Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1886 — Page 1

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS.

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INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY EVENING. MARCH 18, 1886.

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PRICE TWO CENTS SIX DOLLARS PER YEAR.

THEENDDKAWS NIGH' j NEW ; uiay cause a lurmidable in the lal>ur i — ; ranks.

'FORTY-NINER

■ ALL'S CASE TO BE ARBITUATED

THE PRESIDENT’S BIRTHDAT.

elicf Tliatt Oi«- Strike on the WMt Syrt—t Will St*011 he Over-The EalCliU Ijptoreci at Ka*t Si. Lonl*.

Idle Men Biotins In Eneland.

ManthFATES, KnylanR. March IS.—Nam* ]

j her* of unemployed workmen of this city nr<* |

South- liecoruin^ restless and disorderly. Several | Mr. Cleveland the Second Youn C est I*re^

small mob* arc riotins in the streets to-day !

| upon. The attorneys for the Harmonists i claims claim that the attains have lievn propj erly settled under the laws of their aasocialion. The property involved in the case is estimated at yir/HiO.UOO. Justice Brinker refused to j,'rant letters to Meyer. The consul will probably take the case into the courts. TRIPLE TRAGEDY.

I noi'iii uiuus arc nounz in me streets 10-unv and threaten to attack the jeweiry stores and j to loot the shops generally. A few spires had ' I their windows smashed by brick bats.

idriit—Making a Record on Vetoes

—The Electoral Count BUI.

' ' Vi ? r 1 ' ,Jral ' ,1 1 , hiS f '» rt y-«''^lb and forty- J in 1lis w if e . s ^ drooln> in w hich his two sons ee* to provide jilaces eii;hih, as well as his forty-ninth there. . , . . . , . , , , f . conditionallv mtonts • i»„i«. ,1.-,^. ,i,„ « m!so ant * attempted to enter, but loutid

Labor Note*. | fSpeelut to The Inilianapolis News.!

The Maxwell Bros.’ box-factory Iwyeoit in j Wa«HIXOTOX, March 18. — President Chicago has been settled after a long strug- j Cleveland is to-day celebrating bis fortvgle. The men are to receive the same price | n j nt h birthday. Only oue other president for machine-made boxes as for hand-made, ' ever celebrated a fortv-ninth birthday in the subject to a reasonable reduction for the j w hiU< house. This oiie was President Grant,

difference in methods, hereafter. The firm agreei

for all tne strikers, and conditionally adopts | () n iy t h n -c other presidents entered the white a uniform schedule of w ages. j house this side of fifty yean of age. They

ster workman 01 tne | The rolling-mill at New Philadelphia, 0., | wt .re Grant, Garfield and Pierce, and the last <r, to confer with the dts- I which has been idle lor some time, has re- | two were past the forty-ninth mile stone Knights at Kansas City to- | Ml, ned operations in ail departments. ; when thev took the oatii of office. President

The eight-hour system will be adopted in i Grant came to the office when even a little Grand Rapid* by the voluntary action of j younger than President Cleveland. He was employers. J fortv-six years, ten months and seven days A strike of the 3,000 men employed in the ! w lien he assumed the duties; President Cieve-

_. National tube works, McKeesport, Pa., is ' land was forty-seven years, eleven mouths railroad haaagreed to submit the .location of ! P rul *able, in supjM.rt of the demand of the and sixi.-en days of age when he entered the the justness of the discharge of 1U11, at j employes of the thread department for an in- ] offiee Tiurteen ofthe presidents were 111 HJb.ll, I..,, .0 .rbiiratiun, ««.«- .be ! <• .. , . „ j V ’SSJT? belief that the strike is nearine an end The i A new organisation has sprung up in the ,,na ^ I lln . , . ore ’.,'' 0 ' '"‘"‘r.’'. 1 ' beliefthat the strike » nearing an enu. I* 1 * ca i|H ‘The Wheel.” It lias seven i-'moln, Haves and V an L.iren, ..o; M ashearly .urburbun trains departed on time this pIaltkS| , injjlar in n)auT res _ ( ., Si 1o tho , e of ; ington and Johnson, r>7; Jctlerson, Madison,

otiicr labor organizations, but more of a t Monroe and J. <j. Adauis, 08; live were past

Pt. Loiiv. March 18.—The general impression prevails this morning in railroad circles that the Gould strike is nearing an end. The resumption In this city of suburban passenger traffic without any interference from the strikers is looked upon as a hojieful sign,and the ]>artial re-establishment Of freight traffic at other jniints i« regarded ; in the mine light. The Knights of Labor) •re jubilant over the detetrninatlon of T. V. j Powderly, general muster workman of the

the Knights of Labor, to eo

satisfied Gould

day, and they express confidence that his efforts toward a settlement of the difficulties will result Kiiccesslully and in their tuvor. This, together with the announcement that .Receiver Hheldon of the Texas & Pacific

Dreadful Affair at f'inrlnnati—A Mother 1

Kill- Two Sons ami Herself.

OixciWATt, March 18.—A short time ago, ’.'i.juire Bohrmau, of Avondale, a i suburb of Cincinnati, lost a suit involving j $•>00. This <0 preyed upon the mind of his , wife that it is supposed she became deranged. ! This morning, Mr. Bohrman heard a noise ;

INDIANA AFFAIRS.

AN INFANT SWALLOWS AMMONIA

A New Racine Circuit Organised for This Season—Wabash County Regulators to he Sued by Their Yictim.

had outraged her, and also cut her with a pocket-knife, whipped her cruelly, drove a nail through her loot and shot her in the head.i A posse is hunting for McVey, who

has tlAl with the two women.

There is a dispute as to the election of republican candidate for sheriff of Howard county. Isaac Wright was nominated by ten majority but a recount gave Gumption the nomination by three majority. Had blood is tlie consequence. The other nominations were: Representative, J. N. Look; auditor, George O. Roach; treasurer, John Gennebeck; clerk, O. L. Moulder; recorder, John

E. Vaile; coroner, J. A. Lovett.

William G. Jamison, auditor of Washingington county, left Salem several days since for Louisville and Indianapolis,ostensibly on political business. He expected to return in three oV four days. His family failed to receive word explaining his longer absence.

morning and tne company expects no more op]Ki*ition to the running ot these trains. No attempt lias been made, os yet to-day, to start out any freight. Everything n: quiet at the difl'crent yards, and, although small groups of strikers are gathered together just outside, it is quite confidently believed tiiat the Knights will continue their quiet de-

meanor.

