Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 February 1889 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1889.

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was the Ferrld Remarks by Congressman Mason. Washington, Feb. 9. In the Ilouse, today, Mr. Mason made a speech on the Smalls-Elliott contested election case. He said that from his study of the case he had come to the conclusion that the most gigantic frauds and the most outrageous and disgusting schemes to rob the Republicans of a Representative of the Fiftieth Congress ever known in modern politics had been perpetrated in the Seventh district of South Carolina, The laws of South Carolina had been framed for the express purpose of allowing the Democrats to cheat the Republicans at the polls. The present Governor of South Carolina was the worthy executive of a corrupt law. The Governor had said that God Almighty had stamped the imprint of inferiority on the black race, and that the Anelo-Saxon must rule in South Carolina. He Mr. Mason had been in South Carolina, and had seen negroes, so-called, as white as any man on this lloor. The father of the contestant had beep, as white as any man here. Who was going to analyze Anglo-Saxon blood! If Anglo-Saxon blood was to vote, were there going to be blood-testers which would say to a man, "Fifty per cent. Anglo-Saxon, 50 per cent, negro, you can have half a vote." If the blood-tester was ever invented there would b a corner in " them, and every one of them would be in ' the hands of Democratic inspectors to insure a free ballot and a fair count. The Democratic Governor was wrong or the Constitution was wrong. It was not the law of God that had put the brand of inferiority upon the negro race. It was the iron heel of the Anglo-Saxon, who had held them in slavery for a hundred years; but in . this new birth of freedom, which has thaVon ttiA i :vf lrlfv frnm thn uln.'VPS- there is no skin test of citizenship, no blood test of Americanship. In the future, if honesty would govern and the Constitution be enforced, men would be measured by a higher and better standard than the color of the skin. He then proceeded to point out the manner in which, he declared, the fraud was perpetrated in the Seventh district. It was grand larceny. He had never learned to call a spade an agricultural implement. Larceny was larceny. A man who would steal a vote would steal a horse if he got a chance. If the channels of crime were searched there could not be found one which the Democrats of the Seventh district had not resorted to to cheat the negro. The record of the district would not have been equaled had not Arkansas furnished an additional crime and served notice on the Seventh district that it must look out for itself, and murder, if necessary, to get a majority of Democrats in this House. An officer of this House, taking evidence in the case and having in his possession a ballot-box, had been assaulted by the attorney of the contesteo and the box taken away from hira. In his IMr. Mason's opinion he 6hould stand in contempt before the bar of the House until he had purged himself. In the evidence taken some Democrats had declared that thev had been intimidated by the negroes. Had any man seen a canary bird intimidate a snake! a bootblack intimidate a policeman! a roaring lamb rush into a den of '. cowering lions! Then he had seen a South Carolina Democrat intimidated by a negro. If he IMr. Mason) had his way he would have a freo ballot and a fair count in South Carolina if it took a regiment of blue-coats in every county andevery penny in the treasnrr. After recounting further outrages which, he asserted, had been practiced in South Carolina, Mr. Mason de- - clared that he had no apologies to make for what he had said. If gentlemen were offended with him, let them take it out of - him and not out of his poor colored friend, Mr. Smalls, who had been waiting for his seat for two years. The time of the Democracy was short. He had heard it said that even bad men, when they came to die, sometimes did an act of justice. He now approached the death-bed of the Democratic party,-and asked that party to do an act of justice. He appealed to that party for - the sake of the peace and comfort of the people: he appealed to it in behalf of genera- ' -Hrn in rnmn. in nsft above n.irtv lines, to rise above the color line, to uphold the law, and to do even and exact justice. lApplause on Republican side. OBERLY AND VILAS. Expectation cf a Lively I tow Between These Eminent Democrats, special to the Indianapolis Journal. "Washington, Feb. 10. Senator Chandler , anticipates an exceedingly lively session of his committee on Indian depredations tomorrow morning. It is not improbable that testimony will bo taken which will cause an open rupture between Secretary Vilas and Indian Commissioner Oberly. Thero has been trouble brewing between these officials ever since the latter became Indian Commissioner. It is all on account of Vilas permitting timber to be taken off Indian lands in Wisconsin in violation, it is said, of the law. About a year ago Senator Chandler had summoned before his committee Indian Agent Gregory, who has charge of the LaPoint and Fond dn Lac reservations. They were, at the beginning of this administration, heavily timbered. These lands have been set apart in severalty to the Indians upon them, but the Indians can sell the timber. They are required by law to submit, for the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, the propositions made by the purchaser, bo that the homesteaders may be protected from sharpers. Agent Gregory testified that over nine hundred of the allotments on these reservations had been stripped of their timber without the approval ot the Secretary of the Interior, and within a few days after the testimony was taken Senator Chandler 6ent a printed copy of the testimony to Secretary Vilas and asked him if he thought he could afford to keep in the service an agent who would permit this thing to be done. Very promptly the Secretary asked for and received Agent