Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1893 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Negroes killed a New Orleans policeman Wednesday. Potatoes are worth $1.25 per bushel in the Chicago wholesale market. Ferdinand Ward is a free man, all the indictments against him having been dismissed. Dr. Norvln Green, president of the-W extern Union telegraph company, died at Louisville, Sunday. ===== tiTwo young ladies near Denton. Neb., are suffering from glanders, contracted from a favorite pony. The gamblers at Guthrie, Okla., have broken into the legislative desk and stolen the anti-gambling bill. A disastrous wreck occurred on the Big Four near Pana, 111., Tuesday. One man was killed and six seriously injured. A Chinaman committed suicide at New York. Wednesday, being the first case known in this country among that race. There is a conflict of authority between federal and State officials in South Carolina, growing outof railroad litigation. The City of Pekin, which is now in port at San Francisco, after being two weeks overdue, was delayed by a broken propeltor. Pickpockets are thriving in Chicago, and easily escape arrest, leaving their victims helpless and without recourse of any kind. Ex -Go vernor Foraker will not accept the appointment offered him by Governor McKinley as trustee of tho Ohio State University. Under the spijee allotted to Kentucky in the World’s Fair mining building at Chicago, a miniature mammoth cave is to be constructed. The Illinois Steel Company at Chicago cleared over $6,117,000 in the past year. It has decided to issue $7,000,000 in bonds at 5 per cent. , The Pennsylvania House,' by a vote of 150 to 13, passed a bill to prohibit the manufacture and sale of cigarettes within the commonwealth. 7H~:

Heirs of Col. C. Clay King, late of Kingsville, Mo., claim $40,000,000 worth of property in tho heart of Chicago, known as the Bourbon estate. The Brooklyn common council has ordered the removal of tho statue of Henry Ward Beecher from the front of the city hall to Prospect park. Justice Harlan of the United States •Supreme Court, is in London, and was pro" sented to the Queen’s Bench by Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, Tuesday. Deer in Michigan find it almost impossible to get through the snow, which is over five tect deep, and hunters pursue them on snow-shoes and catch them alive. James Sebastian, a farmer living near Sherman, Tex., dropped a stick of dynamite on Ills stove. The five inmates of the house were horribly bruised and burned. Col. Ingersoll delivered an eloquent eulogy on the character of Abraham Lincoln at New York, Saturday night, on the 81th anniversary of tho birth of the martyTpresident. Kentucky Legislators are agilated over the convict labor problem. The present lessees demand further concessions, while the State already loses money under the present contract. Frank Hirth, an anarchist well known in Chicago and Milwaukee, committed suicide in Detroit on tho 9th. by taking morphine. He was despondent becauso he bad lost touch with the socialists.

James J. Hallan, the colored minister who killed his wife aLWinfield, N. Y,, has been sentenced by Judge Brown, of Long Island City, to die by electricity at Sing Sing in the week'beginning March 13. Gov. Hogg, of Texas, has sent a message to tho legislature deploring the recent burning of the negro Smith, at Paris in that State, and recommends the passage of more stringent laws to check the violence of mobs. Heider’s Hotel, Cincinnati, was partially destroyed by fire, Thursday morning. The structure had been condemned and ordered to be torn down within a month. It was packed with people. Fonr were burned to death. While Mrs. Oliver Pattie was away from her homo near Bellair, Mich., preaching, Tuesday night, the house burned to tho groand, and her three children, aged twelve, ten and six years, perished in the flames.

Rev. G. W. Angleberger, chaplain of the Wyoming House yf Representatives, has refused to recoivo his salary. He is a Seventh-day Adventist, and in his letter declining his salary says that it is unChrtstianllke to do so. The Norwegian bark Alice wont ashore at Long Beach, N. J., Monday night. •Eleven sailors were rescued by the lifesaving service by means of the breeches buoy. Five who attempted to land in the bark’s boats wore drowned. Rev. Father Sherman, son of the lato Gen. W. T. Sherman, In a lecture at St. Louis, Saturday night, stated that his father was at one suspended by President Lincoln on a charge of Insanity, caused by same incoherent dispatches which were tampered with. The college of physicians of Philadelphia, has adopted a scries of resolutions calling upon Congress to keep quarantine, at all frontiers under the supremo and exclusive regulations and control of the National Government, und administered solely by trained sanitary officers of the United States. Will Butler, colored, a step-son of Smith, who was burned by a Texas mob last week, was found hanging to a limb and his body riddled with bullets, near Paris, Tex., Wednesday morning. Ho mado himself notorious by boasting - that ho k/iew Smith’s whcroabouts before his capture, which ho refused to divulge.

