Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1892 — Page 1

B INDIANAPOLIS TOimNAI ni9 ESTABLISHED 1823. DIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 5, 1892. 3PT?VTCoir THATX9 AND Li!rfl 1 O ( 6UXDAY& 5 CT3.

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Suits and Overcoats WE OFFKlt A FEW CASKS mm AECTICS 8-12, 9-13, at G5 per cent, off, MEN'S S. A. ALASKAS, any sizes, at GO and 5 per cent, off List, net 30 days. Ihese are new goods and warranted perfect. M'KEE & CO., F83JSSg! ?? "JOTS' WROUGHT SML ItASGES All 6izes. for Coal, Gas or Wood. I rices reasonable from $40 up. Why buy a Cast Range when yon can tny a Wrought Steel one for but little more, and it will last lifetime! "Charter Oak" Stoves and Kan pes. I am selling BASE BURNERS at Vert Low Prices. When in want of a heating stove call on rne. Wood and Slate Mantels. "Marion Harland" Coffeo-pots; "Royal" Double Roasting Fans, "Gate City" Stone Filters. WM. H. BENNETT. 38 Sbnth Meridian Street H. S. McKEE & SON", Bnecessors to McKEE & BRAN n Ail, WHOLESALE BOOTS, SHOES AND RUBBERS, 102 and 104 South Meridian Street,

ROBERT 6. MCKEE. 1 WILLIAM J. MCKXE. J CleTcIind, CindLEin, JgJQ. S .Qicafo&StM boute. Ter in formation as to rhe exact point, time and ether particular, call at -liig 4" oftfcM: fo. 1 East Washington street. No. 13 SoatU Illinois street lUwathnsetta.aTenueaiid Union Stations. lime of trains at Union Station. Indiana poll. FCHEDCLE, 2fOT. 15, 1891. I 2 4 12 j 8 1,H

Arr. from West. AM AM am PM pm Chicago PlV ........ 10.4 ... a.35 6.21 2..V) I'ecrU Dlv 10.) ...... J.40 6.60 2.50 Ft. Jxuls Ply 19.30 3.45 S.S)1 -2.S3 t I CAVE rOR AM AM AM PM PM Cleveland and EMt.... 9.K !.O0 7.00 3.30 JInncie and P.elicfon'e 6:ft ... CjL Tla Veona Lir M.00 ...... 3.05 Col.felsjt nTiUniou S.35 3.M Cincinnati 10.&3 7.05 3 S5 S.S5 3.00 Korxu. 3 ( 6 1 7 1 - 17 Arr. frrm East. i m pm am (am CMcagoDlV 5.00 12.15 M0.50 U.S0 IeorU Dlv t 'HMO 11.41 , Indianapolis SQV 10&5l 7.00,ll.&3 LEAVE roll J M AM FX A U PM Lafayette and Chicago 12.30 12.C1 Lafayette 6.1S M2.30 ... 7.10 -12.01 Laf. ai d Kankakee 12-30 7.10 12.01 lUoom'ton and Peoria 11.00 7.45 12.0 lnvill.IlL.feChaiup. 4.10. ..-11.00 7.45 12.03 Ter. II. and St. Louis M1.0O 7.30i12.U3 'Jr. H.anrt Mattoon.. 8.20 Ml.tO 7.30j12.C6

Indicate daily. AKbrriOKAL TRAILS. Lsre for Anderson and M ancle at 1:00 p. m. Arrive from Anderson at Hhiw a. in. and 2:10 p. m. Arrivei from Cincinnsu at 10-30 a. m. tie. 12, 18. 5. 7 and 17 are fast vestlbnlea trains with Vaa-nr Weepers, Buffet. Cafe and Dining cars to from Cincinnati. Chicago, Bt. Louis, Clevelati.. Huflalo, Kew York. Albany and Boston. TLe tiiest trains in America. "WE HAVE THEM. 5' TRAINS DAILY g FOB CINCINNATI TU C..H.&D.R.R. Hakinff close connection in same depot, without tranvtt-r, for all points lAST and SOUT1L Didj line for TOLEDO AND DETROIT IartnrlndianspolUln tne erenin.tj wMchyoa can secure slee ying-car sccommodatioo. Trains depart 3:45 a.m. tlO:37a.m. sep.ta. i:25 r. m. 1 6:20 p.m. Daily, t Except Sunday. City Ticket Offices, corner Illinois street ndKn tuckf avenue. li South Illinois street and Union Station. II. J. RHEIN, General AenL THE CAPITOL MM Hopes that all of its friends and patrons have had a prosperous and joyous year of 1891 (made so largely by having their laundry work properly done, we think), and wishes them, one and all, A HAPPY 1892. -COKESFOR SALE A- GAS-WORKS Lump, 9c per buslieL Crushed, 10c per bushel Tickets at Gas Office, 49 South Pennsylvania street.

