Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1894 — Page 3

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

The treasury gold reserve is <fown to 152,820,589. Over 30,000 foreigners left New York, ast month. ~ . •" r T~\ ~ \ Gold shipments to Europe, Saturday, amounted to $1,750,000. 2 Scranton, Pa., postoffice was robbed of FB,OOO in stamps, Saturday. Grasshoppers are eating up crops in Shelby county. Tennessee. President Cleveland has officially rec agnized the Republic of Hawaii. Burglars stole a ton of butter from the Aurora, 111., creamery, on the 6thOf the 938 deaths in New York last week, fifty-one were due directly to the - heat. - ----- i Queen Lil’s representatives have been yiven a cold shoulder by Secretary Sresham. Pittsburg is making elaborate preparations for the entertainment of the G. A. R. grand encampment. Charles Mitchell, the pugilist, has an vounced his intention of returning to the United States in October Forest fires arestttlragingin northern Wisconsin and great damage is being done to hay and cranberry marshes. Baltimore will have a gigantic World’s Fair in 1897. At least $5,000,000 will be sxpended to make it a success. The sealing schooner Bowhead, thirtyfix days from Hakodat, arrived at San Francisco with a catch of 1,404 skins. The farm house of S. Ostenson near Dover, Minn., burned Aug. 6. Mr. Ostenson and four children were cremated. The centennial celebration at Defiance, 0., began Aug. 8 and continued three lays. Gov. McKinley was in attendance. William P. Daniels, age eight, son of Senator Daniels of West Virginia, was killed by being dragged by a horse, Monday. The suits of the United States against the Southern Pacific railroad have been iismissed, by order of Attorney-General Olney. ,5A Rock Island passenger train was wrecked near Lincoln, Neb.. Aug. 8. Eight aersons were killed and a score, seriously wounded.

As a result of a long standing feud, leorgo Richardson, a prominent farmer near Galena, 111., was murdered by his brother Mark, The Slavick coke burners of Pennsylrania will form a colony in Arkansas. Fifty thousand acres of land have already teen purchased. H. H. Warner, the patent medicine nan, has returned from Europe penniless, saving lost the remainder of his fortune st Monte Carlo. The tariff conference fails to progress io far as can be learned from the press lispatches. Apparently a disagreement w ill be reported. The residence of George Johnson, of Lodi, S. D„ was destroyed by fire Aug. ~h—Two sons, aged fourteen and twenty, ost their lives in the flames. Governor Crounse, of Nebraska,hasbeen petitioned to convene the legislature, that measures may be taken to relieve the irought-stricken sections of the State. Erlends of Colonel Breckinridge have polled the Ashland district and claim ho will be nominated by a vote which will squal that of his opponents combined. Elbridge Walker, of/Newton, Mass., lied from the blood poisoning that folowed the removal of a pimple by a harper who shaved him in a careless manner. The steamer Park Bluff, with 400 exiursionists aboard, struck a rock in the Mississippi off Keokuk and sank. Owing ;o the low water all were enabled to reach shore. The Baakos Wire Nail Works of Cleveland, O.,the largest concern of the kind in the country, which has been idle for sevsral months, resumed work with a big force of men. State Auditor Gore, in turning the affairs of the Illinois Building and Loan association over to the attorney general,said that its methods were deceptive, if not, indeed, fraudulent.