FOREIGN.

Michael Davitt has been elected to Parliament to represent Northeast Cork. Tbo destruction of property by the floods In Australia will amount to $15,#30.000. The Marseilles correspondent of the Paris LI her to says that within tho last four days fifty persons have died in Marseilles of a choleraic disease. A stormy debate took place iu thcr Canadian House of Commons, at Ottawa. Wednesday, over the prospective policy of the Cleveland administration toward that country. Another violent earthquake was felt at Zanto, Tuesday. ( The King and Queen of Greece ar6 visiting all the villages on the island to learn the wants of those who

—~ 'T * . ■< i "i *'.in piM;). 111 " have been driven from home, and to calm the panic-stricken. ' The caraval Santa Marla, escorted by the crusier Isla de Luzon, sailed from Cadiz for America, Tuesday, The cruiser will proceed half way across the Atlantic with the caraval. ’ . ; "■ ■ Ex-Minister and Deputy Rouvler, exMinister and Senator Paul Deves, Senator Albert Grevy, brother of the late President, and Senator Leon Renault, have been discharged from~tiie accusation* against them in connection with the Panama proceedings, on the ground that the evidence does not warrant patting them on trial. . —■ . —-

WASHINGTON.

The treasury department has reduced its estimate of the probable amount required for the payment of, the sugar bounties. The original estimate was $lO,000,000. It is now $8,000,000. President Harrison expects to leave Washington within an hour or two after the inauguration of his successor, and arrive at Indianapolis Monday, March 6. He will spend the intervening Sunday at Pittsburg. Mr. Turpie, in the Senate, Tuesday, offered a resolution making political crimes a non-extraditable offense. It was laid on the table. A debate arose over the ratification of the Russian treaty, the clause making an attempt to murder any member of tho Russian royal family a 'lionpolitical offense, and extraditable. Mr. Turpie defended the right of asylum for such offenders. The treaty was ratified by a two-thirds vote. In the whisky trust investigation, Weddesday, Thomas Dewar, a guager, testified that he was approached by Mr. Gibson, and requested to assist in destroying tlic Shufeldt distillery. Was told that I could make SIO,OOO by assisting him, and $25,000 if the matter went right. At a subsequent conversation Gibson stated that he could give witness something to put a can under a tank oF alcohol in the cistern room of the Shufeldt distillery. Witness was to receive SIO,OOO for this.

A TRIPLE ALLIANCE.

The Monroe Doctrine Said to Have Been Ignored. Extradition Treaty With Russia—Prelude to a Foreign Combine. The Washington correspondent of a NewiYork paper Sunday, telegraphed a sensational story to tho effect that a “triple alliance between the United States, Russia and France—such is the international combination of forces for mutual benefit and defense which has been secretly pending for six years and which, unknown to either the diplomatic or political world at large, culminated In an executive session of the U. S, Senate two days ago/ This is the first public announcement of the weighty meaning which lay behind the seemingly unimportant and formal announcement that ’the extradition treaty with Russia has been ratified.’ It is claimed that the United States will be sustained by Russia and France in all annexation projects in tho Western hemisphere.” The report is not fully credited In Washington, and the general belief is that no such interpretation can be placed on the mere ratification of the extradition treaty.

GLADSTONE’S GRIT.

