Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1887 — Page 3

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

r *'■ ‘ .• * Congressman 8. C. Moffatt, of Michi-; an, died, on the 22d. Secretary Manning was buried, Taesay. The President and Cabinet atended. ■ Illinois Democrats will organize clubs inder the name of the Andrew Jackson .<eaxue. f An explosion of dynamite, which was »eing warmed,at Brookfield,N. B.,Friday, Hied four men. The Pennsylvania and New Yoik ail road shops at Oil City, Pa., were turned, Friday. Loss 1100,000. Rev. Dr. McGlynn received a check or $1,200 as a Christmas present from he parishioners of his old church. A convention of western Kansas Connies at Garden City has organized a eague to uphold the purity of the bal-. The bodies of two men,4ri?ze,u- tb' leath, were found near Big Springs, Jex., Monday. weather is bitterly old. faded June 30, 1887, the iXports from the United States were aided at $727,460,635; imports, $712,81,682. The quarrel between the factions in tie Indian Territory has been settled, oel Mays, the Downing candidate, has teen elected chief.

Repons received from the Texas panlandle state that eight persons were rozen to death in Carson county during he recent cold spell. A natural gas explosion at Findlay, killed James Lunday’s wife and hild. Lunday is now a maniac and wo other children are fearfully burned. Senator Palmer, of Michigan, it is relorted, has come out in favor of prohilition, and has advised the Republicans if that State to make that the next issue. The President will receive on New Fear’s day according to the usual programme. The President will be assisted >y Mrs. Cleveland and the ladies of the 3abi et. Chicago and St. Louis and intervening joints on the Alton and Wabash roads ire enjoying a fight between the two .hat gives them freight rates of their own making. The president, secretary and Clerk Hakes, of the Continental Life Insurmce C< mpany; of Hartford, Conn., have keen indicted for making false entries Mid return. ' A boiler exploded at Chester, Pa., on tide 22d, demo’ishing a saw mill, a Breamery and a residence, tearing the deads off of two horses and dangerously njuring six persons. At Wickliffe, Ky., there is a strange jhenomenon of ourning lignite. It is a led of mineral coal, which is, largely impregnated with oil, and has been mrning for weeks. The tenement house fight will be “on” again between the Cigar Maker’s Union and their employers. The latter want to get rid of the expense of keep-

ng up their factories. ' Martin Irons, the leader of the strike E>f 1886 on the Southwestern system, is to-day the presiding genius of a little itall at the O’ Fallon street end of the Biddle market in St. Louis. Herman Eastman, a poor and illitmatefarm hand of Walworth, N. Y., who was left an orphan at an early age, ttas fallen heir to a fortune of $300,000 jy the death of his father’s brother. The Women’s Christian Temperance Onion on Saturday presented the convicts at the Auburn (N. Y.) prison with 1.100 boxes, each containing toilet soap, liair brashes and other toilet articles. | The supposed “Star of Bethlehem,” low seen in the East, is Said bv Prof. Merriam to be Venus. If the supposed ‘{‘Star of Bethlehem” returns it will appear near the north star in the constellation Cassiopeia. ; The,South Carolina Legislature has passed a law making it a misdemeanor tor tradesmen to facilitate the sale of [oods by offering purchasers an inducement to buy in the way of prizes or gifts to accompany the article sold. The total contributions of the archdio eeses of New York to the Papal jubilee fund is $36,665.07. Besides the cash tbfferi; gp, New York Catholics, societies b nd ii divi iuals, have eent many other t stimoiua.s of affection to Pope Lee. Frank McKee, the consumptive rinter of San Francisco, who was marled by a young heiress seven years ago, that as a widow she might have more freedom than as an unmarried woman, has just carried outhispartof the bargain by dying. P . The Pennsylvania Wool Growers’ Association adopted a resolution condemning as “unstatebmanlike, uncalled for and unfair that part of the recent message of President Cleveland practically recommending the placing of wool on the free trade list. The Springfield, 111., Iron Company, manufacturers of steel rails, paid their employes for November $60,000, said to be tne largest pay roll in their experience. The works are now running night and day, the alleged cause being the President’s message. Lisxie Degan sged ten years, WM Arraigned in theJefferßon Market court at New York, Saturday, on the charge of being an habitual drunkard, and.was sent to a reformatory. Her father wenttb the court to secure her release, but was so druna that he was himself sent to jail for ten days. At Atchison, Kan., a cow, which had

