Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1895 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Six inches of snow fell in Denver, SunSay night. u • Two thousand tailors are on strike in New York. Plunger Ed. Pardridge, of Chicago,-lost £150,000 on wheat, April 19. The Pullman Car Company is serving ejectment papers on delinquent tenants. It is reported that Henry Villard has again secured control of the Northern Pacific. - Ex-Senator Wilson died at Fairfield, lowa, April 22, after an illness of several weeks. Miss June Adams has been appointed garbage inspector of the Nineteenth Ward, Chicago. Chicago factories which have been .burning crude oil for steam production will return to coal, May 1. Two Americans, named Thoerne.r and Koegel. who are walking around the world, have arrived at Monte Carlo. . The funeral of the late Mari-, sur. Deputy Controller of the Treasury, took place at Richmond, Mo., Friday. 7 Penn Nixon, who owns a majority of the Inter Ocean stock, denies •mphatlcally that the paper is forXale. A New York correspondent says that Eastern Democrats will push Gen. Miles for the Democratic presidentfal nomination. .

Mrs. Donnelly, whom John L. SulUvan rescued after her clothes caught tire, died' from her injuries in the Boston Cjty. Hps.pital. 7k A resolution favoring the annexation of UntiedStates w asTseafied’ by the New York House of Representatives. . _ . 7=4Ex-Mayor J, Hull Davidson, of Lexington, Ky., has been fined £SO and sentenced to serve ten days ip jail for carrying a concealed deadly weapon. Henry Piper has been arrested for stealing gold from the San Francisco mint; where he worked. He is said to have carried it off in the dinher pail.: There fs some fear of an Indian uprising in Thurston county, Neb. Tho Win; nebagos threaten to eject the whites who have settled on their reservation. The gold fever has broken out Im NorthCarolina, because-of the allegeddiscovery' In Stanley county of a pure nugget, weighing eight pounds and five ounces. Theodore Roosevelt has been appointed a member of the New York Board of Police Commissioners, and will resign -hl's place as a Civil Service Commissioner. Madeline Pollard, who is unable to collect her judgment of £15,000 against Col. Brecftnridge. will make a trip around the world as a companion to a charitable lady. Tho Chicago and Omaha Live Stock Exchanges have adopted resolutions condemning the action of Secretary Morton in regard to the admission of Mexican cattle. Alice Walsh, an abandoned woman, of New York, was found brutally murdered, Sunday. The mutilations of the body were similar to the “Jack-the Ripper” trlmes in London. United States custom officials at Mont-real-have unearthed a scheme of an organized gang of smugglers who have been shipping Chinamen into this country in perforated coffins. The annual report of the Standard Oil Company states that the paid in capital stock- of <the company is £7,000,000; its debts do not exceed £3,000,0U0, and its assets amount to £10,000,000. A train on the Philadelphia & Reading railroad struck a wagon containing Mr. and Mrs. Henry Frank, aged sixty-two arid sixty-five respectively, near Richland, Pa., and both were instantly killed.

GENERAL A. M'D. M'COOK.

Major General Alexander McCook was placed on the retired list, April 22, and surrendered his command of the Department of Colorado to Col. Thomas Ward, Adjutant General. The Moline Plow Works of Moline, 111. have, it is announced, practically closed the lease of ground in St. Louis on which the company will erect a five-story building, 801 by 103 feet, costing 130,000. During a quarrel in a Justice’s court in Edgefield county, S. C., John C. Swearingen, brother-in-law of Senator Tillman and ex-Congressman George Tillman, was killed by B. L. Jones, Bad feeling existed between the men. The eighty-sixth birthday of Mrs. William McKinley, mother of the Governor was celebrated at Canton, Ohio, Monday, with a family reunion, at which about a dozen per Sons, including the Governor and his wife, were present. Forest fires are raging In the mountains in Southern West Virginia. Fully two thousand acres of timber land have been burned over hi the region of the Poca river and along Kelly's creek. No lives have been reported lost. A joint stock company has been incorporated to publish the Chicago Enquirer, the now Democratic organ in that city. Capital stock, #1,000.000. Tho policy of Abe new paper on tho financial question has not yet been determined. Hon. George Nathaniel Curzon, M. P., was married to Miss Mary Letter, daughter of L. Z. Loiter formerly of Chicago, at Washington, April 23, Sir Julian Pauncefote, British Ambassador, and many otiicr distinguished people were present. . Word lias been'receiveil that Frank Huffman, the train robber and desperado who has operated in central Missouri for the past five years, has been captured at Collins, Mo. Lie was recently surrounded and shot in a swamp in Hickory county, but escaped. Rubq Smith, tho lender of the celebrated Burrows gang, sent up to the Ohio 'penitentiary, Dec. from Mississippi, to serve a lite sent4wie for attempted|train robbery, died, Saturday afternoon,

