Bloomington Telephone, Volume 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 21 November 1893 — Page 3

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THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Fifteen were hurt iu n Chicago grip-car accident. Ex-Gov. Bel!, of New Hampshire, died -at Exeter, Sunday. Governor Altgcld sar there is not an -anarchist in Illinois. Gov. Flower ha3 recommended tho prosecution of Section law offenders. Annli- Pixicy. the well-known actress, ded at London Wednesday night. Cotton thieve; i;i Texas pull bales from Tnov;nff train. with grappling irons. Iio;i workers uni manufacturers at Yonngtow n, O., have agreed on a scale. Tho ircsi(Unt it in good health notwithstanding the reports to the contrary. Complete returns from the Kansas elecionshow a Republican majority of 9,500. Johnson, tha "Blue Nigger from Clyde," was electrocuted a Auburn, N. Y., Tuesday. Mrs. Roosevelt, wife of the secretary of the American legation at London, died Sunday. An exquisite marble bust of Mons. Satolii was -unveiled at Hoboken, N. J. Sunday. A whole family by the name of Johnston perished iu tiio storm in Pike county, Missouri. The Methodist Episcopal church has appropriated $1.I50.0JQ for missions the coming yean Officer John O'Conner, custodian of the Chicago Police Department, has confessed to stealing fcUOO. The Augusta, (la.. Exposition was ope: e Tuesday. Fifty thousand people were in attendance. Judge McConnell ordered the receiver tho Chicago Beach hotel to close the place for the winter. The receipts of the government for the month have been $1'J,1GMKX and the expenditure? 15 93MX0. Rockefeller interests and the Minnesota syndicate arc said to be planning a pool for the control of iron prices. A detective has been detailed from the Washington police to act as a body guard to President Cleveland, and now accompanies him wherever he goes. Herman and Otto Habeck, of Wein, Wis., admit that they killed their drunken lather at the instance oi their mother. Eugene Turpin the discoverer of melinite, has invented a machine to combat the effects of tornadoes and cyclones. Rev. Mr. Totheroh, of Hyde Park Presbyterian Church. Chicago, has been del03ed from the pulpit because of alleged immoral conduct. There is a rumor that if Judge Hornblower's nomination to the Supreme Bench H rejected. Secretary Carlisle will be selected for the place. 3 Thomas McLean, of Eaton, 0., while visiting at Richmond, drank to excess and came in collision with a train, by which Lis skull was crushed and he lost one arm At Cleveland the Society of Savings offered a reward of 11,000 for the arrest and conviction of the person who attempted to rob their ban and murder Secretary and Treasurer Herriek. 3 Secretary Gresham has given a strong denial to the report that Minister Gray JUad Wen relieved from his post of duty at the City of Mexico because he had become unacceptable to that government. Millionaire L. Z. Leiter, of Chicago, has contributed $100,000 to the Columbian museum. Mr. Leiter stipulates that the name of the museum shall remain unchanged and that it be located in Jackson Park. Ex-Secretary Whitney, in an interview at New York, declares that the recent election was a Democratic defeat, but not a Republican triumph. He says the tariff must be reformed and the pledges of the Democratic party redeemed. Pcixoto's government is making strenuous efforts to enlist men for service in Brazil, at New York and other Eastern aea ports. An American recently returned from that country warns all thinking of enlisting against the dangers of the climate to foreigners. Services in commemoration of the anniversary of the execution of the Chicago Anarchists were held at Waldheim cemetery, Chicago, Sunday. About 2,500 persons were present. Schwab and Fielden made addresses, speaking in eulogistic terms of Gov. Altgeld. No red flags were displayed. Capt J. G. Adams, Commander-in-Chief of the G. A. R. whose life was despaired of, and who submitted to a dan gerous operation at a Chicago hospital, has returned to his home at Lynn, Mass., In better health than at any time since he received his wound in the thigh at Gettysburg. The new commerce-destroyer, Columbia, was sent on a preliminary trial spin ever the Government course from Cape Ann, Massachusetts, to Cape Porpoise, Maine, Wednesday, with the most gratifying results. Under forced draught she developed a speed or 22 31 knots per hour, and under natural draught, 20.2 knots. ' President Cleveland, Tuesday, appointed John Scott Harrison Surveyor of the Port of Kansas City. John Scott Harrison is a younger brother of Benjamin Harrison. He has always been a Democrat, and at the last election voted for Cleveland Against hi3 own brother. The two brothers have never fallen out over politics. John D. Rockefeller made his fourth gift to the University of Chicago, Friday. It amounts to $500,000. With his previous donations, this last contribution makes Mr. Rockefeller's gifts to the University $3,2O00O. Mr. Rockefeller's last gift is

