Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 106, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 April 1885 — Page 4

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Tiicnew French Cabinet Trill probably stick unlets the members develop into "offensive partisans." We notice no quotation of Confederate bonds In bloody shirt organs. Prhap3 thoy are erecting a shot tcwer to work 'em op to par. Hox. Rcrcs Magee "qualified" yesterday and received instructions from the President and Secretary of State as to his new duties as Minister to Sweden and Norway. Tnz young visiting statesmen, cf this city, -who went to Cincinnati last fall "to see a 1'-; count" and act as Republican Deputy I'Lited States Marshals, will find something intersting in the fact that Judgj Durham, First Controller of the Treasury, ha3 given an opinion that Marshal Wright, of Cincinnati,, can only have pay for such deputies emplojed by him as were voters in the city, and for none of these' tor more than two day' service. The New York Times, In commenting on this, says: 'The apparent strictness of this decision contradicts the predictions freely made by politicians that the administration wocld overlook Marshal Wright's excessive U39 of his powers in order to mace a precedent ur Democratic ilarv' ahals. Cut then Onto predictions as to tl admin is Iraticn lacky." have generally been u How much patriotism there is in oar Re pubi'can millionaires aad monopolists is illustrated by their silencs to the appeals for a base for the Bartholdi statue of "Liberty Enlightening the World," presented by the Republic of Prance, to be placed at the bay entrance to New York. It remained for a Democratic newspaper, the New York World, t? collect from its readers the first contributions for this purpose. One hundred thousand dollars are required to constract the bs?e for ths statu?. The New York World's collections already amount to over $25,000, or one-fourth the requisite sum. Meantlma the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, another Democratic paper, and under the came ownership as the World, has started a Western subscription, which is being well patronized. The $25,C0O contributed to the Ne York World's fund came from over 22,000 people. So it appears ' that poor Damocrats people who have had no Governmental spoils for a quarter of a century are the only patriots we have. Tue Mahone must go. A Washington special eajs that the Virginians Continus to meet frequently In Washington, and the list of local appointments they are preparing increases. Being unanimous in the sentiment that all Mahone men must go, they are able to reach conclusions on the important offices without division. The Democrats charge that Mahone has employed the Federal patronage bestowed upon him solely to strengthen his political hold upon the State. It is charged that the revenue and customs cfiicials and Postmasters have been the organizers and leaders of Mahone's party all over the State, and the attention of the administration has been called to this matter. The Virginia Democrats have had an assurance, they say, that Federal officials will not be permitted to use their places and power for partisan purposes, and it is understood that within a short time those who havedone so in that 8tate will be replacedby new men. Tney are very anxioas for prompt action, lor without that they have doubts of their ability to carry the State next fall. 'The sitnatioa is urgent, and they will remain in Washington to hold frequent sessions until the Pieaident carries into effect the promises they claim to hard. DO BE DECENT. If there is any person with a mite of sympathy for the Indianapolis Times he will do it a great service by advising it to study how to be decent. That it should beeayiousof this paper Is not surprising, but tue undignified dally exhibition of that weakness is a pitiable one. For tbe Sentinel, there is noth:n? to gain bp stopping tbe exhibition. The enmity of the Times has proven helpial. An extraordinary elfjrt on its part in August last to break down the Sentinel by a certain, libel suit resulted in a vast increase of popularity and patronage far the Sentinel. Its bUlingsgate abuse of the Sentinel then, and its fatuous auguries against it, are remembered by its remnant of readers now, and to any cr'.lhism by it of the Sentinel must rebound in the Sentinel's favor. In fact, the few who continue to read the Times must, by this time, conclude that whatever or whomever the Times oppxesis probably tome thing or somebody to be ad mind. But, laying aside our own Interest in the

