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THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

OOMESTIC.

Twenty-five buildings at Biloxi, Miss., burned Wednesday. Twenty-eight lives were lost in the recent flood near Lockhaven, Pa.

Tascott, the murderer of Millionaire Snell of Chicago, is said to be in China. Five business b'ocks in Jacksonville, Fla., burned Wednesday. Loss, $200,000.

New York was visited by several showers of hail and rain Sunday, great damage being done to crops.

A probability exists that a strike among the eastern locomotive engineers will occur soon for shorter hours.

Hon. Leonard Swett, one of the oldest and most prominent citizens and lawyers in Chicago, died Saturday.

The steel cruiser Atlanta, now at New York, is being made ready for sea, but no one knows what her mission is.

The Dunkard brethren held their national meeting at Harrisonburg, Pa., Sunday, with a very large attendance.

The building of the Michigan Furniture Company, near Oakland, Cal., was burned Tuesday morning. Loss $90,000.

Dock Connelly, a negro at Osyka, Tangipahoa Pariah, Louisiana, was shot to Dieces by a mob. He was a bad negro.

Eleven bu9ine3S houses and offices,of Syracuse. Kans., were burned, Friday morning. Loss, $23,101 insurance SI 1,000.

It is reported that the Ballentine Brewery at Newark, N. J., has been purchased bv an English syndicate for 54,500,000.

David H. Goodell, Republican, has been elected Governor by the New Hampshire Legislature. He was inaugurated Friday.

The ladies of, Ft. Dodg*, la., are boycotting the membera of the city council who voted to turn milch cows loose in the city.

Charles Young, aged eighty, owner of 3,000 acres of land near Danville, 111., was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary for perjury.

Schweinfurth, the Beemanite's leader and p'ofessed Christ, promises to turn water into {vine as soon as an emergency arises requiring a miracle.

Monday night, while services were being held in the free methodist church at Pomerov, O., an unsuccessful attempt was made to blow up the building.

The national wool growers' association is urging the necessity for an extra session of congress to enact necessary legislation in regaid to wool growing.

A cyclone swept through Arkansas City, Ark., Sunday, wrecking the Meth odist and Baptist churches aud ten stores and residences. Two lives were lost.

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Warrants have been sworn out Kansas City, Mo., for the arrett of G. Smith & Co., one of the largest dry goods firms in the city, for having short yard sticks.

Seattle, W. T., was almost completely destroyed by fire, Thursday afternoon and night. Fifty blocks were burned The loss is enormous. Particulars lacking.

It is said that an attempt will be made to form an English sydicate for the pur' chase of the leading retail dry goods stores in New York and other leading American cities.

A special from Wilkesbarre, Pa., says: John and Henry Gilley, brothers, English miners, were crushed to death by the fall of a coal roof in the Honey Brook mine, Thursday moining.

Mrs. Grover Cleveland is to be bridesmaid at the wedding of Congress man Shively, of Indiana, and Miss Emma Jenks, at Brookville, Pa., June 17. Mr. Cleveland will be a guest

At Hartford, Conn., Wednesday Charles E. Woodruff, of New Britain, pleaded guiity to forging notes amounting to $40,000, and was sentenced to four years and six months in the State prison.

A dispatch from El Paso, Texas, says "Jack Williams, the supposed leader of the gang of robbers who held up United States Paymaster Wham several weeks ago, was arrested here Friday. Thirty five hundred dollars were found on his person,"

E. D. Hogan, an aeronaut, of Jackson Mich., had a narrow escape from death, at Auburn, N. Y., Saturday, owing to his parachute failing to work. He fell 2.200 feet, when the parachute partially opened and somewhat broke the fall He was badly injured.

Jack O. Walker, a local boatsman, with Frank Davey, a friend, were out on the river some distance above Ni agara falls. Sunday, when they lost control of the boat and it was swept over the falls. The bodies of the men have not yet been recoverd.

