St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 26, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 3 January 1891 — Page 6

CHRONOLOGY OF 1890. RAW MATERIAL FOR HISTORYRECORD OF A YEAR. Victims of Steamship Wrecks. Mine Disasters, Fire Horror , Holler Fxp’osions, Railroad Collisions and Epidemic Dis-ease-Great Floods of the Year—lncidents of Bach Month. The year 1890 opened inanspiciously as far as accidents were concerned, and the national adluinis (ration, outside of ’Politics, was singularly unfortunate eurjy in the winter. At the beginning of the social season in Washington life the wife of the President suffered an atllico ™ hor sister - Then came the death of Walker Blains, the eldest son of the of tha Ca Mnet. Within a fortnight Mr. Blaine mourned the loss of his eldest daughter, Mrs. Coppin ger, and then came the terrible calamity that befell the family of Secretary Tracy. From the standpoint of the philosopher, the attentive reader will observe that neither wealth nor high official station exempts anybody from the ills of human life. n estimated that the railroads of the United States lose 82,003,000 yearly by landIn nw mT’’ by Are, and $3,000,000 by collisions. Important occurrences follow, with dates : JANUARY. 7. Several horses killed at St. Louis, Mo., and many small fires started by electiic wires which were broken by a storm. 9. Amnwement n a lo of the discovery of Cleopatra’s tomb in Egypt. 11. Fire at Lexington, Ky„ cremated thirty-five j valuable horses, among them the trotter j Bell Boy, for which $51,000 had been paid, and whoso owner had once refused SIOO,C 0) for him ; total loss, $350,000. 12. Number of cases of influenza (or “la grippe") in Berlin to da e. estimated at 400.000; number of deaths due to the disease. 650. Drunkenness greatly ii creased at Paris, because physicians prescribed alcoholic drink as a preventive. ' , 15. The Pops issued an

—gm-1 K&- WMft oi oy the state wheMWoh a course does not entail dis- | Obedience to the divine laws ; also, TB6y ' must not tie the church to any political party..... .The South Dakota Legislature passed its first bill—to provide for refunding the indebtedness of the State. 21. About a thousand fishing boats wrecked off the losnu coast. Japan; nearly all on board, between 2,500 and 3.00 J, perished. 22. Incoming steamers at New York reported the worst weather ever before known on the Atlantic Ocean. 27. Andrew Charter (colored), aged 8 years, received at the Nashville periitentiary to serve one vear or larceny, 28. Near Cascade, Cal., the tracks of the Central Pacific Hoad were covered by snow to a depth of fifty feet; trains in the Sierras were snow-bound and passengers lived on canned goods for a fortnight. FEBRUARY. 3. Burning of the ros’denca of Secretary of the Navy Tracy ai Washington ; Mrs. Tracy, her daughter Mary, and a French maid, Josephine Morrell, lose their lives. 4. Celebration at New York of the centennial of the Un<ted States Supreme Bench; addressf.a made by ex-President Cleveland, Associate Justice Field, and others. 6. Explosion in Abasycham colliery, near Newlort, Wales; 170 lives lost. W In the municipal election at Salt Lake City the Gentiles were successful by over BJO majority, the event being considered the virtual overthrow of Mormon rule in I Utah. 19. Dead-lock in lowa House of Representatives I ended by compromise, having lasted over I five weeks. 22. Sixty persons drowned by the giving way of a great reservoir at Prescott, Arizona. 25. Seventy bodies of murdered infants found on the premises of a midwife named Skobiski, whose house was burned at Warsaw, Poland 28. Loss of the steamer Quetta in Australian waters ; 113 persons drowned. MARCH. 5. Near Chapel Hill, Texas, a hailfall to the depth of eighteen inches to two feet was reported. 10. Explosion in the Morsa colliery, Glamorganshire, Wales ; 83 miners perished. 17 > Prince Bismarck, Chancellor of the German Empire, tendered his resignation and retired to private life. 27. Louisville, Ky., swept by a cyclone; 103 persons killed. Along the line of the storm in Kentucky, outside Louisville, 150 persons were kiUcd; at Clay the dead numbered twenty-three. 30. Strikes reported spreading in Europe; throughout Catalonia, in Spain, 40,000 factory employes and 21,000 shoemakers In England miff, ’ ■ ■

