Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 139, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1885 — Page 4

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THE IKDIAXTAFÜIilß SENTINEL' TUESDAY HORNING MAY 19 1885

TUESDAY, MAY 19. OFFIOK: 71 and 73 VTttt Market Streat.' RATES OF SUBSCRIPIIOX. Indianapolis Sentinel for 1885 Dally. Sanday und Weekly Editions. DAILY. Delivered by carrier, per week....-...! 25 Dally. Including Sunday, per -week . SO Dally, per annum, by malL, . 10 00 Daily, per annum, by nail. Including Sunday, by nalL...... 12 00 Dally, delivered by carrier, per annum....-. 12 00 Dally, delivered by carrier, per annum, inclndlng 8nDdEj.w...... 14 CO Dally, to newsdealers, per copy 3 SUNDAY. Sunday edition of eighty-four columns 1! CO Sunday Sentinel, by carrier..... 2 50 To newsdealers, per copy-..-...-.. ... 3 WEEKLY. Weekly, per annum. j s l 00 The postage on subscriptions by mail Is prepaid by the publisher. Newsdealers supplied at three cents per copy. Posta ee or other charges prepaid. Entered as second-class matter at the Postoffice at Indianapolis, Ind. More new Pest master were appointed yesterday. Consent. Shall we have ft new Senator from Illinois to-day? General Logan has the front seat on the anxious bench. A Republican newspaper correspondent was discharged from one of the Washington departments yesterday. The solid South Is in the side-saddle, says the Macon Telegraph, because the new Postmasters in that region are mostly women. The Mormons and bloody-shirt editors have decided that Mr. Cleveland is "a disappointment." Well, he can not please everybody. It is gratifying to announce that the latest telegrams indicate & decided abatement of the ravages of typhoid fever at Plymouth, Pa. No deaths were reported yesterday, or any new cages. r Conundrum for the republican organs: Do you consider the Postmaster who waa caught selling for waste paper German Telegraph! which were sent to him for delivery to subscribers an "offensive partisan?" In the new version of the Old Testament "vanity and vexation of spirit" (Ecclestates ii., IT) has become '-vanity and a striving alUr wind." Borne cf the Bourbon Republican organs might adopt th!s as a motto for serious cogitation. It describes their frantic efforts in certain directions to a dot. Bob Ingkbsoll worked off his old in&del lecture on "Blasphemy" laat Sanday in Chicago. What has become of that European tour that he and Dorsey were lo take? Bob's originär ideas on infidelity will be recognized in many European countries ai the tame old creeds of Voltaire, Rousieau & Co. It is understood that as soon a3 the Illinois Senatorshlp question is settled President Cleveland will at once appoint a Chicago Marshal &a well as a number of Collectors and Postmasters in that State. One or more important foreign positions, to which Illinois is considered to be entitled, will also be awarded.

The resignation of Mr. Burke of the Directorship General of the New Orleans Exposition Is said to be due to the fact that he has become involved financially through assuming obligations in behalf of the great fair which he had reason to expect the Government would discharge. The decision of the Attorney General which declared that no part of the $350,000 recently appropriated by Congress should be used in the payment of the Louisiana creditors has proved a serious blow to Major Burke. There must have been an alliance between the weather and the coal dealers which has not yet expired. Here, within a fow days ot June, the black Hag was hnng out from the Signal Office yesterday, and though pedestrians were perspiring in the forenoon, eight found them wrapped in overcoats. It is bnt fair that the coal yards shut their yard gates now and give the sun-shade and fan dealer and soda water and ice cream vendors a ch&trce. This must be dene or we shall apply for an injunction against the coal men. BEFORE CLEVELAND CAMS IN. . "Don't turn them out,' exclaims the New York Tribune in effect, when It claims for the Republican department clerks efficiency, industry, etc. Now comes a Washington special to a Chicago Bourbon Republican organ, which opens up one of the offices that &11 may sef how it was operated under Republican masagament. It seems that the Sixth Auditor's office, like that of the S3coud Comptroller of the Treasury, has long been lino to as one of the m-.at delightful places for a lazy clerk that the Government has at its disposal. The work in that bureau is what is technically known as "quarterly TTOrk." Under the old regime it was so divided among the clerks as to give each one what was supposed to ba a good three months1 allowance each quarter. It was a dull clerk who could not after a year's experience do his quarter's work in eevea or eight weeks, and have the remainder of the time virtually to himself. This was especially trca of what is called the stating division, where a force of probably fifty clerks was employed. The chief wis an easy going, kiad-heaxted man, who aiked no questions, tut allowed his clerks to do w they chocs, provided the work of one quarter waa ringed before that of another began. The correspondent once visited the division to obtain com3 information. The clerk &d drrrd had an immense number of accoonta piled op cn his desk. He wrj smoking a cijir cad deeply Ints re:t:d in a novel he had

