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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-18
AT NEW YORK.


A Meeting of the Western Union Executive
Committee To BE Held To-day.
New York, July 1.-THE executive com
mittee OF the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany will meet tomorrow, ,and the petition of
the operatives will then be brought to its
consideration. One of the officers of the COM
pany said to-day that it was impossible to say
what action would be taken. The general
opinion was that the demand was excessive
and unreasonable. No action has yet been
taken by the Mutual Union. American Rapid
or B. & 0. companies.
The Western Union officials state that the
kilograms published in this mornings papers,
purporting to come from two directors of the
Western Union, and advising a compromise
were forgeries No such dispatches have
been received
Superintendent Humstone said: at is
impossible to tell what action the company
will decide to take. l consider the demand
for an increase of Is per cent. in salaries an
immoderate one. 1t is not warranted by
the scale OF wages paid to other classes of
labor, and it is greatly disproportionate to
the reductions made by the company in
1877. That was only per cent. Tell me what
section means, won't your Mr.. Hum
stone went OH in facetious mood. 1T
seems to intimate that there is no extra
wear and tear on a man for Sunday work
provided he is paid for it. Section 2 asks
for one hour less of work for the day men
than they are now required to do. This
talk about no Sunday off has nothing to it,
While the men do work nine hours a day,
on Saturdays and Sundays we frequently
let many of them off, and pay them as if
they were at work. l don't understand
exactly what they mean by equal pay for
equal work for both sexes'''
But, on the average are not your women
operators paid less than men for the same
amount of work?"
well, l suppose they are" replied Mr..
Humstone; "at a rough guess l would say
that the salaries of the men average 80 per
cent, more. About % per cent. of our oDer-
ating force are women. This is only rough
estimate
Another prominent Western Union officer
said; 'Telegraphers cannot be regarded as
skilled artisans, and most of them have risen
from the position of messengers. They are
now as well paid as the average of bankers
and merchants clerks, and l do not believe
the company will grant any 15 per cent, in
crease. While the operators are better or
ganized than in 1870, at the time of the strike,
then most OF the men were single. To-day
most of them are married and have families
to support. | don't believe they could be
held together in a strike for any length Of
time"
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What the Company VIII Do in Case of a
Strike.

Chicago Tribune, Yesterday.
The policy to be pursued by the Western
Union Company in the face of the demands,
as far as it could be gathered from official
sources, is herewith given:
The question OF extra remuneration for
Sunday work has been under consideration
for some time, and not long ago the officials
of the company at New York decided to ac-
cede 10 the well-known wishes of the men in
this respect. An order 10 that effect was is
sued July l. and was to have been posted in
the operating room in this city, but was
withdrawn on account OF an informalty
which was discovered at the last moment.
According to the wording of the order, not
only operators were included, but messen-
gers and all others employed about the Of
flee. The order was accordingly sent back to
New York to be revised, and in its corrected
form it appears in the new book Of rules re-
Gently compiled but not yet issued.
The company does not propose to fix
days work at eight hours, and the officials
say that they know of no business establish
ment III this city which limits days work
TO eight hours This demand the company re-
CARDS as unreasonable, as it also reiards
the deHand for a general increase of 10 per
cent G%I all salaries, without regard to the
competency of the man. Such an increase
the company not only considers excessive,
but it feels that sufficient time has not been
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GARRETr,s oPPORTUNIrY.

The Baltimore G. Ohio Company Preparing
for Large Business.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WAsHINGToN, July 1.-THE Baltimore d
Ohio is getting ready to do big stroke of
business in the event of a general strike.
The company is in shape TO double its facili-
ties between Washington and Niagara, and
its officers make no concealment Of their
purpose to string many thousand miles of
wire all over the country and make big
play for new business. Mr. Garrett bears the
Western Union no love- and he has seized
sron this occasion to benefit himself and his
company at Gould's expense. 1t is possible
that the stand taken by the B. & o. on this
question may have powerful influence in
modifying the arrogance of the Western
Union management 1t is reported this
evening that Western Union officers in New
YORK and elsewhere have been selling the
stock OF their company "short" lately in
large blocks. If this is true, the strike will
probably occur because it would be to the
selfish interest of the stockholders TO have it
that Way,
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Contradictory Statements Concerning the
Results of General Crooks Indian
Campaign in Mexico.
'lr. Bliss and His Interview Again
Appear in the Hill Case.
The Commissioner of Patents OverruIes tho
Examiners Decision in the Telephone
Transmitter Cuse-Notes.
WOODS ATTACK ON PORTER.
Reviving Old and Exploded Charges Against
the Governor.