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OFF NOW INDLVNAPOLIS, IND. THE BEQUESTS WILL STJLND. Decision in the Harmon Will Case Whereby Wabash College Gets 1.400 Acres of Land. Chicago. Jan. L Judge Blodgett, in the federal court to-day, rendered bis opinion in a controversy between heirs ot an ecoentric but wealthy old farmer named Jacob M. Harmon, over the ownership of oyer three thousand acres of land in Iroqnois county, Illinois, and Wairen county, Indiana. About fifteen years ago Harmon made o-con tract with two of his nephews, Jacob and Jeremiah Uarmon, which, in effect care the old gentleman's possessions to them at his death, providing thej made certain improvements on the lands and paid an annual rental for it. In 1884 a new agreement, whioh provided that tho two nephews must surrender the lands at any time the owner desired, was made. In 1867 Harmon died and left a will which disposed of 1,400 acres of the land to Wabash College, of Indiana, a large portion to ditierent relatives and but six hundred acres each to the two nephews. The will also provides that these last bequests be subject to an annuity of 25 cents per acre, to be paid to the American Bible Society of; Kew York. Tdj two nephews rebelled at this and filed a bill in the United States Circuit Court to enforce the original agreement that they were to receive the land. The written agreement made by the two nephews in 18S4 was fatal to their claim, however, in the court's opinion. There was some question in the court's mind as to the annuity in perpetuity to be paid to the liiblo Society and there will probably be some farther litigation on that point, but the bill to enforce the original agreement was dismissed for want of equity THE WIDOW SMOK UEIl HEAD. She tinted Ead Enough to Marry, bnt One Sight of Armstrong Chilled Her Lore. Special to the Indlanspolls Journal. Crawfordsville, Ind., Jan. 4. Mace, five miles east of here, has bad considerable notoriety during the past month in the way of romantic marriages. About three weeks ago Everett Linn and Mollie Morris eloped and went Sonth. At Nashville he was arrested for carrying concealed weapons, but npon his explaining his circumstances he was released, and was at once married to Miss Morris. They then went to a small town in Alabama where they intended to remain, but got homesick, and returned home, where they arrived last Friday. They v?ere received with open arms and now all !s serene. T. A. Armstrong, also of Maco, corresponded with Mrs. LuluEdgerton, acharmine widow of Cooper, Mich. They kept np the correspondence nntil it resulted in tho promise of marriage on the Dart of the widow. Accordingly, Mr. Armstrong left last week for Cooper, Mich., to marry a woman he had never seen. However, when the woman looked on him she was not smitten, and, shaking her head, ehe said: "1 am not one of the kind to marry in haste, and repent at leisure. I'd rather repent in haste and marry at leisure." So Mr. Armstrong has returned home to await the final answer of his deliberative iianceo. C5EARTHED A SKELETON. Eailroad Men Find What May Ba the Clew to a Mysterious Murder. Fpeclsl to the Indianapolis Journal. Valparaiso, Ind., Jan. 4. A human skeleton was unearthed this morning in the vicinity of Chesterton by a gang of men employed by the Lake Shore Railroad Company. Tho body had apparently been underground for several months. Pieces of clothing ere fonnd clinging to the bones, bat identification was rendered impossible. Tho eknll had been crushed in by a blow from some blnut instrument. The finding of this skeleton, it is thought by some, brings to light a dark crime, the evidences of which had been covered by the burial of the body of the -victim. Several months ago a young man employed in the Standard oil-works at Whiting mysteriously disappeared, and as he was known to have considerable money in his keeping, the theory prevails that he was foully dealtn with in the attempt to gain possession of it. . Work on Armor Plates Discontinued. Sreclaltotne Indianapolis Journal. BethixheI, Pa., Jan. 4. Commodore Folger to-day msde'an ollicial visit to the Bethlehem Iron Company's works. Owing to an unsatisfactory test of the curved armor plate at Indian Head. Thursday laat, work has been suspended on the remaining five plats to be used to form certain parts of the Monterey, now building at San Francisco. One Plate weighs 40,000 pounds.

