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l-cU-nipoila, Inä.
'The ball of the doll thud" 13 the other
Chicago name for the skating rink.
Cattle and sheep in the Indian Terrrtory
have perished in large numbers from cold.
In the Senate William M.Evarts will have
his first experience in any hall of legislation.
Gp.ovxr Cleveland's address is No. 43 Wil
lst street, Albany. Officeseekers should
commit this to memory.
Mr. Rakdall will probably not baa can
didate for the next Speakership. This will
give Mr. Carlisle in open field.
The London Record says General Cleve
land is the first Confederate President since
the war. The Irish ought to dynamite that
fellow.
What a dismal day it will be far the
bkedy shirt organs when poor old Jeff Davis
dies. What will they have left to "fire the
.Northern heait?" Sad thought.
It is suggested that proofs of St. John's
duplicity will be supplied as soon as the
Republican National Committee can secure
a competent forger to do the work.
--,
Tue Pennsylvania iron trade is picking
np. Perhaps this may be traced to the re
csnt election (?) of Mr. Blaine. It was
prophesied by the Republican organs.
Caktep. Harrison has withdrawn from the
contest for the Illinois Senatorship. There
will probably be another Harrison in the
fame lice of business in Indiana two years
hence.
A Sax Francisco Judge has decided that
by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Con
stitution Chinese children born in this coun
try are entitled to admission to the public
school.
"DiNir," a new play by Alexander Da
was produced at the Theater Francalse,
in Paris, Monday night. It was a brilliant
tuccees. President Gravy was in the
.audience.
A Michigan legislator has introduced a
till to prevent any board, commission, com
men council cr public corporation from
hiring any person holding office under the
laws of the State to draw a bill to be pre
sented to the Legislature.
What frantic attempts the Republican
organs of the city are making to have the
old police system re-established. They care
nothing about the saloons. It is the old
ballot-box stuffing and those bogus 2,030 Rs
publican majorities in Marion County that
ti:tfj hanker after.
A small Sffiss village at the foot of the
S.ruplon Mountain ha been buried under
ten feet of snow by an avalanche. An ava
lanche at Klagenfart, Southern Austria,
Jnr,day, wrecked several buildings and
killed twenty persors. Many others were
injured and rendered homeless.
Wnns the organs find out that they eta
not break up the Metropolitan police sys
tem, they will begin one of their periodic!
raids on the State Benevolent Institutions
orithe State Penitentiaries. Perhaps they
msy find something in the educational In
stitutions to take a tilt at the Normal
School, or Pardue, perhaps. Anything fcr
party capital.
Tbk local Republican organs continue to
assail the State officers because they re
quested the withdrawal of the resignation of
John P. Frenzel as Police Commissioner.
The letter of request is simply an expres
sion of a desire to have Mr. Frenzel continue
his eei7ice on the beard and submit to its
action, as the same might be deter
mined by a majority thereof. If als
resignation had been promp;ly accepted
trie organs would jest as vehemently charged
that the acceptance meant an indorsement
of Mr. Frenzel's course. This condemna
tion of the State officers comes with poor
grace from the Republicm press, in the face
of the fact that when the Republican party
had full control of the police of the city
saloons and gambling bouses were kspt open
all Eight That Mr. Frenzel and h!a asso
elates on the board have rendered valuable
service to the city will be generally admitted.
That the Metropolitan Police system has
been a great improvement on the former
iytem, and that Mr. Frenzel has been an
effclent member, will be generally conceded.
The aim of the Republican press is well
understood. It is to break down the present
system acd substitute therefor the old cor
rupt Republican rule, under which they
carried the city by majorities ranging from
1.2C0 to 2,000 by pandering to the very worst
-elements. If that state of affairs could be
again brought about, the Republican press
would haye no complaints to make. ThLj
atuieand misrereeaentation of the News
and Journal is but a repetition of the course
they pursued during the Late campaign, and
upon which the people of this city passed
their disapproval and condemnation, and
will do so again. '
THE TREASURY AGAIN.
Tbe Sentinel hopes that within a day or
two it can publish to the State that the com
mittee from the Legislature has investigated
affairs at the State Treasury this in the in
terest of the Treasurer himself and of the
party that has elected and re elected him.
