Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1894 — Page 3

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Rains fell throughout Nebraska. Killing frosts in northwestern Ohio, Wednesday. Forest fires are reported in the vicinity of Virginia, Minn. Striking miners to the number of 1,275 are camped near Trinidad, Colo. The river at Portland, OSK” rose 'three inches in twenty-four hours, Tuesday. ’Frisco’s midwinter fair may have a fight between a grizzly bear and a lion. The strikers who were expected to blow up the bridge at Kenova. W. Va., failed to arrive. William Walter Phelps, ex-minister to Germany, is seriously ill at his home in New Jersey. Gov. Waite settled the gold miners’ strike at Cripple Creek, each side making concessions. AU the miners employed by the Saginaw Bay, Mich., coal company walked out, demanding fl a ton. At Calloway, Neb., a tornado wrecked -grand army hall and blew the episcopal church off its foundation. The Fraser river is still rising and is now at Vancouver ll l <j inches higher than the great flood of 1882. lowa is suffering from a drought. No rain has fallen Tn three weeks, and the oat and hay crop will be extremely light. 4Merchants of Milwaukee have asked the newspapers to suppress news concerning suiallpox in the interest of business. Eddie Hortz and Tom Hart were killed near Sherpardsville, Ky., by a companion rolling a huge stone upon them from a cliff.

Governor Tillman, of South Carolina, has announced himself as a candidate for United States Senator and says that he will be elected. In an address before the International Temperance Congress on Staten Island Neal Dow denied that prohibition had been a failure in Maine. sThe plurality of Lord, the Republican candidate for Governor of Oregon, will be about 17,000,_tne largest Republican plurality ever given by the State. Gen. Hewston, of California, has been held for manslaughter in London. He killed a street musician by punching him in the eye with an umbrella. Judge Barr, United States Circuit Court at Q wens boro, Ky., decides that the law requiring a separate railway coach for colored people is unconstitutional. Turned out of home for non-payment of rent, Mrs. A. E. Clarke, of Chicago, wandered through the streets until her six-weeks-old child died from exposure and exhaustion. Geo. Hill, Baltimore, found men’s garments in his wife’s room, Sunday, and promptly shot her fatally. And the landlady was responsible for the clothes, not Mrs. Hill,, The United States wants 115,000,000 of the Stanford estate, being the proportionate share of the debt which the Central Pacific owes Uncle Sam. Mrs. Stanford will resist the claim, The big elevator men of Chicago have declared war on the Board of Trade because of the recent adoption of an amendment prohibiting regular elevator owners' from trading in grain on ’Change. A fire at Ottumwa, la., Sunday, burned five blocks of buildings, causing a loss of 8225,000, about one-third insured. James Seymour, a dwarf, was burned to death, and three others were seriously injured. The 850,000 chapel which was one of the chief features of the Tiffany exhibit at the Exposition has been purchased by a Chicago widow, and it will be set up in that city, next spring, as a memorial chapel. The Viking ship reached Chicago. Sunday, via. the new ship canal and was escorted down the Chicago river, out into the lake and up to Lincoln Park with considerable ceremony. The boat will remain at Lincoln Park indefinitely. A youth of eighteen, named Leslie Cochran, in Calloway county, Kentucky, who had been rejected by a girl of thirteen for a rival of sixteen years, shot and killed the successful suitor and dangerously wounded the father of the girl. An election for State Supreme Court Judge in the Fourth Illinois District took place, Monday, June 4. Joseph N. Carter, Rep., was elected by a majority of over 4,000. Two years ago Cleveland led Harrison 7,003 votes in the same counties. The celebrated horse King William . that was such an attraction at the World’s Fair, said to be the largest horse in the world, died at Chester, Tuesday night. He was 27X hands high and weighed 3,000 pounds. His owner was taking him to Coney Island, where he was to be an attraction.

