Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1883 — Page 8

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GENTLEMEN! Here is a iact worth remembering: We have a complete line of Foreign and Domestic Cloths and Suitings, the best and most reliable goods the market affords. They are all marked in plain figures at a close dry goods profit. We will sell them by the yard, or have them made to order for you in the very best style, and at a saving to your pocket book worthy your consideration. CLOTH DEPARTMENT L. S. AYRES & CO., INDIANAPOLIS. BPECIAL TO THE LADIES. Our Presa Making Departments will open for Hie Spring Season on March 15. Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Ayer will be on liand to book orders in turn. SURGICALINSTRUMENTS And appliance* of nil kinds, from best manufacturers. Dental Forceps, Trusses, Supporters, Shoulderbraces, Elastic Stockings, Medicine Cases and Chests, Artificial Eyes. Crutches, eto. BROWNING & SLOAN, Apothecaries’ Hall. WEST & KRAUSS Shirts Made to Order. WEST & KRAUSS, Nos. 26 und 28 N. Pennsylvania St.

CONTINUATION Through March OK LINEN GOODS SALE THE NEW YORK STORE (ESTABLISHED 1853.) Tne success of our sale of Linen and Honsefceepiug Goods has induced us to continue the fame through March. We have received and Spened new lines in Table Linens, Napkins, Doylies, Towels, etc., which make our assortment cpninWe Gnstowers will again find many specialties at the same low prices which we have been selling at for the past few weeks. Many Housekeepers aud Hotel proprietors have availed themselves the desirable opportunities offered by us. Our recent purchases will be found to equal In value any before ottered. All goods marked with price in plaiu figures. PETTIS, BASSETT k CO. AMUSEMENTS. THE SAAL FAMILY CONCERT. Father Baal and his nine sous, us like unto each other us peas in a pod, gave a military coniert at the Park Theater last night, to au audiince not at all commensurate in size with the merits of the entertainment. The music was of a high order, selections from Gounod, Wagner, Strauss, Mozart and Waldteufel being of the programme. Father Saal, though of great aire, ha 6 a commanding figure and jet-black hair. His tenor-lu>rn solo of “A Father’s Love” was accurately rendered and warmly applauded. The brother Michael Is the leader aud a master of the clarionet, and all are good musicians. A return visit will ensure them large audiences. NOTES. Mr. Gus Williams, the German dialeot comedian, will appear at the Grand all this week in his new play, “One of the Finest,” which met with such a decided success here earlier in the season. The present engagement will be for the benefit of the oity police force, who will receive one-lialf of the gross receipts, which promise to be large. For this reason, if no orher, the attendance should be remunerative. Mr.Williams, however, is a clever comediau, aud his play has much more of merit than is common with such productions. He is supported by the same company which formerly appeared here, and which then gave much satisfaction. The Kiralfys’ ‘‘Black Venus” will be the attraction at English’s the first four nights of the week, and the sale of seats is already large. I'uls is the latest spectacular success, and it Is said to excol all previous efforts in every particular. The story is based upon explorations In Central Africa, and In the play a number of sensational effects. such as a snow storm, steamboat in motion, wild animals, etc., are introduced. The company includes Annie Ward Tiffany, Adelaide CUerie, Frank Kllday and others. The last two nights of the week the popular tomedians, Hobson and Crane, will play a return • ngagemeiit, presenting ‘‘dharps and Flats” and 44 Our Bachelors.” _ Under the Wheels, James Riley, a brakeman on the Cincinnati, Indianapolis. Bt. Louis & Chicago, was instantly Allied, Saturday night, near the Belt crossing, by falling from his train. He was stationed near the front, and almost the entire train passed over his body, crushing it out of all resemblance to a human being. The remains were taken in Charge by Flanner <fc Hoininown, und were snipped yesterday morning to Shelby ville, where ills widowed mother lives. Kino k Eldkr arc receiving their spring stock pf furniture, aud it will pay thoso interested to jail and see Hie new and elegant designs.

