Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1889 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

OOMCSTIC. A brash trust is the latest. Heavy snow foil throughout the Nortbeastnp the t<Bth. It is safff D J. Mackey is quietly fishing to get control of the I. & V. road. A bridge at Spottsville, Ky., collapsed, Sunday, and four persons were killed. A bill to restrain trusts was introduced in the New York Legislature,Friday. W. 0. Washburn was| Friday, elected U. 8. Senator from Minnesota to Bucceed Sabin. Thirty miners were killed outright by the explosion in the Hyde colliery, Friday. ” 1 . . .■, Small-pox prevails at ' Minneapolis and fears are entertained that it will become epidemic. Gray county, Kansas, is experiencing a county Brat war. Troops are required to prevent bloodshed. John M. Phillips, New York manager of the Methodist hook Concern, died on the 16th, aged 69 years, j , C. W. Seefield, a prominent grain dealer of Bt. Charles, Minn., failed for from $lO ,000 »o <200.000. Catholics who attended Dr. McGlynn’s meetings have been notified, that they will be refused absolution. At All ert Lea,Minn.,the public schools were closed Tuesday on account of the diphtheria epidemic now existing. Emma Malloy, the noted temperance evangelist, was married at Salem, Oregon, to a gentleman named Barrett. Fonr thousand miners in Mercer county, w. Va., struck 1 hnrsday, on account of the difference in size of the mine cars. Three hundred members of the American Protective League had a swell supper at Delmonico’s Thursday xught. Regulators have been at work in various parts of Louisiana, but the authorities show a disposition to check their crimes. Lewis Pauley was appointed po'tmas ter at Yorktown, N. Y., by President W,H. Harrison in 1841 and still holds the position. Advices from New Mexico say that there are from two to three feet of snow in the mountains, and that cattle are suffering. < Robert Storms, of Elizabeth, N. J., bitten by a pet spaniel ten days ago, died Friday of hydrophobia, suffering excrutiatingly. The use of electric light on railroad trains has been inauguiated in the northwest by the Chicago, Milwaukee Sc St. Paul Railroad. One hundred thousand dollars in geeenbaeks and bonds were found in an old trunk belonging to a miser who recently died at New Orleans. The Dakota Statehood Convention Friday adopted resolutions favoring almission as two States, and asking Congress to take immediate action. Master Workman Powderlv says “Barry is an anarchist and an agent of the anarchists, and if it had not been for this, he would still be in the K.ofL.” A news “boy,” aged 31, at St. Louis, died suddenly, last Friday. A search of his rooms revealed S2I,(X 0 in cash and bonds which he had saved from his earnings. Gen. Harrison spent Saturday at Riley McKeen’s stock farm near Terre Haute. The party consisted of Mr. McKeen, Hon. R. W. Thompson and E. B. Martindale. At the meeting of the New York State Presidential Electors a petition was numerously signed asking that Senator Platt be offered a position in Harr,ton’s Cabinet. Representative O’Donnell, of Cook Bouuty, introduced in the Illinois Legislature a bill against “trusts” and making the penal y one to five years in the penitentiary. It is reported that Henry F. Voight, late cashier of the defunct Farmer’s and Mechanics’ Bank at Pittsburg, who was arrested Thursday night, has misappropriated at least 1200,( 00. A bill making the legal rate of interest not to exceed 6 per cent, per annum, which shall not be increased either by oral or written contract, has been introduced in the Illinois Senate. The German Mission Station at Dar-Es-Solem, Africa, was captured by insurgents and all the inmates—loo natives ana th~ee male and t v o female missionaries were sold into slavery. Thursday at Hillsboro, 0., Adam Berkels brought suit for SIO,OOO damages against sixteen citizens of Brown county, for an assault committed upon him in their capacity as “White Caps.” The widow of John Kelly, 1 the late Tammany chief, has been sued for $20,000 for “literary services” for her husband, by James F. McLaughlin, who, it is said, prepared Kelly’s speeches. Allen Campbell, president of the BankofEvart, Michigan, has departed suddenly for Canada, taking with him $10,0(0 belonging to the bank and the town, of which he was Treasurer. Two men who had taken the places of striking weavers at Pittsfield, Mass., were attacked Wednesday fright ’And beaten nearly to death by fifteen masked men who claimed to be White Caps. At Chicago, Tuesday, Jud e Prender gast decided that a private railway company, having no charter of incorporation, does not possess the right of eminent domain, and can not legally condemn property for its use. The saloons and disreputables driven out of Nioux City by the prohibition law have gathered across the Missouri river in Nebraska and have become so abnoxious there that the citizens talk of organizing vigilantes to get rid of the pest.

