Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1891 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. Gkogk E. Marshall, Publisher. RENSSELAER INDIANA

Thx recent great naval battles in Chili makes one feel chilly. ■ " 1 «' m ■' l ■ ' A wise son knoweth his own papa, a smart daughter findeth out her own popper. - . - - The recent Florida Legislature consisted of ninety-nine Democrats and one Republican. The Odd Fellows of Indiana jire said to pay out sl9 every hour in benefits, relief, etc. About the only thing the aristocracy of England seems to be good for is to aristoc., gamble and get drunk. The disclosures in the Cumming trial have not advanced the in. terests of useless “nobility" to any Extsat.- ~ A swarm of bees settled in the cab of a moving engine near Huntingdon, Pa, the other day. The train was stopped and the bees given pos* session. A long line of freight trains was blocked a considerable time un j til the owner ot the bees came and removed his property. In a recent application in court Pittsburg for a liquor license the charge was made that the applicant was a gambler and the license ought to be refused. The attorney for the applicant said: “I call your attention to the fact, your honor, that the Prince of Wales also gambles.’’ “Then," said the Judge, “he could not get a liquor license in this court." Few people have au idea how densely populated India is. In Ben-—gaUhereds-an average of 474 persons to every square mile, or upon one-twenty.third part of the area of the United States there are nine million more people than in the whole of this Republic. In the purely agricultural region of Oude there are 442 persons to the square mile. The density of this population can be imagined when it is stated that a square mile of agricultural land in England gives employment to only fifty men and women.

• The Prince of Wales cut a sorry figure in the recent suit of Lord Cumming for damages against several members of the “upper ten’ who had accused him of cheating at cards. The Prince, it was shown, was the “banker” and chief gamblei of the gang. Several so-called ladies were also in the game. Lord Cumming was found guilty of the charges of his one-time friends, but the great* est development of the trial was th< showing that British aristocracy is anything but a credit to decent England.

Within the past two years many thousands of. Italians have left the Mediterranean ports for Brazil, the Government of which country offered them all sorts of inducements to settle in it. They were assured that in Brazil they could get land at nominal prices on long credit, that they could raise Brazilian products with easy labor, that they could find employment on the public works, and even that they could procure loans ol money from the appropriations mads by the Government in their interest. Of course, nearly all of them whe were thus induced to take ship for Brazil have met with disappointment there. They could not get land on the terms that had been published: they could not Jfind the work that had been promised, and they could not get any part of the funds that had been appropriated for their assistance. Last year, those ot the Italians in Brazil who found that they could no longer live under the hardships to which they were subjected, sought for assistance from Italy to return there, and many of them have gone back within the year. Nearly a thousand of them arrived at an Italian port a few days ago, carrying melancholy reports of their Brazilian experiences. It is not likely that Brazil will hereafter be a favorite resort for Italians who desire to change their country.—N. Y. Sun.

The Kaiser at Wartburg.

Rumors come from Berlin which place the versatile Kaiser in yet an other light. This time it is as a pietist that his many-sided majesty is about to appear on the scene. He is on the point of making a “retreat,” so it is said, to the historic castle ol Wartburg, where Luther distnguished himself by hurling an inkpot at the’devil’s head. Here William II will shut himself up for retirement for a day or two, hoping, possibly, tc emulate Luther’s achievement.

