Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1886 — Page 2

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MB. KUHN ASKED TO EXPLAIN Formal Presentation of Charges of Pernicious Political Activity. The Collector Invited to Explain at His Leis-ure-President Cleveland’s Indignation Said To Be Largely Imaginary. COLLECTOR KUHN. Chargee of Pernicious Partisan Activity Formally Preferred Against Him. Washington Special to Chicago Tribune. The Indianapolis collector of customs, A. M. Kuhn, has a be martyrized. To-day the Treasury Department forwarded him chargee that have been filed by the executive committee of the Indiana Ciril-serrice Reform Association, it ia said that within a few days Lucius B. Swift, the secretary of the association, made a secret visit to Washington and had an interview with the President. Ko qne is able to say what took place or to vouch positive]v for the interview, but it is known that Assistant Secretary FairChild at once took hold of the matter. A petition for Kuhn’s removal was laid before the President two or three weeks ago. Kuhn is Congressman Bynum’s chief henchman. It has been through his manipulation of federal patronage that Bynum has dovmed the other Democratic faction in the Indianapolis district. The charges against Kuhn cover the congressional muddle for six months past and recite the way his office has been nsed as a political machine. Os the offenses since the order of July 14 it is recited that Kuhn was a delegate Cos the convention of Sept. 4; that he practically bulldozed that gathering into nominating By sium; that, he boasted of his federal position, and so on. His three deputies developed a like pernicious activity, helping to break up opposition ?rimaries and doing other very bad things. IThen asked about it this afternoon, Assistant Secretary Fairchild said the charges had been formally preferred, a copy of them had been forwarded to Kuhn, and the department would wait his answer. No time had been fixed within which this must be forthcoming. Mr. Fairchild added that so far as he was aware there were no charges before the department affecting Indiana internal revenue collectors. He did not know Mr. Swift It will be seen that Mr. Kuhn csd take his own time to file his defense. Unless he is brought up sharply it will probably be after election before his answer gets to the Treasury Department and through it to the President. It is ■whispered, however, that Mr. Swift and his colaborers will not permit this; that they picked out the Indianapolis collector simply as a test victim. If he be punished before Nov. 2 for his flagrant violations of the civil-service law and the President’s order they will take it as evidence of the administration’s good faith, and will follow up the offenders. “The Boys’* Need Not Be Alarmed. Washington Special. It is not known that any federal officials were hauled over the coals at to-day’s Cabinet meeting. The splurge last week was, like the President's proclamations, intended for temporary effect Two or three office holders may be forced to quit running for other positions, and one or two obscure and friendless employes be discharged, but there will be no genuine effort to punish the violators either of the civil-servioo law or of the July order. The indignation of the President over these offenses has been greatly exaggerated. He does not read the newspapers, and unless the complaints have been made in the most formal manner possible and forced upou his attention, Mr. Cleveland is able to say he knows nothing about the charges. It thus happens he is to-day in profound ignorance of notorious instances of “pernicious activity” that are known all over the country. The President’s displeasure over the Louisiana officials who had abused their trusts in trying to renominate Floyd King was almost wholly imaginary. The interview on the subject with Collector Jonas, of New Orleans, was pure fiction. The Delaney candidacy in Wisconsin has come to the notice of the administration, possibly, through the Democratic congressional committee, which is alarmed at the outlook in the Second district. If Delaney could be forced to make way for a compromise man who would unite all tbe Democratic factions, the interference of the national administration would be forgiven. The friendliness of Post master-general Vilas for General Bragg is not of that kind which would help him punish Delaney simply for revenge. In the Indi'tDA cases there is absolutely no loophole for ihe President. The vigorous civilservice reformers there have massed all the damaging facts, shoved them under the presidential nose, and now calmly await the first vindication of civil-service reform at the expense of party ■uccess. The answer they will get will be that the charees have been referred to the proper departments. This means that nothing will be done till after election. It is doubtful if the Indiana people knew what a tremendous rock they were heaving at the President Between this charge in front and the New York city troubles in the rear, the Southern spoilsmen are literally howling with delight at tbe plight of the administratiou. They first got copies of the newspaper organs which gave the inside account of the conferences between Privato Secretary Lament tad Cabinet officers Whitney, Manning and Bayard on one side, and representatives of the local factions on the other. Now they are picking up copies of the Indiana document, which are eagerly sough i after in Washington. The design is to show their constituencies that civilaervice reform and “pernicious activity of officeholders” need frighten no Democratic officials who want to take a hand in politics.