George Meadows, a negro, probably guilty oi outrage on the person of Mrs. Kellaßk and the murder of i her'boy, was hung at th<- Pratt mines, Alabama, Tuesday, by a mob of “quiet but determined men.” He protested hie innocence. The coal mines operated by Zeller & Zigler. at Center Point, have close down, throwing a number of miners out of work. The operators claimed they could not mine at prices paid for labor, and the mines would not consent to reduction. Hanson Huntsman, of Belvidere, N. J., has been lined SIOO and sentenced to six months in jail for blaspheming. He declares himself to be the Son of God, allowing his followers to pay him divine

honors and passing Judgment on those he happened to dislike. The American Swine Breeders’ Association was in session at Dayton, Tuesdey, with the principle hog raisers of the United States and Canada inatttendance. Discussion was had on “Diseases of swine,” “Care and handling of breeding stock,” and “Feeding for, profit and health.” J A petition has been forwarded to General Harrison, signed by every Republican member,pf the -Nevada Legislature,/ and by fifty-four out of fiftv-ttve Republican members of the California Legists} lure, praying the appointmentof M. M. Estee. of California, to a position in General Harrison’s Cabinet. A Laclede. "Mo., si ecial says: Mrs. Malinda Hall, a widow, and four small children were murdered, Saturdav night, | by the woman’s cousin, Joseph Howe, a school teacher. He fired the house and , cremated his victims. The murderer j was tracked in the snow to Brookfield,! and arrested. He will likely be lynched, j Director Swift, of the Warner Ob-1 servatorv, has received notice of the discovery of a new comet by Professor Brooks, at Smith’s Observatory, Geneva, at, 6:60 o’clock. Its position is as follows: Right ascension 18 hours 47 minutes; declination, Bout.. 21° 2(/, wi»h a rapid westerly motion* _ . '-ecomet is faintish. All Republican members of both branches of the Arkansas Legislature have held a meeting and adopted a resolution unanimously lecommending College of Denißtry withdrew in a body, Wednesday. Their action was taken because Professor Weissq, a favorite of the students, was not given the chair of anatomy when it was vacated recently. A Mr. Bagley, of Virginia, recently apElied fora life insurance and was refused y the company on the ground that he had been bitten by a spitz dog, Dec 15, last. Mr. Bagley wiote to Dr. Pasteur on the subject and Wednesday received a repiy from the eminent scientist, in which he declared that the bite of a healthy dog is harmless, but that the animal should be keptundersurveillance eight days after indicting the wound, in order to be sure that it does not Bhow signs of rabies. In the Decatur, 111., Circuit Court, Friday evening, Judge Vail decided an interesting election bet. Last summer Minor Alsup, bet Tnomas Snell $750 that Clevland would be elected Presir dent, and William Phares was made the stakeholder. Alsup went back on the bet and ordered Phares not to turn over the money. Alsup brought suit againßt Phares to recover his $750 of the stakes. Judge Vail gave a decision in favor of the plaintiff. The question of the alleged criminality of the bet in accordance with the State law was not considered. Snell has appealed the case to Dewitt county. He has commenced a suit against the stakeholder for $3,000. The trial of Frederick Baldwin, at Elizabeth, N. J., who was accused of the murder of Edward L. Miller, a divinity student whose body was found at Westfield, on July 15, ended Friday in a verdict of acquittal. The jurv, without leaving their seats, immediately at the finish of the judge’s charge, which was ’strongly favorable to the prisoner, gave their verdict. A dramatic scene took place. Baldwin fell on his knees in prayer and thanksgiving, while the crow 2 ® cheered the verdict. Baldwin and his family werp escorted through the Streets of the city by hundreds of people. Baldwin, passing John Keron, the State detective, said to him: “1 forgive you for the cruel wrong you did me and *my family.” The case against Baldwin was based on the fact that a satchelMqft with Baldwin by Miller was destroyed bv Baldwin after the discovery of the body.

FOREIGN. The ice palace at Montreal is melting and falling owing to the warm weather. The damage at Costa Rica, on account of recent earthquakes amount to $6,000,000. Emperor William has ordered the disGeneral Powell Clayton for a Cabinet position. The “finger stall” game was successfully worked for $7,600 on a bank at Hull, Out., on the 16th. Ninety-one students of the New York charge of all the French cooks in his employ, and employed Germans in their place. The French syndicate in China has presented to the Emperor six elegantly finished railway carriages. Ash rt railroad will be built especially for His Majesty’s pleasure. An explosion of fire-damp occurred in the Hyde Colliery near Manchester,England. Seven bodies have been taken from the mine. One hundred persons are still entombed. Fire raged in the imperial palace at Pekin, China from the 17th to the 19th, and about one-fourth of the enclosure, which is a eity within itself, was destroyed. The palace and warehouses were heaped with costly stuffs and treasures in anticipation of the Emperor’s marriage and the loss is enormous. The bishops of Tirnova, Varna and Vrantza were draggda from tbt;ir beds by gendarmes and summarily marched outside the wails of Sofia where they were left shivering in the biting north wind. Because of this violent treatment of the bishops, it is believed that a holy war will be declared against Prince Ferdinand. Mr. Adamson, the consul-general at Panama,on the 16th inst. received a communication from the secretary-general of the department of Panama, stating that, although the local government would do all in its power to preserve peace and order, it feared that disturbances f the public peace might follow the suspension of work on the Panama canal, which suspension is expected soon. % . r The Federal Grknd Jury has mapped out lively timeß for a great mahy people in Indiana. Monday _ morning its eighteen members went into court and presented to Judge Woods a bundle of indictments, forty-seven in number. “Have you any "further inquiries to make?” asked the Court of the foreman. “We have,” “You may retire,” and the jurymen stiffly filed out between the rowa of reporters and other honest folk that they have not been able to indict. Sr-venty-seven indictments have thus far been returned by this industrious jury. Only two of tbe forty-seven reported Monday were for other offence*! than ele tion law violations. Dudley is not included in tbe list, bat the jury is still in its den w<- rking on bis ease —Indianapolis News.