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Vigorous Dissenting Opinion in an Important Western Railway Case. Justices Brewer, Harlan and Field Protest Againsl Giving Railroads the Right to Discriminate in Favor of New Towns. Majority Decision That Will Cause Dissatisfaction in Some Quarters, No Announcement Made Testerday in the Boyd-Thayer Contest Action of the House of Representatives In a Similar Case. . PROTEST OP JUSTICES. Brewer, Ilarlan and Field Dissent from the Majority Opinion in an Important Case. Special to tLe Indianapolis Journal. Washington', Jan. 4. In tbe Supreme Court to day Associate Justices Brewer, Harlan and Field laid down some law which will attract widespread attention, especially in the far West. It was provoked by tbe case against the Northern Pacific Railroad Company from tne State of Washington. The railroad company, sometime after Yakima City was established, withdrew its station from that point and located it some fonr miles distant, where it established the city of North Yakima. Tho object of the company was, of coarse, to create a boom for its own town lots. The first city established brousht suit by the county attorney to compel the railroad to maintain for the accommodation of the people a station at Yakima City, and in the suit it was successful. The company appealed to the Supreme Court, holding that the greatest number of its patrons were accommodated by the station last established, and that it was not in the interest of the publio that the 6tatIon first established should be maintained also. Six of the members of the court took this view of tho case and overruled the decision below, bnt Associate Justices Brewer, Ilarlan and Field dissented. In announcing the ground taken by the three dissenting justices there was great earnestness shown in tho manner and words of Justice Brewer, who was appointed from Kansas, and is, therefore, familiar with the manner in which railroad companies in the West strike down cities in which they are not in a landed way interested for the purpose of building np their own towns to sell corner and inside lots. Mr. Brewer's voice arose high above the dm about tho court-room as he intimated in unmistakable language that the position assumed by the majority of the bench that a railroad company has the right to locate its own stations without regard to tho interests of the publio was neither justified by law nor common decency. He said he was very familiar with the motives which prompted railway companies in the far West to tear down a thriving , town in order that they might build op another town upon ground owned by them. JUSTICE BREWER'S REASONS. "I hold, as do the two justices dissenting from this opinion," said Justice Brewer, feelingly, "that the Supreme Court of the United States, if not the courts of the States, has the right to compel a railroad company to locate and maintain a station where the interests of the publio demand it. I hold further, that it is a violation of the law and a moral crime for a great corporation and public servant to destroy tbe Froperty of others for their own interests, hold that tbe Supreme Conrt of the United States has the authority, as an illustration of what the dissenting justices stand npon, to force a company to mala-" tain established stations wherever tho interests of the public demand them, even to the detriment of the company' interests. For instance, should a railroad be constructed from Evansville to South Bend, in the same State, via Indianapolis, and it should please tbe company to go four or five miles out of the latter city to locate its station, the Supreme Court has the authority to compel it to establish and keep up a station in the city of Indianapolis." Three or four of the most prominent lawyers in the country, including two ex Attorney-generals, who heard the statement of Justice Brewer, said afterward that it was good law and should be enforced. To make the Yakima City case Slain it should be added that at the tune the ortbern Pacific withdrew its station and established a rival city there was no town at all on the second site, and therefore it was a case of a corporation destroying the interest of publio and private property. Justice Gray, in the majority opinion of the court, says that a writ of mandamus to compel a railroad corporation to do a particular act in constructing its road or buildings, or in running its trains, can bo issued only when there is a specitio legal duty on its part to do that act and clear Eroof of a breach of duty. The courts ave so held, even in the matter of establishing a station at the terminus of a road. The difficulties in the way' of issuing a mandamus is much increased when it is songht to compel a road to stop trains at a particular place. The location of stations and warehouses for receivinnand delivering Kasseogers and freight involves a compreensive view of the interest of tho public, as well as of the corporation, and a consideration of many :rcnmstances concerning the amount of business and convenience of particular locations, which are more appropriate to be determined by the directors of the company, or in case of abuse of their discretion, by tho Legislature, or by administrative boards intrusted by the Legislature with that duty, than by the ordinary judicial tribunals. Justice Gray says that the charter of the company does not impose any specific duty as to tbe maintenance and size ot stations, and that to compel the directors to bo controlled by the courts by writs of mandamus in establishing stations would be inconsistent with many previous decisions. The findings below, he says, show that the people living in the surrounding country, considered as a community, would be better accommodated at North Yakima than at Yakima City. The company denies the fraudulent intention charged by Yakima City, and it wns not found by the jury. Tho fact that the town of North Yakima was laid out by the company on its own land cannot impair the rights of tho inhabitants of that town. BOYD-TIIAYEIt CASE. No Decision Made Y'esterday The Rule Laid Down by the Honse In Captain White's Case. The Supreme Court did not hand down this morning the decision, as was generally exepcted, declaring that Governor Boyd, of Nebraska, was the legitimate Governor of the State.' and ousting acting Governor Thayer. It is stated, however, that this is the position of the court. By this decision the Supreme Court will lay clown the principle that the possession of naturalization papers is not an indispensable condition of citizenship in the United States, for it is admitted by Governor Boyd that he cannot produce his naturalization papers. The Boyd-Thayer affair recalls tbe fact that a Democratic Honse of Representatives virtual' laid down this principle iu tbe Fiftieth Congress whon tbe seat of Captain James B. White. of the Twelfth Indiana district, was contested by Judge Lowry, ono f tho