matter and looking only with an eye of pity for the Times, we treat tome person will advise it to take a lessen or two In decency; and, while that charitable person is about it, the suggestion mi, lit also be made tnat until it demonstrate Laving been benefited by inch I e-sons the columns of no respectable Indianapcl is paper will honor it by any

mention anch as go to make pleaant a com munity of journalism. THE USEFUL, SIDE OF THE TORPEDO Webster defines the toipado &3 "an eagin or machine invented for tha purpose of d ttrojing ships by blowing them up," an, this is the idea most persons have of the 1 7 pedo. Pew know that a torpedo is pre'. j nearly as peaceful an implement and aim .a nt.fnl o T, nr. a In nr.nlwlnff wants as a Bpade or a hoe. Stades at tii ta?e forsaken their farni-yard abodes, listed and helped to build milea of fortif f tiers and dig thousanda of military grs , " And so to reverie matters, torpedoe?, vented," as Webster says, "fcr the purr destroying ships by blowing theme used by the rcore every day in tf the Old Region to help fill the la J world with petroleum. As I things, there are torpedoes and t" but it eeems to us that the leiser xr the word should not predominate 7 do has far more to do with p-' " ft! war, and one might just esc O JJL' a rpade as "a warlike imd (t that meaning to the word tori , V On Angust 20, 185:, twenty fiv. ' Colonel Drake completed drilling o nearTitusville, Pa., the first oil well In the United State?. It was, com some of the great wells afterwar PTfd a small affair ' nnmninc nrt . V five barrels &f oil a day, but it w ( ; to cause an lcllux of adventurerparts cf the globe, rivalling any tj m the gold excitement of '49. TJ wells were put down along the jf Creek, and every day brought phenomenon in the new indtr' other things, it was diso-"""" sunk within a few fee ready producing, was ir Often one "dry hole'' space between to and others gayf"' which, turp A4e w in all od 11 of' raa of ci' by A lo tbe open seveitK ried itV A . E. L. iv V a M T ATT. A . six torpedoes, the fall cf tbe pnYi upon tins invention ra: wa3 not until the -1st of. July, 13, that he was allowed to put two cf his torpedoej in the Ladies' Well, on the flats to the east of Titusville. The well had been pumping oil, but after it had been torpedoed it commenced flowing. People began to think that there might be something in this torpedo after all, and in December, In'G, ono was lowered into the Wccdin Well, on the Blood farm, and exploded. The well had never produced & drop of oil, but now it commenced yielding frora efght to fjrty tarrtls a cay. One month later another tor pedo was used, and the production cf tha well was increased to e'ghty barrels. Th. s assured tbe succes) cf the torpfds for purposes other tt an "destroying ships by blow leg them up." After the results at the Woodin Weil the torpedo came into general use throughout the oil regions. A company was formed with a capital of $300,000 to work the patent, and a torpedo facsry was erected in Titusville. The effect of torpedoes upon the production of the oil region was marvelous. At;the time the Wcodin Well was shot (13GG) the production was rapidly declining and alarmists were predicting a speedy coUap?3 of the petroleum industry. With the introduction of the torpedo the condition of aCairs rapidly changed. In tbe summer of 'C7 tte output cf the wells on Oil Oreek was incrtased many thousand barrels. In 1SG-5 the lotal production was 0.037,527; in 1S3 it was 2l,35",0OJ barrels. Wells that had never had produced a drop of oil were torpedcol and caused to flaw; wella cf euiaH production weie converted into "gushers," and old well?, nearly exhausted, were reviviflad and, in