Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1893 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

rThc Dnko of Yeragua is again in New. York city. A train robbery was attempted at Omaha, Monday. Two men were fatally shot in an affray at Chicago, Thursday night. Arrangements are being made to rebuild Fargo, N. D., as rapidly as possible. The Union Stock Yards Bank, of Sioux City, la., has been forced to assign. Four persons lost their lives in a tenement house fire at New York, Tuesday. The Lemont, 111., canal strikers have returned to work at the contractors’ terms. About sixty feet of the State dam across the Hudson river at Troy, N. Y., gave . way. Mgr. Satolli, the papal delegate, has arranged an extensive trip to the Pacific coast, which will begin soon. 4 Charles Morris, one of the shrewdest diamond thieves in this country, was art rested at Louisville, Ky., Tuesday. The Charles P. Kellogg Cutlery Company, of Chicago, has made a voluntary assignment. Assets about $1,766,000 and liabilities $056,000.”"” Ex-Labor Commissioner Peck, of New York, is missing and it is believed that he left the country to avoid prosecution for destroying the records of his office. C. A. Pillsbury, the Minneapolis miller, told a Senate committee, inquiring into the financial situation, that Chicago short selling was the ruination of trade in the Northwest. E. B. Ford, a newspaper correspondent

at Dundas,Minn..narrowly escaped lynching. He was taken by White Caps and was already hanging when his brother rescued him, The famous and only genuine Blarney stone, which for centuries occupied a place in the walls of the historic Blarney Castle in Ireland, has arrived at the World’s Fair. The body of Herman Schaffner, the Chicago banker who has been missing since his bank collapsed two weeks ago, was found floating in the lake near that city, Wednesday afternoon. The new battleship Massachusetts was launched at Cramp’s shipyard at Philadelphia, Saturday. The vessel was christened by Miss Herbert, the daughter of the Secretary of the Navy. A stage en route to Fort Lee from New York city, Monday, was blown to pieces by a dynamite cartridge placed in the roadway. Two other unexploded cartridges were found. The driver was badly hurt and will probably die. There were no passengers. The New York clearing house association, Thursday, adopted a resolution to issuo loan certificates which are to bear 3 per cent, interest, in order to relieve the pressure. Institutions that are solvent but short of ready cash may use them for making settlements. The river at New Orleans, Thursday, was four feet above the danger line and still rising, caused by the clogging of the government"jetties. The city is in great danger unless the river succeeds in opening a new channel. Considerable damage has already been done. Princess Eulalie is said to have

actually snubbed Chicago society, all because she discovered that she was to be entertained by Mrs. Potter Palmer, whose husband kept the hotel where she was stopping. The Princess left Chicago, Wednesday, for the East Ex-President Harrison, Mrs. McKee and Baby McKee visited the World’s Pair, Monday. The visit was informal. The x-President and party, however, lunched with the Fair officials and was given a jordial reception by the people who ihane> d to be informed of his presence. 5 Wesley Shaw, at Buchanan, Ga., ordered an old woman, believed by the negroes to be a witch, off his land. She followed him to “pick up his tracks.” He, to prevent being bewitched, attempted to;ut her “witch vein.” Instead he struck aer jugular veim and she is dying, and he is in jail. David Kimmel, his wife Jand son, who est New York in 1881 with a charge hangng over them of having defrauded certain persons oflt of $15,000, went to Vlennar Tuesday they were convicted of defraudng a citizen of Vienna, and each of them was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment. One man was killed and five other people badly injured by an accident that occurred on the joe railway, Midway Plaisance, at Chicago, Wednesday night. The sleds on the railway were going at aJilgh rate of speed around a sharp curve when the second sled jumped the track and fell to the ground fifteen feet below. The cowboy race from Chadron, Neb., to Chicago started at 5:42, Tuesday evening. Three thousand people watched the departure. Gov. Altgoid, of Illinois, has issued a proclamation calling upon* all officers to see that the laws la reference to cruelty to animals are strictly enforced when, the cowboys reach that State. Commander Dickens, who has accompanied the Duke of Veragua in his travels through the United States, left the Duke in New York, Tuesday, and reported to Secretary Gresham that his charge was at an end, and from this time on as long as he remains in the United States, the Duke would travel as a private citizen, and not as a national guest. The Midway Plaisance will not be closed Sundays whether the rest of the Fair Is or Is not shut up. On the contrary, It will hereafter be very wide open. The concessionaries have won the fight with the Exposition authorities, and the latter have promised to give the exhibitors on the oriental thoroughfares such support that their place will become the feature of the Fair. After a search extending over, two months and after six encounters, the notorious train robbers, John Sontag and Chris Evans, Monday night, met four deputy U. JjL Marshals near Visalia, Cal., and as a result of the encounter which followed Sontag was wounded, possibly fatally, and Is now In custody. His companion, Evans, escaped after firing forty shots at his'pursuers. Where he made his stand he left his hat and two empty guns, and the ground was found covered with blood, indicating that he, too, is wounded. Being without guns or ammunition it is thought he will be captured.

