Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1891 — Page 2

fgc|rafcfiratt. Gko. E. Mimttx, Publisher. RENSSELAER. - INDIANA

* Thb public will not be iurpriigd at ithc news that the young Emperor of (Germany has fallen out with his moth* me. He no longer permits her to lake any prominent part in court functions, and although his wife, the Empress, expects soon to retire for a season, the mperor shows a disposition to be his own ‘leading lady" rather than per. mit his mother to appear in that capacity. The next manifestation will be awaited with interest. When afi young man sendS his mother to the rear he is not getting ahead very fast himself. ! Few people in this country know that within the last months a great fair has been held at Tashkcnd. the capital of Russian Turkestan. The exhibition included the display of products of the vast central Asian region and was in many ways a remarkable enterprise. Perhaps Its chief interest, however, lies in the evidence it gave of the oriental submission to Western influence. An endeavor to consummate such an enterprise twenty years ego met with ridiculous failure. Now. with the increase of interrelationships It has been carried through successfully, the Turks Slowly acceding to the propositions of the dominant raceswhich are gradually extending their •way, together with their railroads, into the darkest oi tho unonlightene 1 nations. A naval officer has made an esti* mate a 9 to the growth of tho naval strength of the powers. According to his figures there will be 'SOO armor clads in existence by 1895. Of this number Great Britain has 166, France 62, Germany 60, Italy 116 and Russia 35. If the proportion is preserved it will bo 6een that Gr at Britain will •till hold the supremacy of tho seas for some time to come. According to Secretary Tracy’s report, tho Unitod States has four armored vessels of the first rate, five of the second rate and one of the third. Evidently naval warfare U the last thing for us to engage in. Our new vessels, of which the Maine is foremost, are models in their way, but they are outnumbered seven to one by the weakest of the great powers. Tire greatest engineering feat, in the history o! the anthracite coal mining Is about to begin in Pennsylvania. It Is the commencement of what will be known as the Jeddo tunnel, toba dri’ - . en for the purpose of draining the flooded mines of Jeddo and Haririgh. ft will be constructed from Butler Valley to the bottom of Ebervalo Mammath Vein, a distance of three miles, through solid rock, to be eight feet square in the clear. The scheme of tunneling through the mountain first occurred to John’Markie, the Hazle ton coal king, who is to bg president of the company, which will bear the title of Jeddo Tunnel Company. Limited. It will open an almost inexhaustible supply of coal and will furnish employment for thousands of people for many years to come. It will s’s- serve the double purposeof draining all the colleries in the valley, The excitement over the threatened Indian uprising in the far West haextended across the ocean to Euro or, and the interest aroused there by the somewhat highly-colored reports ca bled over was taken advantage f in an interesting and amusing wsy by a smart American now engaged in llu •how business in England. 'lnis waMexican Joe. an associate of Buffalo Bill, who some time ago start d n Wild West show on his own account, and has been exhibiting in Liverpool Jor some time p*st with a band f cowboys and Indian t, depicting thrill Ing episodes of alleged life on the Western frontier. Business wa3 get ting duli, and the attendance at tae exhibitions was not so satisfactory as could be desired, when the Indian scare came to the rescue. A couple of weeks ago Mexican Joe had the city of Li - - erpool placarded with flaming Pesters, headed in letters a foot long “blood en the Moon," which stated that the following Saturday would positively he the last night of his exhibition, as he and his band had been orce-ed back to the United States to fight die hostile Indians. Crowds flocked to see ‘ho prospective heroes who v>-e soon u> face the savage redskins in dreadful warfare, and buricess during the week fairly boomed. On Saturday, as announced, the band broke tvunp and moved out during the night, out taeir orders to proceed to tho s«at of war were dvidently countermaded. for a few days later the show opened np •gain on the opposite outskirts of the city, and is still running ther„, probably expecting orders from the United Government to go West.

