Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 50, Petersburg, Pike County, 24 April 1896 — Page 2

¥ifer Conuttf § roomt H, McC. STOOlMS, Editor ud Proprietor. PETERSBURG. » ' u‘ \iyDIANA' Charles H. Yoorhis, an ex member of congress, committed suicide in his low office, in the Davidson building, Jersey City, N. J., on the 13th. Tn Greater New York bill was passed by the New York senate, bn the 15th, over the vetoes of the mayors of New York and Brooklyn. The rott was 34 ayes to 14 noee. The house committee on territories held a special meeting, on the 14th, at which a favorable report was ordered on the bill admitting Arizona to state* hood. The vote was five to two. Etanrr G. Frick, chairman of the Carnegie Steel Co., will build a mag* nlfloent hospital, for children on a 40acre lot at Squirrel Hill, iPittsburgh, Pa., within the next year, at a cost of •*•0,000. —* Sbkatob Jcstth S. Morrill, of Vermont, the venerable father ,of the senate, was 80 years of age, oh the 13th, and at night gave a reception to politieal and personal friends to celebrate the occasion. On the 10th the committee on poet offices and post roads ordered a favorable report «n an amendment to the the sundry civil bill throwing open to competition the contract for printiag * postage stem pa. Failures throughout the United States for the week ended on the 17th, as reported by R. G. Dun <fc Ca, were *23. against 241 for the corresponding week last year. For Canada the failares were M, against >4 Iasi, year. Or the 18th the president issued his annual Behring sea proclamation, warning sealers from plying their vocation during the closed season from May 1 to August 1. The proclamation If similar t© the ethers issued in past yhars. The ways and means committee, on the 15th. ordered a favorable report on the bill of Mr. C W. Stone, of Pennsylvania, repealing outright and unconditionally clause 61 of the Wilson tariff law, providing lor free alcohol la the arts.

The tchoel census ef Chicago, npw practically completed, show* the city to hare a population of, apiproximately, 1.770,000. Thia is an incnja*e ofjSOO,i dot) over the school census of two years apt*. The directory estimable fof 1895 was 1,695,000. Victob Oecs* Tn-owra. the celebrated Austrian sculptor, died in Vienna, on the 16th, from a stroke of apoplexy, only a few days before the iime fixed for the unveiling of his masterpiece, a monument to Mozart. He was in hi* fifty-second year. Tn house committee on public lands, •■the 17th, unanimously 'agreed to recoamend an amendment to the bill providing relief for the settlers in Greer county,Okla., in giving to settlers of March 10. 1896, the privilege of the free homestead laws. Tire District of Columbia eonrt ot appeals, on the 17th. granted the writ of error asked for in the case of Broker Elver ton R. Chapman, the recalcitrant supar trust witness, and admitted the defendant to bail in the sum of 95.000, nntii the supreme court takes action on the matter. Exxia 1M.4JCB. N. T., wa* crowded, on the 14th, by the advance puard of j an ioradinp horde of pauper Italian | immigrants. Right on top of the •warm of nearly 1,400 unloaded from the Bolivia, there came another hungry contingent of 1,500 landed from the steamer Ale*La.

MoKSlc.xpR Cketoni, papal nuncio to Madrid. has been instructed to pro* pose to the Spanish government that Spain accept the mediation of the pope; or, failing that, to endeavor to secure the acceptance by Spain of the mediation of the United States to the end of obtaining the pacification of Cuba. The first election in New Jersey to vote on an appropriation for the con* atruction of a cycle path took place in Asbory Park, on the 14th, and the wheelmen carried the day by a vote of 31* to 37. The path will be six feet I wide, and will extend from Asbary Park to Trenton, a distance of ftC miles. The president, on the 13th. sent to the senate 400 typewritten pages* of correspondence in reference to affairs In Cuba, from November. 1873, to 1S7S ' |n regard to the attempts of the United (dates to offer mediation or intervention in the first Caban rebelliomwluch fwaa called for by resolution adopted March 34 last. The recent contest for mayor ana \ members of the city council at Gaylord, £as, In which the women won a signal victory. electing their entire ticket, baa engendered a bitter warfare be* tween the men and women* Mrs. An* tonette Haskell, the mayoress, has threatened to make a clean sweep ir j appointive offices. vTbe belief is growing in Washingtot ; that while G<C. Fitxlmgh Lee will be formally consul at Havana, he will be really special commissioner for the president to make a careful report as a military expert upon the condition of affairs, and report upon the progress of the insurgents, the strength and equipment of the armies commanded by Gomes and Macao, and such other in for* i mation as may be of service to the gov snmm\t

