Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1894 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Got. Lewelling and Mrs. Lease may *kfss and make up." - The Globe theater at Boston was burned. Monday night. . Fire originating in the Quayle elevator * at Toledo, Wednesday night, caused a loss of 1500,000. The majority of the Ways and Means Committee have decided to report in favor of an income tax. Andrew Carnegie and wife sailed for Egypt from New York, Thursday. Mr. Carnegie is in bad health. Donald Kennedy, oneof the most notorious opium smugglers in the country, has been arrested at Detroit. Every man in the employ of the Chicago street railway, from the president down, 3,000 in all, have beeu vaccinated. .a During a dance at Harmony Park, la., Town Marshal Weston shot and killed Henry Hoover without any apparent reason. Frank Wilson, a Chicago divinity student, slept sixty hours in a South Side ehurch after a sermon by the Bev. P. E. Wilkinson. W, F, Lee. of Chicago, is badly wanted at Albion on the charge of swindling several citizens with the enlarging photograph racket While working in Blankenship’s sawmill near Vandalia, 111., John the head sawyer, fell across the circular saw and was cut in twain. At Kansas City a special conference of I delegates representing the various branches of the United Mine Workers of America in Missouri and Kansas is in session. It has been decided to have the CorbettMitchell fight on the morning of January 25. Governor Mitchell is q'uoted as siying that it shall not take place in that State. The California Mid-Winter Fair was formally opened, Monday, at San Francisco. The special feature of the day was the unveiling of Sir Francis Drake’s monument, “the prayer-book cross." The Pennsylvania Republican State convention met at Harrisburg. Wednesday. Resolutions denouncing the Wilson bill were passed. Galusha A. Grow was nominated for Congressman-at-large. The National Mary Washington Monument Association has issued an appeal to the Women of the United States to contribute funds necessary to pay for the completed monument. The sum of 515,000 is desired. The Cambria Iron Company is building a new mill at Johnstown which is to cost •1,000,000. The mills at that town are said to be ten months behind their orders. The business is booming and 1.000 of the men are working fifteen hours-a day. The "Palace of Poverty," the K. of L. headquarters at Philadelphia, has been mortgaged for 120,0 )0. It is given out by high officials,that the headquarters of the order will be soon removed to Washington and that the 120,000 will be used to purchase a perfecting press for the “Journal of the Knights of Labor.” A crank with a “commission from the Lord” called at the jail at Chicago. Wednesday, to see Prendergast. He stated that the killing of Mayor Harrison was a direct answer to a prayer that he had made twenty-four hours before the shooting occurred, and consequently Prendergast was innocent and should bo liberated. He gave the name of Names, and was locked up to await examination as to his sanity. The public debt statement issued. Tuesday shows that the net increase of the debt, less cases in the treasury, during the month of December to have been 16,861,662. The interest bearing debt increased •90, the debt on which Interest has ceased since maturity decreased >25,850 and the debt bearing no interest 12,063.361. The reduction in cash balance during the month was 14,824,061. Ex-Secretary Foster will probably be “ unable to settle by paying his creditors 50 cents on the dollar, as he agreed. Offsets have come in which decrease the assets of Foster & Co., which involve the raising 120,603 additional to meet the agreement. The creditors’ committee say no delay will be tolerated and they will proce >d to collect by law all they can. The experts will within a few days complete their investigation of the bank. Prof. William Alexander, for twenty years surveyor-general of Hawaii, was a witness before the Senate committee investigating the Hawaiian affairs, Wednesday. Prof. Alexander denounced Commissioner Blount’s report as being based upon false pretenses and supported by ex-parte evidence. Ii te said that the witness stated that he furnished much valuable information on the Hawaiian situation to Blount but that the latter Suppressed jt. A conference of the leaders of the proposed new National Prohibition party was held at Pittsburg, Monday. Twelve people were present. It was decide! to raise 15,560 to aid in the work of organization. The leaders of the new party figure out that there are 300.003 voters in the Democratic party who are Prohibitionists at heart and there are many more in the Republican party. The Populists, they claim, have .10 .*,00) Prohibitionists in their ranks, and the idea of the new party leaders Is to unite all these under the banner of the new National party. Jackson Park became public property, Jan. t. The turnstiles were taken down and the Columbian guards retln d to the buildings. In the afternoon the crowd of sight-seers and relic hunters grew to a size that compared to a big September day during the Exposition. Midway, even demolished, was the attraction and was stripped of everything portable early in the day. The Japanese villiagc was completely carried off and the Jap. tea house east of the fisheries building met a like fate. Only its bare walls wore left standing. Two men climbed to the top of the McMonnies fountain in their search for relics, but were dragged away by the police. It is estimated that 30,000 people were in the park during the day. The buildings are still closed and under guard. The Ohio Legislature convened at Columbus. Monffay. ' Gov. McKinley, in his message, said: “Your honorable body meets at a time when the State is suffering from prolonged industrial depression, for whiclA unhappily, there appears no immediate prospect of relief. The people will demand that their representatives shall practice economy in public expenditures which necessity enforces upon them In their private expenditures. A short session and but little legislation would be appreciated at a time like this.” Three men were killed, four seriously Injured and a dozen more slightly hurt tn

