Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1888 — Page 3

THLE rN-DIAXATPOIilS JOURNAL. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, XSrSS TWELVB PAGrES

3 THE AUSTKO-GERMAN PACT

and Germany will produce everywhere tbe conviction that onr policy bas a pacifto and conservative tendency which will always be maintained. It will decuively show that the policy of Austria and Germany, and the grouping of the powers, is of high and unmistakable importance, and that tbe duration of the treaty in absolutely secured. It now forms, and must form in the future, the exclusive basis of our policy. Nobody can now fail to understand that Austria and Germany will endeavor, above all, to clear op t&e situation, refute baseless accusations and tranquilize the public mind.' The Vienna Press makes similar comments, concluding as follows: "It will be necessary, however, to await the strong effect which the publication of tbe treaty and the tendency of its clauses will undoubtedly exercise upon Russian public opinion." x The extra Blatt says: "The publication of the treaty is calculated to be eminently effective for the preservation of peace. If the publication fails to accomplish the object desired, war will be inevitable." The Neue Freie Press says it fears that no change in the present political situation will be effected by the publication of the treaty. The Allgemeine Zeitung says the publication constitutes the final admonition to Russia to stop in the path whereon she has entered. A DESERVED THRASHING.

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Three Congressmen Exchange Eeminiscences Relating to Tricky Practices. An Utterance from Bismarck Gives Its Publication Immense Importance. Many persons were unable to take advantage of our great SUIT and OVERCOAT Bale last week, and for the benefit of those we have concluded, for one week more, to give choioe of over 1,200 Suits and Overcoats at Congressman Bynum Contributes His Share, but Pails to Make Mention of the Methods of Coj, Eernhamer and Their Pals. The Pnrpose Is to Compel the Czar to at Once Clearly Declare His Intentions, and Is the Final Step Preceding an Ultimatum. . I - Bum or that the Russians Expect March Hon. Bonrke Cockran Speaks Forcibly in behalf of Captain White's Claims, ing Orders Within a Fortnight. And It la Considered Certain that the Twelfth District Congressman Will Not Be Unseated Personal and Other Gossip. A Drunken Aristocrat Soundly Thrashed by an Indignant Brother-in-Law A Horrible Scene at a Lion-Taming: Exhibition.

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THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL

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(Incorporated 1867, under the For the Year Ending

Insurance written in 1887 $4,855,758.00 Increase of insurance in force for 1887 1,627,744. 6-, Increase of aaseU T'qqo Increase of income $'mk Increase of amount paid policy-holders - o ?io v7 Increase in admitted snrplus.- - - - .o'iA, el Death claims paid in 187 - 142,801.54 ASSETS. Caah on Land and in bank - frSoSfn First mortgage liens on real estate Tnonm' Real estate - . V Loans on policy-holders secured by reserves - 'RnV'u Premium loan notes secured by reserve d,004.yo Aunts' balances 4, '28b. 19

Bills receivable.................. ........ Furniture and fixtures............ Interest and rents accrued Interest and rents due...... Premiums in course of collections (20 per cent, loading Deferred premiums (20 percent, loading deducted) Commuted commissions.. ... . ..... ............. Total assets.

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Amount of reserred fund American table (4 per cent) Deposits of policy-holders............ .................. ...... Death claims not duo.... - 5ur plus.. .......................................... ..........

Total - POLICY Policies Issued during the year Amonnt insured thereby Policies in force January 1, 1888 Amount insured thereby, including additions Increase in number of policies during the year Increase iu amount insured - Total amount paid policy-holders since organization O. R. LOOKER, Secretary. H. F. FREDE, Assistant Secretary.

