Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1891 — Page 1

INDIA OUT J ESTABLISHED 1823. INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 7, 1891. PRICE FIVE CENTS.

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1. Men's fine $15 Cassimcre Suits now. $11.00. 2. One-fourth off our regular prices on all Overcoats for Men, Boys and Children. 0. Choice of any S20 or $3 stiff Hat, for 81.03. Other Hats proportionally less in price. 4. A special bargain. All cur fine White Dresa Shirts worth $2, $1.75, S1.50, $1.25. to eell for the remainder of this week at OSc. 5. All our Percalo Shirts, worth $1.50, $1.25 and $1, with three seperate collars and cutTs for C3c. One-fourth off regular prices on all our fine Wool Over-Shirts and all winter Underwear. ORIGINAL EAGLE 5 & 7 West Washington St. HAT DEPARTMENT 16 South Meridian street.

MURPHY, HIBBEN & CO. Importers and Jobbers. Dry Goods, Notions, Woolens, Etc. 'Will open this week the largest and most complete lines of "Toile du Nord," "Cretonne Cloth," ' "Amoskeatf Teazle Cloth," "Outing Cloths," "Renfrew Novelties," "Whittenton," "Normandie," Westbrook, Amoskeag, .Dress Ginghams in all the new colorings and effects, at correct prices. GTStocks Complete in All Departments. Lowest Prices Always a Certainty. MURPHY, HIBBEN & CO.

Which Railroad Is the Safer to Travrel On? One whose conductors' time la largely occupied collecting fares making change, collecting and canceling a thousand and one different ' varieties of tickets, passes and clergymen's orders, all of which must bo carefully Inspected to see If they ore genuine. If their limits have not expired. If they have not been lost or stolen and bulletined; or the line whioh employs aaubtanL to do this work! The Big Four Route employs assistant conductors or train cashiers and collectors to do all this w ork, and, without decreasing their pay, - relieves its conductors of all annoyances and distractions of this nature, so that they ean devote thetr entire attention to the running of their trains and looking after the safety and comfort of their passenger. In providing these assistants the managers of the Big Four have not only done an act of kindness to their conductors, but have at the same time contributed greatly to the safety and security of tbeir patrons. Those who will think for a minute will realize how much less liability there is to accident on a road whose conductors whole duty is to guard again&t accidents, and who are not diverted from this duty by the annoyances and perplexities, not to speak of pecuniary responsibilities, incident to collecting, handling and reporting cafth and tickets. The thinking individual who realizes how easy it is for a terrible accident to result from a slight carelessness on the part of a railroad employe will appreciate this and it Is believed that the large increase in the passenger business of the Big Four road is attributable, in a great measure, to the f eeiing of security on the part of the traveling publio while on its trains, owing to this reform. 5--TRAMS--5 TO CINCINNATI VIA THE C, H. & D. R. R. -THE ONLY Pullman Yestibule Line. Trains srrive and depart as follows: Dspert 3:65 am 110:45 m 3;00 pm 3:30 pm 46:30 pm Arrive 12:33 am 1 9: 15 am ll:15am 17:45 pm 10:55 pm Pally. tDally except Ponrtay. City ticket office corner Illinois street and Kentucky avenue. XL J. B1IEIN. General Agent. GRimXCES OF TRAINMEN. Employes of the Pennsylvania West of Pittsburg Ak a Readjustment of Wages. Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. ft The trainmen of the Pennsylvania Company's lines west of Pittsburg presented a bill of grievances to the various superintendents on the different lines to-day. The grievances are in addition to those presented a short time ago by the yardmen and switchmen. The men are now asking for the establishment of a mileage system of pay, or, in other words, to be paid so much per mile instead of being paid by the trip, as is done at present. At present there are different amounts Eaid on each division, and the men want to ave it arranged so that the same price will be paid for running each 100 miles on one part of the various lines as on another. In addition to this, there are various other grievances from the different branches of the service, but as yet no details regarding them can be bad, as the men refuse to talk before seeing the superintendents. The men are all very contident of their demands being acceded to. A strike is not anticipated. Strike of Car-Bnllders. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. J ekfeson villk, Ind., Jan. 6. A strike of considerable proportions was man unrated at the works of the Ohio Falls Car Company, in Jeflersonville, this morning, about three hundred freight car-builders going out, on a refusal of the company to accede to a demand for an increase of $3 per car for the work. The men were employed in building four hundred fruit cars for the Hast Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad, for which they were to get $17 per car, but. finding they were unable to make satisfactory wagesat that price, they made a demand for an increase to $30. which being refused the strike ensued. The strikers seem to b pretty well organized, and have appointed a committee to consult with the officials of the car-works, with a view to adjusting the trouble. Iron and Steel-Worker Scale Adopted. Jolikt, III., Jan. 6. Tho scale committee of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel-workers, which has been in session here for two days, completed its work to-day. It had under consideration ' tho scale of wages for the current year presented by the Illinois Steel Company to govern the pay of the men in the shops here and at Chicago and Hay View, Wis. Each mill was represented by eight delegates. The best of feeling prevailed among the men, and the schedule proposed, although lower than heretofore, was adopted with a very few changes, which the committee believe the o tllcer will agree to. Pcmmtr-timk fcrlnsra colio . and stomach-ache, Elmxnons Liver lieguiator cures it.

