Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1889 — Page 7

WEEKLY NEWS EPITOME.

■ v .. : -zl • - • :' DOMESTIC. An attempt is being made to smash the Jute trust. Brown county, Kansas, had a disastrous storm, Tuesday. Storms have done much damage in Kansas and Nebraska. Wheeling, W. Va., had a ten-thousand-dollar fire, Tuesday. George Reif was robbed of $3,000 in a / barber shop at New Philadelphia, O. The Pennsylvania Steel Co., of Harris burg, have increased wages 2% per cent President Harrißon was given a public reception at Ellsworth, Maine, Tuesday. Illinois operators are arranging to bring miners from the East to take the place of the strikers. Sioux Falls, Huron and Pierre are ing a triangular fight for the capital of South Dakota. King Humbert has appointed Mr. Thomas A. Edison a grand officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy. Several hundred men struck,Wednesday, at a Pittsburg iron mill rather than work non-union-made iron. =The old story, that. Henry Villard will fit out an exposition to the South Pole has been revived in New York. •f ”-In blasting a lead at Aspen, Col., Saturday, a cave was discovered containing petrified bodies of an unknown race. Eugene Mercadier, of the Excelsior Amateur Athletics, St. Louis, swam the Mississippi in 13:15 with his hands bound. The-City of Paris has just made the trip across the ocean in the shortest time on record—s days 23 hours and 40 minutes. Senator Evarts is going to Europe to consult oculists about his eyes, their condition being such as to cause him much uneasiness. President Harrison received a warm greeting on his return to Bar Harbor,Tuesday. A flower parade was given in his honor. The proprietor of the National Park at Milwaukee is preparing to sue the Illinois Department G. A. R., for alleged breach of contract. It is proposed to exhibit the scaffolding on which John Brown was hung for the purpose of raising funds to build him a monument. Twenty-five Indian children belonging to the Cheyenne and Arrapahoe agencies have been received at the Wabash Institute for educational purposes. The Grand Jury at Purvis,Miss., Wednesday, found indictments against Sullivan, Kilrain and their seconds. Jake Kilrain was arrested at Baltimore. Excitement at Albany, Wls., over the hunt for pearls continues unabated. The people have gone wild in fact, and business has been practically suspended. S. F. Sherman, of Sherman Bros. & Qp., Buffalo, whose irregularities several months ago caused a large deficiency, was arrested, Tuesday. He got away with $375,000. An attempt was made, Monday night, at Shortsville, on the Auburn Division of the New York Central Railroad, to wreck a passenger train. The train was ditched but nobody hurt. Mrs. Margaret Wallace died at the Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, from the effects o£ burns received by explosion of an oil lamp, thrown at her by her husband, Andrew Wallace. At Chicago, Daniel Dolan walked into the Northside’water works, stepped under the crank rod of one of the mighty pumps, and waited for it to come down and crush him with its ponderous weight. The Columbia and Susquehanna rolling mills of Lancaster, Pa., posted a notice, Monday, announcing that after Aug. 19 they will pay puddlers $3.90 per ton instead of $3.85, as announced a few days ago. The hell’s of the brothers of William F. and George W. Norton, deceased millionaires, of Louisville, have decided to give $60,000 to the building fund of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary,, at that city. ~ . : At Huntington, Pa., Monday night, fire destroyed the erecting and machine shops % of the Huntington Car Manufacturing Company, together with thirty cars in various stages of completion, entailing a loss of about $30,000. —■ — The barn of C. S. Bragg, of Avondale, near Cincinnati, was burned, Wednesday. It was one of the most expensive of such structures, and contained costly carriages, etc., making a total loss t>i $30,000. The horses were all saved. The annual athletic exhibition of the Clan-na-Gael, at Philadelphia, was attended by 25,000 persons. The profits which amounted to $5,000, will bo devoted to securing the arrest and punishment of the murderers of Dr. Cronin. At Duluth, Minn., Wednesday, Judges Stearn and Ensign,of the Circuit composed of St. Louis, Lake and Cook counties, decided that the Scheffer Dressed-Boef law was unconstitutional,being an interference with interstate commerce. On an average there has been two bodies found every day during the past week at Johnstown. There are undoubtedly a great many more in the cellars all over town, and at the present rate of cleaning up they will not all be exhumed this year. The chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports that the exports of domestic cotton from the United States during the month of July, 1889, compared with similar experts during the corresponding period of preceding year, were as follows; Total, month ended July 31, 1883, 59,855 bales, 28,421,881 pounds, $2,946,310. Total, month month|onded July 81, 1888, 111,537 58,417,632 pounds, $5,447,016. The hotel which General Wilder engaged for the accommodation of visiting members of his brigade, in the coming reunion at Chattanooga, having changed hands, Gen. Wilder has leased a six-story building, in which he has placed five hundred cots, and he calls upon the “boys” to bring their blankets. A train, will be chartered at Chattanooga for a trip to the Chickamauga battle ground, where a banquet will be served. The recent visit of A* J. Miller,of Evansville, to the Central American Republics, and iptor. iews had with the various Presidents, she'.’, that the proposed Congress of American Nations ic receiving a hearty find unanimous approval by the leading statesmen of .hose count:*:*, and that

