Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1885 — Page 6

The Republican. . RENSSELAER. INDIANA. .< B. MARSHALL, - - Protium

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

TUB BAST; The Butera iron and steel market has been less active during the past week, although prices are firmly maintained. The weekly pig-iron output is estimated at 71,608 tons, whfie the idle capacity is 100,575 tons.... .A natural gas well,the second largest in the country, was “struck” near Canonsburg, Pa. The use of natural gas for domestic and manufacturing purposes at Pittsburg has displaced from 8,000 to 10,000 tons of coal daily..... In a Washington Township (Pa.) police court, Albert Southworth, the plaintiff in a suit, became so excited under a vigorous cross-examination that when he left the stand he fell dead....A severe storm prevailed along the Atlantic coast on the 13th inst, and for the first time in twenty-five years there were no arrivals at or departures from the port of New York. The tide at Rockaway Beach was the highest known for years. At Wilkesbarre, Pa., a church building in process of erection was blown down, and four men severely injure d. Consideiable damage was inflicted at Baltimore and other points. Five thousand persons witnessed the solemn obsequies of the late Cardinal McCloskey in the cathedral at New York, the surrounding streets and squares being thronged with people who could not gain admission. Archbishop Corrigan was the celebrant of the Pontifical requiem mass, and the rendering of the “Miserere" by the choir of 100, strengthened by the addition of 200 priests and boys, was highly impressive, surpassing, it is said, any choral singing ever heard in New York City. The sermon was preached by Archbishop Gibbons, of Baltimore, who extolled the life and sendees of the deceased prince of the church. After the bestowal of the episcopal absolution, the catalfaqueand casket were borne to the crypt under the high altar, where the remains were placed beside the body of Archbishop Hughes. FOUR men having the appearance of tramps begged food at the house of John and William Kester, twin on the outskirts of Siebertsville, Pa. The brothers were soon bound aud tortured, and when they definitely refused to surrender their money they were beaten to death,... Under a decree of the Supreme Gouri of New York, the Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad was sold to an attorney of the bondholders for $1,100,000. An express train on the Pennsylvania Road ran into a detached emigrant-car thirteen miles outside of Jersey City, killing nine persons therein and mutilating three others. Soon afterward a Lehigh Valley train dashed into the wreck, killing its' engineer and fatally injuring its fireman Lucius Graves, engineers Harvey, brakeman; and John Emerson, engineer, were killed in a collision on the Northern Railway, at Andover Plains, N. HAt a meeting of the Eastern flintglass manufacturers it was agreed to close their establishments at once rather than submit to the demand from their employes for an increase of wages The ironmills at Beading, Pa., are to resume at once.

THE WEST.

Frederick Bryton, a talented and rising young actor, appears this week nt McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, in a new play from the pen of Mr. Clay Greene, entitled “Jack o’ Diamonds." The supporting company is said to be an excellent one. An explosion in the Cherry Valley Furnace, near Leetonia, Ohio, dashed several tons of molten metal over four men, one of "whom was burnt beyond recognition. The others will probably recover. It is estimated that in the heart of the business district of Chicago there have already been laid two thousand miles of underground electric wires, and the work goes steadily forward... .At the annual meeting of the stockholders of Pullman’s Palace Car Company six leading Chicagoans were re-elected as Directors. The revenue for the year is given as $5,613,628 and the disbursements as $4,365,604. In reporting assets, the city of Pullman is valued at $6,584,523....Mr5. Barbara Biehler was accidentally burned to death at Crestline, Ohio. Her clothing had become saturated with kerosene, and the lighting of a match set her aflame. Her husband lay drunk in the house and was unable to render any assistance. 4 ' John W.Coffee, the murderer of an aged couple, was hanged at Crawfordsville, Ind., after the rope had broken twice. He gave a written confession to his spiritual adviser. Coffee was held up while he was bound, the rope adjusted, and the trap sprung. The body struck tire ground with a dull sound, the rope having broken. He was at once carried uron the scaffold in a semiunconscious state, though groaning in great agony. A new rope was adjusted and Coffee was dropped again with the same result as at first, the rope breaking the second time. At this there was a great stir among the audience and some men became very wild. The sight was too sickening to look at He was then raised up and his head put through a new noose, and ho was permitted to'swing until dead, while the blood was flowiiig from his mouth and nose... .A Lincoln (Neb.) dispatch says: “The house and cattle-barn belonging to Peter Hengen, living near Ithaca, twenty-five mi.es north of here, was burned last night. Hengen was away from home, but the remains of his wife end daughter were found in the ruins, the body of his brother being found in the barn. There are wild rumors afloat ns to the cause of the horror, but there is no real clew. The prevailing opinion is that young Hengen murdered the woman and child, fired the premises, and suicided.".... In West Fork Township, Woodbury County, lowa. James Johnson shot his brother John while he lay sleeping, scattering his brains about the room. The fratricide remarked, on seeing his brother’s coffin, that they would meet m hell. The wife of the murdered man appears to think the crime Was justifiable.... Fires at Owosso and Maple Rapids, Mich., destroyed property valued at $160,000. At Maple Rapids an entire block was consumed, and at Owosso, five stores, a residence, and a furniture factory were laid in asbee. Near Osawkie, Kan., a farmer and his family were driving homeward with a package of ton pounds of powder in the wagon. His wife attempted to light a pipe, and dropped a spark. The explosion which followed killed the woman and fatally injured the other three persons. Tw* hangman at Columbus, Ohio, swung off Frederick Greiner, the murderer of Margaret Seeling. The doomed man went on the scaffold with a cigar between his

