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better than it has been for many years. There
is no speculative mania here, and cur merchants
and business men generally are solid and con-
sentative. Since 1874 this city has been liquidat-
ing its debts, and the wealth that has accumu-
lated since that time is substantial There is
not city anywhere that equals this a con
sentative business community.
William Wesley Woollen, manager of the In
dianapolis clearing -house-It will have some
effect on indianapolis but do not think there is
a city in the country better situated for inan
cial depression than this. There has been no
speculation here. 1t may be the suspension of
the Metropolitan Bank will have some effect on
the country banks of this State 1t is not the cor
respondent of any bank in this city. Country
banks will probably become alarmed, and some
of them will withdraw their deposits from In
dianapolis banks. This furry is not like that of
1913. In that time the mere man was in debt
the richer he thought himself There is no
great amount of debt here now. There is abso
lutely no occasion for alarm here In the clear
ing-house ] see the business of the city in its
full volume better than anybody, and l know
there is nothing to base panic upon There
are only four banks in Indiana that are CORE
spondents of the Metropolitan Bank. One of
these is the Exchange Bank of Bourbon, Mar
shall county; another is the Citizens Bank, of
Union City; another is the National
Branch Bank, of Madison, which has
two accounts in New York city,
one being with the suspended bank and the other
with the First National; and the last, the First
National Bank, of Evansville which has &C
accounts with the Fourth National and Central
National. The only bank in Chicago that has its
account with the Metropolitan is the Union Ma
tional, and the Third National of Cincinnati is
the only bank in the latter city that has the in
volved bank as its New York correspondent"
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Hotel Arrivals.

Bates House: A. X. Stark and wife, Rock
vile; W. F. Armstrong. 7. G. Dolman Kokomo
X. Klopfer, Fred Sims, Frankfort; F. Parker
Union City; Mason Long, Fort Wayne: E. C.
Bouham, Bloomfield: A. NJ. Joy. Bloomfield
Chas. L. Davis and Chas. E. Crawley. Sullivan
Jno. Larkin, Lewis Sexton and j H. Wilson
Rushville; C. w Powell, Paris, H.
Grand Hotel: Dr. S. S Boots Greenfield j.
f. Maddox Shelbyvlle s. b. Fisher, Rushville
N. \. Ryan, II. Kerlin, Delphi; Fred A. Sims
r. Klopfer, Frankfort; w. c. Myers, James My
ers, II. T. Mitchell, Newport Ind; NJ 7. Clay
Salem, Ind; 5. c. Tough, TT Wayne; Mart Kel
Ter Columbus. Ind: c. IL Baker Minneapolis
J. F. Shafer. Cincinnati J. II. Davis, Baltimore
q. w Hasslet Pittsburg; E. r. Ellis Louisville
Denison: Robert Douglas, Princeton; Mrs. J.
Mlligan, Charlottesville; E. F. DeFOrest Chi
eago; J. C. Snee, w. c. Wagner, Columbus O.;
II: X. Payson, Chicago; Isadore Langsdorf and
wife, Philadelphia; John c. Williams, W. F.
Beauchamp, J. NJ. Sankey, j. C. Kolsen, Sheldon
Swope, J. W. Cruft. Terre Haute; 7. Sim
mons, Boston; c. Morrison, S. II. Slifer, Mime
apolis; Mr.. and Mrs O. d. Seavey, A. Ainslie,
Boston; n. II. Davis, Z. S. army.
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A YOUNG AFRICAN PRINCE,
Brought to This Country To Be Educated,
Kills Himself by 0verstudy

DAYTON, o., May 14.-Some eight or ten years
ago the United Brethren Church of this section
of the country, which has established several
strong missionary posts along the western coast
of Africa, brought to this country young
African, whom they educated for the pulpit and
some three years ago. He took the name of
Daniel Wilberforce, after the university at which
he graduated.
The vessel that took him home returned with
a young African, the Prince of the Sherbro
country, whom the church has since been edu-
eating The young prince took the name of
Louding after the people with whom he was
living His progress in school here was wonder
full. He took up with the Americans very readily
learned rapidly and at nineteen was considered an
educated and literary person, being well versed
in political and social science, languages and va
rious arts. He moved in the best society here
and amused many an elite gathering with sto-
res of his barbarian home. He was born at
Mason, small place in the Sherbro country and
was the offspring of the king of his people, a
by Rev D. X. Flickenger a little over three
years ago. He was under the tutelage of the
missionaries in Africa, and ran away from home
to come to America. He had been here a little
over three years, but the climate, with his Sc
we're course of study, injured his health and fin-
nally killed him, He had for months recognized
the fact that he was fast fading away but he
studied the harder to complete his studies His
object in acquiring knowledge was to enghten
his people He viii be buried with the respect
and honor due him by the church.
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PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS-
THE SENATE.
Debate on the Bill Authorizing a Bureau OF
Labor Statistics.


