Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1897 — Page 7

RELIEF GIVEN CUBA.

SAGASTA MINISTRY DECIDES TO GRANT AUTONOMY. Campaign to Be Continued So Bong as Rebellion Exists—Weyjcr Declares He Will Not Resign Seven Girls Die in a Fire. Spanish Butcher Defiant. At a cabinet council in Madrid the Spanish Government decided to grant autonomy to Cuba under the suzerainty of Spain, and to continue tjie campaign as long as may be necessary.* Senor Sagasta, the premier, has received a cable message from Captain General Weyler, who offers his services to the Government and says: “I shall not resign.” Senor Gallon, minister of foreign affairs, explained to the cabinet the position of the diplomatic negotiations with the United States. The first important step of the new Spanish Government was the decision to grant autonomy to Cuba. So far as learned in the meager telegrams received this plan of autonomy is to be subject to the suzerainty of Spain. Information is lacking as to its scope over legislation and taxation, the most significant factors in the self-government of any country. From the fact, however, that the statement is made that the Sagasta ministry intends to continue the campaign in Cuba so long as rebellion exists, the logical deduction is that the autonomy agreed on is limited —that it will not satisfy the insurgent leaders. But whether limited or liberal, it is feared this concession to the rebels will -create a storm in Spain. Taken in connection with a dispatch saying that Weyler has refused to resign as captain general, thus compelling the Sagasta government to recall him, the affair will furnish effective campaign material for the Spanish conservatives. The latter will undoubtedly point to Weyler’s determined operations against the Cubans and tell the electors that his withdrawal means the island will be lost to Spain. With relation to American intervention, Sagasta’s step is considered shrewd diplomacy in that it will tend to postpone a settlement Diplomats say that America’s hands are now virtually tied until the autonomy plan is given a trial in Cuba.

PASSING OF NEAL DOW.

Brief Sketch of the Veteran Prohibitionist Leader’s Career. It was on the 20th of last March that the whole temperance world celebrated the ninety-third birthday of Gen. Nesl Dow, whose death is now recorded. For half a century previous he had held a unique place in the public eye and for sev-

GEN. NEAL DOW.

enty years of his long life he had been a leader In temperance work. His first movement in this direction wm when he induced the town authorities or Portland, Me., where he was born, to abstain from ringing the old town bell at 11 and 4 o’clock for the citizens to take a drink. In 1851 the Maine Legislature, after years of Dow's bombardment, passed the famous prohibition law. f At 60 years of age he raised the Thirteenth Maine and led it to the front, was shot four times and landed in Libby prison. At an age when most men are dead he lectured all over the earth on temperance. Sixty-seven years ago lie was married and in 1880 he was the candidate for President on the prohibition ticket. Death was due to old age.

FIERCE FLAMES IN DETROIT.

Opera House and Two Business Houses ; Arc in Utter Ruins. The center of Detroit was the scene at 1 o’clock Wednesday morning of a conflagration which totally destroyed three large buildings and contents, damaged several others and threatened the destruction of at least an entire block of the most valuable property in the city. • The blaze originated on the stage of the Detroit opera house. Simultaneously with the breaking out of the fire there were several loud explosions, presumably the bursting of the stage lighting apparatus. The flames quickly enveloped the rear of the theater and made a furnace of the interior. The opera house, with all its contents, wns destroyed in 6hort order. The rear of the ten-story building occupied by the H. Leonard Furniture Company caught fire and nothing of the structure or contents remains but the steel frame. The four-story building of the Michel Tabic Supply Company east of the theater was gutted and'partially destroyed, and eeveral other buildings were slightly damnged. The losses, it is believed, will reach the vicinity of $250,000. A block of tenement houses at the foot of Hastings street caught fire from sparks from the opera bouse fire and were destroyed.

WHEAT CROP ESTIMATE.

Figured on Threshing Returns Indicate a Yield of 580,000,000 Bushels. The Orange Judd Farmer, in its final estimate of the year’s wheat crop, says that figures based on actual threshing returns indicate a total yield of 589,000,000 bushels, of which 373,630,000 is winter and 215,470,000 bushels spring wheat. \Yith the exception of Illinois and Missouri, the winter wheat yield represents the full capacity of the soil. The spring wheat yield in Minnesota and the Dakotas has proven a disappointment, the aggregate being only 129,000,000 bushels. The shortage there is in a measure counterbalanced by tbe good yield in Nebras-

"IT'S MINE! IT'S MINE! THIS POLE IS MINE!"

