Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1889 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1889.

Gorman, Kussin and Lanahan that knifed him and defeated him for re-election last fall, and he is openly determined to pay them all buck. Mr. Gorman's term in the Senate expire two years hence, and Mr. Kayner now proposes to organize an independent Democracy in Maryland, which will elect a Legislature two jears hence, to defeat and crush Mr. Gorman forever, and send Mr. Kayner to the Senate. Mr. Kayner has unlimited brains and practically boundless wealth, and the latter is the almighty lever in Maryland politics. Mr. Gorman has sought to conciliate Kayner by the offer of the governorship, but the latter declined to listen to any overtures. lie wants Gorman defeated in Maryland even if he must sacrifice the party to do it. MINOR JIATTEISS.

Expo are of the Scheme to Dismiss Veteran Union Soldiers Creates a Surprise. EpecUl to the Indianaoolis Journal Washington', May 21. The list of veteran Union soldiers prepared for dismissal from the War Department in the event of Cleveland's re-election published in a Washington special to the Journal of yes terday, are employed in the Quartermastergeneral's office, instead of the Adjutantgeneral's office, as stated. With this correction the facts alleged are all true. The Journal of yesterday was in demand at the War Department to-day, and the publication created considerable stir. The list given in the special was prepared by Jno. Miller, of the Adjutant-general's office, and it was his purpose to secure promotions for Democrats by having these veterans re moved. Indiana Tensions. Pensions have been granted to the following-named Indianians: Original Invalid Hiram Sell. Isaiah Relda, John Book, William Kr:iper (deceased) Robert Yotrnsr, Ebenczer Oott, Thomas L. 8tmer, Joaeph Jewell, David Utter back. Charles A. White. Robert F. Davis, Harry Koter, Jos lab. W. Trueblood, John Kocker, Oscar AUlson, John D. Bonsall, Jacob Alowinc, Thompson M. lioothe, Alexander Parks, Lewis M. Bowles, Thomas F. Ford. Conrad Florka, John A. Henry, Andrew J. Isaac, Dr. Preston, Franklin Hancock. Increase Burleigh C. I). Read, John H. Thompson, Phillip Kramer James Parsons. Simon Daniels, James li ray, James M. l'leison, Israel Bolender, Benjamin Greenwood (deceased) Win. H. Hannan, Laban B. fcittison, Wm. K. Reynolds, Thomas Lannln?, Bamuel A. Wolf, James 8. Elliott. Reissue William K. P.lce. John W. Pickett Original Widows, etc. Anne E., widow of Thomas J. Ilorlne: Frarcis, widow of William M. Vice: Nancy A. Trout, former widow of George II. Hughbanks; Elizabeth, widow of Lafayette Abbott; Rhoda Munea, former widow of George Romck; minors of John H. Maddox; Roxana, widow of -Robert K. Taylor; John T., father of James Cross; Eleanor, widow of Isaao Nelson; Hannah R., widow of Wm. A. Prittou. Mexican Widow Malmda, widow of David Lee. Marat TJalstead on His Way to Europe. Fpcil to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, May 21. Mr. Murat Halstead, editor of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, left for New York to-night, after a conple of days in Washington, and will sail on Thursday on the Augusta Victoria for Germany. After joining his wife and daughters at Berlin he will proceed to Carlsbad, whero he will take the water cure. Mr. Halsteadwas called on to-day by many of his friends, who expressed regret over his recent severe illness, and wished him bon voyage. CoL Fred D. Mnssey. the well-known correspondent of tho Commercial Gazetto, will go to the home office, and take hold in the absence of Mr. Hal stead, who will return next falL It is understood that Col. Museey will bo in charge, editorially, of the paper. Cannot Have National Hanks In Oklahoma. Washington, May 2L Attorney-general Miller has given an opinion to the Secretary of the Treasury that there is no provision of law under which national banks can be established in Oklahoma at the present time. One of the requirements of the national-banking law is that three-fourths of the directors of a new national bank shall have resided in the State, Territory or district in which the association is to be located for at least one year preceding their election as directors. It is impossible, of course, to meet this requirement in the case of Oklahoma banks, as that Territory has been open to settlement only about a month. An effort will probably be made to secure early legislation on this subject. Indiana Postmasters Appointed. Epeclal to tho Indianapolis Journal. Washington, May 21. Indiana postmasters were appointed to-day, as follows: C. P. Pyle, Barber's Mills, Wells county, vice C. C. Swain, removed; J. W. Nutt, Carmel, Hamilton county, vice K. G. Bryford, removed; Tho. McNeill, Lafoutalne, Wabanh county, vice J. a. Hale, resigned; L. T. Murphy, LaOro, Wabash county, vice J. F. Ramsey, removed; John 15. Funk, libertr Center, Wells county, vice Morgan, resisted; Kdith Martin. Liberty Mills, Wabash county, vice W. Tuinau, resigned; Fphralm Ruth, Poneto, Wells county, vice John Iiardridge, removed; Fairgood, Servia. Wanasli county, vice C. C Steller, removed: C. E. Alrau?h, tkunerset, Wabash county, vice R. E. Miller. , removed; C F. Overman, South Wabash, Wabaah county, vice John Pearson, removed; C. P. Miller, Urban a, Wabash county, vice J. F. Wcllinan, resigned. Unsatisfied Treasury Judgments. Washington, May 21. A statement prepared in the oflice of the Solicitor of the Treasury shows that there are now 12,693 unsatisfied judgments on the books of that office, representing the sum of $10,505,312. They cover the period from July 1, 1860, to July 1. 