Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1890 — Page 2

jghe -gkpublican, Gas. K. Mamhall, Publisher. RENSSELAER. • INDIANA

A Coursing club is an association of more or less rich young men who are more rather than less idle, and who desire to play the part of sportsman with the least possible' danger of fatigue to themselves. Since he returned to Teheran the Shah of Persia has shown signs of an inclination to adopt certain civilized methods in his domain. He has had a number of fonl-smelling houses pulled down and has ordered a system of sanitation for the Perisian capital His subjects think he has lost his mind. , """ - jQj ' Dr. Gayvonne, a noted European physician, informs a more or less hairless generation that he has discovered the bacillus of baldness. The importance of this announcement can be appreciated only by those who have, watched the descent of man towards a bald-headed and unornamental condition. - Th« development of the accident inlurance business in this country of late has been very wonderful. All aver the country employers in large j concerns are insuring all their employes in the accident companies besause it cm be done for less than by eo-operation among the men of a single concern.

Taxes in Turkey are calculated to be just high enough to prevent any poor man from getting enough money to leave the country on. The exact sura is left to the collector to determine, and he has power under the law to give any citizen fifty blows with a stick. Rhubarb and rugs come from Turkey, but that's all the good there is in her. A Boston item says that the author of “John Ward, Preacher,” Mrs. Humphrey Ward, looks askance on the woman’s rights movement, and has a sister married to Professor Huxley. She shuns publicity, writes a singular masculine hand and is a complete enigma to her own family, who are still trying to find out what all the fuss is about. A Scotch society in London professes to have found a treasure in a portrail of Robert Burns, painted by the famous Sir Henry Reyburn, which was unearthed somewhere in an old picture shop, and is supposed to have been lost for ninety years. An artist is restoring it with a view to exhibition in Edinburgh and ultimate sale to some rich American. The present Sultan of Turkey is the son of a Kurd slave who was in the harem of his reputed father. His real father, it is believed, w?'S an Armenian coachman, attached to the court Far from being mad, he has all the sharpness of an Armenian. He is an abject coward, and is probably making a purse for himself, as he is as ready as toy pasha to take bribes, A boy in Baltimore is known as a human magnet His hands and fingers possess a peculiarly attractive force. Pins and needles cling and dangle from the tips of his fingers as from a magnetized bar. Smooth and dry glass and metallic substances he lifts by merely placing the open palm of his hand on them. He has thus raised pieces of glass tubing weighing as much as five pounds. ■’ The lesson which our sister republics on this continent most need to learn is not liberty, but union. It is a more fundamental idea than many people suppose. Its apex is the cohesion of states, its basis is the adhesioi of individuals. Spanish-Americant have readily grasped the thought thal no despot shall rule them; they have been slower in conceiving the idea that they must rule themselves. Gladstone has opinions on all subjects, He thinks that Beethoven is ths greatest composer; that the best women singers are those that art healthy, strong, and inclined to obesity; that 90 per cent of the London opera-goers care only for the singers, and take little interest in the works which are represented; that the pure, fresh voice of a boy chorister Is more pleasing and affecting than the voice of any female soprano. Of all royal personages, the Prince of Wales is the most noted for the enormous quantity of luggage which he causes to be sent with him on his journeys. He takes whole boxes of hats and huge trunks of dress suits, ■ morning coats and other changes. He makes a point when Visiting anywhere of not being seen twice in the same coat, and the variety of hie gar* ments is as astonishing as the tailor’i bill for them must be long.

Right* sf s Chinese BstbsaA If a man beats his wife, but does not break her limbs or maim her, the law takes no notioe of it: if a wife beats her husband she is liable to receive 100 blows, and the busband my separate from her. Those who have been shocked by the sale al women in the famine regions will be interested in knowing that the law provides that “he who from poverty sells his wife shall not be heavily punished; iet the woman revert to the last husband (that is, to the man she was sold V.o.’’j ’ ’ . • ...