At the West Side ball park, Chicago, Sunday, a fire started in the grand stand Irom the carelessness of a cigarette smoker. A panic ensued and many people were painfully injured. 5 Gen. James B. Weaver, the Populist candidate, was indored by the Democratic congressional convention at Council Bluffs, which declared for free coinage and arbitration of labor disputes. Mr. Walker, of Oelwein, lowa, had a recipe for a cooling summer drink filled ata drug store. The preparation contained tartaric acid. Too much was used and three children died from the effects. The entire Democratic ticket was sleeted in Alabama, Aug. 6. Incomplete returns indicate Democratic gains. Oates for Governor will have a majority of 30,000 to 50,000 over Kolb the fusion candidate. The legislature will be Democratic by a jafe majority. i Detectives have made a big haul of :ounterfeiters at Bethel, Conn. Thousands of dollars in spurious bank notes, plates, ink and fibrous paper were secured. The press has not been found Three arrests have been made, but it is noped that the balance of the gang will be corralled. The Vigilant vanquished two of the jest English yachts in the regatta at 'owes, Isle of Wight, Aug, 6. George lould, Howard Gould and Lord Dunraen were on board the Vigilant during he race. Emperor William of Germany ■itnessed the race from the royal yacht lohcnzollern and afterward visited Queen ictorla at Osborne. A hyena, which is supposed to have es,ped from Sells Bros.’ menafgerie when it ipeared at Paris, 111., and a bear which td been partially tamed by a physician Robinson, 111., are lurking in the Sugar eek bottoms, across the Wabash river

tm Terre Haute. The bear was first in three weeks ago near Terre Haute icn It killed a small hog in a barnyard, together the hyena has killed seven ?s which attacked it, and two have aljeen killed by the bear. enator Voorhees, in an interview, g. 6, said that theft) ought to belittle iculty in the tariff conference reachan agreement. Mr. Voorhees regards President’s letter as an aid to acomtnlse; said the sugar question was now itlcally out of the way; thought the Ute should concede free coal and Iron. interview was the subject of much ment and Is regarded as significant of ange in the policy of Mr. Voorhees, has until now been regarded as an

opponent of the administration on the tariff question. Senator Gorman is quoted as having said that Voorhees was too sick-to- know his own mind. Mr. Voorhees is still confined to his room but is better. FOREIGN, Cholera is increasing in Galicia. Smallpox is epidemic at Milwaukee. 4 Thirty anarchists of Paris are on Arial. Dr. Cornelius Herz, the Panama lobbyist, was sentenced to five years imprisonment and to pay a fine of 3,000 francs. Gen. Caceras has taken his seat as president of Peru. Six people were killed by an earthquake at Palermo, Sicily, Aug. 8. 2 Five new cases of cholera and three deaths from that disease have ebeen reported from Mastericht since Saturday last. Three shocks of earthquake were felt at Memphis, Aug. 10. Windows rattled and tall buildings swayed but no damage resulted. Reports from the Rio Grande do sul say that the insurgents have been surrounded near that place and the situation is desperate. English newspapers,sent to France by mail or otherwise are examined by the I 1 reneh police in order to see if they contain infringements of the anti-anarchist law. The scaler Viva has arrived at Victoria, twenty-six days from Hakodat, with 20,000 skins aboard, the catches of Victoria schooners. M. Turpin has become disgusted with France’s lack of appreciation of his inventions, and has written to Emperor William offering his inventions to Germany. ; Jule Deutril De Rhinos, the eminent French explorer, has been murdered at Thibet and thrown into the river. The French envoy to China has addressed a protest to the government. Prospectors have sold a syndicate 3,55 G claims situated about Buluwayo, formerly the headquarters of the late King Lobengula. In all, 16.500 claims have been registered. Many Americans are concerned in these land transactions.

Caserio Santo Geronimo, the assassin of President Carnot, has persisted in his refusal to make an appeal to the Court of Cassation, and the time of appeal having elapsed, the papers were sent to Paris, Tuesday, for the signature of President Cassimer-Perier, fixing his execution for Aug. 16. 5 Acting under instructions from toe home government, the commander of the Italian forces at' Massowah, Egypt,Hs erecting a prison capable of holding 2,000 convicts. To this prison anarchists who are proved to be dangerous to society will be sent. . Six anarchists were arrested while holding a secret conference at Rome, It is estimated that 2,000 anarchists, who weie arrested in the raids of the last two months, will be deported, A group of fifty has already been sent to Naples to embark for Massowah in the Red Sea.

Details of the riots at Quebec, Aug. 5, received by mail at New York, Aug, 9, state that Protestant missions in different parts of the city were wrecked. The mob was altogether French-Canadian. The Irish Catholics took no part. The mob was cowardly in the extreme and are believed to have been incited by infl amatory utterances of a French Catholic newspaper which described a Baptist mission as a Salvation Army barracks. The mission was opened for the first time on the day it was wrecked. The damage to property is heavy, and the terrorized citizens know not what to do. The inadequacy of the police force, or its unwillingness to act, creats general uneasiness. Not a single person has been either arrested or reported. The whole police force is kept under arms, and the leading English speaking papers demand that military be called out if the police do no better.

