Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1889 — Page 7

THE NEWS 0F THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. There is talk of a cheese trust. Tennessee reports a short cotton crop* _ Pearls are being found in the river near Lena, 111. Illinois’ Supreme Court upholds Chicago’s annexations. Heav.y snow-falls in eastern Nebraska are delaying trains. Evangelist Moody is holding large meetings at Rockford, 111. Railroads all over the country complain of a shortage of cars. Lewis Andrews, aged 109, died at Pottersville, N. Y. Thursday. The McCoy-Hatfield vendetta has broken out again in West Virginia. Societies of Anarchists are being established at Pittsburg by Herr Frick. John I. Manning Ex-Governor of South Carolina, died at Camden Thursday. Kate Davis, arrested at Niles, Mich., admits that she is one of the Bender family. Indians on the wind. River reservation, near the National Park, are starving. Opposition to Reed’s candidacy for the ISpeakership has developed among the silver men. During the past year customs receipts were $225,202,412; expenses of collecting, $20,153,992. The election contests in Montana are being decided, it seems, favorably to the Democrats. Edison has completed a phofi'&graphic clock that speaks the hour instead of ringing or striking" A six-year-old daughter of Mrs. Sullivan, of Cincinnati, swallowed a toy balloon and “choked to death. Cattlemen say their losses will be enormous if they are forced off the Cherokee Strip next June. Fire damaged the Armour Packing House at Kansas City to the extent of SIIO,OOO, Tuesday. A small locomotive, belonging to a local *coal company, blew up near Scranton, Pa., and killed three men. An unknown person tried to blow up St. Peter’s Church, Baltimore, by turning on the gas in the edifice. The Chicago authorities were perpetually enjoined, Monday, from printing city advertisements in German. Chicago claims to be first choice for the world’s fair of 102 Congressmen, and the second choice of forty more. The Farmers’ Review says lack of feed will force immense numbers of low grade cattle on the market this fall. There was a pitched battle between Highbinders and Chinese in San Francisco Thursday. Several were hurt, The Montana Canvassing Board hasheen ordered to count the votes of the disputed districts where skulduggery was practiced. Minneapolis mills made one! of their heaviest runs last week —174,310 barrels. Mills run by water power are putting in Bteam. It is estimated that Chinese opium smugglers in San Francisco have swindled the government out of $400,000 in the past six months. All the St. Louis breweries but the An-heuser-Busch, Lemp and Albert have been sold to the English syndicate for §5,250,000, George B. McClellan, son of the late General McClellan, was married, Wednesday, at Newport, R. 1., to Miss Georgiana Hickschefr Mrs. Mary Baron, of New York, while temporarily insane from sickness and want of food, Thursday night, tried to kill her mother and son. With the assistance of the Mexican authorities', ten noted bandits and murderers wei'e arrested near the boundary line in Texas Thursday. William C. Tenner, a French Count, who once got 10,000 francs by forging Sara Bernhardt’s name, pleaded guilty to forgery at New York. dliver Garrison, one of the most prominent of St. Louis citizens, committed suicido Monday in Forest Park, by shooting himself through the head. The Baptists of Nashville, Tenn., are getting up a memorial to the Baptists of America, to mise funds for the purpose of establishing a Baptist University in that city. Two witnesses in the Cronin case (members of the Carlson family) Friday, positively identified Burke as the man who rented the Carlson cottage in which Cronin was murdered. The Manufacturers’ Record says it is al most impossible to exaggerate the number or amount of investments now being made in the South by Northern capital in all kinds of business. The Tradesman’s National Bank of Conshohocken, Pa., closed its doors Thursday in consequence of the defalcation for $50,000 by the cashier. Depositors will be in full, it is claimed. Dr. Isaac E. Taylor, the originator and founder of Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, and the only President has ever had, died suddenly at 5 o’clock Wednesday afternoon. Sixteen njen were buried in a falling building at Patterson, N. J., Thursday, and some of them were fatally injured. The building was a cheap affair that never ought to have been allowed to go up. Mayor Grant, of New York, has signed an ordinance,passed by the Board of Aidermen, prohibiting the playing of street bands, organs or other musical instruments on the streets. This makes the act a law. A company has been organized at Philadelphia to build and sell twin-screw seagoing gun torpedo boats.' The capital stock is $6,000,000. Dr. Gatling, of gun fame, is to have charge of the construction department. Rev T. DeWitt Talmage will be accom panied on a tour to and through the Holy Land by his wife and dadghter Mary, and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Klopsch, of New York. The latter is a daughter of Rev. Stephen Merritt. Mayor Davenport, of Kansas City, and Congressman Tarnsey had a row over the entertainment of the South American delegates. The Mayor slapped the Congressman and the latter was disarmed of & revolver which he tried to draw, j . The boiler in the building occupied by O’Neil <k Dyas, dry goods merchants, at