been bitten by a mad dog a few days ago, became furiously mad, Mondaf afternoon,and breaking out of the pen in which she'was confined ran down the street. A Mrs. Hillis, who was in her path, was attacked and gored so badly that she died from the effects of her injuries. Seventeen members of Rev. Mr. Grumbine*s church, Syracuse, N. Y., met, Friday, and vpted that Mr. Grumbine ought to resign on account of being a Henry George man. They form a small minority of the membership, but they have the key to the church, and will probably lock the pastor and his friends out. A speciel from Phillips, Wis., vsaye: “The evening passenger train on the Wisconsin. Central Railway was thrown from the track by a, broken rail, about two miles smjth of night. ,JPhfee the track down a fifteen-foot embankment- One pt and fourteen " r General John C. Fremont, accom-panied-by his wife and daughter, arriv ed in Los Angeles Sunday night. They left New York bight days before, stopping two days at Washington en route. The General and family propose to spend the remainder of the winter in Los Angeles or in the vicinity, and while there he will complete his second volume of memoirs.

In a game of three-ball carrom billiards at Boston Wednesday night Harvey McKenna, of Detroit, counted 2,497 without missing, and then stopped because his string for the night was con pie te. The whole run occupied one hour and thirty-five minutes. The best record previous to Wednesday evening was 1,531, made in Paris in two nights by Vignaux. A fire broke out Saturday night in the State Penitentiary, at Michigan City, and completely destroyed the shoe department. None of the prisoners were at work at the time, and there was little excitement. The loss is estimated at $75,000. Phelps, Dodge & Co., of Chicago, who recently sustained a heavy loss in Chicago by fire, will be the heaviest losers by this fire. General R. A. Alger, of Detroit, celebrated Christmas, Mondaj, by giving 1,500 newsboys suits of clothes and 1,000 families a ton of coal and a barrel of flour. The dispensing of this charity will extend over a week, and meantime General Alger will leave for his Redwood lumber camp, California, to be gone all winter. NoneJjf those who will receive coal and flour know of

General Alger’s intentions. .John Stewart eloped from Pittsburg two yearaago with Mrs.’ Grubbs. They came to Chicago, each deserting families, and agreed to marry after two years. Stewart’s deserted wife died, and Mrs Grubbs husband eloped. Stewart built an elegant house at Chicago, where he resided with Mrs. Grubbs, putting the property in her name, and last week he procured a license, but Mrs. Grubbs tore it up and showed him the door. An appeal to the courts, Tnursday, decided in the woman’s favor. Hon. J. B. Manning, Ex-Secretary of the Treasury under Mr. Cleveland, but compelled to resign on account of his health, died at Albany, N. Y„ Saturday. After leaving the Treasury he organized a bank in New York, and then went to Eurone, but since hie return his health has been precarious. All the departments at Washington displayed flags at half mast and general sorrow was manifest. Among the messages of condolence received by his widow was a very tender expression from President Cleveland. ,

[?]OREIGN.

The Porte is considering the advisability of increasing its army. The Gn at Eastern steamshiphas been sold to afirm, who will break her up for old metal. - i ■ King Humbert, of, Italy, will make no present to the Pope, and has forbidden the members of his family doing so. A wave, the culmination of a threedays’ storm at Baracoa, Cuba, Dec.,4. washed away 300 houses. No lives were lost. There is no improvement in the situation in the Austro-Russian frontier, nor an attitude of the powers toward each other., The reports, warlike And peaceful, about balance. A present from President Cleveland, io the Pope, arrived at Rome Saturday night. It is a copy of the United States Constitution beautifully engrossed and richly bound in book form. The book is gilt-edged, contains fifteen pages,each page being eighteen inches square, and is bound in veium of a cream color. The loss of the ship Alfred Watts, Philadelphia for Hioga, Japan, with oil, is confirmed by two sailors, the only survivors, who were thirty-two days on •he dismantled hulk. She was wrecked October 19. They were picked up Nov. 20 by the Liaaie Berry, which was wrecked near the Barbadoes, all being saved. A. B. Oakford, of Philadelphia, a passenger on the Watts, was also lost. Mr. Gladstone and wife started, Monday, on their journey to Cherter amid the cheers of an immense crowd of holiday makers, who wished nim a prosperous journey. On their arrival at Chester the station and surrounding streets were filled with another great throng, who shouted welcome to the grand old man. Mr. Gladstone was evidently much affcotedby the heartiness iff the greet-

