Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1889 — Page 3

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. Jefferson Davis is said to be seriously ill. Utes and Piutes are getting ready for a war against each other. The Rowan County (Kentucky) Tollivers are in the saddle again. Petersburg, Vs., suffered a loss of $50,000 by fire, Thursday. Chief Justice W. H.N. Smith, of North Carolina’s Supreme Court, is dead. Kate Davis, arrested at Niles, Mich., admite that she is one of the Bender family. Daniel Carmichael a well-known business man of Amsterdam, N. Y., has forged ; <IIO,OOO of notes. At Shelby depot, Mississippi, Joe Nelson was attacked by Negroes and killed two. Other negroes threaten trouble. Sunol, the three-year-old horse that trotted a mile in 2:10)£ last Saturday, has been sold to Robert Bonner, of New York. four men were killed by an explosion of blasting powder near Butte, Montana, Thursday and two others had their eyes blown out. C. A. Ross, a preacher living near Lockeford, Cal., early Wednesday morning shot I and killed his wife, his eight-year old son and himself. Several of W. L. Scott’s coal mines in Pennsylvania have shut down on account of dullness in the Western trade. Many men are thrown out of work. At Atkinson, Me., on Wednesday night, David Brown, aged seventy-five, was thrown from a carriage and killed. His two daughters were also badly hurt. Col. Alfred Rhett died at Charleston, S. C., Tuesday. He commanded Fort Sumter when it Was unsuccessfully attacked by the Monitor fleet in the late war. One of the chief attractions at the Chicago fat-stock show is the Irish setter trotting dog Doo, from Kansas City. Wednesday night the dog beat a pony three times tround the ring. A convention of reformers of al! kinds is was held in Chicago, for financial re I form, prohibition, equal suffrage, tariff reform and Government control of transpor-| tation and telegraph. j California raisin-growers, owing to a shortage in Europe, will realize good prices this year. They claim to not only have conquered the American market, but bo be stretching out for the markets of the world. The National Base Ball League Thurs- ] day admitted the Brooklyn and Cincinaati clubs, from the Association, as mem- ' bets of the League, making ten clubs in the League. The classification rule was innulled. A movement has been started in Phila-' delphia which has for its purpose the alleviation of the sufferings of prisoners in • Siberia. The United States government will be asked to intercede with Russia in a friendly way. Rev. S. Lindsay, of Danville, Hl., while preaching to a congregation near Covington, Ind., was visited by a gang of White Caps, who, objecting to his advocacy of faith-cure, gave him a few hours to leave the county, and he left. William H. Fursman, a real estate and money broker, and long a prominent resi ■ dent of Pontiac, Hl., has taken to flight fearing arrest on account of forgeries whioh will exceed 150,000, and it is believed will aggregate SIOO,OOO. “Old Mag” Sullivan, a well-known character of Providence, R. 1., was found dead, Thursday, lying on a broken-down bedstead beneath the motto, “God Bless Our Home.” She had been beaten to death by her husband and two daughters, who were' found lying in another room too drunk to realize what they had done. While boring for water, a man owning a farm about twenty-five miles southwest of I Chicago has struck a vein of natural gas, I which flows with. such force as to throw dirtand gravel fifty feet into the air. The well is so near the farmer’s house that he has not dared to light it, but a pipe will be put in and a test made of the flow. A big deal in the Ohio oil field was consummated, Thursday, by which J. C. Me. I Kinney, of Titusville, Pa., and New York land Philadelphia capitalists secured 20,000 acres of territory. The company will erect refineries and operate as an independent concern. The land is situated in Findlay and vicinity. Look & Smith’s bam, on the old Standford farm, near Louisville, used for sheltering brood mares and young colte, was 1 burned Thursday, together with seven- ! teen brood mares and sixteen yearling colts, entailing a loss of about $25,000; insurance, $1,500. The fire is believed to have been started by a tramp seeking shelter and lighting his pipe. Miss Eva Ingersoll, daughter of Colonel Bob Ingersoll, was married at her father’s house in New York Wednesday morning in the presence of her family only, to Walston H. Brown, a wealthy lawyer of New York. The bride and groom simply acknowledged before a Doc-I tor Robertson their agreement to become ' man and [wife. There was no religious ceremony. ; „ I Holzhay (Black Bart) was arraigned for murder at Bessemer, Wis., Thursday. He made a full confession of his crimes, admitting to the robbing of the Gogebic stage, in which banker Flischman was killed, and to several train robberies, and claimed that his deeds were due to “spells” caused by a fall from a horse several yean ago. His “spells” will hardly save him from just punishment, however. The French-Eversole feud is again in a state (Ky.,) eruption. A fight occurred in Hazard Thursday beginning at 4p. m. and continuing fifty two hours resulting in the death of three or four, and the wounding of several othen. About fifty on one side and fifteen on the ether wore engaged. It would have con tinned longer but the ammunition gave out eu the Eversole side, and they left the town in the hands of the French party. It is said that Ed Campbell and John McKnight of the Eversole party were instantly killed Thursday, and Jesse Fields, jailer of Perry county, and four others on the French side are badly wounded. Fields will certainly die. Michael Harvey, of Brown Spring, Wyo. T., met with disastrous results Monday, in trying on an odd plan to start a balky ♦earn. He wa* haul inc hay. and the bones

