Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1894 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Nashyille Chinese will register in a body, Monday. , The grip is proving very fatal to the Indians around Ashland, Wis. An earthquake shock caused great alarm at Bedford, Pa. A genuine Stradivarius violin has been discovered at Chesterfield. A Polish syndicate will establish a beet farm and sugar factory at Omaha. The Columbian stamps will cease to be issued by the government after Jan. L Ambassador Wayne MacVeagh, now in Florida, will sail for Italy February 1. Slight shocks of earthquake were felt in various parts of Pennsylvania, Monday. A stay of proceedings has been granted at New York in the case of Boss McKane. While insane H. D. Parmenter, of Hays City, Kas., shot his grandson and himself. Two men held up and robbed a faro jurist in Chicago, Wednesday night, of 18,200. It has been discovered that no first award on beer was made at the World’s Fair. Itisclaimed a spook is scaring the life out of the soldiers at Fort Sheridan, near Chicago. A gang of silver counterfeiters was unearthed and captured in Harrison county, Missouri. Senator Teller admits now that Colorado, despite the repeal of the silver bill, is prospering. An unsuccessful attempt was made to wreck a Union Pacific suburban train near Denver. At Yorkville. S. C.,* W. P. Blackburn was murdered for his money by Jeff Crawford, a negro. The town of Laurenceville, 111., was almost entirely destroyed by fire, Thuriday. Loss, 812,000. John P. Hopkins, tho newly elected mayor of Chicago, was inaugurated, Wednesday night. • Mrs. Thomas Ransdall and her three small children perched in their burning home at Bohen, Ky. At Denver, Frank and Johnny Garvlng, aged nine and seven years, were arrested for burglarizing houses. A cave-in at the Carnegie works at Homestead, Saturday, killed one man and seriously injured throe. Gov. Mitchell, of Florida, will endeavor to stop the proposed Corbett-Mitchell prize fight at Jacksonville. So far sixty-one election officers have been arrested for crookedness connected with the Brooklyn election. St Louis merchants are taking steps to form a mutual insurance company because of the advance in rates. Frame Cole, of Centerville, Mich., was sentenced to twenty-five years’ imprisonment for assaulting a little girl. Mrs. Wm. Thompson, of St. Joseph, . Mo., failed to get a Christmas present and killed herself with corrosive sublimate. The Colorado State Farmers’ Alliance has adopted resolutions denouncing Secretary Morton and demanding his removal. Every child in the New Brunswick, N. J., public schools brings a potato twice a week to relieve the distress of the unemployed. The negro ravisher, Thomas, who was shot to pieces in the jail at Bainbridge, Ga., failed to die and a mob took him out and hanged him.. Destitute Jews, reported to have been shipped to this country by the Russian Government, will not be allowed to land when they arrive. i » ; Four men held up the cashier of Morgan &, Shrln’s gambling establishment on Quincy street, Chicago, Tu^_Jay morning, and secured 84,000. President Cleveland, Secretaries Gresham and Carlisle and party left Washington, Tuesday, for a duck hunting trip down the Potomac. Martin Costello has been heard from in Sarnia, Canada. He says he will not return to the United States even if he be granted anewtrial. - At Rockville, Mo., Deputy Marshal Pryor shot and fatally wounded a man named Macklin and 8. P. Medskiff, who were resisting arrest. The Chicago union bakers went on a strike, Tuesday. Many of the big shops were compelled to shut down and tire staff of life became scarce. 6 Chairman Frick says the Carnegie mills arc paying tho amalgamated scale of 1892, and that no common laborer is working for less than 12 cents an hour. Donjon, the crank who has been threatening the lives of Senators and other prominent men at Washington, was arrested and locked up, Tuesday. Governor Pennoyer, of Oregon, has written another “previous” letter to President Cleveland Instructing him in his duties to his party and the country. Gon. N. P. Banks was found wandering aimlessly about the streets of Boston, unable to give any coherent account of himself. It is said that he is losing his reason. A crank at Chicago was after Phillip D. Armour with a dynamite bomb, Sunday. He also threatened to blow up the 'Armour Institute. In a suit against the National Building and Loan Association of Chicago, charges are made that the officers secured 847,000 by fraud from the order in worthless securities. At Cairo, Ga., Galvin Thomas a negro, was arrested for assaulting Mrs. Bellers, wife of a Baptist preacher. A mob broke into tho guard-house and riddled him with bullets. Mrs. Harriet Randolph White, widow of tho late Senator Albert 8. White, of Indiana. died at Mattoon, 111., Christmas day, and was buried at Lafayette, her old fapmo, Thursday. , By tho death of an aunt in California, Patrick Fitzgerald, formerly of Grand Rapids, Mich, has fallen heir to a fortune estimated at 81,300,000. His present address is unknown. Corbett and Mitchell were arrested at Jacksonville, Fla., Thursday, at the Instance of tho Duvall Athletic Club, who proposo In this way to tost the legality of tho proposed fight. Officers Healey and Moran, of Chicago, are locked up, charged with the murder of Samuel Felaon, tho proprietor of a small algar store. Nelson was drunk and resisted arrest and was shot. A Southern Pacific train was robbed between Houston, Tex., and New Orleans, Tuesday. The express messenger was kfllod and the robbers escaped with packages of unknown value. I For tNB the total production of silver in

