Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1889 — Page 1

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k BIG 4 tlicaso k St loni: DON'T LET THIS FLIP TOUR MEMORY. WE AM STILL LX IT. Chicago $3.50 Milwaukee ami return.................... 6.00 Caicago and return 4.00 llALP-FAEJC II Aft VEST EXCURSIONS, Bert. 10 and 24, and Oct. , reaching point In Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Axiansaa, Oklahoma. New Mexico, Arizona, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado. Utaii. Idaho. Wyoming. Montana, the Dakota and MUmesota. .AVe are the only lino ruoning a tree reciming-chair car to bt. Louis, connecting there with free recllninir-chair cars lor Kansas City ana the Went and fctouthvrest. On the following Gates, a fare and one-third wlU De granted to delegates and their friends to attend meet in ft at the following cities: Kington. Catu, Sept. 2 and 3 Irish Catholic Benevolent Union. Baltimore, MA. BepL 7 and 8 Grand Conncil Red 2ien. MMrara Fan, Sept. 8 and 9 National Burial-Case Assocuttun. TIME CARD. CTAC1XJCATI DIVISION. Depart... 3:B5 am 6:45am 10:50 a xa 3:10 p m 6:3? pm. Arrive... 10:35 am lo-.2o p m 11:45 a m. 4:55 p m. 10:50 p m CINCEOTATI DIVISION SITTOAT TBAEQ. Dersrt. 3:55 am 3:lupm. 5:00 pm Arrive 11:45 am 12:10 p m. 10.50 pm cbicaoo nviflio.x. Depart 71 0 am 12:05 nn 5:15pm ll:10p ra Arrive 3.b0 a m 10:35 am 2:45pm 0:10 pm CLEVTLULND DIVISION. Depart for N. Y. and Boston..... 3:20am, 40pm Cleverd and the East 7:30 am, 8.C0 p m rt-'ay'e and Dayton 11.55 am, 3:40pm - (il Kaplda and No th 4KO a m, 0:44 p m Arrive from Y. and Boston. ..li:35 a m. ifc-is p m CleveVdandtheEant fl.55am, 5:13 pm ST. LOU I a DIVISION. Depart for St. Louis and Kan. Cy ."11:55 a ra. ll:10 p m M T.IIaateand Mattooa "7:25am. 5:30pm Arrive from t. Louis and K. Cy. 3:10 a m, 3:05 p m V. irteand Mattoon KfcGOara. 8:Z5pm DaUy. ; J. II. MARTIN, Dir. Paw. Agent. OUTRAGE ON A NEGRO BOY. Tortured Into Admitting a Crime lie Did Not Commit and Then Killed. ' New Orleans, Aug. 25. Information has just been received of the outrageous torturing and killing of a negro boy near Haues"ville, Claiborno parish, Louisana. As a number of prominent people of the placo were concerned, there was, of course, an attempt made to keep the details hidden. On Thursday a warehouse and a doctor's office in Haynesville were burned. The lire was supposed to be incendiary and a negro boy need eighteen was suspected of the deed. There was nothing against him beyond suspicion, so he was taken in charge by a number of citizens and attempts made to compel a confession. He was severely whipped several times during tho day and at length, to avoid further torture, said he had set lire to the house Thursday night shots were heard in the vicinity of Ilaj'nesville. and a few hours later the report was issued that tho boy had escaped. Sunday tho county shcriiF went to Hayncsville to mako an investigation, and the coroner's jury is now sitting on the case. A warrant for the arrest of Joe Thigncn aud Will Harkens, charging them with the murder of the negro, has been issued, but neither of them can bo found. There is considerable excitement iu the parish over the killing, and riot a little feeling. RESEMBLES MARVEL'S CASE. A Paralytic in Illinois Who Has Lived Over a Year-Food Through a Quill Cpecial to Uio Indianapolis Journal. Galena, 111., Ang. 25. The case of Thomas Hull, jr., the fifteen-year-old son of Thomas Hull, ot Vinegar Hill, six miles from Galena, is one of the most remarkable ver reported among those persons who are compelled to abstain from food for long periods. Ono year ago last April the boy was taken ill with spinal meningitis, By careful medical treatment his life was saved, but he was left a paralytic by tho disease. So complete was the paralysis that even tho tongue was unable to perform it. functions, every voluntary muscle of his body being paralyzed. Itw'as thought at the time that he could livo but a short timo in such a helpless condition, but ns time wears on he seems to gTow but little weaker, and his death in yet apparently far oft". The strangest feature ot the caf o is that life should bo maintained so long on the food to which ho has been restricted. The muscles of the tongue and throat being paralyzed it is impossible for him to Awallow, and every ounce of food which ho has consumed has been conveyed to the gullet by means of a quill. In this manner 6 mall allowances of milk, whisky, jjruel and juices of fruits have been administered to him daily. Declare His Innocence. UiKMiNGi! am. Ala., An?. 25. W. A. GamTile was appointed United States deputy marshal about ten days ago. Ho was arrested on warrants 8 worn out by two men "who charge that ho received from each, agreeing to quash indictments pending rtgainst them lor violatiuginternal revenue Jaws. His reputation is good, and he avers iiis innocence. Survived h Leap of 101 Feet. Cincinnati. O., Aug. 2T.-Last evening Joseph L. Ittiftfiell, a sixteen-year-old lad Jiving in Ludlow, Ky., jumped from tho Cincinnati Southern railroad into the Ohio river, ft distance of 101 feet. It was the renlt of a waper, and he suffered no inconvenience from the leap. AYEn.i earsapariiiaisiustly considered the only ear epecitie for blood disorders.