Lieut. Gov. Mclntosh of the Northwest Territory (referring to the Bafflnland story and speaking for John Bull) —It is all British territory right up to the north pole, and there is need to assert formal sovereignty. Any person who discovers the pole from tae Occidental side will have to reckon with me, for it is all within my province.

ka, Oregon and Washington. The report says the corn crop is exceedingly disappointing at an outside estimate of 1,750,000,000 bushels. Drought during the past two months reduced the average condition from 82.3 a month ago to 78.9 on Oct. 1. An average of oats yield of 28.7 bushels per acre suggests a crop of 814,000,000 bushels, 100,000,000 more than last year.

PANIC AT A BIG FIRE.

Residents of Chicago Stock Yards District Terrorized by Flames. Ten acres of ground a waste of ashes, the homes of a dozen families destroyed, the entire Chicago stock yards district threatened by flames, five persons injured and one said to be burned to death, and a property loss of over SBO,OOO. This is the result Of a fire that for two hours Wednesday afternoon had the people living near the stock yards in a panic of terror that led them to believe that the great conflagration of 1871 was to be duplicated almost on its twenty-sixth anniversary. The flames were first seen in one of the stock yards horse barns, just opposite the end of Forty-fourth street at Halsted, a little before 3 o’clock. They spread with startling rapidity. The attendants who rushed to the rescue of the 500 horses being kept there were chased from stable to stable by the flames, and their duty was only accomplished at the imminent risk of their lives. In fifteen minutes it was evident that the horse barns were doomed dbeyond any possibility of salvation. In thirty minutes their destruction was so nearly complete that their frameworks had disappeared and nothing but a mass of flames and fire marked their location. The whole region was in a panic and men came hastily from every side to aid the firemen in their struggle to save the surrounding buildings. The wind that blew strongly from the south carried the flames and burning pieces of timber directly upon the great doomed pavilion, which is the center of the whole horse traffic in the yards. At 5:30 o’clock the flames finally were got under control. The fire was the worst that lias taken place in the stock yards district for many years. The drought of the past months and the heavy wind that was blowing combined to make its progress very easy. The firemen, who were called from all parts of the city to fight it, came exhausted from hard work in keeping down the prairie fires that had been threatening the suburbs in half a dozen places, and were in poor condition to work against a holocaust.

FOUND HIS FORTUNE.

A Michigan Man Struck It Rich in Alaska. Frank Phlscator, the Michigan man who returned to San Francisco with his pockets full of gold and millions staked put for the future, is just the sort of a boy that likes the life of the mountain and the wilderness. His father died twen-ty-five years ago, and his mother passed away ten years ago. Frank “lit out” for the boundless West when he was 10 years old. He longed for room to move about, and Michigan was overpopulated. He drifted to Yellowstone Park. He took to horseback riding naturally, and was soon engaged carrying the mail over a sixtymile route. He liked the work and enjoyed himself as he put away his salary. This sort of life gave him muscles as hard as rock and ns strong as steel. He won health and fortune out of his work. About

FRANK PHISCATOR.

eighteen months ago he returned to his home in Michigan and amazed his town folk with his Western ways and his display of wealth. It was said that he had then about $3,000. Phiscntor heard about the mines in Alaska and he struck out for the Yukon. There he met with F. W. Cobb, a Harvard man who had keen knocking about the West for two years, and who went to Alaska for gold. Cobb and Phiscator became partners. The Michigan man worked up the Klondyke while Cobb followed Bonanza Creek until he struck the field to which be later gave the name of Eldorado. He turned back, found his partaer, and the two staked oat

claims that are now said to be worth millions. Phiscator is 35. He is now in ’Frisco.

VENEZUELA’S PRESIDENT.

