Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 31, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1885 — Page 1

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VOL. XXXI--NO. 20. INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1885. WHOLE NO. l,oS7.

COMMISSIONER EATON.

"What Ixzn Saict Hiiiks cf thi Civil Service Apostle. Be Describes Iii Examination and the Kind of Onetion H Xm Called l'pon to AiiHwer During the Trying Ordeal. Special to the. Sentinel. . Washington, Anglist 1. No one could have convinced me," said Kxum Saint, "that I Lave not outgrown every vestige of pre jadice against race, sex ur previous condition. 1 thought myself capable of accepting a man on his merits and doing complete justice to all. So far a!s the Indiana, negro, Chinee or Ohio man Im concerned, I have reason to hope yet that it is true that the intelligence is within me that acknowledges the full brotherhood of all men ; but for the typical Yankee, of the Connecticut sjecies, as represented in Dorman 11. Eaton, I must confess a sentiment that disqualifies me from officiating as a juror. About that fellow there is something so distressingly arbitrary and finical that it renders me, for the time leir.g, incompetent for any other work. Sir, there is the appalling grandeur of a half dozen rental agents in that scholastic cuss. Look here, old fellow, this is nothing to put in the paper." At this joint Mr. Saint thrust a fresh quid into his jaw, stretched out his legs and continued: "We had a regular picnic at the Eatonian examination yesterday and I, despairing of passiDg, inserted several stump speeches in the belly of my paper. The old fellow, you see, is strong on standing up for his rights, and he was out of humor because I came late. It was after 12 before Black suggested an examination to me. I walked immediately to the island and tiled my application. "It is too late this evening," said Mr. Eaton. "No; in consideration of this heated weather I must Iiavethe thing over to-night." With an expression in which astonishment and a touch of stupefaction were compounded with displeasure and exasperation, he long regarded roe, but as he gradually grasped my measure, this subsided into something like expectance and complacency, . whim encouraged me to olserre. "We may grow in the esteem of each other, Mr. Katun, ona better acquaintance. I have tuet men for whotu my first, impressions were, as they are for you. slightly out at the elbows and decidedly ott, but ä careful study of these men have revealed redeeming qualities. First imresskns are not always reliable. No, 1 want to get through with this auxiety called the civil service examination to-nighi. I want to get upon the iay-rolI of this country or know the reason. I will condescend to ask as a ersonal favor that the procession be allowed to move." Crumbling he gave me a paper on which was printed an arrav of questions that might have been propounded to a boy at a normal school. There was a beetle-browed young fellow present who made short work of the most ot them for he was just out of college. My school days ended when the war bejran, and then I seriously thought that having lw-n a soldier and a Democrat the answering of such questions that in nowise pertained t the office to which I aspired, was something f an Indignity." "What forms are required to secure an examination?7' "Well, in the first place, you hart? to find two citiens who will swear to your good literal f hann ter. "Wanting to make that as light on my friends us ossible, I procured six or eight names, among the rest Joseph K. McDonald and Ihtnicl W. Voorhees, and referred to Cheter It. Faulkner und Hughes East. 1 also drew a letter from a I'nited States Senator, and another from a Congressman, but these the old chap spurned as beneath his dignity. I imagine that he has very little use for a Congressman or a raemler of the United Mates Senate without he has to." "What were some of the questions'."' "Oh, there were a number. In geography, 'Name the inot northern Mate. What States form the northern boundrryf Then came question in medicine, at which I lruessed, and questions in law, which I answered. One question, 'If a note is given for0,12H.l?, due in nine months, at 7 per cent., what Ls its present market value?" Before plunging into figures I wrote: "The value of the note depends largely on the character of the maker and the financial responsibility of the irtdorser.' Then I ciphered at it." "How did you comeout?" "Well, the truth of the matter is, I didn't take much interest in the proceedings, but I passed the examination, and have got my appointment." "How did you and Mr. Eaton grow in each other's regard as the acquantance crvstalietir "I can only speak for myself. I can not say that I remember anything in Mr. Eaton to greatly admire." Mr. Emm Saint will shortly go upon his travels as a Special Examiner of the Tension Office. Jap Tckpen. Indiana, Appointments and Personals. Special to the Sentinel. Washington, August 17. The following named Indiana Postmasters were appointed this afternoon: Kingsland, Wells County, John C. Brinkley, vice Beuben Bronsong. resigned: Foster's PJdge. Perry County, James Foster, vice Nancy Foster, resigned; Knightsville, Kay County, Scott Inge, vice Andred Oswalt, resigned; McCordsville. Hancock County. Jess T. Jackson, vice Henry W. Thompson, removed ; Saratoga, Randolph County, Jacob Shull.vice Cyrus liousman, removed; Maples. Allen Countv; J. M. Myers, vice Nicholas I.adig, removed. Hon. John Lee, of Crawfordsville, had no higher ambition than to be a Postmaster when he came earlv in the spring. Several members of the Indiana delegatson, however, advised him to elevate his sights, and he drew a bead on the uierintendeiicv of Indian Schools, at Forest City Grove, Öre. He is said to have brought down the game. Hoi. Joseph E. McDonald, who left this city for home and Chicago yesterday, according to Richard Bright, will return, on legal business, the first of September. Ceneral M. D. Manson, a prominent Indianian said this evening, would be urged as the most proper Democrat to appoint as successor to General Fred Kneffier. FrehJent Cleveland and the 1'nblie Domain. Special to the Sentinel. Washington, August 12. The Sentinel correspondent remembers an hour spent with Vice President Hendricks about three years ago, when In the couse of conversation fin article written by Hon. V. P. Fishback, on that greatest wrong to the poor of the whole rountry, the stealing and forcing of the pub-. lie domains by large (corporations, came up for l;cnssion. "That is an abuse." said Mr. Hendricks, that a Democratic administration would rebuke." The. Star of this evening publishes the following: "President Cleveland has followed up his rder driving the cattle barons off the Indian

