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INDIANAPOLia SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 20. 1889.

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PAUFEBS FOR AMERICA

•oat KIT GUSH POOR AUTHORITIES OTP XB1SH POOR TO AMKBXCA.

Mad* to Send S50 Ir1«A Pun 111m to tbo United Steteo-Tho Ktrr ri" JAndlordr-Commlo-•tonor mt Cutte Gordon.

< I Vxw Yoke, July 20 —The English poor •athorities on making arrangeinenu to > Sii^who^re unlbU to^iport them■elrca in the old eoantry, and who are eon* eeqnently liable to become a burden upon the public exchequer. Thla waa the intelligenoe imparted in an aUdarit made at Caetie Garden yesterday by Tbomae Sbea, whoae eon, John, and a daughter, Vary, arrived on the Anchor line eteamer, City of Borne. Mr. Shea, who is a stalwart Irishman with boehy, red whiskers, freely acknowledged that the passages of Himself and ton were paid by the poor authorities and that £S in English money had been riven him for traveling expenses. Shea’s glory is that bs lived in the town of Tralee, County of Kerry, Ireland, and was a laborer in a stone quarry. Wages at the best of tinms, he says, wore not more than three shillings per day, and before leaving he earned lese than one shilling. He had hardly money at times, as he expressed it, “to buy a ha-penny doock” (duck), and there were hundreds around him worse off. Several fanners were evicted. Shea’s wife died a year ago, and he was without money to pay bouse rent or support his children. One day his son John, who is a bright little chap, came home with news that circulars were being distributed around the place tJ the effect tnat m Mr. French would tend a war any destitute families who desired to go to America. He heard afterward that Mr. French acted for a Mr. Cross, one of the chief landlords of the county. He also heard that Cross was the right-hand man of Colonel Spades, a member of the British Parliament, and acting for the Government. The Colonel was stationed in thgt county so he eonld actively supply the destitute with passages to America. Mr. Shea applied to Mr. French, and tickets for himself and son were furnished at once. He had already received money for Mary's passage from his sister, Johanna Shea, who lives in Brooklyn. Mr. French also gav'e him a draft for *3 on Hejdemon Brothers, Agents for the Anchor Line in this city. This was with the understanding that Shea was to return the money, together with the ticket money, as soon as he earned enough in thie country to do so. Colonel Spades, Shea said, had been furnUhed with a sum to be paid out for tickets, and all the families sent over would have to agroo to return their passage money and other funds on the same terms that Shea did. It is supposed that the 250 families will include no less than a thousand people and probably moi been in any hat come hi

mob! more. Shea said he had never any alms-house .or prison, and iere to look for work. Besides

in vermilion, ill. btiea were detained and will probably be sent back to Ireland when the City of Borne Mit. Mr. Shea asserted that there were any number of poor people in the County of Kerry, who would snap at the chance offered of coming to America. The evicted farmers, especially, are anxious to come, as their condition could not possibly be t^orse, and from the pictures drawn of America, they think there is a lively chance of bettering themselves. . , „ When turned away from their farms, there is nothing for them to do butto labor, and the labor market is already overstocked with laboring men. Nothing is left except to enter the poor-house with their families, and this the landlords do not relish, as they must then support the people they have cast forth upon the world. Hence, Landlord Cross’s lively interest in sending the evicted ones to America through the Poor Guardians, and, hence, also, the willingness of the poverty-stricken tenants to accept the only apparent means of solving the problem of “how to live. The quarries in Kerry, said Shea, are scarcely worked at all, and the men are paid scarcely enough to keep the breath of life in them. If they have families it is next to an impossibility to support them. Another reason for driving so many sway is that the landholders are turning their land into Mature. The poor Irish families are thus deprived of a chance to turn them to account, the amount of tilled land being ao small as to not yield sufficient income for rents and living expenses. It is not alone in the county of Kerry , but all over Ire..jes are sending ;n ana families over here, and occasionally when some are returned they are as promptly sent back here under an assumed n*ne. Thus is the United States made a dumping ground for Europe's undesirable people and criminal classes. Commissioner Stephenson, who was at Castle Garden when the Sheas arrived, said it was a fair sample of the way poor people were being shipped to the United States in order to relieve their native governments of thfrburden of their support. Some time ago he clipped an advertisement from an Irish paper. In which the Poor Guardians openly offered to send poor people over to America. Shea said a number bad been sent away before he started, and thatyhe others would be sent in small companies. He spoke with a rich brogue, and was somewhat crestfallen at being detained. The Castle Garden authorities will keep a sharp outlook for the othera who are likely to follow. MATTERS AT JOHNSTOWH. There la a Despondent Feeling In the Wrecked City—Insurance. Johnstown, Pa^ July 20.—Business in Treasurer Thompson’s little bank progressed smoothly yesterday, and about $10,000 was paid out, makfhg a total of $23,895 for the two days. The total of registered losses in the Conemaugh Valley is between $8,000,000 and $9,000,000, not including that of the Cambria Iron and Pennsylvania Railroad Companies, and such others as did not register. So far the people have received the ten-dollar-a-head fond, which amounted to $160,000, and the first distribution of the general relief now being made involves $600,000, so that the sufferers have been paid $660,000. In the average case this amounts to about 1 per cent of the actual loss, and if, as the commission says, only about $1,000,000 remains to be paid, there will be S per cent of their losses nude good to the sufferers. This state of affairs has d^>ressed many, and the result is that hundreds hare left the tewn. Probably for the first time in its history the Cambria Iron Company finds itself Wanting men, several hundred positions being meant This may in some measure be accounted for by the fact that a reduction has been made and another is contemplated, but many are known to have gone away that they may the sooner banish Dorn their minds the terrible ordeal through which they have pissed and the impression it left on their minds. Hundreds have left because nothin# but ruin meets the eye Wherever they turn. Indeed, the work yet to be done in clearing up the town is so great, and the force of workmen employed so small that men of Judgment predict it H not be completed for next sommer. r. Graham and Nellie Bly finished the distribution of the New York World’s $10,000 fund and left for home yesterdav evenlag. Five bodies were found yesterday, and there art indications that many more are aadm* the debris whan the man an aotr

working. The losses to the various life insurance companies by reasonof the flood in the Conemaugh Talley will reach over

pleted to date: The

$250,000. The following is the list com-

Hie Pro^dent Life and

$7,000; Fidelity Mutual $3,000: New York Life, $42,000; Home Life, $2,000;

