Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1890 — Page 2

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The population of the United Is about 64,500,000. mostly—hustlers. The Statistician of the Interstate Commerce Commission is authority for the statement that last yedr the railroads of the United States killed 5,283 persons and injured 26,309. M. Koechlin, the assistant of Eiffel in the erection of Eiffel Tower, has been granted permission by the Swiss government to construct a railway to the summit of the Jungfrau mountain, a distance of 13,000 feet. A Chicago minister) preaching from the text, “And , how shall they hear without a preacher, ” said * ‘the newspaper of to-day is, in many cases, a grand Bermon, which ttnds its way into every hut and log cabin in the land.” W! The thirty-third annual report of Chicago's Comptroller puts the bonded debt at $13,654,900. The total assessment for 1889 was $101,104,019, while the actual valuation of real and personal property is estimated at $2,000, - DOO.OOO, more than ten times the assessor’s low figures. The statistics show that there are now 106,894 Sunday-schools in the United States, having 1,120,438 officers and teachers, and 8,698,851 scholars. There is no other country in the world that can present such proofs of success in the work of promoting these admirable agencies of civilization. An exchange says: “SquireO'Neil's {lrishtown) cow, which gave two quarts of milk per day, was struck by lightning while in pasture the other day and had a horn knocked off. Since that date her yield of milk has been ten quarts with not the slightest trace of brimstone. The Squire is an authority on farming and electricity, and his advice is if you have a cow have tier struck by lightning by all means. Stand her out” □Calvin Henderson, colored, has brought suit against ex-Superintendent Dass, of the Jackson, Miss., Penitentiary for sp, 000 for false imprisonment. [Jndec the law any convict who objerves all of the rules of the prison is intitled to a credit of three days for sach month of the term of his imprisonment Dass failed to note Hendersons good conduct and report th e tame to the Governor, thereby causing him to remain in prison 180 days beyond his time.

“It may come to pass,” said a British lecturer lately, 1 ‘that some African may, in centuries to come, point out how a race of Englishmeu once dominated the West Indies and were improved off the face of the land.” Such fears are real enough. In 1658 there were in those islands 4,500 Europeans to 1,500 Africans. In 1800 the numbers were 30,000 Europeans and 300,000 Africans. In the last census the figures were 14,433 Europeans, 109,946 colored, 444,186 Africans and 12,240 Asiatics. - Editors who receive complimentary tickets to agricultural fairs and other places are looked upon as dead-heads, but the managers of an Ohio county fair, who have had some experience in such matters, had the following printed upon the complimentary tickets they issued: “This ticket probably has been paid for ten times over by the paper to which it is issued, It will be honored in the hands of any man, woman or child, white, black, red or yellow, who favors the association by presenting it It is good for entrance and grand stand, and the bearer, if driving, will be entitled to pass a team free. The association recognizes the fact that its splendid success is owing largely, if not wholly to the press, and while we cannot render an equivalent in cash,'we return our grateful thanks.” Br the new army bill the effective, strength of the German army will be, raised to a peace establishment of 486,983 men. Even then it will not be as large as the army of France, which numbers 655,330 men, including the army in Africa. Austria has 278,297 jnen under arms, and Italy 255,418. .These figures will give an idea of the {military burdens borne by the nations of Europe, and are quite sufficient to account for the spread of Socialistic theories. A recent traveler has drawn a gloomy picture of the effects of these l»uge military establishments on the pnorals of the people. Preparations tor war on a gigantic scale, protracted tor bo many years, are producing some of the worst results of war by unfitting one generation after another for the pursuits of peaceful industry.

THE HEWS OF THE WEEK.

