Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1890 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JIARCH 7, . 1890.

bonds to the extent of to-day's offerings, he did not. at present, see any necessity lor change in the financial policy. Appointments and Confirmation. Washington, March The President to-day gent to the Senate tho following nominations of postmasters: Indiana William Breeding, Edinburg; John II. Keerlck, LaCTanjrc. niiuoi Theodore Ilutton, Rnsbville; AmerIcus li. Tlndr, Monticello; Benjamin E. lloblnson, Falrbury. Senate confirmations to-day were: Mifflin W. Gibbs, receiver of public moneys. Little llocl:. Ark.; Frank It. Farr, same, at Kan Claire, Wis.; Iiobert II. Paul. United mates marshal, district of Arizona; Tbeodoro F. Wilder. Indinn axent. Bound Valley agency, CaL: William I. Lee, associate Justice dupreme Court of NewMextco; Horace A. Tavlor, of WJsconsiu. CommUfioterof Railroads: Edwin Knott, United Mates marshal. Western district of Iowa; Isaao Clements, pension agent at Chicago. Benefit to Needy Actors. Washington, March C The sale of

tickets for the actors' fnnd benefit, next Monday, was started by President Harrison, , who paid $100 for one of the boxes. Bepresentative Flower, Senator McMillan and Cornelius N. Bliss also took boxes. Gov. Jackson, of Maryland, will bring a party over from Baltimore. Tho performance will be "Aunt Jack," eiven by the members of Mr. Palmer's Madison-square company, who will come down on a special train tendered by the Pennsylvania railroad, rive the performance at Albaugh's Opera-house at 1 o'clock, andretnrn to New York in time to appear in the regular production at 8 P. M. Charged if lth Stealing Miss Tracy's Bracelet. Washington, March C Thomas E. Reidy, a substitute fireman, has been arrested for stealing a diamond bracelet, valued at $1,000. at tho fire at Secretary Tracy's house. Reidy, who admits that he had been drinking on the morning of tho fire, recovered a set of jewelry worth nearly S4.000. Ho tamed the jewelry over to the foreman of one of the companies, but it is alleged that he kept a bracelet worth 1,000 or more. The bracelet was the property of Miss Tracy, who lost her life at the tire. Eeidy denies the charge. ' Large Sams for Tactile Coast States. Washington, March 6. The Senate committee on military afiairs to-day ordered a favorable report to be made upon the bill to appropriate money to reimburse the States of California, Nevada and Oregon for the expenses incurred by them to aid in suppressing the rebellion. The amounts are: To California. $4,423,892; to Oregon, $2T6.272; to Nevada, $ 100,007. Wherever the State paid interest on loans to meet theso expenses, that amount, after being deter mined, shall also be paid the States. Ex-Con grrssm an Tanlbee's Case Hopeless Washington, March C At midnight tonight ex-Congressman Taulbeo's chances for living were regarded as hopeless, and his death was looked for at any hour. General Notes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, March 6. Mr. Cheadle introduced in tho House, to-day, petitions sent by 400 members of tho Friends' Church in Hamilton county and 2S0 members of the same religious organization in Greentown, in opposition to the appropriation of money to build ships of war and construct coast defenses. Mrs. Hnston announces that she will continue her Monday receptions in her suburban home on Columbia road through Lent.' W. S. Ken worthy, of Oskaloosa, la., has been appointed resolution- and petition clerk in the Hoube. Mr. Kenworthy is , equally well known in lowa and Indiana. He made a large number of speeches in favor of General Harrison in Indiana during the cam Dai mi of 1888. and made inanv friends in that State. ' The cross-examination of ex-Postmaster Paul, of Milwaukee, was resumed this morning by the liouso committee investigating the charges against the Civilservice Commission. Commissioner Roosevelt conducted the cross-examination. Mr. Paul again denied having violated the civil-service law in any mauncr. The Secretary of the Interior has approved the recommendation of the military authorities at San Carlos Indian agency, in Arizona, that abont ono hun- . dred of the wives, children and other relations of the renegade Apaches be removed to Fort Union, N. M., for temporary confinement. Rear Admiral Lewis A. Kiraberly has been ordered as president of the Naval Board of Inspectipn and Survey. . mm , HOW WAS THE BABY killed? Sensation Created by the Finding of a Dead Infant on a Seat in a Railwny Train. Wichita. Kan., March 6. Somewhat of a sensation was developed here this evening, which, on account of the prominence of those interested, created unusual excitement. Those interested are Mrs. Burkett, wife of J. P. Burkett. of Kingman, Kan., and sister to Mr. D. D. Green and Mrs. H. C.SInrs,of Wichita. While an employe was going through an incoming Santa Fo train this evening he found in one of the seats the dead body of an infant about three months old. He at once notified the officers, and they discovered from the passengers on the train that tho seat had been occupied by a man and a woman. Their informants also told the officers that they appeared nervous as they n eared the town, and that the woman held in her arms the bundle. The driver of the carriages, which were conveying the passengers from the depot, were hailed and in ono of them was the man who had occupied the seat. The young man gave his name a3 Otto Burkett, the sou of P. M. Burkett, of Kinsman, Kan. He is abont eighteen years old. He said the lady with whom he was is his mother. Young Burkett further said that passengers on tho tram had handed his mother tho baby to take care of for a brief time, and that it had been placed on the seat of the train. While in that condition its head had been crushed by some one sitting