THE EASTERN WAR.

Progress of Hostilities Between China and Japan. Formal Declaration of War—Several Engage men ta—Notea. The commander-in-chief of the Korean army is an American.and a Chicago man at that—Major Dye. He is agraduate of West Point and served onthe Union side during therebellion. At the close of the war he returned to Chicago, where he had inherited some property, and went into business, but it seems that the great fire of 1871 swept away whatever ho had, and in 1873 he went to Egypt with several of his former comrades to take service under the Khedive. Gen. Stone, an American, was commander-in-chief of the Egyptian army. Major Dye was a member of his staff and for a time acted as adjutantgeneral. In 1879 Major Dye returned to Washington and became chief of police. The Korean embassy subsequently engaged him to go to that country to introduce modern military methods and he at last became commander of the Korean army and has retained the position. /Hundreds of letters are received daily by the Japanese embassy at Washington tendering service to the Japanese government. All are declined. It is a penal offense for Americans to serve either in the Chinese or Japanese service while the two nations are at war, so the latter government can not under any circumstances accept the offers. An extraordinary gazette has been issued containing a proclamation by the Queen of Great Britain’s neutrality in the war between Chinn and Japan. There is also published in the gazette a letter from the Earl of Kimberly to the Lords of the Admiralty, setting forth the rules to be observed at the various British ports and harbors. A belligerent man-of-war must leave British waters within twenty-four hours after its arrival therein, unless the weather or the necessity of taking on coal or provisions prevents. In thn event of a Chinese and a Japanese vessel being in a British port together, an interval of twenty-four hours must elapse between the departure of the two vessels.

Exceptional.

Chicago Tribune. “Got any little job of work, ma’am?" inquired the dusty pilgrim at the back door, “that I can do to earn a bite of grub?’’ “You’ve often asked me for cold victuals,” replied the lady in surprise, “but this is the first time you ever asked for work.” “Yes’m," rejoined the tourist cheerfully, “I’m on my vacation.”

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Winchester will have waterworks. There is a case of smallpox at Knox. There is a case of smallpox near War;aw. -' ~ : The alleged Richmond gold mines failed to pan out. Decatur has contracted for waterjvork costing $45.000. ——“ Seymour’s street railway system may be moved to Washington. Boone county commissioners will build i new county infirmary to cost $25,000, The Buckeye Manufacturing company will remove from Union City to Anderson. The Muncie Street Railroad violated its franchise and its tracks will be removed. -—--——. Wayne county voted, Saturday, against buying the remaining toll roads in that county. The outlook for corn throughout the State is gloomy because of the protracted drought. T. J. Hancock, near Tipton, claims for-ty-three bushels of wheat per acre as his yield this year. Long Long and Wong Long, Elkhart laundrymen, have lit out for China to join the celestial army. v A great oil gusher was drilled in near Portland, Aug. 9. There is great excitementover its phenomenal output. , The South Bend Street Railway , Company is preparing to discard electricity and return to mules as a motive power. Elisha Johns, an old veteran of Elkhart, has been awarded a medal for gallantry displayed at the siege of Vicksburg. Ex-Treasurer Nebeker, in an interview at Washington, Aug. 8, said that Indiana would surely go Republican at the November election. A Warsaw saloonist threatens to prosecute every merchant in the town who sells joods on Sunday, because the liquor law is rigidly enforced. The Fourth District Republican Congressional convention at Terre Haute, Aug. 9, nominated Geo, W. Faris, of that city, on the fourth ballot. George Pullinger. at Richmond, lost an srm in the machinery of Carpenter’s flour mill. The arm was literally pulled from the socket at the shoulder. Gov. Matthews has announced that the State militia will be paid Aug. 20. The Governor will borrow the money on his personal responsibility, there being no available State funds.

