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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-14
ILLINOIS.
The Lincoln Residence and the Oldroyd
Collection of Mementos.

The Lincoln Residence and the Oldroyd
Collection of Mementos
Special TO the indianapolis Journal
SPRINGFIELD, March ia proposition is
now pending in the Legislature of this State
for the purchase of the old Lincoln residence
in this city, to be converted into memorial
hall and kept as the property of the State,
and to contain mementos of the life and
public services of Abraham Lincoln. The
attempt to purchase the property has grown
out of the propo>i don of Captain o. III. Old
royd, of Springfield, to donate to the State
his entire collection of Lincoln mementos so
soon as the State has provided a suitable
place where they can be kept and augmented
from time to time, as new mementos may be
collected or donated. The Oldroyd collection
was begun in 1860, and consists of over 1000
articles, such as autograph letters, books, SER
! mons eulogies, poems, songs. portraits,
photographs, badges, pins medals, envelopes,
statuettes, and various things in some way
related to the memory of Lincoln.
Among the collection is an old plug hat
worn by Lincoln on the day he received his
first nomination for the presidency. 1t is
known that when he saw the tide of the
Chicago convention was turning toward him
he took the train and came to Springfield.
The next forenoon he was out on the COM
mon, playing game of baseball with the
boys-a game of which he was very fond
| and in making a hard run to catch ball he
pitched headforemost into one of the play
ers and shot his hat down over his ears, COM
pletely running it. From the ball grounds
he went to his law Office and from there
around to the Office of the State Journal,
and while sitting in the latter place the dis
patch was received announcing his
nomination. When he was about to start
home, the editor suggested that it would
never do for the young Republican party's
| candidate for the presidency to go on the
| street with such hat, and accordingly he
sent out and bought new one, leaving the
old one at the Journal office. There it was
picked up and went into Oldroyds collec-
ton. The chair in which he was sitting
when the news of his nomination was re-
ceived is also in the collection.
| An PARTICLE, which illustrates the plain habit
OF living which he had always followed is
the soap-dish taken from his wash-stand the
morning after he started to Washington to
assume the presidency. 1t is simply small
sauce plate from the table, and Mr.. Old
royd, speakingof it, says: 81 presume that
up to that time he had not had any other"
The collection is certainly a curious and
valuable one. Captain Oldroyd says of it,
II have collected everything I could find
sacred to the memory of Lincoln, from a
newspaper scrap to his large crooked stove
and other household articles"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-14
Meeting of Northern Prison Directors.

Meeting OF Northern PRISON directors.
Michigan City Special, 18th.
The terms of the old Republican directors
of the Northern Indiana Penitentiary legally
expired on Saturday at midnight, and the
new board, consisting of Hon. John C. Shoe
maker, of Indianapolis Hon. H. Manning, of
Fort Wayne, and Hon. George Majors, of
Remington, formally took control yesterday.
Being Sunday, no business was transacted
until to-day, when the new Democratic di-
rectors organized by electing George Majors
president and John C. Shoemaker secretary.
The new law makes the term of one of the
directors only two years and the others four,
and to decide who the short term man would
be the straws were drawn, and ex-senator
Majors was the unlucky man. The board
then proceeded to elect officers for the ensu-
ing four years, the following gentlemen be-
ing reelected: James Murdoch, Warden; 7.
Donnelly, deputy warden: Joseph d. Cow
den, clerk, and Robert Sutton, steward. The
directors also elected DIR. Calvert, of Carroll
county, to be physician; Rev. DIR. J. j.
Faude, rector of Trinity Episcopal church of
this city as chaplain. No changes in the
guard force will be made before the April
meeting. Before adjournment the board
passed two orders one being that no more
than two guards should be appointed from
the same county and the other that no ap.
pointment should be made south of the Ma
uonal road. The new appointments give gen
eral satisfaction
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-14

There are fewer cattle now in Colorado
than there were three or four years ago. The
profits of herding were great, and there was
a rapid increase until drought and subse-
quent severe winter, caused the loss of thou
sands of head from starvation and exposure.
1t is probable that Colorado will not in many
years have as many head OF cattle as it had
before this disastrous experience.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-14
Aid for a Railroad stopped.
I - Al. r.a;oDanOIfa Innrnal

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
COLUMBUS, March ID. Last spring this
township voted $4,000 aid to the c., H. &
G. railroad, and the first installment falls
due in April. The levy was resisted as be-
ing illegal, and the case is now pending in
the Supreme Court. No work has been done
on the road In this township, and now the
commissioners have ordered that the collec-
lection of the tax be suspended until the
suit is decided or work completed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-14
Importation of Contract Labor.