FOREIGN.

President Carnot of France is 111. Ten war vessels of the Brftish navy wero condemned last month as unfit for service, and ordered sold. A dynamite bomb was exploded In front

of the residence of the. Public Prosecutor of Antwerp, Monday. No one injured. Count Revcntlow, Danish Secretary oi Legation in St. Petersburg, has been appointed Minister to the United States. The Italian Government proposes tc monopolize the life and fire insurance business and thus add $10,000,000 to the revenue. In order to cut down expenses, Spain proposed to abolish the district criminal courts, and lawyers in several of her large cities have gone on a strike. Three lots on the corner of Oxford street and Oxford Circus. London, brought al auction the other day a price equal to slls a square foot. The British House of Commons has finally passed the third clause of Section 1 of the Home-rule bill, which has been under debate since May 30. Duke Maximilian Emanuel, brother oi Empress Elizabeth, of Austria, while returning to Munich from a ride, ruptured a carotid artery and died almost immediately. - Eleven graduates of the American college at Rome, who have just been ordained to the priesthood, were given an audience by the Pojpe and received his blessing. •i Lieut. de Paladines, son of the famous French general of that name, shot himself accidentally with a revolver at Moulins, and died almost immediately. Tha Swedish Government has established on the coast nine stations for medical observation. The object of this measure is to protect the country from cholera.

Advices received from Samoa announce that Maliteo, still refusing to compromise with his rival, has directed the government forces to advance and enforce Matafa’s submission to him. A mission priest recently returned to the City of Mexico from an Indian village, only two days’ journey, and reports having discovered an Indian temple with seven large Aztec idols, to which the people prayed publicly. A suit in the English Chancery Court, begun in 1741, was concluded a few days ago. A sum of £14,000 was fought about, and the Government duties and legal fees neatly cover the entire sum, with the exception of a few pounds. Striking miners in Fuenfkirchen started a riot, but were dispersed bv the military before they could do much damage. The soldiers fired one volley which the strikers answered before fleeing. Several men on each side were wounded. The Rome correspondent of the London Daily News says "that the Pope has decided that in the diocese of St. Paul (U. S.) the clergy must instruct Catholic and Protestant children alike without exacting from the Protestants a promise to become Catholics. The Hamburg-Ameriean Steamship Company has given a Belfast firm the contract to build two large cargo boats. The order went to Belfast because the builders at that port underbid the German builders 400,000 marks on each vessel.