Frank W. Hawley, of Rochester, has filed a claim against the State of New York for 131,061 damages for the killing by the State of 150 head of cattle, said to be tffected with tuberculosis. Chas. Wagner and his young nephew started across the long Air Line trestle at Mott Station, Sunday night. A train tame upon them and Wagner was killed. The boy saved himself by hanging from x tie. William Prough, sixty years old, while attending the harvest jubilee at Shipshewana, attempted to ride a bucking pony In a running race. The pony bolted and be was thrown against a tree, fracturing his skull. Messrs. Tabor & Co., of Argos, who are also interested in banking adventures at Mentone and Silver Lake, have offered to Invest 125,000 in a venture at North Manchester, as the successors of the defunct First National bank. The Wabash river has been demonstrated to be valuable as a pearl fishing ground by Thomas Blair, of Washington, D, C. He secured specimens valued at leveral hundred dollars on a trip between Peru and Lafayette. Dr. Geo. C. Brannon, of Hammond, was called out late, Friday night, to make a call on a man who was said to have been shot. Brannon has not since been seen. The case is similar to the celebrated Sronin mystery at Chicago. The most disastrous fire in the history sf Marion visited that place Aug. 5. Sweetzer & Co. and Mark, Burge & Co., suffer the heaviest loss. Fifteen other business firms were burned out. Total loss, 161,800; insurance 125,035.

The families of C. Stewart and Curt Hair, of Columbus, are camping near that city. Saturday Hair thought his wife was too intimate with Stewart and he attacked him with a butcher knife, fatally cutting him. Hair was arrested. The Pendleton Natural Gas Company has increased the rates to consumers. Cooking stoves have been advanced to Mghty-five cents per month; heating itoves are one dollar, and gas jets aro aow ten cents per month, instead of five cents. There is a great howl from patrons.

John Cullen, of Kokomo, under treatment for a cancerous growth of the tongue, which required the amputation of that member, deliberately starved himself to death, rather than undergo further torture. He was eighty-one years old, and one of the builders of the old Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago railway. An attempt was made. Mohday night, to hold up a Lake Shore train at Kessler, Ind., at the place the famous robbery ococcurred last fall. The engineer put on steam and dashed through the obstruction of ties and lumber that bad been placed on the track. As the train passed a group of masked men were seen by the engineer. They fired several shots into the train without effect. James Donohue, of Andrews, a Wabash brakeman, met his death in a peculiar manner. A collision of trains found him in the caboose, remote from immediate danger, but in jumping to the ground the fall ignited.some matches in his clothing and he was fatally burned. Patents were issued to tne following Indiana people, Tuesday: C. F. Darnell and L. Koss, Indianapolis, lath machine; G’ A. Dentelbeck, Myhert, fence machine; D. M. Forsythe, Franklin, harness; O, N. Guldin, Fort Wayne, steam supply and circulating system for water and gas apapparatus; E. H. Kunkle, Fort Wayne, safety valve and muffler; C. Lumm, Garnett,eaves troughhanger. Domestic differences between Mr. and Mrs. Ed Smith, of Frankfort, culminated in violence, the husband throwing his wife down and attempting to choke her. The struggle aroused the neighbors, which caused Mr. Smith to leave the house. Released from his grasp, Mrs. Smith armed herself with a revolver, and when Mr. Smith came in viewat thp. window she sent a bullet through his leg.

The latest fad is a progressive hammock party. The party is conducted as follows: The hammocks are stretched and numbered, each one being in charge of a lady.