on it. They had left it in the coach, so Burkett says, because they did not wish to go to tho expense of a burial. Burkett and the body of the infant were taken to the coroners office at 11 o'clock. Mr. D. S. Green, a wellknown man of Wichita, called at the coroner's office and said that Mrs. Burkett was his sister and was at his house. The coroner agreed to let her remain there until morning. Mr Green fiad that his sister had taken the child from a hospital in California and had intended to take it home with her and rear it as one of her own children. It had died, so said Mr. Green, a few miles north of Wichita. He said no accident had happened to tho child. To-morrow the coroner's jury will render a verdict as to the death of the infant. Death Claimed the Bridegroom. Portland,, Me.. March C. George H. Watkins, of the publishing firm of Brown. Thnrston & Co., of this city, was found dead in bed at the United States Hotel, this evenintr. Ho was to have been married this evening to Miss Mary Bain, and the guests wero assembled to witness the ceremony, when they were informed that Mr. Watkins was ill and a postponement would be necessary. Later the fact of Mr. Walking's death was made known to--Miss Bain and the guests. The lad- was prostrated by tho fchock. Mr. Watkius's death was caused by hemorrhage of tho lungs or stomach. An Insurance Man's Sulclile. Mii'WAL'KEF, Wis.. March C William H. Farnham. assistant secretary of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, shot himself to death this afternoon in the committee-room of tho company. Ho had locked himself in tho room, and the excited clerks and officers of the company were obliged to break in the room on hearing the live hIioU. three of which Farnham succeeded in putting into his breast. The suicide is attributed to temporary insanity, brought on by overwork. Earthquake at Sea. . Boston, March C. The captain of the hark Charles H. Rice, from Calf ta liueiia Nov. 12, reports that on the second day out an earthquake was experienced. - It was accompanied by a heavy, rumbling noise And lasted nearly a minute. The vessel was shaken like a twig.

DEBATE ON IRISII METIIODS

Report of the Parnell Commission Discussed by Russell and Webster. Hajor Saunderson Called to Order for Violent Language Frenchmen Kill 400 of Kin Dahomey's Followers German Victory. HOUSE OF COMMONS DEIIATE. The Parnell Report Discussed by Leading" Attorneys of the Commission. London, March 6. In the House of Commons this evening the debate on the Parnell commission report was resumed by Professor Iiryce, who praised Messrs. Parnell and Davitt for rendering a great service to England in bringing about abetter feeling between the two countries. Sir Charles Russell said he could not regard the commission judges as men free from prejudice", nor as men who ought to havo been asked to deal with the many questions referred to them. He was justified in speaking thus, for the judges themselves had" confessed that they had not found within the mandate given them by Parliament a direction to report upon that part of the subject without which it was impossible for any one to judge of the moral character of acts imputed to certain members. A bad precedent had been made in the selection of three jndzes to decide ? a est ions having chiefly a political aspect. e had tho srreatcst respect for the opinion of the judges on questions that were capable of direct disproof, but not when they began to draw inferences. The whole case was vitiated by political bias. It was conducted with pertinacious rancor by the Attorney-general, a manner in which it would not have been conducted if tho political character of the commission had not swept away his judgment. Opposition cheersl. Sir R. E. Webster, the Attorney-general, said he thought that Sir Charles Russell ought to have acted himself upon his advice to avoid giving the debate a personal character. Proceeding to comment upou the fact of the leaguers withholding their documents, he asked tho House to recollect that leaguers who were Invincibles, such as Egan. Sheridan and Brennan, could not face the commission. As for the telegrams which Mr. Harrington quoted duriug the debate, they wero sent in order' to obtain evidence for defense in Air. Parnell's libel action against the Times. The commission had shown, what the respondents denied, that there was an intimate connection between the Clan-na-Gael and the Irish leaguers through the American league; it had traced the alliliation of crime with the existence of the league, and it had provided impartial minds with the evidence that justified tho bulk of the accusations against the Parnellites. Major Saunderson thought the Parnellites ought to subscribe for a monument to Pigott, in return for the sponge he had given thein with which to obliterate, if possiblo, all the charges against them. Nothing in the whole inquiry has struck him with such amazement, and caused each sorrow and regret, as tho . recklessness with which the Times had accepted Pigott's evidence. The moment he heard that Pigott was the authority of the Times he said the letters might as well be burned, for nobody would hang a dog on Pigott's evidence. He described at length what he called tho dual-method of the Parnellites. It was their custom, he 6aid, to collect dynamite fiends in America and to orate on a 'union of hearts" at home. Continuing, Major Saunderson accused Mr. Dillon of indirectly enconraging tho maiming of cattle, whereupon a Parnellito member shouted Liar." Tho Speaker sternly called for orier. Subsequently MajorSaundersonhimself was called to order, on Mr. Sexton's appeal, for asserting that tho Parnellites made speeches intended to shield them from criminal responsibility. The Major twitted Sir William VernonHarcourt with having cost the country 10,000 yearly