Bloomington Telephone, Volume 15, Number 122, Bloomington, Monroe County, 5 May 1893 — Page 3

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THE WORLD'S ARMADA. Tha Great Columbian Naval Review in New York Harbor.

-in Imposing Md Significant Spectacle Curious Contracts of Ancient and Modern Naval Architecture. Open the ten for the guests are arriving. Come to the toast we have spread for the world Over the crest of the waves vainly striving Calm the ships rest with their banners unfurled Under tho :'a:rest skies and on an unruffled sea, the international fleet, represent ing ten foreign nations which had been jf&thering it the appointed rendezvous at Hampton Roads for a week previous, eghed anchor, Monday morning, and ttt sail for Xnw York harbor, where, after ;;n uneventful voyage, th;v dropped their anchors amid salvos of artillery from i-he fortifications on the different chores, Monday night and Tuesday

big flags of her own country fore and aft. The Spanish, French. Brazilian and Argentine ships ran up linos of streamers or their yards. Uncle Sam's white nav floated holiday flags from each mast

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up bunting and the British, Russian, Italian, German and iHolland ships followed suit until all were in holiday dress, but owing to tho inclement weather the pro grammo arranged for the forenoon was deferred till 1 p. m. It was near I o'clock when President Cleveland and family, the Cabinet and other distinguished people embarked on tho Dolphin. As soon as the President stopped ou board the Dolphin the vessel tripped her anchor and fired one gun as a signal. This was responded to by a boom which seemed to shake the whole city. The dcuble-turroted Monitor Miantonomoh, lying at the rear of the port column, fired for tho first time in port one of her huge ten-inch guns charged with nearly 25C pounds of powder. Almost before the reverberation of this gun had died aw a? ?r. the distant echoes, the

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corning. The contrast bet ween the architecture of the Spanish caravels, which were in tow of the Spanish war ships, was striking, and perhaps no feature of tie jreat pageant was so impressive. In the land-locked harlor, Wednesday .morning, when the first rays of the morning sun had cleared away the hazy shadows, the great fleet lay revealed, a triumph of spectacular art fa Its arrangement and detail. Silence that was suggestive of an untold force brooded over the scene, but did not long endure. Soon the bay became alive with pleasure craft, and the patrol loats h.d difficulty in keeping the anchorage grounds clear. Thousands ot spectators l ad assembled at all available points to witness the formation of the line of review. At 0:45 a. m. the start was mad 3, and tae scene speeii- . m . s

y oecame one oi comoineu grace, animaionand beauty never to be forgotten. ?ho absence of cennonadin? left the air siear and the magnificent S lips stood out in the luminous siihouttes against a clo id-

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ss sky. '.the untire water front was !

Mued with people and steam whistles were blown continuously from the time the fleet entered North river until the last vessel dropped anchor. President Cleveland and the Cabinet, with their families, arrived Wednesday evening, and were driven quietly 1) the Victoria Hotel. The party declined invitations to attend a banquet given by the Union League Club, and retired earl , being evidently much fatigued. Rain on the roof, rain on ten thousand roofs, rain washing sidewalks and pave, rain drops pricking the river surface into a rash of white spatter, rain wetting the

decks and rigging Of the pulseless war j

monsters riding it anchor, wetness a xve, moisture below, permeating, saturating everything, everywhere such were the conditions of th early morning about the

flag-smothered, bunting-decked city of

New York, Thursday. As the growing day advanced, however, a breeze feit its way over the banks and across the water where the fleet were. It broke its way through the mists, and before the tattered fogs closed in again the ghostly outlines of masts and iines of dark hulls appeared and half faded again. Then venturing gusts of air wandered through the fog, and gradually the little gusts were reinforced until a stream of them flowed over the high. river banks and blew way the mists. The crack ships of ten nations drawn together at the invitation cf the United Spates t commemorate the fouriiundredth anniversary of the discovery

