Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. BERSSSLAER, > - INDIANA.

BOOM IN IRON TRADE.

BIG CONCERN RAISES WAGES OF ITS MEN. Chicago Jurist Ignores a New LawGermany’s New Tariff Measure Oper-ative-Death in the Electric ChairPrecocious Young Georgia Murderer L ' < Thousands Get Better Pay. The increase of 10 per cent, in wages recently announced by the Illinois Steel Company went into effect Monday. Over seven thousand men will be benefited by the change. The advance has been made at the South Chicago works, tho North Chicago rolling mills and the plants at Milwaukee and Joliet. All classes of employes are included in the advance, with the exception of the tonnagemeu, who work on a sliding scale. That is, the rate of wages of those paid according to the actual amount of manufactured material is regulated according to the market price of the material they are employed in making. When the price of steel, rails, for example, advances, the wages of those employed in making steel rails advance in proportion. When the market price of steel rails declines the wages of the workmen decline with them. All this class of workers are not interested in the change, but all who work at a given amount per day will be benefited.

Judge G oggin Kefjeia, ~ Judge Goggin of Chicago doesn’t think the Fletcher prison parole law, passed by the last Legislature, constitutional, and Monday refused to sit in the Criminal Court and try cases according to its provisions. He discharged until further notice the jury which had been selected, and declined to hear any of the cases on his call. The witnesses were also dismissed, and so far as his branch is concealed" Judge Goggin put a stop to criminal^court business, declaring the law was unconstitutional, and that to try cases under it was a waste of time. The law which made the Judge strike provides that, except in murder and treason cases, the jury can only return a verdict of guilty or not guilty without fixing the length of sentence to the penitentiary. Under its provision's a prisoner will be sentenced to the limit of the law and the question of reducing the sentence rests entirely with the warden and the prison board, who are to reward him according to-bis good behavior. The jury has nothing to do with fixing the time of sentence. The new law went into effect Monday.

Imposition of Retaliatory Duties. The new tariff measure passed by the German reichstag early in May went into effect Monday. The most important provision is that authorizing the government to impose retaliatory duties whMiever other nations discriminate against German products. Discriminating duties on goods now on the free list are, however, limited to 20 per cent, ad valorem. The measure also raises the duty on.perfumes containing alcohol from 200 lo 300 marks, and imposes a protective duty on Quebracho wood, which is used for tanning. Dr. Robert W. Buchanan Electrocuted. Dr. Robert W. Buchanan, the wife poisoner, was electrocuted at Sing Sing, N. Y., Monday forenoon. Mrs. Buchanan made a last effort to induce Governor Morton to commute the sentence to life imprisonment. The woman sank on .her knees before the Governor and pleaded for her husband’s life, though her almost prevented her from speaking. Morton was plainly overcome by the woman’s pleading, and tears stood in his eyes as he lifted her to her feet and told her that ne could uot grant her request. Eleven-Year-Old Boy Kills a Child. Information received from Harris County, Georgia, states that Henry Thomas, an 11-year-old negro boy, had just killed his second victim. He was hired by his uuele, Jasper Thomas, to care for a child about a year old while the father and mother were in the field working. Henry grew tired of acting ns nurse and took his uncle’s pistol while his uncle and aunt were in-the field and shot the child dead. Henry then laid it on the bed and fled to the woods. He has not been seen since. This is the second child he has killed. Under the Wheels. The Cumberland accommodation on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ran into an open switch at Laughlin Station near Pittsburg and collided with a switch engine. The crew of the shifter all jumped except Harvey Louther, a brakeman, who was instantly killed. Fireman Mcßeth, of the accommodation, also jumped and was seriously injured. A number of passengers were bruised and cut by broken glass.

NEWS NUGGETS.

The Eureka Tobacco Works at Washington operated by A. Beck & Co., Chicago, has been notified by the postoffice department to cease sending through the mails bags of smoking tobacco, or to remove from them certain cards that offer a prize to the purcha'ser of those containing a given number. The department holds that the scheme is practically a lottery. .Sigmund Frietsch & Co., Cincinnati pork packers, assigned to Moses Ruskin, who estimates the assets at SIIO,OOO and the liabilities at $58,000. Mr. Frietsch Bays the assignment is only a suspension, caused by the high price of hogs and the low price of lard. Among the creditors is the Merchants’ National Bank for $20,000. The firm has always had u favorable standing. The house of Trotter Holliday, a prominent rancher, who lived near Gridley, Cal., burned, and Holiday and his niece perished in the flames. Two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, the July interest on the bonds of the State of Tennessee, w’ere paid Monday. The State Treasury has on hand $023,000. * - . Miss Minnie Wilkinson committed suicide in a Richmond (Vo.) church because her lover proved faithless. J. Lamb Doty, United States Consul at Tahiti, is charged with deceiving a native girl with a mock marriage. : _

EASTERN.

