Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 January 1887 — Page 4

THE INDIAKAPOL1S JOURlSrAI., SDKDAT. JAKUABY 30, 1887-TWELYE PAGES.

HAMPEEED BY THE STRIKE.

ANnmber of Railway Freight-Handlers Added to the List of Idle Men. Steamers Delayed by Inexperience of the Kewly-Employed Men Chairman of the Strikers' Hoard Arrested for Conspiracy. New York, Jan. 29. The spread of the strike to the railroad freight-handlers on , the several railroads having dock facilities oa the city water front, has brought the number of men now out up to nearly 30,000. The probability is that before the day U over other railroad employes will cease work. The men on the New York City & Northern railroad Pier 40, East river, claim to hare had grievances against the company on aseonnt of low rates of wages, and also irregularity of pay days, the men claiming that in some Instances the pay was more than a month overdue. Though this is denied by the company, the men, through sympathy with the coalshorelers and the steamship longshoremen, went out yesterday. They were sent for by Mr. Allen, the superintendent, but refused to treat with him individually. The railroad men on the Hartford dock. East river, were the next to jo out. and it is rumored that to-day the men on tfce Pennsylvania and other railroad docks will pro out. The greatest difficulty in moving freight is on the docks along the North river, where most of the ocean steamers are berthed. All outgoing vessels have been delayed for want of coal, and .t was said at the headquarters of the strikers that several vessels had proceeded to sea with insufficient supplies of coal, and also with insompletfl cargoes. Long lines of trucks were tfanding along the front of the piers on West street, this morning, aad the drivers helped to toad them on the dock. There is no difficulty in jetting men to load the freightbut as the men are green at the work in most instances, they are necessarily slow. The steamer La Burgoyne, of the French line, sailed this morning, but it was stated that her cargo" was not complete. The Erin of the National line, which should have sailed on Thcrsday, could cot get away to-day, and an effort will be made to have her ready for sea at high water on Sunday. The Helvetia, of the same line, still lies alongside the dock with the cargo untouched. The stevedore did not allow the eompany the use of his gear, and there are no sailors to rig up new, tackle. The superintendent of the dock says he has got all the men he needs. This morning a gang of about thirty, of almost all nationalities, applied for work. They were not engaged, and in a body passed on to (he Cunard pier and went to work. The National company did not engage them because they were not accustomed to handling freight The Morgan line steamer El Paso was being unloaded by the Italians who were engaged on the previous day. " This boat will sail on time, the superintendent says. The New York, of the same lice, came cp yesterday, but her hatches had not, at 10 o'clock, been opened. The Stonington line btvate wera. running on time. The strike did not iffect this co'mpany to any extent. The Ocean $teamshin Company's steamer Tallahassee is being loaded by non-union men, and the agent savs 3he will be ready for sea to-day. There are plenty of men to be had, and though they do not get the jtprk done as rapidly as the old men the -company is getting all the help it requires. The Cunarder GaUia will be able to sail to-day. The dock master said he had got all the help he needed. On the Old Dominion dock there were over 100 men at work to day, And many men who applied for work were turned away. The steamer Old Dominion, it was said, would sail on time. The Wyoming, of the Onion line, bad three gangs of men at work on her. The dock-master says they can get all the coal that is required and all the men they need to handle the freight. Althongh the places of many of the strikers have been filled with green hands, there Is considerable difficulty in moving freight. The Mallory line refused to take anymore freight to-day, and will not receive any more un til the freight on hand has been shipped. Some of the old hands returned to work. Thirty new men were put at work unloading the State of Texas. The men were Italians and Germans. The steamer will sail to-day on time. The Carondelet sailed yesterday with a full cargo and plenty of coal. New hands were at work on the Ward-line steamer San Marcos, which will sail to-day if she can be loaded in time. . Mr. Ward said the men hud struck for an advance of ten cents and had been given that amount. He expected to have the vessel ready to sail on time. He could not say that the advance would be permanent At the pier of the Clyde line, the same difficulty in moving freight occurred. On the North river more difficulty occurred. Long lines of empty trucks stood in frent of every pier where men had been put to work. In many cases truckmen helped to load their own trucks. At the Onion line office it was said that the Wyoming would be ready to sail by Tuesday. The green hands were at work, and by the time the next vessel came in they would be ready to handle freight as quickly as old hands. At the State line office the chief clerk said that the company was hot at all embarrassed by the strike, for the reason that none of their vessels would sail for a week. At the Cunard line office it was Bald they could get all the men they wanted. The Gallia had been coaled and cargoed by nonunion