There is a general complaint of droughty Hail stones greatly damaged Dakota crops. New Haven had two fatal sunstrokes on the 30th. Congressman Breckinridge of Arkansas has been renominated Michigan and Maryland prohibitionists nominated State tickets. A barrel of whisky exploded at Syracuse and injured three people. Anton Mohawk, a Cleveland molder, killed himself aad wife to day. The mining town of Wallace, Idaho, was wiped out by fire on the 27th. Loss, SSOO, 000, Green bands at the business held up a train at Arabia, in Nebraska, but secured only sl7. Messrs. Dillon and O’Brien will start on a tour of the United States about the midi die of September. A bigeembination of brewers is reported for the lurps seof fighting the collection of State license fees. The village of Bairriatown, 0., has been nearly destroyed by incendiary Ares' within the past two weeks. One hundred thousand dollars’ worth of property was destroyed by a cloud-burst in Walker County, Alabama. A duel is imminent at Fredericksburg, Va.. between Captain Daniel M. Lee and Mark Hume, candidates for Congress. Charles Williams, of Daytoa, 0., has been convicted under the new Ohio law of deserting his family, and was sent to jail, A report from New York says that since the passage of the silver bill silver bullion is being shipped to Europe the same as gold. In Columbus, 0., Fox Anderson had a quarrel with his mistress, and slashed hefi horribly with a dagger, but she may recover. At Booneville, Mo., Friday, John O. Furlington was sentenced to be hanged September 11. for the murder of Sheriff Crammer. At Hamilton, Q., during the progress of a birthday feast, John Haacke, aged 18, stabbed and killed Peter Theobald, about the same age. Three children who had been blackberrying, were caught on the Erie Railroad bridge over the Passaic river at Paterson, N. J., and killed. James Mooney, a notorious dynamiter lwho once tried to blow up the Steame r lQueen, was drowned in the surf, at Fai Rockaway Beach, on the 28th. A mill pond near Albany, Wis., is glving up large quantities of pearls. Thou, sands Of people are digging dams. Many valuable gems are being found. The Norwegian bark Lloyd, from Cuba to Philadelphia, loaded with 4,500 bags of sugar, and a crew of fourteen men, has been lost at sea with all on board. Two weeks ago Colonel John F. Tyler, of St. Joseph, Mo., was appointed receive:) for a certain circus and menagerie, Thieves stole the elephant, two camels ancj five hors°s. Senf.ior-olect White, of Louisiana, de. nies reoeiving any money from the lottery company to be used in his campaign, or that he used any in buying members of thq Legislature. The balance of the locked-out cloakmakers at New York have returned to work under the new plan of agreement, snd the troubles between the employer?, pnd the men are ended.

Governor Ross, of Texas, deems the pro, posed rstaliatory boycott impractical. Tha people of Columbus, Ga., will oppose the boycott scheme in resolutions, but denounce tho proposed law. Florence Blythe, illegitimate daughter of Thomas Blythe, of California, had her contest of the will decided in her favor on the 81st. By this decision she is to receive $4,000 of the estate. Fortysone dwellings were destroyed by fire in Brad dock, Pa., this afternoon between the hours of 2 and 6 o’clock, and more than three hundred persons were for the time being rendered homeless. Jeremiah Miller, atMcchanicsburg, Pa, on the 31st cruelly murdered his wife, thq inoentive being jealousy. He soon discovered that their were no grounds foi jealousy and then committed suicide. Albert Gohegan, City Clenlr. and a bank bookkeeper at Paris, 111., who has been going at a good gait for some time past, is short $4,000. He has been prospering greatly and making purchases of prop, erty.

It is reported of Governor Campbell, in the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, that he said he would call out the militia of tho State to prevent interference by federal authorities with congressional elections in Ohio. The report of receipts and expenditures by the Johnstown Flood Relief Comnjis sion has been made public. The total contributions amounted to $2,912,346.30; and the expenditures to $2,845,140 83; leaving an unexpended balance of $67,205.47. Ei-Alderman Duffy, “the i nformer” in the Boodle Aldermen eases, in New York, has brought suit against John Keenan, the trustee of the cor -option fund, for $60,000, which he claims a? his share of the half million used in the Board of Aldermen in 1384. The Illinois Senate passed a bill- enabling Chicago tc issue five millions of bonds in aid of the World’s Fair. The House failed to pass the bill by a requisite, majority, but the vote was to be retaken to-day a second „ime upon reconsideration, a-. d it maj go through. T\e steamers Virginia and Louise collided, on the Chesapeake Bay, on the night of he 28th. Four people are known to have been killed and seventy-five injured. Cae of the tSoela w L an excursion boat, and here were 1,500 excursionists aboard. Neither vessel was sunk. Hue steamer Gl<>un, which makes daily trips between Michigan City and Chicago, on \er return triD to the former place on the Uth picked up a sailboat whose only occupant was a dog. It was found about tweh-e miles out .rom Chicago, and must have been capsized and her sailors lost The Farmers’ Alliunce in v ustern Ken tucity have been criticising Carlisle foi voting ag inst the »ilv>r bill. Mr. CarLaia retorts that he considers the bill fu; worse than the pro ieut lav, and if the Farmers’ Alliance cm Dt so regard it.

