Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1894 — Page 2

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

There is likely to be bloodshed in BreckWfcfge’s Congressional district. Bnow fell to the depth of six inches in various parts of Kentucky, Sunday. A miner named Glover, who refused to strike at Birmingham, Ala., was as- . ~ ~TT" 2 —' ■ ■ ; ~ Two deputy sheriffs wounded in a fight with the Dalton gang at Yukon, O. T., have since died. Governor Northen, of Georgia, has been elected president of the American Baptist Educational Society. At Dorseyville, La., Adolph Block and Tales Lake engaged in a gun fight with a ■negro and all three were killed. . Congressman Breckinridge has practically accepted the invitation to deliver the Fourth of July address at Fulton, 111.

North Dakota will have a wheat acreage of four million to harvest next fall *nd the estimate is fifty million bushels. While attempting to rescue the crew of the waterlogged schooner William Shupe four sailors were drowned near Port Huron, Mich. It is stated that M. C. McDonald, the well known Chicago sporting man, is a candidate for Congress to succeed Allan •CL Durburrow. John Schindler, of San Francisco, supposed to be dead thirty-five years,returned to St, Joseph, Mo., and claimed a fortune left by his father. The Rev. Mr. Hooper, a Presbyterian minister at Cadillac, Mich., was horsewhipped on the street by Mrs. G. Miiler for alleged slander. A' riot was nearly precipitated in Racine, Wisconsin, by the opening of a barber shop on Sunday. Other barbers went in a body to the shop and threatened to ■prosecute the perpetrators. The State Department has granted per--misslomto to cross the bonier with arms and equipments and participate in the Fourth of July celebration at Seattle, Wash. Charles W. Harris, the father of Carlisle W. Harris, who was put to death at Sing Sing, about a year ago. for the murder of his girl wife, Helen Pitts, has bo-

come violently insane from grief over his son’s fate. IHs now stated that the Wiiito CrossSocial Purity League furnished Miss Pollard the money necessary to prosecute her suit against Col. Breckinridge. The judgment against Brer kin-ridge cannot be collected if it should be finally sustained. Armor plate submitted by the Bethlehem Steel Company to the naval authorities forthenew battleship Indiana, proved deficient at a test made on the 19th, at Washington. The plate submitted was of Harveyized nickel steel, sixteen feet long and seven and one-half feet high, and ranging from 18 to 42 inches in thickness. It weighed thirty-three and one-quarjer tons. It was backed l>y tliirtv-six inches of solid oak against a hill side. The first Shot from a Carpenter gun pierced; a hole and cracked the plate so bad that it was

ruined. , , ' - At a meeting at Lexington, Ky., Tuesday, of the Confederate Veterans’ .. AssfleiatiflilAnd its auxiliary, called to arrange for decorating the gravis of Confederates on Mav 26. quite a sensation was created. Mrs. A. M. Harrison, member of the auxiliary, and wives of other leading and wealthy citizens, made addresses and - said they would wot- place mflower on the grave of a single confederate unless th association expelled Colonel Breckinridge. The meeting adjourned amid confusion. Officers of the association say they can not expel Breckinridge, and the Women declare they will not take part in the exercises.

FOREIGN.

