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BUSINESS AND LABORERS. Failure of the Banking Firm of Ballou & Cos., of New York. The Boston House, Also. Obliged to Suspend —Tlie Trouble Said To B* But Temporary—The Causes of the Difficulty. Further Testimony Before tlte Senate Committee on Labor. & flairs in tlie Western Colon Office at Wash-ington-Many Wires Alleged to Have Been Cut at New York. BUSINESS TROUBLES. Failure of Geo. William Ballou % Cos., of New l ork and Boston. New Yokk, Aug. 14.—Intense excitement was caused in Wall street and the Stock Exchange to-day by the announcement of the failure of George William .Ballou <& Cos., bankers The firm ia composed of William H. Bingham, board member, David A. Darling, George W. Ballou and Allan S. Weeks. No definite particulars could be obtained. The bouse did a large and extensive business, and its customers were principally bank presidents throughout the country, Boston capitalists and New England States. Mr. Ballou refused to make any statement concerning the suspension other than that it was caused by the failure of his customers to respond to calls for margins. Another member of the firm said the trouble was merely temporary, and that everything will be straightened out in a few days. The principal stocks carried by the firm were Ontario & Western, Missouri Pacific and Western Union. Roughly estimated, the liabilities amount to between $400,0u0 and $500,000. Under the Stock Exchange rule relating to failures, all the stocks carried by the linn were sold at the Exchange. Prices were not materially affected, but there was no end to the rumors aDd excitement. It is said the failure will seriously cripple several other large houses in the street. .. The Boston House Follows. Boston, Aug. 14.—The announcement that George William Ballou & Cos. hau suspended caused au excitement on the street and In business circles secoud only to that following the suspension of P. Shaw, Brother & Cos., a few days ago. The first intimation to the Boston lionse of any trouble was a dispatch from Ballou stating that an assignment had been made to Theo. M Nevins, a clerk in the New York house. lt was as touch of a surprise to the Boston firm as to the public generally, and at first was difficult to understand.. Later information, however, staled that the assignment was due to the failure "6t their numerous cast outers to advance the margins needed to carry their stocks. The firm for a king time has been carrving a large amount of all elasse:: of securities, and the “6lump” of the (>ast few days has been greater than they could withstand. It was first intimated (hat the failure was the result of the recent trouble in Toledo, Cincinnati and St. Louis railroad affairs, in w hich thehonse is very largely interested. Two of its members, however, authoritatively deuied it. D. 11. Darling, one of the members of the house, attributed it solely to the c:use given above. He was, he asserted, perfectly astounded upon receipt of a dispatch from Ballou announcing the assignment, and said if he could have bad an opportunity of conferring with Ballou he would have certainly advised against suspension, as he believed It was uncalled for. The Boston bouse was all right, lie claimed, but of course would now have to go down with the New York concern, Mr. Darling further stated that the firm 1 list night had cash representing v>itmes. and he could not undeMrkud how there •was any neeossitj' for suspension. He was as anxious to get full particulars as anybody, which the New Y’ork house would undoubtedly 1 mulsh as soon as possible. He could not tell Low much the liabilities were nor what was the amount of assets at present. The house of George William Ballou & Cos. has done banking and brokerage business in Boston lor ten years, the present senior partner starting here in 1873 alone hr broker in county aud State bonds; in 1875 the New Yotk house was established at No. 14 Wall street, with Ballou und William Bingham in charge, while D. H. Darling ■was given control of the Boston house. Later • >u Darling and Allen S. Weeks became members of the firm, and are still connected with it. The house lias built up an extensive and very profitable business, aud became well known throughout the country, chiefly in conneoliou with Mutual Union. The Transcript says of the failure of George William Ballou St Cos. that it came as a thunderbolt upon the Community here. It will uow be seen that Ballou lias acted manfully, and au*>d by his frleudp’, and if the house goes down, it goes down having made the heaviest subscriptions ami largest outlays for labor and money to push through enterprises identified with bis name. One of the leadiug Boston bank jiresi dents said to-day: “I never had any dealings with Bullou or bis hoiiße, and never made or lost money in his enterprises, bat T can say if all the J>elphospeop>e had done as much as Ballou to sustain that enterprise it would not now have l>een in the hands of a receiver.” The Boston bouse waScarrylug the Toledo enterprise, while the New York honse engaged more largely in the stock markets, mostly, it Is believed, on‘a commission business. The buying of 18,000 shares to-day under the rule for Ballou’s account showed that either for himseir or his customers iis was astnds the market, long on Oregon & Transcontinental and Lackawanna, aud short on Northern Pacific stocks. This is the present dilemma of the average stock operators. A month ago this New York house was loug by 15.000 shares of stock, aud accounted a firm believer in higher prices. It was also said that, with the Seuey aud Brice parry, they were bulling the market. The short sales’were probably of icoenr, origin. No estimate can be made of the liabilities, but it is generally assumed that they can’t be extensive, and ihat ultimately the loss most be comparatively small. The Boston house, which was carrying Delphos securities, had about $200,000 or $300,000 on this account, SIIO,OOO of which was Cincinnati Northern, SIO,OOO Dayton bonds, $70,0u0 on account or the Southern Ohio Coal Company, and $1 4,000 on accout of tbs Delphos trust. LABOR MATTERS. Further Testimony Before the Senate Subcommittee on the Strike. New York, Ang. 14.