there is practically an unanimous desire to reverse the present, system of giving Bo* rope OO per oent of trade, and at the same time each reach such an understanding with the United States that the trade will be turned to its natural market in this country. At a sums meeting held at Springfield, O ~ Monday, to select delegates for the Republican State Senatorial Convention, exMayor Kelly denounced the work of the meeting, claiming it was run by General BnShnell, who wants to be the next United States Senator, and other bosses, and accuses them all of being fools. The conven tion came near ending in a free-for-all fight, during which time the words “you’re a liar” were freely used. FOREIGN. Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria, arrived in Berlin and was warmly received by the Germans. It is now conceded that the relations of England and Germany amount practically to an offensive and defensive alliance. Senor Sardina, who was recently kidnaped by banditti in Cuba, has been released on the payment of a ransom of $12,000 in gold. The Duke of Fife declines to permit his wife, Princess Louise of Wales* to accept any share of the parliamentary grant to the royal family. The French Senate court found General Boulanger guilty on the charge of embezzling public funds and refused to allow that there were extenuating circumstances. The court then sentenced General Boulanger, Count Dillon and Henri Rochefort to be deported to a fortified place.

A PITCHER OF DYNAMITE.

A Base Ball Player Does Effective Work at Honolulu. Some passengers by a ‘recent Honolulu steamer, who were seen late Tuesday night, gave interesting accounts of scenes at the recent battle in Honolulu. The day Was won by a base ball pitcher, who utilized his skill by throwing dynamite bombs into the bungalew that formed the headquarters of the insurgents, and brought them to terms quicker than rifle or cannon shots: The bluejackets kept up a disastrous firing all day, and it was finally decided to throw dynamite on the bungalow. Bombs were quickly made but it was found that there were no guns to fire them. It was a long throw, and in their dilemma the King’s Guards secured the servioe of Henry Woodhouse, pitcher of the Honolulu Base Ball Club. Woodhouse took up his position in the Coney Island building, just across a narrow lane and overlooking the bungalow. No attack was expected from that quarter, and there was nothing to disturb the bomb thrower. Woodhouse stood for a few moments with a bomb in his hand, as though he were iu the box waiting for a batsman. He had to throw over a house to reach th# bungalow, which he could not see. The first bomb went sailing over the wall, made a down curve, and struck the side of the bungalow about a foot from the roof, and a terrible yell followed. The bomb had reached them and hurt a number of insurgents. Woodhouse coolly picked out another bomb. Then he took a step back and made a half turn and sent it whizzing. It landed on the roof of the bungalow, smashed a hole that four men could have dropped through, and scattered old iron among the rebels until they thought they were in a boiler explosion. The base ball pitcher was too much for the rebels. He threw one more bomb, and Wilcox came out and surrendered.

