Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1889 — Page 1

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EVERY ARTICLE 0 F Bought of us this week, except OVERCOATS, which we have already marked at strictly wholesale cut prices. "NVe will save you 20 per cent on all GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHINGS, UNDERWEAR, NECKWEAK, DRESS SHIRTS, GLOVES, etc. omgMiagle 5 & 7 Vest Washington St. TAYELERS INDEX. ANKAKEE INE -m POUR RAHVLWAY "WHO HAS XOT IVEAD BEX-HXTRt tfceen excited by General Wallace's graphic description oi the chariot race, how Ben-llur controlled and cUnzuUj- drove the four Araoian horaee so as to break thevheel cf his competitor' chariot and won the desperate race! The C. IX. and Q. railway (BarliBffton rcute) has, 07 the consent of General Wallace, ,. had this exciting scene beaatirolly lithographed and placed at the head of one of the most attractive c&lencxx for is). v Iiea-H ur and his four Arabian steeds were a grand eUgttt, but a grander eight is to he seen every day, the eriartnre of the great trains of the Burlington route from Clwuzo. 8t. lxnxin and l'ecria for Kansas City. Omaha, Denver ant bt. FauL A rac against old father Time of Iotit great veUbuled trains. On iaanl of these moving hotel la fonnd every luxury to be had tn oar finest hotels, The flight rt these trains, loaded with human beings, carrying them In safety and comfort to pleasure and Jots, or, maTle. on nuMions ot sorrow, is Indeed a grand one. Ola 1'atiier lime- must look sharp and keep moving from af art to finish or the Itarbngtcn will take ft wheel off hha as lien.Har.did from Measala's chariot. 'I'hia rompHDy's trains connect in Peoria and Chicago with the Burlington trains for Kansas City, Omaha, Denver and Si. Pan! 'BEE-Iffl ROUTE' TEASTANDWEST The name of this line baa become familiar in every Tart of the country. Since its establishment thou, -an da of people have been carried safely and comfortMy. and its record is written In the experience of travelers representing every State in the Union. The -Bee-line" is a Unit In the great Vanderbilt system of railroad which reach every Important city in the East and West, and la the onry line with a depot In the city of Jfew York. IS Is the route of the fcunous IN'ew York Limited.' the fastest train In the world. No other line tn Amerleaean offer the facilities and advantage to the bosineaa man for travel equal to that offered by the popular ,Uee4ine.w Connecting at It does with the New York Central road, it lands the frtisLne&s man in the heart of iVew York city, thus aving him the annoyance of a ferry -trawler and many hoars' time, which is quite valaabl to the aver. je man of to-day. as nun. is money." The rates ot tare areas low as ria inferior linea. and its train appointments surpassed by none. 8 !eeping-car berths and tickets can be secured at Vo. S Bates ilouae. 2s"o. las South Illinois street, or T'nion Station. T. C. rCK. I'aaaenger Agent TKZAC1IIK0US SUBORDINATES. Why Mr. Lee "Mas Dismissed from the Supertendency of an Indian School. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Crawfordsville, Ind., Feb. 16. The ; homo of John Lcc, who was recently relieved of his duties as superintendent of the Indian school at Salem, Ore., is in this city, and his son is here at present, but lias been with his father. He says that ever since his father went to Salem. Oct. 1. 1885, the people there have been trying to get him "fired." The Politicians wanted a man from their own State, and have not left a rock untamed to secure the dismissal of Mr. Lee. Inspectors have been sent there time and again, at the suggestion of some of the .Democratic enemies of Mr. Lee, and it is .probable that some trifling affair has at last been discovered that was used as an excuse to relieve him. The scholars in the school are all in favor of Mr. Lee and have been all the time, but the hungry Democratic; politicians out there wanted the position. The principal teacher in the schools was against Mr. Lee, and watched every nook and corner for a trap in which to ensnare him, and was giving all obtainable information against Lee to his political household enemies. Then a young man from Fort Wayne, this State, went to Salem and was employed as a teacher in tho Indian schools by Mr. Lee. He also took sides acainst Mr. Lee, and, with the aid of the other spying teachers, it was beginning to look as though Mr. Lee hnd been relieved of his duties. At last Mr. Lee discharged the young man from Indiana who, left several letters in his room, tho contents of which rroved to Mr. Lee that his suspicions were correct about this young man being his enemy. The letters were from his father, living in Indiana, and advised him to do all that was in his power to get Lee ousted, and then pet tho appointment himself; or, if he could not do that, to use his influence to get it for his father. It is understood here that since tho 1st of Januarj a complaint of some kind has been sent to the Lnitcd State Senator from Oregon, and that another inspector was forthcoming at once, but it is believed that it is a case of "firing" niui ply because the powers that be could relievo the incessant demand for a change in favor of some other hungry politiciau. Mr. Ie will, before long, move back to this city to reside. The McAulTe-Myer Controversy, Milwaukee Wis., Feb. 17.