Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1899 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN pieo- e. Marshall, Publisher.

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fG CRUISE LAID OUT FOR THE HARTFORD. Farragut’s Old Flagihip P'iPlaced in Commission and Started K. for Honolulu—Case in Ohio Penitenptlarr Inadequate to Retain Prisoner. Knitter a long period of idleness, AdEmiral Farragut’s famous old flagship j&Hartford has been put into commission Kitt the Mare Island navy yard, San FrauI Cisco. Manned by 500 seamen, and unB|er the command of Commander John M. P-Hateley, the Hartford sailed immediateply for Honolulu. From the Hawaiian Kport she will sail for Valparaiso, ami, Hbiissing through the Straits of Magellan, {potting into Buenos Ayres, St. Thomas, Pf3an Juan, Havana and Key West, the pfauious old ship will arrive at Hampton uploads about the middle of April, where Elihe will take on supplies and clear for Mediterranean ports and Manila, returnftlng thence to San Francisco. The crew ■that will thus complete the circuit of li the globe is composed largely of recruits H who recently enlisted in Chicago, CinKCinnati, Cleveland* St. Louis, St. Paul Band other cities of the Middle West. I FIGHTING THE TOBACCO TRUST. ■Small Concerns Are Worrying the Bhc Continental Comp <ny. feSince the organization of the ContinenB|j Tobacco Company the number of ■pmall factories hgs increased wonderfully ip nil over the country, and the great tight Rpiey are putting up, and with apparent Ktaccess, has made it rather unpleasant Kfor the big concern. The tobacco ruanuH factoring output in July and August ng■Sregated about 43,000.0C0 pounds. This Kps 14,000,000 pounds more than in the BEfrespondiug months of 1898. The large ■ncrease in plug tobacco manufacture in Btthe months indicated was made in disIpricts in which independent factories Ibscapkß from a stekl CAGK. HgDtmvcct at Columbus Disarranges Donble ' et of Docks and Doors, i I john Atkinson, confined in the steel ■page at the Columbus, Ohio, penitntiary, Bpailt for- himself and the other prison | P*demons.” Marlatt, Hurley and O’Neill, from his cell and had secreted [Kfcmself under a bench in the corridor jßrhen captured. The steel cage was [Hhought to be absolutely safe, there being itwo sets of doors and two sets of locks, llworked only from the outside by levers bolts*. Atkinson managed by the E||use of a stick to disarrange the whole Bio-stem of locks and free himself. I PTHIS MAN WANTED WHISKY. Hlfio He Broke Twenty-three Locks in |‘ Getting to It. I Doyll, a laborer, engaged in conHgjHuction work at the Majestic distillery, IpTerro Haute, lnd., broke twenty-three Wlpcks on as many doors in getting to the ■ponded warehouse where the whisky is Iptored. He added to his record of twen-»ty-three locks when he found that he was Hpmpelled to break a lock on the barrel. Hpoytl was* -found intoxicated and is now Bin Jail. He will be prosecuted by the Hpoverameht. I PROT meets terrible death. ■tad la Drawn Into a Cotton Gin and I' Cut to Pieces. I §/ At Burns, Washita County, Ok., BurP" nic, the 10-year-old son of James HastHkgs, met a terrible death. He was ■paying about a cotton gin and in the ■temporary absence of the workmen apB proacbed one of the stands and in atHpmpting to catch some of the seed as it Beame from the saws his clothing got ■caught. He was drawn in upon the ■yaws and his body was cut into a hunB|dred pieces in a moment. I Race for the Pennant, I gpChe standing of the clubs in the Na■jkional League race is as follows: Bgjtoooklyn ...94 43 Chicago 71 71 Hlpston 89 53 Louisville ...71 72 jHpiiladelphia 89 54 Pittsburg .. .71 72 Hpaltimore ..82 57 New Y0rk...57 83 HjfSt. L0ui5....82 03 Washington. 49 92 Bpincinnati ..77 04 Cleveland ...20128 I France Buys American Gruin. ■ lllfhe first direct shipment of grain to HKrance made in many years left ThilaBjjjelphia recently, bound to Rochefort. cargo consisted of 92,529 bushels of Bwts, valued at $51,982. It is likely that Bojtber shipments will follow, as France is Bltilid to be short of all kinds of cereals, Bfcg are the countries which supply her. ■ Egypt** Crops Are Rained. I Ipßeports from various points in Egypt Kghow that the Nile is now at the lowest ■point of which there is any record. Two Hnlßd and six thousand acres are hopeHessly beyond irrigation and the river is Insane Man Wields a Knife. RkJa Russian from one of the settlements Bg. Stanley County went insane at Fort ;S. D., and ran amuck with a Barge knife, wounding several persons. I Comet in the Heavens. |r'4', -telegram has been received at the HufVjird College Observatory stating comet has been discovered by B 4- Arkansas Town Burned. BjgpEhe Town of Dequeen, Ark., was deby fire. Fifty-four buildings were ■Breed, entailing a loss aggregating ingurance light. 8 .••.fflOisr a Safe for a Bin Sum. ■-Bmglftni tunneled through the vaults - if the Bank of Houstonia at Houstouia, open the safe, securing all in the money box. The amount at that institution.

