Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1889 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. Harvesting has began in Dakota. Montana’s crop prospects are good. , Five men will be executed at New York August 28. The result of the Sionx commisaionera’wdrk so fir is not encouraging. Guthrie, Okla., adopted a charter Wednesday and voted to issue $50,000 in bonds. v Cincinnati salooniets have desidcd to keep their saloons open on Sunday despite the law. The brewers who have not sold out to the Eaglish syndicate are- forming a trust lor self protection. The men who lynched James Averill and Ella Watson, near Douglass. Wy. T., have been arrested. They were all prominent stock men. A special from Cincinnati to the Chicago Mail announces a report in the former city that Murat Halstead suffers from an incurable disease. At Kansas City between 700 and 800 carpenters struck for nine hours in place of ten and eleven. Part of the contractors yielded to the demand. Sir Thornton, a 3 year-old gelding, owned at Geneva. 0., paced a mile, Thursday, at Anrora, 111.,in the remarkable fast (3 year-old) time of 2:20. The Moutana Constitutional Convention has concluded to submit the question of Prohibition to a vote of the people, at the time the constitution is snbmitted.

The first bale of new crop cotton wap brought to Austin, Tex., Tuesday. The cotton crop of Texas this year will probably reach two million bales and the corn crop will be enormous. John Rose, one of the most prominent citizens of Powell county, Ky., was assassinated, Monday. He was a leader of a feudal faction, and was to be tried shortly for killing his father-in-law. Cincinnati saloon keepers attempted to keep open house, Sunday. The police, however, soon caused them to close. In several instances mobs attempted to mob the police, but Jheir attempts failed. Chairman George 0. Jones, of the National Greenback Committee, has issued a circular letter stating that prohibition and woman suffrage will not be considered at the convention in Cincinnati. Columbus Delano, the President of the National Wool Growers’ Association, has called a meeting in Columbus, 0., for Jafar 29. to consider the decision of the Treasury Department regarding the duty nn scoured wool. George W. Childs, of Philadelphia, has received from Col. Fred Grant, Minister to Austria, a contribution of $142 from the people of Garlabad; S4O from Mrs. U. S. Grant and S4O from him, self for the Johnstown sufferers. Secretary Blaine, M. Roustan, the French minister and party, spent Tuesday at Ellsworth, Maine, as the guests of Benator Hale. The fireman of the train was James G, Blaine, jr., who him now made four trips in the capacity of fireman on the Maine Central road. In response to his telegram of Tuesday respecting the case of Mrs. Herron, reported to be under sentence of death in Cerea for preaching the doctrines of Christianity, Hon. WT F. Wharton received a telegram from Minister Dinsmore, stating tne report wholly without foundation. Chicago was visited, Saturday night, by the worst storm ever known in that city. A vacant building, corner 21st and Leavitt streets, was blown down onto a residence adjoining. The residence was crushed and eight of the inmates, consisting of two families, were killed outright. Damage done otherwise was very great, District Attornev Fellows, of New York City, said, Monday, that he will bring no more boodlers to trial unless some new evidence not available in the trials already had, can be procured. The result of the trials thus far, he says, is to show that conviction is impossible, and to prosecute under such circumstances is to waste the public money. A special to the Times from Baltimore eaye: Overtures have been made to the citylo join the Lead Trustf* T&ie* company has not signiied its intention of hot accepting this proposition. There are now about twenty-eight companies in the trust, leaving only two or three to come in, making a total valnation of the properties now in the trnst about $15,000,000. The murder of Colonel Roger Page, editor of the Times-Register at Marion, N. C., causes great excitement in that vicinity. The man who shot Page is Edward Brown, aged twenty years, son of a wealthy farmer. He fired five shots from behind. It is said that vonng Brown objected to Page’s attentions to his sister, Mrs. Dr. Butt. Page was fifty years old, and had recently removed from Virginia. He was a relative of Governor Lee. A horrible condition of affkirs is reported among the Braidwood, 111., coal miners who are on a strike. In one instance a horse died in the town and tha flesh was stripped from the bones in a few minutes and eaten by the famishing people. The breasta of mothers nursing their infants, he says, have literaly dried up for the lack of nourishment, and children may be seen with the skin hardened and dried clinging to the bones of their faces. Another attempt was made Wednesday to wreck a train on the Wheeling A Elm Grove Railroad, which was returning from Wheeling Park, W. Va., with the cars crowded with picnickers. A rail was placed on tne track in an open field and a short distance away a man was faundLdriving a spike between the ends of two rails. He was cqptured amid some excitement and is noW in jail. He is suspected of being the man who made two attempts at train wrecking on the night of the fourth. Early Thursday morning while walking on the street in front of Mueller’s Freestone Works, at Cincinnati, Mr. John Pnmphrey, aged sixty-five years, was attacked by two vicious bulldogs, owned by Anthony Hess, the private watchman at Mueller’s. Bfefore help , could arrive, the old man was thrown down and his legs and arms were horrify lacerated by the savage brutes. Mr. Pnmphrey was taken to the City Hospital, where it is thought be can not recover. The dogs were killed. After months of weary waiting and persistentlobbying, the Illinois women’s aiUance Thursday night succeeded in getting an ordinance passed through

