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i 1 1 r-sr 1 THE REPUBLICAN. bond and has been released from Columbia City jaiL i X. Myers elected school superintendent of Wabash county to succeed Avery deceased. INTO PIECES. Horrible Fate of a Former Hoosier In an Illinois Sawmill.

HIS STEUGGLE FOB LIFE. ioha Formerly of Petersburg Fell Twice Agratnat a 8w and Waa Shockingly Mutilated Burial of Mir-derer Senea at the Grave Bf may Interesting Notea of 8 late Kewa. Warsaw, nia. Feb. 19.

John Sulli van met a horrible death on the farm of J. T. Nelson, near here. Satnrdar bv alippingf and. falling against a portable saw, his head striking first.

The saw ran into the skull, barely reaching the brain. In an effort to free himself Sullivan feu a second time, the saw striking the right shoulder and ranmnsr dnwn the back, tearing the ribs from the backbone and cutting into the body. Sullivan was taken to Canton, where surgeons removed part of the skull and amputated the right arm at the shoulder. The man died in a few hours. Sullivan formerly lived at Petersburg, -jf CONK WITH AKOTHEB WOMAJf.

Yalentlne Kelfer Repeats aa Earlier Ka-eapade by a Second Elopement, Indianapolis, Feb. 19. The story leaks out that Valentine Keifer, a respected business man of considerable wealth, has been missing from home since Feb. 10, and that with him are his two young children and Miss Belle Keene, aged 22, of respected parents. It is now alleged that Keifer, who came here 20 years ago, left Cincinnati with a pretty servant girl, leaving in that city a wife and three children.

In some way he compromised that trouble and lived here in peace. Last Saturday week he took his two younger children to have their bangs trimmed. They did not return, and it has since been learned that he and the children boarded a Monon train and stopped at Monon. They were met at that poinfc by Miss Keene, and from there the party is said to have proceeded to Chicago. Families on both sides kept the matter quiet and employed detectives, who are now presumed to be searching hi and low in Chicaeo.

SiX YEARS IN SING SING. Con'y Inland Kins; Sentenced For OflVn4-H Agalnitt the Ballotbox. Brooklyn. Feb. 20.

John Y. Mc- Kane, the ruler of Coney Island and the boss of Gravesend, was yesterday sen tenced by Justice Bartlett to six years. in! Sing Sing prison for his part in the elec- tion frauds of. last falL Last Friday JOHN T. M'KANK.

jury returned a verdict of guilty against auu recommeuueu clemency. The extreme penalty of the lawis 1 years. i Previous to the sentence! a motion for- a new trial was overruled fend McKane asked if he had anything to say. His response was: i uo not snow that can say sny ining uiu wnat i said on tne stand dun ing this trial. I have never done anjj- tning wrong to any one so far as 1 know.

I never did anything directly or indi rectly wrong with regard to the electioij. nor did I ever counsel any one to do anything wrong. I again say that I am not guilty of any offense against the law." i In passing sentence the court said that the crime committed had been a serious one and seemed to demand an emphatic sentence. The penalty should be so se vere as to express due condemnation while not so severe as to excite sympa thy. The six years' sentence was then pronounced.

McKane sat unmoved through it all, but his friends gave unqualified expression to their surprise, bets having been made that the penalty would not be made more than threje years. Attorneys for the prosecution have consented to a stay until Monday to give tne aerense an opportunity to nle an ap-" peal, but if they cannot then secure further stay the. prisoner will be r- gnovea to Bing REAL ESTATE SENSATION. Valuable St. Lonls Property InTolved by a Claim of Becquette Heirs.

St. Louis; Feb. 20. A suit filed in the circnit court yesterday afternoon is the greatest, sensation in legal and real estate circles that St. Louis has expert enced for years.

The action is brought by the Becqaette Property company against Mary E. Patterson, and is the first of a series which will involve the titles to all the property on one side of Olive street, from Third to Twenty-third street, aggregating in value nearly $50,000,000. Over 40 heirs are interested and in all 60 suits will be brought. The suit arises from a dispute over the legality of a title given to a farm tract owned by and granted to Jean Baptiste Bec-quette about the time of the Louisiana purchase. NOTKS OF THE STATE.

