Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1889 — Page 3

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

V DOMESTIC. The straw-board trust has collapsed. Kilrain arrived in Baltimore Tuesday. The salt trust has a capital of sll,COO,OOO. Thrge murderers were legally hanged Tuea<§y. " igp-jE] Yellow fever has made itsuappearance at Coldn. f -'isjj Dakota’s wheat crop is 30,000,000 bushels short. Texas fever is playing havoc with Oklahoma cattle. At Atlanta, Ga., Jake Morris laughed himself death. A child Was killed bv a vicious cow near Paducah, Ky. "t A rain and wind storm nearly destroyed Princeton, Ohio, Monday. Louie Mntz was fatally gored by a bull near Youngetown,Ohio. Auditor Graham, of Warren county 0., is a defauitei to a large amount. Thirty Kansas City saloon keepers have -been-arrested for violating the law. % A boat capsized and three persons were drowned at Portsmouth, 0., Tuesday. At Cheyenup River Agency the Sioux Commissioners met with violent opposition Thursday. A paper trust has been formed in London and paper is expected to advance 2 per cent, at once. There were 209 business failures last week as against 240 for the corresponding week of last year. A boiler exploded at Washington, C. H. Ohio. Friday, killing two men and injuring many others. Champion Sullivan arrived in New ‘ York, Friday, still drunk. He immediately went into hiding. Wm. McKellop, a wealthy gentlemen oi Lansing, Mich., was worked for $4,000 by a gold-brick swindler. Dr. McDow, Captain Dawson’s slayer, was expelled from the South Carolina Medical Society Thursday. The great Fr nch painting “Angelus” has been purchased by the American Art Association for $106,000. T. J. Newald, a prominent politician of Chippewa Falls, Wis., raised $40,000 on bogus paper and fled to Canada. _:._The hay crop is a total failure in Dakota. The indications now are that a half crop of wheat will be realized.

Three hundred employes in the silk mills at Paterson, N. J., have struck against a reduction of 10 per cent, in wages. One hundred active military men of Georgia, have petitioned the Legislature to make one year’B military service compulsory. According to census taken by a directory the city of St. Paul has a population of 193,247, again of 61,850 since the census of 1885. A Company was organized in London Fri< a r, in the nature of a trust, for the pur h ise of the principal brickyards of the Lnited States. Four men claim to be duly authorized by the regularly elected Mayor of Newport, Ky., to act in his absence, and anally now prevails. Hon. A. N. Cole, publisher of the Genessee Valley Free Press, the first Republican paper published, died at Wellesville, N. Y., Tuesday. John E. Barton, known as the Gogebic Iron King, of Elkhorn, Wis., made an assi irnment Taesday. The liabilities are $825,000, far in excess of the assets. Dupont Bell, who chews tabacco and calls himself the Son of God, and who has been selling angels’ wings to Georgia negroes, has been placed In an insane asylum. Four Gainesville, Ga., boys conspired to rob a bank, intending to intimidate the cashier with a revolver. One of them turned informer, and they were captured by the police. The cotton crop along the Colorada River, in Texas, has been damaged] halt Ht-million dollars. At ColOtoinuFthe river is thirty-one feet high. Several lives are said to have been lost. Mrs. Mary Pillow, widow of the Confederate General, filed a bill for SIOO,OOO damages for defamation of character in the Circuit Court at Memphis, Tenn., Wednesday, against Col. Clay King. At an indignation meeting held in Johnstown, Pa., Governor Beaver’s management was denounced severely and a resolution passed asking custodians of money to forward it to the local Finance Committee. Myriads of shrimps, by eating out the oakum in the seams in a fleet of coal boats, neat Memphis, came near sinking the entire fleet. The ’coal alone with which the boats were loaded is valued at $175,000. A frightful accident occurred on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, a mile east of fctumokin, Pr., Wednesday evening, by two rnnaway cars colliding witn a passenger train. One man was killed, and several wonnded. An attempt was made at Oklohoma City, Tuesday, in defiance of local authority,' to hold a charter election. The Mayor, assisted by the U. 8. miliiary,took possession of the polling books and ballot boxes and prevented the election. A further attempt will be made in the future. It is all clear enough now. There is no ne«4 of calling a meeting of the Scientific Association. Even the weather service, on this one point, is superfluous. If you will look at the sun you will see that he has the spotted fever again and that’s what’s the matter with the weather. A special from Wareham, Mass., says: Ex-President Grover Cleveland will probably spend a week or more in the contemplative Dsstime of angling. He left here at JO. 29 Wednesday on his way to Havsmore, where, as the guest of Mr. John Knowlton, he will acquire a healthy tan, and probably additional -laurels as the lander of big fish. Albert Bulow was hanged at 1:48 a. m. Friday at Little Falls, Minn., in accordance with the new Minnesota law, which prescribes that executions shall take place between the houri of 1 and 4 a.m. The law limits tbb number of persons who shall witness tbe execution and there ware only thirteen persons' inside the inclosnre when the drop fell. Sulow met death bravely, and made no mfession. The law provides that newspapers shall publish only the Inure

