Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1893 — Page 3

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

• ' Six thousand aliens have landed at New York. ? __ Disastrous forest fires arc raging in New Jersey. Mountain fires are raging near Connote* ville. Pa. There weFe thirteen murders in St. LouisJn March. Louisville wants to be the seat of Kentucky’s capito). A Boston paper discredits the story of the loss of the Naronio. The remains of Jefferson Davis will lie removed from New Orleans to Richmond* Va. The Wire nail manufacturers have increased the price of their product fl per hog. Tho National Guard of Pennsylvania svill probably hold its summer encampment *.t Chicago this year. It is said that an agreement has been made for tho sale of the New York Times to a syndicate for $900,000. The last of the five million World’s Fair souvenir half dollars was struck off at the Philadelphia mint. Thursday. Henry S. Ives, the "young Napoleon of finance,” has secured control of the Cleveland, Akron & Columbus railroad. The New York Herald says that Presi-' dent Cleveland will call in extra session of Congress to meet in September. It is estimated that the public debt statement will show a gain of available cash during the month of $1,500,000. The proposed encampment of the NallbnaTGuards of the. different'. States to be held during the World’s Fair has been abandoned. Twins were born to Mr. and Mrs. Chase, of Lyons, Mass., March 2, whose combined weight is but six pounds. They are doing well. The stockholders of the Edison Electric Laminating Company at Now York voted to increase the capital stock of $0,500,000 io $10,000,000. . Commander Whitney, of tho United States man-of-war Alliance, is engaged to marry Miss Etta Ah Fong, daughter of a wealthy Chinese merchant a£ Honolulu. The beautiful summer home, of Joseph Jefferson, at Buzzard’s Bay, Mass., was destroyed bv fire, Saturday. The family cook, Miss Helen McGrath, perished in the ruins. Jansen, Neb., is excited over some alleged miraculous headings by a “faith” doctor. The foreign population attribute the results to witchcraft, and the healer narrowly escaped lynching. John 11. Starin, of the Now York rapid transit commission, announced, Saturdiy, that capitalists were ready and able to buy the franchise for tho underground system which had been unsuccessfully offered at public auction. A counterfeiters’ den, where silver coins wero being made, was discovered in the Arkansas penitentiary. One of the guards supplied the material, and several of the convicts did (he rest. Burglars broke into tho Savings Bank at Pawling, N. Y., Tuesday morning, broke open the safe and securrod ssoo*in money and SIO,OOO in government bonds. They were captured a few hours later. The Farmers’ Alliance of Washington has located a large co-operative warehouse at Tacoma, from which members will ship their grain. This is the only* Farmer's Alliance warehouse in the Xorth- , » W ;St. Quite an extensive petty swindle upon Englishmen is being operated from America. Widespread advertisements offer lucrative work at the Chicago Fair to applicants who send to the American address a half dollar to obtain priority. •’Billy” Hawley, the king of green-goods swindlers, and represented to be a nephew of United States Senator Hawley, is under arrest at Chicago. He was captured in a saloon with “Bill” Brico or Burch, anotho famous crook. The Columbian stamped envelopes wore Friday placed on sale for the first time. The principal feature of the design of the stump impression is a spread eagle. The denominations correspond in color to those of the* adhesive stamps. Kansas Populists have hold an indignation meeting and repudiated Senator Marfin. add decided to notify President Cleveland that Martin was not a representative of their party and that they do not desire any patronage bestowed upon him on their account. At Palmer, Wash., while John Peterson was closing his store three masked men. knocked him senseless, rifled the store and wore starting off when the alarm was given. A posse pursued the burglars ami shot one of them dead and the other two surrendered. investigation into the methods of Chinese residents of Portland, Ore., seem likely to lead to senatlonal developments. A systematic smuggling scheme for tho importation of Chinese from Vancouver, B. C., is said to exist, and local lawyers and notaries are involved. Mrs. M. V. Taylor, tho only woman dealer In oil well supplies in the country, died at the Monnngahela House. Pittsburg, Monday, from injvrtes received whtle alighting from a train on tho PanHandle railroad last June. She leaves two children $400,(XX 1 . Wm. Waldorf Astor, who rocently embarked in journalism in London, will start a literary magazine to be published simultaneously in London and New York, May 1. It will ho known as the Pall Mall Magazine, and will be sold for one shilling, or 25 cents in American money. Southern Maryland is excited over tho murder of Francis M. Bowie, a millionaire. His body was found at the bottom of a well. A colored man named Johnson has boon arrested on suspicion, his clothes being spattered with blood. Mr. Bowie was a member of the famous Bowie family. of Maryland. The United States Supreme Court decided, Monday, that when a foreign patent lapses by reason of non-payment of taxes an American patent granted thereafter for the same Invention is void. Tho action, It Is said at the Patent Office, destroys Edison’s Quadruples telegraph patent and also his three microphone patents, leaving the Bell Company, after January next, tt> stand wholly on the Berliner patents. The gold exported from Now York Tuesday amounted to SSOO, (XX) and all of It was taken from the sub-treasury. The loss of so smnll amount does not even cause comment in treasury circles, as the free gold at the command of the Treasurer now aggregates more than $7,000, (XX), and the treasury is gaining., gold each day In Its ordinary business transactions. At Baltimore, Sunday afternoon, just

