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patiently nearly two days for a chance to slip up on the blind side of the House and secure Its reincorporation in the bill. * • • Secretary Gage has sent to Chairman Stone, of the House committee on coinage, weights and measures, a letter in which he explains the necessity for the enactment of several important bills recently Introduced in the House at his request and still pending. He says the amount It is permissible under existing laws to allow the melter and refiner and carrier of the United States mints for wastage in their operations of the precious metals is excessive and should be reduced. The demand for new fractional silver coin since lSim has been much greater than tiie amount coined, and the t* - -usury has been compelled to pay out worn coi~* as •he amount of new coins manufacture ' *? been limited by the appropriation mad. ‘ r the payment of loss on recoinage of such coin. From the demands for new coin it would appear that a much larger an.our.t of subsidiary silver coin would be paintulned In circulation if the secretary o' the treasury were authorized to use any sihtir bullion now in th*- treasury in the coim.gt •>; such denominations of subsidiary silver coin as might from time to time he required, a: o it Is therefore recommended that such authority bo given by Congress not only to use any bullion now in the treasury, but also authority, so recoin all worn add abraded fractional silver coin now in the treasury and hereafter received. There are now in the treasury over HO.hW.OOO in subsidiary silver coins, and of this amount it is estimated that about s7.<M,itf*i is unfit for circulation. The third hill is to authorize the re- < • ipt of foreign gold coin in sums of $5,000 In any single deposit, and to pay for them without previously melting, the coin to be held as bullion and paid out for export in rchango for United States coin. * * * It Is regarded as settled that the naval appropriation hill now being framed by a House subcommittee will contain three important items, namely, $1,000,000 for smokeless powder. $5j0,000 for reserve ammunition and $93,0U0 for the establishment of a government powder factory. The matter of having an ample supply of powder, in order to meet the requii ements of our naval vessels In any emergency, has received careful attention from members of the committer*. As long as the old style <>f black powder was in use, the many private companies making this article gave assurance that a supply could be secured on short notice. Now, however, with the general adoption of smokeless i owder, the opportunities for speedy supply are said to be much reduced. For that reason it is proposed to allow tl.fxXMXtf) for the purchase of this article, and at th same time provide a government factory which will thereafter produce an ample supply. The item of ?uto,ooo for reserve ammunition will cover all classes of naval material, large and small, to meet requirements of vessels near- , ing completion and of such emergencies as nay arise. * * * The House committee on Pacific railroads agreed to-day to report what Is know as the Fleming resolution concerning the sale of the Kansas Pacific Railroad, with amendments embodying propositions made by Senator Thurston. As reported, the resolution provides that the President, in his discretion, may protect the Interests of the United States by bidding in the Kansas Pacific property to the full amount necessary to protect these interests, and any sums necessary to redeem paramount Hens ar** made available out of money in the tieasury not otherwise appropriated. The Thurston provisions, with modifications, piovide that after the government acquisition of the Kansas Pacific the President, in his discretion, may dispose of the property to the best advantage of the United States. Representative Maguire, of California, offered an amendment, which was defeated by a party vote. 6 to 5. that on a sale by the government the purchase price should be the amount of the present liens and claims of the government, in addition to the first mortgage. Failing in this. Mr. Maguire secured the insertion of the words * that the sale should be to the best advantage of the United States. * 0 The Senate committee on Indian affairs to-day authorized a favorable report on Senator Pettigrew’s bill for free homesteads on abandoned Indian reservations as an amendment to the Indian appropriation bill. The Pettigrew bill has passed the Senate twice, as an independent measure, but has failed to secure consideration in the House The opinion is entertained In the Senate committee that the. only way to secure its enactment into law is to make it part of an appropriation bill * * * Commissioner Evans, of the Pension Office, has issued an order stating that hereafter the requests of attorneys few consideration of title to fees will not be entertained unless the same are tiled in the bureau within three years from date of issue; of pension on which such fees are claimed. * * The gold reserve to-day reached $163,670,000, the highest point in about seven years. The accumulation is becoming something of a burden, and the government is no longer encouraging its deposit. * * * According to a report from Consul Debois at St Gall. Switzerland, in spite of the ; fact that the new* tariff of the United States ; advanced the duty on cotton lace and embroideries from HO to 60 per cent., an average increase of 10 per cent., there has been exported to the United States during the lirst six months of the new law’s operation over $200.(M0 more of these goods than durI ing the same time last year. * * * The ex-President and Mrs. Harrison find their visit to the Capital so very pleasant that they will probably remain here until the middle of next week, and possibly for a still longer period. Mrs. Harrison has been literally overwhelmed with ealls and invitations to dinners and receptions since the White House dinner given in honor of he”self and the former President by President and Mrs. McKinley. ♦ * * Postmaster Page, of Fort Wayne, Is sending daily reports to the PostotHee Department of mail which cannot be delivered on the day of Its receipt with the present force of carriers, mils is an ancient device resorted to by postmasters who are out after office increases. * * * The wife of Senator Fairbanks is very much better this evening, and her early recovery is now’ considered a certainty. < * * James B. Curtis, of Indianapolis, is a guest at the Arlington. • • * The Senate to-day passed the resolution to pay heirs of Selnian K. Hannegan. of Indiana, late Senate messenger, six months’ salary. The dead messenger was a son of ex-Senator Hannegan, of Indiana. • . John Sargent has beer appointed postmaster at Poe. Allen County, Indiana, vice George W. Lafollette. removed.

