Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1888 — Page 7

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

A five-foot vein of coal baa been found ne*A Haven, 111. Auditor Hewitt says Treasurer Tate’s shortage will be $204,Q00. Gen. Charies A. Stetson, proprietor of the Astor House, New York, died on the 29 tb. The Northwestern Railroader states the loss by the rate war just closed to be 115,000,000. The Henry George single-tax advocateswill hold a national convention in Chicago, J uly 4. Four hundred Cincinnati printers struck, Monday, for eight hours and an increase of twenty per cent, in wages. The hog crop for the packing season, ending March 1, is estimated at 5,900,000, against 6,439,009 the urevious year. Three little children of T. 6. Richardson, living near Mscm, Mo., were burned, to death Friday; during the absence of their parents from home. ' Chairman Dickie/ of the National Prohibition Committee, says .the party is organised in every State of the Union except Louisiana, and proposes to run State tickets. Rev. Clayton Mnmma, of Reading, Pa., and Rev. John Connard, of Denver, Lancester county, Pennsylvan’a, were struck by a passenger train Sunday afteinoon and killed. It has been discovered that a wholesale series of robberies have been committed in La Harpe, 111., by four young girls from ten to thirteen, daughters of respectable parents. The New York Assembly Friday passed the Crosby high-license bill by a vote of 66 to 61, almost on strict party tines, the Republicans for and the Democrats against. It now goes to the Senate. Exposure to the blizzard resulted in New York in the death of Charles N. Brackett, aged fifty-six. who was Chief of the Government Secret Service under Presidents Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Arthur. August Hetzke, who was .sentenced to hang in Chicago for beating his stepson to death with a strap, was given a new trial Friday. He at once pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. Ex-Lieutenant Governor William Dorsheimer; of New York, died at Savannah, Georgia, on the 27th, whither he had gone on a visit, of pneumonia. He was an ex-member of Congress, also, and an attorney of distinguished ability. The family, relatives and near friends of Mr. Blaine deny that he is in illhealth. They assert that Mr. Blaine is in perfect health, vigorous in body and mind, and that all statements to the contrary are part of a plan to continually traduce him. W. A. Boyd, ex-inspector of customs at Sm Francisco, has confessed in court the details of a conspiracy among government officials and others to return certificates to the old country by which Chinese could be admitted to this country in defiance of the law. The executive committee of the Min* nesota Farmers’ Alliance, comprising members of both political parties, adopted resolutions indorsing President Cleveland’s views on the tariff issue, denouncing the protective tariff, and calling tor its immediate repeal en all raw material and the necessaries of life. Judge Collins, of Chicago, says he will hear no more divorce cases on Saturday for the reason that “tbe Sunday newspapers, whieh are larger on that day than during the week, make a great spread on the cases heard on Saturday, and carry the disgraceful stories of domestic infelicity into Sabbath homes to mar tne sacred character of the day.” Harry Garfield and Miss Belle Mason, of Cleveland, have been engaged for a year, and will be married at the same time that Miss Mollie Garfield and J. Stanley Brown are united. In antic:pation of the double event, the old Garfield mansion at Mentor, Ohio, has been enlarged and improved at an outlay of $30,000. After the honeymoon Harry Garfield, with his brother James, will begin the practice of law in Cincinnati. t

FORKIQK. The Saltan of Zanzibar ia dead. Thouaanda of persons are dying of starvation in the inundated districts of Hungary. Prince Bismark and Emperor Frederick are in full accord on Garmany’s foreign policy. Edmund Dwyer Gray, a distinguished member of the Irish Parliamentary party, is dead. J The French cabinet resigned, Friday, the Chamber of Deputies voting urgency for the revision of the constitution in opposition to the government. Mies Ella Bussell, the American prima donna, made her first appearance at St. Petersburg, Tuesday night, in Traviata. She achieved a triumphant success. ' , The Russian Government has prohibited the operations pf the American Bible Society in the Baltic provinces, and will probably ultimately expel all of the British and American Bible Societies from Russia. On the proposal of the Minister of War, President Carnot, acting op. the unanimous advice of the officers who conducted the court martial, has signed

a decree placing General Boulanger on the retired list of the army. The proposal had previously been considered by the Council of Ministers! -i A mob of women in Constantinople, Wednesday; sought to obtain the arrears of pensions due their husbands from the Government, and beseiged the cfflce of the Minister of Finance. The Minister wa; secreted to escape the fury of the women- The mob almost killed a woman who was advising them to make their demand quietly.

