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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1889.

title to Bearing am was perfect and undisputed. : Sixth That, by virtue of the cession, tho United States acquired complete title to all that port?cn of Behring sea situated within the limit u prescribed by treaty. SPEAKER OF THE NEXT HOUSE. :nator Sdmnndi rropos HI Ilealth, and Four Men Immediately Respond, to the IndUnapoUs Journal Washington. Jau. 29. A dinner with a rather unique design was given at the Arlington to-night by Representative Adams, of Chica go. There were invited to be present all of the gentlemen in the House who ire presumed to be in the line of the speaktfTship possibility. Mr. Adams explained that he did not want to make any jealousies, and desired to "stand in" with the successful man, so he had among his guests the following. Representatives Bntterworth. McKinley, Reed. Stewart. Henderlon, Cannon, Baine, Lodge and Burrows; lso. ibe following Senators: Hiscock, Sherman. Edmunds, Piatt, and rarwell. On the menu cards was the emblem of the ruling wand of the House i hand grasping a gavel. During the course 3f the dinner Senator Edmunds arose and tsked to be permitted to propose the health of the guest of the evening, The Speaker of the next House of Representatives." As one man. Messrs. McKinley, Reed. Cannon and Burrows arose to respond, and each gratefully thanked the Senator for the honor conferred. It was one of the jolliest dinner parties given in Washington this teason. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.

Thm Senate Agrt to Change Title of Certain Foreign Ministers to Embassador.' Washington, Jan. 29. Mr. Cockrell.f rom the committee on military affairs, reported back, with a substitute, the House bill a9 to furnishing cannon to soldiers homes, and it was passed. It authorizes the Secretary of Wax to deliver to any of the national ti State homes, two obsolete, serviceable cannon, bronze or iron, suitable for firing lalutes. Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, from the committee on Indian affairs, reported a bill to amend the act of Feb. IS, 1SSS, authorizing the Choctaw Coal and Railroad Company to construct and operate a railway through the Indian Territory and it was passed. m Mr. Chandler offered resolutions, which were agreed to, calling on the Secretary of the Navy for a statement of expenditures for each six months of thepresont fiscal year from the appropriations for tho construction and repairs of vessels and forsteani machinery; also for a statement as to tjio nature, extent and cause of the recent accident to the cruiser Baltimore. The Senate resumed consideration of the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill, the question being on Mr. Gibson's amendment to make the title of the ministers to France, Germany, Great Britain and Russia, "embassadors." After a long discussion the amendment was agreed to yeas, 2C; navs, 34. Mr. Plamb then moved to strike out the whole paragraph and to insert in lieu of it the words: "For the purpose of enabling the President to promote friendly and commercial intercourse with Great Britain, $20,000," and he said that if ii prevailed ho would move to insert similar paragraphs as to other nations. The amendment was rejected without a division. The amendments in relation to Samoa having been reached the Senate went into executive session. When the doors were reopened Mr. Sherman said he would like to state, publicly, the position which he took in regard to the Samoan question, so that it might appear in the Record. Mr. Sherman's remarks are printed elsewhere.) When be had concluded, Mr. JJolph obtained the floor, and the Senate adjourned. The CItII Appropriation Bill Passed. Washington, Jan. 29. Mr. Burroughs, of Michigan, presented a petition of 13,000 citizens of Utah against the admission of that Territory as a State. Referred. The House then went into committee of thewholo (Mr. Dockery, of Missouri, in the chair) on the sundry civil appropriation LilL On a point of order raised by Mr. Crain. the clause was stricken out suspending the act of 1S85 appropriating $160,000 to enable the Secretary of War to acquire a valid title to the .Fort Brown military reservation. Mr. Enloe, of Tennessee, offered an amendment authorizing the secret-servico force of the Treasury Department to be used in detectingpretended dealers in counterfeit money. Agreed to. The committee then rose and the bill was passed. i Mr. Dunn. "of Arkansas, from the committee on merchant marine and fisheries, reported a bill to provide for the better protection of the fur, seal and salmon nsheries of Alaska. Printed and recommitted, with leave to report at any time. Adjourned. MINOR MATTERS. Mr. Oates's Naturalization Kill Rejected by the House Judiciary Committee. Washington, Jan. 29. The naturaliza tion bill was again under consideration before the House committee on judiciary. It was pointed out by a member of tho committee that the effect of the section withholding for five years the rights of citizenship from aliens who come to this country with the intention of becoming naturalized, taken in connection with tho alien land act, would operate to prevent the intended citizen from purchasing a farm or a home for himself during the tiveyear period of the probation. The making of this point resulted in a discussion which established the fact that a number of the members of the committee wero opposed to Fnch legislation. Various propositions intended to correct the bill in that particular were advanced, but none of them secured approval, and in the end the committee determined to abandon the bill reported from the sub-committee and directed Mr. Oates to present at tho next meeting a naturalization bill which was introduced by him some time ago, and which is not open to the same objections. Mr. Oates was requested to embody in his bill the first section of the sub-committee's bill And to make some other amendments. It will be considered at the next meeting of the committee. Indiana Patents. Fpelal to 1?ia Tn!lana;tolls Journal. Washington, Jan. 29. Patents were granted to tho following Indiana inventors to-day: Bas B. Alfree, Indianapolis, flour bolt; Jacob Barrow, assignor of one-half to J. D. Baker, Windfall, pressure regulator; Jonathan Beeson and J. U, Hirschfelt, Saline City, bee-hive; Rudolph W. Donmoyer. South Bend, wheel; Brenson Doud, Peru, fence; Horace L. Hewitt, Indianapolis, grain cradle; Jesse F. Fesler, assignor of three-fourths to J. H. Briggs, Terre Haute, (2) regulator for dynamo electric machine, and dynamo electric m.tchines; John P. Lancaster, Goshen, rail joint; Ott J. Meisel, Terra Haute, guard for step-ladders; George J, Zimmerman, assignor to Nelson Jb Scott Company. LaPorte, machine for making metal wheels. New Foslai Regulation. .Washington, Jan. 29. The Postmastergeneral to-day issued the following orden Section 525 of the postal laws and regulations Is hereby inodltled by adding the following paragraph: At any letter-carrier po&toillce, when matter Is deposited add re sued to persons within the delivery of such office, whose street and number are known or readily ascertained by the postmaster, and upon which the postage is Inadvertently wholly unpaid or paid lesthan the amount required by law, the sender being unknown, the notice of detention (Form 1543) ahnU not be sent, but such matter shall be presented to the addressee by the carrier, and tho detlclent lostajre collected on delivery by means if postage stamps affixed to the letter or parcel, IS the addressee refuse to pay the postage and receive tho letter or parcel, it shall be sent to tho Dead Letter Office as other refused matter. Indiana Republican Clab. tpcll to the Indianapulia Journal. Washington, Jan. 29. At the regular monthly meeting of the Indiana Republican Club, to be held at G. A. R. hall on next Saturday evening, the question of holding a reception to President Harrison about the 12th of March will be discussed and determined. A committee was, some

