Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1889 — Page 3

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. A silk trust has been formed in New YorkWrapping paper makers are forming a trust. Cincinnati w"s founded one hundred years ago. Race troubles are reported from Sanford, S. C. Illinois school teachers favor compulsory "education. Gen. Alger gave 500 newsboys each a suit of clothes Jan. 1. Mitchell is .getting a reputation for murderous encounters. ' ~ Mrs. Scofield, wife of Major-General Scofield, died at Washington. _ Three Brooklyn counterfeiters were captured while making the “stuff,” Friday.

Mrs. Stevens was found in her room —starved to death—at Saugertie, New York. Sixteen passengers were brusied in a railway accident at Barnesville, Ala.. Friday. Wm. Walker, a chief of the Bald Knobbers, was hanged at Ozark, Mo., Friday. The Chicago police have prohibited Mrs. Lucy Parsons from making public addresses. The Oklahoma boomers, 15,000 in all, it is said, are preparing to enter Oklahoma February 1. The Indiana Legislature convenes Thursday, Jan. 10. The new Governor takes his seat Jan. 14. Police Officer Fehle, of St. Louis, died of hydrophobia, Sunday, the result of a deg bite last September. Mayor Hewitt in conversation Wednesday, said that his expenses in the recent election were $40,000. In New York, Sunday night, Solomon Joseph killed his young and beautiful wife and then himself. Jealousy. The Southern Pacific will dispense with litigation this year and pay all its State taxes, which amount to $900,000. Senator Teller, of Colorado, called on (Sen. Harrison,Friday. He does not believe there will be a special session of Congress. H Henry D. Schoonmaker, a New York salesman, while deranged from sickness, Sunday, fatally shot his wife ’and then killed himself.

White Caps are operating in Harrison county, Ohio. It is probable the White Caps will be regulated themselves by indignant citizens. Mrs. Sarah Whiteling, convicted at Philadelphia of the murder of her little daughter, by poisoning, has been sentenced to be hanged. The Scranton (Pa.) steel mill shut down, Monday morning, and will be closed a month or more. Three thousand employes are idle. Mrs. Frances Marie Norton, the only sister of Charles J. Guiteau, is about to issue a book entitled ?‘The Stalwarts; or Who Were to Blame?”. More race troubles are expected in Mississippi. Benton county is the scene •f intense excitement and both sides are preparing for a combat. A basket picnic was held at Huron, Dak., Christmas. First thing you know Dakota will claim to be a winter resort, so salubrious has been the weather. Jack Hyams, the English light-weight champion, was knocked out in the ninth round, near Brooklyn, by Jack McAuliffe, the American champion. Near Muskogee, Indian Territory, a widow named Johnson and two of her children were brutally murdered by her eldest eon. He has not yet been caught. The Second National Bank of Xenia, 0., which failed in May last for $305,267, has paid all the claims against it in full, including interest. This is remarkable. Late Christmas afternoon, while a party of seven was out sailing six miles from San Francisco,the boat was capsized Mid six of the occupants were drowned,