commissioner of health to employ five* female sanitary police to inspect factorise and tenement houses. This Ordinance is designed to protect the poor factory and shop girls in crowded localities from the abuses about which so much has lately been written in the public press. ■ --r“ Noteirof the huge dry goods firm of Lewis Bros. & Co., New York and Phib adelphia, have gone to protest and the firm has made an assignment. There are no preferred creditors. On April 20 the firm made the following statement to a large financial institution: Assets, $5,472,000, consisting of ledger accounts, $1,876,000; manufacturers’ accounts, $1,793,000; securities, $811,000; real e < tats, $770,000: bills receivable, $223,000. Liabilities, $4,129,000, of which $3,382,000 was bills payable and $447,000 a loan; net surplus, $1,343,000. Fred Nelson, a driver of a milk wagon, employed by Alexander Andersofi, oT Chicago, disappeared at noon; Wednesday, under peculiar circumstances. He drove into an alley and stopped his horse, and jamping ont left the animal unfastened, then going to the next corner he took ofi his hat and placed it. top down, on the ground and dropped into it a card, on which he had written: “I am gone forever. Fred. The hat and horse and milk wagon were found in the alley an hour later, but Nelson has not been seen. He was a Swede, twenty-three years old, and came from the old country six months ago.

FOREIGN. A revolt in Crete is becoming widespread. The Liberals in Parliament will resist all demands for farther grants to the royal family. The Execntitie Committee of the Knights of Labor has chartered an assembly in Australia. Mr. Balfour declares that Mr. Gladstone’s speeches were the real origin of “Pamellism and crime.” Princess Louise may renounce her right to the English throne upon her marriage to the Earl of Fife Aug. 3. The wedding of Princess Louise of Wales and the Earl of Fife occurred, Saturday, and was exceedingly brilliant. Twelve German men-of-war will accompany Emperor William when he attends the naval review at Portsmouth. The golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone occurred, Thursday. ■ Congratulations were received by the cartload. Mr. Dickson, member of the British Parliament for the St. Stephen’s Green Division of Dublin, has purchased 20,000 acres of land in Paraguay. A lively debate on the subject of royal grants took place in the house of commons Thursday, Mr. Gladstone speaking briefly in favor of the government.

