Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1889 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1889.

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THE TWO PRESIDENT HAEEISOSS. :1 4)iUitary Career of the First Bejran In tl The early military career of Gen. "VYIllia; Henry Harrison is not eo Trell known i that of his distinguished grandson, and 1 trill surprise many to learn that the firi President Harrison entered the army as private soldier. The following extrad from a letter written by Benjamin Ilarri1 Fon, tne signer and father of William Henry Harrison to Major-general Charles Knft off... r- Z e TAxn.i,. fccott, afterwards Governor of Kentucky,

and dated Oct. 10, 1792, establishes this fact ;cietv circles, and a cousin of Mrs. KutherIle concludes his letter: 0Iu B. Hayes, jr., of Toledo. And now, before I take my leave, permit me to A telegram from Lynchburg, Va., says tell you my son, a youth of nineteen years of apo, that a Dand similar in appearance to the I nave sent forward in the character of a private White Caps of Indiana attacked a farmer KI6 t Captain rullins. ills youth and 0f Bedford county who had been accused Syofrt 1,einS intimate with a woman of the &Tt?ntie dragged him from his horse, should happen him ray some attention toWn floSSed hJ a?d rP,T.e hl from the county Your obedient and humble f ervant, ' inder a threat of killing him if ho did not Bekj. Harrison. leave. It would seem that he did not remain ' long in the ranks-something over six j Selecting Senators hy Caucua. months. He had BtartedWes prior to his father's letter. Gen. Anthony: at noon to-day. Hon. H. H. Kddy was AVayne. in his general orders dated Green- chosen Speaker of the House, and M. B. ville, Dec. 2S, 1733, returns the thanks of Carpenter president pro tern, or the Senate. General Washington to "every onicer and Both Houses adjourned till 1 o'clock toprivate belonging to the detachment for morrow. The Republican members held a their soldierly and exemplary good conduct senatorial caucus to-night to decide who during their lato arduous tour of duty in shall be the next United States Senator repossessing the field of battle and erecting from Colorado to succeed Senator Bowen. Fort Recovery," etc. Tho general orders The caucus adjourned at 0:00. The first conclude: , ballot resulted: E. O. Wolcott, 45: Thomas 'The rommnnder-in-chief also requests Bowen, 15; II. A. W. Tabor, 1. ThenomMaj or Mills, Captain Butler, Lieutenant iuation of Wolcott was then made unaniHarrison and Dr. Scott to accept his best mous. The Legislature will meet in joint thanks for their voluntary aid and services session to formally approve the selection on on this occasion." The occasion referred to tho 15th inst. wa the collecting arid interring of tho i Detroit, Mich., Jan. 2. The Republicbones of the heroes who fell upon the 4th ansof the Michigan Legislature, to-night, ?.mljer' lha it appears that placed James McMillan, of Detroit, one ofOld Tippecanoe" began his famous milita- the wealthiest manufacturers in tho State, TV career as a private soldier, and rose, by fin nomination for the United States senadegrees. to the exalted rank of commander- torship, to succeed Thomas W. Palmer, in-chief. ' , . i Tho nomination amounts to an election, From the same authority another inter-1 and has been conceded to Mr. McMillan,

filing nijoricai lact cleaned was that Benjamin Harrison, the sicner. had himself received an appointment under Gen. Wayne and intended accompanying hini on the m expedition against the Northwestern Indians, bnt was unable to. do so from "having," as ho writes, "three of my ribs broken near the back bone, also loosened from my breast, and one broken near tie middle?' General Harrison' Visitors. . General Harrison's visitors yesterdV "were mainlv social callers. Amnntf tWa from out of the city wero Dr. Joseph Garc tier, delegate to the Chicago conventia from the Second district of this State: Ho;' A. H. Davis, chairman of tho Republics executive committee of Lawrence count: J. D. Ford, of Toledo, O.; M. Kline, Kashville, Tenn., and Rev. D. T. Carnaha, ' of Port Townsend, W. T. United Stat Senator Frank Hiscock is expected here t noon to-day. Amusements. i Tho New American Opera Company, a organization that is said to be strong i every department, will begin its season t English's Opera-house, to-night, wii 'Faust," which will bo given with the f c lowing excellent cast: Marguerite, Mil Louis Natali; Siebel, 3Iiss Lizzio Mac' Nichol; Martha, Miss Fanny Gonzalei Faust, Charles Bassett; Valentine, Alonzj Stoddard; Mephisto, Frank Vetta; Brandei E. F. Knight. To-morrow night, "Man tani" will be given, with "Bohemian Girl at the Saturday matinee, and "Trovatore" Saturday night Tho company, which i under the