Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1889 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. Mrs. LangtryirveryilL A leather trust is forming. Wyoming wants statehood. The Chicago police are still finding Tascott. Oil has been discovered near Ctnijeharie, N. Y. Sullivan was in Chicago, Saturdaydrunk as usual. At Atlanta, Ga., Jake Morris laughed himself to death. Felix Keys, colored, a wife-slayer,was hanged at Lafayette, La. Jem Smith has challenged Sullivan to fight in Europe at £I,OOO a side. Maurice B. Flynn, a well known New York politician, died, Thursday. Governors Taylor, of Tenn., and Gordon, of Ga., are sassing each other* The sugar trust may be knocked out by a treaty of reciprocity with Cuba. An earthquake shocked Charleston, S. C., for ten seconds Thursday evening. Julius Lust, of Circleville, 0., threw stones at a train and is in jail in consequence. The assets of old Dakota are to be divided between the North and South divisions. The jail at Jacksonville, Oregon, was burned, Friday, and three prisoners sufiocated. Wednesday was the first day since the flood that no bodies were found at Johnstown. - Edmund Rice, Democratic Congressman from the St. Paul, Minn., district, died, Thursday. The total amount of relief distributed in the Conemaugh Valley to date amounts to $2,200,000.

Mrs. John Tyler, wife of the exPresident, died at Richmond, Ya., Wednesday, aged 79 years. Three men were killed Tuesday in a freight wreck on the Pennsylvania railroad at Wilmending, Pa. Forty-six firms, representing 28,000 employes, have signed the iron scale of the" Amalgamated Association. A quarrel over a 15-cent box of paint caused the murder ot Dan Jewell at Henderson, Ky., Thursday. The price of sugar is rapidly going up tbe price now being 100 per cent, more than three months ago. The trust is doing it. The will of the late Simon Cameron has been admitted to probate at Harrisburg, Pa. Hiß estate is worth about $1,700,000. It is reported that H. 11. Warner & Co. are negotiating for the sale of their proprietary medicine business to English capitalists. ...... The total loss at Johnstown, including individual losses, and the loss of boroughs, schools, private corporations, etc, is $7,894,064. John Calborn, late deputy collector at Omaha, son of the collector, is $7,000 short, and will be criminally prosecuted for embezzlement. Judge Tilley, in a Chicago court, refused to release John F. Beggs, one of the defendants in the Cronin case, on a writ of habeas corpus. Burke,arrested at Winnipeg,Manitoba, for participation in the Cronin murder, has oeen extadited, or at least an order entered to that effpct. The one hundn dih anniversary of the fall of the Bastile was celebrated in New York, Sunday, by French residents, also throughout France. Fire broke out in a bakery at Fresno, Cal., Friday morning, and destroyed half a block of brick buildings. Loss $200,000; insurance SIOO,OOO. It is discovered that there is a bridge building trust composed of 160 members. There is no bridge builder of note in the country who does not belong to the trust. *• The W. C. T. U. has issued an address to the Christian Temperance women of the world calling for memorial meetings in recognition of the temperance work of Mrs. Hayes. Three women-slayers, Patrick Packenham, James Nolan and John Lewis, were sentenced to be hanged in New York Tuesday. The date oi execution was fixed for August 23. Rev. Monroe Drew, an over-zealous young minister, declared that there was not a virtuous woman in Le Claire, Mich., where he was a pastor, which raised such a row that ne fled the town.

Threatened troubles at the Homestead Mills (Carnegie, Phipps & Co.), Pittsburg, has been averted by a compromise. A general reduction in wages is the result, but not so heavy as was demanded by the firm. A dispatch from Cleveland, 0., says: The New York, Lake Erie & Western Tuesday, announced a reduction in the rate on corn and wheat, from Chicago to New York only, from 26c to 20c, the new rate to take effect July 12. Every business house and forty dwellings in Bakersfield, CaL, was destroyed bv fire, Sunday. Loss, $1,000,000 or over. The town has 6,000 population. At Geneva, 0., eight business houses were burned. Loss, $25,000. At Eureka, Nev., the Eureka Smelting Works. Loss, $75,000. At Blackmar, near East Saginaw, Mich., Charles Blackmar, while drunk, shot his mother, seventy-five years old. A grandson of the woman seized the gun an <1 discharged its contents into Charles’s breast. Mother and son are probably dying. J The engagement is announced of Miss Gevendoiine Caldwell, an American lady, to Prince Marat, of France. Miss Caldwell is considered the founder of the proposed Catholic university of America, at Washington, to which she gave $200,000. In the inquest over the body of the boy Fitzsimmons, killed in Saturday’s riot at Duluth, the jury found that he met his death at the hands of persons unknown, and that he took no part in the riot The six rioters now in jail will get penitentiary sentences. Fire Monday in the business part of Carson, la., destroyed an entire block with the exception of one building. Men, women and children turned out to carry water, and by covering exposed buildings with wet carpets, the fire was held in one bleck. Loss is about $62,000 insurance $25,000, John L. Sullivan sobered up sufficiently Wednesday morning to leave New