In the late campaign the Sentinel has made
special championship of Mr. Cooper's can
vass. Its argument in his behalf was his
reccgnized Integrity. Its opposition to his
Republican competitor was largely be
cause of its own and the general dis
trust that the latters administration
of the Treasury might not be such as
that be would be ready at ail times to court
an investigation of its condition. Had h9
been elected there were plenty who would
Lot have been surprised at his shrinking
from the visit of a legislative committee. It
was this distinction drawn by the Sentinel
between the two candidates that caused it to
advocate Mr. Cooper'a candidacy with ex
ceptional earnestness. It was because of the
same discrimination by the voters of tha
State that Mr. Cooper ran ahead of his ticket.
Mr. Cooper thus occupied the front
place among the Democratic 1 favor
Iter. Less than any other
can the party now afford to
have him rest under aspersion. Mr. Coope
owes it to his friends and bis party that he
refute the implied charges of irregularity In
his office by demonstrating to the Investi
gating Committee what from the first the
Sentinel has held to be true, that there is
net, and has not been, any laches iu his
trust needing investigation.
The Republicans have been pleased to draw
inferences against Treasurer Cooper because
he bas not challenged and invited investi
gation. There can be no question bat that
such a step by Mr. Cooper would have placed
him on the very highest ground. But that was
a matter for his own determination, and so
that his official affairs are in proper shape
bis failure to make sucn challenge wa3 his
right. From remarks made by Mr. Coopar
cn yesterday to a reporter of the Indianapo
lis News we infer that his reasons for not
challenging were entirely personal. We
copy irom the News:
"State Treasurer Cooper is understood now
to be willing for an investigation of his office
to be had. It is said that he based objection
to Foulfce's bill on the ground that it was
inspired by Governor Porter's recommenda
tion, and that he did not propo30 to have it
said that Porter had had hi3 (Cooper's)
rfficial affairs investigated. Mr. Coopsr to
day said to a News reporter: 'I don't care
whether there ia an investigation or not,
The committee would find every dollar, or a
mighty good substitute. Of course, I don't
cany all of it here in this safe, and I'm
afraid that what's here is not secure; but I
have the money on special deposit in the
banks. It is my money, and can not ba used
by tbe banks or jeopardized by a panic.' "
Mr. Cooper says: "I den'k care whether
there is an investigation or not." We con
strue this remark aa relating to hi3 personal
feelings in the matter. But looking at it
from a party standpoint, the be3t service he
can possibly render ths Stale Democracy at
this time is by showing, as no doubt hs cm
do, that the Republican call for an investi
gation was gratuitous and unnesdeJ.
A PLEA FOR PUBLISHERS.
Tbe newspaper press, like some very char
itable persons, is giyen to making many ap
peals for others, but seldom in behalf of it
self. It will be accredited by the public
with contributing a goodly share toward the
betterment of social, political and industrial
life. The "fourth estate of the realm" is
to-day the most potential in its influence.
From it is ths greatest amonnt of intelli
gence dissemiLated; by it is evil most
effectually disarmed, and goodctrengthened;
through it statesmen, philosophers and mor
alists reach the world-wide audience.
Viewed in this light, the newspaper press
Is deserving of the encouragement of civil
ized government?. Particularly is this true
in a Government such as our, whose pal
ladium is enlightened and virtuous citizen
ship. That would be deemed a narrow
spirited act of legislation which sought
(were such possible) to levy tribute upon the
snn'3 rays that light the earth and warm
the soil to generous production. But is not
the press, in a sense, like the sun in its uni
versal spreading ot enlightenment
and its inspiring of the people to
atriotism. The soldier who stands sentry,
marches or fights for his country is never
taxed for such services as if It were a privi
lege, but is rather rewarded therefor. And
jet the press which is, in a sense, a soldier
steadily warring in the cause of intelligence,
observance of law and for the thrift of the
people is onerously taxed by our Govern
ment for tne privilege cf performing this
service.
In 1S74 Congress, by a voluntary, special
act, transferred the payment of postage from
readers to publishers. This legislation has
proven an oppressive burdsn upon the mak
ers cf newspapers. The public, accustomed
fcr years to a given subscription to their
favorite publication?, were f jund disinclined
to add the postage toll to subscription bills.