management of Gustav Hinrichs' includes eighty performers, and gives fin' performances of opera. There is a good aoV vance sale. Miss Helen Barry, the young Englisl nctress, under the management of J. M Hill, will make her first appearance at th: Grand to-night. Her American tour hai been successful, and her stage work hai' been very highly praised. Miss Barry haj: won a position in the first rank by a ran1 combination of talents and character tha;i the most legitimate professional means, hei name, and honors being associated with th best works of stage art, and her triumph belong to standard drama and comedy. The critical estimate of her ability in England is a very high one. During her engagement Miss Barry will be seen in the bright comedy, "A W Oman's Strategem," which is 6aicL to afford her excellent opportunities. . ' Mr. E. J. Abrams is in the city arranging for the spectacular dramatic production of i "Faust" Ivy Lewis Morrison and his com-! ranv, at the Grand, the first part of next! week. It is one of the most beautiful pro-I ducTions known to the current stage. ! General Harrison and family will occupy i abo.T at the performance or Miss Helen! Barry and her company at the Grand tonieht. Mr. IL E. J. Miles has retired from the management of tho Cincinnati Grand Opera house, and Mr. Harry Kainforth assumes the entire management. Tho two ' men remain partners, however, in - other i theatrical ventures. Mr. Miles has a widei acquaintance in the theatrical world. City league of Base-Ball Teams. The National Base-ball Club will bo or ganized bunday afternoon, at Brighton, Beach Club-house at 3 o'clock. All ametenr base-ball players wishing to join the club are requested to be present. The presence ' nil vnnvinrwar. f 1 11 1 1 eireu, as it is the purpose to make arrangements for a city league. Jfew Incorporations. Articles of incorporation were filed with the Secretary of State, yesterday, by tho People's Mutual Gas Company of Alexandria. Madison county. It has a capital stock of S4,005. Tho Hill Machine Company, of Anderson, with a capital stock of $30,000, has also been incorporated. TELEGRAPHIC B REVUES. Joseph Brnnnell, aged fifteen, son of a prominent citizen of St. Louis, was run over and instantly killed by a 6treet car last night- The body was horribly mangled. . The tug Roberts, while piloting into the hay at Eureka. Cal., the steamer Marv D. Hume, capsized on tho bar at the entranco of Olive river. Captain Adams, of tho tug, "was drowned. Mr. Mackay, the missing actor, was found to-day at the residence of his mother, in Brooklyn. He is suffering from an attack of nervous prostration, but it is thought ho will be all right in a few days. Col. Morris R. Hamilton, who has occupied editorial positions on leading New i ork and Philadelphia papers, was yesterday reappointed State Librarian of New Jersey, for a terra of five years. , A telegram from Maryville, Mo., says John Brady and Will Robinson, aged fourteen years, pumls at Garrett's school-house, got into a scumel and ' Robinson cut Brady, the latter dy in g in a few minutes. James McTague. a prisoner in RaymondRireet iail, Brooklyn, committed suicide, yesterday morning by hanging himself from the bars of his cell door. He used his handkerchief and a piece of ropo to make the fatal noose. The remains of a well-dressed man wero fonnd on the Iron Mountain tracks, near St. Louis, Tuesday night. The body was identified as that of John R. Martin, a wellknown attorney of Washington, Mo. Foul play is suspected. Mrs. 3Iichael O'Leary, of Chicago, made desperate by her drunken husband's illtreatment, gave a doso of carbolic acid to her two-year-old boy and drank a quantity of the poison herself. The woman and little one are still alive, but with small chance of recover. The cxtensivo foundry of the Reading, Penn., Foundry Company, where largo iron pipe for gas and water mains for many of tho larger cities are made, has finally closed down indehnitly, throwing leomen out of employment. Dull trade is given as the cause for closing the works. Dan Daley, bartender at a Kansas Citv saloon, last night ehot and killed Joseph Long, a switchman. A friend of Long a had placed CO cents on the bar and a dispute arose as to whether it belonged to tho bar or to Loni-'s friend. Long took his friend's part with tho above result. All the St. Louis fiouring-mills excepting one closed down yesterday, under th) agreement entered into by the Millers' Association at its late convention at Milwaukee. The exception is the Anchor mill, which -will tdzo uhut down as soon as it fills two or