PlTrsDuRG; March 13.-The Window-glass
Workers Association of North America
with headquarters here, are preparing a bill
TO be presented at the opening of the next
session Of Congress making it an offense pun
ishable by fine and imprisonment to import
any class OF workmen under contract to work
for certain wages for any given length of
5.taa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-14
SERIOUS Fire at Hoopeston.

HooPEsToN, March 13.-H. B. Mayerss dry
goods store and the adjoining building, oc-
cupied by the American and United States
express companies, burned to-day. Loss,
$3.50. 900; insurance, alb out $40, 600.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-14
A Heavy Robbery.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

COLUMBUS, March 49, yesterday Mr. s. B.
Samuels sold his dry-goods store and re-
ceived therefor So, 800 in cash, which he de-
posted under his pillow at night This
morning the money was gone, thieves hav
ing entered the room and taken it while he
slent
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-14
Deposed from the Ministry.

READING, March 13.-The Lebanon classis
of the Reformed Church of the United
States has found Rev. AlexanderS S. Keiser, of
Pottsville guilty of unlawful intimacy,
breach of promise of marriage, and falsehood,
and he is deposed from the Christian minis
try
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-14
Steamship News.

PHILADELPHIA, March 13.-Arrived: Lord
Cough, from Liverpool.
LONDON, March 13-Arrived: Bohemia,
Alaska, Brooklyn from New York; Nova
Scotia from Portland
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-14
DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN.
Indications.
WAR DEPARTMENT,

WAR DEPARTMENT.
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER,
WARRINGTON. March ii, A. NJ.
Lake Region-Fair weather, followed by IN
creasing cloudiness and local rains, warmer
southwesterly winds, falling barometer, fol-
lowed in west portion by rising barometer and
colder nOrthwesterly winds.
For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley-Partly
clondy weather and local rains, winds mostly
westerly, stationary or higher temperature, gen
orally lower pressure.
Local Observations
March
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-14
Ratterx ..F.n of Rockville.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
ROCKVILLE, March 13-Adjutant-general
Carnahan came here on the evening train
yesterday, and last night mustered in the
Rockville Battery, "F, !" of the militia of the
State OF Indiana. The following were elect
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-14
A Fatal Blow with an Az.

InoNToN, o., March 13-A. Webb died
this morning from the effects of blow on
The head with an ak, delivered last night by
-ilfred Speer. Speer had invited Webb into
lis house to take a drink. A difficulty arose,
and the blow was struck. Speer escaped.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-14

ed officers: Frank Stevenson, lieutenant;
William A. Mason, sergeant; J. r, Strouse,
corporal. A gun is expected by the last of
tbs week. Uniforms will be at once OBJ
tanned, and the boys will go into active drill.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-14
Arrest of Alleged Criminals.

Arrest of Alleged Criminals
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
SHELBYvILLE, March 13.-City Marshal
Little, of Greensburg assisted by officer
Barger, of this city, this afternoon arrested
young man only twenty years old, named
J. c. Hargitt. who is charged with stealing a
valuable horse in Dearborn county. The
residence of the young man is Brights Sta
ton, Dearborn county, his father, Thomas
Hargitt, being well-to-do farmer OF that
locality. Hargitt was lodged in Jail, and in
an interview explicitly denied the crime
claiming that the horse was a gift from his
father
The grand jury to-day brought in two in
dictments against Benom D. Wilson, the ex-
justice of the peace, from Falkland, one for
embezzlement and the other for perjury
The officers have gone out to arrest him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-14
Charged with Embezzlement.