Orleans. He Celebrated his victory, Tuesday night, by getting drunk. There is bitter feeling against Kilrain for going into the ring sick, as he was found to be, Tuesday. It is hinted that the fight was “put up,” but there is no color to the report. The of Kilrain’s movements were not correct. From Columbus he went to Edinburg, thence througn Shelby county to Noblesville. He there took a Pan Handle train for Chicago, reaching there Sunday morning, penniless . and in a dilapidated condition. Sunday evening he went to * A cable car at Cincinnati, Sunday, became unmanageable while running down bill. It was heavily loaded. It acquired a speed of eighteen miles an hour, when the brake chain broke. A panic ensued and the passengers made an effort to escape by j umping. Two of them were killed and several others severely injured. The disagreement between the managers of the G. A. R. and the railroad companies has culminated in an absolute refusal on the part of the latter to meet the rate, 1 cent a mile, demanded. The National encampment, therefore, will be a delegate meeting onlv, and circulars are out advising G. A. R. men, not delegates, to remain away. A dispatch from Springfield, 111., says: The Acting Secretary of the State Board of Health was notified Wednesday bv A. J, Crews, of Pike county, that a disease resembling dysentery has been prevalent there for the last two weeks and has now become epidemic, especially fatal among children. Several deaths are already reported and a number are in a dangerous condition. The board will make an investigation into ths matter at once.

The Mayor of Cincinnati has directed the police to enforce the law against performing common labor on Sunday by arresting all grocers, tobacconists, ice cream and soda stand proprietors, barbers, etc. The order does not contemplate interference with street cars or newspaper work, as the Mayor regards these as a necessity. This action is taken at the request of an organization which is hostile to the movement and the closing of saloons on -Sunday. • The Ohio Republican State Committee has organized with A. Brimsmade.Cieveland, Chairman, and A. W. Kumler, Dayton, Secretary. The State Executive Committee is A. L. Conger, Axron, Chairman; John M. Doane, Columbus, Secretary; George W. Sinks, Columbus, Treasurer; Asa S. Bushnell, Springfield, Geo: K. Nash, Coiumbus; A. C. Hurd, Cleveland; G. H. Ketcham, Toledo; C. L. Maxwell, Xenia; Amoß Smith, Cincinnati; S. C. Johnson, Columbus, and C. L. Kurtz, Athens. A special from Birmingham, Ala, says; Marion Strong, a negro, who can neither read nor write, has been appointed postmaster at Delmar, Winston county. A Democrat was removed from the office, and there were several white Republican applicants for the place. There are only two negro voters in Winston county, but the county has given a Republican majority in every State, county and National election since the war. Nearly every white man in the county is a Republican, and the appointment has raised a storm of indignation. A vigorous protest from the white Republicans of the county will be forwarded to Washington at once, A dispatch from Atchison, Kas., Thursday, says: The Sac and Fox Indian reservation in Kansas, on the Nebraska line, just north of Donoplian and Brown counties, has become the resort for thugs, thieves, murderers horse thieves and desperadoes. They carry on their warfare so boldly and successfully against the honest farmers that an effort will be made to have the reservation removed. Farmers and everybody are held up, robbed and sometimes murdered. A few days ago two farmers were held ud and robbed of everything they had. The inhabitants live in mortal terror of these criminals.