In Lyon county, Kentucky, James Deane playfully snapped a pistol that he didn’t think was loaded, at some children. The ball struckxhis mother, and the wound is fatal. \ The new steamer Bristol, of the Old Colony Line, was completely destroyed by fire at the New York dock Sunday night. The loss is $300,000, covered by insurance. No lives were lost. It is reported that Judge Fleming, Democratic candidate for Governor of West Virginia, has prepared papers to contest the election of Goff—a virtual concession that Goff is elected on the returns. Mrs. Evaline Waggy, of Madison county, who is demanding SB,OOO alimony and a divorce from Henry Waggy, her husband, is over seventy years of age, and one of the earliest settlers of that section. At Danville, 111., F. W. Smith dressed himself as Santa Claus, making a liberal use of cotton batting, and then incautiously.set to work to light the Christmas tree. The cotton took fire and Smith was so horribly hurried that recovery is impossible. There was a great fire at Cincinnati Tuesday. It began at Jacobs’ Cordage Company,, corner of Budd and Harriet streets, and spread over three acres before it was extingui-hed. The total loss is in excess of $3j!0,000, which is largely covered by insurance. Governor Hill has ordered an extraordinary term of Over and Terminer,to be held in New York City, Judge Daniels presiding, and to continue until the criminal business is cleared up in New York City. It is understood that this court is ordered for the purpose of trying the “boodle” Aidermen. Five laborers were kil'ed at Denver on the 27th in a street trench wheresixteen men were at work excavating for the cable track.. The road had been undermined in places, and when a roadway car paesfdover, the track careened to one side, and the men were crushed by the frozen earth and iron. '* Sunday afterrioon, at Mt. Pleasant, ©hio, Charles Beck and some other boys broke into a magazine where there were 200, kegs ofpowder and ten cans of dynathite. They"were smoking, and an explosion followed. Young Beck was blown to atoms, and seventeen other people were more or less, hurt. Much damage was done to property. - A committee representing the Grand Army posts of Kings county, New York, called upon General Harrison Monday and presented to him a petition signed by the Commander, of all the G,

A. R. posts of Kings county, asking him to review the parade of G. A. R. veter ans on Memorial Day next May, and accompany the procession to the tomb of Genera) Grant at Riverside. Miss Ada E. Spaulding, of Hartford, Conn., a school teacher on week days, ( is also a teacher of a Sunday school class. Christmas day-she married her pupil, Wah Lee ' Wah is considerably Americanised and has cut off his cue. The bride is a Maine girl and seven years his senior. The marriage was very quiet, only a few intimate acquaintances of the bride being let into the secret. John Bryan, a farmer’s boy, lost his life by the burning of his father’s home near Nebraska City, Neb. All of the family had escaped except one little girl, his sister. He went back Into the building and rescued her. He then returned for some clothing for his mother and, children, who were barefooted in the snow, when he was overcome and perished.

The money department of the Indianapolis postoffice was robbed of $2,000 by the “finger stall game.” The money order clerk, at the noon hour when'all the clerks were at dinner, was induced to leave the office and go out on the side walk to accommodate a stranger who wanted to talk to him. The stranger pretended to have something to say to him. On his return to the office the clerk discovered the theft. Levi D. Fuller, of Cortland, 111., has been married for the seventh time. On one occasion he was engaged to seven women at once, his mania being to advertise for wives. His diary, shows the following: Replies to advertisements, l,loo;number of photographs exchanged, 400; proposals, 119; accepted 85; rejected, 34; married,- 7; divorced, 4; paid breach of promise damages, 1; married by minister 1; married by justice, 6; stabbed, 1, time oi game,2s years. At Milwaukee, Mrs. Leidel stepped out to a store, leaving her children in bed. During her Absence her fourteen-year-old boy got out of bed and started to light the candles on the Christmas tree, which he had seen illuminated the night before. His night dress took fire and the little fellow ran back to bed with his clothes burning. The bed clothes took fire and burned rapidly. The mother came home in time to rescue another child sleeping in the bed. The little boy was horribly burned and died shortly afterward.

Iron manufacturers in Philadelphia say that the manufacture of iron is now almost without profit, and some works will certainly haye to shut down if the prices of their necessities go much higher. During the year of 1887 the price of coke was $2 a ton, but the iron mills were active and the demand was exceedingly heavy. When; the business of the mills became dull the price was reduced to sl, but afterwards advanced to $1.25, and they don’t see any good reason why the price should go above that figure now. An Augusta Me. special says: That Mr. Blaine wants to be Secretary’of State in General Harrison’s Cabinet is regarded here as a fact, and his friends want him to have it. He would not accept the commission to St. James, as it would not be congenial to him. If he is not invited into the Cabinet he will feel greatly disappointed and regard it as a slight. It is said that he frankly told General Russel A. Alger when he was here that he would not entertain any other position but the Secretary of State. Mr. Blaine is extremely silent and will not be interviewed. x Almost the entire business portion of Marblehead, Muss., was destroyed by fire, Wednesday. It was the largest fire that ever visited the place, and the people are almost panic stricken over it. Nearly ten acres was burned oVer, involving a loss of at least $500,000. Nearly the same territory was burned over a year qgo, and the fire started at nearly the same place. Many of its victims were also sufferers by the former fire. The shoe business, which has been quiet for several months past, was just starting up, and many operatives will now be thrown out of work the entire winter.