CURRENT TOPICS TEE YEWS IY BRIEF, UV. CONGRESS. (Pint fissslow ) In tbe mum. on the lSth. the amendment to Idto legislative appropriation bill authorizing tihe extension of the eoatnet for printing the SPatent Office Gazette (at greatly-reduced jwt**) was. on motion of Mr. Gorman, recoded from. The Joint resolution proposing a remonstrance with the British government I n the matter of the imprisonment of Mrs. May brick was reported adversely on the jrround that the senate had no Jurisdiction. The Dupont election case eras Considered at nome length.In the .house, under the irulee. various matters of interest only In the district of Columbia were disposed of, when ike absence of a quorum being disclosed, the 1 muse adjourned. In the senate, on the 14th, after a speech by Mr. Squire (Wash.) in support of his bill making large appropriations for seaeoast delenses, the rest of the seeslon was taken up la consideration of the Delaware election case. Hr. Chandler (If. H.) speaking In favor of. and Hr. Gray (Del.) against Mr. Dupont's claims. ......In tbs house the fortifications sad ooast defense appropriation bill was passed, and the house agreed to the conference report on the legislative, executive %nd Judicial appropriation bill, so tar as the conferees had agreed, ’sad ordered another oonferenoe on matters •till In dispute between the two houses. In the senate, on the IMh, Mr. Gray (Del.) cecupted over three hours In the presentation «f the case of Mr. Dupont's claim to thevaoant •eat from Delaware, and had not finished when, at #:*> p. m.. after an executive session, the senate adjourned for the day....In the house the old fight against the re-election of Gen. W. B. Franklin as s member of the board of managers of the National soldiers' borne, and against the retention of Col. ▲. J. Smith as governor of tbe home at Leavenworth. Kan.,' occupied nearly all the session, and had not tieen decided when the hoasa at five o’clock, adjourned. In the senate, on the 10th. Mr. Gray concluded his speech against the right of Mr. Dupont to the vacant seat in the senate from the state of Delaware. The resolution offered by Mr. Peffer (Has.) for an Investigation into the fiscts and circumstances connected with the recent bond Issue was taken up Mr. Hitt opposed the resolution In n three hours' speech, which he had not concluded wbej the senate. at b ». adjourned.Inthe hotse. nft-r a t tiree hours' debate On the question of retaining Gen. Franklin as a member of tbe board of managers of tbe National aoldiers' home, by a vote of 14#to ». tbe report of the committee on military affairs naming W. B. Franklin and Gteorge W. Steele to succeed themselves; Gen. Henderson, of Illinois, to succeed Gen Black, and Gen. G. L. Beal, of Maine, to succeed Francis Fessenden, was adopted.

Id the senate, on the 17th. Mr. Hill (N. * ) continued. without concluding. his speech against the passage of the Peffer resolution to investigate the bond ssles of t&e present admiaTairalion. having nfuch documentary mat* t--r on the subject read from the clerk’s desk. Mr Hoar (Mass.) spoke briefly in favor of the Investigation resolution, and criticised the remarks of Mr. Hill aa being more in place on tlie stump than in the senate chamber -In the house. It being private bill dav. a number of bitter speeches were made on both sides of the question of payment of accounts allowed by the court of claims, and as a result of the day's discussion oae bill was allowed hnd one rejected, a night session was held for the consideration of private pension bills. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Thje funeral of the late Bishop Ryan took place in St. Joseph's cathedral, in Buffalo, J». Y., ou the 14th, and down under the altar, where so often he had offered up the sacrifice of the mass, was laid to rest all that was mortal of the dead prelate. . Thk steamer John Owen, from Toledo, with 90,00(1 bushels of yorn, arrived at Erte, Pa., on the 3 4th, being the first arrival of the season. The captain reported that he experienced uo trouble from ice. XIakqvis pi Rudixi, Italian prime minister, has apprised the Vatican that the exequaturs hitherto accorded to Italian bishops will be withheld unless the pope permits Catholics to take part in public elections. Thk house committee on interstate and foreign commerce decided to postpone indefinitely- the consideration of the bill proposing a reduction of Pullman palace car rates. Thk senate committee on agriculture, on the 141th, authorized Senator Warren to make a favorable report upon the animal industry bill. Thkkk is a probability that Gen. 0. 0. Howard may be named as a member of the board of managers of soldiers' homes, to succeed Gen. Franklin.

