Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 April 1889 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1885)

suited with Secretary Blaine, and that the resnlt will bo an early transfer of the offices to the building across the Tray. Colored IJclp in the White House. Washington SpecUl. Circulation is still given to the story that President Harrison removed the colored servants at the White House to make room for white ones. Perhaps, in addition to the denials already published, aletter fromMr. Hal ford to a colored resident of this city, will settle the natter. Following is tho letter: J. E. Brace, Esq., Washington, D. C: Mr Dear 61r In response to your letter of the e.th lnnt., I have to say that the facta in the case have been stated In the public prints upon Several occasions, and have doubtless come under your attention. There are as many colored servants in the White House now as at any other time, and there has never been a discharge onaccount of color. General and Mrs. Harrison had two colored servants In their employ for years before reaching this city, and brought two with them for duty hero. Very truly yours, 1 W. IIauoro, lrlvate Secretary. Hear Admiral Feblger'a Wife Fatally Injured. Washington, Apnl 14. The wifo of Rear Admiral Febiger was thrown from ier carriage while driving along F street this morning and perhaps fatally injured, tier skull was fractured and one of her irrus broken. Late to-ni ght her physicians express little hope of her recovery. DAILY WEATHER HUIXETTN.

Indications. Washixgtos, April 148 p.m. For Ohio Rain, preceded by fair weather. For Indiana. Illinois. Michigan and Wisconsin Fair, preceded by light rain in Indiana; slightly wanner; easterly winds. Local Weather Keport. Ixdiaxapolis, April 14.

Ttmr. liar. Ther. R. II. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7a.m. 30.03 36 62 Cast. Ft. Cloudy. 7p.m. 30.01 51 SO X'east Cloudy.

Maximum thermometer, 5(3; minimum thermometer, 33. Following is a comparative statement of the condition of temperature and precipitation on April 14, 1689. Tern, rrreip. formal S4 0.12 Wean ' 44 0.00 Departure from normal 10 O.l'J Excess or deficiency since March 1. 2 0.86 txcess or deficiency since Jan. 1... 130 5.14 Plus. General Obserratlons. Indianapolis, April 147 r. M. IhtrnuvurCr J Station. 3 - h5 Weather. 46 42 48 64 58 42 6 Cloudless. Cloudless. Cloudless. Cloudy. Cloudy. Cloudy. Cloudy. Itain. Cloudless. Cloudy. Cloudy. Buffalo. J. Y. . . 30.2tf J'hU'delphla,ra 30.20 Pittsburg, Pa.. 30.08 Wash'ton, D. C. 30.18 Cbarleton.8.C 29.78 Atlanta. O a '23.74 68 50 6fi GO 50 C4 68 .96 V. .08 .42 Jaeks'nv'le.Fla 70! i'eosaeola. 11 a. 29.60 701 74 74 I'ntir'm ry, Ala.23.so 62 1.44 Virkiburg,Mli 120.70 62 70 74 C8 .04 N. Orleaus.La. . 29.70 74 64 Cloudless. Cloudy. Cloudless. Cloudless. IJttleRock.Ark fialveston.Tex. FnAntcnlo.Tex Memphis. Tenn 'aihvillc,Tenn 29.82 23.7 76 29.82 29.84 74 48 50 60 51 51 80 64 54 11 .04 .70 .12 ltaiu. Rain. Kain. , Cloudy, it. Cloudy. Cloudless. Cloudy. Cloudless. Cloudless. Pt. Clouay. 29.74 29.8 Louisville.k vV. IndUn'plis,lnd 30.01 33 Cincinnati, o.. neveland, O... Toledo, O 29.98 66 42 48 42 30.20 00.20 30.32 40 44 Marq'ette.Mieh 3C 40 8 46 50 3? t.tt.MariMich 130.2 ' 42 70 IC, Chicago. Ill 30.14 Cairo, 111 29.86 hprtngneld, 111. 30.02 34 46 36 .28 Cloudy. Clouay. Cloudless. Cloudless. Cloudless. Cloudless. Pt. Cloudy. Cloudless. Cloudless. MUwaukee.Wh, 30.20 Dulnth. Mlnn..J0.22 t.FauL 31 Inn. 130.1? 44 40 40 58i 62! 64 64 52 6 56 54 Mooreh'd.Mlnn!:i0.oo St. Vlnent,Min 29.92 Davenport.Ia.. Dubuqne.ta 30 14 le Moines. la. ).oi FLLouif. Mo... 23.9S Kans'sCltjvMo. 3O.00 Ft.8Ul.Ind.T.. 29.m Uodreaty.K's. 23.02 Omaha. Neb... 30.02 54 60 46 48 52 54 $6 6f CO V. 61 M 56 3C 31 34 Cloudless. Cloudless. Cloudless. Cloudless. PL Cloudy. Cloudy. 44 41 46 42 3 42 40 72 62 60 4 Cloudy. Cloudy. Valentine, Neb.l29.8M Yankton. I. T C9.W? 60 CO o 62 C2 44 Cloudless. 64 CO 30 pt. cloudy. Bismarck, P. T. 29.84 IXBaford.D.T.'W.76 T Cloudy. .04 Pt Cloudy. PJLrtVr'B Id'e 30.28 Ou'ApeUef.W.jv9.M Ft.As'nab'ne.M 29.71 . Ualtzj. M. T. . . 29.78 jiotseClrr, I.T. 29. m Cherenne, W.T. 29.76 FtMeKWyW.T 29.76 Cloudless. 4 66 m 46 62 .01 Pt. Cloudy. 50 Cloudy. 40 6 50 50 6 62 CO Clou dr. Pt. Cloudy. Pt. Cloudy. Cloudy. Cloudless. It. Cloudy. Pt. Cloudy. Cloudy. Cloudy. 38 31 34 60 eo Pt.WaAhakle.W29.so 34 64 lenver, Col.... 29.64 4 66 Fueblo.coL.... 2J.7& Fanta Fe, N. M. 29.92 Salt Lake City.. 29 82 42 36 36 CO 64 45 60 T Trace of precipitation. LABOR INTERESTS. Rochester Street-Cars Banning Without Encountering Serious Opposition. Rochester, N. Y., April 14. All was com parative quietness to-day in tho car strike. Cars ran on many of tho lines without trouble. It was reported that one car had been thrown over on Hudson street, but no one was injured. Several cars had windows broken by stones thrown at them. Early this evening a mob surrounded a boarding lions on Clinton street where four drivers hveiL The four men were badly frightened, but word was gotten to the police station bv telephone, ana a patrol wagon. loaded with onicers. was soon on the spot and safely rescued the drivers after arrest ing several or tne moD. llelllcofte Strikers at Buffalo. Buffalo. Apnl 14. lne strikers were obstreperous to-day. This evening a num her of striking Erie switchmen entered the dining-room of the Fillmore House, where ten or a dozen "scabb" who have taken their places are boarding, and began to quarrel with them. One of the switchmen struck one of the "scabs," when the latter drew a pistol and was about to use it when a policeman interfered. Roth were arrested. Last nieht a similar disturbance was made at an adjoining hotel, where Ahnnt fortv "scabs" are boarding. In that case no blows were struck or arrests made, but some of the hotel employes