An Indian runner arrived at Fort Pierre, Dak., Wednesday forenoon direct from Rosebud Agency, on his way to Cheyenne, with word that the Indians at the agency had commenced to sign the treaty, and that the com mission would get them all.

E. E. Reynolds and Thomas L. Lloyd, both ruffinans of notoriety, went to the home of Rev. Jacob Harness, in Scott county, Tennessee, and shot Mrs. Harness end her sixteen-year-old boy, who was half-witted. The murderers then robbed the house and burned it. The men were arrested. i\ dispatch from St. Louis says: The

National White Lead Trust succeeded Wednesday in purchasing the plant of .the Collier White Lead Company for a /consideration of $4,500,000. This is a great victory for the Standard Oil peoand they now control absolutely the /^•output of the white lead in America.

The Superintendent of prisons of New York has received an offer from a man to act as victim, to science to test the efficiency of the new electric method of disposing of criminals under death sentence. The writer wants $5,000 paid to his family in case of his death. His services will be declined with thanks.

Ex-Senator D. M. Sabin, of Minnesota, has begun divorce proceedings against his wife on grounds of habitual intoxication. Mrs. Sabin is now in an inebriate institute at Flushing L. I. During the Senator's term at Washington she gave weekly receptions and was highly esteemed by a very large circle of society people.

Mrs. Charles F. Adams, widow of the Jato tiou. C. F. Adams, and mother of Hon. John Qainey Adams, and Charles F. Adams, President of the Union Pa­

cific Railway, died at Quincy, Mass., Thursday night, aged eighty-one years. Three children survive her in addition to those mentioned—Brooks and Henry Adams and Mrs. Dr. Henry P. Quincy.

The Trenton and Vandalia, which •were wrecked at Samoa last March,have been abandoned by the Government, and their names will be stricken from the navy list. All the valuables of both vessels,"including the batteries, have been recovered, and are now en route to San Francisco on the steamship Alameda. Admiral Kimberly and the remaining survivors are on board, and expect to reach this country about the 8th of July.

The June returnp of the Department of Agriculture show a slight increase in winter wheat area seeded, but the breadth harvested may be possibly a million acres more than in the la6t crop, largely from Kansas and Cafifomia. The seeded and harvested area in Kansas will this year be nearly identical,and the large breadth in California, which is cut for feed in years of low yield, will in part be harvested for grain this season. The question of areas will be tested later as thoroughly as possible by a partial local census at various points. The condition of winter wheat stiJl remains comparatively high, though it has fallen three points during the last month and averages 93 for the country.

The forthcoming report of the chief of the division of mining statistics and technology, contains the following in relation to natural gar. "The amount of natural gas consumed is given in coal displacement: that is, the amount of coal displaced by the use of natural gas It is estimated that the amount of coal displaced by natural gas in the United States in 1888 was 14,163,830 tons, valued at $22,662,128. Of this amount 12,543,830 tons were displaced in Pennsylvania. 750,000 tons in Ohio and 660,000 tons in Indiana." In speaking of the fluor-spar the report saye: "The produc tion, limited to the neighborhood of Rosiclare, 111., and Evansville, Ind., is reported at 6,000 tons, worth $30,000, an increase of 1,000 tons over 1887.''

FOREIGN/

The latest reports from Crete show that complete anarchy reigns on the island.

Lord Mayor Sexton, of Dublin, Friday cabled to America £\,0G0 for the relief of the Johnstown sufferers.

The latest developments in Boulangist circles, arising from the search of houses, have caused a great sensation

A Montreal butcher named Carroll, serving a life term for murder, when informed that he had been pardoned, dropped dead from joy.

Suicides have become alarmingly frequent in Vienna of late, not less than forty-three cases of self murder having been reported last month.

The Czar is reported to have warned the Shah that if he concedes any advantages to England inimical to Russia's interest Persia will be invaded

It is reported in St. Petersburg that during the Shah's visit there a secret treaty was made between Russia and Persia for the temporary annexation of Northern Persia to Russia, in certain cases.

