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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-06

Major Bitters has purchased the Rochester
RepubIican and will hereafter be its editor.
Samuel j. Wright, sixty-three years old, a
well7known attorney at Corydon, died on Thurs
day of Brght's disease.
Rev. w. L. Austin, of Dunkirk N. Y, has
been formally installed as pastor of the Second
Presbyterian Church. of New Albany.
james Turner colored, fifteen years old, while
playing about moving trains at JeffersonEille,
fell off the cars, was run over and lost leg.
James Patterson, an l. & St j.. engineer was
knocked down, badly wounded, and robbed, at
Terre Haute, on Thursday night, He lives at
Nation.
The body of an unknown man, fearfully man
gled, was found on the Nickel plate road, short
distance east of Fort Wayne. Nothing could be
found to identify him.
DIR. John Alabaster, of Indianapolis, has been
secured by the Y M. C. A. of DePauw Univer-
sity to deliver his lecture-'Young Men for the
Timesr-in Meharry Hall on Wednesday even
ing Dec IL.
Weibern Wartena. the murderer Of John
Dreger, near Rensselaer,, has confessed his
crime. He says he killed him for his property;
that he could not make a living by means OF
farming. They went 20 the Kankakee river
fishing Wartena loaded two iron pump tops
into the wagon. They arrived at the river and
fshed all the morning and until about 3 o'clock
in the afternoon. when Wartena, embracing an
opportunity, struck Dreger ca the head with his
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Edueation for the Negroes.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Dec. 5.-The following
resolution was adopted by the Alabama Senate
to-day:
BE it resolved. That the sense of this Senate as
rejecting the feelings and sentiments of the white
people of Alabama is most earnestly and heartily in
favor of the largest appropriations by the State
patible with its existing financial condition, for sup
port of public schools and rofoundest regret
is inability to do for thesegran situations
so indispensable to the safety of society and property
of free: civilized, and Christian government, and so
Indicative of intellectual moral and material devel
opment in sympathy with the spirit and demands of
enlightened humanity, and especially and solemnly do
white people of Alabama to aid in the education of
the colored children in our midst"
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lGeneral Logan,s Views.