Reviving Old and Exploded Charges Against
the Governor.
Special to the IndianapOs Journal
WASHINGTON, july lit Will be remem-
bered that ex-Chief Detective Wood recently
published in a weekly paper here report OF
the old and exploded story about the Kansas
Indian trust-fund land, in which Governor
Porter's action as First Comptroller of the
Treasury was sharply criticised. The article
was copied into the Saturday Herald, Of In
dlanapolis. The paper here in which it
appeared publishes another article from Mr..
Wood, IN which the matter is referred to
again, and the following letter published:
INDIANAPOLIS, July z, 1888.
Colonel William p. Wood, Washington, d. c..
Dear Sir-I sent You Herald yesterday with
ynhr article on Porter Is that all of il If he or
MS friends should make reply here, or in Wash
lngton, you Will see that he does not get away
with the argument. Very truly.
A. II. DooLEY.
Colonel Woods answer to Mr.. Dooley is
also given. 1t is sufficient to say that Gov
ernor Porter, more than a year and half
ago, efectually exploded this story, as he did
again, recently, in an interview in the Jour-
nal, made after the publication of Woods
article in the Herald, and to which Mr..
Dooley the editor, refers in his note to the
eX-detective
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he Talk of an Operator.

Chicago News.
There is a great deal of speculation in
dulged in by the Western Union as to ho,.
our Brotherhood will manage to subsist dur
ing prolonged strike" SAID member of
the Brotherhood. "As the company knows
but too well how dependent we are upon
the small salaries which they pay us, and
have reason to suppose that we are very
poor, prominent Western Union official
has estimated that it would cost the Brother
hood 5000. 900 per week to stand out. But
he failed to mention how much it would cost
the company, though he must know that
where it would cost us 5000, 900, that the
loss to the company would be as many
thousands. They seem to think that we are
so poor and friendless that we cannot
base their assertion that we cannot win, and
that they will fight us and drive us back to
work in less than week
But they are only giving themselves taffy.
II We are forced to go out you can depend up
on 1t that We do with the intention of
staying out for three months or until our
demands are satisfied, and the resolution to
win or die in the attempt is so firmly estab-
lished in our minds and no influence can be
brought to bear that will cause us to swerve
from our purpose. | cannot inform you as
to thefinancial condition of other assemblies
than our own, only that they will receive the
support of the Knights of Labor, which is
composed of all branches of trade through
out the United States, besides considerable
surplus i'll our own treasury"
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Buiger, the NIaysvilIe Rapist Pleads Guilty
and Is Sentenced to Death

CINCINNATI July 1.-THE Commercial
Gazette's Maysville, KY, special says: This
afternoon, as soon as the jury in the Cooper
case retired, the Emmett Guards escorted
Samuel Bulger from the Jail to the court
house amid great crowd of people on the
streets, where he was to be arraigned for
rape. In the courtroom the indictment
was read to him. His attorneys told him
not TO criminate himself unless his mind
was perfectly clear. He replied that his
mind was perfectly clear, he was guilty and
he wanted to be hung legally, not by a mob,
and wanted to cause as little trouble as pos
sioie. jury was impaneled, and he re-
peated the plea before them. In ten min
utes they returned a verdict of guilty, with a
sentence of death Bulger received the YER
hict unmoved, and was returned to Jail in
nm hour from the time ne was taken out"
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Overtime per Old sys-
day of 7 hours TEN. on
Salary per

please state the time the night operators
begin and stop work.
The night operator begins work at $50 p.
NJ, and has consequently finished his regular
work at 1890 A. NJ. Under the former svs-
tenn they began work at p. NJ, and all time
worked after | A. NJ. was overtime. This
means that we pay all night operators who
are on duty between 1890 and / A. NJ for one
half hour additional over-time-that much
clear gain to the operator For first-class man
this figures really an increase of salary of
$6.S3 per month, and more than compensates
for the loss of the twenty minutes luncheon
time heretofore allowed"
Has the night man any material advantage
over the day OPERATOR"
The night operator, putting in full time,
works forty-nine hours as against the day
mans tifty-four hours. Work by gas-light
has been considered harder on the constitu-
ton than day work, and hence this differ
ence. The night man has heretofore had
little the advantage in this respect, and it
was thought proper and Just TO day operat-
ors that this change should be made"
"What is the average salary of first-class
man?'
There are ten operators in the office who
were paid for regular and overtime in May
an average of $125 per month each. Esti-
mating that all over $50 per month was made
on overtime in the day time, each of these
operators worked a trifle over eleven hours
out of every twenty-four to earn the 1925"
"Now, what will be the difference under
the new rule?'
Under our new rules the same operator
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A Negroes Crime.

