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Bell company. “The Bell company has circulated the report that it was a trick on the court," exclaimed the witness; “those who circulated it are liars, and they know that they are liars." The witness at this point turned his attention to that part of Dr. Rogers’s testimony reflecting on his integrity, and he declared there was not a word of truth in Rogers’s statement that Senator Harris had denounced the witness as a scoundrel. Mr. Raonsy began to catechise the witness with reference to the omission of the Nipher affidavit from the Interior Department record. The witness had a long controversy with Mr. Ranney about the matter, and declared that that gentleman was trying to misrepresent his motive in omitting the affidavit. He objected to the attempt- to besmirch him by counsel for other companies. “What do you mean by that?’’ inquired Mr. Banner. The Witness—l understand that you are here as the advocate of the Bell company! Mr. Ranney (indignantly)—Who told you that? Where did you get it? Witness—l have been told that you own stock in the Bell company. Mr. Ranney—l will tell you that Ido not own any stock in the Bell company, do not know any officer in that company, and have no more connection with it than you have. The Witness (coolly)—If I were not on the stand, and made such a statement, you would say that you did not believe roe. Now, unless you go under oath, I will not believe your statement. I hare done a proper duty here in the interest of my company and the public, and I do not intend that anybody shall besmirch my character. Mr. Ranney (angrily)—lf you don’t stop your impudent— The Witness (interrupting)—When you undertake to make it appear that I have tried to play a trick on the court, you can’t do it with me. Mr. Ranney—l have asked you a proper question, and insist on an answer. Witnßes—l deny that the questions are proper. Mr. Raoney—Why didn’t you object when the chairman asked you about the matter? The Witness—Because I wanted an opportunity to reply to the slanderous insinuations in this record. Mr. Ranney—By whom? The Witness—By the questions asked here in the cross examinations. It has been asserted tier©, and published in the New York papers—the Sun and the Tribune—and the editors of those papers are lying scoundrels—that there -was a trick played upon the court That is a barefaced, slanderous lie, and the man who uttered it is a barefaced liar. This declaration threw the committee into a Sutter, and the chairman pounded the table with is fist to restore order. After a while the witness again proceeded. He wanted to tell all, he said. “This is not my Inner—; shall I use the word here?" Mr. Miller —That is a good word. The witness, continuing, produced a letter that he had received from Casey Young, dated Vashington, March 31, 1886, in which Young -11s him of his discovery of the supplemental agreement in the bottom*ot his trunk. At this point the committee adjourned until Wednesday. YESTERDAY’S NOMINATIONS. Senator Jackson Nominated and Confirmed Judge of the United States Circuit Court. Washington. April 12.—The President sent the following nominations to the Senate to-day. Howell E. Jackson, of Tennessee, to be circuit judge of the United States for the Sixth judicial circuit, vice John Baxter, deceased. Prank Dyer, to be marshal of the United States for the territory of Utah. S. O. Coffin to be collector of customs for the district of Edgartown, Mass. Philander Cobb to be collector of customs for the district of Plymouth, Mass. George D. Borton to be assistant collector ot enstoms for the port of Camden, N. J. Robert C. Jordan to be surveyor of customs for the port of Omaha, Neb. The. nomination of Senator Jackson waa confirmed by the Senate by a unanimous vote. Howell E. Jackson, nominated to be United States circuit judge, was born at Paris, Tenn.* April 8, 1832, and is therefore fifty-four. In 1840 his parents moved to Jackson-, Tenn. He received a classical education at the West Tennessee College, graduating in 1848. Afterward ho took a course of two j-ears’ study at the University of Virginia, at Charlottesville. He read law- with his kinsman, Judge Totten and Judge Milton Brown, and subsequently graduated from the Lebanon law school In 1859 he settled at Memphis, and began the practice of Jaw. He served as a judge of the Supreme Court of Tennessee two terms by appointment. In 1876 he returned to Jackson, and was soon thereafter elected to the Legislature on the StateCredit platform. While a member of the Legislature he was elected as Senator, in place of pailey (Democrat), and took his seat March 4. 1881. Senator Jackson is a gentleman of polished manners, of fine personal appearance, and of very studious add rather sedentary habits. fLe is personally popular with his associates on oth sides of the Senate Chamber.