Washington Special.
In referring to the contest the Senator said
81 don't how it will come out, and 1 don't see
how any settlement will be reached, unless one
side goes over to q man who can get a vote or
TWO from the other party The only thing am
afraid of 'is that some of the men vino are
anxious to come TO the Senate will get some one
politically opposed to him to agree to vote for
him, and then say to his own party, if you will
stand by me l can be elected In that case
some one may slip in.
''There is no truth in the report that one of
the so.called Irdependentsis Republican. Both
of them are Democrats, nominated by Demo-
cratic conventions and they win vote with the
Democratic caucus. Republicans are more apt
to be split off from their party than Democrats.
If both sides hold firm and no election is had,
have no doubt but the Governor has q right TO
appoint to fill the vacancy, which insures Re-
publican senator"
Though he does not say so, it Is well under
stood that General Logan expects to be the Re-
publican candidate, and in case of deadlock,
appointed by Governor Oglesby. About the
Capitol today some of the Illinois Democrats
said that one Republican representative had
promised to vote for Congressman Moultcn, a
Democrat.
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pected vouchers is $l24, $50, extending over the
period from 1876 to 1884. The Surgeon general
neglected to require the customary evidence that
goods had been received. The frauds were made
by frequent use of the exigencies clause, under
which purchases were made without advertising.
The expenditures of the department for the
fiscal year ended June 30, 1884, were ST. 80 COL;
the estimates for ordinary purposes and public
work for the next fiscal is ST. $50 65S, and the
estimates for increase of the navy, $l507l, 5I2
OF this latter sum about one-half would be
needed during the coming fiscal year
The Secretary comments severely upon the
existing practice of securing the solicitation of
persons possessed of political or social influence
IN behalf Of officers, whether for the purpose OF
obtaining agreeable duty or affecting the restor-
alton by legislation of those who have been dis
missed for drunkenness or other misconduct, or
for incapacity. He says such RESERVATIONS de-
moralze the service. Public opinion should
sternly condemn all who have been guilty OF
misconduct, as well as those who lend them
selves to efforts for restoration Of officers re-
moved In discussing this subject he refers to
the Presidents veto message on the Fitz John
Porter bill as pointing out the un,
consttutionality of such legislation, and
showing that the Constitution has provided
au effectual barrier to any restoration by legisla-
ton of particular officers"
In conclusion Secretary Chandler dwells upon
Che close connection between improvement of
the navy and development of the merchant ma
rine, and shows that to make the latter com
mensurate with our trade and our coast line, and
the number and wealth of our commercial cities,
we must have great lines of ocean steamships of
high speed and large capacity, carrying our flag
to the most distant lands and saving to our PEG
pie the vast profits of the carrying trade, The
only way to accomplish this result, he
says, is through direct encouragement given by
the government, either in the form Of bounties
upon construction payment for carrying
mails, so that American capitalists viii be in
duced to embark in the business. The recent
enactment repeating the laws requiring all
American vessels arbitrarily to carry foreign
mails, he says, should be supplemented by a
provision that contracts for carrying such mails
in American lines of steamers, over all the prin-
cipal ocean highways, should be let for terms of
years to the lowest bidder, equal compensation
therefor to be paid by the government upon the
same principle as that adopted in establishing
our great national post-routes on land.
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gun, Telling him to the ground Then he in
flicted the wounds which were found behind
Dregers ear with the muzzle of his gun. He
then tied the iron pump to his legs and sunk him
in the river Dregers property was found to be
in possession of Wartena when Dreger was miss
ing.
Charles Burke has been arrested at Columbus,
a hotel thief, being charged with having en-
tered a room occupied by Andrew Leiberman.
The latter was awakened and had scufie with
the robber, who escaped but was afterward
taken
Mrs. Ann P Hendricks, widow of the late
VIM. Hendricks, second Governor Of Indiana,
and for many years United States SENATOR is
living in Madison. Mrs. Hendricks is in
her eighty 7seventh year, and still occupies the
house erected as a family residence sixty three
years ago. near the corner of High and Elm
streets.
An attempt was made, on Wednesday night,
at Connersville. to assassinate Wilson T. Dale,
recently retired from the position of justice of
the peace, after twenty years service. he was
sitting in his Office, at his lumber yard, and the
bullet, which came through the window, barely
missed his head. He does not know who to
suspect
Amos Goodwin, of Utica this State, has
bought half of island in the Ohio river, twelve
miles above Jacksonville. The island contains
200 acres of very rich farming land. The half
brought 5000. 1t was farmed in early Ken
lucky history, and tremendous crops have al
ways been made from the rich soil. There are
no houses on it whatever.
A lady greatly resembling Miss Sadie Rabbi
daughter of Dr. Rabbi president of the Vineennes
bank, and giving the name of Lucinda B. Mon
ford, was married, on last Wednesday evening
to man named Gilbert E. Abbott. 1t a
mysterious wedding, and the Princeton Clarion
jumped at the conclusion that the lady was Miss
Rabb, and SO published the item. The mistake
was an exceedingly provoking one, as Miss Rabb
was at her home in Vincennes entirely innocent
Of afriu
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THE STAFFORD EXPLOSION.
Details of the Terrible Affair in Which the
Lives of -Four People We're Lost

