Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 August 1889 — Page 1

1 7 J ESTABLISHED 1823. INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1889. PRICE FIVE CENTS.

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THE LAST CUT

Owing to an overstock in Light-weight Suits, we have determined to lose from 63 to $5 on each euit rather than carry them over. Vie will, therefore, for tho next Two Weeks, sell our $10, $13 and 615 Suits at the nominal sum of Every suit guaranteed to be 'Btrictly all wool. These suits are in plain and fancy Cheviot, Cassiraeres, etc. new and fancy patterns, fashionably made up. All our Boya1 and Children's Suits are cut dawn in strict proportion to theso prices. ORIGffiiL EAGLE 5 & 7 West Washington St. THE BEST FOR THE LOWEST PEICE 3.50 TO CHICAGO VIA Bis: Four Route Cyncketa on At Union Station and corner "Washington tad Meridian street. J. IL MARTIN. D. P. A. MAKING OLD MEN YOUNG AGAIN. Dr. Hammond Thinks Dr. Brown-Senards Elixir of Life Is a Great Discovery. Wasitocgto:. Aug. 1. Dr. William A. Hammond, of this city, is experimenting with tho elixir of life recently discovered by Dr. Brown-Sequard, of Paris, and thus ar he says tbe results are fully equal to the promises given by the great Paris physician. Dr. Hammond was sitting on the -veranda of the fine new hospital which he has just built outside the city limits when a correspondent called on him to-night. "It is true," said the Doctor, "that when Dr. Brown-Sequard's discovery was first reported to the American people I was rather dubious, and inclined more or less to think, as others had hinted, that ..tho report was a French joke, or that Dr. Brown-Sequard was another good man gonft wrong. I was willing, at all events, tt pat it to tho test, azid about a week ago I started to experiment. Dr. Brown-Sequard uses only selected portions of the rabbit or guinea pig, h it I have adopted the limb, which I think is better. The preparation of the medicine and the treatment of tho patient are simple. I take the elected portion of a lamb freshly killed and pound it into a pulp in a mortar; with this I mix a teaspooniul or two of water, and the mixture I niter through fine Swiss filtering paper. The fluid, lightly thicker than water, comes through perfectly pure and limpid. It would hardly he safe to inject the fluid derived from a body twenty-four hours after tho killing of the animal. I began my experiments first on myself to assart) myself it was not dangerous to the patient. Since then 1 have applied tho elixir to several old gentlemen without their knowing what it was. One man about sixty years of age had had his arm so nearly paralyzed with rheumatism that for nearly a year he could not raise his band to bis head. Soon after the elixir was injected into the arm he was able to wield it in any direction, nnd almost as vigorously as he had ever done. "Up to the present my experiments have been made without the patient's knowledge, but to-morrowl am going to begin treating a man in this way at his own request. Of tourse.it is too early yet to draw any sweeping conclusions from the result obtained, but as far as I have gone the results are certainly remarkable. When I have continued my experiments longer I shall be able to draw conclusions with more confidence. Dr. Brown-Sequard's calculation is that an injection once a month will suffice to keep a man twenty or thirty years younger than he really is." Forest Fires in Montana. Hklkxa, Mont., Aug. 1. The forest fires which have been prevailing in Montana for a week show no signs of abatement. From Helena west, north and south a great black -loud of smoke bangs over tho country, and for six days the snn hasnot been seen. The damage is estimated at $300,000. At Missoula, in western Montana, the streets, buildings and sidewalks are covered with ashes. The air is like a blast from a furnace. The atmosphere is filled with crisp cinders that have descended like a light fall of snow. The lo$ in Jeflerson county, so far, will aggregate in the neighborhood of 25,000. The fire now raging in Boulder canyon, near Bernice, has been most destructive of property. In the neighborhood of tho great mining cainp of Philipsburg the damage has been immense, while the town of Granite is in imminent danger of being destroyed. The mountains about the city are all ablaze, and while no danger to tho city is feared, the heat and stilling vmoke are almost unbearable. Suing: for Property Worth l.OOO.OOO. Wichita. Kan., Aug. 1. Suit has been commenced in the District Court of this county by the alleged heirs of D. W. Gilbert to recover a block of property valued at $1,000,000. D. W. Gilbert, was a banker hero in lbTl, but before he died he lived for pome years at his old 'home in Ohio. His will provides that his property should be distributed among his legal heirs, and in a eodicil his Mater's children were named as ucb. together with the testator's father nd mother. Tho property was divided between the two latter. The nephews and nieces now sue for posses3iou. The property is now owned by as many as 200 ditterrnt peoDle, and they have combined to fight the suit. Benton- In Honor of the President. . Siorx Falls. S. D.. Aug. 1. A short session of the convention was held to-day, hut no business of importance was done. The regular batch of communications suggesting name for the new State were read. 1 his time it was "Benson." in honor of the I resident, the name being a combination of the first three and last three letters of his foil name. I be South Dakota members of the ioint commission returned from Bismarck to-day. and tho consideration of their report will begin to-morrow. The arrangement reached by the commission meets with hearty approval. AYEit's Sarsapariila is recommended by physicians a the only erne blood purifier.