Gen. Ignacio Andrade, Whose Election Is Announced. ... The election of Gen. Ignacio Andrade as president of Venezuela is regarded a* a signal victory for the proposed arbitration between Venezuela and Great Britain. Gen. Andrade has always been an earnest advocate of that means for settling the long-standing disputes. His election was considered for a time in doubt, owing to the violent opposition of political pcliemers in the Venezuelan congress to the treaty recently ratified largely through his efforts. If he had been defeated it would have meant a serious setback to the work already accomplished by the State Department. Andrade has long been a conspicuous figure in the national life of liis republic. He is 58 years old, and is the son of Gen. Jo'se Escolastico Andrade, one of Venezuela’s famous figures. He lived in America for some time and is closely in touch with American ideas. His brother is the Venezuelan minister in this country and has proved himself a very astute diplomatist. Gen. Andrade himself is an old friend and ally

NEW PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA.

of President Crespo, and will enjoy the active support of that statesman in all his official acts.

GIRLS DIE IN A FIRE.

Burning of a Dormitory at tlic South Dakota Industrial School. At Plankinton, S. D., seven persons are dead as tire result of a fire which destroyed the girls’ dormitory at the State industrial school between 12 and 1 o’clock Wednesday morning. All others, numbering about twenty-five, succeeded in escaping, but they saved nothing, and had no time to dress, getting out in their night robes and with great difficulty. The origin of the fire is unknown, but it is supposed to have caught from the explosion of a lamp. The loss is about $25,000, and includes the printing office of the institution and the chapel. All were asleep and the building was enveloped in flames before any one discovered the danger. The State school now accommodates about 100 inmates, from young children to offenders 18 years old. Besides the burned building is a boys' eottage, in which dwells Col. Ainsworth, the officer in charge, and there nre several barns and sheds. The burned building will probably be replaced at once. It was a three-story frame structure, only recently completed. The night watchman, who went from building to building, discovered the fire. There is no fire protection at the school, as it is a mile and a half from town, and within twcr,ty minutes from the discovery of the fire the building had fallen. Superintendent Ainsworth was in Illinois at the time, but Mrs. Ainsworth had the help of the entire town. Those who perished in the flames got out of the building, but returned for clothing, and it is supposed they became bewildered. There was no insurance whatever on the building, but it is learned that it will be reconstructed at once.

Mint Breaks Its Record.

The United States mint in Philadelphia completed the greatest coinage in one month In its history. The total number of pieces turned, out was 14,000,000, although only 12,128,84-1 pieces, valued at $3,370,449.50, were United States coins. The coiner’s statement for September is as follows: Gold $2,292,375 00 Silver . 846,092 50 Five cents . 184,092 00 Cents 47,472 00

Attendance Over a Million.

For the month of September the attendance at the Nashville exposition amounted to 273,724 and the total attendance since the opening up to Oct. 1 is 1,196,685. Three Chicagoans have been arrested for stealing the roof and upper half of a brick dwelling. The lower half was undisturbed; but of coarse that’s another story.

RAIN FALLS AT LAST.

SHOWERS GIVE ENCOURAGE* MENT TO FARMERS. A- . : v •. ' 7' '7 1 ; Nine Parched Western States Are Well Sprinkled How the Crops Will Be AffectcA- Is Uncertain, but Good Pasturage Is Assured. Baked Soil Is Soaked. The first signs of promise in many weeks appeared to the farmers Sunday throughout the Western States. A general opening of the clouds moistened the parched earth just enough to awaken the belief that Providence still reigns, and that the end of the almost unprecedented drought is at hand. In nine of the dozen or more States afflicted by the blighting dryness showers fell with a gentle force sufficient to soften the hard crust that has been baking for weeks on the fields and prairies. A hymn of thanksgiving mingled with the falling of the rain in hundreds of localities. Countless numbers of farmers hailed the showers that visited their acres as their salvation from heavy misfortune. For days and days they have been waiting for a favorable time to put in their winter wheat. Such ground as would permit plowing at all was so dry that clouds of dust followed the plows across the fields. The fields that had been planted early in the beginning of the drought with winter wheat promised nothing for lack of water on the tender sprouts. It is now believed that much of the ground can be put in cultivation in time, taking it for granted that the drought is broken. Reports received from the Government signal service show that rain has fallen very generally in Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, lowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Upper Michigan and Illinois. The visitation in Nebraska is the first rain of any consequence that has fallen for six weeks. Suffering Kansas got her first wetting in two months Sunday afternoon. lowa received her share of rain at the same time. In its effect upon the future crops the damage wrought by the drought cannot be estimated for many days, in the opinion of experienced observers. On regular cultivated soil, grain men declare, the contracted wheat area merely means a larger corn acreage next year, but this does not apply to the vast acres of prairie ground that have never been touched by a plow.' Much of this virgin prairie sod was to have been turned over this fall in Nebraska arid Kansas, but the drought has made it necessary for this work to be left over. To make such land available for next year’s use it must be plowed in the fall and left to the elements until the next spring. It is too late now for such work to be carried out to completion. One consolation has been found in the drought by the stock growers, while the farmer has found nothing to compensate him for the loss of bis winter wheat prospeet. The cattlemen declare the prospects for abundant and fine grazing on the ranges have not been so good in years. The grass lias been extremely well cured by the protracted dry weather, and this fact is encouraging to the men who count their wealth by the head. Their only anxiety lias been to supply their cattle with water sufficient to keep them alive. Now that the rain has begun falling their cup of joy is full, as they see the ponds and creeks and wells once more available.