—The United States Senatorial sub-committee on labor and education reaesemhied to-day. John F. McClelland, a member of the Brotherhood of Telegraphers, resumed ;Jiis testimony. He said the estimated cost of a telegraph line 1,500 miles long would be $725,l>os. The telegraph operators were generally young men, and lived In board!ng-houses. They usually come from the better classes of society, morals of the operators as a class had great--3y improved within the last ten years, and this -was one result of the organization which has been affected. Most of them were single, but t-oine were married men. The witness thought sfcßO a month was a reasonable estimate for food .mil lodging for a month for a single man. Only n<* In a hundred ever saved any money. The highest paid operators did not receive enough to enable tkem to lay toy anything for support in obi age. In 1870 the Western Union company required every man ■oujing into its employ to take an out it that he would never connect himself with a labor or irade organization. This was called the “iron Had oath,” and was Hrtiuiulstered to every person who took part in the strike of 1870. After iue existence of the Telegraph Brotherhood was 1 nia-ift known, recently, tue railroad superintend- j ?nie issued a circular, which was sent to every employe of the company, forbidding him to con- I **ct himself with the organization tinder penalty * r dismissal. Day operators worked from Ba. f to 8 at night, and had but two or three hours a devote to amusements. A night operator bad ! Snore time at his disposal. No such thing as a /vacation was ever known iu tbu telegraph bus: Thomas Orrliy, a telegraph oiwrater el twelve r .*urs experience, has charge of i lie Wheatstone jatruments in too Western Union office. He j ;u\ been an operator in that system for ten j r cars in Scotland. Hecsmo liero about a year , Vgo. The Western Union Company gave him ‘ SSL Z. „

S2O a month ns a retaining fee, antil the Wheatstone instrument should arrive. Promises were repeatedly made that the Wheatstone men should receive as much a* first-class Morse operators. On the 28th of lust February it was announced that the Wheatstone system would begin operation. and Wheatstone operators were told that their salaries would be SSO per month. Operators on the other side were better paid; they had three weeks’ vacation each year with salary, and during sickness received half pay. After being a certain number of years in the service, and the record being good, the operator receives a pension for life, sometimes at full pay wliou he becomes superannuated. John B. Taltavall, an operator employed by the Associated Press, confirmed the testimony of previous witnesses in regard to the strike. H. W. Orr, of Philadelphia, a member of the Brotherhood of Telegraphers, said the salaries paid operators in Philadelphia ranged from S3O to SBO a month. One of the objects of the Brotherhood was to establish a telegraph company on a co-operative system, by which operators should own their own lines, and thus be enabled to protect themselves against their employers. Evidence of hostility of the Western Union toward its employes was the systematic policy of reducing salaries of itR operators during the past ten years. The witness also testified to the practioe of the Western Union company in black-listing men found organizing a union or association of operators. Eugene J. O’Connor, of Boston, chairman of the executive-board of the Brotherhood of Telegraphers, gave statistics of the growth of the Western Union company since 1806. Since the I beginning of the strike the membership of the Brotherhood had nearly doubled, and uow numbered about 20,000. One-fifth of the operators of the country were women, and about 500 of these had joiued the strikers. There were very few first-class operators among them, as their strength was not eqnal to the work required to attain such proficiency. THE STRIKES. The Situation of Affairs iu tlie Western Union at Washington. Special to the Indtananofis Journal. Washington, Aug. 14. It is probably true that the back of the strike is broken, but it is not true that the offices of the Western Union are properly or satisfactorily rnanued. Press dispatches get through after a fashion, bin they are buugliugly sent and more buugliugly received. It requires special training to handle Washington matter. Plugs butcher it shockingly. This, fortunately, is a dull season in Wah'Jneton, and probably not to exceed 50,000 to 60,000 words are sent over the wires to the newspapers, nightly, by spsoial correspondents. In winter and during sessions of Uongresß it is not an uncommon thing for 150.000 and 200,000 words to be filed in a single night at the Washington office. During the Garfield sickness 150,00 words was not above the average. In five days more than 1,000,000 words went over the telegraph wires to the press of the country. Washington correspondents filed 150,000 words at Cleveland on the night following Garfield’s funeral. The cream of the telegraphers of Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati and Buffalo were there to handle the matter, aud they ouly did it fairly well. Bcrnb operators from country towns, who are paralyzed by the filing of a dispatch of 1,500 words, are filling up city offices. The best of them are put upon uewspaper work, but the best of them are incomparably inferior to the old force. It is folly to deny this fact. The Western Union people are denying it Just the same, however, and insisting that their offices are fully equipped for business. The Company Says Hundreds of Wires Have Been Cut Recently. New York, Aug. 14.