WHEN INDICATIONS. FRlAT Threatening and light' rain during the nirht; clearing and fair to-day.

ON'T Don't wear a ilk hat to a picnic, Don't wear tight clothing of any sort. Don't hang yonr Mackintosh In a warm place. Don't affect horizontal stripes if you are short In stature. Don't carry a silk umbrella at the middle. Use the handle always. Don't Ait. cros-lpg;?cd If you wish to preserve the set of your troupers. Don t wear pronounced effects in down-stripes If you are tall aud slight. Don't buy your thin clothing of anyone but us, where you can gtt a discount of oDe-ttfth. Don't though ome men with pretentions to st le do wear a hitrh bat with a sack coat. Don't get Into a heated argument on a summer day uclesd your linen is thoroughly weilstarohod, or you have on a negligee phirt. Don't wear anything but a straw hat in warm weather, and don't buy it anywhere but at the place where you can get it tor 33 1-3 per cent, oil, which is at THE WHEN Surgical Instruments & Appliances TrniweB, Supporter. Deformity Braces Crutches AtomUers. Optical Goods, Artificial Ejea, and every thingin Surgio! Instrument and Appliance. WM. H. ARMSTRONG OO.'S Surgical Instrument Honia, V2 South Illinois streets A MAD IIOKSE AT LARGE. It Races Wildly Through the Streets and Bites Two Men and Eight of Its Kind Before Killed. Chicago, Aug. 1. Ahorse with all the eymtoms of hydrophobia ran amnck on Robey street yesterday afternoon, and was iinally killed beneath the shadow of the Moody tent on Milwaukeo avenue. No tiger of the jungle could have created more of a sensation or shown a more vicious do Eire to exterminate man and beast. Two men were bitten and eight horses torn by the teeth of the maddened animal. A thousand people joined in the hunt to destroy the brute. For two hours they chased up and down the streets and alleys, pursuing and pursued. Four policemen with Lieut. Penson joined the crowd. Shortly after noon Mr. Erickson attempted to hitch his horse to his meat market delivery wagon in frout of his store. The animal was of gentle disposition, email, and without a trick or vicious habit. "When the horse was led from the barn ho , showed signs of anger. Suddenly throwing back his ears he sunk his teeth in Mr. Erickson's arm, and rearing, struck at his master with his fore feet. The attack caused Mr. Erickson to drop the halter. The instant the horse was tree he- resumed the attack and chased his master into tho meat shop. The infuriated beast then started sonth on Robey street. He put men. women and children to flight, and charged at everyone he chanced to meet or overtake. In rush iug after three women and several children he ran over two little girls, knocking them down, but only slightly bruising them. The others escaped, one of the women climbing a fence and the others, with the screaming children, ran up the steps and into the door ofahouso near by. When nearing North avenue, conductor Dutiv. of tho Northavenue line, stepped oif his car and caught hold of the animal's halter. Ho supposed it was simply a runaway horse. The animal made a vicious snap at him. catching his right hand with his teeth and taking out skin and flesh. The conductor let go of tho halter and jumped on the car, the horse biting and striking at him. As the horse went down Milwaukee avenuo he rau at everything he saw, and took a peculiar fancy for attacking his own kind. Every horse ho passed, and there were eight of them, he nipped in the sido. Ho tore large pieces of hide from the ribs of some. Others he caught where he could, but always left the mark of his teeth. The animals thus injured in turn 1m came demoralized and added to the excitement. The police finally drove the horse from tho street to a vacant lot. Lientenant Penson mr.de a lasso of a cloth's line. Standing on tho sidewalk, he made his throw. The line straightened out in regular Mexican style and settled around the horse's hind leg. Tho animal started away, and the oflicer took a turn around a convenient post. This upset the horso, and in a moment four bullets were tired into the horse's head. Conductor Dully had his hand, which was terribly torn, immediately cauterized. He and his family are in agony of fright ns to tho results that may follow the bite. He is in great pain. Mr. Erickson called in a physician and had his wound dressed. He says ho thinks the horse "was bitton by a mad dog about two weeks ago. EXCURSION BOAT WRECKED. St. Lawrence River Steamer Strikes a Rock 900 People Taken Off Without Accident. Water-town, N. Y., Aug. 1. Tho steamer St Lawrence, the finest of the Thousand Islands Steamboat Company's line of boats, ran on a rock off Hog island, in the Canadian channel, to-day, and is going to pieces. She had on board an excursion party of abont nine hundred people, all of whom were taken off without accident, and aro