conditional on securing Martin Rcyerson's

onation of liX).om The condition of the

Beyerson donation is that $400,000 be

raised by popular sabscription ol July

a. um.

A citizen who claims to be posted on matters pertaining to feeding wheat to bogs, says it spoils the pork. He says in Dakota, where feeding wheat to hogs practiced, pork is rejected by many an unfit to use. It may be that feeding corn to bogs has accustomed people to the flavui

of corn fed pork. After becoming used to wheat fed pork they might relish it just as well. No doubt about that. Why not feed hogs partly on wheat and partly on corn? Lagrange Standard. Secretary Gresham has received a dispatch from Minister Thompson at Rio de Janeiro stating that he had received a circular from Admiral M olio, the insurorent leader, asking that the United States recognize his right as a beligerewt. Min- , fster Thompson asked for instructions. After a conference between Secretary Ckesham and the President the minister

was instructed to say to Admiral Meilo that, in the opinion of this government, ho had no j been able to establish either a political or military organization which entitled him to the recognition he asked, and that it would not bo granted. Secretary Gresham added that the position of tho United States in the present controversy was that of an impartial observer. Race troubles have prevailed at Bardstown, Ky., for some time. Saturday night the home of Phil Evans, colored, accused of murder, was burned to the ground, and his family either perished therein or were run away by an infuriated mob. Who committed the act is as yet unknown. All that remains to tells the tale is a part of a chimney and a few burned logs where the house stood. Ed Hall's house, the father of Evans's victim, which is only a short distance from where Evans's house stood, is being guarded through fear the negroes would attack him and his helpless children. All is excitement and there is no telling what may vet occur. rOREIQN.

It is reported that the rebellion in Cuba is in full sway. France is watching the Spanish frontier for Anarchists. A storm swept over Japan. More than a hundred perished. It is said tht two men were killed and seven wounuod in the last tiring at Rio Janeiro. At Paris an attempt was made to assassinate M. K. Georgievitch, the Servian minister. Latest reports from Cuba say that fifteen cities are in open rebellion against Spanish rule. The fighting about Rio de Janeiro continues from day to day, but no great damage is being done. The House of Commons had an exciting discussion concerning the rights of Anarchists to assemble. It is rumored that Premier Giplotti, of Italy, will retire, and that Signer Zanardelli will succeed him. M. Perier has been elected President of the French Chamber of Deputies by a vote of 291 to 191, defeating M. Brisson. A powder mill at Mulden was blown up. Two bodies have already been recovered and several persons are still missing. The convention between Great Britain and the Transvaal republic regarding Swaziland has been signed at Pretoria. Three Anarchists were arrested at Mad rid, Sunday, charged with complicity in the bomb-throwing at the Barcelona thea-; ten i

France, says that the council of the Le4 gion of Honor has decided upon the expulsion of Gustave Eiffel. While practicing in the harbor of Gibraltar a torpedo boat belonging to the British warship Rodney was sunlc, a stoker was drowned, but the rest of the crew escaped. The British bark Mcndosa, Captain Martin, bound from Dakar, Senegal, for Barbadoes, in ballast, reports thatduring the voyage cholera broke out on board ship and tho captain and eleven men died. "SsllcKANE.

