Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1889 — Page 2

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Tax extradition treaty has been lying over for three years, waiting- for final nation. No question of more importance to the business intetoste and the land haa meanwhile been discussed by Congress. Ptof. Rodgers tells us he has counted up nearly $4,000,000 stolen by embenlers in these three years, and tarried for the most part to Canada, oner Hartford man taking $1.000,0C0. There has been no good reason for this delay! nor any qnotanie bad one. It is one of the neglected duties of our legislators, to act promptly to remove existing temptations to fraud. The next Congress should take up this matter and give us an international moral protectorate. *

WASHINGTON NOTES.

A Washington special of Saturday, to the New York World, says: Senator Chandler’s right ear is much larger than the left one. The reaeen is that Senator Blackburn gave it a very vigorous pulling at the Capitol, Saturday. Senator Chandler would not fight, or there certainly would have been more than the enlargement of the ear. In fact, if it had not been that the Senator from Kentucky was retrained, and the Senator from Sew Hampshire protected by Senator Faulkner,f Senator Chandler might be in a much more dilapidated condition than that in which he finds himself. What happened was this: When the special Senate Committee on Tradership, of which Mr. Chandler is chairman, was in session at the Senate end of the Capitol, all the memhera were present, Blackburn took occasion to resent what he termed Chandler’s insolence. In his retort Chandler wai impudent enough to call Blackbnrn a slanderer. Blackburn replied: “You little scoundrel, if you were not such an insignificent little coward I would thrash you on this very spot I have a mind to pull you from your chair and whip you as I would a dog.” Chandler exclaimed: “You dare not hit foe.” Before any one present could interfere Blackburn reached toward Chandler, seized him by the right ear and jerked him from his chair as easily as tfiorgh he had been a ten-year-old boy. The Kentucky Senator was so angry that it is doubtfnl whether he knew just what he was doing. losing Chandler’s > right ear as a sort of a handle, he threw him toward the wall, with which the New Hampshire politcian would have collided had not Senator Faulkner, who rushed up and threw his arms around Blackburn, interfered. Chandler Writhed and struggled to get away, but could ’ not, B ackbbrn holding him securely, notwithstanding Faulkner’s efforts to release his colleague. After Chandler had been severely shaken Senator Faulkner succeeded in releasing him from Blackburn’s iron grip. He was then carried from the room, looking very much the worse for wear. Every precaution was taken to keep the affair a secret but it leaked out and was fully confirmed by an eve Witness. ■ President Cleveland celebrated Washington’s birthday by signing the bill admitting Washington, Montana and North and South Dakota as States. There was great satisfaction expressed on both sides of the political fence when the fact became known. The Director of the Mint reports, the gold production of this country in 1888 valued at $33,175,000; silver, $43,000. He estimates the consumption of gold in the industries in the Unitea States for 1888 at $14,600,000; silver, $5,280,000. The House, Friday, passed the bill giving Mrs. Sheridan a twenty-five-hun-dred-doilar pennon and placing General Rosecrans on the retired list The bill to refund the direct taxes of the States will not be passed by the present Congress. Filibustering killed it. President Cleveland’s last public reception was held Thursday night, and there was an immense crowd. The President has signed the Nicaraguan canal bill. n'

HARRISON’S DEPARTURE.

