Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 October 1887 — Page 2

THE INDIAKAPOIilS JOURNAL, 3JONDAT, OCTOBER 31, 18ST.

A GOVERNMENT TELEGRAPH

Senator Cullom Announces that He Is Now Ready to Urge Such a Measure, ind Says lie Thinks the Necessary Legisla tion Will Be Enacted Within Three .Months Scheme to Far chase the United Lines. A Plan for Enabling Democratic OfficeHolders to Assist in Campaigns. Administration Circles Disnnieted Over the Plain Talk Indulged In by Jackson at Macon General Washington News. TELEGRAPH TALK. Senator Cnllom Favor Government Lines-' Ramon About the United Company. 1 pedal to tha Indianapolis Journal. W ashingtok. Oct. 30. Senator Callom has arrived In Washington. The Senator strongly firi 9nnrnmiill Mntrftl nf t.h telefrra. nhJ." He says he has been in favor of a government! telegraph for years, bat ever since he reached conclusion ou the subject bis time and mind in the Senate have been so engrossed with the interstate-commerce measure that he could not po into other matters in which he was almost as much interested. "Now that I have the bill off my shoulders," continued the Senator, "I shall do what I can to urge a government or postal telegraph bill on the Senate, and if no one else will introduce a bill I will draft and introduce one myself. The subject has been already be fore the committee on postofftces and postroads. It is possible that the pros pect of permanent rival lines which seemed so fair when the Baltimore & Ohio con structed its system, led some who were in favor of such a measure into a temporary condition of indifference. If so, there can no longer be any rzcuse for indifference. The entire telegraph system of the country is practically controlled by one man. Telegraph communication is at his mercy. The buainess and commercial se crete of the whole country are at his command. Fie can send the business thermometer up or down at wilL It is surely high time to take steps to place control of the telegraph system in the hands of the people. I would not attempt to bargain with Jay Gould or any other man for the purchase of lines already built. The government should construct its own system. It wonld be advisable, I presume, to place it in control of the Postoffice Department. I believe the Senate is fully ready for the question, and that such a bill, if introduced, would pass without serious opposition, tn view1 of the history of telegraph ownership in the United States, ' and in view of recont occurrences, I really don't see how any one could show good reason wl.y a government telegraph should not be constructed as soon as possible. But I haven't the least doubt that the legislation necessary for the work will be enacted within three months." It has not yet been determined by the administration if any recommendations shall be made to Congress respecting telegraph matters. It is known, however, that the subject is being: carefully considered, with a view to determin ing what policy will be best to pursue. It is stated here by persons who are in position to know whereof they speak, that a strong effort is being made by a newspaper syndicate to purchase the plant of the United linesjfor their own use. The papers which are to form the syndi cate, it is alleged, now pay an aggregate of more than $1,000,000 annually for telegraph service. It is understood that the syndicate will be composed of strong journals in New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, and that if the purchase is made con struction will at once be begun with a view to taking in the Pacific States and the Southern States. A GREAT SCHEME. Bow Democratic Federal Officers Can Pay Campaign Contributions. Washington Special. The clerks in the departments cannot be as sessed for campaign expenses, but they can be given a bint and directed where their voluntary contributions will do the most good. In order to let them know that a record will be kept and that their zeal shall not pass unrewarded, the Washington Post has announced editorially that it will forward all sums of money deposited at its counter to the Democratic managers in Now York for use in that State. With the contributions of the President and Colonel Laroont paraded before them, the old-time political methods do not seem to have changed very much for the clerks. The Post takes great credit to itself for originating the scheme. It says: "It is the' first time that the department clerk has seen clearly a ready way in which, he could chip in his dollar, or five or ten dollars, with the certainty that it would promptly be put where it would do the most good, and that the civilservice bugbear would be entirely avoided. Of course, if there were any employes in the department who desired to send $500 or $1,000 checks to the campaign fund, they generally know how to transmit it without any violation of law. But for the smaller contributions that ere hardly worth sending separately to New York, some agency of collection was required in Washington. The clerk in the department could not hand bis subscription to the chief of his division or of the bureau, for by the eleventh section of the eivil-service act every federal employe is forbidden to solicit or even to receive from any other federal employe any subscription for any political purpose whatever. "The State associations in this city are similarly prohibited from receiving subscriptions from federal employes, for, according to Commissioners Oberly and Lyman, every member of any of these associations is personally liable for every act of any other member or any agent of the association; so that if the association appointed a treasurer who never held an office of any kind in bis life, nevertheless every federal employe in the