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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1890.
INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS
Tretty Orphan Girl Coerced Inlo Mar
rying Her Betrothed One's Rival.
Costly Freight Wreck Messenger Boy Killed
by a Train Wandering Gamblers Whose
Lines Hare Fallen in Hard Places.
INDIANA
A Touns Lochlnrar IThow Faltli In III
Sweetheart rroved Ills Undoing-.
Special to the Intlianapohs Joarnat
Greenfield, Feb. 1 ft. The facts have
leaked out in regard to a marriage under
rather romantic circumstances, near here,
early last Friday morning.1 Two young
men were waiting cn Mips Maggie Duncan,
a pretty nineteen-year-old orphan girl, who
lived with her grandmother, Mrs. Smith,
three miles southeast of Greenfield. The
girl favored Mr. Asa McKinley, while her
uncles and aunts favored the suit of Mr.
John Curry. Miss Duncan and herchoico
had made arrangements to bo married to
day, but the fact becoming known, plans
were laid to frustrate their intentions.
Miss Duncan was invited to the house of
her aunt, 3Irs. Joshua Barrett, and soon
afterward another uncle and aunt,
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Archey, with their
favored suitor, John Curry, made their
appearance. The company then under
took to persuade Miss Maggie to marry
Curry. Believing that their pleas would
he successful they had obtained the serv
ices of the Rov. D. A. Evans, of the M. P.
Church, of this city, who came prepared to
tie the knot. Young McKinley appeared
on the scene at this time and pleadedf earn
estly with the girl to stand by hun. .He
had a paper which he wished her to sign,
swearing eternal fealty to him, but while
so promising she was unable to sign the
paper, because young Curry threw a buggy-robe
around her and held her arms
down. McKinlev, relj'ing on her
faithfulness, lett, and the work
on the faithful girl began. The preacher
in the meanwhile, retired; but, unable to
withstand the persuasion of so many. Miss
Duncan, at 3 o'clock in the morning, finally
consented to wed Curry. The license was
soon obtained from the county clerk here,
who was aroused from his peaceful slum
bers, and at the breaking of the day Maggie
Duncan became Mrs. John Curry.
Young Mr. McKinley takes the matter
coolly and says he doesn't care much.
Mission School Provided For.
epeclal to the Indianapolis Journal.
Greensbubg, Feb. 16V Some months ago
George II. Carson, a man of moderate means,
died, leaving a will, a clause of which pro
vided for a legacy of $1,C90 to the Presby
terian church, of this city, the income
from which was to be nsed perpetually
to maintain a mission Sunday-scboolamong
the poor of the city. To-day Dr. Torrance,
the pastor, presented the subject to his
congregation, andasked a popular subscrip
tion to secure means to start the school on
a good basis. This met a hearty
response, and several hundred dollars
were raised. The object of the mission
school will be to secure the attendance of
every boy and girl in the vicinity who does
not now attend any regular church Sunday
echool. It will probably be held at the
Kink Opera-house, under the supervision
of several good Christian men and women.
Freight "Wreck on the Big Four.
Special to the Indianapolis, Journal.
FowLF.it,Feb. 16. Last night.atlO o'clock,
while a south-bound freight train was
standing at the depot, another freight, also
south-bound, came dashing into the rear
end, completely demolishing the caboose.
three freight cars, and the engine of the
second train. No signal was sent back by
the crew of tho forward freight, and a
heavy down-grade coming into town pre
vented the crew of the second train from
seeing the red-lights on the caboose in time
to stop. No one was hurt, all seeing the
danger in time to jump. The loss is quite
heavy on tho railway company. The night
passenger trains were held Here until 7
o'clock this morning.
Madison County Farmers.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
Anderson", Feb. 1C The Madison Coun
ty Farmers' Institute has just closed a two
day's session hero, and one of the most in
teresting and valuable in the history of the
organization. Professors Latta and Web
ster, of Purdue University, and Senator.
Mount, of Montgomery county, were among
the principal speakers. That distinguished
farmer. V . R. Myers, made one of his happy
speeches in welcoming the farmers in the
city. President Wilson Corey deserves
great credit for the enthusiasm and success
of the Madison County Farmers' Club.
Drowned Ills Horses.
special to the Indianapolis Journal.
Greenfield, Feb. 16. Yesterday Wm.
Miner, a shoemaker, of Carthage. Rush
county, came to Greenfield and got drunk.
When he started home last night he missed
the right street, and, driving over the com
mons, east oi town, got into an old gravel
fiit. where h-3 hauled, pulled and jerked the
ines until he succeeded in drowning tho
two horses which were attached to his
buggy. When found he was sitting alone,
in his glory, yelling for help.
Messenger Hoy Mangled.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
Wabash. Feb. 16. Charley Ilarner, son
of Henry Ilarner, of this city and a mes
senger for the Western Union Telegraph
Company, was run over and frightfully
mangled by a Wabash train in the Andrews
yards last midnight. Young Ilarner, with
several companions, went to Peru on a
freight train last night, and, on returning,
he foil asleep and was carried ly to
Andrews, twelve miles east, where, it is
believed, he fell oil" the car while asleep.
The body was brought here to-day.
Driving Chicago Gamblers Out of Fort Wayne.
imperial to the Indianapolis JonrnaL
Fort Wayne. Feb. 16. The closing of tho
gambling-houses at Chicago has brought a
largo number of sports to this city, and the
games which were suspended Borne time
ago have all been reopened. Yesterday
Mayor Harding issued a peremptory order
to close all gambling-houses at once. He
threatens to suspend Chief of Police Wil
kinson in case the latter does not obey the
Mayor's instructions. The sports are de
pressed in spirits and are preparing to
move to pastures new.
The Search Froved Futile.