leading Democrats of the State. Mr. Lowry did not dispute Mr. Wiiites majority, but based his contest on tbe fact admitted by Captain White, that the latter had not been naturalized. Captain White was a Scotchman, and bad settled in Indiana when quite a young man. lie served in the Union army during tbe war, making a gallant record. The Democratic House held that any man who loved tbe Union sufficiently well to fight for it. was a good enough citizen to be a member of Congress, even though he could not produce his naturalization papers, and Mr. Lowry was defeated. An Associatad Press dispatch says that only eight justices sat in the hearing of tbe case. Justice Bradley being absent on account of illness. A prematnro announcement that the court had decided the case in favor of Boyd by a vote of six to three cannot be correct, therefore, so far as respects the majority by which a decision is alleged to have been reached. The justices, of course, will say nothing whatever as to the case in advance of the announcement from tho bench of their decision. A curious coincidence in conneotion with tho publication in advance of what the decision of the court would be, and respective number of judges in favor of Boyd and in favor of Thayer, developed in the court to-day. The case of the Northern 1 cific Iiailroad Company against Hiram Dustin. prosecuting attorney of Yakima county, Washington, was . decided to-day by the vote which the publication referred to alleged to be tbe decision of the justices in the Boyd-Thayer case. In this case the court reverses tbe decision of the State (then territorial) court, as would be the result if Mr. Boyd wins his suit. In the Boyd announcement two of the members of the minority were said to be Republicans and one a Democrat. In tbe Y'akima case two justices are Republicans, namely. Brewer and ilarlan. and one a Democrat, namely. Justice Field. Whether or not some chance utterance in respect to this case was overheard or mistaken for an expression with regard to the Nebraska governorship contest will perhaps never be known, as the justices consider it a violation of official proprieties to speak on such a matter, and any one giving out news which is supposed to be an inviolable secret nntil proclaimed from the bench naturally would not wish to bo known as the author. CAN BE TAXED.

Decision In the Case of the PacIQe Express Company Versos the State of Missouri. The decision of the lower court in the suit brought by the Paciiio Express Company against James M. Seibert and John M. Wood, Auditor and Attorney-general, respectively, of the State of Missouri, was affirmed by the Supreme Court to-day. By this suit the express company sought to restrain and enjoin the collection of a tax of $2 on each 9200 receipts levied by an act of the State Legislature against express companies doing business within the State. The company's bill represented that if the tax was levied on all the company's business in the State, including that done partly in Missouri and partly in other States, the tax would amount to $12,000, and if levied only on the business done entirely within the State to (8,000. It attacked the constitutionality of the act as an interference with interstate commerce; also as n violation of tho fourteenth amendment giving equal protection to all. and also as contrary to the provision of the Missouri State Constitution requiring that all laws shall be uniform. The court, in an opinion by Justice Lamar, says that the contention that the tax is levied upon interstate commerce is unsound. It says that the tax does not relate to interstate business, but entirely to State business, and is expressly limited to receipts for business done entirely within the State, and that it was not tbe intention of tbe Legislature to interfere with or tax inteiftV.i' ccpLiercA iin any way whatever. The other points raised, ft also holds, are not well taken, for the reason that the tax applies eaually to all companies doing an express business. That the United States Supreme Conrt is tenacious of its dignity both parties to one of the many drummers' tax cases from Tennessee have discovered. Two terms ago the case of Charles L.Ficklin vs. The Taxing District of Shelby County, Tennessee, was submitted under the rules of printed briefs. The court made an order subsequently setting asidothat submission and ordering oral argument before a subbench. Tbe case is ono involving the legality of a drummer's,- or. more technically, an agent's tax for tbe purpose of doing business within tho State, Ficklin having been the representative of a firm outside the State. Some fine questions of constitutional law and the extent to which a taxing act may go without becoming an interference with interstate commerce were necessary to a judicial decision, and the court having previously divided on somewhat similar questions, was desirous of obtaining oral, as well as printed argument. When the day set for the hearing arrived counsel on either side failed to appear. The court thereupon very promptly dismissed the suit for want of prosecution in the manner directed by the court. This rather astonished the attorneys, and Fickliu's counsel afterward came into court, begged its pardon, said no contempt or discourtesy to the court was intended, and that they were unaware that the conrt intended its order as a mandate. The court was then asked to reinstate the case on the docket. Chief-justice Fuller to-day announced that the court had decided to grant the request, and had set the case down for argument Jan. 25, after previously assigned cases. The court reversed the decision of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern district of Illinois in tbe case of the -Wiggins Ferry Company, appellants, vs. the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad Company. The predecessor "of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad Company, which was the Ohio fc Mississippi Railroad Company, made a contract with tbe ferry company to give it all of its ferryage business in consideration for the use by the railroad company of an island opposite the city of St. Louis. After reorganization the railroad company began to divert business to rival ferry companies. The court holds that the agreement between the ferry company and the railroad company constituted a contract which was binding on the latter's successor, the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad Company. The court directs that steps bo taken below to establish tho amount of damages the ferry company is entitled to for breach of contract. The court sustained a law of the State of South Carolina which provided that the expenses of the State Railroad Commission shall be borne by the railroads doing business within the State, each road being taxed its proportionate share of the expenses of maintaining tbe commission on tho basis of mileage within tbe State. Ch alienee from Pugilist Gibbons. f pecial to the Indianapolis Journal. New York, Jan. 4. Austin Gibbons, the light-weight pugilist of Fatcrson, N. J., tonight issued a challenge to fight champion Jack McAulifie or Billy Myer, of Streator, 11L He said be preferred to meet Myer before the Olympic Club of New Orleans, which had o tie rod a five-thousand-dollar purse for the match. Ho claims that as he defeated Andy Bowen on Dec. 'J9 and as Bowen defeated Myer -twice Myer has no ground to refuse to meet him. He offcis to post $3X) to guarantee appearance at the call of --time," Second Chess Game a Draw. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Havana, Jan. 4. The Eecond game in the great chess match between M. Steinitzand M. Techlgorin, at the Centro Austriano, was played to-day. Steinitz, who had the opening move, played a Ruy Lopez. After thirty-two moves tbe game was given up as a draw. Tbe third game of the match will be played to-morrow. The score is now: Tschigorin, 1; Steinitz, C; drawn. 1. Angela Whisper to Him. New York. Jan. 4."Pnnz" Von Miebaels, who has caused so much annoyance to the family of Jay Gould by his insistence that Miss Helen Gould should marry him, was pronounced insane at Believue Hospital to-day, and will be sent to the asylum on Ward's island to-morrow. His hallucination is that angels are whispering to him and breathing inspiration to him.

