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THE JNDLNAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1889'

War Department shortly. This officer is Baid to have been selected for the place by the unanimous action of the Secretary of War. General Schofield and the chiefs of ordnance and engineers, and the delay m making the announcement is said to have been due to the desire to select Colonel Wilson's successor as superintendent of public buildings and grounds m AY ashington. so that the two appoinments might be made at once. m Treasury Appointments. Washington, July 18. The Secretary of the Treasury has appointed E. M. S.Young, of Pennsylvania, to be chief of a division of the Sixth Auditor's office, and Wm. M. Henry, of Pennsylvania, to be chief of a division of the Second Comptroller's office.

V V w . v m f j a my u x mm f The following store-keepers and gangers were also appointeu: jaraes a. rmun, ai Mt. Pleasant, O.; JereM. Fisher, Blanchester, O.: Walter C. Witt. W. C. Kippey and Samuel W. Clarke, at Cincinnati: Fred Johnson, at Chicago; Samuel E. Kedkey, at Hillsboro, O. The Telegraph Kate Question. Washington, July 18. TJie question of rates for government telegrams has not been decided. Yesterday Mr. . Somerrille, press agent for the Western Union, had a long interview with Postmaster-general Wanamaker, in which he protested against the proposed rate of a cent for ten words. It is stated that the Western Union will decline to accept this rate, but at the same time it is said that the Postmaster-general will not insist upon it unlcsshe is convinced that it would be fair to both parties. Trot. Soma's Collection of National Airs. Washington; July 18. Prof. John .P. Sousa, leader of the Marine Band, has been for several years engaged in collecting the national airs of the various countries in both hemispheres, and has about com--n1tvl -f h tanTr. Thftv will hernihlifthed hv authority of tho Navy Department, and will he tnA ntilv mihlicatinn nf thn kind in the world. The collection includes airs from every country except Corea and Hayti, and if they have any distinctive national airs Prof. Sousa hopes to be able to mciuuo mem in ms uook. Bids for Printing Toiital Cards. Washington, July 18. The Postmastergeneral to-day opened proposals for furnish ing the postoflice department with postal cards for four years, beginning Oct. 1 next. There were twelve sets of bids received. A material reduction in prices from the pressent contract was obtained. General Notes. Eperfal to the Indianapolis Journal Washington, July 16. Paris Mardyko was to-day appointed postmaster at lieynolds, White county, Indian, vice John A. Adams, removed. Dr. James G. Ward was to-day appointed a member of the pension board at Nash ville, Ind. J. J. Hazelrigg. editor of the Standard, at Greensburg, is in the city in the interest of local aspirants for positions under the federal government. Hon. Z. T. Sweeney, of Columbus, Ind., the newly-appointed consul-general to Con stantinople, is in Washington receiving his x a if r . i." -i l instructions iruin me aiaio j'epartment. Mr. Sweeney expects to leave for his post early next month, going via London. H. H. Duncanon and T. P. Burns, of In diana, were among the callers at the V hue Ifnnve to-dav. The President to-day appointed John F. Bingham to be chief engineer in the navy. with the relative rank of lieutenant-com mander. Members of the Cherokee Indian commis sion will meet in St. Louis on tho 21st of the present month, and, with as little delay as possible, proceed to the Indian lerritory. They are expected to arrive at Tahlequah, the capital of the Cherokee nation, on or about the 25tn Inst. Secretary Noble has issued a peremptory order to the ageut of the Quappawa Indian agency, in the northwestern part of the In dian lerritory, to immediately remove from the reservation ail cattle unlawfully herded thereon. It is said that ex-Representative Nichols. of North Carolina, will be appointed chief of the mail division of the Treasury De partment, vice Major kretz. resigned. The bond offerings to-day were $7,750 registered four-and-a-balfs, at $1,067 and 