Akron, 0., exploded from escaping gas, Monday. The building took fire and was destroyed, with several adjoining buildings, causing a loss of $250,000. The Pan-Americans visited the tomb of Lincoln at Springfield, 111., Thursday, and several speeches' eulogisHc of the martyred President were delivered. On Friday the delegates were shown the sights at Indianapolis, and on Saturday at Louisville. A company of Eastern capitalists with General Clinton B. Fisk, late Prohibition candidate for President, at their head,have purchased 100,000 acres of land on the line of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, on which a temperance town is to be started which will be named Harriman. According to what appears to be trust worthy reports, John Jacob Astor, the elder, is engaged to “be married to Mrs Bowler, of Cincinnati. This story comes from the other side of the Atlantic, where both Mr. Astor and Mrs. Bowler now are, and gains credence from the fact that Mr. Astor is a very domestic old gentleman and has paid Mrs. Bowler devoted attention for a year or more. A Providence, R. 1., special says: The surprising feature of the will of the late Henry J. Steere, the philanthropist, is hjs bequest of a flue residence, all his works of art and SIOO,OOO in cash to Charles H. Atwood, his private secretary. Atwood was formerly a clerk in a restaurant, and was not related to Mr. Steere. The housekeeper gets $50,000, and all the servants are to receive $3,000 each and a house. Axtell, Kansas, is having a religious war that may result-seriously. Thetown is made up of nearly all Catholics. A Methodist revivalist went to the place and in his first sermon scored the Catholics unmercifully, and finally a number of the members of this chureh resented his words and threw him and two or three of the leaders out of the church by force. It is feared the trouble may become general. Gen. Miles, in his report for the department of the Pacific, says 6,000 troops are' guarding 775,300 square miles, and 1,400 miles of Mexican border. His forces are in every way in good condition,but better bar racks and quarters are needed. Desertions could be reduced by a three years’ enlistment and giving the recruit the choice of a division - in which to serve. The coast is practically without defense, ands3o,ooo,ooo are needed to supply them. Suit has been brought at Leavenworth by a Pottawatomie chief, representing his tribe, for the recovery of large tracts of land, out of which the Indians claim to have been swindled. As soon as it was learned that tlie Indians were to have their lands in severalty, a number of men came on the reservation and, working on the ignorance of the Pottawatomies, induced them to sell for $lO an acre, land Worth S3OO, the Indians signing the papers under the impression that they had something to do with the severalty matter. Depositions of Gen. McCook and others bring out these facts. The suit was brought through the General’s efforts, FOREIGN. The Spanish government proposes to raise the tariff on flour. In a railway accident Monday at Hatras, near Agra, India, fifteen persons were killed and forty injured. Miss Caldwell, the heiress nf Washington engaged to Prince Murat, has been jilted by that gentlemen, because his marriage allowance was not large enough. It is reported the Prince of Wales is afflicted with- Bright’s disease and that it is getting to such an advanced stage that the greatest alarm is felt. He will visit Egypt in the hope of getting relief. The overflow of the Po and other rivers has caused the loss of several lives and the destruction of much property in Italy. Many bridges and a large number of houses have been swept away by the floods. Peruvian advices say that four officers belonging to the revolutionary force of Iglesias were captured on Sept. 23, while attempting to capture the new cruiser, Lima, in Callao harbor. They tried to corrupt the chief officers of the gun-boat. The latter pretended to accept the guarrantee of a bribe of $40,000, and when a boat load of revolutionists came alongside, on the night designated, four of the conspirators were captured. They will be shot.

A DISASTER AT GLASGOW.