Despite the fact that the officials of the railroads centering in East St. Louis decided to not accede to the demands of the dissatisfied switchmen and yardmen, the men in the yards at that place are at work as usual this morning, no strike having been ordered. Arkitrnrinn on the Texas A Purine. Xkw <>»leanh. March 18.--The strike on this end of the Texas A Pacific railroad virtually ended yesterday, and trains are now running out us usual. A committee of the Knight* of Labor waited on Receiver Sheldon to day and had a conference, in which both sides agreed that tlie ease of Hull, tlie company's employe at Marshall, Tex., whose discharge caused the strike, should be submitted to the United States court for arbitration. Governor Shehton tarnished two ol the committee with passes to Marshall, that they might see Hall and find out if lie is willing to this arrangement. In the meantime the .striker* have resumed work. It i- hdiev.-d Flail will submit to the deci-ion o! tlie court, and that tlie trouble is to In: thus ended

finally.

M.VUMl.U.r., Tex., March IS.—tpiite an I ■•■v...... ...... ..... excitement was created yesterdav bv an ul- hcl P ^ H <scalled the Credit ton-

tempt to wreck the north-bound passenger ^ train. A rail wa* removed from the track ~ ’

was

yrgaiiizations,

jKditical complexion. The membership has grown rapiilly. Its first plunk demands that telegraphic and railroad lines lx: control led by the government, and that national bank currency l>e retired and that usury laws be pro-

hibited.

A movement is on foot to have .Michael Davitt, the Irish patriot, commissioned as an organizer of the Knights of I .a bur in

Great Britain and Europe.

Additional large works are being erected at Hites, Pa., tor the niantifiicture of plate glass, and extensive contracts have been placed in western Pennsylvania lor steel tubulsr boilers, roll*, table*, and all the

necesiarv paraphernal ia.

I’hiladelpliu* ha* more bands employed in tin- knit isodv industry at this time than at anv oilier for year*. Tne next move of organized labor will be to stop the rule of overtime in all uiai^ufaelorie*. Tile rule has already been applied to the carpet trade.

the door locked. Everything becoming still, he did not at once force an entrance, but when he did get into the room he found his wife dead, with her throat cut with a razor, his sou Albert, fourteen years old, also

TEN NEGROES KILLED

IN A MISSISSIPPI COURT ROOM.

A Bloody Ending to Trouble Between • White Man and HI* Colored Neighbor*—Many Negroes Wounded

<1^ .1.1, ,,U m . .ud another I i "

Arthur, severely, if not fatally, wounded by | meetings should occur in order as follows: a blow on the head with a hammer. Arthur j Terre Haute, Crawfordsville, South Bend,

Toledo, Kalamazoo and East Saginaw.

will occur with 2: IS, 2:21, 2:2.1

was able to say that his mother came to him ,

some time in the night and told him to go to | p!n ( l ;i^.i a 's C . a OVe T r m;^ 1 J'

fSpecial to TUe Indianapolis News,]

Evansville, March IS.—Tuesday evening the two-year-old son of David Graham, playing ou the floor of the residence of hi* parent* found a bottle containing ammonia. Before the family could interfere tlie cork

was extracted from the bottle and a portion | ' -*»'——■** *”*■*«* •*—s..v*. oftbo contents drunk. The child died this h“ ul be 1 ca,ne u, ‘ ea f/. thinking foul play had morning, alter suffering terrible agonv. - mam the cause. I here is nothing wrong in

| his office, and it is believed he will return

I'repai-ing lor Stiininer S|»ort. ;lD d make a stitisfaetory explanation. Kalamazoo, March 18.—Horsemen, rep- it has come to light th at Lewis township, resenting Ohio, Indiana and Michigan asso- Clay county, has been victimized to the ex- .

ciatious, have tortned the Ohio, Indiana and tent of $3,000. principal and interest, by the arrest.

Michigan racing circuit. A premium list of : lightning-rod trustee swindler. Bollard.

Bollard notes to the amount of $1,683 have just been presented to Trustee Dalgaru for payment. The notes were issued by J. 11. Bledsoe, Pal gam’s predecessor. If anything has been received to show for the expenditure, it is not known what it is. Five hundred and fifty-three dollar* was for light-

sleep; that he did fall asleep, amt was awakened by a blow on hi* head. lie ran j to the door and found it locked. lie tried i to remove the lock, but she struck him ! again. Then he heard his father at the door, | but could not give an alarm and then his j

mother killed herself.

AN EXPERT OPINION.

2:2U, 2:40, 3:00; pacing, free, 2:21. 'fh’e'foL j wil1 r '*' is ' payment.

a u \i' * W liAt annears t«» imvt k hpen an artpninl

O'* at their inauguration: John Adams) 02; Andrew Jackson, 02 at his first inauguration;

Harrison, 08: Taylor, 05; Buchanan, 00. I’lcsblcnt < Icvelamt'* Vetoes.

Bresideut Glcvelaud is starting out itt a way that bids fair to ‘‘break tlie record” in the use of tlie veto power, lie has vetoed two hill* in the first three months that con-gre.-s ini* been in session, or about one-lourth of tiie number sent him thus fur. it is a fact not generally known that about half of the presidents we have had never exercised tlie veto power. John Adams, Jefferson, Johu

Adam*, \ anBuren, Harrison, lylcr, lay- hi* career as a common sailor before the lor. Bolt, Fillmore and Garfield left uot a sin- mast, give* a thrilling narrative of the disgle veto on record, while Lincoln only vetoed j as(eri n „ d as t0 j„ c . lllse ^ij. “| t j a n , a „i.

