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further, by adding that, whenever as much subsidiary coin had been coined as conld be floated in or out of the country, he would stop the coinage of silver altogether. It is understood that Treasurer Jordan is advocating a scheme very much the same as that of Mr. McDonald. The silver people say the whole business is absurd, and no more of our subsidiary coin would be taken outside of tho country by increasing its weight than is taken now. They laugh at the idea that the weight of the coin has anything to do with its circulation in other countries. THE DOLPHIN. The Differences Between Secretary Whitney and the Contractor. Washington, Jan. 15.—Secretary Whitney made the following statement to-day to a representative of the Associated Press in regard to the dispatch-boat Dolphin: “The talk with reference to the Dolphin doubtless arises from the proposition made by the contractor, a good while ago, that we should make an effort to arbitrate, and in that way arrive at some common ground with regard to the facts. We are now considering it, and I am disposed to do it if it can bo done. It will be seen by looking at my report that the action of the contractor in fixing up the boat after she was submitted to the department for acceptance removed a great many of the grounds of criticism that were made by the examining board. I summer- 1 ized the matter in my report, and showed substantially what points were unsettled. If we can agree upon a board of technical men, whom both sides would have confidence in, to make another examination of the Dolphin, to determine the money value of the difference between us, it is precisely what a private individual would do in a similar case. We have not reached any conclusion yet, but we may very soon. In this cqpuection it is proper to say that most of the statements that have been circulated with regard to the reeent trial-trip of the vessel were erroneous. She did not encounter any unusual weather during tho trip, nor did she make fifteen knots, ns has been stated. I have not asked for any reports in regard to the trial, but I find there is no substantial disagreement between her official time as reported and the time made on the previous trial trips." MINOR MATTERS. Indications that Congressman Steele Will Be Allowed to Retain His Seat. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 15.—Major Steele was jiven a position with General Bragg, the chairman, on the most important of the sub-commit- _ tees of the House committee oa military affairs, which adds another point to bis strength, and of which he will take due advantage. The Major and his friends are not worrying any over the contest of his seat by Major Kidd. No one believes Major Steele will be unseatod, because, first, his opponent has not a good case, in any sense, and because, second, Major Steele, by bis uniformly fair action as a member of the House, and his gentlemanly deportment socially, has won the esteem of all members, and they will not do him the gross injustice of unseating him upon the flimsy pretext of politics. Rights of Removed Officials. Washington, Jan. 15.—The Republican senators met in caucus at 10:30 this morning, and adjourned at half-past 1. Their purpose was to compare views with regard to the right of the Senate to information as to tho President's reasons for making removals from office. The fact was stated that many of the.inquiries addressed to the beads of departments by chairmen of committees remain unanswered, but up to this time the answers indicate a purpose to refuse to give this information. No formal proposition was made and no action taken. While a wide variety of opinions found expression with regard to the propriety of raising a formal issue with the administration at present upon this question, a majority were of the opinion that should the information sought not ultimately be forthcoming, the Republicans will, in justice to the men who have been suspended or removed for supposed cause, lie required to take some formal action in the Senate to secure the information, or an avowal by the President that he will not give his reasons for making removals. There was unanimous concurrence in the opinion that removed officials have a right to know whether they were removed for political reasons or maladministration of their trusts, and that it is the senators’ duty to secure this information if possible. Popular Speeches. Washington Special. lam told that 200,000 copies of Sen at 0. leek's recent speech have been circulated by the .riends of silver coinage. That is a very large issue, considering the fact that thousands of copies of the Record containing the speech were sent out, and that nearly every paper in the country published a full analysis of it Few congressional speeches are ever scattered so widely over the country. Two hundred thousand copies of. .Senator Hill’s attack on Mahone were printed. Most of them were ordered by Virginians, and in some parts of the State merchants used them to print their idvertisoments on. A quartet of a million copies . f Mr. Carlisle’s speech against the tariff comlission were printed. When Garfield was camaigniug for the presidency