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

There were three su lei dee in Ne'e York •n the 14th. Italian immigration to thi* country shows a large failing off. James D. Colgate on the 17th gave one million dollars toCoigate University, New York. The College of New Jersey has received in gifts during the past year more than 4100,000. Robert Packard and wife, of New Harthave a family of twenty-nine living children. .... Frit/. Emmett, the German dialect cornmedian, died at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, N. Y., on the 15th. Gen. Grosvenor has tendered his resignation as chairman of the immigration committee to visit Europe. Fail River, CM ass.) mill owners are discussing the question of reducing the wages of their 22,000 employes. •Seabright. N. J., a favorite summer resort, was almost entirely destroyed by lire oo'tlie 17th. Loss, 4300.000. James L. Edwards, a well known actor, committed suicide at Chicago When he heard of his mother’s death. Both British and American naval vessels haVegoee to Behring Sea for the purpose of protecting the seals. Two retired sea captains left Boston on the 18th for a race to England and back, cacti in a small boat fifteen feet long. Gas escaped from a broken pipe in the jail at Yonkers* N. Y., on the 17th, and three of the prisoners were asphyxiated. Investigation shows that what was thought to be the heart of the Staked Plains is iii reality a fertile farming country. “ John Daugherty and George McKee, tax collectors, of Wilmington, Del., are alleged to be SIOO,OOO and SIB,OOO short, respectlively. _____ Motion fora new trial in the case of Gl'audi. convicted at New Orleans of attempted jury bribery in the Henuessy case has been overruled. Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania, vetoed the compulsory education bill passed by the last Legislature a few' days before its adjournment. Secretary Blaine is improving in health. Ho will remain at Bar Harbor all summer. President Harrison spent from the 18th to the 22d at Cajte May Point with his family. Gen. John Schofield, Commander-in- j Chief of the U. S, army, was married on the lothto Miss Georgia Kifboimie, at Keokuk, la. The groom is aged 70 and the bride £6. The World’s Fair management has sent an embassador to Spain for the purpose of having built three ships the exact counterpart of the fleet of Columbus, which will be exhibited at the exposition. A fast express train on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul railroad plunged into the Coon river, near Boone, lowa, on the 17th, killing one person, fatally injuring three and wounding from twelve to fifteen. At the municipal election at Portland Ore., W. S. Mason, Citizens’ candidate for mayor, was elected by a majority of more than two thousand votes over ex-Con-gressman M.C. George, the regular Republican nominee. Brown Cundiff and a man named Turner, while crossing the Big Four railroad, in East Hillsboro, 111., Tuesday evening, in a wagon, were struck by the engine of the west-bound passenger train and fatally Injured. The two horses were killed instantly and the wagon torn to pieces, The United States Treasurer's statement issued on the 13th shows that the cash balance is $44,415,000, of which $22,029,000 is on deposit with national banks and $20,250,000 is in fractional silver, deducting which items, the net cash balance is but $1,235,000, which is the lowest figure yet reached. r August Belmont, an agent of the Rothschilds, has been instructed to close a deal by which the latter will, in September next, take possession of the great Anacon - da copper mine. The price to be paid is stated at between $20,000,000 and $25,000,000. The purchase by the Rothschilds is said to bo for a foreign syndicate. As & resuit of the prosecution of the saloon-keepers of Tacoma, Wash., by the Anti-Saloon Association, not a saloon was open on the 14th. The saloon-keepers after being convicted decided to have enforced the entire Sunday closing law, which forbids ar.y kind of business being done except that of undertakers, livery stables and hotels. The Pennsylvania railroad finds it difficult to settle with those who lost relatives in the Hagerstown wreck last winter, and several widows have been offered from three to five thousand dollars each by way of compromise, but all have refused the offers and have indicated that they will bring suit for SIO,OOO each against the Pennsylvania road unless better offers are made them. While several small girls were wading barefootied in the Schuylkill river near Parker's Ford, Pa., Frank Bixbee came along and said he was going to teach them how to swim. He seized two girls, one under each arm. and w aded out into the water beyond his depth. One of the girls escaped from his clutches, but Bixbee and Jennie Kncrr, aged ten, sank and both were drowned. Bixbee, it is thought, was intoxicated.

FOREIGN.

A conflict between British and Portugese colonist?, in which seven Portugese were killed, took place in South Africa. The British loss is unknowu. The total cost to Sir William Gordon Cumming of his baccarat scandal suit was $12,500. It Is reported that President Hyppolite, pf Hayti, has been snot and killed by an insurgent ——--——U-r A malignant disease resembling la grip is ravaging the Magdalen Islands, the natives dying by Hundreds. At Liverpool, Thursday, prior to the sailing of the steamship City of Chieago, a test rocket fired from the deck flew among a number of cabin passengers, two of whom were so seriously, injured that they had to be taken to a hospital. The Paris Figaro prints telegrams from

London and Berlin which assert that tl* Prince of Wales has determined to r» nounce his rights to the throne in favor o his eldeet son, and that he will resign hi: commission* in the army. The, source a these remarkable predictions is notstated and they are not given any credence whatever. A letter from Cal abarren the west coast of Africa, gives the account of horribli cases of cannibalism in the district oi Bayong, a short distance in the interior It appears that the inhabitants of the village of Aro, In that regfon, having beet reduced to utter destitution by the raid* of neighboring tribes, compelled even family among them each to give up oni child to be killed for food.