THE STATE LEGISLATURE.

Tient-Governor Chue presided over Pie Senate pensions of the 15th. A* soon aa the prelfr.iinary ceremonies were gone through with, the roll wa* called for the introduction of bill*, and nearly every Senator had one or more to introduce: Among the more Important were: Three election reform bills;.to prohibit trust*; providing for a Supreme Court commission; appropriating SIO,OOO Tor Purdue: relatingto drainage: appropriating $30,000 for new building* and Improvement* for the Soldiers’ Orphans' Horae: relating to free turnpike*; limiting liquor license in cities to IfiOO and In towns to $300: to refund the State debt. Also bills: Regulating use of natural gas; to promote political purity; for compulsory education: relating to contracts; concerning township Institute* :for the registering of eleetora; com bin- j lßg the ofHceßof Statistician and Geologist; to regulate use of fuel by railroads; concerning the death penalty and providing who shap be executioner; to make uniform the terms of Cldrks, Auditors, Sheriffs and Treasurers; difining the term riotous conspiracy, intended to be especially applicable to White Cap*. The Senate, under a suspension of the rule*, passed House bill to change time of bolding court* in Dearborn and Ohio counties. The number of-bills Introduced exceed one hundred. •, The House authorized the printing of 10.000 copies of Governor Hovey’s inaugural, 2,000 to be in German. Among the bill* introduced were: For the purchase of toll roads by counties; limiting the sale of drugs and chemicals to licensed pharmacists; a drainage bill; establishing legal holidays; toexempt ex-soldiers from poll tax; appropriating 827.000 for the improvement of the militia: providing far the management of the new Insane Hospitals; providing for u live stock commission; amending the school law; to protect squirrel* and Other game; to revise the mining laws. /.. The House passed, under suspension of rules, the bill fixing time of holding courts in Dearborn and Ohio counties. The Speaker announced the standing committees as follows: , - Elections—Bigham, Zoercher, Ader, Harrell, Wilson, Daly, Robinson, Woodard and Loop. Ways and Means—Willard, Schmuck, Harrell, Sbambaugb, Adams of Whitley, Brownlee, Adams of Morgan. Linck and Ciavpool. Judiciary— Beasley, Pleasants, Oppenhcim, Curtis. Ader. Foster. Brown of Henry, Fields. Brownlee, Cullen and Hess. Organization of Courts of Justice—Henry White. Onnenheim, Ader, Kobb, Hease, Claypool, Fields, and Brown of Henry. * Banks—Fowler, Warrum, Helney, Vandolah, McKelvcy, McQuilken, Briant, Trout and Harlev. Education—Pleasants. White. Dolan, Beasley, Lacy, Carrick, McQuilken, Mendenhall and Adams of Morgan. Adairs of State Prison South—Applegate, Work, McKolvey, Zoercher, Beasley, Hobson, Stanley, Carrick and Commons. Affairs of State Prison North—Nolan, Robbins, Befnethy, Fowler, Kelley, Harley, Iddings, Briant and Reynolds. Swamp Lunds—Pierce, Shields, Custer, Knbbe, Pleasants, Cranor, Trout, Woodard and Iddings. Military Affairs—Cony. Robbins, Stephenson, Whitworth, Legg, Briarft, Ridlen, Linck and Cullen. Claims'—Fostoy, Conn, Eidson, Hughes, McGooney, Fields, Cofrnnons, Hobson and Davis. Trust FundsWlJobbins, MclCittrick, Gladio, Bell, Vandolah, Reynolds, Hess, John and Stubblefield. Fees and Salaries—Harrell, Bigham, Kelley, Foster, Shields, Dewey, Trout, McQuilken and -Mendenhall. Sinking Fund—Dolan, Bell, Fowler, Heiny, Legk> Barnard, Dryer, Goodwin and Hesler. The Rights and Privileges of Inhabitants of the State—Shambangh, Pierce, Dolan, Hay, Moon, John, Wells, Reynolds and Manwaring. Railroads—Curtis, Applegate, Dolan, Stephenson, Bernethy, John, Hess, Berry and Harley. Manufactures and Commerce—Shields, Dolan, Stull, Askren, White, Commons, Robinson, Iddings and Goodwin. County And Township Business—Askren, Gladio, Legg, Willard, yjeasants, Covert, John, Robinson anaTMendenhall. Agriculture—Custer, Metzger, Askren, Work, Kelley, Carrick, Trout, Bernard and Stanley. Benevolent and Scientific Institutions—White, Pierce, Shambangh; Custer, MeGovuey, Loon, Briant, Darnell and Dewey. Temperance—Helney, Warrum, Willard, Wilson, Wnitworth, Reynolds, Stanley, Covert and Berry. Mileage and Accounts—Zoercher, Patton, Pickhardt, Moon, Bernethy, Brown of Ripley, Logan. Manwaring and Nugent. . Corporations—Wilson, Oppanheim, Nolan, Henry, Curtis, Davis, Linck, Commons and HarOnrials—Timmons, Vandolah, Pattons Bell, Stull, Stubblefield, Bernard, Ragon and Brownlee. Public Askren, Bigham, Cox, Eidson, Anderson, Bernard, Brown of Riplevand Ragon. Federal Relations—Metzger Beasley, Cox,Fowler, Henry, Cranor, Anderson, Darnall and Hessler. Affairs of the City of Indianapolis—Schmuck, Bigham, Curtis, Heiney, Hughes, Langstaff, Fields, Wells ana Brownlee. Cities and Towns—Oppenheimer, Applegate, Fowler, Carroll, Pickhardt, Loop, Woodard Robinson and Clay pool. Engrossing Bills—Ader, Zoercher, Withwortb, Nolan, Patron, Manwaring, Johnson, Covert ana Davis.

