Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1889 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

OOMESTIC. Senator-elect Washburn, of Minnesota, is critically ill. James H. Berry Was re-elected U. 8. Senator by the Arkaimaw legislature, on the 30th. - A bill to prevent corners in grain was introduced in the New York Legislature on the 30th. } ■ : The Pennsylvania Senate, Wednesday, passed the prohibition amendment by a vote of 32 to 2. Black measles is epidemic at Warsaw 111. Over 30 » cases prevailed on the 2d. Many people are leaving the place. Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., has signed a three years’ contract to go on the stage mnderthe management of Daniel Frohman, t A, bill giving counties the right to say whether liquor shall be sold or not has been introduced in the Michigan Legislature. ±__ Small pox has broken out in the Onondaga (N. Y.) poor house. Several inmates are sick with the disease and a hundred others have been exposid. Amma ; Eilis colored, was publicly hanged neat Clinton, in Sampsoh County, N. C., Friday afternoon. Fully 3,000 people witnessed the execution. ' At Chicago George W. Clark (colored) quarreled with his sweetheart, Tillie Hyland, a Swedish domestic. Clark brntally murdered the girl and then killed himself. , Oakes Ames, who is worth $50(1,000 eloped, at Anthony Park, * Minn, with Miss Emma Watson, an assistant nortmistress. Ames is a cousin of the Governor of Massachusetts. John Peck, a wealthy real estate owner of Albany, N. Y„ was bunkoed out of SIO,OOO. on the Ist. It was done in the good old fashioned way and the rubbers made good their escape. A new capital punishment bill, modeled after the Ohio law, and providing that executions shall take place only in the penit ntiarv before daylight, is be-, fore the Illinois Legislature. Both Houses of the New York Legislature are to commence war against the grain gamblers in New York City and that a determined effort will be made to have the gambling stopped. Governor Beaver Thursday signed the joint resolution submitting to a vote of the people of Pennsylvania the proposed amendment to the Constitution prohibiting the sale or manufacture of intoxicating liquor. A bill was introduced in the Michigan Legislature, Monday, providing for a bounty on wolf scafps, it being stated that the destruction of deer in the northern peninsula was due more to wolves than to hunters. A special from Olathe, Kas., says Mrs. Lucy Ferguson, aged seventy-five years, convicted of mu- ler in the first degree. A motion so: a new trial was overruled and the death penalty pronounced upon her. Citizens of Western Kansas have asked the Legislature for an appropriation for the purpose of experimenting in producing rain by artificial means. They say that it is a well known fact that after each battle of the late war, where there was heavy canonading, a rainstorm followed, and they think it might be possible during a drought, to produce rain by some such means. A switch engine on the St. Louis & San Fraueisco railroad, jumped the track Sunday, while running at a speed of fifteen miles an hour. There were ten men on the engine, only two of whom were unhurt. Three were killed outright and four fatally injured. The West Virginia Legislature is having just such a time as the Indiana Legislature had two years ago. The D. mocrats have a majority of one on joint ba lot, and refuse to announce the vote for governor. The result will probably be a dual government. The machinery constructors composing District Assembly 198 Knights of Labor at Pittsburg.have decided to withdraw from the Knights in a body, and form an independent order. They i< rmerly numbered twenty thousand but the membership at present is ten thousand. Mrs. Meckie Raw on, the wife of the Chicago millionaire banker who in open court shot his lawyer nearly to death, was acquitted in short order Thursday. Mrs. Rawson’s motives for the attempted killing was the activity of Whitney, the lawyer, in worriDg up testimony to smirch her reputation. Three hundred and eighty-five of typhoid fever are reported at “Lakeview, a suburb of Chicago, and new cases develop every day. The opinion among the physicians is that the disease is due largely to the open winter, bad sewerage, impure water, and the bad condition of the streets. War has been declared against the policy dealers and gamblers of Buffalo. Rates are made nightly, and there is in the possession of the Clerk of the Police Court about ten thousand poker chips and furniture enough to stock a small store. Over two thousand dollars’ worth of property has been seized. “Sterilized air,” the use of which will remove the danger now attending surgical operations from subsequent inflammation, is said to have been discovered by T. E. Tinsley, an architect and inventor of Kansas City. It is believed that the discovery will revolutionize the present way of treating wounds. Ed. Kelley, a criminal on trial at St. Louis, Tuesday, while court was in session and after it was agreed to inflict a ten years’ sentence, violently assaulted his attorney, striking him in the face and injuring him severely. The attack cost Kelly five years’ liberty, as the sentence was increased to fifteen years. United States Senator Cal lorn in an address to the Illinois Legislature, Taesday, thanking them for their confidence in re-electing him, expressed hope of the futute annexation of Canada to the United States. He declared the interests of the two countries were in common. The speech was interrupted by bursts of applause. FOREIGN* German spies ar- alleged to keep Bismarck fully posted on all important matters twtgypiring in the United States Waranq Navy Departments. A dispatch from Zanzibar states that an American sailing vessel from Zanzibar for Madagascar ports, had been fired into and disabled by a German war ship. William O’Brien was, 'Thursday, odged iji the Clonmel jail to serve four