they “are entitled of course to their ©pin*.’ ion.” George L. Thompson, postmaster at Warren, Wyo., has been requested to resign by Postmaster-General Wannamaker. jit Is cfaumeu that Thompsons has been chargingS cents each for 2 cent stamps, telling patrons that high freight rates rendered it impossible to sell them for less money. The Illinois Republican State Central Committee met in Chicago and selected ,the Hon. A. M. Jones, of t Jo Daviess county, to be permanent Chairman and Daniel Shepard to be Secretary. Both of these gentlemen have occupied these posittons for many years, except that Mr. Jones was out last year. After being out for fourteen weeks the strike of the cloakmakers of New York has resulted in a victory for the laboring men. The concessions made by the managers are that they will employ only union men and discharge the non-nnion men at prepent in their employ. On the other hand the union men have agreed to allow the non-union men who desire to doao to join the union. The question of wages has yet to be decided. A special from Washington, C. H., 0., says: After taking 532 ballots without' making a nomination, the Republican contention of the Tenth Congressional District adjourned sine die. Th'e last ballot stood: Wallace, 67; Doane, 36; Hurst, 47; Little, 69. A special from Hillsboro, 0., says: The Democratic convention adjourned Thursday night at 9 o’clock, after taking 425 fruitless ballots. The last ballot did not vary materiallyfrom ihefirst, and no candidate, at any time, had any show of nomination. There is a genuine case of leprosy in New York. The victim is Manuel Garutia, twenty years old, the scion of a noble family in Spain, who has been attending a military academy at Chester, Pa. For a week he has been stopping at a SpanishAmerican boarding house at No. 105 East Twenty-eighth street,making liable to this loathsome contagious disease the numerous boarders. Policeman Snyder helped to carry Garutia to the sick-wagon, on the 28th, when the invalid was taken to the Reception Hospital on East Sixteenth street, and thence transferred to the North Brothers Island Hospital for contagious diseases. . ■ ■ , ■ The Pacific Mail Steamship Company, after consulting with certain officials high in authority, have made a demand upon the republic of Gautemala for $500,000 indemnity for illegal seizure of a portion of the cargo of the steamer Colima, which wat detained at the port of San Jose de Gaute mala on July 17. The seizure included several hundred stand of rifles shipped from San Francisco and consigned to thf republic of Salvador. The formal demand for damages was sent to President Barilt las at Guatemala fifty-two days ago. The company did not rest there, however, bualso filed particulars of the claim with tht United States government at Washington. Full details of the demand for $500,000 indemnity were also transmitted to" Secre" tary Blaine, and an answer was receivei stating that the State Department woulc' fully investigate the matter.