Special to the Indianapolis J oarn&L
Peru, Feb. 16. The general search, to
day, under the guidance of Sheriff Khine
barger, for the presumably dead body of
Willie Afielder. who so mysteriously disap
peared in early January, resulted in no
trace whatever being found. Much was
expected from this day's work. The con
tinued absence, with not the slightest clew,
leads to the belief that the lad is dead.
Much excitement exists over tho a flair.
Shot nimself In the Head.
Specla! to the Indianapolis JonrnaL
Cambridge City, Feb. 13. nenry Cas
sidy. a young man of this city, while shoot
ing at a mark with a self-acting revolver, ac
cidentally shot himself in the right temple,
severing a large artery. He was taken
home in a critical condition.
Bllnor rrotes.
Mrs. Dora Bishop, of Walton, dropped
dead Saturday of heart disease.
The Johnson County Farmers' Institute
is to be held in Greenwood on Feb. 13 and
191 An excellent programme has been pre
pared, and the community anticipates an
interesting meeting.
A small barn of Mrs. Dr. Green, of Mnn
cie. was burned, last night, together with a
delivery horse of II. Rhodes A: Co., whole
sale grocers, a lot of feed and a buggy.
Loss, 000; no insurance.
Another attempt was made at Fowler
vesterday morning to burn the tow of
frame buildinza on the north side of Fifth
street, sast of the bank. The fire wasdis
evJcd in time to be put out before seri
ous damage was done. Tt originated in a
back room of Turell'a restaurant, where
what little stock belonging to J. B. Mc
Kinney, saved from tho lire one week ago,
was stored.
Miss Mellie Boynton, sister of Mrs. Eliza
beth Boynton Harbcrt, of Chicago, died of
la grippe, at the home of her mother. Mrs.
Barney, in Crawfordsville. This makes the
tenth person who has died from this disease
in and near that city.
White Caps in Orange county recently
took William Strothers, near Paoli, from
his bed and gave him an nnmcrcifnl whip
ping with hickory switches. Strothers
claims to have recognized four of the gang,
and swore out warrants against James and
George Wolfe, A. J. Beatty and John Mar
shall. Edward and Daniel Seek, aged sixteen and
fifteen years, arrived the other day at tho
home of their grandfather, at Jefi'ersonville,
having run away from their step-mother,
in Seattle. Wash., Oct. 19 last They had
walked most of the way. stolen some rides,
and subsisted for tho most part on com
taken from tho fields. They had gone clear
on to Washington, D. C, and, returning
via Cincinnati, had been arrested for burg
lary, but acquitted.
ILLINOIS.
Unprovoked Murder by a Boy of Thirteen
In Vermillion County,
Danville, Feb. 16. Some days ago
Howard Barnett, thirteen years old,
disappeared from Rossville, . and nothing
was heard of him until it was re
ported that he had shot a man. It was
found that he had staid with Mr. Cornell, a
farmer, living several miles west of Ross
ville, and went with him to Hoopeston.
While there tho boy bought a box of cart
ridges for his rilie. After dinner they
started for home, and when several miles
from tho city Howard quietly slipped a
cartridge into his rifle, and, jumping out of
the wagon, pointed it at Mr. Cornell and
gave him three minutes to "haul out." On
eing refused he palled the trigger and sent
a bullet through Cornell's head near the
right temple, llQward did not wait for the
money, but lied across the country. Noth
ing has been heard of him since.
Drier Mention.
George McFatridge, of Horse Prairie, ac
cidentally 6hot and killed himself while
duck hunting. '
Branches of the non-partisan W. C. T. U.
are forming at Farmer Cityr Piatt county,
and at several other points in central Illi
nois. The first permanent electric lights were
turned on in Mattoon Saturday evening. It
is the Thompson-Houston arc system, but in
candescents are anticipated later.
G.W. Willey, a prominent resident of
Wenona, has been missing for some weeks,
and it is believed that he has been foully
dealt with. He was. last eeen at Gibson
City.
At the third annual oratorical contest of
Lombard University, held at Galesburg,
the first prize was awarded to Thomas Dot
ter, of Sullivan, Mo., and the second to
Thomas Nolan, of Galesburg.
Relatives of H. J. Bourne, a former resi
dent of Decatur, believe that he was mur
dered at Westfield, Feb. 5. His body was
found on the railway track, his money
fone. He went to Westfield with $600 from
loweaqua, 111., where ho had sold a farm.
He was a Modern Woodman, and had his
life insured for So.OOOintheFtna company.
The case is being investigated.
DALLY WEATHER BULLETIN.
Local Forecasts.
For Indianapolis and Vicinity For the
twenty-four hours ending 8 p. m., Feb. 17
Warmer; fair weather
general indications.
"Washington, Feb. 16, 8 r. m. Forecast
till 8 p. M., Monday:
For Indiana Fair weather; southerly
winds; colder Tuesday morning.
For Ohio Fair weather, except in north
ern portion local rains: southerly winds,
becoming variable; colder Tuesday morn
ing. For Illinois Fair weather; variable
winds; colder Tuesday morning; cold wave.
For Lower Michigan Fair weather in
southeast. local snows in northwest por
tion; variable winds; colder Tuesday morn
ing. i'or Wisconsin Local snow; colder; north
erly winds; cold wave in Wisconsin.
For Minnesota Fair weather, except in
eastern portion local snows; northerly
winds; decidedly colder in southeast por
tion, with cold wave; slightly colder in
northwest portion.
For North Dakota and South Dakota
Fair weather; variablo winds; warmer Tues
day moruing.
Observations at Indianapolis.
Indianapolis, Feb. 1C.
Time. Bar. Titer. 11. II. Wind. Weather. Pre.