the Republican committee had several of his speeches on the tariff and pensions printed by the hundred thousand. Frank Hurd’s congressional speeches were always in great demand, and Sunset Cox had printed hundreds of pamphlets embodying many, but not at all of the outbursts of bis fertile oratory. Senator Beck’s Wrath. Wnsbingtem Special. Senator Beck walked into the office of Post-master-general Vilas this morning, boiling ovor. Mr. Beck had recommended a man for postmaster at Paris, Ky., and had learned that the Postmaster-general was disinclined to appoint him, because he was over seventy years old. Mr. Beck was red-hot, and relieved himself by a burst of indignation against the administration. He declared that he had come to the conclusion that all that was needed to damn an applicant under this regime was his indorsement, and he told the Postmaster-general very plainly that he was sick and tired of such treatment. Mr. Vilas tried to pacify the irate Kentuckian, but did not succeed, and Mr. Beck left, as Paul started to Damascus, breathing out wrath and tbreatenings. The stormiest troubles ahead for the administration are not to be apprehended from the Republicans, but from the Democrats, who feel tbAt either they or their constituents have been unjustly treated. Mr. Burt Will Not Bo Removed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Washington, Jan. 15.—Today Lewis G. Bernard, of Cincinnati, who is an applicant for the position of superintendent of railway mail service for the Cincinnati division, called upon Postmaster-general Vilas. After Mr. Bernard had laid his claims before Mr. Vilas, the latter stated that he did not intend to make a change —that Mr. Bnrt, the present incumbent, had made a good record, was an efficient officer, and, ns toe re deemed to be no serious complaint or charges acainst him, he would be retained, at least for the present. J. J. Gwin, of Attica, Ind., who is hero after this place, will probably accompany Mr. Bernard westward. _ General and Personal. special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 15.—George W. Allison, of Nashville, Ind.; Alexander Sharum, of Loogootee; James McClelland, of Bedford; Willis B. Goodwin, of Jeffersonville, and Philip C. Kuntz, cf Goshen, were to-day admitted to practice before the Interior Department D. 11. Alexander, of Tipton, who has been here for some time seeking an appointment, is very ill at the Hillman House. The Secretary of the Tntorior has requested the Attorney-general to institute suit against the Lacota Cattle Company, doing business in the

Western part, of Nebraska, to recover $12.250, the value of timber alleged to have been cut by them from the public lands; also, a similar suit against A. M. & J. A. Wetherbee, to recover $10,240, the value of timber cut from the public lands in Mississippi. It is said that Marshal Hawkins is opposing theapppintment of Col. Richard Huncbeon, of LaPorte, who wants to be agent for the Red Cloud Indians. Admiral Porter, who has been seriously ill, ia now considered out of danger. A favorable report on the nomination of Col. John S. Williams, of Lafayette, to be Third Auditor of the Treasury, was made by the full Senate committee on finance, on Wednesday last. The nomination will he confirmed the first of next week. Ex Senator McDonald will leave for his home at Indianapolis to-morrow. Jefferson Hizer was to-day commissioned postmaster at Allensville, Ind., and B. Gregory at West Fork. Judge John M. Butler went to New York today, whence he goes to Indianapolis. Seth M. Whitten, of Union City, who has been here, and very sick, for some time, is slowly recovering. A resolution has been introduced in tho House to pay Luther F. Warder, of New Albany, the sum of $390, being the difference between his salary as Asssistant Door-keeper and Doorkeeper, in which capacity he served between July and December, 1885, when the latter position was made vacant by death of Mr. Wintersmith. The Department of State has been officially advised that the King of the Belgians has proposed an annual prize of 20,000 francs for the purpose of encouraging works of the mind, competition to be open to all nations, and to be decided by a jury appointed by the King of Belgium, to consist of seven members, of whom three are to be Belgians and the remainder foreigners. The House committee on public buildings and grounds to day adopted a rule forbidding the sale of spirituous liquors in the restaurant The same action has been taken at the last two sessions, bat in those instances the prohibition was contained in a joint rule, while the present rule is a complete order. The House committee on rivers and harbors to-day resolved to limit the total amount of the appropriation for improving rivers and harbors to $11,000,000. The sums recommended for appropriation will, in no ease, be made public in advance of the report of the bill. The committee on invalid pensions of the House to-day agreed to report favorably Mr. Matson’s bill to increase the pensions of widows from $8 to sl4. Some of the Illinois congressmen have in contemplation an important project in relation to Indian supplies. It is to secure the removal, if possible, of the Indian supply warehouse from New York to Chicago, with a view to the purchase of all future supplies in the Chicago market. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. War Department, ) Omen op thbChikf Signal Officer, > Washington, Jan. 16, la. m, ) Special Indications Tor Twenty-four Hours from 7 a. M., for Indianapolis and Vicinity— Rain, turning to snow, lower temperature and a cold wave. For the Ohio Vailey and Tennessee—Rain,, turning into snow, followed by clearing weather in the western portion; lower temperature, winds shiftiug to noithwesterly, higher baromter. For the Lower Lake Region—Local rains, turning into snow, slight rise, followed by lower temperature; southerly winds, shifting to westerly, followed by higher barometer. For the Upper Lake Region—Local snows, colder weather; winds shifting to northerly, higher barometer. For the Upper Mississippi Valley Local snows, followed by colder, clearing weather, with cold wave; winds shifting to northerly, higher barometer. For the Missouri Valley Clearing, colder weather, followed by nearly stationary temperature; northerly winds, becoming variable. Local Observations. Indianapolis, Jea. 15. Time. Bar. Ther. Hum. Wind. Woatherj Rain. 6A. M.. 30.34 29.0 88 S’east Sleet * 10 a.m . 30.27 31.7 88 S’east Lt. rain 2p. M.. 30.03 36.3 94 S’east Lt. rain. 0.32 6P. M.. 29.97 37.0 96 S’east Lt. rain - 10 P. M.. 29.89 36.0 91 S'eastjLt. rain. 0.94 Maximum temperature, 38.0; minimum temperature, 25.8. ’-Melted sleet too small to measure. General Observations. War Department, Washington, Jan. 15,10 p. m. ) Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. \ s ii pi § r 1 “I sj STATIONS. II i § = ?| ; 3sr f •7• ; • New York City 30.46 29 N’east Clear. Washington City... 30.47 22 S’east Fair. Vicksburg, Misa 29.97 45 West .06 Cloudy. New Orleans. La 30.07 51 West Cloudy. Shreveport, La..... 30.02 42 West .02 Lt. rain. Fort Smith, Ark... 30.01 34 West .OLCloudy. Little Rock, Ark... 20.91 34 Nwest .05 Li. rain. Galveston, Tex 30.02 47 Swest Foggy. Memphis, Tenn 29.86 38 West .14 Lt. rain. Nashville, Tenn...- 29.88 42j S’east .40 Lt. rain. Louisville. Ky 29.93 43 S’east .73‘H’yraiu. Indianapolis, Ind... 29.90 36 S’east .82|Lt. rain. Cincinnati, 0 29.97 37 S’east .47jLt. rain. Pittsburg, Pa 30.20 36jN’east ..... Cloudy. Oswego, N. Y 30.30 25*South ICloudy. Toledo, 0 30.05 31iS’east .08iLt. rain. Eseanaba, Mich.... 29.97 30;East .17iLtsnow. Marquette, Mich... 29.ifi) 27,East .06Ltsnow. Chicago, 111. 29.84 40 l S’east .27|Lt. rain. Milwaukee, Wis 29.84 33, S’east . 17Lt snow. Duluth. Minn 30.02 22lNorth .07;Lt snow. St. Paul. Minn 29.97 22'West .04 Lt snow. LaCrosse, Wis 29.85 30 North .14 Lt snow Davenport, la 29.84 31 East .ol|Lt snow. Des Moines, la. 29.97 17 Nwest .07JLt snow. Keokuk, Ia 29.85 32 Swest .02'Lt. rain. Cairo, 111 29.85 37 S’east .24|Lt. rain. Springfield, 111 29.82 39 South .05 Lt snow. St. Louis. M 0...... 29.85 38 South .07iLt. raiD. Lamar, Mo 30.00 26 Nwest t ,09. Lt snow. Leavenworth, Kan.. 30.05 17, Nwest .10 Lt snow. Omaha, Neb 30.14 B|Nweat, Cloudy. Yaukton, Dak 30.23 4.Nwest Fair. Moorehead, Minn.. 30.22 o,North .02 Lt snow. Bismarck, Dak 30.40 —2,North .04 Lt. snow. Fort Buford. Dak.. 30.50 —5 Nwest .03 Lt snow. Ft.Assinil>oine.M. T 30.51 —S'Nwest Clear. Fort Custer, Mont.. |30.44 —14 North Cloudy. Deadwood, Dak 130.29 —9 N’east Clear. North Platte, Neb..|30.26 sjNwest Clear. Denver, Col 30.12 —2 South IClear. W. Las Animas, Col 30.18 7,S’ea:tt Lt snow. Dodge City, Kan—3o.2o 10,Nwest 02|Cloudy. Fort Elliott, Tex... 30.19 20jNwest Cloudy, Fort Sill. Ind. Ter ] Fort Davis, Tex.... 30 09 45 Swest* Clear. El Paso, Tex 30.08 48 j West 'Fair. Salt Lake City, U. T 29.98 28|S'oast I Fair. Fatally Beaten by Masked Robbers. Ligonier, Pa., Jan. 15.—Between 1 and 2 o’clock this morning three masked men appeared at the house of Samuel Robinson, who resides four miles south of here, and demanded admittance. Upon being refused they fired several times through the windows, and finally forced their way in by breaking the door down. They then demanded his money, which they supposed was concealed in the house. Robinson told them he had nothing, wheroupon they attacked him with clubs and chairs and beat him until he was insensible. The villains then ransacked the house from cellar to attic, but secured nothing, and left in disgust. Robinson is still unconscious, and will probably die. He is about fifty years of age, and resides with his mother, who was too feeble to offer any resistance. The robbers are believed to have been a party of tramps who were seen in tho vicinity a few days ago. The whole country is exeited, and if the murderers are caught they may be lynched. Decline in Telephone Stocks; Boston. Jan. 15.—0n the Stock Board, to-day, the telephone stocks, as was to be expected, declined, owing to the decision at Washington. The result of the Washington movement will not, in the opinion of the Bell people, have much, if any, influence upon the financial operations of the company. Yet the decision sent tho Bell stock from 172 down to 161, with 160 bid. A rally occurred about noon, when sales were made at 163. The New England telephone stock declined from 3Gi to 34, but afterward rallied to 35.