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Pants, All go STATEMENT OP THE laws of tbe State of Michigan), December 31, 1887. , ----- ........................ deducted) ....... ...... ....... . .... 18,034.32 2.963.17 6,971.02 28,772.24 74,585.31 24.510.fc9 17.79O.60 .$1,996,189.38 $1,665,211.00 599.74 18.000.00 312,378.64 $1,990,189.33 ACCOUNT. - -ppj$4,85o,58.00 $l.Oi 8,15b. r,AAti - oroonuti'T - - 2,683, Jzo.ol JACOB S. FARRAND. President. W. A. BUTLER, Vice-president. Gen. W. F. RAYNOLD3, Actuary. A RICHARDS,

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CO THE FKEIGI1T WAR. Northwestern Lines Continue the Policy of Reducing Tariffs to the Lowest Point. Cma&oo, Feb. 4 The war in freight rates instituted by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad is the one topic discussed in railway circles, and scents are wondering what will come next. As First Assistant General Freight Agent Knapp, of the Northwestern, puts it, "The business is demoralized at present, and I don't see how it can be made worse." As these dispatches indicated last night, the St. Paul made a cut of two cents on all classes of freight to Missouri river points. To-day tbe same road announces a further cut of half a cent on first class and three cents on second class to Missouri river points. This further cut was promptly met by the Soutwestern Association, and the Chicago & Northwestern met it, as far as Council Bluffs and Omaha are concerned. The latter road also met the locent cut of the St. Raul to St. Paul and Minneapolis. The Northwestern people declare they are in the fight to stay. As yet, no steps have been taken to stop the rate cutting. Chairman Midgley, of the. Southwestern Association, says pa meeting of agents has been called yet to consider the situation. Following is the schedule now bing quoted to Missouri river points: First Class 37: second, 30; third. 24; fourth, 19; fifth, 14; A, 17; B, 16; C, 15 D, 15; E. 15. "There is little doubt that the present freight war will be a long and desperate one," said Chairman Midgely, of the Southwestern Railroad Association, to-day. "No propositions of settlement have been made, nor would it be of any use to make any at the present time. There is no telling where this fight will end. A fight of this character is now v an entirely different matter from what it was a few years ago. The railroad extensions in the West and Southwest have been so great that a fight like the one now in progress will be far-reaching in its effects. Owing to the relative geographical situations of St. Paul. Omaha and Kansas City, and the operations of tbe interstate-commerce law, this fight will demoralize rates and mnst involve the entire Northwest, as well as tbe West and Southwest. Further cuts are liable to be made at any minute. I have received dispatches from far Southwestern points meeting the rate, with tbe usual differentials, from points connecting with Omaha. Kansas City and St. Louis." Kansas Citt, Feb. 4. The railroad freight rates from this point are so badly demoralized that it is difficult to make definite statements of the actual cuts made to-day. The following facts will be published in to morrow's Times: "The Fort Scott & Gulf reduced the rate on packing-house products from Kansas City to Memphis 2 cents; fresh meat to Memphis (when destined for points east of the Mobile & Ohio), 8je; sugar from New Orleans to Kansas City, 6 cents, bananas 14c, oranges 14c, cocoannts lie. The Missouri Pacific makes a general cut on the first five classes from St. Louis to Kansas City of 2 cents, and on cotton piece-goods, St Louis to Kansas City. 16 cents. All the lines running between Kansas City and Chicago announced a farther reduction of 1 cent on the third, fourth and fifth classes, and on class A of 2 cents. The Alton announces a cut on coarse grain to Chicago and St. Louis of 5 cents, and on cattle to the same points of $12.50. The Missouri Pacific has asked the agents of local lines to call a meeting to fix a rate on packing-house products. DRUMMING UP AN AUDIENCE. A Decidedly Questionable Method Adopted hj the Clay Coantv Prohibitionists. 8peclal to the Indianapolis Journal. Bbazil, Ind., Feb. 4. Clay county third party Prohibitionists, twenty strong, met here yesterday, and organized the county, with H. W. Bullock, a young man of Democratic antecedents, as chairman. At night. State Chairman J. S. Hughes addressed a fair audience at tbe Christian Church. A sensational circular, distributed rather late in the afternoon, contributed a number of the curious to the audience. The objectionable feature of the circular was in sandwiching the names of worthy citizens and honorable politicians with saloon-keepers, or their backers and abettors. It read: 'To-night! Rum and Politicians! Are S. M. McGregor and Mike Ryan, Silas D. Coffey and Sam Riley, Tom Hinsey and W. W. Carter parts of one concernl Each may answer for himself! Oration at Christian Church to-night by Jap S. Hughes!" The circular was printed, of course, at Democratic headquarters. Its circulation justly angered the parties whose names were thus bandied en the street because they do not indorse Prohibition tbird-partyism. Mr. Hngh.es denied before the audience all knowledge of tbe circular, but County Chairman Bullock, wbo had it printed and distributed, denies this, and he seems to be in a position to know. Bnrslar Arrested. Special to tbe Indlaoaoolis Journal. KOKOMO, Feb. 4. Last evening Frank Freis, a tough character from Logansport, entered the office of Dr. Bates daring his temporary absence, and purloined two overcoats and soma valuable surgical instruments to the amount of $100 or mora. From there he went to the residence of Tence Lindley, and, effecting an entrance through a rear window, abstracted a sealskin saeque and a plush cloak both valued at $ 20O. City Marshal Secrist overhauled the burglar at the Panhandle depot, recovering the stolen goods and placing the thief in jail to await pre lino inary hearing. He is thought to have had accomplices. Governor Gray at RaehvtUe. Special to tbe Indianapolis Journal. , Bcshvilli, Feb. 4, Governor Gray and wife arrived in the eity this morning on the fl o'clock train, and will be the guests of Hon. Ben. L. Smith and family over Sunday.