CHICAGO, Marco 13.-Henry Althouse, agent
for NJ. NJ Buck & Co.. a railroad supply
house, st. Louis, has been arrested here,
charged with the ENLIGHTENMENT of 81, 500
lie is said to have been lodging the officers
of the law in Canada and the East for some
time
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-14
BUSINESS TROUBLES.
A New York Liquor Firm Fails for Half a
Million.

New York, March 13.-The well-known
whisky and winehouse of Ives. Beecher &c
Co. failed to-day for nearly 100000. The
firm is composed of Frederick E. Ives, John
S. Beecher and Charles A. Tuttle and has
stood well for a quarter Of a century, the
paper of the firm having ranked as the best
on the market. The value Of the assets can
not even be estimated
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-14
An Ex-Oficer Charged with Blackmail.
Special to the IndlanapoIis Journal

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
BLOOMINGTON, March 13-Ralph ]. Jewett,
ex-marshal of Chenoa, was lodged in Jail
few days ago, charged with blackmail in hav-
of Chenoa by threats that he would prose-
cute them for illegal sales unless they paid
him. To-day he was taken out on writ of
habeas corpus and had an examination, the
result of which was that he was recommitted
to Jail, Judge Reeves being of opinion that
the testimony warranted his being held for
trial. Jewett for some years past has been
employed ON the detective forces of Chicago
and Alton.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-14
Opera-Ifouse Rrrued.

VIRGINIA CITY, New, March 3-Piper's
Opera-house and several adjoining buildings
were totally destroyed by fire to-day The
total loss will reach $35, 900
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-14
Compounded for SO, 900.


Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
COLUMBUS, Ind, March 13-About a year
ago Peter Grass was terribly injured by
train on the j., NJ. & I. railroad losing both
feet and one hand He brought suit against
the company for $50, 900 damages and to-day
the case was compromised, the company
agreeing to pay him Sc, 900.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-14
ZINC Mhipping-Post Cor wife Henters.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. March BIN the State
Legislature the House passed bill to punish
wife-beaters by whipping.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-14

any but their relatives It was the intention TO
start the na-Inill next Monday, but it is not alb
sOlutely certain that this Will be- done.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-14
The Straight Line Swallowed by the E. s.
T. II.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
EVANSVILLE, March 13.-The indianapolis
& Evansville railroad was transferred, to-day
to a syndicate composed of D. ]. Mackey and
William Helman, of this city; Joseph Col
lett, of Terre Haute, and several Eastern
capitalists whose names are not given. Mr..
Mackey was elected president, and new
board OF directors was chosen The transact
ton is generally accepted here as an absorp-
ton of the Straight Line by the E. e. 7. Ii,
road, although Mr.. Mackey stated in an in
terview tonight that the road would be built
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-14
Damaging Fire at Windfall.
II TO the Indianapolis Journal.

special 10 the luuduapol5
WINDFALL, March 13.-This morning at
about 2:3O o'clock the double frame two
story building owned by Vice & Nutter, of
this place, and E. H. Shirk, of Upton in
which was situated the general mercantile
stock of Vice Il Nutter and the drug and no.
ton store Of Legg & Patterson, was discovered
to be on fire and beyond control, the fire
soon reaching the brick store building form
erly owned and at the time of the fire occu-
pied by Dr. Lewis McAlister and his wife as
a drug and millinery store. From this
building the fire soon reached the residence
of Dr. McAlister, and thence to his barn.
Every effort was made by the people who
gathered to control the fire and save all the
property they could, but all the buildings
named were totally destroyed except the
walls of the brick drugstore building. A
portion of the goods out of each were saved.
The following is the estimated loss and in
surance: Vice & Nutter, loss $1,000; insur-
ance s., 300 in the Etna, of Hartford. Conn.
Legg & Patterson, loss 81, 400; insurance
81, 800 in Springfield Mass. McAlister's loss
So. 900; insurance 81. 600 in Watertown, n. Y.
The fire is supposed to have been incendiary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-14

ISDfGRsTIoE, weak stomach, irregularities of
1y0Te!s caunot xIsb when Hop Bitters are used
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-14
DIED.

