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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, M05DAT7 MAT 21. 1894

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STATE NEWS.

bailway uevy rjePAYUTO TAYAS.

rack Hr »Tr»Jn-A CWM tullbcmted - Removed to PrtaoB •ootli-GlM* Footortao Bosoming:—More Wttmhoo Collod—gtat# Nows

>ftp««ua to Tbo IndUn*poU« Itows] Ago UMOV, Mur *t—Tho CWcvgo A tkmth t .4.tors Railway Company to-daj poM a oart of its connty taxes, and Treaearor Boland ordstod tbs rslsass of thres snginse, which were Isrisd on Satarday. Other money arrived to-day besides that for the payment of taxes. It hat been hinted that the B E. 6 W. company is relisring the E. A 8. E., hot this the latter** officials deny. Oensral Passenger

Deaths In Official Homes. (•pedal te The IndtanapolU Newe l CoLL-MBce, May 21.—The mortuary in and abont the oourtrhouse daring the last two years has been eery great. The wire* of Coonty Clerk Wiiliem H. PulwUder, County Auditor George Peace, the grown daughter# of Sheriff Isaac Lucas, Recorder WnUiam Klepsch and Treasurer Walker, and the mother-in-law of County Commieeioner James H. Kytee, have all died.

•truck By a Train While Aelssp. ‘Hpeclal to The Indianapolis Newe l Nw# Oastuu May 21.—John Martin, a prominent Henry county larmer. wee struck by a fast Pan-Handle train yseterday near 8ulnhnr Springs, and almost killed. One leg wee broken in three places, and hie head wn» badly out The horse was killed and the buggy demolished. He was asleep at the time of the accident. . -pRemoved to tu» Prleoo Soulu (Special to The Indianapoite Newel FlUNguW, May 21.—Paraer and McAfee the murderers of Charles Ey ter, of ludianepolie. were taken to the soutlern prison this morning by Sheriff Museelman. They had a p,eierence tor Michigan City, but the lawgoveining this county sends all prisoners to Jedereonville. ^

A Child Suffocated.

{Special to The Indianapolis Newe l

Mvvctv,May 2i.-Mr. and Mre OacarMlller,

Mvvctv, may ii.—m-r.

upon awaking yesterday morning at 4 o’oio k. found their iour-weeks’-old boy baby lying

Tho child was smoth-

lound their iour-weeks'-old bo

between them dead, fi*--

ered. More Wltneaae* Called For. {Special to The Indiaaapolls Newt.1

CoLUMBt's, May 21.—A number of new witnsssee were eubpenaed here this morning and taken to Greensburg forthwith to testify in

the Balph-Drake murder trial. Glass Factories Resuming. [Special te The Indianapoite Newal

UtJvciA May IL-The Leader glaas-works at West Muncie and the Port glaee-worke in Muneie both resume full operations this week.

The Wound Resulted Fatally. {Special to The Indianapolis News.1

▼ai.paraiso. May JL—Grace Ondeikirk, who shot herself last Saturday to avoid arrest for

shop-lifting, died this morning.

General mate New.

Tbs Baptists at Elizavilla will axpend

|6,000 hr church building.

Laborers employed in the Owcnsbnrg tunnel arc striking for fs per day. At a baptism near Mechaniceburg 105 people were immersed in Anger creek. The Jeffersonville and New Albany Q. A &. will unite in observing Decoration Day. Prof. Frank L. Jones, of Kokomo, has been elected principal of the Nobleaville High

School.

The Hon. W. H. Evans has pnrehastd an outfit and will establish an independent paper at Princeton. An lee combine has been formed at Terre Haute and families are now compelled te pay 1 cant a pound. The eehooner Meads Gage was driven ■shore by the recent storm at Michigan City, hut the crew wae rescued. The congregation of the Second Presbyterian church of Richmond will erect a new house of worship, costing 910,000. The three-year-old daughter of M. P. Woorley, of Aadersoa, drank two ounces of gasoline and narrowly escaped death. Joeiah Rough, a pioneer of Randolph county, died very suddenly at his home near Farmland. He waa Mvaaty-three years old. Milton P. Longaore, recently of Ft. Wayne, who removed te Aiken, 8. O., to improve Us health, waa aaized of the grip and