-Jack McAulitie denies that Mver Las challenged him to another right. on the contrary, he says that he himself telegraphed Mvr his willingness to meet him again, and "has xeceived no reply. He states that Myer's alleged claim concerning a seventy-two-hours limit is all nonsense. The articles of agreement contained no such a stipulation, and there is no sporting law to that effect. He says, however, that he is perfectly willing to meet Myer again, and that his backera' money is up to stay. McAulilTe and Madden gave a sparring exhibition before 1 large audience at the People's Theater last night. I tow In a Labor Union. . Kew Yokk. Feb. 17. The Central Labor Union meeting to-day adjourned soon after convening, after a row. Tho socialistic faction retired from the hall in response to a call that all leavo who desired to reorganize tho union. A delegate in the rear of the hall got into a tight and received a bruised face. He ran forward to theplatlortn covered with blood. The sight of blood enraged the members of the opposing factions, and the Socialists bared their arms to meet the expected battle. Some blows were exchanged, and Chairman Jablinovrski hpranpr from the platform and declared the meeting adjourned. Celebrating Lincoln's Birthday. Boston'. Feb. 17. Lincoln's birthdav was commemorated in a baunnet bv the Massachusetts Clnb, yesterday, Ex-Governor Clatiin presiding, and about forty puests being present, including the llou. Charles Bonney, of Chicago, who was the principal speaker; Prof. J. M. Lang&ton. who also made an eloquent speech; President Capon. ci Tufts Colfrce, and lion. A. A. K&nney.

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GOING TO MOVE. That i3 getting ready to bo tho order of the day in this region. Indianapolis, which since last summer has been tho political Mecca for tho country, Trill soon send its great attraction in this way East, and then wo can all devote our minds to tho State Legislature, and to getting ready to BOOM IN THE SPRING, Tra-la-la. There is a great future ahead of the town, and tho coming summer will show, it. Wo wUl have at one and the same time, a League base-ball clab and natural gas. Is there at town that can boast the two at the same time! We think not. In addition, this town has another great attraction; that THE WHEN Electric Batteries and Belts, Trusses.' Fnimorters. Deformlrr Braces. Crutches. Atomizers, Optical Gods, Artificial Eyes, and everything in burgical Instruments and Appliances. WZL 1L ARMSTBONG A CO.'S burgical Instrument House. 1)2 South Illinois street. COLLAFSE OP A BUILDING. A Chicago Structure Falls to Pieces, and Its Fourteen Stories Are a Pile of Wreckage, Chicago, Feb. 17. One of tho tallest office buildings in America collapsed this morning. A number of workmen rushed out just in time to escape hcing crushed under the mountain of wreckage. Tho Owings Block is the ruin. It was a beautiful gothic structure, fourteen stories high, situated at the corner of Dearborn and Adams streets, just opposite the postoffice, in the center of the business district. Tho ten lower stories feU m, one after another, leaving the walls and four upper floors and the roof standing in a decidedly shaky condition. In the tenth story the tile flooring was defective, or was damaged by the natural settling of tho building. Without the slightest warning tho great mass of tiles and girders forming the in jured floors crashed to the story below, and the two together, acting like a huge piledriver, pounded, a way for themselves to the bottom. About 125 workmen havo been steadily engaged onthe building, but to-day being Sunday less than a dozen were on hand. All were in the basement, when, at halfpast 8, an ominous cracking and tremendous crash was heard. No one stopped to inquire the cause, but rushed pell-mell into the streets. They were not a moment toojsoon. A succession of thunderous reports, then one prolonged, mighty din, and each scurrying, trembling workman was enveloped in a great uprising cloud of dust and broken plaster. Gradually tho air cleared, and a few of the hardier spirits ventured back inside. Where before story, rose above story, cast of the central skylight, in mathematical precision and with every appearance of colassal strength and durability, was a fantastic heap of debris, while the ppaco 150 feet above was empty, save for bent and distorted iron beams tbat hero and there projected from tho walls. -The kuperintendent and contractors were summoned, and took a survey of the wreck. Neither seemed to have any idea of the cause of the accident, or, if he had any, he carefully kept his opinions to himself and joined in the self-congratnlations of the workmen that the accident did not happen the preceding day, when scores of men were at work. Chief Sweeney, of the lire department, visited the scene, and after looking over the structure, decided that it would not bo necessary to pull down tho walls at once. as. though they seemed to be out offplumb.there was no immediate danger of their falling in. The building, which was rapidly approaching completion, is considered one of tho finest in tho city, from the stand-points of convenience, strength and architectural magnificence. Its upper stories were of ircssed brick, the tnree lower of stone, 'he roof was completed about three weeks ago. The interior was entirely of tile, supported in place by massive iron girders. Work has been pushed as rapidly as possible, and the contractors