Each gentleman selects a hammock anc for five minutes proceeds to entertain it as bright a conversational siyle as possible the fair occupant, The bell rings and the gentleman passes on to the next hammock. and so on until he has completed the rounds. A vote is then taken by tin ladies as to the bestrentertaiirer, and thi lucky man is awarded the prize,—Michigan City Dispatch. Louis Williams owns nearly seventeen hundred acres of fine farming land on th< east prong of White river, in Lawrence county. He is a model Tarmer. He nevei sells wheat at less than one dollar a bushel. This he does by crushing it, mixing it with cold water and feeding it to the hogs. He claims that hogs fed on wheat weigh heavier than those fattened with corn. He ships several carloads of hogs yearly. On one-sixteenth of an acn of onions he harvested eighty bushels, besides which he sold S3O worth of sets this season. Dr. W. S. Greene, colored, of Baptistown, near Evansville, established a colony about three miles,. away, which ho named Greeneville. Twelve buildings were constructed, which were tenanted by colored people, each family with its little plotoi ground. The colony is prosperous and law-abiding. The location, however, gave offense to the whites in the same neighborhood, and recently Dr. Greene has received numerous white-cap notices. A systematic attempt was made to burn up the little village, the torch being applied to the fences and outbuildings. Several fences, a big hennery, two coal sheds and other property were consumed, but the villagers succeeded in saving their dwellings after a hard struggle. As a guard against further incendiarism, an armed guard has been established, the colonists taking turns in standing picket duty. The colony has erected a church and school-house, and made many material improvements.

FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

In the Senate, Monday, Mr. Mills introduced a resolution declaring that in the revision of the existing system of national taxation the following principles should be observed: 1. That all taxes are burdens on the tax-payers and can only be rightfully imposed to raise revenue to support the government. 2. That when taxes are imposed on imported goods the rate should be so low as not to materially restrict importations, and 3. That in selecting articles to be taxed only those ready for consumption should be chosen, and those imported for manufacture or remanufacturo should be exempt. The resolution was laid on the table. The bill for the deportation of anarchists then came up and Mr, Hill explained its provisions. Unless some action was taken by this government such as was now before the Senate this country, he said, would soon be the dumping ground for the anarchists of the world. It was not intended to make the belief in anarchy a crime, and therefore no attempt had been made to deline anarchy. He favored the provision of the Senate billfor inspection by the treasury agents instead of by consuls,and was sure that no one could attribute his attitude on this section to a desire to secure more patronage for the Secretary of the Treasury. There were no politics in the bill and hefavored it because he believed it was better than the House bill. Mr. Lodge expressed the belief that bbth bills were inadequate for the purpose of restricting immigration, but he was anxious to see some restriction put on immigration. After some further debate and the adoption of some amendments the bill was passed and Messrs. Hill, Faulkner and Chandler were appointed conferees. At 5:20 the Senate went into executive session anti aV5:45 adjourned. The House transacted some unimportant business, Monday, of a rourtne nature. but spent most of the day debating the Senate amendments to the Indian appropriation bill providing for ratifying the treaties with the Nez Perz, Yakima and Yuma Indians, but no vote was taken. Mr. Johnson, of Ohio, presented the memorial of the Central Labor Union of Cleveland. 0.. praying for the impeachment of United States Judge Ricks, of Ohio, and it was referred to the judiciary committee. The Senate held a short and uninteresting session, Tuesday, adjourning at 2:40 p. m. The most important event in the day’s proceedings was the passage of a resolution directing the President to take steps for the release of American citizens confined in the island of Cuba for participation in recent rebellions. The early adjournment was due to a desire to avoid irritating remarks, which it was thought on the Democratic side, would probably be heard later in the day from Republican Senators, and might lead to a debate which, at the present time, when feeling is running high, might prove disagreeable. There was also nothing before the Senate except the calendar, which contains a layge number of bills that some of the leading Democratic Senators think might as well remain on the calendar. 4

