Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1893 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

By an explosion in a laundry at New York, Thursday, nine girls were seriously injured. ■ A delegation of 450 men waited on Chicago’s Mayor in an orderly manner and asked for work. Everything looks favorable to the early resumption of work in all the mills of the Mahoning valley. Indictments were returned against eight-seven professional gamblers at Chi cago, Wednesday. Accordipg to fall returns, the cotton crop of Texas will fall 20 per cent, below that of last year. Silver took a jump of two cents upward on the London market, Tuesday, the quotation being f 0.7634 per ounce. Plans to blow up the Detroit water-* works and then fire the city have been discovered. Arrests will be made. In exchange for three Orloff horses from the czar’s stables, three of Palo Alto’s trotters wifi be shipped to Russia.

Mrs. Ada M.Bittenbender, of Lincoln, has been nominated for the Supreme Bench by the lowa Prohibitionists. Dissatisfied with the action of the Republicanconvention, lowa Prohibitionists may put candidats of their own in the field. Indignant free-silver advocates in Texas, near Texarkana, hanged President Cleveland in effigy, and then riddled the figure with bullets. Armour & Co., of Chicago, Monday, received thessoo,oCO in gold ordered from London two weeks ago. The have ordered $500,000 more. Mrs. Catherine Dildine, of Lakeview, Mich., lays claim to all the ground on which the town of Port Chester, N. Y., Is built,r valued at 130,000,000. The People’s party convention of New York, at Silver Beach, - Saturday, appealed to the farmers of the West for food to feed the starving multitudes in New York city. Thursday was Illinois day at the World’s Fair. Elaborate parades of all nations were conducted. The crowd was the largest that has. ever passed through the gates. A large number of unemployed Poles at Milwaukee, Wednesday, attached a party of laborers at work on a street-car track, and demanded that they stop work. The police dispersed the mob. Edward Brennan, a young man whose home is in New* York city, was swept over Niagara Falls, Sunday. He had been boating in the river above and by some means capsized his craft. The Fourth National Bank of Louisville, Ky., the American National Bank of Pueblo, Col., and the Waupaca County National Bank of Waupaca, Wis., have been authorized to resume business. Over two million dollars’ worth of blooded horses, and cattle to the value of half that amount, were paraded in the big stock pavilion in the presence of ten thousand, people at Jackson Park, Wednesday. The great Havemyer sugar refinery at Williamsburg, N. Y., resumed operations, Monday. Four thousand people are given employment, and the telegram from New York city, “Boil sugar,” was hailed with joy by 20 000 persons. The New York police found it advisable

to break up an anarchist meeting, Wcdnes day night, and plied thcirclubs vigorously and effectually. They cleared the room in two minutes, despite the ravings of the principal speaker who dared them to come in, saying that the anarchists could whip the police easily. Employment was given, Monday, to between 12,000 and 15,000 idle men at and near Pittsburg by the resumption of operations in iron and steel plants. Among the mills resuming were the Black Diamond steel works, Sligo iron works, portions of Jones & Laughlin’s iron and steel plant and the National tube works. Old soldiers at Arkansas City, Kan., will make a test case of their claimed rights under the United States Revised Statutes, and declare their intention of settling on any specified quarter of the Cherokee strip. The statutes say that a soldier may locate his homestead Mid. have six months to tile his declaratory statement. Speaker Crisp has announced his desire that the extra session shall finish necessary legislation and adjourn on or before Oct. 1. He will also use his influence to prevent any discussion of thetariff question during the extra session. The ways and means committee will probably consider tariff matters, but no reform bill will bo reported before the regular meeting of Congress in December. Fuller reports of the great storm on the Atlantic coast, Wednesday night, bring details of great calamities at all points wlthljOOO miles of New York. The rain fall was the heaviest ever recorded by the signal service' The gale reached a velocity of forty miles an hour. The damage to the shipping cannot be estimated. The ravages of the storm on land were very severe. In Central Park, New York, great numbers of the trees were blown over. Many plate glass windows in different parts of the city were blown in. Reports from Brooklyn, New Haven, Long Branch, and all important points on the coast tell of unprecedented damage on sea and land.

FOREIGN.