TO STOP SEAL KILLING.

President Harrison Issues Hit Proclamation Relative Thereto. The Agreement in Fall Between the Unitec States and Great Britain—Beneficent Results From it Are Expected. —The President on the 15th issued thefol. lowing proclamation: “Whereas, An agreement for a modus vivendi, between the Government of thi United States and the Government of Her Brittanic Majesty, in relation to the fui seal fisheries in Behring Sea was concluded on the 15th day of June, in the year oi our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one. word for word, as follows: Agreement between the Government ol the United States and the Government oi Her Brittanic Majesty for a modus vivendi in relation to the iur seal fisheries in BehrfngSea. For the purpose of avoiding irritating differences, and with the view of promoting the friendly settlement of thequestions pending between the two governments, touching theirrespective rights in Behring Sea, and for the preservation of the s >:il species, the following agreement is mack without prejudice to the rights of either party: 1. Her Majesty’s Government will prohibit until May next seal killing in that part of Behring Sea lying eastward of the line of Demarcation described in Article No. 1 of the treaty of 1867 between the United States and Russia, and will promptly use its best efforts to insure the observance of this prohibition by British subjects and vessels. 2. The United States Government will prohibit seal killing for the same period in the same part of Behring sea and on the shores ana islands thereof, the property ol the United States (in excess of 7.750 to be taken on the islands for the subsistence and care of the natives), and will promptly use its best efforts to insure the observance of this prohibition byUnited States citizens and vessels. 3. Every vessel or person offending against this prohibition in said waters ol Behring sea outside of the ordinary territorial limits of the United States may be seized and detained by the naval, or the duly commissioned officers of either high contracting parties, but they shall be handed over as soon as practicable to the authorities of the nation to which they respectively belong, whichshall have jurisdiction to fry the offense and impose the penalties for the same. The witnesses and proofs necessary to establish the offense shall also be sent with them. 4. In order to facilitate such proper inquiries as Her Majesty’s Government desires to make with a view to the presentation of the case of that government before arbitration, and in expectation that an agreement for arbitration may be arrived at, it is agreed that suitable persons designated by Great Britain will be permitted at any time upon application to visit or to remain upon the seal islands during the present sealing season for the purpose. Signed and sealed in duplicate at Washington, this 15th day of June, 1891, on behalf of their respective governments by William E. Wharton, acting Secretary oi State of the United States, and Sir Julian Paunceforte. K. C. 8.. Her Majesty’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. [seal] William F. Wharton, [seal] Julian Pauncefolpce. Now therefore, be it known that I, Benjamin Harrison. President of the United States of America, have caused the said agreement to be made public, to the end that the same and every part thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States of America and the citizens thereof. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. —Done—at the City of Washington, this 15th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninetyone, and the independence of the United States the one hundredth and fifteenth. ] seal] Benjamin Harrison. By the President. William F. Wharton, acting Secretary of State. The arrangement indicated in the abovt proclamation was carried to completion, with a degree of speed without precedeni in the history of the State departinent.and the cable was relied upon to an unwonted extent. The agreement was signed Monday morning by Sir Julian Paunceforte and Mr. Wharton, and the presidentia proclamation was issued as quickly as it couid be prepared. The Navy Department has also been advised of the progress and orders are now in preparation for the immediate dispatch of probably two naval vessels from San Francisco to Alaska where they will assist the three revenut cutters in the task of driving off the packing vessels. It will be noticed that tht agreement authorizes the United States vessels to seize offending British vessel} which, however, are to be turned over k the British authorities for trial, and thil feature of the agreement is expected te prove of great value In the pressing emer genev, that is held to exist, of clearing ou* the law-breaking vessel before irrepar able damage has been done to the sea fisheries.

A CLOUD BURST.