association would be liable for the actions of the treasurer. These views have hitherto ben enunciated by Commissioners Oberly and Lyman." J. II. Walsh, superintendent of the Treasury bnilding, and the president of the New York State Democratic Association, says: "There is nothing in the civil-service act that prevents a federal office-holder from subscribing to a campaign if be ehooeea. lie can't hand it over to another federal officeholder; that's the only restriction. But the Post is not an officeholder, and there is nothing in the civil-service act which forbids any of us from handing our subscriptions to the Post to be properly applied. The proposition is a good one. It will be a great convenience to those who desire to chip in small sums." To day's Post publishes the following; "There is $10 for the New York campaign," said Gen. A. B. Upshaw, Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to a Post reporter yesterday, as be took a new, crisp note from his pocket. And over the rotund face of Civil-service Commissioner Oberly, in whose presence this transaction took place, there spread a happy, God-biess-you sort of a smile. THE MACON EPISODE. Administration Circies Disturbed Over Jacksou's Expression of Sentiment. Washing-ton Special. The Jeff Davis demonstration at Macon. Ga.. and the fiery, untamed speech of ex-Minbter Jackson upon that confederate occasion, have caused a consternation in administration circles; not, however, because the sentiments expressed are particularly objectionable to the official Democracy, but because their expression at this time is deemed imprudent and unwise from a political stand-point. They are perturbed in mind and spirit, and the necessity of explaining this Democratic blunder to the satisfaction of the country is the most herculean task that has recently confronted them. The swan soB'g of the Confederacy," as the senti mentalists have been pleased to term the Macon J event, is likely to prove a sad requiem for the Democracy, but tbere is now a growing suspicion that, with a little encouragement, these swan songs are likely to become both boisterous aod frequent. Of course, Jeff Davis is still first in the hearts of his Southern countrymen, notwithstanding

Mr. Cleveland's recent tour south of the Ohio, and tbere is no disposition whatever in administration circles to place any of the responsibility for the political catastrophe upon the sage of Beauvoir. Ex-Minister Jackson, therefore, is the individual upon whose head must fall the execrations of more prudent Democrats. The "swan song." it is understood, was a subject of prayerful consideration at the White House yesterday and to-day, and, as a preliminary flank movement, an effort to "explain it away" will be made by Governor Gordon, of Georgia, who also took a prominent part in the exercises at Macon. It was discovered that Secretary Whitney had sent the Marine Band down to Richmond to discourse "Dixie" at toe laying of the corner-stone of the Lee monument. Secretary Whitney, of course, disclaims any intention of offending proprieties by contributing to the success of the confederate demonstrations exclusively, but this, following so closely in the wake of the rebel flag blunder and the Maeon incident, only added to the agony of the situation. In some of the departments, however, there is an inclination to treat the matter lens seriously. Indeed, the Macon utterances of treason seem to have giren inspiration to some of the offensive partisans now drawing their sustenance from the public treasury. One young lady who is employed as a clerk, and was appointed from one of the Southern States, manifested her disloyal approval by pinning to her dress and wearing conspicuously through the offices and corridors a confederate badge crossed by the stars and bars. As another instance of the effect of the news in official circles, it has leaked out that a division chief in one of the departments fairly went wild with joy when he heard how the confederate banner had once again been un-.furled.

. These, of course, are unusual demonstrations, but thev are sufficient to show that a feeling for .the confederate flag still exists, even in the de partments. The general impression prevails among Democrats, however, that the less said about the Macon incident the better for the party. Mr. Bayard's personal organ, the Baltimore Sun, expresses the sentiment of that portion of the Cabinet, at least, in the following words: 'In administration circles the recent speech of ex-Minister Jackscn at Macon, Ga., is severely criticised, and pronunced unwise and untimely. Tne partisan press has already picked it up as a rich find, and southern men here general ly regret that Mr. Jackson at this time took occasion to give utterances to remarks that he must have known would be used to disad vantage to the Democratic party. It is considered evident that Mr. Jackson was hardly the proper person to represent the interests of the United States in Mexico, and it is thought to be fortunate, perhaps, that his resignation was so promptly accepted about a year ago. Itisnot generally known that Mr. Jackson s retirement from the diplomatio service was a great relief to the administration, but nevertheless such is the fact." It thus appears that whatever the South may think of Mr. Jackson, the administration feels the immediate necessity of politically disowning him for the present, at least, tntil the storm shows some signs of blowing over. MINOR MATTERS. Steps to Right a Shameful Outrage Upon 'Peaceable Citizens. Washington, Oct 30. Some weoks ago the military authorities of Arizona Territory reported to the War Department that the sheriff of Pinal county held warrants, the legality of which was questioned, for