three important orders on hand. Undrr the agreement noted Z0 mills in the fall wheat belt will either close down or run on half time during January. Charles Banks, an old and respected citizen of Sherman, Tex., committed suicide, yesterday, by ehootinp himself throuzh the heart wilh a pistoL lie has been alllictcd with nervous disease for several years, and had retired from mercantile business, remaining closely about his home. 'An Oberlin (0.1 teletrram says that Miss

Mary B. Sherman, of AVakeman, O., a sturient of Oberlin College, committed gxucule by shooting herself with a revolver. Overstndy is assigned as the cause. The young l!lf vfla rnminpnt. in Tinrfm otiin n. who has been, for n lotur timo. a. leader in tho ranks of Michigan Republicans. Augusta, Me., Jan. 2. The Republican caucus, to-night, renominated Wm. P. Fryo for Senator, by acclamation. Fatal Fight Over a Woman. Anaoua, Tex., Jan.2. Charlesdela Graza and Jesus Barbo, between whom bad blood has existed for some time, met esterday. They immediately opened fire on each other from horseback, but, dismounting after a few shots, advanced on foot, firiug at each other. Graza first used a Winchester and afterwardsapistol. Graza was shot through tho back, receiving also a shot in tho stomach. Barbo -was shot through both thighs, one finger was blown oft' and he was shot in the body above the heart. Graza was dead when witnesses arrived, but Barbo lived for an hour. The men had fallen within six. feet of each other. Barbo had a brother who witnessed the shooting, and in trying to prevent the trouble had his horse wouned. Tho trouble originated over a woman. literally Blown to Pieces. Noriustowx, Pa., Jan. 2. A horrible accident occurred, yesterday, two miles from Summertown, this county. Two young metL named Erb and Schocker, were literally blown to atoms bv an explosion of a bucket of dynamite. The young men wero employed at James Millers dynamite factory, and, at tho time, were at work, in Swamp creek, near the factory, mixing the ingredients of dynamite. It is supposed that, in mixing the stuff, tho proper proportions were not placed therein, and, as a result, tho explosion ensued. The men wero blown to pieces, and fragments of ilesh wero scattered over a wide area. Nono of the pieces of fiesh picked up were of sufficient size to show to which body they belonged. Jsot Yet Ready for the Grave. CLEVELi D, O.. Jan. 2. Mrs. Mary Harrington, a patient at St. Alexis Hospital, died, to all appearances, Saturday night, of dropsical trouble. Tho hearse came yesterday to take tho body away. Upon examination, traces of life were found in the supposed corpse. Tho doctors resumed work over the body, but have not been able to revive the woman. Her husband says she has several times fallen into trances. A Village for the Indigent, Charleston (3. C.) special. Over sixty indigent elderly persons were housed to-night in the Euston Home village, in the suburbs of the citv. William Euston, a wealthy furniture dealer, who died nearly half a century ago, left all his property to the city for the purpose of establishing a home modeled after that at Canterbury, England, his birthplace. Nothing was done about it until the administration of Mayor Courtenay, about nine years ago, when 'steps were taken to execute tho trust. Arrangements were made with the surviving heirs of the testator, and about $200,000 was placed at the disposal of the trustees, the village was begun, and twenty substantial cottages wero built. Most of them are now occupied. The village will consist of forty cottages. The cottages are of brick and granite, and are provided with all the latest improvements in the way of heating, lighting, and sanitary arrangements. Tho inmates aro supplied with fuel, light, water, and other conveniences, have a pension and a plot of ground for cultivation. When the applicants received their appointments, the truckmen got up a corner, charging $2 a load for moving the furniture. J. M. Connelly, a 'prominent undertaker, at once ottered the use of his vehicles, free of chaTge, and broke up tho trust, lie moved upward of twenty of the inmates without charge. The Euston Homo is one of the largest charitable institutions in the South. It will, when completed, afford comfortable homes to upward of 200 indigent persons. New Definition for a "Bucket-Shop." Cleveland Leader. A pretty good story was heard yesterday concerning a well-known stock broker, whoso autograph is familiar on several of the hotel registers. Tho gentleman in question does business in tho city, and is the owner of a beautiful home in a suburban town. Wrhen he erected this magnificent house, it set all tho village neighbors to gossiping. It was wondered what business tho owner was engaged in; in fact, there were many anxious inquiries on this score. One evening one of the interested ladies asked her husband: "What business is Mr. engaged in!" Why, ho has a bucket-shop in tho city," was the reply. "Oh, yes." A