Experiments at London do not verify the claims of Chicago doctors that the “X”. rays are destructive of the baccili of contagions disease. T^ik Potts Bros. Iron Co. posted notices in its mills at Pottstown, Pa., on the 14th, that the wages of its pud« dlers will be increased. May 1, from 83.35 to 82.75 per ton. About one hundred and fifty men will be benefitted by the change. W. H. Peters and John Yoney, both engravers, were arrested by federal officers in Chicago, on the 14th. on a charge of malting aud selling counterfeit postage'stamps. An exploaion took place in a collie ry at Wiliiugton, near Durham, England, on the 14th. Eight miners are known to have been killed, and it is believed that IS in all will lose their lives. The executive committee of the Na«j' tional Association of Democratic clubs convened'at Washington, on Ihe 14th, and called a national convention of the clubs, to meet at St. Louis on September 30. The organisation of a Dunkard colony has been completed at Anderson, Ind., taking in 33 families. They have closed a lease on 8,000 acres of land in North Dakota, and will move June 1 to their new home. Warrants were issued, on the ltth, from the United States district attorney’s office in Philadelphia for the arrest of John D. Hart, owner of the steamer Bermuda, and the ship’s officers, on the charges of filibustering, Joseph Zkamex. was electrocuted in the state prison at Clinton, N. Y-, on the 14th. He murdered him sweetheart, Theresa Kamora. by cutting her throat at Johustowu uu August 30, 1885. Birokars blew ui» a safe aud wrecked a building at Diagonal,, la., at 1 a. m. of the 15th. Citizens were awakeuoJ and opened fire, and the burglars left their tools and fled withont booty. A bottle of unexploded nitro-giycerin was stiU inside the safe, and the bankers feared to open ia 1 .♦ J:..... 4

Ax Central City, CoL, during * eras* in eourt, on the 15th, Smauel Coring* ton, a visitor charged with endearoring to intimidate a witness, denied the assertion hotly, and being threatened with arrest, palled a gun and killed ex-Mayor Williams %nd mortally wounded City Marshal Kehler. Covington while endeavoring to escape, was shot dead by Henry Learnsn. Buteuss looted the private bank in Pioneer, 0., on the night of the 15th. They succeeded in opening the vault without the use of explosives, and then, after probably taking all that it oontained changed the combination so that the vanlt could not be opened. Two explosions of powder in one of the buildings of the Chicago Fireworks Co., near Grosse Point, 111., on the 15th, killed three employes and injured a number of others. The building was badly wrecked, and the ruins were almost entirely destroyed by fire. It is said to be impossible to estimate the numbers of the belligerent Matabeles in South Africa. The whole oountry is now in the hands of the. rebellious natives, and they are massing in great force. A landslide occurred at Trubbach, Switzerland, on the 16th, as the result of continuous rains. The damage to property is very heavy, Capt, John Calhoun Shepherd, a veteran of the Mexican war, a California forty-niner, and one of the most noted characters in Montana, died in the county poor house At Butte on the 15th. Rxv. George P. Knapp, the American missionary who was recently expelled from Bitlis by the Turkish authorities, arrived at Aleppo in good heklth on the 16th. A dispatch from Havana to the i Madrid Imparcial, on the )6th, said ; that the insurgents had hanged 22 ; Spaniards in the Sagua district. A warrant for the surrender to the i Dominion authorities of Charles Ryan, j under arrest at Eastonr, Fa., charged j with robbery, was issued by the presi- | dent on the 17th. During a fire in the Clifion house, a Chicago hotel, on the night of the 16th, j while the employes were opening the I rooms to be sure that no one was | asleep in them,they discovered a would- . be suicide unconscious on the bed in j one of the rooms, the windows closed j and the gas turned on. He was rescued and^may recover.