Judge llriiiumond Say* tlie Hteamcr Oregon Wa* at Fault in the Collision. Chicago, 111.. March 18.—Judge Drummond and .Mr. J. V. Farwelt, wiio were pas-

senger* on the Oregon, arrived in Chicago r . . , , . . . s ,. ’ , ..I to exclude all newspaper men irotn interlast night. Judge Drummond, who began | viewi ng the condemned man. J.C. Henning,

lowing officers were selected: President, W. T. Beaucliamp, of Terre Haute; secretary, Charles Reed, of Toledo. Six associations

have joined, and others will follow. Matter* in Crawfordsville. I St>oeial to flic tudisnapolis Nows. |

Cuavvi-okiwvI LLi:, March 18.—Charles Barron, who attempted to commit suicide lust week by cutting his throat with a butcher knife, was adjudged insane after the rash act, but ha* lieen refused admission to the insane asylum at Indianapolis on account of his extreme old age and hLs incurable con-

dition.

Sheriff Harper has very properly decided

men

What appears to have been an attempt to rob Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Florence, the wellknown theatrical ]>eople, took place ou Sunday night, on the Louisville, New Albany A Chicago road, near Greencastle. Mr. and Mrs. Florence occupied a private car. At

W i.NON'A, March 18.—At Carrolton yesterday, a fearful tragedy occurred, in which ten negroes were killed and three wounded. Some xveeks ago, two negroes attempted to assassinate J. M. Liddel, Jr., inflicting sum* painful but not serious wound*. The negroee engaged in this dastardly attempt are known to be the most lawless in the county, and since the attempt ou Mr. LiddeFs life have been more openly defiant than ever. For some reason, not known, they swore out a warrant, a few day* ago, for Mr. Liddel’* It wa* at this trial to-day that the killing occurred. The negroes present were mostly armed. About 1 o’clock a party of armed men, numbering about forty or fifty person*, rode up to the court house. They dismounted, and, entering the building, at once commenced firing on tlie negroes, with the above result. They then returned by the same route they came. They do not live

near Carrolton.

Later advices from Carrolton throw a little more light on the assassination. At the trial, about twenty colored men were present. The fitly white men, well mounted and each car-

l Greencastle three rough-looking men jumped j tying a Winchester ritle, came galloping up ;nnto the platform of the car and tried to and surrounded the court house*. “ '

j force au entrance, but were beaten oil by -

on the 27th of next

one bill, and thui tor the sake of having oue iu it* place of a more, comprehensive and general character, which should reach a , number of similar cases to which it applied.

A scheme is being worked up to establish a i Unly Uvo „ llicr p^idents began their veto co-operative colony at the terminus ol tm .....o,,] iu> earl y in the history of the ad mi unrojeetcl 1 ojk. iu,ompo railroad on the , islralioll ;is luu i> rus j den t Cleveland. They lucil.c coast 1 here are 3,0 stockholders, vv , re tj.^ and Art | u , r . If the (.resident who have subscribed for BJ.Ul'J share*. U hen , k OJ1;U „ Je nl rat<! hu wiJ1 i' )reaU tlle l..,(*t0 shares are taken the eoIonywill j.ro- m .^ rd ol ;|li fc ls predecessors. Bresideut c ed to its destination, or such a., .see fit to j oilaso „ wus th e most active president in tlie go. Employment will be found in manufac- mc Uu . vc ,„ p t)Wt . r , sending in no less tin,n luring, in nmnng and ,n .leal,ng*.n the prod- j gl . Vl . 11 „,., ) to Ul , S e Ilate ]„],.« than three

years iu otlice. Bresideut Granl made more

and he is wrapped up in it to the point of j enthusiasm. It is a Vineland scheme ou a larger scale, with a transcontinental railroad

i nroieel

on the bridge just north of town, but it w discovered in time to prevent a calamity. Four Worth, Tex., March 18.—A railroad bridge over Fossil creek, a few miles north of here, on the Transcontinental railroad, was burned Tuesday night, cutting oil' direct commnuicittion by rail with the north. iThe bridge had been soaked with coal oil, and the middle of the ItiO-ioot span wa* totally consumed. The striking Kui^hi* deny that they have had any hand ia the incendiary work, but the citizen* of Fort ‘Worth blame them. The bridge ha* been

rebuilt.

Bit: Sprin’iw., Tex.. March 18.—The only occurrence ot note here vosterday wa* the trial of Workman Ben Howard, who via* *rre*ted at the instigation of the strikers for carrying a pistol while acting as deputy United States marshal. He was convicted and fined. His attorney took an appeal. The justice of the peace, before whom he was tried, and two oi'the jury are Knights of

Labor.

Supporting the Itatli-oad Official*. Galvfaton, March 18.—A special dispatch from Greenville to the News say.*: “The Knights of Labor organized a lodge here Sunday night, but only oue railroad man joined the organization. The citizens and railroad employes at this point seem to indorse the action of tlie railroad official*. The business men joined in a telegram to Vice-president lloxie yesterday, commending his firm stand against what they term 'organized wrong, dictation and anarchy.’ They say, ‘we believe the time has oome when the legislature should be called in extra session and such legislation had as Will make it a felony to interfere with or block the transportation of commerce.’ ” Nothing hut through passenger trains are arriving on the Missouri Pacific road here. The merchants, however, are in very good shape and can supply their customers for a month 7*‘‘ Traffic and Labor at Wabash. [Special to The Indianapolis News. | Wabasu, March 18.—Freight traffic on the main line of the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific road has fallen oil fully one-halt aince the inauguration of the strike on the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain lines. The Wabash receives the bulk of its through freight business from these lines, and their Inability to handle traffic seriously affects the Wabash. The Knights of Labor of this city, numbering now 300, are agitatinc the eight-hour question, and it is likely they will memorialize the city council at an early day to pass •u ordinance making eight hours a day’* labor in all branches of the oity government. On May 1, it is understood, a formal demand for the eight-hour system in every branch of trade will be made. The assembly here now has an organ, published weekly by John R. Polk. ■Will Not Treat Wuh Knights of Labor. St. Locus, March 18.—The adjourned meeting of railroad officials yesterday, to consider 'thematter ot increasing the wages of switchlueu in East St. Louis, adopted the following: Whereas. Application has been made by a commute of Knights of Labor asking the various roads at 9t. Louis and Hast St. Louis to increase

lid* of labor to be siimulnteii in this n< vv

s,.-.ion. Golom l A. K. use.., the chief cn- : V( . tooi lhau anv other president, the number gineer o| tlie proposed road, 1* (he projector 1 ln his ycars ia office being twenty.

i it to Die point ot , e jgj lt _ President Jackson sent in twenty

vetoes during his term iu office.