INTO A FURNACE OF FIRE.

A Remarkable Cnee of Religious Frenzy in Alabama. A special from Birmingham, Ala., says: The most remarkable religious craze pervades the country near Bessemer and the country Intermediate between that rapidly growing place and Birmingham. For some time past an old negro named Tobias Jackson has been proclaiming himself as Daniel the Prophet, and doing all kinds of singular, wild and queer things. The darkies in this section are ignorant and superstitious and Jackson’s actions and the great powers he claims to have been vested with filled with awe the simple-minded negroes. Saturday last he persuaded three young negro men that they were representatives of Shadrach, Meshack and Abednego, the three children of faith, who entered the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar of old. He proclaimed that a furnace, where iron is malted and cast into all kinds of forms,was the furnace of Nebuchadnezzar, and that they could enter it and pass through without the smell of fire. The three negroes, calling themselves the three children of Israel,under the influence of the new prophet, deliberately entered the gate of the cupola of the furnace and rushed headlong before they could be stopped into the white heat of the melting iron. When they failed to come out Jackson, the prophet, proclaimed that he saw them rising lu the air with the smake of the furnace, attended by angels, and said that they would revisit the earth again next Sunday. The negroes propose to meet at church next Sunday and pray, awaiting the descent of the three children of Israel. The mother of one of them said, when asked about the matter: “I feel jes’ as sho’ my boy is in heaven as if 1 dond be’n dar and se’d him. Jackson, the prophet, commanded him to walk into de fiery furnace and he was ’bleeged ter ’bey ’im.” A Tragidj in West Virginia: The sequel to the finding last Friday ol the murdered bodies of a wid'ow, named Giilis,and her two daughters,nearly grown, living in McDowell county, West Virginia, has Just befcn learned. The Hollis brothers were suspected, and a vigilance committee was organized to punish them. The captain of a push boat that arrived down the Big Sandy, from Plkeaville, Tuesday, reports that the Hollis brothers were captured by the committee, hung’ up by the heels to the limb of a tree and then shot to death. ____________ i At Purvis, Miss., Friday, the jury found John L. Sullivan guilty of prize fighting. Sullivan may be imprisoned in the penitentiary fora year. His sentence hat not been pronounced.

AN EX-JUDGE KILLED.