men. The vessel will sail to-morrow. At the Anehor line it was said: "We have all the men we want about 450." At the French Transatlantiqne line the agent said his company was not inconvenienced.. It was reported at noon to-day that the weigher in the custom house had struck, out of svmpathy with the 'longshoremen, and the rumor caused some excitement among the officials. It transpired, however, that it was not the weighers, but their laborers, who had struck. These men are paid by the coveriiment, but do not come under the general designation of "government officials." They are simply 'longshoremen, and have been rmid the same rates as other 'longshoremen. The weighers' 'longshoremen on the East river and the Brooklyn fide were the only men who joined he strikers. The men on the North-river ide are expected to follow. Auditor B'.atchford, of the custom-house, said that the demands of the men for 10 cents per hour extra could not be given except by authority from the Secretary at Washington. There were only a few weighers, and if they struck there were plenty of men to jump into their places. The Brooklyn 'longshoremen are all out yet. , The utrikers stand about the docks smoking and watching the few non-union men at work. There has been no trouble, except jeering at non-union men. A delegation ef strikers visited every saloon from Red Hook to Green Point, and warned the proprietors not to sell liquor to the non-union men, under penalty of boycott A gang of Italians came over from New York and were escorted by the police to the Commercial stores. The men at Wilkes's coal-yard refused to leave worg when ordered by strikers. A brick was thrown, but the police restored order. -James E. Quinn. of the executive board of tho 'Longshoremen's Union, was arrested at noon tori a v by Deputy United States Marshal George Holmes for conspiring to injure the business of the Old Dominion Steamship Company, in an action brought in the United States Circuit Court to recover $20,000 damages. He was released on (5,000 bail. The charge was not brought only against Quinn, bnt also against J. J. McKenna, T. B. Pntnara. Patrick McG artland and Thomas MrGrsth, who. with Quinn, constitute the executive board of the 'Longshoremen's Association. The counsel for Quinn taid that none of the accused would run away, and that as soon as bail could be procured for them they would be delivered to the marshal. Counsel said that the charge was brought for the purpose of intimidating and compelling the members of the executive board to flee the eity. r after Quinn's bondsmen bad been accepted it tas concluded that no more arrests would be cade to-day. Their counsel proiniced to deliver

the other members of the executive board to the United States marshal on Monday next, and have bondsmen ready to f ornish bail There seems to be a strong probability that within the next twenty-four hours the strike situation in this vicinity will be complicated by the tying up of almost every surface railroad in the eity. Thia step is said to be in contemplation as an act of moral support to the striking 'longshoremen and coal-handlers. Conductors on several of the roads declared to-day that the tie-up was not only in contemplation, but had been, practically decided upon. Great resentment was caused among the drivers on a particular line this morning by an order from the superintendent taking away their stools. Heretofore it has beeu customary for drivers to drive sitting between Forty-fourth and Eighty-sixth streets. The strikers said that every man on the road would strike unless the stools were restored, independent of the proposed movement to support the 'longshoremen. A meeting of the employes of the road is in progress to night and the stools will be demanded from the superintendent. If he refuses to give them, the order for the strike will be sent out. The Thirteen Will Ite Sustained. Chicago, Jan. 29. Selz, Schwab & Co.'s 225 strikers fought shy of the factory, at the corner of Washington street and Wabash avenue, this morning. There were no crowds around, and two policemen, who stood on the opposite corner, bad nothing to do. The thirteen young women who precipitated the strike by refusing to join the Knights of Labor were at work on the top floor, and the foreman remained in the office to receive applications for places. One of the members of the firm said he expected to have no trouble in getting men enough to fill the vacancies, and that there would probably I be a full force on by the middle of the week. This afternoon a special committee of three, from district assembly No. 24, visited the factory. They asked to talk with tho girls, and were ushered into the work-room. There a spirited conference was held, and the young women announced that they would sooner quit than join the Knights. Later the committee talked the matter over With Mr. Mayer. They asked him. he said, whether it was policy to lot 225 men go for the sake of thirteen women. He replied: "It may not be policy, bnt, if the thirteen are in the right, the firm will stand with them as against the 225." Mr. Mayer said the members of the firm are a unit on the question, and that there would be no backdown. The strikers also present an uncompromising front. LOSSES BY FIRE. Destruction of One of the Steamship Piers In New York Harbor Loss, 80,000. New York, Jan. 29. Fira broke out this afternoon on the Cromwell Pier, No. 9 North river, and in less than an hour the whole structure and its contents were destroyed. The steamers of this line ply between New York and New Orleans. When the engines, summoned by three alarms of fire, got to the scene the whole pier was one mass of flames. The fire was first seen in a stack of cotton bales in the center of the dock, and the rapidity with which the flames spread barely gave the dock hands time to escape. Horses attached to trucks were on the dock at the time, and it was supposed that some