for protection from dynamiters when he was Homo Secretary, and now his body-guard was composed of Nationalists paid by Ford. Justin McCarthy- taunted Major Sanndersonwith the Tory defeat in the St. Pancreas election, which, he said, was a sutficient reply to the charges against tho Parnellites. At this point the debate was adjourned. GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. Four Hundred Dahomlans KlUed by FrenchmenFemale Warriors Left on the Field. Paris, March C The Soleil has received information that another battle has been fought between a force of French troops and a force of the troops of the King of Dahomey. Eight of the combatants were killed and many of them were wounded. A number of Frenchmen and other Europeans were captured by the Dahomians. Other advices received here state that after the above-mentioned fight the Dahomians made a second attack upon Kotton. They were finally repulsed, leaving 400 of their number dead on the field. Among tho dead wero found several of the female warriors of the King of Dahomey. African Chief Boated by Germans. Zanzibar, March 6. Major Wissmann attacked the fortified position held by Bwa a Heri at Mlembale on Jan. 4, and carried t after severo fighting. Dispatches giving the details of the fight were received wday. From theso it is learned that the German force consisted of 800 Souudaneso, forty officers, while Bwana Heri had 1,500 men under his command. The battle lasted several hours, and the fighting was tho hardest that Wissmann has seeu since the opening of the campaign. The victory of the German commander was complete, and Bwana Heri, through the rout of his troops, loses the prestige he has hitherto enjoyed. Army Reforms In England. London, March 6. The necessity of getting better material for the rank and file of the British army has led to steps being taken to make tho service more acceptable to young men of a fair class. It is hard to get Irish recruits, and still more difficult to obtain Scotch and Welsh, while the English offering are mostly townsmen of poor physique and worse morals. So, over 4,000,IXX) are to be spent in building barracks and improving those already built, and it is understood that the condition of the soldier is xo be ameliorated as much as lb consistent with discipline. Brutality and arrogance from non-commissioned and commissioned officers are to bo steadily roEressed in the future, and a regimental oard will be in session every morning to hear complaints of ill-treatment. - - Protest Against a Canadian College. London, March C Delegates from Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, Dublin and Victoria University, and the Academy of Music, and the College of Music to-day called upon Lord Kuutsford, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and presented a protest against Trinity College, of Toronto, f ranting musical degrees in Great Britain, .ord Knutsford replied that Trinity College appeared to have exceeded the powers conferred upon it by its cbarter, and said ho would take tho opinions of crown lawyers ou the subject. The Czar Threatened by a Woman. St. Petersburg, March a The Czar has received athreateningletter from a woman, who signs herself 'Tchebrikova." The writer says that unless ho modifies his reactionary policy he will meet the fate of Peter 111, Paul 1 and Alexander II. A copy of the letter was sent to each of the Ministers at the same time. The police are extra watchful and are conducting an active search for the persons suspected of being implicated in the sending of the letter. France and the llerlln Conference. Paris. March C In the Chamber of Deputies, to-day, M. Laur presented his interpellation regarding the acceptance by France of the invitation to send delegates to the international labor conference at Berlin. As a response to the interpellation M. Spuller, Minister of Foreign Affairs, do-

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bv the Chamber of the order of the dav. This was agreed to by a vote of 4S0 to 4. Cable Jfotes. The United States men-of-war Atlanta and Boston, of the evolution squadron, have sailed from Genoa for Naples. There is a crisis in the Hungarian Ministry. The resignation of Herr Yon Tisza, the Prime Minister, is imminent. Five thousand Indians in the Casanave territory. United States of Colombia, have burned iiyiny plantations, because the colonists were unable to supply their demands for food. The federation of Belgian miners has sent a petition to the government and the Chamber of Deputies asking them to display an interest in the workingmen equal to that shown by Emperor William of Germany. . Arthur, Orton, who becamo well known as the Tichborue claimant, announces that he will contest the seat in tho English House of Commons for Stoke-upon-Trent, made vacant by the resignation of William Leatham Bright, Home-ruler. He will run as a Home-ruler. Gen. Antonio Lafano, commanding tho department of La Paz. San Salvador, died recently, at Zacateealuca, from the effects of wounds received in a personal encounter. General Lafano was a military chief who always gave his services to the country when they were needed, as in the revolution of 1885, for which he was honorably mentioned after peace was declared. Mr. William Benning, of the Central & Southern Telesrraph Company's station at St. Elena, Ecuador, an American, was drowned recently, while bathing in. the sea. - It appears that a heavy receding wave carried him out. and that he was taken with cramps and went under. A companion. eeeiug una sin k, weui iu uia niu, ami was nearly strangled by the drowning man. A QUEER CASE. First Refusal of the German Government to Give Up an American Criminal. New York, March 6. Some weeks ago detective Sergeant Heidelberg went to Germany to arrest Sigmund Lowenherz for forgery. The