El wood is to have a new $20,000 hotel. State oratorical contest fixed for March 9. Marion county Republicans will nomi nate April 14. i George Rubens was robbed by Indianap oils highwaymen. i Indiana soldiers' monument elevator Will be started this week.

jj. Sada Barker, 14-year-old girl of Brazil, la mysteriously missing. jjj: Indianapolis has arranged to pat unemployed at work in breaking stone, Claud Travis will represent Wabash college in the state oratorical contest, Hazel Jaatier of Tipton, aged 5, fell into boiling water and died from her injuries, Thomas Bennet, Indianapolis feather duster peddler, was sandbagged In Shelby-ille. Thompson Arnold has secured $20,000 SAWED Svould not open any new onesJ Protec tion to the home market is Hhe true American idea. ujuiuj cicvuvu uiipeviufi have been sentenced to imprisonment in New York for fraud at the elections last November.

When prominent DemS-ocrats are punished in thisi way for working for the interests of tie Party, Lit is time for the Democrats -it congress t'to do something to keep thejr friends 1 a. a mi 1 irom oeing persecuiea. J.qe ieuerai selection law must go. ijj i Mr. Cleveland should now select a good Republican lawyer to fill the va- before the court is being kept shaelr hecarifut thern ia nnt a full Ipnrh no ow nrt rhn as nwaiM a Knn back because there is not a lull tench to hear important cases.

If would be the worst kind of a rebuke fo the New York senators if their emnity, to Cleveland resulted in placing a Republican in office, but Cleveland could get even with them by doing this, and besides do the country a great servic. AS PREDICTED. I It is gratifying to note thai mills are running here and there, hot the fact should not "be overlooked that the prin cipal condition in resumption in every case is a material reduction Mn wages. The laboring classes in tbis.coantry were by Democratic speakers and news papers promised as good wages as they ever received and cheaper 'necessaries. Republican papers and speakers predicted that if the laboring classes had work at all it would be -at reduced wages.

This has proven true. Hon. Gaxusha A. Grow, who has 'been elected congressman at large from Pennsylvania, has served; congress before, and was also speaker of the house one term. He is the only speaker who threatened to have the galleries cleared on account of applauding his own speech.

This was at the special session called by. President "Lincoln in July, 1861, to provide means for sup pressing the rebellion. Mr. Grow had just been chosen speaker, and his speech on the occasion of Jtaking the chair was so eloquent aqd so full of patriotic sentiments at that trying time that the galleries responded with an outburst of applause such as never before had been heard in the hall of representatives. tit course this was against the rules and the Speaker had to make the usual threat Jto preserve order.

Mr. Grow's career as a member of congress before the warfwas marked by an intelligent and useful course in the legislation enacted. He is credited wim aoing tne greater part ol the work of securing the passage of the present homestead law by, which, the western territories were rapidly opened' to set tlement Since his retirement from congress thirty years agc he has not held office, although frequently having been offered diplomatic positions. He will make a useful addition to the Re publican ranks. if The special election in JPennsylvania Tuesday, for congressman, at large re sulted in returning the! Republican candidate by the enormoujs plurality of 150,000.

The vote in the state was much larger than was expected, but the sen timent of the people was fjpr protection ana ine iree traae congress has oeen given notice that the Jeople of the north do not approve of tpe tariff bill now before the senate. jilt cannot be claimed that the Democrats made no eflort in this electionknowing that rennsylvama was a Republican state They made as strong a campaign as was possible. The leadinj Democratic speakers in congress from other -states were brought to Philadelphia and other cities and every efiort i Jwas made to bring out the full Democratic vote. The idle workmen, however had sense enough to1 compare their present con dition with that of a year iago and they arrived at the only conclusion possible. They know that protection has been a benefit to them, and theyf voted to restore the prosperity off Republican times, a rom the result recent eleo tions it is safe to predict that the con gressional elections next; fall will give the Republicans control Uof the next house of representatives The senate wt uui juuaui; reu uctxi until two Wears later, but just as sure as years pass by the end of Democratic! is approaching, and better tidies will come for the nation.