Fifty Women and Girls Killed by the Ci ushing in of a Carpet Factory Roof. During the high winds which prevailed at Glasgow, Scotland, Friday, a gable of a building in course of erection, on the site adjoining Templeton’s carpet factory, on William street, was blown down. The falling debris crushed through the roof of the weaving department of the carpet factory, where fifty women and girls were employed, and all were buried beneath the broken timbers, etc. It is probable that forty cf the inmates of tho weaving room were .killed. At midnight seventeen bodies hud been recovered from the ruins. As nearly as can be ascertained, thirty-three women aud girls are still missing. The wrecked building was 300 feet long. It is rumored that the foundation of that portion of the building which fell was over an abandoned coal pit. Survivors relate that a sudden extinguish ment of the llgthts in the weaving department was the only warning they bad of the disaster. All of the occupants rushed,with one accord, to tho main exit, where most of the bodies of th 6 victims were found. At 1 o’clock Saturday morning seventyfive.- bodies had been recovered, and the number missing ones is now placed at thirty. The search for the remaining bodies is nowgoing on as rapidly as possible, with the aid of electric lights. The disaster occurred shortly after the workmen engaged in the construction of tfle new building had ceased work. It is now stated that there were 140 females in the weav-ing-room when the wall fell. The latest estimates place the loss of life at fifty. One hundred and fifty persons were at work hi tbe building at the time of tho disaster. The pecuniary loss i 5575,000. Tbe tremor resulting from tbe fall of the building was felt for a great distance. Many pathetic scenes were witnessed among the parents end other relatives of the victims. '

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The undertakers of Vermillion county have formed a trust. The first snow of the season fell, WednesA team of horses backed off abridge near Shelbyville, fatally injuring John Young and wife. •* - Daniel Purview, near Montpelier, while engaged in hauling logs Monday, was run over by one, which crushed him to death. It costs Stark county 40 cents a day to board her prisoners in the Porter county jail, which is cheaper than having a jail at home. Two colored girl, were assaulted by “White Caps” in the outskirts of Corydon this week, and severely whipped with switches. Two crooks attempted to rob the Merchants’ National Bank at New Albany Wednesday, but were frustrated by the vigilance of Cashier Mangary. At Crawfordsville Miss Anna Stephens, aged sixteen, stole sl6 in money and a note for S3OO from a cousin, ancf ran away. She is an ex-lieutenant of the Salvation Army. ■ • The Home for Children established by Grant county two years ago has already cared for fifty-eight homeless little creatures, and there are now thirty-one in the institution. George Meek, of North Vernon, found a pocketbook belonging to Charles Ochs, which contained $125, and he proceeded to have a time. His father made good the loss, but the State is now prosecuting George. \ Nicholas Hausbach, of Ft. Wayne, while hunting Monday, was accidentally shot by his companion. The full charge took effect in his face, tearing out both eyes, perforating his tongue, and otherwise injuring him. The Southern Prison during the past year has been nearly self sustaining. The total expenditures for the year were $71,082.49, and the earnings paid in, $65,915.18. There are outstanding accounts amounting to about $9,0C0. The gas well at Somerset, suddenly ceased flowing Tuesday morning, leaving the inhabitants of the place without fuel. It is supposed that an accumulation of salt in the hole obstructs the flow. Another well will be drilled