Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1893 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. Gboeok E Marshall, Editor. RENSSELAER INDIANA

According to a London paper the NewTes--twnßtitirrArabic ism demand in the land of Moab. In one day a colporteur sold fifty, four copies—flour being --iterpurchasing power. When night came every receptable in the colporteur’s house was filled with flour and not a copy of the Scriptures remained dnsold. A max at Junction City, lowa, has written to the Department of Justice at Washington inquiring if the government pays a bounty on twins. He plaintively states that he is the unfortunate parent of three sets of simultaneous infants, an I naturally desires to come in for his share of relief if any has been provided by the powers that be. Unfortunately no such provision has been made,and as things look now the future is dark for the prolific pioneer. The New Jersey peach crop promises to be exceptionally large. The season has been very favorable. These reports are so different from those usually sent out at this season that they are viewed with distrust and by many with incredulity. The majority of people will hope that the brightest anticipations in this regard may be realized. Peaches are a luxtry that can not get too cheap to suit the rapacious appetites of the millions ’fcho must buy. Temperance agitation in Scotland, Ireland and Wales has resulted in prohibiting to a certain extent the sale of strong drink on Sunday, and has been quite effectual in curtailing the evil of Sunday drunkeness which formerly prevailed to an alarming extent. The Central Association of Reformers lately memorialized Mr. Gladstone in favor of similar laws for England, and have received a reply from the Prime Minister stating that the subject is now engaging the attention of the government.

They do say that some of the Egyptian fakirs who are selling relics and souvenirs from that ancient country, are not without guile. One is known to have worked off a large and heavy assortment of broken red sandstone, stolen from a hotel in process of erection on Fifty-seventh street, Chicago, as chips from the pyramid of Cheops, realizing various prices, according to the size, from 75 cents to 14 a chip. The Oriental swindler swears “by Allah!” that he chipped the rock from the pyramid himself.

The response to the special invitations sent to the various crowned heads of Europe by the World’s Fair directory, desiring their attendance at the big show, are not flattering to the management, as .they one and all plead other engagements, with the exception of the Sultan of Turkey, who refused to receive the cablegram of invitation at all, stating that it was not in accordance with the etiquette of his court to receive telegrams from persons with whom he had no acquaintance. It looks as though the Fair will have to pull through without “high digs,” excepting those already in this country. Superintendent of Immigration Herman Stump, of New York, with the approval of Secretary Carlisle, has ihade an important ruling with regard to the admission of idiotic immigrants when accompanied by' their parents, into the United States, denying their right to land on our shores. In support of his position he quotes from the act of Congress of March 5, 1891, which absolutely debars idiots, and holds] that the fact that the idiotic person may have ample fortune, or relatives who are able and willing to care for him, does not change the law in reference to such afflicted characters.

Johnny Walsii has suddenly become rich and famous on account of his honesty. Johnny found a set of diamond earrings of great value belonging to a Mrs. Johnson of New York, who offered $2,000 reward for their return. Johnny is only a little seven-year-old newsboy of New London, Conn., and is somewhat embarrassed by his newly acquired wealth and notoriety. He went to New York, accompanied by his parents, to receive the reward, which was paid to him at Tiffany’s. He was given a rousing reception on his return home, was elected as mascot for the base ball club, and altogether finds himself quite a hero, and no doubt believes that “honesty is the best policy." K A World's Fair correspondent writing to Harper’s Bazar, says, “Don't take the babies to the Fair.” This is about the most serious reflection on the intelligence of the American people that we have re- ,

cently seen. Does any one suppose tfcat any sane father 1 or mother would take a baby to the World’s Fair? There are lots of foolish people in this country, and a great number who are almost inseparable from their babies, but certainly not many who would be foolish enough to expose their tender offspring to the , dangers and weariness that would be inseparable from a* tour "of sight-seeing. The advice is- quite superfluous.