the arrest of Eskimizen and twenty-seven other Indians living on the San Pedro river, in that Territory, upon charges of grand larceny and resisting arrest, and bad called upon Captain Pierce, the commanding military officer at the San Carlos agency, who is also acting Indian agent, to aid him in makine the arrests. General Miles, in reportin g the matter to General Howard, express ed the opinion that an attempted arrest of these twenty-eight Indians, by local civil officers, would prove a serious matter, if it did not in volve the Territory in an Indian war. The last act of hostility on the part of tne whites was the arrest of six of the Indians, it is said, upon false charges, and tne attempted arrest of twenty-eight others referred to above. The sheriff of Pinal county has made a demand upon Captain Pierce for the surrender of the accused. which, on Oct. 10, the date of Captain Pierce s letter of transmittal, had not been complied with. The Indian officials pronounce the affair a shameful outrage upon peaceful and law-abiding Indians, and will take snch steps as may be necessary to restore to the Indians their aban doned property. The Marine Band at the Lee Celebration. Washington Special. The responsibility for the presence of the Marine Band at Richmond seems to rest with the President In the absence of Mr. Whitney the band would not leave without the knowledge of the President Of course, formal leave was necessary to enable this White House band to go to Richmond and take part in the Lee monu ment procession. The Marine Band playing "Dixie in a column in which a captured Union battle-flag was carried, and frequently saluted with the rebel yell, made a fine administration contribution to this confederate occasion. If the captured rebel flags, which by the President's orders were boxed for transmission to Virginia, had been delivered, the banner decorations of the column would have been complete. Possible Chances in the Cabinet. Washington, Oct 30. It appears to be gen erally conceded that Secretary Lamar is booked for the Supreme Court bench. The people at the executive mansion are not yet ready to talk about the matter, hence there is nothing official to be said. An apparently well-defined rumor is afloat that Colonel Vilas has been offered and accepted the Secretaryship of the Interior, and that he will be succeeded by Colonel Stevenson, who is now his first assistant ' Losses by Fire. Omaha, Oct 30. C. N. Diels & Co.'s lumber yard was destroyed by fire this morning. Loss. $30,000; fully insured. Albany, N. Y.. Oct. 30. Larrabee's cracker bakery was burned this morning. Loss. 8200.000; insurance, $150,000. Cincinnati. Oct 30. At 1 o'clock this morn ing fire in the town of Cedarville, Greene county, Ohio, destroyed the new three-storv brick village hall. Loss, $16,000; insured for $11,000. It also destroyed a livery stable, in which it originated, burning six horses. Loss, $5,000; insurance, $1,700. Dayton, O., Oct 30. Huffman's prairie, eieht miles east of here, on the Bee-line railway, a boegy tract of some two thousand acres, parched out by four months' drought, caught fire from a passing locomotive at an early hour this morn ing, and now the tract, half a mile square is in flames, which are being driven by a steady east wind toward dwellings and a number of farm building, which are a mile away, but may be saved by plowing a wide swath across the prairie. Impaled on an Iron Rod. St. Lottis, Oct. 30. At the closing perform ance of Paine's "Last Days of Pompeii" a terrible accident occurred, resulting in the death of Antonio Infantes. To-night being the last of the season for the spectacle, Antonio Infantes proposed to make a balloon ascension. Shortly after 9 o'clock the balloon, a hot air affair. was bronght on to the immense stage before an audience of 2,000 people. The air ship started upward, and had attained a height of 500 feet when there was a collapse, and the aeronaut plunged to the ground, holding des perately to the ropes which held the sagging canvas. The descent was very rapid, and as he came down before the audience he was thrown upon an iron rod from which rockets were being fired. Death ensued immediately. The horrified spectators rushed to the scene, but could give no aid and the place was quickly deserted. Stndent Expelled for Instigating a "Rtish." Amherst, Mass., Oct 30. Ernest Smith, of Union, N. Y., a member of the junior class of Amherst College, has been expelled by Presi dent Seeley for instigating a rush between the sophomores and freshmen. Smith took a promi nent part in urging the combatants on. hence his selection for punishment Usuallv, such a dismissal would be referred to the college senate for approval, but President Seelye says in this case his decision is final. Tbe students are working themselves up to a state of excitement over the matter. The junior class yesterday unanimously voted that Smith's case oueht to go to the senate. They say the three senators from t?e junior class will resign unless it does. Outsiders say that President Seelye's action is a severe blow to Amherst's pet idea of associating the students with the family in regulating mat ters of discipline. A Newspaper Sensation. Philadelphia, Oct 29. A sensation has been created in newspaper circles by the resig nation to-day of M. P. liandy, editor-in-chief, Louis N. Megargee, managing editor, and. Vin cent S, Scott city editor or tne JJaiiy JNews. Erastus E. Branard remains in charge of the paper in the Interest of the originators, Messrs. Widner and Elkins, the cable street-railroad capitalists. He will be assisted by Prank Anderson, late of the Evening Call. The paper will be continued and Messrs. Handy, Megargee and Cook will retain their stock, .

