Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1888 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOCJRN"AI. TUBS DAT, JANUARY 31, 1838.

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Pftv-nine mmbri were pledged to support Mr. Randall. The statement 5s mad without qualification that it is now known to Mr. Randall's fnrnds here that e-verai of thru- were bought for $1,000 each. 1 to in office by Mr. Hand all's assistance wto could cot he approached with money, were ic atened with removal if they dared to sac-port him with their votes. In regard to the meeting of tho New York committee at Albany, tho same tactics as to rallying office-holders were pursued. There is no coarse that mony was used there, but the power of patron a -re was used as far as it could be made effectual. The most significant fact that has been ascertained here in regard to the New York result is that several of those who roted for the Cleveland candidate are really opposed to the renomination of the President DISCUSSING TIIK PENSION BIIXS.

Views of Colonel Blatson and General Hovey on General and Dependent Pensions. Washington Special to New York Tribune. General Matson, chairman of the House committee on invalid pensions, the other day said, referring to an interview with General Hovey published recently in the Tribune: The time is not rioe for a service pension bill. A general pension should not be given for many years after the close of the war, at least not until those who need the assistance have been served. It would be preposterous to vote money to strong, able-bodied men and those well supplied with means. I am in favor of a dependent pension. I not only voted but delivered a speech in favor of such a pension bill Isst Congress. It passed, but -was vetoed by the President. I have now offered another essentially, though not verbally, the same. We have so constructed the present bill teat we hope to pass it, and shall pray for it to escape the frost-nipping blight of the veto. A service pension will not pass now. In other wars, such pensions were not granted eo soon after the slose of the war as this. It is too soon. Why, there are soldiers enough to empty our overflowing treasury till its vaults would be as hollow as love." General Hovey, in reply to an inquiry as to whether it was thoucht necessary in previous wars to wait so lone before pensioning the sol-' diers participating in them, said: "I wonder if Washington did not approve of pensions for his men before they all died of old age? He recommended such a bill in 1783. He did not believe in waiting a quarter of a century. But it is always too soon for the Democratic party. They would like to dally with this question till there would not be a corporal's guard left to pension. Air. Matson has introduced a bill bestowing his charity on the soldier, provided he can prove that he is really sick, poor as poverty, etc. But the brave men who have proved themselves so amply able to take care of themselves and our country, too, in the prime of their lives do not want our alms. They have a claim on our gratitude, and in common justice they should have it." DEACON WHITE'S WIRE. How the New York Member Keeps an Eye on Affairs In Ills Broker's Office. Washington Special. In the deep recess of one of the windows in the corridor of the House of Representatives is , a telegraph instrument, fenced off from the thoroughfare by an iron railing. A rather stout woman sits there constantly from 11 o'clock in the morning until 3 o'clock in the afternoon with her hand on the key. Occasionally she gets a message, which she writes and tucks in a little drawer in the table. Every half hour or so a short, ehnnky man, with spectacles on his nose i and a brown beard sprinkled with gray, comes ' out from the center door of the House and goes to the iron railing with a spry step. The oper ator takes the messages from the drawer, banas them to him, and he writes the answers on the reverse side of the same sheet of papor. Then he goes back into the House azain. and takes hie seat in the front row of desks immediately under the Speaker's eye. , The short, chunky man is "Deacon" White, the famous broker, and the other end of that wire Is in his office in Wall street, New York. He leases the wire from the Western Union, and knows what is going on in his office in New York just as well as if he sat at bis desk there, in stesd of being in tbe House. It costs him a good many thousand dollars a year for this wire alone, and no one knows how much more for the privilege of sitting in the House of Represent stives. Mr. White has made but one speech since he has been in Congress, and that was tbe speech of a business man. When the commit tee on appropriations brought in the bill to pay tbe deficiencies which it failed to provide lor at tbe last session. Mr. White moved to insert an amendment giving interest to persons who had - for this reuson been kept out of tbe money thus due them for nearly a year at tbe rate of 6 per cent, but be was voted down very promptly, as tbe government does not pay interest on the negligence of Congress. MINOR MATTERS. Favorable Report on the Proposed Change of Time for the Assembling of Congress. Washington, Jan. 30. Tha House commit tee on elections today continued consideration of the Wortbington-Post contested election from Illinois, Attorney Bancroft speaking for Mr. Post, The House select commitee on election of President, Vice-president, and Representatives in Congress, has agreed to report favorably to the House the Crain resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution substituting the thirty-first day of December for tbe fourth of March for the commencement and terminal of official term of members of the House of Representatives, aud providing that Congress shall hold its annual meeting on the first Monday in January. - The committee on invalid pensions has agreed to report favorably to the House the bill granting a pension of $2,000 a year to Mrs. John A. Logan, and to increase the