Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 January 1891 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1891.

SCIENCE AND THE BACILLI

A Leading Doctor's Earnest Advocacy of the Claims Made for Koch's Lymph. ; Terj Ears Case of Siin Disease in the City HospitalWhat Scientific IiiTe.tijraiion Has Done in Checking Parasitical Growths. Dr. Alembert W. Bray ton, to whom was sent by President Harrison one of the live phials of Dr. Koch's lymph he received direct from Berlin through Minister Phelps, has frequent inquiries as to rhat is to bo done vrith the material. "Many readers of the Journal," said , the Doctor jesterday, "have called on me to see the lymph and have called me up by telephone to talk about it, even from distant towns. Every form of error and misconception is expressed by the public aud by the papers regarding its appearance and nse. As is well known to the physicians, I hare no more right to the authentio sample sent here for our City Hospital than any other physician in the city, exoept that I anion tLo staff of clinical teachers and advisers of the City Hospital, and so shall assist my confreres in the iirst applications of the remedy made there. I shall watch the re suits with the interest of one who has for a decade believed and taught that not only wnrni nnrl lire lint nl.n molds and bac teria, produce definite diseases on and in animals." "Are subjects for experimenting with the lymph at the hospital to be had readily!" . "There are a few, but of course no one will be subjected to its use without the patient's consent. There is a girl. Bertha, in the hospital, sent from an adjacent .county poor-farm, where she was born fourteen years ago. who, for over ten years ever since she can remember has been entering from the well-know 1 but rare akin disease known as favus, because of the sulphur yellow crusts it forms on the 'head and body. This disease has destroyed all the hair of the child's head, made her ' person loathsome and ostracised her from school and society. It is the first case ever seen in our hospital, and I presented it to the students and many medical men who had never seen a case before. It is common in south Europe, in Rome and all about the Mediterranean, but extremely rare in this country, this beinz the first ease, as far as I can lind, treated in this city, and certainly the hrst recorded in the City Hospital or Dispensary. Its great interest in this connection lies in the fact that while known ' to be contagions from remote antiquity, it was only tifty years ago, in 1839, that Schcenlein (for whom the plant is named) found the disease is due to a certain mold closely allied to the common house aud cellar molds. From this poo;: neglected girl's head and body and fingernails nearly a half pint of yellow scalr.s were removed by the nurses at the hospitals and have been examined by a hundred students. They are made up of threads and spores and scales of epidermis. . You can sow them on a proper soil as yon can sow wheat in a field, or mushroom spores in a mushroom bed, and yon always get the same crop yon plant. They breed true. . Their favorite soil is the skin of mice and cats and the scalps of children, although they may be grown in culture tubes and plates, just' as one grows flowers in a window, by giving them the kind of food and temperature they need." KILLED BY ADVERSE CONDITIONS. -Are they easily killed!" ' Yes, as easily killed by 'adverse conditions as are tender exotics by our cold winters. Once frozen, they are dead forever, nnlike many spores and seeds. They are also killed by certain chemicals, especially mercury and its salts, and by the use of these they have been nearly, poisoned, to death in the case mentioned. Even grease and soap kill many skin parasites, and most people kill the common ringworm, which is the gTowth of an allied mold on the skin, by soft soap, which exposes the threads and spores, and by vinegar, which destroys them. Certain plants grow in vinegar; other plants are killed by vinegar. Mow, no one denies all the facts that I have stated; that certain parasites as worms, lice and vegetable molds on the skin, produce diseases, and that certain substances, as santonine. mercury salts, soap, vinegar and crease, destroy the car asites and 'cure' the disease. Fifty years have elapsed since it was proved that certain molds produce skiu diseases. Another fungus, it was found, grew all through the silk-worm, and even in the eggs. and nearly destroyed the silk industry of France." "It was Pasteur who discovered the cause, was it not!" "Yes; after ten years of labor Pastenr fonnd the cause, imported pure eggs that contained no spores, restored the silk industry to its place, added millions to the wealth of France, and, though bent and paralyzed by his labor, is held in honor of all the world and has the decorations of every country interested, in science. But here we have anothercase. There are other diseases, and there are yet smaller plants and snores. Anthrax was attacked by Pasteur with the same success, and animals are protected against it. Curiously enough, we know the whole life history of anthrax (wool-sorters' disease, etc), a plant but little longer than the consumption-producing plant, although we do not know the life history of the common yeast which raises our bread; brews onr beer and changes starch and sugar into alcohol. Yet no one denies, as -far as I know, the infections and deadly nature of anthrax or that the leaven which a woman hides in the meal leavens the whole lump. But when Koch and his allies, following