now encamped on the shores of the adjoining islands until a steamer can bo 6ent to take them off. The boat left Clayton at 11 a. m. The steamer Maynard accompanied her with one hundred people of the excursion party who could not get aboard the St. Lawrence. Many of the passengers on the St. Lawrence were at dinner when tho boat struck a rock and began to settle. They hurried on deck, but no panic occurred. Tho otlicers remained cool and discipline was maintained. Tho Maynard helped to get the St. Lawrcnco's passengers off. Captain Estes. of tho St. Lawrenco. is an old officer, and has a tine reputation. Ho was trying to cross from the narrow to the main channel when tho rock was struck. The Accident Near Oxford. Cincinnati, Aug. 1. The rumor current In Hamilton last night that many people were killed in the accident near Oxford was unfounded. The passenger train was cast-bound and tho wild engine westbound. The only person killed was Charles Lee, fireman of the wild engine. John Dougherty, engineer of that engine, was at first thought to bo uninjured, but later it was found that ho had inhaled steam, and his life is despaired of. Dan Brannen, engineer of tho passenger train, was severely cut, bnt not dangerously. Leo Doty, his lireman, bail both legs broken, and was badly hurt. Ho was taken to Oxford. Conductor John Farley and brakemau Albert Burns were thrown forward and slightly hurt. No passengers were hurt. Thero wera no women aboard the train. A wrecking train went out from Hamilton and cleared tho track this morning. Found Little to Sell. Rkadixo, Pa.. Aug. 1. The sheriff to-dar carried out the order of the court to sell the property of the Standard Live-stock Insurance Company, of this city, the failure of which was recently announced. The only property found was a lot of old offlco furniture, and the hundreds of creditors will realize nothing. The business of the company was that of insuring horses, and it had nearly 1,000,000 of insurance on its books at the time of the failure. Colored Man Hanged. Pflanp, Fla., Aug. l.-William Gaskins, colored, was hanged here at 10 o'clock today for tho murder of his wife about a year ago.

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CHINA'S ANCIENT CAPITAL

What an American Consul Saw in a City Built 0?er One Thousand Tears Ago. Nanking and Its Once Great bnt Now Crumbling Walls, Its Tombs, Temples, Talaces, and the Industries of Its Odd People An Institute of Learning That Has So Hival in Size in the Civilized World, Effect ef the Craze forTrustsin Germany Upon the Workingmen A Sugar King's Scheme to Rob the United States Treasury. CHINA'S SEAT OF LEARNING. Xnteretlnr Account of a VUIt to Nanking, the Ancient Capital of the Empire. Washington, Aug. 1. A. C. Jones, United States consul to Chin Kiang, China, has written to the State Department an interesting account of a visit he recently made to Nanking, tho ancient capital of the Chinese empire, to confer with Taotai Liu, Foreign Minister, regarding interests of American citizens within his consulate, the result of which the consul says was most satisfactory. Of the city of Kauking. its condition and material interests. Consul Jones says: "A crenelated wall built of brick and 6tone sixty feet in height, and it is said thirty-six miles in circumference, incloses the city. In one or two places there are evidences of repair, but generally it is intact and in an excellent state of preservation, considering that it was built over a thousand years ago. Much of tho area inclosed by this wall has lapsed iuto a savage stnto and becomo the resort of wild game. The city, no doubt, was once a very great one; there are evidences of it everywhere. In the thirteenth century it was the capital of the empire. It is still of vast extent, and from what I saw of its recent condition and the many ruins of ancient palaces, and temples, and paved roads that once wero populous and busy streets, f could well imagine its former greatness. The present population is estimated at G00,000. The capital was removed from Nanking to Peking in the Ming dynasty, in!411. 1 visited tho tomb of the first Ming emperor in a picturesque valley a mile or two outside the walls. Leading up to it on the plain are a number of colossal stone figures of warriors, elephants, camels, lions, etc., in more or less dilapidated condition. Tho ample grounds which inclose the tomb were at one time ornamented with stone and marble bridges, kiosks and tablets, tho remains of which are scattered about the grounds buried in a rank growth of wild shrubbery and trees. All the tombs, tem ples, palaces and ancient landmarks of China are rnin3. It seems nover to have been the policy of China to rebuild or repair. Near hero was the great first pagoda, built away back in the centuries at a cost of three million taels. Its