at once. The Central Gas Company, organized to pipe gas from the Hancock fields to Shelbyville, were granted the right of way by the County Commissioners, but farmers are objecting to the use cf the highways, and have caused the arrest of a number of the employes for trespass, The Coroner of Howard county has returned a verdict in the Lake Erie & Western Railway horror recently at Kokomo, in which he finds that the switch had been maliciously tampered with by unknown parties. Kokomo has offered $250 reward for the arrest of the offenders. Frank Shank, who attempted to kill his sweetheart, and who was pardoned by the Governor during the. present week, has been removed from prison to his old home at Richmond, apparently in the last stages of consumption. It is said that the injured girl signed the petition for his pardon, and also that she will marry him him if he survives. Harry Richey attempted to cross the Big Four Railway tracks near Lebanon with a team of four horses, dragging a load of saw-logs, but his wagon broke down on the track, with the passenger train in -Sight, and coming at great speed. Richey, however, set fire to his hat, and with this flaming torch succeeded in flagging the train to a stand-still. While Frank Horn, of Springfield Township, Allen county, was driving home from Church last Sunday night, accompanied by his wife and little child, a runaway accident throw' them out, killing the babe and fatally injuring Mrs. Horn. The accident was the result of an obstruction which had been placed in the road, as supposed, to injure Mr. Horn. Rev. M. Swadener, of the Marion odist Church, has resigned his pastorate to engage in evangelical work. Thirteen years ago, while still very young, he gave up his trade of cooper to enter the ministry, and since that time ho has taken advanced rank as a popular and effective preacher in the North Indiana Conference His resignation will take effect April 1. A young Swede, unable to talk English, was recently sent to the Logansport Asylum as insane, but in a short time the Superintendent began an inquiry which resulted in showing that a farmer near Laporte, by whom the Swede had been employed, and to whom he owed considerable money, had attempted to balance the account by having him thus put out of the way. Three Bohemian oats cases were settled in the Circuit Court, at Hartford City, Friday night. The defendants are to pay costs, including attorneys’ fees and the principal of each note of SIOO. These cases aro celebrated throughout this section of the State. Action to recover by Thad Butler, of Huntington, was begun at Bluffton, taken from there to Huntington, aud then to Hartford City. The cases have been in court eight years. A bracket on, which Adolph Rice and Louis Heck, tinners, at the new Court House at Evansville, were working,Thursday, gave away about 12 o’clock, and the two men were precipitated to the ground,a distance of sixty feet, alighting on a pile Of tiling. Rice struck his bead first and was killed instantly. Heck struck on his side, sustaining a fracture of both arms and one leg, besides being badly wounded about the head. He was also internally injured and it is believed he will die. Cnolera is fast making away with the hogs of Steuben county, hundreds dying every day, many farmers losing their entire droves. The disease is spreading to all parts of the county, and every effort to check its progress has so far proved unavailing, and pork raisers are greatly discouraged. It is estimated that the loss will be many thousands of dollars, and but for the unprecedented apple crop and good prices, it would leave the farmers in pretty bad shape. I The Indianapolis pension office is the second in importance in the land. This month there are 45,675 pensioners on the ' roll. In September $1,663,034.94 was paid

