Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1893 — Page 3

THE NEWS THE WEEK

■ Andrew Carnegie has arrived at New York. Roger Q. Mills has been re-elected Senator from Texas. Andrew Carnegie visited Blaine at Wash - ington, Thursday. Matthew S. Quay qas been re-elected Senator from Pennsylvania. Miss Carson, visiting at Fairview,Tenn., laughed, ruptured a blood vessel, and died. A plan to burn Hampton, Va.. was frustrated by the arrest of half a dozen of the . conspirators. Smallpox has broken out near Ann Arbor. Mich. One death has occurred. There are twelve cases. Sidney Smith and Willie Buff, of Martin’s Ferry. 0., were drowned in the Ohio river while skating. Peter Dudley, of East Chicago, has ap plied for permission to establish the National bank of East Chicago. . By the explosion of a gaso*.no stove at Baltimore, Mrs. Maggie Rice and her two children were burned to death. It is feared that the Dalton gang will try to rescue Emmett Dalton, now confined in Jail at Independence, Kan. President-elect Cleveland was initiated in the Sigma Chi fraternity at New York on the 26th, as an honorary member. A negro cut a woman’s throat and stabbed a man to death in New Orleans, Wednesday, and was promptly strung up by a mob. ■■ ■■- ■ ■ ■■■ Near Danville. 111., Mrs. McCollough' thq mother of nine children, was run down by a Chicago & Eastern Illinois coal train and killed. It is rumored in Philadelphia that John D. Rockefeller. Colgate Hoyt and others have formed a steel combine with unlimited capital and 14,000,000. At Bonne Terre, Mo., sixteen people were baptized in the river by a preacher, Jt being necessary to cut through ice eight Inches thick to get to the water. Edward L. Harper, ex-president of the Fidelity National Bank of Cincinnati, and convict in the Ohio penitentiary, has been denied a pardon by President Harrison.' Col. John I. Mitchell, of Milwaukee, has been elected Senator from Wisconsin He is a capitalist, and is at present serving his second term as a Representativein" Congress. The Upper House of the Alabama Assembly by a vote or 17 to 15, refused to pass a bill granting a pension of 8500 per year to the widow of Jefferson Davis. An attempt to reconsider will be made. Pademal Peak, near Abiquiu, New Mexico, is in a state of violent eruption. Great excitement and a reign of superstitous terror prevails among the native Mexicans. The last eruption occurred in 1882. Seventeen Chinamen, illegally in the United States and under sentence of deportation, left Detroit Sunday for San Francisco in charge of United States Marshal Van Buren and a number of deputies. At a Methodist revival near Springfield, Mo., two men quarreled and fought with knives. Others became involved and four persons were badly slashed, two women being badly hurt and a boy mortally wounded. A company has been formed at San Diego, Cal., for the purpose of shipping lobsters, fish, etc., to Eastern markets. The firm states,that thirty tons per week will bo sent to Chicago and a car-load to Philadelphia. Michael J. Ryan, a Democratic precinct officer, of Gardiner, Mass., has been convicted of altering a ballot cast for Governor at the State election in November, 1891, and sentenced to the House of Correction for six months. “Old Hntch,” the noted Chicago speculator, who has been in the retail grocery business in New York for a year, has made a failure,of it, and has posted a sign on a piece o/ flour sack: “Store to let. Stock for sale at half price.’’ The Indications are that there will be an unprecedented rush into the Cherokee strip as soon as opened to settlement. A very large number of letters are being received daily at the Interior Department from ail parts of the country making inquiry as to when the strip is likely to be opened. The dry-goods merchants of Now York city are “opposed to the continuance of the purchase of silver bullion by the United States government, and favor the Immediate repeal of the Sherman bullionpurchasing act of 1890 by the passage of a law for that purpose, to go into effect at once.” William Mcllroy, a builder from New York, about thirty-five years old, shot and killed himself at Chicago on the eighth floor of the office part of the Auditorium building. Mcllroy had retired to a closet and was unobserved. He had 81,700 in his pockets. The act Is attributed to a sudden insane impulse. There was a concert given In Union Square, New York, Saturday evenfng.that was hoard with pleasure in Chicago. Long distance telephones were connected with Brooklyn and Chicago. The audience assembled in the Rand - McNgHy Building, and some forty receivers were distributed among the ladies and gentle- " men. Although a snowstorm was raging 5 the affair was a success. Tho different /solos were plainly heard, and especially a ' cornet solo. Brooklyn could be heard applauding. Bishop Phillips Brooks, the celebrated divine, died at Boston, Monday morning. He was taken 111 last Thursday, but nothing serious was threatened until Sunday evening, when dipthertic symptoms ensued, and medical aid waz powerless, and he rapidly sank until the end was reached. Bishop Brooks had a remarkable career and was regarded as the most accomplished scholar In tti A Protestant Episcopal church of America. He wag born In Boston Dec. 13, 1835. Indian Commissioner Morgan has gone to Chicago to buy In open market 400,000 pounds of bacon for issue to Western tribes of Indians under treaty stipulations. This bacon was contracted for last May at 17.54 per 100 pounds, but the contractor I has failed to fulfill his agreement and the government will, therefore, make the purchase, charging to the contractor the difference between the price agreed upon and the present market price. Since last Mav bacon has advanced tn price about 50 per cent. •’ FORKIQN. SEngland will.send troopsand war.ships to Egypt. One thousand persons perished in a burning temple at Canton, China, Dec. 30. The Dominion government will not im-