TSE BALTIMORE, of America hivd been pnt in readiness for their part of tlie celebration, but tho rain sadly Interfered with the holiday display. When 8 o'clock had arrived there were signs of activity on all of the vessels in the fleet. Each vessel ran up a big A merican flag to tho top of tho main mast and

whole fleet was called to quarters, yard were manned and every preparation made to receive the President of the United States with becoming respect. Following tho Dolphin came the army steamer. General Meigs, bearing the Duke of,Veragua and party, and the Monmouth, bearing Governors of States, Senators. Members of Congress, and army officers. AH other vessels were excluded from the limits of the presidential progress. Opposite Ninety-Fifth street the Dolphin dropped anchor, and the officers of the foreign ships came aboard and' were presented to the President with great ceremony by the ministers of their several governments. At night a great Columbian ba'.l was given at Mjadison Square Garden, The -jreat buildin was gorgeously decorated and the President and the Duke of Veragua were the guests of the waning. riiioED wakhant Secures the Liberty of a Notorious Crook, It has been discovered that an accomplice of P. H. Danforth,"Red" Austin, the bunco man, who was in prison at Middleton, N. Y., for swindling Farmer Crowley out of f5;0D0, a year ago, has very cleverly buncoed the .sheriff and under sheriff out of their notorious prisoner. About two weeks ago a man who said that ho was a United States marshal called on Under Sheriff Godule, at Newburgh, and asked for Austin, who he said was wanted in New York for slippery work. He wore a shield and had a warrant, and Austin was turned over to him. It has just transpired that tho pretended marshal was an accomplice, of the buncoer and that the warrant, was a forgery. Swedish Movement. New York Sun. The passenger agent of one of the great transcontinental lines said last week: "The Swedes are going West in greater numbers than ever. You remember an attempt was lately made to get them settled on the abandoned farms of New England, and a good number of them left their homes in Dakota to take those farms, but Lord! you can't make anything out of those rocks. They thought it would be an advantage to be near the large towns of the Eapt with their fhops and schools, but they made a mistake ajid are going West again. The Canadian Government is giving away land in the Edmonton district that is good for grain and root croops, and the climate seems to just suit the Swedes. Over 800 families of them went up there last year, and they are expecting more this year." Events in Washington State. Kalama Bulletin. Ike Hines was arrested and tried before 'Squire Pinhead, yesterday, on a charge of unceremoniously kissing a colored woman on the sidewalk. Ike proved that he was colorblind and the court discharged him. The Christmas tree was a great success and was heavily loaded. Among other things hanged on it was a book peddler that Lyncher Rill caught in town. Miss Lillie Touchet, "the belle of Dry Gulch," returned yesterday from east of the mountain, where she had been herding goats for her uncle. Billy O'Hagerty, who has received an excellent education at the State reform school, is expected home this week, and all the neighbors have disposed of their chickens.

Not Interesting Mother Where have you been so long? Little Son I've been standin' watchin two men unloadin bricks. Mother I shouldn't think that would be very interesting. Little Son No, it wasn't. They didn't miss and get hit on the toes once. In New Orleans there is a woman who is said to keep alive the fcradi tions of the "salon." She is Miss Mollie E. N. Davis, whose magazine stories have won her a good deal of renown. She lives in the old French quarter of the town in a typical, oldfashioned Southern house with galleries, an inner court and a wilderness of palms and flowers. Here she entertains all the noted authors and artists who make their way to New Orleans.

GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY. Kansas w ieat has been badly damaged by frost. The town of Ypsilanti, Mich., was demolished by a cyclone, Wednesday. Gen. Edward F. Be ale, a close personal friend of Gen, Grant, died at Washington, Sunday. Mrs. Winfteld S. Hancock, widow of tho late Gen. Hancock, died at New York, Thursday. Rohle and Pallistcr, the murderers who escaped from Sing Sing last week, are still at large. At Monangaheia City, Pa., James Burrtinette blow his mother-in-law's head off, thinking she was a burglar. A Danish steamer with the Russian exhibit for the World's Fair in a,338 cases, arrived at Baltimore, Tuesday. The imports of dry goods at the port of New York for the week were 92,587,988, and tho amount marketed 92.534,910. John M- Thornton, elected city attorney at Shelbyvillo, III., last Tuesday, was found dead i;i his office chair. Monday. Plunger Pt.rdridge is believed to have already recouped himself for his recent heavy losses on the Chicago Board of Trade. Mrs. R Longmire, a widow living near Clinton, Tonn., shot and killed a negro whom she heard in the dark robbing her corn-crib. At Morrillton, Ark., a mob took Fiana gan Thornton, who murdered Constable Pate, from the jail and hanged him to a telegraph pole. The three Columbus caravels, Santa Maria, Nina, and Pinta, arrived at Hampton Roads, Saturday, in tow of three Spanish war ships. By the falling of a wall at Cincinnati, Monday, fourteen bricklayers were precipitated to the basement. One was killed and several injured. Tho Illinois Legislature is still in session and devoted Tuesday to the discussion of the extradition treaty between Russia and the United Stites. The remains of ex-President and Mrs. Polk are to b3 removed from Polk Place to a spot in Nashville, Tenn., just north of the Jackson statue, t Professor Hopkins, the West Virginia sntomologist, has imported from Germany bugs which censumo the insects that are destroying the Virginia forests. Owing to the illness of Lord James Hannen, one of tho British members of tho Bering Sea tribunal for arbitration, the tribunal has adjournod for one week. Joe Cook, while working at hte books at Scfanton, Miss., was attacked by robbers, who got away with $1,000 and marched him to a swamp, where they shot him, but aot fatally. SThe armory of the First Regiment, Illinois National Guard, at Chicago, burned Tuesday. Tw) colored janitors lost their lives. Two electric lino men were seriously Injured. The twenty-seven war vessels left tho rendezvous at Hampton Roads, Monday, for Now York, I was a picturesqe and striking spectacle and was witnessed by thousands of spectators. Giles Brothers, one of the largest if not the largest Jewelry iirras in Chicago, are financially embarrassed. Confessions of Judgment wera entered against them in the Circuit Court for 165,000. s Medical authorities assort that the

! Dataware, O., students, who were so badly

j distigured by nitrate of silver last week, I are not scarred for life, ft makes an ugly

iore but does not Ieavo a scar necessarily. Gov. Flower has appointed Geo. Raines, of New York city, commissioner to hoar new evidence n the casoof Carlyle Harris, under sentence of death, and will be guided by his decision in granting or refusing a pardon or commutation of the sentence. Ju'dge Kelley, of St. Paul, has decided that a dentist does not have a lien on a set of false teeth attached to a gold plate after thpy have been attached to the mouth. The case had boon before the courts for some time and had attracted much attention. J. K. Powol!, traveling representative of Toledo (0.)B;ade, was drowned in Blue river, near Cterubusco, while on a iishing and hunting trip. He arose in his boat to shoot a duck, and was overturned in the water. Deceased was thirty-five years old. Garfield race-track, at Chicago, is doomed. The City Council passed an ordinance to open a street through the center of the property wnich will spoil the track for race purposes. Tho order to commence work has not been given yet, however. Exhibits at the World's Fair still seem to be in a hopeless chaos and while the opening ceremonies will take place as already arranged for May 1, visitors are liable to disappointment in many respects until time permits a moro satisfactory condition of affairs. Again the flag of England went down before tho Stars and Stripes. Saturday a dozen barges from the ships in tho harbor started in a race for the international trophy offered by the citizens of Norfolk. The course was a mile and three-quarters and the San Francisco crew won, Chicago crew second, w'th tho Britishers third. Tho flurry occasioned by the infringement on the gold reserve last week has passed away. There is no apprehension at New York or Washington. Offers of gold have been accepted by the Treasury and no bondu will bo issued except as a last resort tc maintain the surplus. The foreign gold shipments on Tuesday amounted to $3,2:0,000. Ira Marlatt, who is serving a life sentence at the Ohio penitentiary, is being cured of his stubborness by a new method. He was hanjeuffed to a chain pendant from the ceiling, with his arms held abovo his head, and all day Wednesday ho stood in this manner. IIish:ands and forearms are blue fro lack of circulation of tho blood. A train load of Zulus, bound for the World's Fair, made things lively for the Chicago police, Tuesday, They captured the train near Grand Crossing, and imprisoned tfco train crew in the baggagecar. There were 200 of tho ravages, and they claimed to havo lost sorie property, for which they proposed to h(.ld the train men responsible. They were iinally quieted and transferred to tho fair grounds. At a meeting of the Troy Presbytery, at Troy, N. Y., Tuesday, Rev. T. P. Savin said: I do not like the idea of Calvinism. Calvin was a murderer and scoundrel. Ho said many good things and those I will accept, but the church should bean exponent of tho gospel and not of Calvinism." Resolutions were adopted urging th.) General Assembly to draft a

