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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-05
Notes and Personalities.

WASHINGTON, June 4.-Walter Evans, Com
missioner of Internal Revenue called at the
White House to-day and paid his respects to
the President. He was presented by Post
master-general Gresham. The President
referred IN a general way to the proposed
consolidation of internal revenue districts
and informed the Commissioner he would
dispose of this question as soon as possible.
In the Court of Claims judgment was rem
dered for IS, 272 in favor of Col. Elias Bondi-
not, This claim was referred to the Court of
Claims by Congress, and was for damages for
seizure of property in the Indian Territor y
by officers ofinternal revenue.
mail route was recently established in
Nebraska at the solicitation of Senator
Henderson and Representative Valentine,
and to-day Senator Van Wyck called at the
Postoftice Department and urged its discon-
tinuance representing that the service was
not required.
Rumor has it that General Sherman's
youngest daughter, Rachel, is betrOthed to
ex-Secretary Blaine's second son. Mr.. EN-
mons Blaine. The families have always been
intimate, and especially during the time they
lived almost next door to each other on Fiji
teenth street, as they did for about four years
before Mr.. Blaine moved into his new man
sion.
Owing to the order issued by Postmaster
general Gresham, requiring first and second
class postmasters to attend personally TO the
duties of their offices, a number of applica-
lions for leaves of absence have been already
received at the department.
The Mexican mail service from New Orleans
and Galveston has been resumed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-05
A Bet on Mind Reading.
Gable Special to New York Herald.

Gable Special to New York Herald.
A novel wager is interesting society. Mr.
Labouchere. wishing to put the occult science
of thought reading-of which Mr.. Bishop is
the principal exponent-to practical test
and having the courage of his opinion, stakes
a FL 900 bank note to f100 that Mr.. Bishop
will not guess the number of a note which
will be placed in the hands of one of the
members of Parliament from Chelsea Mr.
Bishop stakes his f100 that he will read the
number, in which case Mr.. Labouchere will
hand the FL. 900 note to the Chelsea Victoria
Hospital for Children. Opinion is divided
upon Mr.. Bishops claims to read thoughts,
but may add that was myself present this
week at the house of gentleman we'll known
in London society, when Mr. Bishop was sue
cessful in discovering pin concealed in the
room while he was absent from it, in the GUS
tody of Lord Houghton. In this instance
there was no possibility of collision. The
feat was remarkable and also somewhat dis
tressing to witness, the thought reader APP
parently suffering curious mental agony
during the experiment. None of those pres
ent could account for the phenomenon, and
it would not surprise those who witnessed it
to hear that the Victoria Hospital had been
enriched to the extent of Mr.. Labouchere' s
FL 900 note, Nous verrons,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-05
A DISPUTED CLAIM.
The Colored People and the Cherokee In
dian Rule of Division.

The Colored People and the Cherokee In
dian Rule of Division.
WASHINGTON, June 4.-Two represen tatves
of the colored people living in the Indian
Territory were at the Interior Department
to-day to look after their interests under the
act of the last Congress, appropriating $780,
900 for Cherokee lands west of the Arkansas
river This act provided that the money
should be paid into the Cherokee treasury
and expended as the acts of the Cherokee
Legislature should direct. The Cherokee
Legislature it is claimed, took advantage of
this clause and passed law directing that
the money should be divided only among
pure blooded Cherokees. This act not only
deprives the colored people of their rights.
but also the Shawnees and Delawares. Del
egates from the latter tribes will also come
on and have conference with the Secretary
of the Interior. The money is not available
until the conveyances of the lands are exc
cuted, and they must be satisfactory to the
Secretary of the Interior. The latter is in
clined, under the present phase of the ques-
ton, to withhold his consent to the deeds
unless fair division of the money is made. In
regard to the rights of the colored people, the
Cherokees claim they have exclusive author
ity to determine their status, and the gov
eminent denies this authority.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-05
THE REVENUE DISTRICTS.
Great Anxiety to Give the Commits
sioner the Best Possible Advice.
Uncertainty as to How Soon the COnsolida-
ton Will Be Made-Other Items
of Washington News.
THE PROPOSED CONSOLIDATION.