died

The Citizens’ Natnral Gas Company •t Anderson oomnromiaed what is known as the Brunson damage eases by paying 94600 and all eoeta. The Porter county Republicans have instructed solidly for Judge Johnson, of Valparaiso, as the candidate for Congress la the Tenth die trick Charles Bees, of Bringhnrst, while engaged in a sparring bout was struck in the eye by a glove. Stood poisoning resulted, followed by death. , Andrew Lane, of Boons county, eighty years oid. while plowing was caught by the lines in a runaway accident and dragged until hie hip Was dislocated. Two pastors at Chsitarton refused to conduct exercise* on Memorial Day unleaa the G. A. R. poet wouid pledge itself In advance not to give a dance July 4. The Business Men’s Association of Evansville it making an effort to secure the selection of Rvaneville as headquarters of the National •witchmen’s Mutual Aid Association. Moses Simmons, seventy years old, was found dead on the railway track near SummitviUe. He is supposed to have gone to sleep on the track and a passing train killed him. In the trial of Ralph Drake atGreenabnrg for the murder ot Mre. Ida Ward, of Columbus, a strong effort is being made to prove the ineanity of defendant. Tho defease will etoee day. • ; & " \ -\ The loss by the burning of Stntz A Walker's carriage factory at Goshas will not exceed tffi.MO, on which there is 928,000 Insuranew. E. W. Walker A Co.’s factory waa only damaged 93,000. Tho Diamond Plate Glam Company of Kokomo will put in a natural gas plant costing f 100,000, and will sell gas for private consumption. The oomoany holds laaeee op 60,000 sores o4 gas land. Dr. Burroughs, of Shannondale, while boring for water, struck an artesian wall with an inexhaustible supply. The villagers thereupon erected a huge tank, and all are now supplied without cost. While men were sawing down a Urge burr oak tree near North Salem, a gust of wind toppled it to an unexpected direction and J. M. Cross, of North Salem, waa crushed to death. He waa a man ot lamily. Tho Huntington Democrat says that Miss Mamie Simonson, clerk to the pension office at Indianapolis, concerning whose removal by Agent Spencer excited much comment, wae recently married to W. H. Magiey, clerk ol Whitley county. Tho Sunday-closing liquor law waa rigidly enforced es Ft. Wayne yesterday. The saloon element threatens counter - prosecutions against the llvery-etehle. randy and cigar interests. The new mayor has ordered all the (AXtldOfMMl* Tho Valparaiso Messenger waste the Grubhe libel law amended in a manner rimilar te the recent libel tow peeeed by the Now York Legislature, making it a misdemeanor for any one to deceive a newspaper with Information which is libelous. When a train-load of coal on rente from Kentucky to the Chisago saarkst reached Cliatoo the sulking miners pulled out the ooapltag pins and threw them tote the river. Thetcate crew had great difficulty to recoupling aad getting oat. The aaioa plasterers of Muneio have bees striking since April 1, aad only five antonista are now left in the city. The places of the ; strikers have been Sited by man working nine jiQUfgi <t*yj fpj Tli# " tunonittfl d#** manded |3 for eight hour* Councilman Jackson, of Kokomo, has an old food in his posMSsloa isaoad by Patrick Henry. Goveaer ei the Commonwealth of VirpsaiAi uadar data November IR ina, con-

veying to Mr. Jadkson'e ancestor* fifteen thousand acres along the Ohio river, opposite Cincinnati. - s . The Rev. James Lilly, of Carroll eouaty, undertook to secure a refractory cow by throwing a rope over the animal’s horns In some way the other end of the rope became fastened around his tog aad he wee dragged around the barn lot until hie cheek-bone, collar-bone and toft tog ware broken. - C The Jefferson county Democracy held a primary election on Saturday, and Mr. Stockelager was given delegate votes, white 2H were given te Brown and 1 to Marsh. Mr. Btockslager now claims that he will have 89 votes in the congressional convention, with hot 64 necessary to a choice. It la said that George S. Lemon and George Avery, young bloods of Louisville, Ky.. neither over seventeen years crossed the river to Jeffersonville and fought a duel, using “buli-dog” revolvers. At the first fire Lemon received a bullet in the thigh, which disabled him. Dr. 8. C. McClure, of Jeflereonvills was cal.cd as surgeon and extracted the ballet. Ho wae told that it waa a case ot accident. The Old Mennoaite conference, in session at Yellow Creek church, Elkhart county, for the r**t tea days, baa adjourned. Large delegations were present from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, headed by Bishop Jonas H. Martin, and from the settlement near Hagerstown. Md. The Canadian churches were also represented. The 1M>5 conference will be held in Lanoaster eouaty, Pennsylvania. The Big Four Railway Company has compromized the claims ot Miss Mildred Wood, Jotie Van Buskirk and Mrs. Welch, who were struck by s train on one of the street crossing* at Greeucaatl*. The plaintifle were given judgment in the Putnam Circuit Court for 912.800, 93,225 and $10,000 respectively, and the company compromised by paying Mias Wood 97.800, Mias Van Buakirk 96,843 and Mrs. Welch $6,368 and all coats. The military department of DePauw University is campine at Fern, six miles distant from Greencastle, and the college boys entered into a conapiracy to capture the sentries on duty, and subject them to ail manner of indignity. In some way the conspiracy waa “tipped” off to the soldiers in camp, and a counter-trap wae laid, which resulted in the espture of zix of the would-be raiders and the ignominious flight of the others. The raiders were compelled to scatter In every direction. The six prisontra captured by the soldiers were placed in a laige pit, dug for their t special reception. W. C. Oiborn, of Kokomo, has returned from a month’s visit to Hawaii. He reports that the Americans are masters of the situation, bnt that they are not unanimous in supporting Pieeident Dole. Some of the Americans favor a restoration of the Queen; others annexation to the United States, but the majority are inclined to an independent republic. The objection to annexation is that it would do away with the contract labor system. At the recent constitutional election less than one-third ot the voters registered, and the vote wae less, showing that but little interest waa taken in the election. The natives are for the Queen. The Indiana division of the National Travelers' Protective Association olosed Its session at Lafayette by electing Beaj. F. Hoffman, ot Lafayette, prealdent; W. C. Parry, of Ft. Wayne; A. H. Snyder, of Indianapolis; John C. Jennera, of Lafayette; William S- Pittman, of Logan sport | R. W. Rippeto, of Terre Haute; Edward Watson, of Vincennea; W. P. Meyer, of Kendallville; J. O. Froelich, of Evansville, and J. A. LaPierre,of South Bend, vice-presidente; T. Schuyler, of Lafayette, secretary and treasurer, and Frank B. Hart, William H. Magee and Charles G. Yehm, of Laiayette, directors. The next convention will be held at Indianapolis. A piano agent called upon Harvev Garrettson. near Pendleton, asking the privilege of putting a piano, valued at $460, in his house for exhibition. In case the instrument proved te be good and Mr. GarretUon desired to purchase, the agent offered to knock off 8*V» per cent., and he promised him an equal commission If he succeeded in selling the piano. Mr. Garrettson snapped at the offer and readily signed a receipt, as he supposed, for the piano and an order for hie commission. Some days later another person called on Mr. Garret Mon with a demand for }t60, and he bluffed GarretUon into signing a note for that amount. Mr. Garrettson has employed attorneys te contest payment 61 the note, and he has warned all banka against purchasing hie paper. Marcus M. Towle, ax-mayor and ex-post-master of Hammond, a firm friend of Mr. Landis, who is pitted against Judge Johnson for the Republican nomination for Congress in the Tenth district, is reported to have brought suit against the Chicago A Erie Railway Company, toying claim to $80,000 damage#. Mr. Towle chartered ears te take the Landis delegation from Hammond te Crown Point on the occasion ot the county convention, but, upon reporting at tha depot, it waa found that the train had been tamed over to the Johnson crowd, and waa even then on its way to Crown Point. Claim is made by the Landis men that this seizure tricked them out of control of the Lake county delegation, and debarred Landis from all hope of securing the district nomination. The plaintiff contracted for an engine .nM f our oars. PATROLMAN SUSPENDED.

