Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1887 — Page 6

The Republican. G. E. MARSHALL, Publihiikb. RENSSELAER, INDIANA

■ The Connecticut Legislature ha* passed «law the object Of which is to obstruct as much as possible travel on Sunday. Pnor. Ge« of Harvard Colloge and Sir Donald Smith; of Montreal, have received honorary degrees from Cambridge University. The unprecedented amount of railroad building now going on is proof that Americans have confidence in the future ■of the country. A""' •’ ' • — v —• . . j The Florida Legislature adjourned leaving over 100 bills for Governor Perry's signature, in addition to the 114 already signed by hum. The Grand Army of the Republic at St Louis has finally decided that it had nothing to do with inviting the President to visit that city. • ■ .

A New Yobk firm has bought 2,000 walnut trees in Lee. Scott, and Wise counties in Virginia, near the Kentucky fine, for sl2 each, paying $25,000. The death of William A. W heeler leaves Lot one man living who ever held the Vice Presidency of the United States. That man is Hannibal Hamlin. The outlook for cotton in the Memphis district, embracing west Tennessee,, north Mississippi, north Arkansas, and north Alabama, is very promising.

The Dhammers' Association efAVestern and Eastern firms has decided to make a test in the courts of Texas against the present law of the State regarding the drummer tax. TSeiko earthquakes, political plots, church fires, and discoveries of lost gold and silver mines all together. Mexico jnsi now is furnishing the world some highly picturesque and exciting news. About $17,000,000 of the called 3 per gent, bps da st ill outstanding are held by roefaoual banks as socurity for circulation. •Comptroller Trenholm believes these will . all be replaced by other bonds by Sept. 1, Ast old nidi chant stys that the money expended in labor to keep a brass sign properly scoured could be much more profitably invested in newspaper advertising. He does not believe in brass ornajtsents of any kind. .. . Uj It is reported that hidden treasure to •the value of £35,000,000 has been discovered in the palace of a deceased Vizir at Rabat, .Moroceo. The Sultan, it is said has<conAscated the treasure and is having it con r wtyed to the imperial coffers. \

The annual of the Pennsylvania company operating the Fort Wayne, Pan Handle, and other lines of the Pennsylvania system west of Pittsburgh shows an increase of revenue for 1886 over the preceding year of $3,863,332.23. Coi_ FBrn Grant has evidently inherited the general’s fondness for the weed, for a cigar is perpetually in his mouth. He! is said to be as inveteratea cigar smoker as : his father, besides having many other traits similar to his.—( Boston HeraldA. pecisios rendered by the Missouri Supreme Court in effect makes the Iron Mountain Railway independent of local legislation at St. Louis, and gives it right of way through all the streets of that city that it may desire to use for extensions. An optics* attributes the increasing demand for eye-glasses in this country to the use of tobacco, especially cigarette smoking- He says the smoke of tobacco is bad enough, but there i 3 something in the cigarette paper which is injurious to the eyesight. The New York Episcopalians have •started a movement for the erection of a magnificent cathedral in that city, to cost about JS.OGO.OQO, which, if built according to the proposed plans, will be the largest and most imposing structure of its class on this continent. m_ _ • Thohas county. Kansas, is named after General Thomas, and all the townships in the county are named after soldiers of the Eighth Kansas Regiment who were killed in the battle of Chickamauga. That part . of Kansas ahonhl b; especially.. attractive to the “boys in blue.”

g “It is proposed to reorganize the New Jersey Centra’. Railroad Company, the main feature of the plan being the issue $50,000,000 general mortgage five per cent bonds, which will be sufficient to -cauoel the present-indebtedness and leave a handsome margin for necessary improvements. .*'/■> :■ Florida has no State Board of Health, and it will require prompt action on the 3>art of the United States authorities to prevent the spread of yellow fever, epi—demieat Key West The Postoffioe Department has ordered the fumigation of the mails at Tampa and other points connecting with the infected port A tocho lady said at the recent meeting of the Woman’s; Christian Temperance Union at Savannah! ‘"Chivalry, which has fled from all other quarters, has taken refuge in the newspaper offices.” It is unnecessary to state that tnis yonng lady prettiest and brightest representative of her sex in Georgia.—fNashvilie Union.

CONDENSED NEWS.