their second lea?s of lift?, did more than ever before. Rut the great part played by the torpedo In tbe oil business did not really begin until the opening of tke Bradford field in 170. Tbe sand of this - lidd is blackish and hard and yields its oil reluctantly. The district, however, is of great extent, and contains thousands of wells that have been steadily producing for year?. Had it cot bf en for the Bradford tleld, tbe immense stocks of oil above eround, now amounting to nS.COO.COO barrels cf fcrty two gallons each, would not be. It is safe to say that fully one half tbe production of the field is directly due to torpedoes. There are to-dsy nearly 20.CC0 producing wells in the oil rtgion, and there are thousands of exhausted wells abandoned, with tbeir derricks slowly rotting. It is estimated that on the average three torpedoes have been put into every well drilled. Many wells are torpedoed pretty nearly every month for the purpose of cleaning away the paraffin e in the hole, opening fresh fissures la the rock, and thus maintaining the production of the well. The Meioc Well, on the McQuire farm. In

in district, near a uns vine,

twenty four times. Redoes were comparatively inj compared with those now in rpedoes with which Colonel (his first experiments la the ; .jo nvuuiu en wcib ecu mi, .'a tubes, from four to eix Inches and holding a few pounds of I These were lowered into the rovered with water, bo as to b force of the explosion from rd, and were fired by means of a ppped upon a fulminating cap Le tcpof the torpedo. Later on irine wis substituted for gun:.d the charge of explosive was in3T0 pcucds of nitro glycerine are iu:op. a lew aaye &?o suca a reek, and the explosion was felt for live yards on the surface around the le. The torpedo was down 1,000 feet Jarth. Thouand3 of pound3 of nitrce are daily need in the oil wells; inro glycerine was first brought into , use In the oil regions. In IS 17 irst discovered gun cotton. This liately followed by the discovery analogous explosive substances by the addition of various subas ttarch, dextine and sugar, -aixture of Ditric acid and sulphuric ' 2ie manufectare of nitro glycerine aücribcd 3 earjye3lS17. On July 25 .that year a paper was read before the inch Academy, detailing how to make pi glycerine an exf losiye "acalogotts to iminaling cotton." The process is to lid, density sixty nx degrees, Baume L J 1 t ! J I ' L uiu vüiuLue ux liiir.c &ciu, ueusuy loriyjree degrees, in afreezine mixture and into 's pour glycerine, with agitation so as to vent elevation of temperature. The enin mixture is then to be emptied into wati , The nitro-gljcerine collects as an oily i mid at the bottom of the water. Thrc bout tbe Oil Regions there are iPny lanufacturies cf nitro-glycenne. a -feu is ordered to be 'shot," a c istructed in numerous small öl artmcrit3. each large encush to iln intaining three or four pounds VplCi s ?t departsjrom the magazine Nan? nnartR nf nfrrn plrrprfna a. "J . I r--j - (f. At the well the contents of Nj ed into a long torpedo and xi o the hole. The greatest nvoid explcsicn, for tbe s A itli a very slight blow. J ave been numerous. ,000 pounds cf nitroi f ' it wot tr m t T ) ft present at the time he in, a few pounds a put in a bureau fctcd to tho action J tesni to be vapor.rf, thing to be noted iine .xplosions, i3 that the all in a downward dlrecan immeme hole in the drily afcer ths opening o! reek oil field, last fall, the 2 wpII vas drilled into the and proved to bo dry. There was arcely a tnce cf oil. On chance a 100quait torpid i was put into the well hole and fired. Thsrp wis a paute ot a few Beconda ai the "go devil" was descending the 1,000 edd feet beneath the surface. Then the ground around t oe well trembled, and the next second a column of yellow oil one-half a foot in diameter rose 100 feet in the air. So little hope had the owners of 'striking',' anything tha1. they had ommitted to erect any tankage, and for days the huge cil well played, ilocding the neighborhood. It has neen computed that it flowed as much as 10,000 barrels in the first twenty-four hours. EASTERN WaR AND WESTERN PRODUCE. There is a feverish inclination