In the Senate. Wednesday, House bill to reimburse E. 11. Neheker, late Treasurer of the United States, for 11,000 paid by him to make good a shortage in his accounts when his office was turned over tc his successor, was passed. A motion by Senator George to take up the bankruptcy bill resulted in a vote of 27 to 14. Failing to develope a voting quorum, Mr. Georgt withdrew the bill for the present. A House joint resolution authorizing a committee of Knights of Pythias to illuminate the dome of the Capitol during the coming encampment in Washington was agreed to. The Senate bill to further encouragt the holding of a world’s exposition at Atlanta, Ga., In 1895, by admitting exhibits free of duty and providing for striking oil medals at United States mints was passed. The Senate then, at 3 o’clock went into executive session, and at 3:21 adjourned until Thursday at 12 o'clock. In the House. Wednesday, the bill appropriating <4.(00,000 for a public building at Chicago came up, Mr. Dockery madt a point of order against the appropriation and on Mr. Black’s motion it was Stricker out. Mr. Black then, after a brief statement of the urgent necessity for a building at Chicago, moved that the bill bt laid aside with a favorable recommendation, and it carried—l4l to 2. Mr. Jones made the point of no quorum. A call ol the roll disclosed the lack of a quorum Mr. Maddox moved to adjourn. 'J his was resisted by the friends of the Chicagc building and defeated—4B to 89. Mr, Bankhead moved a call of the House The next call developed the lack of r quorum, and at 0:40 p. m. the House adjourned. 5 The sessions of both Senate and Housi were very brief Thursday. No business of importance was transacted and th< discission of miscellaneous business wm entirely devoid of interest.

CRIMES OF A DAY.

Satan at Large in All Parts of the Country. Lot* and Jealousy—Paramours and Sweetheart*—Knlre* and Revolvers—A Remarkable Record. Wednesday, Aug. 9, will be long remembered as a day of bloody deeds and awful crimes: OX HOOSIER SOIL. At Lebanon, Christian S. Wesner. Jr., —son of the late C. S. Wesner. the attorner killed at Danville by J. C. Brown—was murdered by his father-in-law, Jas. Livingston. The cause of the trouble dates back to the time of young Wesner’s marriage, three years* ago. Wesner was very jealous of his pretty wife, and this led to many quarrels. A short time after his marriage Livingston attempted to censure his son-in-law and was badly cut about the face. Since then they have had numerous quarrels. Tuesday night Wes ner went home intoxicated a»d drove his wife, mother and sister from the house. Warrants were issued for Wesner’s arrest, but the women were afraid to sign them. Wesner remained the sole occupant of the house all of Tuesday nlghl. Wednesday evening he began a search for his wife and went to the home of his father-in-law. Livingtone ordered him to leave. Wesner replied that he had come for his wife and was going to have her. Without further parley Livingston reached behind the door and secured a double-barrelled shotgun. He cried out: “I told you I would fix you,” and fired both barrels Into the body of his wayward son-in-law. His victim fell to the ground and cried: “Jim. you have killed me.” to which the murderer replied: “I don’t give a if I have.” Mrs.* Wesner, the victim’s wife, was hiding in the house at the time. Hearing the shots she ran to the side of her now dying husband and, at the sight of his wounds, feii prostrate across his body. Kind hands attempted to remove her into the house but she quickly recovered herself and refused to leave him. Coroner Porter was sent for and Deputy Prosecutor Dutch took his dying statement. He was removed to his home on North East street, and in the same room where his murdered father lay less than fifteen months ago, died at 10:10 o’clock. He received the entire contents of both barrels of the gun. Livingston was immediately arrested and lodged in jail. All attempts to interview him proved fruitless, and the only thing he will say is: "I am sorry, but I had to do it.” i Young Wesner was a remarkably bright young man and pleasant when not under the influence of liquor. As his father, he was a lawyer, and boro many of the characteristics of that well known attorney.

At Ottumwa, lowa, W. S. Jenkins.night baggageman for the Burlington at the depot at Chariton, la., shot his sweetheart, Julia Murphy, her sister Josie, their mother. Mrs. Eliza Murphy, and himself. Jenkins and Josie are dead, while the mother and younger sister are fatally wounded. Jenkins had been devoted to Miss Murphy for five years and failing to marry her because of the attentions of other men became insanely jealous. At East Carondolet, 111., Fred Kahn, a farmer, was murdered by his wife and her paramour. George Cantrell, who worked for the murdered man. The guilty couple were captured. A bloody fight occurred in Pottawottomie, O. T., between neighboring farmers. The conflict was carried on with stones, revolvers and Winchesters. J. C. Warren was killed and several others injured. ' ’ At Philadelphia, Pa., jealousy caused a triple trapedy. William Evans killed Louis Hecht, then shot Ills wife, and afterwards killed himself.