NOVELS GO UP IN SMOKE. Mrs. Peattie I oim Manuscripts ta the Bnrnlnis of “Wildwood.” “Wildwood," the log-eabin studio of Mrs. Elia W. Peattie, near South Haven, Mich., was burned to the ground the other night. More than fifty of Mrs. Peattie’s unpublished manuscripts, including two unfinished novels and twenty lectures—among them the Kipling lecture which stirred literary Chicago last winter —were destroyed. All of Mrs. Peattie’s notes and memoranda for stories and essays were lost, with the manuscripts and her working library. The two novels were Mrs. Peattie’s first ventures into the realm of the longer story. One of them, “The Maker of Gods,” which was nearly ready for the printer, contained upward of 00,000 words. It was a serious study of one of the most baffling phases of modern thought, and Mrs. Peattie had giveu years to the study of some of the phenomena attending it. "The Beleaguered Forest," the second novel, was a fanciful tale of the pine woods of Michigan, an idyl in a logging camp setting. SAFE*BLOWERS ARE SURPRISED. Attempt to Rob a Milroy, lnd., Bank Frustrated by Citizens. Safe blowers attempted to rob the bank at Milroy, lnd., during a rainstorm at 2 o’clock on a recent morning. Four men engaged in the job, three working inside while the fourth stood guard. Dr. Lampton discovered the robbers and aroused a few men in the vicinity of the bank. The robbers opened fire on Dr. Lampton’s party and it was returned two-fold by the posse. One safe blower calmly continued to work on the safe while his pals tought outside. The robbers finally gave up the job and retreated, leaving their tools behind. A running fire was kept up by both sides until the safe blowers escaped on a Big Four hand car. The hand car was found the next morning ditched a mile below Rushville. There was $30,000 in cash in the safe the robbers tried to open. INDIANS FIND MISSING MEN. H. F. Kendall and C. E. Eastman Are Keacnei After Ten Days. A report from Port Arthur says that H. F. Kendall of Cambridge, Mass., and C. E. Eastman of Saginaw, Mich., who have been lost in the woods near the Pepigon river for ten days, have been found. The sufferings of the two men during this time are reported as indescribable. They were without matches, guns or any shelter but blankets for ten days and had no food but berries, bark and what fish they could catch. They were in the vast wilderness north of Lake Superior and west of the Nepigon river. BREAKS THE CATTLE BKCORD. Nearly Twenty Thousand Received at Kansas City in One Day. All Kansas City cattle records were broken the other day, when the receipts at the stock yards were 19,554 head. In addition to the day’s receipts 10,000 head were carried over from the day before, so that there were over 30,000 head of cattle in the yards. The bulk of these were thin range cattle from the southwest, which will be shipped out again to the country feed lots. FIVE MEN INJURED. Fire and Explosion Destroy Hardware Store at Logansport. Five men were injured, two seriously, by the explosion of a keg of powder in a fire that destroyed Cline Brothers’ hardware store at Logansport, lnd. The thite-story brick building was half consumed when the fire reached the powder, and the explosion that followed finished the destruction. The-loss is estimated at $50,000, with little insurance. Stormy Indian Council Held. After a stormy session of three days the Chippewa Indian council adjourned at White Earth, Minn. The main question at issue was relative to the appointment of attorneys or delegates to represent the reservation’s interests at Washington during the congressional session and the continuance of a “gift policy” of issuing stock to Indians. Both issues were defeated by oVer a two-thirds majority.

