Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1889 — Page 7

THE HEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. St. Cloud, Minn., is threatened by prairie fires. St. Paul will build another ice palace this fall at a post of (50,000. r All the business houses in Junction, 0., Were destroyed by an Incendiary fire. The United Typothetae in session at St. Louis approved the international copyright law. : '///Tt/TSt Property valued at (400,000 was destroyed by fire at Savannah, Ga., Wednesday. A circus bear got loose \n Chicago and caused a small panic until beaded off and killed. A laborer at Lincoln Park, near Red Bank, N. Y,, dug up $20,000 in bank notes Tuesday. A judge at Auburn, N. Y., decided re cently that the electrical execution * law is constitutional. Chicago workingmen have subscribed about $300,000 towards securing the World’s fair to that city. Alexander Harding was torn to pieces by the explosion of a boiler in a saw-mill near Walla Walla, W. T., Monday. The train men in the Palatine bridge accident were exonerated by the Coroner’s jury, but the company was censured. The Milwaukee Road has been indicted by a United States Grand Jury for violations of the interstate commerce law. A mail pouch weighing 250 pounds was stolen irom a trunk in the Grand Central Depot at Cincinnati Thursday night. Taussig & Taylor, large wool merchants of Philadelphia, are embarrassed, but an extension will be granted by creditors. The feasibility of constructing a ship canal to connect the water of Lake Erie and the Ohio River is under consideration.

Some vandal made an attempt to poison ..Father James Kelly, a Catholic priest, of Oneida, N. Y. Arsenic was put in his wine. A wheel has been made for the Calamut &, Hecla mines which will lfrt 3,000,000 gallons of water and 2,000 tons of sand in a day. George W. Moss, a machinist, at Wilkesbarre, Pa., shot and killed his wife Thursday night. He then shot himself, but not fatally. Five dead bodies were taken out of the Stony Creek River at Johnstown, Pa., Tuosday by the workmen romoving the filth and rubbish. Joseph Crago stabbed his brother, Wm. Crago, in the abdomen, at Empire, O.JSunday night, during a family quarrel, inflicting fatal injuries. Judge Barfett, of New York, granted Mrs. George Francis Train, Jr., an absolute divorce from her husband, the son of ci George Francis Train. The sentence of death passed on “Handsome Harry” Carlton, who shot a New York policeman, has been affirmed by the Court of Appeals. He will hang. Aurora, W. Va., is suffering from a typhoid fever epidemic, nearly every family in the neighborhood having one or more members afflicted with the disease. A train containing railway graders collided with several freight cars, near Larnmie, Wy. T., on Monday night. One man was killed, and two others fatally injured. The American schooner Annie G., from San Francisco, has been confiscated by the Mexican authorities at Altata, for trying to evade paying duty on a portion of her cargo.

Services in memory of the late Samuel Sullivan Cox were held at New York Thursday night. Addresses were made by ex-President Cleveland, Proctor Knott, and others. Twenty years ago A.M. Litch, a drug clerk, ran away from his home at Woodbury, N. J., and has just now been found in Kansas City. A large fortune awaits him from his father’s estate. Charles Sanders, a negro, who murdered a white man named Hayr, in Clear Spring, Md., near Hagerstown, in a political quarrel two years ago, was captured at Pittsburg Thursday. By the breaking in two of a freight train near Danville, Va., and the subsequent collision of the broken sections, brakeman Manchester was killed and brakeman Owen badly injured. Addison Rice, the Buffalo juror who was fined SSO and sent to jail for thirty days for trying to secure a bribe from the Ontario Canning Company, was declared insane, and released from jail, Thursday. Dr. W. A. Leonard, rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Washington, preached his farewell sermon to his congregation last Sunday. Ho will be consecrated on Saturday next as Bishop of the Diocese of Ohio.

