Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1894 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY. JULY 29, 1891.

ral legislation referred to the committee was taken up. At the close of the meeting in the ways arvl means committee room ChpiTnan "Wilson said the full committee bai approved Representative Doolittk's bill to admit certain exhiMts t" the exposition at Tacoma. Wash., free of duty Th chairman declined to state what the tariff conferees had .lone at their secret session. C1IAXGKS IMMI'OHT.WT. Sre Minor Alteration In the Way of ronreKxiono to the Ilonae. WASHINGTON. July 2S.-The Democratic members of the conference committee on the tariff bill were prompt In resuming their sessions to-day. All the members were present except Chairman Voorhees, whose absence was on account of Illness. Th indications are that there will be numerous changes in the less Important schedule of the bill.-. These were agreed on tentatively In the former conference and It l-i considered improbable that the basis of agreement then arrived at will be changed materially during the present conference. It Is believed that there will be no material changes In the metal schedule. When the former conference broke up the House members were disposed to hold out stiffly for considerable concessions on cutlery and steel rails. The prospects now are that the rates on rails will be- lowered somewhat, but that cutlery will not be changed. The Senate conferees probably will accept the House rate of Jl per pound on wrapper tobacco. There will also be some changes In the woolen schedule, the most important probably being a paragraph relating to cloth for men's wear. The Senate bill provides a duty of 40 per cent, on articles of thU clas3 of less than DO cents per pound value, and of 50 per cent, on articles of greater value. The Indications are that the rate will be made 25 per cent, straight. A similar change will probably be made on woolen articles not especially provided for, but it Is not believed that the rearrangement will extend to women's and children's goods. The House rate on roovings and tops, 25 per cent., will be accepted. Cotton cloth and cotton yarns will probably be reduced to the extent of about 5 per cent., as will lacps and embroideries, on which the rate will probably be 45 Instead of 50 per cent. The House rates on China and earthenware, which are slightly higher than those of the Senate bill, will be accepted. The Senate probably will recede from its increase of the tobacco tax and It la said to be probable tl at there will be a compromise on the borded period extension, the tax bein;? nyed at tl and the bonded period at ne vears. Chairman Wilson arrived from West Virginia to-day and within a short time he received a message from the executive mansion requesting his presence there. He was with the President for some time until it was necessary to go to the Capitol for the opening of the second tariff conference. The President's desire to see Mr. Wilson before the conference opened, coupled with the visit of Speaker Crisp at the White House yesterday and the President's request of Mr. McMillln to come to the White House last night, were all accepted in congressional circles as evidence the Resident was willing to let Chairman Wilson and Mr. McMillln know exactly what his position was before the Informal conference was resumed. When the visit of Mr. Wilson to the White House became known among members it was felt on all hands that a settled policy on the part of the administration had been agreed on, and there was Intense eagerness to learn which course it would take. It was the almost unanimous expression of members that but two courses were

cpen la view of the attitude of the Senate and the tie vote yesterday viz.: To accept practically the Senate bill or to leave the McKinley law standing, and the expressions were quite general that as between the Senate bill with such modifications as could be obtained and the McKinley law, the President and Mr. Wilson would reluctantly accept the former and thus end legislative panic and arrest the probable failure of all tariff legislation. A member whose relations with the President are very close said that while he could not speak with authority, he had no, doubt that an agreement by tht conference even though It be- an acceptance of the Senate bill with some modifications would be acquiesced in as the best thin obtainable The President's letter to Mr. Wilson, said this member, had pointed out clearly what the choice of the President had been, but It did not go to the extent of committing the President Irrevocably against the Senate bill .If- it was everything obtainable ylranerla. conference. A nAA'ftt::urs kxactmext. IUU Itevo!utlonlxIn 1'iiitcd State Court I'iiMNeM the Houwr. ' WASHINGTON. July 2S.-In the excitement occasioned by the senatorial discussion of the President's letter to Representative Wilson, a far-reaching and more dangerous enactment of the House has escaped general attention. It is the House bill No. 7r,S4, which passed the House without objection on Friday last. This bill revolutionizes the machinery of the United States courts for the arrest and detention of those who violate the national laws. It takes away the appointment of United States Commissioners, who are the committing magistrates, from the courts, and confers it upon the President. The At-orney-general is authorized by the proposed law to cut p the entire country Into commissioners' districts, and the President must appoint as many commissioners as the Attorney-general thinks proper on the nomination of the latter officer. The appointments are not to be made with the advice and consent of the Senate. Theoretically, the commissioner is appointed for four years. The second section of the bill contains this startling provision: . "The commissioners thus appointed shall hold their offices for four years, unless sooner removed by the Attorney-general, and he may remove them when in his opinion the proper administration of Justice shall require such removal." These officials are Judges of an Important character, and since the Attorney-general is the controlling law officer of the government, charged with the prosecution of alleged offenders, and the dist-ict attorneys act under his direction, the law places the judre before whom the preliminary inquiries In criminal causes are made entirely at the mercy of the counsel for the prosecution. No provision is made for a hearing for the commissioner preliminary to his removal. He will act. therefore, with the knowledge that if his decision does not suit the counsel for the prosecution his head may be taken off. The act also provides that in cases where the prisoner may not give bail one of the new commissioners may, without a hearing, extradite a prisoner from one end of the country to another. The law now in force Kives to a person arrested In one State for violation of the I'nited States laws In another the right to a full hearing before a commissioner, who may not commit unless there is a probability of guilt. Now, even after committal, the prisoner may not be extradited except after a proper showing and order by a circuit or district Judge. If the proposed law becomes effective, a person accused of crime in Texas may be xtradlted to that State by a United States Commissioner in Maine, on an vx parte affidavit, an i without any hearing whatever. This Is a great Innovation upon the present procedure in a manner deeply concerning .he liberty of the citizens. AYAI, PKOMOTIOSS. Aumbcr of Old ORicer Retiring: and otniu; One Punliel I p. WASHINGTON, Julv JY The big naval dtal. involving important promotions and retirements.- Is progressing satisfactorily to all parties concerned. Admiral Joseph Fyffe has already been retired with the highest rank and Commodore O. S. Stanton has been nominated and confirmed as en admiral. The commission of Admiral St antcn was issued by the President t day ani will be forwarded immediately to that di'.ctr. reaching him .probably at NewYork on Mon.ay. According to the prearranged plan. Admiral Stanton will apply immediately for retirement under the forty year-' service law and his application will be granted without delay. This will result ir. the promotion of Commodore Henry Ilrbtn to the grade of admiral next week, and his retirement will speedily follow. The cf.vt of these two retirements will result i.-i th" earliest promotion of Commodores K. V. Meade and Charles C. Carpenter. Th.- retirement of Admiral Stanton will ri!iH a vacancy in the command of the North Atlantic, or home station, which v.i.l be rilled by the assignment of Admiral Mtude. who will, however, substitute the New York as rlagship of the station in preference to the San Francisco, as at present. It is settled that the New York, under command of Captain Evans, will remain on the home station, whether the flagship or rot. and that she will not go- abroad as the flagship of the European station. One reason Tor this determination is the great e-

