Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1894 — Page 3

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Latest fad in Washington is “mum” socials. Hammond won its salt for the annexation of East Chicago. Indiana has eighteen special pension examiners to her credit. Sunday was a good day for Kentucky ' elopers at Jeffersonville. The new K. of P. hall art Martinsville was dedicated. Wennesday, For the first time in twenty years there is a licensed saloon at Farmland. Five barns were destroyed by Are of Incendiary origin in Fort Wayne. Saturday night. Isaac Wagner, the aged Mayor of Madison. died, Sunday. He had been ill for some time; “ “ 5 Several very ancient porcelain relics have been found by diggers in a mound near English. Ernest Dorsey and family, of Crawfordsville, were made seriously ill by eating head-cheese. « The Indiana Poultry Association opened its annual exhibit at Masonic Hall, Indianapolis, Tuesday. Miss BeDe Pierson, New Albany, has been appointed organizer for the American Federation of Labor. Incendiaries burned the school-house at Dark Hollow, near Bedford, because of dissentions among patrons. The Victor window glass' works at Anderson, after a shut-down of several months, has resumed operations. " Charles Clark, Shelbyville, has been sued for £5.000 damages by his wife, who claims that he oroke her collar bone. Mrs.' John of Flatrock, died while seated in her buggy en route for church. She was sixty-four years old.’ Hon. David S. Gooding, of Greenfield, is said to be seriously embarrassed financially. Liabilities, £II,OOO. Assets not stated. Additional men are being employed in the Lake Shore railway shops at Elkhart and the working hours have been increased. Batesville, with a population of 2,000, only had 16 deaths during ’93. The undertakers there don't make a living out of the dead. George Conrad and family, near DarHngton.returned from an entertainment to find their house and contents entirely consumed by fire. The Anderson Herald, by authority, announces the candidacy of the Hon. John W. Lovett for Attorney-General on the Republican ticket. John A. Jenkins, the defaulting treasurer of Clarke county, died at his home in Jeffersonville, Monday, of consumption. His case was never tried. Prize fighting still breaks out at intervals in Northern Indiana. Near the Kankakee river, south of Valparaiso, Monday, three mills in one ring were fought by amateurs. 4 An infant son of Douglas Curry, colored, of Greenfield, secured a small bottle of carbolic acid and drank a portion of the contents, satuiating his head with the re* mainder. He died almost instantly. Mitchell Shanks, school teacher at Pello, drove a supposed tramp out of the school house, Monday. The tramp pulled a revolver, but before he could use it Shanks pulled his own gun ana shot the fellow deaa. Mrs. Thomas O’Donnell, of this place, received S6OJ or S7OO from the estate of her relatives in Ireland a few days ago. It will be well taken care of, for Mrs. O’Donnell is.a careful auJ prudent woman.— Hancock Djmocrat. Mr. Fred Bourdon, a popular young gentleman of Elwood, secretary of the. Elwood Club, is partially paralyzed on his right side, and he is unable to close his right eye. The paralysis is attributed to the cigarette habit. 3 Judge Baker, of the U. S. court, in a decision handed down, Monday, held that the charter governing the city of Indianapolis is unconstitutional, both under the constitution of Indiana and the constitution of the United States. Colonel Milligan,of Huntington, recalls that the winter of 1843 was almost an exact parallel with the one nowexperienced. He reports that on the Ist of February the weather turned very cold, which continued without a break until spring. The suit brought by the city of Hammond to enforce the annexation of East Chicago is on trial at Valparaiso. The tract which Hammond wishes to annex will add 3,000 acres and about $4,000,009 taxables to its corporate limits. The Sullivan Democrat, speaking of the low price which a herd of horses brought in that city, advises its readers to sell off all surplus stock, as electricity is rapidly superceding the horse, and there is likely to be still further declines in value. The now order of Bon Hur, a secret society recently organized at Crawfordsville, is the cause of great annoyance to Gen. Lew Wallace, who is receiving scores of inquiries concerning it through the mail. The General has no connection with the order whatever. Charles Burnett, of Mnncio, fourteen years old, under arrest for several days because of a badly deranged mind, caused by reading “Nick Carter,” “Old Sleuth,” and kindred literature, will be taken to the asylum. He imagines that ho is an agent of Carter’s in detective w ork. , Lawyer Davis got angry in court at Terre Haute, Wednesday, and drew a revolver and drove lawyers Walker and Eggleston out of the room. The latter men accused Davis of writing newspaper articles against them, and one of them tried to hit him with a big law book. C. H. Over, whose glass factory at Muncie burned down some months ago, has filed a second suit against the Lake Erie 6 Western railway, in which his damages are now laid at SIOO,OOO. It is alleged that his factory was destroyed by sparks from a passing engine owned by the defendant company. The Jcffersohvltle News says that the leaves are already out on the scarlet japonicas and a day or two more of warm weather would have brougnt them into full bloom. It also says that the trees on the island fronting Jeffersonville were growing green before the recent cold breeze set in. The joke is on two yonng watchmen of the canning factory. One of the proprie-, tors happened along late at night and went In upon thorn and found them asleep. Their feet he tied together an 1 carried away their pocketbook and watch. What their feelings when the articles were returned?—Kokomo Times. The G. A. R. of Princeton, failing in

