Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1889 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1889.

ola building on the Park square immediately north of and across Pennsylvania avenu from the White House. The venerable Senator Morrill of Vermont, has two r three times advocated the construction Cf a family residence for tho President, presenting plans for it and sneaking in its beBalf, nd he will probably renew his efforts at the approaching session of Conpress. Every day the necessity of snch provision is more and more seen, not altoget her on account of the cramped condition of the family of the President' in its present quarters and the unhealthy condition of the old building, but on account of the necessity of more room in which to transact the public business. There has been a complete rearrangement of the rooms for the clerks at tho White House, so as to utilize the space to the best possible advantage, and yet ail are crowded. Two clerks have been put in the telegraph office, while another is at work in one of the outer waiting-rooms. There is no privacy for the President, his private secretary, or any one. The space on the second floor is occupied, every inch of it. Now, that there is a surplus, a necessity and a Republican majority, it is proposed to take action for the building of a private residence for the executive family. THE WHITE-HOUSE LADIES.

Jin. Harrison Recovering: from Her Illness Mrs. Russell Harrison and Mrs McKee. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington-, March 24. Mrs. Harrison expects to be out again before the end of the week. She has rapidly recovered from her illness during the past twenty-four hours, and anticipates much pleasure during the spring and summer months visiting the country surrounding Washington. So great has been the fatigue of handshaking within the paat three weeks that Mrs. Harrison's hands still bear the marks of cordial grips from sincere but thoughtless constitu ents of her husband. The President, also, has experienced the ill-cftect of this promiscuous habit of greeting. For this reason has the determination on the part of both been reached to set the much-needed precedent of receiving with a simple inclination of the head the masses of the people whom curiosity or chance induce to call at the publio receptions. At the last reception to the general public by Mrs. Cleveland, the wearied hostess, though ready to drop from fatigue, stood smilingly with outstretched hand to greet between seven and eight thousand callers. To days Post says: "Mrs. Russell Har rison is a daughter of ex-Senator Saunders, of Omaha, where the latter owns a hand some estate of four acres in the heart of the town, where Mrs. Harrison has resided, with her parents ever since the birth of her infant, now fourteen, months old and named Marthena after its maternal grand mother, a name of Spanish origin. Mrs. Harrison was a graduate of Mrs. Archer's school in this city, where she won first honors. The teacher of mathematics at the institute paid her a hiah compliment when he pronounced her the best mathematician he nad ever met. It was shortly after her graduation, while she was the guest of Secretary and Mrs. Lincoln, that sue lirst met Mr. Kussell Harrison, then home from the West on a visit to his parents, and upon the return of Senator Saunders to his native State, at the expiration of his term in the Senate, the marriage between the two was solemnized. Mr. Harrison owns a beauti ful home in Helena. M. T to which they will shortly return, much to the regret of the President and Mrs. Harri son, who arc warmly attached to their attractive daughter-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison will go to NewYork, where they will attend the centennial ball of the oOth of April, previous to their hnai departure for their Helena home. "Mrs. McKee, President Harrison's daughter, was four years- ago married to Mr. McKee, a wealthy merchant of Indianap olis, and has, with her nusband, con tinued to reside with her parents ever since, and at present forms one of the household at the executive mansion. where she assists her mother in all tho ardnous duties of her position. Mrs. Mc Kee has ever been a popular favorite, and during her school davs. the latter portion of which Vere spent in Washington, made many lasting friendships among her companions. She is of medium height, with dark brown hair and eyes, and is a bright conversationalist. Her manners are quiet and.rcrned. and as she intends to remain with her parents as heretofore, will doubt less prove a decided attration to the list of White House favorites. Mr. and Mrs. Mc Kee have two children, a boy and girl, tho first. Benjamin Harrison, acred two years. and the youngest, a baby of eight months." ISTHMIAN TRANSIT. Brilliant Outlook for Completion of the Nicaragua Canal Within Five Years. Washington Special to New York Herald. The Nicaraguan Canal Construction Com pany have selected a board of eminent civil engineers of this country, not connect ed with the canal company, for the purpose of determining for the guidance of the canal company important details about the cost of construction. The company means to proceed upon accurate information, and while it has the utmost confidence in the report of the engineers who have been on the ground for the last eighteen months making surveys and borings of every sec tion of the proposed route, it means to verify their reports. The engineers select ed have been at work upon the detailed surveys fo a month past and have com pleted their report, which will be submit ted to the company within a few days. The engineers working in Nicaragua have of late made some important improvements in the direction of shortening the line of excavation, which have resulted in reducing it about ten miles. Instead of forty mile sof cutting being necessary, as was at first an ticipated, but twenty-eight miles will bo required. A feature of the route which has the approval of the board of American engineers is the introduction of two large basins short distances from the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. These basins not only save between ten and twelve miles of excavation heretofore calculated upon, but practically double the capacity of the canal for the passage of vessels, inasmuch as they afford increased facilities for the passage f vessels by each other while in transit across the peninsula. Ihe canal will be built with a view to the accommodation of the largest seagoing ships. The locks are to be Goo feet long, 70 ieei wide anu ou ieei ueep. Allowing a liberal amount of time for lockage it will require twenty-live hours for a vessel to ma e the passage from sea to sea, a distance of lti9 miles. Although the route is 169 miles in length but twenty-eight miles of excavation aro necessary. The remainder of the distance is made up by free open navigation in Lake Nicaragua, the ban Jnan river and adjacent basins, through which vessels may proceed at full speed. The great question viz., that of securing the necessary capital to build tho canal, the oftiers say. is solved. Tho company is preparing plans and snccifiations, and receiving estimates for the requisite material and supplies in order to begiuwork at an early day. All sources from which labor can be drawn have been thoroughly explored. Inquiry is. also being made with regard to machinery, tools, etc. The col lapse of the Panama scheme removes a factor of competition in the world's markets for labor and supplies of this character. The avidity with which some of the largest contractors in this country have entered upon an investigation of material available at Panama has had the effect of convincing the stockholders of the Nicaraguan Canal Company of tho fortunate position they occupy in being able almost to dictate the price at which this enormons plant can be had. The calculation of the engineers as to the length of time reqnircd to complete the canal is five years at the most, and it is thought that it maybe less because im provements in the methods and appliances used in such construction are constantly going on. PLEASED WITH WIND O 31. General Browne Finds II lm the Nicest Man Connected with the Administration. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington', March 24. General Browne is the oldest member of Congress from Indi ana, and he naturally receives more appli cations for office than any of his colleagues.

