Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 June 1885 — Page 2

2

down and erecting the new Library building in its place. Justice Field has been on the bench for nearly a generation, and it is twenty-eight years since he first took his seat there as one of the supreme judges of California. Judge Field was a lively voting fellow in those days, and I doubt not he* was ready to defend his decisions with his pistol, as he was in his career in the California Legislature shortly before this. Now ho is older and more sober. He is one of the broadest and most learned men in public life. He travels clear across the country every year in attendance on his judicial duties, and his salary barely pays his expenses. He is not poor, however. His brother Cyrus has had so many opportunities to make his friends wealthy by giving them good pointers that it is hardly probable that his brother Stephen would be left. Judge Field entertains well, and his bouse is always full of company. He will probably continue to live at Washington after his retirement. MISCEGENATION. How tlic* Color Line Is Being: Obliterated —The Shady Side of Washington Life. Washington Special. The police, in taking the recent census of Washington, stumbled upon one fact regarding the population which was not provided for in the blanks, The discovery was made that miscegeuation is practiced here to an extent not heretofore suspected. There are, it seems, upwards of sixty families in which either the husband or wife is a negro. These are ail cases where the ceremony has been duly performed, and tiie parties are living together openly. In more than half of the number the wife is the Caucasian. As to illegal unions, where whites and Macks are living together without ceremony, the police report that they number hundreds. One explanation offered is tiiat there is no law here against intermarriage of races, and people who wish to live in this way come here from Maryland and Virginia, where miscegenation is prohibited under severe penalty. The Washington Critic to-night sneaks of the surprise which the revelation will occasion right here in Washington. •‘The few cases,"’ it says, “that have been referred to in the public prints hate come to light through the police department, and the impression naturally prevailed that only weakminded whjte women or those who have lived a life of shame would take a negro for a husband. This is not the case.” It goes on to detail the results of an investigation by one of its reporters. who accompanied an officer to No. 2159 Ninth street ai.d found three white women in one house who had married colored husbands. Two of the women were sisters. The detective was in search of information about a recent robbery that occurred in the house of a lady who had in her employ a daughter of one of these women. The girl had been arrested and released, as she was found to he innocent The house w here these people were found is a small two story brick. Pleasant Williams, a colored bricklayer, is the lord and master of the household, and his wife is Rose Williams, a good-looking whito woman of forty years. The two other conples were visitors, and live in the neighborhood, only a few doors away Mary Jones is the sister of Mrs. Williams. Her lmsband is a colored grocer named W m. Jones. The wife of a colored wagon-driver named Ed Johnson, was the youngest and best looking. She was only eighteen years old. and had in her arms a beantiful infant one year old, which was nearly white. Mrs. Williams was greatly distressed at her daughter, a dark mulatto girl, having been locked up in a stat ion-house on a charge of larceny. “I try to raise my children as respectable as any in the city.” she said, and she looked around the room affectionately at her live colored children while she caressed a ten-year old col ored boy in her lap. The children were veiy fond of their mother, and were also obedient and respectful to her The house gave every evidence of being well kept and the children well cared for and comfortably dressed. Their education was also looked after, as some of them could read and write, and the room was strewn with half-worn school books and slates. Mrs. Williams did not seem to be at all sensitive of her colored connections. She said she had been married seventeen years, and eame here from Hanover county, Va., about eeven miles from Itlelimond, where her father was a well to-do farmer. Her family name was Melton. Her sister came here and married her present husband about eleven years ago. Mrs. Johnson came here from Minnesota. and was also married here. They were married by the Rev. John Brooks, Rev. Albert Eldridge and Rev. Mr. Anderson, respectively. In answer tea question as to why she married a colored man, she said she found a man who loved and who would take care of her, and she was not going to throw herself away on any common white man. The husbands o' all these women were found to be industrious and kind to their wives. The fiortrait of Charles Sumner hung on the parlor wall.

