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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1889.
Texas, now being built at Norfolk, it would
eeem that the department intends to go
ahcatl with the work, notwithstanding re
peated criticisms and reports of serious de
fects in the original designs, and assertions
that the hull of the vessel would nave to
be lengthened hi order to give greater dis
placement, or else the ship would not float
when launched. Assistant Naval Con
structor Howies, who is in charge of the
ship, submitted a lornr report to Secretary
Vhitney a few weeks before that official
went out of office, claiming that with some
Blight modifications the ship would be
all right. The ex-Secretary evidently
agreed with him, for an order was' made
that the work should go on. When Secre
tary Tracy came into office he wanted full
er information before allowing the work to
proceed. Constructor Bowles came to
Washington and bad a long interview with
the Secretary, and went back to Norfolk
with the assurance, it is said, that the work
should continue. In the meantime the
Bureau of Construction and Repairs had
been carefully going over' the original
plans and those submitted by Constructor
Bowles. It is understood that the report of
Chief Naval Constructor Wilson, which is
quite voluminous, goes into the details
with great exactness, and gives a true and
correct criticism of the ship as
originally planned, and of her ability to
float if built upon those lines. Naval Con
structor Wilson is a practical ship-builder,
and his views undoubtedly will havo great
weight with Secretary Tracy. The gossip
in official circles is that Chief Constructor
"Wilson has handled the report of Mr.
Bowles with great severity, and pointed
out, by facts and figures, the utter impossi
bility of constructing the ship upon such
plans. The proposals for the steel plates
for the ship would naturally suggest that
the ship would bo finished upon the orig
inal plans, but those in a position to know
say that the few tons of plates advertised
for would be but n drop in the bncket when
compared to the changes that are soon to
come.
WEATHER AND CROPS.
The Past Week Has Been Favorable to the
Balk of the Growing Crops.
Washington", Aug. 18. The week ending
Aug, 17 has been cooler than usual through
out the Northern States, Kentucky, Vir
ginia, North Carolina and Tennessee, while
it has been slightly warmer than the
average temperature in the Gulf States,
and from Texas north to Dakota and on
the Pacific coast. Over the principal corn
States, and from the Mississippi yalley
eastward to the New England coast, the
weather was relatively cool, the daily
temperature ranging from three to five de
grees below the normal. The average daily
temperature of tho season from Jan. 1 to
Aug. 17, differs less than one degree from
the normal throughout the central valleys,
the middle Atlantic States and tho north-
era portion of the gulf States. The season
is about a week la to along the south At
lantic and Gulf coasts. It is retarded
fclightly in the States of the Ohio valley,
and it is from one to two weeks in advance
in New England and Dakota.
There has been more rain than usual gen
erally through tho Southern, middle At
lantic and New England States and in por
tions of Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska.
Slight excesses in raiu-fall have also been
reported iu northern Michigan. In south
eastern New England and over the greater
portions orSonth Carolina and Georgia tho
rain-fall of the week ranges from two to
four inches. In the principal corn States,
extendi ug from Ohio and Michigan west
ward to the Missouri valley, only light
showers occurred, and tho weather was
especial ly favorable for farm work. The
rain-fall for the season continues in excess
from New York southward to Florida, and
from Texas northward to Dakota. Jn the
States of the Mississippi valley, from the
Gulf coast northward to Minnesota.theraiu-
fall for the season generally exceeds SO per
cent, of the normal. From central Tennes
see northward to Lake Erie from CO to 70
per cent, of normal rain-fall has occurred,
and iu the northern portion of Minnesota
and Dakota and in Oregon and Washing
ton Territory, but little more than half the
usual rain-fall is reported.
The weather has been very favorable for
harvesting in Dakota and Minnesota. The
6pring wheat has been practically secured,
with a good yie!d reported, but more rain
is needed in Dakota .for late crops. In the
States of the Ohio valley, including Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky, and Iowa
and Kansas, the crops are greatly improved
by the favorable weather of the past week.
In these States the corn crop is in excellent
condition and maturing rapidly. A largo
crop of oats has been harvested, and the
hay crop is much heavier than was ex
pected at the iirst of the month. In Michi
gan the cool nights were unfavorable to
corn, and some damage resulted to the crop
in Missouri from local storms and drought.
The good tobacco crop of Ohio, Indiana and
Virginia was improved by favorable
weather. More rain is needed. In the cot
ton region, extending from Georgia to
Texas, the weather was favorable and the
cotton crop improved, although cot
ton worms are on the increase
from Alabama westward to Arkansas,
and have caused some damage to the crop.
Mississippi reports caterpillars in thirteen
counties. In tho eastern portion of the cot
ton region the crop has been somewhat
damaged by rain, but farmers are yet hope
ful. In New England, New York and New
Jersey the weather was generally unfavor
able. Potatoes are rotting from excessive
rain, and it has been too cold for corn north
of Pennsylvania. Hav, oats and barley
have been damaged in New York, and the
fruit crop injured in New Jersey by heavy
rain, hail and severe thunder-storms. In
Pennsylvania the corn crop is in hue con
dition, and a large second crop of bay is be
ing harvested. Kain has interrupted the
threshing of wheat in the western portion
of Oregon, but these rains will doubtless
prove beueticial to fruit.
INDIANA KICKERS.
John TJ. Elam Thinks Their Power for Harm
I Somewhat Limited.
Washington Post. ,
This is my first visit to Washington
since General Harrison's election," said Mr.
Elam last evening, when asked to make some
observations regarding his appearance at
the national capital at this particular
time. "I came here to take some depo
sitions, and may remain here until Tuesday
next."