the discoveries of Schcenlein and Pastenr and a host of associate workers, declare that consumption is an infoctions and contagious disease also caused by a definite plant, there are still left those who doubt and deride. They are few in number; no attention is given them, and the procession moves right on. Even their opposition is not needed as a stimulus. NOT A QUESTION OF 8IZE. "It seems to me a most marvelous thing that men believe and teach that the larger parasites are injurious, even fatal to their hosts, but that the smaller ones are not. But it is not a question of size. It is a question of what a certain plant can produce by its assimilative and excretory processes. For some plants make this and some that; one produces strychnia, another aconite, of which one-tenth grain of the sulphate may kill an adult. The yeast plant produces beer and whisky, which are also regarded as fatal to the Human species if ingested in large or oft-repeated doses. Plants produce substances which, if notremoved, will kill the plant which produces them. When the mash contains over 6 per cent, alcohol it destroys the growth of the yeast plant. My friend the chemist, Mr. Hurty. was paid 00 by a distiller for the simple prescription to 'pet more water in his whisky and when the distiller did so he got six gallons out of a bushel of corn, where before he only got five. Mow is it unreasonable that a minute plant growing on the mucous membranes of the trachea or lungs should produce a disease, or is it out of accord with the very little -we know of the life history of plants and animals to think that a contagious-disease plant should produce in the body a poisonous 'ptomaine,' or 'alkaloid or 'lymph or Kochine,' which properly used may kill the plant that produces the lymph in miestionf Every animal forms poisons which, if not constantly removed by the skin and liver and kidneys, would kill the animal in a few hours or day . by 'poisoning the blood, 'overwhelming the nervous system, etc. Some of these poisons are definite alkaloids. Again we know that a large group of diseases measles, scarlet fever and their allies run a definite course, ending in death or recovery, or impairment. May they not produce in the body a subtle poison that stops the disease kills ' the plant which causes it. 1 cannotdisenss immunity, artificial or acquired, now; that belongs to vaccination and the subject of heredity. I only wish to show by a few plain facts that there is a reaonablo basis of fact and observation for the theory that consumption is produced by a plant, and that the same plant may produce in Koch's

cultures an alkaloid which destroys the further growth, or the conditions of growth, of the consumption plant itself. APPEARANCE OP THE LYMHI. "What of the lymph, its appearance and experiments ?'' "This little bottle of lymph of which I am the recipient, but havo no more personal right to than Mr. Harrison or the Adams express officer who brought it to me, is & clear, mobile, straw-colored lluid looking like thin maple syrup. There are about two teaspoonfuls of it. It may be diluted to two gallons, of which a few drops injected is a dose. It has not been opened. We know it contains no living thing, is 'sterile as we say, and is derived from cultures of the pure tubercle plant. There is no ctamical formula for ir, as is the case with many poisonous ptomaines, nor will it be 'analyzed." It will be used, but probably not until Dr. Potter, who has seen it used on a half hundred in New York, returns. For while there are full directions for its use with the sample, and while there is a treatise of one hundred pages on it in the December number of Wood's Medical Library, which I have, the profession here are agreed and the hospital staff have decided it is best to have with us the aid of one who has used' the lymph in New York. For this is no elixir craze. The whole medical world is in a state of high tension and there is mnch responsibility attending the use of , the lymph. Of the good' results of our work or the bad we will not know for some months. We have no lupus case at the hospital, and must be careful as to injecting so potent a remedy in a consumptive a remedy which raises the body heat four or rive degrees in a few hours. It is

claimed that a reaction may be obtained by , strong aoses in tne neaitny tnose wno have no bacilli in any part of their bodies. But this is not known, as our evidenco on this point was Professor Koch's injection of himself; but lately it is stated that Koch has unhappily become the subject of tubercle. "While Jenner's discovery of vaccination was purely accidental, nil of Koch's work is by synthesis, the collection of isolated facts, the carrying out of prolonged, and tedious, and dangerous experiments covering months and years. Only in Germany could he have got the necessary support, and sympathy, and government aid. Not in England, for there a foolish act of Parliament, passed during a wave of sentimentalism, which is a laughing stock to all Europe, prevents one sticking a needle in a guinea-pig without a license and a fee of 5. Nor yet in this country, for we aro taken up with geological surveys and the like, and have no medical-university system. The Germans and French are giving us a new pathology, and 'practical medicine is taking lessons from botanists and geologists' DAILY YVEATIIEJl BULLETIN. Local Forecasts. For Indianapolis and Vicinity For the twenty -four hours ending 8 p. m.. Jan. 26Fair weather; nearly stationary temperature. Observations at Indianapolis. IXDiASxroLis, Jan. 25.