few evenings later a tea party was given at a certain house, and the ladies, of course, began to discuss the affairs of their neighbors. Suddenly one of them said: I would like to know what Mr. , who built that new house, does for a living!" This was a chance for the wise lady, and she replied: "Oh. I know; he has a pail factory in Cleveland, and does a big business." This was satisfactory, and the story has been going the rounds ever since. The Man lie Wanted. Chicago Tribune. Attorney for Defense (to man di drawn as mror) Permit me to ask you. Mr. Idunno. if you have couscientious scruples against capital punishment. . Juror Hcyf Attorney Are yon opposed, on principle, to the execution of condemned criminals! Juror Huh! Attorney (hastily) We'll taka this man, your Honor. Not a Sound Joke. Albany Exrress. Thoy had been talking about audophones. Jones said, Ttis funny what a close relation exists between sound and the teeth." Smith smiled a ghastly smile as he said, "Xotalwajs, Jones; a good many peoplo don't have sound teeth." That was two weeks ago, and Jones still lies in a critical condition at the morgue. The A ponies of Lumbago, W. S. Phillips, East Biver National Bank, New York, writes: 'It gives mo great pleasure to add ray testimony in favor of your valuable plasters. Last October I had a very scvero attack of lumbago, and suffered untold agony; could not turn in bed or get in any position without assistance, and with pains almost unbearable. The folks suggested Allcock's Porons Plaster. Aa soon as possible I had one applied to the small of my back, and to my great surprise I experienced almost instant relief; I continued wearing it until entirely curnL and am happy to say tart I have not had the slightest symptoms of lumbago fcinee. -They ar a wonderful and valuable plaster for lumbago, audi tako much pleasure in recommending them."

.. THE REV. SA3I SMALL Why He Protests Against an Inaugural BaU and What lie Has Seen in the Past. .

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Is the question of the morality and propriety of celebrating tho inauguration of a President of our Nation with a "ball" one to be flippantly and sneeringly treated! Tho protest against it is notbornof meanness of spirit, spite of men's honor, or caprice of Christian zeaL It is not contrariness against the lawful and patriotic desire of the people to appropriately celebrate the accession to the chief magistracy of a true and loyal servant of the Lord Jesus Christ and of the Nation. But because he who is to bo thus honored is both of these in his own person, it seems to a largo and sincere clement of his national constituency, that the occasion is opportune for tho amendment of at least one questionable popular custom. From tho day of Saul to tho present time, to every people who profess the knowledge and accept the sovereignty of God, the installation of a ruler has been e&tecnied a solemn, and, in some imports, a religious service. By God's direction it was commanded concerning the rulen "That he shall write him a copy of this law m a book (book of holy laws), which is before the priests the Levites: And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear tho Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them." St.' Paul commands subjection to magistrates upon the express grounds that "the powers that be aro ordained of God," that ''rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil," "for he (the ruler) is the minister of God to theo for good." livery good and loyal American desires, i trust, to go esteem nim who is to bo such "minister of God" to this people for the coming quadrennium of our national history. Is it despicable in any of us to desire tohonor him in the hour oihis exaltation without tho offense of those practices which, however thev may be esteemed br the worldly, are in ihe eyes of our church and our millions of fellow-servants of God honestly condemned as "misleading and of questionable moral tendency." Will tho dignity and patriotic excellency of the popular inaugural reception to the President be sacrificed in any degree, in the esteem of honorable men and women, by tho omission of dancing from tho programmet May I bear witness to tho nistoryof similar ceremonies in the past! I have observed that, on such occasions, the significant and dignified incidents wero entirely found in the 6tatcly and felicitous congratulations of tho representative men and women of tho Nation who meet together to pay respect to tho nerson and office of the new President. The general conversation, the decorus promenado of honor, tho personal felicitations to tho chief magistrate and his company were the really distinguishing features of the affair. The opening march and quadrille, wheu participated in by