Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1893 — Page 3

GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

■ Lucy Lareom, the poetess, died at Bos* ton, Monday evening. The Florida Legislature, Wednesday, e“elected Senator Pasco. Mary Anderson is writing a book of reminiscences of the stage. Millionaire Lamb, of Akron, 0.. is mysteriously missing at Chicago. . Four men were killed in a mine explosion at Leadville. Tuesday. The town of Ypsllanii, Mich., was demolished by a cyclone, Wednesday. The St. Louis beer war is off and the price of the product will be raised to $8 a barrel. Mrs. Winfield S. Hancock, widow of the fate Gen. Hancock, died at New York, Thursday. The remains of Jefferson Davis will lie in state at Atlanta, May 29th, en route to Richmond. 4 Three suicides and two, fatal affrays occurred in St. Louis, Tuesday, at about the same time. At Monangahela City, Pa., James Burrtinette blew his mother-in-law’s head off, thinking she was a burglar. The imports.of dry goods at the port of New York for the week were $3,587,988, and the amount marketed $2,534,910. . Burr flawes was found guilty of arson at Petersburg, Wednesday, and sentenced to eight years imprisonment and fined S6OO. The new cruiser, the Detroit, on a speed trial, Monday, made over twenty knots an hour, tho fastest on record for a war ship. Frank Petnall, a farmer of Middlesex county, Now Jersey, has died from-lock-jaw, caused by a wheat beard lodging in his throat. Owensboro, Ky., ministers are making war-upon Sabbath-breakers, and have decided not to insert church notices in Sunday newspapers. At Morrillton, Ark., a mob took Flana ~gan Thornton; who murdered J3onstal 1 e Pate, from the jail and hanged him to a telegraph pole. The remains of ex-President and Mrs.

Polk are to be removed from Polk Place to a spot in Nashvillo, Tenn., just north of the Jackson statue. Mrs. Jennie Northern,oaged 110 years, died of measles, near Princeton, Ky., Monday. A daughter, aged ninety, is left an orphan by her untimely death. Hundreds of forged passports have been discovered at Tacoma. Collector Wasson, of Puget Sound district, h&s virtually decided to put into effect the exclusion of Chinaifien. Joe Cook, while working at his books at Scranton, Miss., was attacked by robbers, who got away with SI,OOO and marched him to a swamp, where they shot him, but not fatally. 4 Eight hundred Washington negroes have been transfered to Homestead and given employment by Carnegic& Frick. A large number of factories in Pennsylvania, it is said, will be filled with colored men. Edwin Booth, tho tragedian, is lying at the Players’Club, 10 Gramercy Park, Now York, suffering from paralysis. It is feared that this, tho second paralytic stroke the famous actor has sustained, will prove fatal. Sam .Tones has closed a revival at Bowling Green, Ky., that resulted in 2,500 accessions to tho churches. He received $2,300 for his services, and the people of that place consider that they have received the worth of their money. The waiters at the Hotel Waldorf, New York, were granted a substantial increase In wages, Wednesday, to prevent an organized strike. The hotel was filled with the party accompanying the Duke of Verngua and other distinguished guests. Judge Kelley, of St, Paul, has decided that a dentist does not have a lien on aset of false teeth attached to a gold plate after they havo been attached to the mouth. The case had b-cn beforo tho <ymrts for some timo and had attracted much attention. Monsignor Chappelo, coadjutor bishop of Santa Fc, N. M., has received assurances that Popo Leo will reply to the reports of tho American bishops on the school question in a spoclal document sottling the matter with the utmost clearness. 1 l J. K. Powell, traveling representative of Toledo (O.)Blade, was drowned in Blue river, near Cherubusco, while on a fishing nnd hunting trip. He arose in his boat to shoot a duck, and was overturned in the water. Deceased \vus thirty-live years old. ' : • Cornelia Martin, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Mr. Bradley Martin, a New York millionaire, was married to the Earl or Craven, an English peer, aged twenty-live, Monday, at Graco Episcopal Church, New York City. The ceremony was largely attended by tho elite of the metropolis. Ira Marlatt, who is serving a life sentence at tho Ohio penitentiary, is being cured of his stubbornoss by a new method. He was handcuffed to a chain pendant from the celling, with his arms held above his head, and all day Wednesday he stood in this manner. Ills hands and forearms are hiuo from lack of circulation of tho blood.