Breckinridge spoke at Midway, Satur - day, to €0) persons, including fifteen women. He was followed by Settle, one of his opponents, and Immediately fifty women entered the hall to hear the latter and rebuke Breckinridge. The Colonel is mad. Gov. McKinley, Wednesday afternoon, ordered out a force of 1,200 militiamen to the scene of the strike in eastern Ohio. All the command of the Fourteenth regiment and the Eighth regiment and several companies of the Seventeenth regiment have been ordered out. The Fourteenth regiment left on a special train at midnight for eastern Ohio. The scenes of the trouble are in Belmont and Guernsey counties. Tiifanys, of New York, have just completed an art work in solid silver, which perpetuates on metal the marvelous architecture and the pictures of the exhibits iri ono of the most interesting buildings at Ithe World's Columbian Exposition. The art work is In the form of a testimonial vase presented by prominent American exhibitors to Willard A. Smith, chief of the department of transportation exhibits Dr. Nathaniel L. Britton, professor of history In Columbia College, Now York, and Dr. Henry 11. Busby, professor of botany in the College df Pharmacy, pronounce the root that killed the five little boys In Tarrytown to be the poison of Socrates, or water hemlock, one of the deadliest of poisons. The root is a little t thiCker than an ordinary lead pencil. Dr. Britton says the scientific name for the root is Cienta Immaculate. From it grows lan herb four or five feet high. It is plentiful in all the Eastern States, the roots lying close to the surface. It disappears from cultivated soil. The herb has a white flower, and, Dr. Busby says, the marsh lands all around New York abound Tn it. At Boise, Ida., Tuesday, Judge Beatty

sentenced the two hundred Coxeyites arrested several days ago for stealing a Union Pacific train. General Scheffler was given six months. Quartermaster Gen eral Breckinridge fonr months, and the other leaders from thirty days to four months in the various county jails in the State. The rank and file, almost 180 in number, were given from thirty to sixty days in a blockade prison, to be erected on the Idaho and Oregon line. Judge Beatty said he was inclined to release any or all Coxeyites, excepting the leaders, who would go back to Portland, but that no one could go East. Three citizens of Montpelier who assisted the ’wealers to steal the train were given three months in the county jail.

FOREIGN.

Y. M. C. A. jubilee celebration occurred in London, Wednesday. John Wanamaker lauded Queen Victoria. The Italian Cabinet has resigned because the Chamber of Deputies does not approve of Premier Crispi’s scheme of financial reform by a majority sufficiently large to inspire confidence. The floods in the Fraser river country in British Columbia have been very disastrous. The Canadian Pacific railroad is. obliged to discontinue passenger trains, and all through traffic. There are a half' dozen breaks of a serious character along the line. Railroad men estimate the damage throughout the Northwest at $5,000,030. P. J. Tynan, “No. 1” of the “Irish Invincibles,” has issued a book exposing the plot to murder Lord Cavendish and Burke,, in Phoenix Park. He says it was done out of revenge for the imprisonment of the Irish chief, Parnell, and it bears out the allegations made by the London Times. Claimed Tynan was hired by the English tories to write the book.

“GRIM VISAGED WAR.”

Actual Hostilities on Hoosier Soil. Strikers Fire on the Militia at Farmers-burg-Martial Law Probable. ' A dispatch to the Indianapolis Journal from Terre Haute, dated 2 a. m. June 7, says: There is seriqjia trouble on at Farmersburg. The militia have been fired upon, and at this hour (2 o’clock) there is so much excitement at the town that the extent of the battle cannot be definitely ascertained. At 1 o’clock this morning Adjutant Parks, of one of the Terre Haute companies, telegraphed that the strikers had fired on the picket line, and that fifty shots had been exchanged between soldiers and miners. He added that the excitement was so great that it could not be discovered whether any one was injured or not. His last lines were that the officers had the scrimmage well to their advantage. It would seem that the fight occurred about midnight, according to the message of Lieut. Parks, who is a reliable man. Two companies were ordered up from Shelburn at 1 o’clock this morning to join those at Farmersburg. They are marching on foot. Col. Ebel is in command at Farmersburg, and his men have been occupying coaches, with a strong guard line thrown around and all night campfires in the gully beside the track. It is believed here that the attacking party of miners must have come up the branch from Alum Cave, one of the strongholds of the Anarchists. At 3:20 a. m. Adjutant-General Robbins, at Indianapolis, received an official report of the battle at Farmersburg, with the information that none of the militia were injured. Great excitement is reported at Farmersburg, and it supposed that some of the miners have been injured.

