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belon Marciales and Acunda Ortega, his wife: Camilia, a girl of twelve years; Valoria, aped ten; Ricardo, aged eight; Cayetanao. aged five; Virginia, aged two, and an infant to which the mother had given birth in the excitement which preceded the wholesale slaughter. The horrible crime created a profound sensation, and the populace, if not prevented, would have disposed of the assassins by lynching them. They are six in number, and their names are Antonio Esteban, Francisco Marciales, Miguel Flores, Pantaloon Roseo and a deaf and dumb man. The President of the republic has directed that the assassins be tried by a military court-martial. The apprehension of the assasios has led to developments, and ’has brought to light other crimes of a revolting character.” Belligerent Orangemen. London, March 24.—At an Orange banquet in London, this evening, to celebrate the return of the Ulster members of the House of Commons, several speakers predicted the scenes of 1688. and said that, if necessary, Orangemen would arm themselves against the Pope and the tools of the papacy. Major Saunderson. member of Parliament for North Armagh, said he doubted if English troops sent against Orangemen would use their bayonets; anyhow, there were thousands of Orangemen in the British volunteer army who would be willine to go to Irelaud at the proper moment Fighting Between Abyssinlans and Arabs. Si'a kim, March 24.—The Abyssinian troops sent by King John to relieve the garrison at Kassala have fought a battle with the hostile Arabs near that place. The Arabs were defeated and fifty-five of their men were killed. Osman Dign?. has erected a fort on the old battle-ground at Tamair, whence he retreated before the British expedition which started to build a railway from Snakim to Berber. He has placed eight guns in the fort. It is reported that great numbers of natives are dying of smallpox at Tamair. Pasteur's Dead Russian. Paris, March 24. —The inquest on the Russian who died of hydrophobia while under M. Pasteurs care, revealed the presence in one of the man’s cheek bones of a portion of a tooth that undoubtedly belonged to the wolf by which the man was bitten. This, M. Pasteur supposes, has tended to render his treatment unavailing. The brain was slightly congested, Ibut was otherwise healthy. Two other Russian patients have shown symptoms of acute hydrophobia. Quarrel Between Churchill and Smith. London, March 24.—1 tis stated that a desperate quarrel has taken place between Lord Raudolph Churchill and Mr. William Henry Smith,both of whom were members of Salisbury’s Cabinet, and that as a result Mr. Smith threatins to withdraw from the Conservative party unless he receives an apology from Churchill. Alarming Revolt of Prisoners. Paris, March 24.—An alarming revolt took place to-day in the prison at Chalons. The military had to be called in to quell the disturbance. The authorities have ordered an inquiry to be made into the complaints of the prisoners that their treatment by the prison officials is intolerable. Cable Notes. British troops have defeated 400 Burmese, near Yemethen, killing sixty and capturing m**"' prisoners and guns, and a number of elephants. jm. t'e Lesseps, during his address at the banquet given him by the municipal authorities of Sit. Kh zaire, said that the work on the Panama canal was making good progress, and declared that the waterway would be completed in 1889. Emneror William, in a letter to Prince Bismarck. speaks of the joy and gratitude he felt at the loyalty and patriotism evinced by his subjects in their demonstrations on his birthday, last week, and publicly thanks the people for their manifestations of affection.

