Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 October 1889 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1889.

can afford to act upon persona! consideration in matters of this nuv,nitude. We are each bound by law in nil thine, creat and small, and it is oardutrtotaket .no law a we tind It, to fully exercne thnt pouer given to either of us, and abstain from the abuse of it to any degree whatever. Our loyalty 1. due alonu to the irovernnifQt of tliee lnilcd States and tho ieorle who support it. Lest the Commissioner may deem the Secretary in influenced by a desire to magnify his office. Mr. Noble Rays that ho has brought to bis assistance tho services of others in the Dtyartment. and that tho opinion of tho assistant Attorney-general of the department agrees in the conclusions reached oy tho Secretary. The Secretary then says: There is a board of review in the department which assists in the decisions of pension case taken up on appeal. These decisions are the law of the department until reversed or annulled by some authority hiJser than the Secretary, and no one has ever liudntained to the contrary. In these decisions it lasteeu announced many times, and it is an established and well-known rule, that the department will uniformly refuse to disturb an adj-idicttiou of claims by a former administration, except upon the most conclusive evidence that an orror ha3 been committed. When the question as to propriety of a given rating is one of Judgment merely, depending upon the weight of evidence, it will not allow the opinion of to-day to overturn the opinion of yesterday; but where the Incorrectness of the former action is so manifest upon a review of the evidence that it is not a matter of dispute, the department will not refue to do justice because the error is of lone: standing and has been sanctioned by subsequent action. And, furthermore, that old cases will not le re-opened, -reconsidered, nor readjusted, except upon 'presentation of new and material vidence tending to hcw the existence of a palpable error or a mistake, and which, therefore, tends to change the real status of the claimant before the department, finch old cases are clearly within the rule of res adiuuicata. It in to be llstinctly observed that I am now speaking of cases only where thero have been allowances of tuznn arising from the increase of pension bad; for periods, greater or iess, prior to the date ct the surgeon's certificate under the pending claim. I do not say a word or entertain the least objection to an increase of pension, the increase to. commence under the pending claim us the law direct, and upon evidence to support it. Nor do I coruplninof these very pensioners "whom I have mentioned having an increase of jenslon, to commence as tho law directs, upon proof, and to be considered in due course, and with a proper regard to the risrht to be heard belonging to the thousands of other claimants for pensions, who do not happen to be employes la tbeivension Bureau. InTiewof the provisions of Sec tion 4G9S4. Revised Statutes, and the decisions of the department in pension eases, consider the case of Frank A. Butts, a principal examiner in the Pension Office, and first lieutenant. Company II, Fortyeeventh New York Volunteers. The original declarations was tiled Dec. 6, 1879, in which disability from malarial diseases it alleged. Certiticate issued in 18'J. granting pension for disability from malarial poisoning at the rate of $7.50 from Aug. 1. 183. Certificate re-issued May 3, 1889, by you, allowing the rate of $17 per month from Aug. 31, 1805, and .$30 from April -7, 18SU, the total amount allowed under this last decision being s?U.iyG.54. The action of re-rating this claim. taen in May, 1889, it seems, according to what has been said, was against the established practice and against decisions of the department, which, hold that ratings long since fixed should not be disturbed, except upon proof that there was a mistake in the former action.) No new evidence bearing upon the rate from the date of dlschargo was fled in the claim for reissue. It is not at all evident that there was a mistake in the original adjustment of the rate. Tho whole proceeding in the matter in behalf of this man looks like an arbitrary increase of his pension, to take effect from a long anteior date, and to have been ajralnst the repeated testimony of men not only competent, but selected to determine his ease. The case of James E. Smith, chief of division in the Pension Office and captaiu of tho Fonrth New York Independent Battery, is next taken up, and shows that la 18S0 he made application for a pension, allecine disability from rheumatism contracted in May, 1802, in the Chiekahominy swamps. In 1884 he was granted a pension at tho rate of three-fourths disability ($15 from 183 to Jan. 30. 1884) and total disability ($'JU) from the latter dale. In 1887 he was re-rated and given the rate for total disability for the period during which he received a three-fourths rate. Again, m Ma3r, ISSi), his pension was increased to the rate provided for inability to perform manual labor ($'J1 a month from 1972. and $30 from 1SS3) the name of the disability being chanced from lumbapo to rheumatism of the ppiue. On the first examination, made in 1882, It was reported that Smith was not disabled, and

could not find any physical evidence of rheumatism, btit that they had rated the disability as total. on claimant's statements." No additional evidence was tiled nor any further medical examination had in this case, yet it was re-rated in May last, and $1,230 back pension given amith. . Alvanll. Doan, of Ohio, a $1,600 clerk, was re-rated in June, 1880. and allowed $3,022. he alleging that his disability had increased. Tho report of tho medical examination would entitle the claimant to only 2-1 instead of $30 per month, and the re-ra tin e made in June last seems wholly illegal and unwarranted' by the evi dence. Tho Secretary's letter then continues: 1 I will not go into the other cases. They are before you. I have said enough, I think, to show that the Secretary may well call a halt until these eases can be more carefully examined. I notice that you say, in 3'oiur letter to me, that you have such regard for your own otlicial and J personal reputation, and tho reputation of your ureau. that you will not permit these cases to remain as they aro atprestnt, but will order e.ich one of the claimant! for medical examination 'before men whose word upon medical points rrUl be unchallenged when stated," and will stop rt nothing which shall keep all taint of suspicion lrom the action