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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-01

Carthage has voted-3O3 to Gin favor OF in
cooperating as city under charter.
The young colored citizens of Jacksonville
have organized q brass band of tweve pieces.
Hon. John McCrerey, the new mayor OF Spring
field, had all the saloons in both front and rear
closed on Sunday, and as far as known the order
was carried out to the letter.
The donations for the relief of the families of
the miners lost In the Braidwood disaster have
reached the sum OF 100000. including $4,000
appropriated by the State Legislature.
On Saturday the Joliet water-works were sold
at public auction for $54, 900, the buyers being
Sanford b. Terry, purchasing agent for John
Heller, of Philadelphia. The works were con-
structed in the spring of 1880 by stock con-
pany, of which Mr.. Heller was the leading spirit,
and from the proceeds Of the sale of $140,00 in
bonds.
The farmers near Pinckneyville are manifest
ing considerable anxiety over the recent dis
covery of CHAMBERS among the horses of farmer
named Provort, on the east side Of the county.
Three or four horses were killed and eight or ten
more put under strict quarantine. II is hoped,
however with care to prevent the further spread
OF the disease.
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Rev. Heber Newton's Heresy.

Philadelphia Times.
Young Mr.. Heber Newton has at length
succeeded in inducing some obscure parsons
with more years than discretion to knock the
chip off his shoulder. Young Mr. Newton is
an imperfectly educated preacher in New
York who has made numerous efforts to get
himself talked about in the newspapers, but
got no further than being laughed at until he
happened to read Robertson's lectures about
the Bible, subject to which he evidently had
never given much attention. He had read the
Bible but had never stopped to think where it
came from, and the idea that it had a history,
being an official collection of the sacred books
of the Jewish and the Christian churches,
was altogether new to him, and he proclaimed
it to his congregation as startling discovery.
The wise newspaper people in New York also
thought that Mr.. Newton had started some.
thing novel, and among them they made
him into quite a celebrity, and the youth has
been posing as daring hereto, and defying
anybody to dispute with him. Some quiet
old gentlemen in New York have concluded
that he ought to be stopped, and they have
presented him to the bishop on sundry
charges, to his evident delight Bishop Pot
ter, however, is a man of knowledge as well
as a man of sense, and the probability is that
he will pigeon-hole the papers and refuse
young Mr. Newton any further advertising.
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The house of Charles Morgan, four and q half
miles south of Warren. was destroyed by fire on
Sunday. All the goods in the second story were
burned. Loss about 81 900: no insurance. Cause,
a defective fue.
Mrs. Taylor wife of Alvah Taylor, Esq, a
prominent attorney of Wabash, died at Aurora,
M, on the 28th ult., of cancer, with which
abe had been sufferer for years. The funeral
takes place at 8 p. NJ. to-day.
Adam Hanna, late township trustee, OF Green.
castle, has been declared of unsOund mind 1t
will be remembered that he took receipts for
moneys paid by him. and raised them. guard
ian will be appointed to manage his affairs.
jacob Neff, of MoHnt Zion, was found dead in
the woods on last Thursday evening. The de-
ceased was accidentally shot by gun while
climbing over fence. He was an old and re-
spected resident of the village, which lie founded
a number of years ago.
While out hunting near Boonyile, on Satur-
day, Gussie Wyerbacher, aged ten years, acct
dentally shot John Whtehouse, aged about
eight years with an air-gun. The ball entered
the left eye, tearing out the entire eye, and
lodged in the nasal bone The eye is destroyed
and the boy in a dangerous condition.
Cornelius McCartv. aged TWENTY-FIVE years,
who lived a mile east of North Vernon, acct
dentally fell into the Muscattatuck while fishing
iect 20 fits, but thought to have been entire
Iy cured. HIS body was found by crowd OF
boys, attracted by "A hal III the stream.
Some days ago "A couple of lghining-rOd men
persuaded Daniel Blocker, wtli-knowh farmer
living near Battle Ground, to invest in some
cheap rods He signed contract for 470 feet
at seven cents n foot, understanding 1t would
cost him $32. 90, but in IA few days, when he was
presented with bill for seventy cents u foot,
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STATE NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Running of Sunday Trains Discon-
tinued on the L., N. A. & G.
Alleged Forgery at Lafayette-Suicide of a
Young Lady at Norristown-Minor
Notes and Gleanings.
INDIANA.
Sunday Trains Discontinued on the Louis
vile, New Albany s. Chicago.

