Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 August 1884 — Page 1

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EVENTS IN THE OLD WORLD. China Refuses to Pay the Indemnity Demanded by France. Impression at Poo Chow that War Is Inevitable—British Sailors Landed for the Purpose of Defending Foreigners. Abatement of the Violence of the Cholera at Marseilles and Toulon. Conclusion of the Trials of the Dynamiters —Egan Sentenced to Twenty Years’ Servitude and Daly for Life. FRANCE AND CHINA. Great Excitement at Foo Chow and War Considered Imminent. London, Aug. L—A Times dispatch from Foo Chow, dated July 31, says: “China has refused to pay the indemnity demanded by France, and the time granted Chfta by France to decide upon the matter, has been prolonged beyound August I. A secret edict has been issued, ordering Chinese not to molest foreigners. French civilians and the mandarines, however, assert that the lives of foreigners aro not safe. The English flag-ship is landing sailors to act in defense of foreigners in Foo Chow. The Chinese merchant fleet has been sold to an American firm for 5,250,000 taels, nearly $7,300,000. War, to all appearances, is imminent” Another dispatch from Foo Chow to-day states that there is a great panic' there. Foreigners are arming for defense. Ladies are leaving, and the French consul is preparing to go aboard a gun boat A dispatch from Foo Chow to Reuter asserts that the general impression in that city is that war between France and China is inevitable. Both natives and foreigners are leaving the city. Marines landed from the British corvette Champion, assisted by the gunboat Merlin, are guarding the foreign settlement THE CHOLERA. A Case Reported from Cardiff—Decrease of the Disease in France. London, Aug. 1. —It is reported from Cardiff that a man died from cholera on the French steamer Graville, from Marseilles, at anchor in Penarth roads. The body was thrown overboard. Another man aboard (he ship is very ill. * At Toulon there were only two deaths from cholera to day. Thirty-three cases are now treated in Bona Rencontre Hospital, and ninetythree in Saint Mandrier Hospital. The Legion of Honor gave a festival and display of fireworks in honor of the mayor, and the people are indignant over the matter. They consider it an unbecoming display at this time of misery. Another death from cholera has occcurred at Montfort At Marseilles there were six deaths from Cholera to-day between noon and 7 o’clock p. m. There are seventy-eight cholera patients under treatment in the Pharos Hospital. Ten were admitted to the hospital to-day, three died and two were discharged cured. FRENCH POLITICS. The Coming National Assembly—Some of the Proposed Reforms. Paris, Aug. I.—M. Leroyer, President of the French Senate, will preside over the National Assembly, which opens on Monday. The first business to be done will be the nomination of a commission to report a project for electoral reforms in the Senate. The government will submit anew scheme for election of senators, whereby life senators will be replaced by senators elected for nine years by each chamber. The present life senators are to' he retained. Senatorial delegates will be increased in a ratio corresponding with the municipal counsellors composing the different municipal councils throughout France. The commissioners of the Chamber of Deputies have adopted the principle of scrutin de liste for election of deputies. FOREIGN MISCELLANY. Conclusion of the Trials at Warwick—An Ineffectual Plea by Daly. • London, Aug. I.—The trial of ihe dynamiters at Warwick was concluded to-day. McDonnell, who pleaded guilty to treason-felony, was released on bail to appear at any time if called upon. James Egan was sentenced to penal servitude for twenty years, and John Daly for life. Daly’s defense was very able. He argued that nothing had been proved against him except that he had borne an assumed name; but the Queen moved about under an assumed name, and why had not he as good a right? He asked for judgment, not mercy; he was gratified that he had been on trial before Englishmen, and because there was no clap trap as in Ireland. The prosecutor, he said, had failed to show that he joined a plot to coerce the government He denounced the detectives and the officials of Dublin Castle. The latter, he said, had reduced Dublin to the condition of Sodom and Gomorrah. He