Postmasters* Prizes.

The postmaster-general to-day appointed L. A. Friedersdorff, jiostmaster at Canau, Burke county, vice C. H. Lochart, removed; Henry Lamb ut Annapolis, Parke county, vice A. B. Denerter, removed; Win. B. Spry at Lake Village, Newton county, vice James A. DeWolf, removed; James O. Dinginan at Linden, Montgomery county, vice J. E. Holslead. resigned; Benjamin F. Roudruck ut Morroeco, Newton county, vice Ward An-

where the wealth produced by labor will

belong to all. OBITUARY*.

General John II. Devcreux.

Cleveland, March 18.—General J. II. Devcreux, president of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis railway,

died la»t night of cancer of the stomach. -'™‘

.. , , . vlcriou. lemoveiJ; John M. Hntlv at Pilot Mr. Devcreux * illnev* 1m been com para- | Grove, Newton couutv, vice Jour. G. Bren-

lively brief. Until within arear he has been ; nt . ri removed,

the type of physical health. His trouble first 1

idcr the question of Increase ol wu^'os Unless the application for such Increase is made directly by our employes to their immediate etnpl.were, in which case due consideration will be given to the request and proper action taken. Conference at Kvansvlile. (•pOcial toTfia Indianapolis New*.) Evansville, March 18.—M. W. Arm•troag, president of the Armstrong furniture tompany, returned to Evansville this morning from Indianapolis, where he had been in conterencu with furniture manufacturers of the state. A conference of the f strikers and Armstrong will be held this afternoon, when It is hoped the differences exuding will be Adjusted wid the men resume work. - No Cars BunuiiiK >» Columbus. CYjllmrus, O., March 13.—Street cars on ■oue of the lines came out this morning, petfding a conference for the settlement of wages, which has been in progress for two ^day*. The consolidated company last night jsgreed to increase wages from 5 to 20 cents, which was not accepted. Employes •sk an increase of from twenty-five to sixty •eats per day and forty minutes for meals. Want the Middle-Men Abolished. NEW York, March 18.—Ail the cloakffiaaker* iu the city, numbering 1,500, are out (M strike. Thev do not ask for increased [wages but merely demand that the contract System be abolished set that they deal directly ffiith the firm themselves. A Spilt In the Rauka Threatened. Milwaukee, March 18.—The trouble wbich lias broken ont between the Cigar■akers* international union and the Knights Labor, over the iatrodactioa of a new

manifested itself a year ago in an attack of lumbago, iu October he took a trip to England, where the true nature of his disease was made known, although he was not apprised of it until alter his return home. He never murmured, and even his most intimate friends were in ignorance of the nature of his trouble until a few days ago. His wife, herself au invalid at the time, did not learn it until quite recently. Mr. Devcreux continued at his desk every day. transacted his regular official duties, until Saturday, February 27, when his j>hysicai weakness kem him at home. His mind was as bright and clear as ever, aud he still attended to business through hi* secretary until a day or

two before his death.

[General Devcreux wa* boru iu Baston, April

1832; In

si.-tiuit euaiuecr on ltie C., C. A. C. railroad; from 1*52 he was assistant engineer on the

Apn

5.1832; lie entered railroad service in May, 1948 tiom that time to Dsil he was rodmau and ■’ — “ " ’ailroad;

1851 to 1852 he was assistant engineer on the Cleveland, PuinesvlUe Ashtabula railroad; from 1852 to October, 1801, tic was resident engineer on the Tennessee & Alabama railroad; construction and operation United So,to* mili-

tary engineer ou the Shenandoah valley

tads, April. IsGf, May,

rail-

1862 to March, 1864, United States military

superintendent ot the

railroad* of Virginia; March, 1884. to May, IHfls, superintendent ot the Cleveland Jt Pittsburg railroad; 1S6S. vice-president of the same road; May, 1868, to March. 1819, vice-president of the Lake Shore railroad; president of the same until the consolidation of the line between liutfulu and

and vice-president ot the Lake Sin

Chicago, and vice-president ot the Lake Shore Michigan Southern road to May. 1*70; May, IS]

to June, 1878. general manager of the same road; June. 1878. to date president of the C., t’.. C. <k I. railway company; June, 1673, to 1671 vice-presi-dent and general manager of the Atlantic cV Great Western road; 1874, president of the SheMiJlWTil.l' A i HkirllOl I V t PsrtlTXavlvmiist Past Wkl Isll VIA

uaugo «k Allegheny, the Pennsylvania Petroleum ainl the Plthole Valley railroad companies; June, 1*73, to date vice president of the Cleveland A: Mahoning Valley railroad company; January, 1880. to 18sl president of the New York. Pennsylvania & Ohio railroad; June, lt>80, to June, 1682. president of the Clucinu*:i, Hamilton A Indianapolis, Dayton <k Michigan. Cincinnati. Hamilton <v Dayton and Cincinnati, Richmond <S Chicago railroad companies: October, 1880, to May, 1882, president of the Indianapolis A St. Louis railroad company; May to September. 1*82, receiver of the same road, and September,

1S82. to date president.

But few railroad men have occupied a more prominent place, not only as an official, but as a doer of good works. Anything which tended to elevate the employes on the road morally met with his hearty approval. Specially has Mr. Devcreux been interested iuestablfehing Railway men's Christian associations, and iu aiding this association outside the railroad branch, he has

contributed liberally.} Death of a Heroine.

SCITUATK, Mass., March 18.—Miss Abigail Bates died yesterday, aged eighty.nine

years.

[She was one of the two heroines who, during the war of 1812, drove tne British force* from that harbor by concealing themselves in the bushes, playing vigorously upon the life and drum, thereby leading the enemy to believe that a large force was ready to receive them.]

FOREIGN GLEANINGS.