reservations by a proclamation of a still more sweeping character that strikes at one of the worst evils at the West the fencing in of the public domain by great cattle corporations. From all accounts it was high time that vigorous action was taken. Out on the plains, far removed from the ordinary restrictions of law and public opinion, the rich companies did as they pleased, and their pleasure was to get richer and richer by the systematic disregard of all laws and the rights of the poor.' The proj'het Isaiah may have had these ruthless land-grabbers in mind when he pronounced a woe upon 'them that lay field to held till there be no place that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth.' It so, their particular day of judgment seems to have arrived." Governor Curtain, of Pennsylvania, is correct. This looks like a I emocratie administration. Jap Tieikx. NATIONAL AFFAIRS.

Comptroller Durham Writes a letter to KxCoiuuiisitionrr Loriiig. Wash im. ton, August 17. First Comptroller Durham has written a letter to Mr. Loring, ex-Commissioner of Agriculture, in which he says that the latter is in error in supposing that any of the rejected accounts were for "machinery" or "experiments." He explains that the terms disallowed, amounting to about 20,000, were swlely for eenditures for seed and labor, and concludes his letter by saying that unless Mr. Loring has some further statement to make, he shall proceed in the case under process of law. WOKK TO BE RKSI'M El IX THE NAVY YAP. US. Orders will be sent from the Navy Department in a few davs directing that work shall be resumed at all the navy yards. Already work has been begun in theyards at Mare Island and Brooklyn. At the remainder it will le begun as soon as the reorganization of the forces has been completed. The appointment of new foremen, it is expected, will be made in a short time at the yards where they have not yet been named. On June 1 many men were discharged because of lack of funds to continue the work. The new fiscal year gives a new appropriation, with which work can le continued, and offers an opiortunity for furnishing employment. KOI TH AMERICAN' COM y ISsTONKK: The Commissioners appointed to visit the Central and South American States in the interest of more intimate international ami commercial relations between those countries and the Vnited States have submitted a rejort to the Department of State of its work in I'mguay and the Argentine Hepublic. APPOIXT.MEXTS. KoWrt I.aiuon, of Illinois, has been ajpointed a member of the Board of IVnsion Apieals in the office of the Secretary of the Interior, vice Harrison S. Bruce, resigned. The resignation of Henry J. Armstrong, agent for the Crow Indians in Montana, has been accepted. The following promotions have been made in the geological 'survey: Henry Gaunette, of Maine, from geographer to geologist, vice Joseph CurtU. resigned; Aliuon J I. Thompson, of Kansas, from geographer to chief geographer; Bobert S. Woodward, of Michigan, from astronomer to geographer. AS IMPORTAXT POINT kUsEI. The General Land Office has received information that Judge Deady, of the Oregon Circuit Court, has decided that pre-emption entries can only be cancelled by prosecutions, in the courts. It has leen the practice of the Land Office to cancel pre-emption entries u)on sufficient proof of non-compliance with the law or want of good faith on the jart of the pre-emptor. Acting Commissioner Walker has officially informed his informant that the practice and views of the law followed and entertained in the General Land Office will not be t hanged Itefore the Supreme Court of the I'nitcd States shall have had an oportunity of (tossing upon tlic point raised by Judge Deudy. AMEKIt AN MSTRKT TKI.EOH I'll PKOroSITIOX lE( XIN'EP. Acting Postmaster General Stevenson today declined a proposition of the American District Telegraph Company, of Philadelphia, to take charge of the immediate delivery system of that tit on the ground that the law contemplate the maintenance by the department of its own delivery systems. MIKTEI.J.AXKOI . The Acting Comptroller of the Currency to-day authorized the Fiist National Bank of McCook, Neb., to begin business with a capital of $ro,uoo. Contract for stone work on the new public building at Council Bluffs, Iowa, has been awarded to J. M. Bice, of Austin, III., for Commissioner Thoman, of the Civil Service Commission, thinks that the messengers to be selected for the delivery of sjH'cial ten cent letters, will be appointed under the civil service law. Chief Clerk John Tweedalc, of the War Department, will act as Secretary of War during the absence of Secretary Endicott. The Secretary will be absent from Washington until about October 1. The iissue of standard silver dollars from the mint during the week ending Anglist 15. i was .ViO,4;i. The issue during the corresuondmg ienod of last year was $2M,f!S. Incitement Over a Supposed Cholera Ca. I'niLAt'Ei.PHiA, August H. The eople of Camden, N. J., are considerably alarinisl over what appeared to have let n a death from cholera. The Coroner of Gamden, who is also a physician, was notified yi'Sterday morning that Margaret Kealey, a young Irish domestic on the farm of Kdward I. Hunt, at Whitcborse, had died suddenly on Wednesday evening. Arriving thereat noon, the Coroner found the body in an advanced stage of decomposition. So offensive was it that it had become necessary to remove it to an open shed. On investigating the ca) Coroner Beal found that the dead girl came from Ireland two weeks aico. Her brother, Michael Kealey, of Philadelphia, obtained n place for her with Farmer Hunt ten days lxfore she died. On Wednesday evening, at 4:15, Miss Iealeywas taken suddenly ami violently ill, and vomited continually until he died, one and one-half hours later. The Coroner gave a certificate of death from congest ion of the brain, due to cholera morbus, and'the body was taken to an undertaker in Philadelphia, and was to be buried at once. The hon-e and corpse were thoroughly disinfected. Coroner Beal afterward continued his iuve-stigatiou. and found the symptoms in the case were identical with those of Asiatic cholera. A rigid investigation is being made by lr. Beal to determine the character of the case. Four Boys Drowned In the Monongaheltt. PiTTsm-Ro, Pa., August Ui. A skiff, in which were six boys ranging in age from eight to thirteen years, capsized in the middle of the Monongahela River this afternoon, about I o'clock, drowning Charles and Mark Pich, Courtlandt Aiders and Jacob Meshler. The other two boys, Charles Meixer and George Skedlander, succeeded in reaching the shore in safety. The accident happened in sight of hundreds of -opJe, but no succor could reurh the unfortunate lads uttil thy had Müik for the last time.

