Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 February 1888 — Page 2

THE IKD1ANAPOMS JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY", FJSBRCTARY 1, 1S8B.

iman "kept It wargine at both ends until ah bumped the pier again on ber return. "'Mr. Sherman, I ahonld like to see youTresident said old Barker, 'bat my aon Wharton 'thinks Jim Garfield ia th best man we can pat up. So does Wayne MacVeagh. "At thia time Oarfield'a name had not been . mentioned by anybody in any quarter, publicly, 1 in connection with the presidency. lie was the leader of bis party in the Ilonse, and bad before r him the prospect of becoming Speaker, if he chose to accept the place. Perhaps if it had not been for old Barker's remark be would have been Speaker instead of Keifer in the Fortyreventn Congress. What old man Barker aaid set John Sherman to thinkine, and be had several consultations with hia brother-in-law, Jloulton, about it. Feelers were put out around Garfield, bnt he coold not be cane bt. He denied uniformly that he had ever thought of becoming a candidate, and the only thine he aaid that could be construed Id to a betrayal of bis ambition was a remark be made on one occasion aa he dismissed the subject, 'Oh. there'a time enough for that by and by.' When Sherman wanted to have Garfield himself make his nomination apeech for himself (Sherman), before laying a word to Garfield he talked it ovsr with iloulton. " -Ob, yes: have Garfield, by all means said "Moultoo. 'If be haa any dasiens on hia own account it will tie him np beautifully.' "So Sherman asked Garfield to make the nominating speech. Garfield, in turn, was wary about accepting, lie had by this time become a little Pet np by the suggestions of a number of marplots, and began to think he might be a dark horse in the convention. He told hia fnends that Sherman had asked " him to make the nominating speech, and he had taken a little time to eonaider the matter. It is unnecessary to mention with whom Garfield finally eonaulted, but the advice was: 'Go ahead and accept. Make your speech, and we will see to the risk.' That was the first small cloud on John Sherman's horizon, then no bigger than a man's hat, bnt destined in a abort month to swell into whirlwind of defeat. Garfield accepted it, and In time no fact will be .more certain in history than that - the famous opening sentence of his speech was entirely a matter of prearrangement. llistory may be ransacked for a finer dovetail of canning with cunning than Garfield's speech and the work of his friends in the galleries of the convention ball. Who shall be your candidate? said Garfield with his first breath as be stood before that great mass of men, and then the galleries answering abouting back as with the roar of the ea, 'Garfield! Garfield!' "The scene can. never be forgotten. It was as if a child bad touched the electric button that ahou'.d hurl the world into chaos again. All that Garfield aaid waa that simple little sentence, 'Who shall be your candidatef and thousands of men took it np aa the signal of his consent and connivance in the plot to make himself that candidate. If it had not been for Colonel Monlton's unlucky advice to John Sherman, Garfield could not have touched the eleotrio button that convulsed the convention and threw into cbaoa the several factions that stood opposed like strong armies on the battle field." WHY GIRLS VISIT MRS. CLEVELAND.

They Nearly All Get Married or Become Engaged Soon Afterwards. - Washington Special. The Presidenti after making a decided sensation by walking out to West Washington on Thursday last, in company with Secretary Fairehild, continues to create surprise by his feats of pedestrianism. As the winter wears on he finds the indoor life he is forced to spend exceedingly irkgome, and has never before felt the need of open-air exercise so much. He has now adopted the habit of slipping away from his desk for half sn hour at about dusk for a sharp walk of a couple of miles out through the less frequented portion of the West End. Until recently most of his exercise has been confined to short drives behind the "seal browns," but, as he remarked to a friend a day or two ago: "If I can stretch my legs for half an hour in a brisk walk, it does me more good than all the carnage riding in the world." Either from his steady application to labor or from bis unusual exercise the President is undoubtedly losing in weight. A gentleman who called at the White House a few days ago, and who had not seen Mr. Cleveland for a year, said to the World correspondent: "Ho is certainly twenty pounds lighter than be was a year ago. I do not think it is overwork that has brought bitn down, for bis eye is a bright and his step as firm and elastic aa ever. His frock coat, which he always wears tightly buttoned ud, comes together now with a little less atrain upon the buttons, and, on the whole, the change is a decided improvement." Another of Mrs. Cleveland's schoolmates, Miss Kate Willard, ia visiting at the executive mansion. With a delightful impartiality the mistress of the White House is slowly going the rounds of her old school friends, inviting one after another to enjoy the novel and charming experience of a short stay at "the palace," as the young ladies have christened the altogether commonplace edifice that serves the President for both office and mansion. A pretty young girl, who belonga to what is called the "White House set." and who has met nearly all of Mrs. Cleveland's visitors, said to a World correspondent at a recent reception: "It would be easy enough to know what an awfnllr nice girl Mrs. Cleveland used to be jrst by meeting the splendid giria that come to visit ber. Nobody could have such a lot of delightful chums unless she were jnst as nice as she could be herself, and these are not thesr! of girls that come to see her because tbe7 tun visit at the White House. They love her, and wuild go anywhere to spend a day with her. I har, though, that a pretty little superstition is afioat among ber old schoolmates that the best of luck always follows those visits to Washington. Several of the girla that have been down here have got married since their return home, And all the rest of them are engaged. The girls think it is better than finding a four-leaf clover, and those who have not been here are crazy to come." MINOR MATTERS. guarrel Between Russian Officials Over the Authorship of a- Treaty. Jpectal to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 31. There seems to have grown up a kind of family quarrel among the Russians in official life here and in