Latest Intelligence From all Parts of the World, ' FIRE RECORD. A fire at MuiiCio, destroyed a.heading factory. Loss, $3,000. i A grain elevator at Meriden. 111., wae • burned. , Loss, $2,000, ThS residence of James Edwards, near! U.nnipeg, was destroyed by fire, throo of his children living burned to death. The Hotel Richelieu. Chicago, was damaged by fire to tile extent of about $5,000 I on Sunday night, -» " Th» Canada , Chemical manufacturing company’s works at London, were burned Sunday night. Loss. $45,000; partially : insured. _ 'Ti

The establishments of the Messrs. Priest, clothing, the New England Organ Company at Belfort, Maine, were burned. Loss. $20,000. The Havomeyer sugar refinery, Long Island, Now York, was destroyed by fire, involving a loss of $1.0<K),000. The Ktiue county, Illinois, poor house ' wns destroyed oy fire, involving a Toss of $15,000. A $15,000 fire occurred at Fordyce, Arkansas destroying mills and lumber. The Kowanee's Manufacturing Company's works,, ax Kewauee, 111., wore destroyed by tire. Loss, SIO,OOO. T Two brothers named Malosh say they were hired to flro the Dixon Block at Kokomo. Ind.i whicli was burned to the ground January last They implicate several prominent business men., A lire ns Cincinnati destroyed Fred. J. Meyer s Manufacturing Company. Loss, $40,000.

The First National Bank building, a five-story iron structure, Pittsburgh, Fa., the upper floors of which were occupied by the main office of the Western Union Telegraph company as an operating department and battery-room, was partially ! destroyed by fire Friday morning; An explosion of gasoline tic Chattanooga. Teum, caused a Sfi.dOO fire. • —The stone flouring mill at Shopiere, Wis., ■ was burned. Loss $14,000. ■ _ - ■ I Fire at Louisville. Ky„ caused a loss of i $15,000. The residence of Mrs. De Long at Mar- ; ion, l;»d,. was burned. Loss $2,500. j A firs; oeeuretl in the Revero Honse Chicago on Thursday morning. Not | rur.?h darr.r.go was done. The Quincy Rock House and the Drum House at Houghton. Mich., werestruck by lightning and toiaiiy destroyed. Loss, s6i).ih>o; insurance unknown. 1 On the Island at Buffalo, N. Y„ Wedues- j day night, fire destroyed (A W. Playter’s : planing milk; the iron shops of. tho Union Dry Dock Company. Mills A Co.'s dry dock and l-unidingsc J; W. Austimsosaslri factory , andUver one million feet of lumber owned by various firms." “Tiie total loss is about $L rl t ■<'o, with $75,00.1 insurance.

The dwelling of A. Brown at Bedford* Ontario, wits burned. Four children, all under 10 years of age. perished in the Canies. The parents with a baby barely escaped With their lives. At Hancock. Mich., two largo buildings of the Q,uiucy” ATiiie were burned. The loss is estimated at from $60,001) to SBO,000, with insurance at a quarter of the loss. Nort h&■ Son’s store was damaged by fire and water to the extent of several thousand dollars.

CASUALTIES.

Miss Mary B. ~ Hill, a student in the freshman Cornell university, Ithaca. X. Y„ fell Sunday afternoon from the path leading along the edge -of Coscadilla gorge to the bottom, a distance of sixty feet. She was so severely injured th(»t she died: A’ train on the Saginaw Valley & St. Louis Road was derailed, and Charles i Weidman. engineer. Merritt Corbett and , George San fore, firemen, were severely injured. ■ ’ ''} ■ An artesian well at Groton. W. a T., broke • through the earth a hundred yards from the natural outlet and flooded the district. A large tissnre-has been made in the earth, running under the Episcopalian ! Church, and is feared; the building will fall.

The fast train on the Pittsburg ± Fort Wayne road Collided with a freight train at Columbiana. Ohio. The engineer was badly hurt and the passengers much scared aud shaken up. An accommodation train on the St. Louis i Hannibal road was derailed near Frankfort. Mo. A lady named Dickinson, from New London, was probably fatally injured. Another lady had an arm broken. Conductor W. C. Richardson had a leg crushed. Brakemati Mallery had his edt- ' tat-EotieP broken. Xo eause is; assigned tor the accident. Jacob Welti, proprietor of an extensive barrel factory at Cleveland. Ohio, failed, Wednesday. The assets are estimated at s4<‘.()Go, and liabilities at S6O,:XX).

CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.