nTKala possibly to-night or Tbursdaj.

That's for BOYS' SUITS. Actual value $8.50 to 13. Lots of Heavy Overcoats and Ulsters going now at 1-5 OITI? at the WHEN After Jan. 1, 1801, W. II. Armstrong &. Co.'s Surgical Instrument House and Factory will be located in the larger and moro commodious building, No. 77 ! South Illinois street. POWDERLY'S POLITICAL SCHEME. Call for a Convention of Industrial Organizations to Formulate a Platform. Philadelphia, Jan. 6. General Master Workman Povderly has issued a circular letter to the industrial organizations of the United States, asking their;o-operation m a national reform Industrial conference, to be held in Washington, Feb. 23, March 25 and July 29, the date to be fixed by vote. The conference is to formulate "a ..political platform such as industrialists could favor at the polls." In the circular Mr. Powderly embodies the report of the committee on political action, which was presented at the last General Assembly of the Knights, and which recorded the desire of tho order that the platform be - built upon the principles of the Knights' preamble the principal of which are the reservation of publio lands for aetual settlers, the establishment of a national monetary system without the intervention of banks, and the governmental operation of all telegraph, telephones and railioads. Mr. Powderly says further: "I shall vote for Feb. 23 for the reason that we will be enabled to meet and confer with thej newly-elected Congressmen who owe their elections to the laborers of the field aud city. It is not intended to be a Knight of Labor gathering or a conference of those representing one idea or section alone." TROUBLE IX STORE FOR A TRUST. North Dakota Farmers Will Fight Collection of Notes Held b j the Harvester Combination. Fargo, N. D., Jan. 6. Arrangements are being made to light the collection of all notes held by the harvester companies in this State. It is said the amount is about $3,000,000. The ground of the contest is that tho notes were given for binders with the contraot that repairs should bo furnished free, and the recently combined American Harvester Company has made a rule that all repairs must hereafter bo paid for in cash.. Another srouud for the contest will be that the new company is a trust and is therefore contrary to the laws of the United. States and the statutes of North Dakota. Arrangements are also being made to antagonize the business of the new company and favor the independent harvester companies. The American Harvester Company announces prices $40 higher per machine than has been the rule here for the year past. v To n Tried for Heresy. Cleveland. O., Jan. 6. The trial of Rev. Howard I). Macquery, of Canton, begins to-morrow morning, at 10 o'clock, at the Trinity Church, on Superior street, this city. The presiding otlicer will be the Hon. Geo. T. Chapman, from St. John's Church,' West Side. Tho prosecuting attorney will be Kev. u. S. 13a tee, of St. Paul's Church. The legal advisor for Kov. Mr. Macquery will be Judge J. H. McMath. Kev. Mr. Macquery will plead bis own case, and will be advised by his friends, who are also Episcopal clergymen Revs. Amos Skeele and Myron Adams, of Rochester, N. Y in addition to his legal advisor. Judge McMath. Mr. Macquery is author of a book, entitled "Tbo Evolution of Man and Christianity," and Episcopalians bave brought the charge of heresy against him. mam Panhandle Workmen Killed. Coshocton, O., Jan. a The west-bound Panhandle passenger train, at 5:30 o'clock this evening, about one mile east of town, ran into two hand-cars containing twentvtwo of their workmen. Two men John Corran and Robert Davis, of Steubenville were iu3tantly killed. Captain Burgess, of Allegheny, received injuries from which he cannot possibly recover. The other men saved their lives by jumping. The two men killed and one fatally injured were old men with families depending on them. Hungarians Mangled by Dynamite. AtTOONA, Pa.. Jan. 6. A terrible explosion of dynamite took place at the stone quarries at Tyrone forge this morning, in which two Hungarians were badly injured. It seems that .a drill-hole had been filled on Monday with dynamite and the men were engaged in clearing out the charge when an explosion followed, injuring the Hungarians in a frightful manner, their heads, faces and bodies being a mass of sores and bruises. Their escape from instant death was marvelous. Fatal llead-Knd Collision. Pawnff. City. Neb.. Jan. 6. There was a head-end collision this morning between two freight trains on the Rock Island railroad at Uern, Kan. Engineer Neil Smith, of the east-bound train, was killed. Engineer Thomas Haider, fireman Casteman, V. E. Allen and conductors Wilkins and Ranson were injured, but none fatally. The cause of the wreck is not known. A great amount of property is said to have been destroyed. Closed for Lack of Coal and Coke. HoLLiDAYsncRG.Pa., Jan. 6. The rollingmills of McLauahan, Smith & Co.. of the Portage Iron Company, Hollidavsbnrg Iron Company, and furnaces Nos. 1 and 2 of tho Cambria Iron Company here, have closed down on account of tho coal and coke famine. The Gap furnace, also. Is expected to close down in a few days.