President-elect Harrison and party left Indianapolis, on the 25th, at 3:15 o’clock, by special train for Washington. As the time for the Harrison famiiy to leave home drew near, the street for two squares was blocked by carriages and hundreds of friends and carious strangers crowded the sidewalks and open yard. When the procession started, the vehicles formed a line several squares In length. Considerable had been done by residents along the roiite in the way of decorations and a ’great number of flags were As the distinguished party passed along, its members bowed almost ~ constantly in response to warm welcomes. Bverywhere great friendliness was shown. A great body of school children was massed, according to size, in front of the school building at the corner of, Delaware and Walnut streets and again* at the High School on Pennsylvania street At these places the enthusiasm was very pronounced. The party left the Delaware street residence at 2,30 o’clock. The first carriage was occupied by General Harrison, Governor Hovey and Win, H. English; the second by Lieutenant Governor Chase, Mayor Denny and Wm. Henderson; the. third by Albert Gall, Judge John N. Scott and Private Secretary Halford. The fourth bv-Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Lord knd B- S. McKee, the fifth by Mruß. J. McKee and children and* Mrs. Judge Scott Without delay the party, followed by half a hundred carriages of friends, drove south on Delaware street- to Ft. Wayne avenue, on Ft. Wayne avenue to Pennsylvania street, thence south to the New Denison, where the Thomas Pest escort welcomed him, thence to the depot followed ahd looked upon by a great throng. At the New-Denison the carriage containing the distinguished company met the members of the George H. Thomas and other Grand Army Posts who were to eecorf it to the depot. The veterans were under command of H. C. Allen, Commander of George H. Thomas Post, and were composed indiscriminately of representatives ftom .Thomas. Kneale, Anderson, Chapman and Sheridan Posts. They numbered pobably 800, being marshaled in lines of eight and extending from Market to New York streets. At Market street the fall of the pri>-

cession formed, and detail of sixteen police were in the lead, followed by the Brotherhood Band. Then came the Grand Army Poet*!, including Delaney Post (colored). Next came the carriage containing General Harrison, which was preceded by a policeman, who marched at-the head of the horses. The march from the Depison House to the depot was marked by no other incident than the great display of enthusiasm by the thousands of people , who bad b«en gathering upon the sidewalks since 1 o’clock. In rear of the rear of the carriages in General Harrison's Dirty came the members of the Legislature, who fell into line promiscuously after the procession had passed the Denison House. When the procession arrived at Georgia street the escort of veterans formed open ranks, through which Presidential party and members of the Legislature passed into the Union Station. After the party had all been placed on board the car the General appeared at the rear end of the coach and said: My Good Fkikmds and Neighbors— I can not trust myself to put inNwords what I feel at this time. Ever kind thought that is in your minds and every geod wish that is in your hearts for me finds its respdnsfve wish and (bought in my mind an’d heart for each of you. I love this city. It has been my one cherished home. Twice before I have left it td discharge public duties and returned to it with gladness, as I hope to do again, it is a city on whose streets the pompous displays, of wealth are not seen. It is full of pleasant homes, and in those homes there is an unusual store of contentment. The memory of your favor and kindness will abide with foe, and soy strcng’desire to hold your respect and confidence will strengthen me in the discharge of my new and responsible duties. Let me say farwell to all my Indiana friends. For the public honors that have come to me, lam their grateful debtor. They have made the debt so large that I can never discharge it. There is a great sense of loneliness in the discharge of High public duties. The moment pf decision is one of isolation. But there is One whose help comes even into the chamber of judgment, and to His wise and unfailing guidance I will look for direction and safety. My family unite with me in grateful thanks for this cordial goodby, and with me wish that these years of separation may be full of peace and happiness for each of you. The Presidential party included the following persons: General and Mrs. Harrison; Mr. and Mrs. McKee- and two babies, Ruesell Harripon and wife and child; Mrs. Lord. Mrs. Harrison’s sister, Mrs. Eaten, General Harrison’s sister; ex-Senator Saunders and wife, of Nebraska, parents of Mrs. Russell Harrison; W. H. H.- Miller, J. N. Huston, Private Secretary Halford, Official Stenographer Frank Tibbetts, wife and child, Miss Sanger,private stenographer. A special Pullman car for the renresentatives of the press accompanied the train also. Governor and Mrs. Foraker, of Ohio, and Private Secretary Kurts, joined the Presidential party at Piqua. The party went in President Roberts private car over the Pennsylvania. The car was especially fitted up for the trip and contained every possible convenience and was luxuriously upholstered. The Pennsylvania company had taken exceptional precautions to insure the safety of the party, stationing a patrol the entire distance. The trip to Washington was an almost csntinuous ovation. Crowds had gathered at every station and usually cheeked. At Irvington, Cumberland, Philadelphia, Greenfield, and Charlottsville several hundred people had gathered. At Knightstown the train stopped and General Harrison said to the 500 people gathered: My Friends—l thank you for this cordial gathering and demonstration. I can detain the train but a moment, and I only stopped at the request of the Superintendent of the Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home, so-that the children might have an opportunity to see me and that I might wish them the" bright and prosperous future which the sacrifices of their fathers won for them. I bid you farewell.