or tnem nad been burned. Alongside the pier lay the steamer Louisiana, which was ready to sail, and on her decks were passengers waving their adieus to their friends on shore. On the other side of the dock was the steamer New Orleans. Both vessels were towed out to midstream. The passengers on the Louisiana were taken off by the police officers on the dock, who were protecting the non-union workment. The vessel's upper works were in flames while the passengers were being passed down the side. . The Louisiana was towed out into the stream and the flames extinguished. She will be ready to sail as soon as repairs are made. There were 200 bales of cotton piled up on the dock, besidee a lot of other freight ready for shipment. Many bales of cotton and barrels of sugar were rolled off the dock before the fire reached them. In a short time it was seen that the pier could not be saved, and a portion of the fire department lent their efforts to save the adjoining tiers. The' Long Branch pier caught fire several times, owing to the flame being carried that way by the wind. Pier 10, on the north side, escaped with a scorching to its paint, and so did the houses on West street opposite the dock. About twenty streams of water were playing on the fire ten minutes after it broke out, from engines and fire-boats on the river. It was reported that the fire was started by strikers, but the police deny this. The police estimate the damage at about $80,000; fully insured. The cause of the fire is not known. Vanceboro, Me., Jan. 29. The steam mill of the Vanceboro Wooden-ware Company was burned to-night Loss, $40,000. About 100 men will be thrown out of employment. Operations of the Switching1 Clubs. Chicago, Jan. 29. One of the morning papers here gives the result of its investigation of the operations of the "hickory -switching" clubs said to exist in Orange, Harrison and Crawford counties of southern Indiana. The clubs achieved some notoriety four months ago in the rough usage of a woman a few miles from English. She was suspected of gross immorality, and was dragged from her bouse at midnight Her companion, a young man named Bostwick, was taken to a tree and flogged. She was not whipped, but was roughly handled. The most recent flogging is described as having occurred five days ago, of a man named Joe Williams, at Marengo, in Crawford county, who was charged with having squandered all his money in drink, leaving his wife and three children in a starving condition. After having been warned to go to work, and failing to do so, he was taken one night to a big walnut tree on the outskirts of the village and flogged with hickory switches into unconsciousness. He is now at his home in bed, showing frightful cuts on his back. ' A few nights before William H. Trotter was whipped under almost similar conditions. The wife of Trotter bad been working out to obtain a living. She says her husband has now gone to work, and is showing great affection for her and the children. Reaching Oat for Kansas City. St. Lotis, Jan. 28. Arrangements for the consolidation of the St Louis & Kansas City short-line and the Missouri Central railroads have been completed, the deal closed, and the papers signed. A meeting of the stockholders will be held in this city on Tuesday next, and John D. Perry, of St Louis, will be elected president, and Geo. W. Parker, of the Cairo short-line, vice-president The board of direct org will be selected by the holders of the fran chlses. When it was asserted that Missouri Central was to be a western extension of the Bee-line, the officials of that company at Cleveland stoutly denied it, but it is now proved to be true. Among other things that go to prove this is the fact that President Stevenson Burke, of the Bee-line, will be elected president of the board of directors of the consolidated lines. Nothing definite has been decided upon as to the route, except that the line will pass through St. Louis, instead of Alton, as previously planned, and that a traffic arrangement will probably be made with the proposed St Louis, Kansas City and Colorado road. Obituary. Special to the ludlanatolis Journal. Shelbvville. Jan. 29. Greenup Stafford, of Shelby county, died at his home, two and a half miles south of town, last night, shortly after o'clock. He had been suffering for a long time with rheumatism, but the immediate cause of death was paralysis of the heart He was seven ty-six years old, and leaves a widow aud several children. Cambridge City, Ind., Jan. 23 William Conklin died this afternoon, aged fifty six years. He had been a citizen of this place all of his bust ness career. Ee was engaged in the hardware business, and about two weeks since, while handling barb wire, slightly wounded the palm of his right hnnd. From this blood poisoning resulted, followed by bis death. Free Oat-Door Exhibition at the Casino. Professor Weitzman, the noted Russian wirewalker, will give a free exhibition in front of the Casino at 12 o'clock coon, Monday, Jan. 31, and every day thereafter daring the week.