$10,000; U. B. Mutual, $0,000; Travelers’, $4,000; fe, $18,500; Equitable,

Mutual Uh, $38,000; New En-

ates Life,

American

$6,000: .Etna United States

$25,000: Muta. , ^vw, — gland, $2,000; Penn MotaaL $11,000; Washington Life, 8,000; Pacific Mutual, $3,000; Standard Accident, $6,000; United States Mutual Accident, $7,600; People’s Accident, $15,000, and various assessment assdeiations,

$20,000.

Of this amount of losses $175,000 has already been paid to the beneficiaries, and as fast as the proofs are made the money is disbursed. One remarkable instance is that of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, which had over 1,000 policies in the Conemaugh Valley and sustained only three looses. The money is being paid by the insurance companies as fast as 4 it is ascertained to whom the money belongs.

HOGAN IS SAFE.

Ramon* in. Michigan that the Aeronaut la Alive on Long Island.

jACKfloir,Mieh.,July 20.—-Though nothing definite has been heard of Professor Ed Hogan, there are many rumors rife that the daring aeronaut is safe. A private dispatch is said to have been received by Campbell from Hogan, sent from GatUeteaburg, » village on Long Island, nearly e hundred miles from New York, stating in effect that he landed within a mile of the village at about 10 p. in. Tuesday, coining down directly underneath the settling air ship. He was nearly overcome with asphyxia and would have died bnt for his presence of mind in catting his way throngh the canvas monster. More dead than alive, he reached a village and was cared for by the

good people.

He immediately became nnconscions from exhaustion and hunger, and no one knew who he was until Wednesday noon, when the air-ship was found and Hogan had regained consciousness. It occurred to Hogan at this juncture to keep qniet and give the newspapers a chance to throw themselves, which they did, as it proved.

Hogan’s Brother Mussed Up.

St. Thomas, Ont., July 20.—Wm. Hogan, of Jackson, brother of Ed Hogan, missing aeronout, made a balloon ascension last night at 6:30, going 4,000 feet high and had a narrow escaped from death. The top guy rope of the balloon becamed fastened to the parachute, and it waa not until the balloon had reached within 900 feet of the ground in ita descent that the aeronout began to shake

the rope off.

Had he lumped before making the discovery, tne balloon would have turned

over upon the parachute, driving it to the ground, and instant death would nave been the result. Hogan alighted upon a stone, breaking two riba, and was dragged fifty feet, bruising his side and shoulder. He left

this morning for Jackson.

THE REPUBLICAN TARIFF BILL.

An Extra Session of Congress to Consider That Measure.

New York, July 20.—The influential Republicans in town last night, and Senator Gorman on. the other side of the fence, bad news that the President had certainly determined to call an extra session of Congress in November. It came to them very straight and they believed it. Some of them went so far as to say that the date had been fixed for November 1, but othera thought a later day would be set. The Senate Republican tariff bill of last fall will, it is said, be the main business before the extra session. The House has now

It is stated that every effort will be made to push the bill through the House aud the Senate in time to have it in full operation by July 1 next. Hard Times in the Northwest. Chicago, July 20.—A dispatch from Grafton, Dak., saya: Crops in the Canadian Northwest and along the Dakota line are in bad shape. Farmers are almost destitute, and some instances are reported where they were subsisting on field mice and gophers. In the Canadian Northwest the crops are nil. A party of emigrants from the Soures country was met Thursday on the boundary line. They had traveled 300 miles through a well settled country on the Canadian side without seeing fair crop, aud say a great many settlers are leaving. Iron Shipments From Lake Superior. Marquette, Mich., July 20.—The week’s shipments of Iren ore from the Lake Superior mines aggregate 260,194 gross tons, of which total 59,282 tons went from Marquette, 111,047 from Escaqaba, 2,617 from St. Ignace, 49,687 from Ashland and 37,561 from Two Harbors. The shipments to date for the season foot up 2,858,838 tons, this being 1,350,373 tons in excess of quantity that had been sent forward by water at this stage in the season a year age. The margin in favor of the current year is growing weekly. _ American Bar Association Meeting. Chicago, July 20.—The American Bar Association will hold its twelfth annual meeting in this city oh August 28, 29 and 30. The proceedings of the first day will comprise an address by the President, David Dudley Field, the election of new members apd the reading of the reports of various committees, together with the reading and discussion of various articles. The session will last three days and on Friday the gentlemen will be banqneted by the Chicago Bar Association. A Fair Sunday in Prospect. Local Forecast—For Indianapolis and Vicinity—For the twenty-four hours ending 8 a. m., July 21, elondy, followed by fair weather. Washington, July 20.—Indiana and Illinois, fair, wanner, except stationary temperature in northern portion of Indiana; westerly winds. XOCAl. TXWPXKATCB*. f a. m 65” l 2 p. m......... 75* Same date.last year 64* I 79°