Losses by Fire. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Logan sport, Ind., March 24.—The large frame business block owned by John Love, situated in in the southern part of the city, burned early this mopping. The building was occupied as a grocery store. Before the department got water on the flames the building was entirely destroyed. The stock was removed. The loss is estimated at $5,000; fully insured. The fire was the work of an incendiary, several attempts having been made recently to burn the building. To the Western Associated Press. Glendive, M. TANARUS., March 24. —An incendiary fire this morning destroyed the block containing the Merchants’ Hotel and eleven business houses, involving a loss of $50,000. Insurance light. St. Paul, Minn., March 24.—Fire at Lake Crystal, Minn., this morning, destroyed Gardner's store, with contents. Loss, about $11,000; insurance unknown. Obituary. Washington, March 24.—Ex-Justice Ward Hunt died here this morning. He was born in Utica, N. Y., on June 14. 1810. and has always resided in his native place. He graduated at Union College in 1828, and, turning his attention o the law, attended the lectures of Judge Gould it Litchfield. In 1805 he was elected a judge of . .o Court of Appeals of New York, which posi■on he held until 1872, when he was made an . ssociate justice of the United States Supreme < ourt. He retired about three years ago. From Union and Rutgers colleges he received the degree of Ll* D. Special to the IndinnaDolis Journal. Madison, Ind., March 24.—William H. Greiner, aged forty-seven, a well-known German brewer, and a native of Madison, died suddenly this afternoon of hemorrhage of the brain, leaving a ■widow and five children. Demolished by a Wind-Storm. Pittsburg, Pa., March- 24 A Findlay, 0., special says: “News of a tornado that passed over Bell more, a small town northeast of this city, in Putnam county, has just reached here. The heavens suddenly became dark and there came a terrific storm-cloud, funnel-shaped, tearing np trees by the roots, blowing down small buildings and destroying everything in its path. A protracted meeting was being held in the Methodist Chureh when the storm came on. The steeple was blown down and the roof carried off. The congregation was panic stricken, but fortunately no one was killed, though many received bruises and cuts which may yet prove fatal. The damage done by the cyclone will amount to many thousand dollars.” A Confession that Comes Too Late. Chicago, March 24.—Frank Muikowsky, the Pole uuder sentence to hang here on Friday for the murder and robbery of Mrs. Agnes Kleidaeck, was to-day refused a supersedeas. Tonight his attorney makes public a letter signed by George Kowaldsky, confessing that he. not Muikowsky, is the murderer, and that tbe stolen articles found on Muikowsky were given him by the real murderer, with whom Muikowsky was to divide the proceeds of the sale. It is thought the attorney will now try to have Mulkowsky's punishment commuted to life imprisonment. Kowaldsky’s whereabouts is unknown. Engineer and Three Laborers Killed. Galveston. March 24.—A special to the News, from Kildare, Tex., says: “The Jefferson Lumber Company’s train, consisting of an engine and three heavily-loaded fiat cars, was coming in from the pineries at a high rate of •peed, and while passing over a trestle tbe structure gave way, letting the train through. Engineer Skidmoi b and three negro laborers were instantly killed. S. F. Bemis, one of the proprietors, had his legs and hands badly Bishop Robertson’s Illness. St. Louis. Mo., March 24. The condition of Bishop Robertson has almost caused his friends to abandon hope. One of his physicians has expressed the opinion that the Bishop could not live five days. The suffusion in the head is said to be ominous, and the worst is feared. A positive guarantee is given by the manutatarer of Dr. Jones’s Red Clover Tenie that a -cent bottle of this remedy contains more curative properties than any dollar preparation. It promptly cures all stomach, kidney and liver

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of All Kinds in the Two States. Boone Count j Farmers Swindle— Young Child Fatally Burned—Damage Snits for Acts Committed by an Insane Man. INDIANA Boone County Farmers Swindled by a Smooth-Tongued Sharper. Special to the Indianacoli* Journal. Lebanon, March 23.—A well dressed, smooth tongued swindler has been defrauding the unsuspecting farmers in Boone and adjoining counties. This time it is the paint trick. The First National Bank of this city is in receipt of several notes on farmers, who claim that they were misled into signing the notes under the impression that they were receipts for paint, to be used by them in painting the roofs of their buildings. A couple of nice-appearing strangers, daring the month of December last, went to the houses of farmers and represented that they were agents for roof-paint, and proposed to give ten dollars’ worth of the article to the honest tiller of the soil, and he was to recommend it to his neighbors. It looked very nice, and they took in the but; some gave receipts, and others notes, which would never be collect ed, but were to show to others of the neighborhood, just for the influence it would have. Among the parties who were thus taken in are James Biddle, of Northfield, for $185; George Byrket, of Whitestown, for $75. and James Clark, of Eel river township, Hendricks county, for SSO. The notes are all Mfibe payable to YF. S. McCullom, and by him assigned to the Exchange Bank of Plymouth. The notes have all been protested, and the bank here has been ordered to bring suit at once to enforce their collection. Holiness Convention at Kokomo. Special to the Indiaaapoha Journal. Kokomo. March 24. —A five days’ holiness convention Conducted under tho auspices of the Society of Friends, convened last night at the Friends Church in this city. The object of the meeting is for the discussion of and the promotion of holiness among professing Christians. The meetings are being conducted by Revs. David Douglas, of this city; D. B. Updegraff, of Mount Pleasant, O.; Lilburn White, of Spiceland; H. J. Meek, of Noblesville; Logan Rogers, of Kansas; Prof. Dugan Clark, of Richmond; Elwood Scott and others. Tbe meetings are being largely attended by persons of ail denominations, and a very high standard of Christian living is being agitated. The convention will last all the week. Child Fatally Burned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Bloomington, March. 24. —A most distressing accident occurred to-day to tho little two-and-a-half-year old child of Charles Sears. The mother left it alone in a room, and soon after screams were heard. A passer-by opened the door, when the little one ran into the street with her clothes in flames. Neighbors rushed to her . assistance, but before the clothes could be torn off the child was so badly burned that it will hardly recover.

