Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1889 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. , White Caps have appeared in, Herkimer county, New York. In 1888, 96,000 Germans emigrated, principally to America. f Franklin county, Mass., is excited •ver the discovery of gold. Governor Hill was inaugurated Governor of New York on the Ist, for the third time. < jE. O. Wolcott has been selected by the Colorado Republican caucus to succeed Bowen in the U. B. Senate. The new law substituting electricity for hanging as a method of death went into effect in New York on the Ist. During the year 1888, 383,595 immigrants were landed at Castle Garden, an increase of 1,977 over the previous year. It is charged that a ring of contractors have been operating the Kansas State Prison and made profits of $450,000 by it. ' . -

Mrs. Jay Gould’s condition shows no material change and her physician states that she is liable to pass away at any time. * Sullivan and Kilrain signed articles, on the 7th, at Toronto, for a fight to the finish, July 8, near New Orleans, for SIO,OOO a side. lack of snow in Michigan woods has thrown hundreds of men out of employment. Many of the lumber camps have shutdown. An unknown man at- Toledo fondled -a can of dynamite with an ax. He spread himself all over a vacant lot. Nobody else hurt. At Findlay, 0., Saturday night, leaking gas filled a sewer and exploded, tearing up Main street and fatally hurting Alonzo Dickens. Chas. H. Wright, paying teller of the Second National Bank of St. Paul, is a defaulter and has escaped. Wine, cards and women caused his downfall. J. W. W. Woods, a diver, in the employ of a wreckage company, was suffocated on the 4th by the air pipe which supplied him becoming stopped up. Four of the original founders of the K. of L. have issued an address claiming that it has been diverted from its original pupose, and calling for a convention for the good of the order. Rev. William A. Simpkins, of Salina, Kan., was committed to’ the insane asylum, his mind having been affected through internal dissensions in the church of which he was the pastor. A caucus of the Tennessee Legislature has endorsed Wm. Baxter, of Knoxville for a Cabinet position and a committee will call upon the President-elect to present the gentleman’s good points. A boiler in a grist mill at New Hope, W. Va., exploded, Saturday. The mill was completely wrecked, and four farmers, who were in the building, were blown to atoms. Four others were badly injured.

The Knights of Labor and Miners’ Union, rival labor organizations at New Castle, Wy. T., are at war with each •ther. Several persons have been hurt and possibly killed, though details are meager. The steamboat Paris C. New Orleans to Cincinnati, struck a snag at Hermitage Landing, near Baton Rouge, La., Saturday evening, and sank. Five of the cabin crew, two firemen, and a passenger were drowned. The vessel and cargo are a total loss. The long strike on the C., B. &Q. R. R. has finally been settled by a compromise. The company is to give old striking engineers preference when vacancies occur, and the engineers are to withdraw the boycott that has been so disastrous to the “Q’s” business. A dispatch from Lexington, Ky.. says: Sentinel ’Wilkes, bay stallion, six years old, was sold, Monday night, by W. H. Crawford, this couniy, to W. C. France, owner of Red Wilkes, also of this countv, for $25,600." He is by

