Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 October 1891 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1891.

some daring spirit who delighted to put himself in advanceof thwtinies wach:eri v conspicuous iu that tint ecumenical by it absence. The brethren, too. found themselves at loggerheads on the temperaii qnestion, the advanced utterances of Americans eliciting no adequate rosponso.Ironi the llritish Methodist, and the, half apologetic tone of many of tbo English being so far beneath the stalwart attitude of Brother Jonathan as to seem to him positively contemptible, liut in this conference the showing is qmto different. ENfJLIMIMEX NOW lOU TEMPEftAXCE. Not a day haw passe I that the liquor traffic has cot been visited with Boine withering malediction: and the singular fact is thai Herod has found himself wholly outllerodcd at his own particular business; for the English brethren have so completely taken the lead in denouncing drink as the "blistering curse of civilization." and in holding up to popular acorn "political parties buttressed by the beer barrel and drawing their inspiration from distilleries," that even Dr. Leonard, for the time, has found his occupation gone, he. with the other Americans, seeming to tacitly admit, by their comparative reticence on tbo subject, that the cause of temperance is at present sufficiently buttressed and sufficiently inspired by this new accession of forces from across the sea. Another striking point of difference between the former ecumenical and the present is iu the broader horizon of view taken by the latter. At the first meeting of these ionz-separated brothers they could talk of nothing bnt themselves. Nearly all the topics wore a Methodist complexion, and most of the speeches were satnrated and tipped with Methodist ideas and facta. Not a little that has been distinctively denominational has found a place and very properly so in the proceedings of the present conference. The second day brought lis Methodist statistics in such bewildering afUnence as : to almost make our heads , awim; and still there was a fear that some which should have been presented bad gotten away tomehow; else, why the committee which the conference haa appointed- to shell the woods for such possible deserters! To the suggestion thrown out that the emphasis laid on these figures looked a little like numbering Israel, it was retorted that whether such a numbering of the Lord's hosts was permissible or not under the old dispensation, it was certainly allowed nuder the new, and that, in the distinct mention of the three thousand added to the church on the day ot 1'entecost, it had the obvious sanction of the apostles. It was well, however, as Dr. A. is. Hunt fittingly remarked, thai but one day should be given to a topie like this, and quite the thing that immediately thereafter the broader topic of Christian union and co-operation should

come up for debate: for this gave a chance' lor the soaring eagle ox Metnoaisuo eloquence to cast its approving eye upon much that is good in other churches, while the gradual advance ot the programme, by the etages of "Scientific Thought" and "Church Agvneies," to economic and social problems, brought the brethren face to face at last with the donbts. trouble, oppressions and crying needs of the great masses of mankind who are still, in all lands unreached by either the Methodist Church or any other. A PERT YOUXO FELLOW CONVERTED. In regard to scientific thought, and how it is influencing popular belief, it was held by one of the English delegates that Methodism, fortified in her own conceits, as he expressed it, might possibly be playing the ostrich, imagining there was nothing to fear when there was a great deal to fear. As to America, he had heard, he said, that ministers here were twenty yeara behind the times in Biblical criticism.. The author of this observation is a pert young fellow,- whose unconventional dress contradicts all our notions of the typical English clergyman, and whose tendency to air it over his brethren . does eqnal violence to all our ideas of British courtesy. Perhaps this gentleman is in a somewhat irritated condition, from his recent trial for heresy, be this as it may, he was soon set right upon the facta involved, and was so thoroughly converted, after a time, irom his heterodox opinion of American scholarship, as to frankly confess In open conference that if what he had' .beard correctly represented American Methodism he had now no hesitation in saying that Methodist scholarship in this country, far from being twenty years behind tnat of England, was twenty years Mead of it a compliment, however, which, considering its source, will be taken, no doubt, with aa many (rraina of allowance s had been previously bestowed upon the evere criticism which prepared the way tor it. Upon the great question of what the church shonld do to put herself in a proper attitude toward "that larger church," as one expressed it, "which is beyond the pale of all the churches." there seems to be perfect and enthusiastio agreement that hereafter a greater effort should be mado to keep in touch with tho masses; that while giving nil needful attention to the soul, the interests of tho body nnd the life 'should be better guarded than they are; that ministers should preach "more like men and less liko parsons;" .that if we cannot christianize socialism we should make haste to socialize Christianity; and. tinally. that, as Hugh Price Hughes put it. Methodism, instead of repining, as it did in his country, that it is overshadowed by the Church of England, t'.iould make its appeal everywhere nnd all the time to the millions of tho race in bota hemispheres, who, whatever their predilections, would bo s ure to join the first church that would properly "go for them." THE PART TLAYED BY WOMAN. It is always a delight to say "I told yon 50." and this delicious felicity falls to the jot of the writer in reference to the part played in this conference by woman. We were sure she could not be kept out by formal exclusion from the privilego of membership; we predicted, indeed, that she would be more really in by the fact that she was not in, than if addmission bad been accorded her; and so it has come to pass. The same sex which was a sue ressful tempter of man in that tragic incident which made the church a necessity, has proved a successful tempter of the bretbern in this great church conference. The seductive influence showed itself at first in a mild and harmless form; as. for instance, when liianop (ialloway, in allusion