Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1891 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1891.

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ELECTIONS BILL TO BE PASSED

Bepnblican Senators at Last Determine to Show They Have Some Back-Bone. Itr. Bpooner Says the Cloture Eesolntlon "Will Bs Adopted and the Main Measure Be fashed to a Vote Within a Few Days. Notice Given by Mr. Hoar that Ho Will Ask the Senate to End Debate To-Day. Speech by Senator Evarts in Advocacy of the Bill New Immigration Law Presented by Mr. Owen for Consideration hy the House. Ki: PUB LI CANS MEAN BUSINESS. They Hare Determined to Adopt a Closure Bala afcd Tais the Elections BilL 6pclsl to the Indianapolis Journal. ' Washington, Jan. 15. "Yea, sir, the elections bill was taken up for business," said Senator Spooner this afternoon, "and it is my honest opinion that it will bo passed within a few days. Had we intended to let it die we should not have gone to the trouble to take it up long after the cocks had crowed midnight. It was in the best possible position to rest if we bad not intsnded to pass it" 'But bow will the previous question be leached in order to get a final voto!" be was asked. "The closure rule will, of course, have to be adopted before we attempt to pass the bill It is out of the question to pass any party measure without a rule which will. force a closure of debate. Certainly it will take a little nerve to pass the closure rale. There will be a supreme moment, a sensational scene, a time when the presiding officer must recognize but one man, and ho a Republican, with a motion to vote. Bat we believe we have now all that is necessary for success. The action of last night in taking up the bill has already had a good effect. There is something that brings men closer together in the doing of a courageous act this thing of tenting together and touching elbows, as it were. It promotes confidence, good fellow ship, close partisan lines and makes men want to move abreast. The way to pass a closure resolution is to pass it. and it is just as easy to pass it one time as another. ith it we can and will pass the elections bill; without it we can do nothing, .except by sufferance of our political enemies. We must now, and wiL, get a move on ourselves." p : The total vote cast early this morning in the Senate on Mr. Hoar's motion to take up the elections bill was sixty-six, exclusive of the vote of the Vice-president. Twentytwo Senators we're recorded as absent, including twelve Republicans and ten Democrats. As a matter of fact. Senator Ingalls was present, but refrained from voting, and four of the Bepnblican Senators, while not in the chamber when the . vote was taken, were in the city. The actual reported absentees were seven in number Senators Blair, Chandler. . Far well. Moody. Pettigrew. Pierce and Squire. The Republican vote was thirtythree, exclusive of the Vice-president, or fifteen less than a quorum, so that if the Democratic Senators should resort to the Dlau of refusing to vote, and be joined by Senators Sanford, Teller. Wolcott Jones of Nevada, Stewart and Washburn, the Republicans who voted with them last night, or rather early this morning, the advocates of the elections bill would require the attendance of six of these seven actual-absentees before they could act upon the closure rule. On the other hand, if the six Republicans who voted with the Democrats should not so to the length of technically absenting themselves and should content themselves with casting their votes in opposition to the Republican majority, the latter would have an even quorum, exclusive of the Vice-president's vote. 6PFECII BY SENATOR EVARTS. At 2 o'clock this afternoon the bill was taken up in the Senate, and Mr. Evarts proceeded to speaK in advocacy or it. lie said that the Constitution and the laws in pursuance of it would be, sooner or later, maintained. There could be no middle to law. One or the other would have to go : to the wall. He proceeded to discuss what he termed the "Mississippi method." which . had been planned to prevent the free exercise of suffrage, and which he said had been adopted in tho gulf States, and be declared .that in that predicament those 3 . 1 O T I 1 otaics ivero uuu-suurage oihih. iuq laws of those States were silent before some power or other that paralyzed their execution. .The freedom of suffrage had been thwarted and controlled by some methods which were not according to law. either of the States or of the United States. Mr. Evarts sent to the clerk's desk and had read an extract from a speech made by Judge J. B. Chrisman in the Mississippi constitutional convention last September, denouncing the election methods as carried on in that State. That speech, he said, showed that there was in Mississippi a prevalence of subversion of law. The new Constitution of Mississippi, he understood. , provided that elections for the lower branch of the Legislature should be held ouly once in four years, thus acenstoming voters to the disuse of suffrage. What Democratic community in the North would submit to .that! Mr. Morgan asked whether the Republican party had not abolished suff rage, both of blacks and whites, in the District of Columbia, so as to prevent the destruction of property interests in the District. Mr. Evarts declined to discuss that