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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-28
The Democratic Majority Grabs Another
Seat and Mr.. Mckinley Is at Liberty
to Spend Season at Home.
A Spirited Discussion Of Polygamy by
Senators Brown and H0ar.
Mr.. Ker Is Willing to Grant Mr.. Kellogg ANY
Variety of Satisfaction He Nay Select
Other Washington News.
DIRECTOR HOLMAN.
Reasons Why His denomination Is Not
Hailed with Delight


Special to the indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, May 27-There is general
regret upon both sides of the House at the sue
cess Of Holman in securing denomination.
Holman, who plays the part of profes-
sional economist, is greatly disliked not only by
his opponents, but by his political associates as
well. His cat skinning ideas are not in accord
with the spirit of the age and while he would
undoubtedly have been a valuable acquisition to
the councils of Caesars time when the laborer
received but penny day. he is not in his
right place as a member of the Forty eighth
Congress of the United States of America. 1t
is due to the men of the Holman ilk that the
civil service of the government is not as well
supplied as it should be. Holman and the few
that are with him are enabled to cut down
salaries of important Offices at will and thus
drive good men away from the government
service AS a result, the cry of extravaganza is
frequently raised against members Of the Cab
met who desire to have the work for which
they are responsible performed in fitting
manner When the estimates are submitted at
the beginning of each session the secretaries of
the various departments invariably ask for ad
ditional clerks, not only because the business Of
their Office is constantly on the increase, bat be-
cause they know very well tina unless they ask
for more help they are almost certain to have
their force reduced This year the Postmaster
general de cided not to ask for any additional
clerks, although his offices are all over-crowded
with work The result is as might have been
expected. Holman has got III q streak of econ
omy and besides reorganizing the department
to suit his views he has cut down the clerical
force, wher ever he thought clerks were too
thick 1t is for similar reasons to this that
members Of Congress who do not desire to en-
barrass the public service are not glad to hear
that the objeetor has been renominated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-28
AN ENGLISH EXECUTION.
A Woman Knocked Down Before Taken t,
the Scaffold.

"A woman knocked Down Before Taken to
the Scafold.
horribly sensational hanging occurred yes
terday at Lincoln The victim was Mrs. Lef-
fey, who poisoned her husband last fall, and was
duly convicted and sentenced at the Lincolnshire
Sessions She had however, acquired some
money by her husbands death, and she spent it
hberally in pressing appeal to the Home Sec
retary for a communication of sentence to impris-
onment for life, or if that were refused for Il re-
prieve of few weeks To the very last mo-
ment Mrs Lef1ey believed thata reprieve would
be granted. and she was not by any manner of
means reconciled to her fate When she first
saw the hangman in the pinioning room she
shrieked with terror and tainted. She was re-
stored TO consciousness and the hangman began
to prepare her for the gallows by pinioning her
elbows and fixing a strap lightly around the
skirts to be tighened about her ankles after she
had walked to the scaffold. Mrs. Leffley
fought desperately to prevent these re
straints and gave utterance to frightful yells
which were heard even outside the massive walls
of the jail On the way to the scaffold the
screams of the woman were almost maniacal
and drowned the voice of the prison chaplain
who was reciting the prayers for the dying
When she was placed upon the trap she con
tnued to scream and incOherentlV aVOw her
innocence until the white cap was pulled down
over her mouth and stiAed her voice. Then
the trap fell, the woman was dropped into
the well, and in few minutes was pronounced
dead The usual inquest was held, and the
corpse was buried in the jail-yard and covered
with quicklime.
Contrary to the usual custom, no representa-
tives of the press were admitted to the jail-yard
and very contradictory stories are told by the
medical men and other official witnesses Of the
execution. All the facts, as stated above are
admitted by all the witnesses, but some of them
state in addition that hangman Binns was
unnecessarily and barbarously brutal in his
treatment of the woman. According to their
statement he knocked her down in the pin
nioning room and choked her until her face
The London papers generally condemn the
exclusion of the press, and say that this dis
graceful scene furnishes another and quite suf-
fcient reason for the dismissal of the drunken
brute Binns from his office as official hanoman
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-28
A VALUABLE REPORT.
Proof that Western Cattle Are Not Afflie
with Foot and Mouth Disease.