admitted having buried nitro-glycer-ine in his garden, and that he had explosives in his possession, but contended that this fact did not constitute treason-felony. Uncertain as to Their Allegiance. Cairo, Aug. L —The Bishareen sheiks will assemble on Sunday, near Esnet, to determine whether they adhere td the Khedive or go to the Mahdi. The mudir of Dongola ordered the Christians of that city to become Musselmans, but rescinded the order after the Mahdi’s emissary departed. Flight of Bank Officials. Paris, Aug. L —A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Savary, president of the hoard of directors of the Bank Lyons and Loire. Deputy Chambers has fled to America on account of the frauds. Savary founded the bank. Morand, the secretary, on account of the frauds, has also fled to America. Mutiny on Shipboard London, Aug. I—The crew of the British bark Lowwood, Capt. Saunder, at Limerick, for Delaware Breakwater, mutinied. The mate was fatally stabbed, and two seamen dangerously wounded. The mutiny was quelled by the police, Stealing Dynamite. Glasgow, Aug. L—At Airdrie, a few miles from this city, an alarming theft was perpetrated last night The magazine of Dixon’s collieries was forcibly broken into with pickaxes, and sixty-five pounds of dynamite carried off. Cable Notes. • Henrie Laube, a German poet and litterateur, is dead, aged seventy-eight The Committee of the English House of Commons has unanimously rejected the Manchester ship canal bill The British steamor Britannia, which left New York July 16 for London, was wrecked off Portland at midnight on Wednesday. The crew were saved. The sinking of the Britannia was

caused by collision with the steamer Bellcairn, from Hartlepool for Cadiz. The Bellcairn rescued the Britannia’s crew and landed them at Southampton. Mr. Gye has given up all thought of assuming the management es the Metropolitan Operahouse, New York, and the Opera house company is seeking another impresario. Minister Morton has subscribed 1,000 francs towards the fund which American artists in Paris are raising to present that city with a bronze model of Bartholdi’s statue. Sir Micheal Hicks-Beach has been chosen to succeed Lord Randolph Churchill as president of the Conservative Union, the governing body of one of the British Tory factions. WELCOMING THE EXPLOBEBS Demonstration at Portsmouth in Honor of Greely and His Companions. Touching Incidents of the Meeting Between the Lieutenant and His Wife, His Mother and Other Relatives. Portsmouth, Aug. I.—At just about sunrise this morning the United States steamer Alliance which has been stationed outside the harbor in expectancy of the early arrival of the arctic fleet, discovered a double line of smoke, and steaming out, soon became aware of the arrival of the Greely arctic relief expedition. The armament of the Alliance was brought into play and gun after gun thundered forth peals of welcome, to which the cannon of the Greely boats responded, doubtless iH grateful recognition. Shortly the Alliance came within hailing distance of the aproaching steamers, and with bells ringing and whistles screaking the Alliance hailed the Bear and the Thetis. Shortly after sunrise the Bear, Thetis and Alliance steamed to a point off the Isle of Shoals, where the first stage of the homeward voyage of the Greely relief expedition was finished. Gracefully they came into harbor, with yards squared and stacks pouring forth clouds of smoke, fully twenty-four hours before the fleet had been expected. There was little about the three vessels to denote the severe experience which two of them had passed through. When it became known that the arctic squadron had arrived outside the harbor the excitement on board the men-of-war at anchor was intense. Shortly after 8 o’clock the welcome news of the safe arrival of the Greely fleet spread through the city, and when the Bear and Thetis had arrived off New Castle, Secretary Chandler dispatched a steam launch to Commander Schley, with orders that the Bear and Thetis should remain in the offing until the preparations for their reception could be completed. The Secretary of the Navy then proceeded to the Tallapoosa, and orders were given at once for the entire squadron of war vessels in the harbor to prepare for reception of the arctic heroes. All the naval vessels were decorated with American flags at. the topmasts. At noon the President’s boat, the