before the funeral of Mrs. H. D. Loney, her daughter was married standing besidt the ■ trier, The wedding had beeu postponed on account of the illness of Mrs ■Loney, bu t shewished it to - take -place ir, her presence, and after her death th( above peculiar arrangement was decided upon. Miss Loney was married to Firs! Lieutenant Sirin, of the United States Engineer Corps, stationed at Fortress Monroe. President Higginbotham, of the World’s Columbian Exposition, has issued a manifesto denying the charges that have beer made against the management concerning .extortions for various privileges. 4 He states that good drinking water will he supplied free. Waukesha water will be sold -for one cent a glass to those who desire it. Fifteen hundred toilet rooms and closets will be provided to which free, access maybe had. Costly lavatories arid toilet rooms will be provided for which a charge of five cents will fee made. The admission fee of fifty cents will entitle the visitor to see everything on the exhibition grounds except the Esquimaux village and Colorado cliff dwellings, and a few special attractions on the Midway Plaisance, . Extortion of any description will not be tolerated.

FOREIGN.

Brazil and; the Argentine talk about fighting. Near Victoria, Mcx., an English syndicate Is locating colonists on a 500,000 acre concession. They will grow oranges. The Dominion government has decided not to ask parliament to ratify the reciprocity treaty recently negotiated with France. Toronto dispatches of the 2d indicate that the sentiment for annexation to the United States is rapidly extending throughout the Dominion. The war in Honduras continues and unparalleled atrocities are reported. Prisoners captured by either side are slaughtered, and no regard is had for the usagSjf of civilized warfare.

Russian nihilists are unusually active. The assassination of Mayor Allexjeff, of Moscow, has been traced to them, and it is claimed that lie was killed for the sole reason that he was a prime favorite with the Czar, and not for any specific act of his own. There is another crisis in France but the Panama seandal is not the cause. The Deputies decided to retain tho liquor law amendment as part of the budget in spite of the government’s disapproval. Tho ministry as a result have tendered their resignations, notwithstanding the protest of President Carnotr= A conspiracy to bring about a Revolution was discovered in Costa Rica on tho 27th Inst., and was suppressed through the energetic and cautious action of the government. M. Mange, agent for tho liquidators of the Panama Canal Company; has secured from the Colombian government one month more in which to arrange for an extension of the time within which tho company must begin the work.