MINOR MATTERS. Favorable Report on the BUI Providing for Organization of Indian Territory. Washington, April 12.—The House commit- • e on Territories to-day, by a vote of 6 to 5. rreed to report favorably a bill to provide for o organization of the Indian Territory and the iblic land strip into the Territory of Oklahoma, he bill provides that nothing in it shall be so construed as to disturb the existing property or treaty rights of the Indians. The bill also provides that the public land strip shall be opened to settlement under the provisions of the 'homestead laws only, and that as soon as the Oreek and Seminole tribes, and the Cherokee Aribe. shall have given their assent, the unoccupied lauds ceded by these Indians to the United -States shall be opened to settlement under the tflve year settlement laws. The President is authorized to appoint a commission to enter into negotiatons with the Indian tribes within the limits of Oklahoma for the purpose of procuring ■the assignment of lands in severalty, and the purchase by the United Stated of the reliu--quished and unoccupied lands. Courtesies to tho Chinese Minister. (Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, April 12.—Acting Secretary Fairchild has received a telegram, signed by Collector Hager, Surveyor Tinnin and Superintendent Lawton, at San Francisco, dated the 10th Inst, of which the following is a copy: “We called last evening on the Chinese embassy and asßtired the minister that it was a misapprehension if he thought discourtesy or disrespect was intended to be shown either his government or himself on his arrival at this port (The minister was invited to visit the United States mint, which invitation he accepted. Indiana Measures. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, April 12. In the House, to day, Indiana members introduced bills as follows: By Mr. Matson: To pension John R. TuadWav, Stephen A. Kennedayand Malinda Dennis. By Mr. Owen: Topension Wm. Boclcover. By Mr. Browne: To pension Nauoy E. Rets and Jacob Hunt By Mr. Kleiner. To satisfy a war claim of Thomas J. Taylor. Miseellaneous Notes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Washington, April 12,—Major Steele was tonight selected by the Republicans of the Indiana lelegation in Congress to be the member for isir State of the Republican congressional campaign committee. Representative Thompson, of •• *hio, was chosen at the member for the Buckeye Mate, and Representative Cannon waa named as the Illinois member. M. H. Weir, of La Porto, Is at the Ehbitfc The Increase reported in the postoffice revenues, exclusive of postage on second-class matter. from thirty of the largest offloes ia the oounrtrv, for nine months ended March Si, 188$, is $1)24, Chicago shows an increaseuf $151,591; St Louis, $40,417; Ciueinnati, $50.00$ San Francisco, $10,766; Pittsburg, SIS,SOS; Cleveland, $15,941; Detroit, $9,266; Louisville, $3,-

555; Milwaukee, $15,104; Kansas City, $26,009; Indianapolis, $4,543; St Pan), $23,840. Minneapolis, $18,220; Toledo, $2,532. The increase of second-class matter mailed during the same period at the thirty offices was 5,785,255 pounds. Secretary Manning continues ts improve. A well-attended joint caucus of Republican Senators and Representatives was held in the hall of the House of Representatives to-night, for tho purpose of selecting members of the congressional campaign committee. Senator Edmunds acted as chairman of the caucus, and Representative McComas as secretary. The only action had was the adoption of a resolution authorizing each State delegation to select a representative in the campaign committee. The District Volunteer Veterans of 1801 paraded to-day and passed in review before the members of the Senate, a number of Representatives, and the District Commissioners. The President has withdrawn the nomination of Orlando Powers, of Michigan, to be associate justice of the Supreme Court of Utah. Senator Chace reported to-day, adversely, from the committee on postofficee and post-roads, & bill to increase the rate of postage on fourth class matter to two cents per ounce. Secretary Lamar will leave the city this evening or to-morrow for Memphis. Tenn.; Macon. Ga., and his home at Oxford, Miss. He is not expected to return for a week or ten days. GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. [Concluded from First Page.] tion. Russian agents are swarming in all the Slav states, and the Russian embassador has made a peremptory demand on Turney for the payment of the remainder of the old war indemnity, which, of course, it will be impossible for Turkey to make. All these signs point only one way—to a resolution on the part of the Czar to punish Prince Alexander. The action of the Prince in accepting a quinquennial appointment, with a reservation, so far from daring up the trouble, seema to have thrown oil on the flames. From no source but Berlin do we get Any peaceful predictions, and that is explained by the familiar faet that the Berlin Bourse is loaded to the gunwales with Russian bonds. Prince Alexander is acting as if he expected an invasion. He is reorganizing his army, shifting officers who are suspected tft. be Russian sympathizers to minor posts, and establishing a general staff. It is understood that he will soon dissolve the Assembly and summon a general convention of delegates from the two provinces to Sophia, whieh will pass resolutions condemning Zankoff and his Russian agents, who will then be expelled. Russia has already asked the consent of the powers to eonfer upon her the right to enforce measures in Bulgaria and has been refused. She will take this privilege without asking for it next time. FOREIGN MISCELLANY. The Bartlett-Dyson Case—The Minister Discharged from Custody. London, April 12. —The case against Mrs. Ada Bartlett and the Rev. Mr. Dyson, a Methodist clergyman of Pimlico, for the alleged murder of Edward T. Bartlett, the woman’s husband, by chloroform, on Dec. 31 last, was brought up for trial at the Central Criminal Court to-day. The court-room was crowded. The crown declined to proceed against Mr. Dyson, because convinced of its inability to maintain the indictment against him, and he was accordingly discharged. Mrs. Bartlett, pale and attractive, watched the proceedings intently. The Attorney-general, in presenting the case, urged the jury to refrain from convicting on mere suspicion, but to weigh the evidence carefully and patiently. A number of witnesses who gave testimony at the preliminary hearing repeated their evidence. The release of Rev. Mr. Dyson caused a sensation. He is to appear as a witness against Mrs. Bartlett. Mr. Bartlett’s father, being called as a witness, testified that he believed the will offered for probate as that of the deceased was a forgery. He stated that Mrs. Bartlett, during her husband’s life, once eloped with bis brother Frederick, with whom she remained for a week. Frederick, after this episode, went to America, and the witness did not know his present whereabouts.