pose discriminatory canal lolls on American vessels during the next season of navigation. ■ • • An ice field forty miles wide and two hnn dred miles long extends from the mouth of the Danube to the northwestern coast of the Crimea. Sixteen persons have been frozen to death in Russian Poland in the last week/ One day the thermometer fell to6l degrees below zero, Fahrenheit. ( Five workingmen at Teotha boasted that they could drink all the Saale water they wished,despite the orders of local authorities to the contrary. 'On Sunday they drank the water as it came from the river, and Wednesday all five were prostrated with Asiatic cholera In its worst form. Prof. Armihcas Vambrcy, the wellknown Oriental traveler, is of she opinion that the visit to St. Petersburg of the AmeCr • of Bokhura and tho Kahn of Khiva is a prelude to the Czar assuming the title of Emperor of Asia, as an offset to Queen Victoria’s title of Empress of India. It is said that a new coat of arms for the Czar has just been completed, the design consisting of a double eagle flying over the sun’s disc. The marriage of Archduchess Margaret Sophie and Duke Albrecht, of Wurtemburg, was solemnized Tuesday in the* church of the Hofrath at Vienna, The wedding was one of great brilliancy, being a ttended by Emperor Francis Joseph, several archdukes and archduchesses, the King and Queen of Wurtemburg and other members of the royal family of Wurtemburg. After the ceremony the bride and bridegroom kissed the hands of the Emperdr, and the King and Queen of Wurtemburg. The Canadian Parliament convened on the 26th, and listened to an address by the Governor General, Lord Stanley. One of the first steps will be to pass a measure of commercial union with the United States. The project to build a canal from Lake Superior to the St. Lawrence river, through Canadian territory, will be a pet measure of the Government, and will have the ardent support of the Cabinet.

WASHINGTON.

Frank C. Partridge has been nominated by the President to be minister to Venezuela. The nomination of E. W. Halford to be paymaster'in the army has been confirmed by the Senate. Both Houses of Congress adjourned, Wednesday, as a mark of respect for Justice Lamar, arid numerous eulogistic speeches were made. The Republican Senatorial caucus decided to favor the admission of Oklahoma, Utah and New Nexico as States, but are against the admission of Arizona. The statement of the Secretary of the Treasury sent to the Ways and Means committee, Tuesday, shows that over 89,000,000 have been authorized for public buildings not yet begun. Senator Gorman is afraid the Democrats won’t be able to capture the Montana senatorship. He is confident, however, that the Senate will be Democratic after March 4. Our minister to Spain has informed tho State Department that the Spanish govermrient has accepted the invitation of the United States to be represented fa the naval review in April. Senator Turpie,Monday,presented apetition signed by a la?gedumber of citizens of Columbia City against the repeal of the Sherman act, providing for the monthly purchase of 4,500,000 ounces of silver bullion. Mr. Sawyer, from the Senate committee on pensions, reported a bill authorizing the Commissioner of Pensions to accept as proof of citizenship of an applicant for a pension under the act of July 27, 1890, the fact that at the date of his application ho was an actual and bona fide resident of the United States, and it was passed. Secretary Noble says that in his opinion tho federal service requires the continuance of the Cherokee commission. There are, he says, several of the Indian tribes on the land formerly belonging to the Cherokee Outlet with whom negotiations should still be carried on for the purchase of their surplus lands.