Ix consequence of the great satis- , faction given by street-car mail service in St, Louis, the pioneer city, New j York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washing- j ton, Baltimore, Chicago and Cincinnati, it is said that at the beginning of ; the next fiscal year similar service will j be inaugurated in a number of cities having rapid transit, 1 7r j Ix a tenement-house fire at Turners j Falls, Mass., early on the morning of ' the 17th, five French children were suf- : located.- The property loss was small. : Urox the order of Gov. Morrill the j Kansas state penitentiary has been quarantined against Shawnee and Wyandotte counties, cases of smallpox having been reported in both counties. » The Corean envoy to Japan has gone to Russia, under the authority of the king of Corea, to negotiate a loan oif i $8,000,000, giving the Corean province j of H.amgying as security. Ei> Pardripoe, the Chicago wheat speculator, who had been ill for several weeks with Bright’s disease, died, on the 17th, leaving a fortune of at least a million dollars. LATE NEWS ITEMS. Tue senate was not in session on the 18th..In the house Mr. Cannon 4rep., III.) reported the general deficiency bill, giving notice that he would, at the earliest practicable day. ask the house to consider it. The business of the house Was suspended at two o'clock, and eulogies of the late Gen. Coggswell, rep resen tative^rom the Sixth district of Massachusetts, were delivered by ah number of members, alter which, as a further mark of respect for the memory of the deceased, the house, at I p. m., adjourned.

* tic- viociupujruw iu uic ia»cui Dyer, recently arrested at Reading;, England, in connection with the discovery of the bodies of a number of infants in the Thames, are horrifying in the'extreme. Wholesale infant murder has been traced to her door. « , A Special cable dispatch from La Guavra, Venezuela, says: "The wai ship Rivas is back, with Gen. Pat-edos on board, triumphant. The uprising which suddenly occurred in Nirgasta was crushed and the leaders captured.” Akthcb I. Bokkmax, first governor | of West Virginia, afterward United j States senator and for eight years j judge of the fourth judicial circuit [ court,died iu Parkersburg, W. Va., on the lbtb. after two weeks' illness. Ex-Gov. William E. Russell, oi Massachusetts, through Judge John W. Corcoran, chairman of the democratic state committee, has announced his candidacy for the nomination for the presidency. A decrease beyond all precedent in i the*Australian wool clip for ISO® has been reported to the state department ? by Daniel W. Marratta, United states I consul general at Melbourne. • I Tub gold output of California for the year4$».*. was 813,334.317.69. as-com-pared with SlS.MJt.-sl.-y in 1*04. The silver output for lsbo was Suyy.T&S.To, against &i02,33L55 for | Tue Daughters of the Revolution are raising funds to erect a monument to the memory of Francis Scott Key, author of **The Star Spangled lianuer." , A special cable *rom Valparaiso, j Chili, says: The government is about i to mobilize 14,000 of the national ’guards recently enrolled. Ex-Consul Waller is threatened I with the loss of his eyesight as the result of his confinement in a French | prison. | Lieut. Peart, the arctic explorer, it is rumored, may again head an exploring expedition to the Arctic regions.,

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Marceu.cs L. Wright, county commissioner,. residing five miles south of Greensburg. was found by Charles Evans, a neighbor, lying along the roadside about one hundred yards from his residence in an unconscious condition, the result of paralysis of the left side. He wan carried to his home and remains in a serious condition. Frederick Rohfink. an old resident of Huntington, was killed in a runaway accident A falling piece of timber struck Nathaniel Nunamaker on the head at Hnntington, injuring him so badly that he will diesp Morrison Artis, colored, aged 74, was killed by being thrown from a horse near KokomoL He was riding home, carrying a cross-cut saw, when the animal, becoming frightened, reared up and fell backward on him, resulting fatally. John Artis, a brother*was killed a short time ago by falling from a scaffold. Henry Kraft, aged six years, was struck by a suburban train cn the Pennsylvania road and hurled 50 feet at Jeffersonville. At first it was ; thought that he was killed, but, strange to say. his injuries were found to consist only in several very ugly cuts and bruises. It is thought he will recover. SiReon Tagce, of Crawfordsville, has applied for a divorce from his wife on the ground that she chews tobacco and cigar clippings. The attorneys for the democratic state central committee have filed their brief bn the motion to dismiss the apportionment case brought to overthrow the law* of 18S5, The town of Greenwood, ten miles north of Franklin, has taken a decisive step toward the abolition of the cigarette by passing an ordinance forbidding the smoking of them on the streets at anytime, (greenwood is a progressive town of 1,200 people. JoNATUAN/TAYLORand CharljBk Quinn, both of Laporte county, wgF*" hunting' the other day. On the w€y home they drove over the side of a ^bridge. The buggy landed on top of Taylor, who was drowned, being unable to extricate bimself. He was SO years old, and leaves a wife and four children. .George Hall, residing near Craw- ! fordsville, has a calf which was born | without eyes or eyesockets, but which has eyelashes that Wink just the same : as if the calf had eyes. The calf has no ! tail. % !