In recognition of the services rendered by King Mataafa in saving life and property on the occasion of the recent hurricane in Samoa, the Navy Department will present him with a whaleboat of the latest improved pattern.

Engineer Bourke, of the British man-of-war Calliope, the only vessel which escaped from Apia Harbor during the great storm there, has been promoted to be fleet engineer, as a reward for his services in enabling the vessel to steam out of the haror.

The Shah of Persia arrived in Berlin, Sunday. He was welcomed with much ceremony by the Emperor, a number of princes, Count Herbert Bismarck, General Yon Blumenthall and a crowd of officials. A grand banquet was given in the evening in honor of the Shah.

There is good reason to believe, says a London cable, that the Washington government does not altogether approve the Samoan agreement, and especially in regard to foreign control in Samoa. There is no doubt that a hitch has arisen. Apparently there is a diver gence of opinion regarding the punishment of Mataafa.

Missionary letters to the London Anti-Slavery Society say that the Mahdis have made western Abyssinia a desert. Whole flocks and herds have been destroyed. Thousands of Christians have been thrown into slavery, thousands of others have been butchered, and hundreds of the noblest inhabitants have been taken to Mecca as slaves, in violation of treaties.

A parce 1 containing the lower portion of a woman's body, cut in halves, was found in the Thames at Horsley Down, London, Tuesday. Another parcel in which were a woman's thighs was picked up at Baiter street. They were wrapped in pieces of a woman's clothing on which the name Fisher was marked. The trunk and thighs evidently belonged to the same body, which was of a well developed person. The remains had probably been in the water for ten days. It is feared that Jack the Ripper has again been at work.

The statue of Bruno was unveiled at Rome Sunday with imposing ceremonies. Thirty thousand persons, in eluding students and deputations from various parts of Italy, marched in procession through the principal streets. The removal of the canvas covering the statue was the signal for deafening cheers. Giordano Bruno was a Neapolitan, and originally a monk of the Dominican Order. The boldness with which he censured the irregularities of his monastery obliged him to leave it, and flying to Geneva he embraced the Protestant religion. Baza and Cal vin, however, compelled him jo quit that city, and he proceeded to Paris, where he excited much attention by his strictures on the Aristotelian philosophy. After visiting England he settled at Padua, where his freedom of speech attracted the attention of the Inquisition of Venice. He was apprehended, and, refusing to recant, was burnt in 1600.

BASE BALL.

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THE ASSOCIATION.

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A TOWN DESTROYED.

Fire Sweeps Seattle from the Face of the Earth, Causing Enormous Loss.

The entire business portion of Seattle, Wash. Ter., was destroyed by fire Thursday afternoon and evening. Some turpentine caught fire in the basement of a two story irame building, on Front and Madison streets. The whole building was eoon ablaze. The fire department responded promptly,- but could make no headway against the flames. The fire spread to adjoining buildings and within ten minutes from the time'it started had developed into a conflagration. A liquor house was among the first buildings in its pathway,and the inflammable fhaterial added to the fury of its onward march, and it wa& but a brief time until the entire square was laid in waste. Efforts were made to confine it to this district, hut this also failed, for the flames leaped across the street and in a half hour more another square was burned to ashes. From this time forth it was an irrepressible conflagration, which all the efforts made could sot check. Losses on everything are variously estimated now at from $15,000,000 to $40,000,000.

From initial points the fire spread north and south a distance ct one mile. Every newspaper office, hotel, telegraph office, railroad depot and wharf in the city was totally destroyed. The entire water front, including ail wharves and docks, commercial bunkers and railway tracks, the wholesale quarter and everything south of Union street and west of Second street and reaching around to the gas works and above Fourth street on Jackson, was completely burned. It is estimated that the total loss to the city in buildings alone is is easily $10,000,000, and all the personal looses will probably reach $30,000,000.