other efforts to reclaim John Daugherty, a pensioner, filed a petition in the Circuit Court to have him declared a habitual drunkard, and asking the court to appoint a guardian. The petition is filed under a law passed before the war, and which has been declared valid by the Supreme Court. Postmaster Phillips, at Wallen, was attacked by six men, Tuesday night, and stabbed in several places, all on account of a postoffice fight. Phillips is about the only Democrat at the place, and when ho was appointed postmaster it didn't please the Democrats. He filed affidavits Wednesday, against six prominent citizens, charging them with assault. As the result of a factional row in Huntington, in which much bad blood is engendered in a political way, one of the county officials has filed a charge of drunkenness against Mayor Z. T. Dugan, of Huntington. The mayor’s friends claim that the charge is brought to prevent the renomination of Mr. Dugan for the office he now holds. He is of the same political faith as the complainant. Last summef. while Thomas Eckert and Amos Rude, of San Pierre, were boating and fishing on the Kankakee river. Rude fell overboard and was drowned. Eckert was accused of killing him, but a trial resulted in his acquittal. He has now retaliated by bringing suit for damages against a number of residents of San Pierre who tried to connect him with Rude’s death. Louis Pruett, who killed John Thomas at Nyesville. May 23, 1893, was allowed to plead guilty to manslaughter by agreement of counsel, at Rockville, and given a ten year sentence. The verdict gives great dissatisfaction, as the crime was one of unusual brutality, the victim being literally chopped to pieces with a broadax. The general sentiment was that Pruett should hang. Calvin Armstrong, the defaulting deputy treasurer of Tipton county, whose trial will soon come up at Kokomo, has made application for the appointment of resident counsel under the poor criminal act. It is probable that C. C. Shirley will be gnamed to defend, the expense to be borne by Tipton county, which will al so pay assistant counsel in the prosecution and court costs. Eight New York jewelry firms, including Tiffany & Co., have been victimized by a New Albany confidence man to the extent of SIO,OOO. The thief had diamonds shipped to the address of A. Barth, a well known and wealthy resident, and by means of forged orders and letters of identification secured the goods and escaped. The express companies will haye to bear < a part of the loss. Judson Tyler and Wm. Suttley, of Ft Wayne, scions of two prominent pioneer familes, were arrested Thursday morning on charge of burglary. Relatives and friends were shocked, and they were completely overcome later, when Tyler, the wealthier one of the prisoners, confessed to having been a ringleader in the robbery of seven business houses. He implicated three companions. The boys have always borne excellent reputations. The plant of the Standard Oil Company at Whiting, Ind., the the total valuation of which is $8,000,000, has been bulletined to be sold for taxes Feb. 5. The delinquent taxes'amount to $10,627.25. The delinquency is based on a valuation of $33,0(0, which the coipp my claim was an error in their assessment. The saleais to test the legality of the action of the authorities. It is probable that the delinquency will be paid and the matter taken into the courts. 1 The famous L. S. & M. S. railroad company vs. Peterson damage suit, at Elkhart, was finallysettled Friday, when the judge grant *d Peterson SII,OOO for the loss of both arms. About three years ago Peterson was put off a moving freight train by one of the brakemen and in falling he fell under the train, losing both his arms. Motions for new trials were immediately overruled and Peterson is to have $660 annually until the above amount is paid. A farmer in Washington county has a persimmon orchard of five hundred trees. His neighbors made great fun when he first began setting out his orchard, but at the end of three years, when he began harvesting his fruit, frequently selling it, at $1.25 a gallon, many concluded that there was money in the undertaking. The persimmon raiser has perfected a method by which the fruit is kept fresh and sweet until spring, and he is making a good thing out of his odd investment. George Parent, living near Union City, who has charge of the leasing of a farm owned*by Mrs. Dr. James, of Marshall, 111., Saturday, sold 836(9 worth of gram in Union Chy, for which he received the money. He stood at the desk a moment m calculation, and in a fit of abstraction, seized the bills lying near and tossed them into the stove, mistaking them for the paper on which he was moting some figures. Ho did not notice what he had done until too late to save the money George Bingham, of the land department of the State auditor’s office, has returned from a trip of inspection of the savings banks of the State. There are eighty-six State banks and five savings banks in the State which report to the State in much the same manner that National banks report to the Comptroller of the Currency. The latter are located at Lafayette, Laporte. South Bend, Evansville and Tefro Haute. Mr. Bingham made the regular examination of their affairs and reports them to be in first class condition. A telegram from the department at Washington not to cash money orders purporting to come from Noroton, Cal., was received too late at Valparaiso, and W. 11. Clark, who successfully swindled the postoffices at Canton, M ansfield and Lima, 0., got away with $209, on advices sent by Mrs. W. IL Clark. Inspector Leatherman was placed on the case and Clark was traced to Chicago, where the trail was lost. While this trick was being played at the cities named, the postoffices at Decatur, Springfield, Aurora, Bloomington, Streator and Rock Island were successfully worked in the same manner. Samuel Von Lenox, seven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Lennox, died at Muncie, a few days since, of a very peculiar cause. The ca e completely baffled the medical fraternity, and a postmortem examination was made. It was discovered that a small black bug had been swallowed by the boy, and that it had eateh through his stomach and intestlnes and to the heart. A hole had been eaten into the heart, causing death from loss of blood. The parents recently