refused to pull. Harvey put a bunch rd hay under each horse and lighted it Tne team started, but as the wagon passed over the fire the load ignited.. The wagon and hay were consumed, the horses were burned to death, and Harvey was seriDon Louis Baca, a prominent Spanish sheep raiser, of Ute Creek, has just arrived at Clayton, N. M. He gives a very sad account of the ‘ late blizzard in that region. Five Mexican sheep herders perished in his neighborhood, the bodies of four having been found. The snow completely covers the ground from Clayton to ; the Canadian river, a distance of 125 miles. Many Mexican families are in a destitute condition. Owing to heavy snow they are unahi* to move from their plazas in order to lay In a supply of food. Mr. Baca thinks other bodies will be recovered when the snow melts, as several men are missing. The annual meeting of the Knights of Labor was held at Atlanta, Ga., last week and continuing this. The convention received a delegation from the city and State W. C. T. U. societies. A speech was made by Miss Stokes, during which she congratulated Master Workman Powderly onhaving excluded rum-sellers from the order, and on being himself a prohibitionist. Mr. Powderly replied by answering that they would al ways find their firmest allies among the Knights of Labor. Some very important changes in the by-laws and constitution were suggested. The most importantxshangemade was te allow the transfer of a local assembly to any other district assembly, without the consent of either the district, national, trade or State assembly, as heretofore required. The general missionary committee of the M. E. Church in its meeting at Kansas City, Mo., had an attendance of nearly all the bishops of the church. The receipts of the year were $1,130,137, or $129,556 more than the previous year. It took two hours of brisk discussion to decide how much money the committee would need for the work during the coming year. It was finally decided that appropriations should be made as follows: Forborne and foreign missions, $1,123,000; incidental and annuities, $31,775; contingent fund, $25,000; office expenses, $25,000; publications, $10,000; defective land claims, SB,000; upper Sandusky, $2,000; total, $1,225,775. The for home and foreign missions was divided into the ratio of 45 per cent, for home missions and 55 percent, for foreign missions. The will of the late John Creerar, of Chicago, was admitted to probate, Thursday. He was a bachelor and an eight millionaire. He bequeathed SIOO,OOO to the Second Presbyterian Church, Chicago,and the same amount to the same church, the income to be used for mission work. He gives his pastor $20,000, and $25,000 to a Scotch Presbyterion church in New York. He also gives SICO,OOO for a colossal statue of Lincoln and many other bequests to personal friends and distant relatives. He gives the remainder of his estate, estimated at $2,250,000, to build and maintain a public library in Chicago, to be known as the “John Crerrar Library,” and directs that in the selection of the books the creation of a “healthy moral and Christian sentiment be kept in view, and that all nastiness and immorality be excluded.” Jn the last category he includes “dirty French novels and all skeptical trash.”

FOREIGN. Paraguay has started a delegate to the pan-A merican congress. A Paris correspondent says: The Guatemala Minister, in an interview Wednesday, stated that the draff of a protocol for the Federal Union of Guatemala, San Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa . Rica had been already signed but required I ratification by the Congresses of the five countries.

CONGRESS OF FARMERS.