Brakeman Cut to Pieces. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Fort Wayne, March 24.—William Burns, of this city, a freight brakeman on the Grand Rapids & Indiana road, was killed at Cary, Mich., this morning. In making coupling he fell headlong on the track. The moving trucks cut his body in twain. He was twenty two years old. The remains will arrive here to-night * Minor Notes. George Brace, a cattle-dealer, was robbed at Fort Wayne of S3O by tramps. The Y. M. C. A. at New Albany have unanimously re elected Mr. Butterfield as general secretary ofi the association. A frame dwelling a few miles west of Colum bus. belonging to Mrs. Indiana Stull, burned. Loss, $800; no insurance. A. P. Fox, thirty-eight years old, for the theft of an overcoat at Terre Haute, has been sent to the penitentiary for*two years. Win. Beard’s saloon, at Prairieton, blown np some time ago by powder, and again repaired, has been burned to the ground by incendiaries. The barn of Hensley Simmons, near Terre Hante burned, together with four cows and a quantity of grain. Loss $1,200; partly insured. William Johannigman, sixty-six years old. for thirty-three years a well-known cigar manufacturer at New Albany, died at that place on Wednesday. An old and prominent citizen of Centerville, named Christian Taylor, yesterday shot himself in the head, with suicidal intent, and will prob ably die. He was prompted to do the act by disease and financial embarrassment The junior class at Earlham College will hold an oratorical contest at Richmond about the middle of May. The following contestants have been chosen: E. C. Perisho. Carmel; E. D. Allen, Bloomingdale; W. S. Doon, Friendwood; Alisa Carrie Miles, Carthage; Miss Nellie E. Johnson, Cincinnati. The directors of the Ca3s County Agricultural Society met yesterday and organized by electing W. D. Pratt, president, and D. W. Tomlinson, secretary. The fair will take place in September, from the 14th to the 18th~ inclusive. The Logansport street-car line will be extended to the grounds, a distance of two miles and a half. The frame farm residence of Chris Knarr, located four miles southwest of Greensburg, was burned on Tuesday night. The family, who were all asleep, were aroused in time to save themselves and a few articles of wearing apparel, two beds and an organ. The loss is probably $2,000; insurance, SSOO. in the Continental, of New York. John. Wales, convicted in Posey county and sentenced, in 1881, to ten years in the southern penitentiary, for assault and battery with intent to commit robbery, has been released on parole by the Governor. Since the conviction it has been developed that robbery was not intended by Wales, the assault growing out of a dispute over a woman of questionable character. ILLINOIS. Heavy Damages Claimed for Acts Committed by an Insane Man. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal Bloomington, March 24.—1 t will be remembered that a few weeks ago Benjamin Sholty, while insane, shot and killed Mrs. Levi Sholty, his brother’s wife; shot and wounded Mary E. Sholty, his brother's daughter, and then burned his brother's barn and contents, and cremated himself in the building. To-day three suits, aggregating SIO,OOO. were commenced against the estate of Sholty. In one of the suits Levi Sholty sues for $4,000 for property burned; in another Levi Sholty sues for $5,000 for the killing of his wife, and in the third Miss Sholty sues for SI,OOO for being wounded. Changes In the Springfield Journal. Springfield, March 24.—Hon. Charles T. Stratton, of Mount Vernon, to-day purchased the shares of stock in the Illinois State Journal Company hold by Postmaster Selby and wife, and twenty-one shares of A. F. Phillips, which gave him control of the paper. J. C. Buchanan, president and editor, resigned, and the company reorganized by electing the following officers: President, Charles T. Stratton; secretary, J. W. Buchanan; treasurer and business manager, A F. Phillips; managing editor, J. R. Stewart. This leaves out J. C. Buchanan, who has had control of tbe paper for some months past. The suits now pending against the eempaay and in-

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stitnted by Mr. Selby for possession of tbe property are dismissed. Mr. Stratton intends removing to this city to enter upon the practice of law, but will take no active part in the management of the paper. He made the purchase believing it to be a good investment. A Physical and Mental Wreck. Special to the lndi&nanolia Journal. Altamont. March 24.—Mr. Wash Hollingsead, of this city, returned to-day frotn Terre Haute, with his son, George Hollingsead, who has been reported to have committed suicide at Terre Haute, last Saturday, by taking poison. Such reports are untrue as to his death, although he tried but failed. He has completely wrecked his constitution, and is now insane, with little probability of his recovery, although he is still living, j Brief Mention. John Ausby, an old farmer, was run over by a freight train at Wabash Station and instantly killed. Rev. Peter Fetworth, of Equality, a revivalist of forty years ago, is now conducting a revival at Centralia. The farm residence of J. W. Cline, twelve miles north of Hillsboro, burned. Loss, including contents, $3,500; insured for $2,500 in the Phenix of Brooklyn. At Lockport, Henry Schreiber, a blacksmith, became insane from brooding over the express robbery and murder, and entering the county court-house attempted to kill Colonel Van Arman, of Chicago, who the maniac ’.claimed was one of the robbers. Schreiber was arrested and taken to Joliet, where he was placed in the Will County Jail. i THE PLENARY COUNCIL’S DECREES. Stringent Regulations as to Schools, Marriage, Secret Societies and Church Fairs. Baltimore, March 24.