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requisite postal revenue to warrant the govern meat to establish the free delivery service, and still it is qnite likely that a number of them will be crowded through in the rush. Young W idows of Old Soldiers* Washington Special. “When I came into this office last May,’' said Colonel McLean, Deputy Commissioner of Pensions, “there were thirteen widows of Revolutionary soldiers drawing pensions, and over tbret hundred widows of soldiers of the war of 1812." “How could that bef’ was asked. 4 ' “Just in this way: Young women who saw an old soldier who drew a good pension, but who was likeiy to die, came forward and married him, and took in the pension. The Revolutionary war closed over one hundred years ago, and any man who was engaged in it would, if now living, have reached the age of 130, or there nbouts. The same thing, in principle, prevails in regard to the soldiers of the late war. There is, in reality, no reason why a woman who married a soldier after the wsrwas over should draw a pension. She took her husband for better or worse, and there is no possible construction that can show a loss to such a woman from the war. Under the present arrangement, a widow whose husband only draw $2 while he lived is entitled to $8 per month, provided it can be shown that her husband’s death was the result of his disabilities. It is very hard to make a general law that does not seem to do injustice in certain cases. ” “What do you think of the proposition now before Congress to increase the pensions of widows from $8 to $lO per month?" “I think it is a good and just move. It will only cost the government $72,000 annually to do this, and will do great good.” Favorable Report on Labor Bills. Washington, Jan. 29.-— The House committee on labor to-day instructed Representative James to report favorably the bill introduced by him, making It unlawful for any officor, agent or servant of the government of the United States to contract with any person or corporation, or permit any official of any State prison where criminals of the United States may be incarcerated, to hire, or to contract out the labor of said criminals, and imposing a fine of from SSOO to SI,OOO, or imprisonment for one to three years, for violating the act. The committee agreed upon an amendment to the eight-hour law, extending its terms to contracts on public works, the penalty for violation being a fine of SI,OOO. The committee also agreed upon a bill to prevent the employment of convict labor and alien labor upon public buildings, and other public works, and convict labor in the preparation or manufacture of material for public buildings or other public works, and to regulate the manner of letting contracts. The bill provides that the prohibitions indicated in the bill shall be set forth in the advertisements, and violation of any of the conditions shall work a forfeiture of the contract. An alien laborer is designated as a person not a bona fide citizen of the United States, and who has not declared his intention to become a citizen. The National Letter-carriers’ Association wiil appear before the committee on Monday next in favor of the extension of the eight-hour law to letter-carriers. Amending the Electoral-Count Bill. Washington, Jan. 29.—Senator Hoar to-day submitted to the Senate an amendment to the electoral-count bill, which he proposes to offer when the bill again comes up for consideration. It inserts in the fourth section of the bill, a clause, providing that in case of more than one return or paper purporting to be a return, from a State, if there shall have been no determination of the question in the State, then those votes only shall bo counted which appear to have been cast by the electors whose names appear on the lists certified by the executive of the State in accordance with the provisions of Section 136 of the Revised Statutes, as amended by this bill, but in case of a vacancy in the board so certified, then by the persons appointed to fill such vacancy, in the mode provided by the laws of the States; but if there be no such list, or if there be more than one such list purporting to be so certified, then those votes, and those only, shall be counted which the two houses, acting separately, sliaii concurrently decide to be the lawful votes of the legally appointed electors of uch States. It also adds to the bill an additional section. making it the duty of the executive of each State to cause the list of names of the electors in his State to be made and certified ■under the great seal of State, and to bo delivered to the electors on or before the day on which they are required to meet.