pension of Mrs. A. A. Blair, widow of tbe late Francis P. Blair, jr., to the same amount. A minority composed of Chairman Matson and Messrs. Walker, of Missouri, and Pidoock, of New Jersey, will submit an adverse report. The bills are identical with those which passed tbe Senate lsst week. Defaetlve Military Records. Special to the lndisnesolls Journal. Washington, Jan. 30. For many years Congress has been deluged with bills proposing to remove the charge of desertion against tbe military records of men who served in the Union army during the late war. Tbe hut two Congressa have refused to act on these measures, because they embrace class legislation. ' Major Steele, who is a member of tbe House committee on military affairs, to-day introduced a bill which not only authorizes, but directs the Secretary of War to make all corrections in military records that proof and justice will warrant. The hill in detail specifies the proofs which will be necessary in order to warrant the Secretary of War in making necessary corrections in records. It will not be possible, under this bill, for anyone who is charged through technicality with desertioo, and who honestly did not intend to become a deserter, to long suffer the consequences of a defective military record. lie Hasn't Stood the Racket. Washington, Jan. 30. A Star reporter today exhibited to Senator Ingalls a copy of the letter relative to President Cleveland, said to have been written by the Senator to a friend in Kansas City, and asked if it was genuine. After glaocing at the letter. Senator Ingalls replied: "It was written in 1885, within three weeks after tbe inauguration of President Cleveland. While I do not recall tne letter or tbe name of the person to whom it was addressed, it was apparently written to a personal friend, and seems to have been improperly procured and pnhlished. Tbe President had j ust assumed his office, and I was simply giving my impressions to a friend." The Senator added: "But I don't think the President has stood the racket, He has failed ts improve his opportunity." Presidential Nominations. Washington, Jan. 30. The President has sent tbe following nominations to the Senate: Knute O. Hsrris, of Minnesota, to be receiver of public moneys at Fergus Falls. Minn.; Myron H. Roley. of Dakota, to be register of the land office at Mitchell, D. T.; Commodore Bancroft Gnerardi, to be rear admiral; Capt. Wrn. E. Fitzhugh. to be a commodore; CommanderIlenry B, Robeson, to be captain. General Notes. Special to the lodlaoaoolis JotrnaL. Washington, Jan. 30. Third Auditor John S. Williams has returned from his home at Lafayette, and was at his desk in the Treasury Department to-day. Levi A. Foster, of Terre Haute, was to-day appointed a storekeeper in that internal revenue district, end Louis Kalber, of Terre Haute, was appointed a ganger. . Captain Archer, of Speneer, is here. J A. Quod, of Lawrence county, for two years a cpecial agent of tbe Iatenor Depart

ment, made a short trio here to-day on official business, and to-night left for Helena, Mont. William D. Hill, f Young's Creek. Ind-, and Thomas M. Clark and Cutlsr S. Dobbins, of Shoals, were to-day admitted to practice before tbe Interior Department. Bills were introduced in the House to day by General Browne to pension John Robison and Joseph A- Darnell, and by Mr. Howard to pay William C. Dodge $10,000 for infringement by the United States upon a patent cartridge-loading machine. . Representative Butterworth introduced a resolution to-day directing the appropriations committee to inquire into all facts connected with the extension, by the District commissioners, of suburban streets and avenues, and the publication of a map indorsing such proposed extensions. The President has issued a proclamation granting to German vessels in American ports the same riplits and privileges accorded United States vessels in German ports. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Mrs. Jnlia Kenny, of Philadelphia, was severely beaten by her drunken husband, Saturday night, and yesterday morning she died. Kenny has been arrested. Frederick Edmondson. an inmate of the lunatic asylum at Nevada, Mo., committed auieide, Sunday night, by banging himself with a bedsheet. He left an estate valued at $50,000. A vein of natural cas was struck yesterday at Corsicana, Tex., at a depth of 240 feet, while oring an artesian welL Tbe flame is very brilliant but tbe pressure is small. The well will be drilled deeper, with the hope of developing a larger flow. Yesterday two eow-boys, named Arthur and Potts, attempted to run the town of Buffalo Gap. a station on the Elkhorn road, forty miles south pf Rapid City, D. T., when the citizens turned out in full force, and killed both of them. Who fired the fatal shots no one knows, nor wants know. John. Welch, Edward Williams and Edward Kimberly were arrested at Baltimore, yesterday, on the charge of having cut the throat of Rose Cbaney, housekeeper for Welch. All the accused are known to have spent the night in Welch's house, and yesterday morning the woman was found dead in bed with her throat cut. Col. T. J. Williams, a prominent lawyer of Palestine, Tex., was shot aud killed, Sunday morning, by George D. Hunter, son of a widow whom Williams had insulted. Williams was on horseback when he was shot. He came to Palestine sixteen years ago from Mississippi. Young Hunter surrendered himself. He is upheld by the communitv.