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Business Is reported good throughout the country. - Four fatal affray, occurred at Kansas City on the 25th. Dr. Heinrich Schlieman, the famous archaeologist, is dead. Forty below sere was the record of Lyn donville, Vt., on the 36th, Incendiaries have been trying to burn the -Town of Dead wood. Dak. General Spinner continues to fail. He is at Jacksonville, Fla i The census shows that there are 60,630 Jews living in this country. A San Francisco physicion is said to have discovered a cure for cancer. The Knights of Labor are seeking co-.j alitlon with the Farmers’Alliance. J v I The Bi;ou theater at Minneapolis was destroyed by fire on the 2Sth. Loss 40,000. The Kennedy House, a large hotel in Chattanooga, v. as destroyed by fire on the ■tpsr The town of Oselia, Mich., consisting of 18 houses, was totally destroyed by fire on the 33d. - A mother and three children lost their lives in a burning building at Rochester, N. Y.,on the 2011 • Aid is asked for the Alahama miners who are on a strike. They are said to be suffering from’ hunger. ' , Two students at Ann Arbor, Mich., Christmas day, while skating, broke through the ice and were drowned. A meeting of tho manufacturers and Jtbbers of the plate glass trade will be held at Pittsburg in the near future. ,✓ 1 Agigan 1c c « spiracy to flood the United States with counterfeit silver dollars has been uncart in <1 by the Pittsburg police. David Baird, owner of the Woodpatch stock farm, Springfield Center, N. Y., and • qfleneer breeder of trotting horses, is dead The temperature at Lydonville, Vt, on theflflr, was 30 degrees below zero. Ice on the Kennebec at Augusta, Me., is from 6 to B inches thick. Kean. the Chicago banker who failed ast week, has been.detected in what may prove to be perjury. The affairs of the bank are in bad shape. John Galiigan and John Johnson, two miners, have boen held up near Salina, Colo., and robbed of $6,000 in gold, which they had just secured from prospects near by. A Dakota justice has ruled that Ignatius Donnelly’s “Cryptogram' l is a meritorius work, and that the cipher can be found in I Shakespeare’s plays, as claimed in the book. Dr. M. A. Dauphin, a native of Lorraine, for twenty years president of the Louisiana lottery company, died athis resi. donee in New Orleans on the 28th, aged fiftysthreo. A three-year old child of Dr. R. A. Bak. er, at Ness City-, Kansas wanderod away from friends onto the prairie, and before it could be found bad perished from cold ! and hunger. The will of the late Charles H. Allen, of Glendale, 0., has been probated. It gives $60,000 for tho purpose of founding a school at that place in which the tenets of the Sweden borgian faith shall be taught. At I’ostoria, 0., three highwaymen im personated officers, arrested Frank Myers •nd robbed him of $1,300. Myers resisted after bo found he had been victimized and was knocked senseless. The ci-acker trust is to erect an eno « mous factory in New York. This trust is ! a, combination of all-the principal biscuit bakers in the United States, particularly tho Eastern, Middle and Centra! States. The Nursery stables of the late August Belmont were sold on the 27th. Mike Dwyer bought Potomac at $25,000 and Raceland at $>.009. Phil Dwyer paid $5,000 for Prince Royal. Tho Hough Brothers bought La Tasea for $13,000, Amount of total sales, nearly SIOO,OOO. The weekly report of New York’s mor< lality shows the largest namber of deaths during any one WOfek fiver recorded there , save when the yellow fever prevailed in j epidemic form twelve years ago—236. In j the opinion of prominent physicians the i large death rate is due to the prevalence of the grip, of which there aro nearly 30.C0J cases under treatment. Count Parisi, whose death occurred at San Diego on Thursday, and whose death was followed by the attempted suicide of his wife, came from a noble family in Aus- I tria. His father formerly occupied apo I sition of state in the Austrian empire. He was forced to retire on account of the burden of years, but he still stands at the head oi one of the foremost banking houses of Austria. • The hull of a steamer, designed for South American waters, built at Elizabeth, Pa., is about to be shipped to New York, and over thirty cars will be required for that purpose. It is now being taken apart and loaded on the cars. It will ply on the river Magdalena. From New York it will be shipped to Barranquilia, nearthe mouth of the Magdalena. There it will beset up and launched. | The President on Friday appointed E. Darwin James, of New York, and Philip C. Garrett, of Pennsylvania, to be membersof the Board of Indian Commission* ers. vice W. H. Morgan, resigned, and Clinton B. Fisk, deceased. He also appointed Joseph W. Paddock, of Nebraska, to be a government director of the Union Pacific railroad company, vios James W. Savage, deceased. ——7 Cuch storms of sand dust as are prevails ing at Bloomington, Illinois, hss never been known at this season of the year. No rain has fallen for months. The wind has blown strong and continuous for several days and the dust and sand lay in deep drifts in the ditches like snow. The streams aro drying up rapidly and scarcity 0* water is occasioning great inconvenience among the farmers. The new anti-kidnapping league’s nation - al committee on the 29th issued an address from New York to the public stating that many sane persons have been proved in court lately to be illegally imprisoned in lunatic asylums, and that such imprisons m rnt is easily inflicted and to escape from. They say that rich people Whose property is coveted, and persons whose •pomes wish to get rid of them are specially l.ae.e to kidnapping. A dispatch from Martin's Ferry says:

