Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1892 — Page 6

fTHE REPUBLICAN. Bhu B. PabUsbar. EKNSSELAEB INDIANA

Os* €. Vogelsang, a Texas scientist, faas discovered that we live inside of the earth, that the sun, ifioon and stars art similarly hemmed in, I that the sun is only ®0 miles dis-. taataad but eight}’ miles in circumference. The whole outfit, he declares, was originally made to amuse tbe angels. ====* These people who are speaking of Mars and ‘/her” moons are rusty in mythology or perverse as to the sacredness of traditions. The ancient always invested the namesake of the fiery orbit with the sternest attributes, and to speak of him in the -feminine gender looks like a shrewd campaign concession to the female suffragists. The discovery of the photographic trick by which Chinamen have been imported contrary to law has destroyed one conviction which has hitherto been well nigh universal among Caucasians. Tha 1 conviction was that Chinamen were so much alike that it was impossible to tell one from another. The camera, it seems, has had no difficulty in distinguishing them, and the United States officials have now learned -the lesson. ~ —-—-

A New Haven judge has officially declared that newspapers must not criticise the bench lest they encourage lawlessness by so doing. This might be sound doctrine if courts were infallible, but there have been those who were ignorant, corrupt or prejudiced beyond tbe possibility of administering justice. In fact some have been the victims of all these shortcomings, and mere criticism was too good for them- The judge who respects the law and his high calling finds his hands strengthened by the newspapers.

'■t Mars has now reached its nearest point to the earth, 35,000,000 miles, which the Lick telescope brings to a distance of 50,000. A few generations hence science may have improved on even this magnificent instrument. Camille Flammarion scouts the idea of Mars’s inhabitants being Esquimaux, and declares that they are people in a high state of and have been trying to signal to us for years. This is pure sonjecture, of course, but full of romantic possibility worthy the pen of Jules Verne. , ,The Intercontinental Railway which will make possible a trip be~ tween-New York and Patagonia at no distant day, is making fair progress. Three surveying parties are now at work in Central America, Cotenibta and-Pera." The line in South America will follow the central val. ley between the western and the central ranges of the Andes. The towns along the proposed route are . enthusiastic for its progress. It is' .probable that within five years a continuous railway route may exist between New York and Patagonia, and this desolate land will open a new field for ■ enterprise, and Terra del Fuego can be utilized as a summer resort.

The news of the failure of Baron Hirschs object of founding Jewish colonies in the Argentine Republic will not surprise any one who understands the conditions of existeuce in that country and the idiosyncrasies of the Russian Jews who were sent there. Some of those expelled from Russia have tried Brazil as wpR as Argentine, but they have not been able to get along in either country. There are reasons for this failure. They are nearly all in a state of pbv- i erty; they are unwjlling to engage in agricultural pursuits; they cannot find opportunities of trading; they are not skilled operatives in any braueh of industry; they refuse to work as common laborers; they do not assimilate with the native population; they are obnoxious to manv of the adherents of the Catholic church: their presence is not regarded as desirable by any South American government. Those of them who went to Brazil two years ago have left the country in despair, and those of them who went to Argentine arc reported to be in a dreadful plight. The only country in which the Jews driven outr-of Russia have been able U» get along is the United States. It is in this country that the great body of the Jews of Russia are desirous pi settling. We have a report from Paris that Baron Hirsch is coming over here to ascertain whether room can be found for the three and a half millions bf them whom he has offered to assist in leaving Russia.—Js’ew York Son.