Death of Prof. Asa Gray. Boston, Jan. 30. Prof. Asa Gray, the eminent botanist and professor of botany at Harvard College, died of paralysis this evening, aged seventy-seven. Chicago, Jan. 30. The Rev. Brainard Kent died yesterday of paralysis. Mr. Kent was born April 25, 1802. in Dorset, Vt. He was graduated from Williams College in 1824. In 1856 be came to Chicago, and has since been actively engaged in miesionery work among the railroad men. Franklin, Ind., Jan. 30. Dr. W. C. Hendricks, for several years a practising physician of this city, died at the family residence, at 7:30 o'clock last evening. His disease was lung fever. Dr. Hendricks was born in Shelby county, Ind., Nov. 22, 1822. but had resided the most of his life in this county. He had resided at Shelby ville. 111., Ladoga, Ind., Greenwood, Ind.. and other places in this State. He was surgeon of the Twenty-first In diana Regiment; was a Knight Templar, an Odd-fellow, and a member of Wadsworth Poet, G. A. R., of this city. The funeral will be conducted under tbe direction of his commandery, assisted by the other orders of which he was a member. Elder S. F. Fowler, of the Christian Church, assisted by Rev. A. Ogle, of the Baptist Church, will conduct the religious exercises. The St. Panl Cable Railway Accident. St. Paul, Jan. 30. The coroner began this afternoon the inquest on the body of M. L. Saunders, killed in the cable-road accident on Friday. Many witnesses were examined, eliciting a variety of contradictory testimony, some stating that the brakes were applied and others that they were not The inquest will be continued to-morrow. One of the employes of the cable company state that the machinery at the power-house was suddenly stopped at the very moment the train was coming down Selbyavenue hill, which jerked the grip from the cable and let the train take its fatal run down the incline. The tracks on the hill were covered with snow hardened into ice at the time of the accident. A gentleman who saw the track shortly after the accident declares that it was scraped down by the block brake just like a toboggan slike, the ice preventing the block from taking hold of the track. The injured boy, Louis Roberts, is getting along nicely. The Chamber of Commerce to-day passed a resolution that the cable railway should be carried under Summit avenue, thereby reducing the danger to passengers now caused by the grade on Selby avenue, and removing the danger, annoyance and inconvenience caused by the track crossing Summit avenue at grade. Phenomenon Hoffmann's Case. New York, Jan. 30. Mayor Hewitt said yesterday that in consequence of tne letter addressed to him by Mr. Gerry, in regard to young Josef Hoffmann, he bad requested Mr. Abbey to bting the boy to his office at Mr. Abbey's earliest convenience. Mr. Gerry eaid last night: "I was informed by a reputable physician that he had detected in the boy's face symptoms of facial paralysis. Other persons whom" I know to be trustworthy tell me that Hoffmann's nervous system and general health are already impaired by overwork. In view of tbe facts it was the duty of tbe society to bring the case before the Mayor. The decision of the matter rests, of course, with tbe Mayor alone. This case is similar to that of young Theodora De Costa, who had a natural soprano voice, which bade fair to rival Patti's. But tbe girl was worked to death while a mere child, in spite of the efforts of tbe society, and now, at sixteen, her voice is quite gone." Protestant Missionaries In Mexico. City of Mexico, Jan. 30. A convention of all the . Protestant mission workers in Mexico will begin bete to-morrow. Delegates have already arrived from the remotest parts of the Republic. The sessions will be attended by bishops of various denominations, who have arrived from the United States. This is tbe first meeting of the kind ever held here. Tbe sessions will take place in the ancient Franciscan convent, which is now used for missionary purposes. Missionaries predict that there will be great results from this union of active workers, and tbat the convention will bring about a good understanding. Tbe Quakers will be represented in the convention, although their work is confined to strictly educational endeavors, in which they are very successfuL All the Protestant sects operating here give much attention to elementary education of children and the care of orphans. Native preachers belonging to the different sects are arriving to take part in the proceedings. An Atrocious Crime. Colfax. W. T., Jan. 30. Dan Conroy, foreman of the track-laying on the Spokane & Palonse railway, called on a Miss Hughes, daughter of 1. 1. Hughes, editor of the Talonse City News, to attend a dance to be given at Garfield. While in a buegy he managed to drug her in some way, then placed her in a box car near Palonse City, and ravished her. Not satisfied with his own guilt, he induced ten of his gang to do likewise. Tbe girl is about eighteen years of age, and of prepossessing appearance. She is not expected to live. She was kept a prisoner in the car for twenty-two hours. The wretch was canght in Spokane Falls. Sheriff Berry will bring him here by to-morrow's train. provided he is not lynched before. Profit-Sharing Succeeds. Boston, Jan. 30. A successful experiment in profit-sharing during tbe past year was made public a day or two ago by the distribution of a liberal bonus among tbe employes of William H. Zinn, the proprietor of a large novelty establish ment on Washington street. The employes re ceived a dividend proportionate to their regular waees and length of service. Mr. Zinn is so well pleased with his experiment that be will continue his plan. Schaefer Break the Record. Milwaukee. Jan. 30. In a game with Eu gene Carter, at Callahan's Hall, to-night. Jacob Scha?fer broke the record infonrteen-inch balkllne billiards with a run of 284. He ran out the game of 300 points with 252, but kept on, and only at the 2S5th shot did he fail to count. In his last game with Vignaux in New York he made 230 at this style of billiards, which .was the best record up to to-night. A Mammoth Cigar Factory. Ket West, Jan. 30. Eduardo IL Gato. the kiug of Havana cigar manufacturers " will shortly build in this city tbe largest cigar manufactory in the United States. The building is to be of fcrick. iron and stone, with a capacity for 1,000 cigar-makers, enabling them to manufact ure 200,000 cigars a day. The Cuban troubles, it is said, was one cause of the removal. Praia s from England. a f W-i " . . e a 0 a . sanitary uecora: .coigate v jo. s toilet soaps are uneoualed in aooearanco. ntrfumn and quality.

