Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1885 — Page 7

THE DEADLY REVOLVER.

A Terrible Triple Tragedy in the Streets of the Illinois State Capital. Two Policemen Shot Down by a Ruffian, Whp Is Killed by a Return Shot. Springfield (HI.) special. A double tragedy occurred here this morning, horrible in its details, resulting in the almost instant death of two qjen, one a policeman and the other a citizen, and the wounding of another policeman and a negro woman. <, , _ _ A man named Leonard Gardner, owner of a candy store and a restaurant, was arrested last night on a peace warrant for beating his wife, and lodged in the city prison by Officers William J. Camp and Fred Gall. Early this morning Gardner procured bail and was released. He proceeded at once to a store and purchased two forty-four caliber bulldog revolvers, saying that he proposed to kill the' two policemen on sight that arrested Jiim. To several persons during the day be made a similar assertion, saying as he flourished the revolvers that he guessed the police would not arrest him now. About selen o'clock this evening Gardner took his position in a hallway on l Washington street, , between Sixth and Seventh, and as Camp and Gall came up he stepped out and fired at Gall, who received the ball in his groin and fell, but was unable to get his revolver. Gardner then fired a fatal shot at Camp, the hall taking effect near the heart, but the plucky officer returned the fire after he was shot, emptying four chambers of his forty-four-oqliber Remington into Gardner’s body before he (Camp) fell and expired in the arms of Officer Jones. Each of Camp’s shots took effect in Gardner’s body—one in the arm and three in the region of the heart—and he expired on the spot. A stray shot fired by Gardner struck a negro woman who was passing in the calf of the leg, it is reported, severing au artery. Gall was taken to the Leland Hotel, where he could have surgical attendance, and an examination showed that the ball took a downward course through the right groin and lodged, and hopes are entertained for his recovery. The bodies of the two dead men were conveyed to police headquarters, where a heartrending scene occurred when Officer Camp's wife entered and threw herself on the inanimate form of her husband. Camp leaves a wife and five small children in almost destitute circumstances, who have the sympathy of the hundreds that have congregated to talk of the horrible affair, but not a regret is expressed for Gardner. Such a tragedy was never before known in Springfield, and never bjfore has a policeman been killed while on duty. Camp and Gall were considered two of the best men on the force. -A

DEADLY RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

A Fatal Wreck Near Louisville, Kj„ in Wlilcli Three Men Were, Killed. [Louisville (Ky.) special. 1 A fatal wreck occurred on the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad last night, near Pleasure Ridge Park, about twenty-five miles from this city, which resulted in the death of three men. A severe storm had been raging in the vicinity early jn the afternoon, and a large tree was blown across the track at the foot of a steep grade. About G:3O o’clock the local freight coming toward this city reached that point. The train was traveling at a rapid rate of speed at the time, and as it was getting dark the engineer, Tom Sherrill, did not see the tree until he was too close to stop. He reversed the engine, but it struck the obstacle with gro.t force and was thrown from the track, seven cars piling up on top of it. The front brakeman and fireman were in tne engine with Sherrill- at the time, and all three were killed almost instantly. The engine and cars were smashed to pieces and the track tom up. The names of the killed are as' follows: Tom Sherrill, engineer; Ben J. Peak, brakeman; Tom Pilburn. fireman—all of Louisville. T. A. Goodman, the conductor, was injured internally and his back severely strained. All the men were -terribly scalded about the head and face, and terribly mangled in the wreok.

A DRUNKEN MADMAN'S CRIME.

After Shooting Four People, One Probably Fatally, 110 Plows Out His Bruins. \ [Salem (Ind.) telegram.,) A terrible case of drunken madness occurred to-day. Fred Berkey, Jr., a son of one of the leading citizens of this place, while intoxicated, appeared in the streets and began an indiscriminate fusillade. He fired nine shots, aiming at whoever happened to be in range. Laura Kleiner received two balls, one in the wrist and one in the shoulder. William McClanhan ). was shot through the hand. W. S. Percise sustained a flesh wound in the thigh. Jordan Payne received a ball through the body just below the breast, and will probably die. Payne when shot was in a buggy with a companion. Dragging Payne from the buegy, Berkey compelled the other man to drive on, and attempted to escape.. Finding this impossible, he placed a pistol to his head and fired. The ball took eil'ect, and the young man died in fifteen minutes. No cause is known for the bloody work, except that Berkey was completely maddened by the liquor he had swallowed.