at St. Elo, trance, demanded an advance in wcges Levees along the Mississippi River broke, and a vast amount ot damage r. suited; the town of Skfpwith, near Vicksburg, was swept out of sight by the water from a huge crevasse, and in Desha County, Arkansas, a section of laud iO.OiX* acres in extent was covered by the flood, the settlers living on the tops of houses and in trees and suffering for food. MAY. 3. At Laurel Fork, W. Va., James Sevate, aged 101, and Mrs. Terence, agtd 83. were married; the groomsman was 81 and the bridesmaid 78 Hermit, the winner of the sensational Epsom Derby of 1867, when 66 to 1 was bet against him, died of old age; he was the property of Henry Chaplin, Minister of Agriculture of England, , who won a fortune on him. 6. lire in Longue Pointe Lunatic Asylum, near Montreal, Quebec; over 150 lives lost Burning of the Singer sewing machine factory at Elizabethport, N. J.; loss, 53.003,000. 18. Powder explosion at Havana, Cuba, results in loss of thirty-four lives. 21. Ellis Island, New York harbor, turnel over to the United States Governmentyxas a landing place for immigrants Report that New Yoak lawyers entered into an X agreeement to refuse answering questions of census enumerators touching acute or X chronic diseases, or defects of mind or body. JUNE. 3. Bradshaw, a Nebraska town, lail in ruins by a cycle ne. 11. Democrats of the Fourth District of Indiana unanimously renominated Congressman William S. Holman—the nineteenth time he has been similarly honored by his party. 13. Cholera made its appearance at Valencia and Malaga, in Spain, 16. Explosion of fire-damp in a coal mine at Dunbar, Pa. ; thiitv-four killed. 25. The lower house of the Louisiana Legislature passed a bill .extending the franchise of the lottery company twenty-five years; the company is to pay into the State Treasury §1,250,003 yearly Ina match race at Sbeepshead ‘Bay, Long Island. the four-year-old colt Salvator established a record that is likely to remain unbeaten for many years—be having ran a mile and a quarter in 2 .-05. JULY. < 4. The President signed ; bill admitting Idaho to the Union. ..ad the forty-third star omthe American flag wa? adds d. 7. Discovery of gold, the richest “strike" on recl^^^ord, reported near Tin Con, Colo Far-

gO, IN fllU JVMrKCFvsS, nnup I 'J most laying the town in ruins. ' 8 Seven hundred persons killed by a cy’clone in Muscat, a province of Arabia. I j 10. The President approved the act for the admission of W yoming to the Federal Union Stite Senator J. Fisher Smith, of Ixybisiat a died soon after the passage of the lottery bill by a two-thirds vote ; he had been ailing, but was carried to his seat, as his vote was necessary to override the Governor’s veto. 11. Explosion of gas on the steamer Tioga, in n the Chicago River; forty stevedores and ’longshoremen hurled to instant death. 13. Lake City. Minn., swept by a cyclone which capsized the steamer Sea Wing on Lake Pepin, the 1 it'er being crowded with excursionists; 130 lives lose. The same s>orm swept on its way through the charming summer resorts of Northern . Minnesota, adding scores more of victims ; to its fury, besides wounding a great number and destroying much valuable prop- I erty. 16. White Star steamer teutonic made the I passage from Queenstown to Now York in 5 days 13 hours—best on record. 29. Explosion of fire-damp in coal-pit at St. Etienne, France; 121 miners reported killed. AUGUST. 4. Railway accident near Innsbruck, in the Tyrol; 12) pe >ple pe ishi I. 13. Bridget Doody died at Mineral Point, Wis., aged 123 years; she was bora in Ireland, and' the parish record shows ths date of her birth. 13. Explosion in government powder mill at Canton, China ; 239 houses destroyed and over I,O'JO lives lost. 19. Wilkesburre. Pa., and vicinity visited by a ! terrible cyclone ; loss of life in devastated district exceeded 10;). 22. Wreck on the Old Colony Railroad at Quincy. Mass. ; twenty-two persons perished. 25. Tokay, Hungary’s famous wine-producing town, wiped out by fie; only thirteen houses were left in the place... .Great rejoicing marked the practical completion of the Canada-United States tnn-

nel under the St, Clair Elver at Port , Huron, Mich. 26. The Grand Master of Missouri Odd Fellows declared that the Grand Lodge had no authority to dismiss saloonkeepers from ths order. " 28. On the straight course at Monmouth, N. J., the horse Salvator ran a mile in 1 '.35%. SEPTEMBER. _ 5. Great floods in Centrifl Europe; 40,000 persons made homeless by the overflowing of the i. I'rave, Elbe and Danube rivers. - 6. Twenty men killed by a premature blast at Spokane Falls, Wash. 9. California celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the admission of that State into , the Union. 11. First snow fall of the season in the United States reported from Fort Assinuboine, 5 Montana. i 12. Four million people rendered homeless In one provice of China by the Yellowlliver , floods. , 16. Mining disaster at St. Wendel, Germany; 150 miners entombed. 18. Turkish man-of-war Ertzogroul foundered in Japanese Sea; 500 lives lost. 19. Wreck at curve on Heading Hailroad. near Shoemakersville, Pa. ; fifty persons killed. OCTOBER. 2. Forest fires in the Hack Hills reported the most destructive in the history of the country; loss to mining camps and ranches and to timber interests very heavy. 7. Fifteen lives lost by an explosion at the Dupont powder-works, near Wilmington, Del. ; the shock was plainly felt at Philadelphia and Chester (Fa.). Millville (N. J.), end other points thirty to tbirty-five miles away. 30. Wreck of the Spanish steamer Vizcaya off Barnegat, N. J. ; ninety-seven lives lost. I T> ... . . NOVEMBER. , 10. British cruiser Serpent foun lers at sea iff the eoast of Spain ; 276 lives lost. , DECEMBER. 12. Cholera ravaging the State of Guatemala; seven’dar^ th ° Cl ‘ y ° f Guatoluala At the°canai” Ar S- nt ine Republicjg burst its embankments; lives aud hundrmin of Roiihc** u>» \ Rtroyea. ° ,

