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then, does the press not consider them when these strikes occur* Why do the ministers sod pamphleteers who discuss “the labor problem’' so vigorously mnka so little account of them! Why are Governors of States so ready to see them kicked, and cuffed, and driven from their lawful pursuits, and even killed, sooner than call ftut the militia for their protection! Why are the police so chnry in the largo cities about going to their assistance! Simply because they Are not organized; because they are generally, n any one place, a fortuitous concourse of *ocial atoms who have not yet learned to make war on society en masse. Moreover, this immense body of unorganized outsiders is not only kept in existence, bnt actually recruited every pear by the action of the trades-unions themselves. The pains which these bodies take in all the trades to keep down the numbor of apprentices, or, in other words, to p r: /ent the troung from learning handicrafts, / course, makes in every generation a large Idition to the ranks of unskilled, or bnt killed laborers. Tens of thousands of youths . e to-day forced into unskilled occupations, or to a life of shifts all over the Union by inability to get instruction in any of the more highly-paid trades. In fact, through one cause or another, the labourers who do not belong to unions are to day furnishing the real labor problem, and dt serve far more attention from social philosophers than the members of the unions. They are, too, the most helpless class of the community, the most exposed to violence, to oppression and persecution, for which the law affords no redress. A body of them has been for the last few weeks working, during the day, at one of the wharves in this city, with a large body of police to protect them from armed and lawless unionists. waiting outside the gates for a chance to kill or maim them. They work, in other words, in constant dread for life and limb, and they Aave to be conveyed to their homes at night secretly and in small parties. Yet it is with the ;nt of savages ontside the gates that politicians ind philanthrophists most occupy themselves. For the peaceable, industrious, uncomplaining aon-uuionists there is hardly a thought, often sot even the common safety of a civilized comnunity.

OTHER LABOR NEWS. The Wheeling Nail Conference Adjourns Without Reaching an Adjustment. Wheeling, W. Va., April 9.—Contrary to general expectations, the conference between the manufacturers of the Western Nail Association and the United Nailers' and Heaters' Association pt America adjourf ?d to-day, at noon, without teaching a settlement, and matters are in the lama shape as before the conference. The sailers agreed to waive their objections to the >on tinned employment of the new non-union men, but they demanded what is known as the Mingo scale for nailing and heating, and this the oannfacturers would not concede, declining to ay more than they now pay to the new men. They claim that they can fill out their mills at his scale, and after a ten minutes’ talk, declined go above it Opinions differ as to what relit will follow this failure to formally terminate he long existing nail strike. By some it is ilaimed that a number of nailers will resume their old places in the mills at an early day. The Billiard-Table Makers. Chicago, April 9. —The employes of the Brunswick Balke & Coilender Billiard Company, to jhe number of between four hundred and four inndred and fifty men, went ont on strike this morning. In addition to their demands for an Increase of wages and the change from piece irork to day-work, the men this morning made a proposition to discharge all non-union men. this demand was made when the men reached the factory, early this morning. The business manager did not know how many non-union were employed in the factory, and anyhow did lot intend to discarge them; thereupon the men' refused to go to work. Mr. Bensinger. a mem>er of the company, when interviewed on the liquation this morning, said: “I will not dissharge the non-union men. I would sooner shut iown the shop. I have twenty contracts on >and that must be completed before May 1, and ;hey amount to $50,000. I will write to my customers aud tell them that I cannot fulfill the contracts. I will pay them any damage they jtek, but I cannot concede the demands of the men.” Lateu. —The manager afterward said that Only one non-union man was in the company's Employ, and that he would be discharged. He then asked the employes to withdraw their debaand for an increase or 20 per cent, in the pay for day-work, and this is now under consideration. The manufactory conceded all the demands of Ihe men, both for an advance in wages and to iischarge the non-nnion men. “I have agreed |oeverything asked by the men,” said Mr. Benlinger; “they had me at disadvantage, and they knew it”