moved to Muncie from Hartford City, and they explain that the boy frequently drank from a spring near their home. ville show that there has been a feud between James Spradlin and Wm. Mitchell. The .Mitchells are hard-working, eminently respectable people, having the entire sympathy of the community. Spradlin is twenty-four years ol<> and of good family. The circumstances leading to the killing show that young Henry Mitchell and a boy named Miller were quarreling over the possession of a slate, and William Mitchell, who was near by. told them to stop and quiet down, Spradlin was near at hand and somewhat intoxicated, and ha immediately took sides with the Miller boy. Mitchell then remonstrated with Spradlin, telling him that his interference was not called for. This enraged Spradlin, who used his revolver, firing three shots at Mitchell and striking him in the arm, thigh and abdomen. The fourth and remaining shot he used upon the Mitchell boy. the bullet hitting the lad in the throat and inflicting a wound which resulted fatally. Sprallin fled after the killing, and that night he was sheltered by a relative in the vicinity of Pikeville. The next day he went to the hills. At last accounts scores of men were hunting for the fugitive, determined upon a lynching. Patents were granted to Indiana inventors, Tuesday, asfollows: 8. Bettage, Mariah Hill, folding frame for ironing table; J. W. Bliss and J. C. Erwin, Elkhart, machine for waxing or coating paper; E. W. Bradford. Indianapolis, fountain attachment for pens; A. P. Craig, Michigan City, vehicle axle; T. F. Harrington, Indianapolis, railway mileage ticket; J. P. Kelso, Jackson, wind or current operated wheel; C. M. Kiler, assignor of one-half to H. E. Urmston, Indianapolis, fence: J. C. Morgel, A. T. Ball and £l. M. Nagel, Brazil, broom and brush: E. Neff, Milford, pump for water systems; J. Richey, Evansville, table leg fastening; B. W. Smith. Rockport, railway car brake; J. T. Sollenberger, assignor of one-half to A. A. Charles, Kokomo, apparatus for plugging and topping tomatoes, etc., in cans; T. F. Vandegrift, Shelbyville, belt tightener and shifter; J. J. Weicher, assignor of one-half to G. Haller, Fort Wayne, mail box; C. L. Wheeler, Marion, rail joint; L. Woodard, Muncie, sash fastener An attempt to wreck the west-bound passenger train on the Baltimore & Ohio road, was made, Monday night, near Bremen, at “Big Marsh.” the most desolate spot known to that road. The train was running fifty miles an hour, when the engine struck a large piece of timber. When the train was stopped the timber was found wedged firmly between the trucks of the baggage car. Had the train not been stopped almost instantly six coaches would have been derailed. The passengers were panic-stricken and huddled down to escape the bullets that were expected. Footsteps were heard by Conductor Reid, but owing to the thick underbrush no attempt was made to capture the desperadoes. It is not known whether the attempt at a wreck was made for the purpose of robbery, bi■; the general opinion is that it was the work of a desperate gang that inhabits an island in the center of the marsh. The railroad company now has armed men patrolling the track along the entire border of the marsh. Ed McAtee, the old bachelor near Oatsvillo, who was reported as having been killed outright by Perry Debry, a young desperado, has so far recovered as to be able to talk of the affair. Debry was his guest, and was actuated solely by robbery. While McAtee was in the act of dipping up water out of the river, Debry shot him from the rear, the builet passing through his ear and cheek, and coming out of his chin. McAtee whirled and grabbed the muzzle of the revolver, and the second shot tore through his right hand and entered the arm, ranging up to the elbow. The third shot struck him in the left arm, and as he tried to run away a fourth entered his hip, while a fifth struck him on the side of the head, knocking him down, Before McAtee could regain his feet Debry reloaded his revolver aad again began firing. McAtee again tried to escape, but the fourth shot, making nine altogether which had been fired, struck him iu the shoulder, bringing him down Debry then robbed him of six dollars and walked away. There was strong threats of lynching at the time of Debry's arrest, but the excitement has cooled down. McAtee stands some chance of recovering.

