Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 April 1886 — Page 1

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WHEN INDICATIONS. Monday. —Light rains , followed by fair y slightly warmer weather . IN THE CHURCHES, Episcopal and Lutheran, the rite of confirmation is delayed from thirteen to eighteen years after infant baptism, and is made the occasion of the renewal of vows. It is a requirement for communion, but in the XXXIX articles is not heid as a sacrament. In the Roman Catholic Church it is held as one of the seven sacraments, and on its administration unction and the sign of the cross are used. “Cleanliness is next to godliness,* and the moral effect of fresh, new Clothes is a conceded agency for good works. Specially applicable to this we have CONFIRMATION SUITS As low in price as $6 and as high as sls, and at the 'tween rates. All concerned are respectfully invited to look at these goods at the WHEN THE MODEL Still offers the balance of those serge-lined RUBBER COATS Formerly sold at $3, for $1.65 Balance of several lines of Silk Umbrellas will be closed out at $1.48. * MODEL DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. War Department, ) . Office of the Chief Signal Officer, > Washington, April 12, la. m. ) Special Indications for Twenty-four Hours, from 7 am., for Indianapolis and VicinityLight rains, followed by fair, slightly warmer weather. , For the Ohio Valley and Tennessee—Local rains, followed by fair weather, and again followed in Tennessee by local rains, winds generally southerly, slight changes in temperature. For the Lower Lake Region—Local rains, slightly warmer winds, generally southerly. For the Upper Lake Region—Local rains, followed by fair, warmer weather; winds generally southeasterly. * For the Upper MississippValley—Fair, warmer weather, followed by local rains; winds generally Shifting to southerly. For the Missouri Valley—lcreasing cloudiness, and in the southern portion, local rains; winds generally warmer, southerly. Local Observations. Indianapolis, April 11. Time. 1 Bar. Ther. Hum. Wind. Weather Rain. OA. M.. 30.07 55.0 69 S’eaatiCloudy 10 a m.. 30.07 54.0 88 S’east Lt. rain 2P. M.. 30.01 57.0 82 S’eastjLt rain. 0.12 6 P.M.. 29.99 57.0 84 South;Lt. rain 10 P. M.. 30.00 55.0 96 S’eastiThr’t’ng. 0.30 Maximum temperature, 58.0; minimum temperature, 53.0. General Observations. War Department, \ Washington, April 11,10 p. m. 5 Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. - - - ~ 3 Sf ®2. g § 3 8. crS, & STATIONS. So i § & ® ® B • a S’ : • ST . • g • New York City 30.55 40 S’east Cloudy. Washington Citv... 30.43 46:East (Cloudy. Vicksburg, Miss’— 29.99 60 North Fair. New Orleans, La... 30.07 63:East {Cloudy. Shreveport, La. 29.95 70;South (Fair. Fort Smith, Ark... 29.93 60|S’east iClear. Little Rock. Ark... 29.91 66:South .Clear. • Galveston, Tex 29.98 63jS’east .*...,iCloudv. Memphis, Tenn —. 30.01 62 S’oast 'Clear. Neshville, Tenn.... 30.04 60’South .14,Cloudy. Louisville. Ky 30.05 56 S’east .77 Lt. rain. Indianapolis, Ind... 30.01 55 South .30|Thret’ng Cincinnati, 0....... 30.08 55; S’east .15 Lt. rain. Pittsburg. Pa 30.24 56 S'easl Lt. rain. Oswego, N. Y 30.35 46 South Cloudy. Toledo, 0 30.13 39 East Lt. rain. Eseanaba, Mich.... 30.17 34 N’east Cloudy. Marquette, Mich... 30.16 35 S’east .07 Lt. rain. Chicago, 11L... 29.99 47 East .13|Foggy. Milwaukee. Wis.... 30.06 37 North .06 Lt. rain. Duluth, Minn 30.12 33 N’east ..... Fair. St. Paul, Minn 30.04 43 East Thret’ng LaCrosee. Wis 30.04 44 S’east Cloudy. Davenport, la 29.99 47 N’east {Cloudy. Des Moines, la. 30.02 52 Calm ! loudy. Keokuk, la 29.98 50 North ! Cloudy. Cairo, 111 29.99 60 South (Cloudy. Springfield. 11l 29.95 57 Nwest jThrtst’ng Bt. Louis, M 0...... 30.00 60 West Fair. Lamar. Mo ...30.00 52 East (Clear. Leavenworth, Kan.. 30.02 53 North iClear. Omaha. Neb 30.00 51 S’east (Clear. Yankton, Dak...... 29.96 50 S’east Clear. Moore head, Minn.. 29.92 48:South Clear, Bismarck, Dak 29.76 59,S’east Clear. Fort Buford. Dak.. 29.63 62)N’east Clear. Ft.Assiniboine,M. T|29.63 63,South jClondy. Fort Custer. Mont. - 29.55 63!S’east {Fair. Deadwood, Dak.... 29.78 53 Calm | Clear. North Platte, Neb.. 29.83 56,S’east Fair. Denver, Col 29.67 571 North Fair. W. Las Animas. Col 29.77 55 South .Cloudy. Dodge City, Kan.... 29.85 58;S'east .....(Cloudy. Fort Klliott. Tox... 29.90 56 Swest .13 Lt. rain. Fort Sill. Ind. Ter.. 29.87 66 East Fair. Fort Stockton, Tex. 29.84 64!S’east .01'lA rain. El Paso, Tex 29.68 65 .S’east j Clear. Salt Lake Oity. T J. T 29.45 (MjEast {Fair. “Ik all distresses of our friends, we first eonfult our private ends,” was the old atyle; now we Aon t eousult anybody, but invest twenty-five ec&U i& a bottle of Salvation OIL It kiUe pain!