Labor Notes. The strike at McClure’s coal works, at Everlou, Pa., has ended satisfactorily to the miners. The firm granted all demands, and work was relumed yesterday. About 1,000 men were affected. The ooal minera of the Pittsburg district, who -ere receaNfcr pranted an advance from two and half to two and three-quarters cents per bushel r mininp, have notified their employers that y will not aecept the increase until May 1, hoq a general demand for the two andthreei al ters rate will be made. . TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Dr. Hale, the Washington, D. C., physician who was arrested at Pittsburg on Thursday on I charge of conspiracy to defraud his creditors, was unable to satisfy their claims, and in default of $2,000 bail was committed to jail for trial. At Flint, Mich., little Lula Wilson died, on JSunday, and her father was suspected of the prime.’ He has confessed, and the particulars were made public yesterday. The child’s mother maltreated her horribly, and the father poured creosote down the child’s throat, stating )hat he wanted to save it from further ill treatment. * In a quarrel at Sutterville, Pa., Thursday night, George Sheaffer struck Martin Suter, the pwner of a rival foundry, on the head with a niece of stone, crushing his skull, inflicting a Fatal wound. Sheaffer fled, but was captured by Constable Murphy after a chase of five miles. The affair grew out of a lawsuit, which was decided against Sheaffer. A Dead Body Robbed of Jewelry. Chicago, April 9.—The Daily News, this evenpublishes a startling article from dispatches received from Saudusky, 0., in connection with iho burning of the buffet car on the Lake Shore t Michigan Southern railway yesterday. The tide relates that, contrary to first reports that two corpses, which were being shipped East, were totally consumed, the bodies were in realCij only partly destroyed. The bodies were those f Mrs. Jennie Nettleton and her babe, la route from St Paul to Newport, Conn. Mr. Nettleton was aboard the train, and when pe made examination, he found that a diamond ting, worth several thousand dollars, which he sUced on his wife's finger before the body was ihipped. had disappeared. No trace of the ring had been found, and Mr. Nettleton offers SI,OOO Sward for its recovery, and is having the matr investigated. A suspicious feature is that r. Nettleton remained in ignorance of the catastrophe until the train reached Cleveland, where, pe declares, the train men told him the bodies bad been entirely consumed. Indiana Pinole In West Virginia, "orrsspondenee of the Indianapolis Journal Davis, W. Va., April B.—A big dr.ve has varly been completed by the J. L. Rumbarger ‘, -imber Company, on the Blackwater fork of t'e Cheat river. They hare all their logs well under way for this place, where they are to be {awed. There is 1,G00,000 feet of cherry alone n the drive, besides a large qnautity of ash and (pruce. It is said by an old Pennsylvania umberman that the above firm has the largest |tnd best lot of cherry ever collected together in the United States. The same firm also made a clean drive on the Potomac and have their dam pit Dobbin filled with logs. Snow has fallen tdnee Saturday and there is now twelve inches. Tub only cough medicine without opiates and *afe —Red Star Cough Gore.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Crimes of Elmer Evan Canse Him to Take His Life in a Prison Cell. A Disputed Township Election—Business Men Take Steps to Obtain Justice from Railways—A hew Thing in Elopements. INDIANA. A Detected Horse-Thief Ends His Career with a Dose of Corrosive Sublimate, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Marion, April 9.— Elmer Ryan, of this county, was arrested at Alexandria, Madison county, at 11 o'clock, yesterday, on the charge of stealing a horse. At 11 o’clock last night he died in the county jail at this place, from the effect of corrosive sublimate, administered by himself. Ryan was rendered desperate and tired of life by an unusual combination of disasters. Within a year he has been guilty of the offense of the seduction and ruin of Mrs. William Hits, his mother-in-law, who resides near Falrraounfc. When the proofs of their criminal intimacy could no longer be concealed, Ryan fled. Last Sunday he reappeared at Upland and hired a horse from E. H. Homer, for the alleged purpose of going to seo his children. He ran the horse off and sold it. and was overhauled at the time and place stated. He was almost certain of a term in the penitentiary, and, if he escaped that, he would probably have to face a suit brought by his betrayed relative. Deceased was about thirty years old, and leaves a widow, with two children.

Phi Gamma Delta. Bpeciel to the lndianarx>li Journal. Grekncastlk, April 9.— The State convention of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity has been in session at the local chapter hall to-day, C. B. Bullion, of Wabash College, in the chair. About thirty visiting members are present from tbe chapters at Hanover, Wabash and the State University. At the afternoon session the following papers were read: “What Will Promote the Highest Good of the Fraternity,” by A. R. Scott, of Lambda Chapter; “Combinations,” by C. B. !E!!is, of Zeta; “The Barb Question," by E. H. Woolcott, of Psi. After a disoussion of various fraternity topics, tho convention proceeded to an election of officers for the ensuing year. W. M. Nelson, of Lambda, was chosen president; J. F. Benham, of Zeta, treasurer, E. P. Bicknell, of Zeta, secretary; for vice-presidents, W. ,J. Greonwood, Psi; H. B. Hill, Tau; J. F. Benham, Zeta; J. F. Mail, Lambda, were elected. Tho convention then adjourned till 10:30 o’clock to-night, when a banquet was held at the Model restaurant. A Disputed Election. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Rochester, April 9.—The matter of the election of a trustee in Richland township is not yet settled. After the count was concluded it was found that the number of tickets exceeded the number of names on the poll-book by one, and it was then remembered by the judges that two tickets were found folded together, but no particular attention was givea to the fact at the time. The outside ticket of the two was a Democratic ballot, aud it is reasonable to conclude that the other was also. The result shows that the vote for trustee was a tie, that is—including the fraudulent votes, and unless the election i3 contested the present Democratic trustee will continue to hold the office during the ensuing two years, although it is plain that the Republican candidate was honestly elected. Killed by a Train. Bpcciel to tho Indianapolis Journal. Greensburg, April 9.—The east-bound train that passed here about 6 o'clock this morning, struck and instantly killed, about fonr miles east of here, a man supposed to be George Biddle. The trainmen knew nothing of the accident, bnt the body was discovered an hour and a half later by the crew of the next train down, and was brought here by the first train up. Biddle passed through here at noon yesterday, was given supper at McCoy’s Station, then camped beside the track all night, and probably started to Ripley county where he formerly lived.