Colorado was 7,951,450 ounces, an increase of 116,148 ounces over the production of 1892, The amount of gold was 82,404% ounces, an increase of 19,205 ounces. The oil field at Ft. Recovery, 0.. is assuming large proportions. Nearly ten thousand acres of land have been leased by the Standard and other oil companies and a large number of wells will be drilled. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and its branches, comprising the Santa Fe system, has been placed in the hands of three receivers, by order of Judge Caldwell of the United States Circuit Court at Little Rock, Ark. Editor Stead has insulted the “first women” of Chicago by telling them that, by neglecting their great opportunities, they “were more disreputable in the eyes of God and man than the most abandoned woman in the streets.” Gov. Fishback, of Arkansas, has written a'letter to President Cleveland, stating that the Indian Territory is a hot-bed of crime and a refuge for train robbers and murderers, and urges that relief of some kind be furnished by the National Government. Grand Master Sovereign, the new chief of the K. of L., announces that if he can have his way the magnificent brown stone building known as “Powderly’s Folly, or the Palace of Poverty,” in Broad street, Philadelphia, will be sold, and a cheaper headquarters in some small town secured. There will be a row over the matter, as the property can be readily sold for a profit of at least 830,000 over the first cost to the order. The Howard plate glass works at Duquesne. near Pittsburg, resumed in full, Tuesday, giving employment to over 650 men and boys who have been out of work fjr four months. Enough orders have been received to keep the plant in operation several months. Gov. Lewelling has removed Mrs. Lease from the Kansas State Board of Charities. As a result it is said that the People’s party in that State is split wide open. The Governor intimates that Mrs. Lease was a disturbing element and that her removal was necessary in tho interest of harmony. A Chicago crank called on the authorities, Thursday, and asked to be locked up, stating that he was afraid he would set fire to the city. He claims to have a mania for arson, and says he was recently released from, the Michigan City prison after an imprisonment for six years for that crime. An infernal machine addressed to “The President, Executive Mansion, Washington D. C,,” was picked up in an alley at Denver, by a six-year-old boy, Thursday. Investigation proved it to be of the most dangerous character. There is no clue to the identity of the villian who prepared the deadly contrivance. President Cleveland has stated to one of the Indiana Congressional delegation that he can confer no more diplomatic or-'con-sular appointments on Indiana. Once before this statement was made. It proceeded then from Secretary Gresham, but since then at least two Indiana Democrats have received consulships, one of them Luther Short, of Franklin, being sent to Constantinople. There is reason to believe this last statement, coming from President Cleveland himself, will be strictly adhered to. Elizabeth Petty, an old maid miser of Newark, N. J., was murdered for her money. Her body was found, Wednesday, but the date of the crime cannot be definitely ascertained. Her head was crushed in, and from the condition of the house it is supposed she fought desperately. Miss Petty was last seen alive last Saturday night. The amount of booty secured by the assassins cannot be determined, but large sums were found secreted .about the house. The woman never allowed a man in the house, and the tax collectors always nailed her bills to the front door. It is understood that Senator Voorhees will introduce another bank measure as soon as Congress comes back after the recess. The Senator has not only identified himself with such financial questions as silver repeal.cotnagcof soignlorage and the issue of full amount of national bank bonds in currency instead of 90 per cent., but now he anticipates a move for the State banks His plan, it is said, is to repeal tho State bank tax or come near to it. The rumor is also current that he will let the national bank bill, introduced during the extra session, take care of itself. Owing to the wide diversity of opinion among the members of the Senate finance committee as to the kind of tariff bill that ought to be reported, considerable friction has resulted. McPherson, of New Jersey, a Randall Democrat, is working in the interest of a modification of the Wilson schedule, it is said, while Senators Jones, of Arkansas, and Voorhees, of Indiana, fkvor the Wilson bill. The chances of success appear to favor the western members, who believe the work of the Democrats on the ways and means committee should be indorsed.

