Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1887 — Page 2

THE INDLAJSTAPOMS JOURAI, FHIDAY, JUIT 8, 18ST.

Every exertion will be made by onr citizens, as

well as by the 10.000 veterans then to be congregated here, to render your visit pleasant and your stay interesting. It is rumored that you ar planning a tour through the West and South, and we sincerely hope iou can make it convenient to bo in fct Louis during the time above mentioned. Allow ds to suggest that no compliment more fit tine could be bestowed upon the valiant defenders of common country by the chief executive of a restored Union, and none would be more highly appreciated, than that conferred by his presence t such a time and place. Awaiting your favorible response we have the honor to be, sir, "lours Kespectu.ly. "Davis S. Francis. 'Mayor of the city or St. Louis. 'Frank Gaiennie. "I'resiaent OI tne .uercnants r.xcnange. "John V. Noble. "Commander Frank P. Blair Post Na 1, G. THE PRESIDENT'S RESPONSE. Bt. Lotris, July 7. Mayor Francis, as chair man of a special committee appointed in Febru ary last by the general executive committee having in charge the preparations for the Grand Army encampment to invite President Cleveland o visit this city, received the following response bj mail to-day: "Executive Mansion; l Washington, July 4, 1837.5 To David R. 5franci, Mayor of the City t St. 1OUin; Frank Gaiennie. President of the Merchants , Exchange, anil John W. Nobie, Commander Frank P. Blair Tost, No. 1. G. A. K., Committee: Gentlemen While I have hitherto made no formal responsetoyourinvitation, given inFebruary last, to myself and Mrs. Cleveland, to attend the national encampment of the Graq Army of the Republic, to be held in 1st. Loois, Irom tne 27th to the 30th of September next, I have verbally indicated my purpose to accent it if I should find it possible then to be absent rrom wasnington. "The statement contained 5n your letter that the organization was never in so flourishing a condition aa now nor its membership so large: that no effort is being spared by the citizens of St. Louis to insure a welcome of unusual warmth at thie, the first encampment of that body ever held in a Southern State, and your suggestion 'that no compliment more fitting could be bestowed upon the valiant defenders of a common eountry by the chief executive of a rentored Union, and none would be more highly appreciated than that conferred by his presence at such a time and place, enlisted my feeling ana iitereet More recently, indications have disclosed that, however correctly you expressed ths prevailing sentiment in the Grand Army, there are members of soma posts or tnai ooay entertaining different feelines in respect to my ac ceptance, and that my acceptance of your invitation would lead to discord in the organization as well as an interruption of cordiality at the eomintr encampment. Without enter ing into a discussion of these opinions, and unmoved by any feeline. although I deeply regret the condition, I can but regard it mv duty to refrain from contributing by my action to so undesirable a result Nothing can be of greater importance in connection with the encampment than the free and unrestrained mauitestation Dy its participants of that patriotic fraternity of feeling suggested by the selection of the place of holding it. and which is at once the proof of the complete success of their arm and tbe nignesc tlorv of our veteran soldiers. I ara constrained. therefore, to withhold my purposed acceptance of your invitation. In doing so I insure you of my unfeigned hope and sincere wish that in the agreeable entertainment prepared ror tnem Dy the hospitable people of St. Louis the veterans f the Grand Army may enjoy the most, pleas ant, profitable and useful re-nnion in tneir nisxrr. Very truly yours, "Grover Cleveland." Wrath at St. Louis. ST. Lotis, July 7. The President' letter to Mayor Francis withdrawing his acceptance of he invitation of the people of St Louis to visit Ihij city during ihe Grand Army encampment, b&s stirred up a hot and diversified expression of opinion. The committee , that took the invita tion to the President feel that their labor has been in vain, and are strong in their denuncia tion of the men who were instrumental in the defeat of their plan. Their friends are equally displeased, especially so as the citizens, gen erally, of St Louis had made a great effort to induos the President to make tbe visit The chagrin was so great with many that they wished to organize immediately to invite the Grand Army to find another place for their encamp ment, and some promised a very icy reception to the gallant soldiers. Tnere were many others. however, who saw the wisdom of the President's eourse. and were pleased that the city had been relieved of what promised to be an unpleasant affair. Many feel that the city has been humiliated. and are indignant about it, but agree that the Grand Army's encampment shall be a glorious success and that at some other time the Presi dent shall have a reception in keeping with the high office be holds. In regard to this tbe citi zens' committee determined to take immediate steps, and at 4 o'clock this afternoon assembled in the office of Mayor Francis and discussed the situation. It was unanimously conceded to be an unfortunate state of affairs, and steps were taken to have the President invited to come at another time. For this purpose a committee was appointed to draw up resolutions to bo submit ted to a mass-meeting of citizens that will be called to assemble at the Merchants Exchange to-morrow afternoon. These resolutions will embody an invitation to the President to visit this city during fair week, early in October, or at some other time that may suit nis couvenience, and will promise him an enthusiastic reception. A citizens' committee will then be ap pointed to again visit the President and endeavor to induce him to como. Will Not Come West at AIL Washington, July 7. It is practically settled that the President will not visit the West at all during the present year. The abandonment of his proposed visit to St Louis has resulted in wholly changing whatever plans he had made for visiting Western cities. It is stated at the White House, this afternoon, that tbe only plans the President has made for leaving Washington dnring the summer and autumn are those for bis visit to Clinton, N. Y., on the loth inst. which will probably not consume altogether more than a week's time, and for his visit to At lanta, in October next, on tbe occasion