Prussia and the Pope. Berlin, April 12.—Debate was begun in the upper house of the Prussian Diet, to-day, on the* amended ecclesiastical bill. Dr. Koph, Bishop of Fulda, said he was grateful for the conciliatory attitude of the government, but insisted that the bill would not suffice to attain the objects desired. He urged the adoption of his previous amendments on the basis of a further agreement. Prinee Bisraark said that the government had not arrived at a decision on the question. He had already taken the full responsibility for tin May laws as fighting laws. He [Bismarck] thought the time had arrived to abolish the fighting laws. He preferred to treat directly with the Pope, because he had found the Pope better disposed toward Germany than the majority in the Reichstag. In conclusion, ho asked the House to pass the government measure, which, he said, would enable the Ministry to secure a wider basis for further negotiations. The general debate on the bill was then elosed. The separate issues will be discussed tomorrow. King Ludwig’s Oddities. Vienna, April 12.—The newspapers are again devoting a great deal of space to recording the oddities of King Ludwig of Bavaria. It is stated that when the Emperor* of Austria was recently in Munich, the capital of Bavaria, King Ludwig took no notice of him, and the Princes Ludwig and Leopold, the King’s nephows, were compelled to assume the responsibilities of entertaining the imperial visitor. Steamer' and Twenty-Nine Lives Lost. Wellington, N. Z., April 12.—The New Zealand coasting steamer Tairoa has been wrecked between Wellington and Christchurch. A heavy gale prevailed at the time. Three boats were launched, but each was speedily capsized. Twenty-nine persons were drowned. Only two passengers were saved. Rumor that Greece Has Declared War. London, April 13.—A rumor is current at Manchester that a Greek firm in that city has received information that Greece has declared war against Turkey. The Greek embassy in London has received no advices confirmatory of the rumor. Cable Notes. The Sultan has donated £4OO to the Pasteur institute fund. A Panama telegram states that an explosion occurred, on the 20th ult, ©n board the small river steamer Colombia, at the island of Tumaco. Fifteen persons were killed aud twenty-two injured. The steamer was completely destroyed. A Minister’s Successful Confidence Game. Milwaukee, April 12. -r-A special from Watertown. Win, to the Sentinel says: “The Rev. I. T. Koehler, some six months ago, came here from Manistee, Mich., to take charge of the German Evangelical Church. He was a very impor-tant-appearing person, dignified and pompous. His ministrations were successful, and he had no difficulty in having his wants, of whatever character, supplied, getting trusted to a considerable amount by those of his flock who were in business, and others He left town a few days ago, his absence being a mystery until yesterday, when a letter was received from him by Charles Beckman, president of his church committee, written from Detroit, tendering bis reaignation and informing any inquiring friends that he would be safe in her Majesty’s dominion, iust across the river. It is now learned he had borrowed about SSOO in money from various parties, in 6ums of from $25 to S2OO. He had a confirmation class last Sunday, and the fee he exacted from the members of it he pocketed, together with the proceeds obtained from the sala of 500 tickets for a ten-cent concert that he had planned. Several clothing stores had furnished him with stylish suite on oredit, and a jeweler was not slow in selling him a fine gold watch ©n trust." It is by copying after nature that man gets best reanlta. Dr. Jones’s Bed Clover Tonic is nature's own remedy, is purely vegetable, nan be takes by the most delicate. Cures ail stomach, kidney and liver troubles. 50 cent*

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1886.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of All Kinds in the Two States. A Defeated Candidate Seeks to Profit by a Tech-nicality-Stolen Mail-Sack Pound— A Sensation Among Lottery People—Notes. INDIANA. A Democrat Attempts to Secure an Office by Pleading a Technicality. Special to the ludiauaDolis Journal. Kokomo, April 12.— At the December term of the Commissioners’ Court, a strip two milea wide and three miles long was taken from the west edge of Union township and annexed to Taylor township, which heretofore has been Democratic, and now comes Mr. DuncAn, the recently defeated Democratic candidate for trustee, who proposes to contest the election of Mr. David Shenk, who was elected by a majority of six over Duncan. Duncan’s attorneys, Bell & Purdum, to day filed the papers of contest with the auditor, alleging that the election was illegal on account of informalities in the action of the Commissioners in admitting the new strip recently taken from Union and added to Taylor township. The whole proceeding is a sore-toe baby act on the part of Duncan, who fails to take his medicine like a little mao. Delaware County Stock-Breeders. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Munoie, April 12. — The Delaware County Stock-breeders’ Association met at the courthouse in this city on Saturday last, the meeting being attended by a large number of the leading farmers of the county. Hon. J. H. Koontz, president, called the meeting to order, and an informal discussion as to the time and manner of sowing oats and clover-seed was had. Hon. J. H. Koontz read an interesting paper upon “Fish Culture." The methods of constructing ponds and stocking them was shown. An interesting discussion followed. It was ascertained that there are now in this county twelve poods, each liberally stocked with German carp, and all doing well and reasonably profitable to the owners. Many other ponds are now in course of construction and will be provided this year. Following this, Judge J. S. Buckles read an exhaustive paper on “Beef Supply," in which he showed from statistics that the beef supply per capita is decreasing, from which? he reasoned that the raising of cattle for beef is to be one of the leading industries connected with agriculture of the future. Ho held that as the ranges of the great West are being reduced to narrower limits by reason of the lands being taken np by actual settlers, the beef supply of the future must be furnished by the average farmer. He urged the importance of raising blooded stock, that the greatest amount of the best beef could be made from the least expense. The committee appointed At the preceding meeting to report on the advisability of establishing a creamery near this city, reported favorably thereon. It was ascertained that the creamery could be made ready for operation at a cost of about $3,000, upon which sum the committee thought a good profit could be realized. The matter was left in the hands of the committee, who will no doubt carry the matter to a successful result. The meeting adjourned to the first Saturday in June.

Mail-Back Stolen aud Rifled. Bpecial to the Indlan&solit Journal. Fowler, April 1&—On the 19th of January last the mail-train passing here at midnight left the mail-sack at the depot. The agent did not see it. and some person took it concealed it. Detectives were sent oat to look up the thief aud the sack, but did not find a trace of either. There were known to be ssveral checks and drafts in the mail, and also registered letters. All hope had been abandoned of finding it. but Mr. M. Duffy, a farmer, living three miles northeast of town, while at work Saturday near the C., L, St- L. & C. railroad, found the sack. It had been cut aud rifled of all matters of value, and nothing left but some papers and unimportant letters. There is yet no clew to the thief. Minor Notes. Vincennes is afflicted with bucket shops. Patriot is soon to have a new M. E. church. The Christian Church at Madison wants a pastor. Mrs. bailie Adams, insane, has been taken from Jeffersonville to the State hospital. The Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of Montgomery county will hold a convention today at Waveland. On the first Sunday in May forty-eieht converts of the colored Baptist church, at Jeffersonville, will be baptized. Hollopeter& Dona van, of Richmond, finishers of slate mantels, failed yesterday. Liabilities, $1,500; assets nominal. Clarence, the eleven-year-old boy of C. R. Kelly, of Jeffersonville, disappeared a week ago. About that time he was seen at Indianapolis, but there all trace of him was again lost A tusk of the extinct American elephant was found imbedded in the sand at Men nett’s Point, near Vevay, a few days ago. The tusk is eight feet long and nine inches in diameter at the root Two years ago a similar tusk was found in the same neighborhood. Thomas J. Vauosdol died very suddenly on Sunday morning, at his residence near Pleasant Postoffice, Switzerland county. He was in his seventy-second year, and was a much respected citizen. He leaves a widow and one child, Capt. A. D. Vanosdol, of Madison. The remains of ex-City Marshal Burns, of Kokomo, were followed to the tomb, yesterday, by a large concourse of peotile. He died on Sunday, of consumption. His mother and one brother are all that remain of a large family. His aee was twenty nine years. E. P. Washburn, retiring trustee of Madison township. Montgomery county, is over $1,300 short in his accounts on his two terms. His bondsmen have paid the deficiency. He i9 a Republican, and the newly elected trustee is a Republican also, and a Methodist minister, Rev. S. C. Snanklin. The W. B. Reybnrn Post of the G. A. R., of Peru, celebrated its fourth anniversary Saturday night Captain Dailey arrauged a very entertaining programme, consisting of music, furnished by the Ohio Quartet, and recitations bv Messes Brumfield and Moorehou.se. Short addresses were made by the official members. ILLINOIS. Judge Hughes Causes m Sensation Among Gift Enterprise ana Lottery People. Special to the ImHanaeolia Journal. Mattoon, April 12. —The Coles County Circuit Court was convened at Charleston to day, with Judge Hughes on the bench. The grand jury were given some pointed instructions in reference to violations in Mattoon of the State law in regard to raffles and lotteries. In the dull months following the holidays many merchants raffled off a lot o€ surplus stock. It was well understood at the time that suob proceedings were unlawful, but the law was winked at, and the raffles carried on extensively. To-night there is no little stir among those interested. Judge Hughes, however, was more pointed still in his remarks against the gift enterprise inaugurated in this city within the past few months, under the auspices of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. This lottery, ostensibly for the benefit of orphans of the Brotherhood, has assumed no mean proportions. Tickets to the face value Os $125,000 have been issued, and many have been disposed ot Judge

