Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1893 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Seven people were turned to death in Kansas by prairie fires. = , ■ A rabbi was arrested at Cincinnati for practicing a swindling scheme. , Fred Starke, of Centerville, Minn., was killed !h/kpokcr game. Monday. The Wheeler Opera J lon-c at Toledo, 0., was burned, Friday. Loss SB(MXX). ' The original Constitution of the United States will betaken to the World’s Fair. S. W. Allerton lias been nominated for mayor of Chicago on the Citlrens' ticket. Nine mrii wore killed fry tai exniosiiTn i'n a coai mine at McAllister. Ind. T., Tues--d«y< ‘ . The body of Howard .J. Schneider, the. Washington wife murderer. was ,it, Baltimore. .. _ ' ■ -'U£ Two children left aloiie near Tampico?” Mex., were killed by fleas, that literally covered their bodies. A liquor bill is before the Massachusetts legislature to place the sale of liquor in the hands of the State. There is a fresh outbreak of smallpox at Akron. {)..om; of the guards during the recent epidemic being stricken. Serious, charges-have 'nee.:, made against Sena tor Road;, of Norlli -Dakota, that may lead to his resignation. —ReaF;A<lmiFaJtawtau('wrr!ivtiwia.tarart a thnMare Island Navy Yard. has been ordered to relieve Admiral Harmony. The Carnegie comyurny irrnpitrffTtig foreign labor in its works almut Pittsburg with negroes from tlie Sou,ln” From.all the information that 'an bese_Xur<M regajiL»ny,tlrewEh<tat ci-op.itjJ<Ansafr It can lie said that it is far from encouraging. Lord Herbert, an English nobleman who lived tire life of a hermit, has just-died in the Arbuckle mountains in Indian, ter-

ritory. H. G. Fox, collector for the First National Bank of Chicago, was "hekl up” and robbed <2f_M.'. , e:i on one of the stairways of the city hall. Mr*. Otto Sauciers, of Belleville. Tex., threw two of lie;; children into a well alid then jumped in herself. The little ones arc dead; the moth-z will die. George E. Mills, of the senior eidss of Yale, is dangerously ill from an orange seed. Nothing bat a delicate operation will save his life. Governor Wertz, of New Jersey, has signed the bitt making horse racing for purses or prizes unlawful in the months of December, January ami February. 6Richard Croker, the Tammany chief, of New York, has bought a half interest in the famous Bell .Meade, stud farm near Nashville, Tenn paying S2S'.),(XX) for the same. Contractor Frank Agnew has astonished the World’s Fair directors at Chicago by putting In a bill forsl4B,ixxi for extras in tho construction of the manufacturers’ building. The late Geo: Wr Li ch tenthalcr; "of' Bloomington, 111., bequeathed his collection of shell* ami marine plants, valued at $30,000, to the 111 tiois Wesleyan University of that city. Pension Commissioner Ranrn has to signed, and the Secretary of the Interior has selected deputy Andrew Davidson to take charge of the office until Mr. Raum’s successor ha.s_he.crLappain.ted _ “Eli Perkins,"the humorist, was “licked” hy a Pullman porter on a car le.avingChlcago, Monday morning. Tho humorist was badly disfigured. Tho porter was discharged at St. Louis. The- general sales agents of the anthracite coal companies have fixed tiic following; prices for eoa 1 this -spring; Grate, S3JX) per ton; egg. s3r.‘M); stove, $4.15; chestnut. $1.15. This is a decrease. Sixteen hoys are in jail at RockSprlngs, W. T„ charged with stealing a largo scale titan the basement of a saloon and goods from a wholesale dry goods store. The boys are from nine to fifteen years old. The Alabama National Bank, of Mobile, closed its doors by direction of Bank Examiner Cam phi 'll. De pos i tors wi 11 be pa id in full, but the capital stock of the bank is impaired to the amount of $02,000, or about 42 per cent. August Stanley and Henry Johnson-, members of a Pittsburg, Pa., hunting club, with a club-house on the Kankakee river, near Horseshoe Bond, are reported to have been drowned while hunting in that neighborhood. Tho Kansas Trustees Banking Company, at Atchison, Kan., of which Senator Ingalls is president, closed its doors M onday night. The liabilities of the concern are estimated at SSOO.IXX), and the assets will probably reach $700,000. Tho San Francisco police arc making energetic efforts to suppress tho Chinese highbinders. Within the last ten days three Chinese have been murdered in Chinatown and numerous affrays have occurred between highbinder societies. Acting under the terms of a resolution adopted by tho Legislature of Maine. Gov. Cloves has written to Mrs. Jas. G. Blaine, requesting permission for the State officials to remove the remains of her late husband from Oak Hili Cemetery, Washington, to Augusta, Mo. Customs receipts are increasing, and during the month of March it Is anticipated that they will foot up $18,000,000. For the first ten days of this month the receipts at the port of New York from customs aggregated $4,208,000, as against $4.905,0(i5 lor tho corresponding period of last year. In a fight In tho Athletic Club rooms at Grand Rapids, Mich., Tuesday night, Fred Wright, a young man of that city, was knocked out in the third round, sustaining concussion of the brain, from the effects of which he will die. Tho spectators and principal promotors of the match are keeping under cover. The British steamer Port Adelaide, which arrived at New York from China and Japan, Wednesday, brought from Singapore, for tho Columbian exposition,a large cd'cctlon of wild animals, among which are throe largo elephants, a tiger tiger cats, monkeys and several orangoutangs. Captain Jacti*) Vanderbilt, brother of the lato Commodore wnderbilt, died at his homo on Staton Island, Sunday, at tho ago of eighty-six. Jessie Jones was hung atl Jacksboro, Tenn, by a mob, Saturday night, for the shooting of Sheriff Burnett, on a train Saturday morning, while tho sheriff was trying to aid tho conductor In the protection of the passengors from a gang of desperadoes of which Jones was one. A bill has passed the Missouri Legislature for the appointment by tho Governor of an excise commission to havo absolute