A LECTURER MOBBED.

The A. P. A. In Wisconsin—Lecturer"* Llf Saved by the Sheriff. Maj. Sims, the A. P. A. lecturer, was mobbed at Kaukauna, Wis., 'j hursday night. A mob of 2.000 people collected outside of the hall and stoned the building. Sims and a party of friends barricaded the doors and resisted the assaults of the mob. The sheriff was sent for by Mayor Renter, who also telegraphed for militia, which Governor Peck denied unless asked for by the sheriff. The sheriff’s party dispersed the mob and with the help of local officers escorted Sims to his boarding place. The mob followed, throwing stones. Sims was knocked senseless by a stone, but the officers fought the mob off and got him safely to his lodging. The mob then dispersed. Sims was escorted to a train by three men armed with Winchester rifles and left foi Ashland. Bitter feeling has existed for several months at Kaukauna over the A P. A., and the town is torn up socially and in business by the events.

WTTJ.IAM I, BUCHAWAM. Qf lOWA, NonlnaU-d to bo Minister to the Argon tine. Formerly of Indiana.

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

A hominy trust is incubating. Chicago will have a new race track near Waldheim cemetery. Mrs. Lease will remove to California and engage in fruit raising. Senator Walthall, of Mississipi, has resigned because of ill health. The Illinois World’s Fair buildings has been sold for $1,650 to a Chicago firm. The aggregate number of Columbian stamps issued to postmasters was 1,998, 983C00. The appraisement of the San Francisco property of the late Senator Stanford is fixed at $17,638,319. Thomas North, on his way to the bank with $585 of his employer’s money, was robbed at Hamilton, O. - - ___l Mrs. Denoon, of San Francisco, died from injuries received In the collapse of a folding bed, Thursday. 11l with grip, Mrs. Martha Hanson, of New York,threw herself from a fifth-story window after cutting her throat. In addition to the anti-cigarette ordinance, Emporia, Kas-, will stop allnickle-in-the-slot machines and devices for games of chance. Millard F. Carr, express messenger at Kansas City, dropped his revolver on the floor It exploded and a bullet lodged near his heart. He will die. John Buchner, a negro ex-convict, was hanged by a mob at Manchester, Mo.. Wednesday, for assaults upon a colored woman and a white girl. “Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-aye” was played in the Grand Avenue Methodist church. Sunday, at Dubuque.lowa. and the church is “all tore up” as a result. Pha?be Couzin’s claim of $6,000 as alleged secretary of the board of lady mismanagers of the World’s Fair has been disallowed by Secretary Carlisle. 1 Proceedings were begun in court to contest the election of Mayor Hopkins, of Chicago, Saturday. He is accused of holdingtoffice as a result of gross frauds. The reports of starvation in Manitoba* and the Northwest are verified. Advices state that hundreds of destitute people are walking the streets of Winnipeg. Reports from different Pittsburg mining districts indicate that the miners have failed to obey the general strike order, and the greater number of pits ard working. Miss Moyer, a Louisville seamstress, nursed Frank Lord, a medical student, and when the doctor threatened to send him to a hospital married him to take care of him. 1 President Cleveland has vetoed the North river bridge bill, a pet scheme of Senator Hill’s. It is stated by the friends of the measure that ft will be passed over the veto by a four-fifths vote. Fifteen people were killed and twetv-flve Injure I in a rear end collision