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS

The Daily Chronicle of Happening of Various Kinds in the Two States. The Mysterions Disappearanca of a Boy An other Suit in the Goben Case A New Catholic Charity Dedicated Gleanings. INDIANA. Nearly Three Months Spent In a Vain Search fur a Missing Roy. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Wabash. Oct 30. The sadden disappearance of Elihn Ford, the seventeen-year-old son of Nelson Ford, of Miami county, on the 13th day of August last, is yet wrapped in impenetrable mystery, and bids fair to prove another Charley Ross case. Young Ford, who was a comely lad, with smooth face, clear complexion, and of retiring disposition, was employed as a farm-band by Silas Sproal, of Harrison township. No trace of him has been found, although on the day of the disappearance a boy in the neighborhood claims that the lad told him he was going to his sister's, in Randolph county. The father of the boy is in straitened circumstances, but has used every effort to find his missing son. and has walked several hundred miles in fruitlessly hunting down supposed clews. Foul play is suspected. Indiana Christian Conference. Wabash. Oct 2D. Last evening Rev. D. W. Jones, of Fort Wayne, delivered an eloquent sermon on "The Wages of Sin," before the members of the Indiana State Christian Conference and Mission Board, in session at North Manchester, this county, following which the members of the conference passed a vote of thanks to the people of North Manchester for hospitality extended. The next annual meeting will be held at Argos, Marshall county, on Tuesday, preceding the fourth Sunday in October next Rer. M. G. Collins, of Owensyille, was appointed State agent of nine local conferences in Indiana, with a membership of 30,000. Several ministers from other States have been present and have fatten part in the proceedings. Ths essay of Rev. G. D. Black, of Marion, on intemperance: "Is It Right to Sustain a Licensed Evil?' was adopted. The following men were elected as members of the board of trustees: J. H. Phillips, of Grayville. president; G. M. Collins, T. L. Riker, of North Manchester; G. S. Davenport, of Harrisville; J. B. Ham, of Indianapolis; W. D. Samuels, of North Manchester. The conference adjourned last night Another Suit in the Goben Case. Special to the Indianapolis JournalCkawfords ville, Oct. 29. Another suit was brought to day by the County Commissioners against J. L. Goben, auditor-elect, and his first bondsmen, for $15,000, to secure a deficiency in Goben's accounts when he was .treasurer. The suit last week was against Goben and his second bondsmen for the same amount Goben, when treasurer, was short in bis accounts twice in two years, about $40,000, and a settling his first shortage of $27,000. he was required to give a new bond, so the board has sued all the bonds men. It is thought an effort would be made to have the last bond declared void, and henee the new suit The trial of Goben is set for Nov. 7, and as the date for him to take the office of auditor is Nov. 1, it remains to be seen what he will do in having the deficiency made right be fore that time. A New Catholic Charity. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Evansville, Oct 30. The new Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor was dedicated in this city to-day by the Rt Rev. Bishop Chatard, of Indianapolis, assisted by the local Catholic cler gy. The exercises were appropriate to the occa sion and attracted hundreds of people to the new home. The home here was built this year, at a cost of $C0,0U0, and is now free of debt, it being a Catholic custom not to dedicate their buildings until all debts have been paid. Bishop Chatard to-day appointed Father G. J. Loeseh, assistant of Holy Trinity Catholic Church, of this city, to take charge of St Bernard's Church and mission at Rockport Minor Notes. David Griggs is under arrest, at Martinsville, on charge of arson in burning the residence of W. JL Newby, near Moores ville. A nine-year-old son of James Lipscombe, of Martinsville, was run over and killed, on Friday night, by a train on the Fairland, Franklin & Martinsville railway. Fred Calkins, giving Ohio as his home, who has oeen selling red-line wheat and Bohemian oats in Huntington county, has been arrested on the charge of obtaining notes for these cereals without delivering the goods. He was placed under bonds for his appearance. Rev. B. F. Rawlins, D. D., pastor of the M. E. Churcn of Spencer, delivered a lecture, Friday evening, at the opera-house in that place, on- the "Canaan of the Continent, or All About Texas." The Doctor came from Texas a short time ago, and, while there, gleaned mueh valuable information about that State. On Friday an accident occurred at Nappannee which will result in the death of two men, and possibly of three others. They were engaged in repairing the roof of a church, and were on a scaffolding twenty-five feet high, when it suddenly fell to the ground, injuring Wm. Wygart and T. Maples fatally, and Owen Yarian, Perry Miner and John Ernest seriously. On Wednesday Chris Click, who resides near Ladoga, left his house and went out to the woods to do some work. He bad no family, and the peon'e living with him were away from home. Upon their return he was missed, and a search was instituted. Mr. Click was found in a pasture, dead, and it is supposed he had been dead two days. He could not have been murdered, from the fact that, he had about $25 in his pockets and a gold watch. His dog was found guarding the body from the hogs that were in the pasture. ILLINOIS. Snit to Determine Responsibility for Certain Mnnicipal Moneys. Special to the Indiauaoolis Journal. Bloomington, Oct 30. For some months past there has been a good deal of talk over reported shortages in the accounts of prominent officials and ex-officials of the city and county, and in regard to the affairs of the Board of Education of the city of Bloomington. The matter has at length taken definite shape in the form of a suit for $5,000 brought by said board against the county treasurer, Joseph Denison, and his bondsmen. It is claimed that in settling for the taxes of 1881 with Thomas J. Bunn, for many years treasurer of the Board'of Education of Bloomington, and now postmaster of this city, Denison failed to pay over to Bunn $2,lia67 balance of taxes due from that part of Bloomington lying in Normal township. Strange to say, this discrepancy was not noticed, or at least reported, until quite recently. When Bunn called the attention of Denison to the matter, the latter looked over his books, and it was found that a receipt for the amount had been made out, but had never been signed, though the word "paid" was written across or beside it in the handwriting of a deputy now dead. Denison cannot account for the discrepancy, and says he firmly believes it was paid, while Bunn asserts that he never received the money. It was proposed to leave the matter to a committee of arbitration, but to this Bunn would not assent. The sum, with interest, amounts to about $5,000, the sum for which the board now sues. Denison's bondsmen are Lafayette Funk, Isaac Vanordstraud. C. P. Aldrich, A. B. Hoblit. J. H. Rowell. Jesse Stubblefield, Ed Stubblefield, James F. Brown and Dennis Kenyon, all stockholders of the National State Bank, and the bond is in the sum of $30,000. Suit has also been brought by the same board against Treasurer Bunn and his bondsmen to recover $510 and interest, which, it is claimed, Mr. Bunn is short in his settlement with the board. It is claimed that he has failed to pay over this amount, which was paid him by City Collector Stone two or three years ago. The treasurer's bondsmen are F. M. Funk, J. L. White, James S. Ewing and A. T. Stevenson, all of the Third National Bank, and his bond is $30,000. Bunn elai mi that he never received the $510 in question. Tbere is no charge whatever of criminal intent in either ease, and no suspicion or fear

that the money will not be paid, and the suits, are brought merely to legally locate the responsi-

uuujr. Brief Mention. J. O. Sanders, of Knoxville, prominent busi ness man, was arrested on Thursday on a charge oi iorgery. xio was reieasea on Daii. Rev. J. F. Tucker, of Atchison, Kan., has accepted the call to the pastorate of the Congre gational Church in Mattoon, and will enter upon his duties .Nov. o. W. J. Neely, of Ottawa, was elected president of the American Essex Association, at Springfield on Friday. A meeting will be held tnChicagoiSov.il. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. Washington. Oct 311 a. m. For .Ohio, Indiana and Illinois Warmer, fair weather; light to fresh variable winds, be coming southwesterly. For Michigan and Wisconsin Warmer, fol lowed by slightly cooler in Wisconsin; fair weather; fresh to brisk southwesterly winds. Local Weather Reoord. Indianapolis. Oct 30, 18S7.