out. From July 1, 1888, to July 1, 1889, this office paid outt $8,428,334.28. The iucrease of 1838 over the preceding year was between $1,600,000 and $1,700,000, and if this increase continues, the office will pay out in 1889, over $10,000,000. Colonel Zollinger's term expires in January? and he will probably hold on until that time. Twenty-two years ago John McQuown lived with his wife and six children in Jefferson Township, Boone County, but in August, 1867, he suddenly disappeared, and no tidings-of him were ever received. Some years later Mrs- McQuown, suppos ing herself a widow, re-married, hut her second husband lived but two years, and she was again left alone. Last week Mr. McQuown as suddenly and un ceremoniously cas marked his disappearance, returned to his home, but not, however, to claim his wife. Instead he demanded possession of the farm, and they are now living in the same house without resuming marital relations, and with no prospect of compromising their The courts will have to name the rightful owner. The $250 liquor license law waff declared valid in two decisions handed down by the Supreme. Court Wednesday afternoon. Two cases decided at Indianapolis, were appealed. One of these appeals, made by Charles H. Brush questioned the constitutionality of the law, declaring certain clauses in the act passed by the late Legislature to he defective. An opinion by Judge Coffey affirms the decision of the lower court that the law is constitutional. The second appeal, made by Wm. Moore involves the question of constitutionality of the law and also of the validity of the ordinance passed by the Indianapolis Council raising the liquor license to $250 even before the old SIOO license had expired. Moore set up for his defense in the case against him his unexpired license, and contended that he had no right to continue business under the licenso until its expiration. In an elaborate opinion, Judge Mitchell sustains the action of the lower court, declaring the ordinance valid. Three Deputy Sheriffs were sent to Marion Township, Boone county, Monday evening, to arrest Geo. W. Wade on a Grand Jury indictment, and the defendant was found working in a ditch. When sum moned to surrender, he started to run, whereupon George Buffinger, one of the deputies, warned him to halt, and then fired upon him with a shot gun loaded with buck-shot, tho charge striking Wade in the left side, and inflicting a dangerous wound. His recovery is doubtful. It was with difficulty that Wade’s companions were prevented from mobbing Bufflngerwho was brought to Lebanon by his fel-low-deputies. In the case of Marsh Doherty, of Crawfordsville, who made an assignment to A. F. Ramsey for the benefit of creditors, Judge Rabh, of the Montgomery C'rciiit Court, holds that the original dissolution of the firm was valid; as well as the appointment of the assignee, and that the First National Bank was a valid preferred credi tor for $4,000. The court also holds that the failure of the firm was a carefully prepared plan on the part of Fisher Doherty aud his sons, Marsh and Mat, to defraud creditors, and that O. T. Street, who received and invested $10,200, sent away by Marsh Doherty, is equally guilty with Marsh Doherty. It is also held that the entire property of Fisher Doherty, together with Marsh and Mat, can be taken to satisfy creditors. The annual meeting of the executive committee of the State Board of Agricul ture was held, Thursday, at Indianapolis, to fix dates for the several yearly industrial meetings. The programme as arranged for 1890 was as follows: Cane Growers—Tuesday, January 14, 1 p. m. Bee Keepers—Wednesday, January 15, 1 p. m. Horse Breeders—Thursday, January 16,1 p. m. Poultry Breeders—Friday, January 17, 7 p. m. Jersey Breeders— Monday, January 20, 2 p. m. Wool Growers—Tuesday, January 21,1:30 p. m. Shorthorn Breeders—Wednesday, January 22, 1:80 p. m. Swine Breeders—Thursday, January 23,1:30 p. m. Florists—February 26, at 11 a. m. The State Fair matters were also adjusted. The receipts from the last one were, from all sources, $45,662.24 and the expenses, including salaries of officials, amounted to $35,174.95, leaving a balance of $10,487.29. The Superintendent of the Reform School for Boys Tuesday made his semiannual report of the accounts due from the various counties of the State for onehalf the expenses of maintenance and instruction of the boys at the school. The estimated annual expense (per capita) of each boy is $l2O. Each county pays onehalf this amount. The amount due from counties for the past six months is $13,037.25. In that time there were eighty one counties that had representatives in the school. The following counties were not represented: Franklin, Orange, Starke. Jasper, Parke, Union, Marshall, Ripley, Newton, Ohio and Scott. There were 564 boys reported as having been in the school during this period. The counties having the ’ largest population had the most boys. First in rank was l)larion with 101; then came Vigo with 41; Decatur 22 and Allen 20.