ing, and made a brief speech, in which he hoped Cheater would do her du|y in the next ejection. ' A heavy “norther” *ewept over the West Indies on the 6;h, 7th and Bth insts., causing great damage. In all some seventy vessels were wrecked. A coasting schooner, name unknown, capsized while making Cape Haytien, and thirteen of her crew of fifteen were drowned. The British steamer Violet was caught in the gale and eight of her crew were washed overboard ‘ anil drowned. ! the Governor of Conme District Prison entered tbe cell of David Sheehy, M. P., accompanied by five wardens’ and honorable gentleman, who bad'been sentenced to a tm change his clothes for tire prison garb. Mr. Sheehy refused to jeJclbo, whereqpon the warden knocked him down, tied his hands and forcibly removed his clothes. They then went -away, leaving Mr. Sheehy in his fiannel-r. One of 'he wardens threw him the prison clothes. The bed-clothes were also removed. The imperial family of Germany is indeed severely afflicted at the present moment. The Duchess of SchleswigHosltein, mother of the Princess William of Prussia, who will be the future Empress of Germany, has become insane and has been placed uhder re .attaint in a private- asylum at Gratz, Austria. As insanity is generally a hereditary disease, the outlook is scarcely encouraging for the Hohenllern dynasty, while if matters go on as at present the whole of the reigning families of Europe will be on the demented list.

A revolution headed by ex-President nf Gautemala, Vicente Castano, against the government of General Barrillas, for having proclaimed a dictatorship, June 19, lately suffered a most humiliating defeat. There were two disaffected factions, one working from the eastern department and the other from the western, tbe former under the generalship of Castano and tne latter ip charge of several well known military men of the republic. In a range of mountains near the city of Gautemala, a few days ago, a deiperate battle was fought between the federal ana revolutionist forces, the latter suffering almost complete annihilation. The battle was desperate and sanguinary from the com mencement; and lasted over two hours, the field being strewn with the dead. At the conclusion Castano was routed, and the other revolutionary Generals were e.p'.ured and shot. This ends one of the n oit bloody wars the country has ever seen. The country now enjoys peace. 1- r 7 c

NAPTHA EXPLOSIONS.