The regular schedule for cyclones Is stll! In force In the West, and they continue to arrive on time. At Osage City, Kan., Tuesday, four persons were killed ami an unknown number injured. In Scott county, Ark., seven persons are known to have boon killed and large numbers were injured. The damage to property canno{ be estimated. Several days ago, a dark- colored man purporting to be a manufacturer of cigars at Chicago, and Miss Marcia Montgomery, of Owensboro, Ivy., applied for a marriage license at Rockport, but it was refused on the ground that tho would-be groom was a negro. He gave his name as D’Officlal, as the clerk caught it, and was very much onragod because the county officer could not distinguish between a negro and a Spaniard. Tho groom declined to mako effort elsewhere for a marriago license, saying that would bring proof he was what he claimed to be. Two murderers, under sentence of death, eac&pod from Sing Sing prison, Thursday night. They locked the guards In tho coll after disabling them. It Is supposed that they had assistance from tho outside. Tho terribly stormy night facilitated their oscajie. The murderers unlocked the cells of Carlylo Harris and Osmopd. also under sentence of death, and IhvlUml them to escape with them, but they both refused. It Is believed that tho action of theso men in refusing to escape will Influence Governor Flower's action in their behalf. A The Louisville Council has ordered an •lection on April 27 on a proposition to is-

• - . - - ... • . ‘ sue $1,000,000 bonds to be given the State, together with a suitable building site, if the capital is removed from Frankfort to Louisville. Lexington has already offered $>50,000 and a building site. The Legislature is strongly in favor of moving the capital somewhere away from Frankfort, and unless this Legislature- does it, according to the new constitution, it must remain where it is. It is believed that Louisville will vote the bonds and that the new State buildings will be erected there.

FOREIGN.

The labor riots An Belgium are growing serious. Many of the liberal state officials of Serbia havo resigned in consequence of the coup d’etat. . Right Hon. Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby and son of Disraeli, died at London, Friday. Forty houses of Stivno, a village of Bohemia, have been destroyed by fire. Four persons were killed and forty injured. The Orangemen of Scotland are reported to be buying arms, with the intention, it is presumed, of aiding the Orangemen of Ulster to battle against Irish homo rule. The newspapers of Glasgow report that the Orange lodges in that city are storing rifles and bayonets with the intention, it is presumed, of aiding the Orangemen of Ulster to battle against Irish home rule. Lillukalam, the dethroned Queen of Hawaii, may become a Mormon. Brigham Johnson, formerly a missionary to the Sandwich Islands, is in receipt of a communication from her, in which she expresses love for the saints and their creed. The Pope has ordered that prayers for rain be offered by Catholics throughout Italy. Rain has not fallen for two months. In other countries of southern Europe the drought has been hardly less persistent. In southom Russia the crops have suffered much damage. 4 Congressman Conn has won a victory In his controversy with Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Maxwell, and will be allowed to name the postmasters in his district. “™ J "—-—~~ Emperor William called on the Pope at the Vatican in Rome, Sunday. The Emperor endeavored to kiss tho hand of the Holy Farther, but he withdrew it and shook hands heartily with tho ruler of Germany. There was no political significance in the meeting. A cable message received at tho State Department says that the Emperor of Russia has signed the extradition treaty between the United States and Russia, and that the ratifications have been exchanged by the United States Minister and the Russian foreign office. Tho last official act of President Harrison is now established,to have been the signing of a bill granting a pension to Mrs. Eliza Alden McCawley, widow of the late C. G. McCawley, commandant of the United States Marine Corps. The bill was only passed five minutes before tho adjournment of Congress March 4. Emperor William of Germany and the Empress arrived in Rome, Thursday. The day was observed as a general holiday. King Humbert and Queen Margherita met tho royal party at the railway station. Tho people along the streets hailed the royal procession with enthusiasm, and numberless bands played the Prussian national hymn. , 8 Chihuahua, Mexico, advices say that a pack train of bullion from Jesus Maria district, bound for Chihuahua, was seized by the rebels early last week and every dollar of property confiscated. The valuo of the bullion is estimated at $40,000. Nothing has been learned since Thursday of actual hostilities in western Chihuahua but news comes that there is great suffering among the natives. The failure is announced of the Australian joint stock bank with liabilities amounting to $65,000,000. Tho deposits amount to nearly $55,000,000. The bank was incorporated by act of'Councll in 1853. Its paid-up capital was stated as £704,394, there being 78,260 shares Issued and paid up to £9 a sharp. The reservo fund has been stated this year as £50,000 and the further liability of shareholders as £860,926. The bank has 2io branches in Aus- ! tralia. The failure was due to the lieavy withdrawal of deposit^.