—The decrees enacted by the Plenary Council held in this city in November, 1884, which were sent to Rome for approval and returned several .months ago, were given to a few persons to-day in printed form. They extend over four hundred pages, and are in Latin. The American will, to-morrow, publish an extended summary of them, which was prepared by one of the leading translators connected with the church in this city. The decrees are contained under eleven titles. The opening decree is on faith, followed by decrees on ecclesiastical persona, divine worship, the saeraments, the education of the clergy, the instruction of Catholic youth, Christian doctrine, zeal for souls, church property, ecclesiastical courts and ecclesiastical tribunals. Many of the decrees under the first three titles will be of little interest to the public, as they affect the inner workings of the various dioceses, and refer to the relations existing between the bishop and his clergy. Special enactments are made to meet all possible contingencies, and these regulations will largely contribute to place the dioceses on a sure footing. Some of these regulations are very eloquent in their expressions on the dignity of the clergy. Sanctity and science are to be the objects of their labors, and this is to insure them a lasting influence over the flocks intrusted to their care. It is recommended that a special house in the charee of some religious order should be erected for the reception of priests who have been suspended from the exercise of their functions for serious faults, yet give hopes of correcting their various inclinations, that they may have an opportunity of regaining their lost privileges. Special attention is to be paid to the music adopted in the churches to add solemnity to the sacred services; worldly and sensual strains are positively to be excluded from church exercises.

One of the most important decrees is that concerning matrimony. It holds that, since marriage was raised to the dignity of a sacrament, it belongs solely to the church, to whom the administration of the sacrament was intrusted, to pass judgment on the validity, rights and obligations of marriage. This being the ai\d the marriage tie being it is obvious that there is no power on earth which can dissolve Christian marriage. Against such as infringe the laws’ severe penalties are to be enforced. No legal divorce has the slightest power before God to loose the bonds of marriage and make a subsequent one valid. Even adultery, though it may justify separation frotn bed and board, cannot loose the marriage tie so that either of the parties may marry again during the life of tho other, nor is the legal separation to be obtained without first conferring with the ecclesiastical authorities. Though the church sometimes permits the marriage of a Catholic with a nou-Catholic she never does so without the deepest regret and with the explicit understanding that the children of those parties must be brought up iD the Catholic faith. Regarding the instruction of the laity, the Council decrees that, since religion can never be divorced from our actions, there is a need of erecting everywhere parish schools which shall so temper religion with science that the two may go hand in hand. To effect this, the Council orders that within two years from the promulgation of these decrees a parish school must be erected and started near each church, unless the bishop, for grave reasons, should defer for a time the building of such a school. Should a priest by his own negligence prevent the successful carrying on of such schools, he is to be judged worthy of removal. All Catholic parents are bound to send their children to these parochial schools, unless they send them to other Catholic academies, or are lawfully exempted by those who have oharge of these affairs. The 8.000,000 of colored people in the country are the subject of a vigorous plea*for help from all those who wouM place this important element of the future in a place to act for the weal of this republic. The Indian tribes have also been considered, and arrangements have been made for a special yearly collection to be taken up in all churches throughout the country to help in promoting catholicity among both the colored people and the Indian tribes. Special consideration is devoted to the action and work of the laity, and their combination in associations for the better realization of their work; but all roust be mindful of the fact that the laity are members of the body of Christ, and that their legitimate action and work must be in entire uniformity with their lawful head. All secret societies, which are secret as the church understands this term, such as Masonic lodges and other similar societies, are to be abjured by Catholics. Not oniy are such societies to be shunned, but all are requested to co-ope-rate as earnestly as possible in the work of those who are acting in all things according to the spirit of the church. The decrees about the collecting of money for pious purposes will, doubtless, surprise most people, for the decisions are explicitly condemnatory of many methods now in vogue. The council erders that no clereyman shall ever prosecute a layman for money due to the church, even for pew rent, unless he has asked leave from the bishop. Another thing done by the council is the prohibition of picnics and excursions by night or on Sunday, or on other feast days or fasting days. This way of making money for church purposes will be hereafter forbidden, and only allowed by the bishop, with necessary reserve. The sale of intoxicating liquors will not be allowed in any case. Fairs, also, are not to be held without special permit from tho bishop, and not on Sundays, and no intoxicating liquors cau be sold at them. Suppers and dinners, social parties and balls, given at night, for raising money, are prohibited. Steamship News. Glasgow, March 24.—Arrived: Stats of Nebraska, from New York. Queenstown, March 24.—Arrived: Ohio, from Philadelphia. New York, March 24.— Arrived: Nevada, Spain, from Liverpool; Amoritfoe, from Havre. Philadelphia, March 24.— Arrived; Lord Gough, from Liverpool. Hamburg, March 24.—Arrived: Rugia, from New York. Ik hundreds of cases, Hood's Sarsaparilla, by puryfying and enriching the blond, has proven a potent remedy for rheumatism. Hence, if you suffer the psins and aches of this disease, it is fair to assume that Hood's Sarnarilla will cure you. Give it a trial.