COXEYITES DROWNED.

Twenty or More Lose Their Lives by a Boat Capsizing. A Brighton, Colo., dispatch, June 8, says: Twenty-five of the Coxeyites who set sail from Denver are as the result of the upsetting of their boat. It is thought that about twenty are drowned. Dead bodies can be seen on the sandbars and lodged in trees, but cannot now be recovered. The number or names of the Coxeyites drowned In the attempt to navigate the Platte river cannot bo told. The river was a raging torrent yesterday. and many boats were wrecked at the bridges. Twenty nine boats, containing 185 men, passed Henderson island bridge Only twenty, with less than 100 men, reached Brighton. Some boats were deserted, their occupants taking to the road. On the McKay bridge several men were drowned. At the Henderson island bridge 1 twenty-one men were in the water at one time, but were rescued with ropes. Of one boat containing eight, six are said to have been lost. Most of the bodies have been washed down stream. Many of the Coxeyites believe that from fourteen to twenty men were drowned.

COMMONWEAL NOTES.

The 1,100 members of the Commonweal army at Denver who have been constructing flat-boats with which to float down the Platte river to Plattsmouth, and from there down the Missouri to St. Louis have completed 110 boats. They are well supplied with provisions. At Parkersburg. W. Va., Monday, Fry’s Commonweal army was refused aid by the citizens. The men slept in the open air. during a drenching rain. Tuesday morning the army split into three sections. Part under Col. Bloundeil started over the pike for Washington; another division marched in the same direction over the Baltimore & Ohio railroad tracks, while the third division, fifty-two in number, remained in Parkersburg. Tuesday afternoon the fifty-two who remained behind wont to the Baltimore & Ohio yards and took possession of a freight train that was being made up there. They defied the sheriff. The sheriff telegraphed for troops, and with an increased force of deputies succeeded in arresting all of the army. It Is reported that the party which started up the railway tracks attempted to board a passenger train, but that the trainmen and passengers fought them off successfully. Two of the Commonwealers are said to have been hurt, one of them fatally. - A co-opcrative coal company has been organized at Princeton, capital stock 825,000. and It is proposed to sink a mine within the limits of that city.

FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

In the Senate, Tuesday, the compromise amendments to the sugar schedule were adopted. The schedule imposes a duty of 40 per cent, ad valorem on all sugars, raw and refined, with a differential of oneeighth of a cent per pound on sugars above 16, Dutch standard, and an additional one-tenth of a cent against sugar imported from countries paying an export bounty. It continues the Hawaiian treaty, admitting sugar from the Sandwich islands free pf duty, and places a duty of two cents per gallon on molasses testing over forty degrees by the polariscope. The schedule goes into effect Jan, 1, 1895, and he bounty is continued until that date. In the Senate, Wednesday, a number of important bills were passed before the tariff bill was taken up. Among them was one granting a right of way to the Eastern Nebraska and Gulf railroad through the Omaha and Winnebago Indian reservations in Nebraska. The tariff bill was taken up. Mr. Jones asked leave to withdraw the compromise amendments of the tobacco schedule which made the rate on leaf wrapper and unstemmed 81.50 and 82.25 respectively and restore the House amendment in which the fates are 81 and 81.25 respectively. The move was a surprise to Senators on both sides, as by agreement the compromise paragraph was adopted pro forma with the understanding that the subject shall be considered later. The other Jones amendments to the tobacco schedule were adopted. They fixed the rates on filler tobacco, nnstemmed, at 5 cents per pound, stemmed at 50 cents per pound, tobacco manufactured or unmanufactured not specially provided for at 40 cents per pound, snuff at 50 cents per pound, cigars, cigarettes and cheroots at 84 per pound and 25 per cent, ad valorem, paper cigars and cigarettes to be subject to the rates imposed on cigars. Mr. Hale’s amendment to restore the McKinley duty of 830 per head on horses was defeated. Mr. Hale offered another amendment to substitute 820 for the 20 per cent, rate in the bill, and this being defeated, he offered the whole live stock schedule of the McKinley law. This latter amendment met with a similar fate, Mr. Peffer stated that he desired to address the Senate but did not care to do so at this time. Mr. Harris impatiently declared that Senators should suffer some persopal inconvenience in order to make some progress with the tariff bilk He said that already sixty-four days had been spent in debate and only fortythree pages had been disposed of. A squabble followed over a motion to go into executive session. No quorum was de-, veloped on a roll call —Republicans refusing to vote. A call of the Senate, however, showed forty-five Senators present, and the vote recurred to the motion. Again the quorum disappeared and Mr. Harris gave it up and at 7 o’clock the Senate adjourned. In the House, Wednesday, after a brief explanation by Mr. Springer, the vote on Mr. Cox’s amendment, for the total repeal us the tax on State banks, was lost on a yea and nay vote—lo 2to 170, The.affirmative vote was entirely Democratic. The negative vote was cast by eighty-eight Republicans, seventy-five Democrats and hine Populists. A viva voce vote on the |t>ill was then taken and the bill was defeated. Representative Cooper was the only Indiana member voting in favor of the Cox amendment. At 2:45 o’clock, amid loud applause, the House went into committee of the whole to consider the Indian appropriation bill, and a filibuster was started as a result of Mr. Holman’s request that the first reading of the bill be dispensed with, Ray, of New York, objecting. A motion to adjourn was then adopted—lo 4to 98, and at 3:20 the House adjourned. In the Senate, Thursday, Mr. Harris proposed to proceed to consideration of certain schedules under the five-minute rule according to an agreement with certain Republican Senators. While the matter was being informally discussed Mr. Quay entered the chamber, and being Informed of the question before the Senate, said emphatically: “I object.” The proposed truce being thus completely smashed the regular tariff debate was proceeded with until 5:30, when a vote was had on the finance committee amendment fixing the rate on oat meal at 15 per cent, and excluding it from the reciprocity provision of the paragraphs. It was adopted, and Mr. Allen moved to strike out the reciprocity provisions of the paragraphs. It was defeated by a strict party vote—24 to 31. Then, at 6 o’clock, with a sarcastic allusion to the rapid progress made, Mr. Harris moved that the Senate go into executive session. After a brief period the doors were opened and the Senate adjourned. The House had the Indian appropriation bill under consideration, Thursday. The main feature of the debate was an attack on the Catholic Church, made by Mr. Linton, of Michigan, in which he argued against contract Indian schools, saying the largest share of the appropriation for educating the Indians went to Cathplic Indian schools. The other point of interest was the debate on the location tof the Indian supply warehouse, the New York delegation protesting against the abandonment of the warehouse at New York for one at Chicago. This gave rise to a spirited debate between the champions of the cities. A resolution was adopted before adjournment calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for Information as to enforcement of immigration and contract labor laws, and another authorizing the committee to visit Ellis island for the purpose of studying the operations of the laws. At 4:30 the House adjourned. In the Senate, Friday. Mr. Cullom delivered a speech on the historical phases of the tariff question. Mr. Washburn suggested that debate on this schedule was proceeding slowly, and that for the remainder of the schedule the five-minute rule be applied. The Democrats accepted the proposition graciously and it was agreed to by unanimous consent. Mr. Quay, who objected, Thursday, was not present. The consideration of the pending paragraph, imposing 20 per cent, on buckwheat, corn, wheat, cornmeal, flour, rye, etc., was then resumed, and Mr. Pettigrew moved as a substitute the McKinley specific rates. Lost—yeas, 24; nays, 33. Amendments looking to the restoration of the present rates on dairy products were lost and the following rates fixed: Butter, 4 cents per pound; fresh milk, 3 cents per galki; condensed milk, 2 cents; sugar of milk, 5 cents per pound. The rate on beans, peas and other vegetables, 80 per cent. Mr. Platt offered a separate