Interesting Matters Before That BodyProtection and Free Trade the Principal Issue. The Farmers Congress was held at Mont gomery, Ala., last week and several interesting subjects were discussed. At Thursday’s session, Judge Lawrence, of Ohio, , President of the Wool-growers’ Association, from a majority of the committee on resolutions, reported a resolution demanding that in case of a continuance of the protective policy, all farm products shall be . as fully protected as any article of manufacture. Mr. Wilhite, of Missouri, offered a minority report pledging the farmers of the United States to a reduction of the tariff and to a change of duties from the necessaries to the luxuries of life as possible. Both reports were laid over. Hon. L. S. Coffin, of lowa, delivered an address on railroads and their relations to the farmer. The speaker was sharper criticised by a number of delegates as being too much in sympathy with railroads and corporations. | Judge Lawrance read a paper on woolgrowing and mutton-producing, and urgI ing protection for this interest I Judge Lawrence’s address was followed by some adverse discussion. One .delegate cited an instance of an investment of $1,017 in sheep which paid a profit of over 40 per cent, in one year, which, he said, set this industry beyond the need of a protective tariff. Many speeches were delivered, by delegates from the North and West, all advocating wool protection. The Farmers’ Congress, after a heated debate, Thursday evening, adopted the following resolution, introduced by John Kelly, of Kansas: i Resolved, By the Farmers’ Congress now in session, that the action of the Chicago combine in refusing to testify before the Senate Committee was an insult to the honest people of the United States, and I should meet with prompt and united condemnation The majority resolutions from the oom. mittee on resolutions, previously referred to, were adopted by a vote of 171 to 106. The affirmative: lowa, 15; Kentucky, 7; Kansas, 11: Missouri, 1; Rhode Island, 6; Ohio, 24; Colorado, 2; Florida, 2; Illinois, 28; Idaho, 2; Indiana, 1; Maine, 11; Michiganj jlSf Thenegative vote stooS: Al»d>*m>,S; Kentucky, 2; Georgia, 15; Missouri, 18; North Carolina, 11: Texas, 14; Florida. 7; Indiana. 7.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Cass county is wholly out of debt. Evansville is being flooded with spurious $2 bills. An artest has been made. A big natural-gas well and a three-foot vein of coal have been struck near Michigan City; in drilling a well for a country school. The Good Templars of Tippecanoe, White, Warren, Clinton and Montgomery counties, were in secret session at Crawfordsville last week. Miss Kate Lowe, of Kingston, is suing Thos. P. Hamilton, claiming SIO,OOO for breach of promise. They were schoolmates, and both belong to good families. John Dawson, of Terre Haute, was 100 years old Friday. He has living 4 children, 30 grandchildren, 64 great-grand-children and 7 great-great-grandchildren. One fruit-distilling firm in Harrison county, has manufactured 180 barrels of applejack during the present season, and is still turning out quantities es the fiery fluid. Marion has organized a temperance alliance, intended to unite all friends of temperance of whatever religious or political faith in the common cause of restricting the liquor evil. A recent murder in Sullivan county is found to have oeen commllted with a turnip. John Bullock threw a turnip at John Farmer, an old man, hitting him on the head and killing him instantly. Peter S. Odell, a well-known farmer of Daviess county, died Thursday of injuries received in an attack made upon him by a vicious ram, which knocked the old man down and butted him to death. Odell was eighty years of age. The Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Muncie district met at Winchester late last week. The attendance was good. The corresponding secretary’s report shows that there has been a healthy growth in the society and a commendable increase of finances. Reuben Ramsey, near Odon, has an apple tree showing the third crop of blossoms this season, and from which to crops of apples have been harvested. They were of the maiden blush variety, and the first crop was large and perfectly formed. The second crop was smaller, but ripened.’ The blossoms of the third crop came out after the heavy frosts. An unknown crazy man is held in the Madison County Jail. He is repulsive look’ng and entirely unknown, nor can he give any account of himself. When found by the roadway he was eating grass, and a singularity is that he devours hay, corn and straw with apparent relish, while he refuses all kinds of food usually served to human beings. Rabbits are reported so plentiful in some parts of Clark county that boys have no trouble in killing the animals with clubs. The peach orchard men are willing to give permission to all hunters who desire to kill rabbits exclusively. They have become so numerous that peach trees by the hun dreds are killed annually. Last year Commissioner Packwood lost an entire orchard from this source alone. | At Muncie, Tuesday evening, at a few minutes before 6 o'clock, Fred Horn, aged seventeen, caught his right hand in a cording machine at the Muncie Bagging Company’s mills, and the member was slowly chopped oto pieces by the sharp steel teeth. In attempting to free himsel he pulled the muscles out of his arm to the shoulder. It was a horrible sight, and ' the boy suffered frightfully. I Some months ago armies of rate devastated crops near Blue Lick. Several weeks ago they turned up destructively in Floyd county, and now vast numbers of the rodents are overrunning the vicinity of Wat son and destroying corn crops and everything else eatable. They have cleaned out several farmers. The rats are bold and show fight when attacked. Ferrets arete be brought into the localities with which to exterminate them. Indiana Patents—Peter Anderson* Wayne, wagonreaoh; John L. Barnes, Peru, dishwasher; Chester W. Clark, ' Mishawaka, cultivator; John Conn, Valparaiso, door-check: John R. Cook and C. S. Hinchman, Rushville, rotary engine; Melville B. Mahurin, Indianapolis, wheel; William O. Pierce, Winchester, game Frank Schofield and G. F. Penn, assignors to N. T. DePauw, New Albany spindle of glass-polishers: Henry T Simmons, Bloomington, packing counter or stores, etc I During the past few months unknown parties have been systematically engaged in poisoning cattle on the farm of Hon. F. Legg, in Tipton county, and that gentleman has suffered the loss of nearly $2,000 | worth of valuable cattle from his herd of Shorthorns. Mr. Legg is well known among Shorthorn breeders throughout the State, and was regarded as having one of the finest herds in Itdiana. Some of his most highly prized animals have i been killed within the past few months, and every effort to discover the identity of the guilty parties has proved of no avail Under a law passed last winter teachers who attend the township institutes receive a day’s wages, not from the regular, but from the special fund. The latter is levied by the trustees, and is. for the defrayment of incidental expenses. The new law is makings drain upon this special fund which the trustees were not prepared to meet, and the consequence is word comes to the State Superintendent that money is running short all over the State. This additional demand upon the special fund will amount to from S2OO to S3OO per towni ship, I Mite Desormier, aged twenty, a deaf mute of South Bend, angered because her father would not permit her return to Canada, attempted suicide by starvation, and for two weeks abstained from food. Meanwhile, she was reduced from a plump, rosy cheeked girl to a mere skeleton, and became sullen and morose in disposition, neither argument nor force having influence upon her. Saturday night, however, a physician succeeded in breaking down her determination, and she has concluded to eat and live. Patents were issued to Indiana inventors, Tuesday, as follows; C. Baw, Angola, back for vehicle seats; C. Gochenauer. Warsaw, liniment; S. E. Harsh, Wabash, cheek holder and chock spreader; 8. D.