were inrinreil to CO OUt. -a. rtnfhai tit Air -rsri 11 of rilra notuponthereinstatementofBossManleyin the Niagara elevator. The union was divided. and the feeling ran so nigh that the nolico cleared tho hall, mo crowa nilea the street for four blocks, and were only dispersed by the police charging on them with drawn emus, une arresi was raaue. It U anticipated that this is only the be ginning of wove serious trouble. The Imported Gla-Workers. PrTT5UURG, April 14. The twenty-six foreign glass-workers, who arrived at Boston on Friday, reached this city yesterday and went to Jeanuette,Pa.,thenepr naturalgas glass town, thirty miles east of this city. They came over the Pittsburg L Lake Erie railway, and had not money enough to pay for the transfer of there baggage from the Lake Erie depot to tho Pennsylvania station. The officials of the Glassworker' Association say that a number of the men had membership cards of the Knights of Labor, and that, while it is contrary to law to import tho workmen, nothing will be done, as the supply of glassworkers is not equal to the demand. Losses by Fire. CnATTANOOGA, Tenn., April 14. Fire at Dayton, Tenn., this morning, entailed a loss of $i,(ioo. The principal losers are: - llicknell & Johnson. J. W. Hudson, grocers; A. W. Frazicr, H. S. Pin ley. Dayton is a Sonngand growing city, aud the burned istrict willbe immediately rebuilt. Cincinnati. April 14. Later reports of the fire in Milford. Bracken county. Kentucky, last night, put the loss at 100,000, with insurance next to nothing. Twentythree buaine bouses were destroyed. The village is Milford, and not Milton, as sent through misinformation last night. Special to the IndlauayoU Journal. Terms Haute, Ind.f April II. Oilman's cooper-shop, operated in connection with the distilh ry. burned this morning, causing a loss o? about $i,000, mostly the burniug of xnoro than 1,000 whisky barrels. Fully injured. New Yo?k, April 14. The steamer Rio Grande was damaged $20,000 by fire at the

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AWifeAYars on Saloons, While the Hus band Gives Money to Aid Them. "White-Cap Gregory's Father Insane Through His Son's Crimes Close of a Christian Convention Eloping Wife's Theft. INDIANA. Norel Position of Man and Wife In Regard to Prosecuting Saloon -Keepers. Michigan City, April 14. Mrs. W. O. Leeds, -wife of ore of the richest men in In diana, has Becnrjd evidence that nineteen different saloon-keepers in Michigan City have sold liquor to her husband this year after she had, in accordance with law, formally notified them not to do so. The notices were served by her in person. An interview with Mrs. Leeds is given, in which she attributes Mr. Leeds's drinking habits to the inlluence of politicians and saloon men who have fastened themselves upon him. Mrs. Leeds says she proposes to have the saloon-keepers suffer from $10 to SlOO fine for everv drink sold to Mr. Leeds after notice was served. Her investigation hhowed, incidentally, that out of sixty-live places in Michigan City whercliqnoris sold oiilv tiftv-one aro licensed. She intends to have the unlicensed fourteen forced to closo 11D. Mrs. Leeds adds: "rmnot a Prohibitionmt; Ira a temperance woman. I've told them, in one place in town, that Mr. Leeds can come in there ana take his beer, but he must not take too much, and they must not sell him too much." Mrs. Leeds is well supplied with money, and looks like a determined woman. The saloon-keepers do not appear to be worried. It is rumored that Mr. Leeds has promised to stand back of them in any proceedings and supply the sinews of war. The amount of money he can control is estimated to be 5,000,000. A White Cap's Father Driven to Insanity. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Corydon, April 14. The escapades of William L. Gregory, the notorious Crawford county White Cap, who was shot a few months ago by Geo. W. Davis for lead ing astray his daughter, has driven his father, Bry Gregory, to insanity. The fact of Gregory's derangement has teen kept a secret, as was also the fact of his accident- I allv shooting his daughter while returning home from Leavenworth at the conclusion of the recent White Cap trial. Gregory and his family started home in a wagon, and he was . seized with a sud den fit of insanity when within two miles of his home. Drawing his revolver, he leaped from the wagon and placed the muzzle of tho pistol at his temple, but before he could lire he was caught by his daughter. Miss Dora, and other occupants of the wagon. In the scuffle that ensued the revolver was discharged and the ball penetrated the voung lady's side. The report of the pistol caused the team to run away ana demolish tne wagon, ana tne condition of Gregory and his daughter was attributed to injuries leceived by the runaway in order to keep the real facts from the public. Miss Gregory is improving, and her lather's condition is some better, but his reason has not been fully restored. Denouncing the Binder-Twine Trust. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Lafayette, April 14. The farmers of Tippecanoe county met in mass convention Saturday afternoon, to express their views in reference to the binder-twine trust. The opinion expressed was not at all compli mentary to the trust. The sentiment of those present was that it was better to pay a little more for labor and have it go into the pockets of workingmen. than it was to submit quietly' to an exorbitant price for twine. "If we consent to pay 20 cents this year," said one farmer, "we will have to pay 30 cents next year." and those present seemed to think it the better course to pursue to throttle the trust in its infancy. Committees were appointed to formulate a plan of action. They meet again on tho 28th inst. Minor Notes. Casper Fessell. a prominent citizen of Harrison county, has been adjudged insano. A horse- belongingto Martin Richer, near Greenfield, was killed by lightning last Friday. C. M. Travis. G. A. R. department commander of Indiana, will deliver tho Memorial-day address at Ladoga. Mrs. Marv B. Brown, aged scventv-seven years, and long a resident of Montgomery county, (lieu on iusl oaiuruay. The Louisville, New Albany &. Chicago railway depot at Reynolds was burned, on Saturday, with some valuable papers and records. The commissioners of Tippecanoe county will build a new bridge over the Wabash river at Lafayette. It will be six hundred feet long. William Knauor. of New Albanv. was found dead in his room, on Saturday. He was fif ty-tivo years old, and had died of rheumatism of the heart. A little daughter of Georgo Sprinkle, of Lancaster township, Huntington county, fell into an open hre-place, on Saturday, and had both hands burned to a csifep. The champion hoop-pole cutter of the State now lives in Lrown county. His name is Cyrus Stilt. He estimates that he has cut and prepared for market many mill ion poles. Kev. J. ubennington, one ol the pioneer nrisuan nunisicraoi me oiaie, ana postmaster at uniouvuie, Monroe county, un der Cleveland, is dead. He was seventysix years old. Robert Lehman, of nanover. lost his barn by a stroke of lightning last Friday. Four horses, three cows, several wagons, farm implements and a quantity of grain were also burned. Margaret Cain, a domestic at the Doxey House, in Anderson, on Saturda3 threw a quantity of boiling water on a woman named llolloran. she was badly scalded about the neck and breast, and may die. The Battle-ground camp-meeting committee has arranged for tho Grand Army day to be on Thursday, Aug. 1. The speaker on that day will be Key. Howard Henderson, D. D. LL. D., of Cincinnati. His subject will bo "Tho Swords of Grant and Lee." David Berime was painting a house at J.nndalia, Owen county, last Friday, when lightning struck the building. The electric current entered the fingers of his right hand, passed down his right side, and out through tho foot, tearing the boot entirely otl. His side is paralyzed. Two men at Crawfordsvillo went to law over a debt of 13 1-3 cents, and the case waa tried by a justice. During the trial tho men quarreled, and one knocked the other down, and was fined The man who got knocked down was mulcted in tine aud costs of $24 for provoke. As yet, the debt remains 12 1-2 cents. As a Monon train was nearingCrawfordsville a few davs ago the parallel rod broke and was driven throc&h the cab of the en ciue. tearing up the seat upon which the engineer was sitting, and making a hole the euineer, was badly shaken up. but escaped serious injury. Crawfordsville had a horse show last Saturday, and there were about thirty stallions in tho procession. Tho band led the procesj sion, and the town was full of farmers and their families. One of the horses got unruly and kicked into a crowd, knocking four persons down. A boy named Tom Houston, of that city, wasknocked senseless, and remained so for several minutes. Last SeptemVr Evans &, Co., of Kokomo, were robbed of $.00 worth of clothing, but efforts to fiud the thieves were futile. The other day one of Evans's clerks saw a man passing the store wearing a pair of pants belonging to the 6tolen lot. An officer was called, and the man was captured. He proved to bo Ed Champ, a saloon-keeper of Bunker Hill, and an ex-convict, llo refused to explain how the clothes got in his possession, and was sent to jail. ILLINOIS. Clone of the Annual Meeting of the Young Women's Christian Association. Special to the IcillanapolU Journal. Bloomington, April 14. The second annual national convention of tho Young Women's Christian Association of the United States and Canada, which opened here on Thursday evening, closed to-night. The services of Saturday were of deep in-

terest. At 9 o'clock this morning there was a consecration service at the First laptist Church, and at 4 this afternoon a woman's meeting was held at the First Methodist Church. This evening meetings were held in the First Methodist, the Second Presbyterian and Grace M. E. churches. Among the speakers were C. K. Ober, college secretary of the Y. M. C. A.; Miss Nettie Dunn, national secretary of the Y. M. C. A., and other eloquent talkers. The national executive committee will hereafter announce the time and place of the next meeting. Stole 81,500 and Eloped. . Cairo, April 1& Mrs. John Trusty, of Pulaski county, about ten miles above here, stole 1,500 from her husband, a few days atro, and eloned with a neighbor named Peterson, taking her daughter with her. They went to Arkansas, but were traced by the husband and captured at Monmontn Springs. Peterson was jailed there. The wife and daughter were brought back to this city on Thursday night and made to surrender gl,3(0 of the stolen monev, after which the outraged husband bade tnem go. The husband went back home, and the wife and daughter went to Hoxie, Ark., to start a boarding-house. Municipal Nominations. Special to the Iotllacapolls Journal. Moxticello, April 14. Tho Republicans of Monticello held a largely-attended convention at the"eourt-house, yesterday, and