on the west side of the Hackensack bridge on the Morris & Essex branch of the Lackawana & Western railroad, Monday The President, Wednesday, sent to the Senate the name of W L. Buchanan, of lowa, to be Minister to Argentine. Mr, Buchanan was formerly an editor in Indiana and removed to lowa in 1875. John S. Dodge, of Chicago, got a pension of $72 a month for total blindness, When the government fpund out that he had done duty as a Columbian Guard at the Worl i’s Fair he was arrested for fraud. -St. Joseph, Mo„ was the, scene of another bold and systematic train robbery, Thursday morning. Five masked men looted the express car and secured all the valuables to an amount unknown. The robbers, escaped. Attorney - General Stockton, of New Jersey, has rendered an-opinion that the Republican Senate of that State is not a legal body. The Republicans have Issued a reply. Efforts at compromise are being made by the contending factions. The Hawaiian minister, Lorin 11. Thurston, ridicules the idea that troops are being collected in Canada to fight for the cause of the deposed Qneen. He also says that the provisional government nas no idea of, sending Minister Willis home. At Carbon Hill. Ala., Bethel Cole found his wife in a room with George Creamer, both asleep. He blew’ out Creamer's brains with a revolver, and then went out and told what he had done. He has not b<en arrested and probably will not be. In response to received from various wool growers’ associations in the We 4. Governor Waite, of Colorado, issued a call for an international wool growers’ convention, to meet at Denver February 5 to tn k uch action on the wooi clause of the Wilson bill as may be deemed necessary. Representative Bland says Secretary Carlisle’s letter urging an immediate issue of bonds raises the bond issue very sharply as against the pending Bland bill to coin the seigniorage. “It is a plain propo--ftion t > run this Government on bonds,” said he. “and in my locality it would damn any administration for all time to come if executed. Ido not think the Secretary has the power to issue bonds under the present law.” The President. Saturday transmitted to Congress additional correspondence between Minister Willis and President Dole, i’here Is nothing of especial imooitance in the letters. Minister Willis seems to f e) insulted because President Dole asked him if he was conspiring to overthrow’ the government to which he was accredited. President Cleveland chaiacterises President Dole's commni.ication as “an extrtordlnary letter.” Henry B.’ Ives, who in the thirty-two years of his life has been president of five railroads, failed for $19,001,009, settled for 5 cents on the dollar, and spent twelve months and one day in the Ludlow street jail for debtors at New York, has returned from his Elba and is again the young Napoleon of finance. By a deal In Broadway Surface Railway stock, completed Tuesday, Mr. Ivos has Secured a profit of $3,000,0C0. Frank Kay and wife, who live at Crafton, a Pittsburg suburb, have two pretty children who are slightly older than President Cleveland’s babies, and who by a strange coincidence r< ceived th i names of Ruth and Esther before the White lLuie children. Mr, Kay has written the President Informing him of the conincldence arid has received from Private Secretary Thurber a pleasant note expressing the solicitude of Mrs Cleveland and the President for the welfare of his ch i Idren. The bottom, so to speak, will drop out of the telephone after the 30th of this month, and they should become as common in business offices as hat racks and almost as