Hughes, by his action to-day, shows plainly his intention to enforce the State law in regard to lotteries, so far as lies in his power. Prohibition Indorsed. Freeport, April 12.—The evangelical conference of Illinois to-day adopted a resolution indorsing absolute prohibition of the liquor traffic, opposing the enactment of any laws that force protection or continuance of that traffic, and favoring every rational measure contributing toward the suppression of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liqnor as a beverage. Brief Mention. Wolves have been committing depredations in and around Washington. The Presbyterians of Monticello have commenced erecting a parsonage. Benjamin Smith’s residence, near Tower Hill, burned. Loss, $1,000; no insurance. Henry C. Terry, of Jerseyville, has been taken to the Insane Asylum at Jacksonville. Justice Tinney, of Pekin, recently celebrated the fifty-sixth anniversary of his wedding-day. In jail at Belleville, Fred Lippert. sixty years old, cat his throat with a razor. His condition is critical The livery stable of Thomas Rodebaugh, at Winslow, burned. Seven horses and a number of vehicles were destroyed. Loss, $3,000. It will require 400 large grain-cars to move the corn now in crib at Hammond, Piatt county. Two hundred thousand bushels nave been cribbed. The First National Bank of Macomb has announced that it will retire from business. It has ample means and retires with unblemished reputation. Fifteen hundred people at Decatur attended the double service held at the Tabernacle in memory of John B. Gough and Win. S. Crissoy, the pioneer Methodist preacher. Governor Oglesby hag granted a pardon to John Thornton, a convict in the penitentiary sentenced to three years’ imprisonment from Peoria county for assault to kill. He was discharged to enable him to attend the funeral of his wife, who was killed last Wednesday by Calling out of a wagon. William Forbes, the tax-collector of Elmwood township, who the day before the collapse of the bank of H. Tracy & Cos., at Elmwood, deposited $7,500 of the county funds in that institution, has caused the arrest of Harlan P. Tracy and F. B. Tracy, the bankers, on the charge of embezzlement. Forbes claims that he was ready to deposit the money in Peoria, but was persuaded by Tracy to deposit it in their institution, the bankers knowing at the time that the institution was to close the next day. They Wrere released on $5,000 bonds. THE LABOR TROUBLES. [Concluded from First Page.l formed the men that it was impossible Lo comply with their demands, as he had taken the contract, estimating labor at $1 per day of ten hours. The strikers proceeded to Powder hill* and compelled the man working there to throw .dawn their picks. Later in the day about forty laborers told the contractor that they desired to return to work, but that they were threatened with being stoned if they did so. The contractor promised that they should be protected and they went to work. Those who still held out were persuaded to retire without offering violence. The strikers are of different nationalities, and without leaders.

Labor Notes. The puddlers and laborers employed by the Pottßville (Pa.) Iron aud Steel Company struck yesterday for an advance in wages. The strike will suspend operations at mills employing between 300 and 400 hands. The advance demanded by MeClure A Co.'s workmen, at Connellsville, Pa., has been granted, and all will return to work to-day. Over 1,000 men are affected. Every mine in the coke region is now paying the increase. The Central Labor Union, of Evansville, yesterday, ordered a boycott of John H. Roelker & Cos., proprietors of the largest stove foundry in that part of Indiana. The molders’ union have asked them to cease handling prison-made goods and make their shop union, which the firm refused to do. The firm does a large business in the South and West Yesterday, at Winnipeg. 200 Italians assembled at the Canadian Pacific depot to go west to work on the road at $1.25 per day. Another body of men, who thought the wages were not large enough, interferred and prevented them from leaving. The strikers took possession of the cars and refused admission to the others. Clubs and stones were freely used, and several were injured seriously. The police are busy arresting the leaders. A committee of C’hicaeo Knights of Labor called upon Mr. C. H. McCormick and demanded the reinstatement of 800 men discharged in the recent strike, and whose places were filled bv non-union men. Mr. McCormick positively refused tore-employ the men, having giveu them a fair opportunity to return to work. The committee declared they intend to have the general executive board declare a boycott against the firm. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. R. H. Harris, treasurer of the Sag Harbor, L. 1., Savings Bank, has been discovered to be SB,OOO short in his accounts. He is superintendent of the Methodist Sunday-school. Jacob Heck, of Racine, Wis., an alderman, and one of that city's early inhabitants, committed suicide yesterday by shooting. His mind had become deranged from disappointment in not securing a re election to the City Council. Michael Kenney, the proprietor of a shooting gallery at 240 Bowery, New York, last night entered a saloon next door and exclaimed. “I am shot,” and fell to the floor. He was asked who shot him, but was unable to answer, and died before the ambulance that was summoned had arrived. Captain Savage and Lieutenants Richards and Levett passed through New JDrleans, yesterday morning, en route to San Augustine, Fla., having iu charge seventy-six Apache Indians, who will be imprisoned in Fort Marion. They are a part of Geronimo’s band, which was captured near Sierra Madre. A freight train comine west on the Baltimore & Ohio road, Sunday night, at 8:30 o’clock, ran into a land slide thirty miles east of Connellsville. Pa. The engine and seven cars were thrown from the track and badly wrecked. John Coffman, the engineer, was killed, and the fireman, whose name could not be learned, was seriously injured. John Waener, a farmer in the town of Lincoln, Wis., yesterday morning shot and killed James Moe in a dispute over the possession of some land. WagnerVhouse was surrounded by exceed people, who threatened to lynch him. When a deputy sheriff arrived it was found that Wagtuvr had killed himself with the same weapor. with which he shot Moe, fearing he would bi l lynched. North Carolina’s Special Tax Bonds. Raleigh, N. C., April 12.