The Federal Grand Jury has adjourned until January 14. No indictment, were returned. Republicans look upon this Adjournment as conclusive of utter failure on the part of the prosecution to make a case against Dudley. Democrats say there is no failure, ana that unless certain Republicans of prominence have done some of the tallest lying ever known in these parts, not only Dudley but others whose names are not confined to county limits, will be called upon to defend themselves. Mr. Bailey says the Government has made good progress and has a great amount of evidence, and that it is not all against “small fry.”

An old-time in full blast in Southern California and Arizona as the result of the recent discoveries. The Mexicans brought into Yuma large quantities of pure gold, which they said they had obtained in Southern California, about one hundred miles from Yuma. They had been in a locality that was abandoned recently by hostile Indians, who had kept the miners out of the country for many years. The Mexicans said the gold was easily worked and they would have staid longer and brought out more if their provisions had lasted. Their story set everybody in Yuma crazy with the gold fever and a rush to the new fields has begun. The river boats are crowded and every possible conveyance is being fitted up to take miners to the diggings.

FOREIGN. Princess Albert of Bavaria is said to have become insane. Geu. Loris Melikoff, a distinguished Russian soldier, died on the 26th. Prado, the murderer of Marie Agnettant, was executed at Paris, Friday by the guillotine. Gladstone celebrated his seventyninth birthday on Saturday and received many testimonials of regard. Rev. Joshua Frazer, an author of some note, perished, with two other persons Ontario building at Kingston, A postal Card, dispatched from London to Hong Kong, via the United States, and thence back to London via Brindisi, circumnavigated the world in seventy-five days. The Stanley stories, both from Zanzibar and the west coast, are becoming doubtful. The report that now seems certain of confirmation, is that Stanley reached Emin, but it is feared that the particulars given of the meeting, etc., are not reliable. The special correspond-

ents at Zanzibar are unable to confirm the alleged details. . ' The Pope’s speech to the Sacred College has renewed a quarrel between the Vatican and the Italian Government. The Liberals are highly indignant at the Pope’s denunciation of the Chambers. They declare that the speech was one of the bitterest that has been uttered from the Papal chair for years, that the purpose is to array all the Christian world against Italy, and urge that the only course for the Government and Parliament to pursue is to meet this attack upon its independence with measures of increased stringency against the clergy. .

A TARIFF REFORM MEETING.