Fifty Lives Lost in Mexico In a Flood** Mine. A terrible catastrophe occurred on Sunday last near the mining city of Cotorece in the Stato of San Luis Potosi, Mexico A cloud burst on Concepcion mountain and a great stream poured down the mountain side, sweeping everything in its way The habitations occupied by the miner! were swept away and the tunnel of Guadalupe mines filled with water, drown Inf several miners who were working inside A number of people living in cliff dwellings were buried alive. At Lacruces anc* El Potrero, on oue side of the mountain and Los Catorcce on the other, fifteen dead bodies have been recovered and there are believed to be many more. The mining companies’ losses are heavy. Large quantities of high-grade ore were carried away by the flood at the Conception property, Hundreds of pack animals were drowned and roads destroyed. These are the meager detail so far received from this remote district, though people knowing the locality believe there must have been as least fifty lives lost

OHIO STATE CONVENTION.

Two Thousand Buckeyes Jubilate at the State Capital. itlcKinlcy Unanimously and Enthusiastically Nominated for Governor— The Platform. The most critical campaign in the history of Ohio politics opened on the 16th when the gavel fell on one of the largest and most enthusiastic Republican conventions the Buckeye Commonwealth has ever known. The importance of the result of this campaign, not only to the State but to the Nation, is fully realized by the typical Ohio man to-day, and all the artifices and devices known to modern politics will doubtless be exerted by both parties to win a favorable verdict from the people in November next. With the election of Governor Campbell to the gubernatorial chair, two years ago, the Democrats won a most decisive victory in the Buekeye State, and the struggle which the Republicans have now begun to redeem Ohio will only be equaled by the herculean efforts which the Democracy of the State, and Nation will exert to retain the vantage already won. It is felt, though no one explains why, that as Ohio goes this year so it will go in the presidential election of 1892, and it is this feeling which, with many, amounts almost to conviction, that makes this convention an event, as its temporary chairman said, which will make history in this greatcommonvealth. The nomination of William McKinley, cx-Congressman and author of the tariff law, for the high office of Governor, has been a foregone conclusion for some time, and made the convention, which opened with so much enthusiasm and good feel, ing, rather a love-feast than one of those contentious political gatherings which engender strife and ill will so fatal to parity success. The renominution by the Democrats of Gov. James E. Campbell for another term is also a prediction safely warranted by the signs in the political sky, and the contest for the next four months will be between McKinley and Campbell, the candidates for the other State offices being almost lost from sight in the great interest which centers in the leaders. To the casual observer the opening scenes of the convention presented more the appearance of a Blaine-Foraker ratification meeting than an ordinary State convention. It Is how no secret that exGovernor Foraker aspires to succeed the Hon. John Sherman in the United States Senate, and the young men who are his followers dominated the convention. In a like degree the young Republicans appeared to be devoted to James G. Blaine, yet the ovation which greeted the mention of the services of the distinguished Secretary of State was by no means confined to the younger element, old men, men grizzled and gray, and evidently retiring when met in the busy world, forgot their age and dignity as they joined in the, wild acclaim provoked by the name of Blaine, and waved their hats joyously while shouting over and over again the name of the popular leader. But President Harrison and