THE FIFTIETH CONGRESS.

In the ?emte, on tbo 29th, Mr. Berry talked of the tariff. Among the bills passed were the following: To amend the act of March 3, 1879, providing additional regulations for homestead and pre-emption entries of publie lands; for the disposal of the Ft Wallace military reservation a Kansas, appropriating $80,(00 for a public build ing in Helena, Mont. T.; changing the boundaries of the Yellowstone National Park and providing police and other regulations there; inor- asing the limit of expenditures for a public building at Ban Prineisco to 8880,000; appropriating $250, 000 for a publie building at Sioux City, la ; appropriating SBO,OOO for a publie building at Cheyenne, W. T.; to grant right sos way through the Indian Territory to the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company; to extend the. southern and western boundaries es the State of Kant as; House bill io ratify and confirm an agreement with the ®ros Ventre and other tribes of Crow Indians in Montana; for the relief of purchasers and other grantees of the United States in certain swamp and overflowed lands, and to reimburse and indemnify certain States; reining to the inclosnro of certain points of special interest on the battie-field of Gettysburg; for relief of the sufferers by the wreck of the United States steamer Tallapoosa; in aid of the centennial and memorial associations of Valley Forge, and to secure the Washington headquarters, mansion and grounds, occupied by the continental army oi 1777-8; appropriating 820,020 for the completion of the monument of Mary, the mother of Washington, at Fredericksburg, Va.; to have oopios of certain national medals struck off and delivered to certain departments and to the various States and Territories. The House tabled a resolution calling for tertain information relative to Canadian mails. The Indian appropriation bill was considered. The Senate was not in se-tsioa on the 80th. The House adopt® 1 a resolution appropriating $25,000 to enable the United States to participate in the international exhibition, to ba held in Barcelona, Spain, in April, 1888 Bills were passed granting a pension of 12,000 each to the widows of Gen. John A. and Wen. Blair. At the night session 24 pension bills were passed. The Senate, on the 81st, passed the House joint resolution accepting the invitation to the Paris International Exposition, with amendments increasing the appropriation from s'>oo,oo9 to 8300,090. Bills on the calender 'were passed making appropriations for public buildings at St. Albans, Vt., 859,008; Los Angeles, $809,000; Buffalo, N. Y., $250,905; Bay City, Mich., $200,900, and Lowell, Mass., $290 030. Also for the celebration at Washington in 1889 of the centennial of the constitution of the United States. In the House, a bill was reported limiting to seven years the time in which actions may be brought by the United States on the bonds of public officers? The bill to establish a United States Land Court, and to provide for a judicial settlement of private claims in Ariton-*, New Mexico and Colorado, was considered without final aetion. The river and harbor appropriation bill was reported. The Senate, on the 2d, passed the House bill giving a pension of 82,099 per year to the widow of Gen. John A. Logan; also authorizing the construction of a bridge over the Mississippi river at Memphis. In the House, Mills submitted the “Mills tariff bill,’ ' and McKinley submitted a minority report. Referred to committee of the whole.. No business of Interest was transacted.

WASHINGTON NOTES

A Washington special says: “There is no doubt that the President will sign the river and harbor bill, provided the Senate does not unreasonably increase the items as they now stand. In a recent conversation with a leading mem ber of Congress the President referred to the surplus in the treasury, and in making a hasty calculation as to the appropriation bills which would tend to decrease this amount, included the river and harbor bill. The gross amount provided for in the bill is a trifle in excew Of $19,000,1.00, and“as tfiisTT about equal to the President’s expectations,he is supposed to be entirely satisfied ffith tfie committee’s work.” The House committee on agriculture closed the bearing on the lard bill Thursday. They are getting scores of telegrams from pork-packers, asking them to suspend action on the bill, as the hearings are proving very damaging to lard and pork traders everywhere. It is reported on excellent authority that President Cleveand will appoint Senator Wray, of Delaware, as Chief Justice Waite’s successor. The entire “Cabinet are said to be in favor of his selection.