Two now cases of cholera have been reported at Rotterdam. In an address at KJssongcn Prince Bismarck declared himself opposed to the centralization of the imperial power. The general Parliamentary election took place in Ftance, Sunday. All of the Cabinet mlnttters wore re-elected without serious opposition. The worst gale for years prevailed on the Nova Scotia coast, Tuesday night. Many vessels were wrecked. China will retaliate unless the Geary law is soon repealed. Special precautions are now being taken-to insure the safety of Americans now residing in China. Owing to the prevalence of cholera in Russia, the Turkish government has ordered a five day quarantine against all vessels arriving at Constantinople from Russian ports. Duke Ernest, of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, died, Tuesday night, at his castle in Coburg. He was born in 1818, and succeeded to the throne of the duchy in 1844. The Duke being childless, the throne now falls to the Duke of Edinburg, second son of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert having been a brother of Duke Ernest. The English Duke of Edinburg thug, becomes a reigning German prince.

SOUTH CHICAGO FIRE.

The Great Industrial Suburb Almost Destroyed. Seven Thousand People Homeless—Three Hundred Buildings Ga Up in Smoke. A fire, which in the extent of territory it covered, almost rivals Chicago’s historic conflagration began in that part of the city known as South Chicago about 5 o’clock, Thursday afternoon. From a three-story brick building at the corner of Ninety-First street and Superior avenue flames which rapidly grew in volume, ate their way over block after block of small frame residences until they reached the lake. Within two hours the fire had consumed at least thirty buildings and five blocks of the greatest industrial suburb of Chicago. The 50,000 residents of the town were pcrcipitated into a panic second only in this city to that which characterized the conflagration sf 1871. The burned district is north of the river which opens out into the Calumet harbor, protected on the north and south by government piers. Between the river and the district in which the flames originated are the great lumber yards and lumber docks aloug the Calumet river and harbor. These are just south of the Chicago & Western Indiana and the Rock Island & Pacific railroad, running north and south between Erie and Ontario-aves. marked atits beginning the western boundary of the fire. Two squares from the origin of the fire to the northare the immense shops of the Baltimore <t Ohio railroad company. Hundreds of people deprived of home comforts, with scarcely a warning, gathered along Ninety-first street and adjacent thoroughfares. But.they were not to be homeless, for the citizens of South Chicago rallied to their assistance. It was not necessary to even organize relief committees and no definite steps toward the housing of the unfortunate people were taken. The word was passed down the line that the houses of those who were not losers by the fire, without exception, were open to any and all who had been driven out upon the streets. South Chicago is almost entirely a manufacturing surburb. and is situated at the month of the Calumet river, about thirteen miles from the city hall. The principal establishment is the Illinois steel company, which employs at the present time about six thousand men. The river front and lake shore are occupied for long distances by immense lumber and coal yards and shipping docks. It has a population in round figures of about fifty thousand.

TYPICAL “INDIANA.”

The Great Crowning Figure in Position on the Soldiers' Monument, The work of placing the great bronze crowning figure, “Indiana,” in position on the Soldiers’ Monument at Indianapolis is at last completed. The exact weight of the figure is: Head, 6.000 pounds; body, 8,000 pounds: globe and feet, 3,000 pounds, arms, 2,000 pounds; sword, 300 pounds; total, 19,300 pounds.

THE CROWNING FIGURE.

The crowning figure was cast by the American Bronze Company of Chicago, which cast tho Montana silver statue on exhibition at the World’s Fair. The statue is the largest bronze figure ever cast. There was some bronze left after the figure had been cast, which the company is making into paper knives of pretty design. The commission has ordered 6,000 medals bearing a likeness of the monument, which will bo received by September 1.

CONGRESSMAN CONN’S PLAN.

The Indiana Member Has a Bill to Solvo the Financial Problem. Congressman Charles G. Conn has a solution for tho financial puzzle which is now confronting the solonsof both Houses of Congress, which he will probably Introduce soon in the shape of a substitute to the Sherman law, If given an opportunity. Briefly stated, Mr. Conn's scheme Is this: “Open our mints to the free and unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, and for every 371)4 grains of fine silver delivered at a mint, issue, as the owner of the silver might a legal tender certificate for one dollar, redeemable in gold, or a silver dollar of 412)4 grains weight, which should also he legal tender and redeemable In gold; provided, that the owner of the stiver pay into the treasury at the time the silver was delivered the difference between the prevailing market prices of both gold and silver.” Mr. Conn says ho has outlined bis plan to several silver mon and they think it would be a good solution of the bimetallic problem.