Xbe Book ofGr'e. Bj Heiekiah the tenbe of tfieSaKLaieTri bnne. CHAPTER 1. I Now' it came to pass in the last days that the followers of Grover the great. surnamed the goldite, the same which begat Ruth and Esther Jmd the panic and the Hawaiian trouble, were vexed with vexation exceeding! 'na8much as they listeth not to the locality where they abideth at.

Forbeholdv in the beginning they girded Jup their loins andf went! before the people, terying with a loud voice, Verily, we tay unto all 'men that are Groverites from exceeding far back, ana woe unto ye wno forget It. And verily, we hold!" in exceeding great detestation that which the child ren of great men call the tariff, for is it not a thing fashioned by 'our enemies, thelsame tbatlhath licked the everlasting stuffing out of us from generation to generation. 1 Yea, verily, this same little protective tariff it buildeth furnacesin the valley and smokestacks on the mountain top; ittofneth the wheels of and causeth the desert to blossom like onto a green bay tree. Wherefore do we of the tribe of Grover the great deepise i the same as a curse and an abomination to the sieht of men. i I 1 Yea, as a stenchl that offendeth our nostrils, the same which we smelleth from afar off.

I And, behold.in the great and terrible dayetf the ballot- when the army of voters be gathered shall we arise in our might and smite pur ene mies into mince meat, i Yea. we shall lav them oat cold on a platform of free trade, and cover them over with planks of tariff-reform. And our enemies shall be scattered like unto th leaves of the for Grover shall rend them into fragments like unto a potter's vessel, the which hath been smitten by the flipper of a youth, and then shall the end come. For in that day shall our banner be planted upon the outer wall of the great citadel ofj ithe nation, and -we shall bow down 'unto de liverer, who shall thenceforth be known as our Savior of Mount Buzzard. And he shall reign for four years and shall shower good times and fat offices and special messages and free raw "1 material upon as in rich abundance forever.

h- I And the black smoke of industry shall no longer Obscure the noonday sun, and the! farmer shall wear pants J.i- woven in parua, aou swm irom the isles of the sea. I And it was even so. And after the space of a Ltime, Grover, who was a mighty fisher, girded up his lines and his chattels and his cabinet! and went up and pitched, his tent over, against the capitol, Which is in the land of Columbia, and the band played behold, the cat hath come back. CHAPTER II. i Now, when Glover was crowned king of the nation, it came to pass that he wasspufled up in the pride of bis heart and his other vjscera, inasmuch as his raiment became several cubits too small to contain his joblots.

And he sjook himself b4 the hand, which is after the manner of his tribe, and he unto himself, saying, I ha, ha! Behol.f, am monarch of all I can get. Four more years of Grover; four more yeHrs of clover; America, Amer ica, how often would 1 1 ae gathered ye under my wjng, but ye wbuld not But now I have ye on the hip, and ye are confronted with a condition, not a theory, fdr, behold, will rule or ruin ye. Yes, veiny, to commence 'with, I will brandish my gjreat silver jswiord, and all who believe on me aud jdo my will shall be saved, and all who don't shall be broke. And I will call my sodthsaytra together and they shall I tinker at the tariff, and when they have finished their tinkering, McKinley, the father of the factory, will not recognize the And it shall come to pass that all ye who hearkenj unto the sotund of my voice shall have sewing machines from Glasgow at cost and ten off, and. corru gated copper baskets from'jthe enda uf the earth .1 a.na wnen Wover naa spoke these words he crew thrice, and! the people went out and wept bitterly i CHAPTER III.

And after tie space of a time it came to pass that when the shepherds took of the firstlings of the flock; and sheared them, ana went up to tbef city to ex change their fleeces for of silver, the wise men ot the city said unto them: y. Not this season, some other season. xea, Grover is great. is all wool and a yard-wide, but the stump in wool is several bits' wider. And th shepherds marveled exceed ingly, ana some ot tnem, yea, even hey whidh had harkened unto the voice of Grover, smote their breasts and went up and down with- bent heads crying to me another, "Behold, if thou wilt kick I me I will do so even unto thee." i I And when the diggers pf the earth went up with their silver ind lead and precious Is tones and said unto the money-changers, "Give ui food that we may eat, and clothing that we may dress the money-changers laughed lime, coiq, nara laughs, and sang songs of the grat sacrilege, saying, "Grover, Grover, four more years of Grover; we would buy your lead but times are dead till four more years are over" and other psalms.

