Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1889 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1889.

der Sections 2387 and 2383 of the Revised fitatntea, but no such entry shall embrace more than one-half section of land. That all the foreRoinir provisions with reference to lands to be acquirea from the Seminole Indlan,lncludln? the provisions pertaining to forfeiture shall apply to and regulate the disposal of the lands acquired from the Muscogee (or Creek) Indians by articles of cession and agreement made and concluded at the city of Washington on the 19th day of January, in the year of our Lord, 1839." Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison. President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by said acts of Congress, approved March 2,1889, as aforesaid, do herebydeclare'and make known that so much of the lands a aforesaid, acquired from or conveyed by the Muscogee (or Creek) nation of Indians, and from or by the Seminole nation of Indians, respectively, as is contained within the ioilowln described boundaries, viz.: lieffinnlng at a point where the degree of longitude 08 west from Greenwich, as surveyed in the years 1858 and 1871, intersects the Canadian river, thence north alone and with the said decree to a point

where the same intersects the Cimarron riven thence up said river along the right bank thereof, to a point where the same is intersected by tho south line of what Is known as the Cherokee lands, lying west of tho Arkansas river, or as the "Cherokee outlet,' nald line bein the north line of the lands ceded by the Muscogee (or Creek) nation of Indians to the United States by the treaty of Juno 1 i, 1866; thence east along said line to a point where tho same Intersects the west line of the lands set apart as a reservation for the Pawnee Indians by act of Congress approved April 10, 1876, being the range line between ranges 4 and 5 east of tfcj Indian meridian: thence south on said line to a point where the same intersects the middle of the main channel of theCimarronriver; thence up said river, along the middle of the high channel thereof, to a point where the same intersects the range line between range 1 east and range 1 west (being the Indian meridian), which line forms the western boundary of the reservations set apart, respectively, for the Iowa and Kickapoo Indians, by executive orders, dated, respectively, Aug. 15, 1883; thence south along said range line or meridian to a point where the same intersects the right bank of the north fork of the Canadian river; thence up said river, along the right bank thereof, to a point where the same is intersected by the west line of the reservation occupied by the citizen band of Potawatomies and the absentee Shawnee Indians, set apart under the provisions of the treaty of Feb. 27, 1867, between tho United States and the Potawatomie tribe of Indians, and referred to in tho act of Congress approved May 23, 1872; thence south along the said ' west line of the aforesaid reservation to a pointiwhere the same intersects tho middle of the main channel of the Canadian riven thence up the said river, along the middle of the main channel thereof, to a point opposite to the place of beginning, and thence north to the place of beginning saving and excepting one acre of land in square form in the northwest corner of section 9, in township 1G north, range 2 west of the Indian meridian, in Indian Territory; and also one acre of land in the southeast corner of the northwest quarter of section 15, township 16 north, range 7 west of the Indian meridian,' in the Indian Territory, which last described two acres are hereby reserved for government use and control, will, at and after the hour of 12 o'clock noon, of the 22d day of April next, and not before, be open for settlement, under tho terms of and subject to all conditions, limitations and restrictions contained in said act of Congress approved March 2, 1889, and the laws of the United States applicable thereto; and it is hereby expressly declared and made known that no other parts or portions of the lands embraced within the Indian Territory than those herein ipeciilcally described and declared to be open to settlement at the time above named and fixed, are to be considered as open to settlement under this proclamation or the act of March 2,1899, aforesaid; and warning is hereby again expressly given that no person entering upon and occupying said lands before said hour of 12 o'clock, noon, of the 22d day of April, A. D. 1889, herein before Axed, will ever be permitted to enter any of said lands or to acquire any rights; and that the officers of the United States will be required to strictly enforce the provision of the act of Congress to the above fact. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this 23d day of March, in the year of our Lord, 1889, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and thirteenth. Benjamin IIab&isox. By the President: James G. Blaise, Secretary of State. The Commissioner of the General Land Office issued an order to-day establishing two land offices in the Oklahoma Territory, opened to-day by the President's proclamation. The land office for the western district is to be located at Kingfisher's Station, and for the eastern district at Guthrie. The two districts are divided by the range line running through the Territory north and south between ranges 3 and 4, west of the Indian meridian. Each district contains approximately the same number of townships. SECRETARY RUSK'S WORK. Four Car-Loads of Agricultural Exhibits for the Paris Exposition. Washington Special. Secretary of Agriculture Rusk boards