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The strike at Buffalo i* virtually ended All freight is being moved promptly. Twenty-four houses were, burned at Genera. 111., on the 19th'. Loss, $175,00a Mrs; WilUam Lawrence and daughter* of Pomona, Kan., were killed ou 4 railroad crossing." "■ Cart Axelson, of New York city. »m mitted suicide because bis wife bore him a girl instead of a boy. . f During August the Treasury Depart- : meat has seat out Between 16.000,000 and $7,000,000 to move the crops. Tho Knights of'Pythias are gathered at, Kansas City in great numbers. The Supreme Lodge is in session there. Hughes & PattersoD, of Philadelphia’ have beaten their amalgamated employes and are running in full jdast with scabs. Williams. Walsh, ex-editor of Lippineott's Magazine, was fined $25 at Cape May, X. Y., for hugging a girl on the street. President Pellicrinl, of the Argentine Republic, lias resigned in consequence of a conflict between the executive and Con gross Attorney General Hunt, of Illinois, has brought suit for $200,000 against the Monon Raiiraid Company for back tales aud damages. ' Thomas Neil Cream, the American doctor, lias been held to an English • grand jufyoii the charge of poisoning four girls of London. A California judge decided that the day of execution having passed a condemned murderer is dead in the eyes of the law, though not hangqd. Woodville, near Jackson, Mich., is sinking into the earth. A number of abandoned mines are under the place, and they have probably caved in. Edwaid Burns, the kidnapped son of John Burns, of New York, has been located in Seattle, Wush. He was taken ip 1875. when only six years of age. —— Thomas Drew, aged twenty-five of Wichita, Kan., committed suicide in the presence of his nJother by laying his head on a rail over which a fast train passed. The Buffalo switchmen’s strike has been ; declared off and all the men that can will ; return to work. It is believed about onehalf of those who struck will be taken tack. Among tbo deaths announced on the 24th were those of Gen. Fonseca, the first President of Brazil; ex. Gov. Myron 11. Clarke, of New York, and ex -Gov. E. L. Lowe, of Maryland. 1 Robbers tried to wreck the fast Chicago and' New York express ou the Pennsylvania road, near Pittsburg, and a farmer who discovered the plot and frustrated the game was twice shot. The TexaS National Guard is in danger of disruption, and several companies have surrendered their commissions. It Is caused by political favoritism, which, it is claimed, has been shown. President Gompers, of the Federation of Labor; has adjusted the trouble between the Chicago unions and musicians, Asa result union horn blowers will be employed for the Labor Day parade. The biggest strike in the history of Jimtown, Colo., has just been made in the Shallow Creek district. It has a lead of cjuarts. rich in sulphurets, which essays from 865 to I.OCO ounces in silver. At a meeting of the coal operators Held ! In Pittsburg on the 23d, it was decided to reduce the wages of their miners to three cents per bushel. It is expected the miners, who number 10.000, will strike. The London Standard calls President Harrison’s action in the St. Mary's cana' matter “vexatious and unfriendly.” saying; “We suppose it is a pretext to Dose as the exponent of a spirited foreign policy.”

Homestead strikers deny tbafc-tßcy are boycotting businessmen or persecu ting the wives of non-nnionists. Some of the new employes of the-Carnegie mills may organize a militia company and apply for a charter. The Treasury Department has forbidden tho employment of British Columbia Indians in the hop fields of Washington. Growers' have been in the habit of import ing the red men under contract at lower rates than home whites or Indians would work.