Singularly, the sum readers had not
objected to paying as postage at
cfüccs of delivery was objected
to when payment wa.3 required
at the cilices of publication. The universal
experience of newspaper publishers wa3 toat
an increas8 of subscription for covering pre
payment of postage was inexpedient, be
cause unsatisfactory to their patrons. Thus
it came aboit that for ten years the Unite i
States Government hai been imposing upon
and collecting from the press a direct tax of
about $l,5G0,CtO per annum, which prior to
1874 they had never had to pay. It follows
as a se juiicr that publishers have besn Ioser3
to the amount of this taxation.
Had the newspaper makers been so In
clined, they might have reimbursed them
selves at the ex pen Be", to their patrons, of a
redaction of the reading matter furnished
prior to 1374. But, instead of restricting the
spread of intelligence, very many papers
bavs been materially enlarged, so as to fur
nish enlarged reading. The postage tax to
day is, in instances, even on the same circu
lation, double that in 1374, owing to sheets
being doubled in size.
The arbitrary rate of two cents per pound
has not only been burdensome, bat unjustly
discriminating agakst newipaper publish
ers. The bulk of subscriptions of a newspa
per is within a territory near the placs of
publication. Yet f jr but a few milea of
transportation, from ono county into anoth
er, a publisher pays upon his circulation the
same rate per poucd as the Boston or New
York merchant pays upon merchandise go
ing by mail to Sai FrAncisco. The rats of
postage is so high for short distances it is
cheaper to send packages of newspapers Dy
express than by mail.
The Sentinel joins its cotemporaries
throughout the United Btates in asking t
Ccngres9 a prompt removal of the excesjive
and oppressive postage oa their publici
ties. The levy wada upon the pre?3 is not
needed by the Poatoffice Dspartmeat. Dur
ing the three years last past that department
has been more than telf snpportiag. The
direct tax of fl.ö'X OOO collected froai tie
press will not bs missed frc.u tho aggregate
revenues cf th (overpne:it, but it will
griatiy a.'d tho publishers of. the United
Staits by being isf; in their enterprises,
j An) it does appear that the prepj, the mo.t
' effective educator of the people, is tbe very
last source from which roveunes should be
col?ectod.
THE RECENT EARTHQUAKE IN
SPAIN.
Some' of the detaih of the recent earth
quake in Spain are horrible and intensely
interesting. We leather some of the more
recent happenings irom the New York Her
ald'd cable of the 19th. The corrsepondsnt
had spent ten days in the ruined vlllag?s
and states that the clearest idea of the hor
rors of the terrible aflV.r wa3 given him by
an officer m the army. He had a brief leave
of absence and spent it with his family.
After dinner one day he sat talking with his
wife and children, five in numt er, when
suddenly one end of the room rose up three
j feet. The shock threw the whole family to
the floor, with the lamps and other articles
on the tables and shelves. They remained
in total darkness, dazed and wondering what
had happened. Presently he supposed it w:vj
an earthquake and called to his wife and
children to come into the street. He reached
the street door and the street was in total
darkness. The air was filled with the dust
of crumbling buildings. Afraid to go out
be stood shivering and undecided, when a
second shock came aud the kitchen fell in,
killing two servants. A piece of wood fell
upon his wife, breaking her leg. He then
carried h's wife out over piles of ruins.
The narrow, dark streets were so changed
by the debris that it was hard to recognize
tbem. He reached the open fieldswhere he
found that many had preceded him. He
left his wife with friends and returned for
his children. He brought three the next
trip, and then the other two. All the way,
while crawltrg over piles cf ruin, he hetrd
the cries of those who bad been caught and
could not extricate themselves. Every voice
was familiar. He met neighbors telling
each other of the loss of relatives and
friend?. Tbe horror of ssch an experience
ws unparalleled.
The correspondent gives his exprienc
with a guide over the desolated region. He
was regaled with, "Here two bodies were dog
out," "A man aud wife ever there." "Four
children on this side," "One man caught m
the doorway and could not get out he died
shortly after being removed," until the tale
became too harrowing to listsn to. Arrived
at the outskirts of one part of the town,
where the houses are bnilfc on the edge of a
cliff and almost perpend'euiar and forty-lire
feet to the fir3t plateau, the efficer pointed
to one of which the gable end has disap
peared. "There," said he, "two girls were in the
kitchen when it wa3 shaken down. Both
rolled with the debris to the bottom of the
c'itf. Where you see that pile one w&s
killed; the other, thank God, eacapei with
out injury," cud taking 01T his hat he piously
crossed himteif. "This girl has since become
a heroine, and all visitors to the ruined city
are constantly importuned to allow them
selves to be introduced."