THE ENTDIAKAPCXLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16 f 1886*

TUB CHESS TOURNAMENT. The Third Game Between Steinitz and Znkertort Won bj the Latter. New York, Jan. 15.—The third game in the Steinitz-Zukertort championship series was played here to-day, each having before scored one victory. The attendance was larger than at the precediug games, and, as Zukertort had the move, speculation was rife as to the opening which he would choose. The moves were as follows:' ZrKFKTor.T— While. Stkinttz— Black. 1 P to Q 4. P to Q 4. 2 P to (J B 4. P to Q B 3. 3 P to K 3. B to KB 4. 4 PtoQR3. P toK 3. 5 P to Q B 5. P to K R 4. 6 Q to Kt 3. Q to E 2. 7 Q to Kt B 3. Kt to Q 2. 8 Kt to R 4. K to Kt B 3 9 Kt to K 2. B to K 2. 10 Kt to K B. B to Kt 3. 11 BtoQ2. Castles. 12 B to K 2. KRtoQKtaeu 13 —........... Castles. P to Kt 5. 14 P takes P. Kt takes P. 15 Kt takes Kt R takes Kt 16 Q to B 3. Q to Kt 2. 17 R to R 2. Kt to Q 2. 18.. ............ B to B sq. /PtoQB4. 19 B to R 4. P to B 5. 20 Q to B sq. Kt to B 3. 21 B to B 3. B to Q 3. 22 P to B 3. Q to Kt sq. 23 P to B 4. B to Q 6. 24 R to K sq. P to R 4. 25 P to R 4. Q to Q 2.1 26 B to Q sq. FtoKt3. 27 Q to Q 2. K R to Kt sq. 28 K to B 2. B to K 2. 29 B to B 3. Kt to K sq. 30 B takes Kt. P take* B. 31 Kt to R sq. B takes P. 32 P to Kt 3. B to K 2. 33 Q to 02. Q to Q 4. 34 Kt to B 2. P to OR 5. 35 K to Kt 2. R to Kt 6. 36 R to K sq. K to Kt 2. 37.. Q R to R sq. B to Q go. 38 P to Kt 4. PtakesP. 39 K takes P. B to R 4. 40 Rto R 7 (check). K to B sq. 41 Jk.. R to Itß(check). K to Kt 2. 42 Rtoß7 (check). Kto B sq. 43 Q to KB 2. B to Q sq. 44 Kt to K 5. K to Kt sq. 45 R to K sq. R to B 3. 46 It takes B. R to B 4. 47 It takes B. Black resigns. Time of game—o hours. BUSINESS EMBARRASSMENTS. Failures of the Week—A Suspension Affecting Nova Scotia Firms—Other Failures. New York, Jan. 15.—The business failures occurring throughout the country during the last seven days, as reported to R. G. Dun & Cos., number, for the United States, 307, and for Canada 25, or a total of 332, as against a total of 336 last week. The business casualties are exceptionally numerous in the Western, Southern and Pacific States, which three sections furnish more than two-thirds of the whole number reDorted. George T. Brown and Ralph LeeAndorton, jr., composing the firm of Brown & Anderton, brokers, No. G Broad street, assigned to-day to Timothy Brown, giving preferences of $78,450 to Alexander Ntcoll. New York, Jan. 15.—A special from Halifax says: “Nova Scotia financial circles are unusually interested in the failure of the Bank of Jersey. in the Channel islands. The reportYs current that the firm of Robin & Cos. is involved. This is the largest firm of fish merchants in the world, having branches in Norway, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, and Labrador. The firm began business in Nova Scotia over 100 years ago, and has extensive establishments in Cape Breton, besides various places in New Brunswick and Quebec. They purchased enormous quantities of supplies in Halifax, and did all their Canadian business through the Halifax banks. It is reported that one draft, drawn through the Merchants’ Bank, had been protested.” St. Joseph, Jan. 15.—John S. Emory & Cos., dry goods dealers, of this city, to-day executed a deed of trust for the benefit of fifty-eight creditors. to the amount of $28,000, with A. M. Woodson as trustee. The stock will be sold and the creditors paid pro rata. When the stock is sold the firm will not resume. The stock is worth $48,000. Washington, Jan. 15.—Towers & Green, conducting & small banking business in this city, closed their doors to-day. They are not yet ready to make a statement of the condition of their affairs, but say that the failure is for a small amount. Jaokson, Tenn., Jan. 15.—E. H. Kelly, jeweler, assigned to-day. Liabilities, $15,000; assets, about SB,OOO. He did an extensive business throughout West Tennessee, and the announcement of his suspension was a surprise. St. Lotris, Jan. 15.—The Gilbert & Curd Tobacco Company, of Fulton Mo., has made an assignment to B. B. Nesbit The liabilities of the company are reported at $48,000, and the assets at $60,000. THE FIRE RECORD. Two Fires at Opelika, Ala. —A Business Block and a Newspaper Office Destroyed. Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 15.—Specials to the Advertiser report two fires at Opelika, Ala., yesterday. The fire in the morning destroyed a two-story building occupied on the ground floor by Roberts’s saloon and the upper rooms by the Times newspaper. Nothing was saved excep the Times’s books. The loss on the building is $5,000; insurance. $2,100. Roberts's luss in goods and fixtures is $2,000; insurance, $1,600. Tho Times editor estimates his loss at SIO,OOO. Some $3,000 damage was done to neighboring store? and stocks. The other fire, -in the afternoon, burned three frame buildings. Loss, $10,000; partially insured. Lexington Business Houses Burned. Lexington, Ky., Jan. 15.