control of the issuance of dram-shop licenses. It was passed by a strict party vote, as it takes the licensing power out ol tlie hands of the Republican collector of St. Louis. Gov.’ Stone .will approve th< bill. The Missouri Legislature has passed 3 bill to prevent bribery, and corruption in elections. Ills similar in many respect* to tho New York law, limiting.the- campaign ex pen ses of c and Id at os ,-i i.d req uir - - tag-them to furnish itemized statements' under oath of the amount expended or promised during the campaign. Howard Schneider, who killod’his wife and his hrotlmr-in-law, was hanged at Washington, I). ('..Friday, lie once held a high social .position, as the capital and his case had aroused unusual interest. Strong efforts were made to induce the President to commute his sentence to imprwonment for lite, bbt he infused Lata-' ter sere.

FOREIGN.

CholWa is spreading in Russia. ■»—Jules FraneotaFarnHlmFcrry, the fa mous French statesman, is dead, at the age of sixty-one. It is reported that Chili and .Peru have asked Switzerland to arbitrate in the -.boundary dispute between them. Exchanges of tho ratifications of the JSranch-and Russian treaties,--whieh-also were recently ratified by the French B>nate, will take place, in Paris and St. Petersburg respectively at an early date. A bomb was exploded In tho residence of United States Minister Potter at. Rome. Fridhy, but no great damage was done. A -similar explosion occurred in the same bufiding last yeaTUnd It'is not betfeved' tho attempted crime was caused by animosity toward tho United States or its ..representative.

WASHINGTON.

President Cleveland has announced that lie. will appoint none but competent business men to foreign consulships. The President has refused to interfere in ttar ease of Howard J, Schneider, the murderer of his wife, and brother-in-law. I The free gold in the National Treasury continues to increase through theofferings of Western banks and In the ordinary course of business, and now aggregates over $5,000,000. Senator Stewart, of Nevada, was not recognized by tho Republican Senatorial caucus, and he was deposed from the appropriations committee of which he has so long been a member. Secretary Carlisle has made a ruling to the effect that he will in no case disturb the official positions of men in the lifesaving and light-house service because of their political opinions. The question of a Hawaiin commission was considered at the Cabinet meeting Tuesday, It is expected that the commission, which will be headed by ex-Con-gressman Blount, will be sent at an early day. During tho last session of Congress $37.000 was appropriated with which to pay employes of tho bureau of engraving and printing, and to meet incidental expenses during tho fiscal year. It has just boon discovered that the engrossed bill signed by the President carried the sum of $37.

CHINESE PIRATES.