President Pcixoto announces that the differences between Brazil and Portugal have been amicably settled, Isaac Pittman, the originator of the system of shorthand which bears his name, has been knighted by Queen Victoria, Late advices from China report that on April J. a great fire broke out in the city of Schuching, and 2,500 houses were destroyed. _ Six anarchists, convicted of complicity with Pallas to assassinate Gen. Campos, at Barcelona. Spain, were shot at that place, Monday. The great Manchester ship canal was formally opened by Queen Victoria, Monday. Her Majesty arrived at 4:30 p. m. and drove through eight miles of the principal thoroughfares, which were lavishly decorated in honor of the event. King Alexander, of Servia, has suspended the Constitution and restored the one of 1860. He denounced the existing Constitution in a proclamation. He also appointed a new Council of State. It is reported at Berlin thatex-Chancel-lor Leist, the German official who is charged with many atrocities during his administration of the Cameroons colony, West Africa, has fled from the Cameroons, and that he is now on his way to the United States. 4 There is a revolution in Corea. Forty government officials have already been seized and put to death. The rebels are rapidly gaining strength, and it is feared that the government will be overthrown and all criminals set free. The volcano on the island of Stromboli, one of the Sipari islands, lying to the north of Sicily, is showing great activity. The eruption is increasing in violence, and there are frequent earthquakes. The people living on the island have left their houses in terror. Sir George R. Dibbs, Premier of New South Wales, in a speech at Tamworth, declared that the government would adhere to the policy of protection. He' said he objected to a plan of federation which -would involve seperato Australian States. In such a scheme lay the germ of a disturbance similar to that which occurred in the United States between the Northern and Southern States. One Parliament and one Governor would suffice for the whole of Australia, but the Change must not increase the burden of taxpayers. Sir George said he would shortly aubmit to Parliament a scheme embodying this proposition. i

THE HAWAIIAN REPUBLIC.

Latest advices from Honolulu, dated Mav 16, state that the constitutional convention for the new republic will convene. May 30. The new govern meet 18 to be caJlcd the Republic of Hawaii. The executive power will be vested in the presi4ent. The executive council will consist

ot five members instead of four as at present, a minister of health and education being added. The upper house will consist of fifteen senators. Senators must be thirty years old, able to read and write Eriglish, shall have resided in the- islands three years., own property not less than $5,000 m~value. and have an income of $1,200 a year. The Assembly, or lower House, is to consist of fifteen members, six from Oahu and three each from the other islands. They will serve two years only, A member of the assembly must be a citizen of Hawaii, or of any country which has treaty relations with Hawaii, and has resided in the islands for at least a year. Members of both houses are to receive $409 for each session. About "3,750 votes were cast at the recent elections. There was little opposition in any of the islands. The claim is now made that when the republic is declared the natives will make the looked-for uprising.

COXEY CONDENSED.

Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Commonweal. Brief Items Concerning the Various Divisions. Coxey, Browne and Jones, in the Washington police court, Monday, were each sentenced to twenty days’ imprisonment in. Jail Jar display ing a banner 4n the capitol grounds at their May day demonstration. Coxey and Browne were also fined $5 or ten days’ imprisonment in default thereof for trespassing on the capitol grounds. Coxey has issued an appeal for money and Supplies. Randall’s army left Ft. Wayne, Monday morning. Their stay in the Summit City was pleasant, and they were treated with great hospitality. Kelley’s fleet reached Quincy, 111., Mon-

An influx of Coxey ites is expected at Great Falls, Mont. Thirty of the gang of Coxeyites which started from Minneapolis ten daysTSgo reached Onalaska, Wis. Labor unions of Kansas City are offering Commonwoalcrs’ army aid and Gen. Sanders says, .his men will march to that city some day this week. After being sentenced Monday Coxey, Browne and Jones were taken to the common jail in the Black Maria. Coxey was very pale and apparently dumbfoll n 1 led. Jones was so shocked that he could say nothing. Fitzgerald’s delegates to the number oi forty-three reached Washington, Tuesday, and took lodging in a negro church. Fry’s army marched into Cincinnati in triumph, Tuesday, in spite of the efforts to keep them out. At Cheyenne, Wyo., Wednesday, in the United States court, B. F. Hughs, R. A. Wood and Chas, O’Brien, commonweal leaders, who stole a train at Montpelier, were sentenced to five months imprisonment in jail, Twelve others were sentenced to four months imprisonment.

AN UNCROWNED KING.