—Suita were begun to day against the Governor and Auditor of the State, with the object of forcing the levying and collection of the special taxes imposed in several acts of the North Carolina Assembly of 1868—69 under which the special tax bonds of North Carolina were issued. These bonds ag gregate $11,000,000, and the special taxes imposed were sufficient to meet the annual interest. Subsequent legislation forbade the State officers to collect these special taxes, and an amendment to the Constitution forbids the Legislature to pay anything, either on the interest or priucipal, without submitting the matter to the people. Previous to this suits have been brought in the federal courts, without avail, to enforce the rights of the creditors. Business Block Bnrned. Minneapolis. Minn., April 12.—Shortly after noon fire broke cut iu the third story of the Boston Block, in which the postoffice is located. The fire was confined to the building in whieh it originated. Floods of water poured in, stopped the downward tendency of the flames, and made the damages tt> articles on the three lower floors only that from water. The total loss is about $225,000, divided as follows: Building, , $50,000; postofflee, $500; Miller Bros., hardware. $100,000; tenants in offices. $75,000. The total insurance approximates $400,000, of which $52. 000 ia on the building; Miller Bros., $100,000; tew library, $20,000; the remainder is divided up in much smaller amounts among occupants of the offieeii

NORTH INDIANA V. E. CONFERENCE. Educational Anniversary—Election of Officers —MarionTo Be the Next Place of Meeting. Special to the Indtananolis Journal. Warsaw, April 12.—The educational anniversary, Saturday night, was a brilliant occasion. On the platform were Rev. Drs. J. P. D. John, H. A. Gobin and J. E. Earp, of DePauw University; Dr. W. P. Yocum, of Fort Wayne College, and Dr. M. S. Terry, of Garrett Biblical Institute. Drs. Yocum, Terry ard John delivered addresses. The services yesterday at the Methodist Church consisted of a sermon, by Dr. J. H. Bayliss, on the eternity of the truths revealed iu God’s written word, followed by the ordination of deacons, before noon. Afternoon a memorial service for deceased preachers and preachers’ wives was held, followed by the ordination of elders. At night Dr. Terry preached. Bishop Harris, on account of a heavy cold, declined to preach. The other congregation! of Warsaw were served by conference visitors both morning and night. Dr. M. H. Mendenhall conducted the devotio j this morning. After reading the minutes of Saturday, the officers of the conference corporation who served last year were re-elected. Dr. Terry was introduced, and spoke on behalf of the institntion which he represented. He urged the great importance of a thorough educational preparation for the ministry before entering it—a good college education and an equally good theological education. Propositions for commissions to adjust the boundary lines between this and the Northwest and Southeast Indiana conferences awakened a decided spirit of opposition, and after a brief discussion the propositions were voted down. The deacons of the first class had their examinations reported, and they were passed ou to the fourth years’ course of study. Rev. W. 0. Davison, one of our missionaries in Japan, was introduced to the conference. I. M. Woolverton was granted a supernumerary relation. The following were continued as superannuates: T. Sells, J. P. Nash, I. Cooper. I. N Rhodes, El M. Baker, N. T. Peddycord.' The relation of E. S. Freeman was changed to supernumerary. Marion was choßen as the place for holding our session next year. W. R. Jordan, T. B. Meredith and C. W. Chnrch were granted a superannuated relation. A. H. Kistler and E. S. Preston were granted a ’ocation. F. A. Robinson was made affective D. D. Powell and J. M. Rush were granted the supernumerary relation, and W. H. Pierce, A. G. McCarter, S. C. Miller, G. B. Work and J. W. Lewelien were continued in that relation. A P. Mead, of the Wisconsin Conference, and A. 11. Gillette, D. D., of the Sunday-school Union of our church, were introduced. The latter spoke on behalf of the cause he represents. We have above 130,000 children in our Sundayschools in the South. It is a great work to organize schools among the ignorant and indifferent touching this work in that section, and an equally great work to maintain the schools. The poverty of the colored people in many localities, South Carolina for instance, is deea Common laborers receive $7 or $7.50 per month, keep their families on hominy, corn-bread and pork—one of these even being often wanting—children going absolutely naked till twelve or thirteen years of age, growing up in ignorance, unless we come to their help. The church must observe '’Good Tidings Day” in October, take collections, and so maintain Sunday-schools and furnish literature for them.