No disturbances marked the celebration of St. Patrick’s day. A new club, the membership of which is to be strictly limited to citizens ol the United States, is to be opened at Paris on the 1st of next mouth. Its name is the American club, and iu first president is Mr. Spencer. The communists ot Paris have abandoned their project of celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of tbe establishment ot the commune to-day, by holding an out-door meeting, and have decided to give twenty-three banquets instead. The Molloy-Grakam Case. Springfield, Mo., March 18.—At a late honr Tuesday uigbt Graham sent a letter to the Herald stating that bis son Charlie hud told tbe exact truth ou the witness stand, admitting that Mrs. Molloy sat on his lap at Elgin, UL, and was in bed with him at Washington, Kas., and on the Molloy farm near Springfield. Indication*. Washington, March 18.—For the Ohio Valley and Tennessee—Southerly winds; warmer, fair weather. Lower Lake Region— Easterly winds; stationary temperature; light rains or snow. LOCAL TIXPF.RATCRE. 7 ajn 44° 11 p.m 73° Building Permits. Magdalena Maus, brick block, Delaware, near Market, $2,500; Daniel W. Howe, frame dwelling. New Jersey, near St. Mary, $2,500; R. P. Daggett, repairs, Vermont, near California, $300; Fred W’itttaann, cottage, Bay, near.MeGlnuia, $400.

General aud Personal.

Washington, March IS. — The Hoar electoral count bill passed the senate yester-

day.

The debate ou the question of removals yesterday was enlivened by a spirited controversy between Messrs. Edmunds and Beck. Tbe special committee on expenditures for tbe Indians aud Yellowstone Park have agreed upon a report iu which Chairman Holman pronounce* Indian schools a failure and advises that the system be abolished. A motion was made in the senate executive session vesterday to reconsider the vote to confirm R. S. Dement, as surveyor-general of

Utah.

The secretary of the navy has issued an order dUmissiuz from the Annapolis naval academy Cadets Glen Waters, of Georgia; Benjamin Stebcr, of New York; II. L. Guedon, of Texas, and W. T. Gillespie, of Virginia, on the charge of "hazing” Cadet

Louis S. Driggs.

Will Smith, of Marion, and Mr. Austin, formerly of Marion, but now of Omaha, Neb., and H. C. Morgan, of Indianapolis,

are iu the city.

Hon. Thomas J. Wood, of Crown Point, has written a letter to a friend here, in which he states that he will be a candidate for congressional honor* at the approximating nom-

inating convention.

The president has appointed a man to a Loup river, and many people have been posloffiee in Rhode Island who was arrested driven out of their homes.

lest tiiat the steamer Was more or less at fault, and it was the result of carelessness. At least fifteen passengers who were on deck at the time told me they could distinctly see the vessel as she approached, and what is more, they could see Long Island, seven miles distant. The weather was clear and the wind was blow-tig only a fair sailing bree/.e. It is my opinion that the vessel was headed athwart our course. According to the rules of the road at sea, she had the right of way, and it was the business of the steamer to either lull off' and let her pas* to leeward or check up anil let her cross our bows. Instead of this, the Oregon forged ahead at a full rate ot sj>eed and the schooner struck

her.”

Mr. Farwell said that in his opinion the signals were inadequate to the needs, as the cannon could probably not lie heard twenty rods distant,ami tlie sky-rockets did not ascend higher than the masts. Both gentlemen speak, in the warmest terms of the prompt aud courageous behavior of the captain. IIL’ENDLING ACQUITTED The Jury Go Through the Form of Retiring and Return Not Guilty. The argument in the Huendling case was finished this forenoon, Claypool closing for defense, and Harding for the state, and within fitteen minutes after the delivery of the charge the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Tlie result was received with a cheer by the expectaut crowd, and it had been anticipated from the start that such a conclusion would be reached. In oue or the paragraphs of the charge the court cut loose from traditions and laid down tiie following

as good law:

The commonly received doctrine is that an a*sault, or au assault and battery are the ouly legal provocations, but the current history of crime in this country i* that, with rare exceptions. juries will not convict a man of murder for killing another miiu who has iu any.of the forms of licentiousness violated the virtue and chastity of a female who stands in the near relation of wife, daughter or sister to the slayer. This results from a higher degree of civilization aud a more elevated plane of common sense that recognizes the truth that nothing so justlv exasi«erates and more heats the blood than such an offense against a near female relative, and that, therefore, if hot blood should lu any case extenuate homicide, much more should it in such cases. CONDENSED NEWS. Barbed-wire manufacturers have advanced

prices 10 per cent.

Heidelbach, lekelbeiraer & Co. have ordered $150,000 gold coin lor export from

New York.

Columbus, Neb., is overflowed by the

who is to be executed

May.

Will Sue tor Damages.

iSperialto Tbe ImlianapoH* New*.]

W.\ rash, Marclt 18.—Reuben Swank, the wife-beater of North Manchester, who was dragged out of his bed a few nights since and given fifty lashes by the indignant citizen's of the place, has arranged to begin civil suits against a dozen prominent residents of North Manchester, and ha-', to this end, re-

tained several attorneys in ' Huntington to prosecute the cases, places his damages at a high figure.

! brukcumu. Mrs. Florence thinks the men i were after her diamonds, all of which were

| on the car.

Madison, a measley little village, in a ! measlier state, Wisconsin, is a source of oodles of trouble to our citizens. Their mail matter occasionally strays over there in some inexplicable manner and finds its rightful owner after the lapse ot weeks and sometimes months. To cap th* climax a dramatic company ha* skipped ns under the impression that the people of Madison, Wls.. longed to shell out (times and quarter*. It may be that it is better thus, fine thing

r» q

nine times in three months lor violations of

the liquor law.

CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.

George Q. Cannon failed to respond yesterday,when his case was called in the Salt Lake court, forfeiting his twenty-five-fiundred-dol*

lar bond.