accused, while a member of. the firm of Lowenherz & Lansberg, leather importers, forged a note for $1,228.70, and a few days later the leather house failed and Lowenherz fled. Lansberg soon after committed suicide. A wanant was issued for Lowenherz's arrest, and it was discovered he was living in Fraukfort-on-the-Maiu. Papers were sent there and the detective detailed to arrest him. To-day District Attorney Fellows received a communication from the Secretary of State in which it was stated that the German government refused to deliver Lowenherz on the grounds that he was a German subject, and had not been long enough in this country to become naturalized. Tho government, however, will try him for the oft en so in Germany, and if convicted will sentence him according to the laws of this country. The evidence of detective Heidelberg was taken, and that ofiicor is now on his way home. This is the first case brought to the publio notice in which Germany has refused to give up a prisoner to the United States.: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The body of the robber of the Vallev Falls (Kan.) Bank has been identified as that of Charles Robinson, a farmer, living near Uttawa. Tho New York Chamber of Commerce has reconsidered the recent vote condemning the Mclunley bill, and the matter will be voted on again at a further meeting. Tho Missouri Labor Commissioner will try to breakup the "telegraph colleges" that advertise for pupils and guarantee them good positions which they never procure. Reuben Eisenhart. foreman at the Cam eron mine, at Shamokin, Pa., which has been on hre several days, was overcome by black damp while in tho mine and died soon after. The examination of Louis O. Y. Cortoz. who is charged with embezzling $100,000 from the government of Cuba, was brought to a close at New York yesterday De cision was reserves ;; Mr. Isaac Watson Cate, who is to accompany Rev. George L. Perrin to Japan as one of the representatives of tho first foreign mission ever sent out by tho Universalist denomination, was ordained at Boston yesterday. - ..: The Belgian steamer Do Rnrter. from Antwerp, for Boston, went ashore near Scituate last night m a thick snow-storm. The crow of twenty-seven men came ashore safely. . x i - The funeral of Ensign Co wles, editor of the deader, was held yesterday at Cleveland. The leading citizens of Cleveland and a hundred editors, reporters, clerks and printers employed by the .Leader jvere in atienaaucc. The Buckeye Pipe Line (Standard Oil Company) has advanced Lima oil from IS to 0 ceuts. Producers think a new method of refining has been discovered that will bring their oil up to the level of the Pennsylvania product. At a special meeting of the board of di rectors of the Nicaraugna Construction Company, held in New York, Hon. Warner Miller was elected president of the com pany, and Mr. A. C. Henry, heretofore tho president, was elected vice-president. A report comes from Leavenworth. Kan.. that it is stated in military circles there that when the Department of tho Missouri headquarters are moved to St. Louis, the united States arsenal at Rock island. 111., will be transferred to Fort Leavenworth. Henry B. Tucker launder arrest at Wash ington charged with swindling actresses out of money on the pretense that he was organizing a theatrical company. He is said to have demanded guarantees from them, and then failed to keep his promises. Last night a lady named Alexander, ac companied by her daughter, became vio lently insane on the east-bound express, on thePittsburg.Ft.Wayne&Chicago railroad. She was restrained with great difficulty, and for her own safety was placed in charge of a physician of Canton, 0. The mystery of the numerous attempts to wreck trains on the. "Nypano," near Youngstown, O., has been cleared at last. Detectives have been working on tho case for some time and their efforts resulted in the arrest of George Esterly, at that place. Esterly broke down and confessed, implicating one Jordan. If the report of tho geologist who has examined the field can be relied upon, gold and silver in paying quantities havo been discovered on tho farm of Jeremiah Stauffer, near tho Mt. Vernon Pa., ore mines. Stanton, the geologist, 6tates the rock assays abont $200 in silver, and from 000 to 81,000 in gold to the ton. The Grant locomotive-works have secured the site purchased at Chicago some weeks ago. Mrs. Hetty Green, the chief contestant, failed to put up the bonds requiudto carry litigation further, andttbe sale was consequently recorded. Altogether the site has cost tho Grant people not far from $700,000. Work on the buildings is to begin at once, with the hope of having the new plant in operation withjn a year. Movements of Steamers. New York, March C. Arrived: Helvetia, from Liverpool; Canada, from London; Wtesland, from Antwerp. Lizard, March C Passed: Saale, from New York, for Bremen. Moville. March C. Arrived: Circassia, from New York. Hammtrg. March C Arrived: Dania, from Now York. New York, March C Arrived: ' Lahn, from Bremen. ' When Silence "Would Have Ueen Golden. Nashville, Ark., March 6. Eight miles below here yesterday a negro named John Reel, while plowing in a field, found a jug containing i6,0(H) in gold. It was too heavy to carry and. putting 400 in his pockets, he started for a vehicle. .He was so elated with his find that he could not keep his good fortuno to himself. As a consequence when he returned the jug and contents had been stolen. Twelve Moonshiners Arrested. Atlanta. Ga., March ft United States marshals have made twelve arrests in Pickens connty of moonshiners, who have been banded together under the name of the Honest Man's Friend ami Protector for the purpose of driving awoy and punishing informers. One of the members gave away the gang, which consists of twenty-soven members.