500 at sl.Oo7. Both oilers were accepted. Sir Julian Pauncefote. British minister to the United States, visited the State Department to-day and bade adieu to the officials for a season, lie sails from New York on the Etruria forEngland. He willreturn to Washington in October, bringing his fam ily with him. The President has refused to confirm the sentences of dismissal imposed by courtsmartial on Cadets Henry G. Lyon and Geo. D. Moore, of the Military Academy. This refnsal amounts to acquittal. The Secretary of the Treasury has de cided to ask the Attorney-general for an opinion as to the right of the Chinese to pass in transit through United States ter ritory. I v Official Trial of the Ciun-lloat Petrel. Baltimore, Md., July 18. The official trial of tho gun-boat Petrel was made to day. She left port at 11 a. m. and returned at 7:15 p. m. The indicator cards marking the horse-power developed by the Petrel will nave to bo sent to isew lork for exam ination and averaging, and tho official report will not be made until they bave been returned. The trial of speed begau at 12:50 r. M. and lasted lour hours. 'ihe average speed attained was 11.7 knots an hour. Ihe Petrel's best speed, under forced draught, was 13.7 knots or 15 1-2 statute miles. Going ahead at seven kuots the engines were stopped in live seconds. backed, m three minutes and tho shin gathered stern board in throo minutes and twenty secouds. With shin in dead watur with helm hard nstarboard, the engines were siarcea a neauatiuu speed, making ibout six knots and the vessel made a complete circlo in live minutes and forty seconds. Under tho same conditions, with the helm hard aport, the circle was made in seven minutes and hfteeu seconds. Cant. Skcrrett, president of the naval board, will report favorably on the construction of the Petrel. National Convention of Tailors. Chicago, July 18. The tailors' national convention at its session to-day listened to papers on subjects of interest to the trade. and decided to hold its next convention in tins city m the third week in Jauuarvnext. A meeting of the journeymen was arranged to occur during the annual convention of the employers' onranization. known as the National Merchant Tailors' Association, which will also be held in this city at the time mentioned. A resolution was adopted authorizing the president to appoint a committee to consider the idea of establishing a training school for tailors. The committee is expected to meet a similar committee from the Merchant Tailors' Association during the January sessions of tho two bodies. Two Miners Shot and Killed. Prkscott. A. T., Jnly 18.A. W. Callen shot and instantly killed Byron J. Charles and Frank Work, at his mining camp at Oro Fino, on Monday evening. Callen lias been arrested, but will say nothing other than that he was jnstilied in killing the men. Witnesses state that the trouble arose over a mining claim which Callen bad been working, and that Charles and Work attempted to drive him from the claim when ho shot them. Callen at one time served one or two terms in the Kansas Legislature. m Want Onlj Hourbon Distilleries. Louisville. July IS. It is reported here that an English syndicate, through Nathan llofheimer. is continuing its ettorts to buy up the distilleries of this State. A letter of inquiry has certainly been sent to leading distillers, asking particulars as to tho extent of their business, etc., and it is generally believed that the syndicate is only waiting to investigato the situation before buying. Only distilleries which make bourbon, or ageing whiskies, are believed to be wanted. Muit Take Oath Like Other Citizens. Kansas City. July 18. Judge Phillips, of the United States Court, has received many inquiries of late from the followers of Schweiufurth, asking if there is any way of escaping the taking of the usual oath in making an inventory of property. One man wanted to become naturalized, but could not because the oath was required. Judge Phillips said the law required the oath to be taken, and he saw no way by r'pfcjcii the law could be evaded or ignored.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS

A Notable Gathering of the Medical Fra ternity at West Baden Springs, Gen. Trader's Invitation to the Members of His Old Brigade Boycotting a Postmaster Mrs. Kobertson's Narrow Escape. INDIANA. The Thirty-Sixth Semi-Annual Meeting of the Mitchell District Medical Society. Special to the Indianapolis Journal West Baden, July 18. The thirty-sixth semi-annual meeting of the Mitchell Dis trict Medical Society was convened here this afternoon by Dr. J. D. Simpson, of Bloomington. president, with Dr. W. R. Machon, of Huntingburg, vice-president, and Dr. G. W. Burton, of Mitchell, as sec retary. About one hundred physi cians were in attendance. After read ing the minutes twenty-five new members were admitted and the reports of commit tees received. The following papers were read before the society and discussed, viz.: 1 "The Forceps and Natural Labor," by Dr. E. P. Easly, of New Albany; "Iodoform," by. Dr. Arch Dixon, of Henderson, Ky.; 'Dangerous .Applications to the Eye," Dr. Dudley S. Reynolds, of LouisviUe; "New Uses of Pilocarnin in the Treatment of Dis eases," Dr. H. M. Smith, Vincennes. Among the well-known physicians present are D. D. Bramble, of Cincinnati: J. A. Commgor, Franklin VY. Hays, W. N. Wishard. George J. Cook and J. W. Marsee, of Indianapolis; Dudley S. Reynolds, J. M. Mathews and II. H. Grant, of Louisville; Dr. Cook, of JNew Albany; George W. Beasley, of Lafayette: W. Smith and Dr. Argo, of Delphi: Dr. Ensminger, of Crawfordsville: John E. Harris and J. D. Maxwell, jr., of Bloomington; H. M. Smith, of Vincennes; S. H. Charlton, of Seymour; F. M. Kyle, of Aurora, and J. G. Davis, of Chicago, the chief surgeon of the Monon railway. By special invitation the society is enjoying the hospitalities of French Lick Springs to-night Friday night, a grand banquet will be given the society at Baden Hotel. There is an elaborate display of snrSical instruments and appliances on exhiition. General Wilder' Invitation. Special to tb Indianapolis Journal. Ckawfordsville, July 18.-rCapt. W. P. Herron has received a letter trora Gen. John T. Wilder in regard to the coming re union of the brigade at Chattanooga in September. The lollowing is an extract: You may say to "the boys" that I bave secured the Williard Hotel at Chattanooga for Sept. 18. 19 and 20. 1889. It will be for all members of the old brigade during that time. The proprietor of the house says he can care for 300. I tried to secure additional rooms, but there is a big crowd coming from the Army of the Cumberland, and so many rooms are engaged that I could not secure another hotel. I shall try to get an empty store-room and put in cots for the "boys to sleep on. Am having silk badges made, and will send them to you for distribution to only members of the old brigade who wiU bo here. and their badge will be their check and entitle them to use of hotel, and none must bo given any one not of the command. This is probably the last time we will meet in tho South, and wo should make it a memorable occasion. I hope the boys will leave their drinking habits at home, if any of them have been so unfortunate as to acquire them since tho war. I know they didn't have any before, and my confidence is stUl unshaken. I was especially proud of them at Greencastle at the last meeting, and know that the last command to le.rive the "battle-Held of Chlckamauga will command the respect of all good and true men everywhere, especially of those we fought on that bloody Meld. We opened the light, and were the last command to leavo the battle-field. And now say to the boya, God bless you, come and see me as mv guests and I will do you right, John T. Wildkk. Boycotting a Postmaster. SfiAClal to the Indianapolis Journal. Fort Wayne, July 18. Ever since Mr. Hugh Stewart was made postmaster at Monroeville there lyis been general dis satisfaction over his appointment among the business men at that place. It was claimed that Stewart was a new-comer at Monroeville, and that tho office should have been given to an older resident. A boycott was instituted against the postmaster, and a nony express was started which conveyed the bulk of the mail from Monroeville across the State line to Dixon. 0., in order to cut down the revenues of the local postotBce, but Stewart held his post and defied everybody. To-day Mr. G. D. King, a postothce inspector, arrived from Cincinnati to make a thorough examination of ailairs. Dragged to Death. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Bloominotox, July 18. News of a terrible accident has reached here, that occurred in Greene county, near the western border of Monroe, this morning. The twenty-year-old son of Hiram Candem, a wellknown farmer of that section, went out to plow. He was riding sideways on his horse when the animal became frightened, throwing him to the ground. In falling his foot caught in the harness and ho was unable to free himself. Tho animal commenced to run with the young man's head dragging on the ground, ami striking every time the m horse leaped. He was carried for a quarter 'of a mile, when the harness bro&e and he fell to the ground unconscious, his head being in a frightful condition. He lived untilabout 12 o'clock, being insensible all the time. A Lynching Threatened. Special to the ImllanapolU Journal. Logansport, July 18. The citizens in the vicinity of Henpeck, a small village south of this place, were highly incensed yesterday when they learned, as alleged, Phil Nice, ex-postmaster and a merchant of that place, had visited the house of Stephen Shinn, a well-to-do farmer, and finding no one at home except Mrs. Shinn, made improper advances toward her until her screams and resistance caused him to retire. Nice was arrested and bound over to tho Circuit Court in the sum of $1,000. Later an indignation meeting of the citizens was held, and it is feared that Nice will be lynched. Starch Works Sale Finished. Special to the Indianapolis Journal CoLUMnrs, July 18. The sale of the American Starch Manufactory was continued here this morning at 11 o'clock. There was a larger attendance than on yesterday. After disposing of the remainder of the parcels, the plant and personal property was ottered as a whole. Richard Johnson, of Madison, bid 830,000. and J. L. Bradley, of Indianapolis. 73,000. These were the only bids received, and Mr. Bradley was declared the purchaser. It is understood, however, that Mr. Bradley bid the works in for J. E. Mooney, of Cincinnati. Mr. Mooney owned the controlling shares of stock in, the old organization. Mrs. Robertson's Narrow Escape. Special to the IntllanapoUs Journal. Fort Wayne. July 18. Mrs. Robertson, wife of CoL R. S. Robertson, ex-Lieutenant-governor of this State, came near losing her life last night as the result of an accident The lady took a large doso of arsenic, mistaking it for medicine. When the Soison commenced showing its etlects, she iscovered her mistake, and hurriedly sent for physicians. Three doctors worked till midnight before Mrs. Robertson was pronounced out of danger. Suicide at Fort Wayne. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. . Fort Wayne, July 18. A. Arens, fifty years old. and living with his family at 53 LaSallo street, committed suicide by hanging himself in his barn, this afternoon. He had been out of work, and the deed can be attributed to despondency, lie leaves a widow and several children. Minor Notes. Capt. Ben Lepper, sr.. was found dead in his bed at Madison yesterday morning. Fort Wayne's new city directory contains 15,000 names, indicating a population Of 4o,000. Lagro Lodge, No. 831, Daughters of Rebekah. has been instituted by O. H. Bogue at Wabash. Eugene Mc Mali on. an employe of the CloYcrLeal Manufacturing Company at

