Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1889 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, JULY 30. 1889.

statesmen, and the only Southern one. who sisnedall three of the great state papers which underlie Amcricanhistorv, viz., the original petition to the King of the Congress of 1774, the Declaration of Independence, and Constitution of the United states." This beautiful Rift is among the adornments of Mrs. Harrison's apartments at the executive mansion. MINOR 3 IA ITERS. The New Chlefr of the Coast and Geodetic Stirrer Takes Charge of Ills Office. xcll t the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, July 29. Prof. T. C. MendenhalL. cf Indiana, who was recently appointed chief of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, has arrived, and took charge of his office to-day. Prof. Mendenhall does not intend to make any immediate changes in the force under him, and will probably retain all, or nearly all, of his subordinates. The force in the Coast Survey is an excellent one, and, tbe work performed is so

scientifically accurate that when two lines were brought together one from the coast of Maine on the north, and the other from Charleston on the south there was less than half an inch in variation. Captain Meredith's Straightforward Manner. 'W&ahlsjrtoa Special. f t Captain Meredith, the new chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, is a plain, blunt man. who loes not mince words with anybody. Uis straightforward manner is particularly attractive in" contrast with the dissimulation which is so prevalent among men in the public bervice. Recently the representative of a Grand Army paper, published somewhere in the Northwest, dropped into Captain Meredith's bureau, while on a visit to the city, and sent in his card to the chief. He was shown in, and he greeted Captain Meredith with some familiarity! "I suppose you know, Captain, that I opposed your candidacy for Public Printer with all my might," he said, with the air of a man who dared to express his honest sentiments to the world without fear or favor. "I was in favor of another candidnto, and, as you know, I did all 1 could against you." Captain Meredith took up the visitor's card again and scrutinized it carefully. Then he looked his man over very calmly and replied: -'This is the first time I have ever heard of it; in fact this is the tirst time 1 ever heard of your existence, sir, and as I am pretty busy to-day, sir, I have no time to devote to strangers." "Well, that beats me," said the editor, as he drew a long breath. When he departed his look of bewilderment had not vanished, nor was it unaccompanied by an expression which seemed to denote pity for Meredith on account of the tatter's ignorance. The Ladles Who Were Imprisoned at Nice. Washington, July 23. Minister Keid has informed the State Department, by message received to-day, that he has taken in Faris the statements of Miss Van Ostrand and Mrs. Dorr. These are the ladies who had trouble at Mentonowitha dressmaker, and at Nice were seized and thrown into prison until the dress-maker's claim was paid. The case reported was a particularly exasperating one, and the State Department ordered an investigation by our representative in France. The attitude ot the French government in the ease is said to have been friendly and conciliatory, and ample reparation for all damages inflicted is confidently expected. Brazil In the Coming Congress New York, July 20. Cable advices from Rio Janeiro state that the imperial government of Brazil has appointed & commission, ' to represent that country in the international congress to be held at Washington in October next, headed by Senator Lafayette Roderiquez Pcreira, Councilor of State, and Councilor Salvador de Alendonca, consul-general of lirazil in the United States. The commission sailed from Rio de Janeiro on the 21th inst. The commission is authorized to negotiate a treatv of commerce between Brazil and the United . States. General Notes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Washington, July 29. The following Indiana postmasters were appointed to-day: Epsom. Daviess county, George Wuyers, vice George W. Bell, resigned; Miami, Miami county, Beecher Herrel, vice J. C. flumrickhouse, removed; Peabody, Whitley county, A. E. Redman, vice II. J. Ummel, TesignecfctPike's Peak. Brown county, II. B. Stephenson, vico Mary Swan, removed. To-day's bond offerings aggregated $137,100, as follows: Registered four-and-one-halfs. $2,000. at 1.07; $123,100, at Sl.OG?; S10.0O0, at $1,067. All the otters were accepted except the 82,000 registered four-and-one-halfs at $1.07. The Secretary of War to-day published the retirement, by operation of law, of Maj. Alexander Sharp, paymaster, who will repair to his home. The retirement of Major Sharp reduces the pay corps to forty, rive more than the maximum fixed by the recent act of Congress. President Harrison will leave Deer Park for Bar Harbor, Aug. 0, and leave on his return Aug. 15. Secretary Proctor was expected at the War Department to-niorrow, but acting Secretary Tweedall to-day received a telegram from him saying he would not be able to get here. The Secretary's young son, who has been an invalid for several weeks, is worse again. Ex-Con jrressraan S. J. Peelle and Harvey M. Larollette, Superintendent of Public Instructions, are in Washington. The gentlemen are simply on