The Commissioner Abundantly Supplied
with Advice on the Subject
Special to the indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, June 4-On being asked, to-
day, when the question of the consolidation
of internal revenue districts is to be taken
up, Commissioner Evans said: THAT is a
matter that is entirely in the hands of the
President and Secretary. l am of the opin-
ion, however, that it will be decided prompt
ly when taken up. The Secretary, you
know, has been away, and has only returned
this afternoon, 1t may be quite while be-
fore he finds time to consider this business
I am in receipt of considerable advice on
this subject several gentlemen having
spoken to me about it."
81 should say so," broke in friend sitting
near, ~ wouldn't be surprised to find a
quorum of the Forty-seventh and Forty
eighth Congresses here before a conclusion is
reached" .'i-
Everybody seems quite willing there
should be reduction in the number of dis
tricts," resumed the Commissioner; "but l
notice desire to have the seduction occur
in remote localities and neighboring States"
Ex-Commissioner Raum had this to say on
the same subject: 81 do not know anything
about it, but if 1 was consulted 1 should say
there is no occasion for hasty action. This
is not good time to reduce the districts or
in any way disturbs the machinery OF the
revenue bureau. The new law is just going
into effect, and complications might arise
If too much should be attempted
at once. There is no emergency re-
quiring an immediate reduction in the
number of districts. Doubtless we could get
along with less, but the appropriations have
all been made for the next year for the full
number, ana cannot see the occasion for
feverish haste, at least not until everything
gets to running smoothly under the new law.
Some people seem to think that the consoli-
dation ought to be made, and that it will be
made before the LIST of July; but am hardly
prepared to believe that this will be done"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-05
No Adulterated Lard ON the Market.

CHICAGO. June Oscar c. DeWolf, city
health commissioner, gives it as his view that
the statement that large amount of adul-
terated lard is on the market is a pure fabri-
cation. He asserts that every pound of lard
is inspected before it leaves the warehouses,
so that any unfit for consumption cannot find
its way into market. McGeoch, who refused
to accept large lot of lard from Fowler
Bros. on the ground that it was adulterated
to-day withdrew his complaint before the
arbitration committee of the Board of Trade
on the ground that it was not empowered to
go into the merits of tine case, and instead
filed complaint with the secretary of the
Board, asking that Fowler Bros. be discip-
lined. and their warehouse be declared ir-
regular, because of monumental conduct.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-05
Making a Catspaw Merely,


Greensburg Review
General Gresham is an excellent man. He
was brave soldier, upright judge, and will
doubtless, make an excellent Postmaster
general; but he is not candidate for the
nomination for the presidency, nor is he
available if he were. Neither has his ability
nor his personal popularity been sufficiently
tried to justify mentioning him now for the
Gresham knows this, and he knows that the
efforts of Lieutenant-governor Gray and
other Democrats to antagoniZe his friends
with those of General Harrison is not because
they love him, but is a.plan to defeat both
Harrison and himself, and engraft disturb
ing element into the Republican party now
that will give the Democrats the victory in
1894
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-05
THE BRIDGE PANIC,


New YORK, June 4.-The inquest begun
to-day in the cases of the twelve victims OF
the recent panic on the Brooklyn bridge. c.
@. Martin, superintendent of the bridge,
testified to the facts of the occurrence as
learned by him, and stated that at the time
of the disaster there were twenty two special
police officers on the bridge A railing had
been put up at their stairway since the acct
dent, but witness said this precaution would
not remedy matters there in case of another
panic. An incline plane had been suggested
in place of the stairway, but this also would
not afford any relief but, on the contrary,
would be dangerous in slippery weather.
The present stairway was the best arrange
ment that could be made for the safety of
passengers.
James S. T. Stranahan, trustee, said that
on days when there was an unusual pressure
of travel one of the wagon roads would be
thrown open to the public as a temporary
relief If it should seem best additional
walks for foot passengers could be con-
structed on each side of the carriage ways.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-05
THE CIVIL SERVICE.
The Attorney-Generat Asked to Define Ger
tain Provisions of the Law.