New York over the Russian extradition treaty with the United States. I am informed that the treaty, which has been submitted to the State Department, and which is to come before the Senate committee on foreign relations, was written by Baron Ilosen, who was charge d'affaires in the absence of Baron Struve, the minister, while the latter was in Russia. When Minister Struve returned here the treaty was laid before him, and meeting his approval he signed it, assumed its authorship and laid it before bis government for ratification, claiming to have written it himself, and giving no credit whatever to Baron ltoseo, who was the raal author. The latter heard of it, and made complaint to the Russian government. The friends of Baron Rosen say that Minister Struve would have been recalled bad not he gone to St. Petersburg and implored hia retention. Baron Rosen is the Russian consul-general at present, and ia located in New York. He claims that Minister Struve has done him great wrong, and there in a coldness between the two men that mounts to frigidity. It is said that Count Charles De Arnaud, of this city, a native Russian, was also a auggestor in the compilation of the treaty, and that no official reference has been made to what be has done in the matter. Hypocrisy on the Liquor Question. Washington, Jan. 31. There is one rule for the guidance of the House of Representatives which ia virtually a dead letter. It provides that no spiritoas or malt liquors shall be sold within the Capitol building, orupon the grounds. At a recent meeting of the committee on public buildings and grounds, which has control of the rules governing the House restaurant, Mr. Lehlbach, or New Jersey, satd that inasmuch as Ihe rule prohibiting the sale of intoxicants was a virtual dead letter, he would move that it be atricken out. He was aware of the bumbuggery of such a rule, and said that unless it was enforced he could not see why it should remain. , Representative Lehlbach waa voted down. Then be proposed that if the rule was not to be stricken out it should be at least so amended as to prohibit the sale of intoxicant liquors over the bar. Said Mr. Lehlbach, "there is no valid objection to the sale of a glass of beer or a bottle of wine with a lunch, but I do object to turning the Capitol into a bar-room." This proposition waa also voted down, and Mr. Horg. of West Virginia, said: "Gentlemen, allow the'rule to stand a it is, and I will give my personal word that it ehall uever be violated. So the rule stands, and it is in violation of the order of the House to sell a glass of beer or a tea-cup of whisky in the House restaurant: st! 11, it U sold constantly. Thia rule a an absurd one, and shows that there is a good seal of hypocrisy in the House of Representatives as there is everywhere else. Indian J'enslons. Washington Fpclal. Pensions have been granted the followingnamed Indianians: Mexican War Anna M. Amaden, Edinburg, and Irvin Ten noil, West Liberty. New Pensions Rebecca 31orrow, Gatbrie;

Hester Ann Wiard. Unnville: Elizabeth Dial

Harmony, A. Karetb, Seymour; James Leggitt. Greensbarg: Charles Urabam, o wens Dure; u. Markley, Roanoke: W. J. Greer, Dilney; Joel Fields, Foltz: A. H. Allison, South Bethany; R. it. Hoover, Versailles; xi. .uiaoy, r mmore; a. Young, Kokomo; L Ball, Westfield, and A. Fritz, Hagerstown. Restored J. W. Loder, Rochester. Increased E. Brewer, Derby; Thos. T. Ray, Bedford; H. J. Full, Worthington; L. Abbott, Fremont; J. LL Dans, Avon; M. A. Sberherd, Commiekey; TV. F. ttreen. North Vernon; M. L- Martin. Salem; Robert Hart. Pierceton; J. W. Stump, Aloma: A. Cox. New Augusta; F. May, Attica; A. Hamble. Clinton Falls; M. V. Wallace. Washington; W. E. Merris. Pilot Knob; Thos. Turner, Martinsville; G. Cord, New Salem; John Edwards, Plain ville; E. Pearman, Veedersburg; W. B. Whitcomb, Six-Mile; L. Varntz. Leavenworth; John -Graves. Eckerty; J. W. Todd, Indianapolis; Wm. Courtney, Butlerville; W. A. Knight, Campbellaburg; J. Shurley, Rusbville; J. F. Davis, Boonville; J. N. Shepherd, Terra Haute; H. Hart, Decatur; R. Hayden, Union; G. W. Fletcher, Pascom; J. M. Anderson, Brazil; E. J. Mingus, Bird's Eye; G. W. Adera, Adyville; J. R. Reynolds, Rockport; J. S. Moore, Pierceton; L. G. Penson. Terre Haute: W. E. Chrisman, Gosport; C H. Gott, Nashville. A New Anti-Polycsmy Bill. Washington, Jan. 3L Chairman Culberson, of the House committee on the judiciary, in behalf of the sub-committee to which was referred Representative Taylor's (of Obio) bill defining polygamy, to-day reported to tne lull committee the following substitute: Section 1. Polygamy shall not exist or be lawful within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction. See. 2. Polygamy shall consist of the marriage re lation by contract, or in fact, between one person of either sex and more than one person or toe other sex. Sec 3. Congress shall enforce thia article in the District of Columbia and the Territories of the United States, and other places subject to their juris diction, and shall nave power, concurrently with tbe several States, to enforce the same within the States by appropriate legislation. The fall committee did not attempt to discuss this. report to-day, and it took its place as unfinished business. Money to Secure Circulating Notes. Washington, Jan. 3L The House committee on banking and currency to-day reported favorably to the House Mr. Dingley's bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to invest the money deposited by national banks for the retirement of their circulation in the purchase of United Statea bonds at current market rates. Tbe bonds so purchased, with interest accruing, are to be held in trust and used for the payment of tbe circulating notes of the banks which have deposited lawful money for such payment. Tbe eommittee reports an amendment limiting to 83 per cent the amount that may be invested, and authorizing the Secretary to sell the bonds redeemed if it shall be necessary to redeem the circulating notes outstanding. Indiana Patents. Special to tbe Indlananolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 31. Patents issued to Indianians to-day as follows: August F. Cbable, assignor of one-half to J. C. Price, Evans ville. sad iron; James Cunning and G. A. Lowry, said Lowry assignor to F. P. Woollen, Indianapolis, hog-scraping machine; John B. Deeds, assignor to F. Lee, Terre Haute, hydrocarbon generator and burner; Charles W. Delaney. Hammond, head-rest for .barbers' chairs; Frank A. Jacob, assignor of one-balf to W. Strong, Indianapolis, hoae-coupling; George R. Kendrick, Bryant, gram-weighing, registering and bagging machine; John F. Mains, assignor of one half to W. N. Short, Indianapolis, machine for agitating liquids; Robert E. Poind ester, Indianapolis, saw jointer; Horace L. Renne, assignor of one-half to W. H. Verrill, Hammond, safety car door; William L. Shake, Paxton, grain adjuster. Thcebe's Retort. Washington Special. A publie man who was in Washington several weeks ago, when Mr. Thoebe first presented his elaim to the seat usurped by Speaker Carlisle, tells this incident: "Mr. Thee be was arguing his case among a lot of Congressmen, among whom was a Southern member, who tried to cut him off by remarking that, after all. he didn't represent many people. 