George Wilkes: dam by Sentinel. . Four farmers near Fentress, Miss., Attempted, on the 3d, to settle aland dispute by the shotgun method,andsucceeded admirably. Two of them were killed and two wounded, as were also two women who appeared on the scene. They were all prominent citizens. J. Merideth, seventy-five years old, living at Monticello, 111., has "been for some years a victim of abdominal Jropsy and his physician estimated that during the past year he has removed at least two barrels of water from his patient, having tapped him fifty-four times. The Windsorville Casimere Mills, at Windsorville, Connecticut, owned by the Wind«orville Mill Company and Frank S. Jordon, of New York, were burned at 5 o’clock, Tuesday morning. The mill, stock, machinery, with a boarding house, are a total loss. Loss, $40,000; insured, $20,000. J. L. Babcock, a young man of Ann Arbor, Mich., who will inherit $50,000 of his uncle’s property if he marries within five years is receiving so many love missives that he is required to employ a secretary to answer them. He has issued a card to “moneyable ladies,” extending thanks and wishing them a happy new year. Seven colored people, including two women, were arrested near Arcola,' Miss., two weeks ago, folr drugging the family of Colonel Praxton and setting fire to his house. Two of them confessed. Monday night information was deceived that all the prisoners have disappeared, and nobody seems to know anything about them. Mr. Andrew Squires, the Cleveland, 0., lawyer who went to London to secure sl6o.'* 0, which Thomas Axworthy, Cleveland’s defaulting Treasurer, had deposited in a bank there, returned Monday with the money. Axworthy is now on the ocean en route to Canada, where he will remain until he can enter the United States without fear of arrest. Fifty deliberate mtirders and only one hanging is the terrible record that Chicago makes for 1888. Of the forty-nine remaining, thirteen have been convicted and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. fourteen have escaped through legal jugglery, five have added to their original crime that of self-mur-der, and six, although known to the police, have never been captured. Dr. John Nyer, a prominent dentist of Hazelton, Pa., shot and killed his wife, Tuesday, and then himself. The deed was evidently a premeditated double suicide. The wife had been an invalid for many years, and the husband spent the greater portion of his large income in trying to get relief for her. The affection of the couple was strong. He left

a note giving the troubles they were having With his wife’s relatives as the incentive for their action. The Electric Sugar Refining Company of New York has been defrauded, they claim, out of a million dollars by Henry C. Friend and his associates, whose so-called “secret process” of refining, which they bought of him, turns out to be a barefaced humbug. Friend died some time ago, and it has been discovered that instead of refilling the sugar he “salted” it with sugar already refined. The stock of the company has fallen from S3OO to S4O.

The immense six-story brick building of the Richardson drug company at St. Louis was destroyed by fire early in the morning of the 13th. The entire six stories were filled with combustible goods, and there was much excitement and many narrow, escapes. Every few minutes a terrible explosion would occur throughout the building, and a graceful curl of fire would leap high into the air. It was one of the largest and finest drug houses in the country. The total lossis.about $875,000, nearly all of which is covered by insurance. One of the biggest companies ever organised under the laws of New Jersey was incorporated on the sth. It is to be known as the Edison General Electric Company. The capital stock is to be $12,000,000, of which $1,000,000 has been paid in. The stock Undivided into 120,000 shares at SIOO each. The works are to be in West Orange, N. J., with branch offices in all the leading cities. The advisability of uniting the Edison manufacturing" companies has long been considered, and this seems to be the consummation of the scheme.

In his message to the Missouri Legislature on the 4th Governor Moorehouse strongly recommended the Australian system of voting. Governor Ames recommended to the Massachusetts Legislature the early submission to the people of a prohibition amendment to the constitution. Governor" Luce, in his message to the Michigan Legislature, recommends the passage of a local option temperance law that is free from constitutional objections, governor Thayer, of Nebraska, recommended the passage of a strict registry law. , The mystery as to the real name of Murchinson, the now famous Pomona correspondent of Lord Sackville, was cleared away Monday and the announcement was made on authority of those who have been in the secret from the first that George Osgoodby, of Pomona, was the author of the Murchison letter. Mr. Osgoodby is a native of New York; is thirty-four years of jage; his father is an Englishmen by birth and resides in Pomona, as does his brother. Murchison is the family name and is attached to that of Osgoodby by marriage.