Mrs. Sarah Steiner, a wealthy widow of Lima, 0., answered a matrimonial advertisement, and as a result married M. F Munson, claiming to be a well-to-do business man of Sherwood. After three weeks Munson borrowed SI,OOO of ilie bride and skipped. Since then she has learned that he has five other wivos. A woman named Greenbaum, noar Saginaw, Mich., is reported to have left her | child asleep in a wagon while she went' j berrying in the woods. When she re- 1 i turned she found that some animal, prob ; i »bly a lynx, had devoured her child al j but one foot. She is distracted and may | lose her reason. A cloudburst visited Roanoke, Va..' Tuesday night, and within half an hour over one hundrod thousand dollars worth i j of damago had been done, and one life, if j hot moro, was lost. The business portion 1 | of the city was tbo principal sufferer.! Every store on Salem avenue and Jefferson street was flooded and their contents badly damaged. By the way, here is another Presidential | ticket; For President, Simon Wing", of ' I Boston; Vice President, Charles H. West- j cott. of Brooklyn. Mr. Wiug is a tailor' and Mr. Westcott is a carpenter. They were nominated at New York Sunflay by the Socialists. Representatives were present from New York, Massachusetts, Penn sylvanla. New Jersey and Connecticut.. 1 Fire at New York Saturday, burned the Metropolitan Opera-house aud a manufacturing building, with a less of one probably more, lives, and a money loss of nearly $1,000,003. At Augusta. Ga.. the j Chronicle and other properties were destroyed with enormous loss. ;Potoskey. Miss., loss $2)0,000 worth of lunber. Armours packing house, at Ka tsas City, : Mo., was damaged by Pit. Thomas Dunn’s mouth has b cn closed by law. He set up in his ans ter in the Circuit Court at Detroit, that he was using the voice God gave him, and that so far he bad been very well pleased vfith it, and he thought the neighbor’s ought not to abject. But Mr*. Charlotte Wjhitely ob

jeeted to Its volume, declaring it a nub. ance and a depredator of property. J udge Krevoort believed her, and an injunction restrains him from loud talking and swearing. The case will go to the Supreme Court • ■ * While a number or workmen were getting tlmber on the Kaw Indian reservation, north of Guthrie, Qkia... they un-

earthed the bones of some mammoth animal. A tusk that was found wag five feet in length, and the largest end was over throe feet in circumference. The bone from the knde to the lrip joint was over fire fact in length, and the center was twenty-five inches in circumference. At the haunches the bones were over five feet, aud the ribs were over four feet in leugth. Joseph J. McGradv- who is employed by the City Board of Education, was held up by a highwayman Tuesday, while driving near the World's Fair grounds Chicago. When first commanded to halt by the robber, McGrady put the whip to his horse und endeavored to get away. The highwayman fired at him, the bullet striking the horse and frightening it so that it broke away from the buggy . McGrady attempted to escape, but the bullet* came so thickly about his head that hestopped. The highwayman made him hold up his hands and submit to a search, but $156 that hohad with him was not discovered. The robbery took place on Stony Island avenue, a much traveled thoroughfare, aud the shots were heard by workman ou the Fair grounds who came to McGrady’s assistance, but Arrived too ietle to help him. Tire robber was arrested later by tbe police aud fully , identified. Tbe annual report of W. J 2. Simends, Commissioner of Patents, to the Secretary of the Interior, shows that during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1892, applications for patents aud caveats were received as follows: Letters patent, 39,987: designs patent, 983; reissue patents, 114; registra tion of trademarks, 1.919; registration of labels,- 644: caveats, 2;4otr mairtng s total of 45,945, There were during that period 23,626 patents granted, including reissues and desigus; 1.56! trade marks registered, and six labels registered; 12.427 patents expired during tiro year. - The receipts from all sources during the year were sl,267,727; expenditures $1.114,134; leaving a surplus for the year of 1154,513. Since its establishment the Patent Office has turned into the treasury $4,10.',411 above its expenditures. The number of applications awaiting action on the part of the office on June 30, was 9,447. The Commissioner makes no recommendation as to needed legislation, increase of force, pr the crowded and unsanitary condition of the Patent Office Building.

