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VOL II. NO. 13

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Animals,

Dolls and

Toys

Of all kinds are now on display at our store. We have spared no pains this season to make a grand showing, and we certainly have the best line of

Dolls Dolls. Dolls.

and other Christmas goods that has ever been shown here. In our Grocery department we are showing an elegant line of Queens ware, odd dishes and fancy pieces, and it will pay you to come and see the display.

LEE C. THAYER.

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have you examined them Many Improvements Heretofore Overlooked by Other Manufacturers.

Men's Suits

Oti cl Coats and Vests And Odd 'Coats:

HOW

DO THESE PRICES SUIT YOU.

Suits from S2.00 to $5. Coats and Vests from $1.00 up. Odd Coats from 25c up.

These goods will make splendid everyday .appare* and are at prices far below their actual worth, but we want to sell them, so we put I selling prices on them.

We are still offering a great chance in ladS ies' and misses' Cloaks, and now offer this great chance on men's clothing.

WARD WALKER & CO.

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Three New Models.

Typewriters.

Nos. 2, 3 and 4.

THE SMITH PREMIER TYPEWRIT*R CO., 76 E. Market St., Incii r.apolis, lud.

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ORIENTAL DIPLOMACY

As Practiced by Turkey Remains Unchanged.

NO FIRMANS YET GRANTED.

Whether From Dread of Another Massacre or of a Clash Ensuing Between the Powers Themselves, Is Not Known—The

Since the return of her majesty's steamship Dryad to Salonica bay, no word has been heard of any actual order or movement to advance upon the Dardanelles. Opinion continues divided as to whether the delay in taking any action to enforce the demands is due to a fear of causing a fanatical outbreak against the Christians by the Mussulmans subjects of the sultan or to a dread of a clash ensuing between the powers themselves.

That the sultan lives inn state of constant apprehension of his life was indicated by his demnnnor-during the course of the ceremony of the Snlamik on Friday. which involves the departure of the sultan from the walls of the palace and liis appearance in public for a sort of review of the troops, attended by many hii-lt officials, followed by prayers at the Mosque. On Friday, as the sultan was quitting the Mosque, a man. attired as a Turk, bearing a petition, forced himself through the soldiers to the sultan's carriage. The sultan was seen to become much agitated and deathly pale, but the man was promptly arrested and hustled oft" to prison without having accomplished any harm to the sultan's person.

Explicit instructions were again received yesterday by all. the ambassadors to insist on the admission of the guardships. but, as has been stated, without effecting any change in the situation.

Authentic details have now been received of the Sivas Massacrrs. They show that the slaughter began on Nov. 12 and continued for a week following. It is known that 1,200 Armenians and 10 Tui'ks were killed before thcie was a cessation of the bloody Work.

The manner of the outbreak is described n.« follows: Suddenly, at noon, a^ if by a preconcerted signal, the Turkish soldiers and police, the Circassians and even the laborers and Moslem women and children rushed into the market under command of the officers, .ill wore armed, the laborers with tools or clubs or anything that could be used as an offensive weapon that came to hand.

They attacked and looted the Armenian shops and pursued with relentless fury the occupants who seemed helpless with surprise at the suddenness of the onslaught. Many merchants and clerks were killed and their bodies stripped.

As the importing business was almost exclusively in the hands of the Armenians financial disaster must overtake Sivas when the fury of the storm of blood and greed has subsided.

The stricken Armenians slowly gathered the mangled remains of their kinsmen and buried them in a great trench in the cemetery.

The Armenian villages in the vicinity were also looted and the people left to beg and die. The winter will bring terrible suffering to all the living victims of the outrages.

A high official, in a position to know, declares that the massacres were the deliberate act of the sultan's vengeance for having been compelled to grant the reforms in Armenia demanded by the powers.

A few of the Turkish shops were attacked to afford as a pretext on which to accuse the Armenians of having started the disorder.

It is asserted that the Kaimakan of Guerin, where there are 5.000 Armenians, telegraphed to the Vali of Sivas: "You may rest assured there is not au Armenian left in Guerin. They resisted the butchers and they suffered the worse for it.''