TUa Grand Old Man Resents an Insult From Balfour. In the House of Commons, Friday, Mr. Balfour spoke at length in favor of extending the debate on the Behring Sea question. In the course of his remarks he reflected on the present Ministry. Mr. Gladstone questioned correctness of Balfour’s statements. Balfour replied with spirit and In Insulting terms. Cries of "shame” and jeers from Irish and Liberal members ensued amldst much confusion. Mr. Gladstone arose trembling with indignation, and in a voice shaken with anger, thundered out: “With duo regard to circumstances and time I have endeavored to serve tho House to the best of my ability (loud oand prolonged cheers). The right honorable from East Manchester would have shown better taste, would have better fulfilled the duties of the post which he occupies, if he had spared the reference to my agreeable occupation.” Repeated cheers followed Mr. Gladstone s words, and amid the enthusiasm of the demonstration Mr. Balfour rose unnoticed to speak. He began three times before his voice could be heard. Before ho had spoken a dozen audible words the Irish members i drowned Bis voice again with yells and shouts of "Oh, oh, coward,” and “Withdraw.” Finally amidst the utmost disorder Balfour succeeded in making himself heard and stated that he had not intended to reflect on the Prime Minister or to hurt his feelings in any .way. was received on all sides with prolonged cheers.

SHE SWEETLY SLEEPS.

A Long Nap—Strange Case of an Insane Girl. Miss Bridget Pendegrast- was admitted to Central Hospital for the Insane, at Indianapolis, in February, 1891. She had been disappointed in love and refused to eat or drink. She foil into a deep sleep, in which she has since remained, with her mouth tightly closed and her teeth pressed tightly against her upper jaw. Her eyes are constantly closed, and the3appearance Is that of~peaceful slumber. Only twice has she opened her eyes, and then but for an instant. She is pale, but she has not lost flesh to any appreciable extent, and her skin is healthy, warm and moist. The surgeons inserted a tube in Bridget’s throat, and hor nurse pours from sixty to ninety ounces of milk down the tube every day. In this way she is fed and kept in good condition. Massage, electricity, and all other methods to arouse her from sleep have failed, and It is supposed she has the "African lethargy,” or sleeping sickness, which has been known to last for thirteen years. , Tho pool of Hothesda was much the same as a railroad pool of the presentday; it was surrounded by crlppies. “There, I’ve made a clean breast of it." as the cook remarked .while plucking the chicken.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

i Rev. Dr. Lncas prayed in the Senate Tuesday morning at the opening hour to a very small audience. As the members straggled in business was resumed. Committees reported a number of bills with Bill to change time of electing trustees to fall was favorably reported. An extended discussion of the minority report favoring the repeal of the section of the election law providing tor printing sample ballots ensued. Senator Magee in an energetic speech opposed the change. Adoption of report was defeated—ayes 17, nays 19,—and tho substitute bill favored by the majority of the committee providing that ballots shall occupy but half the' space in newspapers was adopted. Bill extending jurisdiction of Appellate court was favorably reported. Prison committee reported in favor of bill