There is a rumor of the discovery of a plot to blow up the Quirinal and the Vatican, ■. It is stated that the Pope’s departure from Rome will be prevented by the government by force. Detectives are watching the exits of the Vatican. A (redone in Hungary, Transylvania and Bukovina, Sunday, swept over several thousand square miles of territory. Hundreds oi persons were killed, the crops were destroyed and enormous damage was done to nooses. The districts of Grosswondern, Ssegedin and Mohar were completely ravaged. A recent fire in Lnchow, China, burned twenty-three hours, destroying 87,000 dwellings. Over 1,200 people perished in the flames, and 400 persons were killed. Nearly 170,000 others were obliged to camp out without shelter, and were dying at the rate of 100 a day from want and exposure. The authorities are providing for their necessities. The time granted to Gen. Boulanger, Count Dillon and M. Rochefort to answer the summons of the senate coart having expired, an official, Saturday, publicly read before their residences a decree giving the accused ten days in which to appear before the court Failing in this their property will be sequestered, and they will be deprived of all civil rights.

Rampant Socialists.

Chicago socialists celebrated ,Sundav, the 100th anniversary of the shrining of the Bastile. Lacy Parsons made a fiery speech in which she predicted a revolution: “The fall of the Bastile,” she said, wm a victory for free government a blow to tyranny, but it did not dMtroy economic slavery. We have a free government; they have a free government in France, yet we are slaves. There must be another revolution (applause) —a revolution animat the ‘bsatiles’ of labor. The people most rise and arm; they will rise, and they will storm and capture those ‘bastilea,’ and they will bear out the heada of those devils—thoM capitalists—on the tops ol pikestaffs. [Applause.] They presume to rale by the divine right of the rifle and the gatlinggun, [the noose and the prison, but they have no such divine right. You must seize thoM rifles and those gatling sons, destroy the gallows and storm tne prisons. Yon must march arm in arm and shoulder to shoulder against these ’bastilea’ of labor, Yon moat not march in the street to be mowed down, but you must get within the walls, and victory, sweet victory is yours.” Paul Grottkau apoke in German. He said that men, by the very power of wealth, ruled the commCfi people m they were never ruled by men wearing the royal purple. He said that another revolution wm surely coming, and that Chicago could not stop it with hangings, nor the police of the world, with gatling gams. Tyrants would again be overthrown and the common people would again be triumphant The story of the French revolution would be repeated throughout the world.

Here's the Boss Horse Thief.

Christopher Carter, aged sixty, completed a three year’s sentence in the New Hamphire State prison for horse stealing Friday, and upon being retewed was immediately re-arrested by a Worchester (Mass.) officer on a requisition for larceny of a team six years ago. Carter is said to bs one of the most notorious horse thieves in New England one of his exploits haying been the theft, transfer and sale of ail but three of a carload of horses in Vermont a few y«*rs ago. He has been in confinement for horse stealing almost constantly daring the last fifteen years.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Huntington sighs for a boom. Mancie will soon have street can. Evansville needs a (public) bath. Pern Methbdiate are erecting a $30,000 church. Counterfeit silver is circulating at Martinsville. •- -•••- •* -. Blackberries are being sold at Columbus at 15'cents per gallon. James Vinton, a convict, escaped from the Southern prison Friday. Five juvenile alleged car breakers have been arrested at Greencastle. The first annual encampment of the uniform rank K. of P. will be held at Warsaw, Ang. sto 12. - y ___ The Smith bent-wood works at Mancie, were totally destroyed by fixe, Thursday, causing a loss of $62,000. —There are twenty beneficiary lodges and mutual aid associations in Jeffersonville, and the aggregate membership is nearly 3,000. The output of the Bluffton gas well is estimated at 3,000,000 cubic feet per day.. The gas escapes with a roar that can be heard three miles away. The Sunday law was closely observed at Corydon, last Sunday, even the barbers, the confectioners and small dealers generally closing up. A rabid dog ran loose in the streets of Columbus, Tuesday, and fully twentyfive doge were bitten by it. An outbreak of hydrophobic canines is expected soon. While a case was on trial m Fort Wayne, on Tuesday last, the fire bells were sounded, and the jury rushed ofi to the Beene of the fire without permission of court. Mr. Jackson, of Odesse, was Btruck by lightning while asleep in his honse after nightfall, and tWb of his toes were so bfcdly burned that amputation was necessary. Several boys played at Wild West show, Wednesday, at Jeffersonville, During its progress Roy Howard accidentally shot Will Payne in the jaw, breaking the bone. The wound is fatal. A number of little children of Goshen played doctor, Thursday, and administered a dose of poison to Mamie, the two-year-old daughter of Wm. Roppe, from the effects of which she died, Friday. The Putman County Educational Board met Wednesday and decided to adoDt the school books published by the Indiana Company. The change will be made complete, instead ol by gradual introduction, at the fall opening of the schools. “Grandma” Bowers,dfSouthMuncie, aged seventy, died very suddenly, Monday. Many years ago her husband,long since dead, was swindled out of a saw mill, and the old lady was continually calling upon the authorities to recover the property. A corps of engineers, employed in the United States Geodetic Survey,has been sent to secure the topography of Brown county and are now encamped on the summit of Weed Patch Hill, where a tall signal tower was erected by the government a few months ago. A lad aged fifteen, son of Henry Pettinger, of Cason, was seised by two unknown men, last Saturday night who chloroformed him, threw him into a carriage and drove rapidly away. Pursuit was had, and the lad waa found in an unconscious condition lying in a fence comer some mile* distant The supposition is that it waa a case of mistaken identity, and that the wrong boy was kidnapped.