7a.m. 30.32 35 CH South Cloudless
7 p.m. 3Q.10 SO 52 South Cloudless
Maximum thermometer, 57; minimum ther
mometer, 34.
Following is a comparative statement of the
condition of temperature and precipitation on
Feb. 10, 1890:
Ten. Pree.
Normal. 34 0.13
Mean 45 OAK)
Departure from normal l 1 ' 0.13
Excess or deficiency since Feb. 1.. 0.74
Excess or deficiency since Jan. 1... 39S u'.So
Tlus.
General Weather Conditions.
Sunday. Feb. 1G. 7 r. sr.
Pressure. The low area remained cen
tral, with 29.54, in Utah, but extended east
ward to Lake Michigan during Sunday.
A high area extends from Nebraska, Minne
sota and Lake Superior northward; 0:50 in'
Manitoba. Another high area is on the
Atlantic; its western edge extends to Michi
gan, Indiana and the Mississippi from Cairo
southward.
Temperature. Low temperaturo con
tinues in the Northwest; 10 below zero and
less from central Montana, North Dakota
and northern Minnesota northward; 10 and
below from southern Montana. South
Dakota, western Minnesota and the north
shore of Lake Superior northward; SO and
below from northern Kansas, eastern Min
nesota, northern Michigan and Lake On
tario northward; 50 and above from Col
orado, southern Kansas, southern Iowa, In
diana, western Ohio and North Carolina
southward; 60 and above from northern
Texas. Arkansas, northern Mississippi and
northern Georgia southward.
Precipitation. Snow fell near Lake
t Superior, in western South Dakota and
Manitoba; rains in Utah.
Black-Mailers Secure 84,000.
Springfield. Mass., Feb. 16. A success
ful attempt at black-mail, of which Amasiah
Mayo, a wealthy citizen, was the victim,
has just come to light. Last November
Frank C. Algerton, a medium, enticed
Mayo to his room, and, under the pretense
of receiving massage treatment, put Mayo
Into a compromising attitude. Algertou's
confederate, George A. Mason, broke in the
door, and. claiming to be a detective,
threatened to arrest both men. He finally
agreed to settle for $4,000, and Mayo paid
his half of this amount while Algerton gave
a bogus check for his share.
Mother and Child Badly Froen.
Grafton. W. Va., Feb. ld-On Friday
morning Mrs. William Leonard, of this
county, left herhome, taking her little live-year-old
daughter with her, and went to
the woods, where she hid, being under the
hallucination that some one was trying to
kill her. She was not found until Sunday
morning. The girl's limbs were frozen to
the Knees, and both tho mother and child
were nearly dead from cold.
Twas but Natural and Right
Kansas City War.
The people of Indianapolis have set an
example worthy of imitation. When James
Whitcomb Riley, tho "Hoosier poet," re
turned to them, a few days ago. under a
cloud of evil reports, they received him
kindly and resolved to stand by him, and
to this end a reception will be given him,
fiaTticipated in hy all classes. This is a
csson of nien'a fair treatment, of their
brother man which should not go unheeded.
It says to other communities: "Go and do
likewise.
Only When It's Democratic
Omaha Republican.
The Louisiana lottery might turn its at
tention to the Ohio Legislature, which is
always in the market.
Experience proves that nothing else so Mirely
destroys scrofula as AVer's JbarsapaxiUa.
HE MAY RULE BRAZIL AGAIN
Movement to Make Dom Pedro President
of the Republic Gaining Strength.
He Is Willing to Return to His Country, but
Will 'ot Sanction Any Action That Will
Lead to Violence Other Foreign News.
DOM FEDKO FOR TRESIDEST.
The Hx-Ernperor May lie Asked to Return
and Rule Over the Republic
Paris. Feb. 1C A close friend of Dom
Pedro has received a letter from Brazil
stating that the movement there to place
the ex-Emperor in nomination for the
presidency of the Republic is strengthening
and spreading. The Emperor has been in
formed of the intention of his friends, and
they await his consent to use his name.
The 'Emperor has already expressed his
willingness to return to Brazil in any ca
pacity, public or private, it being his su
preme desire to bo allowed to die among
his people. He has declared, however, that
he will not sanction any action in his be
half likely to lead to violence of any kind.
"If the people want me," he 6ays, "let them
call for me of their own free will and indi
cate their will in a manner which will ad
mit of no mistake."
To ascertain the feeling in this city with
regard to a restoration of monarchy :n Bra
zil several distinguished exiles were ap
proached and asked for an expression of
their views. Senhor Soares de feouza. late
President of the Brazilian Senate, and chief
of the Conservative party, says he accepts
the situation, and believes the present form
of government is irreversible. The repub
lic has come to stay. The change has been
brought in such way that it is impossible
for tho nation to go backward.
Senhor Antonio de Soraiva,the statesman
Dom Pedro commissioned to organize the
Cabinet in which General De Fouseca had
a place, said; "The republic is an accom
plished fact. Nothing remains for us to do
but to submit to the change and do all we
can to maintain order and liberty. An at
tempt to restore the monarchy would be
unwise and unfortunate. In the actual
condition of affairs there is but one road to
follow. We 6hould do nothing to embar
rass the new regime. Order ana peace are
assured, and it would be folly to disturb
the present condition of things." Seuhor
Soraiva returns to Brazil, where he will use
his influence to restrain the ultra friends of
Dom Fedro from following a reactionary
policy.
A CURIOUS CEREMONY.
How the Duke of Fife Was Invested with the
Rights of Ills Peership.
London 8pecial to Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Duke of Fife, who was given a duke
dom on his marriage with the Prince of
Wale's daughter, took his 6eat in the House
of Lords Thursday evening upon his pro
motion. The ceremony, the origin of which,
as a dime novel would say, is lost in tho
midst of antiquitywas irresistibly funny.