to allow wardens to purchase,feed on prison slops and slaughter hogs and cattle. Constitutional amendment fixing term of prosecuting attorneys at four years was rejected. Bill providing that foreign build- ~ tag associations shall deposit SIOO,OOO with State auditor and for the appointment of an inspector was considered and extensively debated. Motion to strike out the SIOO,OOO deposit clause was lost—receiving but five votes. Adjourned. House was opened with prayer by Rev Mr. Christensen. Bill providing that nonresidents loaning money in State shall deposit evidence of amount loaned was introduced. Bill providing that c saloon keepers shall keep posted in place of business notice that minors are not allowed was introduced. Bill to prevent adulteration of sorghum molasses was passed. Bill amending sec. 4of tax law was passed. Bill empowering trustees to accept donations of land for cemetery purposes and to purchase land not exceeding five acres for Such purposes, passed. Bill providing that delinquent list shall be published by lowest bidder failed. Bill reducing rate of interest on school fund to 6 per cent passed unanimously. H. B. 61, relating to employment of teachers came back from Senate with amendments which were coneurredin and bill was sent to Governor. Many bills were advanced to third reading. Bill relating to transfer of prisoners to county Jail from Denitentiary and retransfer back to prison passed. Resolution to increase pay of janitors was referred. Adjourned. Rev Mr. Richardson begged the Almighty to be lenient with Hoosier Sena-, tors, Wednesday morning. A bare quorum was present. Bill amending ditch law passed unanimously. Bill appropriating $25,000 for the removal of Momence rock passed—34 to 3. Bill for deputy town marshals passed. Bill for vacation of streets passed. Bill fixing time of holding teachers’ examinations in January, March, April, May, Juno, August and September passed. Bill providing for publication of receipts and expenditutes of town clerks and treasurers passed. Tho pharmacy bill was called up and, after discussion was made special order for Friday at 10 a. m. Adjourned. The county seat bill wasdhc special order in the House, Wednesday,at 10 o’clock. A large lobby from tho counties likely to be affected was present. An extended debate ensued, and the bill was killed, yeas 03, nays 17. Bill providing that mine owners shall provide black boards on which miners may register- amount of timber neeejed for safety was unanimously passed. Bill giving cities jurisdiction over saloons within two miles of limits was introduced. A number of new bills were introduced among which were: Appropriating $135,000 for display at World’s Fair; appropriating $130,000 so Purdue University; appropriating SB,OOO for shelving for State library; reapportioning the State for legislative purposes. Adjourned. House opened Thursday by prayer, Rev. Wilson acting as chaplain. Bill increasing appropriation for farmers’ institutes to $4,000 was introduced. Bill providing that railroad omplyoyes having worked twenty-four hours shall bo allowed eight hours rest before being again called upon, passed—yeas 77, nays 2.—8i1l providing for weighing wheat, in testers passed. Petition from farmers of HowarcT county asking that liberal appropriation be made for the World’s Fair exhibit was presented. Bill extending time for closing saloons to 12 o’clock, p. m. iu all cities of 75,000 inhabitants passed. Bills to amend the tax law; providing for oil Inspection; and to amend the election law were introduced. Adjourned. Senate was opened with prayer by Rev. Wambsgauss. Bill legalizing Incorporation of Gas City was passed under suspension of rules. Bill extending class of securities in whicn savings baks may invest their funds passed. Bill providing for an ‘•investigator of tho poor” in townships having a population 25,000 passed. Bill amending road law passed. Bill providing for publication of notice of sale of school fond mortgage lands passed. Bill providing for medical examination, in suits for damages by assault, was killed. Bill requiring notaries to state in all attestations the date of expiration of commission passed. Bill providing that judges as well as juries may declare persons of unsound mind passed. Bill to raise age of consent from twelve to fourteen years passed. House bills to forfeit railroad aid; providing for registry of union, labels—passed. A number of unimportant Senate bills passed. Adjourned.

Rev. Mr. Wilqpn conducted morning devotions for the Senate, Friday. Bill to let convict labor to highest bidder was made special order for next Wednesday. Committco recommended printing of World’s Fair appropriation bill. Bill repealing portion of Grubb’s libel law was favorably reported, A vigorous debato was had on libel law applying to civil cases, and a strong sentiment was developed against the bill. Judiciary committee > recommended passage of bills legalizing certain town plats; requiring County Clerks to register fees; and bill amending dog law. Committee on education recommended the passage of bill regulating qualifications of county superintejdeuts, and for annaal representation on dirtstofs’ boards of State Educational institutions. Bill to prevent obstruction of drains was recommended for passage. An assault on the fee and salary law was made. A bill to change salaries in some instances was Indefinitely postponed. Bill fixing compensation and limiting time of county assessor was favorably reported. Bill for formation of loan and trust companies was made special order for. next Thursday. Bill Unamend city charter , of Indianapolis was made a special order for Monday. Bill for non-partisan expert ex-