The democrats of Wayne county will present the name of John M. Lentz aa a candidate for congress. About three months ago Rev. Thomas I C. Workman, of Lebanon, was granted a pension as a veteran of the Mexican war, and a few days afterward died. Shortly afterward his widow made application for a pension, and the same was granted a few days ago. She died four days later of consumption. E. J. Bxnfort), an attorney of Elwood, who some time since located at Greenfield Tor the practice of law, is reported to be mysteriously missing and can not be located. Eddy and Clyde Thompson, 5 and 8 years old, weigh 125 and 72 pounds, and live at Ohio Falls, a suburb of Jeffersonville. Thk tallest man in Clark county is Fred Heinz, six feet nine inches, though but 19 years old. He weighs j 250 pounds, wears a 13 shoe and lives at ; Charleston, near Jeffersonville. Daniel T. Cripe, a farmer, near ! Laketon, has discovered on his farm. a j spring which is claimed to furnish : water that is a sure cure for rheumatism, j During the drought last fall Mr. Cripe's well went dry and in prospecting for i water he came on this spring. The authorizing of the employment | of a tax ferret by the city council of Richmond has stirred up considerable i feeling. A contract for the work will j be made with. William G. Young, of J Connersville, who is to receive 20 pep ; cent, of the amount he adds to the dup- \ licate. Albert Spurgeon, of Clinton county, j lost his-hand lu a corn husking ma- j chine.

One of the schools at Macksville, or s West Terre Haute, has been closed op ! account of diphtheria. Fire destroyed a barn and five head j of horses at Sullivan, belonging- to Bud ! Borders. No insurance. J. B. Harter, of North Manchester, has a precious volume much sought by j collectors of rare old books. It was j printed in London in 1~50, and on a fly ; leaf appears the sentence: “This Bible j is the property of John Cowg4i and was bought of Benjamin Bell, Smith- j field.” Mr. Cowgill was the greatgrandfather of Hon. Calvin Cowgill, of Wabash, who is how 75 years of age and has long jbeen one of tie most prominent residents of northern Indiana * The tallest man in Indiana, and probably in the 'United States, is John Williams, seven feet seven inches, whc weighs 350 pounds. He lives on the southeastern edge of Washington county. about 35 miles north of Jeffersonville. Martin Qrics. of Franklin county, 99 years old. has cut his third set ol teeth, and is enjoying good health. The tallest man in Brown county is Joseph Tutero, 6 feet 5)4 inches, and Hannum Taylor stands in the same relation to Johnson county, living at Bonta, and is the same heigat No death has occurred at the Eastern Hospital for the Insane since last Angust. O. B. Write, of Boone county, while blasting stumps, received what will likely prove fatal injurief by the preen amature explosion of dynamite. Charles H. Wilcox, a Grand Army veteran of Ply month, was stricken with paralysis on the street. This being the third stroke, fears are had of his recovery. While a plumber was at work on gas fixtures in the residence of. Samuel B. Rogers, Bloomington, an explosion oo curved in the cellar, setting fire to the house and destroying it. At the time lira. Rogers was ill in a room over the explosion, but she and her infant babe were rescu'd.