WASHINGTON, June 4-The civil service
comm issioners held a meeting to-day at
which anumber of questions in detail relat-
ing to the examination of candidates for
places in the civil service, and to the applica-
ton of the new rules governing appoint
ments were discussed. The most important
of these questions was what Interpretation
should be given the words lone family" in
in that clause of the civil service reform bill
which provides that when two persons of one
family are employed in the civil service of
the government no other member
of that family shall be eligible
to appointment As the commissioners
do not care to examine persons
who are ineligible, they wish to have this
question definitely settled and will ask the
opinion of the Encouragement upon it.
They desire to know whether zone family"
means only parents and their children, or
whether, taking into consideration the in
tent OF the law, which was plainly the pre-
vention of nepotism, the prohibition is to be
understood as extending to nephews and
nieces, brothers aid sisters grandchildren,
cousins and relatives by marriage of the per-
sons holding places in the civil service.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-05
Germany and Protection.


LtIaytIIt
Germany adopted the protection policy in
1880, not hardly three years ago, but for the
purpose of comparison the rate of wages in
that country is taken from the report of 1878
or previous years, before the present Ger
man tariff had gone into effect The tariff
brought an era of prosperity to Germany it
never enjoyed under free trade, and wages
have increased We have before us the rate
of wages paid in 1882 and in 1873 and we
find that bakers received so per cent. more
i'll the former than IN the latter year, black
smiths nearly 100 per cent carpenters, plas-
terers and common laborers so to 60 per cent.
During the past four years there has been all
average decline in wages of 20 per cent in
England. Living is cheaper in Germany
than in England
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-05
STATE EXCHANGE TABLE.
A Collection of Opinions from the
County Press of Indiana.
The Benefits of Protection to Industry
Clearly STRAIGHTFORWARD for the Exc
cution of the Law Against Murder.
The Two Telegraph Companies.

Lafayette Times.
Major Wallick, division superintendent of
the Western Union telegraph, was in the
city last week on business connected with
his great corporation. He was interviewed
by a Times reporter, and gave some informa-
ton that is interesting and is a key to the
disposal of the Mutual Union offices scat
tered throughout the land. The Western
Union and the Mutual Union offices have
been consolidated by the closing of the lat
ter's offices at the following points in the
State: Richmond, Columbus, Thorntown,
Lebanon and Fowler. The office of the Mu-
tual Union will follow suit at New Albany,
and it is understood that, while at this writ
ing no orders have been received to close the
office in this city, it will follow in due sea-
son. The offices of the new company at
many other points have been shut up, and
the old corporation has the field all to itself:
The Chicago Office, where it was supposed
there would be sufficient business to justify
its being kept open, will have Grape hanging
also on its door-knob. The closing OF offices
here and there indicates that all will follow
euit, and Western Union will have swal-
lowed another victim that was thought to be
q formidable rival.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-05
The Consular Service.


National Republican.
1.-THE scramble for places in the consular
service that is going on is incomprehensi-
ble," said the statesman. Not one in forty
is self-supporting, and doubt if the income
derived is sufficient to support the consuls
decently in one case out of sixty; yet in the
face of all that there is the greatest possible
pressure to obtain the appointments to the
most insignificant consulates on the list.
know of one case where there were not less
than twenty applicants for one consulate,
the fees of which do not amount to $40 per
annum. Many of the candidates knew to
be poor men, and how they expected to
maintain themselves is more than I
can understand. They certainly had
no other resources than what they
could make out of the offices A
true story is told of an American consul at
an interior Italian city who was reduced to
such extremity that he was obliged to enter
the employ of the British consul in the ca
pacity of coachman. Instances are numer-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-05
The Tin Bucket Brigade.
Lafayette Courier.