subject. He was discussing the Mississippi plan. "But the two cases are parallel," said Mr. Alorcan. "That may be,7 was Mr. Evarts'i reply, "but 1 am not discussing parallel constitutions." "1 would like to ask the Senator," said Mr. Walthall, "wnetner be denies to the people of Mississippi the right, if they have the power under the Constitution of the United States, to protect themselves in that mode against necrro rnlef" Mr. Evarts did not reply directly, but went on to speak of the arbitrary apportionment in Mississippi. The col Ion a v bet wwn the two Senators continued at length, and finally Mr. Evarts went on to contrast the nurrber of votes for Representatives in Con cress In New York and the New England States with the votes in the gulf States, where, he said, there was nothing but a dessicated suffrage, without life or circulation. Mr. Evarts spoke for three - honrs and three quarters. Mr. Pasco obtained the floor and the bill was laid aside informally. Mr. Hoar gave notice that to-morrow he shonld ask the Senate to remain in session until the bill was finished. TO REGULATE I3IMIG RATION. Bill Presented to the Home by Mr. Owen, with an Instructive Report. Epr!l to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington. Jan. 14. Representative Owen, of Indiana, chairman of the committee on immigration and naturalization, presented this evening, under instruction from his committee, a bill for the regulation of immigration, with a report based on the testimony taken in the investigation covering the last ten months. The report presented makes no reference to tho investigation concerning Chinese immigration, as the chairman states that report would be presented later. Tho bill provides for the exclusion of all idiots, insane persons, paupers or persons likely to become a public charge, persons. suffering from loathsome or contagions disease, those who have been convicted of felony or othor infamous crimes or misdemeanors involving moral turpitude, polygamists and all persons whose tickets of passage have been paid for by others, unless it is affirmatively shown that they

do not belong to the excluded classes. It also provides that in case of conviction for violation of the alien contract-labor law no compromise on the part, of the government shall be made. An important feature of thebillisSection 3. which prohibits advertisements in foreign papers for laborers, and provides that any olo coming to this country in response to such advertisements shall be treated ascomiLg under a contract and in violation of the alien contract-labor law. This is the result of the committee's investigation at Boston andChicago. where associations of contractors and employers were endeavoring to meet the force of a strike ,by advertising for laborers in the newspapers of Europe and Canada. Section 4 of the bill is drawn to prohibit the circulation of any advertisement further than a statement of time schedules and transportion facilities of the various steamship companies. The testimony taken concerning the violation of the alien contract-labor law shows that the officers of immigration met with many difficulties in its enforcement. Tho loophole pointed out by several inspectors, and which they claimed to be unable to remedy, is the clause in the law allowing persons in America to send for their personal friends, and the officers state that immigrants coming in violation of the law were instructed in its provisions, and on the report that they came in response to the solicitation of a personal friend, they were allowed to pass and could not bo detained. The statistics presented to the committee and . printed with their testimony show that in New York, while the ratio of foreign population is only 23 per cent, 45 per cent of the insane are foreign-born. So" per cent, of the inmates of prisons are foreignborn, and 5-1 per cent, of those receiving support. This ratio holds good in many of the other States of the Union, and in some is even exceeded. The statistics also showed that of the native-born population the insane are one in every 493, while in the foreign-born it is one in every 191; of those receiving support, among native population the ratio is one to every 681, while among the foreign-born it is one to every 180. Among the inmates of prisons, of the nativo-born the ratio is one iu every GS7. while of the foreign-born it is oneinf. This condition of all airs evidently indnced the committee to take some action to correct it, and they have provided that any alien who may become a public charge within one year after his arrival in the United States, from causes existing at the time of his landing, will be returned to the country from whence be came, at the expense of the steamship company which brought him here. The report states the fact that one or more of the political parties in twentvthreft of our States this year, in their State platforms, demanded additional regnlations of immigration, and tho purpose of the present bill, as stated - by a member of the committee, is not to restrict immigration but to so amend the laws as to enable the officers of the government to enforce them. An effort will be made to bring the bill up for consideration within the next few days, and, having the full support of tho committee, there is little doubt but that the bill will pass. MINOR MATTERS.