He is kept running from morning till night to the departments and the White House. Yesterday afternoon I met him on the street.

looKing very xireu. in relating nis experiences of the day, he said: "I have just visueu me nicest man connecicu nu iuis administration. I was not very much in favor of the appointment of Secretary vYindom, for political reasons, but I am his best friend now. lie nas comDletelv captivated me. I have jnst been over to the Treasury Department urging the appointment of one ot my con stituents. After receiving my indorsements And hearing my arguments, the Secretary sat down and in the most fascinating manner explained to me why he could not apomt my man. lie did it bo good natureuy and in such a thoroughly gentlemanly manner that I actually nave greater re spect for him than if he had granted the appointment without any explanation. I will be blessed if it doesn't do a man's sonl cood to haul up in an oasis like the treasury department, where ho is treated in 6iich a thoroughly respectfnl manner, and where lie meets such a polished gentleman." MINOR MATTERS. Delay In Getting the New Naval Gun Plant In Complete Working: Operation. Washington, March 24. Work at the naval gun plant, in this city, has been delayed somewhat this week by tho non-arrival of the forging 3 for the eight-inch guns. These are contracted for with the Bethlehem Steel Company, but failure to procure the necessary material has caused a temporary let-down in the work at the foundry. Congress last year appropriated for the improvement of the plant and the erection of the necessary buildings the sum of $1,000,000, and the last Congress supplemented this sum by giving $025,000 addi tional The Bureau of Ordnance contracted, some time ago, for the purchase of the im proved new tools and machinery, and it is now being received. Owing to the build ings not being entirely finished, none of the machinery has been set up as 3et, but it is expected the buildings will be under root by the latter part of April, there are now 025 men employed in the foundry, but owing 10 ine non-arrivai or xne necessary material, some of this force has been suspended. This, however, is only temporary. Didn't Recognize the New Secretary. Washington, March 1M. Tho Washing ton Post says: "Over at the Pension Build ing they are telling this on General Black. Soon after Secretary Noble assumed his duties as Secretary of the Department of the Interior, he made the rounds of the dif ferent rooms to familiarize himself with the general outline of the work. In a corner of the Pension Office he held some conversation with one of the lady clerks, and while they were talking General Black came along. JSo one must interfere with or delay the work of any employe of this department.' said he in his sternest tones. Evidently he had not recognized the new secretary." Presidential Sight-Seers. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, March 24. The good peo ple of the Church of the Covenant thought it would bo a great card for them to rent a pew to the President, but it turns out to have been a nuisance, for public curiosity to see him is so great that the church is crowded every Sabbath morning with strangers and citizens of Washington who would not enter the sanctuary for anv other reason. The throng has become so great that the trustees of the church aro compelled to have policemen to keep order and prevent strangers from crowding into pews where they do not belong. General Notes. .Special to the IndlauapoUs Journal. Washington, March 24. To-day's Herald says: 'Maj. John F. Wildman, editor of the Muncie Times, of Muncie, Iiid., is in tho city, the guest of his brother-in-law, Capt. A. F. McMillan, at No. 1311 Wallack place. ihe Major was very active in the last cam paign: was a delegate to Chicago, and an original Harrison man. Major Wildman served from beginning to end of the war. carrying a musket- two years of the time. and leaving the service with the rank or inaior. Col. John C. New arrived this afternoon. He Will receive his commission as consulgeneral to London and be given tho usual instructions. Mrs. Fuller will go to Chicago to-morrow or Tuesday to see her daughter and new son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Aubery. The friends of ex-United States Senator J. A. Creswell, of Maryland, will push that gentleman for the vacancy on the Supreme Bench. Mr. Creswell was a mem ber of General urant s Cabinet. Senator Faulkner, a Democratic Senator from West Virginia, yesterday called upon the President and presented the papers in the case of Mr. R. K. McMahont of that State, who is an applicant for Civil-service VUUiUlidSlUUCi, TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The American sugar refinery has ad vanced the price of sugar one-quarter of a cent per pound, and the California retinery has lollowed with an advance of one-eighth. "liuudv" L.ee, a colored puodier, was shot and instantly killed, at Pittsburg. yesterday, shortly after 2 o'clock, by Charles Allen, also colored. Allen was intoxicated and imagined that Lee had insulted his wife. Four steamships landed 1,930 immigrants at Castle Garden yesterday. The Etruria, from Liverpool, brought 746; La Champaign, iroin navre, oyo; uiiy oi umcago. trom Liverpool, iX, and tho Polynesia, from Hamburg, 2o. Tho employes in tho machine-shops of the Pennsylvania Railway Company, at Altoona, were notified Saturday that hereafter nine hours will be considered a day's work, with a half holiday on baturdays. this atlects about 4.UUU men. At "Worcester Mass., Albert Endstrom shot Lmily Sheckt, mortally wounding her, and then put a bullet into his own head, causing instant death. The woman is not expected to live twenty-four hours. She had refused to marry him. John Brooks, a white man of means, was struck by a south-bound freight train, near Brooke Station, Va., Saturday night. Ho was shockingly bruised and his left thigh mangled. Ho died at midnight. Brooks was thirty-nine years of age and leaves a young wire. Tho Democrats of Brooklyn have de termined to erect in that city a building similar to Tammany Hall, ot New York. They will expend gSO.OOO for a site and 100,000 for the building. The sum of 73,000 has already been secured, of which $5,000 was subscribed by Mayor Uhapm. John Kessler. a New York saloon-kceoer. quarreled with his wife, Fannio, on the night of tho 7th iust., and attempted to strike her. She retaliated, and cither by a blow or a push threw him down the