At Dunreith and Cambridge City there was only time for some lusty cheers. At Richmend 5.000 people had gathered, who were very noisy. General Harrison said: , My friends —I have so long had my home among you that I can not bat feel a sense of regret in leaving the soil of Indiana. Igo with a deep sense of inadequacy, but I am sure you will be patient with my mistakes, and that you will all give me your help as citizens [cheers and cries of “We will,”] in my efforts to promote the best intertests of our people and thmhonor of the Nation we love. [Cheers.] I thank you for this cordial greeting. [Cheers.] Superintendent Miller left the train at Richmond, but General Passenger Agent Dering kept on with t<. e company until Columbus was reached. -En route he fitted out the entile party, from Gen. Harrison to the colored porter who accompanies him to the White House, with tickets for the trip at the regular rates of fare. The gentlemen represent.,ing the press did the same as the Others, and, like the .gentlemen of old, paid as they went i '» A large crowd had gathered at Greenville, 0., but the stop was too short for speech making. Change of engines was made at Bradford. At Piqua 5,(500 people ware assembled, and kept up a continual cheering, Governor, Foster and wife boarded the train here. The President-slect appeared on the platform as the train pulled out, and bowed his acknowledgements. At each station! large crowds had gathered but no other ■top was made until Urbana was reached. At Urbana the crowd numbered 2,C00 who howled like mad when Mr. Harrison appeared. The demonstration at Columbus was an ovation by 20,000 people. Gen. Harrison said: My Felloy-citizens I thank you for this wonderful demonstration; in these evidences of the good will of my friends I receive a new stimulus as I enter upon the duties of the great office to which I have been chosen. I beg to thank you. again for your interest [Great cheerTne train reached Denison at 10:05, and 1,000 people were at the station, but the train did not stop. Every steam whistle in the city, however, was turned' loose and pandemonium reigned supreme. The Presidential party retired soon after Isaving Columbus. The train reached Pittsburg at £35 a- m-, 30 minutes late, and pulled out for the east after a wait of 15 minutes. -All was dark in the. Presidential coach. . ’• ,

