Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1890 — Page 2

%he gUpuMiom. eso. B. Mabbhaul, Publisher.

This appears to be a rough world for a woman any way she takes it, bu it is uncommonly rough when she ha* no money. There, for instance, is that impecunious Tennesse waif re, ported in the dispatches who was trying to, work her way to friends in Illinois and found that her-feminine attire subjected her 'to indignities. Accordingly, fer self-protection, she donned male garb and was forthwith arrested and will be sent to the State Reformatory. , In other words, the only way she can be free from molestation by rowdies or the officers of the law is to belocked up in prison. It almost seems a pity that the dignity of the law should be so dreadfully outraged by the sight of a woman in trousers! ——————HP——» —— It is rather a sad thing to announce publicly, but it is nevertheless true f that only a small proportion of the dudish-looking yachtsmen who are seen about the up-town cases at night, slnd who lounge about the clubs, really have any substantial possessions in the way of yachts. Not only the larger but even the smaller yachts are owned by three or four men, who take turns in,using the boat or sail together. This is almost universally true of the small forty-footers, nearly all of these boats boasting double or triple ownership. The reason is a good and substantial one. A man who buys a big yacht, a hundred feet long or thereabouts, uses her for long cruising trips as a rule. He moves his servants and his family aboard of her, keeps her in commission a month or two, and when he has finished with his season's yachting the boat is laid up until the following year. It is useful as well as ornamental. There are no hotel or house bills while his family is living aboard the yacht, and he gets a distinct return for his money. The small boats, however, are toys, purejujd sim,'- - * . - pens'”' 4 '^' B that. Not more th'an vnt-ee of four people can cruise in them comfortably, and yet they require an equipment of four men all the time that they are in commission. The men are paid liberal salaries, it coats a good deal to feed them, and the necessary expenses for the wear and tear of the boat always reach a considerable amount. As a rule, the smalt yachts are owned by young business or professional men whose time is not entirely their own, and they chip in together and get their season's yachting for something like a reasonable price. There is a sort of stock company of five men in the dry goods district who run one yacht. Among women every one of the five speaks of it as *‘mv beat.”—N. Y. Sun. Dr. Dawson, of the Canadian Geolog ical Survey, says that nearly a millio'n square miles in that country, or about one-eighth of the total area of this are as yet practically unknown. The annual reports of the Geological Survey and Interior De- . f airtment of Canada have a peculiar interest from the fact that they are, to a considerable extent, records o original discovery- The greater part of the Canadian northwest Is well known only along the water courses, nnd some of the explorers of the scientific bureaus are now pushing away from the rivers and lakes to map the regions lying between them. In the large region embraced between Great Fish river on the north, Great Slave and Athabasca lakes on the west, Reindeer and Hatchet lakes on the South, and Hudson Bay on the east, we find on the maps a large number of rivers and big and little lakes. It is a curious fact that all these rivers and lakes have a place on the maps upon the authority of only one man, Mr. Ilearne, who wandered for three years through this region over 120 years ago. We may infer from the changes the Canadian explorers have been making in thd* maps of other regions that these rivers and lakes will probably appear under quite a different aspect when modern exploration reaches them. The largest unexplored area in Canada is the interior of Labrador, almost 800,000 square miles, for mapping the larger part of which we have scarcely any information at all except Eskimo reports; and yet if these reports are in any degree • trustworthy, there are many interest ing discoveries to be made in inner Labrador, including the big waterfalls of the Grand river, reputed to be the highest in the world, which no white wan has yet visited. It will be a long time before our own continent ceases to furnish fresh geographical news. , A “Thibet Prayer Union” has been formed to plead fer the opening of the door into Chinese Thibet, at Which the Moravians have been waiting so long.

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

_ Nearly all the manufactories of glass in Pittsburgh have resumed. Mayor Greiner, of Reading, has forbidden Sunday saloon concerts. Texas Democrats on the 13th nominated Stephen Hogg for Governor. The convention to renominate McKinley Will meet at Massillon, August 26. The Farmers’ Alliance of Louisiana adjourned after passing anti-lottery resolutions. The growing orange crop in Florida is estimated at 2,000,000 boxes, about !the same as last year’s. ’ Gyrus W. Field has sold TOO acres of his Dobbs Ferry estate to Charles Henry Butler for $1,000,000. The People’s party of the Fourth District nominated J. G. Otis, a prominent farmer, for Congress. Eight men were mangled in a collision on the Louisville and Nashville road, near Spring Station, on the 13th. J There was a very brilliant display of shooting stars and meteors at Monticello 111., on the night of tjhe 11th. The Farmers’ Alliance Convention of North Carolina decided not to oppdSfs the re-election of Senator Vanee.