of your oflice. This certainly would be a proper proceeding if ti affected the question in hand, and I appreciate your desire to maintain the integrity or your character and the legality of your proceedings; but it is not the question what may yet and hereafter bo found out about these men. The question is, what should hare been done upon the record as it stood when the judgment was rendered, and the materiality and Importance of this question arises, not only from the effect it mar have upon the particular individuals named in these several papers, but upon the course of procedure that will all ect it If it goes on unchecked and unremedied, tho vast sums of money at the command of the government. which might be distributed, illegally and sum marily, to those who are not as much entitled to il as tens of thousands wtoio cases have not yet . been heard. It may be that this government is strong and great, and has at its command a surplus that no other nation has ever had, but if sums of money to the amounts above mentioned may be granted without any further consideration of fact or law than seems to have been given in these case3. it will depend solely upon a sin'd officer's dis position wnether the resources or the government shall bo sufficient for its maintenance or not. There are woro than enough of theso applications already in the field, and increas ing dally, to exhaust indeed the surplus, of which so much has been said in connection .with this matter, and I am Informed that the ap plications for re-ratings are greatly on the in crease, and now reach the amount ol Xrom seven to eicrht thousaud a week. I do not ak nor desire, so far as T am con cerned. a re-cxamination of these applicants: but what I insist upon is that there shad be a reconsideration of these allowances on the record, and that any further application for them that may be made shall be made in due course of proceedings upon new application, new evidence. and without any advancement of the cases bofore those of others equally meritorious. Your statement thai tha Pension board of re view retorted that out of twentr-four cases re rated, one was broadly and two reasonably open to euapirion, iu connection with what I have already pointed out in these other casc3. indicates that there is need of far greater cir cumspection and riJd enforcement of the law in ttetje matters than has been recently practiced for the public safety. But when it Incomes a question of official authority and official re sponsibility, and tne good ox tn, people tho preservation of the Treasury and Mie meeting out of exact ji&tlce to all alike, ard giving the pensioner wuo js auruau uuu uuproiecieu ino name right and same sums of money as to hiin who. by official influence, attempts to get Ms claim preferred, I ball act, as I am doing in the present instance, regardless of personal consid erations, and intent upon the Etrlct and exact enforcement of the law. The Secretary further savs that ho in tends to have all these cases re-examined. and ha ordered an investigation of tho practices of the Pension Office, and that he. will ueier any innuer oruers uum me investigation board reports. Tho letter closes as folio wis: T writ- tliis that vnti mav be fullr advised ef my views and purree, and my belief in my authority to control all abuses in this department by whatever means I deem legal and efficient. ANNUAL REPORT OF T1IC JIUKEAV. Nearly 500,000 Fentdoners on the Rolls, Who Received Last Year Over 1S8S.OOO.OOO. Was ii inoton, Oc 1. 1 S. Tho an nual report for the fiscal year of JS83-0. of the Commit .isioner of Tensions has been submitted to the Secretary of tho Interior, and is now in the hands of the Public Printer. Tho following summary of the report will shovr the more important details of tho work of the liarcau of Pensions during said fiscal yean There t the close of the year 4S9,?J0 pensioners. ne were added to the rolls during tho , fir tho names of 51JJ1 new pensioners, and the names of 1,75-1, whoso pensions have been previously dropped, were restored to tho rolls, making an aggregate f 53,075 pensioners added during the year. Sixteen thousand live hundred and tcven pensioners were dropped from

the rolls for various causes, leaving increase to the rolls of C7.1W names.

a ct 1 ho averace annual value of each pen sion at the close of the year ia shown to have been Sm.lS. lho agRTeeato annual value of pensions is $04,216.2.30. The amount paid for pensions during the year was $SiW3flia.28. The total amount disbursed bv the agents for all purposes was $l131,l0$.44; amount paid- as fees to attorneys, l.SfXSJ.47. There was a dis bursement ox 14,515.4.; lor tue payment oi arrears ol pensions in cases wnero xne orig inal pension was granted prior to Jan. 5, 1870, and the date of commencement of penfelon was subsequent to discharge or death. In the aggregate. 1.218.140 pension claims have been filed since lbOl, and that in the 6anie period 780,121 . have been allowed. The amount disbursed on account of pensions since ISbl lias been 1.052.218.413.17- The issue of certifi cates during the year shows a grand total of 145,21)8. Of this number 51,021 were original certificates. Tho report shows that at the close of the year there were pending and unallowed 47K.O00 claims of all classes. Commissioner Tanner recommends tho establishment of two additional pension agencies, to relieve the overworked officers at Columbus, 0.: Chicago, Indianapolis and lopeka. Kan. lie reccommends Congress bo asked to amend the act of June 6, 1874, ro as to extend the benefit of all pension laws, as to rates to all pensioners whose pensions have been granted by special acts subsequent to said date, and that the benefit of pension ' be granted to the widows of soldiers who died from causes originating in the service prior to March 4, 1801, during the time of peace, lie further recommends, as did his predecessor, that the act, of March S, 1S87, be amended so as to grant pensions to tnoso wno, navmg pariicipateu in xne rebellion against the United States, subse quently enlisted in the navy and were disabled therein. The act referred to con fines its operations to those only who, under the sani conditions, enlisted in the army of tho United States. Tho Commissioner calls attention to many irregularities in the rates of pen sions, hichteen dollars per month, it appears, is the highest rate of pension which may be proportionately divided for differ ent degrees of disability, if such disability or disabilities are not equivalent to the loss of a hand or a foot. If. however, a pensioner has lost a hand for which