INDIANA BANKS RESUME.

The Citizens'National bank of Attica, which suspended payment on the 12th Inst., having complied with the* conditions imposed by the controller, was Monday permitted to re-onen its doors for business. The First National of Hammend is expected to open this week.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Whiting has 3,529 population. A prize baby show Is imminent at Ft. Wayne. There was an attempted jail delivery at Bedford. Milk sickness has been located at Doolittle’s Mills. Kokomo will decorate in honor of the national G. A. R. ' ’ Four new cases of small-pox developed Tuesday. It is alleged that the Muncie fire department is inefficient. The school trustees of Dana will erect a school-building costing 11.000. There are £O3 acres of corn on the Martindale farm, near Switz City. Marion police are overworking themselves trying to break up profanity. Fruit growers on the knobs .of Scott county report a fair crop of peacßes. Charles Dixon,a colored convict,hanged liimself at the Prison North, Tuesday Mrs. Burgess, an old lady, of Westfield, is slowly bleeding to death of hemorrhage of the nose. The financial stringency is not affecting Ingalls, as three large factories are being built there. Muncie is proposing to get up a souvenir to distribute at the National Encampment G. A. R. Charges of immorality have been filed with the county commissioners at Columbus against Wm. S. Griffin, superintendent of schools. William Ely, of Boone county r has distinguished himself by hauling hay to the Indianapolis market with oxen, He brought in two and a half tons at a load. Jesse Denlinger, T. C. Wrenick, John Nelson, Fred Robbins and Rue Flynn were seriously injured in a natural gas explosion at Morristown,Monday evening. Lightning struck William Hick’s barn in Porter county, cremating five head of horses, two cows and other property. Loss $3,500, with insurance in the Ohio Farmers. Two colored boys at Muncie burst open the door of the Lake Erie & Western railway ticket office between trains and stole $Bl. They were chased by the police and captured. The Indiana W. C. T. U. will furnish barrels of ice-water along the line of march of the veterans at the National Encampment of the G. A. R. to be held in Indianapolis. W. C. Vanneman, superintendent of the Anderson foundry and machine shop, is said to have invented a brick machine which will revolutionize the manufacture from soft mud. Messrs. Buck and Brown, the so-called “apostles of tent religion,” are conducting a revival at Windfall. Dozens of converts nightly fall into a trance, and the excitement is said to be intense.

Chas. McDonald was to have been married to a highly respectable young lady at Delphi, Tuesday night, but the wedding did not take place as he was in jail charged with grand larceny. A spectral figure is said to haunt the tracks of the old Peru railway near Atlanta, and the superstitious claim that it is the ghost of a laborer who was murdered by his companions in 1855. Rufus and William Test, owners of a woolen mill located on the banks of Whitewater river, are claiming 120,090 damages from the city of Richmond, because of pollution of the water, White caps in Bartholemew county horribly beat Andy Schrader and wife, Tuesday night. Mrs. Schrader claims to know two of the parties. Mrs. Schrader had accused her husband with whipping her. The Bloomfield Democrat says that, notwithstanding the hard times, 3,609 tickets were sold by the circus managers at Worthington,and one man too poor to pay his subscription to the Democrat lost 870 by a shell game. According to the Bedford Democrat, a cow entered the lot at Bloomington where the reservoir of the water-works is located, and drank up all the water, in consequence of which a drought is reported at Bloomington, ~ W. A. Davis, of Portland, has completed a contract to furnish two hundred thousand cross ties to the Lake Erie & Western railway. Mr. Davis pays out annually over 8100,009 for lumber, etc., along the line of this railway. The Ohio river at Gallopolis is lower now than was ever known. Steamers are unable to run, and hundreds of men are out of employment in consequence. People can cross the river with a horse and buggy, something that has not been done for fifty years. 4 Flying sparks from a passing train communicated a blaze to fields, of grass on John Fletcher’s farm, near Franklin, and the mischief spread to Lister Adams’s farm. Two miles of fencing was destroyed and considerable timber was ruined. The aggregate loss is 82 0)0. ’Squire Chamberlain, of Goshen, claims that the-three great epochs in his life were birth in Maine in 1811, voting for Jackson in 1832 and removing to Goshen in 1835. The ’Squire has officiated at 450 marriages and is anxious to meet the 500 mark before resigning his office. Peru is rejoicing over the prospect of becoming a winter rendezvouz for circuses. Wallace’s circus has for years made that city its winter headquarters, and the Sells and Renfrow aggregations have announced their intention of going into shelter at that place the coming season. Alexander Cox, of Georgia, Lawrence county, having no confidence in the stability of banks, drew out 8200 and carried the money in his pockets. The other night unknown parties entered his house and robbed him. John and Bruce White, under suspicion of committing the robbery, have been arrested. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of President Wilkinson, of the exploded street railway company ot Nobles ville. He is accused of obtaining a thing of value by false pretense. Mr Wilkinson is understood to be at South Waukegan, near Chicago, and Frank Barnett has been intrusted with the service ot the warrant. * A rough-and-tumble fight occurred at Crawfordsville, Wednesday evening, among a drunken mob of railroaders. The mayor and police wont to the scene to make arrests and a general melee ensued The mayor had to fight to- save liimself. After a hard struggle eight of the toughs were landed in jail. According to the Crawfordsville Star, John Robertson, of Green township.