Andrew Greenderg, n painter employed by the L. E. & W. railway, met his death in a peculiar manner Thursday. He wm employed in painting the railroad bridge over Fall creek, north of Indianapolis, and had suspended his ladder by a rope. The 1:20 p. m. passenger engine severed the ropes and he fell under the baggage oar, and wm so badly crashed that he died Thursday evening in the city hospital. Allen Grifty, the half witted man who stole a hone and buggy from the public rack in Pern at midday and abandoned the same near Indianapolis, wm arrested late las* night at Rich Valiev, this connty, and lodged in jail. He is also charged with stealing the property of Wm. Ringer and A. Wright, of Broad Ripple. Griffjr will be taken to Wabash for trial. His mania lies in stealing horses, this being his fourth offense.

Benjamin Moore ofaChrisney, is said to be the only lirinc man who voted for Jeffewon. He was bom in North Carolina in December, 1781, and he removed to Salem, Ind.. sixty-two years ago, after which he changed his residence to Spencer county, where he now resides. He is six years older than the constitution of the United States, and he was bom the same year that Cornwallis surrendered. He voted for Jefferson in 1804, and he has not missed a Presidential election since. He is a Democrat. In a letter received, Wednesday, from Albert G. Porter, Minister to Italy, he gives the results of several visits to the Royal Foundry at Rome, where the bronze work on the Hendricks monument is being done. He ooncludee that the figure of the late Vice President, which is now being finished, is a striking likeness, and ‘’that the triends of the distinguished statesman wiU be weU pleased with it. ’ The artist, Mr. Park, by the same mail, says all friends who have seen the work pronounced it good. There is a local celebrity at Mancie, known as “Ginseng Sol,” who makes his living by gathering ginseng. The root commands $2.76 per pound, and is mainly shipped to China, where it is highly prized. “Ginseng Sol” knows every piece of woods in Delaware county, and be has become so skilled in the searoh that the plant, which is quite small, ean be detected by him fifty feet away. He tramps from twenty to forty miles a day searching for it, and last summer his services netted him SBOO. There are no indications at present of a break in the miners’ strike at Brazil. The miners seem determined to hold out for arbitration to the end. The operators, on the other hand; claimed to have offered their highest price fink in order to not interrupt work with delays of any kind, and that their competition is of a nature that wiU not admit of any advance. The failure of the Board of State Charities to effect a settlement, after having gone there and investigated the situation, is against an adjustment by arbitration. ' Rev. C. C. Palmer, a graduate of Franklin College, who was pastor of the Baptist churches at Brocket on and Chalmers, according to report has

abandoned his pul pita, as well as his family,nnder disgraceful circumstances, and he is also accused of taking with him $1,600 bv means of notes upon which he had secured the indorsement of his peris ioners. The ministers of the Baptist denomoni nation at Delphi are taking action on this matter, end the indoreera upon the notes will endeavor to secure his return. - The Hamilton county school board decided, Saturday, to continue the old school books, until forced by law to nse the books of the Indiana Bchool Book Company. Their excuse for not using the books is that the maps of the geography are not accurately made. They parsed the following resolution: “Resolved, that this connty continue the nee of the readers, arithmetics, geographies and copy books now in use until the time for whieh they have been Adopted shall have expired or until we sha 1 be compelled bv law to use some other.”