ST. LOUIS, July 17.-Frank Jackson, a ne
gro laborer on the farm of Joseph Schaefer a
German living short way from st. Peters.
In st. Charles county, this State, was arrested
yesterday on charge of debauching two lit
lie girls belonging to Schaefer, aged, respect
lively, twelve and thirteen years. Jackson is
lorty years old, and has a wife and family
lie confessed the crime. He said he had
been intimate with the children nearly two
years The affair creates good deal of ex-
Ditement
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WHEN
CRIME AND CRIMINALS.
Ex-Treasurer Polk's Trial Besun-Examina-
ton of His Chief Clerk.

Ex-Treasurer Polk's Trial Besun-Examina-
ton of His Chief Clerk.
NASHVILLE, July 1.-THE jury was sworn
in on the Polk trial to-day, and the examin-
alton OF the States witnesses commenced.
Robert Campbell, former chief clerk in the
Comptroller's Office Isaac Revel, present chief
clerk in the Secretary of States office, and
James c. Fleming former clerk of ex-Treas-
urer Polk, were examined. The latter's tes-
timony was full and explicit. He stated that
he was simply an employe of ex-Treasurer
Polk, and paid out money as ordered by his
employer He said that in April, 1882 when
the investigating committee was ap-
pointed at a special extra ses-
sion OF the Legislature to examine
Polk's account in order to meet the deficit
from a defalcation of S200,000 Polk de-
posted a number OF fictitious drafts on the
various State repositories to make good the
amount. When the examination was had,
and the accounts passed on by the committee
he withdrew these drafts and gave his check
for them, and so Strengthened his books. The
deficit increased on to January, 1888, when
1t amounted to some 1863, 600 when MIR.
Polk left the State for Mexico. Witness de-
MED all knowledge Of of the missing United
States bonds, amounting to $55, 600, and
never saw them nor heard of them until
after Mr. Polk left the State. The examina-
ton of Fleming will be resumed tomorrow.
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AT ST. LOUIS.
Announcement that the Strike Will Begin
at Noon To-day.

ST. LOUIS, July 1.-THE members of the
Brotherhood of relegraphe assert tonight
that unless the Western Union Com
pany replies favorably before noon
tomorrow to the memorial presented
to General Manager Eckert, yesterday, the
executive committee will order strike, and
that at II o'clock sharp, New York time,
every member of the Brotherhood in the
country will stop work and quietly abandon
his post. The telegraph officials do not
seem to be worried about the matter.
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Railrond Hands on a Strike.

GALVESTON, July 1.-THE News Palestine
special says the mechanics and working
men in the International railroad shops
struck to-day for ten hours daily labor at
thirty five cents per hour or eight hours per
day at thirty-tve cents per hour, an addition
to the present wages. There is no disorder.
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New ORLEANS, July 1.-THE Times-D Demo-
Gratis Vernon, La, special says the two Bar
nard brothers, charged with murder and
lrson, were released from Jail last night by
crowd of armed men. They captured the
,uard, forbidding the sheriff coming near
hem, and broke the lock of the Jail. None
If the crowd were identified. The where
Ibouts of the prisoners are unknown.
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AT CHICAGO.
The Telephone Repairers to Strike t

The Telephone Repairers to Strike This
Morning.
CHICAGO, July 1.-THE telephone COM
pany officials to-day sent for the foremen of
their gangs of repairers and linemen and
asked them what the men wanted The fore
men, in sply referred them to the execn.
tive committee of the Telegraphers Brother
hood The officials refused to recognize that
committee and it Is stated that at a subse-
quent meeting it was decided to strike at 8
o'clock tomorrow morning
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GALVESTON, July 1.-THE News's Hunts
vile special says; This evening four heavi-
ly armed men went to J. H. Smiths store in
Cincinnati, and presenting a Winchester at
The clerk forced him to submit to the rob.
bing of the store They obtained a small
amount of money and as much goods as they
could carry Off On leaving they fired at
lhe proprietor, seriously wounding him."
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COLONEL II. WATERS. United States District
Attorney, Kansas city, saiG: samaritan NeryIur
cured my niece of spasm4." Druggists III ali
Stateskee 1t,
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legitimate and benevolent purposes, many of
whom, il has been stated, Will repudate any
arbitrary action of the striking element.
"R. c. CLOWRY, General Superintendent"
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Hin,s Rninnre d Reformation.

