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y THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1891. POUND AFTER MANY YEARS Worn with Age and Grief a Mother and a Prisoner Eestored to Eer Daughter. Fanlcn from the Governor Completes a Joyous 3Ieetin That Occurrsd at the Woman's Pri3on DaTid Jacobs Also Released. There wan an affecting scene at the wom anVprison here .yesterday, the principals to which were a mother and daughter sepa rated for over twenty years. In January, 1STO, Mary A. Adims was convicted in the Jennings Circnit Court of reasoning her husband, and sentenced to prison for life. She had been married twice, having by her first husband several children, the youngest, Emma, being five years old at the time of tho : murder of her step-father. After Mrs. Adams bad been taken to priian the child was adopted by a family living in Missouri, where she grew to womanhood ignorant of her mother's fate, and under tho impression that her parents were both doad. Some years ago she was married and removed to at- Loms, where she has since resided. A lew days a?o she was called to Bartholomew county, this State, to attend the faneral of a Ulster, and while there learned for the first time from the lips of another sister the fact that her mother was serving a lift sentence at the Woman's Prison in thu city. Coming here yesterday morning, aha went at once to the prison and asked for Mrs. Adams. The latter was pointed out to her, a sad-faced, broken-looking woman of seventy years, whose gray hair and pallid face bora eloquent witness to her age . . . A A ana long years vi conunemenc me two women were soon face to face, the daughter with tears streaming down her face, and the mother with a pnzzled expression of wonder at an emotion, the cause of which she could not guess, for she did not recognize in the woman of twenty-live the little girl of five, f rwm whom she had been separated many, many years aeo. "Are you Mrs. Adams!" Questioned the daughter. es," replied the mother, "but who are your "1 am Emma, mother; your little Emma. Don't you remember met" and the daughter threw hor arms around the old woman, and sobbed on her breast. The old mother-light came back to the faded eyes and they shone with a joy which maternal love alone can impart. Tho -tears streamed down the withered cheeks as she patted the daughter in the old-timo loving way, when lnliabys, not sobs, were the accompaniments of tho little demonstrations of aflection. "Oh, (my little Emma, my little baby girl," was all the poor mother could say for a few mo ments, and the scene moved officers and prisoners alike to tears. Then joy gave place to sorrow, and forgetting tho sad conditions of their meeting tho daughter told her mother of her life since tho separation, nearly twenty-one years ago. At the termination of the interview the daughter sought Governor Hovey, and was overjoyed' to learn that her mission had been anticipated, and that a pardon await ed the aged mother, the memory of whose crime weighed as nothing against the deep rooted lovo of the child. The papers in the case were completed last evening, . and it will be a happy Sunday for mother and daughter reunited, never again to be separated in this life, for to-morrow Mrs. Adams goes with her "baby girl" to the tatter's home in St. Louis, where the will be cared for with all the tender ness of a groat filial love. The daughter is a davk-eyed, slightly built young woman dressed in deep mourning. Her name is withheld for obvious reasons, it not being deemed kind to make, her friends in her present home familiar with her mother's disgrace. Late yesterday afternoon Private Secre tary Roberta and Mrs. Adams's daughter drove to the prison with the document which was to make a free woman of the ai;ed mother. -Arriving at the institution Miss Keely, the superintendent, was made acquainted with their mission. In a few moments they were in the presence of the woman, . who was . altogether un conscious of the joyful tidings they brought. The daughter seated herself beside her mother on a sofa and Colonel Roberts handed Mrs. Adam the precious document with the remark: "Here i a pardon for you, Mrs. Adams, from the Governor." Mechanically she took it. dazed at the import of his words. A moment she sat as if transfixed, and sud denly throwing no her bands, exclaimed, "My God," and fell back in a dead faint. Re storatives were applied, and as she regained consciousness the happy woman aobbed, "Thank God, I am a free woman at last." This crowning scene In an episode the like of which the prison will probably neversee again was intensely dramatic in its charac ter. Private Secretary Roberts says be never again expects to gaze npon a happier scene than that which ensued when the old mother realized fully that she was free to go with her daughter, a little girl no longer but to the mother's heart always a baby. Never has there been an instanco in the gubernatorial experience of Indiana's executives in which the situations have been as little like real life as they were in the present case. Governor Hovey has taken a warm interest in the matter, and feels that the granting of the pardon is an act which will reflect credit upon his official career as well as npon his humanity. The application for a pardon for Mrs. Adams has been pending for seven years, one of its prominent signers being the late Judge Berkshire, of the Supreme bench, before whom the woman waa tried. It was urged by the county otucers ana many residents oi Jennings county who believed the woman sufficiently punished. Besides.there wasserious doubt as to her guilt. Her husband was poisoned, but he had been in the habit of buying quantities of strychnine with which to kill rats, and the problem of whether she ad ministered the poison, or it was taken acci dentally, or with suicidal intent, was never conclusively solved. t Punished for a Ded in Self-Defense. David Jacobs, a teamster in Stenben county, while driving along a country road vn October, 1SS5, stopped ; to gather some the road. While so engaged Milo Bixler, whe wced the property along the road in question just at that point hailed him with tna significant remark that he would 'at tend to all the hickory-nuts on those prem ises, and ordered him to move on. Jacobs replied that the tree stood in the road, and was not oo Bixler's property, and proceeded to. -gather the nuts. Approaching Jacobs threateningly, Bixler exclaimed: 'Get out cf here or I'll knock the devil out of you." to' whioh bellig erent and comprehensive utterance Jacobs replied in kind to the eflect that if Bixler tried anything of the eort he would "knock tbe tar oat of him," picking up a piece of board to show that he was in earnest. After the exchange of a few more courte sies of tho above description, Bixler at tacked Jacobs, who struck him over tho head with the board, felling him to