government tug, Leyden, steamed down the river and came to anchor where a good view of the ceremonies might be obtained. As the Leyden steamed down the river, the men on board the old ship Constitution ran up the shrouds, lifted their hats, and waved and shouted a cordial salute. The other vessels in the lower harbor were decked with the gayest colors. The flag-ship Tennessee displayed the acting admiral's broad pennant at the mizzen-inast; the Tallapooss £ave tp the breeze the colors of the Secretary m the Navy. The ships soon got under way, and steamed down the river. At noon preparations for the reception of the arctic fleet were completed. GREELY and his wife. Mrs. Greely was placed in a barge and taken on board the Tennessee, from which vessel, after a short stay, she was conveyed to the Thotis, where her husband was. As the lady passed down the companion-way to the barge she walked with a firm tread, and showed no signs of emotion other than biting her lips and tightly clutching her hands. Lieutenant Greely had not been informed that his wife was about to go on board the Thetis, and a few minutes before her arrival, in conversation with Commander Schley; he said he did not expect to see her to-day, as she probably had not been able to reach Portsmouth so soon. When the Secretary’s barge was seen to leave the Tennessee with Mrs. Greely and her two brothers, G. O. and C. A Nesmith, sitting in the stem sheets, Commander Schley said to Lieutenant Greely: “Lieutenant, I would like to see you in my cabin for a few moments.” Commander Schley entertained Lieutenant Greely in conversation about arctic mat ters until a peculiar signal was given on the boatswain's whistle to indicate that Mrs. Greely was on hoard, and ready to meet her husband. Now the lady trembled very much, her breath came in gasps and her whole frame shook with emotion. With talteriug steps she went to the cabin door, and, just at the instant she entered. Commander Schley left the room, leaving the longseparated couple alone. Lieutenant Greely was sitting w'ith his back to the door, but when Commander Schley so abruptly left him he turned, and at the same instant saw his wife enter. With a loud cry that was more like a sob half smothered, Lieutenant Greely bounded from his chair, with eyes gleaming with joy at the sight that gladdened them. Mrs. Greely, tall, dark and stately, sprang forward to meet her husband, crying: “Arthur! Arthur! home!" After Mr. aud Mrs. Greely had been alone for twenty minutes, her brothers were called in and cordially and tearfully greeted their brother-in-law. It was noticeable on board the Thetis that everybody shed tears when Mrs. Greely entered the cabin where her husband was. Late in the afternoon the mother of Lieutenant Greely came from Newburvport, and was taken at once on board the Tennessee. Shortly after she was put in the Secretary’s barge and taken on board the Thetis. When she arrived there, Mr. and Mrs. Greely and the latter’s brothers, were seated in Commander Schley's cabin, alternately crying and laughing and embracing. The instant before the Lieutenant's mother entered the cabin Commander Schley stepped to the door and said, “Lieutenant, your mother is here.” Mrs. Greely then entered and threw her arms around her son’s neck, saying only “My son! my son!” Lieutenant Greely spoke no word save “Mother,” but in his tone and expression there was a world of tenderness. Clasping his mother in his arms he did nothing else but sob while the mother cried like a child. Fearing the excitement would be too much for Lieutenant Greely’s shattered condition, Commander Schley entered the cabin and wisely directed the conversation into less emotional channels. About 4 o’clock Secretary Chandler entered his barge and was rowed to the Thetis. The Secretary went at once to Lieutenant Greely and affectionately took the gallant explorer in his arms in the fervor of his greeting. "God bless, God bless you!” said the Secretary. “You have come back to us almost from the grave. I hope your future happiness may reward you for the terrible experience you have had.” The Lieutenant responded feelingly, thanking Mr. Chaudler for his kind expressions. The writer was introduced to Lieutenant Greely by Secretary Chandler, and the former at once said he desired to thank the newspapers of the country for the universally kind manner in which he had been treated by them. He could say but little at presern concerning his expedition, but the public would soon be given the entire details through official reports. When asked as to his health, Lieutenant Greely stated that he felt comparatively well in all respects, excepting he was at all times considerably affected by a feeling of intense weakness, lie stated that he had