The War in Africa. Cairo, July 20.—A reconnoitering party which went out from Wady Haifa beyond the Dervishes under Nad-el Jamie, are occupying a good position. It was also learned that the Dervishes had been reinforced by 1,000 men. The British troops at Tousa&n number 1,500 men, ana are considered strong enough to attack the Dervishes. Bobbed a Pennsylvania Postoflee. Susquehanna, Fa, July 20.—Burglars broke into the postoffice here last night, and, gaining access to the safe, robbed it of several hundred dollars in cash and atampa. The Saltan la Attending to Basin ess. Constantinople, July 20.—The Porte will send several battalions of troops to the island of Crete in consequence of the threatened rising of the people. The Bon laager Boom Continues. Paris, July 20.—The Boulangiits in Marseilles have decided to nominate the General as a candidate in four canton# for the Councils General. Italy Wttkdimw* From a Blockart*. Bomb, July 20.—The Italian Government has withdrawn ita veasels from participation in the blockade of East African porta

DAILY STATE CHRONICLE.

EPITOME OF EVENTS 'TWEEN RIVER AND LAKE. f

Will Not Go to Work-Bitten by n Spreading Viper—Died From Overwork—Tlrovraed While Bathing — Items.

(Special to Ths Indianapolis News.) Danville, July 20.—John O. Wishard, father of Dr. Wishard, concerning whom a special telegram from Rockville a few days ago remarked that he had met with reverses in Persia, having been attacked by marauders while on his way to the mission field, is in receipt of a letter from his son, under date of June 15, and mailed at Orwoomia, Persia, in which he makes no reference to the incidents as detailed in the Rockville telegram. Mr. Wishard is, therefore, inclined to believe that a mistake has arisen in some way, or else the trouble was of less importance than first advices seemed to indicate. Struck a Gusher. (Special to The Indianapolis NetUS) Winchester, July 20.—The Rock Oil Company, of this city, has completed its twelfth gas well, and it undoubtedly is a gusher, the roaring of which can be heard one mile away. The company has placed several wells with fair success, but the last one caps the climax, and experts claim it is superior to the Mancie wells. The electric light company has also been successful in sinking a well for its individual use. The Rock Oil Company proposes to pipe gas to Union City anq this place. Lead Ore in Abundance. [Special to The Indianapolis News.1 Vincennes, July 20.—James Anderson, of Jackson’s Hills, opposite this city, has brought here specimens of lead ore which he says can be found in great quantities in the hills. An analysis by President Bryant of Vincennes University,’ assisted by two chemists, shows 65 per cent, of pure lead. Mr. Anderaou says that there are millions of tons, within easy access, but he refoses to tell the exact location.

Horrible Work of Fanatics. Warsaw, July 20.—The authorities of this county Thursday took into custody Mrs. Martha Danks, charged with murder, and her husband, Daniel, as an accessory. Danks recently became insane on the subject of religion, and it is said compelled his wife to strangle their fifteen months’ old child as a sacrifice, claiming the Almighty had promised to resurrect the child on the third day. When Danks was arrested he had been carrying the dead infant in his arms for two days. Will Not Go to Work. [Special to The Indianapolis Xews.1 Brazil, July 20.—The result of the secret ballot in the block coal district! in Clay County is as follows: Against going to work 744 For going to work 181 Majority in opposition 610 Total vote polled 878 A great many miners have gone to other fields for work, hence the light vote. Wheat Good, Melons Better. [Special to The Indianapolis Newx.1 Seymour, July 20.—The excessive rain fall, this week, has damaged some wheat in shock, but most of the cron is saved in good order. The yield is above that of last season, botbjn quantity and quality. Melon*. one of the staples of Jackson County,will be late, but the crop will be good In quantity and quality. New Wheat coming la. (Special to The Indianapolis New».T Anderson, July 20.—About 2,000 bushels of new wheat was received at one elevator to-day. Most of it is of good quality, but was threshed tbo wet to market well. Two carloads were shipped to New York. The crop in this county will average fully twenty oushels per acre, which is much larger than anticipated.

Shot in a Friendly Scuffle. [Special to the Indianapolis News.] Monrovia, July 20.—Whjle Art Pruitt and Charles Holman were returning from a hunting trip yesterday, and were engaged in a friendly scuffle, Holman was accidentally shot in the groin by Pruitt, but the wound is not dangerous. They live at H&U, a small village near here. Tried to Kill His Brother. (Special to The Indianapolis News.] Winchester, July 20.—“Obe” Knight, of Union City, has been lodged in jail at this point, charged with attempting to kill his brother, whom he shot in the leg. The quarrel was due to intoxication, and daring tne melee “Obe” shot twice. Bitten by a spreading Viper. [Special to The Indianapolis News.] Seymour, July 20.—Spreading vipers are very rare in this neighborhood, but recently Mrs. Joseph J. Hess picked np one in some rubbish and was severely bitten. In spite of prompt remedies, her condition k critical. *, Died of Overwork. (Special to the Indianapolis Nows.1 Anderson, July 20.—L N. Hoover, Bee Line Agent at this city, for the past six years, died yesterday eveningof meningitis, caused by overwork. Mr. Hoover was a prominent Free Mason and a substantial citizen. Drowned la White Rlrer. (Special to The Indianapolis Nawa.1 Anderson, July 20.—George Hosier and Willie Todd, two half-grown boys, were drowned while bathing in White River at Hamilton last evening. Their bodies have not been recovered. A Yeung Milker. [Special to The Indianapolis News.] Seymour, July 20.—Natlian C. Rucker, of this county, owns a rare domestic animal, a Jersey heifer, not yet twenty months old that gives two gallons of nch milk daily. Mr. Tannage in Indiana. [Special to The IndianapolU News.] Marmont, July 20.—Rev. Dr. Talmage preaches to-night at the Culver Park Assembly. and also to-morr»w, and the attendance of a great crowd b a cicipated. General main News. Samuel Harned, a pioneer of Orange County, id dead, aged eighty-nine.* Electric motive power la being introduced in the Summit coal mines. There will be a general reunion of old soldiers at Russellville August 8. * Hon. Ruths Magee, ex-Minister to Norway and Sweden, is again a citUen of Logans port. Josephs. Webb, of Orange County, died this week of what is regarded as a well-defined attack of cholera. The venerable Charles B. Holmes, of Ligonier, has been stricken with apoplexy, and a fatal result is anticipated. Profenor Goee, principal of the Frankfort High School, has resigned to accept the Super* intendency of the Lemmon schools. Alexander Dulng, who waa badly injured in the explosion at ths time of the French brewery fire at Fort Wayne, died yesterday. W. B. Clapp, of Lafhrettq. a stations!? engineer, and brother of the Senior member of theflrmof Clspp A Jones, flra engine builders, of New York, died yesterday, of heart disease. Lafayette business men ere organising a mutual insurance company, headed by W. F. Stillwell. It will be operated similar to the Fort Wayne company, which baa proven a sue06Ma The Mitchell District Medical Society closed Us session at West Baden yesterday, and the meeting waa one of the beet in the history of this prosperous society. Dr. J. L. W. Yost, of Mk«ell, was elected President; Dr. E. P. Baaley, of New Albany. Vice President, and Dr» Q. W. Burton, of Mitchell. Secretary. The