—The strike of telegraphers presents no new features to-day. Bomerville, of the Western Uniou Company, says 126 wires of the Gold ami Stock Telegraph Company, which supply most of the oirouits to the brokers’offices down town, and which are carried through Church and Rector streets in seven cables suspended under the elevated r-uroad girders, were all cut last night, and in such a way that the wires cauuot be connected again at the point yJltjre severed. Temporary arrangejug)mipany promises to be able to repair tbelhalanee to-day. Mutual Union wires were cut in Harlem and Manhattanvllle to the number of a dozen or more. A few wires were cut near New York, and others near Fleetwood. A rigger from the Western Union Company was assaulted by two of the striking linemen today when he was leaving the company’s building. The offenders were arrested and taken to court, where they were held for examination. 8© far a* could be learned np to noon to-day none of the wire-cutters have been arrested. Suit To Be Brought for Damages. New York, Aug. 15.—The Western Union Telegraph Company sent a letter to Mayor Edson, setting forth the losses sustained by them by the catting of their wires, and notifying him that they will bring sun against the city for the recovery of damages. The mayor consulted with the superintendent of police as to measures to prevent further wire-cutting. The superintendent informed the mayor that special instructions were given to the captains of the several precinots of the city, aud no effort would be spared to detect and arrest all guilty of tampering with the wires. George Baldwin, a striking Western Union lineman, was arrested, charged with cutting telegraph wires. Lineman Ferris, of the Western Union company, testified that Baldwin was cutting wires on the roof of a building on Liberty and William streets. The wires there are attached to an upright fastening to a cbmiuer. The accused stated that the fixture is his property. and he was merely removing ir. He claimtd that he bought that and a number of similar fixtures, in 1882. from Charles Irwin, who was then superintendent of the Western Union company. His examination was adjourned till tomorrow. Collapse of the Bethlehem Strike. Bethlehem. Pa.. Aug. 14.—The labor difficulty at the Bethlehem Iron-works came to an abrupt end to-day. Andrew Lee branch of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel-workers has collapsed. The president of the local branch visited Philadelphia yesterday to hare some of the promises of financial aid made byJarrett and Lee fulfilled, but receiving no assurance of substantial relief he returned home last night determined to end the matter. This morning the members of the branch decided, almost unanimously, to disband and ask the company to reinstate them. A committee, of which the president of the society was spokesman, conferred with Superintendent Freece, and the committee was told the company would give employment to worthy men who had gone out, hut no assurance wue given that all the force of employes would be taken buck. The delegatee who attended the convention lo Philadelphia returned to-niglit. Tlie Iron and Steed-Worker*. Philadelphia, Aug. 14 —At the session of the Almalgamated Iron and Bteel-workers’ convention the claims committee adhered to the plan of negativing the strikers’ demands for 1882. The ways and means committee strongly urged that there be no present disturbance oi the wages question, and It declared that the current price in both iron and steel mills is adjusted on an equitable basis by the action of the committee, and the suggestions it urged were unanimously adopted by the convention. President Jarrert commended the delegates on their wise aud sensible views on the subject of wages. The Louisville fair association will hold their full meeting from the 18th to the 22d of deptember, both days inclucive. Atlanta. Ga.. May 19,1883. I have known and watched tlie use of the remedy known as Swift’s Specific for twenty yes th. snd have seen more wonderful results from it than any remedy inside or outside of the Pharmacopoeia. f know its composition, and do nor hesitate to say that ir i* the safest and most efficient antidote ro all l><ood poisou that is known to science. For diseases incident to spring. It has no equal in assisting nutuie to throw off rhe in purine* of the blood bronght on by the sluggish circulation in the winter months. I know it to be entirely vegetable, being parpared from the roots and herbs of our Georgia forests. Aa a tonic aud alterative for children, it is superior to everything, ns it cleanses the system, tones up the digestive organs, and give* the ‘ittie ones a chance to grow and fatten. A ft-w bottles of i ins remedy will benefit every man, woman and child iu the land, aud especially m the spring. Yours truly, J. Dickson Smith, BL D.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, ISS3.