Extermination of a Band Near Shcppu— Savage Orgies. ; The it tea m£h ip. City of Rio D > Janeiro, arrived at San Francisco,March 15, bringing Yokohama papers which priura horrible story of extermination of t hand of Chinese pirates last-JanuaYy. atx. Chinese village near the city of Shehpn. Tlie pirates were surprised in their junks at night by the inhabitants of the village, i and slauglitered without resistance, lie ; tween the decks whore they were huddled 1 together for warmth while asleep. Al> were killed but two by the exasperated villagers who had suffered so often from their depredations. The two pirates who escaped death were led to tlie grave of one of their victims in a former raid at daylight, escorted by tho whole community, and tied to stakes. Then two of the nearest relatives of tho. dead man plunged their knives into the breasts of the unluiky pirates, and, ripping open their bodies, extricated their hearts, which they put smoking hot on the table, upon w liich were already lighted candles and an incense burner. While this was going on tho female relatives of tho deceased were gathered at the grave and with great lamentations calling upon the spirit of the pirates’ victim to receive. tlie sacrifice. Tlie plunder from the junks waseqnalij’ divided among tho: vtltagors who had previously been robbed by the pirates, and as a finale the junks were towed into the stream and set on fire and burned to the water's edge. The bodies of the two victims of tho sacrifice were also thrown into tho sea w hile their hearts were afterward cooked and eaten by tlie dead man’s, relatives.

WAR IN INDIA.

Brltlali Troop* Vlctorioun hi u Sanguinary Conflict With Native Tribes. A Calcutta cable of tho 14th says: The British havo had a severe battle with tribes beypnd Chiltral. where tlie British havo been for some time endeavoring to strengthen tho Indian frontier against tho possibility of Russian encroachmept. Tho British recently occupied Chilas, beyond Chiltral, witli a garrison, and fortified tho place with the intention of holding ft permanently. Tho mountain tribes took offense and made an attack on the fort, which was bravely defended by the British. Tho conflict was desperate and sanguinary, and the natives were at length driven off with a loss of 200 men. Tho British then took tho aggressive and marched against the entrenched villages of tho hostile tribes. Owing to tho mountainous character of tho country this expedition was extremely hazardous, but the British troops acquitted themselves gallantly, storming village after village, under the command of Maj. Daniel, who wr.s himself shot through the heart w h ile lend ing his men In an assau 11 on one of tho villages. Every point occupied by the hostile natives was carried, tho British losing twenty-throe killed and 330 wounded in the fighting. The tribesmen finding themselves unable to resist any longer submitted to British authority. Tho result of tho struggle greatly strengthened the British position at what was considered its weakest points in the vicinity ut tho Hindu Kush.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Eldorado is beeoming noted as an egg market Spotted fever is alarmingly prevalent at Anderson. Another Ice combine has been formed at Shelbyville. Greenfield has arranged for a water works system. A street ranwayTscmT;any~Kas, bccii organized at Peru. Tho Akron, 0., steam forge works will locate at Elwood. Another all rail route to the OhloJflMi Richmond is projected. Goshen has contra, ted for an electric street railway system. Rev. Dr. Talmage lectured at Indianapolis. Wednesday -t*-—-y-Chesterton saloon keepers were fined SI,OOO for violating the law. Hunters near New Albany arc having fine sport shooting jacksnipe. Tremont Temple, at Boston, burned Sunday morning. Loss, $375,000. Muncie's new police force under the metropolitan law was organized. Thursday. Millersburg is another town that thinks sheean’tget along without paving her streets. The building improvements iii Laporte for 1892 aggregate an expenditure of $208,110. John Lamar, aged thirty, and Mrs. Elizabeth May, aged sixty-five, were, married at Wabash. Jasper claims the honor of being the first town in the State, to ask for electric light under the new law. James Romp, at Columbia City, undertook to jump off a train, and he received: injuries terminating fatally. Dr. Levi Ritter, a prominent member of tho Marion county bar, died at Irvington, near Indianapolis, Tuesday, night. Another gang of counterfeiters is work, Ing New Albany. The officers think thejr plant is somewhere near the city. , An clecitan will be.held inseveral town- : ships in Jackson county, looking to permanent improvement of the roads. The gas belt cities have organized a ball league and each chrb will put up a forfeit i of SSOO for the completion of thoseason. Thomas Eldridge, an old soldier, living near Delphi, was crushed by a falling tree Thursday, and died from his injuries, Friday. An enlarging picture agent who made his customers pay 50 cents in advance has has worked South Bend for $l5O and skipped. City Council of Seymour has formally voted that the Seymour manufacturing i company shall be exempt from taxes for ■ ten years. ' An ' additional tank furnace of sixty-pot capacity, of the Hartford City glass works, will be built soon at a cost of $150,000. It will give employment to 350 men. HIS claimed that Ft. Wayne has the youngest capable telegrapher in the employ of tlie. Western Union in the jrerson of Willie O'Connor, who is thirteen years old. Improvements of the already extensive brick work at Gas City will increase the daily output to 120,090 brick. It is believed that it will be the largest plant in tho United States. Thejcivil service commissioners havo canceled all their engagements for examinations in Indiana and other States from tlie 21st inst. until June 30, on account of tlie failure of the appropriation. Albert Kuhn, a molder, of Michigan City, who was terribly burned some weeks ago by the explosion of a flask, is undergoing tho operation of skin grafting, his fellow-workmen volunteering the material. Fire destroyed the depot at the junction of the Monon and Chicago & Southeastern railway at Westfield, causing a loss of CI,OX). Tlie property was owned by both companies. Considerable freight was consumed. Samuel and William Conrad were arrested at Corydon. Saturday, charged with murdering their father. w r ho was found Tn the woods, Friday, with his skull crushed. Alleged motive,possession of their father’s property. Walter B. Rogers, who succeeds the lato Mr. Cappa as bandmaster at the Seventh New York Regiment, is a native of Delphi, Ind., and only twenty-eight years of age. He has been a member of the band about eight years. John M. Holmes, of Modora, who was committed for violation of tho election