FOREIGN. Emperor William started on a visit tc England on the Ist. A frightful massacre of Americans by Turks is reported. More than fifty peopk were killed and 350 wounded. Great Britain has decided, it is reported to complete the defense of its Pacific Canadian ports. She will expend $23,000, 000 in doing so. Emin has had severe fighting at Masai and Ugogo. He killed many natives b,s using the Maxim gun. He seized 1,2 b head of cattle. He defeated the Ugogo? with great slaughter. Gas was struck at Knightsville, Ont. Wednesday afternoon. The flow is estimated at 20.000,000 cubic feet a day. Tin roar is deafening and when the vein wa: struck the drills were thrown high in th' air and for ten minutes rocks and dir came out. There is great rejoicing ii. Knightsville. The confirmation of the reported exist ence of cholera in an epidemic degree at Bagdad and Mecca causes great uneasiness in western Europe and strict precau tions are being taken at Marseilles anc other intrepots of Oriental traffic to prevent, if possible, the introduction of infec tion through those ports. Steamer schooner Mischief arrived Sunday night at Victoria from Shumigan Isi lands, with upward of 13,000 seal skips being the coast catch of Victoria schoon efs, which have now entered Behring Sea The catch this year i-i the best ever known. The sealers say they feel confident that nc seizure will be made this year, and the total catch will beat all previous-years. A sensation is reported from Landshut. in lower Bavaria, over the discovery that the cemetery keepers have been robbing tho bodies of the rich dead during the past two years. Clothes, ornaments and even hair have been stolen, while the costly caskets have been replaced by plain pine coffins. General exhumations have been ordered, and the ghouls have been arrested. Mail advices from Yokahoma state that on the Uth inst. the total number of cholera cases was increased to 239, with 114 deaths. Forty-seven fresh cases and 15 deaths wore reported that day, and on the 12th 30 fresh cases and 27 deaths were reported from Nagasaki. The Emperor has sanctioned the expenditure of $43,000 from the Government reserve fund for disinfection purposes. It is reported that Gen. Rivas, who was recently recalled from Honduras by the Salvador government to raise troops around Cojutepeque and join the main army operating against Guatemala on the frontier, turned traitor after having had a handsome reception In the Capitol. When he was supposed to be on his way to the ; frontier he turned back his forces of 3,000 Indians toward the capftal and stormed 'O barracks. There fighting has been . ing on two days, but no details have est received, as communication has been corrupted since. Gen. Rivas started the volution against the Mencndez governn nt some months ago. but was, defeated. He then fled to Honduras.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Cashdeilar is the name of a man at Anderson. Knightatown has inaugurated a war on the saloons. Crops about Evansville are reported in, better condition. Benj. Kessler was killed by a Monon train, near Ladoga. The Walkerton- marsh has produced a huge huckleberry crop. Caterpillars are destroying the walnut trees at Crawjordsville. John Husted, aged 90, a soldier in the war of 1812, died at Darlington on the Ist. Both La Grange and Steuben counties have lost population since last censusThe infant daughter of George Munsh was killed by the cars at Elkhart Wednesday. Will Mitchell of Elkhart county threshed 945 bushels of wheat from thirty acres of grontid .... ... — : t The wheat crop of Purdue University averaged thirty bushels to the acre, How many acres? Hon. Allen Zollars Has been made Chairman of the Allen county central Democratic committee. A family named Boldney, living at Sunman, Ind., have fallen heir to an estate of $4,000,000 each in New York. Goshen expects to secure the shops of the Toledo & Western roas as an offset to voting a $50,000 subsidy to the road. The Township Trustee at Richmond is trying to ship poor people away> for fear that they may become county charges. Master IfcOcl Tay Stemlrigor, five years old, is astonishing people at Warsaw by his oratorical abilities and is quite a igyThe population of Bloomington in 1880, according to the census, was 2,756. This year the census makes it 4,100, a gain o 31,44. George Krapt, a veteran engineer on the Big Four road, was fatally crashed between engine and tank at Terre Haute on the 28th. In Monrovia, Movgan county, lives Miss Ann Marvin, now 101 years of age. The aged spinster is spry and walks long dis. tances by aid of canes. ”, Jesse Trueblood, a bad character, in jail at Sullivan for wife beating and other offenses, escaped Wednesday, fooling the jailor with a “dummy.” A movement is, on foot to establish a creamery at Crawfordsville. It will take SIOB,OOO worth of cream per annum to supply the capacity of the works. Joseph Walsh, one of Henry county’s wealthiest citizens, died on his farm, near Newcastle. He was 80 years old and leaves a fortune of nearly half a million. Frederick Winca, a watchman for the Pennsylvania company near Fort Wayne was set upon by tramps and so badly usecl up that he died at the St. Joseph HospitalHe jvas stabbed three times, the blade penetrating and cutting the bowels. Incendiaries set fire to the residence of Rev. David Plumb, in Gale. Ind,, on the morning of the 29th, and it was destroyed. Mr. Plumb was fatally burned, and bis wife and three children perished in the flames. Mr. Plumb is a prominent Methodist minister. A small boy named Smith was killed at Cordonia. He was playing with a number of children in the road when a loose horse passed by. Wheeling quickly, when the party was reached, the horse kicked at the Smith boy, striking at the back of the head, breaking :his neck and causing instant death. Forty cabinet-makers struck in Munk & Robert’s factory, at C< onner sville. The factory has a rule that requires piece-work-ers to remain in the factory until, the vvhistlc blows, whether they have work or not. Friday Peter Kregor left a few minutes before the whistle blew, and was discharged Saturday morning, hence the strike. - __ _'