rqM.A.i.LT. I . but all the Minneapolis and St. Panl papers contain full details of Bnlovr’aexecution SfitfT; >OREIGM.| ' • ? TlSbe Parnell!tea and their counsel have. Withdrawn from before the Parnell Commission. The trial » proceeding terflnd Russell B. Harrison. son of President Harrison, dined with fghOFrench Chamber of Deputies, by a vote of 461 to 12, Monday, a pproved j a hill providing for a credit of 59,000,000 francs, spread over five years, for the building of warships. Violent storms, accompanied by whiHwinds, prevailed- throughout Austria-Hungary, Monday. Heavy loss of life'and property are reported. Map y bridges 1 were destroyed, and railway traffic is seriously interrupted. The Emperor of Brazil attended a theatrical performance in Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday night. As His Majesty was leaving the theater at the conclusion of the performance a Portuguese fired a shot from a revolver at him. The bullet, however, missed the Emperor end he mx 'tained no injury whatever. The would be assassin was taken into custom y. Latest,estimates indicate that the India wheat crop is a failure and will cut no figure in the world’s supply. Bpain and Germany are the “only European countries that make favorable reports. Russia and Austro-Hungary will find it difficult to feed themselves, though heretofore greatly exporting countries. There will be demand for all the crop of the United States this year. Boulanger is summoned to appear within'ten days for trial upon charges of attempted revolution mid embezzlement. The latter charge relates to the purchase of camp bedsteads and other supplied for the troops, and to malversation of the funds of the war ministry. If he does not appear within twenty days he will be declared an outlaw and his property confiscated. Pope Leo XIII has sent an autograph letter to the authorities of Laval University thanking them and the citizens of Quebec for the resolutions adopted by them at the demonstration on April 23 last in favor of the rest oration of the temporal power of the Pope. His Holiness congratulates them not only upon their prudence, but upon the sagacity of their action, and says it is evident that they well understand how the impunity enjoyed by the enemies of the church is the source of improprieties in human society and of troubles to the State.

Counterfeiters Arrested.

Major Thomas B. Carter, Chief of the United States sentfee for Indiana, Captain E. Abbott and seven other secret service officers had a lively fight with counterfeiters whom they umre trvingto arrest in a hotel at Dayton, U., Wednesday night. One officer and one counterfeiter were severely wounded. The officers withdrawn revolvers approached the hotel from different directions and surrounded the building. Captain Abbott entered to make the arrests, when the principal counterfeiter escaped out the back way, and a running fight across the fields ensued, in wMich many shots were exchanged. Officer 8. A. Downella, of Virginia, was shot twice on the right side of the head, one ball following the skull to the back of the neck. The counterfeiter was wounded in the left ribs, near the heart, but how seriously can’t be said, as he either got away entirely or is lying in a large oats field near the Soldiers’ Home. Mounted officers are now scouring the country. Nearly fifty thousand dollars in tendollar counterfeit bills have already been discovered in the hotel with the plates, inks, etc., and the search is not ended. Nelson Driggs, proprietor of the hotel, is eighty years old. He is a noted counterfeiter, and has served several terms in various penitentiaries for making and shoving the queer. He is now in irons, and his wife and others are under arrest All that vicinity is* picketea by aimed officers. • spSs

Tons of Butter.