amendment of 3 cents per dozen on eggs—lost. At 6:30 the Senate, on Mr. Harris’s motion, went into executive session and shortly afterward adjourned.

HAPPY LITTLE HOOSIERS.

The Andmon School Excursion to Waah- - Ington and the Ea.t. A -juvenHe-—armr--of - seventy-seven; school children started from Anderson, Ind., Monday, June 4, for Washington and other points, in charge of Prof. Carr, superintendent of the Anderson schools. A day Was spent at Richmond, Va. From Richmond they went to Newport News and Thursday was devoted to the inspection of Fortress Monroe and Old Point Thursday night the excursfonists took a steamer up the Potomac and reached Washington at 7 o’clock Friday morning. Their presence in the city was soon made apparent by the bustle and confusion around the Howard House, where they registered, and which soon became the center of attraction for Washingtonians. After breakfast Prof. Carr assembled his army and marched them to the Capitol, where they were given an insight into the routine of legislation and made acquainted with the mystery of the “whisper stones'’ in the Capitol rotunda. Every member of the Indiana delegation in Congress showed great interest in the visitors. Senator Voorhees and Congressman Bynum and Mr. Scott Bone, managing editor of the Washington Post, made arrangements for the convenience of the excursionists before they reached Washington, and were on hand to conduct thdm around the city. Professor Heilman, superintendent of Indian schools, who was formerly principal of the public schools at Laporte, was at the hotel and gave his assistance toward showing the visitors around. In the afternoon the excursion went to Mt. Vernon to see the tomb of Washington. Saturday morning President Cleveland received the juvenile delegation. The party left for Anderson Sunday evening. The trip was one of exceeding interest. and a snccess in every way. The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad made a rate of 830 for the round trip, which ineluded berths and meals, and everything necessary for the comfort of the children. '

THE OREGON ELECTION.

The Republicans Carry the State by More Than 15,000 Plurality. A Portland, Ore., dispatch June 5, says: Yesterday’s election in this State resulted in a great victory for the Republicans. Judge Lord, Republican candidate for Governor, is elected by not less than 15,C03 plurality. The counting is slow, and in this city the count will not be completed before Wednesday night. At an early hour this morning only 1,003 votes out of 16,030 in this city had been counted. Of these Lord received 538; Galloway (Democrat) 260, and Pierce (Populist) 202. If this ratio is maintained Lord’s plurality in this city will be 4,502. For Congress, in this city, Ellis (Republican) has 514; Riley (Democrat) 206, and Waldrop (Populist) 180. For mayor Frank (Republican) has "505, “In man (Dem6c®“an3""F6puTTst) 394, and Honemann (Independent) 96. The entire Republican Legislative ticket in this county is elected, and from meager returns outside the city it is believed the Republicans will control all branches of the Legislature. Owing to the flood this city is entirely cut off from eastern Oregon, and not a word of news has been received from more than one-half the State. The vote for Ellis (Republican) for Congress in the Second district, is slightly below that of the Governor, but his plurality will not be short of 2,003. Herthann (Republican) for Congress in the First distnet. will have at least 1.500 plurality. George P. Frank is elected mayor of this city by at least 1,003 majority.

MYRON W. REED’S LATEST.