Powderly, Wright and Quinn Excelled From the Knights of Labor. The Philadelphia correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch says: “Terrence V, Powderly, ex-general master workman oj the Knights of Labor, or. as he was recently termed, ‘The Uncrowned King of the Workingmen,’ A. W. Wright, of Toronto, Canada, ex-member of the general executive board of the Knights, and P. 11. Quinn, master workman of District Assembly 99, an ardent supporter of Powderly, have been unceremoniously expelled from the Knights o-f Labor. The cause of the expulsion is said to be the discovery’of the fact that these nmr have been secretly plotting and working to bring about the downfall of the new officials of the Knights. Evidence of this was presented to the board at the meeting held in Boston, continuing from Monday until Friday of last week. The charges against all three of the malcontents were secretly investigated, and, as a consequence, letters were mailed advising them of the charges against them, and it within fifteen days they do not make satisfactory answer to the general executivt board they would stand expelled, subjeci only to appeal to the General Assembly next fall.

LITTLE RUTH CLEVELAND.

A Cruel and Baseless Rumor That She If Deficient Mentally. A Washington special says: Mr. Hoke Smith has made an emphatic denial of the report that Ruth Cleveland, the President’s eldest daughter, is deficient mentally. This rumor has been whispered about Washington for the last two months without the slightest foundation. Ruth Cleveland be an unusually bright and interesting child- She has been taking German for several months and can utter a few words distinctly in German an dEnglish. She is not handsome, but if as bright and quick witted as the average child of her years. Nearly as long ago as eight weeks a prominent Western Congressman, accompanied by his wife and a friend, were received by the President by special appointment. Mr. Cleveland discussed the children with his callers and related a number of incidents to illustrate the brightness of Ruth. He referred them to the report that had been circulated about his little daughter, and spoke how thankful he was that his children were so perfect mentally and physically.

KEYSTONE REPUBLICANS.

Tho Pennsylvania State Republican convention met at Harrisburg, Wednesday. and nominated the following ticketFor Governor —Gen. Daniel 11. Ha stings Lieutenant Governor—Walter Lyon, ol Allegheny county. Auditor—Gen. Amos Mylin, of Lancaster.

Secretary of Internal Affairs—James W Latta, of Philadelphia. Congressmen at Large —Galusha A. Grow and George W. Huff, the latter <k Westmoreland county. A lengthy platform was adopted favoring the expansion of the currency till ii shall reach 140 per capita; favoring bimetalism; reaffirming devotion to the American system and principle of protection; denouncing the selection of a Southern Secretary of the Interior as a deliberate betrayal of our soldiers; dee nounclng the present tldmiuistration incapable.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Valparaiso has a Hindoo physician. Greenfield’s school enumeration is 1.530. Goodbye is the name of a new postoffice in Clark county. Worms are destroying celery plants in northern Indiana. —| —— New Normal School-building, Columbuf,.will cost $20,000. The Baptists at Elizaville will expend $5,000 in a church building. 1 Sheridan wiH have a new hoop factory. Forty men will be employed. A genuine suicide club is said to have been organized at New Albany. There is a man living ,in Wanatah who has a fit everytime lie visits Michigan tlity. ___ _• A Deputy dog chews tobacco and the village is proud- of the phenomenal “torp.” A resident of Elk hart-county named Jake Leaftobacco, neither smokes, chews or uses snuff. The Whisky Trust distillery at Terre Haute will close down June 1 and the cattle Will be shipped away.

