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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04
The EngI:sa .siue Market.

LONDON: April 3.-There is unwonted
excitement in the rice market. A firm,
prominent in the trade, which has an exten.
sive agency in Burmah, some time ago made
considerable sales of rice to arrive on expec.
tation of getting supplies from native
sources and securing large tonnage for Eng
land. The natives held off for supplies,
probably on Account of being advised of the
state of the English market, and large pur,
chases had to be made in open market here
for the purpose of fulfilling contracts. The
range of rice has risen 10 per cent in tire past
week; as consequence failures are expected
in the trade.
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The Coming International Rifle contes t.

New YORK, April 3.-General Grant has
been elected president and life director of the
National Rifle Association. In connection
with the international match at Wimbledon
in June next the National Association re-
solved on competitions for the selection OF
team to be held at Creedmoor, May II, and
the following Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
The team finally chosen will report at Creed
moor on June 10 for practice. continuing till
the goth. The military authorities of the
several States will be requested to use their
influence 10 induce members of the National
Guard to compete for places on the compet-
ing teams, and see that they are represented
upon the first representative body of Ameri-
can soldiers that has ever visited Great Britain.
General Robbins. Colonel Ltchfield, Colonel
Bodine. Colonel Story and Colonel G.. E. p.
Howard were appointed board of represen-
tatives to select the team and make all other
arrangements relative to the competition.
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Death of Hon, G. G. Trowbridee.

DETROIT, April 3.-Hon. Charles c. Trow-
bridge, one of the Oldest most honored and
beloved citizens of Detroit and this State,
died this evening, after brief illness, aged
Ieighty-three. He came to Detroit in 1919,
from Albany, N. Y, where he was born,
while Michigan was yet Territory inhab-
ited almost wholly by Indians. He has since
occupied prominent financial positions in
banking and RAILROAD enterprises, being for
over twenty-five years resident manager and
director of the Detroit & Milwaukee railroad,
With whose inception and construction he
was prominently identified. He was also a
member of the standing committee of the
diocese of Michigan from the date of organi-
zaton of the Episcopal church here till the
day of his DEATH He leaves three married
daughters. His wife died three years ago.
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Britain,s Interests ON the Congo.

LONDON, April 3,-Jacob Bright, member
from Manchester, offered a motion in the
Commons declaring that in the interest OF
the growing commerce of Great Britain in
the southwest of Africa no treaty should be
made by the government sanctioning the
annexation by any European power of ter
ntories on and adjacent to the Congo or in
terferine with the commercial freedom hith-
erto enjoyed in that region by Great Britain.
Mr.. Bright subsequently withdrew his mo-
ton in favor of an amendment offered by
Edward Wadehouse, member from Bath, to
the effect that no treaty should be made af-
fecting the territory on the Congo that would
not afford adequate security to all agencies
working there. Warehouses; motion was
carried, the government agreeing thereto.
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Trunk Line Difficulties.

CHICAGO, April 3.-The managers of the
Etast-bound trunk lines met to-day and in
lorsed the action of the freight agents per-
hitting the Grain Receivers and Shippers
Association to appoint its own weighmasters,
making the proviso, however, that the weigh
masters appointed shall not be members of
he Board of Trade and the appointments be
ubject to the approval OF Joint Agent Moore.
he meeting of managers Of the railways in
1he Southwestern pool to consider, among
,ther things, the recent action of the Chicago
Alton in withdrawing from the agreement
to passes for shippers and from the Chicago
nd st. Louis passenger pool was not held,
mother attempt will be made again to-mor-
ow morning.
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THE TEWKSBURY FIENDS.
Further Sickening Details of the Facts
Brought Out