Proof that Western Cattle Are Not Afflicted
with Foot and Mouth Disease.
Special to the indianapolis journal
WAsHNGToN May 21-'Ex. Doe 1897 is a
letter from the Secretary of the Treasury to the
House of Representatives, submitting report of
the chairman of the Treasury Cattle Commits
sion upon the subject of disease of cattle in sew
eral of the Western States which recently
caused much alarm. Professor Law, the
chairman referred to, is reported to have asserted
positively, before he went West that the out
break was undoubtedly foot and mouth disease,
and that an investigation was entirely unneces-
sary DR.. Salmon, veterinarian of the De-
partment of Agriculture was equally confident
that such was not the case, and his first reports
from the field were combinations of his state
mont Professor Law, however, has made his
report 1t makes a pamphlet of twenty nine
pages, and substantiates the report of the Off
GERS appointed by Commissioner Loring, to the
effect that the disease was simply dry gangrene,
caused by feeding ergotized hay. The report Of
Professor Law is valuable in its historical ac-
counts of similar outbreaks which have occurred
in the past from like causes, and its publication
will doubtless do much to remove the stigma
placed upon American cattle products which the
false report that foot and mouth disease had
broken out occasioned.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-28
WHEN
CLOTHING STORE.
FOR 5OCENTS
The WEEKLY JOURNAL.

In order to place the WEEKLY INDIANA
STATE JOURNAL in the home of every Repub-
lican in the State, and thus do good campaign
service for the Republican party, we have de-
.cided to send the paper till after the presiden-
rtial election for 50 cents. This will include
the number beginning from the present date,
and the one succeeding the November election
tgiving the result of the national campaign.
THE WEEKLY JOURNAL is complete family
newspaper. 1t is specially edited, and much
of the matter appearing in it is especially pre-
spared for the wants of the weekly readers. 1t
as a compendium of the NEWS OF THE WORLD
from all quarters; it has full and accurate mar
,ket reports; its editorials are political social
and general; it has the news Of the State
and of the city; it has a record
of the proceedings of Congress; it will have a
complete report of the national conventions at
Chicago. It's literary and miscellaneous fea-
tures are of the best.
THE WEEKLY JOURNAL is a newspaper that
6uOu1u NC III every 1dLn1ly III AhulandJ ohN aO
the price named for it there is no reason why
it should not be, at least during the exciting
and important campaign upon which the
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mittees cannot do better than to see that
copies of The WEEKLY JOURNAL are placed
in the hands of those persons in their
counties who are not now readers of
some sound Republican paper. The
tariff question is the one issue which
is likely to be most prominently dis
cussed, and to this the Journal pays especial
attention, advocating the maintenance of the
principle of protection to American industry
in whatever revision of the tariff laws may be
made necessary in the future developments of
business and labor. In this question the
farming community is deeply interested, and
the discussions of the journal will be
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The WEEKLY JOURNAL is the only paper in
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land this will be continued throughout the
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GRABBING ANOTHER SEAT.
Mr.. Mckinley Ousted and Mr.. Wallace In
stalled in His Place.

hAIs Mchlnley OuSIeu ana NH. wallace III
stalled in His Place.
Special to the indianapolis Journal
WAsHINGToN May 27-Mr Mckinley, of
Ohio, was unseated to-day, after lengthy de-
bate. The debate was not exciting. and Mr. Nc
Kinley's seat appropriated with an unusual
We're all listened to with considerable interest,
but they drew out no heated exchanges of words
between members. 1t was apparent that the
seat was going to be grabbed so there was not
one-half the interest taken in the proceedings
there was in the EnglishPeelle contest of last
week. Mr.. Hurds speech in behalf of Mr. Nc
Kinley was the leading feature of the day,
from the fact that he is Democrat and
always makes a good speech. He was
strong in his legal delneation of the phases OF
the case He did not, as most of the other
speakers did, anayze the different features of
the testimony taken in the contest as the basis
of his remarks
Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, was expected to
speak and vote for Mckinley. He surprised a
good many by doing neither.
Seven Democrats voted against the grab
Tl.ey We're Messrs. Blackburn, Thompson and
Robertson, Of Kentucky, Hurd, of Ohio; Dorsheim
and Potter of New York, and Mills, of Texas
When the yeas and nays were called, it waf
found that the rapacious seat-hunters had big.
ger majority than was expected. They had l5S
votes to l0S against their scheme. majority of
exactly So
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-28
A NEGRO ANTICHRIST.
A Strange Story of Religious ApOStasy Among
Georgia COlOred People.