COREA ASK.N AMERICAN AID. Bat Cant. Wilder, of the Cruiser Bustun. Refuse* tu Land Murine*. WASHINGTON. Jan. 27.-Nothlng is known here regarding the correctness of a dispatch to the New York Herald from Seoul, Corea, printed to-day, which says: “It is stated on most unquestionable authority that the King of Corea ha* asked the United States minister here for protection against possible revolutionists. Captain Wilder, of the cruiser Boston, refuses to land a naval force, though strongly urged to do so by the King.” So far as can be learned no official information on the subject has reached either the State or Navy Department. It is therefore presumed, in view of the declination of the officer to giant the request made to him. that he has simply sent a mail report, which Is now on its way to the Navy Department. The request of the King In this matter is significant. Con a, like South America, is constantly in danger of revolution, and partic. ularly so at present on account of the intrigues in which Russian and Japanese emissaries are constantly- engaged. A revolution in Corea at this time would be apt to lead to serious consequences. The Czar has steadily continued his efforts to Russianize Corea, and the Japanese government has Jealously fought every move he has made in the matter. Neither government now he.s troops in the hermit kingdom. Japan withdrew her forces after the Chino-Jupanese war. as a result of the earnest insistence of Russia. It Is thought in some quarters that a plot may have been hatched by either Russians or Japanese having for its object the dethronement of the present King, in order that he may be succeeded by another more favorable to the cause of the government whose emissaries are at work. It is believed, In view of the fact that the King was once given an asy--lum in the Rusian legation, that he Is more friendly disposed to the Czar than to Jail cn. Why h* should now appeal to the United State* is a question which U is hard to answer. It will be rewalled that at the time Japan landed troops in Corea Secretary Gresham —timuted to Japan that the United States

would be gratified If she would withdraw her forces, this action being taken in accordance with Article 1 of the treaty of 1882 between the United States and Corea, providing that if other powers deal unjustly or oppressively with either government the other will exert their good offices, on being informed of the case, to bring about an amicable arrangement, thus showing their friendly feelings. It may have been that the King had this In mind In appealing to the United States minister at Seoul and to Captain Wilder. Naval officers in the Brooklyn navy yard say that Captain Wilder would only be justified in landing marines in the event of a possibility of injury to citizens and the legation of the United States In Seoul, and that he would have no right to interfere in the internal affairs of the country. There have been a great many instances in recent years when a United States ship has sent a force to Seoul to protect the American legation, but this has only been done when there was danger that the legation would be a subject of attack. CIVIL-SERVICE INQUIRY'. Jobn W. Ely liefore the House Committee on Reform. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—The series of hearings to be given by the House committee on civil service reform was begun today. John W. Ely, of Chicago, a member of the National Civil-service Reform Association, said the worst thing that could happen would be to have the terms of office of government employes expire simultaneously, as was proposed, by the five years tenure of office bill. He preferred the merit system merely because it puts business principles into operation in the business part of the government. The witness believed the civil service law plus the power of removal would afford the means for eliminating “much useless stuff” from the departments, which contained many who were Incapacitated. He advocated promotions based on unassisted, earned merit. Representative Landis suggested that employes should, be given to understand that they were to step out of the government service when they attained seventy or seventy-five years of age, and insisted that anti members of Congress had as much “Influence’’ with the Civil-service Commission :is with the heads of departments. Considerable discussion followed when the witness advocated espoinage on employes and freedom of making charges against them of incapacity. Several members denounced the proposition as cruel and unjust when following a long and faithful service. The witness made a vigorous protest against the Evans bill, the measure framed as the result of the recent anticivll service conference of members of Congress. and asserted it practically abolished the civil service law. Representative Evans, of Kentucky, the author ol the Evans bill, explained the provisions of that measure. He had no objection to the civil service law so far as it was intended by Congress to operate, and commended highly the original rules made by President Arthur, which voiced the sentiments of the Congress that passed the act. He wanted to restore President Arthur's Ideas. Affairs ou \nviumii Island. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—The Navy Department has received a report from Commander McCalla, of the Marblehead, giving the results of his investigation of conditions on the Island of Navassa, which had been the subject of complaint to the State Department on the score that the laborers were ill treated. The investigation was conducted by a board composed of Commander McCalla, Lieutenant Scheutz and Surgeon Wentworth, and included a thorough inspection of the island and the condition of the laborers. The latter were not only personally questioned by the board, but were given every opportunity to make complaints it they so desired. The board inspected all the buildings. Including the laborers’ quarters, hospital, etc., as well as the food, hours of work, etc., all of which were found satisfactory, showing a marked improvement over the condition of affairs on the island when visited by the Kearsarge. in command of Captain Crowninshield, in 1842. Archbishop Ireland's Land Case. WASHINGTON. Jan. 27.-A decision is expected soon from Mr. Hermann, commissioner of the general land office, in what is known as the Archbishop Ireland case, involving title to a large tract of land in Minnesota, on w-hich there are a number of settlers. The case, it is said, presents some unusual features and some important questions of law are involv ed. The commissioner declines to say what his decision will be. “Whether the commissioner decides for or against the archbishop,” said a prominent official to-day, "the title of settlers to the lands received from him will be protected. There may be a difference in the amount which will be required to pay for their lands as a result of the decision. This difference is between the $1.25 per acre which would be the price as government lands and that which they agreed to pay the archbishop, which 1 believe was $f per acre, less 10 per cent, on certain conditions.”