STATE NEWS AND GOSSIP. New Developments in the Wieber Murder Case at Evansville. The Christian Women’s Board of Missions at Island Park—Site for a Life-Saving Statiou at Michigan City. Appointments of White River Conference, United Brethren Church. Mill Burned by Incendiaries—An Aurora Sensation—The Delphi Rapist’s Bond increased—Other Notes. INDIANA. Arrests for an Old Murder at Evansville — New Developments. Special to the Indianapolis JouraaL Evansville, Aug. 14. — A year ago, yesterday morning, a family of three persons, by the name of Weiber, were murdered while asleep in their house. The house stood at the extreme northern limit or the city, aud only five feet from the line, which is also the dividing line between Pigeon aud Perry townships. The wails were spattered with the blood that flowed from their throats when cut by the assassins, and the beds on which they lay were covered with the gore, when the murder was discovered, the next morning. The day of the discovery was Buuday, and the news spread like wild-fire. A driver of a wagon had stopped at the house. There was a saloon in front, and finding the front door open and the bar disordered, he went into the sloepiug-room where the mutilated bodies were lyiog. From 7 o’clock in themoruiug until far into the night there were streams of people going to look at the house. To-day the house is oue of the chief curiosities of the place, cheap and mean as it is. George Leubardt, a German laborer, was arrested, charged with the mnrder. His wife was the owner of the house iu which it was done, and as it was a good stand for a sal'ooD, he wanted to oust Weiber and occupy it himself. His record was very bad. He had to leave Germany on account of a murder. In Mount Vernon, Ind., he smothered his child to death aud barely escaped hanging. On the trial for the murder of the Wetusi*. w*?ile reasonably sure that he was guilty, the evidence could not be brought into court to prove it, aud the Btate was forced to abandon the prosecution ou the ground of no evidenoe. He had lain in jail for several months before his trial, and he endeavored to obtain compensation for this confinement in jail, aud has since been working in a slave factory near the scene of the murder. On the 10 th of July Superintendent of Police Pritchett received a letter from an anonymous correspondent saying If he would ask for information of a Mrs. Barber, living seventeen miles from the oity, down the Ohio, he would obtain a clew. Mrs. Barber, whose husband is a farmer in a small way, told the superintendent a connected story, which implicates both her husband, Barber, and Lenhardt. The police has, in addition to this confession, procured a chain of evideuoe that will succeed in fastening the crime upon the two men. Yesterday, after Superintendent Pritchett and Detective Resing arrested Barber at bis home, they immediately telephoned Cap- - • **' wim I <*ilhardt, and both are now in the county jail. The excitement in the vicinity of the scene of the crime, where the feeling has always been against Lenhardt, is intense. Annual Meeting of the Christina Women’s Bonrd of Missions. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Island Park, Aug. 14.—Tne ludiana Christian Women’s Board of Missions met in convention at the Tabernacle yesterday, with the president, Mrs. Mary Armstrong, of Kokomo, in the chair. After devotional exercises the State secretary, Mrs. M. E. Shank, of Irvington, submitted her annual report of work done during the past-year. A model report from the auxiliary society at New Castle shows the manner of work to include devoting one day each week to sewing and quilting in the basement rooms of the church, taking luncheon for dinner, which is shared by lmsbauds, brothers, fathers and sons, who a remuneration for the privilege. A staudlng committee in each wartfvisits all families therein, Inviting them to Sunday-school aud church services. A year ago there were niue saloons in the town, but, through the influence and prosecutions brought to bear upon them, there are uow but two. Brethren Walk, Benton and Jameson, all of Indianapolis, publicly commended this report. A paper on “The Needs of Auxiliaries’* was read by Miss Mary Winfield, of Kokomo. Then came a paper on “Mlssious,** presented by Mrs U. J. Btitr, of Wabash. The evening address was delivered by A. I. Hobbs, of Louisville, Ky. On Thursday next the national Sunday-soliool convention commences iis three days' session. Appointments of White River Conference of the United Brethren. Special to tlie InulaitapolLs JouraaL Jb a Lit eg. Aug. 14. Tue following appointment of preachers for the ensuing year was made at the session of the White River annual conference just held by the United Brethren Church at Balbeo, Jay county. Ind.: Indianapolis District—2. MoNew, presiding elder. Indianapolis station. L. N. .1 cues; Fallcreek circuit, M. L. Bailey; Kokomo. A. C. Rice; Perkinsville, G. Wilson; Middletown, F. M. Da Munbrun; Warrington, T. Evans; Blue-river slat ion, A. C. Wilmore; Carrollton mission, T. J. Halsted; Honey-creek circuit, W. Gossett; C'llfty, Weller. Dublin District— F. M. Moore, presiding elder. Dublin circuit, W. A. Olor; New Castle station, J. M. Kabrich; Williamsburg circuit, C. B. Small; Btoomtogsporc. B. R. B. Holcom; Missiasmewa, G. L Mattox; Stony Creek, A. Rust; Abingtoo. H. Fiord; Frauklln, R. Steele; White-water, A. J. Rolen. Marion District—M. Wrlghf, presiding