gained rapidly in flesh since his rescue, **nt much of it was soft and more injurious j beneficial. He said he had a good appetite t** was slowly recovering, but anticipated it V 5be some time bsfore he would recovf if wonted strength. To-day, he said > the happiest of his life. In "that one day J U thing on earth was restored to him, foj -t- : man could wish —home, wife, mother an given to a man who a few days ago, wac $ i brink of the gx-ave—is as much sf" 0? si could desire The Lieutunant,> £ ,id very happy, indeed. He s£ £ th his wife on one side and hi .ier on the other. His face is considerably but his cheeks are taking on a healthier color. He stands as erect as ever, but is not allowed to remain on his feet long at a time. After his brief talk with Lieutenant Greely, Secretary Chandler was conducted to the deck, where the crew of the Thetis was drawn up in line. A hardy-looking set of men they were, rough and bravdlooking. The Secretary stepped up to the crew aad said: “My men, your commander tells me you have done your duty nobly, and that you have been a credit to the navy and to the country. I desire to tell you that both the navy and the country appreciate your service, and, in behalf of the Navy Department, I £ive you my sincere thanks.” After cordially embracing Sergeants Long and Fredericks, and the other two survivors of the expedition, Secretary Chandler was conveyed to the Alert, where he paid his respects to Commander Coffin and inspected the crew. He also addressed the crew of the Alert in about the same words as the crew of the Thetis. The Secretary then went on board the Bear, where ho and Lieutenant Emory had an informal conversation. A FAMILY SHOOTING AFFRAY. One Man Killed, Another Seriously Wounded and a Woman Badly Hurt. Louisville, Aug. I.—The Times’s Breckinridge, Ky., special says: Intelligence has reached this place of a shooting affray near Burns, this county, resulting in the instant death of Elisha Alexander, the serious wounding of his brother John, and the severe wounding of Mrs. Charles Pool, sister of Alexander, and wife of one of the shooting party. The particulars are as follows: Charley Pool had run away with Miss Alexander, bad feeling was engendered between the families, and Alexander threatened Pool’s life. On Saturday, young Pool and wife, accompanied by his brother John, attended a picnic in the adjacent neighborhood, and when returning home that afternoon, in order to cut off some distance, turned into a field on Alexander's place and were riding across, when the two Alexanders espied them from the house and ran down to intercept them. The Pool party saw them coming, and having no doubt but that they were about to put their threat against Charlies life into execution, drew revolvers, and when the Alexanders came up and began abusing them for coming on the place, opened fire. Elisha Alexander received three balls in his neck and was killed instantly. John was seriously wounded in the hip and lower parts of the body, and Mrs. Pool was struck by a wild bullet and severely hurt. The Pools have not yet been arrested. TUB FIRE RECORD. A Boy Burned to Death and a Janitor Fatally Injured in a Fire In New York. New York, Aug. I.—The six-story building, No. 89 Water street, the upper stories of which were occupied by two families, while the remainder was devoted to business purposes, caught fire this morning. Bartholomew O'Keefe, the janitor, was fatally burned. Ann Gibbons and her children, George, aged six, and John, aged two, were terribly burned. James Gibbons, aged four, was burned to death. Mrs. Gibbons climbed the stairway to the roof with twochildren in her arms, all having their clothes burned. The police found them on the roof with their clothes burning and tore the clothes off, the flesh coming off with the clothes. They were taken to a hospital. After the fire was extinguished t.he body of James Gibbons, a four-year-old boy, was found burned to a crisp. Loss, $55,000, including $40,000 worth of cigars owned by M. Ybor & Cos.