the: austro-german treaty.

A Phrase of Bismarck's Oives klVast Importance to Ita Publication. Copyright, 1888, by the New York Associated Press. Berlin, Feb. 4. While tho semi-official press affects to regard the publication of tbe AustroGerman treaty as having a pacific intent, official and diplomatio circles know that Its real aim ia to force the Czar to an immediate war or compel him to submit to terms of a permanent peace dictated by the allies. Tbe substance of the treaty has long been known to both tbe Russian and French governments, At the time of its inception ' at the conference between Prince Bismarck and Count Andrassy, at Gastein, in August, 1879, confidential disclosures stating tbe character of the compact were made by Prince Bismarck to tbe Czar as an inducement to break off negotiations for a Russo-French alliance. The day after the treaty was signed, Prince Bismarck made a personal communication of the fact to both the French and Russian embassadors, withholding only the exact terms of the treaty. The publication reveals nothing to any European government. Before disclosing it to the people the step was anxiously discussed by Prince Bismarck, Count Kalnoky, and Herr Von Tisza, The Austrian ministerial council, the Emperor presiding, consented to the publication of the treaty only last week, upon urgent representations from Prince Bismarck that the time was opportune. Its appearance at the present juncture recalls the utterance of Prince Bismarck when he was reproached in the Reichstag for refusing to submit to that body certain diplomatic correspondence. "Once a government determines to publish important documents, he said, "matters should have gone so far that nothing but war is likely to be the outcome of tbe situation." By tbe light of this memorable statement, the immense significance of the publication of the treaty at the present crisis will be seen. It is the step which precedes an ultimatum. If Russia continues to arm and press forward masses of troops, menacing the strategic points on the frontiers, and if tbe pending negotiations for an offensive and defensive alliance with France should succeed, the central powers will not wait the convenience of the French and Russian governments to declare war. The crisis, therefore, approaches a climax. Prince Bismarck, in his speech in the Reichstag on Monday, may place a peaceful interpretation upon the motives of the publication of the treaty, but nothing be can say is expected to lessen the strain of the situation. The Czar mnst give practical assurances of peace or abide by an early war, and, judging by all that is known of bis character and the ministerial influences now dominating him, the Czar will not yield. Coont Schouvaloff, the Russian embassador to Germany, is in St, Petersburg, attending the annual court. He will return to Berlin to-morrow, and will see Prince Bismarck before the meeting of the Reichstag on Monday. Advices from St. Petersburg to-night seek to minimize tbe importance of the reconciliation between the Czar and M. Flouquet by representing that the exchange of courtesies between M. Flouquet and Baron von Mohrenheim, the Russian embassador at Paris, was not of high political significance, and that M. Flouquet has outlived the "Vive La Pologne" mistake. Hi present attitude justifies the approaches of Baron von Mohrenheim. If tbe Flouquet incident bad been a mere exchange of courtesies the Berlin Chancellor would not have heeded it Its true significance, as learned through the German embassy at Paris, is that Baron von Mohrenheim ia negotiating an alliance nnder President CarnoVs assent, with leaders of tho French Radicals who are likely to form a lasting war Cabinet M. Flouquet, Ds Freycinet, Brisson and Flonrens have been sounded on the subjects If Moberenheim succeeds in convincing the French leaders in favor of an alliance, the Tirard Ministry will be replaced by a FreyeinetBonlanger Cabinet within two months. Germany will be exposed to an attack from France -when Russia reads the snmmer treaty, which has not yet appeared in the Russian press. The Moscow papers to-day are pessimistic in tone. They predict that the negotiations with Austria will not result in the interest of Russia. The Kreuz Zeitung records fresh army movements on the frontier. The hard, dry frost favors the marching of men and horses and the transportation of war materials, and tbe concentration of troops along the line of the Niemen is actively