stairway. His skull was fractured and he died yesterday. Mrs. Kessler is under arrest. Natural gas having been discovered in tho vicinity of Aitkin, Mich., a natural-gas and oil company is about to be formed, with a capital stock of $1,000,000. A large amount ot land has been secured, and it is expected that work will commence as soon as the necessary arrangements can be perlected. In a cavo on the western side of Bear's mouutian. near Cumberland, Md., over looking the Cumberland narrows, a boy named Daniel Scraum yesterday found a human skeleton, upon investigation it proved to be the remains of John Hodel, an inventor of Cumberland, who, several years ago, left his home in a lit of despondency and had not since been heard from. It is apparent that he took his life. A large party of tramps boarded a freighttrain on the Pittsburg & Lake Erie rail way near Allmuinna. Pa.. Saturday night. and for live hours held tho train, refusing to allow the crew to move the train unless permitted to ride on it. A telegram was 6cnt to Pittsburg for assistance, and a special train, with otlicers, was sent to the rescue. Twelve tramps were arrested, but a large number of others escaped. Those arrested were sent to the work-house. W. T. Lewla Vindicated. uolumbus, u., March im. the com mittee which has been investigating the charges brought against exMaster Workman W. T. Lewis, exsecretary of the Miners Progressive Union, by the Knights of Labor, findsLewis guilty oi uemg connected with the railroad com pany, but that he was not guilty of charging both the railroad company and the Union $IS5 for expenses, as charged.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS. .

Horrible Effects of a Dynamite Explosion Cause Aaron York to Become Insane. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PERU.Ind.. March 24. Aaron York, who so carelessly placed dynamite in a cook-stove last evening, causing the death of his wife and daughter, is insane from grief, and has repeatedly attempted self-destruction since the accident. The scene at tho house is a horrible one. Tho mother was completely diserabowled and her head and an arm were almost torn ofL The daughter was in almost a similar condition. The three children in adjoining rooms were only stunned. It is supposed that York accidentally placed a cap with the three pounds oi explosive he was drying in the stove, thereby causing the explosion. The explosion was felt four wiles away, Indiana Notes. Wanatah is to have a new Christian church. Seventv-five employes of the Portland butter-tub factory are on strike. Miami county is making an effort to abol ish the few remaining toll-roads in the vicinity of Peru. Woodville. Porter county, is the greatest sassafras shipping point in the State. About a ton a day is shipped to Chicago. Frank Sherick. living near Westfield, was recently kicked in the stomach by a horse. Since then he has been unable' to speak above a whisper. An incendiary lire destroyed the farm res idence of B. W . McCowan. near Wabash, on Saturday. Loss, 2,000; insured for $1,S00 in the Northwestern company of Milwaukee. The furniture factory of Ash & Hadley, at Logansport, was damaged by tire on Saturday to the amount of 2,500. Stevens &. Edward's plumbing establishment was a I so wrecked. While making his first trip as a brakeman J. Lt. bhields fell under a moving train near Pekin. Washingtcfn county, on Saturday, and had a leg and a foot so badly crushed that amputation was necessary. He may recover. Professors James and Benni May, of tho Xikosi Academy at Salem, have been put in control of the DePauw Female Academy at New Albany. They are both well known in the southern part of the State as culttired Christian educators. The sixth annual reunion of the Thirtieth Indiana Veterans' Association will bo held :it Lagrange, Thursday, April 4. F. M. Vedder is president of the organization, and L. F. Welden, vice-president; H. M, Goodspeed, treasurer, and J. N. Ohlwine, Hecretary. An elaborate programme of exercises has been prepared for the, occasion. E. J. Fitch, graduate of a college of metaphysics in Chicago, has been refused a license to practice faith-healing in Steuben conntv, the clerk taking the ground that Fitchrs diploma did not come from a medical college. The question will bo referred to the Circuit Court, and if the clerk's decision is upheld by that body, the matter will go to the Supreme Court. Crawfordsville is growing testhetic in other matters besides literature. It now lias a fly-fisherman's club, whose members will cast the deceptive insect in Gen. Lew 'Wallace's favorite stream the rock-lined Sugar creek where "Shades of Death" and Turkey Run" are pleasant resting places at which Maurice Thompson and General Wallaco have often gathered inspiration. Illinois Items. Walter Kahly, a baggageman of Freeport, is under arrest for robbing pouches. Prof. E. F. Reid, of Monmouth College, died Saturday. He was a graduate of Hanover College, Indiana. A natural-gas vein that throws sand and pebbles fifty feet in the air has been struck Dear Clinton, at a depth of sixty-five feet. The Pentecost Band, a body of religious enthusiasts, have been sentenced to ten days in jail at Ottawa for blocking up the i.treets. Samuel Jacob Reiniger, a well-to-do farmer residing about eight miles north of Freeport, hung himself by the neck from a tree on his farm last Friday. Fred Weber, a German citizen of Butler, on Saturday cut the arteries in his wrists, in the hope of ending his life. Medical assistance stayed immediate death and may save his life. Felix Orsenger, charged with murdering Henry Wagner at LaSafic, in June last, has been acquitted. The evidence proved that Wagner died by apoplexy, induced by anger or excitement. Wm. Goodwin, a telegraph lineman, fell from a car near Bement. on Saturday, and received injuries from which he died shortly afterward in the hospital at Springfield. His home was in Litchfield. Charles Patterson, a hotel clerk at Decatur, was arrested on Saturday and taken to Thorntown. Ind., to answer a charge of highway robbery and attempted murder, alleged to have been committed two years ago. , DAILY WEATHKU BULLETIN. Indications. Washington. March 24, 8 p. m. For Indiana, Illinois, Lower Michigan, Upper Michigan, and Wisconsin Fair, preceded by light rain in southern portions of Illinois and Indiana; slightly cooler; northerly winds. For Minnesota, Dakota and Iowa Fair; cooler; variable winds. Local Weather Report. Indianapolis. March 24.