—At 6:30 this morning a destructive fire broke out in the wholesale grocery store of B. H. Ines & Sons, on Main street The fire spread rapidly, and was not brought under control until 8 o’clock, having entirely destroyed the grocery of Ines & Sons, insured for $1,000; the Lexington Opera-house, insured for $10,500, and the office of the Adams Express Company, with their extensive stables on Broadway. The hardware store of W. J. Houlihan & Brother was also damaged to the extent of $5,000. The express goods were all taken out in time to prevent their destruction. The total loss will reach $35,000 to $40,000. James Parker, a tinner in the Houlihan store, was badly injured by a tailing wall, and rescued with great difficulty. He will probably recover. Carriage Factory Burned. Cincinnati, 0., Jan. 15.—Hiram W. Davis & Co.’s carriage manufactory, at Flint, Wade and Denmau streets, burned this morning. The loss is estimated at $150,000, with an insurance of SIOO,OOO, in companies represented by Adam Gray’s agency. The watchman discovered the fire in the basement, where, it is supposed, it caught from shavings. Mr. Davis values the whole property, stock and material, at $275,000. Owing to precaution in the structure against fire, a poriion of the building was saved, with a considerable portion of the stock and material The factory was working full time, and had many orders ahead. Two hundred and fifty hands are thrown out of employment Heavy Loss Caused by a Defective Flue. Hersey, Mich., Jan. 15. —Last night, at midnight, a defective flue in the postoffice was the cause of a fire which destroyed the Blodgett Block, postofflee, Sweet's saloon, and the Henry House. The contents of the postofflee were entirely consumed. Hersey is a small town, and this is a heavy blow to its business. The loss is about $30,000, and the insurance $15,000. Machine Shops Burned. Beaver Falls, Pa., Jan. 15.—The Beaver Falls car works, foundry and machine shops were burned to the ground this morning, together with the Chinese headquarters and every building in the sauaro facing Sixth ovenue ox

cept the old Mansion House. The fire originated in the foundry, but its cause is not known. The fire destroyed over $50,000 worth of patterns and rendered four families homeless. The ioss is estimated at from $150,000 to $200,000, on which there is no insurance. One of Bev. Moody’s Buildings Burned. Springfield, Mass., .Tan. 15.—Bonner Hall, one of Mr. Moody’s buildings, at Northfield, was burned to-night The building was well insured. The contents were saved. LABOR AND CAPITAL. Illinois Knights of Labor Boycott Chicago Merchants for Employing Convict Labor. Chicago, Jan. 15.—The State assembly of the Knights of Labor closed its session at Decatur, last night, and in a resolution denounced five of the leading boot and shoe houses of Chicago, for employing convict labor, and called on the public to boycott their goods. The firms in the list are: M. B. Wells, Selz, Schwab & Cos.; C. H. Fargo & Cos.; P. M. Henderson, and Phelps, Dodge & Palmer. Boots and shoes are made for M. B. Wells at Waupun prison, in Wisconsin; Selz, Schwab & Cos. have goods manufactured at Joliet; the Fargo firm gets goods irom the prisons at lonia and Jackson, Mich.. C. M. Henderson & Cos. get their shoes made in the penitentiary at Allegheny City, Pa., and Phelps, Dodge & Cos. deal in goods made in the prison at Michigan City. Without oim exception, those firms to-day expressed their indifference as to any action of the Knights, and claim that the boycott will not materially affect them. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The total imports of dry goods at New York during the past week were valued at $2,930,695, and the amount thrown on the market at $2,851,547. Rev. Mr. Bristol, who has been on trial before a jury of his fellow-pastors, at Jersey City, charged with criminal intimacy with Mrs. Ida Dourres, was last night found guilty. Faleen, Johnson & Cos., of Ishpeming, Mich., dealers in dry goods, provisions and feed, made an assignment yesterday to J. W. Jochim. The liabilities will exceed $60,000, and the assets are less than $20,000. The ship Undaunted, which was abandoned by the tug which was towing her in the storm of last Friday night, and concerning which there has been great anxiety, has arrived at Fortress Monroe ail right. At Louisville, Ky., the jury in the case of Enoch Cook, charged with killing James Prewitt, sentenced the prisoner to two years in the penitentiary. Cook and Prewitt quarreled last July, and Prewitt was beaten and kicked to death. At Jersey City, yesterday, the jury in the libel suit brought by Rev. Henry F. Dicker against the widow of ex-Conpressman Fernando and his daughter, Mrs. Gillies, for $25,000 damages for defamation of character, gave the