Harvey, Tipton, vignetting attachment for printing frames; C. H. Jenne, Indianapolis, street or station indicator; W. H. McGrew, Peru, fence machine'; R. Q. Pey ton, Terre Haute, straw burning stove; E. W. Root, Wheatfield, cider or wine press; W. L. Slipher, Mulberry, washing machine; W. H. Vajen, Indianapolis, rein support; T. J. Walden, Lebanon, elevator bucket. During the past few days, W. S. Applegate, of New Albany, has received a number of communications from fox hunting clubs of New York, asking him to ship to them as many live foxes as he could secure. Mr. Applegate has made arrangements with a number of farmer boys, residing in the hills near the city, to procure the foxes and numerous traps have already been pre pared. The novel industry will add considerably to the farmers’ revenue, as the animals can be found in profusion in the hills and are easily trapped. | A lawsuit of more than ordinary interest I was entered Thursday in the Knox Circuit Court, by ex-County Treasurer Hollingsworth, against tha county, for a SI,OOO order, issued in his favor in May, 1886, while he was under arrest for embezzle-: ment. Hollingsworth, at that time, turned over all his property, more worth, to his bondsmen. He was a defaulter, to the extent of about SBI,OOO, and served nearly j three years in the penitentiary. Now he is at home, and will sue right and left for the recovery and an accounting of all his property. Some rich developments are looked for. McConnell & Jenkins, attorneys, who are employed by the Cass County Commissioners to look up tax defaulters,' are reaping a rich harvest. In one estate, that of W. W. Haney, $35,000 was paid into the , County Treasury by his administrator and about $24,000 into the City Treasury. ExAttorney General ’ Baldwin has been notified to call and settle a large amount due the county. Mr. Baldwin denies that he has dodged the tax duplicate, and says he will fight any collection. It is estimated that over $150,000 in cash will be collected by the city and courts from tax dodgers. The attorneys, however, will get a large share of it, they receiving 35 per cent, from the county and 10 per cent, from the city. The Methodist Ministerial Association of the Crawfordsville district met at that place last week. The following officers were chosen: President, Presiding Elder W. H. Middleton; secretary, Rev. J. G. Campbell, of Rockville; treasurer, Rev. E. R. Johnson. The temperance question caused much discussion. Rev. J. B. Bell, in his remarks on “The Present Situation of the Temperance Question,” took occasion to show that the ministers were not loyal to temperance because they did not combine prohibition and politics. This created a lively debate, and things were reaching a point where something had to be done to prevent a division, when Rev. E.oR, Johnson offered a resolution to the effect that the association favored prohibi tion, which was adopted. During the debate the charge against Vice President Morton of keeping a saloon was brought up. This was the cause of most of the uproar. The next meeting will be held at Waveland next spring.