time am .ppotatod to Inqnir. totothe de-

laus 01 me proposmou, nuu ii-uik iu be made on Saturday night. The last meeting of the club was so largelyattended that it was found necessary to obtain more commodious quarters. 3Ir. Morse' Ambition. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 29. Rrepresentativeelect Andrew was on the floor of the House to-day. He will succeed Leopold Morse, of Boston. It i3 understood that Mr. Morse has an ambition to become Governor of Massachusetts, and that ho will be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for that positton next fall. Atone time Mr. Morse could have procured the Democratic nomination for Mayor of Boston, but his preference was for a congressional ottice. . The Proposed New Bridge at Louisville. Washington, Jan. 29. Tho House committee on the judiciary heard arguments to-day on the bill providing for the con struction of a bridge across the Ohio river between Louisville, Ky., and Jeff'ersonville, Ind. A delegation headed by Congressman Carnth. of Kentucky, and exCongressman Thompson argued in support of the bilk and ex-Congressman Willis op posed the measure, holding that the construction of the proposed bridge would interfere with the navigation of the Ohio river. The Oklahoma Bill. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. . Washington, Jan. 29. Mr. Springer ex pects to get hi3 Oklahoma bill up in the House to-morrow if the appropriations com mittee does not ask for the day. Other wise, he will wait till that committee leaves the track clear. Congressman Barnes, tho most conspicuous of the oppo nents of the Oklohoina bill, savs there will bono filibustering against it, and that a vote will be reached upon it if ever tho bill gets up for consideration. General Notes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Washington, Jan. 29. Edgar E. nelm, son of M. D. Helm, fonnerly of Muncie, has beeu dangerously ill with typhoid fever for several days, but is now past the danger point, and is convalescing. A. J. Halford, manager of the Associated Press at the Capitol Building, has been in disposed for a couple of days. The Comptroller of the Currency to-day approved the Citizens' National Bank, of Louisville, as reserve agent for the Citi zens National Bank, of Jeffersonville; also, the Merchants' National, of Cincinnati, as reserve agent for the Citizens' National, of Franklin. Ind. H. II. Fulton and J. W. Hess, of Indian apolis, are in the city. C. II. Brownell and wife, of Peru, Ind., to-day registered at the Lbbitt. The Secretary of the Treasury this afternoon accented the following bonds: Four. and-oue-half per cents, registered, $2CC,000, at 1.09. Ihe Secretary of State has been informed by Senator Ingalls that the election certificate of the State of Florida is missing, and' that, consequently, it will b3 necessary io secure a copy deposited in the District Court at Tallahassee. After conference with Senator Pasco it was decided to send a messenger to Florida immediately to secure that document. Gen. H. J. Hunt. Governor of the Soldiers' Home, is lying seriously ill with pneumonia. Col. Andrew J. Smith has been olaced on the retired list of the army, to date from Jan. 22. W. 8. Odell. of the Seventh Indiana Volnnteers, was to-night elected commander for the District of Columbia, Grand Army of the Republic, Department of the Potomac The term is lor one year, and the honor is a distinguished one. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. Washixoton, Jan. 29. Indiana and Illinois Fair; warmer; winds generally southerly. For Michigan and Wisconsin Li ght local snow: slisrhtlv warmer, excent in north western Y isconsin, slightly colder; vari able winds. For Minnesota and Iowa Fair, excent in Minnesota light local snows; colder, pre ceded m eastern Iowa by rising temperature; winds becoming generally northwesterlv. For Dakota Fair, excent in northern Da kota, light local snows; slightly colder; variable winds, becoming generally north erly. Xocal Weather Report. Indianapolis. Jan. 20.