Railway Freight-Houses Burned, Troy, N. Y., Aug. I. —Fire broke out this morning in the Delaware & Hudson railroad freight-house on the wharf at Plattsburg and spread to the freight-house of the Plattsburg Dock Company. Both buildings were destroyed, with the freight stocked therein. A number of loaded freight cars were burned, and the steamer Vermont scorched. Two store-houses, filled with slate, owned by Williams & Nilsey, were consumed. The safe in the raili’oad office was destroyed, with the books. Loss $40,000. Heavy Doss at Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Aug. I.—Fire this morning in the old rink, at Twenty-third and Chestnut streets, occupied by the Wanamaker furniture manufactory, destroyed that building, also four saloons, R. Hall’s planing-mill, a cigar store, an unoccupied store, Philan’s lumber-yard and Howard’s hotel. Loss, SIOO,OOO. Business Block Destroyed. Troy, N. Y., Aug. L—The Johnston Block, at Cohes, burned to-day. Loss $43,000, distributed among a number of occupants, all of whom are insured. Factoi-ies Burned. Utica, Aug. I.—Ashley & Bailey’s silk factory, and the Forthlain glove and mitten factory, at Forthlara, burned this morning. Loss, $40,00ft Loss at Texarkana. Texarkana, Aug. L —Fire this morning destroyed the planing-mill of H. J. Allen & Cos. Loss, $12,000; insurance, $3,000. Drug House Burned. Omaha, Aug. L— The wholesale drug stock of Leighton & Clark burned this morning. Loss, $100,000; insurance, $85,000. Paper Mill Burned. Philadelphia, Aug. L—Moorehouse Bros.’ paper mill, at Bridesburg, burned this morning. Insured for $35,000. A Split in a Miners’ Convention. Cleveland, 0., Aug. L—At the State convention of miners, in session at the call of Secretary Williams, representing one thousand miners, President Mcßride, of the State association, representing eight thousand, in a lengthy speech refused to recognize this convention as a legitimate body. Subsequently the convention adopted a resolution approving the course of Secretary Williams, and presented him a gold watch. The convention also adopted resolutions of sympathy with the miners of the Hockmg and Connotton valleys, and promising them moral and material assistance in their efforts to secure advanced wages. Changing the Name Doesn’t Pay Debts. ’ Montgomery, Ala., Aug. L—The Supreme Court of Alabama, in the case of Amy & Cos., of New York, vs. Selma, holds that the new corporation of Selma, being the same territory and corporators as its precedent, the city of Selma, is its successor, and liable for debts and bonds created and issued under tne old charter of the city, which has been repealed by the Legislature. This was legislation similar to that of Memphis and Mobile, and the court here holds that any clauses in the charter impairing the liability for old debts are inoperative and unconstitutional.

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UjENEEAL POLITICAL NEWS. r /The Republican Convention at Frankfort, and How It Did Its Work. The Most Exciting Contest Ever Known in the Ninth District —Sonie Unusual Aspects of the Canvass. The New York Sun Intimates that Cleveland Should Withdraw. Daniel Manning’s Still Hunt—The Position of President Arthnr George 0. Jones Writes a Caustic Letter to Butler. THE NINTH DISTRICT. A Review of the Work of the Convention that Nominated Major Doxey. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. * Frankfort. InJ., July 31.—1 t took but an hour’s time for the Republicans of the Ninth congressional district to meetinthe Opera-house here this morning, organize, place the names of four me# before the delegates and choose a candidate. It was the quickest and best piece of political work done in the State so far, and the work was the most satisfactory of any during the present campaign. The convention was exceedingly large and unusually enthusiastic. There was great earnestness shown, but none of the bitterness which might have well been expected where the honor was so numerously and zealously sought. When the vote was announced there was the wildest excitement. The Opera-house was packed from the orchestra-circle and stage to the uppermost gallery, and as a man the multitude sprang to their feet and flinging their hats into the air, waving ■ handkerchiefs and umbrellas, banners and flags, for a few moments there was a scene presented much like that which occurred when Major Calkins’s nomination for the governorship was made known. . Taking advantage of the raging excitement, Dr. Scull, who sat with the Boone county delegation, sprang upon the stage, and, amid the confusion exclaimed, in stentorian tones, that on behalf of the delegation from Boone, and of the grand body of Union soldiers of the Ninth congressional district, he desired to move that the nomination of Major Doxey, the battle-scarred veteran, be made unanimous. At this announcement, anew fit of excitement seized the thousand people present. When partial quietude ' was restored, Dr. Scull continued: "I stand before you to-day