LAfAy6tt6
The tin bucket brigade has become grand
army. and 1t is marching on. City and coun-
try alike realize the value of manufacturing
as an element of growth. 1t is new factor
in politics Things have changed materially
since the good old Democratic times" when
vfctorieswere won on free trade clap-trap.
These cunning devices will avail nothing
now. A diversified Industry protected against
the pauper-paid labor of England is the best
guarantee OF that general prosperity which
has COME to stay. The Bourbonic Democracy
never learns anything nor forgets. From
present indications its attitude upon the
tariff will only serve to illustrate its proven
bal and irepressible capacity for laundering.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-05
MIR. Merrick sim Talking.

WASHINGTON, June Am the star-route
trial, Mr., Merrick resumed his address to the
jury, and after criticising Brady's policy
looking to daily mail on every star route,
the court and counsel discussed the evidence
given concerning expedition on the Tongue
river line. Mr. Merrick then bitterly de-
nounced Brady, declared that the testimony
of Walsh stood unimpeached, and after a
long explanation of what constituted con-
spiracy in legal sense, asserted that he had
connected the defendants with conspirac y
within the meaning of the law. Adjourned.
Mr.. Merrick will conclude on Wednesday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-05
Petroleum Jelly Taken for Dynamite.

New YORK, June 4.-The customs authori-
ties at Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, recently seized
and conicated as dynamite, large ship
ment of petroleum, petroleum jelly.
The agent was compelled to pay heavy
fine, although he protested that the goods
were not explosive. He appealed to the GUS
tom-house inspector and offered to prove
that the articles were purely medicinal
preparation, but the inspector declined to
return the goods. The agent cabled to the
owners here to appeal to the Emperor for
redress
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-05

GUS where consuls are forced to call on
friends to relieve them from distress and en-
able them to get back to their own, native
land without swimming. There are few
places in the consular service worth having
that is, worth having if a man wants to ex-
lie himself from his own country for from
three to ten years, and be forgotten as COM
pletely as though buried, for So, 900 or s., 900
a year-but they are very few. 1t is nice for
a man to represent his government abroad if
he is rich and able to keep up with the diplo-
matte procession, but poor man is better
off Mt homo ~
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-05
Doctors in Council.

CLEVELAND, June 4,-The American Medi-
cal Association meets here tomorrow IN its
thirty fourth annual session and will contin-
ne four days. The officers of the association
are Doctors John L. Atlee. of Pennsylvania,
president; Eugene Grisson, of North Carroll
ma; A. j. Stone, of Minnesota J. A. OCler-
long, of Kentucky; and H. S. Orme, of Calf
fornia, vice-presidents; William B. Atkinson,
of Pennsylvania secretary; |. N. Hines, of
Cleveland. assistant secretary; Richard j.
Dunglison, of Pennsylvania, treasurer: C. H.
Alienschmidt of Washington, librarian.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-05
What Protection Has Done.
Noblesvills Republican Ledger.


Through the fostering care of home indus
tries by protection our people were enabled
and induced to establish factories; soon there
sprung up healthy home competition, the
inventive genius of the Yankee, so to speak,
was aroused labor-saving devices and ma
chinery were put in operation, one follow
ing another in rapid succession each reduc-
ing hand labor and its corresponding cost OF
production, until now all manner of goods
which twenty years ago came exclusively
from Europe are furnished much cheaper by
home producers than the most sanguine had
ever thought possible.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-05
Effects of Free Trade on Ireland.