of the Georgia State fair. Comment In Washington Fpecial to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, July 7. The President's letter has created great interest in the political and army circles of Washington. The general opinion seems to be that it is a strong political letter and will improve Cleveland's chances for re-election. A few persons thought tbe President took a narrow view of the disaffection Among the malcontents iu the G. A. It, and said he shonld have gone to St Louis anyhow, Inasmuch as, in his letter, he stated that he Sid cot hold the Grand Army, as a body, reiponsibls for the discontented feeling toward him. Gen. S. S. Burdette, ex-commander-in-chief of the G. A. R, said: "I think the letter is a happy termination, for the President and for the Grand Army, of a situation which was deplored aa much inside of the latter body as out of it Tbe whole matter of be controversy was unfortunate, but the surroundings bad become so complicated regarding the President's proposed visit that his withdrawal, in the way he announces it, will be gensrally regarded by Grand Army men as a fortunate occurrence. They will be glad, as well, that the refusal of the President to visit the encampment is made so honorably to himself. Under no circumstances could there be imputed to tbe President tbe least blame in the matter. The letter is a strong one politically, and it is a cost timely ending of what promised to be a telicate and embarrassing situation." The Evening Critic (Ind.) commenting on the letter, editorially, says: "Thai the chief magistrate of the United States should be deterred from visiting any portion of the country by threats of insult to his high office, is something heretofore unknown In our national experience. It is something that never should have been known. The bare suggestion of such a contingency is startling to the conservative sentiment f the Union. In all probability the controversy will wideu the breach between the politicians of the Grand Army and the administration, but it calculated to produce a still wider breach in he Grand Army organiaation itself, many of the members of which, if not in sympathy with ;he President's policy, still recognize him as tbe ibief officer of the governmert, to whom all liaises of the people owe at least the courteous bisance of good citizens unalterably opposed :o making him the target, in season and out of leaaon, of continuous partisan assault Politically speaking, the Critic is, therefore, inclined to ;hink that the advantages, if advantages there , of this new phase of the situation are with '.he President, and that his letter is a master itroke of policy." Grand Army Men Call on the President. Washington, July 7. Gen. Lander Post, tfo. 5, of the Grand Army of the Republic, of Lynn, Mass., which arrived here last night from Virginia, called on the President this evening,

and were received in the East Room. When the

President came down stairs to receive them, Post Commander Walker stepped forward and said: "Comrades of Gen. Lander, Post No. 5, I propose three cheers for Grover Cleveland, Pres ident of the United States." Tbe veterans gave three cheers and a tiger with a vigor and earn estness that made the air ring. The President addressed the visitors as follows: "I can only say to you. gentlemen, that I am glad to meet you here. I have extended to you this courtesy as I have lately, with much pleas ure, to other posts of the Grand Array of the Republic on their way home from visits to their Southern friends. 1 want you to understand that I have lost no confidence in tbe Grand Army of the Republic as an organization, notwithstanding recent occurrences to which it is not necessary further to allude. It is incomprehensible to me that men who have risked their lives to save the government should return home to abate one jot or title of the respect and support which every good citizen owes to tbe government and constituted authorities. I greet you. then, as citizens as well as veterans, and I shall be pleased to take you all by the band." The Senator Was Iladly Informed. Sr. Pacl, Minn., July 7. Senator Vest, who is here on his way to Alaska with Senators Cameron and Allison and ex-Governor Hauser, of Montana, said yesterday: "Senator Cockrell and I called on the President a few days since, and we arranged the programme for his Western trip. After a short visit to the Adirondacks, in New York, accompanied by Mrs. Cleveland, he will start for St Louis about the time that the Grand Army meets. Leaving St Louis, he will go to Milwaukee. This route was carefully marked out on the railroad map, and tbe President wanted to know how St Paul and Minne apolis were for attractiveness and eligibility. 'Nothing would be easier, Mr. President' said I, 'after leaving Milwaukee, than for you to co to Minneapolis, spend a day or two there, then go to St Paul for a like period, and thence to Chi cago, homeward bound. You would get an excellent idea of the vast resources of the Western country.' "My mind has been made up to take a trip through tbe Western country for Borne time, remarked tbe President, 'and I only needed the recommendation of both of you to confirm my ideas. It may be considered settled,' he said to Colonel Lamont, who was in the library, 'that we go West Mrs. Cleveland and myself and you can go ahead and make the necessary railroad arrangements for the trip.' "It may be considered definitely settled," con cluded Senator Vest, "that the President will come West aud spend several weeks. PENSION COMMISSIONER BLACK. Working; His Vice-Presidential Scheme In justice to Old Pensioners. Washington Special. Candidate Black's vice-presidential boom is the one thing which is going on night and day in Washington, a little more vigorous, if anything, with the thermometer at 95 than it was when the same mercury crouched down, shivering in the vicinity of zero. Those who have to supply the wind dou't like their task very much, but they are paid by tbe government and can be discharged by the candidate, and their complaints consequently have about the same value as the unfortunate neighs of a, street-car horse. Mr. Black intends to get there, and the Pension Office clerks might as well make up their minds to the fact that they have got to help him. All of last week the windows of the big Pen sion building flashed with light up to midnight, and the clerks were kept close at their desks getting small pension applications in such shape that they could figure on the year's accounts as granted. One