HIS HOLINESS IN A DILEMMA

The Pope Would Like to Excommunicate President Piexolto, of Brazil. Foiy Claim Acents Working a Swindling Game on Gullible Englishmen with the Alleged Big Edwards Estate of New York. Salvation Army Attacked by a Mob While Pray ing on Eastbourne Sands. Lively Fight for Possession of the StandardMany Trampled by the Mounted Police, Who Dispersed the Rioters Buried Alive. ROME LOSING RRAZIL. The Pope Threatens Excommunication Un less Ecclesiastics De Paid. treclal to the Indianapolis Journal. Rome, Jan. 4. It is rumored that the relations between the Vatican aud Brazilian government are so strained that a rupture is imminent The Pope, it is said, has in timated that he will excommunicate President Peixotto, his Cabinet and the mem bers of the Brazilian Congress unless measures are taken to renew the former relations between church and state in Brazil. Tho Vatican has roceived numerous complaints from the Brazilian clergy of the disastrous efiect upon church interests of the policy of separation adopted by tbe republic It is said that . many churches are without pastors and the seminaries are be ing deserted, because the government refuses to continue contributions for the maintenance of the clergy and the chairs1 in the seminaries. The prelates and priests who were in ecclesiastical service at the time that connection between church and state was abolished are still nominally in receipt of salaries from the federal treasury, bnt when a bishop or priest retires or dies the salary is not continued to his successor, so that the death of a priest means tho cessation of salary to his charge, and perhaps the closing of a church. The Brazilian hierarchy did not at first feel the effect of the change, but as time progressed and salaries ceased the bishops have become alarmed. Archbishop De Macedo Costa, Primate of Brazil, has sent a statement of the facts and an earnest appeal for the assistance of the Pope in restoring the church, to its former place. In this the Primate is sustained by the whole hierarchy. It is on account of the ecclesiastics that there is no apparent prospect of voluntary support for the church. The people have been so long accustomed to the state church that they will not contribute to the maintenance of the new priests, appointed without a state salary and thrown upon the people for support Attempts to take contributions for the priests' salaries have generally failed. Although the provincial governments are permitted by federal law to provide for the support of religion, they have omitted to make any such provision on the plea that if tbe church is to have publio snpport the old system should continue. Bishop Count De Saint Aostinho, of Pernambuco, is among the most earnest of the prelates struggling for a restored establishment, and it is said that the determined attitude of the Vatican is largely due to his inlluence. It is reported that a Papal ultimatum will be presented to the Brazilian government, and, it it be unfavorably received, it will be followed by excommunication. Among South Americana in Rome the opinion prevails that Brazil will not yield, and that hostile action by the Vatican will provoke retaliation and bring about a complete withdrawal of state support. This opinion is founded on the fact that the Brazilian clergy have generally sympathized with the deposed imperial family, and that some of them are charged with aiding to keep alive the sentiment in favor of rostoring the empire. MILKING THE ENGLISH. "Fake" Claim Agents for tbe Edwards Estate Getting Fat, Probably. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. London, Jan. 4. Claim agents are actively advertising an alleged immense estate in America as going begging for heirs. Certain newspapers, it would seem, have evidently been subsidized to dilate upon the fortune which awaits those who can prove their claims to the property. The story is that a man named Edwards leased a plot of ground in what is now New York city about one hundred years ago. By ihe expiration of the term of the lease the property, which is now fabulously valuable, reverts to the heirs of said Edwards, who, singularly, seem to have lost all track of their rich inheritance and do not come forward to take possession. The ground referred to is said to comprise forty acres in tbe center of .the American metropolis. As the result of the ingenious exploitation of this story, hundreds of people named Edwards or descended from people of that name, or distantly related to somebody named Edwards, are besieging the American legation for partsof thebonanza. So numerous have these callers become that the clerks have not spare time to attend them individually and it is necessary to have a circular printed, which is banded out without comment to every comer. This document reads as follows: This legation knows nothing of the Edwards estate. American legations are not permitted to assist In making inquirk-s into matters of this sort. Nevertheless, as you have addressed us on the subject, we cannot too stronyly advise you to have nothing to do with men who profess to be in a position to prosecute such claims. Especially we cnution you against remitting money to such solicitors for your patronage. If, as is probable, you do not accept our advice, we can only say that this is not tho service it is in our power to render, or which, if rendered, would do you any good. It is feared that in spite of this circular many persons will be swindled into remitting money for bogus legal eervioea in connection with the "Edwards estate." RIOT ON THE SANDS. Salvation Army Band Compelled to Qo.lt Praying and Fight a Howling Slob. London, Jan. 4. The trouble between the Salvation Army and the authorities at Eastbourne resulted, yesterday, in a riot of unusual violence. For a long tinje past there has been open warfare between the Salvationists and the authorities. The former claimed that the Eastbourne officials bad displayed a feeling of religions intolerance in their treatment of the army, and so determined were the members of the Salvation Army to maintain what they deemed were their judicial rights that they proposed to Introduce a bill in Parliament to repeal or amend the Eastbourne improvement act under which the town officials prevent the Salvationists from holding meetings on the streets of tbe town. The authorities claimed that tbe Salvation Army set the law at defiance and were persistent in their attempts to make trouble. Matters went from bad to worse and the troubles between the people of Eastbourne, who. as a rule, sympathize with the authorities in their efforts to suppress the demonstrations of tbe Salvationists and the followers of the standard raised by General Booth, grew in intensity. Yesterday the Eastbourne contingent of tbe Salvation Army was divided into four sections, which were stationed in difierent