General Howard’s Foreign Honors. Washington, Jan. 29.— The Senate committee on foreign relations to-day reported .adversely to granting General O. O. Howard the consent of ■Congress to receive from the French Republic the decoration of the Legion of Honor and the court appointment and honorary rank of Che▼alier. These honors were tendered General Howard by the French government for and in appreciation of services rendered his own country, and in its report the committee says: “It has been a custom hitherto, and, as the committee thinks* somewhat too frequent and extended, for Congress to authorize officers of the United tates to receive gifts and decorations from forpn governments for some distinguished or ,-eculiar service that such officer may have rendered to such foreign government, its citizens or subjects, hut the committee is of the opinion that it would be contrary to the spirit of our republican institutions thas any of the officers of the United States should receive decorations or titles from foreign governments as tokens of their appreciation of the service of such officers in their own country, which is supisosed to be eapable of measuring for itself, and suitably rewarding the services of its own citizens.” Another Bond Call. Washington, Jan. 29.—The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a call for redemption of bonds of the 3 per cent, loan of 1882. The principal and accrued interest will be paid at the Treasury of the United States, in Washington, on the Ist of March, 1886, and the interest will cease on that day. Following is a description of bonds: Three-per cent, bonds issued under the act of Congress approved July 12, 1882, and numbered as follows: Fifty dollars, original number No 298, SIOO, original number 2149 to original number 2165, both inclusive; SSOO, original number 1063 to original number 1075, both inclusive; SIO,OOO. original number 1089 to original number 9786, both inclusive; SIO,OOO. original number 16449 to original number 17400, both inclusive; total. $10,000,000. bonds described above are either bonds of the “original issue.” which have but one serial number at each end, or “substitute bonds,” which may be distinguished by the double sot of numbers, which are marked plainly “original number” and “substitute numbers.” All of the bonds of this loan will be called by the original numbers only. _ Montana's Prospect for Admission. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 29.— Delegate Toole, of Montana, is jubilant at the prospects for the admission of his Territory into the Union of States. He saw that there was a chance to make a compromise with the advocates of southern Dakota, and he lost no time in meeting the opportunity. His bill to enable the Territory to enter the Union will be taken up shortly, and he will have the support of a number of Republicans who are anxious to see justice meted out to the people of Dakota, and are, in fact, willing that every Territory havine the requisite population should bo allowed to join the Union. Dr. Woolen Rises auit Explains. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 29.—Dr. Woolen, of the Fourth district, who was recently quoted as saying that he was indorsed by the whole Democratic delegation for a position and would doubtless get one without the influence of Judgo Holman, but that the latter would have to do all he could for him, whether he wanted to or not, or words to that effect, complains that the paragraph is irroneous. He says that Mr. Holman and Mr.

Voorhees are the only members of Congress he has asked to aid him; that he has had no thought of threatening Mr. Holinon in case of failure, and does not believe he would be influenced if & threat was made. Dr. Woolen says his relations with Mr. Holman aro of the most friendly character. Individual Pensions. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 29.—The indications point to the passage of more bills granting pensions to individual claimants at this session of Congress than was done in the Forty-seventh and Fortyeighth Congresses together. A majority of the invalid pensions committee were members of the last Congress, and on the same committee. Some of them have been in the same position to examine pension cases for a number of years back. This is as it should be, and has resulted in securing reports on a great many cases which have been presented to Congress time and again for many years. General and Personal. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 29.—J. P. Frenzel, of Indianapolis, is at the Riggs. A postmaster’3 commission has been issued for E. Volney Bingham, of Mishawaka. THE FIRE RECORD. Burning of an Extensive Drug House—The £>oss Estimated at 9350,000. St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 29.—A fire originating in the Ryan Drug Company’s house is now—B p. m.—raging fiercely and spreading rapidly to Foote, Schulze & Co.s boot and shoe house, in the heart of the wholesale center of the city. Explosions are heard every minute or two, as the flames come in contact with explosive chemicals. There was at least half a million dollars’ worth of property in the building, and the plants are hopelessly involved. The building on fire is the five-story block of Dennis Ryan, a millionaire miner, at the corner of Third and Wacanta streets, involving great damage to the buildings to the west, owned by H. E. Thompson of the First National Bank. Burning embers and sparks aro flying in every direction for blocks around. The whole department is at work but cannot control the fury of the flames fed by such inflammable material. Later. —Through the superhuman efforts of the chief and his men. with eight steamers and five chemicals, the fire is now under control, and the request for Minneapolis engines was countermanded. When the whole Ryan Block was ablaze the flames enveloped Foot, Sehulze & Co.'s house, but a fire-wall saved that building, as did a fire wall the Thompson building, on the west side. All the engines are still playing with full force and effect on the Ryan drug house, which is gutted and all the stock destroj’ed. The Third-street wall may be saved; The loss on building and stock will be a quarter of a million. 10:25 p. m.—The fire is now under entire control, and all danger to adjoining property is pa3t The loss foots up $255,000, with fair insurance. The principal companies are represented by the subjoined amounts, with a number of other companies losing from SI,OOO to $5,000: Milwaukee Mechanics’, $12,500; Fire Association of Philadelphia, $15,000; Washington Fire and Marine, $25,000; St. Paul Fire and Marine, $25,000; Mechanics’, of New York, $25,000; North British and Mercantile, $25,000; Franklin, of Philadelphia, $25,000; People’s, of New York, $25,000; Rhode Island Under wrifers’ Association, $25,000; Amazon, of Cincinnati, $25,000; Mercantile, of Boston, $12,500: American, $12,500; Germania, of New York, $25,000; Hamburg Bremen, $25,000.