The Austrian war office has accepted the bullet-proof cloth invented by Herr Silander, an engineer resident in Paris. The cloth is a third of an inch thick, and issaid to be much more pliable than thati prepared by the tailor iJowe, in Mannheirn. . Germany is experimenting \yith a new explosive calculated to supplant gunpowder. The detonation, recoil and smoko are very slight. The substance will not ignite from concussion or spark, ignition coming from a , contact with another chemical compound. The receipts of Monte Carlo wore larger during tho year which ended Friday than during any year since gambling has been the chief attraction at that famous Resort. The captain of a cattle steamboat sailing from Liverpool put nine stowaways on shore at Cappl island, which is uninhabited. They were rescued from the island by the crew of a fishing boat and conveyed to the -neighboring headland of Knockadoon. They then proceeded to Queenstown. The United States minister at Constantinople has protested to the Sublime Porte against the opening of letters sent to him under the consular seal from Marsovan. Harry R. Newberry, secretary of the U. S. legation, has started for Marsovan and Cesarea to inquire into the reports of attacks upon Americans in those cities.

NOT A PLEASURE TRIP.

An Alaskan Jaunt of 1,500 Miles on Snow Shoes. ■■ ■'- - C. 11. Hamilton, of Chicago, arrived at Seattle, Wash., Saturday, from Alaska. He traversed 1,500 miles on snow shoes up tho Yukon river in Alaska and over the divide to Chilkoot in the dead of winter, being tho first white man who has ever crossed theso mountains at that season and lived. He is an omployeof the Yukon River transportation and trading Company and left Seattle last July on his initial trip with that company’s expedition to St. Michael’s, near tho mouth of the Yukon. The expedition built a steamboat and started up tho river with 350 tons of provisions and supplies, and after steaming two weeks up the river, the Ice stopped further progress. As it was necessary to get word to civilization that the boat was frozen in, Hamilton volunteered to make tho journey of 1,800 miles, and started Nov. 20 with three sleds, twentyone dogs and some Indian guides. He arrived at Chilkoot* eighty miles above Juneau, March 20.

WASHINGTON.

The Republican Senators will endeavor to defeat tho reorganization of the Senate as proposed by the Democratic caucus. The Treasury Department Is advised that 450 Immigrants from Hamburg have arrived at Halifax destined for points in the United States. It may be set down as a certainty that noaction of this administration will call fa f either the removal or resignation of Robert T. Lincoln as minister to the Court of St. James, or oFFrederick D. Grant as Mlnlstcr-to Austria. Thcsonsof Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant will continue to represent the United States In their present position so loftg as they please to do so and so long as the administration lasts. The President, Wednesday, sent to the Senate the name of Herman Stump, of Maryland, to be Superintendent of Immigration, vice W.' I). Owen, resigned. John Scott Harrison, brother of the cxPresldent, called on the, President, Tuesday. Ho is a good Democrat and would like to bo tho surveyor of customs at Kansas City.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

■ Frankton’s boom Isfjnite healthy. Lancasterls supplied with natural gas. Dunkirk has elected a Republican mayor. The Colfax high school reports seven graduates. 3 The Roby race track resumed business, Wednesday. Spotted fever continues its depredations at Anderson. Elwood’snc.w directory will show a population of more than 9,OCX). Rockport has a successful revival In "pfogress at the M. E. church. - Over twenty-five robberies have, occurred at Bluffton within two weeks. A girl baby with a full set of teeth was born to Mrs. Alien White, of Lowell. The big railway bridge of the C. 11. & I. road at Morristown was destroyed by fire. Winchester has voted in favor of a city form of government, and will soon have a mayor. _ ■ The annual horse show of Montgomery county will be held at Crawfordsville, April 15. A new gas gusher was brought in at Atlanta, Wednesday. The well is the strongest in that section. A fire at Anderson destroyed DoXey’S opera house and other property. Loss, $55;00G; insurance, S4B,(XX). Columbus amateur capitalists have been duped by an agent of a fictitious investment company of Missouri. Dr. Joseph Swain has been chosen as President of the State University at Bloomington to succeed J. M. Coulter, resigned. * There is said to be a movement at Jeffersonville to oust Warden Patton and have Gov. Matthews appoint Tom Hanlon to his place. The Monticello Presbyterian- church received seventy-five accessions as a result of a revival conducted by Rev, Geo. Knox, the pastor. Mrs. Edward Patterson, of Warsaw, while going down stairs with her baby in her arms, fell the length of the flight and both were killed.