The expulsion and removal of the Armenians from Constantinople and the vilayets continued by wholesale.

All the Armenian monasteries in the vicinity of Erzingjan have been pillaged. The massacre occurred there after the Armenians had been disarmed and Seokki Pasha had faithfully promised to protect them.

At the village of Pasuan, near Erzingjan, the Kurds and Turks attacked a crowd of Armenians who had taken refuge in an Armenian church and killed 40 of them.

Altogether, 400 were killed and 800 were wounded in the Erzingjan iistrict.

Donblo Suicide Attempted.

LONDON, Dec. 9.—A sensational attempt at a double suicide was made on Saturday night at the Grand hotel by Charles Galloway of Maidarale and his sister-in-law, between whom a liason has existed. Both of the victims have serious revolver wounds and it is be-

lieved are not likely to recover. They appear to be well connected.

GREENFIELD INDIANA MONDAY EVENING DECEMBER 9, 1895.

Sultan in Mortal Fear—Details of the Slaughter at Sivas. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 9.—(Copy

righted)—The situation here on the question of the extra guardships of the powers remains unchanged and continues to offer a tribute to the powers of delay and evasion of Oriental diplomacy as practiced by the Turkish government. Statements are constantly reiterated of the continued accord of the powers on the subject and their unyielding determination to insist upon a compliance with their demands. Less is heard, however, of the rumors which were of frequent occurrence in the early period after the demand had been presented, that the sultan had at length decided to grant the necessary firman to permit rhe passage of the Dardanelles, or even that he had actually issued them.

ANew Spurious V. «, •,

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—The secret service bureau has discovered a new photographic counterfeit $5 bank note on the Fort Dearborn National bank of Chicago, sories of 1882, bank No. 6197, charter No. 8698, portrait of Garfield.

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CRUSHED AND SCALDED.

Terrible Fate of a Crew of Five Kailroad Men in Xew York. NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—Three men were

killed and two more were injured in a railroad wreck yesterday on the New York and New Haven railway in Harlem. The killed are:

Thomas Fitzgerald, engineer, 35 years old. Frederick Maples, 40 years old, brakeman.

Thomas O. McNally, 40 years old, brakeman. The injured are:

Thomas Bannon, conductor, cut and scalded. Thomas McKeon, fireman, cut and scalded.

All of the killed and injured were residents of this city. The accident occurred between One Hundred and Thirty-second and One I Hundred and Thirty-third street. The engine, No. 16, of the company's equipment, was used as a switching engine and was bound east to Vannest station with its crew of five men. The location of the accident was at a short curve and no explanation of what was responsible for the trouble could be ascertained.

Everything was in its proper shape apparently and the engine and its tender were proceeding along at the usual speed, when, without any warning, the engine left the track and went bumping along over the ties. Bannon, the conductor, and McKeon. the fireman, leaped for their lives at the moment the engine toppled over across the westbound track before the others of the crew were able to save themselves from being crushed beneath the weight of the boiler.

Police and firearms were at once turned in. The firemen went to work with their axes and cut away all the wood work of the rab, and in that way were able to take out the 1 todies of Fitzgerald and Maples, both of whom were pinned down by the cab. The body of NcNally, however, was under the boiler and the firemen were not able to release it. A wrecking crew was sent for from the company's yard and the work of lifting up the engine, which lay on its side, was begun. After many hours of labor the engine was jacked up and the body of McNally was taken out. All of the bodies were crushed and scalded, death evidently having been instantauoous. Fitzgerald's head protruded through the window of the engine cab and lie was sitting on his seat at his I duty when the accident happened.

CONQUEST COMPANY

I Accept an Island From Mexico on Condition They Subdue the Natives.

Los ANGELES, Dec. 9.—The Capital publishes a story to the effect that a number of Los Angeles men have received a concession from the Mexican government to the island of Tiburon, in the Gulf of California. The men are John Bradbury, J. Downey Harvey, Peter Martin and Walter S. Moore, all well known men. Tiburon island is inhabited by the Ceris Indians, a warlike race, said to be cannibals, and an expedition is being organized to kill th^m off and take possession of the island. A company of 500 men is being organized under the command of

and has offered the is! :i

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Colonel

H. Polk. Each soldier is to receive and 100 acres of land after the island is conquered.

The money for the expedition is being put up by Colonel Bradbury, who inherited a million or S041 few years ago. There are only about 100 male Ceris Indians, but they are said to be such valiant fighters that the Mexican government despaired of

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dertake the work. It is r.tion of the Tiburon Conquest company, as the new corporation, is called, to establish a republic of its own and have the United States establish a protectorate. It is stated that Mexico has consented to this.