■ 2..- ' -, A number of prominent citizens of Erie. Fa., have beeu arrested for violating the pension laws, __ _ -WiU Guess shot and killed Miss Irene Fann. a Chattanooga iTenn.) school; teacher, because she whipped his little sister, and fled. A farm laborer named Britden was killefi at Williamstown.Ky., by yonng De Jar..sette, because he. refused to.ilrink.with- Da Jarnette. ~ J. Kelly, serving a term for murder, has brought thi ee suits at Cincinnati ; against the Enquirer, each for S2O.(XXt : damages, for libel, alleging that the latter paper charged him with crimes he did not j commit. - : At Philadelphia, Robert G. Hail, poet | and actor, murdered his paramour, Mrs. j Lillian Rivers, and then cut his own throat.

The wommH was the wife of an actor known to the profession as James Reynolds, who-attempted to kill her April 19, and then ..shot himself, tint recently rel Covered. j- At Cleveland, Ohio, Assistant City Clerk ; ofbott lias been arrested, chnrged with ■ forgery. Ho is prominent in the Knights [of Labor, is editor of a paper, and something of a politician. - Dispatches from Nogales, Arizona, say i that the Indians are threatening trouble. ■ A number of persons have been killed, i Troops haves beon. sent after the marau i ere. A special from Ozark, Mo., says: About I 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the 7th inst., Mob Meadows, an old citizen of Christian county, was shot und instaqtly killed by nn unknown assassin secreted in 'the woods.

INDUSTRIAL.

i The coke strike being settled in PennI' sylvariia, the'Chicago Rolling Mill Company has announced that it will recommence work. Another great lock-ont was begun by the carpenters in Chicago on Monday. The bosses insist that the ; men work nine Hours, while the workmen declare they ! 'rill work but" eight, and hence the lockout. i The trades and labor assembly of St. Paul, which embraces all the building trades except stonemasons; has ordered a qeperal strike Wednesday the 15th inst., unless the demands of the striking car penters are conceded. A weekly review of business shows an improvement both in crop reports and the financial situation, and says that but for the labor troubles aijd excessive specula- j tion the outlook would be entirely satisfactory. Money is in gpod" supply at all 1 points, and collections fair and improving, i The business failures in tho United States I and Canada for the seven days numbered 173, against 200 during the corresponding ! period of last year.

Owing to the coke famine caused by the strikers in the East, the blast furnaces nnd steel mill of the North Chicago Rolling -Mill Company, at South Chicago, were shut down Thursday night, throwing 1,300 men out of work. The Manufacturers’ association of brass and iron, steam, gas, and water work held a meeting at Cleveland, 0. Prices were regulated for the coming season, and voted to meet at St. Louis, Dec. 9. Colored men are to be admitted to the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, from which they have hitherto been excluded. The Master Builders of New York are reported as about to demand the protection of non-union men. Official'report has been made to- the executive board of the Knights of Labor declaring the strike in the coke region illegal, recommending that the knights re'tnrft to-work, and 'sustaining the awawL-of-the umpire.

WASHINGTON.

The Washington weather-crop bulletin says: Over all agricultural districts the weather of the week ending the 12th Inst., has apparently been favorable for the important crops, the marked deficiency of temperature occurring in local sections being of secondary importance as regards the staples. The Treasurer’s report, at Washington, D. C.. shows that the total coin and currency circulation May 31 was f 63. an increase of $581566,546 over a year ago. The Nation Pension Committee of the G. A. R. has prepared a new bill to take the place of the one vetoed by President Cleveland for the relief of thedisabledaud suffering veterans of the late war. The Treasury Department at Washington has decided that foreign pig-iron used as ballast is liable to duty if landed in the United States for the purpose of being sold. An order has been issued by the War Department, at Washington, directing the dismissal “without character’’ of W. H. Green, the only colored man ever admitted to the signal service. His appointment two years ago and assignment to duty at Pensacola caused a stir. The sergeant in charge refused to receive him and was reduced to the ranks The National rifles at Washington, D. C., have decided to decline the invitation tendered by the Louisville legion to visit Louisville. They decided, however, to go on to Chicago in November to attend the [ drill to be held there.

POLITICAL.

A special from Boston states that Mr. Powderly has declared that he will not be the candidate of the labor party or any other party for the presidency. ~_T v . .) ■Mr. -Manning*- who has Just .returned ! Europe, referring to the next presidential . campaign said, ‘T can Sum it up in a very ! few words. I consider Mr. Cleveland the winning card in the political game.” Ex-Governor Gilbert A. Pieice has been ; elected President of the North Dakota HE nive reitya-tGramlForks. 1 The Republican Legislators of New

Hampshire Thursday nominated William E. t handler for United States Senator, to : fill the vacancy occasioned by the death ■ of Mr. Pike. In the Massachusetts Legislature Wed ! nesday the constitutional prohibitory amendment was defeated by a vote of 139 ! to 74. It is claimed that the supporters of ex- ! Senator Rollins, who has withdrawn from r the Senatorial contest in New Hampshire* [ will go to ex-Secretary Chandler. The Executive Committee of the New ■ York Prohibition party met at Albany, and decided to' hold the Prohibition State Convention at Syracuse, August 25_ and 26.

