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Cite lJaicvloa TJvc rSAKK W. WILLI 3, Editor and rcbLUhar. TUTTRSDAY, JANUARY p. 1SS9. THE WIDE WORLD.

A Catalogue of the Week's In tat Occurrences Ccnclselj Summarized. latelllsence by Electric Wire from Every Quarter of the Civilized World. THE TEST LATEST BT TELEGEAPH. DOW5 TO DEATH. Frightful Casualty on the Kew ls Fetra sylvanus Bad Ohio Hand at Tallin a lg Ohio.

A frightful wreck occurred, on tbe New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Bailroad at Tallmadge, Ohio, an east bound passenger train colliding with one section of freight train which had broken in Eight nernom were killed and a dozen injured. The killed are Huntington, of Salem, Ohio, passenger engineer; William Walters, Sulem, Ohio, passenger fireman; J. F. Bushford, of Oalion. freight brakeman; William Fundy, of Salamanca, Nj Wells, Fargo Co.

express messenger; three Chinamen; Mnry Ann Lyon, of Idaho, aged 6, ticketed second clans to Cherry Creek, N. Y. The freight train had broken in two and the crew resorted to the common expedient of "doubling the grade. Tbe flagman who had been sent to guard the rear section misunderstood the signals and came in before the track was clear. The freight had barely got in motion when the express came along.

The passenger engine was i crashed into bits and Engineer Huntington and Fire'' man Walters were terribly; crashed. A combination baggage and smoking car and a coach took fire immediately after the crash. In the smoker were eigUC Chinamen. Fire were pulled oat alive bnt half dead from fright.1 Three were never seen after the collision. Bones and bits of charred flesh gathered up in bag were all that was found of them.t A most pathetic, scene attended the death of little Mary Lyon.

She was an orphan and was being sent through to relatives in Cherry Creek, N. Y. Edward Peltzer, a passenger In one of the; sleepers, took much interest in the little girl and when the crash came his first! thought was of her. He found her wedged down by a seatj the flames already surrounding her. This so un nerved Peltzer that he threw bim self upon the ground and sobbed.

Another eye witness says that the tittle girl, whose shrieks were released herself jnst before the fire got to her, and, for a moment groped wildfy about, then fell over, choked by smoke, the flames coming up to complete the dreadful work. The passengers in the sleepers were hardly aroused by the con cussion, i AXDNHV.NO WBETCB Murders Ills Mother In Cold Blood and get Up the Insanity Dodge. Cincinnati gnecial: Detective John T. Norris has arrived in this city from Eaton, Ohio, the scene of the murder df Mrs. Caroline Sharkey on last Saturday morning.

He reports that Elmer Sharkey, the murdered woman's son, made' an open confession in presence of witnesses that he murdered his mother with ring maul used forsplitting rails. He ea a uo uvea nut uui way lurwoTiu be done it. The indignation against the young man la nearly np to the lynching point. However there is insanity in the family. His murdered mother spent Ome time in the lanatio asylum, and.

it ia said his father was also at one time demented. Nothing but these facts can are him from the gallows, and even they may prove insumoient Governor Hony (Inducted Into OffleeV Got. Hovey was inaugurated Governor of Indiana Monday morning with impressive ceremonies; He recommended better election laws, local option, measures against monopolies and carriers trusts, road improvements from the proceeds of liquor and dog taxes, school books at the coat of production, for whioh the people how pay $1,222,000 per year; relief for the SupremeCourt and the non pasvan control of the State benevolent invitations. i Hartl 1ts Duaipit. A Port au Prince, Hartl, special pays that the question of indemnity for sJeis ure of the Haytian Bepublio hos been settled.

The amount agreed upon 'is $120,000. About 50,000 waa handed to the owners of the steamer, and the balance will be paid in equal installments on March 1 and June 1. I Hoar Ronomtnatod la Masisaehusefta, Boston, special: At a caucus: the Democrats nominated Hon. L. P.

Cojlina as a candidate for United States Senator. The Republican caucus renominated Hon. C. F. Hoar foe the Senate.