Marion, fell into a vat of boiling water.

vesterday afternoon, and was fatally scalded. Mrs. Emma Barkman fell from a wagon near Seymour vesterday, and was seriously, ii not lataiiy, nurt. Mrs. George Brown and Jacob Pancera, of Lafayette, both sustained -fractured limbs by falls recently. A little daughter of Elisha Miller, at Charlesto wn, had her foot cut off by a mowing machine yesterday. The town board of Corydon has passed an ordinance forbidding hogs, cattle or horses to run at large under penalty of 10 for each offense, Angola was visited by a destructive rainstorm yesterday, which llooded that neighborhood and did considerable damage to the crops. Frank Merriweather, of Fort Wayne, while out nshing. recently, was assaulted by a st ranger, and sustained a fracture of the skull. Farmers living along creeks in Montgomery county have posted up notices that no fishing will be allowed by persons who stand upon their lands. Joseph Shaffer and Charles Robertson, of Kokomo, are building a flat-bottomed boat in which they propose to take their families on a pleasure trip South. Clinton county is to have on Indian wedding next Saturday, the parties to be first married with the Christian rites, and then with the Indian ceremony. Arrangements are being made for a brigade encampment of the Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias, at Warsaw, beginning on the 5th prox., and lasting a week. In a shooting-match, last Wednesday, between Ed Voris, of Crawfordsville, and Captain Bogardus, of the Wild West show, the score stood 23 out of 25 English sparrows killed by each, resulting in a tie. At Liberty Center, yesterday morning, a Toledo, St. Louis fc Kansas City freight train backed over a horse, and tho caboose and severel freight cars were derailed, causing a blockade of several hours. Rev. C. S. Sargent, of North Winsted, 0.. has accepted a call to St. James Episcopal Church at Washington, and Rev. Dr. Chaffee, of the First Baptist Church, of La Porte, has resigned on account of ill health. A gospel camp-meeting under the auspices of the A. M. E. Church of Franklin begins there on the 3d prox., and will continue nine days. Talented ministers and lecturers have been engaged and special railroad rates secured. James McClary, aged eighty-five, died at his home near Bainbridge, Putnam county, day before yesterday, lie came to Putnam county in 1827, and was the last of the early pioneers who continued to livo on tho land which they entered. Recent deaths include Absalom Wilson, of Miami couuty, aged seventy-two; John Ingemar, of Fayette county, aged seventyfive; Mrs. Sopnia Coquillard, of South Bend, aged eighty-three, and Mrs. W. F. Pettit, of Shawnee Mound. Property stolen at Flora, 111., was found on a house-boat, moored opposite Vincennes, and tho Council of the latter city passed an ordinance compelling all houseboats moored on the Indiana side of tho river at that point to leave. At Lebanon, last Wednesday. John Glenn, a twelve-year-old boy. playfully pointed a shotgun at Lewis Smith, a single man aged twenty-two, thinking it was not loaded. The gun exploded, and a load of buckshot entered Smith's abdomen, fatally injuring him. Joe Stultz, who is confined in tho jail at New Albany, in default of bail, for his ap pearance to answer to the charge of subornation of perjury at the next term of the Circuit Court, was serenaded last Tuesday night by a crowd of musicians from Louisville. Two barns and their contents, including two horses and a buggy valued at 81,500, belonging to Ira Brown and Al CocLrau. were destroyed by an incendiary tiro at Peru last night. A later fire, by lightning, destroyed the residence of William Cook. Loss, insurance, $C00. Last Wednesday night "White Caps," composed of both women and men, called at tho nonse of Mrs. William Piatt, at Rochester, took her out and gave her a severe whipping. Others have been threatened. Tho threatened persons are residents of Iceberg, a suburb of Rochester, where the rougher element lives. p The butchers of Miami county have associated together, and will light the new State law requiring caitlo to be inspected on the hoof at their expense. The newly appointed inspectors are in a dilemma, pay being refused by butchers and the inspector being obliged, officially, to inspect. The case is attracting much attention. A roseate spoon-bill was recently shot near Richmond, and is being prepared for exhibition by Sam Reynolds, of Williamsburg. It is thirty-two inches high, thirty inches from tip to tip, has a bill six inches long and one and a half inch wide, and its plumage is of a beautiful rosy pink color. It is probably the only one of its kind ever found so far north. ILLINOIS. A Boy's Feet Severed at the Ankles by a Mowing Machine... Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Paris. July 18. Emmet Hunter, eleven years old, the second son of James Hunter, a farmer residing six miles southeast of this city, was in the'field helping his father cut hay, yesterday afternoon, and in running in front of the mowing machine to whip up a slow horse, he was caught by the machine, and both feet were severed from the body at the ankles. He lingered until , this morning, snil'ering iutenso pain, when ucain reiieveu mm oi nis misery. The Case of Lieut. Iloach, U. 8. A. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Bloomington, July 18. Surgeon J. S. Gilmore, U. S. A., of Camp Sheridan, Chicago, is in the city looking into the case of Lieut. Hampton M. Roach. Lieut. Roach is an officer of the First Infantry and was stationed at Alcatraz island, CaL Early in the summer he came here to spend his furlough time with relatives. He oversta3'ed his time, and last Monday Washington dispatches were published saying that he would be summoned before a courtmartial or treated as a deserter. Tho officer claims that at the end of his leave of absence he was too ill to travel, and he obtained a certificate from a doctor and forwarded it to tho proper authorities. This was evidently not received. Surgeon Gil-, more has seen a duplicate of the certificate and states that there is no doubt that Lieut. Roach was too ill to return to his command. It is likely that proceedings against tho officer will be dropped, as his ofiense is merely technical. Brief Mention. Christian Crimm, a farmer, who lived near Tremout, Tazewell county, was found dead in his pasture night befoie last. James Lambert, a stone-mason, employed on tho new First National Bank building at Bloomington, was sunstmck yesterday afternoou, and will probably die. John Field, a well-to-do farmer living near Rio, Knox county, was found dead in the woods near his home. Wednesda last, having committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. The Montieello Athletic Association elected Hon. James Hicks, president; editor G. A. Burgess, secretary, and M. Hazzard, treasurer, with a full board of directors. There will bo a grand base-ball tournament held at the ball park of the county league clubs, lasting one week. Steamship Arrivals. London. July 18. The Aller, from New York, for Bremen, passed Scilly this morning. Sighted: British Empire, from Boston; Cutic, from 2sew York; Ilekla, from New York, for Christiana. Glasgow, July 18. Arrived: State of Nevada, from New York. New York", Jnly 13. Arrived: City of Rome, from Liverpool. Boulogne, July 13. Arrived: Obdam. from New York. Double Elopement at Kansas City. Kansas City, July 18. A double elopement occurred from here to-day. Miss Daisy McMill, tho daughter of a wealthy doctor, and Miss Grace Parker, the daughter of a well-known, photographer, ran away to Sioux Citv to be married, the former to a Kansas City cablo-car gripmau, and the latter toaSioux City photographer. The nuartet left on this morning's train. The fathers of the women telegraphed tho authorities at Sioux City to arrest tho runaways.