The provisions of the United States statutes against the importation of contract laborers are tolerably well understood throughout Europe by this time, and circulars have been dispatched by the steamship lines to immigration agents in the interior to instruct prospective, passengers as to the answers they must make to impertinent questions propounded by the authorities on their arrival at American ports. It is safe to say that the law will be successfully evaded henceforth. The lines running to Canadian ports anticipate a largely increased business in the future, and many who were refused a landing at New York and Boston have taken this indirect route to the States. The principal increase to their traffic will, however, come from assisted immigration, which is assuming serious proportions. The undesirable classes sent away from Ireland and England by poor law guardians, and the societies formed for that purpose are directed to. Quebec and thence across the line, thus evading any inquiry as to their Btatus. The famous Oneida Community, established in 1834 by John Humphrey Noyes at Oneida, N. Y., has been in litigation for some time, and a motion for its dissolution was made ; b G. Hail, Wednesday, before referee W. W. Waters, of Syracuse, N. Y. The motion has been brought by C. A. Burt, one of the members of the community. In his complaint he sets forth that in 1884 the plan of the community was changed, and that from an association, in which each member had an equal share and lived togother under one roof, it has become, under the new management, a corporation in which membership is simply represented by a certain number of snares of stock. This transformation, Mr. Burt argues, is contrary to the intention’ of the founder, John Humphrey Noyes, and, as a consequence of the departure from the old method of living, the stock has passed into the hands of a trust, and the interest of individual members has been gobbled np by certain capitalists. He therefore asks for an accounting, a receivership and a dissolution of the corporation;

Foreign. Berlin bakers are on a strike. The Pope will remain in Rome. Four thous and Vienna weavers are a a strike. - Mr. Parnell authorizes the announcement that the Irish party will immedately forma tenants’defense league for protection against the landlord syndicate. Conventions will be summoned throughout Ireland. The movement will be worked on the lines which Mr. William O’Brien has laid down. _; _ . * **

THE STATE CAPITAL.

THE NEW SCHOOL BOOK LAW. The Ind iana School Book Commission decided, Wednesday, to accept the bid of the Indiana School Book Publishing Company. The report of the committee, to whom it had been submitted, comprised six resolutions. The first declared in favor of rejecting all manuscripts submitted, for the reason that the board had no funds with which to advertise for bids for the publication of books. Resolution No. 2 favored the acceptance of the bid of the Indiana School Book Company to furnish geographies (elementary and complete.) The third resolution favored the acceptance of the series of arithmetics proposed by the Indiana Company.' Resolution No. 4 declared in favor of awarding tbe contract to furnish copy books to the Bowen-Merrill Company of Indianapolis. The next resolution proposed the rejection of the Spelling book offered by the Indiana School Book Company on the ground that it was not equal in size to the standard named in the law. The sixth resolution favored the acceptance of the series of readers offered by the Indiana School Book Company. All o the resolutions were adopted, Supt LaFollette alone voting in two instances in the negative. The resolution accepting geographies stipulated that the Indiana School Book Company should comply with the promise in its bid to add a map of Indiana to the book, and to insert maps of the new States as soon as they are admitted. R. C. Bell, of Fort Wayne, attorney for the company, in a brief statement to the Board, said that the company would keep every promise it had made, and comply with the law honestly and without any quibbling about technicalities. The board has now reached the end of its possibilities, and histories, grammars, physiologies and spellers are unprovided for. Under the decision of the Attorney General it will be impossible to advertise for additional bids until the Legislature has met again and made an appropriation to defray the expense of advertising.

Tfie County Superintendents of the State are being notified through the Department of Education that they must now give an additional bond to the Commissioners of their respective counties, as required by the text-book law. The bona to be given is SIOO for each one thousand inhabitants of a county. The Superintendents have a month, after Governor Hovev issues his proclamation declaring the law in force, in which to file their bonds. A great many people, it seems, have misinterpreted the exchange proposition in the bid of the Indiana School-book Company, ff’he exchange prices named are not the amounts at which the old books are valued, but the new ones. For instance, the price of a complete new geography is 75 cants; if the old book (which has been costing $1) is exchanged, the new book will cost 74 cents. Instead of the new book costing from one to five cents, where exchanges are made, but from one to five cents will be allowed for the old books by the company, _

A MODERN CHRIST.