JUDGE TERRY SHOT FOR INSULTING: {JUSTICE FIELD. A United States Marshal Kills a Jadgs Who Insalts a Jaap as of the Highest Coarc in the Land—Quick Vengeance. Upon the arrival of the southern overland train at Lathrop, Cal., at7:2o, Wednesday morning, United ; States Supreme Judge Stephen J. Field and Deputy United States Marshal David Nagle walked into the depot dining room for breakfast and sat down side by side. Soon after Jndga David S. Terry and his wife came in also. They were proceeding to another table when Mrs. Terry, evidently reccwnizing Justice Field, did not sit down,is|it retired to the train for some uiiiinflp purpos. Before she reached it, however, and as sooAps she had left the dining room Judge TerTy approached Justice Field, and stooping over him, slapped his face. At this juncture Deputy Marshal Nagle arose from his seat and shot Judge Terry through the’heart. As he was falling the Deputy Marshal shot again, but missed him, ,4he bullet going through the floor. Both shots were fired in very quick succession. The Judge never uttered a sound after being shot. He had hardly fallen when Mrs. Terry rnshed to the side of his body and threw herself upon it. Then ensued a scene of the wildest excitement People rushed from the dining room aud others rushed in. During this time Justice Field and Deputy Marshal Nagle retreated to a sleeping car where they were securely locked within. At times Mrs. Terry would call upon the citizens to arrest them. Before the train pulled out Constable Walker entered the sleeper and was carried away on board the train. He informed the party that he knew his duty and would perform it. During the time the train was standing at the depot Mrs. Terry was running wildly alternately from the body of her husband to the sleeper, demanding admittance, that she might slap Justice Fields’ face, and, at the same time begging that they be detained and have their examination. Previous to the entrance of Constable Walker into the sleeper, Sheriff Purvis and deputy, of Stanislaus county, had already taken charge of Deputy United States Marsha!. Nagle. “Ex-Judge David S. Terry was one of the best known men on the Pacific coast. The famous case of Miss Sarah Althea Hill was tried before Justice Field, who gave the final judgment that she was not the wife of Senator Sharon. Judge Terry had warmly espoused her cause, and married her two years ago, before the court had adversely ruled. He had been counsel for Miss Hill since early in the proceedings against Sharon, and has been assiduous in his intention to the plaintiff during his connection with the case. In the days of the gold fever, when the pro and anti-slavery parties were struggling for the mastery, Judge Terry, who came from the South, was an ardent slavery man. Senator Broderick was just as determined in his anti-slavery views. The natural result was that the two men became bitter enemies, and as “the code” held sway in those days, a duel resulted in which Terry killod Broderick. Terry escaped punishment. During the war he a Texas regiment, and upon the cessation of hostilities returned to California and entered polities. He was made a member of the Democratic State Committee in 1875, and in 1879 was nominated for Attorney General by a branch of the Workingman’s party. In 1880 he was a Presidential Elector on the Democratic ticket, hut although all the other Electors received majorities ranging from 87 to 143, Terry was defeated by over 500 votes. Since then Terry had retired from politics. The following facts were submitted to Justice Field Wednesday afternoon, and declared by him to be a correct statement of the circumstances that led up to the shooting: During Judge Terry’s confinement in the county jail he threatened,upon his release, to take the lives of Judges Field and Sawyer. Prior to the contempt of court for which he was in prison, Mrs. Terry, in his presence, had made an assault on Judge Sawyer in a Pullman car. It is believed that had Sawyer resisted the insult Terry would have killed him. Terry’s threats were so publicly made that they reached ’.the ears of Justice Field’s colleagues on the Supreme Bench, and were made known to the Department of Justice in Washington, whereupon Mr. Miller, At-torney-General of the United States, head of the Department of Justico, and as the superior of the United States Marshal Franks, ordered the latter to take whatever measures were necessary to protect the persons of Justice Field and Judge Sawyer from assault by Judge Terry. Ou his ar-» rival in California to hold court in this part of his circuit, Justice Field objected to being put under the protection of the marshal’s officers. When asked if he intended to carry arms to defend himself, he said: “No; I do not and will not carry arms, for when it is known that judges of the courts are compelled to arm themselves for defense of assaults offered in consequence of their judicial action, it will be time to dissolve the courts, consider the government as a failure and let society lapse into barbarism.” Notwithstanding his objection to protection, the marshal declared himself subject to the order of his superior officer, Attorney-general Miller, and; deputized Mr. Nagle to keep within reach of Justice Field, ready to carry out the orders of the Department of Justice. In an interview in tho Indianapolis Sentinel, Attorney-general Miller confirms tho statement that Nagle was acting under federal authority. Nagle was arrested by the State authorities and placed hi Jail. The shooting is considered justifiable. An attack had been deemed probable, frequent threats attributed to Judge Terry and owing to the latter’s known temper and the fierce quarrels which had marked his public career in California. He was known to entertain a | deadly hatred toward Justice Field, which feeling was supposed to have been spurred by his wife, Sarah Althea Terry, who claims to be the widow of the JiiteTT. 8. Senator Sharon and who has been en dcavoring to prosecute her claim to his I estate in State and Federal courts. A