The House Committee on Banking and Currency has ordered a favorable report on Representative Outhwaite’s bill for the frequent redemption and exchange of Treasury and national bank notes for new notes. This Is tho bill Mr. Outhwaite introduced as the result of an investigation which showed that soiled greenbacks were breeding places for disease germs. The committee also agreed to report favorably Chairman Bacon’s bill to make It a criminal act to omit an entry of any kind from the books of a national bank. The present law by inadvertence contains no criminal clause.

The sub-committee anpointed to investigate the elecion methods of John L Davenport reported on Friday, finding that all the charges of corrupt nracticeS made against Davenport and his deputies are substantially true on the testimony of forty-six credible witnesses. The investigation will also show that the Federal election laws now on the statute books have been placed there through the efforts of Davenport, and that he as a matter of fact has written nearly every one of tho laws, and their amendments that have been made from time to time.

MORE TROOPS FOR EGYPT.

The Khedive** Independence Cause* Eng. land to Increase Her Force in That Country* Ittswfflciaily announced that the British government has decided upon a slight increase of the British troops in Egypt, In view' of the fact that recent events have threatened to disturb the public security. The Egyptian situation Is assuming a gravity, which forthe time overwhelms In the public mind all other issues, including even Irish home rule. Lord Rosebery has received telegraphic advices 'from Lord Cromer to the effect that the Khedive had intimated his intention to refer to the Sultan and to the action of the treaty powers the dismissal of the Fakhri Cabinet. Other advices from Cairo say that the natives are in a more excited condition than at any time since the 6utbreak under the leadership of Arabi Pasha; while a considerable party of the moderate cn I intelligent natives support the British position the multitude take skies with the Khedive and against what they eall infidel dictation. Th<i Khedive denies any intention of dismissing British officials front his service. ,

A CRISIS IN HAWAII.

Th* Queen Dethroned and the ’ Government Overthrown by the People. A Commission In this Country to Urge tie United States to Annex Hawaii— Full I'artlculara. Sit 2 o’clock Saturday morning the steamer Claudine arrived i n San Francisco from the Hawaiian Islands, bringing important news of a revolution in that kingdom. A provisional government has been established by an uprising of the people. Queen Liliuofrnlani lias been deposed from power the monarchy abrogated, government buildings seized, and a new provisional ministry, composed of four members, is sustained by bayonets of volunteers. Queen Liliuokiylani attempted onSaturd«y. January 16, to promulgate a new constitution, depriving foreigners of a right of franchise and abrogating the existing House of Nobles, at the same time giving her the power of appointing a new house. This was resisted by the foreing element of the, community, who at once appointed a committee of safety of thirteen members, who called a mass meeting of their classes, at which twelve hundred or fifteen hundred were present. The meeting unanimously adopted resolutions condemning the action of the Queen and authorizing the committee to take into further consideration whatever was necessary to public safety. The manifesto outlined a policy, demanded the removal from office of the Queen and her cabinet, and promulgated laws for the government of the Islands. The Queen yielded unconditionally. The following detailed account is taken from

the Hawaiian Gazette of Jan. 18, received here on the 3«th: ' “Saturday afternoon, January 15, the community was startled by the information that a coup d’etat was in progress, and that the Quecu was endeavoring to force her Cabinet to sign a new constitution, which she then proposed to promulgate to the people. The information was at first disbelieved by some, but it was speedily confirmed. The political changes of the past few days, the secret attempt was made by the Queen to secure the overthrow of her ministers, her secret interviews with regard to a new constitution, had been felt by some te give a hint as to vhat was to be looked for in the future, «nd many shared in forebodings. On Saturday morning rumor was busy, and it was freely stated that a new constitution was to be promulgated in the afternoon. At a meet of business men, held in the room of the Chamber of Commerce, refer.nce was made to this possibility, butstill '• was not generally believed, until in the afternoon the unexpec;cd happened, and aoubt was transferred into certainty. Three days before the coup d’etat was attempted a gentleman who enjoys the confidence of the Queen told one of the members of the Cabinet that a blow was to be •truck, and that the persons of the minis.ers would be secured.