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GLADSTONE AND HIS FOES. The Debate on the Home-Rule Bill To Be Resumed in the Commons To-Day. The Measure Strongly Denounced by Lord Wolseiey and Cardinal Manning-—Proba-bility that the Bill Will Be Defeated. The Labor Situation in Prance Constantly Growing More Threatening. A Knife Duel in the Streets of Paris—Agitation in Bast India Looking to a Return of Native Supremacy—Notes by Cable. THE HOME-RULE BILL. The Debate To Be Besomed To-Day—Lord Wolseley Denounces the Measure. London, April IL—Charles Russell, Attorneygeneral, will reply to Lord Churchill in the Commons to-morrow. It is expected that Mossrs. Goschen, Childers, Cowen and Bright will follow. Delegates from the Workingmen’s Radical clubs of the West End, held a conference to-day and adopted resolutions denouncing Gladstone’s proposals. The East-end clubs are divided in opinion, and await the new land bill before taking action. If the land bill proposes a loan from the imperisl exchequer to buy out the Irish landlords, the Radicals of London will be unanimously in favor of defeating Gladstone. Lord Hartiogton, Lord Salisbury and Mr. Goschen will support resolutions in favor of unity of the empire at a patriotio meeting on Wednesday, at which Earl Cowper will preside. Negotiations for a coalition are making better progress, Lord Hartington accepting Mr. Goschen’s platform for a Whig-Conserative Ministry. Mr. Gladstone attended the performance of “Faust” at the Lyceum Theater, on Saturday, and was loudly cheered. The Liberals expect Mr. Gladstone to offer large amendments to his plan in committee as the only hope of passing it. If the bill is rejected on the secoud reading, Mr. Gladstone will retire. If the bill passes the second reading and is rejected later, he will appeal to the country. Lord Wolseley, in a speech last night, said: “The English empire has been built up and preserved through the valor and endurance of its soldiers and sailors, directed by able statesmen. Hitherto it has been their lot to defend the country against foreign foes, but now they are called upon by the people of England to do the duty of trampling under foot enemies more serious, because enemies within the civil boundaries.” He called upon the English nation to say, “Stand off,” to anyone, whoever he might be, who should dare try to break or dismember the empire, thereby ruthlessly destroying it. The speech was received with deafening cheers. Much excitement has been caused in Catholio circles by an article on Mr. Gladstone’s scheme in the Tablet. This well-known organ of Bishop Herbert Vaughan, of Salford, afhd Cardinal Manning, who, it is rumored during the last few days, is against the scheme of Mr. Gladstone, whom he heard throughout from the gallery of the House of Commons, says: “Mr. Gladstone has brought in a bold bill, and a bill that smells of secession. It was a strange sight surely of this old man pleading before the House, and pale with passion, that all the beliefs of his life were wrong. And calling upon the nation to divide its strength at its core. Now, at the end of his days, when his race is nearly run, this hero of a hundred fights is left in his loneliness and faced by the men he has made. But the change has been with him and not with them. Mr. Gladstone had never a word on Thursday night to justify, defend or excuse the course he has taken in suddenly flinging in his lot wit h those who worked so long nd so persistently to undo that union which a long line of English statesmen have held it the service of their lives to guard. Abandonment of a common Parliament for the three peoples is a needless and mischievous concession to that craving after national and visible separateness which makes half the peril of our difficulty with Ireland." Speculation as to the Future. What is the forecast of the coming crisis! “Perhaps," said Morley in his powerful speech yesterday, “if we Liberals fail to pass the bill you Conservatives will pass it” This is not by any means unlikely, according to my view, for from the moment Gladstone rose and announced to the Commons the principles of his scheme for home rule, the passage of a home rule bill became cer tain, and never will any political party offer Par liament a scheme of less extent. If the Liberals do not pass it the Conservatives will. The present scheme will probably not pass, but will get through the House of Commons, very likely, by a small majority, after a long delay