amination of books of retiring county offi-j cers was recommitted in spite of adverse! report of committee. Lieutenant Governor set his foot down on further Saturday recesses over protestof numerous Sena tore. Mr. Magee spoke at length In favor of his resolution to adjourn February 28, although the limit of the session is March 5. He favored passage of necessary appropriation bills and adjournment to prevent vicious legislation and save expense. the Senate adjourned. 6 In the House’ Friday devotions were forgotten in the struggle for leave of absence. Representative Deery objected to granting any more. Bill legalizing Incorporation of Amsterdam was passed under suspension of rules. New bills were introduced. Bill to appropriatesls,ooo for payment of “home guards” during Rebellion was killed. Committee reported against appropriation to PlainfieW Reform School for improvements. The dog bill as heretofore given in these columns was passed. Bill to add $1,500 to salaries of circuit Judges in counties having 30,000 population, passed. Bill to fix salary of county superintendent in counties having 100,000 population at $2,500 was introduced. Bill making the obstruction of railway tracks a capital offense was passed to third reading. Bill legalizing incorporation of Carlisle was passed under suspension of rules; also legalizing incorporation of town of Eugene. Vermillion county. Bill favoring a State Board of school commissioners was favorably reported. Bill prohibiting use of horses and mules by street railway was killed. Bill for relief of Chenoweth treasurer of Wabash county passed. Bill to levy a one mill tax on every ten miles of road for maintenance of free turnpikes passed. After introduction of a grist of new bills House adjourned. Senate Saturday was opened with prayer by Rev. Mackintosh. No quotum present. G. A. R. petitions received and referred. Number of now bills presented among which were: To provide for compulsory education; appropriating $2,000 for removal of Morton statue to the State House grounds; granting special power* to county commissioners for road purposes. Bill providing for preservation of all ballots not counted was ordered engrossed. Bill fixing salaries of assessors in townships of 100,000 inhabitants at $3 a day was ordered engrossed. Bill authorizing prison wardens to feed hogs was engrossed. Bill providing for certain changes in text books was favorably reported. H. B. 221 fixing rate of interest on school fund was favorably reported. Bill to reimburse contractor at Knightstown Home for work done In excess of contract was ordered printed. Adjourned till Monday. House was opened in the midst of a racket by “Fog Horn” Kelley, ex-member from DeKalbcounty. No quorum present. RoU was not called. Bill to tax umbrellas was introduced as “hoss play.” Mock discussion ensued. Rep. McMullen moved to exempt foreign umbrellas. Referred to Rep. Haggard for amendment. Bill to require school teachers to be able to teach vocal music was' introduced. A fireman’s relief fund bill was introduced by Rep. Deery. Bill to require accounting by agricultural board was recommended for passage by majority of committee, but on demand for roll calf no quorum was found to be present and House adjourned till Monday. LEGISLATIVE NOTES. The House bill to protect union labels has beep favorably reported in the Senate. The Governor has approved the bill in relation to the removal of school houses, and it is now a law. Michigan City wants the Legislature to assist in its park improvements by permitting a small tax levy for purely park purposes. / - - ---

PRISON INVESTIGATION.

The prison investigation at Jeffersonville was resumed, Wednesday. Steward Montgomery testified that bad food had been purchased but not used. Good quality of food was served. Each convict was given three-fourths of a pound of fresh meat per day, mainly at diuner. Rev. Barnhill, formerly chaplain, testified to humane character of Warden Patten. W. D. Cherrington testified that the Warden was in general toolieuient with priaoners; treated them better than was proper for strict discipline. R. A. Butler confirmed tbls statement. Alexander Johnson, Secretary State Board of Charities, testified that in his investigations he had heard but two complaints and found them without foundation. Believed the prison was properly conducted in every respect. In the prison investigation, Thursday, Jack Collins, a convict, testified that members of the committee had spoken to him in an uncomplimentary way of the Warden. That the Warden bad threatened to “cut his liver out” if he did not return to work once after being sick. Stewart Montgomery testified that ho had had differences with the Warden. Warden Patten appeared on the stand in his own behalf. He said that there had been no specific charges, and that the investigation had been simply a drag-net. He had prepared an extended statement, which he read to the committee, in which he answered the testimony against his management In detail. He Said some convicts had been disciplined from necessity and denied emphatically that he had misappropriated funds or dishonestly dealt with the State in any way.

A MOTHER’S LOVE.