THE INSPIRED SCRIPTURES. Conclusion of Dr. Houghton’s Series of Sermons on the Subject. The Certainties Claimed for the Bible—Arguements that Must Convince Honest and Candid luquirers for the Truth. Rev. Dr. Ross C. Houghton, last evening, at Roberts Park Cliurcb, delivered the last of * his series of discourses upon the inspiration of the scriptures, selecting for his text a part of Second Timothy iii, 16: ‘‘All scripture is given by inepiratiou of God.” Much iuterest has been awakened in these sermons because of the statements made by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher in his lecture recentl3 r delivered iu this city, aud last evening the church was well filled, i Following is a full synopsis of Dr. Houghton’s 1 remarks: What are the present evidences that what the Bible says God says? Our awswer to the question is solely for those who accept the doctrine of the divine existence and attributes. The possibility of a revelatiou from God need not be argued. The God who has made me capable of corntn uiiing with my fellow-man in thought, sympathy and affection, can certainly make me capable of communion with Him, and it is certainly reasonable that He will speak to me, since He is a good God; since He has created me, and I am a lost, unsatisfied, unhappy child, wauderiug iu the darkness unless He does speak to me. When He sees me struggling m the agonies of condemnation before the bar of conscience; when He sees me perplexed by so many Influences aud circumstances, which seem to be aguiust me; when He hears my prayer going out to Him for light aud help and comfort; when He sees that the teachings of natural religion arc for the most part beyond my reach because I am not a profound scholar, and that even such lessons as I can comprehend from that source are utterly inadequate to meet my necessities; when the Father thus looks upon me, His child, and hoars and sees all this, I cannot for a moment supoose that He will fail to speak promptly ar.l clearly to me, revealing to me His mercy, His providence, His listening ear and His pure love. I speak it with the greatest leverance, but, to my mind, it would be the refinement of cruelty for Him not to speak to me. Among the present proofs of Bible inspiration, the Bible itself is the most stupendous aud stubborn of all facts. We have the Jewish religion and tlie Christian religion. No man can reasonably account for the origin and the subsequent and present history of these institutions, except on the supposition that they are the result of a divine revelation to men. Reading what history says of the failures that unchristian men ard nations have invariably made in their snuggles after social, civil ami moral excellence; journeying around the world, and comparing even the most advanced and prosperous heathen nations wlili my own country, and then carefully weighing the whole subject iu all of its beariugs, I am at last conscious of a profound conviction, which amounts to a certainty, that Christian civilization is in itself sutticieut proof of the divinity of the Bible. Among the evidences which wo have in the Bible itself are its literary excellence, the breadth of its truths aud the absolute perfection of its moral teachings; when we remember the age aud tiie country in which each writer lived, the little progress made by the race at large iu true morality up to the close of the New Testament canon, and contemplate the vast superiority of the Scriptures, iu the particulars lust named, over other religious or philosophical systems, we must admit that a higher |>ower than mere humanity possesses was dominant iu their composition. Who can believe that the evaneeli-ts invented tile sermon on the mount, or the character, acts and teachings of Jesus Chrisi? Such a supposition is the perfection of absurdity. We must not forgot the marvelous unity of the Bible. Tt has sixty-six different books, written by different men, in different languages and different ages of the world; the entire record cover in 4: a space of 1,500 years. Some of these men were poets, others were the prosiest or historians, while still others were illiterate fishermen. The customs, the beliefs in many particulars, and the methods of thought in these various centuries, differed vastly from each other. All tills is perfectly evideut in the books themselves. But through each andail you readily see running the same idea and an adaptation, to the same end. You seethe grand harmony of them ail in one object, namely, the religious instruction, through a homogeneous and perftet system, of the race, and its restoration to purity and to God. You see the Bible to be one organic whole: you see