil Moerschke, proprietor of the establishment, \$as fined $500 and sentenced to four months in jail. Three of his employes, William Ott, Ferdinand Grimm and Mathias Meter, were fined $50 each. The men were charged with killing diseased animals for the purpose of using the product for food. It is thought this will effectually break up the industry in this county. Rabbits killed five hundred young pear trees for J. H. Shea, near Scottsburg. A falling board killed Wra.W’alton, who was working on a gas well derrick near Spiceland. The Indiana Spiritual association has reopened its warfare against Elder W. R. Covert, the great antispiritualist. The bulletin of the Indiana bureau of statistics issued bv Chief Thompson is devoted largely to t^e corn crop. Returns from 825 of 1,016 townships make the acreage this season 3,706,146 acres, with an average yield of 35.37 bushels per acre, which gives an aggregatecropof 131,105,991 bushels. This is Indiana’s largest corn crop, the next to it being the crop of 1888—128,436,284 bushels. In acreage Benton tcounty leads with 88,658 acres, which, with an

average yield of 34 bushels an acre, makes a total of 3.014,372 bushels. Tippecanoe comes next with 77.649 acres and a crop of 2,734,188 bushels. Montgomery, however, reports the largest crop—3,187,031 bushels from 74,117 acres, and an average yield of 43 bush els an acre. The Richmond schools have been in vited to make a penmanship exhibit at tKe national penmanship exhibit, to be held at Chicago during the holidays. Each building, will make a display. They were in the exhibit last year and came out second best, being beaten by Cambridge City. The supreme court, by a decision handed down, decides that Albert Tucker, of Miami county, must pay Imogene Hyatt S6.000 for breach ol promise to marry her. On the trial below Tucker pleaded a written release of the marriage contract, claiming that such release had been signed by the woman for a consideration ol $300. Sxow did winter wheat lots of goou at Wabash. Indianapolis is being flooded with counterfeit $2 bills and local merchants appear to have been caught by the wholesale. A mad dog ran through the streets of Fowler, snapping at every body within its reach. Miss Emma Matrie Maddux was crossing the street when the mad dog made a lunge at her, burying its teeth in her ankle. The dog was killed. Henry Shull, of Auburn, has gone to Montana. He dreamed he saw some Indians bury a large amount of gold, and be has gone after it At Decatur the grand jury has been engaged in investigating several instances where members of the Amish sect have allowed marriages in their church without procuring licenses. In some cases cousins were married. When informed that all these were violation of the law they would answer that God’s law was the only law. and that laws made by men were 'all wrong. A subsidy of S26,700 has been voted by the town of Montpelier for the Indiana Central railroad. The Clagget Saddle Tree Co. by December 1 will virtually wind up its business at the prison south, where the company has under contract 10C convicts. These men the firm has. transferred to the Union Shoe Co. There is nothing in the shape of a failure of the company and it goes out of business considerably ahead. Oxie of the strongest gas wells ever struck in eastern Indiana was drilled in near Farmland. The flow of gas is estimated at $20,000,000 cubic feet deilv.

PARTY CAUCUSES. Oflirtalt Selected by the Rrpnbllrta MoJnrliT of the New Home of Rfprewata-tltM-CampUmaterf beteetlou* of Coodidaui Mod* by the Democratic Ml* ■ority. Washixgton. Dec. The combination ticket for house officers was carried through the republican caucus of the house at the capital last night with but one exception—Mr. Fisher, of Kansas, who was slated for the chaplaincy, being defeated by Mr. Couden. of Michigan. The resulted the caucus, briefly summarized, is: "Speaker—Thomas B. Reed, of Maine. Clerk—Alexander McDowell,of Pennsylvania.