“Hoosier Slide,” the mountain at Michigan City, will soon be a thing of the past. From ten to fifteen car loads of sand are shipped from it daily. William Parsons, a young man of twen-ty-two, was terribly mangled, near Alfordsville, Wednesday, by a circular saw, and died at midnight. Indiana Postmasters appointed Wednesday were: G. C. Wingfield, at Clear Creek, Monroe county; M. Miller, at Springville, Lawrence county. State Treasurer Gall deposited $350,000 in New York, Wednesday, and Auditor Henderson has drawn warrants to that amount to be applied on the State debt. Martin Glenn, of Frankfort, has just received word that his brother, living in Benton countv, has died, leaving him a fortune of $50,000 in money and 900 acres of land. The Democracy of Mitchell, angry because Congressman Bretz declines to permit a choice for postmaster to be named by popular election, will appeal to the Postmaster-General. An outrageously bold attempt was made to burn Nashville, Brown county, Saturday night. Fortunately the flames were discovered in time to prevent serious consequences. The incendiaries - were found and arrested. Charles Bohannon, who shot and killed Geo. W. Doan, a rival lover, January 22, near Vincennes', was sentenced to ten ydlks Imprisonment at that city, Wednesday. Tho prisoner’s youth is believed to have operated in his favor. James Tobin, of Greencastle, claims to have been restored to health by the use of unlimited rations of Ice cream, He uses a gallon and a half per day arid has gained seventy-.five pounds since last August.

He now weighs 215 pounds. There was a lively wind storm along the line of Orange and Martin counties. The Emmons mill was tumbled into Lost river, a school house was completely wrecked, barns and outbuildings were carried away and a number of animals killed. Thieves entered a smokehouse, on tho farm adjoining that of Gen. F. M. Dice, near Crawfordsville. and stole a quantity of meat, and then entered the smokehouse of Mr. Dice and carriod away a basket of .clothes, dampened down for ironing. 1 The village of New Ross was terrorized, after the fashion of the James boys, by throe brothers named Jackson. Joseph Wright, a prominent citizen, was terribly beaten. Finally the marshal and a force of citizens drove the bandits from the town. No arrests were made.

Harry Pierson, a nine-year-old school boy at Vincennes, caught on behind a carriage, Friday. The boy’s foot ran in the wheel and the leg was ground entirely off before the driver could realize thesituaAion. The foot and ankle were picked up Several feet away. The boy cannot live. t Edward Highfiold was arrested at Michigan City, Friday, on a charge of temporary insanity. He had just returned from Kokomo, where he became possessed of the idea that he had Inhaled a quantity of natural gas and that it was necessary to remove it. The Farrell family held a family reunion at the residence of William Farrell, in Shelby township, Shelby county, last Sunday. The father of the family, Wm. Farrell, was a native of County Longford, Ireland, and settled in Shelby county in 1836. Six of his children and a large number of other relatives assembled.

Wiley lteed, a farmer, residing southeast of Wabash, has a Shropshire ewe, which is the admiration of stock breeders throughout tho county. Two years ago the ewe gave birth to three lambs, a year ago she became the mother of two more, and a day or so ago she dropped four at one time, all of them strongand healthy. Edward Courtney, of Carroll county, sued for divorce from Margaret Courtney, among other grievances alleging “the foul disparagement of their ages,” the plaintiff being thirty-three years old and the defendant seventy-five. They lived together nine months, during which the wife discharged eleven hired girls. The divorce was granted.

Mrs. Kelly, wife of 8. N. Kelly, deceased, of Ft. Wayne, made a great outcry to the police that she had lost her pocketbook, containing three checks for ♦SOO each and 1100 cash, while a passenger on a street car. The town was overrun In an effort to locate a possible thief. Then the lady went home and found the treasure in a bureau drawer, where sho left it before starting down town. An alleged circus agent visited Madison ami made contracts with butchers,bakers,

bill iposters, etc., for a show, which he wanted to appear May 2, after whicn he exacted a small commission, from his dupes and disappeared. He realized about 475 -b_v h4s wfdUptayed -game: besides' lie was shown considerable attention by the young bloods who aghe<|Tor complimentary admission to the; circus. A sensation was caused at, Anderson. Monday, by an order from Health Officer Coburn tor the arrest of Oren .Monger, one of the wealthiest men in the city, on a charge of having fed hogs on dead horses, afterward slaughtering tht* same and selling them in the open market. Garrison, butcher, who disposed of the pork, was first arrested #nd lined, and it was from him that the information was obtained that led to tite orred for Monger's arrest.