Roads—Carroll, Kobbe, Gladio, Metzger, Cox,.. Nugent, Hobson, Logan and Daly. Statistics and Immigration—Fulton, lacy, Willard, Gladio, Timmons, Andarson, Cullen, Dewey and Wells. Insurance Companies—Hughes, Schmuck, Robbins, Conn, Adams of Whitley, Dryer, Man waring, Hessler and Dalv. Printing—Pickhardt, Applegate, Foster, Legg, Sell, Stubblefield, Ridley, Nugent and Brown of Henry. Reformatory Institutions—Moon, Carroll, Fulton, Warrum, Pickhardt, Stanley, Loop, Hobson and DarualL Drains and Dykes—Adams of, Whitley, Fulton, Pierce, Timmons, Warrum, Carrick, Johnson, Crnnor and Iddings. Mines and Mining—Lacey. Mcßittrick, Hay, Carroll, Langstaff, Darnall, Heeler and Brown of Ripley. Labor—Langstaff, Nolan, Metier, Stull, Work, Davis, Berry, Ragon and Ridley. State Medicine Health and Vital Statistics— McKelvey, McGovney, Fulton, Eidson, McKittrink, Dewey Dryer, Logan, Mendenhall. | Inspection of the Journal—The Speaker, Ad'er, Beasley, Davis, Cranor. Natural Resoources—Bemethy, Cox. Adams, of Whitley, Willard, Stull, Brown, of Henry, Mendenhall, Johnson and Wells. Phraseology of Bills—Eidson,Foster,Lacy.Moon, Shambaugh, Adams, of Morgan, Claypool, Cullen and Linck. Apportionments—First District, Whitworth; Seoond. McKittrick: Third, Patton; Fourth, Vanpolab: Fifth, Stanly; Sixth, Daly;Seventh,Wilson; Eighth, Berry; Ninth, Woodard; Tenth, Johnson; Eleventh, Robbins; Twelfth Dryer; Thirteenth, Eidson. house joint standing committees. Enrolled Bills—McGoveney, Custer, Henry, Shields, Adams, of Morgm, Davis. ftiblic Buildings—Cox, Conn, Schmuck, Nugent and Goodwin. State Library—Hay, McKelvey and Covert. The Senate, on the 16th, passed the House bill appropriating 1123,000 for the expenses of the General Assembly. A joint resolution confirming the action of the Governor designating Purdue University as the institution that should receive the annual appropriation of 515.000 by Congress for an agricultural experimental station in Indiana was passed. A long discussion was precipitated over a resolution (adopted) authorizing the employment of certain committees. During the discussion Cox declared that If it was necessary for the majority to do so to have its own way it would put down the thumb-screws. Johnson replied In a neat bit of sarcasm. Mulllnix tried to turn it with the suggestion that the corkscrew instead of the thumb-screw might be used if It would be more acceptable to the minority. Senator Barrett thought the corkscrew would be unnecessary, as there were some gentleman in the minority who “were always nncorked.” A resolution authorizing the apE ointment of twenty additional assistant dooreepers created an animated political discussion but was finally adopted, by party vote. During the discussion a point of order was raised that the resolution waa out of order. The chair sustained tljis. An appeal to the Benate was then had and sustained by a party vote. Smith accused Johnson of making an unprovokedwsault on Senator I. B. McDonald two years ago. Johnson replied that the charge was unqualifiedly false. Griffiths said it was “unquestionably true,” Johnson replied, “You are a liar,” ana his language as well as Smith’s and Griffith’s was taken down. [A caucus of, Democratic Senators, later, decided that Johnson must apologize to the Senate, orseverer action would be taken. A resolution prohibiting the use of tobacco in the House was laid on the table. A resolution instructing our Representative and Senators in Congress to vote for a measure to continue the pension of Union soldiers after death to their widows was adopted. Several resolutions authorizing the appointment of committee clerks were adopted. Probably in excess of fifty bills were introduced. The House devoted considerable time in consideration of rules. A majority and minority report was submitted. The majority report was adopted. Bills were introduced: Providing for a Board of Control of the City of Indianapolis; appropriating <3,000 for a monument of Govenor Jennings; two elec .lon reform bills. One the 17th the Senate adjourned at noon. The business was principally of the routine character. Among the more important hills introduced were: exempting homesteads from liability; concerning inclosures; regulating the sMe of intoxicating liquors; prohibiting transfer of proixTty by debtors just prior to insolvency; providing for the State supplying school books; concerning liens of mechanics; authorizing County Commissoners to construct free turn pikes; to make railroad companies liable for

damages for all fire* canned by the operation of men roads; prohibiting sale of tobaccos to boys nnder sixteen; to protect the baliotbox: regulating use of natural gas; encouraging breeding at Improved stock; requiring effe<& of intoxicants betaught in public schools. The House adopted several bnlmportant resolutions. Among the more important bills introduced wen;: An amendment to the school law; the selection of school teachers by school meetnies; a high’license law; repealing the stock law; bill fori extinction of thistles: to protect breeders of live stock; exempting from execution for debt of 40 acres of land or one town lot; rcguluting running of passenger trains; to provide I for high license and local option: repotting tele- ■! phono law: for the punishment-of public offeudars: for punishment of employers who boycott discharged employes; and many others. 