New York City is surfeited with butter. There are now 13,000,000 pounds litored away in that city and vicinity and the supply is increasing at the rate of 3,000,000 pounds per week. The end is not yet, for the country reports plenty of good feed and the cows are in a prosperous condition. Tht export trade, although pretty satisfactory, is not what it should be, and one merchant Dinted that the small amount of butter exported was, in a certain measure, due to dishonesty on the part of some exporters. Vile, adulterated stuff has been shipped to Europe apd sold as genuine American batter. The consumers were not slow in finding out the imposition, and the result was a prejudice against American butter. European dealers turned their eyes to other countries for their supply. It is true that most of the fine table batter remains ih this country, and most inferior grades and butter whose flavor has been affected are shipped to Europe, where they are skillfully doctored and improved. The average quantity exported from New York each week has been about 500,000 packages at this season of the year. During the past six days 860,000 pounds were exported.

A Virginia Cloud Burst.

A cloud burst at Parkersburg, W. VA, Friday, filled the Little Kanawha to overflowing and flooded the country. Immense damage was done, many buildings, bridges and'mills being carried away. Many boats were sank. Big Tygart. valley is completely rained. The big thill near its mouth went out and took the Tygart bridge with it. Jn the valley all the fences, crops and much live stock was lost At Chesterville half the residences were carried off bodily and left in corn fields. In Clay district, a fine church and three dwellings wera Wrecked. Hie steamer O’Neida was wrecked and sunk at Enterprise. The steamer C. 0. Martin wag sank at Burning Springs. The Little Tygart is also reported completely rained. The worst story of all comes from Morristown, where the olond-burst concentrated all its fury, coming down on the village about midnight and totally destroying it, together with many oHls people. The loss of life is eleven. The hqusea ot the citizens are ■aid to have been picked np and hurled against each other ih sudh short space of time that no chance to escape wa« -v-en the people.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Goshen will.have electricity. r Condon has passed a cow Ordinance. Bdgflars are rampant at Broad Ripple. : Sullivan county reports a fine yield of wheat r v> . .i . . Twenty oil weUi are being rank near Terre Haute. Major Doxey has contracted to pipe natural gas to Roshville. A heavy rain storm did much damage at Hartford City, Sunday. ;; Jas. Mcßride, of New Lisbon, fell from a hay mow and was killed. - ; r ._' Sixty Michigan City saloon keepers were arrested Monday for violating the liquor laws. Farmers living along creeks in Montgomery county are posting their lands against fishermen. Moses McClellan, aged 94, of Shannondale, is probably the oldest Odd Fellow in the State. _ . Benj. Thompson, of Marion, was sent to jail Monday tor forging his father's name to a note for $l5O. Emma Rouse, of Rockford, aged 12, was playing with a revolver, Sunday, and is dangerously wounded. Hon. Chas. L. Murray, a prominent Prohibitionist and an old newspaper man, died at South Bend, Monday. Peter Grebner damaged the affections of Miss Dora Christman,both well-to-do, of Laporte, to the amount,she estimates of $15,000. The Miami county butchers have organized to fight the new inspection law requiring cattle on the hoof to be inspected at theirexpense. ■Wolf Lake has a curiosity in the way of a ball nine, the young men composing the club being all of one name (Hile), and putting up a good game. Richmond, Noble and Union townships, Rush county, defeated the proposition to grant a subsidy to the Richmond & Evansville railroad.

Joe Stultz, in jail at New Albany, awaiting trial on a charge of subornation of perjury, was serenaded by a band of Louisville (Ky.) musicians the other night. The businep men of Monroeville are still continuing the boycott inaugurated against Hugh Stewart, recently appointed postmasteriTjmd an inspector is there, looking over the field. A gang of White Caps, in which some women were included, at Rochester, on Wednesday night, assaulted Mrs. Wm. Platt, ana other parties in the neighborhood were threatened. John Glenn, aged twelve, of Lebanon, pointed a gun loaded with bnckshot at Lewis Smith, aged twenty-two, and an* accidental discharge of the weapon fatally wounded Smith in the bowels. Adjutant General Ruckle has done for the Indiana militia what men with powerful influence couldn’t do for the Grand Army of the Republic—he has secured a one-cent rate for the round trip for all the militiamen of the State who attend the State encampment. The contract for the construction of the new sewer from the Northern Penitentiary to Lake Michigan was let Tuesday, an Elkhart firm securing the work. The contract price is a little over $9,000. ’Hie Legislature appropriated SIO,OOO with which to make tne improvement. The French brewery, owned by C. L. Centlivre, at Ft; Wayne, was destroyed by fire Tuesday night. Three men were badly injured. The loss will amount to $350,000 with only $20,000 insurance. Only Tuesday the English syndicate tried to get an option on the business for $400,000. According to the Tipton Advocate, D. F. Hedges volunteered to treat the widows in that place to ice cream on the Fourth, and sixty ladies took him at his word and presented themselves. The number appalled Mr. Hedges, and, slipping out of his office, he caught the first freight train and disappeared. The secret ballot which was taken among the miners ih Clay county, to determine whether the strike should end or be continued, was finished Fridav night, and the indications point to a decisive defeat for those not wishing longer to keep up the struggle, It is claimed that the preposition to go to work will be beaten four to one. Alexander Kendall, a farmer, aged thirty-five, near Wabash, was troubled with epilepsy, and, feeling an attack coming while working in a field, attempted to go home. As he stooped to unfasten the gate he was seized with a spasm, and he fell forward with his neck firmly fixed between two. jackets, and in this way was strangeledtodesth, although his mother, an aged woman, made most Btrenuous efforts to lift him off.