the ground. Billet's skull was fractured, and he died the follow ing . day from the injury. Jacobs was tried and convicted in the Steuben Circuit Court and sentenced to twenty-one years in prison. He was sent to Michigan City and after five years will emerge a free man to-morrow. Governor Hovey having parloed him on the usual conditions of abstinence from intoxicating liquor and good conduct. He is a man of middle age and married, and the application for his pardon was a strong one, it being held that he acted solely in eelf defense; that the tre in question was not on Bixler's premi ses, and that Jacobs was therefore not trespassing and that he had been suffi ciently punished, A ewspapr Magician Outwlwted. At the Herrmann performance last even ing tho audience was on the alert when the Strol-elka illusion came on. the alleged ex pl33.liou jnf which, in the afternoon News, illustrated with several cuts, having given that prt of the programme something of an additional interest. In this trick a youug man, representing a Russian officer, is placed at full length upon a board, and, by means of manacles, leg and neck locks, jiparentb' securely fastened. This board, whiih swings two und a hall feet from the Hour, is placed La a roomy cabinet in tho center of the stage, a curtain Is dropped and when it is again pushed aside a lady, instead of the otficer, is disclosed, lying upon the board manacled. "When I first introduced this experiment in New York," said Herrmann, addressing the andienoe, the Herald had the same expose that ap peared to-day in the Newa. 1 then made anofierof $o00 to any one who could get out of these locks in twenty-fonr hours. I make that offer now, and to-morrow is a day of rest. Laughter. These are Yale locks, the best made." A couple of young men came from the au dience as a committee to see if the trick could be penetrated upon the explanation of the amateur magician of the afternoon paper, but thoir countenances plainly 6howed their complete mystification. It was loss than a minute from the fall ot the curtain until it was raised, disclosing the lady, while thn prrsonator of the Russian otficer came in at the entrance of the opera house and rushed toward tho stage, pro claiming his presence. Evidently, the trick has notasyet been satisfactorily explained. REAPFUAISEMENT OF PROPERTY. Assessor Wolfs Proposition as to Assistance to Be Discussed by the Commercial Club. It is probable that there will be a large torn-out of members at the special meeting of tho Commercial Club called for Monday evening to discuss the proposition of As sessor Wolf, that the club assist-him in making the reappraisement by inducing a number of its members to accept positions as deputy assessors and devote a week or ten days of their time to the work. "The question involved." said Secretary Fortune yesterday, "is whether it would be better that such men as can be secured for $2 a day should undertake to determine the trno cash value of property or whether the appraisement should bo made by citizens, whose services are to be secured by the efforts of the Commercial Club, who are generally " recognized as quali fied to say what true values are. . The whole matter is one of such far-reaching importance that the directors of the clnb were unwilling themselves to decide what action should be taken without giv ing all interested members an opportunity to express their views." Public interest in the reappraisement is growing daily, as the people begin to realize the fact that the new law, by its stringent requirement of the "true cash value at private sale" as the figure forassessessment will, in some cases, nearly double the amount upon which they pay taxes. In this connection it is to bo remembered that neither the assessor nor the Tax Commis sioners are responsible for the law. The Democratic Legislature comes in for that part of it. I AFFAIRS OF THE OHURCIIES. The Beginning of Holy Week and Services of Celebration. To-day is Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week, and it will be celebrated in all the Catholic Churches. At St. John's Cathe dral Bishop Chatard will conduct the serv ices at 10:30 a. m., and palms will be blessed and distributed to the people. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the "Days of Dark ness," will be observed with the usual serv ices. On Holy Thursday the 8 a. m. serv ices at St. John's will be con ducted by the Bishop, assisted by about thirty clergymen. On Good Friday there will be services at 8 . M. and at that hour on Holy Saturday will come thu blessing of the paschal candle and the effects typical of Christ on earth. Tonnar Missionary Workers. The Junior Partners, a missionary society of Memorial Presbyterian Church, . com posed of younger misses of the church, have elected officers for the coming year as follows: President, Dora Bartholomew; vice-president, Esther Pickerill; secretary, Susie Brown; treasurer, May Ballard. The society is supporting a little blind heathen girl, who is being educated. It also sent, as a Christmas gift, a box of Christmas presents, valuedat about 550, to the Omaha agency for the Indian school there, and has collected during thercar 5168 for home and foreign missions. The praise-meeting was held last Wednesday evening in the church. Two members Miss May Her rington and Miss Mary Bridges died dur ing the year. Religious Motes. Rev. S. C. Dickey, of Peru, wijl preach at the First Presbyterian Church to-day, morning and even in sr. "The Sinner's Reconcilment to God" will be Rev. J. 11. Ranger's subject at Christ Episcopal Church this forenoon. Dr. J. E. Gilbert will preach at the Fletcher-place M. E. Church this morning. In the evening the choir will render a song service. Rey. J, W. Dasbiell will preach at Central-avenue M. E. Church this morning. Murphy Gospel Temperance League serv ices will be held there this evening at 7:S0 o'clock. This morning, in Grace Cathedral, Bishop Knickerbacker will ordain as deacon Prot. A. K. Glover, late Unitarian pastor at Grand Haven, Mich. Mr. Glover will serve as minister of St. John's Church, Craw fordsville. In the evening he will lecture in Grace Cathedral on the subject, "From Unitarianism to Trinitarianism, and Why I became a Churchman." Professor Glover is an able and scholarly divine. Canse of Death In Doubt. ' Thomas Fleming had a saloon in North Indianapolis, and one day a few weeks ago two or three negroes went there after beer. They quarreled and Fleming took part in the row, resulting in his being hit on the head -Kith a club. He did not attend to business for some days, but the wound healed and he took his place again be hind the bar. He did not stay there long, for he died yesterday morning from delirium tremens, as Dr. Cook's certificate of death puts it. During the afternoon, though, some of Fleming's friends and neighbors got to talking over tho events and