in the prison hospital. He is said to have kHled-fivemen, In a demurrer filed by E. J. (“Lucky” Baldwin, at San Francisco, to the suit o.‘ Miss Lillian Ashley for £50,000 damages, he says that his reputation wasj too well known for him to deceive any woman, and that she knew he was married and unable to carry out a promise of marriage. _ Brooklyn. N. Y.. has discovered twe well-defined cases of leprosy, both colored boys,, one seven, the Jother seventeer. years old, both coming from Barbadoes, West Indies, two years ago. The cases are under surveillance of the Board o) Health, which is puzzled as to wfiai to do. , Gen. Ballington Booth, of the Salvation Army, has renounced Queen Victoria and will become-an - A mer ican citizen. : Hehai made formal application at the County Clerk'/office in Jersey City for the necessary’ papers. Gen. Booth's first paperi W'ro taken out in New York in hS'J. Senor Dupuy de Lome, the new Spanish minister to the United States, arrived a' Npw York. April interviewed pti Gufeiin f-k>satyf the insurrec. tl&h be stamped out by force of arms, and that Campos' arrival in Cuba has already caused a feeling of security in the island. W. S. Mathias has obtained the. right <>! way for an electric north fron, Danville, 111., to Iroquois county. The .l.yie. Will ,bp .over thirty .pijles .long, ami -wiill reach Bismarck. Alvimvlfossvine twid Hoopeston. The passenger rate is not t<i exceed cents per mile, and the road it to be completed bv May 1.1896. "fl Tha Eri knrcl? Marin fact uri ng Company, iif Augusta, Me..’notified a committee of spinners that the 8 per cent.,cut madii some months ago-would be restored t<« them, and possibly to all departments in the mill. May 1. , • •. ... The Missouri Legislature convened Ju extra session, April 23, at Jefferson City, having been called by Gov. Stone to enact legislation to properly define the relation! classes- of raHroad m-’jribyestSopreverit-fhd'"ntairiteriarice of riri organized lobby, ami'to amend electio;| laws So tis td prevent fraud. H. H, KohlsaSt has purchased a controlling Interest; in the Chicago Times’JlStihi {yid : Eveaing'i > oit,:arid.wifl dirccy the policy'of the publications h.eredft er. 1; is.understood that the Times-Herald will be independent in politics and will advo-, cate protection to air American industries,: . ?' :l -p Reciprocity between the United State) and Hawaii in shipping regulations ha* recently been brought about by the action of the Treasury Departifaeri.t in gfyfng'tu Hawaiian merchant vessels'thhsame ad, vantages enjoved by American ships. Thu Hawaiian government has already placet) United States ships on thesaipe terms as its own. One hn nd red and clgh teen colored Baptist converts were baptized at Lawrence. Kas., Sunday. Forty were immersed in the pool at the church, and tberemainder were baptized in the Kaw river, in tho presence of thousands of people who had gathered on tho banks. Seventy-five wer« immersed in less than thirty minutes. Collis I’. Huntington, President of the Southern Pacific railroad, was arrested al New York, Monday, on the charge 0! giving a free pass to Frank Stone, in violation of interstate commerce law. He was arraigned before United States Commissioner Shields, and was represented by his counsel, Frederick R. Condert. He was taken before Judge Brown, of the United States District Court, for a warrant of removal to California. fi One of the most successful burglaries on record was carried out at Port Royal, neat Mifflintown, Pa., Wednesday night, the general store of Noah Hertzler being robbed of bonds, stocks, merchandise and money to the value of £35,000. The establishment was amply protected with burglar alarms, but the robbers managed te gain an entrance to the cellar and cut their way through the floor. A liberal reward has been offered for the arrest of the thieves.