months. He resisted potting oh the prison garb, and was hart ‘ in the straggle. - . Edward Stanhope, England’s Secretary of State for War, expressed the opinion, in a speech Tuesday evening, that a great struggle is impending in Enrope. <r *»• It is now stated that Crdwu PrinceRudolph, of Austria, was slam in a duel with the hnsba d of the Countess Clam Gal las, who is alleged to have caught the Prince and the Countess in a compromising situation. It is reported that Sir Julian Pauncfort, permanent under Secretary ot State for the Foreign offi e, has been appointed British Minister to the United States. Bir Julian is a lawyer and has had no diplomatic experience. Mr. O Brien was ai-rested at Manchester, Monday night/wheH he appeared at a meeting. His appearance before the assemblage created the wildest excitement and enthusiasm. He detailed the storv of his conviction and escape to his anxious hearers, who remained almost breathless during the recital. At the close ot the meeting one hundred police appeared and- arrested Mr. O’Brien. A daring burglary was committed at the residence of Colonel White, Secretary of American Le ation, London Wednesday night. The house, which is in Ramesdefl, near Ascott, was entered by thieves some time after midnight i and robbed of jewelry and other valu- ’ abfes to the amount of $35,000. Ail the 1 jewels were in a casket belonging to | Mrs. White. The burglars seemed to have been informed of this, for the moment they left the house and the empty 1 case was found in an outhouse. No arrest have yet been made.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

When Senator Allison returned to the Senate after his visit to the Presidentelect at Indianapolis, it was reported with goo > show of authority that he had been proffered, and had accepted, the Treasury portfolio at General Harrison’s hanoß. So far as the first section of the rumor goes, it has been confirmedrhe-. yond question, by the admissions, of som* ot the distinguished lowan’B confidential friends in the Senate, but the second section of it.regarding his acceptance of the trust, was a little premature. From a member of the Senate whostanns close to Mr. Allison it is learned that he has declined the offer. When he left Indianapolis he was inclined to accept, but alter more mature reflection his first judgment has been reversed, and he Tuursday wrote and forwarded his declination. There were many considerations actuating nimin this step, which it is understood, will be fully appreciaten by General Harrison, but which are not publicly talked about by Senator Allison.

The Senate further debated that the Bri ish extradition treaty nearly three hours Friday, and it was finally rejected. It has been supposed by some that with the objectionable political offenses section stricken out it might paesespecially as it was conceded on all .sides that a treaty for the extradition of embezzlers and forgers was greatly to be desired by the United States; but, the striking out of the objectional clause would not remove that subject from the field of negotiations, nor would the of the treaty to a committee, with the understanding that it should not be reported, dispose of it. bo it was finally rejected. The bill creating a new cabinet office was agreed upon in conference Thursday, the Senate conference having receded from their objection to the amendment transferring the geological survey andrthe fisheries commission to the new department. The house had previously yielded in their attempt to transfer the signal bureau from the army to the new department, so that the two houses split the difference and the hill will now become a law. The Senators might not have consented to these con cessions if it had not become known that General Harrison wanted the bill passed in order to give him another appointment. During the course of a dinner given by Congressman Adams to ft few friends, including all the candidates for speaker, Senator Edmonds arose and ask* d to be permitted to propose the health ot the guest of the evening, “The Speaker of the next House of Representatives.” as one man, McKinley, Reed, Cannon and Burrows arose to respond, and each gratefully thanked the Senator for the honor conferred. It was ons of the jolliest dinner parties given in Washington this season.