of tbe clerks says that the files were searched, the small and unimportant cases which number in the lists, of course, tbe same as the big ones taken out and a large force from the office put to work in the evenings getting them ready to be granted. By Thursday they had the Interior Department pretty well stocked with tbe papers, and on that night Secretary Lamar had a number of his clerks at their desks until the clock struck twelve, stamping and sealing them. When the report of the Pension Office is published they will figure among the number of pensions granted during the fiscal year, and Candidate Black can show the Grand Army that, even if the President did veto their pension bill, he has been granting pensions ata rate that showed intense sympathy witn tbe wounded and suffering soldiers. The list has not been made public yet, but enough is known now to say that it will redound greatly to tne credit of the candidate whether he tries to be Vice-president, or Governor of Illinois, or Senator from that State. As a rather curious contrast to this hurry in the Pension Office, however, there has been another hurry in the War Department, also in stigated by Commissioner Black. Nothing will be said about it, however, for it will not help his vice-presidential boom, and if its results do ap pear in the year's records they will not be pointed out as enthusiastically as the pensions granted. One of the overworked clerks was telling me about it the other day. "These papers," said he, pointing to a pile on his desk as an apology for not being able to hunt np some other records, "are taking np all our time. They are pensions stopped by General Black and sent down to us to investigate the alleged flaws on which he has discontinued them. In former years, you know, tbe Pension Depart ment recognized the fact that it was impossible to get a clear record of every man who deserved a pension. Some of them were sick and overstayed their leave; some were unable to get back in time, and others, because of the accidents of war, were for a time involuntary deserters. They never were able to make the complete showing that the laws required, or frequently did not think of apnlying for a pension until after the proof they could have furnished had got beyond their reach. In such cases the department had to assume something. If they found that the man bad been a good soldier, had stood well among his comrades, had served faithfully both before and after the apparent flaw in his record, and bad a reasonable excuse for whatever appeared to be wrong, they granted tbe pension. General Black, however, in his search for Republican frauds, thought some of them must underlie this method. He stopped all pensions where the least technical violation occurred, and we are now trying to help the poor fellows to get their proofs and get on the list again. Where tbe violation was in itself inconsequential I think he might have accepted the fact that the man had been drawing a pension for years as a prima facie shoving in his favor, but Black don't do business in that way where soldiers are concerned." General Black does not do business in the or dinary way so far as other matters are concerned either. I went to him some time aco to ask about a clerk who had been discharged per emptorily for the offense of taking part in a campaign in an adjoining State. It happened that another man bearing tbe same name bad done the campaigning and that tbe clerk was able to furnish affidavits that be had nothing to do with it The General admitted tbe dismissal but did not admit that he could have been mis taken. "But," said I, "I have affidavits in the case which, I think, will convince you that you have done the man a wrong." "Well." said the General stiffly, "jou may have them but I won't look at them.'' "Perhaps, then." I suggested mildly, "there is some regular course they should go through before you want to see them. I will make a statement of the case and submit the affidavit if you will tell me where to send it" "This would be the place to send it." said he. more stiffly than before; "but I tell vou I don't care to know anything about it" "But you have discharged a man." said I. "for a reason which he shows to be groundless. He has tried to get an investigation, and you won't let him see yon or make a request for it to anv official in the department Now, I come to you and tell you exactly what is the difficulty; what I am willing to do and what these affidavits will show. You owe it to your own sense of justice to read them and give the man fair play." The only answer I got was another stiff assur ance that, justice or no justice, he would not do anything, and then I took the papers to the Secretary of the Interior. Mr. Lamar is still asleep over them. INTERSTATE COMMERCE. Judge Dealy's Decision To Be Made the Basis of Railway Action. Washington Special. The decision of Judge Dealy, of the United States District Court, in Oregon, with reference to the long-and-short-haul section, anticipates what it is understood here is to be the action of some of tbe leading railroads of the country, and it does not differ greatly from the views of the Interstate Commission itself, although tbe principle has not been enunciated in quite such clear or emphatio terms. There is little doubt that the drift of a majority at least of tbe com mission was to decide that the competition of water routes did create the dissimilar circum stances described in the law, and some of the members of tbe commission are agreed with Judge Dealy that "freight carried to or from a competitive point is always carried under sub- ! itantially dissimilar ciroumstances and condi- 1

tions from that carried to or from non-competi-