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

V DOMESTIC. Natural gas has been struck at San Antonio, Texas. Maplewood, HL, by a vote of 147 to 91 decides to have no saloons. ■lves and Stay nor .were indicted Thursday. They are still in jail. A party of 100 Catholics sailed Thursday for Komi and the Holy Land. Six inches of snow fell at Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, the heaviest fall in years. The Grant monument fund (an almost forgotten object) amounts to $130,345.57. Two Mormon elders were taken into the street at Barnett, Ga., and given 100 lashes each. A “Carriage Freight Association,” is an out.'ome of a carriage manufacturers’ meeting. Mary R. Fleming has sued, ex-Senator John J. Patterson, of Squth Carolina, for $50,000 for breach of promise. The Oklahoma boomers, are all packed up and ready to cross the line the moment Congress gives the word. A druggist at Cleveland, 0., cut his throat with a butcher knife, because of “Whitecap” threats made by practical jokers. Frances Sherman Moulton, sister of General W. T. Sherman, and widow of Colonel Charles W.. Moulton, died, Thursday. ■ James M. Lane, Treasurer of Pickaway county,’o., looked in upon the bucket shops. and is a, fugitive, and $47,000 short. The National Grange has 1,309,359 members, and is congratulating itself on the elevation of the Commissioner of Agriculture to the Cabinet. A gas well with an estimated capacity of from fifteen to., twenty million feet daily, the largest In the country, has been opened at Lancaster, Ohio. The big lumber mills bn Puget Sound have been shut down at the command of the lumber trust. Fifteen hundred men are thrown out of employment. Four scholars ware seriously injured in a school at Deweyville, 0., by the explosion of a dynamite cartridge, dropped by a boy who was trifling wjth it. The West Virginia Legislative dead, lock was broken on the 21st by the reelection of John E. Kenna to the United States Senate. The vote was Kenna 46, Gofl 45. Edward McMeriot, the king of moonshiners in Arkansas, has been captured •n Brush Creek, after a desperate conflict With a sheriff’s posse, in which the outlaw was riddled with bullets. Mrs. Schluchtner, a grass widow, hoisted a flag over her residence in Brooklyn when she heard that Mrs: Schults, her late rival and co-respondent in her divorce suit, had committed suicide. Representative O’Donnell, of Michigan, presented in the House Thursday an enormous petition againt the Sunday Rest bill, which bears the signathres of 230,000 Seventn-day Adventists in all parts of the country. The Standard Oil Company purchased about 800 acres of oil territory in the Lima. O.» field, Thursday, from a syndicate of Pittsburgers. The tract has a number of good wells on it, and the price paid is said to be $175,000. A. P. Wright & Son, of Buffalo, sold 600,000 bushels of No. 2 Chicago spring wheat to a syndicate of Buffalo millers. The wheat, will be sent to Bafialo by rail, the price paid being seven cents over Chicago May. This is the largest cash transaction on record. The factory c f the Minnesota Carriage and Sleigh Company, at St. Paul,Mifin., was destroyed by fire, Friday 1 , The loss on building and stock aggregates $27,000 with insurance of $55,000. Over one hundred men are thrown out of employment. At the Union League Club b mquet at Chicago,Friday night,Henry W. Darling, of Toronto, said that Canada would prefer to work out.her own political destiny in her own way, and in the meantime was asking only unrestricted commercial relations with the United States. The daughter of Rev. G. H. Patterson, of South Portsmouth', R. 1., died Sunday in terrible agony from hydrophobia, the result .of being bitten by a mad dog last September. Several other persons were bitten at the same time, but as yet nothing serious has resulted in their cast s. Mrs. Lizzie McCarthy and her two children wore found dead in their bed, Monday morning, at Chicago. Mrs. McCarthy had deliberately turned on the gas and asphyxiated herself and children. No cause can be assigned for the act. In 1887 'she shot and killed her husband. The Nova Scotian bark, Josie Troop, with a cargo of chalk and a crew of seventeen men, was wrecked, Friday evening, at Chicaroicomico, N. C. The master and ten men were drowned. Six were saved. The vessel and cargo are a .total loss. The vessel is- broken up and strewn on the beach. ; The sale of trotters at Lexington, Ky., Thursday, was mosV phenomenal, the the sixty-dne head’bringing a total of $140,630. The price paid for Billy Boy is the highest ever paid for a horse in America, either trotter or thoroughbred. He was sold to J. H. Clark, of Elmira, N. Y., and J. H. Hopper, of Marionville, O. for $54,000. a 4 ? A monster meeting in favor of eight hours for a day’s work was held in New York, Saturday night. SeVerel speeches were made favorable to the object. Resolutions were adopted declaring that the existence of idle classes was a standing menace to the public and an insult to humanity. The resolutions further pledged workijjgmen to use all means (Consistent with human dignity to reduce hours of labor. News from a creditable source has been received that in the sparsely settled country around Aitkin, Minn., a few days since, two white children returning to their homes late in the after--noon from school, were attacked and .completely devoured by ravenous timber wolves, a few scattered bones and shreds of clothing alone remaining as horrible testimony* of the children’s fate. ' • The town of Belleaire, OhfoJs all torn, up over the question of tinaejhe Board of Education determined 'to change the city time, from sun to stanaard. The result was h clamor which was reflected.in the coftncil. An ordinance.was passed making it a misdemeanor to expose a time piece in public indicating any other than sun time. The Board bi Edu-