material was porcelain brick, the top overlaid with bur, nished copper and ornamented with jewels. No vestige of it remains. The city is now tho capital of the department of Yangtsze, where resides, with a large number of ollicials, the Viceroy Tseng, who governs the department, consisting of the - provinces of AuoLui, Kiancsu and Kiangsi, with a population all told of 100,000,000. It has always been noted as the seat of learning of the empire the residence of scholars and learned men, and where colleges, universities and libraries are established. It is the headquarters also, of tho Viceroy's army and navy. In an industrial way there is an arsenal here, where small arms and ammunition are manufactured, and which employs one thousand workmen and machinists, all native talent. There are also here extensive manufactures of ribbons, silk, satin, and velvet. "Nankeen," a fabric well known to the youth of America forty years ago, is made here from the yellow cotton plant, which is extensively cultivated on the river bottoms. There is a Faper manufactory which makes a beautiul translucent paper from vegetable pith. "This paper is much used for painting water-color pictures by the native artists. Being the literary center, tho annual examinations of candidates for all civil and military positions aro held here. The examination hall, which I went to see, has accommodations for 30,000 students. Under cover of tho hall are long rows of streets of cells about three and a half feet deep and three feet wide, in which tho candidates are confined from three to nine davs. They are given tho subject, pen, ink and paper, and closed in. At the hut examination there were 23.000 candidates for the 146 vacancies. This literary class, a very considerable one, for the most part young and poor, distinguished more than anything else for hostility to the foreigner and swashbucklers, when in force, gave the authorities a great deal of trouble in keeping them in order. They are generally at the bottom of every disturbance and outrage, and it is rarely, on account of their connections, that they can bo brought to account." Of American missionaries, their work and influence, Mr. Jours says: There are thirty Americans in Nanking connected with the missionary societies, including women and children. They live in good brick, double-story houses, with ample grounds, and have every comfort. They are the only foreigners living at Nanking. Tho only annoyances to which they are subject " are to have "foreign devils' shouted at them in passing, and occasionally to have their windows broken by the gamins, while engaged at their prayermeetings. They are well-behaved and law-abiding, and givo little trouble to the authorities. Tho central mission, of the Methodist Church, has a hospital at Nanking, where the Chineso nre received and treated at a .nominal expense. This is practical Christianity, which the people understand ana appreciate. The aitlerent 8ects of missionaries, and their hostility to each and all others, havo a confusing effect on tho mind of the heathen, and induce him to stick to his original gods." The person of the Viceroy and some of tho enstoms of the country are thus described: "I arrived at the quarters of the Viceroy, and was received by his Excellency in person, who took both my hands in his aud led me into the audience chamber and to a scat beside him. lie is a small, slight, delicate-looking man, sixty-six years of age, but he looks much younger. He is not gray, and has a strong face, with very kindly eyes. His dress was a long robe of a golden-hued, almost transparent silk, gathered at the waist by a silk girdle, with an elaborately-worked jade clasp. It was he who retook Nanking from theTaipiugrebels twenty-live years ago, aud ho still sutlers from wounds received in that achievement. His family, I learned, is a very distinguished one in the civil and military annals of China. The interview was a very? interesting and pleasant one to me. The conversation ranged over a wide tield, exhibiting upon his part a thorough acquaintance of aflairsat home and abroad. I snent four days at Nanking, and was practically the guest of the Viceroy, who showed me considerate and delicate attention. "A civil and military mandarin, with their following of orderlies, messengers, etc., were sent to take up their quarters at tho same mission, in order to be near and to bo of service to me. All this was cumbrous, if convenient, and had its inconveniences, bnt it is their idea of ceremony and hospitalitv, and I had to accept it. On uuy departure I had to conform to another custom, no less obligatory, which was to lee everybody, from the two mandarins.

in attendance to the guides, conductors and coolies who accompanied me everywhere, to the amount of sixty-live Mexican dollars." V TRUSTS IN GEIUIANY.