SPEECH BY MB. CLEVELAND

The Ex-President Delivers an Address in Favor of Free Circulating Libraries. He Points Out the Value of Educating the Young, and Warns His Hearers of the Evil Influence of Improper Literature. New Yonk, March C. A mass-meeting, to advance the interests of the New York free circulating library, was held this afternoon in Cnickering Hall. One of tho speakers was ex-President Grover Cleveland. Ben jamin Field presided and introduced Mr. Cleveland, who was greeted witbapplause. After congratulating tho trustees upon the success attending their efforts to establish a free circulating library, Mr. Cleveland said: .In every enlightened country the value of popu lar education is fully recognized, not only as a direct beiienc to its recipients, but as an element or strength ana safety in organized society. Considered in these aspects, it should nowbere be better appreciated than in this land oi free institutions.consecratedto the welfare and happiness of it citizens, and deriving its sanction and its power from the people. Hero the character of me people is inevitably impresKed upon the gov ernment, and here our public life can no more bo higher and purer than the life of the people than a stream can rise above its fountain or bo purer than the spring in which it baa its source. riuat we have not failed to realize these condi tions is demonstrated by tho establishment of free publio scnouls on every side, where children are not only invited but often obliged to submit themselves to such instruction as will better their situation in life and tit them to take part intelligently in the conduct of the government. Thus in our schools the young are taught to read. ana in this manner the seed is sown from which we expect a profitable return to the btate, when its beneficiaries 6hall repay tho educational advances made to them by an intelligent and patriotic performance of their social and political duties. And yet if we are to create cood citizenship. which is the object of popular education, and if we are to insure to the country the full benefit of puDiio instruction, we can by no means consider the work as completely done in the school-room. While the young gathered there are fitting themselves to assume in the future their political obligations, there are others upon whom these obligations already rest, and who now have the welfare and safety of the country in their keep ing. Our work is badly done -if these are neg lected. They have passed the school age, and have perhaps availed themselves of free instruc tion; but they, as well as those still In school, should, nevertheless, have within their reach the means of further mental improvement and the opportunity of gaining that additional knowledge and information which can only be secured by access to useful and instructive books. Ihe husbandman who expects to gam a profit able return from his orchards not only carefully tends and cultivates tho young trees in his nursersies as they grow to maturity, but he generously enriches and cares for those already in bearing, and upon which ho must rely for ripened fruit. Teaching the children of our land to read Is but the first step in the scheme of creating good citiiens by means of free instruction. e teach the young to read so that both as children and as men and women they may read. Our teaching must lead to the habit and the desire of reading to be useful: and only as this result is reached can the work in our free Schools be logically supplemented and made valuable. TEerefore, the same wise policy and intent which open the doors of our free schools to our young also suggests the completion of the plan thus entered upon, by placing books in the hands of those who in our schools have bceen taught to read. , . . A man or woman who never reads and is abandoned to unthinking torpor, or who allows the entire mental life to be bounded by the narrow lines of a daily recurring routine of effort for mere existence, cannot escape a condition of barrenness of mind, whloh not only causes the decay of Individual contentment and happiness. bnt which fails to yield to the state its Justly expected return of usefulness iu valuable service and whoiesomo political action. Another branch of this Question should not bo overlooked. It is not only of great importance that our youth and our men and women should have the ability, tho desire and tho opportunity to read, but the kind of books they read is no less Important Without guidance and without the invitation and encouragement to read publications which will improve as well as interest, there is danger that our people will have in their hands books whose Influence and teudeucy are of a negative sort, if not positively bad and mlchlevous. Like other good things the ability and opportunity to read may be so used as to defeat their beneficent purposes. Tho boy .who greedily devours the vicious tales of imaginary daring and blood-curdling adventure, which, in these days.are far too accessible to the young, will have his brain filled with notions of life and standards of manliness which, if they do not make him a menace to peace and good order, will certainly not tend to make him a useful member of society. The man who devotes himself to the flash literature now much too common, will, instead of increasing his value as a citizen, almost surely degenerate In his Ideas of publio duty, and grow dull in his appreciation of tho obligations he owes bis country. In both theso eases there will be a loss to tho fetate. There is danger, also, that a positive and aggressive mlury to tho community will result; and such readers will certainly suffer deprivation of the happiness and contentment which are the fruits of