WASHINGTON.

) The President, Thursday, appointed Rufus H. East postmaster at Bloomington, Ind., vice McPheeters, removed, for alleged offensive partisanship. President Cleveland expects to bo absent from \Vashington a ween attending the naval review at Now York and tho opening of tho World's Fair at Chicago. Postmaster General Bissell has issued a notice to all nostmasters that there Is now operating in the Government building, on the grounds of the World’s Fair, a branch of the Chicago postoffico. For the ninth month of tho fiscal year ended March 31, 1893, the receipts from internal revenue resources were $120,510,016, a gain over the corresponding period Of 1892 of $7,208,078. An unofficial list of the members of tho lower House of the Fifty third Congress, compiled by the Clerk of the House,shows that, with ono seat vacant, the Democrats have 220 members, Republicans 127 and Populists 8.

BIG DEAL CLOSED.

A deal, that has been pending since last summer, was closed Saturday by a Cincinnati brokerage firm. It> Is the first move of a largely capitalized syndicate to gain control of the natural gas fields of Indiana. Among the syndicate ore many Pittsburg capitalists, who now become controllers of forty thousand acres of natural gas territory. It Is their intention to immediately enter into competition with the Chicago Pipe-line Company and tho Indiana Natural gas Company. They havo plenty of capital, it is said. Thomas Llggot.t, the gns man of Pittsburg, will remain on the ground to conduct the bus! ness.

SOME QUEER HOLES.

A farmer near Carthage,. 111., some wooks ago dug a well that caved In and art unsoundablc hole was the result. Nobody has dared to venture to explore tho mystery, butlt Is believed that an underground river Is running beneath. Another phenomenon Is now reported, one mile’ distant from the bottomless well, in the shape of a well only ton feet deep which up to April 14 was frozen solid. Tho water stands nearly on a level with the surface of the ground and Is walled abont twelve Inches above tho lovol and earth heaped around it.

STATE NEWS SUMMARY.