proceedings wound np with a banquet, attended by the visiting physicians and families, and toasts and responses were the special

order.

John Screeder, aged nine, of Plymouth, accidentally shot Charles Myers, eged four, in the head, killing him instantly. Immed tely after the killing Screeder disappeared, and he is still missing. Tue factional differences In tbs United Brethren Church at Pleasant Grove, in Huntington County, has resulted in an appeal to the coart, in prosecuting one of the leaden for trespass, he having taken forcible possession of the church building. The smallest pony in the State has been foaled at Hartford City. The mother is a Shetland pony, two years old. and the colt measures nine inches along the bsck and stands six hands high. It is lively as a cricket, and the property of Harry B. Smith, of the Exchange Bank. The City Council of Columbus raised saloon licenses to the lull limit, and afterward attempted to repeal the ordinance, but the Mayor had the casting vote and voted in the negative. The Council, however, weakened on the cow ordinance in so lar as not to call for its enforcement until Septem ber.

George EL West, of Lafayette, died yesterday. of illness contracted in 1841, while serving as a midshipman on the African coast. Thissickneas compelled him to retire from

the navy, and he remained an invalid until his death. For several years he resided in Indianapolis. but he settled in Lafayette in 1865. There continues to be a great dearth of residences at Anderson, and neopie continue to live in tents, stables, wood sheds, fair grounds ■tails and wnerever shatter can be afforded. Within the next three months several additional Iffctories will be located there, and how the people are to be sheltered has become

a very serious problem.

Rev. Charles Davis, of the Church of God denomination, was badly injured at Mechanicsbure. A large tent was being erected in which to hold religious services and Mr. Davis climbed the center pole to adjust the ropes. Accidentally bis hold loosened and he fell to the ground, breaking both legs between the knee and ankle and sustaining internal in-

juries.

securing the necessary marriage license. Then the father interfered and the wedding was prevented; and this was tollowed by the arrest of Lewis for subornation of perjury, in connection with the issuance of the license. All

the parties are well known.

The anaconda which escaped from Hutchinson A Co.’s Wild West show near Hnntingburg, was killed on the farm of Jacob Jones this week. It measured over twenty-two feet in length. The snake was seen several times in the neighborhood, and it continued to prey upon the sheep and hogs, aud frightened children so badly, and even grown people, that few were sufficiently daring to venture out

after nightfall.

The owners of the Exchange well at Terre Haute are not entirely discouraged over the foilure to strike oil, and now think a mistake was made in going too deep into the sand without plugging the well se that the water could not enter. The old Rose well was drowned out in this way. The Kinser well oWnera expect to reach the sand to-night, and the well has been reoased, and the St. Joseph well is also expected to make a strike to-day. The Big Four well it down JU500 feet, the Kinser well 1.660 feet and the West Terre Hants

well 1,574 feet.

Indiana Pensions: Original Invalid—Francis W. Smith, Noah C. Hines, Elwood McCracken, Solomon R. Monticue, Solomon F. Hardy, William H. Lamson, Peter Wise, John

C. Shat Max '

Seward, william M. uasorn, William Barney Gossett, William V. Cox. John Ehr^ bard, David Wiltsee, George T. BrothweU. Restoration, Reissue and Increase—Enoch Colen. Increase—William E. Clark. Reissue— Alonzo Ward, Alfred M. Tomlinson. Jacob R. Clark, Michael E. Crum. Franklin E. Bennett. Reissue and Increase—John W. Mahan, William P. Stoops, Benjamin C. Smith. Reissue— " Rinker. r* * *

low of Wi

. Henry C , Genetta, widow of John D. Kelly; Martha A.,

widow of Mated J. Elliott.