that it is clearly animated by one spirit; you see that it teaches the same substantial truths, from Genesis to Revelations. The conclusion to b drawn from ail this is inevitable. The mind that conceived and unfolded and finished such a plan in this book must be divine. It is also to be remembered that tne Bible has triumphantly withstood attacks of enemies, such as were never made upon any orher book or system. It was written, for the most part, in ages of Ignorance, and yet ages of learning aud culture have never been able to overthrow it or to essentially modify it, or to produce anything which can supersede it. The best and most learned men of all ages have accepted it aud indorsed it with all their powers of mind as well as heart. Now, if all this is not the result of divine inspiration, it is certainly, as a stupenduous fact in tho world, a greater miracle and more mysterious than inspiration itself. I might speak of the unparalleled success of Christianity iu the world—-a success which,when all the historical facts are duly noted and carefully weighed, and a proper comparison is made with the other religious systems of the world, eau be explained on no other theory than that a supernatural power has been its inspiration and its guide. I might also speak of the fact that while all other religions are invariably founded in ignorance, and depend upon the blind credulity of men for their success, the Christian religion, although adapted to the wants of the most illiterate, still appeals the most strongly to the most intelligent aud the most learned. Christianity always and everywhere courts rigid investigation, aims to stimulate inquiry, exaits reason as second only to the faculty of faith, fosters literature and science and art, encourages every iudividal to examine ar.d to test for himself, brings man face to face with tiie Bible and gives him all the aid which profound learning car. bestow to help him get at its real meaulug, brings man face to face with God In prayer, and permits no human priest or potentate to interfere; and all this that the mind and heart f man may be uutranimeled, but may be made free by the truth and to the truth. Everybody knows that just in proportion that men or nations have leceived and in character and life illustrated the fundamental principles of the Christian religion, in exactly that prouortion have they been better, wiser, happier and more prosperous than other men or other nations. In exactly that proportion have war and slavery and oppressive governments ami injustice disappeared and the equal rights of meu been recognized. But in addition to all this, man lias a test of inspiration in himself. IT revelation is given to meet and satisfy the demands of man's spiritual and intellectual nature, then man may rightfully judge of its claim by proving its truth in his own life. When those desires of man’s spiritual nature, of winch we have already spoken, are uiet and answered, man bus within himself a good evidence that God has spoken to him. The cultured tnan in this Christian land, and the uninstructed heathen as well, when he is brought iu contact with the inspired word, recognizes the validity of this evidence. Witnesses from every nutlou and every condition and from every intellectual grade are in perfect accord at this point with the Word and with each other. Every man of them knows as well as ho knows anything that only supernatural power 'could reveal such truths to him, aud through it work such results In bis heart and life. The most profound and satisfactory scientific or philosophical knowledge never silenced a guilty conscience, never healed a broken heart, never smoothed u dying pillow, never supplied even one faint ray of hope in death, never gave Fence in the prospect of meeting a holy God; but can take you to-night to the bedside of an intelligent Christian, who through knowledge of and faith in the Bible as the inspired word of God, has all of these soul-comforting experiences, aud who, in the prospect of speedy death, is not only satisfied but peaceful; not only peaceful but Joyful; aud not only loyful but triumphant. He looks backward to see himself saved by the Word and by grace; he looks forward to see the crown and the robe and the mansion, to hear the ‘‘well done” of the Futher aud to see himself a purified, glorified saint forever through the power of the same divine word and grace. The Bible bears upon its pages the most complete and satisfactory evidence of agreement with Christian experience. The great fact of the Christian experience is tho new birth or the radical change of the whole man from one manner of character, aud life, aud love to another.