Gruesome Tale from Tennessee—iu Death They Were Not Divided.; A funeral took place at Rock Island, Tenn., Wednesday, that was the talk of the whole country. The dead wore a mother and her son, and the son had been dead and unburled for thirty years. During the civil war the son was killed at Murfreesboro. His mother declared that she would never part with her boy while she lived, and that when death claimed her also, both should be buried in one grave. She had an air-tight cedar casket made, with a glass top, into which the body was laid. This was placed in a room assigned for that purpose, where tho mother often repalrod to commune with the dead. The body gradually became mummified. Thirty years it waited, an uncanny occupant that gave the house a queer reputation.

Willing to Help Him.

“I want to rise promtly at five in the morning," gala Taddells to his wife, “Then I’ll give you a spoonful o r powder I havff in the kitchen.” “What kind of powder is it?” “Baking powder."

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Martinsville will have waterworks. Diphtheria is alarmingly prevalent at Warsaw. -—• r The Indiana State Fair will be hold as usual this year. Jeffersonville is agitated "'over the prospect ora great fibod. Janesville, ten miles soath of Columbus, has a mad dog scare. High water and ice have been doing great damage at M uncle. Tea - Greensburg Democrats imagine they are specially qualified for postmaster ~ . A bo* containing the frozen body of an infant was taken from White river near Petersburg, Sunday. The oldest Odd Fellow is dead again, in the person of Christian Hablize, at Madison. aged sixty-four. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Strieby, near Goshen, celebrated their :ixty-sccond wedding anniversary, Wednesday.^ Alexandria is skirmishing for a removal of the De Pauw steel-works from New Albany to that place. Lagrange has sold $20,060 in bonds at a premium of SBOO and will use the money in erecting water works.

A remarkable religions awakening is in progress at Evansville. Business has to a large extent been suspended. Rosseau’s Brigade held a re-unlon at Columbus on the 10th. One hundred and five survivors were in attendance. - The Standard Oil Company has acquired the Lebanon light, heat and power plant. A law suit is in view over the transfer. 4 Thomas Kepler, a large land and millowner,. living four miles northwest of Centerville, was found dead in the woods There are twenty-live prisoners in the Anderson jail and they had a close call for their lives from escaping gas, Tuesday morning. The Vandalia railway depot at South Bend, a handsome structure, was partially destroyed by fire, together with many valuable records, i There were forty conversions and sixty accessions as the result of the M. E. revival at Mooresvllle, conducted by the Rev. L. S. Knott. John Smith, seventy years old, of Paoll, while at Jeffersonville, was struck by a •dinkey” train, losing his right arm and receiving other injuries An anti-liquor league has been formed at New Albany, non-partisan and non-sec-tarian, its platform calling for a union of all temperance workers. J. W, Paine, a prominent citizen of Fowler, was mysteriously and probably fatally shot, Sunday morning. His wife has been arrested for the crime. Samuel Fauss, a boy of Muncie, was struck on the head by an icicle, which fell from a building. The concussion superinduced brain fever, and he died.

A dog funeral, with all the formality of black bordered cards and a procession disgraced Muncie on the 10th. The defunct camine met its death in a Chicago fire,“poor thing.” 8 The treasurer of Knox county placed $20,446 in ditch bonds withE. H. Rollins & Son, of Chicago, at a premium of S4OO. The bonds pay 6 per cent, interest and run from two to seven years. George Lemons, near St. Omcr, drank to exeess while at St. Paul, and, starting to walk home, he laid down In a stone quarry and went to sleep. He was found In a frozen condition by the workmen, and his death occurred in a few hours. 1 Experts claim to have found rich silver deposits near Brazil, and specimens of ore have been sent to Chicago to be assayed. Zinc ore in paying quantities was found in the same locality, and real estate in Clay county is booming as a consequence. A syndicate headed by Postmaster General Wanamaker and Russell Harrison, will operate largely in real estate In the gas belt during the coming season. They already have large interests at Marion, Fairmount and Alexandria. Franklin Is excited over the possibilities of the new Dobbins-McKennoy pneumatic tire invention. llon.Tom. Taggarthas purchased an interest hi the patent and will control the business. It is claimed that the new tire is practically non-punctur-able. Judge Snyder, a prominent Crawfordsville attorney, consulted by a colored man with a view to bringing suit against the city for damages from Thursday’s flood, while making investigations, came near being drowned in the submerged cellar of his client’s residence.