at the Ebbitt House and can be seen nearly every night in the corridors, where he is a9 easy of access as he was at the State-house in Wisconsin, where the door was always open, and all a caller had to do was to go in and introduce himself. The ex-Governor is very popular in Wisconsin and he is becoming equally popular in his department here. He said to-night that Mr. Willitts, the Assistant Secretary, will not be hero for some time yet, as ho has to wind np nis ail airs as his affairs as president ot tne ncnigan Agricultural College. Mr. Rusk said that he ex pected that the Agricultural Department would be enlarged at the next session of Congress by tho addition, of some of the bureaus which are now loosely attached to other departments. One of these is the signal service, which has more connection with the Agricultural than with the War Department. The geological survey, it is thought, will also be attached to the Agricultural Department. Secretary Husk said that Professor Powell was in favor of such a change. Pour car-loads of material for exhibits at the Paris Exposition have been shipped from the Agricultural Department, under the direction of Professor Riley, who has cone to Paris in charge of the exhibits. They consist of grain, citrus, and other fruits, cotton and fibers, viticulture, tobacco and peanuts, exhibits representing the work of the experimental stations and agricultural colleges. The department expects to give a good account of itself, and to make a display that Americans will not be ashamed of. The money will not be wasted in the payment of salaries and other such expenses. The accounts of the commissioners whom President Cleveland sent to the international expositions at Barcelona and at Brussels last year, as recently sent to tho State Department, make interesting reading. Congress appropriated $25,000 to enable the United States to make a display at Barcelona, the exhibits being wholly those of private lirms. The commissioner managed to spend 20,7.), but, according to his report, the mouey pretty much all went for "decorations," of which he gives a long account, but says nothing about the display of goods, His chief item of expenditure was $0,641 for carpenter work. For clerical assistants he spent only $1,173. But tho commissioner at Brussels expended 817.113, of which nearly $9,000 was for clerical assistance. He fails to make any report at all of any display made on behalf of the United States at Brussels. MINOR MATTERS. Major Amies Tries to Assault "Got. Beaver and Receives a lllow from a Crutch. Washington, March 27. Maj. Geo. A. Armes, retired, made an assault, this evening, in tho lobby of the Biggs House, on Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania. Armes was ordered out of the line of the procession on inauguration day by General Gibson. He claimed to be an aid of Governor Beaver, and ho made complaint to the adjutant-general of the action of Gibson. At the same time he wrote a letter to Governor Beaver which Beaver did not answer. Meeting Beaver in the lobby of the Biggs House, this evening, he asked him why ho had not answer his letter. Beaver replied that he was not in tho habit of answering insolent letters. As Beaver turned to walk away Armes tried to get hold of his nose to pull it. Beaver, who has only one leg, struck Armes with the crutch which ho carried. Armes was then hustled out of the hotel by the employes of tho house. The Lydecker Court-Martial. Washington, March 27. Tho Lydecker court-martial to-day decided to exclude the testimony given by the expert sounder. Sparrow, before the court of inquiry, and he was placed upon the stand to testify de novo. He explained his system of sounding for defects, saying that he had examined 14,000 feet of tho tunnel and made IXX) openings. His notes were accepted as evidence. Major Lydecker had directed him to give the tunnel a full and fair examination. He found that the brickXJtzk was fairly well laid, the packing in a

very loose state, and in cases lacking entirely. The lafgest cavity was 180 feet in length, and would take a man ninety days to till it. Ho told how these holes might be concealed from inspection by hastily erected dummy walls. John B. Quackenbush, one of the contractors for building the tunnel, testified that the lining and packing had been let to sub-contractors. He learned after the investigation that some of the government inspectors had received pay from his firm for overtime work, and had been borne on the pay-rolls under false names. Neither he nor his partner were aware of this at the time. The bad work was due to the indifference of the workmen, and to the carelessness of superintendence, and he supposed he was himself somewhat to blame. His firm received no benefit from bad work, except, perhaps, a saving of cement. They were ready to make good the bad work done here in 1888, but not in 1SS7, except under protest. Caucus of Republican Senators. Washington, March 27. The Republican Senators held a well-attended caucus today, prior to the meeting of the Senate. Two subjects were under consideration. One was with reference to putting all clerks on the annual lists, payment to be made out of tho contingent fund. There was a general sentiment in favor of doing this, but the question of its legality being raised, no conclusion was reached. It is inferred from what was said that the legal doubt will be sufficient to defeat the scheme, although that is not absolutely certain. The