teeth. The fall failed to break his neck, but he strangled in eleven minutes.'., .The new railroad bridge across the Colorado River at Yuma, Arizona, which cost $200.000, has been totally destroyed by fire. Gov, Oglesby nas issued a proclamation of quarantine scheduling the following-named sections, and prohibiting the shipment of cattle therefrom into Illinois: the counties of New York, Richmond, King, and Queen, in New York: the counties of Bergen, Passaic, Essex, Union, Hunterdon, Camden, Burlington, Hudson, and Middlesex, in New Jersey; the counties of Baltimore and Prince George, in Maryland: the counties of Fairfax and Loudoun, in Virginia; the con nties of Harrison and Pendleton, in Kentucky; county of New Castle, in Di laware; the county of Jefferson, in West Virginia, and thaDistrict of Columbia, pleuro-pneumonia being prevalent in the counties named.

THE SOUTH.

At Petersburg, Virginia, Senator Mahone’e son, Butler Mahoue, was fined SSO and put under bonds of S2OO to keep the peace. He had attempted to shoot a police officer,; who had arrested him for using profane and indecent language on the street, firing a shot which missed its mark ... .Heavy rains have fallen in Tennessee and Northern Georgia, causing serious injury to the cotton crop, and partially suspending railway traffic... .Three hundred miners at Chattanooga; Tenn., struck for higher wages, and it is thought the trouble will become general in that section. The illicit distillers of Franklin County, Georgia, have begun a war upon law-abid-ing citizens whom they suspect of having informed upon them. A young man who testified for the Government in several cases has been assassinated, and many persons have been ordered to leave the county or take the consequences.... As the result of a feud grave outrages are reported from Bienville Parish, Louisiana. Two men have been dangerously wounded, and others—white and black —have been taken to the woods by masked men and scourged almost to death. The authorities are said to be endeavoring to hunt down the perpetrators. A bloodless battle occurred between a squad of Mexican customs officials and a gang of smugglers at a point thirty miles -south of Laredo, Texas, on the Mexican frontier. The officers got the drop on the smugglers, and, without exchanging a shot, captured the booty—a lot of fancy dry-goods which were being smuggled in from the United States. The smugglers escaped, but returned largely re-enforced about midnight, recaptured the goods, made prisoners of the customs officials, and confiscated their firearms. At daylight the smugglers booted the officers out of camp and threatened to hang them if they ever again interfered with a smuggler. Danziger Brothers, dry goods merchants at New Orleans, surrendered their store and stock to creditors, and an agent was placed in charge, who will continue the business until a settlement is effected. The liabilities are $235,000, with assets of about $130,000. The veterans of the 2d Maryland confederate regiment have received permission to mark the line reached by them on the battle-field of Gettysburg in the charge on Culp’s hill, and they are now collecting funds for the purpose of erecting a monument on the spot.

WASHINGTON.

The Postmaster General has decided that guarantee associations cannot go on bonds for postmasters. The reason given for this decision is that it is frequently necessary for the sureties of a postmaster to take charge of the office, and as guarantee associations have not agents in all places, they could not in all cases take charge of the offices when necessary During the first two months of the current fiscal year the internal revenue receipts show a falling oft’ of $1,146,327 as compared with the first two months of the preceding fiscal year. In nearly all items the receipts show an increase, but in the tax on spirits distilled from grain there is a falling off of $1,631,894. There is a small gain in fruit spirits, and the net gain in cigars and tobacco is $220,911, aud in fermented liquors, including taxes, the gain is $237,599.... .A Washington special says: Bishop Ireland, of Minnesota, has been here fqj.a few days. Ho made some interesting statements in relation to the Catholic university to be established in this city. In reply to the question how much money there was on hand for the project, he said: “Six hundred thousand dollars, half of which was received through one gift and the rest through voluntary subscriptions. One gentleman from New York subscribed $5,000 to-day, and not a dollar has been begged. The work of solicitation has not yettbeen begun, but I have no doubt we shall have $1,000,000 by the first of the year. It is the intention of the directors to proceed at once with the erection of one wing.” A Treasury agent just returned from an inspection of custom-houses says the one in Chicago is in the worst condition of any. He recommends that the use of electric light in lighting it be abolished on account of expense, and that gas be used instead.