Time. Bar. Iher. B.U. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7 a.m. 30.10 23 81 West. Cloudless 0.00 7F.ii. 30.02 40 63 S'w'st. Cloudless U.00

Maximum temperature, 46; minimum temperature, 22. Following is a comparative statement of the temperature and precipitation on Jan. 25: Tern. Pre. Normal 28 0.11 Mean S4 o.oo Departure from normal 6 0.11 Excess or deficiency since Jan. 1, 1.23 1.15 Plus. ; General Weather Conditions. Sunday, Jan. 25, 7r.it. Pressure. The barometric pressure has decreased; one low area covering the lake regions is central, with 29.80, over Lake Michigan; another is central north from Manitoba; over the Southern States and west of the mountains the pressure continues moderately high. TirMPvniTTins' -Micrh tflmnflrfttnrB rnn. tinues everywhere; 20 and below is reported from central Minnesota and Lake Superior nortnwara; atr-' anaDeiow iroin southern Minnesota, Wisconsin, northern Michigan. Lake Ontario and New England northward; 40- and above in Montana.and from southern Kansas, western Iowa, central Illinnia. central Indiana. eastern Kan. 'tucky and North Carolina southward; 50 ana above irom lexas, ArKansas, .missis sinni and Florida southward. Precipitation. Light snow fell near the upper lanes. WHY SOE LEFT MOLOKAL Sister Rose Gertrude's Reasons for Leaving ller Work Among the Lepers. Ladles' Homo Journal. , The ground was divided into three parts: one for "suspect" that is, persons whom the doctors are not sure having the disease one for the lepers under Dr. Lutz's treatment, and the third for the persons brought in for examination, and the nnfurtunatus waiting to be shipped to Molokai. The Board of Health vested the entire control of the hospital, apart from the medical and surgical work, in their agent,' who also acts as a sort of policeman to catch the lepers and bring them np for examination. lie iu his turn gave over the authority to the luna a sort of general overseer one? of the leper patients, a man of no education, who confessed himself that hefore he "got the disease" he was fond of drinking and often "had the devil7 This overseer retained all the keys of communication until the day 1 left, even of the "suspect'1 side which he ought not to have entered, as he was a con tinned leper. Spaco would fail were 1 to tell of all that took place during those six eventful months. Jn that time some of the patients, formerly pronounced lepers, were cured; the condition of all was ameliorated, and hope sprang high in the hearts of these hitherto despairing people. Then came a time when.in several instances, the doctor's wish and mine were put aside; some of our patients were made to work by the luna in an utterly unlit condition; one, indeed, whohad had a strongfever, was so thrown baok that he nearly lost his life. Lastly, we heard from the patients that the luna and the agent had been speaking against the doctor and myself, trying to prejudice the people and do us harm. We complained to the board of Health, as the matter became more serious; they seemed unwilling to take any steps in the matter. A native gentleman, representative of the people in the Legislative Assembly, took up the matter and brought it before the House. A committee from the House visited the hospital three days, and took down voluminous evidence which was printed in a report. They found that the luuawas unworthy of his office, and should be immediately removed, as also the agent of the Hoard oi Health. This was not done. The president of the Board of Health was removed from his office, For some unaccountable reason of thoir own they upheld the luna and the agent, and there was nothing but left for the doctor and myself to resign, it being impossible to work any longer under the then existing circumstances. And so, with an achitir heart, we left the people, with all the more sorrow that their lives had been so bright with hope before, as one of them said iu his speech before the committee of the Legislative Assembly: "There never has been such a doctor before in these islands; there never has been a woman who has cared so for the lepers." Now, Who Would He m Millionaire. Toledo Blade. Although the possession of great wealth is supposed to bring unalloyed joy and happiness to the fortunate mortal who has it, such is really not the case. Take for instance William K. Vauderbilt. With all his millions he is denied the solid comfort of a fragrant, highly colored, old clay pipe. When he wants the solace of the weed he "smokes a special brand which he has imSorted from Cuba. Each cigar has a golden and around it upon which is Mr. Vanrferbilt's coat-of-arms. At wholesale- in Cuba they cost him 25 cents each." Just think of the bother of having to remove the golden band every time he smokes. The Secret of Voorhees's Success. Buffalo Commercial The , Indiana Democrats send Voorhees for another terra to the Senate. He has been on the wrong side of every public issue, practically, for a quarter of a century; but that is the kind of Democracy that finds favor in Indiana. The best medical au thorities say the proper wav to treat catarrh is to take a constitutional remedy, like Hood's Sarsaparilla.