THE ASIATIC SCOURGE.

Frightful Condition of Affairs in the CholeraStrichn Sections of Spain. The Kpidemic Spreading More and More Itnsines Throughout the Country Pao--aljzrd (juarnatine. Precautions Along the Mediterranean. LoN'no.v, August 1. The reports of the cholera which reach here from Spain betray a frightful condition of things. The epidemic is spreading more and more, and the accounts of its terrible ravages which have ccme to London have aroused great anexiety among all persons who are in any way concerned in Spanish affairs. All the AngloSpanish firms who have offices in !ondon have made an attempt to do something to stem the contagion, and have addressed the Spanish Ambassador ou the subject. They offered to make a united apjKal to the people of Kngland for assistance for the cholera-stricken district. The Ambassador forwarded this offer O the Ixrd Mayor of London, hut the Lord Mayor replies that he is not prejared to invite an Knglish national subscription, and so the effort of the AngloSpanish firms remains at present without result. Advices from the atllicted section of Spain to commercial'houses in London describe an utter paralysis of business everywhere throughout the country. The stories which come from the infected districts recall the worst of the scenes which are associated with famine and war. For example in the town of Krla, in the lrovince of Saragossa, there is no longer a Mayor or a municipal Government. The Mavor and all the city officials are dead, stricken down by the plague, and all the doctors and chemists of the place have fallen victims to the jestilencc. The shops are all closed and the town is deserted by the inhabitants. The people are in a destitute condition, and the Mayor of the neighboring town of Kgen, which is the only place from which the fugitives could expect aid, has forbidden the citizens to render them any assistance, lie has declared an absolute blockade, and no person is allowed to enter Kgen on any pretext whatever. This is an instance of what is commonly going on throughout Spain the provincial towns shutting their gates to all intruder, physicians and government officers a well a ieople fleeing from the disease. The survivors of Erla are consequently camping out on the hillsides, without houses and with but scanty means of subsistence. According to the latest news some of them hail set lire to the town, hoping by that means to burn out the plague. The fear of the importation of cholera is taking practical shape all along the Mediterranean coast, an 1 the most vigorous quarantine precaution have leen established at Gibraltar, on the Island of Malta, und at the Ports of Egypt against all French and Spanish vessels. Marseilles steamers are not allowed to call at Malta, Suez, or Fort Said, and the most urgent measures are being everywhere taken at other places to ward olf the threatening cstileiice. How true is the saying that Europe end at the Pyrenees is shown by the fact tliat the death 'from the cholera of Cardinal Gonzales, Archbishop of Seville, while, succoring the suffering iu a little village, has received only a line dispatch here and no comment, while last year the action of San Felice, at Naples, was given whole pages. The deaths in Spain make a bad showing n total of 57,21!. Probably the truth would make the total 7,0K.i or 8,000 more. At the present rate of virulence and spread it is not unlikely that the total for the year will exceed I'jo.Oon. These figurc Te-all the most hideous stories of medieval plagues. Ijoiij? ago the climax of misery and panic and suffering seemed to have been reached, yet the daily reports now reveal newdepths of horror. Granada village are rilled wich unburied corpses, mobs are stoning the doctors, hordes of unmilked cattle are roaming alout the fields bellowing, officials are committing suicide. All the awful chaos at last is beginning seriously in the city of Madrid, where despairing efforts have kept the disease at bay so long. Only eight provinces are unaffected now. The plague is firmly fixed in the Pyrenean country. Bilbao and Sautandcr will Ik the next victims in the north and Malaga and Seville in the south, where thousands will be swept away in the coming month. The outbreak at Gibraltar has revived here (in liOndon) the fear which has s-luiubered since the Bristol case failed to spread the disease. The chief comfort of Kngland lies in the fact that heretofore cholera has only come through Germany, which induces the hoe that we are safe from a later infection. M Ai'KJi, August li. Bet urns from the cholera infected districts of Spain show a total number of new case for Saturday, 4,70o. and a total number of deaths from the disease of 1,758. The plague has made its apjearance at Barcelona, where 23 cases and It deaths are retried. The cholera rejiorts show that there were fifteen new cases and thirty deaths iu the province to-day. The slight panic which broke out a few days ago has subsided. The epidemic shows no further signs of an increase. Some of the most crowded uouses have been burned, and their tenants tcmjorariiy lodged a few miles outside of the city. The public buildings are disinfected daily. The epidemic is still ravaging Granada, but Ls decreasing in the other southern provinces. Marseille., August Hi. There were deaths from cholera here Saturday. Several deaths from cholera lave occurred in the lunatic asylnm here. Several deaths are reported at Mouries and Solon, caused by typhoid fever and smallpox, which are of a severe type and very activo. GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. The Municipal Council of Dublin Reolve to Present a Memorial to Archbishop Walsh. IHki.ix, August 17. The Dublin Municipal Council to-day resolved to present Dr. Walsh with an address of welcome as the successor of the late Cardinal McCale in the Archbishopric of Dublin. Some of the Protestant members objected to this, and Mr. Timothy I). Sullivan, home-rule Iferoberof Purliament for Westmialt, explained that the proposed testimonial was intended to be an act of rejoicing over the overthrow of what he tailed a base and vile intrigue carried on at the Vatican by Mr. Errington to defeat the wish of the Irish jeopleathome. I r. Walsh succeeded Cardinal McCabe !eeause he was a home ruler. Mr. Sullivan said the demonstration was not intended in any way to cast any disre"iec t on Protestants. Archbishop Walsh' Instruction. Home, August 13. Archbishop Walsh, conversing with the Pope and Cardinals Jacobini and Samoni, promised to observe the Yatiran instructions to the Irish Bishops in regard to their demeanor in the present olit i al crisis. It is alhiost certain that Arch