■William Fickhardt,'a wealthy importer of New York city, died at Cologne, Germany. —> — t-1 The employes of the Pennsylvania Wheel Foundry at Altoona have received a 12 per cent increase of wages. The largest lens in the world has just been completed at the Clarke establishment in Cambridge. It is for the great Yerkes telescope and weighs 500 pounds. A two days’ session of the university convocation in the interests of higher and secondary education met at Albany, N. Y., Thursday,. Among the participants were Presidents Harper, of Chicago University; Eliot, of Harvard, and Shurman, of Cornell. Louis M. Cornish, a New York broker, was found dead in the library of his home. There was a bullet hole in his right temple. No motive for suicide was advanced. His physician is said to have remarked that financial difficulties led Mr. Cornish to commit the deed. The American Watch Company of Waltham, Mass., closed its works Friday for three weeks, in accordance with its usual custom of giving its employes an annual vacation. Last year the works were closed for four weeks, but owing to the increased demand for the company’s output it was necessary to curtail the vacation this summer.

WESTERN.

Mrs. J. J. Corbett, wife of the pugilist, has joined the Fargo, N. D., divorce eol--tmy. —— —- ——: At Seattle, Wash., three boys were drowned in the bay while playing on a boom of logs. The alleged lynchers of ex-County Treasurer- Barrett Scott have been acquitted by the jury at Butte, Neb. “Rainmaker” Frank Melbourne has confessed so a Cleveland reporter that his performance in the West several years ago was a humbug. Charles Taylor, a colored burglar, was caught in the residence of T. M. Hydock, a South Omaha, Neb., citizen, at midnight, Saturday, and after a desperate struggle was shot and killed by Hydock. At Greeley, Colo., Deputy United States Marshal Lovell arrested John P. King, of Box Elder, charged with having fenced in a portion of the public domain embracing about ten thousand acres. King claims that he either owns or leases all the land which he has fenced. The steamer Chilcat from Juneau to Port Townsend, Wash., brings news of the disappearance of the steamer Chehalls. She sailed out of Juneau headed south, but inquiries at the ports on the way down failed to bring to light any news of the vessel. Much anxiety exists concerning her whereabouts. -==— At Idaho Springs, Colo., George B. McClelland has resigned as cashier and director of the First National Bank and has turned over to his bondsmen all his property. His brother has also deposited collateral sufficient to protect the bank. Mr. McClelland had borrowed money largely to carry on mining deals in which he had paid options to the amount of SIOO,OOO. L. A. Condlee, a constable and detective for the Ritzville, Wash., Cattlemen’s Association, was found dead in the road with three bullet wounds in his body. Condlee arrested Alfred Simes and started for Ritzville with him on horseback. Simes, who is known as “Jesse James,” is-supposed to-have overpowered Coudlee and taken his pistols, as signs of a strugg’e were visible in the road. Indian Agent Beck, at Pender, Neb., notified the reservation settlers that they must come before him and make new leases secured by bond or cash or vacate their farms and los4 their crops. As every one of the renters has already given notes for rent to the Flournoy company, it is not likely they will make new leases or yield peaceable possession without an order from the courts.

On petition _of stockholders in the B. and M. Packing Company of Denver, Judge Butler has appointed George W. Ballantyne receiver of the company. The assets fire valued at $93,000; liabilities, $98,000. It is alleged that Andrew J. Campion, Henry IL Mills and Barnabas Huber gave their notes to the company for $137,000 worth of stock and have paid only $20,000 of the-amount; also that they have converted to their own use large sums of the company’s money. At the conference between the iron manufacturers and the Amalgamated Association conference committee at Youngstown, Ohio, it was finally agreed that the scale adopted at the recent Cleveland convention should be accepted. This includes a $4 a ton rate for puddling on a card rate of 11-10 cents, the increase to be 25 cents for each one-tenth increase in the card rate up to l'/a on the present minimum, which would make the rate $5 a ton at a 1% card rate on selling price per pound. It has developed that Harry T. Hayward, now in jail at Minneapolis under sentence of death for the murder of Catherine Ging, has made format application to the New York Life and Travelers’ Accident Insurance Companies for the SIO,OOO insurance on the life of his victim. He is supposed to have taken this action to bear out his claim to innocence. The executors of Miss Giug’s estate will bring action to have the assignment of the policies to Hayward set aside as fraudulent.