JUSTICE FIELD. He Talks of Mr. Story’s Cast of Washington’s Faee—How Jefferson Was Inaugurated. Washington Special. “It was the custom in older times,” said Justice Field to day, “for tbe President, beginning ■with George Washington, to visit the Capitol in state at the opening of the sessions of Congress, nnd there to deliver personally to the two houses his annual message. The heads of departments made formal calls upon each other at the beginning of new administrations, and the court then began its practice of visiting the President and the Vice-president All these formalities have einee terminated, with the exception of the visit of the judiciary. Jefferson was. I believe, the first President who did not visit the Capitol at tbe beeinning of tbe sessions of Congress to present his annual messages. Jefferson could not make a public address of five minutes’ duration, and he determined to send in his message in writiug by a secretary. This was done, and since his time no attempt has been made to revive the old custom. The heads of departments afterward ceased their formal calls. “By the way,” said the Judge, “it is a matter cf surprise to me that so much has been published about leading public men of this country that is exaggerated and oftentimes absolutely untrue. For example, there are a great many people who believe that when Jefferson was inaugurated President he mounted his horse at the White House, rode unattended to the Capitol, tied his steed to the fence and delivered his inaugural address. Asa matter of fact. Jefferson was inaugurated in much the same style a3 bis predecessors. He was driven from the White House to the Capitol, attended by music and soldiers, and delivered his excellent inaugural to an audience of goodly size. ‘•The busts and photographs which we see of Washington," continued the Judge, “are not, I Sbink, accurate pictures of the man. Houdin vou will remember, took a plaster cast of Washington’s face and the remainder of his bead was filled in according to the imagination of the sculptor. Houdin’s original plaster cast of Washington it now m the possession of our famous American sculptor, now living in London, Mr. Story. He obtained it at a sale of the effects of some of Hoodin’s heirs. I saw the east in London this summer, and in it I can trace but slight resemblance to the traditional features of Washington as seen in the histories and libraries of our public schools. 1 told Mr. Story that ha owed it

to his countrymen to make from that plaster cast a bronze bust of Washington that should be set up in the National Museum at Washington, but I suppose that a fire or accident will happen some day in Story’s studio and the plaster will be destroyed.” THE CLEVELAND PUZZLE. The Hon. Franlc Lawler Kindly Explains It to the President. Baltimore American. The Hon. Frank Lawler seems to amuse tbe President very much when he calls at the White House, and Cleveland is always glad to see the Chicago Congressman. On Saturday, after introducing the base ball nine, he asked the President if it was so that he had originated a puzzle. Tbe President looked at him as if greatly astonished at the question, and then the Hon. Frank explained that he had been shown a puzzle which everyone was calling “The Cleveland Puzzle.” “It is a little more emphatic in language than you usually use,” explained Mr. Lawler, “but, then, office-seekers are mighty peculiar people, and I would not wonder at you using any kind of language to some of them.” “What is the puzzle?” asked the President, who had grown interested. “Give me a piece of paper and a pencil and I will show you,” replied the Hon. Frank. The two sat down at the desk, and Mr. Lawler put fiowu eleven ciphers on the paper, as folio Vi*: 0000 000 00 00 The President looked at them and said: “Well, I don’t see anything strange about that.” “No, not as they stand now,” said the Chicago Congressman. “But wait and see.” Then he took up the pencil again aud said: “Mark a straight line down from the low right-hand corner of the first cipher; that changes it to g. Then mark a straight line from the upper neht-Land corner of the fourth cipher, and that makes it and. Then put another similar straight line down on the fifth cipher and make it g also; a straight line upon the seventh cipher to it makes it and. Then another straight line up on the eighth cipher to it will bed also, and a straight line down on the tenth and that will make it g, and there you have a sentence, and one, it is said, you use on the office-seekers.” The President looked on the puzzle as altered, aud read: “good god, do go!” He looked at the Hon. Frank a minute, and finally said: “Well. I’ll sav it to you.” The Chicago Congressman has been very busy showing the Cleveland puzzle all around to-day, MINOR MATTERS. Condition of Crops in Indiana, as Reported by the Agent of the Agricultural Bureau. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Oct. 14—The detailed crop report of the Department of Agriculture will be issued to-morrow. Following is the report of the Indiana State agent: Corn continued to improve during the first half of September. Little injury has been done Dy frost. A number of destructive stoims passed over the northern part of the State, doing much damage by overflow. The reports indicate a slight improvement inr all summer crops. The first severe frost occurred on the night of the 30th ult., but all vegetation remained in good growing condition. Irish potatoes are reported to be rotting in the ground. These reports came from localities where the late continued rains prevailed. There are no reports of disaster to any of the crops iu the southern part of the State. Death of Judge James J. Key. Washington Special. Judge James J. Key, who was well known in Kentucky and Indiana, died at his residence in this city, late yesterday evening. He was born in Washington county, Kentucky, in 1817, and belonged to the Key and Marshall families of Maryland and Virginia. For many years be was clerk of the Circuit and Mason County courts, of Kentucky, after which he was the law partner of Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees, in Terre Haute, Ind. Just previous to the war he was judge of the Circuit Court in Perry county, Indiana. He was sent to England by Attorneygeneral Taft, in 1876, to represent the United States in cotton claims involving a considerable amount of money. His fnther was a nephew of Chief-justice John Marshall, and there also existed a relationship between the families of deceased and the author of “The Star-spangled Banner,” Francis Scott Key. He leaves a wife aud three children. He Cannot Visit Alabama. Washington Special. The President has declined the invitation to vißt Alabama next month. He was prompted to this action by the fact that his time during the latter part of November will be occuoied with preparing his annual message to Congress. The President will, however, visit the Virginia State fair at Richmond next week, but will go no further South this winter.