CABINET COKPANT DRAFTS.

Nefflaot of Duty Char-god - A BaldNew York-Street Improvement. The Commissioners of Public Safety met this morning and suspended Patrolmen Pope, Lyons and Soheigert on chargee ot neglect ot duty. Six weeks ago the superintendent was informed that gambling waa going on at 812 East Washington street, but he was unable te get any evidence oi it. He issued strict orders that the men would bo held accountable for any violations of the law in their districts. The gambling was in the district patrolled by the three officer*. They made no report of it, Saturday night a raid waa made on the place and several persons arrested. The complaint is made that the officer* did not even know that a raid bad been made until an hour after the arrests. They will have a trial to-morrow ^Patrolman Hoefgen waa found by Superintendent Powell in the Union station sitting down talking with a friend when he should have been on duty at the tunnel. He was suspended and this morning the board fined him three days’ pay. W. L. Ceinar will appear before the board to-morrow night to explain chargee made against him. Patrolman Brady and Mitchell, who have been Wearing citiren’s dress, were ordered to procure umionna. An officer will be stationed at Delaware aad Washington streets on market days te look after the Bast market. The member* of the Police baee-baJJ club received permission te go to

H. E. Galloway's Condition. H. B. Galloway, vice-preetdeat of the Indiana Bicycle Company, who has been lying dangerously ill at the Denison House with peritonitis, is resting more easily to-day, aad {here are hopes o( his recovery. INDIANA MUSICIANS TO MEET.

Annual Session la Ft. Wayn* Xaxt Mouth-Th© Program.

The official program for the seventeenth annual meeting of the Indiana Music-Teachers’ Association, which wUl be held this year at Ft. Wayne, are out. The meeting will begin June 24, and tost tear days. Max Leckner, of tbiaeity, is president of the association. On the opening mght a concert will be given by Ft. Wayne musicians. The second night will be devoted to a concert by tbs Indianapolis Choral Union, assisted by Martimue Stoveking, pianist, ot Chicago; Mrs. George Raachix, soprano; Mrs. Josephine Robinson, contralto; William Dagget, tenor, and Louie Doche*. barytone. - The Schttewen String Quartet, assi-ited by Mme. Francesca Guthrie Moyer, a dramatic soprano of Chicago, will render a program

will apeak on Wednesday morning. Mr. Arena’s paper will be illustrated by Edward Nell. On Wednesday afternoon a rental will be given by representatives of the Ladies’ Matinee Muafeato of this aty. The use of the clavter in preparing piano students will be illustrated at on* session. Arthur Friedbeim. *f New York, will etoee the meeting by a piano recital Friday night. Heard of Pafelie Work*. The Board of |Public Work* this morning heard tha report of the engineer, that there are not enough remonstxators against the West New York-etreet improvement te defeat to The atraet wiU t* ssphalted. The St, Louis Board of Works wrote here and suggested that a convention be oalied and a national aaeeetotiea be formed. President Wilaman replied that each an organization would be a great benefit, and that the proper place te hold the convention is Ibis city, J. F. H*«ri^r RotogneT J. F. Howley, who for year* has been principal traveling auditor of the Pennsylvania lines, ha* resigned te become treasurer of the FUtsharg Packing Company.

COFFIN UNABLE TO MAKE EXPLANATIONS CONCERNING THEM.

Row Drafts Which the Bank Secured Haugbey Aj»lu*t Lone Cross-Examination Concluded

This Morning.