Bill Introduced to Begin Condemnation Proceedings Against Aided Railways. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 15. Senator McConneil introduced, to-day, a bill to provide for a settlement between the United States and certain railway corporations which have heretofore received bonds from the government to aid in the construction of their roads. The Attorney-general is directed to commence condemnation proceedings against these corporations, and the President is authorized to detail three armv officers as a board to fax the value of all property belonging to them. The Attorneygeneral is also directed to institute proceedings against all the companies to forfeit their charters and other privileges conferred by the government, and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to advertise for a lease of fifty years of all the railroads, with all appurtenances, no bid to be considered for an annual rental of less than $5,000,000. - Proposed Bureau of Commerce. Special to the IndianapoUs Journal. Washington. Jan. 15. A bill introduced by request in the Senate by Mr. Fry e, for. the establishment of a Department of Commerce, provides that the head of the department 6hall be known as the Secretary of Commerce, and it also provides that the department shall disseminate information concerning commerce, and shall report to Congress on what legislation is required to promote the commercial interests of the United States. The bill directs the transfer to the department of the bureaus of the government connected with commerce, and the chief officers of those are to constitute the United States board of commerce, which shall have control over the execution of the government's commercial connections. ; . All Foreign Cattle Mast Be Inspected. Washington, Jan. 15. Secretary Windom has decided that all foreign cattle imported into the United States, whether for consumption or for transit, must undergo a veterinary inspection by the officers of the Agricultural Department. This rule does not apply to American cattle passing through Canada, whether for consumption or for exportation. Booster Fourth-Class Postmasters. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 15. The following fourth-class Indiana postmasters were appointed to-day: Claysville, Washington county. T. F. Greenslade, vice J. B. Shanks, resigned; Halo. Washington county, J. Zinck, vice M. Wheaster, resigned; htony Point, Jefferson county, S. Hilbert, vice W. Wallington, resigned. General Bens Retired. Washington, Jan. 15. Gen. S. V. Benet, chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, War Department, was to-day placed on the retired list of the army. His services in tho army extended over a period of forty-six years, seventeen of which he filled the position of chief cf ordnance. General Note. Special to the Inflianspolis Journal Washington, Jan. 15. Dr. S. A. Elbert was to-day appointed a member of the pension board at Indianapolis. Hon. J. X. Huston and wife are at the Ebbitt They arrived from Connersville to-day. Ex-Congressman Kleiner, formerly of Evansville, now of Pierre, S. D., is in Washington with his family for the winter. He says he has not lost his residence in South Dakota, and will return there in the spring. Governor Steele, of Oklahoma, now in Washington on official business, expects to leave here on Saturday, to spend Sunday at his late home in Marion. Henry E. Tinney, of Lafayette, who has been spending a few days iu Washington, left to-night for his home, via the Pennsylvania line. The following postmasters were nominated by the President to-day: Luclns G. Martin, Attica. Ind.: Robert F. Shipley, Mendota, 111.; M. 1). Worrell. Gibson City, 111.; Albert Miller, Dundee, 111. A bill crediting O. M. Laraway. late postmaster at Minneapolis, with $11,115, the value of postage stamps stolen from his office in July, l&SG, was passed by the Senate to-day. Mr. Morgan oflered a preamble and concurrent resolution in the Senate to-day on the subject of the recent information or suggestion for a writ of prohibition in the Supreme Court in connection with the Behring sea dispute with Great Britain. Jt is similar to the one introduced in the House yesterday. President and Mrs. Harrison were, last night, dined by Senator and Mrs. Stanford. m m Chicago to Ilave Indiana Gas Within a Year. Chicago, Jan. 15. The Economic Fuelgas Company has accepted tho franchise recently grouted it by the City Council, and promises to be ready to deliver natural gas to consumers in this city for fuel purposes witfcin a year. The gas will bo piped from eastern Indiana, and the pipes are already laid nearly to the Illinois line. Movements of Steamer. Scix.lt, Jan. 15. Sighted: Saale, from New York, for Bremen. Philadelphia, Jan. 15. Arrived: Mississippi, from London.