Two little sons of J. W. Shelton, living near Carlton, Yamhill County, Oregon, were playing with an old pistol which happened to be loaded. By some accident the weappn was discharged and one of the children killed. A young girl named Lizzie Wiliams, daughter of a farmer living near South Omaha, Nob., was fatally shot Thursday eyening by Samuel Peterson, a neighbor. Peterson says the girl was stealing cabbage from his garden. The great Italian tragedian, SalvibT, made his reappearance in America. Thurs-' day evening, with his famous impersonation of Samson, at a New York theater. He received an ovation from a crowded and brilliant audience. > Go]. Franklin Fairbanks will give to St. Johnsbury, Vt., his entire collection of birds, minerals, shells and curiosities and .erect a suitable museum to contain them. The collection of birds especially is one of the finest in the country. 1 The earnings of Michigan railroads for July, 1889, were $7,303,200.34, an increase over the same month in 1888 of $034,715.20: total earnings from January 1 to August % 1889, $44,998,055.23, an increase over the same period in 1888 of $1,558,604.13. The ship yards of the great lakes will bo busy the coming winter. Thirty-five boats of an aggregate tonnage of 07,330, and cost Of $4,653,800, ate now under contract to be built, and the list will probably be increased by a half dozen other craft. Misa Henrietta Snell, widow of the Chicago millionaire whom Taseoit is supposed’ to have murdered, declared emphatically Thursday that she never authorized archl-

tect Thomas Hawkes to erect a $25,000 memorial to her husband in Union Park. Diptheria has been declared epidemic at Carbondale, Pa. Some of the undertakers have refused to further endanger the lives of their families by handling the bodies of the dead. There are new sixty cases under treatment. The disease is on usually fatal. .. Walter B. Foster, who embezzled SI,OOO TKan the McCormick Reaper Company, at Rochester, N. Y., has been arrested at Toronto. His parents reside at Penneflville, N. Y., and are wealthy. • Foster had been in Toronto several days, spending money lavishly. ' * John Bums, Henry Whitman, Wm, Carrol and Henry Smith, who were ar rested for attempting to vote illegally at the Republican primary in Brooklyn, N. Y., recently, pleaded guilty, Monday, and were sent to the penitentiary for nine months and fined $250. Samuel Mayhom, one of the HatfieldMcCoy gang under sentence of death at Pikeville, Ky., is dying of consumption. A movement is on foot to lynch him, his enemies being determined he shall not die a natural death. The reported murder of a bridal couple by the Hatfield-McCoy gang is now denied. Customs Inspector Blanchley saw a Mex ican smuggler crossing the bridge at El Paso, Texas, the. other night, and ordered him to stop. The Mexican turned and fired at the officer,but missed him. Blanch ley returned the fire and fatally ,wounded the smuggler. The Mexican authorities have ordered an investigation. A dispatch from Waycross, Ga., says: William Gray, a traek band on the Colorado & Western Road, was taken from the train at Jessup by a posse of citizen Thursday and ljnjhed. While passing that place WedLs3day ho had some words with a citizen,’and as the train Jfiilled out he threw a stone, which struck a bystander. The wheat [ growers of the Mississippi Valley will hold a convention at St. Lonis, beginning on the 23d inst. The chief object of the convention is the formation of a Wheat Growers’ Association and the devising of suen means as will insure to the farmers of the Valley a better control of prices and business methods thanj now exist.