improving study and well-regulated thought. fco, too, the young woman who seeks recreation and entertainment in reading silly and frivolous books often of doubtful moral tendency is herself in the way of becoming frivolous and silly, if not of weak morality. If she escapes this latter conditiou she is almost certain to become utterly unfitted to bear patiently the burden of selfsupport or to assume the sacred duties of wife and mother. The remainder of Mr. Cleveland's address was devoted to impressing upon his hearers the importance of securing to those who desired to read and study, such books as would instruct as well as entertain. The citizens of New York were also reminded of the great good to be accomplished in establishing and maintaining libraries for the free use of the people. Other speakers were Joseph II. Choate,. Henry E. Howland, President Low, of Columbia College, and Andrew Carnegie. Among those on the platform with the speakers were Brayton Ives. Phillip Shuyler, John Jay, Henry C. Marquaid, C. P. Huntington, Charles A. Dana, Charles Scribner, Channcoy M. Depew, D. O. Mills, Fred R. Coudert, Oswald Ottendorfcr, Austin Corbin, J. J. O'Donohuo and W. C. Whitney. JOUR." STONE-CUTTERS. Many of the More Important Propositions of the Contractors AccepteM. Boston, March 6. -The Journeymens Free Stone-cutters' Association to-day adopted a reply to the recent manifesto of the contractors. The stone-cutters declare that they must themselves be the solo judge? as to who shall become members of their organization, and that the existing rules of the union regarding apprentices and tho initiation fee are perfectly fair and equitable. The union accepts tho contractors' proposition for payment by tho hour, but rejects .that suggesting individual contracts with employes. The cutters deny that any attempt has ever been made by them to black-mailjany person. The proposition as to annual adjustI nient of hours, fitting of stone and redress lor employers are severally accepted. The union expresses its willingness to submit all ollenses and grievances to a board of arbitration to consist ot an equal number of employers and employes. Dig Strike Settled. Nashua, N. II., March 6. The striking employes of 'the Nashua company mills have voted to accept tho proposition of Treasurer Amory and that of his committee and agree to go to work Monday. There is much jubilation over the settlement of the big strike. Business Embarrassments. Fall River, Mass., March C The total indebtedness of A. J. Chase, of the Wyoming mills, at Globe village, is estimated at 80,000, of which $50,000 has been obtained on mortgages. The balance is due the other creditors, including the Chace, Tecumsey, Barnaby Seaconnet and Hargraves mills corporations. No fears of insutliciency of assets are expressed by his creditors. Chicago, March ft The failure of the ITintersof the Chicago City Directory, R. . Donnelly & Sons, proves to be even more disastrous than was at first supposed. Tho liabilities will probably reach $175,000, while the assets, as stated yesterday, will probably not realize more than $40,000. St. JosKrii, Mo., March ft Jones Brothers retail clothiers, made an assignment this morning. Liabilities 20,000. Gerrymander Outrage Sunday Clolng Law. Columuus, O., March ft The Senato this evening passed the House bill redisricting the State for congressional purposes, and it is now a law. No amendments

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to the original bill, as introduced, were made. All Democrats supported the meas ure. Tho Rvan bill, amending the Owen Sun day closing law, so as to give councils of cities and villages the fight to decide whether saloons shall be kept open on that day, passed the Senate. Senator Schneider, Republican, of Cincinnati, voted for tho bill. OBITUARY. Ezra L. Stevens, Founder of the Present Sys tem of Schools for Indians. Asbury Fakk. N. J., March ft Ezra L. Steveus, of Washington, D. C, died here to-day, at the Ocean Hotel, of heart failure. Mr. Stevens was for nearly thirty years chief clerk of the Indian Department. He originated tho present system of schools fdr Indians. Mr. Stevens was one of the most prominent Freemasons in this country, lie had risen to the thirty-third degree, and it is said that he sat in Masonic lodges with more Presidents of the United States than any Mason now living. Rev. Clement M. Butler. Philadelphia, March ft Rev. Clement M. Butler, D. D., died in Gennantown last night, aged eighty years. Dnring his rectorship at Trinity Church, Washington, Mr. Butler was Chaplain of the United States Senato, and during the rebellion he was employed by the government in several important and delicate missions. He was an intimate friend of Webster, Clay and Calhonn. William Uucknell. Philadelphia, March ft William Bucknell the philanthropist, died suddenly, of apoplexy, at his residence in this city last night, aged seventy-nine j'ears. Mr. Bucknell's gifts to Bucknell University, at Lewishurg, Pa., amounted to $142,000. Since 1851 ho has given away for church and missionary purposes over $525.000, and it has been estimated that his disbursements of money in helping his fellowmen will aggregate over $1,000,000. Other Deaths. Phelp.s, N. Y., March ft John B. Mack, for over thirty years a resident of this village, died this morning of pneumonia, aged seventy-eight. He leaves one son, Frank W. Mack, of the Associated Press, New York, to mourn his loss. Albany, N. Y., March 6. Madame Charlotte McNally, mother assistant at the Sacred Heart Convent, died to-day, aged six-ty-live years. ' , The Virulence of Democratic Criticism. Senator H. L. Dawes, in the March Forum. ' The policy and conduct of this administration have encountered