HE WILL HANG.

Prendergast Found Guilty and Sentenced to Haug, Prendergast, the assassin of Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, will hang for his crime. The case had been on trial for some time, and the attorneys for the defense had exhausted every effort to save their client’s neck, but the jury, after an hour’s deliberation following the Judge's charge, which was ■ concluded at 1:27 Friday, at 2:27 returned the following verdict: *’We, the jury, find the defendant. Patrick Eugene John Prendergast. guilty of murder in manner and form as charged io the Indictment and Ox the penalty al death.” CPrendegast was led away to his cell in the jail and Bailiff Becker was detailed to stay with him. The prisoner refused to see anyone. Efforts will be made to have a now trial by the defendant’s attorneys, who claim to bo disappointed over the result, stating that It is an outrage on human justice to hang a poor insane boy. They allege that at least on J jti’or perjured himself to obtain a position on the jury, and state that Prendegrast will never hang. The verdict was received with general satisfaction in Chicago and throughout the country. Sailors on French and English vessels have destroyed the villages of the Pentecost islands in the South Pacific. and driven the natives back in the bush. It was the latter who have been murdering and eating unfortunate while men, who came their way. Large quantities of human bones were found by the sailors.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The Lucerne postoffice was burglarized, Saturdaynight ■ New Albany is moving for a complete system of sewers. ] Marton and Jonesboro are now connected by an electr c t al way. The new L O. O. F. hall at Martinsville was dedicated, Thursday night. a recent storm at Michigan City the wind velocity reached 60 miles an hour. A resident of Chesteston, whose name is Wurst, has named one of his daughters Wennie. died very suddenly, had been taking the “gold cure.” Col. L B. McDonald, of Columbia City, will eject himself into the race for pension agent of Indiana. The Townsnip Trustees’ State' Association convened at Indianapolis, Wednesday and Thursday. The Citizen’s Bank, of Plainfield, has been victimized by a confidence man to the extent 0f,81,179. Oil has commenced flowing in limited quantities from an old gas well vicinity of Knightstown. 2 Greenfield has a number/of burglars who are making a success of their business in spite of the hard times. Daugherty Bros.’ flouring mill at Ladoga was destroyed by fire, Thursday. Loss, 820,090. Insurance, 810,000. 6 Congressman Martin has written to several prominent Democrats that he will not be a candidate for re-election. Richard and George McDonald were killed by the explosion of a boiler in a saw mill, five miles north of Peru, Thursday. William Yearin, an experienced miner of Bloomfield, has located machinery at Needmore, Brown county, to mine for gold. James Longston, a farmer, was sandbagged and robbed near Vincennes, Monday night. The thugs broke one of his legs. -• ' - -— 1 ■ - The first meeting of the Indiana Association of Elocutionists and Orators was held at the State House, Indianapolis, Tuesday. Miss Mary Wilson, an employe in the Cottage steam laundry, at Muncie, had her arm mashed between two rollers, ..Wednesday,-. _ ■ .'