a pleasure trip, which will extend as far as fortress Monroe and Old Point Comfort. They are not interested in political matters this time, and did not even pass through Deer Park on their way here. The Civil-service Commission has decided to recommend to the President that civil-service rules be so amended as to exempt from examination clerks on river steamboats who also nominally act as postmasters. The New Printers Scale at New York. Nkw York. July 21). Committees of printers from tho various newspaper offices tad a conference with the proprietors today in regard to existing troubles. An entirely satisfactory settlement was had. There will be a sort of sliding scale, as the advertising matter is or is not allowed at agate measurement. Tho basis will be fifty cents per one thousand ems, but where the office claims the right to set advertisements on time fifty-five cents for straight matter are to be charged. Inset cuts are to be charged as straight matter, the compositor to have time for cutting leads. Corrections in advertisements are to be made on time. Overtime is to be charged for at fifty cents per hour, with or without composition, but after 3 a. m. at seventy-five cents, or composition to be ndiled. Extra price will not be allowed on "phat" display ads. Reading notices will bo measured in type set. Weel ly pay will bo 4 per day. six days of nine hours each, between 3 p. m. and 3 a. m.. . - Prominent Men Dying. Concord, X. H., July 29. Hon. E. H. Rollins, ex-United States Senator, who is ill at the Isle of Shoals, has had another re laps, lie is unconscious, and is failing perceptibly. Louisville, July 29. The Hon. James F. Buckuer. collector of internalrevenuo at this point for two terms under President Grant and one term under Hayes, is dying from a paralytic 6troke sustained las night at his horn in this citv. He was Speaker of the Kentucky Legislature forty years ago, a member of the State Senate and the holder of other prominent oHici.il positions. He is seventy-six years old and wealthy. Cronln Conspirators Plead Not Guilty. Chicago, July 20. The five men accused of complicity in the murder of Dr. Cronin Conghlin, Betrgs, Woodruff, Kunze and O'Sulhvan were arraigned in Judge Horton's court this morning. All pleaded not guilty. In the case of Beges, Coughlin, Woodruff and Kunze, a motion to quash the indictments was made and entered. O'Sullivan's attorney made a motion for a change of venue from Judge Horton'a court. The time fixed for arguing the motion was 10 o'clock to-morrow. Veni, Vidi, Vici! This is true of Hall's Hair Renewer, for it is the great conqueror of gray or faded hair, making it look the tioe even color of youth. .

INDIANA AND ILLIN0ISNEWS

The Eoosicr State Traversed by Intermittent Storms of Great Severity. Two Boys Struck by Lightning at Evansrille Numerous Barns Destroyed An Embezzling Collector Captured. INDIANA. Two Boys Struck by Lightning at Eramville Peculiar Effects of the Shock. xclal to the Indianapolis Journal. Evansville, July 29. A terrific storm struck this city, at 6:30 o'clock this morning, and raged with varying strength until i&so. During its progress, three boys, coming home from a fishing expedition, stopped under a tree for shelter. Lightning struck the tree next to the one under which the trio were standing, splitting oft a large branch. This branch touched a branch of the tree under which the boys were sheltered, and the current of electricity, of course, took a shot through the trunk of the tree to the ground. Two of the boys, Boink and Beard, were standing against the tree, andShultswas about a foot distant. The shock knocked Beard down in his tracks. Boink gave a yell of agony, and ran about ten feet when he. too, fell down. Schultzwas not affected in the least. Beard recovered in a few seconds and was on his feet. lie complained of a numbness in his left side, and said that his head was buzzing so that he couldn't hear. Schultz spoke to him, and afterward fairly yelled, but to no avail. Beard was temporarily deaf. At last, by signs, Shultz made him understand that they must do something for young Boink, who had not yet got over his shock. , Assistance was secured from the city. The boy was lying on his face in the mud, drenched by rain and pulseless. Restoratives were applied and lioink began to recover; his pulse began beating slowly. His left side was evidently tho most aflected, and was paralyzed for the timo being. At first tho pulsations were about fifteen in the right wrist to one in tne left. Afterwards they became more regular. When he was able to talk the boy said that his left side and arm felt as if they were "asleep." The course of the curTent, which came very near ending his earthly career, could be easily traced. It passed down his left arm and tide to his waist. The whole back part of his pants was torn away. The current then switched over to his right leg, making a half circuit of that member and burning a strip three inches wide out of tho pants leg. When about midway between the knee and tho ankle, the current jumped to the left leg, burning tho lower part of the left pants leg completely olf. His bodv is badly burned, but the full extent of his injuries have not been ascertained. The doctors say that the mad bath doubtless saved his life, as theliffhtniug passed out of his body into the earth. Beard is still deaf. and. it is feared that Boink will be partially paralyzed. A Pin' Wanderings. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Columbus, July 20. Tho fourteen-year-old son of George Knott, living here, accidentally swallowed a pin about a year ago. He suffered no inconvenience, however, until nearly three months afterwards, when he began to be troubled with pains in the lower part of his body. Soon a number of small eruptions appeared in succession on his abdomen and thighs, and he weut into a rapid decline. The ailment battled the skill of tho physicians, and it seemed that nothing could be done to relieve the boy's suffering, until yesterday, when the causo of tlje trouble was unexpectedly discovered. The patient felt a pricking sensation on the exterior of his abdomen, and, reaching his hand to tho place, he found a pin protruding, which, upon being extracted, was found to be covered and badly eaten with rust. Tho boy is now gaining strength rapidly. Mrs. Gougar Deserted by Her Audience. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Delphi, July 29. Congressman W. D. Owen and Mrs. Helen M. Gougar met at Flora on Saturday, the former to deliver a Sabbath-school address and tho latter to talk on prohibition. It is doubtful if Mrs. Gougar can ever again be induced to speak at the same time and place Mr. Owen is billed. She commenced speaking first, and a lair sized audience listened to her opening remarks, but the moment Congressman Oweu arose her audience melted awav almost completely. Mrs. Gougar finished her diatribe against the Kepublican party to few more than a baker's dozen. Tho celebrated lady was very much nettled over the manner in which her audience de serted her. Natural-Gas Project. Fpeclal to the IndlanayoUs Journal. Columhu8, July 9. It is asserted on good authority that this city will be enjoying all the benefits of natural gas by the beginning of the coming winter. A company of capitalists is seeking to get the manufacturers and business men here interested in a pipe-line project. The company pronoses to pipe gas here from the Greenfield field, a distance of forty-eight miles, tho line to pass through the towns of Shelbyville, Edinburft and Franklin. The company will ask a bonus of several thousand dollars from our citizens. Franklin citizens have already raised nearly all of their portion of the donation. Franklin Contracts for Gas. Fpecial to tho Indianapolis Journal. Fkakklix, July 29. The citizens' meeting, held at the court-house to-night, for the purpose of raising funds to secure natural gas for our city, was largely attended by the business and wealthy men. The contract submitted by Judge Hackney ami Irdin ltprrira n enven i r .Qnfnnlir'a as given in oaiuruavs Journal, was appointed to accepted, and a committeo solicit donations. In a few minutes &i,000, of the required $5,000. wore donated, and it is conceded by all that the full sum will be secured before the week closes. The Late John S. Weir. Special to the Imllanapolls Journal. New Albany, July 29. The remains of the late John S. Weir arrived in tho city, last night, from Indianapolis, and will bo interred in the Northern Cemetery to-morrow at 10 a. M. Johnny Weir was one of the most popular young men in the city, and his death is deeply felt by his host of friends. For thirteen years he had been in the employ of the J., M. &, I. Railroad Company, and for ten years a conductor on the main lineof that road. Deceased was thirtyfive years old. and a brother of City Treasurer Samuel M. Weir. Embezzler Caught. Special to the llianaiolls Journal. Evaxsvillk, July 29. Henry Moll, a young man prominently connected here, was arrested, to-day, charged with embezzling 700 from A. W. Henn, wholesale candy manufacturer. Moll was collector for the firm, and ran short in his accounts. An investigation showed 'hia crime. Moll heard of the discovery and left the city, but was apprehended at Newburg. and brought back here. Two hundred dollars of the money was recovered. Morristown Will Get Gas. 6iclal to the Indianapolis Journal Knigiitstown, July 29. Dr. Whetsel, W.A. Bodine, Paris Long and C.W.Morrison, a committee from the Town Council of Morristown. were in this city to-day and contracted with C. M. Rock for gas land, three wells and a pipe-line for the supply of gas at that place. The capital stock is (25.000, of which Messrs. Chas.. Frank and Will Rock, of this city, own $20,000. The wells will be drilled at once on the Rock farm, west of this city, and the gas piped to Morristown. A Watch-Thief Brought to Grief. Qpecial to the IndlanaiwUs Journal Gkeencastlk, July 29. George Henrich was arrested here yesterday, after having applied at a farm-house for his dinner, aud olTered valuable articles in pay for it. To.

day a special constable from Clay City appeared at the jail in Greencastle and identified Henrich as tho man who had worked for him, and got a watch from him in trade. He is accused of divers thefts at Clay City and Worthington, and confesses his guilt. He was taken back to-day. Horse-Thief Captured. Ejeclal to the Indianapolis Journal. Delphi. July 29. Frank Stockton was yesterday arrested by the Deer Creek Horse-thief Detective Association for stealing a horse from William Evermann, of Burlington, this county. Recently this county has been organized by the farmers for the purpose of apprehending horsethieves, and most effective work has been done by the various companies.