parts of the town. Prior to going to their posts each soldier signified his or her willingness to go to prison if this was necessarr to uphold what they believed to be their rights. The police were determined that the Salvationists should not hold their meetings on the streets, and in attempting to disperse the varions sections of the army there was considerable hustling. Tho Salvationists finally retired, however, and it was thought for a time that they would give np the idea of holding lurther meetings in the publio thoroughfares. In the afternoon, however, sixty of tho army again sallied from their barracks and proceeded to the beach, Eastbourne being situated at the extreme end of tbe Englisn channel. As they wound their way to the beach they were followed by an immense crowd, who menaced them with all manner of illjtreatment Once upon the beach, the Salvationists knelt clown cn the sands in prayer. As they did so they linked arms, too better to repel the assaults of tbe irreligious mob, should the latter take it into their heads to charge upon them while at their devotions. As the Salvationists prayed the mob hooted, and yelled, and finally made an ugly rush npon the praying band. Some of the latter were thrown to the ground, bnt they immediately resumed their kneeling position, and continued their praying. Several times the rushing was repeated, but the Salvationists paid no moro attention to their assailants than they were absolutely compelled to in order to avoid being seriously hurt FRAYKD AND FOUGHT. A number of police were present during these rushes, and the mob reviled them in emphatio lansuagefor not dispersing tbe Salvationists. As soon as the prayinglwas concluded the Salvationists rose to their leet This Beemed to be tbe signal for a preconcerted attack, for the mob immediately swooped down on the devoted band and scattered them in wild disorder. Many of them were struck, kicked and otherwise illtreated. The musical instruments used by the Salvationists seemed to especially excite the ire ot the mob, and the persons bearing them were singled out for more than the usual brutal treatment. . The mob got possession of the instruments, and. after smashing them out of shape, threw them into the sea. At this point of the disturbance a detachment of mounted police took a hand in tbe proceedings. Under orders from their commanding officer, they charged upon tho crowd like a squadron of cavalry. They made no distinction between men and women. They rode down upon the crowd, trampling the rowdies, male and female alike, under tbe feet of their horses.. Many of the crowd were severely hurt by the iron shoes of the horses. The Salvationists declare that the police, instead of protecting them, deliberately struck them and rode over them. Their clothes were torn and their hats lost A number of women lost their skirts and jackets in the wild rush following tbe charge of the police,, those garments being torn ofi'ofthemin the desperate struggle to escape being trampled npon by the horses. During the melee, the standard of the Salvation Army fell into the hands of the enemy. Some of the Salvationists charged npon the mob to regain their flag and a fierce fight resulted. The Salvationists were battling against almost overwhelming odds, but they were determined that their assailants should not make oil with their standard if brawn and muscle could prevent such a catastrophe. Those in possession of the Hag fought desperately to retain it and they indicted very nasty blows upon those who were attempting to get possession of it Finally, however, the Salvationists regained their standard and under a rain of blows they succeeded in getting away with the ilag in their possession. After some little time the Salvationists, their clothing bedraggled and their faces showing the marks of the 1 II treatment they had reoeived. rallied around their standard-bearer. They formed in regular lines and. surrounded by tbe police, marched back to their barracks. Despite this protection they were not safo from attaok. While on the way to their barracks, the mob several times charged upon them and the police were almost powerless to prevent injuries being indicted. Some of the more rabid got possession of vehicles and, paving no attention to the police, drove deliberately into the Savationists' ranks with the object of running over them. VOICE FROM. TUG CRAVE.