COLORADO.

The First State to Iteport Her In ter decennial Census. [Wash ngton dispatch.] Secretary Lamar received an iron box to--day containing the census returns of Colorado. The law requires that States that expect Government aid in the taking of the interdeoennial census must send in their returns before Sept 1. Colorado is the first to report. The population of Colorado has increased from 194,327 in 1880 to 243,910 in 1885, a gain of 49,583. The number of farmers in the State is nearly doubled; there being 8,474 to 4,506 in 1880. The 559 manufacturing establishments in 1880 have multiplied to 1,001.

THIS AND THAT.

_ “Liquid gunpowder" is the latest invention. A Philadelphia girl, 12 years old, is a mother. - r Ninety out of <Kery hundred predictions made by the French Weather Bureau last year proved (rue, to a dot. . Y Ogontz, the famous palace built by Jay Cooke, has become a young ladies’ seminary. It cost sl, COO,OOO. Gen. Lew Wallace’s story, “Ben Star," paid him (3,200 last year in royalties.

WESTERN GOVERNORS.

Gov. Oglesby, of Illinois. Einhard J. Cglesbv was born in Oldham County, Kentucky, July 25, 1824; settled in Illinois, at Decatur, in 1836; received Itss than a common school education; was a carpenter for two years; studied law in 1844, and was admitted to the bar in 1845; served one, year in the Mexican war! worked. two years in the mines in California; was elected to the State Senate of Illinois in 1860; served one sessiop, and resigned to enter the volunteer service in 1861, at the commencement of the war for the suppression of the rebellion; was chosen Colonel, afterward appointed Brigadier

General, and in 1863 (to take- rank from November, 1862) a Major General; resigned in 1861, and was elected that year Governor of Illinois for the term which expired in January, 1869; was re-elected Governor of Illinois in November, 1872; entered upon the duties of his office January 13, 1873, and on the 21st of the same month was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, to succeed Lyman Trumbull, Liberal. In 1884 he was again nominated for Governor by the Republicans and elected, defeating Carter H. Harrison. He was inaugurated in January, 1885, and bis term will expire in 1889.

Gov. Sherman, of lowa. Bnren R. Sherman, Governor of lowa, was horn in Phelps, Ontario,County, N. Y., in 1836. In 1855 the family removed to lowa and Settled in Tama County. In 1860 young Sherman to Vinton, and entered upon the practice of law. Upon the breaking out of the civil war Mr. Sherman enlisted as a private in the Thirteenth lowa Infantry, and was sent to the front. While at Jefferson City, Mo., he was promoted to Second Lieutenant. At the battle of Shiloh Lieut. Sherman was dangerously wounded, and his life despaired of—but after severe illness, during which he was commissioned Captain, he recovered sufficiently to return

Photo by Boyd, Des Moines, Iowa.

to his company,, although still compelled to use crutches in traveling. He remained with the command, doing what service he was able, until the late summer of 1863, when his wounds having broken out afresh, and threatening fatal result, he was obliged to resign the service. He has never fully recovered, and yet carries his cane, a constant reminder of his part in the great war. He returned to his former home in Vinton, and was afterward elected County Judge, and then for four successive terms elected Clerk of the District Court, which position he resigned on his election in 1874 to the ofiice of Auditor of ’ State, to which he was twice re-elected. In 1881 he was elected Governor of lowa, and on the expiration of the term in 1883 was re-elected to that high ofiice. Gov. Sherman was married Aug. 20,18G2, to,Miss Lena Kendall, of Vinton, a lady of rare accomplishments, who has done much toward the very successful career of her husband. . "

Paper from Sugar Cane.