EDUCATORS IN CONTENTION

Indiana's Large Representation at tho Sleeting of the National Association, Subjects Discussed at Yesterday's Session The Aped Mrs. Polk's Greeting to the DelegatesExhibits of School Work. Correspondence of tliw Indianapolis Journal. Nashville. July 17.-Tho National Educational Association opened yesterday with a grand "barbecue." The welcoming address of tho Governor was much enjoyed, but the "barbecue" was enjoyed still more. Not less than 5,000 people ate and were filled, and the amount of food left was more than what was eaten. The music for the occasion was most excellent. It was Hoosier music, furnished by an Evansvilleband. The meeting is decidedly the largest one ever held in the South. There are about seventy-five Indiana teachers in attendance. Among them are the following city superintendents: Jones, of lndianapoiis: Layne, of Evansvillo; Snvder, of Muncie; Taylor, of Vincennes; Williams, of Franklin; Snoke, of Princeton; Wood, of Seymour; Hamilton, of Huntington; Graham, of Columbus; Shannon, of Greensburg; Cox, of Kokomo; Doherty, of Jasper, and W. N. Hailman, of LaPorte. Among the others I have met are President Parsons, oi the State Normal; Parr and Tompkins, of DePauw Normal; Hodgin, of Earlham College; Clark, of the State University; Speare, of the Evansville High-school; Funk, of the New Albany High-school; County Superintendent Flick, of Marion county, and ex-County Superintendent Glascock, of Greenfield. Ihe following are fromlndianapolis: Miss Mary Nicholson, M i sa Cropsey, Miss Sell ick. Misses Emma and Laura Doiinan, Jesso H. Brown, W. A. Bell and Cyrus Smith. More than sixty names have already been recorded at Indiana headquarters, and many have not yet reported. This is considered a good showing. The following Indiana teachers have places on the programme: W. N. Hailman, Arnold Tompkins. Laura Donnan and Jesso II. Brown. Miss Nicholson is secre tary of the national council. The exhibi tion of kindergarten work by the training class of Mrs. Hailman, of LaPorte, is the best exhibit of the kind ever made. The discussion onN Wednesday morning; on "Denominational Schools" between Bishoo Keane, president of the Catholic Uni versity at Washington, and Edwin D. Meade, of Boston, was one of the ablest ever witnessed in the ' association. Both sides were ably and eloouentlv presented. The association will not close till Friday ni gnu ii. Yesterdays Proceedings. NAsnviLLE. Tenn., July 8. Secretary Canfield aroused great enthusiasm in an appropriate speech informing the convention and President Marble that a greatgrandson of old "Hickory" Jackson was yesterday born at the Hermitagej and that the child had been named "Albert Marble Jackson," in honor of the president of the association. A committee composed of a delegate from each State and Territory and Canada was appointed to call upon Mrs. James K. Polk and convey to her the respects, congratulations and compliments of the association. A committeo was appointed to consider the needs of the United States in a Bureau of Education, and to memorialize Congress on tho subject. The lif th session of the National Educa tional Association was devoted to a further consideration of denominational schools and the history of education. Hon. John Jay, of New York, submitted a paper. He Quoted Professor Dwizht. president of Co lumbia College Law School, that "It is well settled by tho decisions of the leading States of the Union that Christianity is a part of the common law of the State." B. A. Hinsdale, of Michigan University. said that the education of the youth is more important as an element of civiliza tion than the punishment of criminals, but educational institutions have been less studied than penal institutions by others tnan proiessionai enucaiors. W. H. Pavne. of Nashville, said that edu cation has become a function of the State. and that the tendency of the government is toward universal education, supervised and controlled by legislation. S. G. Williams, of Ithaca, N. Y., read an instructive paper on the history of education and its value to teachers. W. H. Vonablo. of Cincinnati, traced the growth of the school in the Ohio valley. George llowland. of Chicago, read a paper illustrating the value of oral recitation in school Instruction. The night session of the educational meeting was devoted to a consideration of the proper literature for children, and also for use in the high-school. The discussion favored more attention to literature as an element of instruction. The committeo on nominations reported the lollowing officers for the ensuing year: President, James 11. Caniield. of Kansas; secretary. W. R. Garrett, of Tennessee; treasur.'E. C. newitt, of Illinois. Twelve vice-presidents, representing various sections of the country, were appointed. All the States and Territories are represented in the board of directors. Secretary Cantield has been tendered an important government position, which he has declined in favor of his work in tho State University of Kansas. The high-schools of the country were represented in a meeting at Mckendreo Church, at 3 o'clock to-day, of the high-school department. President Nightingale, of Illinois, advocated such a course of high-school instruction as would fit the graduate for the activities of life as well as for college and for teaching. Less than 1 per cent, of those who graduate from the high-school pursue further srhool or college traiuing. Tho high-school should be the nursery of American patriotism, the safeguard of American liberty. Mrs. Col. Parker, of Chicago, a director of the Woman's Dress Reform and Physicial Culture Association, addressed the conven tion on the importance of teaching grace and beauty in the homes and public schools. At 4 o'colk the Polk mansion, tilled with its mementoes of historical interest, was thrown open to a reception of a committee of seventy-live from the association. Mrs. Polk, 6till beautiful and strong in her eighty-seventh year, stood in the west parlor for an hour, and received with a pleas ant word each guest as they were presented by General Eaton, of Ohio. Mrs. Polk was assisted in the reception by her daughter, Mrs. Fall, her granddaughter. Miss Fall, Miss Clara Conway, of Tennessee; Mrs. James H. Canfield. of Kansas; Mrs. Col. Parker, of Illinois, and others. Mrs. Polk requested the press to convey to the coun try her congratulations, or to use her own words: "I am very well indeed, and feel highly honored to receive the educators of America. I look upou the teachers of our land most kindly, as people deserving of lit fiiitliaut rnmmtn(liiinn " The exhibit of school work in tho Hall of Representives at the Capitol is the tinest ever seen in this city, including, as it does. every class of work from primary schools and kindergarten work to that of more ad vanced scholars in schools and colleges. The most attractive is that from the State of Oregon, which consists mainly of drawings by public school children, and is con ceded bv all to be the finest in the halt The kindergarten exhibits are very exten sive and interestinc. Grievances of the Chippewa Indians. Ashland, Wis., July IS. At a counsel of nineteen chiefs of the Chippewa tribe, on Had Kiver reservation. Illack Hird, Ked Cloud .ind other leiidera stated their num. erous grievances to Captain Leahv, United States Indian ageut. They want $125,000 annuities and back dues which tho government owes them. Thev will send a del egation to Washington to press their Claims. The llurke Kxtradition Case. Ott a w a . OnK. .Tnlv 18. Th Ti.tnpr in the Burke extradition matter have been received at the Department of Jnstice from for by law, an order for extradition cannot iviiA until thn 2ith int. and in thn mean. time the Minister of Justice will have an opportunity of considering tho merits of the case. Trying to Adjust Lumber Rates. Grand lUriDS. Mich.. July 18. The Inraber committee of tho Central Traffic Association held a meeting here to-dav. Comprint aio mclo that Ireiht xatct