'You will sec the President while here?,,
"I expect to. We are on sufficiently cor
dial terms to meet pleasantly, and as he
will be here to-morrow, tho chances are wo
will see each other."
'How about those Indiana kickers who
are gunning for the President?''
"I don't think they'll bring down very
much game. It is more dust and uoise than
anything else. Every President has had
the same experience with disappointed
aspirants from his own State. If I recol
lect there was a good deal of howling
around Bnllalo about this time four years
ago. At the same time 1 think President
Harrison has had more than his share of it.
The reason is that Indiana has been a closo
State politically for twenty-live years.
There have been hundreds of Republicans
who have made party sacrifices that de
serve reward, but there are thirty-seven
other States in tho Union, and the Presi
dent could not give everything so Indiana,
even if the applicants had been through
the. political tights along with him, and felt
that they were comrades as well as friends.
Some who were recognized did not get just
what they expected. Indiana is full of
men whom I iniht say are hichby educated
in politics. They want the full measure of
reward for what they do in politics. Some
of them are bad men. and they are in both
paxties. Take all these things into consid
eration, and you will bee that there is no
more grumbling than could be naturally
expected. The party organization has not
beeu weakened by the malcontents."
AN OLD DISTRICT SCANDAL.
It I Likely to Break out Again After
SmoaMrrlng for Four Tear.
"Washington SpeclsL
Soon after the Cleveland administration
came in, and tho appointments of Commis
sioners Wheatley and Webb were made,
accounts appeared in the local papers about
fiotne alleged directions which Major Walk
er, then chief of police, gave to his lieuten
ants that a watch should be kept on Senators
and Kepresentatives in order that, if they
frequented places of damaging repute, the
knowledge of It, being the property of the
calice, could bo utilized to good advantago
by the. District Commissioners in expediting
appropriation items before Congress.
Everybody was indignant. A court of
inquiry was held. Lieutenant Arnold was
among the officers examined and dismissed
from the force. The court was admittedly
ft farce. It was repeatedly "gagged'1 in the
theaters. Arnold was made the principal
scape-goat. His suit against Major Walker
is still pending. For four years the Lieu
tenant has persistently worked for vindi
cation. An affidavit of a prominent police
official of that period which; it is repre
sented, would have smirched several of Mr.
Cleveland's appointees, if it bad seen the
light, was to have been shown to President
Harrison, bnt it is believed to have goue no
further than Private Secretary Ha I ford's
desk. Ho advised that nothing should be
done, as the official most concerned was
soon to be dismissed.
Senator Ingalls wu quoted soon after as
believing that the whole police scandal was
started in order to divert pnblic attention
from the carrying3 on of the Massachusetts
avenue extension syndicate, and so to shield
President Cleveland aud other high-up Dem
ocrats from the lime light of investigation.
Within a few days Lieutenant Arnold has
been made a city official by Commissioners
Douglass and Hine, against the known op
position of Major Kaymond, their engineer
associate.
To-day the District Commissioners talked
out about one another. Major Kaymond
wanted to be put on record as protesting
against tho appointment. His idea was
that Arnold, at least, hadrnade false official
statements. He had signed a paper exoner-'
ating Major Walker from all blame in the
police scandal. Commissioner Douglass re
plied that the Lieutenant had done it under
a misapprehension that no order was given
to watch members of Congress with a view
to influencing legislation, though he might
have known of an intimajiontodoit. Com
missioner Hine replied to Major Raymond's
protest by saying that if he bad had a
chance to make objection and had found
himself hopelessly in the minority he would
keep still about it.
This exhibition of feeling has led many
to the belief that a volcano has been
smoldering for four years and is just now
ready to break out
TO ENLARGE THE WHITE HOUSE.
Senator Cameron Will Introduce a Dill
to
Add Wings to tho Historic Structure.
C&ecisl to the Indlanauolls Journal.
Washington, Aug. 18. A bill to provide
for the extension of the White House, with
a view to giving the family of the Presi
dent more room for domestic purposes, will
probably be introduced by Senator Cam
eron this winter. At least ho has signified
his intention to do so unless somebody has
ft bill to propose that maybe more desirable
than his own on the subject. Senator Cam
eron's idea for an improvement is a gener
al one. He has nothing to ofTer in tho
way of details. His proposition is
to extend tho executive mansion
by wings built to the east and
west, much in the same manner that the
Capitol building was enlarged by the addi
tion of the Senate and House wings. The
White House, as its stands, is clothed with
too many circumstances of historical inter
est to permit of its demolition or any radi
cal alterations that would destroy the
original. It has been tho home of every
President, except Washington, and the
corner-stone was laid by him. Senator
Camerou's idea is to leavo it as it is aud
increase the accommodations by the exten
sions stated. He wants the plan for the
wing to be used by the family to be designed
according to the ideas of Mrs. Harrison. As
a woman, with experience in keeping house
under difficulties, she will, he thinks, know
what is needed better than a man.
MINOR MATTERS.
Dr. Hammond Gives Ills Views Abont the
Brown-Sequard "Elixir."
Special to the Intli&n&colls Journal-
Washington, Aug. 18. Dr. Hammond,
in an interview on the use of the so-called
"elixir of life," says: "Judging from the
reports in the newspapers of the experi
ments with the Brown-Sequard fluid they
have been conducted in an extremely un
scientific and illogical manner. The reports
state that the fluid has been sterilized by
the doctors using it. They might as well
boil it, so far as the process effects its prop
erties. It is made absolutely dead and use
less by being sterilized. Again, Dr. Hrown
Sequard took fifteen injections, extending
over more than a month before he ventured
a report of its effect upon him. There was
no immediate effect from it. Having no
elixir to-day, I used water. One man, who
was rheumatic, said ho felt like a new man.