fostered the belief that he died from the injury the negro club-swinger caused him. A delegation of them finally told the coroner about it and that official will begin an investigation to-day by hav ing an autopsy made. Articles of Incorporation. The Homestead Improvement Company of Indianapolis waa: incorporated yester day with a capital stock of 540.000, and di rectors as follows: Robert Shriver, Harri son Swartzwelder, James B. All free, John L. Griffiths and Alfred F. Potts. The ob jects of this enterprise, as stated in the articles, are to buy and sell real estate, execute mortgages, bonds and other securi ties, lay lines of pipe, grade and make streets and alleys, and otherwise improve theirrealesiate. TheMsennercbor Hall Com pany, of New Albany, wan also incorporated yesterday, with a capital stock of 15,000. The particular object 'of this enterprise is the study, teaching and , practice of music. The Double-Carbon Patent. The Brush Electric Company, of Cleve land, entered suit in the federal conrt yes terday against tho Pettis Dry-goods Com pany of Passaic, N. J., and Indianapolis to enjoin them from using the double carbon electric lamps, on which the plaintiff corporation claims to own all patents An accounting is also asked for. The suit is based on the same grounds as those set forth in the cases brought against the Nordyke-Marmon Company and others just a year ago, and the Indianapolis Union Railway Company in February, Ib'JO, both of which suits Judge Gresbam decided in favor of the Brush Company. Chance to Get Fish. Fish Commissioner Dennis says persons desirous of obtaining good varieties of native fish for stocking private ponds cau get them in a few days by going to the Kankakee or St. Joseph rivers, where, by law, seining ispermited from April 1 to Jnnel. The early catch in either of these river will insure spawning-fish and it will bo a rare chance for getting bass, pike perch (salmon), rock-bass, snnfish and perch. The Fish Commissioner is not likely to have any fish for distribution this spring. BASE-BALL AND SHOOTING Indianapolis Will Probably Be Without a Professional Team Thi3 Season. - There Is Still Speculation. Though, Regarding the Association's Doubtful Relation to Cin cinnatiNews of Trap-Shooters. The Association seems determined to hold on to Cincinnati and tho prospects of a bitter fight there are excellent, though in base-ball one can never tell what twenty four hours will bring forth. Less than a mouth remains until the season opens, and in that time there may be many changes. The peculiar position Indianapolis has oc cupied since the Brotherhood war was in augurated is unchanged. This city is denominated "League territory," bnt the chances of that organization ever niaciuga team here are imperceptible to the naked eye or any other sort of an optic. The talk to the eflect that this is exclusively a League city is all nonsense. It a good, etroiig winning team in the American or Western Association was located here it would be largely patronized and prove a paying investment. Such a club would have to play right np among the leaders and its success would be assured from the, start. The feeling that this city Is so wed ded to the League that nothing short of a team in that organization would attract any attention or interest, if fostered, will kill base-ball fover so far as Indianapolis is concerned, and bar thousands of lovers of the great sport from enjoying the privilege of shouting for a home team. The truth of this statement is apparent. The Leagne circuit as at. present made up is likely to i .and for many years. Look at it: Boston, Pie w York. Philadelphia,: Brooklyn, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago . and Cleveland. la the League likely to drop any of these points to make room for Indianapolis, whit.h is only half the size of the smallest of the cities? Yet this is "League territory," and, apparently, must continue as such, just as the superfluous grounds which the Cincinnati team of that organization has leased in order to bar out the Association. Here is a city of something like 125,000 people with out even the slightest suspicion of a ball club unless the. possibility of a compromise by which the Association will transfer its Cincinnati team here is taken into consid eration. No other such splendid territory )o the country is without representation in somo good base-ball organization. How much longer is the old fal lacy to be permitted to stand in the way of Indianapolis having a club? The talk about Indianapolis having a League club or nothing is practically the same as saying the city will be without a team forever. The "reserve rule" seems to have been applied to Indianapolis, which is in the position of a player who cannot secure either an engagement or his release. W. S. Wycoff, who several years ago was a League umpire, and has an intimate ac quaintance with base-bail men and affairs in both Leaguo and Association, was in In dianapolis a few days ago. He then vent ured the assertion that while the Cincin nati team of the latter organization would open the season there it would be trans ferred to Indianapolis before Decoration day. "You see." said Mr. Wycofi'. "the As sociation season opens beforo that of the League, and the club will pull somemouey to its remotely located park, but both organ izations know full well there is no money in a tight, and, in fact, nothing but heavy losses and a tendency to destroy interest in the game. Hence they will patch up a truce, notwithstanding tho claim that neither side will yield the disputed terri tory. Of course 1 do not speak from any inside knowledge of the situation, but simply from what I heard while in Cincin nati and from what I know of the Association people. The latter are aware that the League is too firmly in trenched in Cincinnati to be driven out in any way, and with that knowledge you can rest assured they will be ready to compro mise to advantage. Indianapolis should not bo without a ball club. It has too good a park and is too profitable a city for those whose money is invested in the na tional game to lose sight of. It is a sur prise to me that even one year was allowed to pass without the location of a good club in this territory. Of course, the Brother hood fight made base-ball more or less a pre carious venture last season, but with that excuse now removed Indianapolis should be in the swim again in some shape or an other." Tho Y. MY C. A. Leagne is to be reorganized very soon with four strong clubs. The mis take of last season will not bo repeated, , namely, concentrating the base-ball talent ' in two clubs, and thus placing the other two in a hopless position in the race before three weeks had elapsed. It is the inten tion to equalize the playing strength so as to make the race interesting throughout. There will be no toleration of individual members of