Time. Bar. Ther. Hum. Wind. Weather Rain. 6 a. M... 30.36 25 68 North Clear! 2 p.m... 30 23 41 32 Xorth Clear. 9 P. M... 30.24 35 72 North Clear.

Maxim lure. Following is a comparative statement of the eondij - i - ii i . i ii n A oo tiod i Huapwuura ana raiu-iau lor vsce. ou, iooc Tem. Rain. Normal 49 O.ll Mean 34 0.00 Departure from normal.............. 15 O.ll rr.i.i .!..:: : z- i f I (1 o ri Total excess or deficiency since Jan. 1. 32 13.10 General Observations. Washington. Oct. 30. 9 p. m. Stations. Bar. Ther I Wind. ! R. F. I Weather New York citv.. 30.08 38 iNorth Cloudy. Philadelphia, Pa. . . 30.10 36 North North Clear. Clear. Cloudy. Clear. Clear. Clear. Clear. Washington City.. Charleston. E$. 0. . San Antonia, Tex. 30.10 34 48 56 50 2D.82 IN'wst 30.32 iNeast 'N'wst Jacksonville, Fla... 29.90 Atlanta. Ga---.-.-. Pensacola, Fla...-. TitusviUe, Pa Vicksburg, Miss. New Orleans La... 3O.04 30.16 29.86 38 IN'wst 46 IN'wst 88.... 30.30 40 INorth ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. .. . Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. Tj Clear. ...Fair. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. . . Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Fair. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. . .. Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Clear. ... Fair. ... Clear. ... Clear. 30.22 48 46 44 40 58 52 North Shreveport, La..!... 30.28 30.28 Calm. N'wst West. tort bmith. Ark.... Little Rock. Ark... Galveston. Tex. ..... Palestine. Tex Brownsville. Tex.. Memphis, Tenn.... Nashville, Tenn.... Louisville. Ky. Indianaoolis. Ind... Cincinnati, O...... Pittsburg. Pa Boise City, I. T Oswego, N. Y. Calgary, N. W. T... Toledo. O Minnedosa. Mont... Escanaba. Mich Prince Arthur's L'g. Chicaaro, 111. Milwaukee. Wis..".. Duluth, Minn...... St Paul. Minn La Crosse. Wis..... Davenport la...... Des Moines. la. .... . Concordia, Kan..... Keokuk. Ia Cairo III Springfield, 111 .. St Louis. Mo....... 30.30 30.28 30.38 30.32 INorth ! North 56iNorth 40 1 N'wst 36 1 N'wst 40 North 34 North 36 Calm. 30North 58:Calm. 30.26 30.22 30.26 30.21 30.24 30.20 30.02 30.18 28;Swest 30.00 44 Calm. 32! West 30.22 29 88 44 West. 30.00 34 .Swest 20.92 30.16 34! Calm. 361 Swest 30.12 34 1 Swest 44 Swest; 29.98 30.01 30.08 30.14 40, Calm. 40!S'east 30; Swest 30.10 44 South 30.24 66jSwest 40 1 Swest 30.20 30.28 30.24 30.24 40jNeast 36ibwest 46 42 46 Swest Springfield. Mo..... Leavenworth, Kan. . 130.26 IS wast 130.18 South Omaha. Neb. ..... Valentine, Neb... Yankton. D. T Moor head. Minn. . 30.12 30.14 30.04 30.00 30.04 30.00 30.08 30.16 29.94 30.28 54 Swest 48 50 I West I West 48 West West. West Bismarck. D. T..... 50 Fort Buford ... 48 60 Ft.Assinaboine,M.T i Swest Fort Custer Qu'Applee, N. W.T. Deadwood, D. T Cheyenne, Wy. T.. North Platte, Neb.. Denver, Col........ W.Las Animas, Col. Dodge City. Kan Fort Elliot, Tex Fort Sill, I. T Fort Davis, Tex El Paso, Tex Salt Lake City Santa Fe. N M Montrose, Col..... 54S'east 40West 44! West 44N'wst 48 (West. 44! South 50: Calm. 30.30 30.22 3O.30 30.24 30.26 54 'Swest 30.14 48ICalm. 50 .Calm. 54 Calm. 60 1 Calm. 46 S'east 46 Nwst; 44; South 30.32 30.32 30.54 30.30 30.34 30.34 T Traces of rain. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. John Kelly was shot in front of Thomas How ard's saloon, in Sc. Louis, Saturday nicht. by the proprietor of the saloon, over a drunken row. Kelly died yesterday. Louis Phales, a barber of Brooklyn, N. Y.. shot and instantly killed his wife Lizzie, yester day, and immediately afterwards fatally shot himself. He had frequently threatened to kill his wife, charging her with being unfaithful. A story comes by wire from Charleston, W. Va.. that John McGraw. on Friday night, at Coal Valley, kicked a drunken man, named Murphy, and that next morning Mumhy was found dead. The