This shows the folly of jumping at conclu
sions." The iluid two or three hours old.
Dr. Hammond thinks, would not be danger
ous, but would have lost its strength. If
putrid it would be dangerous.
Indiana Pensions.
Pensions have been issued to the f611ow-ing-named
Indianians:
Orixlual Invalids Tass Phillips, Isaac Rudrt,
George W. Raines, Isaao L. Riley, William C.
Fisher, George Brock, Granville II. Hobbu, Will
iam II. Braith. Elijah A. Corbin, Pluuimer P.
Young, Samuel McDuffee, Francis Martin, John
Mority, JJeury J. Kliue, Alonzo N. Porter, Peter
8. Slautcr, 8. L. McCorniack, Valentine Flegil,
Dennis Kelley, Teter Scholl, John C. Uadgley,
George W. Betz. Andrew J. Wolf, Thomas T.
White, Jacob Duger, William A. Parson, .Luge no
L. tiheftall, Edward Hooker.
Increase Rio. J. Craig, Leonard 8. Bass, Thos.
Arlold, Gait W. Booth, Thomas A. Dawson, I.
Brlnkworth, Randolph Greathouse, H. King,
Francis M. Leavell. Joan Riley, Ellis Denberry,
William Mover, Eleazer Adnms, Thomas N.
Sberrill. L. K. Marstelle, Elian Ivett, John 11.
Hill. Daniel Scherer. Aujrust Mehle. John M.
Hubbard, Eaau JLoom, Thomas A. Jones.
Reissue George Banders, Ninevah Rush.
Original Widows, etc. Harriet M., widow of
Stanley Malott; Angellne, widow of William A.
Pearson; Enicline, widow of James McB. Lay
man; Mary, widow of Isaac Budd.
Laws of Debt.
Special to the IntUaosyous Journal
Washington, Aug. 18. The State De
partment has recently sent out to all con
suls circulars instructing them to report to
the department the laws of tho respective
countries respecting liens, mortgages and
the collection of debts. When the replies
to this circular 6hall have been received
they will be compiled and published in
book form. It is expected that the result
will bo one of the most valuable legal cum
r ilatious ever issued by the government,
t will prove especially valuable in com
mercial cities where business is done with
foreign countries, aud the department ex
pects that there will be a great demand for
the volume.
Savings in Bond Purchases.
Washington, Aug. IS. Since tne issue of
tho circular of April 17, 1SSS, the Treasu
ry Department has purchased $56,&19,250
four per cents., $96,4o9,700 four-and-a-half
per cent, bonds, or a total of $153,278.&"i0. at
a cost of $73,0:34,121 for the fours, and 104,
'J77T027for the four-and-a-halfs. The pur
chases from Aug. 3, 18i7, to and including
Aug. 17, 1S9, aggregated 8l77.e24.SOO, at a
cost of S-04.514.71. These bonds would
have cost $240,543,277 at maturity, so that
the saving has been $oG,02,405.
Commander Harrington's Sentence.
Special to tho ImuanapoUs Journal.
Washington, Aug. 17. The sentence of
Commander Harrington to two years sus
pension, for running the Constellation
ashore, has not yet been acted upon by tho
Navy Department, despite all reports to
the contrary. The delay of Secretary Tracy
is looked upon favorably by the friends of
Commander Harrington, some of whom as
sert that tho sentence will be mitigated, if
not wiped out altogether.
General Notes.
Special to the IndUnauoUs Journal.
Washington, Aug. 1$. Captaiu Mere
dith, Chief of the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing, "will leave for Indianapolis on
Tuesday morning, where ho intends to take
part iu tho ceremonies attendingthe laying
of the corner-stone of the soldiers monu
ment. Mr. E. M. Nicholson, of Indianapolis, who
is a brother-in-law of Captain Meredith, of
theliureauof Engraving and Printing, has
been appointed to a position in the Treas
ury Department.
Washington Post: Miss Jannette Hal
ford, daughter of the private secretary, will
accompany the presidential party to tho
West, and remain at her old home until tho
lit of October. Mrs. Halford is not very
strong, and has therefore decided not to
fatigue herself unnecessarily with the
cares of housekeeping duriug the coming
season. The family havo therefore en
gaged apartments and board at Airs. Kyaa'j
on II street, between Fourteenth and Fif
teenth streets, for the winter, tho lease of
their present house on Sixteenth street ex
piring in October. Mrs. Halford will, most
probably, not return to the city before the
autumn, in order to reap the full benefits
from tho bracing air of the mountains.
A CHILD'S REMARKABLE ADVENTURE.
Carried Off by Toy Balloons, She h Brought
Down by a Sharp-Shooter.
CniCAGO, Aug. 18. Little two-year-old
Sophie Schwab involuntarily became a
balloonist, to-day, and was wafted high up
over the broad bosom of Lake Michigan.
A rifleman's skill saved the child's
life. The exciting incident took place at
Sheffield Park, and was witnessed
by 1,500 picnickers. An Italian peddler of
toy balloons attempted to 6erve two pur
chasers at once, and in doing so let go
his string of bright-colored globes.