The Lord Chancellor, sitting on the wool
sack, was informed of what was coming.
He forthwith clapped upon the top of his
enormous wig a little cocked hat. Then a
gorgeous procession entered. It was pre
ceded by a misterious oflicial known as
Black Rod, clothed in robes of blue and
gold, wearing his orders and carrying a gold
tipped ebony staff. Black Rod was followed
by the garter king-at-arms, clad in
wondrously gorgeous raiment, and close
upon his heels walked a being who looked
like an overdressed old lady, but proved to
be the hereditary Earl Marshal, the Dnko
of Norfolk, in ducal robes, carrying a white
wand. The rear was brought up-br the
Duke of Fife with his sponsors, the Prince
of Wales and the Duke of Westminster,
wearing scarlet robes with queer looking
bars of ermine. These strange figures
walked in single file to the woolsack, and
Fife, having presented his patent and
signed tho roll, the Prince and two dukes
formed in line and proceeded solemnly to
bow to the Lord Chancellor throe times.
Fife, however, was so nervous that he kept
on bobbing his head until the Prince in
terfered. As tho Lord Chancellor . has to
bob to every one who bobs to him, the littlo
cocked hat was in imminent peril of tum
bling oil. The St Vitus dance was, how
ever, completed without that awful dis
aster, and the House resumed business with
a feeling that tho British Constitution had
been vindicated.
GENERAL) FOREIGN NEWS.
News of Secretary Tracy's Calamity Reaches
the American Squadron of Evolution.
On Board the Atlantic, Toulon, France,
Feb. 16. Tho officers and men of the squad
ron have learned, with deep regret, of tho
terrible calamity which has befallen Secre
tary Tracy, and profoundly sympathize
with him in his bereavement The admiral
received a cabelgram announcing the sad
facts soon after our arrival, but they were
not generally known through the squadron
until yesterday, when the French news
papers published tho reports.
Our officers and every one connected
with the squadron have received courteous
invitations to visit the arsenal and navy
yards, and to-day a largo number availed
themselves of thoprivilege. Many visitors
have boarded the ships. They have espe
cially admired the ordnance and the neat
rig and white hulls, also very different
from their grim, murderous-looking iron
clads, which savor of anything except
prcttiness.
Boulanglsts Successful at the Polls.
Paris, Feb. 10. Elections were held in a
number of divisions to-day for members of
tho Chamber of Deputies. Naquet and
Mcry, two Boulangists whose elections
were quashed by the Chamber last Decem
ber, again head the poll in two divisions of
the Seine department, buta6econd ballot
is necessary in the case of Naquet. Boulang
ists Ooussot, Revest and Lauro are re
elected in three divisions of St. Denis.
Be'aeval, Boulangist, is re-elected in the
first division of theSceaux, receiving 11,02
votes, against 9.S29 for Goblet.
M. Lebaudy' and M. Lasserre, Republic
ans, have been elected for Mantes-sur-Seino
and Castel-Sarrasin, respectively, in
place of their deceased fathers.
Cardinal Manning's View or the Rescripts.
Berlin, Feb. 1C Cardinal Manning has
written a letter to the Deutche Revue with
reference , to the rescripts of Emperor
William. The Cardinal says: "I think
thU imperial act the wisest and worthiest
that has proceeded from any sov
ereign of our times. The con
dition of wage-earners in every
European country is a grave danger to
every European state." After rtvi owing
the hardships of workmen he continues:
"On the domestic life of the peop'e the
whole political order of human society re
poses. If the foundation is ruined what
will become of the superstructure? The
Emperor has shown himself a true, far
sighted statesman."
Parnellltes Want Their Expenses Paid.
London, Feb. 17. The Parnellites pro
pose to press the government for the pay
ment of the expenses attending their de
fense before the commission. This demand
will bo mado on the ground that the report
of tho commission acquitted the accused.
Mr. Parnell will ask in the House of Com
mons to-day what tho covernment'a inten
tions arc regarding the commissioners' re-'
port.
The Kaiser and Ills Soldiers.
Berlin, Feb. 16. The Emperor William,
in a letter of instruction to the Minister of
War, directs that every soldier shall be
treated in a worthy manner and according
to his legal right, because such treatment
forms tho essential foundation for awaken
ing aud increasing in the pleasure of serv
ing and the devotion to his profession as
well as love toward and confidence in his
ofliccrs.
Wants an American Commissioner.
London, Feb. 16. Senhor Treitas, the
new Portuguese embassador, bad his iirst
meeting with Lord Salisbury to-day. He
expresses himself as much pleased
with the Prime Ministers cordial and
satisfactory reception. Portugal proj?oM
a commission of tive to be appointed to fix
.1. i;n.ininn .tf Ka Africnn frri tnrV- two
delegates from England, two from Portugal
and one to be chosen by mutual consent.
Lord Salisbury is anxious that this fifth one
should be an American, because American
missionary interests in Africa are affected
by the dispute. Portugal prefers that the
ii'fth should be French, but will not oppose
an American provided tho principal terras
of arrangement bo settled in Lisbon and
Lonaon.
Anti-Strike Insurance Union.
Berlin, Feb. 10. Ths Westphalian Mine
Owners' Protection Association decided at a
meeting at Essen to found an Anti-strike
Insurance Union with an initial capital of
ft).0O0Vthe owners contributing in the pro
portion of a half penny for each ton of coal
produced in 1SS. In the event of a strike,
they are to receive eighteen pence compen
sation lor every ton short of the average
production.
Dl-Centenary or Noted Society.
Hamburg, Feb. 16. The bi-centenary of
the Hamburg Mathematical Society was
celebrated here yesterday. Emperor Will
iam sent a message of congratulations.