I And when they 1 heard the psalmists some hired kickers and others tore their hait and all the inhabitants of the nation said damn And is came to pass that the storms came an the panic descended and the children of daikness lifted up their hands an wrung them inj great lamen- tation, sa ing: Wherefore art thou, Grover, our de liverer, andj- wherefore are the good times atl" and a mighty voice came back from the wiJderness isaying, "The presidentj i8 a fishing and; must not be disturbed." Marriage License. Charlei Willhallard and Ida Ferde- nand. i William Knapp and Mary Hannah I i- Yetta Dahm. I Alonzoj Petree and Ora Robertson. Edward Chambers and Rovillie Jones.

I The fiineral of the late Mrs. Robert Conn tobk; place this afternoon and was largely attended i The revival meeting at Elizabeth town is still inj progress with many accessions to the membership. The Prohibitionists have nominated a township ticket Bandcreek town- ship. srioke THET ACKNOWLEDGE IT NOW. It will not be: forgotten that special point urged by every Republican speaker and journal against what Democrats have been calling tariff reform, is that a reduction of tariff will bring; a reduction of wages, The philosophy of the change has been presented and repre sented, illustrated and exemplified, exhibited and demonstrated till every thinking man of whatever party understands it full well.

-But, if any further proofs were needed to convince the most wilfully jjignorapt, that proof is found in-the prices made by our county officials and accepted by the honest workinguoen upon the court house square, When these men were warned by Republicans a little mom than a i year ago mat a vote ior me democratic ticket would be one of self-destruction, I many of them characterized the advice as "dirty Republican lies." Those same men have had sufficient cause and ample jtime to repent for their but that does cot furnish supplies for 1 themselyes and families. There are' few who will: continue to support the' men and measures that have brought them to the verge of the awful lessons the winter has taught, but human reason and the spirit of American independence will guide the larger numbers -into! the ranks of the party that saved, the Union from dismember-, ment by the hands of the democratic; party; framed and established a stable; monetary and revenue system, in the' face of determined opposition from; the same Democratic party, and "which? expects the suffrage of all true men in the future, that it. may continue the; era of prosperity which its wsdom and-! statesmanship inaugurated and its sagacity and honesty have fostered for a third of a century. -j But the result of the evils brought on by the imbecility and incompetency of the party no? in power, will not cease to eflect the business of the country fo a term of years after the serpent shal have been scotched, but, so soon as th voice of the people? at the ballot boai shall have pronounced its Idoom. th old political monster will begin to di of inherent rottenness.

Until within a short time past world has had ho exhibition of Demos cratic incompetency for a whole generaf tioti; and whpn last in powejr, till now, it swayed the sceptre of slavery wiUn I ery that it brooked no opposition to it uiu-iiiuucu uiisruio uutli It piungeQ the country into a bloody fratricidal war of four, years duration, and in stead of lifting a finger toward saving the union, it slnnk to the rear an(j mocked at the calamity its wicked nes had wrought i Nothing bnt the Democratic part except him who fell from the battle ments of heaven "nine times the spa4i wnich measures day and night, coula have survived a defeat so disastrous that which followed the war. Yei', within a third of a century by defrauding honesty and cheating suffrage ft has again assumed control the gov ernment, only to teach a new generation the old lesson of its utter incapacity te govern 'j "The children of man arise and pass out of the world like blades of grass and when Democracy goes down und an avaiancne ot ballots at the nest general election, it will reach a poit wnereme trumpet that shall awaken the sleeping millions of the sea. wfll never distnrh ita diimkcri A HOME MARKET FOR WHEAf, The large acreage devoted to the cil- tivation of' wheat in the northwest 'of the United States and Manitoba arid the use of fertilizers in the older states, whereby the wheat yield has increased from 8 and 10 20 and 28 Sua els to the acre as well as the increased tiiuuuMiuu. ji una cereai in, Australia, Argentine, Egypt, Russia, Mediteranefrn provinces, and the Est Indias, his made an overproduction and caused the price of wheat to decline. What 1 1 ua uwpeu proauce mis great declme in, the price of wheat, is rapid transit The time between India and Great uaa Deea reausea irom eix.