$50,000 Fire in New York. Fire did $50,000 damage in the ninestory Robinson building, bounded by East Broadway, Division and Gouvenehr streets. New York. Although thereswere eighteen watchmen in the building, the flames were discovered first by a policeman. When they found that it was their building that was on fire, the eighteen watchmen came tumbling out of doors in a mad rush for safety. 1 o Exclude Japanese Peanuts. A circular letter is being framed by several of the largest wholesale nut merchants in San Francisco, to be circulated among the sellers and growers in California, Virginia and other peannt raising States, asking signatures, to the petition to Congress to raise the import tariff on peanuts from the present % cent duty to at least 3 cents. The object is to shut out Japanese peanuts.

Die in a Wreck. A head-on collision between a New York Central passenger train and a freight train occurred just west of pid Flat Bottom bridge, about half a mile west of Auburn, N. Y., and as a result four persons are dead, one fatally injured and four seriously injured. Big Deal in Iron Lands. The Lower Potts Creek property, situated in Alleghany and Craig counties, Virginia, has been sold to the Valley Ore Company.' The price paid was $500,000. The tract contains 50,000 acres of the richest iron ore lands in the United States. • In Opposition to Trust. Fires have been kindled at the Union Window Glass Company’s plant at Central City, >W. Va., which will give employment to 250 persons. The plant will be operated in opposition to the window glass trust. It has been idle for six years. Chicago Candy Factory Damaged. Gunther’s candy factory and retail store at 212 State street, Chicago, was damaged by fire to the extent of $150,000. This estimate includes the probable loss on Mr. Gunther’s priceless collection of curios. " , Trains Crash and Slay. A head-on collision occurred on the Belle Plaihe and Mucbakinock extension, seven miles southeast of Oskaloosa, lows, killing four train hands and injuring Seriously ten others. The trains came to-

PLANS FOR CENSUS.

OFFENSIVE QUESTIONS ARE TO / BE OMITTED. President and Director Merriatn Hold everal Conferences on the Subject \ l.lqpcr from Toronto Ends Hia Life with a Revolver in Chicago. Agents taking the next census will not be required to offend the public by inquiring into family secrets and asking questions calculated to provoke a tight. The number of questions has been greatly reduced aud they are simpler than before. Director Monism has recently had several conferences with President McKinley, and the President maintained that it was unwise to ask questions that tend to humiliate a citizen. The general range of the work, which will be taken up next June, has been gone over. The list of questions prepared by Director Merriam has beeu approved by the President and will soon be printed. One of the queries that aroused the most antagonism in 1890 w as whether a person had any acute or chronic disease, and this, along with similar inquiries, has been omitted.

PAYS. FOR WRO.xG WITH DEATH. E. J. Brown Commits ?n:cide in a < hicago Hotel. A revolver shot brought to a tragic climax an elopement when E. J. Brown of Toronto took his own life at the Queen Hotel in Chicago. Brown went to Chicago three weeks before with Mrs. Violet Holden, also of Toronto. Two of Mrs. Holden’s four children, aged 1 and 2 years, accompanied the couple. Brown had squandered over the card table SSOO ■with which Mrs. Holden had intrusted him, the proceeds of the sale of a small meat market business Mrs. Holden left in Toronto in order to make her abode in Chicago with Brown and her two children. Mrs. Holden and her year-old son were in the room when Brown shot himself. BIG FIRE LOSS I.x CINCINNATI. Railroad Warehouse Destroyed aud New Union : tation Damaged. At Cincinnati, fire was discovered in the Big Four warehouse, occupying a block bounded by Central avenpe, Pearl, Plum and Second streets. A general alarm soon called the w r hole department to the scene, as the fire rapidly spread to other railway buildings, including the freight sheds, where forty loaded freight cars were burned and thirty that were not loaded. Some passenger coaches were also badly damaged in the yards. The warehouse is just across the stredt-.from the new passenger station, which wasfebadly damaged that no morning trains could leave that place. The loss is estimated at over $1,000,000. F'isrht Persons Injured. Train No. 4 of the Indiana, Decatur and Western Railroad went into the siding at Montezuma, lud., the other morning. The rear sleeper did not clear the main track and was struck by a fast freight train west-bound. The sleeper was upset and seven persons were hurt. The car caught fire and was ruined. Zinc Mines Are to Be Closed. ' The zinc mines of Missouri and Kansas are again shut down. The Zinc Miners’ Association has so decreed. The shutdown is to be general and will continue till further notice from the association. About 95 per cent of the mine owners are members of this association and are pledged to abide by its action. Nineteen Years of Freedom. Thomas F. Neil was arrested at South McAlester, I. T., charged with a murder committed in Cleburne County, Arkansas, nineteen years ago. An alleged accomplice of Neil has served fifteen years in the penitentiary for the crime. Neil escaped dn being taken from,the jail to the court. Jail for Former Bank President. Leonard B. Imboden, president of the Planters’ Bank of Kansas City, which was suppressed by the State officials several months ago,, was found guilty in the criminal court of forging a draft for $15,000 and w r as sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. Is Now a Princess. The marriage of Miss Julia Dent Grant aud Prince Cantacuzene, according to the rites of the Protestant Episcopal Church, took place at AH Saints’ chapel, Newport, It. I. The ceremony was performed#according to the rites of the Greek Church the previous day.