The cord got twisted about Sophie's left
arm ' and also in her hair, and the buoy
ant rubber bubbles started heavenward
taking the youthful aeronaut along. So
phia's mother shrieked and fainted. The
bystanders stood horror-stricken, scarcely
breathing as the balloons swept closo to a
large oak tree and the infant grasped
a handful of twigs and checked
her flight. A muscular young German
was ascending the tree in an instant, and
then crept out on the branch nearest the
child. At this moment Sophia's puny
strength gave out, and the balloons, sud
denly released, went again upward at least
one hundred feet, drifting then out over
the lake. Gust Koch, a enarpsbooter, who
was attending the picnic, with his repeating
rifles hurriedly jumped into a skill', with
two companions, and pulled out into range.
Koch succeeded in piercing several of the
balloons, each successful shot helping the
bunch to descend. Before it finally reached
the water the boat was at the spot and
little Sophie did not even get her feet wet.
WAS THE MAIL ROBBED?
Valuable Touch Said to Have Been Rifled at
Terre Eaute Confirmation and Denial.
St. Louis, Aug. 18. It is claimed here
that the fast mail train which arrived in
St. Louis last night, over the Vandalia,
was robbed at Terro Haute, Ind.. while
the mail clerks and train hands
were at supper. It is said that one
pouch, containing registered letters, was
taken. The pouch was suoposed to con
tain about SI .000. Postmaster William
Hydo was seen at his home lato to-
nignt. He knew of the robbery, but said
that the only information he had received
from Terro Haute was that there had been
one registered pouch stolen from tho mail
cor, and that it had been found an hour
after tho train had passed lying by
the side of tho track, cut open and
rilled of its contents. The pouch was
a through one from Albany, Is. Y.. to St.
Louis. Its contents could not be ascer
tained, but they were presumably letters
bearing, for the most part, remittances for
cattle transactions, and in this caso they
would probably contain large sums of
money.
The Terre Haute Express telegraphs from
that city, that the pouch was simply
knocked "oil the car by accident, and was
recovered unhurt.
Socialists Want to Disband.
New York, Aug. 18. At a meeting of the
socialistic organizations of the Tenth As
sembly district, to-day, Mr. Engelbert
llurchmann said, in a lengthy speech, that
the present mode of agitaiioa among the
Socialists was of very little use, as it was
not adapted to American life, habits and
historical developments. He advised his
hearers to dissolve the present political or
ganization, destroy its machinery, and es
tablish a federation of groups ot agitation
to disseminate socialistic ideas among
Americau workmen. The speaker held . that
the t wo weekly organs, tho Socialist and
Workmen's Advocate, be no longer pub
lished, as during the last two years sub
scribers had not increased. Other speeches
were in the same strain.
Stealing a Wife Is Grand Larceny.
New Yon k, Aug. 17. Sam Crane, second
baseman of the Metropolitan Base-ball
Club, was arrested this morning and locked
up at police headquarters, on the charge of
running away with Hattie Travenfelter,
the pretty wife of a Scranton fruit dealer.
Mrs. Hattie, in russet shoes and base-ball
cap, was also made captive and locked in a
cell adjoining her lover. The arrest was
made on a requisition from the Governor of
Pennsylvania, on application of the de
serted husband, who charges Crane with
grand larceny and receiving stolen goods.
South Fork Fishing Club Will Settle.
Pittsburg, Pa.. Aug. 17. Knox & Reed,
solicitors for the South Fork Hunting and
Fishing Club tiled a plea of not guilty, to
day, in tho county courts, to tho allega
tions made by Nancy W. Little and other
Johnstown sufferers against the club
through the bill in equity tiled some weeks
since. This plea has the etlect of placing
tho case upon the issue docket, and the caso
will now come upon a jury trial in its turn.
The tiling of this plea was done voluntari
ly, and shows that the defendants are anx
ious to have the matter settled.
The Charleston's Trial Trip.
San Francisco, Cal.. Aug. 18. The new
cruiser. Charleston, was given a trial run
in the bay yesterday afternoon. No gov
ernment officials wero aboard and the trial
was simply to test some alterations, which
Uad beeu made on her machinery wince the
official trip, three months ago. There was
no attempt to develop maximum horse
power or high rate of speed. It is under
stood the builders consider tho trial satis
factory. Shaw Manufacturing Company Fails.
Springfield, Mass., Aug. 17. The only
two mills running of the live owned by the
Shaw Manufacturing Company, at Wales,
shnt down this week, and attachments
were placed on the goods by the employes.
K. H. Shaw, tho manager, announces that
the lirni will go-into insolvency early next
week. The plant, which is the life of the
village, is mortgaged for about $40,000 to
the banks. About two hundred hands wero
employed, and the liabilities will amount
to over $100,000.
Killed Himself and His Wife.
Memphis, Tenn., Aug. IS. Parker Harris,
colored, aged thirty years, killed his wife,
Lethe, to-night, by cutting her throat with
a pocket-knife. He afterward cut his
throat and intlicted wounds that, in til
probability, will prove fatal. Jealousy was
the cause that prompted the crime.
Wabash Train-Robbers Caught.
Kansas City, Mo., Aug. IS. Last Friday
afternoon J ames and Howe Pnllen, brothers,
were arrested in this city, charged with the
robhery of the Wabash train, on Aug. 3.
The prisoners were quietly taken to Liberty
and conlined in the county pail there, where
they have been kept ever since.
Will advance Wajjes.
PiTTsnuRG, Pa., Aug. 17. The strike at
the Carrie furnaces is over, and furnace No.
1 was lired to-day. About half the old men
have resumed their old position. They
have been assured of a voluntary advance
iu tho near future.
Death of Win. C. Morri.
Maucii Chunk, Pa., Aug. is. Wm. C.
Morris, jr.. for many years general auditor
of coal accounts for th Lehigh Valley Kail
road Company, was stricken with apoplexy
this morning, and expired instantly.