Parke-county, borrowed S3OO of Wash Spencdr, township trustee, with which he went to the World’s Fair, after which he returned home and made an assignment. His liabilities are placed at $20,000, with but SIO,OOO assets, of which- $5,030 is pledged to secure the Waveland bank, Oldenburg, a quaint little town of seven hundred inhabitants, hidden among the hills of Franklin county, is the home of the Sisters of St Francis, who have one of the largest and best equipped convents in the State. The Sisters have recently completed a chapel in connection with the convent, the cost of which is placed at SIOO,OOO. 4 After removing two floors of the common oolitic stone in the quarry of the Heltonville company, a peculiar variety of stone was 'ound, greatly resembling the celebrated “Fox Island granite,” of Maine. The stone is of grayish color, fine texture, and is capable of taking on a high polish. The find is believed to be exceedingly valuable, and there is rejoicing at Heltonvilie.

The crop bulletin of the Indiana weather service issued, Wednesday, showed a wide prevalence of drouth. Early corn is past help but late com would be benefitted by rain. A curious feature of the crop situation is the tremendously large number of grass hoppers in the fields. Wheat has been threshed" in several counties and shows a big yield. A ghost, supposed to be the spirit of a departed pack peddler, has for sometime haunted the farm of Henry McGuire, ten milessouth of English; Numerousdepredatlons were committed by the “spook.” Occasionally the ghost was seen by daylight. Last Friday night, a systematic watch was organized, and when the ghost appeared two shots rang out and the apparition fell a corpse. Examination revealed the body of a large monkey. Patents have oeen issued to Indiana inventors as follows - - J. H. Allison, Elkhart. electric railway trolley switch; G. W. Altman, Marlon, button setting machine; R. C. Anderson, Jeffersonville, wire stretcher; G. G. Boswell, Indianapolis, thill support; R. E. Poindexter, Indianapolis, post base; L. Townsend, Evansville, harness suspending device, J. H. Williamson, Muncie, grain scouring and polishing machine. 4The school superintendent of Henry county had photographs taken of the buildings and interior of school rooms for the educational exhibit at the World’s Fair. The work was done by Eugene McDowell, of New Castle. The exhibit attracted much favorable comment, and recently the superintendent of Henry county received letters from the educational commissioners of Russia and France requesting duplicates of the pictures, also the manual giving details of the government and instructions of district shools. The commissioners credited Henry county with having the best exhibit at the Fair.

THE MARKETS.