Governor Humphrey, of Kansas, has indorsed an appeal from the people of Stevens county for aid, and urges that a hearty response be given to tbe call for food, fuel and clothing. The farmers in that county have suffered successive failures of crops, and they are without the means of support for the approaching winter. Fire, which started in the lower hydraulic cotton-compress yard at Savannah, Ga., Wednesday, destroyed that compress and the Tyler compress, and five warehouses, with 4,900 bales of cotton. The British steamships Napier, Cypress and Carlton were in 'great danger, but were towed safely from the wharves. The Carlton was somewhat blistered. The wharves took fire, but were saved. There will be hardly any salvage on the cotton. The loss is estimated at $40,000. Four successful tests were made Friday at the furnaces in Birmingham, Ala., of a chemical pi’oeess for removing all prosphorus from iron and converting it into Bessemer pig. Every test was pronounced a complete success by chemists and prac tical steel men engaged to witness them. The process has just been discovered by a Scotch chemist named Archioald, who is in the employ of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and. Railroad Company. By this process the extra cost of converting the ores of this section into Bessemer pig will be only fifty cents a ton. The Grand Encampment of Knights Templars, in its session at Washington,last week, elected the following officers: Very Eminent Sir J. P. S. Gobin, of Pennsylvania, Most Eminent Grand Master; Very Eminent Sir Hugh McCurdy, of Michigan, Deputy Grand Master; Very Eminent Sir Warren Larue Thomas, of Kentucky, Grand Generalissimo; Very Eminent Sir Reuben Hedley Lloyd, of California,Grand Captain General; Very Eminent Sir Henry Bates Stoddard, of Texas,Grand Senior Warden; Very Eminent Sir Nicholas Slick,of Rhode Island, Grand Junior Warden; Very Eminent Sir H. Wales Lines, of Connecticut, Grand Treasurer; Very Eminent Sir William B. Isaacs, of Virginia,* 7 Grand Recorder. The next session will be held at Denver. The National Masonic Veterans’ Association, to be composed of Masons of 21 years standing, was formed, with the following officers: President, William Meyer, of Philadelphia; Vice Presidents, Theophilus Pratt, of New York; Lafayette Vancleave, of Cincinnati; Theodore Parvin, of lowa, amd E. A. Sherman, of California. Secretary, George H. Fish, of New York. Treasurer, A. T. Longley, of District of Columbia.

FOREIGN. The Czar visited Emperor William at Berlin, Friday. Their greetings were cordial. The small-pox is raging in the government of Oppeln, Prussian Silesia, and its victims are already counted by the thousands. The German government has given orders for the building of a factory at Spandau to preserve all kinds of food for the use of the army. Sir William Tindale Robertson, who cut his throat at Brighton, Sunday, will be cremated at Woking, in accordance with bis expressed desire. Thirty farmers’ tenants on the Smith and Barry estate, in Tipperary, Ireland, were arrested, Tuesday, for refusing to pay market toils to their landlords. The Regents offered ej -Queen Natalia of Servia a large sum of money, provided she would accept their proposed conditions and depart from Servia. The exQueen indignantly refused the offer, saying that she considered tbe proposal an insult. Advices from Mexico Say the bill to grant a concession to Henry C. Ferguson and Wm. H. Ellis, the two colored men from Texas who propose to colonize lands in the States of Oaxaca, Guerrero, Vera Cruz, Michoacan and San Luis Potosi with negroes from Texas and other American States, has passed the Bower House of Congress with bat one dissenting vote, and has gone to ttie Senate.

KILLED HIS MOTHER.

A most shocking murder and suicide occurred at Buffalo, N. Y., at an early hour Tuesday morning; Charles F. Grris, who resided with his mother, Mrs. Mary King, shot her while she was sleeping, about 4 o’clock, and then committed suicide by cutting his throat from ear to ear with a razor. The room where the crime was committed, when first entered, presented a terrible sight. In one little bed-room, about six by eight feet, lay the murdered woman, dead. An ugly wound in her face told the cause of her deaths She lay on her back as if quietly sleeping, and undoubtedly never realized what had happened to her. Even the bed clothes, though saturated with blood from the wound, were nb disturbed. After killing his mother the murderer must have walked to a table near by and hastily scribbled the following admission of his guilt on three separate pieces of brown paper, as they were found in bis vest pocket: I should prefer cremation, if possible. Please don’t bother our relations about the matter, for they have trouble enough. I hope my friends will not think the worse of me for this. I am tired of living, and that is enough. Mother could not get along without me, so I ended her suffering also. So good-bye, friends, and may you all be happy. Charj.es F. Orris. After writing the above note surround ings indicate that he walked to a mirror hanging on the wall, and cut his throat from ear to ear with a razor. He then walked across the room and sat down in a chair, and smoked a cigarette while his life blood was oozing out.

ROASTED BY NATURAL GAS.