NEWS IN SUXDAT'S JOURNAL.

Eesume of Important Events it Home 'and. Abroad Chronicled in the Issue of Jan. a. The Chicago & Erie strike is ended by the resignation of Dispatcher Scott, tt t i v J r1nlrli a. Hn.fnn XIOU. J il 1 U U l HI fcO iiai."bu, - lawyer and ex-Senator from New Hampshire, is dead. The assets of the Dueber "Natch-case Manufacturing 'Company have been appraised at $7SW,53S.51. The National Academy of Music has con cluded arrangements for the establishment in New York of a permanent high-class orchestra. The AMio-ned atock of Bell. Miller &. Co., Cincinnati, was boa cm at auction ior iuo . r . - : . - . il. account of II. B.'Clatlia & Co., the largest creditors, for 203,000. The State Department at Washington is informed of thA rinath at Horna. Africa, on Jan. 18, of Lieut. Emery II. Taunt, United states commercial agent xo me congo x sco estate. The Honse committee on levees and im provements of the Mississippi river has decided to report favorably the bill to appropriate 10,000,000 to repair and build the levees from the head of the passes to Lairo. In the Senate Messrs. Stewart and Morgan spoke against the closure rule and the elections bill and Mr. Sanders in favor of both. Democrats refused to agree to a day on which a vote may be taken, and the Senate took a recess until Monday. In the House the Democrats attempted to filibuster against the approval of the journal, but were cut short by its summary adoption by the KeEublicans. The naval bill was taken np at not disposed of. From the Second Edition of the Sunday Journal. Fatal Fires In Jersey City. Jersey City, N. J., Jan. 24. A lamp exploded in the cellar of the rive-story frame tenement-house, corner of Greene and Essex streets, this afternoon, and set - tire to the buildings, and the occupants had to be taken down on ladders hoisted by the liremeu. Mrs. Gorman told the firemen that her hnsbaud was asleep in an apartment on tho top lloor. Tho -11 nines had reached this floor, and when the tiremen went back for the man they found him lying on the lloor dead. He had been, .burned almost to a crisp. v..,.. ;r, Auother fatal fire occurred in Jersey City this evening, and resulted in the killing of Chief Engineer Henry Farrier and Daniel Dinan. stoker of No! 3 engine, and in seri ous injuries to soveral. other tiremen. The. lire broke out in the cellar of Ubarles Boltwood's hardware store, No. 20 Pavonia avenue, corner of Grove street. . The liremen got their hose at work and fought their way into the cellar.' when a territio ' explosion occurred. Two barrels of turpentine had exploded with force enough to shatter the plate-glass windows on both sides of the street and to shake the buildings in the vicinity. ' There were several firemen in the cellar when the explosion occurred, and it was. feared that all of them had been killed. A cheer went up from the crowd as truckman Michael Whalen was seen to emerge to the f j - ' street, carrying an unconscious comrauo uu his back. The injured man proved to be hoseman John McDonald. lie was badly burned about the head, face 'and hands, and is thought to have inhaled tire. He was removed to a hospital, where his condition; was pronounced extremely critical. Truck--man Whalen was badly scorched about thai bands and face. He was - assisted to the truck-house, but was subsequently la&eu vo ui3 uuiue. .Assisiuub VUici - xugineer John Denmead and hoseman John Farrell were aiso scorched and cut by flying glass. The tire was linally drowned out after slight damage. Chief Engineer Farrier was missed, and Assistant Denmead ordered the celler to bo searched, and a dozen tiremen hurried in side with lanterns. In the further end of the cellar, and partly concealed by a large case that had fallen upon him. lay the Chiefs body. Willing hands picked him up and carried him to a stable on Pavonia avenue. Doctors were summoned, but werennaoie to resucitaie mm. ueam uaa oeou caused by suffocation. The skin had been burned from the backs of the dead man's hands and the hair from his head, hut be yond these he was little injured. .Thefeatures were not marred. The remaius. were removed to the Chief's late home. In the meantime another ghastly tragedy bad been enacted at the Barrow-street crossing of the Pennsylvania railroad. As No. 3 engine and tender turned into Barrow street. Dingier, the engineer, says that he noticed the llagman on the railroad crossing