MINOR TOPICS. Condition of Ex-President Arthur’s HealthPresident Cleveland a Sufferer. Special to th* Indianapolis Journal. Washington. June 5.— A medical man who is on terms of intimacy with ex-Presideut Arthur reports that gentleman suffering from the first ymptoms of Bright's disease. He says that Mr. Arthur has broken down very rapidly in the past hree months, and that nothing but the most igid attention to his physical condition will save his life. “It is very difficult for Mr. Arthur to give up the comforts of life,” said this gentleman, “but he will have to do it and stick to skim milk and toast ii he is to ever regain bis feet.” • It is said that President Cleveland is suffering from a failure to assimilate his food, and that if he does not get more exercise, aside from his carriage drives, he too is likely to be laid up with a serious gastric-affection. Mr. Ilayard’s Break-Down, Washington Special. Mr. Bayard has gone West more for rest and change than anything else. His intimate frierds are very much worried about him. He looks ten years older to day than when he first wont into the State Department He is a seriously disappointed and unhappy man. He has become strangely absent-minded. He forgets often when he has made a decision. In several instances lately he has promised the samo office to two different people. The trials of his new position have been too much for him. In the .Senate his life was of the easiest. His constituency was a very small one. His mail was very small. The only labor he had to perform was the preparation of an occasional speech. His record was a singularly simple one, and through the force of simply remaining in one position for a loug time he acquired a reputation. It now appears that he is not a man of executive ability, that he has no capacity tor the management of affairs. To suddenly step from an atmosphere of general praise-into the thunder-storm of universal criticism has been too much for him. He has taken great pains to say to his callers that these criticisms have not affected him, vet his altered sppearanco shows how greatly he is affected by the adverse opinions which have been circulated against his management of the State Department. A gentleman who saw Mi. Bayard out riding the other night says he has grown fully ten years older since he went into the State Department. His friends have feared that he would break down, and are, therefore, delighted £ hi* going West for rest and change. These .re said to be the motives of Ins visit. There is othiiig political iu the visit, if the opinions of is triends can bo relied upon. How Vilas Made a Vacancy. Washington Special. Messrs. Wells, Conley and Johnson were appointed a committee to investigate the Division Os Postal Supplies, at the head of which was D. \V Rhodes, who was dismissed on Sunday. Mr. Rhodes to night said: “The committee spent seven weeks investigating my office, and they counted everything In it They had not been at work two weeks before they told e and my assistant, Mr. Yantis, that we were both honest

men, Md that there was nothing whatever against ns. One man in the office, named Payne, never allowed an opportunity to pass him where he could stop me or Mr. Yantis, and the chairman of the committee said that if they had gone by the books of Payne we would have both been utterly ruined. An examination of the vouchers showed that everything tallied correctly. The Postmaster general introduced my successor to me in a flattering off band manner, and requested me to give him (Mr. Noyes, the new chief) all the assistance possible. The truth in a nutshell is this: Vilas wanted my place, and he took this roundabout way of throwing me out and substituting his wife’s relative.” Queries for Would-Be Inspectors. Washington, June 5. —In response to a flood of applications for positions as postoffice inspectors, the Postmaster-general selected 250 names of persons most favorably recommended, and sent to them notices requesting an answer to certain questions, by which their fitness for the service could be ascertained. The questions were intended to secure information as to the age of the applicants, their experience in postal business, and other matters. Answers were received from about 175 persons. A special committee was appointed to examine and classify the answers, and select from them the most promising ones. About thirty-five were rejected, because of age. There were twenty applicants from one State, all indorsed by senators from the State. As the appointment* will be made with a view to fair geographical division, only two persons at most can be appointed from one State. The committee has submitted its report, and the Postmaster-general will notify the persons selected by the committee to appear at an examination to be held in this city about July 15. The vacancies to be filled number about thirty-six. Snakes in tlie Ponds. Washington Special to Cincinnati Gazette. Professor Baird and the Fish Commissioners are worried at the ravages of blacksnakes in the government fish ponds near the city. The snakes are about two feet long, and the young fish have no means of escape or defense when their pursuers get after them. An effort was made to-day to shoot them with rifles, but with no success. The snakes increase nearly as rapidly as the fish, and their numbers are now so great that prompt measures must be taken to save the contents of the pouds. Professor Baird leaves next week with a number of his assistants for Woods Hole, off the New England coast, where he will meet a party of college students, who will study with him for several weeks during the summer. Before ho goes he will set in operation severe remedies for the snake pest in the Washington fish ponds. The Evansville Fostofflce. Washington Special. Anew and surprising change was made in the Evansville postoffice contest to-day by a dispatch from Mr. Frederick Laurstein, the editor of the Democrat, withdrawing his name. The chances are now that Mr. Carson will be appointed, if he is not strongly opposed by Congressman Kleiner. Mr. H. S. Bennett, the present postmaster of Evansville, will he removed for offensive partisanship as soor. as his successor can be agreed upon. Some of the friends *>f Mr. Laurstein refuse to accept his withdrawal as unconditional, and that it was only sent to the President so that he could understand that he did not desire to be considered in a scramble for the office. They say that lie will accept the office if tendered.