He Predicts War as a Resalt of the Labor Troubles. In an address before the Union League at Denver, Colo., Thursday night, the Rev. Myron W. Reed, who resigned the pastorate of the Congregational Church on account of the adverse feeling caused by his expression of symp-thy for the Cripple Creek miners, said: “I am not a prophet, but I am the son of a prophet. My father foresaw the beginning of the war. 1 see thebeginning of a war now. These men on the hJU are fighting the first* battle for special advantages to none, equal opportunities to all. Under this banner we fight this fight.” Kelley was forced to leave Cairo, 111., with two day’s rations.

THE MARKETS.

June 9, 1891. India napolH. GRAIN AND HAT. Wheat— corn, 40J£c; oats, 39c; hay, choice timothy, $ll.OO. LIVE STOCK. Cattle Shippers, Stockers. $2.50(83.40; heifers. [email protected]; cows, veals, $2.50<c64.50; bulls, $1.75@ 2.85; milkers, $15.00(840.00. POULTRY AND OTHER PRODUCE. (Prices Paid by Shippers.) PouLTRY-Hens, Gc per lb: spring chickens. 1894,12(51ac per it; turkeys, old toms, 3c per th: hens, 6c per lb; ducks, Gc per lb; geese, $4 per doz. for choice. Eggs—Shippers are paying BXe. Butter—Choice, 6QBc; common, 3@4c. Honey—l 6 <slßc Feathers—Prime geese, 30@32c per tt>; mixed duck, 20c per tt>. Beeswax—2oc for yellow; 15c for dark. Wool—Medium unwashed, 13c; Cottswold and coarse combing, lKsl3c; tubwashed. 16@22c; burry and unmerchantable, B@loc less. Chicago. Wheat— corn. 37%c; oats, 39}£c; pork, $11.72X; >ard. $6.62>£. New York. Wheat— corn. 43Xc; oats, 43Xc. jpbllarlelphl'i. Wheat—s4Xc.; corn. 45c; oats, Baltimore. Wheat—s 6 corn, 42Xc; oats, 45c. St. Louie. Wheat—sl%c; corn, 35Xc; oats, 37Mc. Cincinnati. Wheat-52>£c; corn, 41c; oats, 40c; pork, sl2. Minneapolis. Wheat—s7Xc; No. 1 Northern, 59c. Toledo. Wheat—s4c; corn, 4Oc; oats, 36Xc. Detroit. Wheat— corn 40Xc; oats, 40c. Buffalo. Cattle—Prime heavy, $4.40(34.50; hogs, $00(34.85. Eact Liberty. Catt1e—54.50(34.85; hogs, $4.6X34.80.

PYTHIAN GRAND LODGE.

Annual Session at Indianapolis—Oflleers Elected. The twenty-fifth annual session of the Grand Lodge K. of P. convened at I. O. Tuesday. The report of Grand Chancellor Watson showed the growth of ’the order in tho past, ynftr had been somewhat interfered with by the financial stringency. Only sixteen towns in Indiana of 1.C03 population had not already a lodge of the order. Ten new lodges were organized during the year, making a total of 338, and some charters arc pending. The number of active members is in the neighborhood of 35,003, showing an increase of 2,500. The endowment rank for insurance has a total of eighty-five sections anda membership of 1,149; the amount of the endowment is 82,012.000. There was an increase during the year of fifteen members. The official board paid 87,000 in benefits, making a total of 8227,303. The Grand Chancellor also referred to the great success that attended district assemblages of the Knights and recommended that these meetings be made permanent. The uniform rank now numbers 50,000 and is commanded by James R. Carnahan. The Grand Chancellor stated that the great success of the Indiana brigade was due to the leadership of James R. Ross. The brigade now numbers 3,249 men. one to every sixteen The report of the Grand Master of Exchequer shows receipts of 817,479.33, and with the balance on hand, a total of 826,476 14. The disbursements were 820,534.63, leaving a balance of 85,891.51. The total receipts of lodges during the year was 8278,295.04. and the total relief amounted to 885,111.82. The balance of cash on hand was 877,911.61. The assets of the order are $637,651.71. In the afternoon officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: Grand Chancellor—James M. Hatfield, Huntington. Grand Vice Chancellor—C. F. S. Neal, Lebanon. Grand Prelate —Otto Kolb, Booneville. Grand Master of Exchequer—W. A. Morris. Frankfort. Grand Master of Arms—Erastus Peacock, Rensselaer. L. A. Barnett, of Danville, was also elected to the office of Grand Trustee for three years. The Pythian Sisterhood held its seventh annual convention, at Indianapolis, Tuesday. The Grand Chiefs report showed that the total membership of the order is over 6,000. The number of now temples organized during the year was eighteen, making a total of 103. The mistress of finance reported that there was 81,700 In the treasury. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Grand Chief—M. Josie Nelson, Union City. Grand Senior—Della Dunn. Rushville. Grand Junior—lda Clark. Peru. Grand Master —Georgia Emmons,Plainfield.