on the part of some to chanca a speculation upon the romuscf war between Great Britain and Russia. There may be moaey in investments in "futures," but this is by no means assured, and Punch's advice of "don't" to the man contemplating matrimony is our advice to these would-be speculators. A peneial war between the two great nations is not a certainty. Our reading of the situation in Afghanistan is not such as indicat93 a necessary collision between the Lion and the Bear. The Boundary Commission representing the two is etiil at work, and the chances are strong that an amicable adjustment cf the Eastern question will yet b8 arrived at. bhouI4 war be declared Western farmers will le largely benefited. Bat thould no war occur, the stakes put up on a great advance in produce will be lest "in a canter." So ouj advice to these itching to gamble in grain is wait. PEKSO.NALS. Fep.dina5d Wabd is gelling fat in Ludlow Street Jail, New Yorfc, The Rev. T. De Witt Talma;e and his family are to spend the summer in Europe. Secbktahy Espicott has leased Minister Pendleton's Washington house for four years. Postmaster Gfskral Vilas is negotiating for & lease of S. 8. Cox's house in Dupont Circle, Washing! o a. Oliver Wk.ndell Holm rs carries a horsechestnut in his peck et in full faith that it prevents rheumatsm. A YorxG Swede, of Spencer.. Wis., looked at the late eclipse of the sun without a smoked glass and lost one eye. The first euepiclon ever suggested that Colonel Bob Ingeisoll's head is not level crops out in the statement that he has an in tense craving to appear on the stage in the part of "Hamlet." C. L. DcBBAir, the business manager of Minnie Madders, is a newspaper writer of unusual vigor and beauty of style. In com pany with P. 0L Campbell, general manager of Cole's circus, he will start in the fall for a

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trip to London and Paris, where they will study the alumskand write sensational articles for tne American press. Cyecs W. Field went to New York as a poor boy fifty years ago this month. He proposes to shortly retire from active business in lavor cf his son Edwin, and take his family to Europe far a losg frolic The society papers are not marylng Chester A. Arthur so much as they were when he was President, but it goes without saying that when be hangs out his shingle he will be brother in-law to William Evarts. Consul Gesep.al Jcsex, appointed to Vienna, denies that he was favored by the influence cf his brother-in-law, Mr. Carl Schurz, ia securiDg the appointment, and that he neither asked nor received his recommendation. Ei-GovEEKOR Waller, of Connecticut, who goes as Consul General to London, used to tell newspapers in the streets of New York. That's where he developed the tuneful voice which has made him one of the foremost ttump speakers in New England. Miss Amanda Stokes, formerly an army nuree, died lately in Lebanon, O., aad in accordance with her last request, that she be buried with the honors of war, the members cf the Granville Thurston Post No. 21"., G. A. II., in their regalia and with the mutlled drums and Ha ehe loved, cecrted the remains to the church and thence to the cemetery, where they went through the solsmn rites usually erformed over the graye of a dead comrade. Tub late Mrs. Yulee, the wife cf ex-United States Senator Yulee, was once a beauty in Washington society, Yulee, au ungainly young man, eoucht her band, when she laughing replied that when Senator Yulee presented the suit she would csssent. He went at once to Florida, and was forgotten by the beauty. It was not long before he won his prize, and no one was more surprised than the lady herself when the Florida Senator claimed the fullfilment of her