The municipal tangle at Terre Haute continues, the old -off]eers refusing to surrender nntil-September. The McCoy lamp chimney factory at Elwood has closed down for the season. Its warehouse is filled with stock. Moses Simmons, 70. feil asleep on the Tailroad track near Surn'mitville," Satur-' day night. Dead body found Sunday. Wayne is one of the richest counties in the State, as is shown by the first installment of taxes. The amount collected was $238,777.94. 6The Populist congressional convention for the Seventh district, at Indianapolis, Wednesday, nominated Thomas S. East, of Delaware county. Two pastors at Chesterton refused to conduct exercises on Memorial Day unless theG. A. R. post would pledge itself riot to give a dance July 4. 4The Indiana Electric Railway Company has acquired control of the Goshen street railway franchise, and will extend the line to Elkhart and New Paris, The word has reached V alparaiso that Congressman Hammond has concluded to submit his name to the Democracy of the Tenth District for renomination, A Brazil man picked up $25 the other day and after a day’s search found the owner, who was mad because the finder had not returned the, money sooner. ’ The scarcity of coal in other industrial districts is proving a bonanza for the gas belt. All of the iron, steel and glass producers .are working to full capacity. A Noblesville wife got a divorpe recently because her husband threw the baby at her when she hit him with the coal bucket for spitting on the wood. A Muncie man gave a beggar 50 cents to keep him from starving, the other day. He went.to the ball, game and found Mr. Beggar occupying a grand-stand seat. Frank O. .Stannard, the accomplice of Juror Armstrong, out on bond, of $4,000, has disappeared from Lawre.ncO county, and is- believed to have fled the country. A Cherubusco woman has been released because the husband did not provide the necessaries" of "life, saying that he would not work his toenails off for any woman. Owing to carelessness of the East Germantown election board in not certifying to the. town clerk Hie. . rexult,.of w the ejection the old defeated council will continue

in office. William Selking, one of the most prosperous and best known saloonkeepers in Indianapolis, took morphine with suicidal intent, Monday morning and died Tuesday night. People near Rochester are indignant at Dr. Metcalf, secretary of the State Board of Health, because he charged the Rochester health officers with negligence regarding smallpox. A young woman in a JVinamac drug store refused to pay for a soda water strer drank because the clerk remarked, when she said she thought it wasso cooling: “I do, too. “It's soda-lightful.” Dr. Burroughs, of Shannondale, while boring for water, struck an artesian well with an inexhaustible supply, The villagers thereupon erected a huge tank, and all are now supplied without cost. 6The bond of the city marshal of Clarks_-_ ville has always been 8500. Recently a Republican was elected to the office, whereupon the Democratic City Council increased the bond to $7,0J0. The new man gave it. ' Terre Haute wifi celebrate “Uncle Dick’’ Thompson’s eighty fifth birthday, June 9, in a public manner.- Many distinguished people are expected to be present and a demonstration befitting the occasion will be made.

Councilman Jackson, Kokomo, has come into possession 6f an-old deed dated Nov. 15,1786. and signed by Patrick Henry, then Governor of Virginia, conveying to Jackson's ancestors 15,000 acres of land near the Ohio river. The Council of Terre Haute has decided to refer the contentions arising out of the McHugh bill to ex-Supreme Judge Elliott and abide by his rulings. The city now has two sets of officers, the Democrats claiming the right to hold until September.

A Wabash jury rendered a verdict for $1,050 in the damage suit of Marion Webb against the Wabash Paper Company. Eighteen months ago Charles Webb, son of the plaintiff, was caght in the machinery and had his leg so badly crushed that he will lose it. 8 The donation of 81.000,000 to tho North Manchester college by an unknown philanthropist, who was vouched for by Professor Krebhiel, of Butler, is noWbelieved to have b 'on a hoax, as no cash has been realized, although all the conditions were complied with. 6John H. Graham, who was supposed to have been drowned in the great flood at Johnstown, Pa., in 1889, suudenly reappeared at his old home in Boston this week. He found that Mrs. Graham had remarried during his absence and that her second husband was dead. A reconciliation was had.

The Indiana Window Glass Manufacturing Association has completed the plan looking to an agency to handle the combined product of all the factories. I. H. Vandeventer, of Anderson, is appointed agent, and A. K. Smith, of Muncie, R. Hageny, of Hartford City, and B. F. Burke, of Marion, were elected trustees of the organization. The mortuary fn and about the court house at Columbus during the last |wo years has been verv great. The wives vs