law, and who said ho would dispose of his property and leave the country, is still at his home. Public sentiment has turned somewhat in his favor. An unknown vandal practically ruined the ptatc-glass windows in St. George's Hotel, Evansville, by writing thereon with a diamond. The plate-glass windows of other buildings were similarly defaced. The hotel was damaged S9OO. The Seymour Manufacturing Company will remain at Scyniour, conditioned on exemption from taxation for ten years, which has been guaranteed. The company will erect new buildings, a new site of six acres having been donated. A terrible tragedy occurred at Connersville, Sunday morning, as the finale of a Saturday night’s carousal, ending in the killing of Frank Hammcrsher by Sandy Jewiss, and the dangerous wounding of Jack Lewis. Tho trouble was the result of an old feud. James Young, Jonesboro, was, Sunday, attacked by a rabid dog and fearfully bitten. lie is prostrated by his injuries, and his condition is serious, in addition to his danger from hydrophobia. He was taken to the Pasteur Institute at Chicago, Tuesday, for treatment. During tho campaign of 1888 Calvin C. Hadley, of Howard county, made an agreement with B. Perse 11 to pay him *53 for two red calves whenever Grover Cleveland was elected Presidentofthe United States. Mr. Pursell has now brought suit to enforce payment. The claim is disputed on the ground that it was only made to apply to the election of 1888. Tho Governor has appointed John Osterman. of Indianapolis, to succeed Thomas resigned, as trustee for the Central Hospital for the Insane, and has reappointed J. L. Carson, of Fairland, as trustee for the same institution. Ho also appointed Isaac 11. Strause, of Rockville, F. IJcnnossey, of Indianapolis, as trustees of tho Institute for tho Blind. •'The notorious Mount Tabor Baptist church case from Boone county circuit was reversed by Judge McCabe, of the Supreme Court. Wednesday. Intholower court tho minotity. or those who believed that the preacher., could work wonders.