'Well, sir,' replied Mr. Thoebe. 'I bring with me a paper signed by 6,000 men, every one of whom voted for me. That is about twice the number of the entire vote counted in your district.' The Southerner had nothing more to say." General Notes. Vpeeial to tue Indlananolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 3L Will Cumbaok, of Greensburg, and D. E. Hill, of Akron, are at the Ebytt The British legation at Washington has applied to the State Department for information as to the whereabouts of Michael Duegan, of Indiana, to whom the sum of about $30 has been bequeathed by Patrick Duggan, deceased, of New Zealand. Government receipts during the current month have averaged about $1,000,000 a day, and Treasury officials estimate the debt reduction for tbe month at abont $14,500,000. Frederick B. Dodee, of Michigan, was to-day appointed superintendent of the Ninth division railway mail service, with headquarters at Cleveland, to succeed John M. Baker, who has been appointed assistant superintendent in the general service. The Comptroller of the Currency has declared a first dividend of 50 per cent, in favor of the creditors of tbe Fifth National Bank of St. Louis, on claims proved, amounting.to $390,511.07. This bank failed No. 7. 1887. ' THE FIRE RECORD. Virginia Penitentiary Buildings Burned, Involving a Loss of 925.000. Richmond, Va., Jan, 3L Soon after 5 o'clock this morning the building of tbe Virginia penitentiary, leased by the Davis Shoe Company, of Boston, and operated as a shoe factory, was discove red on fire. The flames spread rapidly, and despite the efforts of the fire department tbe buildings occupied by the shoe company were destroyed; together with all the valuable machinery and stock. The buildings burned were three-story bricks, and covered an area of about 700 feet in length and sixty in width. The loss to the shoe company is estimated at from $150. 000 to $175,000. The amount of insurance is not yet ascertained. Soon after tbe fire broke ont tbe bells in the city sounded the military call, and in a few minutes about 200 soldiers were on the ground to guard against any emeute of the prisoners, but everything was entirely quiet, and after the walls of the burned building bad. fallen in and all fear of a further spread of a fire was over, the military were ordered back. The buildings were State property, and the loss by their destruction will amount to $25,000. The shoe company worked between 300 and 400 convicts. The insurance on Davis & Co.'s machinery, $136,598, is divided among seventy-five companies. The buildings, which were owned by the State, were not insured and are a total loss. Other Fires. St. Thomas, Ont, Jan. 3L J. J. Blackmore & Co's hardware and house furnishing establishmsut was burned to-day. Tbe ios3 is $30,000, and the insurance about $15,000. Atcheson's hardware store was badly burned, and Foster & Co's dro g store was damaged by smoke and water. Wm. Hillis, aged sixty-five, while watching tbe fire dropped dead. Pittsburg, Jan. 31. The Union City chair works, of Moore & Sheeney, at Union City, Pa., were burned this afternoon, together with a table and a number of outbuildings. Loss, $70,000; insurance, $15,000. Origin of fire unknown. Leavenworth, Kan., Jan. 31. One of the stables at Ft. Leavenworth in which were sixty horses belonging to Company I, First Cavalry, was burned this evening. Thirty-six borsea were suffocated. Loss, from $10,000 to $12,000. No insurance. Pittsburg, Jan. 31. Heard, Biber & Eastern's dry goods and trimming store was damage! by fire this morning to the extent of $10,000. "Origin unknown. Slain by Her Drunken Son. Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 31. John Cnllen, a bip calker, aged forty-four years, killed bis mother, Ann Cullen, to-night with an ax. Tbe two were in their house, getting ready for sapper, when John struck ber twice in the back of the head, inflicting two horrible wounds. She fell dead, and tbe son then bent over and kissed her twice. He then walked into two saloons and announced that he he had killed her. In one place he said: "Morissey killed hia mother with a knife, but I smashed my mother's brains out with an ax." When arrested be made no resistance. He gave as an excuse that he committed the crime so that bis mother would not have to go to the work house. He was drunk whea arrested. Exposure will induce colds, throat. diseases, consumption, etc., all of which give warniog by a traublesoine cough. Use Dr. Bull's Cough Svrup in time and remove both the cause and effect of your discomfort

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Tbe Daily Chronicle of Happenings of Various Kinds in the Two States. Saw-Mill Owner Fatallj Injured bj an Employe Municipal Quarrel at Fort Wayne State Politics Notes and Gleanings. INIMANA. Lewis Smith Fatally Injured by an Employe Flight of Hie Assailant. Special to tbe lodlanaeoiis Journal. Bloomixgtojt, Jan. 3L Word has been received here from Salt Creek township of tbe probable murder of Lewis Smith, a saw-mill man, by one of his employes: The men had some words about their work, when Miller, the employe, slipped up behind Smith and struck him a terrific blow on the head with a handspike, which, it is feared, will prove fatal. Miller has fled the country. Bank Consolidation. Special to tbe Indianapolis Journa. Franklin, Jan. 31. As had been contemplated for some weeks, the two banks of this city, the Franklin National Bank and the National Bank of Franklin, have consolidated, and will begin business to-morrow under the first name the business of the last-named being merged into that of tbe first - Hitherto each organization operated with $50,000 capital stocs, and with a combined surplus of $30,000. The new organization has $100,000 capital, and $20,000 snrplus. Mr. John Clarke, ex-president of the National Bank of Franklin, will be president of the new