A singular person appeared on the streets at Zanesville, 0., the other day. He wore a beard that had not been cut for forty years. The hirsute appendage was seven feet in length and was kept in plaits and tied up so as to be carried about conveniently. The old man is as “Daddy” Sloane, and the occasion was the first time he had taken his whiskers to any city. The cause of the eccentricity was defeated ambi' tion in youth, Mr. Sloane having vowed that he would not cut his beard until elected to some small office. He now lives the life or a hermit near Zanesville, and his busines ip that city was to make arrangements for having a clay coffin, which he had moulded himself, burnt in a furnace. His beard is snowy white and so heavy as to bow him over, and is doubtless the longest in the world. There are cranks in all counties, and curious combinations can be congregated by a careful culling of their creeds. Vegetarians are nowadays ventilating their views in a way to attract considerable attention. A French vegetarian society is all torn up with internal dissensions. All are convinced that their temporal and eternal salvation depends on absolute abstinence from fish, flesh or fowl, but there their unanimity ends, and animosity toward each other begins and is carried to an extent equal in severity to their original abhorence of flesh, on which they are all agreed. One branch calls itself cerealite, and they subsist on cereals only; another believes that fruit is the only proper food for man, and govern their diet accordingly; and a third devotes its attention solely to tubers and roots. Each wing thinks that the welfare of the race depends on the immediate adoption of its views. In the meantime the market for choice'beef continues strong, and pork products have seldom been quoted at so high a figure.

The reigning families of Europe carries large policies of life insurance, and it is hinted that of late years this custom has increased to a notable extent, If such is the case it is doubtless an indication that crowned heads do not view the future with undoubted confidence, and that they possibly fear the influence of the progress of free thought and a tendency to more liberal government as likely to prove detrimental to the fortunes that have eonre to their families on account of their hereditary rights as ruling princes of the blood. Price Albert’s life was insured for nearly £1,000,000, and that sum was received by the Queen. The Queen’s own life-is very largely insured for the benefit principally of Princess Beatrice. All of the reigning families are known to be large customers of the insurance companies, the only sovereign who has no policy being the Czar of Russia, the companies regarding him as a dangerous risk. The policies upon Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, have been canceled on account of the troubles in that country.

Maudlin sympathy for condemned murderers is not an uncommon culmination of a murder trial, and cases have occurred where the female portion of a community have gone to great lengths in exhibiting a sickly and sentimental devotion to the unfortunate man who had been condemned to die for his awful crime. Gushing maidens have-shed copious tears and soothed the pathway of the criminal with tender words and fragrant flowers, and in one or two instances in the United States of late years have gone to the length of marrying the object of their solicitude. This peculiar phase of the feminine character has been strikingly exhibited in the case of Carlyle Harris, executed at Sing Sing on the Bth. Harris, had he secured a pardon, was to have been married to a charming and devout young lady missionary, who frequently visited him in prison, and who firmly believed in his innocence and nobility of character. And now comes the further announcement that a married woman of Islip, L. 1., a Mrs. Broadway, entirely unknown to Harris, had allowed her sympathies to become so strongly enlisted in his behalf that she sickened and died on the Wednoauav following the death of Harris. Newsdealers who supplied the lady with papers testified that she gave way to uncontrollable grief when they brought her the papers containing the account of the execution.

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Father McGlynn on his way to Rome to have an audience with the Pope. Three men were killed bv the caving in of a* tunnel near Denver, Thursday. There will be ten contests before the nouse. of Representatives nest winter. Ex-Secretary Foster’s liabilities may reach $1,000,000, with assets much less. , Large numbers ,oj Mohammedans -arc ■aid to be preparing to emigrate from Triliato America. Eleven persons in Seabrook, Mass., were poisoned by eating cheeso which con-, tained deadly poison. The Eastern coal sales agents have advanced the prices of coal 25 cents a ton on stove and 20 cents on egg. Henry Villiard has resigned the presidency of the North American Company. His successor is C. VV. Wetmore. Higher rates wlif-probably be resolved upon by the Western Union Fire Association, in session at Niagara Falls. It is allegedfeat dishonest gatekeepers are swindling, the World’s Fair on a large scale through faulty turn-stiles. Wheat in the Chicago pit sold for (u% cents, Thursday, but the market rallied several points, and closed at 63%. 3135 S John .T. Lamb, the absconding treasurer of the International Order of Machinists, was captured at Scranton, Pa., Thursday. The Plankinton Bank, of Milwaukee, after a prolonged run. was compelled to suspend, Thursday, and went ifito liquidation.