waving his lantern, but could not understand his signals. . Stoker Dinan evidently understood that the track was clear, as be whipped up his team; Ashe reached the east-bound track he saw a train bearing down upon him, but was nnable either to stop or to . avoid it. The train, was an incoming Flor ida special, and the locomotive struck tho team and the forward part of the lire-engine. Dinan was thrown under the wheels of the train and mangled to nieces. His head was severed and was found three hundred feet east of the crossing. The tireen sine was wrecked. One of the horses was killed outright. Tho legs of the other horse were broken and it was shot. l)i nan's bodv was removed to the raoreue. .Mrs. Mary Sheed, a colored woman, who was standing at the railroad crossing, was struck in the head by a flying piece of iron and was badly hurt. 'Cbiet Farrier leaves a widow, three sons and a daughter. Germans Slay Yet Eat Our Fork, Copyright, 1S0L by the New York Associated Press. Berlin. Jan. 24. The repeal of the pro hibition against American , pork is now regarded as within a short distance of ac complishment. The weight of the speaking throughout the debate in the Keichstag was all on the side of a change in the law. A prominent defender of ' the prohibitory law in the Reichstag ventured to deny that the repeal of the law would be a benefit to the masses, which are now paying high prices for meat, even- garbage being dear. Several members, immediately after the division on the questionticongratulated Mr.1 Phelps, the United States minister, on the earlv prospect of r tne auoution or the prohibitory law. or at least a modification of the . measure. Keceiving further congratulations to day. Mr. Phelps said: "There would not even have been a majority of twentyseven against the motion if the opposition had waited a little. If the motion had been made bv a supporter tit the government the result might have been different m But how could the government let a combination of the Freisinnige and) Socialist parties dic tate its policy on such an important question!" ! Mr. Phelps added that he had long known that the government was ready to momiy the restrictions in regard to American perk as soon as the precautions taken by the American authorities seemed euiQcicnt to insure the health of the German people. He knew how carefully the Berlin i oreign Of? ' lice studied the r. German consuls7 re ports on American products and the sanitary regulations regarding them. Tho i government, he said, was not afraid of cooked American pork, but only of the uncooked aiticle. Dr. Windtborsts decla ration that the Center-party waited only for the taking of sufficient precautions in America, when the1 party would support the demand for a repeal, brought the end of the prohibition 'within sight. In Mr. Phelps'spinion lierr Barth's management of the motion was admirable. Among the comments by the newspapers the Post sars: "Customs and trade con siderations could "not lead to prohibition. but would find expression in heavy customs duties. The prohibition against American pork became necessary, owing to the insufficient precaution taken by us ac-ftinst tho danger of trichinasis." The Freisinnige party holds that the agrarian policy hitherto pursued by the government cannot be maintained to wards America without having a detri mental effect upon the relations between Germany and the United States. It is now probable that at any rate tta prohibition against nam ana bacon will be repealed. the decision of the Bundezrath alone being required for the taking of Mich a step. 4 Kansas Beuatorlal Fight. TVlTT v L'on Ton I A mUB.iiKidtlnir m ....... m ... wo -. . m 'was held to-night in the interest of Senator Ingalls s re-election to the Senate, Several prominent Kansaus spoke in favor of Mr. lngalls's re-election,, as did also Colonel T itrirwntrm nru.i.t.nt U a Vn- Ynrlr Stttta 14, A?cj) 1 A IlinMAA 11a jl.n nnnil the Kansas Alliance as being dominated by rue ooumeru orancu ot the organization, which, he Baid, hoped to gain control of all past pension legislation. Then Mr. Ingalls was Lroncr)it hffnrn the meeting. He was given an ovation. He said the time for his speech-making had passed and that 'ttiu "Bl UUWUU. HO nS livv unv deliver speeches, he taid. Ho had another

errand and another mission, and that was