In the correspondence between this country snd Germany over the Samoan Islands difficulty, Secretary Bayard tells Minister Pendleton to inform Prince Bismarck that the United States is not satisfied with Germany’s action. The bill granting SIOO per annum to each State for each soldier or tailor who is an inmate of a soldiers’ home maintained by the State, has been reported favorably in tho Senate. Mr. Stewart, of Georgia, has introduced in the House a Ipill to compel would-be naturalized citizens to swear that they are not polygamists, anarchists or communists. President Cleveland has seat a message to Congress recommending that measures,be taken to prohibit the importation of swine from .France or Germany. Postmaster General Dickimon ihas found it necessary to revise the estimates for the ppstol service for next year by the increase of about $1,0(10,000 The river and harbor bill was completed Tuesday. It is the largest ever reported to the house, and appi'bpriates $19,432,783. —7-—-----”--7--The House Territories committee will report a bill for the organization of the of the Territory of Alaska,

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Pneumonia prevails at Columbus. Marion has attracted the “crooks.” j Laporte will build a street railway, j New Albany expects a building boom Gen. Harrison spoke at Ft. Wayne on the 26tb. 1 . Crawfordsville will erect a Y. M. C. A. building. Wayne county Republicans favor local option. Every cross-road in Indiana is to have a ball club. » : Lagrange is building a $15,000 Meth* odist Church. - The ladies of Evansville have the pedestrian fever,. 1 . Shelbyville has found gas in bounteous quantities at last. r Thre are 678 prisoners in the Michigan City Penitentiary. The lightning rod agent has bloomed and spring has surely come. ' Goshen is infested with tramps, and Elkhart with a band of beggars. Elkhart is blossoming out with suburbs in true metropolitan style. Sunday shaving by barbers is a luxury of the past at Madison and Indianapolis. G. H. Hamilton, of Frankfort, has been elected president of the Indiana base ball league. An Elkhart man has a duck that lays choeolate colored eggs, and her product is said to be of unusually good quality. Indianapolis Lodge, No. 465, I. 0. O. F., at Indianapolis, have just completed a $15,000 block, which they will occupy in a few weeks. Fifty White Caps visited Jack Wright, at English, Crawford county, and requested him to evacuate the country. He complied at once. Logansport millers, heretofore in a ring, have had a falling out, and the price of flour is going down and wheat going up in that locality. A vote taken for President in the Hartford City Township Convention resulted in Blaine receiving 22, Sherman 19, Harrison 18, and Lincoln 3 votes. Hon. T. R. Cobb was indorsed for Governor and William E. Niblack for Judge of the Supreme Court of Indiana by the Democrats of Knox County Friday. Upto date 263 now members have been added to the Christian church at Columbus as the result of the labors of Elder Z. T. Sweeny in the last six weeks. Greensburg’s fourteenth gas well has been successfully shot, and several more are to be sunk. Farmers in the vicinity are having wells bored for their own private use. Will Stephenson, of Kenton, 0., passed through Muncie, Tuesday morning, on his way home from Walla Walia, W. T. He rode the entire distance on horseback, and had been two months on the toad. Some one is responsible for the statement that Cnarles Heffner, the boss clerk at the Kirby House, fell on the ice Sunday night and broke a pane of glass out of his shirt-stud.—Muncie Herald. At the Madison county Republican convention, Saturday, a resolution indorsing the candidacy of Hon. Benjamin Harrison for the Presidency was received with the greatest enthusiasm and was unanimously adopted. Sheriff Hay, pt Jeffersonville, has received a- number of letters from itinerant showmen who desire to purchase the scaffold on which the late Macy Warner was hanged. No attenwill be paid to the applicants. The Northern Indiana M. E. Conference at Wabash, Friday, elected JL. Simpson and O. G. Hudson delegates to the General Conference. The lay dele-' gates elected were Joseph I. Baker, of -Warsaw; and Charles fc.~Henry, ofAfFderson, with J. W, Mcßride,of Waterloo, and Dr. D. L. Overholser, of Logansport, as alternates. At Camden, east of Montpelier, the people were startled Tuesday by a heavy report and a shock as of an earthquake. It was from gas well No. 2. Tne drill at a depth of 600 feet, struck an immense deposit of shale gas and was thrown out of the hole with the velocity of an arrow, crashing through the summit of the seventy-foot derrick and twenty feet above. It is the second “pocket,” one bqing struck a few days ago at 450 feet. Henry Swank, a wood turner, em ployed at the Pennington pulley works, in Fort Wayne,Wednesday met a frightlul death. He was engaged in turning down a large wooden split pullev, using a gouge, when the point of the tool caught in the pulley, which went to pieces, and a part of it was thrown into Swank’s face, killing him instantly. He was a widower and leaves three children. David Wineland,formerly well known in Elkhart county, was shot and killed at Girard, 111., by James, the thirteen-year-old adopted son of W. H. Deitz, a man who was shot and mortally wounded by Wineland a few months ago. On his death bed Deitz charged the boy to kill Wineland, and the deed was committed in pursuance pf that request. He seemed calm and quiet, and lelt not the the slightest remorse for the deed. A half-witted girl named Hester Page, at Delphi, has filed an affidavit against Abner Sines, late keeper of the poorfarm, charging him with the paternity of her illegitimate child. It is said the Carroll county grand-jury is investigating the various rumors which are afloat concerning the management of the institution. Sines was recently re-