and much putting about in the committees. The session will then be far advanced and the Lords will, of course, throw out the measure. Probably Mr. Gladstone will not dissolve under such conditions, but will let his enemies do the best they can. His enemies will try to form a coalition Ministry and will fail. “One thing I know,” Disraeli said in a great speech on a memorable night, many years ago, “England does not love coalition Ministries.” By that time the Tories will be educated up to homo rule, and will bring in a comprehensive measure which the Radicals will support, some willingly, some grudgingly. Not unlikely the provisions of a home rule scheme may be finally expounded to the House of Commons by Lord Randolph Churchill, then returned to his first love in politics. This Is exactly what happened with the reform bill in 1867. Gladstone strove to pass a reform bill in 1866, and failed because of a combination of Tories and Aduliamites against him. The Tories *came into office under Derby and Disraeli, and at once brought in a more advanced and liberal reform bill, which was carried. Chamberlain was, very likely, making the fortune of the Tories who cheered him the other night, and in their hearts despise and detest him. Ireland in the end—it is all the same to Ireland—would wish, and all Irishmen everywhere would wish, that the glory of carryiug home rule should be reserved for the great English Minister who first had the courage, justice and generosity to propose it. But Gladstone is a very old man, aud cannot hope to make much more of a struggle. Practically he has carried home rule already, for he has made it impossible for any political party to hold office and neglect it _ Words of Cheer aud Admiration* New York, April IL-— I The Woman Suffrage party has sent the following to Gladstone: “The Woman Suffrage party of New York admire and applaud your glorious stand for justice, freedom and peaoe in Ireland. Soon or late you will tttOQtea. Be sore, it ike earliest moment,

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to secure those blessings of liberty and selfgovernment, also, to the women of the three kingdoms." AFFAIRS IN FRANCE. The Labor Troubles Growing More Serious— A Knife Duel in the Streets of Paris. Paris, April 10.—The situation in France is daily becoming more serious. It is alleged that General Boulanger, Minister of War, is playing a double game, and the assertion is apparently justifiable. It is charged that at the very moment he was speaking in the Chamber of Deputies about the sympathy of the soldiers with the strikers at Decazeville, and instancing their friendly feeling by relating that the soldiers were dividing their rations with the workmen, his orders to send a fresh supply of troops to Decazeville were being executedL Open charges of duplicity and falsehood against General Boulanger are to be heard on every side, and the number of his apologists is decreasing rapidly. Four Socialist members of the Chamber of Deputies are at Decazeville, encouraging the strikers to hoid out, and their presence there makes the recent arrest of reporters for Socialist newspapers for alleged encouragement of disorder ridiculous. Crime is still rampant in the streets of Paris. Yesterday promenaders in a Rue Clienan court witnessed a novel sight—a duel with knives between two liberated convicts. The motive of the quarrel was a woman who had transferred her affections from one of the men to the other. Five hundred eager spectators soon formed a ring around a savage encounter, which lasted nearly fifteen minutes. Both parties were wounded—one having his ear sliced off, the other being cut in the eheek, breast and leg. The oombatants continued to crouch like cats, making sudden springs at each other, until finally one of them fell bleeding to the ground, but a policeman then appearing in sight he found sufficient strength to jump into a cab with his adversary. The policeman in trying to stop the cab was knocked down and run over, and had his leg fractured. Many Parisians regarded this as au improvement upon the recent prize fight at the Maison Lafitte between Smith and Greenfield. AN EAST INDIAN SCARE. An Agitation Among Brahmins Looking to a Return of Native Supremacy. London, April 10.