Summltville has a new bank. Clinton has been incorporated. Franklin claims 4,221 population. Petersburg reports 2,000 population. Anderson will have another paper mill. The dog poisoner is abroad at Shoals. Knighstown will have no fair this season. .. ~ - ' . - - Tipton will vote on the question of wa-ter-works. Spotted fever continues to give alarm at Elwood. Linton will build a six-thousand-doll ar school house. Lew Murphy, postmaster ai Lagro, has been declared insane. The Hovey monument at Mt. Vernon will be un veiled May 30. The cold weather has blighted the fruit in Montgomery county. A case of genuine Asiatic leprosy has developed at Fort Wayne. The Vevay high school reports fourteen graduates—only three boys. There is a serious split in the German Evangelical Society at Elkhart. The brick masons of Wabash quit work, refusing to put in ten hours a day. Mr. and Mrs. William Henly celebrated their golden wedding at Monrovia. Francesville stores were successfully raided by burglars, Wednesday night. Counterfeit two-dollar silverxertificates are circulatingAn Huntington county. The Richmond, Masonic fraternity will erect a thirty thousand dollar temple. John Phillips was acquitted of the charge of murdering Otto Green at Fort Wayne. Councilman Mathes has sued the mayor of New Albany for SIO,OOO, alleging an illegal arrest. The Hotel Vendome, at Evansville, has closed its doors because of financial embarassment. A man found deed near Vincennes, Tuesday, was Identified as George Watson, of Bridgeport, 111. Cairoll county will invest $54,000 In new bridges crossing Deer creek and the Wabash river near Delphi. An oil well “came in” on the John Jones farm, near Montpelier, Tuesday, flowing eighty barrels per hour. : 6An unknown man, apparently about fifty years old, was found dead in the Ohio j near Grandview, Friday. A young man named Black, after doing several swindling tricks at Valparaiso, skipped out for new fields. The Monon receivership case has been sent to the Federal court by Judge Bartholomew of Marion county, j Ex-President Harrison was given an in- ■ formal reception by the G. A. R. posts of Indianapolis, Tuesday night. | W. W. Pavey, a spiritualist medium, I who has attracted much attention in Crawford county, has become insane. ' Mrs. B. Busch, of Columbus, is tho owner of a parrot over fifty years old and | that swears in six different languages, i Butler business men have secured the location of a basket factory in that place, giving employment to two hundred persons. i The Elwood Call reports that Indianapolis gas-leasers aro making a strenuous effort to get a foot-hold in Elwood territory. I The boiler in a saw miU near Gas City j exploded, Wednesday, killing one man and injuring two others. Defective water gauge. An impostor secured several loans at Madison and vicinity by pretending that he was Russell B. Harrison, son of the exPresident. Three townships in Monroe county voted for the tax to aid the new Indianapoils & Bloomington railway and threo | against it. Attorney General Olney has appointed Edwin Corr, of Bloomington, lud., Assistant United States District Attorney for the State of Indiana. ) Tho court has denied a change of venue to Mrs. Nellie Payne, of Fowler, and the trial has been set for April 27. Mrs. Payne pleads not guilty. The old derrick on the Carter farm, near Eaton, which marked tho first disr covcry of gas in Indiana, was accidentally destroyed by fire the past week. Edward Eggleston, who is sojourning for two months at Madison, denies the story sot afloat that he contemplates rewriting “The Iloosier Schoolmaster.” i Rev. J. G. Miller, who joined the Christian church at Columbus, Sunday, has reconsidered his action, and in a published card renows his allegiance to the Episcopal church, A floater was caught on’.v trot line near Madison, Sunday. The body proved to be that of a colored man named John Clark ' who fell from a steamer two weeks ago at Warsaw, Ky. J The old established heavy hardware house of Coombs & Co., of Fort Wayne, has failed with liabilities of nearly SIBO,000. Sidney C. Lumbard has been appointed receiver. Governor Matthews has appointed Ernest Pickhardt, of Huntington, and Wm. M. Lyon, of Terre Hautd, as directors of tho Prison South, to s ueceed Messrs. McDonald and Slater. The conductors and brakemcn on the Fort Wayne division of the Lake Erie & Western railway, Thursday, had their salaries raised. Conductors will receive 25 cents more a day and brakemcn 15 cents. Indianapolis had another mysterious murder, Monday ovening. Charles Seibert is unde*, arrest for tho killing of John Young, the victim, but his guilt is not clearly established and he protests, innocence. Charles Richardson, known as the Elkhart giant, he being six feet, seven Inches tall, has been arrested at Kalamazoo, Mich., charged with forgery. lie is said to be wanted in a half dozen Indiana towns. Margaret Daugherty,of Merrillville, was found dead In bed. For forty years she had lived tho life of a hermit, raising poultry'for a living. After her death several thousand dollars in gold was found concoaled in a bed-tick. Governor Matthews, Tuesday, appointed Mason J. Niblack to succeed and serve out the unexplrod term of Royal & Purcell, as World’s Fair Commissioner, Mr. Purcell having resigned to become postmaster at Vincennes. An oil well was drilled in near Portland, Thursday, that has a flow of 1,000 barrels a day. Operators and drillers claim that It Is tho largest well in the state. Th<Manhattan Oil Company’s well, just OOP feet away, is a dry hole. Mrs. John Orr, of Delphi, walkod

twenty-five miles and located hernusband, who had abandoned her after one week'of married life. Mr. Orr excused himself by saying he was tired of domestic restraint, but he has submitted to another dose. Two car-loads of tin-plate, made at the Atlanta tin-plate works, havo been sent to Tanner & Sullivan, at Indianapolis. The works have been running day and night since the start, and the quality, of the tin turned out seems to be first-class in every respect. The construction of the rolling-mill department, which will be a large brick structure, fitted with all modern machinery, will be begun'justgas soon as the weather permits. Charles White, of Madison, years ago the Beau Brummel of Southern Indiana, has been removed to the Clark county poor bouse. He is seventy years old, In his younger days ho was handsome, accomplished and wealthy, and he paid court to a young lady who jilted him to become the wife of a man who afterward was elected United States Senator. White took to dissipation as a means of drowning sorrow, and he succeeded so well that in a few years he had squandered his fortune, lost his friends and was an outcast. While Sheriff-elect William P. Sherry, of Delaware county, was duck hunting near Muncie, accompanied by Charles Nihart, an unknown party opened fire upon the sheriff-elect with a Winchester rifle, making some close calls, Messrs. Cherry and Nihart made all haste to drive out of the dangerous locality. The identity of the would-be assassin is unknown. Mr. Sherry attributes the attack to political enemies.

