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An Indianapolis Mans Experience.

''The account of the explosion of that steamer
at New York, in this mornings Journal reminds
me-" said J. w. Gilbert, manager of Smith &
Nixon's piano house, "of a terrible experience
had little more than a year ago. 1t was on the
18th of May, 1882 was living in Sandusky
then, and that day was one of the fourteen pas
sengers on the American Eagle. steamer run
ming from Sandusky TO Putin Bay. The opposi.
ton boat was the Jay Cooke. The latter was a
larger boat and usually carried more passen-
gers, being the favorite. The owners and Off
GERS of the Eagle were Jealous OF the Cooke.
They started that day as usual together, at p
NJ. The water was rough, and as there was little
distance between them the waves rolled pretty
high. We all saw from the start that there was
a race on. 1 found out weeks afterward that
the engineer OF the Eagle had sworn to beat the
Cooke before we got to Kelly Island, twelve
miles from Sandusky, or blow the Eagle to the
devil. Two ladies a gentleman and myself were
sitting near together in the cabin. It was bus
band, wife and daughter, and they had been to
Sandusky TO buy piano a wedding present
for the daughter, who soon to be married.
We were about eight miles out when a terrific
explosion took place. The floor of the cabin was
blown up and felt myself strike against the
roof and then fall back with the debris.
There was then great rush of steam. and so
oChSo hub hy IdCb anu neck
were sealded, tie flesh hanging in shreds. 1 sur
fered indispensable agony. In the darkness /
could hear the Groans and shrieks of the other
snferers. The pain was so Intense that trie"
to get to the side of the boat and get Owe ,oord
to drown myself, but was unable = p Taa, :,
lost consciousness for tim and nrSt Ssv-lwp
were soon picked up-I est T. again, and aidn'i
regain " Tor M" -.on, except for the brefest mo-
menk It %as months eesore was able 10 do
anything. I was blind for more than a month
by Tfair came off WITT the flesh You can my
hands" Mr.. Gffoeft's hands. as We'll az ms face
and neck, are badly Scared. Only five Of the
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A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR.