At Chicago, James Restin quarreled with his wife. Joseph Stooich interfered. Restin drew a revolver and shot him and then attempted suicide. Both men will die. At Scottdale, Pa., Lizzie Daniels, fourteen years old, shot and killed Miss. Weaver, aged sixteen. The girls had been swinging in a grove near by, and got into a violent quarrel. When they returned' home Lizzie procured a revolver and shot her companion through the left eye, the bnllet entering the brain. The Daniels girl had previously threatened to kill Miss Weaverand two of the latter’s brothers. The youthful murderess is now in jail. Royalty has burdens that ordinary people wot not of. The Emperor ol Germany sits for his photograph at least once a week.

OUR MARKET REPORT.

Aug. 11, 1991. Indianapolis. GRAIN AND HAT. Wheat —48c; corn. 53c; oats, 33|£c; hay, choice timothy. <11.5). LIVE STOCK. Cattle Shippers, $2.5034.15: Stockers. $2.00(33.40; heifers. $1.50(33.96; cows, $l(®3.10; milkers, [email protected]. [email protected]. Sheep—Sl.OiMfi3.oO. POULTRY AND OTHER PRODUCE. (Prices Paid by Shippers.> r Poui-THT-Hens. 8c per th: spring chickens, 9@Joc. per tt>; turkeys, toms. 3c per lb: hens, 6c per lb; ducks, 5c per ib; geese, $3 per doz. for choice. Eggs—Shippers paying 9c. Butter—Choice. ItKiU’c. Honey—l6"lßc Feathers—Prime geese, 30@32c per lb; mixed duck, 2Oc per lb. Beeswax —20c for-yellow: 15e for dark. Wool—Medium unwashed, 13c;-Cotts-' wold and course combing. ll@12c; tubwashed, 16f322c; burry and unmerchantable. SOIOe less. Hides—No. 1 G. S. hides. 3%c; No. 2 G. S. hides, 2%c; No. 1 calf hides, <s>£c; No. 2 calf hides, sc. Bones—Dry, 112(313 per ton. Chicago. Wheat—ss%c; corn, 59Xc; oats, 33'4c pork, $13.32%, v , New York. ... Oats —39c; wheat. corn, 67c. —Bt. Lonin. v ■ Pork—sl3.B7%; flaxseed, *1.34; oats, 32% c; corn, 57c; wheat, 52%c. I’Hlla ieip ii i. Oats—4oc; corn, 67c; wheat, 57%c. Baltimore. Wheat—s6%c; corn, 60%c; oats, 40c. MlnneaiHilft- .2 . Wheat—No. 1 hard, old, 61c. Cinctyuau. Wheat—soc; corn, 56c: oats, 33%c. Toledo. Corn—ssc; oats, 34%e; wheat, 55c. Hast Liberty. Cattle—Prime, $4.44X34.65.

THE ALABAMA ELECTION.

Captain Kolb Make* Beriou* Charge* Against Alabama Democrat*. Captain Kolb, Populist candidate foi Governor of Alabama, Aug. 7, furnished a lengthy interview over his own signature. Among other things he said: I claim to be elected by 18, CO) majority. Any citizen of Alabama of ordinary in* teliigence. who will take the trouble ta examine the figures claimed by the opposition can at once see that it will be a physical impossibility for the ticket headed by Colonel Oates to be declared elected except by claiming a majority ol over 27,0)0 from seven black belt counties having a white voting population not exceeding 12,000. The frauds this year are more notorious and shameful than those of 1892. For the purpose of deceiving the public they have to some extent been shifted. The returns as reported from Lowndes county indicate frauds exceeding anything ever before known in the history of this Slate. In Montgomery, Bullock and Barbour counties the fraud* are hardly less aggravated. The opposition claim Madison county by a majority of 1,443. Our strength in Madison county this year is much more strongly developed than in 1892. when we carried the county by about 400 majority. Furthermore, it is known that some seven or eight negroes were appointed as inspectors in Madison county, several of whom could neither read or write. It is a serious fact that in the city of Montgomery, at 4:30 p.m., only thirty minutes before the polls were closed, not exceeding 1,340 white voters and 74 colored voters had cast their ballots by actual count. Notwithstanding this fact, it is claimed that the city of Montgomery gives a majority of 2.400 for Colonel Oates. At Bessemer more than 400 of our voters were denied an opportunity of casting their ballots on account of opposition leaders crowding the poling places, materially aided by officers of the law in blocking the polling places. Kolb leaders in Alabama say that their candidate will be seated by force of arms if necessary. Another dispatch, however, says: Complete returns, unofficial, but reliable, from every county in the State but two make the Democratic majority 20,124. These two counties are Baldwin and Covington, both small, and they can not possibly change the foregoing result more than a few hundred. The official count in the counties will take place, Saturday. The Democrats have at least twenty-two members of the Senate out of thirtythree, and sixty-one members of the House out of one hundred.