Newton, Herscbel, Liebnitz and Gauss were
once members of the society.
Republicanism Growing in TortugaL
London, Feb. 17. The Lisbon corre
spondent of the News says that many symp
toms show that the republican cause is in
creasing in strength daily, and that the end
of the monarchy might come at almost any
moment.
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PENSIONS FOR VETERANS.
Residents of Indiana and Illinois Whose
Claims Have Been Allowed.
Pensions have been granted the following-
named Indiamans:
Original Invalid-Samuel Mountz. rieasant-
ville; John P. Peterman. Carpentcrsville; Mathew
Smith, Connersvllle; JScott Cole, Huntington;
mioses Koaenherger, Brazil; George w. beany,
Hollnndsburg; Jacob llarber. Kvansville: Wal
lace Courtney, Whttestown; Charles E. Reynolds,
Indianapolis; W Illlam N. Koester, Farmersburg;
William N. Stout, fctilesville; Lewis C. Link,
Frankfort; Ervln Van Kirk, Monroe City; Valen
tine Mattox, Hardinsburg; Thomas K. -Austin,
uunaiiey; wuiiam w. urirae. Indianapolis; Jonn
Bclitnitt, Kentland; Thomas S. Crawley, fctipp's
jjm; ietcner Doughertv. bhoals: Lewis fcneiton,
Tennyson; llenry Frederick. Knightstown; Mah-
lon Kooeson, .Logansport (increase); 1 nomas
Burden, Portland: bimon Balnea; Bristol; Fam
uel A. Iturnside. Judson; Charles U. Linn. War
saw; JohnF. Peoples, Kempton; Levi filusher,
Majonica; John II. Morrison, Rudd (increase);
Benjamin F. Lewis, Montpelier.
Increase-Btacey Reeves, Manhattan: Theodore
8. Cross, Dolman; David Jarvls. Terre Haute;
John W. Ilolmes. ClrclevlUe; Andrew J. Davis,
Clark's LU11; George Deaduff, Hartford City;
Henry II. Smith, Iloann; Jonathan Rotelwait,
Otwell; Levi Wolf, Whttestown; William II.
Bowen, Warsaw; Hartson Moorehouse, Veeders
burg; John P. Ruby, Osgood; Benjamin N. Rip
hart, Anderson; Mat hew Bennett, South Wabash;
John Harger, Noblesvllle; Sidney M. Lynch,
Richmond; Henry H alley, Kempton; Francis V.
W. Cole, Bnnninrton; Jesse Shamp, Akron; Jas.
Lw Cummings, Hartford City; George W. Rod
dick, Bicknell; William Amthor, Indianapolis;
Daniel T. Shirk. North Manchester; William E.
Whitesell, Bryant's Creek; George W. Peterman,
Lakeville; Samuel Cole, New Augusta: William
H.Hayes, Indianapolis; Jesse W. Keithley, In
dianapolis; Jeremiah ThornelL Battle-ground;
Francis M. Parent, Steven: Robert Crosley, Mt.
Comfort; William 8aylor. Greentown.
Reissue Christopher C. Bowlin, Tipton.
Original Widows, etcJane A., widow of
narrison Gray, Henryville; Mary, widow of
Henry Miller, Ingleneld; Minerva Carr, former
widow of Wm. B. Stropes, Washington,
Mexican Survivor Stephen E. Denton,
Bippus.
TO RESIDENTS OF ILLINOIS.
Original Invalid Harrison Burt, Jacksonville;
John Carver, Palestine; Zachariah Jewell, Chris
man; Robert J. Denny, Farmington; Jos. M.
Coatney, Litchfield; David Black, Union Center;
Henry Deremiah, Carlyle; Martin Wilkin, Elgin;
Wm. n. Melstead, Chicago; Martin A. Manches
ter, Chicatro; Geo. W. Underbill. Elgin: Levi
Coleman, Mansfield; Alex. Bronson, Morrison;
Elias Powell. Belleville; Harvey C. Morev, Mari
etta; Frank Murittt, Milford; Sherman Ide, Man
ville. Increase John B. Bowman, St. David; Peter
Cassidy, Loxa; Geo. W. Bandy, Glassford; Chas.
K. Rowling, Gray's Lake; Robert Golden, Lin
coln: John Dearen, Richtield; Wm. Hennessv,
Jacksonville; Thos. Carmody, LiteuUeld; Jas. W.
Arterburn, Kansas; John D. Jones, Carlinville;
Kane Burl. Canton: Gottlieb Stadel, Schapville;
Thos. M. Brown, Bone Gap; John R. Bowen,
Orizaba; David Copple, Walnut Hill; Marlon
Gabriel, Maqueon; Simon P. Casey, Alto Pass;
Wm. II. Knox, Maqueon.
Original Widows, etc. Minors oT Wm. D. Gray,
Loogootec; Ellen W., widow of Thos. Fries, Chi
cago; Celia A., widow of Clayton Beaxdslee, Sher
idan; Nancy A., mother of Y"m. P. McBride,
Astoria.
TRIE CIVIL-SERVICE INVESTIGATION.
Surmises as to the Intentions of the National
Reform League.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Richard llenry Dana, of Boston, and
William Dudley Foulke, of Richmond, Ind.,
both of whom are registered at the Conti
nental, are members of the executive com
mittee of the National Civil-service Reform
League, which committee 13 soon to have a
meeting to urrange for what Mr. Foulke
has spoken of as a thorough investigation
of the civil-service record of President Har
rison's administration. Among the other
members of the committee are Chas. J. Bona
parte, of Baltimore, and Sherman S.Rogers,
of Buffalo.who are expected to arrive to-dav.