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. Features of the Pending? Campaign la Germany The Government and the Socialists. Berlin, Jan. 29. The ballot scrutiny being now fixed for March 2, the Reichstag cannot meet before the 8th of that month. The preparations for the elections are proceeding very quietly, but on all sides with much activity. The gownment is working chiefly along two lines to impede the Socialist electoral propaganda and to influence the return of Clerical candidates supporting the septennate. Toward the latter object a new church bill will be laid before the upper house of the Prussian Landtag on Feb. 14. The bill embodies a thorough rev'sion of the May laws, including the right of residence of religious orders: recognizes the Vatican's interpretation of the Anzeigerphflecht, and practically renounces, during a stated period (reported to be ten years), all rights of the state to approve the appointments to clerical vacancies except in Polish districts. The Germania considers that the modifications agreed to by the government do not amount to a complete revision of the May laws, but that in the meantime they will satisfy the Vatican and gratify Catholics. The repression of the Socialists extends to the suppression of electoral meetings; the arrest of the leading members of local committees, and the seizure of manifestoes if the police consider the appeals a breach of the law. At Dantzic, on Thursday, twelve Socialists were arrested, including Herr Joachim, a candidate for the Reichstag, and nearly all the members of his cabinet. The police made the usual charge that the prisoners were members of a secret society. The Berlin police have so terrorized the owners of halls in the workingmen's quarters, in which popular meetings have hitherto been held, that they now refuse to let them for political purposes, and a similar difficulty is encountered by those desiring to hold meetings in beerhouses. But, notwithstanding the efforts of the police, the socialistic candidatures are progressing. Singer, the Socialist candidate in the Fourth district; Hazenclever, in the" Sixth, and Cristensen, in the First, are all considered sure of election. j More Talk About War. Berlin, Jan. 29. The statements of the official press that the calling out of the reserves does not imply war has failed to assure the general public, while both on the bourse and in military circles the measure is interpreted as part of the campaign preparations. The bourse to-day was the flattest since Monday's scare, and the feeling of alarm approached a semi-panic toward the close, after the receipt of bad advices from Paris and Vienna. On the Vienna Bourse there was intense depression, partly arising rom several failures announced yesterday. One speculator committed suicide in front of the Rathhaus. The Mulhausen papers ' announce the purchase of large school bnildines at Zillisheim, near Colmar, for barracks for Gorman troops. Reinforcements have arrived at Dieuze, Hagenau and other frontier postB. An Alsace journal reports that the French' are building wooden barracks at Geraidmer to accommodate 3,000 more, and that at other places in the Vosges smaller barracks are being erected. The garrisons at Epinal, Brnyeres and Saint Wie have each been reinforced with 5,000 troops. The National Zietung says it sees that France is preparing for immediate war. The Germans need not discuss the truth of the question that France is only defending herself against possible assault The Progressists' prospects are rather doubt

ful. Since the Dantzic Progressists declared in favor of the septennate, other dia triets, including Konigsberg and Sonderhausen, have decided only to elect candidates who will vote for the military bill in its entirety. At Friedberg and Arnswalde a Progres8ist'"1ias been nominated who promises to vote for the septennate. DAILY WEATHEK BULLETIN. Indications. Washington, Jan. 30, 1 a. w. Special indications for twenty-four hours from 7 A. at for Indiana Colder, fair weather; cold wave. For West Virginia, Ohio and Indiana Colder northwesterly winds; fair weather. For Michigan Colder northwesterly winds; snow, followed by fair weather. For Wisconsin Colder northwesterly winds; fair weather. For Illinois Colder northwesterly winds; fair weather Local Observations. Indianapolis, Jan. 2D. Time. Bar. Ther. Hum. Wind. Weather R.ain W 36 6 A. 2 P. 9 P. M.. M-. M. . '20.98 82 41 65 S west South South, Clear. Cloudy. Clear. 29.90 29.85 Maximum temperature, 45; minimum tempera ture, 2. At 6 P. M. the cold-wave signal vu hoisted. The temperature will probably fall from twenty to thirty degrees by a. m. on juonoay morning. General Observations. War Department, ) Washington. Jan. 2U. 10 p. m. i Observations taken at tho sama moment of time at all stations. 3

5" STATIONS. o 21 a c.; n 5 O 5" O 1 New York CStv 29.93i 39N'east 37: Fair. Washington City... 29.94 411 North! .04 j Cloudy. Vicksbnrsr, .Miks. .. 29.95 52 South 29.951 GljNorth Clear. IClear. New Orleans. La.. . Shreveport, La.... 29.92 51Swest! Clear. Clew. Fort istmth, Ark Little Rock. Ark.. Galveston, Tex.... 29. 84 45 'Sweat 29.87 45iSonth 29.98 56 South Clear. Clear. Memphis, Tenn 29.90 42;Swest Clear. Clear. Nashville, Tenn.... I Louisville, Ky ...... Indianapolis. Ind Ci ncinnati, O ...... . Pittsbarg. Pa Oswego, N. Y. Toledo. O 29.89 41!S'east 29.89 40Calm 29.85 6 South Hazy. KTlear. 29.881 38S'east Clear, 29.881 36 East Clear. Clear. Clear. Ciear. 29.91 30 South 29.81 37South Escanaba. Mich.... Marquette. Mich... Chicago. Ill Milwaukee, Wis Duluth. Minn...... 29.79 20 Nwest 29.U1 12iNwest 02, Wear. J9.69 38Swes Cloudy. 29.06 26 N west Clear. 29.85- 15 West 29.99j l9West Clear. St. Tan!, Minn Clear. LaCrosse. vvia 29.92 4;Nwest Cloudy. Clear. Cluudv. Cloudy. Cloudy. Clear. Davenport, la J'es Moines, la..... Keokuk, la Cairo, 111 Springfield. III..... St. Lou; 8. Mo, Lamar, Mo -. . - Leavenworth, Kan. Omaha, Neb Yankton, Dak . Moorehead, Minn... 29.80 30.O2 20 ;N west 2 Nort h 29.83 29.89 28!North 41 (South 40; South 50 South 29.79 29.80 Clear. 