pense that would be Involved in sending the New York away. She will not be sent on a long cruise, unless absolutely necessary for the protection of American interest. The retirement of Admiral Erben will vacate the command of the European station. That will be tilled, however, by the assignment of Commodore William F. KlrKUnd, now In command of the South Atlantic station, who will transfer his flag within the next few weeks. Admiral Carpenter is now on his way to Yokahama, Japan, to assume command of the Asiatic station, recently vacated by the retirement of Admiral Skerrett. No one has yet been selected to succeed Admiral Kirkland In command ot the South Atlantic station. Admiral Stanton to-day applied to be retired unler the fcrty-year service law. His application Is before the President. Short Seion In the Houhp. WASHINGTON. July The House held a very short session to-day, but managed, in the two and a quarter hours it was In session, to transact a good deal of business of a private character. Half a dozen private bills heretofore favorably acted on at the Friday night sessions were passed, as were also a number of other Senate and House bills. The only th:ng of importance in the day's proceedings was the discussion, without action, of a bill to amend the Revised Statutes so as to rive federal courts additional powers in dealing with violations of the copyright la v as it applies to plays and operas. A joint resolution was adopted still further extending the appropriat.on for IS'Jl until Aug. 14, and as the thermometer was in speaking distance of the century mark at 2:20 p. m.. the House adjourned. Vice President Called Hack. WASHINGTON. July 2S. The report that Vice president Stevenson had been telegraphed for on account of the tie votes in the Senate yesterday cannot be confirmed. When he went away the Vice President left his address with Senator Faulkner. The latter yesterday wired him the vote on the motions made in connection with the tari-ff bill, but added nothing as to the necessity of his presence, though Mr. Stevenson himself may have considered the tie sufficient reason to require him to come to Washington at once from Hloomington. . Peimlon WnrrnnlN for il-..V-r.MM. WASHINGTON. July 2. Acting Secretary of the Interior Sims to-day Issued a requisition on the Secretary of the Treasury for $12,5-3.000 to be used in the quarterly payment of pensions to agencie.4 as follows: New York city. $1,775,000; Philadelphia. ?1.AM; Indianapolis, $2.V'M); Topeka. Kan., tt.5W.onO: Knoxvillc, $1,7C0,fX0, and Ijouisville. $1,000,000.

Carnegie AKiilnitt Protection. LONDON. July 2$. Andrew Carnegie, in an Interview published in the Engineering Review, is quoted as saying that he does not think the "United States now requires protection, which he claims is of little use for revenue purposes, as manufactured imports have fallen so low. The Scandal Hcachea France. PARIS. July 28. The Temps to-day severely criticises the att'tude of the majority in the United States Senate, saying mat it fortifies the sinister rumors circulated to the effect that vote3 have been sold to the sugar refiners. Vice President Left for Washington. BLOOMINGTON. III., July 23. Vice Pres: ident Stevenson left his home in this city to-day for Washington. He has been here about a week. (iS. COXEY'S DUPES. 2,000 ol Them Starving in Camp Near Washington. WASHINGTON, ' July 2S.-The bodies of men styling themselves "the United State3 industrial army," in camp at Rosyln, Va., opposite Washington, finding themselves In bad straights, have Issued an appeal to the public for aid. The appeal recites the sufferings of the men in journeying hither and the object of coming here and announces that while "at war with hunger, wretchedness and despair" they propose to stay here unless forcibly removed or until their demands are granted. Continuing, "the appeal says: The encampment is toAlay nearly destitute of provisions, of means of shelter, and it is absolutely necessary that the friends of this movement should come to our immedlte relief. We, therefore. make an earnest appeal to all who can contribute something for cur support to do so immediately." It is stated that upwards of two. thousand men are encamped at Washington and vicinity, and that others are arriving dally. Complaint is made of mismanagement (presumably by Coxey), and friends of the movement are urged to organize boards of relief to assist the men as soon as possible, and the same request is made of labor and reform organizations. Contributions should be sent to A. S. Dijigs. 107 Eighth street N. K., Washington, D. C. Train Captured In Ohio. ALLIANCE. O., July 28.- One hundred men of "General" Jeffrey's Seattle industrial army cantured a Cleveland & Pittsburg train Just east of Newburg last nlht. The police at Ravenna managed to d'slodsre twenty-five of the men, after which the train started for this place with the remainder. A large force of police and yard men surrounded the train and succeeded In dislodging the men. who are now canned In the public souare. Trouble is expected by the roads east of here. SIERRA LAKES I.N HARNESS. Nevada' Scheme for Making? Great Storage Reservoir. Reno Journal. Ir. western Nevada the use as reservoirs of the Sierra lakes has been projected on a massive scale. In surveying the Donner lake ard valley an elevation of twenty feet above the present lake Is obtained. Th's will make a reservoir of over rive square miles, with an average depth of forty feet, holding an estimated volume of 5.."7.i..6Si.rtX) cubic feet of water in a natural land-locked basin. The elevation is 5,85 feet above sea level. The outlet will be a high-line canal along the benches on the north side of Truckee to the plateaus north and northeast of the place and to tht east of Roea arvl Verdi, ciosslng Prosser creek and the Little Truckee river. There can be selected reservoirs at that point in which water enough can be stored to nil Dog valley. This will ultimately become available for the valleys ar.d plateaus north and east of Reno. A dam across the Truckee river about one mile above the Central Pacilic depot is 'also located to make a reservoir three miles in length along the Truckee valley. Tha outlet trom this reservoir will be on the south side of Truckte river along the benches and high foothills south of Truckee City, around the Marquis plateau and rr.e.idows into Marquis creek, which Rows into the Truckee river near Doea, about tfti miles below Truckee. This canal through Truckee and along the hillsides may also afford an excellent water power for mills, etc.. for a mile or more before being used on the plateaus and p. gain entering the Truckee river, offer an ample supply for Truckee meadows, or it can be carried by a higher line canal to and around the Yv'ashoe basin here in western Nevada. The dam, with the reservoir it will create in the Truckee, taken in connection with Donner lake, will store nearly or t.uite b,H"w.AtK cubic feet, quite suflicient for the supply of nil lands now und?r ilitch or available therefor, as well as the reclamation of at least l.ooo,)) acres more. 1tke Tahoe, by a dam at its outlet near Tuhoe City, can readily be raised eight feet. It has a drainage basin tributary to ltd supply of at least 5,000 square miles. I-ake Tahoe should be held in reserve the tfrent storage reservoir which will meet extraordinary needs. Over one-third of its area Is withtn the boundaries of Nevada. A tunnel has been proposed to lead into the Carson valley, by which the water stored can be drawn from its depths at least l.tO feet below the surface. Three lines across the Sierra between I..ake Tanoe and Carson valley have been run. the b?st being near the southeast portion of Lake Tahoe and the h-id of Carsm valley,' all In the State of Nevada. 1 catir.g a tunnel lor.lv feet, with a crown of two fort In the i enter. Th- opt-n cut from the lake to the entrance of the tunnel will be -t.t feet: the length of the tunnel li.TJl feet, or 3. 4o mi'.cs. the tunnel and cut having a grade of two feet to the mile. The exit of th? tunnel or. the Carson valley, or east side, i.i to be 1..MX) feet above the valley. We'll llenr More from lludtl llcrve. MINNEAPOLIS. July 2X. iJudd Reeve, of Puvton, N. l.. has thrown a bor.usnoil i'.ta the fusion camp bv declaring that he will run on the straight Democratic ticket for Congress in North Dakuti. Keeve was nominated by the convention Thursda, b-!T withdrew on condition that the convention refuse to indorse IvnuJ Nomland, the Populist candidate for State Treasurer, loiter on the fuionists nominated Nomland. aeeetfd Iteeve's withdrawal and named N. G. Iarimore to run for Congress. Reeve to-day announced that he had decided to make the run for Consrea as a straight Democrat.