Time. liar. Iher. lt.ll. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7 a.m. 30.02 41 04 Calm Ft. cloudy 7 p.m. 29.7(3 59 31 Veast Pt, Cloudy

Maximum thermometer, G4; minimum thermometer, 37. Following is a comparative statement of tho condition of temperature and precipitation on March 24, 1889: Tern. Precin. Normal W 0.12 Mean 50 O.OO Departure from normal 12 0.12 Excess or deficiency since March 1. 122 1.74 Excess or deficiency since Jau. 1 . . . 1 12 4.32 Plus. General Observations. Indianapolis, March 247 p. m.

TherrnovteVr s t 5 Station, 2 b- fe fc- Weather, New York city. 29.72 64 .. 54 .... Cloudless. Buffalo, X.Y... 39.72 38 .. 42 .... Cloudy. Phirdelphia.Pa29.7e 52 .. 64 .... Cloudless. Pittsburg, Pa.. 29.7v 6C .. 64 Cloudy. Wash'ton, D. C. 29.74 5C . . 6G .. . . Pt. Cloudy. Cbarleston,8.C. 23.72 62 .. 62 .03 Cloudy. Atlanta, Oa 29.66 50 .. 54 .26 Ha in. Jacks'nv'le,Fla 29.76 70 .. 74 T Cloudy. Pen?acola, Fin. 29.76 60... 64 .... Cloudless. Montjr'm'rr.Ai. 29.66 66 .. 7C .... Pt. Cloudy. Vicksburff.Miss 29.70 54 .. 62 .44 Cloudy. X. Orleans, La. 29.80 54 .. 64 .... Cloudless. Little Rock. Ark 29.70 48 .. CO .56 Rain. Galveston, Tex 29.88 58 .. 62 .... Cloudless. S'nAntanio.T'x 29 94 60 .. 66 .... Cloudless. Memphis, Tenn 29.6$ 50 .. B0 .30 Rain. NashviIle,Tenn 29.66 48 .. 50 .so Rain. Louisville, Ky. 29.76 52 .. 58 .06 Kain. Indlan'pUs, Ind 29.76 36 64 .... Pt. Cloudy. Cincinnati, O.. 29.74 58 .. 64 .... Cloudy. Cleveland, O... 29.72 54 .. CO .... Cloudy. Toledo, 0 29.72 54 .. 64 .... Cloudless. Marqette.Mich 29.98 26 .. 32 .... Cloudless. 8.8t.MariMicb 29.90 26 38 .... Cloudless. Chicajro, Hi.... 29.82 40 40 62 .... Cloudless. Cairo, 111 29.76 48 4S 56 .14 Rain. Hpringlleld, 111. 29.&0 60 40 C4 .... Cloudless. Mllwaukee.Wls 29.82 38 .. 64 .... Cloudless. Duluth. Minn.. 30.00 34 .. 44 .... Cloud lens, fct Paul, Minn. 29.84 CO .. 60 .... Cloudless. Mooreh'd,Mlnn!29.94 56 .. C6 .... Cloudless. fct.Vinc'nt.Ml'n 30.02 44 .. 56 .... Cloudless. Davenport, la. 29.78 60 36 66 .... Cloudless. Dubuque, la... 29.80 62 34 70 .... Cloudless. Des Moines. la. 29.86 cs 28 66 .... Cloudless. Pt. Louis, Mo 44 Kans's Citv.Mo 29.88 60 42 64 .... Cloudless. It. 8ilLInd.Ter 29.96 48 42 60 .10 fcnow. Dodce City. K's 30.00 52 32 58 .... Cloudless. Omaha, Neb... 29.92 CO 34 C6 .... Cloudless. N. Platte, Neb. 29.98 66 2 CO .... Cloudless. Valentine, Neb. 29.94 64 82 76 .... Cloudless. Yankton, D. T. 29.90 62 32 C8 .... Cloudless. Ft. Sully, D. T. 29.90 58 .. 66 .... Cloudless. Bismarck. D.T. 29.92 62 .. 68 .... Cloudless. Ft.Uuford,D.T. 29.88 66 ... 72 .... Cloudless. P.Arth'r's L'd'e 29.98 36 .. 56 .... Cloudless. Ou'Apelle. N.W 29.80 62 .. 66 .... PL Cloudy. t.Asvnah'ne,M ao.io go .. 64 .... Pt. Cloudy. Helena, M.T... 30.08 64 .. 60 .... Cloudy. Ilolse City, I. T. 30.16 66 38 58 .02 Pt. Cloudy. Cheyenne, W.T. 29.94 60 24 68 .... Cloudless. FLMcK'n'yWT 29.84 CO 38 64 .... Cloudless. Ft.WashakIe,V 30.00 50 28 60 .... Cloudless. Denver, Col.... 29.96 56 28 68 .... Cloudless. Fu eblo. Col.... 30.04 54 20 58 .... Pt. Cloudy. fcanta'Fe.N.M. 30.32 46 24 62 .... Cloudless. Bait Lake City. 30.08 48 40 48 .... Cloudy.