The District Pensioners. Washington, June s.—Sidney L. Wilson, pension agent for the District of Columbia, says that the statement that the names of 200 pensioners of the District had been dropped from the rolls because they were not legally entitled to pensions, is an entire misapprehension of the facts. Os the 200 above mentioned, 181 were pensioners who have died since 1882, s.nd whose names lmd been taken from the rolls. In the official report he says it is plainly stated when death occurred in each case, and when the last payment was made. In many instances the government owes the estate of ihese pensioners for the time elapsing between the time of the last payment of pension and the date of death. Status of Indian LanUs. June s.—The Secretary of the Interior has decided that lands purchased by the United States and transferred to the Interior Department are to be regarded as part of the public domain, in trust for the people and as on the same basi3 as lands acquired by cession. The question arose from a discussion of the act of July 5, 1884, providing for the transfer to the Interior Department of certain lands formerly used as military reservations. The Fort Sullivan military reservation, in Maine, was among the transferred trusts, and as the United States had never held any public lands in Maine, the Land office authorities wished to know the terms of title by which the land was held. Fourth-Class Postmasters for Indiana. Special to tue Indianapolis Journal. Washington, June s. —The following fourthclass postmasters were appointed for Indiana to day: C. M. Hamilton, vice Eugene Udell, at North Indianapolis, Marion county; James McChaushan, vice Thomas A. Mason, at New Lebanon, Sullivan county; E. G. Caruthers, vice Artecas Cash man, at Graysville, Sullivan county; M. T. Dillon, vice Zapher Hunt, at Camden, Carroll county; J. W. Hougher, vice Jacob C. Harper, at Fair Creek, Vigo county; William Jourdan, vice J. M. Searle, at Fayetteville, Lawrence county; Frederick Wagner, vice Douglass Williams, at Westphalia, Knox county. Appointments by the President. Washington, June s. —The President to day appointed Hunter Wood to be collector of internal revenue for the Second district of Kentucky. The President also appointed the following named presidential postmasters: A. D. Hensley, at Sibley, la., vice H. S. Brown, resigned; Thomas Ingalls, at Marblehead, Mass., vice Knott V. Martin, resigned; Henry A. Bliss, at Winsted, Conn., vice H. L. Huberts, resigned; Richard N. Hall, at Grenada, Miss., vice M. K. Mister, suspended. Valuable Aid to the Pension Bureau. Washington, June s.—The army survivors division of the Pension Office, recently organized by Gen. John C. Black, is rapidly becoming a very valuable branch of the bureau. During the month of May the division furnished to the adjudication officers and to claimants the names and post office addresses of 1,127 officers, 878 nou-commissioned officers, and 40,540 enlisted men for use in establishing claims. General aud Personal. Special to the Indianapolis JouruSL Washington, June s.—Senator Ben. Harrison arrived to day. Senator Voor'nees and Bayless W. Hanna held a long conference to day. They were out riding, aud, it is said, came to a very good understanding. Mr. Hanna still expects to receive a diplomatic position. The injunction suit of R. C. Hewitt et al. vs. the Western Union Telegraph Company and the District Commissioners, to restrain the telegraph company from erecting a pole line on Seventh street was decided in the equity court to-day in favor of the plaintiffs. The Commissioners of the District to day appointed W'm. B. Powell, of Illinois, superintendent of public schools of the District of Columbia. Mr. Powell is a younger brother of Major Powell, of the geological survey. Sergeant Janies Campbell, of the Third Artillery, Battery K, now stationed at the Washington barracks, attempted suicide this morning, in the ha; racks hospital, by (hooting himself in the left breast. The ball pen carat >i iu&t above the heart, and it is thought he ran not live. The Comp*roller of the Currency to day extended the corporate existence of the Union National Bank, of MaasUloa, 0., to June U), I m.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1885-TWELVE PAGES.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of All Kinds in the Two States. Murder and Suicide at GndgeH’s Station — Boy Accidentally Killed—Sensational Investigation at Springfield, 111. INDIANA. A Shocking Case of Murder and Suicide at Cudgel's Station. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Evansville June 5. —At Gudgel’s station, on the Straight-line railroad, a few miles north of here, at 9 o’clock this morning, James H. Minnis was stabbed and instantly killed by John Butcher, a neighbor. The men are dealers in railroad cross-ties, and Minnis was coming to the depot with a loaded wagon, when he met several empty wagons returning. All turned out of the road, except Butcher, who refused. One word brought on another, and both men got off their wagons. Butcher was first, however, and as Minnis reached the ground Butcher stabbed him in the breast, killing him instantly. Butcher fled to the woods, closely pursued by enraged citizens, and a rapid cross fire was kept up. About noon the murderer was surrounded in Bell’s pasture. He emptied two revolvers at the officers, with the exception of one chamber, which he reserved until*, finding escape impossible, he blew out his own brains. Minnis was twenty-four years old and a good citizen. He leaves a widow and two children in comfortable circumstances. Butcher, on the other hand, was a rough character and very quarrelsome. A Plausible Swindler. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Evansville, June 5.—A man calling himself J. C. Smith arrived in this city on Tuesday, representing himself as a merchant doing business in Oakland City. He met B. W. Taylor, a travelling salesman for Sweetser, Caldwell & Cos., of this city, and through him succeeded in getting introductions to a number of prominent business men. He stated that he was a son of a wealthy farmer near Oakland, and that he was erecting a large building there to go into general merchandising. On visiting different stores he stated that he intended to pay cash for all he bought, and incidentally mentioned $6,000 on deposit in the First National here. Merchants never thought of inquiring at the bank, but readily sold him goods and even advanced him small loans. He bought goods to the amount of $5,113.f>2, and promised to call this morning and pay for the same. According to agreement he galled on the different firms this morning and presented checks and received receipts. When the checks were presented, however, they were declared worthless. None of the goods had been shipped, and all the got was about SIOO in cash and considerable wearing apparel. He has not been seen since. He is six feet high, smoothly shaven, country bred, but showing some signs of city polish. He is a smooth talker, and exhibited no excitement while making purchases. No such person is known in Oakland. Burning of Ranke At Yergens’s Stave Factory. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Fort Wayne* June s.— At a late hour last night a watchman patrolling the extensive stave factory of Ranke & Yergens discovered some shavings in the boiler room of the principal building had been ignited by a spark from the fire-box. He ran up stairs for the hose, but before he couhl operate the fire had run across the floor of the main room, feeding on the sawdust, which was fine as powder and highly inflammable. An attempt of the bewildered man to turn in an alarm failed, and the department was finally summoned by a policeman, who ran to the engine-house. By the time the department arrived, the principal buildiug, containing valuable machinery and great quantities of heading awaiting shipment, was beyond saving. The drying-house caught next, and was destroyed, and large stacks of heading in the yard were burned. The department remained on the scene until nearly daylight this morning. The loss is about SB,OOO, and is only partially covered by insurance. Fifty-three men are thrown out of employment.

Wreck on the J., M. A 1. Railway. Special to tbe Indianapolis Journal. Columbus, June s.— About midnight last night the south-bound freight on the Cambridge branch of the J., M. & I. railroad, at St. Louis Crossing, ten miles northeast of here, ran into a tree that the storm had blown across the track. The engine was thrown from the track, followed by the cab, tender and four cars, which were crushed and piled up iu a promiscuous mass. Brakeraau Charles Monroe was instantly killed, and so covered with the debris that it took almost till daylight to extricate the body. Engineer K. P. Diffenderfer was caught under the tender, which turned over, but eseaped with only slight wounds, and fireman Dan Sines was knocked clear through a board fence, but also escaped serious injury. Boy Fatally Kicked by a Horse. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Edinbubo, June 5.—A three-year old son of George Beauche, a farmer, of Sbelby county, living four miles east of this place, was kicked by a horse, this afternoon, fracturing th© skull. His injuries will prove fatal. Boy Accidentally Killed. (Special to the lutiiauapoli# Journal. Huntington, June 6.—This evening a young son of John lfenbarger, while playing in a neighbor’s hay mow, fell therefrom, breaking h:s neck. He lived only a few minutes after the accident Affairs at Lake Maxinkuckee. Plymouth Republican. Visitors are beginning to arrive, and indications are that the season will be the liveliest ever known at the lake. H. J. McSheehy, of the Logansport Chronicle, is building a cottage and boat house on Long Point Hi summers at tbs lake almost every year. Captain Morru’s new steamer is capable of carrying 125 persons, and the smaller steamers include one About ii big as a skiff, with an engine and boiler the size of a small stove. It is a beautiful little boat, and makes fast time. A stock company, of Mr. A. D. Toner and others, is building a einb house. 