By way of statistics, it is stated by Charles A. Book waiter, secretary of the State Printing Bureau, that the last General Assembly used 93 quarts of ink, 37 q-arts df mucilage, 1,286 lead pencils, 2,016 pens, 225 ink. wells, 1,552 pen holders, 318 erasers; 18,144 papei fasteners, 2,209 sheets of blotting paper, 22,228 rubber bands, 971 pads of writing paper, 50 sheets to the pad; 149 waste baskets, 49 paper weights and 8,960 sheets of wrapping paper. Patents were issued to Indiana inventors, Tuesday, as follows: George M. Beck, Frankfort, washing machine; George J. Cline, Goshen, fence machine and corn-planter; Jas. Drishane, South Bend, curry-comb; Philip May, Terre Haute, latch; John R. Rankin, Indianapolis, printing machine; Albert C. Smith, Sardinia, seed-planter, Everett M. Thompson, Evansville, shipping case; Avery Vanwie," Indianapolis, shutter fastner. Friday night a mob of fifty farmers, in the vicinity of Fairville, who made no concealment of their purpose, gathered for the purpose of lyncMng Frank Brooks, a young man. for his betrayal of Clara Palmer, aged fifteen, daughter of a widow, the girl afterward dying of puerperal convulsions. Brooks heard of their coming, and escaped by leaving the country. Farmers, both of Wells and Blackford counties, were included in tbe raid, and Brooks was notified through his friends that if he ever returned he would be hang. / Nicholas Wmndermoth was found at Ligonier entirely disrobed, and he claimed that he had walked from Fort Wayne, and, becoming unconscious from lack of food, tramps had plundered Mm of everything. Sympathetic people immediatelv supplied his wants, rap nisMng clothing, food and money, and

playing thi* game everywhere he goes, a confederate taking his clothes and meeting him at an appointed place, where the plunder is divided and a new foray devised. wreck on the big pope, j A startling wreck eceured ontheßig Four road at New Point, near Gresnsburg late Thursday night. A freight train met with an accident a few miles south of Greensbui-g. One dar and a~ caboose had to be left, while the engine Mid train proceeded, intending to telegraph for and secure aid. When the freight train had gone a short distance it passed over an ugly bit of road, and then the engineer discovered that his train had broken in two. They were on arlong down grade and the wild cars behind were going at a great speed when he discovered wbat had occurred. The only thing for him to do was to open the throttle wide and keep ont pf the way of the flying cars pursuing him. The nearest place where he thought it possible to find safety was Bitesville. If he could gain on the cars behind sufficiently to give him time to get into a switch at Bateoville, they could be thrown from the track and, the danger averted. The engineer also realized that the express train was about due at Batesville. Here was a section of train with certain disaster if it slacked its speed, and still more terrible destruction ahead unless it could win in its race with the express train to reach Batesville. Bat fate was against the engineer. The ex press reached Batesville and passed on westward with no premonition of danger. A few miles out the trains met, both running at terrific speed. Then when contusion and ruin were supreme and the cries of scared people and the hiss of escaping steam filled the air, that portion of the freignt train which was coming down the grade\t lightning speed, of its own momentum, dashed into the heaped up wreckage. It is perhaps the worst disaster which ever befell the Big Four road. The destruction of cars and engines and track is great. As soon as the news of the calamity could be taken to a telegraph office, officers of the road were notified and a force of wreckers and phvsicians from Indianapolis was sent to the scene. No passengers were injured. The only person killed was a tramp, who was riding on the front of the mail car. He was horribly mangled. Fred G. Ketchum, a postal clerk, was crushed about the chest and abdomen and badly injured. The engineers and firemen jumped. -j —~

JACK THE RIPPER.