WHEN INDICATIONS. MONDA I Fair weather.

YOUNG AMERICA One boy was in knickerbockers and not over nix years old. The other wore "panties" ahout eight Inches lone and bagged at the knees. They were ia the center of a group on tho street Saturday morninp. Both wore base-ball caps. They were captains of base-ball nines. "We walloped yer fair and yer knows it," Bald the six-year-old. . Naw, yer didn't was the response of the dot with the eiprht-inch trousers. We' ve been weak in de box all de season, and yer knows it.' BRING HIM TO US. You can find clothes for him in our Children's Department at a sweeping reduction. Our continuous cut-price sale is saving hundreds of dollars to hundreds of people. ANY LIGHT-WEIGHT SUIT IN OUR VAST STOCK, One.Fiflh OfF. STRAW HATS, ONE-THIRD OFT. LIGIIT-COLORGD SOFT AND STIFF HATS Ono-Fourth OfF. THE WHEN JOBBERS OF Surgical Instruments & Appliances Trusses, Supporters, Deformity Braces, Crutches Atomiiers, Optical Goods. Artificial Eyes. ;d overy t&lngln SurgioM IntramraM nd Appliance. WM. II. AHMHTKONO 6 CO.'S Surgical Instrument Ilonse, Wi Bonth Illinois street TUB FIRE RECORD. racklng-Uouse 1'artiaUy Destroyed at Kan- . sas City Loss and Insnrance. ' Kansas City, Aug. 25. The immense packing-house of Swift & Co., at tho corner of Berger avenue and First street, Kansas City, Kan., was saved from total destruction by tire, to-day, by a fortunate shift of tho wind. As it was, the smokehouse, a structure of corrugated iron, 40x40 feet, and tho rendering-house, 128x40 feet, were consumed. The lire started at 9:S0 this morning, in the sinoke-houso, from some cause unknown. Firo has broken out soveral times recently in nearly the same place, and it is supposed that it originated from some defect in the Hues. The tire departments of both cities responded to the alann, and they were on the grounds in .sufficient time to have checked tho blaze in its inception. When the hoso connections were made, and the water was turned on. it was found that the pressnro was wholly insufficient, the water barely running out the nozzles. Hadicappedasthey were, the firemen could do practically nothing to subdue the flames which by that time had almost consumed the smoke-house, and had commnnicated through a viaduct to the rendering establishment. Nothing could be done but let the water fall in slow streams from the nozzles of the hoso upon the lire, aud the llames bad their way for about an hour. By this time the lire had gotten full headway in the rendering works, and, fed with the inflammable contents oil and lardgave promise of spreading to the main packing-works, not more than forty-feet distant. Just at this time tho wind, which had been blowing in the early morning from the south, shifted to the northwest and carried tho flames away from the adjoining buildings. Shortly afterward the water presssure became suilicient to force the water from tho lines of hose, and in au hour from then the firemen had the flames under control. The smoke-house was destroyed, but the south end of tho retining-houso was saved by a lire wall. During the lire masler mechanic Tate fell from tho roof of the smoke-house while attempting to descend by a rope, and was instantly killed. . , The loss on buildings, machinery and stock is placed by Superintendent Young at $150,000, with 120,000 insurance, placed with forty-two companies. Tho following companies carried risks of 3,;nt each: Newark of New Jersey. California of California, Western Home of Iowa, Franklin of Philadelphia, National of Hartford, Khodo Island of Rhode Island. Western of Toronto, Liberty of New York, Anglo-American of Nevada, Union of California, London Assurance and Phccnix of London, Americun of Philadelphia, London and Lancashire, German-American, Amazouof Connecticut, and Traders of Chicago. Insurance to tho amount of 1,170 was carried in each of tho following companies: State Investment of California. Union of California, Insurance Company of North America, Pennsylvania of Phila'delphia, Norwich Union, Commercial of Hartlord, North British and Mercantile, Imperial of London, Southern of California, German of Butialo and California of California. The loss was also insured in the Southern of New Orleans. British American, Fire Association of Philadelphia and London Assurance Company for $ 1,750 each; in tho American of New York and the Commercial Union for $4,083 each: in tho Mechanics' of Milwaukee for $3,512; in tho Scottish Union and National and the Pennsylvania for $5,854, and in several other companies for smaller amounts. Other Fire. Special to the TndianxoW Journal. Montff.mkr, Ind., Aug. 25. Early this morning. Spaulding &. Bro., two miles west of this aity, lost their barn by tire. It was the largest bam in Wells or Blackford counties. It contained li30 tons of hay, 3,000 bushels of corn, 700 buthels of wheat, one tine importod bull, wagons, hay baler, and harness. The cause of the lire is unknown. The loss is $3,000; insured for $5,600 in tho Continental. Joliet, III., Aug. 23. The oat-meal-mill of David Oliver was burned