His Success in Gulling Negroes and Inducing Them to Pay 85 a Pair for Angel Wings. Liberty county, Ga., is greatly excited over the proceedings of a man calling himself Dupont Bell, who claims to be the new Messiah, and hails from Circleville, 0. He is a tall, sallow individual, ytith long, black hair, and has succeeded in working the negroes of that section np to snch a point that white people are afraid of serious trouble. Senator Bradwell, who lives at Hinesville, has been kept informed as to the latest developments in the case. “This man Bell,” he said, “appeared suddenly in Liberty county six weeks ago. He proclaimed himself to be the Son of God, and the negroes at once went mad over him. They deserted their fields to follow him, and to listen tohisrantings, and now things are so bad that it is impotable to get hands on the plantations near Riceborough, and some of the crops are being ruined. The negroes kneel before him, and struggle with each other for the privilege of kissing his feet. He has told them that the judgment will be here the 16th of August. He says that the white people have enjoyed their paradise on earth for the past eighteen centuries, and now it will be the black man’s turn. On the eagerly-looked-for 16th evenr white man will be turned black and every black man will become white. This prospect can not be cheering to Bell, wnose skin is white. He Bays his body was born thirty years ago'in Ohio, bat his soul has lived since the world began. On the 28th of June he was arrested on the charge of vagrancy, but it was impossible to hold nim on such a charge, as he had a quantity of money in his possession.” His schemes for raising money are varied and peculiar. The last effort of his genius was to declare that he had sent to his august father for a consignment of wings, which the negroes will need oh and after the 16th of August There was a comer on wings when his requisition reached heaven and the Almighty was only able to send him 360 Rairs. These, he claimed, would be devered on the judgment day, and in the meantime he would sell them at $5 a pair. Every pair haa oeen bought and paid for, and now the lucky ones are practicing the flying motions. He thinks his father may he able to send him a few more pairs before the great day. .

WASHINGTON NOTES.

The Government has demanded a rate of one mill a word from the telegraph companies. A report that Mr. Blaine is about to resign is denied. His health, however, is conceded to be poor. John 0. Morton, son ol the late ex* Gov. Morton, has been appointed Shipping Commissioner at San Francisco. The Sac and Fox Indian reservation in Kansas is said to have become the resort of thugs, thieves, murderers and horse-thieves, and efforts will be made to purify it It is not longer doubted that there will be ah extra session of Congress called for the Ist of November. The

President is said to have told several people who have called to bid him good-by, within the last few days, that he would call them, baek here in October. Thomas C. Mendenhall has been appointed Superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Henfy W. Diederich, of Indiana, Consul toLeipsic. Mr. Mendenhall is President of theJßose Polytechnic Institute at Terre Haute. The Pension Office recently granted a claim for a pension filed by George Hindson, but only allowed the attorney in the case $8 as his fee, notwithstanding he produced an agreement between the claimant and himself by which he was to receive $26. The attorney took an appeal to the Assistant Secretary of the Interior, and in a long opinion, made public Thursday, the Assistant Secretary overrules the action of the Pension Office, and allows the full amount contained in the agreement. He says that the reason assigned by the Pension Office—that $8 was considered an equitable amount as a fee, taking into consideration the amount of money received on the certificate (sßo)—may comport with an appreciative sense of the client’s needs, but it has no recognition in any part of the Jaw bearing npon the agreement. This is considered a very important decision, affecting a large number of cases, and it reverses the practice of the Pension Burean in this respect. Assistant Secretary Bussey, of the Interior Department, has rendered a decision reversing the action of the Pension Office in rejecting the claim of Solomon Dudley, late private of Company C., First Tennessee Light Artillery. Dudley’s claim for a pension alleged that while using a gun-barrel for a poker at a fire, in making coffee for a squad of men near Nashville, Tenn., in February, 1865, it exploded and wounded him in the upper third of the right arm. The question in the case to be considered and decided, according to Mr. Bussey, is whether the claimant was in the line of duty when he was hurt or whether the wound was the result of culpable negligence on fiis part. Mr. Bussey holds that the soldier was performing a duty that was pioperly required of Mm when the accident occurea, and in using for a poker the apparently empty gun-barrel he did a natural and reasonable thing, The supposition, he says, that he (the soldier) used the gun-barrel for the purpose indicated in a careless or culpable way is not consistent with the promptings of self-preservation and can hot be fairly entertained.

SULLIVAN IS ARRESTED

The Big Slugger Taken into Custody at Nashville. He Makes Ready to Strike a Policeman but Changes His Mind. When the north bound L. & N. train pulled into Nashville, Tenn., at 10:33 Thursday morning, a crowd of people surged around the car to see John L, Sullivan, who was known to be on board. A rumor soon obtained circulation that a requisition was in the hands of the police, several of whom had boarded the car. Some discussion and finally a struggle was seen in the car, and an officer reached over with handcuffs in his hand, and seizing the slugger’s arm pulled him out into the aisle of the car.