Mills and Sewers Damaged by a Series of Fires and Explosions at Rochester, N. ¥. Wednesday afternoon an explosion of gas took place at the Jefferson and Clinton flouring mills, on Mill street, in Rochester, and they were speedily enveloped in flames. The fire department was summoned, and soon after a general alarm was turned in. Before the department had reached the station at the corner of Mill and Platt streets, the entire city was alarmed and shaken by a number of explosions. Immediately following huge clouds of smoke arose from a half dozen points on Mill and Platt streets, and flames burst from the window of the Clinton mill, just n„r!h of the Woodbury Engine building on Mill street. The flames soon spread to the Washington mill, which adjoins the Clinton mill, and before anything could be done to prevent the spread of the fire the rear of Whitney & Wilson’s mi’l was also in flames. While the firemen were laying a line of hose to the burning buildings, half a dozen manholes, which had been covered with ice and snow, blew up in Mill street. Thousands of people had been attracted by the explosions, and as they pushed through State and Platt streets to the scene of the fire they were brought to a halt by other explosions in Platt and State streets, and thrown into confusion. They fled in every direction, but wherever they went they met with a *epetition of the same scene. The explosions continued at such frequent intervals that there was no tellin when the horrors would cease. The sidewalk of the old furnace on Pla t street, between State and Mid, was blown up, but fortunately no one was injured. The building was immediately fired,however, and ,flames issued from half a dozen holes in State street where the street pavement had been blown up. The losses on the flouring mills are as follows. J. A. Hinds, Washington mill, loss $30,000, insurance $22,000; Davis & Son, Shawmut mill,loss $30,0u0, insurance $20,000; Clinton-or Pool mill, loss $50,000, insurance unknown; Wells Co., tool makers, loss SI,OOO, insurance S6OO. The destruction of the mills, it is feared, is but a small item comparatively, as the entire sewerage system of the city, it is believed, has been affected, and that section of it connected with the Municipal Gas Company’s and the Vaci um Oil Company’s u almost completely destroyed. TTie explosions were caused by the discharge of 10,000 or 16,000 gallons of naptha into the sewers, through the breakage of tht pipes by heating. It is believed that four persons were killed. The injured will number at least twenty. Most of them are bruised and. cut by stone.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Goshen will builci a $30,060 city hall. Wells county farmers are selling their corn freely. A vein of coal at Henryville, discovered in 1865, is to be developed. 1 John Q. Beam, of Reynolds,proprietor of a mill, wascaughtina belt, Friday, and probably fatally injured. A man recently presented a bill of,s2 to the Elkhart county commissioners for hauling his father to the poor house. The neighborhood of Montpelier is sail! to be a paradise for squirrel hunters just now, there being an immense number of them. John Glaser, of Jeffersonville, has invented a flying machine, and will soon give an exhibition of it —on himself, let us hope. David Hilderbrand and Fred, hi s fifteen year old eon, were struck by a locomotive near Delphi on the 22d and bolla fatally’ infnred. The principal business houses. .Of""0t well, Pike county, cendiaries, Friday, being the third time this has occurrejHvbhip-flVe years. Irwin Gej>rge, fifteen years old, while Colutnbns, onßaturday evening, went 'under and was drowned The body has notyet been found. The new building for the use of the soldiers’ orphans will be dedicated on Washington’s birthday at Knightstown with imposing ceremonies. The Governor and State officers will be there. From the present indications the great Jeffersonville gas boom has gone up. The company that struck the flow at Beache’s woods has signified -its intention of quitting the premises and going out of the business.'

Mrs. Sarah G. Ewkfg,mother of James Ewing, living west of Shelbyville, went out Saturday night to milk her cows, and was found dead Sunday morning, with the body badly mutilated by hogs. It is thoueht. the animals attacked her while milking, and being quite old and feeble, she was unable to make resistance. Adjoining Jeffersonville is Clarksville, an ancient town chartered by Virginia. It is claimed by some that it is no parr, of Indiana, but rather an independent district. It contains l,(K0 acres and its population is several thousand. A movement is on foot to send a delegation to Washington and demand recognition as a Territory. The district would be the smallest in the Union.

Frank Tribbey, jr., of New Albany, was taken ill Friday night at his home with very strong symptoms of hydrophobia. His physicians were compelled to tie him down to prevent being injured. He made an effort to bite his attendants as well as himself. His physicians are not able to diagnose the disease, although they have no cause to think it hydaophobia except that Tribbey was bitten by a dog about eight years ago. The fight for the Democratic nomination for Goveinor of Louisiana is waxing hotter every day between the factions headed by Governor McEnery and ex Governor Nicholls, and the Re publicans are hopeful of electing a portion of their State ticket, with enough members of the Legislature to give them one of the United States Senators. Governor McEnery, in a speech, pledged himself to a fair count of the vote as cast.

Cyrus Rodgers, a negro livng near Corvdcn. was whipped hv six “regulators” Saturday night, being beaten unmercifully. He lived with a white couple, Kenwe Dooley and wife, the latter of whom had one child by the negro. Dooley, the white man, belongs to a bad set, and is the worst one of the set. He is too trifling to make a living, and he was willing that the negro should share with him a husband’s privileges if in return he would support them feoth. The 104th birthday oi Mrs. Boggs, of Milton, Wayne cgduty, was appropriately celebrated/on the 22d. Among those in attendance was a grand son 54 years old. Mrs. Boggs was married when very young and had eleven children. She now has five children living, forty-five grand children, eightynine great-grandchildren and twelve great-great-grandchildren. Mrs. Boggs is remarkably well preserved and bids fair to see several more birthday celebrations. Her health is good and she is able to do sewing Without the a»d of glasses. She is a devout Christian and a member of the {Lutheran Church.