THE LABOR TROUBLES. [Concluded from First Page.] Amicable relations if not interfered with from headouarters. 1 therefore recognize in trades unions, or, better still, in organizations of the men of each establishment, who select representatives to speak for them, a means not of farther embittering the relations between employer and employed, bat of improving them. It is astonishing how small a sacrifice upon the .part of the employer will sometimes greatly benefit the men. 1 remember that at one of our meetings with a committee, it was incidentally remarked by one speaker that the necessity for obtaining credit at the stores in the neighborhood was a grave tax upon the men. An ordinary workman, he said, could not afford to maintain himself and family for a month, and as he only received his pay monthly, he was compelled to obtain credit and to pay exorbitantly for everything; whereas, if he had the cash, he coflld bay at 25 per cent less. '‘Well,” I said, “why cannot we overcome that by paying every two weeks?” The reply was: “We did not like to ask it, because we have always understood that it would cause mnch trouble; but, if you do that, it will be worth an advance of 5 per cent in our wages.” We have paid semi-monthly since. Another speaker happened to say that although they were in the midst of coal, the price charged for small lots delivered at their houses was a certain sum per bushel. The price named was double what our best coal was costing us. How easy for us to deliver to our men such coal as they required, and charge them cost! This was done without a cent’s loss to us, but with much gain to the men. Several other points similar to these have arisen, by which their labors might be lightened or products increased, and others suggesting changes in machinery or facilities, which, but for the con ferences referred to, would have been unthought of by the employer and probably never asked for by the men. For these and other reasons I attribute the greatest importance to an organization of the men, through whose duly-elected representatives the managers may be kept informed from time to time of their grievances and suggestions. No matter how able the manager, the clever workman can often show him how beneficial changes can be made in the special branch in which that workman labors. Unless the relations between manager and workmen are not only amicable, but friendly, the owners miss mnch; nor is any man a first-class manager who has not the confidence and respect, and even the admiration, of his workmen. No man is a true gentleman who does not inspire the affection and devotion of his servants. The danger is that such committees may ask conferences too often; three or four meetings por year should be regarded as sufficient

LABOR AND PROTECTION. The Underlying Cease of the Present Labor Troubles Clearly Defined. Indiana Farmer, March 27. The census returns of 1880 showed that there were over 17,000,000 people of this country who worked for wages. Avery large per cent of that number, but for our tariff duties on foreign productions, would be in competition with wageworkers of European countries whose organio structure, landed and electoral systems, reserve power to the few, and strike down the . lghts of the many, and whose abnormal systems enable capital to dictate wages and compel acceptance or starvation. This is a fact inwrought iu the life, thought and fibre of the American people. Ail history teaches that when a people are brought to the apprehension of a truth by disaster and suffering, that truth becomes a part of the fibre and life of such a people. In the ratio of increased 'and increasing intelligence must this be more perceptibly true, for the history of the times is written more and more in the concrete. The important lesson of protection from abnormal conditions abroad was very palpably taught by hard experience in this country during two noted periods of departure from the American idea of protection, when empirics dominated, and experiments were launched on the world of industry; when the fires of industry went out, and the industrial centers dispersed their skilled workers to unskilled pursuits in fields and forests to earn their bread, which oould not be done in competition with free importation of foreign goods. Like the ordeals endured in the wilderness of sin, free-trade disasters wrought the truth into our national life, but again, like that ancient people, not so strongly but empirics, who profit little by the past, may thrust plausible theories in the foreground and disturb the country and its industries. In a very large measure the existing labor agitation is but a protest to free-trade agitation. This protest has its origin in the inwrought principles of the American life, perhaps not always clearly defined nor perceived by those moved by them, and yet palpable, os by intuition. Using the illustration in a milder form, Congress seems to be imitating the emperor when Rome was burning. That body seems utterly oblivious to the cause of the deep, lond protest of labor against breaking down the only barrier to lower waees. None know so well as the workers themselves that the reduction of duties of 10 to 20 per cent, on foreign goods means lower wages for them in this country. And manufacturers are also deterred from venturing beyond actual necessity while-agitation is pending in Congress. And so the wage workers are