tho President and his party, wa9 purely a formal matter. Its conclusion usually marks his own withdrawal from the scene and the withdrawal, as well, of all the truly distinguished personages. Then commences the unrestrained festiveness of tho Joi polloi, and 60on tho scene is differentiated from a common public ball in name only. All semblance of an honoring ceremony vanishes utterly into the sensual alternations of drink and dance. The select character of the assemblage drops to the level of the general ability to meet theprice of admission and tho moral characteristics of the affair are no higher than tho general average of the ordinary American dancing devotee. Why there should bo strenuous objection to tho elimination of the dancing feature of such an aftair is the really strange and only reprehensible emergence of this entire discussion. Would not the inaugural reception be enhanced in dignity, decorum and national significance by tho quiet and absolute omission of this senseless and sensual adjunct! The people of the Union have been summoned to see and believe that they have chosen for President one whose character and Christian practices are a guarantee; that tho inauguration ceremony will signalize tho exaltation of a moral power, ns well as a patriot-statesman to tho htad.$f our affairs. I thank God, with millions of my compatriots, that we do so believe. But will confidence in all the righteous hopes this faith inspires be helped or harmed by witnessing the degradation of his inauguration to the dancing mania of tho popular mob? Mustthis growing hunger and thirst for fleshly indulgences invade every ceremony of our life, however solemn and exalted in national significance! Is it puritanic to ask for the purification of this great ceremony? Is it crankism to ask that Christian 'conduct rather than pagan or Parisian pleasure-mongering should characterize this event of worldwide observation? In a day like this, with a Christian request of this seriousness to bo Eranted or denied, shall the spirit of the ord declare: "I sought for a man among them that should make up tho hedge (or righteousness) and stand in tho gap before me for the land; but I found none?" Sam W. Small. Fbankd, Ind., Jan. 1. A IXTTEK OF UNCOLN. TUs Reply to a Threatening Epistle from One W. G. Anderson, In 1840. Dr. W. C. Wilkinson, in January Century. Tho remarkable popular interest in everything that throws light upon the character of Abraham Lincoln, which the serial publication of his life in ths Century Magazine in part finds and in part creates, emboldens me to believe that a recent discovery of my own bearing on the matter may be accepted by many readers as a contribution not without its value to the f rowing public -fund of Lincoln memorabilia. I use the word 'discovery,' although that word maysefem not fit, when I say, as I must, that what I discovered was already public enough to be seen framed and hanging on one of the interior walls of the fine State capitol in Nashville, Tenn. Tho documents to which I refer are no longer to be seen where I 6aw them, they having, since my visit to Nashville, a tew years ago, been removed to a much less frequented place of custody, in the same city. Through the intervention of a friend I lately found them again, though not without trouble, and hero show them for the examination of the curious. "They consist of two letters, ono written to and the other written by Abraham Lincoln. How they came into public keeping, and with what history, in the case of tho illustrious writer of one of the letters, they may be associated, I have sought in vain to learn. Bnt the letters happily explain themselves. Perhaps the enterprising authors of the biography now beingpublished in tho magazine may be able to bnng these letters into their proper setting in the circumstances of Lincoln's life. One thing was very noteworthy in the autograph letter of Lincoln, and that was its immaculately neat and correct mechanical execution. The manuscript had the ;nomy and air of ono produced by an abitually fastidious literary man. Tho handwriting was finished enough to bo called elegant, the punctuation, the spelling, the capitalizing, were as conscientious as the tuni of tho phrase may be seen to be., Tt is a W. G. Anderson who writes a covertly threatening letter to Lincoln little dreaming at the moment that it was an historic document that he was so seriously inditing. The date is Lawrenceville, Oct. SO, 1S40. Tho address is 6tiflly, meant perhaps to even formidably, formal. It is A. Lincoln, Esq.: Dear air.' Mr. Anderson 6traitl3r says: " 'On our first meeting on Wednesday last a difficulty in words ensued between us which I deem it my duty to notice further. I think you were the aggressor. Your words imported insult, and