Klown Up by Dynamite. W. C. Linn, one of the oldest residents of the Black Hills, was killed at Galena, S. D., while thawing some dynamite in his cabin. He was a first cousin of President McKinley. ionx Chief Is Killed. Conquering Bear, a prominent Sioux chief from Pine Ridge agency, camped at the Omaha exposition grounds, was almost instantly killed by jumping from a trolley car while it was moving. Five Dead in Freight Wreck. A bad wreck occurred on the Great Northern road a short distance west of Glasgow, Mont. Five men were killed and two others seriously injured, all employes of the company. Chinese Railway Loan. Arrangements have been completed by the Russo-Chinese Bank at Peking for a loan of 1,200,000 taels for the construction of Lung-Chau and Nan-Ning-Fu Railway.

Mrs. Botkin Gets a Stay. A thirty days’ further stay of execution has been granted by Judge Cook to Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, who was convicted of sending poison through the mails to Dover, Del. ■ ‘ Slain hy Kentucky Feudists. Eli Taylor was found dead in his father’s near Dory, Ky., his head having been pierced by a pistol ball. It is reported that he was a sympathiser in the Philpot-Griffln feud. Advance in Vehicle Bodies. Leading carriage and buggy body manufacturers of the Central States formed a combination at Indianapolis and raised prices on an average 20 per cent. Read’s < accessor Named, j Amos L. Allen, formerly private Secretary to Thomas B. Reed; has freen| Dominated for Congress by the Republicans of the First Maine district /