Geo E. Sherman, whose weight in life was 478 pounds,was buried at Orange.N.j; Sunday. The co Ilin was seven feet long, three feet wide, and two and one-hall feet deep. It had to be taken through a window to a monster hearse made for exhibition at the World’s Fair. Fourteen men carried the body and coffin from ths house. Seaman was a G. A. R, veteran, and the undertaker wanted to use a guncarriage to carry the body to tho grave. The Kentucky Senatorial fight is onto earnest. Secretary Carlisle, Senatot Blackburn. Jas. B. McCreary, ex-Gov. Buckner and an unknown number of dark horses are in the race. Senator Blackburn has announced himself in favor oi free silver. McCreary is unalterably opposed to free coinage. Secretary Carlisle us yet has made no formal statement of his position, but bis financial views art too well known to need stating at this time. The contest for the Senatorship promises to become of national interest. John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, saved a woman's life at Boston, Sunday. As hs was leaving his boarding house in Dovei street, he heard a woman scream in th< rear of the house, lie ran down the stairway and saw at once that there was fin in the kitchen, and that Mrs. Margare' Donnelly, the cook, was in danger o; burning to death, her clothing havinj beau ignited by blazing fat on the stove He quickly wrapped a big mat around th< woman and succeeded in extinguishing the fire. She was badly burned, but th< chances are favorable for her recovery, fJtulilvan’s hands were burned in Severn places, and he was obliged to call on i doctor, but the injuries are not serious.

FULLER’S OPINION.

The full text of the opinion of Chief Justice Fuller In the income tax cases which was delivered on the Sth Inst, was madt public, Wednesday. In regard Jto wha' constitutes a direct tax the Chief Justic: says: There have been from time to t-me intimations that there might be some ta: which was not a direct tax uor includec under the words duties, imposts and ex rises, but suctwa tax for more than on< hundred yearr of National existence ha; remained uiidlscovered. notwithstanding the stress of particular circumstances ha: invented thorough investigation intc sources of revenue. The opinion reviews at length forme: decisions of the Court in cases bearing or the subject and In tbeomain contains th* conclusions arrived at in the decislot handed down on the Bth Inst., holdin; that tho tax is void as applying to lanr rentals and incomes from State and mu nicip-il bonds.

TURPIE TALKS

▲boat Uia Nicholson BUI and ProdleU Id Raponi. Senator David Turpie addressed the Hendricks Club at Indianapolis, Tuesday night, in an exhaustive argument against the Nicholson bill. His remarks were more especially directed to Section 9. which he held.to be tyrannical and to curtail the natural rights of the citizen. After reviewing the history of the Maine law and the Baxter law the Senator tn partsaid: The terms of this section are only a slight modification of those of the act of 1873. In the one case prohibition is enforced by petition, in the other by remon; strance. The result fs the same under both enactments, absolute inhibition of sale for useonthe premises, in the localities designated, and. indeed, throughoutthe entire State if the condition required obtain. It is easy to see that this ninth sec-, tion is the chief operative clause in the lajt. It is the very core of Its purpose and intendment; yet it is not mentioned in the title; it is not expressed in the title. The only subject embraced in the title is “to better regulate and restrict the sale, ete,!' But If there be no sale, how cah the Sale be regulated? How shall we make restrictions or regulations of a transaction which has no existence? The authors of of., this bill knew very well where its chief power was placed. They counted with main force upon the ninth sectipn. They now urge that the absolute prohibitory provisions of this section ate not only wise and expedient, but that their are good, beneficial arid altogether righteous. Why, then, was this section, good and gracious as it., is, so carefully concealed? Why was it not expressed in-the title and for what reason was it hidden away in ambush? Because the people-off Indiana had so often rejected prohibitioh in every form, this policy is thrust upon us without discussion, without debate, without being heard of as an element-in the last public canvass in our State, proper title of this law Is an act to prohibit the sale and use of malt arid vinous beverages whenever a majority remon-/ strateiadversely thereto. Prohibition is the main purpose—restriction and regulation are incidents. The incidents of restriction and regulation are expressed in the title; the chief subject matter is not even alluded to in the title. 4 In conclusion the Senator said: The Democratic party stands now. where it has al ways stood, opposed to prohibitory legislation. This position is npf Induced by fear of, or favor to. any particular elements or interests in the community, but Is induced wholly by the devotion of the party to the cause of human rights, the .privileges arid immunities of the in asses of the people. The Democratic party has always declared *iteelf in favor of the doctrine arid practice of tetnpefarice and sobriety. ..Itfias never opposed the formation dr progress of those organizations among the people which foster dhese virtues and have accomplished so much practical good hj the world by their advocacy. Its legislation has incorporated, v recognized and protected them. But these associations grow out of voluntary action of their members. I trust the time may be, near, there are manifest signs of its approach, when the action and deliberation of our people and their public representatives shall revert oncemore to the plain ground of reason upon this Subject: shall enter and abldq In the domain of common sense—-commonj sense, that home of the mind, its domicile, itsldwelling place, whither aftel many wanderings it returns at last.