Last evening a Journal reporter met Prof.
Paul G. Shining, OF Copenhagen, Denmark, who
is stopping in the city for few days at the
Roosevelt House. The professor is the author
of 1.-The Mortimer or the Seakings and Vikings"
and celebrated in the field of letters AT one
time he was professor of the northern languages
and literature in the New York University Nine
years ago this summer he went to Iceland
to attend the millennial anniversary of
its settlement, 81 went from Copenhagen on
the Kings vessel and the celebration was
great affair, Bayard Taylor, whom 1 knew
very well, was there and Dr. Hayes the Arctic
explorer, two professors from Yale College,
Murat Halstead, a number of Germans, Scotch
men and Englishmen, but, of course, as Iceland
belongs to Denmark and they speak our tongue,
more Danes. The King, Christian TX was there
and he knew Bayard Taylor very well and liked
him. Taylor was familiar with Danish and the
Icelandic poem, composed in honor of the King,
he translated extemporaneouslyi into English and
did it admirably. The people of Iceland are
singularly honest and contented. They are all
Lubherans and all, even TO the poorest, are we'll
educated. They live chiefly by fishing
and sheep raising. The people are well
versed in the literature of the sagas and nearly
every house has its library. The population OF
the island is about 10000. Reykjavik has about
5000 people in it. 1t is a beautiful place; the
houses are all of stone. There is a jail in Reyk-
javk but it Is seldom that there is any one in 1t.
Murder is exceedingly rare, and theft is infre-
quent. There was an attempt made sOme wears
ago to COLOMBO some Icelanders in British Amer
lea, but 1t was not success. The Icelanders are
much attached to their island and say 1t is the
best country the sun ever shone upon. 1t shines
little enough there a part of the year. 1t is
popular error that Iceland is very SMALL proba-
bly, because it looks SO on the map, 1t is nearly
half as large again as the State of New York,
believe. though no great part OF the island is ln-
habitable or fit for cultivation. Iceland holds
the most northern volcano in the world, Mount
Hecla. There is Latin school, and a good one,
at Rey TX avik The education there Is somewhat
better than in some of our American colleges.
Awhile ago met young man, twenty-five years
old, and a college graduate, at Norwich, Conn,
and he couldn't tell me whether Martin Luther
was born before or after Jesus Christi
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COIL in the refrigerator in which
is placed, in zinc pans, the water that is to be fro
zen, Between the liquefying and refrigerating
coils is cock which at the proper moment is
opened and the ammonia passes through into
the refr1gerating coil. vapOrizing and expanding
several hundred volumes and absorbing heat
from everything about it, thus producing intense
colo IN the refrigerating tank, and turning the
water In the zinc pans TO ice. After the vapor
mas done Its work in The refrgerating coil it es-
capes TO a pipe leading downward into an alb
soroer containing cold water, aud terminating
III coil. Ihe Yapor having passed through this
coll enters into and unites with the water In the
aDsorDer and at that instant it rapidly parts
with the heat it has taken up. This would
quickly heat the absorber to a high temperature
ana destroy its efficiency, but Mr.. Stockman
compels the vapor or gas to enter the water at a
point close 10 an outlet pipe connected with a
pump which carries the heated water, enriched
by the gas, away from the absorber back to the
retort, there to enrich the weak liquor and be
again vapOrized and do it's work over and over
again.
The slabs of ice turned out before the report
ers wondering eyes were beautiful to look upon.
Each slab was eight inches thick by twenty-five
lnches wide and six feet long, weighing $50
pounds. 1t is frozen at from 100 to $50 above
zero, and pound for pound outlasts natural ice.
~ Is the simplest ice machine made and the
cheapest, Its first cost being 25 TO 80 per cent.
less than other machines, and the wear and tear
at least onethird less than on others. The first
tests were made at Kingan's, as that is the
largest summer packing house in the United
states, and having proved satisfactory, various
improvements were made and the work has gone
Is in operation at Atlanta, Ga, and Louisville
and Paducah, KY.
Maus's brewery, of this city, uses the same in
Ventlon, without the ice pans, for cooling the
storage rooms, containing over 100000 cubic
rect OF space, besides cooling ninety barrels of
peer day. 1t has been in operation continuous
~ TOT Six months, and is in every way a success.
one important feature is that the atmosphere is
drier than can be produced by natural ice,
wnleh makes great saving in cOoperage, there
Delng no molding rotting. The fuel bill for the
brewery for the month of July was $219.s5 for
al. purposes, including the cooling machine,
whlle without the machine the cost of ice neces-
ssary for the proper cooling of the beer would
nave been over S1,000-showiug a saving by
reason OF the invention OF nearly $500 in one
month. 1t is considered Invaluable at the brew
cry, rapidly reducing the temperature Of the
peer as 1t comes from the surface cooler at 1900.
which must be brought down before it can be
stored. The company owning this valuable in
vention is composed entirely of Indianapolis
men, j. B. Leake being president, Thomas r.
COBB secretary and treasurer. and George W.
Stoekiuan superintendent. This ice machine ac-
tuallF makes Ice so cheap that natural ice can
not possibly compete with it.
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Prices in Plain Figures on all Goods,
PETTIS, BASSETT & Co.
THE CITY IN BRIEF.