Whether there is much loss of lffe cannot yet be ascertained. There is privation felt among the podr classes, as nearly every restaurant and grocery in the city was consumed by the fire. The burnt district, comprising sixty-four acres, now presents the aspect of a huge oven of burning coals and threatens even further destruction. The firemen, reinforced by Tacoma and Snohomicb, are on the alert. The streets all through the night were crowded with people wandering about penniless and homeless. The militia aud extra police are to be seen on every corner guarding the property against thieve3 and vandals. One hundreds arrests have already been made.

Seattle has been one of the wonders of the new Northwest.. It is situated on Admiralty Inlet, near the mouth of the Dwanish River, and the location is in all ways desirable. For several years the western movement has been in this direction, and from a population of a little over one thousand ten years ago, the place has leaped into metropolitan proportions. Its growth has been substantial, and whi'e there has been a "boom," it was not of the ephemeral character peculiar to western towns. Coal and lumber are chief articles of merchandise, but the general trade is large and covers a wide territory. Seattle has its club houses, flue business and residence houses, and asocial life keeping pace with the material progress of the city. SCHWATKA, THE EXPLORER-

The Intrepid Traveler Returns from a Profitable Expedition.

Lieutenant Schwatka has arrived at Deming, N. M. His party has been successful beyond all expectations in their explorations, and especially in Southern Chihuahua. Here living cliff and cave dwellers are found in great abundance, as wild as any of the Mexican tribes found at Cortez's conquest The abodes they live in are exactly similar to the old abandoned cliff dwellings of Arizona and New Mexico, about which there has been so much speculation and so much money spent in investigation. It was almost impossible to get near them, so wild and timid are they. Upon the approach of white men they fly to their caves or cliffs, by notched sticks placed against the face of the cliffs if too steep, although they can ascend vertical stone faces if there are the slightest crevices for their fingers and toes. These cliffdwellers are sun worshippers, throwing their new-born children out in the full rays of the sun the first day of their lives, and showing many other forms of devotion to the great luminary. They are usually tall,, lean and well formed, their skin being blackish-red, much nearer the color of the negro than the copper-colored Indian '-f the United States.

Leiutenast Schwatka says that nothing has heretofore been known about these people, except by the half-Indian mountain Mexicans, and thinks his investigation will be of immense anthrophological and arcbje'ogical value. He estimates the cave and cliff dwellers to be Irom three to twelve thousand in number, armed only with bows, ariows and stone hatchets, and they will furnish enough work for a year or two for a half dozen expeditions.

A THRILLING NARRATIVE.

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Story of a Banker's Family in the -V .Johnstown Catastrophe.

Of all the woeful incidents connected with the flood catastrophe, the fate of Banker John Dibert's family ranks foremost among the most mournful. Mr. Dibert and his whole family, with the exception oi one son, perished with the thousands that went down with the awful torrent. When the flood came sweeping down upon the doomed city, the banker gathered his family around him and prepared to meet death. They ail crowded around the bay-wi"dow in the)handsome three-story brick residence on Main 3treet and watched their neighbors go down the valley of death by the score, knowing full well that it was only a question of minutes, yoa, second.*?, until their turn would surely come, and they, too, with the multitude of dead and dying would be hurled down the maddening torrent. Sudden lv the big brick house began to waver, then shudder, when a large stone above the window was torn away and a portion of the house fell in upon the body of the banker's daughter, almost crushing her. At the same fin stant the flood rushed into the ho] and carried the family down the stream.