A BOYCOTTED BAKER. The ©hivairons Boycotters Find They Can't Ruin a Plucky Woman. New York Times. Plucky little Mrs. Gray did more business at her bakery, at No. 508 Hudson street, yesterday, than she has ever done in one day since the bakery was established. The store was filled with strangers throughout the day and well up to 11:30 o’clock last night, when tne place was closed for the week. Boycotting had brought her this unusual trade. It was a complete surprise to her, but it was more of a surprise to the dozen delegates of Bakers’ Union No. 1, who roamed up and down Hudson street in front of the place, and distributed their hand-bills asking people to boycott the bakery. A stout little German stood near the eutrance of the bakery for five hours yesterday afternoon with $lO in his hand. He was Einil Muller, foreman of the bake-shop. He had offered to give the money to any one who would come forward and prove that any baker had ever had to work from seventeen to nineteen hours a day in Mrs. Gray’s bakery, as the bakers' union had claimed No one had offered to take the money away from him when he left his station at 7 o’clock last evening. He laughed at the bovcotters, who frequently visited a neighboring beer saloon and compared notes over glasses of lager Neither he nor the live bakers working with him had been induced hv the boycotting dozen to leave Mrs. Gray’s employ; nor could they be induced to join the union, which had issued its edict that they must leave plucky little Mrs. Gray’s employ or else be parties to helping ruin the busiuess of their employer. At least that's what the union men said they would do Police Officer David Barclay, who was on duty in front of tne bakery yesterday afternoon, was much surprised at the class of customers that came to the little shop. They came in private teams, and the ricnly dressed women who bought cakes and pies toid him they did it sunplv to encourage so plucky a little body as Mrs. Gray had shown herself to be. After they bought the pastry many of them gave it away to the children who were running about Hudson street. The youngsters never had so many meals between meals as they had yesterday. People came down from Fifth avenue and from Harlem; they carae from Brooklyn and from Jersey City; they looked at the little body who had dared defy flie bakers’ union, and they bought her bread, cakes and pies. Two young men went into the place, yesterday afternoon. and ordered Mrs.*Gray to send 100 loaves of bread to the Howard Mission on Mouday morning. They represented a party of gentlemen down town who sympathized with Mrs. Gray, and wanted to show in a practical way that their sympathy meant something, and promised to make purchases for charitable purposes in the city. Mrs. Grav received in all about SSO, up to 6 o'clock last evening for purchases of bread, cake, etc., for poor people or for charitable institutions. A letter from Kingston, N. Y-, with $2 inclosed, was one of the first notes Mrs. Gray received yesterday morning, the money to be used in purchasing bread for the deserving poor. A little afterward a lettercarrier brought in this letter from one of the best-known brokers down town: “John S. Babnes, No. 18 Wall Street, 1 NswY. -RK, 10th April, 1880. ) “Madame—Your course toward the cowardly creatures who are persecuting you wins the respect of every lover of liberty and order. I beg to hand you herewith the sum of $lO, and if the idea of receiving this as a gift is disagreeable to you. when your business again runs smoothly, as it must, if you are firm in the staud you have taken against such oppression, you can, at your convenience, send the value in bread or other articles made by you to any charitable institution or needy deserving poor that, you may know. Very respectfully vours. John S. Barnes. “Mrs. Gray.” The money Mr. Barnes Sent will furnish baker’s luxuries to the inmates of some charitable institution. Just before 6 o’clock, Irving Fisher, of the firm of Nathaniel Fisher & Son. sent $5 to Mrs. Gray, to be used in the same way. A half hoar previous a gentleman, who refused to give bis name, dropped into the store and left $5 for the same purpose. He also bought a lot of the best cakes he could find, and when he left the store he presented the lot to police officer Barclay, to be given to his children. “Say, officer, * said a well-dressed man who came to the store shortly after 4 o’clock, “let me send $5 worth of stuff up to vour house.” “I'm not an object of charity.” said the officer, “but St. Luke's Home is. Send the stuff down there if you want to buy it." “I'll do it,” said the gentleman, who stepped into the store, and depositing $lO, told Mrs. Gray to send >1 worth of goods to the home every day until the boycott was raised. He said if the money wasn't enough to last be would come around when it was exhausted and deposit some more. “Do yoti keep a delivery wagon!" asked one man who came into the store just before 6 o’clock. “If you do, tell your driver to stop at my house on Eighty-eixth street, and I’ll take all the bread, pies and cakes we use from you.” The little woman had to tell him, as she did