■ Martin** Ferry has a woman who has accomplished something that Signor Sued, the faster, cannot do. She is Mrs. Timothy Callahan, seventy years old, and she has lived on milk and tea for four months, or 122 days. Her son Dennis says that for sev» en years he never saw his mother eat‘a bite of bread. This abstinence was not on account of poverty, but, stomach trouble. Mrs. Callahan has sever; children. She is active and is able to do housework every day. ——— An accident occurred at the Chicago Stock Yardson the 23d in which two men were instantly killed and several fatally Injured. The of on old packing house? the property of Armour & Co., was being torn down when suddenly the wall col* lapsed and fell, burying a number of men in the ruins. Mike Barry and an unknown man were taken ofit dead. Wm. Devine and John McEnery were fatally and several others severely injured. The Custom Department has imposed a fine of S2OO on the German sealing schooner Adele, which was seized at Victoria, B. C., last week. The vessel was charged with making a false clearance and failing to report on returning to Vie toria. No action was taken with regard to her cargo of sealskins which she had obtained from the rookery at St. Paul’s Island, belonging to the United States. It is held, however, by the best lawyers that the vessel can be prosecuted for bringing a contraband cargo into Canada. The fino imposed by the Department was promptly paid. The snow storm of the 25th and 26th in many places was tho heaviest for mauy years. At Albany and Utica street cars were stopped, a regular blizzard pre vailed at Portland, Me. Thursday was the coldest night of the season at Buffalo. A tremendous Chinook prevailed in the vicinity of Pierre, S. D. Ihere was from twelve to fifteen inches of snow throughout Missouri. About twenty inches of mow fell at Pittsburg, stopping street cars. Business at Wilkesbarre was par tially suspended and all trains are late. ' —— FOREIGN. ’ " Berlin has a population of 1,574,485, an increase of 359.000 in five years. "" Two hundred lives were lost by the burning of the steamship Shanghai, near Woo Hoo, China. The result of tho election in Kilkenny was as follows: Hennessy, 2,502; Scully, Parnellite, 1,356. Majority for Hennessey, 1,146. ! The Gaulois announced Tuesday that j Emperor William has decided to visit | Paris. The Emperor, according to the j Gaulois, will travel in strict incognito, and j will not take up his residence at the German embassy. Subsequently he will, according to the paper mentioned, proceed to Canes and San Remo. Further advises from China to the burnin f of the steamship Shang Hal, near Woo j Hoo, in the province of Ngan Noel, show | that the disaster was much more serious than at first imagined. It now seems that tho number of lives lost will amount to over two hundred, and that they all lost their lives by drowning; •- At a meeting of the national committee at Dublin on the 23d, Mr. Wm. M. Murphy who was in the chair, said that Parnel; had disregarded Ireland’s voice, and that it would be necessary to stop him in his mad career by every legitimate means. Tho committee decided to start a daily morning newspaper, which will be edited by Mr. CPBrien. The carriage of Archbishop Cro'ko awaited Sir John Pope Hennessy at Thurles. The arrival of Sir John in the town wss the signal for .rival demonstrations by the two factious.