While this was going on, a most matie scene was being enacted home of Wm. Dibert, the bi married son. Both houses were Jbcated on the same street, and the

where he stood, could almost see the agony of his parents and brothers and sisters as they met their fate. The younger Dibert family—husband, wife and two children, girls, Laura and Flora, aged twelve and eight years respectively —were forced from the ground floor of their home to the second floor, thence to the third and finally to the roof by the rapidly swelling torrents. Even on the roof theywere half submurged by the water. When the water reached the roof of Will Dibert's residence, the family formed a circle, clasped their hands around each other's neck, and all bowed accent as the father said: "Let come what will, we will die together." On they held with a terrible fate staring them in the face, yet their courage never failed. They were prepared for anything, and were determined that if one should £0 all would perish. Suddenly a ray of hope dawned upon them. The" town was illuminated by the burning debris, and by the light they could see the water mark on the steeple. of the Catholic church. The water had commenced to recede. It continued and their house stood the test. It never moved, and on Saturday the familv were rescued, though almost naked. They had iost ali but their lives.

THE CRONIN MURDER.

The Coroner's Jury Charges the Clan-na-Gael With the Crime Alexander Sullivan Under Arrest as an Accessory.

The Coroner's jury investigating the Cronin murder at Chicago came to a finding Tuesday evening.

At 11:15 p. m., after being out five hours and a half, the jury came into court and commenced reading their verdict. It was a very long document, but was listened to with marked attention. The verdict charged that "Daniel Coughliu, P. 0. Sullivan, Alexander Sullivan and one Woodruff, alias Black, were either principals, accessories, or had guilty knowledge of the said plot to murder Dr. Cronin, and conceal his body, and should be held to answer to the grand jury."

The verdict continues as follows: "We also believe that other persons were engaged in this plot, or had guilty knowledge of it, and should be apprehended and held to the grand jury and we further state that this plot, in its inception and execution, was one of the most brutal that ever came to our knowledge, and we recommend that the proper authorities offer a large reward for the discovery and conviction of all engaged in it in any way."

Alexander Sullivan's arrest was effected without the slightest trouble. Before the verdict was read in public, Coroner Hertz emerged for a moment from the room in which the jury was in session. He beckoned to an officer and handed him a mittimus. The officer, with a comrade, hruriedly left the city hall, and, jumping into a carriage, drove to'the residence of Mr. Sullivan. Mr. Sullivan had gone to bed a short time previous, but after the object of the officer was explained and the information given that he would not be permitted any time for any purpose, he promptly and quietly dressed and unhesitatingly accompanied his visitors. The prisoner's demeanor was calm throughout the entire proceeding. Entering the carriage which had brought the officers, the trio were driven to the office of the county jail. After the usual preliminaries, Mr. Sullivan was taken through the cage into the gloomy prison itself. The expresident of the Irish National League of America was then immediately incarcerated in cell No. 25, in the tier known as "Murderers'row."

THE WAR IN HAYTI-

Report that Hyppolite's Victorious Army Is On the Outskirts"*)!' Port-au-Prince.

A letter from Port-au-Prince, received Tuesday, dated May 30, gives the foi lowing: "It is stated on good authority that the army of Hypnoiite is within two miles af Port-au-Prince, and there is no doubt that in a few days the war will be ended, with the anny of the north the victors. Legitime's men owing to the lack of tood and money, are deserting, and at Grand Saline, one of his Generals, commanding 5,0( 0 men, surrendered all his forces to Hyppolite. The General, himself, fled to Jamaioa, as his life would have been in danger in Port-au-Prince. He put himself under the protection of the British consul before going to Jamaica. Legitime ould have followed his example, but his generals and ministers would not let him. They say he has brought them to their present state, and he must remain and share their fate. It is impossible to say when Hyppolite's army will fall on the town and massacre everyone in it. Legitime has hardly any men to guard the place, and it will be an easy matter to capture it. Most of Legitime^ navy is lying in the inner harbor, being afraid that if'they venture out they will be captured by Hyppolite's ships." The steamship Avlsia, which left Port-au-Prince on May 16, arrived at New York Monday. The first officer told a reporter that he had heard nothing of the reported overthrow of Legitime. All he learned during his brief stay was from the statement made to him by two officers of Legitime, that Hyppolite's forces were within seven miles of Port-au-Prince. The news brought by the Aylsia leaves the outcome of the Haytian troubles still in doubt.