Pr.sident Cl>v-land Sfends a Letter Reaffirming HisP»sltlou. The annual banquet of the Massachusetts tariff reform league took place at, the Hotel Vendome, Boston; Friday, evening. The principal guest of the evening was U. 8. Secretary of -the Treasury Fairchild. Hon. W. E. Russell presided and in an opening speech said the gathering was not one of interested capitalists to rejoice over a political victory, but a gathering in the interests of the propagation of a great political economic reform. President Cleveland’s letter was then read. It was as follows: Messre. Sherman Hoar and Qthers CommitteeGentlemen—l am exceedingly sorry that I cannot be present at the annual dinner of the Massachusetts tariff reform league. —. —— This is not merely a formal and common expression of regret. It truly indicates how much I should enjoy meeting the members of your league, and how glad I should be to express in person my appreciation of their important services in a cause to which I am earnestly attached, and to acknowledge at the same time their frequent and encouraging manifestations of personal friendliness. I know, too, that it would be profitable and advantageous to be even for a brief period within the inspiring influence of the atmosphere surrounding patriotic and unselfish men, banded together in the interest of their fellow-countrymen and devoted to the work of tariff reform. This reform appears to be as far-reach-ing in its purposes as the destiny of our country, and as brddd in its beneficence as the welfare of our entire people. It is because.the efforts of its advocates are not discredited by any sordid motive that they are able boldly and confidently to attack the strongholds of selfishness and greed. Our institutions were constructed in purity of purpose and love for humanity. Their operation is adjusted to the touch of national virtue and patriotism, and their results under such guidance must be the prosperity and happiness of our people; and so long as the advocates of tariff reform appreciate the sentiment in which our institution had their origin; so long as they apprehend the forces which alone can guide their operation; so long as they, in a spirit of true patriotism, are consecrated to the service of their country, temporary defeat brings no discouragement. It but proves the stubbornness of the forces of combined selfishness, and discloses how far the people have been led astray, and how great is the necessity of redoubled effort in their behalf. To loss faith in the intelligence of the people is a surrender and an abandonment of the struggle. To arouse their intellif;ence and free it from darkness and deusion gives assurance of speedy and complete victory. In the track of reform are often found the dead hopes of pioneers and the despair of those who fall in the march. But Ithere will be neither despair nor dead hopes in the path of tariff reform, nor shall its pioneers fail to reach the heights; Holding fast to their faith and rejecting every alluring overturn and every deceptive compromise which would betray their sacred trust, they themselves shall regain and restore the patrimony of their countrymen, freed from the trespass of grasping encroachments and safety secured by the genius of American justice and equity. Yours very truly, Grover Cleveland. The letter was received with cheers and the health of the President was drank. Secretary Fairchild and others made speeches.

AFFAIRS IN SAMOA.

The Halted Stato* Likely to Interfere to Protest American Righ's. The New York Herald’s Washington special says: “At the Navy Department,, Thursday, it was evident that there was something in the recent advices received from the seat of war in Samoa that was not looked upon with favor by our government. The hurrying up of the work on the Vandalia and Mohican at the Mare Island navy-yard, so that they will able to leave the yard next week, in spite of the reduced appropriation, is evidence that our goverr ment contemplates taking action. It is known among navy people that the Dolphin, now on her way around the world, has orders to stop at Apia, and a cipher dispatch was sent to her commanding officer, Monday, to Acapulco, Mexico, where the ship stopped for coal, to proceed to Samoa without delay. State Department officials are reticent when apS reached on the subject, but enough as been ascertained to warrant the opinion that President Cleveland and his advisers think that Germany is going a trifle too far. Tne proclamation of the German consul instructing all German citizens to pay their taxes to him in trust for the Island of Samoa instead of the representatives of the King of Samoa would indicate that the condition of affairs there was getting to be a serious matter.”

GONE WITH $90.000.

The San Francisco Agent ot a Chicago Firm Turns Oat a Thief. A telegram from San Francisco, published at Chicago Saturday morning, announced that Charles F. Merle, San Francisco, agent of N. K. Fairbanks & Co., of Chi cago, dealers in lard aud canned meats, had abscorided with $90,000 of the firm’s money. Mr. Fairbanks had not heard anything definite on the subject, and was certain that if Merle had absconded he could by no possibility have taken aS much money as was reported. Secretary Goeman, of the Fairbanks Company, knew nothing of Merle personally, but by reference to the books found that it would have been impossible for Merle to be a defaulter to the amount of $90,000.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Alto is boring for gas. Markle will incorporate. I' - Fort Wayne claims 40,000. Laporte sighs for base ball. Terre Haute will bore for’oil. Fish pond socials are a late wrinkle. South Bend has eighty-two saloons. Kleptomania is a Hungtington disease. Jeffersonville wants free mail delivery. ‘ Salmon are being caught in the Tippecanoe. “Darkey parties” are a craze at Valparaiso. Mrs. Magdalene Boggs, of Milton, is aged 105. Winchester is abundantly supplied with gas.