In his band. "How can yon Mod time to read when you have so much werk on band?" was asked. "Oh, that's only a blind," answered the clerk, indicating the pile as he spoke. "I cleaned those up last quarter, but you see I have to make a pretense of doing something for fear the Auditor might drop in and get on to my little game." This young man wa3 drawing a salary of $1 C00 a year, and confidentially informed his visitor that be had five weeks remaining in the quarter without so much as an hour's werk to occupy his attention. His case may be taken as a fair sample ot all the others. According to his own statement he could bribe a messenger with a dollar occasionally to report him present at 9 o'clock each morning. He would then drop in at 10 or 11, and read or write until lunch time. He would then go out at noon and remain until nearly 4 o'clock, when he woald return to the building in time to join the other clerks at tha close of office hours. The new Sixth Auditor Is rapidly changing the order of things. It is not surprising that Cleveland's administration is an unpopular one with the clerks in that office.

SENTINEL ECHOES FROM THE PAST. A long time subscriber to the Indianapolis Sentinel has laid upon the editor's desk several copies of the paper of February, Marchand April, 1851 more than thirtyfour years old. Of course the Sentinel files are even older, but these copies are the more interesting from having been preserved by a reader for so long a time. The copies before us are of semi-weekly edition, four pages of six columns each. The name of Austin H. Brown appears as publisher, and that of his father, W. J. Brown, now deceased, as editor. The railway time card at that era did not take up a column. We find but one announcement, that of the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad, by John Brough, President, and reading: "On and after Monday next, the 30th inst., the passenger trains will leave Madison and Indianapolis, respectively, at fifteen minutes before 8 o'clock a. m., and arrive at the same places at 1 o'clock p. in." An Ohio River Packet Line and the Wabash and North White River stago lines are advertised. Then, as now, the temperance question was being discussed with a gusto. The Fugitive Slave bill was up in Congress, with George W. Julian and Jesse D. Bright conspicuous talkers upon it. A publication of census statistics of Indiana showed the total number of newspaper to have been OS; circulation, 07,924; population, 90,233; number of families, 1S7.G18. A new State Constitution was about being submitted for the ratification ot the people, and a provision in it prohibiting the farther immigration of persons of color to Indiana was exciting earnest debate. Some of the names appearing in the old prints are quite familiar yet. An advertisement announces a law partnership between "Lucian Barbour and Albart G. Porter." Certain market quotations are "corrected weekly by S. A. Fletcher, Exchange Broker." Mention is made of Joseph E. McDonald as having been "a faithful and popular Representative in the l&3t Congress." The 8entineJ, even in that long agofavored the advancement of wore an to the snhere to which she is entitled, and so was eulogizing Robert Dale Owe a for his eloquent championship of woman in the Ccnstitutional Convention which had just adjourned. Thirty-four years 9go the Bentinel was under the necessity, as it still often ie, of lecturing its neighbor, the Journal, upon the evil of "squinting." Here is a paragraph copied from the Journal into the Sentinel of March 22, 1851, with the Sentinel's replyhow much it reminds of the present anxiety of the Journal for civil service reform since the late ascendency of the Democratic administration: "The Democratic Congress, just adjourned, refuted to confer on General Scott the title of Lieutenant General for fear that it might aid his eiec tlcn to the Presidency! Let that bo remembered by the people. They will determine to confer upon him a title far above any in the power of Ccngres to bestow. 'Indiana Journal. A treat change has been going ou in the Whig mind for rome time past as to the necessity tor this office. When Mr. Polk thought such an office necessary, during the Mexican war, the Whiss in a body vc ted against it. Now that they wish to add a high-sounding title to their Presidential candidate, when there Is nothing to do, they are all in lavor of It, except, however, a few Silver Grey Whigs, who thought the General might be satisfied with his laurels and $3,030 a year. Sentinel. Here is an advertisement: James Snodgras?, attorney at law; by profession printer; by trade telegraph operator, and Postmaster by appointment. Will ba found at all times on hand for business In either of the above callings. None bat office business attended to." The news was received by the Sentinel thirty-four years ago by "magnetic telecr&pb," the nearest office of which was at Madison. The dispatchea were quite brief compared with the service of to day. The difference between the heavy, labored style of writing of that day is in decided contrast with the effervescent style of to-day. ALL WRONG AS USUAL. The Bourbon Republican organs from the earlier days cf the administration have been detected in many false and oöensive statements regarding Mr. Cleveland and matters connected with the administration. Not to put too delicate a point to it they simply lied very frequently. We have given instances time and again of this tendency to misrepresent and falsify. The President and Senator Blackburn had an interview a few days ago, and the following account appeared in the Commercial Gazette the next day, and yesterday morning we tied it in the Journal of this city. It is a daisy in its way and suggests that the author was in a high state of fermentation when he wired It westward. Sample it: Senator Joe Blackburn hsd a highly inflammatory interview to day with the President, lie s s that be read the riot act to Mr, Cleveland", and all evidences are corroborative of his declaration. He told the President that all his Kentucky appointments had been mistakes; that everjtoing he had done in the way ot appointments had been an insult and an outrage to the delegation from Kentuciy. and be went for Mr. Cleveland and his administration in a high-handed and not altogether pious way. Mr, Cleveland listened pa