29.83 39 S west Cler. 29.88 30.08 30.11 27 North Cloudy. 5! North S North Thret'ng .03 (Jle&r. Cloudy. 30.10 30.16 30.22 28 Nwest Bismarck. Dak 21iNwest Clear. Clear. Cloudy. Fort Bnford, Dnk.. Ft. Assinibotne, M.T. Fort Custer. M. T.. Dead wood. Dak.... 24 Nwest 30.29 17; Nwest .13 .04 30.30 W.S'east Lt snow. North Platte, Neb.. 30.05 5'N'east 42iWest .... Lt snow. Denver. Col.-.. 29.05 29.79 29.86 ....Clear. v7. Las Animus. Col. 36,Nwesti .... Cloudy. Dodge City. Kan... 39: West 341 West .... Fair. ..... Clear. ..... Clear. ..... Clear. Clear. Fort Elliott, Tex... 29.8 Fort Kill Ind. J..... Fort Davis, Tex El Paso, Tex Salt Lake City, U.T, 29.90 30.04 30.07 42 S west 63 Swost 49 Swest ',30.08 3G N'east1 .12, Lt. rain. Severe Weather iu Dakota. Bismarck, D. T., Jan. 29. -The worst bliz zard of the season has been raging during the past eighteen hours. To-night the wind is blow ing a huncane, and the air is so full of snow that it is impossible to see beyond a distance of twenty feet. The train from the west is snow-bound at Glendive, and the train from the east due here at noon, is drifted in a short distance from Fargo. The thermometer is very low, and this afternoon the representative chamber at the Capitol was 6o cold that the members of the House met with far coats and capes on, and,

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after passing a resolution to the effect that the Sergeant-a t-arms procure weather-strips and nut them on the windows, adjourned. The snow is

drifting fearfully, and the fronts of many houses are almost hidden from view beneath the snow piles. . TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. At Cape May, N. J., on Friday, David Roach, assistant manager of the Rio Grande sugar plantation, was accidentally shot and killed bv R. C Tizard, general agent of the sugar company. Thomas R. Whitehead, ex-clerk of the Cleve land board of education, was arrested on Friday, and is a prisoner at the county jail. The grand jury indicted him for embezzling $2,285 of the funds of the board. Mrs. Asa J. Milliman and her two children, J under two years or age, residing one mile south of Burr Oak, Mich., were found drowned in three feet of water, Ihursday evening, bv her hus band, on returning home. Upon the mother's body was tied a stone of twenty-five pounds weight Judge Harmon, of the Cincinnati Superior Court, has forwarded his resignation to Governor Foraker, to take effect March -7. to enable him to take a place in the law firm which ex-Governor Hoadly leaves to enter noon a law practice in New York city. Governor Foraker will appoint a judge to fill the vacancy caused by Judge Harmon's resignation. Bank Swindler Arrested. St. PauIj, Jan. 23. A Winnipeg special to the Pioneer Press says: "Some davs ago a flashilydressed man registered at a hotel here as James Wilson, of Oil City, Pa. Arousing the suspicions of local detectives, the latter telegraphed Pinkerton at Cnicago and found that the man answered a description of Joseph Wilson Kehoe, charged with swindling the National Shoe and Leather Bank, of Newark. N. J., out of $75,000. The local detectives there upon arrested the man, addressing him as Kehoe, and surprising him into the admission that that he was the party sought. The bank having been telegraphed, ono of its officials came here, and Kehoe, believing he could be extradited, consented to return. He says he hid the money, and that he can pay back all but about $3,000. It is understood that the bank official in this case has consented not to prosecute. The party left for the States this morning." The Case Agatnst Fotheringham. St. Louis, Jan. 29. The depositions of Fred erick Witrock. alias "Jim" Cummings, and W. W. Haight, in the case of the State vs. Fotheringham, the Adams express messenger who is accused of comolicity in the noted train robbery, were taken in the penitentiary at Jefferson City, to-day. Haight's account of his connection with the robbery did not differ materially from that given by him previously. Witrock's, however, in this, his last story of the affair, adds the rather sensational statement that after he had bound the messenger in the car and secured the booty, he offered Fotheringham $10,000 if he would give the detectives a false description of him, the roDDer. j; otneringmam replied, w ell, 1 11 see abont it; send the money to J. J. Mappes, at Kansas City. v ltrock, however, did not do so, because, he says, "Damsel seared Fotheringham into giving a good description of me." Appointed by Governor Foraker. Cincinnati, Jan. 29. Governor Foraker has appointed W. H. Taft judge of the Superior Court, vice Judge Harmon, resigned. The ap pointment will be for one year. Mr. Taft, it is understood, will accept He is a son of Hon. Alphonso Taft, who formerly served upon the same bench. Fatal Itoiler Kx plosion. Lakk Viet, Mich., Jan. 29. The boiler in the shingle-mill, owned by Joseph Bros., at this place, exploded at 6 o'clock this morning. demolishing the mill, instantly killing James O. Wil son and seriously injuring James Joseph. Wil son's body was smashed into a pulp. Steamship News. New York, Jan. -29. Arrived: City of Chicago, from Liverpool. Queenstown.I Jan. 29. Arrived: Egypt, Umbria, from JSew York. TUE EPISCOPAL MISSION. A Letter from Dr. Courtney, Who Will Begin Work in This City Next Sunday. To the Memfcera of the Church In Indianapolis: Lear Brethren t$v the Invitation of your Bishop I am coming to hold a mission for your various parishes, in Christ Church, commencing on Sunday, Feb. 6, and ending on the following Mondav week. Those of you who know any thing of the practical working of parochial mis sions win not expect tnat l snould oe coming with any new gospel, or that I should intend to employ novel methods in order to attract attention and win notoriety. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, "as this church hath received the same," is to be the burden of my message the preaching of "repentance towards God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ," and this in the hope that with the promised help of the Holy Spirit, the work of grace may be deepened in vour souls, and you may be led to realize more fully what are your privileges as God's dear children, and members of iiis household. If this may be the result of the mission, it will show itself in your more en tire devotion to good works, in "patient continuance in well doing," and yon will abound more and more in all that enriches the Christian life. ana extends its blessings to tnose wno are Strangers to it It is hoped, also, that the Lord mav vouchsafe to make use of his servants for the awakening of those who are m the sleep of sin, the making earnest and anxious those who se listless and careless, the making spiritual those who are for mal, the vivifying those who have a name to live and yet are dead. If any part of all this is to be accomplished, it can only oe oy the power of Uod himself. SSo one but He alone can touch the soul, no voice but His can wake the dead. Pray then, breth ren, pray earnestly, that though 1 eome to you a u v v s& uvea nuu a oat auu su ui uts vi vim uitUp my speech and my preaehing may be not with enticing words of mans wisuom, but in demon strations of the Spirit and of power,' that your faith may not stand in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. " We may not doubt the willingness of God to give us "exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think; but we must besiege the throne of grace with our prayer, and be expecting the an swer to our petitions for "showers of blessing, or it may be said of us, le have not, because ye ask not. 1 here is wrapped up in this effort the possi bilities of very much good and very much harm, 1 beg or you to meditate upon both until your souls are filled with a suitable apprehen sion or tnem. and then betaKe yourselves to prayer, beseeching the Lord to give as the maxiimum of good and the minimum of harm; that, many souls may become "new creatures in Christ Jesus," and others may become conscious of 'times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord." Do what vou can to come to the services, and bring your friends and acquaintances with you.' and, when there, may both you and they be led to exclaim: "The Lord is in this plaee! This is none other but the house of God, and thi3 is the gate of heaven!" Commending you to God, and to the word of His grace, I remain your faithful servant for Christ s sake, F. Cotjetney. Boston, Jan. 18. Recovery of Lost Drafts. Last Wednesday, Mrs. T. J. Hart, who resides near Mapleton, lost three drafts while in the city. One was for foUO, one for f'Sou and another for $100. She advertised in a city paper for them and offered a reward of $50 for their return. Friday night a stranger appeared at her residence, and offered to return the drafts for $100. He promised to come back with them last night, but yesterday afternoon a gentleman by the name of Davison returned them, having found them on Meredian street, between Sixth and Seventh.: Free Out-Door Exhibition at the Casino. Professor Weitzman, the noted Russian wirewalker, will give a free exhibition in front of the Casino at 12 o'clock noon, Monday, Jan. 31, and every day thereafter during the week.

A GRAND SOCIAL ETEXT.

Preparations for the Coining Military Fair and Carnival at Tomlinson Hall. The grand military fair and carnival at Tomlinson Hall, beginning on Feb. 22 and lasting five days, will be the finest military and social event this city has ever seen, if the preparations now going forward bring proper fruit. It is under the auspices of the two companies, No. 2 and No. 18, Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, and the five military companies of thia cjty Indianapolis Light Infantry, Indianapolis Light Artillery, Emmet Guards, Indianapolis Rifles, Rice Zouaves and Richardson Rifles and together with the ladies who are lending their assistance no fewer than seven hundred persons are immediately concerned and working for its success. The executive committee, upon which each company has a representative, consists of Charles J. Many, chairman; J. B. Curtis, secretary;. James R Ross, treasnrer; W. F. Frank, Jacob Fox, P. J. Kelleher, D. J. Sullivan, B. A. Richardson. Col. N. R. Ruckle has been appointed commander-in-chief for the grand street parade, which will take place on Washington's birthday, to be followed in the afternoon by a dress review in front of Tomlinson HalL The Governor and his staff, and General Carnahan, grand commander. Uniform Rank, K. of P., and staff, will take part in the procession and review. The first evening of the fair will include a musical entertainment by the Mendelssohn Society. Invitations lor . the grand ball, to take place on the evening of the 25th, will not be issued until next week. Kokomo Division. Uniform Rank, K. of P., that carries the champion banner, has been invited to give a drill on that even ing, and to head the grand march in opening the oau. it is expected that all of Kokomo will be here. Invitations will be sent to other nniform ranks over the State to pay this city a visit, and special rates wiil be made with all the railroads. This will give many an opportunity to see the new State-house while the General Assembly is in session. The ladies whohave been enlisted toco-onerate with the gentlemen who are interested in the grand military fair and carnival have organized for work. The following have been chosen as an executive committee: Meadames Charles J. Many, C. S. Denny, T. A. Winterrowd, J. R. Ross, F. W. Frank and Miss Maggie McGlenn. The following ladies have been chosen to take charge of the booths at the fair: Superintend ent, Mrs. W. J. Kercheval: in charge of booths: Mrs. S. C. Dennv, linen, No. 2K P., U. R.: Mrs. C. J. Many, china. No. 18, K. P,. U. R.; Mrs. T. A. Winterrowd, ice-cream. I. ii A.: Miss Annie Hission, candy. Emmet Guards: Mrs. P. H. McNelis, flowers, Rice Zouaves; Mrs. Payne, fruit, Indianapolis Rifles; Mrs. F. W. Frank, fancy work, Richardson Rifles; Mrs. Fred Knefler. Gypsy tent; Mrs. Noe, war