decision rendered by Justice Field, sitting in banc with two other federal Judges {last September, was adverse to her interests, and she was the means of cheating a scene tin the U. S. c&rart room on that occasion, which threatened td terminate in a tragedy. She was ordered into custody by toe court for contempt, after interrupting Judge Field when delivering his decision, charging him with being corrupt She struggled with the bailiffs when they attempted to remove her by force, and had an active gjiy in Judge Terry, who drew a dagger, .but was disarmed by toe same deputy at whose hands he met his death. For this act Judge Terry was sent to jail fdr six montoß for contempt, When this occurred statements were publicly attributed to Judge Terry, declaring that he I would have a personal settlement with | Judge Field if he ever had occasion to meet him when released from arrest These statements coming from toe man who had killed U. S. Senator Broderick in a duel, who was popularly supposed to be constantly armed and marvelously proficient in the use of weapons, was regarded as no light statement The remark was certainly current throughout California that if Judge Terry met Justice Field in public a tragic scene would undoubtedly follow. Whether Judge Terry was aware of the presence of toe deputy is not known. Although warned to not strike again by Nagle, he had aimed a second powerful blow at Justice Field, who was still sitting in his chair i but before the blow could be delivered he fell to the floor a dead man. A warrant was issued, Thursday, for the arrest of Justice Field, on complaint of Mrs. Sarah Althea Terry, who charges him with complicity in the killing of her husband, David S. Terry, at Lathrop. Sheriff Cunningham will arrest Justice Field. The attorneys who have been engaged to conduct the defense of Deputy Marshal Nagle, who shot Terry, promised | that Justice Field would appear when wanted, but Mrs. Terry’s complaint was made against both. The warrant was issued by a justice of the peace of Stockton, and is addressed to the sheriff of the county in the following words : “Information, on oath, having been this day laid before me by Sarah A. Terry that the crime of murder, a felony, has been committed within said county of San Joaquin, on the 14th day of August, 1889, in this that one David S. Terry, a human being, then and there was wilfully, unlawfully, feloniously and with malice aforthought shot, killed and murdered, and accused Stephen J. Field and David Nagle therefore. You are commanded forthwith to arrest the above named Stephen J. Field, and David Nagle and bring them before me at my office in the city of Stockton.” Justice Field was arrested, Friday, on a warrant sworn out by Sarah Althea Terry before a Sacramento Justice of the Peace. He was immediately released by Judge Sawyer on a writ of habeas corpus.

LEAGUE OF REPUBLICAN CLUBS

Vew and Original Plan of Invading the South. The last official session of the executive commission of the National League of Republican Clubs was held Wednesday at Saratoga. The principal topic of discussion was the place of holding the next contention. It was proposed to get up excursions for the delegates, and make a tour of the South, stopping at the towns tlong the route, and have prominent Republican speakers address the people. Gov. Foraker and Maj. McKinley, Gen. Woodford and others have already consented to speak, should this plan be carried cut. The New York Tribune was made the official organ of the league. Messrs. Hudson of Indiana, Byrnes of Minnesota, and Humphrey of New York were appointed a special committee with power to confer with a sub-committee of the Republican national, committee in mapping out general political work and conferring together for the good of the party. The rest of tiie work of the committee was detailed to various committees.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

Through the bureau of international exchanges at the Smithsonian Institution, Tuesday morning, Dr. St. Clair, chief of the consular division, State Department, received from Lieut. Taunt, United States commercial agent in the Congo country, the war outfit of a Byanzi warrior sent from a point nine hundred miles from the coast. It consists of a bamboo shield six feet long and one foot wide, a spear four feet long, a knife shaped someting like an exaggerated pruning knife and sharp on both edges, a bow with bamboo string and two iron-tipped arrows and three coils of small brass wire. The weapons of offense are murderous looking implements; but the shield seems woefully deficient in size and texture to protect the wearer. Before handling the weapons Dr. St. Clair will wash their points and edges in carbolic acid to remove the poison with which Con go warriors of ante-civilization days at least, were wont to tip them in order to add to their effectiveness.

A Letter from Jeff Davis.