VOLITICAL.

•The Nebraska Democratic State Convention convened at Lincoln Oct 15. Frank Martin was nominated for Supreme Judge, and R. R. Livingstone and John F. Zolin for Regents of the State University. The platform demands the construction of a navy equal to any in the world, and a complete system of coast'defenses; opposes the further coinage of silver, and demands the exc usion of the Chinese.... In relation to the Ohio election, a Cincinnati dispatch of Oct. 15 says: While there is no material change on the State ticket, there is more excitement over the Legislature than there was last fall over the doubtful returns on Cleveland and Blaine. Unofficial returns from about all the State and estimates on the few remaining precincts put Foraker’s plurality at over I‘J.uOO. It will be a little over 20,w0 on the rest of the Republican State ticket. The Democrats are claiming their entire Legislative t.cket, and it will require the official count to settle it. The vote in the two precincts of the Nineteenth Ward whose counting was not finished last night has been counted, and the result on Governor in Hamilton County, with one country precinct missing, which in 18M gave 17 Republican majorttv, stands thus: Governor Hoadiy, Democrat. 83.667; Foraker, Republican, 33, <62; Leonard, Prohibition, 1,020; Hoadly’s plurality, Sus. Tue President has made the following appointments: Calvin Page, to be Collector of Internal Revenue for the District of New Hampshire; D. J. Loughlin, to be Special Examiner of Drugs, Medicines, and Chemicals for the District of Philadelphia; C. Meyer Zulick, of Arizona, to be Governor of Arizona, vice, Frederick A. Tritle, resigned. To he United States consuls: Thomas R. Jernigan, of North Carolina at Os k», Japan; Edward D. Linn, of Texas, at Piedras Negras, Mexico: hratrk W. Roberts, of Maine, at Coatlcooke, Canada; Charles H. Mills, of Maryland, at Managua, Nicaragua; Joseph D. Hoff, of New Jersey, at Vera Cruz. Mexico. To be Indian Agent: James McLaughlin, of Dakota, for the Standing Rok agency, in Dakota: David 8. Pre-son, to •'Tie collector of customs at Gloucester, Massachusetts; John H. 8. Frink, to be United States Attorney

for the District of New Hampshire. Ezra W. Miller, to be receiver es public moneys at Huron, Dakota. John McFarland, to be register of land office at Huron, Dakota. Charles H. Call,, to > e collector of customs for the district of Superior. Mich. • ' J z The official figures of the Indianpolis municipal election are as follows: Mayor— Denny, Republican, 9,093; Cottrell, Democrat, 9,033. For Clerk—Brenning, Republican, 9,089; Shields, Democrat, 9,202. The Prohibition vote was 147, and the Greenback 37. The Republicans have one majority in the Council, and the Board of Aidermen is a tie. At the charter electio n in Newark, N. J.. Mayor Haynes, Democrat, was re-elected by 350 majority. The Republicans carry all the other city offices, i and elect nine out of fifteen Aidermen, : the same number of School Commissioners, I and eight out of fifteen chosen freeholders. The municipal election in Chattanooga, Tenn., was closely contested. The entire Republican ticket was elected by a reduced majority... .The Nebraska Republican State Convention met at Lincoln on the 14th inst. Amasa Cobb was renominated for the Supreme Bench. For Regents of the University, Leavitt Burnham and Chas. H. Gere were nominated. Both now hold the same positions. The platform denounces the administration and the Democratic party. insists on a protective tariff, and refuses to submit the prohibition question. tThe Indianapolis Democratic City Committee have decided to contest the election of Caleb A. Denny for Mayor and James A. Pritchard for Aiderman.... A State convention of the colored people of Kentucky will be held Nov. 26 at Lexington to protest against the treatment received at the hands of the dominant whites.... The President is said to be much annoyed because Postmaster Pearson of New York, an officer whom he nominated as the reward for the mugwump vote of that State, has announced himself in favor of the candidacy of Davenport Complete returns from every county in Ohio give Foraker a plurality of 17,688 over Hoadly.

GENERAL.