DIED.
LANDERS-At the residence of her son, Jack
son Landers, 622 North Pennsylvania street, at
1880 Sunday morning, March IL, Mrs. Deliah
Stone Landers, aged 81 years, 3 months and "a
days.
Short funeral services at the house Wednesday
morning, March IA, at $3.50. The funeral Ser
mon will be delivered at Friendship Church, IL
miles southwest of the city on the old homestead
near Landersdale, by Rev. Irwin Brewer, at
o'clock Wednesday. Friends of the family are
invited
HOWE-On Tuesday, at .. m, Margaret NJ,
widow of VIM. II. Howe, deceased.
Funeral from residence, 81 English avenue,
on Thursday, at p. M Friends OF the family
invited to attend.
HOLLiDAY-At Madison, Ind, March 49,
1883, Mrs. Sarah H., wife of Rev. n. G. Holiday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-14
Local ODssrvauons

INpIANAPoL1s. March 13.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-14

Maximum temperature, $50; MINIMUM temp
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1883-11-02
Frightful Explosion.

Confluence special, October 20: a
terrible disaster occurred near Brooks
tunnel on the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad yesterday morning about
O'Clock, resulting in the instant deatl
of FIVE men. The railroad company
has been strengthening and widening
the tunnel, and some distance outside
magizine had been erected in which
was stored l, 200 pounds of dynamite,
to be used for blasting. About the
hour named a freight train had just
passed through the tunnel and was
side tracked to allow a passenger train
overdue to pass. Four of the crew
walked back to the vicinity Of the
magazine and were engaged in con-
versation with the watchman, when
the people living in the vicinity were
startled by a terrific concussion.
Houses for fifteen miles around were
shaken to their foundations and win
dows for distance of seven miles
were shattered. Horror stricken peo-
pie ran from their houses and upon in.
vestigation it was found the dynamite
had exploded with fearful effect.
Everything in the vicinity gave evi.
dence of the terrific force Of the ex-
plosion. Trees were uprooted, huge
rocks torn asunder and telegraph poles
for half mile Frustrated. Nothing
remained of the magazine, while the
five men who were present were miss
Ing. 1t is thought they have all been
killed. Portions of bodies, legs, arms,
hands and heads have been picked up
half mile distant but so badly dis
figured as to be unrecognizable. The
names of only three of the victims
are known. They were Engineer Geo.
Reynolds, Brakeman Tyce, and
Watchman Hammond. The cause of
the explosion is enshrOuded in mys-
terry, and as the five men who might
have thrown some light on the affair
are dead it is quite probable that it
will never be known. Not far from
the accident gun was found, and it
is supposed one of the victims dis
charged it, the concussion causing the
dynamite to explode. An inquest OF
death was rendered.
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1883-11-02
A Scientific Bonanza.

A curiosity In Summit Valley min
ing operations is found in the Snnny
Side tunnel site. The tunnel is located
OH the south side OF the Big Butte
which was pronounced by Prof. Clay
ton, four years ago, to be an immense
porphyry dixie, but as the eminent
scientist gave the same verdict regard
ing the mineral value Of Anaconda
Hill, where the richest cnperiferOus
silver bearing lode. perhaps In the
world, has since been developed in the
lower levels of the Anaconda mine.
Mr.. w. H. BlOdgett, who is a practi.
cal miner OF large experience, con-
Guided that scientific geological sur
veys were not always infallible, and
decided to explore the innermost
depths of the Big Butte. Associated
with Mr.. George S. Lewis Mr.. Blodgett
has run tunnel in northeasterly di-
rection a distance of CTS feet, crossing
a large number of ledges which con-
tain promising vein matter with por-
phyritic granite foot and hanging
walls and maintaining the dip and
trend OF the lodges which have been
developed east and west of the Butte.
At a point seventy-tive feet from the
mouth OF the tunnel, an east drift has
been run seventy feet, on a vein which
shows four feet between the walls,
and carries thin streaks Of sulphuret
ore assaying from II to Is ounces sill
yer and showing 4 trace of copper.
The general characteristics Of the
lodges, as already developed. are iden.
tical with those Of the Anaconda,
Gagnon, Mountain View and Original,
on the great centre belt east Of MIS-
soula gulch, and in a general line OF
general trend with them all. 1t would
not be surprising if the explorations
of Messrs. Blodgett and Lewis should
explods the theory Of Prof. Clayton,
that the Big Butte porphyry dixie
formed All impassable barrier to the
ledges lying east, and caused them to
break up into labyrinth Of small
veins upon either side OF the obstruc-
tion. The indications at present are
certainly in favor of the development
Of another Anaconda Hill in the Big
Butte.
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1883-11-02