proeressing. The fort works at Kovno are completed. Twelve forts, connected by earth-works, will protect the concentration of a force of 250, COO men, designed, according to the Kreuz Zeitung, to operate against Prussia. Russia continues its negotiations for a twenty-three-million loan in Paris and Amsterdam, and is reported to be on tbe eve of success. The high terms offered, backed by the recommendations of the French government, are inducements for the bankers to venture. The Barings have placed fifteen-million-roubles' worth of Nicbolai railway bonds on behalf of tbe Russian treasurer. They represent sums advanced by the treasury to the railroad and nominally repaid. They are now placed to the Barings, who issue them in London at 5 per cent. German investors retain Russian securities with great tenacity. The selling on the bourse today, which was of a purely speculative character, sent them down J to 1. The buying of Russian securities for investment has entirely ceased, and American railroad securities of the best kinds taking their places. Prince Bismarck urged the publication of tbe treaty last November, but Austria deprecated its publication, representing that she still entertained hopes that Russia would not proceed to extremities. It is asserted in Vienna that the publication of the treaty, even now, was due in a great measure to the Flouquet-Mohrenheim reconciliation, tbe efforts to bring about which have been a matter of common knowledge in official circles in Berlin for some time. The fact that the Czar yielded to France in patching up the reconciliation convinced Prinee Bismarck that a Franco-Russian alliance was imminent, and hastened bis action in causing the publication of the Austrio-German pact. Tbe foremost question in Berlin sow is, will Prinee Bismarck speak to the second reading of the army bill? It is known that be already baa consulted all of the party leaders on the subject, and also that be has separately enjoined secrecy npon them as to what passed between himself and the leaders concerning it, but no one can be found who is able to state even indefinitely the conclusion reached. Tbe Vienna Tagblatt publishes a dispatch from its correspondent at Cracow, stating that the conviction is prevalent among the officers and subordinates of the Russian army in that region that they will reeeive orders to advance within a fortnight. Everything, the correspondent says, is in readiness for a forward movement, and the desire of the men to exs cute it is almost uncontrollable. Tone of tbe Berlin and Vienna Press. London, Feb. 4. Several of the Berlin papers dilate npon the eminently pacific character of the treaty between Germany and Austria, the publisetion of -which they say must produce a tranquiliztng effect in Paris and St. Petersburg, while admonishing and warning disturbers of tbe peaee, whoever they may be. The Vienna Fremdenblatt says that the "publication of the treaty of alliance between. Austria

An Aristocratic Sot Soundly Pnmmeled by an Indignant Brother-iu-L.aw. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. London, Feb. 4. In the "Westminster police court, to-day, Lord Howard Dewald charged Major Burrowes. of the Eleventh Hussars, with having assaulted and severely beaten him. Major Burrowes pleaded guilty to the charge, but claimed that the assault was justifiable. The circumstances, as explained by the defendant, were these: While Lady Dewalden, -who is is Burrowes'8 si6tsr-in-law, - was lying at the point of death. her husband, who was beastly drunk, insisted upon going into her room and raising a disturbance. Burrowes remonstrated with Dewalden and, finding expostulation useless, pushed him into tbe diningroom and thrashed him. Dewalden, Burrowes testified, is a confirmed sot and was drunk every night during the time his wife was lring ill of peritonitis. Sir William Jenner and otber eminent physicians testified that it would be impossible to save Lady Dewalden's life if she was not kept absolutely quiet, and deposed that they bad given instructions to have her husband kept out of her room while he was intoxicated. The magistrate admitted Burrowes's provocation, but held that he still bad no right to take the law in bis own hands. Dewalden might have been arrested ae a disorderly person, but should not have been beaten. Major Burrowes was therefore remanded until next Thursday, meanwhile remaining at liberty on bail. : GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