GENERAL

The queen of fenglnnd, in order to invest the jubilee-ceremony in Westminster

j abbey with greater pomp, consents to as- | some the state robes and to be eJ with all the insignia of sovereignty after entering the abbey. Eight thousand troops will line the route to the abbey besides a gunrd of honor of 600 persons. Something approaching a panic took place in tho Now Y’ork coffee market, and prices dropped nearly 3 cents a pound in three days. . . . Secretary-Treasurer ■ Passoe, of tho Typographical Convention at Buffalo, N. Y., is said to. be a defaulter. , ; The governor of Colorado revoked the i quarantine,against cattle from lowa, MisI souri, Nebraska, and Kansas. Near St. Joseph. Ind., bn Sunday morir- ' ing,an aerolite supposed to weigh two ! tone fell aqd buried itself in the earth. It | crushed a grfcat tree to splinters ifi Its | fall, anil shook the earth in the neighborhood. The town of Trenton, Mo., has a curse in the why of poisonous flies, which is creating much''’suffering among human beings. Bishop Stevens, of Philadelphia, diod on Saturday, aged; 72 years. At San Antonio, Teias, Friday, tho Mayor, Chief of Police, an ex-alderman, the cashier of the San Antonio National Bank, and four other prominent citizens, were arrested on a United States warrant, charged with breaking np a Prohibition ! meeting. From a hundred stations in Northern lowa, Southern Minnesota and Dakota j come reports showing the corn to be 2(f | per cent, ahead of last year. The trial of the case of the Texas&Pacific railway company vs. B. H. Epperson at Jefferson, Texas, resulted in a victory for the railroad, by which it acquires many valuable tracts of land. The Grant Monument Association of New York has called for designs for a monument or memorial building to be erected upon ..the site of Gen. Grant’s tomb, the structure to be of granite, mar- j ble, bronze, or other suitable material, singly or in combination. The officers of the American Bankers association have decided to hold' the convention at Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 12 and 13.

Sixty-four cadets graduated at West ; Point. The President of the Board of Health of | Texas threatens to quarantine against New Orleans if the latter city does not in- i crease from five to ten days its quarantine of vessels arriving from Key West or other infected ports. The Grand Lodge of Masons of New York, upon report of a special commttee, have forfeited, the warrant of Prudence Lodge, which recently admitted to membership Jere Dunn, Tom Gould, and six other disreputables. -i— - .. , The Pennsylvania Republican State Convention has been called to meet 1 at Harrisburg Aug. 17. Major John H. Ewing, uncle of the Hbn. James G. Blaine, -died at his residence at 1 Washington, Pa., Thursday afternoon, aged 1)0. Charles D. Keep, editor of the Wall Street News, died Thursday morning at Long Branch. A cloud burst over Monticello, Pa.,, flooding the streets and cellars, and doing damage estimated at SIOO,OOO- Many persons took refuge on the roofs of their dwellings. The Pittsburg & Western road was sold by the United States marshal at Pittsburg under order of court for $1,000,000. It was purchased by parties interested in the reorganization scheme. Dan Rice, the veteran clown and showman was united in marriage to Mrs. M. C. Robinson, of Hallettsville, Texas, on Wednesday. The Kentncky distillers agreed at Louisville to a cessation of the production of whisky until Oct. 1,1888.

FOREIGN.

Emperor William's illness has assumed a serious aspect. Severe shocks of earthquake have occurred at Vernome, in Turkestan. The town was almost entirely destroyed. One hundred and twenty persons were killed and 125 injured. • A dispatch from St. Petersburg, says: “The Czar is incensed at the tone adopted by the Russian press in regard to his foreign policy. The Czar aims at maintaining peace, and his policy emphasizes the tradition of amity between Rustia and Germany.” Fifty miners were killed by a fire-damp explosion in a Westphalia (Germany) coal shaft.

THE MARKETS.

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A CLOUD BURST.