Gregory's resignation. Months elapsed; several months. Finally the attention of Senator Chandler was called to the fact that Gregory's resignation had not been accepted, and that he was yet performing the functions of his office. Oberly then became Indian Commissioner. That astute politician at a glance saw that something was wrong. He asked the Secretary to removo Gregory. This was refused by inaction. Then he asked that Gregory be suspended pending an investigation. This also was refused. Then he requested that a special agent be sent to Wisconsin to matte an investigation. No attention was paid to this. Again Oberly appealed to the Secretary, asking that an order be issued directing that the cutting of timber on these 900 allotments bo suspended temporarily, and this was not heeded. The lit th appeal was made, and this time the Indian Commissioner requested that he bo given permission to call the attention of the Department of Justice to the depredations. This was refused. Senator Chandler heard of these appeals and non-action on the part of Secretary Vilas, and ho had Commissioner Oberly subpoenaed to appear before his committee to-morrow morning, with his correspondence on tho - subject with tho Secretary. If Oberly exposes all, there will be a hornet's nest opened for somebody. These contracts have largely been held and tho timber cut by the Superior Lumber Company, but Secretary ilas and Agent Gregorj have both stated that they had no interest in this company at the time it cut the timber. THE TARIFF IIIIX. It Will Tie Reported to the House Next Week The Cowles Kill will Come Up This Week. Sprci&l to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Feb. 10. The tariff bill will be reported back to the House next week, either Wednesday or Thursday. That is what two Democratic members of tho ways and means comraitte said, to-day, and they coupled this statement with the assertion that the bill would certainly not remain in tho committee-room after next Thursday. Just in what shape the bill will be reported back has not yet been determined, and will not be until the Democratic members of tho committee have a conference, - The Senate bill may be reported back with a recommendation to the House that it bo non-concurred in, when, in the usual order of things, a conference committee would be appointed; or tho committee may report back practically a new bill as tu amendment to the Senate amenendment.

less than 25,000 rotes in the minority given the commission and seat m Fiftieth Congress. i

Whichever course may be pursued, the ways and means men say that the bill will be discussed in the House, and that it will not go to a conference committee before it has been pretty thoroughly considered in committee of the whole. Mr. Kandall said yesterday that he intended to report the Cowles bill to repeal the tobacco tax back to the House early in the week, either on Tuesday or Wednesday. The sub-committee of the appropriations committee was at work all day yesterday on the deficiency bill, and it is expected that that bill will be laid before the full committee on Monday. This is the last general appropriation bill, and Mr. Uandall said, a few days airo. that

ho wanted all regular appropriation bills disposed of before the Uowles Dili was considered. The Kepublican members of the committee believe there is a majority in favor of the resolution in the committee, and also a small majority in the House. Now, however, that tho tariff bill is to be reported to the House so soon, it is very likely that Mr. Kandall may hold back the Cowles resolution, as he said, when it was first referred to his committee, that ho would wait until he knew what would be the action of the ways and means committee on the Senate tariff bill. Mr. Kandall did not like the reference of Mr. Cowlcs's resolution to his committee, as he considered it irregular, but the House having ordered it, he had no alternative in the matter. - MINOK MATTERS. The West Virginia Contest Said to Hinge Mainly on the Governorship. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Feb. 10. A prominent West Virginia politician now in the city, who has recently returned from Charleston, 6ays that if the senatorial contest had been the only one before the West Virginia Legislature, it could have been settled before this time. The real interest in the present fight is over the gubernatorial situation, and the two parties in the Legislature are playing with the senatorial matter as a side issue. Nothing else but the governorship, he says, is talked of there, and thero is no interest, whatever, manifested in the senatorial matter. The appearances are that General Goff's chances to be either Senator or Governor have not disappeared, and it is believed that the outlook for his ultimate election to tho United States Senate is much better than for his inauguration as Governor. Riddleberger's Marksmanship. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington', Feb. 10. A fact not generally known about Senator Riddleberger is that he is the dead shot of the Senate. This fact was recently developed by some of his exploits in a 6hooting gallery not far from the Capitol. The Senator and some friends had dropped in for a fewminutes' quiet sport with the rifle. Tho others of tho party, after several scattering shots, which endangered the lives of the inhabitants of tho neighborhood, gave way to the Senator, who gave a superb exhibition of marksmanshin. He broke with comparative ease tho glass balls spinning about on an axis, and smashed clay Dines in reckless profusion. His favorite sport, however, was the breaking of gilt balls about an inch in diameter, which were thrown into a fountain and danced about on top of a little jet of water. General Notes. j Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Feb. 10. In the course of its personal gossip, to-da3s Post has this to say of some well-known Indiana people: "Commodore George Brown, United States navy, was among tho visitors to President-elect Harrison on Wednesday. As he is an applicant