Henry Benson, of Chesterton, was assaulted by a masked man, who felled him with a club, robbed him of his valuables, and left him lying in the snow in a unconscious condition. Mr. Benson was not found until daylight, during which time his arms had frozen so that amputation will be necessary. A town conflict is imminent, dae to the efforts of the Western Improvement CV»mp«.uy to secure the removal of the Yorktown depot of the Big Fonr railway to West Muncie, one mile east of its present site. Similar plans are being formulated looking to the removal of the postoffice to the same place. _ George C. Wilson of Roachdale, who recently removed to Kokomo with 1700 cash, with which he proposed to establish a grocery, fell in with gamblers and was despoiled. He then resorted to forgery to to cover his losses, and is ,now reported to be a fugitive. The Roachdale >bank at Ladoga, together with his father, are among the losers. Some of the old settlers of Eikhart county are claiming that the ihrcsent winter is not a circumstance to the winter of 1843-44, when the cold weather began early in the fall and remained without a break until the middle of April. Still again, there was a cold winter in 1834-55, when timber was killed by freezing. The treasurer of Vigo county followed up the ruling of the Supreme Court in the tax cases by levying upon two locomotives belonging to the Evansville & Terre Haute railway for non-payment of taxes, and the company released the machinery by giving bond. Similar action will be taken against other railways centering at Terye Haute. A cowardly shooting affray occurred at Anderson, Saturday. Paddy Ryan, in love with a waiter girl at Flahavin’s hotel, attempted to murder her because she rejected his suit, but in the darkness mistook Miss Harrow man for his Inamorata, and placing the revolver against her breast, fired, inflicting a fatal wound. Ryan was arrested. Harvey Johnson, a desperado, was arrested at Waterloo, Thursday afternoon after a long chase, in which there was a

fight with fire-arms, with no one shot He confesses to the charge of a big jewelry robbery at Elkhart Johnson made two unsuccessful attempts at suicide after his arrest. He tried to cut his throat with a knife, failing In which he endeavored to strike himself In the head with a hand-ax while at the police station. Col. Daniel Schrader, a resident of New Albany, drew hls pension, as ing home he complained and seated himself in a chair. later he fell forward and died. Schrader served as lieutenant-eolonefoKbe Fiftyfourth Indiana during the war. He was sixty-seven years old. John Graeter, of Vincennes, while a passenger on the Iron Mountain railway, in March, 1891, killed Isadere Meyer and Elsie Leach, during an insane paroxysm. He was acquitted because of his mental condition. Then the widow of Meyer and the mother of Leach brought suit for damages against the estate, to avoid which John Graeter transferred the property to his brother, George VV. Graeter. The plaintiffs were given judgment for $24,000, and Thursday, at Vincennes, the conveyances to George W: theater were declared void. One of the members of the family of widow Farrell, in Shelby county, noticed that the bread prepared for breakfast tasted bitter. Some of it was fed to a cat and the animal died with every Indication of strychnino poisoning. Within a short time different members of the family, who had partaken of the bread, were also taken sick, and a daughter narrowly escaped death. An examination of the family stores disclosed strychnine in the flour and parts green in the megl. In what manner the poison was thus placed Is a mystery. The revival at Thorntown conducted by Evangelist Frame and wife, of Jamestown, 0., has led to two hundred conversions. Patents were granted to Indiana Inventors, Tuesday, as follows: Charles D. "Ames,"—Portland, assignor to Creamery Package Manufacturing Company, Chicago, tub or pail making machinery; A. C. Brandt, Fort Wayne, washing machine; E. Buysse, South Bend, bicycle lock; L.. Daugherty, Muncie, butter pail; A. Hitt, Anderson, window; B. Hudnot, Terre Haute, corn product: N. Lynn, Rising Sun, and E. P. Lynn, Cincinnati, bottle-sealißg device; B. Roberts, Indianapolis, oil burner; G. L. Slater, South Bend, yending machine; J. F. Staiger and C. Schur, Mount Vernon, suspender/button; A. W. Trotter, Petersville, furrow closing attachment for corn-planter; A. Van Camp, Decatur, scalper; S. Wiggins, Stewartsville, mangle.