Several swindles have been worked in Elkhart and adjoining counties by means of a double fountain pen, one end filled with ordinary black Ink and the other with a sympathetic ink of a similar shade. The swindler makes it a point to write any agreement In which he is an interested party with sympathetic Ink, while the victim 4s made to algnjidth-tha other end of the pen. As a consequence the sharper soon has a blank piece of paper to which a genuine signature is attached and it is easy enough to fill out with any amount possible to be collected. Recently the Indianapolis Board of Public Works prepared a new street railway franchise, claiming that the charter now held by the Citizens’ company would expire in January, 1894, and advertised for bids on the same. Bids were to be submitted April 19. On that date an “unknown” company, by their attorney, Judge Byron K. Elliott, submitted a bid accepting all the provisions of the new franchise, and in addition proposed to give the city a graded per cent,, of its receipts. The Citizens’ company declined to bid, claiming that it 3 present charter has seven years longer to run, and alleging that the neiV charter was financially impracticable. Extended litigation will probably result. Dunkards near Darlington have for some time been persecuted by hoodlums. Tho sect has endured the outrages with Christian forbearance, but finally gave evidence to the grand jury for twenty-five indictments. The offenders were fined and imprisoned. Since that time Dunkards’ property has been destroyed, their lives threatened and all kinds el abuse heaped upon them. Sunday night a band of yelling outlaws rode to the Dunkard church and burned it to the ground. Emil Bloomquest, living near Lowell, while driving homeward from Valparaiso, where he had sold S7OO worth of stock, was attacked by highwaymen, beaten until insensible, and robbed of SSOO, The robbers overlooked a pocketbook containing the proceeds of his sale at Valparaiso. Mr. Bloomquest lay all night exposed to the inclement weather, with one of his legs broken and his face pounded to a jell;-. His recovery is doubtful. Two tramps have been arrested on suspicion. Emanuel Harr, ono of the oldest citizens and extensive land-owners in the county, committed suicide at hie home, south of Stanton, Friday night. Ho had been ill for some timo and became despondent. That night he secured a revolver in some way and hid it under his pillow. About 1 o’clock, « his family were alarmed by the discharge of a pistol, tho sound coming from Harr’s room, and they found him in the throes of death, the bullet taking effect in his right temple. He leaves a large family and a fortune of SIO,OOO. Elzea Nixon and his wife, Zerelda, operated a drug store and liquor joint at Elizabethtown, near Columbus, 1 and were arrested several times. Nixon was fined in several cases and gave bond in others, which he forfeited andlled. llis wife continued to operate the joint and was fined $75 for illegal sales and was jailed March 30. Mrs. Nixon wore fine clothes and had plenty of money in her pocket, but defied the authorities and refused to pay. Saturday, however, she weakened, pullod h<r wallet, paid her fines and was relea'eJ after twenty-three days’ confinement. Her husband is still a fugltivo from justice.

Residents»of Livonia are greatly shocked over the shooting of the seven-year-old daughter of John A. Coulter. Grace and Cora Coulter were lying in a child’s crib, and were playing. An elder sister, thirteen years old, was busy with household work. Tho smaller girls kept saying to tho older one: “You can’t hurt me, you can’t hurt me,” to which the older one finally replied, “Yesl can.” and she picked up an old-fashioned shot gun. which was standing in a corner of the room. She did not know the weapon was loaded, and, advancing within a few feet of her little sisters, she held the weapon close to the head of Cora and pulled the trigger. To her great horror the weapon was discharged. The load took effect in Cora’s .heart, killing her Instantly. Patents were, Tuesday, granted to Indiana inventors as. follows: John A. Anderson, Lebanon, washing machine; H. C. Cloud, Union City, excelsior knife; W. Denniston and W. P. Washelser, Bedford, rack for holding brooms; S. 11. Harrington, Indianapolis, railway signal; 8. G. Harris, Cynthlana, assignor of one-half to W. K. Harris, Alvin, Tex., pozt_drlver; W. T. Harris, Baltimore, assignor of oneeighth to E. \Y. Bradford, Indianapolis, vehicle motor; S. R. Herberline. Fremont, assignor of one-half to J. B. Swartz, Auburn, chimner attachment; C. S. Hlsrl. Aurora, assignor to FI. S. Rice, Chicago, shell placer; A. llopkins, Goshen, car coupling; tV. F. Judy, assignorqf one-half to R. B. Roberts. Indianapolis, check punch; T. R. McMannus. Sexton, shipp'ng case for honey; Olaf R. Olsen Indianapolis elevator; J. W. Paschal. Galveston, music leaf turn; A. H. Powell. Huntington, stock car; A. L. Teeter Indianapolis, molding machine; W. p WallacA and.V. C. Cosburn, North Salem, corn-planter attachment

WILD WAVES’ WORK.