coroner, however, exonerated McGraw. Fred Wright, a railroad brakeman, was shot yesterday morning and mortally wounded bv a foreman named Cramer, near Riverside, W. Va. Wright was there to flag a train, and Cramer thought he was going to steal his turnips that were planted on the roadside. Men excavating on the Maysville and Big Sandy railway, in Kentucky, opposite Ripley, Ohio, found, a few days ago, an earthen pot with eighty gold and twenty silver coins. . The collection is worth about $800. The gold coins have a figure of a fish on them and the word Bolivar. Both gold and silver coins bear the date of 1530. A telegram from Lexington, Ky., says that Lilburn Baker, a life-long citizen and a farmer of Fayette county, eloped en Saturday from Cincinnati with a woman not his wife, and that the pair were due in Kansas City last evening or this morning. The telegram says that Baker is fifty years old, and leaves a wife and large family in Fayette county, Kentucky, and that he also left quite a number of unpaid debts. Two fast freight trains on the Nickel-plate railroad collided, yesterday, between Irving and Silver Creek, N. Y. Both engines and several ears were demolished. Engineer Daniel Clayton and fireman J. Morton, of Cenneaut. O., were crushed to death, and engineer Bath was terribly mangled and may die. The accident is attributed to the carelessness of an operator, who failed to give one train orders to side-track for the other. Assistant Adjutant-general Williams issued a general order yesterday appointing two companies of United States regulars, now stationed at Fort Douglass, Utah, to take charge of the new military tract at Highwood, donated by Chicago citizens. The companies, which are of the Sixth Infantry Regiment, are expected at Chicago within a week, and are in command of Major William J. Lysler, brevet lieutenantcolonel, U. S. A. A strange and fatal accident occurred to the infant son of W. E. GeDhart, at Miamisburg, O., last evening. Mrs. Gephart put the baby to sleep in its eab, and went about her work, in an adjoining room. Her husband came in half an hour later, and she requested him to look after the baby, when he was horrified to find that it had fallen out of the cab, and was banging head downward between the wheel and the side of the cab, strangled to death. Base-Ball Yesterday. St. Louis. Oct 30. The game between the St Louis and Chicago clubs, to day, resulted as follows: St. Louis 1 O O 5 2 O 1 5 014 Chicago 0 OO OlO OO 5 6 Both clubs left for the South to-night Denver, Col.. Oct 30. The Philadelphia club, on their way to the Pacific coast, played here with the Denvers. Tbere were 2,000 people present The score was: Denver 1 O 2 O O 3 7 O 114 Philadelphia O 2 2 O 1 1 5 0 O 11 Cardinal Gibbons In Texas. San Antonio, Tex., Oct 30. Cardinal Gibbons, the head and front of the Catholic Church in America, arrived in the city last evening from Oregon, whither he went several weeks ago, to confer the pallium upon Archbishop Gross, of Portland. His Eminence was met at the depct here by the Mayor and an immense delegation of citizens, who prevailed on him to stop over in the city. To-day he celebrated high mass in San Fernandina Cathedral, the most ancient church edifice on this continent He left in the afternoon to visit a brother who is a merchant at New Orleans. Jackson Thinks So. Cleveland Leader. Isn't it pretty near time for the North to apol ogize to the South. It ia a pleasure to recommend a good article; one which we know will give satisfaction and good service. The "Garland Stoves and Ranges" are undoubtedly the best that can be produced. while their truly artistic features win favorable comment wherever they are seen. We are sorry to say that they are closely imitated. 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THE CHICAGO ANARCHISTS."