whether you meant them as such is for you to say. You will therefore please inform me on this point, and if you designed to jti'end me, pleaso communicate to me your present feelings on the subject, and whether you persist in tho stand you took.' "And Mr. Anderson sternly signs himself, Your obedient servant.' "There now was a chance for Abraham Lincoln. How will ho meet it? Will ho chaff Mr. Anderson? Will he give him stiffness for stillness? There will surely be an interesting revelation of character. The actual fact is,, if Abraham Lincoln had known, in writing his reply, that he was writiug it much more for the whole world and for all future generations, than simply for his personal friend, Mr. Anderson, to read, I do not see bow he could have written it better tor the advantage of his own good fame. Ume is his reply: " 'LAWKEcxvuiXf Oct 31, 1810. W. G-lAn-

derson. Dear sin Your note of yesterday Is received. In the difficulty between us of which you speak, you say you think I was tho agsrres-

sor. i do not trunk i was. You ear my 'worn imported insulx, I meant them as a fair set off to j our own statement, ana not otnerwnse; ana in that lisht alone I now wish you to understand them. You ask for my present feelings on the subject. I entertain no unkind feeling to you, and none of any sort upon the subject, except a sincere rcsret that I permitted myself to get into uujr tutu uiiercauou. x ours, cic. A. LINCOLN. " VINES'3 RIDE IN A TRUNK. A Chicago Thief Tells the Story of Ills Rough Railway Experience. St. Louis Special to Chicago Time. Thomas W. Vines, tho employe of. tho Adams !t Westlako Company, who disappeared last Saturday with 4,500 of tho company's funds, arrived here to-day, having made most of the trip here from Chicago in a trunk, locked up and checked as baagage. His flight ana rido to St. Louis is best told in his own words. Ue said: "When we got to tho depot my friend, true to his promise, was there, and with the assistance of tho express driver lifted the trunk with its human contents to tho baggago-room, where it was checked and thrown in the Wabash car in the roughest kind of a manner. The smashers did not seem to caro who or what was inside, judging by the way I was tossed in the car. This was not the. worst of it by any means, as there wa more tortures in store for me. Theoutsid smasher had no sooner dumped me in than the smasher inside of tho car etood the trunk up on tho end in such a way that my head was down. If it had remained in this position any length of time I surely would have died, as tho blood rushed to my head and mado me sick and dizzy. 1 was determined to grin and bear as much as I could, but you can bet I was glad when the smasher gave the trunk a shove, throwing the right 6ido up. 'I was tossed around considerably and badly bruised, as the condition of my face, head and body will show. Tho baggagehandler finally made another attack on tho trunk, and this time I thought I was a goner sure, lie rolled it back and forth and gave it an occasional push with his foot, almost shaking the teeth out of my head. I could hardly keep from crying out to him to break open the cover. He finally cot tho trunk in one end of the car, and put another heavy case on top of it, which interfered to a great extent with my breathing. I kept growing sicker from the time the train left tho depot, and before it was fifty miles out I felt that I could not livo much longer packed in the trunk. MI put my mouth and nostrils to tho holes, but the supply of airwasneitherpuro nor plentiful. When the train started my only fear was that I would be dis covered, but as we kept getting further away from Chicago 1 began to fear that I would not bo discovered, miles out I became felt mvself cettine About seventy-fivo deathly 6ick, end weaker. I had told my friend that Iwould get to St. Louis, alive or dead, in the trunk, and would not allow myself to bo caught, but with suffocation staring me in the tace my resolution weakened, and, using ail my strength, I began to yell and kick lor dear life. "I heard the baggageman say: 'What in the devil is that?' and then he walked to the other end of the car evidently to locate the meaning of the racket. ;I was getting close to a state of unconsciousness and 1 im- ? roved my time in crying to be liberated, could tell from the movements and the talk of tho baggageman that he was frightened at tho noise. It seemed an ago before he did finally throw off the trunk that was on mino and took mo out. The train crew came in and looked at mo as though 1 was a curiosity, askiug how I ever got in such a box. I told them I was too poor to pay my faro and was stealing a rido in a novel way, and they a greed that it was a very novel way, but instead of throwing me off they assisted