The 3Iogul of Cooey Island A "Touch" Man With a Good Moral Character. The New York politician who achieved an unenviable distinction at Gravesend, N. YM on last election day, has been described as "the most notorious criminal in the United States" by the New York Post, and the New York press generally appear to have nothing but condemnation for his course on that occasion and during the week previous. His defiance of a mandate of the Supreme Court, and arrogation to himself of extra-judicial powers, has been told the country oven McKano appears to ba a typical boss" without political principles, training with both parties as occasion seems to serve his own interests, and withal a genial,

moral, upright citizen, without an enemy in his own community. It is said that he has cast the vote of Gravesend for twenty -five years, as freely as he would throw a penny to a beggar. McKane is a member of the Methodist church in good standing, superintendent of the Sunday school, generous to a fault. Rev. J- H. Churchill, pastor of McKane's church, in an interview, said: "John Y. McKane is as generous a man as ever lived. No man ever went to him and asked for work without getting it. The poor people of Gravesend and Sheepshead Bay and Coney Island arc never without a ton of coal or without food if he knows it. Many times Mr. McKane has seen young girls living hereabouts out rather late at night, and it is his invariable rule to call a policeman to escort these girls to their homes." McKane supported Harri9on in 153 and controlled considerable Federal patronage during Harrison's administration. He was a visitor at the White House during Harrison's term. He is at present supposed to be a Democrat. TO PROSECUTE THE i P. A. Charge of Coneptraoy Mad Against Members of the Ordar In Buffalo. Seventy-five citizens of Buffalo are under charges of conspiracy, which will be presented to the next grand jury when it meets on the 23th inst. All of them are alleged to bo members of the American Protectiov Association the anti-Catholic secret society which lately has taken root in Buffalo. The society has established several branches there, and already has a newspaper organ. The case will bo in the nature of a test to obtain an opinion from the court whether this society comes within the scope of criminal conspiracy and its literature under the ban of the law, as a matter tending to incite riot.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Greenfield wants a public library. The Edinburg starch wor ts are to start up soon. The Atlanta tin-works will soon resume operations. Richmond has two more Chinamen than she wants. Richmond is thinking of opening her skating rin k. Elkhart'smight policemen sleep on their beats, so it is said. M uncle high school pupils have organized an at! letic club. Greenwood has let a contract to dig 2,200 feet for mineral water. The towns of Matthews, near Gas City, has secured a glass factory. The saloons at Chesterton are going to close on account of hard times. The first legal hanging in northern Indiana occurred at Laporte in lS3fi. Daniel Wolverton, of Goshen, is under arrest for passing: counterfeit coin. It is estimated that one person in fifteen in Laportc county saw the World's Fair. "Tho Ancile' the swell club of Muncie, has disbanded, owing to internal dissensions. W. H. Ott, near Eekerty, killed an eagle measuring six feet five inches fruni tip to tip. Louis Marto, near Montlcello, has been arrested, charged with dealing iu "green goods." The gang of horsethieves in Hamilton county are still at work. Several horses reported stolen, recently. William ii. Durham, wealthiest man in Montgomery county, made an assignment at Crawfordsville, Friday. It is said that Jerome IlerfF, of Peru, will probably be appointed to a position in the Treasury Department. Mrs. Michael Schupert, near New Albany, was forced to give up $5t0 to masked robbers, Sunday night, at the point of revolvers. The ex-soldiers and sailors at Elkhart are preparing to build a line soldiers' monument in the cemetery there. They

have already raised $1,000.