Sullivan resisted. Mike Muldoon, who occupied the same seat, put his head out of the window and cried to the crowd: “Gentlemen, I demand American protection.” His patriotic wail was greeted with a variety of responses. Some cheered Sullivan and begged him to “knock the coppers out;” others cried, “Hurrah for the Nashville police,” “Hit him with your club,” etc. One youngster who was hanging on the outside of the car window, ducked his head behind the sill and informed the crowd that “the cops have eat their sans.” After a brief struggle, Sullivan was taken from the car and harried to a carriage. In the scuffle he drew back to knock down a policeman, when Chief Clack stuck a pistol in his face and told him if heßtrnck, he, Clack, would kill him. The officers next grabbed Charley Johnson, of Brooklyn, Bnllivan’s backer, who resisted vigorously, but finally began to cry with pain. Daring all this scrimmage Muldoon sat quietly by and was undisturbed. Mike Cleary, Sullivan’s other second, hid, in the’ excitement, and another named Lynch jumped off the train. Only Johnson and Snllivan were detained though the others weie wanted. The arrest was made by the authority of a telegram from Governor Lowry, of Mississippi, to tne Nashville police. Sullivan has retained ex-Attorney General W. H. Washington, who says that the officers went beyond their authority and can not hold their men. An immediate attempt will be made to get the narties out on a writ of habeas corpus. Governor Lowry’s telegram offers a reward of 11,000, and it is believed that if released on the present charge Snllivan will be re-arrested in order tc secure time for a requisition to be obtained. Sullivan and party were at once taken before Jndge McAllister of the circuit court, on a petition for release on habeas corpus. Arguments were made and the Jndge granted the application. The party took the next train for the East The town was his nntil his train palled out...

Kilrain and party also had a hard time of it On reaching Seymour information was received that he was to be arrested in Cincinnati. The party left the train at Seymour, therefore, and went to Columbus. They went to the .hotel, and after two hours left the hotel by the back entrance and took a back, starting across the country. The sheriff, with his mouth watering for the reward of S6OO, soon arranged a posse, and an hour later started in pursuit. Kilrain and friends boarded a train at North Vernoa at midnight for Cincinnati. Lack of Experience Evident. Old Physician—“ What! You called in Dr. Blank during my absence? Why, ! he’s just out of college.” Patient—“lndeed! He certainly i» not a.young'man.” Old Physician--“No; he’s of middle age; but it’s plain to see he's new to this business. Why, I saw him this very i morning looking down in th« mouth just because he had lost a par tient—New York Weekly.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Com is reported in fine condition. Howard county rejoices in a good wheat harvest. New Albany Methodists are erectingra $30,000 church. New Albany epicures dote on English sparrow pie. A good yield of wheat is reported from Jack son county. Gass county saloon keepers have organized an association. 1 New Albany has found grounds suitable for an artificial lake. The corner stone of the State Soldiers’ Monument will be laid Ang. 22. New Albany’s fruit shipments, thus far, foot up in excess of $165,000. Dr. France, of Dunkirk, was fatally poisoned, Thursday, by eating canned hOOf.——: —* • - William Meyer, of Allen county, while harvesting, fell off the reaper and was killed. Charles W. Howey has succeeded Otto Herbst as postmaster of Fort Wayne. A heavy rain fall damaged Terre Haute and vicinity to the amount of $20,000. The Evansvtlle City Council has appropriated $260 in aid of the C’ay coonty miners. Mr. and Mrs. John Studebaker, of Bluffton, celebrated their golden wedding Tuesday.

“ The movement has been revived looking to the organization of a Board of Trade at Huntington. The Minneßeah Lakes, near Goshen, afford great fishing. Fine strings of alack bass are being caught. The Otis Iron and Steel Company, at Cleveland, 0., has been sold to an English syndicate for $4,500,000. The Ninth Indiana will “reune” at Laporte, Aug. 28. and the Fortieth Indiana at Crawfordsville, Sept. 12. O. W. Simons and family, of Huntington, ate heartily of cheese purchased at a neighboring grocery,and all were violently poisoned. Northern Indiana is apprised that John Oscar Henderson, of the Kokomo Dispatch, purposes standing as a candidate for State Auditor. Anthony Henderson, of Lagrange county, was killed last week by the recoil of a singletree, the trace breaking while he was driving a hay rake. Peter H. Bottorff, of Clark county, thrashed twenty-five acres of wheat, last Saturday, which yielded an average of forty-three bushels to the acre. A well developed male child, but with two distinct faces, was born to the family of Reuben Ryan, in Tipton county. The little one did not live. Four valuable horses belonging to George Rozelle were killed by a Panhandle train near Tipton, last Saturday. The animals were appraised at,s7oo. Many of the parrots at Goshen have begun to use profane language, and the owners pretend that it is a mystery where the birds picked up such taik.