George Linsey—New Castle —drunktrain—leg. Fort Wayne improved its streets s7o,* 000 worth last year. A petrified , hickory tree has been found at West Baden. The Muncie Catholic Fair realized ,SI,OOO for the church fund. Washington claims to be the liveliest place in Southern Indiana. “Jack the ripper” threatens Plymouth’s unsavory people. A carp weighing 34 pounds was caught in a Ligonier lake. Connetsyille church ladies have formed a Union Benevolent Society. The wheat in some parts of the State is suffering for want of snow. Fire in the Wabash school furniture factory caused a loss of $2,000. Indianapolis police made 3,597 arrests in 1888 J as against 3,641 in 1887. New Albany is retrenching by cutting, down its police and fire departments.

J. A. Magee, of Big Springs, claims to possess a madstone of marvelous qualities. Counterfeit coupons of bonds issued by Ft. Wayne in 1868 have been discovered. The Governrhent inspector does not recommend free mail delivery for Laporte. , Gen. Reub Williams has been editor of the Warsaw Indianian for thirtythree years. Greensburg has had a checker tournament. Thomas Shellcutt seems to be the champion. There are 245 saloons in Allen county, and a war has been inaugurated against the unlicensed.

A “skunkery” at Huntington, where skunks are raised for hides and oil, is a financial success. Louis Walker, aged 15, of New Albany, carried a pistol. The wound is regarded as fatal. John Pugh, a juvenile of Winona, while plaving with a revolver accidentally killed himself. There are “White Caps” in Madison county, styling themselves the “Elm Switch Committee.” /.’ - The White Cap trials in Crawford county were called on the 26th. There are many defendents. Marshal Ensminger, of Crawfordsville, has begun a crusade against gamblers and Sunday liquor law violators. Thomas Shelcutt carried off first honors in the Greensburg checker tournament, and John Thurman second. _ ‘Mrs. Nicholas Keffer, of Fort Wayne, committed suicide Friday to avoid arrest on the charge of immoral conduct. A four foot vein of genuine peacock coal has been opened at Hosmer. Such is not found elsewhere in the State. John Frame and Nicholas Hammond, of( Hammond, were drowned, by the breaking of the ice on the Calumet river. Several Jackson county farmers, who a few years ago removed to Kansas, have returned much dissatisfied with the Western country.

The farmers near Chalmers have organized a Farmers’ Protective Union, to handle their own grain, lumber, etc. Capital stock, $5, WO. Five hundred people donned the blue ribbon at the opening service of the Murphy meetings in Connersville. Hon. James N. Huston presided. E. P. Edwards, of Boston,Mass., has contracted for the labor of 130 convicts in the Prison North for the manufacture of boots and shoes at fifty-three cents per day. Maple Grove people are circulating a petition, calling upon the Legislature to pass a law prohibiting the sale of tobacco in any form to minors under sixteen years of age. • So many engage in the business of cultivating onions in St. Joe county that the bottom' has dropped out of the market, and the prices did not warrant harvesting the crop.

There are thirty-four voters and twenty-three families by the name of Booher in Darlingtori. The original family settled in Montgomery county when Crawfordsville was a wilderness. Mrs. Thomas Patram, of Columbus, some weeks ago run a splinter in her finger, which she attempted to remove with a needle. Black erysipelas followed, and her death occurred Friday night. About ’ 200 members of the State Teachers’ Association attended the thir-ty-fifth annual session of that tion at Indianapolis. Various'topics of interest especially to teachers were discussed. - | . The Recorder of Madison county is arranging for a convention of all' the requires and ex-’Squires in the county to exchange ideas in drawing deeds and other legal documents and passing upon abstracts.