to be returned for the fourth term" to the United States Senate. Cries of "Von are going back' Nobody r could predict 'the result of the com ing election in tbe .r Lecislatnre. but he confidently honed for sncceaa. Con tinuing he said: "I an profoundly grateful to the G. A. 11. for their presence here. Whether I am defeated or elected, whenever they may be assailed, no matter what may be the forum, no matter who may be their adversary. I shall respond to the challenge of the insolent opposition to the vnauyi Army oi mo riepuDiic.- onouia 1 go down I shall hope that there is not a maimed or crippled soldier who shall not Xeel h?i he has lost a defender." The first cane us of the Farmers Alliance members of the Legislature, on the senatorial queatiou proper was held to-night. It was governed by the rules , c the Farmers' Alliance, and was strictly a star-cham ber session. Members were pledged to secrecy, and littlo can be learned of the proceediogs. The Alliance seantorial candidates were called before the caucus one by one and were permitted to give an account ot their accomplisumentsandanaliHcations. which they thought would 4 entitle them to ice nonor oi succeeding Mr. Ingalls. Before Jhe candidate waspermitted to even address the caucus he was obliged to bind himself by oath to abide by the decision of the caucus and not bolt the nomination. This leads to the conclusion that the cau cus nominee will receive a full party vote. All the candidates were on hand to-night that is, all who were Alliance men and who were not ruled out at the caucus of last Thursday. The ineligible are the Alliance Congressmen-elect and those members of the Alliance who have joined the organization since the recent election, and wno am not contribute to the Alliance victory on that occasion. This rules out Jerry Bimpson, congressman - elect from the Seventh, the most popular man with the rank and file of the Alliance, and John Davis, Congressman-elect from the Fifth district: Col. W. A. Harris, the ex-con feder ate from Leavenworth: Gen.' C. W . Blair, a Democrat; ex-Gov. John P. St John, and two or -three others less prominent. The candidates who appeared before the caucus and pressed their claims were: Speaker Elder, of the lower house; Judge Pelier. editor of -the Alliance Advocate: Judge Doster, judge of the District Court at iioiton: John t. willitts,' Alliance candidate for Governor at the late election; S.I. cott, a farmer: C. M. Scott. State lecturer: rranK Mcuratn. president of tne Mate Alliance, and Jndge Hiram Stevens, of Kansas City, Kan., who made a vigorous campaign against Senator Ingalls at the election, and Kev. A. J. Cole, Representa tive from the Hutchinson district. . Experiments with Kochine. I Copyright, 1S91, by the New York Prees.1 Berlin. Jan. 24. Interest in the Koch treatment is abating. An English bacteri ologist, who is notable as the discoverer of toxal bumens. aud who. is now . studying the Koch method at the .llygienio Insti tute, announces that he has discovered a remedy for anthrax. Pofessor Bollinger, or Munich, reports the results of his ex periments with the lymph upon tuber-" culons cows, lie states that in cases where large injections were used a reaction similar to that noticed in human beings . was seen. Two', sound bulls. wnicn were, treated ,wim ine num. showed, 'nb reaction. and nnon L 1 ft. . - a A a . a 1 ll . . ! being killed their tissues were found to be iin a . normal condition. Prof. Bollinger conciuuea tnat tne mgnest vaioeoi tne lymph .la to be found in the diagnosis of cattle suspected of having tuberculosis dis eases. ".'-I.. 'The Ministers are still delaying the pres entation to the Landtag of a bill for the endowment by tbe government of a hos pital for the treatment of patients by the Koch method. In tbe opiuion of many med ical men the exact value of the remedy is doubtful, and this causes the goverment to pause before taking decided action. ; Footpad Scalped by a GlrL Chicago. Jan. 24. Miss M. E. Wilmonnt literally snatched a man bald-headed to night. The man was was a footpad. Frank Peterson, who attempted on West Lake street to grab her - purse contain:ing $60. Miss Wilmount kept her grip . on the 'purse with one hand and. with the other, wildly clutehed the robber's hair, and then screamed again and again. Tbe thief, in succeeded, nut left a handful of hair in Miss Willmount's lingers. Peterson was arrested shortlv afterward, the police hav ing followed his bloody trail over a half mile from the scene of the scalping. r t Bribery In South Dakato. Pierre. 