. Angust 23 1893 Indianapolis. GRAIN AND HAY. Wheat—No. 2 red, 58c; No. 3 red, 53; rejected, 40@50; wagon wheat. 57. Corn—No. 1 white, 40c; No. 3 white. 40}£c;No. 3 white,4oc; No. 4 white, 30c;No. 3 white mixed, 39)4c; No. 3 white mixed, 38)4c; No. 4 white mixed,3oc; No. 3 yellow, 3954 c; N0.,'3 yellow, 39c; No. 4 yellow, 30c: No. 2 mixed, 39c; No. 3 mixed, 39c; No. 4 mixed, 30c; sound ear, 45c for yellow. Oats—No. 2 white, 27)4c; No. 3 white, 24)4c; No. 2 mixed, 24%c; No. 3 mixed, 22c; rejected, 18@22c. Rye 40c. Hay—Choice timothy, 812.00; No. 1, 813.50; No. 2, 810; No. 1 prairie, 87; mixed, 88; clover, 89. Bran, 811. LIVE STOCK. Cattle—Export grades.. 8 [email protected] Good to choice shippers [email protected] Fair to medium shippers...... [email protected] Common shippers [email protected] Stockers, 500 to [email protected] Good to choice heifers [email protected] Fair to medium heifers [email protected] Common to thin heifers. [email protected] Good to choice cows [email protected] Fair to medium cows. . Common old cows [email protected] Veals, common to good Bulls, common to fair [email protected] Bulls, good to choice [email protected] Milkers, good to choice [email protected] Milkers, common to fair.. 15 [email protected] Hogs—Heavy packing and [email protected] Mixed [email protected] [email protected] Pigs [email protected] Heavy roughs Sheep—Good to choice [email protected] Fair to [email protected] Common thin sheep [email protected] [email protected] Bucks, per [email protected] POULTRY AND OTHER PRODUCE. [Prices Paid by Dealers.] Poultry-Hens,Bc D>; youngchickens, Bcsib; turkeys, young toms, 7c lb; hens, 8c IP lb; ducks, 6c IP lb; geese, 84@ 1.20 for choice. Eggs—Shippers paying 10c. Butter—Grass butter, 14@15c; Honey—lß@2oc. Feathers Prime Geese, 40c $ n>f mixed duck, 20c ijjJ O>. Beeswax—2oc for yellow; 15c for dark. Wool Fine merino, 16c; medium unwashed, 17c; coarse or braid wool, 14@16c; tub-washed, 18@23c. Detroit. Wheat, 61c. Corn, No. 2,43 c. Oats, No. 2 white, 30c. Minneapolis. 1 Wheat, 5934 c. New York Wheat, No. 2 red, 68J<c. Corn, No. 2, 475 c. Oats, 30c. Lard, 89.00. Butter, Western dairy, 15@18c; creamery, 17@ 25c. Chlrago, Wheat, 62c. Corn, 3gXc. Oats, Pork, 812.40. Lard, 88.20. Short-ribs. 87.75. Cattle-Prime steers. [email protected]: others [email protected]. Hogs—Heavy mixed and packers, [email protected]; prime heavy, 85.00(05.25; prime light, [email protected]; other lights, 84.31(ad.10. Sheep —Natives, 82.20 @4.00; lambs, [email protected].

Cincinnati. Wheat. No. 2 red, , COc; Corn, No. 2 mixed, 42c: Oats, No. 3 white western, 28c; Rye. No. 2. 4»’4e; Mess Pork, 814.00; Lard, 88.12; Bulk Meats. 88.50; Bacon, 89.75. Butler, creamery fancy, 22c; Eggs, We. • Cattle, [email protected]. Hogs, [email protected]. Sheep, [email protected]. Lambs, 84@L60. Kt. Louis. Wheat. NO, 2 red, r»8)4c; Corn. No. 2 mixed, 34)4; Oats, No. 2.2334 c; Butter, 20c. Bunklo. Cattle; [email protected]. Hogs, heavy, B'>.6.'>@">.7s; mixed, 86.10@ 86.20; light, [email protected]. Sheep, native, [email protected]; Texas, 83.25@ 84.75. -7*' Philadelphia. Wheat, No. 2 Red, 65)4c; Corn. No. 2 Mixed, 41»He; Oats, 32c; butter, creamery, 21c; eggs, 15c. Baltimore. Wheat, No. 2 Red. G6c; Corn, mixed; 47)4c; Oats, No. 2, White Western. 33c, Rye, 53)4c; P0rk,816.62; Butter, creamery, 25c; Eggs, 13c.

FOR EMBEZZLEMENT.

Theodore P. Haughey Arrested on a Grave Charge.y... ■ . !. Schuyler C. Haughey, Pereira! Coffln, Francis A. Coffln and Alber* Reed Held aa Accomplices, Theodore P. Haughey, President of the wrecked Indianapolis bank; Schuyler C. Haughey. his son. President of the Indianapolis Curled Hair Works and also the principal officer of the Indianapolis Glue Works; Francis A. Coffin, President of the Indianapolis Cabinet Company; Percival B. Coffin, Vice-president of the Cabinet Company, and Albert S. Reed, cashier and treasurer of the same insolvent concern, were, Monday afternoon, arrested on warrants sworn out by Edward Hawkins, receiver of the Indianapolis National Bank, before United States Commissioner Van Buren. They were taken before the commissioner and severally gave bonds for their appearance for preliminary hearing on Aug. 28, as follows: Theodore P. Haughey, for embezzling the funds and misapplying the funds and credits of the Indianapolis National Bank from Jan. 1, 1892, SIO,OOO with Wilson Morrow, David B. Shideler and John F. Wallick as sureties.