Storm Casualties and Damages to Crops. A heavy thunder-6torm passed over Hart ford City Sunday morniug. doing much damage to corn. James Williams s barn, in the south part of the city, was struck by lightning. Killing a valuable horse tnd set ting Pre to the barn, wnicn was consumed. A cow in the stall next to the horse was unhurt. Lightning caused the burning of two barns at Delphi. Jonas Flora lost not only his barn, but his valuable norses ana winter wheat and hay. His loss is $3,000, with no insurance. Worraley Crnmes lost his barn and contents, valued at 3,500. His insurance was small. The heaviest rain for years fell at Rockport Sunday and yesterday, doing great damage to roads and crops. In Sunday's storm, two trees were strucK oy lightning, killing one cow and almost igniting a large hay barn near by. During the 6torm of Sunday morning, the livery stable of Easley &, Rice, at Waynetown, was strucK oy ngntning. 100 Darn of Simeon Grenard, a mile north of that place, was also struck and burned to the ground. Loss 700; insurance $000. ' A severe rain and wind-storm passed over Logansport and county yesterday afternoon. Should the rams continue great damage will be done to wheat. John S. Moore's draft horse, "Scotland's Glory," was killed by lightning at Plainfield. Minor Notes. Mrs. Mary E. Terrill, of Kokomo, fell dead in her door-yard. A monkey has been discovered in the woods near Vincennes. Elkhart county wheat is expected to run from thirty-two to forty bushels to the acre. John Dunbar's barn, near Greencastle, was struck by ligtning, Saturday night. and entirely consumed. The State Grand Lodge, Ladies of Honor, will meet Knights and in Jeilersonville, Thursday, Aug. 13. Cass Carter, of Brooklyn, from a buggy in a runaway his jawrbone was broken. was thrown" mishap and Wm. Binceman, of Logansport, escaped tho fatal results of a rattlesnake's bite by swallowing a quart of whisky. Frank Tipton, a couvict sent to tho Prison South, from Putnam county, for burglary, died in prison, of consumption, on Sunday. Dietz & Co.'s. formerly W. A. Howe's. store, at Greencastle, was again entered by thieves Sunday night, and robbed of cigars and tobacco. William Haines inflicted an ugly knife wound upon Henry Rector, at Scatterfield, in a quarrel arising from a discussion of the hail-storm. Fire of incendiary origin destroyed the barn of Patrick Sheedy, near Haruenburg, recentl3r. Four horses and two mules perished in the Uauies. Hon. J. Maurice Thompson, of Crawfordsville, has gone toMonteagle, Tenn., to deliver several lectures before a summer school of teachers. Sunday night, that five men had been killed by adyuatuite explosion, proved groundless upon lurcher investigation. John Sass, of L,a Porte county, was thrown from a mowing machine in front of tho cutter-bar by a runaway team, re ceiving injuries from which ho bled to death. A bloodv cutting affray occurred at anionic at Nalb Station, Saturday night, in the course of which L.on James was given an. ugly gash in the arm by a man named Hicks. William Saber, of Richmond, was seri ously, if not fatallv. injured by the falline of a shedroof under which he was stand ing at the time. A rusty nail was driven some distance into his head. The L., N. A. &, C. watchman at the Market-street crossing, in Crawfordsvillc, lives on 10 cents a day, and has done soforyears. He has dyspepsia, and takes no nourishment except sweet milk and buttermilk. At a game of base-ball, Sunday, at Evansville. Andrew Smith! was struck on the head with a bat by John Williams, and died shortly afterward from the effects of the blow. Williams was placed under 2,000 bond. tfhe New Albany Light Infantry was riven a warm reception upon its arrival tome yesterday afternoon. The boys were escorted from the depot to their armory by a band of music and given a banquet at Lincoln League Hall. The Montgomery County Savings Associ ation, at Crawfordsville, has elected the following directors to serve tho ensuing year: E. G. Wilson, G. W. Robinson, J. N. Cumberland, Unas. Rost, A. D. 1 nomas, F. C. Davidson, R. E. liryant and A. C. Jennison. The officers in charge of tho United States agricultural experiment station at Purdue University have issued a circular to the officers of the county agricultural associations, asking them to arrango for the holding of farmers' institutes, and giving detailed information upon how to conduct them. ILLINOIS. The Kemalns of S. It. Justison Found in the IMver at Alton Indications or Murder. Alton, July 29. The body of Samuel R. Justison, of Brighton, 111., was found this morning in the river opposite the glassworks. Tho drowned man came to this . city Saturday, at 4 p. m and at 7.S0 the same evening got on board the Mary Morton for St. Louis. From wounds found on his head, the indications are that he was murdered ana thrown into the river. His wife and three children are here in great icf over the death of husband and father. I To Be Sold to an English Syndicate. Stkeator, July 20. William L. Scott, the Pennsylvania millionaire coal, baron, who owns nearly all the stock of the Spring Valley, 111., Coal Mining Company, is said to be figuring with an English syndicate for the entire Spring Valley mine, including all the machinery and 40,000 acres of land, under which lies three veins of coal that can be profitably mined. The top vein is six feet thick, and of the same strata as that at Streator and Ilraidwood. The price at which the plant is offered is said to be $4,000,000, and even though these figures may seem pretty high, the Luglish syndicate is of the opinion that money can be made out ci the venture, aud it is probable that thovpurchase will be made. Killed by a Fall from Ills Horse. 8pecial to the Indianaiolis Journal. t Mokton. July 29. This morning Charles Stoute, aged ten years, was thrown from a horse and instantly killed, his neck being broken. Brief Mention. Collinsville is to have a new system of water-works. Railroad workmen near Dixon recently killed 215 snakes. Knightstown has brilliant prospects of securing a large straw-board factory. The One-hundred-and-fourteenth Illinois Infantry will hold its reunion at Virginia Aug. 15. W. D. Campbell, a Vandalia brakeman, was run over by a train at Effingham and badly mangled. The Christian scientists have just finished paying for and dedicated a 4,000 church in Springfield. Christopher Cox. a Shelby county farmer, was overcome by heat, while at work ia his haytield, and died withm ten minutes. Law son Holland, of Washington, one of the earliest settl ers of Tazewell county where he located in 1819, died last Saturday. Sunday night Frank Kawalt and Hannah Shreverwent boating at. Peoria. Yesterday morning the boat waa found upside