The Fidelity Bank, Cincinnati, failed June 20, 1887, owing to the investment of its funds in a stupendous Chicago wheat deal. Harper and Hopkins, the cashiers, were sentenced to the penitentiary for ten and eight years respectively, and Theophilus Baldwin, a director, committed suicide. Hopkins was taken to the penitentiary in April, 1888, a very sick man. December 20 he was pardoned by the President on account of representations that he could not live long. The papers reached Columbus Jan. 4. and the ex-convict was taken to his home in Cincinnati, where he died on the morning of the 7th. John Williams, of Pottstown, Pa., has been losing all his money, lately, by gambling. Tuesday, his plucky wife walked into the gambling house where he was playing and demanded all he had lost. She emphasized her demand by producing a revolver, when the gamblers remonstrated, but all in vain. She was inexorable, and declared that she would have the entire gang arrested unless they did as she demanded. Seeing that she meant business, the gamblers chipped in and handed her the amount John said they had won from him, after which the two—husband and wife—left the room, entered their carriage and drove away. - !

The body of the daughter of F. B. Goddard was cremated at Buffalo, N. Y. Mr. Goddard himself acted as minister. The girl’s body was prepared in the usual way, placed on the funeral car and wheeled on the track into the chapel. Mr. Goddard read a chapter from the Bible, prayed and repeated part of the Episcopal burial service before the body was consigned to the furnace. As the flames embraced the alum-soaked covering of his daughter, the old man cried with emotion: ’‘The clouds of heaven receive her precious dust, and not the worms of the grave.”. Afterward, when he had received his’ daughter’s ashes, he said: “I will consign them to the clouds, in accordance with her dying wish.”

A peculiar accident occurred in New Orleans on the fourth. Noah Stropp, a 13-year-old white boy, and his sister were playing together. Securing an old musket, "which had not been fired for twenty-seven years, he unscrewed the barrel from the stock, filled the barrel with water and placed the muzzle end in the fire of the stove. Calling his lit tie sister to “come and hear the water in tne barrel boil,” he leaned over and placed hisear tothebreach of the weapon. As he did so ths expolsion occurred and the boy was instantly killed, being blown several feet away and having hjs head nearly carried off. The barrel of the musket contained a charge which had been placed in it during the war. The bov was aware of this and was merely in search of fun. Charles De La Graza and Jesus Barbo, of Anagua, Tex., between whom' baa blood had existed for some time, met Tuesday. They immediately opened fire on each other from horseback, but dismounting after a few shots, advanced on foot firing at each other. Graza first used a Winchester, and afterward a pistol. Graza was shot through the back, receiving also a shot in the stomach, Barbo was shot through both thighs, one finger was blown off, And he was shot in the body above ihe heart. Graza was dead when witnesses got there, but Barbo lived for an hour. The men had fallen within six feet of each other Barbo had a brother who witness* d the shooting, and in trying to prevent the trouble had his horse wounded. The trouble originated over a woman.

A letter from the Rev.< C. W. Riches of Park river, D. T., conveys the first authentic information of extreme suffering among Norwegian settlers in the western part of Walsh county; Men with relief report that they found seventy families in about as destitute circumstances as it is possible for hitman beings to be in and still exist. Many

were found with barely enough clothing t« cover their nakedness, and that was of the thinnest material. Shoes were almost unknown. These farmers have lived on their little capital until nothing remained. Most of them have been living on a kind of porridge made by cooking frozen green wheat* and oats — stun not fit to feed a hog. One family has not seen any, flour for ’six weeks. Nearly all were entirely out of flour. The people have been' dividing with each other their potatoes until they are gone, too. ‘ A dispatch from Macon, Ga., says: The details of a terrible fratricide in Wilcox county, in which Edward Jordan shot and killed his brother, R. L. Jordan, have been received. Mrs. Dickey, a sister of the, Jordans,’ invited her two brothers to 'spend the holiday segson with her. The young men,knowing that Wilcox county was “dry,” supplied themselves with several gallons of whisky and thus prepared to enjoy their visit. The liquor made them the center of attraction for the young men of the neighborhood. Among those who joined them in a drunken £out were James Kirvin, L. C. Dickey, William Dickey and others. After drunk the whole party started down the road to the station, firing their pistols in a promiscuous manner. R. L. Jordan got m the lead of tjie party and a bullet from the pistol held by his brother Edward went through his heart. He fell dead on the road. The whole party has been bound over to stand trial for the crime.