invitm* all the nations of the earth to participate in the Columbian Exposition THE DISTINGUISHED DEAD. JANUARY. 2. Hon. George n. Boker, poet, playwright, and ex-Minister to Turkey and Bu sia; Philadelphia. aged 66. 7. Augusta, once Empress of Ge: lany and Queen of Prussia, aged 78. 9. Judge Wm. D. Kelley, the L chor of the House of Representatives ; Washington, D. C., aged 75. 10. Dr. Doellinger, head of the “Old Catholic" movement in Southern Germany. 14. Lord Robert Cornelius Napier of Magdala; London, Englund, aged 80. 15. Walker Blaine, eldest son of the Secretary of State; Washington, D. C., aged 35. 18. Prince Amadeo, Duke of Aosta, brother of the King, and formerly King of Spain, 23. Adam f orepaugh, the veteran showman. I 24. Ex-Senator H. H. Riddleberger, of Virginia. 27. Ex-Lieut. Gov. Bross, of Illinois... .Rev’. Father Stroup, head of the Catholic Order , of tho Holy Ghost in America. FEBRUARY. 2. Mrs. Alice Coppinger, eldest daughter of Secretary Blaine. 7. Captain General J. Salamanca, of Cuba. 8. Cardinal Pecci, brother of the Pope... .William Goldthwaite, one of the old-time billlard Players ; New York, aged 47. 18. Count Julius Andrassv, Hungarian statos- | man. 19. Joseph Gillis Biggar, M. P., well-known | home-ruler. 22. John Jacob Astor, grandson of the man of that name, and the richest man in America; New York, aged 70. 24. Mrs. Lovel Greeley, sister of the late Horace Greek y; Spring Creek, Pa., aged 75. march. *• «?' > v ‘ James E. English of Connecticut. 5. Abraham Lincoln, 17-year-old son of United States Minister Robert T. Lincoln, at London, England. 8. Matilda lluley, at Hay wick, Ky., aged 123 ! years, 11. Ex-Congressman Wm. Preston Taulbee, of ' Kentucky, who was shot by Chas. E. Kin- j caid, a newspaper man, at the Capitol, Feb. 11. 21. Major General George Crook, U. S. A. 23. Gen. Robert C. Schenck, ex-Minister to England At Salinas, Cat, “Old Gabriel,’ an Indian, aged 151 years. 25. Prof. Richard Dale Owen, scientist; New Harmony, Ind., aged SO. 26. Archbishop Michael Heiss of the Catholic diocese of La Crosse Wis Justice James V. Campbell, of the Michigan Supreme Court, 3A IMvM a

wuo during the wax rendered groat service to the Government In organizing the nationalbank system. ’ 31. Vice Admiral Steph m Rowan, U. S. N. atkil. 1 2. Gen. Thomas C. Anderson, prominent Republican politician and a member of tho famous Louisiana Returning Board of 1874 ■ to 1576. 7. William Galloway, who ran the first locomo- : tiveon the Baltimore and < hio Road, and probably the oldest railroad engineer in . the world ; Baltimore, aged 81. 9. Aristides Welch, a widely known breeder of ! famous horses; Philadelphia, aged 79. , 11. George B. Stuart, organizer of the U. S. Christian Commission; Philadelphia, aged 74. 13. Samuel Jackson Randall, Pennsylvania's well-known Democratic statesman. 21. Captain William L. Coueh, a Daler ot the Oklahoi: . boomers. MAY. 2. Bishop Borges s, of the Catholic Diocese of i Michigan. 3. U. S. Seuater James B. Beck of Kentucky; ' , Washington, I). C.. aged CB. 5. Ex-Lieut. Gov. Andrew Shuman, of Illinois. 16. Ex-Judge Thomas Drummond, of the U. S. circuit Court, Seventh Judicial District; Wheaton, 111., aged 80. JUNE. 2. Matthew Morgan, the famous artist. 3. Alfred T. Perrine, the inventor of the gatHng gun; at the Cincinnati city Hospital, In poverty. 11. John Pennv. a Scotchman, known as the ' Silver Kingßolivia, South America, aged 58 Mrs. Henry .Taha, the last survivor of the Nipuck tribe of Indians;; Webster, Muss., aged 76. 23. Hon. George W. McCrary, ex-Secretary of War. JULY. 4. Hon. Beverly Tucker, a noted politician of Virginia. 8. Ex-Congressman- P. D. Wigginton, of Cali- I fornia; candidate of the American party j for the Presidency in the last campaign. ' | 9. Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, a wise -counselor and a sagacious leader of the Prohibition party. I IL Ex-Senator Thomas B. McCreary, ot Kentucky. 13. Gen. John C. Fremont, first Republican candidate for President; New York Citv aged 77. 19. Congressman James P. Walker, of Missouri J. W. W. Watson. literary man and | author of “Beautiful Snow;” New York, I aged 67. 26. Judge 8. S. Marshall, one of the Illinois ! Democracy’s ablest leaders. AUGUST. 10. John Boyle O’Reilly, soldier, revolutionist, exilo t _22pet ) and editor; jlulL_.