The Commissioner of Patents sent to Congress Thursday his annual report. It shows that daring the last calender year there were issued to Indiana inventors 494 patents, or one patent for every 4,004 persons in the Btate. The per cent, of inventive genius ranks highest in Colorado, there having been one patent issued to every 820 persons. The District of Columbia comes next, with one patent for every 83. i persons. President Cleveland will return to the city of New York to reside on the expiration of his term of office, and will, on March 5, resume the practice of his profession in New York city, having associated himself as counsel with the law firm of Bangs, Stetson, Tracy & McVt-agh. The Pension Department of Indianapolis is the second largest in the United States. Its roll includes 41.600 names, and $7,50 ‘,OO » are paid out annually. Tnere are sixteen clerks employed in the office, and to expedite matters five more ought to be added. After a prolonged debate Thursday, the Senate agreed to the amendment to the Consu ar Appropriation bill, appropriating $60",00u lor the protection of American interests at Samoa. The redaction in the public debt daring January amounted to $12,216,284. The tqlal debt now, less cash in the treasury, amounts to $1,121,845,973. Col, W. W, Dudley denies that he is a candidate for any office and says he has retired from public life.

NINE MEN KILLED.

The boilers of the steamer Two Brothers, lying at wharf at Tenth St., Pittsburg, Exploded at 1:30, Saturday afternoon, totally wrecking the boat and steamer Return, which was lying alongside. Edward and Harry Hulins, owners of the Two Brothers, were on the steamer at the time and were blown to atoms, with ’seven of their employes. None of the bodies have been recovered. Pieces of the boat were picked up fifty yards from the scene Of the accident Later particulars place the number of killed at two.

JOY! JOY! JOY!

JOYFULNESS THE TRUE SPIRIT OF CHRISTIANITY. No Room for Sorrow in a Regener- ; ated Heart—Pardon and Peace Linked Wittythe Sinner’s Triumph. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn tabernacle last Sunday, text: LnexT., 23. After a few opening remarks he said:

First of all, there is the new convert’* joy. It is no tame thing to become A Christian. The most tremendous moment in a man’s life is wbeh fie surrenders himself to God. The grandest t me on the father’s homestead is when the boy comes back. »Tou have seen, perhaps, a man running for his physical liberty and the officers of the law after him, and you i-aw him escape, or afterward you heard the Judge had pardoned him, and how great was the glee of that rescued man; but it is a very tame thing that, compared with running for one’s everlasting life—the terrors of the law after him', but Christ coming in to oardon and bless, rescue and save, You remember Jthn Bunyan, in his great story, tells bow the pilgrim put nis fingers in his ears and ran, crying. “Life, life.'leternal life!” A pjor car-driver in th s city some years ago, after he had a struggle to support his family, suddeuly was informed that a large inheritance Was his, and there whs joy amounting to bewilderment, but that is a small ihiug compared with tlje experience of one when he has put in his hands the title deed to the joys, the raptures, the splendors of heaven. Oh, it is no tame thing to become 'a Curistian. It is a merry making. It is the killing of the fatted calf. It is jubilee. You know the Bible never compares it “to a fureral, but always compares it to something bright. It is more apt to be compared to a banquet than anything else, it is compared in in the Bible to the water—bright, flashing wrter- to the morning, ro eate, tireworked, mountain-transfigured morning. I wish I could to day take all the B ble expressions about pardon and peace and life and com tort and hope and heaven, and twist them into one garland, and put it on the brow of the* humblest child of God in this assemblage. and cry: “Wear it, wear it now, wear it forever, son of God, daughter of the Lord God Almighty.” Oh, the joy of the new convert! Oh, the gladness of the Christian service!