The financial situation in London is steadily improving, although no new Investments are being made. The bank rate has dropped from 4 to 3 per cent, and money is abundant It is so plentiful that consols are higher than they have ever been before in the history of the Empire. sThe embarkationof Russian emigrants from Hamburg for the United States being forbidden, Scharlach & Co., agents of several Liverpool steamship lines, have chartered the steamer Red Sea, and will send on her from Bremen to New York eight hundred steerage passengers, mostly Russians. Colombia has decided to enter a formal protest to Holland against the continued traffic in Indian children by thp Dutch traders on the Goajira coast. Thirty girls, pearly all from ten to twelve years old, were recently brought to Curacoa on one schooner. They were there openly sold in domestic service. Among the recommendations contained in the report of the commission appointed to consider the causes of and remedies for the derangement of the silver money system of India, is one advising the stoppage of the coining in Indian mints 60Ilver for private aoootmt. Lord Herschell, at present Lord High Chancellor, was at the head of the commission. Prince Bismarck will go to Kissengen with his family in July to take the water. Prince Regent Lufopold, of Bavaria, has placed at his disposal carriages and servants from the royal establishment. Bismarck received the veterans of Wandsbeck at Friedrichsruhe, last week, and spoke briefly of hisexperience in the army. Ho was sorry, he said, that his parents had not allowed him to remain in the service. The deepest impressions of his life had been made during his years in the army. The chaos of political parties at present prevailing in Germany, is unprecedented in histofy. More than twenty political parties are striving for supremacy at present. The large land owners, the small peasant proprietors, the merchants, the tradesmen, the mechanics, the laborers, the petty officials, the teachers, all and every one are dissatisfied and they all look for sal vat bn from some political party of their own. There are the conservatives, mostly noblemen and their retainers, who see their only salvation In absolute monarchy and in protection of the German grain products. They are wroth with the Emperor and Caprivl on account of the commercial treaties with Austria and Italy, which admitted the products of those countries at a reduced rate of duty.

AGAINST THE KAISER.

The German Army Bill Defeated. The returns from the German elections of Thursday received at Berlin como in slowly from the outlying provinces. The Socialists have developed unexpected strength. Their gains ore believed to be enormous. Their gain over 1890 in Berlin is 30,000, and hot a single candidate pledged to support the army bill has been returned '-from that city. The prospects of a Government majority appear to be vanishing. Roughly speaking, the Socialist vote shows a great increase everywhere. The Radical vote has diminished ihoavily, chfefly, it would seem, because the better class of the Radical party voted for thb anti-Semitic candidates. Not ten per cent, of the votes cast in Berlin were given in favor of the army bill. Seldom has the city spoken in such emphatic tones. The provincial returns appear to be equally emphatic in the same direction.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Jasper will soon be lighted with electricity. Highway robberies are reported in Wells county. The postoffice at Mott pays but 51 cents annually. Elkhart county has borrowed $35,000 to meet current expenses. The W. C. T. U„ of Ossian, have instituted a crusade against the saloon. Two more factories were located at Albany this week, making ten in sixty days. Wabash citizens were extensively victimized by the Harvey Hotel swindle at Chicago. The recent storm in Elkhart county destroyed many thousand dollars worth of farm property. 5 Groundhogs are reported numerous in Wayne county. They are very destructive to poultry. Windfall is to extend her town boundaries, and will be a mile square when thenew limit lines are laid out. The Clark county commissioners will proceed against Mr. Jenkins’ bondsmen to recover the amount of his shortage. Samuel Pratt and Samuel Pratt, Jr., were killed by the explosion of an engine in a basket factory at Peru, Monday. Prize-fights are being arranged at Muncie in utter disregard of the Governor’s feelings, as expressed in the Roby affair. Social gatherings with onions as the chief feature of the bill of fare is a “fad” among the Four Hundred at. South Bend. The American Wheel Company’s plants were shut down at Crawfordsville, also at other points in Kentucky and Tennessee. Hon. A. V. Pendleton, ex-Indiana legislator, was stricken with paralysis at his home in Franklin, Wednesday, and died instantly. The first gas well tor what is known as the free-factory line at Kokomo, proves to be a gusher, the estimated output being five million cubic feet daily. The Supreme Court, Wednesday, decided in a test caso brought by Mrs. A. D. Leach, of Greene county, that women may be admitted to the bar in Indiana.