Debate on the Bill Authorizing Bureau of
Labor Statistics.
WASHINGTON May l4.-The Utah bill was
postponed till Monday.
A bill was reported favorably extending to
August s, 1856, the time to commence laying
ocean cables.
Mr. Cockrell said he was not in the chamber
when the bill to place General Grant on the re
tired list passed Had he been he would have
voted against it.
A motion by Mr.. Cullom to make his inter
state commercial bill the special order for
Wednesday, May 81. was not agreed to.
Mr. Call introduced a bill which was referred
to the committee on judiciary, authorizing the
Secretary OF the Treasury to overdue and re
verse the decisions of inferior officers Of the
Treasury Department in respect to all matters
of accounts.
The bill passed authorizing the construction
of g pontoon wagon bridge over the Mississippi,
near Dubuque.
Mr.. Blair moved to take up the House bill pro
viding for the establishment Of q bureau Of labor
statistics. The motion was opposed by Mr. Coke
and others, who wished to proceed with the
calendar in the regular ORDER but the Senate,
by vote of y yeas to II Lays, decided to take
up the bill, and Mr.. Blair urged its passage.
Mr.. Garland moved as an amendment, the
substance Of his bill heretofore introduced, pro
Nldng that the bureau OF statistics OF the Ire as
ury Department shall do the work required to
be done by the bill, and also providing for the
collection of information as to marriages and
divorces in the United States. In reply to an
inquiry by Mr. Morgan, Mr.. Garland said the
United States had no jurisdiction of marriages
ordivorces, but the government could collect IN
formation on those subjects
Mr. Call opposed the amendment.
Mr.. George said the opinion obtained that the
labor interests had not been properly attended to
by either State or national legislation. The es-
Enlistment of this bureau would be great ad-
vantage to and be greatly appreciated by work
ingmen
Mr. Morgan opposed separate bureau for
labor statistics, and thought the present bureau
of statistics, with some additions could do the
work required.
Mr. Vest desired to make a personal expana-
ton. A statement had gone to the press, he
said, that the vote upon the bill to place General
Grant upon the retired list had been unanimous
He, however, had voted against the bill He
had not called for the ayes and nays or made
any factions opposition, because two years ago.
when a similar bill was before the Senate he had
spoken and voted against it, and had given the
reasons for his opposition. He had no PERSONAL
opposition to Gen. Grant but was opposed to
the principle of the bill.
Pending debate, the Senate adjourned.
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THE HOUSE.
The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation
Bill Considered.