A LION AND BULL FIGHT.

Both Badly Hurt, But the Bull Had the Best of It. Advices have been received from Mon-; terey, Mexico, of a furious fight in a bull ring there, Sunday afternoon, between a ' Mexican bull and an African lion. Three thousand spectators were present. Both ■ animals were badly disabled at the finish* but the bull had tho best of it. For fori ty-five minutes the lion held a grip with , his powerful jaws upon the neck, chest and face of the bull while being draegeq around the, ring and mercilessly stamped I upon by his powerful antagonist. For, I over twenty minutes tho jjon held its po-i | sition on the bull's jaws, lacerating them ! In an awful manner. The bull finally 1 succeeded in breaking this hold and tossed the lion three times in the air on his horns. The lion was, in sporting par-i lance, the first to ‘•holler” enough. Il <» was injured internally and was bareljf able to drag himself to his cage. The bull was terribly torn about the throat, nosrj and chest, but after the. lion had retired proudly ran about the ring as the victor;

INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS.

The monthly statement of collections of Internal revenue issued, Tuesday,! shows the total receipts from all sources for the nine months of the present fiscal year ended March 31, 1895. to have been #109,995,015, of which 119,802 was from income tax from persons and 18,855 from corporations, companies and associations. The remainlngyllems of receipts were: Spirits, #63,902,869, Increase for the nine months#l,lßo,739; tobacco #22,106,326, increase #951,285; fermented liquors #22,301,865, decrease >309,215; oleomargarine 81,185,222, decrease #262,193; miscellaneous #470,273. increase #3G0,539. The net increase for the nine months was #1,950,163. The principal single item of increase was #1,295,628 from whisky. The increases and decreases for the month of March, 1895, compared with March, 1894, Is shown as follows: Spirits, decrease, #2,905,024; tobacco, decrease #145,364; fermented liquors, decrease #180,115; oleomargarine, decrease #34,009; miscellaneous. Increase #17,317; income tax, increase 816,839; aggregate decrease for the month #3,230,355.

OIL EXCITEMENT IN KENTUCKY.

Northern and Eastern prospectors ar« flocking to tho oil fields in Wayne county, fifty miles southeast of Danville, Ky„ where the Standard and other companies have already a great many leases made. Some good strikes have been made In that region, and veteran oil men express th< opinion that the field will shortly becomt of National Importance. It extends southward from Monticello twenty-five miles U the Tennessee line.

A REHEARING.

Chief ’Justice Fuller at Washington. April 23. made the following order in regard to the petitions for a rehearing 0; the income tax question: _ . . . „. “Theconsideration of the two petition: (the Income tax petitions) for rebearlni Is reserved until Monday, May 6, when 1 full bench is expected, and in that event two counsel on aside will be heard at thai time." Although the order does not explicitly bo state, It means that argument will b< beard, not only on the merits of the in come tax question itself, but on the question whether or not there shall be a ro hearing of ihe suit* heretofore decided.

OFFICIAL INFORMATION.

Outlines of England's Program In Nicaragua. A Washington special, April 24, Exact official information has been received as to Great Britain’s belligerent steps in Nicaragua. British troops are to bedanded at Corinto. The custom houses are to be occupied by the British forces, and British officers are to exercise the functions of collectors of customs. At the same time Nicaragua local commerce is to be crippled by a blockade. The limit o f time allowed Nicaragua to yield expires tomorrow (Thursday), and the blockade, landing of troops and seizure of custom houses is to begin immediately thereafter. There is good reason to believe that Nicaragua is not Ijkely to yield, but will allow British troops to occupy Corinto, in order that conspicuous attention may be drawn to what is regarded by Nicaragua as an invasion of the Monroe doctrine.

"MURDER WILL OUT."