GREAT FIBE IN NEW YORK

Eight Large Wholesale Houses and Val uable Stocks of Goods Destroyed, ' Involving a Loss of About $1,400,000, Which Is Believed To Be Fall j Covered by Insurance One Fireman Loses His Life. New York, Jan. 30. One of the largest fires that has occurred in this city for many months broke out in the store of Henry Rogers & Co., at 549 Broadway, early this morning. It ex' tended and destroyed the five adjoining stores. Three sixes were sounded, and all the engines below Forty-second street responded. The property occupies the west side of Broadway, between Prince and Spring streets, and extends through to Mercer street. No. 549, where the fire originated, wa3 a five-story iron front double building. The first floor was occupied by Henry Rogers & Co., dealers in fancy goods; the second by Weed Nelson "& Co., fancy trimmings; tbe third by C A. Yost, summer clothing, and the fourth by Malcolmson & Co., boys' clothing. . No. 545, first floor, was occupied by Robertson & Kaufman, dealers in trimmings; second floor by P. K. Wilson & Son, importers of laces; third by Stein, Falk & Co., boys' cloth ing; fourth by M. Kaempfer, manufacturer of waists. No. 547 is a five-story brick building, iron front, and tbe first floor was occupied by F. Beianchi & Co., importers of flowers. No. 553, the walls of which have just fallen in, was occupied on the first floor by Louis Metzger, importer of millinery trimmings; second floor by Jerkowski & Crust, importers of cloth, and the rest of the building by Mitchell & Ricard, clothing. No. 555 is a five-story brick front, occupied on the fust floor by R. Isaacs & Brother, dealers in Japanese goods; second and third floors by Samuel Lcewenstein, dealer in neck-wear, and tbo fourth floor by Schwak & Son, importers of fancy goods, Nos. 557 and 559 wss a large double iron front. Tbe first floor was occupied by Henry Newman, cotton goods; they began on Saturday to move to their new building, on Broadway, between Huston and Bleeker, but the greater part of the stock had not been removed. Their loss is very heavy. L. L. Liprcan & Sons, clothing, occupied the first floor; C. C. Carpenter occupied the second loft with a heavy stock of tournures and crinolines. I. Peavy & Bros, were above them. The basement and first floor of 561 and 563, a double iron front, was occupied by Stlner, Kahn & Co., novelties and Swiss goods. Smoke and water ruined their heavy stock, worth $75,000, and insured. Gotthold & Co., hat and bonnet framers; T. L. Barber & Sons, straw goods, and the Holland Manufacturing Company, spool silks, whose factory is in Wrillimantie, Conn., also suffered heavily, as did J. R. Leesver & Co.. importers of linen threads. Jerkowski & Crust, of No. 553, lose $50,000. with no insurance. Tbe flames spread with astonishing rapidity after once breaking out, and several accidents occurred. About 5:40. President Purroy, of the fire commissioners, and several firemen, were standing on the roof of 549 and 551, when tbe walls were felt to tremble. The order to retreat was given and all rushed for No. 553. Several of the men were bruised by the falling bricks of the walls. Mike Kelly fell and was severely injured. Fireman Sheridan, of Eneine No. 9, jumped from the burning roof of 549 to 547, and part of the walls of tbe latter tumbled on him. Two of his men pulled him from the debris under which he had fallen. He was taken to the hospital with a badly injured chest and some broken ribs. He may die. The walls of 549 and 551 fell at 5:45, and the ruins covered Broadway. Travel was stopped for several blocks. The stock in eight buildings was totally destroyed, in the otner buildinge, facing on Soring. Prince and Mercer streets, there is damage bv smoke and water. Tbe buildings on the east side of Broad-ray are also somewhat injured by smoke and flying Pricks. Fireman Reilly died at noon from his injuries. The following estimate of the losses i3 believed to he an KCriirntK ran now h Arrival atLosses by Fire S. Bianchi. flowers and feath ers. $200,000; Henry Rogers, fancy goods, $lo0,000; Beit, Son & Co., millinery ornaments. $100,000; Charles A. Yost & Co., clothiers, $30,000; J. Li. Libby & Co.. shirts, $40,000; Malcolm bon & Co., clotniers, $7u,000; Jerxowski & .rnest, clothing. $90,000; Louis Metzger, millinery, $60,000; Beck & Nichols, clothing, $40,000; Mitchell & Picard. $25,000. Losses by Water Wm. Ronyau, braids, $50,000; J. Humberg. straw hats, $10,000; Samuel LoewensCein. neckwear, $15,000; Schwab & Son, laces, $40,000; R. I. Isaacs, fancy goods. $40,000; M. Kaempfer. $25,000; Stein, Falk & Co., $25,000; P. K. Wilson & Son. $35,000: Robertson & Kaufman. $20,000. Adding $30,000 for damaee to firms overlooked or not specified brings the loss on stock to $1,005,000. The burned build ings can be replaced for $300,000, and the dam aged buildings ean be repaired for $30,000. This makes tbe total loss about $1,400,000. The insurance runs up into the millions, some of which is as follow: Louis Metzeer & Co., $28,500; Mitchell & Picnrd, $27,750: Beit. Son & Co., $142,500; the building, No. 553 Broadway, owned by the estate of J. W. Beekman, $60,000; Nos. 549 and 551, owned by Hiram Sibley, $135,000. While the fire waa in progress another broke out in Charles Pieser's mattress factory. No. 16 Pell street, creating a panic among the tenements in the neighborhood, but it was confined to the building where it started. L033, $39,000; insured, Flouring liils llumert. Rock Island. III., Jan. 30. The Johnson flour mills, at Milan, were destroyed by fire yesterday. The mills, which had been in operation for almost forty years, are supposed to have been fired by an incendiary. Los?. $40,000; no insurance. Mr. Fitzpatrick, who has been operating the mills for several years, loses $4,500 in stored grain, on which there is insurance of $2.500. INDIANA , AND ILLINOIS. Tonne Girl Dies from the Effects of Burns Received While SuflViriue; from a Fit. Special to tue Xndianaoolis Journal. Plainfield, Ind., Jan. 30. Miss Grace Smith, the seventeen-year-old daughter of Alva Smith, a farmer living near Avon, this county, died yesterday from the effects of severe burns received by falling in a fainting fit upon a hot stove. None of the family were presens when the accident occurred, and when discovered, the girl was lying with her arm and body against tbe stove. Pendleton's Frnipectl. t Special to the Indiananolis Journal. Pendleton, Ind., Jan. 30. The Board of Trade has closed a contract with Eastern parties for the location of a large cooper-shop, which is to be located near