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ORDERS REACH IIAMMOXDTOO LATH TO CATCH NBVERAL COMPANIES. Fntalltlen Follow n IHr Fire nt Fort NVayne Laella Frankfort Take Her Life Reception to Mm. Matthews. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HAMMOND. Ind.. July 23. At the 'last minute the order recalling the troops from this city was countermanded and to-night Company K. of Auburn, and Battery E, of Fort Wayne, are still here. Sheriff Frederich came up from Crown Point this mornlnir and evinced muoh surprise when he found that the troops were leaving. He at once wired Governor Matthews the.t he had not been consulted about the matter and asked to have them remain here until Wednesday next, giving as his reason that there was a meeting of the American Railway Union to be held in Chicago next week regarding the calling off of the strike, and that he thought the troops should stay here until after that meeting. About noon Colonel Smith received a telegram from Adjutant-general Robbins orderinc him to hold the troops until further orders, but when the message arrived the soldiers had all left except Rattery E. A messenger was immediately dispatched to Whiting, where several of the companies had gone to take trains for their homes, and when the messenger arrived there the only company there was Company K. of Auburn. The others had departed. This company at once returned to this city, where it will remain, with prospect3 of staying until some' time next week. Colonel Smith said that he had repeatedly asked Sheriff Frlederich for an interview, but that he had never been able to see him until this morning and thon only for a few minutes. As soon as he had sent the telegram to the Governor Sheriff Friederich left for Chicago and has rot shown up since. General Robbins will be here to-morrow morning, and Col. Smith sent word to the sheriff to-night reouestlnrr him to come here early to-mor-row, if possible, in order to come to some understanding about the matter. The officers commanding the soldiers do not hesitate to show their displeasure at tha course taken bv the sheriff and will no doubt take him severely to task at the interview to be held to-morrow. While they admit that there is liable to be" trouble here soon as the troops are taken away, there fes no likelihood of any occurring as long as tney remain, and say th:it there is no use cf them staying here to do police duty. Arrangements have baen mede so that if trouble should break out again after they leave several companies can be brought here In a few hours. This they claim is all that can be done under the circumstances. Cl'ARRELED WITH HEIl LOVER. An Flkhnrt Young: Woman Sends n Dullct TiiroiiKh Her Ilrnln. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELKHART, Ind., July 28. Miss Luella Frankfort, aged twenty-two, a well-known young woman of this city, and daughter of" Mr. and Mrs. David Frank yt, committed suicide in her room, at 10 o'clock last night, by shooting herself in her right temple. There had been nothing In her actions that would indicate that she had contemplated the rash act. but after her death it was found that she had draped with crepe her portrait which hung on the wall. A quarrel with her lover, a Lake Shore & Michigan Southern engineer, named Alfred Haines, is supposed to have caused her to take her life. This is the second successive suicide here in two nights. Lucius Little killed himself Thursday night. ?(o,lMM 11LAZE AT FORT WAYNE. Man Killed ly Live AVI re and AVlfe Died AVIien She Heard the Xewi. Special to the Indianapolis journal. FORT WAYNE, Ind., July 28.-The city was visited with the biggest conflagration of years at 6 o'clock this evening. About that hour the big oil tank works of S. F. Dowser & Co. were discovered In flames. The buildings were of wood and were burned to the ground. The loss will reach $w,000; insurance, $18,000. Frank Magner, an employe of the Pennsylvania Company, attempted to handle a telephone wire which had been cut and was hanging across the trolley wires of the street-railway system. He was standing in a pool of water, and received a shock which knocked him to the ground and caused instant death. Several persons standing by who attempted to assist him were also shocked and knocked down. Mrs. Magner, wife of the deceased, who was an invalid, died from the efftcts of fright a half hour after her husband's demise. The insurance is distributed as follows: Connecticut Fire. J2.5X): Scottish Union and National, $3,000; Western Assurance, Toronto. Canada, $1,00: Traders', Chicago, 52,000; Westchester, New York. $1,900: Palatine of London, $2,70u; American Fire Insurance Company, $1,000; Citizens Insurance. $1,000: North American Insurance Company, $1,000: Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company, $1,000; Rrltlsh-Amerlcan Insurance Company, $1,000; London Assurance of London, $1,000. S.OOO Loss at Mount Vernon. Special to the IndlanapoPs Journal. MOUNT A-ERNON. Ind., July 2S.-This evening, about 10 o'clock, fire started in Frank Cook's millinery store, on Main street. The building in Which the store was situated belonged to Messrs. Wolf t Cronbach, and was occupied by S. W. Jones, photographer: John Conlen's Insurance office, and Mrs. Cook's millinery store. The entire contents were burned. The origin of the fire is not known. Loss, $8,000; partly covered by Insurance. XARROAV ESCAPE FOR AVI IE RLE. Stone Grazed Ills Head AVlilIe in n A'nndalla Coach. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RRAZIU Ind., July 2$. Last night, as County Clerk J. C. Y'herle. of this city, was returning from Terre Haute, he narrowly escaped death from a blow from a heavy stone, which crashed through a Vandalla 'ir window in which he was riding and grazed his head. The missile was thrown shortly r.fter the train left Terre Haute, and when It was running at full speed. A Cool Young: Former. Special to the Indiampolls Journal. GREENSBURG, Ind., July 23. Jesse Barker, a young man residing at Burney, forged the name of George LDan to a check for $76 and made payable on the Third National, of this place. Darker presented it to the First National, and assistant Cashier Frank Dowden cashed it, and as he left the bank he gave Dowden a peculiar look that led him to believe that the check was a forgery, and he made haste to present it to the Third National, where It was declared a forgery. Dowden then armed himself, and went on the hunt for the young man. He was soon found, but was in no hurry to return the money, so Dowden drew his revolver and threatened to .fhoot. Darker then reluctantly guve up the money. Parker was soon after arrested by the sheriff and place 1 in jil. Several years ago h? served .i term in the penitentiary for forgery. Mr. MntthewN lit lr!ri North. Special to the Indianauo'.if. Journal. MICHIGAN CITY. Ind.. July 28. Mrs. Claude P. Matthews, wife of the State executive, has been the guest of Warden and Mrs. J. W. French, of the northern prison. for the pat few days. This afternoon a reception was tendered the distinguished lady at the home of the Warden and his wife. It was a notable social evfnt for this city, and a large number of Micnlgan City society women, as well as many who are visiting in the city, paid their respects to Mrs. Matthews. Eagle Lake Clinutaiiqim. Special to the Indlarapolis Journal. WARSAW. Ind.. July 2S. At yesterday's session of the- Chautauqua Assembly the prominent speakers were Dr. Eaton, of Milwaukee; Rev. Robert Mclntyre. of Denver, and Prof. Loui J. Beauchamp, of