tive points." This wa6 clearly the tendency of the commission in its consideration of the ques tion of water competition as it affects boutfaern railroad transportation routes. But it was made to appear that the influence of water competition was so far-reaching that if such a principle was adopted it might include nearly all the Southern railroads, that the minority on the commission was strong enough to induce the commission to waive, or, perhaps it is not too much to say, to dodge tne point, and to place the entire responsibility for the construction of tbe law upon railroad companies themselves and the courts. And both the railroads and the conf ;a are assuming these responsibilities. It is under stood in railroad circles that the transcontinental lines will act in accordance with the principles laid down by Judge Dealy, and will decide for themselves that the conditions of water competition are such as to justify them in charging more for the short than the long haul, and that the rates for through freight established during the period of the ninety days suspension will be maintained. It is known, moreover, that roads which are neither transcontinental nor trunk roads, but which are affected by water competi tion, bave determined upon tbe same conrse. Tbe indications are that by tne time that Con gress shall convene what the framers of the law consider its vital principle will be defied by some of the leading railroads of tbe country, or will at least not be interpreted as it was tbe intentior of those who framed the law. But it will be for the courts to decide what theirintention was, as they have left it so ambiguous in the law that mem bers of the Interstate-commerce Commission say that they cannot understand the chief section of tbe act The Interstate Commission will reassemble on July 12. COIN COLLECTORS. A Circular of Interest to Those Who Deal In Rare Coins. Washington Special. Numismatists will be interested in the follow ing: "The recent course of the Director of the Mint in interfering with the sale in New York of United States mint pattern pieces, which were advertised as part of the effects of Dr. Linderman, the first Director of the Mint under the new law, has been followed by the issue of a circular which is of particular interest to numis matists, collectors of coins, coin dealers and others. In this circular Director Kimball says it is unlawful to traffic in Uni ted States pattern pieces of unauthor ized coins, impressions from the United States mint, experimental dies, or replicas, or copies of United States experimental dies or re plicas, or copies of United States coins, other than that of authorized weightand fineness. The purpose of tbe circular is to warn numismatists, collectors of coin, coin dealers and others that the impression of experimental dies, whether in soft metal or in metal of the same weight and fineness proper to coins of the same denomi nation, is unlawful except in the case of pattern pieces or each denominations or coins as are coined for general circulation during the calendar year of their date. "All impressions taken in copper, bronze or other soft metal from an experimental die, to prove the die, are required to be destroyed, and the die itself to be defaced at the end of the year of its date. Any experimental coin or impression in soft metal from a die prepared by the United State mint is required to be de stroyed as soon as the purpose for which it is struck is subserved." PRE "HISTORIC M AN. A Collection of Objects Illustrating His Hab its and Accomplishments. Washington, July 7. A collection, numbering more than ten thousand objects illustrating the habits and accomplishments of pre-historic man in western Europe, was opened to public exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution to-day. These were gathered during a five years' residence abroad by Mr. Thomas Wilson, ex-United States consul at Nice, and his wife. They have been so arranged as to illustrate the gradual progres sion of the race from the beginning of the paleolithic epoch of archaeology (the quaternary of geology) down to and through the bronze age to its merging with the iron, just preceding tbe dawn of historic time. Ths series begins with the chipped stone implements of the creatures who, during perhaps sixty or seventy centuries, roamed all over that portion of the continent then above water and not covered with ice. The jaw bones of these people lack the fixtures, so to speak, to which, in modern humanity, the tongue muscles are attached, and this leads to the presumption that they did not possess the power of speech. However that may bftj.tho shape of their skulls indicates that they could": have had nothing of interest or importance tcf , say. The dawn of the glacial period drove cheat to caves, where, during a residence of some centuries, they invented clothes. This is proved bv the existence in great numbers of stone scrapers. used in preparing tbe hides of their quadrupedal contemporaries. From chipped stone they advanced to ground or polished stone, and thence to implements of bone. Now came the dawn of art, and their finest bone implements were engraved witb representations of the horse, reindeer and bear. The collections'of pottery and bronze, of much later date, are curious and extensive. Of bronze there are barbed fish-hooks exactly like those of to-day, tongue pins with globular beads as large as walnut, the counterparts of the implements used by modern ladies to keep the hat in place; aud, finally, there are safety-pins, used by Etruscan matrons long before the advent of Romulus and Remus, which contain in the germ every principle of that most useful article known to the modern nursery. MINOR MATTERS. An Ingenious Distiller's Plan for Cheating the National Government. Washington, July 7. Application was recently made to the Treasury Department by the owner of a distillery in North Carolina, which has just been constructed, for the customary official examination of the building. The deputy collector, in examining tbe distillery warehouse, discovered that every door had an ingeniously arranged iron staple by which the government seal lock could be readily removed without leaving any evidence that it had been tampered with. Tbe fraudulent lock staples were seized and the license withheld. Indiana Pensions. Washington Special. Pensions have been granted to the followingnamed Indianians: Originals Hayden n. Jones, Kent; Lewis H. White, State-line City; John M. Allison, Hall; Thos. E. Hamilton, Williamsport; Thos. Loom, Richmond; Julius Muller. Evansville; Francis C. Combs, Toronto; John S. Cheshire, Edinburg; Ira Hinchman, Alto; Cbas. Croddy, Shelbyville; Wm. H. Goodman, Elnora; Geo. F. Myers, Crawfordsville; Christian Seiler, Bradford; Geo. W. Buxton, Columbus; Samuel C. Sweet, Wabash; Wra. Sullivan, Straughn; John Lockard, Osgood; John Hamlin, Acton; Jacob Hester, Veadersburg; Joseph A. Ackerman, Poneto; Mary A., mother of LeviCasto, Poland; Elizabeth Edwards, toother of Jas. A. Longinaker, Richmond: Elizabeth, widow of Jas. F. Lemmon, Rising Sun; minors of Geo. W. Gipson, Clinton; Martha E., widow of David P. Fisher, Huntington; Elizabeth S., widow of Alvin Drake, Michigan City; Mary, widow of Frank Gallinger, Muucie; Gabriella, widow of Charles L. Dansicker, Williamsport; Elizabeth, widow of