have at times literally filled the structure with workmen. Yesterday three iron tanks, intended to hold water for the elevator power, arrived at the building. One of these, weighing 2.2U0 pounds, was hoisted to the twelfth story, while another, about three hundred pounds lighter, was placed in position to be elevated tomorrow. To the east of the shaft, extending through the center of tho building, the walls and floor of tile had been completed, and work had been begun on the iron staircase. The immediate cause of the collapse was. undoubtedly, tho giving wavof the tile flooring at the tenth story. This, the ruins show, fell to the floor below, knocking out more tiling, which fell through, gaining in weight until the fifth story was reached, when the falling mass tore .away the iron beams on this aud the floors below, bending them out of shape and shaking the walls of the foundation. It is presumed that the settling of the building caused the first break. The tiles of which the floors are made fit together like key-stones, and depend on each other for support. Any extension of the space confining them would tend to allow the entire mass to drop out. Its displacement from plumb is not particularly noticeable to the inexperienced eye, but great cracks run off from the center like strands inagigantio spmer-weo. There was much comment amonjr business men and others who congregated after the wreck. The very fact that the accident was entirely unforeseen seemed to bo generally considered the most serious phase of it. "Suppose," said one spectator, "that it had not happened for a month or two, when the building was fully occupied!" Notwithstanding the great height of the building, the land on which it stands is not more than fifty feet square. The design was to utilize every inch. Seven stories has. until lately, been about tho average in that neighborhood, and the tancrinc. fikv-niercinir cable and graceful I towers of the Owings building were a most rimpressivo and picturesque sight, towering over t no surrounding roofs, lne exterior still looks as beautiful and commanding as ever, the shell showing absolutely nothing to indicate that within is a jagged hole twenty-five feet square, reaching up through story after story. F. R. Owings, & Boston capitalist, is the owner. Charged with Forgery. Macox, Ga., Feb. 16.This morning the Capital Bank caused warrants to be issued against John L. Adams, of Adams &. Son, cotton factors and warehouse men. The charges are forgery, uttering forged paper, cheating and swindling. Adams went to jail in default of $3,000 bail, lie waived a preliminary hearing. Six years ago young Adams commenced to speculate in futures, losiug heavily, lie issued fictitious cotton receipts and farmers' notes, finally forging the names of responsible farmers and discounting the paper at the bank, taking it up always in timeno prevent trouble. Revival of Antl-Jeult Agitation in Canada. Nr.w York. Feb. 17. The Herald publishes a sensational dispatch from Montreal declaring that the Jesuit issue has reached such a stage as to threaten a civil war. The Quebec Legislature's action in awarding indemnity to the church for Jesuit property seized early in the century has aroused the Protestants to anger, and if the Dominion government sanctions the measure the Protestants of all the provinces will, according to the correspondent, unite in strong action to prevent tho project ueing cut ucu out

TRYING TO FOKM A 1IIXISTBY

Tho Wonld-Be Successor of Floquet finds the Undertaking Very Difficult. Waldeck-Eousseau Has Declined a Portfolio, and Freycinet As Yet Has Done Nothing Beyond Giving an Indefinite Promise, Russia Proposes to Teach the Afghans a Keeded Lesson in tho Art of War, King Milan Thinks His Friends Are Conspiring Against HimImportant Points in Victoria's Coming SpeechCable Notes. FRENCH POLITICS. 3L Veline Experiences Difficulty in Ills Effort to Form a Ministry. Pabis, Feb. 17. M. Melino is experiencing considerable embarrassment in his efforts to construct a Cabinet. M. WaldeckEousseau has refused to accept a portfolio, and 31. DeFreycinet has only indefinitely promised to accept the ministry of Foreign Affairs. M. Kouvier has agreed to take the ministry of the Interior, and Senator Ernest Boulanger is mentioned as Minister of Finance. The only positive adhesions which M. Meline has received aro those of M. Eouvier, for tho Ministry of the Interior; M. Perrier, for the Ministry of Education, and M. Doutresme, for the Ministry of Publio Works or Commerce. It is hoped that General Billot will take tho war portfolio, and M. Bibot some other, but both Opportunists and Radicals aro refusing to join in anticipation of a short life for tho new Cabinet. A Radical manifesto has been finally agreed to and issued. It is mainly devoted to denunciation of General Boulanger, who, it says, did not hesitate to oppose his own programme of revision in order to overthrow the Republican Ministry. The manifesto then says that the Boulangists are not afraid to paralyze business and menrco the success of the exhibition by placing their hatred of tho Republicans, which is their highest ambition, above the interests of the country. All Hope Centers In Carnot Boulanger Can Win Only by Force. London Special to Pittsburg Dispatch. President Carnot has consulted various prominent men, but it is not yet known to whom he will confide tho task of whipping