County Clerk William H.Fulwilder, County Auditor George Pence, the grown daughters of Sheriff Isaac Lucas, Recorder William Klepsch and Treasurer Walker and thd mother-in-law of County Copimissioner James 11. Kytee. have all died. The decomposed body of an unknown woman was found in a swamp near Fort Wayne. Thursday- LLextakull was crushed in, her clothing torn from the body and her hair pulled out. It is the supposition that the woman was a tramp and fell ip with some male members of the profession who assaulted her and then murdered her to shield themselves. There is a movement in the counties of Spencer, Warrick and Perry by the G. A. R. to purchase ten acres of ground adjoining the Lincoln City cemetery, where Nancy Hanks, the mother of President Lincoln, is buried, to be converted into a permanent camping ground for reunion purposes. It has been suggested that it be dedicated as Nancy Hanks Park. 7 The United States glass factory at Gas City will start its big factory next week. This factory, which is the largest flintglass factory in the gas belt, has been idle since last June on account of a strike. It is now proposed to start with non-union labor, and a boarding house up within the factory for use. The old ein pl oy es de cl are th a t the works sh all not run without their help, and trouble is expected. On the 12th of July, 1892, IVilliam Lewis, of Frankfort,va- aei'ident-ally-shot-in the neck by his sweetheart, the bullet breaking the spinal column. Wednesday Mr.

Lewis was removed from the hospital to his home. His head is encased in a rigid steel frame, which extends down the back, and he bids fair to live for years. Mr. Lewis and sweetheart were to have been married on the dayjhe was shot, themarriage license having already been procured. Kokomo is the home of Rev. Hayden ycaTT’ot age. He has been in the ministry sixty years, and during that time has married 1,20 C couples according to his record. He claims that out of the 1,200 couples but four or five failed tor stick together, and there have been but three dtvorcesr Father Rayburn retired from the. active ministry of the M. E. Church ten years ago, but still enjoys a good matrimonial patronage. Republicans at Laporte are dejected and Democrats are jubilant because the new Republican officials, elected at the recent election, failed to qualify within five days, as required by law. The men who failed to qualify can be fined $lO each and their action is claimed to have disqualified them for holding the offices to which they w.cro elected. The matter will be referred to the Attorney-General. The Republican ticket was,successful for the first time in twenty years in Laporte at the last election and Republicans are much depressed over the neglect of their candidates to comply with the law. An excursion of unique interest will leave Anderson on the 4th of next month for a visit to Richmond, Norfolk, Virginia Beach, the national capital and other points of historic interest. It will be composed of the high school and pupils of the eighth year of the other schools. and it is intended to be the inauguration of a system of.teaching history and. geography in the public schools by ocular demonstr?stration and personal inspection. While at,. Washington eight executive, departments of the Government will be in-

spected and explained, and Congress wilj be used as a school for the inculcation ol national politics, legislation and general statesmanship. W. C. Osborn, of Kokomo, has returned from a month’s visit to Hawaii. He reports that the Americans are masters of the situation, but that they are not unanimous in supporting President Dole Some of the Americans favor a restoration of the Queen; others annexation to the United States, but the majority are inclined to an independent republic. The objection to annexation is that it would do away with the contract labor system. At the recent constitutional election less than one-third of the voters registered, and the vote tvas less, showing that bul little interest was taken in the election The natives are for the Queen, _ The General Assembly of the Presby terian church, in session ,at Saratoga, N. Y„ by a decisive vote has resolved that the Assembly will continue to control the theological seminaries.

THE MARKETS.