Mother and Three Sons Meet Death in a Horrible Form—Father Badly Burned. At Dave’s Switch, Pa., Friday night,the dwelling of Patrick Daily was burned and his wife and three sons, aged thirteen, eleven and nine, respectively,were roasted in the flames. While the Daily family were at supper, the father stepped to the cook stove to turn off part of the. gas. He unintentionally shut the throttle tight and on turning it on again the bouse was filled with gas. A,n explosion followed, and in an instant the entire house was in flames. The three boys and the mother fell prostrate on the floor, overcome by the heat and flames. Mr. Daily rushed out of the house to call assistance, but all his efforts to save the unfortunate inmates were futile. The house was consumed in a few moments. The charred and blackened bodies of the four victims presented a sickening sight, Mrs. Daily’s limbs were burned from her body, and her flesh vyas cooked to the bone. The three sons were not as horribly burned as the mother, but their blackened bodies could not be identified until placed side by side. The gas pressure was very strong,the pipe running direct from a neighboring well to the stove. Mr. Daily is severely but not fatally burned about the head and face, and is almost crazed with grief.

POLITICAL NOTES.

The official majority against prohibition in Connecticut is 26,884. Senator Sherman began bis canvass, at Orrville, 0., Thursday, in the interest of, Foraker. The Harlem Republican Club of New, York has adopted a series of resolutions commending the action of President Har-| rison regarding the Pan-American Con . gress, and especially complimenting him' on bis selection of ** as Presdient of the Congress. ; Murat Halstead charged in his paper that James F. Campbell the Democratic candidate for Governor, had secured a monied interest in a ballot-box, on behalf of which, as a member of Congress, he had introduced a bill. He denied the charge, but Halstead published a facsimilie of what purported to be Mr. Campbell’s signaturer to a paper subscribing for threetwentieths interest in the scheme. Friday Halstead Instructed in the following words: “Testimony was placed before me last might that tlw names, including that of Mr. Campbell, are, with two ex ceptions, traced from detached signatures and are substantially forgeries. The exceptions were written without a copy. That there may be no shade of doubt upon my exact meaning, I have to say that Mr. Cairpbell’s signature as it has been used, is fraudulent. The proof of this came to me in conclusive form at a late hour, and it is my duty at once to declare the truth.”

THE OFFICIAL COUNT.

A special dispatch from Sioux [Falls, S. Dak., says: According to the returns received from all the Legislative districts in the State the Republicans have 135 of the 169 members. The Republican majority on joint ballot will be 125. A special dispatch from Helena, ’ Mont, Friday says: The vote of Jefferson county was canvassed Thursday, the result being that the Democrats lose a State Senator. This leaves the Upper House of the Legislature a tie, but the Democrats will have a Majority of seven on joint ballot. The full official returns # of the recent election in North Dakota show a total votp of 39,590. Hansbrough, Republican candidate for Congress, received a majority of 15,090, while Miller, Republican candidate for Governor, has 12,600. The majority in favor of prohibition is 1,100. Eighty per cent, of the total vote was in favor of the Consitution, and 70 per cent was the average Republican vote.

BASS BALL. AFFAIRS.

The New York Herald announces that Ward notified President Day Tuesday that the New York Club had decided to start outfor thomselves next season and would notsign with the old club. They have been offered plenty of financial backing and have secured grounds near the Polo Grounds. They would not make an offer for the New York'Chib franchise. Mr. Day, it is said, thinks seriously of aband oning the present organization and going in with the boys. In an interview at Boston,Pitcher Keefe, of the New York Bail Club, virtually admitted Friday that the Brotherhood scheme to break the League would be attempted.

INDIANA STATE HEWS.