Until recently sugar cane was looked upon as practically worthless hlso, and was permitted to go to waste by the thousands of tons. In pursuing some investigations a short time ago for the purpose of discovering, if possible, whether the fiber of the cane could not be used in the manufacture of bagging, a gentleman found properties which convinced him that paper could be made of the stalk if suitable machinery could be devised for reducing it to a pulp. After many discouragements the task was accomplished, and of the first batch of pulp manufactured a Northern paper mill recently made enough sugar cane paper to' print one edition of the New Orleans Picayune. A copy of the paper now in hand is substantial and tough, with fair color and smooth surfaces. It is claimed for it that it will be specially desirable for use on fast printing presses, and that its manufacture, which is now regarded as> a permanent enterprise, will add largely to the wealth of Louisiana, as well as tend sfcill further to simplify the problem of paper making.— Chicago Herald.

How It Is Spelled.

An illiterate, notary making ont some papers for the plaintiff ip a 4|yoree suit was Btnok on the spelling. ' l '~ “I say,” he inquired, looking up from his paper, “is tnere an s in divorce ?” “No, but there’s 1 in matrimony,” was the prompt and vigorous response, and the notary tried for half an heur to spell the word by the new orthography. —iferdhant Traveler. Mice. Patti is at her castle in Walqg, where she will remain until November.

A NEW TARIFF BILL.

The Randall Wing in Congress Has - Agreed to a Revenue-Reform Measure. (Philadelphia telegram.] Tlie Press prints the following Washington special regarding a recent tariff deal among the Democrats: , . - “The apparent non-committal attitude on the question of the tariff is the result of recent conferences in which the more moderate Democrats, including the President himself and Secretary Manning, have thrown out the, tub which is intended, at least for the present, to satisfy the free-trade whale. In the conference which has led to this result, which took place recently in Washington, Congressman Randall took a leading part, and in many respects his views had much to do in shaping the new Democratic policy. “First of all it was agreed on all sides that the tariff must be revised. At last, after much discussion, in which the advice of certain well-known protectionists was sought and freefly and frankly given, the moderates agreed to give the immoderates a $40,000,000 reduction in customs during the coming session, the moderates, however, to reserve the right of creating a sort of inner-circle tariff commission to be run during the months preceding the coming session of Congress as a sort of side-show to the Treasury Department. “It must not for a moment be supposed that a reduction of $40,000,000, which involves the acceptance and support on the part of the free traders of a bill prepared entirely by the Randall wing of the Democratic party, was agreed to without Other and still more substantial promises in the immediate future. It has been practically agreed upon th«*t she Treasury Department, aided an*. abetted by such manufacturers as may be found willing to co-oper-ate with the Secretary, will present a bill, the basis of which will be, as T have said, the reduction of $40,000,000, or at least an apparent reduction of that amount.

“To this end the Treasury Department has employed several experts, ■who are now engaged in obtaining opinions of manufacturers throughout the country, and such information as it is enabled tP gather in relation to the cost of production at home and in competing European countries. All this information will be tabulated and a bill framed after the fashion of that proposed (and finally passed) by Secretary of the Treasury Walker,, and which is known as the ‘ Walker bill of 1846.’ “On paper and viewed as a whole, this is a splendid scheme. The moment, however, the bill, as proposed by Jho Secretary of the Treasury, comes into the House and is taken up—as it most assuredly will be—line by line, the Democratic party will be in the same condition as it alw-ays has been on the tariff question. A struggle over the proposed Treasury bill will, in fact, develop the old struggle again. The least objectionable measure may be passed, but a measure that contemplates tlie reduction of $40,000,000 of customs duties will, in the opinion of some of threading Republicans here, utterly fail. ”

THE BOOMERS DISPERSE.

Oklahoma Home-Seekers Have Given Up C the Struggle and Broken Camp. - [Washington special I - it is learned that satisfactory evidence has been subipitted to the Attorney General of the intention of the Oklahoma boomers to abandon all idea of further attempts to invade Oklahoma or violate the President’s proclamation, arid have broken camp. This ers themselves and from Congressmen and others in position to know the facts and vouch for the sincerity and good faith of the statements. The explanation given is that the boomers are satisfied with the policy of the administration, which they regard as just, and do not care to resist the Government when it applies the same restrictions to the cattlemen as it does to themselves. They have become convinced that the administration intends to protect the Indians, and they concede that this is right, their claim having been based upon the idea that they had as much right to occupy the lands as the leaseholders and cattlemen who were permitted to do so. Attorney General Garland is said to be fully satisfied with those assurances, and it is understood that he will at an early day direct the discontinuance of contemplated prosecutions aerainst the invaders.