bishop Walsh will preside at the reunion of Irish Bishops, in view of which he has been especially instructed. The Vatican is arranging rules for the Prussian Bishop's conduct toward the Government, based on the projvosals of the Tulla conference of Bishops. 'i Iord Salisbury's Kgyptian Plans. Lomiox, Angtist 17. The Marquis of Salisbury, it is stated, will, soon after going to France, have a conference with Kignor Deprates, the Italian Minister. .The interview will take place at Contrexville, a watering place on the river Vaire, in Vosges. It is rejorted .that I talv desires to send 20,000 tnops into the Soudan to secure the Bed Sea coast from Suakim, at present held by the British, to Assab Bay, along which lie most of the Italian possession on the coast. The Italian scheme contemplates securing control over Eastern Soudan and tiic use of Khartoum ns a capital, if Sir Henry Druniniond Wolff, who has been sent as a Special Envoy from England to Constantinople and l airo for the purpose of perfecting arrangements for the future management of Egyptian a Hairs, fails to bring the Sultan to terms it is ludieved England will sign an agreement with Italy which will leave the latter jHiwer free to carry out her plans, as outlined above. The Cholera in Spain. Mpn ii, August 17. The places in Spain in w hich the principal increases of cholera occurred yesterday as compared with last Friday were Tarragona and Vallodolid. In the formier place there were yesterday 77 new cases and to deaths. The official returns show that in Grenada the disease lias reached its heighth and remains stationary. In Albacete yesterday there were twenty-eight new cases and twenty-three deaths. In Castellon Dc Iji Plana twenty-two new cases and seventeen deaths. In Cuenca 154 new caes and thirty-two deaths. In Ternel forty-six new cases and thirty-two deaths. In Valencia eighty-two new cases and forty-nine deaths, and in Madrid twenty new cases and two deaths. All of these returns show decreases in the number of both tew cases and deaths. An Address by the French Minister of the Interior. Paris, August 17. M. Allain Targe, Minister for the Interior, in his address dedicating the statue of General Chanzy, of La Mars, yesterday, said that the events of 1870 carried to Frenchmen the double lesson of the necessity of maintaining military preparations with the sole view of assuring the country of safety from the national defects of free institutions and of the necessity of refraining from launching the nation into foreign adventures.