One of the objects of the company is to establish a great resort and lines of steamers will be put on from both Yuma and Guirmas. The climate being delightful, the island will soon become one of the noted resorts of the world. It is teeming with game and this will be protected. In fact game and games will be imported there.

THE VIADUCT VERDICT.

Coroner Said to Have Blamed the Dead Conductor For the Cleveland Horror. CLEVELAND, Dec. 9.—It is said that

the coroner has decided upon his verdict in the recent viaduct accident, by which 17 persons lost their lives.

Motornian Rodgers of the car which plunged into the open draw is held blameless, it is said, because he swore positively that he did not see the danger signal or know that the draw-bridge gates were open until the car was almost into the draw. It is said that the coroner also exhonerates the bridge captain, holding that the testimony showed the gates were closed and the danger signal lights in place.

This will free the city from blame. It is also said that the verdict will place the blame

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the conductor of the car,

Edward Hoffman, who met death in the accident, for the testimony showed that the conductor opened the switch and signaled the motornian to come ahead. Therefore, the motornian believed that everything was all right.

Another Accident to the Texas. NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—It was reported

at Tompkinsville, Staten Island, that the United States battleship Texas, while coming to anchor oil that place at 4:15 p. m. Saturday, lost her anchor and a portion of chain attached. The accident was said to have been caused by a pin dropping out of one of the shackles of the chain cable.

Made 'Em'Lose Money.

COLUMBUS, O., Dec. 9.—The firm of Longstreth & Schroeder, well known piano dealers of this city, are mourning the strange absence of C. B. Wilso, who was their TJrbana agent, and who has been missing for two weeks. The causo of his rlisannearance is laid at the feet a? pmra or

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LABOR FEDERATION.

Half a Will

NEW YOKK, Dec. 9.—The largest congress of labor leaders ever he Id in New York as far as the numbers represented and the interests involved are concerned, will begin today at Madison Square garden with the opening of the loth annual convention o£ the American Federation of Labor.

More than 500.000 organized workingmen in the United States are sending their delegates, 115 in number, to represent them. Perhaps a million workingmen would be nearer the mark but the officers of the Federation are conservative as to numbers, and only reckon those who are in good standing with the subordinate unions.

It is now 12 years since the federation I met in this city in convention, since which time it has been expanding until I it has its representatives in every state in the Union and all over Canada. It has affiliated with it 80 national organizations. There will be one woman delegate, Miss Frances Martell, who will represent, the garment workers' union 1 of Chicago. For the last three days the delegates to the convention have been I arriving. Ex-President Gompers of tne federation and several of the local offi- I cers are finding quarters for the dole- 1 gates at the hotels.

The executive council of the fedora- 1 tion, reached this city Saturday and are at the Ashland .House*. The council consists of John McBride, President of the American Federation of Labor P. G. McGuire, vice president John Bleu11011, treasurer Augustine, McCraith, I secretary, and N. M. Garland, president 1 of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. Ex-President Gompers attended a meeting of the executive council which was held in the I afternoon at the Ashland House. The business consisted of preparations for the opening of the convention.

E. Cowey and J. Mawdsley of the coal miners and spinners' unions of England, who will attend the convention as representatives of those bodies, arrived yesterday. They were met jy a delegation of the local officers and escorted to the Ashland House, which will be the headquarters of the executive council. They represent about oOO.OOO workiiifjinen in England and Wales.

President John McBride of the Federation, is not a delegate, having been defeated at the election for delegates from his local union. He will, however, as president, open the convent,ion.

Special arrangements have been made to

entertain

Million Workingmen Be Represented.

TWO DELEGATES FROM ENGLAND.