up men to battle with tho caprice of dissatisfied France. Deputy Bourgeois, in reply to a telegram, wires me that MeUne, the actual President of the Chamber of Deputies, is most apt to be selected for the task. He is a mild man, and not very strong scarcely tho timber, one would think, to hear the strain that France Minister must be prepared to meet. He is patient, however, has excited no especial; antagonisms during his term of office, and ! may do as well as another to fill the uncomfortable gap. ' The chief hope of tho French just now is in President Carnot, who likes to be President, has sensible ideas about things, meana to keep on in the Elysee, and has not thof aintest notion of giving over his very comfortable berth to General Boulanger or any one else. He maybe relied upon to go on forming ministries as long as they are needed. No possible charge can be brought r. : rru. t- i e ugaiusb Aiiui. xiio xsejmucs uuu ccxiuiuio are not apt to willingly dissolve themselves, and it is difficult to see what Boulanger can do but wait for a general election to come and prav that it may find the French people in a sufficiently insane mood to elect him everywhere. Ministries may fall, but Boulanger has little chance of climbing to power as long as ho acts legally. If he takes to doing the other thing he will have to act very suddenly and successfully, for there aro Frenchmen quite as able as he who havo the army behind them, and are only waiting for a chance to show Franco what a dead:, brave general wonld be like. Boulanger s pruent conduct shows that he is aware of this fact. French political events, like most others, have a comical side. In this case a queer fact, and one which should bo soundly pondered by those inclined to magnify Boulanger's share in Floquet's fall, is that it was not a Boulangist nor any enemy of the republic who knocked down the Ministry, but a wildly republican Radical, the Comte D'Ouville Maillefcu, and what is more comical still, is that the country managed to defeat the government by opposing the revision of the constitution scheme, the only leg on which Boulangerism stood, and which tho government in self-defense had tried to make their own hobby.. French matters are going to be very much mixed, andministries may follow eachothcr as closely as the row of ghostly kings that so tired Macbeth, but this time the Paris mob has not things its own way. It has no arms, it hasn't a defenseless government to deal with, and, instead of a strong man. it has selected a remarkably weak one, with his hair plastered down on his temples, to be its leader, and hence the Paris mob and Boulanger will probably have to fuit more or less patiently and watch Carnof perform for some time to come. RUSSIA'S VLXSS. The Ameer to Be Chastised Keeping an Eye on the Golden Horn. London Special to New York World. Some anxiety is noticeable at the English Foreign Office, caused by the information that Russia finds it necessary to teach tho Afghans a lesson in consequence of the aggressiveness of the Ameer. It is not likely that the Af ghans depredations havo been very extensive, but probably the Russian troops in that part of the world aro becoming a trifle off form in consequence of their inactivity for tho last few months, and it is deemed best to give them a little active exercise. The Ameer's troops are quite convenient, and it is well, on principle, to keep a respect for the Czar's forces impressed upon their minds. This is doubtless the true explanation of the Russian movement toward tho frontier which has naturally worried the English statesmen. An American engineer just returned from that country of great projects announces that the scheme of joining the Black and Azof seas by a waterway, capable of transferring from one to the other the largest vessels afloat, is looked upon as one of great commercial as well as of military importance. It will open up & fertile region to trade, and will pay for its cost indirectly in a few years, besides furnishing a harbor for the construction of dock-yards and storage for naval material inaccessible to foreign attack. Gen. I gnatiefT naturally looks at the plan in respect to its latter capabilities, judging it to furnish an impregnable locality for tho building up of a navy which will give Russia at the proper time command of the Black sea and the straits of the Mediterranean. In the course of a conversation, which he was willing should be repeated, he said: It is necessary for the health of Europe, as for the progress of civilization, that Kussia should obtain possession of Constantinople, and for the same reason the United States should acquire Cuba. "Both places," he continued, "are lazerhouses, from which, every few years, issuo epidemics destroying lives of far more value to humanity than the entire population of those fever-infected places. For centuries the Golden Horn has 6cnt out the black death, the plague, the sweating sickness and the cholera to destroy millions of Uves,

depopulate cities and bring financial ruin to properous centers. No alteration of this state of things is possible while the Turk, with his hereditary habits, rules over this hotbed of disease. There is a hope, judging from tho circumstances that havo lately come to light, that the jealousy of the powers will soon be mitigated and that they will soon cease to become the tools of English diplomacy." KING MILAN GLOOMY AGAIN.