Their Effect on the Social Condition of tha Empire, and Their Relation to Strikes. Special to Uj IniHaiiayolIs Journal. Washington, Aug. 1. Jacob Mueller, consul-general of the United States at Frankf ort-on-the-Main, under date of May 27, IS?), sends to the State Department a report on the formation of stock companies or trusts in Germany, which he calls the "incorporation fever." Mr. Mueller 6ay that he has always looked distrustfully on existing affairs there. Recent eventsthe gigantic strikes by which Germany was visited seemed to him to prove that tho social conditions are fraught with danger. The strikes, he says, are not revolutionary, but are tho outgrowth of unbearable conditions. In liheinish Westphalia, on a territory of not more than twenty square miles, 00,000 people revolted at starvation prices. When tho mining companies were realizing better prices for coals than for many years past, the miners were receiving glii3 to 185 per year. Just now, Mr. Mueller says, Germany is showing symptoms of a business fever similar in many respects to that which terminated in the crash of 1S73. It is taking the form of the creation of industrial enterprises, or tho changing of private undertaking into stock companies. Tho Bourse papers ase covered with otters and inducements to invest in the capital stock of questionable concerns.In 1684 a law was enacted for the regulation of stock companies. It required a more definite statement of affairs in tho organization of the stock company, but it made tho stockholders much less responsible than the members of a private firm. The "winnings," ns Air. Mueller calls the earnings of these companies, will, ho says, be larger and spread out among a greater number of persons: but tho people of limited means cannot participate, as tho law has fixed the minimum nnco of a share at 1,000 marks. Mr. Mueller believes J tnat ine separation oi employer ana employed, which must result from these changes in business condition, will result in tho union of tho workinginen and a permanent rupture between them and their employers. IU3E AND' FALL OF A SUGAH KING. Collapse of an Attempt by Foreigners to Cob tho United States Treasury. New Yohk, Aug. 1 A copyright cable to the Nov.' York Times from Loudon, July 31, says: I learn to-night from an absolutely nuthoritative source a most singular lot of facts about the rise, progress and collapse of the'Magdeburg sugar ring, which has an intimate interest for the American public. This syndicate, composed of one wealthy firm and two smaller ones, started in to buy all spt sugar ofi'ered in Paris, Hamburg, Antwerp, and London, as well as on the Magdeburg market. They were financed by Berlin and Hamburg banks, aud under their operations the price of sugar rose to 28 per hundred weight. Even at tho highest rnccs they continued to buy, nsing all the money they could call up by margins on short contract for the purpose. In this way they obtained control of 80,000,000 pounds of sugar, and stored it all at' Magdeburg. Then they sold the wholo amount to the New York Sugar Tru3t,at what price is not stated, but presumably at a good one. The contract with the American purchasers called for tho delivery in New York of sugar under thirteen Dutch standard, at which grade there would be only a moderate customs duty, and if this condition could have been fulfilled the ring would have received its m'-.ney on a bill of lading. But the silver:: s Tver the standard, and hence tho duty would bo prohibitive. Accordingl a plan was adopted of coloring tho whole mass down to thirteen, by which it loses one point in tho polariscope as well; but to do this it was necessary to remove the 6ugar from the warehouso for a month or 6o, and, as tho process is risky, the banks refused to advance any more money. This was fatal, because the synuieate uad spent all its own assets iu buying, and. therefore, it had to close its doors, and tho scheme went, to pieces. The crisi had been postponed owing to the syndicate receiving some largo advances Thich German financiers believe could only have como from the American trust, but this is a mere temporary expedient, and the great crasli must come very soon. To understand tho magnitude of this swindle attempted on tho American Treasury, it must bo recalled that the whole transaction involved some $5,000,000. The tariff of this German sugar in its actual stato would havo been 3.5 cents per pound, The Magdeburg schemers tried to reduce it to a grade whero it would only bo taxed 2.08 cents per pound. The difference between these two gross amounts would bo $1,186,000. which would be what tho Treasury would have lost by tho plan if it had not gone wrong. Under the influence of this collapse the price of sugar declined from 20s to nbout iJOs, and it would go lower if there was not a largo uncovered bear account. There is great