yesterday; loss. $02,000. The cause of the lire is unknown. Mr. Oliver came to Joliet last spring, after his mill in Chicago was blown up, and bought tho property. Ho fitted it up at a great expense for making oat meal. It was insured for 512,000. Philadelphia, Aug. 25. Firo broke out this afternoon in Davenport's mill, causing losses as follow: Lock hart Bros., carpet manufacturers, $12,000. Hubert Lewis, upholsterj' goods, $.000; Boland H. Smith, cloth manufacturer, $10,000; building, $2,000. Wkst Andovkj:. Mass., Aug. 2.5. Tho house and barn of Edward Lnscombe were burned this morning. In the barn were eighteen cows and n horse, which wero burned. Loss, $o,000. Kansas City. Auir. 25. The works of the Awiittnkcr Pres&ed Brick Company, at auce. Kan., seven miles from this citv, were burned this evening. Tho loss is $10,000; insurance, 4,000. St. Louix, Aug. 25. The two-story warehouse of the Joseph Hifner Sash. Door and Bling Manufacturing Company burned today. Loss, feSO.OOO; fully insured. Baltimore. An p. 23. Coates's plate rolling-mill, at Locust Point, was gutted by tire this morning. Loss, $15,000

GEEAT PABADE OF STRIKERS

Forty-Five Thousand Dock Laborers March Through the Streets of London, A Quiet and Orderly Demonstration that Appealed to the Pockets of the Onlookers Effect of the Strike on Easiness. Further Reports Concerning Loss of Life by tho Yellow Itiver Overflow. Effect and Extent of the Recent Chinese EarthquakeFamine at Khartoum and Neighboring Towns Cause of Damala's Death. . FARAD UNG STRIKERS. Immense Demonstration of Dock Laborers In London Shipping at a Standstill. BcclaL to the Indianapolis Journal. London, Aug. 5. The well-fed Londoners, who are only bored by the complaints of their less fortunate brethren, found it a difficult matter to-day to shut out from sight and hearing, tho immense demonstration of the striking East-end laborers. When tho head of their procession, on its way to Hyde Park, had passed Westminster bridge, the rear was still at Blackfriars, and, walking two abreast, thcro were no less than 45,000 men in lino, These were all actual strikers; and when to this number are 'added tho laborers and artisans, who have been thrown out of work through the strikes at the docks, the total number of men affected by the troubles will foot up at least 200,000. All along the lino of march the streets were lined with people, and the sympathies of the crowds were unmistabably with the wretchedly underpaid laborers. This sympathy was manifested not alone in the hearty cheers with which tho paraders were everywhere greeted, but in the alacrity with which the spectators dived down into their pockets when tho little tin contribution-boxes at tho end of long poles were 6hoved under their noses. All along tho lino of march the crowds were given this opportunity to turn their sympathy to practical account. After the, procession had passed BlackfriaYs bridge the well-to-do peoplo who crowded the streets were no less pronounced in their enthusiasm than the throngs of workmen that had cheered them before, and tho patter of tho coins wore merrily ou, only the coins were silver instead of copper, aud n;iw and then a bright golden sovereign would tind its way from the pocket of some sympathizing shop-keeper into tho aperture in the top of the boxes. There was no disorder of any sort, and the police, who were out in force, had nothing to do. The striKera are more determined than over to maintain their position, and as the dock companies appear to bo quite as resolute, there is no present indication of an early settlement of their diil'erences. The loss to the community consequent upon tho utter paralysis of trade is enormous, and cannot even bo calculated. So far the striko has been conducted peacefully, but if It lasts another week, no one believes this state of things will continue. The dock companies have not been quiet. They have been busily engaged for several days makinc all arrangements for securing laborers from orherpointvaud when these arrive there can be no doubt that trouble will follow. So long as they see the docks deserted and the shipping unable to move, the men are patient enough, and tho leaders can manuce them, but onco they see their places taken by others they will not look idly on. The strikers' procession reached Hyde Park about 5 o'clock this afternoon, whero they weTO addressed by speakers from many different platforms. Resolutions were , passed strongly in favor ot continuing the, strike. The strike touches the very vitals of London by stopping its food supply. It has been on scarcely a week, but the restaurants are already raising the prices of food because of it. Steamers filled with produce ; from the south of France and Mediterranean ports have blocked tho navigation5' of tho Thames, simply because there is no- ; body to unload the rotting produce in their i holds and let them get out of the way. Ten ; cents an hour is the rate of wages paid the' dock laborers of the East End. It used to be H cents, but the men sue-7 ceeded in obtaining an advance.': Their work is