Chicken cholera prevails at Ma4ison. Chicken cholera prevails at Madison. Anderson people wont go to comic operas. Wabash county is making great strides forfre&roads. A Citizens’ Gas Trust has been organized at Hartford City. 7 - Policy-playing continues a dangerous mania at Evansville. Oil well Mo. 4, at Royal Center, Cass county, is a gusher. Several cases of yellow fever are reported at Key West, Fla. Ft. Wayne commission merchants are trying to corner apples. Marion Reeves was dangerously hurt by the cars at Montpelier. A cracker combine has been formed by Eastern manufacturers. Lew Wallace has become a favorite name of Hoosier literary clubs. Good progress is being made on the new Odd Fellows’ building at Laporte. James G. Endicott, an old soldier in illhealth, committed suicide at Greensburg. The White Caps who assaulted Mrs. Areneth Stout at Marion will be tried July Is. The Michigan City life-saving crew is expert in the practice of boat-handling, mortarflring, etc. Fire headquarters at Michigan City burned nearly a day before the flames were discovered. Cholera has become prevalent; among the hogs in Steuben bounty, and they are dying by the bundreds. Henry Ye9ter, a butcher, of Jeffersonville,'has fallen in-heir to $50,000 by the death of an uncle in Germany. Judge Boss, at Kokomo, has decided against the railway bulletin board, being the fourth Indiana Judge to do so. .. Frank Keesee and Miss Mattie Wilson, of Veedersburg, eloped Saturday night. Keesee had a wife and three children. Professor W. T. Giffe, the well-known musical composer, and Miss Nannie Booth were married at Logansport Thursday night. —-—*■ —— —i— Fifteen thousand bushels of apples have already been shipped from Steuben county. The apple and potato" crop there is enormous. Monroe Sieberling, general manager of the Diamond Plate Glass Company, of Kokomo, is building a $45,000 residence in that city. The terms of four of the Board of Mana gorsof the Marion Soldiers’ Home will expire next year. Congress is the appointing power. The Washington county teachers have determined to erect a monument to the late Prof. James G. May, the famous old schoolmaster, of Salem. Fred Ritter, a well-known and wealthy stock man, of Winchester, Ind.,was robbed of S4OO, in Cincinnati, Tuesday. He was there to make a sale of stock. John Schultz, in Morgan township, Porter county, recently drained a large pond. Hundreds of fish were caught and sold on

the ground at 8 cents a pound. Thursday, four boys of Ladoga cwere riding a horse, when all of them fell off. Three of them fell on Everett Gibbon, in luring him so that he died in a short time. George Price, a young aeronaut with Wallace Bros.’ Circus, jumped into the Ohio River at Mt, Vernon, in making a successful parachute descent, and was j drowned. I Edwin D. Wheelock, of Elkhart, for sev- ' eral years Auditor of the Cincinnati, Wa--1 bash & Michigan Railway, has resigned his position to enter the real estate busi ness in Chicago. There is a school district in Union township, Montgomery county, in which there are ofily two girls of school age, and neith- | er one of them attend school, which is composed of about thirty boys. Mary R. Moberly, a school teacher of Spencer, has sued James R. Henry for libel, asking $20,000 damages. She claims that through his active influence she was discharged and license revoked. A cow belsngingto Mrs. Brown, of Scott township, Harrison county, gave birth to a calf Thursday which had four eyes, four nostrils and four ears, and a mouth like a fish. The monstrosity is yet alive. Parke Memorial Chapel, dedicated under Presbyterian auspices at Evansville, Sundar, was built by Hon. J. W. Foster, in memory of his daughter, Mary Parke Foster, who died in that city last year while visiting her grandmother. A well dressod girl baby about eleven months old was found in a basket on the doorstep of Dr. Muncie’s house at Marion Monday. An accompanying note requested that the waif be well cared for, as she would inherit a fortune some day. Thursday afternoon, as the train was going to Harris City from Greensburg, Robert Lavender, yard-master at the latter place, was caught by a telegraph wire and thrown from the top of a box car down on a flat car and very seriously injured. The city election at Indianapolis Tuesday resulted in a victory for the Democrats. Their candidates for mayor, clerk and a majority of the aldermen and councilmen were elected. They will have control of the city, the first time in fifteen years. The drug store of Dr. J, F. Finch, at Ewing was burned by an incendiary fire early Friday morning together with all its contents, including the doctor’s valuable collection of instruments, his library and all of h>s private papers. The loss will exceed $4,00n. The grand jury of Shelby county has reported that it has decided not to indict Mrs. Mary Corwin for shooting and nearly killing Gid P-armer and *n Witt, last June, while trying to break into her house, i Mrs. Corwin is the woman who has had ■ eight husbands. The C. Edward Henry Opalescent Glass Works Co., of Kokomo,has received official notice from Paris that their exhibit of art glass had captured the first prize and-a-gold medal for the best collection of cathedral and art glass on exbiDition at the World’s Exposition in that city. A curiosity in the shape of a milk pumpkin can be soen on the farm of O. N. Tran barger, a few miles southwest of Ander son. The vine upon which the pumpkin grew was pertly covered with loose dirt when in At the points where the dirt covered the vine small roots grew out.