Senator Sherman aje still dear to the hearts of the average Ohio man, as the uproarious applause which greeted the mention of their names amply testified. Particularly was this true of Senator Sherman,.: who, however much Biair.a might have led H; rr son in popular approval, shared almost equally with Foraker the plaudits of the Ohio Republicans. The second day’* proceedings of the Ohio convention were opened with prayer. Gen. Asa Bushnell was made permanent chairman. Hon. ffm. McKinley was nominated for Governor by ex-Governor Foraker amidst howling enthusiasm, the ex-Govcrnor himself being received with great applause. His nominating speech was of some length, and was seconded by Robcrt Hart, colored. With one wild, hilarious cheer of affirmation. the convention then declared Major McKinley nominated for Governor by acclamation, and a committee was appointed to apprise him of bis nomination, and escort him to the hall. His appearance was thesignal for another outburst of enthusiasm. The hero of the day received his honors modestly, Simply bowing his acknowledgments he spoke as follows: M’KINLEt’S SPEECH. I accept the nomination you have tendered me. sensible both of the honor and responsibility it implies. The election this year is of unusual importance, not only because it determines the political character of the administration of the State, but because it involves the choice of a Legislature whose duty it will be to elect a United States Senator who will continue for six years from March 4, 1893. and whoso furtherduiy it will be to re-district the State for Representatives in Congress under the new census, and wipe from the statute books the crime against Republican suffrage perpetrated by the present Democratic Legislature. Happily we present a party in Ohio without a division in its ranks, without a break in its lines. * * * The platform indorses a protective tariff. We have protected American products and Amorican labor. So long as foreign products can be found to tax, which compete with our own, in our market, we propose to tax .them rather than tax our own. The Democratic party proposes to tax the domestic product rather than the imported. Their tariff legislation would benefit every country but our own. We follow in our tariff policy the teachings of Washington, and Hamilton, and Clay, and Webster, and Lincoln, and Garfield. They pursue the. fallacies of Cobdon, and Bright, , and Calhoun and the statesmen of the late Southern confederacy. They are pledged bow to impede, if they can, the prosperity of the country until after the next presidential election. That is their mission this year. Business disasters and reverses are the ladder of their hopes. Prosperity and contentment among the people bring them sure political defeat. Idle furnaces, dismantled factories, silent mines, unemployed workingmen, general distress are the sure harbingers of Democratic victory. They are discouraging industrial activity through their press and orators everywhere and every day, and it breaks their hearts to see a manifestation of industrial advancement in the United States. They sneer at every attempt to establish new factories, and would gladly frown them down. It is the sneer and frown which have been exhibited toward our industrial enterprise* since 1861. But in spite of them we now lead the world in manufactures, agriculture and mining, and we will prosper, under the new law In spite of their raise omens and discouraging prophesies. They insist that we can not make tin-plates—so they said about steel rails, so they said about plate glass and cutlery and pottery, and when you take them to the factory, and show them that we are making tin-plates, they assert with intense pleasure that we are only “making a little.” That, Is true that We are making any is the surprise, tor the protective duty on tin has not yet gone into effect and will not until the Ist of July. Reflect for a moment. There is no section