Rev. Edmond Randall will give a Scripture
reading in Circle Park to-day, at p. NJ
The depositors with the Indiana Banking Com
pany are requested to present their bank books
to the receiver as soon as possible.
Mollie Arnolds, colored. was arrested yester-
day, on the charge of stealing $50 from George
w Teeters, the proprietor OF a restaurant at No.
Jog Indiana avenue, where she had been en-
ployed.
The primary to nominate a Republican candi-
date for councilman from the Twentieth ward
will be held at Butter Mission Church, on
Fletcher avenue, tomorrow afternoon, from
until 7:30.
The Republicans OF the Second ward will hold
primary on Saturday afternoon at the No. 8
engine-house, to choose a candidate for the city
council. The polls will open at 1 o'clock and
close at 1880
store, is now handsomely reiitting N os. ~ and IA
West Washington street, preparing the rooms
open about september IL.
The womans' State Fair Association will meet
at the agricultural rooms, tomorrow, at $50 p.
NJ. TO make arrangements for the womans' de-
pariment at the coming State fair. All in
feresJed are invited to attend.
Charles Leland was caught yesterday in the
act of r0bbing the money drawer of the saloon
of Peter Fritz, on Delaware street, aud was
arrested on the charge OF grand larceny When
searched ct the police station 5000 of the
money was recovered.
Jacob Miller. butcher, living n Clermont, has
hled suit for $4,000 against All. Davidson, of the
came place, alleging that the latter, at divers
times and In snndry places, has said OF him that
he is the man who broke into his house and stole
certain Of his possessions.
The city clerk yesterday Issued the following
building permits: To J. Fitzpatrick, 800 frame
dwelling, corner of Blake and Vermont; j. Fitz-
patrick, $3.50 frame building. No. GIL West Yer
mont; A. NJ. McCleary, $4,000 frame dwelling
Corner of Illinois and Eighth.
The Governor yesterday pardoned Allen
Smith, who convicted of forgery in the
Hamilton county Circuit Court in April, 1882,
and sentenced to two years imprisonment. The
pardon was recommended by the court, prose-
cutting attorney and prosecuting witness.
The county clerk yesterday issued marriage
licenses to Peter {. Miller and Mary JANSEN
Laurlts j. c. Larsen and Ingri Olsen Frederic
j. SNYDER and Laura E. Horn; Frank j. Carin
and Eta b. Bacon; Antony Battle and Calie
Brown; Adolph Reektenwsld and Barbara Nick
alaus; Jacob Reuter- and Minnie MOttery.
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A BIG THING ON ICE.
An Indianapolis Invention That Is At
tracing the Attention of Scien-
lists and Capitalists.
Artificial Ice Made Cheaper Than Nature
Can Supply It-Facts and Figures
How 1t Is Made, and How
1t Looks.

A short time ago this paper gave brief notice
of the ice-making machine invented by George
W. stocknan, of this city, and yesterday the re-
porter, in company with several prominent bust
ness men, went to Kingans pork-packng estab-
lishment to see the machine at WORK. me oper-
alton of ice-making, 90 conducted by this inven-
tion, j. extremely simple and inexpensive. 1t is
now turning out fifteen tons of ice daily at a
cost of less than one dollar ton, and in larger
quantities the inventor says it can be produced
as low as fifty cents a ton. No skilled labor,
with the exception of man who has sense
enough to keep up fire and take care OF an en-
CINE and boiler is required any place about it.
Aqua ammonia of 300 is put into a retort, which
is heated and the vaporized ammonia passes
ont through pipe which terminates in a coil.
This coil is immersed in a tank of water, the eff
feet OF which cooling by the water is to liquefy
the ammonia, which then becomes pure,
or anhydrouH pipe leading from
this hquefying coil connects with another
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-30
Postal clerk Hoyt,s Funeral.

The remains OF william Hoyt, the postal clerk
who was killed in the Panhandle accident, on
Monday, were taken to Norwalk, O., last ever.
ing for burial. They were escorted to she aenot
by quite procession, headed by Ieissenberz,s
band, and consisting of dele ~stions from Raper
Commandery Knights .remnlars. a. A. r.. and
the postal serv' . ora r.,roean,.ti,as or oil
these o. -, ~ 80 Non,ro,,, NJ uov,
was not member of the q. A. r., but his name
had been proposed and he would have been
elected at the next meeting. He was a brave
soldier during the war.
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Acknowledging Favors.

The Light Infantry, at their first business
meeting since the encampment, passed resolu-
lions of thanks to W. D. Wiles and ]. s. Gordon
for their kindness to the company, and elected
both gentlemen honorary members Major Nc
Cune, of Mortezuma, was also elected to honor
arv memhershiD.
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A Knock-pown Argument.

farmer from near Southport who had sold
load OF corn to a grocery man, while deliver
ing 1t, was accused of having cheated in giving
short measure. He replied to the accusation by
putting on his hat he had bought of Ryan the
Halter, and then knocked his accuser down.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-30
Mr.. Newman,s Condition.

The condition of John B. Newman, the postal
t1stk who was hurt ID the Panhandle wreck at
Miugo junetloh, ia much more serious than at
FIRST apprehended and it Is not unlikely that his
injuries may yet result fatally. He has evident
~ sustained internal hurts, and all day yester-
day suffered very much.
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We Don't Have to Now.