promise. The New York Tribune says: The murder of the ycunc Englishman Preller. whose body has Just been found in a trunk In Kt. Louis. Is S3 mysterious as it Is atrocious. The murderer, uppeetd to bo Dr. Maxwell, must ccitaiuiy have known that his crime would speedily be discovered, for the trunk Trlth its gtesiiy contents was left ia his room in the hotel. indeed, tha eentence written on a bit of paper lyiLg on tbe dead man "So perish all traitors to tbe gieat eiae" may even be taken as an indi cation ihat he defired his victim's fate to be known. This writin? mizht be considered also as proof that the assassination was for political r;afcor.s, but nothin? else la the ca?e bears out this tiieorr. l'rellci's action and bazeazfl were those of an intelligent travelling ralesnian. Other ff aluris of tre titular story surest ih:it Dr. Maxwell v.as ft madman. The New Ycrk Sun eajs: v Tliera is iraniies'iy a very unfair diFi-osition on the pnrt of f evcral juiim! that do not approve of ( eitiiiu act3 of tofl f dministration to p'ace the bihine upon tbe slioiil lers of Seiretary Bayard. This is wrong:. We understand thai or evrvtbi::g done by this administration tbe Prts.dsnt hicittli wishes to be eouidered responsible Th? Philadelphia Presa says: The best pafesuard apainst cholera, yellow fsver ted tvtry other fpecies of diea.e is ciftuiiness cleanlii.ess not merely of rerjon aud appirel, but of air, food, water aud babita'iou. It must b3 acquired and maintained voluntarily, If the individual it 11 J, forcibly, if tbe aathoriiiea must. The Philadelphia Record says: The "respectable citizens" of CbiC4o are said to be xniMitatlns the establishment of a Visjilaaca committee. In other words, they propose to break the law in order to right wiouz whica have ariJH n br cause of their nezlec; to aid ia tho enfcrceiacnt of the law. The Syracuse Standard says: Almost everybody now favors woman suffrige except woman. Information Wanted. To the Editor of the Sentinel: BirI would like to inquire through your paper as to tne experience and results of feeding "oil cake mtal" to hogs. If any one who has tried it will state through this piper the results, it will greatly oblige HK5RY W. BADEKE2, ' Greensburg, April 14. Iter son's Work In Mississippi. I Clinton (Miss.) Sword and Shield.! Luther Benson ha3 closed his effective canvess in Mississippi, and has gone to hia home in Ladoga, Ind. Eternity alone will reveal the amount of good Mr. Benson did in our State. Many a fervent prayer has ascended the preat white throne for blessing to come and abide on him and his. Mr. Benson says the people of this State was uniformly good to him. We are glad he can eay this. None but people with bad, black hearts can dislike or be unkind to Luther Benson. Thousands of "latch strings" hang on the outside for him and his in Mississippi. Quarantine Against Plenro.f nenmonta. Toit.ka, Kas., April 15 In accordance with tbe recommendation ot the State Sinitaiy Live Stock Commission, and as a precautionary measure against tho introduction of pleuro-pnemonla, Governor Martin has ordered a quarantine of ninety days against cattle coming from the following localities: Tbe States of Connecticut, Pennlvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Viriuia, Ohio, Illinois, Kentacky, Teuresee, the Dürfet of ColumbJa, and tbat partcf New York lying sooth of the ncrthHceof the Stat ot Connecticut, and alo the counties cf Callaway. Boone, Andrian and Montgomery in Wifouri. He a'so directs tbat such cattle shall be permitted to enter the State only at Atchison, Leavenworth, Fort Scott and Kantas City. ! Ilmtal Cobbers. Mr. Xiox, O., April 15. About 12 o'clock last night masked thieves broke in a window of tbe house of Andrew Coleman, eight miles a:uth of this place. Coleman is a middleaged man and a cripple, and was unable to dtfend himself. He wai tied to the bed with h!s wife. A boy of ten was told to ehnw tbe robbers where the money was kept. He said be did not know. The thieves beat him brutally. The boy still protested. Tbe father, to save the boy, told tbe robbers to look in the bureau drawer. Tby found fl.KO. Alter mashing some furniture the thieves departed, taking a hor?e and bngjzy, which weie found near here th's morning. The boy is badly hurt. There were three thieves. . Manufactory Shut Down. Chicago, April 15. Adams & Westlike Manulactarine Company has shut dawn its works, throwing 050 man and boys out of employment. The employes contend that the shut-down was ordered with a view to rearranging the force at reduced wages.

THE HOTEL HOUUOIL.