INDIANA AND ILL1N0ISNEW8

Supposedly Rich Strike of Oil Creates Much Excitement at Marion. Injured by the Explosion of a Gas "Regulator "Shanty-Bcat Mystery" Cleared Up Spurious Silver Certificates. INDIANA. Marlon Much Excited Over a Reported Rich Strike of OIL Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Marion. Jan. 15. A great deal of excitement was created here to-ay by a report that an immense oil well Lad been developed on the farm of Jamej Nelson, four miles southeast of this city. An investigation shows indications of large quantities of the article, though the drill was stopped as soon as the oil was struck, and the flow shut oft as effectually as possible. Notwithstanding the efforts to stop the flow the liquid has forced itself out of the crevvices in great quantities, and there is but one opinion as to the magnitude of the strike. The well belongs to Monroe Seiberling, the great plate-glass manufacturer of Kokomo, who has enjoined secrecy upon the driller and owner of the land, and is said to have sent an army of operators over the coun try to secure leases. Many others are out after leases under the impression that a great oil field has been struck. It has been the prevalent opinion about this city for sometime that there was oil in paying quantities in the ' region of this strike. The drill in this well was stopped at fifteen feet in the rock, while in the gas-wells the rock has been penetrated twenty-five to forty feet. No test of the quality has been made, but it is supposed to be similar to that of the Lima field. The oil strike is the only topic of conversation on the streets to-night. Further developments are awaited with a great deal of impatience. Gas Regulator Explodes. Sperlat to the Indianapolis Journal. Russia ville. Jan. 15. Wednesday evening, about 7:50 o'clock, an explosion occurred at the building which protects the gas regulator. Mr. Wishart, of Lafayette, superintendent of the It and W. M Natural-gas Company, was here to have a "burn-out" repaired, and :went to the building to ascertain if all was right before retiring for the night. He had justopened the door, when tho explosion, with terrible force, blew him thirty feet across the street. Tho flame ignited his clothing and burned his right hand and his entire face and neck in a frightful manner. The brave-hearted man, after such a painful experience, fought the fire at the building until he got it under control. He was then ' carried to his room and his wounds dressed.; The building was not totally destroyed. but considerably damaged. 'The Mitten" Drove Him Crazy. Special to ih Indianapolis JournaL Jefferson ville, Jan. 15. Jerry Bradshaw, of Watson, a village five miles out on the O. & M. railroad, was last night breught to this city and placed in the county jail, to be held pending an investigation of his mental condition. Bradshaw has for some time been devotedly attached to Miss Jackson, a young girl residing in the vicinity of his home, but tbe girl did not .entertain the same sentiment toward him, and a short time ago told him so. A few days ot despondency and melancholy were followed by raving. Kidnaped Ills Child, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Bloomington, Jan. 15. James Pitzer is badly wanted by the officers. Yesterday he broke into a room in which his separated wife had locked up their six-year-old child, fearing that he would be. taken from heri and took tbe boy and tied. Pitzer an d hi wife separated a year ago, Pitzer taking the child with him and going to West Virginia. Mrs. Pitzer followed him. to that State, and by legal proceedings obtained possession of the boy, whom she brought here. Pitzer arrived here yesterday. A warrant for his arrest on the charge of kidnaping has been issued. -. Spurious Silver Certificates. Special to the Indianapolis JournaL Fort Wayne, Jan. 15. A number of spurious five-dollar silver certificates are floating about in this vicinity, the banks of this city receiving a number of them in their deposits to-day. The bill is a silver certificate of the department series 188f, check letter B, signed by W. 8. Rosecrans, Register of the Treasury and Isaac W. Hyatt, Treasurer. ' The paper is poor, thin and of a yellowish tint (Tlie red threads running through a good bill are cleverly imitated on the bad by red lines drawn on the back. The vignette of General Grant is a very poor imitation of the original. A Tlrief Jlarrlag-e Ssrvlce. Special to the Indianapolis JournaL Peru, Jan. 15. An unusally interesting runaway marriage, with probably the shortest service of any yet reoorded, occurred today publicly in one of the large dry-goods houses. The witnesses were amused customers and clerks, and tho participants were Walter Eltzroth and Miss MayDepoy, both well-known people of North Grove, Rev. James Perry officiated, having been brought along to expedite matters, with the following service: "Join hands! By United States authority in my hands, I pronounce yon man and wife. Amen." Congratulations by the many prssent followed. Hopkins Murder Trial. Special to the Indianapolis Jonrnal. Washington, Jan. 15. The Hopkins murder case, which has been on trial here all week, is drawing to a close. The argument will be concluded to-morrow morning, when tbe case will be given to the jury. Young James Hopkins', while on his way from church, quarreled with his neighbor, Adrian McCracken. A fight resulted in the fatal shooting of McCracken. On account of the tragedy an entire neighborhood, which has been on most intimate terms, has been divided, the sides taking; part in the case in court. Hopkins will likely get a light sentence. For Shooting an