"TTrsck of the Milwaukee Tunnel 'Crib. Fourteen Live* Lott—Lake Michigan a Foaming Sea—Storm Notes. Fourteen laborers employed in the lake tunnel at Milwaukee were drowned in the icy waters, Thursday. The dreadful storm raging throughout the night had lashed the lake into a seething mass of foam, immense waves were roiled toward the shore by a furious east wind and carried away the house built on top of the crib at ihe mouth of the tunnel, abont threequarters of a mile from the pumping works at the foot of North street. The house on the crib contained two stationary engines and the tools used by the men. It was built of heavy timbers fastened with iron bands. It was swept into the roaring waters, however, like an iggshell, and its parts were washed ashore. j James Miller, the only survivor,was rescued by a life boat and told the following story of the catastrophe: “It was 5 o’clock in the morning when we found that the water was filling the airtight compartment of tho shaft where we had taken refuge for the night. We took a vote to decide whether we would risk leaving tho shaft. It was~decided to leave. Only five of us succeeded in reaching the outside. The nine men who were not strong enough to get out were drowned by the water coming into the shaft, and four of the five who got out word mangled or drowned by the tremendous floods which were lashed over thecrlb. At what hour the house was washed away I don’t know. It had disappeared when we got autofthe shaft.” At Chicago the galoofThursday worked great damage. Grave fears are entertained for the safety of vessels on the lake. Many aro believed to have certainly gone down. At Detroit the wind was the heaviest ever known, attaining a velocity of seventy miles an hour. At the Signal Office the instruments were blown away. At New York the storm was disastrous, heavy rains and high winds being the characteristics. Reports from al I points on the Atlantic coast indicate similar conditions. In various parts of Minnesota snow fell to the depth of thirty Inches and railroad traffic was paralyzed.' In North Dakota stock perlsned from the cold in unknown numbers. The calamity is appalling in all that region. Snow fell throughout central and northern Indiana. The country farthirty: Julies surrounding Meridian, Miss., was devastated by a cyclone, Wednesday. Many people were killed. Buildings by the score were swept away. Reports of similar catastrophes are coming in from all over the Smith.

STATE CHARITY STATISTICS.

Orlgnal Cost, Maintenance and Inmate* of State Institution*. The charts prepared by the State Boar; of Charities, as a World’s Fair exhibit from the State intltutions, will show the cost of tho plants and their maintcnanc; since they were established. The Institutions under, the State control number twelve, and their total cost, including grounds and Improvement, to October 31 1892, was $5,123,166.55. The operating expenses last year reached $1,074,768.42, and the total number of days board furnished during their existence has been 2.149,872 The Marion county work-house has cost (125,000. The ninety-two county jails fiave, at an estimate, cost $2,760,500, and Muring 1892 the operating expenses amounted $152,986. The ninety-two sounty poor-houses cost $2,770,000, and >143,972.76 was spent hi operating them in 1892. The twenty-five county orphans' homes in the State show air-expenditure of >145,500, with expenses last year of $82,700. The counties have invested in these jails and poor-houses $5,808,000, and their maintenance last year was $494,030.76. Thenare twenty-one Institutions under private control in the State. Ten orphans’ homes have cost $136,000, with $45,050 operating expenses. Rose orphans’ home at Terre Haute heads tho list, with SIIB,OOO as thi total cost. The number of prisoners serving sentences in the county Jails on October 31 1892, was about 550. Of all the institutions the number of inmates was 2,702, or .001: per cent, of the population. The dependent classes of the State numbered 9,701, divided as follows: Insane, 2,768; paupers. 1,253; aged, 326: children. 2,929: -feebleminded. 428. This is on a basis of 0042: percent, of the State’s population Tlier ire ten city hospitals in the State contain ing 439 beds. During 1892 they had 2,44 t patients.