cheap. If, however, you wish a telepboM for general use and have to depend on the exchange, yon will still be at the mercy of the Bell company, at least for some time to come. It is said that In New York and other large cities manufacturers of electrical apparatus are looking for a big boom in the telephone trade. A large number have been made, and these will be put on the market January 31. Gov. Mitchell, of Florida, having announced that the Corbett-Mitchell prize fight; Jan. 25, will not be permitted to take place at Jacksonville nor in the State If in his power to prevent it, and having notified various militia companies to report for duty at Jacksonville on that date to preserve the peace, a mass meeting of indignant citizens was held at Jacksonville, Tuesday night, at which resolutions Renouncing the Governor’s course were passed. The preparations for the proposed mill continue and trouble may result, FOREIGN. There Is a cabinet crisis in Servla. President Peixoto, of Brazil, is said to have resigned. The German minister of agriculture wants silver restored. The great mosque at Damascus, nnder which the head of John the Baptist was buried, has been burned. The King of Denmark and Prince Waldemar have got la grippe. Emperor William opened the Prussian Diet at Berlin, Tuesday. The Bank of England’s rate of discount remains unchanged at 3 per cent. Germany will have a deficit of over seventy million marks for the year. The brutality of the Berlin police in dealing with street crowds will be made a subject of investigation by the Reichstag, Gen. Emile Melinet, the father of the French army, is dead. He was born in 1798, and was a son of a General of the Empire. The propaganda at Rome has refused to take any action on the petition of the creditors of the late Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati. Agents of the Hawaiian royalists are said to be organizing a company of soldiers at Vancouver to go to Honolulu and restore the Queen, but it is thought the scheme will fall through. A battle between Italian troops and an armed force of Anarchists took place in the hills near Tirano. Italy, Tuesday. Eight men were killed and forty or fifty injured in the fight.

THE BENDERS OUTDONE.

Horrible Cons e>g!on of a Milwaukee Hotel Keeper. The Cream City Hotel at Milwaukee took fire mysteriously on the mornning of Jan. 12. The only guest was Mrs. Anna Schrums, aged >0 whose charred remains were found in the hall. Investigation led to the conclusion that the fire was of incendiary origin and the proprietor, R. J. Peschman, was arrested. After close questioning he finally confessed as follows: “I had been watching this woman, and I thought I would get the money she had for my boy. Thursday night when she went to a toilet-room I watch id her. When she camo back I took her by the throat and choked her. She fell down. I tied her hands and feet and went to search the room. I broke open the trunk in which I thought she kept her money, but I did not find any. She commenced to breathe again, and I went back and choked her again until she was quiet. I went down stairs and told my wife that I thought Mrs. Schrums was dead. I said: “Mrs. Schrums is dead; we had better go up and get all we can." My wife refused to go with me, so I went up again. I took the silk dresses and such things as I found and carried them down to my wife. I could not get all the stuff back into the boxes, and they were all broken open. That would look suspicious, I thought, so 1 thought then I would burn it. I set fire near the bed and threw the lamp, which was burning and I rushed out.