Increase in the GraxrJ Army.
Kansas City, Aug. 17. Commander-in-chief
Warner, of the G. A. K., has complet
ed his report for the pat year. The report
shows a total membership of 413.2-.J8, an in
crease of 59,012 members during the year.
Financially Embarrassed.
Norwich. Conn., Aug. !. Owing to
financial embarrassment the Unionvillo
mill, located in Montville, have shutdown.
About iiW) employes are thrown out of cm
ployment. Scrofula cannot resist the purifying
powers of Aycr's frarsaparilla. bold by
fUaggiato.
INDIANA AND ILLINOISNE WS
Freight Wreck, in Which One 3Ian Was
Killed and Another Badly Injured.
Wounded by a Glancing Ballet Suing; for an
Immense Amount of Property School
Book 3Ionopoly Deplored Notes.
INDIANA.
Disastrous Freight Wreck One Man Killed
and Another Badly Hurt Stock Killed,
fpeclal to th Indianapolis Jouruau
YiNCENNES, Aug. 18. At an early hour
this morning freight train Xo.,48 on the O.
&, M. railway was thrown from tho track
at Jlontgornery, twenty-five miles east of
this city. The wreck was caused by run
ning over a cow. The engine and eight
cars were thrown into the ditch and demol
ished. Both the engineer and fireman
saved themselves by leaping from the en
giuejustin thoniclcof time. There were
three cars of stock in the wreck, and a
number of the cattle were killed. The
wreck caused the delay of all the regular
passenger trains on the road to-day. Two
men were horribly mangled in tho smash
up. They were named C. M. Pauley and J.
C. Lyons. Tho latter wa3 killed outright,
and the former, though terribly injured
and crushed, may recover.
Boycotting: the County Press.
Special to th Indianapolis Journal.
Vincennes. Aug. 18. One of the most pe
culiar cases of boycotting ever indulged in
occurred iu Pike county, south of this city.
Tho new agricultural association, called
the Farmers Mutual Benefit Association,
which is spreading out in southern Indiana
and Illinois, comprises over a thousand
members in Pike county. Owing to violent
criticisms of the organization by the county
press of that county, the farmers, at a re
cent meeting, passed the following:
Resolved, That the delegates to the county as
sembly or the F. M. B. A. consider that it is the
duty of every member of the order to withhold
his patronage from any county paper that op
pose us.
The resolution was adopted and the sec
retary requested to furnish each of the
couuty papers with a copy of it. Tho reso
lution angered the three newspapers of the
county, and a red-hot wrangle has resulted.
In the Petersburg News the editor declares
"They can boycott the News and be d .
The first member of the alliance in Piko
county that withdraws his patronage from
this office, and does not orstpay up his ac
count in full, we will make it warm for
him. We are carrying accounts on not less
than six hundred members of the alliance,
and whenever such members withdraw
their patronage from this paper payments
must first bo made. Go on with your boy
cott." Wounded by a Glancing Bullet.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
Jefferson ville, Aug. 18. W. 0. Pack
ard, who is stopping at the Falls View
Hotel, this city, is the victim of a deplor
able accident which occurred near Arctic
Springs, four miles above the city, this
afternoon. Packard had gone up the river
to go bathing and was sitting on a stump,
partially concealed by some small bushes
near the shore, when a man named Huff
man, who is a trunk-maker and resides on
Campbell street, Louisville, came along in
a ski ft Huffman saw a small tin can tying
on tho shore and thought he would try his
marksmanship with a large Flobert rifle he
carried with him. Raising his gun he fired
at tho can, turning it over. Simultaneously
with the report of his gun he heard a man
scream. Hastily pulling to the shore and
going a short distance up the bank he found
a man lying on the ground with a bullet
hold in his right breast, from which tho
blood flowed profusely. The man was W.
O. Packard. The ball had struck the can
on the side, and, glancing, hit Packard.
Huffman placed the wounded man in his
skiff and brought him to the city. Pack
ard is thought to be fatally hurt. At 10
o'clock to-night he was unable to speak
above a whisper. The wounded man is
from Springfield, Mass., and is employed in
the planing-mill at the Ohio Falls car
works. Teachers Deplore the School-Book Monopoly.
Special to the IndlanapoUs Journal.
Vincennes, Aug. 17. The Knox County
Teachers' Institute convened this week, and
had a very largo attendance. W. H. John
son, tho county superintendent, presided.
The instructors of the week were Prof. W.
J. Bryan, of the State University, and Pro
fessor Sanders, of Cambridge City. Thero
were a large number of papers read and
lectures given, and the teachers had a most
profitable and enjoyable week. The session
adjourned, this afternoon, with a series of
resolutions. About three hundred teachers
were present. In regard to the famous In
diana school-book law the teachers adopted
the following:
Resolved, That we deeply regret the condition
of affairs in our State concerning the school
book question; that, as teachers interested in the
welfare of the children, we do whatever we can
in this matter to the best interests of our work;
that wo are convinced of tho necessity of a re
ductiou iu the price of 6chool-hooks, hut are, not
in favor of monopoly in publication or sale,
either as a State or lndeiendeut institution; that,
having thoroughly tried the books now In use,
we prefer continuing the une of the same until
further legislation on the subject.
Suing for Lost Estates.