Other Fires. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Lafayette, Jan. 29.—At a little after 4 o’clock this morning fire broke out in the third story of the John Rosser printing and binding establishment, corner of Third and South streets. The flames were first discovered in the bindery, and, before extinguished, spread to the boxmaking department, destroying machinery and stock. The first story of the building was occupied by Moore, Morgan & Co.'s wholesale dry goods house, and their loss, by water, is about $1,500. The loss to the printing establishment is from $1,200 to $1,600; fully insured. Shenandoah, Pa., Jan. 29.—The enginehouse at the head of Mahanoy plane, over which the coal from this district is taken, took, are early this morning and was totally destroyed. The massive engines and machinery were totally wrecked, and several weeks will be required to repair the damage. The loss to the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company will amount to $50,000. Albany, N. Y., Jan. 29.—At 11 o’clock last night, fire broke out in the two-story brick buildings, Nos. 122 and 124 South Pearl street, occupied by L. Levy, hatter, and H. Simmons, auctioneer, and owned by J. B. Groat. Loss, $25,000, mostly insured. > John Kanary and Will iam Crow, firemen, were fatally injured by a falling wall. Elmira, N. Y., Jan. 29.— E. H. Dormaub’s dry goods and carpet store burned here to-night. Loss, $48,000. _ TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Milton Weston has been assigned to the mat department in the Riverside penitentiary, and commenced work yesterday morning. The amount to which the Irish Parliamentary fund was increased on Thursday, at Philadelphia, is $6,500, not $65,000 as erroneously stated. Total imports of dry goods at New York during the past week were valued at $2,801,328, and the amount thrown on the market at $2,882,403. There is a reported deficiency of SIO,OOO in the accounts of Charles Spencer, collector of taxes of Union Hill, N. J. The Common Council has ordered an investigation. The boiler of a saw mill owned by Morris Reed, near Breckinridge, Mo., exploded on Thursday night, killing Spencer Reed and his step-son, named Adams. The remains were fearfully mutilated. The Lucy furnace, at Pittsburg, employing 300 men, closed down yesterday on account of a scarcity of coke. Other furnaces will be forced to suspend operations in a few days unless there is a settlement of the strike. An explosion at the Banksville, Pa., coal mine of Long & Cos., yesterday morning, set fire to the pit, and cremated nine mules. A number of miners were at work at thfe time, but all escaped without injury. The mine is still burning. The body of a small boy was found lying under the snow in a lot at the rear of 22 Meridian street, Chicago, yesterday morning. It was frozen stiff, but how the little fellow came to meet with such a death is a mystery at present. The coroner will investigata Mr. Morrison, the contractor who disappeared some time ago. has returned to his home in St. Louis. He states that he has been visiting a daughter at Ashley, 111., and left a note in bis office before he went away, informing his family of bis intention, but they failed to receive the note. The body of a man was found one mile east of Benton, Neb., on Thursday, near a haystack, and covered with hay. An old carpet-sack and a large supply of fishing-tackle was found with him. He had evidently been smothered by the hay-stack falling on him, and had been dead a long time. Nothing to identify the remains wa3 found. Melvin Butler, a disreputable character, was arrested at Louisville, yesterday, charged with the murder of John B. Macoy, a well-known gambler, who was found murdered on tho street in front of his home on Thursday morning. A bloody handkerchief and a 58-calibre pistol, corresponding with the size of the bail with which Maeoy was shot, were found on Butler’s person. Sol Sloss and Thomas Axworthy, representing a syndicate of Pittsbure, Philadelphia, New York and Cleveland capitalists, are' in Pittsburg. arranging for the pipeage of natural gas, from Butler county, Pennsylvania, to Cleveland. The syndicate has leased 4,000 acres of gas land in Western Pennsylvania and has offered the Forest City Council SIO,OOO a year for the light and heat franchise of the city. If you need a perfect tonic or a blood purifier, take Dr. Jones's Red Clover Tonic. It speedily cures all troubles u: the stomach, kidneys and liver. Can be tak.a by the most delicate. Price, 50 cents.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1886.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS Reminiscences. Evoked by the Recent Natural-Gas Discovery at Vernon. Strong Evidence Against Chesley Chambers— Editor Buergler Confesses His Error and Attempts Suicide—State Gleanings. INDIANA. The Natural Gas Discoveries at Vernon—The Search for Oil in 1865. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Vernon, Jan. 29.