existinclaw now provides the rate of S30 per month, and lias also received, in the service and lino of duty, an injury of the back, for example, which would alone entitled him to a pension of 24 per month, ho can receive no rate in excess of 30 a month for the combined disability result ing from the loss of his hand and his said injury, unless by reason of them, he is to tally uelnless, or so nearly so as to require the constant aid and attendance of another person, for which degree of disability the rate of $o0 per month can now be granted. It will be seen, he says, that the pensioner in such case, actually receives nothing for' his 'said injury, as the loss of his hand alone entitled him to the $ate of S30, which is the highest allowable rate under the law for both disabilities. Numerous other instances, he says, could be cited to show the unfairness in rates now provided by law, and he thinks this statute should be amended so as to permit the rate of 7.3 per month to be proportionately divided for all disabilities which arc shown to have been incident to the service and line of dnty. Tho injustice and unfairness caused by the act of Congress, approved June 10, 1880, the report save, should be corrected. This act limits tho right of pensioners to receive $72 per month to those who were receiving $50 per month at tho date of said act. No provision is made therein for granting said rate to those who were totally helpless on eaid date, but were not receiving 50at said time, and none for thoso who have be come totally helpless since that date. The anomaly is presented of two men equally cusauieti, possioiy Jiving suie oy siue, tno one receiving 72 per month and the other 50 per month. To state this case is to make all the argument necessary to show tho absolute necessity for an amendment to this act. The Commissioner asks attention to tho fact that the act of Aug. 7, 1SS2, which terminates tho pension of a widow on account of her immorality, makes no provision for continuing the pension to tho minor children of the soldier when tho widowTs pension is terminated. He asks that Congress be requested to correct this palpable injustice. lie further recommends, that the Act of Ang. 4, 1S80. so far as it provides the rate of o0 for the loss of a hand or foot, and for total disability of either, be amended so as to include tho cases of those who are pensioned not for disabilities to tho extremities but for disease in other parts of tho body and for causes which this bureau has already conceived to be equal to the loss of a hand or a foot for purposes of manual labor. The Commissioner is of opinion that a man, sufficiently disabled by a disease of the lungs, or of tho heart, or the head, to entitle liiin to $24 a month, is as badly disabled if ho is not more greatly disabled) as a man who has either lost a hand or a f.oot, or has n disability in the hand or foot which totally disables him for manual labor. The Commissioner is also of opinion that the act of Congress approved Feb. 12. 1883, providing a rate of $100 for the loss of both hands, unjustly discriminates against those pensioners who have lost both feet or the sight of both eyes. No previous legislation has ever assumed that a greater disability resulted from tho loss of both hands than from either of tho other disabilities btand. The" Commissioner further recommends that the pension due to a dependent father should be made to commence from tho date mother survives the soldier, but died without receiving pension in the same manner as tho law now provides that minor chil dren shall be pensioned from the date of tho soldier's death, provided the widow dies without leceiviug pension, and oven though she had made an application in her life time. The Commissioner earnestly recommends that whenever an invalid pen sioner dies, the usual pension be granted to his widow, or. if he leaves no widow. then to his minor children, without regard to whether or not his death was duo to any canse incident to the service and line of duty. He is of opinion that the provisions of the existing law which terminate pen sions to. or on account of. minor children at the age of sixteen, should be amended so as to continue such pension after the said child shall have reached that age, in cases where the child is afdicted. and is in con sequence unablo to earn a support. He asks attention also to what he believes to be a manifestly msuflicient sum ($2) per month granted by the act of July 25, 1880, to widows for tho care and support of such of the minor chil dren of their deceased husband as are under sixteen years of age. The Commissioner favors granting pen sions to all soldiers who are disabled. He says: "As the war period recedes from us.and ago and its attendant infirmities aillicttho veteran who served his country faithfully and well a quarter of a century ago, it is a very serious question whether tho govern luent does him justice in limiting tho application of the pension laws to those disabilities only which wero contracted in tho service and line of duty. 1 earnestly recommend that a pension bo granted to everv honorably-discharged soldier and sailor who is now or who may hereafter be come disabled, without regard to whether such disability is chargeable to the service of tho United States or .has been contracted since discharge therefrom' The Commissioner also favors a pension for army nurses, and makes an earnest ap peal in their behalf. The Crunln Murder Case. Chicago. Oct. IS. The work of securing a jury in the Crouin ease was resumed today. Thirty-four veniremen were examined, tweiity-uine excused for cause, lour challenged peremptorily by tho State and one by the defense. Two men are practically accepted as jurors by both sides. The defense has eeveu peremptory challenges remaining to their credit. Frederick W. Smith, the only one of tho seven alleged jury bribers who had not been out on bail in tho first case, was re leased this afternoon on 15.000 bail. The men who totd tho State's attorney that they had been offered nionev bv F. W. Smith in go on the Cronin jury and hold out for acquittal are Messrs. Lrancis fc Wolff, mem bers of a dry goods hrm in tnglewood. Two Men Crushed to Death. Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 18. Fritz Zeger. nirtul thirtv-tive. and Fred Sumtnerlieid. aged forty, were crushed to death by a brick wall of a Kchool-house which was be ing raised to-da3'. Zeger leaves a wife and seven children. A Sir Tit roa t or Ctntah. If suffered to progress, often results in an lncnra bie throat or lung trouble. "Ilrown's Bronchial Troche' Live instant relief.