a bitterness and an unscrupulousness of attack which havo had no parallel since the Jacksonian war upon the administration of John Ouiucy Adams. The oath taken in defeat by tho infatuated personal party, that the then administration should be overthrown "though it were as pure as tho angels in heaven," seems, after, sixty years of dusty slumber, to be called into service again, and to be administered to the faithful, in the expectation that it will accomplish, in the arena of present political discussion of great issues, what it did then in a personal warfare waged between the adherents of two men of the same political faith, before parties had separated 011 distinct and everdiverging lines of policy and principle. The political philosopher is not disturbed that those whose policy and measures were condemned by the verdict which decreed their abandonment, should find fault with ,the change. He only wonders at the intensity of the bitterness, and the boundless unscrupulousness which characterize the outcry that the present administration does not adhere to the men and measures which met their condemnation when power was taken from its predecessor, that there might be an end of its practices. To havo expected commendation instead of condemnation from those whose methods and avowed purposes had been rebuked by the change, would have implied hypocrisy on .their part or faithlessness on the part of those who prevailed. Crjing "Fire!" In the Boston Language. Bob Burdette, in the Brooklyn Eagle. Out in a town far. far away from the United States of Michigan there lives a man who, although a "Westerner," has, by long years of study and reading of incomprehensible books and poring over musty tomes, acquired the Boston language until he can sneak it like a native. One night, they tell me, the building in which this wise man had his rooms caught lire. The flames crept on; they seized upon him. absorbed in study. Bnt the clothing bad not been more than half burned otl his back before he realized what was going on. Rushing out into tho street he lifted up his voice and gave the terrible alarm that thrills the stoutest heart: "Conflagration! Conflagration! Hasten hithrwith the mechanical apparatus designed for the suppression of comhustion.', De Lesseps and Ills Family. Paris Letter In the Chicago Journal. M. and Mme. De Lesseps heid a reception, a few evenings ago, where the chief attraction was the presence of all the old man's children, the two by his first marriago. and the eleven bv his second. His eldest "boy" is about rifiy-nve years of age, and his youngest child, a daughter, Gisele. is four j'ears old: the age of the eldest of tho eleven children is sixty-seven. Comte De Lessens himself is now in his eighty-fifth vear: he is rapidly breaking up or down but still retains a good now 01 animation for a gentleman never at any time mercurial. Thev sav the failure of the Panama canal has never affected him; ho believes that his scheme is being victimized by a conspiracy. Testing the New Rules. Philadelphia Inquirer. The country will watch with great in terest the appeal to the Supreme Court bv Mr. Pendleton, of West Virginia, who was unseated with less than a quorum voting. We do not see how this is to bo got into the court, but we hope it will be and tbat a decision will be rendered which will settle the question forever. In this case there were 1C2 yeas and no nays, the Democrats not voting. It takes 106 to make a qnorum. There were S04 members in the House. If every one of the 142:silent Democrats had voted nay they could not have defeated the motion to unseat Pendleton, and yet they hold that they did this very thing by not voting. W as there ever such an absurdity 1 Female Lawyers. Washington Tost. There are now five women in this country who are entitled to represent their clients in the Supreme Court of the United States. Clara Shortridge Foltz, of San Diego, Cal., having been admitted to practice yesterday. The first woman admitted to practice was Mrs. Helva llhckwood. of this city. Mr. A. G. Riddle, of this city, has stood godfather for all the woman who haVe applied for permission to appear before the court, lie has for years been a pronounced woman suffragist, aud is iu favor of all the learned pursuits being opened to the female sex. Bold Robbery at Kansas City, Kan. Kansas City, March ft Burglars entered the jewelry store of Robert J. Dunning, in Kansas City, Kan., at an early hour yesterday morning, and directly under the full glare of an electric light broke the safe open with a ten-pound sledge-hammer, and secured, $4,000 worth of diamonds, rings, watches and chains. The entrance was effected by forcing open the front door with a crow-bur. The jewelry in the cases was not disturbed. w Name for Sister Susan. Kanous City Times. The Hutchinson News refers to Susan B. Anthony as tho G, O. W,

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RAILWAY TIME-TABLES. From mdl&napolis Union Sutton. ennsulvania fines. Last West SouthNorth. Traint run by Central Standard Tirn. Leave for Pittsburtr. Daltimore,)d 4:30 ara, Washington, Philadelphia and New d 2:.5 p m. York. ) d .V30 p m. Arrive from the East; d ll:40aim, d 12:50 puu and d 10:20 pro. Leave for Columbus, 9:00 am.; arrive from Columbus, 3:50 pm.; leave for Richmond, t:OJ pm.; arrive from Kichinond, J:40 am. Leave lor Chicago, d 10:35 am., d 12:20 anu arrive from Chicago, d 4:05 pm.; d 3:55 am. Leave for Louisville, d l:oo am. 7:35 am., 4 4:10 pm., 5:20 pm. Arrive from Louisville, )&0 am., a 10:30 am., 5:50 pm., d 12:15 anu Leave for VlDcenues and Cairo 7:25 am., 4:10 pm.; arrive from Yinceune and Cairo; 10:30 am., 5:10 pm. d, dally; other trains except Sunday. DALIA LINPJ 8 FIORTEST UOUTK TO SU V LOOXS SJCO TBX WEBT. Trams arrive aud leave Indlanspolls as follows: Leave fur 8k I, TiSOanx UAJ m. 1:00 pa, llcOO pnx 7:00 pm. Oreeuoastie and Torre nsnt Aocoro. 