—The Army and Navy Gazette has published an article which causes quite a sensation. It states that advices from India indicate uneasiness among the European officials stationed in that country. Owing to the .existence of Brahmin plots against the English regime the spirit of the native Indian press is increasingly hostile to the English. The agitation for increase of the native armies and for arming the native soldiers with artillery of improved patterns is very formidable to the interests of the foreign-born residents of some portions of the provinces. The reduction of the strength of the English garrison*, owing to the military necessities in Burmah, has added to the alarm. The Gazette declares that it will not be wise for the government to treat this as a sensational and unfounded report It declares that the situation demands a watchful eye aud a firm hand. The Brahmins implicated in the supposed disaffection are highly active in creating public sent.ment They are the best-educated people, perhaps, in India, and entertain ideas of a return to native supremacy, which are as disquieting as they are absurd to the European, whose fortunes are bound up in the present status there. The number of Brahmins involved is plaoed at a half-million. FOREIGN MISCELLANY. Frightful Scene at the Guillotining of Murderer Koenig. Paris, April 10.—The guillotining of the murderer Koenig was a horrible affair, and has has caused a feeling of disgust with thid antiquated system of capital punishment. The condemned man fought on the scaffold until overpowered and bound by the officers. He was then forced upon the balance plank, but, as he continued to struggle and kick, his head was seized and dragged through the circular hole and held in position by its hair until the knife descended. The assistants were obliged to remain in daugerous proximity to the knife in order to keep the man’s head in place. Koenig meanwhile uttered frightful yells, which were interrupted by the fall of the fatal blade. A Royal Journey Postponed. St. Petersburg, April 11.—The intended journey of the Czar to Nova Tscherkask, to present bis son to the Cossacks as their chief, has been prevented by the discovery of a dynamite plot to assasinate the imperial party. A Cossack officer and h is brother have been arrested in connection with the scheme. They are belived to be Nihilist agents. Duties Levied on Petroleum. Vienna, April 11.—A treaty between Austria and Hungary raises the duty on light American raw petroleum and benzine, and other petroleum products, and a prohibitive import duty is laid on Russian heavy petroleum. Cable Notes. The Egyptian government announces that It is ready to deliver, at Suez, samples of petroleum recently discovered in the Soudan. Advices from Senegal say that the commander of the French troops at Bakel repulsed the attacks of the insurgents without loss. A rumor is current at St Petersburg that the Czar and the Sultan of Turkey wili meet some day next week on board a vessel in the Black sea. Dr. Reichard, the African explorer, claims to have acquired a portion of territory, equal in size to half of Germany, around Lake Tanganyika. It is doubtful if Bismarck will confirm the annexation. In the Greek Chamber of Deputies, Saturday, several speeches were made in favor of war with Turkey. Many members demanded enforcement of the cloture, but Prime Minister Delvannis declared in favor of freedom of speech. After a debate which has lasted a week, a note of confidence in the government was passed—l 29 to 83. Peace Restored at Laredo. Laredo, Tex., April 11.—General Roberts and his command of State troops have returned to San Antonio. Captain Schmidt, with his company of State Rangers, will remain here for some weeks. Major Arlee said to-day that no arrests would be made for a few days, in order to give the people time to cool down. * The newlyelected municipal officials will be installed on Monday or Tuesday. The most reliable returns show that of the Huarches, seven were killed and eight wounded; while of the Botas, ten were killed and one wounded. Three Men Drowned. Richmond, Va., April 11.—Information has been received here of the drowning of three men, while crossing the New river, at Sunnyside, W. Va. The party consisted of C. J. and Wm. Hood, P. H. and Sam Quimby, W. A. Haynes, and a negro ferryman. C. J. Hood and the Quimby brothers were drowned by the upsetting of the boat They were in the employ so the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, engineer’s department Obituary. (Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Evansville, Ind., April II. —W. W. Williams, a prominent citizen, died this morning of heart disease. Ha was a prominent member of the Quaker order, and was forty-nine years old. He leaves a widow, who is a daughter of Judge Sloan, of Golconda, 111. Steamship Newt. New York, April 11.— Arrived: Adriatic, from Liverpool; Grecian Monarch, from London; India, from Hamburg.