curiosity among the sugar men in Germany and hero who know tho story, as to what extent tho American trust was involved in the attempted swindle, and in the present effort to avert its consequences. MRS. aiAYJUUCK'S TRIAL. Testimony of Several Witnesses Concerning the l'lacinp of Arsenic in Medicine. Liverpool, Aug. 1. The trial of Mrs. Maybrick, on tho charge of poisoning her husband, was resumed to-da3. Dr. Fuller testified that ho had prescribed tonics for Mr. Maybrick. Deceased had never hinted to him that ho had taken arsenic, nor did he present any indication of having at any time taken it. Two chemists doing business in this city testified that they had compounded prescriptions for Mr. Maybrick. The medicines furnished by them contained no arsenic. ( The nurse. Alice Yapp, related the Brier-lv-letter.incident, and testified to seeing tho prisoner pouring medicine from one bottle into another. A former domestic deposed that on ono occasion the prisoner liuished a preparation of arrow-root which she witness had begun, and that she witness! afterward noticed dark stains on he jug that had not been there previously. Witness also deposed that Mr. Maybrick received Lonaon medicine by post. The cook testified that the prisoner had directed that the London medicine bo poured into the sink, saying that Mr. Maybrick would be a" corpse if be took another dose. On cross-examination tho witness generally considered that Mrs. Ma3'brick did her best for her husband, but that she was set aside by his brothers. GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. Mr. Sexton Makes an Unsuccessful Plea In Jlehalf of Dr. Tanner. London, Aug. L II the House of Com mons, this evening. Mr. Sexton moved an adjournment in order to consider tho sentence imposed, upon Dr. Tanner under the crimes act. He argued that tho charge against Dr. Tanner was not assault with violence; that it did not come under tho crimes act. and that therefore the scntenco was illegal. Mr. Madden. Solicitor-ceneral for Ireland. replied that there was a method of testing the legality of the sentence without ad journing the House. After a length v debate. Mr. Sexton's motion was rejected, 174 to 118. nyppollte Shelling Port-au-Prince. New York, Aug. 1. The steamship Ozama, which arrived to-day. brought 6ome Important news from Hayti, she having left the port of Gonaives on July 21. On the 11th General Girardi, Hyppolite commander-in-chief, had taken Fort Toussaint l'Ouverture. situated on a hill threo miles northeast of Port-au-Prince, and had shelled that town. Hypnolite was at Gonaives on tho 19tb, and much powder vu expended

during the day and night in celebrating his arrival, and in this welcome the Orama joined. The Ozama was escorted out ox Gonaives harbor by the United fctaies steamer Ossipee, The captain of the Uzama is of tho opinion that the next news from Havti will be decisive, and that HyPpolite will be master of the cituation. uen. Girardi, however, is likely to have a. terrible revenge on Legitime and his faction, as he formerly was cruelly treated by them. Emperor William Arrives at Dover. London, Aug. L The German imperial yacht Hohenzollern, with Emperor William on board. ' accompanied by the German squadron, has arrived at Dover. Salutes of artillery were fired in honor of the Emperor. Emperor William will land at Trinity pier at Cowcs. where he will be met by the Princo of Wales. The Emperor and his suite and the Prince of Wales will then enter carriages and proceed nnder military escort to Osborne, wnere the Queen will receive the royal visitor on the steps of the main entrance. Lord Salisbury and the other Cabinet Ministers afld principal court officials will be present. In the evening the royalties will have a family dinner. President Harrison's Tampered Letter. London. Aug. 1. Mr. Thomas Sexton, Lord Mayor of Dublin, has written to tho United States legation with reference to the letter received by him from President Harrison. He reasserts that the letter had been willfully opened and defaced before it reached his hands. The seal, he says, had been melted, and gum was scattered over the outside of the envelope. The gum used by the person who opened tho letter and the gum originally on the envelope were palpably different llovr Bonlangcr Regards Tils Defeat. London, Aug. 1. General Boulanger has issued a manifesto in which he attributes his defeat in the elections for the Councilsgeneral, on Sunday last, to tho ambitions of local candidates. He declared that he is rTifirlT'if rtf roanlf rf tKiA ol W t i OTIS in