Dr. J. F. Benham. under two-year’s sentence for the seduction of a year-old girl at Richmond, was married to Miss Laura Eurieh, in the jail at that place, Tuesday. Miss Enrich has been a teacher In the Blind Institute at Indianapolis for some time, and has full confidence in the innocence of her husband. A strong effort will be made to secure Benham’s pardon, but Prosecuting Attorney Starr will strenuously oppose it. Frank Weir, paymaster for Chapman & Co., contractors, of Walcottvllle, while walking from the railway station to the gravel pit, attempted to step out of the way -of—an approaching trains and he slipped and fell. His head struck a tie, rendering him unconscious, and both fee; remained across the rail and were severed by the passing train. Mr. Weir lay for five hours before he succeeded in attracting attention. William Young, employed in the DcPauw glass-works of New .Albany, upon ..taking his handkerchief from his coat pocket, with which to wipe his eyes, found it saturated with acid, which partially blinded him. Soon, after he tried to take a chew of tobacco and found that his tobacco pouch had also been saturated. Evidence was disclosed showing a purpose to do him Injury, but Young was unable to discover who of his fellows bore him such ill will.

Patents granted to Indiana inventors Tuesday: A. C. Brantingham,assignor to Nordyke & Marmon Company, Indianapolis, feeder for mills; H. A. Cumfer, Mishawaka, revolving die head; D. V. Garrison, Remington, portable hay derrick; E. B. Harris, Vincennes, clothes dryer; W. M. Hewitt, Sharptown, plow or cultivator tooth; G. G. Howe, Indianapolis, assignor to Ewart Manufacturing Company, Chicago, chain; A. Kehl, assignor to Roots & Heineman, Connersville, clock movement; G. R. Kendrick, Portland, steam pump; J. M. Cramps, New Albany, assignor to W’. C. DePauw Company, Tndiana, apparatus for recovering sand used in glass grinding and polishing; A.Krieger, assignor to E. C. Atkins & Co., Indianapolis, saw; S.J.Murray,assignor toNationalCard Company, Indianapolis, packing case for cards, etc.; D. V Myers, North Manchester, stove-pipe thimble; I. Knightingale, Evansville, attachment for guitars, mandolins, zithers or other stringed instruments; J. R. Sturgeon, Churubuseo. checkrein guide; C. B.Wisner, Lowell, perforating apparatus. Prince Bismarck is in a critical condition. He has been suffering for several weeks with neuralgia and insomnia, and his doctors have not been able this time to conquer the two old enemies which attack him every winter. His strength and vigor are giving way very rapidly. His pulse is very weak, and “his appetite exceedingly bad. Oakland, 111., claims to have a case of genuine leprosy,

THE MARKETS.