Sunday Trains Discontinued on the Louis
Vile, New Albany s. Chicago.
LAFAYETTE, April 30-The announcement
is made that the president of the Louisville,
New Albany & Chicago Railway Company
has ordered the discontinuance of all Sunday
trains over that road. Should this report
prove authentic, it will place the trustees of
the Battle Ground Camp Meeting Association
in peculiar position. The last general con-
ference requested the trustees to discontinue
the practice of throwing open the gates to
the thousands who annually attend on Sun
day, and to cease exacting a ten-cent fee
from those who passed into the grounds.
The trustees, however upon whom devolved
the nee essity of the raising of the necessary
fund to pay the cost of the workers in the
vineyard, last week ignored the resolution
of the conference. and resolved to open the
gates and charge the customary ten-cent fee.
As four-fifths of those who attended the camp
on Sundays went by rail. the conference is
likely to have its way, by reason of the action
OF President Young.
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sion, and it was the duty OF the jury to infer
that those books and documents would prove
facts unfavorable to the persons who
held them. The government had not
been able to get the books. AS
to the excuse that they did not wish the gov
eminent TO pry into affairs not connected
with the case; it was sham, and they knew
it, Why should they fear to submit the in
dex books to the government unless they
were ashamed of their connection with the
persons named in it? Or, perhaps, they knew
the index would reveal missing letter-the
letter put in evidence by the government.
Why had they failed to produce Rerdelrs
account books? Then there was Bosler; he
sat here from day to day he was the man to
whom Dorsey said he turned over his entire
mail business; he could have told how the af-
fidavits had been prepared, and which of the
was true. He was Observation-Disclosures
not interested for the government-and after
the failure of the defense to call him to the
stand, it must be assumed that unless he was
able to fence with the truth, he would have
endangered their case. Of John Dorsey's
letter threatening Rerdell with prosecution
for forgery if he harmed the other defend
ants Mr.. Bliss remarked that it put John
Dorsey in the position of endeavoring to COM
pound a felony. Walsh's testimony could
not be sneered away or discredited because he
had civil suit against Brady. John Dorsey
had sworn that he relied upon the honest
Second Assistant Postmaster-general to cor
rect any inaccuracies in his atfidavits, said
Bliss and Brady had sworn that he accepted
the contractors afidavits as true, regarding
them as honest men. What an edifying
state of mutual confidence.
Mr.. Bliss then took up separately num-
Der of routes, and pointed out the inaccura-
cies of the affidavits and the enormous
disproporton between the revenue and the
Il drrfo ont
upon the Mineral Park route ia great
through route and sarcastically observed
that it ran through the treasury.
Adjourned.
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Notes and Personalities.

WASHINGTON, April S0.-Congressmsn R.
R. Hit, OF Illinois, has just bought lot on
Dupont circle, with a frontage of sixty-four
feet for $34, 900. Mr.. Hit will Immediately
build house.
The issue of standard silver dollars from
the minis, for the week ended April %, was
16S. 1000; corresponding period Last year,
161, 900.
The Secretary of the Interior has issued an
order disbarring Oscar C. Treat, of Oxford,
Mich, from practicing before that depart
ment or any of its bureaus
The Comptroller of the Currency has au-
thorized the following banks to begin bust
ness Los Angeles National Bank, Los
tional Bank. Ennis, Tex, capital $10V,oOo
First Rational Bank, Decatur, Tex, capital
$50, 600 During the month of April twenty
nine new national banks have organized
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Trouble with the Gas Companv.