11. Cardinal John Henry Newman, eminent English Catholic divine. 18. Near Sandusky. Ohio, Margaret Soloman, J the last of the tribe of Wyandotte In- 1 dia 15...... At the Standing Rock Agency, ! N. D.. George Faribault, chief of the ! Indian police; he was (he Daniel Boone ! of Minnesota, and, being himself a quar- I ter bree^, had great influence among the savages; during the Indian troubles le saved the lives of many whites. 25. Congressman Lewis F. Watson, of Pennsyl- I vania. . SEPTEMBER. 4. Gen. E. F. Noyes, jurist, diplomatist, and ; ex-Governor of Ohio. 8. Hon. I. P. Christianey, ex-U. S. Senator from Michigan. 18. Dion Boucicault, playwright and actor. 21. Gov. C. C. Stevenson, of Nevada. OCTOBER. 2. Ex-Gov. Philip Frauds Thomas, of Maryland. 12. Gen. W W. Belknap, ex-Becretary of War. ; 13. Associate Justice S. E. Miller of U S Supreme Court. 21. At the Columbus (Ohio) penitentiary, Pete McCartney, the noted counterfeiter NOVEMBER. 23. King William 111. of Holland. 24. August Belmont, Lading financier and in- : fluential Democrat of \ ow York 25. Benjamin P. Shillaber fMr.s. Partington”), veteran humorist and author. December.* 6. Joe Coburn, the once famous m’c’list 8. Washington McLean, formerly a leading politician of Ohio. 9 ’ G s^ Be vi’- Giut - y ’ ‘hstinguished meml>cr oi tuo Wisconsin press 15. Sitting Dull, the Sioux chief-slain while resisting arrest. 16. Gen. Alfred H. Terry, U. S. A. retire 1) LEGAL EXECUTIONS. JANUARY. 3. f alvin Morris at,Houma, La. 17. James Hol.'ombj at St. John, La.; Isaiah

t and Charles Dent at Clinton, La.. ‘I FEBRUARY. s 14. Wong Ah Hing at Sun Francisco, Cal. ' i- 18. Ellison Mounts at Pikeville, Ky. e 2J. William Seeley Hopkins at Bellf ont % Ta; Sohoope and Coles at Philadelphia- ~ 21. Rev. Henry Duncan at Ozark, Ala. 26. G. A. Black at Laramie, Wyoming; Georgs Clarke at Waynesburg, Pa. i s 23. Dick Hawes at Birmingham, Ala. e I MARCH. 7. Felix Camp at Charleston, W. Va. '’“s—---t 14. Robert Haines at Hartzell’s, Ala. I 19. M. J. Cheatham at Grenada, Miss. - | 21. Prince Saunders at Plaquemine, La. 0 APRIL. » i 3. Robert McCoy and William Hicks at Ufcmerl ville, Ga. * i, 9. Alfred Andrews at Bellefonte, Pa.; William H. Bartholomew at Easton, Pa.; Zach i Taylor at Waynesburg, Pa.; William Carr ter at Ebensburg, Pa. Jr 11. Charles Simmons at Mount Pleasant, 8. 0. I I'6. Martin Futrell at Hernando, Miss. . 18. Ben Eisey at Birmingham, Ala. i MAY. 1. James Palmer at Concord, N. H. r 9. Bob Hill nt Augusta, Ga. ; Sandy Jones at Birmingham, Ala.; William Davis at Union, S. C. ) JUNE. i 20. Josiah Potts and Elizabeth, his wife, at i Elko, Nev. ; Peter E. Davis at Belleville, r Ontario; Fritz Dubois at Quebec. 24. Harry Ballard, Parker Harris, Edward Corr, । ; and Frank Brennish at Memphis, Tenn. I 27. M illiam Brooker at Pine City, Minn. JULY. 9. John Stansberry ut Fort Smith, Ark. 30. Harry Bivins, alias Dudley, at Scranton, Miss. , 31. Kelly Stewart at Live Oak, Fla. AUGUST. | 1. Rachel Cateo and William Clyburn at Lancaster, l’a. , 6. William Kemmler put to death by electricity _ at Auburn penitentiary, N Y. y Ju. John Phillips at Boynton, Va. ‘ . 2J. Otto Leuth ofCleya’amL«»Mi*-^^ > 'i‘al(a l । '* OCTOJIKR. ' \ I-T. Maxwell at MoTTfS, TTT. ' ’ Hurry Williuuiß at BeUing Fork, Mißß»' 29. Thomas G. Woolfolk (wh» murder«ciins members of his family) at Perry, (W NOVEMBER, • 14. John Reginall B’rchall, at Woodstock, Ont. 21. Jack Staples, at K loxvillo, Tenn. DECEMBER. 1. Ellis Miller, at Columbus, Ohio. 12. William W. Blanchard, at Sherbrooke. Ont. 18. Arthur H. Day. at Welland, Ont.; Elmer Sb irkey and Henry Popp, at Columbus Ohio. ’ 19. Four Indians—Lallaeee, Pierre Paul, Antley and Pascale—at Missoula, Montana; Ileml La Montague, at Sherbrooke, Ont, 23. Mary Eleanor Wheeler, alias Mrs. Pearcey, at Loudon. England. VICTIMS OF JUDGE LYNCH. FEBRUARY. 13. George Corvett at Crawfordsville, Ark. 27. Brown Washington near Madison, Ga. MARCH. ( 8. Allen and Witherford Irving at Princeton, W. Va. | 15. Amos S ; anton at Bromfield, Neb. I 16. Henry Williams at Gadsden, Tenn. 19. Benjamin Grewel at Robinson Station, Ky. 21. Robert Mosley near Huntsville, Ala. MAY. 4. M. Miles in Indian Territory. 