Horrible Scene Incident to Liton-Tamlng Performance ia Dublin. London, Feb. 4. At the conclusion of a performance at Lowry'a Music Hall, in Dublin, last night, M'lle. Senide, one of the performers, placed her head in a lion's mouth for the purpose of having her photograph taken In that position. A sudden flash of light caused the beast to elose bis jaws, and be retired, growling, to the corner of his cage, dragging his helpless victim with him. Then be shook the girl violently, tearing her bare breast with bis claws. The attendauts at once sprang toward the caee and attacked the lion with irons and finally succeeded in beating bim off. M'lle. Senide was removed to her lodgings and medical aid was summoned. Her neck, shoulders, breast and one arm are terribly lacerated, but she Is still alive. It is now stated that Mile. Senides's injuries are not of serious nature. She has offered to appear to-night and repeat the performance with the lions. A New Law Broken Special to the Indlanano-Is Journal. London, Fob. 4. Mr. Henry Matthews, the Home Secretary, will be forced to face a new problem when Parliament opens. He will be asked if it is legal for newspapers to promote prize-fighting in England. The point is a pretty ono, and the social purist intends to make the most of it. The contention is made that the publication of challenges for prize fights and the details thereof are anaiagous to the act of Irish papers in publishing the proceedings of the now proclaimed national leagae. The law . does not recognize distinctions that nave no dmerence, hence it is argued by the opponents f of prize-fighting that the English newspapers are equally guilty with their Nationalist contemporaries in Ireland if they aid and abet an illegal act. The German Crown Prince's Malady. London, Feb. 4. The Daily News is in receipt of a private telegram from San ftemo, which says: "It is true that the doctors have decided that the disease of the Crown Prince is not cancer, but there is another development of the malady which is regarded with much anxiety." "WHITE-CAP" OUTRAGE. Tliomas Williams Flogged Into Insensibility Because He Invoked the Law's Aid. Special to the Indianapolis Jonrnai. EvANSViLtiE, Ind., Feb. 4. An indefinite report reached this city this evening of a most dastardly outrage by "White-caps," committed last night near Marengo, Crawford county. In that locality reside Thomas Williams and wife, wbo were subjected last year to great indignities, it is said, at the hands of the "White-caps." At the time Williams claimed to have recognized among his assailants a prominent young man, Thomas Courtney, son of one of the leading physicians of the county. He immediately sought the arrest of young Courtney, who, fearing trouble, left for parts unknown. Nothing further was beard of the young man until recently, when he was located at Fort Scott, Kan., and arrested, and, under a requisition from Governor Gray, he is now being brought back. This news enraged the young man's friends and they wreaked vengeance on Williams. The report says they went to his house last night, and being refused admittance, broke down tbe door. Williams fired into tbe crowd, wounding a couple of men. The mob then tied Mrs. Williams to a bed and took her husband into the yard and . tied him to a tree. Upon Williams's refusal to make a sworn statement exonerating young Courtney of future charges, they flogeed him until be became unconscious and then left Their victim was later fouud in a dying condition. The circumstance is said to have , aroused tbe entire section of country, where a very strone feeling bas sprnng up against the repeated outrages of the "White Caps." It will certainly aggravate the feeline against young Courtney, who will arrive at Leavenworth to-night in charge of the sheriff. Fourteen-Year-Old Boy Uanged. Kiw Oblians, Feb. 4. Jim Cornelius, a negro fourteen years old, was hanged at Minden, Webster Parish, yesterday, for the murder, a year ago, of Ernest Wren, four-year-old son of G. P. Wren, member of the Legislature from that parish. The negro boy was in Wren's employ and the little child was playing aroand the negro boy who pushed him down and made him bite his tongue so that bis mouth bled. The little fellow cried and threatened to tell his mother. The negro begged him not to tell, as he did not want to be whipped, but the little fellow persisted. The negro then struck him with an ax handle, crushing in his skull and mangling his head so that he died almost instantly. The boy was charged with the crime and coofeseei. He was tried and convicted, but on appeal a new trial was granted on account of informalities in the indictment. On the second trial he was again convicted and sentenced to be hanged. The Governor approved the death sentence six weeks ago. Up to the time of his death, the condemned boy seemed stolid and indifferent. lie was visited by white preachers, who labored with him, and by a colored preacher. The latter' work seemed effective, for when he ascended the scaffold he declared be was going right to God to be a? angel in heaven. The fall was terea feet, but his neck was not broken. He strangled to death In eight minutes. His parents, well to do and honest people, refused to receive the body of the boy murderer, ax.d he was buried by the sheriff. Horrible Deeds of a Drunken Negro Boy., Eastman, Ga., Feb. 4. Hubbard Ilarreli, a colored boy ten years old, was made drunk, near here, yesterday, and going to the home of his brother-in-law, James Pope, killed three children. Pilling a large kettle used for washing hogs with boiling water, Harrell commenced his work by inducing one of the children to entirely undress, after which he suddenly tripped the little fellow up and landed him in tbe kettle, where he was boiled alive. The next child asisted, but HarreU felled her to tbe rround with -a iron bar, and while she was still insensible threw her into the caldron with the boiled corpse of her brother. The remaining child of the trio, aged three, HarreU picked up by the ankles, and was beating its head against a tree, when, attracted by its cries, the pat-, ents appeared and the young murderer fled. The lit -tie one's skull was so badly fractured, however, that death resulted last night. At last accounts young Harreil was still at large.