Another Mysterious Murder of a Woman at Whitechapel. One more in the series of mysterious murders occurred at Whitechapel, London, Wednesday night. This time the woman’s body was scarcely cold when she was discovered. The warm blood was flowing from the gashes in her body. A policeman was stalking about within fifty yards of the spot. Lights were moving in the windows of the adjacent tenement houses, but the murderer did his work so swiftly and silently that no one heard the victim’s cry. After holding the inquest on the body, the police appear to be as hopelessly in the dark as ever, and to have as little prospect of catching the criminal as when the first of the murdered women was found bleeding in the street. In the matter of details this murder differs very little from the others. It is true that there are no such revolting mutilations bat everything goes to show that this is simply because the a sassin had been interrupted in Mb work, being frightened by a drunken peddler, who had stopped to wrangle with the policeman on the beat. A correspondent saw the body of the victim in the mortuary. The throat was cat in the same mannar as in the case of the Berner street woman, by plunging a knife just under the left ear and catting towards the right ear sufficiently to completely sever the wind pipe. The woman probably never had time to utter a cry. The Oftly other wound on the body was a deep cut iu the stomach, extending from the waist to the pitof the abdomen. The intestines were not disturbed. The woman’s name was Alios McKenzie, and, as in the case of Jack the Ripper’s other victims, she was one of those nnfortanato creatures who find their living on the streets. The correspondent talked to two women who saw her at 11:30 last night. She was sober then. At 12:30 when all the pnblic houses were closed by law, the barkeeper of a “pub” situated a quarter of a mile from the scene of the murder says that he turned her into the streets because she had been drinking Borne, but was not actually drunk. Making her way home the woman turned into Commercial street —the exact region where most of the murders had been committed. Isaac Lewis, who claims to be the first civilian who saw the body alter the murder, watched it wMle the policeman went for assistance. He says that the blood was still spurting from the throat when the woman was found, indicating that the heart had not ceased to beat The clothes were all crashed upon the chest of the body and the legs were nude. There were blood marks on the face and on the left tMgh, as if a band covered with blood nad been placed there to hold the woman down. Letters had been recently received from Jack the Ripper stating he would begin his murderous operations in the near future, but no attention was given to them. ,4- 7 An Englishman was ampsted Friday on the charge of havingTmurdered the woman whose body was found Tuesday morning in Castle alley, Whitechapel. After been taken into custody the prisoner confessed that he bad killed the woman.

A Locomotive Explodes.

A frightful explosion occurred Tuesday on the Union Pacific Railway, three miles west of Topeka, Kan. The switch engine employed in the yards there was hauling a train of cantos point where the track was being repaired. Just as it was slowing np, the boiler of the engine exploded with terrible force, scattering it into fragments fora distance of several hundred yards. Fireman James Dutton was fatally .injured, and Engineer R. T. Seacord received injuries which will probably prove fatal. Trainmen on rite cars also received serions in juries. The track wga tom up for a distance of 150 feet, and the cars were rcattered promiscuously about

THE STATE CAPITAL.

RRPCBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE. The Republican State Central Committee met at Indianapolis, Friday, wilt a full attendance of the committee anc many party workers of the State. United StatesfTreasurer HratoU sub mitfed his resfgnataon, as did also Commissioner of the District of Columbia Ransdell as Vice Chairman. Postmaster Wallace as Treasurer and Money Reeeiver Dillie as Secretary. The resignations were accepted, and in a serin of resolutions Mr. Huston was profusely thanked and endorsed. The election tc fill the vacancies resulted in the unanimous selection of Attorney General Michener as Chairman. Mr. MicJaenei made a brief speech promising his energy, aud unalterable devotion to the interests of the party. Mr. R. Snlxer, oi Madison was also unanimously elected v ice Chairman, Three candidate, F. R Millikan, of New Castle, W. H. Bmith. of Indianapolis and W. R. McClelland; of Danville, were nominated for Secretary. Mr. Millikan was elected on the firat ballot. Joseph I. Irwin, of Columbus, was unaminously elected Treas urer. The following resolution 30K adopted: , r ' Whereas, The Republican State Central Committee, in session assembled at Indianapolis July 19, 1889, take thii opportunity to express its unqualified indorsement of the adminstration oi Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States. Resolved, That we regard President Harrison as a safe, wise and earnest executive, who will bring to the whole people an administration of public affairs will refleet unquestioned credit to the great party which he reE resents, and at tne same time add onorand destincton to the nation. The Committee then adjourned. Leading members of the party in interviews published in the Journal express fullest confidence and satisfaction in the adminstration of President Harrison.

