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Brief Mention,

Alfred r. Douthwait, a Chicago compositor,
committed suicide on Tuesday, by shooting,
while dellrious from sickness.
The indictment charging Henry Utter, mar
snail OF Mount Carmel, ILL.,, with murder was
hollled on Tuesday. There was no doubt OF
Utter's innocence in the beginning
In the Senate yesterday the bucketshop bill,
ny which 10 was sought TO compel the Chicago
Board of Trade to furnish outside grain and spe-
cuiating rooms with market quotations, was
killed.
Dr. h W. Thomas, of Chicago, has been called
TO occupy the Universalist Church pulpit at
Aurora on Sunday evenings during the next
year Terms have been nearly censummated. and
Dr. Thomas has asserted his desire to accept the
call, SO thatonly final arrangements Intervene.
ThrOughout Illinois on Tuesday forty-eight
cities and towns voted for municipal officers.
seventeen declared for prohibition or anti
license, thirty zone declared for license, and of
the latter six were for high license Four towns
Ignored the saloon question and voted on straight
political issues.
On Tuesday evening. as Daniel Grinciel, a
farmer living near Darlington, was boarding
Burlington Quincy car, ut Rock Island for St
Louis he was knocked down and robbed of ST.
800 which he carried in a wallet. There were
Two drafts on a Darlington bank amounting TO
500, and $500 in cash.
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Notes by Cable,

The Dominion government has awarded a
French company $40, 900 year for monthly
line between Havre and Montreal.
A box, said to contain explosives, was
found alongside the cathedral of Salisbury
last night. The cathedral is now guarded by
police
A man named Eugene Kingston, said to
be an Invincible and connected with the
Phoenix Park murders, has been arrested at
Liverpool.
. A reward of 9100 pounds is offered for in
formation leading to the discovery of any
person engaged in the illegal manufacture of
explosives at London.
Having discovered that certain area in
Central Asia is suitable for the production of
cotton, the Orenburg Russians are preparing
to make the experiment
Ten of twenty-six members of the South
Russian Workmen's Federation, sentenced
to Imprisonment for Nihilism, petitioned the
Gar for mitigation of their sentences.
An explosion of dynamite in a commercial
establishment at Carbalexo, in the province
OF Orense, Spain, killed two persons and
wounded several. Three houses were burned.
At the EPSON spring meeting yesterday,
the race for the city and suburban handicap
was won by Lord Roseberry's Roysterer;
Lord Ellesmeres Lowland Chief second,
Gerard's Sweetbread third.
Five hundred dwellings. the telegraph sta
ton, postoffice, a number of stores, a large
quantity Of coal, wood, and much mining
property in the village of Kotawa Iwanoskoi
have been destroyed by fire.
At Warsaw, 200 university students called
upon the rector, demanding an explanation
of the arrest of some comrades. The rector
summoned the police and military, who dis
.persed the students and occupied the college
building.
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Destructive Fire at Huntington, W. v.

WHEELING, w. Va, April IA special
to the Intellgeneer from Hunt ington, W..
Va, says; The largest fire in the history of
the town occurred this afternoon, destroy
10000 worth of property, rendering home
less fifteen or twenty families, and leaving
but four buildings standing in block APO
feet square. The fire started in the livery
stable of L. L. Kennett & Son, and from this
point the fire easily spread to adjoining
frame buildings, and before the engines
could be brought into service nearly every
house was in flames. The citizens did good
service in removing stocks from stores and
household furniture to the river bank, but
they were all afterward destroyed by fire or
damaged by water. At one time it seemed
as though the business portion of the town
was doomed, but the wind, which was blow
ing strongly at the beginning of the fire, and
directly up the avenue, changed towards the
river. A roof fell in burying five firemen,
but they were eXtricated with only few
bruises, except one man named Ray vino
was seriously injured. The fire is supposed
to have originated from the careless handling
OF, matches.
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ANOTHER CONDEMNED.
Curley, One of the Ph0nix Park Assassins,
Sentenced to Hang.