A JUDGESHIP CONTEST.

A Judge at Butte, Mont., Begins Business Backed by Armed Policemen. There was a sensational scene in the District Court at Butte, Mont., Wednesday afternoon, when McHatton, Democratic, and Hamilton, Republican, rivals for the office of judge, appeared at the court house, expecting to mount the bench. It had been anticipated that there would be serious trouble, but this was averted by the temporary surrender of the Republican aspirant. Sheriff Lloyd, Republican, had a large number of depu ties on hand, and the Democratic sheriff elect followed suit. The city marshal, acting under orders from the Mayor, swore in twenty special policemen, who were stationed about the court-room armed with Winchesters. Judge DeWolfe, after hearing arguments of counsel for contestants, declined to seat either of them, and adjourned the court. No sooner had Judge DeWolfe vacated the bench than J. J. McHatton, Democratic Judge-elect, stepped up and took the seat, ordering Sheriff-elect Sullivan to convene the court. His orders were obeyed to the letter, and Sheriff Lloyd, and Hamilton, Republican claimant of the Judgeship, took their departure from the court room. Hamilton will go to the capital and apply to the Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus against McHatton to compel him to show by what right he has assumed the. position of Judge. • A large number of convicted at the last term of court, are to be arraigned fo<* sentence, and Judge McHatton will undoubtedly order Sheriff Sullivan to bring the prisoners into court. As the keys to the jail are In Sheriff Lloyd’s hands, there will probably be trouble.

SENATOR FRYE’S PLAN.

How Ho Would Knconrago Trad* With South America. Senator Frye, who originated the panAmerican Congress, thinks that if it recommends a common silver coinage all the countries will adopt it. “Is it possible that a suggestion from the Congress of a radical revision of the tariff would meet with any favor by the administration” “If it meant absolute free trade, it would not I would not vote for free trade with the republics, and for good reasons. There is another and a more profitable, a* well as a wholly practicable, arrangement that could bo effected with them. For instance, we have a heavy duty on sugar. We have no sugar grown in this country, but we have a heavy protective tariff on it that is wholly a tax on tiie people. Why not say' to the people of the South American republics that we will admit their sugar free if some product of ours is in turn admitted by themt What would be the loss to this country! We would get a four fold return. Then there is a coarse kind of wool grown in South America that is not" profitably grown ia this country. We ean admit that free and send them another of Our pro duets. n

THEY HAD A LIVELY TIME.