I a wreck on the Union Pacific railway near Linwood. Kaa,, twenty-seven miles west of Kansas City, Tuesday morning. The wreck was caused by a freight train on the Rock Island railway, which uses the Union Pacific track between Kansas City and Topeka, running into the rear end of a mixed freight and passenger train of the Union Pacific. Both trains were coming to Kansas City and were in motion #hen the accident occurred. They were a few minutes late and the Rock Island train was running fast to make up time. The Union Pacific train was near a water tank west of Linwood and was slowing up when the other train crashed into it.

FOREIGN.

Extremely cold weather prevails in England and on the continent. Five children were drowned while skating at Bottbus, Brandenburg. Diplomatic reiattshS Between Russia and the Vatican will likely be resumed. The London Times says confidence is what is needed to help trade conditions. QueerTVictoria has conferred upon the ameer of Afghanistan the honorary knighthood of the grand cross of the bath. The Mexican government is ready to build a telegraph line from Presido Del Norte to Juarez. The distance is about 200 miles along the Rio Grande. ~~ "" One hundred and forty marines left Kiel for the Cameroons. Crowds of people gathered to bid them farewell, and the bands played the national anthem. A force of 400 military and police with a hundred Gporkhas with two mountain guns has been organized to proceed against the Abor tribes on thp Assam frontier. • : . The private fortune of King Humbert of ltaly, amounting to 100,000,600 lire, has been deposited with the London house of the Rothschilds. The Secolo also says that the greater portion of the sum has been saved out of the civil list, at the rate of about 10,000,000 lire per year. Salvador Franch, a notorious Anarchist, was captured at Saragossa by ttarSpanish police after a desperate attempt to take his own life, Tuesday. He struggled with his captors and continued his anarchist threats and curses, and loudly avowed his complicity in the Llcoo theater outrage, expressing fiendish regret that more people were not killed and that he was not able to carry out further more bloody outrages. Ho will bo tried. The Manchester ship canal has been completed. Manchester Is about forty miles inlaud from Liverpool, and can now be reached by water in ten hours after reaching Liverpool. The difference in freight charges on importations for the 7,500,000 people living in the vicinity of Manchester promises to revolutionize the trade of Liverpool, and a fight between the two cities is likely to result.

A REAL WAR.

Soldiers Actually Killed in Honduras. Two Cities Captured by Nicaraguan Invaders—A Beal Revolution. . The New York Herald’s special dispatch from Managua, Nicaragua, Jan. 2, says: The war between Nicaragua and Honduras has begun in good earnest. Already Policadpo Bonilla, leader of the Honduran insurgents, has invaded Honduras from Nicaraguan soil, has captured the towns of Corpus and Yuscaran, has set up a provisional government in the former plaee and President Zalaya of Nicaragua has recognized his authority. Bonilla’s insurgent forces, aided by a body of Nicaraguans, captured Yuscatan only this afternoon and immediately President Zelaya Issued a decree formally recoguizing the provisional government of the victorious General. This provisional « birnment had been sot up in the town of Corpus on Dec. 30, the day on which that place was captured by Bonilla after a five hours’ siege. President Vasquez’s losses in that engagement wore twenty-three killed and five wounded. The invaders had two killed and several injured. Bonilla’s men are now surrounding Choluteca and shutting off communication with the interior. They made a desperate attempt to take Cuartel, which was successfully defended by Gen. Vlllela. Gen. Rosas was killed in the engagement. The besieging army has not given up hopes and will try It again. They are camped around and they are endeavoring to starve out Vasquez’s troops. President Vasquez’s haughty challenge to Nicaraguain his decree of Oct. 30 was accept id by the Nicaraguan army and they decided to invade his territory and help Bonilla and his Honduran rebels. Three thousand Nicaraguan soldiers, commanded by Gen. Ortez, occupied San Luis and Cincopino on Dec-24 awaiting Vasquez’s threatened invasion of Nicaraguan soil. Vasguez had reinforced his command by local trooops from Choluteca and from Corpus, and a battle near Choluteca seemed imminent. The invaders are now trying to gain possesion of Amapala and in the meantime Nicaragua is recruiting more troops to send to the frontier.