tiently to the Senator's lurid speech, and finally said: "Mr Blackburn, wat can I do for you?" Senator Blackburn replied: "Mr. President, you can do as you d d please," and turning about, marched out. Mr. Blackburn has written a long letter denouncing tbe administration, but it has been withheld for three days. It will probably see light soon. Prudent and careful journalism would suggest the waste basket for such drivel. A day or two after the foregoing appeared, another account was sent to the Commercial Gazette from Washington concerning the same interview. The Journal should copy it also, but we very much doubt its doing so. The special is dated Washington, May 17, and reads as follows: The Post says: "Stnator Blackburn, of Kentucky, felt the rejection of his brother for Collector of Internal Revenue in Kentucky sorely, but bore the matter calmly and silently. Some daye alter the Cabinet decided his brother's case adversely, the Senator wrote the President a note, asking wben it would be convenient for an interview at the White House. The President promptly responded, and the meeting took place Friday morning. Senator Bleekburn stated to the I 'resident that it seemed to him that the administration waa cot disposed to regard his ingestions In Kentucky matters, and that henceforth he had no favors to ask. and that he would wait and let matters develop without his interference. He said, furthermore, that it was not his Intention to make a factious fight upon the administration, but In the future he would stand in a position to indorse such appointments as he saw Aland proper, and to oppose these that did not meet with his approval "lhe President, it Is understood, replied to the Senator in a dignified and deliberate way, Eaylng that there was no disposition upon the part of the administration to antagonize or to part conipanv with him, but, upon the contrary, his advice would receive respectful consideration, and Kentucky appointments in the future, us in the past, would be mue without feeling or prejudice, and for the go-d of the State and party. "After a full review of the field, it is stated that the Senator and the President came to an asreeible understanding, and eeoarated friendly enough fc rail practical purpoes." Senator Blackburn has emphasized the factonoieor two occasions that the most cordial relationship exists between Mr. Cleveland and himself. We call attention to these matters, not because they are especially important of themselves but simply to call attention to the unreliability of many of the Washington correspondents of the Bourbon Republican organs. They have determined to see no good in Mr. Cleveland, and they propose to lie about him and his movements whenever it will serve their purposes.