The profits of the Western Union Telegraph Company for the twelve months ended June 30, 1885, were $5,700,924.13. At the annual meeting of the stockholders in New York Col. R. C. Clowry, of Chicago, was elected a director to succeed Mr. John Pender, Of London, resigned... .The B. & O. Road has declared a half-yearly dividend of 5 per cent, on the main stem and the Washington Branch. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885, the Dominion Government has spent , over $350,000 on immigration. Assisted immigration since 1880 has cost Canada about $1.500,000,,.. .Forged vaccination certificates have been presented at Detroit by persons from Montreal. The victims of small-pox in that city last week were nearly all French-Canadian children. Diphtheria and typhoid fever have become epidemic at Kittanning, Pa. Our big crop of oats this year, estimated at about 600,000,000 bushels, has pressed so heavily on the market already as to have le dto a liberal export movement. The receipts at New York in August aggregated about 4,000,000 bushels, and not far from a quarter of these were sent across the Atlantic, the movement being relatively much larger than that of wheat or corn. It is probable that a considerable proportion of' our crop will go abroad in the shape of oatmeal. There were 166 failures in the country during the week, against 297 for the preceding week. Bradstreet's Journal, in its weekly commercial summary, says: “The more moderate movement of merchandise throughout the country reported to this journal last week maintains the proportions then noted. The volume of business continues in excess of that reported at a corresponding period in 1884, though in some lines below that in October, 1883. Merchants at the larger business centers are inclined to consider the situation as satisfactory, and in some instances the future of trade is regarded hopefully. The conservative attitude of buyers joined to evident increased requirements on their part is believed to promise a fair amount of business, and with the coming cold weather renewed purchases are confidently looked f0r.”....A Para rubber firm, which is intimately connected with a New York house, is accused of defrauding the Brazilian Government in the past few years out of $1,000,000, through the evasion of export duties. The Transcontinental Association is said to have notified the Pacific Mail Steamship Company of the withdrawal of the monthly subsidy so long paid to that line, amounting in the past ten years to $10,000,000A scheme for free trade between Mexico and the United States is being discussed, which entails the payment to the former of sls,ooo,oooThe National Prison Reform Association met at Detroit, last week. Ex-President Hayes made the opening address.

FOREIGN.

Said Pasha, ex-Grand Vizier of Turkey, has been exiled for alleged connection with a treasonable conspiracy... .King Theebaw of Burmah, on whose dominions the British are casting longing glances, has answered the note sent him with reference to trouble with an English trading company in what the dispatches carj “an arrogant and insulting manner.” Consequently the British Commissioner has asked for a re-enforcement of 8,000 men, and will send an ultimatum to the dusky monarch. The Spanish authorities fear that in the not remote probability of the death of Kaiser William, Germany may renew her attempt to seize the Caroline Islands. The Spanish Government has thought it wise to prepare for any contingencies which may arise after the death of the German Emperor, and has ordered the immediate construction of cruisers to be built after the most improved modern pattern, and to be furnished with the best armament... .An earthquake shock at Palermo, Italy, . overturned a three-story residence, causing the death of eight persons. Servian troops in large force have crossed the Bulgarian frontier at Nissa, and, as Turkey has ordered forward,her soldiery in that direction, a battle may be expected at an early date. King Milan is in command of the Servians, who are advancing toward Sofia, Austria has warned the King that he need expect no support from him, and railways aud steamers in that country have been notified to be ready to transport troops and munitions of war... .Cardinal Newman has declared the Protestant Church in England to be the great bulwark in that country against atheism, and his support of the church is expected to have a marked influence on the coming elections. The Czar has issued a ukase forbidding the general celebration, March 3, of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the emancipation of the serfs of Russia. He fears that it would be made the occasion for a general

Nihilistic rising... .The Folkthing, or Parliament of Denmark, has rejected the Ministerial budget, which will necessarily involve a retirement of the Ministry. The action is but an episode of a long struggle between the King and the Folkthing.... During the races at Melbourne fifteen horses fell in one race, out of forty-one starters. One jockey was killed and seven were badly injured.... A telegram was received in Paris stating that 7,000 Christians had been massacred in Anam. Among the victims were a missionary'and twelve native priests... .Oscar Wilde has again taken the lecture field, but promises to leave America out

ADDITIONAL NIwS.