for the position of chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy Department, it is not unlikely that his visit at this time was in regard to that office. Tn the list of lovely homes is that of Gen. George B. WTilliams, formerly of In diana, but later of Japan, where ho was called to establish tho fiscal affairs of that government on the same system as that used in the United States. The Williams home is a most attractive one, filled, as it is. with curios and presided over by one of Washington's most charming hostesses. It has been only a few ears sinco this aeiigntim iamiiy came nere, ana yet tney have made a place for themselves that it would be impossible to fill. Mrs. Williams Is a brilliant-looking woman, above medium height, dark hair and eyes. With the excellent taste for which she is noted, sho confines her entertainments to choice little dinners, where tho topics for conversation are as well chosen as are tho viands and decorations." In a communication to tho State Department, Minister Denby states that tho number of American citizens now residing in tho Chinese empire is 1,022. Of this number 500 are missionaries, 73 are seafarers, 28 are in the Chinese customs service and 23 follow mercantile pursuits. The occupations of 345 are unclassified. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The Winnipeg Free Press, for a consideration of $30,000, has absorbed its only competitor, the Morning Call. At St. Paul, on Saturday night, Miss Annie Johnson, a domestic, was trampledto death by a runaway horse. The coal operators at Mt. Carmel, Pa., report an improvement in the anthracite coal trade, and 2.000 men will resume work today in that district. At Charleston, S. C, yesterday, Caesar Frazer and Ned Criss, both colored, were arrested for the murder of E. H. Holdenburg. Frazer confessed his guilt, but Criss claims to be innocent. A Brewer Demands 8180,000 Damages. Eau Claiiie, Wis., Feb. 10. Joseph Lovenknl, proprietor ot a big brewery, has brought suit in the Circuit Court against Max Stein, a leading merchant, for 180.000 damages. Stein, some time ago, attached all the beer in the brewery on a claim of several thousand dollars, which was really held by a local bank, but which had been assigned to Stein. Levenkul claims the damages as having resulted to his business from tho attachments, which it is claimed, also, were unnecessary and unjust. The case has been in progress a week, and.when court adjourned till Monday, promised to last several days longer. Attempt to Blow Up and Born a Building. New York, Feb. 10. A fire occurred, at S o'clock this morning, in tho basement of the largo tenement, 7 Hester street, occuSied by twenty families. The lire was iscovered by a belated lodger and extinguished. It was found that an attempt had been made to burn and blowup the building. Bundles of rags had been soaked in oil, and packages of powder were arranged for tho purpose. Tho police are investigating the matter. Obituary. New York, Fcb.10.-Dr. Nathaniel F. Bosley. a surgeon in the navy during tho war, died at tho Grand Hotel to-day of heart disease. New York, Feb. 10. Thomas M. Nichol, whose connection with the "Honest Money League" of Chicago, and other political organizations is well known, died this morning. They Always Keep Faith. Minneapolis Tribune. "Do railroads keep their agreements with each other!" said a Minneapolitan ono day last week, in reply to a request for his opinion regarding the honesty of railroad ollicials. "Oh, yes. they do in a horn. Once, in tho day of pools, I went to a ticket-ofhee to purchase transportation to Chicago. When tho agent told mo tho rate of fare, I said I guessed that as there was no difference in cost, I preferred to go by another route, along which the scenery was more attractive. His road had pooled, so he could not reduce the price of the ticket, but said: 'Come with me. I'll lir you out at the same time taking the ticket in question from the case. I went. He conducted mo into the office of a scalper, and depositing the ticket upon the counter, said: 'Here, Smith, 6ell this gentleman a ticket to Chicago for $ Then, turning to me: I didn't sell you that ticket. I couldn't. Our road is in the pool!' " Solemn Truths Coughs sow the seed cf Consumption. Then comes the reaper, Death. Stop the sowing with Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar. No cough or cold can ever prove dangerous or long remain troublesome, if this pleasant antidote is taken. Sold by all druggists. - Pike's Toothacho Drops euro in one minute.

INDIANA AXD ILLINOIS NEWS

The Revengeful Jletkods Pursued by Democrats Against Republicans. Death of an 1M0 VoterSeriously Hurt in a Saloon Quarrel Missing Boy Two Boys Badly Mangled Other Happenings. INDIANA. Contemptible Tactics of Democrats in Arresting and Shadowing Republicans. . Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Crawfoudsville, Feb. 10. United States Deputy Marshal Ward went to Alamo yesterday and arrested Dr. J. N. Talbot on the charge of violating the election laws. He gave $500 bond for his appearance on the 12th inst., before Judge Woods. His sureties are J. P. West and Samuel Heath. The charges against the Doctor are scarcely shadows, and show the contemptible eagerness with which the Democrats pursue republicans. The entire county is being turned upside down to get an indictment against John 1. Davis, foreman of the United States jury that sent up Coy and Bernhamer, and all this simply because Mr. Davis did his duty according to the law and evidence. Death of a Whig Voter of 1840. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Plymouth, Feb. 10. Keuben Monday died in this city yesterday morning, aged eighty-three. He was born in Kentucky in 1805, and camo to Indianapolis in 1831, and to LaPorte in 1835, where he resided f ortyseven years, until tho death of bis wife, about seven years ago, 6ince which time he has resided in this city with his daughter. Sirs. Dr. E. W. Viets. Politically he was a Whig, afterward a Kepublican, and never missed a presidential vote since a voter. Ho voted tor General William II. Harrison in 1S10, and was intensely interested in the success of General Ben Harrison's election to the presidency in 1888. He was a member of LaPorte Lodgo of Odd-fellows for over fifty years, and honorablv filled all the offices of his lodge. This lodge will have charge of tho funeral services at LaPorte on Monday. He was a highlyrespected citizen and an honest man. A Light-Haired, Blue-Eyed Boy Missing. Special to the Indianapolis JtniMial. Frankfort, Feb. 10. Maxie Kice, the thirteen-year-old son of a1 prominent family in this city, has been missing sinco Tuesday last. His disappearance has caused much uneasiness. Tho authorities of the sur rounding cities have been notified, but there is no clew to his whereabouts. Ho is a bright little fellow, with light hair and blue eves, and when he left wore a cap. and knee-pants. He is supposed to have left the city in company with a boy named bawyers, aged sixteen; presumably lor the purpose ox joining a snow company. Serious Illness of Dion. A. P. Charles Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Seymour,- Feb. 10. Hon. Albert P. Charles, a well-known attorney of this city, and past grand master of Indiana Masons, is in a very critical condition from congestion of tho lungs, complicated with acute albuminuria. He has been a sufferer with organic disease of tho heart for several years, although he attended to his law business ud to last Mondav. The statement that he was suffering with cerebral embolism was a statement unwarranieu uy ins physician. Badly Injured in a Saloon Brawl. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Columbus, Feb. 10. In a saloon brawl here, last night, a man named Dick Jones was struck on the head with a heavy piece of gas nine in the hands of William Halstead, a young man who lives at Franklin. Tho wound is very severe and may result seriously. Halstead, in tho excitement following the atlray, escaped and has not yet been captured. Sudden Death from Apoplexy. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Mariox, Feb. 10. Simon Merkle, a wellknown citizen of this place, was found dead in his bed this morning. Death is supposed to have been caused by apoplexy. Minor Notes. There are about fifty miles of toll roads in iMontgomery county. A womau named Lockhart. while sick in bed, was attacked by a mad dog at Brazil. Her husband arrived in time to kill the bnite. Albert Tull. aced thirteen, was killed while hunting on his father's farm near Fairland, on Saturday, by the accidental discharge ot a gun. Tho State Fish Commissioner has sent an agent to investigate the fish dynamiting outrages which are being extensively com- . A A 1 t lift f A . ? A 1 J f 1 milieu m v mte river, souin or i;oiumDUS. Ed Stevens, a hotel clerk at Rushville, was arrested Saturday on a charge of robbine the safe at a hotel where he formerlv clerked, in Paris, I1L He strongly denies ms guilt. The fortune of half a million dollars to which George Zinn, formerly an inmate of the LaPorte county poor asylum, was said to have fallen heir to, has dwindled down to under investigation. Wabash is in dancer of losine the strawboard factory contemplated by the Barber -Match Uompany. Failure to make satis factory transportation rates with the C. W. &, M. railway is said to bo a stumbling block. L. W. Whitmore, city marshal of North v ernon, nas leit ior parts unnnown. .Last TTmratlnv Tia Trna mnrripil to Afica Taqqia Calvert and suddenly disappeared, leaving his strange conduct. On Saturday, Feb. 16, a horticultural bovktij v in uu uigituicu ai am lit: nun. XJl Allen Fnrnjis. Tirpsidpnt.nf thftStntrr?oir will be present, and essa3s will be read by H. W. Curry, Ransom Burton, F. W. Sears, Ed Eversole, Mrs. J. II. Brown. suing tho O., I. & W. Kailroad Company for trials have been held, and the Supreme The costs in the cases will amount to about SHOO. The Harrison and Morton Club of tho Lincoln League, Seymour, held a meeting last Friday evening, and elected the following delegates to attend the leaguo meeting at inuiananons, on luesuay: lion. w. r. Philip Wilhelm. Chas. U. Alwes, Wm jjucKwonu, ij, ai. jiams. Azro Dyer, judge of tho Superior Court at EvansviUe, has brought a tifty-thousand-doliar libel suit against the Evansville Courier. The suit grows out ot publications concerning an alleged deal between twoelectric-li?ht companies in that city. iui uuo ui wuicu i.ur. wj ci uciauspresiueni. Rico and Watson, the confidence men. who robbed Alexander McFhceters. of Viuo county, of 2,000 some time ago, and committed like crimes elsewhere, were sentenced to two years in the Michigan penitentiary on Saturday, but will bo arrested at the expiration of their term by tho Terre jiauio auinormes. The residence of Arlington Binford, at Westfield. was burned on Saturdav nicht. the contents being 6aved. Loss, 1.000; no rrt . - insurance, ino iurany were away irora home at the time, but in the evening, before going out, had turned on the gas in the grate quite strong. Tho wood-work surrounding it is supposed to have caught nre. Another bad break in the tank line of the Standard Oil Company, which extends from Lima, O., to Chicago, has occurred at Huntington, where tho line crosses the Little Wabash river. Immense quantities of the fluid escaped and a great conllagration ensued. Tho fire swept over the banks, burning trees and everything with which it camo in contact ibeforo tho leak was stopped. When Cleveland was at Terre Haute, a little over a year ago, the excursion train from Bloomfield. on its return, was side tracked at Worthington from about 10 o'clock at night until nearly the same hour the next morning. The passengers were left in the coaches without light or fire. As a result, a number of damage cases were broucnt against tho railroad company. Thirty-seven cases were filed in Davies county, and were compromised at 815 each. Fifty -seven have been or are ready to bo

brought in Greene county. Four have been compromised at 25 each. This will make the total sum paid for damages $1,080.