■■■■'■ ." : The State Teachers* Association, and the various educational sections of the organization, held their annual reunions at Indianapolis, Wednesday. There are still twelve men unaccounted for in the wreck of the big bridge at Jeffersonville, and their bodies are supposed to have been carried down the river. Said that Rev. Ross, a country preach - er, canvassed Muncie, Christmas day, tn a buggy, in search of any one who would likely be in need of a ministef at a wedding. Minas Lowe, of Columbus, sixty-two years old, and three times married, had twenty-two children born to him—four by his first wife, nine by the second and eleven by the third. Mayor Terhune, of Anderson, is the recipient of scores of threatening letters from tramps because of his recent orders to the police to whip the fraternity out of his jurisdiction. The most expensive wreck on the I. & V. road in ten years occurred near Paragon, Morgan county, Saturday. The train ran into a horse and the engine and five cars were derailed, Morris Gore, aged twelve, of Shelbyville, was shooting dynamite fire crackers, Wednesday, when one of them exploded near his head, tearing his left eye out and disfiguring his face. “Jap” Hill, of Frankfort, a housebreaker, has been captured in Shelby county, fie will be returned to prison to serve out the remainder of a twelve-year sentence, he still owing nine years. Ten Kentucky eloping couples landed' in Jeffersonville, Thursday, and were spliced according to the Hoosier code. One Justice captured eight out of the ten, and his fees aggregated 850. Hiram A. Foulks, late cashier of the defunct Vincennes National Bank; was arrested in that city, Saturday, by United States Marshal Hawkins for alleged violation of the National banking laws. Miss Louisa Hollenberg, of Terre Haute, while eating breakfast, strangled over a morsel of food which lodged in her windpipe, and she died before relief could be had. She was thirty-two years old. 5 Charles F. Miller, a well-known young man o fKokomo, was arrested for attempting to pass a forged check for 820. He pleaded that his family were suffering for food and there was no other recourse. Another large dynamite bomb was found under the new saloon at Ossian, Tuesday, and the anti-saloon war continues. Two weeks ago the same saloon was wrecked by a bomb, the entire front being blown out. The Law and Order League of Marion is making itself felt. Last Sunday all the business houses were compelled to close, save the restaurants and drug stores. Even the ctgdr stands and candy shops were shut down. A protest is being prepared at Nobles ville against Dr. Samuel Harrell, recently appointed a pension examining surgeon. Dr. Harrell is a young practitioner, who came from Shelby county. It is alleged that ho is hostile to Union soldiers. Dr. Gunn, who settled at Marion several months ago, has been arrested by direction of the authorities at Grand RapIds, Mich., where he is wanted for attempting a criminal assault and for forfeiting fils bond of 8800. Merchant Policeman Waterson, colored, was killed in a fight with burglars at Indianapolis. Saturday night. The murderous thief escaped but trails of blobd indicate that he was badly wounded and the police detectives believe he will be caught. George W. Ray, of school supply notoriety, of Shelbyville, assaulted Isaac Carter, of the law firm of Adams & Carter, inflicting severe personal injury. The animus grew out of Carter’s employment as an attorney to prosecute cases against Ray. W. C. Huitz, a prominent attorney of Sullivan, was shot and killed by a masked man, Sunday. The murderer is believed to be ex-Sheriff Willis. A criminal intimacy was said to have existed between Huitz and Willis’s wife, who is now deyprpod. William Hepner, who wont insane with the delusion that God had commanded him to kill eight men and then preach the gospel, and who gave Sheriff Kohl, of Jefferson county, great trounble recently.