In anticipation that the present Cabinet would not make any resistance to a revoutionary blow, precaution of arresting them was not taken. Saturday morning one of the ministers received positive information that a blow was to be struck that afternoon. He Immediately proceeded to sonsult two prominent citizens on tho the course to be taken. After a conference the gentlemen referred to advised the Cabinet to refuse to sign the constituclon and to decline to resign if their resignations should bedemanded. The prorogation of the Legislature was the last chapter in the story of the morning. It went off tamely and quietly enough, but those who were acquainted with ihe real situation felt that the government and nation were sleeping bn the crest of a vol-. cano. In the afternoon, immediately after the House had been prorogued, Hui Kalaiaina marched over to the palace and presented a new constitution to the Queen with a petition that the same bo promulgated to the people as the fundamental Uw of the land. The matter of the new constitution and petition had been pre-arranged, and it is stated that ‘.ts promulgation had been promised two weeks previously, and a member from Lahaina, William White, had been actively vorkihg up the movement. A large crowd •st Hawaiins had gathered around the palace gates, and in the government building yards, and elsewhere in the neighborhood.

The Queen retired to the blue room and summoned the ministers. She was seated at a table, still dressed In the magnificent morning costume, with a sparkling coronet of diamonds. She at once presented them with a draft of the new constitution, demanded their signatures and declared her intention to promulgate the same at once. Attorney-General Peterson and Minister of the Interior Cobum decidedly refused to do so, and Ministers Cornwell and Parker, though more hesitatingly, joified the coir leagues in their refusal. All the Cabinet now advised and even strongly urged Her Majesty not to violate the law, but she was not to be dissuaded from her revolutionary course. Bringing her clenched hand down upon (he table Queen Liliuokalani said: “Gentlemen, Ido not wish to hear any more advice. I Intend to promulgate this constitution and do it now." Proceeding, she told the Cabinet that unless they abandoned their resistance at once she would go out upon the steps of the palaeo and tell the excited crowd there assembled that she wished to give them a new constitution,'but that the ministers were inside and hinderlngher from doing it. The ministers remembered the riot at the court house, and the fate of the unlucky representatives who fell into the hands of the mob. They knew what the threat meant, and before It; could be put into execution they .fled for their lives. From the government building„the ministers immediately sent word about town asking the citizens what support the Cabnet could expect in its resistance to the revolutionary movements begun by the Queen- The leading of every po-

Iltical complexion hurried together at the Hon. W. O. Smith’s Office, aud while their numbers were every instant augmented by -j fresh are4.^i nn3; they held hurried consultation as to the course to be pursued. There was but one mind among all those gathered together—tradesmen, lawyers, mechanics, merchants, were of eno opinion. Unanimity of sentiment reigned such as has not been witnessed here for years, and it was agreed without a disenting voice that it was the duty of every citizen,withoutdistinction of party, to support the law and liberties of the people and to resist the revolutionary encroachments of the Queen. Messages to this effect were at once dispatched to the Cabinet The ministers now revisited the palace again, not without apprehension that they would be taken into custody, even if they suffered no bodily harm. Great pressure lias boon brought to. bear upon Iler Majesty to induce her to go no further and to retrace tho revolutionary steps she had already taken. While her troops stood drawn up before the palace waiting for tho fia»l word of command the Queen hesitated. The conference in the blue room lasted a long time, while tho result trembled in the balance. She could not be induced to give up her unlawful project, but finally consented with bitter reluctance to a temporary postponement of-her premeditated coup. The Queen was a very augry woman when, at 4p. m., Saturday, sho returned to the throne room; Again she insisted upon her demands, and -the result was the abrogation of the government and the dethronement of Her Majesty. . = The Hawaiian Islands are 2,100 miles west of San Francisco. Their area is 6,640 square miles and their population about ninety thousand, of whom forty thousand are natives and the rest a mixture of va-

rious nationalities, including about two thousand Americans. The Americans largely outnumber the English, though the latter have considerable interests in the islands. The present revolution appears to be in the interests of the Americans. A commission has reached this country with the purpose of urging annexation. The authorities are non-committal, but it seams to be the genera) sentiment that annexation is impossible. The British Press is declaring most emphatically that America will not be allowed to acquire this territory.

TELEPHONE RED TAPE.