Claire Robinson was found guilty on

one of the four counts against him at

Valparaiso, Tuesday, and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. Hunters discover that there is practically no quail left in Delaware county. It is supposed they were killed off by the

Nanoanee touurht tiro hose that was

jwarranted to stand a pressure of 300 jpounds to the square inch. At a test several sections burst at 110 pounds. ; A divorce was granted at Kokomo last .week in forty minutes from the beginning .of the case in court to the completion of (the record and all the papers necessary. - "Dad" Biondin, whose leg was broken

iby a falling stone, while working in the

)olite quarry at Romona, was awarded 51,00 ) damages by an Owen county jury. 1 A flock of wild geese got bewildered by

Laporte's electric lights and settled down (within that town's limits, Wednesday Evening, and created quite a clamor for isome time. .2 There is in South Bend a man and wife who for twenty years have not spoken to joach other, although they live together. They are not deaf and dumb, but it is the result of a family fuss. Cyrus M. Drake, of Muncie. upon applying for a pension, found that he was marked on the rolls as a deserter, lie holds two honorable discharges, and will have the record righted. Miss Viola Dittrich. Augustus Freeman and Theodore Rodman, Kokomo's highway robbers, were sentenced to prison, ;Tuesday. The girl was given one year and the men two years each. : H. O. Crane, who owned the plant of the lrondale rolling mill at Anderson, recently destroyed by lire, offers to relocate at Middletown for a bonus of 30:0X), eight .acres of land and a gas well, i 2 A full-fledged female tramp, well -dressed, intelligent, passably handsome and quite young, arrived in Huntington last week. She refused offers of assistance, and sought shelter with the Salvation Army. i There are 1,400 veterans on the roll of the Marion Soldiers Home, most of whom are being cared for at that institution. Applications are frequent, but thero is no room for any more. The Homes throughout tho country are overcrowded. Three hundred miners at Rosedale are still out because the Park County Coal Company lowered one of the screens by which a difference of one cent per ton was made to the miner. The miners claim that is a violation of the agreement of May last. 4 Woodson Bryant, of Plainfield ex-sheriff of Hendricks county, made application for a pension ten years ago. Nothing was heard of the application until Tuesday, when he received notice that he had been granted $2 per month, dating back to the time of tho original filing. The White county court house imbroglio continues to deveiop sensational features. A rough and tumble light at Montlcello, Saturday night, resulted in serious injuries to Editor Rothrock. of the White County Democrat, and the stabbing and cutting of other parties. On Wednesday a strange woman received permission to leave a small sachel at a carpenter shop at Elkhart. As she did not call again for the sachel it was turned over to an officer, who opened it and found it contained a bloody shirt. The woman has not been identified, and the affair is a mystery. While Fred Collier and Jacob Eistcm berger, of Monroevillc, were on a hunting expedition, Eistenberger dropped his revolver, and in picking it up he accidentally discharged the weapon. The bullet struck Collier in the stomach, making a wound of which ho died the following day A vagrant begging money on the streets of South Bend, after his arrest, was identified as H? Barney, once a prominent actor and the chief support of the late John Dillon. Whisky had ruined him. Papers in his possession indicated that in his sober moments he delivered temperance lectures. The Bedford Mail says that notwithstanding the fact that James E. Stone has assumed tho responsibility of the Wratten murder and is under sentence of death, nothing can shake the belief of the community that others were not concerned in the tragedy. All agree, however that Stone was a party thereto. The Teegarden. the oldest and largest hotel at Laporte, has permanently closed its doors. The furniture- has been sold to arlChes B. Andrew, itt uncertain

what disposition to ma of his purchase. The Teutonic, which arrived at Nw

: York from Liverpool. Wednesday, brought

4i,0K) pounds in gold bars to hazard Freres. The United Status sub-treasury shipped ?H)(),00) to New Orleans in notes of small denominations. Judge Stephenson, of Nohlosville, has appointed William OgWby of Tipton, to defend the defaulting ex-Treasun-r J. K.