cation was arrested, and what will be the final outcome of this most momentous issue it is hard to determine. . There were two’deaths of notable persons on the 21st. James C. Flood, the Bonanza King, of California, died at London. England. Flood was born in Ireland ana came to America at an early age. He went to California in 1851. He formed a partnership with “Billy” O’Brien, both of whom, by their operations in mining property, became fabulously rich. Floodjmd O’Brien, Mackey and Fair, were the “big four’ of the Paciflc’coast. The other notable death was that of Dr. D. W. Bliss the physician who attended President Garfield during his last illness. At Dover, N. H., the jury in the Barker will case Friday returned a verdict sustaining the will. *The estate is valued at over $1,000,000. The testator stipulated in his will that his son Hiram should receive $5,000 a year till death, provided he does not become intoxicated. In ten years he may draw $250,000, and a like sum every succeeding ten years; but, incase he becomes intoxicated, he loses all. The son contested the will on the ground that his father was unduly prejudiced against him on account of his drinking habits, and that he was mentally incapacitated at the times of the making of the will. A train,was robbed near Pixley, Col., Saturday, Two men went on the engine and covered the engineer and fireman with revolvers. W hen about-two miles from the station the train was brought to a stop and three other men entered the express car and ordered the messenger to open the box, covering him with revolvers. Dynamite bombs were exploded under the car and during the excitement several passengers ran toward the front. Two of them were shot. E. S. Bentley, of Modesto, was probably fatally wounded and Charles Gabert, of Poso, was killed instantly. The amount secured by the robbers is unknown. Eleven hundred guests sat down to an elaborate spread at *the Detroit rink Friday night, the occasion being the annual banquet of the Michigan .club. Senator Palmer was the presiding officer of the evening. Gov. Luce delivered the address of welcome. The first speaker of the evening was the Hon. Warner Miller of New York, who spoke to the toast “The future of the Republican party;” the Hon. Jacob R. Galling of New Hampshire “Protection;” Gen. Charles Grosvenor of Ohio, “The Election of 1888;” Col. Clark E. Carr of Illinois, “The Day We Celebrate.” Letters of regret were read from Presidentelect Harrison and many others. Oscar M. Neebe, one of the anarchists in Joliet prison, has made a, strong appeal to Governor Fifer for pardon. In a personal letter, he reiterates his former denials that he had any connection With the Haymarket tragedy, and adds that no one more deeply regretted that occurrence than himself. He says he has always condemned, and does now, all means contrary to law in promoting the interests of the working classes. He adds that whatever imprudence or folly may have been committed by him in organizing labor unions he has been amply punished for, and asks more for the sake of his motherless childreh than his own that the Governor remit the remainder of his sentence. Neebe closes with the statement that he shall, if he regains his liberty, become a lawabiding citizen.

FOREIGN. William O’Brien has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. The Eiffel tower is 935 feet high. It will be completed within two weeks. \ The Montreal Knights of Labor are protesting against any increase in the duty on American, flpur. Four German iron-clads which lately arrived at Genoa were ordered, Friday, to proceed to Samoa immediately. " Avalanches have destroyed the village of Nivellet and killed fdUr persons and injured many others in St. Michael, Savoy. Bismarck is reported to have said that the Samoan troubles will not affect the friendly feeling between the United States and Germany. A report from Hayti, received on the 22d, gives particulars of the defeat of Hyppolite’s forces by Legitime’s, with a loss of 200 or 300 killed. A rumor is prevalent that Hyppolite himself was killed. Pigott, the Times’s chief witness before the Parnell Commission, broke down completely, Friday, find virtually admitted that much of his testimony was false. The Tmtes case has collapsed. At the request of President Carnot, of France,"M. Tirard has succeeded in forming a cabinet as follows: M. Tirard, Premier and Minister of Commerce; M, Constans, Minister of the Interior; M. Rouviers, Minister of Finance; M. Failieres, Minister of Education; M. Faye, Minister of Agriculture; M. Guesguyot, Minister of Public Works; M. Freycinct, Minister of War; Admiral Saures, Minister’of Marine; M. DeCourcel, Minister of Foreign Affairs.