to the agitation for women delegates in the Ceneral Conference of a sister church, remarked that others might do as they pleased, but the church he represented "did dot believe in Uymg any disability upon men or in conferring any fancy franchise upon women' Another bishop who fell into the same snare was liishop Amett, of the African M. E. Church, who, in one of the greatest speeches to which the conference has listened, dropped from empyreau heights to the commonplace level ot remarking, for the advice of his white .brethren, that "the colored churches gave the women so much other work to do that they did not want to go to (Jeneral Conference." Thus the trouble began, and, of course, when the camel, so to speak, had its nose in tho assembly, it was not long in squeezing in its entire anatomy. The debate ou woman's worl. in the church was a revelation to the more conservative brethren, and it was iu all respects so intensely interesting as to trench constantly upon the sensational. The first speaker to distinguish himself for advanced views was the Hev. William (Jorman, of Ireland, a natty little man with a bulging forehead, who looked so prim and nice an to buggest the idea that some strong aud good woman, having adjusted bis necktie and stroked back into their proper place his smooth, glossy locks, had just sent him out, the product of her own baud and skill, to be her special champion. The speech of Mr. (jorman took by storm those who were upon his own side in this controversy, and the opposite side were, of course, correspondingly disgusted with it. Dr. liuckley rang the chestnut bell on this gentleman, and afterwards Dr. Oldham, of 1'ittsburg. performed the same delicate service for Ijt. Hockley. An ellort was also made to laugh Mr. Gorman out of court. ih. Buckley's metaphor. Here again Dr. Buckley figured, compar- ' ing the extraordinary speech to which they had jtist listened to the swan "tho most magmticeut creature that swims, yet drawing onlv two inches of water." This was i striking metaphor, and for a moment it itemmed the tide; but it was not long until Dr. J. W. Hamilton. Hugh Price Hughes snd others came to the rescue of woman's sanne;and then, at woman's luck would ave it. Dr. E. 1!. lloss. who represents the Church outb, and who, under other circumstances, might have ottered Dr. Uuck-

ley a powerfnl reinforcement, made the mistake of beginning his speech by Haying: "If there is any one here who thinks more of woman than 1 do, I should like to eo him:" for, of course, on such a challenge as that, men poped up all over the house; the result being that Dr. Hosh. in his embarrassment, whh unable afterwards to do jusiico to either himself or his . canse. And when a brother arose and said: "They all do it; that's the way tliM opponents of women always begin" there seemed really to be nothing leit for woman to desire, so far as her vindication from an oratorical point of view was concerned. Still, she is not yet eligible to the General Conference, nor in any of the larger Methodist churches is s!ie admitted to the ministry; nor has this ecumenical (gathering any power to confer upon her either the one dignity or. the other. The discussion, however, considering how it went, is almost sure to manufacture eentimcut in her behalf; ani really, when ono remembers that at the first ecumenical, when the same subject was under discussion, there was but one solitary speaker who held that woman should be allowed to preach and none who even mooted the propriety of her admission to church conferences, whereas at this the voices asking her elevation to one or both of these positions have been iu the ratio of about 23 to 5, with not a single objector among tbMargenumberwho spoke on the Uritish side when these facts are considered, which indicate so strikingly what the progress of the recent past has been, who can draw the line at what may or may not be realized in the enlargement of woman's sphere in the near futuref METHODIST UNION. So in regard to Methodist union. At the other ecumenical the subject was barely presented, and the English, in particular, were so backward in the matter that some of the various sects were hardly on terms of friendliness with each other. Now, however, nnion seems to be the chief watch-word of these Methodist clans, and, singular to say, the English, who were formerly so far behind, are nearer to this happy goal than the Americans, lieferriug to the situation here. Mr. Hughes said that an American bishop had told him that before we couid have uniou in America there would have to be a number or prominent funerals; and Bishop Kmbry, a colored man who took the floor shortly afterwards, in alluding to this remark, said it was only too sadly true, and unfortunately, he added, "prominent funerals are rather slow in coming." Perhaps both the white and the colored man were correct. Perhaps, too, before union can bo consummated in American Methodism there must be some funerals of another kind. 1'ossiDly, on both sides of Mason And Dixon's line, thero mnst be a burial of denominational strifes, of sectional prejudices and of race antipathies. Possibly, too, these funerals, like the others, will be slow in coming. Surely, however, as men must die, so, in the course of time, ono would suppose, must all bad feeling die out amongst Christians of the same denominational name. It is comforting to think, indeed, that sometimes bad feelings, like bad man. die prematurely and suddenly, borne of the latter, so far as Methodists are concerned, have found their quietus in the present conference. The warm atmosphere of the body has literally made it "too hot'' for these estrangements, and they have met the same end which icebergs meet in the Gulf stream. And who can help feeling that the masses of Methodists the world over, with only a few exceptions, will take pleasure in these takiuasoff, and. while fondly hoping that the death rate may rapidly increase, will hold themselves ready to say at all such funerals, "Jilessed are the dead who die in the Lord!" The practical issues of the conference upon this most interesting of all the questions which have engaged its attention are the recommendations touching closer cooperation in mission fields, the special movement toward closer alliliation among the eolored churches, the pledge of Dr. Stephenson that as early as possible the English Methodists 'will confer together with a view to closer union, and the resolutions, which provoked so lively a debate, and whieb, in duo time, will be brought belore the legislative bodies of all the Methodist Churches, requesting the Methodists of the world to conduct their operations hereafter in concerted action with each other. ii. t, . Deaconesses Home Dedicated. ' Washington'. Oct. 18. The Lucy Webb Hayes Deaconesses' Home and Bible College for Home and Foreign Missionaries was dedicated here yesterday afternoon in the presence of an audience as distinguished as it was large, there being present some of the well-known bishops of the Methodist Church on this side of the water and oome of the eminent divines from the other side. Dr. Street, chairman of the building committee, made a briel address, stating what had been done in the way of improvements, and concluding by turning the home over to Mrs. Knst, of Cincinnati, as a representative of the Woman's Home Missionary Society: The work was nut under the supervision of a conference board