SEVEN YEARS FOR A BANKER, Coart of Appeals Confirms Sentence of James H. Bacon. At St. Paul, Judge Thayer of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals the other day handed down four decisions. The most important one is that affirming the decision by the United States Court for the district of Utah in the case of the United States of America against J ames H. Bacon. The decision of Judge Thayer means seven years in prison for Bacon and he is ordered to surrender himself to the United States marshal for the district of Utah. Bacon was indicted, tried and convicted in the United States District Court of Utah for making false reports to the Comptroller of the Currency as to the condition of the American National Bank Dec. 28, 1893, al which time he was president of the institution. He was sentenced to a term of seven years in the Utah penitentiary. HU attorney appealed to the Circuit Court of Appeals, alleging' error in the trial. AFTER AMERICAN CAPITAL. Plan to Complete the Unfinished Porto Rican Railway. A scheme is on foot to secure American capital for the completion of the unfinished Porto Rican Railroad. Edward Lauterbach, acting for the interests now identified with the road, has consulted with the authorities at Washington as to the Government’s willingness to adopt the terms of a concession which the Spanish Government granted in 1882 for the building of the road. The matter is now being considered. About 130 miles of the railroad has been completed, extending around the eastern coast of the island, and has been operated since 1892. Fiftyfour miles has yet to be built. The securities of the company are owned chietl.v by French and English citizens. HANNA HAS A ->AK . OW ESCAPE. 1 rain Carrying Him to Middlcport, <»,, Serikes a Broken Rail. The southrbound train on the Hocking Valley Railroad carrying Senator Mark Hanna and Col. Nevin to Middleport., 0., had a very narrow escape from being wrecked at Addison. It was approaching the station at a terrific rate of speed, when a rail broke, splintering the floor of the smoker. However, it occurred on a curve and this is all that saved the train. Philadelphia Firm# Bnrned Out. A large tive-story brick building in Filbert street, Philadelphia, the first two floorkof which are occupied by the Macey Furniture Company, and the three upper floors by the Reliance Storage and Warehouse Company, was entirely destroyed by fire, together with its contents. The lc*s is estimated at about SIOO,OOO. /Pugilist Dangerously Hurt. Grass Valley, Cal., in a fight be- ' tween Jim Prendergast of Sacramento and Charles Hoskin of Grass Valley, Hoskin was floored three times and failed to come to when the referee counted off the ten seconds. He was probably fatally hurt. Twenty-two Buildings Bnrned. A fire that is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary the west side of Main street, New Madrid, Mo., destroying twenty-tjvo houses, offices and dwellings. The loss is estimated at SIOO,000, partially insured. The suspected incendiary escaped. Starving Cubans Fat Dogs Owing to the failure of crops in the province of Santa Clara, Cuba, many families in the country districts around Trinidad, it is said, are starving. It is added that all the cats and dogs there, and even iguanas and snakes, have been eaten. Woman Inherits a Fortune. Mrs. J. T. Van Smyth, wife of a Kansas City physician, has fallen heir to an estate in Rotterdam, Holland, valued at $1,000,000, left her by an aunt. Mrs. Van Smyth was Miss Lucille Livingstone of Richmond, Va. Founder of Wichita, Kan , Dead Willianf Griffenstein, the founder of Wichita, Kan., died at Shawuee, 1. T. He left Germany as a political exile and landed at Westport, Mo., in 1850. He was a well-known Indian trader and frontierman. Durand Bank Rohb?d. The safe in a private bank at Durand, 111., was blown open by robbers aud $3,500 stolen. The explosion was of sufficient force to partly wreck the building. The robbers escaped and there is no clew. Lake ftenmers on Fire. The pleasure boats Ivanhoe and R. J. Gordon burned to the water at their dock at the foot of Van Bnren street, Chicago. market quotations. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $7.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn, 1 No. 2,32 cto 34cj oats, No. 2,22 c to 23c; rye, No. 2,57 cto 59c; butter, choice creamery, 22e to 23c; eggs, fresh, 16c to 18c; potatoes, choice, 25c to 35c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $5.00; sheep, commpn to prime, $3225 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 69c to 70c; corn, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; oats. No. 2 white, 24c to 26c. St. Louis —Cattle, $3.25 to $6.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,73 cto 74c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2,23 cto 25c; rye, No. 2,58 cto 60c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25: hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 24c to 26c; rye, No. 2,62 cto 64c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00: sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,73 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 36c; oats. No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; rye, 59c to 61c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 72c to 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; oats No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; rye, No. 2,59 c to 01c; dovet seed, $6.20 to $6.30. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 1 Northern. 74c to 76c; corn, No. 3,32 ctq 38c; oats. No. 2 white, 24c to 27c; rye, No. 1,59 c to 60c; barley, No. 2,45 cto 47c; pork, mesa, SB.OO to $8.50. Boffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, common to choice. $3.25 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.00 to $4.50; lambs, common to extra, $4.30 to $5.50. New York—Cattle, $8225 to $6.75: hogs, $3.00 to $5.25: she&s3.oo to $1.25;

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TEftSEIAr TOLD. ,- ■ , Consecrated Bishop of Boathern Indiana—Anderson Volunteer Forces His Father’s Consent-Queer Case at English—Meet After Sixty-five Years. The Rev. Joseph M. Francis of Evansville has been consecrated bishop of Southern Indiana. The impressive ceremony took place at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. Those taking part in the service were the following: The #Rt. Rev. W. E. McLaren, bishop of Chicago; the Rt. Rev. Thomas Frederick Davies, bishop of Michigan; the Rt. Rev. John Hazen White, bishop of Michigan City. The preacher was the Rt. Rev. George Franklin Seymour, bishop of Springfield. The bishops presenting were the Rt. Rev., Isaac Lea Nicholson, bishop of Milwaukee; the RL Rev. Lewis Williams Burton, bishop of Lexington. The master of ceremonies was the Rev. Roger H. Peters of New Albany. Determined to Go to the War. At Anderson, Chester Wilson, a minor, enlisted for the Philippine service. His parents objected and brought him home. He then adopted sensational methods to gain their consent and is now on his way to the Philippines. Drawing a revolver, lie placed it to his head and told his father that unless he consented to waive all objections he would blow out his brains on the I spot. The father then signed a paper giving his consent. Wilson is 20 years of age. Arrested on a Peculiar Charge. The excitement over the news that Thomas Bauman had not committed suicide one year ago, but had hired another man to kill him and paid SSOO for the service culminated at English in the arrest of Peter R. Boyle upon the charge indicated. He gave bond of $2,500. Boyle, who was formerly a newspaper man, but is now a farmer, laughs at the charge. He admits Bauman offered him the SSOO, but that it was offered to half a dozen men. Separated Sixty-five Years. James Green of Marshall County left for Centerville, Mich., recently to meet his sister, whom he has not seen for six-ty-five years. They became separated in infancy, and Green has persistently kept up a search for her half a century, only ascertaining her whereabouts a few days ago. The other members of the family mourned the lost sister as dead.