FOREIGN.. Mr. Gladstone visited the ruins of Pompeii, Saturday. Cochin, India, was almost totally destroyed by fire, on the sth. The loss is $1,500,000. The Pope has issued an address to the people of Ireland, expressing hia high regard for them. Lambert Tree, American Minister to Russia, presented his credentials to the Czar, on the sth. Edward Harrington, M. P. for West Kerry, and editor of the Tralle Sentinel, was sentenced, Friday, to six months’ imprisonment at hard labor for publishing reports of a suppressed branch of the National League. » J. D. Sheehan, member of Parliament from' East Kerrick, and John Finucane, Nationalist member from East Limerick, have been found guilty of influencing tenants to a policy of intimidation. The latter got four months’ imprisonment.

Cardinal Manning has prepared an exhaustive paper on the American public school system, based on the statistics of Montgomery. The Cardinal strongly favors parental, as opposed to public school control. The paper will soon be published in England and America. The Vatican has received news of terrible floods, accompanied by a great loss of life, in Manchoria. Indian advices say the cholera prevails in a virulent form at Quilon, an the Malabar coast. It is reported that 2,000 Christians have succumbed to the disease. Peasants in the vicinity of Dunfenaghy and Falcarragh, in County Donegal, have armed themselves, fortified their houses, destroyed bridges and blocked roads in readiness to resist evictions. The troops of police on duty in the region march with difficulty, and the appearance of the district is that of a country where war is going on.

Terrific storms, accompanied by thunder and lightning, have ’prevailed throughout the south of France to a degree unexampled in the history of that region. Thfe rivers have flooded their banks to the destruction of a large amount of property, and landslides have interrupted traffic on many of the railroads. In many towns most of the houses are flooded and the occupants driven to the upper floors. At a meeting of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Monday, a resolution was passed declaring tha ,the resolution which was adopted at a meeting on Dec. 19, to tho effect that all goods brought into Great Britain similar to those produced in England should pay the same proportion cf imperial and local taxation as they would have paid if manufactured in Great Britain, does not represen the views of the whole chamber, which adheres to free trade. The police attempted to evict a blacksmith named O’Donnell from his bouse in County Donegal, on the 2d, but were repulsed several times before they were successful. O’Donnell had barricaded his house, and with the aid of neighbors, who jeered the police and pelted them with stones and vegetables, made quite, a formidable defense, finally surrendering after the soldiers had been ordered to fire upon the house. Ten persons were arrested, including a priest

EXCITEMENT IN HAYTI.

Many Americans Arrested and Threatened With Their Lives. A Port-au-Prince special, of the 2d, says articles in Haytian newspapers contain furious threats against Minister Thompson. Many Americans have been arrested, both men and women. The American consulate is filled wiiti refugees. Hippolyte’g army is marching on to Port-au-Prince. Legitime says he will show no clemency to foreigners interfering in Haytixn politics. Legitime told the correspondent that he would shoot five hundred if necessary. The excitement is intense. Americans are jp danger of their lives. Women as Inventors. There are interesting spots in Patent Office reports, even. One is the recently published information about women to whom patents have been issued. During the first seventy years of the government but fifty-five patents were allowed to women, but in 1887 alone 188 were issued, and the total is over 2,000. The first patent ever giyen to a woman was in 18e0, when Mary Kies took out one for straw-weaying with silk or thread. Thd second patent was issued to Mary Brush, in 1815, for a corset. Probably the oldest woman inventor alive is Mrs. Nancy M. Johnson, who, ini 1843, patented an ice-cream freezer, and made considerable money thereby. Most of the patents issued’ to women have been in some way connected with their dress or household labor-saving devices. Few of the women who have invented were from the New Engiand St-tes, and most of the few were from Massachusetts.

WASHING ON NOTES.