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. St Paul will have no ice pstaee this year. The Grant locomotive works will be removed to Chicago. July 1 the navy will have a new flag and the Union Jack forty-two stars. Benjamin H. Day, founder of the New York Sun, died at New York, Monday. Charles A. Cobler, an L. & N.conductor, was shot and killed by a tramp near Louisville. James E. Kent assistant cashier bf the Cairo & at Cairo, is an embezzler of SI,BOO. At Memphis, Emanuel Thomas, a cook, decapitated Henry Trice with a butcher knife. Both colored. < John Newman and Ernest Lomberg were killed by a Monon engine. at Chicago, .as they stepped off a street car. i By a collision of freights at Scottsdale, Pa_, Engineers Johns and Dayton were badly hurt and fifteen cars wrecked. j Jehu Baker has decided to contest the * seat of W. S. Forman, member of cCon. < gressfrom the Belleville (Ill.) district. Mrs. Paul Ruthert, of Tarentown, Pa. was murdered, Monday night, by burglars who plundered her husband’s jewelry store. • • "

AidermanDonohne descended from the bench at Wilkesbarre, Pa., and soundly thrashed a man named Shiner, for wife- ‘ beating. j Mr. Edward T. Waite, son es the late Chief-justice Waite, died at an early hour Tuesday morning at his mother’s home in Washington. _JThe_ twenty-second annual convention of the Woman’s Suffrage Association has been called to moet at Washington February' IS to 21. * In the Lampson-Marquis contest for Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, tie taking of testimony on behalf of Lampson will be begun January 3. In a drunken row between two laborers at New Orleans, William Burton shot and killed John Schaffer, forty-five. The murderer was arrested. Another clerk in the Buffalo postoffice has been arrested for robbing the mails. He is a young married man named Ed ward F. Bapst. He confessed. The thirty-five Texans arrested for mur der, on Wednesday, are held at Galveston without bail, by order of United States District Judge Boor man.General Boulanger denies the report that he has been engaged to deliver a course of lectures in the United States. He says he never thought of going on a lecturing tour in that country. The Harvard University catalogue for 1889-90 shows that in the current year the net gain in students is 180, the largest annual increase since Dr.E Hot became President. The total number of students is 2,079. A starving family of eight persons were discovered in an isolated place near Mer yer, Pa., Tuesday. The parents were taken sick with fever and tne children could pro cure no aid. It is not thought that they can recover. The Choctaws of the Indian Territory have sent word to the United States Commissioners that they are willing to meet them and arrange for the sale, at $1.25 per acre, Ol q 1! their lands of the ninetysixth meridiau. A shocking tragedy occurred at Meadville, Mo., Monday. John Barbee, aged seventeen, and Edward Davis, aged eigh teen, became involve 1 in a dispute which terminated in Barbee disemboweling young Davis with an ugly looking knife. While crossing the railroad track to the station at Kinzers, Pa., Tuesday morning, Mrs. Annie Mcllvaney and her eleven-months-old child were struck by a fast freight train. The child was instantly killed and the mother so badly injured that she will die. A cave-in of large proportions occurred at Plains, a suburb of Wilkesbarre, P.a» v Friday. Without warning, the surface of the earth settled and great holes appeared, some of them thirty feet deep. St. Leo's Catholic Church was damaged, as was the parsonage and several other buildings. Reports are published showing that since 1880 the taxable property of the United States has increased $6,963,000,000,and that in the same period the actual wealth of the country increased $18,652,000,000. The total wealth of the country, exclusive of pub He property, is placed at $61,459,000,000. The west bound vestibule train on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis railroad collided with a freight engine which was partly on the side track, at Morristown, Shelby county, Wednesday morning, wrecking both engines and piling up sev eral cars. ’Noonewas killed and no one dangerously hurt. Bush Miller was married on Christmas to Annie Miller, of Columbia, N. J. While the couple were en route to the home of the groom in Stroudsburg, Pa., Miller was shot in the back by John W. Snyder, a rejected lover of the bride. Miller wiU die. The bride was also shot, but was not seriously wounded.