HO HOPE FOR FREE COINAGE

In Deserting Their Party Western Senators Have Killed Their Favc rite Bill. It Will Probably Pass the Senate, tat Speaker Reed and Other Republicans Will Vigor- . ously Oppose It in the House Senator Teller Attempts to Justify tho Conduct of Himselt and Colleagues, AndlnDoinsSoMakes an Cncalled-For Attack on Mr. Sherman Views of Messrs. Morrill and Vest on the Silver Question. THE SILVKR CONSPIRACY. Radical Action or Western Senators Has Killed All Chances of Financial Legislation. yecial to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. C. And now the freecoinage proposition is dead, and w" ith it the finance bill. It was choked to death by its friends in the! Senate yesterday. No greater violence conld have been done to the free coinage of silver than was perpetrated by the silver-pool Senators yesterday when tbey joined the Democrats for the purpose of side-tracking the elections bilk Republicans in the House, who would have voted for free coinage in any 6b ape, declare now that they will not support it Speaker Keed bad assured the friends of free coinage that he would do nothing to defeat its fair hearing and an early vote should it come from the Senate; but he is quoted as haying said to-day that it would not be considered while be is in the cbair. Free coinage will pass tho Senate. It will get a large majority there. All of the enemies of the elections bill on the Republican side, most of the Democrats and some of the best men on the Republican 6ide will vote for free coinage, but it will end there, so far as this Congress is concerned. In the first place, there is a majority of one against free coinage in the House committee on coinage, weights and measures, which will have charge of the bill when it comes over from the Senate. It was thought by some that when Mr. Conger of Iowa resigned from the chairmanship of the committeo, and Mr. Wickham of Ohio, a free coinage advocate, succeeded to the chairmanship, the committeo would have a majority for free coinage; but not so. There is a majority of one against free coinage in any form. The Speaker does not recoguize any one for any purpose witl.out knowing just what is to be done. He would not recognize any one to ask consideration of free coinage. If any trick like that perpetrated in the Senate should be attempted it would be declared out of order; so that it will not be possible to get free coinage before the House by fair or foul means. It is already dead. Free coinage has been slaughtered in the house of its friends. The conspiracy will not win. It may flefeat the elections bill, but it has disgusted conscientious friends of free coinage, and they declare that the silver pool of Republican Senators wao have sold out tbeir party will never realize on tbeir investment. So palpable was the fraud, so revolting the scheme, that it had but little effect upon the silver bullion market. Silver appreciated by a point and a -half and dropped back to its starting point as soon as the feeling in tho House became kuown in New Yorfc to-day. Judas Iscariot sold out for a few pieces of silver, but it looks now as though an attempt to sell the cardinal principles of the Republican party for a few "points" on bullion would prove a boomerang even before final action npon the trade is accomplished. The lamentable feature of the whole transaction is that it will defeat the finance bill, which has some good features. The elections bill was laid aside for the ostensible purpose of adopting a measure to prevent the contraction of tbe currency and put a stop to the hard times, but it will prove to be the death-knell of that measure, for free coinage would defeat any proposition now. ' DEBATE IS THE SENATE. Teller Goes Out of Ills Way to Insult Sherman View s of Morrill and Vest. Washington, Jan. 6. When the morning business had been disposed of in the Senate to-day Mr. Teller took the floor to discuss the finance bilL For weeks, he said, a bill had been pending before the Senate the importance of which he did not underrate, the benevolent purpose of which he did not question. Yesterday, with a full knowledge of all the criticism his action would bring, with a full consciousness, however, that he was in the discbarge of his duty, as he saw it, he had voted to lay the bill aside and take up the present measure. He know when he did that the slanders that had been perpetrated for the last eight or ten months would be renewed at least outside of this chamber, and very near to thin chamber to tbe e fleet tbat the friends of free coinage of silver had entered into an alliance with tho oponenta of the elections bill for its defeat m return for their votes in favor of free 'Coinage. There neve? was a more unfounded slander published than this, lie understood that he would be subject to criticism becauso it would be said that he was willing to place a question of dollars and cents above what the friends of the eleotions bill were pleased to call a question of humanity and of the rights of individuals. If the elections bill was such an important question, demand ing the undivided attention of the Senate on the 1st of December it was an equally important question last July, when it was laid aside by the friends of the measure in order that econotuio questions might be considered. He did not underrate tho importance of the economic question. Protection of American manufacturers and of American labor was one of the tenets of the Republican party. Believing, as be bad done, that tbe question was one of paramount importance, he had voted to lay aside the elections bill in order to take op the economic measure. He did not wish anybody to take bis remarks as an apology for himself or his colleagues for their action in voting to take ud the financial bill. They would answer to their constituents, to the people and to their consciences for their course. A LIBEL ON SENATOIt SHERMAN. Mr. Teller then proceeded to criticise Mr. Sherman's speech, which he declared consisted of nothing but assertion as to what would follow the passage of the pending bill. The Senator from Ohio had occupied high financial positions in this country. In certain sections of the country where the almighty dollar was all powerful, and where the grossest ignorance existed upon financial questions, save npon questions or discount and exchange, he was a financial oracle. Therefore tho utterances of the gentleman fell uDon the country with great weight, not because there was anything in his statements or bis assertions, but because of the accidental positions he had heretofore occupied and the reputation he bad heretofore made. The prophecies of the Senator when the Bland bill was under consideration had been unfulfilled, yet the Scnstor said now, ex cathedra, that if free silver coinage were adopted gold would become a commodity and that half of the money in tbe United States would be wiped out. How did the Senator show this, 6ave by simple declaration? The Senator bad declared that the country was on a gold basis. The Senator had attempted to put the country 'on that basis, not bad been unable to do so. The special pleadin gr., the misrepresentation, the threats of