40 feet by 120, near the neat little depot, which will contain a restaurant and a large hall, suitable for a rink and balls. It can be filled with cots in an emergency. Several new dub-liouses are talked of, and it is only a question of time ehen the cottages and club-houses will extend entirely around the lake, Mr. Stechhan, of Indianapolis, is now building a handsome cottage, and Messrs. Warner and Vajeo are improving Uieir beautiful cottages and grounds. The Vandalia has employed an artist to take views of the lake, which will be put in book form, interspersed with descriptions of tbe beautiful scenery, and be weed to advertise tbe lake and make business tor tbe railroad. C. Q. Oak-

ley, of Terre Haute, is their artist, and he is now here and hard at work. Sixty thousand copies of the book will be issued in a few weeks. Minor Notes. .Jacob K. Hams, aged eighty three years, one or the wealthiest citizens of Switzerland county, died on Thursday. At Patriot, on Thursday, Abram Garmore and Oscar Bostic became involved in a quarrel about a debt, and the former was dangerously cut. M. Lakin, a highly-respected living •near Marshall, was instantly killed by being thrown from a wagon drawn by a runaway team. Professor John M. Bloss has applied to the commissioners of the District of Columbia for the position of superintendent of public schools at Washington. The trial of James Cunningham, who was indicted with Win. Shular for the murder of Wm. Lane, at Crawiordsville, on Dec. 20, 1881, will take place at Frankfort next week. Ground was broken at Valparaiso, on Thursday, for the building of a system of water-works. The works are to be of the* improved Holly system, and the estimated cost is SBO,OOO. The following are the officers elected, this week, for the ensuing year, of the Oak Hill Cemetery Association, Crawfordsville: President, S. D. Brown, secretary and treasurer, A. C. Jennison. The storm that passed over Monticello on Thursday night, did a vast amounWif damage to houses, fences and trees. Israel Nordyke’s house was struck by lightning, and other small buildings suffered. The officers of the Crawfordsville Building, Loan Fund and Savings Association are: President. T. H. B. McCain; vice president, C. W. Wright, "secretary, B. R. Russell; treasurer, W. W. Mills; attorney, Ben Crane. Young Bauer, who figured in a street shooting affray at Evansville, was arraigned in court yesterday afternoon, but by request of Mr. Weyerbaeker the case was nollied. Bauer will probably bring suit for false imprisonment. The Bloomfield Democrat says: “Hon. John Benz, of Crawford county, will probably be a candidate for Congress in this district. Ke is representative German, a popular gentleman, and if he enters the race will be a formidable candidate.” Owing to dullness of trade the Lafayette car works are closing out the orders on hand and wiil suspend operations. About three hundred men will be thrown out of employment. The directors express the hope that the suspension will be only temporary. Henry B. Eubank was arrested at Mitchel, on Thursday, by Sheriff Day, on two indictments found by the grand jury for robbing the postoffice and Anderson & Hamilton’s book store, respectively, nearly two years ago. Failing to give bail, he was locked up in the Bedford jail. The workmen at the shoe factory of Barker, Patterall <fc Cos., of Lafaj'ette, are out on strike. They number about twenty live. The firm has been paying at the rate of $3.50 tier case for kip boots, but proposed to reduce the pay to $3 25 per case. The men took their tools and withdrew. Ziba Adamson, an old resident of Lawrence county, and heretofore a substantial farmer and justice of the peace of Indian Creek township, has skipped out for parts unknown, leaving a wile and four children, it is said. His bondsmen will have between $4,000 and $5,000 to make up, but they say they will pursue him to the end of the earth. It is alleged that a woman accompanied Adamson. News comes from the agent of the railway at New Burnsides, Knox county, that on Wednesday night, about 11 o’clock, a brilliant meteor had fallen in a field near the station; that the natives were terror-stricken by the phenomenon; that measurements were taken and sent, to a scientist, who reported that the meteor weighed a ton and a half. About one half of it was imbedded in the ground by the’fall Much surprise was occasioned yestesday by the resignation of James G. Perrin from the Lafayette school board. He is president of the Indiana National Bank, has been treasurer of the board for thirteen years, during which time the school fund has beeu placed at interest in that bank. The newly-elected council appointed H. W. Moore, of the First National Bank, as treasurer, and it was understood that the fund would be transferred to that bank. There is considerable hard feeling between members of the board.