The State Bureau of Statistics has tabulated the reports from all the Counties in the State, excepting thirtyfour which failed] to report, on the number, nativity, sex and color of the people incarcerated in the county jails of the State during the past year. They show that 8,007 people were confined in the jails during the year, an average of 138 to each county, or 12,698 for the entire State. Of the number reported 7,315 were white males, 276 colored males, 263 white females, and 53 colored females; 830 were foreign born, 2,178 native born; 286 were wholly illiterate, and 1,469 able to read and write. The uiosV of WW l inotfemted to? minor offenses. The following summary covers the principal crimes; Arson 20, bigamy 12* forgery 51, manslaughter 16, murder 88, perjury 9. rape 54. _ Tne annual report of State Treasurer Lemcke waa made to the Governor Thursday, setting forth in detail the fans recently made known in the

Auditor’s report It makes the following summary: Balance in treasury November 1, 1886, $409,961.; receipts Irom all Sources; $4,738,198 89; disburse ments for all purposes. $4,784 226 41; balance October 31, 1887, $373,944 21 The principal items of revenue were the following: State House tax, $958,726; delinquent State tax. $115,857; insurance fees, $23,547; earnings <if the State Prison North, $128,951; State Prison South $64,975; sales of temporary bonds, $340,000.» The disbursements from the general fund were as follows: Benevolent institutions, $678,277.67; reformatory, $89,991.73; penal, $190,886 fit State library, $3,648.92; Supreme Court, $32,130; State judiciary, $171,745 50; interest on State debt, $439,394 54 58; educational institutions, $58,360; ''late boards, departments, etc., $1,466.67; public printing and stationery, $12646 48; House ol Representatives, $70,985 13; State Senate, $46,028 61; miscellaneous expenditures. $491,635.51.

WASHINGTON.

It is said that charges of a very serious nature, affecting the personal character of ex-Secretary Lamar, have been filed with the judiciary committee. They involve his relations with Mary McBride, now under indictment for ar-< in, and who came here some years ago irom Lamai’s congressional district, and was secured a government position by him. Senator Sawyer, Chairman of the Senate Postoffice Committee, says he will bring the subject of the postal telegraph before the committee very,'early after the holiday recess, and he expresses the opinion that the committee will set about the study of the question involved at once. He does not know whether it will be necessary to open the doors and hear arguments from parties who favor or oppose governmental interferences with the telegraph. There is already, he says a vast amount of literature on the subject, and personally he has heard enough, as he doubts not Senator Saulsbury has, to enable them to reach conclusions for themselves. Both were members of the Postcffice Committee of the Forty-eighth Congress when the subject was studied exhaustively. Five members of tl e present committee were of the Forty-ninth Congress, which reported a postal telegraph hill, but did not repeat tho extensive investigation made by its predecessors.

8. Q Giegg, repesenting a St. Louis house arrived Monday from No Man’s Land. He confirms the reports of the bloody deeds of the Kelley family and gives further particulars. He says he can remember stopping at the Kelly house to get meals. It was a one-story hut, with a barn d short distance away. There were four bodies buried beneath the stable—one of which was that of a woman. A cow Doy named “Texy,” who said he was the second investigating party, stated that the bodies found led to so much talk that the whole premises for rods around the house was searched. Lying alongside of vhe barn, buried at a depth of not over three feet, wus unearthed the remains of a man which appeared to be better dressed than any of the others, and which, it was believed, was the body of the missing J. T. Taylor. About two feet away was a second body, not at all recognizable. At the