the teams playing ball Sun day, and an ott'ense of this character will result in expulsion from the League. It is a question whether the present park will - be retained another season, owing to the heavy expenses it entails upon the As sociation for the payment of taxes and other items. If it is decided to mako a change the Association will proba bly seek a park near Fairview, on the electric line. There the ex penses will be comparatively small and the grounds will be as accessible as the present location, because of the rapid transit afforded. A the playing season will bain the latter part of next month, the matter will have to be decided very quickly, in order that the park may be put in shnpe for the season,, which, it is generally be lieved, is going to be much more successful in every way than the'one of 1890. r One of the biggest amateur athletic events of the year will be the Stato field day of the Young Men's Christian Associa tion, to be held here early in May. There are twelve associations in the State out side of Indianapolis, and of that number nine are sure to be represented, with an average of eight entries each. This, with tho numorous entries of the Indianapolis association, will make the number of en tries clo?e to one hundred. With the ama teur athletic talentof theentireStatein the lists the public will be afforded some fine contests, and tho event will attract a big attendance, not only from this city t but from various parts of Indiana, as each visitingas sociation's entries will have their follow ers. This will be the first Y. M. C. A. State field day ever held in Indiana, and it is in tended to make it a permanent feature. It is being looked forward to with great in terest. The article in last Sunday's Journal with reference to the advisability of the Capita City Gun Club securing its own park, has stirred some of the leading members of that organization to action, and it is more than probable that within the next month a stock company will be formed for the pur pose. The May tournament is too close at hand, so tbeso members think, to admit of new grounds being secured and put in shape in time for that event: bnt with a good long summer to devote to fitting up a park, they are certain they can have the finest in the State m which to hold the October tourna ment. For the good of the club the move cannot be inaugurated any too quickly. It is the only organization of the sort of any prominence which does not control a fine park of its own, and the venture can be made to pay for itself in a very short time. There will be no new battle between Al Johnson and the National League. The contract sinned March 9 at Cleveland will be carried out. The fonn of a supplemental contract has been agreed upon. Under it Johnson aerees to give tlie Cincinnati League club-owners a 15,000 bond to hold them harmless against the Boston and Philadelphia clubs of the American Associa tion. The League, on its part, agrees to de liver Johnson a bond, holding him harm less ugainst the New York. Brooklyn and Chicago interests jn the Cincinnati club or to deliver to bim transfers of the inter ests of theso clubs. The payment of by the League to Mr. Johnson ia to bo made next Wednesday. CapL John L. Brewer, of Philadelphia, who claims to be the champion wing-shot of tho world, and J. A. K. Elliott, of Kan sas City, are to shoot n series of three matches at Marion, N. J., this month. Each ruajch is to be at one hundrd live birds per man, and for Si, 000 . a side. C. W. Budd, of Des Moines, I a., from whom Fred Erb, jr., of Lafayette. w;on the American Field championship cup, will con test with Elliott at Kansas City, April 13. for the coveted prize. Mr. Elliott won it from George C. Beck, at this city, the latter having secured it by defeating Fred Erb. The trap-shooters of South Bend. LaPorte, Union Mills. Knox, Ilobart and Crown Point bay o organized the Northwestern In diana Shooting Association, and will give a' series of tournaments, as follows: -South Bend, April 23 and 21; LaPorte, May 14 and 15; Union Mills, June 4 and 5; Knox. June 25 and 26; Ilobart. July lti and 17; Crown Point, Aug. 6 and 7. Sporting Notes. The Capital City Gun Club will hold its 'weekly shoot, at Brighton Beach, to-morrow afternoon. Emmet Seery has signed to play left-field for the Cincinnati Association team, which will also have George Edward Andrews in its out-held. At a live-bird match shoot, at Heme Bav, England, Feb. 19, Miss Annie Oakley, the famous American shooter, who has been seen in Indianapolis, defeated Mr. E. Bean by killing nine out of ten, Mr. Bean kill ing six. Ed Voris, of CrawfoTdsville, one of Indt- ana's crack: shots.' and a member of the Capital City Gun Club, will sail for Europe on June 17. Mr. Voris expects to compete in a number of live-bird contests while abroad. Capt. A. C. Anson, of base-ball fame, aside from being a great ball-player and billiard expert, is a crack shot. In sous hundred-bird match, at Chicago, March 11, he defeated George Hofiman, killing eighty three livo birds to the . tatter's seventy eight. The American Association team is grad ually1 assuming shape, the following play ers having been signed: Catchers, Mike Kelly and Harry Vaughn; pitchers, Rad buurne, Crane, Dwyer and McGilf; Robin son, second base; Whitney, third; Seery, left field; Johnson, center, and Andrews, right. The club will open the exhibition season at Norfolk, Ya., next Thursday with the Baltimores. r , MRS. M'KAI'S SON-IN-LAW. Became Her General Helper, then Stole Her Daughter's Jewelry and Other Valuables. . John Torry, of Cleveland, who was caught by the police trying to get into a box-car, Friday night, is an unwise son-in-law. Jewelry and other efiects found on him marked "McKay" suggested to Superin tendent Colbert that a bad man had been arrested, and that probably Cleveland was the place where ho did his stealing. He telegraphed there, and quick re sponse came requesting him to hold Torry' until a detective could reach here. Detective Reeves came yesterday and told the police that while Torry is charged with burglary and grand larceny no prosecution will occur. His wife ami her mother, though, want 'him to return to Cleveland, and ho is on his way there in charga of the officer. Mrs. McKay ia the widow of a lake captain who went down' with his vessel five years ago. She was left with enough money to put herself in a small line of grocery custom. Her daughter assisted about the shop, and when Torry came along to ask for a job he was hired a's general helper. In the course of daily toil he fell head over heels in love with pretty Miss McKay, and she with him. When the wrOow realized the calamity that had be fallon her shop and household she raised a row, and told Torry to leave. Ho did, but in a short time went back after the daughter. , They were married, and there was another row, but Mrs. McKay, being