May 26, 1891. Indianapolis. GRAIN AND HAY. Wheat—slc; corn, oats, hay, choice timothy, $ll.OO. LIVE STOCK. Cattle Shippers, $2.85'®3.90: Stockers, [email protected]; heifers. $2.00i®3 4 35l cowSy $1(®3.25; veals, $2.50 $4,5Q; bulls, $1.75(52.85; milkers, Hogs—[email protected]. Sh e e 1’—83.25(2)4.00, POULTRY AND OTHER PRODUCE. (Prices Paid by Shippers.) per tt>;spring chickens, 1894,12(_515c per lb; turkeys, old toms, 3c per tb: hens, 6c per it>; ducks, 6c per 15; geese.B4.2o(<i4.Bo per doz. for choice. Eggs—Shippers are paying BX(s9c. Butter —Choice, 6(gjSc; common, 3@4c. Honey—l6.slßc* Feathers—Prime geese, 40c per tt>; mixed duek. 20c per tt>. Beeswax—2oc for yellow: 15c for dark. Wool —Tub-washed, 20$23ct medium unwashed,l3@lsc; coarse or braid, 12(514c; fine nierjnq, 9($10c; burry and- cotied ■’•Wool. 8($I0. Hides—No. 1 green hides. 2Xc; No. 1 G. S. hides, 3&C; No, 2 G. S. hides, 2>,'c; No. 1 calf hides, sc; No. calf hides, 3J£c.

Cb ica go. Wheat—ss%c, corn; 37c: oats. 33l£c; pork, $11.82* s ; lard. $7.12'4. Cattie— Native steees, $4.2.5(04.40; sheep, $1,3004.80. New York. Wheat—s3/Xc; corn, 43J£c; oats, 394 c. Baltimore. Wheat—33c; corn, 44jfc; oats, western, 41c. Mlnneapnlift. Wheat—No. 1 hard, '6ls£c, St. Louis. Wheat—s2%c; corn, 371<c; oats, Philadelphia. Wheat—s7%c; corn, 4251 c; oats, 42 c, - Cincinnati. Wheat-52c; corn, 42c; oats, 38%c; pork, $12.00. Toledo. Wheat—ssc; corn, 39Xc; oats, 36c. Buffalo, Cattle Primo steers, $4,40(04.50. H0g5—55.05(!?'5..10. Sheep [email protected]. , East Liberty. Cattle—Prime steers, $4.8004.50; Hogs ■—Best, SS.I(V-. 16.

THE STATE WON

The Great Tax Case Before the ,U. S. Su--7; : pretne Court. The U. S. Supreme Court, Saturday, rendered a decision in the Indiana tax cases, deciding tnTavor of the State.-~Tbe suit was -Itrough-t by theaside the assessments made against them. There were but two dissenting opinions. The case was bitterly contested. The railroads pleaded poverty and alleged that that the taxes were exorbitant and unconstitutional. Attorney-General Smith and Attorneys Kern, Ketcham and Beveridge appeared before the Supreme Court for the State, while the railroads were represented by Attorneys Butler, Dye and Pickens. About $15,003,030 in taxes for the years 1891.189? and 1893 is affected by this decision. Of this amount about $12,000,003 has beeiF^iHllnta by the railroads. Some of the companies have paid their taxes in full under the rule of tlie State Tax Commission, others have paid two-thirds or one-half of their amounts, and others-have-not paid anything. -To the total amount affected could be added about $1,00(7,000, which would represent the pen al ty attached by the Auditor of State for delinquincy. Some of the money has passed through the hands of the State and has been paid on the debt. A portion of it is yet in the -hands of the- counties;-having--been—paid in under protest. To learn the amount paid by each railroad it would be necessary for county officers of the ninety-two counties to make reports. Added to the importance of the decision is the fact that other States have adopted* the Indiana laws for assessment, which makes the ruling of as much interest to these States as it is in Indiana.

INDIANAPOLIS BANK WRECKERS.

The Coffins and Bookkeeper Reed Held Guilty. The trial of Francis A. Coffin, Percival B. Coffin and Albert S. Reed, of the Indianapolis Cabinet Company, for conspir acy to defraud the Indianapolis National Bank, in the United States Court at Indianapolis, came to an end, Saturday] The jury retired and after a consultation of eighteen hours a verdict was agreed upon ami sealed, ■ At 9 a. m.. Monday.the jury was brought Into court and ren- . dered their verdict as follows: “Wo the jury find the defendants guilty as charged in the indictment.” The defendants’ attorneys made a motion for a new trial and Judge Baker set Monday, June 4, as a time, to hear the arguments. The defendants were then released on bond. F. A. Coffin's bond was raised to $25,003; P. B. Coffin’s to $1'2,500; Reed’s was continued as before. The verdict was anticipated, and created no surprise at Indianapolis, even to the defendants. - ... -

CAREWORN CARLISLE.