Nanticoke, Pa., Deluged—PeopleTake Refuge on Roofs—s 100,000 Damage in a Few Minutes. On the 9th inst., the town of Nanticoke, Pa., in the mining region near Wilkesbaf re, was almost overwhelmed by a cloud burst, which in forty minutes covered the whole place With water from bne to three feet deep. The sewer on the main street was entirely inadequate to carry off the water, and it burst. The river of water then j made its way through the cellars of tho business houses along the street, soon overflowing them and compelling tho people on the top floors to flee for their lives. The women and children were in the arms of men, and in the drenching rain, which had not yet ceased to fall, theyi were carried across the street and up the hill on Prospect street to higher grounds. The maddened waters soon made channels for itself and rushing through Arch street it partly emptied itself in No. 1 slope of i the Susquehanna L'qal Company. The miners who were at work were ter-ror-stricken. They thought the bottom of the Susquehanna river had fallen in and that it would only be a question of ! time when they would .be caught in the rush and drowned. The signal was given for the men to ran for life, and throwing ! down their tools a rush was made for the opening. All escaped. Ib the deluge the foundation wall of Evan Morris’ house was caved away, and the dwelling went down. The only person in the honse at the time wae Mr. ; Morris, who is totally blind from an accident in this mine. When the house toppled over the stove upset and set fine to the place. The old man’s- cries attracted the attention of neighbors, and the-fire-alarm was rung. This added stiff more consternation to the terror stricken people. The water continued to dash down on the earth, but this did dot deter two or three brave men from going to Morris’ rescue and taking him out of the house. He sustained injuries which, it is believed, will result in death. The water filled into the boiler houses of the Susquehanna Coal Company, quenching the fires and suspending all work in the mine. Thirty tenement houses near by were entirely surrounded by water before the occupants were aware of it. When they realized their condition they got on the tops of houses and were rescued later by a number of men in boats. The water did not cease to do damage until jt reached the Susquehanna river, a half mile distant, and when it began to pour into the big stream the, pressure in the streets was somewhat relieved. The telegraph operator at the Pennsylvania depot noticed that" the main track was blocked by a sand pile about one hundred yards from the depot, and right" on a curve. The fast train for Philadelphia was about due, and, grasping a handkerchief, the operator ran up the track, coatless and hatless, and stopped the train just as it was rounding the curve. The engineer reversed the locomotive so suddenly that the passengers were thrown out of their seats. The water had washed out the road-bed for 150 yards, and the bare ties were hauging to the rails. The loss to property will be over SIOO,OOO. The people say the water came down not in drops, but in heavy mass. It lasted for one hour and forty-five minutes.

AN IMPORTANT DECISION.

Thelron Mountain R. R. has the Right of Way all Through St. Louis. A decision rendered on the 7th inst, by the Supreme Court of Missouri in the case in which the St. Louis, Iron Mountain <fc Southern Railway Co,. appeared as respondent and the city of St. Louis as appellant, makes the railway company indepenent of local legislation and gives it the right of way through all the streets of that city for its tracks which it wishes. The decision of the supreme court was rendered by Judge Black, who, in reviewing the case, say si' By the charter of the St. Louis & Iron Mountain Rtilroad Company, and the special act therein mentioned (laws of 185-1, page 479; laws of 1837, page 271) it is provided: The company shall have full power to build said road along or across any state or county road, or the streets or wharves of any city, town, or village, whother corporate or otherwise. But before such rights shall vest in said company they shall apply to the county court of the proper county for such right, and having filed in the office of the recorder a plat of said road, and the manner in which it is to cross said roads or streets or other public way, and if the county court is satisfied that no great injury will he done to the public, they may, by anofc, der of such court, give the right of way to said company to us 6 the same for that purpose. The county court, in granting the way over the Streets under the special charter provisions before quoted, acted as the agent of the state in the management of the public highways. The right to grant the prayer of the corporation rests court. -The cireuiL eourt is powerless to this discretion, for no such power is given by the law. If this special charter provision is not available to' the present corporation, then the order is a ntdity and may be treated collaterally. Whether availabteor not, the aot of the county courtis one from which the law has given no appeaL The order dismissing the appeal is therefore affirmed, on the ground that the order is one from which no appeal will lie.