the sandstone crusher. The firm will employ employ twenty-five men,' and turn out an averrge of 500 barrels per day. Their barrels will be used for shipping sand. Work will commence immediately. The president of the Board of Trade, C E. Goodrich, informs your correspondent that it keeps him busy answering correspondence from different manufacturers who are desirous of locating here, and that Pendleton's prospect for several manufactories are good, as the town has plenty of natural gas, water, sandstone, clay and timber for boxes. heading factories, handle factories, and land for all who are worthy and want to locate here. Chance for a Capitalist. Special to tue Indianapolis JournaL Windfall, Ind., Jan. 30. Mr. Marshall, a Baltimore capitalist, visited this place, looking for a location for a glass factory, ne expressed himself as favorably impressed with the gas supply and the town, and the citizens' committee now have his proposition under favorable consideration. The factory will cost $20,000, and the pay roll will amount to $4,000 weekly. Mr. Marshall says that Indiana and Ohio gas fields will yet be the manufacturing center of the world. Tbe citizens here are anxious to secure the location of a first-class roller-process mill, for which they will give free ground, free gas and other inducements, and as the town is surrounded by a fine farming country, with no mill on the east or west within thirty miles, and none north or south within ten miles, the location is all that could be desired. An Exchange of Priests. Cpecial to the IndiaraDolis Jonrpa. Rushville, Ind., Jsn. 30. A committee representing the Catholic Church of this city went to Indianapolis to-day, where a eonsaltation will be held with Bishop Chatard ia regard ii the

change which has been ordered by him to take

dace between the Catboue Church at tureencastle. Ind.. and the one in this city. Tbe priests of these churches have been ordered to exchange. Father Maeke is well liked by his congregation here, and desires very mucn to re main, and a strong effort will be made with the bishop to allow him to do so. Fanklin County Republicans. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Bkookville, Ind., Jan. 30. In response to the call of the chairman of the Republican central committee, a meeting was held for the purpose of reorganizing the county committee and select ing delegates to tbe district and State conven tions. The following delegates to the State con vention were chosen: Samuel Davis. J. W. Killen, H. R. Seward, W. L. Day, Atwell Morgan, A. R. Ryman, A. R. Case, Isaac Carter and C Jt. Jones. Killed by a Train. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Brazil, Ind., Jan. 30. George Moody, of Terre Haute, for many years a farmer living north of Brazil, fell between the cars on the Vandalia coal branch, near Knightsville, at noon. An arm and a leg were cut off. He was removed to a house near by, but died in a few minutes. . He was sixty years old. Indiaua Notes. The Republicans of Rush connty indorsed Gen. Tom Browne for Congress at their con vention. A remarkable religious revival closed at the M. E. Church, at Hiilsboro, Sunday night, held by Jiivangel ist w. B. Adkins. of Xsew Koss. Over forty additions were secured. W. W. Thrasher, a prominent citizen of Fayette county, died at his home at Fairview, Sanday night at midnight. The funeral discourse will be delivered by President A. R. Benton, of liutler university, on Wednesday at 1U a. m. In the items published in Sunday's Journal, in reference to to the pension of General Manson, a mistake in a figure was made. The amount of back pension that the General re ceived was equal to $7.50 per month from December 22, 18G4, instead of $1. 50, as printed. Geo. A. Arthur, of Crawfordsville, has the last postage stamp sold in Indiananolis under the Republican administration. When he got the stamp the clerk said: "Well, this is the last stamp sold under tbe Republican administration for the present," and shut the small doors of the stamp department. Arthur is keeping the stamp as a memento. Illinois Items. Edward Lukes, an old citizen and an ex-po liceman of Bloomington, committed suicide ou Sunday by taking laudanum. Col. James D. Fish, a prominent Mason, a Grand Army veteran, and part owner of rail way stock yards at Haonibal, Decatur, Toledo and other points, died at Decatur, on Sunday, of cancer of tbe face, aged fifty years. Mr. Frank II. Long, a Chicago evangelist, has just concluded a two-weeks' meeting in tbe Tresbytenan church in Mount Vernon, and, as a result, the meat shops have been closed on Sunday, and there have been eighty-five conver sions and seventy-five accessions to the church. mostly of young people. This has been the greatest awakening this church ever experi enced. BOB INGEKSOLL SNUBBED. The Comedian Crane Reads the Blatant In fidel m Silent Lesson. New Tork Times. Stuart Robson, of the comedy firm of Robson & Crane, is a rabid disciple of Ingersoll. His partner Crane, on the other hand, has a strong underenrrent of religious sentiment, and while not as observant of church ceremonies as an ec clesiastic or Puritan deacon, he is governed by a spirit or reverence which makes him nicely punctilious about the Sabbath day. He is firmly opposed to rehearsals and traveling on Sunday, and will never personally engage in either unless from absolute necessity. An amusing incident showing his sensitiveness in this respect occurred a fortnight ago, when be was one of the company in which Bob Ingersoll was prominent. Tbe conversation turned on current orthodoxy. The infidel became eloquent as the subject opened, and was comfortably ad justing the puzzling question of life and death. tbe trinity, atonement, and otner Christian tenets, when the rubicund comedian quietly arose, took bis hat and coat, and deliberately left the room. Tbe occurrence broke tbe spell of the evening, and caused a great deal of wondering comment. Mr. Crane afterward said to a friend: "Mr. Ingersoll is a pleasant man personally, but I have no patience with his self-appointed apostleship and the vagaries of thought and speech which in his conceit of judgment be is always flourishing. It is his privilege to draw an imaginary line against the horizon and stop tbe eternal march of things with a bang, just where bis imigination ends, but the economies of nature, human and otherwise, do not point to so unsatisfactory an ending, and I am perfectly happy in the fashion of our fathers." Driven Mad by the Murder of Her Lover. ST. Joseph, Mo., Jan. 30. A terrible tragedy occurred at