HAWAIIAN NEWS.

The Provisional Still ‘‘Hold. Ing the Fort.” An Associated Press cable from Auckland, New Zealand, Jan. 4, says: Advices from Honolulu to Dec. ,22. have been received here by the steamer Alameda, which has just arrived from San Francisco. The officers of the vessel stated to the correspondent that the excitement in Honolulu over the political situation was growing in intensity. The provisional government was as firm as ever in its determination to maintain its position and was continuing its preparations to resist any effort that might be made 10 restore the monarch. Tho members of the police force of the Island had been notified that they would bo expected to take up arms in defense of tho g ivemment and a number of them had been dismissed from the service for refusing to obey this order. The officers further stated that tho minister of the United Stateshad written to tho provisional g ivernment requesting that its members surrender office, as the United States government had decided In favor of the restoration pf the Queen. The minister. In his communication, informed tho government that Llliuokalanl had agreed to grant amnesty to all those who had taken part in the revolution, to ratify the obligations of the present government and to govern faithfully, in accordance with the present Constitution. The government was preparing a long reply to the minister *

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Fire at Redkey destroyed 130,000 worth of property. Famine is said to be the cause of the riots in Sicily. The New Albany nail mill is to be sold by the sheriff. St. Petersburg will have an international exhibition in 1903. The trial of John W. Paris will begin Jan. 12, at Frankfort. The A. P. A. organ at Fort Wayne has suspended publication. There were no business failures in Cambridge City during 1893. Tipton has a new street railway, but oniv one car is running. Lawyer J. B. Courtney, of Crawfordsville, has become insane. Gtiiam was removed from- Frankfort to the Lafayette jail for safety. , Mrs. Schmidt, charged with murdering Oscar Walton, was refused bail at Kokomo. Omer Isgrlgg, near Thorntown, caught his right arm in a corn-husker. losing it at the elbow. 4. It will be midsummer before the work of building the big bridge at Jeffersonville is again renewed. The Jackson Buggy Combany of Columbus, has closed down, owing to the assignment of Hege & Co. " A new postoffice will be established in Nottingham township, Wells county, to be known as Oil City. Two companies are now supplying Farmland with natural gas, and the price has been reduced one-half. John Hart, of Cambridge City, while visiting friends at Elwood, was rendered insane by an attack of the grip. Rev. James Mendell, of the Methodist church at Morristown, is reported to be going blind from an overdose of quinine. James Devore, of Shawnee Mound, whose death is reported, was eighty-two years old and a pioneer of that section. For the first time in thirty-six years the postoffice at Louisville will be under the control of a Democrat, Charles P. Weaver. At Richmond, the Hon. Charles O’Ferwas inaugurated governoroof Virginia, Monday, with great pomp and ceremony. Governor 'Matthews has reappointed Mathias Kilgus a member of the board of metropolitan police commissioners of Jeffersonville. Theodore Morgan, who is accused of wrecking two trains, burning four bams, and committi~ng onief ogenses,lyaw alting trial at Kokomo. Ono boy was permantly blinded and three terribly injured by an explosion of powder at Brazil, Monday. The boys were celebrating. Richard McGiff, of Deerfield, and John McGiff, of Geneva, claim to be the oldest pair of twins in the country. They are in their ninetieth year. The aged Mayor Miller, of Vincennes, captured a young scoundrel who wilfully Insulted him on his way home after dark and turned him over to the police. The eighth annual convention of the Indiana Wool Growers’ Association met at Indianapolis, Tuesday. Addresses were made by the President and others. An eloping couple from the rural dis trictsof Kentucky were married at Jeffersonville, Wednesday, The groom was hatless, having lost that article en route. A man who borrowed 1100 irom exPostmaster Daniel Shaw, of LaPorte, forty years ago, and went West, returned, Thursday, and paid his debt, with interest.