The Consular and diplomatic Appropriation
Bill Considered.
WASHINGTON, May 14.-Resolutions were re-
ported unseatng Messrs. Mckinley and Peelle,
but they were laid over. Minority reports were
submitted in both cases.
The bill will be reported favorably for mint
at st. Louis
The House went into committee of the whole
on the consular and diplomatic appropriation
bill, and Mr.. Burnes explained its provisions
Mr.. Cannon severely criticised the bill as mig
gardly, and denounced the proposition to reduce
consular salaries.
Mr. Follett defended the bill. He ridiculed
the pageantry of foreign courts and asserted
that Congress should not pander to the whims Of
the courts to which the United States accredited
representatives.
Mr. Hit specified the reduction which this
bill contemplated and which he regarded as un-
wise and hurtful to the service. 1t was Tich
mans bill, ard excluded from the consular serv-
ice any man who had not enough money to
support him independent Of his salary.
Mr.. Potter made vigorous attack on the
bill
Mr. Robinson, of New York, expressed his
contempt for the diploma. e service, which he
regarded as an unmitigated humbug and nul-
sance, and school Tor Snobbery. Our embassa
doris ABROAD were OF no eArLnly uSe-nCb WORTH
a shilling dozen. He denounced Minister
Lowell as a iickspittle of monarchy and de-
clared Minister West would be better Ameri-
can representative at London than Mr.. Lowell.
When the proper time came he would move to
strike out the appropriation for a minister to
Great Britain
Mr.. Kasson thought the provisions of the bill
would prove detrimental alike to the honor and
commercial interests of the country
Mr.. Burnes closed the debate in advocacy of
the bill, and it was read by paragraphs for
amendments
Mr.. Robinson, of New York, moved to abolish
the Office of minister to Great Britain The mo-
ton was lost and the committee rose.
Mr.. Harmer presented q memorial from the
Womans Silk Culture Association in favor of
the establishment Of a bureau Of silk culture.
Referred.
Mr.. Bland, from the committee coinage.
weights and measures, reported a bill to estab
lish a mint at St. Louis. Referred to The COM
mittee of the whole.
Mr.. Springer asked unanimous consent to put
or its passage the bill to authorize the Secretary
of the Treasury to purchase about $40, COCOON Of
bonds with the greenbacks held in the treasury
for the redemption and retiring of national bank
circulation, which would relieve the money mar
ket to the extent of adding So, 900, 900 to the
circulation.
Mr.. Weller objected.
Adjourned,
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At a meeting he Id in the Office of l. L. Bloom
en- yesterday afternoon, committee consisting
Of w. A. Van Buren,, w D. Tobin, J. E Heller,
w. w. Pringler, A. II. Hatch and I. L. Bloom
er was chosen to defend any suits that may be
bros hit against subscribers refusing to receive
the rscently published history of indianapolis.
Nearly hundred subscribers it is claimed,
have pledged themselves to pay their proportion
of the costs that may be incurred in defending
the suits
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tract is usually signed May ! between the op
orators and the miners for the year, but at a
meeting of miners recently it decided not to
sign, fearing a reduction to the prices paid in the
Hooking valley mines, on which the contract is
based. II is reported that the threatened strike
of six thousand railroad miners in the Pttsbmg
district is untrue
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COLLEGE.
EXAMINATIONS FOR ADMISSION

To the Freshman Classes in the Collegiate and Seeu.
tiiic Departments will be held at Cincinnati in the
Law School Rooms, on Walnut street. above Fourth
street commencing on Thursday June 10 at 9 u. m,
and continuing through Friday, June 20. The exam
iuation fee will be IS. Catalogues and information
will be furnished application to Frank II. Kemper
Room II, northeast corner Fourth and Vine streets,
Cincinnati. The examinations will be identical with
those held in Princeton at the same time, JAMES
AtCCOSH. President Of Princeton College.
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Mr.. Moore, of the Combination Desk Com
pany, presented the members of fire company
No p who went to Brightwood yesterday morn
ing to extinguish the fire at the factory, with a
liberal donation.
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Strikes Among Coal Miners.

PITTsBURG, Pa, May l4-Eight hundred mi
ners employed in Falls Creek, St NIary's and
Hard scrabble mines, near Dubois, Pa, have
struck against the introduction of the screen sys
tenn. Botn sides are firm and a long struggle is
anticipated
A strike of fifteen hundred coal -miners at
Canton, o., is considered inevitable. A con
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-15

An incendiary started fire in the rear of the
grocery store of W. H. Barr, No. 272 North Pine
street, with coal oil, about y o'clock last night,
but the flames were discovered before doing any
great damage and were extinguished. The loss
will not exceed $25.
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MISCELLANEOUS,

II ANSAS HAS A POPULATION OF ONE MILL.
IN ion, Topeka, the capital has twenty five thou
sand both will double in next five years. Now is the
time to invest in real estate Address PHILLIPS &
SrRINGHAN1, Topeka, Kan, telling where YOU saw
his
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NO BUSINESS TROUBLE HERE
The Effect of the Financial FURRY in
New York Upon Indianapolis.
All the Local Banks Sound and Pursuing a
Conservative BusinesS-NO Cause for
Alarm at Home.