Wallace, Mo., last night. For some time past a young man named Blakely has been paying attentions to Miss Annie Estes, a sixteen-year-old girl. Her family objected to Blakely, but last night the couple attended church. After the services they were met outside by Peter Estes, her father, and William, her eighteen-year-old brother. A quarrel arose between Blakely and Esteses as to who should escort the young lady home. Finally, William drew his pistol and shot Blakely through the jaw. Blakely then drew bis weapon, but the old man bad drawn bis by this time and shot him in the forehead. "William then completed the butchery by step ping up to the prostrate man ana Plowing half of bis head off. Tbe father and son have been arrested. The girl has lost her reason since the bloody affair. The Originator of the Exodus. Galveston, Tex., Jan. 30. The News pub lishes a communication from Hempstead, Tex.,e stating tbat tbe exodus inaugurated at Topeka, to move colored people to Central and South America, had its origin in Washington county. Tex. Tbe father of the project is S. A. Hackworth, for many years a prominent Republican of Breoham, Tex.. but now residing in Tcpeka, Hackworth left Washington county two yeara ago on account of the race conflict culminating at the election in November, 1886, when three negroes were taken from the jail and lynched by a mob. Before leaving Texas, Hackworth related the details of bis plans for a great exodus. as recently divulged at Topeka. The natfield-IIIcCoy People Call a Truce. Charleston, W. Va.. Jan. 30. The vendetta between the Hatfields, of Logan county, this State, and the McCoys, of Pike county. Ken tucky, is settled for the present The agent whom Governor Wilson sent to Logan county, some days since, returned thi3 afternoon, and reported the belligerents on both sides disbanded, and tbe trouble ended. Governor Wilson has countermanded the order calling out tbe military, and ordered the Goff and Auburn Guards, who were en route for this city, for the purpose or going to the front, to return to their homes. Governor Wilson so notified Governor Buckner, of Kentucky. Steamship News. New York, Jan. 30. Arrived: Pennsylvania. from Liverpool. , Havre, Jan. 30. Arrived: La Goscogne. from New York. Queenstown, Jan. 30. Arrived: Ohio. Egypt, from New York. James Red path. Hopelessly III. New York, Jan. 30. The physician of James Red path. th journalist and lecturer, has given up hope of his patient's recovery. Paralysis of tbe throat cords, the result of overwork a year ago, is the disease. Mr. Reripath cannot speak, but is in possession of all his mental faculties. Pfefler Remains In Chicago. Chicago. Jao. 30. Fred Pfeffer. the second baseman of the White-stocking team last year. signed a contract this afternoon to play with the Chicaga team during less, ills salary is said to be $3,000, which is an advance, but less than Pfeffer demanded. A Revised Version. Hew Tork Epoch. It is rumored that Mr. Lowell is revising his courtship poem, in which "Zeke peeked thru the winder." This particular line will read. "Ezekiel glanced throueb the casement, don't cher know." Mr. Lowell is either in England or will sail for there ahortly. A Wlfe'e Sympathy. Kew Tork Epoch. Husband f groaning) Tne rheumatism in my leg is coming on again. Wife (with sympathy) Oh, I am so sorrv. John. I wanted to do some shopping to-day, and tbat is a sure sign oi rain. The Throat'Brown's Bronchial Trochee" act directly oa the organs of tbe voiee. They have an extraordinary effect ia all disorders of the throat.

THE READING STRIKES.

A Committee Representing the Strikers Will Ask Congress to Investigate. Washington, Jan. 30. John II. Davis, John I Lee and IL McGarvey, of a committee representing the striking operatives and miners of the Philadelphia & Reading and Lehigh Valley Railroad Companies and the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company, arrived in Washington to-day for the purpose of urging Congress to take action with reference to the Reading troubles. They will present to the Houe, to-morrow, the following petition: Whereas. The Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company, the Philadelphia and Heading Coal & Iron Cootpa- . tij L r.n 1 . : 1 1 11 . 1 nj, tne eniKa ' ""j ivaurrou vompsny ana omer corporations, have unlawfully conspired with individuals to raise the price of coal to an unreasonable fisrure. and for this purpose have, by enforcing a loek-out in the entire Iebign and bcnayllcill anthracite coal system, nraTmtnl the mininsr and shinning of coal from thasa systems to any part of the Lnited States, we the un dersigned respectfully ask iongress to appoint a special committee of the Ilonse of Representatives to investigate tbe cause of said lock-outs as promptly as the same can oe done. The committee, who claim to represent 82,000 workingmen. say that the object of this petition is to have an investigation that will go to the bottom of tbe pool, which, they assert, has been formed for the purpose of controlling the price of coal. They declare that the companies are paying large dividends on fictitious values in the shape of bonded indebtedness, and are reaping a revenue from the anthracite coal fields to which they are in no way entitled Such an investigation as that for which they ask, will, they think, elicit information tbat will lead to the enactment of laws to prevent these unjust exactions and thus remove the cause of the strikes. How Merchants Protect Themselves. Pottsville. Pa., Jan. 30. The small traders and merchants have been put to many curious devices to avoid giving further credit to strikers. Such wholesale merchants as are located here are given small orders, principally in the way of meats, but are told not to ship it. The mer chants themselves send a horse and sleigh to bring it, generally under cover of night, and take it in through the back entrances and keep it m cellars and back rooms. v ben strikers come into buy on credit, the dealer stretches his conscience sufficiently to say he has not the required article. A cash customer can get it, but it must be done on the quiet, and is received at the house just as it is brought from the wholesalers. Should it become known that these little deceits are being practiced tbe dealers will be boycotted, but even that would not be so unmixed an evil as to be eaten out or house and borne by hungry strikers, as was the case in 1875. Numberless instances of financial wrecks growing out of tbat long and disastrous struggle between the miners and tbe operators still abound here in Pottsville, and