of nine, appointed by the Baltimore Conference. The board of directors are: Mrs. H. M. Teller, president; Mrs. L. T. Tullock. vice-president; Miss Marion E. Fowler, recording secretary; Mrs. C. F. Koach, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. A. C. McDowell, treasurer. The course of study will be systematic and complete, and will cover a period of two years. LOST HLU SCKKW. Steamer Edam Spoken at Sea in a Disabled Condition Citj of Rome Safe in Port. London, Oct. 18. The North German Lloyd steamship Eider, Captain Bauer, from New York, Oct. 10, for Bremen, reports that on the 15th inst., in latitude 4iP north, longitude 343 west, she spoke the Dutch steamer Edam, Captain Brunsman, which left Kotterdam Oct. 3 for New York. Tho latter had lost her screw and was sailiug before a terrific gale. New York, Oct. IS. Arrived: City of Chicago, from Liverpool; Normannia. from Hamburg; La Champagne, from Havre. Moville, Oct, IS. Arrived: City of Home, from New York; the vessel reported lost. Havre, Oct. 18. Arrived: La Touraine, from New York. London. Oct. 18. Sighted: Belegenland, from New York. Southampton, Oct. 18. Arrived: Eider, from New York. Losses by Fire. PiTTsnURG, Oct. 18. Phillips's glass warehouse on the South Side was damaged by tire to-night to the extent of $10,000. During the progress of the tire, a temporary bridge fell ten feet, carrying with it a score or more of men. women and children. Several persons were injured, but none seriously. Fireman Martin was also painfully injured by falling glass. Fort Waynf. Ind.. Oct. 1& Fire early this morning destroyed tho warehouse of A. M. Diehl, with all its contents, consisting principally of rags. Loss. $5.u00; fully insured. The building, which was owned Dy T. B. Hedkiu, was uninsured. Birmingham. Ala.. Oct. IS. At Opelika. last night, the Opelika Hotel, with all outbuildiugs. burned. All the guests escaped with baggage. Loss. $UMX,0; insurance, $11,000. Strike or World's 1 air Workmen. Chicago. Oct. IS.-One hundred and twenty men employed on the electricity buildings at the world's fair grounds quit work yesterday because their foreman. William Irving, had been given the alternative to accept a position at 40 emits an hour or quit. Irving has been a great favorite with the men since the work was l-egtin. 'I he strikers were subsequently paid ort, and left the grounds. The men claim that Irving wa reduced from the fon-muiisbip because he strictly enforced all the State laws regarding the wages aud hours of labor. He was the only foreman at the grounds, it is said, who insisted uuon the weekly pay-day. Lumber Company In Financial Trouble. Saginaw. Mich., Oct. is. The OwenHutchinson Lumber Company, the meiubetsof which are Edward Owen and (Jeo. A. Beach, of Saginaw, and Ueorge 1 Hutchinson, of Ossitiburg, is financially embarrassed, and late yesterday altcrnoon Mr. Beach filed a bill iu chancery praying for the appointment of a receiver of the firm's property and to prevent the naming of preferred creditors. The liabilities will be $35,000 to $ICO,OW. and the assets 73,OuO.

ITALY LIFTS THE EMBARGO

Her People to Ic Given a Chance to Eat A in e r ica n Pork w i t li T h ei r Macaron i. France Also Discussing the Removal of the Prohibitive Decree Balfour Appointed Fust Lord of the British Treasury. ANOTHER KMDARGO RAISED. Italy's Cabinet Has Uedded to Abolish the Decree Against American Pork. New York, Oct. IS. President Louis Contezin, of the Italian Chamber of Commerce, received to-day a cablegram from the Italian Cabinet at Rome, stating that it had unanimously decided to abolish the decree against American pork. A proclamation will be issued to that e fleet by tho Italian government. France May Do Likewise. Pa i:is, Oct. 18. When the Senate tariff committee begin the debate on the proposition to remove the prohibition of the importation of American pork the ultra protectionist members will attempt to secure an adverse report on the scheme. Neither M. Jules Ferry nor M. Tirard, who are both members of this important committee, are very sanguine that the proposal can be carried. M. Millaud, another member of tho committee, told the Associated Press representative to-day that he thought a bill would ultimately prevail in spite of the tendencies of the ultra protectionists, but it would not go through without a great deal of' opposition. Personally ho was on the side of the government in its wish to satisfy the demands of the United States. The recent quarrel of M. Ferry with the committee has not tended to smooth the way to removal of the decree against the admission of American pork, but quite to the contrary. Yesterday M. Keinach, supporting tbe position taken by M. Ferry, called the reactionists In the committee a collection of little fool V thus adding increased bitterness to the dispute. Mr. Whitelaw Keid, tbe American minister, found it advisable to call upon M. F'erry yesterday evening. Mr. Keid found him hopeful of success in overcoming the opposition. M. Keinach says that if tho Senate allows itself to be intluenced by the course the committee seems beut upon pursuing, the protectionist cause itself will be compromised gravelv. There must be either moderate protection or none at all. M. Jules Simon made an anti-protectionist speech to-day before the committee of the French Exporters' Union, after which that body adopted a resolution demanding that tbo Senate insist upon the free admission into France of raw materials and food stuffs. BALFOUR CHOSEN. Appointed First Lord tit the Treasury and Leader of the British Commons. London, Oct. 18. It is officially announced, to-day, that the Right Hon. Arthur J. Balfour, member of Parliament for East Manchester, and at present