organization; E. C. Miller, cashier; J. C. Smith, assistant; Victor Smith, book-keeper, and Adair Overstreet, messenger. The business will be continued in the old National Bank of Franklin building, and the other, together with the vaults and fixtures, will be sold. Tbe Fort Wayne Municipal Quarrel. Special to the Indiasapolls Journal. Fort Wayne, Jan. 3L The trial of the water-works trustees by the city Council, for malfeasance in office, did not come off to-night, as anticipated. The trustees yesterday applied for a restraining order, and this afternoon Judge Chapin granted the application and issued a temporary order restraining the Council's action. The court held that the trustees were not answerable to the Council lor their acts, and that tbe charges of the City Council were not sufficient to warrant a trial for malfeasance of office. George W. Seoonr, Special to the Indiaaanolia Journal. Shelbyville, Jan. 31. George W. Senour, member of the milling firm of Ellliott, Kent & Senour, died very suddenly at 6 o'clock this morning, at his residence, of heart disease, aged sixty-three years. The deceased was born in Franklin county in 1825, and came to Shelbyville in 1859. He was elected a county commissioner in 1869, and served in the City Council in 1871. He leaves a family in comfortable circumstances. - State Politics.' KERTJBLICAN NOMINATIONS IN WAKEEN COUNTY. Special to the Indianasolis Journal. WilLiamspobt, Jan. 3L The Warren county Republican central committee met in this place to-day to canvass the vote of the primary elections held in the several townships last Saturday for the purpose of nominating a county ticket The following persons received the largest vote, but owing to resolutions passed at tbe mass convention, their nomination will not be officially announced for thirty days: Augustus Cronkbite. treasurer; Joseph Swisher, sheriff; John C Stephens, recorder'; Will P. Carmichael, surveyor; Elish Reddick, coroner; George W. Smith, commissioner. Second district; John W. Mills, commissioner, Third district. One thousand, nine hundred and eighty-eight votes were cast, an increase of 121 over the vote of 1886. ALLEN COUNTY. Fort Wayne, Jan. 31. The Allen county delegates to the Republican State Convention, organized this afternoon by electingJ. W. Wilson ehairman, and Capt. Allan H. Dougall, secretary. This is a victory for the young Republicans, who made Wilson chairman of a county central committee in the last campaign, and fought a most vigorous and telling fight, greatly reducing the former Democratic majority. : The entire delegation of forty-one is unmistakably solid for Colonel Robertson for Governor. Minor Notes. On Sunday evening Mrs. J. P. McCorkle, of Lebanon, fell from a sleigh at Thorntown, dislocating the left elbow. On Saturday at Tnorntown, Elmer Crawford, a young man aged twenty-five years, dropped dead in L N. Barkus's store. On Monday, while out hunting, near Thorntown, a young man named Debow had one aide of hi3 face blown off by the bursting of a gun barrel. He is in a precarious condition. On Thursday George W. Bicourt, of Lebanon, cut his foot badly with an ax. While his father-in-law. Dr. D. C. Scull, was on his way to attend him be fell on an icy pavement and fractured three ribs. On Tuesday niht Elder Pritchard, of the Christian Church, slipped on the ice and fell, at the residence of A. N. Holloway, at Lebanon, and received injuries that have confined him to bis bed ever since, causing him intense suffering. IIXINOIS. The Disgraceful Conduct of the Coroner of Edgar County at an Inquest Special to tbe Indianapolis Journal. Chrisman, Jan. 31. Coroner W. Wilson, of Edgar county, arrived at Cherry Point, recently, to hold an inquest over the body of Edward L. Dyer, who had been killed by accident The Chrisman Courier publishes an extended report, showing that Wilson was at the time in a state of maudlin intoxication, and conducted himself in an outrageous manner. When interrogating witnesses he put foolish and irrelevant questions, and argned that a verdict be found before testimony had been taken. At the request of some of the friends of the deceased, Dr. Tustison was called in, and after a thorough examina tion of the eorpse announced that death had re sulted from suffocation. During the examination Wilson exhibited his brutisbness to such a degree that it was with difficulty that some of the persons present were restrained from maltreating him. He placed his knee on the stomach of the corpse and tore the clothing from it All these statements can be verified by any desired uumber of responsible men. Brief Mention. P. W. Mitchell, a prominent business man of Shelbyville, is missing. Mrs. Belle Coon, while going from Mansfield to Argo, was thrown from a sleigh and fell on a hedge stump, receiving what are believed to be fatal injuries. The hedge entered her side. making a terrible wound. Fred. Scatea, aged fourteen, was accidentia shot and killed Monday by a boy named Robinson. Tbey were hunting about four miles north of Sbawneetown. Robinson was attempting to shoot a covey of quail that had been flushed. The report telegraphed from Carmi to Chi cago and from there sent broadcast over the country, representing thatoil wells of wonderful capacity had been discovered about eighteen mites from Carmi, is false in every particular. The teleerams, three in number, were all sent tent by the same party, who is unknown, two ceing signed iteno ana tne otner rowers. What his object could have been is unknown, but be has succeeded in deceiving many oil men. Sev eral came from Chicago and Oil City, Pa., with a view of investigating the report. Steamship News. Philadelphia, Jan. 31. The steamship Lord Give haa arrived from Liverpool. Glasgow, Jan. 31. The steamer State of In diana, from New York, arrived to-day. New York, Jan. 3L Arrived: Gallia, from Liverpool. London, Jan. 31. The steamship Vaderland." from Philadelphia for Antwerp, passed Scillv light to day. The Dutch steamer, P. Caland, which sailed from Rotterdam Jan. 14 for New York, baa put back to Plymouth with three blades of her propeler gone. She has been seven days returning. She has 200 passen gers on board. zne is the sister ship to the W. A. Scholten, which waa lost off Dover, a few months ago. The steamabip Istrian passed Browbead this after noon towing the Hamburg-American ateamabip Suevia. which sailed from New Yoc for Hamburg, Jan. 19, to Queenstown. Tbjr Soeria be

came disabled by the breaking of her shaft, and was in a helpless condition when discovered by the Iatria. Tugs have gone from Queenatown to assist in bringing her in.