It is a year and a half yet until a Senator to succeed Voorhees is to be selected, but aspirants for the place from both the old parties are beginning to marshal their forces. The Democratic fight will be between Voorhees and Gray, and it promises to be one of interest. Until recently Gray seemed to control the party organization nearly all over the State, but the report now is that Voorhees is taking advantage of Gray s absence in the Far West to repair his fences, and it is reported tha‘. he is winning over to his side some* men of influence who have hitherto been staunch supporters of Gray. The Republican leaders feel very confident that there is a chance for the P'uty to get control of the next Legislature, and several of them are trimming their sails for the National Senate. Governor Hovey, no donbt, would like to represent the State at Washington, and there are reasons to believe that he had in view the Senatorehip when he was waging such a vindictive fight on the last Legislature. Attorney General Michener also has a longing eye on a good seat in the upper branch of the National Legislature, and for that reason, more than any other, perhaps, he wants to become Chairman of the Btate Central Committee, and make an earnest effort to secure the coming Legislature for the Republicans.—lnd, News. Two hundred aud twenty-five Democrats of Indianapolis are invited to go up to the United States Marshal’s office and draw $2,560. The recipients served as Deputies under the late Marshal,Hawkins, and were to receive $5 a day each. When they presented their bifis they found that a new administration had scrutinized the claims closely and wanted the Deputies to make affidavit that they ha<l served faithfully, that they were legal voters themselves, that their duties were performed in the ;>recinct where they resided, This egal requirement gave some of them troable and delayed the payment of the resL The first papers made-oat were inadoquate and sill had to be made out anew and forwarded to Washington. Some of the deputies are not able to take the oath and will not get pay until they do. But the 255 have made the necessary affidavit. By reason of the inability of the various counties to loan all tbe moneys secured through the new school-bond loan, the people will really lose $117,000, for the interest to the must be paid.

A School Book Trust.

A combination baa been formed by the leading school book publishers for the purpose of regulating the methods of selling their publications. The publishers deny that their combination partakes in any sense of the nature of a trust. It was formed solely for the purpose of reducing the cost ot doing business, and there is no attempt to govern {trices. The agreement, which went nto effect Monday, provides that the publishers shall not employ traveling agents. The large houses in the trade hitberto have employed fifteen to fifty men to solicit orderjs at salaries ranging from SI,BOO to $3,500. The firm of A. 8. Barnes & Co., one of its members, has been in the habit of paying more than SIO,OOO a year to talesmen, and other houaee have paid salaries at the same rate. The saving in expenses which the agreement will afford wity enable the publishers to sell books at lower prices. Besides the members of the School Book Syndicate, which has ' been in existence several years, the new combination includes karper & Bros., and other firms heretofore opposed to union.

BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE.

A Murderer Comes to Life After Having Been Hanged. A special from Atlanta says: A month has passed since John Pickett expiated the crime of murder on the gallows. The memory of the event has been reawakened in a remarkable manner. A report comei from Sumpter county that Pickett is still alive and living in that portion of the State; that after the hanging his body was taken in charge by friends, who worked successfully at resuscitation. The story has created a good deal of interest in this city, for if Pickett is still alive and can be apprehended, the question is whether he can be hanged again.

EXECUTION BY ELECTRICITY.