won, but the Supreme court decided the case the other way, and it may now be considered as legally established that I divine power is essential to salvation. an jnspectioi) was being made of the hew DePauw window-glass factory at Alexandria, a natural gas leak was discovered ta the regutator-building, aud an attempt to locate it with a lighted mtftch was in every sense successful. In theexplosion which followed the building was badly wrecked, and George B. iShaw and E. B. Johnson were frightfully burned. Shaw is not likely to recover. There was a peculiar accident in James Kintner’s saw mill, in Boone township, Harrison county. The belt running the fly-wheel broke and the engineer shut off the steam and jumped out of the way. The moving belt, however, struck a iever. stcaur «mnd~ t the engine m motion. Then the fly-wheel burst, scattering the fragments in every direction and seriously injuring Joseph Edmondson. Si' Keith, of Tipton. and a relative named Hall, of Indianapolis, w-routu for Windfall, both intoxicated, undertook to ride the same horse. The animal resented the double burden, and in plunging about Hall was knocked senseless and Keith's skull was badly fractured. A fragment of skull nenctrated the brain and Keith's chances of recovery artaslim. A footpad lay in waiting for M. E. Spencer, railway agejit at Ossian, anticipating that he would return after nightfall to the depot. It so hapixlfied that Air. Spencer delegated a young student in thetelegraph school to make the trip and as tlie student approached the depot he was sandbagg.-d and irft nnconchnn on the The student Had no money nor valuables. Three miles from Crawfordsville, on a prominent hill, stood one of tho largest and most- complete banisdn the county. It was built for Joseph Smith sixteen years ago. and was noted for the substantial timber used in construction. Last week a storm swept over that section, and “a twister took a twist at the barn, demolishing the greater part. Twelve head of horses were in the building, not one of which was injured. The structure! was filled witli products of the farm, machinery, etc. The loss exceeds SI,OOO. An item appeared in this column last Week saying that more gas is allowed to go to waste in Richland township. Jay county, than would supply the city of Indianapolis. Wo desire to correct this statement. There is no oil to bo found in Richland township, and gas, consequently, is not allowed to waste from this or any other cause. Richland township has an inoxlianstabie supply of gas and husbands it. The item appeared in this column through a mistake, and should have applied to another township. The last rail of the Wabash, Detroit & Chicago extension was laid, Friday, at Tolleston. Charles Applegate,a contractor, drove, tlie spike, a gold one, but there was no formal ceremony. The 110 miles of track between Hammond and Montpelier ready for ballasting, and three trains arc at work hauling gravel. It is not believed the line will be ready to operate until May 15, or possibly J tine. 1. Patents were, Tuesday, granted, Indiana Inventors as follows: F. L. Bailey, Freeport, assignor to Boston Cash-register Company, Northampton, Mass., cash register and indicator; A. D. Cook, Lawrenceburg, plunger for pumps; N. Holloway, Lincolnville, chicken brooder; E. D. Johnson, Connersville, apparatus for moving coal; L. V. Kendallville., feed and water purifier and heater; W. S. Nevins, Terre Haute, reflector and bracket for lamps; C. W.-Patton, Clarksville, churn powt-r: Michael Posz, Shelbyville, sash fastener; J. N. Stein. Fort Wayne, car replacer; J. Tipton, Hymera, post-hole digger; G. M. Vance, Anderson, cresting for roofs; J. Wood and W. AV. Hare, Noblesville, whiflletrce hook. The coroner’s inquiry into the suicide of Bertha Marks, the twelve-year-old girl of Albany, showed that tho cause lay in oftrepeated threats by her parents to send her" to”tlie State female reformatory if she did not attend school more regularly. Previous to swallowing the poison she concealed a note in her bedding addressed to her motb.er, father and brothers, and reading; “You know what I did it for, and I want to bo buried it my red dress. I took ‘Rough on Rats.’ I thought 1 would not give you achance tosend me to the reform school. I threatened to kill myself, and I have.” Appended to this was a postscript addressed to her mother, in which she said: “Mamma, you can like the boys now; I am out of the way.” This Indicated that the girl was jealous of, her mother's partiality for her brothers.

CHOCTAW HONOR.

Slurderer Loring’s Narrow Escape—A Wild Western Drama. Elias Loring, the Choctaw murderer, who was to havo been shot at the Pushmataha court ground, Monday, had a narrow escape. He had been at large according to the native custom, and had great difficulty in reaching tho place of execution because of high water. When ho arrived at tho place of execution he bade good-bye to histwo wives and twenty children. His coffin was brought and placed by his side and the preparation for execution begun. Loring was stripped to his waist and given some purple ink to paint a heart over his own heart. He then sat down on his coffin. blindfoldexi, and Sheriff Johnson stepped off fifteen steps and raised his Winchester,but before he had time to shoot lie heard a whoop, and looking around he saw' a mounted courier coming at full speed. It was Governor Jones's light horseman. He had a stay of execution issued by Governor Jones and ordering that Loring be tried again in the Circuit Court. Loring smiled and said “Chickma,” which means, in English, “good.”

ENDURING PLUCK.

“Tobe,” the six-ton elephant, belonging to the Wallace circus combination, was bilk'd at Peru, Wednesday, in an effort to conquer him. For years the animal has been dangerous to handle, and it finally determined to conquer or to kill him. The brute was fastened by four heavy chains to the foundation walls. He resisted to the last, and was choked to death. "Tobe” was valtted at SB,OOO. Hi:skeleton will be prepared for exhibltluu m tho World's Fair. Largo sales of lands for coffee growing are report'd from the stall’s of Vera Cruz and Oaxaca, many Auiericaus. being in? ■-•ludcd among the buyers

SENATE COMIŢEES.