The mysterious murder of an unknown man. found April 21,1890, in an alley near the Big Four depot at Terre Haute, has at ;ast been cleared "up, and Captain of Police Hyland arrived, Thursday, with William Disbennett, the alleged murderer, snd Henry Seibert, his alleged accomplice, The former was arrested at Alexandria and the latter at Anderson. Disbennett is an ex-convict, haying served a term in the Michigan Ciiy prison 1 for.Jarzeny.' He was sent to the penitentiary from Muncie about two years ago and was discharged from prison about sixty days.ago. He is about thirty.-five years as age. Seibert is several years younger. The unknown victim was between twen-ty-three and twenty-five years of age, five feet six inches In hqlgbt, datk hair arid of a strong, athletic build. He was imooth-shaven. There was not a scrap pf paper with writing on It and there was aoiclue to his identity. The information which led to the arrests was given by SpTbert’s father who now resides at Greenville, O.

FOREIGN.

: .Cholera has broken out at Mecca. • Frederic William Farrar* D. D., F. R S.,.archdeacon of Westminster, has been Appointed dean of Canterbury. The ex-. Speaker of the British House ol Commons, the Right Hon. Arthur Wellesley Peel, has been created a viscount. There are said to be 27,000 Japanese in the Hawaiian Islands, 11,000 of them being laborers on sugar plantations. Joaquin Miller, the *‘poet of the Sierras,” is accused of paving betrayed a young woman of Honolulu, and to have left her in destitute circumstances. He makes no explicit denial of the charge. The non-union miners at Minersville, f)„ were driven from work by the strikers, Sa tn rd ay afternoon. T ““ The Panama Canal Company will dispense with native policemen shortly, it i> reported, and thereby save #42,000 a year The body of Gen. Antoine Maceo is reported to have been found near the field where the battle of Palmarito was fought. Since the discovery the insurgents nc iqnger deny the death of their chief. A rebel leader, close to the councils of th« party, says that the promoters of the revolution have known for’ten days of th« death of Maceo, but they determined to keep-the fact a secret for fear of its disastrous effect upon the insurgent cause. Even the cause of Maceo’s death was known. He was not killed by the Spaniards, but died by his own sword. Maceo was disheartened from the moment of his 1 landing in Cuba. He expected to find th< island tn arms and ready to follow him The handful he led at Palmarito was the largest force he was.able to muster, anc when defeat came, and with it the loss ol Crombet, his chief adviser, the rebel General took his own hfe rather than fall into the hands of his Spanish enemies. Queen Victoria arrived at Darmstadt from Nice, Wednesday, and attended ths christening of the daughter of the Grano Duchess of Hesse, formerly Princess Victoria Melita of Sate - Coburg - Gotha 1 daughter of the Duke-pf Edinburgh, second son of her Majesty. The baby wai born on March 11, last. The Princess wai married to Grand Duke Ernest of Hess: st Coburg, in April a year ago, in th< presence of Queen Victoria, Emperoi 1 William and other distinguished people. : The baby just christened is the,seventieth direct descendant of Queen Victoria. An extensive tobacco factory at Mon- ; Lreal was partially destroyed by fire Thursday evening. The loss will react half a million, on which there is no insur ance. There were no fire escapes, on tb« building and a panic ensued among tbi. employes. Many were rescued by tin firemen, while others made desperate leaps to adjoining roofs and to the. ground Numbers of girls and women were in jured, some being mangled in a bn-rihi, manner. Five of those taken to the hos pital will die. Others are supposed t< have received fatal injuries,

Territory acquired by Japan under th terms of the recent agreement at Shimon asekf. Shaded portions indicate thene: Japanese acquisition' ,

THE HARRISON BOOM.