Volcanic disturbances are again reported in the Cocopah country of Lower California. George Neal, a mining man, has just returned to San Diego, Cal., from, that region aud says that on Sunday he saw smoke ascending from the central peak of three mountains that rise several hundred feet above the desert. The smoke ascended high in the air and was accompanied by sounds like distant cannonading. The Indians told Neal that mud volcanoes, gas fissures, hot springs and fire volcanoes were at work more actively than ever. Six firemen dead and others seriously injured, with a property loss of SIOO,OOO, are the results of a fire at Minneapolis, Minn.. Thursday night. The dead are; Joseph Ilay. Walter Richardson, Frank Rulaine, John Horner, Bert Thomas and an unidentified mnn. Several others were seriously injured. The property loss consisted of the entire destruction of the building -occupied by McDonald Bros., dealers in crockery, chinnwnre, glassware, silverware and gas fixtures. The total loss will aggregate over $100,000; insurance unknown. Secretary John E. Moon, of the Kansas Life Insurance Association, has been iu Kansas City in conference with the officials of other companies interested con-

cerninf information that has come to them to the effect that Dr. Fraker, for whose supposed death the companies are under obligation to pay $41,000 next August, is alive. The person who furnished the information says that Fraker is under surveillance and will be delivered up on assurance that the $20,000 reward which has been offered will be forthcoming. Mr. Moon declines to say where Fraker is supposed to be. William Murray, who has a mine at the junction of Kosh creek and Pitt river, about sixty miles northeast of Redding, Cal., brings news of having discovered the richest mine in the country, and says it is the original “Lost Cabin” mine, which has been searched for during the last thirty years. He has discovered a lode 800 feet wide and 400 feet high, impregnated with iron ore, which bears gold and silver to the value of from $75 to $l5O per ton. The range where this mine was discovered is a continuation of that upon which is Lost Confidence mine, or what is generally known as the Iron Mountain. It was recently sold to an English syndicate for $300,000. A big fire at San Francisco, Cal., was got under control at 9:45 o’clock Thursday night, after consuming $2,-000,000 worth of property,-including many large manufacturing plants and the little homes of scores of families. The fire threatened the entire city and was replete with sensational and exciting episodes, including a powder explosion which scattered embers far and wide. Mrs. Gilroy was killed by the explosion of a lamp in her house while she was trying to save her household goods from destruction. Help from neighboring . cities assisted in subduing the flames. The fire ate its way to the high brick wall of the deserted Southern Pacific offices, which acted as a barrier over which the flames could not work. Under the head of revenue legislation a bill will be introduced in the Illinois Senate within a few days, which will cost the business men of Chicago who occupy the docks, whafres and slips along the lake shore between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000 annually. This aims to transfer the management and control of all submerged lands between the Indiana and Wisconsin State lines to a board of commissioners provided for in the act, who shall lease such property on behalf of the State. The plan revolutionizes the method of holding such lands which has been followed in Chicago ever since the incorporation of the city, and will no doubt raise a mighty roar of protest from the interests affected.