AIb1On Now Era.
1t was the accursed free-trade doctrine of
England that crushed out the manufacturing
interests of Ireland and placed her at the
feet of her despotic neighbor, and brought
misery and suffering to so many homes in
the Emerald Isle. The people of America
might have more sympathy with the Irish
movements in this country, lnaugurated pro-
fessedly to redress Irish grievances across the
Atlantic, if these same Irishmen, when be-
coming naturalized American citizens, did
not, as a rule, cast their votes with a party
that is in favor of crushing out American
industries by the adoption of England's free
trade ideas. Do Irishmen desire to see in the
United States the same results from this doc
trine that has ruined all the industrial inter-
ests of Ireland?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-05
GENERAL AND PERSONAL.

Supervising Architect Hill Growing Inter-
ested In the Investigation.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, June Mr. Hill seems to
have been at last aroused by realization
that an investigation of the business of the
Office of the supervising architect is In prog
ress Until quite lately it has been regarded
something in the light of joke, but several
gentlemen whose names are mixed up in the
charges appear to be taking considerable in
terest in the proceedings now,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-05
Execute the Law Against Murder.

If there ever was time when the law
against murder should be rigidly enforced
that time is now. There appears to be a
growing disposition on the part of men who
fancy themselves insulted to avenge them
selves in the blood of their supposed enemy,
And the reason of this seems to be the len
iency with which our courts dispense justice.
OF late it is seldom indeed that we hear of
the conviction of a murderer unless the case
is SO clear against him that public sentiment
demands verdict of guilty and even then
the defendant, if he is man of moneyed in
huence, often brings himself out and goes
free, with only the blood of his victim to
haunt him. Let such red-handed criminals
be dealt with as the law directs, and a search
ing vigilance be kept that no guilty man es-
capes, and such crimes will become fewer
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-05
Barbed- Wire Fence Suits.

ST.. LOUIS, June Ain the barbed-wire
suits brought by the Washburn & Moen
Manufacturing Company in. the United
States Circuit Court. Judge Treat, this
morning, announced the decision of Circuit
Judge McCrary and District Judges Love and
Treat The motions for preliminary .iinjuno-
previously argued in Iowa were overruled
and both parties allowed till Sept. 1 to take
further proof for use at the final hearing,
which will probably be had at the fall term
of the court.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-05
One OF the Free-rrade sophisms.

Some of the free-trade ninnies try to make
the people believe that the tariff is a benefit
to England. The London Times says the
American tariff will damage the cutlery
trade of England, and one establishment
will either close or remove to this country
If our tariff is so beneficial to England why
is it that she is so DESTROYS of having free
trader
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-05
Governor Butler wants a Committee.

BosroN, June 4-Governor Butler sent a
message to the House asking the appointment
of joint legislative committee to consider
abuses in the State offices and institutions
He says he has asked that such power be
given the Governor and Council, but the
Legislature in its wisdom refused to grant it,
probably from fear that it would be wrong
fully used.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-05

Providence (R. ~ Press
The New York World speaks kindly of the
few Republicans who became converted to
Democratic principle and aided Democrats
in passing Senator Pendleton's Democratic
measure" As we recollect the numerous
(?) Democrats who voted for the Pendleton
bill, the Worlds remark reminds us of the
rural lad who said: Dad and I've got forty
cows together. Dads got thirty-nine an I've
got one, an mines a calf"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-05
How to Treat the Liquor Traffic.


To liberate those communities from the
traffic where the sentiment is largely against
1t, and confine it to those willing to tolerate
it; to crush out the "deadfalls" and low,
dirty doggeres, and to make it the interest
of reasonable dealers to. aid in this work by
submitting to higher license charges and
stringent regulations; to punish with severi-
ty the selling to minors, women or drunken
men, keeping open on Sundays, election
days or after midnight, or keeping disorder
ly housewives measures are certainly prac-
tieable, with proper and continued effort,
and will command the acqulescence of re-
sponsble and respectable people, even
though they indulge, more or less frequently,
in stimulating beverages. Impracticable
fanaticism, in this as in any other move
ments; does not promise to be successful if
exercised in advance of public sentiment and
the spirit of the age