He Thinks He Has Caught His Best Friends CTottins Against IHm. Cable 8pecial to Pittsburg Dispatch. King Milan, whoso ups and downs are wonderfully sudden, is in a gloomy mood again. Just as he was going to build up a new Cabinet, with the Radical element for its backbone, he discovered or thinks he has discovered the evidence of a deep and deadly plot against his throne, managed by the very Radical leaders whom he intended to honor. Big boxes containing rifles have been seized, it seems, and Mr. Tauschanovics, the President of the Skuptschina, and who was to havo been the Minister for Home Affairs, is very much mixed up with tho deadly rifles and with the plot generally, haying been, if King Milan is not deceived, in correspondence with Servians enemies abroad. There is a good deal of anxiety as to what King Milan will do, and the usual talk, which never amounts to anything, of his intention to abdicate, is trotted about once more. His grief at the wickedness of tho Radicals is perhaps somewhat softened by tho new departure on the part of Queen Nathalie, whom he 60 handily divorced. The Queen, whom everyone has believed was traveling about Russia and the rest of Europe, trying to have her former lord and master toppled otf his throne, now gives it to be understood that she desires nothing of the sort. She considers that tho interests of the king are identical with those of her son, and proposes to fight for the Obrienovitch dvnastv. through thick and thin, in order that her boy may have his turn at governing, when the time comes. A great many people think that theso sentiments of Queen Nathalie are really based upon the fact that she could not find anybody to do the toppling over of her husband, which she wished for. GEXEBAI. FOREIGN NEWS. Two Important Points in the Forthcoming ( Speech of Queen Victoria. London, Feh. 17. It is now admitted hy persons in ministerial confidence that tho Queen's speech which will be read in Parliament, next Thursday, will make especial reference to the situation in Samoa and recommend a conference between accredited representatives of the interested governments for the purpose af settling the disputed questions. The chief clause of the speech, however, will be one requesting Parliament to grant funds without dclav to increase the etficiency of the navy. Admiral Colomb has been selected as the member to second the address in reply to the speech from the throne, and will take occasion to impress upon the minds of his colleagues the vital necessity for complying with her Majesty's request immediately. Correct, but Not Fluttering. London Special. .Twelve jurymen of England, future subjects of the Prince of "Wales, have arrived at a decision which was correct, but not complimentary. ' An umhrella-makcr refused to pay for a highly-colored engraving of the Prince and Princess, which had heen supplied him, on the ground that the Prince's nose had been mado red and his face puffy. This, ho thought was inexact and unpatriotic The poster was exhibited in court, and ihe nose was iindotbtedlv very red and the i'heoks very pntTy, ht the jurymen nevertheless decided that it was like their future ruler and made the advertiser of the umbrella pay ten guineas for tho picture. Le Caron Threatens a Libel Suit. London, Feb. 17. To-day's edition of tho London edition of the New York IJerald published an account of an interview had by one of its reporters with Le Caron. Upon reading tho report, Le Caron promptly wrote to the editor of tho paper as foUows: I am advised tbat your publication of what Imrports to be a report of au interview with me, n to-day's London edition of your paper, constitutes a libel, and I now formally give you notice that any further production of this report, or any . statement rounded upon it, must De at your pern. Yours obediently, Thomas B. Beach. Le Caron alleges that the report of the interview was expanded. A Norwegian Antarctic Expedition. London, Feb. 17. A wealthy Norwegian, resident of New Zealand, is now in Europe for the purpose of organizing a Norwegian Antarctic expedition. Ho claims to havo received assurances that the Australian government will grant a sufficient subsidy to the enterprise to fit out two steamers, and expects to raise tho remainder of tho money necessary in the continental capitals. The object of the expedition is to seek whale und seal fisheries in the southern seas. Labonchere's .Offer to Flggott. London, Feb. 17. It is asserted that Mr. Labouchere, in his testimony before the Parnell commission, will admit that he offered Piggott 1,000 to swear that tho Parnell letters were forgeries. Mr. Labouchere will state, however, it is said, that he did not make the offer until after Piggott had confessed to him that the letters were not genuine. In other words, Mr. Labouchere offered Piggott the money to induce him to tell tho truth. German Attitude as to Samoa. Berlin, Feb. 17. It is stated that the government is willing to effect a settlement of the Samoan question upon a basis of the United States government's proposal at the Washington conference, viz.: The establishment ot a joint American, German and English control over the Samoan islands through the consuls of tho three nations at Apia. Denouncing Premier Tlsza. Pesth, Feb. 17. Thirty thousand paraded the streets in procession to-day and afterward