The number killed by the railway oolli-s ion near Jersey City is twelve. It is believed that five of the wounded will die. Thomas P. Pratt the telegraph operator who it is claimed caused the disaster, has been arrested, and is held to await the action of the Coroner’s jury. Two strikers stopped ,a St. Louis street-car and attacked the driver and conductor. The driver ran off, but the conductor stood his ground and knocked one of his assailants down. One of the attacking party drew a pistol and fired twice at the their intended mark, but one hit a colored woman in the side, inflicting a fatal wound- ... .An officer fired two shots at a thief .in Cedar Rapids, lowa. The first bullet dangerously wounded a citizen who was on the opposite side of the street, but at the second discharge the thief fell dead ... .In the Second Baptist (colored) Church at Kalamazoo, Mich.. Elmer Wood and Alfred Bennett quarreled, the question being which should escort Miss Ella Bradley home. Wood drew his revolver and pointed it at Bennett, upon which Miss Bradley dashed his hand upward. The bullet sped out the door striking and killing Robert Hargo, a young colored man, who stood on the steps.... The Missouri Pacific Road, having been given $50,000 in bonds to extend its tracks to Lincoln, Neb., is already purchasing or condemning riaht of way. The Chicago and Northwestern Company has asked the city for a similar bonus, and the proposition will soon be voted upon. In retaliation, the Burlington interests propose to extend from Grand Island to the line of Wyoming, and from Omaha to the northwest corner of Custer County. The articles of incorporation for the latter company have already been filed at Lincoln; and Manager Holdredge says the scheme only awaits the approval of the Burlington Directors in Boston to be put in execution. ....The family of Mr. Wijliam S. Bates, residing at No. 86 Vernon Park place, Chicago, consisting of his wife, mother-in - law, and two children, were burned to death in their house, which was set on fire by the explosion-of an oil stove..... Casper Butz, formerly a well-known citizen of Chicago, died at Des Moines, lowa. President Cleveland has made the following appointments: Ernest P. Baldwin, of Missouri, to be Deputy First Auditor of the Treasury—Henry 11. West, of Ohio, to be Indian Agent at the Fort Peck Agency in Montana—Samuel W. Langhorne, of Montana, to be Register ot the Land office at Helena, M. T.— Horatio 8. Howell, of Montana, to be receiver of Public Moneys at Helena, M. T. To Be Consul General of the United States — Benjamin F. Bonham, of Oregon, at Calcutta. To Be United States Consuls—Win. A. Garesche, of Missouri, at Martinique; < harles Foster, of Indiana, at Elberfeld: N. J. Arbelly, of Tennessee, at Jerusalem; James N. Childs, of Mane, at Guelph, Canada; James H. Trumbull, at Talcahuano, Chili. To be Postmasters—Michael P. 8 attdry, at Bis-j marck.-Dakota, vice Clement A. Lounsbery, resigned; John W. Milford, N. H., vice John H. Crosby, commission expired: Daniel C. Hopper, Centreville, Md., vice W. J. Hunt, commission expired; Charles W. Roby, Portland, Ore., vice George A. Steele, commission expired; James M. King, Knoxville, Tenn., vice O. P. Temple; com nissionexpired; J. L. Street. Park City, Utah, vice A. B. Emery, commission expired; Julius Field, Fort Worth, Texas, vice Belle M. Burchell, commission expired; Albert Watkins, Lincoln, Neb., vice J. C. Mcßride, commission expired; B. F. Healtham, Nashville, Tenn., vice W. P. Jones, commission exSlred; P. D. Minnick, Villisca, lowa, vice J. M. attum, commission expired; J. D. Pratt, Ipswich, Dakota, office become Presidential; Warren Perley, Bradford, Mass., office become Presidential; George Beck, Livermore, Cal., office irecom? Presidential; J. A. Fawley. Stromsburg, Neb., office become Presidential; R. K. Henderson, Murfreesboro. Tenn , vice J. D. Wilson, resigned; W. L. Norton, Tullahoma, Tenn., vice G. W. Davidson, resigned; William Schermerhorn, Hudson, Mich , vice E. J. Southworth, resigned; W. C. Schulz, Reynoldsville, Pa., vice T. C. Reynolds, resigned: Abraham Rose, Vinton, lowa, vice J. F. Pyne, resigned; Parley Sheldon, Ames, lowa, vice John Watts, resigned; John 8. Finley, Holly Springs, Miss., vice Mary H. Mahon, suspended; Walter F. Scott, Modesto, Cal., vice T. W. Perry, resigned. A terbible boiler Explosion occurred at Greenville, Pa. Andrew Hillig was drilling a natural-gas well, and bad reached a depth of eight hundred feet, when the boiler exploded with terrific force, killing Henry Faust, aged 65 years, and seriously injuring several others. Fragments of boiler-iron crushed through a barn near by, almost wrecking the structure. Windows in the vicinity were shattered by the concussion, and pieces of the iron were picked up five hundred feet from the scene of the explosion.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves $4.00 @ 6.25 Hogs 4.00 & 5.00 Wheat—No. 1 White' 99 @ 1.01 No. 2 Red 98 & Cohn—No. 2 51 & .53 Oats—White 30 & .34 Poke—Mess... 9.50 @11.50 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 5.75 @ 6.23 Good Shipping 4.75 @ 5.50 Common 3.50 @ 4.50 Hogs 3.50 @4.25 Floub—Extra Spring .... 5.25 @5.50 Choice Winter 4.75 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 88'o@ .8912 Corn—No. 2 42 @ .42Ji OAT —No. 2 .- .25 @ .26 Rye—No. 2 60 @ .62 Barley—No. 2 .- 66 @ .68 Butter—Cho ce Creamery 21 @ .23 Fine Dairy .15 @ .18 Cheese—Full Cream, new..*...- .0912® .10’6 Skimmed Flats 06 @ .07 Eggs—Fresh 17 @ .18 Potatoes—Car-lots, per bn 45 @ .50 Pork—Mess. 8.25 @ 8.75 MILWAUKEE, Wheat—No. 2...„ 89 & .90 Corn—No. 2 :........41 @ .43 Rye-No. 1 .60 @ .62 Pork —Mess 8.00 @ 8.50 TOLEDO. WHXAT-No. 2 97 @ .98 Corn—No. 2...., 44 @ .46 Oats— No 2 27 @ .28 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 97 @ .98 COBN—Mixed * .39 @ .391 a Oats— Mixed .24 @ .25 POBK —Mess ......... 8.75 @9.00 CINCINNATI. Wheat— No 2Red .98 @ -99J6 Corn— No 2 46 @ .47 Oats— Mixed,. 27 @ .28 Rye— Na 2 65 @ .66 Pore —Mess 8.50 @9.00 DETROIT. Beef Cattle 4.50 @ 5.50 HOGB .....I 3.75 @ 4.25 Sheep ... 3.00 @ 3#60 WHEAT-No. 1 White -,.92 @ .98 CORN—No. 2 43 @ .45 Gats— No. 2.. so 0 .32 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat— Na 2 Red;.., 93 @ .95 Corn— Mixed .41 @ .43. Oats— Na 2 .25 @ MH EAST LIBERTY. , Cattle— Best s.oo @ 5.75 Fair 4.25 @4.75 Common. ..... 3.50 @ 4.00 Hogs. 3.75 @ 4.25 5heep......*.*..... *-■'.mo @4*642 BUFFALO. Cattle.... 4-50 @ 5.50 Hogs.... 4.00 @4.60 Sheep. .......... 4.25 0 4.75