T-Trace of precipitation. Surprised the Canadians. Ottawa, March 21. -A sensation has been created here by the issue of President Harrison's proclaim-

tion declaring Behring sea a closed 6ea. The action of the United States government proved a complete surprise to members of the Dominion government, who decline to be interviewed on the subject.

A IteTolt Promptly Suppressed. Cincinnati, O., March 24. This morning, about 11 o'clock, thirty-five out of one hundred and sixty boys at the House of Kefugo made a break for liberty. They were from ten to fifteen years old, aud were uuder four leaders, tho chief of whom was a negro. These boys, when it came time for them to retire to their rooms preparatory for dinner, instead of doing so marched in a body, armed with base-ball bats, to the front entrance, where thev found four guards stationed. They demanded free passage, but were driven back. Then they used bats and rocks, breaking in windows and doing damage to the extent of not above $25 dollars. They were so noisy that their whooping and shouting excited and alarmed people in the streets outside tho walls and caused widely exaggerated rumors to spread, which, reaching the ears of the police, caused them to voluntarily send two patrol wagons with fifteen officers to the scene. In less than three-fourths of an hour from the outbreak the four ring-leaders were locked up in their rooms and everything was quiet. All except the four conspirators appeared at the dinner table at noon and at chapel exercises in the afternoon, as nsnal. The ring-leader wero participants in a similar outbreak two years ago. Superintendent Oliver says no one was even hurt and that there is perfect order to-night. Business Embarrassments. Worcester, Mass., March SM.The Milliard Art Publishing Company, of this city, organized two years ago with a capital of $150,000 and $50,000 in designs, has failed. The failure is attributed to Bulla id's poor business management. Marquette, Mich.; Maich&.Owing to heavy losses incurred in the construction of the branch State prison at this place the Ishpeming building firm of Wahtmann & Grip was forced to make an assignment on Saturday, tho assigned beinjr K. H. Hall, of Ishpeming. The liabilities will reach $100,000. Tho firm has been largely engaged in the construction of the better class of public and private buildings in the Lake Superior country for several years, and enjoyed excellent credit until itu prison contract swamped it. Steamship News. New York, March 124. Arrived: City of Chicaeo, from Liverpool; La Bretagne, from Havre. Holyhead, March 24. Passed: Umbria, from New York for Liverpool. Liverpool, March 24. Arrived: Runic, from New York. Havre, March24. Arrived: La Gascogne from New York. VELOCITIES. Determining: the Bate of Travel of Light, Sound and Electricity. American Analyst. From an observation of the eclipses of Jupiter's first satellite in 1675, Romer, a Danish astronomer, first deduced the velocity of light, his calculations establishing for it a velocity of 190,000 miles per second. M. Foucault succeeded in determining the velocity of light experimintally by means of an apparatus based upon the use of the rotating mirror, and calculated it to be 185,157 miles per second. In 1849 M. Fizeau measured tho velocity of light, directly, by ascertaining the time it took to travel from Suresnes to Montmartro (a distance of 28,334 feet) and back again, making a total travel of five and three-quarter miles, nearly. Ho made use of a toothed wheel revolving at certain known velocities, a pencil of ravs being transmitted through an interval between two teeth of the wheel, which was placed at Suresnes, and were reflected by a mirror placed at Montmartre, through a series of tubes and lenses directly back of the wheel. He found the velocity of light to be 198,000 miles per second. The mean of tho three values above given is 190,385 miles, and the value generally taken as the velocity of light very nearly agrees with it, being 190,000 miles per second. "Wheatstone, by the emnloyment of a rotating mirror and an interrupted coil to give sparks, ascertained the velocity of electricity to be 288.000 miles per second. KirchofF estimated this velocity in a wire, where it met with no resistence, to be 192.924 miles per second. But. according to MM. Fizeau aud Gounelle, its velocity with an iron wire is C2t100 miles and witn a copper wire 111,TS0 miles per "second. Theso measurements, however, were made with telegraph wires, which induce opposite electricities in the surrounding media, thus producing a resistance which reduces the velocity. The nature of the conductor has some influence on the velocity, but not the thickness of the wire, nor the tension of the electricity. Direct measurements to ascertain the velocity of sound were made by Moll and Van lleck in 1S23. Two hills near Amsterdam, 57,971 feet apart, wero taken as stations, and cannon wero fired at stated intervals simultaneously at both stations, and the elapsed time between seeing the flash and hearing the sound was noted by chronometers. From these experiments the velocity of sound was estimated to be 1,092.78 feet per second in dry air. But it has been found that the velocity varies with the temperature, i. e., at 32 degrees Fahrenheit the velocity of sound is 1.090 feet per second, and that for every degree of temperature above this 1 1-4 loot must bo added to the velocity. Fogs or rains, accompanied by winds, do not interfere with the velocity of sound, but wind alone will interfere with its velocity materially. There is some reason to believe that loud sounds travel sowewhat faster than low ones, which was first remarked by Prof. Mullet while carrying on blasting near