Police Sergeant Brooks, of Richmond, was dangerously shot yesterday by a burglar whom he had discovered iu an unlawful act. The shooter escaped. Near Loudon, thirty miles below Knoxville, Tenn., yesterday, the wife of Thomas Gray was murdered by a young mulatto named John Gillespie after he had attempted to outrage her. Gillespie was hanged by a mob this morning. Miss Elizabeth Minium, who is reported to have lost $150,000 in bonds that had been placed in the care of Ogtlvie, the defaulting cashier ot the New Brunswick (N. J.) savings bank, has published a card denying the entire statement, and saying that sue had not lost a cent through Mr. Ogtlvie. George Wilkes, alias Wilkins, and Joseph Riley, alias Elliott, ate locked up at police headquarters. New York, on the charge of having swindled Rochester (N. Y.) banks, and others in Cheyenne, Butte City and San Francisco to tlie amount of $33,060. Riley is the husband of the actress Kate Castleton. Last night Emma Norman, a young lady twenty-one years of age, shot and killed Henry Arnold, proprietor of a grocery store at No. 109 Beal street, Memphis. Arnold seduced Miss Normau about eighteen months ago. and has made repeated promise* to marrv her. Five weeks ago he married Miss

Nellie Kiley.

Henry Estee, a young man of good family in Geneva, 111., has been arrested for the murder of two policemen there lost fall. He is only twenty-six vears of age, aud began

hi, Hfe of crime when but eighteen, since ^“gfd^onu'nn'^riTihoTe 'o7 ITp"^ in which tune he has served four year, and a this *' at and in any other ^ for ^

A Heavy Sentence.

Detroit, March 18.—At Fort Wayne, below this city, live court martial to try Robert E. Rivers, Company H, Thirty-third infantry, ended yesterday. Rivers is the son of a wealthy Butfa'.o family, a graduate of Harvard, and was a bank cashier in Buffalo until discharged for crookedness. Two years ago he deserted, but was recaptured. Having access to the paymaster’s accounts, he forged checks for various amounts. Fur desertion he is sentenced to five years, and tor forgery seven more, in Leavenworth, Kan. The Harmonists in Coart. - Pittsburg, March 18.—Charles Meyer, of Philadelphia, German consul at that point, has applied for the issuing of letters of administratiou on the estate of George Rapp, deceased. Rapp was the founder of th* Harmonist society of economy. Since his death claimants to the number of 105, in Wurtemberg, Germany, have arisen as heirs to his estate, which has already been administered

Steiuitz defeated Zukertort at their sixteenth game ol chess in New Orleans yesterday. Zukertort is suffering Irom insomnia. The statement comes from Columbus that the democratic minority in the Ohio senate will show its sympathy with President Cleveland by refusing to confirm appointments to state offices by Governor Foraker. S. B. Watrous, one of the wealthiest merchants and stock-raisers of New Mexico, shot himself at Watrous yesterday. Some time ago his son shot himself, and the father selected the same spot aud weapon tor tak-

ing his own life.

Philip Goldstein and Isadore A. Levi, dealer* in children’s and misses’ clothing, New York, are insolvent, Levi being charged with having left the state to defraud his creditors. The firm is also charged with having disposed of its property with fraudulent intent. Young Levi’s father is the

principal creditor—$25,000.

A League Against the Telephone. The National Telephone League of Boston, Mass., is Hooding this city with circular* calling attemion to the fa.*t that the league is an organization of citizens determined to resist telephone monopoly at every point; further, that there is reason to believe that the threatened withdrawal of telephone service in this scale, on the plea of inability to operate under the Williams bill, is really to influence legislation in other states by preventing passage of bills of similar import, more particularly in Iowa, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Accompanying these circulars are petitions, addressed to tbe United States senate and house of representatives, asking the representatives of Indiana iu those bodies to make inquiry whether the telephone service rendered by the American Bell telephone company, or its agents, is being[ discontinued in whole or inpa“ i! *

;ue

encing legislative or

aetion; also, whether such discontinuance Jbr such purpose is the result ot combination between such telephone companies. These petitions are now being distributed, and, so far as beard from, are receiving

many signatures.

First Fruits of the Investigation. New York, March IS.—Alderman Henry Jaehnc was arrested at the City hall at noon to-day and taken at once to police headquarters. He is charged with bribery. It is not yet known whether the arrest was made on account of Jaehne’s connection with the Broadway railway franchise or for his alleged connection with the Hamilton rob*

bery.

Spoiling for a Fight.

Berlin, March 18.—The Post says: “France confesses that she is waiting to attack Germany. This is serious. Germans, who desired to conciliate France, will now recognize the uselessness of a reconciliation, and will wish that Frenchmen will find the

opportunity they desire.”

is certain: we have our dimes if we haven’t

the troupe.—[Madison Courier.

A man named Jones, living on a farm several miles west of B.ockport, got into a dispute with n negro named Biscuit over u bottle of liniment, which the latter had been commissioned to take to Mrs. Jones, but

, tw «c- which he had not delivered. High words this city and | followed, nud the negro threatened to kill cases. He Jones. They met later iu the day and Bit*

cuit advanced on Jones in a threatening j manner, when the latter took a musket from

A Pythian Temple Dedicated. his wagon and lodged a heavy charge of fSpoend to Tlie liulianupnlL .New*.I i buckshot in the negro’* side, from the eiieets

Richmond, Ind., March 18.—The Pythian temple, erected at a cost of $20,000 was formally dedicated to-day. Oue thousand strangers are in tlie city. Posts from Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Fort Wayne aud twenty-two county seat* are in attendance. The Indianapolis delegation numbered Rio. 'The temple here is the only exclusive Pythian hall in the world. Minor Mention. An election to determine the water-works question will be held at New Castle on April 10. There are thirty-five representatives of the Smith family serving time in the southern

prison.

The Southern Indiana teachers’ association will hold its ninth annual meeting atA'incennes on Thursday and Friday of next week. Sam Ward, a notorious colored man of Fort Wayne, was arrested yesterday, charged with counterfeiting, being takeu iu the act. Tlie district convention of the W. C. T. U., in session at Wabash, is being largely attended by representative women of northern

Indiana.

General T. W. Bennett, mavor of Richmond, Ins recommended to the council of that oii\ the erection of a city building to

cost iij.oou.