10. Ed Leunott at H-aruo, Texas. Jt NK. 16. George Swayze at East Feliciana, La. JUDY. 17. Green Jackson at Fort White, Fla. AUGUST. 9. William Beaver near Warren, Ark. 15. Charles Pratt a’ Blair, Neb. 17. Thomas Woodward at Humboldt, Teun. SEPTEMBER. 2. Thomas Smith at Poplar Bluff, Mo. OCTOBER, 2. Ernest Humphreys at Princeton, Ky. 11. Frank Wooden at Homer. Ix. 17. Hill singleton at Macon, Gx 30. Near Valdosta. Ga., Palseo. NOVEMBER. 14. Ned Stevens at Savannah, Tenn. DECEMBER. i 9. Moses Lemon nt Roebuck. Miss. : 10. Dan Williams, near Quincy, Fla. 21. At Boydtown, Va., five negroes who were ini jail for murder. 22. Near Huntington, Oregon, three unknown' tramps—by railroad men. Victimized Reporters. Among the amusing pranks played by reporters, tho practical joke played on his colleagues by Peter I-iiHu rty, tho oldtiinc Parliamentary reporter, UMBaina^ > icuuTnTßSiuJsT'wnst^ei^ Morgan O’Sullivan who. feeling tiS drowsy during a dull debate to keep his^ eyes open, asked Finnerty tt supply him with any important speeches made during his nap, and then went to sleep. i When ho awoke, Finnerty gravely inI formed him that during his nap there had boon an important speech delivered : by Mr. Wilberforce on the virtues of tho | Irish potato. Morgan, never pausing to think that tho subject had a suggestion of tho ludicrous, won d not bo pacified until tho speech had been dictated to him by Finnerty. Tho speech, entirely Finnerty's concoction, made Wilberforce | say: ‘‘Had it been my lot to be born and ioared in Ireland, wh re my food would have principally eons siod of tho potato —the most nutritious and salubrious । root—instead of being the ].oor, infirm, st unted creature you, sir, and honorable gentlemen, now behold me, I should have been a tall, stout, ath’otic man; and able to carry an enormous weight. I hold that root to be invaluable, and the man who first cultivated it in Ireland I regard as a benefactor of tha first magnitude to his country.” Morgan took a’l this in, and so delighted was li' with tho speech l that ho gave it to his colleagues, with j tho result that next morning every paper of note (except Finnerty's paper, tho I Jfm-niny Chronl'-Jc) had this amazing report of Wilberforce’s great speech on tho i potatol A Great Glass. A distinguished assemblage of mathematicians and scientists gathered enthusiastically around a plain packing-box in Cambridge. Mass., a few days ago to look at a piece of glass. It was ten feet in circumference and some three inches thick, but as it lay in its bed of excelsior its value exceeded SCO,OOO, and the spectators regarded it with the greatest as-. section. , Tho place was the office of Alvan* C1 ark, th^note^^^Mc। >e maker, and! on* Wtl so n^Ue a in i the Sierra Madre Mountains, near Lo?l Angelos, C>,0:)0 foot above t x- sea, for thog University of Sontdurn California. It, will bo tho largest telescope in the world, the object glass being 3 feet 4 inches in diameter, or live inches more than the famous Lick telescope. The tube will bo sixty-five fret long, and the. moon will be brought by it within one hundreil miles of tho earth. The whole is the gikt of E. F. Spence, I’resid mt of the First National Bank of Los Angeles. Tho glass was cast in Laris, after no less than 110 attempts, and is insured for its full value in two Boston companies. It will take fully two years yet to grind and polish it to the required tocus, ami, when to all appearances complete, the human fingers will be called into play to finish its surface. It is ground down with red oxide of iron and polished with beeswax. When in position the telescope is o.x- --! pected to perform wonders. It will have I a photographic outfit which will be three times larger than any now in existence. | It will cost 53,000 to transport the glass i to Los Angeles. I When y< u hear that a man has , passed in his checks, it is not always safe to infer that he is dead; he may only have oveidrawn his bank account. Some men arc so far-seeing that they stumble over their ins ght and knock ' ail the brains out of their knee pans.