DUBLIN, April 1S.-On resumption of
the trial of Daniel Curley, this morn
ing Adams began his argument for
the defense. He decided that the
evidence given by Kavanaugh did not show
that Curley was in Phoenix Park on May 6.
His presence there, said Adams, was indica-
ted by James Carey, who said Curley was in
command, but Carey so swore to save his own
neck. He was doubtless in command him
self of the assassns.
Attorney general Porter, on behalf of the
Crown, declared the evidence in support of
an alibi was worthless and conflicting, though
Peter Hanlon protested to have been in Cur
Iey's company during the four hours cover
ing thu time in which the assassinations
took place, and claimed that during that
time he met various persons. The defense
produced but one of those persons. One wit
ness swore that Curley was in a saloon at the
same time that Hanlon testified Curley was
in another place.
The Judge then delivered his charge to the
jury. He spoke strongly against the relia-
bility of the evidence to prove an abb. lie
pointed out that there could not be the
slightest doubt that the murders were per-
with which the prisoner was indisputablY
connected.
The charge was completed at go and the
Jury retired Immediately, and after a short
absence re-entered the courtroom, finding
Curley guilty as charged in the Indictment
The prisoner was asked if he had anything to
say why sentence should not be pronounced.
He said he had not expected any mercy
from the court. 1t was very unfortunate
that the Irish bench was never without a
Norbury or Keogh. He was a member of
the Invincibles. but was not in Phoenix Park
on the evening the murders were committed.
He loved his country and could suffer FOR her
The witnesses for the Crown had perjured
themselves. Curley also said he was Fe-
MAN.
After the prisoner finished he was sen.
fenced to be hanged on May 49, AS the
officers were taking the prisoner from the
dock, he cried out in a loud voice: GOD
save Ireland"
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GERMAN MATTERS.
The Zeitung French Affairs = The En-
peror's Last Message.

perorS Last Message.
BERLIN, April Is. The Nord Deutsche
Zeitung, answering the comments of the
French press on a previous article, says;
'If the monarchy be restored in France, it
is not very likely that Germany would de-
clare war forthwith She would probably
await an attack by France, which would
soon be made, as under certain conditions,
the restored monarchy could probably be
induced to declare war on Germany without
warning"
1t is reported that the Liberals have ADAM
doned the intention of moving an address in
reply to the Emperor's message, the Con-
servatives and Ultramontanes being deter
mined to discuss the budget for 1SS4'S5. A
committee of the Fortschritt's party, in the
Reichstag, issued circulars centesting the as
sertion in the message of the Emperor that
the Reichstag Is dilatory in transacting bust
ness, and says the premature voting of the
budget is as Objectionable as the system of
biennial budgets. Social bills, it maintains,
require much remodeling. The Fortschrtts
party desire to place their views on this
point clearly on record, in consequence of
the agitation of their opponent and the pos
sibility of a dissolution OF the Reichstag.
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Breaking Up the Gamblers of New York

New YORK. April 1S.-The gamblers OF the
city are dismayed. Acting on the advice of
Recorder Smyth that he could confscate the
gambling apparatus, and under warrants
issued by that magistrate, Inspector Byrnes
and his men made another raid on seven
gambling-houses. From five all the gaming
paraphernalia had been removed. In two
the furniture was seized. At No. 159
Fulton street the faro tables, lay
outs. roulette wheels and tables and
stacks of chips were captured. The
reputed owner OF this game, Charles Read
is in Europe, and the game is said to be
conducted by ZAP Tompkins, of No. LAT
Fulton street. where more furniture was
SEIZED and all taken to police headquarters.
Inspector Byrnes says he intends to follow
the gam blers until they are cleaned out He
guaranteed that there was not game open
in the city tonight. In most of them the
furniture was spirited away, and the places
left bare. The captured property, valued at
81 500 will be broken up
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authorities. Hotel prices and house rents
have already risen to a fabulous height, and
only a very lavish distribution of backsheesh
will now in any way secure the services of a
Moscovite attendant.
Some anxiety and doubt are still felt by
the ladies in St Petersburg with regard to
being present at the ceremonies, as invita-
tions have as yet been issued only to the
other sex. Admission into the Cathedral of
the Assumption during the actual ceremony
of coronation and anointment will be almost
impossible for any foreigners, except the ac-
credited representatives of foreign sovereigns
and the heads of foreign missions, as the
cathedral is not capable of holding more
than few hundred persons. The number
of invitations for the principal ceremony
will therefore be very restricted. 1t IS
believed that even the secretaries and at
taches of embassies will be excluded. Certain
proposals are said to have been made for
ticketing and numbering the representa-
tives of the press who will be admitted
within the walls of the Kremlin.
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Seed Corn.
Burlington Hawkeye.