BosToN, April 3-The investigation into
the management of the Tewksbury almshouse
was resumed this forenoon. Miss Tanning
testified that she got so much apiece for
transporting boxes the contents of which
she did not know. She took up the bust
ness after the death of her brother, who had
previously engaged in it. Thomas Marsh,
jr., paid for this work. The latter thought
it would be inconvenient to have the work
done by anyone else, so she took it up.
Governor Butler examined the witness
very sharply, and endeavored to make her
acknowledge she knew what was being trans
ported, but the witness would not acknowl-
edge it, She had been paid as late as last
November, and there had been boxes trans
ported since.
Mrs Charlotte A Thomas, of Andover, in
charge of certain departments of the aims
house, testified that DR.. Pease a female
doctor who treated the patients, evidently
did not know her business Three patients
lost tF"ig ives through her treatment. She
he'd "a ,-t.lty 10 getting clothes for M RS.
Marsh to lay over the dead, and heard the
inmates complain that good clothing had
been taken from them. In one case a dead
child had been kept too long, and when the
father came for the body block OF wood
was put into the coffin and service held over
that. The face of an insane girl who had
been laid out was eaten by rats Three hun
dred and twenty-five pounds of butter was
made per month, and one pound per day
given to the inmates; the balance went to
Captain Marsh. Skim milk was given the
inmates until forbidden by the inspectors
She had been told by Mrs. Marsh to take
fannels from women, when she knew to do
so would endanger their health. When COM
pany was expected wonderful change was
made, and everything put in the best possible
condition. The investigation was adjourned
until tomorrow.
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FROM OVER THE ATLANTIC
Churchil's Letter in Favor of Sails
bury Causes Indignation.
The Reason for the Retirement of General
Thebaudin-German Gratitude for
Timely Assistance.

LONDON, April S.-Churchilrs letter. ad-
vocating the claims of Salisbury to the sole
leadership of the Tories, created the strongest
indignation among the general body OF the
Tory party. Measures are in progress in
tended to satisfy Northcote; he is secure of
the unwavering support of his followers.
In the Commons Northcote was greeted with
prolonged cheers from the Tory side. This
is regarded as the strong demonstration that
the letter is not approved by the Conserva-
tives
In the Commons the Under Foreign Secre-
tary in reply to Kennard, who questioned
him with regard to certain structures IN a
New York newspaper on the manner in
which the United States had dealt with the
Geneva award, said it was contrary to usage
and inconsistent with the dignity of the
House to base discussion on a passage in a
foreign newspaper destitute of official char
acter and only representing the opinion of
Its own writers He said the Alabama ques-
ton was now only of historical importance,
and the government had no interest in the
manner in which the American government
disposed of the money.
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The Jeannette Court of Inquiry.

WASHINGTON, March 3.-The Jeanette
court of inquiry met at noon, and Fireman
Bartlett testified he had no charge to lay or
special commendation to offer regarding any
of the officers or men. Melville made as
thorough search for the missing parties as
could be made under any circumstances
The judge advocate stated that he had re-
ceived telegram from D. f. Collins of Min
neapolis, stating that he had not been noti-
fed OF the arrival of Bartlett; that he had
mailed list of questions to be asked in be-
half OF his brother, and requested the court
to wait until the receipt of his communica-
ton, as he insisted upon a full and thorough
examination. The court thereupon ad-
journed until tomorrow, when the letter
will probably be received from Dr. Collins.
The president of the court directed that the
other survivors be instructed to remain here
until examined upon the questions to be
submitted by Collins.
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cussion. The President will not leave here
for Florida until Thursday or Friday, and
will probably fill the vacancy tomorrow or
next day.
The Secretary of the Interior decided that
an application to amend homestead entry
is matter of right only where necessary to
correct mistake, clerical or otherwise, which
would result in depriving the settler of
his actual home or valuable improvements
IL allowed Ill any case as a matter OF eXecu-
tive discretion to enable him to take the
full quantity allowed by law, and to avoid a
conflict with other asserted claims, the new
land sought to be included must be actually y
vacant and free from adverse rights legal or
equitable, so that no injustice to any other
person shall result therefrom.
The War Department has received no Off
cial information in regard to the report that
General Crook had issued an order to his men
to take no prisoners in any engagements
which may take place with the Indians now
on the war-path, and the report is discred-
tied
The President has decided to suspend ac-
ton in the case of Judge Conger Associated
Justice of the Supreme Court of the Terri
tory oil Montana, until the charges preferred
against him shall have been fully investi-
gated. Judge Conger is brother of Senator
Conger, and the Presidents action is the re-
suit of his intercession.
The President appointed the following
postnasters: James H. Floyd. Liberty, Mo-;
James Kirkpatrick, Dillon, Mo-; Uriah Col
son, sullivan, Ind; William T. s. Mays,
Kirwin, Kan; Robert T. Wilkinson, Mt.
Carmel, ILL.,; George r. Little, Carmi, ILL.,,
and Warren L. Wheaton, of Wheaton, Ill,
vice G. B. Vistine, charged with emoezzle-
ment
Secretary Folger is now undergoing special
treatment on account OF the condition of
one of his eyes He will be confined to the
house two or three days.
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Notes and Personals.