The family of William Reed, a prominent farmer living ten miles north of New Castle, started to church Sunday morning in a spring wagon, when the hops® hitched to the wagon became unmanageable and, kicking over the dashboard, struck and instantly killed the eleven-year-old daughter of Mr. Reed. wbo„ was seated-ia-the front of the wagon. Superintendent Leatherman, of the county poor farm, at Goshen, and a young man named Slabaugh were poisoned the 29th by a female inmate of the asylum, with whom Leatherman has had considerable trouble of late. She administered the dose in their food. They were taken Violently ill, but were finally brought around, and are about well. Quincy A. Hossler. one of the proprietors of the Warsaw Daily Times and In-diacian-Republican, will soon retire from the active management of those papers to engage in the banking business at Chica go. With several other gentlemen he will start a bank at the Garden City, removing there and taking an official position in the institution. Ho will retain his interests in his Warsaw publications. Muskrats have become so numerous in the vicinity of what is known as Nagle’s ice pond, a mile north of Jeffersonville, and have become so destructive to growing corn, that William Frank and others have employed a man to shoot the animals. They invade a field of growing corn and carry-off the tender ears. The little pests are quite vicious, and will show fight when their houses are attacked by man. Fred Butler, a young clerk in a clothing store at Garrett, has got into trouble for inducing a fifteen-year-old girl, named Edith Young, to go to Adrian, Mich., with him and get married. Ihe yopthful bride’s parents have now taken a hand in the matter and have Miss Young securely locked in her room at Garrett, while herhusbandi young Butler, languisheth in the city bastile, arrested for swearing falsely about her age. A very singular discovery was made re < e ltly in a large apple tree on the farm of Dr. E. Newland, on the Paoli pike, near the city. The apple tree leans considerably. On Saturday a rat was seen running up its trunk, and on Sunday two more were seen going up tho tree. An examination showed that one of the large limbs of the tree was hollow and filled with rats. The work of destroying the rats was then com menced, and at the end of It twenty-eight of them, all of large size, lay dead. The

tree loaned over against the granary, and!' the rats fed from the granary. ’ It has been decided deinitely that the shooting affray at the State liqe dividing Indiana and Illinois, between Harry Trogdon and Road SuperviaorSaunders, took place in Indiana, sixteen feet this side of the oenter of the road which was the dividing line, and Trogdon has been transferred to Terre Haute from Paris, 111., and delivered into the custody of .the Vigo county sheriff. Thus is settled one of the. most peculiar legal questions ever raised in the two States. Both men, however, are residents of Illinois, and happened to get on Indiana soil while the difficulty was in progress. David Logan, of Fairfield, seized a sharp ax and attempted to chop off his left hand. He succeeded ip breaking the bones and severing the tendons, making it necessary for the member to be amputated. As he is nearly ninety-four years of age he will - probably not survive the operation. He was one among the earliest- settlers of the Whitewater valley, and has accumulated considerable property, but for some weeks has-lanciedthat he was coming to want and expressed a desire not to live longer, and a close watch has been kept upon his actions, his relatives being fearful that he would attempt suicide. At a iittle station on the Evansville & Richmond railroad, twenty miles west of Columbus, Peter Brock, intoxicated and quarrelsome, drew a pocket-knife and, thrust the blade into the left eye of a young man named Thompson, who was sitting on a dry goods box whittling, twisting it around tmtil the blade broke off in the eye. Thompson jumped on to Brock and beat him nearly to death until taken off by bystanders. The knife-blade was removed from Thompson’s eye. The eyeball was not injured, the blade having passed entirely around the organ, nearly lifting the eye out of the socket. Both men are in a critical condition. Brock will recover, but it is thought Thompson will die,— A special dispatch from Evansvile, Ind., says: John B, Day was arrested on a charge of having placed two dynamite cartridges, each eight inches long, in a sheaf of rye. As it was about to be placed in the thresher the sheaf fell apart and the cartridges dropped out, thus providentially avoiding a tragedy, as there were six men at work, and all would undoubtedly have been killed. Day, some months ago, eloped with a thirteen-year-old girl, but was overtaken and brought back and warned to keep away from the child. He swore vengeance against the father, and on the 29th came to town and bought the cartridges and placed them in the rye, ex pecting that they would be fed into the machine by the girl’s father. The indignation against Day is very great, and fears are entertained that he may be lynched. Prof. W. C. Latta, Superintendent of Farmers’ Institutes, says that these insti. tutos will be conducted on the general plan adopted last year. The following is the list of counties, forty-two in number, entitled to institutes for the season of 1890-91, with the dates upon which they will be held. Vanderburg... Nov 5-6 [Putnam Doe 30-31 Perry Nov 7-8 Olay Jan 2-3 Pike Nov 11-12 Shelby Jan 9-10 Dubois Nov 12-13 Vigo Jan 13-14 Crawford Nov 14-15 Parke Jan 14-15 Clark..-. Nov 18-10 Vermillion.... Jan 16-1* Washington... Nov 19-20 Hancock Jan 20-2 Lawrence Nov 21-22 Randolph Jan 21-2: Brown Nov 25-26 Jay Jan 23-24 Js/ kson Nov 28-29 Wells Jan 27-28 Steuben-.... Dec 2-3 Adams... Jan 28-29 DeKalb Dec 3-4 Allen Jan *O-31 Noble. Dec 5-6 Benton Jeb 3-4 Ohio Dec 9-10 Newton.*. Feb 4-5 Dearborn Dec 10-11 Jasper. Feb 6-7 Ripley. Dec 12-13 Whitley Feb 10-11 Franklin Dec 16-17 Kosciusko Feb 11-12 Union Dec 17-18 Marshall FeblS-li Bush Dec 19-20 Btarke F bl7-lg Bartholomew. Dec 23-24 Porter Feblß-is 800ne... Dec 26-27 Lake., Feb 20-2] The place of meeting in each county will be determined to a great extent by the local interest manifested. Prof. Latta re? quests that all correspondence pertaining to thb work be addressed to him, and he will, on application, forward instructions for making the preliminary arrangements.