District-Attorney Burke wa* not through with Francis A. Coffin when court adjourned at 6 o’clock Saturday evening. Late in tha afternoon Mr. Burke took up the drafts that were put in the bank by the cabinet company, some drawn in the name of the cabinet company on branches, others drawn in the name of one branch on another branch. Mr. Coffin was asked to explain to the jury each of these pieces of paper on which the cabinet company had got money out of the bank. The witness could not make explanations For two hours hia answer* generally were: “I can not remember now; I may have known atone time.” ”1 have no personal knowledge of that.” “I do not know.” Mr. Coffin was asked, after each draft bad been shown him. how that draft, for which the bank ffad paid, secured Mr. Hanghey against lose through the branches. Tee invariable reply or the witness

waa* **1fL Mr

the Wooten cos

on the United States

Y on made a deposit on July 22,

and John M. Roberta had set tabesMeetly transferred the property to the Indiana polls Cabinet Com for 971.00U. Again Mr. Coffin he did not remember what the deeds showed. Mr. Burke had the *rttne*s show by the books o' the company that at the time of the por-

pany said

CARDINALS SNOB FRANCE.

Paid

r. Haughey a creditor of the

.ve him a lien

concern; it gave him a lien on the goods of

Mr. Burke preseed the witness

It made

the branch.’^*

bard when the draits drawn by one branch on another branch against no value, as shown by the books of the concerns, were reached. Mr. Coffin replied that he bad no personal

knowledge of the paper.

COFFIN’S CROSS-EXAMINATION. It Is Concluded By District-Attorney Burke—The Development*. Addison C. Harris, who was shot by W. H. Copeland five weeks ago, was in court this morning with his wounded arm in a sling. He took no part in the case. He and LieutenantGovernor Nye and Judge Noyes, ot Laports,

sat beside Judge Baker.

The cioss-examination of Mr. Coffin by Mr. Burke waa continued. The witueea was first asked about drafts drawn by the cabinet company on the United States Office Furniture Company. He said he knew nothing about the dra te; did not know whether the United States Office Furniture Company owed the cabinet company the amount or not. Mr. Burke—You said you sold the London branch subject to the approval of the Indiana

Trnst Company.

Witness—I did not say I made the sale. Mr.

Nathan Morris made it.

Mr. Burke—You say you did not make the

sale to Elijah Coffin?

W it ness—The sale waa not closed. It wae referred to Mr. Frenrel, acting for the receiver. Mr. Burke- Why were not the sales of the New York and Boston branches reierred to

Mr. Frenrel?

Witness- They were made before there wae any receiver appointed. At the time the sales were made no receiver was contemplated. Mr. Burke—Why waa the sale of the London branch not consummated before the receiver

waa appointed?

Witness—I can not tell you. CASH OP THE CABINET COMP ANT.

Mr. Burke—Yon stated that the cash of the cabinet company on January L UM, waa

|2o,021.28.

Witness—I did. Mr. Burke—Where was it? Witness—I can not tell yon. Some of it might have been at tbe Dana; aome at tha

lac lory.

Mr. Burke—Where do you get your figures

as to the amount ot each?

Witness—I got them trom statements from the cabinet company and branches Mr. Burke—How much cash did tbe cabinet

company have on that day?

Witness—Five hundred and thirty-nine dollars. ’* — Mr. Burke-Where wae that money? Witnesa-The cash-book of tbe cabinet com-

pany will probably show.

Mr. Burke—You may look at the cash-book. Witness- The cash to at tbe factory. Mr. Burke—You had bad no money la bank

on that day?

Witneea—I can not say as to that. Mr. Burke—la it not true that your account was overdrawn $10,000 or $11,000 on that day? Witness—I know that a few day* later we were overdrawn $23,000. Mr. Burke—The United States Office Furniture Company quit business to May, 1893, did

it not?

Witneea—I can not aay. I am net familiar with tbe books of tbe company. I got all of my Information from monthly statements from them. „ , Mr. Burke—What do yon know abont the

Baker charge?

Witness—I know nothing except what I have learned during the progress ot the trial. It was referred to me to translate some Span-

ish indorsements on the back.

SAX.B OP THB OFFIOB PUBNITUKE COKPANT. Mr. Burke attempted to show by the witness that tbe United States Office Furniture Company sold out its business to tbe cabinet company May 26,1MB. Mr. Coffin would not say that there was such a sale. He sain that the tost accounts with the United States Oifice Furniture Company did not record any transactions with tea company subsequent to May 86, 188$. He testified that the tost entry on the hooka of tbe Wooten Office Desk Company, showing transactions between that company and tee United States Office Furniture Compan / was on May 18, 1888. Mr. Burke—Now, I will ask you if you did not on July 64, 1818, accept a draft drawn by

(limited) testified.

Coffin testified

ot English auditors

of London, in July,

Office Furniture Company lor $8.8001 (Handing the witness the draft.) Witneea—I accepted the draft, air. Mr. Burke—I will ask you if yon did not on June 16, thirty days after the account had been dosed, accept a draft on the Indianapolis Office Furniture Company for 97,900. Witness—I did. air. Other draits accepted by the wltaesi were handed him. The testimony wae the same concerning each. Mr. Coffin said he had no tMolleetioa of the condition of the accounts between the eompeaies at the time the drafts were drawn. Mr. Burke asked further about tbe Baker drait for $1,%0 sent to Mexico tor collection and returned unpaid; also if the drait wae not subsequently paid. Mr. Coffin said be could not remember. The witness wae asked about the insurance money received after tea fire at the Boston branch. Mr. Coffin said be remembered that insurance money had been received. He supposed it had gone tote the account of the Indianapolis National Bank. Mr. Burka required the witness to refer te the cash book of the cabinet company between July 24, 1898, and inly

28, 1898.

CABINkT OOMFANV’B LKTTEE-BOOX. Mr. Burke next handed the witness the letter-book of tbe cabinet .company and reaaired him to read a letter receipting for 91,200 insurance money received. The totter was

dated July a, 1893.