“SAME TO YOU.”

Say* Sullivan’* Sheriff to the Governor of Indiana. A Sentinel special from Sullivan, Ind., June 6, says: The situation here has developed some rich phases. The following telegrams were passed between the Governor and Sheriff Mills today: To the Governor, Indianapolis: I demand of you to state where yon got your authority for saying that I had been displaced from my office as sheriff and George T. Briggs appointed as an elisor in my stead. Your statement is unqualifiedly false. Signed. W. E. Mills, Sheriff. The Governor replied: Did not state you was displaced, but that Briggs had been sworn as deputy by the Judge, you giving him full authority to act in your place, From reports to me believe you should be relieved for incompetency and inaction. Signed. Claude Matthews, Governor. Sheriff Mills replied: I could only judge of what you said by what was ascribed to yon in the papers. From these reports I believe you should be removed for incompetency and flatulency . Signed, W E Mills. Sheriff. The dispatch further says: Here the war ended, for tae present The Governor has been misled by a little coterie of self-constituted guardians of the peace and dignity of Indiana. Sheriff Mills has been embarrassed in his efforts to restore order by these fellows, and has been the only one, from the Governor down, who has not lost his head. The Governor wires Judge Briggs, to-night, proposing to declare martial law. There its absolutely no necessity for such action. The civil authorities are fully able to preserve order if it were not for the intermeddling of outside parties. Governor Matthews, Wednesday night, stated to a Sentinel reporter that the “elisor” in Sullivan county was performing his duty to the satisfaction of all lawabiding citizens. He had just received a telegram from Judge Briggs stating that there would now be no occasion for declaring martial law in that section. Many arrests will be made.

BATTLE NEAR PEKIN.

Five Hundred Illlnoi* Miner* on the War-Path. A conflict occurred near Pekin, 111., at Little’s coal mines, Wednesday, between a mob of SCO strikers and non-union workmen at present employed. The sheriff and posse remonstrated with the mob tn vain. The strikers charged on the mine. The two Littles and their sons and a colored man retreated to the tower above the shaft and opened fire on the attacking party, some of whom were seen to fall. The fire was returned, and hundreds of shots were fired into&nd through the tower. The Littles hoisted a white flag, but the firing did not eease. The ■haft was set on fire and up shot the flames, It was feared the power house would be fired and the crowd retreated. One colored miner and one of the strikers were killed. Ed Porter and Peter Little, of the besieged party, were probably fatally wounded. Half a dozen others were slightly wounded. It Is feared that a number of miners have been suffocated. The Little mine is one of the few maichlne mines in the district, and the proprietors have been doing the most of the work since the strike.

HAUGHEY SENTENCED.

rhe Noted Bank Wrecker Seat Up for Year*. . Thcodoie P. Haughey, late President of! .he Indianapolis National Bank, was sen.enced, Thursday morning, by Judge Hater, of the United States Court, to sir tears In the penitentiary for misapplica-i don of the bank’s funds and. for making 'alse entries. Two months ago he en»red a plea of guilty on five of the 1671 :ounts of the grand jury’s indictment* sentence was passed privately, in the

THEODORE P. HAUGHEY.