LaPorte, Aug. 18. A hubbub of excite
ment has been raised in real estate circles
by the recent filing of suits in several dif
ferent places for the recovery, by George
W. Ewing, of Fort Wayne, of landed es
tates, rights to which have fallen to him by
inheritance, and of which others have held
undisputed possession for years. The lands
aro worth thousands upon thousands of
dollars. These suits have been filed in
Fort Wayne, Warsaw, Columbia City, Lo-
Jansport. Huntington, Albion, Crown
'oint, Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, St,
Louis and many other places, and a moder
ate estimate of the value of the laud and
improvements involved is 810,000,000, which,
when interest is added, will amount to an
immense sum. During the past week
agents of Kwing have been in this county,
and as a result actions will bo commenced
in the Circuit Court for the recovery of
several thousand acres of land in the
southern part of this county. Ewing is
only twenty-threo years old, and claims to
havo inherited this vast estate from mem
bers of his family. Eminent legal talent
has been employed.
Wrecked a Hand Car.
&Acial to the Indianapolis Journal.
Vincennes, Aug. IS. An atrocious at
tempt at train-wrecking is reported on tho
new Evansville &. Richmond railway,
just in course of building through Elnora.
About four miles out of Odon some miscre
ant had placed a lot of rails upon the track
with the intention of wrecking the first
train that came along. Several persons of
the town of Odon borrowed a hand car to
go to Elnora on a visit, aud were pumping
along over the rails at a terrific rato
when the car struck the obstruction, knock
ing the light structure into tho air, and
throwing the passengers about in every
direction. William O'Dcll was badly
bruised and had a leg broken. Evans Dun
Jap was cut and bruised about the face and
bead, and Fred Tolle was fearfully lacer
ated about the back and hips. The at
tempted train-wrecking was thus averted,
but an attempt will be made to apprehend
the perpetrators.
Wayne County's Old Settlers.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
Centerviixe. Aug. 17. This was old set
tlers' day in Wayne county. In the beau
tiful grove adjoining Centerville on the
north, eight thousand people assembled
and celebrated the thirtieth anniversary
meeting of the old settlers. The pro
gramme was the same as in former years
speeches, music, songs and tho exhibition
of old relics.
Central Illinois Camp-Meeting.
Bstclal to the Indlanaixlla Journal.
Monticello, Aug. 17. The Ceutral Illi
nois Conference camp-meeting of the M. E.
Church is in progress at their camp-gjounda
near Mechanicsbnrg. Many prominent
ministers are present. Rev. Horace Reed,
of Bloominsrton. 111., has the meeting in
charge. Rev. James A. Miller, of Decatur;
Rev. A. P. Storer, of Jacksonville; Rev. W.
F. Short, Rev. David (Jay and Rev. C. Gale,
of Springfield; Rev. W. H. Mnsglove. Rev.
M. D. Ilawes, Rev. W. N. McElroy. IUy. W.
H. Adams, Rev. Preston Wood and other
prominent men of the church are present
aiding in the meeting.
Died from His Injuries,
8xwial to the IudlauapoUs Journal.
Edixburg, Aug. IS. George C. Adams,
who was thrown from a horse Saturday
afternoon, died last night from his injuries.
He was er-marshal of Edinburc, and also
former freight agent of the J., M. &. I. rail
road here. He was forty-five years of age,
unmarried, and highly respected.
Minor Notes.
Grub worms are doing much damace to
potatoes in the vicinity of Broad Ripple.
Old soldiers of Shelby county held a very
successful reunion at Shelby ville, Satur
day. At Lafayette, yesterday. Dr. and Mrs.
Samuel R. Surface celebrated their golden
wedding.
At Clayton, last Friday, Herman Cantly
was smothered to death in a bin of wheat,
at Albert Johnson fc Co.'a elevator.
Samuel Cutsingcr and son, who furnished
twenty-four car-loads of fine beef cattle
that were shipped to Liverpool. England,
live in Ediuburg, and not at Columbus, as
stated in a number of papers.
ILLINOIS.
Church Doors Barred Against a "Reorgan
ized" Mormon Elder at Pana.
Pana, Aug. 17. Trouble bas been brew
ing for tho Dast week among the mem
bers ot the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, of this city. On Monday last Rev.
R. Etzenbouse, of St. Louis, an elder of the
Reorganized Church . of tho Latter-day
Saints, came to this city for the purpose of
delivering a series of lectures. The first
one was delivered at the Southern Metho
dist Church last Wednesday evening, and
was to have been followed by another at
the same church the next evening, but on
his arrival at the church. Elder Etzenbouse
found tho doors barred against him. e The
pastor of the church and tho presiding
elder of the district had decided that, ac
cording to the finding of the courts in
Ohio, Elder Etzcuhouso was an out-and-out
Mormon, which the latter strenuously
denies. Crimination and recrimination fol
fowed. and as many of the members side
with Rev. Etzenbouse, a lively time is an
ticipated. Brief Mention.
. Mrs. Sarah Hess, an old resident of Cham
paign, died Friday, having been a sufferer
for three years.-
Georgo Bryant, recent proprietor of tho
postothce news-stand in Aurora, bas
skipped out to Chicago, deserting his wifo
and taking with him about &S00 of her
money. ,
At Ottawa the main track of the electric
railway has been completed, and cars have
been run from Madisou street to the Driv
ing Park. This is the first electric system
operated in Illinois.
An eleven days' camp-meeting, under the
auspices of the Free Methodist churches of
the Peoria and Joliet district, is being held
in Cumpstone's grove, near Fairbury Rev.
Mr. Newconib is conducting the meetings.
The Rev. Dr. Jones preached his farewell
sermon Friday aVPecatur, before the Illi
nois State Holiness camp-mecting. The
services are of an interesting character,
the workers being wrought up to a high
state of religions excitement.