A Little Rock (Ark.) special says: Responding to the announcement of the organization of ex-Confederato veterans at Pine Bluff, Jefferson Davis writes to Colonel Charles Newman, of that town, saying among other things: It is gratifying to me to ,eee\ the bravo men who sustained our rights and cause preserving toe memories of their service and cultivating the fraternity which was generated in the severe trials they endured. Please give me cordial greeting to your associates, who I feel may be consoled for loss of much else in the remembrance that their honor remains sustained and the truth for which they suffered is imperishable.

Will Appeal to America.

Mr*. Maybrick, the woman cf American nativity, who wa* recently sentenced to death for poisoning her husband that she might join her illicit lover, will appeal to Secretary Blaine for American interference. It is stated in a letter written by a chemist of Glasgow, whose testimony was excluded from the trial, that Maybrick's death resulted from his secret habit of daily drinking small quantities of arsenic. ■ ’ ' ‘

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Huntington will have natural gas. Typhoid fever prevails at Ft Wayne. Glanders are reported from Parke county. Cass county adopted toe standard books. Noblesville is enjoying a building boom. Connersville will have a new $12,000 church. A new Methodist church at Huntington was dedicated, Sunday. Typhoid fever is becomUfe alarmingly prevalent in Anderson. . The remains of a mastodon have been found near Fort Wayne. Harrlsqn and adjoinining counties report good crop prospects, far above the average. The Grant county White Caps are being brought to justice. Four arrests haveheeg made. Stephen Harris, a colored convict in toe Jeffersonville pen, hung himself in his cell, Tuesday. Benedict, Field A Co., of Chicago, are proposing to establish a shoe factory at South Bend. The cities of LaPorte and Madison have applied for the establishment of the freedelivery service. There was a colored ball near New Albany, Saturday night, which broke up in a general row, during which Jesse Sims was shot and killed by Wm. Neal. Two highly connected ladies of Broad Ripple quarreled, Sunday night. One of them hit the other above the left eye with a piece of gas pipe and she is dangerously injured. The Daviess County Institute was attended by 146 teachers, and among the resolutions passed was one pledging the efforts of tbe teachers toward enforcing the new school book law. Rev. Dr. W. H. Boydins, a distinguished divine, well known in the west, and especially in Indiana, died at Grand Rapids, Mich., Wednesday, whither he had gone for bis health. His church is iu Cincinnati. There is an elm tree, partially decayed, standing in the yard of James Mclntyre, at Jeffersonville, which is supposed to be over one hundred years old. In the early pioneer days it was used as a look-out by opposing forces. Henry Moorman, of Fountain City, has conveyed to Earlham College SII,OOO in real estate, and "toe funds to be derived therefrom will be known as the “Henry Moorman and daughter, Rebecca Moorman, endowment fund.” The plant which the Terre Haute Gas Company is putting in for the manufacture of fuel and illunqinating gas will have a daily capacity of 5,000,000 feet. The amount of oil required will be five gallons for each 1,000 cubic feet of gas. There is a panic in turnpike circles in Madison, the prosecutor making claim that the Anderson & Alexander Turnpike Company .has failed to comply