THE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS.

I [ll ' ■ House Conferees Given Further Time. Chairman Wilson and his associate House tariff conferees scored a victory, Tuesday, when the House Democratic caucus called with a view of terminating the tariff struggle by instructing or advising the House conferees, adjourned without taking any action. The effect of this was to leave the conferees to proceed as they saw best, and to show conspicuously that the effort to advise them had failed. The friends of Mr. Wilson found that they had the caucus so well in hand that they could have passed the Livingstone resolution expressing confidence, but there was no desire on the part of the conferees to take this course. Speaker Crisp and Chairman Wilson expressed themselves as satisfied with this conclusion, and among the rank and file of the House the sentiment was general that the movement inaugurated to bring about an acceptance of the Senate bill had resulted in materially strengthening the opposition to the Senate bill. When the caucus had been called to order Mr. Bynum offered a series of resolutions urging mutual concessions, and spoke in favor of the best possible bill that could be agreed upon. Chairman Wilson characterized the calling of the caucus an unfortunate circumstance and thought that the House conferees should be left at liberty to agree on a measure that would be honorable to both Houses. Speaker Crisp followed with a forcible speech, urging fulfillment of party pledges. Finally Mr. Bynum withdrew his resolutions and the caucus adjourned without action.

A BURNING LAKE.

The Kokomo Natural Gas and Oil Company has an elephant on its hands in the shape of an uncontrollable gas well in the central part of the city. A few weeks ago the company, under the impression that the well bad gone dry, attempted to pull the casing. The pipe broke in two about 400 feet down, making it impossible to remove the lower portion or replace the top half. While pulling the tubing the workmen were driven from the place by a tremendous rush of gas and water from the well, which shot high in the air and took fire. The immense flow of water formed a small lake, which is kept in constant turmoil, like a boiling cauldron, by the gas rushing through the water. It is a veritable geyser, with gas nurning about it, endangering the houses and killing the trees in the vicinity. Paint >n houses a block away is blistered by the heat, and it has developed into a dangerous nuisance.

A FLURRY IN CORN.

The Chicago Board of Trade was the -cene of a wild buying panic, Tuesday, :orn shooting at a dizzy gait, and carrying wheat with it. The drought imthc corn pelt was unchecked, the Weather Bureau showing no signs of relief from the blistering winds that are sweeping over Western corn fields, withering the growth and destroying the crop, and excited brokers Clustered about the corn-pit eager to buy. At the Up of the bell, a wild struggle for holdings began. Shorts were frantic, and at every jump in the price, with its consequent losses to them, fought more fiercely for cover. Before 10 o’clock corn had gone up 7 cents in the long, a sensational jump, and wheat,- with its heavy load of bearish influences, had struggled up 2% cents. . The annual session Grand Council Patriarchs Militant I. O. O. F. was held at Elwood Aug. 6 and 7. It was decided to attend the meeting of the Sovereign Grand Lodge at Chattanooga In September as a department. Gen. W. W. Canada, ol Winchester, was elected department commander for the ensuing year. The oldest man In Rush county is Jacob > Daubenspeck, who resides with a son neai Glenwood. He was born in 1797 in Bourbon county, Kentucky, and he settled in Rush county in 1827. He Is still a robust man, weighing over two hundred poundJ and physically and mentally active.