—The recent discoveries of natural gas in Ohio and Illinois are calling the attentior. of many citizens of our own State to the subject It is one of great interest and importance to every community aspiring to industrial prominence. Should the supply of gas prove permanent many classes of manufacturing establishments will inevitably meet with their greatest success along the “gas belt” Some of the Journal’s readers will remember that at the time of the oil excitement, in 1865, capitalists from Indianapolis sunk wells in Jennings county finding gas, but no oil. It seems probable that these wells wore not sunk deep enough to penetrate the gas-producing strata now yielding so abundantly in Ohio. Your correspondent has lately visited the scene of operations just outside the town of Vernon. The wells wero drilled near the Tunnel flouring-mills by power obtained from the engine of the mills. A slight amount of labor with the shovel shows both of the wells open at the surface of the first layer of limestone. The proprietors of the mill refuse to allow experiments as to the escape of gas on account of the clanger to the mill from fire. In the Vernon Banner, of May 25, 1865, the following appeared, which ought to prove of interest to capitalists: “About 4 o’clock a. m., last Tuesday, we were aroused from our slumbers by the ringing of the chureh bells. * * * We were informed that Messrs. Butch & Dickson had struck oil, and the escaping gas coming in contact with a lighted candle, had put to hazard everything of a combustible nature in the vicinity of the Tunnel mills. We repaired to tho scene of operations, and found the greater portion of the space within the base of the derrick covered with raging flames, which ascended forty or fifty feet in the air, and would doubtless have gone much higher were it not that the shaft is, in great measure, closed by the drill, which is still in the well. * * * At this writing over one hundred men have been making every effort within their power to subdue the flames, but at the time we go to press have acocmplished nothing.” The Banner of June 1, 1865, said: “Messrs. Butsch & Dickson commenced boring anew hole on last Monday, it being impossible to extract the tools from the old one. The gas is still escaping as strong as on the first day, and lights aro kept at a respectful distance.’’ On Sept. 7, 1865, the Banner stated that the oil well measured 770 feet, and drilling was still going on. In 1865 the value of gas was not known, and no attempt was made to utilize it

Disowned by the Church. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Richmond, Jan. 29.—Charles F. Coffin was yesterday disowned in the Whitewater Monthly Meeting, to which he had belonged all his life. The charges upon which this action was taken grew out of transactions attending the failure of the Richmond National Bank, of which he was president The charges were originally preferred by sixteen overseers of the meeting, subsequently referred to a who were to have the December meeting; but as they were at variance as to tho full interpretation of a written acknowledgment by the accused, were granted more time. A deputation visited Mr. Coffin in Chicago, where he now lives- and a report of that visit was submitted. Mr. Coffin acknowledged that he had done wrong, but not willfully, was sorry, and would make all possible restitution. A clerk of the meeting prepared a minute as expressing the sense of the meeting to be that the acknowledgment was not satisfactory, and that the meeting testify against the accused, which was concurred in by a very large majority, whereupon, in accordance * with the custom of tho society, the. action was communicated to the women’s meeting by a messenger, who promptly returned to report that the women’s meeting “united" in the action. Mr. Coffin is a well known philanthropist, a man whose whole life has been given to good works, and many years ago he succeeded his father as clerk of the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Orthodox Friends. The unfortunate failure of the bank, in which many of his co-religionists suffered, brought about his renunciation by the society into which he was born, and which he served so long and so well. _ Strong Evidence Against Chambers. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Bloomington, Jan. 29.—The trial of Chesley Chambers is growing exciting as t.he evidence developes, and already it is evident that the State is making a much stronger case than at the previous trial. To-day four witnesses were introduced to show that, instead of Chambers being at home on the night of the crime, as he insists, he was thirty-five miles south during the day, and two of the witnesses corroborated, each other in the statement that, as the train stopped at the last station before the deed was committed, Chambers passed hurriedly through the car, both of them recognizing him. The State also succeeded in getting in some important correspondence with Green & Huddlesey, of Cincinnati, which was ruled out at the former trial. This correspondence showed that, instead of Chambers having sufficient means, just before tho robbery he was writing to this firm begeing for time, and that he yet owed them over S2OO. During the trial Chambers sat all the time by the side of his attorneys, seldom saying a word, and with the exception of frequent nervous looks at the witness testifying, kept his eyes down. The trial will not likely close before the last of next week. The defense will introduce new evidence before Mopday. The court continues crowded, many ladies attending all day. Buergler Confesses His Wrongdoing. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Fort Wayne, Jan. 29.