8o for 2a> blils have been intfoilueed in the House. Berry offerefl a resolution providing that the committee on fees and salaries be, instructed to report a bill with a view of reducing the fees "and salaries of county officers, especially that of county treasurers, sheriffs, auditors, clerks and recorders, to a rate corresponding wUh that of reductions in prices of skilled and unskilled. labor, and also of the actual reduction of profits *b k'Tcral mercantile business since the year 18<0. Lost. A bill legaiizingthe election of school commissioners of New Lisbon was passed. The Senate on the 18tb voted down a resolution to adjourn until the 21st. Boyd introduced a Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution making the term of county officers four years and prohibiting their re-election. The Trustees of the Blind Asylum in a resolution Were directed to reportupon.whatanthority they bad removed the fence from around a part of the Institution grounds. A majority and minority report from the committee on rules created a long and animated discussion; the majority report being adopted. The rules.are similar in force to those of the Senate of two years ago with uie exception that in certain emergencies the Secretary of the Senate is given powers over pus above the Lieutenant Governor. The bill to reduce the interest of school funds loaned from eight to six per ceht., after considerable , debate, was passed - to engrossment, i Hubbe]! Introduced a resolution which directs | thftScrate Committee on labor to prepare a bill , creating a bureau of labor. Several bills were reported favorably including; to legalize the survey of Rensselaer; requiring land owners to keep roads along their property clear of noxious weeds, and cut hedges; requiring railroad companies to put up blackboards at telegraph stations to announce upon them time of departure of trains; giving State Board of Agriculture an annual appropriation of $10,000; concerning fair associations and the bill making the terms of all county officers end on the first of January. Dryer introdued a resolution in the House which declares that no election law is perfect that does not provide for the registering of votes. Laid on the table. Among the bills introduced were: Prohibiting the taking of fish with gig or net from any rivers of the State except the Ohio and Sf. Joseph; providing for a dairy and food commissioner to be appointed by the State Board of Agriculture; allowing the hiring of convict labor, in gangs of more than one hundred (similar to laws of several Southern States); to Srohimt manufacture and sale of intoxicating quo™ (joint resolution). In the Senate o.n the 10th the Republicans presented a written protest against the rules. The protest is made, s|,is stated, for the reason that the rules are unconstitutional, as to some, unnecessarily harsh, arbitary and oppressive as to others, many arc unknown in previous legislative bodies, and taken as a whole, they are so framed as to throttle and oppress the minority ! and prevent them from acting as a check and re- I straint upon the excesses of the majority. They protest against roles 5,10 and 15 for the reason that they are unconstitutional in that they deprive the Lieutenant Governor of the right to be President of the Senat&in certain cases and confer that right upon the Principal Secretary of the body, and for the further reason that they are an insult to the-Lieutenant Governor, are derogatory to the dignftv of this high office and wholly without a parallel in any legislative body. The bill legalizing the survey of Rensselaer was passed. Among the new bills introduced wore the following: relating to the sinking of gas wells; relating to the incorporation ot labor organizations; to create the office of insurance commissioner; to amend the “fee and salary act; relating to the inspection of oils; amending the school law; enabling commissioners to purchase toll roads; relating to drainage; to prevent swindling; to extend the liabilities of employers to employes; concerning promissory notes; forbidding the selling of margins, and others of less importance. The session was IP session but a short time. There were seventy members of the House in attendance at the session which lasted a brief hour. Several Important bills were introduced, and several were reported favorably from committees. House bill number 28, providing for the payment and recovery of costs and fees in certain cases by the Shite was reported on unfavorably by the Committee on Judiciary, This brought out a burst of indignant eloquence from Mr. Kelley, of Dekalb, the author of the bill. He vowed to at once introduce another bill almost like ’tother “press it on the House. If you mem, tiers of this House agree to let my bill go ns the committee advises I tell you I will get after vou and keep it up till the end of the session.” The bill was referred back Jo the committee. In the Senate on the 21st, after prayer by Senator Smith, and the regular order of business had been takan up and disposed of, the Committee on Judiciary presented favorable reports of Senator Barrett's bill against trusts, and Senator Dresser’s bill to amend section 73 pf the act concerning proceedings and elvil eases; on Senator Hayden’s bill to amend section 514 of the Revised Statutes of 1881; on Senator DeMotte’s bill providing for the cancellation of certain licenses when fraudulently obtained, on Senator Hay’s bill to repeal section 4 of an act relating to husband and wife; on Senator Johnson’s bill to amend sections 1,19' and 1,202 of the Revised Statutes and his bill concerning the death penalty; Senator