8. D.. Jan. 24. At the afternoon ses sion of tbe House, In voting on tne Davison coun ty election content, sensational bribery charges were maae. Kenresentative converse nrst an nounced that he had been threatened with the defeat of a bUl in which he was interested if be did not vote a certain way. Mr. Kelly tnen stated that there were other influences at work; that he had been offered $1,000 to vote for Moody for Senator, and would disclose tbe name of tbe person to the proper committee, in is created a decided sensation. Mr. Buchanan demanded the name. Mr. Hall said be bad been offered a bribe of $1,000 by a prominent Democrat to keep out of the Republican caucuses, and could produce witnesses to toe same, me com mittee on bnnery announced tnat tneir report would be ready at the next sosslon. and the nrst one of the contesting independents was seated. Other contests wUl be decided to-morrow. The charges of bribery made to-day were ordered re ferred to the committee appointed earner in the week to investigate similar charges. Two ballots were cast in Joint session at noon. the last resulting: Moody, 77; Tripp. 25; Har den, 124: Kyle. 16: Croae. 13; Seward, 4; Preston, 3; Scott, 2; FickJer, Mathews, Mclntyre, uory. cooper, tosand and Campbell, l each. The de cision of the Hrt of tbe live Lawrence county contests against the suting Republican mem bers is a decided dereao for Moody. ; Marlon Store-Works Destroyed by Fire. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JIaridn. Ind- Jan. 24. At 2 o'clock this morn ing the Marlon stove-worlts, of this city, were destroyed by nre. The origin of the tire is a mystery since the gas. which was used for fuel, was shut off from all the tires in and about tho building. Incendiarism is suspected, but the motive ior that is also a mystery. The arm bad a cTeat many raluable patterns.' which were destroyed, and these added to tbe buildings and the machinery mate the loss over $20,000, and it is feared that it will reach &23.O00. Even tbe books were destroyed, a Journal alone being saved from tho wreck. Fifty men are thrown out of employment. The Insurance is distributed as follows: Phoenix of New York. $2,000: Northern of London, $1,500; American of mnadelphia. si.ooo; Hartford of Hartford. $1,500; Germania of New York, $2,000; North iiriusn ox England, $.ooo; total, 910,000. Free Delivery Experiments. WAsnisaTOir. Jan. 24. With a view to ascer talning tbe practicability and cost of extending tne iree-delivery service to small towns, the Postmaster-general has directed the establish ment of experimental free-delivery service In the . n.tj 11 . r . ... . loruwiuj; wi; uaiuweu, iwuu., rtooinson, in.; Monupe. Mien., and fceuersbunr. Ind. The serv ice to be established at these places will be per formed by one carrier appointed by the post master, me man win be collected from tbe boxes to be provided, and incoming mail will be delivered at tbe houses once or twice a dav as the needs- of the citizens require. If tbe experiment is uccessiui tne rostmaster-generai will ask for an appropriation to cover this ex tension or ine sen ice to small towns. The superintendents of the frw-deHverT nervice in several largo cities have been in confer ence here, and will recommend to the Post-niaster-ceneral that all free-delivery otfiees be yjui-eu in classes, oaseaupon uie revenue and population. 7 Wealthy Miser Murdered and Robbed. v Kansas Citt. Jan. 21. The ltreie.M hodrnf Win. nornman was discovered vesterdav after noon in a miserable little hut, which he called nisnome, near Argentine, Kan.fA hole in tile top of his head and tbe disarranged cnnditinn of the bedding told the story of what is supposed w um o oeen a muraer. ins Doay was in a state of advanced decomposition, knd' it is thought that he has been dead at least ten davs. The deceased was a hermit and amiaar. Tip, iivd in the utmost squalor and ate no more than was absolutely necessary to keep life in his body. His clothes were ragged and dirty. He owned forty acre3of bottom land, upon which taxes have been paid regularly. It is known that he had considerable mone3", some placing the amount at $20.00O. hidden about tbe 1 ouse. Search was maue ior mis to-day, but not a cent was found, Snlllvun "Fired" from the Elk. - CryClSXATI. O.. Jan. It Tr Hilinlln m,iCaXTO. the Lead nf tha TlriAT-it.t t,a t. ,.,t.. - - - - vviv,u ,UU J lUll'V 111 V Order of the hlk, has beeu here since last UV 1,181 E'Km. at a meeting which ho sttended, the Doctor suspended the nrize-nvhtp r. John I Sullivan, an a ierson "who Is unworthy v ""io''iu peuueraen, and whose coudnct uaa I'luumi sname and discredit uijn the Order. 