DEATH OF ALGERNON SARTORIS.

Algernon Sartoris, the husband of Nellie Grant, died at Capri, Feb. 1. Details ol

MRS. NELLIE GRANT SARTORIS.

his death have not been received by his family, who reside in London.

THE MARKETS.

Indianapolis, Feb 13.18 K. Quotations for Indianapolis when not specified QBAIN. Wheat—No. 2 red,6Bc;No. 3 red, 63t{c; wagon wheat, 67c. • Corn- No. i white, 4rfsc; No. 2 white, 41c; white mixed. 4001110. 3 white, 39)4c; No. 2 yellow. 40c; Nd. 3 yellow, 30c; No. 2 mixed, 40c; No. 3Jhlxed, 39£c; ear,4oc. Oats—No, 2 white, 36c; No. 3 white, 35Rc; No. 2 mixed, 33J*c; rejected, 3le. Hay Timothy, choice, 112.50; No. 1, 112.50; No. 2, 110.00: No. 1 prairie, 17.75; No. 2.15.50; mixed hay, $7.50. Bran $14.00 per ton. > I Wheat | Corn. , Oats. (By*. Chicago 3 r’d V> 43* sitfC. I Cincinnati.... a r’d 72 43 Zi W St. Louts 2 r’d MW 41H » I Vl% New York 2 r’d hi 5"/* 38H! W Baltimore... 78 53* 41 r « Philadelphia. |2r’d 78* 53*’ 41 Clover Toledo 4» I 3S itVt Detroit l wh 7* 4114 37 Minneapolis.. '■! * . CATTLE. Export grades $4 75(35 50 Good to choice shippers 4 3504 60 Fair to medium snippers 3 €OO4 00 Common shippers 2 7503 25 Stockers, common to good 2 2503 35 Good to choice heifers 3 4034 00 Fair to medium heifers 2 7503 20 Common, thin heifers.. 2 00(g3 so Good to choice cows 3 0003 55 Fair to medlnm cows 2 2502 75 Common old cows.... 12502 00 Veals, good to choice 3 5006 go Bulls, common to medlnm.... 15003 00 Milkers, good to eboleo 30000 000 Milkers, common to medium... 1600@2500 BOOS, Heavy packing 7J008.25 Mixed i.. 7.3008.20 Light 7.3508.00 Heavy roughs A 0007.56 SHEEP. Good to choice sheep $4.2505.00 Fair to medium sheep 3.50(34.25 Common sheep 2.5003JJ0* Good to choice iambs 4.7505.501 Common to medium iambs...... 3.7504.25 Backs, per head 3.8005.20 POULTRY AND OTHEB PRODUCE. PooUnr—Hens,Bc 0 ft; young chickens 9e V lb; turkeys, 10c ft. docks, 7c V ft; geese, $5.40 for choice. Eggs—Shippers paying 30c. Butter—Choice country butter, 16018 c; common, 8010 c; creamery, retailing from store at 35c. Cheese—New York fnll cream, 13016 c: skims, 507 c V ft. (Jobbing prices.) Feathers—Prime geese 40c 0 lb; mixed duck, 20c 0 ft. Beeswax—Dark, 15c; Tellow,2oc (selling) Wool—Fine merino, 16018 c; unwashed combing,2lc; tnb washed, 31033 c. BIDES, TALLOW, ETC. Hides—No. 1 green hides, 3e; No. 3 green hides. 2)4c; No. 10. 8. hides, 4)ic; No. 3G. 8. hides, 3)*c: No. ljftaliow, 4c; No. 3 tallow, 3tfc. Horse Hides—s2ol3.2s. Tallow-No. 1,4 c; No. 3. IMc. Grease—White, 4c; yellw, %e; brown, 3e. rnerrs and vegetables. Potatoes—9LOOol.Os 0 bu. Lemons—Choice, s3,to 0 box; fancy, Onions—sl 0 hr!; Spanish, $1.50 per era to. f \