Important Questions to Come Before the

Convention, Among Them the Eight

Hour Law—An Effort Will Be Made to

Extinguish the K. of L. as a Trades Union Movement—Gompers a Candidate,

the visiting delegates. A

massmeeting will be held in Cooper Union this evening'under the auspices of the trade and labor unions of New 1 York, Brooklyn and Jetsey City, in connection with the convention, at which the visiting delegates will be invited to speak. I

Important questions will come before the convention, including the carrying I out of a general eight-hour movement 1 011

May 1, 1896. (Questions affecting the standing of subordinate national 1 unions will be discussed and some long I standing fights between rival unions I will be considered.

The question of harmonizing national bodies will also be considered and eiforts will be made to extinguish the 1 Knights of Labor as a trades union movement and compel that body to become a pureljr educational one.

Ex-President Gompers will be a candidate for president in opposition to President McBride.

AJI Insane Man's Crime.

DEXTER, la., Dec. 9.—Grant Hibbs fatally shot his wife and committed suicide last night. When neighbors entered the house Mrs. Hibbs was holding her husband's head in her lap and a year-old babe on one arm, the baby playing in the blood that flowed from its father's wounds. Hibbs had been released from Mount Pleasant insane asylum as cured five weeks ago.

Looking For the Overdue Vessel.

PoiiT TOWNSEND, Wash., Dec. 9.— Search for the disabled steamer Strathnevis will be prosecuted by the Oriental steamer Tacoma, wnieii sailed westward from Victoria yesterday.

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curse of God fall

a few days

two or three tugs will be sent out a couple of hundred miles to await her appearance.

Accused of Selling Opium.

LEXIN'UTO.N, Ky., Dec. 9.—The grand jury here Saturday afternoon indicted James McCorniiclc, Jr., son of Councilman James MeCormiek, for conducting an opium "joint." Councilman Elijah Allen was also indicted for conducting a soap factory in the city of Lexington.

I'iiinos Burned.

CHICAGO, Dec. 9.—Fire last night at 178-180 Wabash avenue, occupied by Meyer and Webber and Joseph Bowman, piano and organ manufacturers, caused damage amounting to $75,000. The fire was caused by electric wires becoming crossed.

Ohio Miners Refuse.

COLUMBUS, O., Dec. 9.—The Ohio miners have refused to meet the operators' committee of seven, to whom was referred the adjustment of the demand for a cash rate in this state.

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the tier in which the prisoner was confined, and passed through the iron doorway to the outer office.

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WINCHES UK, O., Dec. 9.—Scott township, this county, has an 11-year-oi.l boy in the person of Marion Glasgow, wlio appeared before she board of school examiners last week and, although he has no luuudiou of teaching school, lie made every

and received a certifi

cate for one year.

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Murderer Ilayviird Invokes Curse on His Brother. MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 9. "May the"

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you and yours, anil

allow me, from the minute I drop, from the scaffold, to haunt you day and. night until your death. Then I will welcome you

the brink of hell with..*

red hot poker.'' These are the farewell words of Har*y Hayward to his brother Achy yesterday afternoon. He hurled them at the lat-

ter as lie descended the stairs leading to

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such the murderer intended it to be. A dry was as calm as the prisoner was impassioned. He was unmoved by the anathemas except toward pity. His was the brotherly affection and he interrupted with the frevent "God bless you, Harry, Goodbv Harry," which elicited the remark quoted above.

The meeting between the brothers was arranged by the parents who be-.?? seeched the condemned man to see Adrf once more before he died.

Harry is to be executed Wednesday for the murder of Catherine Ging. When he heard Saturday that the governor had signed his death warrant, ho exclaimed: ''That's along time to waifc for a railroad tram."

Von Kocller's Successor.

BKULTN. Dec. 9.—It is stated here that Baron Y011 Koerst. governor of Dussel-s dorf. will succeed Baron Yon Koeller as*s Prussian minister of the interior.

TELEGRAPHIC TAPS.

Condensed News by Wire From Different! rails of 1 lie- Globe. Kx-Clnel Oi Police !'ih Thompson of IN-?' diasiapohs (hed OL exhaustion bai/urday,| ag-d LI.