Cries from a New-Blade Grave Lead to a Horrible Discovery. St. Petersbugr, Jan. 4. Intelligence reaehed here to-day of a fearful accident that occurred at ProEohovitzaks, a village in Russian Poland. It appears that a physician, who bad been practicing at that place, recently became ill and, to all appearances, died. The body was prepared for burial, and, followed by a number of mourners, was conveyed to the village cemetery, where it was interred. A few hours after the mourners had departed from the cemetery some men who. were engaged abont tho grounds were startled by hearing a succession of the most unearthly shrieks, which to all appearance came from the newlyfilled grave. At first the men fed in consternation, but in a short time their courage returned and tbey decided to investigate the matter. Shovels were procured and the earth was hastily removed from the grave aud the cofiin lifted out Upon opening the cofiin it was found that the doctor had been alive when he was buried, but had subsequently died from suffocation. The body gave evidence of the terrible agony endured by the physician when he regained consciousness and found himself in his coffin. He had mado almost superhuman eQorts to burst off the lid, but the weight of the earth prevented this, and then frantic with the horror of his situation he had bitten his lingers to tbe bone. He had turned on his sido and in the agonies of snfiocation had beaten his forehead against the coffin nntil terribly bruised. The affair has caused the greatest horror in Proschovitzaks. Opposed to Sqnelching Gotham's Dives. New York, Jan. 4. At a meeting of tho temperance union in Grand Opera-house here yesterday Joseph Laird, a Kew York lawyer, advocated the fostering of dives in tbe city as an outlet for tbe social imparity of society. Tbey would also, he maintained, be a standing lesson to the better elements of society and would have a wholesome efi'ect on them. "So long." said Mr. Laird, "as. the Hodman House remained and foot-ball games brought college nabobs to the city to make its streets a public place of debaacbery then let these dives remain. These dives should be allowed to remain just so long as tbe Republican or Democratic party allowed the liquor interests to lead them by the nose. They will in time so sicken the people of this country that they will insist on reform." Took Ten Men to Lift the Cofiin. Baltimore, Jan. 4. Tbo body of John Dietel. who was known to dune-museum visitors as "tbe fattest man in America." has been placed in a vault here. Services were conducted by Rev. X. Burkart. at tho home of the dead man's mother. Tbe coffin was r feet 6 inches long, inches wide, and 27 inches in depth. At the time of bis death, in Cincinnati, he weighed about 4'20 pounds. It required the strength of ten men to bear the cofhn from the wagon to tho vault. o hearse large enough to carry the coffin conld be secured, and so the remains were taken to the cemetery in one of the wagons of the undertaker. Wrecked a Bakery with Dynamite. St. Louis, Jan. 4. An explosion of dynamite this morning partially wrecked the bakery of Henry J. Miller at No. 501 and 803, South Fourth street. Only one man, Frank Beck, was badly but not dangerously hurt li is believed that some enemy of Miller's threw a bottle filled with tbe deadiy explosive at the honse from the alley. The pecuniary loss is small. Got Through One Train. Yoakum, Tex., Jan. 4. The San Antonio & Aransas Pass got one passenger train through to-day. It was tnauued by a guard of fifty detectives. The strikers and local authorities claim there was no need of a guard. The strikers are still confident