—J. C. Buergler, the absconding editor of Der Weltberger, a German Catholic weekly, returned voluntarily, yesterday, from St. Louis, and presented to K. J. Bauer, who had befriended him, a written statement confessing his crooked transactions, and reciting that, to make good his losses, he had visited Chicago gambling-houses where he was fleeced out of his few remaining dollars; wherefore, in deep humiliation, he proposed to end his life in a few hours. This thereat is given an air of probability, because in his room at his boarding-house, in this city, was found a revolver, every chamber loaded and each cartridge bearing the mark of the hammer of the weapon, which had failed to discharge. The man has been forgiven and has taken the pledge. He was for three years editor of Der Wahrheitsfreund, of Cincinnati, and afterwards was leading editorial writer on the Chicago Wochenblatt For two hours to-day he was in jail. LaPorte County’s New Poor-Farm. Special to the Indianapolis Journal LaPortk, Jau. 29.—LaPorto county has for years been cursed with a miserable county asylum and farm of eighty acres, totally inadequate for the needs of the county, and a disgrace when compared to the wealth of this rich county. For years the question of better accommodations for unfortunates has been agitated, and culmi-

nated yesterday by the purchase by the County Commissioners of the farm of William P. Hammond, containing 240 acres, and situated within two miles of this city. The price paid was $20,000. Fine new buildings will be erected during the summer, possession boing-given March L Four Unkown Men Drowned: Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Evansville, Jan. 29.—This afternoon about 4 o’clock, four men, presumably Green river raftsmen, took a skiff and started across the river, intending to walk homeward on the Kentucky side. The river was full of gorged ice, making the crossing very difficult. About midway across they encountered a heavy floe. The skiff was seen in the midst of the ice, and the men were palling desperately. There came to the lookers-on from the shore a faint sound of grinding and crushing, and the unfortunate men and the boat had disappeared. Mr. Samuel Butler, a farmer, and one of his hands, took a skiff and went out as far as they dare venture, but found no trace of the men, and it is supposed that all were lost Their names are not known, though it is thought they came here from Green river after provisions. Meeting of Lafayette Druggists. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Lafayette, Jan. 29.—The druggists of this city met last evening to marke arrangements for the reception of the Indiana Pharmacial Association, which meets here in June next D. Hilt was chosen chairman, and D. H. Lohman secretary. The following committees were appointed: General committee, of all the preparations—David Hilt, H. C. Tinney, Prof. R. B. Warden and C. G. Longyear. Committee on entertainment—Dr. C. H. Crain, Prof. li. B. Warder and Dr. A. A. Wells. Committee on Finance—D. H. Lohman, R. Scbweigler, M. Jay, Herman Lauffer and Dr. Joseph Spaulding. Committee on Transportation—O. G. Zerse. E. Haworth, O. C. Harvey and Nat Yeakel. Committee on Hall and Exhibits—Drs. A. A. Wells, C. H. Crain and C. G. Longyear. Preparations are being made for an unusually large attendance. Suicide with Paris Green. Special to the Indianapolis Journal, LaPorte, Jan. 23.—Mrs. James Bowen, of Stillwell, thi3 county, committed suicide, yester day afternoon, by taking paris green. She leaves a husband and three children. The coroner’s jury attributed the cause to temporary insanity.

Minor Notes. One thousand more books have been ordered for the New Albany free library. A burlesque of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is in rehearsal by New Albany amateurs. A reduction in the price of gas is promised to Richmond consumers, beginning on Feb. 1. The wife of John Stephenson, treasurer of Warrick county, died at Boonville on Tuesday. The house of W. A. Cherry, north of Boon ville, was burned with contents. Loss, $800; no insurance. A revival at Dunlapsvillo has added fifty-nine to the membership of the Presbyterian Church of that place. William Covert, once a prominent citizen of Charlestown, died at that place on Thursday, aged eighty years. Mrs. William Barnett, of Charlestown, insane from religious excitement, will be sent to the Hospital for the Insane. Eugene Dorsey has been elected superintendent of the Jeffersonville Ferry Company, vice Capt. J. C. Dorsey, deceased. Richard Collins, the first clerk of "Whitley county, died at Columbia City on Tuesday. He was the best known man in the county. The funeral of Mrs. Dr. Davis, of Indianapolis, formerly Miss Wildrige, of Richmond, took place at the last named city yesterday. Rev. Clevenger, of tho Baptist Church in Spencer, is having good success in the protracted meetings that commenced some time ago. Henry Shill, one of the best known farmers of Tippecanoe county, died at his residence, nine miles southeast of Lafayette, aged eighty-six years. Whaley Miller, of Hillsboro, a discarded lover, sued Jesse Stephens for numerous presents given her during the courtship. The jury declared for the lady. The fire at the Studebaker wagon works at South Bend, on Wednesday, damaged material in the building to the amount of $2,500; fully covered by insurance. Mrs. Rebecca Eames, daughter of tho late Mrs. Elbert Johnson, tne leader of the great temperance crusade, died at New Albany, on Thursday, aged forty-four years. The city exchequers of Jeffersonville and New Albany are largely contributed to by citizens of Louisville, who come over the river to indulge in plain and fancy drunks. A popular amusement at Attica is guessing the weight of pigs. The other day among eightyfour guessers one man came within a half pound of the weight of a porker. The United States Court has ordered Receiver Evans to show cause why he does not pay over to Crawford county $4,548 in taxes due that county from the Air line railroad. A stranger