new creed at the meeting to be held at

Washington. Reports from Hawaii say that matters are approaching a dange:rous condition. The royalists are declared to be growing bolder because of the weakness of the provisional government and a conflict is expected in the near future. Nearly a hundred of the provisional government's soldiers were poisoned recently and. the royalists are charged with attempting to put them out of the way in order to execute a coup. Two murderers, undersemcr.ee of death, escaped from Sing Sing prison, Thursday night. They locked the guards in the ceil after disabling them. It is supposed that they had assistance from the outside. The terribly stormy night facilitated their escape. The murderers unlocked the cells of Carlyle Harris and Osracnd, also under sentence of death, and invited them to escape with them, but they both refused. It is believed that the action of these men in refusing to escape will influence Governor Flowers action in their behalf.

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The labor riots in Belgium are growing serious. Right Hon. Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby and son of Disraeli, died at London, Friday.

The Orangemen of Scotland are reported to be buying arms, witn the intention, it is presumed, of aiding the Orangemen of Ulster to battle against Irish home rule. Liliukalani, the dethroned Queen of Hawaii, may become a Mormon. Brigham Johnson, formerly a missionary to the Sandwich Islands, is in receipt of a communication from her, in which she expresses love for the saints and their creed. 4 Congressman Conn has won a victory in his controversy with Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Max ell, and will be allowed to name tha postmasters in his district. Emperor William culled on the Pope at tho Vatican in Rme, Sunday. Tho Emperor endeavored to kiss the hand of the Holy Father, but he withdrew It and shook hands heartily with tho ruler of Germany. There was no political significance in the meeting. A cable message received at tho State Department says 'ihat the Emperor of Russia has signed the extradition treaty between tho Unite7! States; and Russia, and that the ratifications have been exchanged by the 'Jnited Stites Minister and the Russia foreign office. Emperor William of Germany and the Empress arrived in Rome, Thursday. Tho day was observed as a general holiday. King Humbert and Queen M argherita met the royal party at the railway station. The people along the 3treets hailed the royal procession with enthusiasm, and numberless bands played the Prussian national hymn. The Norwegian Ministry has resigned, ownig to the refusal of King Oscar to sanction a resolution of the Norwegian Storthing in favor of the appointment of Norwegian consuls to represent the shipping and commercial interests of Norway abroad, instead of Norway's depending for consular representation upon consuls representing both Sweden and Norway. Chihuahua, Mexico, advices say that a pack train of bullion from Jesus Maria district, bound for Chihuahua, was seized by the rebels early last we-sk and every dollar of property confiscated. The value of the bnllion is estimated at $40,000. Nothing has been learned since Thursday of actual hostilities in western Chihuahua but news comes that there is great suffering amcng the natives. The festivities in honor ot the silverwedding of King Humbert and Queen Margherita were held at Rome, Saturday. The Kaiser and the King felicitated each other fit a banquet. Their Majesties received telegrams of congratulation from Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales, as well as from all the sovereigns of Europe. The Kaiser made a tipeech of congratulation to the King and Queen. The failure is announced of the Australian joint stock bank with liabilities amounting to $65,QOo,000. The deposits amount to nearly 155,000.000. The bank was incorporated by act ofCouncil in 1853. Its paid-up capital was staged as 704,394, there being 78,206 shares isimed and paid up to 9 a share. The reserve fund has been stated this year as r0,000 and the further liability of shareholders as 860,50. The bank has 230 branches in Australia. The failure was du to the heavy withdrawal of deposits. While services wer being held in tho church of Torre Annunziata, Naples, Sunday evening, the altar draperies were blown against a lighted candle. A conflagration and terrible panic ensued. Women and children were thrown down and trampled upon in the mid rush of the congregation for the exits. The flames were soon extinguished, but when order had been resiored it was discovered that eight women and five children had been crushed to death. Serious injuries had been inflicted upon hundreds of others. The absence of Queen Victoria in Florence has spared her the pain of reading in the London papers thfe ungrateful declarations of a man employed as carter on her Windsor private estate. The man was defendant in a civil action involving the payment of money and pleaded poverty. The Queen, ho said, paid no better than other people and her people had to work harder. His wages were ten shillings per week and lodging. vhich did not leave him much to spare, after feeding himself. Tho bull-flghting season in Spair opened at Madrid, Sunday, with more than the usual enthusiasm. In one of the first encounter of the day's sport a bull caught hi daring tormentor and drove a horn deep into his side. The furious beast dragged h! s victim some moments about the ring before the attendant rescued him. Men and women in the vast arena watched the dreadful spectacle lr( breathless enthusiasm. The almost lifeless body of the toreador was Anally carried out, sawdust was sprinkled on the pools of blood, and the spectators settled down to witness tamer sports of thti day. Elzoa Nixon and his wife, Zerelda, operated a drug store and liquor joint at Elizabethtown, near Columbus, and were arrested several times. Niion was fined in several cases and gave bond In others, which ho forfeited and ftei. His wife continued to operate the joint and was fined 175 for illegal sales and was jailed March 30. Mrs. Nixon wore tine olethes and had plenty of monoy in her pocket, but defied the authorities and refused to pay. Saturday, however, she weakent'd, pulled hci wallet, paid her fines and was released after twenty-three days' confinement. Her hv band is still a fugitive from justice.