BIG MONEY IN BASE-BALL.

New York and Boston Pocket a Quarter of a Million of Dollars. “The Boston club will make fully $150,000 this season,” said James Mulcahey, who looked after the finances of the St. Louis team during the recent eastern trip. An employe of the Boston management, estimated the profits of the club at the above sum in a conversation while the St. Louis team was playing in Beantown. One gatekeeper at Boston said that the average attendance there this season was the best in the history of the game. Ned Hanlon, the manager of the Baltimore*, received $9,000 as liis club’s share of the gate receipts for three games at Boston. New York will make at least $100,(XX). Like Boston, the attendance in New York has been large from the commencement of the season. New York has the best paying grand stand in the league. All the Gotham regulars patronize the best seats at the new Polo The visiting clubs get none of this rake-off. New York paid St. Louis $6,500 for six games this season. For one game, on April 29, the St. Louis club received sl,500. Baltimore has made plenty of money, but ilie heme patronage did not keep up consistently. The strong clubs only drew big crowds in Baltimore. They say at Cincinnati that they will clear about $60,000 on the season. Washington will also make big money, something like $20,000. Philadelphia started off pretty well in the spring, but the poor work of the Quakers toward the finish cut the attendance down to nothing. St. Louis received $3,000 less than it did in 1896 for its series in Philadelphia. Reach and Rogers will be lueky to break even on the season, so they say in Philadelphia. Cleveland’s profits fell off one-half. In ’95 and ’9O, when they were pennant factors, the Spiders made big money on the road. This season there was a big slump in their playing speed. The attendance in Cleveland has never amounted to much. The Pittsburg club also fell behind in a money making way. The home attendance of this club fell off. Chicago’s stockholders will receive good interest as a result of the season’s profits.”

Must Bid Above $50,000,000.

Attorney General McKenna issued an official statement announcing that the Government had decided not to appeal to the Union Pacific foreclosure suit, but to allow the road to be sold in consideration of the Union Pacific reorganization committee raising its guaranteed bid from $45,745,059 to $50,000,000. The road, he added, is to be sold to the highest bidder, but with a minimum bid guaranteed as stilted. ■ President McKinley has decided to allow A. Benzinger, an artist who resides at Brunnen, Switzerland, but who has studios in Paris and New York, to paint his portrait. The portrait is to be the property of Vice-President Hobart. The United States Circuit Court of Appeals at San Francisco has handed down a decision that tapioca flour shall not ba admitted free of must pay 2 cents a pound, as starch. Isn’t it rather curious that in all that Turkish trouble it never occurred to th* powers to sit down on the Ottoman?

"THAT TERRIBLE STRAIN."