put on short time, and made less able to consume, and here the farmers come in for their share of the hardship, by reason of lower prices on their products, and so all suffer together by this threatened raid on the settled conditions of the industries, for the gratification of mere theorists in political economy. The great farming industry of this country is otherwise involved in the question, for if the millions of skilled workers are driven to other pursuits, then doe3 that mean such disproportionate distribution of industry as to overdo farming, and leave sparse and indifferent markets, lower and lower prices for farm productions. If driveu from skilled industry, there is nothing left for a livelihood, and bread for the workers but to disperse to the lands. We are not alarmists. While this is the tenddency of the agitation in Congress, we believe that such men as Judge Kelley, Mr. Samuel Randall and their coadjutors of both the great parties, will be able to so impress the lessons of history on their kindergarten associates as to stay the tide. Within the past few days many intelligent wage-workers, some of whom long since escaped the conditions of. labor iu Europe, have appeared before the tariff commit.ee of Congress and given warning of the tendency of that body to new disaster. This has been fruitful, and it is now believed that the agitation will soon end in the signal defeat of the tinkerers, and if that shall be emphatic, then we shall soon see an end of the labor troubles, for it will all mean a revival of business and a proportionate increase of pay, which always accompanies general prosperity of all the industries. And then comes better prices for wheat, corn, meat and all the farm staples, because, employed and well paid, eighteen millions of wage-workers will be able to live well and pay their way, which means largely-increased consumption. OTHER LABOR NEWS. A Pittsburg Paper Concedes the Demands Made by Knights of Labor. Pittsburg, March 24.— The boycott against the Evening and Sunday Leader, which was begun several weeks ago, will be raised, the publishers having conceded the demand made by the typographical union and Knights of Labor. The Loader has been employing non-union workmen for the past eight years, and the only newspaper in the city that stood out against the union. This morning all the compositors but one applied for admission to the Knights of Labor. Their applications will be considered at the next meeting of the trades assembly. Ten Hours* Pay for Eight Hours* Work* Milwaukee, March 24. —A petition is being circulated for signatures among the employes in the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul railroad shops and yards in Milwaukee, asking Manager Miller to reduce the working time to eight hours and pay the same price as now paid for ten hours. The petition asks, also, that time and a half wages be paid for overwork and doable wages for Snnday work. The circulation of the petition is causing a good deal of uneasiness. Labor Notes. Cleveland, 0.. March 24.—Fifty tnolders struck to-day at Palmer & Dcmorey's foundry,

at Centralway. The men wanted pay for bad castinge, and were refused. Osborn* & Cos. have advanced wages of the tnolders 25 per cent. Grand Haven, Mich., March 24.—The strike of the 250 freight handlers of the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee railroad was ended, to-day, by the company acceding to the demands of the men. Work will be resumed in the morning. Milwaukee, March 24. —The Daily Herald of this city to-day announces that arrangements have been made limiting the labor in the me chanical departments of the composing, stereotyping and press-rooms to eight hoars, the wages to remain the same. The compositors, however, are to receive 45 cents instead of 40, as heretofore. Philadelphia, March 24.—At a mass-meet-ing of street-car drivers and conductors, last night, it was decided to abide by the agreement of the arbitration committee, and wait nntil April 1 for the answer of the board of presidents. Representatives of many of the roads expressed a desire to stop work at once, hut it was decided to run the cars wit this morning as usual. Pittsburg, Pa., March 24.— The Knights of Labor of Pittsburg will shortly establish an employment bureau for union workmen. Nothing of this kind has ever been attempted in this country before, and its success is assured, even before it has commenced its workings. The bureau will furnish union men out of employment with positions, and, at the same time, will keep listed all mills or employers employing union men. Chicago, March 24.—Bruschke & Ricke, furniture manufacturers, to-day decided to ask for an injunction against Furniture-workers’ Union, No. 1, as an organisation, and its sixty-four members, individually, to prevent “picketing” of tbe factory, where a strike is progressing. By picketing, the firm mean that the strikers have guards along all streets leading to the factory, by whom non-union hands who might be going there to work are intercepted and discouraged. New York, March 24.—T0-day all the cloak pressers belonging to the Independent Cloakpressers* Union joined the ranks of the strikera The cloak-cutters also stopped work. Altogether, about seven thousand persons are idle in the different branches of tbe cloak-making trade. Sjx firms have acceded to the demands of the strikera A conference with the other manufacturers will beheld tomorrow. The strikers defhand that no work be given to outside contractors, the prices heretofore paid to contractors to be paid to employes direct, all of whom shall be members of the union, and that no work be done on Saturday (the Hebrew Sabbath.) Dayton, 0., Mar<!h 24.