montns to lorty one days by way of the Sues Canal. The time between tie Black Sea and the United Kingdom, has been shortened by the building the canal across the Isthmus of Corinth, The increased speed in recent years of ocean and better railroad facilities in this country and Russia, have beer means of equalizing prices ol wheat. I The fact an ever production of wheat in all the wheat-growing covin-tries of the world has caused cheap grain. Now that silver has declined In value and jcaused a monetary panie 5n India where thp white metal has always been taken in preference to goid, has produced a depreciation the priceof wheat never before known in tl at country. i I -k Unless England and other-European countries agree with the United Stages upon a standard of value for silver the stagnation in business in the East Indias will continue and have ita effect upon the market of the world, lit seems to be the policy of England Jto reduce hr standard to a single gold standard so that she, with her capital-ists, on Tbreadneedle street, Uondtm, can regulate the pi ice of the products of the The protective tariff fin the United States has been the means of bettering the prices of all cereals.

Theae fact go to show that the farmers of this country must look mdre and more to the home market for the sale of their wheat and other products. That market is worth all the others in world. Free trade weald destroy it and 5 i all. fl Senator of Louisiana Chosen-For Associate Justice. SOMETHING OF A SUEPEISIL.

Loii( Fight Ended by Prompt Actios eir the Part of the Senate, Whlf Did Mot Kven Refer the Appointment to a Coaa- tuittee Caaeua on the Bland Seig-nia ag-e Dili Other National Washington, Feb. 20. Yesterday afternoon the president sent to. the senate the nomination of Senator Edward D. White of Louisiana to be sn associate justice of the United States supreme court, to fill the vacancy caused by the -the death of Justice Blatchford.

The senate had hardly had time to recover from the surprise which the nomination occasioned when hia confirmation' was announced. While months had been spent in consideration of Messrs. Hornblower and. Peckham, and much time devoted to them by the senate committee on judiciary, the name of Mr. White was not referred to the committee at all, and in less tnan an hour after the nomination had been received the senate a placed its seal of approval upon the selection, had rob-t bed itself of an esteemed member and had given the jupreme court, the one man necessary to make a full bench.

The nomination was received through Private skit ator white. Secretary Pruden late in the afternoon. I Occasion had never before arisen fot passing upon the fitness of a senator fo the office of supreme judge, but ther had been many instances in which senators had been appointed to other places, and it has become the custom, not unbroken, however, to confirm without reference to committee, Confirmed Wit hoot Opposition. ilt was believed on all hands that ttffc precedent would be followed in this in-stance. Such proved to be the case.

The senate had been sitting behind closed doors less than half an hour when it became known that the motion to confirm without reference had carried without opposition. The vote was unanimously and heartily in favor of confirmation. The proceedings prior to the casting of the vote consisted entirely of the delivering of eulogistic speeches by members of the senate judiciary committee and by Senator Caffery. There were two speeches by Democratic members of the committee and two by Republican' members. Senators Pugh and Hill Bpeaking for the side.

and Senators Hoar and Teller for the Repub lican. All the speeches were laudator-' and SWT V. V. A 1 wuiaiuuiiuij, uuiu io. me presi- dent and to Mr.

White, and the tenor of all that was said indicated a general feeling of relief that the selection had proved to be one to render it no longer necessary to continue the contest which has been a somewhat distracting feature for the past three or four months. The senate even felt so goodnatnred over the whole 'affair that it decided to remove the injunction of secrecy, and the newspapers were notified that they were at liberty to publish the details of the proceedings Conference With the President. While the senate acted promptly and without hesitation, it is still a fact that it was a great surprise at the capitol. The president sent for Senator White and his colleague, Senator Caffery, Sunday night, and upon their arrival at the white house made known the purpose of his Mr. White, while expressing a deep sense of obligation, was much surprised and was doubtful as to whether he would accept.