OBITUARY. Asa Gray, America's Greatest Botanist, and Professor at Brrard. Asa Gray, M. D.t LL. D., who died in Cam bridge, Mass., on Monday, was born at Paris, N. Y., Nov. 18, 1810. He graduated from the Fairfield Medieal College in 1831, but soon relinquished the practice of medicine and devoted himself, under Professor Torrey, of New York, to tbe study of botany. In 1834 he received the appointment of botanist of the United States exploring expedition, but he declined it In 1842 he was elected Fiber professor of natural history in Harvard College. In addition to his lectures at Cambridge, he delivered three courses 'of lectures before the Lowell institute in Boston; published in 1836 his "Elements of Botany," en larged into the "Botanical Text-Book;" and in 1838 commenced, with Dr. Torrey, "The Flora of North America." He published in 1843 the "Manual of Botany for the Northern United States," and the first volume of the "Genera Boreali-Americana Illustrata," and tbe first volume of his "Botany of the United States Pacific Exploring Expedition under Captain Wilkes," in 1854. He afterwards published the following works, mostly text books. "How Plants Grow;" "Lessons in Botany, with Drawings from Nature;" "Tne School and Field Book of Botany;" "The Manual of Botany;" "Structural and Systematic Botany" (new edition. 1879), a revised edition of the "Botanical Text-Book." with 1.300 illustrations; "Flora of the Southern United States;" "Free Examination of Darwin's Treatise," 1861; "Darwiniana," 1876; "New Flora of North America," 1878; "Natural Science and Religion," 1880. He visited Europe in 1838 9, and again in 1650-1, and had contributed numerous papers to scientific periodicals and to tbe transactions of learned societies. In 1874 he was chosen one of tbe regents ot the Smithsonian Institution, and in 1887 the Academie des Sciences of Paris elected him a corresponding member in the section of Botany. Other Deaths. Chicago, Jan. 3L Gen. John L. Thompson died at 9:30 o'clock this morning, at his home in this city, from the effects of a rupture of a blood vessel at the base of the brain. General Thompson waa a member of the law firm of Williams Ss Thompson, and was one of the most prominent attorneys in the city. He served with distinction during the war, having enlisted as a private when President Lincoln issued his first call for 75,000 volunteers, and risen to the rank of brigadier-general. He was recently elected president of the Union League Club. General Thompson was taken ill on Saturday. He leaves a widow and two children. Argos, Ind., Jan. 31. Adeline Gould died at her home at Argos, this morning, in tbe eightyfirst year of her age. She was one of the few pioneers of the West who survived to recount the hardships and toils of the men and women who subdued the primeval forests of a half century ago. She was the mother of three children, Albert T. Gonld. an attorney, now residing at Knox; Jndge Gould, of Delphi, and Dr. S. W. Gould, of this place, all of whom were present at ber death. Rockville, Jan. 31. About 5 o'clock this morning, John G. Biilmire, of the firm of Pierce & Biilmire, carriage manufacturers, died at his home. He was taken ill last Friday with pneumonia. He was about fifty years old, and came to this town from Zionsville, Ind.. several years ago, and has resided here ever since. He leaves a family. Pittsburg, Jan. 31. John R. McCune, president of the Uniou National Bank, and one of the most prominent citizens of Pittsburg, died suddenly of appoplexy at 11 o'clock thia morning. The deceased was sixty-one years of age. Shelbyville, San. 3L Ellenora Glessner, mother of Judge O. J. Glessner, died this morning, at the advanced age of eighty-four years. She was born in Baltimore, in 1804, and came to Indiana in 1837. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. Washingtct. Feb. 11 A. M. For Illinois and , Indiana Slightly warmer, fair weather; light to fresh southerly winds. : For Ohio, West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania Slightly colder, followed by warmer fair weather, preceded by rain or snow on the lakes; light to fresh variable winds. For Michigan and Wisconsin Warmer, fair weather; winds becoming light to fresh southerly. Local Weather Record. Indianapolis. Jan. 31, 1888.