Thursday the electrical execution machines at Sing Sing prison, New York, were tested by a committee for the State, composed of Dr. Carlos F. MacDonald, Dr. A. D. Rockwell, Dr. P. H. Landy and I electrical assistants. The tests clearly bowed that the dy numos were even more 1 deadly than had been represented. When run at less than the ordinary number of i revolutions per minute the electrical pressure was found to exceed 1,6(M) volts, instead of being only 1,000. This proves that, i at about 300 times a second the pressure

runs above 2,000 volts. A farmer named David Sells was Jailed at Council Bluffs, Friday, charged with being an accomplice of a gang of sharpers, who have swindled grangers at Macedonia out of sums aggregating $5,000. The vic- , time were induced to undertake the dis I poeal of counterfeit money, being first ■ hoodwinked with supposed specimens of . marvelously perfect bogus bills, which, ' however, were in reality genuine currency. Each dupe was to be furnished with whatever amount of “goods” he wanted at $3 for sl, his deposit basing left at a designated spot, where an hour later the counterfeits Would be found in exchange. When the ! hour expired the sharpers and all money, I

genuine and bogus, were missing. The prisoner. Sells, was himself a loser. It was through him that the other victims were drawn into the scheme/ A serious accident occurred at a Christmas celebration in the town of Bourbon, Hl., Tuesday night. Samuel Beardsley, a well-known merchant of the town, was enacting the part of Santa Claus at a Christmas festival and was dressed in the usual costume, composed largely of raw cotton and other inflammable material. The cotton accidentally caught fire and in an instant Beardsley was enveloped in flames. He endeavored to reach the open air and in so doing plunged into the dense crowd—mostly women and children—that thronged the room, and a terrible panic ensued. When the ■victim of the flames was reached by those retaining presence of mind enough to aid Jlim he was in a terrible condition, being burned from head to foot in a shocking manner. He can not live. A number of women and children were quite seriously hurt by being knocked down and trampled upon.

Three children of Mrs. Lena Schip were , burned to death at their home in v Omaha, shortly after eight o'clock, Thursday morning. One was a boy >of seven years, another a girl of four, and the third a baby boy six months old. The woman’s hus band deserted her eight months ago, and she has since been earning her living by taking in washing. Thursday morning she started the kitchen fire and locked the door, and went out to get some clothes During her absence the house caught fir and the children were burned to death in the presence of a hundred people who were powerless to save them.

Dr. Courtney, of Glasco, Kan., the scene of the recent White Cap outrages, was arrested Thursday, on the complaint of John McKee, who was visited by the regulators Tuesday night. McKee tells a pitiful story. He said the visiting party accused him of robbery, and when he could not confess to the crime they beat him severely with whips, and afterwards hanged him from a road bridge by the neck three times in succession. The third time he lost consciousness, and when he recovered he was lying in the middle of the bridge, more dead than alive. A vigorous effort is being made to bring the '‘White Caps” to justice.

FOREING.

Fire destroyed the wharves of the New Zealand Steamship Company at Sidney, together with a large quantity of stored produce. A severe shock of earth quake occurred at Acireale, Sicily, Thursday throwing down several houses and burying their occupants beneath the ruins.

INFLUENZA IN AMERICA.

It is Spreading All Over the Country— Epidemic in Many Places. The number of persons in New York and Brooklyn suffering from influenza is very large and constantly increasing. In most cases the patient is subjected to severe muscular pains, catarrh, great debility, etc., with numerous concomitant discomforts, varying in different cases, some cases, running into affections of the bowels, and others to those of the lungs. While no instances of death directly from the disease have been noted, pneumonia has increased so remarkably as to indicate l some connection between the epidemic of so-called influenza ana pneumonia. There is hardly a business house or an office down town whose force of clerks has not been shortened more or less by la grippe. Quite a number of policemen and firemen are laid up. The same state of affairs exists in Brooklyn and Jersey City. The health boards of all three cities claim that there is no danger from the epidemic. When reminded that the disease is taking on a more serious form in Europe, they point to the lightness of the attacks, and say that the malady could graw much worse without becoming dangcrQUa tolife.-. Some of the members of the Pan-Ameri-can Congress have the disease. Senator Ingalls was attacked by the disease Frikay, and Saturday was compelled to take to his bed. Fifteen cases were reported at Chicago Saturday. Influenza, in a mild form is on the increase in Boston. Affections of the lungs have likewise greatly increased. A theatrical performance was postponed, Friday night, because several of the members of the company were affected. There are scores of cases at Columbus, Ohio. It prevails mostly among children and young folks, though several prominent politicians are sneezing to kill. Not less than 2,ooocases prevail in Philadelphia, rich and poor alike being affected. Thomas Amth, of Canton, Mass., died from the disease Saturday. He ventured out before he had recovered, and pneumonia developed. It has appeareu in Omaha to such an extent that two-thirds of the people are believed to be affected. Thirty cases are reported in the Baltimore postoffice. Dispatches from almost every Northern city east of the Rocky mountains tell of the appearance of influenza. In some places the disease is quite severe, but in the majority of towns reporting it is of a mild type. One-third of Paris, France, is affected and all of Europe is sneezing. The Czar is among the sufferers. Many deaths are reported.