giving his name as John Milon has given himself up to the Evansville police, stating that he had mr.rdered a man in Louisville. He is far gone with consumption. The distilling comoany, of Terre Haute, has comprcqnised three of the threatened suits by relatives of the five men killed by the recent ex plosion, $1,200 being paid—s4oo for each of the three deaths. Rev. C. A. Roberts, of the A. M. E. Church at Spencer, says they closed their revival meeting bn Thursday night for want of material to work on. Tho church has had twenty-seven accessions and twenty-one conversions. The damage suits of Mrs. Campbell against Joseph Coyne, for killing her grandson, William Hitchman, and Newton Hyler vs. Joseph Coyne, for shooting him in the leg, have been transferred from Clark to Floyd county for trial in the Circuit Court. Coyne is a man of considera ble wealth. Miss Cedora Lieuellen, professor of constitutional history in the college at Danville, was yesterday admitted to the practice of law in the Circuit Court, Judge Ayres, of Indianapolis, presiding. Miss Lieullen is the second lady lawyer in Indiana, the other being Mrs. Bess Eag'lesfield, of Indianapolis. Warrick county romance: Anthony Razor sold his tobacco and left $45 with his wife for safe keeping. On Tuesday he took a load of hay to Boonville. Milton Sutherland helped him unload the hay, then took him to a saloon, after which be weut and got Mrs. Razor, and the two eloped, taking the train for Evansville. Frank Kimball, formerly a member of the Terre Haute fire department, and for the past eight months an express messenger on the E. & T. H., has been arrested at Evansville, charged with stealing a revolver from the agent of the Adams Express Company at that point. He admits having taken the fire-arm, but says it was a joke. A case that has been exciting great interest in southeastern Indiana has been decided in the Circuit Court of Union county. Thompson sued Williams, both wealthy physicians of Union county, for SI,OOO damages for violation of contract. Dr. Williams pays one cent damage, the costs of the case, and ceases to practice medicine in that neighborhood. He is one of the oldest and most successful practitioners in that part of the State. _ ILLINOIS. An Old Resident of Bloomington Terribly and Fatally Mutilated. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Bloomington, Jan. 29.—Thomas F. Beard, an old resident of Bloomington, and who has been employed as miller at the Hungarian mills for several years, to-day had his arm crushed to a jelly in the cogs of a dusting machine which he was oiling. A portion of the flesh was torn from the ribs of his side, exposing the bones for a space eight inches square. The arm was amputated. It is feared that he eannot survive. Some years aeo he was & quite prosperous mill proprietor here. Arrest of a Female Horse-Thief. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Mattoon, Jan. 29.—A female horse-thief, a colored woman named Lizzie French, was ar-

rested in this city this week and taken to Springfield. where she stole a horse and baggy, in 1882, from John Foster. At that time she succeeded in getting into Indiana with the rig and selling it After expending S2OO, Foster succeeded in recovering both the horse and buggy. He has now the satisfaction of knowing that the thief is in the hands of the law. Brief Mention. The Rev. Waiter H. Moore, of St. John's Church, Decatur, has accented the call of Calvary Episcopal Church, of Chicago. W. H. H. Smith, principal of the Shabonier schools, and Miss Hester Lawrence, one of his pupils, have eloped. Smith leaves a wife and child. At Freeport, a young Swede named Nelson Munson, in the employ of William O. Wright & Cos., robbed the firm's safe and ran away. He .was rewarded with less than SIOO. The Rev. Douglass C. Peabody, of Hazelwood, Pa., has notified the vestry of Emanuel Episcopal Church, of Rockford that he had accepted their call to the church at $1,500 a year. A spark from a miner’s lamp ignited a keg of powder which a companion was carrying under liia arm, in a coal shaft near Springfield, on Thursday morning. The explosion shockingly mangled both men, but did not inflict instaut death. L. M. Boyer, a young minister at Springfield, who was at the head of a troupe of colored singers, who pertormed in churches, fled from Richmond. Ind., on Wednesday night, taking all the available funds with him, leaving the performers destitute. A. F. Lacy, the Meachem township, Fayette county, school director, has been arrested and bouud over to await trial at the February term of the Circuit Court. Lacy, it will be remembered, is the man who, it is alleged, a short time ago fired the contents of a shotgun into a crowd of school children. The remains of Mrs. Perry De Wees, wife of a farmer living near Monticello, who, it is alleged. cut her own throat last October, were exhumed Thursday in opposition to her husband’s wishes. Five physicians examined the wounds, and the opinion how prevails that they were not self-inflicted. It is intimated that an attempt will be made to secure the indictment of De Wees for murder. PASTEUR’S PATIENTS IN A MUSEUM. Three of the Newark Boys Draw Crowds to a Bowery Show-House. New York World. Patsy Reynolds and two others of the Newark boys who went to Paris to see Pasteur are still drawing crowds of curious people to the Bowery Museum, where they are on exhibition. It is estimated by their manager that at least 300,000 persons have paid 10 cents apiece to get a look at them, and thoir popularity is increasing daily. Twenty times