- Democratic Caticua Roorganlrtx Repnbllran* A»® Given Eleven Com. the Finance Committee, The Democratic caucus completed the list of comir.iitee* for tho reorganisation of the Sett ate, Tuesday, The Republicans arc given elevon committees, just the number they gave the Democrats. The official list as given out by Mr. Gorman is as follows: On Agriculture--George.chairman ;Bate. Ransom. Peffer. Roach; Republicans, 3. Appropriations Cockrell, chiiinnan; Cail, Gorman, Blackburn, Brice; Republicans. 4. Contingent Expenses—White.-of Louisiana, chairman; Camden; Republican. 1. Census—Turpie,chairman; Berry,Whitc of California, Murphy, I’cffcr; Repuoiicans, 4. Civil Service—Call, chairman; Walthall, Gordon, Irby; Republicans, 4. Claims— i’nsen,chairman; Daniel,Berry. Cc.ffrey. Alien (Nob.); Republicans, 4. Coast Defence—Gordon, chairman; Irby. Mills. White (Cn!.), Smith; Republicans,4. Commerce—Ransom, chairman; Coke. Vest. Gorman. White (La.), White (Cal.), Murphy; Republicans, 6. Districtof Columbia— Harris, chairman; Faulkner, Gibson, Hunton, Smith, Martin; Republicans, 5. Educatiim-and La+mr—Kyta, chairm an: George, Hunton, Caffry, Murphy; Republicans, 4. Engrossed Bills-r , ehairman; Cockrell, Martin; Republicans, Itchairman). JSnrolled Bills Catlrcy, chairman;' Mitchell (Wis..t: Republicans, 1. Epidemic. Diseases .chairman; —• publican.-,, 4; (chairman). To Examine the SeveraTHranches of. the. Civil Service—Peffer,chairman; Gray, Vilas; Republicans. 2. 'Finance—Voi,rhees, chairman; McPherson, Harris, Vance, Vest, Jones (Ark.); .Republicans, 5, Tash cries—Coke, chairman; Call,Gibson, Hill, Mitchell, (Wis.); Republicans 4. Itarsigu Relations—Mbfgah, chairman: BuUcr, Gray, Turpie. Daniel; Republicans, 4. ; - Immigration—Hill, chairman; Voorh()es,.MM.?ltarson,FaulKiier, Peffer,Republicans, 4.

Improvementof Mississippi chairman; Walthall, Palmer. Peffer; Republicans. 5, Indian Affairs—Jones; (Ark,), chairman; Morgen. Smith, Roach, Allen, (Neb.); Republicans, 4. Interstate Commerce—Btitier, chairman; Gorman, Brice White, (La.), Camden, Lindsay; Republicans, 5. Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands—White, (Cal.), chairman; Jones, (Ark.j, Kyle, Roach; Republicans, 4. Judiciary—Pngh, chairman; Coke, George, Vilas, Hill, Lindsay; Republicans, 5. Library—Mills, chairman; Voorhees; Republicans, 1. Manufacturers—Gibson, chairman; Smith, Callery; Republicans, 2. Military Affair*—Wai mail, chairman; Cockrell, Bate, P,»<mer, Mitchell (Wis.); Republicans, 3. Mines—Stewart, chairman; Bate, Cali, Irby, Mills; Republicans, 4. Naval Affair:—McPherson, chairman; Butler, Blackburn, Gibson, Camden; Republicans, I. Expenditures of Executive Departments—Smith, chairman; Cockrell, Hill, Walthall, Caffrey—Republicans, 4. Patents—Gray, chairman; Kyle, Mills, Berry—Republicans, 4. Pensions Palmer, chairman: Brice, Vilas, Camden, Caffrey— Postoilices and Postroads Coiqu tt. chairman; Vilas, Irby, Mills, Hunton, I*4ll —Republicans, 5. Printing—Gorman, chairman; Ransom; Republicans, 1. Private Land Claims—Mr. , chairman; ——, , Ransom, Colquitt, Pascu, Berry; Republicans, 3 (chairman). Privileges and Elections—Vance, chairman; Gray, Pugh, Turpie, Palmer; lieptiblicans, 4. Public Buildings and Grounds—Vest, chairman; Daniel, Pasco, Briee, Gordon;. Republicans, 4. Public Lands—Berry, chairman; Walthall. Pasco, Vilas, Martin, Alien (Neb.); Republicans a. Railroads —Camden, chairman; Berry, Gordon, Palmer, Martin; Republicans, 5. Relations with Canada—Murphy, chairman; Pugh. Colquitt, Hunton, Mitchell (Wis.); Re. üblicans, 4. Revision of the Laws— Daniel, chairman; Cali; Lindsay; Republicans,2. Revolutionary Claims—Mr. —, chairman: —.- —, Coke, Pugh; Republicans, (chairmah). uuies— oiackburn, chairman; Harris, Gorman; Republicans, 2. Territories —Faulkner, chairman; Hall, Blackburn, Bate, Call, White'.Lai.); Republicans, 5. Transportation Routes to the Seaboard— Irby, chairman; George, Turpie, Gordon; Republicans, 4. Pacific Railroads Brice, chairman; Morgan, Faulkner, White (La.), Murphy; Republicans, 4. Indian Depredations Lindsay, chairman; Faulkner, Kyle, White (La.), Cockrell; Republicans, 4. Select Committee to Investigate Potomac River Front—Mr. , chairman; —, , McPherson, Ransom, Hunton; Republicans, 3 (chairman). To Inquire Into Claims Against Nicaraugua—Mr. , chairman; . , Morgan, Palmer; Republicans, 3 (chairman). Woman Suffrage—Mr. chairman; Vance. George, Blackburn, McPherson; Republicans, 2 (chairman). Additional Accommodations to Library of Congress—Mr. .chairman; .Voorhees, Butler, Pugh—Republicans, 2(chairman). The Five Civilized Tribes of Indians— Mr. , chairman; , Butler, Pasco, Roach—Republicans, 2 (chairman). On Transportation and Sale of Meat Products—Mr. —, chairman; Vest. Coke, Allen of Nebraska- Republicans, 2 (chairman). To Establish the University of the Unlted'States—Hinton, chairman; Kyle, Vance, Jones (Ark.), Turpie—Republicans 4. Quadro-Centennial Vilas, chairman; Colquitt, Vest, Gray, Daniel, Gibson, Voorhees, Lindsay—Republicans. 6, To Investigate the Geological SurveyMartin, chairman; Jones, o'. Arkansas— Renublican. 2. On National Banks—M"*chell of Wisconsin, chairman; Vance, Colquitt—Republicans, 1. On Forest Reservations—Allen (Neb.), chairman; Kyle, Morgan—Republicans, L On Corporations in the District of Columbia Mr. , chairman; Gorman, Brice, Harris—Republicans, 2 (chairman.) To Investigate Trespassers Upon Indian Lands—Mr. Roach, chairman; ButlerRepublicans, 1.