assembled at an anti-government meeting, where epeeches denouncing the government were delivered from several stands. While passing the palace tho crowd made an earnest demonstration of loyalty. A. Stanley Slessengrer Intercepted. Zanzibar, Feb. 17. It is reported that the messenger sent out by Tippoo Tib with letters for Stanley was intercepted by Arabs, and forced to return to his startingpoint. He subsequently made another attempt to reach Stanley by a different route. Foreign Notes. The Chicago and All-America base-ball 1 1 A - A 1 icams arrived at apies yesieroay. Among the passengers on board tho steamer Etruria, which sailed from Queenstown for New York yesterday, are the Archbishop of San Francisco, the Bishop of New Orleans, Sir Baehe Cunard, Mr. Joseph B. Hughes, United States consul at Birmingham, and Mr. Willoughby Walling, United States consul at Leith. The Duke of Newcastle, whom many Americnns will remember from his recent trip to New York, is to be married to Mis Candy on Wednesday at the Church of All Saints, in Margaret street. Loudon. It will be a very early wedding, tfcSO being the hour fixed. Two little pages will carry the bride's train of silver brocade, and the wedding will bo fairly grand. m Belle Starr's Diary St. Louis, Feb. 17. Advices from the Indian Territory say that the journal, or diary, of Belle Starr, the noted female bandit of the Territory, has been obtained' from tho Starr ranch. Belle intended to publish it as an autobiography. The matt ter contained therein is renlete with thrilling incidents of personal adventure, but

tho most remarkable features of all are certain disclosures concerning crimes in Texas and the Indian Territory, which will tend to prove that innocent men have been sentenced on various oecasions. It is also a matter of curiosity that the names of prominent persons are connected with certain crimes that have been committed within recent years, borne of the sketches in the journal are lively and humorous. 8H3UETAEY BATAED.

He FoUows Grover's Example and Makes a Defense of His AHejred Administration. Baltimore, ML, Feb: 17. A Washington special to tho Baltimore Sun, based on conversations held with Mr. Bayard, gives an outline of the policy which has controlled the actions of the Department of State during the past four years: "It has been frequently asserted that Mr. Bayard has had no policy, whereas he has all along had a very definite and a peculiarly American policy. He believes that the American people have a higher and a nobler destiny than that of swaggering about among tho nations of the earth, 'daring somebody, to use a homely expression, 'to knock a chip off their shoulder.' He thinks it is their mission to take tho lead among nations in substituting pacific methods for force in settling international disputes. Mr. Bayard's theory of statesmanship is that nothing should be done to disturb or imperil our peaceful conditions, but that, on the contrary, the highest duty of the patriot is to contribute as far as he can toward their development. His idea is that the military spirit is to be discouraged in a republic, except in so far as it is necessary for purposes of defense. 'Encourage the military spirit in this country,' says Mr. Bayard, audyou would soon have a war. War necessarily means an army, and if once the military spirit got thorough possess' in of tho people, this army wonld become a permanent establishment.' Air. Bayard, commenting upon the clamor in certain quarters over the Samoa episode, said: What is it they want mo to do to provoKeawan laon i believe the people want me to plunge them into war. If they want war they must get another Secretary of State.' Another favorite idea of Mr. Bayard is the neutralization of certain territories which are useful to all the powers and incapable of defense. without disproportionate cost, bv an v one of them. He instances the neutralization of the Suez canal by the common consent of the European powers as an example of tho benefits tq be secured by tho application of this principle. Some similar arrangement would have to be entered into to protect the interests of this country if a ship-canal across the Isthmus of Panama is built. It would not be sufficient protection for the United States to have control of 6uch a canal. The only adequate protection is to be secured by neutralization of the canal by consent of all the powers. Mr. Bayard sought to apply this principle of neutralization by international agreements in relation to the Samoan islands. A proposition that the United States should guarantee the independence of these islands seemed to him to be unwise, for the reason that to guarantee the neutrality of an independent sovereignty, especially one as weak as Samoa, would be to expose this country to the constant risk of embroilment through the relations of Samoa with other powers. We would become responsible for whatever Samoa might choose to do. without the power to regulate her conduct. It would he the cheap way to annex the islands at once, for in assuming the responsibility of guaranteeing their independence we would be governing their actions toward other nations. To do this would require great forts in Pagopago and a large llect in the Pacific ocean 01 American men-of-war, and then Samoa would not be as safe as by the neutralization policy. Tho