A CYCLONE DISASTER.

A cyclone from the southwest swept across Onondaga Lake about 10 o’clock, Thursday morning, prostrating many structures. It caught up and carried a volume of water wildly before it. In the course of its cyclonic force it struck the horse barn of the People’s Street Railway Company, carrying away the cornice and roof of the building and overthrowing the front walls. A mass of brick and timber was hurled into the building, doing much damage. Charles A. Nichols, assistant superintend--1 ent, aged about forty, was instantly killed. ‘ Giles Wood, an employe, had his collar bone broken, and he was otherwise hurts condition not dangerous. Joseph Forkbeimcr was hurt internally and his head bruised. Several other employes were slightly Injured. The damage to the budding will be several thousand dollars.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

; Burglars are prolific at Crawfordsville. < The Clayton G. A. R. demands service .1 pensions. f The Muscatitnck River bottoms, in Jack son county, are flooded,and many thousand bushels of corn will be lost. J. W. Blount, at Muncie, and Hiram Beemst, at North Vernon,fell undertrains, ■ Tuesday, both losing both legs. j Evansville does not lack formemberahip in its new Ananias Lodge, Amalgamated Association of American Liars. ; Some parts of the State threaten to do their harvesting in February if the warm ; weather of December continues. I Ex-Mayor Jacob C. Kolsem, of Terre Haute, is an own cousin of Emin Pasha,

| the world-famous African explorer. I Benj. Evans, of K ightsville, Wednes- ; day, while hunting, accidentally shot himself in the abdomen, and his recovery is i doubtful. • At Omaha, Wednesday, George Jones stabbed his brother-in-law, James Tracy, eleven times, inflicting eleven fatal wounds. _ - The remains of John jK.e m P were found strewn along the L. E. & W. railway track, near Elwood, Wednesday, having been struck by a train during the night; ~~~ Thursday night, atMuncie, a boy threw a firecracker into an upstairs room in Henry Hammell’s house, fire resulted and the structure and contents were burned. A special election was held in six townships in Madison county, Monday, looking to the purchase of gravel roads and mak ing them free, and the proposition carried by a pronounced majority.