Word comes from Noblesville that the syndicate which proposes to lay a web of electric lines in the gas belt now proposes to extend the road to Lafayette and Chicago. All the money deposited withj the New Albany Banking Company on the day preceding the closing of Its doors is being returned to depositors under order of the court. The water undermined the supporting pier of the bridge spanning Sugar creek, near Crawfordsville, a new iron structure, and both spans fell in. The bridge cost 828,000. The Model flint-glass works have begun work on the new plant at Albany, which is is under contract to be in operation by. September next, with three hundred employes. Judge Brown, in a test case in the Marion county Circuit Court, Tuesday, brought by Sheriff Stout, of Knox county, held the new fee and salary law unconstitutional. Fort Wayne had a sensation, Wednesday, when it was learned that Mrs. Caroline A. Stapleford had secretly procured a divorce from her wealthy husband, who is a prominent citizen of that place. George Kloss, of Dyer, undertook to board a moving train and fell under the wheels, losing both legs. Last Monday his brother Frank fell under a train in a similar manner, and both arms were cut off. 3Claude Stone, . teen years old, near Plainfield, while plowing in a field uncovered a Spanish coin bearing date 1311. On one side of the coin is the coat-of-arms of Spain, and on the other a likeness of the reigning sovereign.

A Lagrange county farmerwas swindled by the minister and the wedding game to the extent of 1585, the marriage certificate that he signed to accommodate his pious guest turning up as a note for that amount in the hands of innocent parties. Theodore Poweska, sent to the Prison South from Martinsville, made a bold break for Liberty, Monday. Sneaking out under a loaded wagon, he plunged into the Ohio rapids. The current carried him a mile to an eddy, where he was recaptured by the pursuing guards. Mrs. A. White, of Vincennes, playfully pointed a flobert rifle toward her sixteen-year-old daughter, Dottie, who was picking cherries in a tree, and exclaimed: “I see a big bint” Accidentally the weapon was discharged, the bullet striking the girl below the knee and making a serious wound. 5 Defaulting treasurer Jenkins, of Clark county, left Jeffersonville, Thursday, for parts unknown. He is supposed to have gone to Mexico. His shortage has grown to the amount of 120,661.19, and it is believed that he feared criminal proceedings. Jenkins is in the last stages of consumption. Ex-Governor Chase appeared at Kokomo, Monday, and filed his bo fid for 83,000 on the indictment recently found against him in the Greentown bank case. Mr Chase requested an immediate trial, but the State was not prepared and the case will go over to the October term. John W. Paris also gave bond. 2 A wonderful deposit of semi-block coal has been found at Mecca, six miles north of Rockville. One vein is being worked, which is four and one-quarter feet in thickness, and the daily output from which is ten cars. An inexhaustible quantity of terracotta clay has also been found, in which there are nine different varieties for brick and ornamental work. The company owns 1,200 acres of the coal land. Jack Reeves, in charge of the engine running between Clay City and Brazil, which engine is stabled every night at Clay City, is confident that the specter of an unknown passenger, killed some tWo months ago, nightly haunter the track. Frequently the specter 1* seen close to his cab. Reeves reports that he has no inclination to address his ghostly visitor, and that anyone can see it by spending a night in the cab of his engine. There has never been an execution at the prison north under the new law, and .the prison management is very much interested in the proceedings which have condemned murderers Parker and McAffee, of Indianapolis, to the scaffold. There is much comment at that institution! both among the officers and the prisoners. The law requires the warden or deputy warden to give the execution personal attention. The following patents were awarded to citizens of Indiana, Tuesday: A. R.