FIRE AT SENECA FALLS.

A special from Seneca Falls, N. Y., gives the following particulars of a fire there on the 30th: The inevitable has occurred. The Pew building, against the erection oi which, three or more years ago, such earn, est protest was made, fulfilled its mission as a tire-trap this morning, and it has alsc proven a death-trap. A few minutes after three o’clock a. m., the building, which was directly opposite the Opera House in Fall street, was discovered to be burning in Sutherland & Squire'h restaurant. In a few minutes the entire structure was on fire. Had naught but the sheli suffered, there would havo been trifling cause for regret, but at 7 o’clock the fairest commercial portion of the town was in ashes or in flames. The Pew building was approachable from but one side, and tbe atmosphere quickly became so hot that the firemen could not endure it The splendid Fjbcenix block, involving the elec trie light plant, the electric railway plant, the postofflee, express office, the Reveille printing establishment, the Courier, Sanderson’s furniture warerooms and the Western Union telegraph office succumbed to the flames, and within four hours fifteen stores east of it to the Seldon block were ruined. The flames sprang aoroae the street to Hoag’s opera house before an hour had passed, and that was consigned, with all of Fall street on that side east tc the Sheldon block, while on the north side the Co-operative block was the limit On stats street the flames extended to and included Kellogg’s livery stable, but all ol his stock was saved. In State street the fire has already lapped up the Hudson House and blacksmith shop, George’s barber shop, harness store, the Norcot Block, including Comber’? liquor store, Hall’s cigar factory, Hanna’i second-hand store, Chinese laundry, Dem son’s shoe shop, Kellogg livery stable and the two rear houses neat thereto, where the fire is how limited. All three neWspa pern are burned out and the telephone service is suspended. The Western Unior is doing business at the railway station The Gloason A Bailey Works were on fire several times, but tne flames were kept down with but little injury. The fire wai under control at 9 o’clock, but soon broke out anew in Ledman AGiadkis's dry good) store. A report places the loss at $1,000,00(1 Fifteen acres wore burned over, coverec principally by thyee story brick blocks.

POLITICAL.