a busi ness woman, finally agreed to make the best of her daughter's or Tony's bad bar gain. The latter resumed his occupation as general helper, while his wife returned to her placo behind the counter. One night not Ion g ago Torry surprised the mother-in-law by taking her, with his wife, to a theater, saying he would return for them when- - the; : ;perfprmance was about through.' He went back to the McKay house and pocketed the jewelry, and, taking other valuables he thought would be useful, left for the West. When he reached St. Louis his last cent had gone, but he did not have tho nerve to raise money on the widow's property he had with him. lie wrote his wife thathe would return to Cleveland if he had to walk all the way. He undertook the task, and was only interrupted when the police pulled him out by the heels as he was crawling into a box car to enjoy a rest. Eveuts to Occur. - Mrs. Jnlia Morgan Cole, assisted by good local talent, will have a, testimonial con cert at Plymouth Church on the evening of April 10. The cantata to have been given Wednes day afternoon by tho members of the Mat inee Musicale has been postponed to March 31, owing to the illness of several who are to take part. The rise of the Charity Organization move ment, business methods in charity and the charity of tho future, will form the sub ject of Alexander Johnson's closing lecture to the social science class,' to-morrow even ing, in the Charity Rooms, Plymouth Build ing. ' ' The ladies of First-Baptist Church will give a literary entertainment in the lecture-room. Friday evening. There will be songs b3r 'Snowdrift-Telegraph" Glee Club, solos by Mrs. W. W. Scott, and recitations by Mr. J. Burgess Brown, Mas ter Chandler Connett and Mr. 11. A Guppy. The Orpheus Singing Society, organized some weeks ago under the direction of Mr. Towers, pror-osa in the near future to give an .invitational conoert at the Propylseum. The work taken up by tho society is brilliant and pleasing, and every eflort is being made to render a choice programme. Besides the chorus numbers there will probably br solos by well-known local singers and musioians. On next Tuesday evening, at Y. M. C. A nail there will be a sleight-of-hand and musical performance. The music will con sist of musical glasses, sleigh-bells and other novelties. The sleight-of hand per former will be Elmer Ransom, who has made considerable reputation by his clev erness in prestidigitation. He will do the mystifying cabinet act so much affected by spiritualists. There will be a children's matinee on Tuesday, at 4:30 M. ' Local News Notes. Building permits were yesterday issued to Emil Schwartz, cottage, Wisconsin, be tween Illinois and Tennessee streets, f 1,200; Andrew Van Sickle, cottage, Spann ave nue, near Reid street, $1,000. Marriage licenses were yesterday issued to Henry Proctor and Katie Richardson, John W. Maladay and Sylvia M. Brown, Joseph Trevan and Ellen Law, Samuel V. Woods and Flora E. Bowman, Edward N. Sauerbrun and Emma Lantz. . Ketnltted the II all. The Governor yesterday remitted tho re plevin bail of Samuel Bloomfield, fined $100 in Kendallville, Noble county, several years ago for giving a drink of liquor to a minor. The fine was imposed by Judge McBrido, but " never collected. Hiram Iddings becoming replevin bail. It was recenrty shown that he was unable to pay the tine and that Bloomfield bad no money to settle it, so Governor Hovey, after a careful examination of the case, concluded to take the action above uotedY Tha Opening Lecture. The opening attraction of the West Indianapolis Lecture Course will be Rev. H. A Cleveland, who will deliver the first of the series next Tuesday evening at Pil grim's Congregational Church, his subject being "Some Liteiary Pleasures." The re ceipts from these lectures are to be devoted to the worthy cause of opening a reading room, and they will doubtless be well attended. The lropylctunu A new elementary conversational French clas wiil be commenced to-morrow, at 3 o'clock. The progress is so rapid by this system that all who desire to ioin should be present at first lesion, .which is free. No one can realize how colloquial power of speech can bo acquired until they witness a practical lesson. Advauce class meets at 4:C0. A SCHEME OF THE COY GANG Major Snllivan to Be Tempted with a Nomination for the Supremo Bench. Project to Hake Broad Ripple a Summer Dwell ing PlaceTracks of the Citizens' and Dad ley Companies Other City Affairs. That part of the local Domocraoy known as "the Coy wing" has finally disposed of Mayor Sullivan to its own entire satisfac tion. They propose to shelve him upon the Supreme Bench and get him out of the way for good. This great stroke of policy only occurred to them the other day, and now they are wondering that they did not think of it weeks ago. After the matter of his possible candidacy got into the newspapers Sterling R. Holt recognized the fact that there were likely to be "strained relations" in the "municipal cabinet" if he were openly placed in opposition to the Mayor. Ho notified his friends that they must "work some other lay." while he himself began to industriously deny that he was a candi date or would under any circumstances accept a nomination, "if Mayor Sullivan wanted it." Aside from these unpleasant complications in the "cabinet" that their scheme was likely to cause the gang dis covered from the gossip excited by the pub lication, in last Wednesday's Journal, tbat it was not going to be such an easy matter to unhorse Sullivan. The "chilly old marks," as they denominate ' the "reform" leaders, and their followers were evidently disposed to make a hard tight for Sullivan, aud peace is more profitable than war in folitics, just as it is in the other affairs of lfe. The thing to do was to get Sullivan to leave the track, and the Supreme Court plan was hit upon. Judge Elliott's term expires by limitation in 18'J3, and Judges Miller and McBride, being appointees of the Governor, will hold only un til their successors are elected. This makes three seats on the Supreme Bench to be filled at the election inl8J2. Mayor Sulli van is a lawyer and. like most lawyers, is an aspirant lor the Supreme Bench. It is, the theory of "the boys" that if they can only persuade him that they can secure his nomination and election to this high place in l&tt they can keep bim out of the mayoralty contest next October. Hence Mr." Holt's reservation "if Mayor Sullivan wants it." If the Mayor swallows tho bait and declines to enter tbe field in October, when 1&92 comes around "the boys" may keep their pledges and they may not. 'The Supreme Court is the place for Sullivan." said one of Simeon's lieutenants yesterday. "The work is more to his taste than the puliing and hauling thnt goes on in the Mayor's office, and he ia much bet ter fitted for it than he is for practical politics.'