THE HUBD-ROMEIS CONTEST. Morrison Tariff Reformers Will Make an Effort to Have Mr. Romcis Ousted, For the Reason that They Desire Mr. Hurd’s Assistance in the Coining Debate—General Belief that the Attempt Will Fail. Republicans Looking Around for a Good Man for Speaker of the Next House. The Blair Educational Bill Likely to Fail of Passage—Anti-Silver People Enconragad by the Rejection of Free Coinage. HURD-ROMEIS. The Tariff Reformers Will Make an Effort to Secure the Seating of the Former. Bpeci.l to the Indiaoaoolis JonrnaL Washington, April 11.—It is the programme in the House, on Tuesday, to antagonize the specisl order of a month ago, the Reagan interstate commerce bill, with the Hurd-Romeis contested election from the Tenth distriot of Ohio. The opinion seems to prevail that the effort will fail. The antagonism will be largely between tariff reformers and anti-tariff ref owners, but there are those of the former class, it is reported, who will oppose the seating of Hurd because a majority of the committee on elections—eleven out of fifteen, which includes four Democrats—have reported against the seating of Hurd. If it becomes apparent that it will injure Hurd’s chances before the House, the scheme will be abandoned. The fight, if it ensues, is expected to be anearnest one, and will show the strength of the Morrison tariff bill tolerably well. The assistance of Hurd is very much desired by Morrison and his followers before the tariff bill is taken up. There are no tariff reform orators in the House now. If they should succeed in seating Hurd, it is the intention to call up the tariff bill next week. This morning's Post, which is Morrison’s organ, says: “Mr. Frank Hurd is to be seen daily around the House. He is deeply interested in his contest with Mr. Romeis, whicn will probably begin on the floor next Tuesday and continue for several days.” A LONG LOOK AHEAD. Canvassing Candidates for the Speakership of the Next Republican House. Speclil to the lndianaooli* Journal. Washington, April 10.—The almost certainty that the Fiftieth Congress will be Republican ealls attention to the gentlemen who are available as candidates for the speakership. Os course this availability depends largely upon the outcome of the coming elections, as no man who is in Congress now hat who will be relegated to private life next November will be of any use whatever as a candidate for Speaker. There are three men, however, who now hold seats on the Republican side, and who will in all probability bereifcpedLt 0 the next House, who are spoken of more frequently than any others in this connection. They are Mossrs. Reed of Maine, Hiscock of New York, and Long of Massachusetts. Mr. Reed is the recognized leader of the Republican party in the House now, and he holds his leadership by virtue of his complimentary nomination by the Republican caucus for the speakership last December. Mr. Hiscock, however, is a strong favorite for the place, and there are many who cast a complimentary vote for Reed who will probably throw an effective vote for Hiscock, because they would rather have Reed on the floor to lead them than in the chair to preside over them. Mr. Long is anew man, comparatively, and has had much less legislative experience than either of the other two who have been mentioned, but he is one who has grown wonderfully in popular favor during the time he has been in Congress, and in the event of the defeat of Reed and Hiscock in the nominations or elections this fall, which event is not entirely unlooked for, Long may, and in all probability will be, the Republican candidate for the speakership. There are few men who would preside over the House more gracefully, or who would be less likely to be biased by unfair considerations in making their decisions. THE EDUCATIONAL BILL. But Little Prospect that the Measure Will Be Adopted by the House. Special to the Indiaaapolis Journal. Washington, April 10.—-It seems evident now that Mr. Willis was oversanguine when he predicted that the reference of the Blair educational bill to the committeo on labor would prove effective in securing a favorable report immediately. The committee on labor was supposed, by Mr. Willis and some of his friends, to be practically unanimous in support of this bill. When the question of reference came up in the House, however, four members of the committee voted against it. Since that time, several have made speeches in which they have taken very strong grounds agtunst the measure, and have insisted that if tne money was to be spent in this wholesale manner it would he far better to expend It in some works of public improvement whereby the laboriug men would have a chance to earn a portion of it than to throw it into the treasuries