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL LEAGUE.

Next National Convention to Be Held at Loulavllle, May 10. J S. Clarkson, President of the National Republican League, has Issued a cal) for a National convention of that body to meet at Louisville, Ky., May 10, and for the National convention of the American Col* logo League al the same place May 11. Party workers are urged to prepare for tho Coo mione! elections next year and to get e for tlie Presidential contest in IbiFc All persons in sympathy with the policy and principles of the Republican party are urgently invited to attend.

“WAGES OF SIN K DEATH”

End of • Wild C**e«r- Death of Abingdon,” the Noted Sporting 3ton. Geo. A. Baird, known in sporting circles as “Squire Abingdon,”'the Englishman who was the backor of 'Charley Mitehell, the pugilist, died at New Orleans, Saturday, from pneumonia, induced by a protractcd Spree. Baird W’AS ring of thp rlrhest men in England and one of the most dissipated. He had an Income of ovef S2,(XX) a day. from immense landed estates and whmf prctpcriy iniii.rjput fnin) hte father and grandfather, with numerous magnificent resitietiws in London and various parts of England His associate.? were of the lowest

SQUIRE ABINGDON.

classes, lie was a patron Of the pngilistic ring and race cour-.'- keeping u statiln of running hmse'-:. which h<i frequently rode in races himself, being know n as tile “genrider.” lie ii-. iiiiin! ilm n.wof •“Squire Abingdon" for racing purposes. Two years ago lie supplied Mrs. Lz.nztrv with murtey tn produena play, mid while c,inducting the. b;;<ir,called on the ■‘Lily’’ whHedrirnkaml-vfolenHy assaulted her. dt&figuring iier ■ face ctaisiderably. Baird was AJtataull-sjgudferjluyii' cwn’ Ing (ight with Corbet'. putting up ?KMhX) forfeit for him. N<>twiilistnidtug his .reckless expenditures his wealth i-fi tatintly increased lie was but years old at tlie time of his deat h.

FURIOUS FLOODS.

Too Much Itampnc'H in ArnUrnfla—Dum’r.gc, S 1 .’5,000,000. The Australian papers, which arrived* at San Francisco on the steamer Alameda, TTiitrsday, printed graphic details of l lie great lloiml al Brisbane and its suburbs last February. In the city of Brisbane and its suburbs the damage done by the floods is estimated at $15,000,000. There was a fall of sixty-seven Inches of rain in three days, and three steamer* were floated out of tlie river and landed liigh and dry in tlie tintauicsl gardens. The towns of Bundamit, Ipswich and Gorina were all under wafer, and the people had to flee to tiic bills. Seven mon were drowned in a mine at Ipswich, four at them members <<f one Tho seven men went to work as usual in tlie morning. Tho, floods broke in. and within a short space .7of time the place .was flooded to witfiin thirty inches of the surface. The miners were caught like rats in a trap, and had not even a lighting chance for their lives. -———___ _

TERRE HAUTE ENTERPRISE.