POUNDMAKER A CONVICT.

Ho Is Found Guilty of Slaking War Againai tlie Queen and Sentenced to Three Years in Prison. iWinnipee (Man.) speciaL] Poundmaker, Chief of the Indians who fought Col. Otter’s faring column at Cut-Knife Creek, and€nterward attacked find captured a supply-train of thirty-one wagons in the Eagle Hills, was convicted at Regina of making war against the queen and sentenced to three years in the Penitentiary. The Chief, when he heard the sentence, asked that he be hanged right away rather than be imprisoned. Before sentence was passed on him he said: “I was good all summer. People told lites. I saved a lot of bloodshed. I can’t understand how it is that after saving so many lives lam brought here. I could have been on the prairies still if I would.” Then waving his hand majestically he said, with a smile: “I am a man. Do as you like. lam in your power. I gave inyself up. You did not catch me.” E»wabd Valentine, a Virginia sculptor of note, is to receive $15,000 for a bronze statue of General Breckenridge.to be erected in Lexington, Ky.^ It was Henry Cbiy who first gave Cincinnati the title “Qneen City of the West." This was in 13:18, before Chicago had been discovered. E. W. Howe, the Kansas editor who wiole “The Story of a) Country Town," is traveling in Europe this summer. V Indiana is said to be the center of the suicide district of this country.

NASBY.

The* Ei-Postmaster and Bis Friends Are Distressed About the ■* 1 'V' • dent’s Vacation. [From the Toledo Blade,l Confedrit X Roads (Wich is in the-State uv Kentucky), Orgust 4, 1885. The noosepaper wich comes to the Dimocrisy uv the Corners is the unbilikle cord wich connex us with the world. The party has alius taken one noosepaper, desirin to be intellegent. I reed it to the rest uv em, interspersin the nooze with originel remarks by myself. Ther wood be more papers taken by us uns, es more uvus unscood reed. Igderenee is to be deplored, but it hez sum pints in its favor. Possibly es more uv the Dimocricy uv the Corners cood reed ther wooden’t be so many Dirnocrats.

Our paper come yesterday; and the fust paragraff which I opened onto ;wuz to the effeck that the President was packin’ his trunk fur a two months’ absence in the mountains nv Noo York. 7 1, wich giv all last summer to the eleckshun uv Grover Cleveland, am sittin’ in sad drouthinis in Bascom’s, dependin’ for my licker on the chance invitashens from good-natured strangers wich are too keerlis to notice the tigerlike anxiety wich I regard em, but The President is packin’ his trunk! The Post Office at the Corners, wich blongs to me by common consent, hez been held for yeors by an offensive partizan, one who by bis own Coufeslin, wood hev votid the Republikin tikket, regerly, es we had permitted him to vote at all. Grover Cleveland, by one stroke uv his pen cood change all this, and make the hearts uv those wich I owe happy, but The President has packed his trunk! Bascom turns over the private ledger in wich fur all these veers he hez kept my account and sigbs like a furnis. He is losin money every day, becoz 1 hev not the money to pay fur likker, and he not being able to continuer on tick furever, the wheels uv trade is blocked. The removle uv the nigger Lubbock and my appointment wood remedy all this by restorin the equilibrium, but it is notdone.

The President has packed his trunk! Deekin Pogram hez hed his eagle eye fixed on the Collectership uv Revenoo fur yeers, and hez bin waitin fur it so long that Bascom holds a mortgage on his farm fur all it is wuth. That place is held by a offensive partisan, wich hez votid the Republikin tikkit alluz, hevin gone so far ez to forse his way to the poles with a loadid revolver, in spite uv our protests. (But his vote wuzn’t countid, halleloogy!) The Deekin sit 3 mild-eyed and sad, longih and waitin, but The President is packin his trunk I