I i All A coo not of a Girl. Ed Gordon and John Carter quarreled over a girl at Vincennes, Ind. Carter ahot Gordon in the leg and then cut him in thirteen placeaj Gordon is atill alive. The Republicans Maal The Bepublicana of the First Indiana District have nominated CoL Frank B. Posey for the unexpired term of Gen.

Hovey. I It Continue. The dead lock in the West Virginia Legislature still continues; the Senate being unable to organise. i Printer's Strike, All the printers working on the three daily papers of Wilksbcxre, are out on a strike. EASTERN OCCURRENCES.

Gkrard B. D0CGIass has been ar rested at Borne, Nj for bigamy. Oct 30, 1838, be married Florence B. Barbier and Not. 24 last he eloped withi ber sister Emilv, and id a taarriase ceremony performed at Hartford, Conn, the bib ten have been reconciled, and Doaglase it liIy to go to the Tins body of Samuel C.

Seibe'rt, latel: paying teller of Union Trust Com pany at Philadelphia, waa takei from the Delaware River at that city. Taste amer Camerata arrived at Xhe whar from Cubs, and beirin unloading a cargo of suear. Mr. Seitiert boarded her and btfan looking around her decks interestedly. The next moment there came a cry, "A man overboard!" He had dropped into the riTer between the side of the steamer and the wharf.

He was noticed to come tip once and then disappear finally. Hi aaconnts with the Irust Company are straight, and it is believed the di owning was accidental. He was a single man, 33 years old. Masteb Wob Fow ryEY of the Knights of Labor addressed e'public meeting of District Assembly 152 ia Binghamton, N. Y.

After the public meeting an xecitive session was held at which Mr. Powderly male a long address on national topics pertaining to the Knights of Lator. Amoug other things he stated that one of the four alleged founders of the KnigLts of Labor who are trying to establish a new order in Philadelphia recently offered to 811 oat the new order to him for $100, and he had satisfactory proof that the same person had previously offered to sell out to John Wanamaket. Johx Kei.lt, a well known contractor, was en tiring the gate at his residence at Beaver Falls, accompanied by his brother, two sharp reports of a pistol were heard. Kelly, with a groan, fell back into his brother's arms shot through the right breast.

He was taken into the house and physicians sent for. The doctors fa led to find the bullet, and Kelly's condition is very precarious. It is said that Kelly knows who shot him. bnt will say nothing. After the hots were fired two men were sees to run hastily down a side street.

Jat Gould is dead. She had been lying la a comatose condition since November 6, at her home in New Ybrk City. She was 60 years of age. Her mother is yet living in New York City, at the advanced ago of bO. Mrs.

Gould waa the daughter oC Daniel G. Miller, who amassed a large fortune in the produce and grocery business. She was married a1 out twenty seven years ago. Sixcbil dien survive ber. Naturally of a frnil constitution, the paralytio stroke on election dav prostrated her, and from its effects she never recovered, though retaining her mind, at intervals, until near the last moments of life.

DAMAGED BY THE GATE. The Niagara Falls suspension bridge situated nearest the falls was carried away by the recent gale and deposited in the river. The bridge was completely rebuilt last season and enlarged for a double track. The material of which it was composed was iron and steel. It owned by the Niagiira Falls and ths bbzdo roaa rwm sromit Clifton Sospension Bridge Companiea.

The stock is held in Oswego and Canada, and had always pid large dividends. The loss is about $500,000. The bridge will probably be rebuilt as soon as possible. All points of interest along the river at the water's edge suffered more or lesa from the The water wua never known to be so high. The International Hotel was unroofed.

Several buildings were blown down in the vicinity. The gale waa the aeverest ever known there. ana is tea about twelve nours. i ne total loss by the gale in that vicinity will reach 11,000,000. Thjs total number of persona killed In the late cyclone at Beading, ia twen ty and those badly Injured 103.

Search in the ruins of the silk mill has been abandoned. Several of thoe re ported killed hare been found. Fifteen viuki or rum viusr sotLDixa. dead bodies were removed from the ruins loft by the cyclone at Pittsburg, and of the thirty five injured three died. Ber.