There is general complaint of high taxes in Sulliy^ncounty, and it is alleged that the Commissioners are violating the bridge building law and engaging in other enterprises of questionable necessity. The leading society young ladies of Pera will entertain their gentlemen friends with a g<and ball and banquet on the flight of the 31st inst.. and they fiave labeled the event f‘The Last Chance.” Miss Cora Lee, the heroine of the Graham-Molloy tragedy is visiting friends in Fort Wayne under an assumed name. The Fort Wayne Sentinel says, “Her entangling charms are as fair as ever.” James Dick, Sr., of Knox county, a few days ago was accidently thrown

from his wagon, blood poisoning followed the injury received. He died this -week. Mr. Dick was a pioneer, and widely respected. V John Pohzklqmstowskdbotzki, of Laporte county, is defendant in a suit brought by Joseph Ghzrowsbiliwskrominslehky, and but one man could be found in the county able to serve the subpeona. Ndzo Wdggondghzert. While Blue Mountain Joe, at Vincennes, was holding a potato as a mark or Deadwood Dick, the “celebrated shot,” at an entertainment, the bullet missed its aim and carried away one or more fingers for Blue Mountain Joe. An incendiary set fire to a large frame building in the center Judson, and it was with great difficulty that the village was saved. Several buildings w'ere on fire at various times, and a number of residents were badly scorched while valiently fighting the flames. A bitter row has been precipitated among the Republicans in Grant county over the appontment of Alfred McFeeley to succeed the murdered Sheriff Jones. The window demanded the appointment of Deputv Sheriff Eyestone, that her interests might be protected. Miles Jobson, of Princeton, a widower, was re-married on Christmas, and he committed Suicide by hanging night before last, leaving a note m which he said that he had promised his first wife not to remarry, and he could not endure the reproaches of his conscience. Several months ago J. H. Styles, of Willinar, Minn., advertised for a wife, and this was answered by Miss Ida Workman, daughter of Rev. T. C. Workman, of Lebanon. The marriage followed last week in Logansport, the father of the bride officiating at the ceremony.

Elijah Hasket, of Straughn’s Station, Friday night, shot and killed Miss Delliah Allison, and then shot himself, dying in two hours. Mies Allison was a domestic in the employ of E. R. Colburn, and the murder and suicide was the result of her refusal to marry him. Both parties stood well in tbe community. A number of Odd Fellows were precipitated over a steep embaukment while driving from Jeffersonville to visit the lodge at Prather. Peter Leclare and George Nixon sustained fractured ribs; ex-Mayor Preefer was badly cut about the face: Captain W. H. Northcut received internal injuries, and Fred. Bamber was badly hurt about the head. The “White Cap” trials in Crawford county have been postponed until March 26, the defendants demanding a change of venue from Judge William D. Zener. All were represented in the demand for a change of Judge, save William Gregory, who is home with four bullets in him, and Rube Robinson and Fioyd Morgan, who are fugitives from justice.

A very dangerous counterfeit five dollar bill of the new department series of 1886, is in circulation in Elkhart county. It can be detected by noticing in the engraving of General Grant, that the right lapel of his coat is rough, the studs are missing from his shirt bosom and there is a distinct but very small white mark in thejright hand corner of his mouth that does not belong there. Peru has been the headquarters of the Salvation Army, but trouble came in the attentions which William Vorhis insisted upon paying the Captain, Miss Edna Brownelh The other privates thrashed Vorhis, and warrants were issued, which led to the flight of the Captain and nearly the entire army. William Carter, William Bailey, Albert Lee and John Marshall were arrested and fined. Patents were granted the following residents of Indiana Wednesday James D. Clemmons, Hanover, slate cleaner; Michael Clune, Indianapolis, bedlounge; John B. Deeds, Terre Haute, anti-friction compound, also metallic packing ring: Levi H. Roberts, and C. E. Sanford, Indianapolis, buck saw-frame Christopher C. Sharp, Indianapolis, pessary; Silas T. Yount, Lafayette, speculum.