THE FATE OF HIS FATHER

It la Alleged that Ha Tries to Shoot Out the Town and Gets the Worst ot It. A tragedy occurred on the principal business street of Cannelton, Miss., Christmas day at noon, in which John Prentiss Matthewes, the Republican postmaster at that place, was killed by W. S. Mcßride, a wealthy and. prominent young druggist of Cannelton. Matthewswascomingdown the street toward the drug store of McBride and armed with a Winchester rifle, when Mcßride met him and fired the fatal-hot while Matthews had his gun uplifted and was preparing to shoot. A dispatch says: The murdered man 1 was the son of John Prentiss Matth-' ews, who was killed at Hazel-hurst in 1884, and it a brother of J. M. and S. S. Matthews, the latter of whom is now U. S. Marshal for tho southern district of Mississippi. He has rendered himself very odious to the people of this community by his offensive conduct while ho has been here, as the carpet-bagger postmaster of the present administration, He has been before the officers here almost every week on various charges of drunkenness, profanity, carrying concealed weapons, assault battery and other offenses. He took possession of a passenger train en the Georgia Pacific railroad while drunk, and was only conquered by the porter and conductor boating him down and disarming him, for which he is notv under indictment in the courts of Webster and t this (Carroll) county. His administration of the postoffice here has been miserable in the extreme and public sentiment is highly inflamed at him. Mcßride is a very peaceful and quiet young man, industrious and pojplar and public sentiment is highly 1 in hisfavor,because he was goaded into the difficulty by Matthews’ conduct Boti the sheriff and mayor had remonstrated with Matthews Friday morning, but to no effect

MASONIC REOCRDS BURNED.

Disastrous Fire la the Baltimore Tempi* T Christmas day of the year 1890 would have been a comparatively uneventful day 'in Baltimore had it not been for the burning of the Masonic temple. Nearly all the records of the Grand Lodge since its or* 1 ganizatiou were destroyed. The fire brake . out in the flies of the theater on the seeond ; and third floors, which is occupied* by I Forepaugh's theatre. Scene after scene , flared tip until the curtain swelled 01st like a balloon, unable to hold the heat any ’ louger, and blew np. The fine building, j which had cost $450,000, was entirely gutted. The loss will be tery heavy.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Fort Wayne has seven dally papers. One of the suburbs of Wabash is known as “Choketown." William Sherwin, of Point Isabel, was fatally kicked by a horse. Richard Wells, of Clay county, was fatally wounded white hunting, General Manson’snew pottery company at Crawfordsville has SIOO,OOO capital. George H. Moore has been chosen mayor of Marion, vice A. E. Steele, resigned. A gas well estimated at 50,006,000 feet daily has been brought in at Hartford City. The first seal ever used by the Kosciusko county commissioners was the reverse side of a silverten-cent piece. The colored churches at Crawfordsville joined In giving a baby show, and there were twenty-two entries. Itis believed that there is oil and natural gas, in a tract of swamp land near Lagrange, and leases are being secured preliminary to experimental boring. Hog cholera in the form of an epidemic has struck Daviess county, and hundreds of fine porkers are dying. Farmers are much alarmed and fear to kill for meat. The Cincinnati wire nail company, which is building one of the largest nail plants the world at Anderson, has increased its capital stock to $300,000 and changed its name to the Hazen company. Logansport business men are circulating a petition praying for the Legislature to pass, a law for the suppression of itinerant venders of cheap goods, who move from place to place without paying taxes. Albert Ford, of Muncie, imagined that he was called as an expounder of the Gospel, and he persisted in attempting to. minister to a country church, until the con gregation prosecuted him into silence. 