died in the Central Insane Asylum at Indianapolis. Col. R. W. Thompson has completed his history of national administrations up to and including thatof Lincoln. He writes of six teen adm inistrattons from a personal knowledge, having known every President save three. His manuscript will soon be turned over to a publisher. The postoffice at Willvale is in a bad way. The railway station is a half-mile from the village, and the department has provided no means for carrying the mail. Mrs. Mary Conden, the pestmistress, has tendered her resignation, and no one seems willing to assume the position. A gamt of eight desperadoes well supplied with money, food and beer, was captured by the marshal and a posse at Hartford City, Tuesday afternoon. The men were not ordinary tramps and had been causing a reign of terror in the glass factory addition all day. Mrs. Augusta Schmidt, who killed Oscar Walton, at Walton, last October.was admitted to bail at the close of the habeas . corpus proceedings at Kokomo, Tuesday. The testimony showed that there had been a struggle between Mrs. Schmidtand Walton previous to the shooting. John Rudy, of Cammack, who was frightened out of his wits, at best none too bright, by practical jokers, and who became a dangerous maniac through fear of arrest, has been restored to better mental condition than ever before, due very largely to the shock received in his fright. A party of young men of Brownstown, headed by Daniel and Michael O'Hara, went to Seymour and attempted to "clean” the town, in backwoods parlance. This led to a collision with the police, in which the O’Haras were roughly handled. They were both badly hurt before consenting to be locked up. ? Geprge Riley, of Fort Wayne, was a flagman at the Clinton street crossing for many years—so long, in fact, that he was regarded as a landmark. The other morning he complained of feeling ill and asked to be relieved, and when his substitute came he walked to_m»adjoining barn, sat down on a box and died. William Bixler, of Albion, and H. W. Harrington, of Lafayette, celebrated their release from prison on Christmas by a prolonged drunk at Michigan City, finally winding up in a quarrel, in which Harrington was sobbed in- the breast and neck by Bixler. Both were arrested, and Bixler is likely to be re turned to htsold cell. D. S. Mackey has resigned as President and director of the Evansville & Terre Haute railroad, and Vice-President H. C. Barlow is now acting president of the company. W. H. Tilford was elected director in place of Mr. Mackey, and also chairman of the Board of Directors. Muncie is overrun with tramps, who have grown so annoying to the public that the Mayor has Instructed the patrolmen to secure cowhides, and, wherever one is found, lash him out of the city. The tramps are eager for arrest, as thereby they are provided with food and shelter. Jacob Cornell wears a lucky talisman in the upper pocket of his vest. It is a rabbit’s foot. The rabbit was killed in a graveyard in thedark of the moon. Jacob savs it has brought him good luck already. A man borrowed 85 of him, yesterday. He was lucky that it was not 810. —Goshen Times. There is astray dog in Madison that has no owner yet he is well fed and wears a license tag. The dog once saved the life of several school children*by catching a wild steer, that was after them, by the nose and throwing it to the ground, thus giving the children time to escape. The community takes care of the canine. Old settlers in Hamilton county believe the haunted school house known as No. 7, in which school has been dismissed because of supernatural manifestations, to be actually haunted by the spirits of Indians and* a hunter named Hadley who were killed in a frontier fight on the site of the school house more than fifty years ago. Judge Hood, at Columbus, Thursday, overruled the motion for a new trial in the case of the State vs. Cyrus Brown for murdering his wife, and sentenced him to be hanged by <the neck until dead, in the Southern Prison, Friday, April 20, 1894. Brown stood motionless and breathless while the sentence was being announced and uttered not a word. George Huntsman and other well known sheep breeders of Albion have oganized the Indiana National Dickinson Delaine Wool, Mu'ton and Merino Sheep Breeders* Association, the purpose being to develop the industry and register the pedigree of the sheep. Noble county took the first and second prizes at the World’s Fair, and this is the main cause for forming the association. Washington Pofur, aged eighty-five, living near Azalia, Bartholomew county, is the progenitor of twenty-two children, slxty-five grandchildren and twenty-eight great-grandchildren. Eight of his own children are dead. Mr. Pofur has twice married. There were twelve children by the first and ten by the second marriage. Ho is now eighty-five years old, and his second wife sixty-two. 4ln his anxiety to be the popular choice for postmaster of Shelbyville, A. J. Higgins has published a card in which he claims that the salary of 82,200 is too high, and that if he is chosen he will bind himself to Contribute SltO per month of his salary to the use of the King’s Daughters, to be distributed in charity. Fool jokers Influenced one of their number to pose as a sheriff at Cammack station, and read a warrant charging John Rudy, of Yorktown, with larceny. Rudy was terribly frightened and ho at once fled, never once stopping until be had run the entire distance from the station to Yorktown. His fright coupled with physical exhaustion, drove him insane, and his condition is very serious. Bloodhounds were brought from Seymour to Indianapolis. Monday, and placed on the trail of the murderer of Merchant Policeman Watterson, who escaped after his bloody deed of Saturday night. The dogs followed the scent by a circuitous route from Ninth and Tennessee streets, in the northern part of Indianapolis, to South port, a distance of about fifteen miles, 4 and vtere followed to where tho trail was lost by a crowd of several hundred. • Anna Wagner, on trial at Indianapolis for the past three weeks,' for-the alleged poisoning of five members of the Koesters family of that city, wasjacquitted, Thursday. The case had attracted universal attention, and the verdict was greeted with great applause by tho crowd of people who filled the court room and halls of