The public debt was decreased $15,OCO,OOO during December. Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland, it is now reported, will permanently locate in Georgetown, after his term has expired. Brown, Owen ana Cheadle, Republican Congressmen from Indiana in the next Congress, declare that they have no desire to control the patronage of the State. ■ - - The Senate committee on "judiciary Monday refused to take action on the nomination of Solomon Claypool to be United States district attornev for Indiana. The status of affairs *n the district attorney’s office at Indianapolis is to remain as at present until a new nomination is made after the 4th of March.

The entire Republican Congressional delegation from Ohio called upon Major McKinley, at the Ebbitt House, Monday evening, and assured him that they would cordially and actively support his candidacy for the Speakership. The feeling .was unanimous and enthusias tic. The delegation express great confidence in the Major’s election. A few days ago Senator Vest created a ripple of laughter in the Senate by moving to reconsider the vote by which a bill had been passed, explaining as he did so that the wrong bill had been adopted. He stated that the bill which the Senate passed was not the one reported from committee, and was therefore materially different. It not infrequently happens that such incidents as this occur in either branch of Congress. ' ■ •

The reception of the President and Mrs. Cleveland at the White House on the Ist, was an affair of great brilliancy. Special pains were taken with the decorations and the parlors never appeared to better advantage. The President and lady were assisted by the members of the cabinet and their ladies and many invited guests. The members of the diplomatic corps and all the distinguished people in Washington were among the callers. The Postmaster General has directed that the eight new postal cars just completed for the New York & Chicago Line be named as follows: “Daniel Manning,” “Mr. Justice Field,” “Governor Felch” (ex-GdverL.or ot Michigan), “George S. Bangs” (ex-Superintentent and founder of the Railway Mail Service), “Governor Palmer” (of Illinois), “Governor Gray” (of Indiana), “W. F. Vilas” and “Allen G. Thurman.” This line, it is said, is the heaviest railway post in the world.

The Senate, on the 7th, adopted a joint resolution to the effect that, the Government will look with serious concern and disapproval upon any connection of any European government with the construction or control of any shipcanal across the Isthmus of or across Central America, and must regard any such connection or control as injurious to the just rights and interests of the United States and as a menace to their welfare. Blackburn, Hampton and Vance alone voted against its adoption. The President surprised everybody in Indiana, almost, on the 3d, by the appointment of Hon. Solomon Claypool as District Attorney of this State. Judge Claypool was the special assistant of Mr. Sellers in the prosecution of the Coy-Bernhamer tally sheet cases, as well as being assistant to Mr. Bailey in the examination of witnesses before the last Federal Grand Jury. Mr. Bailey’s nomination to the same position had not been acted upon by the Senate, and it is supposed that it had been or will be withdrawn.

A bill was passed through the House, Wednesday, that will cost the pension attorneys of this city nearly half a million dollars a year. It was the Dockery bill, prohibiting any agent or attorney receiving a fee for securing an increase of pension on account of an increase of the disability for which the pension was originally allowed, and further prohibiting pension agents from accepting a fee for having passed a pension bill through Congress by special legislation in cases where the pension might be obtained under the general pension laws. i (. Postmaster General Dickinson has issued an order classifying all the departments of the postal service, under the civil service law, except the so-called ‘•Presidential” postoffices, where the salaries are $2,000 and over, and the appointments are confirmed by the Senate, and ’ mere laborers in the setvice. In class 1 are all emploves whose salaries are less than $800; class 2; those who receive between SBOO and $900; class 3, between S9OO and $1,060; class 4, between SI,OOO and $1,200; class 5, $1,200 and sl,4'4'; class 6, $1,400 and $1,600; class 7, $1,600 and SI,BOO, and class 8, SI,BOO and $2,060.