Dr. Beed. of Allegheny City, waa among the victims. Three smelter companies at Pueblo, nave each given a nny ounoe silver brick to be sold by the Stock Exchanges of the citiea of New York, Philadelphia and Pittsburg for the benefit of the cyclone sufferers. WESTERN HAPPENINGS.

AT Detroit Lather Tallman was robbed by two men of 4,500 in cash and $1,000 in drafts. The victim is a dealer in seeds and fertilisers at Fairport, N. Y. E. A.

Matthews, a wealthy general merchant of Walnut Shade, was in stantlv killed in the White Biver bottoms. near the Missouri line. Matthews was hunting deer, and he and a man by the name of Strong fired at a large buck almost simultaneously. In the dispute which arose over the possession of the animal Matthewa waa brained by Strong, who struck him with the butt end of his rifle. Strong escaped to the woods, but captured by the Sheriff.

Mrs. William Molbbebbt, a granddaughter by marriage of Gen. Nathaniel Greene, of revolutionary war fame, died at Mason City, Iowa, in her 93d year. She had five children, nineteen grand children, twenty six great grandchildren. and two great great grandchildren.

Owes Browr, a son of, John Brown of Harper's Ferry fame, has been buried at Pasade Cal. For several years he had lived the life of a hermit in the Sierra Madre Mountains. A shootino affray occurred at New Florence, in which D. B. Driscol, Marshal, waa instantly killed, as was also his murderer, Isaao Wills, who escaped from the jail at Danville some time ago.

Wills had been imprisoned for an unsuc eessfnl attempt to VH1 his wife On the night of Iec. 30 he escaped. Nothing was heard of him until he made his appearance at Mrs. Peters', where wife, from whom he had been divorced, was living. He made a desperate attempt to gtin admittance to his wife's chamber, but was prevented from doing se until the could secure herself in a neighbors house.

DriscoL the City Mar ishal, was notified of Wills' actions, and mmediitely proceeded to arrest him. Wills shot him through the heart. Wills was followed by a posse of citizens and killed. POLITICAL PORRIDGE. At a Bepublican caucus of the Kansas Legislature it was unanimously agreed to re elect Senator Plumb.

Tbz Dakota Legislature organized at Bismarck by the election of Smith Stim mel, of Fargo, the farmers' candidate, for President of the Council, and H. E. Keith, of Sioux Falls, a corporation attorney. Speaker of the House. A great kick by the farmers waa the result, and a reorganization is expected.

Got. Church's message scored the management of all the publio institutions; recommended the abolition of the trustee system, and advocated a Territorial Board of Charities in lieu of same. The Ohio Legislature met in adjourned session at Columbus, and received the Governor's message. Got. Forakev said that the recent alleged White Cap outrages in Ohio were the doings of practical jokers or evil minded persons hiding their individuality behind the assumed name of White Caps.

He recommends that the law be so chsnged that White Caps and such malefactors may be indicted in any county in the State. Got. Flexixo, of Florida, has been inaugurated at Tallahassee. The occasion brought together the largest gathering of civilians and State troops ever seen at the capital. A prominent feature waa a column of Union and Confederate veterans, the latter including members of the Confederate regiment in whioh both ex Gov.

Berry and Gov. Fleming served. The California Legislature haa been permanently organized at Sacramento, with the Democrat in control of both hoases. 8. M.t White, who was temporary Chairman of the National Democratic Convention at bt.

Louiv in June last, was elected President pro tern, of the Senate. Bobert Howe waa elected Speaker of the Assembly. .1 he latter made a short addressed in which be called attention to the necessity of revising the registration and election laws of the State. Got. Coofkr.

of Colorado, has been inaugurated at Denver. His address was short, the principal feature being recom mendations to the General Assembly to pass a fair but stringent railroad law and a law for the arb tration of difficulties be tween employeis and employes. It has become ki.own that Hon. Henry Heard (colored), who waa a member of the last Bepublican National Convention, at Chicago, is the same man who. on the night of the Presidential election in 1876, was seized by political opponents at illy era Bluff.

with the intention of drowning him that some of the party took pity on him, and that be was released on condition that he would leave the couutry; that he thence went to Athens, developed into a Bepublican leader and ed tor. but never told the story of his strange adventure. In fact, he waa as dead, his pastor preaching a feeling sermon upon bis untimely taking off. A Cab ccs of the Republicans of the Illinois Legislature unanimously nominated Shelby Si. Cnllom for re election to the United States Senate.