Ten workmen were badly injured by an explosion of artificial gas in a soap factory at Providence, R. 1,, om the 14tb. John Boyle O’Reilly,the poetand patriot, died on the morning of the 10th, at his summer home, Nantasket Beach. The work of the. census enumerator show the population of Maine to be 658, 454, an increase of 9,500 since 1880. A fire at Louisville, on the 14th, destroyed 25,000 barrels of whisky and the distillery, causing a loss of $2.000.000, A call has been issued lor a meeting at Rockford, 111., to take steps “to abate the nuisance of the SchweiDfurthcomm.unitj The great strike of the New. York Central is broken. Trains were running on fairly good time on the 12th. The strikers lose. Col. Jesse Hgrper has accepted the joint nomination of Farmers’ Alliance and Prohibitionists in the Danville, 111., district for Congress. California Republicans on the 13th endorsed Speaker Reed and the administratioii and nominated Henry Markhapi for Governor.

A negro boy named Beaver, aged 20, was hanged by a mob in the public square at Warren, Ark., for attempted assault on a white woman. The population of Kansas City, Kan., announced by the Census Bureau, on the 11th, is 38,170. The same plaee in 1880 contained a population of 9,348. He thinks our claims in the Behring Sea dispute is “sheer nonsense.” Suits aggregating $112,569.41, have boen commenced at Lebanon, 0., against the ninety bondsmen of ex-Treasurer Jameson, Dunham and Coleman and Auditor Graham.

Ex-Governor Charles Foster has written a letter to a prominent Republican leader announcing that under no circum- • tances will he accept a nomination for Congress. The Supervisor of Census authorizes the statement that in rduhd numbers the present population of Vermont is 332,000.. The census returns of 1880 give the population as 332,286. - Governor Francis, of Missouri, appointed twenty-nine delegates to repro sent the State in the National Farmers’ Congress, which meets at Council Bluffs la., August 26. Congressman McDuffie (Republican), of Alabama, has received an anonymous letter threatening him with the fate of Cook, Mississippi, if he supports the Federal election bill.

The funeral of John Boyle O’Reilly, the poet and patriot, occurred at Boston. The calvacade was the largest ever seen in Button, and the remains were viewed by a numberless throng. Theleutonic arrived at New York on the 13th, 5 days 19 hours and 5 minutes from Roche’s Point to Sandy Hook, the best time on record by 13 [minutes. The Teutonic belongs to the White Star line. At the West Side race course, at Chicago, Tbuwday, a Mills chestnut gelding:, Bob Thomas, sired by Enquirer, out of Peytonia Barry, broke the record at one mile over hurdles, with 148 pounds up, he covering the distance in 1.49.

Captain 11. T. Coffee, a Chicago capita; ist, has challenged H. G. Allis, a Little Rock (Ark.) banker, to fight a duel. Allis declined to reply to the challenge, which was the result of personal differences regarding a railroad deal.

Charles Cosgrove, an mreonaut, who made an ascension at Portland, Ore., lost his hold of the parachute in his descent, when about 200 feet from the ground, and was mangled to death upon one of the paved streets of the city. The Colonist sleeper on the west-bound Great Northern tra : n burned at Ada, Minn., Sunday morning. The passengers lost everything, barely escaping with their lives. Conductor Stahl was badly burned white uncoupling the car.

The “original pae cage” [dealers of lowa, in a cor erence at Mason City, on the 12th, concluded to close down theirshops. This ends the original package saloon. It is estimated that 15,(T3 saloons were in operatiouin lowa a week previous. At thie session of the National Associa - tion of Retail Boot and Shoe dealers, at Boston, officers were elected as follows: President, James F. Keene, Fort Edward T - ’ s « c W. 11. Gleason, Binghamton, N. k.; Treasurer, I. B. Arnold, Findlay, O. Pick Wireman and Cora McMahon, a woman of ill-repute, were shot and killed while driving in a buggy from Belton to Temple, Texas. Wiseman had been acquitted of the charge of murder a few days before, a ;d the ve~dict did not give general satisf.ict.on.