Six hundred and seventy prisoners are confined in the Prison South, 173 of this number are employed in the shoe shop, where 500 pairs of shoes are made daily. John F. Cegan, postmaster at Terre Haute, retired Monday, having Berved one month over his appointed time of four years, and he is succeeded by David C. Greiner. The South Indiana peach crop has begun to move. It is extraordinarily fine. Wheat is turning oat unexpectedly well, some of the farmers getting a yield of forty-three bushels per acre. Horeee belonging to 0. M. Elder, Rev. E. T. Rawls and L. R. Elder, at Greensbnrg, afficted with glanders, have been killed by order of the State Veterian. and the quarantine on Elder’s stable has been raised. A number of valuable horses belonging to farmers near Corydon have died during the past few days of a mysterious disease, which terminates fatally only a few hoars after the animals are seized. Poisoning is suspected. Prof. F. M. Webster, of Purdue University, who has been looking up the “green midge,” near Goshen, declares that he finds small black bags following, destroying the midges, and that the work of the pta will soon be stopped. Nathan Haycock, William Hawkins and Mrs. Hawkins, of Bogard’s Park, in Crawford county, have been assaulted by “White Caps,” and it is reported that fifty lashes were administered to the men, and twenty-live to the woman. Samnel Tatem, the Ripley conntv farmer, who was convicted of dealing in counterfeit money, was sentenced on two counts, Tuesday morning. One sentence was ten months with a fine of SIOO, the Other of ten months with $lO fine.

Thomas Reynolds has been arrested at Peru on a charge of bnrglary. When arrested he was in the act of selling some goods. When taken to jail ana searched a complete burglar’s kit and three dozen pocket knives were found in his possession. Nathan Haycock, William Hawkin and Mrs. Hawkins, of Bogard’s Park, about seven miles southeast of ttmlieh. were whipped Tuesday night V the White Cape. The men received’ fifty ashes each and the woman twenty-five. The charge was general worthlessness. It is the object of the Btate tariff reform league to organize tarriff reform clnbs in every township in the State, and this organization will be completed as nearly as possible by November next. Tariff reform literature will then be sent to all the county seats and distributed to the township clnbe. The youngsters st Oorydon caught the mob !1W contagion, arising from the lynching of Deavin and Tennyson, and a lad named Canghlin,accused of stealing a knife from a comrade, was enticed into the woods, and wonld have been lynched by his companions, but for the accidental presence of a man, who stopped proceedings. In the Federal Court, Friday, Judge Woods sentenced George W. Howroy to two years and six months in Michigan City Prison and fined him SSO each on two indictments for passing counterfeit money. Mort Howels was fined S2OO and sentenced for five years for the same offense. There are two more of the Shelby county criminals. + Eighteen convicts in-the Prison Bouth

have been pardoned by Governor Hover, several of Whom had previously served sentences for grave offenses, and this is made the togt by the Jeffersonville News for a severe condemnation of the Governor’s leniency, which it Haim* “is a premium upon crime and an incentive to Crawford county lynch law.” The farmers are in arms against the Fort Wayne Pipe Line Company, growing ont of the fact that one farmer was dangerously injured by s natural gas explosion while lighting his pipe, and petitions are circulating and meetings are being held calling upon the County Commissioners to abate the line as a nuisance. The fanners and grain dealers of Bartholomew connty are feeling very mnch encouraged since the commencement of wheat threshing. The yield is surprisingly large and in this section will average tally thirty bashels to the acre. The grain is solid and plump, and does not seem to have been injured to any great extent by the green midge pest. The corn and oats give promise of a good crop. The Florida gar well, a few iniles north of Anderson, has been giving some extraordinary exhibitions. Within the past twenty-four hours great volumes of water and mud have ~bWHT thrown into the air some forty feet or more. This strange phenomenon lasts for ten minutes, when it subsides and remains dormant for six hours, when it erupts again. This remarkable freak is creating widespread interest. The Jones twin-freak was brought to Tipton Tuesday. Mr.;Jones has contracted with the citizens to remain in Tipton six months. He has his house rent paid by the people and receives all admittance fees {charged to see the wonderfully connected babies. The twins are called by some a monatrocity, but are nothing of the kind. They have quite an intelligent look, fine eyes perfectly developed nose and ears. Take them all in all, with the exception of their peculiar deformity, they are a fine pair of twins. An admission fee will be charged all visitors, and great crowds are looked for.