Neither Mr. Foulke nor Mr. Dana will
speak definitely as to what they think of
the administration's standing in regard to
civil service reform, but it is gathered
from outside sources that their opinion is
that, whilo it has enforced the lam fairly
well, it has not adhered closely to the re
form principles with reference to the thou
sands of offices not governed by the rules
and regulations. It ia understood in well
informed circles that this meeting of the
committee is intended to have important
and far-reaching political results. The
committee is expected to provide for the es
tablishment of permanent headquarters in
Washington, of which Mr. Foulke will
probably be put in charge, and from which
will be issued a series of reports and
circulars touching upon the civil service
Eractico of the government. Tifere are
oth Republicans and Democrats who see
in this project a scheme to assist Mr. Cleve
land in his light for the Presidential nomi
nation at the hands of the Democracy in
lKtt, but it is not at all certain that this
conclusion is correct. Mr. Foulke is quite
well known to entertain for the ex-President
a hearty dislike, which the latter re
ciprocates with equal fervor. It was Mr.
Foulke who exposed the violations of tho
civil-service laws by Aquilla Jones, Mr.
Cleveland's postmaster at Indianapolis,
and although ho could not force Jones out
of othce .tho disgraceful disclosures which
he made were a formidable campaign
weapon in the hands of the Republicans and
helped materially to carry Ihdianafor Harri
son in 1888. Therefore, if the committte or
the league were at present prepared to throw
its support to Cleveland it would not be
likely to intrust Mr. Foulke with the charge
of the proposed national headquarters. But
it is not doubtful that it is proposed to pre
paro lor exercisiug all possible influence
upon the national conventions and the elec
tion of 1S92, and also to take a hand in the
choice of the llouso of Representatives in
November next- More secrecy has charac
terized this embryo movement of the re
formers than usually accompanies their
manifestions, and it is likely that no publio
otiicial declaration will be made until the
report of the executive committee is pro
mulgated. :
Edwin Booth Embarrassed.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Unlike the majority of actors, Edwin
Booth is not given to story-telling, and the
gravity of his countenance is very rarely
mollified by the influence of a humorous
narrative. But ho has been occasionally
known to relate incidents of his own career
that have a humorous side, and once or
twice he has spoken to a party of friends of
what ho considers to be a droll experience
that he met with in one of tho smaller cities
where he was acting. Some cream puffs in
tho window of a confectionery shop ap
pealed to his appetite aud he stepped in aud
purchascdafew. Without stopping to reflect
upon tho peculiarities of tho spongy stulf
he bit into the interior, and immediately
two streams of the yellow, viscous cream
oozed out and worked over his cheeks in
the direction of his ears. At this moment
some one in the shop, which was thronged
with customers, recognized the tragedian
and exclaimed: "Why, that's Edwin
Booth!" Tbev crowded around him aud he
found himself in perhaps the most embar
rassing position of his life. But he went
calmly on with his eating until he had
tir.istud tho last morsel, wiped away the
cream and marched out of tho shop as un
concernedly aa if he had been playing a
part. "But." ho acknowledges when he
tells the story, "1 never did a better bit of
acting in my life."
The Day After.
Washington LctU-r.
The lire-escape peonlo are doing a rushing
business now in Washington.
LOOTED AND MOBIIED.
How the American Missionaries Were Driven
from Kwang-Sal, Southern Clilna.
San Francisco Chronic la.
Rev. Dr. A. A. Fnlton.of Ashland. O., who
has been a missionary in Canton and
Kwang-Sai, Chin:i, for the past ten year?,
has arrived here eu route home. Ho is ac
companied by his family and sister, who is
also a missionarr. Dr. Fulton is one of the
missionaries of the Kwang-Sai or West
province, who were mobbed, their buildings
burned and looted, and who were driven
out in 1SS0. Ever since theu they have had
a claim against the Chines government for
indemnity, but, though Minister Charles
Denby has called the attention of tho
United States to the claim, and the Secre
tary of Stato has called on China to roquito
the missionaries, it has not been done.
"Tho mobbing and looting occurred in
the citv of Kwai-Peng, in Kwang-Sai," ex
plained Dr. Fulton to a Chronicle reporter
yesterday. "We wore there merely by suf
ferance. You understand that American
missionaries are not allowed to reside out
side of the treaty ports in China except by
utterance. Wo can travel anywhere iu
the country on passports,
comes to settling down the
like that. They have heard
our stealing their children,
but when it
Chinese don't
stories about
and all that.
and are nreiudiced and afraid. In all
China there are but twenty-four treaty
ports, and in southern Chiua, where we
were, thero aro but four.
"We have spent huudreds and hundreds
of dollars trying to get a residence in some
of the other ports, but after all our endeav
ors we are not allowed to do it, aud there is
not a single American living elsewhere but
in a treaty port in southern China. We
were driven out by the literati or Chines
students, of whom about eight thousand or
ten thousa" go every year to KwaiPeng.
We had or lomes there, and had just fin
ished a ew hospital. They looted and
burned everything, and we fled to Canton,
where we have since been engaged. Our
claim is for $5,000. Minister Denby assured
me just before I left that he would see that
no more money was paid to Chinese in
America for indemnity till his claim was
paid. Through long endeavor we have
tinaily got the Chinese to make a treaty
port of Kwai-Peng, and now mission work
can be done there. During these long four
j-ears to the present time they allowed
some French missionaries to remain there,
but they discriminated against American
missionaries. Minister Denby has been
calling their attention to the fact that one
bad as good a right as the other.
"I have read in some American newspa
pers some queer news about railroads in
China. Perhaps you will bo surprised to
know that there are but sixty miles of rail
road in the entire empire. This line runs
to the Kwai-Peng coal mines. But it is a
fact that China is now appreciating the
need of railroads, aud has taken steps to
build a long line to tho borders of Russia.