from Wisconsin to Ohio river points are i

much lower, compared with the dis- I tance, than from Michigan, and this ! discrimination is seriously detrimental to the interests of Michigan lumbermen and railro-ds. Statistics were submitted comparing the rate, and a resolution was adopted that a sub-committee bo appointed to confer with Chicago and Wisconsin roads relative to an equalization of ratvs. it is exnected that the result will bean advance in Wis consin rates. West Michigan lumbermen will meet this afternoon to organize an association for their mutual interest and welfare, with freight rates particularly in view. mi DAILY WEATHER BCLXETDT. Local Forecasts. For Indianapolis and vicinity For the twenty-four hours ending at 8 1. m.. July 19: Fain occasional increasing cloudiness and rains. GENERAL INDICATIONS. Washington, July 18, 8 p. m. For Indi ana and Illinois Generally fair; cooler; variable winds. For Michigan and Wisconsin Fair; warmer in ' northern, cooler in southern portions; variable winds. For Missouri and Iowa laght local showers: slightly cooler; variable winds. For Minnesota and Dakota Generally fair, with occasional light local showers; cooler, followed in northwestern Dakota by rising temperature; vanablo winds. Local Weather Report. INDIANAI'OLIS, July 18.

Time. liar. Iher. It. II. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7a.M. 29.80 75 87 8 west Pt. Clouay. 0.02 7r.M. 2D.74 82 74 Swest Cloudless. T

T Trace of rain. Maximum thermometer. 90; minimum ther mometer, 71. Following is a comparative statement of the condition of temperature .and precipitation on July 18, lasu: Jem. iw. Normal 75 0.17 Mean 80 0.02 Departure from normal - 5 0.15 Excess or deficiency since July 1.. 33 0.33 Excess or deficiency since Jan. 1.. 80 4.45 -rius. General Observations. Indianapolis, July 188 p. m.

fcj Th'rmtr. j Station. 2 fc: fe fe .c- Weather. - ; : : s New York city... 29.92 78 62 82 Cloudless. Buffalo, N. Y 29.74 76 C4 84 T PL Cloudy. Philadelphia, Pa. 29.92 7i 70 88 Cloudless. Pittsbur, Fa '29.76 74 64 80 T Cloudy. Washington,D.C. 29.90 70 62 86 Cloudy. Charleston, 8. C. 29.90 78 76 84 Pt. Cloudy. Atlanta, Ga 29.92 82 70 88 T Cloud v. Jacksonville, Fla 29.96 78 72 88 1.10 Cloudless. Pensacola, Fla... 29.88 84 74 94 Cloudless. Montgomcry.Ala 29.90 88 76 94 Cloudless. Vicksburg, Miss. 2U.88 88 76 92 , Cloudless. New Orleans, La. 29.92 90 78194 Cloudless. Little Rock. Ark. 29.80 88 70 94 Cloudless. Galveston, Tex.. 29.92 84 80 94 Cloudless. 8au Antonio, Tex 29.86 88 72 94 Cloudless. Memphi8,Tenn.. 29.84 86 76 91 Cloudless. Nashville, Tenn. 29.82 82 76 92 Cloudy. Ixniisville, Ky... 29.78 82 70 92 Cloudy. Indianapolis, Ind 29.74 82 72 90 T Cloudless. Cincinnati, O. . . . 29.72 84 70 90 T Pt. Cloudy. Cleveland, O.... 29.71 72 64 82 .04 Cloudy. Toledo, 0 29.70 7b" 58 7m .08 Pt Cloudy. Marquette, Mich, 29.82 58 58 78 T Cloudy. Hault Ste. Marie. 29.74 GO 58 70 .04 Cioudy. Chicago. Ill 29.70 76 72 80 Pt. Cloudy. Cairo, 111 29.82 82 74 90 PL Cloudy. Bprinctleld, 111.. 29.74 82 76 90 T Cloudy. Milwaukee, Wis. 29.68 70 66 78 Cloudless. Duluth. Minn.... 29.82 66 66 72 T Cloudy. ht. Iuid, Minn... 29.74 78 66 92 Cloudy. Moorehead.Minn 29.88 72 64 78 T Pt. Cloudy. SLVinceut, Minn 29.94 66 62 68 Cloudless. Davenport. la... 29.72 82 74 92 Pt, Cloudy. Dubuque, la 29.70 88 72 96 Pt. Cloudy. Des Moines. Ia.. 29.70 82 72 88 T Pt. Cloudy. St. Louis, Mo.... 29.76 88 76 92 Cloudless. Kansas City. Mo. 29.76 84 72 90 Cloudy. Fort Sill, Ind. T.. 29.72 92 70 98 Cloudless. Dodge City, Kau. 29.82 84 96 102 .52 (Houdy. Omaha, Neb 29.78 82 70 90 Pt, Cloudy. North Platte.Xeb 29.88 84 70 86 .'40 Cloudless. Valentine, Neb.. 29.84 80 64 84 .18 Cloudy. Fort Bully, D. T.. 29.90 70 56 86 .12 Cloudy. Ulsmarck, D. T.. 29.94 70 62 74 .01 PL Cloudy. Fort liuford,D.T. 29.90 76 (52 80 .01 Cloudy. lr.Artliur'8 L'd,s: 29.86 61 58 74 Cloudy. Ou'Apelle,N.W.T 29.76 74 54 76 .64 PL Cloudy. Ft.Ass'nb'ne.MT JJoiae City, I. T Cheyenne, Wy.T. 29.94 70 60 82 .04 Cloudy. PL SlcKin'y, W.T Ft.Wash'kie,W.T 29.90 80 52 84 Cloudless. Denver, Col 30.00 66 62 8(5 .06 Kain. Pueblo, Col 29.84 84 66 92 T Cloudy. Santa Fe, N. M.. 29.82 80 6C 84 PL Cloudy. Halt Lake City... 29.92 86 62 88 Cloudless. Helena, M.T.... 29.94 76 56 80 Clouay. Sioux City, D T. 29.74 86 74 90 Cloudless.