! Armstrong, the latter bavins? declared

that he, is unable to employ an attorney; Mr. Oglesby will be assisted by Hon. John W. Kern, of Indianapolis. There is great indignation at Tipton over the course of Armstrong iu compelling the county to pay his attorney's fees. Serious charges w made, Monday, against the Rev. Henry Dingledey. superintendent of the WornW Orphan's Home, to the effect that he was guilty of gross brutality in the, treatment of Edward Hurkhardt, an inmate. The Humane So ' ciety investigated and found that the boy's ears had been almost twisted off. his sides bruised and his whole body showing signs of kicks and beatings with a stiei: Arrangements for prosecution have been made. Patents were granted to Indiana inventors, Tuesday, as follows: I). A. livers, Kins, wire ropeway grip: T. II. Haberkon. Ft. Wayne, valve mechanism for air brakes; (r. J. Herth and G, B neberger, Evansville. mine trapdoor; W. II. Hornbergen Elkhart, current transformer; A. J. Johnson, Anlerson, baby jumper; W, H. Robbing assignor of one half to H. E. Robbins. Mill Grove, switch: O. E. Seaney, Ft. Wayne, former for burial robes. The trial of Charles Cooprider for the murder of Thomas Kress, that has been occupying the attemion of the Superior Court at Brazil for four days, closed, Saturday, and tho cae was given to the jury. After wrangling over technicalities until Sunday morning the jurv found the defendant guilty of manslaughter and sentenced him to two years in the Prison South. The attorneys for the defense immediately filed papers for a new trial, and if it is not granted the case will be taken to the Supreme Court. Judge Edward Gough.of Cannelton upon the assembling of the grand jury, reprimanded that body for not indicting the management of the Indiana cotton mills, which is accused of working children under fourteen years old eleven hours daily. Thirty-eight indictments had been found, and had been prepared by the prosecutor, but the foreman of the grand jury refused to sign them on the plea, made by a number of prominent citizens, that the factory had to run eleven hours daily to ompete with Southern mills, and that if prosecution was insisted upon it would call for the dismissal of tho children and subject their parents to actual distress. LET HOOSIHRS GIVE THANKS. Great suffering and destitution are reported from different sections of Kansas In some parts no corn has been raised fi.r two years. In Seward county at least two dozen families have been found who are n the verge of starvation. They must be relieved or they will perish. Allth ur available property has been sold. They have not a horse or a cow amoi g them. They have nowhere to go and are oiindly holding on, hoping that the future may bring them something. This is the county that built thirty-thousand-dollar school-houses, which are now but monuments to the credulity of the people who purchased the bond-; and supplied the money for an extravagance that was intended only to draw oiner people to that section. BIG FIRE AT FORT WAYNE.

STEVENS'S STATEMENT. Our Late Minister to Hawaii Goes for Gresham.

Rather Caustic Review of the Sandwich Situation Alleged Personal Ho tUitj to lilalue and HarrUon. Hon. J. L. Stevens, late United State Minister to Hawaii, now residing at Au gusta, Me., has given to the public a letter in reply to Secretary Grosham's manifesto, in which ho says: According to the announcement, a pub lie crime of startling importance is about to bo committed, under the authority of tun American Government. A public crime of less proportions, but in its moral, type similar to the stilling of nation with life, and the reform aspirations of Poland and Hungary, a few years ago, by tho imperial despots', and to the crushing out of tho new-formed Republic of Homo by the usurped powers of Louis Napoleon. All that American piety, American benevolence, American schools and American patriotism have accomplished iu Hawaii in the past seventy years are now centralized in tho Provisional government and stands in its support. His hostility to ex-President Harrison and to tho illustrious ex-Secretary of State, who passed to his grave in January last, is well known. It was that which caused him to betrar and desert the ureal political party whose honors he had shared and brought to his present attitude and their works. So far as his recent manifesto on Hawaiian affairs casts redaction on my othcial action I care littie, except to the degree that his cruel and untruthful words strike at the noble band of men and women who have for ten months stood so devotedly and unitedly in defense of American civilization. Continuing, Mr. Stevens gives details of the abdication of tho government, and the causes leading to it. Ho adds: Queen Liliuokalani inaugurated the revolution by attempting to destroy tho legislature by revolutionary means. From Saturday afternoon, January 14. to January 15, there was no government in Honolulu except in tho self possessed attitude of citizens who assembled in a great massmeeting January 1G, and consummated their elforts for law and order by the establishment of the provisional government on the 17th, which was promptly acknowledged by all tho foreign representatives. Liliuokalani and her favorites had destroyed her throne by a revolutionary outbreak when tho men of tho Boston landed, In the exciting hours proceeding and following her fall, her representatives, as those who formed the Provisional government, had equal access to the legation. To all proner inquiries my answer was that the United States marines could not take sides, but whatever de facto government might exist would have to bo recognized. When I did recognize it, late in tho afternoon of the 17th, the Provisional government was complete master of the situation, had full control of tho city and of the government archives, the police station being surrendered and at the m'rcy of the Provisional government. Tho only government that 'ex s ted. or could exist, was the Pro"! ' nU government. Whoever denies thl h ; no other basis for his denial than pcrj red affidavits. That is of no essential importance for, in fact, all resistance to the formation of a new government practically ceased more than two days before. Tho committee on public safety and the Provisional government constituted the only Hawaiian government existing for twentyfour hours previous to my recognition, the monarchial government having completely collapsed several days before. All unjust imputation on Captain Wiltz and myself will vanish into nothing, after at taunting to crush out the supporters of Hawaiian Provisional government will stand out in relief of America's shame.