dire calamity, had not been sufficient to frighten tho representatives of the peoole into putting the country on a gold basis. The Senator had a wonderfnl facility of being on all sides of all financial Questions. Referring to the condition of American farmers, aud to showing it to be less prosperous than that of the farmers of Franco, Mr. Teller said that the farmers of America had made themselves heard last November. To bis regret and the regret of Senators on bis side of tho chamber, they had been found voting almost unanimously with tbe Democratic party. Whyf They were not Democrats to-day. They had not changed their politics. But they had been dissatisfied with the Republican management of financial affairs. And for one, he did not wonder at it. He would give heed to what they said. He bad tried last year to have the Senate listen to their voice. He knew that they wanted free coinage of silver, and tbat they were not afraid of the advent of one, two or three hundred millions of silver any moro than he was. j WHAT MR. TELLER WANT8. Proceeding to discuss the section of the bill providing for the purchase of twelve millions of silver, Mr, Teller said that he washed his hands of any responsibility for that. He bad no interest or sympathy with the men who speculate in silver. It had been said in tho public press and in another place (meaning the House of Representatives) that when the silver bill of last session passed a large number of Senators were holders of silver bullion. If that were so be had never heard of it. So far as he was personally concerned he had never owned an ounce of silver except in silver dollars or half-dollars. He bad never engaged in speculation of that character, or of any other character, and had no sympathy with the men who bought silver and pnt it np or pnt it down. The pending bill was not brought forward in the interest of the silver States. If the twelve millions of silver were in tbe hands of the miners of Colorado there would not have been, he asserted, any anxiety to buy it up. liut it was in the hands of people in political and financial circles in New York, and tbat was the reason why there was so much anxiety about it in certain quarters. The proposition had come from New York, and not from the silver States. It was not a scrap to be thrown to them. They were indifferent about it. And they were indifferent to the price of silver as a single question. They had some interest, of course, in putting up the , price of silver, as they would have in putting up tho price of gold or any other commodity whioh they produced, but their groat interest in the question ras that silver should be used as money. That was a bigger question than whether the miners of Colorado and Montana were to get 61.29 an ounce or $1.10. Mr. Teller opposed the fourth section of the bill, which provides for the issue of 200,000.000 of 2 per cent, bonds. It was. he asserted, in the interest of two classes the silver speculators of New York and the bankers of the country. It absolutely ignored the people of the United States and their demands for more money. He alluded to the silver act of last session as a mere make-shift, and vsaid there was but one sure method, and that was the free coinage or stiver. The Senator from Ohio had told the Senate yesterday that free coinage could not be enacted into law. Had the Senator spoken of the House of -Representatives or bad be spoken for another tribunal to which tbe bill would have to got He I Mr. Teller! did not care for whom the Senator had spoken. He could not speak for him nor for a majority of tbe Senators on hia side of the chamber. If Senators believed that free coinage was essential to the welfare of the country it was their duty to vote for it. The other branch of Congress could pass it or defeat it. The President could sign it or decline to sign it as be saw fat. It was tbe business of Senators to legislate according to their judgment, and that was what he proposed to do. Mr. Sherman said he would, at some future time, reply to some ofMr. Teller's observations, but he did not care to do so now. VIEWS OF SENATOR 3IORRILL. Mfc. VorriH then addressed the Senate. InvieV of the late financial panic in New York, lend of. a rather popular demand for some increase of the currency, he had been willing to -stretch a point in order to keep' step with tho Senators from Colorado and Nevada. But appetite grew by what it fed upon. Even some Democratio candidates for the presidency bad "pulled down their vests," and were said to admit something of a progressive appetite. It had not been enough to assent, without a whimper, to tbe purchase of twelve million dollars' worth of foreign silver, supposed to be in the bauds of speculators, nor to assent to a provision for the i6sue of treasury notes, to the extent of SISO.000,000, to purchase silver bullion, but it was proposed, whenever the market price of silver bullion should be a dollar, or over, for 371 grains of pure silver, that the purchase of silver- should cease, and that the free coinage of silver should take place. And yet all these propositions, tipped with silver, promised, Mr. Morrill said, no finality, but were to "stretch out to the cracs: of doom.": He was, and ever bad been, sincerely and heartily disposed to support any fair and reasonable measure tending to advance the market value of silver; but it appeared to him that his silver friends were asking too much, and he had to halt befot plunging into a shoreless and bottomless sea. One of the most potent instrumentalities in the march of civilization was an honest and unalterable standard of money. Mercantile honor demanded it; the glory or shame of any government hinged upon it, and no people could hope for permanent prosperity, or aspire to tho lead among the foremost nations of mankind with a money standard everywhere disputed and subject to doubt. VEST 6PEAKS FOR CLEVELAND. Mr. Vest argued in favor of tbe free coinage of silver, and replied to Mr. Morrill's speech. The Senator from Vermont, he said, had spoken of the Democratio party having "lucid intervals," and had said, at least by implication, tbat every publio man who favored free coinage was afflicted with