J ust pass over from those tame joys in wlach joil are indulging— joys of this world—into the raptures of tde tiospel. L’he world can not satisfy you; you have found that out Alexander longing for other worl.-s to conquer, and yet drowncii m lub owu bottle. Byron whipped hy disquietudes around the world; Voltaire cursing his own soul while all the ttreetjj of Paris were applauding him; Henry Li, c nsumingwith hatred against poor Thomas a Becket - all illustrations, Oi the fact that this world cannot make a rnan happy. The very man who poisoned the pommel of the saddle oh which Queen Elizabeth rode shout-d in .he street, "God save the Queen!” One moment the world applauds and the next moment the world anathematizes. Oh, come over into this greater joy, this sublime solace, this magnificent beatitude. Oh, it is a great religion to live by, and it is a great religion to die by. There is only one heart throb between you and that jeiigion this morning. Just look iuto the face of your pardoning God and surrender yourself for time and for eternity, and H*- is yours, and heaven is yours, and all is yours. Some of vou like the young man of the text, have gone far astray. 1 know not the history, but you knew it, you know it. W hen a young man went forth into life the fegend says, his guardian angel went forth with him, and getting into a field, the guarding angel swept a circle clear around where the young man stood. It was a circle of virtue and honor, and he must not step Devond that circle. Armed foes came down, but were obliged to halt at the circle—they could not pass. But one day a temptress, with diamonded hand, stretched forth and crossed that circle with the hand, and the tempted soul took it and by that fell grip was brought beyoud-the circle and died. S ime of you have stepped beyond that circle. Would you not like this day by the grace of God to step bad?. This I say to you, is your hour of salvation If a man does not get to heaven it is because he will not go there. No difference the color, no difference the history, no difference the antecedents, no difference the surroundings, no difference the : sin. When the white horses of Christ’s victory are brought out to celebrate the eternal triumph you may ride one of them, and as Goa is greater than all. His joy is greater, and when a soul comes back there is in His heart the surging of an infinite ocean of gladness, and to express that gladness it takes all the rivers of pleasure, and all the thrones .of romp, and all the ages of eternity. It is a joy deeper than all depth, and higher than all heigth, and wider than all width, and vaster than all immensity. It overtops, it undergirds, outweighs all the united Splendor and joy of tue universe. Who can tell what God’s joy is? * You remember reading the story of a King who on same great day of festivity scatiered silver and gold among the people and Bent val uable presents to his courtiers; but methinks when a soul comes back God is so glad that to express His joy He flmgs out, new worlds into space and kinchgs up new suns and rolls among the whfe-robed anthems of the redeemed a greater hallalujah, while with a voice that reverberates among the mountains of frankincense and is echoed back from the everlasting gates He cries: “This, My son, was dead, and he is alive again.”, I notice also that when a prodigal comes home there is the joy of the ministefß of religion. Oh, it is a grand thing to preach this Gospei. I know there has been a great deal said about the trials and hardships of the Christian ministry. I wish koim.body would writer a good, rousing book about the joys of the Christian miaistrv. Since I entered the profession 1 have seen more of the goodness pf God than I /will be able to celebrate in all eternity. I know some boast about their equilibrium, and they not break down with emotion; but ! confess to you p'ainly that when I see a man coming to God and giving up his sin 1 feel in body, mind and soul a transport. When I see a man who is bound hand and foot in evil habit emancipated I rejoice over it as though it were my own emancipation. Wbe’a to-day incur comtnuatoi serdo such •.hrongs of y rcfhg and old stind at t less