the building as well as by a tumultuous multitude on the outside. Every member of the jury had tears in his eyes as the verdict was read. The defendant had been confined In the Marlon eounty jail continuously for more than six months. For several weeks the community in the vicinity of the Loblolly swamp, -tn Jay eounty, has been alarmed by strange cries at night, and parties passing in the vicinity of the swamp have been chased by an animal of large growth, the exact character of which they could not determine. Last week a party of hunters beat up the swamp, and they succeeded in killing two Canadian lynx, full-grown. Both animals made a ferocious fight and several dogs were killed or maimed before the lynx were brought within range of the Winchester rifles. * Patents were issued to Indiana? inventors, Tuesday. as follows: C. W. Delaney, assignor to J. W. Dysard, Hammond, coin controlled apparatus; A. Hayward, Warsaw, heater for stock troughs: R. H. Kersey, Lebanon, apparatus for heating and circulating hot water; P. A. Kirchner, Fort Wayne, water alarm for steam boilers; R. E. Porch. Spiceland, washing machine; J. L. Riter, Brownsville, wire fence; J. F. Slack, Sngar Branch, whiffletree hook; C. L and E. Williamson. Union City, land roller; J. J. Wood, Fort Wayne, electric transformer.

DEATH OF COL. ZOLLINGER.

The Distinguished Mayor of Ft. Wayne Answers the Last 801 l Call. Col. Chas. A. Zollinger, Mayor of Fort Wayne, died in that city, Wednesday night, of neuralgia of the heart. He had been sick but a few days. Col. Zollinger was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1838. Emigrating to this country with his parents when ten years old, the family settled at Sandusky, 0.. shortly after removing to a farm near Ft. Wayne. After a varied experience as a laborer and blacksmith in various parts of the country, in 1861, at the beginning of the war of the rebellion, he-enlisted, and with the exception of a brief interval, when he retired from the service on account of ill health, he served until mustered out in 1865, being at that time colonel of the One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Indiana Volunteers. Returning to his home at New Haven, Allen county, he resumed the blacksmith trade until 1870, when he was elected sheriff of the county. Subsequently he was < 1 cted mayor of Ft. Wavne. and served as United States Pension Agent four /ears under Cleveland’s first administration, being again elected mayor of his adopted city after his retirement from the Pension Agency. Col. Zollinger was a Mason of high rank and was also an Odd Fellow of note. ,

VOORHEES’S PRESIDENTIAL BOOM.

Indiana’s Senior Senator Backed. By All His Colleagues. A Washington dispatch to the Indianapolis News, Wednesday, says: Senator Voorhees’s Presidential aspirations are a subject of much comment and not a little amusement among the Washington politicians. It is no joking matter, however, with the Indiana Democrats here. They nearly all speak favorably of of the Senator,-and are of the opinion that he will have the Indiana delegation to the National convention. Not a single Indiana Representative has yet declared himself for Minister Gray as against Voorhees. It is plainly evident that, in a test of strength between the senior Senator and Minister Gray, the latter would 1 not be in it for the Presidency, so far as the Indiana Democratic representatives are concerned. Just who is responsible for having started the Voorhees Presidential boom is yet uncertain. Congressman Martin was probably one of the first in the delegation to point out the Senator’s strong points as a Presidential candidate, ami to Mr. Martin the most telling feature in the Senntor’s favor was the fact that he had disapproved of Hoke Smith’s pension policy.

FOREIGN.