Baker, deceased, Indianapolis. M. C. ! Baker, administratrix, advertising blotter; J. Beckley, sr., Royal Center, corn crib; J. Buchanan, Indianapolis, vehicle .wheel; H. C. Hanson, Hobart, composite puzzle; M. T. Reeves, assignor to Reeves & Co., Columbus, concave for clover-hull-ing machines; C. H. Paget, Oxford, pnuematic tire; S. A. Reinheimer, Winchester, barrel tapping and emptying device; R. M. Roberts, Morristown, glass-carrying vehicle; C. W. Robinson, Greentown, incubator. The delegates representing 106 German Knights of Pythias lodges in the United States assembled at Indianapolis, Monday, to decide what action should be taken by them in relation to the recent decision of the Supreme Lodge that all rituals should be printed in the English language. The meeting declared its position in a series of resolutions, in which the Supreme Lodge,which meets in Washington in June, 1894, is asked to rescind the order. The sentiment of the delegates is in favor of seceding and forming an independent order in the event that tho Supreme Lodge refuses to comply with the request preferred. A small fire broke out in the basement underneath Fred Goetz’s furniture store at Terre Haute, and after the iron grating had been torn up it was speedily extinguished with a dash or two of water. Eight firemen followed their chief into the basement to make sure that the fire was extinguished, and while there, they were overcome by, the heat and gas. Chief Kennedy was the first to be prostrated, but he managed to make his way out. Finding his men still within he went to their assistance, and he succeeded in carrying out four of the firemen before he was again prostrated. Other firemen then rushed into the cellar, some of them also to fall victims to the fumes, and before the rescue was completed eighteen men had to be carried out McClellan, Falvey and Anderson were dangerously prostrated, but the others speedily revived upon reaching the open air. Fireman Ostorloo also narrowly escaped with his life. A peculiar effect of the prostration lay in the fact that the liinbs of all the victims were stiffened as if in death, while their bodies from the waist up were as limp as if boneless. The loss by the fire did not exceed S7OO. but it narrowly escaped being a frightful casualty.

They Come High, But—

New York Weekly. Mrs. Makshift—Well, I've found out how to make up my new dress at last. Mr. M. —Then why don’t you get the stuff? —- Mrs. M. —No money left. It took all I had to buy fashion magazines.

THE MARKETS.