Hollj'head. In water the velocitv is abont 4,708 feet per second, nearly four times as much as m air; in wood, from 12,000 to 16,000 feet; in iron, 17,500 feet, and in copper, 10,500 feet per second. War That a German Predicts. London Figaro. Germany has now its own native Zadkiel in the person of Dr. Hubbe-Schleider, who has just boldly published a prophetic forecast for the current year. War is certain, it seems, according to the stars, and there is to be a great effusion of blood in what tho Doctor vaguely speaks of as the West. He is more definite, however, when hestates that a great nation beyond the seas will be at war with Germany before the year is out. Tho Emperor of Germany will be in danger of sudden death on four days, viz.: April 15 and 16. May 10 and 19, and the cause of his demise may bo a fit of apoplexy, a fall from his horse or a fatal wound The 10th and 13th of this present month will be unlucky days for the inhabitants of this planet generally, though Dr. HubbeSchleider does not tell us why or wherefore or how we arc to fight against the predicted bad luck. As to the weather, the Doctor promises us a stormy spring, a burning, hot summer, a dry autumn and a most severe winter. On the whole, however, he is not so specific or amusing as our own Zadkiel. Whether he is as good a prophet, I shall be better able to see this time twelve months. A Good Speculation. Philadelphia Record. Paterfamilias I am amazed, madam, that you should encourage that young man's visits to our daughter. Materfamilias My dear, he has his life insured for $20,000. "Huh! He'll beggar himself paying tho preraillms.,, "Just so. They won't be able to keep a girl, aud, as our daughter will do the cooking, it won't bo long before ho dies of dyspepsia and frhe has the $20,000." Newspaper Titles. New York Weeklr. Little Boy Pop, what's the difference between an editor-in-chiet and a managing editor! Pop (an old reporter) The editor-in-chief is the man who attends banquets and gets all the glory; the managing editor is the man who does the work. Common chickens vary in color when hatched, bnt a brood of any particular breed will, as a rule, all look alike, and will make a better appearance and growth than the common kind, while their uniformity adds to their value rather than decreases it. This applies equally well to color and size. A successful W'estern fruit-grower keeps borers from his trees bv placing small nieces of soap in the crotches of the limbs. which the rains gradually dissolve and wash down over the stem and collar. He takes cheap bar soap that is yet green aud soft, cuts it into pieces about a half-inch square and about three inches .long, and presses that into the crotch, fciuch a piece will last aoout a year.

TIIIKTY-FIVE YEARS WITII INDIANS.

Father Wiekamp's Death at Ills Michigan Monasterj Hi Great Religious Work. Petosltey (Mich.) Special. ihe funeral ot Kev. rather John E. "Wiekamp, who died at the irauciscan Monastery, at cross village, was held yesterdav. It was a most interesting and T - A. 1 1 ! 1 impressive service, not oniy uecausooi ine solemn nature ot tho ceremonies, out irom the character of those who made up the at tendance, ror thirty-hve years rather Wiekamp had been a missionary among the Indians in this part of the State. The best years of his life had been devoted to their guidance Sand instruction. Ho had been their spiritual friend and their ad viser m business an airs, and he possessed their love, esteem aud confidence. All the Indians for miles around who could reach Cross Village were in attendance at the funeral, and by their action demonstrated tho crief thev felt. Father Wiekanio was horn in Westphalia, Germany, in ISIS, and was ordained a priest at Koine in 1819. He chose the missionary field for his life's labor, came to America, and in 1854 arrived in Chicago. The following spring he came to Harbor Springs and entered upon his labors among the Indians, who had before received religious instructions from Bishop Baraga aud other Catholic pioneers. The Indians at Cross Village, a small settle ment on the lake shore a dozen miles north of the snrincs. seemed to be more in need of spirtual advice, and in 1856 he located there. At that time thero were not a dozen white men in this part of the country. The north was a wilderness, and the only means of communication were tho Indian trails to Muskegon and Grand Rapids, and by water with Chicago and around tho lakes to Detroit. Tho Indians, though partially civilized, lived in the crudest manner possible on the fish and game they caught and on the small crops of corn the squaws managed to raise. To suport, himself, and not to be a burden on the Indians, Father Wiekamp, by his own labor, cleared a small farm. Lacking the necessary implements, the first crop of "wheat he raised was cut with knives. He toiled early and late, and sought by precept and example to inculcate principles of morality and industry among the Indians. Finding his work too arduous, he founded a monastery of the Franciscan order, and for thirty years was at tho head of the institution. Under his direction a magnificent farm was cut out of the virgin forest. He built a saw-mill and a grist-mill almost the first of the kind in this part of the State. The monastery building is two stories in height, constructed of logs, cased with boards on the outside, and painted white. Simple homes were erected as their need was felt, and all the structures are of logs and all are painted white. The f arm is situated on a rolling piece of ground, sloping toward Lake Michigan, which spreads out before it. The monastery, mills, barns and outhouses can be seen from a long distance, and present a picturesque view from tho