Col. fuNhliiK to Re Promoted. WASHINGTON. Jan. 27.-It was officially annnounced at ihq War Department to-day that Col. Samuel T. Cushing, assistant commissary general of subsistence, now on duty- at the War Department, will be appointed commissary general of subsistence on the statutory retirement to-morrow of Brig. Gen. Wm. H. Bell, and that Lieut. Benjamin K. West, Sixth Cavalry-, stationed at Fort Myer, Virginia, will be appointed commissary- of subsistence, with the rank of captain, to fill a vacancy In the lowest grade of the department resulting from the promotions of Lieut. Col. Wm. H. Nash to colonel. Maj. Charles A. Woodruff to lieutenant colonel and Cap!. Edward K. Dravo to be major. Colonel Cushing was born' in Rhode Island, and graduated from West Point in 1860. He server! creditably throughout the war of the rebellion. Finn 1 Decision n* tu Section 22. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—Assistant Secretary Howell has received a telegram stating that the board of general appraisers at New York to-day decided the eases which they have had under consideration for some time involving the construction* of Section 22 of the new tariff act. The board in effect sustains the opinion of the attorney general in which he held that the discrimination duty of 10 per cent, does not attach to goods of foreign manufacture or production brought into the United States in transit through a contiguous foreign country. This decision apparently settles the questions involved as the department will not take an appeal. Nomination* by tlic President. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—The- President to-day sent the following nominations to the. Senate: Julius Jacobs, to be assistant treasurer ut San Francisco, Cal.; Henry C. Bell, collector of internal revenue. Fourth district of California; Hart H. North, commissioner of immigration at the port of San Francisco; Reuben I>. Hill, atotrney for the district of Kentucky; Hamilton Glover Ewart, of North Carolina, to be district judge for the Western district of North Carolina. General Note*. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—T0-day’s stale*ment of the treasury shows: Available cash balance, $240,858,636; gold reserve, $163,697,785. Clifford Smith, brother of Joseph P. Smith, the director of the Bureau of American Republics, received a dispatch to-day from Miami, Fla., where the latter went to recuperate, saying that his condition was critical and hope of recovery hud been abandoned. It was said to-day that the condition of Secretary Mger remains unchanged, although on the whole he is probably better than he w-as Monday. Lu*se* by Fire. ALLENTOWN. Pa., Jan. 27—A can of kerosene oil exploded In the boiler house of the Beenville cement mill, at Rosondale, eight miles north of Alleptown, early today. setting fire to the mill and storage house. Both were destroyed, together with four thousand bags and six hundred barrels of cement and three hundred tons of coal. The loss is estimated at *100,0(A); fully lnsured. * MOUNT STERLING. 111., Jan. 27.—The Bloomfield Hotel burned last night with almost the entire block adjoining. Albert Pieper was killed by a falling wall. <'onstable Snodgrass and two other men were Injured. Loss, $100.000._ Emil Urfer, aged tw-enty-two, who has been in the employ of the Boliand JewelryCompany. of St. Louis, for ten years, and who was one of its trusted employes, was arrested y-este-rduy charged with stealing jewelry and silverware said to exceed $lO,000 In value. A greater part of the goods was recovered. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Bmmo Quinine Tablets, All druggiats refund ruoney if it fails to i-ure. 25c. The genuine has L. B. Q. on each tablet.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, IS9S.

STORY OF A WOMAN’S LIE HOW IT H IS TANGLED THE ESTATE OF MRS. LUCINDA BROWN. The Chicago & SontheuKtern Moved One Train by Fooling the Strikers —Other State News. Special to the Indianapolis DANVILLE, Ind., Jan. 27.—Several years ago David David died in Kentucky, leaving among his heirs Mrs. Lucinda. Brown, of this county, and T. J. Megibben, of Cynthiana. Ky. They were brother and sister, and the latter was the administrator of the estate. Mrs. Brown’s portion was sl,177.77, and Megibben, in winding up the estate, gave Mrs. Brown hits note for that sum. TWo months later he paid the note by New York draft, which was indorsed by Mrs. Brown and htjr husband and deposited in bank at Indianapolis. Mrs. Brown wrote acknowledging the receipt of the draft and asking for a loan of S3OO, saying if he would loan her the money she would send her note for it and his note now paid. Mrs. Brown neglected to sond Meglbben’s note, and the matter passed out of his mind. Megibben died and Mrs. Brown iiled a claim against his estate for the amount of the note with interest, making that it had not beejn paid. The claim was allowed at $1,820. In a few- years Mr.!. Brown died and left a will giving most of her property to her children. Her husband did not receive by the will what he thought he should. He wrote to Mqgibben several times that he had. information of value for him. # and he should come to Indiana and see him. Megibben finally came, but Brown was reluctant to tell him anything. He finally told the whole story of the doublet payment of the note and Megibben returned home, and, looking through his father’s papers, he found the letter in which Mrs. Brown had acknowledge*! the receipt of the draft. Megibben then filed his claim against the estate of Mrs. Brown, setting up these facts, and the claim was allowed at $2,405, principal and interest. In thq meantime Brown learned that he did not have to accept under the will, so he (temanded his one-third given him by law. Now the executor has filed a petition asking for the sale of the real estate to pay debts, showing the insufficiency of the personal property to inert the claims which have been allowed. The childrejn have filed their answer consenting to the sale of the real estate. Brown, however, files an answer showing that het is entitled to onethird of the real estate free from debt, and asks that his one-third be set off to him and not sold. Megibben files a cross-complaint showing the double payment of the note* us told above, and claiming that the estate would be Insolvent if Brown’s motion to set off one-third is sustained, and alleging that Brown coerced and induced his wife to maku this false affidavit and receive this second payment, and the money thus secured was used to pay for the land which is now to be sold. He insists that the land shall all be sold. He asks to be made a defendant to the suit. The court has sustained Megibben’s motion to be made a party to the suit, and thus the matter is pending.