Indianapolis. April 4. 1883 Quotations for Indianapolis when notspscilled GRAIN, Wheat—No. 2 red, 65c; No. 3 rod, 6?c; wagon wheat, 6ic. Corn - No. 1 white, 41}£c; No. 2 white, 1 mixed,,4ic; No. 3 whito, 41c; No. 2 yellow, 40c; No. 3 yellow, 3‘Sic; Nd 2 mixed, 40c; N 0.3 mixed, 39>£c, car, 40c. Oats—No. 2 white, 35c; No. 3 white, 34%e; No. 2 mixed, 34> 2 'c; rejected, 30c. Hay—Timothy, choice, $13.00; No; 1; *12.00; No. 2. $10.00; No. 1 prairie, #7,50; -No. 2. $5.50; mixed hay. $7.50. , Bran $12.50 per ton. “ | Wheat. | Corn. | Oats, i Rye. Chicago ]2 r’d 74 40)i! 31 !.. Cincinnati.... 2 r’d''B 4 -iy t 34)41 5 6 St. Louis j 2 r’d 84 3 > i 30 51 New York 2 r’d )5’4 51 35 Baltimore....! ?3 l 4i 47!4| 41 02 Philadelphia. 2 r’d 73'A, 4S | 41 ; Clover ; Seed. Toledo 6854 Detroit lwhßUji 43 I 38 Minneapolis.. 1 60 CATTLE. Export grades : .... $5 00@S 50 Good to choiceshippors 4 50(<Z5 00 Fair to medium shippers...... 3 Common shippers. 3 25(g!3 70 Stockers, common to good 3 7fxM4 25 Good to choice heifers 3 Fair to medium heifers. 3 25@3 60 Common, thin heifers 2 50,<g3 0) -Groupto choice cows 3 25®3 75 Fairto medium cows 2 50d>3 0) Common old cows 1 59@2 2> Veals, good to choice 3 50 156 00 Bulls, common to medium.... 2 5053)3 00 Milkers, good to choice...... 30dO(34Ooo Milkers, common to medium... 1500(cg250j HOGS, Heavy packing .... [email protected] Mixed... 7.:20(57.55 Light (\90,d!7.C0 Heavy roughs [email protected]" SIIEKI’, * Good to choice sheep , .#[email protected] Fair to medium sheep 3,50^4.25 Common sheep ........ 2.50(5g3.00 Good to choice lambs 4.75^5.50 Common to medium 1amb5...... 3.75(^4.25 Bucks, per head [email protected] POULTRY AND OTHER PRODUCE. Poultry—Hens, Well ft;young chickens ]oc ¥ S>; turkeys, lb. ducks, 7c #) ft jgeese, $5.40 for choice. Eggs—Shippers paying 13c. , Butter—Choice country butter, 14@16c;! common, 8@10c; creamery, retailing from store at 25c. ! Cheese—New York full cream. 13@14C; skims, s@7c V H>. (Jobbing prices.) /Feathers—Prime geese4oc i) ft; mixed duck, 20c D ft. Beeswax—Dark, 13c; yellow,2oc (selling! Wool—Fine merino, 16418 c: unwashed combing, 21c; tub washed, 31@33e. HIDES, TALLOW, ETC. Hides—No. 1 green hides, 3c; No. 2 green No. IG. 8. bides, No. 2G. S. hidos, No. 1 Hallow, 4c; No. 2 tallow. 3 1 /ic. Horse llides*[email protected]. Tallow-No.! 1,4 c; No. 3. Z%c. Groase—White, 4c; yellow, 3c. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Potatoes—s : @9.)cl) bu. Lemons—Choice, #3.50 V boi; fancy, #4.0 . Onions—*3.7s@4|#) brl; Spanish,#l.s9 por Crete. Maple syrup, $1 per gallon; maple su* ar 10c per pound.

A HIGH OLD TIME.