This is equiv alent to an election. Is joint convention at St. Paul, the Minnesota Legislature heard the final and inaugural messages of the outgoing and incoming Governor, and Governor W. B. Merriam was duly installed in office.

Betiring Governor A. B. McGill dwelt at length on the question of the regal tion of railroads, expressing tne beliel that tne taws already enacted ana eniorcea nave settled the right of every man to have equal privileges in dealing ith common carriers. He thought a court should be established to prevent un neoessa building of new roads and the kill ng of thriving towns by railroads passing thejn by and endeavoring to build up rival cities. He says the high license law has been eminetitlr satisfactory and has benefited the State both financially arid from a temperance standpoint.

Gov. elect W. It. Merriam waa sworn in by Chief Justice Gilfillan and read his mea Snge, which covered abnut the same ground aa that of his predecessor's. Both houses of the Connecticut Legis lature met in joint session at Hartford and elected State officers, an election by the people having failed, no one having received a majority of the votes cast.

Following is the re nit of the balloting; 1. G. Bulkely 159; Lnon B. Morris 95. Lieutenant Governor, Samuel E.

Merwin 166; John S. Kitkham 92. Secretarr of State, Jay Walsh 166; Henry A. Bishop Dem. 94.

Treasurer. E. S. Henry 164; J. G.

Martin 92. Comptroller, John B. Wright 1SB; Nicholas Stmb 93. Messrs. Bulkely, Merwin, Walsh, Henry, and Wright were declared duly elected.

Later on Gov. Bulkely was inaugurated with imposing ceremonies. The West Virginia Legislature met at Charleston, and the Democrats organized the House by electing Woods Speaker. In the Senate Carr (Ind.) voted wi the Democrats, which resulted in a de dlock. Carr an I Minir Bep.) were candidates for President.

The democrats supported Carr and the Bepublica Minier. The Democrats of the Tennessee Legislature renominated Isham G. Harris for United States Senator. It is rumored that Governor elect Goff, of West Virginia, has been offered the Secretaryship of the Navv. the position which he held under President Hayes, and that be haa refused it.

FRESH AND NEWSY. Thk rain, snow, and wind storm of the 9th inst. waa quite eneral, being especially severs in various parts of Indiana, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Great damage and losa of life occurred by re ison of a cyclone in Pennsylvania. The urometer reached a lower point at Chi go than ever known.

In parts of Canada trains were blocked, and telegraph and telephone wires disabled. 1 he fall of snow was heavy at many points. Ths December report of the Department of Agriculture, which publishes in detail estimates "of the more important crops, ma as tbe product of corn 1,987. 790,000 bushels grown on 75,672,763 acres. valued on the farm at ct 34.1 cents per bushel, 44.4 eenti for the crop of lss7.

a decrease of 25 pe: the product of ISsT being 27 pel cent, lssa in volume than that of 1(3. The average yield of the commercial belt, or sevan corn surplus States, averages 33.S bushels per acre. The Atlantic coat south of the. Potomac, averages 11.2 bash els of comparatively poor quality. The wheat aggregate is bushels, grown on 37,336,133 acres, valued at The average yield is therefore 1L1 bushels per acre; winter wheal 11.6, and spring wheat 10.3 bushels per acre.

The average farm value is 92.C cents per bushel, against 68.1 cents foi the previous crop, a difference dn more to foreign than domestic scarcity. The aggregate for oats is bushels, grown on acres, and alued at $135,424,240. This is 27.8 cenU per bushel, gainst 30 cents for the croc of 1S87. A comparison of aggregate values shows that the present corn crop is worth only more than the previous one. wheat 1 74,000,000 more, oats 1 5,000, 000 less.