the Chief Secretary for Ireland, has been appointed First Lord of tho Treasury. The Kight Hon. C. T. Ritchie is spoken of as Mr. Balfour's successor in the event of Mr. Balfour's acceptance of the appointment as First Lord of the Treasury and leader of the House of Commons. Mr. Kitcbio is president of the Local Government Board,- an otiice with a salary of 2.000 a year, whereas the Chief Secretary for Ireland receive 4.425 a year. Financially, therefore, as well as in political importance, it would be a great advance for Mr. Ritchie. He has never been noted for executive ability, although a man of considerable original force, and a long parlitnentary experience. It is re membered, however, that Mr. Balfour himself sat in Parliament for years, and held government office without displaying any special ability until his appointment as Irish Chief Secretary brought out his peculiar capacity for what the Irish call liallouriun. Mr. Ritchie is also a Scotchman, being a native of Dundee, where he was born in 1KJ3. He has been for many years a resident of London. He is at present tbe more probable selection of those mentioned lor the Irish chief secretaryship. Mr. V. L. Jackson, who has also been named, is financial secretary of the treasurv. and has held that office in a thoroughly businesslike way. It is not thought probable that Lord Salisbury will dispense with him in the Treasury, especially as he represents the rather doubtful constituency of North Leeds. Sir John Elden Gorst has also been named for the Irish office. In ability he is undoubtedly superior to either Jackson or Ritchie, and he has had the East Indian experience, which in the choice of magistrates for Ireland the Salisbury government has considered a qualification. It is probable, however, that Mr. Balfour will retaiu the chief secretaryship for a time, at least. ' IRELAND'S FACTIONS. An Englishman's View of the Situation The Church "Wants to Dominate. London. Oct. 18. Pierco Mahoney, the successor of Parnell in command of tbe Paruellite party, is said to have spoken yesterday of his opponents as "the clerical party." A well-known Liberal-Unionist, speaking of tho Irish situation to-day, said: "Ireland is simply undergoing the experience of all countries where the majority of tho people are Roman Catholics. The Roman church makes an ellort to control the situation, and a party is formed for and against such control. That is the real issue to-day in Ireland, just as it has been in France, in Mexico, aud in all such countries where the people are at liberty to form parties. In Ireland tho break has come rather sooner than it might have, on account of Pa rn ell's personal difficulties, but it was bound to come.' John Dillon, M. P. for East Mayo, in a speech at Dungarven, yesterday, explained that he and his colleagues were absent from Mr. Paruell's funeral in order to prevent disorder. Ho charged that his opponents hired men. whom they plied with drink, to publicly call him a "murderer." He regretted that such devices had debarred him from the funeral of the great illustrious leader, whom he loved more than thoso loudest in their professions of grief, and who in spite of the events ot the past year would hand down his name to be remembered in remote generations of Irishmen. He denounced those who are making on the fresh grave a platform of infamous gospel, perpetual hostility and national dissension. He hoped that the bitter attacks ou Mr. Parnell's memory, such as bad been printed by the Irish Catholics, which were uucatholic, unchristian and a disgrace to Irish journalism, would not be repeated. The latter remark created a sensation. Religious Differences Miould Not Exist. Chicago, Oct. li At a Parnell memorial meeting of Irish-American citizens of Chicago, held in Central Music Hall to-night, resloutions were adopted declaring that a final settlement of the Irish question must be based on Irish control of all Irish affairs, legislative and administrative, and uruing the choice of a leader who would remove fears on the part of Protestants. It is declared that religious dillerences should no longer be tho cause of separating the Irish people politically. Rev. C. J. Adams, an Episcopal minister, was one of the principal speakers at the meeting, and waa accorded the warmest kind of a reception. GENERAL. FOREIGN NEWS. Farts Fund or the IrUh Nationalists Not Likely to He Released Soon. Pauis, Oct. 18. Several eminent French lawyers have been consulted upon the matter of the release of the lund of the Irish parliamentary party now on deposit here. They agree that the problem is a knotty one, and believe that the first step must be an application to the Court of Chancery by tbe heirs of Mr. Parnell and those of Mr. Riggar. for Mr. Biggar was a trustee of the fund at the same time that Mr. Parnell was. The French judges will not act, probably, contrary to tbe decision of. the English court, unless in declaring themselves

incompetent to adopt it. This would canse prolonged trouble. If th money goe into tho ratbse de consign;! tio?, it is lt to all but the French trrasnri. Leiral proreedinciuiil w-rvn to keep it from everybody for many yean, nnd tl.en it will lull to the state. Me.mtime Messrs.- Mr.nrow v Co., the Paris bankers, have tended tbe whole insecurities bearing .V 2 r'r rent, interest realizing ,1M) annually. This amount added to the fund, wiil reach a large total before the vesed legal question can be settled. b Sarcophagus of Emperor Frederick. Berlin, Oct. IS. The sarcophagus of the Emperor Frederick was placed on his tomb to-day with considerable ceremony, this being the birthday of the late Emperor. Tho figure of the dead Kaiser lies stretched on his cloak in the nniform of his cuirassiers, the body protected by the cuirass, on which the chain of the Order of the Black Eagle is visible. - On the left arm rests tbe sword, covered with palms, whilst the bands are crossed over the breast and hold the Empress's wreath. Over the feet and falling to the ground in artistlo folds, is spread the Prussian coronation robe, ornamented with its crowns and eagln. At the other end of the sarcophagns, which bears the inscription, two eagles keep watch at tbe corners. On one side there are three medallions Charity, with two children, Pallas Athene giving the young warrior a sword, aud the same goddess teaching the youth the arts of peace; on the other Justice, with her scales, and a long relief representing Charon taking the deceased across the river Styx to two tiirures on the other side. Queen Louise and the Krnperor William 1. The