4.-00 pm At. from Bt. ju, am, 4:15 am, 150 pm, 7:45 pro, &20ptD. Terre iiaate n1 Oreencastle Aoootn. 10:00 am Bleeding taxd Parlor Oars are run on through trains. Tor rates and lnlormatVtt spvlr to ticket agents ot the company or H. li. UKUING. Assistant (Jenersl Ifeteeojf or Agent. PEORIA A EASTERN R'WAT ; BIO 4 ; (Late 1 li. & V. Ry.) ! BOUTE. : Bast and West. " - Trains at Indian spoils.goixo wkst. Arrive 7:20 a. m. 10:4U p. m. Uepart-7:45 am, 11:15 pm. 12:05 noon, 5:00 rra. GOINO EAaT. ' Arrive 6i45 pm, "SO m, i:40 pm, 10:15 a. m. Depart-7:15 pm. 4:00 am. Dally. . City Gmces 3H Snath IUlnols street ana sontV eant corner Washington and Meridian streets. National loMflts Wrpnffut-Iroa Pipe FOE ' Gas, Steam & Water Boiler Tubes. Cit and Malleable Iron Fittings (black and galvanized!. Valves, Stop Cooks, Engine Trimminps, fcteamGaiiffes. Pipe Toiig. Pipe Cutters, Vises, Herew 1'lates and Dies, Wrenches, 8team Traps, 1'umps, Kitchen Hinks. Ilose, fcelting. Babbitt Metal. Bolder, White and Colored Wlpine Waste, and all other supplies used in connection m ith Gas, Pteam and Water. .Natural Gas Supplies a specialty, bteam-beatlnc Apparatus for Public HniMinKs, Storerooms, Mills. Shops, Factories, Laundries, Lumber Dry-houses, etc Cut and Tbread to orner any size Wroutrht-tron Fipe from e inch to I2iucbes diainet er KNIGHT A JILLbON. ; 7ofc 77 8. Pennsylvania st. OVERALL FACTOR! BURNED. ' Robert Harseim'g Establishment Damaged to the Extent of $25,000 This Morning. i At 2 o'clock this morning firo broke out in the overall-factory of Kobert G. Harseim, on the southwest corner of Meridian and South" streets, and in a few minutes the entire third floor was wrapped in flames. The blaze was first discovered by a man walking on South street, who immediately turned in tho alarm. The department responded promptly, and within ten minutes three engines were on the scene. Chief Dougherty at onco 6aw that the entire building was in jeopardy and he turned iu a second alarm. 13 y this time tho first detail of firemen had tho hose and ladders in good working order, and before tho second detachment had arrived two streams were playing on the structure. The fire probably originated in the second floor and spread at once through the elevator shaft to the think No definite cause could be assigned by Mr. Harseim or any of his employes, as no gas-jets wero burning i on any of the floors at the time. There J is a night watchman in the build- i ing, hut ho could not be found during the progress of tho firo to give his statementTho majority of those who expressed their opinions wero inclined to believe it to have been incendiary. Chief Dougherty himself said that although he could not state definitely that 6uch had been the cause. The manner in which the building was bnrning might go to show iucendiarism as a possibility. The tiro did not reach the first floor, but confined itself mainly to the third. Six streams were sufficient to place it under control in the courso of threequarters of an hour, but not until after tho roof had been reduced to ashes and tho npper portions destroyed. The floor of the third, story was partiaJIy burned and in this way tho stock was more damaged ly water than fire. Mr. llarscim arrived on the scene in tho fire patrol wagon about a half hour after the first alarm was sounded. Ho entered-, the burning building, and , endeavored to reach the safe to secure his books and papers, but the dense smoke drove him and several firemen who accompanied him from the building, and he then attempted to enter from the rear, with a like absence of sua cess. As the flames were gradually snfcs dued, ho concluded that the valuables would remain intact in the safe, and xnado no further effort to enter. When ouestioned about his stock and loss, Mr. Harseim replied: MI was carrying an unusually heavy 6tock. valued at from 40,000 to )0,0(K), bnt it is about 'covered by insurance." It is understood that no had policies with Charles fc vSayles and other agencies, but the exact disposition of the insurance could not be ascertained this morning. The building is owned by Louis Hitzelberger, and was insured. The loss on the buildingwillbefrom .$5,000 to 0,000, and on the stock from i)0.000 to $r,O0Q. The building was a new threo-story brick structure, and was first occupied by Mr. Harseim on Jan. . 1. Prior to that time his factory was located at No. 23 Kast South street, at which place he was burned out some time ago. A Keforiner for Revenue Only. Tfrtrft Mate lleuihU-T. George Francis Train and Henry George are reformers" of the same classfor revenue. Tram varied his rattle-brain efforts autliciently to cover the scope or desire of the people who heard his lectures at $1 per head, until be had accumulated a fortniu. and the people tired of listening to hisnoise. Henry George, until recently, confined his erlorts to an attempt to make some progreM for poverty. He battled in behalf of tho pout, ill tuo iiiiuiai ft u f in rwvi, U9 liru, as the box receipts justified that line ot argument. m A Good Place for llliu. riiilatlelphia Record. If Dr. Phillips Hrooks could be permanently caged as Old Trinits. in New York, lie would make the place very attractive. The country has ten splendid churches where it has one eloquent preacher. I'erUh the Thought 1 Louisville (Ky.) Tinif s. It is all very well in morals to condemn the nse of pistols in personal encounter, but what is the phy sirallv weak man to do? Sutler bis noe to be pulled und his bones' broken!

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