He asked the president for time to consider, and although he and his colleagiie renmined with the president until late at night he left without giving his assent. Yesterday morning when he and Mr. Caffery again called at the executive mansion he was still unable to say positively that he preferred the office to that of and it Was not until the last minute before his departure that he consented. The belief is strong in the Louisiana delegation in congress that Representative Blanchard will be appointed by Governor Foster to fill the unexpired term of Senator White. Without exception, representatives and prominent officials in this city, in terviewed nnan thn stib-ifr utr.ma sn.

rtire satisfaction with the president's se lection. Edwiir Douglass- White will take hia seati thesupreme bench as the youngest of the justices, and with the exception of Justices Field ajid Harlan he" will have entered at an earliepNperiod in life than any other justice and wKi have the exceptionally long term of 21 years to serve before retirement. He Was born in the parish of La Fourchc, and wasH8 years of acre last November. He was 'educated at Mount St. Mary's, near Enibtettsbnrg.

at the Jesuit college in NewNJrleitns and finally at Georgetown collegeD. He entered the confederate army aiid after isiana supreme court, ana practiced his pro- 9 i I iconiuu uui iiLK lub irouoieu years louow-ing the reconstruction period. In 1874 he began his political experience as a state Lapsing into the law aain, he became associate Justice of the supreme court of Louisiana in 1878, but again turning to political pursuits, he was elected xs'. the United States senate to succeed Sena-' tor Eustis, at present minister to France, taking his seat March 4, 1891. By bis appointment he will leave a vacancy of full two years in his senatorial term.

The new justice is a batchelor at present, but there is a well defined rumor afloat that before the year passes he will espouse a well known society woman, who baa been brilliant figure in Washington Indicted For Hanging Secretary Morton. Nebraska City, Feb. 21. The Otis county grand jury investigated the hanging in effigy of Secretary of Agriculture Morton and his son, and found but two persons implicated -Zach T. White and Henry A.

Hoerarth, one a constable, the other a painter. Both men Have been indicted. The grand ury is heartily indorsed by all, regardless of politics. i L. Starving- Itallana.

New Castlk, Feb. 21. Recently nearly all local manufacturers and raiK roads decided to give work to Americans instead of Italians, and the latter are actually on the verge of starvation. They are beginning to threaten death for several foremen. Miner Go to WorkV Bridgeport, Feb.

3 1, About 1,500 miners went to work in the eastern Ohio district yesterday. NAMED ND CONFIRMED BEPUBLICAM MEWS PUBLISHERS. -Aepn oilcan Building, nortbeaat corner Washing-. ton and Fifth street, Kntranos konUi- eaat corner, flrat floor. i Entered at aecond-cjaaa matter at the poatoffloe la Columboa, Ind.) I TJCKMS OF 80BSCRIPTJOH.

"ne ear 25 65 Six tfhree Single ooplea 40 Fifteen cent a year additional will be charged each paper aent out ot the county to pre-pay fostage. Payable Invariably in advance. Send money by poatoffloe order or registered latter to ISAAC T. BROWN. Cnlamboa.

Ind OUR AGENTS. Tae following persona are authorised agents to aeoolTa aabaeriptiona to the Hope Charles O. Michael. Hanaville Dr. M.

N. Klrod. Fetorsrille F. D. Norton.

Hewbern John Jones. Bn marlUe A. T. Broogher. St.

Loals Creasing H. F. Scnaefer. Taylorrrille Tilman Fulp. Alalia Joel Newaom, Bfortonaburg K.

B. Norton. Mil sabeth town B. ColTin. Speaker Crisp can secure a quorum at any time by counting it and bis fail-are to do so is a gross neglect of -duty.

The general sentiment now all over the country is that Grover Cleveland is not better than his party in any par ticular. BouBKE CocKBAN docs not seem to be bnsy just now and be should be made chief of staff to feed the cuckoo "during the inclemeLt weather. He has easily won such an hinorV The next European war is thought by some will be fought mainly Ion the sea. Russia contemplates spending $200,000,000 on her navy, while England and France are following in like manner. Gov.