moved by the Commissioners. The <aio is set for hearing in the Circuit Court next week. A genuine case of black leprosy is reported from Union township, Madison county. The victim is Frank Smith, a highly respected and wealthy farmer. Mr. Smith’s entire body is covered with large black and greenish spots, and the flesh is rotting and dropping off, leaving the bone perfectly bare. The patient was expected to die at any moment at last reports. Much alarm has been caused in that immediate vicinity over the dreadful disease, as it is highly contagious. The commission of elevt n ex-scl Hers appointed by the Carroll County Commissioners to select a design fora soldiers’ monument, have awarded the prize to Mr* A. A. McKain, of -In Hanapolis. The monument will represent a “Castle of Liberty,’’ an 1 will be built of Indiana limestone. It will be seventyfive feet high, and will be surmounted by a col issal statue. The statury and ornamentation will be in antique bronze. Large bronze pl ites, descriptive of scenes in the soldier’s life, will ornament the faces of the base. The monument is to be erected in the Public Snare at Delphi. John Brownfield, Sr., an old business man of South Bend, made an assignment Saturday. The liabilities are $117,000. and it is thought that the assets will reach that figure. Brownfield has been considered substantial, financially, and his assignment caused more or less of a sensation. Nearly $70,000 is due to farmers, a great number of whom did their banking with Brownfield. He has given up everything he possessed, his business, residence, bank stock, interest in city property, etc., for the benefit of his creditors, and his aged wife has declined to adhere to her dower right and signed the deeds, which leaves herself and her husband penniless. A suit to hold Wm. E. jOsborne and L. W. Reeves responsible'as bondsmen for the large shortage of John McIlvaine, as Trustee of Jackson Township, Miami County, was decided at Wabash Saturday, where it had been taken on change of 'tfanue. The bondemen contested the case on the ground that they were only liable for a certain portion of the amount, as the greater portion of the shortage occurred during Mcllvaine’s first term, and that the sureties on the first bond should beheld tor the shortage incurred during the term of their bond. Judge Conner has decided that Osborne and Reeves are liable for $3,970, a comparatively small part of the sum claimed by the plaintiff.