‘ The W. C. T. U. had a lively time Tuesday, when the following amendment came up for consideration: “To interest and unite the Christian women of this nation in nomaectarian and non-partisan temperance work for the reformation of the intemperance and the education of public sentiment in behalf of total abstinence and the prohibition of the traffic in alcoholic liquor, the development es social purity, the suppression of vice and crime and the education of the masses in the duties and responsibilities of good citizenship.” It was evident from the commencement of the debate that the feeling of the convention was overwhelmingly against the proposed amendment. The delegates were not disposed to listen to the speeches of the women who favored its adoption,, and several times there was hissing and cries of “Sit down.” Mrs. Henry, of Evanston, Ill.; Mrs. Wells, of Tennessee; Mrs. H. M. Barket, of South Dakota, and Mrs. Perkins, of Ohio; Mrs. Buell, national secretary, and others, spoke in opposition to the adoption of the amendment as a reflection on the previous action of the union, and declaring that the union was non-partisan, being ready to support any party which would put a prohibition plank in its platform. Mrs. J. Ellen Foster then spoke. She said the convention was partisan despite its declaration to the contrary. The name -oThonorable men in the Republican party has been dragged in the mud on the convention platform. “I repeat,” she said, “that the convention is partisan; partisan in its assaults on Republican statesmen.” Hisses interrupted the speaker. “Yes, and those hisses are partisan. They come from the delegates themselves, and not from the spectators.” The resolution was voted down by a very large majority. The majority of the committee on resolutions reported in favor of standing by the Prohibition party. Mr. Bailey of the lowa delegation offered a minority report setting forth that the work of the organiza tion should be purely educational and evangelical: therefore, no declaration in favor of any party should be made. The majority report was adopted, only the lowa delegation voting for the minority report. Thereupon the Io va delegation formally withdrew after presenting, through Mrs. Foster, a protest, or declaration of independence, which set forth the history of the partisan movement. The executive committee of the National W. C. T. U. Friday decided to accept the invitation tendered by the State and other officials of Georgia, and hold the next convention in Atlanta. It was i esolved to invite the lowa members of the W. C. T. U., regardless of their sympathies with any political party, to meet and consult as to the best method of procedure, in view of the withdrawal of the lowa delegation, headed by Mrs. J. Ellen Foster. Mrs. L. D. Carhart, of Marion, la., will furnish cards admitting to the privileges of the conference women who desire to adhere to the National W. C. T. U., and who avow this on their arrival at the conference. The National W. C. T. U. disposed of the Vice President Morton saloon-license matter by the adoption of the following resolution: Inasmuch as Vice President Morton occupies the second position in authorityA an administration that favors the policy of high license, I move that the whole matter be dismissed from the con of the convention, as he could not have done otherwise without rebuking the policy of the party. A new woman’s temperance organization will be started by Mrs. J. Ellen Foster and the faction which she led out of the W. C. T. U. here. The women who are organizing the society say it will start with a membership of 15.000.

WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.

The annual report of Surgeon General Browne to the Secretary of the Navy shows that 979,780 was expended for medical purposes in the navy from October 1, 1888, to the same date this year, when there was a balance on hand of 9208,989. The annual report of Paymaster General Rochester to the Secretary of War shows that the total disbursements during the past fiscal year amounted to 114,786,921, a net increase of 9324,918 over last year. This increase is due to a large increase in the number of discharged men, 997 more than during the previous year. “I have just returned from an interview with the President, in which the silver question was discussed at considerable length,” said Senator Sherman Wednesday afternoon. “I am not at liberty, of course, to report the details of the discussion, but think it is pretty well settled that the next Congress will be compelled to legislate further in the Intel est of silver. I am not prepared to state what will be the full nature of the legislation. It is a very important matter, one in which politics does not enter, or at least should not enter, as it is a matter of finanee, in the interest of all classes of people, rich and poor. My opinion is that, whatever is done, nothing can be accomplished under two years at least, because hasty legislation in such an important matter might prove ruinous to the country. While I have decided views as to what should be done, Ido not at this time care to elaborate them, as the matter is sure to come up in Congress, ancfl may desire to change my mind after a full discussion of the question.” Vice President Morton, through his pri rate secretary, has issued a card denying the charge that liquor is being sold in one of his properties in Washington. The card says: “The building is conducted as a family apartment house, apartments be.ng leased by the year, and Mr. Morton has never entertained the idea of permitting any part of it to be used as a bar. ” Gentlemen arriving at Washington from South Dakota report that the citizens out | .there have not yet ceased their jolifications ' over their admission into the union of States. Mr. £. G. Foster, special agent of

the Treasury Department, was in Sioux Falls when the President’s proclamation was Issued. He had been sent there in-' specting the penitentiary, a large number of government prisoners being confined there. When he arrived he telephoned th* to the hotel. It was in the afternoon, and the warden had just learned of President Harrison’s proclamation for statehood. When the message was received by the warden he yelled back through the telephone : “Tell the agent of the Department of Justice that the warden of the penitentiary for the State of South Dakota will be pleased to send a carriage to the hotel immediately, for the purpose of enabling the State and federal governments to shake hands and give evidence of their friendship and the high regard the one entertains for the other. The warden for the penitentiary of the State of South Dakota will very gladly entertain all the federal officers who may call to-day, but the war den for the penitentiary of the Territory of Dakota has just stepped out with the intention of not returning until the crack of doom.” An omnibus bill for the admission of Wyoming, Idaho, Arizona and New Mexico will be pushed in the coming congress. Thergovernmßnt has- established a customs station on the south shore of Lake of the Woods, with the intention of putting a stop to stealing of timber by Canadian smugglers, who have been running eight steamboats on the lake and culling the choicest of Uncle Sam’s trees. Col. Lieber, acting judge-advocate-gen-eral, says drunkenness causes most of th* army desertions. John Bright's son called on the President Tuesday.