McKinlev puts the matter in a striking way waen he says that the country is now receiving compulsory education on the tariS question; and the lessons are certainly of a kind that will not make votes for the Democratic Party- i I Immigration at the port of New York fell ofl no more than 6 per cent, in 1893 in spite of the financial depression. It looks as if, hard as the times are here, they are harder in Europe. The present house of representatives needs the rules that were in force when Thomas B. Reed was speaker. lA num ber of Democrats would be glad if this were so, but they hate to indorse any thing that was first suggested by Re publicans.

The geological survey for the Interior Department has given out an interesting report, in which the acreage of the vacant public lands is the chief topic. In area these lands consist of 632,000,000 acres, or about one-third of the total area of the country. Secretary Gkbsuxm was one of the members of the cabinet whoj worked hard to secure ther confirmation of Peckham. He was afraid thai if the president was defeated it would disrupt the Democratic party. New converts in many lines always show the most seal.

McKaxk, the Brooklyn boss, who defied the courts and attempted to return big Democratic majority by fraud, gets six years in the penitentiary, The conviction of this man should have a good effect on the? Tammany gang in New York, who have been practicing fraud at every election for years. For many years it has been the rule to have a justice of the supreme court from the south, because of his1 familiarity with the old Spanish and French laws in the territory that formerly belonged to France and Spain. We presume that the senator which' was appointed by President Cleveland, as a compromise with the senators of the state of New York and to please the south. i The south is. now in control of congress, and the 4ld aoldiers who have bills before the house of representatives for pensions have much trouble to get their claims considered.

It has been the rale to 'have private pension bills considered at the night sessions, but owing to the -objection of southern members, no bills have been passed during the present The veterans need expect no favors trom the present congress. The coming week ia congress does not promise to yield much legislation. The finance eoaamittee of the 8eoate will hardly be able to report the tariff bill, so the senators will have full opportunity to diseuss the Hawaiian resolution. The reason why the tariff bill will no be ready is that the work of satisfying Democratic senators, who have some special interest to be protected, has been found a very difficult one. The house will still consider the Bland bill seigniorage quorum.

for coining the silver and even to secure a The appointment of justice of the supreme court has at last been made and the nominee has been confirmed by the senate. The new justice is Sen, ator D. White, of Ixraisiana, and through senatorial courtesy the appointment was not referred, to the judiciary committee, but was. acted upon at once. The course of Senators Hill and Murphy, of New opposing the president's first appointments, kept the office from going to a resident from their own state or even to a resident of the circuit in which the vacancy, existed.

It has not always been! the rale, however, for the president to select the member from the circuit over which he presides, and there have been prece pents for the present coarse. William Cain of Sanborn played with a pistol wnicn ne; said wasn't loaded. He has the bullet in his head and; may die. Grace House and Laura Ray, who ran away, from the House of the Good Shepherd, were sent to the Indianapolis work-bouse. Twp suits hY been filed aKainst the estate of Joseph! Deitcta, the old man in Whose room yrai found $94,000 after his death.

C. Wilson of Greenfield is in the hospital at lie is an old vet-fcran who went to the city to draw his pen Tipton and Howard counties are quarreling about the escape of Cal Armstrong and each now declines to make effort for his capture. A strange young man swindled merchants by selling them goods and collecting after the goods arrived. Now they have bills from the houses. I Francis McNairy of York town is dead.

He ran away from North Carolina when years old and arrived in Indiana with JO oenta, He left an estate of $30,000. Gamblers driven from Indianapolis located in the suburb of West Indianapolis. jSatnrday night four places were raided. All pleaded guilty and were fined $10 each, The recently! deceased W. P.