Dr. Luella Day and Samuel (Helman, of Goshen, have been arrested, charged with tampering with witnesses. The first named has secured a new trial in a case wherein she was convicted and sentenced on a charge of criminal malpractice. Mrs. Edgar French, of Fort Wayne, prepared a Christmas tree* for her children, and while arrayed as Santa Claus her flowing robes caught fire from the lighted handles, and she was terribly burned. There is fear she will not recover. There was a display of natural gas at. Shelby ville Friday, with a public procession, headed by £ band, and speeches by the Mayor and other dignitaries. It is in - tended to extend the pipe-line supplying Shelbyville to Columbus, Edinburg and Franklin. The trial of John Sage at Marion, ■barged with complicity in the murder of in infant named Cunningham, the son of his wife, who is a Hfe.prisoner in the State Female Reformatory, resulted in a disagreement of the jury, after being out eighty hours. The brick residence of Dr. John Williams, near Bowling Green, has beep destroyed by fire. Three years ago the house was supposed to be haunted, but the ghost was allayed after the disappearance of SI,OOO in money, which had been secreted about the premises. A Crawfordsville man has deserted his wife four times; the first time remaining away seventeen years, the second five years, the third two years, the fourth one year. Now the woman has grown dissatisfied and is applying for a divorce. What does she expect of him? Burglars entered George Shaefer’s residence at Fort Wayne, Thursday night, and, finding Mrs. Shaefer alone, knocked her down, bound and gaged her, and then ransacked the house, but found little of value to their liking. When found by neighbors, Mrs. Shaefer was unconscious. Secretary Johnson, of the State Board of Charities, has visited the State benevolent institutions in and about Indianapolis during the few past days, and here is what he says: “I do not think there is anything in the condition of any of these institu tions to which a reasonable man could object.” Jeptha Thomas, of Filey Scott County, went out to kill a bird for his mother, who is sick. The gun exploded, a piece fracturing his skull and injuring him fatally’ He lay helpless in the woods for hours before being found. This is the socond time in two years he was hurt in the same manner. A resident of Crawfordsville, who suffered from the so called “influenza” at the time of the epidemic in 1842, says that it was then known as “Tyler’s grip.” Tyler was President of the United States, and immediately after he had vetoed ‘ the United States bank bill, the disease swept over the country; hence, the name. A mare belonging to A. Peters, near Culver’s Station, was bitten by a dog and went mad. Before being k’lled, In her frenzy.she tore all the flesh off her legs, and also from her sides, wherever her teeth could reach, and with the greatest difficulty whs she prevented from injuring other stock. » Noah W. Dewey, of Millersburg, was accuseu of criminally Assaulting his daughter, she and his wife being the accusers. A trial has resulted in the acquittal of the defendant, a conspiracy being proven on their part, the object of which is supposed to have been to give Dewey a bad reputation, in order that his wife might secure a divorce.

Friday night while the officers were trying to arrest Charles Kynette at Ander son, the latter resisted and a general fight ensued. During the melee Marshal Downey shot Kynette in the bowels, inflicting a dangerous if not mortal wound. Kynette is lying in a critical condition. Marshal Downey is under arrest, and full investigation of the affair will be made. The Turners, German Military, Saxon Relief Society, and other organisations of Ft. Wayne, have organized the “Liberal German-American Society of the City of Ft. Wayne,” the object of which is to oppose the passage and execution of sumptuary laws designed to curtail their personal freedom. Peter Nusbaum.a brewer, is President. The incentive is the present enforcement of Sunday laws at Ft. Wayne. Patents were granted to Indiana inventors, Thursday, as follows; H. Barnard, Lotus, thill coupling; G. W. Freeman, Frankfort, combined buckle and snap hook; B. Doud, Chili, wire tightener; T. H. Haberkorn, Fort Wayne, combination valve for air brakes; J. M. Hinds, Pal myra, napkin holder, table attachment; J.

M. Rhodes, Covington, combined plate holder and printing frame; also, plate holder for cameras. The schooFbook case, in which one clerk sought to compel the trustees to sell him school books as provided in the new school book law, and which was argued before Judge Waugh in the Howard County Circuit Court tw6 weeks ago, Was decided by the Judge Tuesday. He upheld the constitutionality of the law, but against its provisions He decided that the Legislature clearly had a right tat make a law to furnish uniform text books, but that the law as now constructed was won derfully deficient in practicability. The plaintiff loses his case so far as the furnishing by the trustees of the books demanded is concerned. At Vincennes an important suit was filed Friday in court by Spence S. Hollingsworth, ex-county treasurer, against James Emison. Hollingsworth defaulted for about SBO,OOO, and for this he served a term in Jeffersonville. In order to indemnify his bondsmen, he deeded, in trust, all his property to James Emison, one of his bondsmen. The property was estimated at $60,000. The bondsmen compromised with the county, and paid for the shortage with $35,000. Hollingsworth now claims that the rest of his property held in trust has been unaccounted for, and is his, and therefore sues to recover the same. He also sues his trustee for SIO,OOO damages for depreciation of property while in his hands.

RICHARD SMITH ON POLITICS.