ALL THE STATE NEWS , IS GIVEN BELOV/ IN THESE TWO COLUMNS. I Death Preferable to Eviction—Burned to Death—A Wute«melon Story—Accidental Shooting—lia<lly Mangled—New Factory for Jeffersonville —A Goshen Gourmands Crop l<eport> W. A. Peele, State Statistician, has compiled the tables relating to farm products for the past year and these figures will be embodied in the forthcoming report of the bureau. There has been a decided falling off in ; the number of bushels of grain, as compared to the crop of 1889. The wheat crop for 1890 lacks 13,000,000 bushels of reaching the amount of 18S9. Corn lacks fully 19,000,000 bushels, oats 13,000,000, while the potato crop is short, 5,000,000 bushels from the yield of the previous year. On the other hand, the crops of timothy and clover are regarded as the best ever raised in the State. Although tho principal cereals have \ .Jil-iWh off so largely in the yield, the money loss to the farming interest has been comparatively small, because b.ul crops, as a rule produce good prices, and market, prices show a decided advance over other years. The reports takes up the principal crops, showing acreage, number of bushels and estimated values, as follows: Wheat—Number of acre* sown, 2,821,129; product in bushels, 28,352,346; value ot crop, $26,081,158. Com—Number of acres, 3,446 439; product in bushels, 87,092,513; value of crop, 813,546,256. Oats—Number of acres, 1,019,398; product in bushels, 15,556,207; value of crop, $7,316,117. Barley—Number of acres sown, 22,745; productin bushels, 387,805; total value of cron, I §232,681. Hye—Acreaeo, 58,785 ; product in bushels, 781,191; value of crop, 5170.515. Clover Hay—Acreage, 1,196,040; product in tons. 2,6.57,182; total value of crop, 816,457,504. Timothy Hny—Acreage, 1.243,627; product In tons, 2,112,157 ; total value, 823,237,027. Irish Potatc es—Acreage, 80,747; product in bushels, 2.688,875; value of crop, 82,2^5,511. Sweet Potatoes—Acreage, 2,i'-15; proiluct in bushels, 158,700; value of crop, 819J.41). Cloverseeil—Product in bushels, 265,923; value of crop, 8;»97,215. Timothy Seed Product in bushels, 39.081; cn p. -I?,fßi.i Total value of all the crops estimated at $121,026,411, minor State Items. —Elnora wants a flour mill. -—Fort Wayne has .seven daily papers. —Morgan County is to have a workhouse. —Elwood talks of annexing Alexandria. —There are seventy-seven coal mines i in Indiana. I —Union City will have incandescent light by Feb. 1. —Levi Beal, near Shideler, lost his house and contents by lire. • —Arthur Sturgeon was sandbaged and robbed at LogansporL —Mrs. Wm. T. Abbott, yf I'uxk g -.tock company is being formed to I manufacture stoves at Lebanon. ' —Eighty head of Brown County cattle have died lately of an unknown disease. —A military company lias been organized at Bluffton, with W. L. Kiger as captain. —They've got lots of sand in Michigan City; have shipped over 1,000,000 tons this year. — Desperado Kuhns says lie began his career as a bandit as a result of reading dime novels. —William May, aged 84, died at Knightsville. lie fought in the Bla< k Hawk war. —Charles Downs was rescued from drowning by his courageous mother at Logansport. —Frank Borger had his hand crusi d off in a box-press at the Elkhart . r box factory. —Jesse Austin, of Frankfort, a brakeman on the Cloverleaf road, was crushed to death by ears. —A revival in progress in the M. E. Church at Ladoga, and thirty-five persons have joined. —A new Christian Church at Martz, was freed from debt and dedicated by Rev. L. L. Carpenter. —John Trasper, of Greenwood, was killed by the accidental discharge of his gun while bunting. —Joseph Sullivan, one of the leading farmers and pioneers of Miami County, died, aged 86 years. —Oliver Worle, of Loree, Miami County, was sandbagged and robbed of j about §25 ami his ^ ateh. —Tin l Western Indiana Poultry Asso- . ciation will hold its annual poultry show j in Lebanon, January 5 to 10. I —Evansville Journal says several I society ladies are on the grand jury's list, there, for gambling. Do tell I —Capt. Ed Howard, of Jeffersonville, is putting in a steel ship-building plant, which will employ 200 skilled men. j. Brevort, an eccentric Columbus farmer, died recently and left His fortune of §7,000 to the Butler University. A man was detected in Tort Wayne stealing a pair of shoes. In just fortyfive minutes after he was serving a sen'^ence in jail. —Timothy Hogan, Fort Branch, sued , John Skipp for §IO,OOO, claiming he had skipped with his wife's affections. Skipp I paid him §3,000 and that settled it. —George Flemming, driving a bread- I wagon at Marion, was thrown under the I heels of the horses by the breaking of the king-bolt. The frightened horses kicked him a number of times, injuring him, it is feared, beyond recovery. —Charles Ennise, aged 55, charged with assaulting little Myrtle Leslie, was released at Muncie on the contradictory statements of the girl and the examining physician's testimony. At the preliminary trial the girl’s father drew a revolver and tried to kill Ennise.