- With two inqre years of his leadership there wouldn't be any more Democratic party in Indian apolis. He's a nice man and he's all right, but he's got too many fool friends." "Colonel Bill" Hicklin jocosely an nounces that if this schome falls through he is going to run for Mayor himself as a non-partisan candidate. Another Hroad Hippie Project. The conference arranged for Monday afternoon between the Board of Public Works and the Broad Ripple Rapid Transit Company is simply for the porposo of deter mining upon tbe most feasible ronte for the projected road within the city limits. The board haa not yet determined what conditions it will ask in case the franchise in irranted. This is a matter in which the Council has a say, and a very large one, too. President Bosson says the contract for the construction of the road has practically been awarded for 200.000, bnt it will not be signed until the franchise is granted by the city. He sr. vs they are willing to pay a fair percentage vt their gross receipts into the city treasury, and do their share to ward improving the streets and keeping them in order. The contract specifies that it shall be an over-head system and that it shall come down to the heart of tho city on its own track. They say they will, give cheap aud rapid transit, as it will.be a5-cent fare for the entire distance, about, ten miles. The proposition to build the' road has brought forward another project. Parties who own real estate at Broad Rip ple propose to maVo that place, the hand somest view on the river, and one with nat ural advantages that art may add to in definitely, a summer resort, and to that end will build about one hundred cottages when the line is in successful operation. These cottages will be rented by the week or month to families during tho sum mer. This will give business men oppor tunity to lodge at the resort and have speedy transfer between their interests in the city and their families. Bath-houses will be erected and steamboats placed on the river above the da in. together with hundreds of clinker-built boats, and all other things that may be required to make the Ripple a first-class summering place will be done. Troublesome Streat-Car Tracks. President Shaffer, of the Citizens' Street railroad Company, yesterday morning sent a reply to the Board of Public Works, stating that as soon as their track superin tendent returned from the East the matter of lowering the tracks to the grade on East Washington street would be given atten tion. No move has yet been made toward taking up the Seventh-street tracks, but as the new sewer on that street between Meridian and Pennsylvania is soon to be put in the tracks will have to como up in the near future anyhow." , Residents of Madison avenue have com plained to the board tbat the unused tracks on this street arc a crying nuisance. These, like those on Michigan street, belong to the old Dudley company, ' aud Messrs. Conduitt and Defrees were trying to find out, yesterday, who the tangible head of this company is, in order that he may be properly notified to remove the track h. Mr. Defrees suggested that they might go ahead and remove them, and, if nobody claimed it, the iron could be sold for more than the expense of the work would amount to. A check of this com pany for 2.000, signed by U. J. Hammond, still remains in the hands of W. L. Taylor, ex-city attorney, having been deposited there as a guarantee when tbe company -proposed to change from a cable to an electric line. The board might attach this if it wants something to pay for tho re moval of the tracks. Mr. Taylor will ass: the Council to pass a resolution' authoriz ing him to return the check to Mr. Ham mond. Money for Stret Improvements. Comptroller Woollen has submitted an other group of questions to the city attor ney. Section 29 of the charter provides that 10 per cent, of the money annually collected on the tax duplicate of the city shall bo used for the improvement of street and alleys. The comptroller wants to know if this applies to thu duplicate now in the hands of the treasurer, which was given to him last January; whether it has to be appropriated by the Council or canbe used by the Board of Public Works for the pnrpose named without appropria tion, and whether this is a maximum or minimum amouut; that is, whether it is possible for the Council to make appropri ations in excess of this sum for street im provements. The first and last questions are knotty points, but on the second question it is the belief of tbe officials interested that as this sum is set aside by law it does not require appropriation by the Council any more than do the salaries fixed by tho charter. However, their action in the mat ter will be guided wholly by the opinion of the city attorney. To Test the Water. The water company has asked the Board of Health to make an official test of the water furnished to consumers in tbe city. The request will be acted upon by the board at its next meeting, and will prob ably be complied with. Vital and Health Statistics. During the past week fifty-one deaths and forty births were reported to the Board of Health. Of contagious diseases there were forty-two cases of measles, eleven of diphtheria and seven of scarlatina. Illness of the Postmaster. Postmaster Wallace, who has for some time been in f eeblo health, is now confined to his home, and his family and friends are apprehensive of the result. Mr. Wallace, however, is a man of strong constitntion and correct habits of life, and it is hoped there mar bo less cause for uneasiness thsu his friends suppose. CONDITION OP LABOR. Wall-Paper-IIanger and Dealers Agree Upon a Schedule of Price for This Reason. A committee of the Paper-hangers' Union and all the wall-paper-dealefs in the city had a consultation at the Grand Hotel last night. There was an exchange of opinion without friction as to the prices to be paid this year for hanging paper. The dealers thonght the schedule of last season a very fair basis from which to start toward an agreement and so did the committee of the union. With this amicable understanding it was not long before the schedule was ar ranged and approved. It averages about the same as that of last year. For cheap paper from 10 to 12 cents a bolt will be charged and foi gilt 20 to 25 cents. Hang ing of the finer grades will range from 45 to 75 cents. Money for th Locked-Oot Men. The carpenter anions have been notified that a week's benefits, under the lockout provision, have been forwarded, aud will probably be ready for distribution to-mor- row. The usual meetings were held at Ma- onic Hall yesterday, without revealing anything nev as to the Jockout, A re ligions service will be. held to-night, at which Rev. F. N. Dexter will' preach. A discussion concerning a movement for con tinued popular preaching will come up. - Rights Under the Census. . An inquiry from Superintendent of Pnblio Instruction Vories as to whether the law of. 1S89 giving all cities having a population of three thousand or more under the census of 1880 the right to maintain night schools wonld apply with similar force to the cen sus of 1S90 wan recently made of Attorney general Smith. - Yesterday tbat official ren dered an opinion that laws passed prior to the census of 1600 aud basing a certain right with reference to population to be determined by the census of 1SS0 must be construed to mean that when the popula tion is shown by the censusof 181K) to equal the number prescribed; by the census re ports of 1SS0 such right3 may be enjoyed threund;r.