Suicide by Hanging. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Elkhart, April 9. —An old gentleman, S. H. Kerreigeis, of Osola township, hangod himself last night. He was nearly sixty years old. The act is thought to have been caused by too much drink. Minor Notes. Dr. W. H. Curtiss, of Jeffersonville, and bride have gone to Seymour to reside. There has been quite an exodus at Jeffersonville of people afraid of high water. ,C. L. Hill, a painter, fell through a hatchway at Terre Haute, and fractured his skull. Mrs. Mary L. Smith, long a well known resident of New Albany, has died, aged seventy-one. The Indiana Conference of the United Brethren Church will be held at Newmarket, Clark county, Aug. 18. Clarence, tho eleven-year-old son of C. H. Kelly, of Jeffersonville, is missing—supposed to have run away with the gypsies. On Tuesday the Terre Haute distillery shipped 150 barrels of highwines to Havre, France. This will probably return in the form of French wines and liquors. Edward Bean, of Chicago, the attorney who was tried in the Clark Circuit Court for trespassing on the land of James Cole, and acquitted by the jury, says he intends to bring suit ic the United States court for damages against Cole. The Kentucky and Indiana Bridge Company has filed a suit in the Floyd Circuit Court against John K. Graham et al. and E. R. Day, bondsman, for $25,000 damages alleged to have been sustained in consequence of delay In the work and annoyance from injunction proceedings. * The authorities of Scott county are investigating the stories told by Munden, who alleges that James C. Burchell told him while in jail that ho killed Broady, near Scottsbure, a few months ago. Marshal Gray, of Scottsburg, who paid Burchell a visit, thinks he is one of the men who stole a horse and boggy at that place shortly after the Broady murder. ILLINOIS. Danville Business Meu Take Steps to Secure Fair Rates from Railways, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Danville, April 9.— A meeting of the business men and shippers of this city was held at the county court room, last night, to take initiatory steps towards breaking the freight pool maintained by the roads centering here. Remarks made by several leading shippers showed that this city is discriminated against to a very marked degree in the matter of freights. Individual instances were recited, showing that untii the rates are changed Beveral lines of business cannot be conducted here in competition with Haute and other points. The meeting finally appointed a committee of five to prepare and present to business men, for their signatures, an agreement binding them to abide any action of the committee, even to the extent of agreeing to ship all freight in or out of Danville over such line or liues as would make satisfactory rates, the agreement to be in force for a period of twelve months. The agreement was largely signed last night, and nearly every business man who was not present then will probably sign it to-day. The business men are in earnest about breaking the pool. Those evidently interested in behAlf of the railroads concerned received very plain intimutions that the meeting of last night was not for them, and that their help was not wanted in its management New Thing in Elopements. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Marshall, April 9.— Quite a novelty in the •iepeoMßt line is reported from Wabash town

ship. It occurred last week, bnt tbe parties endeavored to keep it a secret, so that the facts have just become known. On Friday night Ross Collier and a Miss Wright, who bad been engaged lovers for some time, but who feared the disapproval of the young lady’s father, determined to go to Terre Haute and there be wedded. They got safely started, but by some mean’s the girl’s father dis covered his daughter’s absence soon after her departure. He mounted his horse, took his rifle, and on overtaking the couple sternly ordered them to return to his house. On arriving there, instead of tearing them rudely apart and locking his refractory daughter op, he sent for a minister and a marriage license, and had them united. Fishermen Drawu Under a Dam. Kankakee, April 9. —Edward Roll, of Fort Worth, Tex., N. C. Cauft, of Lima, 0., and John R. Bruffs, of Lafayette, Ind., guests of the Cincinnati Fishing Club, while fishing at Waldron, 111., to-day, were drawn under a dam. Their skiff was broken to pieces, and Roll had a leg broken. All were seriously injured internally.