“I did not find any money or any chango except 75 or 80 cents in a, small pocketbook. If I had had the money I would have let the building burn down entirely, but I watched it. I did not want to lose all my furniture and I went out and gave the alarm. But for that I would have let it burn down entirely, so they could only find the bones. I did not find the money. I have been thinking that I have got into ail this trouble and that Dr. Kasten will get the monoy. I think the Doctor will find the money in the dry goods boxes. My wife lots of times asked me to give np the house, but I was always watching for the money. I thought that Mrs. Schrums would die and then I would get the money. I had put in S2O extra every month for running the house. “The way I managed the fire I broke the lamp right where the big hole is for a furnace pipe and the kerosene ran down, and in that way it got afire. The fire started right under the bed and the kerosene ran down below. You sec the firemen that had been twenty years on the force and had never seen fire run downward were foolish. I was laughing about that." Mrs. Schrum. tho victim, was an eccentric character, known to have considerable wealth hidden away, and who refused to live with her relatives because of family troubles. A small tin pail weighted with shot was faund in a vault in the rear of the house of Pescb man’s mother. Thursday. It contained diamonds and jewelry, supposed to be the property of the murdered woman, valued at $3,000.

LOAN THEIR EMPLOYER $50,000.

A Glaw-Worker*’ Aa'oclatloa Doe* an Unusual Thing. Friday night, at a meeting of Local Assembly 303, Window-Glass-Workers’ Association, at .Pittsburgh the application ol James A. Chambers fora loan of 150,0(C was finally passed upon and approved, and the money w.ll be advanced when the attorney of the association passes on the security offered. This is the first case, probably. In the world whore a labor union has been cd ed upon to loan money to an i employer Mr Chambers’ application has I been in since early in November, and on 1 the securing of the money depended the continuation of the Chambers plant at Kingston. A religious wave has struck Edinburg and alt the churches are holding protracted meetings.

IOWA’S NEW SENATOR.

Ex Governor Gear the Republican CaneA Nomine*. The Republican caucus to nominate a candidate for United States Senator from lowa met at Des Moines, Monday night Seven candidates were voted for. Ex-Gov. Gear received the nomination on the third ballot A formal ballot was bad In the

JOHN HENRY GEAR

Senate and House, Tuesday. In the Senate Gear received 33 votes to Boies’ 11. In the H >use—Gear 77, Boies 17, Butler 1. The vote was canvassed. Wednesday, and Mr. Gear declared United States Senator from lowa. The new Senator was born In Ithica, New York, in 1825. He has served seveial terms in Congress, and was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for a brief period in 1892.

WARNING TO POKER PLAYERS.

Four Young Men Badly Inju. od While Gambling on Sunday. 4 Four yonng men named Robert. Allback, Lan Inger and Kncaid, at Wellsville, 0., went to a quit place on the hillside under an overhanging rock, ana. after building a fire, be ran their usual Sunday recreation of poker playing. Abont 4 o’clock the rock gave way and all four were.caught bc.ieath it. Both Aliback’s legs were brokeu at the thigh and his head badly cat. He will die. Laninger was hurt internally and cannot recover. Roberts has a broken leg and was cut about the arms. "Kincaid’s arm was broken and he was cut abont the body. The young men conld not be rescued until the rock had been broken to pieces.

MOUSE AND LION.