Lmpress Frederick was present, also the Kaiser and other members of the royal household. Chill's General Election. Santiago, Oct. 18, The general election occurred throughout Chili to-day (Sunday.) So far as known there were no disorders. Electors were chosen to-day who will select the President next month. There is no indication yet as to who will b elected, ns no candidates have yet been announced. The Clerical party claim that they have secured a majority in the House of Deputies and tne Senate will probably be controlled by tho Liberals. The" exact result will not be known for Several days. There was a street parade of the troops to-day. Another Storm Raging. Queexstowx, Oct. 18. Since 3 o'clock this afternoon a heavy rain with wind has prevailed. This is accompanied by an abnormally high tide, and Hooded the custombouse. Many craft were swamped. The admiralty docks were greatly damaged. All local traffic has been suspended, owing to heavy seas. The cross-channel steamers report that the severity of the storm is unprecedented. A Volcano Arises from the Sea. Rome, Oct. 18. The earthquake shocks at the Island of Pantellaria and its vicinity continue. A volcano has arisen in the bed of the sea oil:' tbe coast of Pantellaria, which ejects masses of stones to a great height. Cable Notes. A vast number of the people of Dnblin made a pilgrimage to the grave of Mr. Parnell yesterday. The Pope is preparing an allocution concerning the recent F'rench pilgrim disorders at the Pantheon. The vrife of the late William Henry Smith, the leader in the British House of Commons, will be elevated to the peerage. The Pckin government has directed its embassador at St. Petersburg to demand explanation irom Russia for her encroachments upon the Pamir territory. Advices from Teheran are to the effect that the Sbah of Persia has appointed Mr. Pratt, the ex-minister of the United States to Persia, to bo the Persian commissioner to the Columbian lair at Chicago in lSl'U. The sudden death of Inspector-general Acollas, of the French Home Office, has caused a sensation in Paris. While visiting a woman ho took an overdose of a drug, and the effect was fatal. M. Accollas was a married man, and the revelation of his death under such circumstances was a most painful shock to his friends. Representatives of the European press in Paris complain of a very unpleasant instance of pro-Kussianisru. Tbe important position of syndic of the foreign press, including the control of the foreign gallery of the Chamber of Deputies, t becoming vacant, the foreign journalists unanimously elected as their doyen Mr. Howes, of the London Standard. The questeurs of the Deputies, who have hitherto always ratilied their selection, in tho present case chose an obscure Russiannamed Paulovski, at the request of the Russian embassy.

! TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. At New York yesterday there were landed l,o00 immigrants. Mrs. James G. Blaine, jr.. of Sioux Falls. S. D., is in St. Paul for a few days under treatment by a prominent oculist for partial paralysis of the eyelids. George B. McCiellan. Paulino Hall's manager, stated at Rochester. X. V., last night, that tbe stor5' that he aud Miss Hall were married was without foundation. Tbe Louisiana Demooratio State, central committee at its meeting Saturday failed to agree as to submitting the lottery question to white primaries. The whole matter was tabled on motion of one of the opponents of tho scheme. Wm. Lyon, manager of the Marion Linseed-oil Company, of Pittsburg, committed suicide last night by shooting himself through tbe head. Lyon was sixty-nine years of age and quite prominent. He has been in ill health for several years, and this Is assigned as the cause of the deed. The Beecher Memorial Congregational Church, of Brooklyn, was dedicated yesterday. Rev. S. B. llalliday. pastor in charge, preached the morning service. He was for many years Mr. lieecbera assistant at Plymouth Church. The handsome oak puipit is the gift of tho newspaper men of Brooklyn and New York. At a mass-meeting of Republicans of St. Paul and Ramse- county, Minnesota, it was decided to do all possible in support of Minneapolis's request that the Republican national convention be bold in that city. A letter to that etiect was drawn up and forwarded to Chairman Clarkson, of the national committee. Between 12 and 1 o'clock this morning fourteen men started on a 6ix-day bicycle contest in Madison-sqnare Garden. New York, the seven tinal leader to receive varying percentages from half tbe entire gate receipts of the week. Thirteen hundred miles is the minimum record on which prizes will be awarded. No safety wheels are used. The Sunday Magazine. Chattanooga Times. The Sunday papercosts5 cents; the magazine 30 to 50 cents, and the latter entirely lacks the news feature Naturally thousands are buying tho newspapers and dropping the magazine; and that is especially true of the great intelligent traveling public. Magazines nowadays find almost no purchasers on a Snnday train of Pullmans, tilled with leading men and women, whereas Sunday papers go by the hundred, both on Sunday and on week days. What is to bo the end of this revolution? We have no forecast to give, bat it seems to us that the result must bo a radical narrowing of the magazine's field and the disappearance of not a few of that class of publicalications. Hypnotized Into Committing Suicide. Chicago, Oct 18. The Globe, to-day, says that the brothers of young William V. Hersen, who was fonnd dead in his room at the Wellington Hotel, last Monday, are now satislied that tbe young man was either hypnotized into committing suicide or murdered by a Mexican who has been living in this city under the namo of William Ellis, and with whom young Heihen was supposed to be associated in home business enterprises. Ellis wai Hersen's constant companion and seemed to possess ffreat inliueuce over him. The pohc are looking for the Mexican, who has disappeared. Kx-Ireident lloey Not Keady to Talk. Hollywood. X. J.. Oct. 18. Ex-President John Hoey, ot the Adams Kxpress Company, arrived at bis cottage here last nichr. His sou Fred accompanied him. and has been with him ever since. The ex-presi-dent refused to receive any callers to-day, but sent word to a reporter that his statement would nut be ready for publication for a few days yet. He refused to discuss in any maimer his recent difficulties. Mr. Hoey will return to New York to-morrow morning.

INDIANA ANDILUNOIS NEWS frank P. Smith, :i Prominent Citizen of Coluiiibu?, Creates a Wii Sensation .