This correspondent saw a numbtr cf houses
buried almost out of sight, with all their in
mates. The odor of the decaying bodies is
described as "sickening" to the passer by.
Slight shocks are yet of daily occurrence,
end at intervals of a few hour3. The Inhab
itants have not slept in their oeds for several
weeks, and the entire community is demor
alized and panic-stricken.
The Louisville Courier-Journal gets it
down about right when saying that a Demo
crat is one who believes in a strict construc
tion of the Constitution; in the divorcement
of church and State; in a sound currency,
expressed in goM and silver, and paper con
vertible into gold cn demand; ia a clear di
vision ot the powers 0! Government, State
and National; in taxation exclusively for
public purposes, and, as to imports laid in a
low scale of duties; and opposed to subsidies,
bounties, euraptuary as, excessive accu
mulations and expenditure, preferring a
simple and frugal to a splendid Government.
KKD1STRICTING TUE STATE.
mm 1,
A riea forjudge Ward and Protest Againft
Chaise.
Ncflesville. led., Jan. 20 A bill has
been introduced m the Senate to change
the present Cor gressi oral district. A word
cf warning from the Sentinal abcut this bill
would certainly be appropriate. The Demo
cratic party having beexi in the minority for
nearly a quarter of a century should have
scrxerespect for minorities. This bill not enly
attempts to disfranchise nearly all the Re
publicans, but does great injustice to many
of tbe best Democrat of the State. The
Congressional Districts as they now stand
are conceded by both Republicans and
Democrats to be fair. They were made by a
Demccratic Legislature, and no good reason
can be given why they should be changed.
The bill that has been introduced, like all
gerrymandering bills, secures its author a
district of his own political complexion. It
being contrary to the ler parliavu.,ti to
impugn the motives of a representotive
we will suppose in this case that
it is a mere accident that the Senator is
placed In a Democratic district One would
suppose that so popular a gentleman could,
if he bad Congressional aspirations, over
come the small Republican majority in the
d'strict as it now stands. Now, if the Hon
orable Senator ianot trying to legislate him
self into Congress, he ehould at once change
tho unfair and unju?t provisions of his bill,
es pecfally as applied to the present Ninth
Congressional D strict. It is true
that this district as it now
stands is Republican, but its present repre
pentativo, Judge Ward, is a Democrat, who
has carried it twice, once over the late God
.love Orth, and once over ?00,000in money,
that was used in the eflbrt to defeat him, and
no Democrat in the district doubts but that
fce can continue to carry it if he remains as
faithful to his constituents in the future as
he has been in th past, and to stab him
in the back, as the bill proposes, while
he is in Washington attending to his duties,
is not onlv unfair but is infamous. There
was a Democratic pain at the last election of
over l.'OO in this district; this great chance
wa3 in a great measure brought abgilt by the
megnicent ramvnss of Jndee Ward, who
mode tariil" reform the prominent and dis
tinctive feature in his discussion?, and
having Euccfeded upon that isiue ba
TepiCPfift.H tomething in Congtes and
is worsh a dezen clpl.erä who haye
tbsir di.tricta made to crier. To ma?e
th: cLane and legislate Judge Wa-d
out of Concres?, would man much more
Urn th mere triumph of a uolittcal trick.
It i-cld mean, by repudiating tho repre-fir-'Ativp,
a repudiation of the principles of
taritf reform bv a Democratic Legislature; it
would mean that the personal worth and
political merit represented by Judge Ward
have no value in Democratic estimation; it
waald mean thit th? etrorgest vital force in
the Democratic charp.ccr is place and plun
der; and as an humble cros3-road3 Demo
cratic politician, the writer wishe3 t- enter
his pioten against such an injuatica to the
JJenocratic party and its Congressional
Representatives of the Ninth District.
HOW TO ;1H' ASLEEP.
Hair I'illou to be Treferred Various
Methods of Coolio- tho Itraia.