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Senator Rawlinss Comes Out Against Foraker in tho Senatorial Fight. Contested Election Cass Decided in Favcr of George Iden, Who Immediately Declares that Be Will Work and Vote fcr Sherman. Both Candidates Confident of Winnies at the Caucus Wednesday Xight. Governor Campbell's Address to the LegislatureFate ot Republicans in New York in the Bands of an Independent SHERMAN STOCK RISING. Two More Senators Announce Tliey Will Vote for Him In Caucus Mr. Iden heated. CoLUMnus, O., Jan. 4. The Republican joint caucus for the nomination of a United States Senator is to be held on Wednesday evening. This is a somewhat later date than it was yesterday hoped would be agreed npon. but both Senator Sherman and ex-Governor Foraker are content with Wednesday evening, and publio anxiety mu6t remain unallayed until that date, To-day has brousht forth no startling results, and to-night finds the Sherman forces still severely confident aud the Foraker people ever hopeful in their reiterated assurances of ultimate success. One by one ihe doubtful wen have been forced to declare themselves, until those whoso preferences are not a matter of publio knowledge now number not more than half a dozen men. Unfortunately, the situation shows that the so half-dozen men, should they vote as a unit can still wield the balance of power, abd the result cannot be accepted as absolutely conclusive until their preferences are announced. It looks now as though this announcement would not be made nntil the evening of the caucus; and this probability, coupled with tho possibility ot a secret ballot, wherein all pledges could be violated with impunity, still leaves the ultimate result a subject of irritating uncertainty. Tne most interesting event of the day was the open letter of Senator Rawlings this afternoon, in which that gentleman finally declared for Sherman, after stating that bis personal preferences are for Foraker. "I have regarded Senator Sherman." be says, "as one of the greatest financiers and statesmen of the age, bnt lately I felt that the time had come when he could, without detriment to the publio interests, be succeeded by Ohio's gallant and brilliant ex-Governor, J. B. Foraker; and. indeed, my personal inclination was so strong that way that I wrote to tho ex-Governor that I expected to vote lor him. At that time, which was but a few days after tho election, I believed that the state of publio sentiment was such that I would be warranted in so doing. WILL VOTE FOR SHERMAN. "Later expressions of publio sentiment began reaching me from various sources, and now, upon taking a careful inventory of the information furnished me, I feel that my duty to my constituents forbids mo voting as I bad expected and desired to do, and hence I shall cast my vote in conformity with the prevailing sentiment of my constituents, for Hon. John Sherman, who by his past publio service has brought not only honor to himself and our great State, but who has been a great leader in Republicanism, and. who is atilla tower of strength in guiding the great shipof state." Tho members yet considered doubtful are Representatives Clap p. McCoy. Kesslnger, Lutz, Dunn and Pudney, and Senator Lampson is also yet claimed by the Foraker men. Most of these doubtful gentlemen are. indeed, claimed by both sides, and tho fight is so close that there may be somo embarrassing situations beforo the end is reached. It is not impossible that Messrs. Welch and Dicks, who announce that they will vote respectively for Governor-elect McKinley and Secretary Fester, may hold the key to the situation. While a deadlock is not probable, it is not by any means impossible that the contest may drift into a condition by which neither of the pronounced candidates can fiecure a majority of the caucus. But two of the doubtful men care to talk for publication. Mr. Pudney, on bciu asked bis position, said: "I have not mado up my mind Vet and most assuredly have not declared myself upon the Question. Everything appears to me to be at sea and 1 will have nothing to say until the land is in eight" The general rumor that Senator E. L. Lamp sou has pledged himself to Senator Sherman is denied to-day by that gentleman himself. "Ko, sir," said be, "1 bao refrained from committing myself pro cr con. wishing to learn th6 wish of my constituents. 1 havo been recoivingnumerous letters and telegrams from my home people in the matter and they are still pouring in. 1 am still holding myself open to the guidance of their wishes and havo not givcu my pledge to anybody." In the Foraker beadouarters there are vague hints of fiank movements to be made, of surprises of a very sensational character, which are yet to be sprung and whiclx will have the eiTect of enlivening tho last hours of the struggle bsyoud all comparison with what has already taxen place. Much dispute has been created by an open letterof Col. 1L V. Boynton, the Washington journalist, defending Sherman's labor record, and ridiculing the "labor committee" that is now here striving to defeat the Senator. This afternoon this committee sent Colonel Boynton the following telegram, which was also simultaneously given to the public: The KepuMlcan platforms of 1S80, 1R81 anl lb 88 pledged tho parage of tbe acts for the exclusion of the Chinese, and by voting again! them John Sherman net himself above his party. Would he have "chanced it had he been nomi rated for tho presidency, or would ho have tried to deceive the people on the FaclUc Mope! will you Inform us why he voted against equalization of bounties in 1875 and araiLst the arrears of pensioners act f 18-4, which his party pledged ltelf to passl Why did he oppose the jUMace of a bill to increase the ix nslon to $21 a mouth of eoldiers who had lol an arm and who were only receiving irl8 per month, end why did he vote against Mr. Logan's bill to limit the pension of any eoldler. sailor or zn&riuer to the minimum of $0 per month! sheuman's mins-Ds indignant. The Sherman people treat the cfiorts of this "self-appointed labor committee," as tbey term it with veriest contempt and express unfeigned indignation that Senator Sherman, the brother of Gen. W. T. Sherman, should be acensed of nnfriendliness to the ex-Un'on soldier. While all those charges and their refutation serve as subjects for lively discussion, it is becoming apparent that neither the labor organizations nor tbe Farmers' Alliance are even a factor in the present campaign. Tho Farmers' Alliance has been unable to control a single member, and the efiorts of the State Trades and Labor Assembly, which convenes to-morrow, will be equally im potent although that organif ation is expected to participate in the light Tbe friends of ex'Govcrnor Foraker state to-night that tbey confidently expect tho success of their candidate, and Foraker himself echoes this statement It is claimed by them that certainly seven members of the Legislature who voted for Laylm foi Speaker will vote for Foxaker for Senator, aud that the McUrew men will stsnd true for Foraker. They also insist that iu th Senate tbe Foraker men have eight votei which the Sherman men cannot touch. All these statement! are denounced as preposterous by tho Sherman men, who claiu?

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