Combat "With a Madman on Top ■7" of a Chicago Hotel. The Maniac Tries to Hurl If Is Friend From tbe Hoof of a Sixteen-Story Structure—Saved by Strategy. The roof of the Great Northern Hotel at Chicago, Friday, was the scene of a thrilling adventure, and one that will not soon be forgotten by those who witnessed it. George Doyle, a guest, in company with his friend Albert Gedney, had gone to the roof for a view of the city, when suddenly Gedney was seized with Insanity, from which he had formerly suffered, a few years ago, and approaching Doyle, said: •You've got to jump off the building or I’ll throw you off.” For the first time It came back to Doyle’s memory that Gedney had several years ago been treated for a mild form of insanity in an asylum at home. His first impulse, as the sickening realization of the situation came oyer him, was to call for Kelp, but Gedney is larger and stronger than he, and such a policy might have meaftt almost instant destruction. He . tried to temporize and treat the matter as a joke. “Will you jump?” said Gedney, and began to drag him toward the edge. Doyle fought with the desperation of despair,! and the men, .closely locked together, staggered to and fro over the roof, Gedney steadily forcing his man toward the edge. Twice Doyle tripped him and they fell together and twice Gedney broke away, only to renew the attempt to huri Doyle to the pavement far below. Occupants of adjoining structures finally became aware of the struggle, and rushing across to the hotel informed the proprietor, and a rescuing party started for the roof. As they neared the top Doyle came) dashing down, bareheaded and exhausted. Gedney was found walking calmly around the roof, and tried to treat the matter as a joke. Nevertheless he was locked up for security. Doyle’s escape was by a clever strategy. Feeling that his strength was almost gone, and being at some distance from the edge, he called to Gedney to stop, that he would jump off. When he was loosened he stipulated that he must have a few moments for prayer. He stepped back and knelt down. Gedney, standing in** his place, reverently bent his head. Doyle watched him through his half-closed eyes, and as suddenly and as quickly as a cat he darted through the scuttle. “I knew it was ray only chance,” he said, “and I made a leap for life. I simply jumped for that hole, and I owe my life this minute to the fact that I hit it. If I had missed It Gedney would have hauled me back and the whole thing would have ended sixteen stories lower than it did. 1 felt then as if I had fought him all afternoon, though I do not suppose that the whole thing was over ten minutes, probably less than that. My strength was all gone, and I could not have fought any longer. I would have been game for him if he had got me In his hands again, but then,” continued Doyle, “I would have died game, and would not have died alone.”

OUR FIRST AMBASSADOR

Ex-Secretary Thomas F. Bayard Goes to the Court of St. James. Tho President, Thursday, sent the name of Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware, to the Senate-, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Great Britain. This action of the President shows the untruthfuiness of the report that Minister Lincoln was to be retained at London. Mr. Bayard comes of a distinguished ancestry. He has served several terms as Senator from his State and was Secretary of State under Cleveland’s

THOMAS F. BAYARD.

first administration. Mr. Bayard is the first diplomatic representative of the United States with the title and rank of ambassador. Other nominations. Thursday, were: To he envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary of the United States: James D. Porter, of Tennessee, to Chili: James A. McKenzie, of Kentucky, to Peru; Lewis Baker, of Minnesota, to Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Salvador; Pierce M. B. Young, of Georgia, to Guateemala and Honduras; Edwin Dun, of Ohio, (now Secretary of Legation at Japan), to Japan. A long list of nominations for consuls at various foreign ports were also sent In. Other minor officers too numerous to mention and forty-fivs fourth-class Indiana postmasters completed the list of lucky Democrats for th< day.

IMPORTANT PENSION RULING.

Assistant Secretary Bussey. Friday .rendered a decision in the matter of tb« claim of Joseph P. Smith for an increase of peniion on the ground of new disabilities, in which he overruled the act of the Commissioner of Pensions in allowing au attorney’s fee for $lO. The claim for Increase was made under the act of June 27, 1890, and the Assistant Secretary hold) that all such claims should be treated a) itrlctly increase claims, whether new disabilities arc claimed or not, for which 1 fee of only #2 can be allowed. It is sale that probably* two hundred thousand claims will be affected by this decision. Austria will increase her peace effectivi »t a cost of 20,000,000 florins aunually.

THE CHOCTAW WAR.

A FCnd at Lait Ifawlto In Blood■bed. Trouble has been brewing in the Choctaw nation for some time, and has at last resulted in bloodshed. At Antlers, I. Tuesday afternoon, a sharp and desperate encounter took place. Forthlrty minutes a storm of leaden hail felt about the town. At that hour seventy-eight militiamen suddenly deployed from the woods and charged down upon the residence of Dick Locke, leader of the national party, and opened fire upon it. Locke saw them coming and barely got into his house when the fusilade npon it began. Locke, with fixe men, returned the fire from the upper story. Fully 1,500 shots were, fired. Every window was shot out and the wgils Were perforated like a sieve. Stray bullets flew far and wide and terror and consternation prevailed throughout the little town. Everybody was uneasy and no one knew who was safe with lour score half drunken infuriated Indians armed to the teeth and with the smell of blood in their nostrils. Great uneasiness prevails at Antlers. Fears are entertained that the town will be burned. A strong posse of deputy marshals were sent to Antlers to keep the peace. It is expected that Locke’s entire force will break camp and return to Antlers. If so they may attack the militia. This opinion 1s strongly entertained toy many. Should they do so It will more seriously complicate matters.