Howard’s bill to amend sections i,498 es the Revised Statutes; Senator Dresser’s bill to amend section 16 of an aet concerning public offenders, and Senator Harness’s bill to legalize the acts es Notaries Public whose commissions have expired. On the call ot the roll for the introduction of new bills, the’ iollowiug were offered: By Senator Cox, creating a Supreme Court Commission; by Senator Dresser, authorizing persons having claims against the State to bring suit therefor in the Marlon county Superior Court; by Senator Jones, concerning taxation; by Senator Mullinix, providing for the study of the effects of alcoholic drinks and narcotics; by Senator Shockner, limiting the rate that may be charged by railroads for transportation: by Senator Smith, concerning the practice of medicine, surgery and obstetrics; by Senator Urmston, to create a State Commission for the examination and licensing of stationary engineers: by Senator Byrd, for the relief of Township Trustees in Clay county: by Senator Shanks, repealing some provisions or the election law; by Senator Urmston, for the protection of birds, their nests and eggs; by Senator Byrd, relating to railroad corporations; by Senator Berry, to amend section 147 of an act concerning taxation; bjr> Senator Hudson, relating to street railroad companies; by Senator Johnson, to amend section 17 of an aet concerning real property; by Senator Barrett, providing for the appointment of special deputies, marshals and policemen. At the afternoon session a number of new bills were introduced, and the Committee on the Supervision of the Senate Journal presented majority and minority reports on the language used by Senators Johnson, Smith, and Griffin on last Wednesday. The majority report was adopted by a party vote. Rising to & question of personal privilege, Senator Johnson protested against the adoption of the majority report, because it did not state the facts fully, l and asked that his protest should be entered in the journal. The House convened at 1:30 p. m. and Dr. J. H. Ford offered prayer. Mr. Foster, of Madison county, got first recognition from the Chair and proposed a joint resolution to amend, the constitution making a residence of one year in the State necessary for the right to vote instead of six months as now provided. A resolution was offered by Mr. Brown, of Henry county, that the Committee on Temperance be instructed to prepare a bill for a local option liquor law- in the State, bnt on motion of Mr. Schmuck the resolution was laid on the table. Mr. Pleasants introduced two resolutions bearing upon the school book question. Adopted. Mr. Willard announced that Robert C. Huston had been appointed 1 clerk of the Committee on Ways and Means. Mr. Beasley, of Sullivan, Introduced a joint resolution providing for a constitutional amendment making the terms of all county officers four Sears, and prohibiting two successive terms for le same man. Mr. Henry, of Floyd, Introduced a bill appointing separate Boards of Trustees for the Insane Hospital,Blind Institute and Deaf and Dumb Institute. Mr. Zoercher presented a resolution instructing the proper committee to prepare a bill for the better enforcement of law regarding the returns of property for taxes. Brownlee and Foster and the introducer of the resolution spoke earnestly in favor of it. They thought the remedy for the State’s insufficient Income lies in that rather than in an increase of the tax levy. H. R. 103 fixing court term was passed. Several bills were advanced to a second reading and engrossment

’• LEGISLATIVE NOTES. Capt 0. C. Terry, of Posey county, was appointed as the Governor’s executive clerk. - McGovney, of- Adams county, wants the number of legal holidays In a bill offered he proposes to make the, number eight A Bucket Shop bill was introduced, Saturday morning,by Senator Shockney. It makes unlawful the selling of margins on wheat or anything else, and the penalty for violation of the act is a fine of not more than SSOO, to which may be added imprisonment *

Tlomaa Tislow, of Pete rubor*, was I Satmday appointed Btate Mine Inspector by -Governor H ovey. The aj pointment*w»s recommended by a large 1 number of miners and others. Mr. Tis- ; lyw was a Captain in General Hovev’a , regiment, in the lute war. He ie a prao* ‘ tical miner. ' Senator Traylor is the author of a bill looking to the extermination of the “Whi e Capa,” It provides that a conspiring oi three or-usore pereons together for the purpose of annoying, harrassing or inflicting punishment upon any citi-, zen shall be punishable by a fine of $2,000 and imprisonment from two to ten years. 