Ohio. Each speaVer was listened to by a large audience. To-day's programme was as follows: Lecture, "Do the Scriptures Harmonize with True Science?" by Dr. Katon; lecture. "Wonders of the Grand Canyon," by Rev. Mclntyre: lecture, "The Sunny Side cf Life." by Prof. Louis J. Beauchamp. The programme for Sunday's session will comprise sermons by Drs. Eaton and Iteade and a sacred concert by the Quirey sisters. Death of n Pioneer Jurist. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NOBLESA'ILLE, Ind., July 23,-Judge David Moss died thi3 morning of nervous exhaustion in the seventieth year of his age. For many years he was one of the most prominent and successful lawyers in central Indiana. In 1S4S he was admitted to the bar. In 1SC2 he was elected to the lower house of the General Assembly. He was married in 1855 to Miss Susan Collins, who, with one daughter and two sons, are left to mourn their loss. In IbSi he was elected Judge of the circuit composed of Hamilton and Madison counties. He retired from the bench in 1301 and hl3 health has been gradually falling until the end came. Kept Off the lee. Special to the Indianapolis JournaL TERRE HAUTE, Ind., July 2S.-The Vigo county Democrats, this afternoon, nominated a county ticket, the nominations generally being by unanimous vote. It had been expected that this being Senator A'oorhees's home there would be a resolution on the tariff legislation, but there was no expression, except by Chairman Hamill, who indorsed the Wilson bill and eulogized Cleveland, and by ex-Congressman Lamb, Mr. Voorhees's protege, who said three Democratic Senators were responsible, for the defeat of Democratic principles. Excursion I'uckft Sunk. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. EVANSVILLE. Ind., July 28. The EdWin J. Wood, a small packet, running from this city up Green river, sunk at 6 o'clock this evening, a few miles above the city. She had an excursion party of eighty-live people on board, and struck a log In the middle of the river. She was headed for shore and passengers and crew were saved. The packet went down in twelve feet of water and rests easy and can be raised. CominlMAloiier (ritlith Fatally Hurt. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE, Ind., July 28,-LevI Griffith, a member of the Board of Public Improvements of this city, was severely If r.ot fatally injured this afternoon by his horse taking fright at the street steam roller working on the Washington asphalt pavement, which Mr. Griffith was inspecting. He was carried to the residence of Rev. Dannecker, where he has been unconscious since noon and cannot be moved.