Governor Steele, of Oklahoma, says he will call a specin, election immediately to fill caused by the deaths of Messrs. Burke and Reynolds, so that the Legislature may assemble as soon as possi Me. Jhe Legislature is now a tie on the -apital question. Philip Rindfleisch & Sons, proprietors of the Highland House, one of Cincinnati’s hill-tcp resorts, made an assignment

| Friday. It is said to be a result of the I Sunday law, which cut off the big and profitable crowds that formerly thronge4Ae place on Sundays! * f - In the United States Cireuit Court at Cincinnati Judges Jackson and Sage refused the application of the Interstate Commerce Commission for an Injunction restrain the Baltimore & Ohio Railway Company from issuing “party rates ’to theatrical companies. Ex-Governor J. Proctor Knott and a party of Kentuckians left Louisvilleon the Uth for Duluth, where a grand reception has been arranged for the ex-Governor who, twenty years ago, made the “Zenith City by the unsalted 8633” famous by his celebrated speech in Congress. Florida Democrats, on tne 14th, adopted resolutions that-denounce the force bill arid recognize in the offerings of the subtreasury bill before Congress a crying necessity for the revision of the national banking laws and affording relief of some kind to the farmers and to the masses. Rockwells & Co’s large tannery at Clarondon, Pa., was partly destroyed by fire Tuesday night, entailing a loss of SIOO,OOO. The fire started in the bark crushing department, but the origin is unknown. Over $300,000 worth of hides were in danger in vats, but only a portion were destroyed. • M. Hume Clay, ahitherto well and favorably known business man of Central Ken-, tucky, i&missing from his home at He was last heard from in Chicago two weeks ago. Yesterday it was discovered that he had forged the name of his grandfather for thousands'of dollars. All of Clay’s property has .been attached by creditors. The Missouri river threatens to convert much valuable land in Doniphan county, Kansas, into a swamp. The river has cut in for a distance of six hundred feet in less than six months, and if prompt meas ures are not taken Wathena and Elwood will be swept away and St. Joseph, Mo., left high and dry, while the million dollar bridge will span a dry water-course. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Dakota has handed down a deci-

sion affirming in every detail the constitu-tionalityef-tbe'PrdMhition law. He says county courts have full jurisdiction to fine and imprison liquor sellers without interference of grand juries or other courts, and final jurisdiction in all such cases.

A Panhandle work train, consisting of engine, tender and one car, which was engaged in gathering ties east of Knights town, struck a cow on a heavy grade, de railing the car and tender, seriously injuring six men, two of whom received internal injuries, from which they can not recover. All trains were delayed several hours on account of the wreck. A suit has been begun in phils6<dnV>s«» ) Ou nohair ui an infant, for $50,000 damages from a street car company for injuries received before it was born. The mother of the child was a passenger on one of the company’s cars in a collision caused by the alleged carelessness of the driver, and received a shock that injured the spine of her unborn babe. Hence the suit. Robert J. Reynolds was nominated for Governor by Delaware Democrats on the 12th. Hon. Thos. F. Bayard formulated and read the platform. The platform contains no new suggestions or features. The Ohio campaign will open Sept. 15. Texas Democrats met at San Antonio and adopted a platform denouncing the exhorbitant tariff and federal election bill, and favors the creation of a railway commission..

The rough official count of the population of the First District of Illinois, comprising the counties of Cook, Dupage and Lake, has been completed by the Census Office. The figures are as follows: Cook county, 1,189, 279; Dupage, 22,542; Lake, 24,122; total, 1,235,963. In 1880 the population of this district was 647,981. Chicago is in Cook county, and the population of that city is included in the given above. From the experience of two electric light linemep who recently received shocks, one of eleven hundred and the other of two thousand volts, each more than the murderer Kemmler reeeiv«ri it is certain that Kemmler must have suffered excruciating tortures while sensibility lasted. The lives of the linemen were saved by the breaking of the circuit, showing that it was the continued application of the current that killed Kemmler.