DISTRESS IN CHEE FOO.

The China steamer which arrived at San Francisco, Thursday, brought news df the great snow storm in Chee Foo, China. Over a million .and a half of people in the province are starving and riotp occur daily. Missionaries have been attacked by mobs of Chinese, led by the gentry. On February 2 a great fire broke out in Shidsnoki, Japan, extending down fourteen streets, and destroyed 1,000 houses, including temples, schools am 1 hospitals. On the following day at Yokosuka gutted 500 houses r nd bn, tied to death three men. On the same day ten houses were destroyed at Uoshiu and fifteen at Tokio.'' V" The great West is to be represented at -General Harrison’s inauguration by a genuine cow-bov brigade. The nucleus of the brigade,’ providing there is no hitch, will be one hundred leading citizens of Denver, wtm are about equally interested in" politics. cattle and mining. ~ Bids for the /construction of the armored cruiser, Maine, were opened at .Washington on the 25th ult. The Maine will carry twenty-five guns and cosS of hull and machinery about $2,844,500. It is expected to require two years to build her. The Inauguration Committee announce that there will be plenty of accommodations, at reasonable prices, for nt,rangers during the inauguration.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Bedford is now a city. Goshen wants a normal. Measles rage near Terhune. Muncie wants a Work House. ’ —\ Sugar camps have been opened. Anderson gimblers are being raided. The Terre Haute Rifles will join the State militia. A Methodist revival at Peru has resulted so far in 261 conversions. Frank L. Sawyer, a prominent business man of Seymour, is dead. ' The religious revival at Lyons resulted in sixty-six church accessions. Francis Murphy will begin temperance work at Loganooort, shortly. Gee. R. Smith’s $4,000 residence, near Shelbyville, was destroyed by fire. Michigan City has eleven firms exclusively engaged in handling fish. <■ Foxes were never known to be so numerous as now in Morgan county. Col. Martin Adams, who has resided in Clark county since 1808, is fatally ill. Mrs. Anna O. Lakin, Grand Matron, order of the Eastern Star, died at Terre Haute, Tuesday. J. E. Smith, forger and horse ’’thief was sent north from Wabash on the 25th for four years. Charles Vail, of Madison, has been an undertaker since 1826, and claims to have buried 20,000 bodies. John T. Swift, aged 72 and Mrs. Nancy Walker, 52, north people of Seymour were married on the 26th. It is proposed to erect a coal palace in Evansville, as one means of advertising the business advantages of that place. Walter Evans, an aged negro of Clark county, is the father of thirty-one children, eight of whom are still with him. . »