The Huntington Herald says that Major 81 earer, postmaster at that place; is physically unable to dress himself, or even feed himself, and mentally he is unable to comprehend the slightest details of his office, and for several months he had nothing to |do with hie official work, save to ride there occasionally. Recently he was granted a liberal pension, his ailment arising from injuries received while a soldier, and this gives him a comfortable provision for the remainder of his life. Because of hie mental and physical condition, the Herald demands a change. A horrible affair is reported to have occurred at Xenia, in Miami county, Wednesday night, Jesse Overman of Amboy, aged twenty-two, murdered a Miss Maggje Smith, aged eighteen, of the former town. He nas been a suitor for Miss Bmith’s hand for quite a long time. The couple were seen standing n the yard talking together about 9 o’clock, when suddenly Overman pulled a pistol and shot twice at the young lady. She tinned and ran around the house calling plaintively for protection. She fell finally to the ground, and died in a few moments. Overman then put a ball into his head and died soon after. jQne of the historic trees of Indiana stands within a stone’s throw of the railway tracks, near Summit Station, in Scott county. It is a sassafras, and probably the oldest of its kind in the State. The trunk is partially dead, and only a couple of straggling limbs have put forth leaves. It marks the site of the burial of Henry Collins and wife, Mrs. Jeremy Payne and eight children, Mrs. John Morris and one child, Mrs. Morris,'Sr., Jeremy Payne and one Coffman, all of whom were slaughtered by the Shawnee Indians in September,lßl2; in the bloody Pigeon Roost massacre, the only Indian massacre of special note which occurred in Indiana.

THE STATE CAPITAL.

The corner Stone of the State Soldiers’ monument will bear the following inscription: Erected by virtue of an act of the General Assembly, Approved March. 8. JBB7, appropriating $ Xu,ooo. Contributions by the G. A. R, and ei'izens, *32,000, August 22,18 W, President Harrison has indicated a desire to be . present, and writes that if he can arrange his engagements he will come. John Coburn has been added to the list ot orators for the corner-stone laying. The State officers Wednesday elected General Tom Bennett, of Richmond, a member of the Soldiers’ Monument Commission, in place of D, M Ransdell, resigned. The board of monument commissioners have prepared the following program for the camp-fire, to be held on the evening of Aug. 22 at Tomlinson hall: Music; prayer, “The Monument,” 8. B. VoyleB; “The Private Soldier,” Dan Waugh; “The Commanding General,” Gen. Jasper A. Packard; “The Prisoner of Wa%” Gen. A. D. Straight; “The Sons of Veterans,” A. J. Beveridge; “Indiana in the War.” Capt, W. R. Myers. Commander Travis will preside over the ceremonies. • A general circular has been issued by Commander Travis to all the G. A. R. posts in the State, giving general information as to railroad rates, etc.