WAsHINGToN, April go. -Proceedings are
to be commenced at once by the district
authorities against the Washington Gas Com
pany for not lighting the city according to
contract The act OF 1874 under which the
company supplies gas to the city provides
that the gas shall be of sixteen-candle power
and shall not contain more than twenty
grains of sulphur or more than fire grains of
ammonia in any form in 100 cubic feet The
penalty for violation of any one of these pro-
visions is 500 fine for every day of violation.
The inspector of gas and meters having re-
ported that on several occasions the law had
been violated, suit to recover the penalty
will be begun in the Police Court.
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A TRIFLE PREMATURE.
A Presidential Candidate who Will Accept
Anybody's Nominate

Anybody's Nomination.
Special to Cincinnati Enquirer.
1t may appear trife premature, but it is a
well-founded report that certain Republican
leaders contemplate, if the half-breed and
stalwart factions are not united very soon, to
coach David Davis of Illinois, as the Repub-
lican candidate for President of the United
States, DAVIS is a man over-ambitious to
reach the presidency. He occupies that neu-
trail ground as politician which would leave
him open to accept the Republican or Demo-
cratic nomination. Said a well-posted poll
tician tonight:
'The Democrats are In danger of losing the
next President by reason of over-confidence
They will go into a convention with the idea
that, no matter who is nominated, he can be
elected. Now, the Democratic party has been
in majority in this country since 1874, but
the leaders have never been able to manage
the party with a sagacity to gain the conf
dence of the business classes. They could
nominate David Davis and elect him. He
has the labor organizations behind him. is
not mixed up in any of the jealousies of the
politicians, and has an unassailable record.
The leaders, however, believe in assured VIC
tory, and they will be content only with a
Bourbon. 1 predict, therefore, that if the
hepu Dncaii ieauerS, WIN are sdSaciouS, polu
and full of resources find that they must
abandon all of the old party managers in
order to win, they will settle on David
Davis and if they do think he can be
elected"
would Davis accept the nomination."
eyes, gladly and just as readily as he ac-
copied the nomination of President of the
Senate by the Republicans. 1t may be re-
ceived by the Democrats as almost nonsense
to make this suggestion but those who are
inclined to laugh at it must bear in mind
that when the Republicans chose David
Davis as President of the Senate they threw
overheard Anthony, of Rhode Island, who
was entitled to the compliment of the nomi-
nation, and chose David Davis because they
could elect him. Do you think they would
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GENERAL AND PERSONAL.
General Crooks Instructions to Crossing
the Mexican Line After Indians

WASHINGTON, April 30.-The Secretary of
War said tonight that the orders sent to
General Crook on Saturday, directing him to
be careful to observe the convention with
Mexico in relation to crossing the border by
United States troops, were issued because of
reports of General Crooks intention to make
a raid across the Mexican line for the pur-
pose of dislodging the bad hostile Apaches
from Arizona. The agreement with the
Mexican government, made in August last,
while it permitted the troops of either coun-
try to cross the border in pursuit of flying
band of marauding Indians. did not. he said.
admit of their remaining for the purpose of
beginning raid on resident Indians, or of
their crossing for that purpose. as the news
paper reports said General Crook contem-
plated doing Consent for United States
troops to cross under such circumstances
could only be granted by the Mexican SEN
ate, and, pending negotiations to obtain such
consent, he deemed it prudent to suggest to
General Crook the exercise of caution in
keeping within the limits of the present
agreement. He said the War Department
was notified to-day that the telegram sent
Saturday had been forwarded to General
Crook in the field.
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ILLINOIS,.
Citizens OF Bloomington Summoned in the
Hoffman Scandal Case.

Decatur Special.
Rev. M. II. Moore, of Bloomington, was in
Decatur, Saturday, performing the duties Of
an officer of the law in summoning a num-
Der of citizens to appear at Bloomington on
Tuesday next to testify in the libel suit in
which ex-Rev. H. o. Hoffman is plaintiff and
leila Robinson defendant. Hoffman was
pastor of Stops Chapel here several years
ago, and at the time there was considerable
talk to the effect that he was on too intimate
terms with his hired girl. He admitted that
he gave her presents, and would have been
cited to a church trial but for the interior
ence OF influential friends. The parties who
will go to Bloomington Tuesday, from here are
Rev. Dimmitt, Rev. Musgrove, J. r. CORN,
]. ]. Peddecord, Henry Bishop, and Others.
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Keim's Commission Not Issued.