Mrs. Nancy Clark, 101 years old, and the oldest citizen of Crawford county, visited friends at Leavenworth, one day last week, walking freely about and seemingly in abundant health. A People’s party conference was held at Indianapolis, Wednesday. H. E. Taubenack, Chairman of the National Committee, was present. Plans were prepared for the coming campaign, Hon. Chas. L. Jewett presented ISO children of New Albany with Christmas gifts of their own choosing. Out of the happy throng but one chose oranges. Mr. Jewett “can afford it.” J. Irving Riddle, of Terre Haute, is being urged by his friends to be a candidate for auditor of State on the Republican ticket. Mr. Riddle is one of the best known men in the State. Mrs. Charles Myers, of Walton, whose husband, a postal clerk, was killed in the Big Four wreck at Lafayette, last May, is said to have compromised her claim for damages, the company paying 17,000. The woolen manufacturers of Indiana met at the State House, Indianapolis, Tuesday. A memorial protesting against the passage of the Wilson bill was prepared and endorsed by the association. Two drunken strangers entered the town of Roanoke with a flourish, exhibiting revolvers and threatening to rob the stores. They were disarmed, deprived of their horse and buggy and driven out by the exasperated villagers. Judge McNutt, of Terre Haute, presiding judge in ft slander suit, took exceptions to a remark made by ex-Judge Mack, and not only fined him $25 and costs for contempt of court, but ordered him to withdraw from the case. 2 The Supreme Court, Tuesday, granted a rehearing to John Parker and Edward McAfee, of Marion county, now under sentence to be hanged next Friday at the State Prison North. The decision was written by Judge Coffey. 3 Mrs. Emlline Dalton, the woman who was whitecapped by her husband and several friends, now d jing time in the Jeffersonville penitentiaro, has secured a divorce from her brute of a “lord and master,” together with alimony,. The turnkey at the Indianapolis police station tried to put a refractory colored man in the dungeon. The man resisted and the turnkey struck him on the head. The blow did not hurt the "coon,” but the turnkey has a disabled hand. Colfax is boycotting the Big Four railway because of alleged unjust discrimination against that town by the company. Fast trains on the Big Four no longer stop at Colfax, a new system of interlocking switches making it unnecessary. 'Trank Gelding and John Martin, of Greentown, engaged in a friendly scuffle, during which Martin was hurled through one of his own plate glass windows. His neck was frightfully cut by the broken glass and he narrowly escaped bleeding to death. The trial of Pettit, the wife murderer, in Montgomery county, where It was taken on changeof venue. county $15,000. Recently an additional claim of 12,000 turned up and Tippecanoe

county is wondering if the account will ever be closed. - Solomon Neideffer. of Bono, is dead after brooding for three yean over tne death of his wife, who was murdered by an Unknown party. The murder occurred while he was absent at work, and the young woman alone in the house. The murderer is still at large, i Sunday night a fourteen-year-old boy named Armstrong went into the stable of John Hogeman, near Prescott, Shelby county, to feed a stallion, when the animal rushed on him and tore through one cheek with his teeth and otherwise injured him. Prompt assistance saved the boy’s life, aA letter has just been received at the Laporte postoffice from the dead letter office that was sent from Laporte by N. Wober, fourteen years ago. It contained a sum of money sent to parties in New Ybrk.lthasbeenlayinginthedeadleU ter office at Washington, and the explanation is that it was found Jn the desk of a clerk who had recently been removed. The Swine Breeders Association of Indiana met at Indianapolis, Thursday. B. W. Harvey, of Bloomington, read a paper on “What Advancement has the Chester White Breed Made ip the Last Five Years?” Mr. Harvey showed that inbreeding and careful feeding had developed the Chester White into a prolific economical farm product. Other matters of interest to the members were considered. 7 -1 T -~ Sam Reynolds, whoiresides about two miles west of town, had on exhibition here, Wednesday evening, a white chicken hawk, which he had the good fortune to wound sufficiently by a shot to render its capture possible. It is perfectly white with the exception of a very few brown feathers and was quite a beauty. We have talked with several and have to find any one who ever saw one in this vicinity before.—Poseyville News. Several days ago, while John and Edward Noe, of Hibernia, were 'coon hunting, John was killed by an accidental discharge of Edward’s gun. While a companion went for assistance, Edward disappeared, and is supposed to have drowned himself by reason of excessive grief. The boy’s mother was fatally 111, afid she died without knowing of the accident befalling the family. The senior Noe is prostrated by the triple calamity, and his recovery is ’not anticipated. Attendant Woods, who killed Lawyer • Blount of Muncie at the Eastern Indiana Hospital at Richmond, is now a free man. He had been released on bond, from the penitentiary, where he had served two years and five months, a new trial having been granted. Tuesday, Prosecutor Starr, at Richmond, nollied the case, and Wednesday Woods was married to Miss Kauffman, a young lady of high character. The action of the prosecutor is sustained by public opinion at Richmond.