altars, and in the presence of heaven and earth and belt attest their* allegiance to Jesus Christ, I feel a joy something akin to that which the A po-tle describes when be says: * Whether in the body 1 can not tell,'wliether of the body I can not tell; God knoweth all.” •>Oh, have not ministers a right to rejoice vyhen a prodigal comes home? They blew the trumpet, and ought they not to be glsd of the gathering of the host? They pointed to the full sup' ply, and ought they not to rejoice when souls pant as the hart for the water brooks? They came forth saying: “All things are now ready;” ought they not to rejoice when the prodigal Bits down at the banquet? Life insurance men will all tell you ihat ministers of relifion as a class live longer than any other, tis confirmed by the statistics of all those who calculate upnn the human longevity. Why is ii? There is mi re dratt upon the nervous system than in any other profession, and their toil is most exhausting. I have seen ministers kepton miserable stipends by parsimonious congregations, who wondered at the dullness ol the sermons, when the men of God were perplexed almost to' death by questionSof livelihood, and had not enough nutritious food to keep any fire in their temperament. No luel, no tire, I have sometimes seen the inside of the life of many of the American clergymen —never accepting their hospitality, because they can not ass it; but 1 have seen them struggle on with salaries of SSOO and S6OO a year—the average less, than that-their struggle well depicted by the Western missionary, who says in a letter; “Than you for your last remittance. Until it came we had not any meat i in our house for one year, and all last winter, our children wore their summer clothes.” And these men of God I fiud in difierent parts of the land struggling against annoyances and exasperations innumerable; some of them week alter week entertaining agents who have maps to sell, and submitting themselves to all styles of annoyance, and yet without comp jaint, and cheeriul of soul. How do you account for the fact that these life insurance men tell us that ministers, as a class, live longer than any others? It is because of the ’ joy of their work, the joy of the harvest-field, the jov of greeting prodigals home to their Father’s house. Then, we are in'sympathy with all innocent hilarities, *We can en,oy a hearty song, and we pap b? merry with the merriest; but tfßhse ol us who have toiled in the service are ready to testify that all these joys are tame compared to the satisfaction of seeing men enter the kingdom of God, The great eras of every minister are the outpourings of the Holy Ghost, and 1 thank G*d 1 have seen eighteen of them. Thank God, thank God! I notice, also,when the prodigal comes back, all earnest Chris ians rejoice. If you stood on Montauk Point and there was a hurricane at sea, and it was blowing toward the shore,and a vessel crashed into the rocks and you saw people get ashore in the life boats, and the very last man got on the rocks in safety, you could not control jour joy. And it is a glad time when the Church of God sees men who are tossed on the ocean of their sins plant their feet on the rock Christ JeBUS.

Oh, when prodigals come home just hear those Christians sing! Just hear those Christians prayl It is not a stereotyped supplication that we have heard over and over again for twenty years, but a putting of the case in the hands of God with an importunate pleading. No long prayers. Men never pray at great length unless they have nothing to say and their hearts are hard and cold. All the prayers that were in the Bible that were answered were short prayers: “God be merciful to me a sinner.” “Lord, that I may receive my sight.” “Lord, save me or I perish.” The longest prayer, Solomon’s prayer at the dedication of the Temple, less than eight minutes in length, according to the ordinary rate of enunciation.

And just hear them pray, now that the prodigals are coming home. Just see them shake hands. No putting forth of the four tips of the fingers in a formal way, but a hearty grasp, where the muscles of the heart seem to clench the fingers of on? hand around the other hand. And then see those Christian faces, how illuminated they are. And see that old man get up and, with the same voice that he sang fifty years ago in the old country meeting house, say: “Now, Lord, lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation.” Oace more I remark that when the prodigal gets back the inabitants o. heaven keep festival. lam very certain of it. If you have never seen a telegraphic chart you have no idea how many cities are connected together and how many lands. Nearly all the neighborhoods of the earth seem articulated and news flies from city to city and .from continent to continent. But more rapid l jvffo the tidings from earth to heaven, and when a prodigal returns it is announced before the throne of God. And if these bouls this morning should enter the kingdom there would be some one in the heaven'y kingdom to say: “That’s my father,” “That’s my mother,” “That’s my son,” “That’s my daughter,” “That’s my friend,” “That’s the one I used to pray for, “That’s the one for whom I wept so many tears,” and one soul would say, “Hosanna!” and another soul would say, “Hallelujah!” At the banquet of Lucullus sat Cicero, the orator; at the Macedonian festival sat Philip, the conqueror; at the/Grecian banquet sat Socrates, the philosopher; but at our Father’s table sit all the returned prodigals, more than conquerors. The table is so wide its leaves reach across seas and across lands. Its gqests are the .redeemed of earth and the glorified of heaven. The ring of God’s forgiveness on every hand, the robe of a Savior’s righteousness adroop from every shoulder. The wine that glows in the cups is from the bowls of ten thousand sacraments. Let all the, rrdeemed of earth and all the glorified of heaven rise and, with gleaming chalice, drink to the return ot a thousand prodigals. Sing! sing! sing! “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive' blessing and riches and honor and glory and power, World without endl” ' 1