elder. Marlon circuit, J. Y. De Munbrun; Lincolnvilie, I). K. Meyers: Antioch, O. Smith; Salamouia, I. M. Tharp: Montpelier, M. M. Thomas; Hartford, N. L. Hooping a men Muncfe, J. M. Cook; Fairmount, C, W. Rector; Xenia, I. Cox; El wood, H. Huffman; conference evangelist, J. T. Vardauau; professor in Hartsville College, W. Fix. An Anrora Couple Furnishes a Sensation. Aurora Special, 13th. The people of Aurora arc just now enjoying a first-class sensation. In tha year 1878 a man and woman arrived in Anrora calling themselves Samuel G . and Anna Roach. They openea out a small stock or dry goods and notions In the first story of the bnilding where they lived. Ihey were members of the Methodist cnarch, produced letters showing that they had been membets in good standing of the church at New Albany, Ind., and were well received by the church here, and iu every wav conducted themselves as good and conscientious Christians. A few weeks since he was taken sick, and last Saturday morning died. He was buried yesterday, at 2 o'clock, from the Methodist Church, ami now comes the sequel. His daughter, a Mrs. Amelia Carey, and her nusband, Henry Carey, of Napoleon, 0., came and attended the funeral, and the)' tell a story that nuts thiugsjn a very bad light for somebody. Mrs Carey says that her father was in business years ago in Napoleon, O.; that he left the place, altergottiug his property into his own hands, deserting her mother, and shortly afterward taking up with the woman who has been living with uim us his wife since he came here, without over having been married to her, at least

notlegally; that since her mother’s dearli her father and the woman pretended to have been married at Cincinnati, her name being Anna Hoillagshead, and that the date of the marriage certificate hns been ehauged so as to make it appear that they were married in 1878, before they came to Aurora. Old Settlers at Mooresville, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Mookbkville, Aug. 14.—Tue annual meeting of old settlers or Marion, Morgan, Putnam aud Hendricks counties st th: * plaoe yesterday was atteuded by about 3,500 people. The meeting was opened with music by the Stilesville band, which was followed with prayer by Rev. T. W. Jones, of Waverly. An Invitation was extended to all those of eighty years and upward to take seats upon the stage. Ouly five * responded to the oali. They were Samuel Rooker, aged 84; John Matthews, 84; Alexander Thatcher, 83; Harris Pray, 84, and Joseph Bishop, 81. Those between the ages of seventy and eigiity were more numerous, about twenty of this class taking seats upon the stand. Toe opening address was made by E. J. Sumner, of Mooresville, who extended a hearty welcome to the few remaining pioneers aud their descendants. The speaker recounted the hardships which these old settlers had encountered in making a vast wilderness into a great and prosperous Btate. Following the address of Mr. Sumner were a nuraberof short speeches by the pioneers present, which were quite interesting and many interesting anecdotes were related. The meeting adjourned for dinner, during which time the thousands of people present held a reunion, and the ineiubprs of the press were handsomely entertained by the ladies or the M. E. Church of Mooresville. The afternoon was taken up with five-minute speeches, and tlie meeting came to a successful termination at 4 o’clock. Meeting of a llorse-Thief Detective Association. Special to the Indianapolis JoornaL Lafayette, Ind., Aug. 14.—Tne Wabash-val-lcy Horse-thief Detective Association, comprising three hundred members, is in session in this city to-day. The deliberations of the society are secret. They will he in session* to-morrow and probably Thursday. From members it is learned that the association is determined to wage a relentless war upon the bands of thieves that are plying their vocation in the counties of Western Indiana, aud endeavor to rout the entire gang. In Tippecauoe county, through the exertions or Sheriff 8. O. Taylor, twenty convictions hAve been effected in the criminal court aud the thieves seat to the Northern Penitentiary. Competent authority estimates that horses valued at a half miliioii dollars have been stolen in western Indiana during the past six years. Sheriff Taylor, during his four years iu office, has returned more than two hundred stolen animals to tbeii owners. Site Chosen for a Life-Saving Station. Special to tho Indianapolis JouraaL Michigan City, Aug. 14.—Tue revenue cutter Andy Johnson, Captain A. E. Dover, was iu this port to-day for the purpose of selecting a site for the life-saving station which, by act of the last Congress, was located at this point. Aboard the cutter were Seuator Conger, of Michigan, father of this branch of the servioe, 8. T. Kimball, general superintendent of the United States Life-saving Service, N. Robinson, superintendent or the life-saving service in this, the Eleventh ludiana district, and Mr. Hail, collector of the port of Milwaukee. These officers were met by Captain Manning, superintendent of the government works in this city, and Collector of the Port Lew Morrill, who showed them around the harbor and assisted them in making a choice of locality. A site was chosen, and if the transfer of property can be made the station will soon be in active operation. New Bank To Be Organized. Special to the Indianapolis JouraaL Lawkknceulkg, Aug. 14.