down with Kawalt's hat and coat in it. Neither of the parties can be found, and

the river is being dragged for theirremains. William Ackcrman. a vounsr married man. was found dead in a billiard-room at Petersburg, Sunday. A burst blood vessel was the cause. It has been discovered that the list of municipal corporations on file with the secretary ot state at Spnngheid has never been corrected since 1S7S. An unknown man was fonnd dead Snuday at Elgin, at the bottom of a twentyfoot embankment of tho Northwestern railway. It is supposed that he had fallen from a train. Debbie Williams, a girl of fourteen years, was terribly burned, at Decatur, on Satur day. She threw a little gasoline on the dying embers of a fire, when the flames flashed up and c audit her clothing, burn ing it almost otf her bodv before help ar rived. A carap-meetine of the colored neonle of Hancock and adjoining counties is in progress on the fair grounds at Lallarpe, and will continue ten days. There was an immense attendance. The colored people gavo a representation of the ten virgins, and the marriage at tana of Galilee. Also, apreseptation of the return of the prodigal son, ana tne tatted calf was killed in celebra tion of the occasion, prepared for eating and distributed among those present. The Rev. James Thomas, of Uuincv. and other well-known colored divines aro conducting the meeting. s Convicted on His Wire's False Testimony. Chicago. July 29. It is said to-night that James W. Smith, the man who attempted to Kill himself in Judge AlcConnelrs court room last batuidav. when ho was found guilty of a criminal assault upon a little girl aud sentenced to nine years 111 the penitentiary. will be a free nym when he is able to leave his bed in the county hospital. Sinoe the sensational episodo in tho court-room. when, the blood streaming from a cut over his heart, he protested his inno cence, Judge McConnell has been investigating the rumors that there was a conspiracy to send James Smith to prison. Yesterday afternoon he sent for the prisoner's wife, and had a long and earnest interview with herin his private' uuauiuci 111 luo viimuiai vsuuib uuuuiu When Mrs. Smith emerged from his room she was weeping bitterly. It is further stated that Mrs. Smith desired a divorce. and testified against her husband in order that his conviction might give her grounds for the annulment of the marriage con tract. Stricken with remorse at his at tempted suicide, she confessed her perfidy to J ud gov McConnell. and the latter will set aside the verdict on tho grounds of con spiracy, Destructive Forest Fires. Chico. Cal.. Julv 29. Large forest fires are raging on the llumbolt road, eighteen miles from Chico. The fire has burned over a district four miles iu length, and is sweeping everything before it. Much valu able timber has already been destroyed. The inhabitants have all turned out, and are fighting the naineswith great energy. lioisE uiTT, July 29. Forest nres are sweenini? through this countv. destrovinir oue of the finest belts of timber in Idaho. Tin country is so dry that the.tiresare spreading over a great extent of country. Governor choup has telegraphed the .secretary of the Interior asking aid in extinguishing the fire. Santa Barbara. Cal.. Julr 29. Field fires have been burning in the foot hills back of Santa Rarbara. Twelvcidweliings. besides a number of barns and a large quantity of hay, have beeu destroyed. A number of horses and cattle also perished. The loss will reach $50,000. Severe Electrical Storm. Chicago, July 29. unusual and severe rain-storms are reported from various por tions of Arkansas and the West. At layettevine, Ark., last night, the resi dences of Moses Moek. Moses Baum. J. W. Walker. Mrs. K. E. Wade, Iter. N. M. Kagland. Judge II. J. IJrowu and the livery stable of Kelt cc llannon. 111 wnicb one horse was killed, were struck by lightning. lho larire barn of Cant. Ihomas Urooks. .editor of the Fayetteville Kepublican, was set on hre and destroyed, to gether with a large quantity of hay, oats, corn and hvo line norses. The residence of Thomas Holland, three miles from here. was blown down, and that of E. Graham, in the Rame neighborhood, was partly destroyed. A number of streams are higher to-day than ever before known. The Frisco railroad bridge over White river is washed away, and crops along the river are generally destroyed. The loss to farmers in this county will be many thousands of dollars. A Flood Victim's Dual Life. Jotixstowx, Pa.. July 29. One of the sensations brought to light by the recent Hood, is the fact that W. H. Overbeck, a prominent man and resident of this place for ten years, married here, and the father of several children, had also a wife living in Philadelphia. He was well liked by everybody and held a prominent position with the Cambria Iron Company. His wife was of a respectable family, and no one suspected that ho had been living a dual life, Such, however, was the case, as the Philadelphia woman has fully established her identity, and in addition has three children born to Mr. Overbeck before he left her. Just how he managed to keep his Philadelphia wife away from here is not known, but he regularly sent her $20 a month from his wages. The case will now likely be taken into the courts on account of Mr. Overbeck's insurance money, as his family here survived him. Obituary FATttllNGTOK'. Me., July CO. Daniel Beedy died this morning, ag.d seventyeight. Ho had been a noted civil engineer and bridge builder. He built the Bates mill, in Eewiston, and the first steam Hourmill in St. Louis, and various large flour and quartz-mills in New Mexico'CaTifornia and other Western States, besides a large number of bridges. Lancaster. Pa., July 29. Col. W. B. Fordney, senior member of the Lancaster bar, and for many years the intimate personal friend of the late Gen. Simon Cameron, died this morning, aged eigthy-three years. San'Trancisco, July 29. A dispajjli from London announces the death there, to-day. of Geo. S. Ladd. a well-known San Franciscan, anr1 president of the Pacific Bell Telephone Company. She Did Not Fay Her Dues. Chicago, July 29. Mrs. Celestia D. Messenger to-day applied for an injunction against Gertrude Nell", Abbie King, Mary Tucker, Margaret Sands, Mary Thiel, Annie Lunn, Harriet Purse!., and Emma Wallace, wife of Justice Wallace, to restrain them from interfering with Mrs. Messenger in her attendance at the meetings of James A. Mulligan Kelief Corps. 