other subject was, "Shall Senator Coke's speech on the Southern election outrages be answered?" The conclusion, while not formally expressed, was that there should be no further discussion of tho subject at this session. . Proceedings of the Senate. Washington, March 27. The resolution heretofore offered by Mr. Mitchell, authorizing the committee on mines and mining to continue its inquiry into the causes of delay in considering uncontested cases in the mineral division of the General Land Office, was taken up and referred to the committee on mines and mining. The resolutions heretofore offered by Mr. Butler, declaring that tho tenure or the President pro tern, does not expire at the meeting of Congress after a recess, but is held at the pleasure of the Senate, were taken up, and Mr. George made a constitutional argument in opposition to them. At the conclusion of the debate tho resolution was referred, and tho Senate went into secret session. General Notes. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Washington, March 27. R. Gordine and E. F. Meredith, of Washington, Ind.; W. E. Deacon, of Shelbyville; Geo. W. Koberts, of Lawrenceburg; Geo. W. Young, of Versailles, and J. Ireland, are at the Biggs. Hon. J. N. Huston, of Connersville. and R. M. Nixon and O. P. Hubbard, of Indiana, are at the Ebbitt. A marriage license has been issued for Moses Epstein, of Frankfort, Ind., and Henrietta Gradwohl, of this city. Secretary Windom has appointed Mr. M. E. Bell superintendent of public buildings at Chicago, vice Mr. Bailey resigned. Mr. Bell was formerly supervising architect of the Treasury. Secretary Windom has directed tho removal of Kichard .Lancaster, surveyor of the port of St. Louis, and has recommended James O. Churchill for appointment as his successor. Major-general Schofieldhas appointed his brother, First Lieutenant Charles B. Scholield, of the Second Cavalry, as an aid-decamp on his stall. The Comptroller of the Currency this afternoon authorized the First National Bank of Moberly, Mo., to begin business with a capital of $100,000. This makes the four thousand tli national bank organized since the introduction of the national banking system. The banks now in operation number 3,190. Tho National Bank of Commerce of Duluth, Minn., has also been authorized to begin business with a capital of $100,000. Bond offerings at the Treasury to-day aggregated $3,624,500, as follows: $2,524,000 four-per-cent. registered at $1.20 ex.intcrest. and $1,100,000 four-and-a-half-per-cents., at $1.08 1-4; $3,500 four-and-a-half-per-cents. were offered and accepted at $1.08. The two new assistant secretaries of the Treasury Department will bo sworn in as such on Monday next. George S. Byrne, of Minneapolis, Minn., has accepted the position of appointment clerk of the Treasury Department, and will take the oath of office to-morrow. Corporal James Tanner to-day took the J described oath of office, administered by Ir. S. S. Sampson, a notary public employed in the Pension Bureau, and entered upon his duties as Commissioner of Pensions. His only appointment to-davwas that of Geo. B. Souires, of Brooklyn, N. Y as his confidential secretary. Mr. Souires was assistant adjutant-general of tho Grand Army of the Republic during the years 1876, 1877 and 1884, and judge advocategeneral during the years 1880 and 1881. Admiral Jouett's board of inspection on tho monitors has returned to this city from Richmond and New York. They are preparing their report, which will recommend that the monitors be put in a condition fit for active service. Senator Washburn, who has not been in good health since his election last month, has returned to Minnesota, where ho will remain until entirely restored. President Harrison received his first month's salary to-day. It amounted to $3,8S8.88, and was delivered to him in the form of a Treasury draft. It was for the month of March, minus the first three days. Mr. Cleveland received the President's salary a x. i! ll a 1 ior mat portion oi me momn. It is probable that Thomas II. Sherman. who was Mr. Blaine's private secretary for a number of years, will be appointed consul to Liverpool. It is in profit next in rank to the consul-ceneralshin at London. The President entertained Mr. Whitelaw Reid and Mrs. Reid at dinner, this evening, at the White House. Secretary Blaine and John F. Plummet, of New York, were also present. Army Officer In Bad Shape. TIarrisburg. Pa., March 27. To-day an officer of the War Department at Washingj. 1 a. u. 1 i m n a ion came nere 10 iuko cnargo oi uaptam Craft, of the U. o. A., who has been in confinement here since Monday evenincr. Cantain Craft arrived here on a train from tho West on that evenincr. and at the station acted as thou eh demented. He was taken in charge, locked up and carefully watched for fear he might do himself bodily injury. Last night he became more rational, and said the last thing he could remember was somebody striking him on the head with tho heavy end of a revolver. A gold watch and $300 in cash, he said, were iaissing. It is the theory of the police that Captain Craft was sandbagged, robbed and then placed on a train at some point west of this city, probably Pittsburg. He was taken to Y ashington this afternoon. Colleges to Be Consolidated. C II att an o o fs a, Tenn., March 27. At a conference of Rev. J. C. Hartzell, secretary of the Freedmen's Aid Society of the M. E. Church, with local trustees of Chattanooga University, of this city, and Grant Memo rial University, of Athens, Tenn., it was 10-aay uecuieu io consolidate tne two institutions, to be known as the Grant Me morial University, under one board of trus tees, selected from Cincinnati, Chattanooga and Athens, the Athens members representing the society at large. A meeting of the new trustees will be held hero on the 9th of April, when a faculty for tho institution win oo seiecieu. Mary Anderson. Philadelphia, March 27. Miss Mary Anderson went for a drive through Fairmount Park this afternoon. She is improving very rapidly, now that she is enjoying perfect quiet and rest. She took her lirst ride yesterday afternoon, going up through tho park to the Wissahickon. She will probably take a drivo every day now while the weather is hne. s ' Voting for Chare's Successor. Providence, R. I., March 27. Tho first ballot for United States Senator, in grand committee of the Legislature, to-day, re sulted as follows: Uixon, 43; Wctmore, 31; colt, o; Arnold. Democrat, lo: IS. 11. J. Goddard. 