are pointed to now by those who are engaged in business and have urged the strikers to resume work. RIast Furnaces Ranked. Troy, N. Y., Jan. 30. The blast furnaces of the Troy Steel and Iron Company were banked this morning, the employes having refused to accept a 10 per cent, reduction in wages. The efforts of the State Board of Arbitration were not successful. About 3,000 men are thrown out of employment. Labor and Industrial Motes. Philadelphia Record. A Pittsburg firm has just secured a contract to supply St. Louis with 2,500,000 bushels of coal. From 120,000 to 160.000 tons of iron rods are imported annually, which pay a duty of $12 per ton. A great deal of textile machinery is going from Rhode Island and Massachusetts works to the South. Omaha capitalists propose to spend $3,000,000 on a railroad to start at Omaha and run northward toward the boundary. Tbe Maginnis cotton mills at New Orleans hare doubled their capital to $1,000,000, and the Lane mills have also increased their capital. The growth of the business in tropical fruits has led to the introduction of a new refrigeratorear, which keeps things fresh longer and better than any in use. A large cotton-mill at Enterprise, Miss., called tbe Stonewall, turns out 3,500,000 yards of cloth per year, and it is said to be the best-paying factory in the South. The exports of American machinery to Mex ico. Central and South America and Australia continue to agitate the manufacturers of ma chinery in Great Britain. A syndicate of New York capitalists will build a railroad from Montgomery, Ala., to Chatta hoochee, Fla. It will run through the richest pine forests of the South. There are daiiy utilized in Chicago from 8,000 to 10,000 gallons of blood, which is evaporated and used to manufacture buttons, cheap jew elry, belt clasps, and hair ornaments. American hardware is finding ready markets all over the world. The exports of the week ended Jan. 2L amounted in value to $23,000 to thirteen countries. Shipments were made to London, Liverpool and Hull. A patent thread extractor is having a large sale among cotton manufacturers. The builders are sending a great many of the machines to England. A good many of our borne manufact urers let the thread go with the waste. InlS50 there were but fifty-eight power looms in Ireland, but about 25.000 are now used in the production of linen fabrics for home and foreign consumption, besides several thousand handlooms scattered throughout the country. A $250,000 cement manufaeturingcompany has just started in business at Chattanooga to manufacture a cement that will stand the regulation test of 300 pounds to the inch after being twenty-four hours in the air and six days in water. A machine company in Lewiston, Me., is turn ing out immense presses weighing forty tons, which are capable of giving a pressure of 2,000 tons. They are used in making tusk, cotton or paper rolls, and in bleacberies, dye works, fin- ' ishing and paper mills. The Edison people are prowling along the South Pacific coast trying to turn night into day. They have captured Chili with 5,000 lamps. They have an iron-clad patent and pro pose to make some money, ihe city government of Los Angeles, Chili, has bought the Edi son plant. The screw auger was invented by Thomas Garrett about 100 years ago. He lived near Oxford, Chester county, Pa. The single screw auger was invented by a Philaielphian, and it is said to be the only one used with any satisfac tion in very hard woods where the double screw augers become clogged. Persons familiar with mining operations will be interested to know that in a Pennsylvania bituminous coal mine the other day, over 2,000 tons of coal were hoisted from a shaft 423 feet deep at the rate of nearly four tons ner minute. The coal was raised in one car trips. This is the fastest work of the kind on record. Mining engineers are trving to solve tbe prob lem, "How can the bituminous slack of our coal mines be utilized?" They say that could manufacturers alone be induced to substitute gaseous fuel the 1,000,000 tons of pea and Mack now practically wasted could do much greator work than is now done with 1,500,000 tons of lump coaL A remarkable invention has been introdnced by which gas and the incandescent electric light can be made to give as much light in an ordina ry sixteen-candle-power lamp as is wow given by two such lamps. The rays from the lirht are thrown against the silver and reflected against ground glass, which breaks up the rays, creating a mass of light. A high shoe authority says there is now every reason to believe that this will be a successful season, both in point of quantity of product and iraouot of proht. Indications point to a re duction in the price of boots and shoes of from seventy-hve cents to $1 per case. In some Eastern factories one operative can run two shoe buttonhole machines, making 7,000 holes per day. The coal bills of railroads amount to from 9 to 12 per cent, of the total operating expenses. It has been estimated that if this item of cost could be reduced one half net earnings could be considerably iucreased. It bas been estimated that the locomotives of this countrv last vear burned 24,000,000 tons of coal, of which only 3 per cent, of actual power stored np in coal was utilized. Inventors aret work trying to devise some meiDtxi oy which the coal bills can be re duced one-half. There are in the United States 52.914 dealers in shoes, leather, machinery, hides, etc.. of which J.Sit are in Massachusetts and in Pennsylvania. There are 30.000 retailers of shoes, of whom 1,756 are in Pennsylvania. There are 2,229 shoe manufacturers, or wnorn 1.008 are in Massachusetts. 375 ia New York, 170 in Pennsylvania. 55 in Ohio and 71 in Illi nois. There are 2,837 tanners and curriers, and of these 663 are in Pennsylvania. mere are about 3,000 morocco manufacturers. Trade, manufacturing and commercial statis tics all show that the full average winter volume of business is being transacted in nearly all carts of the conntrv. J here is no disposition to slack up except for accidental causes. Produeinff canacitv ia reing Kept at a biga average in all the lareer industries. Some contemplated improvements in each of tbe industries will not be undertaken until tho trade probabilities of

the coming season can be more safely arrival at. Conservative men feel safe in their ability to dispose of a full production at present capacity. Any further increase is regarded as risky. Yet in some branches a rapid development ia assured, as, for instance, in Southern textile interests. . BURNING BRICK WITH OIL.