June 17. 1833Indianapolis. GRAIN AND ifAY. Wheat—No. 2 red, 63c; No. 3 red, 60@ 61c; No. 4 red, 56c: rejected, 45@55; unmerchantable, 35@40c; wagon wheat. 62. Corn—No. 1 white. 41>£c; No. 2 white. 41Kc:No.3wbite,41c; N 0.4 white,36c;No. 2 white mixed, 30c; No. 3 white mixed, No. 4 white mixed, 35c; No. 2 yellow, 39c; No. 3 yellew, 38Kc; No. 4 yellow, 35c; No. 2 mixed, 39c; No. 3 mixed, 38Kc; No. 4 mixed, 35c; sound ear, 44c for yellow. Oats —No. 2 white, 35c; No. 3 white, 35c; No. 2 mixed, 31c; No. 3 mixed, 30c; rejected, 26@32c. Hay—Choice timothy, 811.50; No. 1. 813; No. 2, 812; No. 1 prairie, 87; mixed, 88: clover, 89. Bran, 812. LIVE STOCK. Cattle—Export grades 8 [email protected] Good to choice shippers 4.85(^5.25 Fair to medium shippers [email protected] Fair to choice feeders [email protected] Stockers, 500 to 800 [email protected], Good to choice heifers........ [email protected] Fair to medium heifers 3.40@3,85 Common to thin [email protected] Good to choice c0w5............ [email protected] Fair to medium cows [email protected] Common old cows [email protected] Veals, common to good. [email protected] Bulls, common to fair [email protected] Bulls, good to choice [email protected] Milkers, good to choice.. [email protected] Milkers, common to fair [email protected] Hogs—Heavy packing and 5hipping........... [email protected] Mixed [email protected] Light [email protected] Heavy roughs [email protected] Pigs [email protected] Sheep—Good to choice clipped. [email protected] Fair to medium clipped [email protected] Common clipped [email protected] Spring Lambs, 30 to 50 lbs [email protected] Bucks, per head [email protected] POULTRY AND OTHER PRODUCE. [Prices Paid by Dealers.] Poultry Hens, 9c B>; young chickens, 20c IP lb; turkeys, young toms, 8c IP lb; liens, 10c y tt>; ducks, 7c $1 lb; geese, s4@ 4.80 for choice. Eggs—Shippers paying 12c. Butter Grass butter, 12c; fresh country butter, B@loc. Honey—lß@2oc. Feathers Prime Geese, 40c. V ■ mixed duck, 20c IP lb. BEESwax—2oc for yellow; 15c for dark. Wool—Fine merino. 15@17c; medium unwashed. 18c; coarse or braid wool, i6@l7c; unmerchantable, 12© 15c; tubwashed, 23@27c. Detroit. Wheat,69>£c. Corn,No. 2,44}a'e. Oats, No. 2 white, 37}^c. Minneapolis. Wheat, 62Xc. New York. Wheat, No. 2 red, 75c. Com, No. 2, 48c. Oats, Lard, 810.70. Butter, Western dairy, 15@17c; creamery, 17@20c. Chicago. Wheat, 68J£c. Corn, 39}£c. Oats, 30c. Pork, 820.90. Lard, Short-ribs, $9.80. Cattle—top steers, $4.25@6; others, [email protected]. Hogs—Heavy mixed and packers, [email protected]; prime heavy, [email protected]; prime light, [email protected]; other lights, 84.80 @7.50. Sheep Top sheep, [email protected]; lambs, [email protected]. Cincinnati. Wheat, No. 2 red, 66c; Corn, No. 2 mixed, 44c; Oats, No. 2 white western, 32>4c; Rye. No. 2,63 c; Mess Pork, 821.15; Lard, $10.50; Bulk Meats. $10.50; Bacon, $11.62. Butter, creamery fancy, 22c; Eggs, 13c. Cattle. [email protected]., Hogs, [email protected]. Sheep, [email protected]. St. Louis. Wheat, No, 2 red, 66c; Cora, No. 2 mixed, 36]*; Oats, No. 2,32 c; Butter, 23c. Duflhlo. Cattle, [email protected]. - Hogs, heavy. [email protected]; mixed, |7.20@ 87.50; light, [email protected]. Sheep, native, [email protected]; Texas, $3.25@ 86.50. 'Philadelphia. Wheat. No. 3 “Red, 72}*c; Corn. No. 2 Mixed. 48c: Oats, 41c; butter, creamery, 21c; eggs, J6c. Baltimore. Wheat, No. 2 Red. 72>4c; Cora, mixed, 49c; Oats, No. 2,White Western.42J<c;Rye, 64c: Pork, 822.03; Butter, creamery, 21c; Eggs, 15>ic^

INDIANA’S INFAMY.

Pugnacious Pugilists Punish, Pummel and Pound. Roby"* Great A rena—Result of XcHngh’f BUI— Got. Matthcwi Indignant. On the 3d day of last February, at Indianapolis, Senator McHugh introduced and passed a bill which provided that gymnastic exhibitions and athletic contests of science and skill be allowed within the State. It remained for Dominic O’Malley, of New Orleans to discover that this law had been passed four months before the sheriff of Lake county became aware of the fact Three men besides O’Malley were taken into the scheme, and a working capital of $50,000 was raised In ah hour, and O’Malley began operations. Three acres of properly were bought at a point 100 yards south of the line which divides Indiana from ,111nois, and at a , juncture where three railroads meets, the Baltimore & Ohio, the Pennsylvania and the Lake Shore A Michigan Southern. In addition to the railroad accommodation, the club will have three electriclines and boat service on the lake. It is estimated that 10.0 CO people per hour can bo landed at the doors. Thirteen miles from the city and landing, 300 feet from the club’s building, midway between the tracks of the two last-named corporations, a monster amphitheater has been built. Incomplete) as yet, when finished the arena will scat 18,400 people comfortably, or more than the combined capacity of tho Coney Island, Crescent City, Olympic and California athletic clubs. The arena is lighted by twenty-five arc lamps and a reserve method of illumination is supplied by fifty one-gallon kerosene lamps. Tho power for the electric lights is supplied by a plant owned by the club. c Monday night the first contest of a series at the grounds, which are known as the Columbian Athletic Club, took place between Goddard and Kennedy, which resulted in the dofeat of Kennedy in two rounds. Within twenty minutes after Goddard and Kennedy had left tho ring a gong was rung far the main event, the fight beWeen Costello and Woods, which was continued through fifty-seven rounds and declared a draw.