of the Southern States to be used in manipulating elections and abusing the right of suffrage. When the bill was referred to the labor committee, it had a majority of something like eighteen votes in the House. Siuco that time it is believed that a number of those who supported the change have been won over to the other side, and they would now vote the other way if the opportunity was afforded them. Mr. Lawler, of Chicago, who is a member of the committee on labor, expresses the beliof that his committee is opposed to the measure, and thAt it has very little" chance of passing that body. There is a bare chance of a favorable report from the committee, but it is certain that in the present state cf feeling in the Houso the educational bill can never become a law at this session of Congress. THE SILVER QUESTION. The Advocates of Suspension of Coinage Take a Fresh Hold. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Washington, April 11. —Since the defeat of the Bland free-coinage bill, last Thursday, the advocates of the suspension of the present law relating to coinage have taken a fresh hold. They think that the defeat of the Blaud bill means the ultimate success of their proposition to suspend the coinage of silver, pending negotiations with the commercial nations of Europe for the establishment of an international union to agree upon a ratio between gold and silver coinage. Mr. James, of New York, who has been one of the most industrious workers in behalf of suspension, says that he thinks there is no prospect of accomplishing his purpose in the

present Congress, bnt he has every hope thAt Eublie sentiment will be so awaked two years ence aa to insure some action looking to a better coin standard. There is a oertain unanimity of sentiment between the extreme silver men and the so-called anti-silver men. It is doubtful if there are more than fifty monogold men in the House to-day. At least five-sixths of the members of Congress believe in a double monetary standard. The only difference of opinion between them is the manner in which this can be brought about. The Western men very generally think that the continuation of the present coinage law in the United States would accomplish the result, while those members representing the Eastern section of the country are equally positive in the opin ion that the enhancement of silver as a coin metal can never be brought about until France, England and Germany unite with the United States in an agreement by which the coins of one country shall pass at their face value in each of the other countries. SHIP SUBSIDIES. Secretary Bayard Points Oat Advantages and Disadvantages of the Foreign System. Washington, April 10. —The Secretary of State, through the President, to-day transmitted to the House of Representatives the reports in regard to mercantile marines of foreign countries. In transmitting the reports, Secretary Bayard says: “This subject has of late assumed great importance through the efforts of certain of the leading Commercial nations of Europe to assist, by direct and indirect aid, their mercantile marine, and thus to give it an energy which is considered unattainable without such aid. France, Germany and Italy are paying bounties in various forms, with a view to stimulating the construction of vessels, to encourage their navigation and to placing their shipping in a more favorable position for securing a larger share in the carrying trade of the world than they would, under natural conditions and with free competion, obtain. Had this policy been confined to a single nation, that nation might have derived some benefit, though the confusion reached in some reports would seem to show that in France, where liberal bounties for the construction and navigation of vessels have been paid since 1881, the results have in no respect fulfilled the expectations of those who favored the policy. But when other nations enter the list, and meet privilege with privilege, and bounty with bounty, no advantage is gained, and the conditions of competition are chanced. That nation which bids highest, which grants bounties and subsidies most liberally, holds the position of vantage, but only until other nations are willing to pay the same. Whatever advantage France has secured in the last four years will, in a measure, be neutralized bv the bounty policy of Germany and Italy. This policy may lead to the construction of a certain amount of new tonnage, but it is an open question whether there is a legitimate demand for this additional tonnage. The returns upon such a costly policy as the bounty system of France aro small, -and are due to artificial conditions. Judging by the experience of the past, these conditions must be continued to insure a maintenance of the shipping they have stimulated into existence. To a nation possessed of large commercial interests, the bounties of other nations may give an advance in the form of a cheaper rate; but it may well be doubted whether it will be politic to sacrifice this advantage and impose an additional burden on productive industry by the adoption of a system of bounties.” THE KILLING OF CRAWFORD. The Mexican Version as Given by the President to tjpe .Congress of the Republic. Washington, April 10.