Unless the President should interpose a veto, it is quite probable that General Harrison will have eivht instead of seven men to select for his Cabinet, as the members of the House committee of conference upon the bill creating the new Department of Agriculture and Commerce are willing to recede from their position and accept the .demands of the Senate. The principal point at issue has been the transfer of the signal service from the War Department to the Agricultural. Department, which has been insisted upon by the House but opposed by the Senate. Those in charge of the bill in the House are of the opinion that it is better to surrender this point than to loose this bill entirely, but they will expect in another Congress to amend the law so that not only the signal service, but the Land Office, shall be added to tre new department It is understood, however, that the President is not entirely satisfied with the bill and is likely to veto it. Nearly all the rivalry in the speakership contest seems to’ be between the extreme Eastern and Western aspirants. It is believed that Cannon and Burrows will pool issues and turn them over tp McKinley, and that Reed’s Eastern riyals will give way to that gentleman, leaving McKinley, Read and Henderson, of lowa, in the field. As between Reed and McKinley, should the field not center upon Henderson, the lat'ter’s followers would go to McKinley, which would elect him. McKinley is, beyond ques tion, regarded by nearly everyone in the House as the ideal man in the eyes of the tariff plank of the Chicago platform, which he framed. Reed, on ih® fl°° r > shown ah ability for leademhip which very few of the present Representatives are willing to dispense with. If the fight should narrow down to a question of thw tariff, McKinley undoubtedly will win. He has made no

antagonisms, and in view of the fact that the next House will pass the most important tariff measure proposed for many years, and that McKinley/ will have much to dp with its compilation, he will be given unusual prominence. In attempting to remedy a deficit in one of the cog wheels of the complicated machinery of rules which regulate the bouse in the transaction of business, the committee on rules has effectually put a stop to the Whole process of legislation. The proposition to amend the rules so as to prevent filibustering on the first and third Mondays of each month, against motions to pass measures under a suspension of the rules, has thrown the House into a deadlock which only the rules requiring an adjournment each day, at 5 o’clock prevents being as memorable aS that of last session over the direct tax bill. Mr. Reed (Me.), who has charge of the resolution to change the rules, has announced his in tention to keep the matter before the House until a final decision upon it is /reached and in this intention he baa the hearty support of the friends of the Oklahoma bill, which is now pending under a motion to suspend the rules. He finds sturdy antagonists, however, in Messrs. Baker (N. Y.) and Barnes, (Ga.), who are opposed to the Oklahoma measure, and in Messrs. Anderson (Kas.) and Anderson (la.), who are fearful that if the change is made, a motion will be offered to pass the Union Pacific funding bill under a suspension. Owing to absentees, these gentlemen have had a following large enough to enable them to break a quorum and bring the House to a stand still.

The Secretary of War has sent to Congress the estimates of General O. M. Poe, of the army, for proper improvements to mark and protect the works, forts and battle fields in Indiana and Ohio where General Wm. Henry Harrison won his victories against the Indians in the early settlement of those Territories. In General Foe’s report' this reference is made to Fort Wayne, now the flourishing capital of Allen county. “A considerable portion of the site of old Fort Wayne belongs to the city of Fort Wayne, the remainder being now occupied by the New York, Chicago & St. Louis railroad as successors to the old Wabash & Erie canal. Except the w ell, no trace of the fort now exists and the part of the site not occupied by the railroad or city streets is reduced to a small triangle. A patriotic and public spirited citizen has inclosed the triangle by a neat iron fence and erected a flagstaff within it, but so far as. I can learn, either by observation or inquiry, the city, as a corporation, has done nothing toward marking or preserving the site. Any monument placed here should be similar to such as may be selected for Fort Defiance or Fort Miami. Its cost would be about $5,( 09.” An appropriation of $60,500 is asked for, to include, besides work at Fort Wayne, improvements on the following battlefields: Put-in-Bay, Fort Industry, Forts Miami, Fort Meigs, the! battlefield of Fallen Timber ana Fart Defiance. ft.

THE TARIFF BILL.