I New Ykrk Sun. j
When I was a student I suffered much
from sleeplessness, and after trying many
remedies I hit upon this one: I discarded
my feather pillow for ono of hair. Tae et
fect wa3 wonderful. I slept soundly
tho whole of th9 ßr3t night, and
have never since, except when fever
ish, been ko wakeful as I usually
was before. Although feathers are excellent
for preventing the dispersion of the heat cf
the body, so much fault has been found
with feather beds that they have quite gen
erally gone out of use, und it is strange that
feather piüows have not been fent after
them. Feathers in pillows are open to the
same objections as feathers in beds, and even
their chief virtue, that cf keeping np a high
terurerature, is a defect in a pillow; cer
Hicly when one-half of the head is kept at
blocd heat by being buried in feathers, and
tb other half is exposed to the air, b"th
halyes can cot be at tho most favoraole tem
perature. A hair pillow does not get warmed
up to an uncomfortable degree, because it
rapidly conducts away the heat imparted to
it by the head, bince hair pillows are not
yet in common use, it mißht ba supposed
that a person accustomed to the U"e of one
would cither have to take it with him every
time he was to be away from home for a fe,v
r.5ght3 or suffer considerable inconvenience.
But fortunately hair bo'stera are mor com
mon, and if the pll'.ow is thrown aside the
bo'.feter wll raise the head probably as high
a3 is gc3d for the sleeper. Jf a hair bolster
is ?aCKinr, the end of the mattreaa maybe
raiffrd hiah enough to rcake a comfortable
ter.d re;t by tuning tbe piliow under it.
According to mos', but net all, medical
writers, wats fulcess end mental activity de
pend cn the circulation cf a large quantity
of blood through the brain, and the flow of
bli cd mut be lessened before sleep cm
come cu. 1 hare obtained especial bereüt
from dmwirg the blood into the muscl-s
by rues 1 3 cf a bri?k walk or a quarter to
half an hours vigorous penormance
of liph: cvmna.st:cs jost before going
to bed. The majority of cases of sleep
lessness occur BTicrg persons who use
tbur muscles but l'ttle, asd for very many
taking rxore exercise is tbe bst remedy,
bleep can eometiraes be brought on by
sin. ply warming the body, especially the
feet; the drowsiness ciu:ed bv sitting in a
warm room i3 a familiar instance. The
bleed irav be drawn to the ein by a cold
shower cr sponge batb, followed by rubbing
with a coarse tows!. Getting out "of bed a
few minutfs whn the cir is coo!, will
often bring relief. I Lave lain awake
half the niht, and thn, after be
ing up long eiiougli to mix and drink a
lemoriide, have fallen asleep at ones on go
irt, b?.ck to bed. Perhaps tie lemonade
should have part of the" credit. Oa hot
summer n'goh a cold bth will reduca the
bodily temperature so as to admit of elep.
If the s.V.in is not wired quit's dry, the evop
oratirg moisture will increase the cooling
effect. Aiihtlnnch jn-t before gsing to
bed relieves the brain by drawing
the b'cod to the stomach, and the in
clination to dcze after a meal is explainable
in this v.;iv. Diminishirg tba cerebral circu
lation bv com pr-8siou of carotid arteries is
advi?4d by eorie physician. Lying on the
back wiih a Joubie pillow piacad against the
back of the ccck so as to tip tho head for
ward will effect this, er.d Dr. J. L. Corning
hss invented an instrument in the form of a
cellar for this same purpose.
In view of what has been said about the
circulation of the blood, coldness of the
feet is a natural Rccompaniment of sleep
lessness, and one means cf cure may be
made to serve both ends. Bathing the feet
in tot water is such a means, but after a
few hours a reaction is liable to sat in,
which will send the blood from the feet to
the head and cause the sleeper to awake. It
is better to take advantage of tho reaction
which follows a Cold foot bath with vigor
ous rubbing of the feet, both in tae
water and with the towel. The stimulus
thus given lo the circulation in the feet
will be more permanent. I have found walk
ing just before bedtime beceScial, and when
I co not want to go out dcor3 I ra:?c myself
sharply on my tees to the full stretch fifty or
ruor- times. A paragraph ha3 already been
in circulation to the eflecttbat a continuous
low noise favors sleep; the sound of water
dropping on a brass pan has been pre
scribed by a physician with pood effect.
The explanation seems to be that a sim
ple monotonous impression quiets the
brain by cccupying it, to the exclusion of
more varied and interesting, and therefore
stimulating, impressions. "On the same
principle are the devices of counting forward
or backward, imagining ehcep jumping one
by one through a gap, etc. ; bat they are
cpen to the objection of causing oae portion
of the brain to be exerted in order to control
the rest of it.