Secretary looks upon the rejection of the fisheries, Chinese, aud other treaties as unfortunate to the country. He does not regard tho action of the Stnut as involving any discredit upon his action. . RACE WAR THREATENED. Alarming Reports Concerning the Condition of Affairs in North Carolina. New York, Feb. 17. An Atlanta, Ga., special to the Herald says: "North Carolina is on the verge of a terrible race war, growing out of the negro exodus. All railroad emigrant agents have been driven out of the State. The local military companies have been called out in Wayne county to aid the farmers in preventing desertion ot their laborers. Tho whites have asked the Legislature for a law covcringthe case, aud the blacks have retaliated by calling public meetings, at which resolutions were adopted declaring that their treatment by the whites makes life in the State unbearable. The resolutions adopted at a monster meeting in Goldsboro contained this clause: "God is the head of the move, and not tho Richmond & Danville Railroad Company. The voice of John Brown is sounding in the ears of the sons of Ham, and the great Southwest says, 'Come, we have lands,' and the oppressed conscience of the negro says, 'Go,' and wo are going. 11 A gentleman who hos just come from North Carolina sa3s that tho outbreak may bo expected at any moment. Both whites and blacks are heavily armed. Governor Scales has issued secret orders to the State militia to get ready to quell possible outbreaks. The North Carolina newspapers conceal the critical nature of the situation. A TERRIBLE CEIME. A Farmer Comes Ilome Drunk and Kills His Wife, Two Daughters and a Servant. pAUKEnsnunG. W. Va., Feb. 17. News has reached here from Elizabeth, in Wirt county, that a terrible crime was committed near there, Friday night, John Elsmer, a prosperous farmer, and formerly a local prcachei went home drunk and beat his wife because his supper was not ready. He then worked himself into a frenzy of rage, and, seizing a heavy poker, brained his wife and his two daughters, aged respectively twelve and seventeen, and also killed tho hired girl. Ho then set fire to the house and burned their bodies. He is in jail at Wirt Court-house, aud tho sheriff has a strong guard to prevent lynching, if possible. Klsmer claims that thieves did the terrible work. Foioned ljr Santap. Philadelphia, Feb. 17. Last Tuesday evening one of the children of August 1'emman was sent to a neighboring butcher shop for meat and was given some half smoked sausage, of which she and her two sisters ate quite heartily. On Thursday Gertrude, aged seven, was taken ill with symptoms of poisoning, and on tho two succeeding days Margaret, aged five, and Frieda, aged eight, were also taken sick with similar symptoms. All were removed to tho hospital, where Gertrude and Margaret died, and Frieda has but little if any chance of recovering. Two other daughters were taken with convulsions, and were removed to tho hospital, but will recover, as they eat very sparingly of the sausage. The Grand L.ake Coal Company. New Orleans, Feb. 17. The failuro of the Grand Lake. Coal Company, of Pittsburg, has led to important suits being filed here. One is brought against Joseph B. Williams by the Fort Pitt National Bank, of Pittsburg, for $03,000; another by the Mechanics' National Bank, of Pittsburg, against Joseph B. Williams, for $00,U0. Attachments have been issued. It is alleged that during a storm, last August, tho Grand Lake Coal Company lot, by the sinking of coal boats on the lower Mississippi nearly $500,000. Everybody Is Welcomed. New Yoke, Feb. 17. At the services in St. Thomas's Church, to-day, the pastor took occasion to deny Superintendent Williams's statement that strangers were not welcome, and said that the church desired everybody to come, and would give them eeats wherever possible. -

MB. CKEADLE ON TENSIONS

The Xintli District Congressman Again Urges Adherence to the General Laws, Claiming that the Practice of Granting Extra Amounts Is Wrong and a Violation of the Principle of Equal Citizenship. Judge Moody's Earnest and Effective Work in Securing Dakota Statehood. Extraordinary Activity in Social Circle of the Capital Grorer Wants No Hore Visiters The Washington Cabinet Slate, EXTRA TENSIONS TO WIDOWS. Sir. Cheadle Agala Kxpl&lns His Position as to This Class of Legislation. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Wasiungtox, Feb. 1C The hill to in. crease the pension of the widow of Brigadier-general Plummer from $50 to $73 a month was passed by a vote of to to 84 yesterday. General Browne, of Indiana, called up the biiL Mr. Galliugcr, of New Hampshire, called attention to the fact that, in tho Forty-eighth Congress, three biUs wero enacted. increasing the pensions of widows of enlisted men above the amount allowed by general law Julia A. Chambers, from fS to 20; Polly Young, from $3 to $00, and Mary A. Grennon, from S to $16 a month. In the Forty-ninth Congress, two Isabella J. Ramsdell, from $12 to 630, aDd Elizabeth. Lehman, from $13 to $23; and in the Fiftieth Congress, one Martha Woodrura, from $13 to $50 a month, thus answering the challenge of Mr. Cheadle, made a week ago, to find one such bill and name it. Mr. GalRnger declared that the widow of an officer should be granted more than the widow of an enlisted man, and that they could not