A PERILOUS FEAT.

A One-Legged IlleyclUt Ride* Down the Capitol Step* at Washington. Charles G. Kilpatrick, the one-legged bicyclist from Davillc, 111., has made him self famous with the thousands of wheel men at the National Capital. He has per formed the most daring feat ever witnessed on a cycle. It even surpasses the act of riding a distance of 350 feet on th< guards of Cabin John’s bridge, a feat performed some years ago. The bridge If over one hundred feet high, and the guard of rough stone but twelve inches wide The Danville bicyclist has ridden down the steep steps on the west side of th< Capitol. The hight and distanco is over one hundred feet, and the Incline an angle of about one-third a perpendicular. There is a clear descent of about fifty feet, and the work of coming down on a wheel is wildly dangerous, Before attempting the feat Kilpatrick took out a life ind accident insurance policy, which he mailed to his mother in Danville. The precaution, while sensible, was needless, is he rode down without a hitch. Lockport Is scandalized by the quarrel between heirs to the estate of tho iate Dr. Robert I. Wilson, a pioneer of that place. Dr. Wilson sent for a favorite laughter to wait upon his dying wants, >ut other relatives, fearing she would exercise unduo Influence over him, moved nto the house and maintained a ceaseless vigil. The dying man intrusted his pockitbook to this daughter, and to avoid forcible dispossession she ran to the home >f a friend, two miles away, and gave it into his keeping. After Ills death there was a violent squabble over the funeral lenrices, and on* woman Is said to hav< lad her eyes blackened, while several others were scratched- The late Dr. Wilson est an estate valued at $25,000.

“LONGS TOM” COMES BACK.

Fsmon* Cannon Brought From Fnysl for Exhibition nt the World'* Fair.-_ Long Tom came to New York Tuesday night. He arrived in the Portuguese steamer Vega, from Fayal. Long Tom is ope of the most famous cannon in the • world. He has been 1n exile for many years, and at last had reached the shores of the land in whose defense he once lifted up his voice. He is the sole survivor of the smart American brig General Armstrong, For seventy-nine years Long Tom has been mounted at the fortress ol Santa Cruz. Tom was originally a gun on the French frigate Heroke, which was captured by the British in 1798. The frigate ■ was taken to England and dismantled. Her guns were purchased by John B. Murray, of New York. Mr. Murray used them in fitting out three cruisers for the Emperor of Haytl. Long Tom was mounted on board the Samson, bat v&) afterward removed, because it was fonnd that a piece had bean chipped from its mouth. The gun was then put on board the brig General Armstrong, and did someeffective work in the war of 1812. The General Armstrong was in battle with some British men-of-war off - Fayal. The crew abandoned the General Armstrong and the brig sank. Long Tom was the only thing saved. He was taken to Fayal. In 1840 President Harrison asked that Long Tom be returned to this country, and in 1842, Don Carlos I, King of Portugal. granted the request. Long Tom will be exhibited at the World’s Fair.

THE GREAT KRUPP GUN.

Herr Krnpp Will Present It to Chicago—A Fort to be BoUt. At the conclusion of the World’s Fair, the monster Krupp gun, the biggest piece of ordnance in the world, will be presented to Chicago by Herr Krupp and mounted in a fort off Hyao Park, permission to build which was given, Thursday, to Col. R. L. Rae, of Chicago, by the Secretary of War. The fort will be located on five acres of made ground and will be bnilt according to the very latest plans of fortifications. Work will begin very soon and will be pushed with all possible rapidity. Thefort will bo finished in a comparatively short tlm«, and until the end of the Fair it will be used as a practice ground for an artillery company, the practice being carried on with the most improved artillery in the Government’s possession. When the Fair is over the fort will be occupied by United States artillery. The Krupp gun, with its immense -power, can protect (Itycago from its northern to its southern coast line, for by its perfect sights expert gunners can obtain an accuracy of marksmanship that will enable them to throw a shot weighing pretty nearly a ton clean through a man-of-war.

OBSTINATE NEGROES.