Xtm Ohio Edßor Says it Was a Bad Tear' for Republicans. Richard Smith, of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, the partner of Murat Halstead, has some decided views on political questions. Referring to the recent .Ohio campaign, he said: “This was not a good year for the Republicans in Ohio. Governor Foraker sacrificed himself ani his party, but we will be all right again by the time the Democrats have had control of things for two years. That ballot-box ousiness was awful bad but Governor Foraker got Mr. Halstead into it. It’s hard to tell just where it will all end. I don’t know any more about the matter, than has been made public, and Hke all the rest of you, am waiting for the investigation.” “Who will be the next Senator from Ohio?” Mr. Smith. “It looks very much as if Mr. Brice would. He has the money, you know, and that counts for a great deal these days. If that were left out of the question, I believe that John A. McMahon would be the Senator. Mac has no money to spend for such purposes. Do you know that this thing of sending millionaires to the Senate is becoming a serious business? Some of these days we will get back to my old theory, and allow the people to elect the United States Senators. One party is as bad in this respect as the other. All the Senators from the new States are representatives of big corporations and not representatives of the people. There are very few poor men in the United States Senate. For this reason you always find the Senators standing shoulder to shoulder on questions in which the interests of corporations are involved. Party lines count for noth ing in such cases, and this is what they call ‘Senatorial courtesy.’ That’s what I wanted Mr. Halstead in the Senate for, to break up this ‘courtesy,’ and he would have none it, too.”

TROUBLE WITH NEGROES.

Tfle whole of Wayne and adjoining counties in Georgia, are on the war path. About noon Wednesday, a drunken negro was arrested by Marshal Barnhill and carried to the town guard-house. The town being literally darkened with negroes, interference was made by them, resulting in the death of the Marshal and a Mr. Wood of South Carolina, and the fatal wounding of Mr. Wood of Jesup, Marshal Leggett, one Constable and a private citizen. Besides the above, over fifteen whites and blacks are known to have received injuries. The neighboring towns of Baxley, Mcßae, Graham, Hazel hurst and Scotland have sent deputations of armed men to protect the people. The streets are thronged with armed men of both colors, and further hostilities are expected at any moment; The colored men impHcated in the immediate difficulty have been chased to the swamp, and their„oapture is almost a certainty. Telegrams have been sent to the Governor, asking for immediate military aid, but as yetj none have been arrested. Companies from Brunswick and Savannah however, will arrive, and as the blacks are continuing to arm themselves and are in creasing their force, it is more than probable that they will have a clash. Women and children who can are leav ing the town, and K men from other places are arriving on every train and on horse. This section will be remembered as the place where the negro preacher, Love, was taken from a first-class passenger coach and whipped a short time ago. The ne groes there outnumber the whites by a large majority, and the troubles between them are frequent and fatal. The whole country has been in constant dread of a race war. and over 200 Winchester rifles arrived from Macon a fetv days ago.

THE BOOM IN IRON.

ietlo liemand for All Grades With the Prospect of an (Advance in Prices. Extraordinary interest is now manifested in the iron market. A further advance is expected during the mohth of January and if there is any further increase in prices the iron-workers will be entitled to an advance in wages. Bar iron is now being sold at 1.95 c per pound, and it is .said some sales have been made at 2 cents When it goes above 2 cents then the iron workers will receive an advance. The possibility of a further advance is being discussed, not only by those directly interested, but by business men generally. The coke operators have agreed to further nd vance the price of coke on Jan. 1 from $1.75 to $2 per ton. This will have, it is generally conceded, a further stimulating effect upon Vac iron market. The furnaces are receiving more orders than they can fill. The boom in bessemer iron still continues, and there is a most active demand reported for all grades of iron. , i idn Atm ii ■ ■ w . ......

NATIONAL CONGRESS.

Mr. Hear has introduced a bill to give jurisdiction in certain pension cases to the District Courts of'the United States. It provides that whenever any application, fora pension, or for an increase of a pension, has not been acted upon within one year from its date, or has been rejected,' the applicant may file his petition in the District Court, praying for the allowance of such pension or increase; that the District Attorney shall appear for the United; States, that the Judge shall proceed to adjudicate the matter, and that] (if the ap j plication be allowed) the decree of th court shall be certified to the Commissioner of Pensions, who shall cause the name of the pensioner to be placed on the pension roll. Evidence is to be taken orally or by deposition.