Tin Plate Plant is Burned. The plant of the American Tin Plate Company at Atlanta was badly damaged by fire. The shipping and trimming departments were destroyed and stock worth $100;000 burned. The total loss will reach $150,000. Within Our Borders. > Elkhart National Bank will pay everybody that it and go out of business. There were fifty cases filed for delinquent dog tax in Monroe township in one day. Sanford Coy and Dr. Webb, Madison County, lost their barns at the hands of firebugs. A new coal shaft has been opened at Ingleside. Operators expect to take out ten carloads a day. State labor commissioners and committees of miners and operators, Brazil, failed to agree on the powder question. Gas belt manufacturers have sued the Indiana Natural Gas Company, to prohibit piping of gas outside the Sta|e. Mrs. Dorothy Sandilands died at South Bend. She was 84 years old and a sister of James Oliver, the plow manufacturer. The “come outers,” a religious sect that has discovered a new road to heaven, has sprung up in Delaware and Grant counties. Bloodhounds were put on James Brown’s trail, Chesterton, and found the pocketbook containing $2,500 that he had lost. James Ward, one of the alleged robbers of the Flora Bank, who escaped from the North Manchester ‘jail, has been captured., Soudan Bicycle Company, Chicago, will locate at Elkhart, under a guarantee to spend $60,000 a year for three years, before the land is turned over to the company. E. P. McCaslin of Scottsburg, scientific farmer and experimenter, has propagated

a wheat, known as the “Hoosier giant,” that is worth $5,500 a bushel. A single grain produces from 25 to 95 stalks, that yield as much as a bushel. Patrick Slattery, New Albany, w’as jealous of John Brazil, because of attentions paid his wife, and took two shots at him. They missed John, bat one caught his brother Ed, seriously wounding him. Slattery escaped. The biggest straw stack fire that ever occnrred in the United States destroyed SIO,OOO worth of straw, at the Majestic Distillery in Terre Haute, where 4t was stacked for winter use as feed for the cattle in the distillery pens. There were 89,000 biles, worth SIO,OOO, fully insured. Last sprang a tramp, about 21, called at the home of Rev. W. T. McGowan, North Vernon, and was given food by his 15-year-old daughter. There was a few minutes’ conversation, and since that time the tramp and the girl have been carrying on a secret correspondence. The last letter said that he had prepared a home for her near New Orleans, and, later, he went after her. The father learned of their intentions, and stood guard at hia door with a gnn. The tramp said he would stay until he secured his intended bride, as she was willing to go, bat when citizens took up the matter he left with tears in his eyes, saying he would return and take her. He gave his name as Walter Bchnoot. Fred Cain and Miss Ora E. Smock, Terre Haute, eloped to Newport, and married in a school house near there, in the presence of the pupils, by Rev. Fowler, who was teaching. Mrs. John McMillan was arrested at Anderson on the charge of shooting William Couehiin McMillan and Coughlin have beefon a series of drunks. Mrs. times, but Coughlid would get Mm out

STATE CAPITAL CHAT.