An article on "The Preaident'and the Senate" the St. Louis Republican concludes as follows: "The simplo Democratic rule is the wisest, fairest and best to confirm all appointments of a Republican President, except where the appointee is especially objectionable. This rule is based upon the principle that when the President is a Republican he has a right to Republican assistants and subordinates, and a Republican administration and Democrats have no alternative but to await their turn. The Republican Senate will do well to adopt the rule. Their party is out of power; the country is Damocratio and has chosen a Democratic President. This Democratic President is charged with the duty of executing the laws, and should be permitted to choose his own subordinates for the work." SPIRIT OF TUE SIATE PKE8& The Indianapolis Journal says Judge Gooding is at Washington to secure an office. If he is, he is doing just right, for hia labors in the past years in the cause of Democracy entitle him to marked consideration at the hands of the present administration. He- is qualified to fill any position within Mr. Cleveland's gift. Hancock Democrat. This is a big country of ours and official patronage has increased to a wonderful extent since James Buchannan let go the helm. Cleveland and his advisers are inclined to moye slow in removals, and this plan will commend itself to the Democracy the more they familiarize themselves with the magnitude of the undertaking. New Castle Democrat. From all parts of the country come assurances that the new Democratic admlnistra. tion has given the people hops and promise of a new era in politics and better times in the future. Everything seems to have got ten out of fix; the Government and social machinery have gone wrong; and the business and labor of the country are paying the penalties of vicious legislation and methods of wrong living. Shelby Volunteer. An effort is being made to induce the President to give Fred Grant an appointment in the army. It strikes us the young man should be allowed to shift for himself. He was in the army once, and resigned to enter business, and having failed, desires to get back into the former place. Fred is a decided failure, and his rich father-in-law, not the Government, shonldpecsion the young man. Miami County Sentinel. The Republican papers are attacking General John C. Black, the newly-appointed Pension Commissioner. The head and front of General Black's offending is, that, although he was one of the bravest soldiers in the Federal army, was wounded in both arms, and is a pure man, ho is a Democrat. The patty that honored the rebel cut-throat Mosby, of Fort Pillow Infamy, and the rebel General Longstreet, should give the Union soldier a chance. Wells County Times. It appears that the Cincinnati Enquirer ii disposed to enter the lists as an anti-administration Democratic organ. Everybody who is acquainted with the Enquirer's method has long since been able to measure its devotion to the administration by the amount of personal profit which Mr. McLean could get out of the administration. During the campaign the Enquirer kept its sails so trimmed that it was always ready to take to any breeze that might promise a prosperous voyage and a profitable landing. As a con sequence Enquirer stock is not at a premium in administration circles. Revenge being next to gain the thing most prized by the Enquirer its. position a& an anti-administration paper neither surprise nor discourage anybody. Paoli News. Wk hare lately seen great stress put upon reasons for the removal of Republican Postmasters, the principal one of which seems to be, they acted in a partisan manner and took important parts in political gatherings, nominating con vent ion i, etc Well, we guees that is why they were appointed; it

takes an intelligent man to be a good party leader. And we believe the deoosed Postmasters' places will be filled with men who have rendered good eerrice. That's why they will be appointed; that is why the present holders were appointed. Civil service reform has but one advantage, i. e., it enables a Congressman to refer a persistent individual without political influence to a strict examination for an office he is never destined to fill, because the astute Congressman has already used his personal influence in another's behalf. Fountain and Warren Democrat.