Almost the entire police force of Denver was employed Thursday night in guarding the houses of eight aldermen who feared violence from their constituents. A bill for an ordinance granting a reduction of only 15 per cent on the schedule of water rates now in force passed the Council by a vote of 8 to G, and this aroused the anger of the people, _who attended the Council meeting in force. The measure which caused so much indignation has a clause which makes the rates thus fixed a burden on the people (or fifteen years. Besides, it is claimed that the reduction of 15 per cent is not one-half what the public is entitled to under the company’s contract, Which calls for a reduction this year to the average rates charged in Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati. Discouraged by her failure to pass the examination given her class, heart-broken because her father’s mild chidiugs and unable to dispel the intense belief that the teachers of her school were conspiring to defeat her plans for a high scholarship, 19-year-old Minnie Lynch, of Chicago, drank carbolic acid Friday morning and ended her life. She had sppnt the night in tears, sobbing her keenly felt misery and moaning over her father’s insinuations that perhaps her failure to pass the final examination was due to her lack of diligence and perseverance. The thought that she had combated against a conspiracy to defraud her of her examination mark preyed heavily upon the young girl, but she appears to have grieved over the parental reproof her sorrow grew into a suicidal melancholia. R. C. Taudy, occupant of the Bellefontaine farm, on the Bite of old Fort Bellefentaine, six miles from the mouth of the Missouri river, has found a beer bottle containing a rather sensational note written in lead pencil in a good hand. The bottle was picked up on the river bank by his son. I&te..aote, which was turned over to Chief Harrigan of St. Louis, is as follows: “G-12, ’95 —To whoever fiuds this bottle: We have been kidnaped by a gang of cut-throats and thieves and are held on an island in the Platte river, near Omaha, Neb. They are not only thieves, but counterfeiters, and have their headquarters in Omaha, near the Douglas street bridge. Come to our rescue and you will be liberally rewnrded. Go to the mouth of the Elkhorn river and stop at the third island down stream. For God’s sake, come quick.” The note is signed A. I\ Pilford and Johtl Buckmasler. The Omaha authorities will be notified to investigate. The authorities at Spokane have arrested two of the most daring car thieves operating in the West. Their plan was to spot a freight ear they desired to pillage, spring the door at a station and board the train, and when it was i>i motion throw off what they wanted. When the train slowed up they would drop off and go back and pick up their plunder. A short time ago two men went into a second-hand store ana offered to dispose of a lot of goods they had concealed a few miles east of Spokane. The second-hand dealer communicated with Chief of Police Mertz, and was directed to go ahead and buy the goods. The thieves went to the place' with a wagon and secured S3OO worth of dry goods, boots and shoes and started back to town. Officers were stationed on the roud and placed them under arrest. The thieves have also been operating on the Great Northern. It Is thought they are a part of an organized band, as a telegram found on them bore the information that a car loaded with silks was coming.

SOUTHERN.

At Huntington, W. Vn., Charles Ringo was indicted by the grand jury for the murder of his two children on the night of March 18. P. W. Hardin, who stumped Kentucky for free silver, has been nominated by the Democrats of that State for Governor. He won the contest over Cassius M. Clay, Jp., on the first ballot aud goes before the people as a 16 to 1 man on a gold platform. A fire occurred at Latonia, Ky., in the stable occupied by Talbot Bros., of Lexington, Ky., and three untried two-year-olds, Ben Brace, Dickson and Hazel, valued at SSOO each, perished and the stable burned to the ground. Among the horses saved were Leaflet and Elsket. It is not known how the fire was started. The second international convention of

the Epworth League at Chattanooga, Tenn., proved to be as big a rellgipua demonstration as the most sanguine had expected. All H>f the bishops of the church were there exeeptiag-BiShop Vincent, \vho was unable to attend. five special trains had arrived Thursday morning, with delegates from every State and territory in the United States. A ease started in Justice Lavender’s court at Little Rock,Ark., last winter is making its way by final degrees to the court of final resort. The question involved is that of a husband’s liability for his wife’s prenuptial debts. Justice Lavender’s decision relieved the husband of liability, but in the Circuit Court Judge Martin reversed it. Tuesday a motion was filed for a new trial, and the case will probably go to the Supreme Court. Tho style of the suit is F. J. Young vs. Mrs. U. M. Kies and her husband, J. H. Kies. The debt involved was contracted by Mrs. Keis while she- was unmarried and a widow. Judge Martin holds that where a woman contracts a debt when no legal disability exists the common law liability obtains and the husband is responsible for the debts of his wife contracted before as well as after marriage. This suit is likely to become a cause eelebre.

WASHINGTON.

A Washington report has it that Dr. Chauncey M. Depew is soon to wed an $8,000,000 heiress. The Morgan-Rothschild syndicate has made its final payment of gold on the $62,400,000 bonds bought from the Government last Februaßy and the gold reserve Wednesday jumped to $107,447,855. _ The assigumeut of agents in thq new system of gathering crop statistics has been completed, save for two districts. The new plan practically does away with the State agencies, as the States are grouped into districts which only one State agent will supervise. The present system of county reports will also be supplanted by one providing for a reporter in every township, and the two systems will be used conjointly, each acting as a check on the other. The country will be divided into twenty-one districts.