T Traoc of precipitation. Hot Day in New York. New York, July 18. This has been the hottest day of the season. Tho thermometer at the signal-service ollice registered mnetv-hve. i? our persons were reported as prostrated by the beat, and two of them have since died. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Mrs. Nellie Breeze, of Coburg. Ont.. has been found iruilty by a coroner's jury of poisoning her husband with rat poison. A storm at Burlincton. la,, on Wednesday. did great damage. The mam sewer caved in, and several streets were washed away. Virginia Prohibitionists have nominated a full btate ticket, beaded by Hon. 1 nomas li. Taylor, of Loudon county, for Governor. Reports from Manitoba say the grain cron in that section will be a failure this year. The total yield is placed at less than half of last years crop. During the fire in the Breyfoglo Block, at Columbus, O., yesterday moraine, threo liremen were badly injured, and several barely escaped suuocation. A white convict escapod from the cnardr house near Pans, Ky., on Y ednesday. lie was chased, and, on refusing to halt, a guard riddled his body with buckshot. An elevated tramway fell at a mill near AVest Uay City, Mich., yesterday, and juiiusoamuei was senousiy injured, lho supports of the tramway were rotten. The New York Yacht Club yesterday de termined to furnish no special prize for Lord Dunraven's boat to sail for. but all the club events are opened to him and his yacht. Tho cotton crop along the Colorado river. in Texas, has been damaged half a million dollars. At Columbus the river is lliirtyoue feet high.- Several' lives are said to have been lost. The Kebo' Valley club-house opening at Bar Harbor, Me., yesterday, was an in formal, but brilliant atlair. Secretary Blaine and family, Senator Hale and wife. and many other prominent people were present. James Conpland, aged forty-three, of n' i. - x 1. : ' ji. . i. i Aiuiiyviiie. i.. suofc inmseii in uie neaci last night in bis burial plot in Greenwood Cemetery. He will probably die. Business reverses, family bereavements and failing mind led to the deed. The rooms at the Old Orchard nouse. at Old Orchard. Me., occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Winchester, were entered during their absence, on ednesday. by unknown persons, and robbed of jewelry valued at $4,U0U and a small amount oi money. After an eleven-days trial at Chicaeo. the jury returned a verdict in the casecf the Troy Lumber Company against A. Ii. Cartier for $42.1o7. The verdict was the re suit of a fraud which tho lumber company claimed that Cartier had perpetrated in buying the mill, stores, and woods in Lake anil Newaygo counties, Michigan, six years ago, L. J. Ncwald, of Chippewa Falls. Wis., whose whereabouts bave been a mystery for some time, and who is charged with embezzling about 75,000, was seen at Helena, M. T.. by an Eau Claire man. Newald was traveling under tho name of Keevcs, and claimed to be chasing a man who ho said had fraudulently obtained 54,000 worth of horses from him. Obituary. Louisville. Ky., July IS. Geo. W. Norton, retired banker, died here early this morning of Bright's disease. He was a brother of President kstcin Norton, of the Louisville V Nashville railway, and of Judge K. H. Norton, of the Missouri Supreme Court. He was born near Kusscllville, Ky., in 1S15. and came hero in 1806 to continue a banking business established here. He was wealthy and benevolent, having given at one time $o0,000 to the Southern Baptist Theologist School. Six Men Drowned in a ltaplds. Ottawa, Ont.. July IS. Six men wcro drowned last night while attempting to shoot Kocho's rapids with a ralL The names of the unfortunates were not ascertained, but it is known that they belong to Ouebec. They were returning from shanties in the lumber district, where they had taeCTorkiixg during the last six aonths.