A Faocess Which Will Be a Saving or 33 13 Per Cent. Chicago Tribune. An experiment was made this week ths successful outcome of which forecasts a com Diet revolution in the method of burning brick. When it is considered that Chicago manufactures 500.000,000 brick a year, and that thus tens of thousands of tons of coal have been annually consumed, a ' radical change which will abolish the use of coal is of great interest to the coal-dealers at least. Mr. D. V. Purington, brielc manufacturer and ex-counry eommibsioner. thinks he baa solved the problem of how to burn brick. He snperintended tha burning of the first kiln of brick with oil for fuel tbat has been attempted in this section of the country. Thursday afternoon a large party, including President George Tapper of tha Builders' & Traders' Exchange, Thomas Moulding. F. S. Label, Adam Weckler, G. Harland,. and a score of leading brick manufacturers, too the train for Purington station, just this side of Blue Island. Mr. Punngtoa had on exhibition an experimental kiln of 200,000 eommon brick, which were in process of burning by the crude oil method. The oil used, while called "crude oil," is in reality nothing but the waste from which the naptha has been extracted. It does not burn readily by itself, but it was discovered tbat when mixed with superheated steam great heating power was developed. Tbe oil ia piped directly from the cartanks and is fed into tbe arches through a twoinch gas-pipe. Two kinds of burners were tested, one of which is covered by a patent and sold for $150, the other being a simple improvised device upon which the most exacting inventor could find nothing to' lay claim for originality. The work accomplished by both was equally good. The arches were filled with a solid mass of flame, which burned with surprising steadiness. The degree of heat was under the complete control of the operator, who, by turning a hand-cock, could increase or diminish the flame in any arch. This particular kiln was finished ia sixty hours, about one-third of the time occupied by the prevailing method. In the opinion of tha experts present the result was satisfactory in ev- " ery respect, although more will be known when tbe kiln has cooled off and been, carefully examined The oil costs only eighty cents a barrel and can ba had -in almost inexhaustible -quantities. With this process one man ean handle with ease the largest kiln of brick, instead of seven or eight as are now required. No changa is required in the construction of the kiln; there are no expensive fittings and absolutely no danger. It is estimated that the introduction of this method will lessen the cost of burning brick fully 33 1-3 per cent. Mr. Purington will shortly submit a full report of the result to tha Brick Manufacturers' Association. HOW A BLIZZARD ACTS. Tha Cold So Severe that Freight Trains Cannot Possibly Ba Run. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. I talked with the engineer as I came down, and he told me tbat tbe storm in Dakota was the fiercest ever known. He had seen several of the train hands as they came into St. Paul, and they gave a terrible account of the state of affairs. All freight trains had been abandoned, aa it was utterly impossible to find men to man them. It is hard to see how any one could stand the exposure to which the freight brakemen are now subjected. The brakes must ba put on constantly, which involves crawling along the narrow footboards on top of tha cars, which are coated with ice and snow and are exceedingly slippery. With the wind blowing at fifty miles an hour, and the train butting its way through the enow, it is impossible for the brakeman to obtain an upright position, and they are obliged to crawl from car to car on their hands and knees, handle the cold iron, wjth the thermometer forty degrees below zero, and remain exposed to tbe storm for hours, as tbey never have time to go to the caboose. The men have to shelter beyond what they can find by clinging to the ladders between tha cars, and suffer fearfully. The engineer told me that dozens of men bad frozen their hands and feet, and that finally several crews bad refused to work longer and had taken shelter ia the caboose. It is a well known fact in tha Northwest that scarcely a freight brakeman works more than a year, as the experience of one winter is such as to make them prefer any thing to repeating it. The New Virginia Authoress. Chicago Inter Ocean. Miss Amelia Rives is an accomplished young Virginian of distinguished family, who first flashed into literary prominence throusrb the medium of a story, 'A Brother to Draeoons." published anonymously a year ago in the Atlantis Monthly. With the advantages of beauty, brilliant and accomplished Miss Rives is indifferent to social.triumphs, and loves the secluded . quiet of her ancestral homo, ereeted a century ago among the red hills of Alber marie. Like some other writers of recent prominence in the field of Southern literature, this young lady has never crossed the threshold of a school, but with a governess studied bow and when she would. Her knowledge of the beautiful and attractive ia art and literature, thus uogoverned, has devel oped her strong and original qualities. It is said: When the inclination seizes ber she wnl shut herself in her studio, and stand before ber studio ten hours at a time; or else having read everything bearing upon the subject chosen, write as many hours with a rapidity and exact ness well nigh inconceivable." Although in her twenties prior to the first publication of her work, she bad before written for personal pleasure dramas, poems, and stories covering a wide range of subjects. The story of her debut, aelected by a friend, from her collection, and published anonymously,- had such delicate quamtness in treatment so mucn oi tne pleasing imaginative element that it at once attracted tha attention and commendation of tbe critics. Her most recent story. "Virginia of Virginia." in the current issue of Harper's Magazine, has a strength of sentiment, a beauty of description fc and a dramatic intensity ably sustaining the position she won at her first appearance in the field of literature. . Shaken by a Dynamite Kxptosion. Boston. Jan. 30. A special dispatch from Providence. R. I., says that city, Bristol, War ren. East Greenwich and Bay Side were badly shaken up. last night, by a dynamite explosion in Newport harbor. In many places the shoes; resembled an earthquake, and reports from va rious points speak of ic as a genuine earthquake) the cause not being generally known, jso the cause for the shock was known here until to day. when it waa learned .hat in Newport harbor ef forts were being made to clear the harbor of the unparalleled ice fields. It ia twenty miles from Greenwich to Newport, and thirty lrom here. On College Hill, here, houses were shaken very perceptibly. Bristol was shaken to its vert center, and much the same experiences were haf as in Greenwich. Xhe ice was considerably cracked up in the harbor by the explosion, eighteen milas off. Don't Wait Until your Lair becomes dry, thin, and gray before giving the attention needed to preserve its beauty and vitality. Keep on your toilet-table a bottle of AVer's Hair Vigor the only dressing you require for the hair and use a little, daily, to preserve the natural color aud prevent baldness. 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