A dispatch from Topeka, Kan., says: A desperate effort is being made to get a new trial for the six men at Paris, Tex., wh were sentenced to be hanged December 1 for the murder of Sheriff Gross and hi party in No Man’s Land. The convicted men are all very prominent, and Hon. George R. Reck and Colonel W. H. Ross, ington will appear before the United States Court and ask for a new trial for them Cook, one of the men sentenced, was a candidate for State Senator four years ago.

Six men opened an unlicensed saloon on the borders of Burlington Park, outside the city limits of Napersville, 111. The authorities got wind of the matter, and when the place was opened half a dozen officers raided the illicit venders. Two escaped through the woods, while the other four marched off closely guarded. The entire stock of the saloon, including over forty kegs of beer. was left to the mob, whb in twos and threes bore off a keg between them and plundered the rest o he outfit. • x f

lowa farmers and Union Labor men met at Des Moines on the 14th. The resolutions adopted indorse the principles advocated by the Farmers’ and Laborers’ Industrial Union, held at St. Louis last De cember; denounces the McKinley and Lodge bills, and Speaker Reed’s “bold attempt to destroy the independence of our representatives in Congress;” favors the Australian ballot system, and denounces every lowa Congressman for helping to defeat the bill for free coinage. The passage of a service pension bill is demanded

The hot political war waged between Gep. H. Nutter and Wm. Dills for the Re publican nomination for county clerk, a Charleston, W. Va., has been followed by the attempted assassination of Nutter. On Saturday were held the primary conventions for the selection of delegates to the nominating convention, and in nearly every district in the county there were many fights. In the Charleston convention there were five. In another, ten, so hot was the political battle. Sunday night

about 12 o’clock Nutter went to see one o his delegates, and returning was shot by an unseen party, the ball striking near his hear t and at his back. A physician called pronounces the wound dangerous though Nutter seems better. He says be has no idea whoshot him, as he believed his political opponents men. There is no clew to the perpetrator. He says he can prove where he was every minute of the night. FOREIGN. War between Honduras and Salvador Seems Co be inevitable. There were 126 deaths from cholera at Jeddah, and at Mecca the deaths from the disease numbers 108. Emperor William hasstarted for Kiel. He took with him a grand hunting chariot as a present for the Czar.The Italian government has ordered the cessation of immigration from Italy to the countries of South America. Mr. Tobral, Guatemalian Minister Of Foreign Affairs, was shot by order of the President because of alleged treachery. Fall and spring wheat, barley, peas and oats will be above the average in yield per acre and quality in the province of Ontario this year. The German admirality denies the res port that one of the torpedo boats, which left Heligoland after the transfer of the island, is missing. Dievad Pasha, Governor of Creie, has ordered the arrest of the Turkish soldiers who recently bayoneted three Christian herdsmen near Spakia. This action has had the effect of calming the Christian*, populace, who were indignant at the con. tinued outrages perpetrated by Turks President Ezeta, of Salvador, has positively refused to accept any mediation from any power until he is fully recognized as the chosen provisional President of Salvador. It is understood that recognition will first be made by the United States before any offer of mediation will be made by the latter or by Mexico in the trouble between Salvador and Guatemala. The Irish potato crop is almost a total failure and famine is believed to be impending. Michael Davitt says: “I have made a brief trip through Ireland for the purpose of inquiring into the facts concerning the impending famine. My inquiries fully confirm the fears, that have been expressed as to the probably dis-

astrous consequences of the famine, and I find that the potato crop is almost a total failure. In addition to this, thousands of small farmers will suffer. Cardinal Newman died in London on the 11th. He was born in 1801, and brought up

in the established church nf v.nrriomi i*» Una ne joined the Catholic Church. The change was the result of profound convie tion, yet so bitter was the feeling at that time against the Catholic Church in England that he was denounced as a traitor to the cause of truth. Some of his personal and life-long friends abandoned him. Soon after joining the Catholic Church he was in Rotne ordainM a deacon. He grew rapidly in the favor of the church, and was -finally honored with the great distinction of Cardinal. He was the author of several volumes, one of which, “Apology for My Life,” served to restore him to the respee of non-Catholics which he had lost when joining the Catholic Church. Horrible accounts are received of the slave labor traffic by British planters in the South s6as. The Presbyterian mission synod in the New Hebrides has passed a resolution to the effect that “the Kanaka labor traffic had, to a large extent, depop-

ulated the New Hebrides and adjoining islands, upset family relations among the natives, and has been and is the cause of much sorrow, suffering and bloodshed.” A missionary named Patton reports that, he has seen white men in their boats taking Kanakas to labor vessels—as the slave ships are called—forcibly lifting them on board, and when they tried to swim ashore they were knocked down again and again, until they lay stupified on-deck, and were thus carried out to sea. Those thought likely to escape are fastened with chains on board. A chief was shot dead by the crew of one of these vessels while attempting to protect his daughter, and a native Christian teacher was also shot dead. This slave trade is carried on under the protection of the British flag or the benefit of planters in Queensland and the Fiji islands.