The review of trade for last week, by B. G. Dun A is as follows: Kot tba feast important faaiara of the railroad PrAicent' irruuiuiflnt i tb fact taat banaars of iary induoco commit themtolvaa, in cu compact la signed, lanlut their eoanienanc or aid to the na.ntiaUun of seca riuas fur dw competing lines or expansions to any of tba railroads agreeing to tao compact. Xhe report of tba Interstate CommUaioa snows Um.i on 1), mues of road, tor the year ending Jane IMm, tne stock and bonds were ox eooal par valae. bnt on 51 per Sent, of the stock no dividend was pnid.

and on 2o par eent. of the bonds no Interest, while tba proportion paring lees than 4 percent was 63 ptr eent. of the atock and 1 vr of the bonds. Tne dec 1 ion of Jadce i.bi, uutuiux tnai una sugar trnat la illegal and void, la of laritx importance. Bpeeulatiun in hot; and lard tended lowara low figures.

An otaer iau in wceat oocarrea, tbe price closing lie lower for the week, exports being still arretted. Cora fail ISiO. and oat Advanced nearly lo. with oil practically unchanged and cotton a shade stronger. 1 be weekiv ontnnt rf ntnra eite and coke iron Jan.

1 was 144.45.1 ton, aainat wwi a monvn aH'o, ana ui.s 7 a year avo. or tbe last year the prodncUoa is estimated at e.e v.wa! arose tons, ne enormous supply snakes tba market duller than nana! lor tne aear son. 'ineeoai trade is dn 11. Cotton goo Is are in Dewier oemana at steady or Improving prices. He porta from interior towns snow that failnrea continue numerous and the complaints of tardy collections frequent.

Hut there is bardly any complaint of mo scarcity. Tba nay market in New York is easier and rates lower tnaa a week ago. and the feeUng of confidence in the financial and commercial future is suit nnauaken. The failures daring tbe week ausv vaxvu eat. ACROSS THE OCEAN.

A BEKIK special says that it is understood that Samoan affairs will not be made tbe subject of a special debate in the Reich stag, but will be referred to during the dis en salon of the naval budget. The disaste in Hamoa has created a deep impression and will strengthen the arguments of the anti colonial l.artv in the Africa debate. The KieUr Ztitung says that the riamoan losses are the greatest in officers and men the German navy ever experienced in a transoceanic expedition. The Vo tional SSeitmng complains that America's recalling her consul some time ato did no good, for it has been proved that the natives were led from an ambuscadeby an American. STOLE MANY THOUSAND.

BTarbt D. Bch. the young and dashing assistant cashier in the general offices of the Chicago and Northwestern Boad, at Chicago, has gone to Canada, or elsewhere. lie is not a defaulter. II i books have been found to be terf ectlr correct in every way, and the crime which has made' him afngi tire was only a bold.

i cunning robbery, ex ecuted at a single stroke, and not by any vf tedious system. The entire amount of the aiaav n. icsux. robbery, according to the figures Riven by the American surety Company is 913, 901.47, all of which, save a few hundred dollars, be ia believed to have carried away with him. At the close of his day's work Bcbau submitted bia accounts, vouchers.

and rash to Cashier Walker, wbo. finding everything correct, told Bchall to put the money in tbe vault in tbe back Prt or tne room, bchall bad already put on his over co wnen ne entered tne vault, ana there. safe from detection, it was the work of a moment to transfer the money from the cash boxes to his own pocket. lie left the offices in an unconcerned manner, and went to the home of S. Craft, with whom he lived, at Austin, a suburb of Chicago.

Be disappeared soon after, and has not been heard of since. He was Treasurer of the Clerks and Mechanics' Loan and Building Association, the stock holders of which are all employes of the Chicago and Northwestern Company When he took his departure, 1.0O0 of this organization left with him. was but 24 years and was considered a 1 on in society, always being lavish with his money, so much so that an $1,800 sal ary failed to meet bis extravagant tastes MARK FT REPORTS. CHICAGO. CatTB Prime Bt 5.00 A 4 .00 i 00 a.

u) Medium Common Hoos Shipping; Bhkkp Wnaar No. Bed. Coaa No. Oats No. Kt No.