irregular. For hours' sometimes for days, they may be out of employment. At best, their living is a very precarious one. Tho situation is a most serious one. not only for the men who aru starving while work is withheld, but foru London itself. Albert dock presents a remarkable appearance. There is row upon' row, three-quarters of a mile in length, of ' railroad trucks loaded with goods waiting' to be packed on board the ships in the.' docks and no one to do the packing. Out-1 side in tho river dozens of lighters aro'; filled with import goods waiting to 'bo1 unloaded. But there is nobody to do it, because the lightermen have also struckr and ref use to lilt a natcn. h n DISASTERS IN CHINA. Loss of Life by the Yellow River Flood Too Great to Be Counted Recent Earthquakes. San Fkancisco, Aug. 25. The steameri Oceanica arrived to-day from Hong-Kong 1 and Yokohoma, bringing advices to Aug. 10, of further details of the bursting of tho Yellow river embankments in the province of Shan Tung, July 22, which state that the destruction is widespread. The breach in the river is over 2,000 feet in length, and a ' swift current swept through. Hooding to a depth of twelve feet a large extent of tho country lying adjacent. Many houses were washed away, and a dispatch from Chefoo states that the number of persons drowned is too great to bo counted. Ten districts are already submerged, and it is feared many more in the low-lying country south will sutler a similar fate. Tho latest advices concerning the earthquake at Kumaiuata, July 28, place the number of killed at eighteen, and the wounded at nineteen. Fifty-two dwellings were demolished. A tolegram on tho coth of July states that iifty-three shockshad been experienced, and that they continued to be felt. Tho inhabitants wero sleeniug in the open air. The same earthquake was fok iu the province of Clukugo. Considerable loss of life is reported, but no particulars have been received. r.YAIIXK IN EGYFT. The Surrlvor Said to Ke Feeding Upon tho Bodies of the Dead. London, Aug. 25. Dispatches from Kgypt eay that a famiue prevails at Khartoum, KassaL Tokar and other river towns. Tho survivors are said to be feeding upon the bodies of tho dead. About tweuty deaths from starvation daily aro reported at Tokar, VALUE OF A TITLE. How It Protects Its Owner, Lord Mandeville, in an English Court of Justice. London Special to flttohurg D'spatch, A title is often a convenience in London, as the hereditary aristocracy generally ascertains when its membership is brought up in a police court, and as has been illustrated this week in the case of George Victor Drogo Montagu, Viscount Mandeville, Lord Montagu of Kimbolton. sou of tho Duke of Manchester. William King, a livery 6tablo keeper, has been trying all week, at one police court and nnother, to get Lord Mandeville punished for assaulting him, and also to obtain redress for wrongs

dono him by Bessio Belwood, who sings comio songs at. the Pavilion Theater. Mandeville owed King over 81,000 for cab hire, but tho nobleman took the precaution of going through the bankruptcy court a short time ago and the livery man has been unable to collect his bilk Last Saturday, however. King determined to havo an explanation, and he went to Bessie Belwood's house, where Mandeville, who has deserted his wife, formerly Mis3 Consuelo Yznaga, is known to live. King called at noon, and ascertaining that the nobleman was in the house. lie sat down to wait for him to como out. When King got hungry ho sent for sorao sandwiches and a oottle of beer, with which he regaled himself on the steps, and then ho comfortably smoked his pipe until 9 oclock iu the evening. At this timo Bessie's brougham drove around to take her to the theater, for this young person has expensive tastes, and does not depend entirely npon her salary of JL per week for all the luxuries she enjoys. Soon after Bessie and Mandeville came out of the house and prepared to enter the carriage, when King spoke to them. Mandeville shoved his creditor out of the way, and he fell under the horse, but before the carriage could drive away the enraged liveryman dragged the lord out of it and proceeded to confer a thrashing upon him. Bessie Belwood is a big young person of the brawny barmaid type. When she struck King she got first blood, and when sha got through with him there was no tight in him. The lord and ladv drove away and the livery man went to,a police court. Ho went in vain. Tho magistrate only lect urcd him for annoying Bessi and her patron, and that is all the satisfaction he has yetbeen able to get. Ho is persevering, however, and hopes yet to bring tha two into court. GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