relics; Miss Sadie Carter, lemonade. Two companies of ladies will give a broom drill in competition with two of the companies to be selected. A bureau of war relics will be made a feature of the fair, and many citiaens have already proffered valuable relics for exhi bition. CUTTING TO KILL. A Grain Bayer Slashes the Throat of a Bach elor Too Attentive to llis Wife. John McCabe is an old Irishman who, with a young wife and three small children, occupies a garret room in the Cleveland Block, corner of Mississippi street and Kentucky avenue. In the same block has resided a German bachelor, flity years of age. For several months he has been causing much trouble in the McCabe household. He worked at Taggart's bakery, and has been in the habit of bringing to Mrs. McCabe, when he returned from his day's work, some of Mr. Taggart's choicest bread, pies, and cakes. Last evening the McCabe family had supper at t ociock. vvnen rne meal was over Mr. McCabe started down stairs by a rear stairway. At the tread of the stairs be accosted Mr. Petersen coming up with a sack of bananas and a tray of steaming pies and cakes. He assaulted Petersen. After a few blows, the two clinched, and, in the struggle, fell down the stairway, a distance of twelve feet They struggled again at the foot, and when McCabe thought he bad killed his victim he went on down stairs. B. C. Gillegan, who occupies a room on the second floor, heard the noise from the fight, and reached the scene just in time to see McCabe leaving.' He'followed him, and overtaking him on South Tennessee street placed him under arrest and sent him to the stationhouse. Dr. Frank Manker was called, and when he arrived Peterson was apparently dead. He was taken into a room of the building, and was found to have been cut twice on the right side of the neck.' One gash was four inches in length just below the jaw bone, and penetrated to within almost a hairs breadth of the jugular vein. J he other was a half inch longer, and, also, almost reached the vein. The cuts were pronounced of a very dangerous nature, but not necessarily fatal. There are several stories regarding the diffi culty. It is claimed by Mrs. McCabe that the cakes and pies carried to her by Petersen were bought, and paid for, and that there was no in timacy between them. She further declares that her husband has been continually mistreating her, and only two weeks ago, ran her out of the building with an ax. McCabe tells an altogether different story. For years, and until recently, he has been engaged with grain dealers about the city as a buyer on commission. He met farmers as they came in with grain, and made a deal for his firm, receiv ing a small commission on the purchase, lie says he moved to the Cleveland Block two months ago from St Clair street Soon after he moved. Petersen began to pay attentions to his wife, and he says there was a conspiracy formed to drive him away. Last Sunday night he came home and was refused admittance by bis wife and Petersen. When he went in by force they ejected him, and in doing so caught his hand in the door and broke two of his fingers. It was then that he procured an ax and attempted to drive his wife's paramour away from his rooms. He claims that he used no knife on Petersen, and none was found on his person, but the cuts show that some kind of a sharp instrument was used, lie was locked up on the charge of at tempted murder. He is sixty-two years of age, and his wife thirty-eight THE CITY IN BRIEF. Rev. n. Alerding will lecture at the Knights of Father Mathew social at Masonic Hall to night-Meat-inspector Thompson, of the City Board of Health, yesterday condemned 200 pounds of mutton and loO pounds of beef that was being offered for sale on market. The market-house building committee held a meeting yesterday afternoon and opened the bids for furnishing the new market-house. Seven bids were received and the contract was let to C & A. C. Eden for $2,831. All the ntteen tramps wno were arrested on the C, 11. & 1. railroad Friday night were sent to the work-house yesterday, except one. He proved that he had been guilty of working in the past, and was released by the Mayor. The attorneys for Mrs. M. M. Durand. of Bloomington, Ind., wife of the showman who dropped dead at the Union Depot a couple of months asQ. were in the city yesterday, seourinq the report of the coroner's investigation of the case for use in obtaining a very heavy life insurance Mr. Durand carried. As the present State officers and the members of the Senate and House of Representatives will pass down into history as the first to occupy our new Capitol, it is suggested by many that it is a duty they owe to this as well as to future gen erations to donate to the State, to be hung up in the grand corridor of the Capitol, a life-size portrait of each and all of them. Several of them have already done so. Trouble tvltli the Salvation Army. Prof. R, G. Wells, the aeronaut, and the branch of the Salvation Army at work here, are having trouble. According to Mr. Wells's story, Mr. A. Curry, the captain of the Salvationists,

came to him Ust week and 6ked him to assist them in some manner, as they had no money with which to buy their food. He consented to give some stereopticon views at the rink, in conjunction with the meeting, and agreed to divide; the proceeds equally with them. He was to have given his first entertainment on Thursday night, but on account of the rain he postponed it. On Friday night it also rained, and he concluded not to begin until last night Yesterday morning he went to the rink and found that all his views, worth between $200 and $300, had been taken away. He demanded of the Salvationists information as to what had become of his property, and was informed that they proposed to keep it on account of his failure to keep his contract The Professor at once had a search warrant sworn out, but is still unable to find his property. He asserts that if the goods are not f orthcoming by Monday he will have the religious workers arrested for grand larceny.