BoTTza Cnoioa Chbcsb Fall Cream, Koos Fresh 6.00 a. ad 8.50 6 01 jn .33 .84 .47 .) .4 .17 .104 .19 i .30 .83 13.00 Potato kh Car loads, per on re ILWAU Wheat Cash 0 .91 CoRjt No 3 81t Oats No. White Ktb No. 1 Bas arr No. 2..

.64 es .70 roaa Mesa 13.00 DETROIT. CattT. 4.0 a 5 25 Hon, 4.0O 00 Fhbkt u0 5 50 Wheat No. Fed 1.U1 Coax No. 3 White S4V Oats o.

i Mixed TOLEDO. Wmr Ntv Bed 1.0B 1.0 1 Coaa Cash 4 Oats No. a White jr NEW YORK. CATTXa 4.0O 6 4 6.00 6ur 4.00 .0 Wheat No. u0 ComNo, 1 .44 .4 Oats Whit .40 oax New Mess 14.00 140 ST.

LOCIS. Cirru 4.00 tf JB a A Wheat No. 1. Coax No. a Oats No.

4l4 Bajt Iowa M) A IXDIANAPOUS. S.W 5.00 Eos us J0 hiiir S.00 4. SO JUaJgas 4.00 sa iJJO CINCINNATI. Hoos A50 8.25 Wheat No. i Bad a .99 Coaa No.

3 HlTL Sa 9 Miiad XI .28 Btb No. 3 Post Meas 1 eia.iw a AKSAS CITY. CiTTT a CinnH 4 45 4V7S S.50 4.35 Stockers 00 S.S) EoOS Choice 8 is Median 4.0 a.wj SO eg A 00 INDIANA ILVrPENINGS. ETEXTS AND rNCIDEXTS THAT BATE I a.TET OCCCKBX js late Bating Ram mar of tb Mora Important Doings of Our Neighbors Wwl. dings and Dwatha Criaae, Caaoaltiee aavd eater 1 News Notes.

THE EEGISXATTR January 10. Sa3t atb The doors of the Senate chamber were barred against Lieutenant Governor Eobertson. Auditor Carr refused to call the Senate to drder, and Judge Mitchell, of the Supreme Court, done to. administrating the oath to the newly sleeted Senators. The following officers were elected: President pro tem.

j. F. Cox; Secretary. Green Smith; Assistant Sccr ary. John 1.

Curler; Door keeper, li. Hamilton. Hocsa Secretary of State Griilln called theVnembers to order and the organization was terf ected by electing ail the nominees or the Democratic caucus as Speaker. Mason J. Niblack; Clerk.

Thomas Newtirk: Assistant Clerk. John 8. Bcobey; Door keeper. Frank Haimbaugh. In taking his chair Speaker Niblack cordially thanked the members for the honor shown him and significantly referred to the fact that many trying circumstances were liable to arise.

Daring the session of the two houses Gov. Gray informed a joint committee which waited upon him that he would communicate his farewell message to the bodies to morrow at ciock. January 1L The second day of the fifty sixth general assembly passed off without special Incident. lieutenant Governor Roberstson was again refused admission to the Senate chamber. The seat question came up before both houses.

The members who were late in selecting their seats through the librarian attempted to adopt resolutiona providing for reseating every body. The plan proposed to draw lots for cneice' seats haa iwn in vogue in toe National House of Representatives for forty years, ana is considered tne most en' is factory way of seating the members. The proposition waa defeated in both houses. At 2 clock both houses met in joint con vention for the purpose of listening to the uovernors message Miami t'onaty Farsawrs Inatitute. A permanent organisation of the Mi ami County Farmers' Institute bas been effected and is now impractical ana active operation, and bids fair to be come of inestimable value to those en gaged in agricultural pursuits.