Silver Bow county's s assessment this
year foots UP an even six million and
Il quarter.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-03-27

Six lots in BsIltousi.
FuGr lots On Pike street.
Thrse lots IN s. A. Bells first addition.
Two lots on water front, foot Of Pike
street.
Three lots in 4. A. Deuny's fifth adj
difson.
-Four lots IN c. G. Terry's second adj
dition.
Foar lots in C. C. Terry's frs. addi-
tion-very fine
SeTsa lots in McNsught's hrss addi-
ton.
Tires lots IN Judkins's addition
Thirteen lots IN Nayna.d's town plat.
Five lots on Second street
A very fine block ON trout street.
Also some good dwelling Loases.
Two farms, good hop land.
A large line Of other property not
mentioned. II. HETSxB,
Olice with Mcknight. Ferry, Nc
Eeught Z Mitchell, Commercial street
n
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-03-27

A lawyer. having occupied Journal
lists room one night, thought to make 9
joke At the expense If his host. and sea'
him the following note:
g slept in &c editors bed last night,
When no other CHANGED 90 be nigh;
And thought, as / tumbled the editor
bed,
How easily editors lie.
The journalist was equal to the occ =
sion, and, Immediately pennin9 the fol-
lowing lines, sen. them 70 the lawyer
g If tbs lawyer s.ep. IN The editors bed
Wren 20 oshsr chgacsd 70 Be nigh:
And though be has written and nslyeiy
said.
How easily editors lie;
He mus. then admit, es be lay on that
bed,
And slept to his hearts desire,
Whgfe'er he may say of the editor
bed,
Twas the lawyer himself was the
Her"
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-03-27
mExE WE CeMR.

Puget Sound employment. oommis-
sion and purchasing agency. We have
opened an office on Washington street,
near Commercial, where we propose to
furnish employment or hep on short
notice. Send in your orders by letter,
telegraph or telephone, which viii be
flied with dispatch.
DpyGcs q LszAR.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-03-27

Having secured rooms in the Mar
shall building. / desire to say to the
people of Seattle that l will give private
instructions in the art of dancing. at
reasonable prices. Having an entirely
new method of teaching round dances,
I would especially like to secure those
for scholars who have heretofore
thought themselves unable TO learn to
dance. | claim that my method is so
simple and easy that il is impossible for
any one to avoid learning who will give
il trial. All the Latest society dances
tanght. For terms inquire at room Z.
Marshall building, or address a postal
card to Prof. Fehnemann.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-03-27

To EnrGRASrs AND FRrENrs.-rhe
place TO get your life insurance, and sell
secondhand furniture, to buy new and
second hand furniture, and to get
auctioneering done is at Piilman,
Lilly d Co., Cherry street, opposite the
telegraph Office Terms reasonable.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-03-27
FAVE y0r SEEN THEM 7

Those elegant neg ranges Just received
By Waadell & IiIss direct from the man
rianufactor;es-theS Superior Range and
Stove. They are the finest, most ecoror-
icaI, and a.together desirable range On
the Pacific Coast. Call and see them.
even If you don't buy.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-03-27

The propriesors Of Kende.i's SPAWN
Cure have hundreds 0f letters on file
speaking in the highest terms of the
benefits derived from its nse. When
you find one case where II has failed To
give relief. there arc hundreds whore il
has proved success. Read advertise
inent
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-03-27

Ladies'. make no mistake, but wait for
the grand opening of millinery goods to
get your hats, etc., for Easter Sunday,
at Clayton Bros.