Burlington Hawkeye.
The lack OF reliable seed corn over a large
portion of the great corn belt in the Missis-
sippi Valley is the subject of many news
paper items of late. This is q subject oil
grave importance, as the fate of the future
crop of the greatest staple in this immense
region, everything else being favorable,
hinges upon this one item. Many farmers
are sending west of the Missouri river to
their friends and acquaintance for their
supply of this essential commodity,
but we fear in some cases that the
seed obtained has come from too
great distance south to realize the best re-
suits. 1t would be far better to procure seed
grown one degree north of our latitude than
from fraction of degree south. Should
the autumn be prolonged the Southern seed
would probably produce ripened crop; but
of such favorable outcome we are hardly
ever certain. The surer way would be to
procure earlier ripening sorts which would
be more certain if obtained from the North.
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ILLINOIS.
Present Condition of the Winter Wheat
COMPLAINING Begun.

Corn Planting Begun.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
SPRINGFIELD April 18.-The Illinois De-
partment of Agriculture has just completed
the tabulation of its reports, from all the
counties in the State, on the condition of the
winter-wheat crop as it appeared at the be-
ginning of the present month. They show
that in the northern division of the State the
average is higher than in either of the others
that is, 70 per cent, against 1902 per cent.
on the 1st of April 1882, and the only coun-
ties in the State that are up to an average
Bureau and Marshall-are in this division.
The central division showed an average of 60
per cent, as compared with 100 on the LIST
day of April last year, and the southern an
average of 81, as compared with
103 last year. The condition is lowest in
Williamson county (32) and highest in Mar
sail Q20) The estimates made upon the av-
erage prospect at April 1 would indicate an
aggregate yield of about 3O,00O.00O bushels,
as compared with 50944, 900 last. 1t is well
known, however, that the crop has greatly
improved since the Departments correspond
ents forwarded their reports, and continued
favorable weather will undoubtedly give
much more encouraging prospect on the LIST
of May. The season is about three weeks
later than usual, and wheat in many sections
had not made sufficient spring growth at the
1st of this month to enable correspondents
to judge intelligently of its condition and
prospects.
Corn planting has begun this week through
out most of central Illinois, and is well adj
vanced in the southern part of the State.
The information received at the Department
of Agriculture indicates that larger acreage
of this crop will be planted than last year.
The ground is in excellent condition, and
the only apparent element of uncertainty as
to the result is found in the fact that much
of the seed is of doubtful quality on account
of the immaturity Of last years crop. To
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19
Fatal Breaking Up of a Fishing Party.

ST. LOUIS, April 18.-A Winfield, Mo-,
special says: "Some fishermen, at Cape
Angris, Mo-, have been in the habit of tram
mel-netting in bay on the Illinois side of
the river, which is contrary to the laws of
the State. A constable of Calhoun, H., de-
termned to suppress it, and last night, with
posse, he hailed fishing party of three
and demanded their surrender. They called
on the constable to read his warrant, which
he refused to do, so they started down the
bay. The constable then ordered his party
to fire, and the result was the killing of
William Willouhby, the probable fatal
wounding of Henry Engle, and slightly
wounding Johnson Human.
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Marine News.