IXDIAMASD ILLINOIS NEWS

Complications In the Legal Contest Over the Late Moses fowlers ill, Unraveling the Mystery of George Farmer's MurderatShelhnrii-rendleton's Lis: Glass Factory Miscellaneous Matters. , INDIANA. Th Litigation Over Moses Fowler' Vast Es tate Becoming Complicated. Special to tl.a IinliAiiayolis Journal, Lafayette, Oct. 18. Some weeks ago Sirs. Charles II. Duhme, daughter of the late Moses Fowler, liled a suit asking a partition of the real estate of. her late father. In her suit she enumerated cer tain lands in Benton county, aggregating abont 18,000 acres and a tract of over 1.100 acres in White county as being subject to partition, being tho property of her recently deceased father. Her brother, James M. Fowler, who is one of tho trustees of his father's estate, for an answer to the plaintiff, replies that tho 1.100 acres of land in White county (which are probably worth $40,000), did not belong to his father, but to himself, he having purchased the lands at a sale made by the 1 owler IJank, which eamo in possession of the real estate by reason of loans made by tho bank several years ago. The answer has proved a sur prise to tho plaintiff, as well as her at torneys, lhe plaintirt has asked permission to interrogate Mr. Fowler as to the purchase, and to amend their complaint. The amount involved, and the fact that the widow of Mr. Fowler has already brought 6Uit to set aside the will, makes it probablo that a determined suit will follow the set tling of the Fowler estate. The Shelburn Murder 3Iyatery. Fpecial to the IndlanapolU Journal. Vincennes, Oct. 18. The Shelburn mur der mystery is sensational in the extreme, and four men have been arrested and indieted by tho culJivan county grand jury for the crime. It seems that George Farmer was an old man of about seventy-live years who kept a restaurant in a shanty in Shel burn, a small village on the Evansville & Terre Haute railroad. Farmer was found dead on the sidewalk early Sunday morn ing, in front of his place of business, with a gash in his head. Tho sheriil at once set to work, with the aid of the prosecuting at torney, to ferret outlthe cause of the old man's death. The old man had built a small cheap house in which he lived and sold peanuts, cakes, eider, etc., and when Jtwasdemanded he"epiked" a. 1 1 ? 1 t? l ww m xne ciaer wiin wuisKy. lie was irpquentiy called upon in the night to furnish bum mers something to eat. It is supposed that he was called up early Sunday morning to givo persons a lunch, as when found ho had only one shoe on and several plates were on the counter. It is supposed that his cus tomers were leaving without paying and got into an altercation with the old man, resulting in his death.. He was struck with a blunt instrument over the right eve. fracturing his skull. A crowd of men wero known to bo at the restaurant as lato as 3 o'clock Sunday morning. It is also known tha't the party were in the old man's shanty drinking and carousing and in his turnip patch pulling up his turnips. After a thorough investigation by tho grand jury. uscar iattox, .John iiullock, Albert Norton and James Manahan were arrested and placed in jail. Pendleton's New Glass Factory. Fpecial to the Indianapolis Journal Pendleton, Oct. 18. The immense plateglass factory, which was recently located at this place, has made tho necessary arrangements to commenco erecting one of its mammoth buildings this fall. Its buildings, when completed, will cover about eight acres of ground, but tho compauy have two years to complete the workiranil got everything m good running order. I he contract also states that it shall be tho largest plate-class factory in tho gas-bolt. and shall employ at least six hundred men. The owners of tho factory have purchased all of the surrounding stone-quarries and taken options ou several hundred acres of land adjoiniug the city. More Fancy Prices for Hogs. Fpecial to tho Indianapolis Journal. Muncte, Oct. IS. Tho second very suc cessful stock salo of hogs in this county, this week, was that given yesterday at the stock farm of Ju W. Davis, seven miles north of this city. Seventy-live head were sold to narties reorcsentinc lilaekford. lioone, Kaudolph. Henry, Cirant and this county, while some of the hue auimals went to Ohio and Illinois, by men who paid fancy prices one kow, bought by a gen tleman from Illinois, bringing 1 he averago price was 10 per head. Damage Suits in Scott County. Special to tlio Indianapolis Journal. Scottsburo, Oct. IS. Louis E. Eddy has filed suit in the Scott Circuit Court against tho Pennsylvania Kailroad Company, in which ho asks 2,500 damages for personal injuries received in attempting to get on a moving train. Jonathan Everhart asks 10,000 and Ceorgo Pat ton 65,000 from the same compauy for personal injuries re ceived by a train striking their wagon at a street-crossing. Alvaro Hays asks S5.000 damages for slander from J-. S. Morgan. Minor Notes. The Kokorao natural-gas plant has been sold to a Chicago syndicate for 6200,000, A horse, ridden by Bert Davis, a bov at Monrovia, fell upon its rider, seriously in juring him. David Arnic, of Monrovia, Morgan county, engaccd in a controversy with a mule. An arm was broken and his head was seriously injured. William Lee, aged ninety-two years, who resides on Indian creek, Jennings county, is claimed to bo the oldest soldier in tlio United States. C. G. Conn, of Elkhart, has stied E. D. Fuller, editor of the Elkhart Sentinel, for $10,000 damages for saying in tho Sentinel that Conn was insane. The corner-stone of a 40,000 Methodist Church Was laid at Peru Thursday. The llev. Dr. Barnes, of Fort Wayne, and Francis Murphy, sr., made speeches. A large bulldog owned by Isaac Manek attacked Perry Wolfo, thirteen-year-old son of Aaron Wolfe, at Corydon, and so badly lacerated him that it is feared ho will die. Charles II. Lawson. formerly editor and proprietor of tho