The Pall Mall Gatette Hyde Park Meeting. I.omk.x, August 17. Bev. T. De Witt Talmage, Bev. Mr. B. Spurgeon and the Bishop of Truro have sent letters to the committee on the meeting to be held in Hyde Park under the auspices of the Pall Mall Gazette, expressing their sympathy with the objects of the meeting. General Booth announces that 8,000 jHiund sterling have been subscribed in furtherance of the Salvation Army's refuge scheme. He denies abducting the girl, Eliza Armstrong. Threaten to Avenge the Death f Valne on the Prince, of Walen. Paris, August 17. Henry Bochifort, writing in the Intransigeant on the murder of Oliver Paine, lu-ges that if the French Government fail to exact satisfaction from England for the m tinier, the friends of Paine w ill watch for the coming of the Prince of Wales to France, and avenge, upon him the death of Paine. Proposition to Prevent Cholera. Bo.mf, August l. 1 hs Government is arranging to convey poor Italians employed at Marseilles and along the French coast hv rail to Italy, in order to le able to suiervise their habits and prevent their infection with cholera. The In form a (newspaper) protests against this action as calculated to introduce cholera in Italy. German Spies In France. r.Miis, August B3. The French nevspaiera comment on the great number of German sj ies disco vcred recently in various parts of France. It is reported that the Government has decided to order the expulsion from French territory of all Germans who can le proved to le spies or who can reasonably be toispected of Wing such. The Afghan Boundary. Tim, August 17. The Kavoks (a newspuer) says that England should allow Bussia and Afghanistan to settle the frontier dispute between themselves, and that the negotiations between England and Ilussia, as at present conducted, can not lead to a satisfactory result. ROACH'S ASSIGNMENT. Schedule of John Iloach's Alignment Filed in New York. New York, August IS. Soon after 11 o'clock this morning the schedules in the matter of the a$signiueut of John Iloach were filed in the Clerk's ofliee of the Court of Common Pleas. The liabilities are fA'.ir.'.sTT.l ; nominal assets fVi'rfMMJ.S, and net mil assets l,t":;M7S.2.". The preferred creditors, with amount and Items, are: Wi'.linm Bowland, for money loaned and work done. $02.VlT.l'S: Mecbsnics' and Traders' Bunk, of Brooklyn, SVO.oon for money loaned, note due Septem tier l", secured bv lnortRiise bond; A. II. Keynolds snu Alircd Crcveliug. for fc!4:::..riO; P. W. Mlandtt A; Co., New York. fcMOU for money loaned and advxnccd follows: JO.OO June 27. ami iio,mki July 11. lss.. These loans were in advauee of the sale of the notes of the assignee, and the amount due them is to he determined by au adjustment of their accounts. The total amount Vreferre! i li!.-JI7.vs. The schedule of non-preferred claims embraces more than 300 separate Items, rangiug iu amount f rom forty cents to over $100,000. The Ust begins with a series of eighty-eight notes of various dates and for various amounts, from fsoo to about Si.0n0 each, at sundry dates between July 'JO, lsXi, and March 'JS issi. These are chiefly held by companies sna firm, aud were given as evidence f IiidcbtedncN for materials furnished in the course of business. There is in this list, however, a series of about thirty notes negotiated by a firm of New Yoik brokers, and now in the bands of unknown parties. They aggregate nearly ,l."iO.OOO. The remainder of the items arc made up largely of opea accounts, with no security, for materials lurnished and money loaued. Among the larger items of indebtcdncbs are the following: rtat of Levi Kerr. $131,J!8: Mutual Life IasuranceConv panv.frjT.U; P. W. Calluad Co., $."iO,UI0: Jas. K. VVsrd& Co., tino.out: Oriental Bank, r-M,oui; .eo. W. Huhitaird and 1). 11. McAlpin, $75.000. These large claim are all secured by mortgage on rcaJ estate or by other collateral. Then lollows a schedule of upsets, item by item, in wht.'h the nominal and actual values are given, the separate pieces of property aggregatiug 17." in number. The chief item of actual value: Morgan Iron Works, SHOO.000; twenty-four lot In New iork Citv, 8160.0OW; .Ktna Iron Works. Ifo.COO; four houses in New York City, flfiO.OOO; farm at Whit Plains. fci'iO.OuO: 4M'A shares in the Delaware Klver Mdp Building Works. .Vjo.-ioo; r.,W2 khare in the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company, $774.108; JOS shares in the Chester ltolHng-mllls. f J74..V)0; 79.' shares In the Combination r-xeel auit Iron Company, gtio.ouo; 2,000 in the l' tilted State and Brazil Mall steamship Company and bonds of same, fcfSO.OOO; part ownership of the steamship Rio Grande, $s0,UO0; du from the Government ou eriilxers when otnvplcted and other vessels, ; other tools, f ll'J.srj.'i. J7H,4t; marine. shop