Great Anxiety of the Treasury Officials. The present depleted condition of the Treasury and the'discouraging outlook for thq future are a source of considerable anxiety to the officials of the Treasury Department. Already th-e,gat<l,rqaPty,e.. which had been brought up by the last bond issuo to 8103.350,845; has been reduced byexportations since March 10 to less than 880.003,000, with no indication that the foreign demand will cease until it has reached a much lower point. With the exception of the gold reserve, and counting every available dollar in the vaults of the Treasury, the Government to-day has less than 880,000,100 with which to meet obligations. Nor does the future show any signs of encouragement. On the contrary, the. probable deficit of 86,090,603 for the month of May is likely to be increased by 815,0 0,000 during the two succeeding months.- The closest calculation that can .nowdSo made shows that the deficit for the fiscal year ending June 30 will be approximately 874,500.000.

AN IMPERIAL UKASE.

A special dispatch to the London Times from St. Petersburg says: “The most important reform of a retrogressive and centralizing character yet executed by the .present Czar in the administration is announced in an imperial ukase bearing date of May 18. The ukase has struck the entire, Russian official world with consternation. The ukase. deprives all the minis-, ters, governors and otherHiigh dignitaries of the power they have hitherto freely exercised of appointing and dismissing their officials, subordinates of all classes and establishes under the Czar’s direct supervision, the special committee of control which has existed for years under Czar Nicholas.

Thomas Prescott, who lived about ten miles north of Columbia City, met a violent death, Friday afternoon. He was working in Mr. Rous’s sawmill, and while employed in the pit his head camo in contact with the saw and was sawed almost in two. He was forty years old and leaves three children, his wife havingdied in the asylum for tho insane about a year ago.

Little Jennie Creek, the mere child who saved the lives of a World’s Fair trainload of passengers on the P. C. C. & St, L. railroad a mile from Millgrove station on Sept. 10.1893. has been decorated by the French Society of the Legion of Honor. Her medal arrived, Thursday, and the little mhiden.now wears it with all the dignity of a tattlefield hero. It is a sixpointed star of solid gold, highly wrought, bearing the mqtto of the French Society, the name of tho little heroine and the deed for which she is honored. 11. F. Wilkie, a prominent real estate dealer at Elwood, has left for unknown parts to avoid prosecutions said to be impending for crookedness. D. P. Erwin, proprietor of the Denison hotel, Indianapolis, has written a letter to R. B. Bagsby. attorney for Chas. 11. Stewart, the colored man ejected from the hotel elevator during the Republican State convention, apologizing for the indignity and sstating that tho employe, who ejected Stewart, had been discharged. Mr. Erwin also paid Stewart S3OO damages. Miss Anna Howard was killed by lightning at Muncie. Sunday. Young Man—l wish your opinion, sir, as to whether your daughter would make me-a good wife? Lawyer—No, sir, slid would noL Five dollars, please.

WINGED MISSILES.

Emile Zcla does most of his work after midnight -He might better be sleeping. Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria is very much hurt because he has not had the grip. Engagement rings are in danger. The midlock bracelets are trying to supplant ;hem. Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain bv<(»ts that ffie is-more iu debt than any woman-in Europe. John Thompson, of Williamsport, suffered from aa attack of hiccoughs which lasted for a week. Prince Bismarck has a presentiment that he will reach the age of the late Emperor William. The Welsh for bear is cwrw. Patti does ict speak Welsh, but they say sha can say ■‘ewrw ” very sweetly. If Benjamin F. Batler’3 good taste were is great as the bitterness of his tongue he would be a more popular man. There are 300,00 J telephones in this country. Rents are high and dividends ire large. Success is success. They tell of a man out in California who has green whiskersln . his case,..and his. mly,-dying would be-permissible. -There are said to be more than 403 iron furnace; in the South west. A q uarler of a century ago there were none. “vVe grow!” Mary Anderson is at Nice, France. She spends part of the day in resting and the remainder in denying that she is engaged —Vv hile digging in his ear with a -piaCharles Mowers, of Shippensburg, Pa., did trimseif an injury which resulted in lockjaw. In money matters Lotta is always suc>essful. She has the money making talent. Her hotel in Boston is the best paying one there. Leopold Arends invented the system'of MtortliaiKC'lritown TtJjrTrts- Trains— Amnpnw uent has just been erected to his memory in Berlin.