corner of the barn were buried the bodies of a third man and a woman. The bodies were taken from their resting places and given burial. Nc’uing has been heard of the Kelleys since they removed. There is a feeling, however, that with their ill-gotten gains they have Removed to Mexico. In speaking of the personal appearance of the family, Mr. Gregg says there watf nothing particularly disagreeable about them. The son and daughter were oyer twenty years of age. The d< ticiency in the Treasury Department appropriation the past two years is $5,580 978. The Senate has adopted a resolution calling for the Slate Department correspondence relating to the German occupation of the Samoan Island and Apia. A statement has been prepared at the Pension Office which shows that the tfverage length of military service of soldiers in the last war, who have during the last three months been granted invalid pensions, is two years, four months and thirteen days. The average length of service of soldiers whose widows have been granted pensions during the same period is two ydars and eighteen days. The service of sailors in the navy for the same period averages one year, ten months and three days The average service of Mexican war claimants under the actof June 29, 1887, is shown to be one year and twelve days. In widows, Mexican war claims, the service is shown to.be one year and twenty-four days.

Another Bender Family.

A second Bender family ha been unearthed. They go by the name Kelly and lived in No-Mans-Land. The family recently moved from the hut they oc cupied and left the neighborhood. Soonafterwaififhebodyofa man was found in the cellar of their hut This led to an investigation,and so far ten or twelve bodies have been found in the vicinity, some burned, others buried. The family consisted of a father,mother and a grown son and daughter. It is believed they have gone to Mexico with their ill gotten gains.

THE FIFTIETH CONGRESS.

Among the memorials presented to (he Senate" on the2lst was that Ol H. D. Lyman, vtce preaident of the American Surety Lyman CompeeM of New'York, praying for the ratification of the convention proposing an extradition treaty between thia country’and- Great Britain', signed in London, June 25, Isafi,extending tbe extraditi m laws to oases of embezzlement, etc, The remarkable part of tbe memorial, which was presented by Senator Hlscock, was in the exhibit wbl(;h accompanied the memorial. The exhibit was tbe memorialist said, a partial l list as embezzlements of j ersons who had fled to Canada. The offenses. It says, were almost all committed since the proposed convention waa signed, and moat of them witbin tbe past year. The exhibit gives a list of fifty-three embessdementsand theaniount tn each case. Tbe largest embezzlement no:<’ t is tliatof Baqtholomew. the insurance man of ffaitfoid, for tl,0(0,00ff, and ire'iita foot up to the Him of |3,8|0,570. Tb<;till to amend the law concern-, fish and fisheries was pass d. It pfbvfdc- for tbe appointment of a 'person of Scientific ond practical acquaintance -With fish anti fisheries as a commiw-loner at a salary off , 09. Tne holiday ' recess resolution was called up. Plumb- said be would vote agnlnidlt fn the VrtMfe fnterest. 'We would-be glad to remain during the holidays and legislate on the subject of the surplus. The rea.onslbility for tbe present condition of the treasury rests on tbe President who totally disregarded the law to spend the surplus in the purchase of the national debt. Beck defended the President and the resolution for a recess, and • after* a lengthy debate on tbe. aurphas question participated in by Dolph, Vest, Teller. Stewart? Allison. Butler and Sherman, the resolution was adopted—yeas 37; nays 19. Randall fiom the committee on rules reported an amendment providing for a standing commi tue of thirteen to be kuown as tbe committee ou merchant marine and fisheries. The following select commitV es are provided for: On reform in the civil service, to consist of thirteen members; on e’ections of President and VieoPresident and Representatives in Congress, to consist of thi-.teen members; on the eleventh census, to consist of thirteen members: on Indian depredation claims, to consist of thirteen members; on the alcoholic liquor traffic, to consist of eleven members. The Senate on the 22d passed bills to establish two additional land offices in Colorado and to remove the political disabilities of Abraham C. Meyers, Further than this tbe business transacted was of the routine character! The deat > of Representative Moffatt, ot Michigan, was announced. The Senate then adjourned until Jan. 4, 1888. The death of Representative Moftatt was announced in the House and out of respect to hrs memory no business Was transacted. Adjourned until Jan. 4, PBB.

SNOW IN THE WEST.