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which is the direct opposite to the first. Every feature of this new birth is an object of direct certainty. The Christian kuows that he has experienced a radical change; that his will has received anew direction, and that lie is anew man. He knows, further, that he lius not produced this change himself, but that a supernatural power lms been at work within him, In direct response to Ills sense of need, his desire, Ills prayer, and Ills faith. It is to him tiie greatest and most sntisfact ory of all facts, and he knows it as certainly as he knows anything. What one man has testeil, another man, encouraged by his testimony, tests ulao. and with precisely the same result. Ami now Lite second is ready to testify, and the third, and so on through centuries of Christian faith ami life, fin all classes and iu all lands, until the great cloud of witnesses covers the whole earth. Each knows that his experience is In diroet fulfillment of the teachings and promises which run all through tiie Bible. This phenomenon demands an explanation, and we get it only in the felt fact that the Bible and Christian experience, which harmonize so exactly, are both of God. Now, my friends, I claim for Christian certainty the same value iu this argument for Bible inspiration that attaches to any other certainty. I claim that this experience is an actual fact in history, and I claim further that it has obtained a degree of fixedness and evidence which no other truth has been ablo to boast of. Millions have cheerfully and happily lived by it, aud millions have triumphantly died by it—many of tneni as willing martyrs for the truth. The Christian church could not possibly take stronger ground than this: “We have tested by experience this Bible, aud we Ray to all men ‘Come and test also, uml you will in vour turn enjoy tho same certainly,’ ” and, thank God, aii who do come give the same positive testimony. Caudid men everywhere are and must lie convinced by this argumeut. To reject it is to reject almost everything that comes within the range of human knowledge. Thank God for the certainties of Ills Word—it flushes light divine upou life, upon death, upon time aud upon eternity. The infidel, with all the graces of his learning and eloquence, leads ns to the window and shows to us a beautiful curtain, which his own hand has painted, and asks us to admire aud be satisfied. Revelation draws uside the poor, blinding, perishable curtain, and reveals to our delighted eyes tho sublime the eternal, the God-wrought laudscape beyond. Central Christian Church. The revival spirit in this church continues without abatement. There were large audiences present at both the services yesterday, and the attention and interest were profound. Three persons confessed tbeir faith in Christ as the only hope and savior of tiie perishing, and four others were admitted to the membership of the church. The special revival services will be continued next Sunday evening, at which time the impressive rite of baptism will be again administered.

AID TO THE DISTRESSED. The Committee’s Report of the Condition of the Flood Sufferers Below Evansville. The party sent out with the steamer Hotspur, last Monday, on the relief expedition down the Ohio river from Evansville, returned Saturday and reported full particulars of tho trip before the relief committee left for Lawrenceburg. W. W. Swing, who had charge of the distribution of provisious, in a very lengthy account of tho trip, stated that twenty towns had been visited aud relief furnished to eleven. They found that relief committees had been organized at Mount Vernon, Cas >yville, Shawneetowu, Rose Claire and Uuiontowu for the local distribution of supplies. The boat went down as far as New Liberty, 111., which Is 152 miles below Evansville, and the country along the river, with tho exception of about twenty miles between West Liberty and Goiconda, is a watery desert. It is estimated that the loss on corn alone will exceed $500,000. Mr. Swing thinks that Raleicb, Ky., has suffered more than any of the other small towns. With a population of 200 and about twenty-five houses, there ore only twenty-five people left, and parts of only three houses can be seen. Tiie suffering at Roso Claire. New Liberty and Shawnoetown was extreme. In Point township, Posey county, which has a population of 2,000, at least two-tlilAVs of it was under water, and it is estimated that one-half ice people lost all their goods. On the trip down the river a supply of provisious was left at R6se Claire, which, it was supposed, would be sufficient for at least two weeks; but on the return of tiie boat it had been exhausted by the influx of refugees from the lowlands. The local committee cannot accurately estimate tiie number of people to do fed. as they may have a demand to issuo rations to only twenty-five people one day and to a hundred the next, while at other towns along the river tiie demand varies proportionately. Mr. Swing thinks that relief will be ueeded for several days longer, and advises the committee to send more provisions to Shawnoetown, Rose Claire and West Liberty. THE PHYSICIANS* ACCOUNTS. Dt*. F. A. Morrison aud Dr. C. A. Ritter, who were detailed to look after sanitary matters on the expedition, submitted a carefully prepared report giviug a stateiueutof the condition of the health of the people at each of the submerged points. The following is a summary of the condition of the towns visited: 2< a a a e -s | •?