WASHINGTON, April 3.-The Wisconsin Re-
publican Association held meeting tonight
at which resolution eulogistic of the late
Postmaster-general Howe was adopted.
d. B. Overhosler has been commissioned
as postmaster at Ridgeway, Ind.
The name of the postoffice at Lovelydale
Knox county, Ind, has been changed to
Monroe City.
The work on the proposed grand staircase
to the capitol building has been resumed on
the Senate wing, and will be pushed all sum-
mer. 1t is contemplated to build a marble
wall against the parapet on the Senate side
until the entrance by way of Pennsylvania
avenue is reached, and then complete the ap-
proaches under the plans already prepared.
AT the cpbnet meeting to-day the vacancy
in the Postmaster-generalship was under dis
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The Passion play Again Enioined.

New York, April 3.-Long before to-
night the temple in which Salmi Morse had
advertised that he would produce the passion
play, charging an entrance fee, was thronged.
A few minutes before 8 Captain Williams
and Inspector Thorne, of tile police, made
their way to the stage and served upon
Morse an injunction issued out by the Soci-
ETY. for the Reformation of Juvenile Deln-
quents, restraining the production of the
play. Morse sent for his counsel, and on his
arrival went before the curtain
and informed the audience Of
what had occurred The announcement
was received with Kisses. Morse stated that
the society had had plenty of time to serve
the injunction, but had meanly waited until
the last moment before serving it. The
money will be returned in the morning.
His counsel also made speech denouncing
the proceeding as an outrage and trampling
on civil and religious liberty. The receipts
were to be given in aid of the Home for
Poor Children, The affidavit on which the
injunction was granted was made by John J.
Fitzgerald, and sets forth that the perform
ance is a disgrace to religion, and was to be
given in an unlicensed place. The hearing
will be before Judge Donahue on April IL.
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The Reason for His Retirement.

PARIS, April 3,-The reason given why the
retirement of General Thebaudin from the
bureau of the Minister of War may be ex-
pected, is that Waldeck Rousseau, Minister
OF the Interior, refused to have published in
the official journal a note, the effect of which
would have been to deprive General DeGul-
lifet of the command of the cavalry. The
raimfcations and manoeuvers of this dispute
are important as showing the aversion the ex-
treme Republicans have so General DeGulli-
fet and other leaders who took an active
hand in the suppression of the Cummune.
The cabinet council to-day is represented as
stormy. General Thebaudin declared that
rather than change his decision in regard to
DeGullifet, he would resign his portfolio.
LaFrance says Prime Minister Ferry tele-
graphs to Frard. Minister of Finance, at
present in Algeria, to curtal his visit and
return to France
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A Riot in Ceylon Between the Buddhists and
the Catholics.