Susan Fussell, of Spiceland, is dead. She was the daughter of Dr. Bartholomew Fussell and a native of Pennsylvania, and she began teaching wben fifteen years of age. In lt81 she removed to Indiana, and taught in Madison County until 1863, when she tendered her services to the Government as a nurse, and was assigned to the Union Hospital in Tennessee, and she remained in this service until close of the war, part of the time being in charge of hospitals at various points. In December, 1865, she took charge of ten orphans, children of soldiers, for whonuahe cared until they were established int Hie, the expense being borne by George Mettitt, of Indianapolis. Her next effort lookedKo the betterment

of children in poor houses, and sh<

successfn ass the

pass the bill authorizing

sioners to provide special homes. She organized the Henry County Home at Spiceland, the first of its kind in Indiana. Sne was an honorary member of Harmon Rayl Post, G. A. R.. and a member of the Hicksite Branch o( Fnends, and a woman of rare executive ability. Her life was one of great good to

humanity.

TELEGRAMS TRIMMED DOYW. Minister Wm. Walter Phelps is visiting in Newburg, N. Y. The Little Kanawa Valley was swept by storm and flood. Harvard has made President Patton, of Princeton, a LL. D. An English syndicate is after the organ factories of this country. Two men were suffocated in a fermenting tank at Santa Rosa, Cal. John L. Sullivan arrived in New York, drunk, last night, aud will go to Boston today. Henry Clay, aged sixteen, was drowned near Paris, Ky., while trying to ford a swollen creek. The Board of Directors of the National Educators’ Association voted to meet next year at The National Republican Committee has arbitrated the differences between the Virginia Republicans. The Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church (South) will convene at Paris, Ky., September 11. A. F. 'Watson, of Williams A Watson, paperhangem, of Springfield, Mass., has fied with 88,100 of the firm’s money. Miss Anita McCormick, daughter of millionaire Cyrus McCormick, confirms the report of her engagement to Emmons Blaine.

The cheap gas syndicate to be operated in this country by Englishmen turns out to be the Standard Oil Company with a system of making gas from naptha. A Paris (Ky.) dispatch says that Henry Clay, aged sixteen, son of Wm. Clay, was drowned last night while attempting to cross a swollen stream in a vehicle with a companion. The Messrs. Anderson, of London, have signed a contract to build a fleet of steamers for a new Atlantic mail service, the steamers to travel from Quebec to Plymouth in six days. The New York Graphic says that the Nationql Democratic Committee still owes over $200,COO for campaign expenses and that Messrs. Brice, Gorman and Scott have made up $120,000 of that sum. Mrs. John A. Logan, the wife of the late United States Senator Logan, arrived from Enrope yesterday on the Trmve. She was met down the bay by her son and daughter, and afterwards left for Youngstown, O. The New Jersey Prohibition State Convention yesterday chose Courtlandt Parker chair-

cords of oak bark. John Striker, an employe, was burned to death. Five employes were seriously burned. The loss is $20,000; fully insured. In his report to the Chief of Engineers, Lieutenant Beach, who has charge of improvements on the Ohio River, in the absence of Colonel Merrill, estimates that $779,000 could be conveniently expended during the coming year. Joe Hansley. said to be from Detroit, was picked np yesterday morning near a railroad track in tbs suburbs of Louisville. He was nnconscions from wounds about the head and died in the hospital last evening. It is supposed he fell or was pushed off ofa'train. As a final result of the recent Chicago Insane Asylum investigation of abuses and maltreatment, whereby a patient lost his life, the county board yesterday removed Dr. Kirnan, Medical Superintendent, and elected Dr. W. L. Noble Acting Medical Superintendent. The Weekly Bonk Statement. Itsw York, July 20.—The weekly bank statement shows the following changes: Reserve, increase 4 624,725 Loan, decrease 1,683.806 Specie, increase 115,i«0 Legal tenders, increase 173,600 Deposits, decrease 1*828,900 Circulation, decrease...— 6,200 The banks now hold $7,287,825 in excess of the 25 per cent. rule.

Lend Salisbury's Vindication. London, Jaly 20.—The jury in the case of Mr. William O'Brien against Lord Salisbury for damages, for slander to-day returned a verdict in favor of Lord Salisbury.

THE LOUISIANA LEPER.

THE TERRIBLE DISEASE FENDS ▲ VICTIM AT NSW ORLEANS.

James Kavananffh, a Young: Teamster, a Doomed Man—He is Given a House all to Himself—The Spread of the Disease.

New Orleans, La., July 20.—A genuine, well-developed cpse of leprosy located in a little and isolated cottage, at the corner of Chestnut aud Eliza streets, Algiers, across the river from New Orleans, was brought to light to-day. The leper is a young man named Janies Kavanaugh, 29 years of age. Kavanaugh was born and raised in Algiers, and was for eleven years a teamster in the employ of Morgan’s Louisiana A Texas Railroad and Steamship Company. He waa quite popular among his associates about railroad shops and in the town generally. He was ah active and popular member of Morgan Steam Fire Company, No. 3, and is practically cared for by the firemen at present. The disease began to show itself about four years ago in small brown spots on the chest and neck. He called in a prominent and well-known physician on this side of the river, and after a thorough diagnosis of the case it was pronounced leprosy and incurable. Fearing contagion, the members of the fire company built the little red-paiuted house above mentioned, and young Kavanaugh was placed there as a doomed man. His father and sister moved into the house with him, and additional rooms were provided for their occupancy. In a Short time the disease began to spread until bis entire body was covered with brown spots, his tongue was swollen and cracked until he could not articulate distinctly, nasal passages clogged, his eyebrows and lashes fell oil, toe nails rotted and his entire body was fast becoming a mass of putrefaction. A purse of 1500 was made up by the firemen and offered to any one who would cure him. One or two doctors called on him, but he got no relief, and was finally given tip to die. Kavanaugh was seen yesterday, amfbeing asked how he thought he contracted the. disease—whether by inheritance or by contagion—he said his father and sister lived in the same yard with him and were perfectly healthy, that his progenitors were all a hardy, healthy people, and that he believed he had caught the disease from a young man who worked in the Morgan shops several years ago and died from supposed leprosy. Inquiry among physicians and citizens of Algiers, and the man’s general appearance, settled thfc fact bevond dispute that he is in the last stages of tne loathsome and hideous disease. It is also current rumor that there are other cases of leprosy in and about Algiers; in fact, the people do not seem to feel any alarm, and talk about the disease with as much indiffefence as if it were a bad cold under discussion. PAUL ON THE WAR PATH. ■■ - Milwaukee’s Postmaster Writing; a Spicy Letter to the President.