Joseph C. Moore, Adamsboro; Theophilns Everett, Middletown: Samuel Utter. Monticello; Simpson S. Skiven, Bloomington; Jared D. Scofieid, Lebanon; Richard Owen, New Harmony; Hugh McCormick, Cr&wfordsville; Nicholas Monrel, Cailonia: Job Sharp, Gravelton; George Friend, Logansport; Emanuel Shmit, Milton; Adam Mathias. Aurora; Benjamin F. Clark, Nottingham: Henry Wagner, Marion: Samuel G. Moore, Jeffersonville; Augustus Cook, Logansport; Oliver P. Swift, Bean Blossom; Joshua S. O. Brady, Taswell: Edward Bohart, Celestine; John W. Stephens, Washington; Frederick Mason, Fairmount; David G. Broman, Connersville; John Boffing. Pike's Peak; James F. Dickson, Bloomfield; Charles Andies, Evansville, James Dolan, Albion; William Phillips, Marshall; John Adams, Acton; Robert Hayden, Union; John J. Dillingham, Sullivan. General Notes. Washington, July 7. The United States consul at Palermo has telegraphed the Department of State that two deaths occurred there, yesterday, believed to have been caused by cholera. Edward Douglass, of McGregor, la, has been disbarred from practicing as an attorney before tbe Interior Department A civil-service examination of Classes 2 and 3 ($1,400 and $1,600), lor promotions in the Surgeon-general's office, War Department, has been ordered for Wednesday, July 13, next There are ninety-three clerks of these grades to be examined. It is rumored at Washington that Colonel Morrison will resign from the Interstate-commerce Commission to make another race for Congress in his old district Warning! How many people contract diseases by drinking onr polluted water when they could avoid all danger by adding ten to twenty drops of Angostura Bitters, the world-renowned tonio of equisite flavor.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS

The Astonishingly Clean Sweep Made by Perry County's Fleeing Treasurer. A Whisky-Crazed Man Inflict? an Injury That May Result in Murder The Downs Habeas Corpus Case Gleanings. INDIANA. Perry County's Treasury Contains Only a Pair of Suspenders and Six Cents in Stamps. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Evansville, July 7. Excitement in Perry county is running high, and in Cannelton and Tell City people are at fever her.t Absconding Treasurer Miller having sent the combination to tbe vault, the commissioners had the treasury vault opened last evening, when it was found that Miller had made a clean sweep, tbe vault containing nothing but a pair of susnendenders and three two-cent postage stamps. Miller's bondsmen are frantic, and are trying to get out of making his stealings good.' Some are trans ferring their property, others making preferred creditors, and others seeking different avenues of escape. It will be a hard matter to fill the of fice, two treasurers having defaulted within a few months, and no man can qualify in tbe office who cannot deposit in cold cash the amount of tbe bond. Miller's delinquency will foot up about $40,000 to the county and $50,000 alto gether. To add to the excitement. Prosecuting Attorney Vance departed at 3 o'clock this morn ing, it being alleged that he was guilty of brib ing a jury. The facts in the case leaked out yes terday, and it is likely that some of the jury men that Vance tampered with will follow in the prosecuting attorney's wake. Vance, like Miller, stood high in the community. He leaves a small family. Miller has children. Floyd Mason, a wealthy citizen, will probably be called upon to succeed Miller, he being amply able to deposit a half million dollars in cash in bank. Shooting that May Result Fatally. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Greensbukg, July 7. Another tragedy that will likely end in murder was enacted here this forenoon. James Clark, a carriage painter, about thirty years old, had been drinking hard for several days. This morning, while appar ently sober, he went to the house of George Moore, his brother-in-law, near the (fair ground, and asked Moore for his revolver that he had left there several weeks ago. Moore gave it to him. and was instantly surprised by Clark thrusting the weapon into his face with the threat of instant death. Moore grappled with his antago nist, and in the scuffle that ensued was severely cut and bitten on his hand and face. but finally obtained the pistol and threw it into tbe street Clark aiterward regained possession of.it and came over to town. v bile an omcer was loosing lor him on this account, Clark went to Mack Dugan's saioon and asked where Dugan was. On being told that be wa3 in the back yard, Clark started out and met him on the rear porch. The salutation of Clark was, "I have a notion to kill you for your cowardice." Dugan replied, "I reckon you won t do that," when Clark deliber ately drew the weapon and fired, the ball strik ing Dugan in the right side, hitting a rib, glancing downward and lodging near the lower spinal column. The physicians think the chances are against his recovery, yet it may take several days to determine definitely. Dnean is a man abont fifty years old, rather large, and somewhat addicted to drink. He has been in the saloon business several years, but was refused a license at the last term of com missioners' court upon the hearing after a remonstrance was filed. Since then be has beeu selliug by the quart under government license. lie is a bachelor, and roomed over his saloon. where he now lies. Clark has always been a good friend to Dugan, and no cause can be assigned for tbe deed done to-day. He was at once arrested and taken to jaiL He is unmarried, but his mother lives in Indianapolis, having married a man named Barton. A Forger Arrested. Mariox, July 7. About three months ago a young man giving the name of Charles Pitzer came to this county from Ohio, and entered in the employ of E. J. Creviston, a farmer, residing ten miles southwest of town. Pitzer pos sessed those qualities that made him a favorite among the rustic lasses, and three weeks ago he was joined in matrimony with Miss Jennie Borngrove, one of the prettiest girls in the neighbor hood. Pitzer defrayed bis wedding expenses by r .MA . v. . sns i - tbe names or fcj. J. Creviston and John S. Pence. and the other the names of John S. Pence and ellman Brumneld. Pitzer sold one of these notes at Mark Pulley's bank at Xenia, and one to James B. Marks at Mier. lesterdav the notes became due, and it was discovered that they were forgeries. Pitzer was arrested and did not deny his guilt He was placed in jail in default of $500 bail and will probably spend tbe next few years with Yarden