Brief Mention. John Grill, sr., of Monroe, was killed by the cars at Elgin on Thursday. Thomas Hayden, a quarryman at Joliet, shot himself in a fit of despondency and died. Jonas Larash, for thirty-five years a resident of Tazewell county, has died at the age of seventyfour. At Carmi, Watchman Kelley was clubbed so that he will probably die by a man named Boilentine. The Dnquoin Coal-mining Company have shut down their works indefinitely or until the strike is ended. Dora, daughter of Rev. J. R. Reasoner, of Cerro Gordo, left her home on Tuesday, and is still missing. The station and postoffice at Rileyville, on the Cairo Short-line, were destroyed by fire. The railroad company loses SI,OOO. The residence of P. V. Scully, at Joliet, burned. Loss, $5,000; insured in the New Hampshire for $1,400 and in the Rockford for $2 000 John J. Crill, a wealthy stockman of Monroe, fell from a train at Elgin on Thursday morning, and was crushed to death by the wheels. In a row at luka John Webb struck Silas Ray over the head with a beer glass. Ray then beat Webb over the head with a shovel, crushing his skull. For illegal sales of liquors William Krabbe, jr., and John miller.*saloou-keeners at Ogden, have been sent to jail for one hundred days and Miller to pay a fine of SBIO. A man, supposed to be John Nutzel, of Caseyville, an escaped inmate of the Aona Insane Asylum, threw himself in front of an engine near Carbondale and was instantly killed. In the Champaign County Circuit Court at Urbana George Fisher, of White Heath, who owns $20,000 worth of land in Pratt county, was sentenced to two days in jail and to pay $5 fine for stealing a hulking-peg. Willie Rippey, a boy at Waukegan, while hunting, was shot by the accidental discharge of his gun, the charge carrying away almost the whole of the muscle of his right arm below his shoulder. He will probably lose his arm. Mary Tbornton, aged fifty-six, was killed by falling from a wagon in Limestone. She was a farmer’s wife. John Thornton, her husband, is at Joliet, serving a three years’s term for shooting a neighbor named Allen in a dispute over a line fence. The Illinois Conference of the Evangelical Association opened its forty-second conference ar Freeport on Thursday, Bishop Dube, of Cleveland, presiding. It was decided to divide the conference into six presiding elder districts, and to hold the next session at Peoria Tbe resignation of Col. John Warner, recently appointed postmaster at Peoria, has caused a sensation in that city. It is said that Senator Logan’s opposition to Warner led to his retirement, and that Mr. Reynolds, tbe present deputy, and Colonel Dowdall, editor of the National Democrat, are leading candidates for the position.

THE DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. War Department, ) Office or the Chief Signal Officer, v Washington, April 10, la. m. ) Special Indications for Twenty-four Hours, from 7 a. m., for Indianapolis and Vicinity— Fair, slightly cooler weather. For the Ohio Valley and Tennessee—-Fair weather in the eastern portion, local rains in the western portion, winds generally southeasterly, nearly stationary temperature. For the Lower Lake Region—Fair weather, slightly warmer; southerly, shifting to cooler easterly winds. For the Upper Lake Region—Local rains, winds generally shifting to slightly cooler northeasterly. For the Upper Mississippi Valley—Light local rains, winds generally shifting to slightly cooler easterly. For the Missouri Valley—Light local rains, generally followed by fair weather, slowly rising temperature In the northern portion, slightly cooler in the southern portion, winds generally variable.

Local Observations. Indianapolis, April 9. Time. Bar. Ther. Hum. Wind. Weather Rain. 6A. M.. 30.25 40.0 70 S’east Clear lOa. m■. 30.26 55.0 44 S’ east Fair. 2p. M.. 30.17 63.0 |29 S’eaat Cloudy 6 p.m.. 30.13 60.0 41 S’east Cloudy 10 P. M-. 130.13 54.0 49 East Cloudy Maximum temperature, 64.0; minimum tempera ture, 38.0. General Observations. Was Dpartmwnt, 1 Washington, April 9.10 p. m. J Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. ' j? p I §3 * trS. I STATIONS. | g - §?. W IS : S' ? | 3 : : 8 : New York Ciiw 30.21 54 West Clear. Washington City... 30.28 61 South Clear. Vicksburg, Miss.... 30.07 65 South Cloudy. New Orleans. La— 30.10 61 S’east Clear. Shreveport. La 80.01 62 Seast Lt. rain. Fort Smith, Ark... 29.92 54 S’east .32 Cloudy. Little Rock. Ark... 30.00 56 South .49,Lt. rain. Galveston, Tex 29.98 64 S’east .10 ( loudy. Memphis, Tenn.... 30.05 65 S’east Fair. Nashville. Tenn 30.12 61 S’east .01 Clear. Louisville. Ky 30.16 60 East Clear. Indianapolis. Ind... 30.14 56 S’east Fair. Cincinnati, .0 30.18 58 East Fair. Pittsburg, Pa 30.21 54 1 North ..... Hazy. Oswego, N. Y 30.18 4 r 'Swest ..... Hazy. Toledo, O 30.20 46!S’east Fair. Eseanaba, Mich 30.16 AO NTeast ... . Cloudy. Marquette, Mich... 30.20 34'Nwest Cloudy. Chicago, 111 30.12 57 S’east Cloudy. Milwaukee, Wis.... 30.12 44|S'east Cloudy. Duluth, Minn 30.39 35 N'east .01 Lt. rain. St. Paul. Minn 30.06 52 N’east Thret’ng LaCrosse. Wis 80.04 48.S'east Fair. Davenport, la 30.08 56! East Cloudy. Des Moines, la. 29.96 588‘east .08 Cloudy. Keokuk. la 29.98 50|S’east Cloudy. Cairo, 111 30.06 62:East Cloudy. Springfield. 30.02 57 South ... Cloudy. St. Louis, M.o 30.03 62 South Cloudy. Lamar. Mo 29.89 54 S’east Fair. Leavenworth, Kan.. 29.89 57 S’east Cloudy. Omaha, Neb 29.93 56 East loudy. Yankton. Dak ..... 30.01 49 Calm .01 Fair. Mooreheod, Minn.. 30.12 47 : N'east Cloudy. Bismarck, Dak 30.231 41iX'east Clear. Fort Buford. Dak.. 30.21 461 N'east Clear. Ft.Assiniboine.M.T 30.03 57jEast Clear. FortOustor, Mont.. 30.04 53 S’east Clear. Dead wood, Dak.... 30.14 40! Calm Clear. North Platte, Neb.. 30 01 43!North Cloudy. Denver, Col 30.051 481 North Clear. W. Las Animas. Col 30.00 49;N'east Fair. Dodge City,Kan.... 29.90 48'Nwest Clear. Fort Elliott. Tex... 29.92 55 Nwest Clear. Fort Sill. Ind. Ter.. 29.84 65 Nwost Clear. Fort Stockton, Tex. 29.93 63 S’east Clear. El Paso. Tex 29.90 64 West Clear. Salt Lake City. y J. T 29.92 53 N’east Clear. The value of thought cannot be told. Just so with thebest of everything. Take Dr. Bigelow's Positive Cure for all throat and lung troubles, if you appreciate a speedy and thorough cure. Pleasant to take. 50 cents end $L