AMONG THE INDIANS. Running Antelope in a Ekine Campaign Eat

The Iloltnnn Committee Among the IndiansThe Dmle Chief The Indians Talking Sense 3Ir. Hoiman Replies. Ftaspiso Kock Auexcy, Dak., August 10. This is the season when congressional committees make their bi-annual tour of the "West insjecting Indian agencies. These visits are relished by members of committees who have the opportunity of sight-seeing free of expenses to themselves, and the good Indians do not object . to their coming, for it gives them a chance to unload themselves of much corked up "big talk." There are only two Indian Committees on the road at present the Jenatc Committee, headed by Senator Harrison, now side-tracked at Helena in a Pullman car, and the House Committee, composed of Holman, of Indiana; Ilyan, of Kansas, and Cannon, ot Illinois, now, on its way to the National I'ark, having just completed the inspection of the Sioux Indians. The Holman committee visited this agency yesterday. As this was the first committee of the season here, it created no little excitement among the Indian, who had been told that one of the white chiefs was the biggest man in the great council, and that nothing could be done by the council without his consent; in fact, that he had the power to reduce or increase their rations every year, as he saw lit. Of course they were anxious to meet such a great chief and lay their grievances before him. They bad heard of his coming, and for two days bad left their lodges and - pitched their tepees on the Misscuri to watch for the "white ship" in which the committee was expected to come. Heretofore Congressional committees have always visited this agency with a steamboat chartered at Bismarck for the occasion. But in this case the steamboat did not come. A four-mule ambulance wagon from Fort Lincbln brought the distinguished part3' to the reservation over sixty-five miles of the roughest road in Dakota. Hut HOLMAN WAS SATISFIED, as this trip had leen without excuse to the (lovernment. "I have seen many white men from the (ireat Council," said old llairy Chin, "but this is the worst lot I ever saw." I'gh ! Come in wagon like soldiers. Poor men. No good." The next morning 4.XK Indians assembled in a great council. Running Antelojve, the President of the day, attired in a long yellow linen duster and a Blaine campaign hat, formed the Indians into a ring eiglit deep, the chiefs in the front rank and the squaws in the back ground, with the committee in the center seated on a log. The pipe was passed around the chiefs, then to the committee. The priest . and the trader were .sent for. The priest came, but the trader knew what was in: store for him, and went out on a hunt with JSergeant-at-Arms Lecdum. It was well for him that be left, for the complaints of the speakers were mainly directed at him. Some went so far as to accuse him of selling calico at a dollar per yard. Tb "big talk" was- then opened up hy Two Bears, son of old Two Bears, v,ho said that his father died the first time he told a lie; that the Great Father for the last twenty-four years had been a champion liar; that he had promised them everything from a steamboat down to a pair of suspenders; that be bad robbed them of the Black Hills, for which they liad not received ten cents; that he had allowed white men to kill the buflalos, to shoot the young men and ruin their daughters. The reservation, be said, was tilling up with halfbreeds, which was evidence enough that white men were not such nice fellows, after all. "But now that we have a new great father," said he, "we feel like we were living a new life. We heard that he was a good man, and had turned out all the bad men of his house." Two Bears is one of the best Indians on the reservation. He lias a farm, and raises enough to support himself and family and refuses aid from the Government. John Grass, THE DI PE CHIEF, dressed in a seersucker suit and a new straw hat, delivered a long speech, charging the white men with tbe old story of broken Idedges, deceit and falsehood, and of being a and robber. "If the Great Father can't pay his debts, let him say so, and we will call it square," said John. "If we owed you instead of you owing us, you would soon have your pay." Then closed tip with a fine ieroratlon asking for more stores, more beef, and more of everything, and that Uncle Sam pay up his honest debts. Gall and Running Anteloe followed with long speeches, demanding reparation for the wrongs committed during the last twentyfour years, and both closed by asking tobacco from the committee. Mad Bear, the richest Indian of the Agency, as well as the best Indian, spoke from his wagon, where he had his two wives and seven children. "The people you see here," be said, "feel as if they saw the Great Father himself. I am an Indian, but as an Indian I have tried to put these people on the road of civilization. Those that have tried to educate their children make my heart feel glad. I am an Indian, but when 1 make a bargain I keep it. I am an Indian, but am afraid of deception. Twenty-live years ago the Great Father promised us money but a the end of five years he claimed we had been paid in full, although we had not received ten cents. I said. in the past you have made many promises you have not fulfilled, so let us make no more treaties, and keep the Black Hills.' There is oni promise that he made us. For every acre we should cultivate he would give us if 100, but we have cultivated 2,000 acres and we have not received ten cents. We had 400 lodges at that time and they promised us that every family who would keep house and teach their women how to manage them should have a yoke of cattle and a cow, wagons, plows and a house with two rooms and two stoves. Had I made such promises 1 would fulhil them. That is not all. There were a great manv more promises. The Great Spirit has given us land and here we have made our homes in the past and here we intend to live in the future. In the beginningwe came from one woman and one man. Both Indians and whites. WE AEK BKOTUKRS. We are all brothers, but we are Indians anl you are white men. We are poor and you are rich. We arc weak aud you are powerful. Therefore, look ujKn us with pitying eye and help us. As we have the same God we ought to bo united. I wish to say in regard to the schools down Fjist, that although there are many things to see the climate makes them sick. At Mandan there are many hops that the children could go to. There it is close enough to us in cae of sickness. Then in regard to the store: A great many complain that they are cheated. When anybody does wrong, he should be arrested. When the trader cheats au Indian he should be put in the guard-house. Any man who claims to bi