Chief of Police John D. McDonald, of N’apleton. Pa., was shot and mortally wounded by his brother-Harry, Saturdav night. Mrs. Marie Nevins Blaine, the divorced wile of James G. Blaine, Jr., and Dr. W. T. Bull, were married at New York, Tuesday. David R. Jenkins, of Wales, said to be one of the best authorities on tin plate in the world, is in Pittsburg penniless and demented. The Viking ship enroute from Norway to the World’s Fair, was sighted off the Newfoundland coast, Sunday. All on board were well. An enterprising Dundas, Minn., man, it is claimed, is buying young calves and selling them to Chicago restaurants as “pressed chicken.” It is reported that David S. Jordan has resigned the Presidency of Lcland Stanford, Jr., University, because of differences with Senator Stanford. The Infanta Eulalie attended the Decoration clay services at the Riverside park, New "iork, and placed a wreath of flowers upon the tomb of Gen. Grant. At Cincinnati the Victoria Cordage Company filed a deed of assignment to W. N. Bililuga. The liabilities are said to be $400,000 ond the assets may reach $500,000. The Illinois House of Representatives has passed the Democratic Congressional reapportionment bill, and it needs only the Governor’s signature to become a law. Mrs. Corey, the wife of Amos Corey, woodsman on 'the Upper Beaver Hill, N. Y., had a desperate struggle with a bear. After a battle she succeeded in killing the beast.- ; 1 ’■ : 1 ' • E. 11. Milburn, said to be a son of the Rev. \y. H. Milburn, the blind chaplain of the National House of Representatives, committed suicide at Chicago, Sunday, by cutting his throat. A route for a cable has been surveyed between Honolulu and Monterey, Bay Cal. The total length is 2,107 miles, and it is estimated that it will cost $1,200 a mile to make and lay the cable. Judge Stein, of Chicago, Monday, issued an injunction restraining the World’s Fair directors froir, closing the gates on Sunday. He holds that there is no valid reason why the Exposition should be closed on that day. Ed Dickerson, of Louisville, Ky., went to Columbus Durposely to whip his uncle, Scott Dickerson. Both men are horsemen. The fight was long and fierce, and after its conclusion Ed Dickerson was conveyed to the city hospital for repairs. Another trust has been or is about to be launched upoatho business world. It is known as the American flint bottle company and, with the title, has been incorporated under the laws of Wisconsin. The amount of incorporation is said to be $1,000,000. The object of the compact is to raise prices by combining. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian church, In session at Washington, have decided the case of Dr. Briggs, appealed from the New York Presbytery, which acquitted that divine, against Briggs, thus deciding that he is a heretic, by a vote of 383 for conviction to 116 against. k

Thursday at noon the bank of Ava, 111., was robbed of about $3,000 while the bank employes were at dinner. The robbers gained entranco by prying open a window. They then took the money out of tho safe, which was unlocked. The cashier was not awav twenty-five minutes. No trace of the robbers can be found. Robert P. Porter, superintendent of census, says: “A bureau of suppression of lies about the World’s Fair is needed as much as a bureau of publicity and promotion. I have licen in Chicago several days. There is no extortion. Everything is working smoothly and the crowds are well cared for.” A cousin of the notorious Dalton, who has been with the gang in several raids on Kansas banks, attempted to commit suicide at Topeka, Kan., by jumping in the Kaw river. He was rescued. He says that life as an outlaw has made him miserable for six years. Remorse, he claims, caused him to seek death. Miss Bertha Manchester was murdered at Fall River, Mass., Tuesday, in a mysterious manner, in many respects rivaling the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Borden intho same city, lost fall. A bloody ax was found in a wood-pile near a back fence, but ao other clue has been discovered. The woman was horribly mangled. A meeting of Gov. Foster’s creditors was held at Fostoria, 0., Tuesday.night. Resolutions of sympathy were adopted, after which it was agreed to accept 50 cents on the dollar in payment of all claims, leaving it entirely to the option of Mr. Foster whether ho shall pay more when he may become able to do so. Mr. Foster sent a statement saying he could pay 50 per cent. soon. The Benton Harbor & Southeastern' Railroad Company has fijed articles of association with the Secretary of State. The capital stock is $30,000, and Milton Mercer is president, Aaron Zook secretary, and