a sort of financial lunacy. Between the two classes the Democrats per se and the citizens of the United States who favored f reo silver coinage Senators, if the Senator from Vermont were correct, were living in a very large lunatic asylum, because the last election had developed the fact that the entire face of the country was covered with Democrats and free-coinage people. Mr. Vest went on to allude to tbe statement that he bad received a letter from exPresident Cleveland recanting some of his views on the silver question, and said tbat that was a mere figment of imagination coming from some -newspaper 6ource, and that it had not the slightest foundation. He bad never had a letter from Mr. Cleveland on the silver question, and had never had more than one conversation with him on that subject. All that be Mr. Vestl bad ever said was that he had reason to believe that Mr. Cleveland had, after further examination, modified, to some extent, his opinion in regard to the free coinage of silver, bnt tbat he had said that Mr. Cleveland had taken back all that be had ever stated on thnt subject was absolutely without foundation. As to the alleged combination between Democratio Senators and silver Senators, Mr. Vest denied its existence. The statement that there had been any agreement or any understanding to take up one bill in order to defeat another was absolutely false. He had been always in favor of tho free coinage of silver and he had come to the conclusion that the time had arrived when tbe elections bill simply and purely a partisan measure should be laid aside in order that the ceneral demand for financial legislation to relievo the people should be met. At the close of Mr. Vest's remarks the .Senate, on motion of Mr. Sherman, went into executive session, aud soon adjourned. CANNOT COIN THEIR SILVER 11IUCK. Director Leach Quotes the Lavr for the Benefit of Messrs. Merrick and Morse. - ' Washington, Jan. 6. Messrs. Merrick and Morse, tho gentlemen who recently tendered a silver brick to the superintendent of the mint at Philadelphia to be made into silver dollars for their benefit, to-day made a "written demand upon the Director of the Mint to instruct the superintendent