Time, Bar. Ther. R. H. 7 A. M... 30.03 33 90 2 p. M... 30.12 34 83 9 p. M... 30.21 32 90

N'wstCloudy. Vwftt.lmnnilv!NorthCloudy. Maximum thermometer, 41; minimum thermometer. 31. Following is a comparative statement of the condition of temperature and precipitator! on Jau. 31, 1888: ' Tern. Precipit'n Normal 30 Mean 33 Departure from normal.............. 3 Total exces s or deficiency since Jan. 1 .175 Total excess or deficiencv since Jan. 1. 175 0.00 O.OO O.09 0.09 0.09 General Observations. Washington, Jan. 31, 9 p. u. Stations. Bar. lTherlWind.1 Pr.l Weather New York city 130.08 Philadelphia, Pa... 30.12 Washington City... 30. 02 SOiNorth 30 North 34 North ... Cloudy. 06jSnow. ...j Cloudy. Charleston. S. C 30.02 San Antonio, Tex... 3u. 12 60 West Clear. Rain. Fair. Clear. Cloudy. Fair. Fair. Cloudy. Cloudy. Cloudy. Fair. Clou J y. Cloudy. Cloudy. 60 S'east .20 Jacksonville, Fla.... 30.12 Atlanta, Ga. 30.12 Pensacola, Fla 30.14 Titusville. Fla 30.14 Montgomery, Ala. . . 30.12 Vicksburg, Miss.... 30.14 New Orleans, La.... j 30. 12 Shreveport, La. . ...;30. 14 Fort Smith, Ark ! 30. 1 2 Little Bock. Ark... 30.14 Galveston. Tex 130.12 Palestine. Tex 130.14 Brownsville, Tex... 30.04 62 56 62 60 61 62 62 62 58 Sweat West. Sweat West. Calm. Calm. South South East. 62; S'east 60! S'east .02 62 62 54 : Swest I North .40:Rain. Memphis, Tenn 130.14 : Neast Fair. Fair. Cloudy. Cloudy. Cloudy. Snow. Clear. Clear. Fair. Cloudy. Clear. Cloudy. Hazy. Cloudy. Cloudy. isasbviiie, lenn.... ou.io Louisville, Kr j30.22 IndianaDolis. Ind... 30.20 48 West. West. 40 32 I North Cincinnati, O 130.20 Pittsburg Pa 130.16 Boise. I. T. ....130.00 36:North 34! West. 42lCalm. 14 1 Neast 421 Swest 3o!Vwst 12 Calm. SOiNorth .01 Oswego. N. Y 30.18 Caleary, N. W. T... 29.78 Toledo1. 0 30.22 Minnedosa, N. W.T. 3O.00 Escanaba. Mich (30.24 Prince Arthur's L'g 3O.20 Chicago, 111 30.24 Milwaukee. Wis 30.26 26 Calm 26 Neast 24iN'wst 30S'east Duluth, Minn t 30.22 St. Paul, Minn 30.20 La Crosse, Wis 30.26 Davenport, Ia 30.20 Cloudy. 26 East ....hair. . ...IFair. ....j Clear. ....Clear. Clear. 24 North 30 Calm Des Moines, Ia. ..... SO. 1 8 Concoraia, Kan..... 30.12 Keokuk, Ia 30.16 Cairo, 111 30.16 Springfield. Ill 30.20 St. Louis. Mo 30.20 34! S'east 42;Seast 3'3!North 46;N'wst Clear! Clear. 38 38 42 I West iCalm. ! Clear. Fogpy. Springfield, Mo 30.18 Leavenworth, Kan. . 30. 1 8 'Neast 42:North Clear. Clear. Clear. Clear. Clear. Clear. Clear. Clear. Clear. Clear. Clear. Clear. Ciear. Clear. Clear. Clear. Foggy. Omaha, Neb I HO. 16 42;South Valentine, Neb 30.OS Yankton, D. T 30.10 Moorhead. Minn.... 30.12 FtMcKinney.W. T. 29.94 Bismarck. D.T 30.08 Fort Buford. D. T. . 30.00 Ft.Assinaboine.M.T 29.98 Fort Custer, M. T-. 30.10 Qu'Apelle, N. W. T. 29.90 Kapid Citv, 1. T... 29.68 Cheyenne, Vy. T... 30.10 North Platte, Neb..'30.10 Denver, Col 30.02 W.Las Animas, CoU30.08 Dodge City, Kan 130.16 Fort Elliott, Tex.... 130.06 Fort Sill, I. T 30.12 Fort Davis, Tex 130.04 El Paso, Tex. 130.06: Bait Lake City.U.T. 30.12 Santa Fe, N. L !30.08 Montrose, Col ;30.16j 38 i West 32'S'east 22 South 44jCalm 30, Calm 32iSwet 42 South 34 S'east 30 Calm. 40 Swest 44 S'east 42! South 48 j East. 38!Neast 42 Swest 50 S'east 54 Neast 52 Calm. 52 Calm. 34 East. 40 Neat 32,Calm. ....'Clear. ....jFair. ....ICloar. Clear. ....'Clear. Clear. iClear. Wisconsin Suffragiste Defeated. Madison, Wis.. Jan. 31. The women of Wis consin were defeated in tbe Supreme Court today, the court holding in an elaborate opinion that the Legislature of 1885 did not for a moment contemplate extending the same suffrage to females which males enjoyed, but on tbe other band meant to restrict female voting to school matters only, as specified in the law. The case waa that of Oiympia Brown Willis, of Racine, against A. L. Phillips and other inspectors of election of the Second ward of the city of Racine, who. at the last spring elettion refused either to receive the vote of Mrs. Willis for Mayor. City Clerk, Comptroller, Aldermen and Supervisor, or to permit her to swear it in. Mrs. Willis claimed such right under Chapter 211, of the laws of 1885. and immediately sued the inspectors for $5,000 dsmaees. She won her suit In the Circuit 'Court for Racine county, when the inspectors appealed to the Snpreme Court, which to-day reversed tbe decision of the lower eourt and held as above noted. Consumptives obtain relief by using Ayers Cherry, Pectoral. No other cure is so effective.

THE READING STRIKE.