Time. liar. Ther. H. II. Wind. Weather. Fre. 7a.M. 20.96 18 85 Sweat Cloudless. T 7r.M. 3Q.14 25 70 d we?t Cloudy

T Trace of precipitation. Maximum thermometer, 28; minimum ther mometer. 17. Following Is a comparative statement of the condition of temperature and precipitation on Jan. 2y. lssa: Tern. Precin. Normal. 23 0.10 Mean 22 0.00 Departure from normal 0 O.10 Total excess or deticit since Jan. 1.. 132 0.20 "Plus. General Observations. Indianapolis, Jan. 297 p. m.

fcj ThermonieCr Station. 3 fc; fc 5- Weather. New York city. 29.83 22 26 28 .... Cloudless. Buffalo, . V.. 30.0-2 16 8 18 .... Cloudy Phll'delphia.Pa 29.91 28 24 32 .... Cloudless. Pittsburg, Pa.. 30.06 24 22 80 T Cloudless. Waah'tou.D.C. 30.02 28 28 34 .... Cloudlet. Charleston, B.C. 30.16 38 28 44 .... Cloudless. Atlanta, Oa.... 30.22 32 18 3C .... Cloudless. Jacks'nvle,Fla 30.18 43 30 62 .... Cloudless. rensacola,Fla. 30.18 52 32 68 .... Cloudless. Monts'm'ry.Al' 30.22 44 20 48 .... Cloudless. Vlcksburg.Miss 30.20 48 34 66 .... Cloudless. N. Orleans, La. 30.16 66 36 5S .... Cloudless. Little Rock, Ark 30.18 42 26 60 .... Cloudless. (Jalvcston.Tex. 30.20 64 42 60 .... Cloudless. B'nAntonio,Tex 30.20 60 38 68 .... Cloudless. Memphis, Tenn 30.24 34 26 42 ... . Cloudless. Naahvule.Tenn 30.22 28 20 30 T Cloudy. Louisville, Ky.. 20.20 28 18 32 T Cloudy. Indian'phs,Ind 30.14 24 16 2 .... Cloudy. Cincinnati, O... 30.16 28 20 30 .... Cloudy. Cleveland.O... 30.08 20 10 24 .... Cloudless. Toledo.0 30.06 24 12 28 .... Cloudy. Maniette,Mich 30.oo 14 14 18 T Cloudy. B.8LMarivMlch 29.9S 18 2 18 T Snow. Chicago, 111 30.04 28 16 28 .... Cloudless. Cairo, 111 30.20 28 18 34 .... Cloudless. Hpringrteld, 111. 3U.10 26 22 32 T Cloudless. Milwaukee.Wis 30.02 22 14 26 .... Cloudy. Uuluth. Minn.. 29.84 16 10 20 .... Cloudless, ht. Paul, Minn. 29.86 22 10 26 .... rt. Cloudy. Mooreh'd, Minn 23.90 14 16 .... Cloudless. &LVinc(nt,Min 29.80 14 8 16 .... Cloudless. lavenport, la.. 30.00 26 16 28 .... Cloudless. Dubuque, la... 30.02 22 14 28 .... Cloudless. DesMolnes. Ia. 29.94 32 C 38 .... Cloudless. Ft. Louift.Mo... 30.12 32 3:2 36 .... Cloudless. Kans't City, Mo 30.06 3 24 42 .... Cloudless. Ft.fc5ill,Ind.T..30.12 46 32 C6 .... Cloudless. Dodpe City, K's 30.04 42 22 Cloudless. Oinaha, Neb... 29.96 36 is 42 .... Cloudless. N. Platte, Neb. 30.04 36 14 44 .... Cloudless. Valentine, Neb. 29.96 38 18 60 .... Cloudless. Yankton, I). T.. 29.94 34 10 42 .... Cloudless. Ft. Bully, D.T.. 29.98 34 16 42 .... Cloudless. Bismarck. D.T. 29.96 34 12 42 .... Cloudless. Ft. Buford.D.T. 29.98 30 10 42 .... Cloudless. PJLrth'r'sL'd'g 29.96 12 2 16 .... Pt. Cloudy. qu'Apclle.N.W. 29.88 28 12 30 .... Cloudy. Ft.As'nab'ue.M 30.16 34 30 40 .... Pt. Cloudy. Helena. M.T... 30.24 22 4 26 .... Cloudless. Boise City, I.T. 30.40 20 8 34 .... Cloudless. Cheyenne,W.T. 30.08 36 22 60 .... Cloudless. RM'K'u'y WT .. .. Ft.WashakIe,W 3o!s2 "e 10 12 CloudleVs. Denver, Col 30.06 44 20 64 .... Cloudless. Pueblo, Col 30.14 40 14 62 .... Cloudless. BantaFe, N.M. 30.14 30 30 42 .... Cloudless. Bait Lake City. 30.40 22 6 28 .... Cloudless.