THE RACE QUESTION.

Colonel Keating, of Memphis, Talks to the Missionary Society. Tfye negro question was the principal theme for discussion in the meetirg of the American Missionary Association which adjourred at Chicago Thursday. Several paper? were read, the moat interesting of which was one by Col. J. M. Keating, tho well-known Journalist of Memphis. Colonel Keating said that disfranchisement was impossible; that suffrage is necessary to the protection of the negro. Deportation, he says, is utterly impossible, for, if tho colored people emigrated it would be gveatly against the interests of the South. The thing to be done is to let tho negro slone, give him his rights, his education and christianzation. A vote of thanks was tendered Colonel Keating by the Association, and the committee on Printing was instructed to have the paper distributed throughout the South. The public debt wis reduced 19,104,853 during October.

WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.

Mr. Honk’s Flan for Bringing Congressional Elections Under Federal Sapervlsion. * the first Republican in the Fifty-first Con-, gress to come to the front with a proposed bill placing the control of. elections where Representatives to Congress are chosen in the hands of the federal government. This subject will undoubtedly create a great deal of agitation in Congress at the approaching session, and bring about the liveliest debates of any of the subjects which will be discussed. Judge Houk, be ing the oldest Republican member Lorn tho South, is prominertiy mentioned for the chairmanship of the committee on elections. His bill provides that the President shall appoint three qualified voters in each congressional district, to be known as the electoral board of the district, upon the petition of not less than one hundred qualified voters; certified by the clerk of the United States District Court, in which it is alleged that the petitioners do not believe a fair regis tration and election, or either of them, can be held in that district under State supervision. The board will appoint registrars for each precinct, to serve six years. The board shall have absolute control over the appointment of registrars,and may remove them at will for failure to discharge their duties faithfully. The electoral board may, instead of dividing the election district, provide two places for voting adjacent to each other, with two ballot-boxes, and appoint two sets of judges and clerks to receive and count the votes. The board is given instructions in the bill as to supervision, under clerks and judges for the casting and counting of votes, preventing intimidation and fraud, and in short, giving general supervision for a free ballot and a fair count. There is a provision for the canvass and recanvass of the returns and the ballots cast. The Attorney-gen-eral of the United States is instructed to prepare suitable books and blanks for the election officers. The bill is very lengthy, and gives specific instructions as to registrations and conduct of elections, and the returning of the result, so that there can D 6 no such question as conflict of State and federal authority. Civil Service Cammissioner Roosevelt has returned here and announces himself in hearty sympathy with the declarations of Commissioners Thompson and Lyman, that the persons who have been making collections for campaign purposes in the department* shall be prosecuted. He says that if the Virginia Club sends around a committee to the departments, Saturday, as has been threatened, for the purpose of collecting contributions, he will have them arrested and prosecuted. In the case of Richard Bruner, Company K., One Hundred and Thirty-third Ohio Volunteers, the Surgeon said he was prediposed to insanity when he enlisted and a pension Was refused. Now, Acting Secretary Bussey says that this is a valid ground, for if he hadn’t entered the army he might not have become insane. He will get $7,000 to $9,000 back pension. Of the $80,000,000 appropriated by the last Congress for the Pension Bureau, during the current fiscal year, over half has already been expended. An old treasury official said Thursday that the annual appropriation for pension deficiencies would this year probably amount to $25,000,000. The United States Senate, following a custom in vogue since the first meeting of that body, will decide by letting who of the Senators from the new States is elected for the long and for the short terms of service. President Harrison issued his proclamation, Saturday, declaring North Dakota and South Dakota admitted to the Union of States. The President, Friday, issued his proclamation fixing Thursday, Nov. 28, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer. Gen. Raum will personally examine all large pension claims.

A WAR OF EXTERMINATION.

The Ha!field-McCoy Feud—Wagon-I.oads of Rifles and Revolvers for tho Participants. Another bloody chapter was added to the story of the Hatfleld-McCoy vendetta last night by a skirmish, in which Mrs. James Brown was killed and John Blumfield wounded by a detachment of the McCoy party in ambush. The feud has now assumed the aspect of a war of extermination i nd the battle which has been brewing for forty-eight hours may begin at any moment. The only thing that has kept the Hatfields from attacking the McCoys was the strong force and intrenched position of the latter, but the situation is now entirely changed. The Blumfield family, stung to frenzy by the wanton butchery of A 1 Blumfield and his wife, have decided to Join the Hatfields in an attempt to exterminate the McCoys. This will give the Hatfield leaders at least 250 armed men. Yesterday John Blumfield, Charles Blumfield and George Hatfield, all of them cousins of the murdered pair, went to Huntington and recruited about a dozen of their relatives who work there in the Cincinnati & Ohio railroad shops. They then purchased all the rifles and revolvers they could find in the place, securing In all about 100 , repeaters of recent model and nearly 130 , revolvers. They also bought several , thousand cartridges. This supply of war material was loaded upon ten wagons, and they were driven south toward the scene of the Lincoln county feud, surrounded by a guard of fifteen desperate men, armed to thetoelh. No attempt was made to stop them, as the county authorities are pow erless. ; The cavalcade was attacked at Fudge’s creek, near the Guyandotte river, last night, by a party of McCoy’s friends in ; ambush near the farm house of Mrs. James | Brown, who was a Hatfield before she was married. The Hatfields had stopped for supper, and were eating, when a valley was poured through the windows.

The Hatfields were taken by surprise, but seized their rifles and returned the fire. It was pitch dark, and it is not known if any of the McCoys were hart, as the Hatfields were afraid to search in the underbrush. When Blumfield’s men returned to the house, Mrs. Brown lay dead upon the floor, with a bullet through her neck, and John Blumfleld, the leader of the party, was found to. be wounded, but it is impossible to learn how seriously. This last affair has stirred up feeling there to the highest pitch, and it bas been determined to call on the Governor for troops. Every one recognizes, however, that the regular militia can do little, for they will be ignorant of the country and its thousands of biding places, and would be shot down from ambush. There is some talk of organizing a company of State rangers on the Texas plan, but no one can be found to assume the leadership. No reports from the scene of the Blumfleld funeral have been received. A dispatch from Wheeling denies the accurateness of the above story, and says there bas been no trouble since last Thursday night, when McCoy and Haley were lynched.

DAKOTA’S DESTITUTION.