£:;§ g ? IS £ If3 TOWNB - ? fsi si ?=. fl s i-4 S. = iS f. ; £ :g : :C. 2 ” :2 ■ T : ~ := : : * ® : c. . i : o : :o. West Frank- ► liu 125 20 5 4 30 15 i 2 weeks Unioutown . 1,‘500 300 10 12 40 10 ... 3 weeks Sliawnoet’n. 2.20 U 000 000 125 1,500 125 25 10 days Blackburn’s La 11 ding... 00 5 5 30 15 ... Plenty Casoyville... 700 125 70 20 75 45 1 Plenty Rose Claire. ’’-Ob 75 60 12 100 20 2 2 weeks W. Liberty. 175 35 200 10 50 30 7 2 weeks Tot&U 5,050 1,100 Bfiol 205 1,325 215 36 The doctors think, from their observations, that ‘‘a great increase of sickness will be brought about by the receding of the waters. While at tho present time tiie prevailing disease is pneumonia, we would especially direct your attention to the existence of dysentery at various points and remind you of the liability of epidemic cholera to follow great floods. One thing may be considered certain, and that is, that these people will soon tie the subjects of diseases resulting from the decomposition or vegetable matters. Among these diseases, typhoid and typho-inalariai fevers, will play a prominent part. These fevers are common at this season of the year in this vicinity, without the additional exciting cause of high waters.” In view of the sickness, which is likely' to follow, the doctors thiuk it would ha advisable to send more medicines to the submerged localities. Au additional contribution of slls for tho benefit of tne sufferers was received on Saturday. The relief committee, accompanied by Governor Porter, leftou Saturday afternoon for Lawrenceburg, and after an inspection of the town, they will start down tiie river on the steamer John F. Halpin, on the final relief expedition. One week will be required to make the trip, sod they will go as far as Cairo. Fire Department vs. The Army. A small outh. use, valued at about $4, situated on the Arsenal grounds, burned last Saturday aud the city fire departineut was summoned. One engine got there and began pumping water from Major Arnold’s private cistern, to which he offered serious objection, insomuch as be did not care if the house was totally destroyed. He mentioned this fact to one of his subordinates, and the latter proceeded to order out the army, which consists of fifteen men, aud instructed the latter to compel the fire department to quit pumping water from that cistern. The soldiers marched down to the scene of action with much martial splendor and gave their orders. That didn’t make any difference with the "boys,” however, for they declared that they were going to put that fire out with that water, and furthermore they didn’t propose to be interfered with by any blankety—blanked toy soldiers—aud consistently with this statement they proceeded to turn the hose on the valorous representatives of the government. The latter did not argue the matter any further, but retreated in good order —a little moistened, but still in tiie ring—aud the department, after pumping all tiie watei out of that cistern, returned iupeuoeful triumph to tho city. 13F* Hoods, scarfs, ribbons and any fancy articles can be made any color wanted with the Diamond Dyes. All tho popular colors.

TIIE ROYALTON TRAGEDY. Further Particulars of the Horrible Murder of the Forman Women. No Deflnate Clew as to the Guilty Party—The Circumstances anil Surroundings of the Crime—92,soo Reward Offered. The coroner’s examination last Saturday in the murder of the Forman women near Traders’ Point elicited no conclusive evidence as to who committed the crime, and It is still involved In mystery. It seems to have been deliberately planned by those familiar with tho habits of the family, and growing out of the various theories as to how the murder was committed, which was fully as horrible in its brutality as at first reported, suspicion rests upon several persons. It is generally believed by persons living in the neighborhood that the murderers were tiie same persons who made several unsuccessful attempts to rob tiie Forman house at different times during tiie last three weeks. One man whom Lucinda Forman, the youngestof the murdered women, had recognized, is known, and he lives near Traders’ Point, but tiie excitement is so violent tliut it is deemed best by those in possession of the information to keep it secret until there are some further developments giving more conclusive evidence of guilt of the bloody crime. CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE MURDER. It was the habit of Lucinda Forman to arise, according to the custom of people living in the country, at the dawn of day, and attend to her duties about the house. The murder, it seems, was committed