Milwaukee, July 20.—Postmaster Paul had no sooner read the findings of the Civil Service Commissioners in his case than he sharpened up the old quill pen with which he used to write editorials and began a long letter, which he proposes to send to President Harrison. He said he was tired of newspaper interviews, but did not mind S°ing on reeord as follows: “Young Mr. Roosevelt is seeking notoriety, and I think he will getall he wants before this thing is over with. The document just promulgated is the most disreputable and foolish lot of misrepresentations and falsehoods I have ever seen put together, and the work is done in the most bungling manner. The Cq'mniissioners came here not to investigate out to condemn, and Mr. Roosevelt endeavors to convict me of having violated the law in matters, belonging purely to the Examining Board by making me responsible for Shidv’s clerical errors. The whole report would Tbe a farce if it were not malicious.’’

AN OHIO COUNTY’S THIEF. Treasurer Coleman Is Now Implicated With Auditor Graham. CINCINNATI, July 20.—A Lebanon (O.) dispatch says that the evidence against Treasurer Coleman, whose arrest for embezzlement was made, consists of a number of warrants for the payment of money to various Township Treasurers which do not appear at all on the Auditor’s books, while genuine warrants to the full amount those Treasurers were entitled to were regularly drawn and received. There is also a statement that before Auditor Graham left confided to a friend that Coleman and be had been acting to-

Treasurer’s credits at the time of the regular examinations of his books. On the other hand, Coleman’s friends say that he is innocent, and that he has been the dupe of the unscrupulous Auditor. * The Hounds Found Him. Louisville, July*20.—Booker Weaver, a convict who escaped from the Eddyviile pen yesterday morning, was recaptured late in the afternoon with the aid of bloodhounds. Weaver had been gone several hours when his escape was noticed. He had made every endeavor to destroy his trail, swimming across both the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivera several times, but the dogs took his track and never lost it. The guards on horseback kept up with the hounds. Weaver made no resistance and was not hurt. An Eviction of Miners. Chicago, July 20.—A dispatch from Spring Valley, 111., says: The miners are to be evicted. The Spring Valley Coal Company has finished serving eviction notices on all the idle^miners that are living in their houses. About 100 families, or 600 persons will be thrown' out of house aud home in a few days. They have no place to go. It is quite likely that many of the miners wul resist and trouble will result. The Sheriff and posse will do the evicting. Mrs. Sabin’s Insanity. New York, J uly 20.—The friends of Mrs. Sabin have succeeded in having her removed from the Flushing (K. I.) Asylum. The doctors did not relish the publicity given their institution and the announcement that she was a “captive.” so the proposal for a change was immediately carried out. Mr. Sabin told an aunt who reared his divorced wife to take charge of her, and has also provided a well known attendant from Washington. •12,000 Worth of Jewelry Stolen. Lynn, Mass., July 20.—During last night, professional burglars made a most successful break at the jewelry store of H. J. Boswell, 82,Monroe street The dial knob of the large safe was knocked off with a heavy sledge nammer. The entire combination was then poshed ont and the bolts yielded to the tarn of the handle. The burglars got away with twelve thousand dollars worth .of jewelry and left behind only a few tools. Mr. Parnell In Edinburg. Edinburg, July 20.—The freedom of the city wm conferred upon Mr. Phrnell to-dey. In reply to the address aooompafiying the presentation Mr. Parnell said that the Irish people would accept the tribute aa another

proof of the near triumph of their legitimate aspirations for freedom. Referring to the special commission appointed to investigate the Times’ charges against the Parnellites Mr. Parnell said that if he had known it would block any inquiry to the Pigott conspiracy he would never nave entered the court. ENGLISH FLOUR SYNDICATE. The Britons Apparently Mean Business—A Deal of Magnitude. Chicago, July 20.—A dispatch from Minneapolis says: What is regarded as a possible first step toward the purchase of the Minneapolis Flour Mills by an English syndicate was announced last evening. It was given ont, on undoubted authority, that the Englishmen now at the West Hotel closed a deal yesterday for the purchase of the Vandeuscn line of elevators. This system is owned principally by G. W. Vandeusen, of Rochester, Minn., and includes about forty elevators on the line of the Chicago. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Omaha Railroad. It is impossible to secure any details of the transfer at present, as the men interested are not accessible. That a deal of importance ia about to be consummated was admitted by Levi Mayer, of Chicago, the legal representative of the London English Investment Company and one of the men here with the English party. “I do not think that our present business concerns the public,” he said, “but I will say that we are in Minneapolis for the purpose of consummating a deal which Is of great magnitude, and will immensely benefit this city and the public in general. I am not prepared to say what the nature of the deal is, or whom it concerns.” CINCINNATI JURIES.

They Can Not Find It Possible to Convict a Saloon-Keeper.