Damala's Death Due to Over-Fating of Morphine Sarah's Private Funeral Rites. PAK13, Aug. 25. Only by tho death of Pamala do the public learu what Sarah Bernhardt had to bear with him in the last three years. It is an open secret that his death was brought on by overdoses of morphine and cocaine. Berhardt has done her best to wean her husband from this habit, even employing a mesmerist to put him to sleep at night after returning from the theater. But Damala, while professing to his wife to be cured, bought drugs in secret. Quantities of them were found m his bedroom after his death. They robbed him of all his strength of body and wind. Sarah, after a public funeral, had a real funeral, according to Greek rites.t Tho dead man was dressed in full evening costume and placed in an arm chair, around which were lighted caudles. Large numbers of prayers for the dead Mere recited by the archimandrite, assisted by four priests. Tho only persons present wero Sarah Bernhardt, her sister, MM. Grccorie and Cooper, friends of the deceased, and.the police inspector of the district. Anxious to runUh the Uultod States. fecial to the IndianaDolls Journal. London. Aug. 25. Some of the moro belligerent Tories aro making no end of trouble for Lord Salisbury and his government by their absurd demands for reprisals against the United States for tho seizure of the Canadian scalers in the Behring sea. They want to know what's tho use of having a great big navy if it is not to be used when tho British llag is insulted. Some of tho stanchest supporters of the government hitherto are loudest in their denunciation of, what they call Lord Salisbury's milk-and-water policy toward tho United States. It is not likely, however, that the Cabinet will allow themselves to bo influenced by this pressure from their own supporters, strong as it is. Turned tho Hose on Her. London, Aug. 25 Tales of Nasir-ed-Din crL'tinne to add to the total of human gaety, although the king of kings is now will on his way back to Persia. The latest )coraQB irom tho Cave of Neptune, at ReilJbrunn. Observing a hose-pipe connected withia. fountain, the Shah gleefully played iit upon. the girl in boy's clothes, who is his inseparable companion, whereupon the favorite; not daring to retaliate upon the sacrcd person of her sovereign, toot it out by drenching the whole of the imperial suite. r to the great delight of tho merry monarch. who : laughed until ho was lorccd to sit downand rest. , Disorderly Meeting of Itoulangists. f Fakis, Aug. 25. The Boulangists held a stormy meeting to-day to discuss the selection ot candidates for the coming general election. M. Laguerre declared that, although he was a personal friend of General 1'Quliugr, he was not prepared to follow ioulanger blindly. His paramount wish was to rwitness the triumph of the ideas which! Bonlauer represented. The meeting dispersed in disorder. No candidates were chosen' ; r Will Rival the Eiffel Tower. ; London, Aug. 25. The 20 per cent, dividend tamed by tho proprietors of the Eiftel tower iin Paris has induced capitalists in Iondon to try their hand at similar work, A company has been registered this week, of which Sir Edward Walker is the moving spirit, 60 that within a short time another of these enormous structures will probably bo seen; this timo on tho banks of the Thames.! Th Pope Preparing to Leave Rome, ! London, Aug. 26 The Rome correspondent of:the Chronicle asserts that preparations arc being made for the Pope's departi ujo from Pome. i j Cable Notes. The! Emperor and Empress of Germany arrived at Potsdam yesterday. The 111-ton gun is being tried at Shoebnryness with a projectile weighing nearly a tonbut with 190 pounds of powder. The concussion is less than from the eighty-one-ton gun.. The Princess of Wales has gone to Copeni.hagcn on a visit to her parents, the King and Uneen of Denmark. She is accompanied by her daughters, the Princess Yictoria and the Princess Maud. ' Sir Tdwin Arnold, author of the "Light of Asia,?' and editorof tho Telegraph, sailed with his daughter for America, 1 hursday. eu route to China and Japan. They land ; in Montreal, as Arnold thinks it proper and becoming that Englishmen should discmibark in the Queen's domains. i In the German army the lance, the "queen of weapons." has been introduced into other than the uhlan regiments. All the cuirassiers and hussars of the Guard have now also been armed with the lance, and a high authority says that tho dragoons will toon aiso uo iurmsnca wuii u. it promises to becomo tho chief arm of all tho horse rt.sitnents in the German army. The French had discarded the lance entirely, but now that they see it being adopted in this universal manner by tho Germans they aro aga in beginning to copy them. It is authoritatively announced that Priacess Victoria of Wales is engaged to the hereditary J'rinco of llohenlobe-Lang-cuburg. Prince Ernest, born in September, 1803. a lieutenant of dragoons in the Prussian army, is the only eon of the Frince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, and his mother is a daughter of the late Prince of Leiningen, ho he is nearly related on both sides to the English royal family, through the Duchesi of Kent, and he is a first cousin of the German Empress. His family is not very wealthy, but he possesses large estates in Wurtemburg and Saxe-Coburg Gotha. His principal residence is the Schioss of Langenburg in Wurtemburg. Gifts to Washington University. Baltimore, Md.. Aug. 2-5. The Catholic University at Washington has received two i . i i. .in . t i. moro vaiauauie gui. wne js a casu coir onicr as niaue uy jMiop uereiuian j t urrell, of Trenton, N. J., who sent a library of 2,000 volumes. Rig Failure at St. Paul. St. Paul, Aug. 25. The J. II. Mahler Carriage Company, of this city, assigned last night to John T. McDonald. Mr. J. H. Mahler, president of the company, admits that the liabilities will probably larcrelv exceed tho assets. It is be lieved that the liabilities will