Over 18,000 people wero present. The Illinois Central ran five special trains from Chicago at 7:30 p. m., followed by trains every ten minutes. Every train was loaded to the brakes. Gov. Matthews was seen at Indianapolis by a Sentinel reporter and expressed his indignation and determination to break up the Columbian Athletic Club enterprise. He had already issued special instructions to the officials of Lake county. Growing warm Gov. Matthews said: “The men of the Columbian Club can make nothing else out of tho exhibitions at their club house than prize lights, and I am sure the old law governing prize fights can reach them. I do not think that the new law repeals the old one, and it is a question of constitutionality that will be tested. If the officers of Lake county do not act in the premises and act promptly I have attorneys in this city who will take up the matter and fight tho projectors of the club to the end. Tho people of the State do not wish this infamous disgrace in their borders and I do not propose to stand idly by and see the latfp trampled upon in such a way.” Martin Costello and Billy Woods, the two prize fighters, and George Silor, the referee, were arrested at Robey and brought to Crown Point, Tuesday, and each gave bail in the sum of 81,060 to appear at the next term of tho Circuit Court, which will not convene until Sept. 4. Sheriff Frederick says that ho will be on hand at all the fights given kt Robey, and arrest all principals and others participating in the sport. He thinks that he took the right course on this occasion, as under the law, he did not beilevo that ho could stop the light.

AN EXPERT ON INDIANA CROPS.

Granville Cowing, of Mnncle, Is one of the best authorities In thb State on the fruit crop. He says apples have been greatly damaged by tho cold weather of May and do not promise over half a crop. Cherries will not produco one-quarter of a crop. There are few pears and only a half crop of plums. Thcro is a full crop of blackberries and the strawberry 'crop is large but not so much as it promised ten days ago. Grapes promise to be very plentiful <

SMOTHERED IN MUD.

Monday night Wm. G. Hutchings, a prominent farmer near Darlington, met his death in a horrible manner. He was going home from town, and in the darkness his team ran off a small unguarded bridge. Hutchings fell under the wagon and was literally smothered to death in the mud. He leaves a family.

A PLAIN TALKER.

According to an exchange a northern Indiana minister, in preaching his farewell sermon, recently, said: “I leave you, brethren, for three reasons: First, you do not love me; second: you do not love each other or there would be more weddings and less fighting; third, the Lord does not love you, for if Ho did there would bo more funerals.”

ANNUAL MILITIA ENCAMPMENT.

Adjutant-General Robbins, Tuesday, designated the time of the annual encampment of the Indiana militia. The date will be July *0 to 27. inclusive. The encampment will be held either at Terre Haute or Indianapolis. Terre Haute can have it if suitable arrangements for th« legion are Made.

Successful Treatment.

Texas Sifting*. “Just try tn frighten me," said Briggs to draggs. “What for?” “I’ve got the hiccoughs, and if you frighten me it will make them go away at once.” “Very well, then; here goes,” (shouting at the top of his voice). Ji Lend me twenty dollars.” “Ah, thanks; it’s gone.” Whatever happens to John himself, the Chinese firecrackers will Ukdy go off successfully by the Fgihrh.

GAS BELT ELECTRIC.