How They Catch on to Modern In- - ventions in Roumania. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. “They have established a teiphone system in Roumania,” said Stuart Melville, an electrician, at the Lindell last night, “but I am afraid they will never make a success of - it, in fact I am sure they won’t if they keep the present law in force. I have just got a letter from a friend of mine who went out there to construct the line. What do you suppose they have done in the way of telephone legislation in that country? Why, they have made a law requiring a man who wants to telephone another to notify him first; and the man who is going to telephone and the fellow who is to be telephoned to have got to agree to be at a certain place at a certain time in order to do their talking. For instance: If I was going to telephone you about something to morrow I would send you word to-night for you to be at the Globe Democrat office at, say 1:30 o’clock to-morrow, as I wanted to speak to you over the telephone from the Lindell Hotel. Then if you were not there at the appointed time it would be a misdemeanor for me to call up the instrument unnecessarily, as the man I called for was not there, and, having been notified and not responding, it would be evidence that you did not care to talk with me. Isn't that an enlightened country for you?

Arsenic the Favorite.

Cases of poisoning appear, from the report of the chemical analyzer to the government of Bombay, to be painfully common in India. In the “Kambeker street” case the son of a wealthy Menon, being dissatisfied with his father’s allowances, conspired with the cook to destroy all the members of the family who stood in his way. says the London News. Five persons have actually died of strychnine thus administered. The cook turned queen’s evidence and the murderer has been hanged. In Oodeypore a young girl was on the eve of marriage with a man who did not meet the approval of her friends. The friends got over the difficulty by putting arsenic in ter food. In Poonah the servant of a European nurse robbed her mistress of some money while she was lying ill. Some people in these circumstances would have sent for the police. The Poonah nurse preferred to put arsenic in the pilferer’s soup. In the Kaladgi district a woman applied to a “Mahar” fora charm to stop the quarrelsome habits of her husband. The charm, which was in the form of a white powder, proved perfectly successful. The man died, and so did his dog, who ate the remains of his food. Arsenic, which is obtainable without the slightest difficulty in Bombay, always heads, it is said, the chemical analyzer's list.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Scarlet fevertaepidemic in Hobart The Elwood tin-plate mill will be enlarged. Monrovia has a plague of rats, and cats are in demand. Evansville reports forty alarms of fire since New Years. --t—--------A bi-chloride of gold institute will be established at Seymour. John Shinn attempted suicide at Anderson with “rough on rats.” Jeffersonville is enjoying an epidemic of mumps and a prison investigation. A small child was frozen to death at Opedeo during the recent cold snap. B Leroy Moss died at a charity ball at Anderson, while dancing with his wife. The Big Four Depot at Jamestown was destroyed by Are Thursday morning. Rabbits in the vicinity of Huntington are doing great damage to fruit trees. Walter Gilmour, aged seven years, was killed by an electric car in Terre Haute. It is probable that Uncle Sam will abandon his recruiting office at Terre Haute. A child weighing less than twcrtqiounds was born of Swedish parents at Goshen. Lebanon’s electric light plant is badly damaged by the frost and the city is now in the dark. Ingraham & Schultz, hardware dealers of Clay City, have assigned with ample assets to pay liabilities. Rushville is agitated over the death of an infant that appears to have been strangled by its mother. 3 Capitalists at Kennard have platted an addition and will bore for gas, to be used for manufacturing purposes. A meeting of farmers at Pickard’s Mill condemned the action of the so-called road Congress recently held at Indianapolis. George Fellows and his son William died at Columbus withip an hour of each other, and the wife of the former was found dead in her bed last Friday. _ Morgan H. Weir, of La Porte, has entered suit against Judge Noyes for 810,000 damages for striking his name as an attorney from the bar docket. An unknown man was found dead on the ice in the middle of the river at Columbus, with his throat cut. He had apparently been dead for several days. Thousands of quails are reported dying in Carroll county and adjoining counties of starvation. In many localities the farmers are feeding the birds. The steamer “General Tipton,” which carries passengers on White river from Rockford to Columbus in the summer seaj son, has been sunk by the ice. r— —