23, auxiliary to James A. Mulligan Post, SOO, G. A. R. Tho suit grows out of Mrs. Messenger's ejectment from the corps upon the ground that she did not pay her dues. She persisted in attending the meetings, notwithstanding her suspension. The ladies sued put her out, and she caused their arrest for alleged assault. They were arraigned before Justice Scully, who continued the case. Steamship Arrival. New York, July 29. Arrived: Arizona, from Liverpool. Glasgow, July 29. Arrived: State of Nebraska, from 2s ew York. Southampton, Julv 29. Arrived: Werra, from New York, for Bremen. Gkavesend, July 29. Arrived: Canada, from New York, for London. Plymouth, July 29. Arrived: Moravia, from New York, for Hnmbnrtr. Qukknstowx, JulyO. Arrived: British Prince, from Philadelphia for Liverpool. Looks Like a Nail Trust. Ciiarlfstown, W. Va.. July v29. The central nan iompauy, 01 ueeung, wuu a capital stock of 1,000,000. has been chartered here by the Secretary of State. The incorporators are A. W. Campbell, S. K. Walkie, Joseph ' Bell, W. T. Glcssner and J. N. Vance, all of Wheeling. The object and purpose of this company is believed to be the handline of all the nails manufactured by the mills in tho Wheeling district and the West, as the incorporators repre(ent different mills around and in Wheeling. Child Killed bj Klectrlc Hallway Wire. Wichita. Kan., July' 29. Earnest Condwick, aged three years, was killed this afternoon by becoming tangled in an electric wire which had become loosened from the gear of the suburban electric railway. The boy's hands and stomach were burned to a criM where the wire had come in contact wita them.

WESTERN UNION'S PE0TEST I

The Telegraph Company's Eeasons for Resisting a Eednctioii in Rates. Government Business Cannot Be Carried at the Terms Offered by the Postmaster-General Without Loss Cost of Service. New York, July 29. Tnwfollowing if the substance of the protest of, the Western Union Telegraph Company against the Postmaster-general's great cut of the rates to be paid for telegraph service in the transmission and delivery of government messages, giving tho history and objects of the act of 1S-S0, and the actions heretofore taken under it. The rates in force for the past five years have not been uniform of 1 cent per wortl, as many papers have assumed, but increasing on a 6cala of distances above one thousand miles, with a minimum of 20 cents per message, and a maximum of 22 cents per word. The telegraph companies hold, and are so legally advisod, that the language of the act does not give the Postmaster-general absolute power to fix any rate he may deem fit. That power is qualified by constitutional restrictions. In Article 5 is the language: "Nor shall private property be taken for pubhc use without just compensation." The power depends, therefore, on the question. Is one mill per word a just compensation? After relating the circumstances leading to the enactment of the acts of 1SS6 and 1872, giving to the telegraph companies certain franchises and privileges, and to the government certain advantages and privileges, including priority of service at rates to be annually fixed by the Postmaster-general, the letter proceeds The fixing of rates does not appear to have been considered an imperative duty of tbe Postmaster-general, for no action seems to have been taken by that ofliccr in the direction of fixing rates untilJuly 1, 1871, when the necessity for it was alleged to have arisen by reason of -the complicated character of the service in transmitting the signal weather reports. The rates were then fixed satisfactorily to the telegraph companies. They were not annually revised until some years later, and In almost every Instance the telegraph companies were consulted as to what they could aflord to do the service for. In two instances Postmaster-general Jewell and Postmaster-general James, at the instance of the telegraph companies, recalled and modified their orders after they had been officially proclaimed. The language of the act that messages between the several departments of the govern ment "shall have priority over all other business at such rates as the Postmaster-general shall annually fix." may be construed as contemplating the fixing of a higher rate than Is paid by other patrons, because of such priority in transmission over all other business. Certainly it never contemplated conferring tho power to fix the rates below actual cost of the service. Such action is nothing short of confiscation and expropriation of the propertynd service of employes to the use of the government without just compensation therefor. Twenty cents for twenty words or lc-ts for distances of l.OOO miles or less, and 1 cent foreacu additional word, and 1-10 of a cent a word for an additional one hundred miles or fraction thereof for distances of about one thousand, as between Washington and New York and St Louis or Chicago, is scarcely onehalf the rate paid by the public on current messages. For distances of three hundred miles aad under it is about three-fourths the commercial rate. The working expenses of the company without any return lor any part of the capital employed cost vithin a fraction of 75 per cent, of the total earnings. If, therefore, the government rate averages less than 75 per cent, of the rate to the public, as it undoubtedly does, then the government business is now done at a loss. The average cost to the company of handling messages is i!3 2-1 0 