Rev. C. A. Kleeberger, of the Christian church at Madison, iias accepted a call to Ottawa, Kan., and expects to take charge of

his new church in three weeks.

The young man named Iloxel, shot by Joseph Wymond in a saloon row at Aurora, is more seriously hurt than at first supposed. Wymond, who was out on a small bond, has

been rearrested.

Delos Pedan, living three miles northwest ot Salem, while riding in a carriage, put out his foot, which was accidentally caught in the spokes of the wheel, and his left leg was wrenched off'at the knee-joint. The assignee of the late hardware firm of Ellis & Serodino, of Connersviile, sold the entire stock to John T. Lair, who will continue the business. The sale brought $5,300, which is about 50 per cent, of the liabilities. John Maute, aged fifty, a native of Germany, superintendent and large stockholder in the McKim-Cochran furniture manufacturing company of Madison, committed suicide by hanging himself from a beam in the

factory. Intemperance.

The democrats of Monroe, Bartholomew and Brown counties have been called to meet at Nashville in delegate convention Saturday, March 27, to nominate a candidate for joint senator for the district com-

posed ot the above counties.

Mrs. Elizabeth Hammond died on Tuesday evening at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. John Irvin, of Greencastle. The deceased was the mother of Upton J. Hammond, of Indianapolis, and Thomas C. Hammond and Reese Hammond, of Greencastle. At Lafayette, yesterday aftornoon, the po lice arrested Schuyler and Charles Moore on a charge of horse-stealing. The theft was committed at Royal Center, and the thieves were traced to Lafayette. They had two stolen horses in their possession when cap-

tured.

Charles E. Sims, of Utioa, whose subject is “Our Modern Revolution ” was given first place, and J. C. B'itch, of Albion, 111., “Civil Government and Free Schools,” second place in the oratorical contest by the second faction of the oratorical association at Bloom-

ington.

Yesterday afternoon the residence of Peter Morgamhaler, a leading clothing merchant of Fort Wayne, was entered and robbed of several hundred dollars’ worth of jewelry, including two valuable diamond rings and a costly gold watch belonging to Mrs. Morgan thaler. The large frame barn of Samuel Parkison, a few miles west of Muncie, wa* entirely destroyed by fire. In the barn was a large amount of hay, corn, and live head of horse.*, which were all consumed. The cause is supposed to be the work of au incendiary. Loss, $1,500; partially insured in the Ohio Farmers. Y’esterday morning when ’Squire A. S. Wood, postmaster, storekeeper and justice of the peace at Dundee, Madison county, commonly known as Mudsock, arose he discovered that his seventeen-year-old son Johu had disappeared, taking with him nearly $RX) of his pap’s money. John has gone west. The preliminary arrangements in the case of Samuel Archer at Shoals has been settled. Judge Hefiroo, of the Martin circuit court, has appointed Messrs. Mosier A Houghton to defend the outlaw, and tbe trial was set to take place next Wednesday, the 24th inst. Samuel Archer and John Lynch will then be brought from Jeffersonville for trial. Governor Gray has been called upon to furnish an armed force to protect the outlaws from mob violence. A girl, fourteen years old, who says her name is Cora Green, who claims that her father lives near Lebanon in this state, escaped from her custodian near Greenville, O., on Sunday night, and tells the following almost incredible tale of suffering and cruelty: John McVey kidnaped her about two years ago as she was going home from school and bed since kept her in custody. He lived a gypsy life whh two disreputable women, mending umbrellas aud tinware aad sharpening razors. She claims that be

of which be died soon after. Jones is in jail to await the action of the erand jury. Biscuit had served one term in prison for steal-

ing.

A very serious shooting affray took place in Kokomo at a late hour Tuesday night, at the Pan-Handle depot, between au unknown man and Hatch Wallace, in which the latter was shot through the head, a thirty-two ball entering the left cheek and passing diagonally through the nasal organs and lodging in the back of the head, near the lower base of the brain. Wallace is a very dangerous mail wiieu iu his cups, and was said to have been drinking and very quarrelsome. It is the general supposition that Wallace made an assault on some one who shot him in selldetense and made hLs escape in the darkness of the uigbt. Wallace, it is thought, can not live. THE LOCAL LABOR SITUATION.

Advance in AY ages Asked at Root’s Stove Foundry and at Nordyke A Marmon'g. The labor question has assumed interesting phases iu Indianapolis. There is no united or aggressive demand for an increase of wages, or redress of any alleged grievances, presumably for tbe reason that wages are as high Os manufacturers can afford to pay, and that there is no other serious occasion for complaint. However, there have been several differences between employes and employers iu three or tour establishments, and two or three of them are now in process of adjust* meat. • Last evening a committee representing upward of twenty molders, employed at the Indianapolis stove foundry, waited upon Deloss Root, president of the company, and demanded an advance ot 10 per cent, in wages. Mr. Root ordered them from his office, telling them to strike if they pleased, and to boycott the company at their pleasure. In explanation, Mr. Root says that only a week ago the company advanced wages 10 per cent., and that Indianapolis molders’ wages are already higher than are paid at any other place in this state, or in Louisvdle, Toledo or Albany. He says further, that the company took these men in as apprentices three years ago and that they have been earning $1.50 per day; that they have, so far as he knows, no just cause of complaint, and that they are controlled by two interlopers, who have misguided them. About a hundred men ail told are employed by the stove company. The majority of them, Mr. Root says, are not interested in the action takeu last evening. He says that the older men of the establishment have notified him that they would continue at work as heretofore. The works are closed to-day to permit of repairs, not because of the strike. The strikers are Knights of Labor. The shop is an open one— that is, admits men without regard to society affiliations. A strike has been threatening for several days on the part of some of the employes of the Nordyke & Mannon work*. Three hundred men are there employed, and some of them have been saying that the company has been running full-handed, in order to accumulate a stock preparatory to sustaining a strike. This seems to be a wholiy unjustifiable conclusion. The company has been doing a large business against strong competition. Yesterday afternoon a committee of employes waited upon the firm and asked for ah advance of 15 per cent. This was taken under consideration, and an amicable adjustment is looked for by both sides. Members of the firm are uncommunicative, but it is reported that the intention is to revise the pay-roll upon a more equitable basis. Among the employes are many Knights of Labor, but the action taken is not at the bidding of this order. The Nordyke company will inaugurate the eight-hour rule in May, and will advance the price of iu products. Railroad brakemen are compiainingof the rule on Indianapolis lines which compels them to “deadhead” for nothing. To make English of the rule, the situation seems to be about this: Brakemen who are ordered from one terminus to another, in order to take a train from the latter point, while traveling under orders get no pay. The engineers and conductors who run “light,” that is, who take their engines and cabooKes to a given point, in readiness to take a train, get part pay, and the brakemen claim that they should be similarly treated. There is no threat of a strike in order to accomplish this purpose, but this is a source of complaint that may lead to demands on the part of the complainants. Y. M. C. A. Notes. The new building project continues to meet with favor and the enterprise is likely to win. Among the favorable indications of the past few days are the subscriptions ot tbe Indianapolis gas company for $500 and a gift of $300 from a Sooth Meridian-street grocer, who says that this movement meets with bis sympathy and approval. At a public meeting last night at Broad Ripple, in which two Y. M. C. A. workers took part, Mr. James Mustard made a voluntary subaoriptioa of $25,