nominated a full city ticket, as follows: Mayor, Hon. A. L. Rogers; city clerk, Reuer iiu8iou; treasurer. Horace 3ieacnain: 1 A. k W TT- . cny aiiomey, it. i. laiman; ponce magistrate, A. T. Pipher, aldermen. R. IL Mere dith, w. li. Yazel aud S. II. Hubbel. The question of license or no license will be snbmitted to the people on Tuesday at the annual election. A temperance mass-meeting was held to-night at the M. E. Church. Suffocated Himself with Gas. Special to the InrtlanaoIU JurnU. Ploomixgtox, April .14. Benjamin R. Abbott, of this city, committed suicide last night in his office, and was found dead this morning with a rubber tube between his teeth, and attached to a gas burner. It is believed that financial embarrassment led to his suicide. t He was aged about sixty years, and was a prominent member of the community. He was an old Mississippi steamboat captain, and during the war was, for a time, agent for the Illinois Central at Cairo. IJrief Mention. Geo. Lund, a railwav emrdnva. was instantly killed by the cars at Johet, on Saturday. A trunk containing $2,000 worth of stolen jewelry was found in a deserted house at Quincy on Saturday. Mrs. W. 8. Cannon, of Tuscola, has been appointed matron of the Indian trainingschool at Genoa, Neb. Mrs. Mary Johnson, of Beaver, who was injured in a'runawav accident at Lafayette, Ind., March 14, died on Saturday. Aaron Hendricks, an old resident of Taylorville. dropped dead on the street Saturday, of heart disease. He was sixty-five years of age. An election for school trustee took place at Carlyle, on Saturday, and the opposing candidatesjwere man and wife, the only distinguishing feature about the tickets being that one read "Porter W. Brown," and the other "Mrs. Porter W. Brown." The wife was late in announcing her caudidacy, but was so popular that she came within three votes of election. Her husband, who carried oli the honor, is an attorney. W. R. Archer, a well-known lawyer and politician, died at Pittsfield on Saturday, at the ago of soventy-two. In 1S47 and 18C9 he was a member of the State constitutional conventions from Pike county. He was circuit clerk from lSTO.when he was elected Repsentativein the Legislature on the Democratic ticket. In 1872 he was promoted to the Senate, and in 187ft was re-elected. It was Senator Archer who, as a member of the legislative commission, in 1877. discovered an obselete law that saved the State over $2,000,000, as it barred by limitation claims to that amount. ARMY OFFICER KILLS HIMSELF. Capt. Ogden B. Read, of the Eleventh Infantry, Ends Ilis Career with a Eevolver. Bpeclal to the Indianapolis Journal. Plattsburg, N. Y., April 14. About 11:30 o'clock, on Saturday night, Capt. Ogden B. Read, of the Eleventh United States In fantry, stationed at Plattsburg barracks, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. He had just returned from town. where he had gone to obtain admission to the court-house, to-morrow, to hear the arguments in the Harrison murder trial now being conducted there. After greeting his wife, he went to the sitting-room. A . moment later Mrs. Read heard a shot, and ran into the room, where she found her husband lying on the floor, with Wood flowing from a bullet wound in his mouth. He had placed a revolver in his mouth and the ball had penetrated the brain. Captain Head was forty-six years old. and a native of Colchester. Vt. He enlisted as a private in the Tenth Vermont Volunteers, in 18C2, and gained promotion, by brave and meritorious service, to the rank of brevet maior. He took part in many battles, including those of the Wilderness and the siege or Petersburg. He was severely wounded by the explosion of the Petersburg mine, in1 18G4. He was for some time in the general recuiting service in the West, and for two rpara ha Wn rommAvdinir officer at the plattsburg barracks. He was highly re i spected in this community. lie leaves a widow and three children. The motive for the suicide is not known. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. It is understood that the Christain Trefez brewery, of Jewark, N. J., has been sold to the English syndicate lor 000,000. Martin Lenhart was killed near Massillon. Saturday, while attempting to drive across the track in front of a Wheeling &. Lake Erie passenger train. Charles Griffin, of Utica. N. Y.. a carpenter. committed suicide last night. His wife was leading an improper life and he became discouraged. Ward McAllisterhas resigned as manager of the centennial ball and banquet, owing to the action of the entertainment committee depriving him of the discretion usually vested in the holder or such a position. W. IL Pve. agent of the Metropolitan Lifo Insurance Company at Columbus, 0.. has been missing for a week. An agent of the company has investigated his accounts and finds him SGOO short. Pye leaves a wife and child. John Green, colored, now living in JefferKonville. Ind two rears ago. in the federal court at Louisville, Ky.. sued a number of white men of Hart county, Kentucky, for Kn-kluxing him wl.ile he was living in that county. The suit has been compro mised by the defendanti paying Green 700 and costs. A steamship which arrived at New York last night from Hamburg! reports that on April 13, at .11 a. M.,ina dense fog, she about midships, sinking her at ouco and drowning pilot John Handran and the col ored cook.Tlarry Halford. Mrs. Rosina Middlekampf, seventy-two years old, was found yesterday morning. hanging from a cherry tree on the farm of her sou. near Gardenville, Md. She had tied a plow-line to a limb of the tree, and with the aid of a ring made the loop in which she strangled herself to death. Charles Hodges, a firo boss, and Evan Madden, a puiiip runner, were passing through an abandoned working in Grand tunnel mine, near ilkesbatre. Pa., yes terday morning, when their lights ignited a largo amount of accumulated gas, and both men were blown to pieces. Hodges was forty-five years of age. He leaves a wifo and six children. Maddtn was sixty years old aud a widower. A Countess Sets Vp a Circus. Pall MaU Gatett. Countess Orosy, a lady of the highest Austrian aristocracy, who saares with the Empress and the famous professional Amazon, Mine, Eliza, the honor of being one of the best horsewomen in Austria, has just set up as circus manager. She has lately inherited a fortune of a million gulden, and with the bulk of this sum she has built an enormous circus at Vienna, whence she hopes to take her troupe for its first tour to the Paris exhibition, where they propose io give a series ox rercscuiuuuua.