—The strike among the drivers of the Third-street car-line still continues, with no prospect of settlement soon From 5,000 to 6,000 men are now congregated in the vicinity of the West-end stablea expecting that the company will make another attempt to run their ears. But this will not be done for the present. The Oakwood line Btruck at noon today, and it is expected that the Fifth and Wayne-street line will follow in the strike tomorrow. Tbe molders of tbe city are all off duty to-day, not on a strike, but to aid the railroad strikers. All the employes of the Glass cigar manufactory struck to-day at 10 a. m., because the proprietors refused to make it a union factory. Argument on the Broadway Franchise. Albany, N. Y., March 24—There was a large and distinguished assemblage in the Assembly chamber this afternoon and evening to listen to further arguments before the Senate committee on railroads engaged in the investigation of tbe Broadway surface railroad franchises. Judge Ashbel Green began the argument, and was followed by Mr. Clarence Seward. Hon. Roßcoe Conkling was the next speaker. When he arose he was greeted with a vigorous clapping of hands from all parts of the chamber, thriee renewed before he could begin bis argument. He held that this committee had plenary power in taking evidence, Dot being confined to the striet rules laid down for courts of justice. Nevertheless, most of the evidence laid before it would be admissible in any court. Aside from that, the Legislature was empowered to repeal anv charter, even without taking evidence. He then spoke of the lack of memory of witnesses present before the committee, | and sketched the bills to dissolve the Broadway company and sell its franchise at auction. He defended them as just and righteous, and asserted their constitutionality. The power to revoke charters had been exercised by New York Bt*te thirty times in twenty five years. The United States Supreme Conrt had held that the power of repeal is legislative, not judicial. Mr. Conkling concluded with a scathing review of the methods employed in securing the franchise of the Broadway road, which was really for the benefit of the Seventhavenue road, and asserted that practically all the stock was sold by the men who were concerned in the road, or had bought it as a gambling transaction. At the conclusion of his remarks he was again applauded.

Telegraphic Brevities. Arthur J. Ogilvie, the embezzling treasurer of the Dime Savings Bank, of New Brunswick, N. J., was yesterday adjudged insane and sent to an asylum. Thieves entered the postoffice building at Hempstead, Tex., at an early hour, Tuesday morning, and carried off $2,100 in money. About S7OO of it belonged to the government. Elevator Firm In Financial Trouble, Chicago, March 24. — The Daily News’s Peoria special says: “Rugg & Bryan, owners of the Advance elevator, and general grain commission men, are in trouble. A bank has thrown out soma of their paper. ” LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. The Soldiers* Monument To ths Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: In Saturday’s Journal, I read that a renewed effort is to be made on the part of the G. A. R. to further the project of a soldiers' monument. Asa soldier, I see no necessity for this undue anxiety to perpetuate our memory. For with the most liberal construction that can be put upon such actions, we cannot exclude the living soldier. Indeed, it wonld be unjust to do so it we could. Are not Generals Carnahan, Bennett, and all the honorably discharged soldiers who did what they could to put down the rebellion, entitled to an honorable place among the Indiana soldiery? But why this anxiety at all? Are the deeds of these soldiers such as will perish with those jvho wrought them? If so, then let us make haste and lift to heaven this monument, and the while let fall our tears, for it too shall perish and our memory fade from earth. I have known men who provided by “will” for elegant monuments for themselves and thereby confessed their characters void the consistency of self-preservation, and so I ask, do monuments perpetuate? I uow reverently think of one, who left not go much as an autograph, no autobiography, nor commentary; who held no commission from state, not even a license from presbytery to preach, yet by virtue of what He said and did, His memory can never die. Deeds live only when they have the consistency of self-preserva-tion, and when that is true they can no more perish than the Czar of Russia can rob the sunlight of its virtues by royal edict Again, “whoever will save his life shall lose it,” etc. Soldi ere of Indiana, if oar deeds are not such as will live by dint of their own virtues, be assured no monument reared by our own hands, can perpetuate their memory. Having wrought and right nobly too, let us now be careless of our fame, for it is sure. Let us take the funds already raised for the proposed monument and in the name of the soldiers of Indiana, add an “Indiana cottage” to the home for indigent Southern soldiers, at Richmond, Vs., then forever quit this monument business, leaving the song of oar own deeds to posterity and the future poet and historian. “Love seeketh not itself to please Nor, for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease And builds a heaven in hell’s despair M Franklin, March 22. J. M. Dunlap. • The High-School Question. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: I observe that one or two citizens are pressing upon the attention of the school board the im portaaoe of manual instruction in the common schools. Before any action is taken in that di rection 1 trust the subject will be thoroughly canvassed by ths board and the community at large. If we are to have labor schools no par-