Patents were issued to Indiana inventors Tuesday as follows: Dempster Beatty, assignor to Beatty Felting Company, Mishawaka, making combined knit cloth boots; George E. Blaine. Dayton, 0., and E. Hill, Cambridge City, assignors to M. Kemper, trustee, Dayton cross-tie and sleeper; Isaac M. Brown, Columbus, railway switch; Charles E. Cleveland and J. Hanson, Fort Wayne, (said 6’eveland assignor to said Hanson), side-dresser for saws; Henry A. Gore, assignor of two thirds to E. W. Walker and H. M. Rutor, Goshen, carpet sweeper; John F. Mains, Indianapolis, corn and fodder compresser; Lewis A. Neff, Middletown, car coupling; John E. Roth, Coal City, combined ironing board and wash bench; Charles M. Young, Eby, sewing machine. The newspapers recently announced the arreet of James Barnes and James Bapt, of Goodland, for counterfeiting. The counterfeit is a $5 silver certificate, of which it is bo ieved several thous* 'and dollars are in circulation. Sixty dollars of it was found in Barnes’s possession. is the most skillful and dangerous that has ever been, issued, and it has had a wide circulation. In Chicago alone there is more than $50,000 of it out, and reports from different parts of the country show that it is plentiful everywhere. It is exceedingly difficult to get any business man in Indianapolis, says an Indianapolis, paper to take a note of this description, for they can not detect the counterfeit from the genuine, and there have been several cases where the genuine bills have been rejected by the banks. With new bills, the differences between them, which are very slight, can be detected with the aid of a glass, but when the bills are worn the differences are not perceptible. It is probable the government will have to call in its entire issue of $5 silver certificates in order to separate the good from the bad. In the meantime, every one should be careful in accepting these certificates, if they accept them at all.

Founder of a Party Dead.

Hon. David White, of the Pittsburg Gazette, and the founder of the Republican party, died at his residence at 8 wick lay, Sunday. The deceased was eighty-three years of ags. “Deacon” White, as he was familiarly known, was born in Wareham, Plymouth county, Massachusetts, August-25, 1805. In 1841 he went to Pittsburg and purchased the Gazette. He was an uncompromisingopponent of sky ary, and in 1855 published a call for a county convention to form a new party. The call had but few signers, but when the convention met every district in the county was. represented by a dnly ’fhcted dt.igafe. A stxcn’ ticket was nominated, and from this sprung the great Republican party, k ' '. v .*

TARIFF REDUCTION.