INDIANA OBITUARY. George IV. Buchanan, Former linnband of ilutrou Bneliunitn. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 27.—George W. Buchanan, aged seventy-seven, died this morning at the State Soldiers’ Home, as the result of general debility. He was a member of Company I, Twenty-fifth Regiment, and was admitted to the home last May. When entering he had $350 in cash, and this he has bequeathed to the home, having become very much attached to the institution. Buchanan’s divorced wife, who until recently has been matron at the Indianapolis police station, was married again to-day in the latter city. Dayton Curtis. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Jan. 27.—Dayton Curtis, aged seventy-eight years, one of the largest landowners in Blackford county, died at his home, six miles southwest of this city, this morning. He had been a resident of the county forty-three years and lived on one of the first farms cleared in this section. The funeral will occur at 1!) a. m. Friday morning. Interment In Roderick cemetci y. Other Deaths in the Mate. RUSHVILLE, Ind.. Jan. 27.- John H. Osborne died this morning of softening of the brain on his seventy-seventh birthday. He had been in failing health for six years. He was twice elected county recorder on the Republican ticket during the last eighteen years. He was a member of the M. E. Church and a man of wide acquaintance. Along about 1870 Mr. Osborne was in business in Indianapolis. In 1875 he located in Rushville. Harry Jones, aged nineteen, son of A. E. Jones, of Sexton, died at his father’s home to-day of typhoid fever. He was a teacher in the schools of Jackson township. BEDFORD, Ind., Jan. 27.—James Posey Parks, aged eighty, one of the oldest and most highly respected citizens. Is dead of pneumonia. He was born in this county at a place known as the Indian Ford, on Guthrie creek. in the year 1817. Mr. Parks was one of the first school teachers of the county and many aged people who are residents here, were among his pupils. The funeral will be held under the auspices of the I. O. O. F., assisted by the Baptist pastor and Dr. J. W. Newland, who was his life-long friend. COVINGTON. Ind.. Jan. 27.—Mrs. Martin H. Clark, the wife of a prominent lumber dealer of this city, died last night at the home of her son, Raleigh Clark, in Crawfordsville. Mrs. Clark was on a visit and her death was wholly unexpected. Stomach trouble is said to be the cause. MUNCIE. Ind., Jan. 27.—Henry Jacobs, of Windsor, died yesterday, aged seventy-six. He was a member of \V llliams Post 78, G. A. R., of this city. ROTTENNESS IN OFFICE. Sen minion* Condition Shown hy Rooks of Elkhart County Official*. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GOSHEN, Ind., aJn. 27.—The County Commissioners to-day entered Into contract with W. E. Meyeler. of Chicago, to go over the books of County Treasurers Uomaine and Campbell and the auditors of the same period, Messrs. Milburne and Landgreaver. This action resulted from charges made by Expert Ernest, who has just finished an examination of ex-Treasuter Holdeman’s hooks which showed him $22,000 short, and “surface indications” showed both Romaine and Campbell to be short. The belief is general that the accounts of both will be found correct, but the feeling between the factions that have been arrayed against each other by the charges and counter charges of bribery, boodling and defaulting is so bitter that an examination of the county records for years back was deemed advisable by all concerned. The majority of the board of commissioners have been indicted for accepting bribes. Harry Gibson Convicted of Murder. NEW ORLEANS, Lu., Jan. 27.—Harry G. Gibson, of Abbydelle, Orange county, Indiana, was yesterday convicted at Mississippi City, Miss., of the murder of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Parkhurst, of Oskaloosa, la., at Back Bay, a suburb of Biloxi, on the night of Oct. 21 last, and sentenced to be hanged on March 8 next. As developed during the trial, Gibson arrived mi Biloxi less than a year ago and had posed as a capitalist. He formed the acquaintance of the Parkhursts, who owned a beautiful property on Back Bay, which they were anxious to sell. The price asked for the place was $6.0C0. This Gibson considered too high. They finally agreed on $5,750. The sale was consummated, and Gibson gave Mr. Parkhurst a check on the People’s Bank of Biloxi for $4,500, the balance being arranged for in easy payments. This check was predicated on a draft given to the Biloxi bank on a Philadelphia bank, where Gibson claimed to have an account. This draft was returned protested, and the check on the Biloxi bank was dishonored. The deed given for the property was accordingly destroyed by Mr. Parkhurst. This infuriated Gibson, who. it is claimed, went to the house of the old couple, shot down the husband and brained the wife, afterward dismembering their bodies, throwing the remains in the fireplace and setting fire to the house to destroy all evidence of the crime. Gibson ut one time lived in New Albany. Ind., where he was librarian of the Young Men’s Christian Association. Gibson an-