THE FIELD OF LITERATURE. The Week’s Publications. There are no particularly noteworthy books among the week’s output. W. A. Croffut, tbe well-known journalist and New York correspondent, has written a history of the Vanderbilt family, developing its origin and giving an account of the personal characteristics of its members. This is published in neat form by Belford, Clarke & Cos., Chicago and New York, and is a valuable addition to current biographies. It is illustrated with several portraits, of the Old Commodore, tho founder of the millionaire family; his mother, W. HL, W. K., Cornelius, jr., and others, and views of the residences occupied by them. Captain DeWitt Wallace, of Lafayette, contributes to the fund of fiction in “Love’s Ladder,” a notice of which is subjoined.

“Love’s Ladder.** “Love’s Ladder" is the taking title of a novel by W. DeWitt Wallace, of Lafayette. He is not unknown in literary circles, but this is his first venture in the field of fiction. That it will not be his last is assured by the merits of this production. It has many points which will commend it to the reading public. For one, it fills the full measure of the legitimate novel. The great mass of stuff, Frenchy and otherwise, now flooding the country, is made up of improbabilities so utterly improbable as to amount to mere meretricious travesties and ill conditioned caricatures. This may be sensational and palatable to certain distorted tastes, but it is not good literature. On the other hand, a simple recital of ordinary events, without the illuminating presence of the imagination, is no more a work of fiction than a market or police court report. Between these two is the birth-place of the novel, and the anthor has certainly struck the golden mean. The occurrences detailed are those of every-day life, bnt the relations they are made to sustain to each other develop plots of intensest interest The characters are not merely photographs of individuals who have falleu under the

author’s observation. They are the creations of his genius. He has pursued the synthetic method, taking certain traits, passions, prejudices and impulses. With a wonderful knowledge of and insight into the complexities of human nature, he has endowed their various combinations with an individuality so well defined and clearly pronounced that the reader is impressed as if he were in the presence of living realitiea The identity of each is thor oughly sustained throughout, and their conduct, as portrayed by the author’s pen, arouses in the reader all the emotions which such conduct in actual life would call forth. Each one, as page after page is conned, will find his likes and dislikes. Admiration, sympathy, indignation, pity, contempt, mirth, hope, fear will all be excited, and the interest will not flag a moment from the beginning to the end. It is a story with a double plot, admirably conceived, skillfully executed and alive with motion. From remote and distant starting points the two lines approach a common denouement, and so artistically arranged and woven together are the events that they present as perfect and complete a whole as the fabric of warp and woof thrown from the weavers’ loom.

It is a wholesome book, not of the goody-goody kind, but hearty and vigorous in rebuke of cant and bigotry, and condemnation of malicious gossip, social caste and the too-common spirit of fashionable church exclusiveness. There is no flippancy in dealing with the things which men hold sacred, yet there is a fearless independence which challenges admiration, and which is foreshadowed in the motto from Plato on the titlepage, “* * * But a man is not to be reverenced before the truth, and therefore I will speak out" It .is a book which furnishes digestible and nutritious food for the mind, the consumption of which will be followed by no mental nausea or dyspepsia. There are men and women who will not like it, because they will recognize in some of the creations which live and raovo in its pages, resemblances to objectionable parts of themselves. Let them read, and road the more carefully; it yrill do them good. It is charming in style, in diction chaste, and pure in thought,with its grave reflections relieved by coursing veins of appreciable humor. The story is told with the attractive directness of simplicity. There is not a stilted or florid sentence in it. There is no straining after effect, which so often blurs otherwise meritorious works with artificiality. The situations are strong, interesting and exoiting; many of them almost painfully pathetic. It has"evidently been a labor of love. The author’s heart was in his work, and the result is a book worthy the time of the busiest, the attention of the most intellectual, and the approval of every one who conceives an ideal higher and better than the real of to-day. It is not necessary to quote passages, recall scenes or analyze characters to give an appetizing foretaste of its flavor. One who begins it wiil go through every sentence. _ b. k. h. Books Received. Evolution Or To-day. A Summary of the Theory of Evolution as Held by Scientists at the Present Time. By H. W. Conn, Ph. D. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York; The Bower.Merrill Company, Indianapolis. Price, $1.75.