Hoosier Herald, at Valparaiso, has been sent to Michigan City for six years, for stealing a watch near 'Plymouth. John "Weston, an old resident of Crawfordsville. died on Thursday night. Ho was born in Massachusetts iu 1813, and enlisted in tho war of tho rebellion, serving one year. ' John H. S livens, of Bloomington, had a portion of his hand amputated on Thursday. A week ago his thumb was bitten by one Dr. Brannam, in an altercation, and gangrene set in. Kobert Howe, of Scott township. Harri son county, was robbed of sis recently, near Bays chapel, as he was returning from Corydon, by a pair of highwaymen, who beat a hasty retreat assoonasthev got the money. t OnThursday afternoon, the boiler of Wtu. Titus's saw-mill, at Uui'm Village, Johnson couuty, let go, probably fatally injuring Edward Titus and ayoungerson of tho proprietor. William Titus and Willis Deer were also seriously hurt. Pendleton, like all of the natural-gas towns, has organized a Board of Trade, and elected B. F. Aiman president and W. E. Brown secretary. Free gas and building sites will be oiiered as inducements to secure other manufacturing industries. Jeromo Fishor. of Goshen, administrator of the estate of i'hilip liemberling, hassued the Cincinnati. Wabash & Michigan railroad for $10,000 damagea Gemberling was employed by the company, and was killed two weeks ago at Benton Harbor Mich. Two counterfeiters have been successfully 'working" Saline City, Cory, and other towns iu the southeastern part of Clav county this week. Constables Whito and Crist, of Clay City, ran them down

liear Cory, but not toing r armed, fared badly. Both officers wero severely cut, and the counterfeiters are still at large. The Cataract Flouring Mills, near tho falls of Fall creek, at Pendleton, which were recently sold to Chicago parties, aro being rapidly put in order and filled with new machinery of tho latest pattern. Its capacity will be near one hundred barrels of Hour daily. gcott Dickinson, of North Vernon, invaded Seymour, armed to the teeth, in an alleged search for his wife. He kicked down tho door of Henry F. Bruning's residence, and was fcbot in the arm by the owner. His wife was not in the house. Bruning. who is a Democrat, at once resigned his office as city marshal, and the Council elected E i chard F. White, Republican, to succeed him. ILLINOIS.

Ignatz Lederer, Ex-Tax Collector of Bloomington, Confesses to Fraud.' E&ecl&l to the Tml!anaiolia Journal. Bloomixgto:., Oct. 18. To-day Ignatz Lederer, the recent collector of Bloomington and township, who confesses himself guilty of forgery, falsifying the record and grand larceny, went upon tho stand as a witness in the case of Harry M. Loehr, Lederer's deputy, who is on trial for complicity in the steal. He fully carried out his promise to "give the scheme away," and related how he and Loehr "fixed" the books by changing figures and adding taxes for those who had been missed by the tax assessors. Thero wero something over 250 changes, contemplating a steal of abont $5,000, but they had gotten only about $300 when an accident revealed tho plot and Lederer and Loehr were arrested and indicted. Killed by a Train. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Flora, Oct. 18. Henry Hunsaker, aged thirty -eight, was accidentally killed whilo crossing the O. &. M. tracks, at 8 o'clock last night. He was in the emplov of the Adams Express Compaaj- at this place, and stood high in the community. Ho leaves a wife and three children. Brief Mention. J. M." Knight, of Galena, sold a pearl Thursday, which he recently found in a clam taken from the river, for $G50. John Morris, a young farmer living near the Fayette countv line in Boone county, was fatally hurt "by the explosion of his gun. Robert Oaks, of Decatur, who recently escaped from an officer while under indictment for conspiracy, has been caught at St. Joseph. William Goddardv a saloon-keeper at Beinent, who has been defying the law in the continued sale of liquor, has been fined $80 and costs. Michael Sullivan, the oldest man in. Vermillion county, died Thursday from old age. He was born in lrelrnd in 1792. His wife died at the age of 104 in Danville in 1884. ' At Carthage James Houchins, who. it was alleged, stabbed arid nearly killed a young man named Sperry at Lallarpe, was acquitted by a jury to the surprise oi everybody. t The taking of evidence in the case of Ford, the alleged forger, was concluded at Champaign Thursday. Testimony going to 6how that the prisoner is mentally unsound was given. A man murdered and placed on tho railroad track near Litchfield, Tuesday night, has been identified as John Patterson, of Atwater. Four men have been arrested for tho crime. r John Stever, of New Grand Chain, Pu; laski county, was 6hot, and it is thought fatally wounded, at that place on Thursday, by James Gaunt Thero had been a family feud between the two. The Peoria City Council has closed a deal which transfers to the Peoria Water Company the water-works of that city.. The company has found an abundant supply of water and will erect reservoirs and furnish the city with water. The deal involves $000,000 worth of property and money. At Thursday's meeting of tho Association of ex-Prisoners of War. at Springfield, a resolution was passed calling upon Congress to pass a bill which has for some years been pending, providing for pensioning all L nion ex-prisoners of war. 1 no following officers were elected for the ensuing yean President, General C. W. Pavey, of Mt. Vernon; vice-president, E. H. Miner, Bloomington; secretary. John Little, Bloomington; treasurer, W. II. Simmons, Gibson City; chaplain. Rev. James A. Coats, of Winchester. At a mass-meeting of veterans a resolution was passed favoring tho passago by , Congress of tho service-pension bill. Tne next meeting will be held at Clinton, DeWitt county. Tho association has a membership of six hundred in tho State. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. ! One hundred and thirty-five Mormons, bound for Salt Lako city, arrived in New York yesterday from England, Wales and Holland. An English investment company, with a capital of $15,ooo,000, has purchased 3,000.000 acres of land in tho panhandle part of .the State of Texas. At Elizabethtown, Hamilton county, Ohio, Thursday night, Tobias Hayhuist and Rollo Hayes engaged in a quarrel, which resulted in Hayes shooting and killing HayiiursL Wlien William Gomes was arrested for murdering his fellow-workman, Eugene Sullivan, uear Bristol, Wis., he gave as an excuse that he feared Sullivan would "beat him out of his job." The whisky trust is about to renew its fight against the outside distilleries. The trust has a surplus fund of between $S00,000 and 1500,000, which it proposes to spend in making its power indisputable. A pretty young womau, about twenty years of age. was arrested at Cliquot while tending burin a saloon, dressed as a man. She says sho assumed tho disguise to escape the attentions of a lover who was obnoxious to her. Bill Matton, tho oldest moonshiner in southwestern Kentucky and West Tonnes-. see, for whom oldcers have been searching for the past twenty-five years, was captured on tho Tennessee river while selling fish yesterday. A fight took place at Houston. Minn., last night, between Thomas O'Connor and Vid Todd, of Money Creek. Before they could 1. . - A. I f 1 .1 t .1 A. uv bt-jiuiaicu jluuu urewa Knuo aim almost cut O'Connor's left arm off, besides cutting him seriously about the head. , Rev. Dr. Thomas F. Davies, of Philadelphia, rector of St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church for the past twenty-one years, was yesterday consecrated as Bishop of tho Diocese of Eastern Michigan, to which ho was elected last June. Notwithstanding denials of tho Union Pacific railroad officers, it is said a bad wreck did occur near Stirling, Cal., last Tuesday. Claim-agent Manchester, who was summoned there, afterwards admitted that bo vera I persons were badly hurt, and that three or four might die. Trenton, Ont.. has a "Jack the Ripper" sensation. The body of a woman wa3 fouud alongside the Murray canal, par tially burned aud horribly mutilated. A card attached to it warned trespassers to beware, while on a stick to which was attached a piece of paper was written a lot of doggerel. James M. Solover, a noted Wall street operator, died at the Lclaud Hotel, iu Chicago, yesterday, of brain fever. He had been ill two weeks. Deceased once re ceived considerable attention in the news papers in connection with a physical encounter between himself aud Jay Gould. Mr. Selovers body was taken by his widow on the midnight train to Cleveland. Losses by Fire. Dawson, Ga., Oct. IS. Last night lire destroyed L. A. Lowrey's warehouse, tilled with cotton; partially covered by insurante. VJ. JL. Mize, Dr. W. U. Kendnck, Kubanks& Davis F. Bethuue and William Talbott lost their stocks of goods, with buildings. Mizo is fully insured, but the rest are only partially insured. The National Bank had a narrow escape. It is injured by water aud is fullv insured. Tho xoiai loss is esumaieu at $,uw. St. Louis. Oct. IS. The round-house of the Texas Pacific railroad at Longview, Tex.. was destroyed br fire this morning, involving a loss of unwards of &50.000. Sev eral freight and one large passenger engine were very seriously aamageu. Vr innlVT k Til C 1(J Hna n'ttnla lilnnlr with the exception of eight badly-damaged brick store-rooms, was destroyed before the tiro of yesterday could be got under control. Tho total loss is about ,000.

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Letter from the Pope to Cardinal Gibbons Relating' to tho Celebration. London Roughs to Lose a Long-Cherished Privilege-Trial of Father McFadden Gas Vs. Electricity in England. THE CATHOLIC CENTENNIAL. Letter from the Pope Regarding the OneHundredth Anniversary of tbe Hierarchy. Baltimore, Md., Oct. 18. The Sun, tomorrow, will publish tho following translation of the letter of the Pope to Cardinal Gibbons, referring to the Catholic centennial; t - "The great love for country and religionl which you and our brethren, the bishops of the United States, have so often and so nobly manifested, is again strikingly illustrated in the letter which you recently addressed to us. From it we learn that pastors and people are about to assemble in Baltimore to celebrate the one-hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the sacred hierarchy of the United States. On the same occasion you propose to dedicate the Catholic University, which, with the generous helpof the faithful, yon ha vefounded in Washington as a happy presage of future greatness for the new era upon which you are about to enter. It is truly worthy of your faith and piety thus gratefully to recall . tho blessings bestowed upon your couutry by Divine Fro vidence, and at the same time raise up in the memory of them a monument which will be an honor to yourselves aud a lasting bene lit to your fellow-citizens and to the country at large; and therefore we gladly unite with you in returning thanks to God. the author of all gifts. At the samo time, we cordially congratulate you ou the zeal with which you emulate the example of your glorious predecessors, faithfully treading in their footsteps, whilst ever widening the held opened up by their apostolic labors. Most iovfullv have we welcomed tho expression which you and the other bishops convey to us of your loyalty and devotion to the apostolic see. "We desire, in return, to assure you that, like our predecessors of blessed memory.we too bear an especial love toward yon, our brethren, and the faithful committed to your care, and that wo pray fervently, for your prosperity and welfare, gathering comiort meanwhile no less from the readiness of your people to co-operate in all manner of good works than