The Attorney General has given the Secretary of the Treasury an opinion to the effect that there is no legal objection to the transit through the United States territory of the Chinamen who recently arrived St New Orleans from Cubaen route to China via San Francisco. The Chinese Minister has asked that these men be permitted to cross the United States on their way borne, and it ia probable, in view of the Attorney General’s opinion, that this request will be granted. State Superintendent LaFollette desires to go down on record. He wishes it to be distinctly understood that in the vote of the State Board on the adoption of the Indiana School Book Publishing Company's text books, he did not vote in favor of the readers or geographies. He regards them as in every way inferior to the books whieh were taken for the standard of comparison. They are poor in the quality of paper ana binding and engraving, and the readers are poorly classifiea, and contain lessons which are not what boys and girls should read in school. The arithmetics and writing books he thinks equal to thoae now in use. Mr. La Foilettesaya he has received several hundred letters, chiefly from Township Trustees, asking whether the law is mandatory or simply directory. The letters come from every part of the State, and all breathe hostility to the huki. They aak what the penalty is if the law ia disobeyed. He says there is no penalty provided for violating the law. He does not think this an oversight, but that the legislators desired to make a popular law by which counties that wanted cheaper books coaid get them, bnt which allowed any which desired to nse the old books. He thinks a great deal of official pressure ‘ will be required to 'HgT the new books generally adopted. Hi does not propoe*- to make his oilca unpopular by bringing a host of mandatory suits against county boards of education, and does not know yet what action he will take to enforce the law. Bome Trustees have written as though they will fulfill their duty by ordering the legal hooka according to the law and then just hold them to mu if anybody calls for them, but make no effort to enforce their use in the schools. They write that teachers generally are opposed to the law.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

It is rumored that the Samoan treaty may be rejected by the Senate; that even Mr. Blaine himself is dissatisfied with it A rumor is in circulation that Seers-' tary of the Navy Tracy will be appointed to the vacant seat on the United States Supreme Coart bench. • """ I Asst Secy. Bussey has rendered a decision adhering to the rejection of the claim of John Seifert, late of Com-, Say A, Forty-ninth Indiana Volunire, to an invalid pension. Claimant ■ asked for a pension for a pistol wound received while ejecting from a saloon a number of persona who were disturbing a game of cards in which fie and his \ captain were engaged. President Green, of the Western Union Telegraph Company, has written to the Postmaster General on the subject of reducing rates for Government service. He admits that the company has taken certain business at very low rates lor press associations, and even given service free or at coat in bulletining events of great public interest, but he does not consider that sueh exceptional incidents should be made the basis in determining the rates to be paid for government service, which tool the most exacting character. Rev. Dr. Dorchester, Superintendent of Indian Schools, has returned from a two months’ tour of inspection among the Indian schools in the West. At the Chiloceouchoel,in the Indian Territory, the Indian boys, with the assistance of two white farmers, are cultivating, this year, 225 acres of corn, ninety acres of wheat, twenty acres of potatoes, besides smaller acreages of other crops. In some of the schools visited Dr. Dorchester, said that the instructors and others in authority were inefficient and altogether improper persons to fill the important positions which they occupied.

Civil Bervice Commissioner Roosevelt said N ednesday that charges have been brought against both the pension office and the sixth auditor’s office; that men have been discharged because they were Democrats. He was not prepared to say that this was a violation of the law, but individually he was firmly of the opinion that it was in violation of the spirit of the law. He thought that no one, unless he happened to be an active partisan, should be dismissed from the public service. He said the commission was going to look the matter up, not only as relating to the present but to the past In speaking of the matter further, Mr. Roosevelt said that in the Baltimore postoffioe it war charged that there had been a clean sweep, and out of 357 employee there were only eleven Democrats. He thought that this wm wrong, and ought to be stepped.

The committee appointed by Secretary Noble to investigate and report upon the manner of rerating pensions in the Pension Bureau during tne last year were, Thursday, busilv engaged in examining the eases. It is stated at the Pension Office that in the event the committee discovers that re-ratinga have been made in violation of law, the facts can be reported to the Commissioner, and tiie law points out the oonrae he is to pnrane. The pensioners are given sixty days In which to show cause why their increased pensions were not illegally granted. If they fail to respond, then the Commissioner can have their pension certificates recalled and the amounts adjusted to its legal limits. Ik can demand that the back pension, if any, shall be returned, and he has full antnority to collect it, as he would any 'other form of indebtedness.

Ohio Prohibitionist.