- ' Securad 975 and Some Clothing. The rooms at No. 18 North West street, occupied by three Greek candy-peddlers, were broken into last night and robbed of $75 in money, a suit of clothes and several shirts. The money and clothing belonged to John Manousos, who, with his two com panions, reported the case at police head quarters soon after midnight. GOULD SYSTEM CONDUCTORS. Conference Yesterday That Will Probably Re sult in Adjusting Grievances. i St. Louis, Mo., March 21.Grand Chief Conductor E. E. Clark, of the Order of Railway Conductors, arrived here to-day. Shortly after his coming a committee of the grievance board of' tho Brotherhood of Railway Conductors held a conference with Assistant General Manager Smith, of the Gould system. The committee are reticent as to what transpired at the meeting, but it is believed' no definite understanding was reached. Assistant General Manager Smith was seen after the conference with the committee, and said: "With out going into the details of the meet ing, you can - say that there is now no question awaiting settlement between tne brotherhood und tbe Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain system, but what ia sus ceptible of prompt, amicable and entirely satisfactory adjustment, and that no trouble is to be anticipated arising from the present complications. Beyond that I do not care to express myself. The matter of the discharged conductors was submitted to me for action, as well as some other mat ters awaiting attention." E. P. Sargnnt, of Terrs Haute, grand master of the Brotherhood of Railway Fire men, is expected to arrive to-night.. when it is believed the climax of'thn mysterious meetings will have been reached. At the conference to-day an agreed state ment of tho facts in regard to the dismissal of a conductor was drawn and signed by both parties to the conference and sent to General Manager Clark, who isnow in New York. The mattor thus rests with Mr. Clark, and no further action will be taken until the committee who will await here his reply has been informed of his de cision in the case. No Pay; No Work. ' U.niontown, Pa., March 21. The employes of the Pennsylvania construction-shops to night notified their superintendent tbat they .would not return to work until their wages, whioh are five weeks overdue, are paid. The company's representatives give as an explanation of their delay in paying the men that they are engaged exclusively on two large contracts, on which they have not received a payment lately: One of these is the new Masonio Temple in Chi cago, and representatives of the construc tion company have goue there to secure enough mcney to pay the men. Itisthougbt the trouble will be adjusted in a few days. Non-Union Men Assaulted. Pittsburg, March 21. This evening, at 6 o'clock.a crowd of strikers attacked twenty non-union men returning from work at the Braddock wire-inill. and beat them badly. A few minutes after another batch of non union men were attacked by the strikers. John Hofiman and a Swede were seriously injured about the head, while a score of others were badly bruised. The manage ment have called on the sheriff for pro tection. Great Distress Among Strikers. PiTTSBUKG, March 21. There is great dis tress among the strikers of the Connells ville coke region. The contributions, so far, to the relief committee, do uot amount to more than )0,0C0. This has not proven sufficientto purchase food, and the miners are living chiefly on the charity of farmers. Their case is desperate, and it is believed that they will have to go back to work at the employers1 terms. J Engineer and Fireman Mangled. Louisvillk, Ky.. March 21. Passenger train No. L, south bound on the Louisville & Nashville road, dne to leave here at 2:45 JVM., jumped the track on tbe connection between Brook and Floyd streets this aft ernoon. The engine was going at a good rate of speed, and for fifty, feet it plowed up the gronud. Engineer George Burgess wasinstantlr killed; and his - body was badly mangled. Fireman Al Erskin was fatally injured. , None, .of. the passengers was injured. - - - Fasting on Pr.fe Spring Water. , PmSBuno, Pa.. March 21. To night, at 10 o'clock, Elmer ColliL's, of Allegheny City, finished his thirtieth day of fasting at the Davis Fiftb-a ven ne Theater. Collins took nothing bnt pnre spriug water. Hn began weighing 13?jio pounds and to-night regis ters 110 pounds even. Collins will 6oon attempt to break all records by fasting forty-five days with nothing but spring water to sustain him, and physicians say he can do it. Triplets in Morgan County. Epecisl to the Imliampohn Journal. Martinsville. Ind., March 21. Mrs. W. H. Wooden, residing a few miles west of the city, gave birth to triplets yesterday, two boys and a girL Tho babes are in a very healthy condition, and weigh about six and a half pounus each. Fool-Killer Wanted In Canada. Monjrf.au March 21. It is reported here that tbe United States customs authorities have issued a peremptory order that a de tailed invoice runst accompany all ship ments in bond carried through the Statu of Maine for inspection. This is regarded as the first retaliatory measure lor tho Liber als' defeat Sister of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln Dead. Sphingfield, 111..' March 21. Mrs. Ann M. Smith, of this city, the widow of C. M. Smith, died suddenly to-day at San Fran cisco, aged sixty-five. She was a sister of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln and Mrs. Ninian W. Edwards. FATAL FIGI1TAVITI1 THIEVES One Detective Kiled, Another Serionslj Wounded, and TAvo Policemen Inj ured. Eaid on a Gang oftiarglars Near McKeespcrt, Fa A Woman Ta!y$ Part in the Fray and Assists Her HuUand to Escape. Pittsburg, Pa., March 2L A desperate shooting afiray occurred in a house at Peter's Run. near McKrJjsport, at 7 o'clock, to-night, that resulted in the killing of one detective, the serious wounding of another and slight wouuding of two policemen and a woman. To-uijht's shooting is tho sequel of a bold burglary that oc curred at Homestead one evening, six weeks ago. A girl named Laura Hill entered Smith's Jewelry btoro at Homestead, and began pricing various articles of jewelry. While in coavmstiou with the girl three men, who