Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 23 January 1894 — Page 2

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C1.KVEI.AM) OVT-UEKODS 11EKOD. Kev. X. H. Emerson, a Presbyterian missionary, who by virtue of his position as Secretary of the Hoard has forty churches under his charge, and having spent many years on the Islands and is quite familiar with its affairs, has written a long- letter to the New York Tribune in which he reviews Cleveland's "policy of infamy." After addressing himself to Mr. Blount whose whole course while in Honolulu was marked by a covert but ill-concealed purpose to play into the hands of the ex-Queen, he dismisses him with, "Exit, Tool No. 1." Then comes this scathing- touch for Willis:

And now appears upon the scene Tool No. 2. and. mouthing professions of great and good friendship, peace and goodwill, makes his bow to President Dole, bearing assurances from his master "that he will constantly endeavor to advance the interests and prosperity of both Governments. and so render himself acceptable to Your KxcellenC3-." Hut let us taste the kernel of this nut with so fine an exterior. What is the gist of the great and good Cleveland's message to the Government of Hawaii? As solemnly mouthed by Willis to the men of the Provisional Government: "You are expected to .••promptly relinquish to lier (Mrs. Dominis) her constitutional authority. And now. Mr. President and gentlemen of the Provisional Government, with a deep and solemn sense of the gravity of the situation, and with the earnest hope that your answer will be inspired 'by that hiir'. patriotism which forgets self-interest, in tup name and by the authority of the United States of America. I submit to you the question. 'Are you willing to abide by the decision of the President'.1'"

Probably it is the first tilne in the history of American diplomacy that so absurd and astounding a question has been asked "in the name and by the authority of the United States of America." What maggot of idiocy must have addled the wits of an American to bring him to frame or utter such a proposition! To those who know the real situation of affairs here in Hawaii. the naivele of the question seems exquisite. An invitation to

President Dole and his cabinet to commit hari-kari on the spot would not have been more farcically preposterous. Gilbert and Sullivan might well take lessons of this man for their next opera bouffe. But seriously, the bald statements of the facts is an impeachment of the common-sense and honor alike of the one who conceived it and him who attempted to carry out the plan.

The plot, as it unrolls itself outjoabs Joab. When that bloody man of war greeted Amasa, "Art thou in health, my brother?" and took him by the beard to kiss him. the naked sword with which to smite was in hand. Hut in the case of Cleveland and his little tool, Willis, the sword was carefully concealed from view.

I write with the text of Cleveland's special message to Congress on the ...'Hawaiian question before me. It is pitiable reading. 1 find in it hardly a word about the wrong attempted by

Lilluokalani on January 14th no recognition of the right of a people to secure good government by revolution: no eye or ear for the ineliablc infamy of the woman many times unqueened before she was once forever dethroned not one word of regret for the earthquake shock that threatened the edi fiee to the rearing of which civilization and Christianity had toiled together for two generations: not one word do we see on these poir.ts: nay, more, we see him going out of his way to disavow all concern in interests so foreign to him. He has many regrets and great disapprobation, however, for the prophetic foresight of the clear minded American who had sympathies with good government and the conditions that make for civilization and Christianity: he has fathomless abhorrence for any expression of concern for the loss, threatening the life, property and civilization of men of his own race, whose all was at stake in Hawaii for the civil rights, honor, peace and civilization of men. white and dark, in llawaii, not one thought or particle of sympathy or regard. But when it comes to the question raised by himself. as to whether the blameless minister appointed by the preceding Administration, Mr. Stevens, seconded by another incorruptible American otliciai, Captain Wiltse, acting according to their best judgment in the avowed interest of imperilled American life and property. enacted a worthy or an unworthy part, fact and fiction are strained to the utmost, in the face of abundant evidence to the contrary, to prove him guilty of a technical illegality. And yet this stickler for technicality, Cleveland, the strength of whose whole insistence is that Stevens failed in paying full tithe to the mint, anise and cumin of technicality, was at the same time himself clearly guilty of the serious unconstitutionality of overriding the action of Congress in illegally commissioning and sending, as a special commissioner, Mr. Blount, and charging him with an authority paramount to the lawfully appointed American minister.

Admitting the President's argument for the moment, Mr. Cleveland would amend the technical error of a minister of his own government by inflicting an outrage against a whole nation. Mr. Cleveland was prepared to east down and shatter a civilization, let lose the hounds of war and anarch}' to make amends for what, at his best showing, was an error of judgment, a failure it repress sympathy for an imperiled civilization. Was there ever a better instance of straining at the gnat and swallowing a camel?