1 Treasurer-elect of State Albert Gall has appointed John C. Shoemaker deputy treasurer. Mr. Shoemaker was Pace. Am* ditor of State, has held county office, is acquainted with the books and forms of State business. Travis Carter and wife, of Seymour, celebrated their golden wedding on Christmas eve. Mr. Carter and bis wife have beep of Jackson county since 1820, and located in Seymour with the purchase of tho first lots. 1 John Q. Thomas was fatally burned on the night of the 24th, while playing Santa Claus at the Second M. E. Church at Marion. He approached too close to a gas jet, when his trappings took fire and in a moment he was wrapped in flames. Jacob Thenes, of Madison, died on the 22d, aged sixty-three. Some months ago ulcers began showing themselves on tis lower limbs, and these extended until they reached his vital organs, with the physicians unable to do anything in-relief. The complaint in the divorce proceedings instituted at Anderson by Maria B. Woodworth, the evangelist, against Philip H. Woodworth, whom she married in 1786, alleges cruel and abusive treatment on his part, culminating in a separation in June last. The barn belonging to Simon P. Kuhns, in Green township, Noble county, was burned by incendiarism Monday night and over 300 bushels of wheat, oorn and oats were included in the general wreck/ Kuhns is the father of Marvin Kuhns, the desperado, in jail at Fort Wayne. Two highwaymen attempted to rob tho driver of a street car at Indianapolis, on the night of 26th. The driver had been warned and when attacked drew his revolver and shot one of the men dead, and the other escaped. He has not been identified, the one killed. At a Christmas entertainment at church at Nabb’s station, near Jeffersonvilie, Thursday night, Joseph Taflinger and Bud Robinson were probably fatally wounded. The fight sprang up in the rear of the room while tho programme of the Sunday School was being carried out. . Conrad Keller, a farmer near Kellerville, was found with his skull crushed and a gun stock lying near, which the murderer had used in dashing out his brains. Suspicion fell upon James Cane, with whom the victim had quarreled during the day, and he was placed under arrest. While workmen were engaged in rebuilding the O. & M. railway bridge over White River at Shoals, Sunday, a girder was let fall which knocked a stationary derrick down on the workmen. Theodore Wiseman, aged forty-five, of North Vernon, was killed. The seriously hurt were. Lewis Long, P. W. Jackson, Isaac Little. Otis Hughes, while intoxicated and walk ing across tho Blue river bridge near English Thursday night, fell a distance qf seventy-five feet. His companions hastened down and found him sitting. They carried him home. Friday heoomplains of Btiffness in his joints, but beyond that is comparatively unhurt. In tho southwestern part of Bartholomew county and in Jackson and Scott counties • disease is raging among the horses which is very similar to that of distemper, but much more fatal. A farmer from the lnj cality mentioned reports that several fine animals have died recently from the disease and that it is especially hard on the young animals. Harley Crews, of Vincennes, a young married man of good family, is on the miss-, ing list, and it develops that he has left numerous creditors, some of whom hold paper on which Crews’s father’s name is said to be forged. Three of the banks hold about SLSOO altogether, while other parties are caught in various sums, ranging from S3OO to $2,000. During the past ten days Warsaw has been the abiding place of a large number of cats which, from their actions and appearanoe, have been adjudged mad. Jerry Kudder, an expressman, was bitten by one of the rabid animals, an exceedingly painful wound being inflicted. To guard against all possible danger all cats showing the least symptoms are forthwith shot An accident occurred at Ellettsville Monday evening that was remarkable that did not result in two deaths. Mr. and Mrs George Walden were crossing the Monon track, when a freight train at full speed struck the buggy in which they were riding, completely demolishing the running > gears and killing the two hdrses that were