FROM HONOLULU. Minister Willi* Takes Exception* to n Sap. posed Inspired Article* Hot Is Mollified Upon Explanation—The Sugar Barau Ivade the Payment or Jest Taxation— Nine Riotous Portuguese Seriously Injured by tbe Clubs of the Police. [Special Correspondence of the United Press per Steamer Gaelic.] HoxolclI’, April 11.—Minister Willis, who will sail for the east on the 16th inst., on a sixty days'furlough, paid his official farewell visit to the executive on April 11. After the custo&ary interchange of friendly j speeches, the minister took occasion to express his dissatisfaction with a par- j agraph in the Advertiser of'that date, j intimating that it was the organ of the government. Collector , j. B. Castle j being a principal stockholder therein. Fofeign Minister Cooper assured Mr. Willis that the Advertiser was in no | way controlled or inspired by the gov- j eminent and promised to speak to the editor about the offending article, j which he did. The offending paragraph was one quoted without com- | ineut from,an editorial in the Wash- j ington Star, the most damaging words j of which were: "Minister Willis has j no value; whatever in Honolulu. But! if anything he is a standing affront to ! the people for whom the people of the j United States feel a warm attach- i rnent.” In the next issue it was pointed out I that the paragraph from the Wash- ' ington Star was printed without com- j meat and asserted the paper's absolute I independence of the government. 4pt ; expresses regret that the American j representative should have been mis- i led by rumors, and sincerely hoped j that Mr. Willis would fully recover I his health, w,hieh has been, sadly ’ broken by the nervous strain inei- j dent to the trying position he has oc- i copied. Since the disagreement of the 17th of January there has been no direct.! exchange of social courtesies between Minister Willis and any member of 1 the executive. Considerable excitement has followed the very reluotaut publication of ! tax lists showing the 37 sugar corpor- ! ations with $3?,$6:.\000 of capital stock I paid last year' only Sl01,114 in taxes, less than 36 per cent-, of the lawful one per cent., if assessed at their nominal value, which is generally much below ! the aetuah G The sugar barons have done their i utmost to prevent this publication of j the facts. The legislature is certain to find a remedy for this unequal tax- | atiou.

a nut ui rurtujfucic iuuk piaee uu the eveuing of the 5th. ®It was accidentally provoked and had not the slightest politicals significance. Nine Portuguese were seriously hurt by the clubs of the police. KILLED BY BURGLARS. Leo Hlrth, of ludiaimpotU, Shot Through the Heart While I'urtuing Burglar* In HU Home. IsDiax 1*01.18, Ind., April 2a—Leo ilirth, a well-known and wealthy German citizen, living at 1020 west Washington street, where he conducted a large grocery business, was instantly killed at two o'clock yesterday morning by twe masked men who were discovered in his bedroom and whom he pursued into the rear part of the house. Mrs. Ilirth was awakened by a noise in the room, aud,|rising in bed, sadr two men standing in the doorway leading to another room. She gave the alarm by calling to her husband, who was in a deep sleep by her side. At the same instant one of the men leveled a pistol at her and fired, the bullet entering the headboard just above where she lay. A second shot followed an instaut later an'd the two men turned towards the rear of the house. Ilirth was awakened by the first shot, but seemed not to realize what had occurred until the second shot was tired, when he sprang from the bed. lie theu passed into the room back of his sleeping apartment. A third shot was fired as the man fled from the room pursued by Ilirth. Mrs. Hirth ran tq the front door of the house and made her exit, screaming at the top of her voice for help. A number of the neigh-, bors were aroused and came quickly to the place, and when they entered the house Ilirth was found upon the floor with a bullet in his hearty Ilirth was known to. keep large sums of mouev in the house.

A TERRIBLE EXPLOSION. Seven Miurrt Hilled and Six Injured Some of Whom Cannot He cover. Butte, Mont., April 19.—The Broad-, water mine at Neihart was the scene cf a terrible explosion early yesterday morning, resulting in the death of seven miners and the serious injury of j six others,.some of whom cannot re* cover. Of the men killed all were single ex- j cept Frank Doran. At last ‘accounts I James Gallagher was dying. It is also j feared that three others will die. A ] special train carried the wounded to Great falls. j There are several stories as to the \ cause of the disaster, the most reason* I able one being that the magazine, a room used for thawing powder at the middle tunnel of the mine, exploded just as the men were returning from lunch at one o'clock. j One of the men was thawing pow* j der, with the too frequent result that | all the powder in the room, some 36 ' sticks, exploded. The explosion set off a box of dynamite and scattered death among the men who happened ; to be passing at that time. Ei-Coailcta Arrested for Conaterfstinc* j Seokase. Wash., April 20.—Secret Service agents of the government raided a little shanty ip the timber near this citjf late Saturday night, andcaptured two men engaged in making •oauterfeit silver coin. Their paraphernalia and a lot of boju» coin were secured. Georye John* ,.jd and George Craig are the names of (.he prisoners. Both are ex-con victs. /ive other members of the gang es* ; ip$ri. Tuis is tue crowd *who flooded ae citj with spurious coin a month go and for whom the otUcers ha. j >e.-u in t-earca.

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