STATE mm SUMMARY. Kennard has three gas wells. Clinton has been incorporated. Franklin claims 4,221 population. Petersburg reports 2,000 population. Anderson will havo another paper mill. The dog poisoner is abroad at Shoals. Bloomfield rt ports a substantial growth. Knighstown will have no fair this season. Tipton will vote on the question of water-works. Hartford City had a $10,000 fire Saturday night. Linton will build a six-thousand-dollar school house. The Hovey monument at Mt. Vernon will be unveiled May 30. Tho cold weather has blighted the fruit in Montgomery county. A case of genuine Asiatic leprosy has developed at Fort Wayne. The Vcvay high school reports fourteen graduates only three boys. , Tho Tippecanoe river is said to be the finest bass stream in Indiana. There is a serious split in the German Evangelical Society at Elkhart. The brick masons of Wabash quit work, refusing to put in ten hours a day. Mr. and iVJrs. William Henly celebrated their golden wedding at Monrovia. 1 Counterfeit two-dollar silver certificates are circulating in Huntington county. The Richmond Masonic fraternity will erect a thirty thousand dollar temple. John Phillips was acquitted of the charge of murdering Otto Green at Fort Wayne. Fruit in the Madison district is reported alt right in spite of the unusually cold weather. A company is being organized at Morton, Montgomery county, to drill for natural gas. A largo number of Sabbath desecrators were arrested and landed in jail at Columbus, Monday. Carroll county will invest $54,000 in new bridges crossing Deer creek and the Wabash river rear Delphi. 6 An unknown man, apparently about fifty years old. was found dead in the Ohio near Grandview, Friday. A young man named Black, after doing several swindling tricks at Valparaiso, skipped out for new fields. A commodious church edifice, costing 13,500, built by the Friends' society at Carmel, was dedicated, Sunday. Mrs. B. Busch, of Columbus, is the owner of a parrot over fifty years old and that swears in six different languages. Butler business men have secured the location of a basket factory in that place, giving employment to two hundred persons. The El wood Call reports that Indianapolis gas-leasers are making a strenuous effort to get a foot-hold in Elwood territory. The boiler in a saw mill near Gas City exploded, Wednesday, killing one man and injuring two others. Defective water gauge. An impostor secured several loans at Madison and vicinity by pretending that he was Russell B. Harrison, sonof the exPresident. The old LaPlante homestead, at Vincennes, built one hundred years ago, is being torn away to make room for improvements. The firm of Thomas Nixon & Co., papersack manu facturers, of Richmond closed Its doors, Tuesday, Assets, 125,000. Liabilities unknown. A monster gas well has been struck on the Thompson farm, half a mile from Summitville. Enthusiasts estimate the output at 20,000,000 cubic feet daily. A new labor organization, to be known as the American railway union, has been set on foot at Richmond and is expected to be fully developed by January next. United States Marshal Hawkins has appointed John E. Foley, of Indianapolis, chief deputy; Jos. W. Stewart, of Monticello, Silas P. Jones, of Mt. Vernon, regular deputies. A floater was caught on a trot line near Madison, Sunday. The body proved to be that of a colored man named John Clark who fell from a steamer two weeks ago at Warsaw, Ky. Governor Matthews, Tuesday, appointed L. H. Barnhardt, of Rochester, and M. D. Yon"z, of Indianapolis, directors of the Prison North, to succeed Levi Mock and James Renihan. Governor Matthews has appointed Ernest Pickhardt, of Huntington, and Wm. M. Lyon, of Terre Haute, as directors of the Prison South, to succeed Messrs McDonald and Slater. George Brown, walking from St. Augustine, FlaMtoChicago, arrived at Frankfort, Monday. He is making the trip on a wager of $ 11,500, and has succeeded in begging his way thus far. The honor falls on Kendallvllle for contributing the flag which will float from the dome of the State building at the World's Fair grounds. It will bear the .words, "Kondallville Schools." Peter J. Clark, tho second of the Lafayette rioters, was found guilty atO:15Tucsday morning, tho jury having been out all night. The verdict fixed tho punishment at four yea,rs imprisonment and $2,000 fine. The conductors and brakemcn on the Fort Wayne division of the Lake Erie & Western railway, Thursday, had their salaries raised. Conductors will receive 25 cents more a day and brakemen 15 cents. Charle3 Richardson, known as tho Elkhart giant, he being six feet, seven inches tall, has been arrested at Kalamazoo, Mich., charged with forgery. He is said to be wanted in a half dozen Indiana towns. Fire at Connersville, Tuesday, destroyed the McCann Hiring mill. Loss 0,000. Tho fire is supvod to have been started by lightning striking a fire alarm wire. Every fire-alarm box in tho city was burned out. Prominent Democrats from all parts of tho Stata jjavo a banquet at the Grand Hotel, Indianapolis, Monday night, in honor of ex -Gov. Gray. Mr. Gray and family left for the City of Mexico, Wednv.sde-y. Amos Greenwalt, an insane man near Eaton, armed himself with two navy revolvers ar d a corn-knife and for & time had thing: all his own way in Delaware county, lie was finally captured without loss of life, Margaret Daughei ty,of Merrillville, was found dead in bed. For forty years she had lived the life of a hermit, raising poultry for a living. After her death several thousand dollars in gold was found concealed in a bed-tick. An oil well was drilled in near Portland,