1SSS, and represent all classes of in- " debtcdness to the government, principally from tines, forfeitures and trespasses. Theio was collected dnring the same period the sum of $4o.000,000. Solicitor Hepburn said this afternoon that he proposed investigating these old cases, with a view to the collection of the whole or a part of the outstanding judgments. Will Visit Ills Mother's Birthplace. Ciiamdersbcko, Ta., May 21. United States Treasurer J. N. Huston, who has been visiting here, announced that President Harrison would make a trip to Franklin county during the coming summer to see his mother's birthplace. General Harrison's mother was Elizabeth Irwin, daughter of Archibald Irwin, and 6he was born about ten miles from here in Montgomery township. The old stone house in which she was born is still standing, and the President has several times expressed a desire to visit his mother's birthplace. ra tents Issued to Indiana Inventors. Special to the Indiin&ioUa Journal Washington, May 21. Patents wore granted to Indiana inventors to-day, as follows: John nironiraus. Mt. Vernon, assismor of onehalf to F. C. Athoff, Kvansvllle, carriage-spring; icorge W. Kelly, Goshen, carpet-sweeper; Joseph A. MinnK Kvansvillc, safe-alarm: Marshall T. Reeves and M. O. Reeves, aasijniors to Reeves Fullev Company, Columbu. split pulley; Slgourney Wales, Terre Haute, assignor to C. B. Fox, Ronton, pencU-holder. General Notes. f Fperlal to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, May 21. Adolph Dcrndinger, of Zionsville, a one-armed veteran, and employed in the Pension Oflice, had a very delicate surgical operation performed to-day, the second one for an injury sustained during the late war. He is resting easy and will recover. C. A. Bookwalter, of Fort Wayne; Manley I). Wilson, of Madison, and Charles F. Grifiln, of Indianapolis, are at the Ebbitt. Colonel Shu 11, of Indiana, a watchman in the Postotlice Department, has been dismissed from the service. Kev. N. S. Kagsdale, of Worthington, has bjen appointed a timber agent for tho Interior Department, and will be assigned to the far West. His salary will be $1.S00 & year and a per diem, in all about $-,400 a year. This is one of the best appointments made since the -1th of March, an able and worthy man being secured. Drs. K. W. Iech and Thomas C. Kennedy were to-day appointed members of the medical board of pension examiners at fihelbyville. For the Sandusky (O.l board Pr. Charles II. Merz and T. M. Cook were Appointed. Mate Auditor Carr, who has been in NewYork disposing of Indiana State bonds, itopped oil" at Washington for a day and rignt. He left to-night for Indianapolis. During the afternoon he spent sometime at the White House. The Secretary of State Is informed that

Mr. Zegarra, the minister of Tern in W ashington, will represent that govcrnment at the conference of American states, which meets here Oct. 4, next. J. C. Shatter, of Indianapolis, was a caller at the White House this afternoon. Mr. Charles Denby, the United States minister to China, advises the Secretary of State, under date of Anril 3, last, of the appointment of Tsni Kwo Yin as Envoy Extraordinary and 3Iinister Plenipotentiary of China to the United States, vice Mr. Can Yen Hoon. To-day's bond oflerings were as follows: Coupon fours, $400. at $1.29 flat; registered four-and-a-halfs. $9,000, at SLOog. ex. interest; registered four-and-a-halfs, $12,000, at $1.08. All the otferings were accepted. The President has been invited to attend the Suffolk county (N. Y.) fair, in October. The President's grandmother, the wife of President William Henry Harrison, was born and grew to womanhood near the spot where the fair is to be held. President Harrison has taken the matter of the invitation under consideration. The Treasury accountants to-day completed an estimate of the cash value of the currency, coin and Securities turned over to Treasurer Huston by ex-Treasurer Hyatt, and find the total amount to be $7.22,000,000,

The Comptroller of the Currency to-day appointed reserve agents for national banks in Indiana, as follows: The First National, of Chicago, for the First National, of Columbus; the Commercial, of Chicago, for the Indianapolis National. The Secretary of the Treasury to-day received, a conscience contribution from a resident of Washington in the form of fourteen two-cent stamps. A Wealthy Heiress Divides Her Legacy. Chicago. May 21. The three or four millions of Charles J. Hull, the West-side millionaire, will be distributed without a tight, and his cousin, amanuensis and chief business manager. Miss Helen Culver, will be left undisturbed in the enjoyment of tho bulk of his fortune. This result was amicably attained in Judge Collins'a court this morning. Mr. Hnll died a very rich man, and before his demise he deeded the bulk of his property to Miss Culver, and on his death made her his sole devisee. The estate was estimated at 3,000,000 in round figures, thongh the deceased was said to be worth more. Ho had neither wife, children nor parents, and the only heirs-at-law wero the children of his brother, Burdette F. Hull and Eunice Naramore. who were left without mention in the millionaire's testament. They proposed to contest the action of their uncle in cutting them off and leaving everything to Miss Culver, but upon an intimation of that intention Miss Culver expressed a desire to settle some of her large fortune on them. This morning a decree was entered by which Miss Culver gave to the nephews and nieces of Mr. Hull $212,500, to be divided among twenty adults and minors in equal shares. Miss Culver is absolved from all claims by the heirs, and thus a contest of Mr. Hull's will is averted. The Colored Men Were Good Rulers. Lafayette, La., May 21. Govern or Nichols is here, and since his arrival has been thoroughly posted in regard to the facts of the late trouble here, and evidently finds the situation more serious than he had expected. As