Agreement of the Democratic Major ity iu Support of tne Milla Bill. The report of the majority of the 'ways and means committee that accompanied tthe Mills bill to the House, Monday, is printed. The committee argues at length in support ofk reduc tion of the revenues, and says: The committee have determined to recommend a reduction of the revenues from both customs and internal taxes. They have carefully kept in view at all times the interest of the manufacturer, the laborer, the producer and sumer. Thebill herewith reported to the House is not offered as a perfect bill. Many articles are left subject to duty which might well be transferred to the free list. Many articles are left subject to rates of duty which might well be lessened. * * • In the progressive growth of our manufactures we have reached the point where our capacity to produce is far in excess of k the requirements of our home consumption. As a consequence many of our mills are closed, and many of those still in operation are running on short time. This condition is hurtful to the manufacturer, the laborer and the producer of the materials consumed in manufacture. The manufacturer loses the profit on his capital, the laborer loses his wages and the producer of the materials consumed in manufacture loses the market for bis products. Manufacturers, in many instances, to guard against losses by low prices caused by an overy-supply in the home market, are organizing trusts, combinations and pools to limit production and keep up prices. This vicious condition of business could not not exist with low duties on imports. Prohibitory tariffs surround the country with lines of in vestment and prevent all relief from without, while trusts, combinations and pools plunder the people within. The annual product of our factories is now estimated at $7,000,00 ,000, of which amountwe export only about $136,000,* 000, or less than 2 per cent. If we could obtain, free of duty, such raw materials ai as we do not produce, andean only be produced in foreign countries, and mix with our home product in the various branches of manufacture, we could Soon increase our exports several hundred millions. With untaxed raw materials we could keep our m ills running on full time, operatives in constant employment and have an active demand for our raw materials in our own factories. If there should be no duty on any materials entering into the manufacturers, many articles now made abroad would be made at home which, while it would give more employment to our own labor, would give a better arket to many articles which we produce, and which wool, hemp, flax and others. In starting on this policy, we have transferred many articles from the dutiable to the free list. The revenues now received on these articles amount to $22,198,505. Three-fourths of this amount is collected on articles that enter into manufacturers, of which wool and tin plate are the most important. The revenues derived fronr. wool during the last fiscal year amounted to $5,899.816 53, and the revenue from tin plate to $5,706,433.08. The repeal of all duties on wool enables us to reduce the duties on tho manufactures* of wool $12,532,211.65 The largest reduction we have made is in the woolen schedule and this reduction was only m ide possible by putting wool on the free list. This is no greater need for a duty on other raw material. A duty on wool makes it necessary to imp ose a higher duty on the goods made from wool and the consumer has'iv par a dcubie tax. —tTW leave wool untaxed the consumer has to pay a tax only on manufactured goods. The Commissioner of Labor’s report shows the true nature of specific duties, and the consumer can see why it is that manufacturers ciamor for them They know the different values of these goods, and what apt words will embrace the high and low prices together, and, make the poorer people pay the same tax for a yard of cloth worth 45 cents that the wealthy do for a yard that costs $3.66; butthat fact the specific tariff conceals. The ad valorem duty taxes everything according to its value. A duty of 40 per cent, ad valorem would have imposed a tax of $1.44 on a yard of broadcloth and 18 cents on the cotton warp cloth that costs 45 cents, and the duty would havel been fair to both. As it is, the tax is 180 per cent, on the cheap cloth and 50 per cenr. on the high priced cloth. In the cotton goods schedule we see the same “vicious, inequitable and illogical” results of the specific duty. On sugar the report says:. We have reduced the revepue received from sugar about 20 per cent., and extended the fir it class from No. 13 to No. 16 Dutch Stamford of color. The sugars between Nos. 13 and 16 are grades of brownsngirs which can g o into consumption without refining, and consumers may protect thaunelves against trusts and combinations by purchasing these grades of imported sugars when the price of therefined is put up and kept up by org in'zed irustaof domestic manufactures. The n.te of all sugars above < No. 16 is reduced, so that foreign refined I < sugars may be imported, to prevent high prices and protect the consumer < against combinations. „

REPUBLICAN POSITION.

Point® from M *jor McKinley’® Boport on the Mills Bill. The Mills tariff bihl was presented to the House on the 2d. McKinley sub* mitted the minority report. The report pays attention to each one cf the tariff schedules in the Mills bill, attacks vigorously the free list, vehemently denounces free wool and free tin plate. Two pages are devoted to the wool question. It.predicts ru’n and disaster to the f irmers of the country interested in sheep raising. McKinley says that the first effort in the dine-ion of free trade is aimed at the unorganized f umersef the country, who, fur removed from the cinters cf trade, busy on their firms and plantations, unused to meeting ommittees cf Congress and unadvised that their interests were to ba dealt an unfriendly blow, are to ba the first victims cf the British policy through the agexc/ cf the American Congress. Theirs is a large interestlaw in the ciuntry are larger. It is bund in every 8 sate in the Union and indeed in most ciuntiei; it is in the hands cf the many, not the cancantrated taw. The flcci-masters and their workmen numb ar at least 2,000,000 persons; the numbar of fleets will reach 1,100,000; the capital invested has b?en estimated by competent authority at more than $500,000,000, and the annual produce cf 1888 was valued at $128,000,000, Under the duty of 1867, the industry has grown to large proportions. In 1860 the sheep in the United States numbered a little over 23,000,000. In 1883 the number increased 50,600,000. In 1860 the clip was 60,200,000 pounds; in 1883 it reached 320,000,000 pounds. The duty of 1867, which gave to woo'-growere its greatest encouragement, and induced the farmers to incraase their flocks an 1 expend their means for the best varieties of sheep and lor their eare and improvement, and which finally made the American wools the best in the world, adapted to all the uses of manufacturers, even the h’ghest grades of woolen and worsted eiotues, has a Ideed nothing to the cost of wool to the ncanu'aemrera or consumer; on the contrary, that cost has been greatly cheapened. Tn 1867 the pries was 51c nts; in 1870 it was 46 cents; in 1875, 43 ents. There has been a steady rjduc ion, with occasional fluctuatione,Bince these: of 1867$ until now it is so low as to be temporarily unprofitab’e. Free wool will be of no permanent benefit to the manufacturers, or consumers, but a positive loss to both, and great ’ors to the fleck-masters-and there depending upon th«*m for employment. The decay of sheep husbandry in the United States would be a national calamity; it would place our xnanufac urerr at the mercy of foreign producers. This is an industry which cannot be built up in a dayj it has requ red years of car a and coat to reach its present development, and sound policy demands its continuance and encouragement.