Brought to Terms.

New York Weekly. » ■ Housekeeper—l see you have a very good reference. Applicant—Yis mum: The lady was so maue she didn’t want to give me no reference at firsts but I tould her I’d get me brother Mike’s siren boys to foller ’er on the steatean yell “white horse” ivery toim she wint out wid her red hair.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

V Xenia is exploring for oil. Brookville has a cooking club. Goshen has free mail delivery, Logansport will have base ball. */ Sonth Bend is enjoying sleighing. Ligonier reports a good ice harvest. Bluffcoa ice dealer* have lost hope. Seymour is assured ~pf water works. Fox chasing is a Hartford City sport. Lagrange claims great church and schoolj? ri vil eges. There are’ 581 cases pending in the Floyd circuit court. Wax. Capp of Columbia City was crashed by a falling tree. , A colony is forming at Greensburg for removal to Washington Territory. Nora, Castieton and Broad Ripple report considerable sickness, and almost an epidemic of measles. A colored man has been drawn to serve as a Morgan county juror—the first in the histosy of the county. Carbon, Clay county, suffered a loss of SSO 000, Friday night. Nearly all the business part of the town was destroyed. Congressman Posey, elected from the first district to fill out the unexpired term of Governor Hovey, will receißa, $1,162,21 for his four weeks labor. The second gas well put down at Marion for the proposed Soldiers’ Home has proven a failure, and the location of the Home is again an \ pen question, k White Cap notices have been distributed in Winchester, warning all “habitual drinkers, wife-beaters and nnchaste women” to reform, or receive thirty lashes. The public schools of Big Lick, Bouchard and Marion townships, Hancock county, Ohio, were compelled to close down Tuesday on account of the prevalence of diptheria.

W. F. A. is a coqvict no longer. He was sentenced a year ago for conspiracy in the tally sheet forgeries cases. He was released on the Ist and arrived home on the Same day, Warsaw is afflicted with black measles. there having been a number of cases with several deaths. After death from the scourge, large black spots, the size of a five-cent piece, come out all over the body. A sad death occurred at Mt. Vernon, . Tuesday night. Miss Ger!rude Burtiß, -the sixteen-year-old daughter of Wm. F. Burt is, died of rupture received from a kick in the side, while asleep, by her little brother, with whom she was sleeping. Frank B. Posey, in his race against Parrett for Congress, in the First District, received a majority of 1,179. Parrett carried Warrick county by 125, but all the others voted for Posey. Vanderburg, 419; Gibson, 255; Pike, 305; Perry, 148; Spencer, 15, and Posey, 27. Two midgets have been born in Martinsville. within three days. Mrs. George Preston gave births Tuesday to a girl weighing three and one-half pounds while Mrs. Corda Thacker went her a pound better by giving birth to a boy weighing but two and a half pounds. Both babies are perfectly formed and ’well. Major Reynolds living near Troy, disappeared from homelast week, and after considerable search the neichborheod abandoned further effort to solve the mystery. This week, while .boys were playing in the woods, near his home, they found his remains concealed under a brush pile, and it developed that he had been beaten to death with a club. J. E. Sullivan, the clerk of Marion county, who failed, last week, for probably $75 000, has fled to Canada. His accounts are in bad shape and many hearts will ache. His flight is due to the fact of his having issued to a large amount fraudulent warehouse receipts. Sullivan was one of the men indicted for the tally sheet forgeries, and his trial is said to have cost him $75,000. The special election in the First Fir«t Indiana district to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Gen. Hovey, was held on the 29th. The candidates were the same as at the November election, the face of the returns of that election Hhowing Judge Parrett, D., elected over Frank B. Posey, R, by 26 votes. At this election Mr. Posey is elected by a majority exceeding 500.