Changes in the Lumber Schedule - Possible Action of Protection Democrats. Republican members of the Senate committee on finance, who have been in conference upon the tariff bill for several days, have reached a conclusion on several of the most important points in controversy, but have several others still to be settled. The duty on dressed lumber, which is now $2 a thousand feet, w ill undoubtedly be fixed at $1.25. Mr. Allison, representing his own views, which are shared by all the Senators from the prairie States, has been trying to secure a reduction to $1 a thousand feet, and the Senators from the lumber States —Maine, Michigan and Wisconsin —have been willing to concede 50 cents, but it has now been agreed to split the difference and make the duty $1.25, which is a reduction of 75 cents a thousand. The Senators from the agricultural States in the West, where the beet and sorghum sugar industry is becoming one of importance, have been induced to agree to a reduction of the duty.on sugar, provided a bounty of 1 cent a pound is paid upon all sugar, whether from cane, beet or sorghum, produced in the United States.

The duty on barbed wife will not be reduced, although a strong effort has been made by the representatives of the prairie States to secure it. The duty on structural iron, which is now T lr7 cents a pound, will be reduced to 8 or 9 mills a podnd, and the duty on, steel nails will be fixed at sl4 a ton. The protection Democrats in the House will oppose the reference of the Senate su stitute for the Mills bill to the Committee on Ways and Means when it reaches the House. Representative Sowden said, Wednesday, that when the substitute is delivered to the House, and made a motion to refer it to the Committee on Ways and Means, about twenty Democrats would jump up and object, demanding that it be referred to the Committee of the Whole for consideration. If this can be done, the bill will have an excellent chance to pass the House, and it can be done if there are twenty Democrats, as Sowden claims, who will vote with the Republicans to consider the bill without reference to the Committee on Ways and Means.

THE WAHALAK AFFAIR.

It is reported at Wahalak Miss., that three bands of five men each, whe have been hunting in the mountains for the negroesconcerned in the recent masr sacrehere, have killed four of them named Cheatman; Wilder, Maury and Stennis. Cheatman, was shot in his own yard while begging for his life; Maury -m his cotton gin, while conversing with the vigilantes, and Wilder who was a Union soldier and fought with Grant at Vicksburg, on the road to Wahalak. His body was buried in a shallow hole and stones w'ere piled upon the dirt Stennis «as found hiding in an abandoned house, where he had been nearly two weeks. He tried to defend himself with an axe, and was shot three times before he fell. Merchants in this county are protesting against these crimes and have urged the Sheriff toput a stop to them, especially as it is believed that the trouble is simply a local affair, growing put of the general bad feeling against the negroes, many of whom own farms of their own. LaGrange county has spent $128,000 for public improvements and sloo,€oo for school houses since the war ~~ -

PRESIDENT-ELECT.

Gen' Harrison BeeMrinf Calle froia Varione Great Men. Following closely upon the visit of Senator Teller to General-: Harrison coffies many other politieans of prominence. Senator Hiscock, of New York, Came from Washington on the third, and was in converence with Gen. Harrison far three hours. No deformation was given out, bqt it is pretty well understood that the Senator came in the interest of Mr. Platt as a member of the Cabinet. He drove at once to the house of the President-elect and what, transpired is known but to the gentle-* men themselves. Another visitor of prominence on the f third was 8. W. Hawkins, late candidate for Governor of Mr. Hawkins, like 'most others who come this way, really had no information to give out. Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, the temperance lecturer, arrived at noon, at the same date. She said her object in coming was to congratulate Gen. Harrison on his election and tell him what the women did for his party during the campaign. She said that women had no favors of any kind to ask. Rev. -D. L. Carnahan, of Washington Territory, was also a caller. The number of-office seekerscan hardly be said to be decreasing as the 4th of March approaches. Chester Bradford, Indianapolis, is a seeker after the Commissionership of Patents, Col. W. R. Halloway for public printer, etc. But a fact of still more interest is the efforts of friends of Hon. J. N. Huston to secure his appointment as a member of the Cabinet. Should such an honor fall to Indiana it has always been conceded that John C. New was the party who would be called upon. But Mr. Huston’s friends, or some of them, 4ave endeavored to lay before the President the strong points of that gentlemafi, it is also charged that some of ex-Governor Porter’s friends have established a diminitive literary bureau and are laboring for the recogniation of the ex-Gov-ernor. Taken altogether the political situation may be said to be active with a rising tendency. Gen. Harrison gave the Messis. Studebaker, of South Bend, Satttftffiy) lcarteblanche in the matter of supplying all the carriages and vehicles necessary for his use at the White House. Among these will be an elegant close-quarter landau, which will be the carriage used on formal occasions, and As the-Inaugu-ral. Another is an extension brougham for the special use pfMrs, Harrison and the grandchildren. These will be the first carriages evCr employed at the White House that were manufactured west of the Alleghenies. They will be manufactured entirely m Indiana at the South Bend factory and delivered at W ashington about March 1. General Harrison has also bought one of his horses —a large, handsome bay—and has commissioned a friend to purchase others.