ILLINOIS. A Proposal to Investigate Certain Allegations Made by Speaker Haines. Springfield, June s.—Speaker Haines was sick this morning, and Representative Fuller occupied the chair, by request of the Speaker. Representative Collins submitted a resolution citing that, as the Speaker had taken the floor, yesterday, exhibiting certain documents and threatening to disclose their contents, thereby giving rise to the belief that the publication of them would compromise the honor of one or more members, and also laid the Speaker open to the charge of knowingly condoning fraud, the House demands the production ©f ihe papers, and that in the event of his failure to do so, ‘That it is the judgment of this body that the dishonorable nature of the proposals or acts set forth in said documents, and the Speaker’s disposition to condone the same, stand before the people of Illinois as confessed.” Mr. Fuller asked that the resolution lay over till the Speaker was present in person. Mr. Collins said that if the resolution could be brought up when the Speaker was present, he would consent. A committee was also appointed to investigate the charge that twenty-three members had approached corporations for moneys. It was not intended to have held a meeting of the investigating committee this afternoon, but about 4:30 o’eloek the members all met in the judiciary room. Everything was done secretly, and all refuse to divulge anything. The committee will meet again on Tuesday. To night it is learned that the committee has issued subpoenas for the Monitor newspaper staff, Haines. Donnellv, Goddard, Herrington and Senator Mason. The majority of these left town on the noon train to avoid service. • Restrained from Making a Contract. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Bloomington, Juue 5. —Judge Reeves to-day granted an injunction restraining the city council from entering into a contract with the electric light and power company, of this city, for lighting the streets for three years. The point raised is that the city council cannot legally enter into a contract for more than one year, which is also the opinion of City Attorney Gapen. delivered to the council some weeks ago. Sheriff Swaim is the nominal plaintiff, but the attorney of the gas light and heating company are the real plaintiffs. The company has lighted Bloomington for many years, but this year the council concluded that electric lighting was cheaper and better, and so. last Friday, determined to let a contract for three years for one hundred lights, to take the place of 533 gas lights. The case is set for argument on Tuesday at noon. The Postoffice at Tuscola. Special to the In4ia.aooHa Journal Tuscola, June 5.—11. R. Ingraham, postmaster, whose commission has over three years yet to ran has sent in his resignation to take effct June 30. He has been an enthusiastic Republican, and although an efficient official he expected to be removed as an offensive partisan. The local Democracy have been pulling and hauling each other ever since Cleveland's inauguration to determine who should be the lucky mac to succeed him. There have been numerous applicants, but they have all dropped out of the field except ex Mayor James Davis and M. V. Dogget, both of whom have numerously signed petitions to back up their applications. Smallpox and Hog Cholera. Springfield, June 5. A case of smallpox has beee reported to the State Board of Health at Tunuaroa, Perry county. The victim is a brakeman of the Illinois Central railway. The New York State Board of Health calls the attention of

the Illinois board to a car-load of hoes, shipped from Chicago to Fredonia, N. Y., and sold ir. small lots to farmers and others. Many of the hogs have since died from what is supposed to be cholera. In several instances where one of the animals from Chicago was introduced into other drives, a number of them took the disease and died. An Investigation will be made into the cause and nature of the disease. The Highland Hank Failure. Highland, June 5. —The assignees of Rhyheiner & Cos., the bankers who failed a few weeks ago, filed, to day, with the county clerk at Edwardsville, their inventory, summarized as follows: Assets —Good, $227,269; doubtful, $98,170; desperate, $13,653. The liabilities are over SBIO,OOO. The lands inventoried are located in twelve different counties in the State. The Militia Hill. Sfringfield, June s. —The Senate has passed the amended militia bill, which provides for a force of 4,000 men of all arms, a yearly appropriation of SBO,OOO for the ordinary expenses of the National Guard, and $85,000 for the purchase of uniforms and equipments. Brief Mention. A Mr. McKinley and his son were killed by lightning, near Meudota, on Thursday. A seventeen year old boy named Neaman was drowned on Thursday, near Chenoa, while bathing. S. P. Bartlett, secretary of the Illinois Fish Commission, has completed the work