ti&lity should be shown to any branch of labor. All the trades and occupations ol the laboring class should be represented in such schools. Those wishing to become carpenters, machinists, and civil engineers, should dot be favored above others. There should be schools of instruction in cooking, dress-making, bonnetmaking, tailoring, book-binding, watch-making, paper-hanging; also iu the occupations of hatters, tinners, foundry men, weavers and spinners, and many other trades. If manual labor is to ho taught at public expense, it must not be partial to any special lines of labor. Again, the cost of the introduction of such a change in onr system of public education should be carefully considered. Our present accomodations are wholly inadequate for the introduction of this manual instruction. Numerous additional buildings, machinery, and tools, and a large corps of new teachers would be required. It is doubtful whether the tax payers in these times of business depression would want such an expensive experiment tried. But the main question for our school board to consider is this: Is instruction in manual labor germane to our common school system in this country? To your correspondent it seems quits otherwise. It is the glory of our country that it undertakes to give to every child in the land instruction in the elementary branches of knowledge. The schools were designed sot the education of the mind and not the hand. The trades and professions are not within their scope. Our public schools are the growth of 250 years, without no radical rev olution in the system. No country is giving a better education to its children than we are. If there were no high-schools a boy who goes through the graded schools has a good education —as good as thousands of business men who have attained to the highest success. 1 believe the reason why there ase so few boys in the High-school is because those to whom time is precious feel that they already have a good education, adequate to the emergencies of a business life. _ N. A. Hyde. The Civil-Service Law, To the Editor or the Indianapolis Journali Sinee the civil-service law is really in force, every United States official must be bound te sustain it, and also must be liable to prosecution if he violates said law. Consequently, if Postmaster Jones still ferces the resignation of Mail Carrier Hoover, does he not violate the law, and is he not subject to prosecution? Would not the business men on West Washington street do well to prosecute? s When individuals suffer from violation of law they right their wrongs by appeal to law. If society is inconvenienced by {violation of law, it must make itself an individual, and, by appeal to law, cause the enforcement of law. A Subscriber. Something Worth Reading. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: The article of “U. L. See" in yesterday’© Journal is certainly worthy of a thorough an& careful perusal by every one who now feels afj interest in the present strife between organized labor and business interests throughout the country. It appears, to one at least, a masterly effort, and his arguments impregnable to adverse criticism. Let every man and woman read, and reread, and thoroughly digest with unprejudiced minds those sentiments there advanced. We’ll See. AN END TO HER TROUBLES. Mrs. Kate Dawson Commits Suicide at the Home of Her Former Husband. Mrs. Kate Dawson, who haa figured conspicuously before the public during the last few months as the defendant in a divorce suit, caused by her elopement with her step-son, ended her troubles last night by committing suicide, the news of her death having reached here this morning at 2 o’clock. Her husband, who was an old and wealthy farmer, to whom she was married after having lived in the family as a domestic, was granted a divorce last week, but the court allowed Mrs. Dawson alimony to the amount of SI,OOO. Upon obtaining this money she deposited it in Fletcher & Churchman's tank, and it was reported that she and her step-son, with whom she had eloped, would go to California. The money was garnisheed on last Monday, however, by YV. F. A. Bernhamer, to secure a claim for legal services, and the sum seemed in a fair way to be entirely used up by other demands. In despair, last evening, she went to the home of her former husband, four mihs from the city, on the Shelby road, and before entering tbe house swallowed a quantity of arsenic. When ife was discovered that she had taken arsenic a physician was summoned, but he came too late to relieve her, and site died shortly after midnight. Coroner Stratford was notified this morning, at 2 o’clock, and he will go out to the Dawson farm to-day to hold an inquest over the remains.

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