Hie Frfends of thoTtc-PireMdeat HhtaA'lt Is v «ry Healthy. An Indianapolis dispatch to the New York Herald, Apr. 22. says: The story that there Is a movement on foot to make' Benjamin Harrison the Presidential eanlidate of bimetallists seenap to .reflect truthfully the hopes and plans of some of ihe former President's friends. It is in the Western States that the sentiment for Harrison’s renomination is the strongest. 80 far as ! can learn. General Harrison Is not a party to the movement, but he seems to be giving it s die encouragement by remaining silent. Many attempts to get from him some expression on the currency iuestion, as well as a statement tn reference to his candidacy, have recently been made. He seems determined not,to break his rule not to talk for publication. He will never say rriore than Abat no person is authorized to speak of his plans. One of his friends said today: “I doubt If the sx-President will talk on the currency question between now and the Republican National Convention. He is willing to stand by his views expressed In the Colorado speech, He believes that his position is well understood. He will not seek the nomfafctio&for the Presidency, bud if his friends should push him as a candi-.. date on which the opposing factions can unite he will not object. ” These managers of Mr. Harrison have resurrected' the speech he. made In La Junta, Col., while on his Way to lecture In the Lelapd Stanford University Jast year, arid'hreilrcufaiirig it through the West, as evidence that! Mr. Harrison Is “all right.” so far as tha silver people are concerned. The paragraph in the speech to whlph, special attention H -fiairigcalled I?: “Npw,T say io yon today what I said when I was President, and what >1 hate. always believed—that a larger use of silver for money and. free coinage of sHvete, upon a basis to be agreed upon that would maintain its- parity with gold; was good for the whole world. I do not believe that we could run free coinage ourselves when the governments were pursuing the policy they hive been pursuing with silver. l but, my fellow-citizens, thdre, are clear indications now in England and ip Germany that they-are feeling the effects of a scarcity of gold a,nd its prostrating effects, upon the iriduStrieS. “I believe these two great .countries ars nearer right today than they have been' for the past twenty years. They are all considering favorably the question of a larger and freer use of silver as a money metal,and bimetallism has gained strength in England, and that energetic and young Emperor of Germany is himself considering the question of bim'dtrilllsm.”

THE LAKE COUNTY MURDERS.

nw Mystery JVeepen* a» Tn vest I gnt ton - Proceeds. Three weeks since Mrs. Pauline Ellwanger was found in her house, at Cedar Lake, Ind., about four miles from Crown Point, lying in a pool of blood. The weapon used was evidently a heavy hardwood rolling pin which lay near by stained with blood. The door on the side of the house had been broken in, and near the woman lay a man’s shirt with bloodstains on the cuffs and the prints of bloody fin;, gers on the neckband. Beside the shirt was a pair of wet socks. The woman was not dead, but unconscious, and died the following morning without having re-

OTTO ELLWANGER, [From photograph taken two or three years ago]

rained consciousness. Suspicion was directed against the husband, who was missing. The day previous, Aprii 8. Ellwanger was known to have gone to Chicago with a neighbor, returning in his company about mkjqtght. That was the last seen of him alfve: Sunday evening, April 21, the disfigured and bloated remains of Eflwanger were found floating in Lemon Lake: The man’s throat had been cut and there were a number o{ bribes on his bead. The investigation byofficials since that time have only served the mystery. It has been discovered* however, that Mrs. Ellwahger had three former husbands living, 0,11 pt whom were undivorced, She was also an heir to con-

PAULINE ELLWANGER. THE MURDERED WOMAN.

slderable property from her mother’s estate and had been involved In trouble on that account. A letter was found from her first husband accusing her of bigamy and giving her advice concerning her property. He avowed himself as her friend and said he alone was to blame for her bigamous relations, because of his failure to procure a divorce as ba h*d promised '

A REHEATING.

Chief Justice Fuller at Washington April 23. made the following order in regard to the petitions tor a rehearing oi the income tax question: - •‘Theconsideration of the two petitions (the income tar petitions) for rehearing Is reserved until Monday, May 6, when > full bench is expected, and in that event two counsel on aside will be heard at that 11 Although the order does not- explicitly so state, it means that argument will in heard, not only on the merits of the lw* come tax question Itself, but o nlh ® <!“**• tion whether or not them shall be* rehearing of the suits heretofore decided.

BLOWN TO ATOMS.

severi'Hooiri red QaitHe eF KtfrtvGTyearla* Rxplode. Seven hundred and twenty quarts oi nitro-glycerine exploded, Friday morning, while being hauled across the river at Powell’s ford, two miles east of Bluffton. Wj ll U 1 mer, the driver, wagon and team, were blown to atoms. Only fragments ©: the entire outfit could be found. A holt sixty feet across and fifteen deep wai made in the bank of the river. Four large oak trees which overhung the site of th« disaster were broken like straws, one being hurled a distance of 100 yards Windows were brokeir in all the housei within a radius of two miles, while Muncie, Marlon and cities thirty and forty miles distant felt the shock distinctly. Between six and eight thousand peopls were on the scene during the day. Ulmer, JJhe unfortunate driver of the wagon, had been time arid again implored by his parents to givo up his hazardous work. Ail the remains of Ulmer were a piece ot the lungs, a bit of the knee-cap and small particles of clothing, and these were gives a respectable burial Sunday morning. Unrecognizable pieces of harness; horst flesh an|l : wagon were found hanging in trees a hundred yards distant. The explosive was being hatiled to the fields sot the Ohio and Indiana Torpedo Company, Whose works were ‘ d«nroy'ed 'at Mma Ohio, Wednesday, by an explosion, and this loss, together with that of tfie Lima plant, wiR seriously rripW dll operation* r for a fe.w. days. Ten thousand people visited the scene of the explosion "SuffiTSy.