Tuogansport’s supply of "atural gas ■ Is all right. j Sullivan Comity Commissioners will work their jail prisoners on a stone pile, in a yard enclosed with high fence. —Mrs. Dado Ballard’s Mooresville j heirs are contesting her will. Sho 1 ,§IO,OOO in a shape they do not like. r Jackson and Scott County farmers are losing their horses from a disease similar to distemper, but more fatal. A man at Crawfordsville, claims that ’ lie lias a hen that lays two eggs per day, 1 one in the morning and one in the 5 evening. Indiana has a larger amount of water that is inhabited by the bettor class of indigenous fish than any State in the Union. I " illiam Kaufmann, jr., a lumberman ‘ near \ era Cruz, was fatally burned. His clothing caught from the camp-fire while he was asleep. I . . —W illiam Sherwin, a prominent young ’ merchant of Point Isabel, Grant County, is kicked by a vicious horse and • -tally injured. —Martin Baur, engineer in Lutz's stave factory, at Wabash, was badly mangled by the breaking of the fly-whoel of his engine. A company Tias been organized to boom Jonesboro, after the style of Elwood, having secured options on about 1,600 acres of land. —John W alton, Coatesville, has been indicted for forgery. He paid Airs. Bynum's taxes for her and is accused of raising the receipts. —A flat-car loaded with stone was overturned on the White River bridge, Spencer, Monday. Wm. Gaskins, and Robert Boyd, were seriously injured. —Farmer Thompson hitched his horse in A ineennes close to the railroad. A train camo along and scared the animal so badly that it dropped dead. —A company has been organized in Crawfordsville to manufacture pottery irum the fine clay discovered on Hence Coleman’s farm, near the city. —Mrs. Eliza Myers, 36, suicided in Seymour, by taking rough on rats. Had been abandoned by her husband and didn't care to buffet along alone. —A laborer at the Bonney vise-works, at Marion, had an arm torn from the socket and otherwise seriously injured by being caught in the machinery. —A' movement has been started and ?25,000 of the necessary §60,000 has been raised to pipe natural gas from Sheridan through Big Springs to Zionsville. —“Bee" Eubanks got a life sentence at. Bedford for murdering his sister last November. His father was his accomplice, and will probably get a like sentence. —Julius Ghoul, Goshen gourmand, has finished his feat of eating fifty oysters at a sitting every day for two weeks. He won't want any more this winter, thanks. —Rev. Petit, in Crawfordsville jail, attacked a fellow prisoner, and beat him most unmercifully; other-prisoners had id separate them. I‘et^n caught him sty! n c ■^-M rUDnoT^^m-gcj^j^m^uTerre i Haute’s substantial citrons and who was largely interested in Cincinnati suburban real estate, was killed by the accidental discharge of his gun while hunting. —Conrad Keller was found dead in the woods, near Huntingburg, skull crushed with a gun stock lying near him. Jas. Cane, known to have had trouble with him, was arrested on suspicion. —Poor old Mrs. Johann O'Daily, knowing she was going to be evicted from her house at Lafayette, mortgage on which had been foreclosed, took a dose of arsenic and the sheriff found her dead in bed. —Rev. Milton Lee, Danville, received a ••White Cap" letter some time ago, telling him if he didn’t treat his family better he'd meet a dire fate. He worried so over it that liis mind gave way and he became violently insane. —P. N. Applegate, reputable Alaska citizen, says he planted watermelon seed around an old straw stack Alay 10 last. On Aug. 15 ho ate ripe melons, and has been eating them off these vines ever since. Will have enough to last him’til 1891. —At Bloomington, while the parents were from home, the 5-year-old daughter of William Lake was burned to death. The clothes of the child caught fire from a stove. She ran out and became exhausted. As the mother returned she was found dead in the road. —Three brothers named Demoss went 'coon-hunting near Ewington. On the.r return home, two of them, Newton and Edward, were behind their brother. 'Die one had reached home when lie heard the report of a gun and loud hallooing. Returning he found tiiat Edward had ac-. cidentally shot Newton through the groin, severing the femoral artery. The loss of blood was so great that he died. —Recently the Montgomery County Commissioners passed an order that every application for a liquor license must be accompanied with a check for the license fee, §IOO, and in ease a license was not granted the check would be returned. One applicant would not inclose the cheek and the board refused to grant a ! license. An appeal was taken to the , Circuit Court, where the judge granted j the license, overruling the order of the board in regard to the checks. —Rev. Janu s Campbell has been con- [ victed at Columbus of criminal malprac- ! tice, with a penalty of three years’ imprisonment. Miss Anna Huntsman, one of his parishoners, was the prosecuting witness. —The other night as Miss Mollie McCalif, of Crawfordsville, was returning home a large negro struck her and made an attempt to get her pocket-book, which she was carrying in her hand. She did not run or drop her pocket-book, but put the negro to flight.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL AN INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE LESSON. Reflections of an Elevating Character— Wholesome Food for Thought — Studying the Scriptural Lesson In teUigenUv and Profitably. • The lesson for Sunday. January 4, may be found In Kings 12: 1-17. y The Sunday-school editor wishes all a in Su '>“«y-^hool work, wi h this lesson we go back to the Old TeswhiH^T tak i lng UP tbo new career u^; . of tl e t^ U ; 1 h e, T' rCd the separatmn Z oi vne two kingdoms. V/o are in a nwr these Oir'ST* n °t W t f ° r tHe p?rusal ' ; Testament lessons. The uroner way to study the Bible is to begin with tho gospe s. The «-s t thing we do X n J® °uld go through and examine a house w lt.o old Testament? It was given to us by Jesus himself a week or two since-•-And beginning at Moses and all the prophets ne expounded unto them the things concerning himself.” WHAT THE REFS >N SAYS. (Note. —It is not proposed here to make comment on all the words and incidents Involved. The abundant