A FAMILY FIGHT. A New York Girl Sues a Relative of Her Betrothed Husband for Slander. Flushing, N. Y., Oct. 14 —Papers were served yesterday upon James Winslow, of Bavside, a son of the senior member of the banking firm of Winslow, Lanier & Cos., and his wife, in a suit for $20,000 damages for defamation of character, brought against them by Miss Jennie K. Travis, a daughter of R. T. Travis, who made a fortune in the rope business in New York. Miss Travis is engaged to be married to Effingham Lawrence, a son of the late Edward A. Lawrence, of the New York auction firm. Mrs. Winslow Is the daughter of William Lawrence, a member of another branch of the Lawrence family, which owns most of the land in this vicinity. It is said that in a letter to Effingham Lawrence Mrs. Winslow made certain allegations against Miss Travis. Mr. Lawrence resented the interference of his relatives, and announced his determination not only to marry Mi6s Travis, but to make her defamers regret what they had done. He showed the letter to Miss Travis, and as a result she began the present proceedings in the Supreme Court. The suit will probably be tried in New York, where the plaintiff at present lives. If it is successful Miss Travis, it is added, will sue some other members of the Lawrence family. A Disgusted Democratic Politician. Albany Special to New York Commercial Advertiser. There seems to be no doubt that Smith M. Weed has broken with the President. The fact that a year ago he entertained Cleveland at his home in Plattsburg, and this year managed to slip away jost before the President came, confirms the statement. Weed was a very efficient worker for Cleveland during the campaign of 1884. He has a great deal of influence among the iron men throughout the country, and he went to them with the request that they should not contribute to the Republican campaign fund, as they had been accustomed, in order to sustain a protective tariff. He assured them that Cleveland’s administration would not yield to the Southern and Western ideas on the subject It is said that he now sees signs that Manning and Cleveland must be compromised to those sections of the country, and should their ideas prevail it would be the ruin of the iron business. The intensity of his devotion to tbe iron business may be inferred when it is stated that he is more of an iron man than a Democrat Some of his friends say that if the next Democratic candidate for tbe presidency is from the West or South Weed will be found to be a Democratic mugwump, playing into the hands of the Republicans in the interest of protection. ' Obituary. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Edinburg, Ind., Oot 14—John A. Thompson, a banker and prominent business mhn of this city, and well known throughout the State, died here at a late hour last night. It never f#Hn*3Red Star Cough Cure. It con quers pain—St. Jacobs Oil

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1880.