Hervey V. Mercer treasurer. The proposed road is thirty miles in length, and is to extent from Nappanec, in Elkhart county, through Elkhart and St. Joseph counties to a point on the Indiana and -Michigan State line, in the southeastern corner of Berrien county, Michigan. Dr. Thatcher Graves, who last year was convicted at Denver, of the murder el Mrs. Josephine Barnaby, of Providence, R. 1., is a free man for the first time in two years. Monday morning he appeared} in Judge‘Burris’ court, where his motion for a new trial has been pending for some weeks. Without any delay the court set the new trial for Jue 12, and fixed the doctor’s bail at $30,000. Judge Macon,the doctor’s attorney, signed the bond and the prisoner walked from the court room a free man. A decree that will prove of great interest to the slaughtering establishments of Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago has just been issued by President Diaz, of Mexico— The decree forbids the shipment of slaughtered hogs into the City of Mexico. Hereafter all hogs for consumption must be brought in alive. This action was taken in view of the fact that in the case of alleged fresh pork shipped there from the United States and from points In Mexico it is not, al wavs possible to 40— clde whether or not the animal died of some disease or was in a healthy condition when slaughtered. The commission appointed last summer to treat with the Sioux in South Dakota, for a cession to the United States of their surplus lands, has submitted its report to Secretary Hoke Smith, together with the articles of agreement. All of the unallotted lands on the reservation are to be ceded to the Government in consideration of the sum of $600,000, of which SIOO,OOO is to be paid within sixty days after the ratification of the agreement by Congress. The remainder is payable at the pleasure of the Government after twenty-five years. The ceded lands, which are said to be of a high grade for agricultural purposes, are to be disposed of under existing land laws.

FOREIGN.

A duplicate cable has been laid in ten months from Salina Cruz, Mex., to Chorrilios, Peru. It length is 2,524 miles. Advices from Tashkend, In Syr-Darya, Asiatic Russia, show that the cotton crop in the country thereabouts is in splendid condition. Lloyd’s sanitary inspector at Bagdad, Asiatic Turkey, announces the outbreak of cholera at some of the stations on the Tigris and at Bussorah. At a sale of unclaimed baggage at the Grand Trunk depot, Montreal, June 1, Lee Stanton, a painter, bought a valise for $2 that contained 107 shares of the Western Gas Improvement Company, of Chicago, fully paid up, worth $107,000. The valise was the property of Louis Halberstadt, who died at Brockville, Ont., in October, 1891, of alcoholism. In the House of Commons, Wednesday, Wolmerl, Liberal .Unionist, moved as an amendment to the home rule bill that the Irish Legislature should not be empowered to grant votes in supply respecting matters upon which they were forbidden to legislate. The amendment was rejected by a vote of 240 to 188. Gen. Goldsworthy, Conservative, moved an amendment to abolish the office of Viceroy for Ireland and substitute a Secretary of State. He said that he hoped to see members of the British royal family residing in Ireland. Prime Minister Gladstone said that he concurred in the hope, but nevertheless it was impossible to accept the amendment.

WASHINGTON.

President Cleveland and family will go to the Adirondacks in July. President Cleveland has gone fishing at Hog Island, off the Virginia coast. Comptroller Eckles has been advised of the failure of the First National Bank of Brady, Tex. Tne bank, was a small one, its capital stock being only $50,000.

KANSAS RAIN MAKERS.

Concerted Cannonading Causes Copious Cooling Showers. Drought has prevailed in central southern Kansas during May. Through the efforts of Mayor Savage, of Wellington, a grand concerted bombardment of the skies was brought Ufa successful termination at Wellington, Warfield, Arkansas City, South Haven, Caldwell, Hutchison and Newton, on the 25tli. The State arsenal was drawn upon for cannon and mortars, and a simultaneous cannonading was conducted over a territory embracing eight counties. Firing began at noon, orders being sent by telegraph from Wellington, and by 3 o’clock the sky over the entire area was black, and shortly rain began to fall in generous quantities. Many scoff at the idea that the rain was caused by the explosions, but the fact remains that a drought was broken immediately after the bombardment.