T Trace of precipitation. Note One Inch of melted snow equals ten inches of snow. Republican Politician Assassinated. Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 20. A special to the Uazette from Plummerville says Hon. John M. Clayton, late Republican candidate for Congress in th becond district, was assassinated there at o'clock to-night. No particulars were riven. Mr. Clayton was contesting for the seat from the Second district in the Fifty-first Congress, now held by Hon. C. R. Breckinridge, In Plummerville township a ballot-box was stolen in the recent election. The Ikx was supposed to contain a majority for Clayton. He and Carroll Armstrong', chairman of the Democratic Congressional committee, have been there since Thursday last, taking testimony in the contest. Mr. Armstrong sent in the news. After diphtheria, scarlet fever, or pneumonia. Hood's riarsaparilla will givo .strength to the system, and expel all poison from tho blood.

EfDIAXA AXD ILLINOIS NEWS

Forger Succeeds in Passing Forty Stolen Postal Notes Before He Is Caught, Heavy Damage Suits Filed at Greensburg and Tincennes A Young Girl Dies of Knpture Caused in a Singular 3Ianner. INDIANA. Arrest of a Young Man fur Altering and Col lecting Money on Stolen Postal Notes. Special to the Iullanaiolis Journal Mount Vernon, Jan. 29. A tall, slender young man of pale complexion was arrested in this city this morning for altering and collecting money on stolen postal notes. He camo to Mount Vernon last night and registered at the Brettner notel as John Brown, not giving any residence. He went to the postonice early this morning and presented a postal note for $4.09, sign ing his name as Charley Ryne, which he collected. Soon after the young man had left the postoffice Postmaster Sparks received word from Postmaster Bolton, of New Harmony, that he had reasons to be lieve that he had paid fraudulent postal notes, and requested him to be on the look out for a man answering tho above description. Notices had been sent out by the Postofllce Department at Washington that postal notes between the numbers 2,500 and 2,800 had been stolen from the postotlice of El dorado, 111., but the young man had evaded n nnrrlnti!rn thus fnr liv tr:ixinir tliA " in the thousand nlace, and making it a '3" by means of a rubber stamp. Tho deception wan almost perfect. As soon as the word was received from New Harmony, postmaster Sparks and Marshal Jones instituted a search for the young man, and found him in the vicinity of the L. & N. depot, evidently intending to leave on the morning freight train, lie is now in jail awaiting the arrival of United States Marshal Groyes, who is expected here this evening. He is about twenty-three years old, ami gives his name as ho subscribed it to tho stolen note. Ho says he has lived in Eldorado. 111., and had collected about forty of the bogus notes at New Harmony and other places. Damage Suits Aggregating 817,000. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Greknsburg, Jan. 29. Three slander suits wero filed in tho Circuit Court to-day: Charles Iuppenlatz sues John C. Leach, alleging that Leach charged him with perjury; demand, $6,000. Philip Slifer also sues Leach, alleging that ho charged Slifer with robbery; demand, S6.000. Both 6uits are the result of bad feeling between the parties, who all live near St. Paul, and which culminated in a suit for slander, filed by Leach against Slifer last week. John Gearhard sues Jasper N. Moore, alkgiug that Moore called him a thief. The parties live at Clarksburg, and the defendant is quite wealthy and reputable; demand, $0,000. Suing: a Railroad for 825,000 Damages. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Vincennes, Jan. 29. On a change of venue from Sullivan county, the suit of James Bradberry has been filed in the Knox court. He brings suit agains the E. & T. II. for $25,000 damages. He claims that he was put oft" a train that was moving at the rate of twelve miles an hour, and the injuries received resulted in double scrotal hernia. At tho time ho was put oft' the train, he was going in charge of a car of hogs for J. W. Cunningham. Death from an Unusual Cause Special to the Indianapolis J JurnaL. Mt. Vernon, Jan. 29. A sad death occurred hero last night. Miss Gertrude Burtis, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Wm. F. Burtis, died of ruptnro received from a kick in the side, while asleep, by her little brother, with whom sne.was sleeping. Mi Burtis is a prominent hardware merchant of Mt. Vernon, and tho death of his daughter, who was very popular with the young people, is deeply lamented. A Whole Indian School Converted. Special to the Indlanapol! Journal. Wabasii, Jan. 29. An interesting scries of revival meetings closed a few nights ago at White's Manual Labor Institute, five miles south of this city, where nearly eeventy-iive Indian pupils are being? educated, partially at government expense. As a result of the meetings every ouo of the pupils has become converted. The revival is largely duo to the eii'orts of Doctor Chas. Little, of this city. Li 111 puts In Baby Life. Special to the IntlianapoUs Journal. Martinsville, Jan. 29. Two midgets have been born in this city within three days. Mrs. George Preston gave birth yesterday to a girl weighing three and one-half pounds, while Mrs. Corda Thackerwent her a pound better by giving birth to a boy weighing but two aud a half pounds. Both babies are perfectly formed aud welL Minor Notes. Mrs. Elizabeth Hanna. an honored citizen of Russellville, died Tuesday, aged sixty years. Frederick Haas died on Sunday night tit the Porter county house. He cut his throat Wednesday. Chris Slout, a farmer living near Chesterton, fell from a load of wood last Saturday, and broke his neck. He was forty-nine years old and left a family. A large number of Greensbnrg people are organizing to move to Washington Territory, among whom are Betterton Bros., A. Reiter and T. A. Pool, prominent business men. W. H. DeWolf, of Vincennes, has asked the court to allow him 10.000 for services a administrator of the W. J. Wise estate. Tho heirs object on tho plea that the fee is excessive. Col. S. H. Patterson, of Jeffersonville. is seriously ill. He came to Indiana in 1820, and is over four score years of age. He is tho step-father of CoL John W. Ray, of Indianapolis. Tho Baptist Church, of Valparaiso, has a novel plan of informing tho members of the financial condition of tho society. Each Sunday figures on a blackboard show the week's collections and expenses. B. B. Harris, the founder of Harris City, Decatur county, has sold his interest in the qjiarries at that place, and will movo to Kentucky to become superintendent of bridges on the Southern railway. Dr. Barnard Wallace, a prominent pysician and surgeon, of Franklin, and well known throughout tho State as a worker in the Baptist Church, is though to be fatally ill with typhoid pneumonia. Fire at Osgood, on Monday, destroyed the large frame structure occupied bv H. C. Klick & Bro., as a drug store, and Mr. Busen bark, us a residence. The drug store was insured for $500; no insurance on building. Jefferson McFarland, living near Windfall, while working with nn old revolver, on Wednesday evening, accidentally discharged it, the ball passing through the palm of his hand. He may escape lockjaw. James T. Bell, of Terre Haute, a colored blacksmith, was arrested on Monday, charged with bigamy. When searched several poorly executed counterfeit silver dollars wero found in his possession, which he confesses to having made. It will be remembered that W. II. Durham, of Crawfordsville, was fined $T.200, last year, 011 account of sequestering money. By the decision of the Supreme Court, the fine is remitted, but the tax collectable from the $130,000 not given to the assessor must be paid. The following are the new officers of the Battle-ground Camp-meeting Association: President. Rev. Wm. Graham: vice-president, John Dougherty; secretary. Rev. W. F. Pettit; treasurer, C. G. Miller; managers, John Dougherty, Jas. P. Clute, John L. Smith, L. S. Buckles, and W. V. Story. One of the finest Methodist Episcopal churches in northern Indiana was dedicated at Lagrange on Sunday, Dr. Charles II. Payue, of New York, olticiuting at the services. The indebtedness of the church was $5,700 and $0,000 was asked. The people responded by' giving $S,400, and a start on a new parsonage. ; As a result of the hydrophobia scare the Crawfordsville City Council has passed an