TEE BIG STRIKE AT CHICAGO. The Packers Decide that Business Must Be Conducted on the Ten-Hour Plan. They Are Seeming New Men and Expect to Re? snrae Next Week—A Boycott ThreatenedProceedings of the Knights’ Assembly. TEN HOURS OR NOTHING Tbose Are the Only Terms to Which the Chicago Packers Will Agree. Chicago, Oct. 14—The question of a settle ment of the existing labor difficulties at the stockyards on a compromise is becoming a thing of the past. There is to be no compromise. Any concession must be made by the men. They must labor ten hours for ten hours’ pay, or they cannot work at all. There seems to be no other way to adjust the difficulty. Prominent packers say s they will not submit to any system but that of ten hours. It must be an unconditional surrender on the part of the men, or nothing. The pliers say they furish the money to rnn this industry, and do not want the men they are supporting to dictate terms. The meu, they say, have been running the business for the past six months, and now they (the packers) propose to run it. A prominent packer said to-day: “At a meeting of the association, the other day, I told our members that if we proposed to allow the men to dictate to us, it was time to close up and sell out.” The packers are securing men to take the places of the strikers, and it is stated that Armour’s, Fowler’s and some other houses will be able to start up next week. The packers are united, and from all appearances are determined to carry their point. Delegate Barry, of the Knights of Labor, said to-day that if Armour or any other packer attempts to start up with imported men the Knights would boycott his goods. “There is no class of goods,” he said, “that can be so quietly affected. The trade mark that is now worth millions will become a signal to all workingmen to avoid, not onMT the goods bearing it, but the stores handling the goods.” At a meeting to-nightof District Assembly No. 57, Knights of Labor, it was decided to order out. to-morrow, all the employes of Armonr & Co.’s beet department. This move will add Beveral thousand men to those already *out, and will make the strike general, at least so far as the Armour establishments are concerned. At midnight the members of District Assembly 57 were still in session. Mr. T. P. Barry, who was one of two delegates sent here by the Richmond convention, with authority to settle the strike, says he will probably leave for Richmond to-morrow night He says he has arrived at the conclusion that the packers are merely playing for time. He broadly intimates that his mission in Richmond will be to institute, if possible, a boycott against Armour, who he is convinced is alone in the way of an amicable settlement of the stockyards trouble.

THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR. Aid for Strikers—Selecting the Members of tlie General Executive Board. Richmond, Va., Oct. 14.—The executive board of the Knights of Labor held a meeting at 8 o’clock thi6 morning to consider the question of sending aid to the locked-out cotton workers of Augusta, Ga.; the curriers and tanners at Salem and Peabody, Mass., and the journeymen plumbers, of New York city. The General Assembly had already voted that money should be appropriated for their relief. It was resolved that the sum of $15,000 should be devoted to this purpose, $5,000 in each of the cases considered, and that further sums be sent as needed. Mr. Powderly held a conference at Ylotel, last night, with fifteen or sixteen colored delegates to the General Assembly. They represent the colored assemblies of Knights of Labor of Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi and other Southern States. The object of the conference was the formation of a bureau of colored Knights throughout the Southern States for the purpose of securing ac< irate statistics relative to the condition of the colored people and their relation to white laborers wherever they are employed together. These statistics are to comprise everything in connection with the hours of labor, the treatment they receive from their employers, their wages, cost of living, etc. It is proposed to learn whether they receive the full liberty and rights to which they are legally entitled. 4 ‘But,” Mr. Powderly said, in speaking of the conference and its object, “the question of social equality is not one of the objects of the bureau. Its object is to stimulate the colored people to work for their own elevation.” The delegates he met were bright, intelligent men, who seemed well fitted to aid in improving the condition of their race. It was decided to elect a chairman and a secretary, and to have assistants in each of the Southern States. Immediately after the General Assembly was called to order this morning the work of balloting for members of the executive hoard was begun. There are six members of the board to be elected, the general master workman, the general secretary and the treasurer being ex officio members. The entire morning session was consumed in balloting for members of the general executive board. The vote stood as follows: Thomas B. Barry, 304; John W. Hayes, 284 Barry was elected. Second Ballot—John W. Haves, 335; A. A Cprleton, 124. Hayes was elected. Third Ballot— Win. 11. Bailey, 307; A. A. Carleton. 