WAsHGNaroN, July 1.-THE attention OF ].
G. Hill supervising architect of the treasury,
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will earn over $l36 per month for the same
work-virtually an increase OF salary OF
about 10 per cent.
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AGUE, biliousness, drowsiness, ilundice and
rheumatism, Hop Bltters removes all easily.
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WHEN INDICATIONS.

WEDNESDAY, .-Generally fair wealth.
II, and nearly stationary temperature.
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IL would be dmcpI loc7ncei7o Of airy
thing more .nc9ngruous or striking I'm G. ,n.
trast, than the Appearance OF band Of
iodiln saysges, iu their naive costume OF
blanket, leatber5 aal paint, upon fam
ionsble and crowded tuorsugbflre If a
grea! city and IL is .uch a scene as tht.
that Mf. John Barton Payne describes in
the following letter ~ tots paper
CuicAeo, Feb u, SO
En-. AReUs Y,stsfdsy while passing
dom Clark street 10 this city, Just in front
Of the cour. house. saw waking along
the street 90 OLD ludian, his ,euaw. and
ON Der back 10 true Iudian fAsbiyn. vac
Let papoose. II vas covered vita astaaI
snd seemed rather supported By a bundle
tnli vas strapped arD9ud the fa1a.,s
shoulders. The OLD man wac rather 60
firm, and The Q14w vas the msu af tbe
house. but to zee ther0 Boz tbe heart a.
this great city in Their native cIarsrf,r
without guide OF Interpreter Just n.r.rq
oiong win the tbrJng a. busy people. ,.,.
q stfsngs sigbi and cJDiess prov ksdi,
us some singular r,hsct'1ls. N,tu.-y
years ako,p,rFaps, this SEINE Indian was
proprietor n,fe. a0I strong aud robust. H,
and bic braves rystncd 40 sill over tbes,
plains 'mDDsfc- a. al tbey surveyed.
Nov their glory hss DEPARTED, auI the,
seem 10 be wandering about I0 sort a
amless, lisusss way YOU can zee slime,
sry kind Ct peoF'e YOU cs1 tbiok Of per.
,4 tuee,IetL 3
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n most distressing case 81 destilut'on
and suif ring in Aleg any county. Mary
land, hA- Just been brought 10 light. A
young woman by the name of Clark, who
has been l"',d ng disrcputabls life Tor
some time past, resided with her father.
three miles uoith ~ Rawlings Station I'm
nj last summer, when he drove her fram
the house, being too poor To -nppod her.
She then built hetsr.t "a M % pm with
poles and covered II with ru-n, in wEich.
with rhfer children, she took no hcf
hsbtation. With the approach 81 winter
she prucur Il mn old stove and placed 10 in
the hut. Here they have lived upon
psrched corn, and kept Ii, msclves from
freezing by keeping the stove ct hot with
a wood firr. The four slept upon the b re
ground, the children wearing nothing save
rags around their luius, aud the mother
wearing ragged garment ~ short length,
and without s!teyes. THIS was all ;,
clothing they had during thr entire win
ter. Inc skin ard II IA Of the woman and
ch htren had become cracked and harden
ell from alternate exposure I the sever,
heat OF the stove and 10 the cold, as they
tur"ed To warm ftst one eide their body
aud then the other. When the case bc
came generally known some kiud neigh
bors suppned them with clothing, AND
furnished the means ot support frr the
woman ard children until the. remainder
OF the w!uter IA over. The wonan has
again taken up her residence with her
fa(bCr
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SPECIAL CLUB RATES.

Club Regular
Names 0i Journals. Prices of Prico O
the two the two
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Coming.