Murdock at Michi gan City. His young wife is heartbroken over the disgraceful affair. The Killing of Holloway. Special to the Irdiananolis Journal. Lafayette, July 7. Habeas corpus proceed ings are being had in the Superior Court in the case of Isaac Downs, who is under indictment for killing John Holloway. The reports at the time showed that Downs shot Holloway, sr., and almost simultaneously Ilollowav's son fired twice at Downs. Tho theory of Downs's attorneys, as developed by the habeas corpus case, is that the fatal shot was fired bv Hollo way's son. The two men were near together, and the de fense take the ground that the shot fired by Downs lodged in and riddled a large club carried by Holloway. sr., and that it was the shot from yonng Holloway's gun that inflicted the fatal wounds. Charged with Assanlt and Robbery. Special to tbe Indianapolis Journal. Cambridge City, July 7. On the evening of the 4th William Draper, of East Germantown, was knocked down and robbed, while drunk, at Hagerstown. The instrument used was a club with a railroad spike driven in the end of it, and the blow produced a very dangerous wound. renderme bim insensible for sometime, iesterday William Cook, colored, was arrested on suspicion and made a partial confession, impli cating three otbers, one or whom. Abe Werkler, white, has been arrested. The others have not yet been found. Werkler's preliminary examin ation will be held here on Saturday and Cook's on Monday. German Lutheran Conference. Special to the Ipdlanawiolia Journal. Lafayette, July 7. The East Indiana Conference of the German Lutheran Church, embracing the territory between Lafayette and Toledo, O., is in session here. There are some forty-five or fifty ministers and about thirty teachers and professors already present, making the largest conference meeting ever held in this district Tbe proceedings are all conducted in German, and will continue until Monday afternoon. Oil Found at Cicero. Special to tbe Indianapolis Journal. Cicero, July 7. The cyclone well developed oil at 985 feet, eighteen feet in Trenton rock, and work was closed with twenty feet of oil in the well. Contractor Donnell says the prospect is bright for a good cil field. Indiana Notes. The annual old settlers' meeting will be held at Arcadia August 13. The young son of Martin Cripe, a farmer living near Goshen, was killed on Wednesday by a beam which supported the hay-loft in the barn falling and striking the child on the head. George Messer, living near Oldenburg, Franklin county, committed suicide by banging. Tbe cause of his taking bia life was despondency. Coroner Sqnier was called to bold an inauest Joseph Garrett, aged seventy years, was struck dead by palsy at Liberty Center on Wednesday. Mr. Garrett was a wealthy farmer.an old resident and one of the most prominent men in the county. A young man who gave his name as W. B. Blair was arrested at Crawfordsviile yesterday for stealing a horse from George A. English, of near Jamestown. Blair offered the borse for sale for $150, and then dropped to $00. He ' claimed to nave traveled rrom I'eoria, in., in twenty-four hours, and that the horse was given to bim as pay for working for a man near there. Herman Becht and George Williams, neighboring farmers, residing two miles from Madison, got into an altercation on Wednesday. During the fight Williams drew a knife and stabbed

Becht in tbe abdomen and slashed him across the face. Mrs. Becct in trying to rescue her husband, was cut in tbe hand, almost severing one of her fingers. Becht ran . his house, procured his trusty shotgun and fired at Williams, the shot taking effect in tbe arm and body. Neither of the combatants is thought to be fatally injured. Illinois Items. The Board of Trade established in Decatur,

several years ago, and operated bv G. C.Cald well, was closed on Wednesday, bv Mr. Caldwell, who doe3 not care to get into trouble because of the new State law against bucket-shops. The contract for repairing ths Court-house of .a wards county, in Albion, has been let and tne work begun. 1 be first two stakes for tbe cor ners for tbe new walls were driven by Jesse Emmerson and George Michaels, both of whom have been residents of the county nearly eighty years. The third stake was driven bv John Woods, who voted for James Monroe, and has voted for every W hig and Republican presiden tial candidate since. THE FIKE RECORD. The Fire at Quebec and the Great Alarm It Caused Among; the Citizens. Quebec. July 7. The fire in this city last night broke out in the stables attached to tho barracks at the Citadel. The stable picket is said to have been fast asleep. The stables and the sheds on the ramparts are built entirely of wood, and it is the general belief that wooden buildings in snch an important fortress as the Citadel, and in a place where large quantities of powder are stored, should not have been tolera ted. An investigation will be held. The excited citizens did not seek their homes until 3 o'clock this morning. The most intense alarm prevailed throughout the city until the fire was got thoroughly under control. At one time there were fully 5,000 men, women and chil dren walking about the streets. Many made their way to the surrounding country in carriages and carts and on foot, fearing an explosion of tbe pow der in tbe magazine would occur. This feeling was. perhaps, most manifest along Cnamplain street, right under the great fortress, as it was known that a great quantity of powder was stored therein. When, therefore, several explosions occurred at midnight, the people held their breath and sought tbe best shelter available. Tbe crowd on the glacis and on the bill leading to the Citadel made a terrible rush down the hill till they got where they supposed themselves out of range of the dangerous missiles, ibis alarm subsided somewhat when it was found that no damage was caused, and the subsequent explosions caused little fear. ihe Governorgeneral's and officers' quarters, the stables of the artillery, the hospital and the provincial armory, which contains 2u,000 stand of arms. were uuinjured. The loss is estimated at $150,000; no insurance. Other Fires. Cincinnati, July 7. Fire this morning started in the cellar of the Western Paint and Roofing Company and went through the three stories of tha building. Loss, $18,000; well insured. Youngstown. O., July 7. The grist-mill of Greenwood & McLennahan, at Tyrall Hill, on the Lake Shore railroad, was destroyed by fire early this morning. Loss $15,000, with insur ance small. Buffalo, July 7. B. & J. Gadkin's lumber yaras. at Tonawanda. burned to-night The loss is estimated at $75,000 to $2o0.000; insurance, $100,000. The firm moved there from Bay City, Mien., last season. Pittsburg, July 7. The machine shops of the Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad Company at Chartiers, Fa., was destroyed by fire to-night Ihe loss is estimated at ?o0, 000: partly insured. The fire will throw three hundred men out of work. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Ben Halliday. of pony express and overland stage fame, is dying in Dallas, Ore., of paralysis. Canadian cholera is more prevalent at Montre al this season than for many years past Chil dren are dying from cholera infantum at an alarming rate. Rev. E. G. Edgehill. chaplain-general of the British array in London, was, on Wednesday, at iiahfar, elected bishop of the diocese made va cant through the death of Bishop Binny. The reaction against "offensive foreignism" has culminated in California in the organization of the "American party ' upon a "platform" de manding the repeal of the existing naturaliza tion laws and of "all laws permitting and en couraging immigration." Oscar Kelly, who shot and killed his wife at McCoy, Polk county, Oregon, about six weeks ago, was taken from the jail at Dallas, at 2 o clock yesterday morning by a mob and hanged. On hrst hearing tbe mob, Keily broke his lamp and cut bis neck, wrists and anki3, and was rapidly bleeding to death when seized. Isabel Lyon, wife of Dr. Randolph Lyon, who murdered Rhoda Moe, on Saturday last, at lowanda, fenn. , by shooting, and afterwards killed himself, committed suicide yesterday by taRing strychnine. It is thought that grief and desperation drove her to this last act of a tragedy by which three persons have been murdered. Yesterday morning Alfred Soveck, a German employod on the farm of T. J. Southerland. three miles from Wilmington, N. C, shot a man named alula, the superintendent of thu farm. with a pistol, three times. Soyeck then went to his room and shot himself through the heart, dying instantly. Mills is not seriously hurt and will recover, boyeck had been discharged by Mills. This is thought to be the cause of the shooting. Wm. H. Clark, a married man, who was sep arated from his wife and family, shot himself in a fit of despondency, on the sidewalk in front of Na 36o Wyckoff street, Brooklyn, where his wife lived. After he left bis family Clark lived with his mother, who is in comfortable circum stances. It is thought that he contemplated shooting his wife first He called at her house this morning, but was forcidly ejected without seeing her. Taking his position in front of th house, he drew a revolver from his pocket and discharged one shot into his head, killing himself instantly. Amateur Editors In Council. ClTTnAnrv .Tnlv 7. Ahnnt a arnrit of rnnrw men. between thn a ens at fiftflon And t.wnnt.v years, gathered this morning in the club-room oi me onerman xiouse to attend tne annual meeting of the Western Amateur Press Association. Each of the twenty bovs was an amntsnr Ailitor nf Knmthini np other. There were delegates from all over the country. Li. U. Uigelow came from Dowagiac, Micb.; H. F. Thompson from Indianapolis, and P. A. G. TCVflllli" renrAaAntAil f'irirMnnnti HP A. TX nrl-a St Louis; Daniel Dolan, San Francisco; J. D. Frisbie, Detroit, and E. M. Phillips and O. A. Miller came from Milwaukee. Fatal Explosion in a Factory. Arlington, N. J.. July 7. An explosion oc curred in the Cellonite Manufacturing Com pany's works at 11 o'clock this morning. A Swede namec August and Miss Ariania Muchmore were instantly killed and about twenty others were seriously injured, none fatally. The works, three brick buildings, were totally de stroyed. The loss is $50,000. A number of stores and houses were damaged, and people . i . - - were tnrown uown id nouses irom tne torce ot the explosion. The loss in the town cannot vet be estimated. Verdict for General Baileau. New York, July 7. Judge Wallace, to-day. in the United States Circuit Court, gave a decision in the case of the United States against Gen. Adam Badeau. Suit was brought in the United States District Court against the General, to re cover $10,572, which, it was claimed, he had kept while be was consul-general at London. The result was a verdict in favor of the General. United States District Attorney WTalker carried the case to the Circuit Court, which affirmed the verdict of the District Court An Old Quarrel End) In Murder. Lebanon, Ky., July 7. Clel McElroy and Alexander Renich, local horse trainers, have been involved in several quarrels within the past few days, the last of which ended by both parties resolving to put an end to the trouble by taking the life of his opponent. They met yesterday, and after exchanging a few words McElroy, who had a double-barreled shotgun, leveled it at Rnich and fired, killing him instantly. McElroy was arrested and placed in jail. Murdered by Her Husband. Hartford, Conn., July 7. John II. Swift shot and killed his wife this evening. He approached her on Trumbull street, and upon her refusal to return to live witb him he sho her. She died at the hospital at 7:45. Swift was immediately arrested. The murdered woman was twenty-four years old and her murderer is twenty-two. American Institute of Instruction. Burlington, Vt, July 7. At this morning's session of the American Institute of Instruction George A. Walton, of the Massachusetts Board of Education, chairman of the committee on nominations, presented the following list of officers for the ensuing year and tbey were elected: President, J. M. Hall, Rhode Island; secretary.

George E. Church, Rhode Island; assistant secretary. Ray Grenn, Haling, Mass.; treasurer, James W. Webster, Massachusetts; assistant treasuer, Augustus . D. Small, Massachusetts," and a number of vice-presidents from each New England State, including the following at large: A. W. Edson. Jersey City: H. P. Waring. A1-, bany, X. Y.; II. T. Balliet, Reading, Pa., and F; A. Montgomery, Washington, D. C. Reception to Ex-Senator Conkliog. Special to tbe Indianapolis Journal. Chicago, July 7. Hon. Roscoe Conkling, who has been in this city two days, engaged in a case before Judge Gresham, was tendered a reception this evening by the Grant Clubr- A large party assembled to meet the dist.inecished guest and he was received with the utmost cordiality, and made a short address, in which he spoke of Gen. Grant in eulogistic terms, and also complimented the club and the city.