DEATH OF A HUMORIST.

Josh BUl|ngs Dies Suddenly of Apo- , plexy In a California Hotel.

IMonterey (Cat) telegram.] Henry W. Shaw, better known as “Josh Billings, ” died at 10 o’clock this morning, of appoplexy. The body will be embalmed and sent East. About 9:45 this morning Dr. Heintz was summoned to Hotel del Monte to attend Mr. Shaw, who was sitting in a chair in the vestibule, apparently enjoying the best of health. When the physician arrived Mr. Shaw complained of a severe pain in the chest and remarked: “My doctors East ordered rest of brain,” and added, throwing back his long hair, “but you can see I do not have to work my brain for a simple lecture; it domes spontaneously.” While he was talking he suddenly threw his hands, over his head and fell backward unconscious. He was carried to his room, and at the end of three minutes life was extinct His -wife, who accompanied him on his trip to the Pacific coast, was with him during his last moments. His face has retained a perfectly natural expression and bears no indications of pain. He was to have lectured here Friday for the benefit of a local lodge of Good Templars. At the hotel he had made himself a general favorite by his good-natured ways. * ——_____ Sketch of His Career. Henry W. Shaw was bom at Lanesborough, Massachusetts, in 1818. and was a grandson of Dr. Samuel Shaw, member of Congress from Vermont during the war of 1812. His father was also a member of Congress. His uncle, John Savage, served as Chief Justice of New York. At the age of fifteen Henry went ’West and became a farmer and auctioneer for twenty-five years, when he settled in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., at the latter vocation. His first production made public was written May 25, 1863, over the name of “Josh Billings,” he being over forty-five years of age. Since then his philosophy and quaint spelling have given him a high reputation for originality and a deep insight into human nature. His “Allminax” atta’ned at one time an immense circulation. While editing a small paper in Poughkeepsie, to. which place he had come for the purpose of educating his daughters, he compared several of his humorous essays with those jf Artemus Ward, and wondered why his own had failed to strike the popular taste. Concluding that the secret of success was Vi the fonetic spelling, he adopted it in his 'Essa on the Muel,” and disposed of it for $1.50, his first earnings in the line of literature. The essay was extensively eop*led, and further efforts in the same line »oon made his name a household word. During the last seventeen years he has ■delivered a thousand lectures, Underneath the bad spelling of his proverbs and aphorisms there is at times a depth of wisdom and philosophy which gives him a higher place in the world than that of a mere humorist, and which is often overlooked by those who are amused merely by his peculiarities.

POISONED GUESTS.

They Attend a Swell Wedding and Eat Something Not Down on the Bill. [Honesdale (Pa.) special.] A decided sensation is produced here tonight by the discovery that a dozen or more guests at a swell wedding have been poisoned by some food that was furnished by a Scranton caterer for the wedding breakfast. At noon to-day Miss Hattie Weston, daughter of a prominent merchant here, was married to Harry S. Battin, Superintendent of the Consumers’ Gas Company of Chicago. The couple left on an afternoon train and had hardly been rolled to the depot before it was noticed that guests began to depart with unseemly haste. They were afflicted with intense pain in the abdominal region that increased so rapidly that some of them had scarcely time to make their adieux properly. At their homes physicians were summoned, and found it necessary to treat for mineral poisoning. Either the lobster salad or the ice-cream absorbed some compound of lead from cans in which it was brought from Scranton, and serious Jesuits are anticipated in some cases. At 8 o’clock tonight fourteen persons were under treatment, and all the doctors in the town were busy. _____

COULDN’T FOOL WITH THE COURT.