K. of L. Will Petition for Bn Injunction ■ Restraining Secretary Carlisle from Issuing Bonds. General Master Workman Sovereign ol the K. of L. was interviewed at Des Moines, lowa, Friday, regarding the proposed injunction proceedings against Secretary Carlisle to restrain him from Is<ufng the proposed scries of bonds. He said: It may be a good deal like a mouse tackling a lion, but wo are going to do it. The petition praying lor an injunction to restrain the Secretary of the Treasury ol the United States from issuing bonds in the sum of $50.0(0 0 X) or any other emonnt will be drawn here by Judge Cole, will be sworn to by Mr. Sovereign and sent to Washington to be filed in the United States Circuit Court for the District ol Columbia, the first of next week. It was thought at first that Mr. Carlisle could be enjoined in the Circuit Court here, but It was found too late that the injunction proceedings must begin against the person defendant at his domicile. Washington being the home of Mr. Carlisle the suit has to be brought there.”

A YOUNG SWINDLER AT LARGE.

A swindler, who has been operating extensively in Indiana during the past few months, successfully worked Crawfordsville parties Wednesday evening. He is a young German, and claims to be an agent for electrical apparatus. In Crawfordsville he traveled under the name of Ottman, and at Barnhill <t Hornady’s store he attempted to pass a forged check for $35, with the name of Henry Alfrey. the lumberman, attached. It was refused, and Ottman. leaving, went to Otto's jewelry store, where he purchased a twenty dollai watch, and received sls in change for ths worthless paper. He escaped undetected.

THE MARKETS.

Jac. 22. 18M. Indianapolis. GRAIN AND HAT. Wheat, 57c; corn. 35c; oats, rO’fc; hay, choice timothy. $12.50; No. 1,$11; No. 2. $9.50: No. 1 prairie. $6.75; mixed, 18; clover. $9; rye, No. 2,45 c; bran, sl2. LIVE STOCK. Cattle—Shippers, $3.7504.40; heifers. $1.54X02.75; cows, $2403.25; veals. *3(05.5); bulls. $1.50(03.03; milkers, sls.ft)3sPl(X). H0g5—54(05.45; sheep—common to choice, $1.50(03, tucks, $2(03. POULTRY AND OTHER PRODUCE. (Prices Paid by Dealers.) Poultry chickens, lie per ft; turkeys, toms, 5c pel lb; hens, 7c per lb; fancy fat young tom turkeys. Cc; small and poor sc; ducks, 6c. (»er lb; geese, $4.23.01.80 per doz. for choice; rabbits. 80c per doz. Eggs—Shippers paying lie. Butter—Choice. 12c: mixed, 6@loe. Hose y—N e w,-lfl(0 isc Feathers—Prime geese, 40c per lb; mixed duck, 20c per ft. Beeswax—2oc for yellow; 13c for dark. Wool—Unwashed medium wool, 16c; unwashed coarse or braid, 13@14c; unwashed tine merino. 10013 c; tub-washed, 184023 c; burry and cotted wool, 3 to 6c leal than above prices. Hides —No. 1 green hides, 2Xc; No. 1 G. S. Hides. 31ic; No. 2G. S. hi les, No. 1 calf hides, sc; No. 2 calf bides, 3><e. Tallow—No. 1 tallow, 4%c: No. 2 tallow. 4c. Chicago Wheat—39%c: cornu 3V*e: oate, 20c; pork, $13.40; lard, ss: ribs. . New Tor «. Wheat—6s%c; corn. 41>*e; oats. 32?£e Elgin butter, 25Xc; eggs, Southern, Ide. P.Utladelphkv • Wheat—6s>*c; corn. 43c; «>ats. Tie. _______ Baltimore. Wheat—64c; coni, 40J<c; oats, 34. hi. Loas4. Wheat—s6Xc; corn,32!<c; hogs, $5.0X02 5.40. Mlnneaioll*. Wheat—No. 1 hard. <3o’<a Toledo. Wheat—63c; corn. 35c: oati, 20c. CiaciuuaiL Wheat-tS'Jc; corn. 35 oats, 31e: pork, sl4; lard, $7.95; eggs, 13c. Detroit. "Wheat—so.^; com. 35?<c; oats, Buffalo. .. Cattle—l4.ooo4.B >: hogs, $5.55®X80. EastUMrky. - noGB-J5.3535.5Q.