—Sonor Romero, the Mexican minister, has just received the message of the President of Mexico, transmitted to the Mexican Congress on its convening on the Ist Inst A brief snopsis of what the President said of tho encounter in which Captain Crawford was killed was telegraphed from the- City of Mexico. The following is a translation of that passage of the message: “On the 23d of January last, the Governor of the state of Chihuahua, in a report by telegraph to the War Department, says that on the 11th of said month the Mexican forces had an encounter at a place called Tiopar, in the Bavais mountains, with about two hundred Indians commanded by foreign officers, and had killed five persons, among them the captain (Crawford.) On opr side several persons were also killed and wounded. Among the former were the major commanding the troops, and a lieutenaiit. This incident was somewhat distorted in transmitting the news by the American newspapers, and this gave rise to a supposition in the United States that the killing of Captain Crawford in said eucounter had been intentionally caused by our troops, as they [the papers] assert that they (the Mexican troops) fired against the officers of the United States army knowingly. Public opinion was somewhat excited in both countries, and the two governments were compelled to order a careful investigation of the facts. For my part, and taking into consideration what has been ascertained up to the present time, I have the conviction that in said encounter our troops thought that they were fighting the hostile Indians, because they were following the track of the savages. The killing of courageous and deserving officers and citizens of both countries is a very lamentable affair; but our troops, which were composed of citizens of the State of Chihuahua, will always have the excuse that they could not take as friends the Indians who were in front, when they well knew that, according to the agreement for the passing of troops across the frontier, only the regular troops of both republics can pass reciprocally the boundary lino when they are following tho trail of the hostile Indians.” MINOR MATTERS. Mr. O’Neill Falls to Keep His Promise to Go to Fort Worth ami Settle the Strike. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, April 10.—Since the labor strikes in the Southwest have assumed such formidable proportions, those men who predicted such great results over the passage of the O'Neill arbitration bill have changed their tune to a considerable extent, and it is now very generally admitted that the time spent in passing that measure in the House was very effectually wasted. Nobody claimed that the bill would have any other effective than a moral one. The advocates of tfito arbitration measure insisted that the object was to create public seutiment in favor of arbitration. The mere passage of the bill was sufficient to do this, if the creation of this sentiment could be effected by legislation at all. Mr. O’Neill promised to start for Fort Worth the night that the bill was passed, and to secure a settlement of the labor difficulties before lie returned. He has not yet gone to Fort Worth, and it is doubtful if he will be able to carry out his promise if he should go there with the entire Congress to-morrow. * Miscellaneous Notes. Bpecial to the Indianauolis Journal. Washington, April 11.—J. H. Stine, formerly of Union City, for several years clerk in the Third Auditor’s Office of the Treasury Department, has been reduced from SI,OOO to $1,200. Postmaster Aquilla Jones, of Indianapolis, is here again, trying to induce the Secretary of the Treasury to order certain improvements made in the postoffice building, which will probably require an act of Congress. To-day’s Capital says: “Senator Voorhees was at the Treasury Department, one day last week, trying to get some constituent into the great beehive. He failed, if I may judge from a remark I overheard. ‘You can go to in a handbasket,’ said the Hoosier Senator, ‘a good deal easier than yon can get a woman into a S6OO position in the Treasury under this administration.'” Dr. Lincoln said to-night that Secretary Manning is very much better, and that he has improved greatly during the past week.