IN GENERAL

The Austrian corvette Don an arrived in New York Thursday morning. She has been cruising in the West Indies and left Martinique on June 2. The Donau is an old type of war vessel. She carries a crew of 350 men and mounts fourteen guns. Replying to Henry Labouehere, member for Northampton, in the House of Commons Wednesday, Rt. Hon. Akers Douglas, the conservative whip, said his party wtfs anxious for a dissolution of parliament at the earliest possible moment and hoped to be able to make a statement on the subject Monday. Mr. Balfour’s address to“the electors of East Manchester says that this is not-a fitting occasion to explain the proposed policy of the unionists.

The Canadian Government has received a draft of the bill for Pacific seal fisheries, read for the third time in the imperial parliament. Sir Charles H. Tupper, minister of justiceau-dex-minister of marine, says the Dominion Government will enter strong objections to two clauses of the bill. One of these empowers Russian vessels to search Canadian sealers and the other exacts the extreme penalty of forfeiture of the ship and equipments for infractions of the regulations. The Dominion Government will forward a strong protest to the Imperial Government. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: Per P. W. L. cent. Boston . . .50 32 18 .G4O Baltimore 49- 30 19 .012 Pittsburg 5G 34 22 .GOT Cleveland 5G 33 23 .589 Chicago GO 35 25 .583 Cincinnati ......53 29 24 .547 Philadelphia 52 28 24 .538 Brooklyn 53 28 25 .528 New York 53 2G 27 .491 Washingtou 53 22 31 .415 St. Louis .;. : . .57 —l7 4d .298 Louisville 52 8 44 .154 WESTEUV I.EAGUK. Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: Per P. W. L. cent., Indianapolis 51 32 19 .627 Milwaukee 54 29 25 .537 Kansas City 53 28 25 .528 Detroit ....... 50 2G 24 .520 St. Paul 50 2G 24 .520 Minneapolis 49 24 25 .490 Toledo 50 22 28 .440 Grand Rapids. .. .53 23 30 .434

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common • to j prime, $3.75 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grade*, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 69c to 70c; com, No. 2,47 cto 48c; oats, No. 2,25 c to 26c; rye, No. 2,61 cto 62c; butter, choice creamery, 16c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 10c to 12c; potatoes, new, per barrel, $2.25 to $2.75; broom corn, common growth to fine brush, 4c to per lb. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, common to prime, $2,00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,73 eto 75c; corn, No. 1 white, 4Sc to 49c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 34c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $4.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2, white, 24c to 25c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 t0‘55.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,75 cto 77c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 47c to 49c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 2,61 cto 63c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $4.00 to $5,25; sheep, $2.00 to $4.00; Wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 740; com. No. 2 yellow, 47c to 49c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 33e; rye, 57c to 59c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 rod, 73c to 74c; com, No. 2 mixed, 47c to 49c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; rye, No. 2. 61c to 63c; clover seed, prime, $5.60 to $5.70. Buffalo —Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 1 hard, 76c to 78c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 52e to 53c; oats. No. 2 white, 83c to 34c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 3,48 cto 49e; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; barley, No. 2,48 cto 50c; rye, No. 1,60 cto 61c; pork, mess, $12.00 to $12,150. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 75c to 76c; corn, No. 2, 52c to 53c; oats. No. 2 white, 32c to 38c; butter, creamery, 14e to 19e; eggs, Western, 12c to 14c. -

DIE ON THE DIAMOND.

THREE FATALITIES AT SUNDAY BALL GAMES. The Rev. Dr. Hall Talks of His Income— Big Deficit in the National Treasnry Crops Threatened* bat Business Continues Good. Three Killed. Accidentally. Three thousand people assembled--at-Steele’s Park, Decatur, Ind., Sunday afternoon to witness the opening ball game of the season. The game was between the Marions and Deeaturs. At the end of the first inning Harvey George, pitcher for the Marion team, dropped dead while pitching the ball. George was 21 years old and had played with several league teams. He was married and lived at Gas Cijy. His mother is nopr prostrated at news of her son’s death. Morris Davis, 13, was killed Sunday in a base-ball game in Taylor Bottoms, Ivy., by being hit on the head while batting by a pitched ball. William C. Dewees, a paperhanger, was In a scrub game of base-ball at Philadelphia. Special Policeman McDonald pi teh - ed a ball which hit Dewees on the head. He fell as if shot, and died from hemorrhage of the brain.