Twenty Thousand Families Suffer for the Necessities. The greater the amount of information received concerning the destitution in North Dakota the more difficult does it appear to form an adequate idea 6f the distress actually prevailing there. Not that there is any tendency to exaggerate on.the part of the sufferers, but decidedly the reverse. In fact, it is the extreme sensitiveness shown in this respect that is responsible for the apparent indifference with which the matter has hitherto been treated. In the first place, the area over vhich the distress prevails is certainly much greater than has been so far supposed. Wednesday it was estimated that fully 20,00Q.people were bordering on the last stage of destitution. The chairman of the relief committee feels convinced from information received that it was ,nearer 20,000 families, representing a total upward of 100,000 people. Such widespread; distress cis appalling. How to meet the needs of such a host is a question beyond tho power of any local committee to cope with. So far the contributions received are inadequate to the necessities of the case. A few bundles of old clothing and small cash contributions have been sent in, and the most strenuous efforts are being made to obtain and forward all possible aid for the sufferers as soon as possible. In regard to South Dakota, while the distress there is very bad, it is not to be compared either in magnitude or intensity to that in the northern State. Hrobably 1,000 families are destitute, but they can nearly a}l be taken care of by the towns surrounding the district. There is no question but that a large number of people, especially in Faulk and Miner counties,are in a condition of partial destitution. That is to say, they have experienced a failure of crops for three consecutive years, and last year the failure was absolute. They have no means wherewith to purchase either food or fuel, as their farms, as a rule, are mortgaged to such an extent that they can nog raise any more money. In Miner county there are 8,000 people, and one-tbird of them will need help. They have neither food nor fuel. In Huron county the people have organized as thoroughly as possible to furnish relief. The ladies have formed Dorcas Societies and are supplying clothings==

THE HARLAN COUNTY WAR.

Jadge Lewis and His Army Overtake Howard and Kill Six of His Followers. News reached Pineville, Ky., Friday night by reliable parties that Judge Lewis came up wit|i Howard and his followers Thursday, on Martin’s-Fork, and. killed, six of Howard’s adherents without losing a man. Three of the men killed were named Hall, one was named Whitlock, but the other two names were not learned. Judge Lewis and fifty well-armed men took dinner near the camp of J. P. Meyer & Co., on the Lonisville k Nashville ex tension, about thirty miles beyond Cumberland Gap, last Friday. Men who spoke principally with the Judge say that he is determined, and will never quit his chase until Howard and his party are all killed or driven from the country. Both parties are being reinforced daily, and more bloodshed is expected. It is thought that Howard has gone to Virginia, but is expected -to return. The best citizens of Harlan county are joining Lewis, and with such a determined leader there is no doubt the law and ordefr party will come out victorious, and break up the gang that has been a terror to all eastern Kentucky for the last twenty-five years.

THE MARKETS.

•• ISDIAHXPOLIS, Nov. 5, 1889. Wheat. Corn. Corn. Bye. Indianapolis.. '2 r>d 7« Iwß’ Ji 2 w 2l>* 3 r’d 73 2ye3i% ’’ Chicago 2 r’d 80 31 19 Cincinnati 2 r’d 77 SI DM tt Bt. Louis 2 r’d 76 28 11% 87% New York 2 r’d 83.% 89to 2 6% Baltimore H>% 40%f 28 57 Philadelphia. 2 r’d 82 41% 27%'ciorer Toledo Detroit. nrll 79 84 “22 Minneapolis ; 17% Liverpool ........... —... - • i ■, .. . , : i ■- LIVE STOCK. Cattls -Export grade5.........83.80(04.40 Good to choice shippers 3.23(03.65 Common to medium shippers,... 2.65(03.10 Stockers, 500 to 850 fi> 2.00(02.73 Good to choice heifers 2.25(02.60 Common to medium heifers..... 1.50(02X0 Good to choice cows 2.oU^rt2.-to Fair to medium cows 1.00(01.75 Hogs—Heavy 3.70(04.10 Light 4.00(04. IS Mixed 4.00(04.16 Heavy r0ugh5............ 3.25(03.50 Saaxr—Good to choice 4.10(04 40 Fair to medium.. 365(04.00 Common 3.25(03.75 Lambs, good to choice a 3.5005.25 Common to medium 3.50 03.30 Bocks, per head.../. 2.00*03.50