Issaker Gavitt hez wanted the Custom House sence he wuz 21 years old. His servis in the Confedrit army attests his Dimocrisy. He hez waited so long that he hez becum almost idiotic thro hope deferred. He is still waitin, but The President is packin’ his trunk! Wat rite hez the President to desert his post and go away so fur that we wick want the oliises hev not the meens to pay railrode fare to reech him? Wat rite hez he to leeve Washington afore eggsaminin our papers and makin the changes wich wo insist he ought to make? Wat rite hez he to pack his trunk and git out anyhow ? Carryin with him a trunk implies a long stay. I don’t pack a trunk when I go away. I scorn a trunk. A black carpet-bag stuffed with paper to enshoor confidence at hotels is all I need. But he, forsooth, must pack his trunk! I am not recklis nor hasty, but I warn President Cleveland that this packin uv trunks won’t do. He hez dooties to perform, and the Democrisy insists flinf, n a ttat*ffiTTnq atyi Wn lrgai* vttctk Al t? pullUi 1110 Util. ' Ts o UvU I r Aout so much about polisy; we are willin to swaller any dose which he offers us, but we want the offises. On that question we are iron-clad. And we want em now. He can’t sine commishuns in the Adirondax, and afore he gets back I shel hev died uv drouth. He must remember that four years hence the Democrisy may pack their trunks. Let him beware. The starved tiger is the most feroshus.

PEROLEUM V. NASBY,

THE SPOILS SYSTEM.

Sweeping Changes In the Internal Kevenne Office Have Demoralized the Service. [Washington special to Chicago Tribune.] It is generally conceded at the Treasury Department that the result of the sweeping changes in the force of Internal Revenue Collectors affords a striking argument against the spoils system in its effects upon the public service. All but nineteen Collectors have been displaced, and inexperienced mefi have been substituted, and the service has consequently suffered. The subordinate officers under the Collectors not being included in the civilservice rules, a clean sweep is reported to have been made in many cases. The results ofv this substitution of inexperienced for trained workers has been seriously felt in the department work.In many instances the clerical force has shown its incompetency, and serious complications have resulted. Circulars of instructions have been issued on matters so trivial that they would seem to be wholly unnecessary if the employes were at all acquainted with their duties. The difficulties arising from changes in the service are still more serious in the apparent development of schemes and tricks to defraud the revenue wherever it has been supposed that the inexperience of the new Collector could be’ taken advantage of. Many of the old devices with which the older Collectors are familiar, and which would not have been attempted while they were in office, have now been revived. Investigations of frauds in measurements, counterfeiting of stamps, and numerous other devices, are in progress almost all over the. country, and an increased amount of illicit distilling in the South is coi ceded. The trained agents who have long been in the service, and who hive been promoted from subordinate positions, are the men who are now discovering these frauds, and they are the men upon whom the Government wholly relies to save the revenue service from disgrace.

A Revolting Spectacle Which Ladle* Refuge To Wltneft*. At last the trumpet sounded and in came a motley assemblage. Firstt here was a man on the back of a fiery horse, and a very small boy on a very small pony that was no less spirited. Those two individuals rode up before the judge’s box, and paid the usnal complimentary address to him, the boy holding the man’s hat, while both sought to quiet their prancing steed*. After these came a number of men on regnlar Rozicautes, armed witii long poles that were barbed at one end. Next, came half a dozen men dressed fancifully enough to suit even an Oscar Wilde. The silk stockings,' handsome knee breeches of the same material, and tunics embroidered richly with gold thread, lent a very pay appearance to the arena. Their hair, which appeared to be long, was done up in a knot on the crown of the head. Their smoothshaved, powdered faces gave'them an appearance of youth, which, I doubt not, was fictitious. Over the lofty arena was a long piece of cloth of some brilliant color. These pieces of cloth the bull-fighters first tossed up to the audience as a mere form, and promptly received them back again. The procession also included three mules, which were driven abreast, and were to be employed in the dragging off of the dead bnll.