1 Two amendments to the constitution were prop sed in joint resolutions that were “introduced, Saturday morning,by Serator Boyd. One of them forbids the * re-election of a Supreme Corirt Clerk, and the other provides that there shall be nine Judges of the Supreme Court, to he elected respectively for two, four and si* years. Mr. Stephens, on Tuesday, off’red a bill authorizing county commissioners to pay a reward of one mill for every English sparrow killed. Hisbill also provides that the person who shall kill the greater number of sparrows in any one county shall receive a reward of S2O. County c mmissioners, by the bill, are required to keep a record of all sparrows The following gentlemen were Wednesday appointed by Governor Hoy»>v *8 members of his military staff: Adjutant-general—N. R. Ruckle Indianapolis. Surgeon-general—Dr. R. B, Jessup, Vincennes. Inspector-general—J. H. JaCk, Lafayette. Commissiuj-General—J. S. Wright, Rockport. Aids—W. H. Ridenour, Terre Haute; Frank Swigart, Logansport; Gilß. Stormont, Princeton; W. A. Oliphnnt, Union, Pike county; Wm. C. Lamb, Indianapolis; Perry 8. Heath. Muiicle; George Hinrich, ML Vernon; R. C. Wilkinson, Evansville. Colonel Robertson has already been paid his mileage and per diegi while serving as a member of the State Board of Equalization, bnt it is understood that the Democrats have determined not to make an allowance for the sum in the general appropriation bill, and it is not improbable, therefore, that the old question as to the Lieutenant Governroship will again be brought before the Supreme Court. Green Smith is credited with having declared that he would not refund the $2 he is c arged with having overdrawn at the last session, bnt that he wi'l claim an extra allowance of sl2 » for his services as presiding officer of the Sepate, and if Bruce Carr refuses to draw a warrant for the amount, after a resolution directing him to do so is passed by the Senate, “his fees will be cut in two,” If a bill that was introduced in the Senate Saturday morning becomes a law, Bruce Carr will find the office of Auditor of State during the next two years a barren ideality. Senator Griffith, is author of the bill. It proposes to create the office of Insurance Commissioner and provides that he shall be elected by the General Assembly." He shall have supervision over all .matters pertaining to *n.d in relation to such business is given all authority heretofore vested in the State Companies and tbeir prohibited from soliciting risks in the State without first procuring a certificate from the Commissioner, a copy of wh‘ch shall be filed witn the clerk of each county in which the com pany operates. The fees amount to from $4,000 to ?6,0 0 a year. If the bill is passed the Auditor’s income will be restricted to $1,500 a year, simply the salary allowed him by statute. Senator Kennedy estimates that if his bill providing for the refunding of the State’s outstanding debt is refunded at a lower rate of interest it will 6ave fully $125,000 a year. The interest on the school fund loan, amounting to over $4 000,0 0, is 6 per cent., while on other loans the rate is only 3 per cent. After refunding the school fund loan, his bill provides that the school fnnd shall be apportioned, not according to sch id enumeration as Governor Gray suggested, but according to* population, to b* loaned to citizens on satisfactory real estate security at 6 per cent.- Not only will the Btate thus be saved $125,000, but farmers and business men who are compelled to borrow from Eastern capitalists can be loaned money at 2 per cent, less than they have been required to pay heretofore, and it will be as a saving and a benefit to them which will contribute also to the general prospertv of the State. Representative Hess, of Wabash, is credited with having said that the Republican members of the General Assembly may determine not to meet with the Democratic majority unless the oppressive rales that have been adopted are suspended, and that, if they should withdraw, there could be no legislation, aadfthere are not enough Democratic members to constitute a quorum. Other members of the House, however say that there is no probability that such a course will be pursued, and the Democrats claim that if the Republicans should withdraw it would not interfere with legislation, as the Constitution states that two-thirds of the members, not those who are elected, shall constitute a quorum. As the Republicans would not be members if they should withdraw, it is claimed that two-thirds of the Democrats left as members would constitute a quorum. In support of this construction of the constitution, the decision of the Supreme Court in the action of the Democrats who withdrew froip the Legislature in 1869 to defeat the fifteenth amendment, is cited. It was held then that two-thirds of the members constituted a quorum. Senator Byrd, Las introduced two bills for tbe protection and relief of the miners of the State. One provides for a fairer method of weighing, the benefits of which will go to the miner. The coal most be weighed in the car in which the employe places it and before it is screened. Clauses are also included in the bill, which forbid the making of any contracts which would practically evade the law, and make it the duty of the - Mine Inspector to test the scales in use at all mines and institute criminal proceedings against any persons not complying fully with the law. Senator Byrd’s second bill is another attempt to prohibit the operation of vraat are known as “pluck me” stores. It has long been a favorite method of mine and mill owners to get back a large part of the wages paid by compelling their employes to purchase supplies at stores owned by the companies, where the highest of prices are charged. This evil, which is a great one, the bill endeavors to remedy by fixing severe penalties for the making of any contract or agreement, directly or indirectly, or tbe using of any threats or inducements, to coerce an employe to trade at any particular store or shop.