a day the trio stand upon a platform, while their manager tells of the manner in which they were bitten, and their subsequent visit to Paris. Patsy has learned the story by heart, and occasionally prompts his manager, much to the amusement of the audiences. Patsy has recently announced his intention of remaining on the stage permanently. He has made a thorough examination and study of the play-house where he is now engaged, and of bis associates in the show business, and is charmed with everything. He has been behind the scenes, witnessed rehearsals, and investigated the mysteries of the green-room. He knows how the actresses make complexions fair and cheeks pink, and has fathomed the secret of some actors’ beautiful calves. “I’m going to be an actor always.” he said yesterday to a reporter of The World, “but I shan’t stay here much longer, just as a boy bitten by a dog. I’d rather wear feathers iu my hair, or have fur trousers and a bear, like Bronco John. I would rather be a bitten boy than the bear though, because the bear isn’t ever taken down stairs to see the play, and we go down nearly every night.” The managers will continue them at the Bowery for a week or two longer, after which they will exhibit them in all the large Eastern cities.

Wedding Presents from Nine Countries. Washington Letter. I hear that the wedding presents received by Mrs. Dulles, the daughter of Mr. Foster, the recent minister to Spain, surpassed in their beauty and variety any that a Washington bride has received within memory, and that the parsonage over which she is to preside at Detroit will be very richly decorated. Mrs. Dulles has lived in Mexico, in Spain, in Russia, and in other parts of the world where her father has occupied positions of distinction, and has traits of mind and heart that win respect and admiration. Her marriage offered an occasion for her admirers all over the world to show their affection, and she received more than two hundred beautiful gifts from at leaßt nine different countries. Her father’s present was a piano. From the Chinese legation she received an antique chest, full of the richest silks and embroideries—something that will last a life-time and be always new. From the Russian legation came an enormous bronze bear, upon a pedestal of the rarest ouyx. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Mexican government, Senor Mariscal, sent her two unique gold bracelets, of native manufacture and curious design. There were several valuable paintings from France and Spain, and other gift3 from friends in this country and Europe. Mr. John W. Thompson, of the National Metropolitan Bank, and a neighbor, presented a set of Dresden china which is said to be very beautiful. At the time of the fire at Mr. Fosters house, the night before the wedding, these presents happened to be all packed in cases for shipment to Detroit, and were in the cellar, so they were not injured in any way. The bride’s trousseau was also safe, but Mrs. Foster lost nearly her entire wardrobe, which was in a room adjoining the one in which the fire originated, and got not only the flames, but a good share of the water that was used to extinguish them. The dress which Mrs. Foster had intended to wear at the wedding, and which had been worn at her presentation to the Queen of Spain, happened, fortunately, to be down stairs, and escaped a wetting. Mr. and Mrs. Dulles will be back in a week or two, when a reception will be given them by Chief-justice and Mrs. Waite, as Mr. Foster’s house will not be restored in season. Tax-Collector McMahan’s Defense. Hoboken, N. J., Jan. 29.—-Ex-Tax-collector McMahon, who fled two years ago, with a shortage of $51,000 in his accounts, and who was arrested in New York last night, was interviewed to-day. He declares himself innocent, and says he left with only $2,500, his own money. He asserts that when one of his assistants was dying he stated that all was not right. The assistant, a man named Crewe, died. The collector found that there was a shortage, but, as the assistant had no bondsmen, he thought he would say nothing about it and would try to make it good, and mortgaged his house for that purpose. But the number of receipts for taxes grew to such proportions that he gave it up in despair, and fled. It is intimated that there will be sensational disclosures when the case comes to trial, and that one or more prominent citizens of Hoboken will be implicated. The Persuasive Buckshot. Louisville, Jan. 29.—At 6 o’clock this evening eighty prisoners confined in the jail here refused to go to their cells for the night. They were threatened at the muzzles of guns, bnt would not go, saying they were afraid a mob wonld come at night to take out Melvin Butler, supposed murderer of Macoy, the gambler. Jailer Rubel and Turnkey Jacob Oraef finally fired into the prisoners. Daniel Rice, a counterfeiter, received two buckshot, and Skinney Smith one shot in the head. The wounds are not fatal. Tho prisoners at once scampered to their cells. _ Steamship Newa. Hamburg, Jan. 29.—Arrivad: Bohemia, from New York. Philadelphia, Jan. 29.— Arrived: Indiana, from Liverpool. Queenstown, Jan. 29.—Arrived: Nevada, from New York for Liverpool. New York, Jan. 29.—Arrived: Main, Eider, from Bremen; France, from London; City of Berlin, from Liverpool. ■■■■i"! 1 . U... iJUiUII'J Iris, to say the least, wrong for anybody to go to church or public meeting, hacking away and disturbing tho preacher or orator with coughing. Uso Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup at once; it costa only 25 eoutsa bottle.