plaintiff a verdict for SB,OOO. The presiding judge annulled the verdiet. The commissioners appointed by the Canadian government to investigate the cause of the wrecking of the steamer Algoma, in Lake Superior, last fall, have reported, censuring Captain Moore and Chief Officer Hastings* Captain Moore’s certificate is to be canceled for nine months, and Hastings's certificate for six months. At the Philadelphia Opera-house, last evening, during the performance, a candle on one of the tables fell and set fire to the table cloth. Miss Mary Anderson, on hearing the cries that arose from the audience, at once rushed to the back of the stage and smothered the flames, amid tumultuous applause from the audience, which had become slightly panic stricken. The bodies of six of the thirteen victims of the coal-mine explosion at A!my, Wy. TANARUS., which occurred Tuesday night, have been recovered from the mine. The bodies were found on the seventh level. The men met their death from suffocation, and the appearance of the bodies indicated a terrible struggle for life. The seasching party expected to reach the other seven bodies remaining in the mine yesterday. Boiler Explosion at Newport, Ky. Cincinnati, Jan. 15.— A terrific boiler explosion occurred at Harper’s rolling-mill, in Newport, Ky., this evening. The bolting slipped from a large fly-wheel in the engine-room, causing the wheel to explode, and a piece weighing a ton or more struck two boilers near by, causing them to blow up. Another piece of the wheel went* up in the air and landed on the river bank, a quarter of a mile distant Fully one hundred men were in and aronnd the mill at the time, and it seems miraculous that the casuj allies are so few. James Swift had his leg broken, and was seriously burned; Christ Risch had his back broken; William Golden was injured in the left ieg, and has several cuts in the head. The loss is about $2,000. More Victims of the Storm. Topeka. Kan. Jan. 15.—Reports were received to-day of the finding of the bodies of three more men in thesouthwestern portion of the State, victims of the recent storm. This makes twentyfour bodies in all that have been found. Steamship News. Queenstown, Jan. 15.—Arrived: Celtic, from New York. THE CITY IN BRIEF. Wm O. Patterson yesterday qualified as administrator of Levi Conwell’s estate. The Social Turnrerein will give its annual exhibition at the Grand Opera-house on Sunday evening. Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to Urban Snyder and Rosella Adams, Morris Murphy and Elizabeth Bennington, Frank Hicks and Nora Manntain. There will be a workingmen’s mass-meeting at Mozart Hall to night, under the ausoices of the Furniture makers Union No. 13. English and German speakers will address the meeting. The Bedford Quarry Company, with a capital stock of $30,000, was incorporated yesterday. The directors are Henry M. Talbott and Frank M. Talbott, of this city, and John Trophy, of Rowena. Leonidas M. Phipps yesterday filed his bond as assignee of Mrs. Flora W. Craft, whose name represented the business of her husband, Harry Craft. It is for $7,500, signed by Theodore P. Haughey and Levi Ritter as sureties. An Unsavory Mess. A letter from Cincinnati yesterday addressed to a person in this city contained an alleged revelation of a father's crime. The writer thereof, a son of the man accused, gave what purported to be his sister’s statement in reference to her living with the father in this city. She charges him with incest The letter was handed to Superintendent Lang, of the police force, as the father lived here in the sooth part of the city. He telegraphed to Cincinati for further particulars, in answer to which Colonel Hudson, Police Superintendent, replied that his officers had seen the writer of the letter, who expressed a willingness to make an affidavit against the father. Upon receiving this Superintendent Lang went to the boarding place of the man accused to arrest him, but found he had left the city Wednesday last for Louisville, Ky., and a trip through Kentucky. Ho expected to go to Cincinnati, where his wife and two children live. The story of the horrible crime is probable, but its present weakness in the absence of any formal charge against the man, together with other features, make its untruthfulness equally probable. Woman’s Pace. “What furniture can give such finish to a room, as a tender woman’s face,” asks George Elliott Not any, we are happy to answer, provided the glow of health tempers the tender expression. The pale, anxious, bloodless face of the consumptive, or the evident sufferings of the dyspeptic, induce feelings of sorrow and grief on our part and compel us to tell them of Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery,*’ the sovereign remedy for consumption and other diseases of the respiratory system as well as dyspepsia and other digestive troubles. Sold everywhere.