Charles Johnson, of Bryantsburg, twelve months ago sprained his ankle. Quite recently his leg w‘as amputated in consequence. Mueller’s bakery at Shelbyville burned, Saturday morning, and Frank Tolgeth, a baker, lost his life. He was asleep in the building. ' \ _ John Reno, one of the notorious Renos, has applied for a liquor license at Seymour, and his application is meeting witl great objection. Julius Kroll, ot Porter county’ has found the remains of a mastodon on his farm. One of the teeth is in good condition and weighs nine pounds. There was a boiler explosion near Millersburg, on Saturday, resulting in the death of Charles Skeels, of Evansville, the engineer. Pieces of the boilor were blown several hundred yards away. Sylvester Grubbs, the condemed murderer, under sentence of death at Vincennes, wants no appeal made for executive clemency, saying that if he can not be given Ibis liberty, he prefers to be executed. The Supreme Court decided, Saturday, that bicycles are vehicles and must be kept off the sidewalk. A .singular fact in connection with this decision is that it was handed down almost in the same hour that Judge Coffey, of that tribunal, was struck by one of these bestrode by a careless “vehiclist,” and severely injured. Henry Strohm, of New Paris, the young man who left home and shipped on a whaler at San Francisco, and was wrecked on the Phillipine Islands, undergoing extraordinary adventures with the savages before his fras again reached home. His trip covered' ’ two years, and his sufferings enlisted Secretary Bayard in his behalf. It is claimed that Clark county is rapidly becoming the greatest fruit growing section west of the Alleghanies and east of California. During the past season 30.000 peach trees were planted and capitalists are preparing to establish a large canning factory either at Memphis, New Providence or HenryOver two years ago Adolph Wysong’s boy crowded a piece of leather up his nose, where it remained until a few days ago. Meanwhile his parants were put to great expense, doctoring him for nasal trouble, and it was only by accident that the real cause was discovered. Since its removal the boy has flourished. —lndianapolis News. While the Freshmen of Wabash College were banqueting, Friday night, mischievous Sophmores laid out a line of hose, and as the former came out of the banqueting hall they were met with a stream of freezing cold water, thoroughly drenching them. A young man named Christian, of Indianapolis, is said to have been dangerously prostrated by the nervous shock. , Several weeks ago five person’s were taken suddenly ill after drinking water frontea well on the farm of James Owens, in Park county, since which time three have died, while the others are still sick. An analysis of the water has been made by Professor Coulter, of Wabash College, and it was found to be fairly swarming with a peculiar microbe, a germ that produces typhoid fever. Fred. Hoffman,-a farmer, near Kingston, was found dead in bed Friday. Last Christmas he told his wife he would die on New Year’s; and again, last Friday, that he would die on his birthday. Friday was his fifty-ninth anniversary. Previously to going to his room lie took some kind of medicine, and when found by his wife he was lying dead on the floor, with blood running from his nose and ears. Thomas Locke, a country school teacher near-Peru, had trouble with his scholars which culminated a month ago by the pupils refusing to attend school. Since then the teacher has gone regularly to the school building, onened it, gazed all day long at the empty benches and put in his claim for salary. He refuses tp quit, and, as no charges have been preferred against him, the trustee cannot dismiss him or refuse him his salary when due. Patents were Tuesday issued to Hie following Indiana inventors: Buzay, F. T., and a H. Snyder, South Bend, automatic fan; Caldwell, W. L., Indianapolis, advertising device; Creed, W. H.,Manilla, gate; Hoagland, 1., Indianapolis, car wheel; King, 0. C., Montezuma, dumping Car; Mawhood, J. D., Richmond, roller mill; Parry, D- M. and ,T. H.. Indianapolis, two-wheeled vehicles; VanCamp, G., Geneva, weast yoke; Young, F. A., Aurora, wagon brake. ' Nearly a hundred of Indiana Union Soldiers who participated in the siege of Vicksburg, met at Indianapolis, Friday,