if Henry Chadwick," the father-of- base ball should die fia would, probably get a monument before the one to grant is finished in New York. English syndicates comeTiere’afi3"Anferican syndicates go abroad. Allot' the Jamaica railways have been taken by an American syndicate. New York is going to have a new hotel ten stories high. People who like to sleep JwAyafiAve~tlle~exhalations of the oai'thr can be aeecrrnm od a ted. Senator Stanford has his millions, but he tS one ot' the.plainest and most unassuming if men. ' However, he kujws whortr-andi how to make money talk. The Popo lias changed his habits. He now devotes the time between half-past live and ten at night for the ardent perusal if newspapers of all nations. There are fifty manufactories of imitation butter in Germany. A factory in mannheim produces daily (S,OJJ pounds from a preparation of cocuanuts,, It is said that the Prince of Wales likes the Duke of Fife. This is satisfactory. The prince tins been obliged to give up his teats, and so finds relief in Fife. , Antrim, N. 11., with a population of about 1,300 boasts of four nouogenariaus and* twenty-five octogenarians. Twentyone of Jhese twenty-nine old people are women.

There would seem to tn no excuse for one being without a Bible on tile ground of scarcity of tho artiolo. The Bibio House of New York has issued since last April i'raJUQ.Hiblai,, Richard Brown, a well known iron man of Youngstown, 0., has discovered twe forged no'es bearing his signature, one for <5,0J0 and one for Si >,()>.'. Ho has no idea of the forger’s identity. Tennyson recently wrote in a letter to s New York friend: “I think it wisest in a man to do his work in the world as quietly and as well as he can, without much heeding the praise or dispraise. The moral philosophy.of the Philadelphia Inquirer oilers this definition: “The moral roward is a man who cannot do anything original without asking the world’s pardon toy. running off the .track.” . The Atchison Daily Champion says that cob pipes made into breastpins are becoming fashionable among Atchison’s young a omen. The next fashion will probably be a plug of oxidized tobacco lor shoe buckles. There is a great boom in phosphate lUfids in southern Florida, and many poor men have become rich by the sale of their farms to speculators. One man is reported to have refused $.’,099,'. 0J for a tract ol land held by him. They had a' binquet at Spokane Falls the other night. It was not a “dry banquet,” The reporter who attended dosed his account of the affair by saying, "It is not distinctly remembered who made the last speech.” It is claimed that phosphate is found in juiy three places throughout the United States—South Carolina, New Mexico und F.orida., In New Mexico it is about exhausted; while in Florida it is m >re extensive than in South Carolina and assays 25 per cent more. Maz O’Rell admires the Irish. Being askdd if ho had written a book on tho Irish lie replied: ‘I like to write about the faults of the people. The people of Ireland have no faults. Did I try to find theml Yes, I spent a week or more in the land that has sent so many sons here.”

W. A Merryday, of Polatka, Fla., ha* tn owl that is as tamo as his store cat All flay long the “Irishman’s parrot” rests on the rafters overhead in tho grain-room. The cat and owl have formed a strong attachment in tho last four months for each other, and it is not an unusual sight for the eat to go off and return with a rut for his owlship. In return for tho kindness the owl will take its paw and scratch the cat’s fleas, when pusiy will purr and rub up against the owl’s feathers, both looking perfectly happy all tho while.

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