me back to a passenger coach, as I was very weak, and told mo I could ride the balance of tho way as a human being. ' "As soon as I got out of the trunk it was tied with ropes, the back having been broken to let me out, and thrown in the car. Thev did not examine tho socks or old clothes in it and consequently did not find the money. When tho train reached this city mv friend went away and the trunk was found in the baceasreroom, as ho had tho check I could tho baggage, the agent giving not secure me to understand that ho would not let it get out of his hands without the check. . "I remained about the depot and was near the baggage-room about 5 o'clockv when a detective came up and called me Y ines and then made me a prisoner. WThen I saw (him take the trunk out I concluded that the jig was up and that I was in for it." i m A Word-Counting Machine. New York Sun. . , ... A telegraph operator in Minneapolis has invented a word-counting machine which may bo used by itself or attached to a typewriter. It is much the 6amo sort of thing as a pedometer, onlv it is more accurate. It is as large as a small clock. Tho works are inside tho nickel case, on one Ride of which is the face. The machine will count up to 2,500 words, and can be used for any number by keeping a tally of tho number of times it passes the 2,500 mark. There are two hands, like the hour and 6econd hand of a watch. Every time a word on the type-writer is finished, the same motion which spaces the word registers on the word-counter. When the second hand comes up to twenty-five words, tho large hand moves forward a quarter of a space. The face is divided into twenty-live spaces, one for each 100 words, and a glance at it 6hows at once how many words have been written. The use of tho word-counter is not limited to type-writing machines, but it can be used in writing and dictation by keeping it at hand and making a slight pressuro at the end of each word. Some operators attach it to their desks and work it with a string fastened to their feet. It is a useful invention, especially in telegraphy, and in making an article of a specific length. The Violet Craze. Boston Advertiser, You walk along Beacon street, Commonwealth avenue, or anyone of our well-known thoroughfares where Boston's femininity is wont to appear, and you find that the violet is the flower of all ilowers at present. Florists say that their sales of this modest little blossom are simply enormous, and that the roses fairly hide their heads in the craze for violets. The lily of the valley, even, pales before the demand for white violets for bridal bouquets, the bridesmaids in these cases carrying dark-blue Parma or Kussian violets. At a recent Back Bay wedding all the flowers used in the house decorations were violets. The craze has extended so far that violet perfume is the only proper thing, and the perfumers find tho demand for it rapidly increasing. It is a violet era, and tho pretty, modest little flower that has so long waited for recognition from exchudvo circles is now on tho top wave of popularity. Another Hint to Harrison. Washington Special in Philadelphia Times. The eyes of the national politicians, irrespective of parties, are gazing towards tho capital of Pennsylvania with outspoken admiration. Tho magnificent presentation of united political force witnessed in Pennsylvania under the leadership of Senator Quay,wa8the subject of universal commendation in a group of most distinguished Senators and Representatives, at tho capitol, to-day. They referred to the situation in Pennsylvania as a tribute to Quay's political genius almost as great as his success in the late campaign. It was suggested by ono of the party that if General Harrison wished a Premier who would make his administration a success, stop factious opposition and secure a long lease of power to the Republican party he would suggest the junior Senator from Pennsylvania. An Unsettled Question. Boston nerald. The most extensive manufacturer of bustles in this country declares that the industry was never so nourishing as it is today, and the demand for this article is greater than ever. This settles, for a time, one of the preat and burning issues of the recent campaign. The opponents of the bustle, like the foes of high taxes, live to fight another day, however, . . A Full-Drew Frotector. Boston Advertiser. It has come, and was seen entering Parker's, Saturday evening. It is a full-dress protector of a new pattern. It consists of a padded collar that protects the purest linen and tie, to which is attached a divided bosom of the regulation decorated silk or eatin. The one in question was a pale, almost baby blue satin, and bore the monogram of the wearer on tho bosom.

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