of the mint at Philadelphia to receive end com the silver bullion as requested. Director Leach replied to them, sustaining the action of tho superintendent, and said: "The only authority of law for the receipt of silver bullion at the Mint of the United States for coinage iuto silver dollars is that contained in the act of July 14, 1S0O, which provides: 'Section 1. Tbat the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to purchase from time to time silver bullion to the aggregate amount of 400,000 ounces, or so much thereof as maybe oilered in each month at tbe market price thereof. bee a. That the Secretary or the Treasury shall each n;onth coin 'J.OOO.OOO ounces of tbe silver bullion purchase! under tbe provisions of this act into standard silver dollars and any gain or seignorage arising from such coinage shall be accounted for and paid into tbe treasury. At the date you presented the bar of silver at tbe mint at Philadelphia the superintendent was instructed by the department to pay Sl.(Ki2 per fine ounce for silver ottered for sale, corresponding to the 'market price.' If he had received tb bar of silver for coinage into silver dollars for your benefit he would have paid at the rate of $1.29.29 per fine ounce, which would have been in violation of law and instruction of the department."

K10T IN A CHUECH. Sanguinary Melee Reported in Which Fire Men Were Dangerously Wounded. United Press Dispatch. English, Ind., Jan. 6. Last night, during a religions meeting at West Fork, in this county, a riot started among the members of three large families the Lowes, Wisemans and Baggerlys. Pistols, knives, stones, cndgels and fists were used with a vengeance. Five men are lying at the point of death as a result of thecontlict and others are less seriously injured. The worst injured are William Lowe, William Wiseman, John Wiseman, Robert Caggerly and Ed Jones. WANTS PAY FOK SOUTHERN BONDS. James G. Blaine, as Secretary of the United States, Sued by a Native of Holland. Baltimore, Md., Jan. C Jacques Van Raalet, a native of Rotterdam, Holland, but who resides and does business in Glasgow, where he is also consul for the Netherlands, instituted suit to-day against Hon. James G. Blaine as Secretary of State of the United States. Prior to July 28, 18C8, the plaintiff bought at their fnll value $125,000 negotiable coupon bonds issued by the Southern States, On that day Hon. Wm. H. Seward, then Secretary of State, issued a proclamation which recited, among other things, that "neither the United States nor any State shall pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection of rebellion against the United States, but all such debts and obligations shall be held illegal and void." The plaintiff contends that the proclamation contained an implied admission that without such prohibition the debt or obligation would be good and valid. He alleges that the proclamation of tho Secretary of State was an illegal interferance with the rights of plaintiff as a citizen of Great Britain and Holland, by reason of treaty stipulations between the United States apd Great Britain and Holland. Tbe case presents many curious points. Tbe principal point that will be contended for is that tbe United States has always held that none of the Southern 8tates were ever out of the Union; that the Secretary of State, in his official capacity, had no anthrvity to issue any proclamation tending to impair the obligations of any State, and tbat such obligations in the way of bonds are binding on and are bound to be paid by the State issuing the bonds. The bonds in question are State bonds and confederate States bonds jointly. , Done of a Mastodon Found. . Mankato, Minn., Jan. 6. The