of country. North or South, which is not seeking by every manner of inducement tc get manufactories established in theii midst. They are giving - donation, they are offering bounties, in some communities they are taxing themselves and burdening their property for the sake of securing industries which will employ labor and enlarge their neighborhood markets. In the South, the great center of free trade,they are offering freedom from taxation for ten and twenty years to those who will bring their capital and invest in productive enterprises, and this by authority of State law, And while all thin is going on the leaders of the Democratic party are proposing to tear down the protective tariff and inundate this country with foreign competing products, to replace those which these very manufactories propose to make, and which the people are taxing themselves to establish. The people will come to see and understand this, if they do not already, and their votes will go where their material interests lie. They will not spend their money to build up and give their votes to pull down. Referring to the complaints Among free traders about increased duties under the new law, Major McKinley said: Thirty-three and a third per cent of them are for the better protection of the American farmer; twenty-eight are upon wine and spirits, which will hardly burden the farmers. Five are upon tobacco, an agricultural product. No like recognition of the agricultural industry can be found in any -previous tariff legislation, while securing to the farmer the home market bv increased protection. The reciprocity clause Is intended to extend his foreign market and upon terms more favorabli than those accorded to competing agricultural countries. It is a significant fact that the articles which the farmer most frequently buys bear a less tariff than under the law of 1883, and the products which he sells bear a higher duty than ever before. Senator Sherman followed in a speech of some length. The platform was then adopted and is asfollows: THE PI.ATFORM. 1. The Republicans of Ohio, in convention assembled, reaffirm their adhesion tc the principles which have guided them heretofore in promoting the prosperity and happiness of the American people. And we reaffirm our devotion to the patriotic doctrine of protection, and recognize the McKinley bill as the ablest expression of that principle, enacted in fulfillment ol Republican promises, and we pledge ourselves to its support always having in view its improvement, as changed conditions or experience may require. 2. We favor such legislation by Congress and in this State as will in every practicable mode encourage, protect and promote the interests of agriculture in all Its departments. Protection of labor and the* rights of laborers, such as will grant to toil Its full and just rewards, are among the first obligations of government. 3. We demand protection for the wool industry equal to that accorded to tha most favored manufacturer of wool,so that In due time American wool growers will supply all the wool of every kind required for consumption in the United States. 4. Thoroughly believing that gold and silver should form the basis of all circulating medium, we indorse the amended coinage act of the last Republican Congress. by which the entire production ol the silver mines of the United States is added to the currency of the people. 5. Wo demand, and will continue to demand until finally and absolutely secured, the free exercise by every citizen of the supreme and sovereign rignt to cast one ballot at lawful elections and to have it honestly counted. 6. While inviting to our shores tht worthy poor and oppressed of all nations we demand the enactment of laws thai will protect our couutryand our people against the influx of tho vicious and criminal classesof foreign nations,and tho importation of laborers under contract tc compete with our-own citizens, and earm estly approve the rigid enforcement of existin« Jaws by the present national administration. 7. We favor economy in the administration of national and State affairs, prompi and effective restraint of combinations ol capitalists for purposes unlawful or at variance with sound public policy; amph educational facilities for the whole people the reservation of the public lands of tin United States for homesteads for American citizens, and the restoration to thi public domain of ail unearned railroad grants, and we contemplate with pride tin grogressof Republican legislation administration in all these directions. 8. The Republican party, ever mindful of the services of the heroic men who saved the Union, favor liberal pensions to thi sailors and soldiers of the Republic and t generous care of their widows and orphans. r • 9. The patriotism, wisdom and ability of the administrationpf President Harrison command our cordial approbation and support, and we especially commend thi policy of reciprocity, by which our' tradi may be vastly increased by commercial treaties with other nations, and we also commend the vigorous foreign policy an the administration, which has commanded the respect of foreign nations for the flag of our country. 10. We commend the patriotic services of our distinguished fellow-citizen, Senator Sherman, and his Kopublicau colleagues in tho Fifty-first Congress. 11. Wc congratulate President Harrison and the country upon the selection ol Hon. Charles Foster as the Secretary of the Treasury, assuring, as it does, an able and efficient administration of that great department of the Government. 12. We denounce the late so-called “Kipper” Legislature of Ohio as most corrupt and incompetent,and the administration ofJamesE. Campbell as the most partisan in the history of our .State. Wo denounce the present Governor of Ohio for having converted the benevolent institutions into political machinery, making political merchandise of the sufferings and calamities of. the helpless wards of the State, and we point with pride to the more patriotic ana wise management of State affairs under the administration of Gov. J. B. Foraker. Wc denounce Governor Campbell and the Sixty-ninth General Assembly for violating their party pledges and rights of local self-govern-ment by legislative reorganization of numerous towns and cities for solely partisan Eurposes. We denounce the late “Ripper” egislature for having sanctioned and encouraged the Increase of local taxation, and for Increasing the expenditures of the State more than a half a million of dollars in excess of the appropriations of any preceding two years, thus bringing the State to the verge of bankruptcy in spite of the generous appropriation made by a Republican Congress In the act refunding the direct tax. We denounce the late “Ripper” Senate of Ohio for unseating the legally elected Lieutenant Governor, thus robbing the people of their right, under the constitution, to select an important ? public officer, and-we appeal to all intelligent and patriotic people of Ohio to unite with us in the recovery of the State from the handsof the party that for two years past has disgraced it. ; THE OTHER NOMINATIONS. The convention made the following additional nominations: Lieutenant Governor —Andrew L. Harris, of Preble county. Auditor of State—E. W. Poe, the pres ent Incumbent., Treasurer of State—W. T. Cope, o 'Cleveland. Attorney-General—J. K. Richards, o Lawrence county. Supreme Coart Judge Marshall J Williams, Of Fayette county.