passmgsteamers. The property is valued at $20,000. and is all the result of the work of Father Wiekamp and the Franciscan brothers. Near the monastery that he erected Father Wiekamp built a small chapel, in which he spent at least an hour every day in meditation and devotion. In the floor of the chapel was a deep open grave, which he dug himself, and for years nis hour of prayer was passed beside the grave, and in this grave his body reposes. The funeral services were conducted by the Franciscans of the monastery and those who are located at Harbor Springs, assisted by all the Catholic clergy in this part of the State. There are nearly one hundred Indian families at Cross Village, with but few exceptions Catholics, and they were all in attendance, from the aged brave to tho smallest papoose. Nearly all the Indians of Harbor Springs and in this vicinity went to pay their respects to the memory of the dead, going on foot and in wagons over the rough road. They all loved the departed father, who for thirty-five years had officiated at all their ceremonies, whether of joy or sorrow, and while the mourning was not demonstrative, it was none the less sincere. TO GUARD YOUR UMBRELLA. Amusing Invention for the Care of Parlolners and Mistaken" Persons. Chicago Tribune. A party of gentlemen sat together in the rotunda of one of the down-town hotels yesterday afternoon. At some distance from them, leaning against the news counter of a cigar stand, there stood a brand-new gold-headed cane. Nobody seemed to pay the least attention to the cane. Bnt this state of allairs was not destined to remain so long. A stray goldheaded cane without a claimant! Had anybodjT heard the like of it before! A spruce, natty-looking man soon stenped up to tho cigar case. He looked around and carelessly surveyed his surroundings. Then he slowly backed up to the news-stand. He fumbled behind him and smiled. Ho had picked up the ownerless gold-headed cane. Whir-r-r-r pssst fling ling, ling, ling, ling! Bang! The cane was instantly dropped, and the group in the rotunda roared with laughter. A crowd soon collected around the hapless, natty gentleman. The expression on his face was a study. To say that he was astonished is putting it mildly. The gentleman was simply dumfounded. Tho crowd roared and ho became angry. Then ho explained, but thecrowdlaughed. "You're a silly lot of fools!" he shouted in desperation, as he rushed out followed by a whirlwind of ironical laughter. "Ho simply picked up a cane with the improved alarm attachment," explained a bright-eyed young man, the inventor of tho novelty. This alarm attachment is a new device which it is intended will effectually batlle hereafter indiscriminate picking up by expert fiends of umbrellas, canes, walking sticks and the like. The novelty will soon be out on the market. A steel rod is driven through tho cane or umbrella handle, which projects about a quarter of an inch beyond the ferule. This rod is made to connect with a ratchet, whichin turn acts upon a wound-up spring, connecting with a small bell located in tho head of the cane or umbrella. When the stick is stood up against the wall or elsewhere the rod sets the ratchet and the least movement sets tho little bell going. The attachment is worked on the same principle as the burglar alarms and is capable of being set in seventy-two different combinations. While walking tho owner can turn off' the combination and the cane with the attachment becomes an ordinary walking stick. The combination is set only when the owner of the cane sets it dowu in any one place. CAPTAIN MAKY MILLER. A Kentucky Woman Capable of Commanding Ohio and Mississippi Vessels. Lonisville Special. Captain Mary M. Miller stood up and swore in approved stylo yesterday. Captain Mary was not profane, however: she was in the presence of Inspector of Steamboats Irwin Dugan, and was renewing her license as a commander of steam craft on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. She merely took an oath to faithfully and honestly, according to her best skill and judgment, .and without concealment or reservation, perform all the duties required of her as master by the laws of the United States. Captain Mary is the only woman who has ever been licensed as the commander of a steamboat in this district. In fact, but two women captains have ever been licensed, one of them being Captain Mary and tho either a Southerner, who runs a boat on the lower Mississippi. Both of them are careful and capable commanders; but Captain Mary is interesting for other things than her professional ability, as she is j'oung and good looking, and as shrewd at driving a baraiu and as stern in the discharge- of her uty as she is fascinating. When not on tho river her home is in Portland, where resides her aged and invalid husband. Capt. "Natural'' Miller. Captain Mary is the old river man's second wife, and she has a stepson as old as herself. She learned the river from having accompanied her husband on many of his trips, and when the captain's health failed she took the helm of the old City of New Orleans, his vessel then, and ran her successfully. Captain Mary is, of course, popular with her crews, both on deck and in the office. She has saved many a negro's head from a stroke with a club in the hands of a hot-tempered mate. Captain Mary has been a licensed commander for three years. The captain is without a vessel at present, but she expects a berth in a short time. The Circus Season. Philadelphia Inquirer. A great number of the greatest shows upon earth are now ready to march forth upon the people. .The popular blood purifier. Hood's Sarsaparilla, is having a tremendous sale this season. Nearly everybody takes it. Try it yourself.