Big Income a Myth. The ltev. Dr. John Hall, pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York, has Written a public letter in which tie denies the circulated stories regarding the great fortune he has accumulated, his big income, and enormous wedding fees. Because he gave SI,OOO to the Board ol Home Missions, stating that others might well do the same, as the expected income tax would not be called for, the inference was drawn, he says, that the SI,OOO donated was the income tax he had expected to pay, and that therefore his income must be over $50,000. “I no such income as is thus inferred,” writes the doctor, “and the donation involved some self-denial.” Because of the stories, Dr. Hall says, persons all over the world are continually writing him begging letters. His reputed salary of $30,000 or $75,000 is, he declares., much beyond-the, reality. To an editor who once announced that Dr. Hall owned $1,000,000 of real estate, the clergyman says he made an offer to give him SBOO,OOO worth of it if he would find It. The offer was not accepted. Answering a statement that in less than one year he had pocketed more than $30,000 in marriage fees, Dr. Hall says that figure Is far in excess of the total amount of marriage fees he has received during the entire forty-six years of his ministry.

Firemen Perish in the Flames. A fire in the rag shop of the Hubcley Manufacturing Company in Worcester, Mass., early Sunday morning, caused the death of two firemen and injured eight others, and caused a financial loss of about $4,000. The victims belonged to Hose No. 4 and Hose No. 9. Hose No. 4 was one of the first pieces of apparatus to reach-the fire,-find-attacked it in the top floor. Without warning the floor collapsed, carrying the two floors underneath it into the cellar. The men went down with and were buried under the ruins and bales of rags. Lieut. Boyle's back was broken under the crush of the timbers and W. F. Brigham was smothered under the piles of rags, The rest of the men escaped with thei'r lives, but it took the rescuing party three hours to get them and remove them from the debris. Uncle Sam Short of Cash. The fiscal year of the government has closed. The deficit is about $45,500,000. Secretary Carlisle's estimate Inst December of the probable deficit was $20,000,000, but he expected $2,000,000 from the Income tax and $6,000,000 from sugar duties that have not been received. The receipts from customs will aggregate about $152,000,000,, or $8,000,000 less than Mr. Carlisle expected. This is tho estimate which, included sugar duties. From internal revenue the receipts will reach $142,000,000, and this sum is $23,000,000 less than the Secretary estimated. This is the estimate which included the income tax. The revenue from miscellaneous sources will exceed the estimate by $2,000,000 and aggregate about $17,000,000. Outlook for Trade. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: ’“Business is better, although the crop outlook affecting prospects beyond the near future is a little less distinct. There is more ground for doubt about winter wheat and ootton than a week ago, and thrashing receipts are comparatively low, though the prospects for spring wheat are exceedingly good. The price, a quarter of a cent lower for the week, is beyond mistake too low, if the latest impressions of injury to winter wheat are correct.”

BREVITIES.

Specials from western Minnesota and North Dakota report a light frost Thursday night, damaging potatoes and garden truck in low places to some extent. Frank Howell, n young unmarried man of Rushville, Neb., was drowned in Snake river at Glenns Ferry, Idaho, while swimming his horse to clean him. He was with a party from lowa and his two brothers, traveling with teams to locate in Oregon. St. Louis city employes in the various departments are befhg sifted over and scores who have failed to register and vote are being dropped from the rolls for their negligence. The policy of the present administration is to retain no one who shirks the responsibilities of citizenship in this respect. The annual report of the deputy master of the British mint shows that the total mintage for the last year was £6,654,441, a decrease of over £4,000,000 compared with the preceding year. During the year £663,068 was expended in the purchase of silver, the coining value of the'same being £965,447, thus netting the Government a profit of 45.6 per cent. Advices from Shanghai say thut persecution of foreigners in the Chinese province of Sechuen has ceased and that an imperial decree has been issued ordering that the damage done to the property of missionaries and others be repaired. (j. o. TT-rtcr. rormerly cashier of the Chemical Nationnl Bank of St. Louis, drowned himself at Paris, Mo. Belgium aud Paraguay have completed a new commercial treaty conceding to each other the treatment, of the most favored nation iu all that relates to navigation and commerce, tariffs, etc.