civilized knows what . is wrong . When a young man does anything wrong he is arrested and lined, and must sell his horse to pay his fine. He should be put into the guard-house and not take his horse from him. These yc ung men are poor and can't pay their fines. There is Kain-in-the-Face and I if we do wrong, the police is there to arrest us. God has given us existence here, and in the future we don't want white men to come and take our land. Many of the Indians are willing to work, but are destitute of implements. I, myself, have helped a great many with my team. In looking around you will see that a great many are poorly dressed. Yes, they have worn out their clothes working. All these men are willing to go to work. Xo one wants to run away. When you get home tell the Great Father to take away his soldiers and abolish his jxrlice. They are not needed. There is A GKEAT WRONG on the east side of the river. It was done by the Great Father who died (Garlield). He allowed whisky to be sold there. Our men go there when the river is frozen and drink this whisky. The whisky is bad and it makes them sick, and sometimes they freeze; their toes. Then our father (agent) punishes them; but the white man who sells it is not punished. This is bad business for the Great Father. As you are sent by the G reat Father, you must be rich men. As you are rich men you could make us all happy. You could treat us to tobacco and open your hearts and Rive our women something to eat. Mr. Holman replied as follows: "I have heard what you had to say. and will communicate it to the Great Father and the Great Council. You have spoken well. It may be that there is some misunderstanding about this Black Hills treaty, but the Great Father and Great Council are anxious to right the wrongs." When this Fort Bice tieaty was made it was understood that the Indians would work and adopt the customs of the whites. The Sioux Indians seem anxious to become civilized, and the Great Father is anxious to promote their interests. We are anxious that you should -adopt the customs of the whites, plow the lands, raise crops, herd cattle, and &end your children to school, and that you should treat your wives well, and divide their burdens. This is what the white men do. The Great Father will provide you with all the horses, males, cows, wagons and other implements that you are willing to use. "The white people have become great and rich by labor, and the Indians, too, will leconie great and rich if they will work and send their children to school. DOWN EAST there are many white people who have no lands, and sometimes have nothing to eat. Yet they do not ask the Great Father to help them. If they had your lauds they would soon become rich. They would work and send their children to school." The Standing Bock reservation is a part of the great Sioux country, lying between the Cannon Ball and the ihe Grand Itiver, east of the Missouri, and contains 20,U0o square miles of good grazing and agricultural lands. There are about .s.OOO Indians on it, divided into 'four tribes, and are the most prosperous of the Sioux Indians. They have 3.000 bead of cattle in common, 2,000 ponies, cultivate 1,700 acres of land, and cut 2,000 tons of hay, and many have built good log houses. Under the treaty of 1 WW each Indian who cultivates a farm should have a house with two rooms and two stoves, cattle, wagon, and a steamboat for the whole people. Although "00 have taken up farms, only 2"0 have been thusjprovided for. Again, the same treaty provides a school-house and a te?cher for every thirty children of school age, yet of tile l.ooo children of school age, only 2H) are accomodated, leaving 740 unprovided for. There are only f ight school-houses, while there should be thirty-three according to the treaty. Only one-eighth of the children go to school for want of room. If there were schools enough the children could he coin-jK-lled . to attend by withdrawing the parents' rations for non-attendance. The stomoch of an Indian can be appealed to when other measures fail. A boarding school, with 100 pupils, is in charge of the Sisters, aud have made so much progress that Mr. Cannon says that ALL INDIA X SCHOOLS should be in the hands of the Sisters, as Indian children seem to advance more rapidly under their care. The Indians here, as well as at Devil's Lake, are under Catholic influence. The agency is in charge of Major McLaughlin, who lias been in the Indian service for fifteen years. He and his wife and their children speak the Sioux language like the natives. The Major is a Democrat but held bis msition under Bcpublican rule because lie was recommended by the Catholic Church, which always bad the control of this agency. His Democracy ami his record as an agent will undoubtedly secure for him another term. Among those who attended the council was Miss Grace Howard, of New York, daughter of old Joe Howard of proclamation fame. Miss Howard is sending the summer with the Sioux Indians. She has undertaken to civilize the whole tribe SI sent several to the Hampton School and adopted one which she sent to her home in New York to raise. "My father," she said, "sent me to the Sioux "Reservation to cure me of what he called "INDOMANIA," but I have been with them three months and I am more interested in their cause than ever. The agent says I will get rid of this poetic idea in a year, but I will disappoint him. Mr. Holman does not think that the good Indian is the dead one, but that the Indian problem can be solved by feeding the old men and teaching the young ones to work. Mr. Holman and the committee will visit all the agencies before Congress convenes. The object of this visit is to inquire into the condition of the various tribes, whether they would be willing to remove into Indian Territory, whether tbey would take lands in severalty, and whether it would be better for the Indians and cheaper for the Government to educate the children on the reservation than in the Fast. The committee has already inspected Iine Ridge, Rosebud. Crow, Devil's Lake and - Ixwer Bruli Agencies. The Itevil's Lake and Standing Rock Agencies thev find in excellent condition. I. IL P. Diabolical Attempt at Murder. HrNTiNGTON, Pa., August 15. A diabolical attempt at murder was made at Anderson, near here, last night. As Foreman Thomas Crepps was walking on the railway track he was set upon by two tramps, knocked down and gsgged. After stealing his watch and a check for his month's Ealarv, which be had just received, the miscreants tied him to the track, and left him to his fate. By frantic enort he worked himself partially free, but a passing freight train cut otf one of the fingers of his left hand, which he was unable to relesse from the rail. Great excitement over the outrage prevails. Two tramps have lieen arrested and searched, but they were discharged in the absence of evidence against them.

A Grand Reception and Full Dress Ball in Honor of Hendricks. Waukesha, is., August 17. It is announced to-day that a reception and grand full dress ball will be given at one of the hotels here next Thursday evening in honor of Vice President Hendricks. A thousand invi ations are being sent out.

SWINDLING INSURERS.