GAINESVILLE, Ca, May 27.-El Mahdi prom
ises to have a rival in a Georgia colored man,
who has been gradually spreading delusion
among the people of his race for several months
Considerable religious fervor has existed among
the colored people of Madison, Jackson and
the neighboring counties, one of the strange fea-
lures Of which was the secrecy with which the
proceedings were kept from the knowledge Of
the whites Meetings would take place in out
ofway places and at late hours of the night, gen
orally after the regular services were over when
a chosen few would be called aside to listen to a
new oracle who had risen to point the way to the
future life. This new speaker, who wasa stranger
in the county, always introduced him
self as the one who was to come
the hope of Israel, and by similar
designations He found followers who believed
implicitly in his mission, and who never lost the
opportunity of securing perverts. The increas
ing zeal of his followers heightened the preten
sions of the mysterious preacher, who soon be-
gan to announce his appearance on great white
horse, when the world would bow in submission
to him. The colored man had been under foot
long enough. The day of his deliverance was at
hand, when he should enter into the possession
of the promised land They should watch and
wait, and look for signs which would precede his
coming Reports from points where this man
has been holding forth indicate firm conviction
on the part of the negroes that the prophet who
has risen among them has no common mission.
Within the past week the pretensions of this
man have passed all belief He has boldly declared
himself to be the Messiah whose coming has
been foretold from the beginning. His deluded
followers have eagerly assented to this claim
and speak OF him the veritable Christ. A
gentleman who has just arrived from one of the
haunts of the impostor declares that his dupes
worship him, and that he has forgiven the sins
of large number, being quite lavish in his
clemency. He exhibits scars which he pretends
are the marks of the wounds in his hands and
feet and tie spear wound in his side. He has
| evidently used an instrument upon himself as
to secure the marks of nails. The colored peo
pie who are in his following shy of all in
| quiries, and always give equivocal answers.
| Whether the impostor is a lunatic a knave is
hard to decide. He gives no trouble to the com
nunities which he visits, simply travelling
around in a style of an English ranter, confning
himself to the propagation of his claim to di
vinity. The Gainesville Press, speaking of him,
says that his dupes are ardent in his support,
! going to any length to testify their devotion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-28
The Queens Bad son-in-Law.

London Special.
Another crop of scandal is promised in con-
nection with the left-handed marriage of the
Grand Duke Louis " of Hesse Nine. De Kal-
amire, the morganatic spouse whom Louis wishes
to divorce to please his mother-in-law, Queen
Victoria, now threatens fight and promises
some ugly revelations. She says that the Grand
Dukes life, since the death of his wife, Princess
Alice, would not bear close scrutiny, and that
she has the best of reasons for knowing of some
of his lapses. She also says that if she has com
mitted such ante nuptual sins as are charged by
the Grand Duke, she did not sin without part
ner and that if there were any sin and any part
nership therein the Grand Duke knows who the
partner is. She declares it the height of ungene
erosity to tax her with such offenses to crafty
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-28
Another warrant Against Ward.

New YORK. May 27.-United States District
attorney Root lodged warrant for the arrest of
Ferdinand Ward, in Ludlow street Jail, tonight,
on complaint of Bank-examiner Serbia, who
charges that Ward aided and abetted Pres
ident James D. Fish in misappropriat
ing the funds of the Marine Bank
The affidavit recites the same facts
as in the case of Fish, giving the amount drawn
out of the bank by Grant & Ward as 1919 600
and it concludes with charging that Ward
''aided, abetted, counseled and procured said
James d. Fish to commit the offenses aforesaid
with intent to injure and defraud the Marine
Bank for his own benefit and advantage"
Detectives and deputy marshals still shadow
the house OF exPresident John c. Emo, but late
tonight Emo had not been arrested. It was ru-
mored late tonight that another warrant of ar
rest had been issued against President James
D. Fish in a civil suit
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-28
The Egyptian Conference.