attached to the vehicle. Mr. and Mrs. Walden were barely scratched, though they were thrown thirty feet from the track f Mortimer Eubanks,the old man who was on trial for being an accessory in the murder of his daughter Mary, Nov. It. changed his plea to guilty of manslaughter Tuesday morning. The case was taken from the jury and Eubanks was sentenced to the penitentiary for two years. His age and feeble coriditionhad its" effect. / His son Bee, the principal, was taken to'the penis tentiary at Jeffersonville, where he wilt spend the remainder of his worthless life. In answer to an iinquiry by the State Superintendent, Attorney General Smith Thursday, gave an opinion that children of school age who are inmates of the State Reformatory and benevolent institutions can not be legally included in the enumeration which furnishes the basis for the apportionment of the school fund. These children are given especial educational opportunities in the institution which they occupy. - Indiana inventors were issued patents on the 23d as follows: J. Biel, Terre Haute, wrench; F. Coates, Terre Haute, oil burner; A. J. Helvern, Walton, seed dropping attachment for planters; W. A. Horrell, Washington, treating wood and liber; F. B. Hunt, Richmond, bicycle; W. Macnas mara, Indianapolis, cion operated recepta-* cle; J. F. Maine, Indianapolis, mail sack crane ■ W. H. Peffe.y, Colburn, whip socket and rein holder; John Runkle, Tippecanoe, harrow; I. H. Shambaugh, Avilla, churn. A terrible fire and explosion occurred on the 23th at Plain ville, 11 town of nearly 500 inhabitants, in Daviess county. Some one placed dynamite under the large hotel and store erected by J. E. Jenkins at a cost of $5,000, and exploded it, wrecking the building and setting the ruins on fire, and the whole was destroyed. T. E. Littel‘s building and store, located close at hand, was also totally destroyed by fire. Jenkins’s hotel was the finest building in the town. It was only partially insured. Littel’s loss will aggregate nearly $3,000. Great consternation is caused in that vicinity by the calamity, and it is safe to say that if the people had their hands on the guilty parties the law of tho mob would likely prevail. James C. McGregor, one of tho best known residents of Terre Haute, and possessing an independent fortune, was killed on the 22d, whilo hunting in Vigo county. He was accompanied by William Crawford, and in searching for game the gentlemen separated. Mr. Crawford heard a shot, and sometime afterward, upon going to McGregor s carriage, he found him lying dead in tho field, with his breech loader in such a position that it was evident that he had discharged the weapon accidentally while shitting it in the vehicle. The load took effect in his stomach, killing him instantly. Rev. Mr. Pettit, in jail at Crawfordsville for wife-murder, is muscularly disposed. On Monday evening he gave a fel-low-prisoner a thrashing for taking one of his letters. The prisoners were all taking exercise in tho corridor, and a man named Von Winkle, who was serving out a sentence for stealing a shirt, asked Pettit if he could have a paper which was lying on a table in Pettit’s cell. Pettit gave permission and the old man reached through the bars and got the paper, and also a letter belonging to Pettit. Pettit noticed this, and at once proceeded to show his disapproval of such doings, and struck the man a or to in order to get back his letter. The letter was recovered, and Pettit was afterward sorry that he had hit the fellow. A telegram was received on the 24th from New Corydon, a small place in Jay county, giving details of a bloody tragedy ’ enacted there on the 23d. Wrisley Tullis, a well-known young man, thirty -years of ago, was desperately in love with Miss Virena E. Fravel, the daughter of a store keeper. Her mother objected ~Eo —tho match, however, and commanded her daughter not to receive his attentions. TuesdaymorntHg,atV o’clock, "TuTlliTeri-” tered the store kept by Mrs. Fravel, and walking up to Miss Virena, who was standing behind the counter, asked her again to marry him. The girl, acting under her mother’s orders, refused. He asked her again, but she turned to walk away, when Tullis drew a revolver and shot the girl through the heart. She dropped dead, and, walking up to her lifeless body, he placed the revolver to his head and blew out his brains. The tragedy has caused a tremendous sensation in the quiet little village. Harrison county was the scene of another brutal White Cap outrage Thursdaynight, and in this instance the cowardly night riders, not satisfied with tho brutal beating of a defenseless old man, added robbery to the crime of ku-kluxism. On the night mentioned John Cosby, who resides near Kendall’s Landing, about thirty miles below this city, on tho Ohio riven was awakened by some one knocking violently at his door. On answering tho sum mons he was seized by three masked men and dragged into the yard. Eight others then entered the house and compelled tho other members of the family to arise and going to the open air, and, though a suow storm was raging at the time, no time was allowed for them to dress. Cosby family consisted ofo his wife, sister-in-law ami two sons, all being present except one sen. All the Regulators compelled the party to walk several hundred yards in the bulw with nothing except their night clothes to protect them from the chilling winds. Reaching a small grove, the masked men tied each of their victims to trees and pro ceeded to administer a severe beating. Old man Cosby received seventy lashes on the bare back, and was left unconscious. All the others were given fifty strokes with switches. Leaving the nosfr almost dead unfortunates, marauders returned to the house, which they thoroughly ransacked but took nothing but what fire arms they could find. All the Cosbys are said to be a shiftless set of questionable characters, but this by no means justifies the severe treatment they received, After the White Caps went to the residence of James Shaf er in Scott township, Harrison county .and 1 ordered him to, make known the fact of ! the raid. Information was brought to this city by a neighbor of the Cosby family, and it is stated that the citizens ih the vicinity of the place are greatly incensed at the outrage.