FOREIGN. Cholera has reached Antwerp. Japan advices contain the usual budget of disasters. At Tokushima 150 persons were drowned and 2,C00 houses swept away by a flood. An earthquake fissure near Tokushima swallowed up 160 houses and 10) people. Five hundred houses were submerged and 10) persons drowned by floods at Okuyama Tbo press of Canada, generally: bitterly denounces the rctaliit >ry proclamation issued by President Harrison. The government organs consider that Canada has done enough in promising to abolish rebates at*the close of the of tho soason, and some of these suggest tho abrogation of the treaty of Washington. A passenger on the steamer Australia, which arrived at San Francisco from Honolulu, Thursday, says that for some time the Louisiana Lottery has had agents in Honolulu, the object being to obtain ebarter from the Hawaiian Legislature. Their operations have been conducted with the utmost secrecy, and few people outside of those Interested know anything about tho matter, In return for the charter the company wtll agree to pay $1,000,* 000 toward a cable; to run a weekly Hue of steamers to San Francisco: to pay onehalf of the expenses of the government; to pay $100.(03 per year to different local enterprises, and to erect buildings for offices, directors, inspectors, etc. The money for preliminary payment is already in Honolulu, aud If tho Legislature accepts the proposition of the company $500,000 will be afloat in Honolulu In thirty davs. Owing to the present depressed state of the finances of the islands this would prove a veritable bonanza, and it is quite probable that the company will receive & charter. Still there Is a strong missionary spirit in Hawaii and a fierce assault will be made on tbe bill when it is brought before the Legislature,

POLITICAL.

-The Carroll county Democracy have irrstructed for tho re-election of Senator Turpie. * It has been decided by a number of prominent Repubiicaus of this city and other parts of this State, says the Indianapolis News, that a suit shall bo brought to test tho constitutionality of the legislative apportionment act of tbo Legisla ture of 1891. The movement is to be made independent of UlO Republican State com mittee. one of the men interested in the suit says, and all the expenses of carrying the caso through the Supremo Court will bo borne by a fund to bo raised by subscription. It is said that a considerable sum has already been pledged, and that the men behind the movement have assurance that there will be no troubleabout raising the money with which to prosecute tho case. Tho suit. It is understood, will be brought in Hendricks County Circuit Court. Some,of the best attorneys in the State will be employed to look after tbo litigation. Hon. S. N. Chambers, in spe&kiug of the proposed proceedings said: “ There are several methods of procedure that can be followed. The question can be raised by bringing an lnjuction suit against any election officer. There can bo a suit to enjoin the sheriff from posting a notiro of election of members of the Legislature under the apportionment, or the clerk of the countv can be enjoined from issuing the notice. In addition to the Injunction proceedings, there should be mandamus proceedings to compel the issuance of the election notices under tho apportionment law of some other yearsay under the act of 1879. I understand that was a constitutional apportionment. The suits may be brought In any conntr in the State, because if the act Is unconstitutional In one coanty it Is invalid in all. ”

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Whitewater wants a high school. Greene county reports 176 teachers. Several cases of malignant diptheria are reported at Kokomo. __ Thieves.continue to plunder freight cars under the shadow of the prison north. Thomas Baines, near Rockville, was found dead in his bam, having been kicked tc death by a horse. LN. Park planted a single potato on his farm near Galena, and from the hill he dug thirty-four pounds of potatoes. There is said to be but one surviving soldier of the warof 1812 in Indiana—John. Dawson, of Terre Haute. There are 253 widows. * The large dairy barn of Will Meeker, near Muncie. was burned Sunday. Loss $1,200. Believed to have been the work of a tramp. Thomas Johnston, an aged farmer of Fayette county, is a marvel to hi friends, in that his hair, formerly grey, is now turning a fiery red. The Jefferson county Democracy have resolved not to nominate a separate county tickeTETbut. Instead to support the Independent nominees. The Governor has issued a proclamation declaring Oct. 21, Dext, as a general holiday in honor of the dtscovery of America four hundred years ago. _ One hundred and twenty lots were sold Tuesday as a starter for the new town of Whiteley, across the river from Muncie. The average price was S3OO. During a performance of Ringling’s cir cus at Garrett, Frank Ifeliy, boss prop erty man, was called out of thg tent by an party and shot dead. A wreck occurred on the E. &T. H. road at Farmersburg on the 26th. Hon. John Beasley, of Sullivan, a leaderin the Legislature, was probably fatally injured. J. C. McLean, of Andetson, having trouble with his wife,-escorted her to a train, handed her a check for S7OO, and their separation was complete. The lady returned to Paris, 111.