A Hoosier Attorney Comes to Grief at Indianapolis. [lndianapolis special] In the Ciiminal Court tA-day the contempt proceedings against Wilbur Royse, an attorney, were disposed of. Royse was defending his brother against the charge of highway robbery. After conviction jt was charged that the attorney engineered a scheme for the prosecuting witness to find his supposed stolen pocket-book and money in his coat lining, and then tell the court that the money had never been taken. The alleged plot was exposed in court, and the father of the young men, who was also a party to it, fled. The defense threw themselves on the clemency of the court, Royse saying that he had intended no contempt of court, but was only trying to get a new trial for his brother. Judge Norton reflected upon the act of the defendant in the most scathing terms, and then sentenced him to three months’ imprisonment in jail, the full extent of the law, and to pay a fine of SIOO. The latter was made light because of representations that it would have to be paid by Mrs. Royse, whose property has Already suffered severely because of the acts of her husband and father-in-law.

KILLING OFF HORSE-THIEVES.

Two of Them Bite the Dust in Arkansas After a Desperate Fight. [Little Rock; (Ark.) special.] Farmers in Indedendehce and Sharp Counties, in Northwest Arkansas, have been losing valuable stock for months past, but were unable to, preventjthe depredations. Last Week a number of horses were stolen from the neighborhood of Batesville and at different points in Sharp County. A posse was organized and started in pursuit of the thieves. They were overtaken on Sycamore Creek. They had camped for the* night Though surprised, they made resistance, and a fight followed, which resulted in the killing of two of the band. The remaining three escaped by hiding in 1 the underbrush. None of the pursuers were seriously injured?

Western Hog Packing.

[Cincinnati telegram J The Cincinnati Price Current says that the number of hogs packed in the West last week is 145,000, compared with a similar number last year. The total from March 1 to date is 4,175,000, against 3,625.000 a year ago. The movement at various cities since March 1 is as follows: Chicago, 2.175,000; Kansas City, 710.060; Milwaukee, 191,000; Cedar Rapids, 164,000; St. Louis, 163,000; Indianapolis, 161.000; Cleveland, 126,000; Cincinnati, 103,000. - 1 - ■1 King Ludwig of Baravia thrashes the dentist every time he has a tooth pulled.

OHIO.

The October Election Results In the Success of the Entire Republican Ticket.

The election in Ohio on Tuesday, Oet. 13, was for State and county officers, for 37 Senators, and 110 Representatives of , the General Assembly, and upon four amendments to the constitution of the State changing elections from October to November, and one changing the term of office for Township Trustees. Gov. Hoadly was the Democratic candidate for re-elec'.ion, J. B. Foraker the Republican candidate, and Rev. A. B. Leonard the Prohibition candidate for Governor. The election resulted in the success of the entire Republican ticket, as follows: Governor, J. B. Foraker; Lieutenant Governor, Gen. Kennedy; Treasurer, J. C. Brown; Attorney General, J. H. Koehler; Judge of Supreme Court, T. A. Minshall. The Republicans have also secured a majority of the Legislature, which insures the re-election of John Sherman to the United States Senate. The following returns were sent out by telegraph on the morning following the election* Cleveland.—The whole State Republican ticket is elected by from 15,000 to 18,000 majority. The Legislature will be Republican on joint ballot, with a good working majority in both houses. The vote was heavy, and Republicans on the Western Reserve came out in full force, every one feeling it a duty to do all in his power to bring the country back to Republican rule. This result will secure the election of a Republican United States Senator, and the early enactment of a law regulating the liquor traffic. Another very probable result of the election will be to eliminate third-party prohibition from Ohio politics.

Columbus.—Returns come in more slowly than usua 1 , but there is unusual regularity in the ratio of Republican gains. With over four hundred of the precincts in, the Republican gains have run from 10 to 40 per precinct and averaged 17. At this nite the Republicans will overcome Hoadly’s plurality of 12,000 in 1883 and give Foraker a plurality of 16,(100. With the Prohibition vote kept up at its present rate it will reach 24,000, and the largest Prohibition gains are reported in Democratic precincts. It is, however, to be considered that the Republicans, with the better organization, got out their votes in the cities, while in the country, where the feeling seemed most in their favor, the vote was not so fully drawn out. A cold rain fell all day, with no more than a half-hour’s cessation at any time. This did not seem to have helped the Democrats as heretofore. The Germans in all of the eities went strongly for the Republicans, and the colored men, to a considerable extent, pulled with the Democrats. Those figuring at Republican State headquarters darn 20,000 for the head of their ticket, and no lees than 15,000 for the rest of it. The reports from the close counties and districts are in favor of the Republican legislative ticket to the extent that they will have fully forty majority in the lower house and ten in the Senate, hut this is estimated on partial returns, especially as to the State Senators. Of the thirty-seven Senators the Republic*ans claim twenty-one. Cincinnati.—At the close of this report returns had been received from 776 of the 2,017 voting precincts in the State, which gave Foraker (Republican) a total vote 148,972; Hoadly (Democrat), 132,197; Leonard (Prohibitionist), 9,913; net Republican gain. 12,924. The remaining precincts in 1883 gave a Democratic majority of 10,912. In the places heard from we have nothing from Cleveland and nothing from the heavy Democratic wards in Cincinnati.