4: Thomas Durfee. ii: Taft. 2. Tho Assembly then adjourned until to morrow at noon. The Keelr Motor Beady to Mote. Philadelphia. March 27. Mr. Keely'a counsel announced to-day that the former has now in his possession tho 'missing s?ititi . t link- -which was nceueu to maKo ine vibratory resonator and ethereal genera tive evaporator' a success,

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Queer Circumstances Connected with the Finding of the Body of a Dead Man. Improper Tax Returns Sold Chnrch Property and Kept the Money Burried Under Falling Corn Telephone Bill Lobby. INDIANA. Exceeding Mystery Surrounding the Finding of a Dead Man on the Hallway Track. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Muncie, March 27. Last night, about 8 o'clock, a man giving his name as Harry F. Bateman, and his home at Fostoria, O., went to the livery barn of Collins &, Long, and secured a horse and buggy, as he said, to drive four miles in the country. Ho was well dressed, and wore a light-colored overcoat and kid gloves. At 2:20 o'clock this morning the horso driven by Bateman returned to the stable drawing the buggy, and tho livery attend ant found everything all right, except the whip, robe and cushion, which were missing. At 3 o'clock this morning a freight train going west on tho Bee-line struck a man at a road crossing about two miles west of the city, completely severing his head from his body and cutting olF both leirs. The coroner, in examining tho wounds. discovered a bruise or contusion upon tho frontal bone which had the appearance of being made by some blunt instrument, and it is the belief that a murder has been committed. On the person of the deceased was found afive-thousand-dollar insuranc policy writ ten in the United States Accident Company, of Brooklyn, N. Y., also a note telling who to notify in case of fatal or total disabling accident. When found the overcoat and gloves were gone, and brogan shoes had been substituted for those worn by him when he left this city. It is a settled fact that the horse was not at the snot where the , body was found, because it had reached the stable forty minutes before the accident occurred. The theory of suicide receives little cred ence as there was apparently no motive. Late this afternoon Uatenian's brother-in-law, Mr. Parker Bugsley, arrived in the city for the purpose of identifying the body. A rather strange feature of the affair is that Bugsley was running the train that killed the man. After Mr. Bugsley had viewed the re mains he at once 6aid they were not those of Harry Bateman. If this is true, the conclusion that is reached by the oflicers is that Bateman murdered and robbed this man and put his insurance papers and letters into his pockets for the purpose oi beating the insusance company. Iho manner in which the body was lying across the railroad track was evidence enough to show that the body had been placed; there. Mrs. Uateman will arrive irom Fostoria to-morrow mornintr. when further developments are expected. The killing is very mysterious, whether tho man is Bateman or some one else. Charged with Defrauding a Church. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Crawfordsville, March 27. The charge of embezzlement, for which Harry Paul was arrested at Crawfordsvillo last Saturday, and who was released on a writ of habeas corpus proceedings, was for appropriating $875 belonging to the Second Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Springfield, Mo. It seems that Paul had received $500 from the church trustees to purchase an adjoining lot to the church property. Paul purchased tho land ana received a warranty deed - conveying it from the owners to nimseit. men no made a quit-claim deed to the church trustees, which was not recorded for some reason, and the deed was lost. Then the trustees authorized Paul to sell the lot, which he did to C. H. Frabill for $S75, who thought that Paul was tho owner, and knew nothing about the lost quitclaim deed. Paul knew that so far as the recorded title to the land stood he was the owner, and, therefore, ho received the 875 and started for his home at Crawfordsville. G. W. Paul, tho father of Harry' Paul, is a lawyer, and it was through him that he was released, in tne meantime Paul is probably resting in Canada, Charge! with Falsifying Tax Returns. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Lafayette, March 27. George P. naywood, prosecuting attorney, has stirred up a big excitement in certain quarters. He has for weeks been examining the mort gage records of the county, and taking a list of persons who hold mortgages for moneys loaned. He has also examined tho . All 1 A A 1 assessment uianns xo see n me mouey is returned for taxation. In hundreds of cases they are not, and there is general squirming among those who are caught in the net. Mr. Haywood has just filed four suits . . a r against two prominent; iarmers, one of whom holds S,000 in mortcaces. and the other S8.000. but neither of whom reported them full yaluo, one making it 1,150 and tho other S550. The penalty for evasion is a tine of from $50 to So.OOO. it will prove a lucrative thine for tho prosecutor, as he receives 10 per cent, on all collections and S10 docket fees. It is understood that if ho, makes the first case stick he will at once bring hundreds of others, and as the- eonntv treasury is not now overflowing the newly-acquired money will bo quite a relief. Prosecutor Haywood's proceeding, if followed through all the counties in Indiana, would add several millions to the tax duplicate. Reception by Odd-Fellows. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Peru, March 27. Canton Peru, No. 20, Patriarchs Militant, I. O. O. F., and the En campment and subordinate branches of tho order gave a reception in honor of Grand Sire Underwood, of tho oraer, yesterday afternoon, closing in the evenincr with a lecture by Key. DoWitt Tamlage, on "Uncht and Happy Homes." lhe grand sire spoke to a large audience on the subject of the order, after the parade in the atternoon. Canton Logansport was in attend ance. lUlled by a Falling IxfU Special to the Indianapolis JournaL Sullivan, March 27. S. P. Beard, while at work in the stable of Eulinzer &. Drake, was instantly killed by the falling of one section of tho loft, on which had been thrown a great quantity of com. Several other persons were standing near, and. barely escaped. He leaves one daughter. Alleged Criminal Recaptured. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Lebanon, March 27. Charles Patterson, a notorious character, who escaped from tho oflicers over a year ago, while he was in custody upon a charge ot assault and bat tery with intent to kill, was rearrested yesterdaj-, and again placed behind the bars here. Fatally Injured In Jumping Off a Train Special to the Indianapolis JournaL Peru, March 27.-Williani Riley, of this city, while jumping oft a moving train to night, after bidding friends good-bye, struck his Head on a switeii and was ter1 ribly injured. He will probably die. Minor Notes. Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Noble, of Goshen, celebrated their golden wedding on Tuesday evening. Jeremiah Schroy, one of the oldest photographers in tho State, died at Lebanon Tuesday night. He was sixty-six years of age. Charles Batton, a young married man living near Fayetteville, committed suicide on Tuesday by hanging. No cause is known. Charley Harding, aged twelve years, who uiiio utai viiiif lui uo i uiv. Atcj jiutk i o o i; va. successtui examination in autno branches of the public school system. John Shelby, of Clark county, discovered that his woodpile was being raided. Ho loaded a stick of wood with blasting powder. As a result, the house of John Bracket was blown to pieces on Tuesday, Win. Pitts, a notorious negro and ex5rizo lighter, of Peru, was sentenced by the layor yesterday morning to jail and heavily limnl for association with a white vromaii. Tho woman received alike sentence. Miss Anna A. Milligan, of Crawlordsville, has q,ualilied as a notary public. She

is the first lady notary in Montgomery

county, one is ine aaugnier oi josepn Milligan, and a sister of Harry J. Milligan, of Indianapolis. In tearing down an old building on tho premises of Travis Carter, at Seymour, Tuesday morning, several old plaster molds that had evidently been used in the manufacture of counterfeit coin were found. They had been in concealment 6ome time. Last week as Jesse Goben, who resides near Waveland, was splitting np a sassafras tree which he had cut down, he found a bunch of hair firmly embedded in the tree. The hair was wrapped in paper upon which was some writing, but the writing was too dim to be read. II. DeC. Richards, of Jersey City, N. J., has been granted a twenty-live-year water franchise at Franklin, the city agreeing to pay ,uw.reniai a year, oix runes oi pipes are to bo laid. The plant will cost about $70,000, and will be what is known as the combined stand-pipe and direct-pressure system. The case of America Thatcher vs. the City of Frankfort, a suit for damaccs for injuries received in a fall on a defective sidewalk, broucht to the Tippecanoe Cir cuit Court on a change of venue, terminated on Tuesday. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintilf. awarding S4.500 damages. A spellincr-match was held a few niehts aeo near the sulphur well on the lino of Perry and Crawford counties. During tho exercises Kobert Jefferies. the teacher, reprimanded Preston Beard for some misconduct. As the teacher was going homo ho was attacked bv Beard. Jell'eries used his knife with such effect that he indicted twelve or more wounds on the assailant's body, who is not expected to live. ILLINOIS. The Telephone Lobby Thought to Be Wellding Undue Influence Orer Legislators. Springfield, March 27.A certain apathy appears to have come over the gentlemen who a few weeks ago were clamoring loudly in tho halls of the Illinois Legisla ture for the passage of a measure regulat ing telephone rates throughout the State, and otherwise reducing the telephone monopoly to tho restrictions of legislation. It may not be that these gentlemen have ex perienced a positive change of faith, but their indifference to all suggestions as to the necessity of expedition in pressing the Kek-hart-Baker bill in the House has been so marked that the authors of tho bill aro becoming suspicious of the situation, and fear tho lobby may possibly succeed m working up an opposition so formidable as to endanger tho final passage of the bill. The unanimity with which the Chicago press has demanded telephone legislation has had tho effect of making