BRITISH TROOPS IN CORINTO.

England’* Fing Now ■ u~* — ” A Washington special, April OT, says: “The British h%ve occupied Corinto arid the British flag floats over tho <sity. ,l>r. Guzman twtp o’clock this mofiiltjg, (fivlpg him the first official information. Tfic caNcgraui’ were very brief, and stated only these tial facts, and also tbht the landing was made at 1 o’clock Saturday morning. All the government officiate, as well as ths NicaraguAn population of Corinto, Dr. Guzman says, have vacated tho town, ■leading it completely in the possession ol the British ,i ~

TROUBLE IN PEKIN.

A Shanghai . cabin, April 26, says: A dispatch received here from: feekin says that affairs there are in a critical state. iSomeof the generals amin favor of continuing the war. The censors Object to Viceroy Li Hung Chang, and the terms of the treaty of peace between China and Japan, and the officials are claiming that the Emperor alone should decide upon tbs terms, The ratification of the treaty is consequently uncertain, and if it is ratiSed it is feared that there will be trouble with the army.

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

Justice Andrews, in the New York Supreme Court, decided that George J. j Gould must pay taxes on the assessment of #19,000,000 levied by the tax commisiloners. A point of law concerning Jay Gould’s will had been raised. Ex-President Harrison accepted an invitation from the park commissioners to plant a tree in Glenn Park, Richmond, Thursday afternoon. A thrifty young ash was selected, and while some one held it In position, Mr. Harrison shoveled the dirt about the roots. There was tip speech making. There is a strip of track, on the Chicago . & Eastern Illinois between two trestles neat Clinton, known far and near as a fatal and dangerous spot. Five men have been killed there wfthin the past four years by railway trains, besides which there have been more train wrecks there than all the other accidents put together A new corporation is; to be organized at Fall River, Mass., in: ta few days to build a large cotton goods milL Thq- capital stock is expected to be 8400JMM, -■ . At Ingalls, Friday, Mr& Isaac Humes, while iu a. deserted tome ia: htf garden, was assaulted by an unknown person, after which her throat was cut by her assailant, and fully twenty-five gashes ent on her f aeo and shouJdurs. was, then thrown into the cejjar, which was partially tilled with witter.' ThO MrftXer revived h«r and she sriceeedqd in..getting out. but fell unconscious before reaching the house. There Wisgrentrexcitemenl ah Ingalls. .A stranger.,arrested at Fortville and laken to lngalls for identification, but be was not the man. : Mrs. Humes described her assailant as a heavy set .tramp. A number 6( tramps were arrested at Munde and Arfderson and were held for examination. Mrs. Humes was idly years;,old, The water was baled out of the old cellar, Saturday, and the rizotWith which the cutting was Whs found. A determined effort will be'-maide to arrest; the guilty person. .r.'Oiuqsj

During A. performance ,at the Wysot Grand Opera House,.at Mqnete; two gentlemen occupying inside seats arose to walk out between cuftaini Between them and the aisle sat Mrs. William Griffin, who refused to let them pass, claiming that she had paid for the seat she ws l using and that she conld not be annoyed every time the curtain fell by people running out to patronize the bar. The gentlemen appealed to the management, bul the lady wau firm, and they were finally compelled toiresunie their seats and gc “dry” until the. performance was concluded. The attention of the audience was attracted by the unusual wrangle, and the woman received rounds of applause because of her determination. It is now given out at Muncie that hereaftei thirsty patrous will have to occupy aisls seats or carry a flask. James Harding, a farm n r of Brown county, was found in the woods burned to death. He left home to fight forest tires, and is supposed to have been overcome by the beat? The Supreme Court, Friday, overruled a petition for a rehearing in the case ot the State of Indiana against the Tolleston Club, of Chicago. Several month] ago the Court decided that the State is entitled to possession of the lands along the Calnmet river, which the Club is occupying. Judge Howard, who wrote thi original opinion, writes a lengthy opinion overruling the petition for a rehearing, restating and emphasizing the views expressed on the original opinion.