tlclpated the result of the trial, and wagered his few personal effects with a fel-low-prisoner against $lO that he would be sentenced to hang. He jocularly remarked, on being led hack to jail, that he had won his bet. and demanded the stakes. He received his sentence with the utmost sang froid. State Spiritual j*t AwMOcintiou. Special to the In<lianai>olin Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Jan. 27.—The executive board of the Indiana Spiritualist’s Association have just completed their annual business session, and announces that the State meeting will be held at Camp Chesterfield, beginning July 20 and lasting five instead of four weeks, as heretofore. The camp is being improved, and several new cottages and auditoriums will be built when the spring opens. As it stands now it is one of the prettest of the many spiritualistic retreats in the country, and the meetings are attended by people from all sections. Additional facilities will be provided this year by the construction of an electric railway from this city. The event this year will probably be made of double Interest by Anderson being selected as the place for holding the national convention of the Anti-Spiritualistic Association of America, which organized in this city last summer and now has State organizations in a third of the States. Charged with Robbery. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SEYMOUR, Ind., Jan. 27.—For some time past there has been a large number of robberies perpetrated here and in the surrounding cities, but no arrest had been made up to yesterday, when Byron Murphy, aged twenty-four, whose parents reside here, and Beverly Hurley, aged twenty-three, residing at Brownstown. were arrested at Vincennes on a telegram from the city marshal here, charging them with having robbed Mrs. Edward Bllsh’s summer home, across White river, of all its movable contents, such as bed clothing, cooking utensils, tableware, etc. The two young men were seen with the goods in their possession and afterwards left it in the woods ten miles from the place where they committed the robbery. The prisoners were given a preliminary examination before A. 11. Hoover. city judge, this afternoon, and were bound over to the Circuit Court. Patriarch* Militant. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 27.-The most successful regimental meeting of the Patriarchs Militant ever held in this district has been in progress to-day, with fully two hundred visitors from Logansport, Peru, Wabash, Frankfort and Crawfordsvillq, supplemented by a large turn out of local Odd Fellows. Indianapolis and Lebanon sent several visitors. The chief feature of the programme is exemplification of degree work and conferring to-night of the declaration of chivalry on four candidates ut the Grand Opera House. Ga* and Electric Plant Sold. Spec ial to the Indianapolis Journal. CONNERS VILLE. Ind., Jan. 27.—The Connersville Gas and Electric Company’s plant was sold at public auction to-day for SB,OOO, it being bid in by the bondholders. Ex-United States Treasurer J. N. Huston put the plant in, and a few’ years ago sold it. to Harvey M. Lafollette, formerly state superintendent of public instruction. He bonded the plant for SIOO,OOO. The indebtedness is in round numbers about $117,000. It is more than likely that a local company will secure the plant lor street-railway and other purposes. Escaped from Sullivan Jail. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SULLIVAN, Ind., Jan. 27.—Last night Daniel Peak, forger, and Charles Lancaster, attempted murderer, made their escape from the jail. They were locked in their cells, as usual, hut they had procured fine steel saws, and during the night sawed the hinges from the cell door and pried them open. They then sawed two of the iron bars from a window in the jail, from which they made their escape. Lancaster was caught this evening in a barn near this city, but Peak is still at large.

Accidental Death ol’ n Convict. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., Jan. 27. “Doe” Hall, a convict from Martinsville, was found lying on the floor of his cell with his neck broken, at the Reformatory, lie had complained of being ill and weak, and vas excused from work by Dr. Sharp. It is supposed that he attempted to rise from his qot. and. being so weak, fell and received the fatal injury. Hall was thirty years of ago. and was sentenced to three years for larceny. His remains were sent to Martinsville this evening. Moved One Train Only. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LEBANON. Ind., Jan. 27.—The Chicago & Southeastern to-day Succeeded in moving a limited amount of freight in connection with the mail train. Several carloads of freight were placed in the lead and the mail ear last, the freight cars could not be sidetracked by tin; strikers without interfering with the mail coach anti the train* was allowed to go through without molestation. No money has yet arrived, but it is believed that a settlement with the men will soon bo made Young Dale Tnken to Paoli. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Ind., Jan. 27.—Sheriff Jones, of Paoli. arrived In the city this evening and took into custody Ed Dale, the young man arrested by Marshal Moore at Markle Wednesday, leaving with him to-night., Dale is a professional crook and is wanted at Paoli for highway robbery, holding up an old Hebrew in Orange county last fall. The victim had a pocketbook containing $6,000, which, however, he saved by throwing it into a field. Dale is needed at Van Wert, 0., for kidnaping a twelve-year-old boy. One of the Clark Heir*. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENSBURG, Ind., Jan. 27.—George W. Clark, a farmer near Sardina, this county, bus received word that he is heir to part of the Clark millions. Imley Clark, a $25,000,000 capitalist, formerly of Colorado, is dead, and his fortune is now claimed byMrs. Maria Hook, of Bartholomew county, and George W. Clark, of Decatur county. Imley Clark made his great wealth in mining operations in South America and Australia. George W. Clark owns 120 acres in Jackson township. Boy Stabbed in a Quarrel. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CRAWFORDS VILLE, ind.. Jan. 27. Willie Lindawood, aged seventeen, and Glenn Ralston, aged eighteen, of Crawfordsville, quarreled on their way home from a mooting of the Salvation Army last night and Lindawood stabbed Ralston several times in the side, leaving his knife sticking in the flesh. The boy is badly injured. Iron*’* Assailant* Captured. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COLUMBUS, Ind., Jan. 27.