CARING FOR ORPHANS.

Secretary Johnson, of the Board of State Charities, returned Monday from a visit of several days to the soldiers’ and sailors’ orphan’s home at Knightstown. He says the new superintendent, Mr. Harris, is very efficient, and that the institution under his management is in splendid shape. When Mr. Harris took hold there were fifty-five children in what is known as the “scald-head department.” These little fellows were neglected, and little if any attention was paid to them. Their condition grew worse and they came to regard themselves as lepers. Afflicted as they were with ring-worm they were barred from association with the other children, dressed poorly and given no care to speak of by the two women in charge of that department. Superintendent Harris, upon assuming the management of the institution, took hold of this growing blot on its fair fame, and discharging the two women in charge replaced them with two others who gave the poor children such care that to-day there is no such departand all except five or six of the children are completely well, and these few will soon be entirely cured. The new superintendent’s efficiency has been demonstrated in other ways. He has established a system of supplying the institution with everything needed through a storekeeper. This is in vogue in all the other institutions, and should have been adopted long ago at Knightstown. As a result everything must be procured on a requisition from the storekeeper and the economy of the system will prove its value. At the same time the children fare precisely as well, if not better than they always did. Of the three new double cottages for the accommodation of 180 children, two are completed and occupied. The Woman’s Relief Corps raised more than S3OO and-furnished the rooms above the dining-room so that the servants have much better quarters than formerly. During the few months in which Superintendent Harris has been in charge he has certainly accomplished great good, as well as effected a saving in the expenses of the institution.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Jeffersonville is growing rapidly. Vandalism is rampant at Columbus. Crawfordsvtlle wants natural gas badly. Navigation on the Wabash is almost suspended. jV-. Levi Harshman was run over and killed by a train at Colfax. Middletown and Spiceland have each secured a gas factory. Gathering May apple roots is a profitable Southern Indiana industry. Economy in the use of natural gas is beginning to be agitated in the belt. William Willun, a brakeman, was fatally injured at Attica while making a coupling. '

Richmond contemplates building an auditorium with a seating capacity of 2.000. Miss Williams, an actress, born at New Albany, Ind., is to wed Lord Petre, a rich English baron. Silas S. of Fort Wayne, while chatting with his daughter, fell from his chair and died. Thie Bruederlicher Unterstuetsungsvercin is one of the leading German societies of Fort Wayne. Joshua Williams, an old resident of Henry county, was fatally crushed by a train Thursday. In two years Floyd, Harrison and Washington counties have paids3,ooo on account of sheep-killing dogs. Samuel French, of Posey county, who has been blind for twenty-five years from scrofula, is recovering his sight.

Evansville will celebrate German Day, October 6, the anniversary of the first German immigration to this country 'in 1683. Fish from the United States Fish Commission have been sent to New Albany for distribution in streams about tha 1 city. Ten thousand people attended the reunion of the pioneers of Elkhart county at Simonton Lake. Colonel R. M. Johnson delivered the address.

Two barns belonging to Green Lilly, eight miles southeast of Tipton, were de stroyed by an incendiary fire on Saturday night. Loss about $2,200. Charles E. Polk, the well-known packer of Greenwood, was fatally injured by burning oil at his home in Effingham. He was buried at Green wood.

Eddie McKenna, a six-year-old boy, who was seated under some flat cars watching a game of foot ball, was instantly killed by a switch engine at Fontanet. oamuel H. Beard, a well-known lawyerof Leesburg, 0., committed suicide by throwing himself under a train. He Was cru shed into a shapeless mass. William and Levi Hudson, owners of a stone quarry mill at Spiceland, think they have discovered iron ore- on their ground' and are arranging to test its value. Two colored patrolmen at Evansville have been assigned to the patrol wagon because the commissioners consider it dangerous to place them on regular patrol duty.