France for members of the Chamber of Deputies. Political circles in Paris regard the manifesto of General Boulanger as weak, and as not likely to improve his position. ranama Lottery Donds Taken. Paths, Aug. 1. M. Brnnet, the liquidator of tho Panama Canal Company, Informs shareholders that a financial syndicate has taken the whole amount of the new lottery bonds, on terms which he does not reveal, and that if the enterprise perishes the law of bankruptcy will enable him to distribute among the creditors 8 per cent. Mr. Fronde Not a llome-Ruler. London, Aug. 2. Froude, the historian, has written a letter denying tho truth of reports that he had become a Home-ruler. He adds: "Gladstone's policy is only a spasmodic gush of sentiment snggested, as alwava, bv some condition of English party politics. It is the worst and most scandalous in English history." Prussian Silesia Under Water. London, Aug. 1. The rivers Neisse, Bober and Zacken have again overflowed their banks and a repetition is feared of the frightful disasters of the Sd of August last. The country is flooded for miles on either Ride of those rivers and a large part of Prussian Silesia is under water. Can Only See Her Son Outside Serrla. Belgih.dk, Ang. 1. The conference between ex-King Milan and the regents, to consider tho question of the future relations of the ex-Queen Natalie and her son. King Alexander, resulted m a decision that the ex-Queen should meet her 6on only outside of Servia. The Now President of Nicaragua. San Juan del Sun, Aug. I. Official ad vices from Mangua announce that Doctor Sacasa has succeeded to the presidencv. in conformity with the Constitution of Nicaragua. The office became vacant by tho death of President Carazo. Striking at Wales's rocket. London, Aug. 1. In the House of Commons, to-night, Mr. Samuel Story, a Radical, moved an amendment, reducing the grant to the Prince of Wales to .1.000. The motion was rejected by a vote of 201 to 62. Snoxr-Storms and Icy Rains. London, Aug. 1. Snow-storms and icy rains prevail throughout Switzerland. The mountain passes are partly blocked. Extensive lioods are reported in Silesia. Fatal Hallway Collision. Odessa, Aug. 1. Two trains collided with each other to-day at Petchouglao. Eight carriages were smashed and several persons were killed or injured. Cable Notes. The Shah visited the Wild West show at Paris, yesterday. He was much interested in tho performance. Fire broke out yesterday at Berlin in the central division of the exhibition of appliances for the prevention of accidents. Considerable damage was done. It is learned from official sources that numerous fights have taken place between tbe opposing parties in Crete, and that tho island is in a state of anarchy. A dispatch from Zanzibar says Chief Bushiri lias been reinforced, and threatensBagamovo. He has forbidden the natives to supply the Uermaus with provisions under pain of death. Advices from Erzeroum say that unusual activity prevails among the Russians on the frontier. Between Envan and Tiflis 80.000 men are cantoned and the artillery has been largely increased. General Annenkoft. who has been superintending tho building of the Transcaspian railway, has returned to St. Petersburg. Another 6.000,000 roubles has been voted to complete the road. DAMAGE BY FLOODS. Fresh Panger at Plain field, y. J. Losses Caased bj the Broken Dams. Plainfield, N. J., Aug. 1. The present estimate of the damage done by the flood from the broken dam at Feltville to the Cadmus dam, a distance of five miles, is $200,000. Streets in Plainfield aro damaged to the 'extent of $20,000. The large upper dam at Feltville, which did not give way, is reported to bo leaking badly, and it may break at an v time. More rain will prove disastrous. The dam is twenty feet high, and it holds back a lako a mile and a quarter long, from three hundred to five hundred feet wide, nnd thirty feet deep In eoine places. If it gives way Scotch Plains and Fanwood will probably be swept out of existenco, and Plainlield will be inundated. Inundation at Richmond. Richmond, Va., Aug. 1 James river is seventeen feet above ordinary low-water mark and rising four inches per hour. The wharves at Kockets are all under water, and tho adjacent streets, honses and cellars and gas-works are inundated. A number of business houses had to suspend trade and move their effects in consequence of back water from the river overflowing their premises. It is still raining. The indications point to a freshet equal to the greatest for years. Grist-MllU Wrecked. Middletown, Conn.. Aug. LThe recent heavy rains caused Besick lake, in Middlefield, to rise so high that to-day it overflowed the dam and swelled tbe stream which is its outlet to such an extent as to carry away a number of bridges and small dams along the stream. Several grist-mills and other ntmctnres were wrecked, and the highways nearly flooded. 'uniber of Saloons In Ohio. Columbus. O.. Aug. 1. The Dow liquortax reports for the first half of 1SS9, which have been received by tbe Auditor of State, show 9,602 saloons in the State, an increase of 115. The receipts to tbe revenue fund a 3.000, an issrtita cf CVJOQ.