O. H. Deming, of Valparaiso, a contractor, has been fined 50 cents and costs for violating the 1889 legislative enactment providing that eight hours shall constitute a day's-work; Mrs. Ellen Douglas Foster, wife of Rev. B, F. Foster, Grand Secretary of Independent Order of Odd Fellows, died very suddenly on the evening of the 26th at their home in Indianapolis. The Diamond Plato Glass Company, of Kokomo, is erecting a large building for bending and beveling glass. This will be a big industry within itself, giving employment to several hundred men. The nailing department, blacksmith shop and machine shop of the Darnell nail mill at. Muncie were destroyed by fire n the 26th. Loss, 360,000. One hundred men are thrown out of employment. Mrs. Jennie Morton, of Clay county, is dead of supposed hydrophobia. She was bitten by a little dog thirteen years ago and each recurring year has had an attack, presumably the result of the bite. Moses McClure, near Darlington, is dead. He was aged ninety-seven. McClure was a Kentuckian by birth, afid he settled near Rockport in 1825. He claimed to be the oldest active Odd Fellow in Indiana. The 'squire who married a couple at Eckerty is a native of Newport, Ky., the groom a native of Neport, Ark., and the bride a native of Newport News, Va. All were born during tho month of August, 1565. A numbertrf thrashing machine proprietors in Montgomery county will go to the Dakota wheat fields to aid in thrashing the tremendous harvest <>f this season. Tho Northern Pacific offers free transportation from St. Paul, Minn. A frame building collapsed at Dunkirk, and Georgo Moore was instantly killed, while William Anderson and James Smith were seriously injured. The building was in process of construction and the flat roof was insufficiently supported. 1 The K. of P. drill prizes awarded|at Kansas City were principally carried off by Kansas Knights, which took the first three. New Albany Division No. 5 was given tho fourth prize of SBOO. Tcrro Haute Division No. 5 the ninth prize of S2OO, and Many Division No. 18, of Indianapolis, the tenth and lost prize of SIOO. James Gray, of Columbia City, while ly lug in bed. was shot by an unknown assassin, tho charge of the gun striking him. in the leg, necessitating amputation. The shot was fired through an -open window, and bat for the fact that Gray had cliangod the position of his bed, so that his feet lay where his head formerly reposed, the attempted murder would have been successful. Albert Tucker is under arrest as the guilty party. The following patents were issued on Tuesday to lndianians: I. T. Brown Columbus, napkin holder; D. Cady, Indianapolis, shoe horn; Q.J. Cline, Goshen, garment supporter; A. Garretson, Fall Creek, safety coupliug for gas mains; F. L. Glihart,lndianapolis, grass receiver for lawn mower; J. Mitchell, Cayuga, memorial monument; E. Powell, Kokomo, clotlios drier; H. Thiels, Lawrenccburg, machine for beveling barrel heads; O. D. Thompson, Elkhart, lawn sweeper.

In a recent collapse of a building at Hartford City it will be recalled that five men were killed. Four of them were mar vied. The contractor of the work. T. IT. Smith, was away at the time, but he hurried back to Hartford City. Mr. Smith bore the expenses of the several burials, after, which he hunted up the widows, making tfiem and their children not only comfortablo for the present, but giving to each widow SI,OOO and placing their names on the pay-roll Instead of thklr decoased husbands. This was done after the ooroner had returned a verdict of “an unfortunate aud unavoidable accident.” The bitter fight at Falrmount to prevent the retailing of Intoxicants by Luther Morris, has culminated. It is said, In a compromise, by Which Morris obligates to pay $1,200 Into tho village treasury annually for tho privilege. Names of citizens heretofore prominent In opposing are said to bo signed to this agreement, and It has increased the Indignation of those wbo are continuing the fight against Morris. On different occasions, when Morris undertook to sell Intoxicants, ho was forcibly moved outside the corporation, and