CASH WHEAT SEVENTY CENTS.

Demoralization of the Chicago Market— Lowest In Thirty Years. Wheat at Chicago, Monday, sold at, with one exception, the lowest point in thirty years. The single exception was in 1887, during the reaction from the inflation caused by the running of a corner by Harper, the bank manager of Cincinnati. The great receipts with little outlet for the wheat, the fine weather, weaker cables, financial tightness and tho heavy load of wheat here all acted as depressing influences. The cash price broke below 70c early and decided many wagers made on such a figure. Then on the shaky feeling May touched 68%c, a price reached but once before since war times.

“GATHER THEM IN.”

Strong Sentiment In Nicaragua In Favor of Annexation. There is considerable talk in Ficaragua about getting fee United States to establish a protectorate there. It is argued that the American people, having a great deal at stake in the ship canal undertaking, have an Interest in maintaining order in that country. There is a strong undercurrent of feeling In favor of annexation or a protectorate, and it is said that’in Guatemala there is also much annexation sentiment. The people are weary of Internal revolutions and misuse of powers of government by dictators. AIL interests suffer from this cause, and people engaged in planting and mining desire permanent and well-assured peaeft.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Farmers near Farmland will bore for oil. - Two more cases of smallpox are reported at Alexandria. Auburn will build a new school house costing SIO,OOO. An effort is being made to establish a military post near Jeffersonvfile. 6 There were thirteen cases of smallpox lir Madison eolihty at ISSt a'ccounts.' s Several large pelicans were, seen on-the Wabash river near Terre Haute, Tuesday. Elwood has a case of smallpox, the patient being the father of the Alexandria victim. Hon. D. B- Kumler, died at Evansville, Tuesday, after four weeks suffering from rheumatism. The Worley, Bank, of Ellettsville. closed it doors, Monday morning. It is claimed to be solvent. ~ John Stipp, a wealthy farmer of Monroe county, was swindled out of $4,000 in cash by sharpers. 8 The labors of the Rev. Wm. ,T. Finch have resulted in establishing a Lutheran church at Anderson. Incendiaries destroyed Dude Turner’s saloon at Limestone, near Bedford. It was a notorious resort. The United States and Pacific Express companies’ office at Peru was robbed of SBOO, Wednesday night. Mrs. Mary Cavanaugh was burned to a crisp by an explosion of gasoline in her cellar at Jeffersonville, Tuesday. Marion county contributed this year to the school fund $51,000 more than it received from the State Treasurer for school purposes. ‘ Thousands of dead fish are seen floating in White river at Noblesville. The cause is attributed to foul stuff flowing into the river at Anderson. Carl Cohen, eighteen years old, of Knox county, while trying to control a team of mules was dragged into a shallow pool of water and drowned. An auction sale of 480 lots at Marion, Saturday, brought $49,800. This is said to be the largest day’s record of lot sales ever made in the gas belt. The soldiers’ monument at Delphi will be unveiled in August, and ex-President Harrison will b« invited to deliver the oration on that occasion, Union City, the first town in the State to bore for gas, but never succeeded in finding it, has a promise that it will be piped into the city in tlianear future. The suspended Capital National Bank, of Indianapolis, will resume business in good condition, permission having been granted by Comptroller Eckels. Another agrarian