If the hygienic measures which have been
described fail to induce sleep, probably
some form of disease stands in tne way, and
a physician should be employed to discover
and remove it. Sopcrific drugs should be
regarded as a last resort, for, unless skill
fully used, they produce a stupor rather
than a refreshing sleepy. Do net take a nar
cotic or nostrum at random because some
body says it is good to make you sleep; one
narcotic is injurious where another is bene
ficial, end the chances are that you will
choose one which will do you more harm
than good,
Tall Down the IHInds.
Detroit Free Press.
The controversy between General Sherman
and Jeff Davis is another Illustration of the
already well demonstrated truth that Satan
finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
Both that i3, Sherman and Davis, not Satan
are retired from active life without any
thing to do but to rake up the past and get
into a quarrel over it. Oid men who have
taken a back seat are very much inclined to
do this, and it is all well enough so far as
they are personally concerned; but when it
sets the neighborhood also by the ears ii is
far from well. If these two old genilemen
enjoy a scolding match let them indulge it
inccors.
INDIANA NEWS.
Seymour's ISadget of News.
Special to the Sentinel.
Eeymour, Ind., Jan. 21. Simpson Adams,
aced Ecme seventy-four years, and living
near Medora, this county, met with a very
serious accident that will probably cost him
his life. He has been subject to periodical
sprees. On Friday he went to Medora and
got on a terribls bust, and while drunk
started home and drove his wife and six
small children away frcm the house and
then returned to town, where he remained
till about 0 o'clock at nieht, and again
started home drunk. Nothing more was
seen of him till late next evening, when
several members of the family returned
home and found him lying on the bed
with his clothes cn and only slightly
conscious. They discovered a bad wound in
the corner of his right eye. Dr. Marshall
Wilson w.ts at once summoned, and on ex
amination found a hard substance protrud
ing from tbe rah. With a pair of forceps
h! drew the subitanc out, which was found
to he a straight, hard and sharp-pointed
weed, measuring four and one half inches
long and cne-fourth of an inch in diameter.
It bad entered at the point described, and
pai-siüg through a portion cf the ootic
nerves, entered the br3ia to tho depth of
rear four inches. It is thought that in'going
horue he fell on the stub ot a hard weed that
had been cut when green, and finally found
his way to the house, being unable to call
for help. Tbe Doctor is of the opinion thsi
the wound will prove fatal.
A great many farmers in this county are
losing their bf es from cold and starvation.
Mr. Isaac Pew, residing in the western
paitof this county, was met a few nichts
ago on his way h-ime and robbed of ?15 in
money. Not being satisfied with thl, tha
thieves compelled him to pull off hia coat
and ehirt, which they took and left. No
clue. ,
Mrs. Margaret Fagan, aged sixty-one years,
acd a highly respected lady, died suddenly
yesterday.
TFertener Sentenced to flang.
Special to the Sentinel.
Rkxsselakr, Ind., Jan. 21. On or about
the 27th day of October, 1S34. the people of
Keener Township, Jasper County, Indiana,
were startled by the statement that John
Dre?gar, a German citizen of said township,
had been found in the Kankakee River with
two iron pumps tied to his body, and at the
Coroof r inquest suspicion pointed to. oae
Artena Werterner, a German of said town
ship, and he was arrested by the Sheriff,
John W. Powell, and lodged in jail at Rens
selaer. Powell then set himself to work on
the cf se, and succeeded in weaving a very
strcrg net of circumstantial evidence azalnst
him, which would undoubtedly have se
cured h;3 conviction. About ths 1st day of
December Werterner made a f nil and com
plete confession of the crime. To-day His
Honor Peter H. Ward sentenced him to
hacg on the- löth day of May, 1SS3, and no'.v
the people are satiätied. If aoy other esn
tence bed been given him it is the prevail
ing opinion that Judge Lynch would have
taen the matter in hand and punished the
murderer.
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Another Man Arrested on Coffee' Confer-
tion of aiartlerlng tlie McSIallec.
Special :o the Sentinel.