The vine was lifted up and the roots care fully placed in a pan of milk, which waa rapidly Absorbed. The pumpkins on the vine grew to enormous size, and On weighs 125 pounds. Mrs. John Stonecifer has returned to the home of her parents in Fort Wayne. A year ago she and her husband moved to Lima, O. A few evenings ago he found a Fort Wayne merchant at his house and handled him roughly. A separation followed and Stonecifer left for parts unknown. As farmer James Hull, living ten miles west of Fort Wayne, was driving home he was struck on a crossing by a west, bound passenger train on the Nickel-plate Road. The locomotive struck the horses and the front end of the wagon. Hunt was thrown out and instantly killed. Both horses were also killed. He leaves a large family. Wm. Randolph, who lives three miles southeast of Montpelier, lost his barn by Are Tuesday. The family were visiting at the time, and when they Came home they found a pile of straw under the house which was on fire, but they succeeded in putting it out and savin g the house. There is no insurance. Wednesday evening, Charles Jacobs, an employe of Lewis Postal, a farmer south? of Muncie, wa3 sent to the city with 97% bushels of oats, to leave at a feed store and collect the money for them, which was <19.50. After the money was paid the voung man put the team of horses up in Franklin’s livery barn and left for parts unknown witu the money. In the 2 :82 trot at Terre Haste for SI,W Middleway won. Time—2:3o, 2:24, 2:25%. Maud T took the 2:22'trot in three heats. Time 2:19 by C. W. Williams, and accompanied by George Starr behind Father John, as a helper, gave an exhibition mile in 2:14 1-4. This is the fastest mile in harness ever made in Indiana. Axtell will start Friday to beat, the three-year-old record—2:l3 8-4. John McKain lived on a farm near Sardinia. Wednesday, he was assisting his son and a neighbor in felling a large tree in the woods. The top striking another tree, the trunk slipped backward from the stump and struck a large limb lying on the ground. This limb struck Mr. McKain under the chin, cutting bis throat, and causing death in less than an hour after ward. Mr. McKain was seventy-three years old and an excellent citizen. The most wonderful freak yet developed in the gas field is located four miles east of Kokomo, Gas and water were reached simultaneously, Friday, and the water is 3pouting constantly in a six-inch stream 150 feet high. The water is flooding the country and ditches aro being plowed to carry the water away. The well seems uncontrollable and'the farmers in the vicinity are alarmed at the prospects of seeing their fields deluged'with salt water. A young farmer named William Null, of Wabasb county, was arrested Friday, charged by his neighbor, Levi Hummel, with highway robbery. Hummel was accosted by Null late at night, when Null presented a revolver, in border fashion, and demanded Hummel’s cash. The latter promptly complied turning over all the valuables in his possession. Null admits the crime, but says in explanation that Hummel shot at his dog. Null was placed under bond in the sum of SI,OOO. Mrs. Eliza J. Watkins, widow of the late J. H. Watkins, a prominent miller of Crawfordsville, committed suicide Wednesday morning by throwing herself in front of an Ohio, Indiana & Western train. The body was not'mangled. Insanity was the cause. Although the general public has not been aware of the fact, Mrs. Watkins has been insane for the last ten years, and has been constantly trying to kill herself during that time. She was sixty four years old and leaves six children, most of them grown. While at dinner Thursday at their home in Logansport,ex-Attorney-General Daniel P. Baldwin and wife were discussing the Studebakcr fire at South Bend. Mrs. Baldwin was much concerned about the fire, and fearful lest such a disaster might befall her own home. She told Mr. Bald win that she would go up stairs and ascertain if all was secure in the upper chambers. Upon reaching the second floor she was appalled to find the house filled with smoke. The fire had originated from the gas pipes, but was extinguished after considerable effr vt. The convention for the consolidation of the Indiana Woman Suffrago Association, organized by the late Dr. Mary F. Thomas, of Richmond, nnd others in 1861, and the National Branch, organized In 1887, opened Thursday at Rushville with a representative delegation from different sections of the State. Susan B. Anthony, May Wright Sewall, Helen M. Gmigar, Mary E. Cardwill, L. May Wheeler, Julietta K. Wood were present. Mrs. Sewall, B. Anthonv and Mrs. Gougar were the principal speakers for the afternoon and evening. Wolcottville was the scene of an attempt at murder and suicide, Saturday night. Mrs. Warren keeps a hotel of more or less unsavory reputation. On Friday she rereturned from Toledo, bringing with her a Mrs. Driscoll, who was installed as a din-ing-room girl, and with them came an unknown man. Saturday night Mr. Driscoll arrived, and an attempt to induce his wife to return to his home led to a quarrel in which, it is alleged, be shot her and then put a bullet through his own brain. He will die, but she will recover. Another version states that Driscoll was shot by a man named Baker, who fled Monday. The prosecuting attorney is making his investigation. j The Chicago, Muncie,'Richmond & CinI cinnati Railroad has been organized in ! Evansville. It is the intention of the new company to build a line from a point on the Cincinnati, Wabasb A Michigan between Jonesboro and Fairmont, in Grant county to Cincinnati, making by more than thirty miles the shortest route between Cincinnati and Chicago, and by the extension of "the Louisville, Evansville A St. Louis read, to Harrison or Cincinnati, the shortest line between St. Louis and Cincinnati. The capital stock is $1,000,000. The directors are D. J, Mackey, Wm. Heilman, James L. Mackey. E. B, Morgan, W J. : Lewis, J. G. Grammer and Edwin Taylor. Mr. Austin H. Brawn, of Indiana))/.