Tbe ob ject of the meetings ia the discussion of views relative to the various pursuits and of general interest. A constitution and by laws were adopted at the organ ization, and officers elected, as follows: President, Joseph Cunningham; secre tary, J. Pierce; treasurer, Louis Bond. Various committees were appointed. Prizes will be offered to farmers sons ith a view to a large and general at tendance.

The auccese of the move ment is assured from the large number enrolled and the general interest being manifested throughout the county. The first regular meeting will be held hr on Feb. 2, and following one each nonth. Iatti Patents have been issued for the I for lowing Indiana inventions: Dav'fd Bearly, New Castle, lawn mower; Abel Butler, Dale, protractor; Leonard W. Freeman, Liberty, machine for making wire fencing; James A.

Fullerton, Mounts, corn planter; Joseph F. Gent, Columbus, machine for making sheet or flake products; Benjamin Gude, St. Anthony, ironing board; John Ilurty, Indianapolis, manufacturing starch; Tully Bnnnle, Farmersville, assignor of one half to J. F. Teager, Prairie Creek, bailing press; Isaiah Sharp, Bedkey, steam generator.

Mlaor 8 1 ate Items. Jesse McConkie, while engaged in sawing wood on a farm five milea northwest of Cambridge City, was crushed to death by falling wood. He was about twenty six years of age, and unmarried. Tbe Methodist Church at LaPorte has received a bequest of 5,000 by tbe will of the late Caroline Pottinger. Judge WT.

Zenor, of Leavenworth, baa appointed Judge Beinhart, of the Rockport Court, as special Judge to try the Crawford County Wnite Cap cases on March 20. Joseph Sprencil, a section hand employed by the Pittsburgh Fort Wayne and Chicago Bailroad was rvnover by a freight train and killed, near Valparaiso. Tbe safe in the general store of Weaver, Tod A Chicago coal 'operators, at Center Point, Clay County, was blown open and about 91,000 taken. The town has no bank, and a big haul wag no doubt anticipated. A 15 months old child 'of William Woodward, of Muncie, was acalded to death in a singular manner.

The little girl crawled np to the chair of a i yeaf oLd brother, at the supper table, and in some way the boy accidentally overturned a cup of hot tea on the infant's upturned face, the fluid striking ber in the mouth and going down the throat passage, causing death several hours later. While in the woods Malachi Collier, son of John Collier, residing near Cen terton, waa struck on the head by a falling limb, fracturing his skulL He was found lying unconscious several hours afterward and was conveyed to bis home, where he died after thirteen hours' of intense suffering. Mr. Collier waa young married man, aged 21, and leaves a wife and child. Mrs.

Kate tcCulip, aged 85 yfa? died at her home in Hartsville, Bartholomew County, of Old age. Charles Mann, living near Albany, waa badly injured, by the bursting of a gun, the brecch pin lacerating his face in a terrible manner. J. K. Wiiyams, a Laporte County farmer, mysteriously disappeared from home about twenty years ago, and it was generally believed that he had hung himself.

His wife long ago gave up all hope seeing him again, but whs surprised last week to bear that he was alive and living in Texas. In a letter to her Williams expresses a desire to return and be forgiven. Rev. Ira J. Chase, Lieutenant Governor elect, has declined a call to become pastor of the Christian Church at Bichmond.

It is surmised that the Spanish coia recently found near Hauna were left ia the jar in the tree by some one of the Spanish troop which came to that region in 17S1 from St. Louis, to seize the country for the King of Spain. Anderson authorities have ordered all the telephone poles in that place removed within ten davs. E. F.

Berry, a photographer, of New Washington1, was dangerously poisoned by inhaling vapors in his "dark room." The Bichmond Natural Gas Com pany has accepted its plant from the contractors. The price paid is $500,000, half cash and half stock. While in a trance, Calvin Cook, an aged citizen of Jeffersouville, laid hia hand upon a red hot stove and allowed it to burn to a crisp. At Laf ontaine, Wabash County, John Palmer, one of the early settlers, dropped dead of heart disease. Mr.