Officer. Special to the Indianapolis JournaL Russiaville, Jan. 15. Tho trial of Arthur Palmer, a Russia ville boy, who shot officer Bird, at Frankfort, several weeks ago, is now on in . the Clinton Circuit Court, at Frankfort, with Judge Doyle on tbe bench. A jury consisting of men from the out townships, except one, who is a resident of Frankfort, was impaneled at 11 o'clock. The trial is exciting quite an interest, the court-room being crowded at each session. Thirty witnesses are in attendance from Ruasiaville. the major portion of them to testify in behalf of the defense, . Great Question Settled. Special to the Indianapolis JournaL Franklin. Jan. 15. Franklin can no longer be called a "cow pasture." At a special election held to-day to vote upon the question as to whether or not cjws should be allowed to run at large, the "cow up" proposition carried by a majority of 18(5 out of a -total vote of over seven hundred. The result was a surprise, as the cow out" people were very confident of winning. - Suicide of aft Engineer. Special to the Indianapolis JournaL Hartford City, Jan. 15. The engineer at the paper-mill, Denny Keefe, took a dose of morphine this afternoon, it is presumed with suicidal motive. He will probably die. Keefe has relatives in Cincinnati and at Delphi, Ind. Blacklisting County Officers. Special to the Indianapolis JonrnaL Greencastle, Jan. 15. The F. M. B. A., at their late meeting in this city, read tbs riot act to the court-house rings that aro

laboring to defeat a reduction of fees and salaries. The farmers adopted a resolution requesting the Indianapolis papers to publish the names of those county officers who have abandoned their posts of duty and are now lobbying at the capital city. The lists will be preserved for future reference, as well as the the names of those Senators and Representatives who violate the pledges on which they were elected. The "Shanty-Boat Mystery" Cleared Up. Lawrencerurg, Jan. 15. Burt Ruske, who, with John Keyes, was last fall suspected of the murder of Wm. Fee, known as the "shanty-boat murder," has confessed his complicity with Keyes in . the murder of Fee. He says it was done in the night, on the Kentucky side of the river, by Keyes, while the confessor, Burt, was recrossing over to the Ohio side of the river to the shanty-boat. Several circumstances narrated in his confession have been corroborated by otter testimony. Pretty Spry at 108 Tears. Special to the IndianapoUs JonrnaL ecatur, Jan. 15. The 103th anniversary of the birth of John Finerty. of Jefferson township, this county, was celebrated last night by the social assemblage of his friends and neighbors at his country residence. He still retains strong mental faculties, and is a regular attendant upon all the meetings of his neighborhood church. Finerty is probably the oldest resident in the State. , Blew Out His Brains. Special to the Indianapolis JournaL .. Fort Wayne, Jan. 15. John A. Garrity, general manager of the Fort Wayne Transfer and Storage Company, committed suicide in his office at 6 o'clock this evening, by blowing out his brains with a pistol. Continued ill-health is believed to have produced temporary insanity. He leaves a widow and three children.

Thirty Foxes Got Away. Special to the IndianapoUs JonrnaL . Shoals, Jan. 15. Early yesterday morning a "fox-drive" of perhaps 1,500 people, residents of Shoals and Loogootee, organized and started, with much noise and enthusiasm, but owing to some mismanagement a gap was left in their ranks, and they only saved one fox, while perhaps thirty or more mado their escape. Shut Their Gas Off. Special to the Indianapolis J ournaL Fort Wayne, Jan. 15. The natural gas company to-day, on short notice, shut the gas off from manufacturing establishments, the supply becoming so limited that this step was imperative in order that the supply might be sufficient for domestic purposes. Prominent Democrat Dead. Special to the Indianapolis Jonrnal. Fort Wayne. Jan. 15. William H. Dills, of Auburn, died suddenly this morning of heart disease at his home. In 18G5 Mr. Dills was editor and proprietor of tho Daily Sentinel of this city. In 1884 he was a Democratic elector for the Twelfth district Minor Notes. Mn'ncie's polo team defeated an Indian apolis team with ease last night by a score of 12 to 1; Charles Weasel, of Richmond, was se- : verely injured in a cutting affray with his. brother-in-law, Fred Batter. The J. & L. Bridge Company has astounded the people of Jeffersonville by declining to accept a subsidy of 875,000. Two electrio street-railway companies the Ray and the Thompson-Houston want tbe franchise to put in a system at Crawfordsville. Mrs. W. D. Allen, widow of the late Mayor Allen, died in Greencastle, Wednesday night, after a painful and lingering illness,. Of cancer. The Indiana University will dedicate the new library building and hold exercises celebrating the seventy-first anniversary of her foundation day on Jan. 20. Representatives oflthe gas cities will meet at Anderson next Tuesday to agree upon measures for enforcing economy in the use of the fuel, to be presented to the Legislature for action. .While Tom Bowers, of Waynetown, was changing his revolver from one pocket to another, it was discharged; tho bullet going through the arm of Andrew Maltsbarger above tbe elbow. Benjamin Dilger is the John L. Sullivan of Jeffersonville. Tbe other night three footpads collided with him, much to their sorrow. One was knooked down and the other two escaped by virtue of their abilities as sprinters. t The city of Martinsville has had expended in building improvements, within her limits, during 1890. over 