The annnnl report of State Geologist Blatchley makes a volume of 1,741 pages. The greater part of the report deals with . the coal supply, and. in this work Dr. George H. Ashley of California has assisted.' The origin of coal and its various processes are treated at length, and the geology of the coal fields and the life existing daring the coal age is treated. Fourteen counties of the State hate coal underlying them, and there are twentysix counties in which coal is found, covering an area of 6,500 square miilee. 'Die geologist estimates that there is enough workable coal in the State to last 300 years. It is estimated that 100,000,000 tons of coal,have been removed, that 40,000,000,000 tons of coal remain nnder the surface, and that 8,000,000,000 tona can yet be mined. Knox County is said to have the most coal, Sullivan County has more in “sight” and Clay County is the most actively engaged in mining. In the consideration of the economic and financial side of coal an estimate is made of the distribution of $2.50 which an Indianapolis man would pay for a ton of coal, which shows that 5 cents of the amount goes to the original owner of the coal, 3 cents goes to the capital invested, 87 cents goes to labor and mine expenses, 15 cents goes to the man who operates the mine, 50 cents goes for transportation and 90 cents goes to the retailer. Robert Fisher. State mine inspector, shows that 5,177,044 tons were mined in 1898, which is an increase of 948,958 tons over the output of 1897, and an increase of 628,233 tons over that of any previous year. In 1898 9,325 miners were employed in the State. The report states that the demand for coal will increase as the supply of gas diminishes, and it is estimated that the output of coal will increase to 10,000,000 tons before 1910. The total production of petroleum in 1898 was 3,751,307 barrels, as compared with 4,353,138 barrels in 1897, or a loss of 601,831 barrels.

.w. t The results of this year’s work of the State, board of tax commissioners are shown in the appended tables. The board assesses railroads, telegraph and telephone companies, express companies and sleeping car companies originally. The tax is distributed to the counties in accordance with mileage. The real estate assessment is not done by the board. It heard many appeals, hotvever, and changed many assessments by county boards. Miles. Assessment. Main track 6,4*93.96 $122,721,030 Second main ........ 304.54 3,636,435 Side track 7.... .2,180.87 7,858,260 Rolling stock ,6,233.90 16,529,496 Improvements on right of way 2,947,285 Total $153,693,506 Telegraph, telephone, express and- sleeping car companies: Telegraph and telephone companies $4,382,047 Sleeping car companies... 393,084 Express companies 1,811,395 Total assessment railroads, telegraph, telephone and sleeping car and express companies... .$160,968,700 Real estate: Assessm’t by County Board. Inc. Dec. Rands $449,561,158 $5,843,212 $793,544 Improvements on lands... 84,692,205 392,767 Lands and improvem’s 534,253,363 Lots 162,741,325 433,097 30,753 Improvements on lots .... 163,371,325 435,756 56,103 Lands and < Improvem’s 326,112,409 Personal property ... 315,540,675 $1,175,936,247 $7,104,832 $880,400 Net Increase. $6,224,432 L. P. Mitchell, assistant Comptroller of the Treasury at Washington, D. C., in the matter of the application of the State of Indiaaa for the reopening of a settlement of the balance of the claim of the State for $606,979, has decided that, although in his judgment the claim is a perfectly just one, he is without power to afford any remedy, and therefore? the application is denied. It appears that at the breaking'out of the war of the rebellion the State was almost entirely without funds, and that to enable the State properly to respond to the call of the President for troops it became necessary to raise money on a loan upon the credit of the State. These bonds were sold at a discount of $243,107, which, with interest, brokerage and other expenses, brings the amount still unpaid np to the snm stated. The claim is made under the provisions of the act of Jujy 27, 1861, which directs the Secretary of the Treasury to-pay to any State the costs properly incurred in raising troops. The second annual session of the National Association of State Librarians will be held at the state house in this city from Oct. 24 to 26 and the first session will be at 8 o’clock on Tuesday evening, Oct. 24. The address of welcome will be delivered by Gov. Monnt and the response will be by Arthur N. .Chase of New Hampshire. Thursday morning only will jje devoted to a formal session. The afternoon will be given over to sightseeing. The election of officers will close the session. Secretary of State Hunt has received letters from K. Schilling, royal Prussian Government assessor, and Comte C. B. des Monts of France, asking for information concerning the. agricultural and mineral products of Indiana. Both are traveling in America, gathering information along this line, to be presented to their respective countrymen. Brief State Happenings. Bad $lO bills are floating in Anderson. Milo Stump, 38, Union City, went “up town” some time ago, and has not been seen since. Lafayette soldiers’ home has more applications than room. , S. H. Goble’s livery barn, Connersville, is in ashes. Loss $3,000. , Dolly Daniels, 67, Valparaiso, married Miss Pearl Hammond. 19. JQSttISSSEL nna ' “*, A coffee pot exploded xsd Mrs.