C?.AWFor.rsviLLE, Jan. 21. Yesterday af
ternoon John Coffee, who is now in jail
awaiting a trial for the murder cf John Mc
Mullen and Lis wife, made statements to
his attorney implicating one James Dennis,
who resides In the neighborhood where the
murder wa3 committed. Upon the strength
cf this information Marshal Rns
minper and others went out and ar
rested Dennis and brought him to
the city ar.d lodged him in jail. Coffee
identities him as the man who assisted in the
terrible work, and ssy3 that he (Dennis)
took tbe mcney. This, together with other
suspicions actions, is Uken by roauy to ba
conclusive evidence of Dennis' guilt. Many,
towevtr, think him innocent, and believe
Coffee i3 tryirg to throw the blame on
others. Peniiis was taken before Squire
Ramsay this afternoon and pleaded not
guilty to the charge, and his preliminary
trial was set for 9 o'clock Friday morning.
New It&üking Arraugemeuts.
Special to the Sentinel.
Mcscie, Ind., Jan. 21. A3 stated in thesa
columns recently, tho Muncis National Bank
will, on the2-srh inst., go into voluntary
liquidation, the charier expiring on that,
date. Arrangsments have been perfected,'
however, by tho active managers of that in
Etitution to stert a private bank, and to con
tinue business from that date at the oid
stand. The new bank is to start witb a cap
ital stock cf $100,000. and manazd bv the
f oil owicg officers : resient, S.A. Wilson;
cashier, J. E. EurOL. The firm is ta bs
known as the I3urson Banking Company.
The record for straiahtforwsrd and reliable
businf ss established by the Muncie National
liani: insures 10 its successors continued
prc?reiity, zrA to their patrons satisfactory
hardiiL'and safe keeping of their funds.
Death cf a Promiuent Citizen.
Special to the Sentinel.
Geeen Fii Lt, lud,, Jan. 21. Benjamin
Freeman, cf Sogar Creek Township, died
this evening of paralysis. Ho wa3 a large
stock dealer r.r.d trader, and owns a larga
amount ot property. He has long been
prominent in current affdir3.
Killed by a Fatting: Tree.
Special to the Sentinel.
Winchester, Ind., Jan. 21, John Paget
formerly of this place, but recently living in
Ridge viile, was kill;d yesterday whils cat-
ticg timber near that Vacs, limb of a fallin -tree
striking him on the head. He linged
in an unconscious state for four hours, when
death relieved his suffering. He leaves n
wife and one little boy to mourn bis loss.
Jack, as he was usually called by the boy;
had many warm friends here, who will re
gret his untimely death. Peace to his ashes-
Death of a Colambas Ex-Clerk.
Special to the Sentinel.
Columbi's, Ind., Jan. 21. Ben. L. Smith,
ex-City Clerk of Columbus and for some
years an employe of the County Auditor's
oftce, died here last night, after a lingering
illness, of consumption.
Mills Destroyed by Fire.
KvAxsyiLLE, Ind., Jan. 21. The Imperial
Star Mills at Ocvensville, Ind.. were de
stroyed by fire this inornins between G and
7 o'clock. Los3, $,Tj00 to $5,000; no insur
ance. An Indian Territory Tragedy.
St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 21 Advices from the
Indian Territory note a bloody tragedy
which occurred a few days ago near Web
ber's Falls. Colson Baldridge had been mar
ried, and the event was being celebrated
with a dance at the house of a man named
Davis. Whisky was freely U3ed, and shortly
after midnight Baldridge was shot by an un
known person from the outside of the house.
Baldridge rushed to tho dojr and fired thrta
shots at the fleeine assassin, and then drop
ped deed. A general mellee followed, dur
ing which over; fifty shots were fired, and
when matters quiated down it was discov
ered that Jennie Butler and Jennie Smith,
two Indian women, and Jce Muszrat, an In
dian, were wounded, oae of them seriouslv.
It ia supposed Baidridfe was killed bv friends
of Jesse ;Fcreman, whom Ealdridga klllei
eorue years ago, while attempting to arrest
him.
Terrilic Stabbing and Cuttinff Affair.
Louisville, Jan. 21. 1 bloody cutting
affray occurred in a down-town coalesce
this afternoon, in which John King, white,
was fatally stabbed and John Neal and Hiram
Fields, both colored, seriouslv wounded.