The biggest job of drainage ever undertaken in Indiana is now practically completed. For the past three years the work of draining the Swamp prairie land lying between Huntington and Fort Wayne, along the line of the Wabash railway has been progressing. The prairie is of immense size, and next season several thousand acres of hitherto worthless land will be plowed up and put in grain. A party of twenty-two men and boys were out hunting, Friday, in the vicinity of Elmdale. Claud " Biddle cocked both triggers of his double barreled shot gun and killed a rabbit with one, but as he threw the gun over his arm the other barrel went off, hitting Charles Earhart in the temple. He died at 11 o’clock Friday night, in great agony. He was thirty-one years old and leaves a wife and one child.

Rt. Rev. Bishop Dwenger, of Fort Wayne, has published a card, denying that his recent visit to Rome had the remotest connection with the rumored attempt to curtail influence of the German clergy in America, or the suppression of the German language in the Catholic schools. He also denies that the question was considered at the Baltimore Council, or on the occasion of Father Sorin’s jubilee. County school superintendents indulged in a 'meeting at Indianapolis and suggested various changes in the school laws of the State. They declared in favor of free text books, the township trustees to purchase them, the lengthening of the county superintendent’s term to four years, ana making the holding of a State license the test of eligibility to the office, and, finally, compulsory attendance upon schools. State Superintendent LaFollette says he understands a bill is to be introduced in the next Legislature which will place the office of County Superintendent on the same footing as the other county officers, the incumbent td be elected by the people. He regards such a thing as certainly destructive of the usefulness of the office, aa.it would make it partisan and lead to the election of politicians and place a premium upon dishonesty in the function,©! the position. Conductor Deitz, a J., M, & I. freight conductor, Saturday night discovered the seals of a freight car broken shortly after leaving Indianapolis, and that thieves had taken possession and were plundering boxes filled with merchandised He thereupon fastened the door and detained .them as prisoners until Columbus was reached, when they were turned over to the authorities. They were recognized as Indianapolis talent, but remained unidentified as to name. « The Standard Oil Company, by their

agents, recently secured a lease for oil and gas explorations on forty acres of the farm of Albert Pence, ne <r Xenia. Mr. Pence notified tbe agents that he desired to change his lease so as to cover the entire farm. The agent appeared, drew out the old lease and prepared to write another, when Mrs. Pence seized the document, threw the paper into the fire and told the agent to clear out. He obeyed promptly. Mr. and Mrs. Pence found that the lease was an incumbrance on theiisjand, and took this method of ridding themselves of it. The farmers south of Wabash who have been leasing their land to foreign and home corporations for natural gas explorations, are greatly excited over the discovery that these leases are a cloud on the title to their property. In many cases they are so.wordea and constructed that they are susceptible of almost any meaning save one favorable to the owner of the land, and leave the impression that they expire in ten years, whereas they may be made perpetual, at the option of the holder. A number of heavy property owners, whose land is leased to the extent of nearly 1,000 acres, have employed attorneys to institute suits to quiet title. The fact that many of the leases have not been recorded is a point in favor of the plaintiffs. The litigation will be long and expensive, with the odds in favor of the holders of the leases. If the gas men are finally compelled to release their claims on the land, and abandon their wells they will be placed in a very emoarrassing position. The result of this litigation will be anxiously awaited by natural gas com panies everywhere. ’