Lorenz Alma Tadema. His Life and Works, by George Ebers. With thirteen illustrations. Wiliiam S. Gottsberger, New York; The Bowen Merrill Company, Indianapolis. Paper; 40 cents. Reason and Revelation Hand in Hand. By Rev. Thomas Martin McWhinney. D. D. Fords, Howard & Hnloert, New York; The Bowen-Mernli Company, Indianapolis. Price. $1.50. Haphazard Personalties. Chiefly of Noted Americans. By Charles Lanman. Lee & Shepard, Boston; The Bowen-Merrill Company, Indianapolis. Price, $1.50. Young People’s History of England. By George Makepeace Towle. Lee & Shepard, Boston; The Bowen-Merrill Company. Indianapolis. Price, $1.50. Love’s Martyr. By Laurence Alma Tadema. D. Appleton & Cos., New York; The BowenMerrill Company, Indianapolis. Paper; 25 cents. Hints on Language. By S. Arthur Bent, A. M. Lee & Shepard, Boston; The Bowen-Mer-rill Company, Indianapolis. Price, 50 cents. Mrs. Peixada. By Sidney Luska. Cassell & Cos , New York: The Bowen-Merrill Company, Indianapolis. Price, si. Etchings in Verse. By Andrew P. Underhill. Brentano Brothers, New York and Washington. Fast and Loose. By Arthur Griffiths. Rand McNally & Cos., Chicago. Paper; 35 cents. Or. P. Putnam’s Sons have published, in paper covers, “The Physics and Metaphysics of Money," by Rodmond Gibbons. No. 9 of Cassell’s National Library is out —“The Castle of Otranto." by Horace Walpole. The Journal is in receipt of a pamphlet, illustrated, showing the idea of “the tower and shield system of coast defense,” by Theodore R. Limby,

A. M., S. D.. of Washington. It is a very ingenious and apparently practicable method, with some modifications. J. a Ogilvie & Cos., New York, have published in their People’s Library series Robert P. Porter’s “Free Trade Folly.” For soma reason, perhaps because the Easter idea gives a greater scope to the artistic sentiment, the designs of Easter cards are of greater variety, and, on the whole, more satisfactory than those for Christmas or other anniversaries. Prang’s Easter cards this year are even more strikingly appropriate to the season than heretofore. Birds, flowers, children and angels are used in endless variety and happy combination to carry out the resurrection thought. Among the artists who have contributed to this series are W. Hamilton Gibson, Fidelia Bridges, F. S. Matthews, Walter Satterlee, and Miss L. B. Humphrey, names which of themselves guarantee first-class work. The printing and mounting of these designs are excellent, and the accompanying literary selections of the best. Current Magazines. April’s Century contains a graphic sketch of the career of the confederate cruiser “the Alabama,” closing with its fight with and sinking by the “Kearsarge." It is splendidly illustrated, and is one of the most engaging war papers yet published. A fine portrait of Henry W. Longfellow at his prime serves as the frontispiece of this number, which is accompanied by a sketch of incidents in his social life, by Annie Fields. The number, as a whole, is a marvel of artistic and literary worth. The Art Interchange of March 13 furnishes an excellent study In brown ink of a donkey’s head. Some stencil pattern sheets are also given as a new and acceptable feature. The colored plate in the Interchange of March 27 is a pretty landscape by J. Francis Murphy. The practical information supplied to the amateur artist by this periodical is invaluable. Published by William Whitlock, 37 West Twenty-second street, New York. Among the contents of the April North American Review are: “Gambetta’s Electoral Tour,” by Madam Adam; “Sherman and McPherson," by General Grant; “National Aid to Common Schools,” by Senator Ingalls, and “More About American Landlordism,” by Henry George. Outing for April (140 Nassau street, New York), is a number that will please its old friends and win new ones. Few magazines have made the progress of the Outing. It now stands easily at the head of all magazines of recreation. Babyhood (5 Beekman street, New York), contains, as usual, a fund of valuable hints and directions for the care and comfort of children.