LONDON, May 27.-In the Commons, to-day,
Mr.. Gladstone again declared the Egyptian con-
ference would be limited to discussion of the
financial situation. He promised to lay before
Parliament, before the conference meets what.
ever the result may be- the result arrived at
from the preliminary interchange of views
between England and France. No
agreement he said, would be concluded
with France without reference to the other
powers. The government contemplated a
European engagement and not separate one
with France Although preliminary negotiations
were taking place with France, due regard had
been given Englands rights and privileges
In the Lords, to-day Earl Granville said the
government had no intention of employing
Turkish troops in connection with a British army
for re-conquest of the Soudan.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-28
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.
Bradlaugh Revives Some Unpleasant Facts
About Pensions.

Bradlaugh Revives Some Unpleasant Facts
About Pensions.
LONDON. May 21-Apropos of the commuta-
ton of the Duke of Marlborough and William
Penn PENSIONS Charles Bradlaugh writes severe
letter to the Treasury. He urges that Marl-
borough betrayed England, embezzled 940O, 900
of public moneys, and accepted bribes from
read-contractors who were thus permitted
to supply the army with such poor
food that many soldiers were sickened
by it and died. He submits, likewise, that when
the independence of America was recognized, the
Penns were compensated for their claims by the
payment of fl30000 given them in yearly in
stallments of Els 900, with interest The Penn
pension, when originally granted, he argues,
was therefore fraud on the nation. Moreover,
the present recipient of this pension is a direct
blood heir of William Penn.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-28
FAILURES ELSEWHERE.
The Hot Springs National Bank Suspends-
Run on the Arkansas National.

Run on the Arkansas National.
Hot SPRINGS, Ark, May 27.-The Hot Springs
National Bank has closed its doors, owing to a
run on the bank caused by the reported absence
of the president, Andrew Bruon. The liabilities
are $40, 900.
This afternoon a warrant was issued for
President Bruonss arrest, on charge of falsify-
ing the banks accounts but he could net be
found One of the directors telegraphed that if
the banks assets were properly handled it will
pay all depositors without assessment but leave
stockholders nothing
1t has been learned that BruOn arrived at
Little Rock on Friday, but was not seen by ac-
quaintances till to-day, when he bade goodbye to
a woman named Steel who went north on the
afternoon train. Bruon is married. but the Hot
Springs Gazette says it has been discovered that
he became infatuated with the woman and
abandoned his wife for her. No effort will be
made for his arrest.
A run has commenced on the Arkansas Ma
tional Bank, of Hot Springs, which is under
stood to be in good condition. Great excite
ment prevails
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-28
After Waiting Two Years for Needed Assist
ance, the Governor of DarfOur Surren-
ders that Place to the Rebels.
The British Authorities Send Letters
Insisting Upon GOrdOn's Return.
Bradlaugh Recalls Unpleasant Facts About
Great Men-RumOr that Earl Granville
Will Tender His Resignation.
THE SOUDAN REBELLION.
The Governor of Dongola's Mission of Pea
-Su..randar. of narf;o111.-

The Governor of Dongola's Mission of Peace
Surrender of Darfour.
LONDON, May PA Cairo telegram says;
The Governor of Dongola has visited the dis
turbed districts, and persuaded the people to re-
main quiet. The tribes have consented to pay
taxes. The Governor engages to pacify the Sou
dan if several thousand troops are sent him.
The Governor of Darfour says "After resisting
the rebels two years, awaiting oft-solicited as
sistance, finally surrendered to avoid further
bloodshed"
Later advices from the Governor of Doneola
show that he compelled peace by total defeat
of the rebels in the disturbed districts, who were
completely overawed by the power of the gov
ernment.
Zebehr Pasha, at the request of
England, has sent servant to
Khartoum with letters insisting upon Gen. Cor
dons return. The messenger will return in
fifty days.
The Khedive has written Queen Victoria ask
ing that Col. Baker be reinstated in the British
army, in view of his great services in Egypt.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-28
sharon's Shameful Bargain.