BALTIMORE, April 1s-Arrived: Hohenzol-
lern and America, from Bremen.
New York, April 1s.-Arrived: Steamer
Renan, from London; State of Nebraska,
from Glasgow.
LONDON, April 18-Arrived: Steamships
Silesia, England, Circassia, Kansas and State
OF Pennsylvania.
LONDON, April 1S.-The brig Marie, from
Galveston for Queenstown, was abandoned.
The crew was saved.
LIVERPOOL, April 18.-The steamer Sar-
dinian. which arrived to-day, reports that
on the 18th she spoke the steamers Brooklyn
and City of Bristol, for New York, with en-
gines disordered.
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STATE NEWS AND GOSSIP.
The Bennett-KIine Fight Settled by
Trivial Fine.
Present Condition of Winter Wheat in Hi
nOis-Progress of Planting
Notes and GIeanings.

Mayor Bennett Pleads Guilty and Pays a
Fine for Assaulting Editor Kline.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
RICHMOND, April 18.-Afuer the Bennett
Kline set-to, last evening, Mayor Bennett
surrendered himself to policeman and re-
quested him to file a complaint against him
for assault and battery on the offending re-
porter. Squire Lyle filed out the papers
and summoned the witnesses to appear nt 2
o'clock this afternoon. The case excited a
great amount of interest but it did not
amount to anything. A plea of guilty was
entered and fine of 81 entered up against
the belligerent mayor, and the case was
ended
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Strike of Artists.

CINCINNATI. April 18.-A strike of the
scenic artists preparing scenery for the
dramatic festival, stopped work for while
this afternoon. The cause of the strike was
utterances imputed to one of the directors
of the Dramatic Festival Association, as
printed by morning paper in the shape of
an interview The language as there printed
was regarded as offensive by the artists The
interview was in regard to a supper given to
some of the senic artists by Colonel George
Ward Nichols, at the Queen City Club, re-
Gently. The directors concerned met the
artists, explained satisfactorily, and work
was resumed.
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The Deadlock in the Illinois Legislature.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, April 1s.-The deadlock
in the Illinois House of Representatives over
the Enthusiastically contest, which the Re-
pubicans confidently expected would end
to-day, still continues. Seventy are
required for quorum, and Rock, of Chicago
Republican, although present in the lobby,
refralned from answering at roll-call, and
one other Republican member being paired,
no quorum was possible and as the Demo
Gratis failed to vote, only seventy-fve an
swered the cali. 1t is now asserted that Rock
will decline to assist in seating Bradwell, and
the struggle now appears interminable.
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The peach-borer is a wasp-like insect, with
transparent wings, and iehly-ornamented
body, banded and striped with gold which
deposits its eggs about the base of the trunk.
The eggs hatch out and the Larvae bore into
the sap-wood and cause an exudation OF
gummy matter which appears in the masses
about the base of the tree. The larvae seem
partly to live in this gummy substance and
partly in the sap-wood of the tree. Some
times three or four are found on the same
tree, occasionally girdling and destroying it,
eased condition, and impairing its vigor
Altogether, it is a very Objectionable and de-
structiye insect
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Protection Talk for Canada.

LONDON, April 1S.-The High Commits
sioner of Canada, in an address OH the Can
adam tariff and the relative va1ue of the
colonial and foreign trade of Great Britain,
contended that tariffs we're necessary for all
new countries. He pointed to the increased
trade of the Dominion since 1879, in which
Great Britain was benefited over any other
country, and contrasted the position of Can
ada now with her position before the exist
ing tariff was in operation. The result of the
enactment of the present tariff was revised
home and foreign trade for the dominion.
In the Commons motion by Mr.. Pell,
Conservative, in favor of the immediate re-
form of local taxation was only negatiyed by
a vote of 217 to 229. An amendment ac-
cepted by the government postpones consid-
Grafton of reform measures until the whole
question of local government is examined.
The closeness of the division on Mr.. Pelps
motion was loudly cheered by the Tories.
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Damages Claimed for Non-Delivery of
Message.

WACO. Tex, April 1s.-A suit was filed in
the District Court of this county, today, by
c. B. Stuart against the Western Union Tele-
graph Company, for $25, 900 damages. The
suit is based upon an alleged failure of the
telegraph company to deliver promptly a
message from plaintiffs dying brother at
Marshall, Tex, desiring him to come to him,
alleging that the message was given to the
operator at Marshall on Feb. 8, and not de-
livered to him at Waco until the morning of
the 9Th.
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STAY of Execution Granted a Murderer.