tho lobby very stealthy in its movements. Mr. K. Keep no longer occupies a room on tho parlor lloor of the Leland Hotel, and stalks conspicuously through the legislative halls during the day. The headquarters of the telephone lobby are now at Chicago, and the mystio influences against this bill are the result of private interviews held with members of the Legislature in that city. 31 r. Itekhart openly cnarges that no less than twenty members have been invited, one by ono, during the past three weeks, to visit the Chicago oiheeof the telephone monopoly for the purposes of having spread before them 4'8ucn facts and figures" as would impel them to an opposition to the KCkhart-JJaker bill. What these facts are no ono knows, but the "figures" ap pear to have been so potent as to cause over a dozen country members w"ho were favoring this bill a few weeks ago to come out within the past two or three days in opposition to tho meas ure. A neat little scheme to avoid publio condemnation is being resorted to bv cer tain country legislators who have cast their lot with the lobby upon this bill. Fearful of provoking the nostility of their constituents in voting to longer continue the extortions of tho monopoly they have represented to a fow political friends that tho passage of the Kekhart-Baker bill would nave the effect of raising the rates in tho country towns by providing a maximum in excess of present charges, and have prevailed upon their half-dozen friends to sign a formal petition protesting against tho passage of the telephone bill. These peti tions will be read with great pomp by those gentlemen when the telephone bill comes np for consideration, and an effort will be made to parade the solicited signatures of a half dozen confidential mends as an ex pression of public sentiment." The friends of the bill have, however, be come cocmizant of this scheme, and peti tions will in a few days be circulated in every legislative district in the State, asking for the passage of the Kekhart-Baker bill or some other measure affording sub stantial relief. As the House adjourns from Friday next until the following Wednesday afternoon, it is hardly likely that the telephone bill can be called un m the House until after the disposition of the Chicago drainage bill. What the silent lobby will be able to effect in tho case no one can say. Arrested for Selling Liquor to Minors. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Moxticello, March 27. Charles Smith was arrested to-day by a United States marshal for selling liquor to minors. He came to Monticello and played detective on the drug stores, buying alcohol to rub his limbs with, and claiming he was in training for a race. He went before the crand jury and swore that he had purchased liquor fif ty-three times of the druggist who had let him have the alcohol three times. He secured the indictment of the druggist, for which he said he was to receive $200, with an additional 100 if conviction followed. It was whilo hero that Smith is alleged to have sold the liquor to minors 1. ! V i l ior wnicn ne was arrested. Brief Mention. James Geer. a Wataga farmer, was defrauded out of $110 yesterday by a confi dence sharper. John W. Sewer, of nolton. Kan,, died on a Vandalia train near Vandalia on Tuesday. lie nau been in bad neaitn. Burglars broke open the safe of Henry Wcinheiraer's residence at Highland on Tuesday night and secured $500 in cash and jewelry. J. C. Lindsay's tailor-shop and C. E. wneeiocK's crocnery warenouse were burned at Peoria on Tuesday night. Loss, $7,000; partially insured. George L. Spaulding, a clerk in the Chi cago, Burlington & Quincy railroad offices at Aiuuiu, cuuiiuuicu duiciuo uu i ucauuy by shooting, it is reported that there was a woman in the case. V.iffht. linainf!a "honspa nf. TTfixrnnn. wota burned Tuesday night. The heaviest losers were K. & H. L. Church, dry goods dealers; Laubero, furniture store, and Carman & Fencher, cigar manufacturers. The loss was $20,000, about $7,000 of which was insured. Charged with Illegal Toting. Chicago. March 27. Elvin and Melvin Light are twins, and handsome young men. Uncle Sam had them in the toils this mora ine. It seems that they lived at Center School-house, Washington township, Newton county, Indiana, but went to work at Sheldon, Iroquois county, Illinois. The iudce of that county advised them to co to their old home in Indiana to vote at the late presidential election. They did so, and yesterday Deputy United estates juarsnai Jones went to tneiuon to ar rest them on an indictment found by tho federal grand jury of the district of Indiana for illegal voting. Tliey were taken before Commissioner Hoyne this morning, and cave a bond of SoOO f or their appearance before the District Court at Indianapolis. It is said that nothing wroug was intended by the Light brothers. They were simply badly advised. PntT'Mnra Ci XTnMi V? W W f n n-rr pension au'ent of this city, was arrested here and taken to Indiana, where, it is stated, he is charged with illegal voting in me prcsiuentiai election. Connecticut Mutual Policy-Holders. Hartford, Conn., March 27. The annual meeting of the policy-holders of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company was held lo-day. Only one vote was cast against any member of tho old board of directors. All were re-elected. President Greene, in reply to inquiries, told the story of the Indiauapolis defalcation. A resolution for a committee of four to examine the affairs of the company was voted down. In 1HSO roic,s Jlntnrttnl Troache" Were introduced, and their success as a cure for colds, coughs, asthma and bronchitis has been unparalleled.