Ind go’s chambers, in the presence of but lew witnesses. The term of imprisonments will date from April 9. 1891. the date on which Mr. Haugbcy plead “guilty.” Xfter sentence was pronounced Mr. Haughey was taken into custody by Marshal Hawkins, and at noon was taken 1 jy a Monon train to Michigan City.

OHIO REPUBLICANS.

Kate Convention at Columbus—Platform Adopted. The State convention of Ohio Republicans convened at Columbus, Tuesday, ind continued in session Wednesday. ExSecretary Charles Foster was permanent jhairman, and he was given an entbusiistie reception when he appeared on the platform. He addressed the convention it great length, and said that the Cleveland administration did not Inspire confllence and never had. The platform adopted reailirms the principles of the Republicin National platform of 1892; indorses McKinley; commends the Seventy-first General Assembly; commends Senator Sherman; denounces the Wilson bill; Indorses the McKinley bill; demands the same protection for farm products as manufactures; denounces Cleveland’s administration; denounces the administration of the Pension Bureau; favors blmetalism; denounces the avowed purpose of Democratic leaders to repeal the State bank tax. 8. M. Taylor was renominated for Secretary of State, with no opposition; John A. Shanck, of Dayton, was nominated for judge on the third ballot over F. J. Dickman. a candidate for renomination. John A. Price and C. E. Groce were nominated for the Board of Public Works and O. T. Car»on for School Commissioner. Inferences from the speeches arc to the effect that Foraker is a favorite for United States Senator and McKinley for President. ——

THE THREE GRACES.

A Remarkable Celebration at Wlneheeter, Ind. In the parlors of the Commercial House at Winchester, Wednesday night, occurred a scene seldom witnessed. Three ladles, each the wife of Edward McCool, celebrated the prize of tout* and one-half years which he had drawn In the Prison North. Music, dancing and singing was the program of the evening. McCool was charged with bigamy some months ago. He protested his innocence, but when confronted by three handsome women, who each had a lease on his life, he weakened and pleaded guilty, and was sentenced by Judge Monks as above. The ladles registered as Mrs. Mary Flannlgan, of Findlay, O.; Cora Stewart, of Columbus, 0., and Vana Hiatt, of Winchester. They occupied the same room at the hotel, and had their photograps taken In a group.

TRADE IN THE EAST.

John W. Foster Talks of the Depression in the East. Ex-Secretary of State John W. Foster, who arrived at San Francisco, Wednesday, from India and China, speaking of trade conditions in the far East, said to an Associated Press representative: “I found a general and wide-spread business depression prevailing throughout India, the straits settlements and wherever British merchants and commerce extended in the East, and the cause of it is attributed to the heavy decline in silver, which is the single currency of the countries of Asia. This decline, it is there believed, has been brought about bv the closing of the India mints and the repeal of the Sherman act. I have frequently been called upon in these countries to defend the statesmanlike action of President Cleveland in convening Congress and bringing about the repeal of the Sherman law, which has been regarded in the East as a step toward placing the United States on a single basis.”

SWINDLER'S PARADISE.

Madison county will soon achieve the reputation over the State of beings the ‘swindler’s paradise.” Only two weeks ago Amos Garretson was swindled out of $450 by a piano “smooth man.” week before last Frankton citizens paid 50 cents for water vaccinations, and now a set of men canvassing near Elwood are offering to sell dry goods, such as calicos, muslins and other cotton and wool en goods at fabulously low prices. They will show a pile of goods and offer fifteen, twenty er twenty-irve dollars’ worth for the extraordinary low price of $6, $7 or $8 They do not want the cash nor will they sell for money. They want a note payable In •ixty or ninety days. Several farmers who have bit have received notices from banks stating that they have their notes for *6O, S7O and stO.