Reporters for the Journal had conversations
yesterday with representative bankers and bust
ness of the city, respecting the probable eff
feet of the financial spasm in New York upon
affairs here The results are given below
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During Mr. Stcddards stay in indianapolis he
has made many warm friends in business circles
through his correct and prompt Notwithstanding
hnsinnss
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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.


Office Of the Board Of Commissioners for The
Erection Of Additional Hospitals for the Insane
INpIANAPoLIs, Ind, May l, 1851. )
Sealed proposals will he received by said Board of
annapolis. on THE Sd DAY OF JUNE. 1851 be-
tween the hours &c O'Clock q. IA and | o'clock a.
M. for the erection and construction Of HOSPITAL
FOR THE INSANE to be erected in Cass county
tons and conditions agreed upon by said Board,
which on and after tho 18th day of May 1891. may
be examined at the Office OF +. H. helcham, architect,
Indianapolis, Ind.
NOTICE TO BIDDERS.
Separate bids will he required for each separate
buildng; each bid must be accompanied by a full,
emzed and accurate schedule OF quantities and prices;
and each bidder must file with his bid bids bond,
signed by two or more resident freehold suretie IN
double the amount of his bid bids, required by
law; AMI all such bids, schedules and bonds shall be
made ON printed forms supplied by said Boa.d.
Bids will be received for all the work in the several
buildings separately as above required, for any
class of such work the classification being set forth in
the specifications and schedule forms.
The Board reserves the right to leice, amy all bids.
Contractors will not be allowed to sublct any por-
ton Of he work without the written approval OF the
Board.
PAYMENTS will be made monthly as the work pro-
crosses, upon estimates to be mate by the Supern-
teudent OF Construction 10 per cent. OF such esti
mates to be withheld until the contract shall have
been fulfilled and work accepted by the Board.
The Board will be responsible for payments on osti
mates only to the extent of appropriations made by
the Legislature for such purposes.
Proposals must be iudorsed as follows; Proposals
for the Northern Indiana Hospital for the Insane,
and must he addrcssed TO tho Commissioners for
the Erection of Additional Hospitals Tor the insane
indianapolis. Indiana
Bidders are invited be present at the opening Of
the bids which viii take place at the Office of the
Governor the Sd day of june next.
- A. G. PORTER.
Governor anil President of the Board.
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FIGURING Mil Burned.

MARSHALL, Mo- May 1.-THE Touring mill of
Pollock, Bellamy Il Co. at Slater, Mo. burned
to the ground last night Loss, $36 0Q0; insur-
ance $3.50
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AUCTION SALES.

HUNT ~ MCCURDY, REAL ESTATE AND GEN.
eral Auctioneers. No. SO East Washington street
Stocks of merchandise in city or country bought out
right for cash.
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Those Complaining

OF sore throat or hoarseness should use Browns
Bronchial Troches The effect is extraordinary,
particularly when used by singers and speakers
for clearing the voice.
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Extreme Tired Feeling.

A lady tells us the first bottle has done my
daughter great deal of good, her food does not
distress her now, nor does she suffer from that
extreme tired feeling which she did before taking
Hoods Sarsaparilla.' second bottle effected a
cure. No other preparation contains such con
centration of vital2ing, enriching, purifying and
invigoratng properties as Hoods Sarsaparilla.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.

A QUIET HOME, COMFORTABLE ROOMS EN-
n cellent board manag' t; large yd. l3S Mass.
TWENTY YEARS OF CONGRESS- BY HON
i JAMES G. BLAINE. Agents wanted j. f.
HASKELL, 10 and 20 Sentinel Building.
DEADY.MADE HOUSES, ANY SIZE OR STYLE
II on short tice. E. c. HOWLETT, Broker, s
Condit Block
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PROF. CROMWELL Germany and the Rhine
land tonight.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-17

The completion of the Kenesaw
branch of the B. & NJ, on July 4, will
reduce time and distance between Oma-
ha and Denver one hour or about thirty
miles. The road branches off from the
kearney line at Kenesaw, in Adams
county, and runs southwest through
Kearney and Harlan counties to Ok
ford, where it joins the main Republi-
can valley line. The road was opened
for business this week. It will be the
main line from Lincoln west instead of
the present route by way Of Red Cloud.
The road passes through fine farming
country already well settled, and capa-
BILE Of supporting large population.
There are several thriving towns on the
road and considerable local business will
be obtained from the start.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-17