UNHAPPY MEXICO.

The Academy of Music, occupied by .lames Geary's museum and theater at Fort Wayne, was entirely destroyed by

lire, Saturday night. The house was j

crowded, and the last of the audience had just leit the house when the fire broke out. The actors had difficulty in saving their property. The Aldine hotel and Gazette ollice in cither side, were also destroyed. The Academy was built twenty years :t and for tho tirst ten years was the oni theater building in the citv until succeeded by the Masonic Temple and since then lids been given oyer to museum purposes', with se;iung of l.(KX). It was owned by Roua'dT. McDonald and Judge R. S. Taylor, Tho origin of the tire is unknown. "The total io s was about $lo,000, fully covered by insurance.

The State ftn 1 City II nor:I For Them ! Utluta :o!t:U IJiUDdt.

A Chicago special, Nov. 13, says: The State of Indiana has been give n awards on her school organization and her educational exhibit. The Indianapolis schools also received awards.

INDIANA CITIES MAY SUFFER.

It is likely that several of tho smaller cities in Indiana having free mail delivery will be deprived of that luxury at the end of the present tiscal year, June 30 next. There is a large dolicieny in tho appropriation for the free deliver service, and the present administration favors the abolition of the service in the cities which do not come up fully to every requirement of the law authorizimr its establishment. HE DOES NJT know.

Col, Robert (i. I ffiTrtoil Only II up en That Man la Immortal. An editorial in a Boston afternoon paper, Nov. 11, says, in speaking of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll: "Why not make public the rumors that the brilliant orator, who has been called the great American inlidel, has been heard to sav that perhaps he will say in public before he dies that he believes in immortality. Col. Ingersoll was questioned on the subject later in the day and in reply gave the following autograph statement: I havo never said that perhaps b 'foro I die 1 will say in public that 1 beh- vo in imSortality. I have nothing to conceal on that question. I have always teeu perfectly frank, and have given the transcript of my heart and brain. I do nut say that deuth en is all, neither do I say that man is iinmortaU I say that I do not know. To know is one thinir, to b lievo is another, and to hopo is still another. I hope for all good, for ali Joy to the children of men. All I can suy about immortality is this: There was ;i time when I was not, alter that I was, now I am, and it may lie that it is no more wonderful that I shall continue forever now that T have a start than it was that 1 should begin. We love, and those we love die, and we cling to the hope, to the wish, that we may meet again. Love w;n the tirst to drearh of immortality, and as long as we love we shail hope.