cents per message. If the government business does not pay something more than this average then it must be done at a loss, for the messages, in order to yield such an average must be considerably above tho average length of business messages (about seventeen words), and it is a very exacting service, having firecedence over all other business, and requirng prompt and often long distance messenger deliveries, or rewriting, in some cases, to deUver by special wires. Tiu sc exhibits demonstrate that the rate, as fixed for the past year, is a great injustice to the telegraph companies, and not on a fair business basis of living profits awarded to railroad companies and other corporations for services renderea. llie rate oiignt, thereiore, to be Increased rather than diminished. By the present rate the government is saving a large sum, probably $100,000 annually, by the reduced cost ot its telegraph service below what other patrons have to pay, and that saving is necessarily niado up from other customers. In all iustice and fair dealing the existing rate should therefore be increased. To do the government service for nothing necessarily Imposes heavier burdens on the people who sustain the tflesrranh. The government is able to mr. nnil every business consideration demands that it shall pay a fair and reasonable consideration for whatever service it may require. As to the rate named for the ensuing fiscal year in your official circular to tho telegraph companies, of June 29 ultimo, which you say "win ue one mm a wora, irrespective or distance, ftr all messages, day or night," I have only to say that it would not reimburse what this company has to pay for tbe clerical service in receiving, counting, checking, routing, numbering aud booking tho message before its transmission; that it would not reimburse what this company has to pay for the time of any one of from seven to eleven . operators that would be engaged in the transmission of a message from Washington to Porland, Ore., that a message of tbe ordinary length would not reimburse what we have to pay for its delivery by messenger after it has reached its destination, to say nothing of any part of the cost of maintaining the lines, battery supplies, stationery, superintending and other incidental expenses, and, finally, it would not reimburse the cost to this company of gathering up business, making the accouuts, and making the collections. A menage handed in at Washington is received, counted and checked by the clerk at the window. It is then sent to the operating-room, where the circuit manager routes and numbers it, and sends it to the proper instrument. After its transmission it goes to tho book-keeper to be entered. What we have to pay for the time of these several employes is certainly more than one cent, the value of a ten-word message, and probably more than two cents, which would be the price of a twenty-word message at the rate named. Messages from New York or Washington to Eoints on the Pacific coast pass through , the f and of from six to nine oiierators. To Oregon it requires three more operators. This company transmitted during the last fiscal year 51,463,935 messages. Tho average cost of delivery permessage was about two and one fifth cents. 1 ou may answer that tho government sends letters a thousand ra'les and delivers them for two cents: but neither the government nor any other patron of the telegraph would submit to the class of deliveries made by the letter-carriers. In fact, the government itself, in this city, charges 10 cents per letter for special deliveries, and every telegraph message requires a special delivery. Over more than half the area of this city we pay 5 cents per message for delivery. Jin respect to the cost of gathering up the business, and making up the accounts for collection at many of our small stations, they have but one Eovernment message during a month. The War apartment requires that the messages themselves be rendered as vouchers. If an ageut or employe of any of the departments is detained at the local station by railroad interruption, and sends a message of ton words, the manager of that station finds that it is his duty to inclose the message to the auditor of the company here for collection. That would cost this company a two-cent postage stamp. Then we shall have sent the message, paid each operator engaged on it 2 cents for delivering it and 2 cents to the government to forward the original message a voucher and when the account Is made up we get 1 cent back. We have been always ready to serve the gov eminent in the promptest and best manner in our line of business, and have done a great deal for the government without charge, giving it the use of wires on special ccasions and opening new stations at considerable expense, for signal and astronomical observations. We have had our accounts tied up for a considerable portion of our service upon technical rules upon which we have Iteen unable to procure a trial and decision of the courts until the arrears have reached the neighborhood of $100,000. As Instructed by the executive committee of the board of directors, I most respectfully mako this the protest of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and of the subordinate telegraph companies which it controls, against further reduction below the rates in operation during the past few years of tolls to be paid by the government for the transmission of its messages, as a wrong and injustice to this company, to its thirty-six hundred stockholders, and to its millions of other customers. Most respectfully yours, Jorvin Uheen, President. Editor Assaulted by a "Crook." Denver, Col., July 20. Col. John Arkins, edi tor of the News, who has been wa ging wex upou the "crooks" of this city for some time past, was assaulcd to-night just as he was leaving his ollice for home, by the leader of the gang, known as Soapy" Smith. Smith knocked him down with a loaded cane and otherwise injured him before assistance came, locked up. 6mith was arrested and Destructlre Fire in Wichita. WicrtlTA. Kan.. July 20.Firo broke out this morning in the three-story brick building occupied by the Cannon rruit Commission Company, and spread to tho adjoining handsome four-story brick building occupied by the Wichita Wholesale Grocery