about 5 o’olock Friday morning, which was the hour she usually went out to feed the stock and milk the cow. As the women kept the house securely barred and locked all attempts to effect an entrance bad been ineffectual, and for tills reason, it Is thought, it was decided to commit the murder in the early morning when the door was opened by the younger woman as she went about her duties. Evidently, she had started to the stable, carrying in her arms several ears of corn, and was attacked while passing between two sheds. Her head was severed almost entirely from her body, and the weapon used was probably an ax. The aged mother was struck down in the kitchen, and after covering the body with a piece of carpet the murderers seem to have hastily ate breakfast beforo beginning the work of plundering the house, every room of which was ransacked in tiie search for valuables. Until within the last two weeks the women had bad SSOO about tiie house, but after the repeated attempts to rob them, it was deposited in Fletcher 6 Sharpe’s bank, in this oitj', and it is thought that tiie murderers failed to find any money, as a small box, containing $11.45 in silver,'was found in an old coffee-pot concealed in the meathouse, last Saturday, by Charles Forman, which is supposed to have been all the money the women had in their possession. THEORIES OF THE CRIME. A story which caused some excitement wa9 in circulation Saturday to the effect that a man of a generally unwholesome appearance had passed through Traders’ Point Friday morning, and had been observed iu the vicinity of the Forman residence earlier. He was a stranger, and ills manner was altogether suspicious. He avoided the pike until after passing Traders’ Point, and would talk with no oue. He was noticed by several farmers along the road, was traced within five miles of this city, but nothing further is known about him. The general theory, however, is that the crime was committed by people living in tiie neighborhood, or someone at least familiar with the habits of the family. If the murderer was a stranger, the crime was executed, ir is claimed, under the direction of others. There arc many vague and wild theories regarding the matter. Tiie excitement is at a high heat, aud should the evidence point conclusively to the guilt of any person, no time would be lost in lynching him. Upou the advice ot the coroner, Charles F. Forman, son and brother of the murdered women, has offered, in behalf of tho family, a reward of SSOO for the arrest and conviction of tiie murderers. Heavy Rewards Offered. John McKinney, the detective, returned to the citj r from tiie scene of the tragedy last evening, and states tli-t at a meeting of the citizens of Traders' Point and vicinity, held yesterday, $2,000 additional was subscribed and offered tor tbe capture of the murderers, making the total reward $2,500.

OBITUARY. Death of Mrs. Delilah Landers, Yesterday, at the Age of Eighty-Five. The pioneers or the ‘‘New Purchase” are leaving one by one, and in a few years none will remain to tell of the early settlement of this section of the State, Tiie last to leave was Mrs. Delilah Btoue Landers, tho venerable mother of Hon. Franklin Landers, who died in this city yesterday morning at the home of her son. Jacksou Landers, iu the eighty-fifth year of her age. Mrs. Landers was born in Mercer county. Kentucky, Nov. 15, 1798. In the fall of 1819 her father emigrated to Indiana and settled in Morgan county, near the Marion and Johnson county lines. In 1822 she was married to William Landers, oue of tho earliest settlers of this section of tho State. She bore him nine children, six of whom are now living, three of them, Hon. Franklin Landers, John Landers and Jackson Landers, being wellknown residents of this city. When Mrs. Landers was married her husband bad five small children by a former wife. These, with the nine she bore him,grew up under her care andguidance aud became respected and honored citizens. What brighter crown than this could gild her brow? When Mr. William Landers came to Indiana he purchased of the government a tract of land in the northeast corner of Morgan county, noon which lie lived until his death in October, 1851. Ills widow continued to reside upon tiie farm and direct iis cultivation until some ten years ago, when she removed to this city, and since then has lived here with her sons. She conducted her farming operations with success, and added very much to the patrimony left her by her husband. Mrs. L inders was a member of the first Baptist church organized in the section where she lived. When Christian church was established in her neighborhood she became a member of ir, and continued in its comiuuuion until her death. Bhe died iu the assurance of a blessed immortality. The mind of Mrs. Landers was strong and vigorous while she lived. She remembered many stirring incidents connected with the early settlement of the State, and delighted to speak of them to her friends. The commissioners who located Indianapolis as the capita! of the State slopped at her father’s house