THE WARISOVER.

Tnrfi.r.. Surrendertag and Balng Disarmed by Troops. - *1 '.Captain Norville, special agent, has just returned from Ft. Bennett, and reporta the Indian war there over It seems now that anybody. They have been afraid they would be massacred, or they would have comein before. After the Indians arrived at Bennett several councils of war were held- to determine whether they would give np their arms or not. Finally they agreed to when Gen. Miles' asked them. Agent Palmer said: * f No arms, no rations or blankets.” This soon brought them to time, arid all arms aro now stacked up at the agency . Capt. Hearst, commanding officer at Ft Sully, has received the capitulation of 174 Uncapapas, including seventy of Sitting Bull’s band, and fifty from Roses bud agency. Narcisse Narcello, boss farmer, brought in 412 of Big Foot’s Indians. Out of these ninety-eight stands of arms Were collected. They were nearly aU Winchesters of every description and of very antiquated pattern. Sitting Bull’s men want to remain at Chevenne, and say they are afraid to return to Standing Rock, All have surrendered and the best of care is being given them. All of the teams of the agency have been started to Duprees to bring in the sick women and children. Many of the leaders among the Indians acted very ugly in making final settle ments, and there was a great deal of quarreling among themselves. General Schofield nas received the fote lowing telegram from General Ruger, under date of St. Paul, Dec. 22d: “Big Foot, with his followers, Including some of Sitting Bull’s fugitives and those disaffected Indians in the Cherry creek district of the Cheyenne river reservation who joined Big Foot, surrendered yesterday to CoL Sumner. The rest of Sitting Bull’s people came to Cherry creek, and, with the exception of a few who may have sought under conduct to Fort Bennett for surrender. The Big Foot people will be sent to Fort Meade, and those surrendering at Bennett probably to Fort Sully. The surrender and disarmament of these two sacs tions probably ends the probability of any serious troublo with the Indians of the Cheyenne river and Standing Rook reservations, and is a good step toward ending the whole trouble.” The situation at Camp Battle Creok, 8> D., remains practically unchanged. The weather is cold and the rivers frozen solid. A company of Cheyenne scouts is encamped at the mouth of Hattie Creek. Two attempts were made on the 24th, by tho hostiles, who number about eighty, to break into their camp. The first attack was made by only a few of the Indians; who were quickly repulsed with a loss of two killed and several wounded. Three of the Chejenne Indian scouts were wounded and it is thought one is fatally hurt. A second attack was made after dark by what was supposed to be the whole band, who were led by Kicking Bear himself. Volley after volley was fired on both sides, and a desultory fire was kept up for au hour or more. It is not known how niany of the hostiles were killed; but, judging from tho reports of one of the scouts, there must have been several killed, as he says he heard several shout in the Sioux language that they were hit. ■ Troops were sent to the scene at an early hour on the 25th, and report everything quiet and no hostiles in sight. At headquarters of the department of Platte a dispatch was received from Gen. Brooks which stated that Maj. Whitesides, in command of a battalliou of the Seventh cavalry, had captured Big Foot aqd all his band near the head of Porcupine creek. About 150 bucks surrendered. Gein Brooks telegraphed that the hostiles in the Bad Lands had surrendered and would reach Pine Ridge on Tuesday. Bright Eyes sent word to the army headquarters that half those had left Bad Land and were within a few hours’ march of the agency.

NEW ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.

Judge Henry Billings Brown Scceeedi Justice Miller, The President, Tuesday, sent to theSen* ate the following nomination: HENRY B. BROWN, of Michigan, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, vice Samuel F. i Miller, deceased. I Henry Billings Brown was born at Lee, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, March 2, 1836; he graduated from Yale College in 1856, and traveled in Europe for a year. Upon returning to the United States he studied law .at Yale and Harvard law schools, and was admitted to the bar at Detroit, Mich., 1860. For several years Mr. Brown was Assistant United States Attorney, and was then circuit judge of Wayne county, Michigan, by appointment. In 1876 President Grant appointed Mr. Brown United States District Judge for the eastern distrlot of Michigan. Judge Brown has traveled abroad many times. He is the compiler of a volume of Admiralty Reports (New York, 1875.) Geo. Simpson, a young fanner, was re* turning home from Anderson in a buggy Wednesday night and went to sleep. Two miles distant, at Bell’s Crossing a Big Four freight train struck the buggy, res ducing vehicle to splinters. The train ran nearly a half mile before It could be stopped. When the fireman went forward he found Simpson curled up in the buggy top on the pilot of the locomotive, still asleep and unharmed. He had a marriage license in his pocket, and, upon being awakened, went home afoot. The wedding came off at the appointed time. N. P, Applecate, a .farmer living near Alaska, Morgan county, oexibited a flue ripe watermelon at Martinsville, Tuesday. He planted the seed near an old straw* stack May 14,1890, and August 15 had ripe melons, and still has enough left to last until New Years. Eating ripe melons from the vine in Morgan county’ on Da eember 25 is an unusual occurrence for tbit latitude.