King Herod murdered the babies of a whole town to rid himself of an infant king. What would Cleveland have done under like circumstances?

THE four State dispensaries of liquor in Charleston, S. C., sold 810,557.17 worth of wet goods during the month of December, and turned over 81,800 to th« city wits share of the profits.

TRACED IN BLOOD

OR,

The Little Old Han of the Batignolles,

BY EMIL CABORIAU.

ClIAI'TEH V.

While wnitim? for the ennclcrge, M. Mecliinet proceeded to make ii rapid and close examination of the scene of the crime.

The lock of the door leading into the apartment was what principally occupied Ills attention. It, was uninjured, ami the key turned in it without, the slightest difficulty. This circumstance entirely precluded the idea that a stranger had entered at night by the aid of false keys

On my part, mechanically, or rather Inspired by the astonishing instinct that had been revealed in me. 1 picked up the cork half covered with green wax which I had seen on the floor.

It had been used, rml the wax portion still showed the marks of the corkscrew but in the other end was a deep notch, evidently produced by some sharp instrument.

Suspecting the importance of my discovery, I imparted it to M. Mecliinet, who could not restrain an exclamation of pleasure. "At last," he cried, "we have a clue. This cork was dropped here by the assassin. It was fastend on the point of the weapon he used. Inference: the instrument of murder is a poniard, fastened Into a handle, and not. a knife that shuts. With this cork I am sure of finding the criminal, wlioeser he may be!"

The commissary of police was finishing his work in the bed-chamber, and M. Mechinet and 1 remained in the drawingroom, when we were interrupted by the sound of panting breath.

Almost instantly I he stout woman whom 1 had seen in the vestibule haranguing amidst the lodgers appeared.

It was the ronrirryc. redder, if possible, than when we arrived. What can I do for you. monsieur?" she asked M. Mechinet. "Sitdown, madame," he replied.

But, monsieur, I have some people below." "They will wait for yon. 1 tell you tc tit down."

Nonplussed by M. Mechiuet's ton# sht obeyed. Then, fixing his little gray eye* npon her: "I need certain information," he began, "and I am going to question you. In your own interest I advise you to answer without evasion. In the first place, what is the name of the poor old man who has been murdered?" "His name was Pigoreau, monsieur, but he was best known by the name of Autenor, which he h.td formerly borne because it was better suited to his business."

Has he lived in this house long?" For eight years." Wher» did he live before?" "In the Hue Richelieu, where he had his shop—for he was a hairdresser, and made his fortune in the business." "So he was considered a rich rran?" "I've heard his niece say he hadn't less tbau a million."

This matter could be easily decided, since an inventory had been mr.de of the old man's papers. "Now," continuedM. Mechinet. "What! sort of a man was this Monsieur Pigoreau or Antenor?" "Oh,the best of men,monsieur.'' replied the concierge. "He was very eccentric and as miserly as possible, but not a bit proud. And so comical, too! One could have listened to him all night when he was in the right mood, jle knewsomnny stories. Just think! au old hairdresser, who, as hesaid, had arranged tho hair of the handsomest women in Paris." "How did he live?" "Like everybody else. Like everybody who has an Income, 1 mean, and yet is careful of money." "Can you give ni« any particulars?" "Oh, yes, seeing that I had charge of his housekeeping. And it gave me very little trouble, for he did almost everything—sweeping, dusting and polishing —himself. It was his hobby. Then.every day of his life, when the clock struck twelve, I took him cup of chocolate. He drank it, swallowed a glass of water directly after, and that was his breakfast. Then he dressed, and this occupied nearly two hours, for he was more coquettish and particular about his person than a bride. As soon as bo was dressed be went out to walk. At six o'clock he dined at a boarding-house kept by the Demoiselles Gomet, Rue de la Paix. After dinner lie went to the Cafe Guerbois to drink his coffee, and at eleven o'clock came home and went to bed. The poor old man had one fault. Ho had too much regard for the fair sex. I often said to him, 'Aren't you ashamed of yourself at your age?'

But nobody is perfect, and we can understand this in an old perfumer, who had a great many favors in his life."

A smile flitted over the face of thestout conciergc, but nothing could make M. Mechinet unbend. "Did Monsieur Pigoreau receive many visitors?" he asked. "Very few. I rarely saw any one come to see him except his nephew, Monsieur Monistrol, who dined with hirn every Sunday at Pere Lathuile's." "And on what terms were the uncle and nephew?" "They were like hand and glove." "Did they never have any disputes?" "Never, except that they wure always squabbling about Madame Clara." "Who is this Madame Clara?" "Monsieur Monistrol's wife, a magnificent creature. Monsieur Antenorcouldn't bear her. He said his nephew loved her too much, that she led him by the nosa and marie him see everything as she wished. He declared ti.at she didn't love her husband, that she felt above her business, and would end by doing something foolish. Madame Clara and her uncle were at loggerheads lastyeiir. She wanted the old man to lend Monsieur Monistrol a hundred thousand francs to buy the stock of a jeweler in the Palais Royal. Hut he refused, declaring that they might do what they chose with his fortune after his death, but until then, having made it he meant to keep it and enjoy it."