LINCOLN. Neb., April 1S.-The Supreme
Court granted stay of execution in the
case of Matt Zimmerman, the desperate
who figured in the murder of three men in
this State, and whose capture, when his part
ner, Dick Belmont, was killed. created a SEN
sation. Zimmerman was to have been hanged
on Saturday. When the stay becomes known
in Kearney county the excitement and in
dignation will be intense. 1t is the adjoin-
ing county to Adams, where the Millett
murderers were lynched.
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The Caved-in michigan Mine.

MILWAUKEE, April 18.-An Iron NJ ountain,
Mich, dispatch says: mo bodies have been
found yet, but a coat and mitten were
picked up recently, These were probably
hanging in the boiler-house to dry at the
time of the cave-in. Some of the buried
machinery is being uncovered. Electric
lights from Quinnesec mine are being used
to facilitate work at night. Pumps from
Chopin mine are being placed in position for
use in case the rescuing party meets with
water
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Rioting ON the Panama Canal.

PANAMA, April 1.-THE work on the ca
nal has been accompanied from time to time
with serious rioting, the most destructive
and bloody outbreak having been the recent
fight at Matchin, where five Jamaicans were
butchered in cold blood by the native work
men. Since this massacre many.of the ia
maicans, who have been working at the var
ious stations along the canal, have hocked to
Colon and are awaiting whatever may turn
up. The slightest disturbance may result
in general riot and loss of life and property,
as the police of Colon are VIGOROUSLY made
quate. The better class of residents regard
the situation with no little apprehension.
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Lnrre Sale of short.Horn OattIe.

CHICAGO, April 1s--An important sale of
short-horn cattle occurred at Dexter Park to-
day The attendance of breeders from the
cattle-rasing districts of the West was large,
and the bidding spirited. The animals sold
were drafts from the herds of Richard Glib
son, of Ilderton, Ind. and Rigdon, Houston
& Son, of Blandinsville, Ill. Thirty five head
were disposed of for S37, 500.
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Scene in the Hungarian Diet.

PEsTH, April 1S.-In the lower house of
the Diet, Deputy Fuzessey declared that a
member was connected with the gang of
foreign thieves operating in Pesth. Polony,
a lawyer who is Investigating the doings OF
the gang, denied that any member was con-
nected with tie thieves. Fuzessey admitted
that be was wrongly informed, and apollo
gZed
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Louisville Painters Dissatisfied.

LOUISVILLE, April 1s.-The house painters
find their hands full of business just now,
and employees who had been receiving 50 per
day demanded twenty-five cents increase,
which was accorded them. Since then an adj
dtional increase of twenty-five cents has
been demanded, and the bosses are thinking
about it, No conclusion has been arrived at,
and a strike is not improbable.
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DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN.

WAR DEPARTMENT,
WAh 2
OFFICE OF THE CHEF SIGNAL OFFICER,
WASHINGTON. April 10. | A. u.

WAR DEPARTMENT
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER,
WASHINGTON. April 10. A. M
For Tennessee and the Ohio Vslley-Occasional
rain and partly cloudy weather, southerly winds,
shifting to west and northwest, falling, followed
by rising barometer in the east portions and ris-
ing barometer in the west portions, with gener-
ally cooler weather.
For the Lower Lake misunderstanding cloud
mess and local winds, shifting to west and north
west, stationary or lower temperature, falling
followed by rising barometer.
For the Upper Lake Region-Local rains, fol-
lowed by clearing weather, northerly to easterly
winds, higher barometer, stationary slight fall
in temperature
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For and Against the Danish Ministry,

an address from the Landsthing, which
passed a vote of confidence in the ministry;
also an address from the Folksthing censur
ing the ministry. Replying to the latter,
the King regretted the failure of the Folks
thing to pass the ministerial bills, especially
the national defense bill, and expressed the
hope that the two houses would negotiate an
agreement. In answer to the address from
the Landsthing, the King declared that he
was resolved to maintain the constitutional
state of things.