Engineers Are Too Busy to Think of Passengers or Fret Abont Dangers, “It does beat the mischief,” remarked a railroad engineer the other day, “how the public clings to the old-fash-ioned, worn-out notion that every rail road driver lives about six years, and then, if he ain’t killed on the road, dies of nervous prostration or brain fever caused by the terrible strain lie is under and the awful thought the next instant lie may be wafted into the beyond along with 400 or 500 passengers at his back. That notion Is as old ns the first locomotive ever built, anil it is just as much played out. “You never heard a story of a railroad englueer in your life that he wasn’t just everlastingly shaking in overalls at the thought of his •terrible responsibility’ and the ‘thousand souls’ or the ‘precious freight’ that is entrusted to him. “Now, I’ll admit that" it’s all pretty and sounds nice and brave, liui the only trouble with Jt Is that there is nothing in it. “I have no doubt the engineer would think about the responsibility and worry some about the women and children behind him if he had time and didn’t have to hustle so all-fired hard every minute to pull his train in on time. “But you see he hasn’t got the time. From the minute he Jumps into his cab and pulls open the throttle he Is kept guessing to keep his old machine going fast enough under him to make the distance in schedule time. Nowadays the railroads don’t allow many minutes for the passengers and crew to get off and shoot jackrabbita, and the driver of a fast train over a division has his mind full all the time without going behind the tender and worrying about what Is going to happen to the passengers If there is a smash up. “Then there Is the mechanical part of the game to keep your thoughts off the passengers. ‘How much coal is your fireman burning?’ “Could we pull up that hill if burning less coal?’ or save time by crowding on the steam going down bill?’ Every engineer wants to get the maximum amount of speed out of his engine and burn the minimum amount of coal. He can’t think about that and the passengers, too, and so he lets the passengers slide and take care of themselves. “I do not mean to say that an engineer who is true to his duty does not worry when there is actual cause for it, or that he will not hang to his post till he has had the life mangled out of him, if he thinks it will do any good. There are too many cases on record where locomotive drivers have sacrificed their Lives; but I mean to say that the popular notion that engineers stay awake nights dreading the responsibility before them is all wrong. They get just as hardened to' the- work and callous to the dangers as a circus performer, and they think no. more oi the-risks that they are taking.”

A Lioness Shows Her Wit.

An interesting exhibition of lion wit has been seen for the past few days in the cage of Rose, the lioness, and her three eubs In the Central Park Menagerie, New York City. The cubs, one female and two males, were born about a month ago. They have since been allowed the shelter of a small box, with a hole cut in it large enough for them, to get in and out of the box. The eubs seemed to Think that the object of life was to get in and out of that hole In the box. So they almost wore themselves out at that occupation, scraped the fur partly off their sides, and made their mother nervous by their continual egress and ingress. When her patience had 1 given out, the mother would catch one of the cubs by the back of the neck and thrust It Into the house. But It would always get out while she was after the others. She could never succeed in getting them all in. The other morning the mother, after several days of hard thinking, contrived to get the upper hand. The eubs had been playing about the cage, sometimes in the box and sometimes out. In a grand rush alii got Into the box at one time. The lioness had apparently been paying no- attention to them, but as soon as she saw that all were inside she got up quickly from the corner where she had been lying and walked over to the little box. Then she lay down with her back to the hole and stopped it up. The eubs squeaked piteously for ten minutes, but it was of no avail.

Queer Marriage Custom.

A decidedly curious marriage custom obtains in the Island of Hlmia, directly opposite tbe Island of Rhodes. The Greeks, by whom it was peopled, subsist for the most part on the results of the sponge fishery. No girl In the Island is allowed to marry until she has brought up a certain number of sponges, which must be taken from a certain depth. In some of the other Greek Islands, however, this demonstration of ability Is dominated by the men, and if there are several suitors for the hand of any particular maiden her father hands her over to the man who can dive best, and In consequence brings up the largest number of sponges.

Poor Sport.

“I understand you have just been on i little cruise with Hershof on his new yacht. How Is he; much of a sailor?” “Sailor? Why, that man doesn't understand the first principles of yachting. He hadn’t a thing on board, except water, to drink.”—Cleveland Leader’

Biscuits.

“You should hare heard Smith cracking up bis wife’s biscuits this morning." “I believe I did hear him. I thought at the time he was chopping wood.’’— froth.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