—Frank Porter and Leonard Basneger, who assaulted William Irons near Walesboro yesterday noun, were caught north of Edinburg this afterifcion. On Monday they will have to answer to the charge of assault and battery with intent to kill. Irons, their victim, is much worse to-day, and ms recovery is doubtful. Rev. Cnrti* Going Abroad. Special to the Indianai>olis Journal. COLUMBUS, Ind., Jan. 27.—The Rev. G. L. Curtis, pastor of the Methodist Church, of this city-, will leave, next Tuesday, for New York, from where he will sail, the latter part of the week, for Palestine and other Eastern countries. Mr. Curtis will be absent about four months from his work in this city. Clone Call for “Hot Stuff.” Special to the Indianapolis Joirnal. RUSHVILLE. Ind., Jan, 27.—John Bell, sometimes called “Hot Stuff” Bell, tried to hit James Keating, jr., with a brick to-day. Keating pulled a revolver and shot at Bell, the ball passing through Bell’s coat tails. Keating was arrested after a hard struggle. Prarnmn Pried Off tlie Bar*. Spec ial to Jhe Indianapolis Journal. COVINGTON, Ind., Jan. 27.—Samuel Fearman, who was brought here yesterday from Veedersburg, pried off one of the bars of his cell and was about to make his escape from jail yesterday- when Marshal Wertz discovered tin* work. Mnnclc Howler* Won. Special to the Indianaiwlie Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Jan. 27.—Anderson and Muncie police force bowling teams, five iip mbers each, met here In four games tonight. Muncie took three games, but ban*

quetted the visitors and a dozen friends afterwards. The.score was: First game— Muneie. 529: Anderson. 499. Second—Muneie, 549; Anderson. 577. Third—Muneie. 5X7; Anderson. 532. Fourth—Muneie, t>27: Anderson, 539. Smith, with 142, led for Anderson, and Gallighar, with 146. led Muneie bowlers. The Date Not Satisfactory. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BRAZIL, Ind., Jan. 27.—The announcement of the agreement of miners and operators which reached here this morning caused considerable stir among the miners, who have been eagerly waiting for the termination of the conference. They gathered in little bunches along the street and discussed the agreement with much pleasure. However, many were dissatisfied with the date for the raise to take effect. They declared It should have dated back to the first of the month, so as to give the miners the benefit of the winter trade, while the mines are in operation and crowded with orders. As it is. the miners contend that the consumers of coal will buy large amounts and store it away to evade t le raise In fuel which will take effect wher the miners’ advance is made, consequently, they contend, that work will be slack ia the mines this summer. Indiana Notes. Chesterfield, Madison county, claims the distinction of having three record-breaking boys. Walter Cartwright is sixteen years old and measures six feet four inches in his stocking feet; Charles Thompson is seventeen years of age, is not three feet tall and weighs but fifty pounds; Grover Allen is four years old, and tips the scale at 109 pounds. Sheriff Stott, of Greensburg. has received word tiiat Charles M. Shane, of Tacoma, Wash., has gone wrong and was wanted for embezzlement, and a reward of SSO is offered for his arrest. Shane grew to manhood in Greensburg. He is. the son of oxMayor Shane, who left this place several years ago and died at Tacoma. The saloon of Frank Nace, at Young America, west of Kokomo, was demolished by a mob Tuesday night. During the afternoon a fight occurred in the place between Jasper Turley and Ira Roach, the latter being there to get his father, who was drunk. Late the same night the residents of the village met at the saloon igith axes, handspikes, crowbars and other tools, and hacked the building to atoms and erai> tied S2OO worth of liquor into the street. The men were not masked and there was no attempt at disguise. This is the fourth saloon destroyed by violence at that place. At, Burlington, but four miles away, seven liquor shops have been demolished in like manner. SHOT BY’BURGLARS. Well-Known Cincinnati Miller Fatally Womulerf and Bobbed. CINCINNATI, 0., Jan. 27.—Christian Klein, a prominent pioneer citizen and president of the Cincinnati Flour anti Feed Company, was shot twice and fatally wounded by burglars at his mill here tonight. Klein cannot survive the night. No one was with Khjin in the office when the shooting occurred. At midnight Klein w’as reported at the hospital as dying. He never regained consciousness and the case is full of mystery. He has been wealthy, but suffered losses the past few years, and creditors to-day put his mill in the hands of the sheriff on attachments. For a time to-night William Klein, a. son of the wounded man. could not be located, but later he was found at his home in the suburb of Corryville. The victim’s pocketbook. emptied of its contents, was found on the bridge, and other evidences of highway robbery and murder. Mr. Klein went to his mill every night and carried money from the mill to his residence. Klein carried large life insurance. Fiendish Ohio Ruffian*. JACKSON, 0.. Jan. 27.—Last night as Lulu Friend, a fifteen-year-old girl, was going from tlic depot to her home near the Tom Corwin mine accompanied by John R. Meyers and Vint Faught. two friends of the family, they were attacked by a crowd of ruffians, who overpowered the two men and carried off the girl. Meyers and Fought offered a desperate resistance, and ti e latter was struck with a rock, fracturing his skull so that he is not expected to live. After gaining possession of the girfi the ba id of ruffians carried her into one of the. Wa.lston Company’s mines, where twenty men criminally assaulted her, after which they fled, leaving her half dead in the mine, where she was found soon afterwards by a sea veiling party. When found she was in a terrible condition, mentally and physically. She was taken to the. hospital, but the physicians do not think she can live. No arrests have yet been made, but tiie police are at work on the case.