Incendiarism caused the destruction of Robert Hunt’s barn, with $3,800 loss, and the barn owned by Mrs. Hannah Montgomery, with $2,100 loss; both in Jackson county. Rev. George Schwartz, born in Clark county June 13, 1802, and the oldest native Indianian at the time of his death, died at Jeffersonville on the 12th inst. He was also the oldest active minister in the State. Nathan Huddleston, of Dublin, an old gentleman, had SI,OOO in bank bills and coin concealed in his house. The other evening while the family were absent, the house was entered and the money stolen. Lamasco, the proposed name for Evans, ville, was made by Macall, Law and Scott, who in laying out an addition to the city, took the first two letters of Law and Macall’s names and the first three of Scott’*

Forty employes in the Greene township gravel pits of Jay county went upon a striae for higher wages, and after choosing a leader they camped near at hand and forcibly prevented other men from taking their places.

There are five townships in Dubois county in which, it is said, no Republican tickets were ever distributed until the last campaign. Many of the voters of the region had never seen a Republican “ballot before 1888.

Johnny Hale, aged eight, near Marion, wandered off with gypsies five years ago, and on Wednesday be was identified by Jacob Weikle, near Elkhart, and restored to his parents. The boy was in rags, and glad to return. William Dawson, the shoemaker astronomer, of Spiceland, died on the 12, aged about fifty-seven years. He had been an invalid and unable to do any work for several years, although he continued his studies and writings until his last sickness. A disastrous fire early Sunday morning destroyed half the town of Shipshewana, ten miles west of La Grange. The loss is $75,000, by the burning of four stores, the church, saloon and livery stable. Several residences were consumed. Incendiarism is suspected. , Horace CL Douglass, who in March, 1887, while postmaster at Plainfield, embezzled $249.18 belonging to the, offico, was committed to the Hamilton county jail for six months by Judge Woods and fined the amount he embezzled. Douglass has always claimed that politics got him into trouble.

Presley Brewer, a Green county farmer, put bis pocket-book, containing SlO3, at the foot of a tree. A cow ate the expensive luncheon thus offered. Cash is plenty in this locality, and Mrs. Albert Giluder put (550 in a stove. The Government repaid the amount upon presentation of the remains at the treasury. The postoffice at Edinburg was entered, the sass cracked and the money boxes carried into a common nearby broken open with a sledge-hammer and robbed of 14,000 2-cent stamps, 3,700 1-cent stamps, and (343 in cash. Night watchman Thomas Brown same upon four men just as they had finished their work, but they all escaped with the booty. Posey county farmers, controlling 500 acres, contracted to furnish melons weighing in excess of eighteen pounds at five cents each, and the agreement proved prof liable both to the fanners and contractor

The farmers realized $15,000. The value of the entire harvest in the county reached $27,500, besides what was retained for home consumption. The of Eli Beekman, of Bans quo, was bitten through the wrist by a dog several years ago. During the present week symptoms of hydrophobia were apparent, and the young lady was placed under restraint, to prevent injury to herself or attendants. Thursday qn improved 1 condition was noticeable, and her recovery is slightly hoped for. j. The Chicago & Atlantic railway was sold at commissioners’ sale at Indianapolis on the 12th for $5,000,000. The purchasers represent stockholders, and it will be reorganized in the interest of the Erie road. It cago and a through line to New York. The road runs from Marion, Q., to Chicago, a distance of 249 miles. •

One of the interesting features advertised for the old settlers’ celebration at Monticello on the 30th of this month is the election of officers of the association ih. accordance with the new Australian ballot law of this State. Booths will be erected on the ground, and the election will be held strictly in accordance with the provisions of the law. The comparative report of the Board of State Charities for the last quarter has just been issued. The report shows that the total cost of the State benevolent, reform and penal institutions was during the quarter for maintenance, $198,787.26; for construction, $66,635.27; a total for three months of $265,422.53. Earnings reduce: the total expenses to $216,115.08. , Fatents were granted Indiana inventors to-day as follows: J. Bogle and J. S. C. Sowar, Brazil, freight car; R. R. Bright, Indianapolis, dumb waiter; C. W. Clark, Mishawaka, plow; H/B. Doolittle, Dooittle’s Mills, gate; d. S. Faulkner, Indianapolis, steam 'actuated Valve; G. W. Rathsam, Indianapolis, flower-pot machine; I. S. Schrop, South Bend, meter, record; C. F. Walters and P. Shellenback, Richmond, roller-mill. The indications now are that Robert Me naugh, trustee of Monroe township, Carroll county, is short in his accounts about He has not been seen since Wednesday of: last week, when he boarded a west-boundj train. He was considered a man of unimj peachable character, and his alleged defal-l cation creates a great sensation. Menaugh' was an officer in the Seventeenth Ohio Regiment, and his bondsmen are old army comrades. He leaves a fine farm in his wife's name.