a thorough Republican. There is not a* drop of blood in my body that is not Republican. We stand as one man again, boys, shoulder to shoulder, as wo did on the field of battle, and Major Charles T. Doxey will represent us in the Congress of the United States.” He then asked to put the motion himself, and Judge D. K. Higinbotham, chairman of the convention, yieldedamid cheers. “The motion is seconded,” said Dr. Scull, by one thousand Republicans present and sixteen thousand Republicans in this distrit, and it will be made unanimous in November." The vote was a rising one. There was not a man in the convention who did not rise, and one of the hands present struck up, “Ti-amp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching.” There were calls,deafening almost, for Major Doxey, and when he appeared on the stage his hands were shaken with great vigor for many minutes. It was like a Methodist camp meeting or revival scene. If there had been any scalping-knives drawn in the canvass they were, for the time at least, sheathed, and good feeling took their place. There were some very stirring speeches made to the convention, but they were all short In being called to the chair to preside over the convention, Judge Higinbotham uncorked the pent-up buoyancy perceptible by alluding to the national and State tickets. He said the very air was ripe with Republicanism, under the leadership of the most brilliant statesmen and leaders of America, and there was no such thing as fail. Blaine has no peer as a statesman, and Logan stood almost alone in his brilliancy on the battle-field. The nomination of Garfield was an impulse to a noble man and a brilliant statesman; that of Blaine was all of this and more. Blaine needs no step-ladder to get into the executive chair. He is fitted for it already. He fitted himself. It is an honor to get to vote for him. The character of Cleveland received attention from Higinbotham. Asa hangman and the enemy of the poor man he thought Cleveland quite a success. “What record has this man Cleveland?I’inquired 1 ’inquired he. "It is not as long as my linger. It could not be done up and sent by Uncle Sam’s mail, for there is not room on it for a two cent stamp.” [Applause.] Judge Higinbotham congratulated the Republicans px-esent on their opportunity to embrace retributive justice in supporting Blaine. He hung up a picture of the tail end of the national Democratic ticket and painted Hendricks on his knees, begging for the colored vote.after traducing and fighting it all his life. There was prolonged cheering when he likened the little army of kickers —Beecher, Curtis, eta—to a half dozen pismires in a hogshead of sugar. It did not hurt the sugar, but ’twas hurting the ants. Twenty-five minutes after the convention was called to order permanent organization was effected, the committees had all reported, their work adopted, and Mr. Kelley, of Boofle, was § lacing before the convention the name of Dr. cull. Colonel Gray was brought before the convention by General W. W. Conner, and Major Doxey by Captain W. H. Hart, of this city, chairman of the district committee. His speech was a perfect little gem, full of poiuts, and elicited general admiration. His remarks referred especially to Major Doxey’s private character. He said the Major was a native of Tippecanoe county, and when a small child was left fatherless. He grew up with a widowed mother to support, and experienced the vicisitudes usually attending such a misfortune. That duty, he said, Major Doxey has filled like a true man. His widowed mother he still sustained. To-day she lives in Minnesota, whew she awaits the message ■which will inform her that her dutiful hoy has been called to represent this district in Congress. During the war he was four times called to commissions before he was of age. The official records of the War Department speak specially of his bravery. He was twice shot, ana to-day carx-ies in his head the bullets of rebels —so much wounded that he must wear an artificial palate to assist in the mastication of food and in articulation. He is a Republican, and a successful one. He is also a successful business man, and is honorable and liberal in all his dealings. He is the friend of the poor man and the artisan. [Cheers and cries of approval.] Nominate Major Charles T. Doxey, aud the soldiers will rally to like they did about Napoleon. We Republicans of Clinton will support the nominee, and so will those of Madison, no matter who he may be. Give us Major Doxey, and our battle-cry will be, “Lav on MoDuff, and damned be he who first cries hold, enough!” State Senator Charles L. Henry, of Anderson, seconded the|nomination of Major Doxey, ana made the most thrilling speech and telling argument of the day. It put the convention on tip toe for Doxey, and it was with difficulty that the disposition to continuously scream for him was in a measure curbed. Eaeh time he alluded to Doxey’s soldier record and his - friendship for the poor people and his generosity there