Ohio Elections for Thirty Years. The following is the vote of Ohio since the organization of the Republican party and the election of GoV. Chase in 1855: Rep, Dem. Third party. Mai. 1855 Governor .... 146,611 131,091 244 W W 15,550 R 1856 Sec. State.... 173,618 154,238 23,570 A 19,380 R 1856 President.... 187,497 176,874 28.L6 A 16,623 R 1857 Governor .... 160,541 159,(16) WU3SA 1,481 R 1858— Sec. State.... 182,952 162,608 .... -20,344 R 1859 Governor .... 184,502 171,266 .... 13.236 R 1860— Sec. State.... 212,854 199,951 .... 12.903 R 1860— President.... 231,610 ” 12J94 B-E 44,378 R 1861— Governor .... 206,997 151’,794 .... 55.303 R 1862 Sec. State... 178,755 184,332 .... 5,577 D 1863 Governor.... 288,661 187,562 .... 10j,099U 1864 Sec. State ... 237,210 182,439 .... 64,781 R 1864 President.... 265,1 M 265,568 .... 59.586 R 1865 Governor .... 223,633 193,697 .... 39,936 R 1866 Sec. State ... 256,302 213,606 .... 42,606 R 1867 Governor .... 243,605 240,622 .... 2,983 R 1868— Sec. State .....267,065 249,682 .... 17,383 R 1869 President 2841,128 238,700 .... 41,428 R 1869 Governor .... 236,099 228,581 .... 7,518 R 1870— Sec. State.... 221,715 205,047 .... 16,668 R 1871— Governor .... 2382273 218,105 .... 20,188 R 1872 Sec. State... 265.930 251,780 .... 14,150 R 1872 President.... 281,852 244,321 .... 37,631 R 1873 Governor .... 213,837 214,654 .... 817 D 1874 Sec. State.... 221,204 2: 8,406 .... 17302 D 1875 Governor,.... 297,813 292,264 .... 6,549 R 1876 Seo. State.... 316,872 311,098 .... 5,744 R 1676—President.... 330,689 313,182 .... 7407 R 1877 Governor 249,105 271,625 16,91? G 22 620 D 1878— Sec. State.... 274,120 270,968 88,232 G 8,154 R 1879 Governor .... 336,261 319,132 9,0(72 G 17,129 R 1880 Sec. State.... 262,021 8434)16 6,786 G 19,006 R 1880— President 375,048 340,821 6,456 G 34,277 R 1881— Governor 312.736 288,426 6,330 G 24,809 R 1882— Sec. State.... 297,759 316,874 12,202 P 19,116 D 1883— Governor 347,164 359,793 8,362 P 12,639 D 1884— Sec. State.... 391,590 380,275 9,857 P 11.718 R 1884—President 400,082 368,280 11,269 P 31,802 R

State Elections of 1885. The State elections of the current year are not many, but some of them are important. Following is the list: Arkansas will elect at a special election to be held on Tuesday, Nov. 10, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court to fill the unexpired term of the Hou. J. B. Eakin, deceased. Colorado will elect on Tuesday, Nov. 3, a Judge of its Supreme Court. Connecticut will elect on Tuesday, Nov. 3, one-half its State Senate for one year only, and the members of its House of ne’preeentatives. lowa will elect on Tuesday, Nev. 3, Governor and other State officers and Legislature. Maryland will elect on Tuesday, Nov. 8, Comptroller and Clerk of the Chart of Apr peals. Massachusetts will elect on Tuesday, Nov. 3, Governor and othei; State officers'and Legislature, and vote upon a proposed amendment to the Constitution of tha State providing for precinct voting in towns. •Miss esinpl will elect Tuesday, Nov. 3, Governor and other State officers and Legislature. Nebraska will elect on Tuesday, Nov. 3, Supreme Judge and Regents of the State University. New Jersey will elect on Tuesday, Nov. 3, partof its Senate and the Assembly. New York will elect on Tuesday, Nov. 3, Governor and other State officers, five Justices of the Supreme Court, and both branches of the Legislature. Pennsylvania will elect on Tuesday, Nov. 3, State Treasurer. Virginia will elect on Tuesday, Nov. 3, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, and Legislature. France lost 15,000 men in the Tonquin campaign, and her losses in money, including the cost of building forts, hospi-, tals, and' frontier defenses, was $815,000,000. • - A crucifix es solid gold, said to contain a piece of the true cross, was stolen from the residence of Mr. Francis Handoger, of Trenton, N. J. , the other night In far-away Madras, India, the municipal authorities have confer, ed the right of suffrage upon women. In 1884 there were 200,000,008 picklee raised and salted in this connfay.