the opposition now threaten to:resort to dynamite ts all other agencies fail. The weather crop bulletin for pe week ending Tuesday, issued by the Indiana Weather Service says: Tho rainfall during the week was badly distributed and -insufficient over most fields. Warm-days, cool nights and average sunshine prevailed. The local rains on the 19th were beneficial to suffering crops, and also soft ened the soil, making plowing for wheat, which is at present pushed vigorously everywhere, more easy. Wheat thrashing Is also ended, with an average yield, but not so good quality. Corn stands well after the rain; the fields are clean and the corn is maturing fait.' Clover for seed I s being cut and'.thrashed, yielding a fair crop’s pasturage,-'and live stock continues -in good condition. Grasshoppers and potato bugs arc injuring some fields. A mysterious woman, giving the name of Mrs. Emma Powell, claiming St. Louis as her home,and boasting fabulous wealth, appeared in the eastern part of Howard county some three weeks ago and created a stir among land owners by offering to purchase at good round figures a large lot of land, claiming that she wanted to establish a stock farm She contracted with James Loop for 103 acres, and with others for smaller lots, in all amounting to about, seven hundred acres. Two weeks ago she left, ostensibly for St. Louis, agreeing to send her agent back with money to close up the trade. Neither%ie agent nor the money has yet put in an appearance. The woman has since turned up in Cass county, and again in Miami county,where she made the same offer to farmers in different parts of those counties, and again disappeared. She does not ask iof atrj money, or any written contract which might be transformed into promissory notes, as is usual in tbe “landskin game.” She pays her own.bills,and her purpose in offering to purchase the land has not yet developed. The woman is about sixty years of age, of Scotch extraction, and spoaks with a pronounced dialect. She is pleasing in manner, and displays excellent judgment of land values. In one place she claimed to he the President of the National Woman's Relief Corps and lias made many palpable misrepresentations.

WHAT A MOTHER FOUND.

Three Children Killed by a Rattlesnake’s Bite and One Drowned, A farmer named Wilson, living in Madi. son county, Ga., left home and went to the mill, leaving his wife and four children at home. Two hours later he returned, to find his wife lying on tho floor, insensible, with four dead children about her. The story the mother told when restored to consciousness was a remarkable one. She said she had taken the baby to the spring, leaving the other children in the house. Hearing their cries, she put the baby down and hurried back to the house, where she found two dead, the others dying. The living one said they had been poking their fingers through a crack in the floor and a hen had been picking at them. The mother went back to the spring after her baby and found it had fallen into the spring and drowned. Tho /third child had died when she got back to the house and tho mother swooned away. Investigation showed that the supposed hen was a rattlesnake. Over 50 of the 150 miners caught by an explosion in a Welsh mine have been rescued and twelve bodies recovered.

THE MARKETS.