They are beginning to contemplate what
Russia might do in a time of war, and this
railroad is for protection. The country is
taking some other important steps, too.
When I went to China thero was
not a single telegraph line in
it. Now these lines extend through
eighteen provinces, and are thousands
of miles in length. Just before I left, too.
a strong petition was sent to tho Emperor
asking the privilege of putting steam
vessels on the rivers of the interior. ' Hith
erto there hayo been nothing bnt common
passage boats, devoid of steam power and
worked by Chinese. The government
would like to put them on, but it has to
move very slowly. If steamboats were put
on it would throw out of employment
thousands of Chinese who ply their small
boats on the rivers, and the question what
they would do to earn a livelihood is re
garded as an important one. The common
people don't like tho various labor-saving
inventions of Europo and America, because
they fear they will be thrown out of work
and will starve. The Emperor is afraid of
mobs, so he has to move cautiously. The
government is beginning, however, to open
mines and erect cotton and paper-mills,
and, altogether, it may be said to be pro
gressing as fast as it can under the circum
stances. "In regard to mission work we are get
ting along as well as could be expected.
The PreBbytcrian Board of Missions in
Canton, which I represent, bad 500 addi
tions from Chinese during the past year.
The recent statement of Lieutenant Wood,
of the American navy, which has attracted
so much attention, that not a single Chinese
convert to Christianity had been made,
after all the labors of missionaries, is en
tirely untrue. His story is scarcely worth
answering. I suppose he simply skirted
along the coast and got a surface impres
sion in regard to the matter. His impres
sion were entirely wrong. When the dif
ficulties we had to surmount are consid
ered, the wonder is we have done so well as
we have."
Dr. Fulton eays that wherever mission
aries go who understand medicine they
are very well received. Ho cited an in
stance of a medical missionary being called
to attend Admiral Fong, of the Chinese
navy, at Canton. Tho Admiral is very
wealthy and influential. He has a fortune
of 12,000,000 taels. So well pleased was he
with the missionary's skill that as a result
several gold medals were bestowed. "It is
thus," said Dr. Fulton, "that w gain head
way. Hereafter medical work will be a
verj' important feature with us."
Dr. Fulton says there are about a thou
sand Americans in all China, two-thirds of
whom are missionaries. The remaining
third are largely engaged in trade at
Shanghai. Ho is greatly pleased to get
back to America, and he will not return to
his mission-held for probably a year. He
has hopes that through the present urgent
solicitations of Minister Denby and Secre
tary Blaine the claims of burned-out and
exiled missionaries will 60on be paid by
China.
THE OLD SOUTH AND THE NEW.
A Contrast Drawn Between the Emancipa
tion of Virginia and Georgia Women.
Milwaukee BentlneL
Virginia is tho type of the old. The rug
ged rocks that top her towering Peaks of
Otter are not more unchanging than her
primitive social ideas. The present genera
tion of Virginians is fossiliferous in re
spect of the position of women. An Ohio
woman now married to a Virginia lawyer
applied for admission to the bar, but
was rejected on account of her sex by the
Supreme Court, She has pressed a meas
ure in the legislature for a constitutional
amendment giving the right to prac
tice law to qualified women. From the
highest points of tho Blue Ridge to the low
est Eastern coast. Virginia quivers with
excitement and indignation. In the Assem
bly the eloquent descendents of Patrick
Henry attempt to stay the invasion of
Northern ideas Ly a wall of words. The
Hon. Mr. Woods proclaims it a violation of
tho ordinances of the Almighty thatwoman
should do anything for her own support.
"Why," he exclaims. , "when the devil
tempted Eve ho gave her the apple he did
not require her to climb the tree for it "
This rather sustains the notion that
woman's helplessness is tho devil's oppor
tunity. The Virginia sentiment is expressed
by tho Lynchburg News, when it says:
We sincerely trust that the General Assembly
will have the good sennj to defeat the proposition
to admit women to the practice of law In Vir
ginia. Woman's rights which simply means the
right of women to wear breeches and tinker
themselves Is an "ihrn" that has not yet been
permitted to cbtrude itself into the social sys
tem ot the South, and it is earnestly to bo honed
that it never will be.
In the now South, represented by Georgia,
there is a difference. 1 here woman has dem
onstrated her full ability to climb a tree
and exercised her right to wear a modilied
form of pants. Atlanta has a woman's gvm
uasium, the members of which, we are told
by the admiring editorof the Constitution,
includo "the brightest jcwelsof our woman
hood." Ibey are the most conformable and
extreme followers of Mrs. Jencess Miller as
to bitnrcated skirts. The stiff corsets that
crunch the suffering ribs of the daughters
of irginia no longer embrace the deep
lungcd chest of tho (Jeorgia woman. The
cotton string that compresses the limb of
tho irginia woman is worked into rag car
peuta in the new South, and the suspensive
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rooms, Mills. gioTr,-
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Thread to order t2T
to 12 inches toS.1
KNIGHT 4 Jiljjyt.
harness of the dress-reformer now tIV
the well-filled stocking of the it?
Hebe. A woman from Boston. tieboM
of ankee notions that are revolonim
as to woman's sphere, has charrs fif ,7
and trousers, taught them to -skia
cat" on the horizontal bar; to climb
higher than any apple tree in. Eden-t7v
foot-ball, and to kick a tambourine;
height of six feet, We quote fron t1
Constitution:
There is another form of exerdseTlaflwj j
at the School of Physical Culture vlBtSl
teris almost afraid to menUon. Atacer
point in the armory hancs suspended ho-.t
tally in the air a tambourine. The cord i'
holds it passes over a hook and lasectzil
reach of the hand, eo that the tambourics
be raised or lowered at wiU. Thu Instroii i
for the practice of the high kick, and if tBTB
thinks that it is safe when it banpi Unvt
feet from tho floor he is mistaken.