A GREAT MAN GONE.

Death of Ex-Senator Joseph E. McDonald. The Distinguished Lawyer. Eminent Statesman. Unswerving Democrat and Honorable Man—Sketch of HU Life. At 11:35 'o’clock Sunday evening, June 31, Hon. Joseph E. McDonald peacefully breathed his last at his home in Indianapolis, surrounded by his family. He was conscious until the last moment and serenely awaited tho end, directing his family in the funeral arrangements , and bidding each an affectionate farewell. For months he has been afflicted with a cancer of the stomach, and for weeks was confined to his bed, suffering intensely but bearing without a-murmur. He hadreceived the unctions of the Presbyterian Church a few weeks ago. In almost his last hour Mr. McDonald said: “I desire to give public testimony of my unbounded faith in the saving power of Cfar.st” Joseph Ewing McDonald was born in Butler county, 0., Aug. 21,1819. His parents in 1826 moved to Montgomery county, Ind., to a farm. In 1831 he was apprentieed to a Lafayette harnessmaker, serving an apprenticeship of five years. At the age of eighteen he entered Wabash College, continuing until jB4O. He also attended school at Asbury for six months. He began the study of law in 1842 with Zebulon Beard, of Lafayette. In 1843 he was admitted to practice. He was elected Prosecuting Attorney the same year. He was re-elected in 1846. Removed to Crawfordsville in 1847 and remained there until 1859. Was elected lo Congress in 1849. In 1856 was elected Attorney General of Indiana, and was reelected in 1858. In 1859 moved to Indianapoli :. Was the Democratic candidate for Governor in 1864 against Morton, and led his ticket 6,000 votes. He was elected U. S. Senator in 1875, to succeed Hon. D. D. Pratt. He was married in 1844 to Nancy R. Powell, of Williamsport, who died in 1872. In 1874 he married Araminta W. Vance, of Crawfordsville,who died in 1875. In 1881, at Washington, Mr. McDonald was again married, this time to Mrs. Josephine F. Bernard, of Indianapolis. As a lawyer. Mr. McDonald was pre-eminent in reasoning powers and no man in the Stato stood higher in the estimation of tho bar. He was the leading counsel in the great conspiracy case of Milligan, Bowies and Horsey. He was a warm personal friend of Mr. Morton. He was an unswerving Democrat, and was earnestly advocated by his friends in Indiana for the Presidency iu 1884. His career has been an eventful one, too much so to give anything near a comprehensive review in this column. He was a plain, blunt man, and honest, no man ever accusing him of a dishonorable act, political o r otherwise. Indiana, in bis death, is deprived of the counsel of one of its wisest and fairest sons.

A KANSAS CYCLONE.

Immense Damage to Property—Lon of Life. The southeastern corner of Kansas was visited by terrific storms on the 19thpausing sbmo loss of life, much damage to property and enormous damago to growing,crons. At Fort Scott it took the form of a cloud-burst, at Arkansas City a cyclone and at Emporia a tornado. Its effects were the same, however, wherever its fury was felt. Towns were flooded, houses blown over, barns demolished, fences swept away and crops drowned and laid low. At Fort Scott water poured down for one hour and fifteen minutes, the storm having the appearance of a cloud-burst. The dams of Mead <fc Hartran and of Lamb in Buck run, which flows through the center of theeity, were washed away, and the creek was swelled to vast proportions, flooding the bottoms four or five feet deep and endangering the lives of tho many families w r ho reside there. The oc.cupants cf the houses escaped as best they could, Some climbed trees, while other* were rescued by relief parties in boats. One of the relief boats was manned by John Connalii), Jr., Joe Ausman and B. W. Bowman, members of the fire company, who bravely went out into the Surging torrent to save lives. Their boat proved leaky and had to be abandoned, two of the occufJtmts saving their lives by clinging to trees. Connalin caught hold of a branch, which gave way, and he was lost in the darkness and has not been seen since. There is no doubt that ho was drowned. He was a fine young athlete of nineteen years, and was the only son of John Connalin, one of Fort Scott’s oldest and most estimable citizens. No othler lives were lost, but the damage to property wa s great, The damage to crops in a radius of twenty miles from Arkansas„.City is estimated at about $75,000. Much of the wheat was in the shopk, and although drenched with rain a great part of it can * be saved. The principal damage was to growing crops. The trial of Dr. T. J. Griffith by the Good Templars’ lodge, at Crawfordsville, was set for last Friday night, but as he did not appear he was expelled for contempt at a meeting held on the 19th. Griffith recently testified to a good moral character of a ipan who wanted a whisky license. The man was afterward refused a license. 1 Griffith is the chairman of the Phrohibition party, is a G. A. R. man and ha? been a prominent Good Templar. He recently had a light lu the lodge-room and was arrested and fined. He then sued the man who struck him for damages. It is claimed that the license affair was a set - up job to get Griffith caught so as to get him out qf the lodge. At Peru twelve persons out of the families of Abner Kissman, Daniel Whitehead, J. Summers, J. Welst and B. Smith were seriously poisoned on Sunday by eating imported dried beef purchased at a grocery store. Prompt medical attendance saved them, though the condition of soma is still serious. <