Henry Pettit, the dramatist, is dead at London. t Mr. Gladstone celebrated bls eightyfourth birthday, Friday. Zola is urging a literary convention between Russia and France. Bishop Schopper of Rosena violently attacks the Austrian government for its liberal tendencies. The plant of El Democrata, the Mexican, paper confiscated for opposing the government, has been given to an orphan asylum. Twenty-seven new cases and twentyfour deaths from cholera are reported at St. Petersburg. Gen. Ghourko is seriously illstill. Italian bonds are being pressed in London and Paris on rumors that several Italian banks cannot carry over their holdings. A strikers’ riot occurred in a colliery at Pontymister, Wales, Christmas. The police charged the rioters. Twenty persons were Injured. There has been renewed and serious rioting owing to the anti-Octroi agitation at Lercaradi Freddi, a town forty miles from Rome. A body of military police in the Cameroons revolted but were brought into subjection by marines from the German cruiser. Hyena. The yellow fever Is raging at Rfo de Janeiro, lending additional horrors to the stricken city that has been for months in a state of siege. A riot took place in front of the palace at Amsterdam. Tuesday night Many of the mob were hurt before the police quelled the disturbance. Rumors are again persistent and as persistently denied that Chancellor Caprivi and Emperor William have disagreed and that the former has resigned. Count William Bismarck, governor of Hanover, second son of Prince Bismarck, has received a letter in which the writer threatened to blow up his house. Emperor William Is trying to purchase the how Capp diamond, said to be the largest In the world and more valuable than the Kohinoor—97l carats. A wealthy Chinese company has purchased 320,103 acres of land in Sinola. Mexico, on which it is proposed to colonize five thousand Chinamen. The Chihuahua revolution a ainst the Mexican government. It is said, has already resulted in the death of 6 » soldier* and thirty officers, as well as ninety oi the insurgents and nlnctyrfoar of theli wives.

INDIANA BUILDING ASSOCIATIONS.

First Beport of the Auditor at Stat* • the New Law, The first report of the Indiana Building and Loan Associations has been prepared by the Auditor of State. The statements were filed in accordance with the law passed by the last legislature. The Auditor says the law is not the best that conld be made,but it is a step in the right direction, and time will show in what ways It can be improved. The act is not stringent enough he thinks. It provides that the Auditor can examine an asssciatioh when reports show it to be doing an unsafe or illegal business. It is thought that the Auditor should examine the concerns once a year, and if necessary call for reports twelve times a year. The total amount of money invested in the organizations is much larger than was supposed. In Marion county the amount is nearly four limes as large as the banking capital of Indianapolis. The number of Associations in tho St ate is 477. The report based on the figures of June 30, 1803. shows assets as follows: Cash on hand 1640 501.65; loans and miscellaneous, Running stock snd dividends 819,324.53: paid up stock 84,772,151.68.

A BANDIT AT URGE.

Chris Evans, the CaUornian Desperad* Escape;. c Chris. Evans, the celebrated train robber of California, under Ilfs sentence fox the murder of Deputy United States MarshiaFVic Wilson, in jail at Fresno, 1 Cal., awaiting transportation to the penitentiary, escaped, Thursday night, through plans laid by one Ed Morrell and Mrs. Evans. Five hundred mon started in pursuit of the fugitives as soon as possible after the escape. Several persons, have boen arrested as accomplice*- The lheriff and nearly all his deputies were decoyed from the city by a story of suspected train rob! cry. The unsuspecting jailer in charge admitted Mrs. Evans, ostensibly to visit her husband, and Morrell who was a waiter with the bandit’s supper. When the jailer answered Morrell’* call to be let out he was confronted with pistols fn the bands of both men whe compelled him to unlock the bars and let them into the street; M rs. Evans fainted and failed to get away. '

WHAT A CHICAGO MAN DID.

Francis J. Dawes.-a wealthy Chleagc brewer, received word at New Orleans. Saturday, that his child was dying at Chicago, and, chartering an Illinois Central train, the tracks were cleared and Mr., Dawes and his wife were whirled over the 1,000 miles at the rate of a mile a minute. He paid about 81.000 for the trip, and broke all records between New Orleans and Chicago, making the run in twenty-five and o-ne-half hours.