LONDON, April 3.-Advices from Colombo,
capital city of the island of Ceylon, report
that vicious riots occurred lately between
the Buddhists and Papists. The Catholics
seriously objected to religious procession of
cifix surmounted by monkey. This latter
combination, which Papists held to be an
insult to the Catholic religion, brough about
violent contests in the streets, which were
only stopped by the vigorous efforts of the
troops, who dispersed the rioters and restored
peace without bloodshed A number of the
participants, however, were roughly handled.
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Uoprovoked Murder in Kentucky

BuIsvILLE April 3.-A special from Bowl
ingGreen, KY, says: Scott Oliver shot and
killed John Walton this morning, in John
Sdith's saloon, on account of triiing dis
pite over cards Oliver was holding stakes
fc Walton and Cullender who, having a
nisdeal, asked for their money, fifty cents.
Diver declined to return it, and without any
waning fired. The ball entered the left
temple, producing death in one hour Wal
to-. who was originally from Sandusky, O.,
isl German forty years old. Oliver was
rased here, and is twenty-two'
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The Red Gross $ societv.

BERLIN, April 3.-The projected universal
conference at Vienna, of persons interested
in the Red Cross Society, OF Geneva, which
was to have taken place during the
coming winter, has been abandoned. The
German government therefore, will enter
into negotiations with the other countries of
Europe with a view to furthering the objects
of the society, and to persuade them to ac-
cept the proposals, extend the limits and
modify the rules of the organization, so that
the benefits may be offered the navies OF all
nations.
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Dakota Capital Committee Getting Away
ri from an Injunction.

sIoIx CIry, Ia. April 3--The Dakota cap
it'd commission, who have been in Sioux
City for a week past, left for Yankton at mid
nigit last night and arrived there this morn
ing. There was hurried organization eff
fectld and the committee proceeded to Scot
land. This course was adopted to escape an
INDUCTION which Yankton parties were anx-
iouso serve A meeting in Yankton prior
to th Sth of April was made necessary by
the inguage, which provides that the COM
mite shall meet there within thirty days
frouthe date of the passage of the act for the
purpse of organization. The commission
wiilprobably not meet soon again in Yank-
tom
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Coinage of Hawaii.

WASHINGTON, March 3-The San Francisco
and it may be the New Orleans and Philadel-
phia mints, will have some outside work to
do. The King of the Hawaiian islands, hav-
ing had himself crowned wants national
coinage. The coin in use in the Hawaiian
islands is foreign coin, and the King proposes
to have coin OF his own. He has applied to
this government to have coined for him his
gold and silver into such coins as he may
designate. The application will, it is said
meet with favorable consideration.
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THE KRING MURDER CASE.
Point of Law Under Which Noted Crimi-
nal Escapes the Gallows.

Point of Law Under Which Noted Crimi-
nal Escapes the Gallows.
WASHINGTON, April 3.-The opinion of the
majority of the Supreme Court in the case of
Kring the st. Louis murderer says that un-
der the constitution and laws of Missouri in
force at the time the offense was committed
and indictment found, the prisoner could
not be tried for murder in the first degree
after he had been convicted or pleaded
guilty of murder in the second degree, but
under the constitution of 1876 as construed
by the Supreme Court of Missouri, one in
dicted for murder in the first degree and con-
victed or sentenced upon the plea of guilty
in the second degree, may again be tried for
murder in the first degree in the case of ap-
peal and reversal. 1t was contended in all
courts by the prisoners counsel that the Sec
ton of the State constitution of 1875 adopted
subsequent to the finding of the Indictment
could not be applied to the prisoners case;
that it changed punishment; that it was an
ex post facto law, and, as such. repugnant to
the constitution of the United States
Justice Miller, in a long and carefully
written opinion, rendered the decision OF this
court, which may be briefly summed up as
follows:
1--WE are of the opinion that any law passed
after the commission of an offense, which, in
relation to that offense or its consequences
alters the situation of party to his disadyant-
age, is an ex post facto law. No one can be
criminally punished in this country except
according to the law prescribed for his gov
ernment by sovereign authority before the
imputed offense was committed, and which
existed as law at the time. The provision of
the constitution of Missouri which denies to
plaintiff in error benefit which the previous
law gave him, of acquittal of the charge of
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GENERAL AND PERSONAL.