THE STATmPITAL.

Those counterfeit ten dollar treasury notes with which the State has been deluged, continue to get people into trouble. Major Carner. of the Secret Service, has arrested Wm. Rhindhammer, of Richmond, and Alonzo Barrett (recently from the penitentiary) at Terre Haute, circulating the bills. Barrett passed through here last week and was shadowed by the government officers.

Sullivan, the defaulting clerk of this county, is in Toronto, His wife will join him soon "and personal property belongingtohim has been shipped to that place.

Dr. Charles E. Wright has taken his position as Superintendent of the Insane Atylum here, succeeding Dr. Galbraith.

Professor John Collett has instituted

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iuo warranto proceeding* against Pro8. S. Oorby in the Dearborn Circuit Court. The latter must answer and Bet forth why he continues to hold the office of State Geologist while the former wants it on the 20th tost.

INDIANA STATE NEWS/1

There are twelve stone quarries near Bedford. The estimated population of New Albany is 13,420.

New Albany has shipped 142,000 gallons of strawberries. Jeffersonville is indorsing the free kindergarten system.

Excessive rain? have greatly damaged the corn in Delaware county. Mt. Vernon laid the corner stone of a new high school building this week.

The Madison City Council Thursday night raised the license for retailing intoxicants irom $150 to $250.

Burglars at Bremen opened the safe of Charles Hoople, last Wednesday, and secured $500 in gold and $5,000 iu securities.

George Hines, a resident of Morgan county since 1835, died at his residence, near Martinsville, Thursday, at the age of eighty-four.

The Standard Oil Company has purchased ten acres of ground at Terre Haute, and will erect a thirty-five-hun-dred barrel tank.

Ed Shelr, aged seventeen, and Clara Wenger, aged fifteen, of Goshen, eloped from home and were married bv a Michigan Peace Justice.

Over 5,000 people visited Terre Haute Thursday, to see the new oil well, and 4,000 bottles containing samples of oil were distributed as souvenirs.

Representative Hannibal Trout, of Montgomery county, offers $100 and an aero of ground to any person who will bore for gas upon his farm.

The next quarterly missionary con vention oi the Christian church, of the counties of Boone, Montgomery and Clinton, will be held at New Ross.

Lightning on Saturday destroyed two barns bekmping to Edwin Evans, dairyman, near Fort Wayne, and also three of the Moran ice houses, causing $8,000 loss.

Mrs. William Conquest, a soldier's widow, of Greensburg, Thursdav, received a pension of $2,300. The claim has been pending for nearly fifteen years.

Marion City prisoners are now made to work out fines and costs on the streets, and many needed improvements are being effected through the agency of the "chain-gang."

A four-foot vein of coai has been dis covered near Lincoln City, within six feet of the surface, and close to the Cannelton branch of the Air Line railway. It is of excellent quality.

James Lemay and his wife Lucy, of New Corydon, were fatally shot by burglars, Saturday night. Two men were arrested at New Albany on suspicion of having committed the crime.

Engineer Bolinge, oi the Lake Shore Road, living at Fort Wayne, on New Years "burned" his engine, which cost him his position. Since then he has gone insane, brooding over the matter.

Charles Dotts, an amateur base ball player, had his leg broken in a game in £oone township, Harmon county, a few days ago, while making a "grand slide" to a base.

The Madison water works, which supplies the city from the Ohio river, will probably shut down on hygienic principles, because of contamination of the water by the dead at Johnstown.

The body of a woman was taken from the liver at Florence, seven miles above Vevay, Thursday afternoon, supposed to be one of the Johnstown victims. There was nothing about her by which she could be identified.

Mrs. Donneli, of Greensburg, well known as "Aunt Sally Donneli,' has made another present of $7,000 to Hanover College. This makes her gifts to that institution within $600 of $20,000, enough to endow a chair.