JACK RABBITS FOR THE POOR.

I The Atchison, Topeka 3k Santa Fe brought Parson Uzzel, of Denver, Co)., 1,000 jack rabbits, Tuesday, from Lamar, not charging him anything for transpor* tation and furnishing a special ear for their jackships. The rabbits were killed In a grand hunt, half being sent to Denver and half to Pueblo. The parson unloaded his cargo at the tabernacle and distributed them among the poor families. ! At the Farmers* Alliance meeting al Denver, a resolution was adopted asking Congress to appropriate 1800,000,000 for the construction of reservoirs and other internal improvements.

THE MARKETS.

Dee. 30. 1899. ~ Indlanapolla. GRAIN AND HAY. Wheat—No. 2 red, 56Xc; No. 3 red, 54c; wagon, 56c. Corn—No. 1 white, 36c; No. 2 white, yellow, 35,4 c; ear corn, 36c. ’ Oats—No. 2 white, 32c; rejected 23(3 25c. Hat—Choice timothy, 812.50; No. L, 811.75; No. 2. 89.50; No 1 prairie, 86.75; mixed, Bti: clover. 89. Rye—No. 2, 45 c for ear-lots; 40c for wagon rye. Bran—Bl2. LIVE STOCK. Cattle—Common to choice, 82.7505.00; eows, [email protected]; heifers. 81.5003.50; bulls. 81.5003; milkers, 815.000840.00. poultry and produce. • (Prices Paid by Dealers.) Poultry Hens, 5c per B; yonng chickens, 5c per B; ttyrkeys, toms, 5c per B; hens, tyfe per £>; fancy fat young tom turkeys. 6c; small and poor sc; ducks, 6c. per B; geese,. 8420004.80 per dos. for choice; rabbits, 75080 c per doz. Eggs—Shippers paying 22c. Buttkb—Choice, 140158; mixed, 10012 c. Honey—Now, 16018 c Feathers -Prime goose, 40c per B; mixed duck, 20c per B. Beeswax—2oc for yellow; 15c for dank. Wool—Unwashed medium wool, 16c; unwashed coarse or braid, 13014 c; tubwashed. 18023 c. Following is the price list for central and northern Indiana and Ohio for prime skins: Extra coon. 8102; large coon, 80c; medium coon, 60c; small coca, 40c; large mink, 81.35; medium mink. 80c; small mink, 50c; black skunk, 8101.25; halt stripe skunk. 80c; narrow stripe skunk, 35c: broad stripe skunk, 15c; opossum, 50 20c; rat, 3013 c; red fox, 50081.25; grey fox. 40065 c; otter. $308: Kentucky skins 10020 per cent lower than prices quoted above. HIDES. TALLOW, ETC. Hides—No. 1 green hides, 214 c; No. 1 G. 8. Hides, No. ’G. S. h.des, 9%c; No. 1 calf hides, sc; No. 2 calf hides, 3%c. Tallow -No. 1 tallow. 4?<c; No. 2 tallow, 4c, Chicaco Wheat—corn; 34&'c: oats, 27%e; pork, 812.37 X. lard, 87.7%; ribs. 86.40. N«w York. Wheat—No. Northern, 71c; corn, 43c; pats, 35c; butter. Elgin. 28c; eggs, 25X«Cniciuual ! Wheats-50c; corn, 37c: oata. 30c; rye, 54c; perk, f 12,75. Philadelphia. Wheat—6sc; corn.4oJ.fe; Dots. 3G>fc. Detroit. Wheat—39j£: com. 33X<.-- oats. 3Ufc. MinweißpwlU. Wheat—Na 1 hard, CIJZcst. Lout*. Wheat-57Hc: corn. 32Av; <»ats. JlH’eDaltlmora. Wheat-6%c; corn, 41 3 *oi oats, ICMt 1.1 lx Tty. Hoes - All grades. ?».3505.4C BuCTalt*. ... ■ Cai .le Steers. 83.C005 00; bulls. 83.65 Hogs, K. 3305.4. Sheep. 83.KJ0