Federal Officer** Shot. FORT SMITH, Ark.. Jan. 27.—Passengers from the Indian Territory to-day bring word of the fatal shooting of two government officials and the wounding of a third. At inola, r. TANARUS., this morning, United States Marshal Gabo Beck, while attempting to arrest Bill Miller and Joe Phelps, whisky peddlers, was shot and wounded in the shoulder by the latter, who then sought refuge in a house. Deputies Hess and Bussey then attempted to dislodge them. The peddlers opened fire from a window and both officers fell to the ground. The battle was witnessed by the passengers of a train that stood in the depot and they brought the report to this city that both officers were killed. Voting; Man Assassinated. HOUSTON. Tex., Jan. 27.—Shortly before midnight last night Patrick J. Gibson, an employe of the Southern Paeitic Railroad, was shot through the heart by an unknown assassin. Young Gibson had bid Miss Mary Burke, to whom he was engaged to be married, good nig'nt, and started to take an electric ear to his home. Miss Burke had just entered her residence when, a shot rang out. Alarmed, she ran oul, in time to see the form of a man disappearing down a dark side street. Running toward the corner she fell over her lover’s dead body. The neighborhood immediately was alarmed, but not the slightest clew could be found. The Luetgert Trial. CHICAGO, Jan. 27.—1n the Luetgert murder trial to-day the defense occupied considerable time attempting to prove by Stenogranher Squibb, who reported the lirst. trial, variances in the testimony of medical experts and other witnesses who testilied at both hearings. Then the defense turned the case over to the prosecution. The Stale’s attorney at once started in to impeach the veracity of William Charles. Mr. Luetgert and nearly all the other witnesses for the defense. The case is not expected to reach the jury for a week yet. Drupet* Case (liven to the Jury. JACKSONVILLE. 111., Jan. 27.- Taking of evidence and the delivery of arguments in the sensational murder case of Charles L. Draper, charged with killing Charles L. Hastings, ended to-day, and the jury was immediately given the case for consideration. MEMORIAL TO LINCOLN. University to lie Kreeteil in the Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. CHICAGO, Jan. 27.—The board of directors of the Abraham Lincoln Memorial University held a. business meeting at the Palmer House this afternoon. Permanent officers and directors were elected, but tb< ir names are withheld for the present. The body is composed of a dozen men, principally from Chicago, who intend to build in the Cumberland Gap, in East Tennessee, a university with all the improvements of the modern institution of learning of the large cities of the North, to educate the youth of the mountain districts of that part of the country. The university is to stand as a monument to Abraham Lincoln, and at present Gen. O. C. Howard Is at the head of the movement. Although the university is to be undenominational, it will be established under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church. The board lias already obtained possession of the buildings set up in the Gap at the time of its boom as a summer resort a few years ago. These include a large hotel. “The Four Seasons.” and a sanitarium, both of which will be used for dormitories. The property, which was acquired for $13,0(0, is said to be worth SIOO,OOO. Two colleges aie to bo taken in under the university charter, Washington College and Ttisculum College. The University will be for both men and women. Superanunntevl l’renclier Weds. CHILLICOTHE, Mo., Jan. 27.—An announcement is made here of the marriage of Rev. W. B. Dockery, aged seventy-four years, and Mrs. Julia Dim mock, a widow of forty-five years. Rev. Dockery, who is a superannuated Methodist minister, is father of Congressman Dockery, of Missouri. Suicide of Henry K. \umliiyn. QUINCY, 111., Jan. 27.—Henry E. Vandi.yn, former passenger agent at St. Louis, of the Big Four, and lately district representative of the Woolson Coffee and Spice Company, committed suicide to-day at the Tremont HoteUby taking morphine.

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JOHN BULL’S GOLD WINS CHINA WILL ACCEPT GREAT 31K1TAIVS OFFER OF V LOAN. Japan's War Fleet C ruising Oil SlinnTmitf—Emperor William’* Birthday Celebrated. LONDON. Jan. 27.—The Marquis of Salisbury presidtd to-day at a Cabinet meeting. It is understood that thej ministers discussed the legislative programme, the Queen’s speech for the reassembling of Parliament and the far Eastern question, ii is reported that Lord Salisbury informed the Cabinet that China had practically accepted the British offer of a loan. The Cabinet, it is understood, will meet again to-morrow. A special dispatch from Shanghai says the Japanese fleet is cruising off thq coast of Shan-Tung. It is announced that Emperor William has drawn up and distributed to the higher naval officers a table of the forces of Japan, Russia and Germany in tlie tar East. The German war ship Gefion was forced to return to Aden in order to arrange for the immediate dispatch of colliers tc overtake the Deutschland, her consort, whose fires are again said to have given out. A dispatch to the Lokal Anzieger. of Berlin. from St. Petersburg, says the Czar, speaking at a private gathering of officers of the Probrajensky regiment said: “L wanted long ago to accept your invitation, but events w’ere weighing heavily on my mind, particularly difficulties with Japan. Now. thank God, all is cleared up and no conflict of any kind is to be feared.” WILHELM'S BIRTHDAY. German* Honor Their lvniser with Congratulations and Illumination*. BERLIN, Jan. 27.—The celebration to-day of the birthday of Emperor William was more general than usual. The public And other buildings were decorated with flags and bunting, and busts of ids Majesty were everywhere displayed. The Emperor received the congratulations of his mother, the ex-Empres Frederick, and tlie German princes, including the Kings of Saxony and Wurtemburg. The newspapers, excepting the Socialist organs, published congratulatory articles. The Socialist papers deplore the monarchic feeling and the Conservative and Agrarian press urge the Emperor to show courage and abolish the general franchise and workmen’s rights of coalition. During the early morning there was a great musical reveille by the bands of a whole brigade, which awoke the population. A cuirassier of the Trumpeter corps sounded the reveille from ihe cupola of a castle. There was much open indignation at the shutting off of all traffic in the district around the castle. In the evening the illuminations of the city were very tine. One store showed 12.500 electric lights. The United States embassy was illuminated and the United States ambassador. Mr. Andrew D. White, participated in all the festivities and attended witli his staff the gala performance at the opera house. The French ambassador, the Marquis De Noailles, was decorated with the grand cross of the Red Eagle.