Not a vestige is left of the ancient town of New 'London, Jefferson County, which, in 1815, was a busy mart, and which was regarded as “the key of the Indiana Territory for business.” The greater part of the site of the town has been oblitera ed by caving in of the river bank. The remainder of it has been incorporated in a farm, owned by James H. Lee, and called "Riverside.” An interesting series of revival meetings closed a few nights ago at W hite’s Manual Labor Institute, five miles sonth of Wabash, where nearly seventy-five Indian pupils are being educated partially at government expense. As a result of the meetings every one of tbe pupils has become converted. The revival is largely due to the efforts of Dr. Chas. Little. Several students of DePauw University have received notice of dismissal, and others it is thought, will be served in the same manner, m king ten or twelve expulsions in all. Their offenses are insubordination and intemperance. The eight hundred students in attendance are noted for their exceptionally good deportment, and extreme measures were rendered necessary in this instance to maintain the good name of the institution. Patents were granted to the following Indiana inventors Tuesday: Jas. 8~. Alfree, Indianapolis, flour bolt; Jacob Barrow, Windfall, pressure regulator, Jonathan Beeson and J. H. Hirschfeit, Saline City, bee-hive; Rudolph W. Donmoyer, Bouth Bend, wheel;, Brenson Doud, Peru, fence; Horace L. Hewitt, Indianapolis, grain cradle; Jesse F. Feeler, Terre Haute, (2) regulator for dynamo electric machine, and dynamo electric machines; John P. Lancaster, Goshen, rail joint; Ott J. Meisel. guard for step-ladders; George J. Zimmerman, LaPorte. machine for making metal wheels. V At the meeting of the Democratic editors at Iniianapolis Thursday* the following officers were elected: President, J. 0. Henderson, Kokomo Dispatch; Vice President, Bri. Loqthain, Logansport Pharos; Second Vice President, M. U. Ben ham. Richmond Democrat; Recording Secretary, F. A. Arnold, Greencastle Star Press; Corresponding Secret tary, Lather Short. Franklin Democra;-

Treasurer, W.K. Shaffer. Angola Herald. Executive Committee—J B. StoH.South Bend Timer; Royal E. Purcell, Vincennes Sun; S, K. Mores, Indianapolis Sentinel; Dr. W. H. D. Hunter; Lawrenceburgßgister, W. H. Beane, Goshen Democrat.

A $2,000,000 FIRE.

Buffalo, N, Y., was visited Saturday by the most destructive conflagration in its history. The fire broke out in the six story building of Root A Keating, completely destroying that building and many others, some of them the finest in the city. The wind was blowing a perfect gale and the flames swept from oen building to another and then across the street like a roaring hurricane, and the heroic efforts the firemen were almost without effect. Losses are as follows: Sibley & Holmwood, confectionery, $125,- < 00; T. W. Reynolds & Co., bo its and shoes $220,000; Swift A Stambach, -toves and ranges, sls ’,OO ; Jewett building $200,liO; Broezel House, $150,000; Albert Eye, sample room, $lO 000; 8. F. Eigan, wholesale liquors, $3’,000; Fowler. & Son. hardware, S9O 000; Edward Struber, $40,000; Sydney Sheppard Hardware Company, $50,000. In Carroll and Wells streets the Root & Keating block is a total wreck; loss. $500.1100: R. Hoffeld A Co.’s building, $3 0,000; Arlington Hotel, $5 >,OOO. The total loss will reach s2,o< 0 000. There were many accidents from falling walls. Sixteen firemen and a man who was a spectator, are in the hospital and one fireman is still buried in the ruins. Eight acres of territory were burned over and forty bnildiDgs were destroyed. One man was killed by the failing wails.

A BIG STRIKE.