TFie Hon. W. T. Davidson, iu addressing
the twentieth annual meeting of the Old
Settlers' Association at Carthage, main
tained that the pioneer women had done
more for tho advancement of civilization
and Christianity than any other agency.
At Jacksonville corned beef came near
causing the death of three men James
Cunningham, his brother Robert and Louis
Beadles They were nursing a sick man,
and just before morning ato a lunch, of
which the beef was a part. They wero
soon attacked with excrnciating pains,
from which they suffered until lite was
nearly extinct. They were finally relieved,
but are still very 6icTk.
TELEQRAPiHC BREVITIES.
Mr. Walker Blaine left Bar Harbor yes
terdav for Washington. Ho will stop in
New York one day.
Emma Lindloff, aged fifteen, committed
suicide by poison at Lincoln, Neb. Perse
cution by her step-mother is given as the
cause.
At Duluth, Dr. A.B. Linde.of Milwaukee,
who arrived at the Hotel St. Louis six davs
ago aud took fine rooms, committed suicide
at tho hotel some time during the night.
The Thirteenth Regiment N. G., S. N. Y.,
left New York last night for a week's tour
in tha West. They go first to Clevelahd
and thence to Hamilton, where they will
take part in the carnival parade next Fri
day, leaving for homo the next day.
Suicido of a Thief with a History.
Kansas City, Aug. 18. A. Musser, at one
time a well-known and respected citizen of
Brunswick, Mo., to-day made a novel at
tempt at suicide, that will doubtless prove
successful. Musser was arrested yesterday
afternoon at the Union Depot, charged with
tho theft of numerous satchels. In three of
the satchels were valuable papers, which
he hid in difforent parts of tne city. To
day, guarded by two officers, ho was taken
out to find the papers, and while passing a
cable road, he threw himself in front of a
passing tram before the officers could re
strain him, and sustained injuries that will
prove fatal. Musser was noted in Missouri
for a duel fought during war times with
Robert Hancock, a rival newspaper editor
at Brunswick, Mo. The former's revolver
missed fire, but he stood calmly in his po
sition whilo his antagonist shot at him
three times. Then, grasping the cane of
one of the seconds, he thrashed Hancock so
severely thatthe ou-lookers were obliged to
interfere. Until a few years ago Mr. Mnsser
was a well-known contributor to a news
paper syndicate.
Japanese Earthquake.
San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 18. Tho steam
er City of Sydney, from Hong Kong and
Yokahama. which arrived this evening,
was expected to bring details of the earth
quake at Kumamoto, the first news of
which was cabled from Yokohama July 0.
One cablegram gave the loss of life at 3,000,
while another 6tated that almost the entiro
town of Kumamoto. with a population of
38,000, was destroyed. Full details had not
been received when tho City of Sydney left
Yokohama, but the newspapers of that city
of Aug. 2 iudicate no such loss as given by
tho cablegrams. Several late telegrams to
Yokohama gave tho loss at twenty to thirty
killed. A Japan newspaper, Jiji Shimpo,
says, however, that by a great earthquake
at Kumamoto, ou July 28. many hills have
been rent, houses demolished and people
killed and wounded in tho city, independent
of the surrounding villages. Another shock
has been felt, and the inhabitants are fear
ful of further disaster. Tho people have
been seized with superstition ou account of
the hills being broken open.
Chief-Justice Fnller on the Terry Killing.
Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 18. Chief-justice
Fuller passed through Pittsburg on tho
limited to-night from Crewsou Springs, Pa.,
where he left his two daughters, on his way
to Chicago. When asked about the killing
of ex-J nd go Terry, he said: I had heard
that Terry had uttered threats against Jus
tice 1 leld, but I did not kuow ot them per
sonally. 1 was surprised when I beard that
Justice Field had been arrested. I cannot
see what he bad to do with tho murder any
more than any other spectator. Judge
Sawyer has issued a hapeas corpus, and
Justice Field will. 110 doubt, bo released."
lie said that Justice Field was a man not
to be deterred by threats, but would do his
duty under all circumstances.
Defaulting President.
Point Pleasant. W. Va., Aug. 18. Chas.
T. Loving, president of the Electric-light
and Power Company, has fled, abandoning
his wife and family, and all his
business afFairs here. He left a week ago to
visit Pittsburg aud New York, to purchases
new dynamo and other machinery. To-day
his wife received a letter saying he would
never return, and would never seo her
again. He had a cood deal of the company's
cash with him, and the corporation is seri
ously crippled.
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DAILY WEATHER BULLATTISi.
Local Forecasts.
For Indianapolis and Vicinity For tho
Twenty-four Hours Ending 8 r. m.. Aug.
18 Fair weather.
GENERAL INDICATION'S.
Washington. Aug. IS S r. m. Forecast
till 8 p. jr., Monday:
For Ohio Fair, followed by local show
ers on tho lakes; warmer; southerly winds.
For Indiana Fain slightly warmer;
southerly winds.
For Lower Michigan Local showers;
stationary temperature; southerly winds.
For Illinois Fair; stationary tempera
ture, except warmer in extreme southern
portion; southerly winds.
For Minnesota Fair, followed by light
local showers; slightly cooler in southern.
stationary temperature in northern por
tion; variable winds.
t For Dakota Light local showers; cooler
in southern, stationary temperature in
northern portion; variable winds.
Local Weather Report
IXUIANAPOLIS, AU(T. IP.
Time, Bar. Then Ji.H. TTitutr Weather, ir,
7 A.M. 30.15 61 71 Calm Cloudless
7 p.m. 30.06 74 G'J South Cloudless.
mometer, 57.