I thought M. Mechinet was going to dwell upon this circumstance, which seemed to me very important. No I vainly made signs he continued: "I have still to learn by whom the crime was discovered." "By me, monsieur, by me!" wailed the coneicrge. "Oh, It is terrible! Imagine me, when the clock struck twelve to day coming upstairs as usual to give Pere Antenor his chocolate. As I attend to the housekeeping, I have a key to the door. I open it, I enter, and what do I see? Oh, merciful heaven!"and she began to utter piercing shrieks. "This grief shows your kind heart, madame," said M. Mechinet, gravely. "Only, as I am in a hurry, try to control it. What did you think when you saw your lodger murdered?" "I said to whoever cared to hear,'It's his nephew, tho wretch, who dealt the blow to secure the inheritance.' "What gave you this certainty? To accuse a man of so great a crime is to thrust him upon tbo scaffold." "Nay, Monsieur, who else could it bel Monsieur Monistrol came to see his unclc yesterday evening, and when ha went oul

it. was nearly midnight. Besides,though he always speaks to me,he said nothing when lie came or went away. And from that moment till the one when I discovered everything, no one, 1 am sure, went up to MoU' sieur Antenor's room." 1 confess that this testimony bewildered me.

Sl'il a tyro, I should not have thought of pursuing the examination. Fortunately M. Mcchinet's experunce was (.Teat-, and he was thoroughly sKilled in the difficult art of drawing the whole truth from witnesses. "So, madame," he continued, 'you are certain that Monistrol CHUIB here yesterday evening?" "Certain." "You saw him distinctly? recognized him?" "Oh, excuse me 1 didn't see bis face. He passed very quickly, trying to hide himself, like I ho wretch he is, and the corridor is dimly lighted."

I started at tills reply, the importance of which was incalculable, and advanced towards the concicrye. "If that is so," 1 cried, "how dare you assert that you recognized Monsieur Monistrol?"

She eyed me from bond to foot, and, smiling sarcastically, answered: "If 1 didn't see the master's face, I saw the dog's muzzle. As I always pet it.it came into my room, and 1 was Just goinfl t© give it. a mutton bone, when its lnastci whistled for it."

I looked at M. Mechinet, anxious tc know what he thought of these answers, but his face faithfully kept the secret oi his impressions. ...

He merely added: wSM "What kind of a dog is Monsieur Mon* istrol's?" "A png, perfectly black, with a whiU spot over its ear. Thi-y call it Pluto."

M. Mechiuet arose,

"You can go," lie said to the rnnclrrQe "my mind is made up." And when she had gone— "It seems to me impossible.'' said he, "that, the nephew is not. the criminal."

Meantime the doctors had come and when they had finished the post-mortem examination their conclusion was: "Monsieur Pigoreau's death was certainly instantaneous. So it was not he who traced the five letters ilmtis which we had seen on the floor, near the corpse."

I had not been mistaken. "But if it wasn't he,'' cried M. Mechinet, "who was it "Monistrol? Nobody will ever get that through my brain."

And the commissary of police.delighted to be able to go to his dinner tit last, rallied him on his perplexities—absurd perplexities, since Monistrol had confessed. "Perhaps I am only a fool," he answered "the future will decide. And meantime, my dear Monsieur Godeuil, come to the prefecture with me."

CHAPTER VI.

We took a fiacre to go to the prefecture of police, as we had taken one to come to the Batiguolles.

M. Mechiuet was very much pre-occu-pied his fingers never stopped traveling from his snuff box to his nose, and I beard him muttering between his teeth: "I will have a clear understanding! 1 must have a clear understanding!''

Then he drew the cork I had given him out of his pocket, turned it over and over tike a monkey examining a nut, and murmured— "The criminalty is proved, and yet— lome expedieut ought to come out of this green cork."

I, leaning back iu my corner, did not tter a word. My situation was certainly a most singular one, but I did not think of it. All the intelligence I had was absorbed in this business. I was turning over in my mind the various cont radictory elements, and exhausting myself in trying to penetrate the secret of the drama, of which I had a presentiment.