—A prominent business man stated to your correspondent this evening that there was a movement on foot wbioh -u.a through, to form a syndicate of substantial financial men, td assume.the control and responsibilities of the suspended City National Bank. If such a syndicate is formed anew bank will be organized to carry on the business of the old. Kirkpatrick’s Bond Increased. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Delphi, Ang. 14.—The bond of James Kirkpatrick, the brutal rapist, were increased to $3,000 to day. The examination was held at the bedside of Miss Mullendore, his dying victim. She is but sixteen, and through fear has kept the affair silent nearly four years. Kirkpatrick is about fifty, married, wealthy, prominent and is a local exhorter. Mill Burned by lucendiaries. Special to the Indianapolis JouraaL Lafayette, Aug. 14.—Au incendiary fire last night destroyed a grist mill near Colburn, belonging to Mrs. Lewis Baker. Loss SIO,OOO, insured for $3,000. Minor Notes. The Martin County Tribune proposes to enlarge itself soon. Tne Northern Indiana fair is to be held at Fort Wayne on Sept. 10 to 14. Mrs. B. F. Duncan, of South Bend, was the champion female fisher at Rome City. She caught fifty-seven fine perch iu four hours. A young lady by the name of Trudy Harmon, who is employed at the Kirtley House, in Warsaw, was quite seriously burned with kerosene. An organized band of barn-burners is believed to be operating in southern Indiana. The farmers are much excited. Barns are burned almost every night. Rev. T. G. Bebarrell, for several years chaplain of the prison south, ut Jeffersonville, closed his term of service yesterday. He is succeeded by Rev. Mr. Cain. The Elkhart Daily Review celebrates Its eleventh anniversary by issuiug a sac simile of its initial number ou its front page. The Review may well be proud of its success. Charles W. Orth, son of Henry W. Orth, of Hrookston, and a former resident of Lafayette, died at the home of Ins brother, Elwood H. Orth, at Ogdeu, Utah, on Sunday. Tlie four-year-old son of Charles Maron, of Cambridge City, was drowned in the Hydraulic on Monday. He fell off the trestle-work of the White-water road while no one was near enough to rescue him. The Elkhart Review estimates that S2OO is spent daily in Elkhart for whisky. This would make an annual expenditure of $63,000, or more than enough to support all the schools aud churelies in the city. During a saloon brawl atConnersvtlle. Ed. McClaiu hammered Ed. Wolf over the head with a beer glass, cutting some frightful gashes and covering him and the surroundings with blood. McClain was arrested. At Selma, Delaware county, on Sunday morning, a mob wrecked the home of James Hale aud his wife. The supposed reason for the outrage is the alleged low character of Hale aud the filthy manner in which they lived. While Mr. Madison Wolfe, an old citizen of Lafayette township, Floyd county, was on tlie way to church, on Sunday, the horse became frightened, ran away, threw' Mr. Wolfe our, broke his leg and otherwise injured him. A Oreensburg thief, by using long forked pole through the window of the residence of Rev. George Winchester, abstracted a pair of pants from the bedside of . his son-in-law, exSheriff A. J. Smith, aud secured a small sum of money. Charles Lowe am! Benjamin Roth, who stole tlie horse and buggy on Thursday night last, have been captured at Mount Vernon. Benjamin Roth is a brother of William Roth, from whom the buggy was stolen. A full kit of burglar's tools was captured with them. The new stock law has bad a peculiar effect in Knox oounty. Tupafe Foulds, of Vincennes, wno own large farms in Decker township, losing nearly one hundred tons of hay by incendiary fires. A notice was left near the scene stating that that was the way the stock law worked. No clew to the incondiarv. ILLINOIS. A Shelby County Farmer in Good Circumstances Hangs Himself. BiIF.IAYViLLK, Aug. 14.—A Holland township farmer named John D Washen, was found huuging b~ his neck dead behind his barn. He

climbed a tree, fastened the rope to the tree and to his ueok and jumped off. His neck was broken. He was security for a neighbor’s debt. The fact that he would likely be called upon to pay so preyed upon htsmind as to unsettle bis reason, ending in suicide. He owned a small farm aud was out of debt. He leaves a family of five children. He has lived in this county but a little over a month. Brief Mention. The Fourth regiment of Illinois militia, commanded by Col. John B. Fithian, of Joliet, is encamped at Lake Geneva. Nearly 5,000 persons gathered on Monday at a camp-fire at Pontiac, where R. J. Oglesby, W. M, Smith and General McNulta made speeches. F. B. Warner shot and wounded Charles Phillips, deputy sheriff, at Lincoln, ou Monday. There has been an old feud between the parties. Many farmers in Champaign county planted corn obtained from southern Kansas, aud now report that the stalks are flfteou feet high, but there is no prospect of ears. Al. and Harry Funk, of Vermillion county, have lost about eigiity head of hogs in tlie past two weeks from a disease which they pronounce as uJt cholera. Tlie auiuials do not die suddenly, but perish from sheer exhaustion. Bee-keepers of Logau county predlot a light crop of fall honey. They say that there is not half the honey-plants and weeds to be seen at present that there was a year ago. The June yield from white clover was unusually large, but those posted in bee matters declare that the honey secured that month will exceed what is obtained duriug the remainder of the sea-mu. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. War Department. ) Office of the Chief Signal officer. > Washington, Aug. 15, l a. m. > For Tennessee, and tbe Ohio Valley—Partly cloudy weather aud local rains, variable winds, mostly east, stationary barometer, stationary or rising temperature. For the Lake Region—Partly cloudy weather and local rains, winds mostly east, stationary or lower barometer, nearly stationary temperature. Local UDHervanoaa INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 14. Tune. Bar. I Th. Hum Wind Weather K’f’l 6:24 a. m. 30.14!59.2 87 E Cloudy. 10:24 a. M. 30.16 69 70 E Cloudy 2:24 p. m. 30.13 73.7 56 NE Cloudy 6:24 p.m. 30.12 70 66 E Cloudy 10:24 i*. m. 30.13 66 76 E Cloudy Maximum Temperature. 74, luiummm temperature, 57. Geueral Ooservatlons. War Department, ( Washington, Aug. 14, 10:25 p. m. i Observations tagen at the same moment of time at all stations. ~~ g 5 1 ? iIS I s©i E 2 station % s : : z y %5: : = : : I j, j | j ! • : : os Bismarck, Dak... 29.97 70 ■BE Clear. Cairo 30.13 76 8E Clear. Chicago 30.18 61 NE Cloudy. Cincinnati........ 30.16 74 E ..... Cloudy. Davenport, 1a.... 30,16 66 E .06 Cloudy, Deadwood '29.98 70 Calm .02 Clear. Denver.. ...... ‘29.97 73 NE .....Clear. Dea Moines 30.10 64 8E Cloudy. Dodee City '29.96 77 SE lhrt’njr. Ft. ABainnibotne.. 29.87 68 SE Cloudy. Fort Bulord ‘29.93 68 E Clear. Fort Concho 30.01 82 SE Clear. Fort Elliott Fort Sill (laiveston 30.11 84 8 Clear. [ndlananolia 30.14 66 E .—. Cloudy. Keokuk . 30.11 63 E .09 Cloudy. Lacrosse 30.17 64 8 .:... Clear. Leavenworth 30.05 77 SE .01 Lt. rain. Little Rook, Ark .. 30.09 80 8 Clear. Louisville 30.11 72 NE Cloudy. Memphis 30.08 81 8W Fair. Moorhead .... 30.05 63 8 .—. Cloudy. Nashville 30.12 73 NE .04 Cloudy. North Platte 30.02 71 88 Clear. Omaha 30.06 69 E Hnay. Pittsburg ..... 30.19 66 E Cloudy. San Antonio Otuorovovt 90 07 81 K ..... Plur Springfield, 111 30.14 65 E Fair. 8L Louis 30.14 68 NE *.Ol Cloudy. Stockton 8L Paul 30.12 64 S Clear. Vicksburg 30.12 SE Clear. Yankton. D. T.... 30.06 72 SE Cloudy. New Orleans 30.14 82 Calm .53 Cloudy. Las Animas Fort Smith 30.07 79 E Fair. salt Lake City... 29.89 79 Calm Clear. Fort Billings. ;.t The “Old Ticket.” Boston Advertiser. This “old ticket” talk is making a personal issue supreme. Two men amt not a great party; pique ana not principle; the memory of disaster, and not tbe manifestation of new and better methods of elevating the servioe and life of the nation—on these mistaken and petty issues tbe Democracy, by taking the old ticket, hope to triumph. The country is outgrowing that phase of politics. It sees something larger than men, though the alleged victims of fraud; sometning more at tractive than a lament, though the wall be from persons who led a huge mass of voters In a national engagement; something more hopeful than a policy of vindication, though tbe vindication be demanded in behalf of men claiming to have been cheated. If these men must run, and tbe popular judgment must be passed upon their fitness to rule, let tlie old ticket come up on its merits, irrespective of the particular fact that it was once thoroughly beaten. We renominate men because of previous successes, not because consolation must be administered for heavy defeats. The consolation race “must fio.” m A Correspondent's First Lesson. Joe Howard in Philadelphia Press. Beveral years ago, when I was young and tender, I had occasion to telegraph some rather startling facts from a distant city to the paper I was employed by, and began my dispatch by quoting: “We are living, we are dwelling, in a grand and awful time, In an age on ages telling, to be living is sublime.” The following day I received a telegram from the managing editor, now the redoubtable and invincible editor of the New York Bnn, in which, among other things, he took occasion to remark that he had no doubt we were living and dwelling in a grand and awful time, but, as it cost 4 cents a word to wire those interesting announcements. perhaps it would be quite as well for tue hereafter to send such data by mail. Democratic Solicitude. Philadelphia Press. The solioltude of many Democratic organs for President Arthur’s personal safety during his western excursion is quite too pathetic to be permitted to pass unnoticed. If the editors of these great journals could be persuaded to accept something for their thoughtfulness, say a few consulates aud a small assortment of postoffices, there would be a wav of rewarding them. But of coarse they couldn’t. Steamship Arrivals. New York, Aug. 14.—Arrived: France, from Havre; Bolivia, from Glasgow; Wyoming, from Liverpool. London, Ang. 11.—Arrived: Oellerf, Indians, Spain. Devon, Anoborla, Rlietla and Douirnn, from New York; Illinois, from Philadelphia; Do - rouda, from New Orleans; Batavia, from Boatou. _ Illness Judge Black. Y’ork, I'a„ Aug. 14.— Judge Jere. S. Black, suffering from u urinary affection, is seriously ill, but at 11 o’clock to-night is resting quietly under tbe influence or opiates. No immediate danger is apprehended by his physiciau. An Absent Trait. Philadelphia Press. A trait which Mr. Gould and the striking telegraphers might just now exhibit with good reaiilts to all concerned is arbitrate. A passenger train on the Toledo, Cincinnati & ?>r. Lotus road whs thrown from the track yesterday near Abanaka station, Ohio. Engineer Mel vilie Clark is thought to be fatally scalded. No others were hurt. Mrs. Charles A. Knohlacb, of Trenton N. J., pitched her husband into the canal and then leaped iu herself. Tho woman was drowned, hut the husband was readied. Ugly blotches and stubborn old sores are cured by damarituu Nervine. $1.50.