Reception to South Itenil SoldierM. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 2S. Auten Post, No. 8, G. A. R., gave a brilliant reception at the Third Regiment Armory this evening to Company F in recognition cf services rendered during the Chicago strike. The armory was crowded all evening, and speeches were made by leading citizens. Refreshments were served, and the event was an auspicious one. lionorn to A'urav AYarrlor. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. . WARSAW. Ind.. July 2S.-A grand banquet and reception was given In honor of Company H, I. I. L., at the First M. E. Church last evening. Patriotic speeches were made by Rev. Pomerville Light and Hon. I. W. Royce, Republican candidate for Congiess in this district. The company was presented a $75 silk flag. The Fatnl Brass Pin. Special to the Jndlanapolis Journal. ELWOOD, Ind., July 28. James Davis, a prominent citizen of Montreal, Canada, is here at the residence of his father, lying at the point of death from gangrene on his face ami hancj. The disease started from a wart on his right hand, which he picked with a brass pin. He cannot recover. Xcw President nt Hoe Polytechnic. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., July 28.-The board of managers of the Rose Polytechnic Institute has decided to make Prof. Mees, of the faculty, temporary president, and It is not improbable that he may be elected permanent president before the end of the ensuing school year. Indiana Dent lis. PLAIN FIELD, Ind.. July 28. John Crews, one of the old pioneers of the State, died last night, aged about eightyyears. He had been in falling health for the past two or three years. SHE LB Y V I LLE, Ind., July 2S.-OIiver P. Cherry, Union soldier, aged fifty-eight years, died last night of paralysis. Indiana Xotes. i The Panhandle h.as secured the right of way for a belt road around Elwood. Plainfield Keeley Institute alumni will hold their third annual reunion Aug. 14. Hank Walker's $3.S'.X stallion dropped dead during a trial heat on the tfhelbyville track. William Bries, aged thirty-five, had his left arm torn off by the belt of a steam thresher, near Greencastle. Burglars carried away about $130 worth of goods and cash from C. C. McMorris's drug store in Plainfield Friday night. An incendiary burned four large stacks of wheat belonging to Charles Anderson, near Martinsville. About one thousand bushels of grain were consumed. The Big Four elevator at Colfax, belonging to Samuel Brown, of Lafayette, burned down Friday night. Loss, $3,50); insurance, $2,000, in the Phoenix, of Hartford. Miss Jessie Herring allepres that the L. E. & W. railroad refused to honor a ticket purchased by her over said line, thereby throwing her into nervous prostration, for which she wants $5,0,X damages. Two young men giving their names as Charles Williams and Arthur Ross, and their home as Indianapolis, who have been traveling through Hmcock county in a wagon, are In Jail 3t Greenfield on a eh.irge of stealing five bushel" of pears from the farm of George Walker, of Willow Branch. TALE OF TWO CAPITALS. Modern Pari Unlit on the Linen of Modem AVnshInton. North American Review. A friend of mine, recently deceased, told me, if my memory serves me correctlv, ;hat he hiul the following facts from Baron Haussmann himself: Ordered by Napoleon III to submit plans for the renovation of Paris, the Baron was for some time at a loss to meet the two-fold requirements of the contemplated improvements, for the new streets had to be at once beautiful and so laid out as to be read'ly commanded by artillery. Suddenly he bethought him of modern Washington. He secured a plan of that city, and this seemed on examination so exactly to meet the necessities of the case that he finally submitted it to the Emperor. The result was that the plan in th main was accepted, and modern Paris was built on the lines of modern Hashing-, ton. Thus is explained a certain similarity which strikes everyone who is familir with the two capitals, although one might naturally suppose the American city, being the younger, to be the daughter instead of the mother. But General Washington, more than half a century earlier, had ordered 1,' Enfant to design him a plan for his seat of government in much the same manner as Napoleon III had commanded Baron Haussmann. Now. L Enfant was not only a Frenchman, but a resident of Versailles, and he undoubtedly derived his Inspiration from his earlier surroundings; consequently, Washington was an enlargement of the Royal Park, with its alleys extended into avenues and its numerous flower beds and parterres enlarged Into circles and quadrants. Thus, by a transoceanic leap. Baron Haussmann took from the new world what be could have secured at his own gate. So much for a merely curious artistic coIncidence. But. in light of recent developments In our capital, a singular inquiry suggests Itself namely, whether General Wshinrton, in laying out the city, did tiot hve in mind the sime two-fold object that Najokon III hnd when laying out Pens. To be sure, the present industrial army move- .... M.-v- rVs dr to enrj ir. ridicule. But at some later date a more desperate one mav require to be cont relied by artillery, and then the broad avenues and straight streets of the capital may b approbated for othr than mere aesthetic- considerations, and. on the contrary, serve as an additional proof of far-slshtedn-ss on the part of the Father of his Country. HIk Road Race Challenge. PITTS BC RO, July 28. Pittsburg has issued a challenge to other cities cf the United State for a road bicycle race. She offers to pit a team of five of her best road riders against a similar tram from any part of the country In a race from Buffalo to Pittsburg cn the 24th and 25th of Ausrust. The distance Is about 215 miles. Besides team individual riders are invited to contest. The race will be engineered bv the Plttsburz Press and th prizes will agsresa.te $24,000 la value.