Fields and King, rival coal peddlers, had a
quarrel and were fighting, when Neal ran
in and stabbed King in the back. Butch
Banders, white, came to King's assistance
and together they put the negroes to flight.
Knives were nscd freely. King was cut In
the back and shoulders and will die. Fielis
hes a dangerous cut in the neck and head.
Neal received a serious stab just over the
heart.
Arrests for Murder.
RocKror.K, III., Jan. 21. A sensation was
produced to-day by the arrest of Gideon
Cooper and William Larson cn a charge of
co aplirty In the murder of Marshall 8.
Pr tchard, Collector of Taxes, in January,
IS" -X Th arrests were made on Information
famished by James Beant, a forcer, in the
fir ite Penitentiary, who confessed to the
Ji dge of the Circuit Court here, and claims
to fcave been an eye-witness to the murder.
His testimony implicates two other persans,
and is very explicit. The murder wa3 for
money, and heretofore there has been no
clue.
Counterfeiters Sentenced.
Chicago, Jan. 21. Ferdinand Ditman,
quite a wealthy farmer, was sentenced in
the United States Court here, to-day, to one
year in the Penitentiary, for making a num
ber of counterfeit 10 Bilver certificates, at
his home, Saylesville, Wis., and passing
tbem in Chicago. Albert Schmidt and Dr.
"WiJIlnm Loudon, about whom little i
known, were riven two years a3 principals
in the enterprise.
Death From Smallpox In the Ouarantlne
Car.
Portland, Ore., Jan. 21. The second
fatal case ef smallpox occurred in the quar
antined car on the Oregon Short Line yes
terday, ths victim being John Haagin, the
father of the j cung man who died of tho
same disease on the th inst. The father
had nurted the son during tue lalter'a ill
riese. The car is now in strict quarantine.
No new cases are reported.
Youth fal Suicide.
Sterling, 111., Jan. 21. The body of a boy,
fourteen years old, named Robes, wa3 foond
yesterday frczen stiff and hanging from a
tree, forty rods Irom hi? mother's hous, at
Kaglepcint, eighteen miles nortn of Sterling.
The mother ted whipped him for some mis
demeanor. He went to the barn and toll a
hired rran that he would hang hinnelf. He
had tied tbe rope about his neck, climbed a
tree in a grove, fastened the rope to a lioib,
snd sprang o,
Defalcation of H,noO.
Javktown, Pa., Jan. 21. The Jamestown
Savings Bank closed its doors yesterday, and
officers are making a thorough examination
of tbe bocks of the concern to determine
tbe exact amount of the alleged defalcation,
which, it is said, will exceid $10,000. One
of the cfiicers has been mysteriously missing
for several days, and tbe citizens are much
exercised, as many of them had all then
savings on deposits.
Tlncko Meeter Acquitted.
I.OGAysPOEA lad., Jan. 20. William Bar
celhy, one of the bunko steerers, was tried
in tho Circuit Ccurt yesterday, and acqittod
on a failure to prove thit any force had
teen used in ilescing kis victims.
William Allen to Have m Statue.
CcLCMErs, O., Jan. 21. The Legislature
adop'ed a joint resolution to-day to plae a
statue of tbe Hon. Will'am Allen in tbe hall
of the House of Representatives at Washing
ton, D. C.
A Row at a Dance.
Joreph Eclen, colored, was arrested last
night by Captain Colb?rt cn a charge of as
sault and battery with intent to kl'J. It ap
pears that kobecsrr.e involved in a war ot
words with Annie Carter, el-o colored, at a
dance given by an old nan LsmedOmmenj,
at No. 12Ö We;t Fear! street, and finally -siezed
a tumbler, which he threw at her
head, cutting a deep, Ion? gh above ths
left eye, from which thg blod cozed pro
fuselv. Mr. Bolen t'.en sklprd out. elnd
ing the efforts of th other dancers
to capture him. Meicüatl Police
man Taylor, who hard of the
at?sir, at once notified the Turnkey
of the Central fetation and Police Surceon
Hedges was summoned to look after the in
juries of the Carter girl, while Captain Col
brt went out in search cf Bolen and toon
found him, placing him under arrest as
above stated. Bolen claims that he did not
intend to hit tbe girl, but threw tha glas at
a man who had struck him a few minuts
before. The Carter girl was in a bad condi
tion at a late hour last night, although it is
not thoucht that her injuries will result
fatally.