Inspector Williams, of the York police. Thursday, while arranging the details of the day, said to bis man “If the crowd uses clubs yon use vour pistols and use them well. Shoot to kill.” R-ports from the New York strike on the 2d, indicate that the strikers were rapidly losing ground and were resorting to violence while the cars were beginning to move with considerable regularity. Amongst the applicants for work at the Second avenue depot was Ebrich Dasher. The strikers met him two blocks from the depot, blacked both bis eyeß and cut his head badly. The police did not Bucceed in arresting his assailants. There were at least 2,000 people on the avenue within sight of the depot. Later the trouble assumed such proportions that help was summoned from Police Stations. A patrol wagon containing a Sergeant and ten men drove at full speed to the scene and succeeded in clearing the avenue from Nintieth to One Hundredth street. Thopias Miller, was roughly nandled by the strikers at the E ght avenue stables, when be called to apply for work. Her was taken home with his bead cut. Three dozen hammer handles were purchased by strikers at a Ninth avenue store. Rioting broke out again. on Second avenue later. The police had the mastery, but the situation was critical. Many persons were injured. There was trouble also on Fonrth avenue, where a rioter was shot by a policeman. The mob was then dispersed.

ALASKA MATTERS.

The steamer Ancon arrived at Port Townsend, W. T., on the 2d, with news from Alaska: The Juneau Free Press reiterates the stories of outrages on Indian women, and says that the Indians will sell their daughters and sisters to white men for from $5 to $5 >. "The Tougas custom house, a sub-port of entiy, has been abolished by the government, and the deputy collector of customs, Col. Crittenden, is temporarily appointed inspector afloat, vice Edward Haley retired. Only a few days after the port was abandoned a sloop load of whisky from Fort Simpson, fourteen miles away, was smuggled in. The smugglers became involved in a quart.*], and a man named Snow was murdered J>y a man named “Jack.” The lodiansrturned the murderer over to the authorities at Sitka for trial. The Indian who caused all the trouble at the Upper Yukon placer mines Ja-t year, when the miners were trying to get established there, has given himself up to the authorities. He says his people will never allow the miners to go into the Yukon if he is punished, bat that they will murder the first party that appears.

TWENTY-FOUR DROWNED.

Two Ocean Vessel* Collide and Both Go To the Bottom. .. .y" The steamer Noreid collided with the British ship Killechan, Captain Manteon, from Lyttleton via Queenstown, off Dungeneas, Sunday night, and both vessels went to the bottom in a very abort time. Twenty-four . persons w*re drowned, including the captain of the Killochan. Nine members of the crews were rescued, one of whom afterward died. The weather was clear at the time of the collision. The Bpanisb mail steamer Remus has foundered off the island of Biliran, one of the Philippines. All the passengers are supposed to have been drowned.

THE MARKETS.

Indianapolis, Feb. 5i 1886. OKAIN. Wheat — Corn— No. 2 Red 98 No. 1 w bite 36 No. 3 Red 92 No. 2 Yellow 33 Oats, Wbite....27} LIVB STOCK. Cattle—Good to choice 4.2504.40 Choice heifers ... 3.0 i @3.25 Common to medium cows 2.6503.00 Good to choice cows., 2.7503.00 Hoob—Heavy.. ~:l. 5.0505.35 Light 3.8504.00 Mixed 3.7003.80 Pigs... 3.2503 75 Bhkbp—Good to choice 4.2504.50 Fair to medium 2.7503.25 EGGS, BUTTER, POULTRY. Eggs 12c | Hens perfi). ...7J< Butter.creamery22c Roosters _..4e Fancy country_.llc Turkeys .......... 9c Choice country.. 9c MISCELLANEOUS. Wool —Fine merino, washed 33035 uh washed med 20022 very' coarse .;.17@18 Hay, timothy. 43. 75 Bugar cured ham 13 8ran......... *ll -25 Bacon clear side 12 Ciover seed... 4.25 Feathers, goose 35 Chicago. Wheat (Jan.)....96 Pork 11.40 Corn “ 35 Lard..... 6 90i Oats .25 Ribs-............ 6.00 New York—Wheat, 1.Q1; com, 41; oata, 31. Minneapolis—Wheat, 1.12.