A new phase of the lightning rod swindle is being successfully worked throughout the State. An agent preesnts himself, claiming to represent the company originally putting up a rod, and saying that he is sent ottt to aee if it is in good working condition, and if not to repair the same free of cost. Of course the farmer is delighted,and when asked to sign what seemingly is a duElicate of the number of feet required, 6 attaches his signature. The signing is followed with the usnal disastrous result: the rod is not repaired, and the farmer finds an outstanding note in the hands of an “innocent party.” Wm. Puckett, a comparative stranger, last fall woed and won Nancy Gregory, of Daviess county, making* his home with his wife’s parents after the marriage, and soon established a reputation as a hard-working, thoroughgoing man. Recently his father-in-law was induced to deed him 100 acres of laud, which he was to mortgage and lift an impending indebtedness. Two hundred dollars of the debt was paid, and tbe other day Puckett suddenly disappeared, taking With him S3OO and the deed to the farm, and leaving his father-in-law in bad condition financially. The Washington Democrat gays that it has since been' discovered that Mr. Puckett .has four divorced wives living. Mrs. Mollie Corrin, of Shelbyville, who enjoys the distinction of having had more husbands than any other woman in the State, was almost murdered late Wednesday night by Charles Battles, who aspired to become her eighth husband. Since she divorced her last husband, Suttles has been a suitor for her hand, but lately there has been a coolness on her part toward him, and late Wednesday night he went to her honse, secured entrance to her room, where she was aslf ep, and awoke her. He first asked her if she would marry him, and on her refusal attacked her with a hatchet which he had concealed in his clothes, cutting her right hand to pieces and inflicting three terrible gashes on her head, one of them almost severing an ear. Leaving her for dead, he made good his escape. While not a beauty, Mollie mast have very winning ways, for she is now under bonds for shooting Gid Parmer and hia son, who, fascinated by her, attempted to force themselves into her house.

Little Elephants.

Two diminutive elephants arrived safely the other d iy in the British section of the universal exhibition, where they stand opposite each other, apparently guarding the entrance to one of the central courts. No household canary could possibly be tamer than these handsome little pachyderms, which are about five feet high and carry gorgeous howdahs, richly decorated, as well as Other trappings, with colored enamels and gold. Even the tusks, the points

of which have been sawn off, are profusely gilt

THE MARKETS.

Ihdianapolib, July, 15,1889. GBAIX. Wheat— Com— No. 2 Red 82 I No. 1 White SBf N 0.3 Red 78 No. 2 Ye110w...37* I Oats, White 27* litb ROCK. Cattle— Good to choice 3.9004.00 Choice heifers 3.00(43.00 Common to medium cows 1.75(42.85 Good to choieecows 2.7502.35 Hoes—Heavy ...... v ..... 4.25(44.40 Light r. 4.45(44:35 Mixed 4.30(44.36 Pigs I .4.5004A0 Shkp— Good to choice 4.00(44.26 Fair to medium 3.0003.76 HISCnXAXBOUS. Wool—Fine merino, washed .33(435 unwashed med 20022 very coarse 17018 coos, BtrrrxßjPOcivnrr: Egg 5........... 10c | Hens per ft* 8c Butter,ereamerylsc Boosters.... ...3c Fancy country....Bc Turkeys, 5c Choiee country...7c Feathers »35c Chicago. Wheat (July).... 79* Pork 11.32 Corn “ 36 Lard... 8.30 Oats “ 22 Ribs 6.77 Sew York—Wheat—2 red 88*; emu 421; oats. 27*. Philadelphia—Wheat, 86*; corn, 44; oats, 33. Baltimore—Wheat, 88; com 43*; oats, 33. J . Cincinnati—Wheat, 8C; earn, 39,>ots 26; rye, 48; pork, sl2; lard $6.10.