They the

fired into the building, instantly killing ten negroes aud wounding three others so that they died soon alter, and with the exception ot a few who escatwd by a window, all tho other negroes in the building were wounded, some of them seriously. The trouble between Liddel and the negroes occurred three weeks ago. Liddel had interfered in a row between two negroes, and afterward heard the crowd cursing him. He walked up to them and inquired why they were abusing him. An altercation ensued, and a number ot shots were fired, Liddel being severely woumleJ.

LOCAL NOTES. Ex-Patrolman Meek lias been appointed a deputy constable. Annie Girton (colored), aged seventy-five, died yesterday in the county asylum. It is officially denied that the Art association has been invited to Crawfordsville. The coming investigation will give an opportunity to discover where stands Sergeant Lowe. H The bridge over Fall creek, on the Central avenue route, continues in a dangerous condition. Oscar Hoover, mail carrier, running in the west end, has been asked to resign. No cause is assigned. Owing to differences with Captain Dougherty, Cook Butler, of the fire department, has been fined ten days’ suspension. Charles A. Holland, whose feet were permanently disabled in the Buck creek wreck last November, has sued the C., H. A I. railway company lor $30,000 damages. William, alias Buck Peggs, arrested for the robbery of T. W. Gardner's rooms, ia the Hubbard block, in February last, has been committed for grand jury action. A stranger secured $2.50 in goods from Mueller’s grocery yesterday by representing himself as connected with Roger A. Sprague. He tried a similar deal at otfaer points, but was headed oft'. The Broad Ripple boat club is being reorganized for the summer season. The members propose to buy a new steamer to plow up the placid waters there and to baud a comfortable club house. Oliver Ford wus before the mayor to-day charged with forging bis father's name.to an order by which he obtained a suit of clothes from A\ m. G. Gerren, but a trial resulted in his acquittal, the signature to the order being authorized. The thirteenth annual commencement exercises of the Physio-Medical college will take place at Plymouth church next Wednesday evening. Addresses will be delivered by Professor M. Veenboer, W. H. Drapier, Rev. U. R. Pritchard and Professor George Hasty. The township assessor has selected the deputy assessors for the appraisement, which begins the first of April, but he will not permit the names to be made public for some days to come. The appraisement this year is particularly important, and Messick may not believe it, but there is a curiosity to know to whom be has assigned the task. The suit of Jameson, adminiftrator of Abner Pope, deceased, vs. Ed S. Pope, former administrator, to compel an accounting, is on trial before ex-Mayor McMaster, as special commissioner. Claim ia made involving over $100,000, and the examination will cover several weeks. Spaan A Wallace represent the plaintiff', while Shepard A Buchanan appear for defendant. , » FRRSONAL.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Morgan, of this city, former residents here, were passengers on the Oregon when she went down, and lost all their baggage. The friends of Mrs. Conrad Baker will be glad to know that advices from Florida state that she has sufficiently recovered from her recent severe illness as to be considered out of danger. The Lang Investigation. The full text of the additional charga against Superintendent Lang is: (1) That he is generally incompetent; that fie lacks mental breadth and capacity to manage the police force. (2) That he has not the ability to command the respect of the force and to compel its members to obey orders. (3) That he lias not sufficient knowledge to give necessary drill and discipline; and lastly, by reason of his lack of ability to manage tbe force the laws of the city have not been and are not enforced. Since yesterday Judge Claypool has been added to tbe counsel for detense, and he is credited with saying that in this instance it was a pleasure for him to act. The witnesses for the prosecution so far subpemed include John Holtzman, Charley Felter, Tom Cottrell, Isadore Deitz, Smith Myers, W. R. Myers, Jack Higgins, Will Bernhamer and Rabbi Mexsing, bat there are ten others yet to be announced. It is tke superintendent's purpose to call every man on the police torce to the witness stand, whether personally friendly to him, aad also the men who have been pushing the chargee while they themselves remained in th*background. Supeu&s were also issued to-day for several score ot the best known gentlemen in th* city, like V. T. Malott, Charles E. Kregelo, Sydney Dyer and Judge Walker, to also appear and certify to the present conditioner the city. The several votes ot thanks by tke board for services in times pest will also be introduced, not, perhaps, with any expectancy of changing the resalt, but simply to bring conspicuously to the front the character ot the war fare waged against turn. Tbe • opening session of the investigation began ' this afternoon. ♦ - —- Not a Suicide* Yesterday afternoon Mis* Nellie Scrimger, daughter of Mrs. Scrimger, widow, 34 South Tennessee street, took a dose of morphine to relieve pain, and later, when her condition became alarming, Dr. Fcrree was summoned, but he arrived too late to resuscitato the girl, her death occurring about 10 o’clock. Miss Scrimger was aged eighteen, and not strong physically, and the physician is inclined to think that her death was largely due to exhaustion. Tho reatoo assigned for taking the drug is the true one, and tbe young lady j was answer* tkai aho-had awaits wad an; overdose umtiHU was too lata la piwvt her'