ftlore Revolutions and Cooplracies General Cortiua I i prisoned. A great sensation has been created at Matamoras, Mexico, by the telegraphic announcement from the City of Mexico that Gen. Juan G. Cortina, one of the greatest revolutionary leaders of Mexico, has been arrested and imprisoned in the San Juan de Ulloa prison by order of President Diaz for attempting to incite another revolutionary uprising against the government. Tho city of Matamoras is Gen. Cortini s old home and stamping ground. Twenty-five years ajro he was the most desperate and greatly feared man in Mexico. Ho ruled tho Rio Grande border country from LarW,o to the mouth of the river, and was in the revolutionary business as a means of gaining livelihood. His influence was so great that he could Inaugurate a powerful revolutionary movement against the Mexi:an government by a single pronunciaraento with his signature attached. His exploits during the civil war caused the Unitod States to lose many thousands of dollars. When President Diaz - volution ended in success Gen. Cortina was summoned to tho City of Mexico, where he has been kept in constant surveillance by President Diaz ever since to incite him to further revolutions. He made his home in the capital, where he was furnished wilh a pension sufficient to live in good style, but his every movement has been closely watched by President Diaz's ageets for tho last lifteen or twenty years. It is reported that the city of Juarez is in great excitement and tho military and civil authorities are arming tho citizens with all the weapons obtainable. The cause of trie excitement is duo to tho information received by tho military commander and commander of the frontier customs trnardsthat the city, and particularly the custom house, will be attacked by the revolutionists. They issued a proclamation against the present government several days ag . and captured the custom house at Palmas, Thursday. Now about four hundred are marching toward Juarez. SYSTEMATIC PLUNDERING.

Mftiked Robbr IlUd Seltersburf and Hamburg, A JefTersonvilla special to the Indianapolis New, s November 13, says: Four or live masked robbers went through the towns of Sellersburg and Hamburg last niirht. They entered tho house of John A. Mellon, who runs the Star saloon, and ordered him and his wifo to throw up their hands ami deliver their money. Mr. Sellers, menaced by a number of guns, complied, and handed over $550. The robbers next went to Dr. A. H. Hauss, whent they secured 110. Other houses in the town were robbed. Then they went to Hamburg and robbed Mr. Jones, but how much they secured is not known. The pack of bloodhounds at Seymour ha been telegraphed for, and th most in-tense excitement prevails. The robbers were masked and ere believed to be neighbors, or eke export crooks.

YIELD OF CORN.

An Average of Twenty -Two and Tenth BaslteU Far Acre..

01

The November returns to the Department of Agriculture of the rates of yield per acre makes the averago for corn 23.6 bushels, which is tho smallest yield re ported, excepting those of 1886, 1887 and 1810, for the past ten years. The yields for those years were, respectively, 23, 23.10 and 20.7 bushels. It is less than the average for the ten years, 1870 to 1879 by 4.5 bushels: less than the average for the succeeding decade, 1880 to 1889, by one-half bushel, and less than the average for the three years, ISdO to J892, by a little over one bushel. The result is in harmony with the reported indications during the growing season. The July returns of condition were high, being 93.2. from which point there was a rapid decline, ending in the returns of October at 75.1, a fall of a little, over eighteen points, a result dire in the main to the severe, extensive and persistent drought. The rates of yie'd of the principal corn States are reported as follows: Nw York, 39.3; Pennsylvania, 24.9; Ohio, 24.3; Michigan, 23.7; Indiana, 24.3; Illinois, 'J5.5; Jowa, 35.4; Missouri, 27.5; Kansas, 0.3: Nebraska, 25. The returns relative to potatoes give the estimated average yield per acre of the whole country at 77.2 bushels. The consolidated returns for the tobacco-growing States make the estimated yield per acre 695.3 pounds, as against 682 pounds in 1892. The average yield of hay is reported at 1.32 tons per acre, as against 1.17 tons iu 1892. The reports as to the yield of buckwheat give a general averago of 14.7 bushels per acre, as against 14.1 in 1892 and 15.3 in 1891.