John Linenweber, a farmer near China, Jefferson county, mysteriously disappeared from his home hvo years ago, and it was supposed he had been murdered or drowned. rPl, -k nmilir m nn r tf Viim na AnA fFV m'fo rf i n w n.. rVia etinnncil Tiprsplf tr be, formed the acquaintance of a Madison gentleman, ana a wedding day was last approaching, when who should appear upon the scene last week but the, long-missing husband. What explanation he cave of his singular action and long absence is not known, Dut it is known tnat ne put a damper on the wedding preparations. ILLINOIS. Two Boys Ilorribly Mangled by the Cars While Driving Across the Track. Peouia, Feb. 10.- Two boys named Highfield and Winstrum were driving a load of coal across the Chicago, Burlington & Ouincy railroad track near this city yester day morning, when they were run into by tlie passenger train from the west. Ilighheld was killed and mnstrum is unconscious and will die. Both were horribly mangled. llrief Mention The safe in the postoffice at Watseka has been burglarized of $300 in stamps and currency. George Shinn, a well-known Republican and breeder of fine stock, died at his home in Lafayette township, Coles county, last Friday. Tlio finltfofiAti Armi ftfo44nAti linn snlif into two factions, with Colonel Thompson as the leader of one side and Henry Stillwell, presiding elder of the State, in charge of tho other. Hon. C. W. Webster, of Benton, is dead. Re was seventy-rive vearsof age. InlSGO ho was elected a member of the House of Kepresentatives, and Sinco then held many ollices of trust. After spending many thousand dollars. Chenoa has struck a four-foot vein of coaL and tho event was duly celebrated on Saturday night by the ringing of bells and a general juuiiauon. -TrkVitl Cati a. vnnn rr formAr . o a lmntinrr V ft b jm J w uu AUi AUl. , . CO u till near Aft. Carmel, on Saturday. He drew his gun toward hira by tho muzzle, when both barrels were discharged with the usual result. His death was instantaneous. The store of Judge Smith, at Olmstead. Pulaski county, was burned Saturdav morning, also tne paraphernalia of the Ma sonic and Knights or Honor lodges located above the store. Loss, $5,000. Burglars are supposed to have robbed the place and then set it on lire. While the sheriffs wife and a turnkey were alone in the jail at Decatur, last Friday, thirteen prisoners attempted to escape. After a desperate struggle, tney were overpowered and locked up. Tno woman's presence of mind in locking the outside doors barred tho means of escape. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. The Fortifications Bill Passed by the Senate, After Providing for Submarine Torpedoes. Washington, Feb. 9. The credentials of Mr. Kansom for his new senatorial term were presented, read and placed on file. The Senate bill to establish a United States Court in tho Indian Territory was, on motion of Mr. Vest, taken up in con junction with tho House bill to change the Eastern and Northern judicial districts of Texas, and Mr. Vest proceeded to state the purposes of the bills, which are in some respects identical. He moved, as a report from the judiciary committee, to substitute the Senate bill for the House bilk Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, offered another substitute for tho House bill, in which it was proposed to establish in tho Indian Territory a court with limited iurisdiction not with full jurisdiction, as proposed in the substitute of the judiciary committee. vmer discussion dv Messrs. .Kerry, uoke, Keagan and Vest, tno substitute offered by Mr. Jones was rejected, and Mr. Vest's agreed to. A conference was asked, and Senators Vest. Edmunds and Wilson, of ifcr a, -were appointed conferees on the part oi tno senate. Mr. Stewart offered a resolution, which was agreed to, calling on tho Commissioner of Fisn and Fisheries for information as to the salmon fisheries of Alaska. On motion of Mr. Sherman the Honse amendment to the direct-tax refunding bill was non-concurred in, and a conference asked. Senators Sherman, Morrill and Harris were appointed conferees on the part of the Senate. The fortification appropriation bill was then taken up. On motion of Mr. MannVr. son an item of $200,000 was inserted for the purchase of movable submarine tornedoes. impelled and controlled at will by power from shore stations. The several amendments reported from the committee on appropriations were then agreed to, and the bill passed. Senators noar, Cullom and Cockrell were appointed, with the presiding officer, the Senate committee on inauguration cere monies. , Mr. Manderson offered a resolution. wnicu was agreeu to, ior tne appointment by the presiding officer of the tellers on tho part of the Senate in the counting of tho presidential votes. The Senate then resumed consideration of tho Union Pacific refunding bill, tho question being cn Mr. Mitchell's motion to recommit, with instructions to tho committee to report a bill applying also to tho Central Pacific. Mr. Stewart gave notice that he would move instructions to the committee to re port a bill requiring the amount of the debt to be expended by the railroad companies in the construction of improvements on their main lines, including double tracks and tunnels to avoid hich crades. and of such hydraulic works for irrigation as ConKicsa luaj uuiuuiuc, h jiu hucu limitations on freights and fares as will insure cheap transportation. He proceeded to address the Senate in advocacy of his plan, but be fore he finished his speech the Senate ad journed. Amendment Offered to the Territorial Bill. Washington, Feb. 9. On motion of Mr. McMillan, of Tennessee, the Senate amendments were concurred in to the Ilouse bill authorizing tho construction of bridges across the Cumberland and Caney Fork rivers m Tennessee. On motion of Mr, Toole , of Montana, tho Senate bill was passed granting right of way through Fort Custer military reserva tion, in Montana, to the Big Horn South ern itauroau company. On motion of