The ring was cleared of all save the six gayiv-dressed bull-fighters and three of the knights mounted on living skeletons in the way of horse flesh. The trumpet sounded, the gates opened and in pranced bnll No. 1. (There are always, or nearly always, four slaughtered at a fight.) Upon his back was pinned a rosetta/of colored paper, from which floated colored streamers, also of paper. The bull rushed with a snort as far across the arena as the palisade would permit him to go. Then he turned and started across the toward another point only to be again baffled. By this time the bull-fighters got into his path, one after another, and shook their bril-liantly-colored cloths in his faee. Thus irritated, the bnll would make a charge upon the cloth; but of course the actor always managed to jump aside at the critical moment and so escape all harm. Theft the mounted knights were called into requisition. It is a comrqentary upon the deferiration of the bull-fight in Cuba, that the horses used are the very poorest and most decrepit that the whole island affords, and are blindfolded before they are led into the arena in order that they inay not see the enemy with which they are to contend.

The men wore sombreros and had their legs padded up to tjie thigh. They would urge their trembling horses toward the bull, and seek to give a blow with a spear. The result was seldom more than a scratch, but the bull gored the horse with unfailing regularity, anil threw him in such a way that lie would fall on one of the rider’s padded limbs, inflicting only slight damage. Other men would then endeaver to help the poor, whinneying beast to his fee« and if this was possible, tirge him into the fray again. But usually the horse was so badly gored that he had to be removed.

Presently the mounted knights were withdrawn, and other tortures began. The six “brave” men shot barbed arrows into the bull's neck, arrows that were gay with bright colored papers in manifold designs. There was some skill displayed in this, for the men had lo wait until the bull was almost upon them, then" dodge, and as the bull rushed by, lunge the barbed weapon at him. Of course no bow was used in hurling this instrument. The arrow would catch in the tough hide and fasnot easily shake it off, although he would try hard, the while he pawed the earth in fury. Not having sufficiently infuriated the bull, special arrrows were then employed, which were loaded with explosives at the barbed end, and would burst with terrific force when lodged in the hide, tearing and burning the flesh cruelly. Pieces of these fireworks flew up as high as tho seat upon which I was sitting.

At length the bugle sounded for the last act of torture. The leader of the six bull-fighters took a long, thin, pliable sword, and with a red cloth in the other hand, advanced to the bulL Waving the cloth, he would induce the bull to charge. Then he would spring aside, and dexterously pluDge the sword in at the back of the neck or abont the shoulders. Sometimes he would fail in this; sometimes the sword would barely stick into the flesh and oscillate there; sometimes it would go through the hide simply and come out perhaps a foot below, looking like a needle in a piece cloth that has been dropped for a moment by seme dressmaker; sometimes the sword would go in to the hilt, a distance of three feet. At each cruel stroke the bull would bellow loudly, but his vitality remained for a long time undiminished, although the blood was dripping from a dozen holes, and two swords were plunged hiit deep into his back. Gradually he grew weaker, but would not lie down and die. The butcher who had contracted for the carcasses accordingly lassoed him, the fatal point in the neck was pierced with a common butcher-knife, and three mules dragged off the body amid stirring strains from the brass band. —Letter from Havana.

(Desperate.)

“Does the smoke displease you, madam ?” said a smoker to a lady in an Austin street car. f ■ , "Very much, sir,” answered the lady, tartly. “Well,” returned the gentleman, “that only proves what I have always said, that smoking was a mere matter of taste with different persons. It pleases me very much.” He kept on smoking until he left the cir. The driver says that if the man hadn’t been an alderman, ke - would have put him off the car. —Texas Sist 4 ings. T - _ ..... Let a man learn that everything in Nature, even motes and feathers, goes by law, and not by “luck,” and that what he sows ho reaps.

A CUBAN BULL-FIGHT.