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(ConclndcMl I nun First Pnge.l Hundreds of square miles of the finest looking corn hangs dry and lifeless over an extent of territory as "large as the State of Pennsylvania or New York. The reports from the lines of the Union Pacific. Burlington. Rock Island. Missouri Pacific and Santa Fe are all of the same tenor. Passengers from the car windows look out on vast fields of corn and thousands of acres of hay rendered absolutely worthless by the breath of the simoon. In many places the farmers anticipated the corn destruction and cut it. their object being to save the corn for fodder. Thousands of farmers stood helpless along the fields, watching with gloomy forebodings while the dreaded blast from the Southwest did its deadly work. Their only hone is that bounteo is rains may start another grass crop before it is too late in the season. Travelers also report that the highways leading eastward throueh Nebraska and Kansas are already thronged with disheartened settlers who have abandoned their homes and are hurrying toward Iowa and Missouri for relief from the almost unbearable heat. A similar scene has not been witnessed since W. when the hot winds almost depopulated western Kansas. Deserted towns and lonely houses standing out in the naked plains are client witnesses of the memorable exodus of 1ST:',. The year following came the grasshopper plague, from which it required Kansas ten years to recover. Railroad men look on the advent of hot winds in Kansas and Nebraska this year as vastly more damainp to the railroad interests than the recent strike. The strike was of short continuance, but the falling off In the crops in the regions east of the mountains will be keenly felt by the railroad companies for many months to come. The disaster will be telt in Colorado in many ways, one of which will be inabiTltv of a large region to buy cohI mined in the Rocky mountains. Colorado cattlemen have been accustomed to ship their cattle to Kansas and Nebraska to be fattened for the market. With the corn crop more than 50 per cent, short it will be a serious matter with the cattlemen to find a fattening ground for their stock. Denver has drawn large quantities of produce of all kinds from the region which has been afflicted with the hot winds. A new source of supply must be found. Reports at the railway offices also show that there is great danger of fires along the railway tracks and the roads will be required to take extra precautions to prevent extensive prairie fires. The dry grass will be a constant source of danger for months to come. Mercury at Wl In Conjrem. WASHINGTON. July 2S. Members of the House to-day devoted themselves trying to keep cool. The thermometer on the roof of the Capitol, protected from the rays of the sun, registered 93 degrees at 1:3ft. But for clouds, which gathered about that time, the temperature would have passed the P) degree mark. It was the hottest day of the season In the chamber. An enterprising business firm had distributed gaudy advertising fans and. these being wielded by most of the members, gave the floor the appearance of a Chinese festival. Hottest Day In ev York. NEW YORK. July 2S. The I'nited States Weather Bureau reports to-day as being the hottest for this city thus far this year. At 12:30 p. m. the thermometer registered 95.3 degrees. The humidity, SG degrees, added to the discomfort of the day. Robert Robertson, fifty-six years old. who was overcome by the heat yesterday, died in the hospital to-day. Three new cases of prostrations by heat were recorded by noon today. JI7 Degrre nt Portland. PORTLAND, Me., July 28. To-day has been the hottest of the season and at no time since 1SS6 has it been so warm. On July 8, 1SS6, the temperature was 97 degrees. To-day the weather bureau office reports 97 degrees. Local Forecast for Sunday. WASHINGTON. July 2S.-For IndianaThunderstorms; warmer in central portions; variable wdnds. For Ohio Thunderstorms; cooler; west winds. For Illinois Thunderstorms, followed during Sunday by fair; warmer in central and northern portions; variable winds. Local Observations. Inpianai ous. Ind.. July 28.

Time. Bar. Ther. R. II. Wind. Ueatter. I re. 7a. m o(.12 73 78 S'west. Cloudy. O.00 7 1. M. :i0.0'2 71 7t jS'wcet. Pt cloudy T.

Maximum temperature, 91: minimum temperature, 7o. The following m a comparative statement of the temneraturo and precipitation, July 28. 1S5H: Tern. Pre. Normal 75 0.14 Mean H T. Departure trom normal 5 o.H Kxcest or deficiency siuce July 1 11 3.16 Excess or deficiency since Jan. 1 504 b.40 -Plus. C. F. R. WAPPKN HAN'S. Local Forecast Official. United States Weather liureau. OMTUAUY. James Mulligan, of the 'Mulligan Letter' Fame, lanses Away, MAYNARD. Mass., July 2S. James Mulligan, of "Mulligan letter" fame, died here this morning, lie was born in 1S31 in a little villaere In tne north of Ireland and came to this country when he was fifteen years old. For a number of years he has lived in Boston, but" lately removed here. A VISIT TO TIIOUEAF. He Receive Ills Caller In n Very ChllliiiK AVny. W. D. Howells, In Harper. He came into the room, a quaint, stump figure of a man. whose effect of long trunk and short limbs was heightened by his fashlonless trousers being let down too low. He had a noble face, with tossed hair, a distraught eye and a fine aquilinlty of profile, widen made me think at once of Don Quixote and of Cervantes; but his nose failed to add that fooc to his stature which Lamb says a nose of that shape will always give a man. He tried to place me geographically after he had given me a chair not quite so far off as Ohio, though still across the whole room, for he sat against one wall, and I against the other; but apparently he failed to pull himsdf out of his revery by the effort, for he remained in a dreamy muse, which all my attempts ro say something fit about John Brown and Walden Pond seemed only to deepen upon him. I have not the least dcubt that I was needless and valueless about both, and that what I said could not well have prompted an Important response; but I did my poor best, and I was terribly disappointed In the result. The truth Is that in those days I" was a helplessly concrete you.ig person, and all forms of the abstract, the air-drawn, aftlicted me like physical discomforts. I da ret remember tnat Thoreau spoke of his 1 coks or of himself at all. and when he l-.'jTin to speak of John Brown, it was not the warm, pa.pable, laving, fearful old man cf my conception, but a sort of John Brown type, a John Brown ideal, a John Brown principle, which we were somehow (with Ions pauses between the vague, orphic phiases) to cherish, ' and to nourish ourselves upon. It was not merely a defeat of my hopes, it was a rout, and I felt myself no scattered, over the field ot thought that I could hardly bring my forces together for retreat. 1 must have made some effort, vain and foolish enough, to rematerlalize my old demigod, but when I came away It was with the feeling th3t there ''was very little more left of John Brown than there was of me. His body was not moldering In the crave, neither was his soul marching on; his ideal, his type, his principle alone existed, and I did not know what to do with it. .Movements of Steamers. NRW YORK. July 28. Arrived : Slavonia, from Stettin; Buffalo, from Hull; Umbria, from Liverpool. ROTTERDAM. July 2S. Arrived: Werkendam. from New York. LONDON. July 2$. - Arrived: Europe, from New York. GLASGOW.? July 2S. Arrived: Grecian, from New Ycrk. LI V Fit Pfo' L. July 2$. Arrived: Runic, from New York. BOSTON. July HS.-ArriveJ: Cephalonia, from Liverpool. St. Paul Mpii Drowned at Isle Iloyal. ST. PA PL, July 2S.-Charles F. Dana and F. M. Luther, two well-known St. Paul men. have bfen drowned at Ide Royal by the capsizing of their fishing boat. Pierce Butler, county attorney, was rescued aft-r clinging to the boat several hours. Bold Robbery of a flack. Hack No. 9. belonging to Horace Woods. was stolen from In front of the stable about 1 o'clock this morning. The driver, Peg Hamilton, had alighted from the vehicle a few minutes before It was taken anil had gone to lunch. The thief succeeded in eluding a half dozen pursuers, and when laft seen was driving at a frantic pace across the Morris-street bridge.

MIDSUMMER GOODS AT SLAUGHTERED PRICES Fall Goods will soon commence to arrive, and we will need the room these Summer goods occupy. Therefore they must o. The sooner tho better. The lower the prices the quicker they will go.