Fielden's Sentence Likely To Be Commuted; Also Those of Parsons. Schwab and Fischer. mm Special to the Indiana?!) Journal Chicago, Oct 30. Information of theznost reliable character has been received that Samuel Fielden, one of the . condemned Anarchists, is likely to have his sentence commuted to imprisonment by Governor Oglesby. There has been all along a strong feeling that Fielden, while manifestly anarchistic in bis pleas and teachings, was not a conspirator knowingly to the murder of any one, and a number of his friends who are prominsnt in business circles have presented a petition to Governor Oglesby, asking for executive clemency. Fielden is said to have signed the petition, being the first of the condemned men to drop the air of defiance and sue for mercy. It is stated that the petitioners have been assured by the Governor that the prayer of the petition will be granted in case of the noninterference of the United States Court It is also stated that Parsons, Schwab and Fischer will also stand a good chance to receive a commutation of their sentences if they humble themselves to make the request, which they have so far failed to da A Minister's Plea for the Condemned. Chicago, Oct 30. The Rev. J. Vila Blake, pastor of the Third Unitarian Church, delivered a sermon at the morning service, to-day. to a large congregation, taking for bis subject "The Reasons Why the Anarchists Should Not Hang." In the course of his remarks he said: 'I think they are guilty men, but they belong entirely to a differ ent order from that of burglars, assassins and highwaymen. Then, again, these men are. in part, the product of hard social conditions. The misery and rebellion caused by centuries of Luropean tyranny is in their blood, lust as much as the self-control and sobriety of the Puritan is in his blood. It may be said that these men would be exousable in Europe, but not here, where we have the free ballot-box. But have we a pure ballot-box? Have not our legislatures been bought and sold, elections tampered with. the very ballot-boxes stolen! And are not gigantic and oppressive concentrations of capital fraudulently and naerantly outraging tne law. purchasing law-makers, and defying the people! "1 know not what to call sucn acts out crimes, and these crimes make Anarchists." At the conclusion of his sermon the pastor read along petition to the Governor, praying for a commutation of sentence. About 100 signatures were obtained and a committee appointed to go to Springfield and present the petition to the Governor of Illinois to-morrow. Views of i elix AUIer. New York, Oct 30 Prof. Felix Adler ad dressed the Society of Ethical Culture at Chickering Hall this morning on the case of the con demned Chicago Anarchists. He said that he had been asked to address a mass-meeting ar ranged in behalf of the condemned, but felt eonstrained to refuse. He looked upon those men as criminals. "Every fibre of my moral nature is outraged by the methods by which they sought to obtain their ends," said the Professor. "The Anarchists are the worst enemies of society. and should be suppressed. Yet 1 rise to enter a plea in their behalf, because I am in favor of absolute purity in judicial processes and impar tiality in the face of public excitement I speak for them as I would for my worst enemy if injustice were about to be done him. If these men are nung they will be looked upon as heroes, which they are not Society has the right to and should quarantine these men, just the same as the bearers of cholera germs." Mr. Adler reviewed the trial, and as he re peated part of Fielden's speech there was some applause in the gallery of the hall. This was at once met with an outburst of hisses, and the speaker ceased in his discourse to say that any demonstration by the audience was not nertnltted by the' rules of the society. He after wards said that, in his opinion, the prisoners should have had separate trials, and that Lingg, Schwab and Fielden should be imprisoned for life, and the others sentenced for short terms. Senator McDonald on the Anarchists. Denver News. ' "What do you think of the appeal of the An archists to the Supreme Court of the United States" "I am not familiar with the record, but it seems to me that the United States Court has no jurisdiction over it Tbere is no federal question involved, and the only errors, if any exist, lie in the question of the administration of State law. 1 have no means of knowing the contents of the record, and base my opinion simply upon what has been made pnblie. If the exceptions are as to method of drawing jurors, or any similar practice, due to the methods of State courts, then the United States Supreme terfere. It is a question in which the State courts, and only the State courts, can have any power.' THE STOREY ESTATE. A Syndica to Purchases the Chicaeo Times and Its Late Editor's Property. Chicago Special. The complicated legal war for the possession of the Chicago Times and the great Wilbur F. Storey estate, which has been waged ever since Mr. Storey died, three years ago, came to an end to-day. Clinton A. Snowden, editor, and John J. West, publisher, of the Chicago Mail, it is announced to-nigbt, are at the head of a syndi cate which has purchased the entire possessions of the estate. Tbese include the Times, the valuable building from which it is published, a large plat of valuable land near the stockyards. an unfinished marble palace near South Park. and many pieces of real estate scattered over the city. Tne price paid for the property is said to be $2,000,000. This is not considered a great price for the real estate involved. The contest for the property had a sensational interest from the two queer wills in which Mr. Storey left his property to his second wife. His first wife, from whom he had been divorced, contested Mrs. Storey's inheritance, and the suits and cross-suits went on, becoming more and more intricate, until the affair reached unheard-of proportious, and could probably never have been settled by the courts. The first wife sought to prove that Mr. Storev was of un sound mind, and the evidence introduced in support of this claim convulsed the whole West for weeks and week?. While Mr. Storey was alive and in full possession of his faculties, the Times was the greatest newspaper in the interior of the country. Of late years, however, it has been allowed to fall behind all its competitors. and has lost ail oi its influence and most of its circulation. Mr. Snowden will be the editor un der the new ownership, and the lesend, "By W. F. Storey," which has appeared on the Times for nearly a quarter of a century, will disappear in a few days. The policy of the paper will be changed from partisan Democratic to Independent Just what settlement will be made with the heirs is not known yet v Had to Have a New Story. Chicago MaiL A man whose name would be recognized all ov er the Northwest if it was printed here was taken sick on a certain occasion. A newspaper reporter called and made the usual tender inquiries. The sick man answered them, and then gave the reporter some data from which the repor ter might weave a story in case ot tbe death of the former. The sick man recovered, but in a few weexs he was in bed again with a similar ailment The reporter called again. This was kept up several times the sick man alternating between ailment and Health. Onring a very recent attack the same reporter called again on bis victim. The sick man. who had been very gracious and patient, now began to worry, and upbraided the chronicler tor nis persistence. "I have told you all I know about iny life " said the sick man, "and there is nothing more to say. If you can wait till I die you will nave little to add." Tne reporter rather hesitated, nod then replied: "I am sorry, sir, but what you first told me was written up by me and handed to the city editor, who sent it out to have it put in type, so that we would have it on band when wanted. But the foreman cot it added to the death of some Ohio man a few days ago. and the mistake was not discovered in time to recti fy it So you see we will have to have a new story of your Hie." The sick man immediatley recovered and told the story in confidence to one of the members of his church. The member of the church is also a member of the club. Death of an Actress. New York, Oct 30. Maggie Arlington, the weil-known actress, died this evening. She fell down a dumb-waiter shaft at her residence about six weeks ago, breaking both legs and ber left arm. It was thought that she would re cover from these injuries, but pneumonia set in and was tbe direct cause of death. She was married to a nephew of Admiral Jouett.'but separated from him because he objected to her remaining on the stage. Her maiden name was Ryerson, and she was born in Lawrence, Mass., inlSaS. ,. . . , .....