The Indiana Science Association held its annual session at Indianapolis on the 26th and 27th and heard various papers on various scientific subjects. One paper by Prof. Wiley on the status of the sorghum sugar industry in the United States was of especial interest. At a Government experiment station in Kansas over a hundred varieties of sorghum were tested last year. Some of it was found useless for sugar manufacture, while one variety was found to contain as large a per cent, of sugar as the regular sugar cane. It has been found, also, that no plant is more susceptible to improvement than sorghum, and Professor Wiley is confident that the making of sugar from it is soon to become one the great industries of the country and take the place of the immense importation “now so necessary and expensive. A famous variety of sorghum had its origin in an odd way. In an Indiana sorghum field a farmer found a single stalk entirely different from any of the rest. It was finer and better and ripened much the earlier of any. He cared for its seed, and from it sprang the famous “Early Amber” sorghum, which now promises the richest returns of a sugar pioducing plant. The officers elected are as follows: Dr. John C. Cranner, President; Dr. T. C. Mendenhall, Professor O. P. Hay, and Professor J. L. Campbell,Vice Presidents; Amos W. Butler, Secretary, and Professor; O. P. Jenkins, Treasurer.

LONDON'S LATEST SENSATION.

Two Boys Murdered and Horribly Mutilated. The mutilated body of a boy was found in an outhouse at Bradford Saturday morning. It was recognized as that of John Gill, eight years of age, who when last seen alive was sliding on the ice with some companion. The boy had been brutally murdered. His legs and arms had been chopped off in a rough manner and tied to his body,his ears had been cut off arid there were two stab wounds in his chest and his heart and his entrails had been torn out. The remains, when found, were wrapped in a rough covering. The police believe, from the clumsy manner in which the body was mutilated, that the crime was the work of drunken lads, whose imagination had been inflamed by reading accounts of Whitechapel atrocities. It is supposed the murder and butchery were committed in some other place and the remains afterwards carried by the perpetrators to the outhouse in which they were found. The crime has created the greatest excitement at Bradford. The police have not as yet found any trace of the murderers. A milkman has been a i rested on suspicion of having committed the crime. The murdered boy had occasionally accompanied him on his rounds. The prisoner was the first to recognize the remains. Itjis certain that the body was E laced in the outhouse between the ours of 4 and 6 of the morning. Scarcely had the people begun to recover from the shock of the first than they were horrified by the report of another boy murder. The body of the second boy was horribly mutilated. It was found at Kilwich near Keighley. No clue to the murderer in either case has been found. The police are searching the country around and are assisted by volunteer parties. All the railway stations are oeing watched.

THE MARKETS

Indianapolis, Jan. 1,1888. GRAIN/ Wheat— CornNo. 2 Red fl.oo No. 1 White 33 No. 3 Red 96 No. 2 YeUow 30 1 Oats, White 29 LIVE STOCK. Cattle —Good to choice 4.1C04.60 Choice heifers.... •’ . [email protected]. Common to medium... ...2.< [email protected] Good to choice cows [email protected] HogS—Heavy 5,[email protected] Light [email protected] Mixed [email protected] Pigs ........ [email protected] Sheep—Good to choice [email protected] Fine to medium . < ;..;[email protected] EGGS, BUTTER, POULTRY. ZZi Egg5......._.‘„..ihi-.lßc | Hens per fi»....~0c Butte r,creamery24c I Roosters ..3c Fancy country...l6c f Turkeys. ... 7jc Choice country_loc | MISCELLANEOUS. Wool—Fine merino; washed. 33@35 unwashed med. ...20@22 very coarse...... 17@18 Hay,timothy„l4.oo Sugar cured ham 13 Bran ~12.<0 Bacon clear sides 12 Clover seed—4.2s Feathers, goose 35 Chicago. Wheat (Jan.).....98 i Poik.... ....12.90 Corn “ ......34 I Lard... 7.72 Oats “ 26 I Ribs 6.85 Cincinnati—Wheat, 95; corn, 35; oats, 27J: rye, 56J; pork, 13.75; eggs, 17, St. Louis—Wheat, 96; corn, 30; oats, 25£pork, 14.00. _ i • Toledo—Wheat, 1.01; corn, 39J; oats, 26; clover Seed, 5.35. F Baltimore—Wheat,' 90j; corn, 42; oats, 33. a New York—Wheat, 1.00; corn, 47; oats, 31.