LETTERS PROM THE PEOPLE. Come, Let Us Reason Together. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Jonraal: Now that the attention of Republicans all over the State is being: called to the importance of organizing for the coming political campaign, it seems to me that it is a good time for them to calmly consider their duty and their obligations to the party that gave the country Lincoln and Grant No one denies that whatever has been accomplished in this country, in the last twentyfive years, that is worth remembering, is the act of the Republican party. Why, then, not marshal ourselves for the coming contest under its banner. It must be conceded that public sentiment is more thoroughly aroused on the subject of reforms, not only in our own State, but also in the Nation, than ever before. Nor can it for a moment be doubted that the moral sentiment of the masses of the people, and especially that of the Republican party, is far in advance of the legislation of the State. And for this condition of things many Republicans claim that their party is in part responsible. No one can be more radical *han myself on the subject of reform. I consider the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors, to be used as a beverage, a shame and a disgrace to any community. And this is by no means the only evil that exists in our State, the remedy for which is a proper subject for legislation. But we should remember that in the last ten years the Republican party has controlled the legislation of the State but twice. Nor should it be held to account too rigidly, even when in power, for the legislation of the State, for the reason that the character of a political party cannot always be determined from the character of the men whom it elects to office. The best men have not always been nominated for office by the Republicans, simply because a large per cent, of the party failed to attend the nominating conventions, and, therefore, failed to discharge their duty to the party, and it should not be held to strict account for the legislation of a legislature not composed of representative Republicans. If our people would give less heed to political platforms, resolutions and promises and pay more attention to the character of the men who are nominated, society at large would be the gainer, for all the men in the State of Indiana who are opposed to good government are not Democrats. If every Republican in the State, who desires good government, will attend the nominating conventions and vote for men to represent us in the Legislature who are moral, broad and liberal in their views—men who have no hobbies to ride—we may expect a better class of legislation than we have been having. Franklin, Jan. 14. W. C. Sandefur. The Attica Postofflce. To the Editor of the IndianaDolia Journal: Last spring several of our citizens of the Democratic persuasion were applicants for the position of postmaster for this city. Finally it appeared that the Hon. Daniel W. Voorhe'es had, at the instance of the Hon. John E. Lamb, our excongressman, promised the appointment to Martin Schoonover, who was indorsed by more than one hundred of his feliow-Union soldiers, in addition to a large number of our Democratic citizens, who are the patrons of the office, and we were satisfied, as both Mr. Lamb and Mr. Voorhees had in all their addresses to the people declared that to the Union soldiers, who had fought for their country, should be given the preference in all appointments or applications for office. But it appears that the Hon. Joseph McDonald demands of the Honorabies John E. Lamb and Daniel W. Voorhees that they shall recommend George W. McDonald, kis nephew, as postmaster at Attica. The Hon. George is a yearling Democrat, or mugwump, of rather light weight, and is not satisfactory to the patrons of the office of either party. lam informed the reason Mr. McDonald gives that his nephew, George, shall be appointed is this: He asserts that in the year 1880 the Republicans of this city, after the result of the State election became known, and the Hon. Joseph E. McDonald had lost the State, and, in addition, a seat in the United States Senate, did grossly insult his brother, James McDanald. by asking of him and his nephew, George: “Where is Uncle Jo now?” And for this insult to bis relatives he demands of the Hon. John E. Lamb and the Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees that they shall force on his newhew, as he puts it, for satisfaction and revenge of the insult. Can they afford to do it after the many pledges they have made to the Union soldiers? I a3k Mr. McDonald what excase he will be able to give the sofdiers next fall for his failure to redeem his many pledges made to the soldiers during his campaign of 1884. I hope that he will not commence his campaign handicapped with the additional weight of promises not redeemed. If he does, he may rest assured that he will suffer another defeat, and he cannot afford to revenge his brother’s insult in that way. Democrat. Attica, Jan. 14. Patrick Egan and tli Headricks Monument. To th Editor of the Indianapolis Journal I have noticed a communication in the Sentinel of Jan. 12, signed N. W. Carr, sneeringly criticising Patrick Egan, president of the Irish Land League, for presuming, in his letter to the Hendricks Monument Club, of your city, to differ from Mr. Hendricks in politics. 