17G. Bailey was elected. A recess was taken at 12 o’clock until 2 p. M. The remaining ballots for members of the general executive board resulted as follows: A. A. Carleton, 292; T. B. McGuire, 97. Carleton was elected. T. B. McGuire, 331, Joseph Buchanan, 281. Mr. McGuire was elected. Ira H. Ailesworth, 315; Joseph Buchanan, 882. Ailesworth was elected. There was a preliminary ballot for the election of two members of the general co-operative board, to fill the places of the two retiring members, and the assembly then adjourned to tomorrow morning, when the election of general officers will be concluded. OTHER LABOR iSEWS. The Strike of Minneapolis Switchmen Causes Delay In Moving Goods. Minneapolis, Oct. 14.—A1l the old switchmen of the Milwaukee & St. Paul road joined the strikers last night, and their places were promptly filled this morning. Several conferences were held between the switchmen and the railroad managers this morning, but no compromise was reached. The St. Paul switchmen have not accepted the invitntion to join the strike. They say if the Minneapolis men are successful they will gain the same raise withou t a strike. The Milwaukee road brought up from Milwaukee, this morning, about sixty switchmen and special policemen. Merchants are having considerable difficulty in securing transportation. Settled by Arbitration. Philadelphia, Oct. 14—Work will be resumed to-morrow morning at all of the Frankford cotton andwoolen mills, which have been lying idle for the past uine days, and in which about 1.100 hands were employed. Tbe trouble arose through a demand for an increase of wages. Arbitration has been agreed upon. Capture of Defaulter Bradley. Cleveland, 0., Oct. 15.—Last Monday a well-dressed man, about forty years old, accompanied by his wife, arrived at Silverthorn’s, a suburban hotel at Rooky River, six miles from Cleveland. To-dav Mat Pinkerton, of Chicago, placer tbe man under arrest, and at 2 o’clock this morning left on tbe Lake Shore road with him, bound for Chicago. The aau proved to bo

J. 7. J. Bradley, the defaulting manager of the Pullman Sleeping-car Company, who disappeared last July, after having embezzled $35,000 from the company. Bradley formerly bod charge of the Pnllman interests at Chicago and Detroit CHIEF-JUSTICE CHASES REMAINS. The Ceremonies Incident to Their Transfer to the Care of the State of Ohio. Cincinnati, Oct 14. —The special train bearin the remains of Chief-justice Chase, and the committees and others who are to attend the ceremonies here to-day. arrived this morning at 9 o’clock over the Cincinnati, Washington & Baltimore road. Under the arrangements made by a local committee, of which Mayor Smith was chairman, the paTty was met at the depot and a cortege formed to escort the remains to Music Hall. The weather, which has been fine for many days, became stormy, with rain, last night, but by the time the cortege began to form the clouds had partly broken away and a warm October sun was shining through tbe purified air. There was a respectful gathering of people about the Grand Central Passenger Station, anxious in that way to testify their re gard for the distinguished dead. A platoon of police prevented encroachment upon the space required for the orderly formation of the cortege. This was formed with the first carriage containing Governor Foraker, Mayor Amor Smith, Attorney-general J. A. Kohler and Murat Halstead. The second carnage contained the members of the Supreme Court of the State, Hons. T. F. Micsball, M. D. Follett. Selwyn Owens and W. T. Spear. The third was occupied by Hon. Alphonso Taft, Hon. A. F. Perry, Hon. M. F. Force and Hon. W. S. Groesbeck. The fourth, fifth and sixth carriages contained representatives of the Bar Association and of the Chamber of Commerce of Cincinnati. Arriving at Music Hall the casket was borne down the center aise and placed on two columns resting on a platform in front of the center of the stage, and the seven colored pall-bearers sat down on either side of the remains*as a guard of honor. The hall was appropriately draped. The stage was reserved for the speakers and for the distinguished invited guests. The hall was well filled with members of the Grand Army of the Republic posts, who came in organized bodies, and by other ladies and gentlemen. Many elderly persons were observed in tbe hall. A simple floral design, in white, representing a cross, a wreath and an anchor, was the only ornament about the casket. As Mrs. Catharine Chase Sprague, with the party in company with her, entered the hall and passed down the center isle, the great organ sounded a funeral composition. At its conclusion Hoti. Ben Butterwortii made a brief address, transferring the remains to the State of Ohio, closing by committing to Governor Foraker the casket containing all that remains of the distinguished citizen of Ohio. Governor Foraker, in accepting the sacred trust for the State, said the entire State of Ohio felt honored by this day’s proceedings. The Governor then paid a tribute to the memory of the dead jurist. Praver was then offered by the Rev. Dr. John Hall, of New York. This was followed by the “Chorus of Angels.” Ex-Governor Hoadly’s oration was not, as he said, the work of a historian, or of a critic, but only the eulogy of a loving disciple. It was delivered with tenderness, which at times was tinged with deep feeling. The choir then sang “Prayer.” Justice Stanley Matthews, of the United States Supreme Court, in making the closing address, said he could add nothing to the picture whieh had been drawn of the public services of Salmon P. Chase, and only spoke because in his youth he had fallen under the spell and influence of Mr. Chase, and had ever since been his follower and his friend. James E. Murdock, the veteran tragedian, recited a poem by W. D. Gallagher, and, after a benediction, the remains were carried to Spring Grove Cemetery, where they were committed to rest in the family lot.