A Thief Gives Himself Away. On Friday Eugene Hogan, of Noblesville, had a valise containing a new suit of clothes and some other goods stolen from the Union Depot, while waiting for his train. The depot police suspected a young colored man by the name of George Winfield, who had been seen about the waiting room that day. Yesterday afternoon Winfield came to the depot as a driver for Frank Bird, and when one of the officers ap-. proached him he ran. That satisfied him that he was the person wanted, and later in the evening he was arrested at Bird's stable. The valise was recovered, but the clothes were miss ing. CONCERNING WOMEN. The Alabama Legislature elected women for en rolling and engrossing clerks. The St. Louis Medical Society recently elected tho first woman to membership. Dr. Mary McLean. There are severtv-threo students in the Harvard ; annex representing thirty-two colleges and schools. Dr. Marv Whetstone is the physician of the North western Hospital, managed by women, at Minneapolis. V The Colorado W. C. T. U. is making an organized effort to secure women for school trustees all over the State. . " TheW. C. T. TJ. are holding a national midwinter meeting in Washington, D. C, the consummation of a plan made long ago. Mrs. Warren Newcomb, of New York city, has given $100,000 to Tnlane University, New Orleans, to establish a school for girls. Mrs. Marv Mor&ncvia Stat! librarian of Misslssmnl. and is credited with having improved the library until it is one of the best in the country. Miss Mary Horton has been elected recording clerk of the Ohio State Senate. This is the first time a woman has been chosen to fill that position. A prize of S25 is offered by Cassell & Oo. for the best practical papr on "The Domestic Service Diflioulty in America, with suggestions for its solution. Miss Ttawson, of Des Moines, la., a graduate of tho State Agricultural College, has charge of the department of domestic economy in the Toledo, O., Manual Training Sohool. Rev. Georee Willis Cooke who. several yers agOg was pastor of the Indianapolis Unitarian congregation, is now delivering a series of lectures in Boston oa "Women in Literature." The Wisconsin State Agricultural Society will be addressed during its annual meeting this week by three ladies Mrs. George Warren on "A Woman's Idea of Kindness to Animals;" Mrs. Robertson on "Woman as a Butter-maker" and Mrs. Vic Campbell on "A Plea for Better Parentage." The forewoman of the establishment of Ascher. Bernard & Co., of Chicago, manufacturers of artificial flowers, prepared herself thoroughly for her position, spending eight years in Paris as an unpaid apprentice. She receives a salary of $1,500 per year, while a man, in the same position, would receive $3,000, showing that sex discrimination in the industries is not yet overcome. The Woman's Silk Culture Association offers to th9 State agricultural schools institutions aud reformatories, or to individuals who m ay desire to engage id silk culture, a gratuity in mulberry trees, in lota of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred. Those desiring to take advantage of this offer should address the corresponding secretary, .Mrs. V. O. Haven, 1222 Arch street, Philadelphia." The Nebraska Legislature, now in session, has been quite liberal toward women in its anpoinameml-a. fA, the Senate Mrs. Allie De Pue is enrolling elerk. Misa Ada P. Olmstead engrossing elerk. In the House Mrs. Kate Boyle is postmaster and Miss Cora Matthews assistant. Miss Janet McDonald engrossing clerk. Miss Werther enrolling clerk. Several minof positions are filled by women, and In the House thr$ are two girl pages, the first to secure that position in Nebraska. The hearing of the case of Mrs. Lucy S. Barber, of Alfred, N. Y-, who was arrested Jan. 3, on charge of illegal voting for Representative in Congress, will be held before United States Commissioner Antral on Feb. 3. - Ex-Judge R. Shannonof New York city, and long a United States commissioner, has written a 1st ter in which he declares that women are not forbidden to vote by the federal Constitution, or federal laws. or by the New York Constitution or statutes, and .he advises that the complaint should be dismissed as groundless. A beneficient svstem of mothers' mectincrs has been in operation in Baltimore for three years past. Meet ings are neia one atternoon every week, with an aver. age attendance of eight women from the working classsesand with an average of thirteen teachers. 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