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High Water in the Streams Likely to Impede the Progress of the Boomers. Intending Settlers Given Permission to Cros3 the Cherokee Strip Increasing Ac tivity Among the Texas Contingent. Caldwell, Kan., April 14. Permission to cross the Cherokee strip to the border of Oklahoma was received here yesterday. The troops now on tho State lino have orders to move on the 19th to the south lino of the Cherokee . strip and hold tho boomers in check until the gates swing open, iremenuous rain-lalls west may change the plans of many, as the rivers will probably be more than bank full next week. At South Canadian City, on the Kiowa branch, the bridge. over a mile long, across the South Canadian, has been badly damaged by the high water. Four spans have been carried away. Acountry wagon bridge just west of it is totally wrecked. The damage is es timated at $25,000. The water from this downfall will mst about reach Oklahoma next week, and many streams will be im passible lor manjr days. 1 he settlers are getting down to work and busily prepar ing to start early next week across the strip. The new office building for Kingfisher is being constructed here in sections. It will be loaded on wagons, rushed through, and set up on the 21st. Wichita, Kan., April 14. A gentleman from Fort Worth savs that the Texas con tingent of tho boomers is massed at Gaines ville, and that the excitement there is as intense as in southern Kansas. Thousands, he says, will leave there on the 21st for Oklahoma. Among the arrivals yesterday were two women Miss Molly X oung. of Quincy, and Miss Manitta Daisy, of Louisville, ky. who will tako up claims in Oklahoma. Besides these there are a party of voung Kansas Kchonlma'aui. in charge of Miss Bruce, who were driven out by the soldiers, and a party of eight young ladies from Purcell, that will battle for a quarter section each. Fort Smitk. Ark.. April 14. The entire western Arkansas border isasceneof bustle and activity. People are striving to get into Oklahoma by the southeastern entrance, which opens by far the richest portion of the new territory. Capt. S. H. Scott, a prominent lawyer of this city, has organ ized a large colony, and proposes to lay out a town site near the Kickapoo reservation. A party of North Carolina boomers, headed Dy a planter named Geo. Ingram, navojnst arrived. Government officials from the Potawatomie and Iowa reservations report that the neighborhood is fairly alive with a mass of people. Old '49ers say the scene rivals anything in the old California days. If the present rush continues until the 22d, more than twice as many .will be on the southern border of Oklahoma as can be accommodated. Sr. Louis. April 14. Among the latest items from the Indian Territory is one of a bloody tragedy, a few days ago, in the western part of Oklahoma, between two men from Kiowa. Kan., and two men from Texas, for the possession of a claim. Guns were used freely, and one of the Kiowa men was killed and a Texan mortally wounded. The other two called a truce, and, placing . i . , , i. ineir wounaea comraues in a wagon, started for a neighboring ranch. Before they reached it, however, the light was renewed, and the entire party was discovered later by some cowboys, stretched out on the prairie. The cowboys took the one dead and three wounded men to the nearest stage station. Tho Topeka & Santa Fe railroad now has 4S7 freight cars ontheir side-tracks in the yards at Arkansas City, Kan., which are Doing loaded with implements, household goods, merchandise and houses, framed, and ready to bo put" up. The agent at that point said, to-day: T can now move 1,000 cars of freight and 5.000 passengers in twelve hours." General Merritt, at rort Leavenworth, hasjissued orders to the military officers in the Territory to permit boomers to cross the Cherokee outlet in time to reach the Oklahoma line on the 23d, the date set for the opening of the Territory by the President's proclamation. Chicago. April 14. A meeting of the Chicago Oklahoma colony was neld in tho Plumbers' Exchangry . to-day. About sixty persons were present, most oi whom declared their intention of going to Okla homa. Among those present were several ladies. I'iiilip Kummerneia, tne president of a colony organized on the A est Side, was present, and a proposition was made for the two colonies to unite. 1 his was referred to a committee, who will report to-morrow night. The Chicago colony numbers about three hundred, and the omcers sav they will be reinforced by contingents from Kockford, i-reeport anu other . - 1 .1 -1 4 . A towns in uie normcru pari, ux iuo outa. The Kind of Country Oklahoma Is. Chicago Special to New Y ork Ilerald. The lack of general information concern ing the Indian Territory is easily accounted for by one who has lived there for any length of time. The Indians naturally imparted as little knowledge of it as possible, partly from their instinctive jealousy and fear of white incursion, and also because they came mostly in contact with such whites as were interested in the country remaining in the state of isolation. The cattle men, who by the aid of leases or the friendly protection of certain "squaw men" (white men married to squaws), had their herd there, were not communicative. Nor were tho employes of the Interior Department. ' . .... The array people were few in number, and their life, a change from post to post on the frontier, had led them to regard Indian reservations on a large scale as part oi the natural economy of the United States. Their tastes were not commercial or pas toral, and the possibilities in these lands