and perfected? an organization by the election of the following officers: President— Alvia P. Hovey. First Vice President—W. 8. Shurman. Second Vice President—R. A. Cannon. Third Vice President—A. J. Smith. Fourth Vice President—T. J. Lucas. Fifth Vice President—G. F. McGinnis. Sixth Vice President—J. W. Readington. Seventh Vice President—N. A. Logan • Secretary—C. W. Brouse. Assistant Secretary— J. C. Wheat Second Assistant Secretary—W. C. Lamb. Corresponding-B. Campbell. Treasurer—Nimrod Headington. Reaolutions were adopted expressive of the ggntiments of the members on nensions, past and to come. Hardscrabble, a little hamlet in Jefferson county, was the scene, one night last week, of one of the most despicable raids yet made by tfie “White Caps” in that section of the State; the cowardly ruffians breaking into Willard Davis’s home late at night and tarring and feathering his wife. Tillie Davis, while he himself, was subjected to great indignity. A search was made for Emeline Davis, the divorced wife of his brother, but she escaped from the house and was afterward found nearly frozen to death; she having taken refuge in a small cabin. The cause of the outrage wap due to the fact that the conduct of the women was not approved. J. C. Bladen, of the same county, whom some gossiping woman accused of mistreating his child was also raided by the “White Caps,” who switched him and then made him run in a circle onthe frozen ground, crawl on his hands and knees and do other unpleasant things, Thomas Brayton, same county, accused of mistreatin his family, was also mobbed quite recently. Mention has been made of the tribulations attending the efforts of some Mormon missionaries to proselyte in a strip of country embracing portions of Dubois, Crawford, Lawrence and Harrison counties, where “White Caps” formerly flourished vigorously. These missionaries preposterously > claimed that they could make the lame walk, the blind, see, and could resurrect the dead, and two of them penetrated into Dubois county and boldly proclaimed that they were divinely appointed apostles of God, specially commissioned to bring a lost world back to the Mormon faith. The also professed to work miracles, and people for miles around gathered to see them restore to sight au old woman who had been, blind for half a century. The miracle failed, and the missionaries claimed it was due to the feebleness of the patient. Meanwhile the old lady was wrought to the highest pitch of excitement, and nervous prostration incident upon the discovery of the deception practiced was too much, and she sank with nervous prostration, and was reported in a dying condition. On Friday the Mormons were warned to leave the neighborhood, which they refused to do.' Friday night there was another conference, and while the elders were bidding defiance to the warnings which had been received, they were seized by masked men. Some converts who attempted to interfere were clubbed away, and the captives were taken to the woods and stripped, after which fifty lashes were administered. During the entire castigation the Mormons kneeled and continued in prayer. After the beating, notice was given that if found in that locality by daylight they would be hung. Elder Williams, one ot them, made his way to Winslow, twenty-four miles distant, arriving thoroughly exhausted, and in a pitiable condition. He left his companion by the wayside, the latter being unable to proceed further, and it is reported that he died from exposure and the effect of the punishment received.—lndianapolis News.

HURLED TO DEATH .

A Terrible Catastrophe at Plymouth, Pa. A terrible disaster occurred at Plymouth, Pa., Monday, by which the souls of ten girls and one man ware hurled into eternity. Back of the Gaylord shaft stood the factory of John Powell, used for the manufacture of squibs, used by the miners for looseningcoal in the pines. The factory employed eighty-four girls, ranging from twelve to twenty years in age, and several male workmen. Wnile the majority of the girls were at their homes eating dinner the people were startled by the deafening thunders of a terrific explosion. They rushed terror-stricken to their doors and windows and in the distance saw clouds of smoke ascending from the squib factory. Soon a large crowd gathered around it, and women .began wringing their hands and men turned away from the sight presented when the charred body of a young girl was seen lying in one of the rooms, and the fact became known that many persons were in the building At the time of the explosion, eating their noonday lunch. The scene was fraught with terror, as the girls, some of them bleeding, others gasping for a few breaths of fresh air, rushed to the windows and screamed frantically for help. About this time a dozen miners from the adjoining colliery came upon the scene, and as soon as they saw the bleeding forms of the girls, called for aid and rushed toward the building in a body, but A fate prevented their proffered sficcor. As scon as they stenped near the door another terrific explosion took place andthe entire building collapsed, burying ini the mins the forms that a moment before Stood crying for assistance. The braver of the men, when the smoke ana-flying debris had settled rushed among the ruins and one by one the bodies were found and taken out, charred beyond recognition, bleeding; and mangled. As mothers saw and recognized some familiar token or piece of dress by which they could tell their loved ones, the scene was one that represented the extreme throes of sorrow and destruction. The bodies, as fast as they were taken out, were removed to an undertaking establishment and placed in a row. Their features were so badly mutilated that they were scarcely recosmizable. The cause of the explosion is a mystery. Powell says the squibs piled in a box must have exploded from spontaneous combustion. He says he never allowed any large quantities of powder in the building. When powder was wanted it was taken from the magazine slj()O yards away. Experts, however, claim that there must have been powder in the building or the force of the explosion would not have been ,so great. There were three stoves in the building. It is stated that on several oecasions the girls, in order to have a lite tie fun, would place powder on a stoves “just to see it shoot off.”