House Commerce . Committee Reqaesta the Interstate Commission to Investigate. Washington, Jan. 3L The Hons eommittee on commerce, unon motion of Me. Davis, of Massachusetts, reconsidered its action on the Anderson resolution, referring the question of investigating the Reading railroad strikes to the Interstate-commerce Commission, at a meeting this morning, and adopted a resolution, by a vote of 7 to 6, requesting the Interstate-commerce Commission to investigate these strikes. The resolution to be reported waa drawn by Mr. Davis, and differs from that originally introduced by Mr. Anderson by requesting an investigation at the hands of the Interstate-commerce Commission, instead of leaving the question with the commission without any recommendation. The report of the minority of the committee, which was to-day presented to the House by Mr. Rayner, is signed by himself and Messrs. Anderson, of Kansas; Tarsney, of Michigan, Anderson, of Iowa, and Lagan, of Louisiana. It states that tbe effect of the majority report will be to lay the original resolution on the table. Congress has a right to investigate this subject, because the Reading Railroad Company is a common carrier, transporting commerce between the States. Conceding the right of the Interstate-commerce Commission to make an investigation, that fact does not deprive Congress of its jurisdiction in the premises, and the evils complained of will have reached their culmination before tbe Interstate-commerce Commission can take definite action in the matter. Tne railroad company, the report says, has formed an ostensibly independent company to carry on its mining operations, but that company is substantially tbe railroad company, controlled by its directors and managed by its officers and agents. The vital questions underlying this controversy are whether the railroad company is shielding itself under the charter of the coal and iron company, to produce a coal famine and raise the price of coal, and is there a combination or conspiracy between tbe two companies, actually one and tha same, to enable the railroad company, indirectly, to escape its duties as a common carrier, and is the railroad company, in pursuance of a system of allotment made by the Anthracite Board of Trade, discriminating against individual operators in the mining regions. Congress baa power to expose tbe conspiracy, if there be one. The fact that labor has been struck down and that ruin and distress pervades the Lehigh and Schuylkill regions, is only one incident of this trouble. The report concludes as follows: We believe that the contract made between the railroad company and its employes is misleading, and t; believe that the miners were deceived as to the proper construction to be placed upon this agreement at the time they entered into it. We make this statement upon the contract itself, which has been given to the public by the president of the road, and which is equivocal and suspicious upon its face. If the road has a right to say that the contract is at an end because a new organization is in charge ot its affairs, then the miners have a right to say that their contract has also terminated, and the road has no right to insist that the miners must continue work under the . old contract. Whatever is to be done must be done speedily. The Inter-state-commerce Commission is not in the habit of taking up matters of this sort mere motu, and a mere request amounts to nothing. The adoption of the majority report would be a justification of the position assumed by the railroad company, and the interests of all concerned would be best served by prompt action and decisive measures, if the investigation justifies the same. Reading, Pa-, Jan. 31. The company brought down from the mines last night and to-day 180 loaded cars. From the number of mines working there should be produced not less than 1,500 cars per day. The business men, manufacturers, furnace men, and local coal dealers everywhere, are beginning to view the situation with alarm. Fourteen furnaces have been banked up or blown out, and others will likely follow if they don't get relief speedily. Pottsville, Pa., Jan. 31 When the men employed at Glendower colliery, near Mineraville, came out from work, last night, tbey were met at the mouth of the slone by a large crowd of women from the adjacent Hecksberville colliery, who besought them, to stand by their striking brethren, and offered, if they would, "to share their last crust with them." As an earnest of the good faith the women offered them a substantial contribution -which they had brought with them, consisting of bread, meat and potatoes. Little or no attention was paid to the novel appeal. The Garment-Cutters. Baltimore, Jan. 31. The national convention of garment-cutters and trimmers to-day formed into a trades district of tbe Knights of Labor, electing the following officers: Charles Katz, of Philadelphia, district master workman; James Hughes, of Chicago, worthy foreman; Walter It. Westbrook, or New York, international secretary; Nicholas C. Ganeter, of Baltimore, district treasurer; national district executive board, Charles Katz, chairman; Walter R. Westbrook. secretary; James Hughes, Charles Rieche. of Brooklyn; Nathan Kaufman, of Bal timore; John Thein, of Rochester; Aaron Cohen, of Cleveland; national statistician, Adolph Low, of Philadelphia. Notice of Wage Redaction. Pittsburg, Jan. 31. The National Tubeworks Company, of McKeesport. Pa., employing 4,000 men, have posted a notice ordering a reduction of 10 per cent in the wages of all employes. If the reduction is not accepted the firm threatens to shut down their entire establishment. Similar action has been taken by the Continental and Pennsylvania Tube-works com panies, lne men Buy tney win not suDmit to any cut in their wagas, but are willing to refer tbe matter to a board of arbitration. A general atiixe would throw over 6,000 men out of work in this district alone. Demands of 11 tts burg Carpenters. Pittsburg, Jan. 3L The carpenters of Pitts burg and vicinity have notified their employers that on the 1st of May next they will demand an advance in wages of 10 per cent., pay-and-half-pay for all over time, and nine hours' work a day. The employers claim that if the demands are enforced a general paralysis of business will be the result. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. President Agassiz has decided to send twentyfive tons of concentrated ammonia down the burning shafts f the Calumet and Hecla mine at once to put out the fire completely if possible. Jacob and David Campbell, father and son, of Jersey City, while engaged ia shoveling snow for the Erie railway, at Hampton, yesterday, were struck by an express train. Iavid was instantly killed and his father shockingly and fatally injured. News has been received of the freezing to death of two German farmers of Campbell county, Minnesota, named Fred and George Cormelil, on Monday. While walking from Lagrace to Mound City tbey lost their way, became ex hausted, lay down to sleep and perished. The bodies were found the next day. Three burglars entered the residence of Wm. Law, a farmer living near the town of Redford, fifteen miles from Detroit, on Monday night. bound and gagged Law and his wife, and ran sacked the house, securing $150 in cash and a large amount of jewelry. They then took Law's team, valued at $200, and disappeared. So urgent has the demand for fuel become west of Duluth, especially along the Northern Pacific railway, that orders have been issued by the road to its Duluth agents to ship nothing but coaL All its motive power and equipmentis to be used for coal shipment, and other freight must wait until