with the law,and demanding $38,000 damages. Similar suits are threatened against other companies. Wednesday fevening fire flashed from the barn of James Davis, near Brown Valley, Montgomery county, and the structure was soon destroyed. The loss was $4,000; insurance $1,600. Nineteen tons of hay, 1,500 bushels of corn, a binder and other implements were burned. Supposed cause, incendiarism. Tbe Pythian encampment at Spring Fountain Park, near Warsaw, dissolved, Monday, and the various divisions returned to their homes abundantly satisfied with the events of the week. Genral Ross and staff were complimented for their labors in getting up the encampment, and there was kindly remembrance of all who had contributed to its success. “Split* Back,” a Commanche Indian, traveling with the show of Stowe Brothers, was dangerously shot by a Vincennes policeman, Tuesday. The Indian had thrown the officer down and beat hiA savagely with his own macc. Tbe Mayor succeeded in releasing tbe policoman, who then drew his revolver and fired. The Indians, of whom Split Back was one, were dissipating. Wm. Davenport was arrested on the train en route to Cincinnati from Fort Wayne Wednesday afternoon, by Marshal Robinson, on a telegram from Paymaster Coffeenberry, of the B. & O. Railway, from Garrett. It is claimed he stole S9OO from the pay car Wednesday night. When caught, Davenport denied his name, but his clothing and positive description gave him away. Late Wednesday $630 was found on Davenport’s person and he acknowledged the theft. These patents to Indiana inventors were issued Tuesday. Chas. A. Bertsch, Cambridge City, bending roll; Geo. W. Crozier, Muncie, gas pressure regulator; Abram DeWitt, Bluffton, measuring vessel: Theo. Doup, jr., (Jolumbus, road gate; Wesley T. Finney, Bentonville, suspender buckle; Leander W. Freeman, Liberty, hay rake; Hiram H. Gibbs, Indianapolis, road cart; Wickliffß. Mitchell, Owensburg, matchsafe; Simon Shoup, Fish Lake, saw set. Some of the vinegar manufacturers are inclined to test the right of the State Board of Health to analyze their products and put the ban of prohibition upon sales of those that are adulterated. It is proaable that tbe new law under which the board is acting in this respect, will reach the Supreme Court, as lawyers are making inquiries on behalf of certain manufacturers. This, no doubt, caused Sec’y Metcalf, of the Board, to ask the Attorney General, Monday, if the mixing of different vinegars was permissible. After quoting the section of the act relating to adulterated vinegar, passed by the lastjksglslttture, the Attorney General said cider and fruit vinegars may be j mixed. Malt vinegar, and that from harm- * less substances, excepting cider or fruit, can also be mixed. It is the mixing of ciddr and fruit vinegars with other substances that is prohibited. p .»..hn Campbell, of Melrose, 0., was victimized, in Ft. Wayne, out of SIOO, on Saturday, by William Morehouse and John Treadwell, by the old-fashioned sawdust game. The men explained to him that the government had issued $88,000,000 of paper money in excess of its requirements, and was disposing of the surplus in SSOO packages at the rate of. SIOO per package. J Campbell probably does read a news--1 paper, and fell an easy victim to such an | antiquated swindle. He handed oat his j good currency, receiving what he supposed was a package containing SSOO. The swind lers left, and when he opened the bundle he found nothing but old newspaper clippings. No arrests have been made.