Mrs. Olive Cloud, a widow,iwas shot and killed by Louis Snyder, at Indianapolis, Saturday night. Both are said to have been drunk. Snyder escaped and wandered about the country until Monday, when he returned to the city with the intention of giving himself up, as he says, but was arrested at the house of his sister and lodged in jail. The prisoner states Mrs. Cloud was jealous and tried to shoot uim and, in the struggle, both being intoxicated, Mrs. Cloud was shot accidentally, Snyder is a well known character of some local prominence as a saloon keeper. A Eph Winder and a companion, living near St. Mary’s abandoned cemetery. Richmond, arrayed themselves in white sheets and pa par masks, and undertook to scare superstitious pedestrians at the midnight hour. Among the first to pass was Theodore Hoffman. He had armed himself with a bowlder before reaching the cemeterv, and when two ghostly figures stalked out, uttering dismal groans, he cracked away at the nearest, felling the object like a stricken lamb. It proved to be Winder, who lay insensible for some time. The other would-be ghost hastily decamped. The case against ex-County Treasurer Nurpillot, pending at Winamac, has been compromised and dismissed. He was accused of illegally collecting interest from the county by paying for county orders and failing to stamp them paid, carrying them for periods of time and then collecting interest thereon. Mr. Vurpillot claimed to have used .his own money on authority from the county commissioners incashing the orders.and the amount oi interest collected was due on such money used. The law, however, did not authorize such a deal, and accordingly he refunded to the county (911.50. Another fatal accident, due to careless handling of firearms, occurred In Montgomery county Wednesday night, the victim being Timothy O’Connor, the son oi Enos O’Connor, a wealthy farmer. Timothy, with his brothers, were ’coon hunting, and about midnight “treed” something in a hollow log. Enos O’Cennor. Jr., leaned upon the log and, in the excitement, discharged his shotgun against the head of his brother, Timothy, almost blowing it off. The unfortunate lad instantly expired. The young man who did the shooting is crazed with grief. Patents were issued to Indiana inventors, Tuesday, as follows: J. V. Ashcraft. Dunkirk, pliers; F. Berner, jr., Indianapolis, assignor of three-fourths to M. B. Christ, wood embossing machine; W. T. Eastes, Muncie, medical case; W. K Fraley, Lebanon, hoof trimmer: C. M Kller, assignor of one-half to S. Urmston Indianapolis, station indicator; C. N. Leonard, Indianapolis, continuous table for physicians; G. Philion, Mishawaka, truck; W. H. Spence. Fairmount, blackboard eraser; J. R. Staudt. Indianapolis, flour bolt; J. W. Underwood, Sheridan gas heating apparatus; 8. D. Van Pelt. Anderson, slatc-drtsslng machine; J. L Wagner, Terre Haute, box car door. The Indiana Traveling Men’s Association in session recently a South Bend, Increased the membership fee to $2. onehalf to go to the reserve fund. Officer; elected: President, Schdyler Colfax; Vice-President. I. A. Sibley; Associate Vice-Presidents, 11. M. Kellinger, of Var Wert, O.; E. R. Lightcap, of Chicago; John J. McElrain, of South Bend; J. W. Raynor, of Ontario, and Mr. Clark, of De* troit; Secretary,EL B. Russell; Treasurer. M. B, Staley; and Directors. E. A. Schaffer, L. C. Axford. C. B. Htbben. Georg* Woodruff, C. A. Darland. A. D. Baker, W. H. Mock, T. S. Taylor, Schuyler Colfax and E. B. Russell. All the officers whos« addresses are not given live at South Bend. Reports showed 7,294 members in good standing. A change in the benefits was made so as to pay $1,250 for the less of an eya.

FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

The Senate met, Wednesday, pursuant m adjournment previous to the holidays. Senator Frye offered a resolution delating tto be the sense of the Senate that the administration should commit no overt let of interference in Hawaii pending the nvestigation of the embroglio by the j Senate committee on foreign affairs. The evident object of the resolution is to dedare the sense of the Senate adverse to iny American interferference, either direct or indirect, should any conp d’etate oe resorted to for the purpose of restoring ;he queen to the throne. The Senator xsked that the resolution lie upon the able for the present and it is expected that he will make it the subject of some pertinent remarks before asking its reference to the committee on foreign affairs The discussion of a private bill called up oy Senator Pugh, indicated a desire on the part of some Senators to repeal the present law, which excludes JI foreigners from the right of ownership of real estate in the District of Coiumbia.but it likewise ieveloped the fact that to this repeal some jth er senators are strongly opposed. The Senate on going into executive sesdon found no quorum present and therefore adjourned. „ In the House, Wednesdav.«the tariff debate did not begin as was anticipated. The Republicans showed fight at the very outset and scored the first victory. Before the time arrived for Mr. Wilson to take the floor Mr. McCreary tried tb arrange an amicable agreement bv which two days, Friday and Saturday, should be given to the consideration of the Hawaiian resolution. Mr. Hltt,the Republican member of the foreign affairs committee, expressed a willingness to acquiesce in the arrangement, but Mr. Bon telle, of Maine wanted to precipitate the question immediatelvjiy calling up his resolution. Both sides were ugly, but after a lively row the speaker held that Mr. Boutelle’s resolution was privileged. The Democratic members ‘of the ways and means were not willing to go ahead with the Hawaiian discussion until the tariff debate had been gotten well under way, however, and the question of consideration was ‘raised against the Boutelle resolution The Republicans then executed a, flank movement by refusing to vote. The Democrats found themselves in the humiliating position of not being able ‘to muster a quorum; The debate that ensued Indicated that the Hawaltn matter will not be discussed until the tariff question Is disposed of. Thursday’s session .of tho Senate met, with a very light attendance. Senator Hoar presented the following resolution: “Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury .bo requested to inform the Senate of what sums have been paid to the Hon. James H. Blount for salary, services or other expenses As a special commissioner to Hawaii, together with coph s of all orders, vouchers and receipts for such payment, and also to inform the Senate from what funds and under and by virtue of what appropiation or law the same have been paid.” A debate followed on the proposed consideration of the federal efectidn bill. A message was received from the President transmitting the report of the Secretary of State in the matter of claims of certain persons against the government of Spain for illegal arrest on the coast of Y ucatan in 1850, and subsequent illegal imprisonment. Senator Dolph called up the bill to extend for three years the time of the Umatilla Irrigation Company in the construction of its irrigating canal across the Umatilla Indian reservation in the State of Oregon, and it was passed without opposition. After a brief executive session the Senate, at 1:20, adjourned until Monday.

In the House, Thursday, following the reading of the journal, some communications were laid before the House, and the Speaker announced the reappointment of Messrs. Wheeler of Alabama. Breckenridge of Kentucky, and Hitt of Illinois, as the regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Immediately thereafter the tight on the Hawaiian matter was precipitated by Mr. Boutelle. Although Uie Democratic members of the ways and means committee weie willing to devote two days to this subject, they decided, after .the wasting of tne day through the persistency of Mr. Boutelle. to shut the Hawaiian debate out entirely until the tariff bill was disposed of. A roll call developed the absence of a quorum, Republicans refusing to vote on the motions put by the Speaker, and after a consultation the Democratic leade-s decided that it was useless to continue the effort to secure a quorum any further, and, on motion of Mr. Wilson, at 1:40 p. m., the House adjourned.

A FEARFUL FIND.

The New Year Start# in With..* Tragedy. A special to the Kansas City Times from Independence, Ka*., Jan. 1, says: One of the most horrifying discoveries wa* made this morning when Al Brown, son-in-law of George W. Read, manager of the Lang-Bell lumber company, broke into the home of the latter and found Mr. Read, clad only In his nightclothes,sitting dead In a chair before a hot stove fed by natural gas, hl.s body in an advanced stage of decomposition; Edith Scott, a domestic of the family, lying dead on the floor of her room, and Mrs. Read and her five-year old son in bed, the boy dying and the mother unconscious. The doctors after a careful examination, decided that the family had been poisoned by strychnine, which had probably gotten into the;, food. Mrs. Read is still unconscious, bu. the doctors still have some hope of her recovery, but the boy will probably not hve through the night. John W. Hillmon who was repor have been killed near Medicine Lotgo, Kan., in 1879. who was insured in the Mutual Life of New York, for 120,000, and in the New York Life for >5,000, has been located at Paris, Idaho, by secret service men in the employ of the companies. FI fl; mon was born in Indiana in 1845.