Schuyler C. Haughey. for aiding and abetting Theodore P. Haughey in the crime charged as stated, SIO,OOO, with Rufus K. Syfers, his first wife’s father, as surety. Percival B. Coffln, for aiding and abetting Theodore P. Haughey. $5,003, with John Roberts and Newton Todd as sureties. Francis A. Coffln, charged the same as his brother, $5,003, with John Roberts as surety. v—;-:.' Albert S. Reed, charged, like Schuyler C. Haughey and the Coffins with having aided and abetted the elder Haughey in his embezzlement of bank funds and credits, $5,000, with John Roberts and Newton Todd as sureties. A lthough the arrests have for some dajs been expected at Indianapolis, the final swearing out of the warrants by Receiver Hawkins created a great sensation, owing to the conspicuous and heretofore blameless life of Theodore P. Haughey. Some most affecting scenes occurred at the Haughey homestead when the officers arrived to serve the papers. Mr. Haughey broke down completely; he is completely prostrated over his misfortunes. In reference to the irrests, Receiver Hawkins said ;hat the swearing out of warrants by him vas a most unpleasant duty. Continuing Mr. Hawkins said: “It is pretty trying on * man in his official capacity to proceed m law against old friends and neighbors, but it is a duty that must be performed lo matter how disagreeable to all parties.”

GIGANTIC SILVER SCHEME

Another Factor in the Financial Problem. Ex-Senator Smith, chairman of the Snance committee of the French senate, has been in Colorado with a view of investigating the silver situation. He left Aspen for Park City, Utah, Saturday. It has leaked out since his departure that the Bank of France would, if desired, establish a branch at Denver; that such a branch might be controlled by a directory composed of Colorado capitalists, the bank simply sending a manager from Pqris to represent the parent Institution; that they would agree to furnish from 850,000,000 to 8100,009,000 or whatever would be required to carry all the silver produced in Colorado for several years without allowing any to be sold until the price was fully satisfactory. That the rate ot Interest would not exceed 1 or 1)4 per cent, per annum. Propositions could be made at once or as soon as the course of events respecting silver were thoroughly determined In the Us i ted States. France has a deep interest in the future of silver, and will be quite willing to enter into an amicable arrangement with the producers of Colorado whereby both parties would receive mutual benefits. It would not be to the interest of France to enter into an arrangement to depress the price of silver, but on tbe contrary, to sustain it to a proper valuation. There are but twenty large •melters in the country, and if a majority of these were to go into the combination a corner on the silver production of the country could be had. Of course France would not be tbe first to make the propo - sition. but Mr. Smith says if it should come from the other side it would be accepted within less than one week. From the time France got the silver production of tbe United States under control she would dictate the price of metal to England for use in India and compel all the silver-using nations to come to her for money. The scheme finds much favor among the silver producers, and will no doubt take shape if Coi-gress falls to give silver men something better than thb Sherman law. A ghost, supposed to be the spirit of a departed pack peddler, has for sometime haunted the farm of Henry McGuire, ten miles south of English. Numerous depredations were committed by the ’’spook.” Occasionally the ghost was seen by daylight. Last Friday night, a systematic watch was organized, and when the ghost appeared two shots rang out and the apparition fell a corpse. Examination revealed the body of a large monkey. For the first time In the history of Clark county there is a grasshopper plague. Many cornfields are being stripped, and the “hoppers” are also attacking trees. This, together with the continued terrible drought, which Is even killing forest trees, makes a bad outlook for farmers.

The government of India has been coml«ellod by law to purchase three copies of each new book issued iu the country, and It has been discovered that a practice has grown up of printing new' books simply for the sake of the sale of tiiew three copies. A change is about to be made iu the law, and hereafter the publishers will have to present the copies lo the government. The Austrian Count Aloys Karolyi, who recently died left a fortune of which produced uu iu<x,me ol nearly UOOaycar. lie owned an immense estate, over which he rsijnod as a rojular old fashioned tyr.:nu

IOWA DEMOCRATS.