not he les3 than $400,000. and the may reach nearly twico that amount. They ofiicers of the company will make no public statements. Mr. Mahler says the assignment was precipitated by an action brought in the District Court by F. L. Elms, a Michigan, carriage manufacturer, to recover 'J,45a To avoid giving Mr. Elms a preference over the othercrcuitors an assignment tv as hastily made last night to Judge McDonald. iHXL RESERVOIR BURSTS. Two Aged Women and a Man Drowned by the Sudden Rush of the Water. Providence, R. I., Aug. 25.-The Springlake reservoir, near Fiskville, in the southwest corner of Cranston, about lifteen miles from this city, which supplies a number of mill villages along the Pawtuxet river, burst this afternoon. Three persons were drowned, and some damage done to property. A man named Yew, who was about a quarter of a mile off, noticed tho water coming through the masonry of the dam, as he describes it, in a stream about as big as a barrel. The hole was apparently growing very rapidly. The only living object in sight was a cow, a few hundred feet across the fields, which Yew succeeded in saving, although the water was up to his neck, Meanwhilo, down the valley were Mrs. Green Tew. aged sixty; Mrs. Hawkins, aged ninety, and Mrs. Tew's son, seventeen years old. They were walking through a atrip of wood, and wero overtaken by the Hood and drowned. Their bodies were found in the wood, through which the water quickly ran until it emptied into tho Pawtuxet river. The river rose rapidly, and caused considerable alarm among the people along its banks, who thought the Fonogansett reservoir, the largest in the State, had gone. Most of them left their homes and lied for safety, but the flood subsided as rapidly as it had cJme. The path of the water from tho reservoir was through a thinly-settled country, and tho only damage to property was the wrecking of a stable belonging to Russell Matthewson, the capsizing of Dr. E. Clark's carriage-shop, and the demolition of three road bridges. The dam was built in 18S7 for the servico of the Pawtuxet Valley Company, redeeming a small swampy pond, locally known as Spruce lake. Tho reservoir covered eighteen acres, and contained about thirty-tivo million gallons of water. The dam is i25 feet long, 17.9 feet high, 8 feet on the top, aud S3 feet wide at tho bottom. The gap left by the water is between sixty and seventy feet long. No examination has been made to learn tho cause of the break. The man Yew is the only witness to any part of the casulty. The reservoir was entirely emptied. The cause of tho bursting of the dam is believed to bo a spring that existed under the middle of tho dam. The builders did not tako suilicient precaution to choke this spring, and it undermined the dam. Earl Dodge, nine years old, was with the party that was overtaken and drowned, lie escaped, with bruises, by clinging to a tree. KEPI HIS PROMISE. A Young Man Sues and Recovers a Reward of $5,000 Promised Him for Being Good. Middlktown, N. Y., Aug. 25. William T. Story, sr., of Erie county, had a nephew, William E. Story, jr., of Canastota. When the nephew was about fifteen years of age tho uncle promised him that if ho would abstain from card-playing and the use of intoxicating drinks and behave Until ho was twenty-oub years old he would give him $5,000 when ho attained his majority. It is claimed that young Story corapled with the conditions exacted until he became of age, in 1S75. But the uncle failed tofultili his promise, and when ho died, in 18S7, tho S5.000 was still unpaid. Through an attorney young Story began an action against his uncle's estate to lorce payment of the $5,000 and interest. The caso came up tho other day before Justice Forbes, sitting at a special tenuof the Madison Circuit Court. The defense admitted the promise by the deceased, and the fulfillment of tho conditions by the plaintiff, but maintained that the claim was void by reason of the ambiguity and insufficiency of the alleged consideration, and by reason of its being barred by the statute of limitations. The court ruled for the plaintiff on all points, and ordered that young Story should havo judgment for tho amount claimed, with Costs. LABOR MATTERS Brazil Miners Asked to Send a Committee to Chicago to Investigate the Markets. BDecl&l to the IndiansDoUs Journal. Bkazil, Ind., Aug. 25. The principal argument of the Indiana block-coal operators in their demand for a 15-cent reduction, and in their refusal to arbitrato is the condition of tho market. They once proposed to open