I'at Hieedv. Riley (•rivmiuin and Anilyl Welsh will tour Kiirope togcilior next, month. fieedv started Saturday.

Near Wasliimrron. John Kennedy, 50,| attempted

thaw a package o) dyuanut»I

by the fire, with the usual results. Tin* board ol appeals ot the American Trotting association. 111 session at Chica-1 cro. expelled J. 13. Chandler of Wichita,| Kansas. I

Pumpkins are just now worth G3 a ton! to the Pennsylvania tanners, who raise| them in large quantities tor

tlio

factories. San .Joso, Cal., is planning to hold a| carnival of roses next May, and

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canning!

already!

§7,000 lias been contributed toward paying the expenses. Samuel Caublv, a farmer,

n^ar Law-1

re nee burg. Intl., had two valuable horseg| so bauly shot by careless

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lumhus when General Buslmell is Inducts| ed into ollice. A public reception will I take its place.

At Vevav, Ind., Benjamin S. Davis shot and killed himself the presence of his sweetheart, Agues Livingston. Fear! of cancer led to lie act.

The citizens ol Bridgeport and Martin's| Ferry, ()., a.re considerably worried ovejrjj the announcement, t«at smallpox has beenf discovered 111 bot ti places.

William lenselman. an old soldier the late war. and a resident ol Hnekls, Intl., was lrozen to deal !i while011 Ins way home I rem a business iij).

At Tillin, O.. the piessers at the Brewer! pottery an again out on a strike as the resuit ol their persistent efforts to keep ap-| prentices Iroin going to work.

Alfred J. Kurd, a young relegraph oper-| ator of Biddetord, Me., murdered his father with a razor Saturday. His father had urged him to leave home anil hunt work.

The new church of St. Mary the Virgin, at New York, was opened Sunday wrh| all the pom])and splendor that can attend such an aflair. The edifice is occupied by the ritualistic Episcopalians.

The Paris police have searched the lodgings of Gilbert, Lenoir, the man who fired a revolver in the chamber of deputies, and have found there some anarchistic lito'-a-ture. But the general oinuion is that the prisoner is insane.

John Dulfy of Canal Dover, O., ngedgiO years, and employed as a track walker tor the G., L. & W. railway, while attempting to board the southbound local, fell on the track and hau his left arm and leg cut oil. It is feared he can not recover.

Near Lawrcnceburg, lnd., a man giving I his name as John Young, aged claims 3 to have been held up and robbed by two is negro tramps about two miles oa«tof that. city, Saturday evening. The thieves, he says, secured $12.and a silver watch.

The jury in the case of Ii. C. Outcalt, $ cashier oL the famous Capral National j: bank, at Lincoln, Neb., lor having wrecked which Charles Mosher is serving a livo years' imprisonment, has returned a verdiet of not guilty. Ouicaltwas indicted I lor compliedy with Mosher. 1 I H. P. Cox. a carriage manufacturer of

Barnesville, O., was sandbagged and robbed of $.(5 011 the corner of Arch and Church streets. He was treated the same 2 way and in the samo placo about a year ago, and two former residents arc in tlio Columbus penitentiary lor it.

At Chicago the firemen in tho downtown district put in all day Sunday llghfcing a. stubborn fire that caused a loss of $200,000. The 5-story brick and stont. front building at 250 and 252 Madison street, owned by the Seipp estate and occupied by II. Wolf & Company, dealers in general merchandise, was completely destroyed.

The party of Whito Mountain A pp. else Indians who are missing from their camp on the San arlos reservation in Arizona, and who are supposed to have murdered trrill and his daughter near Solomonville three days ago, wero arrested and brought into San Carlos Agency lato Saturday night by a detachment of Captain Bell's troops of the Seventh cavalry and 'the Indian police.

What is said to be the finest equipped telegraph ottico in the world was put into active service for the first, time 111 Chicago Sunday. It is the new quarters ot the Postal Telegraph Cable company, located 011 the firs- anil l.iih floors ot tlio new Chicago Sto 'k Kxcnange building, corner

LaSalle ami Washington streets, direct

•across from

the ei.y hall,

and

of naTtuneroc building.

the chamber