Terre Haute sports are combining to build a club house, to be located on the Vanlaßa railway. Tour miles from that city, with a seating capacity of 2,500 persons. It is proposed to oiler purses for !>uzilisf ic events which can be pulled oil for f i.C’XJ or thereabouts.

THE MARKETS.

Quotations for Indianapolis wlien notspooiSod < CHAIN. Wheat—No. 2 r<>J. Gid; No. 3 rod, 63e; wagon wlieut..-b6c. _ Corn No. 1 while, 41c; No. 2 white, lllj'cj wlHte mixed, 4>*yC7 No. 3 white, die; ■ -No.ff-yettww. .We; No.-it yettuw,”3»jje;~ ; Nu smixed. N 0.3 mixed, 3:ic. ear,..»B3.ic. Gals—No. 2 white, 35%c; No. 3 white, 35c; No. 2 mixed, rejected, 30c. Hay—Timothy, choice, *13,(0; No. 1, ?12.Mr, No. 2. *1’1.00: No. 1 prairie, *7.5'1; No. 2. *5.50; mixed hay,37.50. Bran I - .5V per ton. ■ Wheat. ■ Corn. ■ Oats. < Rye. Chicago H r’d 73 ' 41 i a>y,, Cincinnati.... 1! r’d sx I 4i% 3rC aj St Loni E.. - 2 r'J 37»J 31% 67% New Y0rk..... 2 r’d 53%3s i Baltimore.... 7 % +s , 41%’ 83 Philadelphia. 2 r’d 7.1 10 1 41 Clover i | Seed. Toledo | ®3 43 1 3> ■ » 10 Detroit. 1 wh ”3 >l% 38 Mluneapo;:*.. CO ■. CATTLE." Export trades.. JU ,„ |5 oogc 5» Good to clioiccsliippers 4 s><gJ 00 Fair to medium shippers 3 ’joijt 35 Common shippers 3 25§3 70 Stockers, common to good 3 75(5J4 25 Good to choice heifers 3 75(31 25 Fair to med Lum helfors 3 25®3 GO Common, tniii heifers... 2 50.<53 0) Good to choice cows 3 25 33 73 Fair to medium cows 2 50<r3 0) Common old cows 1 2» Veals, good to choice 3 50 Mi 00 Bulls, common to medium.... 2 Milkers, good to choice 30006i40r» Milkers, common to medium..■ 1500^250) HOUS, Heavy packing...... 7.5033. "5 Mixed 735.(37.7J Light 7.00(37.55 Heavy roughs [email protected] SHEEP. Good to choice [email protected] Fair to medium 5heep......15&®4.25 Common sheep Good to choice lambs«... 4.75»5.50 Common to medium 1amb53.75&4.25 Bucks, per head2.50(35.20 POULTRY AND OTHER PRODUCE. Poultry—Hens.>J4C> tt.;young chickens :0c fl lb; turkeys, HMylle lb. ducks, 7c V lb: geese, 15.40 for choice. Eggs— Shippers paying 13c. Butter—Choice country butter. 14@lfc; common, 8(310c; creamery, retailing from store at 25c. Cheese—New York full cream, 1.3@11c; skims, s«i7c ¥ M>. (Jobbing prices.) Feathers—Prime geesedOc ¥ lb; mixed duck, 20c ¥ Ib. ,7s Beeswax— Dark, 15c; yellow,2oc (selling) Wool—Fine merino. Iftglkc; unwashed combine, 21c; tub washed. 31@33c. HIDES, TALLOW, ETC. Hides—No. 1 green bides, 3c; No. 1 green bides. 2j<c; No. IG. 8. hides, 4)yc; No. 2G. 8. hides, 3>£c: No. 1 ‘tallow, 4c; No. 2 tallow. Horse Hldes-*2®52.25. Tallow —No. I. 4c; No. B.3*fc. Grosse— White. 4c; yellow, 3c. FRUITS AND VROBTABLEB. Potatoes— bn. 1 Lemons—Che’cu. OJ-O ¥ box; fancy, H.o . 0ni0n5—53.75(3411) brl;Bpan!ih,|l.W per erstc. Maple syrup, <1 per ga..oa; maple suar XL per pound. *' '.’'.l. r '. .1 1 .£