WASHINGTON, April 30-The President has
not yet issued the commission to De B. Ran
dolph Keim as chief examiner of the civil
service commission, and it is not improbable
that he may withhold it. In such an event,
it is said, Brass Knobs will make public
the Endorsements Keim had to secure the APP
pointment. This will trot out the dandy"
letter Pendleton wrote urging Keim a red
hot Republican, for the place.
Civil Service Commissioner Eaton says the
commission has not requested the President
to withdraw the appointment of Kem as
chief examiner of the board and the matter
remains just as it was when the appointment
was made kem not having yet received his
commission. As to what the commissioners
might do Mr.. Eaton would not speak, except
to say in general terms that they were we'll
aware of the bad effect that would be wrought
on the future work of the commission il it
were shown that there was good ground for
the adverse criticisms that had been made
upon the appointment of Keim. The COM
mission has been engaged to-day in going
over the rules recently drafted and pre-
sented the President, and Mr. Eaton thinks
they will be approved at the cabinet meeting
tomorrow.
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Decision of Interest to Inventors.

WAsHINeToN, April 30.-In the patent case
of Star a. Peyton VS.. Moses G. Farmer, for
an improvement in electric lighting. the
Secretary of the Interior affirmed the action
Of the Commissioner of Patents awarding
ry holds that the applicant having sufficiently
demonstrated in the manner prescribed in
the statute, by Specifications and drawings,
that he has completed an invention; and
that it is capable OF successful operationE he
is not required to show further, that he has
actually reduced it to practice; that failure
to show in drawing a conventional device
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A smuggling Match Likely to Prove Fatal

CHICAGO, April 30-The police learned
late tonight that prize fight occurred in
the town OF Lake, ON Sunday, between
John Kelly, New York bruiser, and Rod
ney, alias "Yank" Cunningham, bar
tender for Alderman Appleton. 1t
was a smuggling match from the begin
ming Eight rounds were fought
in 26 minutes, and both were dreadfully pun
ished Kelly had his face cut and nose
broken, and Cunningham lost four teeth and
it is believed had his skull fractured. The
fight was awarded to Kelly. 1t is believed
that Cunningham will die. The police are
in search of Kelly.
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THREE SILLY GIRLS.
A Warning to Young Women Who Answer
correspondence Advertisements.


correspondence" Advertisements.
New York World.
There is an alleged literary weekly pub
lished in Massachusetts which has
for one of It's objects the promo
ton of platonic friendships between
people of alleged literary tastes, and
of course-of different sexes. For one
correspondence that is productive of good
results it is safe to say there are three which
end in harm, and not always do the young
ladies who desire correspondents" who affect
the works of Upper or Holland come out as
luckily as the three heroines of recent adj
venture which is described by a frontier
correspondent of the World. They had adj
vertised after the usual fashion, and had
been made happy with letters in the most APP
proved Claude Melnotte vein from a roman
tic young man in a far western Territory. In
due time friendship ripened into love, and
well few days ago each of the three
ladies received the following letter.
8Your letter TO NJ. c. W., -, -, has
been received here, and, according to custom,
opened by me- Violently assuming that you are
lady, though an unsophisticated one, write
to inform you that W. was, until the past
few days. private in the regular army stationed
here. Last week he killed a man. and he is now
in the penitentary, awaiting trial. for murder.
III he Is not hanged, he will probably pass the
remainder Of his days in prison. Your desire to
get married is commendable, but this lesson
ought to teach you TO RESTRAIN it within decent
and reasonable bounds l return your letter.
which has not been delivered to W.
This letter was signed by the warden of the
penitentiary. And now at Kokomo, Ind;
Cambridge, Mass, and Providence, r. l.,
there are three regular readers of the Hog
wash Magazine whose dreams of marrying
nobleman in disguise and canteriug over the
grassy plains of Idaho upon fiery mustang
of the purest Arabian breed, with a revolver
and copy of Tuppers poems at the saddle
bow, have vanished utterly, and who await
with feverish hope the news that M, c. W
has been hanged as high as Hannah.
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No Election of Chief Fire Engineer.

Special TO the 1ndlanapons JOufhaL
I.ApoRTE, April 30.-After the annual pa
rade and test of the city fire department to-
day, the election of chief occurred, result
ing in tie vote, each candidate, John Craw
ford and Charles KEELING, receiving seventy
five votes The new city council, to be
elected tomorrow, will appoint the chief by
agreement Of the opposing candidates.
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A Race Between Horses and Bicycles.