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THE STATUS OF THE STRIKE. Lecturer Brown Announces that tho Pending Contest Will Be Continued, And that the Entire Resources of tho Knights of Labor Will Be Drawn Upon if Such Action Is Necessary to Insure Success. Burial of the Five Persons Killed at East St# Louis b) T Deputy Sheriffs. Fifteen Hundred Knights Participate in the Ceremonies—The Town Very Quiet aud No Farther Serious Trouble Expected. THE STRIKE WILL CONTINUE. Lecturer Browrn States that the Knights Will Not Abandon the Contest St. Louis, April 11. —Mr. Bailey and other members of the general executive board, ai well as prominent local Knights of Labor, state quite emphatically that the deputy sheriffs who fired on the people in East St Louis, on Friday, will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law; that plenty o? money will be forthcoming for that purpose, and that the best legal talent obtainable will he employed. Large amounts of money are coming here now to relieve whatever distress may exist among the striking Knights. At a festival given here by the Knights of Labor, last night, for tho benefit of the strikers, Mr. T. B. Brown, of New York, one of the orators of the order, used the following language: “Now, in conclusion, a word about the strike: Let me that the general executive board of the Knights of Labor have entered into this struggle, and we are going to win. We are going to wiu this strike if it takes all the resources of the order to insure success. That is the size of it, and they can make their minds up to that. We know this; that if we are beaten in this strike the men who work for railroads will not be able to call their souls their own. They will be as bad as the coachman of Jay Gould. They dress him up as one of those monkeys on an organ [laughter], and on his hat is a cockade, which shows that he is a slave. That is where he wants to get the men who work on his railroads. We must win this strike, and after this there never will be another strike on any railroad system in the United States. It will be a lesson to Gould, showing him that ho cannot crush the life out of his employes.” Movements of Mr. Irons. Parsons, Kan , April 11. —Martin Irons arrived in this city to day, and was met at the depot by Messrs. Buchanan and Hollis, members of the local executive board, Knights of Labor, who accompanied him to their hall, where they had a conference which lasted about an hour. The mission of Mr. Irons Here is not known outside of the Knights. The criminal prosecution of six of the Knights will begin to-morrow, and it is thought he has come to act as adviser and to exert his influence to get the men to quit work, and once more make Parsons the stronghold of the striking element in this State. ** AT EAST ST. LOUIS. The Town Very Quiet—Burial of the Victims of Friday’s Shooting. East St. Louis, April 11.—The day has been one of absolute quiet General Reece, with his force increased by the seven additional companies, which arrived V "ight and early this morning, has been able u. cover every strategic point in the ’ city, and any fear which may have been felt from the torch of the incendiary has almost entirely ceased. Asa matter of fact, the alarm which permeated the city before the arrival of tho troops has very materially lessened, and it is now believed that the worst is over. After making a tour of the city, and conversing with all classes of residents, the impression is conveyed that the arrivaHef the troops was believed, from the first, to be the only and natural outcome as a relief from the confessed inability of the civil authorities to enforce order. Many of the resident workingmen, although classed Among the strikers, express satisfaction at the fact that the troops are in their midst The soldiers have not yet been compelled to do any firing, and unless the present quiet belies the actual condition of affairs, the commanding officer expresses the belief that no actual demonstration will be required from the troops beyond that of their presence uutil the existing difficulties have ended. The funeral of three of the victims of the tragedy of last Friday—Driscoll, Washington and Bonner—occurred this morning, from St. Pat* rick’s Roman Catholic Church. A mass was celebrated early in the forenoon, anl about 9:30 o'clock the funeral column proceeded to the cemetery. The three hearses followed each other, followed in turn by about fifteen carringes and other conveyances. On the sidewalk, flanking the carriages, were about fifteen hundred Knights of Labor, Knights of Honor and other labor organizations, who marched in regular order, proceeding in this way to the cemetery. At the head of this body of marchers was the Mayor, the city clerk, the chief of police and the twelve patrolmen who constitute the entire protective force of the city. A band of ransic preceded the labor organizations, and sounded a funeral dirge. Tho column marched by a circuitious route from the church, keeping east of the relay depot, where the main body of the troops are stationed, passing by the front of the Green Tree Hotel, near which the tragedy occurred, and proceeding out Broadway to the cemetery. In the afternoon the funeral of Major Rychman and Mrs. Pfeiffer, two other victims, occurred, the body of the latter being taken to the city of St Louis for interment Having received Information that large crowds of people from St Louis contemplated crossing to East St Louis during the day, General Reece issued a peremptory order to prevent anyone from crossing to this side of the river, either by the bridge or river ferries, unloss provided with passes of the bridge company or from the military. This was not to include any through passengers on railway trains. It was believed th ifc this would occasion no individual hardship, an l might prevent the city from being overrun with irresponsible people, not to be desired, in view of the recent excitement. There wee only one in dignant protest brought directly to the attentiou of the commander of the troops during the day This was by a citizen named McHugh, who accepted a pass under protest, and declared t-h ii he did not wish to be restricted in any of hi|