Concluded from First Pas. money, and displayed plentf of cua. He also purchased several things, including a valnable field glass and a pair ot spectacle. The following disoatch was .re csivei today from Chief of Police Crowley, of San Francisco, by Chief of Pclice Harrigaa, of tbis city: "The man who owns the three pieces of bagzege as numbered in your dispatch arrived here on the 1 lib under the name of J. C. Deauquir. He claimed to be. a Frenchman an army ofiicer from Paris. He was the only oCicer who left St. Louis on the h, and croe through. He talked with an apparent French accent, but when spoken to in French always replied in Knglisb. My informnnt, who came on the train, says he believed tbe accent assumed. He answers your description perfectly except the cheek whiskers. He had a small light moustache and shcrt imperial, brown cutaway cat, vest and pacts nearly the eame color, broad brim liht drab b:it, dented in crown. He left on tbe Australian steamer in the sieera.ee for Auckland, Mew Zealand. He may leave the steamer at Honolulu. Eeaich your hotels and railroad oif;c?s for this name, and telegraph me if you can lind it. He can be arrested by telegraph if he gees through and don't land at Honolula." To this dispatcli Chief Harrlgan replied, directing Crawley to stop Deauquir by all means, he being in his opinion no other than Maxwell. Chief llarrigan has read dispatches I) cm other places in different parts of the country, but he gives little if any attention to them, believing that Maxwell went west frcm here and has been, or is still, In in San Francisco. The body of Preller was eipoied at the morgue all day to day. Th swelling, which at first distorted the features, hssbeen reduced by injection of Oriental fluid which also act j as a preservative. All the features are assuming a more natural appearance and begin to look more like Preller's picture than they did when the body was first found. Coroner Nidelet savs tbat under the present treatment the bedy will be preserved without further decomposition for days and perhaps weeks. No date has yet been fixed for the inquest. The stomach has not yet been analyzed, but will be ve-iy soon. A Unelness Man Who Came tn the teamer CerJhelonia With Maxwell and Prellnr. "Worcester, Mae3., April 15. The Gazette this afternoon has a story b sarin g on the St. Louis tragedy. W. E. Warren, a prominent business man here, came over on the CepheIonia with Maxwell and Preller. He says Maxwell wes twenty-eight or twenty-nine years old, weighed 131 pounds, had dark brown hair and red cheeks. When he came on the steamer he had a little whisker in front cf the ear and a moustache. Afterward he let his full beard grow, aud when Mr. Warren lapt saw him in Boston on Mcrch 21 he Lad a full beard of four weeks' growth. Ue e&id he had studied medicine in London, and had beea fin asifeta'it surgeon in a hospital there. He had a full casa of surgeons' instrumenta. He claimed to be a champion bicyclist cf En'aad. When last seen by Mr. Warren he apuetarei to have been indulging in stimulants". Mr. Watren bf s two letters from him in Boston, and one with the letterhead cf the Southarn Hotel, St. Loir.s, tiated April 7, two days Isttr than the date given of hisleivmg the home. In it he fays he is goinz to Sin Fianciecr. ;md if he finds no business there, to New Zealand. Pelier is describe 1 as thirty years old, weighing 170 pounds, well fcirufd, r.ice lookin with an olive or dark cotuj lexion and dark hair and mountac le. He appealed studious and reticient. and more Dtlemanly and cultured than MaxWell. Maxwell told Mrs Warren that he expected aid in getting employment in Sin Francisco through Preller's acquaintance with the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's officials. What a Bostunian Snows of Maxwell and Preller. Boston, April 15. A Mr. Powers, who knew Maxwell, the supposed murderer of C. A. Preller, while in this city, says he has a letter in his possession which was mailed by Maxwell from St. Louis, at G p. m., April G. It was ascertained that the day prior to his departure, Maxwell pawned his watch. When Preller left Boston it was understood that he and Maxwell were to meet at the Southern Hotel, in 81. Louis, and the date on wh?ch they were to be there was fixed upon. After