Lon Barrett, a notorious criminal, and recently released from the penitentiary, was arrested at Terre Haute, Thursday, for passing a dangerous $10 counterfeit bill. He had nearly $100 in counterfeit in his possession when arrested.

While Mr. and Mrs. Noah Murphy, of North Marion, were fishing in the Mississinewa river, they captured a carp weighing eighteen pounds. Mrs. Murphy hooked the big prize, but it required the assistance of her husband to land the fish.

The Bluffton Bugle reports that tramps went to Henry Dishong's residence, near Zanesville, and demanded that Mrs. Dishong prepare breakfast. Upon being refused they knocked the woman dewr. and then set fire to the house, burning it to the ground.

Tho protest raised by the people of Fairland against licensing saloons had a gratifying effect, the Stelby Commissioners attending to it and when the present licenses expire, for the first time in a quarter of a century Fairland will have tome control of the liquor traffic.

The Salem gas well, No. 4, was "shot" on Saturday, after which the gas was lighted and showed a strong flame. It was then discovered that a vein of crude oil had been struck, and in bailing out of the pipe, one gill of oil was found to every quart of water. Salem is hopeful that the discovery will prove a profitable one.

The Bluffton Banner is always running across odd things, and it now tells of a hen with a pouch which grew larger every day, until it swelled to enormous proportions and she could scarcely walk, although she seemed healthv and her appetite was voracious. On killing the hen and opening the pouch it was found to contain eighteen full developed eggs, lacking the shells.

Some days ago Gearge Cicil, of Delaware county, was found in possession of a seine which he used for seining purposes, and the case was tried before 'Squire Eiler. The point was raised that the law under which the defendant was prosecuted conflicted with section 16, article 4, of the constitution, which provides that every act shall embraces but one subject. The 'Squire held the point good and discharged the defendant.

The laying of the corner stone of the new Knights of Pythias hall attracted a large crowd to Rochester, Thursday. The Logansport, Plymouth, Argosand Huntington lodges sent large delegations while nearly every lodge in the Fifth Regiment was represented. The town was handsomely decorated, and a grand reception banquet and ball was tendered to the visiting Knights and ladies. The election of officers for the Fifth Regiment, U.R. K. of P., resulted in the

choice of N. V. Cole, of Michigan City, as Colonel W. T. Hayst, of Valparaiso, as Lieutenant Colonel and Charles W. Brackett, of Rochester, as Major.

Patents were issued to Indiana inventois T-esday as follows: Witlard Bell, GreencastJe, sad iron John W. Blackledge, Indianapolis, show-case. Chester W. Clark and T. 1). Keasey, Mishawaka, bushing for pulleys William Conweil, Neff, hoof-parer and trimmer Geo. W. Gilbert, Kendallville, soda-water apparatus Edward L. Hiiderbrand, H. Rostand L. Davis,Sullivan, draft-spring Joseph D. Norris, LaPorte, cutter-bar guide for harvesteie.

The following officers were elected ky the Total Abstinence convention at New Albany, which adjourned to meet in Anderson, in July, 1890 Spiritual adviser, Rev. John Kelly, of New Albany president, Father Weichman, of Anderson vice pretidents, D. P. Down, of Teire Haute, and Father Campion secretary. George Butler, of Indianapolis treasurer, Jerry Boland, of New Albany delegates to National Union, Father Bessonies, of Indianapolis John Flvnn, of New. Albany, and Wm. Heffernan. of Washington.

William St. John, near West Fork, is suffering with what physicians ca'l "complete ancholosis." All his joints areas still as if they had never moved he has not walked for twenty years: he 19 fed on liquid by means of a quill, and he is unable even to move his head. But his eyes are bright and his intellect is clear. Within this section of the country William Besttv. William J. McDermott, Thomas Casey, Julius Rothrock and Mrs, Goldman are aleo similarly affected, but not to such an extent as Mr. St. John. Mr. Beatty charges his misfortune to spinal meningitis Mr. Rothrock thinks his affliction is due to going bathing before being cured of measles Mr. McDermott thinks he used too much brimstone to cure imaginary trouble in his bones and ate too much, while others attributed their troubles to rheumatism.