Supposed Death and Burial of & Wcinan Insured for T53,000. Sii)iciou Being A routed, the Body VTa IiKinterred,nnd Found to be Six Inches Shorter Dead Than When Living Other .Measure Taken. Patekson, X. J., August 11. The Coroner of Taterson, accomjianied by the Chief of Folice, the Coroner of Hunter's Toint, Long Island, and a couple of physicians, went to the Lutheran Cemetery near the latter place to-day to exhume the body of a woman. On the way to the cemetery Chief of Police Grant told a representative of the Associated Press the following fctory: For two years past a family named Bauer, occupying a highly resectable position in society, resided at Haledon, near Paterson, N. J. The Bauers had previously resided in New York City, and apjicared to be people of wealth. Early in last June Mr. Bauer was taken sick, and after ten days' illness died, as certified by the attending physician, of ieritonitis. Mr. Bauer seemed toVeel the loss of his wife deeply, and had an expensive, funeral. The memory of the late Mrs. Bauer had" almost died out in Haledon when some strange rumors got aHoat which startled the community. It was learned that Mrs. Bauer's life bad been heavily insured in several companies and sometieculiar circumstances surrounding her illness and death led to the suspicion that she had been murdered in order to obtain the amount of insurance and defraud the companies. The insurances on Mrs. Bauer's life were as follows; Equitable Life Insurance Company, of Xew York, 1.",0Oju; New York Life Insurance Company, $10,000; Mutual Reserve Insurance Company, $10,0i)0; Mutual Trust Insurance Company, $10,0 0; Pennsylvania Insurance Company, $-",ki), and Fishkill Insurance Company of Massachusetts, $3,oijo, making a total of $53,Cm. It is understood that Ihe Equitable and New York Life Insurance Companies paid the amounts of their policies before the rumors of fraud got abroad. The officers of the Mutual Reserve Company, learning of the supposed foul play, afteroonsulting with the other companies decided to refuse payment until a thorough Investijtion had been made. The theories advanced by them were that Mrs. Bauer bad been joi'soned, or that she had been taken away and another body or dummy buried in the cemetery. Arriving at the cemetery the body was exhumed and the coffin opened, l'pon being measured the body was found to be six im hes shorter than Mrs. Bauer's height when she was alive, tine of the physicians who had examined Mrs. Bauer when the applications for insurance were put in, said that Mr. Bauer had a pug nose and light hair, while the corpse had a Grecian nose and dark hair, but .he would not be iositive on all the particulars. Dr. atterthwait and Checsciuan, of New York, then ojvened the Iwxly ami took out the intestine, which tliry examined and scaled up. They refused to give the result of the examination until they shall have made a more cartful examination in New York, where the intestines were taken. The Wly wa placed again in the coffin and rc-iutered. Lewis Bauer, the husband of the dead woman, to whom all the policies were payable, carries on a real estate agency at 1. Broadway, New York. MAXWELL'S ARRIVAL. . The Suiioed .Murderer or Preller, Xfitli VarioiiM Aliases, Kcached St. Louis Sunday Morning. St. Lous, August 1G. Walter H. Lennox Maxwell, alias T. C. D'Auguier, alias Hugh M. Brooks, the stipjusid murderer of 0. Arthur Preller at the Nuithern Hotel in this eity on the -'Id of last April, arrived here at 7 o'clock this morning from San Francisco in charge of Detective Tracy and Officer Badger, of the St. Louis iolice force. A crowd of from '2,000 to :;,iioo men were at the dejot when the train arrived, and there was a great scramble among them to get a view of the prisoner, but good order was preserved. Maxwell and his custodians were met at the train by Chief of Polii-e Harrigan with a detachment of jioliee. and were placet! in h patrol wagon and driven to the Four Courts, where, alter a brief stay in the dective's room in the jolice headquarters, he was put in the "hold-over" and is being held there tinder an alias warrant, which was sworn out last Friday by proper authority. Accounts by reporters who rode in from llalstead, Kansas, on the train with Maxwell, and bad free access to him and to the officers in charge of him, are to the effect that he absolutely refused to talk alout his cae, and positively asserted that be has at no time or place made any statement in regard to it, or in any way acknowledged that he had anything to do with Preller' death, or knew anvthitijc about it. He sayn all stories totV contrary are entirely untrue. Maxwell wrote out, while on the train, for a reporter of the Republican an account of his trip from !t. Louis to Auckland, his arrest there, and the return trip, but it is a commonplace, story of minor events, and contains no information of interest Detective Tracy thinks that further development will 'show Maxwell to be a wrecked man mentally. Tracy thinks h killed lTeller for money; that'the very few admissions he lias made point in that direction; thai his voyage from tst. Ixuisto Auckland was a money -sending debauch, and not a well-planned escape from justice. and that it was the luck that takes care of drunkards and fools that stood him in stead, and not any good management of his own. Maxwell was in Chief Harritran's office an hour or so tKs afternoon, and a large number of callers were introduced to him, but nothing regarding his cae or what line of defense he will pursue was gained from him. A pcrter at the Southern Hotel recognized him as having been a guest at thai house early in April last. Maxwell will be turned over by the police authorities to-morrow to the Sheriff, and will be placed in jaiL What other, if any legal action will be taken, has not yet been determined. Cotopaxl in State of KrnptloM. New York, August IX News from Huyaquih Ecuador, to July , is to the effect that the volcano of Cotopaxl is again in a state of eruption. It emitted a series of sounds reserubling heavy cannonading. Intelligence from Chimbo, situated at the base of the mountain, is to the eifect that 10) houses have been destroyed by the lava. The los of life is not known. Delegates to the Democratic Ohio State Convention. Cincinnati. August 17. IMegates elected in this county to the Democratic State Convention, svhich meets at Columbus to-morrow, are divided as to their choice Between Thurms n and Hoadly for Governor, altkough the present incumbent i said to hate the. larger share. ,y

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