THE COLUMBIAN GUARDS. Some of Tlicm Will Go to Honduras Ta Fig lit For the Government. The Columbian Guards, who, with brass swords and gleaming stars, have playe4 so important a part in the World's Fair, have decided not to retire to the oblivion of private life, but will, it is said, to the number of 150, goto Honduras and fight with a bigger sword for South American liberty. Dr. Thackery. division superintendent in the Department of Manufatures, is said to be the originator of the idea of forming a Columbian army for Honduras, and the guards havo taken kindly to the scheme. It is said that Honduras is going to have an exposition of its own next year, and that the Presi'dent wants the Americans to guard his show. After the fair is over, the Honduras government, it is claimed, will muster the guards into its regular army. One hundred end fifty of the exposition soldiers have already promised to go to South America and it is expected more will follow.

BANDITS- BOLD.

A daring bank robbery occurred at Milton, Ore., Monday afternoon. Three men

! rode into the town and stopped in front of

; the bank. Two dismounted and went inside. Two pistol shots were soon heard and immediately the men came out of the

bank and ali three rode away. They were not disguised. One was recognized as McCarthy. A posse pursued but the men escaped. The highwaymen secured 1994. Both of their shots hit President .Hopson, but the wounds will not prove fatal. At Arahoe, Oklahoma, Saturday, four bandits entered a store and presenting revolvers demanded that the safe .be opened. Their request was quickly granted and the robbers rode off with the booty. The robbery took place early in the evening and the amount secured was about $1,000. Thero is no trace of the perpetrators. David Pearson, an old soldier, living near Center, drew his quarterly pension of $67, cashing his check at Kokomo After returning home he was set upon by four masked men, who dragged him some distance from his house and bound him to a tree, where he was found several hoars later by a son. The robbers were masked by pulling paper flour-sacks over their heads. Thomas Prunty was shot and killed by burglars at his home on W. Thirteenth street, in Chicago, Wednesday night, and two other members of the family, Sadie and Peter Prunty, were wounded by the burglars bullets. The thieves escaped Burglars entered the People's Bank at Lexington, 111., Wednesday night, and tried to dynamite the vault, but failed to secure any booty. They fled leaving their tools behind. The overland stage was robbed near Ukiah.CaL Wednesday, by a lone highwayman. The amount secured was not ascertained. A gambler named Sheedy, of Iron Mountain, Mich., Tuesday rjight, cracked the safe of a saloon at Waucedah and secured $5,753. He escaped. J. O. Drake, treasurer of the Indiana Illinois & Iowa laiiroad, was assaulted in his ollice, at Chicago Wednesday, and robbed of many tho sands of dollars, which ho had packed n a valise, preparatory to going out upon the road to pay the employes. A mail-carrier in passing Mr. Drake's office heard groans withlto and upon entering found tho officer lying upon the floor, bruised, and in a semiconscious condition. "I've been robbed by two men," said Mr. Drake, feebly, and the open safe overturned valise and scattered papers conlirmed his statement. Mr. Drake had evidently received rough treatment. Big welts on his head bore evi- , dence of savage blows. He had but little to say, but the sum of $20,000 was mentioned as missing, and it was soon understood that the robbers had made away with that amount, Soon the news of the. robbery had spread through the big office building and alt kinds of wild tales wera circulated. The police are investigating.' but refused to make public any statement. Refused One-Half Million. Chicago. ISpecial The makers of. No-To-llac, the guaranteed tobacco habit cure, lately refused a syndicate offer of one-half million for tneir business. No To-Bac is an absolute guaranteed cure for chewing, snulT-dipping and cigarette e raokinir. It is sold by nearly all the druggists in this country and Canada. Made! !bv the Sterling Remedy Company, Box 81. Indiana M ineral Springs Ind Chicago) o dice, 45 Randolph sfreet. They print at book called "l)oni Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Awav." Every tobaccoj user should read it. Mailed for the -) ing.