Women’s Tribute to Judge Chase. Washington Special. The meeting of the women clerks in the Treasury to pass suitable resolutions upon the removal of Chief-justice Chase’s ashes from Washington, although not exactly a popular move, because it was engineered by Mrs. Belva Lockwood, was yet a very appropriate one. No man ever so strenuouslyjopposed young men entering jthe departmental service as Chief-justice Chase, and he often spoke of his failure to get a government clerkship which he applied for when a vountr man as the most fortunate event in his life. His celebrated reply to a yonne man who asked his help in getting a government clerkship is well known: I’ll give you half a dollar to buy yourself an axe to go to work with, but I won’t give you a government clerkship. I’ve ruined two or three promising young fellows that way, and I’ve made up my mind not to ruin any more. He did, however, try the experiment of putting twenty women in the currency division of the Treasury, and the 5.000 women in the country in government employ to-day may well remember with gratitude the great man who had the moral courage to inaugurate this movoment. Perhaps the Chief-justice wanted to save the 5,000 young men from destruction, of whom 99 per cent, would have been utterly ruiuod were they in the places of these women. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The body of Bayard Putnam, chief of the government topographical survey, was found hanging to a tree yesterday morning, a short distance from the geologist’s camp, near North Adami, Mass., where he had been working. He had been missine from the camp for a week. No cause for his suicide is known. Two weeks ago Nicholas Schumaker, living east of Hersev, Mich., disappeared, and search was made for his body without success until yesterday, when two boys, while fishing, came across his body in a creek. A post-mortem examination indicates that death resulted from being hit on the head several time with a blunt instrument. Perry Harrington, a farmer living in Ashtabula county, Ohio, was murdered two years ago. Louis Webster, a young man, was arrested for the crime, and on two trials was convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to be hanged in both cases. In the third trial, which was held in Trumbull county, the jury has just brought in a verdict of not guilty. Two men entered Wilmarth’s Bank, at Ashland, Wis., about 10 o’clock yesterday morning, and compelled Mr. Wilruarth to enter the vault at the muzzle of their revolvers. While he was in the vault the robbers secured $4,000 in cash from a small safe, and made their escape. The police and a posse of citizens are on the track of the robbers, who took to the woods. The steam barge Selah Chamberlain, of Cleveland. collided with an unknown steamer, \Vndnesday night, between 8 and 9 o’clock, when three miles northeast of Shoboygan, W is., and sunk in forty-two feet of water. Five men aro missing, and are supposed to have gone down with the Chamberlain. Nothing is known of the fate of the unknown 6teamer. Steamship News. Bremen, Oct. 14—Arrived: Hermann, from New York. New York, Oct 14—Arrived: Waesland, from Antwerp. Boston, Mass., Oct 14.—Arrived: Kansas, Bavarian, from Liverpool. Fears of Extermination. New York Graphic (Dem.) Let us hope the time will not soon come when the mugwump will feel it his duty to shoot the office-holder and office-seeker on sight Really, without these gentlemen we could not get along stall When to Arrive. Maud Howe, in Boston Transcript. It is always well to arrive at anew place after dark and to take one’s first imnression of it the next morning when the mind is fresh. Take Ayer’s Pills for consupatiou and for all the purposes of a purgative medicine. Safe and effectual.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of All Kinds in the Two States. A Deaf Man Killed by a Passenger Train— Wife-Murderer Wildman Lynched by a Mob—Texas Cattle Fever in Illinois. INDIANA. Deaf Man Ran Down and Killed by an 1, D. & S. Passenger Train. Special to the Indianapolis journal. Hillsdale, Oct. 14.—This afternoon the eastbound mail train on the Indianapolis, Decatur & Springfield railway, while rounding a curve in a deep cut near Hillsdale, struck a deaf man named Bailey Harris, who was walking on the track. -Harris lived ten minutes. The engineer reversed his engine, but failed to save bim. He was thirty years of age and leaves a widow and three children. Hon. Will Combaok at Thorn town. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Thorntown, Oct 14. —Hon. Will Cnmback addressed a large and intelligent audience at the Academy Hall last night. The large ball was packed, and quite a number of Democrats and Prohibitionists were present to listen to the remarks of one of Indiana’s best orators. Mr. Cumback confined hiR remarks mainly to the infamous gerrymander and the record of the Democratic party since it obtained control of the national government. The Republican party is in good shape in this county, and the prospects are exceedingly bright for a good round majority in November. Minor Notes. Fire in the street-railway hay barns at Richmond. yesterday, did damage to the amount of $800; insured. Elizabeth McKinney, of Columbus, has been granted a divorce from Leander B. McKinney, better known as the notorious Buck McKinney. A poor-house inmate, named Samuel Lewis, colored, was killed, near Riohmona, by an eastbound Panhandle train, yesterday, his head being nearly severed from his body.* Cyrns W. Armstrong, one of the oldest citizens of Evansville, died on Wednesday, aged eightyone. He was at the head of the Armstrong Furniture Company, the largest establishment in that part of the State. He leaves a widow and several grown children. A stock company has been organized at Rochester with a capital of $2,000. to bore for oil or gas, and the officers duly elected. The company propose securing the old well driven by the town to the depth of 500 feet, and will extend it until they strike oil or gas. Ail of the stock was taken within six hours. The directors will take immediate steps to secure operations, and push the work to success or failure. Arrangements have been completed for the reunion of the Eighth. Eighteenth and One-hun-dred-and fifty-third Indiana regiment#, and First Indiana Battery at Wabash, on Oct. 19. It is expected that over one thousand soldiers from all sections of the State will be in attendance. Hon. Stanton J. Peelle will deliver the principal address. Soldiers will be granted a special rate on all railroads of one and one-fifth fare, by securing certificates at starting points. The Fort Wayne Electric-light Company has begun suit against Michigan City for infringement of patent in using the Jenney electric light, which plant was put in last sprine by the Jenney Company, of Indianapolis. Michigan City is amply protected by an indemnity bond, filed by the Indianapolis company, and only figures in the suit nominally, as the Teal test is between the two companies. The suit, which will be tried in the United States Court, is considered of much importance.