communicated, a dumber of ersons representing the regulators were efore him last evening, but nothing positive is known of the result of the evidence elicited. The Mayor and members of the Council, and a number of business men and farmers, called on the Governor this morning, and they were assured that no more trouble would occ,ur, bnt if there should be he would certainly take decisive steps in the matter, The Governor 6tatcd he had refused to accept the resignation of the colored justice of the peace who had been forced to resign. Governor Nichols is convinced that the municipal affairs of the town have been wisely managed, and the police very efficient, and that thero have been no irregularities, or matter of any kind, justifying outside interference. Prohibition Increases Liquor Sales in Iowa. Dubuque, la.. May 21. In an interview, yesterday. Internal Revenue Collector Webster, of this district, stated that the prohibitory law increased the sales of liquor in Iowa. This year he has issued 233 more liquor licenses than last year. The number of wholesale dealers is slightly less than before the prohibitory law, but the sales are larger and the quality of liquor sold is poorer. Not only have tho sales increased, out since the decision of the United States Supremo Court in tho case of Bowman Brothers, the Marshalltown brewers, the importations by express of original packages' of liquor lias been enormous. VVholesale liquor-houses have sprung up all- along the borders of the State, and are supported mainly by Iowa trade. Floor-Mill Patents Declared Invalid, Detroit, Mich.. May 21. The patentcase of the Consolidated Roller-mill ComEany against William A. Coombs, which as excited wide interest among millers, was decided this morning by United States Judge Brown. The Dowling patent, a device for stirring Hour as it goes into the mill, and the Marmon patent on a device for loosening the bolt of the counter-shaft, were declared invalid by Judge Ifrown for lack of novelty. The Gray patent, the most important, a device for the adjustment, horizontal and yet vertical, of the movable roller of a mill, was sustained. The cose was defeuded by a syndicate of five manufacturers. The preparation of the case on both sides cost $40,000. m Toy Whistles Cause a Board of Trade Row. St. Louis. May 21. A great sensation was created on 'Change to-day, growing out of the suspension of some dozen of the younger members of the Board of Trade for blowing toy whistles on the floor dnring trading hours. The board decided to enforce the rules, and said the suspension must stand. As a result, the friends of the suspended members, comprising a large majority of the board, left tho floor in a body, and repaired to one of the rooms on the ground floor, where the bulk of the option trading for the day was done. Tho seccders now threaten to start a new exchange. Business Embarrassments, Chicago, May 21. The Western Arms and Cartridge Company, which failed last Saturday by the entry of a judgment against it of $03,050 made a Toluntary assignment in the county court to-day. The assets are said to be $110,000 and the liabilities $80,000. The assignee is Charles F. Fclton. Tho insolvent company dealt in sportsman's goods at 47 and 49 State street. Chicago, May 21. Charles A. Herb dealer in toys, assigned to-day. The assets and liabilities are about $25,000 each. Taper OTereoats. SL Louis Globe-Democrat. "If the cloth-makers don't get that man up in the Northwest who lias invented Janer clothing into a trust by next winter i6' 11 make a big fortune, and millions of overcoats will stay in the pawnshops, where they are now," said Harry Parker. "He hasn't cot the idea worked out yet as far as he will probably go, but he made enough vests and underclothes last winter to create something of a panic among the St. Paul clothiers, where he made his first business experiment on a big scale. The paper is prepared so that it is as soft as cloth, and the cold cannot penetrate it. My father is engaged in an open-air occupation, and likes to experiment, so he got one of these vest9 and wore it with no overcoat all last winter with great comfort. Next winter he says he intends to come out cm the streets in a full suit of it." Colonel East's Book. Orleans (Ind.) Examiner. Colonel John R. East Is vrriting a book which wlU, It l. said, create quite a sensation in the literary world. P&oll News. The above is correct without the displacement of a single letter or mark. Any book written by Colonel East will create a sensation in the literary world especially, and all other worlds generally. A Revolution itx Cooking. The errors of fifty years corrected. A public exhibition will be given of tho Charter Oak stove, with tho wonderful wire gauze oven doors, at Wm. H. Bennett fe Son's store, 38 South Meridian street, today, from 10 A. M. to 6 P. M. This oven will broil steak in five minutes, bake biscuits in live minutes, bread will bo one-quarter larger, keep forever and never mold; saves all the loss and shrinkage in cooking meats; no basting required. This oven absolutely saves all the labor in cooking, using 50 per cent less fuel than the common cook stove. A ten-pound roast cooked iij an ordinary oven will weigh when cooked six pounds. The same cooked with wire gauze oven door will weigh nine and one-quarter pounds.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS

The Case of a Terre Haute Suicide Who Took a Queer Way to Hasten His Exit. A Famous Will Case Compromised Eights of a Street-Kailway Company Killed by a Quarry Blast Swindler Arrested. INDIANA. A Self-Murderer Who Exhibited Good Nerve In Carrying Out Ills Purpose. Spect&l to the Indianapolis Journal. Fort Wayne, May 21. Oscar Logan, a painter, hanged himself in the county jail last night. Ho was sent over on Sunday morning for - ten days for drunkenness, after recovering from an attack of tremens. lie begged to be sent to the hospital, but was sent to jail instead. He secured a piece of tarred rope and a shoestring and made a noose of the latter, slipped it over nis head, fastened the other end to his cell door and laid down on tho floor on his stomach and stranded. When found his face was within an inch of the iloor, and he could have saved himself at any time had he chosen to. Settled Out of Court. Special to the IxuUanapolia Journal. Salem, May 21. The celebrated Wathen will case, that was tried here at the last January term of court, in which the jury failed to find a verdict, was set for trial again next Monday, but s compromise was effected to-day, and the trial will not take place. Some $300,000 in cash, notes and property made up the estate that was in dispute Mrs. Wathen left her property, with the execution of 815,000, to her sisters, Mrs. Julia Hart and Mrs. Mary Parker, of New Albany. The children of her other brothers and sisters, to tho number of nineteen, contested the will, and the jury hung, the majority being for breaking it. By the compromise, which was entered into at once when the result of the trial was known, Mrs. Hart and Mrs. Parker get $100,000 each, and the other heirs divide tho remainder. Hon. M. Z. Stannard, of Jeffersonville, who was the attorney for the contestants, gets abont $10,000 after paying $8,500 to the other lawyers whom he engaged to assist him. Rlggest Gas Well In the State. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Jonesboro, May 21, The Citizens' Gas Company struck gas at 001 feet on the Coleman farm yesterday evening. A constantly increasing flow is being developed until now, thirty feet in Trenton rock, the well has become uncontrollable, with an immense output of gas, throwing a fourteenpound sledge-hammer five feet distant when placed over the 55a hole. It is estimated by competent judges that fifteen to eighteen million cubic feet per twenty-four hours will bo shown upon careful measurement. It is much stronger than well No. 1 of Jonesboro, which is regarded by many as the strongest well in the State. It is the determination of the director of the com pany to go deeper and obtain all the gas there is in the Trenton at this point, and settle the much-disputed question as to this ueing near me center ox me gas ueit. Same Right as an Omnibus. Special to the InuanapoU Journal. Ft. Wayne, May 21. Last Sunday night the Citizens' Street-railway Company laid its tracks across those of the Lake Shore railroad in the western part of the city, but within the city limits. This was done, it is claimed by the street-car men, in accord ance with a verbal agreement with the railroad company's officers. To-night a gang of Lake Shore track laborers tore up the crossing and are now miarding it with clubs. John H. Bass, the president of the street-railways, says the track will be crossed before sunrise, and is sustained by attorneys in his opinion that the street car line has the same right to cross tho railroad company's right of way as n cmnibusor any other local carrier. Mass 'employs about 1,000 men in this city and it is quite likely that he can cross it if he wants to. A Death Needing Investigation. , Special to the Indianapolis Journal, ( Evaxsvillk, May 21. D. II. Davey, a prominent 6aloon-keeper of Chicago, ar rived here last week, and was taken sick at the Sherwood House. Ho called on Madame Martha, an alleged clairvoyant, with' whom he was acquainted, and was taken so ill that he went to bed and died last Sunday night of alcoholism. The death waa kept secret until thi9 morninir. when three' nephews of the deceased arrived and.beganl an investigation, which has as vet resulted' in nothing definite. It was supposed that' Davey had 1,000 with him, but only. $4.30 was found in his pockets. The atfair. is' very mysterious, and further developments. are expected. " f Installing- a Pastor. Special to tho Intlianapolls Journal Franklin, May 21. Rev. Leon I. Marshall was publicly installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church, of this city, this even ing, by the committee appointed ,' by the Indianapolis presbytery. Rev. M. L. Haines, of the First Church, Indianapolis, delivered' the sermon, Rev. T. N. Tood, of Edinburg, delivered the charge to the people, and Dr. J. A. Kondthaler, of the Tabernacle Church, Indianapolis, delivered the charge to the pastor. The church has been without a pastor since the resignation of the Kev. E. M. McMillen, last June. Killed with a Fickle-Fork. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Franklin, May 21. John Fallis, a farmer living six miles northeast of here, hitched his horse to a spring wagon, this morning, and started for Franklin to peddle out a barrel of pickles. When about a half-mile from home, one of the wagon wheels ran against a large rock, and iMr. Fallis was thrown from tho wagon to the ground. A table-fork, which he had placed in his hip pocket for the purpose of handling the pickles, ran into tho small of his back, prongs first, up to tho handle, inflicting a wound from which he can hardly recover. The Most Curious Case Kecorded. i Special to tl Indianapolis Journal. Monticello. May 21. Mr. I. X. Meredith, of this place, has just been tapped for dropsy the seventy-eighth time by Dr. Caldwell, who removed lT pounds of water from him. His is the most remarkable case on record. The average has been 13 pounds of water at each tapping, or 1,014 pounds of water up to date. He sutlers very little pain, and is often able to be out'on the streets in one hour after the operation is performed. The medical men are watching the case with deep interest. Mr. Meredith is seventy-six years old. Obtaining Money Under False Pretenses. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Brazil, May 21. Dan Worley, a "tough," was run in here to-day for obtaining money under false pretenses. He had taken advantage of the strike and destitution among the miners, and had collected in various small sums. In default of bail ho was jailed. When arrested at Center Point, he had just taken morphine with suicidal intent. His life was saved by a vigorous application of the pump. He was arrested as soon as he was aroused. Fell from a Ladder. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. New Castlk, May 21. William Redding, a painter living in this city, met with a. serious accident this morning, while engaged in painting Gough &. Shirk's livery bam. He had climbed to the top of the building, and in the act of stepping from one ladder to another fell to the pavement below, a distance of about eighteen feet. One arm was broken, and he sustained 6evere injuries about the head and neck. A Hoy's Strange Disappearance, Special to tho IntllanapoUs Journal. Columhcs, May 21r-The twelve-year-old son of Samuel Hodapp, a prominent and wealthy citizen of Jackson, county, mys

teriously disappeared from his home oyer eight months ago. Since that time nothing

has been learned of his whereabouts, although diligent search has been made for him. His parents are almost distracted over the stiange and unaccountable action of their son. , Killed by a Quarry Blast. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SiiELnY villi:. May 21. John Neal was instantly killed at the quarry of John Scanlan, at St. Taul, this afternoon, by the explosion of a blast which the workmen thought had gone oft. Timothy Raradon had both arms broken and face mashed into a jelly by the same explosion, and will die. Minor Notes. Snencer proposes to sink three test wells for natural gas and subscriptions are being taken for that purpose. A New Albanv comnanv has secured 23.000, in stock subscriptions, for the purpose oi ouuuiug a Jiasonic temple. A big rattlesnake, with twelve rattles and a button, is being exhibited to Colum bus people as a Brown county product. William A. Rice, who resides in Mont gomery county, has been bitten by a colt supposed to be alhicted with hydrophobia. Mrs. Eva Ferguson, a former resident of Columbus, is charged with the murder of a woman near iiot fcpnngs. Ark., last Saturday. Bishop Knickerbacker made an address recently at the beginning of work on tho new Trinity Episcopal Churcl Church at Michigan City. Matrimonial a cents in Jefferson ville are to bo overhauled by the grand jury for falsely swearing to the ages of prospective brides. Levi Boyer. one of the oldest residents of Bartholomew county, died at his home, near Columbus, last Monday, aged seventynve years. Constable William Brown, of Clementville, has resigned, on the ground that he could not afford to All an oflice where there was nothing to do. Major Dorcy. of Anderson, is credited with a scheme, for piping natural gas from the Blackford field to Cincinnati. The estimated cost is $1,250,000. A very successful Old Folks' Concert was given by the DePauw University music school at Grcencastlo, last Monday evening, 1 -A. 1 A t T ft WW unuer mo uirecnon oi rroi. j. n. iiowe. From the statements of the two national banks at Crawfordsville, covering a period from t eb. 9 to May 13. it is shown that the individual deposits have fallen oft $105,672.83. A nanr 4-n-rwm tllal nmTn?TiaTTilll Vi a been staked olf on the E., S. &. R. railroad. twelve miles west of. Seymour, and the owners propose to make it the county-seat of Jackson county. Mrs. Adam Klin cel. of South Bend, was fatally burned last Monday, her clothing taking tire while she was preparing dinner. Her husdaud burned his hands badly trying to save his wife. Isaac Sanders, of Clarksburtr. was yes terday given two years in tho penitentiary by a jury at Greensburg. In July, 1884, he made an assault on the liighway upon John Delany, a poor, half-demented young fellow, and beat him severely. The Citv Council at Crawfordsville and the water-works company there are having a small row over the supply of water furmsned the free drinking fountains, and, also, as to whose duty it shall be to see that tin cups are always on hand to use. A large dog beloncine to Newt Miller, of Crawfordsville, went mad Tuesday morning and had to be killed. Ho was in a small mclosuro and did not get a chance to bite any person, but. from all the actions. it was probably a case of hydrophobia. The voung men of Greenfield are organizina a militarv comnanv under thrt law passed by the last Legislature. It will be comnosed of at least nftv vounir men. Thev will secureJBrown's Rink as an armory and 1 11 1 4 1 arm-room, ana prouaoiy ie unaer tne command of E. P. Thayer, jr. It will be a company of the Indiana Legion. The public schools at Salem close next "Wednesday, and the commencement exercises of the tfraduatmtr class will be held next Ihursday night at the opera-house. ine closing exercises oi tne schools are in progress now. On Sunday morning last Kev. 11. U. Clippmeer delivered a bacca laureate sermou to the class that graduates, at the M. L. Church. A lone petition was presented recentlv to the Board of Commissioners of Montgomery county, praying that action be taken toward the purchase of the toll-roads by the county. Accordingly, an engineer and appraiser were appointed to fix the value of the seven toll-roads of that county, and directed to report on the 3d prox. Then an election upon tho proposition will be ordered held, and the voters will decide the anair. The State convention of the W. C. T. U.. which has been in session several davs at New Albany, adjourned yesterday, after electing tne iouowiur oiucers: iresiuem, Mrs. Nichols, Indianapolis: vice-presideut. Mrs. L. M. Beck, Bloomington: recording secretary, airs. A. V. JMendenhall, Muncie; corresponding secretary, Lodie E. Reed, Indianapolis; treasurer, Mollie Hay, Indianapolis. The last business of public im portance transacted was the passage of a resolution declaring in favor of the establishment of a third nartv in municipal. county. State and national affairs, the resolution was bitterly opposed by a number of delegates, but was hnally passed. ILLINOIS. Prohibition Defeated and the Chicago Drain, age Bill Likely to Pass. Springfield, 111., May 21. The Chicago drainage bill to-day passed the State Sen ate by a vote of 33 to 18. It provides for the dredging of a channel ICO wide and eighteen feet deep from Chicago through the Chicago, Desplaines and Illinois rivers to the Mississippi, the flow of water through which from Lake Michigan shall be not less than 600,000 cubic feet per minute. It is intended to solve tho problem of the dis position of the sewage of Chicago and and other smaller cities, and also for use as a ship cannal to connect the great lakes and the Mississippi. Sixteen millions of dollars are appropriated by the bilL The bill will probably be 6ent back to the House with the Senate amendments tomorrow morning, and as no fundamental feature has been changed, thero appears to belittle doubt that tho amendments will be concurred in without delay and tho bill turned over to the Governor. In the House the bill to prohibit the manufacture or sale of liquors in tho State was defeated by a vote of yeas, 55; nays, C2. minting Oil in Illinois. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Paris, May 21. Since the finding of oil at Terre Haute the citizens of Paris have talked about little else but sinking a well here. A meeting was held last light at Judge Eads's oflice, and a company organized. Shares were placed at 80. and each purchaser limited to four shares. The meeting was very enthusiastic, and 3,C00 was promptly subscribed, and oilers of land freely tendered on which to sink the well. The citizens are as enthusiastic as if they had already struck oil. Klectric Light for Pa ia. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Paxa, May 21. Members of tho Pana City Council accompanied an electric-light representative to Olney, to-day, where they will view the Edison system in operation. Pana is making rapid strides in development, and good public and private lights cannot longer be dispensed with. Brlet Mention. Adjournment of the Legislature has been fixed upon for Tuesday next. A majority of the retail merchants of Mattoon met, last Monday night, and organized as a branch of the Merchants Retail Commercial Association. Gas and oil men havo been in Mattoon from the Ohio and Indiana fields, lately, sizing up the prospect, and they are all surprised at the strong and pure flow of gas from the Wilson well. James McCann, a teamster, who shot and fatally wounded John Wharton, at White Oak bprings, Wis., gave himself up to the authorities at Darlington. McCanp believed Wharton to havo been one of a party who removed a wheel from his wagon, a few nights ago, and last Monday he shot Wharton witnout warning. There is much excitement at Darlington, and some talk of lynching. -

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. James Farrell. of Jermyn. Pa., shot him

self dead, in a cemetery, on Monday night, while intoxicated. s Ex-Governor Bullock and a committee from Georgia have invited President Diaz, of Mexico, to visit the Atlanta exposition in October. WaUb and Tschicorin nlaved rhe at Xftw York, vesterdav. to decide the cham pionship. It resulted in a draw. They will play again to-day. Chen You. a Chinese cigar-maker, was literalFy backed to pieces at San Francisco, yesterday, by a naicnet in ine nanus of another Chinaman. ft. .f Kpllnrrcr. ntreA fnrtv-fiVP? fell ntriint. a circular saw at Hartwell's mill, near Helena- M. T.. on Monday. He died in about fifteen minutes. President Gates, of Rutgers College, has received, from an unnamed friend of the institution in New lork. a donation of $25,000 for the endowment fund. Robert Kohn. aged five, was burned fatal ly, at Manchester, Md.. on Monday. The child, in the absence or its mother, lighted a tainp and set ore to ns cioimng. James Henderson, a noted negro "ton ch." was shot by a policeman at East Saginaw, on Monday. A price had been set upon his head by the Canadian authorities. The Fleminz-Goff West Virginia guber natorial contest committee nas finished reading depositions of four counties, and uius iui vjtuu una u Cicm &am ui Lavine tho corner-stone of the new Ma sonic home, at Keed's Like, near Grand Kanids. Mich., vesterdav. was the occasion of much display on the part of Masons. Joshua F. Ross, a well-known lawyar. of Gloucester C. H., Va., who was out on bail awaiting a second trial on the charge of killing his uncle, George Hughes, shot him self yesterda' afternoon, and will die. Lafayette Pennard. of Phcenixville. Pa., is recoverine from a trance in which he lay for two days, during which time he was supposed to be dead, and notice of his death was published in the local papers. A disease, supposed to be hydrophobia, is ;pidemic in Trimbell. Wis. School has been closed in one district, and the children are strictly forbidden to leave home. Men have been engaged to kill all the stray dogs in town. Tfarripfr Ann Pnrranto wi nrrpat1 nt. Louisville yesterday, charged with killing Amnnrlfi TTr1t nf Annum Ivv Inst: Wednesday. They quarreled over 25 cents' A. . r rTM . V?H? Al wuriu oi soap, ine fining appears louavo Deen m self-defense. The Missouri Grand Lodge of Odd-fellows is in session at St. Louis. A new building of the order was dedicated yesterday, witn imposing ceremonies, Gen. John C. Under wood, of Ohio, grand sire of the order, presiding