INDIANAPOLIS. August S'#, 1893 AlVquolttlionb lor Indianapolis wlisu not spaciaol GRAIN. Wheat—No. 3 red, 71c; No. 3 red, Csc; wagon wheat, 70c. Corn—No. 1 white, 51c; N 0.2 white. 51c; white mixed, 48c; No. 3 white, 48(450c, No. 2 yellow, 47Kc; No. 3 yellow, 47c; No. 2 mixed, 48c; No. 3 mixed, 47c: ear, 48c. Oats—No. 2 white, 36c; No. 3 white, 35c: No. 2 mixed, 32>4c; rejected, 32c. Hay—Timothy, choice, $14.00; No. l. $10.50; No. 2, $10.00; No.l prairie,s6.so; No 2, $6.50; mixed hay, $7.50; clover, SB.OO. Bran $ll.OO per ton. Wheat : Corn. | Oats. , Bye. Chicago Sr’d 75% 63*4 Cincinnati. ... 3 r'd 73>4 61 35 64 St Louis S r’d 77 49 3**4 81 New York.... g r’d 81 86 40 88 Baltimore .... 1 7714 68 43 72 - Philadelphia. S r’d 77 60 39 Clover Seed. Toledo. ...... 7854 52'/> 78 6 70 Detroit....... i wh 81 | 63‘A 3914 Minneapolis.■ _72}« CATTLE. Export grades.. $4 25@4 75 Good to choico shippers 3 85@4 15 Fair to medium shippers 3 40.®3 $> Common shippers 2 75<E#3 30 Stockers, common to good 2 25(42^ Good to choice heifers ~. 3 20(43 56 Fair to medium heifers 2 65(43 00/ Common,thin heifers 1 75®2 25 Good to choice cows . 2 65w3 06 Fair to medium cows 2 20@2 ro Common old cows-..«.... 1 00'S2 o:i Veals, good to choice 4 2 -gas 00 Bulls, common to medium.... 1 50(32 00 Milkers, good to choice 250043500 Milkers, common to medium.. 1500@2.'00 HOGS. Heavy packing aud shipping. $5 fo@s 82 Lights...... 5 15@5 72 Mixed 5 10®!? ro Heavy roughs.««»»» #•»««•...4... 4 25(44 ;0 . BHKJCI'. Good to choice $4 cg@4 53 h air to medium 3 40M, , 6 Common to medium 2 50,33 oLambs, good to choice 4 25@5 ob POULTRY AND OTUKB PRODUCE. Poultry--Hous, 9c Jolt; young chickens, uc V lb; turkeys, fat choice hens 10j 9 lb and Uc for fancy young tomsducks, 7c 9 »>; gee*e, $4.80 for choice ’ Eggs—Shippers paying 13c. Butter-Choicecountry butter, 12fri5-; common, 8«* iuc; creamery, retailing from store at 25c. Cheese—New York full cream, lßapJcskims, s@7c 9 o>. (Jobbing prices.) Feathers—Prime geese, 35c 9 lb; mixed duck, 20c 9 lb. *• Beeswax—Dark, 35c; yellow, 40c (selling price); dealers pay 18@E0c. Wool—New clip tine merino, 16c; coarse wool, 17@18c; medium, 20c; black, burrv, cotts, choffly and broken, 15®17c. HIDES, TALLOW, ETC. Hides—No. 1 green hides, 3)4c; No. 2 green hides 2>{c; No, 1 G. 8. hides, 4>ic; NO.2G. 8. hides. 394 c; No. 1 ullow, 4c No. 2 tallow, 3>4c * ’ liorse Hides [email protected]. Tallow—No. 1, 4)*c; No, 2, 3J4c. Grease—White, 2jj(c; yellow, 3c; brown. 2J4c. FRUITS AMD VKGETBLES. Cucumbers—SOc 9 dozen. Watermelons—sl3<3U> 9 100. Peaches—Bushel crate, $2.50 and $3,00. Tomatoes, $1 9 bushel crato; onions. 12Xc 9 doz.; Mtdishes. 1234 c V doz. Apples—Green, $393.25 lb brl; one-third bushel box, 35c. Cabbage— Home grown, $1 9 brl. New Potatoes, 1..6 9 brl. New sweet potatoes. [email protected] 9 brl. Egg plant, $1.30 9 doa*

FLATTENED OUT.