Cincinnati, July 30.—A Police Court jury which tried Moritze Eichler, proprietor of a beer garden, for keeping his place open on Sunday, after hearing uncontradicted testimony from several witnesses that they saw the place open on Sunday, June 21, and people there buying and drinking beer, and after being instructed by the judge that if they were satisfied that he opened his place for business on Sunday it was not necessary in order to convict, to show that he had sold beer, brought in a verdict of “not guilty.” Several ballots were taken, but in the first there were nine in favor of acquittal. The courts have recently decided that cases in the Police Court can not have special or struck juries, but must be tried by the juries made up as this one was. This is the tnird or fourth case where these juries have wholly ignored the evidence and j)ie law as defined by the Judge.

THEY DEFIED ARREST.

A General Battle Between Thieves and Officers.

Horse

Albuquerque, N. Mex., July 20.—Two horse and cattle thieves and the dead body of the leader of the gang passed' through to Socorro, Tursday night. They had stolen several horses from Dedrfok’s Ranch, and four from a ranch near Gallup, this county. They were desperate and defied arrest. Deputy Sheriff - Lawson, of Apache County, organized a posse and soon came upon the thieves. A general battle took place, and the leader of the gang, a Mexican, was shot dead. The Deputy Sheriff also received a serious wound. Tbe other two surrendered. This breaks up a bad gang of horse and cattle thieves. ENSNARED BY A TYPE-WRITER.

Eloped With the Pretty Girl, bnt Arrested for stealing. Omaha, Neb., July 20.—Geo. C. Hagen, a wealthy boot and shoe dealer, doing business at Chicago and Newcastle, Penn., was arrested here to-day, charged with being a fugitive from justice. Rachel Vaghn, a pretty girl of eighteen, was with him. She was his type-writer, and they had eloped together. Hagen says before leaving he made over all his property to his wife, except $1,2(X) in cash. His wife charges him with stealing her jewels.

General Sheridan’s Secretary In Trouble. Chicago, July 20..—A dispatch from Kansas City, Mo., says: Henry D. Gregg, private secretary to General Sheridan until Robert T. Lincoln was appointed Secretary of War, when he was transferred to the Adjutant General’s Office in Washington as a first-class clerk, in which place he remained three years, when he was made purser of the revenue steamer, Chester A. Arthur, was arrested in Hiawatha, Kas., Thursday

VAU11A4P tucvi tx u 10.11 aatwcu uiui to lUKt_* Uie horse and buggy, which he said was his, to Hiawatha, Kas., and sell it. , Jack the Kipper in Court. London, July 20.—The name of the man who waa arresled on suspicion of being the Whitechapel murderer, and who subsequently confessed that he was guilty, is William Brodie. He was arraigned before the Police Magistrate this morning. He stated to the Magistrate that the confession made by him to the police was true. The prisoner was remanded for a week. In Bogus Warehouse Receipt Business. Chicago, July 20.-James W. Sykes was this morning found guilty of issuing ninety thousand dollars worth of bogus warehouse receipts and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. Sykes was considered wealthy and a pillar of the church. This was hu third trial. He conducted his own defense. Corralled In California. San Diego, Cal., July 20.—Detective Grinnell, of Milton, Wis., left here yesterday with J. F. Edwards, Wftom he arrested at Ensanada on a charge of having embeszled $40,000 from the Menomist Mill and Mining Company of Wisconsin in May 1884. The Czar's Uaele Paralyzed. St. Petersburg, July 20.—Grand Dnke Constantine, uncle of the Czar, has suffered a stroke of paralysis. He has lost the power of speech. MEETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS. The Irish-American Club will picnic at Broad Ripple to-morrow. The Tippecanoe Club will picnic at the grove at the entrance of Crown Hill on the 1st day of August. The members and all others that wish to attend will meet at the Transfor Car atta. m.

F. W. Douglass, will addfess the Military Park Gospel Temperance meeting Sunday at p. m. If the weather is unpleasant the ting will be held at Black ford-street M. E.

If the weather is m

meeting will be held at Blackfon Church, corner of Blackford and Market

streets.

Thefintannnal meeting of the Fifteenth Christian Missionary District, which includes Marion and Hancock counties, will be held at Warrington, Ind., July lt, 84 and 26. Revs. H. R. Pritchard, D. R. Luces end D. B. Vaa Buskirk, of this city, will take pert. The picnic of athletes takes place st Emerich’s Grove to-morrow. There will be boxlnr.

Creasy, Tree ter end Champ, of this city. be held at Morgantown next Monday, Tuesday Wednesday. Among those of this city ^o^ill take part are Revs. H. A. Cleveland, William Teller, J. F. Woodruff end W. f! Sheridan. Didn't Want Nor Couldn't Got «»■», An the old members of the Board of Trade renewed membership esoeptJeoeph A. Moocel

A JOB FOR NEW ALBANY.

MADISON HURLEY MADE THIRD AUDITOR OF THE TREASURY.

▲ Batch of Appointments by tho President To-day, In Varlams Branches of Govormnonb— Other Matters.

Washington, July 20.—The President has decided upon the appointment of Madison M. Harley, of New Albany, Ind., to bd Third Auditor of the Treasury, vice Colonel Williams, resigned. Mr. Harley was formerly postmaster at New Albany. iminent politician in the and has long figured in _Ie has been Auditor of his county and held other officee within the giving of his party. He is a very popular Republican ot Southern Indiana.] - Hurley and Other Appointments. Washington, July 20.—The President to-day made the following appointment!: M. M. HURLEY, of Indiana, to be Third Anditor of the Treasury. J. B. FRANKLIN, of Kansas, to be Deputy Second Auditor of the Treasury. JOHN FEHRENBACH, of Ohio, to beSuwrvising Inspector of Steam Vessels for the SeventhDistrict (Cincinnati). CHARLES M. LEAVY. ot California, to be Appraiser of Merchandise in the District of San Francisco, Cal. JAMES J. DICKERSON, of Texas, to be Marshal of ths United States for the Eastern District of Texas. MILTON O. ELSTNEB, of Louisiana, to be Attorney of the United States lor the Western District of Louisiana. To be Consuls of the United Statee-Evane Blake, of Ulinois, at Crefield; Henry C. Fisk, of Vermont, at St. Johns, Quebec; Jasper P. Bradley, of West Vliginia, at Southampton; Eugene O. Fechet. of Michigan, at Pied ran Negras; Archibald J. Sampson, of Colorado, at Paso Del Norte; Horace E. Pugh, of Indiana, at Newcastle, England. To be Collector of Customs—Franklin B, Goss, of Massachusetts, for tbe District of Barnstable, Mass.; Wm. Gaston Henderson, nf \C 1 a a i 0 a i * \ v-», 4 _A 8 m.