ILLINOIS. Wife-Murderer Wildman Taken from Jail and Hanged by a Mob. Monticello, Oct. 14. —All o’clock this morning about two hundred disguised men overpowered the sheriff and broke into the jail, and took therefrom Henry Wildman, the wife-murderer, and hanged him to a small shade tree near the jail. After hanging him they shot him eleven times, to make sure of their work. The mob was well organized. They left the body hangiug, and it was not cut down until 6 o’clock, after the arrival of the coroner. The men seemed greatly enraged, and were quite profuse in their U6e of profanity. Wildman’s body will be interred to-morrow. Wildman’s crime was committed July 3, 1886. On the morning of that day he sent his elder children to town to celebrate. His wife, an eight-year-old daughter, four-year-old boy and himself remaiped at home. An old quarrel between him and his wife was renewed, and she left the house, starting toward a neighbor’s. He coaxed her back, with the promise that he would cease his abuse. No sooner had she stepped into the bouse than he locked the door and drew a razor. She begged piteously for her life, but he threw her to the floor, held her arms with his knees, and almost severed her head from her body. The little girl witnessed the brutal butchery through the window. Wildman then started across the field and cut his own throat with a pocket-knife, continuing to walk until he fell exhauted to the ground. When his awfnl deed became known in the community the neighbors met to hang'him. but desisted because of his mutilated neck. They fullv expected to lynch him as soon aB be was well enough, but by a clever ruse the sheriff succeeded in getting him to the jail. The grand jury, which convened Sept. 6. indicted him. A motion for a change of venue and a continuance were both overruled by Judge C. B. Smith, but the case failed to come to trial for want of time during the session of court. Wildman was a prominent citizen of Piatt county, and owned a farm worth $25,000. He was a member of the county central committee of one of the leading political parties. The lynchers were undoubtedly his old neighbors, most of whom thoroughly disliked him because of overbearing manners, and many of whom were relatives of Mrs. Wildman. Texas Fever in Uc.Lean County. Special to the Imll&nanolis Journal. Bloomington, Oct. 14.—Five head of feeding cattle have died from Texas fever on the farm of James Elvin. near Mernain, this county. They were part of a car-load purchased by Mr. Elvin at the Chicago stockyards two weeks ago. Several others are sick, and much solicitude is felt in the neighborhood. Brief Mention. On Wednesday afternoon the house of Mr. J. Edwards. four miles from Waverly, was entered and robbed of $1,400. Peter Sehwitz, an old citizen of Peoria, died on Wednesday, aged about sixty. He leaves an estate valued at $75,000. Harry Goff, formerly of Chicago, tried at Kankakee, has been sentenced to serve two years in the penitentiary for bigamy. Three wives, with their children, appeared against him on the trial. J. W. Helm’s grain elevator at Sidnev, ten mile# east of Tolono, waa destroyed by fire on Wednesday. Some 17,000 bushels of corn in the building and three cars of grain on the track were also burned. The loss exceeds $12,000, with insurance of $4,500. The water works tower at Kankakee, which was completed last week, was blown over yesterday, crashing the barn of H. H. Johnson and a portion of the residence of Josh Aldrich. Aldrich and his wife were in another portion of the bouse at the time, and were uninjured. Toe tower was 125 feet high and 20 feet across, was of boiler iron, and cost $15,000. The wind blew down trees and chimneys and tore off r" " ’ No lives were lost. _ Manning’s Probable Ketlremen. New York Special. Secretary Manning returned to Washington to-day. He was seen this morning, and appeared to be in better health than tuoaL He declined

to discuss the report about bis retirement, bttl an intimate friend volunteers the information that he will leave the Treasury Department before Jan. 1. “Shalt We Have a Prohibition Party?” To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Bishop Merrill, in an article, entitled “The Remedy, ’ in the Western Christian Advocate of Oct. 6, asks the question, “Shall we have a Prohibition party? He answers, “Yes, on two conditions: First, that a party is r.ecessarv to the end in view, and second, that the end can be secured in that way;” but be says “Neither condition exists.” He shows that “the law desired is not a party law, and no one of any intelligence expects a party to make it” And he says: “Even if it could be secured in that way, it would be far better, and in every way more satisfactory and more efficient to have it by the non-partisan action of the peoole.” He says: “There are three sorts of legislation—the partisan, tbe compromise and the non-partisan.’ 