ordinance, and the Mayor has issued a proclamation that all dogs shall be muzzled or killed. Any person having a dog, and who refuses to muzzle the animal, will bo subject to a tine of not more than fyO. The marshal and hi9 deputies will kill every dog they can find not wearing a muzzle. ILLINOIS.

Gleanings from Exchanges and Culling from Correspondence. A pack of sixteen wolves is said to be ravaging farms in the vicinity of Tuscola. Forty coal miners at Shelbyville, 111., struck on Monday because of a reduction of wages. Tho second trial of William E. Westbrook for tho murder of William Gross began on Monday at Decatur. Rev. C. J. E. Haverius, of Kansas City, has accepted a call to the First Lutheran Church at Galesburg. 11. Guild, ninety-four years old, died recently at Geneseo, from injuries sustained by falling through a sidewalk. Pat McLinchy, a desperado, made an unsuccessful attempt to kill Douglas Peden, on Monday, at Ilhopolis. He was jailed. A young man named Wahber was accidentally killed, on Monday, near Freeport, while attempting to alight from an Illinois Central train. Dr. C. C. Browning's residence, dru stock, library and surgical instruments, at Carthage, were destroyed by fire on Monday n i gilt. Loss, $5,000. Among the deaths reported on Monday, wero those of Mrs. Rachael Simpson and Samuel Brown, at Carthage, and Mrs. Luther Gubtail, at Kankakee. George Bryant, colored, was shot and killed by Will E. Proctor, white, at Elizabethtown. on Monday night. Proctor claims to have acted in self-defense. Mr. Lewis Dorlin, county clerk of Sangamon county, was taken in charge by his friend, 011 Monday, and placed in the St. John's Hospital, at Springfield, for treatment for softening of the brain. Wesley Morgan, one of the oldest settlers in central Illinois, has gone crazy on the subject of religion. He is imbned with the idea that he has a mission to save the world, and refuses to do anything only as the Lord tells him. G. W. Gufiey, an employe of the Northwestern road at DeKalb. was crushed to death by a freight car on Monday. He was engaged in sealing the end door of a car when a switch engine struck the car and threw him under the trucks. VOTING ON PROHIBITION. Figures Showing the Injurious Influence of the Third Tarty. Philadelphia Press. The early months of this year will probably be noted for some earnest campaigns for the adoption of prohibitory amendments to State constitutions. New Hampshire is the only State which has made final arrangements for such an election, the constitutional convention, which adjourned recently, having appointed March 12 as the day for taking the vote. But in four other States the first 6tep was taken at the last session of the Legislature, and it only needs favorable action by the legislatures now in session to send the amendment to the people. These States are Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania, and the only one in which there is. any serious doubt of submitting the question to a Popul.T vote is in tho case of Connecticut. Five States have voted during the past two years on the adoption of prohibitory constitutional amendments. These were Michigan, Texas, Tennessee, Oregon and West Virginia. The vote cast in these States for tho amendment, the majority against it and the vote polled for the Prohibition presidential candidate last November is given in the f oUowing table: For Maj. Amend.- Against. Fisk. MlchigJtl 178.C3G 5,645 20,942 Texa 129,272 92,061 4,749 Tennessee 117,504 27,693 5,969 Oregon 19,973 7.9S3 1,671 West Virginia 35.574 609 'Not announced. The fact which will strike any one in looking over this table is the great disparity between the vote cast for a nrchibition amendment and that polled for a thirdnartv candidate for the nresidenor. In all of these States, with the exception of West ' v lrginia, me vox on me amendment was taken at a separate election, and the large vote given in its favor is due in a great measure to this fact. This ought to show the Prohibitionists the folly cf opposing the appointment of a special election-doy for voting on the amendment, as some of them aie now doing. The third-party vote cast last November in tho States which v. ill probably vote on prohibitory amendments was as follows: New Hampshire ...1,.92 Massachusetts .... .8,701 Connecticut 4,234 New York 30.231 rennsjrirama. . .20,947 Total 80,105 It is doubtful if tho amendment will carry in any of these States, with the exception of Now Hampshire, where prohibition already prevails by an act of the Legislature. All the other States, with the exception of New York, have high-license laws. One good resnlt will certainly follow the agitation of this question, however. Public attention will be attracted to it, and the discussion will lead to a better understanding of the evils of the liquor traffic and of the best methods of remedying them. More, however, is to be expected from the scientific temperance instruction which is now a part of the course of study in the public schools in twenty-five States. This is due almost wholly to the efforts of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and the fact that 12,000,000 children are now being taught the injurious effect of alcohol on the human system will do more to check the sale of liquor-drinking in the next generation than any number of prohibitory constitutional amendments. A Threatened Exposure. Evanaviile JournaL When the testimony is taken in the contest between Messrs. Posey and Parrett for the seat in the next Congress, for which the latter holds a certificate, there will be a sensation throughout tho country that will shake society to its center. Ecclesiastical interference with the right of free suffrage was attempted that reminds those cognizant of it of the dark acres. It makes the blood boil in the veins of American citizens to hear of the tyranny and ostracism that was practiced in a certain locality toward the Republican minority there. For the credit of the county in which this occurred, and of this congressional district, it is hoped that Mr. Posey's majority will bo so large that his right to a Heat in the Fifty-first Congress will be established in such a way that it will not be necessary to make a public exposure of the party and ecclevsiastical tyranny by which he was defrauded in November. At Least That Is What He Tlilnks. Ladles' Home Companion. ( You hear a great deal about the elegant essays of Addison but there is no respectablenewspaper in the United States which has not in its service tsome onei editor, or oven humblo reporter, who cannot do far better than Addison. New Incorporations. The Fairbanks Straw-board and Wrapping Company, Ellsworth, Vigo county, yesterday filed with the Secretary of State its articles of incorporation. The capital stock is $200,000, and the directors are Crawford and Frank Fairbanks, Demas Deuiery, Josephns Collett and Richard A. Aujstin. Articles were also filed by tho Decatur Newton Rock Mining Company, with a capital stock of $50,000. The directors are I). Studabaker, J. D. Hale, Henry Krick. P. AV. Semter, 11. D. Patterson and H. S. Porter. 't will Open Bids To 4 Day. The soldiers' monument domraissioners. at 2 o'clock to-day, will open bids for tho superstructure of the monnnaent. Bidders are here from St. Louis, Baltimore, Washington. Louisville, Cincinnati and Indi ana cities. Gone to Taeoram. Joseph W. Conner, who vfas referred toj as having left here, is in Tacma, W. T. He went out with a friend fromRichmond;Mr.; Railsback, and it is learnedx that he has long talked ot going mere. v . Thomas Tislow, as Mine Inspectorfile his bond yesterday with thef Sccipta 1 Ae s I'M B. of State. It is for $1,000. and suretn are Chapman J. Hoggatt, Fra and Alex. Moore. vol