MAGAZINES RECEIVED. The Overland Monthly, San Franeisco. The Art Age, 75 Fulton street, New York. Magazine of American History, 30 Lafayette Place, New York The Electrical Engineer, 115 Nassau street, New York. The Caterer, 1013 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. Scandinavia, Times Building, Chicago. The American Lancet, Detroit Literary Notes. There are now 208,006 volumes in the New York Mercantile Library. Gen. Lew Wallace has laid the scene of his new novel in Northern Africa. Mr. W. D. Howells will write the life of Longfellow for the American Men of Letters series. Mr. Martin F. Tapper’s memoirs are to be published in London this spring, with the title, “My Life as an Author.” Anew novel by Octave Feuillet, entitled “La Morte,” has been translated by Mr. J. EL Hager for early publication by Appleton & Cos. The addresses delivered by Mr. Lowell in Great Britain have been collected in a volume which will soon be published by Houghtou, Mifflin & Cos. Robert Grant’s new story, “A Romantic Youne Lady," and Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote’s novel, “John Bode win’s Testimony," will shortly be issued by Ticknor & Cos. A novel by Lieutenant Kelley, of the navy, called “A Desperate Chance,” is in the press of Charles Scribner’s Sons, who also announce a cheaper edition of Mr. Astor’s “Valentino.” Marion Crawford’s eiehth novel “Prince Sarracinesca,” will he begun in an early number of Blackwood’s. It deals with the story of a princely Roman family during the last twenty years The Philadelphia Ledger celebrated its fiftieth birthday on Thursday of last week. One of the three printers who founded it—Mr. A. S. Abell, proprietor of the Baltimore Sun—is still living. The newspapers have given a wrong title to Mr. H. C. Bunner’s new novel. The correct name is “The End of the Story,” and the book will be published this month Dy the Messrs. Scribner. “Thackeray as an Artist” is the title of a little volume which James Schonberg has prepared and W. E. Benjamin will publish. It will contain seven drawings and four humorous verses, not one of which, it is said, has ever been published before. The originals of some of these drawings are in color, and Mr. Beujamin may reproduce one of them in color as a frontispiece. The “Student’s Kent,” au abridgement of Chauceilor Kent's “Commentaries on American Law,” published by Houghton, Mifflin & Cos., is edited by Eben Francis Thompson, with an introduction by the Hon. T. L. Nelson, of the United States District Court It aims to give the Commentaries in a concise form adapted for the student of to-day.

NORTH INDIANA M. E. CONFERENCE. Anniversary of the Missionary Society—Reports of Presiding Elders —Presentations. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Warsaw, April 9. —The anniversary of the Conference Missionary Society was held last night. Rev. F. A. Hardin, of Chicago, and R. M. Barns, D. D., of Richmond, this State, delivered stirring addresses. The treasurer’s report showed an increase in the conference mis sionary collection of more than SI,BOO above last year. T. Stabler, of Muncie, conducted the devotional exercises this morning. After some miscellaneous business. R. D. Robinson, D. D., presiding elder of Muncie district, made his report, which abounded in humor while giving a faithful exhibit of the advancement of the work throughout the district The missionary collections were greatly advanced over last year, and extensive pastoral work was done. Great revivals were reported in many charges with about 2,:>00 conversions; excellent general progress. The characters of all the effective elders of the district were passed and they reported their collections for mission and conference claimants. Bishop Harris, in the name of the preachers of the district, and on behalf of the ladies of the church at Montpelier, respectively, presented Dr. Robinson an elegant upholstered rockingchair and an autograph quilt, and the Doctor made a very happy response. The Preachers’ Aid Society elected its old board of officers to serve the coming year, and •iSr tranßact ed its special business. \\ arsaw district was called and Rev. W. J. h* B final report as presiding elder. The additions to tbs church membership of the district are 1,153. There has been an excellent increase of ministerial support, conference c.airaants, missions, and most of the benevolent collections. The amount of money raised for all purposes was $31,551. Mr. Vigus closed with a brief summary of personal features of his four years’ work in the district Nothing appearing against any of the effective elders of the district. their characters were passed and their collections reported. Bishop Harris, for the preachers of the district, presented Mr. Vigus a fine gold watch. Rev. £. C. Murray, of the Gammon School of

Theology, Atlanta, Ga., made some remarks JI 1 lei ting contributions of books for their Hbrais*l Several visiting brethren of the Methodist asAl sister denominations were introduced. The Fort Wayne district was called, and n 1 W. Lynch, presiding elder, reported the 1 tion of the work within its bounds. SevwSl churches have been built, or are in pro('*,v2jl erection, and there has been paid for bmldi* 1 and improving $3,000. There are 1,257 tioners, and 5,100 full members of the church papers taken, 404. The missionary some other benevolent collections were h creased. Fort Wayne College, situated in thsi* district, draws heavily for its support from theb district. The same action touching the effect!** elders was taken as in the other districts. ** F. 8. Simpson, presiding older, reports Goshen district. Has four ex-presiding elde now pastors m the district. Through a much needed revision of the church records the meal bership of the church in many charge* whea pood in-gatherings have occurred has been bat slightly increased. There have been very exteo, sivo improvements in the condition and vain* church property. More than 7,000 pastoral vi*. its were nmde. The benevolences have ben materially advanced. Exclusive of support, $21,309 have been raised for the work The characters of effective elders were passed! and M H. Mott was granted a supernumerary relation. J. E. Ervin, presiding elder, reported the Kokomo district. Mrs. Woodworth, the trance evangelist, has been the source of some disturbance in a tew charges, but no great damage to the work has resulted. Kokomo district keep* pace with those before reported in the line of progress indicated. The characters of the effective elders were passed. This afternoon the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society held its anniversary, and was addressed by Dr. R. M. Barns. This was followed by the anniversary of the Woman's Home Ml*, sionary Society. Mrs. Lucy Rider Meyer, of th* Chicago Training School for Women, delivered* most earnest and impressive address on the pressing necessity of maintaining the home society. The need of helping in Utah, in th* South and in the cities was clearly presented.