from the examples 1 A 1 1 A oi aaceruoiai virtue wuicn are uaiiy set uefore them. In regard to your wish that some representatives from this city should. in our name, be present at your celebration. we reauuy assent, xo lr, ine moro willingly because their presence will be an especial mark both of our esteem and benevolence, and of that bond of faith and charity which unites pastors and people to tho feupreme Head of the chnrch. In conclusion, we earnestly pravto God, protector and guardian of the Catholic cause, that under the prosperous and favored public institutions, by which you are enabled to exercise with freedom your sacred ministry, your labors may redound to tri beneut of church and country. And as a Viedge of our special affection wo lov ingly impart apostolic benediction to you, to our venerablo brethren, the bishops of the United States, and to all the clergy and faithful committed to your charge." ROUGHS TO BE RESTRAINED. . London's Lawless Element to Lose Its LongCherished Privilege of 3Iiining Policemen. London, Oct. 18. The London rough is threatened with tho loss of one of his most ancient and dearly-cherished privileges. It is leaving his mark upom his traditional enemy, the policeman, and as the magis trates have been making light of such assaults, it has 'become necessary to adopt some restraining measures. As a result of a meeting of the heads of the police depart ment it is said that Chief Commissioner Monro, Inspector Moore and others recom mend a more vigorous treatment of desperato men who resist arrest. Over thirty po licemen are now reported fis crippled temporarily in tho line of duty, and bruises and torn uniforms are matters that receive no notice. 1 he impunity with which they have been hitherto allowed to act has given the lawless element practical possession of some localities, and respectable persons who are now compelled to make long de tours or incur tho expense of cabs to avoid certain streets, will rejoice to learn that a little treatment m kind is to bo extended to the rough element, who can bo taught by no other means that the police aro no long-, er objects upon which to exerciso their hsts, boots and teeth safely. FATHER M'FADDEN'S TRIAL. Two Hundred Additional Policemen Arrive at Maryboro to Preserve Order, London, Oct. 18. Nearly two hundred additional policemen arrived at Mar3Tboro from Dublin this morning, and though the popnlar excitement continued the court proceeded with tho work of selecting n jury to try iratner jucraaucn ana his associates for the murder of Police In spector Martin, in February last. The court-room wa9 filled with police, and the indignant parishioners of Father Mc Fadden, whose violenccyesterday compelled th court to atliourn. were carefully excluded. The main object of the crown attorney ap pears to bo to blacken the cnaracter of the accused priest ana to aestroy nis popular ity with his peoule. An admission made to day by one of the crown witnesses, a police olhciai who took part in tho fight in which Martin lost his life, ia regarded as of tho highest importance by the counsel for the defense. 1 his man ad mitted that beforp Martin was struck at all ho 6aw I ather Met adden with blood runnincr down his face, evidently from a wound in the head. : i' . a. GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. 'Llve-TVire Accidents Used as an Argument Against Electric Lights In London. London, Oct. 18. A long and bitter fight is promised before the electric light comes to he generally adopted in London. Gas is cheap and of fair quality, and the com panies appear to bo actuated by a desire to deal honestly with their patrons, which does not always characterize those of other countries. An immense capital is invested in gas plantX and tho conservative natnro of tradesmen and householders generally will prevent the speedy adoption of any uumcu. bv sieuj. mo w uucsb circuiuuuu is given to all accounts of iires attributable to electric-ligbt wires, ana tne norrible deaths which have occurred iu American cities from the same cause lately lose nothing of their terrors when commented upon oy certain L-onuon journals irienaiy 10 the gas interests. Wanted to Be Dictator of Hawaii. San Francisco, Oct. 18. Honolulu pa pers stato that on October the cases'of James Kauhane, Jack Kaumoo and others charged with conspiracy, rioting and other ofleuses connected with tho lato insurrec tion, were called in the Supreme Court, and several of the prisoners pleaded guilty. At the trial of Albert Loonoen, one of the con spirators, Kobert Boyd, whonlaved a promnent nart in tho revolt, test itied that a se cret society had beeu formed, with Wilcox as president and Loomensas vice-president. to overthrow the ministry, and to restore to King Kalakaua and the natives the rights of which, it was alleged, they had been deprived. If the revolt was successful, Wilcox was to appoint himself dictator, eject the ministers, and proclaim martial law. Ho would then have the King sign the constitution, in which the power and rights of the natives were restoreo. 3Iaking the Most of the Cronin Jury Scandal. London, Oct. 18. Tho Tory organs are makiug tho most of the recent scandal from Chicago about the Tixing, of a jury for the Cronin trial, without waiting for any proof of the truth of the assertions made. The Saturday Review, in particu lar, tho cleverest and most bitter of all tho opponents of Parnell aud his English allies. is in its elemcut when dealing with anvll ! . .1 .11 A. A-A? A . ming, wnciner laci or uctiou, bo lortunatc