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Absolutely Pure. This Dowrter never Tirles. A marvel ct nnrit tren?til ajid wooleaoraeneMi. More economical than the ordinary klmla, and c&nnot da sold In competition with the multitude of low-test. short-irelrht alnra or phofphste. powder. 8old ony In cans. ROYAL, BAKINtl POWDER CO, 108 Wall bU N. T. CONVERTING AIR INTO FUEL. A Novel Discovery That May Abolish Present Processes of Obtaining lleaU Boston Advertiser. Over in Philadelphia there has recently come to light a process of heat generation that is certainly novel, and which, according to what can be learned, may be considered as one of the greatest discoveries of these prolific days of applied science. Tho principle involved is that of converting air into fuel, coal or wood being used as kindlers; but such is the action of the elements employed that it is claimed the largest domestic furnace will consume as than live pounds of coal daily. The plant used resembles an ordinary old-fashioned stove, and is four and onehalf feet high and thirty inches indiameter. From the side of the drum open two sqnaro draught doors, which regulate the amount of heat. Protruding from the rear is an eitrht-inch stovepipe for conveving cold air into the furnace, instead of taking hot air out, as in common stoves. A peculiarly constructed combination grato and lirepot, consisting of a circular row of grate-bars located some eight inches above 'the main pot, which contains most of tho fuel, replaces the ordinary fire-grate. The superficial area of these upper bars considerably exceeds in extent that of tho lower grate, so that the passago of the air through the main mass of the fuel is somewhat retarded, and tho currents that pass through the upper bars, meeting with less resistance, travel much faster. This produces two separate currents of heated air, ono of which enormously exceeds the other in velocity. The arrangement of the coal and kindling in the grate in layers is such that when the tire is lighted from above and the lower draught door is opened, that when ignited it burns downward by tho suction blast, and by means oi a double current movement that occurs the central part of the combustion chamber is rendered many degrees cooler than its other parts, and a vacunin is produced. The meeting of tho two new currents produces within tho chamber a violent rotarv cyclonic motion, similar in principle to that of the atmospheric cyclone. After wood and coal have served as kindlers to the condensed air they are practically unconsumed. The upper layer is heated to a bright incandescence, but even the longest period of cyclonic action does not turn the coal to ashes; and although the furnace becomes so hot as to melt glass and iron within three minutes, the carbon it enkindles remains intact. It is claimed, in addition to economy, that the heat created far exceeds that which may be measured by the consumption of carbonaceous fuel. Tho process is to bo applied to smelting and other manufacturing purposes and. to domestic uses, the hot air from the domestic furnaces to be conducted through houses by flues in a manner similar to that employed with tho ordinary furnace. The discoverer of tho process is Edward Pales, a Philadelphia brick manufacturer. A Hindoo Cremation. Benares Letter. Upon a pile of wood about six feet long by four high is placed the corpse of a Hindoo, wrapped in white sheet and tied between two oamboo poles. Over this wood is again placed, while the head and feet project from either end. It is the duty of tbo widow, if there be cue, to light tho funeral Sile. In this case there is not. and it is one by a coolie, who seems to have charge of affairs. The wood ignites at once, tho flame at first gives place to a smoke which it soon overcomes, and in twe nty minutes nothing remains but a few blackened embers; allvestiges of the body are cone. WThile this was taking place no less than four other piles had been erected for bodies that wero lying about, some partly in the water, partly on shore, like so many blocks of wood. Cremation takes place not more than six hours after death. The body is borne from the house to the burning ghat on tho shoulders of six men, followed by natives who are hired to wail and lament for tho departed. Formerly the Hindoo widow was compelled to burn herself upon her husband s funeral pile. Now she lias not that priyilege, thanks to the English, but becomes, unless wealthy, the slave of her mother-in-law. Surely one can pardon such a creature's praying for tho death of her husband's mother. It was a most impressive sight to see, and oite that will be indelibly stamped upon my memory. Tho Hindoo's ashes are thrown into the Ganges, and he believes they are thus carried on to paradise. Wants a Chance to Speak Her Mind. Albany Journal. One of the brightest and most captivating of a bevy of fair young ladies that at tended a recent reception in Albany re marked during a recent conversation with a local statesman that if hhe had any preference in life it would be to be an editor. Many others have a similar preference, but few of them give the reason for it that tho young lady referred to gave. She said hho would like to be an editor because nothing prevents editors from speakiug their minds and telling people just what they think. Heretofore this has been supposed to be a privilege reserved exclusively for the fair sex. As the poet puts it: We talk about a woman's sphere As If it had a limit. There not a task to mankind piven. There's not a place In earth or heaven, There's not a sorrow or a woe. There's not a whisper ye or no. There's not a life, or death, or birth That has a leather's weight of worth Without a woman in it. Undoing Bayard's Ilest Work. Falla4elphi Inquirer. President Harrison's first proclamation settles the long dispute about the ownership of Behring sea, so far as a plain assertion of authority on the part of the United States can settle it. The late administration released several British vessels caught sealing in these waters, because it was not prepared to dispute the assertion of the British government that Behring Ma iar open water and free to all comers; but th new administration is made of sterner stuff, and is fully prepared to claim that the sea, being inclosed bv main land and islands belonging to the United States, is as much American propertv as any of the Canadmu bays and Hounds are British property. Hence the proclamation, and no doubt it will be fully enforced. s A Politician's Hard Luck. Philadelphia Rexrd. Jinks What's wrong. Blinks? Blinks Everything's wrong. Here Fve been learning to chew tobacco and drink aud swear so as to become popular with tho boys and get a postoflice, and now John WaniMimaker, whose Bible-class I backslid from, is Postmaster-general, and, of course, wouldn't take me even if I was the only man in the city who could read writing, Well Fixed. rmburp Chrcmlcla. Miss Elizabeth Rockefeller, t ho was married last evening to Mr. Charles A. Strong, received $500,000 from her lather as a wedding gift. Her husband is preparing fori the Baptist minintry, and when he net a. call can feel independent of the peoplor whoso duty it will bo to estimate hittoiij