Ten years ago, when we first tried to sell the
Howe Scale, we almost had to compel aman to
even look at them. Not so now; times have
changed. A good thingif sure to win It's way,
which the Howe has done by merit alone, against
the strongest competition, so that now they not
only have ready sale and are IN good demand,
but give entire satisfaction to the buyer,
HILDEBRAND & FUGATE, Agents,
35 South Meridian street.
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fourteen passengers lived. The mother and
daughter I was talking TO we're horribly scalded,
but survived. The gentleman died. was told
that in the Investigation of the disaster 1t was
shown that one of the tiremen killed with
his hands full of oil and tow. The engineer was
killed, too"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-30

ENTERPRIsING local agents wanted IN this
town for an article That is sure to sell, live dru g
eisUs and grocers preferred. Address Humiston
Food Preservariye Company, ~ 'Kllby street,
Boston.
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KING & ELDER have the best Jrty dollar
Iidebcard.
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ABOUT PEOPLE.

IN the German empire there are 7,719,382 wo-
mon who have been married. OF these 1907
352 are widows.
MRS. GRUMPY says that quite a number of
fashionable New York families start out with
Chinese servants.
In the Vienna Conservatory 800 pupils learn
to play the piano, 90 the fiddle, 13 the violOhcel-
10 and 70 learn singing.
THERE is no foundation, 1t is said, for the ru-
mored lll-healtn of Sir Stafford NOrthcote, the
courteous and temperate leader of the Opposi-
ton in the lower house of Parliament.
Mr.. W. ID. HowELLs, the novelist, is ~forty-six
years old. He loves quiet and home and shuns
society and field sports. His revised aud inter
lined proofs are a terror to the printers.
GOVERNOR BEGOLE, Greenback Democrat of
Michigan, says that both parties in his State
favor a protective tariff. The Republicans are
for Blaine or Arthur, and the Democrats for
Butler.
Mr.. GEoRGB L. CATLTN, American consul at
Stuttgart, is said to have a list of thirty Ameri-
can ladies whose marriages to German noble
men have resulted in various troubles and much
uDhappiness.
GRANT was the only President who really en-
jOyed the music played In front OF the White
House. He does not know one tune from an
other, and 80 Hail to The Chief" was as good to
him as II "A thousand tunes we're being played.
C~HRIsTOPHER COLUMBUS does not rest in his
grave as quietly as William Shakespeare. The
ashes OF the great discover, irst buried at
Seville, have been moved about till they finally
lie In the Cathedral of Saint Domingo, aud row
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-18
SENSATIONAL LIBEL SUIT.
Gen. HickenlOoper Sues the Cincinnati
News journal for $780, 900.

CINCINNATI, Sept. 1.-THE News Journal
was served notice by proper officials about
dark this evening that Gen. Andrew J. HEX
enlooper had brought suit against the News
Journal Company for 800, 900 for libel, i'll
printing the Decamp scandal on Saturday,
September Is. Notice was also given that
warrants had been sworn out for the arrest
of Gov. Underwood, editor, and C. H. Van
Hamm, a reporter of the News Journal, for
publishing the aforesaid alleged libel; also, a
warrant for the arrest of John G.. Thompson,
jr., a reporter on the News Journal, for libel
in assessing that General Hickenlooper was
the man referred to in the story of the De-
Camp scandal. The News Journal did not
mann any one in its report of that scandal,
but said the man in the case had held high
official positions. Since 7 O'Clock tonight
Mr.. VanHamm and MIR. John G. Thompson,
jr., nave been arrested and released on their
own recognizance. The News Journal peo-
pie seem to regard the matter as not at all
seriOus.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-18

SENATOR LOGAN says OF his recent inter-
view with Sitting Bull and his fellow
Indians: why, ! saw the whiskers Of one
of our massacred soldiers which had been
cut, flesh and all, from his face, dangling to
the pipe OF one of those Indians, and this
pipe was passed around as the pipe of peace.
/ say to you that l don't want to talk about
any policy which-but | won't say it,"
Many thousands OF people are like General
Logan. When, for instance, they see such a
chief as Bonita, who killed Judge McComas,
outraged and murdered his wife, killed their
daughter and probably killed their son,
struttine up and down on a government
reservation big rs a lord, fed by the govern
ment, protected by the government, and
armed by the government, they are not dis
posed to accept the bran-bread view OF the
Indian question.
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atoms mistaken for them are merely parti-
cles of fbrine, and have no bearing what
ever on health or disease. From this COLI
clusion it would appear that the labors of
Pasteur and others have been in vain, and
his hne-spun theories of vaccinating against
| consumption and other incurable diseases
must fall to naught. This is to be regretted,
but it is yet possible that DR.. Gregg is mis-
AIKEN. 1t would indeed be remarkable if
Pasteur had been so completely self-deceived.
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Political Notes.