who inlßß4 waa a membra of the Democratic National Committee from Indiana, and who subsequently was appointed a Chief of Division in tbe office of the Third Auditor of the Treasury by Secretary! Manning, has been askdd to resign, with!' which request he has complied, to take; effect on the 15th inst. Mr. Brown is already out of the service, having been! given a- leave of absence till that date. 1 Secretary Windom and Third Auditor Hart, tbe latter an Indiana man, were particular to assure Mr. Brown that there was nothing against him but his politics., and were exceedingly -complimentary so far as his official connection with the Government is concerned □Patents were granted last Wednesday to Horace A. Allen, Indianapolis, combined cupping device and vacuum pump; James B. Alfree, [lndianapolis, balance slide valve; John B. Deeds, Terre Haute, hy-dro-carbon burner for furnaces; Henry H Elbery, Indianapolis, surgical chair; John M. Kellum, Kokomo, vignetting frame; Joseph N. Morrow and A N. Hein, Evansville, gang-edger for cutting dimension lumber; John B. Phillippi and S. P. Dealy, Hartsville, domestic boiler; Lewis J. Rice, Indianapolis, self-closing faucet; Wm. E. Schaffer, Carlisle, vehicle; Albert P. Sibley, South Bend, drill press; John L. Taylor, Bartlet seed-planter and fertilizer-distributor; Joseph M. Vanover, Terre Haute, sliding or rolling gate. A horrible accident occurred, Monday night,fourteen miles southeast of Kokomo, at tbe Ellis gas well. A party visited the well to witness an illumination. The gas was conducted through a three-inch pipe sixty feet from the well,with a short elbow; at the end. The elbow was being turned downward, to the ground, as the gas was turned on, when the terrific pressure of the partially confined fluid raised tbe pipe from the supports and whirled it sidewise toward the spectators witb fearful violence, instantly killing Rev. Cura Moorman, anq fatally wounding John Hogue, it broke the leg of Frank Larue and badly injured Hiram Overman, while dangerously woundj ing several others. Moorman was pinned to a wire fence by the end of tbe pipe of burning gas, and instantly roasted to death, the body being partially consumed. He was sixty-four years old, a prominent minister of the Friends’ Church, and leaves a wife and five children, grown. He was a resident of Howard county forty years, and was highly respected. Hogue was fearfully burned, and will die. Hiram Overman, aged fifty, received a frightful gash on tbe head by the pipe, but may rfe* cover. This gas well is one of tbe most powerful In the State, and is owned by the Diamond Piate Glass! Company, of Kokomo. - ‘ r" 4 -- -*■ J Eight years ago, Henry Brubaker, a well-to-do farmer, of Allpn county, suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. He left behind a wife and six children, and ali efforts to trace the missing man werd futile until, at lass, it was the accepted theory that Brubaker was dead. Mrs. Brubaker struggled along and reared her children snugly on their eighty-acre farm near Hunterton, and after waiting for four years for her missing husband, she married Conrad Snyder, an honest farmer, who faithfully helped her bring up her large family. Wednesday the truant husband, ghost-like, walked Kite tbe farm-* house, when the family were shs-ed at the dinner table. There was a sad scene when wife and husband, amid tears of joy and sorrow, fell into each other’s arms, Ex J planation followed and the wanderer told his story. Actuated by some inexplicable but irresistible power, he bad left home and family and drifted to the Pacific coast. 1 After years of hard toil fortune smiled upon him, until now he can draw his check for a cool SIOO,OOO. He then thought! of home once more, and concluded to atone for his past Gonduct by dividing with hie family the fortune he had acquired. Buti when his wife told her story—four years of waiting and sorrow, and, finally, a happy, contented life by tbe side of her second husband, Brubaker found, too late, that gold cannot purchase true hap- 1 piness, and he concluded net to disturb her home which he had left-so frfvolously.