Sergeant-at-Arms-NBenjamin r. Russell. of Missouri. / ;■ ► Doorkeepeer—William* J. Glenn, of New York. Postmaster—Joseph C. McElroy, of Ohio. Chaplain-Rev. Henry M. Couden. of Michigan. After the transaction of„some minor business, the causus at 1:15 a. m., adjourned, after a continuous session of more than five hours. Dcmoerntle Cuucu*. ' ^ Washington, Dec. 2.—Thirty minutes sufficed to complete the work of the democratic caucus which was held yesterday at 3 o'clock to nominate candidates, for clerk, doorkeeper, ser-geant-at-arms, postmaster and chaplain of the Fifty-fourth cougross. The roll call disclosed the presence of sev-enty-five members, an unusually large number, when the perfunetorv character of the proceedings is remembered. ** A few minutes were spent in organising and then Mr. Catchings nominated the following gentlemen: Clerk, James Kerr, of Pennsylvania; doorkeeper, A. II. Hurt, of Mississippi; sergeant-at-arms, Herman W. Snow, of Illinois; postmaster, John T. Ross, of Maryland; chaplain, Edward li. llagbv, of Virginia, and they also were unanimously chosen, whereupon the caucus adjourned. HOLMES SENTENCED. Ill* Motion tor a Sew TrUI United and the Death I’eaaltr Imposed. » Philadelphia, Not. 30.—Herman W. Mudgett, alias II. H. Holmes, who,was convicted of murder in the fir>t degree for having caused the death, iy this city, of Benjamin F. Pitezel. was, in the court of oyer and terminer, refused a new’ trial and sentenced to be hanged. The opinion denying the accused a new trial was delivered by Judge Arnold, it having been concurred in by Judges Thayer, Wilson and Arnold, who heard the application for a new trial. Judge Arnold then

pronounced the death sentence. Holmes, who had been brought into court to hear the opinion, was not af* fected by the adverse decision,' and when Judge Arnold, in deliberate tones, sentenced him to be “hanged by the neck until dead,” the air of apparent indifference, which was so manifest throughout the trial, was not deviated from by the alleged multimurderer. Holmes was then returned to the county prison, and a death watch was placed over him. The date of execution will be fixed by Gov. Hastings. The opinion covers thirty-seven tj’pe written pages, and Judge Arnold occupied an hour in its delivery. . Every phase of the noted case was gone into and the fifteen points raised by the defendant's counsel in the application for a new trial were disposed of seriatim. A SENSATION Caused in Oklahoma by the Indictment ot Bank Officials. Perry, Okla., Dec. 1. — A great sensation has been created in the territory over the grand jury here returning indictments against some prominent men who are charged with wrecking a bank here. Four indictments each were found against J. V. N. Gregory, who is many times a millionaire, of the state of Michigan, and whose name has been used here as a bank president since the opening of the Cherokee strip; Fred W. Farrar, cashier of the late First state bank; Fred Gum, clerk in the bank, and L. Merry Richardson, Jr., who was formerly cashier of the First state bank, which sold out to Farrar, Gregory and others last June. Richardson, Sr., who is the wealthiest man in Oklahoma, and was a probable candidate for governor of the territory and is now a democratic national committeeman. The indictments are for receiving money on deposit in the bank when in a failing condition. THE CHINESE MUST GO. (Vrlt of Habeas Corpus Dissolved and Celestials Ordered Deported. Chicago, Dec. 1.—Judge Grosscup, in the United States court, ordered the writ of habeas corpus, by which three Chinese. detained in Chicago under the deportation law, regained their liberty, dissolved, and ordered that the Chinamen be remanded to the custody of United States Marshal Nat S. Stearns in Vermont. They will then be sent out of this country as soon as possible. Contrary to previous statements made Attorney Thomas A. Milchrist did not ask for an appeal. He at first intended to do so, but changed his mind in regard to the matter. MINISTER THEDIM’S WIDOW Leaves Washington to Return to Portugal With Her Husband's Body. Washington, Dec. 1.—Mrs. Thedim, widow of the Portuguese minister who died a few days ago, left the citjp Friday at midnight en route to Portugal. The corpse of the dead diplomat, which is to be transported to Portugal, was conveyed to New York on an ear* lier train. The Portuguese minister and wifa, during their brief sojourn in Washington, wero great favorites with diplomats and »nvB»nwnt officials.

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