Bltzz irdn tn Kansas Cause Much Suffering, People-Dying for Want of Fu.-l anil Food. Telegraphic advices Thursday in ilicate that there is terrible suffering in the western part of Kansas. Four people are reported dead in Clark county fronii the cold, whil e near Dighton a woman and her two children are known to have perished. There is great suffering in that section of the State, owing to the scarcity of coal. The supply was exhausted during "a previous cold snap in the first part of the month, and the situation is now deplorable. The suffering is augmented by the fact that food is almost as scarce as fuel. Many of the inhabitants are settlers whe located claims last, summer, and who are dependent on what the railroads bring in. The railroads are trying to ds al Tin tbeir power to relieve the distress, but they are handicapped by a scarcity of cars. They have not enough to supply the urgent demand for food and fuel* and widespread distress is inevitable unless the weather speedily moderates. The Santa Fe Road has already announced that it will ship freeallsuppliee which may be collected for Clark county. Demands on the miners are greater than can be filled, the messages are coming

in hourly demanding and appealing for fuel.' Farmers are burning corn, furniture and parts of their houses to keep from fret z’ng. Great, distress is reported from Mead and Clark counties, where several person have been frozen to death The snow on the level was six inches deep, and railroad traffic was seriously impeded. Reports of bitter cold coms from Nebraska, Colorado and Missouri as well as Kansas. At Aesinaboine, Dak., the temperature was 23 degrees below zero. In Minneso.a the storm was. by far the worst of the season and was general in the northwest, and even in Texas the inhabitants, were reveling in the luxuries of a snow storm. The man who wants the earth is th® very man the earth doesn’t want.

THE MARKETS.

Indianapolis, December 28, ’.887. GRA«N. Wheat, No. 2 Med.... 8% I Corn, No. 2 White. 56 No. 8 M, d ... 2 No. 2 Yellow 54 No. 2 Red..-.B2(Oats, No. 2Whiie...B3 Wagon wheat.. 8 > Rye 65 • LIVE STOCK. Cattlb—Extra choice steen* _ 4 sflaO» Good t»>choice steers.. 4.00n:.’C Extra choice heifers 85»8.% Good to cho » beiieta 2,f0a3.f1# Good t > choice eo«s.. 2.75a-i.06 Hogs—Hear packing end -hipping 5.60»5.» Light and mixed picking...... .4 55-«5.7* Pies and heavy rouga ..._3.7 a'.sO SHEEP-F-xtra choice _3.7554.2S Good to < holm* 3.20a3.50 EGGS, BUTTER, P<>ULTP.Y. Eggs 2s: Poultiy.hens per lb c e Bntter, creamery... .25c Roosters... 21W “fancy country....l c Turkeys .« “choice countrv....l2e ' MIrCELI ANKOUS Wood-Fine merino, tub wa5hed......... '’3o36e “do unwashed med 2<a25« “ “ very coarse —l*a2oc Ray .choice timothy 1-ttW Sugar cured ham J2alß Fran 17.25 Racon clear sides...Wic Flour,' patent....l.4 a 4. 5 Feathers.prime gous3sc Extra fancy 4.0 a 4,10 (’lover seed 4,08 Wheat {Oct);.... I Pork .'........1'.98 Gm “ ............47 Laid..... 7 77 Oats “ ../’.I I Ribs... 7.67 , - ■ LIVESTOCK. Cattle— Beeves 3.< 0a M I Hogs— Light..4. e sai. ‘ 5 Cows ....I.ICWJ 90 "Rough Stockers 2-sOa .40 I Mixxi packing A shpBhe*p ,2 75*4.25 I ing. ■ ■__s-<0a5.60 ci-ni-inonti Family flour, 3 30a3.50; wheat. 87: corn, 63; oat.sJM: rye- 6 : pork, 15.50; iard, 7.62; short rita*<.oo. butter cremery, 25A27Lpggs, 21. N«w Yo*k—Flour, 4.40a1.20;weat,91; corn, 60a CBf; SlaJi; e®pt pork, 15.Ma18.00. Philadelphia—Wheat. *9; corn, 55; oats, 34. 7 M-nnespoUa -Wheat 75. _ Bain more—Wheat, 81a85; corn, 54a55; oats Toledo—Wheat. 85%; corn, 55; oats. 52; clover — Detroit—Wheat, srj born 56; Oats 54.