1 The first is temporary and inefficient, the second has no hearty support from anybody, while the non-partisan is tbe people’s work and is most satisfactory, most efficient and best enforced, and, if really backed by a majority of the wisest and best citizens, becomes a part of “the texture of the government” He says: “There is very little partisan legislation; the principal work of the parties is the distribution of office and spoils. State benevolences, criminal laws, educational enterprises, foreign relations, finances, tariff, domestic policies, and all great matters of public concern, are adopted without division on party lines. Laws concerning morals, religion, the Sabbath, and all such questions, to be effective, must be non-partisan; and such must be prohibition. There is not in it one single political element. Prohibition is strongest when it stands alone. It is stronger to-day than any party measure before the country, and it is so strong that, if kept free from party complications, no party in existence will venture to antagonize it. when its power is once shown in non-party action. The attempt to use it for party purposes is a weakness. It is too big for restriction within party lines—the cause is principle; tbe party is method, and tbe method is too small for the principle.” These words of Bishop Merrill are worthy of very careful thought It seems to me that they are wise words. This government is of the people, by the people and for the people. That the majority mast shall govern is absolutely essential if we remaiu a free people. If the majority ask for and demand prohibition, whatever party is in power should enact * prohibition. The Republican party has acted upon this principle. Its broad and solid platform is and has been —tbe will of the people must and shall be respected and carried out. In lowa, when the people voted for prohibition, the Republican party, without a prohibition plank in its platform, said the people's will roust be respected, and prohibition was enacted. It is for the people to say what kind of temperance legislation they want, and no party has a right to disregard the will of the majority. The way to obtain prohibition is to educate the people in favor of it, and then, when the people demand it, put the party in power that represents the will of tbe majority. No party can or ought to live that will not submit these questions to tbe people when they demand such a submission. All attempts at disfranchising the majority must end in fai.ure. A free people can remain so only where there is a free bailot, and where every man’s ballot is worth as much as any other man’s ballot. The conditions for a Prohibition party do not exist, as the Bishop has well said, and its existence is a weakness to the temperance cause. It represents avery small minority of the real prohibition vote. In those States where prohibition has been submitted to the people, there were cast more than 656,000 votes for prohibition, while the Prohibition party’s vote intbose States foots up only about 30.000. In lowa prohibitkaf' had more than 175.000 votes, while the third party gave, last year, only 1,405 votes. This third party method is the method of folly and madness, and proceeds upon the absurd and false theory that to build up and maintain one must destroy and tear down. Tbe Republican party is right on this question. It says the people shall determine the question for themselves. If a county w*nts4j§s-. hibition its people may have it; if a county wants taxation and restriction only, the people’s voice shall be heard aud respected; if a majority of the people say we do not want the saloon among us, the saloon must go; if the majority say we want the saloon, the saloon may stay and bear the burdens it creates, and there will be room for tbe prohibition missionary in that place. Let the majority rule. Educate and maks that majority wise and pure. Give every man an eaual chance and a free ballot, and out of that rule will come right legislation and prohibition in its most effective and efficient form. Newcastle, Ind., Oct. 12. T. B. Redding. The Best News in a Paper. Joseph Pulitzer’s Interview. “What sort of news have you found of tbs most value from the journalist’s point of view?* “Local news, by all odds. Give me local news in preference to any other all the time. Thera is no man on a paper of greater value than the best reporter. The only trouble is so many extraordinary qualities are required to make up n first class reporter that he is hard to got and harder to keep.” Another March Through Georgia, Hurrah, hurrah, we bring the jubilee, Hurrah, hurrah, p-v-o-h-i-b So they sang the chorus in Atlanta, but you see ~] It has petered out in Georgia. —Chicago Tribune,

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