be legislated equah The Journal correspondent caUcd the attention of Mr. Cheadle to these cases, and to tho debate, which was participated in by Kerr, of Iowa; Browne, of Indiana; Gallinger, of New Hampshire, and Cheadle, of Indiana, Yes," said Mr. Cheadle, m six years they find six instances where more than tho 3 or $12 per month has been allowed. What aro tho facts! Julia A. Chambers was the daughter of an old soldier and the widow of an enlisted man who died after serviug about fifty years. Sho testified that her life had been spent in the service with her father and husband, and she was given $00 in view of her services. Polly Young was ninety-three years old. She was a widow of the war of 1812, and in view of her age she was given 0 the same that is granted the widows of generals, under the general law. Mary A. Grennan. was the widow of a soldier who was killed Jan. 1, ISoj, while getting a drink at & spring, and was reported a deserter. The widow's claim was rejected by the Pension Office, and the committee in Congress ronorted adversely, but the House, as a Eartial recognition of the great wrong dono is memory, granted her $10 a month. Isabella J. Kamsdell was the aced widow of an aged marine. She showed that she was erippicd by nursing her husband, who "had paralysis. She was, in view of her crippled condition, granted $.'(, tho maximum sum paid by tho general law. Elizabeth Lelfman, was 6evcnty-six years old, and infirm, and in the language of the report, in very needy circumstances,' and so Congress actually gave her $35 a month. "Theso five cases ehow that in no instance did. Congress go beyond the Hmit of the general law. It did say that, for special reasons, theso claimants shall be granted, -the pension paid widows of officers, notwithstanding they were only widows of enlisted men. Congress did not in any case go beyond the amount authorized to be paid by general law. "Martha Woodrum was granted $50 by the Fiftieth Congress; I will quote from 'the report: 'Old, totally blind, and in extreme poverty.' No man could vote against a special pension for her, and to grant it was a righteous act. I do not object to cases like these quoted; but the- are not the motives which control in granting the pension to-day. Mrs. Plummer draws 850 a month, she has property, that rents for $300 a month; the &X) a month she now draws is the amount agreed upon by tho pension committee to be paid to the widows of brigadier generals, and yet she is granted $75. The principle is wrong, and I try to oppose it. I know that if there is any one principle in our political system that is more clearly defined and declared than any other, it is the equality of citizenship before the law, and yet these special laws trample this principle in the dust. Unless this pernicious policy is abandoned, our government can not exist. There cannot be classes here in America short of revolution. The only 6emrfi nolirv to nnrsue is to errant every pen sion liy general laws wherein, for similar disabilities, every pensioner shall receive; thts same pension. This wonld be iust, and in perfect harmony with the whole theory of our government, while the special system is at war with every principle in our system." THE NEW STATES. South Dakota Will Come in by rroclamatlon -Judge 3roodys Effective Work. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Feb. 17. fc'enator-elect Moody, of South Dakota, expects to see the omnibusbill which admits the Dakotas, Washington and Montana Territories to statehood finally passed by both houses of Congress during the coming week. He says South Dakota, already having a Constitution, will come into statehood by the President's proclamation about next May, in plenty of time to enable tho Senators and Congressmen to participate in tho Fiftyfirst Congress. Too much credit cannot be given Judge Moody for the work he has done during tho past fonr or five years for Dakota statehood. He has given much of his time to tho work, and, since he is a lawyer of the highest type, with a very lare practice, his time is valuable. He is the attorney for the Homestake Mining Coin1any, of Dead wood, in which fcenator learst, of California, is largely interested, and has been absent from his post of professional duties almost half of tho time during the past two years, laboring for what is to bo accomplished at the hands of this Cougress. In Washington he has probably done more than any other man forstatchood, and his constituents appreciato the fact. He stands very high, not only with men in Congress, but with all tho prominent public men in Washington, as well as the Northwest. AN UNNECESSARY CAUCUS. The Democrats Will Merely Wate Time Talking About the Tariff Hills. Special to tli IndUnapolla Journal. Washington, Feb. 17. It is quite unnecessary for the Democratic members of the House to hold a caucus on the tarifl question to-morrow night. It is, in fact, immaterial what course is taken now ou any of tho revenue measures on the Houso calendar. None of them are to be finally voted upon, except the resolution of 3Ir. Mills declaring the Senate substitute unconstitutional. Nevertheless there is to be a caucus, and it is to be determined what rourso shall bo pursued for the purpose of impressing the country with the untruth that the Democrats are willing to compromise on a tariff incisure o