TIIE BIG SMEET-CAE STBIKE

A Day That ljornished Plenty of Employment for New York Policemen, A Number of Encounters, in All of Which tho Officers Arc Victorious The Exciting Incidents Connected with the Strike. New Yop.k, Jan. 29. The long-threatened 6urface-road strike was inaugurated here, this morning. The only cars running today are those of tho Third-avenue and Bleccker-street roads. It is now nearly three years since the last tie-up was experienced in this city. The men have been preparing for this struggle for some timo past, and tho order to drop the lines was promulgated at the meeting of the streetcar men last evening. Messengers were dispatched to the different stables to notify the men at work to quit at A a. M., or with the first trip of the moniing. The night cars, as fast as they arrived at the stables, were run in, the horses stabled and fed, aud left to enjoy the unusual result The men went quietly home. President Curtis, of tho Sixthavcnue road, said he would run a car this morning over tho lines of his routes, even if all the strikers combined to stop it. The strikers are preparing to do this, and they predict that the car will not run below Eighth streets Tho police reserves were on duty last night in all tho statfon-houses in anticipation of trouble. The patrol-wagons were in readiness, and calls were made from tho tip-town precincts for extra men to guard the stables on the West Side, near Fifth street Men were ordered to guard the Sixthavenue stables, where the most trouble was feared. Many of the men on this road are tho ex-strikers of the Third-avenue road, and do not care for a repetition of their lock-out, but they will be closely watched by their brother workmen. The men at present employed on the Third-avenue railroad' are, many of them, union men, but they are not strong enough to go out The terms of the men are, in brief, $2.25 a day of ten hours' work, instead of twelve hours. Peter M. Tomery, an Italian, was on his way last night to the Eighth-avenue stables to look for work when he was set upon, kicked and beaten brutally, and stabbed in the face. His assailants escaped as the police appeared. Tomery was taken to the hospital unconscious, and will probably die. He was 6tabbed in the temple, his cheek cut through, several teeth knocked out and his BkuU fractured. A lively row occurred at Grand street thi8 morning, when a crowd of strikers tried to overturn a car. The Grand-street crosst own" line was tied up when the last car came in. The company notified the police that they would try to run a car in a 6hort time. The police reserves were ordered out, and some of them placed about the company's stables and offices. Shortly before 6 o'clock a car was drawn from tho barn down to the starting point in front of the ferry. A howling mob of strikers surrounded it the minute it came from the barn. A hollow square of stalwart police onicers surrounded the car, and the mob did nothing more than yell. A vast crowd of people from the neighboring tenements gathered at the scene. All of them were in sympathy with the strikers, and their presence and cries tended to increase the intense excitement that reigned in the immediate vicinity of tho ferry. John Mahoney, a clerk in the office, drove the car. He is the same man who took out the first car during the last strike on this line. The car stood liitio"-w,Ml. before -a- start was made. It was surrouuded by an ever-in creasing throng that yelled itself hoarse. The police were strung along Grand street about ono to a block. At last the car started and the crowd began to make mischief. A truck was driven on tha car tracks. A police officer tried to interfere, but was carried off his feet by the surging mob. This obstruction was removed and the car passed on. Halts were made on almost every block. Other trucks .were placed on the car-tracks, but were qnickly removed. At Grand and Attorney streets another heavy f urniture-wat'on barred the way and stopped the car. The crowd surrounded the car and unhitched tho horses. They were given a sharp blow and started off, almost dragging the driver over the front of the car. The police by this time had collected in force, and had a hand-to-hand fight with the mob. Despite the nolice, however, the mob lifted the car bodily and slung it across the track. Policemen kept dashing up all the tim and attacked the struggling strikers. A moment or two of this and the crowd became disordered and began to scatter. The police had gained the day. The fight had been short but decisive. The trouble was not over yet, however. The police captured one of the ring-leaders, and and in court he was fined. The car by this time was righted and the horses hitched to to it It was drawn over to the other track and taken back to the stable. No more violence was attempted. The scenes at the other stables were eomewhat similar. Large crowds surrounded the buildings, but up to 11 o'clock no dan gerous act of violence had been reported. All the residents of the district in the neighborhood of Vestry street, through which the Grand-street cars pass, sympathize with the strikers. Hearing that a car was coming, this morning, they gathered all the trucks and wagons in the vicinity and massed them in the street, completely blockading it to travel. Another collision between strikers and the police took place at about 10:90, when a car was sent out on the Sixth-avenue road. It had eight onicers on board. When the car got as tar as Forty-second street, it was attacked by about 200 strikers, who did all in their power to stop it, A platoon of 75 policemen, headed by Captain Walsh, charged the strikers. A 6cutne ensued and two or three of the strikers were roughly handled. One of them was carried away by his friends and another was placed tinder arrest. Up to 11:30 o'clock 6ix cars had been run out. On the return of the first and second cars they were attacked between Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth streets. The nolice were on hand promptly and made two arrests, whereupon the crowd dispersed. At half past 1 o'clock this afternoon the ticket-orlice, or transfer-house, at Twenty fourth street and Seventh avenue was car ried bodily across the street by the strikers. and set tiro to. There was considerable ex citement The police charged on the law breakers, but no one was seriously injured. 1 nomas nane, a stableman on strike, was arrested and locked up, charged with as saulting one of the officers. As the afternoon waned thetied-un lines. which had run cars during the day, boused their rolling-stock and their new men. and comparative quiet followed the activities of the daytime. About 5 o'clock, when the last Sixth-avenue car reached the depot. tho police wero relieved. The strikers re mained in the neighborhood of the stables. however, and the men at work in the stables and on the cars were given their meals by the company, and provided with bunks in tne building. About hltymcu were thus accommodated. There wa one exception, in the case of a driver who had been in the employ of tho company for tweutv years. He went home in company with two officers. There were many applicants for work at the Sixth-avenue trtables. and all were requested to call in the moniing. Assistant Superintendent Miller, who was a driver fifteen years ago, said that tho cars would be run of tener to-morrow. There was excitement at Twenty-third street and Tenth avenue all day. Two Crosstown cars came along almost together. The strikers stopped the first one, and a policeman on th second ran ahead to do what he could. In an instant the passengeners of the Bccondcarwerohustledout A BtnKerut'Ki" w uuun m ui i -r. x lie cruwu turned the car over on its side. A policeman grabbed the man who was beating the driver. The crowd surged rround them, tnt the officer held on. Reinforcements appeared, and the crowd melted. The pohce righted the car, and !ie striker, Thomas Borden, was arrested. -The greatest excitement existed about tho Fourth-avenue stables. The tXX) strikers