of distributing 1,200.000 Polomae shad in the Illinois, Rock and Kankakee rivers. At Stewardson a terrific storm struck the town from the northeast, uprooting shade trees, turning over small houses, and demolishing large show windows. The wind blew five narrowgauge box cars from the siding, and turned them down the grade on their sides. Large numbers of hogs in the neighborhood of Freeport, Stephenson county, and in the eastern part of Jo Daviess county are said to be afflicted with & lung disease which in the most ot cases proves fatal. Many hogs have died in the vicinity of Freeport. William R. Jackson, who was tried and convicted on charge of murder at Bloomington, has been granted anew trial by Judge Blades. It was shown that one of the jury said before the trial that if the jury did not hang Jackson a mob ought to, and immediately a p ter the trial the said juror had applied to the sheriff for a ticket to witness the execution. On Thursday night Eugene Rockwell ,a flour and commission merchant at Maroa, destroyed his life by taking morphine. He was in debt, and could get no one to go his security to prevent exposure. He was a widower, leaving two little boys. His age was thirty-eight, and he was highly respected l>y the people of the community in which he had lived foor years. His relatives reside in the northern part of the State. TELEGRAPHIC brevities. Fire in the International distillery, at Des Moines, la., did damage to the amount of $lO,000. An explosion of gas occurred yesterday morning at Isabella furnace. Barneston, Chester county, Pennsylvania. William Buller, an employe, was killed, and several others injured. The cause of the explosion is unknown. The Juniata Banking and Loan Association of Everett, Pa., lias assigned to Alex. King, of Bedford, Pa. The liabilities are $05,000; assets about one-third of that sum. Mismanagement is alleged to be the cause of the failure. At Madison ville, Tenn., on Thursday, Prof. W. H. Kimbrough, of the Bolivar Academy, blew his brains out with a shotgun. He left a note stating that he was tired of life, since he failed to marry one of four young ladies to whom he proposed. The remains of Charles T. Howard, principal owner ot the Louisiana lottery, who was killed near New York, by being thrown from a horse, reached New Orleans yesterday. His funeral was one of the largest ever witnessed in that city. Many orphans from the asylums and Sisters of Charity followed his remains to the tomb. D. L. Gursey, dealer in books and stationery, at Concord. N. H., has made an assignment He is the head of a large book and map subscription agency in Boston. He has been largely engaged in the placing of stock of several Mexican mining companies in New Hampshire and other States. He has also been the agent for the sale of mortgages on farms in the Southwest. His liabilities have not been learned.

DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. War Department, l Officb of the Chief Signal Otticsr, > Washington, June 6, 1885. ) For the Ohio Valley and Tennessee —Fair weather, stationary, followed by rising temperature, variable winds, generally shifting to southeasterly, falling barometer iu the western portions, rising followed by falling barometer in the east portions. Tor the Lower Lake Region—Fair weather, stationary, followed by rising temperature, variable winds. For the Upper Lake Region—Fair, warmer weather, preceded by stationary temperature, followed by local rains, variable winds shifting to southeast, falling barometer. For the Upper Mississippi Valley—Local rains, southeast to*southwest winds, falling barometer, generally warmer. For the Missouri Valley—Local rains and severe local storms, southerly shifting to westerly winds, cooler weather, falling followed by rising barometer. Local Observations. Indianapolis, June 5. Time. Bar. Thv. Hum. Wind.!Weather Rain. 6A. ¥ 29.75 03.1 86 NW Cloudy. 10 A. M . 29.84! 60.2 75 NW (dotidy 2p.M .. 26.86 l 06.0 00 N Cloudv 6p. M.. 26.86! 78.0 66 NE Clear." 10 P. M.. 29.911 65.7 90 Calm Clear Maximum temperature, 74.2. Minimum temperature, 01. fIMiE “Oakwood.” Green Lake. Wis., opens for SumJ. mer guests the 15th of May, with extensive improvements. Apolv for circulars, with prices, to David Greenway, owner and proprietor, Hartford, Wis. STOP THAT COUGH! -• It leads to Deatt fgrfL BOSTON iJr COUGH BALM y/fvjLW f Positively Cures BRONCHITIS And the worst a I COUGHH, lead- ¥ / I I / ing to Consurnpf I I / / /TIL/ tion, and it is so • safe that double doM will not hurt a tittle child 80LD E VKKVT WHERE ON GUARANTEE. WHITE’S NEURALGIA CURE Gives Quick lielief, and EtFects a Permanent Cure of that most painful disease. it, and Suffer no more. Price: Small Bottler. 25 eta. Large Bottles. 50 otft, For oj*le by all Druggists. E. Ik WHITE, Sole Prop., Lancaster. 0 \1 T ANTKIWTHE CHEAPEST NEWSPAPER LN* T? tbs West, the Weekly Indian* .State Journal. One debar per year.