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Tho health ojlicials only smiled at the Doctor's proposed thort cut to the fountain of life. "We may as well pronounce marriago a failure straightway," said one, "and prohibit it entirely forever. Scarcely ouo family can be fouud that will not show a case ot disease within two or three generations. Therefore nearly all mankind is to some extent predisposed to consumption, and if we expect reform on Dr. Segnitz's lines, a total abolition of tho marriage tie is our only course." In order to render his law efficient. Dr. Segnitz proposes that all persons who contemplate marriage should he subjected to a medical examination, and if one or tho other of the contracting parties be found consumptive, marriage be forbidden. "Would such an enactment amount to anything?" said a prominent Philadelphia physician, yesterday. A crisp $5-bill could buy a certificate of sound health for death itself. Moreover, if such a law should bo passed in New Yoik, 6 cents would pay for a couple cf ferry tickets into Jersey, and Cupid's captives would' there fiud sonio gentleman of the cloth to tie them, even if they were tottering on tho brink of tho crave." consumptives acquire the disease by heredity," said Dr. Parish, yesterday, "tho number of contagious cases, I believe, is much greater. A husband will frequently . transmit the disease to his wife, or a mother to her child. Any one who is ia attendance upon, or who inhales the breath of a consumptive, is liablo to attract the disease to himself. A consumptive will refrain from marriage, if he has any wisdom. If the unfortunate marriages that take place too frequently between a strong man and a weak-lunged w oman, or vico versa.v could be prevented, the quota of consumptives would be in time appreciably reduced, but consumption could never be exterminated thus. There are too many other causes that play their part in perpetuating the disease." A number of Philadelphia physicians expressed views on tho subject quite similar to those of Dr. Parish. To all of them a legislative enactment regarding marriage seemed quite impracticable. lf we could, resurrect the law of ancient Komo that made spitting a penal oilense. then legislation might be worth our while." baid Dr. Githens. "A consumptive's saliva is ono of the most proline means of propagating the disease. On the horse-cars, in the steam cars and in tho street the consump tive does a vast and unnecessary amount of hawking and spittiug. His 6aliva is im pregnated with tmv microbes or tubercles that liy upward with the dust and are in haled by the invalid's fellows. If their condition is favorable to growth the germs take root and the traveling companion goes into a decline. A great number of cases are bred in this way. Tuberculosis in milk and beef is another mode of contagion." As an illustration of the power of perse verance over heredity may bo cited the case of a well-known Spruce-street physician who is one of seven brothers, live of whom died of lung trouble. He is sixtytwo years old, and in excellent health. "It may be because I am a physician's seventh son." saiu ne, in relating me incident yesterday, "and that I, therefore, lead a charmed life; but 1 choose to believe that my immunity from lung diseaso is due to my own obedience to the rules of health, which my brothers neglected. Consumption was a heritage from my mother, but good hours, good food and lots of exercise freed me from its grip." ' . A CENTURY'S ! PROGRESS. How Tig-Iron and Steel Have Increased and Decode Cheap in One Hundred Years. London Iron. Only a century ago charcoal iron was produced to the 'extent of about 00.000 tons yearly; twenty years later the product was but 53,000 tons. Even Creat Britain in 17 produced only C8,000 tons not so much as some furnaevs in the United States now turn out yearly. The manufacture of steel was just beginning in the States: twenty years later oulv 917 tons were produced in the country. The coarsest pig-iron then cost about as much as steel rails do now. Last year the American production of pig-iron was 9.400,7:)9 tons, and the highest price ot best foundry nig was $21 a ton. The output of steel rails was, in round numbers, 1,350,500 tons, and the best price $31.50. A single American railway now buys moro iron than both Great Kritain and the United IStates made a century ago. There were neither railways then, iron bridges ncr buildings; no petroleum nipes, for there was no petroleum; no gas pipH, for there was no gas-lighting even in Europe until later. Washington lived in an age of darkness; instead of the electric light the people had candles costing about 2 cents apiece. In all departments and applications in chemistry the century has simplv made a new world. American pressed .glass, which has completely revolutionized tho supply of table and house wnre, is an invention of tho last idxty years. Farming in Washington's day knew nothing of machinery; even tho tirst iron plow, patented in 1107, was a farlure. for New Jerusalem farmors thought it poisoned the soil. Mowers, reapers and harvesters began to be invented about the same time, and even the ordinary implements were such as it would not now be thought possible to use. The steaml'oat was practically unknown, and the railway entirely nutil forty years later, the cost of transportation by wagon confined the area of possible production with proiit. as to most crops, to the margin of navigable waters. In fact, a oiuw wotM has been created in this century. The Chicago Standard. CMcAgo Inter Ocean. In the multifarious walks of life the getting a competence orthe building of a fortune are standards of success according to the world's valuation. A Had Showing for Shine. Frank Shine was arrested, last, night, and slated at the police station on a charge of burglary and embezzlement committed last winter. He was at that time employed as a collector for a man by tho name of Goldrich, in Ilaughville.wind was accused of having secured $CT on false receipts. He is also said to have been involved in the robbery of a Mr. Drotz's property, o& Fletcher avenue, about the U