Palmer was 64 years of age, and had apparently been tn the best of health. He moved to La ontaine in 1852. Mrs. Elizabeth Dunn, who died re cently near Hartsvillef Decatur County, was nearly 107 years of age. She was the mother of four children, and lived to aee twenty four grand and sixty great grandchildren.

She was in her seventh year when Cincinnati was settled, and thia was an incident ahe often referred to in giving her age! Two singular accidents are reported from Daviess County. Mrs. Taskey, while assisting her husband in killing hogs, was struck by one of the animals and thrown back with such forced as to fatal lv ininra Mrs. Vanchn. at an other place, bad several of ber ribs broken while watching her husband rnd helping to raise a slaughtered' hog, the pole breaking and striking her in the side.

G. White, a farmer living near' Greenwood, Johnson County, is the owner of a pig that is quite a curiosity. The animal haa four front feet and twelve toes. It i is alive, and weighs about forty pounds. Thomas Wilson, alias Harris, arrested at La Porte, has confessed to robbing mail pouches at Elkhart, and to having obtained large sums of money at the former place under false pretenses.

The people of Charleatown were startled the other day by the appearance of Harrison Hogan, the "Bull creek terror." Hogan has been feeling unwell lately, and he went to Charlestown to see a physioian. ue went on iiorseoacK and bad all the appearance of an old time warrior. He was well fixed for battle, for around his body were strapped two big navy revolvers, and hanging at bis side was the regulation bowie knife. He had but few words with those he met, and as soon as his business was attended to he quietly left town. At Coxville, a mining town in Parke County, Henry Kirby saw bis wife In a compromising position with Abraham Carew, a boarder, and discharged a mus ket load of shot at Carew.

The wife, instead, received the charge, and there is small chance of her recovery. All the narties are colored. Four prisoners, George Kelly, Newton Leach, W. IL Dunbar, and William Burden escaped from jail at Marion by tawing themselves out. Leach was recaptured, but the others are still at large.

George Bnchanan, who bas been postmaster at Judson, Montgomery County, since haa resigned, and John M. Glover has been appointed. Charles Howell, while coupling cars at Brookville, was fatally injured. A. L.

Neal, a school teacher in Clark Township, Montgomery County, claims to have the largest and smallest scholar of any school in the State. One of them is a boy who weighs 2'J0 pounds, and the other is a girl who weighs twenty five pounds. The funeral of Mrs. John Davis, of Jefferson Township, Cass County, wbo was thrown from a wagon and killed, was one of the most remarkable ever witnessed in the county. The woman weighed 340 pounds, and.

required eight pall bearers. Dr. C. crGiye'ns on trial at Terra Haute for murder of Webb Stuart, last August, was acquitted. Frank Goings, a brakernan on the Chicago and Atlantio Bailroad, waa knocked from a train and fatally, injured, i Mrs.

Brown and Mrs. Doughty, living near Liberty, were seriously injured in a runaway accident. Mrs. Doughty may die. While Mrs.

Ann Childs, aged 84, was crossing the railroad track in New Albany, she was knocked down by a jwitching engine and fatally injured. A large barn belonging to John Wright, living near Bockport, waa with a ihiaii'i pmn inhaMA and a number of farming The loss is estimated at $3,000 or 4,000. Father Meisner, pastor of the Catholic Church at Peru, haa placed an electric light on the spire of his church edifice, 175 feet above' tbe ground, which sheds a brilliant light over the city and. can be seen far out into the country. Martin ELIeiser, a well respected.

pioneer citizen of Boone County, died ban on, aged 72 years. He leaves a family of six children and an estate valued at $40,000. He was a member of the Odd Fellows' Lodge. Francis Murphy and his two son have cloaed their temperance revival at Connersville, having induced 1,500 persons to sign the pledge. A 1 1 .1 4fte farm fit Charlea Gwynee, near Lexington.

The mysterious thing was seen by Gwynee, his sons. and several neighbors, and it presents the appearance of a white shadow in human shape, floating over the surface of the farm. Shotguns have been fired at it. It has stood rocks and clubs, all of which have passed through it without effect. The Woodling school bouse, in Washington Township, Cass County, together with books, maps, of the value of $300, was destroyed by fire..