The inal* More Painful than Boiling in Molten Lead, ::^! “The enforcement of the death penalty by means of electric currents would nqt oaljt be" aonnlrfari- MoiaMatu WnsSptioo, Satwo uTcfatsorSe Ous'ln the extreme/’ This is toe de* liberate opinion of Myron Law, superintendent of the electrical department of the Brush Electric company of thl* city, says .the Philadelphia Record. He was talking recently o f the com-ing-electric execution of the murderer Kcinmie at Buffalo. - Mr; Law proceeded to give some interesting facts to demonstrate the truth of the conclusion at which be had. arrived. “Any person, M said he, “who is thoroughly acquainted with an electric current could not possibly have any other idea th in this. It is absurd to claim that execution by electricity is less painful than hanging, that it would be instantaneous in its effects, or that it would do away with any repugnant; features of our public executions.” “In the first place death by electricity is not painless. H anging, throat-cutting, tli3 guillotine, shoot'ng, burning to death in moiton lead or in furnaces are painless executions wheh compared with that by electricity. Let me cite a few instances of the pain felt by those who have received severe electric shocks. Six years ago one of my men named John Smith out an electric wire which he thought to bo ‘dead. ’ This was on Eighth street, between Sansam and Walnut Standing on the ladder, with one hand ho grasped the ruptured wire, whifeh fed forty-eight lamps and had a current of 2,200 volts passing through it With the other hand he held by means of plyers the other end of the wire. Immediately he made the mo9t heartrendering screams for help. His hands were rivitei fast and his whole body was undergoing most terrible contortions. “The electric current of 2,200 volts strength was passing through his body and pinned him to the spot We threw a rope over his hands and jerked him from his perilous position. Both of his hands were burned terribly and his whole system was shattered. When he had sufficiently recovered a few days later to be able to talk intelligently he said that his sufferings were terrible beyond description. ‘•Another man in our employ once received the full force of a current of; several hundred volts. In removing, his hands from the wire one of his fin-J gers dropped off, having been burned: almost to a crisp by the current. During the accident his face showed in a frightful manner intense pain and his body was in a constant tremor., “Of course, electricity can instantaneously kill a person, but in that infinitessimally small space of time of the transition from life to death the person will suffer inconceivable pain.. Although the speed of electricity is ai the rate of 286,000 miles per second the killing can not be so instantaneous as to preclude all pain. Every particle of the nervous tissue is polarized,! and polarization causes each particle} of matter to revolve on it 3 axis; which means the stretching of the nerves out of all proportion and consequently the most intense pain. But Hie great fault with execution by electricity is that it is almost impossible to ascertain just how strong a current will kill a man instantaneously and jo* not be a barbarous mode of killing. If thq current be but a few volts stronger than that required to instantly exe* cute a certain person the consequences would be terrible. It would disfigure the body beyond recognition and would disintegrate every portion of the corpse. “Should the current be just a trifle too weak to execute a person it would threw him into a trance so death-like that it is probable that the body would be buried alive. So in order to reduce this new mode Of execution to a practical scientific working the amount of resistance in each body would have to be previously tested before any approximate idea could be reached as to how strong a current would surely kill without disfiguring or disintegrating the body or throwing the body into a trance. But even if this desideratum is found, there might be some hitch or slight fault in the electrical apparatus which would spoil everything.”

BASE BALL.

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THE MARKETS.

IvniABAPOLis, July 22, 1889. ' ORAIN. Wheat— CornNo. 2 Bed ......821 No. 1 White 38* N 0.3 Bed .78 Mo. 2 Yefiow-871 I Oats, White...^7} LlfS STOCK. Cattle—Good to choice 3 9004.00 Choice heifers 3.0003.00 Common to medium cows .1.7502.85 Good to choioecows 2.76(22.35 Hoes—Heavy »mm »♦«»«««» 26(44.40 Light..... 4.45(44.35 Mn6(i.. ..... ..........................4.30(44.35 Pigß 4.50w4.60 Bhbkp—Good to choice 4.00(44.25 Fair to medium.... [email protected] MIBCXLLASXOOB. Wool—Fine merino, washed .33035 unwashed med ..20022 very coarse 17018 JWOS, BUTTKK, POULTRY. .........lOe | Hess per R» 8c Batter,ereamerylsc Boosters 3c Fancy country....Be Turkey!*. 5c Choice country...7c Feathers.... 36© Chicago. Wheat (July).... 76} Pork ... .. 1L32 Com “ ..36 Lard &30 Oats “..... 22 Bibs &77 Kew York—Wheat—2 red 88£; com 42*; oats. 27*. Philadelphia—Wheat, 86}; ccra, 44; oats, 33. Cincinnati—Wheat, 80; com, 39, oats 26; rye, 48; pork, sl2; lard $6.10. i Toledo—Wheat; 86, corn, 37; oats, 25 clover seed, $4.50