FOREIGN NOTES AND NEWS The British Government Charged with Tyranny by the Irish. The King of Spain Will Identify Himseir with the Aspirations of the People —Miscellaneous Notes. DEBATE IN THE COMMONS. Tlie Irish Charge the Government with Tyrannical Use of Its Powers. London, Ang. 14.—There was a loog debate, characterized by muob obstruction on tbe part of the Irish members in the Commons iastnigbr, on the vote for legal expenses incurred in the recent criminal prosecutions in Ireland. Harrington alleged that Myles Joyce, who was found guilty aud executed for participating in the murder of the Joyce family in county Galway, on September 18, 1882, was judicially murdered, despite the fact that evidence of his innocence was accessible to Earl Spencer, Lo-d Lieutenant of Ireland. Callan, member for Louth, declared that the government could have brought the Phu*nix Park murderers to justice without the evidence of Jamcß Carey, but that Bir William Harcourt, Home Secretary, oontrived to have Carey accepted as an informer for the purpose of endeavoring to connect some of the Irish members of Parliament with tbe murders. Parnell repeated the charges of jury-packing in Ireland, and of tke-reckiess desire of tlie government to produce convictions for the purposa of striking terror among the people of ihar. country by a tyrannical use of the powers of sercret inquiry. Porter, Attorney-general for Ireland, replying to the remarks of the Irish members, said iliac ns long as the atrocities in Ireland went unpunished the means of inquiry allowed by law would be used without shrinking. During tbe debate last evening, Harrington charged Lord Spencer with having Myles Joyce hanged, when he knew the condemned man was Innocent. He was called to order for this remark, and then modified his statement as mentioned in the foregoing dispatch. Heaiy, member for Mouighun. was also called to order duriug the debate for using violent language ugaiust officers of the crown. Parnell, as a protest against the conduct of the government, moved that the amount or money provided for iu the appropriations be reduced, but his motion was defeated by 24 yeas to 93 nays. SPANISH AFFAIRS. The King Receives a Deputation aud Expresses Himself. Madrid, Aug. 14,—King Alfonso to-day received the Monarchist senators aud deputies, and the Marquises of Havana and Sandoval, In an address, lamented the revolutionary outbreak, and protested devotion to the throne. The King, in reply, thanked the visitors, and declared that what had occurred would not alter hia resolve to continue to identify the throne with the aspirations of the people, with w’liom he would always remain united through good or adverse fortune. All tbe provinces are tranquil. The ministerial paper El Cordeo, denies that General Martinez Campos. Minister of War, desired to resign heoause of differences with Prime Minister Sagasta, but tlie opposition papers continued to circulate reports to that effect. The proclamation Issued by the rebel leaders to the inhabitants of Beo de Urge! on the occasion of the rising at that place is published. It declares that those persons who oppose the republic will be punished with death, arid decrees the separation of church and state, permission of liberty of conscience, suppression of the octroi and abolition of courts of justice in favor of a revolutionary municipality, whlcu will administer justice in accordance with the constitution of ISC9 GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. First Accounts of French Insolence Confirmed. London, Aug. 14.—The Standard states that dispatches received from Madagascar ju’.iy confirm tho first nooiiuntf of tho (1 iff ore coca between the French aad English ut Tamutuvc. Should France, says the Standard, not offer explanations. England, no doubt, must demand them. A New Spanish Ministry To He Formed. London, Aug. 14.—A correspondent of the Telegraph at Bayonne says the King of Spain has summoned Marshal Serrano to form anew ministry. Tho correspondent of tho Times at. Madrid, however, denies that any change of ministry is intended. Reports published In yesterday’s Paris Temps, that a regiment hail mutinied in Catalonia, and that conflicts occurred at B<*ode, Geronaatid Figueras, and the statement of the Exchange Telegraph Company, on the lltli instant, that Ruiz Zorilla was in Spain directing the risings there, are not confirmed. Spanish Insurgents Executed. Madrid, Aug. 14.—Several insurgents, wb took part in the revolt at Santo Domingo, havo been executed at that place. Tney refused to make auy disclosures in relation to the revolutionary plot. There have been no disturbances at Valencia or Seville, but dome arrests of civi - tans and sub-officers have been made at those places, as measures of precaution. Jewish Riots In Germany. Lot*DON, Aug. 14.—A riot broke out. at New Pestb, Hungary, yesterday against a Jewish baker, whose house was wrecked. The mob was dispersed by the police, who arrested ti ty persons and wounded a large number. There wh also an anti-Semitic riot at Oldenburg, Germany, where the mob was oh .rged by the cavalry, aud eighty-nine persons arrested. Cholera Regulations at Stuuiboul. Constantinople, Aug. 14.—The sanitary council baa ordered vessels arriving from Smyrna to be subjected to observation for twenty-four hours in the Dardanelles. This order is due to the fact that a French man-of-war from Port Said disregarded tne quarantine regulations at Smyrna and communicated With the lown. Loss of Life by an lnsaue Asylum Fire. LONDON, Aug. 14.—A private insane asylum in the town of Eaiing, Middlesex county, burned last night. Five of tbe inmates perished. Many of the inmates were severely burned. Dr. Bovd, proprietor of tlie institution, was killed while attempting to save the lives of patients. H;? sou also perished lif the flames. Short Crop of Wheat in France. Paris, Aug. 14.—The Bullion des Halles save the yield of wheat this season In France will bo 85,000.000 hectolitres, compared with 104,000.000 to 105,000,000 each year since 1872. The quality isexpeoted to be good. An Easy I romies. Rome, Aug. 14.—The Italian government lias assurance from official source in Atuerioa that on the reassembling of Congress next winter, the abolition of the protective duty ou works of git will be proposed. Agrarianism Breaking Out Again. Dublin, Aug. 14.—A party of men, supposed to be agrarians, have shot und severely wounded a farmer named Michael Conner, near Ktllarney. Two of the men concerned iu the shooting were arrested. Cable Notes. A telegram at Vienna reports that the cholera has appeared in the Soudan. It is stated that China has ordered two large irun-clads to be built at Kiel. There were 675 deaths from cholera in Egypt on Monday, including six at Cvlro. A slight anti-Semitio riot brokooutat Berlin on Monday night, but was soon suppressed. The St. Petersburg police surprised a Nihilist meeting yesterday, and arrested live persons. Crowds stand at the gates of tlie Cointe do Chainboid’a chateau at Fruhsdorf awaiting tlie sufferer’s end. The House of Commons agreed to the proEosal that SIOO,OOO of the ehnroft surplus fund e applied to emigration purposes. It is stated that Lew Wullace, United States minister at Constantinople, is now the only foreign representative there who is opposed to the proposed license tax. There are more cures made with Hop Bitters than all other mediciues. Doubt nut. Try it.