TER SOX ALS. Joe Jefferson says there is no foundation for the report that he will play in London next season. Shakespeake, not the bard of Avon, but a Democrat, has been appointed Postmaster, at Kalamazoo, Mich. United States Minister Pheli-s' lines on the Essex Junction are printed by the last number of London Truth and pronouncsd "clever." Tue will of General Gordon leaves the whole of hia property to his sister, Mary A. Gordon. The personalty is rated ander $11,500. Mrs. Tom Thum it, now the Countess Msgri, wears for shoes a child's No. 5, and the Count wears a child's No. 8. The midgets sailed for Europe last Saturday. Ouray, Colo., is proud of its Mayor, who, the local paper says, is plain and unpretending, wears his hat on the back of his head, and spells "Council" with a "K.n Miss Dora Miller, young, beautiful, an heiresp, and the only child of Senator Miller, of California, is soon to be married to Lieutenant Richard Clover, of the navy. A complimentary family dinner was tendered to Robert C. Winthrop at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, last Wednesday, which was his seventy-sixth birthday. It is taid that Minister Foster, having completed his mission to Spain, will resign in a few weeks, and ex-Governor Thomas C. Reynolds, of Missouri, will be appointed to his place. When Mr. Cleveland wont to select a pew in the Washington church which ha attends he was asked what part of the building he would like to sit in. "Well," he said, "I don't want to be so near the minister that be can see whether or not I am listening." London Vanity Fair (Tory) thinks it a great mistake that only one side of the picture the pleasant one was offered to the public as regards the Prince of Wales' Irish visit. The Royal party were not generally well received in Cork and Kerry. "Why," asks Vanity Fair, "was the story of the little coffin thrown into the royal carriage wholly suppressed?" There are good mothers in England. Lady Portsmouth is canvassing the electors of the new South Molton Division of Derbyshire on behalf of her Eon, Lord Lymington, the selected Liberal candidate. She has attended several public meetings, and is stated to have delivered eome effective speeches. Lord Lymington, who recently married a Quakeress, is meanwhile on his honeymoon tour. The Commander-in-chief of the Afghan army wears a crimson uniform coveied with gold facings,, and a black helmet. Gholam Hyder Chirki is a man of great stature, resolute looking, and of commanding appearance. He is a Ghilzai of the district lying between Ku&hi andGhanzi, his native village being Chirk, hence his distinctive name Chirki to distinguish him from numerous other Gholam Hyders. He played a leading part in the first fights about Kabool. It ceems that precautions are taken on the Potomac at the very spot where the water is diverted for the supply of Washington City, to pollute it with the drainage of pig and cattle and human hog pens. There has been a watchman employed at this spot, and he has confined his exertions to doing what he could to dirty the water. Still, American citizens talk with a good deal of complacency of the uncleanliness of other people. Commercial Gazette, Dickens has been very much criticised for his apparent acceptance of the fact of spontaneous combustion, but Sir William Gall lately testified to a surprising case before the committee of 'the House of Lords on intemperance. A large, bloated man, who was suffering from difficulty of breathing and great distention cf the venous system, died at Guy's Hospital. At the post mortem of the following day there was no sign of decomposition, and the body was believed to be distended with gas. "When punctures were made into the skin," said Sir William, "and a lighted match applied, the gas which escaped burned with the ordinary flame of carburetted hydrogen. As many as a dozen of these small flames were burning at the same time." Tb Honeymoon 22arely Over and the liride Wants a Divorce. Special to the Sentinel. Shklbyville, Ind., May IS. Mattie E. Stnckler to-day filed a suit for divorce from Martin V. 8 trickier and for 53,500 alimony. The parties have only been married about eighteen months, and she charges him with cruel and inhnman treatment. The defendant is a well known and well-to-do young business man in the west part of the county. Supposed to be Fatally Shot. Special to the Sentinel. Wabash, Ind., May IS. This afternoon William Weisel, a quarryman, was fatally shot by a fellow laborer with whom he was scufiling, the ball entering Weisel'a nose and lodging against the interior wall of the skull. Both men were intoxicated at the time, and the shot Is believed to have been accidental. Weisel refused to permit a surgeon to probe for the ball. The Daum Extradition Case. ToaoNTO, May 18. A motion was made at Osgooda Hall, to day, in the Baum extradition case, for the discharge of the prisoner, who is held in the Chatham Jail under a warrant of extradition to Dallas, Tex., for arson and forgery. Judgment was reserved.

A SLAUGHTER.