A Locomotive Explodes.

The boiler of a locomotive attached to a passenger train on the New York & New England Railroad,exploded at North Manchester, Conn., Wednesday morning, killing the engineer and fireman The train consisted of the locomotive, baggage-car, and three passenger care filled with eommutors bound for Hartford. Half a mile west of Manchester is a high railroad bridge over the Hockyum River. Aa the train approached the bridge,the engineer shutoff steam to slow up, when, without warning, the terrific. The locomotive was shattered and the tender thrown from the track. flcient to push the wrecked engine 200 feet. The front platform of the bazgagecar was demolished, but beyond that no serious damage was done to tl e train. With the explosion came a cioud of steam which enveloped the train. The passengers knew that they were near the bridge, and when the car left the rails they were panic-stricken, fearing that they were about to be plunged into the river. When the I rain came to a standstill they found the engineer near his locomotive, unconscious and badly scalded; the fireman a few rods back, dead, with a fractured skull. The engineer cannot survive.

THE MARKETS.

Indianapolis, April 3, 1888. CRAIN. Wheat, No, 2 Med...»5 I Com, No. 2 White, 13% No. 8 Med... 81% I No. 2 Yellow, 49% No. 2 8ed...84 | Oats, No. 2 White....-5 Wagon wheat 84 I Rye „ „62 live stock. CATTiJt —Extra choice shippers 4.40a4 90 Good to choice shipper!...... 3.75ai.15 Extra choice heileia —c.3*1x8.83 Good to choice heifers 2.401310 Good to choice cows ..3 his!i.6O Hoea—Heavy packing and shipping ii.5ta5.60 ■ Light and mixed packing .5.3 a 5.35 Pigs and heavy roughs 47.iaf.10 Bwntr—Extra choice „ _.4.90a1r,40 Good to choice 4.25a4 65 , ——— BOGS, BUTTER, POULTRY. Eggs - . ;12c I Pouhry/heiu per lb 9 Butter, creamery ...22c | Roosters 4% fancy country..—l9c r Turkeys Pc choice country...loe | KMCKLLANBOUB. f - Wool—Fine merino, tub washed _sbi33< “ Ao unwashed, med io>22c “ • very coarse IfialSc Hay,choice ■.imothyl4"s ; Sugar cured harm 2 18c ~ 8ran.....„ -16.761 Bacon clear sides lie Floor, patent. 4 fat 65 ! Feather* crime gooe' 4< c dxtra tenev —*. 20x4.10 Ciovei se ■. 4.15 Chicago. Wheat (May -77 llork 1357 Com “ ... 52 Lard _7.24 Oats “ 31 I Riba _.7.17 live srw.a. ; p \ Cattle-Steers 3.’Lal 15 Hoo-u Mixed...'.15x5.45 Cows.... _3.10a3. ; 0 Heavy...s 30a.45 Stockers 2.5018 7. Light. ...sUai if Sheep 4 50x6 70 Skips 3.50ai.t0 Ciucii.ux.u-- Family Hour, 3 40x3 75; wheat 8': corn. 62; oats, 83; rye,6s; pork, 14 20;Jard, 7.5 U; short Hha. 7.2 i: butter creamery 4a27; eggs 18 N» w York— Flour,4.Si)ai.‘ o;Wbeat,39; Cora. 60; oat«, 40; eggs 15al8: pork, 14.75a15.60. PbUadnlpma— Wheat. 85 ; com. fO; oats £6. Baittmora— Whaet, 76; corn, 6<S oats, 3W4