INDIANA'S FIRST CENTURY. Plana for a Great Celebration Projected by the Hoosicr State. The year 1800 witnessed the separation of what is now the State of Indiana from the Northwest territory and the organiza-

tion of the territory of Indiana, andi it has been decreed that the centennial anniversary of this fitßt step % towards Statehood shall be fittingly celebrated ,by the giving over of week or “more- to displays showing the march of progress during the hundred

years of separate and distinct existence. The first step to this end was taken by the recent session of the General Assembly in the adoption of a concurrent resolu-

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tion of the event. It was the sentiment of the Legislature that .adopted the resolutions that the celebration should be arranged upon the broadest possible basis and made to include

protracted exercises in connection with displays of everything indicating the progress that has been made in the first century of Indiana’s separate existence. Pursuant to the resolution Gov. Matthews has announced the following commissioners, the members of the

body being equally divided between the two great political parties: For the State at large—Eli Lilly and B. B. Martindale, Indianapolis; Hugh Dougherty, Bluffton, and DeFoe Skinner, Valparaiso. ~ - ' - ■ ■ First Congressional District—Philip Fry, Evansville; James Burket, Cannelton. t Second —T. B. Busk irk, Paoli; John Weathers, Leavenworth. Third —Charles L. Jewett, New Alband; 11. C. Hobbs, Salem. Fourth—John H. liusse, Lawrenceburg; Will Cumback, Greensburg. Fifth—John W. Cravens, Bloomington; J. L. Irwin, Columbus. Sixth—A. W. Brady, Muncie; James N. Huston, Connersville.

GOVERNOR MATTHEWS.

Seventh-U. S. Jackson, Greenfield; Charles T. Doxy, Anderson. Eighth—T. J. Mason, Sullivan; Frank McKeen, Terre Haute. Ninth—Eli Marvin, Frankfort; C. O. Shirley, Kokomo. Tenth—M. M. Hathaway, Winamac; J. C. Hadley, Logansport. Eleventh—ll. B. Smith, Hartford City; E. B. Goldthwaite, Marion. 'Twelfth—Charles McCullough, Fort Wayne; S. A. Woods' Angola. Thirteenth—James A. Arthur, Goshen; George W. Matthews, South Bend.

HARDIN IS THE WINNER.

Nominated by the Kentucky Demo* crate for the Governorship. P. W. Hardin, of Mercer County, was nominated for Governor by the Kentucky Democratic State 'convention at Louisville Only one ballot was necessary, Hardin receiving 466*4 votes, against 368 cast for Cassius M. Clay, Jr., his only serious opponent. Sixty-nine scattering votes were east, three being for Henry Watterson and three for Gov. Buckner, but they were entirely complimentary and thrown by delegates who objected to Hardin’s position on the financial question but did not care to vote for Clay. The financial plank adopted was somewhat of a straddle. It reaffirmed the Chicago platform of 1892 and added commendation of the President and Secretary Carlisle for their wise and statesmanlike management of public affairs. The minority report was amended by the silver men to read simply as au indorsement of the Chicago platform. Congressman Clardy declared that he would not support a ticket nominated on any other platform than this. Beyond adopting the platform absolutely nothing was done at the day session. The disorder at all times was great, and once or twice it seemed like there would be a fight. Both Clay and Hardin made speeches after the result was announced. Clay urged the party to vote for his competitor, saying the State could not afford to pass under Republican control.’ He declared himself for money and <Srover Cleveland.” Hardin thankfully accepted the nomination and sat down. R. T. Tyler was nominated for Lieutenant Governor. _ 1

At Webster City, a suburb of Sit- Louis, ‘Dr. Frank Seitle shot alid killed Mrs. Jane Feterson, his sister-in-la'w, and her sister, Mrs. Horish, and then completed his murderous work by fatally shooting himself. They bad quarreled over a trivial, division of property. The Westinghouso Machine Company voted tq increase its bonded indebtedness $350,000 to pay for the new- works at Briuton, Pa. Mary Montgomery, aged 23, of Sunny Hill, 111., took poison and dlgd. No cause known.

FRED WHITE.

tion providing for the appointment of a commission, to consist of four members from the State at large and two from each congressional district, which should examine and report to the Legisla-' ture at its next meeting some suitable plans for the celehra-

ELI LILLY.