Night had closed in when our carriage stopped. The Quai des Orfevres was deserted and Bilent. Not a sound, not a step was heard. The few shops in the neighborhood were closed. All the life in the quarter bail collected in the little restaurant at the corner of the Rue de Jerusalem, on whose red curtains appeared the shadows of the customers. "Will they let you have nccess to the prisoner?" I asked M. Mechinet. "Certainly," he answered. "Haven't I been ordered to follow up the affair? Isn't it necessary, in consequence of unforeseen circumstances which may occur during the inquiry, that 1 should be able to question the prisoner at any hour of the day or night?"

And he, entered with a rapid step, saying— "Come, come we've no time to lose."

There was no necessity to hurry me. I followed close behind, agitated by indefinable emotions, and quivering with vague curiosity.

It was the first- time I had ever crossed the threshold of the prefecture of police, aud Heaven k.lows what my prejudices were. "There," I said to nivself, not without a certain emotion of terror, "there is the secret, of Paris."

I was so absorbed in my reflections, that, forgetting to watch my steps, I nearly fell down.

The shock recalled me to a consciousnes of my situation. We were then passing along an immense passage with damp walls and rough pavement. My companion soon entered a little room where two men were playing cards, while three or four others, stretched on a camp bed, were smoking pipes. He exchanged a few words with them, which did not reach my ears, then came out and we continued our walk.

Having crossed a court-yard nndentered a second passage, we soon reached an iron prating with heavy bolts and formidable lock. in

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100

100 Dozen All Linen (large size Napkins, worth SI.00 Discount Price

30 Holts Turkey Red Damask worth 25c yd Discount I'rice

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doz. extra large All Linen Towels with fast colored borders, worth 25c Discount Price

MUSLINS,

Lonsdale, Masonvill and Fruit of the Loom. 3fiinch Bleached Muslins, worth 10c yd ....... Discount Price

Kvery item in Bleached and Brown Muslins and Sheetings at less than wholesale prices.

KID GLOVES,

250 doz. Ladies' Kid Cloves, all sizes and colors, including black, that have been returned to manufacturer on account of slight imperfections. some so slightasto be'scarcely noticeable, worth 81.00, §1.25. $1.50 and S2.00 per pair

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Outing and Domet Flannels:

50 pieces 2,500 yards Domet Flannels, good patterns and colors. Worth SKc to 12H'c Discount price

NOTE:—During

new, desirable goods at

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THE BIG STORE

LOUIS BISCHOF

127-129 EAST MAIN STREET

Wednesday Morning, January 3, 1894, at 8:30 O'Clock We Will Commence Our

17th Grand Annual Discount Clearing Sale.

If we know anything at all we think we ought by this time to know how to

run a Clearing Sale, and we assure the public that all our energies and accumu­

lated experience have been enlisted to make this The Greatest of All Clearing

Smiles Read the list and depend upon it that you will find everything just ex­

FURS,

lc each

69c doz

1 71 2c. yird

29c yd

37c yd

5c yd

yard

23c

16

3c.

67

S yard

49c

OC yd

BWS-This Sale will be for Cash Only. No Goods Charged.

the last two months we disposed of

months. We have no old goods to offer. In addition, have just purchased for spot cash

300 Black Hare Mulls, worth 75c. ...... Discount price All other furs 33K per cent. off.

DRESS GOODS,

150 bolts Fancy Mixed Suitings, 33 inches wide. good colors, worth 15c per yard Discount price.

25 bolts all-wool Serge, 40 inches wide in good desirable colors, worth 50c QO Discount price

A grand bargain.

Fine 30 inch Henriettas, all colors and black, worth 25c and 35c per yard Discount price leyC yd

We never carry over novelty Dress Goods if price will sell them. We have marked a discount of 25, 33K, and 50 per cent, off on all fancy styles.

SPECIAL.

150 dozen fine glass bottles, assorted sizes and styles, cut and ground glass stoppers, worth 50c, 00c and 75c

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NOTICE.

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Every article in our stock will be offered at discount prices of 25, 33^ and 50 per cent. This means '4, and )4 of the original price will be chopped off, making this the grandest bargain sale ever inaugurated. This includes Hosiery. Underwear, Gloves, Linens, Dress Goods, Cloaks, Curtains, Silks, Trimmings, Laces. Embroideries and .Staples. This sale will go down in the Dry Goods history of this city as the climax of merchandising.

$20,000

which included every undesirable article in our stock, and left us only goods bought during the past six

per cent, of their value, which will be included in this sale.

19c

'. .. 7 1"2C

gc*C yfl

23c

2tfc yard

4 3-4c

worth of merchandise to.one party,

$8,000

worth of