INSANE PAUPER IMPORTATION.

j— — The Cunard Company Heavily Fined. An important and interesting case was heard on the Bth inst. in Boston, Mass., at the custom-house before Collector Saltonstall. The respondent was the Canard Steamship Company, and the charge entered was that of violating the statues in

regard to the landing at Atlaerican porta of passengers who are in no condition to care for themselves. The steamship Cephalonfa, arrived at Boston Jane 3, brought among .its passengers a woman, whp bore every trace of insanity, although not of a violent type. In making an in- : veatigation of the condition of the passengers this wpman came tinder the observation of S. C. Wrightington, Superintendent of the State Board of Lunacy and Charity, and having supervision of the local affairs of emigration of Massachusetts, and Mr. Colcord, of the Alien Commissioners. They considered her wholly unable to care for herself, and if allowed to land that she would become a burden upon the State. The proper officers of the ship were told that the woman must not be landed, and Mr. Colcord then went in search of the ship’s Doctor to bring the case before him, When they returned to the ship the woman eould not be found, and the company was notified that unless she was returned clearence papers would not be granted. Subsequently, a formal protest wa3 entered with Deputy Collector Flatley, and he referred the matter to Collector Saltonstall. At the hearing Ms. Wrightington appeared for the State. Board of Lunacy and Charity, Mr. Colcord for the Alien Commissioners, and i Mr.'Edwards for the Canard Company. The hearing was private an-4 did not occupy much time, as it was evident to the collector, without going into detail, that Jhe company had violated the statutes. In making His decision he said: “I shall impose a fine of SI,OOO on the Cunard Steamship Company for landing at this port an insane person named Johannah Casey. Whenever I receive a check for that amount I will furnish the necessary papers for the clearance of the steamer Cephalonia, and. not until then. Before that check is used the company Will be given an opportunity of presenting the j; ease to United States Secretary of the Treasury Fairchild, and I shall, of course, be governed by his decision.’’ During the ! afternoon the Cunard Company’s check for SI,OOO was deposited with collector of the port. The check is subject to the decision of the United States Secretary of the Treasury, to whom it is understood an appeal wili be taken.

RED MEN IN COUNCIL.

Representatives from Eighteen Tribes Discuss the Land Question. S. delegate council representing eighteen tribes of Indians convened at Eufala, Indian Territory, on the- Bth inst. Hon. S. H. Burge, president of the Council made the opening address. He spoke at length on the necessity and advantages of education and drew many comparisons between the five civilized tribes and their Western brethren, calling, attention to the differences in their mode of living, their dress, .etc., and urging the: Western tribes to‘educate their children*, to teach them to farm, to teach them religion and to set the example by the oldeu ones adopting the garb of civilized Indians*, by having good schools and churches and giving them close attention. He hoped the Western tribes would not sell their lands. The United States Government had enacted a law to allot their lands in severalty. He believed the law would be enforced, but when it is put into effect he wanted the Indians to keep the- land allotted to them, and never sell it. All the civilized tribes and all true people sympathize with the Western Indians in their present trouble, but they must; be men and go to work to prepare to face ifi and to educate their children so that they ean be competent to cope with the advancing whites. He was followed by Hon. C. A. Burres, of the Chickasaws, and George Sanders, of Cherokees. The committee of ten appointed tO- draft a memorial to the President made' a report which was adopted. In substance it is as follows: With many misgivings-they asouine that the United States Government intends to give the Indians the benefit of civilization without depriving them: of rights. Having lived under the policy, they claim to be fair judges of its utility. They do not wish to antagonize any poliey of the government but to contribute to its effects. But they make an earnest appeal in behalf of civilized and wild tribes of the territory against the- act providing for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians. It will be a detriment to their in•terests, as it will in the near future ingulf all of the Indians and tribes of the territory'in one catastrophe* to the enrichment of the land monopolies from whom even those with The civilized machinery of justice seem powerless to secure their rights. They deprecate any measure which will place the Indians in so unequal a contest. The Indian needs apolitical identity, an allegiance, called elsewhere patriotism, in order to make true progress in the affairs of life. The law to which objection is urged enables the Inbody politic by electing and taking to himself a quantity of land which is at present the common property of all. The land-in-severalty law apportions to each individual only a part of that which is already his property, and leaves the balance for sale to others, who will be composed of a class having no sympathy for tßeTn3Ta"ns,who will rus h -into-the -new country in their mad race for gain and < crowd out every hope and chance of Indian civilization. The Tribes ask that the President stay the operations of the law until they shall be in condition to be benefited by it. They further request that the act be not enforced until they have the opportunity of testing the validity of their rights before the judiciary of the United States. It is a singular fact that in the one resident of the town was killed. The person was Jennie Wade, and a monument is to be erected to her memory. . The name Itaska, given to the source of the Mississippi, was coined for the occasion by Schoolcraft, from the Latin veritas caput, the true source. *