• One of toe moat peculiar oases of boycotting ever indulged in occurred In Pike county, south es Vincennes. The new agricultural association, ca,iw the Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Association, which is spreading out in southern Indiana and Illinois, comprises over a thousand members in Pike county. Owing to violent criticisms of the organization by toe county press of that county, the farmers, at a recent meeting, passed toe following: “Resolved, That the delegates to toe conn-* ty assembly of the F. M. B. A. consider that it is the duty of every member of tho order to withhold his patronage from any :ounty paper that opposes us.” The resolution was adopted and the secretary requested to furnish each of toe county p*. pers with a copy of it The resolution angered the three newspapers of the county, and a red-hot wrangle has resulted. In toe Petersburg News toe editor declare* “They can boycott toe News and be d . The first member of toe alliance in Pike county that withdraws his patronage from this office, and does not first pay up his account in full, we will make it warm for him. We are carrying accounts on not less than six hundred members of the alliance, and whenever such members withdraw their patronage from this paper payments roust first be made. Go on with your boycott.”

FOREST AND PRAIRIE FIRES.

Destroying Numerous Cattle Ranches and Threatening Towns In Montana. Forest fires, which have been raging all over Montana for three weeks, have destroyed hundreds of thousands of doliara’ worth of timber, and have reached most alarming .iproportions. A gentleman in from northern Montana reports that ranges in Choteau county which heretofore have escaped, and on which cattle men were depending to keep this winter thousands l ' of head of cattle, are on fire, and all the big companies have their men out trying to suppress toe flames. In two days tbe fire traveled over a section sixty miles wide and one hundred miles in length. In Deer Lodge county the town of Georgetown is surrounded by fire, and a strong wind brought the flames within five miles of Phillipsburg. The mill of the Bimetallic Milling Company, near that town, is in great danger, and the fire is traveling toward it with great rapidity. Couriers who arrived at Phillipsburg from Georgetown, at midnight, reported that the utmost consternation prevailed in the town, and a large force was organized to go to tho rescujh In the Yellowstone country the pineries fires covers an area of eight miles, and is spreading rapidly. Ranges in that section have been almost entirely destroyed, the fire extending nearly from Miles City to Galendive. A letter received Monday from Forsythe says that Henry Casey, J. P. Harrison, and two cowboys recently from Texas, who were out fighting the fire in the vicinity, are missing, and it is feared they have perished.

Crop Reports.

In the States of the Ohio valley, including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky, and lowa and Kansas, (he crops are greatly, improved by the favorable weather of the past week. In these States the corn crop Is in excellent condition and maturing rapidly. A large crop of oats has been harvested, and the hay crop is mneb heavier than was expected at the first of the month. In Michigan the cool nights were unfavorable to corn, and some damage resulted to the crop in Missouri from local storms and drought The good tobacco crop of Ohio, Indiana and Virginia was improved by favorable weather. More rain is needed. In the cotton region, extending from Georgia to Texas, the weather was favorable and the cotton crop improved, although cotton wormß are on the increase from Alabama westward to Arkansas, and have caused some damage to the crop. Mississippi reports caterpillars in thirteen -eeontie*,—ln the eastern portion of the cotton region the crop has been somewhat damaged by rain, but farmers are yet hopeful. In New England, New York and New Jersey the weather was generally unfavorable. Potatoes are rotting from excessive rain, and it has been too cold for corn north of Pennsylvania. Hay, oats and barley have been damaged in New York, and the fruit crop injured in New Jersey by heavy rain, bail mid severe thunder storms. In Pennsylvania the com crop is in fine condition, and a large second crop of hay is being harvested. Rain has interrupted the threshing of wheat in the western portion of Oregon, but these rains will doubtless prove beneficial to fruit

THE MARKETS.

Indiana polih, August 21, 1889. OKA IN. Wheat— Conn— No. 2 Bed 75) No. I White 38 No. 3 8ed...... 70 No. 2 Yellow 17 . Oata, White. 19 Cattln—Good to choice 3.00W4.25 Choice heiien .2.6503.00 Common to medinm 2.0002.30 Good to choice cows 2.5002.76 Hogs—Heavy 4.1004.25 Light 4.5504.70 Mixed ..i,MM*Mi4.85w4.60 Pigs _4.60w4.f5 Shnnp—Good to choice [email protected] Fair to medituu-..... ..............3.000p3.80 BGGB, BOTTKK, POCLTBY. Eggs- 11c Hens per ft •••••• sic Butter.creamery 20c Boosters _3# Fancy country. 12c Turkeys - 7)c Choice country- 9c Woo^—Fine menno, washed 33036 unwashed med 20021 very coarse 17018 Hay, timothy-12.50 I Sugar cured ham 11 Bran _.8.25 Bacon clear aidee U Clover seed.. 4.45 I Feathers, goose 84 Chtcagu. „ i Wheat (Aug)— 76 I Pork 1069 Corn 36 Lanl 0.30 - 6-26 Toledo—Wheat 74,«m 37}, oats 20J-, clover seed $4.32. Sew York—Wheat,—2 red, 87, corn 44c' oats 28 Philadelphia—Wheat, 78c; Cora 46; oats 38). bt. Lonig-Wheat, 74; com, S 3; oata, 19* rve. 38. Baltimore-Wheat, 86); corn, 46; oata. 33; rye, 61. Cincinnati-Wheat 78, c-m 3P|.oate 21, rye 44, porkflUs, lard $6.07.