Jttbex llnlfour In Court. LONDON. Jan. 27.—Jabez Balfour appeared to-day for public examination in the bankruptcy court. The convict, who was in ill health and weakly, was allowed to take a seat. In the course of his examination Balfour admitted that in leaving the country in 1892 he was guilty/if an act of “stupendous folly,” but asserted that he had “yielded to the advice of those who ought to have known better.” Baifour was charged in 1895 with fraud and other offenses in the management of the Liberator (Land) Company, which was connected with the Lands Allotment Company and the House and Land Investment Company, formed between 1872 and 1875, and which collapsed in 1892. When the smashup occurred Balfour fled to South America. Ho was arrested and taken to England for trial, with the result that he received a sentence of fourteen years’ penal servitude. Made Guns for TlieJr Enemies. LONDON, Jan. 27.—According to a dispatch from Birmingham to the Globe, the capture of the British steamer Baluchistan, off Muscat, Arabia, by the British gunboat Lapwing, and the seizure of her cargo of arms and ammunition has temporarily paralyzed some of the large gunmakers because the London merchants concerned have ordered them to suspend operations. A wellknown manufacturer says that, on the order of a London merchant, he has turned out a hundred riiles and a ton of ammunition weekly for the last three years. The rifles consisted of Martinis and Lee-Metfords. The Persian authorities, it seems, winked at these irregularities until Great Britain intervened. The same firm was preparing to turn out two thousand weapons monthly to the same customer. “A DiKguUeil Bounty.” LONDON, Jan. 27.—John Morley, tho Liberal leader and member of Parliament for the Montrose burghs, speaking this evening at Stirling, Scotland, said the proposed West Indian grant was "merely a disguised bounty,” and another Instance of the government's policy of “sops and doles to favored classes.” He declared that it "Would be equalJj justifiable to make a grant to manufacturers having to face a hostile tariff, ami expressed the belief that the scheme would not prove such a merely temporary measure as Joseph Chamberlain had represented. l.ndy Sykes’s Debts I'airi. LONDON, Jan. 27.—1 t Is reported that or. the day following the rendering of the verdict in favor of Sir Tatton and Lady Sykes in the suit of Daniel Jay to recover £15,870 loaned to Sykes on promissory notes, purporting to have been signed by her husband, the whole of the money lender’s claims were paid by friends of Lady Sykes. Mr. Jay. however, refuses to either eontirm or deny the report. The Porte Growing Alarmed. LONDON, Jan. 28.— The Constantinople correspondent ot th- Standard says: "The minister of war, Riza Pasha, has ordered to prepare eighty regiments, with a minimum strength of seventeen hundred men each, for service In Roumelia next spring. The attitude of Bulgaria Is causing uneasiness, and the Porte has sent remonstrances to Sofia.” Anarchy In Asiatic Turkey. LONDON, Jan. 28.—The Vienna correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says it is reported there that the Kurds are devastating Armenian villages In the neighborhood •f Russian vilayets, and that the Armenians arc retaliating. The correspondent adds that there is complete anarchy in the* Asiatic provinces of Turkey. Havoc of a Hurricane. ODESSA. Jan. 27—A hurricane has worked immense destruction in this district. Whole villages have been devastated and tho (lumuTO to cthinointr is enormous.

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LAWS FOR KLONDIKERS. Customs Iteuuln(ions for Gold Seeker* Who Go by Way of Dyeu. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—Assistant Secretary Howell has in preparation regulations which will govern foreign goods entering the Klondike region by way of Dyen and the Chilcoot pass. Ow ners of such goods will be required to give bond to the officer at Dyea for the amount of the duties, which will he canceled by a United States customs officer on the frontier, if all of the goods are taken through to destination, or, if desired, the amount <>f the duties may bo deposited at Dyea. and on presentation of a certificate from the officer on the frontier that the goods arrived at that point tho money will be refunded by the Dyea collector. Acting Secretary Meikeljohn is arranging to send a military expedition up the Copper river route in Alaska, to map out the topography of the country and finally establish the value of this route to the Klondike gold fields. War Department reports indicate that this may turn out to be the most feasible of the winter routes and that is one reason for sending the expedition now. The Treasury Department has been called upon to transport the twenty-five men who will compose the expedition, but has reported that* It has no available reverse cutter affording the necessary accommodations, so the party probably will be sent north oil one of the regular merchant steamers. fliltli Rental fur u Steamer. PAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27.—The steamer Humboldt has been chartered for the Alaskan thule by John A. McGee, jr., at a stipulated rental of 128,000 a month for live months. This is the highest rate ever paid for a vessel on this coast. The Humboldt Is practically anew boat, and during lu-r short term of service between San Francisco and coast ports has become a favorite with the general public. Her original cost was $110,0*)0. During the term of the charter. Mr. Kalish will receive from the charterers a sum aggregating what it would cost to put her afloat. Westfield Gun fuse. In a decision handed down yesterday, the Supreme Court sustained the Hamilton Circuit Court in the contempt proceedings against Henry J. Thkitle waite and the Westfie’ 1 Gas Company for charging citizens of Westfield more than the ordinance rate for gas. ThistlewaUu and the gas company were fined. The court enjoined the company from charging more than a certain price, and while the injunction was In force a citizen declined to pay the additional price asked and the gas was turned off The defendants were fined for contempt of eourt. The tine was only one dollar against each defendant. Thistlewalte was at the head of the gas company. DeFninr Will Contest Fee.t. Two law films recovered a judgment for $7,500 in the Circuit Court of Jackson county. The judgment was against Ellen McIntosh and husband as part of attorneys fees due for services In contesting the will of W C. DePauw. Mrs. Mclntosh was a daughter by Mr. DePauw’s first marriage, and was not provided for in the will. Yesterday the Supreme Court reversed the judgment. The cage was reversed for errors in the pleadings. Zaring & Hottel and Fricdley ii Giles were the attorneys who lose by the court’s decision. , \V lint In Vour llublt In buying? is L habit ur judgment? If judgment, see what the Badger Furniture Cos. have to offer you for the next two days. Every article It) their stock has a discount of from 10 to s*.‘ per cent.