The Horrid Deeds or a Bloodthirsty Indianian. A Desporado Kills a Man at the Card Tabln and Then Härders Four More Persona tn Order to Escape. (Louisville Post, May, 13. The story of the murder of five people near Birdseye, Ind., a little station on the AirLine Road, was brought to the city this morning. A reporter of the Post met a gentleman hailing from that place at the Howard House. The story of the wholesale murder, as detailed to a reporter of the Post, is this: Last Saturday week a man named William Wallers, who is known to all that section of the country as a desperate man, entered into a game cf poker with a man named John Bladsoe. The game was conducted in a room, the only other occupant or eye witness being a man named Slocum. The game began late, and the room was located in a house in a secluded section outside the village. Bladsoe was playing a bluff game, and at one point when wallers raised him a dollar, he threw out a gold $10 piece. Wallers called him. When he saw that the bluff did not work, Biadaoe picked up his piece of money from the table and started to leave. He had hardly gotten up from his seat when Wallers was on bim with a large bowie knife, plunging it into his body. Bladsoe was killed instantly, and Wallers, accompanied by Slocum, left the house. The murder was of course a mystery, and a reward of several hundred dollars was offered by the citizens for the apprehension of the murderer. Fearing Slocum would be induced by the reward to blab the secret. Wallers went in search of him last Tuesday and shot him through the body, near the grave where hss first victim was buried. He then made his escape, and was pursued to his home by Joe Slick and his brother, two very respectable men of that part of the .country. He was cornered at his home, and opened fire on the two men, killing them both. He then made his escape and was not heard from anain till last Saturday. His wife was found in her home, with her throat slit from ear to ear. It is tiiought that the desperado, fearing that his wife would divulge some important information she possessed concerning him, returned in the night and committed this fifth murder to escape capture for the other four. When the reporter's informant passed through that section yesterday a posse of citizens were out searching the country for the villain, and mob law is threatened in case he is captured. SENTINEL SPECIALS. Death of Krg, Walker. Special to the Sentinel. Muncie, Ind., May IS. The news of the ead death of Mrs. Gertrude Ethell,wife of Barclay Walker, and only daughter of N. F. Ethell, editor of the Daily News, of this place, caused a profound sorrow in this city when announced this morning. She died at her home at Indianapolis, where she hadbut a few months ago gone to share the happiness of an affectionate husband as she wasan affectionate wife. Here she was regarded in the highest esteem, claiming ail for her friends. She was a most intelligent and accomplished woman. Her husbend, Barclay Walker, is a well known musician of Indianapolis. The funeral will take place from the residence of her parents.in this city, on Wednesday afternoon, and will no doubt be attended by a large number of sorrowing friends, including many from Kansas, Indianapolis and elsewhere. Bloch' Retrial Postponed. Special to the Sentinel. Greensbcro, Ind., May 13. Judge Berkshire failed to come to Greensburg to-day to commence the Block trial. In deference to the wishes of Senator Voorhees the cause was continued till July C Mr. Block has shown a great anxiety for the trial to proceed at once. He has been to-day in consultation with his attorneys, Judge Cullen, Jesse Spann and J. K. Ewing, and allowed the liberty of the Court-house and the Hotel de Armond, under tbe charge of the young son of the Sheriff, Giant Welsh. Mr. Black is hopeful of an ecouittal, and to some of ,his friends was heard to quote, with much feeling, the following lines: "What is the use of repinlnz, Fcr where there's a will there's a way? To-morrow the sun may be shining, Although it is cloudy to-day." Colnmbus Notes. Special to the Sentinel. Columbus, Ind., May 13. Frank T woo my, a brakeman on the J., M. and I main line freight, had an arm crushed while coupling cars here to-day. There was a bloody fight here on Saturday night, in which William Burrell received injuries that may prove fatal. One of the parties who did the bloody work is under bond, but the others have skipped out to await the result of the wounds they cave Burrell. Colonel George Palmer, who has baen very low with typhoid fever, is able to be out again. Bass fishing is very fine in the White River in this county at the present time. One party took twenty-ssven and another seventeen a few days ago. Hnrglary-Struck by a Train. Special to the Bentlnei. Tipton, Ind., May 18 On Saturday night thieves gained an entrance to the cloihing store of Mösts Haas, and stold about $100 worth of clothing, and fearing detection, after gaining the suburbs of the town, set fire to it and burned it up. No clue to the robbers. Last night, about midight, the south-bound train, while nearing the Tipton Junction, ran over a man who was in a state of intoxication. He was sitting on the ties asleep. He claims to have lived in the county about live years and answers to the name of William Galbeth. He at present lies in a critical condition at the Poor Farm, with his head badly crushed and left leg broken below the knee in two places. His recovery is doubtful. Chambers A snin Arrested. 8peclal to the Sentinel. Bloom ington, Ind., May 13. Chesley Chambers was arrested yesterday on the charge ef assault with intent to kill Davis, the first charge being for assault with intent to kill, when he was placed in jail last night and brought before Mayor Mulky this afternoon to be arraigned. When he pleaded not guilty his attorneys waived a preliminary trial on both charges, and hia trials go ever to the Saotembsr teroi ot Court, His

bail in the last cast was fixed at 515.CO0 making 520,000 in all. He has almoit completed his bond and will be free until September, unless again arrested on the charge of robbing the Express Company. INDICATIONS.