I favorable committee reports have been made on several of Uie douse bills one of which u intended to apply di- ‘ restly to the Indianapolis Railroad 'Companies that have entered iato a compact . not to sgain employ any of the switchmen who were discharged durir g the recent strike. and to ail other caws of blacklisting of discharged employes. The bill provides that “if any person, fg-nt, company or corporation, after having disebatg-d any employe from his or its service shall prevent or attempt to prevent hy word or writing of any kind, Such discharged employe from qbtaining employment with any other pany or corporation exrept by famishing in writing, on request, a truthful Statement as to the cause of his discharge such perron, agent or corporation fckah be guilty of a misdemeanor,and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $5 >0 nor less than sl< 0, and such person, eg-*ot, com pa y or corporation shall be liable in penal damagee to such diechaig-d persons to be recovered by a civil action; bat this section shall not be construed as prohibiting any person, or agent of any company or corporation from informing in writing any other person, company or* corporation setting forth a truthful statement of the reasons of such discharge.”

STANLEY HrARD FROM. r A letter was received in Brussels on the 16t.h from H enry M. Stanley, date Ang. I7th. giving assurance of his safety and prosperity. Tbe letter was written to Sheiak-Hamed-Ben-Mabomed and the explorer says: “I hope you are in as good health as I am, and that you have remained in good health since I left the Congo. I have much to say to you, but I hope I shall see you face to face before many days. I reached here this morning with 130 wauwana, three soldiers and sixty-six natives belonging to Kmin Pasha. It is now eighty-two days since I left Emin Pasha on the Nyansa. I only lost three men on tbe way. Two were drowned and the other decamped, I found the white men who were looking for Emin Pasha quite well. The other white man, Casati, is also well. Emin Pasha has ivory in abundance, thousands of cattle and sheep, gnats and fowls and food of *ll kinds. I found him a very good and kind man. He gave all our white and black men numbers of things. His liberality could not be excelled, His -soldiers blessed our black men for their kindness in coming so far to show them the way. Many of them were ready to (olio,/ me out of the country, bnt I asked them to be quiet a few months,that I might return and fetch the other men and goods left at Yambunga. They prayed to God that lie would give me strength to finish my work. May their-prayers be heard. And now, my friends, what are you going to do? We have gone the road twice over. We know where it’s bad and where it is good, where tnere is plenty of food and where there is none, where all the camps are and a here we shall sleep and rest. I am waiting to bear your words. If you go with me it is well. I leave it to you. I will stay here ten days, and will then proceed lowly. I will move hence to Big Island, two hoars, march from here, above this place. There are plenty of houses and „ plenty of food for the men. Whatever you have to say to me my ears will be open, with a good heart, as it has always been toward you. Therefore, if you come, come quickly, for on the eleventh morning from this I shall move on. All my white men are well, bnt I left them all behind, except my servant William, who is with me.” The letter, which was taken to Stanley Falls by a messenger, and which reached Brussels by post last night, is the only one from Stanley which has reached the coast ot Africa. A number of other letters which the messenger conveyed to Btanley Falls still remain there, bat it is expected that they will arrive in Europe in two or three months. A dispatch from Zanzibar on the 18th. gives the details of another outbreak of the natives with most shocking results. Ihs German missions’ station at Tugu was attacked last Sunday, and eight missionaries, men and women, were massacred and their bodies terribly mutilated. The enraged Germans clamor for revenge.- ____________ A BURNING LAKE. A strange and startling phenomenon has been discovered at Decker, Ind., near Vincennes. A small lake two miles from town is burning and is emitting a peculiar sulphuric odor. The community is excited, and those living near the burning Jake are preparing to leave the place. The phenomenon was first discovered by a con pie of hunters. When they reached the lake they were startled beyond description by the strange sight that met their view. The entire lake was ablaze! They were so spell-bonnd by the strange and unnatural sight that they stood in horrified amazement, until they were nearly overcome by the powerful and suffocating odor. We would give more particulars of this startling report, but we don’t believe a word ofiL

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