8100.000. The city made more substantial improvement within the past year than during ten years prior to that time. ' 'James Featheringstone. one of the bank robbers at the Chicago stockyards, was, iu 1886, sent np from Montgomery county for four . years for robbing the store of Wm. Kider, at Waynetown. lie then gave the name of John Connelly. ' Louis Jones, colored, of Crawfordsville, has been given a sentence of one year for stealing a watch, which he had sold for $1.60. The reason he gave to the judge for this act was "because the weather was cold and he was dead broke." . John By era, jr., a prominent young business man of Shelbyville, while out hunting yesterday, discharged a load of bird-shot into his loot. The muzzle of the gun was only a few inches from the wounded member, end the wound is an exceedingly painful if not danaerous one. On Wednesday night, just as a prize-fight was commencing between two young fellows at Crawfordsville, before a crowd of two hundred persons, the city marshal appeared upon the scene, accompanied by th,e mother of one of the prize-fighting men, who took her son home, and the fight was ended. The Northern Indiana Mining and Gas Company met at Montnelier and elected their officers and increased their capital stock from $5,000 to $25,000. The oil field has been developed so that they will at once drill fifteen wells. G. W. McFarren, of Blufffon. is president; D. A. Walmer, of this city, treasurer, and G. A. Mason, secretary. The Grant Johnston suit against the Monon railway for $50.0; 0 has been compromised. . Johnston, who resides at Bloomington, was a passenger the morning of the collision at Smithville, and was so seriously injured that he will be a bad cripple for life. His cousin. Mrs. Rose Parks, was also injured in tbe same wreck, and the two were paid 84,600. The Johnston suit was to have been tried at Salem. ILLINOIS. The Flying-Machine Comes Out at Last to Serre ava a Museum "Freak. - Mount Carmel. Jan. 15. The air-ship Is a fact. The model is complete and works. It will be taken to Chicago to-morrow and exhibited in the Exposition Building. The buoyancy chamberis twenty-four feet long and six and one-half feet in diameter. The ship, with the propellers, rudders, etc., is thirty feet in length. The inventors have a contract with James A. Fanning and others to exhibit it for twelve weeks. They ' are to receive 8100,000. It is to lly around in the Exposition Building and carry two passengers. It will go by express. A car is being changed here for that purpose, as it cannot be put in a car-door. Brief Mention. Clinton has commenced war on its gamblers, John Jones, county clerk of Green county, is short in his accounts between $2,500 $3,500. By the explosion of a keg of powder at Pana two miners, named Hill and Smith, were fatally injured. The State Board of Agriculture has fixed the time of holding the State fair from Sept 28 to Oct 2 inclusive. At the conclave of Illinois chiefs of fire departments, at Edwardsville, Wednesday, E. W. Barkman, of Polo, was elected president Mrs. Dorothia Pagels was found dead in bed, yesterday morning, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Frederick Myer, in Bloomington. She was seventy-seven years of age. At the thirteenth annual meeeting of the Illinois Brick and Tile Association, at Springfield. C. F. Tenney, of Bement, was elected president and John McCabe, of RushviUe, secretary.

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WROUGHT WHAT XOCHINE CONSISTS OF Simply Glycerine Extract Derived from Cultivation of Tubercle Bacilli. How the Remedy Was Discovered by the Phyei clan"AYhose Name the Lymph Bears Laborious Experiments with Guinea Pigs. Berlin, Jan. 15. Professor Koch's report, published to-day. describing the composition of his lymph, is comparatively brief. It says the lymph consists of a glycerine extract derived from the pure cultivation of the tuberole bacilli. Prof. Koch says: "Sincepublishing,two months ago, theresuits of my experiments with the new remedy for tuberculosis, many physicians who received the preparation nave been enabled to become acquainted with its properties through their own experiments. So far as I have been able to review the statements published and the communications received by letter, my indications have been fully and completely confirmed. The general consensus of opinion is that the remedy has a specific effect upon tubercular tissues, and is, therefore, applicable as a very delicate and -sure agent for discovering latent and diagnosing doubtful tuberculosis processes. Kegarding the curative eilectsof the remedy most reports aaree that, despite the comparatively short duration of its application, many patients have shown more or less pronounced improvement It has been affirmed that in not a few cases even a cure has been established. Standing quite by itself is the assertion that the remedy may not only be dangerous in cases which have advanced too far a fact which may forthwith be conceded but also that it actually promotes tbe tuberculous process, being therefore injurious. "During the past six weeks I myself have had opportunity to bring together further experiences touching the curative effects and diagnostic application of the remedy in the cases of about 150 sufferers from tuberculosis of the most varied types in this city and in the Moabit Hospital. I can only say that everything I have latterly seen accords with my previous observations. There has been nothing to modify what I before reported. As long as it was only a question of proving the accuracy of my indications, it was needless for any one to Know what the remedy contained, or