The Prohibition Ohio gxato Convention met at Zsin-rvffie, Thursday, with 444 delegates present The platform adopted decUres in favor of the legal suppression cf the liquor traffic; a&vi that revenue from a tariff criminal in its nature is contrary to the fundamental principles oi right; favors woman suffrage; denounces gambling in stocks and grains; favors arbitration for the settlement of disputes between employers and employes; opposes land monopoly; favors non-sectional adjustment of the tariff, and declares in favor of the enforcement of the Sabbath laws. The Bev. J. B. Helwig of Springfield wm nominated for Governor on the first ballot He made a speech like a sermon, saying he knew of no better way of promulgating the religion of Jesus Christ than by the politics of the prohibition narty. “We must put the Governmenf'said he,“on the shoulders of Jesus Christ” L. B. Logan, of Stark county, wm nominated for Lieutenant Governor by acclamation. For Supreme Judge, Gideon T. Stewart, of Norwalk; for TreMurer, D. M. Trowbridge, of Toledo; for Attorney General, E. Jay Pinney, of Ashtabula. Other officers nominated were: For Board of Public Works, Harvey Clarke, Madison eonnty; for Clerk Supreme Court, F. D. McKnight. Lawrence county. The State Central Committee: Dr. H. A. Thompson,of Westerville, Chairman; B. 8. Higley.of Youngstown, Secretory, and J. H. Hann, of Columbus, Treasurer.

An Englishman's Opinion.

An English solictor visiting Washington explains the reasons so much foreign capital is being invested in the United States. “In the first place,” he said,“this syndicate is not operating with Eogliah capital altogether. Money from all sections of the continent pours into London for the purpose of being invested in American enterprises. You ask the reason for it. Well, the truth is that there is a widespread fear throughout the money-cen-ters of Europe that the whole continent is drifting in the direction of war. This idea is growing rapidly, and is causing a withdrawal ot money from enterprises, throughout Europe. It explains the reason for the great industrial depression which has prevailed for some tune, and which seems to be on the increase rather than upon the wane. Capitalists are looking for something which will be safer than European stocks when this time shall come, and they are sending their money to this side of the Atlantic in order to be prepared when the craph comes. This explains the talk so often ward now of the English syndicates investing in all sorts of American enterprises.”

A CLANDESTINE ORGANIZATION

TJ># Ctntes Scnttisb Bite D> dared Sack r ._, . • -r i : v’s"' The controversy which has been general among the masonic fraternity throughout the country respecting the loerße«aßeottis&zts», has fulminated in the issue of an edict by Harrison Dingmao, Most Worshipful Grand Master of Masons of the District of Columbia, nnder date of Joly 29,. pronouncing the Cancan organization clandestine, and warning all members of that rite that they are liable to discipline from the grand lodge nnloss they at once withdrew from said Cerneau body. The main reason for the edict, asiae from other questions arising in the Scottish Rite controversy, is stated to be that the Cerneau organization baa established relations of amity and Masonic eorreeSmdence with the grand orient of ranee, the governing body of the Maaona in that country, which is under the ban of at least every Eaglish speaking grand lodge in the world, because the grand orient has stricken the name of God from its rituals. The grand lodgM of this country, it is said, have an additional grievance against the grand orient of France, because the latter purists in recognising the negro grand lodge of the United States. Grand Master Dingman directs that all visitors in the District of Columbia shall be required to state before admission that they are not members of the Cerneau organization. The meeting of the Cerneau organisation in any Masonic hall is also prohibited.

Sullivan's Cash.

Joan L. Sullivan received his $20,900 in stake money, Tuesday, and the championship belt Sullivan at once proceeded to put it in circulation in his convivial way. Sullivan, flashed with his recent victory, is anxious for fresh laurels in the pugilistic world. Mr. Lumley said, Tuesday afternoon, that Sullivan weald accept the challenge of Jem Bmith, England’s champion, and would present fiim with $2,500 if he would come to America and fight him, MaTqnis of Qoeensbnry roles, before the California Athletic Club. The $20,000 stake money is not all Sollivan’s. Half of it goes to him. The balance will be divided among his backers, as follows Half to the New York Illustrated News, one quarter to Jim Wakely, one quarter to Charles Johnson. It is said in this ratio the backers will present to Billv Muldoon $2,000. Sullivan also intends tojjlve his trainer two of those SSOO

Trouble in Oklahoma.