Unknown scoundrels “rotten-egged” the rpoidpncc of Rev. Frederick Berg, pastor of the German imtnerau CUurcn m the Fuelling settlement, Root Township Adams county. The animus is due to the' expulsion of several members whose conduct necessitated dismissal from the church. Mr. Berg has been pastor for nine years, and is highly regarded.

Johnny Hale was stolen from his home, at Marion, five[y ears ago by Gypsies. .The parents of the lad, after searching for him diligently, finally gave him up as lost forever. Monday the boy applied to Joseph Weikol, near Elkhart, for aid, saying tlffit the Gypsies were maltreating him. The parents at Marion were wired that their boy was found, and by this time he has been restored to them.

William Von Busse, a citizen of Princeton, Gibson county, was shot through the heart and killed by his step-son, Holliday, Monday afternoon. The trouble grew out of the fact that Von Busse was under'the nfluence of liquor, and was abusing his wife, the boy’s mother. The father was remonstrated with, but it seemed to increase his anger and he drew a butcher knife on his wife. The boy then'shot him dead. Holliday gave himself up to the authorities and is now in jail awaiting the coroner’s verdict. It is the general opinion that he was justified in what he did. The following Indiana cantons and in dividuals were awarded prizes at the Chicago I! Q. O. F. triennial cantonment:: Canton Marion, Ist prize, Class A $1,500 OO Canton Indianapolis, 4th prize, Class A. 300 OO Captain Gunder, 2d prize, Class A _ 80 OO Captain Chase. Sd prize, Class A 50 OO Canton Elwood, Ist prize, Class B 900 OO Captain Nezum, Ist prize, Classß 90 00 Canton Kiser, Ist prize, Class D 500 00 Canton Thompson, Ist prize, Class D.... 800 00> Captain Marsh, Class D 30 00 Captain Wise (individual), Class D. 7. 75 (A Chevalier Winter (individual), ClasssD. 75 OO Total prizes $3,9C0 OO

Dr. Joseph G. Rogers, who is getting the Evansville Insane Asylum ready for the reception of patients on the 20th, tells a reporter that the stories about a lack of water are unfounded. In the first place there are a number of cisterns .for the reception of rain water, fordrinking and cooking; secondly, there is a deep artesian well, furnishing a supply of salt water for bathing purposes, and third, there are two large driven wells which will furnish thousands of gallons of good frefch water daily for steam and other purposes. He says the water supply is ample, and there is no necessity to tap the city mains. Republican leaders have carefully com-, piled statistics from their , poll books,, which they assert prove conclusively that in Indiana 98 per cent, of the preachers, 72> per cent, of the physicians, 69 per cent, of the lawyers, 75 per cent, of the teachers, 75 per cent, of the merchants, and 90 per cent, of the traveling men are Republicans. A majority of the men who own farms to rent, says the same authority, are Republicans, yrtiile a majority of the men who live on rented farms are Democrats, Prohibitionists will say these figures are not. reliable—at least not as to preachers, who are, to a large, extent, Prohibitionists.

The differences between the leaders of the Greenback party in this State will certainly culminate on the 27th inst. Frank: 11. Pillet, of Indianapolis, and Richard Gregg, of Aurora, both claim to be chairman of the State Central Committee. Mr. Gregg was chairman when the Greenback party was in its prime, but it was alleged that he did not show enough activity, not even calling a meeting" of the committee: for the last two or three years. Because of this, Chairman George O. Jones, of the National Committee; appointed Mr. Pillet Chairman of the State Committee. Mr. Gregg declines to recognize Pillet’s authority. Pillet, however, rather has the upper hand at present, as he is in possession of all the books and records of the party, the old Secretary having come over to his side.