Washington, May 1. 1 1. ra. For the Ohio Valley and Tennessee C'oMer, partly cloudy weather and occasional; rains, an J northeasterly winds, higher barometer. Per the Upper Lake Region Generally mr weather, northwesterly w.'ndt, albzhtljcooler In the southern portion, slightly warmer la the northwestern portion. IV Ii I TING AttAlX. He Gets Springer's Revolver, and Swears Eternal Enmity. Frank Whiting is a young man whoss sole aim in life is to be a tough, and that he ha nearly reached the acme of his ambition none will dispute. Frank bobs up serenely sgain, coming to the front once more in connection with his deadly enemy, William Springer, of Haughville. Whiting, it will be remembered, attempted to kill Springer a short time ago, and beside receiving a bullet in the leg was sent to jail for six months. The trouble aros6 over Mrs, Springer, who was at one time Whiting'e legal wife, but who procured a divorce when that festive young gentleman was "railroaded" for grand larceny and burglary jjome four years ago. As soon as he was released Whiting returned to Indianapolis and attempted to induce her to desert Springer and live with him, but in this be failed. Heat once decided that Springer must die, and undertook the aiduous task of ending William's earthly career, but made a complete failure of it, as aboye stated. Frank did not eerve out his jail sentence, but was released before the expiration of the same on condition that he would leave the city. He failed to fulfil hia promise, however, and, it seams, has been hovering about Haaghville since his releate. Yesterday afternoon h gained access to the residence of Springer and made off with that gentleman's revolver, declaring to acquaintances shortly after he came out of tbe house, that he intended to kill the owner of the weapon before night. This declaration soon came to Springer's ears and quite worried him. He immediately telephoned to the Central Station for police protection, and officers hurried out to Haughville, Instituting a vigorous ECarch for the murderous Whiting, but were unable to effect his capture. At laut accounts Springer was still alive, but it is more than likely he slept with one eye open laat night. Strenuous efforts to apprehend Whiting will be made again to-day, and for the gocd of the commnitv at large, it Is to ba hoped they will be attended with success. A DESPEU TE ATTEMPT By a Melancholy Tramp to -Escape Work on the Stono Pile, Karly yesterday morning a man was found locked in an L., X. A. and C. freight car and was taken before the Mayor on a charge of vegrancy. Being convicted, a .fine was assessed against him, and haying no money, he was taken to the jail and thence to the atone pile with other prisoners. During the day he complained of being sick and unable to work, bat as this is a favorite excuee with the tramp species, no attention was paid to his assertions, and be was compelled to work with the ctner prisoners. Between o and 4 o'clock in the afternoon he succeeded in getting hold of a piece of hoop iron, and with this instrument made a most desperate attempt to commit suicide by cutting his throat. He succeeded in making a gash some two inches in length just above the larynx, cutting entirely oeaaphagus but missing the main arteries. He was removed in the Cilv Hospital and his wound attended te. It was found that he could eat nothing, and communication with him could he held only in writing. He gave his name as William Shonssy, and he said, or rather wrote, that bis home was at Monon. A physician in chaige at the Hospital eaid that the wound was a very dangerous one. and the recovery of the patient extremely problematical. PROBABLY FATAL ACCIDENT. Johnnie Mann Accidentally Shoots Himself With a Revolver. Johnnie Mann, the nine-year-old son of Patrick Mann, residing on West Washington street near the I., B. and W. crossing, was the victim, at a late hour yesterday evening, which will no doubt result fatally. While alone in the house the lad secured his father's revolver and succeeded in discharging it in such a manner as to receive the contents of the cartridge in the left breast, just underneath the heart, the ball penetrating the pericardium and making a fatal wound. At 1 o'clock this morning the lad was unconscious and occasionally vomiting blocd, the pbyaician. Dr. Cal Fletcher, expressing the opinion that the probabilities of recovery are all against him. Nothing is known of the manner in which the accident occurred, but the supposition Is that the lad was attempting to raise the hammers cf the weapon with the mozzo pointed directly toward his breast. Mr. Mann is employed by the I., B. and W. Railroad in the capacity of Eection boss. Mr. Sackett Buys It Ie Safe. With reference to the action of the Council directing the City Eoginccr to examine the lower room of the Dime Museum with a view to ascertaining whether or cot it is in a safe condition. Manager Sackett tajs that there are altogether four double doors in the bnildiDg which swiDg outward two on Washington and two on Teenneesee street, and further that the room can bs emptied of the largest crowd within thrae minutes time. The Light Artillery. The Indianapolis Light Artillery will reach heme this morning, comiLg over the Big Four from Cincinnati. A reception has been arranged, and the visitors will be welcomed at the depot by a number of citizsos and the feveral military organizations of the city. The company will reach here at a. m., and the military companies are rfqoeeted tj meet at the Light Infantry Armory, Masonic Temple, at U o'clo:k sharp. A Two-Headed Calf A cow belonging to Henry Briitow, a farmer living five miles from the city, on the Bluff Road, gave birth to a calf yesterday with two perfectly-formed heads, joined at the neck. The faces are almost directly opposite; the mouths, eyes and ears are perfectly formed and in all respects natural. The calf died a few minutes after birth, aod was skinned and will be stuffed and piacaa on exhibition.