DRESS GINGHAM'S ?Y riioa nf T."Mn rri fJlnw-hams In Large and Small Patterns, all good tyies; nave peen selling at c toe ana 12Uc a yard: choice now 5c a Yard. Linen Finish French Chambray Dress Ginghams reduced to 8c a Yard. Finest French and Scotch Zephyr Ginghams. Prices have been lc and 25c a yard; now going at 12 l-2c ct Yard. Regular 5c Dress Challics reduced to '2c 2T)C Plack Brocaded Satetns, colors the best; now selling at, yard IZc A Great Bargain in Dark Color Wide Fancy Dress Sateens; worth 15c a yard, at 7 l-2c cx Yard. JACONKT DUCHESS, a Fine print ed Dimity Wash Dress Fabric; has been selling at 15c a yard; to close them out we offer you choice at 7 l-2c a Yard. CHEPOXKTTKS: a nice assortment of styles and colorings left; to make a quick clean-up you can have them at lOc a yard. LINEN BARGAINS. Pleached Twill Toweling crash 3!c Pure Linen Brown Crash 5c A Bargain in wide Turkey Red Table Linen, price has been 3Sc; now 25c Regular 4vc Pure Linen Red Border Damask Table Linen at 25c Pure Linen Damask knotted fringe Towels at . 10c Half-wool Chaliies, Dark Grounds, Light Grounds, small neat or large figures, have sold at 19c and 25c; to clean up the price is lOc a yard. Black Silk Gloria Dress Patterns still selling at 33 a Dress Pattern. IUIAIIING WELLS. 1 Their HemnrkaMe Action Cansctl I- Subterrnneuu Tidal Force? Pittsburg Dispatch. There is a peculiar district, or rather a district over a peculiar subterranean formation in the Platte river valley of Nebraska, Involving more particularly the counties of Colfax. Butler and Polk. This is the region of the singular roaring welts, whose waters also rise and fall with a cle.irly defined tidal action. Of the three counties mentioned Polk leads, having sixteen or eighteen of the curiosities. There are hours when the water will gradually rise, and during this time the wells exhale such a quantity of air as to make a strong current, which can be heard to a considerable distance. After a short interval of quiescence the ebb sets in, the water slowly falls and the inhalation that follows Is as If the air at the mouth of the well were in a mad rush to follow the receding tide. From these facts an Impression prevails in many minds that Nebraska. Kansas and a portion of the Indian Territory rest on an immense subterranean sea. In support of this position it is alleged that square miles of land have disappeared in Kansas, leaving lakelet3 of unfathomable depth Instead. While it Is true that the other regions mentioned also occasionally exhibit wells having this roaring feature, there is nothing in this to sustain the view of an underground lake or sea, certainly not as we understand these terms when they are applied to bodies of water on the surface. Nor is it by any means uncommon for portions of surface to gink from sight, a case of this kind having recently occurred during the earthquake In Venezuela, In South America, and the "sunk country" In the vicinity of New Madrid, on the Mississippi river, having disappeared In the prolonged seismic disturbance of 1S11-12. While it may not be generally known, It is. nevertheless, a fact, that some of Pennsylvania's gas wells have exhibited this peculiar tidal tendency; and while in many Instances the drill has penetrated below the ocean level. It does not follow necessarily that any of these wells, either water or gas, are in communication with the sea. What wovild seem far more probable Is that these wells may communicate with areas that have more or less direct connection with the mobile interior, and where, we may lofdcally infer, there Is also a tidal manifestation. All the Nebraska roaring wells extend down to a porous stratum, and it is probable that the water lying among the loose material ot a former bed is in some way affected by pressure exerted against It by the earth's Internal tides. When the recession takes place It is only natural that there should be a suction inward and an expulsion when the flow sets In. The occasional subsidence of surfaces below water level can be readily accounted for. apart from any theory of underground oceans, which Is entirely untenable. But these remarkable wells are worthy of a more careful observation than they have yet received PILLMAVS IIHA1XY LIEl'TKVAXT. TlionuiM II. Wicke, Who Acted for Pfillmnn lit the Late Strike. Kansas City Star. Thomas H. Wlckes, second vice president of the Pullman Palace-car Company, who has acted and spoken for George AI. Pullman during the recent labor troubles, is well known in railway circles. He was born in Liecestershire, England, Aug. 28, 1S4G. His father. Charles Wickes, was a farmer, and young Thomas received only a common-school education. At the age of fourteen he left the paternal farm and entered the grocery business, at which he was fairly successful. From groceries he drifted into the railroad business and soon became an expert. In ISCtJ he came to America and lived in Canada about two years. His lirst engagement .vith the Pullman company was In the capacity of assistant to the ticket agent at East St. Louis, 111. This was in and two years later he was appointed assistant superintendent at St. Iouis. In 1S73 he was made huperintendent for the Pullman company in the St. Louis division, which Includes the territorv west and southwest of -St. Louis. In May, 1SS3, he was promoted to be general superintendent of the Western division of the company's business, with headquarters at Chicago. The next 3'ear he was made general superintendent of the entire business, and in lS-Vj he was elected second vice president of the company and place! in charge of the operating department ot the company. He was president of the Woodruff Car Construction C ompany before that concern was absorbed bv the Pullman corporation. Mr. Wickes was married in 171. and has two daughters and one son. He lives in good style at CC17 Grand boulevard, and his family Is prominent in society. He is a member of the Chicago and Washington Park clubs. He is a man of marked executive ability. He has the entire confidence of the Pullman company, and his actions and position in the controversy with the American Railway Union were no doubt the direct result of Mr. Pullman's instructions. AIlMOIl AM) PROJECTILES. The Latter Have the Advnntnge, hat Neither Will He Lone Wanted. Pittsburg Dispatch. It affords a most Interesting subject for study to glance beneath the thin veneer we call civilization and compare the present underlying Impulses that inspire human conduct with tho.se of tne cruel barbarians of paleolithic and neolithic time. We can Imagine how our ancient congeners chattered and what an excitement there was among those early gentlemen when some newfangled stone battle-ax proved successful in cleaving the skull of some otr.er mammal. Or, when some fellow with a large organ of eonstructiveness. conceived of un extra knob on a war club to raise an additional pustule when he smote the anatomy of his antagonist. Those were most thrillingly ImIortant occasions when those half-naked brethren of the brutes went forth to their "proving grounds," that is. sought out the "shacks" of their neighbors leMnd their stacks of clamshells, uttered their gattural challenge and. while the little hairy pledges of barbaric affection scatt red like quail, the invaders began a test of their weapons on the cranlums of their foes, who. In turn, were willing "to welcome them wita bloody hands to hospitable graves!" It was with a most wonderful fascination