No Smoking Allowed.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Will Clark stabbed and killed Jacob B. Vans at Vincennes in a quarrel about a woman. ! —Goorge Johnson, colored, lit yearn old, resides in Posey County Poor House, and Dolly Fagan, also colored, aged 107, lives four miles west of Evansville. —At Bloomington, James BmaH, an old and influential citizen, was found dead, sitting against a tree in tjje.. University grounds. Death is supposed to have been caused by 1 heart disease. —The Indianapolis Journal, in answer to a correspondent, says; “There is no sal- . ary attached to the office of Sheriff of Marion C’onnty, his recompense coming in fees. These will amount to an annual income of not less than s2s,<;o'\”, —Mrs. Louisa Zeigman 105 years of age, stopped in North Vernon recently for a few hours, on her way to* visit her daughter in Vevay. She remembers well when there was nothing tint a small fort at Louisville and Cincinnati, and she says that her uncle, James Grimes, dag the first well in Cincinnati. Bhe is the mother of ten children, all l.ving, and has 110 grandchildren, i, —Charles George, of Lafayette, has comj menced suit in the Circuit Court of Tippecanoe County for the sum of SIO,OOO against the Big Four Railroad Company. In July last plaintiff boarded a train of the company’s road for the purpose of stealing a ride. He was ordered off, but refused to go, when an employe drew a revolver and shot him in the thigh. The ball has never be£n extracted, and he is rendered a cripple for life.

—A family named Lambert, consisting of man. wife, and a daughter pbout 13 years old, moved to Laurel about a month since, and by their outrageous conduct so enraged the citizens that about forty of the latter quietly organized, and, proceeding to the Douse Lambert lived in, quickly rendered it uninhabitable, and gave this family, as well as another of like reputation, twenty-four hours to leave town. — Indianapolis News. Gov. Gray is raid to have indicated to the officers of the fitite militia dating the La Porte encampment that he would recommend the next General Assembly to make an appropriation for the militia service, and he will also recommend that the companies he, as far as possible, more equally distributed over the Btate. He favors a consolidation of companies, and a large allowance for the older and more efficient organizations. —The financial statement of the Jeffer- - sonville Penitentiary for July shows the earningß of the institution for the month were $701,505; disbursements, $832,275. The Warden says that the prison is' not self-sustaining because Jeffersonville and vicinity afford a poor market for the prison labor. He favors a removal to some other locality on that account The prison noy contains 568 inmates, only 85 per cent of w hom arc profitably employed. The health of the inmates is good. The good-time law continues to work excellent results, find it has largely reduced the necessity for physical punishment. The use of the “cat” has been entirely abolished. Punishment is now by confinement and by the deprivation Of privileges. ; "

A special from Lafayette says: “Through the instrumentality of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union a most infamous crime has just been unearthed in this comrnuaitv, that for fiendishnes3 and brutality is almost without a parallel. A_Constable has been detected in serving bogus warrants on females, charring them with the commission of some petty offense, arresting them, and then, on pretenso cf taking them before a magistrate, has conveyed them to his own private room, where they have been compelled to submit to the basest indignities. The arrests are always made after dark, and the victims have sometimes been detained for twenty-four hours in this vile den to which other men than the proprietor have access. The fellow was confronted yesterday and charged with the crime, when he owned up and gloried in his villainy. The ladies of the W. C. T. U. are after the offender, and will see meted out to him the fullest extent of the law.”

—A convict while at work in the Indiana State Prison was injured through a defect mono of his tools. He sued the State, and the Attorney General give an opinion which is of general interest. He maintains that the State is not liable to an action in its courts for the recovery of damages. It may sue, but cannot be sued. He discusses the question at issue at some length,, and makes numerous citations. The fact that the State cannot be sued and coerced by action in its courts does not necessarily settle that a party has no claim against the State. It is proper to suppose the State will satisfy, by proper legislative action, any just claim agiinst it. The doctrine of respondent snperio does not apply to the State, and, if it did, a convict does - not? come within the rnle of respondent superio, because he is not a voluntary servant for hire and reward, nor is the State his master in any ordinary sense. The Attorney General also maintains the following propositions: Laches are never imputable to government. “The State is not affected by the misfeasance, willfulness. laches of or nnauthor.zed exercise of power by its officers. ” —Pordyce Mahan, aged thirteen, was running in the yard of his father’s house, near Versailles, with his little sister, aged five years, on his back, when he accidentally ran into a well, which had been left un'covexed, and Loth were drowned. ■ J —Mrs. David Houser, an aged lady at Somerset, fell down a flight of stairs and sustained fatal injuries. The both limbs were tom out. 7 „ At Wallingsford, Conn., a boy of 16 and a girl of 14 were married.