did not strike them as forcibly as it had others. For the Interior Department the existing condition of things meant many good positions lor political wortmen worthv of their steeU' Cattle men. gradnnllv driven back bv the surging wave of emigration, iounu were uu aumiug mace iui their thousands of beeves and made money . J . r i v a 1 : i ranidlv. These causes combined and the other Western lands yet open for settlement, left the country almost as unknown as Aiasxa until within a few year. The country is well watered. Kmensher creek and many other small streams are clear, pure, sweet and teem with hsh perch and cathsh. Thprft are also many snrincs. But a great deal of water is bad and unfit to drink, be ing rather salty, or alkaline, or both. The Cimarron river, before it reaches the Oklahoma country, passes over a bed of salt that renders it utterly unht for any rmrnose. It is not really good for washing. Part of its course is through banks of red clay, which is so mixed up with the water that it resembles, in color and consistency. muddy boarding-house coffee. This is the principal stream that crosses the new Ter ritory. . . ...... The main stream, tne Canadian river. which marks tho southery boundary, is similar in many respects to the Cimarron. Both run through a wide sandy bottom. sometimes narrowing, but generally a vast expanse of sand quicksand at that of the meanest kind. They are from two inches to ten feet in depth during a rise, and in places almost a mile wide. In time of low water a narrow, changing channel may bo found, Eometimes on one side, sometimes on the other. Both are exceedingly uncertain to cross during high water. ou cannot see tho bottom. To stop a secondtolook around may possibly result in the Joss of your wagon, and you are likely to drive into a big hole at every step. t Some years ago a train of wagons for Lee &. Reynold, coming up with bunalo robes, were at the banks of the South Canadian one evening. The river was coming up. and the train boss attempted to cross. Eight of the wagons stuck in the sand, and though twenty yoke of bulls were put on they could not move them. The next morning only thetopsof oneor two wagons remained above water. The whole eight sank awav. and they are supposed to be still going downward. N ot even a wheel was saved. The North Fork of the Canadian is a narrow, clear, pretty stream of fairly good water. All of these streams have a fringe of cottonwood, willows, elms, oak or hackberry, with a little black walnut, which looks in viting to the traveler after riding over the plains of western Kansas aud Nebraska, and while the country is not really well wooded it appears to be so. Between the two Canadians is one of the prettiest little

ranges ever known. Here was formerly a favorite pasture-ground for buffalo, count-

less neras or wnicn roamea over xnis section. In the bright moonlight of that latitude, after a rain, the prairie appears studded with enormous gems, caused by the reflection from the numerous pools of water in tne now deserted bunalo wallows. The climate is mild, with excessively hot days in summer, but at night after 10 o'clock comes a cool, refreshing breeze that is a positive luxury, and almost every night in tho year a light blanket, at least, is needed. Though the mercury reaches 115 degrees, or even higher, there is always a breeze that greatly relieves the oppressive -li' A. -M 1 t A T . . .t eueci oi miense neat, uuring winier mere is alight snowfall that rarely lasts over a day or two. uccasionaiiy there occurs what is known as a "blue norther" or blizzard, and the mercury gets down to abont zero. During such weather stock sutlers severely, and many animals perish, especially if the nonaer is preceaea Dy arain.cnangmginio snow, l he cold appears to be more pene trating than further north, and I have seen a company of negro soldiers arrive at Reno after a nine-miles' march in which fortynine out of fifty men were so badly frozen that they were at once sent to the hospital. Yet the men were apparently properly and warmiy euougii ciad. v ere it not for the prevailing high winds and dust the climate would be delightful, as a rule. The winds in summer are sometimes so high as to prevent hay-making. During one season at Fort Sill the greater portion of the hay put up at that post had to be cut and hauled by moonlight. Nothing could be done during tho day. As a rule the climate is healthy, but in all sections in that latitude, especially along tne water courses, mere is consiueraDie malaria and also rheumatism. Cholera raged there some twenty years ago, but there has been none since that time. With the opening up of this country turning over the soil may produce, and probably will, a daugerous fever, malarial in its type and symptoms. This is common to all new countries, and can he avoided generally by lib eral use of auinine and avoidance of cheap whisky. The fever usually runs but one season, fcettiers irom northern latitudes would do better to avoid the bottom lands and select elevated lands. It will take about a year to get really acclimated. There is little difference, practically, as to location, whether a person takes up land in the Gnthno or the Kingfisher district. Each is equally accessible. Guthrie is at least as large as Kingfisher. Kingfisher is on the western border, eighteen miles north of Fort Reno, on the Reno-Caldwell stage traiL It was formerly a stage relay station. It consists of a picket-hc use plastered with mud, a picket stable ditto, a wire-fenced- garden and a haystack. But undoubtedly at each point there willbe a large and prosperous town. SECRETARY BALFOUR. He Is Likely to Succeed to the Leadership of the House of Commons. London Special to New York World. All the signs of the times point to Balfour as the coming man of