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ly supporting its views of the utter worthlessness of the Irish. The Kevin w pretenda to fear that some, if not all, oi the largo cities of the United States are under tho sway of a class as blood-thirst v and far more cunning than "the ruieirs of Creto. not to speaK or uanomoy." Biff Strikes of Miner u Paris, Oct 18-The strikers i n tho Lem district now number 12,000, aud it is likely that double thi number of men will stop work unless the demands of th strikers are conceded. The directors of tho coal-mining companies met to-day and agre id to advise a Sper.cent. increase in wages. The miners demand an increase of 10 peir cent, lue companies are willing to concodo the 5 per Cent, increase. S Urcsskls. Oct. 18. Two thousand coal miners at .Charleroi have go he on strike. Cabinet Trouble Over a Litlfle Blatter. Vienna, Oct. 18. Tho Hungarian Cabinet will not resign on accouut ol! their differ ences with the Austrian Cabinet upon tho question of the recognition o t the Hunga rian army apart from the Ai tstrian forces. as there is every prospect iihat Kmperor Francis Joseph will assent to the demand of Hungary and change the title "Imperial royal army" to "Imperial ami royal army, 7 A later dispatch says Emperor Francis Joseph has assented to th6 de imands of tho Hungarian Cabinet regarding the army. Runaway in a Crowdol Street. London, Oct. 18. The jrowded thor oughfare of Cheapside was thrown into a panic this afternoon. A ho.rso attached to a groen grocer's cart received a trifling hurt from tho pole of another vehicle, and, becoming crazed with pain, his drjVer lost all control over him, and he ran lor a long distance, dashing through or over every thing that blocked his way. Many peopl wero injured. 1 Emperor Frederick's Birthday. Beiilin. Oct. 18. To-day was the birth day of tho lato Emperor Frederick. The flags on the royal palaces were at half-mast aud wcrri draped with crape, and the Royal and hex: daughters attended a memorial service, appropriate to tho day, at tha Bornstedt Church. Pa tally Mangled by a Jaguar. Lont-on, Oct. 18. While one of the scrub women, engaged at the Hamburg Zoolog ical Garden was cleaning the outside bam of tho cage, this morning, a jaguar confined in one of them made a plunge at her, and through tho bars of bis cage managed to tear her flesh and mangle her so frightfully tnat sue uiea soon alter wara. France Protecting Herself from Germany. Pari;5, Oct. 18. The Sixth Corps, wnich France proposes to double on account of tho increase of tho German garrisons iu. Alsace-Lorraine, is now centered at Naucj. The eastern railway facilities will bo in creased by doubling the lines running from Lille, Liycns and iiesancon to tho Oeriuau frontier. A SUEtan's Body-Guard Drowned. Madiiid. Oct. 18. Whilo. returning from 1 an excursion into tho interior, yesterday, the Sultan of Morocco had to cross a swol len rivt ir to get to Fez. The Sultan crossed safely, but twenty of his body-guard, who J - A . 1 A Z A 1 A ' uuuenooii vo st immunver oniueir worses. were swept aown by tne raging nooa ana drownttd. Cable Note. The condition of the King of Portugal has beoonie worse. The paralysis ot hia body h as increased. Seveiral people were injured to-day bv a collision! near Bentheiin, Hanover, between a passenger train and a goods train. The Italian government has refused to receive. Washan Eliennie, whom the Porta wished o appoint as Turkish embassador to Italy. A committee is being formed for the pur pose of considering plans lor tho construction of a ship canal to connect Berlin with the Baltic sea. The Pope has -conferred on the Tyrol Stained'glass Art Institute, of Innsbruck,Austria the honorary title of "Instituto Premiato dalia Santa Sede." Count Dillon writes that he was never on more afi'ectionato terms with General Bou langer. and that neither politics nor politi cians can diminish1 that friendship. The Berlin Post asserts that Emperor William and the Czar, before parting, ar ranged another meeting, and that tho Emperor promised to attend the Kutsiau maneuvers in lblX). A largo number erf Socialist publication , were seized yesterday just as they wero being brought across the frontier into l.useia. I t wo arrests ere mauo in connection, with thejeizure. Tho emnloves of the London tramwav companies, whoso working hours wero recently reduced bf the voluntary action of their employes, uo.w threaten to inaugurate a general strike it their wages aro not increased. Italy is buviug horses in Germanv and England for the use of her army. The exCortation of a large number of horses oucht in Knssia, and intended for -ill ipment to I tali', has heen forbidden by tho ' 1 a! nussian auinoruies. Express Agent I lobbed of SG.000. Birmingham, Ala.. Oct. 19. News of another big express rotibcrv in Alabama bas just leaked out. It involves about $0,000, ana occurmi at Mills port, in Lamar count y, abou t a week a go. La s t o ve n i n g V a 1 1 e r A be rcombie, a young whito man, was broucht to this city by detectives ami charged with the robbery. The nif jht of the robbery tho agent at Millsport ha d ira his possession certain packages wbicji wero worth about G,000. By some mean:! the robber learned of it and made his baAil. The agent was iu tho oflico at 3 o'clock, n t night, when th robber entered, coveitct him with a pistol and made him hand ovi3r the money. Obltuavry. Lansinc. Mich., Oqt. IS. l)r. Ira W. Hawley Bartholomew, aged sixty one. ex member of the House) of Kepieentatives. ex-president of the sate Medical Society, ex-prcsident of the Michinn Agricultural' Society, and who: held the ofticoof Mayor of Lansing for threci competitive terms, died this morning of bronc hitis. Dr. liartholoinew was well known in the medical world as a contributor to the promiuenti medical journals of tha country. Ho leaves a widow and two sous. Stage-Coach Robbed. Baki.i: City. Ore., Oct. .18. The Baker Citv & Canyon stage was held up at 0 o'clock this morning, nenr Union creek, and the mail sacks robbed :f all registered matter. After tho robber had relieved tho mail acks of all registt timI-matter, the other mail was replaced in sacks, thrown ir the otago and the dayer ordered tonrec

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