Mr. Thomas, of Wisconsin. the Senate bill was passed authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi river at LaCrosso, Wis. On motion of Mr. Thomas, of Illinois, the Senate bill was passed granting to Randolp county, Illinois, the title of the United Mates to certain lands in that county. Tho House then went into committee of tho whole, Mr. Unsp, of Georgia, in tho chair, on tho postoftico appropriation billMr. Blount explained the provision of tho 1 A A. . Din, ana tne committee rose. Mr. Springer reported that the conference committee on the territorial bill had been unable to agree. Mr. Baker, of New York, offered a resolution instructing tho House conferees to exclude New Mexico from the bill: to provide for the admission of North Dakota by proclamation, and to provide that Montana and Washington Territories shall be admitted on tho same terms, either by proclamation or ny tormai acts ot admission. The matter went over until Monday, and the committee resumed its consideration of thepostolhce appropriation bill. Mr. Mason, of Illinois, said that he was opposed to the bill not so much on acconnt of the effect it might have upon the postoffice as for the effect it might have on tho Seventh district of South Carolina. He then proceeded to discuss the Small-Elliott contested case, to which Mr. Crisp replied nneuy. Mr. Adams, of Illinois, addressed his re marks to the bill under consideration. He especially favored an increased number of trips by letter-earners in the city of Chi cago. The bill being read for amendment. Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, moved to increase tho appropriation for pay of postotlice clerks uy ijouu.uuu. Pending a vote on the amendment, the committee rose and the House adjourned. "I always let a cold go as it coraes,, one .! ..V. says; wnicu means tnat ne overworKS tne system in getting rid of a cold rather than assist it by using Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. race cents.

HALLUCINATION - EPIDEMIC Dn Banks Describes tlie Singular Mania

at the McAUisterville School. Queer Delusions of the Stricken Boys Com .mon uujects nisiaKen ior Kats and Coons Medical Opinions of the Affection. Philartelrbia rress. Tho Press yesterday telegraphed to L. Banks, M. D.. of Mifilintown, for verification of the reported insanity of twenty-five boys in the Soldiers' Orphans' School at McAUisterville, Pa. In reply Dr. Bauks, who has been in attendance upon the boys, telegraphed yesterday from Mifilintown as follows: "I have just returned from tho Soldiers' Orphans' School at McAUisterville. In reply to your message 1 would say that tho disorder now prevalent there is not a trick of the boys. About twenty of them have been affected with temporary hallucinations of the mind, so as not to bo able to name or distinguish objects correctly, but they were neither crazy nor insane as re ports have it. I hey have been placed under medical treatment, and are now all restored to a clear condition of mind but four, whom we hope also to report favor ably in a few days. teen years of ago. tolerablv robust in nnpearance, who was weak-minded by inheritance. He was taken with nervous hallucinations and a morbid propensity for mistaking objects, such as boys' feet, gloves or any other article which he might see about tho room, for rats. He bit at his own fist and called it a bit of cheese. Ho was placed under medical treatment' by attendant physician Hoopes, and in a lew uays was restored to a natural condition. The second bov was affected a week later in a very similar manner. He was put . under treatment and 6ent to his home in tne village where the school is located. At the expiration of his furlough, at tho end of three davs, he returned to the school restored. The third boy, about fourteen years of age, was taken in a similar manner, first noticeable when he camo down from his room to breakfast. Immediately on seeing mm a tonrtn boy was taken with the same symptoms. These bovs were all placed under treatment by Dr. Iloopes, the aiienuaai, puysician. On the 5th of Februanr Rnvpnteen bovs became visibly affected, exhibiting nearly the same symptoms as the former ones, and a letter was written to me bv Dr. Hoones. requesting me to meet him in consultation in regard to the boys who had that day been suddenly seized with these mental hallucinations, and who mistook and misnamed .objects that they saw. When I arrived the bovs had been put to bed and were kept under guard. They were all resting quietly, most of them sleeping. I took tho temperature and pulse of quite a number and found it normal. We determined to let them rest quietly until mornincr. and ap pointed 8 o'clock as the hour for consultation. They woke up the next morning with Dwuuiuiua very similar to tnose rxiuoitea the day before, and seventeen of them were ordered to the infirmary for inspection. The condition in which we found them was abou as follows: "Some of them would hunt round the room for rats; others would tear paper, and, without looking at it, would thrust it into their mouths and chew it, and when they numusciBipi oi ij, iney wouia tnrow it away from them in fear and tranrple upon it, and then seize it acain with their hands. They would pick up tne paper and throw it aown Again repeatedly, w hen asKed what it was they would call it a rat. or a weasel. or some other small animal. When shown a knife one called it a porcupine, another a weasel and a third a crow, yet when asked to take it they attempted to open the oiaae with their teeth. "Another bov was shown a can. and. when asked what it was, called it a coon; X -ft 1 .1 A !l A " L ! ! , fi, wuuii loiu io use it, put it on nis neau. 