COY AND BERNHAMER.

Friends Making an Effort to Secure their .Pardon. The Indianapolis New of the 2d says: At midnight W, F. A. Bernhamer will have completed his ye ar’s sentence. For several days his wife, sister and other friends have been busy in his behalf. Had Bernhamer not been fined in addition to his sentence he would be free. As it is, his fine of SI,OOO will detain him at Michigan City thirty days longer unless he is pardoned o< his fine paid. Even after “boarding out his fine’’ he will be liable for the amount of it, and he therefore is doubly interested in having it remitted. Bis friends have petitioned the President to remit the fine, and some of them are confident that this will be done. The petition for the pardon of Coy and the remission of Bernhamer’s fine and his consequent release have been coupled together. Several days ago Bernhamer’s friends went to Judge Woods and asxed him to assist them in obtaining his early release. The Judge is understood to have stated the “naked facts” in the letter to the President. He said in it that at the time Bernhamer’s sentence the Codrt understood that the defendant was possessed of considerable property. His’ punishment was therefore made to include a fine as well as imprisonment. It is now represented, the Judge that Bernhamer is without means ana unable to pay his fine. The Judge ventured no expression as to what might or ought to be done, but contented himself with remarking that it was proper that the President should know the facts. The petitions for both pardons were presented to both Mr. Sellers and Judge Woods. They expressed themselves on their merits, but it is believed did not sign the petition. Coy’s term will continue until July unless he is pardoned.

THE MARKETS.

* Indianapolis, Jan. 8, 1888. GRAIN. Wheat — Corn— * No. 2 Red ...,.SI.OO No. 1 White .... 34 No. 3 Red.....”. 96 No. 2 Ye110w....301 Oats, White.....,.30 LIVE STOCK. ■ ■. ' . Cattle—Good to choice [email protected] Choice heifers [email protected] Common to medium 2.»[email protected] Good to choice cows ...2.6> @3.10 Hogs—Heavy „ [email protected] Light [email protected] Mixed „[email protected] Pigs [email protected] Sheep—Good to choice [email protected] Fair to medium [email protected] EGGS, BUTTER, POULTBY. Eggs 17c | Hens per fl).. 6c Butter,creamery22c I Roosters 3c Fancy country...l2c I Turkeys... .< „7jc Choice country..loc | f MISCELLANEOUS. Wool—Fine merino, wa5hed........ 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.. ...4.25 Feathers, goose 35 Chicago. | Pork ...12.95 Corn “ ....33J ] Lard 7.45 Oats “ —25 I Ribs 6.80 Cincinnati-Wheat, 98; corn, 35; oats, 27rye. 55; pork, 13.75; eggs, 16. St. Louis—Wheat, 96; corn, 30; oats, 23jpork, 13.50. Wheat, 98; corn, 39j; oats, 27; clover seed, 5.20. . Baltimore—Wheat, 90J; corn, 42; oats, 33. New Fork—Wheat 1.01; corn, 44; oata, 31. D troit—Wheat 1.02; corn,34; oats,2B. Minneapolis—Wheat, 1.14. -