Tho saloon which was moved from Milford to North Webster, against the vigorous protest of the residents of the lastnamed place, has been.blown to atoms by dynamite. A great revival Is being worked up by the Kokomo press, who have tendered unlimited space to the city pastors, and a temporary tabernacle will be built for the coming of Sam Jones. John G. Tennant, one of the pioneers of Greencastle, died of paralysis. Wednesday. He had resided there for over fifty years, and lacked but a few days of completing his eighty-eighth year. In the circuit court at Seymour, Thursday, John W. Holmes, of Medara, a prominent citizens, was sentenced to jail for ten days, fined 825 and disfranchised for ten years for bribing a voter. Postmaster Greiner, of Terre Haute, has been notified by the Department that the Terre Haute postoffico comes under the amendment to the postal rules recently promulgated by the President. George M. Ray, of Shelbyville, under indictment at Liberty for selling 82,000 fa fraudulent warrants to banker J. P. Kennedy, as is alleged in the complaint, will not be tried until the April term. Gabriel Godfrey, the last Miami chief l living near Peru, killed a deer near that city, Monday. The hunt was participated in by many people and was as exciting as the old-time sport of forty years ago.

Mrs. Henry Nott,of Flkhart,while waiting for a train at Kendallville, was approached by a heavily-veiled lady, who asked her to care for a child in arms for a few moments. Mrs. Nott still has the child. As the result of a number of boxing and knock-out exhibitions given in Huntington by boxers, Tuesday night the City Council passed an ordinance prohibiting any fight or exhibition of pugilistic skill in the city in the future. The late George C. Dorland, of Laporte, Is said to have canceled 83,500 life insurance just before starting on the trip which cost him his life tn the L. E. & W. wreck near Peru. He claimed he was carrying top much insurance. Hon John A. Cartwright has become a partner and resident manager of the Bowen bank, at Delphi. The Bowen family, as a result of the attempt to collect back taxes, have, with one exception, taken residence fa other States. Herman Worth, of South Bend,has been placed under 815,000 bond to await the result of an assault made on Henry Heinrich nearly two months ago. Worth hit Heinrich on the head with a sharp-edged hammer, cutting a hole through the skull. At New Albany officers found the dies, molds, fifty unfinished dollars and about two pounds of metal, the outfit of the alleged counterfeiters, James Fox, Thomas White and William McCombs, who were arrested last Friday and taken to Indianapolis. Harry Griffitt, sixteen years old, a student of DePauw University and the son of Dr. R. E. Griffitt, clerk of Morgan county, who mysteriously disappeared two weeks ago, is at Minneapolis, Minn. He writes back that ft is too warm for him at Greencastle, and that, having found employment, he wii! remain where he is. Elias Thompson, seventy-three yean old, of Warren county, wandered away from the home of his sow, and his body was found in a cornfield about two miles away. It was covered with ice and snow and was frozen solid. The body had evidently been exposed to the elements for several days. BThe wife of Eli Miller, who resides near Valley City, gave birth, a day or two ago, to four children, all of whom died. This makes seven children which this lady has given birth to within the last twelve months. Nearly a year ago she had three children at one birth. They died while quite young. Sam Henninger, a fifteen year convict at the Prison South, five yean ago, out of pique, rWSolved to talk no more, and has obstinately held to hla resolution. He uses pencil and paper when he desires to com-

nranicate with anyone, and al! effort* to induce him to talk have failed. He has five years yet to serve. Eddie Evans, a notorious local crook of Terre Haute, was released from the prison south on the 6th fast, and the warden said to him, as Evans walked away, ”I*ll keep your old job waiting for you.” Evans returned to Terre Haute and sandbagged John Young, of Newport, whom he robbed of a gold watch. Stock fa Bartholomew county has suffered Intensely on account of the recent cold weather, In many cases water was secured by hauling it for miles. The ground being covered with snow for twen-ty-five days many of the farmers claim thatquails in vast numbers have perished, 5 The Chicago Farmers’ Review fa ta article on winter wheat, says: “In Iniana about 70 per cent, of the correspondents report the condition of wheat as good, 12 per cent, report fair and the rest poor. This Is the condition in which It went Into winter quarters, since which there has been little change. Cattle are fa good condition, but very few are being shipped, taking the Siate as a whole.” Wm. O’Daniels is a stout, able-bodied widower of Hazlewood, who bustled several of his children to the county atylum, and with three little boys sheltered himself in a wretched hovel, sending the lads out to work while he did nothing but loaf about the saloons. He also absorbed the wages of the boys fa drink. The “whitecappers” have warned Mr. O’Danieis that he must reform or migrate. " Patents were granted Indianalnventory Tuesday, as follows: C. W. Ctartc. MfshSwaka, plow; R. T. Hollowell, Danville, self-serving table; J. Hook, Union City, hoop-driving machine; C. W. Jeffries, South Bend, gear for children’s carriage; E. B. Shleppy, Crawfordsville, combination beef-mangler; B. F. Showalter. Vai paraiso, musical key and transposition guide. The Anderson Herald notes that a project is revived in that vfactaßy to sink a well through the Trenton rock to the sandstone formation beneath, in hopes of reaching another gas or oil well deposit. In Pennsylvania the best yield of both is obtained from what is locally known as the second sandstone, but the Herald is not sanguine that similar results - will be found in the Indiana gas belt. The police at Vincennes uncovered a lot of stolen property concealed In the house of William Edson, among which was a quantity of clothing belonging to an Indianapolis house. An attempt followed to arrest Edson and his partner, Edward Sands, of Indianapolis, bnt after emptying their revolvers in the direction of the fugitives the officers were compelled to abandon the pursuit. Mrs. Edson and a woman named Numley were placed in jail.