England. In fact ho has already arrived. Nothing but that courtesy which Englishmen always pay to respectable mediocrity prevents him from occupying the place which has been waiting for him. The banquet to William Henry Smith was an intimation that his career as leader of the House of Commons is approaching its close, as the ministerial whitebait dinner at Greenwich is always an indication of the end of the session of Parliament. Mr. Smith has done faithful and honest service to his party, but nobody has ever accused him of being a great man or a smart one. ine House nas always treated him with consideration, and his task in conducting its deliberations has not been as hard as it might have been; hut his honorable naivete has at times been dan gerous to his friends, and severely tried their patience. A new man has been looked for a long time. Mr. Balfour has been do ing hard work for the government. the hardest it could give him to do, and he has done it well, in their estimation. lie has logically carried out their views and policy in Ireland. He has shown courage and ability in using power placed in his hands. He is acclaimed by Unionists as the pacificator of Ireland. The government owes him a reward, but needs hira as a political leader, for which his talents are becoming more conspicuous daily. He was employed to undertake the ungracious task oi reconciling tne mnmngnam (i ones to a most distasteful duty in giving up their determination to have their own candidate, and he succeeded by a combination of force and tact which entitles him to high diplomatic honors. His speech at the William Henry banquet was conciliatory and statesmanlike, and showed a breadth of view and mellowness of spirit which he has had no opportunity to display among the narrow and heated antagonisms of the Irish office. It seemed to foreshadow qual ifications for a leader of that distinguished club of gentlemen known as the House of Commons, andto that position he will no doubt succeed as soon as Mr. Smith can be removed in the Chamber of Peers without hurting his feelings Dangerous Swindler Identified. Loxiox, April 14. A man of dis tinguished appearance, calling himself Baron Schellerup, was arrested in Berlin, a few days ago, for swindling a horse-dealer out of 20,000 marks. He was arraigned in court, and released on bail pending his trial. While he was in custody he was searched, and Russian money to the amount of C.000 roubles was found concealed beneath the lining of his coat. After his release the po lice endeavored to arrest him on other charges, but were unsuccessful. Subsequently it was discovered that Schellerup is none other than tne xamous swindler, Prince Zvine, who served a term of impri onment in Brussels in 1865. and afterwards escaped from the custody of officers who were conveying him to Russia for trial on tne cnargo oi mcenuiarisin. emce nis escane nothing has been known of him until his arrest in Berlin. He has disappeared from the German capital, and it is believed he is in .London. Documents In the Boulanger Case. Paris, April 14. M. Merline, the presi dent of the committee of Senators who will conduct tho trial of General Boulanger and MM. Cordelet, Demole and Trariuk, have been chosen to act as a sub-committee to examine 10,320 documents bearing on the case. The matter to be examined in cludes three thousand newspaper articles and a great number of General Boulanger's visiting-cards indorsed with short messages. Besides the charge or corrupting the army, the General is charged with malversation in the War Office as regards the handling ot lunas, aim wiin making a seditious speech on the evening of President Carnot's election. It is said that M. Clemenceau can confirm the last-named chargo. The London Chronicle says it will be proved that Boulanger began collecting money for his propaganda while in America attending the centennial letes. Reorganizing a Broken Bank. London. April 15. The Times says: "Tin new Comptoir d'Escompte, of Paris, will be constructed on the lines of the old concern. The capital will be 40,000,000 francs, half paid up, and exclusively offered to old shareholders. There will also be 60,000 founders shares, entitled to SO per cent, of the profits after 5 per cent, is deducted for a reserve. Two-thirds will be handed to tho liquidators as a contribution of the former company, and the remaining 20,000 will be- handed to the syndicate which guaranteed to subscribe for shares not taken by original shareholders." A Fiendish Brute. London. Arril 14. Last Wednesday a tailor in Hamburg quarreled with his wife. and, seizing a knife, severed her nose from her face. The woman fell to the floor, when the brute crouched over her and cut out her toneue. Not content with this he gouged out her eyes, and finally cut her throat; l nrowmg uown ine Knue, ne iook his departure for his usual haunts, where he remained until Friday, carousing with companions of his kind. On k nday mornina the dead body of his wife was discov ered, and the fiend was arrested. He made little resistance, and expressed no con trition for his crime. Foreign Notes. 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Absolutely Pure. tfTATt irf n sn1 irhnlitaAmAnaaa Xf.rA AAAnAmli I tKn theordlnary kinds, and cannot tioMin eonipeilUon phofphate po""l'r- Sola o"'V hi cana. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO.. 106 Wall nU N. Y. against Ltord Salisbury for certain remarks made by the latter in a recent speech at Walford. M. Pirr AfUfnr nf an oiiH-fiprrriftn rows. paper published at Riga, in the government of T-ivnnia Wiitaia vrna Tprrntlf vnrl.iid and beaten almost to death by partisans of uermany residing in tne city. The Prussian executioner, Krants, has been arrested on the charge of killing his assistant by kicking him in the abdomen while in a tit of passion. He has admitted the crime, but pleads extenuating circumBuiuces. nfactnre, has been discovered at Winburg, ftu uvuicsn iK-iiuisiciu. lun luui'tuuu is realize a large sum from its sale to curiosity nuniers. Three German merchants who were arrested in Livonia soino time ago, but never tried, have just been sent to Siberia for without the formality of a hearing. The nature oi tne cnarges against tnem, or uy wuom mace, is a mystery. An immense snirifc rincr decerned to eon. trol the manufacture and sale of spirituous Jiquors, is forming in V ienna. It is expected that the Austro-Hungarian landesbank will make advances to the syndicate to the extent of-15,000,000 florins, which sum is secured. The liability of the trust will be limited. APRIL MAGAZINES. The Art Amateur for April contains the usual profusion of design for the various forms of decorative work, and also has two colored plates, one a study of apples by Victor Dangon, the other a fern decoration for. coffee-cup and 6aucer. The editor's "Note-Book" touches upon the art exhibits of the month. Contributed articles are, "Pen-drawing for Photo-engraving," "Con cerning Background," "Tapestry Paint ing," "China Painting." "Talks with Be ginners in Amateur Photography." "Talks with House Decorators," etc 23 Union square, lSew lork. "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War," the Century war history, is now complete with the issuing of Parts 31 and 32. An in dex accompanies the last number. The papers in this history have been writttn by leading officers of both the Union and confederate armies and by other partici pants in the battles, and the collection xorms a more complete account of the events of that penod than could be secured in any other way. The .work is profusely illustrated and of great tynotrranhical beauty, and the parts, when bound, will make a handsome and valuable addition to any library. Tho Graver and Palette is a class maga zine published quarterly at 164 Fifth av enue, New York, and, as its title indicates, is devoted to the interests of the engraver and painter. As stated in the prospectus, its principal aim will be to assist in the de velopment in America of the line arts. A unique feature of its conducting will be the giving free nse of its columns to further the getting positions of various kinds for those wishing to utilize their artistic talent as " bread-w l nners." The contributors to "The Writer" are, as is, perhaps, quite natural, deeply concerned over the treatment of manuscripts by editors, and two or three of the articles in tho April issue are devoted to this subject. Other contributions are: "Newspaper Al manacs." "A JNicht at a ISews Desk." "A Beginning of Spelling Reform," "Every writer ins uwn stationer," "fcnort-nand in Newspaper W ork," and "A Treasury of ImTtrnucinriB " VUUlvUUI "Dress," Mrs. Jenness Miller's Ma gazine. devotes much attention to the stout woman in the April issue. A series of articles on the cure of corpulence is begun by Dr. Helen Densmore, and designs are given for various becoming garments. W. One-hundred-and-tweuty-hf th street, New York, A large part of the April Decorator and Furnisher is devoted to that form of in terior decoration known as "fancy work." lhere are, in addition, a chapter on woodcarvmg, another on "ine use oi precious Stones," an article an "Decorative Compo sition." Literary Notes. Amelie Rives will contribute a poem to the May number of Harper's Magazine "Unto the Least of these Little Ones." Mr. Thomas Baily Aldrich, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, is about to publish a book called "An Old Town by the Sea." Mr. Aldrich's birthplace was the charmingly picturesque and quaint old town of I'ortsmouin, r. 11. "The Strange Markings on Mars' is the title of an illustrated article to appear in the May Popular Science Monthly. The author, Mr. Garrett P. Scrviss, tells how these markings have been explained, and shows the bearing of what is known abont this planet upon the question whether or not it is the abode of life. An extended reply to Professor nuxlcy's article on "Agnosticism." which was published in the last number of the Popular Science Monthly, will appear in the May issue of that magazine. This view of the other bide of the subject is given by Rev. Dr. Henn Wace, principal of King's College and tho Bishop of Peterborough, whoso earner utterances naa oeen cruiciseu oy iTotessor Huxley. The Easter number of Harper's Bazar. April 12, has a special cover, with an elaborate floral design drawn by Harry Fenntjaud printed in color. -The number contains drawings by Alfred Fredericks and C. D. Weldon, an Lastt r poem by Rose Terry Cooke, a poein by Frank Demspter Sherman to accompany a drawing of "Fifth Avenue on Easter Sunday." by H. W. McVickar, a supplement with a donblcage picture-, of "Washington and his 'ainily." and two pages of original designs for lire-places, together with detailed de scriptions and estimates of cost, by Charles De Kay. It is announced that Messrs. Houghton, Milllin &. Co. have purchased the copyrights, electro type plates aud stock of all the miscellaneous publications of Messrs. Ticknorfc Co. Also, that Mr. Georgo F. Godfrey will retire from the publishing business, and that Air. Thomas li. Ticknor will become associated in an important position with Houghton, Milllin & Co., while Mr. Benjamin II. Ticknor will continue to publish the remainder of the Ticknor list, including "The American Architect," and various architectural subscription books, etc., at the old stand of Ticknor &. Co. It is understood that Houghton, Mitllin &, Co. pay cash for the property. rr.. : ,.n r it, attention is called to the advertisement j under caption of "Capitalists! Investors!"

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