crime has been committed near Ennis, in County Clair. A land agent named Maloney was shot from ambush and seriously wounded. Captain Archer, of Spencer county, Indiana, has been appointed superintendent of the Pension Building. The position is a very fair one, paying $1,200 a year. Sixty witnesses have been subpoenaed by the Howard county grand jury in the investigation of theaffairsof the Greentown bank, of whom forty are depositors. Moses Crane, of Burlington, was found dead with two bullet Soles in his head on the depot platform at Kilmore, Friday morning. How he got there is a mystery. James Johnson, of Coal Bluff, shot and killed Leslie Bell, of Cardonia, at Caseyville, Wednesday evening. The men had a dispute over a chicken fight. Johnson escaped. The organization of the gas belt electric scheme was perfected at Noblesville, Thursday night, with a capital stock of $4,5(0 000. Work on the road bed will be commenced immediately. William Bass, of Mitchell, partially insane for several years, shot himself twice in the head and once in the chest, and still lives. He Is a member of the wellknown Bass family, of that section. Tuesday morning, at Columbus, Wiley St. John, a carpenter, struck Charley Hume, a fellow-workman, upon the head with a hammer, inflicting a wound that caused his death. St. John escaped. Counterfeit two-dollar silver certificates have appeared at Richmond. Several were accepted at the postoffice before their bogus character was discovered, and a number of business houses were caught. The three artesian wells at Yorktown are now attracting general attention, both for their medicinal qualities and their value as a supply to the new strawboard factory, which starts up in a few days. The great strike at Evansville is taking many carpenters and other workmen to other points, and the Evansville Tribune sounds a note of alarm, claiming that | Evansville needs families as well as factories. The action of the Citizens’ gas company of Elwood in raising the price of gas 100 per cent, has caused a big kick i on the phrt of the consumers and they will bore a new well unless the company comes down. Ralph Drake, at Columbus, Thursday, shot and killed Mrs. Ida Ward. After the shooting Drake put a bullet into his own head and will die. The woman had deserted her husband and lived with Drake as his wife. While the old Star Hotel at Center Point was being torn away an old box was found underneath in which was a human skeleton. It is surmised that many years ago there was a murder, which was concealed by this burial. The storm at Pendleton, Monday night, was unusually severe. Hail stones as large as hickory nuts fell, doing considerable damage. The electric display was terrific, several buildings being more or less damaged. Wilson Evans, an employe of the tinplate works at Elwood, while at work, Monday, thoughtlessly pushed a “live” electric light wire out of the way. He was instantly eldctrocuted. He was married Sunday Right. Moses B. and Minerva Wyland, of Elk; hart, sued Clarke Druckemiller, administrator, to recover money spent in entertaining relatives who came to attend their father's funeral, but a verdict was gendered for defendant. The Consumers’ Paper Company, of Muncie, is composed of Chicago capitalists and has been incorporated with a capital of $250,000. Their new factory will be located oo the river hank just west of the city, and will employ 200 men In the manufacture of straw boards, to be used in making paper boxes. W. U. Crays, of Loogootee, owned a chicken which missed a great future by dying. It had a well-developed doublo head, Including two beaks, three ayes, one