of Texas, for the Third

ct of Texas.

Attorney General Miller's Visit, Washington, July 20.—Attorney General Miller will accompany Secretary Proctor on the occasion of his next visit to Vermont There is quite e colony of Indianapolis people who spend their summers ia that State, near Secretary Proctor’s home, and Mr. Miller will divide his time between them and the Secretary while there. They will probably leave next week. Prominent officials occupied most of the President’s time to-day in the consideration of matters requiring 'action before his departure for Deer Park. Secretary Proctor was the first caller, and was followed by Secretary Noble, with Assistant Secretary Chandler; Mr. Walker Blaine, Firrt Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson and Gov-

md Mr. ^ Sscre*

Postmaster General Wanaraaker called, and each had a conference with the President

on official business.

A New Bank for Texas. Washington,July 20.—The Comptroller of the Currency to-day authorized the First National Bank of Longview, Tex., to begin business with a capital of $50,000. A BRIDE SUDDENLY BEREFT.

ernor Millette, Delegate Matthews and Mr. Lyons of Dakota. Later in the day Secretary Windom, Attorney General Miller and

Thirty-six Hours After Her Marrlaga She Becomes a Widow.

Nashville, Tenn., July 20.—Rev. Denia l Spurrier, pastor of the M. E. Church South, ’ at Owensboro, died suddenly while about s mile and a quarter from Mainmoth Cave entrance in one of the narrow passages, without a word of warning. Mrs. Spurrier, a bride of thirty-six hours, was near him. The death occurred at 9:30 p. m., and .the body was carried ont of the cave just at midnight.

DOWN GO UNION EXPENSES. Services of Several Station Employes Dispensed With.

The predicted cutting down of expenses in the operation of the Union Railway Company has begun, and begun vigorously. Tbe office of Station Master has been abolished and tpis relieves Charles Manning and his assistant “By” Hutchinson of their positions. Mr. Manning has heldjthe position for ten years or

dozen policemen aud watctTmen bad salaries reduced $IQ to $25 per month. Superintendent Whitcomb says be la working under ordeis to

reduce expenses in every possible way. The luctions have not begun on the Belt. Road

st, but are expected before the

ive not begun on the 1 jxpected before the 1st of August, lieved the cost of operation of tbe 00m-

yet, but

It IS bei.v.wM v..v ..v.ra. v. V^ViBbXVU VI film. pany’s property will be cut down $18,000 or $15.1)00 per^rear before President Ingalls will Trains on the Bee Line have been delayed from two to three hours to-day by a washout near Bellefontaine, O. The tracx ia impassable, and trains are transferred around by Dayton. Repairs will probably be completed

this evening.

The engine of the C„ I., 8t. L. * 0. train, which arrives at Indianapolis at 10:» a. m., blew out a cylinder head near Lebanon morning. In consequence tbe train came in

about two hours late.

Latert advices show that the finaiRUl lose to the Big Pour Company by the wreck night before last is not so heavy as reported at first. Tbe freight engine is badly damaged, but the cars escaped with littfe injury. Two thousand

dollars will cover the less.

INDIVIDUAL MENTION. Dr. W. S. Bsck has gone to New York.

Dr. A. J. Morris sad family hav# returned to

the city.

Rabbi Messing has started to CaUfbrnla for a six weeks’ vacation. District Attornsy Smiley N. Chambers went to West Baden Springs to-day. Hs will remain several weeks. Professor H. L. Beals, of De Pauw University, will preach Sunday morning and night at Blackford-atreet M. E. Church. John Lewis, a well-known carpenter, was sun-struck last summer. He never recovered from the stroke, and to-day is dangereoMy ill. A Ex-Senator Newton Booth, of California. ■topped a day in Indianapolis on his way Iff Europe, where he will make an extended stav. Tbe Governor to-day commissioned W. V. Van Aradel, First Lieutenant, and John Allen, Second Lieutenant, Company K, ThW Kegiraent. Eev. Arthur T. Pierron, formerly pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in this city, resigned his charge of Bethany Church, Philadelphia, whore bs went from here. Benjamin Enos, who used to bo well-known here, and who has been e member of the National Republican Committee, is la the city. Enos was the delegate to the National Convention from Florida whose place was claimed by B. L. Scarlet. Robert Marvel, of Pike Township, eightythree years old, ha* in thirty-six days taken lees then a gallon of milk and no other nourIshment. In sixteen days he ate nothing, and for nine days he did not take a drop of water.

yean, end all that time has takenao vocation. KSS.’SS&SftSL’SJJf “““• been appointed Assistant Superintendent of the Inaone Hospital inthe nlSrf Dr.A-J. Thomas. The foctia, Dr. Browning ie in the women’s department of the hospital and Dr. Thomas is still the assistant in charge of tho men’s deportment.

Two representatives of the cate which hes been making an inventory of the Indlaoepoba breweries, with a view to