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Imagine a bright patio, decorated with arcades and panels of tiles and arabesques of pale green and blue tones, forming a cozy cafe, with stools and tTbles with gay polychrome ceramic tops; to the left a little kitchen, where a colored m;:n makes Turkish coffee over burning charcoal in the approved fashion; along one side of tho room a low stage covered with cushions, on which are seated Jewish and Arab dancing women, colored men and women and Arab musicians, all clad in the most brilliant costumes after their own hearts. The orchestra consists of taraboukehs, or drums made of earthen pots with a skin stretched over the orifice, a lute or eoud, a tambourine and a 6hrill hautbois, which an Arab plays with cheeks furiously pulled out. producing notes of a rhythm whose morbidness hypnotizes. The women, grave as idols, their lingers stained with kohl or henna, accompany the shrill air of the hautbois with nervous beating of their taraboukehs. and from time to time, as if to break the hypnotio spell, a negro will shriek for a few seconds like a steam whistle, causing his voice to undulate between two notes. Meanwhile one of the women dances not as peoplo dance in society, or even at the theater, but the dance that represents the eternal amorous theme, on which each nation has embroidered its own fancies, and of which each nation, except ours, has made its national dance. Sho is s girl of twelve or thirteen, with dark. - melancholy eyes, regular features, blue-black hair looped in braids over her cheeks. On her head she wears a sort of jeweled miter, from which hang chains of silver lueeting beneath her chin, and joining massive silver arabesques studded with rough atones, and serving as buckles for the green eilver-spauglcd drapery over her shoulders; her skirts of pale red and brown hang loosely down to the ground, showing only her bare brown feet. Her dancing is mere cadenced movement, with long undulations of the body, or little convulsive stampings of tho feet, accompanied by a writhing and waving of tho arms, continued to tho finger tips, by a throwing back of the heal7 or by an extension of the hands forward in tho gesture of entreaty, the whole expressing with much modesty and quite liberal mimicry a tender drama of passion, of defense against the invisible lover who sneaks to her. by tho hautbois, of refusal that means consent, of consent that still reHists, a long pantomime, during Which the suppie and caressing body of tlie girl moves incessantly and expresses extreme emotions, which end in a terrible charivari of hautbois and drums only when both dancer and musicians aro exhausted by fatigue. At the other end of tho Esplanade des Invalides, in tho Javanese kampong. may be seen a dance of similarly exotic character. This village is inhabited by some three-score Javanese workmen and their wives, who make hats and other small articles of commerce. In one corner of tho village is a concert-room of bamboo and thatch, and a .Tavaneso orchestra of drums, lutes aud tympanums, formed, some of bars of metal and others of brazen pots with lids composed of two supposed hemispheres. The orchestra occupies the whole of the back of tho stage, tho men squatting cross-legged and discoursing strange belllike music, while a man and a woman perform a mimic dance, with writhings and coutortious of tho body and limbs, less graceful than those of the Arab dance, but still curiously fascinating in their almost hieratic gravity. There are also four young dancing girls belonging to the King who are types of Japanese beatify and the greatest coquettes in the exhibition. Their skins are brown, the feet and legs up to the knees are dyed saffron yellow, their bodies are clad with richly embroidered stall's, their coiffuro is a wonderful gold holmet wrought into arabesques of dowers aud animals, and surmounted by a crescent of black feathers; their arms are loaded with bracelets, their eyes lengthened with an upturn tail of blue paint, and in the center of their brows are a blue circumflex accent and a gold spangle. These girls are beautiful with the regular beauty of Indian idols, but they chatter like magpies, make faces at the public and scoit at tho dowdiness and Puritanism of tho Parisiennes. One of these little ladies, interviewed ytsterday through the intermediary of an amiable Dutchman, who has lived for years in the Indies, declared that she found. Paris rather slow, aud the Parisians austere and averse to Inxnry, and the general aspect of things in Paris wanting in gilding and umbrellas. A Warning for the Saloons. Bentfort's Circular (Liquor Organ). We cannot too urgently impress npon tho influential members of our trade everywhere the prime importance of extending to the movement for ballot reform an earnest and active support. Tbe trade has been extensively and unjustly accused of offering opposition to the reform because, forsooth, ''the saloon" is alleged to be tho raonr f gf tYihaa xvhfi aMl thrir votes. T.X10 charge is, of course, born of hatred and steeped in unpardonable prejudice. Bat the way to answer it, and the way to auswer it to our lasting gain in moral status, is to give to. the reform not only cordis I support, but material aid. ,b victories as those in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts ran never bo either 'iulineiic-d or bought. It is our duty as well as our interest, therefore, to do all in our potver to preserve the puritv of the ballot; ar.d it becomes doubly our duty to do so when .we hav been unjustly accused of opposing it. he irm proposed is one that commends itself to tho conscience and support of every. Honest man, no matter what his calling Jiifttifjinf Dr.. Cleveland. Boston Advertiser. In this locality and this age of tha world it is not quite t-xsy to beli&ve that thero are persons who claim to be too religious for participation :n any kind of amusement. If the Indianapolis clergyman who nreached in favor of base-ball has such people in his congregation, perhaps "tupidityinthe pews may hve justified sensa tionalism in the pnlpit, , m mm Car-Saopa Ilurned at Ilutlrr, Ind. Waiiasii, Ind., July lS.-The extensive car-shops of the Eel river division of the Wabash road, located at Butler, were almost destroyed by fire yesterday, throwing over 100 men out of employment Several fine coaches and much valuable machinery were burned. The lo& will bo ncarljr S1W.000,

Arabs, Jews, colored people. Moors some loafing, others making jewelry, pottery or baskets, others selling baboucb.es. essence