C. V. McAdams, county attorney of Warren county, writes the Indianapolis Journal that the published accounts concerning the defalcation of Treasurer Cronkhite are short of the truth in that they fail to state that Cronkite has left ample resources and perfected arrangements whereby the county and his bondsmen will be fully protected and all things satisfactorily arranged. He claims that the funds are invested in farm's and stock upon which Cronkhite failed to realize in time to avert disaster. George Kline and wife, and Ed, alias “Cockey” Riley, of Terre Haute, having a grievance against Ezra Norton, found him in a saloon, and Cline attacked him with a billiard cue, while Mrs. Cline stood by with drawn revolver, daring any one to interfere. In this she was aided by Riley. Norton was knocked down by the first blow, and Cline continued to beat the unconscious form until his cue was broken in pieces. The trio was arrested'for attempted murder. There is strong probability that Norton will die. The animua of the assault is unknown. „ Augustus Cronkhite, twice elected treasurer of Warren county, is a defaulter for - at least $65,000, and a fugitive from justice. Saturday he attempted to discount SIO,OOO worth of paper at Attica, and also endeavored to obtain a SIO,OOO Joan, but failed. A meeting of his bondsmen—about thirty in number—was called after his flight, and it was found that the treasury did not contain a dollar. One half the bondsmen will be ruined. Cronkhite was not a gambler, though given to extravagant living. Where the money went has not been discovered. It is believed that Cronkhite is in Canada. The Doxey Hotel at Anderson wasshak ■ en from top to bottom by a terrific gas explosion Monday night. The house was full of guests and a regular stampede followed. Fortunately not a single one was injured and the damage to the property is only slight. The lower corner room of the block is occupied by the National Exchange Bank, and it was under the room that the explosion occurred. Fire broke out immediately, and the furniture and fixtures of the bank were destroyed. None of the bank’s papers, booksor notes suffered. The total loss from the explosion and fire will be about SIO,OOO. fully covered by nsuranee. There is some what of a panic among a large portion of the colored population and some white people in Jeffersonville. They claim that the ghost of George Emery, shot through the heart by Henry Holtman two years ago, is walking about the vicinity where he was shot is search of his murderer. All sorts of queer things are reported as being done by the vengeful spirit. People find their doors unaccountably latched or unlatched, as the case may be. Windows and doors left open are found closed, or vice versa, apparently without human agency. The sound „of footsteps is heard at dusk in some of the houses adjoining the scene of the murder, yet no one is ever seen.

MOONSHINERS IN THE EAST.

Flnely-Equipped IlHelt Distillery Captarad In a tlarn on Long Island. The secret service detectives attached to United States Internal Revenue Collector Nathan’s staff, In Brooklyn, raided an illicit whisky still, at 1:30 o’clock Sunday mornlne, and captured, after an exchange of about a dozen shots, one of the • moonshiners” and a finely-equipped dis ■ tillery. The capture is estimated to be worth 37,000. The illicit distillery was located in a bam at Woodhaven, L. I. Upon making ar. examination of the bam the officers found an excellent still, ot the latest patent, capable of turning out five barrels of whisky and three barrels of rum. The machinery was destroyed, the Government seal placed on the barn-door and officers placed in charge.