Five years ago, John Dougherty, an eccentric Irish bachelor of Jeffersonville, suddenly disappeared, and it was supposed that his flight was due to mental disturbance over the loss of $400, which had been stolen from him. He left considerable property, which was cared for by John Gilligan until his death, and then it fell to a tenant, who looked after the taxes. Recently a letter was received from Call's Station, Md., written by the missing man, in which he made inquiries after his property, and it has since developed that upon leaving Jeffersonville he went directly to Call's Station, where he secured employment as a teacher in a large Catholic school, and where he has remained continuously until the present time. His excuse* for not sooner communicating with his friends was in effect that he knew Gilligan would take care ot his property, and he had no need ot money.

THE BEHRING SEA DISPUTE.

Various Views Expr» ssed as to the Feelings of Canadians—-Faciiiu Coast Defenses.

An Ottawa special on Tuesday says: The Behring sea qnestion promises "to prove more difficult oi solution than all the other international disputes-exist-ing between her Britannic Majesty and the Unittd States. Miange reports and rumors regarding the attitude of the American government have reached Ottawa. American gun-boats and men-of-war, laden with shot and shell, are to maintain the exclusive sovereignty of Uncle Sam in the icy waters of the far north. At the same time dispatches are flashed from Vancouver that Canadian vessels, emboldened by the success of last year's hazardous voyages, are again getting ready for Behring sea. The crews for the most part are composed of men who, if the chances were favorable would not scruple to offer armed resistance to an American revenue cutter.

It is surprising how little interest the average Canadian takps in the Behring Sea dispute. Great Britain, however, exhibits alarm at the possibility of seeing her merchantmen shut out of a region so extensive, and has already addressed to the United States some pretty strong language on the subject. The ordinary Canadian does not worry over the talk of the indignities heaped upon British subjects in Alaska. He knows little about the value of "the seal industry, and feels confident that diplomacy will give Canada a Dig indemnity before the end of the centurv. Not so with the Atlantic fisheries. Canadian sentiment iu jegard to that question is unanimous. There must be no backdown even though it should prove a lcs:ng game.

The leading mpn of both parties in Canada are, of course, very anxious to, be on terms of friendly interest with the United States. Many of them have devoted a great deal of attention to the disputes pending between the two countries. A promi nent Cabinet Minister laughed at the idea of possibility of a co liston between flie American and British iron clads. There will, he feels certain, be concessions on both sid^s. No efforts are to be made by the Dominion government to deter Canadians from engaging in sealing opeiations this summer. Such a course, besides creating distrust, would be inconsistent with national dignity and national pretentions. My political friend added that our seamen caq expect no airBistance from the British in the event of capture. The unfortunate adventurers who may encounter an American cruiser will have to seek a remedy through diplomatic agencies.

The proposal of the British and Canadian governments to erect elaborate defenses at Esquimault, B. C., the western key of the Dominion, would indicate that England has no intention of relinquishing her last hold on the American continent. The San Francisco newspapers profess to be alarmed at the intended precautions for defense, and regard them as a menace to the United States. Several of them have gone so far aa to advocate the acquirement of Britisn Columbia. Work on the fortifications will begin some time this vear. but the plans have not yet been tully adopted. It is proposed to build a series of forts guarding the approaches to Efquimault, the headquarters of the British squadron in the North Pacific. Here also is an arsenal and dry dock, the latter constructed by the Dominion authorities at a cost of over a million dollars. E ug'and,apparently, means business on the Pacific coast. What with wars and rumors of wars, she does not propose to neglect to keep open her new and alternate highway from the Orient.