BosroN April 3o.-The sixteen-day race for
$1,000, horses VS.. bicycles, between Charles
Leroy on horses and John J. Prince, the
twenty-mile champion of America, and Will
liam NJ. Woodside. champion of Ireland on
bicycles, began to-day. The horseman uses
as many horses he chooses, and the BIZ
cyclists relieve each other at intervals. The
race will be run from 1890 to 1890 each day.
At 1890 tonight the score stood-Horses,
ITO miles; bicycles, 1874 miles.
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Many Checks Sent Out

WASHINGTON, April Treasurer Wyman,
to-day, mailed 8.119 checks to pay 81, 254, All
interest due tomorrow on the 8 per cent
loan of 1882 1,467 checks to pay $312, 800 due
on the funded loan of 1881; also, checks
amounting to Sc $50 226 in payment OF bonds
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New Normal School.

special TO the indianapolis journal
RICHMOND, April 30.-The friends of educa-
ton in Richmond have remodeled the old
Hicksite Quaker church and raised money to
purchase apparatus and are preparing to
open a normal school, which is to compete in
every respect, but the State appropriations,
with the State Normal School at Terre Haute.
The organization has already secured the
services of Professor c. W. Hodgin, of Rush
vile, and DR.. e. Test, of the Plainfield acad-
envy, two eminent and successful educators,
and promises to go to the front, at once, in
this line of educational work. With Rich
mond on the east, Danville in the center and
Valparaiso in the north, each doing more
work, if not better, than the State Normal
on its present appropriation. that institution
must look well to its laurels and ask for a
much larger appropriation if it hopes to sue
coed.
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Heavy Business in Tobacco Stamps at st
Louis.

ST. LOUIS, May 1.-The delivery of stamps
to tobacco manufacturers at the internal
revenue collectors Office began promptly at
II o'clock, and an aggregate exceed
ing $4,000 worth passed over the
counter in the course of an hour or two.
These were RAPIDLY affixed to the packages
in waiting, and the latter were rushed to the
various 6epots in the city, and by daylight
special and regular trains laden with mil
lion pounds Of tobacco will begin to move
in all directions. The largest single order
for stamps was $73, 600, and the aggregate re-
ceived at the collectors Office was over $780,
Oo0 The sale of cigar stamps will begin at
O'Clock in the morning, and very large
amount be disposed of.
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Running at Nashville.

NASHVILLE, April 3O.-In the mile and one
eighth Thora was first, Juliet second, Katie
Creel third. Time, 2:06%.
The half mile was won by Mona; Easter
second, Virginia Wallace third Time, :54H
The one mile was won by Joe S.; Sover-
eign Pat second, Doubtful third. Time,
1:53%.
The mile and half was won by Revenge,
King Dutchman second, Charlie Bush third.
Time, 30311.
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Suicide at Norristown.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
SHELBYvILLE, April 30.-The little village
of Norristown, twelve miles south of this city,
reports sad case of suicide this afternoon.
Miss Anna Craeger, young lady aged
twenty-five years, step-daughter of Mr..
Wurn icke, ended her life by blowing her
brains out with revolver while laboring
under temporary insanity.
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New Northern Pacific Line Approved.

WAsHINeTos. April 3o.-The Secretary of
the Interior rendered decision IN which he
approves the map of definite location of the
Northern Pacific railway through the Rocky
Mountains division, fled July s. 1882 The
line so approved departs from the general
route at Gallatin City, and unites with it
again at Little Blackfoot. One effect of the
change between these points is to shorten
the line some forty-three miles, It will also
have the effect to retreat from the land grant
and restore to the public domain more than
a million acres of land.
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The Mexican Races.

MEXICO, April 30.-At Peralvillo course,
on Sunday, Pablo Escandon's Aigle won the
Jockey Club stakes ($2, 50o6 Caracole second,
Ten Brock third, and an American horse,
unframed, got fourth place. Edward Orrin's
Kitty beat Thomas Moran's Flora. President
Gonzalez and brilliant company witnessed
the races