Read's Lansdowne at Cjc a yard. HANDKERCHIEFS. Ladies Japanese Silk Fmbroidorcl Handkerchiefs at lo Ladies' Embroidered Hemtitched Handkerchiefs at 5o Men' Hemstitched. Fast Color, Bordered Handkerchiefs at 5c

SHIRT WAISTS. Indies White Lawn Shirt Waists reduced to Zz A bargain In Ladies' Ready-made Dresses at lz Summer Corsets, all sizes Millinery Goods at your own price. JIEX'S SHIR IS. Men's Laundered Madras Shirts at.. )a Men's laundered Percale Shirts, onlv K0 Men's laundered Percale Shirts, soft lK3om. two separate collar, at.. T5o Men's Unlaundered Shirts, made full thirty-six inches long, with double voke ani lined collars nnd cuffs, in 'Madras, Percale and Oxfords, a regular $1 shirt, at 50c. Men's Summer Gauze Undershirts at l.3 Men's 50c Blue-clouded Balbriggan Undershirts, now 2f3 Bargains in Ladies' Summer Underwear and Hosiery. BARGAINS IX SHOES. Misses' and Children's Tan and Black Oxfords at and Men's Satin Od Shoes, Lace and Congress $1.23 Indies' Russia Tan Nulliflers. worth $1.75. at $1-25 Ladies' Fine Dongola Prince Alberts, patent tip. $1.50 grad?. at J1.00 Ladies' Fine Donpola Oxfords, patent tip, opera and square toes, at 35c Ladies' Duck Suits, to CUss Out, 51.50. DR. J. A. COMINGOR CO. Rupture Specialists (NO KNIFE USED) 77i SOUTH ILLINOIS ST. Rooms 3 to 7. INDIANAPOLIS - - - IND. TRAVELERS CREDITS. To save cost, time and trouble use AME tIC AN EXPRESS CO. v TRAVELERS CHEQUES Good anywhere in the world at face Talue without Iecial Meutltication. that they contemplated some new design in the curve of an arrow point. for--e new wrinkle in the shape of a stone for slugging or some new method of charring the point of a stick to add to its penetrative effectiveness, and we can well conceive how superlative was all this warlike work, compared with the gathering of bivalves, the hunting of snakes or the fashioning of ptone pestles with which to crush grains. Such t the foundation of our present beautiful military science with its arts of destruction. As much now as a hundred thousand years ago do we chatter and bring to the front methods of human destruction, threaten to become lunatics on questions of armor and projectiles, and without protest witness the bankrupting of all tha foremost governments of the earth In their zeal to stand first in warlike equipment. And yet it cannot be shown that in one single instance has a nation thriven and prospered that made thi3 subject the burden of its attention. No more than tha coarse, pugilistic individual Is the ever ready and belligerent nation desirable, an 1 this spirit, if long fostered, invariably carries its possessor to the dogs. Not one single shred of benefit has France to show for all the sanguinary Napoleonic wars, and the Corsican usurper was the very incarnation of war and warlike preparation. As for the present rivalry between armor plate and projectiles, the weight of scientific advantage must ever be with the latter. It Is more easy to reach Ideal conditions In small than In a large way. It Is far less diliicult to impart a uniform temper to the compact missile than to the huge armor plates. The advantage must lie with the hardened sphere that hurls its one thousand pounds of metallic avoirdupois Into the compact with a velocity of two thousand feet per second. It Is the moving force, not the dead magnitude, that counts. It Is always the small but moving wedge that rends the large but inert log; it is the factor that does the hustling, whether among metals or men, that carries o!T the honors. Yet, when it is borne in mind that the best armored battle ship afloat would yield to the concussion resulting from the explosion of a barrel of properly compounded refined grease and nitric acid; that the havoc that might be engendered from a few tons of this material could sink tho navies of the world, it must be seen that both armor and projectiles hold th.vr places in the economy of destruction by very precarious tenure. In but a few decades cannon and battle ships will be no more. Mr. HeynoIiln'M t'nrd. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: I beg permission 'to reply to a letter In your issue of 8th, signed by G. II. Hamilton, K. Sourbier, Clark Carpenter and David Fair, proprietors of Pompf li and Lincoln Park, written in reply to an article which appeared In your Issue of inst. I am in a position to prove by several respectable citizens that the article in reference to wine rooms on the siagc was perfectly true; neither have I ever made any libelous and false statements to the press. I deny that I was ejected from the park. The constable positively refuse 1 to eject me. As to my being incompetent of filling the position of amusement director. I have been actor, producer and manager for the past tifteen years, and I tan conscientiously say that the only black mark on my past record is my having beei connected wilh Pompeii or Lincoln Park. Hamilton & Co. claim that Lincoln Park Is and always has been a first-class family resort. If so will they explain why Superintendent Powell has two rlhcers continually at th park, and why Hamilton & Co. emplov six constables. It must eurcly b a very first-class resort where It take eirht offl.-ers to protect citizens In an inclosure of less than three acre of land. FREDERICK REYNOLDS. L Ittte, const iput ion, i I beruiacbe, sour ttoraceh, gassy belchins, indipes-tion, ct dyspepsia, are duo "to fclursbli liver. Mn. John A. DrIlEUltY, V. S. Inspector of Immigration at It una lo. y. l writes as follows: From early childhood I s ufTen d from a s'.uggu liver. I'octora prcr.Tiptinn aivl p'ent medicines affords! only temporary rtlu-f. I tried Dr. Pierce's Pleasant 1VH. ts, taking three at night and twoattcr d;un r every day for two weeks and then one "Pellet" every ay for tv.-o months. I have in six months increced in tlld neh, tw.-i.ty-slx pounds. I am in letter health than I have b-e;i finro chilJIiood. I)rowsins and iinplt-nvu.t telUigi alter meaU have completely ditappeartd. Kerpectfully yours, 6 U. S. Inspector of Immigration.

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