Pfauu for the Proposed Tstsfprlii .Ifl| or tho Routes. At Noblesvillei, Wednesday, the exact plans of the new enterprise Were made known for the first time. The distance between Noblesviile and Indianapolis Is to be covered by a double-track system. This double track will also be extended from Noblesviile to Chicago, via Sheridan, Frankfort and Lafayette. A single-track

branch will go immediately north through Tipton to Kokomo. At this place two ex - tensions will be made from the line directly north, one going to Logansport and the other to Pern. The third branch leading from Noblesviile will pass through Elwood, Marlon, and will have its terminus in Fort Wayne. It will also be a single track. The fourth and last road will go to M uncle through Anderson. This will complete a network of electric railways connecting all the leading towns in the natural gas belt of Indiana.

MOB AT THE INQUEST.

Col. Ainsworth, Chief of tho Record* Division, In Danger. At the coroner’s inquest, investigating the Ford thearer wreck at Washington, Monday, a most exciting scene took place. A snrging mass of people was present. One man, white with rage, rushed upon Col. Ainsworth, the Chief of the Pension Records Division, which occupied the wrecked building, exclaiming: “That man killed my father and I propose to kill him!” Instantly cries of “hang him!” “kill him!” “shoot him!”, were heard throughout the hall. Foreman Warner, of the jury, jumped upon a chair and urged the excited people to commitno violence, but it was only by the most vehement protests, accompanied by prompt action on the part of the police, that peace was maintained. Col. Ainsworth was escorted from the hall in safety after the prompt adjournment of the Jury’s session, the foreman deeming it Imprudent to continue the proceedings at that time. Col. Ainsworth has been known as a great disciplinarian and is unpopular with his clerks, and they hold him responsible for the accident because of his having let the contract for the excavation which caused the collapse of the building to incompetent persons because their bid was the lowest. It is said in justification of Col. Ainsworth that, like the majority of Government officials, he is hampered by red (.ape, and has only followed the law and discharged his duty as laid down by the. rules. ’ t

WASHINGTON.

Baron Fava was formally presented to the President under his new title of Ambassador from Italy. The Department of State has heard nothing of any retaliatory or to be taken by China. Major Halford, paymaster, is to be relieved from duty as disbursing officer of the Berjng Sea Commission in Paris, and ordered \o report for duty in Texas. The Malor has not had much army experience, for he was not appointed to his present office until the close sf the last administratfon. Before he had time to get used to wearing his new uniform he was detailed for special duty with the Bering Sea Commission, and started at once for Europe. Some of the older members of the pay corps grumbled at a “raw recruit” obtaining such a desirable assignment upon his first entry into the service, hut the Major was not there to listen to their unfavorable comments. It is said that in detailing him for duty in Texas there is no Intention of reflecting upon him In any way or upon the action of President Har-ri-on in thus rewarding his public servant. It is quite probable that when the Major went away the length of his stay had been arranged between him and the new administration officials.

TEMPESTUOUS TIME IN TENNESSEE.

They AH Get Stone Blind Dwwk and Johnny Filled Up the BowL An excursion last Sunday from Nashville to Gallatin, Tenn., was the wildest time the participants ever had, it is said. They began getting drunk promptly on arrival there, and by returning time were blind drunk and fighting mad. Knives, clubs, razors and whiskey bottles were the weapons used. John Ludwig had his head broken with a bottle full of whisky and will die. Dan Gowan was knocked off the train with a club and fell on the ground while the train was going at full tpeed. and will not recover. Elvin Dowell was bitten by a copperhead snake near Gallatin, and is dying.

IMPROVED FINANCIAL SITUATION.

Increased Export* of Cerexla Swell the Gold Reserve. The net gold reserve In the Treasury at the close of business. Wednesday, was 193,138,315, an Increaso of nearly one million dollars over Tuesday, and an Increase of nearly 82,000,003 during the week. The low price of wheat has had the effect of increasing our exports of that commodity largely, and as a consequence the goid shipments have been decreased. Representative Wilson, of West Virginia, in an interview at Washington, expressed himself as being certain that the Sherman' diver law will be promptly repealed. One Hundred and fifty thousand ounces of silver. were purchased a; :he Treasury, Wednesday.