Gallop of flndianapolis left $500,000 in county bonds jand other property. Tax assessment was jbut $38,000 and the township asses sor will try to collect taxes on the entire amount. UNUSUAL HAPPENINGS. Casnalties of a Kind Not Oarurrinjr Every Day. ANAEEIAL CABLE BREAKS.

lounr Kooxvllle Lawyer Inatantly Killed While Seeking- JAmDaeinent and Ilia Companion i Endangered Kansan Pnta Dynamite In a StoVe Harvard Student Killed In a Sparring- Match. Knoxville, 19. For several months past there has been an aerial cable car line across the Tennessee river near this city, and hundreds have continually flocked there, the ride at a distance of 2,000 feet above the river being a particularly exhilarating one, comparing favorably jwith a trip on the famous Ferris wheel at the world's fair. But yesterday afternoon gaiety was suddenly turned into gloom. Without a moment's warning, while the Car with eight occupants was near the bluff on the opposite side of the river; the cable broke and the car dashed down the incline at frightful speed.

The violent motion of the car caused the cable to wrap around it, and when within about 200 feet of the ground crushed it aa though it were an eggshell. One end of the cable struck Oliver Ledger wood, a prominent young attorney of this city, on the head, killing him instantly; Blood spurted from his wounds, completely saturating the clothing of the remaining occupants of the car and frightening them so badly that they attempted to jump out of the windows into the; but were restrained by the brakeman. Finally a tug was secured and anchored directly beneath the dangling car and the survivors were rescued by means of a rope, each descending hand over hand.1 Among them was Miss Alice Waddle, Ledgerwood's sweetheart, i At the coroner's inquest it was discovered that the cable had been partially severed by an unknown miscreant, PPT DYNAMITE II THE STOVE. Carelesa KanHan Did a Dangerous Thing and Forgot About It Serious Results. Olathe, Feb." 19.

A man engaged in sinking a well through a rock on a farm owned by Jacob Smith, near Edgerton, placed a stick of dynamite in the cookstove oven to thaw out, -going away and apparently forgetting Where the dangerous explosive had been left.XMrs. Smith and daughter-in-law soon afterward; went to work in the kitchen, unaware of the danger. The dynamite soan thawed and exploded, blowing the store into atoms, wrecking a portion! of: the house and probably fatally injuring the double! MURDER WEDDING. The Bride Also Injured by Who Had Been Offended. Raleigij, IN.

Feb. 19. News comes of a double murder at a wedding inAl- legheny county. Among those present! was Uaniel Slaiughter of Carroll county, Va, Just Ithe 'wedding ceremony ended Slaughter passed near an old man. who seized his hand and made some remarks.

Slaughter spoke and was told to leave the house. He did so, but in a few minutes returned. The friends of the old man were angry and a peacemaker: endeavored to keep them back, while at the same time he told Slaughter keep quiet. Slaughter sprang at John Bare and stabbed him to the heart. Bare fell dead and Slaughter made an to again stab him, but the bnder jseized his hand.

She was cuti in the hand and arms. Slaughter, dashed ior tne aoor ana on ne way ne stabbed Ed Long, killing him instantly, and then fled. He was captured two miles away. There were threats of lynching, but he was safely taken to jail at Sparta. He claims some of the crowd struck him in the M'KINLEY FOR SENATOR.

It la Asserted That He Would Rather Be Lawmaker Than President. St. Louis. Feb. 20.

A Globe-Democrat special from Columbus, says-The latest political sensation in Buckeye politics is the announcement that Governor McKinley is a candidate for Senator Brice'a seat in case the next legislature is Republican. McKinley has more liking for a congressional life than an executive one. The senatorial bee, it is said, has taken the place of the presidential bee -in his bonnet. Foraker will also be a candidate. In the meantime the Democrats say they intend to relieve the Republicans of all trouble in this matter by electing James E.

Campbell governor and Calvin S. Brice as his own successor, i i 1 i Train and Cannon Ball Compared. If you will sit down and figure on the subject a little while, you will express less wonder when you hear of how the next "head end collision" smashed things up. A train running 75 miles an hour moves along at the rate of 110 feet per second and exerts an energy equal to 400 tons. In other words, the energy exerted is nearly twice as great as that shown by a 2,000 pound shot fired from a 1,00 ton Armstrong gun! St.

Louis Globe-Democrat, AT xA.