Following is a comparative statement of tho
condition of temperature and precipitation ca
Aug. 18, 1880:
Tern. Tree.
Normal. 75 o.ll
Mean 6tf 0.00
Departure from normal i 0.1 1
Excess or deficiency 6ince Aujr. 1.. 80 1.4f
Excess or deficiency 6ince Jan. 1 . . 1 95 5.GO
General Weather Conditions.
SnxoAY, Aug. 18, 7 r. m.
Pressure. The high area has rapidly
moved southeastward; its center is beyond
the Atlantic coast, its western edge from
the southern shore of Lake Michigan south
ward along the Mississippi. Tho low area,
has extended eastward, but is still central,
with 29.(10, over western Dakota and British
America.
Temperature. Eighty degrees and
above prevails from the IJocky Mount
ains to near tho western part of
tho Mississippi valley, from Dakota
southward to tho Gulf; the highest is
reported from El Paso, Tex., at 7 r. M.,
94; maximum, 100. West of the mountains
the temperature has fallen below 70, and
further north, in Montana, to below CO; TO
aud below prevails over the lower lakes.
Precipitation. Very li?ht rains are only
reported from near tho Straits of Mack
inaw. Steamship News.
New York, Aug. 18. Arrived; Alaska,
from Liverpool; Egyptian Monarch, from
London; Khactia, from Hamburg; City of
Columbia, from Havana; Pocassct, lroui
Mediterranean ports.
London, Aug. 18. The 6teamer British
Princess, from Philadelphia for Liverpool,
Hamburg arnvedjut PI vmouth to-day. Tho
Servia from New York for Liverpool ar
rived at Queenstown to-day.
Klectrio Street-Car Accident.
Newport, K. L, Aug. 18. The motor on
an electric car was "short circuited" to
night, and the frightened passengers in
lumping from the car were more or
less injured. Joseph Ferros and a man
supposed to be Wra. Anderson, of Philadel
phia, were badly hurt, the latter, probably
fatally.
Dressed lleef In Minnesota.
Dulutit, Minn., Aug. 18. Consignments
of dressed beef arrived here, yesterday, for
the local packers, and all the cars caiuo
thryugh St. Paul and Minneapolis. It had
been reported that an injunction would b .
served on the cars as they passed through
the twin cities by the St. Paul beef men,
but the cars were not molested. It is un
derstood that Attorney-general Clapp will
appeal the caso of last Tuesday, deciding;
the inspection-on-tho-hoof law unconstitu
tional. taManMMMllSSBlSSaswMMH
The Infundlbulom.
Terrs Haute News.
Dr. Fletcher, of Indianapolis, says that
"hydrophobia is caused by a brain Unid
which comes down through the irifundibu
lum iuto the nose and mouth. Of courso it
is. It would make anybody mad to havo
his infundibuluui used for such a purposo
as that. Shakespeare had reference to
something of this sort when he spoke of
putting "an enemy into our mouth to steal
away our brains." Only he couldn't iiso
the word ',infundibulum', without revoking;
bis poetic license.
Mr. Garland's Good Fortune.
Boston Herald.
ought to console him for the loss of an
$S.000job in the Luited States Senate or in
the Cabinet. It ought also to enable him
to get along handsomely without indulging,
in any more Pan-electric enterprises.
Ileal Estate Transfers.
Instruments filed for record la tho recorder's
office of Marion county, Indiana, for the twenty
four hours ending at 5 r. m., Aug. 17, lSs9,as
furnished by Elliott & Butler, abstracters ot
titles, Hartford Block. 84 East Maiket street.
Benjamin F. MrCulIoueh to Charles
Gunckcllot7, in Lipincott's addi
tion :.. $350.00
Ida Newnani to Andrew Hmith. Jr..
part of lots 4 and 5, Hitter's ?nlKli
vigion of outlotg 2 and 3, iu Jolin
eon's heirs addition 2,700.00
Joseph II. Clark to Wayne C C.
Parker, lots 63 and 04, in Clark's
third addition to West Indianapolis. 00.00
James A. Hamilton to Frederick M.
IIoMnsnn. the north half of lot 17.
in Martfudale & Coa MilMiiviMou of
tbo west half of the southwest quar-
tr of tection 13, Uvwns-hip 1.
range 3 425.00,
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
Compaiiv to bilas Tyn.T et uU tbe
w.-Kt li:i"lf nf the fMiutbratt quarter
imd thoeat lu.lfof tLe Miuthwe:
quarter of taction 17. township 10,
ranse4.0 lO-lOO acres 17t
,ooo.oo
William 15. Buriora loiicorife iw. reap,
liehl. lots J al 1. i Hutchincs's
nuUliviion of May et al.'s High
land Iloiue addition, and lot 9, in
Mo k 22; lot 2i, In blo-k 24. North
ludtanapolis. and part of lot 11, in
Braden's subdivision of Breit,
Bradeu & Co.'s addition. 1,400.00
Ellas C. AtkliiH ct al. to Marcarct K.
Yottart, lot V2. in Atkins's Univers
ity Place addition 1,000.00
Manraret K. Youart to Mary I
Youart, the north half of lot r in
Atkins's University Place addition.. 500.0O-
Adelaide Ilansey to rarah Miller, lot I
31. in Stone. Jr.. etala subdivision '
of outloM 16, 07,l, and the south
half of 01 6,000.00
MarKaret Meyer to Amanda M.
Kecordcal two-thirds of lot , lu
Lauesnilo 150.00 .
Conveyances., 10; contUcratlon f30SSftAJ
Ex-Attorney-general Garland's prospec
tive now position as attorney forthe North-