Thursday, that hm a flow cf ',000 'barrehi a day. Operators and drillers claim thmt it is the largest well In the state. The Manhattan Oil Company's well, just W feet away, is a dry hole. Mrs. John Orr, of Delphi, walked twenty-five miles ana located hernusband, who had abandoned her after one week of married life. Mr. Orr excused himself by saying he was tired of domestic restraint.

but iie has submitted to anotner aose. Eleven school lads at Noblesville have been detected in a systematic plundering of merchants, covering a period of several months. Their plunder was concealed in a gravel pit near one end oi the school buildings. A large amount of stolen stuff was recovered. The forces of the Monon and Michigan Central railways at Hammond came into conflict, Saturday night, over an attempt by the former to construct a side-track to the warehouse of the Wolf Lake Distilling Company. More or less damage was done to the property of both companies. Mr. Annie Wise, of C!ysburg, whowas terribly scarred by somn unknown miscreant, who saturated her with nitric acid us she lay asleep in her husband's home, is slowly recovering of her injuries. Sh has undergone amputation of one thumb and three fingers. The burns on the arms, shoulders and forehead are healing. Columbus horse-breeders are despondent. The season has been very unsuccessful. The ruinous prices at which high bred horses have been selling at Chicago and Indianapolis has thrown a damper on die breeding business. As much as 1150,000 has been invested in trotting and pacing stallions at Columbus, "Buck" Stanley, the reformed drunkard and temperance evangelist, has the town of Knox in an uproar. That city of six hundred inhabitants, has heretofore supported six saloons, but many ot them would now be willing to sell out for enough to leave town. Nearly three hundred signed the pledge Friday night, old time drunkards donning the blue. 2 The Board of Public Works and Ci$y Council of Indianapolis have granted tho franchise bid for by the company represented by Judge Byron K. Elliott, and has filed articles of incorporation with John W. Murphy, President; A. Keifcr, VicePresident; and H. G. Bals, -Secretary. One-half the capital stock of ,$2,000,008 hai been taken by local capitalists. Gas was struck in the 950 foot well on Jefferson Eberhart'3 farm, ten miles south, of Shelby viiie, Saturday. When lighted it burned to a hight of over ten feet with a loud roaring noise. This is the first gas struck in that part of the county and oiiens up a territory which, if the prospects hold good, will give Columbus a natural gas supply. Mow wells will be sunk. The Sentinel's Washington correspondent, Tuesday, says: It is settled that Judge R. S. Taylor, of Ft. Wayne, will be allowed to retain his sinecure, the Mississippi river commissionership, for four year longer. He was appointed by Arthur, and has been in office ten years, at a salary of &V0O a year. His duties are to make semi-annual trips down the Mississippi river to "inspect" improvements. I.oy Cox. under sentence for twelve years from Jackson, county, for murder and. Oliver Taylor, sentenced for three years in Knox county for burglary, escaped from the prison south, Monday night, by sawing out of th top