and ate a dinner cooked bv lier. General Tipton, in his journal describing his trip to the mouth of Fall creek to locate the State’s capital, thus speaks of Mr. Win. Landers und the country about him: “At this place the growth is all young timber. Some remains of old cabins are to be seen. lam told there was once an Indian village here. Mr. William Landers, who lives one mile back from the river, told me that an Indian said the French once lived here, and that he (the Indian) went to school to a Frenchman in this place, but they left it about the time or Ilardiu’s campaign. which was about thirty-three years ago.” Mrs. Landers lived to see the site selected by the commissioners become a great city, and her sons among its most honored and influential citizens. The remains of Mrs. Landers will be taken to the old homestead and placed beside those of her husband. Her memory will be revered by those who grew up arouud her, for she was a good woman, abounding in those virtues which honor womanhood and make the world better. Robbed liis Sister. Harry Buser, a youth of sixteen years, was arrested at the Union Depot last night by Officer Wiles, as bo was about to leave tbe city ou oue of the outgoing trains, for the theft of a gold watch from his sister, who lives on South Pennsylvania street, The watch was fouud in his possession. Died from His Injuries. Peter Due, a colored man living on Blackford, near North street, died on Friday night from tiie effects of injuries received from the tornado which did so much damage in the northern part of the city last summer. He was injured by tho

! falling of an ice-house in which he had sought refuge from the storm. He was buried yesterday. DEATH OF G. H. VOSS, Which Occurred Yesterday Morning—A Sketch of a Very Busy Career, After a two weeks’ illness Mr. Gustavus H. Voss died yesterday morning, at his late resi- ; dence, No 130 North Meridian street, of typhoid fever. Mr. Voss, with* his family, recently returned from the South, and it is thought the disease resulted from the trip, his widow and daughter being very sick now with the same malady. Mr. Voss was born at Cincinnati in 1821, and lived iii that city until 1845. He had then just completed a course at Woodward College, after which he removed to Bloomington to enter the law department of the State Uuiversiry, graduating iu 1817. He, in the meantime, married Miss Sarah U. Evans, of Palestine, lud., daughter of Jonathan Evans and sister of ex-Congressman James T. Evans. Mr. Voss practiced law at Palestine for several years, when he removed to Noblesville, and after serving as district attorney for some ciino removed to Green castle. In 1868 became to tins oity, and resided here until his death. While here Mr. Voss has been a very successful lawyer. He was a member of the Arm of Ray, Voss, Davi* A Holman, up to witbm two years of liis decease, since which time private business has monopolized his entire attention and he amassed a large fortune. He was especially interested in hie flue, stork farm In Hamilton county, where he usually spent the greater portion or , each summer. About six months ago Mr. Voss was united in marriage with Mrs. Wiußliip, daughter of Colonel Mauzv, of Rushville, who witli three daughters aud a son are left to mourn his lose. The funeral services will bo conducted Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the family residence, whence tiie remains will be taken to Crown Hill for interment.

Death of Milton Dury. Milton Dury, son of John Dury, tho Washing-ton-street boot and shoe denier, died Thursday morning in Philadelphia. His remains were brought home yesterday, and the funeral services will be held tins afternoon at 2 o’clock. Hood, Bonbright & Cos., importers aud jobbers of dry goods, carpets, hosiery and notions, Philadelphia, Pa., are showing through their representatives-P. M. Gailahue & Bro., 143 South Meridian street, Indianapolis. a full sample line of their extensive stock would call the attention o? merchants visiting Indianapolis to their line of dry goods, table linen, cassimers and hosiery, where you can have the same advantages of purchasing as though you were in the Eastern markets. P S.—Wo are offering coctonades at special prices. fePK.NG Style Hats, at Seaton’s Hat Store, 25 North Pennsylvania street. You Butter Have One of Them. We arc agents for the sale of the Goshen oval churn, which is having a very large sale; very substantially made, cheap, handsome and does excellent work. Ask your merchant for them. Also for tiie Enamel mixed paint, ready for use ami guaranteed better and cheaper thau white lead. Send for color card. Rapid Ice-cream Free zers. Hilderkand & Fugate, 35 8. Meridian St. NEW TINTS OF CRANE’S STATIONERY. Shrimp, TnrquoH, Olivo and Crushed Strawberry CATIICART, CLELAND& CO. No. 26 East Washington Street. STAMMERING Successfully treated at C hicago School of Speech. 64 North Ada St., Chicago, 111. Methods rational. Results permanent. Circular on application to S. S. HURLBUT. Director.

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