Mr. BnAn—'

1H»A did you nottipjipUm

M rJBurke—Was the check for $1,200 included

In that deposit?

Witness-it wae not.

Mr. Burke-Tbat chock waa good for $1,100,

was it not?

Witness—It was.

Mr. Burke—I win ask you 11 that check waa not sent te your lather or brother in Chicago

for collection?

Witness-The croaa entry here would show that it was sant to the Municipal Investment C MrfBurtre ehoSeid by the witness teat the Baker check wae also sent to Chicago. He had Mr. Coffin read a totter to Ma brother In Chicago, asking him to cash the check and send tbe money to Indianapolis, care F. B. Coffin, 906 North Pennsylvania street. There wae atoo read a letter from Charles H. Coffin, tbe brother, saying he had cashed the check, and bad sent the money in

two packages.

ruacaesa of ran flow company.

The witness waa next aakad again abont the purchase of the plant of the Indianapolis Plow Company. He wae asked to turn to tho entry showing the transaction, which he did. The entry, he aaid, waa on May 80, 1891. It showed that $11680 waa paid tor the property. Mr. Burke—You said you had no knowledge of a deposit made in the bank on Jnly IS, 1896? Witneea—I said I bad no personal knowledge. Mr. Burke—I will ask you if there were not paid oa that day two drafts, one on Wooten

aad on# oa Boston, both accepted by you?

Witaeee—t Examining the draft.; I accepted

Burke— I will ask yon if tbe amounts

were owing?

Witness—I can not say now. draits aa they were handed to me.

Mr. Bnrke—You may tern to the aceonnt and see if aay such amount* were owing. Witness—Mr. Burke, I do not know anything

mbout these froQfrftr

Mr. Burkis—Who ia this Mrs. Swift, who got some of the Ptoree notes? _ Witneea- She is • widow, Uving at Etch-

mond*

Mr. Burke—Is aha related to yon in any way?

Witness—She is not.

Mr. Bnrke- Is she related to anyone eon-

u acted with the cabinet eomnany?

■Witness—I think she is related te Mr. Rob-

erta. _ .....

WHAT THB DSUD aHoweo.

Mr. Burke went back te the purchase of the plant of the cabinet company from the sewing machine company. He asked Mr. Coffin if the deed did not show that tbe price paid for tho land, buildings aad was 935.000. Mr. Coffin said fa* did

chase notes amounting to 126,000 were given. These note* were discounted at tbe Indiana **Mi?Burite—In May or June, 1893, were you contemplating the opening o» a house on the plan oi the New York and Boston houses? Witness-No, sir. I had been solicited personally te take an imereti in business there, in the American Desk and Seating Company, and to one or two other companies. Mr. Burke—Did you have a conversation with E. T. Newton on June 20,1888. in Chisago in reference to the opening o a branch? Witaese-I may have had such a conversation. I was in Chi' ago a good deal during tbe

first three months of the Fair.

Mr. Burke—Was not the stringency of the times discussed, and did not you say to him that you did not care if all tbe banks in Indianapolis broke, as you had been preparing

tor it for six months?

Witneea-1 do not think I need any such

language.

Mr. Burke—Who waa Mr. Newton?

Witness - He was to our employ, looking

after our business at tae World’s Fair. cnoea-axAMiNATiow concluded.

Mr. Burke, at this point, announced that he waa through with the witneas. The cross-

examination had occupied ten hours.

Mr. Carr read to the jury the ’.otters which Mr. Coffin had been asked about during the

cross-examination. BY MX. WINTKB.

Mr. Winter began to re-examine Mr. Coffin

at 11:15 o'clock.

Mr. Winter—These drafts on Baker and from Boston were sent to Chicago on July 26, the day after the bank failed? ,

Witness—Yea sir.

Mr. Winter—What became of that money? Witness—It was paid out in the court* ot business, on labor pay-rolls and accounts payable, and on ten checks on Indianapolis National Bank that bad been returned to us after the bank failed, and a check waa given to the receiver of tbe cabinet company tor the balance, |878, then in the State Bank of In-

diana.

Mr. Winter asked the witness about the letters that had been read. The wimesa said that Mr. Hauehey was to have merely a nominal interest in the London company which it as attempted to organize. He aaid the suggestion that Mr. Hanghey should be one of the managers to America came from the Alliance Troet and Investment Company of London. Mr. Coffin said he had spoken to Mr. Haughey aoout the new company, and Mr. Haugney bad consented to serve. Continning, Mr. Coffin said that it was proposed that if this English company waa established the debt of the Indianapolis Cabinet Company should be wiped out. The Alliance Trust and Investment Company, through which it waa sought to establish the Indianapolis

Cabinet. Company ’ ■ failed, Mr. Coffin

18:;9. Mr. the visit

Indianapolis for the purpose of examining the books ot the cabinet company. The auditors, he said, reported that tbe profits of tbe cabinet company were $41,686 in 1887, and $42,107 in

1838.