range of cell-house "C" and forcing their way through the roof. Taylor had only been recaptured a few weeks, he having escaped on March 8, in company with Frank Crosby. Two car-loads of tin-plate, made at tha Atlanta tin-plate works, have been sent to Tanner & Sullivan, at Indianapolis. Thfc works have been running day and night since the start, and the quality of the tin turned out seems to be first-class in every respect. The construction of the roll ng-mill department, which will baa large brick structure, fitted with all modern machinery, will be begun Just as soon a? the weather permits. Suit was begun in the Marion county Circuit Court, Tuesday morning, by James W. Stout, sheriff o! Vigo county, against State Auditor Henderson for a writ of mandate, compelling him to issue warrants for mileage alleged to be due for taking prisoners to the Jeffersonville penitentiary. , The suit is instituted on the relation of the State, and is intended to fully and completely test the fee and salary act which was passed by the Legislature of 1891. Dunkards near Darlington have for soTt.e time been persecuted by hoodlums. The sect has endured the outrages with Christian forbearance, but finally gave evidence to the grand jury for twenty-five indictments. The offenders were fined and imprisoned. Since that time Dunkards' property has been destroyed, their Hvf s threatened and all kinds of abuse heaped upon them. Sunday night a band of yelling outlaws rode to the Dunkard church and burned it to the ground. Emil Bloomquest, living near Lowell, while driving homeward from Valparaiso, . here he had sold $700 worth of stock, was attacked by highwaymen, beaten until insensible, and robbed of $500, The robbers overlooked a pocketbook containing the proceeds of his sale at Valparaiso. Mr. Bloomquest lay ail night exposed to the inclement weather, with one of hs legs broken and his face pounded to a jelly. His recovery is doubtful. Twc tramps have bee'fti arrested on suspicion. Emanuel Harr, one of the Oldest citizens and extensive land-owners in the county, committed suicide at his home, south of Stanton, Friday night. He had been ill for some time and became despondent That night he secured a revolver in some way and hid it under his pillow. About 1 o'clock, his fau.ily were alarmed by t.h'3 discharge nf a pistol, the sound coming from Harr's room, and they found him in the throes of death, the bullet taking effect in his right temple. He leaves a larg;e family and a fortune of tlO.OOO. Residents of Livonia are greatly shocked over tho shooting of the seven-year-old daughter of John A. Counter. Grace and Cora Coulter were 1 ing ir a child's crib, and were playing. An eldor sister, thirteen years old, was busy with household work. The smaller girls kept saying to the older one: You can't hurt me, you can't hurt me," to which the older one finally replied, YesI can." and she picked up an old-fashioned shot pun, which was standing in a corner of the room. She did not know the weapon was loaded, and advancing within a few feot of her littk. sistors, she held tho weapon close to the head of Cora and pulled the trigger. To her great horror tho weapon was discharged. Tho load took effect in Cora's head, killing her instantly.