The Correspondents and the President.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, April 3.-About dozen cor
respondents are preparing to tag after Presi-
dent Arthur on his Southern trip, despite
the fact that he has signifed an earnest de-
sire to be let alone and permitted to fish in
peace. 1t is limited that he will throw his
pursuers off his track by switching off and
gong to Pensacola and then taking a revenue
cutter and proceed to some point previously
selected where the newspaper people cannot
find him until he gets ready to return. 1t is
quite certain that plot has been Matched up
by the presidential party to give the
hangers on the slip at the proper time.
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murder in the first degree on conviction Of
murder in the second degree, is as to his case
an ex post facto law within the meaning of
the constitution OF the United States, and for
the error of the Supreme Court of Missouri,
in holding otherwise, Its Judgment is reversed
and the case remanded 20 IL with directions
to reverse the judgment of the Criminal
Court of St. Louis, and for such further pro-
ceedings as are not inconsistent with this
opinion"
Chiefjustice Waite and Justices Bradley,
Gray and Matthews dissented
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wife-Murder and Suicide.

WASHINGTON, April 3.-Frederick DeFrou-
vile, former member of the signal corps,
tonight shot and killed his wife and then
killed himself, at his wife's home in East
Washington. DeFrouville and his wife sepa-
rated about eight months ago. the woman
refusing to live with him on account of his
Incorporate habits. Mrs. DeFrouville, who
was Dane, has been employed
as a translator in the Agricultural
department and lived alone. This evening
DeFrouville went to the house and demanded
admittance. Having been refused, he started
to break in the door, when his wife's aunt
who was in the house, went through the
back entrance for a policeman. Before she
returned DeFrouville had broken in the
door and killed his wife and himself No one
witnessed the tragedy, but when the neighbors,
alarmed by the pistol shots, entered the
house. they found Mrs. DeFrouville dead,
shot through the BRAIN and her murderer
lying dead beside her, with the revolver in
his hand. The motive of the deed is sup
posed to be the jealousy of DeFrouville and
his wife's refusal to live with him.
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Reasons for French Prescription of Ameri-
can Pork.

WASHINGTON, April 3.-Consul Wilson, of
Nantes in communication to the State De-
partment, asserts that interested influences"
were brought to bear to secure the prohibit
tion of American pork in France. He says
he finds extending through the business com
munity regular and widespread dislike for
and opposition to the American tariff so far
as it may affect any article exported from
France, and disposition to retaliate and that
this feeling of dislike and opposition is in
tensified by the situation in regard to Amer
lean pork, where, he adds, is shown the will
ingness to retaliate. He gives a resume of
the history of efforts made by interested per-
sons to secure legislative interpostion be-
tween the failing French pork trade and
American competition from 1877 to date,
and strongly intmates that representations
made to the Minister of Agriculture and
Commerce by French pork dealers rather
than any objection to the quality of Ameri-
can pork caused the issuance of the decree of
prohibition.
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Socialist Congress at Copenhagen.

COPENHAGEN, April 9.-The German Social
lists have just concluded a three days secret
congress- Sixty members were present,
including Babel, Liebknecht and Hazencleve,
all members of the Reichstag, together with
delegates from Paris and London. 1t was
decided to strongly oppose, at the elections
in 1884, Bismarck's policy, chiefly in regard
to his social programme, and force fight
against capital The German police believed
the congress was being held in Switzerland.
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Gratitude for Assistance.

BERLIN, April 3-The Relchstag reassem-
bled to-day. The president stated, during a
recess of the chamber, that large number
of donations for the relief of the food suffer-
ers along the Rhine had been received, the
most of them coming from America. The
house adopted resolution expressing in the
name of the nation its most heartfelt thanks
to those who had so generously responded to
appeals for assistance.
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Curtailing Business,

BosToN April 3.-Jordan Marsh & Co., for
thirty years one of the largest dry-goods job
'bing concerns in the country, retire from the
wholesale business on the 18th inst. The
large building on Bedford and Kingston
abandoned The firm will continue the re-
tail business. No reasons are given for this
action,