TIE Colorado CONVOY has ruled the
roost for long time and has had the
inhabitants under pretty good control,
greatly to his own satisfaction if not
advantage. But he has met a new
terror bigger than he is. The through
cattle trail from Texas now goes by
Wallace, Kas., where the Colorado
boys round up, and within four days
three of them were fatally plugged
by gentlemen from Texas on their
way northward with their focks.
None of the Texas gentlemen have
been scratched yet, and unless the
Colorado boys rally the good name of
their guild is gone.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-17

numerous other scopes, for which he
has received some $1,000 or $4,000,
without even having delivered an
article! The law officers have gone
into the business of indicting these
thieves, but nobody supposes that
any of them will be convicted, from
the fact that Washington jurymen as
a rule are in the same boat.
The sudden absence of Congress
with its lobby has left Washington in
a state of Consequences. The Riggs,
the Arlington, the Ebbitt and Will
lards suffer the most by these Congress
sional exoduses, because the houses
must be kept up during the summer
at necessarily heavy expense. How
ever, the landlords manage somehow
or other to make both ends meet at
the close of the fiscal year, and have
something left over for a boom at the
opening in December.
Dom PEDRO.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-17

AND now cometh into full view,
clear down to the front, the large small
man who carrieth his entire ward in
his vest pocket and owneth part of a
country township, and setteth things
up and layeth things down, and is
mysterious and confidential, and max
eth secret calculations and estimates
i'll dingy note books, and increaseth
in girth until the day after election,
when it transpires that his favorite
candidate received about eleven votes
where the rest of the ticket got about
1000, and the shrinkage Of that man
is even as sun dried boot after a fish
ing excursion. Weep not for him. He
will be just as large, just as myster-
ious, and just as important during the
next campaign.-Burlingt Hawk
eve,
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-17

SOME Vassar girls made sponge
cake and sent it without a label to an
agricultural fair. They got notice
from the judges sometime afterwards
that their sample of concrete had been
received and that the city would like
an estimate as to the cost Of block pave
ment Of that kind, it being the most
desirable of any presented, and just the
thing for streets where the travel is
heavy.-Hartford Telegram.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-17

Ar the Chicago driving park last
Thursday, there was special trial for
Westmont, the PAGER, with Firebrand
as running mate to wagon. AS Camp
bell drove the remarkable pair out on
the track, it looked as though they
meant to show speed, and as they came
down the stretch for the word, everyone
watched the flying horses. After they
passed the turn by the club house, the
entire crowd was aware that remarkable
time was being made. The quarter pole
was reached in 304 seconds. The PAGER
kept his gait steadily and passed the
half mile in one minute the Z pole
was passed faster than ever before, in
1:3O, and still the gait seemed to in
crease in swiftness. The crowd began
to cheer, and just as the team came to
the distance stand, Westmont broke,
coming in under the wire in 2:O14 the
fastest recorded time. Had the crowd
repressed it's exultation for a second,
the time no doubt, would have been less
than 2 minutes. Attendance ten thous-
and. Westmont was purchased tonight
by j. NJ. Hill, the theatrical manager
price $4,000.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-17

The Chicago Times is satisfied with
the democratic nominations, but re-
fuses to praise the platform. Accord
ing to the Times the great effort OF
the architects seems to have been to
embody in it the ideas and whims OF
pretty much everybody except Gen
eral Butler, and even his notions are
by no means wholly excluded. The
object, presumably, was to please
everybody. There may, however,
have been another object--to drown
the ideas, such as they are, in an ocean
of words, to the end that the entire
document may be lost sight of before
the contest fairly begins, and that the
campaign may be conducted upon a
few cries and catch-phrases, each
adapted to its own locality.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-17

SOME. unsophisticated thief in a fit
Of mental alteration thoughtlessly in
terviewed Des Moines EDITORS cloth
ing, and after most thorough search
found therein the munifcent sum of 60
cents. Such ignorance is inexcusable-
the thief deserves being quartered and
his body scattered to the four winds of
hnarnn
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-17

THE tariff for revenue only plank
of the democratic platform has a label
over it which reads federal taxation
for public purposes exclusively" but
the new labels are not large enough,
and the legerdemain in words is a dead
give away. The ostrich has stuck his
head in the sand again.