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Congressmen Exchange Kemlnlscences, mA Mr. Uxnuni Contributes Hia Shar. Special to the Indianasolis Journal. Washington, Feb. 4. Tho trial at Indianapolis and Columbns of mea charged with tally-sheet forgeries and election frauds generally, have brought about a good deal of comment and many reminiscences on the part of politicians in Congress. A knot of members of th House stood in the lobby of tbe Ebbitt last evening and told about tbe peculiar election frauds practiced in their States. -Did you hear of tbe fish-hook tricfcP asked Delegate Smith, of Arizona. "No! Well," ha continued, "I will tell you about it. We used to practice it in close districts in Kentucky a few years ago. Tbe rules governing tbe deposit of, ballots precluded any interference' with the man as he was depositing his ticket, except by a single challenger for each party. There were generally but two of these, one on either side of the window where the ballot was put in. They were greatly annoyed by repeaters, and devised a scheme which ia now referred to as 'the fishhook trick,' by which one could tell whenever a man repeated. Nearly all of the repeaters were colored men. When a black man deposited his ballot we had our challenger slap hi ra on the shoulder or the hollow of his back. As be did this be run into the man's coat a small minnow fish-book. There were three voting precincts in the district. A fish-hook ia the right shoulder meant that the man had voted in tbe First district; in tbe hollow of tbe back, the second district, and if the hook was in the other shoulder it showed that he had voted in tbe third precinct. If a man went to repeat, one of onr strikers, standing on the dead line! recognized tbe little fish-book in the man'a clothing, and, calling bim aside, charged him most positively, but without telling bim how he knew it, with having voted at another precinct. And our man always added that there was a law to punish a man for attempting to vott more than once. Tbe negro would be frighfr ened almost to death, and to escape punishment would invariably walk up to the polls and put in a ballot for us." 'A couple of years ago," said a North Carolina member, "I must confess that I saw the funniest maneuvers at the polls in my district that I ever heard of. Only about one-third of the voters in the precinct I refer to can read or write. Our election laws require a bailot l-ox for each of the Stats officers, and also lor the Congressman. When the uneducated voter approached tbe poll be bee an to get bis tickets fixed right in bis band, and he generally stopped to traze at the ballot-boxes come seconds beforo he began depositing his ballots. Onr judges always knew how tbe man wanted to vote, and if they saw a man who could not read put all of the ballots in the right boxes they instantly shuffled the boxes, so that the next uneducated voter of the same frame of mind would not deposit bis ballot right, and therefore he lost ti franchise, as the right ballot must be pub in the right box or it cannot be counted. ' The ehnffiing or mixing up of the boxes was for the purpose of making it impossible for educated men standing at the distance required, to direct the voters as they approach, which box to put tbe ticket in. It was absolutely fanny to see an old, sober, election judge get up each time a man who could not read deposited his ballots right and change the boxes around, so as to throw ol tbe next man." "Yes, that is all interesting and very bad," said Representative Bynum, of Indiana, but there is a little trick practiced out in my State which is also pretty bold and unique. It shows organized effort to commit fraud. The challengers must