By Leaving His Wealth to His Family and Deserting to Ilis First Wife Cnnsnal Sterj, Foil of Romance Lawyers at a Banket. INDIANA. Mysterious Disappearance or a Well-Known Citizen or Columbus, ereclslto the Indianapolis Journal. Columbus, Oct 13. Frark P. Smith, waster-works trustee and secretary of the water-works commissioners, created a sensation here Friday night by attempting to commit suicide in the St. Denis saloon. His life was saved by friends interfering. Smith is one of our well-to-do citizens, and his strange conduct has brought out a story of his peculiarly eventful life. Smith's father represented this county in the Stato Legislature in lb58, and his brother, S. Webber Smith, was clerk of this county in lb?.Jt and now resides here and is wealth'. The cause of Smith's trouble is he has two wives and two children by each wife. Seventeen years ago he was married to a daughter of Judce Crandall. of Joliet. 111., and bad two children, then got dissolute and left bis family, going to fct. Louis and taking service as fireman on the O. & M. railway, but after a while returned to his old home, but his wife had procured a divorce, and taken her children aud left. Smith, finding no trace of her. came to this city and has since remained here, and twelve years ago married a Miss Ford, daughter of a respectable farmer, by whom be haa two children, the elder being thirteen years old. Coming here penniless be has, in the last ten years, accumulated about 10,000. F'or fourteen long years ho heard nothing of his first wife and children until three mouths ago, when he discovered them in Chicago, one of the boys working m the Herald otlice. The old love for his first wife and children returned, and Smith visited them often, and to-day abandoned bis wife and children here, leaving them all his property, aboot $20,000, taking with him 1,500, and going to Chicago to-night late to join his first wife and children. A Coming Gas-Belt Town. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Kedkey, Oct 18. The town of Redkey, located at the junction of tbe Panhandle and Lake Erie & 'Western railroads, is enjoying a modest but substantial boom. The Kedkey crystal-plate and windowglass factory is being rapidly completed, and will be ready to begin operation Jan. 1. Mr. John Wilcox, who built the first glass faotory at Dunkirk and now owns a factory at Frankton, is the chief mover in the enterprise. F. M. Millican, of Indianapolis, and Thomas Hagot and others, of Xew Castle, have purchased three hundred acres in the western part of the town, which is now being laid out and bnilt npon. Good inducements are being held out and other manufactories will soon be established. The place has two'exsellent gas wells and others will be put down soon. With its splendid shipping facilities and gas resources Kedkey is one of the coming towns in the gas belt Hamilton County liar Uauquet. Special to the IndianapolU Journal. Nobllsville, Oct 18. One of the most enjoyable social events that have occurred in this city for along time was the banquet given by the Hamilton county bar at the Hotel Wainwright last night The occasion was the beginuing of a new judicial term. Judge Moss, the retiring judge, was the guest of the bar. An elaborate -menu was served, after which responses to appropriate toasts were made by different members, including tbe outgoing and tbe incoming judges, tiy this change in the judgeship of the Hamilton Circuit Court there is a complete redemption of Hamilton county from the grasp of the Democracy, and iii tbe person of Judge Stephenson the people have a guarantee of justice freely, completely and speedily administered. A resolution was adopted fixing an annual outing, to be observed by the members of the bar and their families, and a committee was appointed to make all necessary preparations. Tow's Jaw Troubling Him. Special to tbe Indianapolis Journal. Mitchell, Oct 18. W. H. Tow, whose assassination was attempted last August by a man in ambush, whom he claims was his bitter enemy, Curtis Bass, is sutiering severely from the pain in the lower jaw, which was nearly shot away. Most of the jaw-bone was removed in Angust and he was getting along nicely, but a rising in the jaw necessitated the extraction to-day of more of tbe small part which remained. Dr. Yost of this place performed the operation. Tow is trustee of Marion township, and has bad rather a remarkable career during the last year, having been shot at a number of times by members of the Towliass feud. He has great nerve, as shown by the fact that in the terrible suffering after his face was shot away, he never took anything to lessen the pain. Killed by Smoking a Pipe, fipeel to the Indianapolis Jo urnaL Milford, Oct 18. F'riday night Mrs. James KobineoD, living south of Milford, went to bed in good health at 9 o'clock. About 1 a. M. yesterday morning her husband was awakened by a gurglingnoi?e and he arose and sent for Dr. Keehn, of Milford. but beforo the latter arrived she was dead. She was ono of the greatest smokers of a strong pipe in this country, and it is believed that this was largely instrumental in causing her death. Caused by Rank Carelessness. epecial to the IndianapolU Journal. Gheexcastle, Oct. 18. Mrs. George Hillis, of this vicinity, met with a shocking accident last night Her son had been gunning during the day, and bad stood bis fowlingpiece against the wall, barrel downward, to drain oil' tbe water. His mother tripped over tbo gun, cansiugan explosion, andthe entire load lodged in the centerof her foot Amputation was rendered necessary. Hard on the Hroom-Corn. Special to the Indianapolis JournaL Danville, Oct 18. On account of a bent axle under a car, an east-bound Big Four freight train was wrecked here at 5 o'clock this morning. Seven cars were smashed and the track torn up for a hundred yards. Trathc was delayed ten hours and a quantity of broom-corn. Hour and stoves exposed to tho weather. Awful Domestic Tragedy. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Seymour, Oct. IS. Addi&on Arnold and his wife, each twenty-live years old, and recently married, have constantly disagreed. Last nighr, during a bitter jealous quarrel, Arnold placed tbe muzzle of a revolver in bis mouth nnd blew the top of his head oil. The wife has become insane over the tra(iedy. Both Legs Cut Oft Special to tbe Indianapolis JournaL Sobllsville, Oct. 18. Frederick Bart, nine years old, while attempting to board a moving freight train this morning, lost his hold and fell under the wheels. He had both legs crushed oil' near the knee, and, though still living, he cannot recover. rived Eighty-Eight Tears. Special to tJiP Indianapolis JournaL Charlottesville, Oct. IS. James Vanmeter, aged eighty-eight, and one of tho early settlers of Jackson township, was found dead in his bed this morning. Minor Notes. The cause of young Harry G. Lewis's suicide at Terre Haute is a complete mystery to his friends. 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ing severely from his badly burned bands, but, beyond a sprained back, is not otherwise seriousiy hurt. Elkhart fourth-class postmasters will protest vigorously against their present low remuneration. Samuel Kessler's barn, on Otter Creek, near Brazil, burned, making a loss of 5.500; insurance. $250. Mrs. Albright, of Knifthtstown. is eichtyseven years old, and took her first rido on the cars last week. ' The public schools at Noblesville have been closed two weeks ou account of an epidemie of diphtheria there. John Smith, a farmer near Goshen, gave his two children worm-seed oil. One died and the other is seriously ill. The oil turned out to be a mixture of sulphuric acid. Charles Cartwright was badly wounded while hunting near Charlestowh. A companion tired into a brush pile behind which Cartwriuht was standing, and the contents entered his lower bowels. John M. Garwood, a farmer with a big barn near Lal'orte, furnishes bis own table and that of some of his neighbors with English sparrows that gather by thousands in his barn. He beats them down with a long pole, gathering a half bushel every day. They are said to make the body of a most succulent pot-pie. IIXIXOIS, Callings from Our Correspondence and Gleaning from Exchange. The State convention of the Y. M. C. A. is holding interesting sessions at Jacksonville. A fugitive from justice was arrested in Carmi, wanted in Denton, Tex., for murder and arson. W. M. Buddock, of Stizer, fell while runDing to catch a train, and died in a few minutes of paralysis of the heart Overfour hundred teachers Attended the Northern Illinois Teachers' Association's annual meeting held at Aurora last week. The young men charged with cheating Frederick Kockafeller, of Galia, out of S 1.000 in a bogus foot-race, at Dallas City, last year, were acquitted of the charge of conspiracy. A special train loaded with Nebraska Eroducts, in charge of fifty newspaper and usiness men, arrived in Peoria. The train is sent out to set at rest malicious reports concerning the State, and it will be taken to New York. The board of managers of the Illinois Stato Reformatory had a conference with Governor Fifer last week, and decided to offer the superintendency to Senator B. F. Sheets, the originator of the bill which established the reformatory. WHAT DOES ENGLAND FEAE? Canada's Coast Defenses to Be Strengthened and Iron-Clads Fat on the Lakes. Ottawa, Ont, Oct IS Follo wing close on tbe announcement that the United States government intended to abrogate tbe agreement entered into with Great Britain in 1817 and place a fleet of gunboats on the great lakes comes the report to-day that at the request of the British government Lord Stanley hasdemanded an immediate report upon the defenses of the Dominion. The military authorities here naturally attached some interest as to what the urgency could be that hurriedly called for this information. The request of Lord Salisbury was communicated through Lord Stanley to Premier Abbott last week, and the Minister of Militia promised to have the report ready to be forwarded to the British government to-day. For several years past, in the language of a prominent military ofheer here, the British government has been hammering at Sir John MacDonald to strengthen the defenses of Canada so that in tho event of trouble the Dominion might not be solely dependent upon Great Britain for protection. This request has not been carried out to the satisfaction of the British government It is stated on the highest authority that the officer commanding the Dominion forces. General Herbert was sent out to Canada to investigate the actual state of affairs, which duty his predecessors appear to have sorely neglected. That the relations existing between General Herbert and the Minister of Militia. Sir Adolph Caron, are somewhat strained as a result, is . an open secret There appears to be little doubt that it is the intention of the British government to send several regiments to Canada shortly. This has been in contemplation for some time. . Again, the fortifications at Halifax, still under the control of the imperial authorities, are being strengthened to make that naval station impregnable. Tho same policy is to be carried out in British Columbia, but there is some hitch between tho home and Canadian authorities as to the outlay it will involve. The naval dock-yard at Esquirualt.on the Facilic coast, was jointly constructed by the British aud Dominion governments, bnt it has been reported to the home authorities that it is seriously defective in many particulars. Speaking on the question of defenses today, a prominent ofhcial of the government eaid the moment the United States government abrogated the agreement of 1H17, which restricted tbe naval forces of both Canada and the United States on the great lakes to four vessels each, no vessel to exceed ono hundred tons burden, armed with one eighteen-pound gun. and increased the strength of their fleets on these waters. Great Britain would run np a lleet of heriron-cladsto keep them company. It baa been suggested that England has become alarmed at the strongannexation movement which appears to have seized her subjects iu Canada and is going to take precautionary measures, if necessary at tbe point of the bayonet, to prevent its further development. - si 1 COOK COUNTY BOBBED. Store-Keeper of the Insane Asylum Arrested for FalsifjiDg Official Records. Chicago, Oct 18.