the famine is checked. Some two hundred cars of coal are sent out daily. M. M. Gonzales, agent for several wealthy residents of Coabuila, Mexico, has closed the sale of 500,000 acres of land in tbe State of Coahuua to the representatives of an English syndi cate, who already own 2,000,000 acres in that state. Ihe consideration was ZlZo.OOO. or 25 cents per acre. The purchase comprises much mountain land. English capitalists now own fully one-quarter of tbe State of Coahuila. A handsomely-attired and petite Tonne ladv. who says she is Clara Novello. was arrested by one of Comstock's agents at tbe New York postoffice, yesterday, on a charge of using tbe mails lor illegal purposes, bhe had a largely-advertised and unlawful preparation for women, and waa arrested with a decoy letter from Comstocks society in ber hand. United Mates Commissioner Shields held ber in $2,500 bail To-day 1,200 men will become idle in tbe State prison at Sing Sing, N. V., and will be locked in their cells. The same will be true of 350 convicts in Clinton prison. The men will be confined in their cells for twenty-two boura daily nntil the Senate passes tbe bill making an appropriation for manufacturing in prisons. One million dollars haa been turned into the State treasury since July 1 f rom prison indus tries. John Arensdorf and Paul Leader, two of the defendants in the Haddock murder trial, bave been appointed Western agents for a Milwaukee brewing company, ar.d will at once erect bottling works costing $50,000 at Covington, Neb.. on tbe opposite aide of the river from Sioux City. This takes all the defendants in the ease

A BOOT AND SHOE SALESMAN

A Small Surgical Operation Which Did a Great Deal of Good in a Short Time. The Largest Boot and Shoe Ilonse in tha West Mr. Charles Wiebe Makes an Interesting Statement. From Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, Sept. IS. Mr. Charles Wiebe, the subject of this sketch, lives at 303 Saratoga street. Newport. Ky., and is engaged in ' the wholesale boot and shoe house of W. F. Thome & Co., 89 West Pearl street, the largest concern of the kind ia Cincinnati, if not in the West. Mr.- WiebeV father has been known for many years in connection with the boot and shoe business of Newport. It was during a conversation to which the writer was a party that Mr. Charles Wiebe said: "About seven or eight years ago my work kept me for tbe greater part of tbe time in a room where the air was pretty warm. In fact the temperature most of tbe time was over 80. Going in and out during the cold weather I contracted colds, whieh, naturally enough, settled into catarrh. My nose got stopped up so that I could not get any air through it at all. I had to sleep with my mouth open or suffocate. In the morning I would have to cough and hack to clear my throat ana chest, which would eem to be all choked up." MR. CHARLES WIEBE. "What did you do about it?" 'What everybody else dees, I suppose, tried everything I beard about and anybody recommended. But nothing would take that weight off my cheat or clear out my head so that I could breathe. I had some pain in my head, but that didn't worry me a4 much as pains in my chest. Tbey would come first on one side and then on the other, and would go bacfc under my shoulder, fairly taking my breath away. I lost nedh and appetite. I grew despondent. My disease seemed to be getting incurable. It was affecting my voice, my bearing and my sight. My voice would have a peculiar nasal twang, which I could see was getting more pronounced, and my breath bad a bad odor. I had difficulty ia breathing and pains about the heart." "All from tbe same cause?" "Apparently. These pains would come and go. Some days 1 would not have them at all, and then they woold come back worse than ever. Sometimes I would seem to be getting a little better for a while, but then in a short time I would be worse than I was when I began to improve. Mind yon. I couldn't breathe through my nose at all, and all the time I would seem to have this heavy weight on my chest. Some time ago I went to Dr. Blair. lie examined me and found that the passages of my nose were completely stopped up with polypi little tumors, that resulted from the irritating progress of catarrh. He removed these, and be did it without hurting me, too. Once more I could breathe freely through my nose, and you can't begin to imagine what a relief it was." "Was that all?" "No, he placed me under regular treatment for my bronchial and catarrhal trouble. The pains in my chest passed away. My appetite returned. I began to feel stronger. I sleep well and feel well am altogether another man.' DOCTOR FRANKLYN BLAIR LATE OF NEW YORK CITY, Has Permanent Offices at 03 North Illinois Street, INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Where be treats with success all curable cases. Medical dtseases treated successfully. Consumption, Bright's .Disease. Dysyepsia, Rheumatism, Malaria and an JSER VOL'S DISEASES. All diseases peculiar to the sexes a specialty. CATARRH CURED. Consultation at office or by mail, $1. Office hours 9 to 11:30 a. m., 1 to 4 p. m. and 7 to 9 p. m. (Sundays included.) Correspondence receives prompt attention. No letters answered unless accompanied by four cents in stamps. out of the city except Munchrath, who is under sentence and - awaiting . a new trial. No further effort will be made to convict the Haddock murderers. Woman Suffrage Amendment Providence, R. L, Jan. 3L Tbe State Senate to-day passed in concurrence with the House amendments to the bill proposing submission of the suffrage amendment to tbe Constitution to the people on the firt Wednesday in April, State election day. Tbe amendment placet foreign-born citizens on the same footing as native born; makes a poll tax and does away with the registry tax; and deprives others than property-holders from voting for City Council and on money matters in Newport and Pawtucket, as is the case in Providence. The bill to submit was passed. A Defaulter for S 10, 000. Philadelphia, Jan. 31. Henry Roberts, cashier for the firm of Whitall, Tatum & Co., glass manufacturers, of Millvlle, N. J., and employed at the Philadelphia office, is a defaulter to the extent of $10,000. No proceedings looking to his arrest have 'yet been instituted. He has confessed. Private Rank Suspends. Guelph, Ont, Jan. 31. The private bank of W. H. Cutten, called the Guelph Banking Com pany, suspended payment this morning. It it reported that the cause of the suspension it losses sustained 'by the winding up of the Federal Bank and elswhere. James Red path. . New York, Jan. 31. James Red path It reported"- be easier this morning, after having passed a comfortable night. Dr. Dana says hit patient will survive unless the paralysis extends to the brain or bronchial tubes. Afraid of the Exodus. Atlanta Constitution. There is talk of a new negro exodus. A negro exodus is one ot the many plans by which a few negroes make money and a great many meet death. An Unexplaioea Phenomenon. Bt. Louis Tost-Dispatch. One of the wonders of tbe times is how tbe Russian troops can be perpetually moving and never get there. Our Prospects for Gee. Indianapolis News. The Trust is endeavoring to orepare to meet . all the requirements of its contracts. Allow your Clothing, Paint, or Woodwork, washed in th old rubbing, twisting, irrccking way. Jcir. that larjre army of sensible AAss.e.-l t. , ci.o.juujii.! ijeume. wnci from jperience have lejairftd thit Jam?s Pyle's Peatlm?, used as directed on each r-ckage, eaves' time, labor, rubbing, vrzzr and tear. Your Clothes are worn out mr.ee by cashing than weaving, Is U to your advantage to try Pcariins. JAME3 PYLE, Ni Yvr e at a v oia fcverv-wLczc