TBE £20,000 DEBENTURES. The witneea testified aa to the effort te isene £20,000 ot debentures by an English oompany. The proceeds from the sale 01 the debentftres he aaid, were to be applied to the debt of the cabinet eomnany. At that time the indebtedness to the bank wae about $110,000. Other letters read, Mr. Coffin aaid, re erred to the sale of debentures. Debentures, he said, were about to be issued, when the company that had undertaken the bueinese tailed. DIVIDENDS PAID. Mr. Winter next asked the witness in reference te the dividends that were declared by tbe cabinet company. Mr. Coffin said that daring the thirteen years of the existence of the

•aid there was actually $20,000 in dividends. Mr. Coffin said that exclusive of interest and discounts, the cabinet company owed the hank about $246,000 at the time of the failure of the bank. In response to a question, Mr. Coffin said that during the existence of the London brsnen there was sent to London 1262,988.60, and received from London $806,996.05—excess of receipts oYer remittances, |64.0O7.87. Mr. Coffin said, in reply te questions, that Newton Todd, who applied for a receiver for the cabinet company, was a stockholder in the Indiana Truet Company. Edward Hawkins, receiver for the bank, he said, waa also a stockholder in the trust company. Mr. Winter—What knowledge, & any, did yon have of entries made by the bank in reference to the transactions between the bank and the cabinet oompany ? Witness—Not the slightest in the world, sir. Mr. Winter asked the witneas again about the catalogue issued by Mr. Lautsr under the name of the Indianapolis Office Furniture Oompany. Mr. Burke—Yonr Honor, the witneea has gone over all of this. Mr. Winter—I desire te have the witness explain why the name the Indianapolie Office Furniture Company waa used in organizing a branch. ' * Mr. Burke—We would rather you would have him explain why be got the money oat of the bank. Mr. Winter—Now. Mr. Burke, there will be time te argue this case later. It was now 12 o’clock and Mr. Winter said be wae through, unleee he thought of another question after adjournment. Afternoon Session. Mr. Burke cross-examined Mr. Ooffia further this afternoon. Mr. Burke—You say the debentures were to be turned oVer to M ua<’* Do yon mean the cabinet eomnany? Witneea—Yea, sir. Mr. Bnrke—You say tha debenture scheme failed on account of the failure of the inventment company? Witneaa—Yes, Mr. Mr. Burke—Did you not get a letter saying that the failure wea due te other causes? Witness—I might have received such a letter. but it would not change the fact. Mr. Burke had tbe witneas read a letter in which it was announced that the undertaking “had been a miserable ‘froet.’ ” Mr. Bnrke—Will you tell the jury how it wae that you continued te draw drafts on the London house after the house had burned? Witneea—We had a warehouse on Featherstone street, and another warehouse over there. Mr. Burke—Can you give the Jury any reason wh^the $82,000 paid ia dividends was not paid Witneea—It was net more than 8 per cent, per annum on our invastment. Mr. Burke—Were you ever employed in a bank at Richmond? Witness—I never was. ^Mr-^Burks—Were you ever employed to any Witness—I worked ia a bank ia New York citr lor a few months. Mr. Coffin waa told to stand aside at 2:80 o’clock. L. J. Robinson was recalled by Mr. Winter and asked a few unimportant questions. MASON IO GBAND LODGM. Seventy-Third Annwul Mentin*—Committees In Session. The seventy-third annual meeting of the Indiana Grand Lodge of Matson* will be held in Masonic Hail oa to-morrow and Wednesday. There are 471 lodges in the State, and tbe Grand Lodge will consist of abont five hundred members. There are now *7,000 Master Masons in Indiana. The Grand Lodge officers are aa follows: Master-Denial Noyes, Laporte. Deputy Master—Frank B. Gavin, GreensburK. Senior Warden—Edward O’Rourke, Ft. Wayna Junior Wardea—Simeon P. Giltott, Evansville. Treasurer—Martin H. Rice, Indismapolis. • Secretary—William H. Smyths, Indianapo-

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Chaplain—John H. Bickford. Anderson. Lecturer—Lawrence A. Huckeby, New Albany. Marshal—Charles A. White, Danvilto. Deacon—Mason J. Niblack, Vincennea Deacon— George A. Macomber, South Bend. Steward and Tyler—Roger Parry, Indian*polls. The following standing committees were in ■ession to-day: ■ - , ■ _ - - - - - wea Mo-

RUSSIA’S CHANGE 07 FACE TUBN6 tha: Vatican cold.

The Latent New* From Enropo—Tit© British Liberal Caucus Onronlzine Another Attack Upon tbe Enicllnh House of Lordn.

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[Loudon cable New York Times. So far as the history of our time goes, by far the most important subject inviting comment this week is the failure of the Pope yesterday to include any Frenchman in hie list of new cardinals. Special rngnifigance ia given this omission from the fact that some months ago tbe Vatican sent its customary formal notification to Mgr. Perraud. bishop of Anton, that ho waa to get the red hat at tbe next consistory, and this was published officially in the diocesan organ. It wae also intended te raise the archbishop of Lyons, who ia the provincial ■nperior of Antun, at the same time. Then cam* the revelation that Russia had backed out of her entangling flirtation with the repnblie, and the consequent attempt of the Vatican to also retrace its steps and get over again so the safer ground of friendly relations with the triple alliance, Thie maneuver wae sharply resented by the French government, which began at once putting the screws on the bishops again, the archbishop of Lyons first of alL Since then the row between the church and the republic baa been accentuated by the action of the papal nuncio at Paris in sending a circular letter to the French bishops on the oimtion of their relations to the which the ministry wus bound promptly to rebuke him for. It was a nice point, whether his walking papers should not be given him ofi'-band. as SaokvilieWe«t’e were in 1888 at Washington. But he promised not to offend again and an open rupture was everted. All the same, the qnarrel remains, and the result is that France will go into the „ IF a > A