their books and show that their earnings had not exceeded a fraction over 6 per cent, for the last year. The miners have been incredulous. President H. Hi Porteri of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois road, whoso Chicago and Indiana coal division reaches Brazil, has written a long letter addressed to tho Brazil Blockcoal Company miners, in which he offers free transportation to a coramitteo who may be appointed to visit Chicago to investigate the markets. The letter says the Brazil Block-coal Gompany has paid no dividends on its stock, whose market valuo has depreciated '40 per cent., in the past three years. He foresees that the outcome of the strike must bring moro hardship to the miners than they realize. It is thought a committee will be appointed ou Tuesday. The railroad has lost heavily from tho strike, as trafiio has been suspended for four months past. Tho operators have also lost heavily, and It is rumored that the mines will be started soon by imported miners if not otherwise. Cigar-Makers' Strike Ended. Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 25. The strike of tho cigar-makers is practically endod. About 150 men, mostly Americans, will resume work Monday morning, without any concerted action, by resolution or otherwise. These men are satisfied that the offer o Manager Gato to pay off' through a window cut in the side of a stairway is all the concession that can reasonably bo expected. The Cuban element among tho workmen may hold out lor another week, but it is thought all will be at work by Sept. 1. Will Affect fl.OOO Workers. Cincinnati, Aug. 25. At a mass-meeting of shoemakers, this afternoon, resolutions were adopted giving moral and financial support to the lasters now on strike. This action will result in a general striko of lasters who are compelled to work on Krippendorf shoes, to the number of 3i5, and will afiect about 5,000 workers in other departments of the shoo trade. Business Ruined by n Strike. Spring Valley, HI., Aug. 25. Despair is stamped on the face of every miner and business man here. Property, onco high in price, can now be bought for a song. The coal company will soon make a desperate effort to start the mines, and, if thej' fail, all work will be abandoned till the first of next year. Many miners are leaving hero for Paua aud other southern Illinois fields.

Suicide of a Rejected LoTer. Saginaw, Mich., Aug. 25. A sensational suicide occurred hero this afternoon. Julius Zimmerman, a prominent young man, shot himself throueh the heart, at his room on Adams street it is said he was infatuated with a beantifnl young lady, who rejected his suit. Ho left a scaled letter, but it was taken possession of by tho coroner, and will not be opened until the inquest to-morrow.

DEPOSITS OP POSTMASTERS

A Change Suggested That Will Greatly Simplify Present Vexatious Delays. It Will AlsoRevoluionize the Business Method of the Pepartmeut in Keeping Accounts with Sixty Thousand Postmasters. Every Vessel Being Built for tlio Xew Xavy Under Heavy Penalty 1c r Delay. Preparations for the Coming Knights Templars' Triennial Conclave Condition of the Growing Crops The Day at Deer Park. TOSTMASTERS ACCOUNTS. A Change in the Method of Keeping Them Recommended by the Sixth Auditor. Epecial to the lutlianapnlls Journal. Washington, Aug. 25. Sixth Auditor of the Treasury Coulter has recently proposed important changes in the business methods of tho Postofiice Department. Tho accounts of 00.000 postmasters aro kept by tho Third Assistant Postmaster-general, and they aro audited by the Sixth Auditor. The contemplated alteration in the system of keeping theso accounts would be radical and far-reaching in their results. Mr. Coulter has addressed a letter to the Postmastergeneral, calling his attention to delay which obtains in receiving and handling certificates of deposits made by postmasters in settlement of their quarterly accounts. It has been the custom tohavethecertilicates, original and duplicate, returned to the depositor, who thereafter sends the original to the department and keeps tho duplicate as his own voucher. The, present system causes delaj's at most important times, in that, when the postmaster makes his deposit, tho depositary sends both certificates to tho postmaster, whereas, as in tho judgment of tho Sixth Auditor, the original certilicate should be sent direct to tho Postiuasterfroneral. and only the duplicato bo sent to the depositing postmaster. This change may be better appreciated when it is rerueiubered that about iX),( KM) of tho pobtoinces aro small ones, having inferior mail services; many of them being supplied with mail only once or twice a week. All of theso ofiices now receive their certificates and canuot forward them to the department until next mail day. Frequently it happens that ignorance and carelessness on the part of postmasters necessitates tho writing of letters from tho department, calling for certificates before they are forwarded. Meantime, accounts aro held up in tho Third Assistant Fost-master-gcnerai's office, and tho