The New Haven News says that the first tick.
or was Adam and Eve, and "the rascals were
turned out, too"
THE Rochester P~ost-Express labOrs under the
impression that John Kellv's olive branch has
been cut from a blackthorn tree.
EX-SENATOR CHAFFEE, of Colorado. threatens
to becomes a candidate TO succeed Senator Hill
In 1885, unless Secretary Teller himself should
enrer the list against his late colleague.
THE Boston Traveller says that wherever you
find a man who was a Greeley bolter In 1872, or
Il Castor boiler In 1874, or a Tilden b0lter in
1876, or a friend of boilers in New York, Penn
sylvania, New Hampshire or there
you will surely ind a man who has the perper-
utl fidgets for fear somebody or other Is going
to turn traitor to the Republican party.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-18

A sERMoN by Bishop Ryan at Baltimore, in
which he intimated very broadly that the
power to forgive sins, is attracting attention.
From the abstract, as published. there seems
10 be no occasion for establishment. The
sibly only put a trife more common sense
than usual into the explanation of adoctrine
and practice OF the church.
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Growth OF odd.Fellowship.

PROVIDENCE, Sept. 1.-THE Sovereign
Grand Lodge of Odd-fellows began its fifty.
ninth annual session to-day. Governor
Bourne welcomed the delegates to the State,
and the mayor to the city. The report of
the grand sire shows the progress of the
order 10 have been extremely gratifying.
The net gain in membership is Is. 050; total
relief afforded, 81, 8S2, 440; total revenue So.
252, $40; aggregate available assets, STA, 772.
The revenue of the past year exceeded ex-
penses by 81, 566.
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DE-. GsEGG, of Buffalo. has overthrown a
medical idol, or thinks he has, by discover
ing that the idea Of bacteria in the blood will
moi bear the test of microscopy. He has, in
deed, detected bacteria" in human blood,
and in all human blood, whether diseased or
healti,ful. But, after careful examination,
he has come to the conclusion that animated
bacteria in the blood is a mistake. The
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-18

GENERAL HIcKENLoopEE, president of the
Cincinnati Gas Company, has sued the News
Journal of that city for libel, laying his
damages at 800, 900. He has also caused
warrants OF arrest TO issue against Governor
General Hickenlooper is evidently mad, and
means business.
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An Oyerzealous Omc,al.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1.-THE following is
sent by request OF Reuters Honolulu CORE
%spondent: The Hawaiian minister, with
out notifying the foreign representatives,
sent a formal protest by the last mail to
London, Paris and Washington, against an
nexation by alien or colonial powers in the
Pacific ocean. There was no authority for
his action, which is generally d%isapproved."
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A KIDNAPER has been developed In northern
Georgia and Alabama, who seems unaccounta-
bly, cruel and eccentric in his operations. He is
charged with three abductions, the last a nine
year-old boy, whom it ia feared he has killed. A
party of enraged neighbors of the boys father
are in close pursuit, and John Ogletree-that is
his name-wiIi probably be hanged without the
furmalitY OF trial.
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WHEN Frank James receives a full line of
scquittals in the Missouri courts, he will be
called upon to sample the quality of Mime
sofa justice. When taken from among his
friends and associates, the conclusion OF a
trial may not take the form of an ovation to
acut-throat, robber and murderer.
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SCIENTIFIC curiosity about the North pole
has led to the sacrifice of too many lives now,
and further reckless efforts in that behalf
ought to be discontinued. The world can
run for a considerable time yet on its pres
emit stock of knowledge upon that region.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-18

Mr.. II. ]. RAMsDELL, the we'll known cor
respondent, who is recognized as a special
personal friend of Mr.. Blaine, makes public
the statement that under no circumstances is
Mr.. Blaine to be regarded as a possible presi-
dental candidate in 1884.
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The Democracy are great imitators. Be-
cause the Republicans are wrestling some of
their strongholds in the South from them, a
faint retaliation is attempted, and the De-
mocracy are playing the part of the small
dog in tail oats in some of the strong Repub-
lican States in the North.