Preller's departure they corresponded, and their letters were of a friendly mature. Maxwell was an inveterate smoker and drinker, but was seldom uader the influence of liquor. The etory that he was under the influence of liquor when he Ir ft Botcn, Is not true. When Maxwell werit away he said be was going to St. Louis, and should remain there until after he received money from England, when he would go with Preller to San Francisco. Maxwell was an intense hater of dynamiters, and I have heard him say "the whole crew ought to die." Prelier, on the other band, was somewhat in league with the dynamiters. He thought it was a huge joke because the House cf Parliament and Tower of London had keen blown up by the dynamiters, and there wes quite a little tilt between them over tbis outrage, which occurred during the time they were here in Boston. Prelier did not look like an an Englishman. He looked to me more lice a Jew, and had a Jewish no:-e. The Mjstery Will Probably be Cleared Up Soon. Philadelphia, April 15 Arthur Preller, wbos9 body is supposed to be that found in a trunk at the Southern Hotel, St. Louis, was in Philadelphia at least three times during the past three, years. A gentleman who had eoDce Information to give about Preller cal.'edat the British Consulate and was cloteted with Vice Consul Crump. Mr. Crump tald that he was not at liberty to give either the name of the visitor or the nature of the knowledge which he imparted. He said, however, tbat he thought ths mystery may be cleared up within a few days. Horrible Actions of an Insane Man, Utica, N. Y.t April 15 Geo. H. Humpa section hand on the New York Central Road, killed his ife and four days old chili near Indian Castle Church, Herkimer County, on Monday, and then committed suicide. He had been ir sane for several weeks and a watch had been placed over bis actions. On Monday afternoon tDe neighbor who was acting as guard heard screams in the house and eaw a peculiar Hash of fire, aud in company with another man broke into the house. The bulldins was filled with sulphur smote, but they succeeded in making their way to Mrs. Hurarfa bed room and fourjd a woman and child dying tn great agony. Tbe bed bad been saturated with keroeene and fired, and both victims were horribly burned. Bath of the baby's eye3 were burned out, and its bady was ah:ingly burned, as was the body of Its mother. The murderer had stabbed the child ia four places and cut the mother's throat. The infant 11 if i but a short time. Mrs. Hucupt

survived until 11 o'clock yeaterday. Search was made for Hcmpf aud hs was tracked by blcod marks to a room, through tbe ceiling ot which he had knocked a hole with an ax. He was found perched on the joists with a shovel in his hands to defend himself. A wire was thrown ever his leg bywhiclilis was hauled down. He died soon afterward from the less of blood, having cut his own throat. SENTINEL SPECIALS.

Ititllroad Election. Special to the Sentinel. Washim.toj, led., April 15. Ths electxn ordered for the purpose of determining whether or not the townships of Washington, Steele and Elmore would pay the tax asked fcr by the L, W. and P. Kiilraad was held yesterday and resulted as follows: In Washington Township votes were ctf t for the appropriation and 3D0 against it: in Sieele Township, 175 votes for and 9 votes against, and in Elmore Township 113 yotss for and :;" against it. President Mackey was in this city yesterday. It is understood that he starts to-day to New York to make contracts for the necessary rolling stock for the road. It iamdvettised that the road will be completed through this county In time lor the farmers to ship their watermelons. As the part of the county through which. this read will extend is well adapted to tho raising of this fruit, an unusually lara acreage of watermelons will doubtless he planted this year. Colambui Not. Bpcciai to the Sentinel. CoLvau:cä, Ind., April 15. John D. Lyle and Joe F. Gent returned last night from a three days' hunt cf the Gaff farm, in Benton County. They brought back twenty-five geece acd threo large swans. The city Democratic primary election was held here yesterday and a full vote was polled. David Neweom was nominated for Mayor: Patrick Ha?carty, Marshal; John Mahoney. Treasurer; O. M. Palmer, Clerk, and