many others who made similar requests, thal her teams did not go above Thirtieth street Every one who CArne with these requests bought something, and so the loss of trade to the grooerr stores to which Mrs. Gray has been subjected by the boycott was made good by tbs increased trade at the store. Every one in the Ninth ward wants so see the clever little woman beat tbs “walking delegates” who are trying to ruin her business. The expressions of good will and the substantial deposits made have greatly encouraged Mrs. Gray, Her bakers say they wiil stick by her to the last, and will not be forced into the union against their will. Mr. Beecher and the Strike. Chicago Special. In Mr. Beecher’s opinion boycotting was a tyranny worse than the tyranny of Russia. It did away with a free press end free speech. It ended liberty of action. Nothing could justify the use of such an agency. The immediate result might apparently be good, but in the end it must be evil. Os the second poison Mr: Beecher said that the Knights did exactly the things which formed the hasis of the grievances they complained of, when they sought to interfere with non-members. Speaking of the Southwestern strike, Mr. Beecher characterized it as the most outrageous affair of the kind on the part of the Knights which had occurred fluring his life. A Strike of Schoolboys. Greenpoint, L. 1., April 12.—About one hundred public schoolboys, of all ages, made a demand upon the principal that the recesses be extended from fifteen to thirty minutes. Tbeir demand not being acceded to, the boys refused to return to the school after the morning recess, and picketed the entrances to prevent others from entering. The tronble assumed such threatening proportions that the principal sent for the police, and a sergeant and several officers were soon on the spot. Finally tbe mother of the ring-leader arrived and forced her son into school, after which the rest of tbe boys quietly marched in. Burial of Captain Crawford. Omaha, Neb., April 12.—The funeral of the late Captain Emmet Crawford, of the United States army, who was recently killed by Mexicans, occurred to-day at Kearney, under direotion of Robert Morris Lodge, No. 46, A. F. and A M. An immense crowd was in attendance Grand Master M. B. Reece conducted the ceremony, assisted by other members of the order and a number of clergymen. A military procession moved to the cemetery, and presented an imposing spectacle. At the grave the Masonic ceremonies were followed by the firing of three volleys by a military detachment Suicide of a Prominent Attorney. Chicago. April 12.—John M. Rountree, a prominent attorney and old resident of this city, entered a Madison-street store to-night, and purchasing a revolver, coolly placed it to his head and blew his brains out The cause of the deed is unknown. Mr. Rountree was highly connected. Hon. J. N. Jewett is his brother-in-law. A daughter of the victim resides in New York. Steamship News. New York, April 12.—Arrived: Aurania, from Liverpool. Queenstown, April 12. Arrived: Gallia, from New York; Lord Gougb, from Philadelphia. Plymouth, April 12.—Arrived: Suevia, from New York. Bam Jones at Louisville. Louisville, April 12. Rev. Sam Jones preached to 3,000 people here to-night, for the benefit of the Holcomb Gospel Mission. Nearly as many more could not get in the church. Fifty-five dollars in small sums was subscribed. An effort ie being made to have Mr. Jones stay and evangelize Louisville. Apostle Cannon’s Forfeited Bail. Salt Lake, U. TANARUS., April 12.—The $25,000 forfeited bail of George Q. Cannon was paid intfl the Third district court to-day by his bonds* men. Bishop Sharp and ex-Mayor Fersraail Little. Two other cases of bail for SIO,OOO each have not yet been paid. The sureties are will l iug to pay up without suit Rev. David Walk's Ducky Purchase. Kansas City. April 12.—Eight years ago, Ray David Walk, a New Orleans clergyman, pur chased five, acres of ground on Ninth street, at the eastern city limit, for $1,500* to-day he sold the same property for $66,250. A Very Successful Visit. Chicago Times. The Philadelphia Press says: “Sam Jones and Sam Small made one great conversion in Chicago. They converted just 3,000 good solid dollars over to their bank account in four weeks." Not only that, bnt they owe to Chicago the reform of a had habit that will enable them to save the money that used to go for tobacco and cigars. Financially and morally the visit of the Sams to Chicaeo was very profitable. Report from a Baltimore Druggist. I have sold all of the best cough remedies for the last fifteen years, and have found none to approximate the exceedingly large sale of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup. W. L. Keller, Cor. Penns, live, and Biddle efc.

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