3lr. Carr reminds the public that Mr. Egan is alien, consequently has no right to vote. If Mr. Egan’s politics were in harmony with Carr’s, and other whiskyites of his and Sim Coy's type, with ballot-box rapers and Democratic bribers and corrupters, we would never be told by the bullying Carr that Egan was an alien. Patrick Egan has voiced the sentiments of the best ele raent of the Irish voters of this country. Carr, or the party he is identified with, can’t stem the current of sober, thinking Irishmen that is going over to the Republican party. The cyclone that Blaine started among Irishmen, a year ago last fall, is only a forerunner of what it will be the next national contest, if we only have him for our candidate, or any other man holding his views. Yours, respectfully, A Catholic Irishman. North Salem, Hendricks county, Ind., Jan. 15. Church Officers Elected. The following have been elected officers of the First Presbyterian Church: Elders —W. H. H. Miller, Chapin C. Foster, Thos. C. Day and Henry C. Long. Deacons—O. K. Coe. Charles Latham, A S. Runyon, H. J. Craft, H. C. Sickles, P. F. Bryce, Chas. Martmdale, A. S. Bushnell and Wm. L. Elder. Trustees—H. M. Foltz, H. J. Milligan, Albert Baker, H. C. Long and E. L. McKee. AN INNOCENT DRUMMER. How Ho Restored His Wife's Confidence in His Devotedness. New York Telegram. He bade his wife a tearful good-bye. “My love, my only one! The time will soon bo here when I shall be in a position to snap my fingers at fate and set up as my own boss. Then we shall have no more of these cruel partings.” He murmured all this tender consolation into the pink oars of his only love in a voice tremulous with emotion. He held her head crushed down upon his bosom, but his face opened in a broad grin as there arose a familiar whisper: “And you will be true to me?” “As I always am,” he responded. After a little more of this sort of thing, he suddenly pid anxiously asked: “You did not forget to put that photo you had especially taken for me, iu my ‘grip-sack,’ did you?” “Oh, dear no! Are you sure you will look at it sometimes, love?” “You wicked little doubter; you know I should be wretched without at least such a precious semblance of my pet to look at daily, nightly.” Then he went away from the great joy of domesticity into the cold, cheerless solitude of a dry goods drummers life on the road. Draw the veil of charity over his grief and the treachery of one in whom he had such unbounded confidence. In brief, she, his only love, his pet, his wife, had secretly planned to make him “wretched." She had taken that photograph from his gripsack, and was gloating over his misery

when he should discover that only memory remained to him, for the time being, of his darling’s looks. “The dear fellow, bow he will scold me for th® trick,” she thought: “but I will send him th® photo in the very first letter.” Thus apneasing her conscience she waited for bis first letter. It came from Chicago. _ “My heart’s delight.” it began. “Got here O. K. this A. m. Have been wrestling with the trade all day, and a tough timo I’ve had of it Weary and fagged I have retired to my room, shut out the gilded atmosphere of sin that envelops this terrible city, and taken from my satchel your sweet picture. It is before me as I write. I shall kiss it when I have said my evening prayers. It will rest under my pillow. It is my one solace until I hold you, my sweet wife, in these faithful arms again.’ Thus far had she read; then she toppled over on the floor. What comfort she found there it is hard to say. but a great determination rose within the stricken wife, who went out an hour later and sought a telegraph office. Her husband had been saying his prayers abroad that evening, and when ho got to his hotel about midnight his spiritual emotions received a rude shock by a telegram fyorn bis “only love.” It was elaborate for a dispatch; but under the circumstances one could not expect an outraged wife to transmit her feelings by th® slow mail. The dispatch read: “You are no longer the only drummer who is not a liar, as you have always claimed. Let the fraternity make you their chief in the art. Had you taken the pains even to look for the photo you *say your prayers to’ you would have discovered that I had—to tease you—removed it My faith in you is dead, dead!” The husband clutched hig hair. “What the devil did I write to her, anyway?" he muttered. After a while his face cleared. “By Jove! I must have been pilling on the taffy. That’s what a man gets for trying his best to make a woman feel good! Foor little dear, what a fume she most be in! Lucky for me she gave her grievance away! What geese women are! Bless her little noddle, her faith shall be resurrected.” Forthwith he telegraphed to a knowing friend: “Send me, first mail, photo cf my wife. borrow, steal it somehow. Mum’s the word. Will write particulars." About a week later a dignified martyrdom, stood face to face with a stern but very wept-out wife. She expected to see him meek and humble, but he gazed upon her with scorn, and then passed on to his room in crushing silence. She was amazed. With quick impulse she followed, thanking Heaven he had not locked her out. “Well." she began, with wavering “what have you to say for yourself?” Coldly, cruelly he looked at her. “I?” he queried. “Yes, you!” “Woman, if it were not for the overmastering love I bear for you, I should never look upon you more!” His face was convulsed with tragic suffering that was balm to her heart to witness, but she only sneered. “Can you explain the deception that yon tried to practice upon me?” 4 “Can you obliterate the insult put upon your husband in that unworthy dispatch? A woman with so little confidence in her husband had better live alone. For my part, lam not only disgusted but disenchanted.” He turned sorrowfully away and bowed his face in his hands. She approached him acdJsid the letter, which had caused her such grief, right under his eyes. “Read thr.t. Knowing you had no picture of mine, what was I to think?" “What any intelligent, right minded wif® would have thought; you would have said to yourself: ‘He is incapable of deceit; he has my picture, somehow.'” “But you did not have it” He looked at her with sad, resigned sorrow. His lips quivered as he murmured, “Oh, woman! without an atom of faith!” Then he put hig hand in his inner waistcoat pocket and produced her photograph. “Oh! Darling! Forgive me! You had my picture! This old thing taken long before we were engage i! Why, I didn’t know you ever had one of these!” The restored confidence made her pretty blue eyes swim in tearful joy. She put her arms around him, asking his pardon, and caressing even his coat collar. “My dear.” said he, looking into her face with grave but loving reproach, “let this be a warning. Never doubt me again, no matter what appearances may be. I can always look you squarey in the eyos and say, *1 m innocent,'” And she believed him. The gay young bicyclist he’s in his bed. Not for him is the spring sun shining, He has beeu flung and is sore in body and head, But Salvation Oil will make him smiling.

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