-John A. Cella, storekeeper of the Cook County Insane Asylum, was arrested last night for malfeasance in otlice in making false and fraudulent entries in the otiicial record. He is said to be ono of tbe thieves who have been systematically robbing Cook county of unknown sums of money. Last June bids were opened from eighteen firms to furnish coal to the institutions. The lowest bid was that of J. T. Nash &, Co., ollering to furnish soft coal at fi43 per ton so low that, it created suspicion. The firm got the contract, however, and was afterward discovered to consist of Alderman Daniel O'Unen. of theTwent3'-tbird ward, and J. T. Nash, a sewer builder. They claimed to have control of a mine in the bauds of a receiver. It has since been discovered tbatstore-keeperCellaborrowed thecoal weigher's book obstensibly totransfer the figures on the ledger, and he raised tho weight on nearly every car from2.UK) to lft.000 pounds, approving the bills from his ledger. In addition to this, it is found that the county has been paying for meats and provision in much larger quantities tliau 'were needed or used aud much of which wasunht for use. An investigation is now being made of the poor-house bonks. Mrs. Pranks, the housekeeper, who was discharged last week, prelerred charges of 'assault against Superintendent Pyne, and stories that! reticct on some of the otlicials of the institution are told by the inmates. Working for O Cir Neebe's Keleate. CliiCAiio. Oct R Another and very determined effort' is to be made for the release of Oscar Ncebe, who was convicted

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At JnatauafMHtM Union Station; Leave for St. Louis 7:30 a. in., 1 1:50 a. m.. 1 :35 Bni.. ll:OOp. iu. All trains connect at Terre aute for K. iT. II. points. Evansvllle sleeper on 11:00 p. m. train. Grecnca&tle and Terre Uaute Acc. leaves 4:00 p. m. Arrive from fit Louis, 3:30 a. ra., 4:15 a. m., 1:55 p.m.. 5:20 p. m.. 7:45 p. m. Terro Haute and Greencastle Acco. arrives at 10:00 a. m. Sleeping and Tarlor cars are run on through trains. TILE VE3HBULED pnLTAIAN CAR LIVE. Leave InAisnapoTls. 2o. 32 Chlcsro Llm.. Pullman Yestlbalel coaches, parlor and din in car. riady ......11:33 Arrive In Chicago 3;JO ym. Jo. S4 Chicago Xlcht Ex.. PuUniin Yesll. baled coaches and steppers. Uir -.12:40 ata Arrive In Chicago 7:35 am. 2a S8 Monon Aco 5.2a pa Arrive at Indianapolis. No. 81 Vestibule, dally.. 320 nm Xo. 33 YesUbula, daily............ 3:23 ra Ho. 3y Mouoa Aco 10:40 aa Pullman vestibuled sleepers lor Chlcaro stand at weal end ot Union Station, and can be taken at e.3 J p. m.. dally. Ticket Oftce No. 29 Sonta Illinois street, and it Union Station. National TiMM tombwros nrs roa Gas,Steam& Water Boiler Tube. Ct sod Slalleable iron Kit Unit (blacl: and pilvanued). Valves. Ptop Cocks, fcnmna 1 nnimtDK. bteam Gauges. Tip Tours, Vip Cnttem, Yises.screw Tlatesand inaa. Wrench. Meatn Traps Fiimps. Kitchen Mnks.HosA, Belting, liabbitt Metal, eMflder. Wnit and Colored Wiping WaMe, and all other upplle usl m comieciloa with Gas, tsteam snd Water. 2s a tarsi Gas supplies a ;w cialty. frteam heating Apparatus for lnblio Uulwious, 8 tore-rooms. Mills, thop. Factonts. lAtiodrles. Ln ruber Dry-houses, etc. Cat snd Thread to order any sirs Wronsht-iron pi pa from u lnca to 12 inche diameter. if 75 and 77 8. PENNSYLVANIA St THE BEST REMEDY roa CHILDREN BU7TEBXXO FBOM COLD LN HEAD, SNUFFLES, OB CATARRH. GSTARRH A particle Is applied Into each nostril, and U agreeable. Price, 50 cents at drnsr?lte; by mail, registered. A cents. ELY BliOXliEHa, 3ti Warren street. New York. with tho Anarchists and sent to Joliet foi fifteen years, and at the meeting of tbe Trades and Labor Assembly to-day a committee was appointed to co-operate with other organized labor bodies to circulate petitions and agitate for the release of the imprisoned man and to present tho petitions to the Governor. NOT AN UNCOMMON PRACTICE. Some Business Men Think Mr. IIoeys Crime Was in Getting: Found Out. New York Correspondence Philadelih'a Press. The immorality of which Mr. Hoey stand accu6ca does not seem to be an uncommon practice. Men are saying to-day that precisely that thing is being done constantly, and t bey are citing two or tbre cases ot which no publio exposure has been mado, but which are matters of common knowledge. It is said that not very long ago the then president of a great trunk line, in association with one of our greater capitalists, purchased an express company which was known by the name of. the railroad over which its service went, and that then this express company was turned over to the railroad company at a eplendid advance. It is also said that this very thing had. ened once before to the Adams Express onipany. When the war broke out tbtre was an express company in the South which had atiiliatious with the Adams, aud which was in danger of confiscation by tbe confederate government. A capitalist living in the houtb, who was also au officer ot the Adams, bought this company to prevent confiscation, and, it was understood at the time, bought it in the interest of the Adams. After the war was over the Adams company expected to absorb this Southern company, but they had to pay tho officer a lare sum of money, much greater than that which he had paid for the purchase, in order to secure it There are other instances cited of jnst this sort of corporate immorality, and, while business men, of course, condemn it, they express no great surprise that the Adams company has been victimized in this way. 1 he surprise they do exprt-68 is that Hoey was not wise enough so to protect himself by sharing his improper profits with others as to prevent any outbreak; of resentment. The thing of which he is accused is almost exactly similar to an operation of which certain men interested iu the Chicago Uas Trust have recently been accused. There is not much sympathy for Mr. Hoey, and, while there is a good deal of condemnation among men whoso moral nature has not been atunteU by some of the evils of corporation management, there is also a sort of spartan contempt for him. not thatbedidtbiaimproDerthing. but that hi did it in a manner which did not prevent exposure. The Difference, See? New Ycrk Press. "I think," iaid Chappie to bis tailor, as he was being measured for a dress suit. "I think this style of dwesaiug pawsitively absurd, doncher know!" WbyP asked the tailor. "liecause at a pathty you pwasitively can't tell a waitah f warn a gentleman, by gwacious." Oh. it ia easy to tell the cue from the other." "How!" The waiters are usually very well bred and gentlemanly.''

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