clerks of the Sixth Auditor's office are unable to proceed with their work. Mr. Coulter proposes that this delay and extra work shall bo dispensed with, by . tho sensible and simple methods of causing the depositaries to send tho original certificates to the Third Assistai.t PostmaRter-geueral direct. Coming thus, tho great bulk of certificates will reach the department during tho first Aveek of each quarter, and bo disposed of, so that the clerks in the auditor's oilico may proceed with their business. Under the present system there are quarterly thousands of accounts suspended, and this work of suspension consumes more time than would ordinarily bo reJnired to make the settlement. It will also militate the-work of both departments by putting the settlement of accounts forward at least fifteen days. If tho original certificates of the depositaries, were sent direct to the department, moreover, it will save tho work of writing and addressing about fifty thousand letters each quarter, and as each postmaster is required now to send bis certificate in a letter, separate from all other communications, there will be a diminution of about two hundred thousand letters annually. Tho reader with business knowlege orproclivi;ies will see what an immense saving of labor there will be in this item alone; but the Sixth Auditor looks upon that as a small item When compared with tho time saved in each quarter. It will revolutionize the business methods of the Postotiice Department if this scheme shall be adopted, and, as it seems feasible aud inst, tho Postmaster-general will no do t adopt it. Tho letter of Sixth Auditor .oulter is lengthy and fully explains th oposed system, which is outlined a It atiec'ts tho business of whole pie throughout their 00,000 nostmastt . and. if adopted, the fttatus ot every postmaster's account can be told by a glance at the register, it is one of tho most important changes over proposed in the departmant, and rellects credit unon the bueinc&s ability and sagac city of Mr. Coulter. TARDY SHir-nUILDKRS. Every War Vessel in Process of Construction Under Penalty for Delay. Special to the ImlianapoUs Journal. Washington. Aug. 25 Every vessel being built for the new navy is now under penalty for delay in complying with tha requirements of the contracts. Yesterday the Quintard iron-works, of New York, began paying penalties of $50 pcrday on each of tho two vessels now under construction by them. Theso vessels, tho Concord and Pennington, will be finished in May, 1800, and during the intervening timo the contractors must forfeit to the government Si 00 for each of tho six working days iu every week. Thero has been a rumor about the Navy Department for several days that a shipbuilders' trust has been formed, with a view to compelling Congress tomake larger appropriations for tho building of new vessels. There seems to be no ground for this report other than the fact that on Thursday last, when bids for livo now cruisers wero opened at the Navy Department, both the firms that made proposals failed to limit them to tho appropriations, viz.: Seven hundred thousand dollars for each of the 2.000-ton cruisers, and $1,100,000 for each of the 3,000-ton steel vessels. It is averted by naval ofiicers who are familiar with ship-building interests that no such trust has been contemplated, anil to further prove this it is stated that Henrv Scott, of tho Uniou iron-works, of San Francisco, was prepared to submit bids within tho appropriations, but just before tho opening he received a telegram from tho manager of the works directing him not to do to. After careful considerations, involving the offering of bids for these cruisera. it was decided, after Mr. Scott had left for Washington, that the works could not build them at all withont pecuniary hms. Sonic of the penalties now being paid on vessels in course of construction aro quit large. Tho Columbia iron-works, at Paltimore, tho company that can afford least of all nhip-bnilding firms to loe the iuorM-y. is paying a penalty of "JO0 a day on the Pctn l, for though that vessel is completed, the has not been accepted by tho government. The penalties will continue until the vessel i formally accepted by the government. The Baltimore, one of the vessels at the Cramp works, is earning a penalty of $100 a day, but this will continue only until Oct. 15 ncxtt when she will bo completed. At the Union iron-works, of San Francisco, tho Charleston is now undergoing repairs under a penalty of 100 a day. The tvius, under contract to the Cramnj. is paying a penalty of -W a day, and this will end Sept. 1. providing her pneumatic guns stand a satisfactory test. T1IK TEMFLARS' CONCLAVE. Preparations for tho Triennial Catherine Enormous Attendance Promised.' CDeclsl tu the ImllaiiaiHil! Journal Washington. Aug. 25. Preparations for the twenty-fourth triennial conclavo ot the Knights Templars, of the United States and Canada, which is to be held in this city Oct. 6-8, aro now nearly completed. About the headquarters of the

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