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Concerning tbe success of the reform school in the reformation of those intrusted to it, there is room for two contrary opinions. , In an examination of tbe convicts of the prisons of New York, which was ordered by the Prison Association of the State, in 1875. it was found that of the inmates of the Sing Sing penitentiary 22.31 per cent had been "refuge" boys. As the usual number of inmates of the reformatories of New York exceeds 3,000, it is plain that the large proportion of them do not become inmates of prisons within the State. vary from 60 per cent to 75. But in these percentages are included many children who, without being vicious, but exposed and homeless, are received into bouses of refuge. Tbe proportion, therefore, of those who have served in reform schools who are afterward convicted of crimes is small, not exceeding 30 or 40 per cent Yet statistics indicate that the influence of these schools in impressing evil habits upon a certain class of their boys is exceedingly strong. Of the 22.31 per cent of the Sing Sing convicts examined who had been in these schools, 98 per cent. fifty-one out of fifty-two were habitual criminals. Some licbt is thrown upon the methods by which the reform school helps to fix the habit of criminality by the following conversation between a convict at Sing Sing and an examiner: "Please, sir, may I ask you a questionf ' asks the convict "Certainly," is the examiner's reply. "Whv do they send boys to the House of Refugei" boys." "That's a great mistake, for they get worse." "How should that be?" "I wouldn't be here only I was sent to this refuse." "What did you learn there that should havq caused you to be sent here?" "I didn't know bow t pick pockets before I went, and I didn't know no fences; that's where you sell what you steal, you know." "What else did you le.un in the way of thieving?" " "I learned how to put up a job in burglary." Another iumate who at the age of seven stole fruit, and was sent to a reform school at Albany for nine months; 'at eight was found, guilty of petit larceny, and sent to the House of Refuge; at twelve was committed to a juvenile asylum, and escaped three times in four days; and three other times before reaching his majority was sent to reformatories, and who between the ages of twenty-one and forty-one bad been committed to prison no less than ten times remarked to the examiner: -I never learned a thing in my life in prison to benefit me outside. The House of Refuge is the worst place a boy could be sent to." "Why so?" "Boys are worse than men; I believe boys know more mischief than men. In the House of Refuge I learned to sneak-thief, shop-lift, pick pockets, and open a lock." "How did you get an opportunity to learn all this?" "There's plenty of chance. They learn it from each other when at play." In respect to the evil influence of the reform school upon certain boys, it is, moreover, worth while to refer to the experience of one of the most learned and humane judges of the Supreme Bench of Maine. Before his court was brouehS a boy who had, evidently, in a fit of extreme rage, shot his father. He had, so far as known, borne a good reputation, and was a church member. He pleaded that be believed the gun was not loaded, and only intended to frighten bis parent The jury returned a verdict of guilty. Never before, confesses the judge. did he spend so many sleepless nights in determining upon a sentence. It lay in bis power to commit the lad either to the reform school of the State during the remainder of his minority or to the State prison for a term of years. He chose the latter alter native, and on the ground that in the reform school he would learn certain vicious and criminal habits, which wonld probably render his whole life criminal and vicious. In the prison separated from other convicts, he would be in less peril of contam ination. Having solely in view tne interests of the boy, the judge decided that the disgrace of being a State prison convict was less perilous than the danger of education in evil which tbe baser members of the reform school give their purer associates. A Bit of Vandalism. The Book-BIaker. I sat alongside of a lady in a street-ear the other day on my way down town. She was ele gant as to attire and intelligent as to visage. She was reading, or rather looking over, one of the leading magazines, and ever and anon, when it became necessary to move forward a page, she nsed ber index linger ber hand was encased in a clove for a paper-cutter. Shades of Tom Dibdin, what a mess sbe made of it! 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