'hey seemed to be able to distinguish ob jects, and know their uses, but could not call them by their right names. They had strong visionary delusions, rather than mental aberrations. Their minds, I believe, would havo been comparatively clear if they could have looked upon objects with a nn4il -nfolsv. ti, j :i a j but not so much so as to account for the imperfect vision. The temperature was principally normal. In one or two it was accelerated. They said they were not sick, and msisieu on going to mo scnooi-room. The consultation determined, as far as they could judge, that it was primarily a nervous aflectionl resembling in some respects chorea, which, by its refiex. action upon tho nerve centers of the brain, produced imperfect vision, together with apparent hallucinations of tho mind. I he mental faculties were much clearer when the eyes were closed. The patients were all placed under medical treatment to allay the excitations of tho nerves, and as many of them as could be got quiet were put to bed. The next morning all but four woke up in a much imE roved condition. Consultation was again eld on the 7th, at which time all were restored but four. They are suftering with much the same symptoms at this time. "The sanitary condition of the school is good, and the boys were all properly fed and cared for, and were making good progress in their studies. "1 he only way 1 can account for so general an epidemic on the 5th is that the boys were desperately frightened by seeing their schoolmates and companions in such a condition, and nervous exhaustion, or induction of nervous impression was superinduced. Even many of the boys who were not ' affected by hallucination were so badly frightened that their hands and feet became cold. There had been an attack of typhoid fever in tho school last summer, when about forty of the scholars were afi'ected, but only one or two of the number affected by these mental hallucinations were past fever cases. In our last consultation cerebral anemia was suggested as a probable cause by some of the consultation physicians, but were excluded on tho grounds of the brain not being afi'ected and their speedy return to consciousness would not now warrant such conclusion. In the majority of the cases it must be a hvperacmia. or exalted condition of the nerve centers, rather than anemia of the brain. Many rumors are afloat as the cause of this ailection, as that the boys have been given cider and whisky, or other concoctions, to drink, but such reports are utterly without foundation and false, and the !: ys are well cared for in every respect, and are free from vices or improper indulgences. "E. Banks. M. D.. "Consulting Physician." Opinions of Medical Experts. The story of the strange malady excited wide interest among the medical men of this city yesterday. The queer mental con dition of the boys and their remarkable conduct was discussed by several leading experts on insanity. "Tne published accounts," said Dr. Charles K. Mills, the eminent specialist. "are not sufficiently exact to enable one to mv positively as to the character of the outbreak in the school at McAUisterville, but it seems in all probability that the trouble is ono of a form of epidemic, or rather endemic (that is, confined to a particuiariocaniyi, nystenc or nysrencai insanity. Such disorders aro well known to those who have studied nervous diseases. Such outbreaks havo not been very common in this country, but they have occured and in recent years. Mn 18S0, in this city, a strange malady like this broke out in one of the church homes, where over 100 children, nearly all girls, were living, juany oi ine cnuuren ivere affected somewhat like the boys in tho McAUisterville school. I saw several of the cases. The girls barked like dogs, some had a crowing cough, others were speech less, and some had hysterical convulsions, -while a certain group danced, and others hopped. The trouble was evidently raemetic or emated. One child, for instance, would bark, or twitch, or make grotesque faces, and instantly other children would do tho same. The children in the church home were cured by scattering them in different hospitals and institutions. "In a small way I have often seen a similar.disorder occur in tho nervous ward of the Philadelphia Hospital. In Blockley there are many cases of epilepsy and hys teria. While 1 was lecturing one day on an epileptic he took a convulsion. Almost instantly two other epileptics took convulsions. Such outbreaks as now disturbing the orphan school in Mifilin county aro or - r a a a. rr great nisioncai interest. ine iiancmg manias of the middle ages wero epidemic, and the name of St. Vitus's dance was given because of the wonderful dointrs of a person during an epidemic. .During the

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Absolutely Pure. nils powflcr never varies. A marrel of pnrtty strength and wholeRomenes. More economical th&a tbeontirary klnH anil eaunot be sold In rompetluon. with the multlfnde of low-test, hort-weirht slam er rhofphate powdprn. Sold only In cn. KOYAI BAKING TOWDER CO.. 106 W all U X. Y. dark ages a simple shepherd boy started as a prophet for the Holy Lands, and in a short time 30,000 bovs. armed and unarmed. were following him to Jerusalem. In a factory in Ln gland not many years ago an. epidemic like tho Mitllin county outbreak was started by a girl throwing a mouse at a sister-worker, in Italy onlv a lew year ago an epidemic like thoso of tho middle ages broke out. Women and girls went into convulsions at the sound of a church bell or the sight of priests. "The Italian village was shut out from. tho world much like tho school in tho Mifnin county village. The cause of such out breaks would seem to be tne suuttmg in ot persons from the rest of tho world and making them lead monotonous lives that lead to a low physical condition. It might, occur independently of bad food or a vicious habit. The condition of the mind of persons nlFected like the orphan boys is similar 10 inai oi pcopio unucr ine lnuuence of mesmerism. I think the children would bo greatly benefitted by separating them. One interesting fa;t in this mstanco is the appearance ot the malady among Doys, wnuo nysiena is mucn more common, to females, although without being confined to them." "Tho children at McAUisterville." re