at tho services. Lewis C. Wait, a leadincr citizen of Glens Falls, N. Y., and who had done much to beautify and build nn the town, was killed on Monday near Indian river in the AdironuacKs, Deing inrown irom a oucKDoaru oy the running away of a team. Capt. J. E. Coulter, deputy mine inspect or of Montana, and ex-city marshal of Butte. M. T.. was killed bv heme run over by a Montana Central train on Monday night He leaves a wife and seven chil dren, and was widely known in the West. The Connecticut House yesterday passed a bill imposing a tax of 50 cents a mile on tele graph companies having more than two lines of wire; also, imposing a tax of 70 cents on eacn telepnone transmitter, and a lurtner tax oi 125 cents on each mile of wire. The Canadian Minister of Marine and Fish eries nas decided to establish at Halifax an intelligence department for the nurnoso of supplying the fishermen of the gulf and Atlantic coast with information as to the movements of the various feed and bait fishes. t In the Supreme Court of Ohio, yeaterdaj in the case of the State against Henrv Ives and George II. Staynor, the exceptions of the prosecuting attorney of Hamilton county to the rulings of the Common Pleas judges were overruled. Two of tho justices uissem irom me opinion. The contest for the control of the Re publican county committee at Pittsburg, between the Magee-Fhnn and Quay fac tions resulted in a victory for the Mageeltes. At yesterday's county convention Ma gee secured fifty-eight members and vuay twenty-two members. It is reported at Ottawa that there is a probability of negotiations being entered into 8nortiy lor a settlement ot the bsherles question and Behnng sea difficulty. It is understood that Sir Julian Pauncefoto has been instructed to press for an early hi 4.1 ii .1 , - beiueuient oi mo uenring sea claims. John Martz. of Republic. O.. returned borne unexpectedly on Monday night, and IouiMl Howard J. Kennaman, a well-known married man, of Tiffin, O., in his wife's apartments. He crabbed an old armv bayonet, kept in the house as a relic, and assaulted Kennaman, iatally injuring him. ine Doner ai uraaioru s nriCK-vard in Charleston, W. Va., exploded on Monday. Clarence Stalnaker was badly scalded, aiid one of his legs was broken. Thomas Wes ley was badly hurt about tho head, llrad Raines was badly injured. Three other employes were also injured, but not serious ly. About two weeks ago Miss Annie Dominie, aged eighteen, left Hillsboro, N. IL. for a trip to Chicago, and has not been heard from since. A few days airo the young lady's trunk was returned by tho railway oflicials, but no trace of its owner can be found, and it is believed she has met witn loul play. The executive committee of the National Conference of Charities, which has been in session at Chicago for three days, has de cided to hold the next annual meeting in San Francisco, commencing Sept. 11. Representanves or an cnaritabie and correctional institutions in the country are invited to attend the meeting. The Supreme Court of Ohio has decided A. 1 A. . A. f 11.. -v - m me coniempi case oi Alien u. Jueyrs, sentenced by Judge Pugh to pay a line of $300 ana serve nmety days in the county jail. ine court noias tnat Myers was in contempt, but the fine and sentence was ex cessive, and the case was remanded for lurtner proceedings. A freight train on the Chicago, Burlington & Qumcy road was derailed two miles west of Macon, Mo., on Monday. Five oil tanks exploded and burned sixteen heavilyloaded freight cars, lirakeman Joe Klotz jumped and received fatal injuries. The track is burned out for 100 yards, and great damage resuueu irom tne wrecK. Joseph Schiedhelm and Peter Gmltz. two operators, went nsnmg .Monday atternoon. on the Milwaukee river, at Milwaukee). While the men were trying to change their position tne ooat capsizea, arownnig botn. The accident was witnessed from shore, out no boat was at nana in which to at tempt a rescue. Lach left a family. The remains of Allen Thorndike Rice. late minister to Russia, were removed from the receiving tomb at Mount Auburn Cem etery, near Boston, last evening, and placed in their final resting place in the Bourne family tomb. The casket was covered with floral offerings from President Harrison, Secretary lilame and other oflicials at Washington. Prof. John E. Russell, who recently re signed the chair of Bibical theology at Yale Theological Seminary, has accepted a call to tne Marie iiopKins proiessorump or in tellectual and moral philosophy at Will iaras College, to succeed Prot. Edward II. Grilhn, who is to be professor of the history oi philosophy ana aean or the college do parimcni uuouus uupiuns university, Ambrose Vantassel. aeed thirty-five. dropped dead at the funeral of his wife yesterday at l-iizaoetn, rs. J. ine family moved into a house Friday last. The next day Mrs. Vantassel was taken ill and died on Sunday, leaving five small children. Mr. Vantassel's grief was intense, and while tho funeral service was in progress, he uttered a cry and fell forward, dying almost lin meaiateiy. Piva vi&itnra nrrivpd af. TTnmilfnn Onf yesterday, to seek traces of friends supposed to nave been on tne passenger train recentlv wrecked and burned at tbft innrtinn The persons of whom traces wero sought were Mrs. Smith and her eighteen-year-old daughter, of San Francisco, and Miss Maggie Gleason, of Chicago. A button otF the ulster belonging to Miss Smith was identified among the articles found in tho wreck. Mrs. Smith was very wealthy. Going Into Retirement. Peoria Transcript. It is said James Whitcomb Riley will live in s?u ttuuis. xv m very rnrcjv inat a poet 1 Al A l!-. A 1 A 1 nas iiie sense 10 retire wnenne is at nis best. Good-bye, Riley. Geobge Andrews, of Lowell, with ulcers over nan nis body, cured by Ayers barsacarina.