NORTH DAKOTA REPUBLICANS. .'' North Dakota nominated a fall Stab ticket on the 31st, Tho platform makes the following provisions and promises: P Indorses the administration of President Harrison and the silver legislation urges the passage of the federal election bittf extends congratulations to Speaker Reel for his rulings to facilitate business, an{ demands as high a rate of protection or woolen industries as is accorded the mos> favored manufacturers. It especially fa, vors any and all legislation tending to encourage, to protect and to promote agricuK ture. Protection is asked for the' just rights of labor. The reduction of duty on binding twine, from 2% cents to IJ{ cent, is demanded. The usual protest is made against monopolies and corporations, and the passage of a State law is urged regui lating the rates and tolls of common carriers. Mr. Blaine’s reciprocity policy 4in * dorsed and an amendment to the McKinley bffl 'jrelatlhg to sugar and agricultural products is approved. It declares in favor of the vigorous enforcement of the existing prohibition law, and asks the passage of the federal law, giving each State the right to settle tho liquor question for itself. The course of Governor Miller on the lottery question is heartily approved. The platform opposes lottery legislation and favors an amendment to the State constitution forever prohibiting a licensed lottery. The congressional delegation is urged to secure national legislation against using the mails for lottery purposes. MICHIGAN FUSIONISTS. Upon the assembling of the Union La bor and Farmers’ Allianoe Convention at Harmony Thursday afternoon the Com?* mittee on Credentials reported a total of 179 delegates authorized to hold seats. The platform was unanimously adopted. It demands abolition of national banks and substitution of legal-tender Treasury notes in lieu of national bank notes is . sued in sufficient volume to do the business of the country on the cash system, that all money shall be legal tender In payment of all debts, both public and private; demands free and unlimited coinage of silver; that taxation, both national and State, shall not be used to build up [one interest or class at the expense of another; that railroads, telegraphs and telephones should be owned and operated in the interest of the peos pie, the same as the United States postal system; eight-hour law; law permitting the farmer to deduct his mortgage from his assessment; graded income tax; Government should loan to people on real estate securities at the same rate money is now loaned to banks; Australian ballot system; homestead exemption to the value of SI,OOO on improved and personal property; election of President and United States Senators by direct vote, and the reduction of salaries of all public officers to a strict economical basis proportioned to the wages of labor. A State ticket was nominated.

AFTER THE REVOLUTION.

Bnenos Ayres Has Suffered From a Bombardment. During tho insurrection at Buenos Ayres the iron-clad fleet, which had joined the revolutionary movement, bombarded the city for two Says. Serious damage was done to the many buildings. As the revolution began to fail, the people in the suburbs organized their own armed police toi deal with maurauders. The Union Civica state they found the boxes of ammunition in the Government stores empty ( instead of full, as tbe store-books indicated. This deception and the error in not v mit.t.lng the rails and seizing the War Min* ister when opportunity offered at the onset caused the failure of the popular cause. The exasperation against Celman is indescribable. Unless he resigns, it is feared that attempts will be made upon his life. The Bourse is olosed and the settlement is postponed until August 9. Exchange shops quote gold at 460. If Celman has the slightest patriotism he will resign ; but around - him have assumed a bullying tone, and assert that he never will resign. President. Celman does not appear to realize his posi tion. He has laughingly declared tha only a military meeting could show the people how little he thought of resigning. It is reported that the squadron has surrendered. The payment of all bills has been de ferred one month. The Minister of War has issued a bulletin pardoning the rank ' and file of the revolutionists, and declaring that 200,000 national guards are ready to defend the country and President Celman, . being notv united wjth him by the tie of the battlefield. The bulletin is treated with derision, and copies which have been scattered throughout the city are trampled under foot by the people. The outlook is bad, unless Celman’s declarations are morO bravado. It is said that in the bombardtaent 1,000. persons were killed and 5,000 were w ounded. The shipping in the port sustained no damage. ~

NATIONAL CONGRESS

The Senate on the 28th considered the bill, without action, for the transfer of tha' river and marine from the Treasury to tha Naval Department. The beginning of the! session was fixed at 11 a. m. The tariff bill wasdiscussed by Vest and Turpie. The House considered the sundry clvili appropriations bill. The Senate on the 80th discussed the tariff bill. The Senate on the 31st considered the tariff bill. The House discussed the original pack-, age bill and considered several ether matters without action. A Port Wayne drunkard made'three at. tempts at suicide on the 29th, hanging him-' self by hlB suspenders and shirts. He al-f most succeeded twice and finally was looked up in jail, with no clothes on. Another suicide, that of a prominent, farmer’s wife, occurred oh the 28th, in' what is known as the “Dark Corner," Bar-! tholomew couuty. Seven suicides and one! murder are recorded as having taken place? in these “corners." ■’