marked Prof. Horatio G. Wood, of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, are evidently troubled with hysteria. One child imitates the nervous movements of the other uncon sciously. It is like a person yawning in a crowded room, when everv other person yawns. A person need not yawn if will power is assertea, ana oy tne exercise or, sufficient will power these children can stop their strange actions. When an outbreak of hysteria occurred in an Episcopal church home a few years ago. a few of its children were sent to the University Hos pital. They constantly imitated each other Dut they were cured in a simple way. "Food was kept from one child until sho was hungry. She was then given all sho wanted to eat. Then, with the others looking on, sufficient ether was given to tho girl until she was made very sick and vomited. They were then all given to understand tions they would bo treated like the sick girl, and the treatment would bo repeated, every day until they were cured. .The girls were soon cured." 'lf the published facts give the truo his tory of the case," said Dr. Thomas G. Morton, "the trouble is due to hysteria. It may be traced to one or two of tho boys. Very often one vicious boy in an institution like the one up the State may. by teaching a bad habit, cause a state of nervous tension among his fellow-lads that will lead to just such scenes as are said to be happening at McAUisterville." SLOW-BURNING CONSTRUCTION. Necessity of an Improvement in the 3Iethod of Constructing Public Uulldlngs. Edward Atkinson, in the Century. Strange to 6a v. some of tho worst exam ples of combustible architecture are to bo found among our prisons, hospitals. asylums, and almshouses; next, among college buildings, libraries, and schoolhouses; to these may bo added churches, hotels, and theaters. In tho year 1887, according to the tables compiled by tho Chronicle, of New York, there were burned within the limits of tho United States 45 hospitals, asylums, almshouses, or jails. being nearlr four per month, in many cases accompanied by the loss of a large number of lives; 120 college buildings and libraries, being ten and a half per month; 14G churches, being two and eight-tenths per weeK; tneaters anu oncra-nouses, neing one per week; 515 hotels, being one and four-tenths per day. Ine bad construction of tneso buildings is duo mainly to habit, to fear of innovation and to distrust of theory. These inherited faults in construction may be readily traced to their origin. In order to make this matter plain, the evolution of the modern factory will be fully described in this article, illustrated by examples of the several types of buildiug which have been from time to time constructed. When tho textile factory 6ystem was first established, water power onlv was applied to the move ment of machinery. The larger factories were thus customarily placed in narrow valleys or upon very limited areas of land, below the tails of rivers and along side the streams; it therefore became necessary to economize the area of ground covered by the factories and to build them many stories in height. When other arts began to bo conducted upon the factory system tho buildings were apt to be in cities or towns where the price oi land forbado large areas being devoted to tne purpose, and, again, buildings of many stories in height were constructed. As time went ou, however, steam took tho place of waterpower, wnne encap railway service orrania transit made it possible to scatter the factories over a wider area. Factory buildings then began to be constructed in the open country, but apparently it did not occur either to the owner, the managers, tho architects, or the builders tnat the reasons lor constructing a duiiuintr manv stones in height did not apply to places where land could bo had at a very low price; tnereiore, tne customary bad and unsuitable form of construction was adopted, and is still practiced where it is not only useless and unsafe, but less adapted to tho purpose to which the building is to bo put than a one-story or a twostorv building would be. Moreover,- tbo whole method of cutting timber having been developed with a view to the supply of material required m the ordinary unsafe and unsuitable method of construction, it was for many years difiicult to obtain material cut in a proper way for what has been called tho slow-burning use of timber. Hertco it follows that the art of slow-burning construction is little known outsido of the limits of New England, and until very lately it was little known even there except to those who had becomo accustomed to the construction of textile factories, paper-mills, and other works which aro customarily insured by the factory mutual insurance companies. It is only within a very short time that the methods which havo been practiced for many years in the construction of textile factories which are only tho old methods of almost prehistoric tint, when timbers were shaped by the ax or by hand, before tli modern saw-mill had rendered the construction of a sham building possible have been taken up by a few architects of capacity and responsibility to be applied to warehouses, churches, college buildings, and occasionally to dwelling-houses. . Things Necessary to Kncourage Immigration. Boston Journal. ; It is anuonnced that the Alabama Legislature will make appropriations "to encourage and induce immigration." Fuir play at elections, the substitution of legal proceedings for lynch law and the proceedings of regulators," decent treatment of the negroes and the maintenance of gooa schools would do more to "encourage ami induce immigration" than all tho appropriations that could be made. . . Making Up for It Now. New YorK Graphic. A biographer of Secretary Bayard relates that ho was so good in his youth that his father was never called upon to whip him. He is getting spanked" enough now to make up for any sparing of tho rod In-his youtib -

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