The “Memoircs” left by Marsh.v MacMahon, which he refused to have published during his lifetime, were finished three years ago. They were transcribed i» his hotel of Rue I Bellecbasse under the direction of Count de Beanfort, his aide-de-camp. The work was done by a retired mil- I itary'officer, and pnly fifteen copies were printed on parchment for the members of the family The : ‘Mcm- { oires” are divided into several chapters, forming four volumes, which : contain in all about 2,000 pages.

FARMERS IN SESSION.

Various Agrlnnltural Organization# BUM Their Annual Meetings. The various farm organizations in Mallon at the State House at Indianapolis, held a combined meeting in tne Agricultural rooms, after the adjournment of their respective sessions, Wednesday morning, and devoted half an hoar to a general roast of the provisions contained in the Wilson bill. J. N. Cotton. Marion county, precipitated the cyclone with the enthusiastic assertion that he believed in protecti?® the home, township, county, and, finally, “this great nation.” He denounced the Wilson bill as tending to reduce trade conditions in America to a par with England, while, he said, “nothing is for sale except cheap labor.” He wound up his speech by Introducing the following resolution, which, after additional discussion, was unanimously adopted as the sense of the combined body: Whereas, It is proposed in the Wilson bill now pending in Congress to place on the free list twenty-nine of the finished products of the farm which are now protected by equitable duties and, whereas, Che same bill gives many manufacturers 30 per cent, protection, now, therefore, ba it resolved, that we condemn thegross and unjust discrimination against the farming interests manifested in that bill and we call upon our Congressmen and Senators to oppose said measures.” The deleg ite agricultural board was addressed by Mrs. Julia D. Waugh, of Crawfordsville, on “Farming—lts Sunshine and Shadow.” The following nominations were made for positions on the board: Robert Mitchell, Princeton, first district; James 8. McCoy, Monroe City, second district; W. W. Stevens, North Salem, third; Jasper Lagrange and John W. Tillson. Franklin, fourth; W. B. Holton, Hiram Howland and Cal Darnell, Indianapolis. seventh; C. B, Harris, Goshen, fourteenth; Aaron Jones and D. W. Place, Sound Bend, fifteenth, and J. E. McDonald, Ligonier, sixteenth. The election occurred late Wednesday afternoon. The short horn breeders listened to papapers by President Sankey, Terre Haute; Jas. D. Williams. Pond Creek Mills; Phil Nye, Goshen; Mrs.V.C. Meredith, Cambridge City; George C. Hill, Chicago, and Governor Matthews. The latter discussed, “Have the Breeders of Indiana Made Any Advancement in the Last Twenty Years?” The following officers were elected: T. A Cotton, Manilla, 'president; JJas. D. Williams, Pon! Creek Mills, vice-president; W. «S. Robbins, Horace, secretary and treasurer. The wool-growers concluded their session by the adoption of a resolution similar to the one possed by the general body and the d iction of the following officers: F. F. Tomlinson, Fairland, President; Cal. Darnell Indianapolis, Vice President; J. W. Robe, Greencastle, Secretary, and J. L. Thompson. Marton, Treasurer. The Indiana-Tiie, Brick and Drainage Association held a short routine session, as did the Farmers’ Reading Circle. Th< Indiana Engineering Society was addressed by John L. Campbell, Crawfordsville, and C. J. Goes, Martinsville, and a resolution was passed providing that the matter of constructingaship canal from Lake Michigan to the Wabash river, utilizing the Kankakee as a feeder, be presented to the representatives In Congress and that they be urged to push the same

SHIP CANAL PLAN.

Professor Campbell's Plan to Utilise tW Waters of the Kankakee. J. L. Campbell, of Wabash College, read a paper before the Indiana Engineering Society at Inianapolis, Wednesday, on “How to Utilize the Waters of the Kankak.e,” The paper presented a ship canal theory for the connection of the great Jakes with the Mississippi. It is to dig a canal from the south end of Lake Michigan to that point in the Kankakee rivet known as Baum’s bridge. The course ol the canal would then follow the Kankakee river and marshes and connect with the Tippecanoe river.

OUR MARKET REPORT.

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