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As the driver was about changing his horses to the other end, Peter Clark waved his hat and shonted, ''Follow me!" The crowd followed him, but were routed by the police. Captain Ryan seized Clark, the ring-leader. The mob hemmed tho Captain in and tried to rescue him. A revolver glistened iu the officer's hand. "The first man to interfere with this arrest will be shot dead," said he. Nobody interfered, and Clark was locked up. The crowd got even by smashing the car windows with stones. A lady passenger was blightly injured in this way. The car then Hew through tho crowd, the horses on a full gallop. The car was not stopped again on account of th -rapid rate it was going and the nearness of one hundred policemen. The car made tho down-town trip without any further molestation, but there was trouble at Twenty-third street on the way up. A Twenty-third-street car was stopped in the middle of the Fonrth-avenue tracks. The conductor was put ott'. the passengers driven out, tho horses unhitched and the car turned over. Suddenly there appeared in the midst of the mob a dark-faced, handsome man, so tall as to tower above the struggling crowd. He, wore a slouch hat and a long ulster with wido collar. Almost simultaneously with his apEearance in their midst the riotous strikers egan scattering from a common center occupied by the tall stranger. Then tho crowds onthecurbinzs began to understand ' why. The dark-faced man was dectective Sr' Rogers. In one hand he grasped a big revolver, and in the other an officer's club. He had reversed the pistol, and was using first one hand and then the other. The Pistol-butt shot in and out, and the locust club moved up and down, each time lighting upon human fiesh or bone. He scattered the crowd. The Fourth-avenue car amo up to the upset car. and the crowd lined tho street to see how the obstruction would bo overcome. The driver pulled around it, and continued up-town. This enraged the strikers, and they chased it until they got tired. A 6econd car started out after tho first returned, and met with no obstructions on the round-trip. It was determined not to run any more cars for the day. Th Twenty-third-street car that was turned over was damaged to the extent of 500. Sight-seers greatly interfered with . the police. Many of tho strikers wero intoxicated. Lato in tho afternoon tho car companies on tho Fast Side determined to run no more cars, and all but a lew policemen were withdrawn. The crowds slowly dispersed. The Forty-second street cross-town line made four unsuccessful attempts to run a car. One, manned by a roundsman and twenty patrolmen, started out, and encountered no opposition until Seventh avenue was reached. There the strikers had placed two transfer huts across the track. The police removed them, and the strikers began to throw stones at them. Officers Malloy and Scanlon were badly cnt about the face. The car contiuued the trip without further molestation. No attempt was made to run cars C3 any of tho other lines. The Grand-street lino will begin to run cars to-morrow at 7:30 a. M., and the Forty-secoud-street line an hour later. The Christopher-street lino hauled off at 8:80 o'clock, and tho Unionsquare line at 11:30. Squads of police were told off to 6tart things running a train tomorrow morning. The Belt line will 6tart the first car at 0 a. M. Superintendent Murray will remain in his office to-night Every patrolman who was not ill or otherwise posted under orders was kept at his station-house awaiting summons to riot duty. Special orders were telegraphed to precinct commanders to allow no disorderly crowds to collect on tho streets. General Fitzgerald called on the superintendent to-daj' and held a consultation with him. The General said he had no idea the militia would b called out; the police were able to handle matters. If needed, however, they would be ordered out Master-workman McGeo called on Mayor Grant to-day, and said the police were making themselves very officious. He asked if they could not bo given the same instructions as those under which the Brooklyn police were acting. Tho Mayor suspected that McGee was endeavoring to get an indorsement of the strike, and replied that he had no doubt the officials in charge of the police would act discreetly. Late to-night reports from the various car stables showed that the strikers had left, and all was quiet there. A few policemen were at each point, prepared to act in case of an emergency. Despite tho quiet about the depots an alarming element has been growing among the men at their resorts to-night that of drunkenness. Many, iu fact tho majority of the strikers, are now under the iutiiieno of liquor, and it is feared serious consequences will result to-morrow. ... This evening Mr. Bergh's society hired fifty Italians to feed and water the horv3 of the Belt line. On the way to the stablo one of the Italians slipped and fell on tho walk. Despite the fact that they were being escorted by a squad of police, a crowd of strikers dashed out of a saloon, and pouncing upon tho prostrate Italian, beat him until clubbed away. The State Board of Arbitration and the presidents have been conferring, at the instance of the former, at Murray Hill Hotel to-night. In Blooklyn the police oiler no protection to the companies or their present employes. Their sympathy is entirely with tho strikers, and but little effort appears to bo made to enforce the law. In conscquenco of this the street railroad com panics of that city have not made any enort io run cars to-day. . , A, . ' Tho track at the crossing of the Brighton Beach railroad, at Manhattan nvenno, was torn up to-day. Mr. Richardson, son of tho president, defied the aldermen to rcvoko tho charter of the road. 1 lo Kid this could only be done by tho Legislature. Preparations havo been made in Brook lyn to call out the Thirteenth, Nineteenth and Twenty-third Regiments in ciso of a riot arising out of tho Atlantic uorte-car tie up. The company has decided not to run any cars at present, aud so lMg as no attempt is ma do to inn c.r.r it is thought there will be no serious tiouble. It is said that President Richardson has held no further conferences with the xncu today, and that he does not evince any disposition to do so. The strikers say that the company is well able, financially, tc pay their men u day.

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