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to the coal •aw coal so scarce or than they are sow,” said secretary of the Island Goal company la operating now, and there hope that any will begin to operate soon. We eoui.i probably make term* with the Indiana mir.er* if it were not tor the Pennsylvania operators. Tbe miners will not make terms In Indiana until their brethren ia

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thing! It is almost equally nnnrecedented that a man should be formally told he would ba made a cardinal ana then not elevated. Tbe only cam in a century is that of the Italian philosopher Rosinini, whose creation the Jesuits'were able to balk in the 50’s, after the intention had been announced. The other instance, that of the English historian Lingard, scarcely counts, because hie death prevented the fulfillment of the papal promise. This outbreak between the republic and the Vatican, which is thus made more marked than any previous hitch since the fall of the Second Empire, has mixed up French politics in tbe most astonishing new fashion. It has brought Casimir-Perier to the front as a strong autocratic Premier, who is ruling the Chamber of Deputies with almost contemptuous firmness. Oddly enoogh, he is supported even in his arbitrary attitude toward the church by the great bnlk of the Conservatives and Moderate Republicans. Tbs effect upon the international situation is difficult to follow clearly, but it is at least evidsnt that things are all at sixes and sevens again. Anotner Attack on the Hons* of Lords. {London cable New York Tribune.] A fresh attack on the House ot Lords is now announced. It is the fourth or fifth, or perbefps the sixth, ainee that wieked body last year threw out Mr. Gladstone's last revised, reconstructed, disemboweled and re-emboweled home rule bill by u majority of tin to one. That andacione set of independent judgment remains thus far unavenged. There was, it ia true, an instant cry for vengeance, and an appeal to the country to rise against tbe Lords. But the country would not rim. Then a Society for the Abolition of the I^rds was organised, but I believe tne society has since abolished itself, while the hereditary chamber atill lives Then Mr. Gladstone went to Edinburgh and made a apaeeh, bnt his •peech disappointed his too-eager cohorts, and did no damage to the upper House. Then the caucus took the matter in band. Mr. Schnadhoret issued a manifesto. The Liberal legions were aammoned to Porte* month, and went. Sir William Haroonrt went with them, or at the head of them, and the mighty voice of that mighty warrior waa heard in the land, annonneing the near doom of the impenitent legislators who bad never, like Sir william himself, found salvation on tbe subject of home rule. The eehoes of the voice died away, and it waa seen that the walls of Jericho had not fallen. under the >assed _ men next day. Little spurts of agitation burst out here and there, flickered and sputtered and died away. Tbe Liberal press from time to time, like the Icelandic geysers, shot forth volumes of boiling rhetoric, and then subsided. Finally one cried to their great leader: "Send us against the Lords, or resign l” Mr. Gladstone answered with a final oration of reasoned and regretful invective against the House which had so often resisted his imperious will. Than he disappeared from tbe scene. Bnt the House of Lords remained, To the frequent and ever shrill and shriller cry: "Down with the Lords!” there bad come no general response from any part of the country. It was seen that the cry wm a party cry and nothing more. It won no votes at bye-elections. It stirred no deep feeling. It was dropped, and instead of an agitation against tbe House of Lords, tbe party managers thought it prudent to set on foot a movement for overcoming what it became the fMhion to call the ,r veto” of that House. Even that modified and emasculated movement limped and halted from the start FOB MENDING, NOT ENDING. Lord Rosebery, differing sharply from two of his loading colleagues, Mr. John Morleyand Mr. Asquith, who are for the French convention over again, announced himaelf "a strong second-chamber man.” Ha is for mending, not for ending, the Lords. Ho told his followers that this question can only ba dealt with by the backing and on the summons and inspiration ot a great popular feeling. "Without that,” •aid tbe Prime Minister, ominously, "we arc in this matter absolutely impotent” That was aa long ago m last March. His words were taken to heart They were understood by the public in general m a funeral oration. He was thought to have laid abolition quietly on the shelf, side by side with home rule, both neatly tied np and carefully labeled that they might be found when wanted. Meantime matters were not mending with the party, either In the country or in the

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WEST INDIANAPOLIS POSTOFFICB Sections of the Law Quoted By Thoeo Favoring the offloe. The agitators for a postoffiee ia •napoils point to the following support of their claim that the < 6> a free-delivery postoffiee: I “RectUm 891. Letter-carriers shall bo employed for the free de#v«ry of mail matter, as frequently as the pub k business may require, at etery incorporate city. rtLage or borough containing a population 01 60,000 within its limits, and may be ao S*r% -‘eu ... He corporate limits according to the last l eral census taken by authority el the United State# awe or at any postoffice whu bj .rodmaa a gross revenue for tbe preceding lineal year 01 not le*» than 110,000; and provided lurlher that In offices where tbe free delivery shall he established under the provisions 01 this act such ire# delivery shall not be abolished by reason of decrease below 10,000 population or 910,000 to groM postal revenue, except to tbe discretion o the Poetmaste^GeneraL