whence it was derived. Oft the contrary, subsequent testing would necessarily be more unbiased, the less people know of the remedy itself. Now, after sufficient confirmatory testing, the importance of the remedy is proved. My next task is to extend my study of the remedy beyond the field where it has hitherto been applied, and if possible to apply the principle underlying the discovery to other diseases. This task naturally demands a full knowledge of the remedy. I therefore consider that tbe time has arrived when the requisite indications in this direction shall be made. This is done in what follows. FIRST EXPERIMENTS WITH THE REMEDY. ''Before going into the remedy itself I deem it necessary, for the better understanding of its mode of operation, to state briefly the way by which I arrived at the discovery. If a healthy guinea pig be inoculated with tbe pure cultivation of German kultur of tuoercle bacilli, the wound caused by the inoculation mostly closes over with a sticky matter, and appears in its early days to heal. Only after ten or fourteen days a hard nodule presents itself, which, soon breaking, forms an ulcerating sore which continues until the animal dies. Quite a different condition of things occurs when a guinea-pig, already sutlering from tuberculosis, is inoculated. An animal succeesf ully inoculated fiom four to six weeks before is best adapted for this purpose. In such an animal the small indentation assumes the same sticky covering at the beginning, but no nodule forms. On the contrary, on the day following or the second day after the inoculation, the place where the lymph is injected shows a strange change. It becomes hard and assumes a darker coloring, which is not confined to the inoculation spot, but spreads to the neighboring parts until it attains a diameter of from .05 to 1 centimeter. In a few days it becomes moro manifest that the skin thus changed is necrotic, finally falling otf, leaving a fiat ulceration which nsually heals rapidly and permanently, without any cutting into the adjacent lymphatic glands. Thus injected tbe tubercular bacilli quite differently affect the skin of a healthy guinea-pig from one affected with tuberculosis. This effect is not exclusively produced with living tubercular bacilli, but is also observed with the dead bacilli, the result being the same whether, as 1 discovered by experiments at the outset, the bacilli are killed by a somewhat prolonged application or a low temperature or boiling heat or by means of certain chemicals. This peculiar fact I followed up in all directions, and this further result was obtained: That Killed pure cultivations of tubercular bacilli, if there being diluted with water, might be injected in great quantities under the skin of healthy guinea-pigs without anything occurring beyond local corporation." Prof. Koch here interpolates a note that such injections belong to the simplest and surest means of producing suppuration free from living bacteria. -Tuberculosis guinea-pigs, on the other hand, are killed by the injection of very small quantities of such diluted cultivations. In fact, within six to forty-eight hoars, .according to the strength of the dose, an injection which is not sufficient to produce the death of the animal may cause extended necrosis of the skin in the vicinity of the place of injection. If the dilution is still further diluted until it is scarcely visibly clouded, tbe animals inoculated remain alive, and a noticeable improvement in their condition soon supervenes. If the injections are continued at intervals of from one to two days, the ulceration inoculation wound becomes smaller and finally scars over, which otherwise it never does; the size of the swollen lymphatie gland is reduced; the body becomes better nourished and the morbid process ceases, unless it has gone too far, in which case the animal perishes from exhaustion. By this means the bssis of a curative process against tuberculosis was established. WHAT KOCIIINE CONSISTS OF. ''Against the practical application of such dilutions of dead tubercule bacilli there presented itself the fact that the tubercle bacilli are not absorbed at the inoculation points, nor do they disappear tn another way, but for a long time remain

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unchanged, and engender greater or smaller suppurative foci. Anything, therefore, intended to exercise a healing effect on tho tuberculosis process must bi a soluble, substance which could be lixiviatod to a certain extent by the iluids of the body floating around the tubercle bacilli and transferred in a fairly rapid manner to the juice of the body, while the substance prodoag suppuration apparently remains behind in the tubercular bacilli or dissolves but very slowly. The only important point was, therefore, to induce outside the body the process going on inside, if possible, and to extract from the tubercular bacilli alone tbe curative substance. This demanded time and toil, until I finally succeeded, with the aid of 40 to 50 per cent, solution of glycerine, in obtaining an effective substance from the tubercular bacilli. With the fluid so obtained I made further experiments on animals, and finally on human beings. These iluids were given to other physicians to enable thsm to repeat their experiments. "The remedy which is used in the new treatment consists of a glycerine extract derived from the pure cultivation of tubercle bacilli. Into this simple extract there naturally passes from the tubercular bacilli, besides the effective substances, ull the other matter soluble in a 50 per cent solution of glycerine. Consequently it contains a certain