A TEN-YEAR-OLD HEIRESS. Bessie Talbott’s Extraordinary History—En* • titled to #IOO,OOO in Her Own Right. Danville (Ind.) special. Our people have been surprised to learn, in tho last twenty-four hours, that pretty little Bessie Talbott is an heiress in her own right to SIOO.CKM), and tfaat & considerably larger amount of money depends upon her existence. Near eleven years ago a man by the name of Kilsmilier, who resides in or near Canton, 0., courted and marrried a woman in that city whose name he refuses to give. Both parties and their families, we are informed, were members of wealthy families, and wero highly honored and respected by all who knew them. It happened that within six months after the marriage a girl baby was born to Mr. and Mrs. Kit6milier. The humiliation and shame that would necessarily follow, should this fact become known, was mors than they could endure, and in order to keep the entire matter a secret, they came to Indianapolis, where the child was born, Dr. Taggart, of that citv. being the attending physician. After the mother had fully recovered, the babe was disposed of, the father and mother returned to their home, in Canton, 0., and no one. not even the mother’s own relatives, ever knew that Mrs. Kitsmiller was the mother of a child from that day until some two weeks ago. About this time, Mr. and Mrs. Lou Talbott, of th is place, concluded to adopt a babe, and made application to the Orphans’ Home for a child. They were soon notified that a suitable babe was to be had, and thereupon they proceeded to the city for the purpose of procuring the child, which they found in the tender care of a good old colored lady. This was in December, ten years ago, and since that time Bessie has been nurtured by these good people, and has grown to be a beautiful and bewitching girl, and is pronounced as such by everybody whose good fortune it is to see her. Soon after Bessie came to Danville Miss Talbott received letters from her mother, and since that time a correspondence has been kept up, the mother declaring all the time that she would take Bessie home but for her husband, who could not hear to such a proposition, as persons in his social position in life could not bear the scandal that would follow. The mother has been to see Bessie three times, and was always treated in the most hospitable manner by the Talbotts, and, although Bessie received her kisses and caresses, her identity aa mother was never known to Bessie. The mother died about two weeks ago, without telling her life-secret After her death photographs of a beautiful little girl were found by her friends, as well as many letters telling of the pictures, and when an explanation was demanded of the husband he told all, and this was the first that tho parents of the dead mother knew of ner story. On Tuesday night last the father of Bessie, his father and the father and sister, names unknown, arrived here and were very secretive in their actions, so much so that they refused to register at the hotel. In appearance they possessed every indication of wealth. Mr. Talbott stoutly refuses to hear of any arrangement whereby he is to lose his little girl, of whom ho is over fond. It leaked out that Bessie is entitled in her own right to a cool SIOO,OOO, and that much more depended upon her existence. The father all these years knew of her whereabouts, but never contributed to her support. Bessie knows only Mr. and Mrs. Talbott as her father and mother, and clings to them, and will not consent to a separation. Mr. Talbott has been offered SIO,OOO to relinquish all right to Bessie, but all this money, although a poor man, be refuses, and asks to be allowed to keep his little girl. The Codfish. Boston Record’s Small Boy. A codfish is the only Annymal that ain’t got no neck, there ain’t but one kind of a fish in the World that lives on the land and Flys round in the air, and that is a fish-hawk. A Codfish baa a large mouth, and my Sunday school Teechera got a large mouth too. Two kids cot fitein in the vestry one day and one of em pulled quite a lot of Hare out of the other kids lied and the Superingtending pounded one of his Eeers with a book and so they quit. A fish would look funny if they had legs and could run. The Way It Goes. Pittsburg Chronicle. -Now, that Maud Miller is known to be a bigamist, her salary will probably be raised from SIOO to S2OO a week. The Difference Between Them. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Maud Muller simply raked hay, but Maud Miller made hay till she became a grass widow. A Sore Throat or Cough, If suffered to progress, often results in an incurable throat or lung trouble. “Brown’s Bronchial Troches” give instant relief.

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