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putters b#gn£ 0 to“e«l' stTSngly^at sons* thing must be done. ' ri ’ seed, or at Jen* 4 . . .. it their beet chance lay in a sinst tbe Lords. The militant rir party waa/or it, as it bad a) way# been, ey took counsel together. Finally, on Tuesday of last week, they launched an* other bomb. The Catural Caacue. which calls itself the National Liberal Federation —the *ame which had h*Jd tbe Portemouth meeting—leaned a second, if it be not a third, manifesto, and convoked another gathering of the Liberal dans, thie time at Leeds. It is a rather Jn temperate and ill-written document They remark, artlessly enough, that they have been considering for some time what steps can be taken to giv« definite aad concrete expression te tbe feeling of the Liberal party against the Lord* They denounce the House of Lord* aa “a etinding menace to everything which we understand ae representative government” Thry mean, of source, not representative, but elective. It has been generally admitted, and is admitted still, that on the one great question of last year tbe hereditary Lords and not the elected Commons were the real representatives of England. However that may be, Mr. Spence Watson and Mr. Scbnadhorit proclaim the Upper Home an obstacle—which, from their point of view. It undoubtedly is—and they assemble this conference to consider, or, as they, regardless of grammar, express it, "to practically consider” how this obstacle “can beet be surmounted or removed." The conference meets on J uoe 20. It will be an interesting occasion. ________ aervin n Feverish Spot. {London cable New York Bund fiervia is the only feverish spot in Enron* now. Everybody exDecte some sort of a sensational outcome of the crisis in Belgrade within a few daye, if not hours. The event generally anticipated is a second coup d’etat by tbe young King, with the aid of hit father and Prime Minister Kikolaievitch. The aim ie te put an end to the power of the Radicals, whom Milan regards aa personal enemies.* The King will probably suspend the constitution and establish an absolute government with the aid of the army. The first steps were taken on last r, ui * dynasty. ^A.11 suspected of Being porters of the rival house were arrested. The chief culprit, Pasitch, who haa been Servian ambassador at St. Petersborc up to the present, and whom King Milan regarded as his particular enemy, could not be found. It is asserted that a conspiracy, in which Pasitch ie deeply implicated, waa discovered for getting rid of the boy King Alexander and the whole Obrenovitoh dy nasty, and pteeing a Karegeorgavitch, supported by Russia, upon the throne. Pasitch was forewarned, and instead of returning home from Russia went to a foreign country. The resort to high-handed measures again in this littla kingdom may aasily develop into a serious menace te European peace. International Miners’ Congress. [London sable New York Ttmse.1 Long daily reports, furnished from Berlin, of the International Mmen' Congress would not naturally be looked to for diversion, but they have been really funnier than any comedy. The English delegates are numerical!/ only a handful, but they were the only ones present who knew anything about parliamentary procedure and the management of meetings. They got a elapse in the rules adopted that voting should be not by individuals, bnt on the basis of the miners represented; then it turned out that the Englishmen represented 525,000, as against 462,000 for the whole of the other countries combined. The result was a succession of English chairmen, who ruled out most of the things that the Continental members brought forward and defeated the rest. The French and Belgians revolted early in the week. Even the German worm turned yesterday, out the cold cheek of the Briton, impervious to Latin clamor and Teutonio objurgation alike, declared its own resolutions carried, and everybody etie's beaten. Finally it waa decided that the congress was at an end. on the solitary ground that the British delegates wanted to go home! It ia perhaps not surprising that leading continental economists and raformera regard the labors of tha congress as inoon elusive. LonOoM Cable Note*. Steamship men and others posted on the Atlantic summer travel have been estimating the number of Americas visitors to Europe during the coming summer. The average makes the number of first-cla*# passengers eastward about 81,000. The widest difference of opinion continues to exist in Paris regarding the candidacy of President Carnot for re-election. In one sense he is not a candidate, and it would be considered a breach 01 dignity for him to make a public announcement that be ie a candidate. It 1s now asserted that Casimir-Pener and Dupuy will refuse to allow their names to go before the assembly unless Carnot positively refuses to accept re-eleetion, Fite thousand cabs have disappeared from the London streets since Wednesday, but London is by no means cabless. The city’s needs are fairly well snpplied—a fact which makes clear the real cause of the difficulty between the drivers and owners. The supply of cabs in London it almost twice enough for the actual demand. The result is that a driver who pays fifteen shillings a day for the hire of a cab ia idle so much time that he can not earn a living at the legal fare of a shilling for two miles Nearly all the email owner# have yielded to the demand for lower rental, but tbe big masters show no sign of aorrender, and the outeome of the struggle ie doubtful. A ■»' - DID NOT KNOW IT WAS LOADED.

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°i *he P« *idcntor January,1898. extending the Civil service rules to all tree delivery office*. In these exDerimcntal offices there are no limitation* ** te age of carriers, aad it is not required that carriers at the experimental offices ehall be appointed by the PoetmaetiwGeneral or be uniformed. Postmasters are required te make monthly return of the amount of mail handled by carriers at thaw Those favoring tbe pOstofflee any tha receipts

would be over $10,000 a year. ”

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'Wiley Taylor Is Doad and Claud* Ban' ders Under Arrest.

Wiley Taylor, colored, died last night from a wound In the head inflicted by Gland Banders, who pointed a pistol that he did not know was loaded. Taylor wae a driver to the employ of James L. Reach, commission merchant, and the shooting occurred at Keach’e store, 62 South Delaware street. Bandera Taylor and tome friends were talking of Indian

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Oops Colony** Prosperity. {Chicago Record, j The population of Cape Colony wae 1,600,000 by the census of 1888, and is believed to have increased at least 20 per cent, since that date, so that it is now nearer two million. The foreign commerce of 1891 was valued at $1*8,444,985, and in 1892 had increased to $109,990,335. The increase in population and in trade is so rapid that the export* and the imports of the colony have more than doubled ainee 1886.

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