OUR EIGHTS IX BEARING SEA

Seizure of a British Scaling Vessel BrinjF the Subject to the Front Again Sir Julian rauncefote's Yirit to England Said to Be for the Purpose of Drafting a Xetf Treaty Covering All Disputed Toints. Why E. W. Oyster Was Dismissed from the Government Printing Office. ITaj. 31. Hurley, of New Albany, and tbe Third Auditorship Increase in the Public DcMThe Knights Templars ConchYG. OUR FISHERY RIGHTS. Sir Julian Tauncefoto Alleged to Be ECecU !ng a New Convention In England. Special to ths Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Aug. 2. It is expected that there will be an informal conference between tho President and such members of his Cabinet as may bo in the city tomorrow, in relation to the reported seizure of a British vessel in Behring sea. The affair has created very little comment here, and there is absolutely no excitement whateyer in either army or navy circles, oecausooftho warlike news, which comes from Ottawa. It is understood that before ho left this country for England Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British minister, had & consultation with Secretary Blaine, in reference to this very matter, as well as the Atlantic eeaboaid fisheries. It is as serted that Sir Julian told the Secretary of State that the British government is as desirous of preventing extermination of the fnr seals as is the American government, but the British aro not willing to admit the claim of the United States that Behring sea is a mare clausum. The story goes further that the prime object of the return of the British minister was not, as reported, to bring his family over, although h9 will bring them with him on his return, but to secure from the British home oflice tho draft of a new convention covering many of the subjects now in dispute between the United States on the one hand and British North America on the other. It is owing to this fact, undoubtedly, that Assistant Secretary Whartoa expresses his unqualified belief that the re ported seizure will not lead to auy open rupture between the two governments. A gentleman who was strongly instrumental in seenring the passage of the bill for the protection of the f nr-eeal industry, which is the basis of General Harrison's proclamation of last March, admitted frankly to-day, that he did not believe at the tim he snoke in behalf of the bill on the floor of the House that the United States conid maintain its position of exclusive jurisdiction over the body of water known at Behring sea. He said further that one of the objects of those who urged the passage of the bill most strenuously was to bring abont some negotiations which would result in an international agreement to protect the breeding grounds, and to prevent the slaughter of female seals. He thought President Harrison's proclamation could hsvo no other eflcct, and predicted that before another year rolls around a treaty will be presented to the Senate which will definitely settle the controversy over these valuable fishing grounds. Excitement In Ottawa. Ottawa, Ont., Aug. 1. Excitement over the seizure of the scaler Black Diamond, in Behring sea, still continues. The government is in communication with officials at Victoria, B. C. The report that Canada has advised a bold policy of reprisal is unfounded. Tho government is not disposed to recognize American pretensions in Behring sea, but, alter ail, will have to acquiesce in the course of the imperial authorities. No word has been received from England on the subject, but it is believed that Lord Stanley is in constant communication with Lord Salisbury. DISMISSED FROM OITICE. Tho Case of E. W. Ojster, a Democrat Who Did Dirty Work for Part j. Sreclat to Ui Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Aug. 1. Some months ago the Washington dispatches to the Journal '1 gave an account of the work performed by the chief of the specifications division of the Government Printing Office, E. W. Oyster, who spent several days of government time last summer in making up a garbled statement of the record of General Harrison and the Chineso question. This statement was prepared for and used by Congressman Bynum in the campaign iu Indiana, and was a tissue of misrepresentations. Oyster has belonged for periods of greater or less length to about all the political parties ever formed. He was a esndidate for Public Printer under Republican aud Democratic Administrations, and makes capital out of his alleged high standing with the labor organizations. He relied upon his pull with the Typographical Union to retain his place under tho present administration, and not upon his ollicial record. He built a house with a sand foundation, and yesterday, when Public Printer Palmer's flood struck it, he was washed out of oflice. To-day he is whining about his discharge, and says that he was removed because of his connection with the labor organizations. This statement is on a par with that which he prepared, at government expense, for Mr. Bynum. He was removed because ho was not wanted. There are better men to till his place, and Mr. Palmer has had no difficulty in finding a man for the position who stands just as well with the Union, and better with th general public and Republican party. There is no reason to fear that the Ojster family will como to want becauso of this particular bivalve's discharge. There are six or 6even members of his family still in oflice. THE THIRD ACDITORSniP. Foftlbllltj that MaJ- M. M. Xlurlry, ofN'nr Albany, Maj Decline the Office. CpeclAl to the Inlax)ai6lls Journal. New Albany, Ind., Aug. L It begins to look like there may bo some foundation for the rumor that is afloat that Maj. Madison M. Hurley, of this city, recently appointed Third Auditor of the Treasury, may decline the appointment. He is yet in this city, and has not severed his connection with the Pennsylvania Company, of which he has long been a highly-valued traveling freight agent, and his family is making no preparation for removal to Washington. It is of very current report that tho Pennsylvania Company has olfered Major Hur-' lt3' most advantageous inducements to continue in its service, the company placing a high estimate upon his superior business qualifications and successful and popular career during the period he has been in its employ. Wbilo Major Hurley has hosts of friends throughout Indiana who aro greatly gratified at the recognition, by the President, of his eminent butine9 and personal qualities in his appointment over man); applicants, to the third auditorship. it is ouly truth to say that allot them would much prcftr that he remain in his present position, and retain his residence In southern Indiana, where his kervices to the Republican party havo been most eflicient aifu greatly promotive of ita interests. Should he decline tho third auditor-Lip, that of