san FRANCISCO, May Pin the Sharon
divorce case. to-day, ex Senator Sharon again
occupied the stand. He tesafed that on the
7th Of November 1881, the plsintiff came to his
room He told her he did not wish her to come
to his rooms any more and offered her S.. 900 to
cease coming. She replied it wasn't enough and
wanted $4,000 He then offered her $500,
which she accepted. He received a receipt from
her in full of all claims. The receipt was after
wards stolen from his room He could not swear
by whom, but accused the plaintiff of it. The
afternoon was occupied by cross examination,
memory
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-28
GRANT AND FISH.
The Latter Explains that He Did Not Meal
to Charge the General with GniIt

10 CnarSe Une General with CIuiit.
NEW YORK, May 27.-President Fish now says
he did not mean to charge that General Grant
had any guilty knowledge of the frauds in the
government contracts. but simply intended to
say that the letters received from General Grant
were of such a tenor as to warrant anyone in
having confidence in the representations made
by Ward. John D. Fish says his father regarded
General Grants position in regard to Wards
transactions as similar to his own. Both of
them We're misled to the extent of trusting en-
tirey to what said by Ward
Ex-senator Conkling, counsel for General
Grant, said to-day that the only statement that
is to be made on the part of General Grant was
that published this morning in all the papers of
this city, and also, through the agency of the
Associated Press, in other parts of the United
States. In that statement the letters alluded to
in the reported interview with Fish were given
in full and he could see no reason for a further
statement on the part of General Grant.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-28
The Blanchard Failure.

PORTLAND, Ne, May 2L-Writs have been
issued for attachments on the property of Sill
vanus c. Blanchard, of Yarmouth, Me-, for
1925 OOO in the suits of Barring Brothers, of Lon,
don, Eng, and Kidder, Peabody & Co. of Bos
ton. The son of Blanchard failed in Richmond
and it is alleged the father guaranteed drafts to
the amount of $75, ,00l John Pickrell of Rich
mond, Va, mas been appointed receiver
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-28
Shirts, Etc.

/ Our Furnishing Department
a1as just been replenished by
large lines of White Shirts,
laundered and unlaundered;
Fancy Shirts, in French Per-
lcales, Cheviots, etc; Night
Shirts, in the largest variety OF
qualities and styles; Collars,
Cuffs, Neckwear, etc. What
ever appertains to completely
tstocked department of this de-
scription we show in profusion.
We Retail these goods at
Wholesale Prices, in keeping
with the scale of low prices
ruling in every department of
the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-28
The NTetronolitan Bank.

New York, May 27-At a meeting of
the Metropolitan Bank directors this morn
ing the president stated that the de
posits had diminished about So 0G0 OO0 since
the suspension, but show no further diminuton
this week. Many letters had been received
from former depositors leading to a belief that
they would again become depositors. Some new
accounts had been opened
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-28
THE DEMOCRACY AND POLYGAMY.

Senator Brown Makes an Assault on New
England, and MIR. Hoar Responds.
WASHINGTON, May Pin the Senate, to-
day, the Utah bill being under consideration,
MFR Brown said the Edmunds bill was shame
full violation of the Constitution. He eontnsted
what he termed the "polygamy New England
aud the polygamy Of Utah. The picture he
drew he said, was drawn, more in sorrow than
il anger There had been over y, 600 divorces
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-28
The Floods in Spain.

MADRID, May 27.-The vineyards in the dis
trict of Carthagena have been ravaged by hurri-
canes, and many families ruined. In the district
of Orihula houses are inundated aid the village of
Molins is submerged, and people being compelled
to take refuge on the roofs of houses and in
boats. The frigate Saragosa has gone to the re-
lief of Larca and Burgos, which are also flooded.