ENGLAND'S GREAT COMMONER, -- John Brlght's Career Comes to an End Peacefully and Without Pain. London, March 27. Mr. John Bright died at 8 o'clock this morning. His end was peaceful and painless. He had lain in a comatose condition 6ince yesterday. All of his family were present at his deathbed. The funeral will take place on Saturday. The interment will be in the Quaker bnrying-ground at Kochdale. The ceremonies will be as private as possible. For tho last ten years Mr. Bright was in visible process of decay. His once resonant voice began to fail when ho joined Mr. Gladstone's Cabinet in 1880, and his parliamentary career practically closed when he quitted the Ministry on account of tho bombardment of Alexandria a Step On the part of the government which he never could be brought to justify or even excuse. In the House of Commons, to-day, tho right Hon. Wni. II. Smith, tho government leader, with much emotion referred to the death of Mr. John Bright. He said that ho would postpone his remarks on Mr. Bright until 1 riday, when Mr. Gladstone would bo present. Mr. Morley thanked Mr. Smith for his consideration in regard to Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Bright represented the central division of Birmingham in the House. Tho Hags of both the Liberal and Tory clubs were flying at half-mast to-day in honor of the memory of John Bright, each party claiming the dead statesman as ita own. Every evening newspaper, even tho Star, prints a leader eulogizing the famous Birmingham commoner, and the Homerulers, one and all, have forgotten Mr. Brlght's unionist sentiments, often strongly expressed, in their admiration of the sterling qualities of tho man. No arrangements will be made for filling his vacant seat in the House of Commons until after tho funeral, though it is rumored that Mr. Chamberlain has already cast his line with a view to becoming tho great man's successor. It is unlikely, however, that such a move on the part of the Kadical leader will be countenanced, and if tho dead man's youngest son, who is a stanch Unionist, will accept the candidacy, he will be retnrned to his father's seat without opposition, as an expression of the esteem in which John Bright was held by his political friends and opponents alike. The sculptor, Bruce Joy, has taken a cast of Mr. 1 right's face. Political deputations will follow the funeral. Only personal friends will be admitted to tho meeting in the house. At political meetings throughout tho country sympathetic references were mado to Mr. Bright. Sir Wm. Vernon-Harcourt, speaking at Bradford, said that no greater or purer man ever adorned political life in England. Lords Harris and Spencer addressed a popular meeting at Stafford, and paid high tribute to Mr. Bright. The United Ireland says of Mr. Bright: "Ireland will forget all the grievances against him at the open grave, and will remember only the priceless services of his old days, when his heart was warm, his mind bright, and his eloquence irresistible. The real Bright died three years ago." Victoria and Christina. Sax Serastiax, March 27. Queen Victoria paid her expected visit to San Sebastian to-day. Her Majesty was accompanied by Prince and Princess Henry, of Battenberg, and members of her suite, including Lady Churchill. Sir Francis Ford, tho British embassador at Madrid, and representatives of Queen Regent Christina, met tho royal visitor at Iran, on tho frontier, where a train was waiting to convey her Majesty to San Sebastian. Upon the arrival of tho train here tho Queen was greeted with

salvos of artillery from tho Lemotta citadel and volleys from the troops that lined the route to tho royal castle. The Queen Kegent, accompanied by the Duchess of fiaiien ana tne countess oestago, was waiting at the station, together with numerous officials and deputations. The Queen, upon alighting from the train, kissed Christina on both cheeks. After mutual presentations, including tho introduction of Prime Minister Sagasta to Victoria, the two Queens entered a state carriage and drove to tho castle, attended by a brilliant military escort. As the royal carriage passed between long lines oi troops ou ciiner siae oi ine roadway, the military bands played the national anthem, and the populace cheered enthusiastically. In a second carriage were Prince and Princess Henry of Battenberg, while five others were occupied by Spanish officials and the members of Victoria's suite. Luncheon was served at the castle, and, shortly before 4 o'clock, the wholo party entered carriages and were driven to the town hall, where a sumptuous throno had been erected. Here Victoria formally received the mayor of the town. Her Majesty afterward witnessed a series of Basque dances and games in the square ironi the windows of the town hall, and was heartil cheered when she appeared. From the hall the party drove to the railway station, where Victoria and Christina exchanged affectionate adieus. Rumored Attempt on the Czar's Life. Vienna, March 27. The Tageblatt re lates tho story of a narrow escape of tho Czar and Czarina while recently traveling from St. Petersburg to Gatschina. The railroad line was obstructed with intent to throw the train from the track, but the ob structions were fortunately discovered in time to avert disaster. Several persons aro reported to have been arrested in connec tion with the plot. Ihe report, however, cannot be continued. ' Foreign Notes. Kussian detectives have been sent to Switzerland to negotiate for the extradi tion of Nihilists. The Socialists of Augsburg. Bavaria, havo organized for the purpose of electing ono of their leaders to a seat in the Keichstag, and claim that their chances of success aro extremely good. The last steamer belonging to Cantain "Wissman's east African expedition sailed iiuiu xiuuiuuiK lur tdixu.il unr yesieruay. jv number of oflicers connected with the expef A fl t - Al A union saiiea on tne steamer. Deposits of gold have been discovered in tho Provinco of Oberschlesin. and samples of the ore have been forwarded to Berlin for the purpose of obtaining a concession from the government to work the mines. In January and February there were twenty-one cases oi suicide at Monte Carlo. Thero have been several cases this month. This season is considered the most prosperii.. 