Obituary. Wabash, Ind., July 7. David Kunz, one of the pioneers of this section of Indiana, was this morning found dead in his bed. Death resulted from heart disease. Mr. Kunz leaves a large family. He has been a resident of Wabash county for over forty years, and was widely known. The funeral will occur on Saturday. Steamship News. NewYork, July 7. Arrived: Ebynland, from Antwerp. Southampton, July 7. Arrived: Aller, from New York. Queenstown, July 7. Arrived: Germania, from New York. Milk and Tuberculosis. Rural New Yorker. Since the discovery, in 1882. by Dr. Koch; of Berlin, of the barcillus of tuberculosis, and that it may be communicated from man to cattle . , .., w vfcuu.., tutui etc, and by these to man, physiologists have luuin jh on urn wnn a great aeal or suspicion, and this prejudice is even carried so far by some physicians that they warn those under their care, having a tuberculous diathesis, against the use of milk not previously boiied. And indeed it is worthy of investigation wbether bad milk is not in a considerable measure responsible for the prevalence of consumption, especially in cities and large towns, where tha milk supply is chiefly from cows kept and fed without regard to any other consideration than to obtain thtt Urract flon A v, . w . ..w w. uiiiftf n. bun least cost To the baccillus of tuberculosis maybe justly applie.! the epithetof universal contagion, since it is propagated through the uionio. trepruuuciiTe, resoiraiory ana cutaneous organs, and must befought at every point The Jeraev And nthoi- millr K... v... i.,. J - J . v- V. UOTQ UCC LX accused of being peculiarly subject to tuberculosis. If such is tbe fact it is because under tha at.imnlna nf liioh taAirw V. v n nM v. - v. '-. UA.O vocu made to give so large a quantity of milk as to reduce their vitality below a healthy limit, resulting in tho &A' Ti n rr nn nf b InK.rinln,,. diathesis, ready o Accept the first germs of contagion. Keepers of Jersey and other so-called milk breeds of cattle, oueht to be warned that when they find a cow "mhks down," that is, when she cannot be kept in fair form and flesh when giving milk, she is in just that state of bodily condition that invites consumption. Farm Notes. Late chicks are subject to bowel diseases, due to heat, fermentine food, rapid erowth of feath ers and lice. Cook all the food for them and and put a small lump of alum in the drinking water. , Do not allow any fruit to remain on vonnsr trees that seem backward in growth. If tbe tree be feeble, or do not thrive, tbe production of fruit while it is in such condition often does great injury to it It is said that there is no kind of feed that will keep horses in health, give them a slek appearance and make them lively and spirited like the seed of tbe sunflower, feeding half a pint night and morning. It is particularly recom mended for giving a horse power of endurance, being fed half a pint night and morninc with other feed. Nature has created in swine an appetite for roots, and has as an aid to their procuring this variety of food providing them with the means for digging them up. Roots are good for hogs, especially in the winter when the grass is uead. The sugar beet is one of the best of the cultivated roots for hogs; it is easilv grown: is a laree yielder, and will oontribute to heal'.h and growth. "I have used during two years past." says a correspondent in Husbandman, "water impreg nated witb gas tar tor the purDOso of destroying the Colorado beetle on my potatoe vines. It has proved more efficacious than paris green, and and has been used with equal effect upcu my currant hushes. Two quarts of gas tar to a paillul of water are tbe proportions used, and the vines or bushes are sprinkled by means of a watering-pot'" Farm-Magazine: The best whitewash we have ever had knowledge of is composed of lime slacked to the proper consistency for application, into which (for inside work) while hot mix a .starch made from half a pound of flour, or two ounces of common white glue, tborouchlv dis solved. For outside work add to tbe above preparation a handful of rock salt and as much soft boiled rice. This will "stick" with unexampled certainty. In keeping a borse fat there is as much in tbe driver as" in the feed. A horse well curried, and robbed with a woollen rag afterward, is sure to make a sleek-coated horse, and whn well groomed is, -we may say, half fed. A cross and nervous driver will fill the horse with fear and dread, and will rapidly run his horse down. Use an aaimal kindly. Always be firm and make it mind, but never get excited. A coolheaded driver makes along-beaded horse. A Pardonable Curiosity. New York Mail and Express. We would really like to know the truth about Mr. Cleveland. Does he or does be not exercise with Indian clubs? Can he touch bis toes with the ends of his fingers without bending his knees? That is a very good exercise for a man whose abdomen has a tendency to grow faster than his head. Absolutely Pure. This Tnuri1(rnpvpr varies. A marvel of rtirity. strength and wbolesomenesB. More economical than the ordinary kinds and cannot be so!d in competition with the multitude of low-tent.Bhort-weigbt alum or rhonrhate powrdr. Sold only in can. iiau oA&iav I'UH1)K I.O.. nit wail street, . RISE'S MAKES H OilUU&l 11UU10 PeIrHeE For Women. the best and safest Wash ing Compound knowat Used Ai Drotftd it produces better results with a greater laving of Time and Labor in Washing and Housecleaning, than anything yet invented. Wash yonrDishes.Glassware,Windows, Curtains, Jewelry, Silver, la fact everything, with it. Try it in the Bath, and note its Superiority over Soap lipware of Imitations. The Uenuine always bear the above Symbol and name ot PEARLINEDIDIT L JATU Kfi. VYUE , New Vorlc,

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