A Disastrous Fire. i The magnificent stone residence of Hon. Clem Studebaker, at South Bend, was almost entirely destroyed by fire at 3 o’clock, Wednesday morning. The fire caught in a closet on the main floor. Spontaneous combustion originated in some oiled rags thrown in the closet. This closet was uxder tbe rear stairway and adjoining the elevator shaft As soon as the air reached it the flames shot up the elevator shaft to the roof, and spread to every part of the building. Tbe inmates bad a very narrow escape. Mrs. Studebaker was dangerously burned, and was found outside, with her grandchild in her arms, insensible. Portions of the residence which escaped fire were ruined by water. The loss on valuable furniture, pictures and works of art is immense, aside from tbe loss on the building, which was tbe largest one in the State and the most costly in tbe West/ Tbe residence was one of the largest and costliest in the West, it was built of In; diana field (tone, with tile roof and copper facings, and tbe interior was finished in the costliest of native and foreign wood, while it was furnished in the richest style! throughout. The art gallery on the tnlrd floor was filled with rare works of art, and all these were destroyed. Mr. Studebaker is absent as a mem, her of the International American Con-, gress, and was to have entertained that body in tbe house on the 19th inst. The rest of the family, Mrs. and her grandchild,were away from home.' The house in its proportions and appointments, probably surpasses anything in Indiana. It is .an embodiment of all that wealth and taste can suggest, and modern skill and invention devise. The material is native cobblestone, irregular in form and varied in cdler. It stands upon a natural elevation, surrounded by smoothly shaved lawns, which slope to the north and east and are broken here and there by beds of btflliant flowers. There are sever al fine 014 oaks to the south mad east, With its massive walls, its turrets and tho irregular roofs it looked like some feudrl castle. The house was most lavishly fur* niahed throughout The original cost mat nearly $3,CC0,000.