had forced an eutrance from the rnr, struck the " pro prietor down and bound binu The liithtt were then turned put and tho three, with tho- girl, cleaned out the store, escaping with some $.500 in cash and jewelry. Tho Gilkinson detective agency was given charge of the case, and not long after the girl, who Is known by several names,- was arrested in Harrisburg with a suspicions lot of jewelry, on her person. She was brought to the McKeespor: jail, and 'by judicious pumping "peached'' on her pals. Acting on her instructions to-night. Chief Detective Gilkinson, of . the Pittsburg agency, with Detective . Patrick Murphy and two McKeesport policemen, drovs quietly across the river to Peter's Run, reaching the house of the leader in the rob beryA. G. Budd. alias Fitzsimmons at about 7 o'clock. Meauwbils it is thought tbe girl Hill had warned Uudd. for'whea Gilkinson threw open thodoor Budd stood in tbe lower room, apparently changinc his clothes. Tbe moment budd saw Gil kinson he threw up a revolver and -fired, the ball entering Gilkinson's forehead, kill ing him instantly. Detective Murphy leaped over the pros trate . form in the doorway, and, facing Budd. a terrible duel at short range in the smoke - darkened room followed. Budd emptied one revolver, and his wife, who was in the room, ran to his side with an other. Murphy, though badly wounded, had also emptied his pistol, and, stooping to the dead body of his chief, drew his re volver and renewed the firing. He wai firing blindly into the smoke, however, while tbe burglar centered all of his shots toward the door. Suddmly a woman screamed, and; with a curse, Budd planted a bullet in Murphy's breast, who fell back over Gilkinson's body. During the panic that seized the two policemen at this sec ond loss to their ranks. Budd threw some clothes over his arm and escaped. A review of the room showed the place to be a pepper-box of holes, bullets having struck in every conceivable placo. Gilkin son was dead; Patrick Murphy waa shot in the forehead, chin and breast, though not fatally, while tho woman received a shot in the arm, and the two policemen were slightly wounded bv the flying bullets. The woman was taken to the jail, while telegrams were sent all over the three States to intercept Budd. who is described as five leet five inches in height, dark com plexion and eyes, and weighing only ISO pounds. He is a noted crook, and ' at the time was wanted for a previous burglary. CAPTALV CAT LEY'S TRIAL A Letter from the Jadire Advocate-Genera! Introduced in Evidence. Omaitaj Neb., March 21. Captain Catley, in his defense' ih the court-martial trial, introduced documents which threw new light on the finding of the court-martial by which he was tried and convicted In 1SS0. In that trial, which was held at Walla Walla, Captain Catley was convicted of cowardice for retreating before a small band ;of Indians in the Idaho mountains. Captain Catley introdnced a letter from the Judge Advocate-general to Secretary of War on the strength of which President Hayes set aside the find ing of the court-martial.' The Judge Advo-.cate-gencral's opinion and letter reviewed tbe case at great length. In it be stated that Captain Catley was in an unexplored country in the heart of a canyon where there was no chance for escape on either side, and in a path so narrow that his men , were compelled to march in single hie. when he was fired upon by hostile Indians. He knew nothing of the forceof the enemy, and there v. as nothing left for him to do but retreat. Tho Judge Advocate-general held that tbeie was nothing in evi dence to sustain the charge of cowardice and recommended the finding of tho court martial be overruled. It was upon this recommendation that President Hayes acted. This was all the evidence Captain Catley had to present he had been un able to get from Washington papers which he claimed would show that bo bad been disabled for active field service for more than two years. Pending the arrival of the required papers, an adjournment was taken until Monday. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Distinct earthquake shocks were felt at Butte. Anaconda and Billings, Mont., on Friday eveniug. There is a general epidemio of the grip in Milwaukee. Many of the police and tiro department members are laid up with the disease. N A workingmen's eo-oporative company has been organized at Chicago. They will open stores of various kino's to be conduct ed on the co-operative plan. A case was decided in the United States court yesterday which gives Peter McClel land a . property in the heart of tbe city of Waco, Tex., valued at a half million dol lars. Gold coin to the amount of fVW.OOO was ordered at the New York sub-treasury yes terday for export to Europe, making the total which went on yesterday's steamers $1,775,000, At Wheeling, W. Va.. on Thursday, Peter Richmond murdered his wife with an ax, severing her head from the body. He then attacked bis mother, but was overpowered by neighbors. Mannel Dennis was shot and instantly killed, at Suspension, Ala., on Friday night by his sister-in-law, Hannah Dennis, while trying to force an entrance into her house under disguise. There is a general war between the Stan dard and the Manhattan oil companies, in the Findlay. O., field, over shipping fuel oil to manufacturers. Tbe price has been re duced to 20 cents a barrel. Charles F. Smith, of Chillicothe, Mo., who had formed an intense dislike for his five-year-old step-eon, on Thursday beat the child so severely that he died. Smith tied tho county to avoid lynching. At the Athletic Clnb tournament in Sa vanna, Ga., Friday night. Robert Willing aned eighteen, waa knocked down by an amateur prizefighter, and died from tbe ef iects of the blow on Saturday morning. A freight train on the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad ran into a cow near Memphis, Tenn.. yesterday, wrecking the train. Two tramps wt-ro killed in tho accident aud James Smith, a brakeman. badly injured. Chauncy Marble, a wealthy farmer and mill-owner of Pine Valley, Pa., was ar rested, on Friday, charged with manufact uring aud pHHsing counterfeit coin. Tho molds and dies were found in his posses sion. Near Springfield, Mo., Thursday night, James Kirk, a sentenced criminal, while in charge of officers en route to Jertersonville, jumped through a car window while the train was running forty miles an hour, and made his escape. J. Pierpont Morgan will leiveNew York on Wednesday ior London. It is under-, stood tbat tbe chief purpose of his visit is to personally supervise the funding of tho Argentine loan, whifh has ben under taken by J. S. Morgan & Co., of London. Op all articles ued to grace the table none imparts more brilliancy thsu Dor ilihger's American Cut Glas. It is the rich est cut glass in the world, inquire for it of your dealer. Every piece has Dorfiingcr'c trade-maxk labcL Y