quantity of mineral salts, coloring substances and other unknown extractive matters. Some of these substances .an be removed from it tolerably easy. The effective substance is insoluble in absolute alcohol. It can be precipitated by it, though not, indeed, in a pure condition, but still combined with the other extractive matter, which is likewise insoluble in alcohol. The coloring matter may also be removed, rendering it possible to obtain from tho extract a colorless dry substance, containing the effective principle in a much more concentrated form than the original glycerine solution. For application in practice this purification of the glycerine extract offers no advantage, because tbe substances so eliminated are unessential for the human organism. The process of pun- , fication would make the cost of the remedy unnecessarily high." "Kegarding the constitution of the more effective substances, only surmises may, for the present be expressed. It appears to me to be derivative from albuminous bodies having a close affinity to them. It does not neiong to me group oi so-caiiea toxaibumens, because it bears high temperatures, and the disalyser goes easily and quickly through the gangrene. The proportion of the substance in the extract to all appearance, is very small. It is estimated at fractions of 1 per cent, which, if correct, wo should have to do with a matter whose effect upon organisms attacked with tuberculosis goes far beyond what is known as the drugs. EFFECT OF TI1E REMEDY ON TISSUES. "Regarding the matter in which tho specific action of the remedy on tuberculosis tissue is to bo represented, various hypotheses may naturally bo put forward. Without wishing to affirm that my view affords the best explanation, I represent the process myself in the following manner: The tubercle bacilli produced, when growing in living tissues, the same as in artificial cultivations, contain certain substances which variously and notably unfavorable influence living elements in their vicinity. Among these is a substance which, in a certain degree ot concentration, kills or so alters living protoplasm that it passes into a condition that Weigert describes as coagnlation necrosis. In tissue thus become necrotic the bacillus finds such unfavorable conditions of nourishment that it can grow no more, and sometimes dies. This explains the remarkable phenomenon that in organs newly attacked with tuberculosis, for instance, in guinea pigs' spleen and liver, which then are covered with gray nodules, numbers of bacilli are found, whereas they are rarer or wholly absent when the enormously enlarned spleen consists almost entirely of whitish substance, in a condition of coagulation necrosis, such as is often found in cases of natural death in tuberculous guinea pigs. The single bacillus cannot, therefore, induce necrosis at a great distance, for. as soon as necrosis attains a certain extension, the growth of the bacillus subsides, and therewith the prod action of the necrotizing substance. A kind of reciprocal compensation thus occurs, causing the vegetation of isolated bacilli to remain extraordinarily restricted, as. for instance, in lupus and scrofulous glands. In such cases the necrosis generally extends only to a part of tbe cell, which then, with further growth, assumes the peculiar form of riesen zelle. or eiant cell. Thus in this interpretation, follow, first tho explanation Weigert gives of tho production of giant cells. If, now, one increased artificially in the vicinity of tho bacillus the amount of necrotizing substance in the tissue, the necrosis would spread a greater distance. Tbe condition of nourishment for tbe bacillus would thereby become more unfavorable than usual. In the first place the tissue which had become necrotio over a larger extent would decay and detach itself, and, whero such were possible, would carry off the inclosed bacilli and eject them outwardly, so far distributing their vegetation that they would mnch more speedily be killed than under ordinary circumstances. "It is just in looking at such chances that the effect of the remedy appears to consist. It contains a certain quantity of necrotizing substance, a correspondingly largedose of which injures certain tissue elements even in a healthy person, and perhaps tbe white blood corpuscles or adjacent cells, thereby producing fever and a complication of symptoms.wfiereas with tuberculous patients, a mnch smaller quantity suffices to induce at certain places, namely, whero tubercle bacilli are vegetating and have already impregnated the adjacent region with the necrotizing matter, more or less extensive necrosis of the cells, with tho phenomena in the organism which result from and are connected with it Thus for the present at least it is impossible to explain th e spcific influence which the remedy, in accurately defiled doses, exercises upon the tuberculous tissues, and the possibility of increasing tbe deses with such remarkable rapidity and the remedial effects, which have unquestionably been produced, under not too favorable circumstances." Professor Koch concludes with a referenco to tbe duration of the remedy. Of the consumptive patients whom he described as temporarily cured, two have returned to the Moabit Hospital for further observation. No bacilli have appeared in their sputum for the past three months and their phthisical symptoms have gradually and completely disappeared. Brighten up; you don't have to plane down a fortune; you can cet Salvation Oil for J5 cents. Oilded five-cent pieces sre froln for five-dollar gold pieces, but Dr. Cull's Cousa rrrop ceedx Ko gilding to make it go. Price ouly 25 c-eaU.