bones of some large animal, supposed to be those of a mastodon, have been discovered in the bank of the Minnesota river, several miles northwest of the city. The caving of the bank caused by the undermining of the river has exposed to view the remains of a Eortion of the huge animal's anatomy. The ones are eight feet from the top of the ground, and are in a good state of preservation, but aro so frozen into the ground that no attempt will be made to remove them until spring. Two farmers, living near by, discovered the remains a few days ago, and brought word to this citv to-day. Though not versed in science, they believe that the , bones are those of a mastodon. Victims of a Kansas Blizzard. Wichita, Kan., Jan. 6. A pitiful tale of sutiering and death in tbe recent blizzard in the West comes from Kussell Springs, Logan county. The day before tho storm John Brooks, a farmer of that section, left home and got as far as this place. Realizing the lack of provision at his borne against cold and hunger he tried to go back to the succor of his family, but no trains were running, and ho did not reach home until Sunday. Now word is received that during his absence bis wife tried to reach her nearest neighbor, a distance of four miles, bnt 6uccr.mbed in the road, and was found in an insensible condition and nearly frozen, while the babe she carried in her arms was frozen to death. The wife, it is feared; will die from tbe effects of exposure. Train Goes through Trentle. Lexington-, Ky.. Jan. 6. A special to the Transcript this afternoon stated tbat the C. & O. exoress due in. this city at 5:45 went through a trestle three miles east of Stepstone, and engineer K. A. Hilburn, of Huntington, W. Va., and Ed McNeil, of Kilgore, Ky., were killed, liilburn's body was removed to a sleeper. The body of McNeil could not be found, and as tho engine, tender and express car were burned, it is supposed that his body was consumed in the dames. None of the passengers were hurt. Small-Pox Epidemic In Texas. Austin, Tex., Jan. 6. Small-pox is on the increase in Texas, and at one or two points it appears to be assuming an epidemic form. Great alarm exists about Templeton, Helton and other towns, and the Governor has ordered the State health otficer from Huston to this city, and his headquarters will be here until tbe disease abates. The State has taken absolute control of quarantine matters, and no place will be quarantined against except by order of the Governor. Gang of Boy Uurglars Canglit. AKRON, 0., Jan. 6. A gang of boy burglars has been rnn down at Kent, of whom twelve are from here. They range in age from nine to twelve, and have been carrying on a systematic course of thievery for the past three months. They possessed duplicate keys of business bouses in town, and an old glass-works, now deserted, served as a hiding-place for them r.nd their spoils. Detectives have been working on the case for some time. Charged with Embezzling 85.000. St. Louis, Jan. C A warrant was issued to-day against Thomas J. King, tbe local manager of the Artnonr-Cudahy Packing Company, of No. -JOT Scott nvenue. The warrant charges King with the embezzlement of $5,000 belonging to the company, whose headquarters aro at Omaha, Neb. King has failed, so it is alleged, to make returns for the amount of beef received by him from the company. Left to Drown by Her Escort. HuxTixoTor. y, Va., Jan. While crossing a swollen stream in Wayue county to-day, a boat containing Fannie Turner, Hattie Koberts and Nat Wheeler, their escort, capsized. Wheeler deserted the girls and made for the shore. He and Miss Ko?erts escaped, but Miss Turner was not able to stem the current aud was drowned. She was a popular belle.