• • * ..f J •- - RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEKAn Important Document RecoveredBurned the Editor’s New House— Grew Corn from Old Seed-Snicide at Muncie. * Sustains the Glass-Cutters. Ten years ago the original articles of amalgamation of the blowers, gatherers, cutters and flatteners into the WindowGlass Workers’ National Association were stolen and have been missing ever since. The present division, which has resulted in the cutters and flatteners withdrawing from the original organization and asking for a receiver, is on the question of the equalization of wages, the blowers demanding 15 per cent more Increase than they will allow the cutter* and flatteners. By strategy the cutter* secured the articles of agreement and they are now held in Anderson. Section 1 sustains them, as it states all agree to profit or lose equally in advance and reduction. This paper will place the $200,000 in the treasury in their hands. All window glass plants are tied up by this complication. Breaks His Silence. A record-breaking fake was exploded nt Anderson when John Shipley was convicted in the Circuit Court and sentenced to a year in the penitentiary for highway robbery. He pretended to be deaf and dumb and did not speak a word during his fight with the officers. When his case came to trial he nppealed to the Epworth League to help a poor deaf and dumb man, who was falsely accused. The league did so. At the trial Shipley gave his testimony in writing. Up to the time the jury returned a verdict, twenty-nine days from the time of his arrest, Shipley had not betrayed himself. When sentence was pronounced and he had read it, he nodded his head, smiled and left the court room. When he reached the court house steps he opened his mouth, and in English, French, German, Spanish and a half-dozen other languages swore at everyone in sight. Five Years for Attempted Murder. At Rochester. Elijah Campbell was found guilty of attempting to murder William Blackburn and wife, and was sentenced for five years in the penitentiary. The Blackburns are over 70 years of age and hold a life estate in a farm owned by Campbell. The night of Jnly 31 Campbell went to the old people’s home and built a fire against the bouse, and when they were awakened he fired a load of buckshot into the bedroom-. Enlarging Their Capacity. The American tin plate factory at EJw'ood has begun the construction of two new hot mills, which makes twenty mills all told. An additional bar mill and annealing room are also being erected. The McCloy lamp chimney factory. Biwood’s last idle industry, has resumed operations with 500 employes. Corn from Prehistoric Seed. Mrs. Jennie Y. Bean of Charlestown has raised several ears of corn grown from some of the prehistoric grains of corn found in a mound in Arizona a couple of years ago. The cars of corn raised are of ordinary size and the grains a dirty brown color. The- stalks average about two ears each-.

Takes His Own. Life. Samuel .T?Atkin», one of the best known and highly respected men in Muncie, committed suicide by sending a bullet through his brain while seated in. a ehair. He was 62 years old'. Killed: by a. Friendly Blow. David Wurth was killed at Indianapolis by a friendly'blow on the- chin, by his friend, Robert Coyle. Incendiary Fire at Warsaw. Incendiaries burned, the new residence of Logan Williams o£ tile Times, at Warsaw. Loss, $2,900: All Over tbe State. A’t Muncie, Samuel .T., Atkins, aged 60, a retired and wealthy iron manufacturer, shot and killed himself. Diphtheria has caused’ four more deaths at Hobart. The town board has ordered all public gatherings discontinued. John Roby of Auburn was instantly killed by the accidental discharge of a gun while hunting near Kendallville. Elliott Barnard has received notice of his appointment as postmaster at Delphi, in place of James W. Weidner, removed. A stock ear on the Chicago and Grand Trunk road took tire at Valparaiso and twenty-fire head were burned so that they had to be killed. Peter Weil and Mrs. Vienna Bailey, who were lovers in childhood, but who became separated by fate, were married at Elwood, he being 75 and she 69. At Elwood, Jerome Ayre/i, a detective, while chasing a fugitive, was run over by a freight train. His toes and a portion of his left foot had to be amputated. Rev. William Smith has resigned as pastor of the Congregational Church at Porter, to accept a call to Portland. His brother James from Chicago will succeed .bum--———— : —• Great anxiety is felt, over the mysterious disappearance of Patrick M. Trammell, a leading and wealthy eitizep of Huntington. Trammell had a roll of money with him. The Indiana iron works at Muncie was scorched. Quick work by the firemen prevented heavy loss. The blaze originated in the blaeksmith shop department and several hundred dollars’ damage was done. t The Pennsylvania railroad broke its record between Louisville and Indianapolis. The train left Louisville at 2 p. m, and reached Indianapolis at 4:08 p. in., a distance of 106 miles in 101 minutes. Five full stops and two slow-downs were made. A. J. Behymcr, Democratic politician and ex-State representative, was arrested at Elwood on an indictment charging him with embezzlement. Behymer denies guiit and says he can explain. The State Beard of Tax Commissiouera has entered into a compromise agreement with the heirs of Nathaniel Bowen of Delphi, by which they are to pay tbe State SIO,OOO of back taxes. George W. Dowell and John F. Campbell, real estate and insurance agents, had an encounter at Kokomo. Do wall shot Campbell and Campbell uaed a paper 1 weight. Dowell is in a critical condition.'