A CLOUDED TITLE.

Tbe Upper Peninsula of Michigan Still Indian Property. , Something in the nature of a startling discovery has been made by H. F. Chipman, son of Congressman Chlpman, in relation to the title to the lands of a large part, if not the whole, of the upper peninsula of Michigan, and if Mr. Chinman’s conclusions are borne out by more minute Investigation and sustained by the courts, every acre of land in that peninsula west of the Sault and Mackinac to the Montreal and Menominee rivers and from Lake Superior to Lake Michigan and the straits, inclusive of city and village lots, will be handed over to their rightful owners, the descendants of the Chippewa Indian nation of the Lake Superior region. Mr. Chipman asserts that his investigations have convinced him that no cession of the upper peninsula lands has been made to the United States government, and that, therefore, the title of deeds in every registry of deeds In the region indicated are as worthless as so much blank paper. Mr. Chlpman’s discoveries were made while prosecuting claims of Indian clients for sums due them under various treaties, dating back for fifty years or more. The cases will go to the United States Court of Claims.

THE RUSSIAN TREATY.

Possibility That It May Not Be Ratified— Severely Criticised. <t- — No treaty that has come-before the Senate in late years has secured more public attention than that which was recently concluded between the government of tho Czar and the United States. It has been severely criticised by its opponents and said to be the first stroke against the liberty of those who flee to America to escape political persecution. In the past two or three executive sessions of tho Senate there has been quite a debate over the proposition to release the injunction of Secrecy and permit the people to know exactly what it contains. A resolution was introduced Tuesday to remove the injunction of secrecy, but it was referred to the jcommlttee on foreign relations’and that committee has not yet reported. A majority of the Senators want the matter Vnade public for the reason that the text of the treaty has been wrongly stated by the public prints and the Senate has been, as they claim, unjustly criticised by reason tof this misinformation. The committee will probably report back the resolution removing injunction of secrecy. The State {Department is-willing that, the text of tho (treaty should be made public.

FATE OF THE NARONIC.

Letter Picked Up In a Battle on the Virginia Coast. T William Johnson, the winter watchman at OceanVillc, Va., a summer resort near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, Wednesday afternoon, picked up on the beach at that place a champagne bottle with several corks tied about its neck and with a let- . ter inclosed, giving alleged information from one of the crew of the sinking of the White Star line steamship Naronic. Ths letter was; 3:19 a. m., Feb. 19, S. S. Naronic White Star line. At sea. To who picks this np: Report when you find this to our agents if not heard of before, that our ship is fast sinking !«• neath the waves and it’s such a storm that we can never live in the small boara. One boat has already gone with her human cargo below. God let ail of us live through this. We were struck by an Iceberg in a blinding storm and floated two hours. Now it’s 3:20 a. m. by my watch and the great ship is deck level with the sea. Report to the agents at Broadway New York, M. Kersey & Co. Good-bye, all. John Olens,Cattleman.

A MURDERER ESCAPES.

Irving Latimer, who murdered hi- : mother at .Jackson, Mich., January 35. 1889, and who was serving a life sentence for the crime, escaped from the Jackson prison, Monday night. He poisoned his guard, who took lunch with him, and, securing a rllhvfeft the prison. The guard is dead. It is not believed that Latimer will be taken alive. lie is twenty-si* years old, weighs IGS pounds and has blu.f eyes and light <*omplexion “Am 1 the tirst girt you' ever loved?” “Indeed you are. The other ono was a widow.” —Indianapolis Jour nal. Confederate money has been circulated freely and to an unknown extent in the City of Mexico. A young Spaniard ha* been arrested for the crime. A man with a broken leg is apt to do '• good deal of darning while thj leg Is knitting.