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Absolutely Pure. This rorder nerr varies. A mxrrM of Tmrlrr. fttrengtli ant wholesomenej. Moro economical than the ordinary kinds, aDrt cannot te Bold In compf tilion With the multitude of low-trst, short-wcihl ainm or phosphate towder. 8oId onlv In can. ROYAlt Baking powder co., ioe wail street, y. TH.E NATION'S MONEY. How the Government Guard and Counts Seven Hundred Million Dollars. Washington Letter In Philadelphia Press. Seven hundred and ninf.tfn million of dollars! 1 hat is a few thousand times what most people, always provided, that they do not want the earth, would call a fortune. It would cive every man, woman and child in the United States, if distributed among inem equally, nearly each. One week aeo to-nicht all tho vaults in tho Treasury were sealed. The balance-sheet was struck and presented to the new Treasurer of the United States, Mr. J. N. Huston, of Indiana, hnough cash was left outside in an unsealed vault to carrv on the daily business of the department. in.en tne frreat task becan 01 counting every one of these hundreds of millions of dollars. The new Treasurer is responsible to the government for every one of theso dollars, lie must bo sure that ho receives every one of them from his predecessor. The task of counting is the only possible physical proof that the existence of all these millions is a physical fact. Otherwise, somebody micht steal them all, or a few millions o them, and forever after suc cessive treasurers would receipt to their predecessors for a mvth. lhe money in tue united States treasury vaults may be classified as follows: United States notes. $11,155,753: cold certificates. 611,100; silver certificates, $433,122; gold coin, $25,551,122; fractional silver, $3,002,121; copper coins. lO.SbO: standard silver dollars. $148,214,585; currency certificates, $430,000; bonds deposited by national banks and bc longinjrto tmst lunds, 211,000.000; paper money in reserve vaults ready to go iuto circulation, but held for seasoning, and is sued to redeem worn-out money, and silver and gold certificates ready to issue upon the deposit of coin. S318.53U.000: grand total. 719.027,700. Ur course, all tins money 13 not on tne credit side. t In other words, a large part of theso deposits merely represent obligations. What is called the "surplus" out of this vast sum, the "surplus'' about which Mr. Mills and bis friends were so much worried during the last campaign, or what would be left in the vaults were all the debts and obligations of the governir.nt to be paid off at once in cash, would be only about 56,000,000. But for the entire ?700,000,000 in the vaults the United States Treasurer is responsible, and it must all be counted. The operation of the counting of this vast treasure, which began last Monday morning, will consume about live months. It is all under the chanre of a committee com posed of two treasury employes, Chiels of division Dascom and Huntingdon, and a personal representative of the Treasurer, ueorge v. itouerison, 01 inuiaiia. unuer the supervision of theso threo men. thirty expert counters aro at work every day, six davfe in every week, for five mouths. Their fingers must handlo every dollar of the treasure. Nothinz could be more interesting than to watch the process, and vet it is venr simple. To see it the visitor must stand. under a vigilant escort detailed for the pur?oso, in a railed gallery overlooking a halL 'he gallery is much like one of the narrow Platforms that circle tho walls, half way between lloor and ceiling, of one of tho great banking-houses m any large city. On the lloor below is a lone row of tables. At every table sit two women, selected for tlieir expertness in counting Dig piles or crisp greenbacks. Their deft fin gers fly to and fro, aud the treas ury notes rustle eoitiy ana quickly between, tens, twenties, hundreds, thousands. Tho notes which are now being counted are all done up into packages of 4,000, and on the outside of each package is printed the denomination ot the notes. It makes no dillerence to one of tho counters whether she is handling a package of $1 notes or $10,000 notes. Tho packages are or exactly the same size, ana contain exactly the same number of notes, and yet what a dillerence in possible value: A packaze of 4,000 tl notes represents a value of just $4,000. A package or 4,000 f 10,000 notes represents a value of just $40,000,000. lint it makes no dillerence to tho girl who counts these four thousand notes in a packago, whether their face is stamped with tho figure ''l" or with tho same figure followed 1 -l f . J I ! uy lour cipners. cue lsaiiuiuuii waiuiuo she is there to count. And 6he counts tho crisp leaves of engraved paper just as sho would count the leaves of a book. They are nothing to her. In time for all theso expert counters havo had years of experience, and none of them are young or pretty she has learned to regard tho wealth sho bandies without a quiver of feeling. At the end of every month she receives her stipend. She takes it, and it is hers. 2he has earned it. Tho money that has been liowing through her hands at the rate, perhaps of a fortune a minute, leaves no trace behind. Even if she wished to bo dishonest sho could not. There is no trust here. Every note that passes into her hands, at the boginning of a day's work, mutt be out of it at the end before she can leave the room where she toils. So perfect is tho system that even attempted stealing is practically impossible, while the natural appropriation of the smallest bit of paper bearing tho government stamp which gives it value U regarded as beyond -the roach of design or the realm of chance. With temptations eliminated, it is not so diflicult to handlo millions and bo not smirched with a siuglo stain of golden guilt. Notes, however beautifully engraved and printed, do not appeal to the imagination aseeuly as heaps of coin. In ono single vault in theTrcasury are piled US,2H,55 silver dollars. They are deposited there to secure the silver certificates, those pieces of paper, worth nothing in themselves except as they are redeemablo for their face value, which circulate all over the country. Tho vault where this treasure, bigger than tho silver hoard of the Incus, is stored, is nn enormous strong box, wherein several hundred men might move about. It is about 100 feet square, and a dozen feet high. Its ceiling, walls and lloor are h mass of granite nine feet thick, lined with several alternate layers of iron and chilled steel. Many acrook,"intheopiuionof tho Treasury officials, has made ;i trip to Washington just for the itching pleasure of being within a few yards of this hoard. Its chief safety, however, lies not in tho 1mx of stone and steel that girdles it. The weight and bulk of silver nre its protection against thieves. Theso glistening millions are divided into bags, each bag containing $1,000. Two bags are put into a box. and and theso boxes are piled on shelves. Now, one of these boxes weiirhs 120 pounds. A thief couldn't run very far with that weight, and his plunder would be small if lie COUlll. KJl JIHUO i'li'iik " wmt 11 vv l J steal somo of the packages of gold coin which make up the Sil.OW.OOO deposited in one compartment of another vault. Twenty thousand dollars in gold weighs but seventy-two pounds. Carried Off a l'uuip. Max Rudolph, thirty-nine years of age, was arrested last night, and slated at tho police station on a charge of grand larceny. Five weeks ago, it is alleged, he stole a XO pump from Johnson .V Howland's agricultural implement supply house 011 West Washington street, opposite tho DU3 U0tt9