This is the beginning of :the end. TnJ
Southern women form clubs, ircea it
discard corsets and the string carter, vl
they place themselves under the iaSaer
of a Boston reformer and become
kickers, it is only a matterof a shorttr
when they will kick high and effectm:
for those rights which t heir Norther s;:
enjoy. THE CZAR'S 400.
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Doings of Gilded Youth, In St. Petersburg
Deadheads and Hard Liquor,
New York Sun.
Herr Von Froskowetz, an Austrian
man and traveler, has just published i
bookful of stories concerning the bad td
of Russian life, as he saw it in a tirojer
trip through the country. The most itnl
ing peculiarity of Russian railway rnu
he thinks, is the large number of dei'
heads in the high-priced compartnKti i
the coupes. Between Moscow and I
Petersburg he shared a first-class coitjh:
ment with a dragoon officer. The tzi
took Herr Von Proskowetz's ticket, k.
said nothing to the officer. For some t:
after they were left alone together t
military man eyed tho Austrian nobler:
curiously, aud then asked:
"Did you really buy a tirst-class tide;
Von Prcskowetz confessed that he Li
" Voo bad! Too bad!" ejaculated the t'
cer. "And your good money is squank
beyond recall. 1 ou ought to have dos:
I did. 1 gave the guard a rouble il
cigar. Ho is a good fellow and &ozl
bottom about tickets."
Proskowetz suggested that adrsgoosc'
cer might do things that a toreir
mightn't. "5fes; that may be so," answered til ec:
Vanion, "but just think of thefnar
l l, a. i i x : . i. .I.- atv
jiiuii uuvo xiau Willi IUD UllCU iv..
you squandered on a ticket."
As the founder of the Austrian Sec:
for the Prevention of Drunkenness, E
Von Proskowetz collected many sunr.
as to the amount cf hard liquor ewillc:
by the Czar's subjects. From Jan. 1, Z
to Jan. 1. 1888, Russia's 2,331 distilleries f;
duced 3,861,503 hectolitres (a bectclitn i:
little less thau 100 quarts) of watert
spirits; 2C3 other factories mannfactr.
spirituous liquors from various f ruiu, r
SOS others produced 6chnaps andpsr'.:;
brandy. In 18S6 the average r oDsnaptr
in Ruspm was thirty-two quarcs of "la
liquors to every man, woman and ei:
the country. In the province of vu
where the peasants are famons fori-'
temperance, the consumption in lS8st
more than ten quarts per head.
wrMtrhttdiiesanf th on arte rs in trtlCB y
workingmen at the capital are obl'-f-live.
One-tenth of the workiapceni
ingsnrein cellars. When higher 'SMj:
ever, the accommodations are little vtti
A workingman'8 sleeping-room has wp
only one window, and is occupied aUe
by between ten and iif ty other lDrcv
Herr Von Proskowetz's opinion of w-t
society is pretty poor. The youuz Br
Moscow's 400, he thinks, are ajwj J
most recklesss and extravagant w
world, and are always xo"
desire to smash things. A J?aVdf(
fore, who gives a stag dJ.V:
Moscow restaurant r.r hotel invar
tracts to pay for the mealjV L
crockery." As soon as the last
been served his guests begin to siaa i
about the room, and before tDe.wfVV
of wine has been served the floor lica-;
with small bits of tho service, the c
and the pictures from the walL Jw.
Winter Garden the young MooV
the sticks through tho fish gloi
down all the flowers and shraM., ,
get at. They aro not altogether u-v
ever, for they pay the proprietor w -for
everything they destroy. --."'
Another freak of the lively yosjj;
Moscow is to hire an elephant if
ing and get it drunk on ";'kI'
About six months ago a jou
beat the record for onfftfy
giving his friends a dinner,
tho only meat was the porkfroja ,
pig. bought of its trainer by
14,000 roubles. At least, that ,j
the host told in good faith toai'1 t
the beginning of the feast Hel: Uf
next day that tho owner of tn '
Tanto. had swindled him by Q1';', i
common pig for the educatea, uC.
lawsuit folbSwed, but befowitcv-j
cided Tanto and his pig and tj j
bles in question got out of the c;
The Moscow dudes and o&ce
an overwhelming passion lor-
the cafe chantauts and fo.Jr 1-'
singers, whom they marry wit
frequency. Herr Von Prosjf aV
iias not ueen ioiu oi i uo
Russian fashionable life.
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They Itelray a Consciousnes
Springfield Republican (Mug.) c-jt ?
Three of Montana's fuRiS'. ;
notice, i no spectacle r'TSU
tied and inspiriting one, ' 'J l'
by employing a device of cz,l.
uiucu oi an argument io
Cheap CoaTlc01,
J Af
Milwaukee Sentint-L
It is the opinion of oro f w;,.
a great many Democrats ja Ti-. ;,
New York "voted ngainsttttj,i,. .r
ior ?- eacn at xnu ia- , .-r
If Mr. Clevplntid knows Oi" - t!
th; sum. Ueishould bring J4 V;.
wrin vnr itn i rr niiv: in
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logo ajiTiy wuo wm
Uon.
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ill
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Delsartean. She has put the ten!.
matrons of the new South in nW.vr
fcmce 18S the population or rc.
burg has fallen from oCLOOO to cUOOO. l;
falling otit has taken nlace amo:f
PI TV-
these stories of theuzars- "jittl;1.
serionsueas, and presents ".j :t -:;
nf th5r trn th His oninion IS ' .