LAREDO’S DEADLY RIOT. Six Men Killed and Four Mortally WonndedRioters Dispersed by United States Troops, Larbdo, Tex., April 9.— Two of the meg wounded in yesterday’s political conflict died today. The returns now show five Bota partisans killed and ten wounded. There were five funerals to-day. Business is practically suspended The Belknap Rifles, State troops, are expected to arrive by special train to-night The following petition, signed by many citizens, was telegraphed to Governor Ireland this morning: “We understand that State troops are on their way here to preserve the peace. We most earnestly protest against the State troops being placed under the control or direction of the authorities of Laredo or Webb county, and mor* especially that the sheriff have no control over them.” City Marshal Bayard gives the following stat* ment as to the cause of yesterday’s outbreak “The Botas imported men from Mexico and de seated our ticket, so they undertook to insult os by burying our party in effigy. The boys would not have it that way, and we could not restrain them when they saw the Botas. headed by the city and county officials, carrying Winchesters and marching to the plaza to burv the Huarchea. Although outnumbering them four to one, th* Huarches gave the Botas a good thrashing. Bayard was a candidate ter re-election. He has made a good record as an officer, and his friends wrll contest the election.” Colonel Barnard gave the following statement “I expected the trouble, and did not wait to be requested by either party, but marched ray men down double-quick on hearing the first shots. I knew that Shesiff Sanchez was a leader of the Bota party, and that City Marshal Bayard was a Huarche leader. Therefore there was no legal authority to protect the peaceable men and women when the conflict commenced. I acted wholly on my own responsibility, and in the interest of humanity. There is no statute law that authorizes my actiou. The emergency did not admit of delay, so I determined to act and get authority from the War Department. I never eaw two n&rties better prepared than were the combatants when they saw our boys file in between them. If necessary, I could , however, justify my action by saying that I moved against invaders from Mexico, as I have knowledge of numbers of men coming over from New Laredo, Mexico, carrying arms in skiffs. Thirty-two carbines, banded over to me last night, are such as I never saw anywhere except in the Mexican civil service. I shall keep a detachment of troops on guard at the postoffice, custoin-house and National Bank until the Slate forces arrive.” Colonel Barnard’s action is highly commended by all parties. To-day it Ns admitted the battle would have been kept np all night and hundreds killed had not he acted promptly. The Colonel led the forces. As he crossed Main street, the bullets were flying thick and fast, but he turned neither to the right nor left, but marched his men to the piuzza, and, swinging his sword, commanded the combatants to retire. Sheriff Sanchez immediately handed over his arms and called off the Botas. Lieutenant Thurston’s action during the excitement was daring in the extreme The situation to-night is one of quietness, but the trouble is not over. At daylight yesterday morning the federal troops withdrew from the city, no disturbance whatever having occurred during the night By 8 a. m. the city had apparently assumed its usual business aspect, and the day passed quietly. Since the dispersion of the rioters on Wednesday evening by the United States troops not an armed citizen had been seen on the streets. A bitter feeling, however, exists between the two political parties, and the least overt act would fan it into a flame. Following is a complete list of the killed: Estrevan Hernandez, Librado Guerra, Ricardo Gonzales, Roman lioderiguez, Mexicans, and 0. Burdette and Gregorio Sanchez, Americana Twelve wounded men were found yesterday, at least four of whom are thought to be mortally injured. A Nuevo Laredo, Mex., special says: “This city is greatly interested in the outcome of the Laredo, Tex., election troubles, inasmuch as iti* understood that should the Huarche faction come iuto power, they would at once take steps to form a connection with this city by building a bridge over the Rio Gramle river for wagons and street cars. The Bota party is opposed to such improvements. They have been in power several years aud have ruled the county uml city with a firm hand. Until they are ousted, the bridge and street cars will be things of the future. A prominent Mexican government officer calls attention to the fact that the Laredo affray was really a more serious matter than the recent Mexican revolution at Monterey, which was mace so much of by the United State* press.” Many people's remarks are irrelevant, but if you’ve got a pain or ache or a bruise, Salvation Oil will reach the subject instantly. Price 25 cents.

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