literature now within reach of almost all would seem to make such full treatment needless. Our aim is to give hints and suggestions in a study of the language used, not otherwise attainable by the r, ader. The intention. In fact, Is to present in this department matter fairly original, and such as may justly reward supplementary study on-the-part of all.) Rehoboam. Roboarn, savs the Doday version. So abo Matt. 1:7. The Septuagint and the Vulgate likewise. The word literally means, enlarger of the people. The parallel account Is in 2 Chronicles 10. All Israel. This was probably a popular ratification. Judah had already accepted time, the closing sentence of the preceding chapter so implying. Jeroboam. This name is strikingly similar in the original to the name Rehoboam, especially as used in the Septuagint. It originally means his people are many. Tho deri vat lon which makes it signify people’s contention Is probably an after-thought. I" Egypt. Here he Is said to have married into the royal family. Dwelt. Implying established residence. Sent and called. The language suggests a formal embassage of the people. The altered form of the Revision does not -seem called for by the original. (See Variations.) Yoke. There is an intimation of exaction on Solomon's part in several places, e. g., 1 Kings, 4: 7. Lighter. The weed 13 used of lightening the load on the bask of a beast of burden. And we will. The proposition of terms implies a spirit of independence already strongly developed. Departed. The vord following so close upon the preceding word depart, as spoken by the king, hints at the ready obedience the people were inclin d to give a true sovereign. Consulted. One of tho earliest intimations of a cabinet. Before Solomin. Solomon's wisdom shown in measures formed and tho advbers chosen. How do ye advise? Same root as consulted above. Not Implying that he was prepared to follow their advice. It may have been a mere form on ids part to till the letter of law as precedent. WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES. And Rehoboam went to Shechem. Shechem means opportunity. But it was Rehoboam who came to the opportunity. Therefore Shechem means failure. The word Shechem literally signifies shoulder or strength: the word Rehoboam. on the other hand, meaning, by Its etymoiosy, enlarger of the people. It was a splendid day for the son of Solomon. All Is rel came there to make him king. But his day of strength was turned to weakness, his enlargement himself higher by means of these shoHisS3 of strength, fell therefrom, to the nation’s to discomfiture and disintegration. There come Shechem times in the lire of all of us; taken ut their flood, they lead on to fortune. But the fortune that is won depends wholly on who it is that comes to Shechem. Is it a Rehoboam? There is no prosperity for him. They sent and called him. A formal summons; but Jeroboam was waiting to receive it. It was the opportune time for him. There in the land of his honorable exile, where it Is said he had already been received into the royal family, he was waiting for the time to come when, as the prophet had assured him. he should be called to lead the people. “Whose people are many” was the meaning of his uume. and he doubtless felt within himself the aspirations and the capacities that were like whispering prophecies of what was to come. As with Rehoboam, this, the future leader of Israel, had his redeeming traits, and there are lessons of gcod to be learn cl from his life. God always has his man ready for every emergency in the world's affairs. It might be a Cyrus, or a Pharaoh, like a messenger of s.iian to buffet. Even a Pilate and a Judas io nat subvert the plans or purposes of God. When Israel was determined to^ have a king, there was Saul. When ~ha/ would live apart, there was a Jeroboam. J And we will serve thee. It was like a declaration of a parliament of the people^.>r like the old demands of the barons gland when truculent kings came^to the throne. Very much like sedition It sounds, this making terms witli a king, but the king who mocks at it and over’ooks it is king no longer. The only true leader of the people is the one who goes l»efore them like a shepherd rather than behind them with whips like an overseer. This was net Rehoboam. If thou wilt be a servant. Let the king keep it in mind. He is nothing more than a servant. Like the pastor of a flock, servus servorum is his name, a servant of servants, servant par excellence. The evils that have epnie in statecraft have been because m> n in high station have forgotten this and have gone to serving self rather than the people. It is a lesson applicab e to other forms of government than the monarchical. In our own free America we may well pondin' it. The party that is lifted into power is the party that best serves tho people; and as soon as the dominant party begins to figure and manuever for itself aiuL_t-hs_ personal interests of its leaders, the people arise to vote It down. So mote it be ! My little finger shall be thicker than my father’s loins. It was a sentence cleverly turned. Possibly, some young rhetorician among the king’s attendants framed it for him. So pretty it was, so neat and shrewd and sharp, that they all said, “Just the thing; just the thing—it shall be our answer to the people.” It is not the only time in history when men's hearts have been turned by a nice sentence, and to round a cunning period they have jeopardized or sacrificed a kingdom. “I am the state;” cleverly said, but the descendants of Louis Fourteenth bad to pay for it. “To the victor belongs the spoils.” aroused a whole people and reversed more than one carexpss. “Why,” said Governor Marcy, “that is not>^ new sentiment. It has often been said before.” “Yes,” was the reply, “but, vou ought not to have put. it so that anv fool could remember it and repeat it!” Rehoboam’s rhetoric cost him his realm. RULES FOR BUSINESS. Do not trust a man who drinks to excess. Do not trust a man who lives beyond his means. Do not trust a man for more than onequarter of his visible assets. Do not trust a man who is unwilling to make a statement over his own signature. Do not tru.-t a man un'ess ce-nvinced that his daily profits arj more than his daily expenses.