OKLAHOMA’S INS AND OUTS

Political Strife That H«s Ended In Mach. Lawlessness Desperadoes .from Noj Man’s Land, - ~ United States Marshal Jack Walker, of Wichita, has been called to Oklahoma City to quell the rowdyism now so prevalent there and which threatens to develop into a reign of terror. TheKickapoos anti semiuolek,*respectively the ins and outs in the city government, wage contin ual strife and us the date of the new election draws near, the feeling becomes more and more intensified. The appointment of adeputy marshal as city marshal has: added fury to the flames, and the reports of the trouble sent out have still further' separated the opposing factions. On Saturday evening a party of masked men armed with Winchesters stopped a newspaper correspondent on the street and' asked him if he knew a man named Thornton. That was the correspondent’s name and when they told him that they intended to riddle with bullets Thornton and every 'other newspaper cor 1 respondent, he sent them in one direction, after Thornton, while he escaped in an. other. Threats have been 'made against: the lives of the Deputy United States: Marshals, and Marshal Walker is calling; in support from all sections in order to be fully prepared for any emergency. Word comes from Stevens county that a score or more of horses were stolen Saturday night by a gang of men who came up from No-man’s Land early in the week. The citizens are out in squads, and as they have suffered much from such depredations, they are liable to mete'out prompt, punishment to the thieves, if caught. Judge Brewer’s recent decision as to the jurisdiction of the Paris (Texas) court oyer No-man’s Land, is causing an exodus of desperadoes from that place. Many of them are going into Oklahoma, and so: bold have been their outrages that some of the smaller places have asked for military protection. At Norman,in broad daylight, two roughs who said they were from the neutral strip, entered a grocery store, helped themselves to what they wanted, and when the proprietor, a man named Thornton, asked payment, one of them shot him through the arm. Oklahoma had a similar case the day before, and such occurrences are becoming too prevalent for the comfort of peaceable citizens. A dispatch from Oklahoma City Tuesday says: The situation there is growing more critical every hour. Mayor Beale, leader of the Kickapoos, has formed a secret organization among his followers for the purpose of overthrowing the present City Council and substituting in its place one composed of his friends. A committee waited upon him Monday, appealing vith him to desist from his present course, but he ignored them entirely. Both sides have telegraphed United States Attorneygeneral Miller their side of the difficulty. The committee referred to above sent a telegram to General Merritt, advising him. of the probability of an outbreak, and asking him to be ready to send aid.

WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.

The House committee to investigate the Silcott defalcation Thursday reported that the loss should be sustained by the government. ; I Congressman Gear, of lowa, a member of the Ways and Means Committee, said, Friday, that the chances are that the committee will have its bill ready to report very soon after the Ist of February. Mr. Gear said that the sugar duty will be reduced at least 50 per cent., with a oorres ponding bounty for such sugar as may be produced in the United States, whether manufactured from sugar cane, sorghum or sugar beets. The idea that the proposed: bill will be simply a measure for the reduction of tariff duties is erroneous. The principal cause of the complaint against the existing law is the inequalities of the schedule, which has created so much com ment on the part of those most directly interested. The committee will try to bring in a bill which will relieve the law of its bad features, while maintaining the protective policy just as far as possible.

VILAS IS FOR TARIFF REFORM.

Private advices to the effect that at a secret convention, held in Milwaukee, last week, of the Wisconsin Anti-Tariff Reform League, ex-Secretary Vilas, hitherto a revenue reformer, came out openly and squarelyforfree trade, occasions considerable surprise among the friends of Mr. Cleveland’s ex-lieutenant. Mr. Vilas has always been noted lor the conservatism at his views on tariff reform, his leanings being considerably in tjm direction of Mr. Randall, and the announcement that he intends to be hereafter a free trader, pure and simple, is taken as an indication that he is training for no unimportant part in the next national preslden tial campaign. The human skin is composed of three layers, averaging in all between onetwelfth and one-eighth of an inch in thickness, and in extreme cases at much as one-fourth of an inch in thick- , ness. The skin area of the average adult is therefore estimated at 2,0d0 square inches. The atmospheric pressure being about fourteen pounds to the square inch, a person of medium size is daily and hourly subjected to a pressure of 28,000 pounds.