The Supreme court of Nort{i Carolina, haying decided that the land on which James City, In Craven county, is situated, belongs to James A. Bryan and wife, a mandate was issued to the sheriff to dispossess the 5,000 negroes living thereon. Thursday the sheriff with a posse of fifteen men made the third attempt to eiecute the order,of the court. On their approach the town bell was rung, and the sheriff found all the doors locked and, the people assembled out of doors. No violence was attempted, but the sheriff found it impossible to execute the writ. The negroes were put on the land by the Federal army immediately after the war, and they cannot be made to understand wbv they should be ejected. Mr. Bryan has offered very liberal terms so that the settlers will be reimbursed for everything they have put on the land in the way of improvements, but the negroes cannot be persuaded to leave peaceably and bloodshed is feared > hen forcible attempts to gain possession are made.

THE MARKETS.

INDIANAPOLIS, April *4 ISOS Quotations for Indianapolis when notapeoitled GRAIN. - Wbeat—No. 2 red, ttjc; No. 3 red, 02c; wagou wheat, ti c. Corn No. 1 white, 42 c; No. 2 white, 42c; white mixed, 4ih,c; No. 3 white, 4ii4e No. 2 yellow. da'.i'cjNo. 3 yellow, No 2mixed,3*>sc;No.3mlxed. 3>>fc, ear, 4Uc Oats—No. 2 white, 34>£c; No. 3 white, 34c; No. 2 mixed, 34%c; rejected, 2jc. Hay—Timothy, choice, <l3. to- No. l. <12.50; No. 2, *10.00: No. 1 prairie, *7.00; No. 2. <5.50; mixed hay,|B.oo. Bran <li.oo per ton. i Wheat Corn. | Oats. i Rye. Chicago 2 r’d 2 40 VSH Cincinnati.... 2 r’d <>7/4 43 3 H fie St Louie. ... 2 r’d S , W* i) I 61 New York...r’d NO/i ** 3• » Baltimore.... I 74 * 43 4IH «‘/4 Philadelphia. 2 r’d 75 44 :*!4 Clover mb , i cjOoil. Toledo 7314 42 33 8 (JO Detroit :. iwh 7 42 8 !4 Minneapolis.. I S !4 CATTLE. Export grades <5 UOOS 53 Good tocboieeslilpjiers 4 5003 0» Fair to medium snippers...... 4(004 40 Common shippers. 3 4 <<J3 85 Mockers, common to good 3 7504 2s Clood to choice heifers 3 7 804 20 Fair to medium heifors 3 2503 0) Common, thin heifers 2 5003 Oo Good to cholco cows 3 6 0» Oo Fair to medium cows ... 235 <5)3 53 Common old cows 1 5002 55 Veals, good to cholco 3 5005 Oo Bulls, common to medium.... 3 250 1 00 Milkers, good to cholca 3000040Q0 Milkers, common to medium... 1f1000250j uoes. Heavy packing 7.3507.70 Mixed 7.2507.60 Light |.r 7.00«7.5r> Heavy roughs 5.5007.03 SHEEP. Good to choice sheep. . ~ <4.7505.75 Fair to medium sheep 3.5304.53 Common shoep 3.u003.&) Uood to choice lambs *UH#io.n Common to medium' lambs 3 7504.25 Bucks, per head '.5006.03 POULTRY AND OTHER PRODUCE. Poultry—lieu*, u c? »;young chickens V n>; turkeys, lo.olic lb. ducks, 7c V lb ;geo* v, *s.' 0 lor clioice. Eggs—Shippers paying 13c. Butter—Choice country butter, 18<|30c; common. • 0 c. Cheese—New York full cream, 13014 c: jklms, 507 c V lb. (Jobbing prices.) Feathers—Prime geose 40c p lb; mixed duck, 20c V ftBeeswax- Dark, 15c; yellow, 20c. Wool—Fine merino. 16 418 c; unwashed combing, 21c: tub washed, 31033 c. HIDES, TALLOW, ETC. Hides—No. 1 green hides, 3 c; No. 3 green hides. 214 c; No. 1 O. 8. hides, 4)4c;,. No. 2U. 8. hides, 3>4c: No. 1 Hallow, 4c; No. 2 tallow, 3Hc. Horse Hides--*20*2.5 '. Tallow—No. 1. 4 C; No. 2. 4 , <'c. Grease—White, ic; yolluw. 3Wc;brown, sc. fruits and vegetables. Potatoes—4 <0«5cll bu. Lemons—Choice. 93.50 V box; fancy, <3.500375 V brl;Bermuda,<2.2s !. O imr crate. , Maple syrup, *1 per gallon; maple sugar 10c per pound. «