ELECTION NOTES.

The plurality of Boies (Dem.) for Governor of lowa is 5,804. Governor Abbett’s (Dem.) majority in New Jersey is 14,552. A lively fight is already in progress for the Speakership of the Ohio House. Calvin S. Brice announces that he will be a candidate for the Senate from Ohio to succeed Payne. New York’s Democratic majority may reach 20,000 to 25,000. The Democrats gain ten members of the Legislature. Campbell’s D., official plurality in Ohi* is 10,876, Lampson, R. for Lieut Governor, 41; Brown R. for State Treasurer, 3,636, and other Republican State officials about the same plurality as Brown’s. After the jollification in Augusta, Ky., Saturday night, some young, enthusiastic Democrats swung to the breeze asurej enough rebel flag. It was put on the high pole used by the signal service. It was beautifully made of silk, two red bar* on either side, with a white bar on the middle. A blue corner, with thirteen star* inclosed, made it complete. There was no wind Sunday and it did not Unfurl, but since it has been as a red garment before a maddened bull. About four o’clock Wednesday it was torn down by members of the Maj. Harris Post, G. A. R., who were loud indenouncing the outrage. There came near being serious trouble over the affair. The post accused a well-known tailoring establishment of having made the flag and the accusation was personally resented by the proprietors.

THE CATHOLIC CONGRESS.

The Catholic Congress at Baltimore, Tuesday, adopted a lengthy platform in which Sunday observance and temperance was insisted upon, a higher education demanded, and closer relations with non-Catholics recommended. The paragraph on secret societies gives more freedom to Catholics than has heretofore been enjoyed. If rightly interpreted it take the inhibition off all societies save the Masons. Nihilism, c Socialism and Communism are condemned. Labor societies are encouraged and recommended. Another forward step is “in favor of Catholics taking greater part than they have ■ hitherto taken in general philanthropic and reformatory movement*. The obligation to help the needy and instruct the ignorant, is not limited to the needy and ignorant of our communion, but we are con cerned, both as Catholics and as Americans,in the reformation of all the criminals and the support of all the poor ia the country.” The Catholic University of America, at Washington, was dedicated, Wednesday. An immense number of prominent CatuO lies attended. President Harrison was present at the banquet at night.

THE MARKETS.

ImDIAXAFOLIS, Nor-n. 1889. OHAIH. 11 - 1 TT ' " ' ————— 1 ' 1 ' 1 ' | Wheat. | Corn. Com. | Rye. Indianapolis.. 2 rd 77% 1 wS4% 2 w22%' 8 r*d 75 2ye82% Chicago. 2 fd 80% 32 20 Cincinnati 2 rd 77 87 28 4S 8t Louis. 2rd 78 80% .10 80 New Y0rk,,,.--I ft rd 83% 42 27 » Baltimore....- 81 41 28 52 Philadelphia. 2rd 80% 41% 28%*Clover I ’ Seed • Toledo. 81 34 20 Bte Detroitl wh 80% M 22% Minneapolis; 77 .... . ——.... Lireftwol .—...————— , i LI VS STOCK. Cattls-Export grades... 342.004.08 Good to choice shipper*3.7so4.lo Common to medium shipper*.... 2.0003.10 Stocker*. 500 to 860 X> .... 2.0002.30 Good to choice heifers 2.3003.75 Common to medium heifers... s*- 1.5002.18 Good to choice c0w*.2.15M3.50 Fair to medium cows 1.6003.C0 Hoes—Heavy 3.9504.00 Light 3.8003.75 Mixed........................... 4.0004.10 Heavy roughs 3.2503.50 Sbkbp—Good to choice 4.1 m 4.40 Fair to medium... *«4.00 Common 3.2503.75 Lambs, good to choice. 3.5005J5 Common to mediumi 3.5005.50 Bucks, per head 3.0003. M