SCARE AT PINE RIDGE AGENCY

Stampede ofCitizens and KeportcrsOver Kumors of an Intended Massacre. Renewal of the Exports that the Situation There Is Extremely Critical and that the Indians Are Preparing Icr an Attack. Gen. Miles Uopefal that the Hostiles Will Surrender and War Be Averted. Ono Soldier Injured and Several Indians Killed and Wounded in a Skirmish Correspondence Kelating to Forsjthe's Suspension. BAD case: of scare. Stamped of Cltlxens and Reporters front Pln Rldfe Alleged plot to Kill Ererybodj. Denver, CoL, Jan. 6. A special to tho Kocky Mountain ifews, from Pine Kidge, via Kushville, Neb., receired at 6 o'clock this morning, says: Sunday night will never be forgotten by any one who spent it at Pine Kidge. The Sabbath bad opened bright, clear and warm. The church bells rang, and the three pastors bad crowded bouses. In tbe afternoon, toward S o'clock, it was noticed that the squaw-men and half-breeds were excited, and were hurrying from one point to another with their guns in their bands. Instantly every ono was on the alert and running down the ravines. It was found that half a dozen squaws had been giving the tip' to get out; that a party of war bucks had visited tbe camp of friendlies (so-called), who are camped within a mile of the agency, and had urped them to help massacre all the agency. The Indians have always been permitted to come in, and during the-day and evening to wander around the agency at tbeir own sweet will, carrying their guns in their hands. Tbe plan was to take advantage of this lenieucy, gather in the town late in the evening, and at a given signal each Indian was to pick out bis man and kill him on the spot. The success of such a plan was self-evident. There are less than live hundred soldiers here, and they are on tbe far outskirts of the village, at their earthworks. Such a force, with their cannon, could keep a large number of Indians at a distance in the day time, but at night the picket line is necessarily weakened and drawn out into too long a line to hold back any rush, while the cannon are useless. Tbe hostiles were to be close at hand, and as soon as the firing began they were to rushjm. Tbe citizens and reporters, as well as tbo soldiers, soon learned the news. Many a man thought of this or that Indian with whom he had quarreled and kept sharp watch to see that no one was behind him. Finally the balf-breeds told certain Indians tbat we were "on to" the scheme, and told the bucks to light out. or the soldiers vould make it warm for every one with a guato. In an hour there was not an Indian in the camp except the uniformed scouts and police. Many a dark look was passed and ugly words spoken between the whites and reds during that hour of stampede. Over twenty-five squaw-men and tbeir families drove with frantic speedfor settlemcnts along the railroad. Houses and hotels were abandoned, every one going to some storo or warehouse, where there was a chance for resistance. Even General Miles remained up until 3 o'clock this morning. There are not now near enough troops here. A battle is expected everyday withthe enemy, and it will be'one of the hardest in the anuals of Indian warfare. The troops bave the Indians surrounded on the cast, west and north, and an s ttack will drive them into the agency where the main battle must be fought. The enemy number over fonr thousand men. women and children, with half that many to attack us in the rear. The scene as the town moved into the stronger buildings was one of indescribable confusion, as men with guns in their hands and a crim look of war in the their faces, escorted crowd after crowd of frightened women and weeping children to tbe apologies for strongholds. No one wants to see a repetition ot the scene. to-niffht with the Indian chief Yonng-Man-Afraid-of-His-IlorKes. accompanied by three otber Indians. They will proceed to Pine Kidge agency to-morrow, where they will use their influence to quell the present Indian troubles. Body of a Soldier Horribly Mutilated. Omaha, Neb., Jan. CA special from Pino Kidge says: That tbe search for the dead was not conclusive was proved to-day when an Indian brought into the agency the body of private Francis Schotte, of Troop G, Seventh Cavalry. The body was found in a ravine six miles from the battle-field to the north. Tbe unfortunate soldier had been mutilated in a horrible manner. Every bone in hie body was broken and the scalp removed. Schotte was probably killed in one of tbe skirmishes and overlooked. He was buried to-day with military honors in the reservation cemetery. fcixty-live squaws, with about tbe same number of pappoosee, came in from the hostile .camp, about six miles away, to-day. and are being taken care of. There is great sullcring among the hostiles on account of a scarcity of food or shelter. A movement of troops is projected. It is stated that General Forsythe is not to be reinstated till the clo.se of the campaign. Crisis at Hand. Chicago, Jan. C Capt. K. L. Huggins, in charge of army headquarters here during the absence of General Miles, received word from Pine Kidge this evening that Assistant Adjutant-general Corbiu arrived at the agency to-day, and is now actively aiding General Miles. Captain II us: pins expressed the opinion that decisive operations were at hand. The situation has now become such apparently that a definite moro to end the preseut crisis could not be delayed more than a day or two at the farthest. SITUATION AT 1'INE JUDGE. Regarded as Critical by a Correspondent , Who Fear a Msacre 20O Dead Indians. Omaha. Neb., Jan. C The Kee has the following from its staff correspondent at Pine Kidge agency, S. D.i The seriousness of the situation here is increasing. Short Bull, the leading hostile chief who has distinguished himself all along during this trouble by never for a moment considering any of the overtures looking to an amicable settlement, but who fcas steadily stuck to hislair in the Had Lands, has assumed command of tbo itreat body of hostiles. Last nicht he told our spies that he would take this agency if it cost every warrior ho bad. Half-breeds tie re bave been informed by friends and relatives, whom some of them have among the hostiles that they bad better immediately move their families a long distance from the agency, as a gre.it raid aud massacre was certain. The half-breeds are showing ns what they think of this information by getting their families out ot bere-with a rnsK The government herder, John Dwyer, and isne clerk Puph. bave both discovered through tbeir Indian friends of years' standing that a raid and massacre has been fully decided upon and maturely planned. General Miles is thoroughly couvtrsant with ail these facts, and himself says that oar situation is extremely critical. There are less than six hundred soldiers here now all told. Jack Red Cloud and a small party of friendlies came in from the hostile camp last evening. They asked that the Indians now at the agency be sent out to

A special from Crawford, j eh., says: Captain O'Connell, First Infantry, United States regulars, arrived here at b o'clock