have an understanding with thei election jndge, who receives iand desposits tbe ballots. The judge or clerk at the ballot box has, in bis pocketT a number of tickets which ha wants to win. When a voter approaches wbo wants to cast the other ticket be is permitted to band his ballot to the clerk or judze, who takes it, and as be is in the act of depositing; it the challenger of his party challenges the vote. There is a pause, during whieh the clerk or judge who has received tbe ticket hands back to the voter a ticket. He does not, however, return the ticket which was intended to be voted, but reaches out tho otber hand, in which is neatly folded the ticket he desires to have east, retaining in bu other hand tbe ticket the voter first gave for deposit. Just as the voter get the ticket from the man at tbe ballot-box, tbe one who challenges withdraws bis challenge, when the voter then hands back the ticket he has received, and it is promptly deposited in the ballot box. The ticket which tbe voter first handed to the election officer is deposited in the letter's pocket This is a trick very extensively practiced in some precincts, is extremely difficult to deteot, and there is doubt in . tbe minds of many whether it is unlawful, as it is as mncb. deception as fraud; but is it nevertheless a very deplorable act?" TOE "WHITE CASE. Konrfce Cockran Speaks Eloquently In Behalf of the Sitting Member. Special to tbe Indianaoolia Journal. Washington, Feb. 4 If there was anj doubt, this morning, as to the outcome of th contested election case of Lowry against White, of Indiana, there is none to-night. The House devoted the day to consideration of this case, and adjourned to-night without having reached a vote, but there were enough signs to point very conclusively which way the wind ia blowing. W. Bonrke Cockran, of New York, who had a wide reputation as an orator before he came to Washington, was the first Democrat heard in behalf of White. Ha said that there was no question of law involved, but simply a question of fact. He called attention to the statement that the record cf a court is not a part of the judgment, but simply an evidence of such judgment. In this case Mr. White was either natur alized in 1865 or he was a perjurer. Be Mr. Cochran had read the speeches on both rides carefully, and he had failed to find a single Imputation made against tbe character of Mr. White; on the contrary, he bad been exceedingly popular with all classes of citizens for more than thirty years, and bad fought and bled for his country. He preferred to believe that a man who bad served bis country so well as Mr. White, and who cams to Congress with an undisputed majority of 2,505 votes, was not a perjurer, bat that ou the contrary, he was really naturalized and entitled to his seat. He should, therefor, vote against the report of tbe major, ity of the committee on elections. Mr. Cockran made an eloquent speech and was frequently applauded. The applause came from Democrats as well as Republicans, so that it was evidont that he produced an excellent effect. He was followed by Judge Wilson, of Minnesota, a Democrat, and one of the most learaod lwyers in the Northwest, who made a strong; argument from a legal stand-point, in which he maintained the right of Mr. White to retain bis seat These were the only Democratic speeches .made in support of White on the floor, but .there were a great many Democratio members who are ready to vote for White. It is predicted to-night that there will be at least twenty, and possibly thirty Democratio votes past against the majority report of the comInittee. Among these are Randall of Pennsylvania, MoAdoo of New Jersey, Wilson, Rice, McDonald of Minnesota, Moraa and Collin