A special from Guthrie, Okls„ says: trhe decision of the Land Office, ousting the “aoonere,” m those who entered Oklahoma before noon of April 22 are called, is canting excitement through ont Oklahoma m fast m the news spreads. Two hundred men were in line MobRay morning waiting for the Lend Office to open—a huge majority watting to fifr pn maims already entered by men supposed to hwve bran in the Territory beore noon of April 22, and which the teoitien dedans are not entitled to hold mafia*. The effect of the decision will be felt Everywhere thrdngheot the Territory and endleM trouble seems im store.

Skulls and Skeletons Discovered.

A party of explorers, Thursday, unearthed a number of human skeletons buried in the chalk bluffs, ten miles east of Yankton, Dakota. Fifty skulls and two hundred Le-tdlen skeletots were found, which local nonnee to be the remains of white people, children and adnlts. The indications are that they have been buried for fortv or fifty years.

Wants to bo Speaker.

Congressman Brower, of North Carolina, announces himself a* a candidate for speaker and claims that ke witi have sixteen votes from the Sooth. Patents were issued Tuesday to Indiana inventors m follows: R. B. Albert, foldingchair; Charles a Brick, Booth Bend, potato digger, Myrdn Campbell, Bonth Bend, rope clasp; John M. Fellows, Burlington, hand roller; Andrew T. Foster, Belie Union, lap ring; Jasper D. Kious, Oxford, flat-iron heater; David S. Miller, Logans port, tire-setting machine; Samnel J. Miller, Cambridge City, fence poet; Charles Mosher. South Bend, package for drees stave; W. A. Preston. Fort Branch, refrigerator, also nnt lock; Marmadnke Slattenr, Fort Wayne, core for converters, also electric meter; Charles F. Walters and W. N. Gartride, Richmond, mill; George C. Waterhouse, New Albany, fire escape.

THE MARKETS.

Ivjdiahapous, July 30. 1888. sun, Whilst — Corn— No. 2 Bed ....78 No. 1 White 37 No. S Red 73 No. 2 Yellow .36 '■ Oats, White 21 Cattl>—Good to ehoiee •*#ee *•« 3.00(44.25 Choice heifers .2.70(43.00 Common to medium 2.00(42.30 Good to choice cows 2.50(42.75 Hogs—Heavy 4.45(44.55 t 7 £t 7 * MAIAVU •••••• •••••• »•*«*• ••••** Pigs .................................... Shxxp—Good to choice 4.00(44.25 Fair to medium ......3.50(43.85 BOOS, BTTTTXB, POCLTBY. Eggs- •••••• •**••«••• 10c j Hens per 1b...... 9e Butter,creamery 16c Boosters ...*§ Fahey country— 8c Tdrke/s 10a Choice country- 5c Wool—Fine merino, washed.. .33(435 unwashed med 20@2| very coarse -17(418 Hay; timothy .12.50 I Sugar cured ham 12 Bran. —8.25 Bacon dear sides 11 C over 5eed...—4.45 I Feathers, goose 84 Chicago. ’ Wheat (July)— 82} | Pork .....10.80 Corn .— 3o Lard •••••even 6.25 < Out* 22 I Rlh*u.„ 5.75 New York—Wheat,—2 red, 88, corn 43}c: oats 27}. Philadelphia—Wheat, 87r, corn 44}; oats 34}. hi, Louis—Wheat, 77; corn, 2% oats, 22:rye.42. V Baltimore- Wheat, 86}; corn, 43}, oats. 34; sye. 51. Cincinnati—Wheat 80, corn 38, oats 26, rye 46, pork $11.75, lard $6 00, " . Detroit—Wheat 96, corn 37}, oats 25}. Toledo-WW 83, corn 38, (Mt. 261, clover eeed »4J6.