State Convention at Des Moinee-Be-Mem-t —, teatton of Gov. Bolen. The lowa State Democratic convention met at Des Moines, Wednesday. Temporary Chairman Vcllmer. of Davenport, made a stirring speech scoring the Republicans. He called Uwa the “Midway Plaisance” of American politics. He said that the Republican policy had filled the land with swarms of unemployed and starving laborers 1 Ift the midst of the greatest abundance. Thriving fields and bursting granaries attest the kind*

GOV. HORACE BOIES.

ness of ■ Providence, but a governmental policy inaugarated by Republicans has brought untold suffering to thousands. Yet the Republican Pharisees dare to stand up and lay these calamities at the door of the Democratic party. It is high time for Democrats to repudiate such foul slander. He scored the McKinley bill in unmeasured terms, and denounced John Sherman as an “E sau” who had sold our birthright fora mess of pottage. In closing Mr.*, Vollmer said : “Shades of Janus, of ancient God, turn both tby faces on th< temple walls and let them burn with shame, for in undisguised two-facedness you are simply not in it with our lowa Republicans.” Following Chairman Volmer’s address the committee on organization reported the permanent officers, with Cato Sells, of Benton county, as permanent chairman. Chairman Sells addressed the convention arranging the Republican party for a variety of misdemeanors. The committee on resolutions declared their admiration for Gpvernor Boles, expressed confidence in the administration of President Cleve?, land, holding the McKinley bill and the Sherman law responsldle for the flnancia difficulties now prevailing, denouncing the Sherman law and demanding its repeal; expressing full faith in congress to solve the monetary question; favoring just and liberal pensions; demanding a license law, with SSOO annual tax for each saloon to be paid into the county treasury; favoring government control of railways; opposing monopolies and trusts; favoring non-parti- . san control of State institutions. Following the reading of the resolutions Governor Boies was renominated by acclamation. Lieutenant-Governor Bestow was renominated on the first ballot. A j udge of the Supreme Court and railroad commissioner were also nominated. Before adjournment Governor Boies was escorted to the platform. He said: “When a few weeks ago I wrote a letter to the chairman of the State committee declining renomination I expressed my honest wishes and honest convictions upon that subject. But lam only one of a great political party. Your action to-day' comes to me as a command from a party that lam bound to obey. I accept the nomination and I promise to use every esfort to make it successful.”

INDIANA’S INFAMY.

Deputy Sheriff’ll Detailed to Keep the Peace at Koby. * A Chicago special to the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, Wednesday, The rowdyism that was rampant at the last fistic encounter at Roby will never occur again. The club officials have awaKened from their seeming stupor and are now doing all in their power to make amends tor their past mistake. The Pinkerton men will be dispensed with and in their place a hundred Indiana deputy sheriffs will be sworn tn. They will patrol the field surrounding the arena, and no one without an admission ticket will be allowed to come within five hundred yards of the building. The exterior of the club bouse will be brilliantly Illuminated with electric lights and no loiterers or loafers will be allowed to congregate within a quarter of a mile of the club property.

RAILROAD ASSESSMENTS.

The State Board of Tax Commissioners has made its assessment and valuation of railroad track, rolling stock and Improvements on right of way in Indiana for the year 1893. The assessment for this year shows a deduction of 8731,422 from that of 1892, but considerable new railroad property was assessed this year. The Montpelier & Chicago, a new line was assessed at 81,901,872. By leaving this line out of the 1892 assessment, it makes the net deduction 82,636,394.

BED-TICK-BANK BURNED.

•‘Owing to a Lack of Confidents," Etc., Mr fox Loses His Little Hoard. Mrs. Evan Cox, ot Logootee, burned 8110 in greenbacks which had been placid in a mattress some lime before by her husband. She was. replenishing the straw and set tire to the old straw, not knowing of Its valuable contents Tho ashes were examined, but nothing could be found which could be identified as money and upon which any hopes of realization coa|d be made.

SEVENTEEN LIVES LOST

By a Wreck Daring the Groat Storm tn Nova Scotia. The steamer Dorcas, with the barge Etta Stewart In tow, were lost off the Nova Scotia coast during the great storm of Tuesday night. The most reliable Information that can be obtained places the number of people on board at seventeen. The crew numbered twelve men, and the wife and four children of the chief engineer were also with him. Other veeeela are believed to have gone down.