8ulllvnn CAlrtArl 1mU.lnn . tll iJ7,M t,frLhe was received as an actor. Dr. Q.iinlln, in his order of suspension. JV.l?1 ?h wderwere removed from via iu v-iucinnainast July. Ik Favor of Kentucky Lotteries. r. "K2ian- 24Ja.U'oJ. H. Jackr, , Jr11 conrr, to-day decided thelotjTfv him in favor of the lotteries. fort lottery tickets and again for selling Henry Academy ticket. There was nodlsputS as to tne tacts. JuJita j.Unn i.i i. i. i. . w -s, lb jo, repealing the lottery licenses is void

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Four of these animals were seen on tbe highway near a farm-house a day or two ago. Several farmers with .their dogs started in pursuit or them, and tbe bears took refuge m a pine swamp. The dogs succeeded in separating the bears, and the hunters shot and killed one of them. The others went further into the woods and the dogs were afraid to go in search of them. The farmers in tbe vicinity have to guard their sheep and cattle during the night. Forger Wood Released. vivi j jsa Af vt wail vi wvi vut ff with forgery in the celebrated ballot-box scandal which was made tbe basis of a congressional investigation, and which llKured prominently in the campaign resulting in the defeat of Gov ernor Foraker for re-election, was dismissed oy the Probate Court at the suggestion of the prosecuting attornoy. Judge Ermston, in granting the dismissal, said he realized tnat it was practically Impossible to obtain the testimony neces sary to convict, ana also tnat tnere is a ueeire oi interested parties to let Wood go. Attempt to Intimidate an Editor. Fbeewater. Ore, Jan. 24. The editor of th Freewater Herald has received the following notice from Milton. Ore., signed "Fifty Citizens:" "Please say nothing in your next issue about the proceedings of regulators on Wednesday evening. By so doing yon will avoid trouble." This notice is supposed to be tbe result of an editorial in the Herald Thursday in which the editor ex pressed tbe opinion that the Chinamen who were dragged out of Milton with a rope around their neck were better men than those "who held the rope. Hypnotism Responsible for a Murder, rnTPBUito. Jan. 21. The shooting of Mrs. W. J. Faulk by her husband, yesterday, in a lit of religious enthusiasm, has resulted in a warrant being issued for one George Knauff, as an acces sory before tho fact. Faulk declares his religious insanity was inspired by the hypnotic influence of Knauff, viho claimed to be another Messiah, and ordered him to kill his wife. This Faulk aid. and tne officers are now minting Knauff, who has disappeared. Widows Who Are Not Entitled to Pensions. Wabhingtox,' Jan. 24.-Asslstant Secretary Bussey has decided that the provisions of the third section of the pension act of June 27 last do not apply to the claims of widows whose husbands died while still in the United States service under circumstances which precluded the grant of a pension under the provisions of the general Eensiou law. The class of claimants referred to, e says, have not been provided for in the act. Has Slept Nine Mouths. ' Drxox. HI., Jan. 24. Mrs. Graoo O. Ridley, of Amboy, 111., who went to sleep nine months ago, awoke yesterday afternoon tor the first time. She wandered about the house, but did not speak a word. At tea-time she took her accustomed seat at the table, but could eat nothing, and when some one of the family attempted to assist ber she motioned them away with a gutteral sound, but no distinct word was uttered. An Early Season Fish, Story. NAsnviLLE, Tenn., Jan. 2 -L During the snowstorm here this morning countless snail fish were seen to fall. They were about an inch long and resembled the carp or mullet The greatest number fell on Broad street. Some were found on Union street, several blocks away. A Religious Topic. Eftte Field's Washington. MammaMy dears, yon should not talk about students on Sunday. It is not right. Ella and Carrie (in chorus) But, mamma, we're talking about theological students. Mamma (with a sigh of relief) Oil! When Elijah Rose. 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