THE INDMUFOLIS JOURNAL NEW ANNOUNCEMENT. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL is nsognised everywhere as the leading newspaper of Indiana. No proper expense is spared ho maintain this undisputed excellence and to increase the value and interest of the papee. 1 HE JOURNAL was never so well equipped to serve the public. Oar arrangements for the collection of the news of the day are mora complete than ever, and we have added some special features which must enhance the popularity of the paper. THE JOURNAL is the only papeT in Indiana that prints regularly the full reports oC the Western Associated Press, which are now more comprehensive than ever, covering the whole world. These dispatches are supplemented by the work of special correspondents at all the principal cities and towns of the State and of the country at large. We have a special resident representative at Washington City, who looks after tho news of the nsr tioual capital with vigilance, paying particular attention to that which most nearly concern* THE JOURNAL’S constituency. The fullest and most reliable intelligence from Washington will be presented in our news columns, free from party bias, impartially, and without restraint. Editorially THE JOURNAL is a Republican paper, believing in the principles and general policy of the Republican party; but it recognizes that the day of blind party organship has passed, and it proposes to be perfectly free to criticise and condemn, but in a spirit and with a purpoje for good, having a proper regard for personal rights and reputations. The citizen, whatever his political faith, can be assured of seeing in the columns of THE JOURNAL the fullest and fairest presentation of the news, and in its editorial columns such comment and strictures as will command his respect if they do not meet his approval. It may also be said that THE JOURNAL it published as a FAMILY NEWSPAPER. Is recognizes that the women and the children are to be instructed and entertained. They will always find in its columns matter specially prepared for them, Avhile the paper will be so conducted as to prove a welcome visitor in the household. The news will be presented in such shape as to minimize the evil, and its editorial and local columns will be kept free from moral taint.

The Railroad News of THE JOURNAL is admittedly the freshest, fullest and most accurate printed by any newspaper in the country. SPECIAL FEATURES. By a special arrangement with the authors, the INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL began with the present year the publication of a series of original stories from the pens of the most noted writers in the country, such as W. D. Howells, J. T. Trowbridge, E. P. Roe, T. R. Aldrich, Frank R. Stockton, Mrs. Helen Jackson, Sarah Orne Jewett, and others of equal celebrity. This series is now being printed in the Saturday edition. The JOURNAL OF MONDAY of each week prints a special report of the sermon of Rev. Dr. Talmage, of the Brooklyn Tat remade, preached the previous day—which sermon is not published in other papers of the State until the following Sunday. This is only one , feature showing the excellence of the Journal’s arrangements for the prompt publication of news. In the SUNDAY JOURNAL are printed a series of original stories written by thus moat celebrated authors of the world. We receive these stories direct from England, by a special arrangement with the writers. We have already published stories by “Ouida," William Black and Mrs. Oliphant. The one now being printed is a novel by Joseph Hatton, entitled “JOHN NEEDHAM’S DOUBLE." THE SUNDAY JOURNAL Is a paper of twelve pages, sold for five cents, the same as the Saturday Journal. The SUNDAY JOURNAL reaches every town and city iu Indiana and the surrounding territory. The circulation of the Sunday edition is the largest and best of any Sunday paper printed in Indiana, and it has made itself the People’s Paper. The SUNDAY JOURNAL is without competitor in the State in the character and varioty of matter it presents its readers. The best writers in the State and the country freely* contribute to its columns. In its enlarged and improved form it will be absolutely without a rival or peer. TOE INDIANA STATE JOURNAL (WEEKLY EDITION) Is the best secular paper published in the State. It is a compete compendium of the news of the week, with special features of late and trustworthy market report*, and a department of industrial and agricultural Intelligence carefully prepared by an editor of long experience. In these respects the WEEKLY JOURNAL is superior to anymore agricultural paper, for the field it covers is infinitely more extensive than that which can be oooapied by any special class publication. SPECIAL TERMS Are made to agent* and canvassers, and tor clubbing with othsr papers. For all detail* address the publishers, JNO. C. NEW & SON, Corner Market aud Pennsylvania St*., Indianapolis, In<h