F'r Ia the sunny South sh6 fingers,
Yet slowly comes along,
with fairy gatlsnds in her fingers
With snalChes OF sweet surc
Tier eyes with promises are beaming,
Her smiles will rapture bring,
Til" sunlight from her hair is streaming.
Thrice welcome, lovely Spring
she bri "gS II. gifts, the royal maiden.
Faic flowers To deck the hills,
With prImsoses her arms a.c laden,
B!uebeIls and daffudils.
Pale crucuses have COME bcforu her,
Wild birds her welcome sing;
Ten thousand longing hearts adore her,
The gray worlds darling. Spring.
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7 osr RECORD NOTICE.
sla'c u Wosl VirgIni,, ~:

NtRc OF NCst Nlrg 'nip, So:
Ala Circuit Court held in and for the
County 0t Preston, ou the llth dav OF
December, iss2 John r.. Pecrce,
VS..
John W. Athey Edward " McD1uald.
Joseph Y. Williams and the Sheiin Of
Mineral County.
Du petition under chapter l75 of the
Acts ot 1871. entitled An Act to supply
the lost records Of Preston County
George 10, MCGrow, "a Commissioner
appointed under said Act, having hcre-
tolDro made his final report herein, on
motion OF the petitioner uy hs counsel.
~ ordered that siid report loo fi.cl as
OF this jtv,aud that q uoicc Boo polished
boz ofrh new ~pHper printed 'n This county
once week for twelve successive weeks
ot tne hIu- oi said report. and requiring
slI persons Interested therein % auucar
before ihIs cour, 900 the Gtu dsv 0f ncxt
term, aud uo what i- necessary 90 p.y.
tcct their Iutero- t-
Provided, tuat such NOTICE NAV con
i-t OF q c"py oi tLis orucr Published ee
aforesaid.
a cops from ilo record
Ie.is- SMITH CRANE.
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I osT HEcoHD NOTICE.

state Of Wet VIrg.rf. pei
AZ ~ trcIr CHur hed bro suI Or ilr
County of Prr-;rn. on tUc llIh DOS o.
December 1852 j 1un D. p.rrC
We
PHilip Fletcher. erpn v WiInus. t-as.
Pas.n-, FIvul n. I,DJusiI, aal DO
Sheriff Murr County.
o. "a petition uutrr chapter rs q ih.
ACES vi 1871, ennIed An Act O., -r.eIy
tu- .nst r.cJrI Of Preston g. 1gfy.
George IT.. NcGrrs so C.mmIg-Iuurr ap.
e. Inred under sa.t Aci, havirg Irr,tYf.,.
made hla dII report herein, On mYtu. no
iDe uCHuYa.r. by biz counsel. It su-.t..
e1 .u.f ssfI report be frd a--f rri.It..
t.d that 70 ntIce be pGlI-u.d boo .sc.
rersoap.r pf'ntDd Iu tHi- COUNTY. uur. "a
week Tor IYe .ucce--lye wr,ka. ~ Ine
fling W rsii gru, and rt0uTing sII per
SOUS interested therein. Oh appear 1air,
t1Is court oo tHp g.u Gay of theutZi f,ru
aud % What IS necessary O, pftsct theu
Interests.
Provided thtt such motto. my con b.
81 n copy ct IBIS order D1DlIsh q as "A. .c
said
a G ny frou.aa record
T's hNITE CEAAP.
fIlrE
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- a~0s
Gossip.

There is absolutely no redeemlue fec
ture in gossip. Even IL true, we do not
desire to know disagrceable facts about
any Of cur neighboTs. Nothing il more dc
moral ling 10 a man than TO lose faith in
his felows. The man Of faith and honor
Is not apt TO be suspicious of others, aud
does not willingly b,lieve evil. The lover
of scandal and The behever in it are alike
dchcieni in honor and n, rality, and are the
bane of well organized ciety II all Cos
sips could be quietly killed some morning.
the next generation Of men ami WON, Il
would b, happier. A case Of hydropho.
hla now ana then starts the cry of "Muz-
zle the dogs, " Death ON the highway,
etc. There 10 death and misery IA the hlgs-
ways nd by-w- Us and in the home, from
the poisoned tongues of the gossps. Let
the voice - up, "Muzzle the gossips."
Teach children that gpssiping it dlshouor-
able, aud that faith In HE honor AMI viz
tue Of mankind will huli u? society, and
add To the sum Of human happiness,