Jce F. Gent Water Works Trostes. Tha Republicans will nominate a ticket on Saturday. Three Children Nearly suffocated. Ppedal to the SentlnsL Sheletvill, Ind., April 15. About 1 o'clock yesterday Mrs. Dixcn Hunter, who lives at Waldron, a few miles east of this city, went away frcm home, leaving her three children in the house. In the evening when si e returned ehe found the house- on fire and the three childien insensible fram ullcaticn. They were resuscitated with difficulty. The fire was extinguished without much damage. Arrested on a Charge of Forgery. Special to the Sentinel. Mali?o.v, In-L, April 15. A young man, ramcd C. J. Hartly, arrived at Vevay a few days zo ud opened a school in penmanship. To day SherilT A. M. Lewis, of Warleu Coucty. Ohio, ar.d a defective arrive! aLd arrested Hartly. He J3 cSarired with rj ßhd hss eludtd arrest for live years. His real name is said to be Frank Carwin. Lincoln Pi emortal Services. SmiNonzLP. 111., April 15. Owing to the very unpropiticus weather the Llnoin memciial services were not attended by nearly to large a concourse cf people as was expected. Arrangements had been maJ3 for a large number cf people, but thy did not ccme. All ths surrounding town3 and citiee, however, were re presented. The rain poured incessantly nearly all day, and the original programme cf marching out to tha cenetery had to be abandoned. Thesarvicf s were held in the State-hcute, and the prcgiauime conrs'.ed of music bv various bards, a speech cf welcome by Governor Oglesby, and a3dies;es by Senator L pan, General Sherman aud others. Letters of regret were read from President Cleveland, ex-President Arthur, Robert Lincoln and ex-Pesideat Hayes. The Committee on Decorations, accompanied by a band of music, went ont to the cemetery aad deposited a 11 oral tribute on Lincoln's grave. This was all that was dsn e at the csmetery. Sporting Propositions. Niw York, April 15 Ths Spirit of ths Times will publish in its next issue a communication from John Murphy, the trottinghorse driver, in reply to a proposition he has received frora Mr. William C. Fracces. Mr. Murphy has deposited with the editor of that paper f 1,250 forfeit for a match fcr $2,500 each In harness between the horns Maxey Cobb and Harry Wilkes, tke race to be trotted any day after September I, tha dale being fixed to late because Mr. Murphy desVres to first try to beat the best time with Maxey Cobb. Murphy deposits a like sum for a match wagon between a pair, the get of Happy Medium, and a pair got by George Wlikes, the race to be trotted two weeks after the other, and the pairs to De named on the date of the signing of the agreement. Theee prepositions will remain open one week from this week. The II alters Win Their strike. South Norwalk, Conn., April 15. Tbe hatters' strike has finally ended.the contending parties assenting to terms cf settlement agreed upon by a committee cf arbitration, which was appointed some time ago. The announcement tbat the manufactarers had ccme to terms, was mads on the streets this morning, and great enthusiasm has prevailed all day Binary the strikers.' The raanufacture:s have agreed substittally to tho demands of their workmen. Wage? are not to be reduced after the beginning of a seaton, disputes about w2es are to be referred to a committe of arbitration, and all the strikers are to be reinstated. Will Draft a w Karl Law. AiuAXY, N. Y., April 15. At acau:us cf tte Assembly to day it was decided to a;point two members of each legislative district, one Democrat and one P.paolic4n, to act es a comnrsiion to draft en excia-i la-w which will be acceptable to bnh tUe people and the P-iior interests. Drowned hj tn cii1ii; of ihm Uo&t. EvA5viti i, Ind., April 15 Mary Draper, her daughter, aj;ed eleven, and her niece Carolina Dempsey, twelve yfars old, while xlcatiLg down the river, to day, lu an opa-i beat composed of two skifTs lashed together, were drown by the beat capiz"-g. INDICATIONS WA--HintiTo. April Ii 1 a. m. Tor Ue Ohia Valley and Tenceaee Lcal showers followed by fair weather, variable winds generally easterly In tbe Ooio Valley, albjht changes In temperature. For the Upper Lake Region Local tho wart followed by fair weather, north to east winds. b comla; vaxlabte. lower barometer, alixal rise la. texapetatare.