A Receiver Appointed for the Order of the Iron Hall. misappropriation of Funds and Belf-Con fessed Incompetence and Palpable Dishonesty of tho Supremo Officers the Canto—To Wound Up. . In the Superior bourt at Indianapolis Judge Taylor granted the petition for a Receiver for the Order of the Iron Hall, and appointed James F. Failey to the position. He took charge Wednesday morn Ing, having given-bond forsl,ooo,ooo. All of the “Supremers,” or Supreme officers, as they were called, are now out of a job, and most of them have left Indianapolis. Supreme Justice Somerby feared criminal prosecution, and it is more than probable that his fears are well founded, and that he will look out from behind bars before he is many weeks older. The managements the Order's funds was criminally negligent, and, in truth, the evidence clearly showed that these funds were misappropriated and devote! to private uses, more than SBOO,OOO of it being used taform and bolster up a Philadelphia bank,which - probably did not have a dollar In actua] capital aside from the funds furnished by the Supremers, and who constituted tho members of the banking company. The tvidence clearly showed, also, that Immense sums of money were bandied about Mm pillar to Dost without any record being kept of the same. The Supremers icem to have been feathering their nests in the most approved modern fashion and if justice had its duo iome penitentiary would have jdo or more new convicts added to its roster. ' Large amounts seem to have been used to corrupt Legislatures that., proposed legislation derogatory to the interests of the order.. The affairs of the jrder will be promDtly wound up by tho receiver. There - are nearly $700,003 in Indianapolis banks that will be prorated back to the members. Aside from tbi3 there are no assets of consoquencc. Of the 1700,000 in the Philadelphia “bank” it Is prohablo the receiver will not realize 5c an the dollar. Altogether tho proceedings in the Indianapolis courts show that the »rder was under a bad management and that its members havo been saved many a loilar by tho appointment of a receiver sven at this date. The Order of the Iron Hall was one of the “get rich quick” concerns. It was jondueted on the assessment plan, where* &y each member was expected to pay in 1300 in'seven years and at the expiration if ;t,hat time draw out SI,OOO. This explanation ought to be sufficient to show its general character and is a suffici.nt tpology for its untimely demise. It had more than 63,000 members throughout the country.

THE SMALLEST OF MIDGETS.

A Baby That Can Sleep In the Palm of One’s Hand. A wee rollicking, kicking babe,amidg«t is attracting great attention near Feebles 0.. and people fur miles around are calling upon the father and mother of this wonderful prodigy. The mother shows this tipey babe to the admiring curiosity seekers with a pleased and loyiug smile When asked if she would place It on exhibition, she emphatically said: “No; itli my smallest, and shall have the greatest attention 01 all my children, and it will never enter a museum with my consent” Mrs. August Baldwin, who lives near Plum Run station, is the lady who has given birth to the smallest child ever born In that county. It weighs only one pound and nine ounces, and Is now ten days aid. and. fairly liealthly. The prospects are It will live and grow to matnrlty. The mother of the child Is A stiong, healthy woman, weighing 145 pounds, and the father Is of tho ordinary size. Ho is a muscular young farmor. The child wears small doll clothes and a finger ring will go on its arm to the shoulder with the greatest ease. It lies on the palm of a person’s hand without any trouble. It lias a full head of dark curly hair, and cries as lustily as Itssfit all size will permit. /

ANOTHER MINE HORROR.

On Hundred and Fifty Men ILopeletlly Burled. London, Aug. 23.—A fearful accident occurred this morning at the Park Slip coal pit, near Bridge End, a miulng town n Glamorganshire, Walos. The day shift of miners had not been long la the mtne before a most terrible explosion was heard. The day shlftcomprlsed 150 men. and their relatives and friends rushed to the pit to learn the extent of the disaster., The explosion had caused the earth and rock to fall, and the mouth of the pit was closed. Not a single man of the 150 In the miDe had made his escape, and it is feared that thcro has been great loss of life. Hundreds of miners in the vicinity have volunteered their services, and the work of clearing the pit mouth is being pushed as rapidly as circumstances will allow. All around the pit are gathered women and children, hoping for the best yet expecting the worst. The mine officials hold out all the hope possible, but it can easily be seen that they fall to make tho mothers and wives believe that there Is much ground for it.

The color of a shark’s eggs is black, Of leathery texture, thin and tough, and in form similar to a handbarrow.

Pruning Young Tress.

The future shape, productiveness and value of an orchard depends mainly on the way it is pruned while young. It requires knowlouge of the habit of growth of different varieties to know how to prune them to advantage. A little pruning while the tree issm ill sets it to growing In the right shape, and avoids the nodd of sawing off lurge limbs inter, which cun never be done without inflicting wounds likely to destroy the vitality of the tree. It is in pruning, more even than in anything else, that a little done at the right time saves the necessity for doing Bauch wore afterwards. - |\