1. a ii. i ml - ous in iu insiury oi me piace. ine win nings in February alone amounted to 150,ooo. The Court of Queen's Bench at London has decided that lenatz Reinitz, tho Ameri can who was recently arrested at Liver pool on the charge of swindling the Commercial National Bank of New York in filling in checks for amounts larger than tho sums he was authorized to draw, commit ted forgery, and refused to grant a writ of habeas corpus m his case. Need ham Defeats Gilmore. Minneapolis. Minn.. March 27. The Gil-more-Needham fight came off this morning. Needham winninir in the twentieth round. There was a vexations delay in arrancinir the preliminaries. There was wrangling over the amount of the purse and the referee. Shortly after midnight tho tip was given and a start was made for a point about eight miles up the Mississippi river, in Anoka county. Th s objective point was a barn, and tho shivering sports were glad of even its slight protection. At 3:03 a. m. the men had stripped and were ready for business. From the start it was plain that while (iilraoro was easily tho most scientific man. ho lacked m the hard hit ting qualities that finally gave Needham the light. In the twentieth round Gilmore received a temhc thump in the neck and he went down like a log. He was plucky and managed to again face tho victor, but down he went aeam from a vicious left hander in the throat, this time not to riso until it was too late and Needham had won 4Via Lo4t1a wrka (FAiwl firrliT' 111 rr frhiirrli and the spectators generously raised a purseof 40 for Gilmore. The Chess-Players. NEW YORK, March 27. I ho cuess scores to-day are: Gunsberg and Pollack, draw; Burn won from Bird; Judd won from Lipschntz; Black and Martin, draw: Showalter won from Burrill; Gossip and Weiss, draw; Taubenhause won from J. v . Baird: Tschicorin won from ' Hanham: MeLeod won from Delmar; Mason lost to lt'ilnl. llrtltufi r fr fT .irwl lltirtMll fr Stlwiwwaiter, and Baird to Burns; Gossip and A eiss played to a draw.

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Sampson 6c Taylor's stock of goods was valued at 300,000, but their loss is probably covered by insurance of SlG0,0C0on tho building and contents. The loss to other occupants of the building will aggregate about J0,OiX). The carpet and wall-paper establishment of Williams & McAnulty, adjoining tne burned building, was badly damaged by fire and water. The Library Block is owned by Cleland, Sampson A: Taylor and tne ii. o. nerco estate. Other Fires. Pittsburg. March 27. Hie extensive machine shops and foundry of Mcintosh &. llamphill were destroved by tore at 12::J0 o'clock this morning. The lire started, iu the in cot shop and soon spread to the pat tern shop, brass foundrv.boiler and en cinehouses, which were consumed. Tho total loss will not fall short of SC0.O00. which is fully covered by insurance. The fire is be lieved to nave been tho work of incendia ries, and f onr men havo been arrested on suspicion. Durinc tho nrocress of the tira Melvin Harvey, a lireman, was struck by a piece of timber and seriously hurt. Through the efforts of tho firemen the pat tern warehouse, containing several hundred thousand dollars' worth of patterns wassaved. Ciiestertown. Md.. March 27. At an early hour on Saturday last tho dwelling of Mr. Joseph &innickson, a mile from Sas safras, Kent county, was burned. Mr. Sinnickson. aged sixty-four, was in bad health and was rescued by his son-in-law, but not before tho llamesand smoke had inllicted injuries from which he died on Monday. Loss, about &3.000; no insurance. Nashville. Tenn.. March 27. The Ten nessee Kantro and Manufacturing Com pany's works were destroved by lire about 8 o'clock this morning. Tho firo originated in the facing-room, where no lire is used and where no lnllamniablo material was stored, which leads to the belief that tho tire was of incendiary origin. Loss, 15,000; insurance, $23,000. Starvation in Newfoundland. St. Johx. X. B.. March 22. Edward Mouston Octave Bosse, who has just arrived from a cruise on the Thomas biegniorv, brings with him news of the terrible sufferings of a French family residing near the head of Lake 1 emmscouata, Mien ho entered the house he found that two chil dren had died from starvation, and that the mother and two remaining children wero suffering terribly from w ant of food, and had lived on hay tea for several days. Ho rendered them what assistance ho could and left them in comparatively coinfortablo circumstances. The father of the wretched family was absent when Boss dincovered tnem, navmg started out in a snow-siorm for assistance, and it is supposed ho has perished. Racing at New Orleans. New Orleans, La., March 27. Tho weather was warm and bright and tho attendance largo at the races to-daj. Tho track was fast. First ltace Five furlones. Kambler won in 1:04; Kkobeleff second, I'auline third. Second Race Three-quarters of a mile, Duhme. won in 1:17 1-1; Henry Hardy second. 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