of which was in the center of the doublehssd, and a double throat. A feature of the Decoration Day observances at Bedford was an address by Miss Clara Barton, President of fee Bed Cross Society. In the evening a reception was given at the residence of Dr. Joseph Gardener in honor o t f Miss Barton. " The electric road in process of construction from Brazil to Harmony will be harassed by an injunction, farmers having come to the conclusion that it will ruin the road to which it has been given therlght of way by the county commissioners. Bishop Chatard learning of the intention as Father Bergen, of Vincennes, to deliver the memorial address at that place on Decoration Day, issued a command forbiddiug him to officiate on that occasion, Father Bergen obeyed but expressed his regret to the G. A. R. committee. Memorial Day was generally observed throughout the country and wherever there is a G. A. R. camp the graves of the dead veterans were appropriately decorated. At Indianapolis the ceremonies were notable, Gov. McKinley delivering an address at night, and at all prominent places memorial services were conducted. Arthur Baker, a young printer, whose home is at Fortville, Wednesday morning, at Wabash, attempted to board a south-bound Big Four freight train, intending to ride to Anderson. Both feet went under the car wheels and were so badly crushed at the ankles that the limbs were amputated above the ankles. Baker stood the operation bravely and is improving, but his condition is dangerous. Isaac H. Wilson, of Shelbyville, eightysix years old, is the first white male born in Shelby county. For many years he has been a Mason, and he was knighted in January, 1868. Recently he became too infirm to attend the meeting .of the Masonic bodies, and .Monday night the Knights Templars surprised him with an unexpected visit, during which he was presented with a handsome gold-headed cane. Bobert Catterson pleaded guilty at Terre Haute, Saturday, to a charge of safeblowing and was given four years. Sheriff Dobbins, of White county, arrived a little too late with a warrant charging him with assaulting the sheriff of that county with intent to kill, four years ago. The warrant will be placed in the hands of the warden of tho penitentiary, so as to be served at the expiration of Catterson’s term. Morris McDaniel, of Madison county, has a half-grown rat with a gold ring around its neck, which cannot be removed without tearing off the rodent’s head. Three months ago his little daughter, while plying in the barn, V)St the ring. On Saturday Mr. McDonald caught a rat with the ring around its neck. The supposition is that the ring was carried to the nest and accidentally was slipped about the rat’s neck while it was still very young. The Monon vestibule train which left Indianapolis an hour late, Monday night, schedule time being 2:05 a. m., was ditched at Broad Ripple, seven miles north of the city, by a blind horse. Engineer Geo. T. Plant, of Indianapolis, was killed, and Fireman Williams, of Monon, was seriously injured. Plant lived forty minutes after the accident. He was horribly scalded. A mail clerk was also injured but not seriously. None of the passengers were hurt. Twenty-five hundred dollars will cover the property loss. Patents were issued to residents of Indiana during the week ending Tuesday, as follows: Wm. L. Casaday, South Bend, wheel plow; James F. Murphy, Michigan City, headlight, George Phillon, Mishawaka, friction clutch; Franklin M. Reed, Anderson, combined hydrocarbon generator and burner; Warren Sweet, Fort Wayne, washing machine; Cotflde P. Thomas, Evansville, toilet powder case; Central Cycle Manufacturing Company, Indianapolis, bicycles and sulkies. The management of the Diamond plate glass factory at Kokomo, with the one at Elwood,in explanation of the sudden shutting down, state that no alternative presented itself but to shut down until fee business atmosphere cleared. There is six hundred thousand dollars’ worth of plate glass in the two factories in various stages of completion, with $200,000 of finished plate ready for shipment and no demand. Five of the ten plate glass factories in the country have closed and the others will within a week. The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company filed a mortgage at Indianapolis, Saturday afternoon, for $50,000,000 with the Mercantile Trust Company of New York, and Theodore P. Haughcy, of Indianapolis. Five million dollars’ worth of bonds are to be issued for present purposes, and $29,250,000 are to be issued to refund the outstanding bonds of tho thirteen rallrorids which constitute the Big Four system. The largest outstanding amount is on the Bee Line, which is 13,000,000. John Tarpie, of Haughvillo, an Indianapolis suburb, in company with three friends, called to have a talk with the bartender of John Shaw’s saloon at 1 o’clock, Thursday morning. The men went to the rear door and were surprised to find it standing open and the bartender asleep In his chair. They walked into the place and discovered a masked man behind the bar going through the money drawer. On Seing questioned the burglar opened fire on Tarpie killing him, and escaped during the excitement. B The street car strike at Ft. Wayne, ih progress for several days, took a serious turn, Wednesday. One car was literally besmirched with rotten eggs and decayed vegetables, and tfle motorman was seriously injured. Several encounters between strikers and tho men endeavoring to operate the lines took place. Thursday thirty extra deputy-sheriffs were sworn in to assist the police in preserving order. Each car is now manned by four or five guards, while the deputy-sheriffs keep the track clear. The lines are being operated under difficulties. John Allen, of Richmond, has two coin pieces upon which he places great value. He reports that the Government in 1801 commissioned a man named Beckwith, of North Carolina, to coin money of gold, taken from North Carolina mines. On one side is the Goddess of Liberty surrounded by thirteen stars, while on the other Is the American eagle, with fee words “E Pluribus Unum,” with thirteen stars. Mr. Beckwith was forbidden to place any value on his coin beyond Its actual value by wo ght. When the coins wert first issued they passed forsft,*but according to weight they are now worth sl7. Each piece is about the site of a silver quarter. Ono bears date of 1803 and the other 1808.