DOVER. n. H. Dec. 5--An authentic account
of the Stafford explosion states that Stephen
Young a well-to do farmer, of Stafford Corner,
eighteen miles from here, had occasion TO drill
through rock for we'll in the rear of his house
He employed George l., Goodwin to do the
work. who was. assisted by u. 4. Berry. A bas-
ket of Atlas,powder cartridges was used in Dor
ing the well, one of which Goodwin attached to
a battery, which did not work He placed the
battery and the cartridges in the kitchen, on top
of basket containing other cartridges About
3 o'clock George Young, of Lowell Mass,
visitor, in company with Miss
Sadie Greenfield, took the battery in
his hand. Instantly a loud explosion
followed and the house was demolished, the
first floor being blown into the cellar and the
back part of the house blown out, and all rTere
terribly injured. George H. Goodwin, aged
stwentysseven, died this morning. he leaves a
widow and two children. The following four
will die: George Young, jr., aged twenty SEVEN
SINGLE Joseph May agedtwenty five, latelyifrom
Philadelphia Mary Ann Young, aged fifty three,
and Il. 4. Berry aged thirty, unmarried. Those
injured hut not fatally are: Miss Sadie Green
field, aged twenty-five, ofRochester; Ella Ready,
aged eighteen, unmarried and Stephen Young
aged seventy five, widUwer.
Att p. N. the death of u. Il. Berry Joseph
May and George Young was hourly expected.
Mary Ann Young may linger some days. The
house took fire and, with its contents was
burned to the ground Everybody was afraid
to go near the house during the fire, fearing a
further explosion of cartridges. The explosion
was heard at distance of fifteen miles. Money
and notes of considerable value were lost
OF the persons injured, Geo. L. Goodwin has
already died OF the survivors it is doubtful if
any will recover, except Miss Sadie Greenfield.
Tonight the death of Geo. Young Mary Ann
Young, Zachary f. Berry and Joseph May is
expected any moment Ella Ready,
heretofore thought only slightly injured,
is growing rapidly worse from internal burns.
Stephen Young, eighty three years of age, be
.-i,Ine PROSTATE this afternoon from his wounds,
and it is thought his injuries may prove fatal
ewing to his extreme age. Miss Greenfield is
out OF danger; she is sister to High Sheriff
Greenfield, and was soon to be married TO Geo
Young Stephen Young is the wealthest farmer
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An Exhibitor Assaulted.

Special TO the indianapolis journal.
GREENsBURG Dec. 5.-Last night as Martin
Zorger, the former proprietor and editor of the
Decatur Press, was crossing q street rear the
Public Square, Ed. Donnell and Cliff Donnell,
the two sons of WiiliamA Donnell, the editor
and proprietor of the Decatur News assaulted
him, knocking him down. Zorger' cried 'mur-
der" and called for help. About this time VIM.
P. Ham, merchant tailor, ran from his shop
near by and took hand against Zorger HUI
bert Eich, a gunsmith, ran from his shop and
canght Ham, who, in turn, bit Eichin the hand.
The Donnells charge zorger with writing sour
their friends
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A Strike Ordered,

PITTsBURG, Dec. 5.--The holloware glass
workers met to- might to consider the proposed
per cent. reduction, and after a lengthy discus
sion unanimously decided to resist any attempt
to cut wages. In this city there are eleven fac
tories, employing about 1900 men.
Shoenberger e. Co., iron manufacturers this
evening ordered l5 to 20 per cent reduction of
wages of all workmen, to 60 into effect imme
diately.
AT Zug & Co.'s Sable Iron-works half the force
sumo work on Monday.
On the western division of the Pennsylvania
railroad l, 900 men, principally trackmen, have
been discharged within the past week. This re-
duction is about 10 per cent of the working
force
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Insurance suit Compromiset.

PITTsBURG, Dec. 5.-The suit of the Exposi
ton Society against the London and Provincial
Insurance Company, of England and the Union
Insurance Company, of California, for recovery
of insurance on the exposition building, which
was destroyed by fire in October. 1888, was com
promised to-day upon the defense agreeing to
pay the costs and the sum of $4,000 upon the
two suits on trial. without interest, within thirty
days. The amount claimed in the two suits
was 1900 The compromise was brought
about by the sudden illness Of juror The suit
was regarded as a test case, the insurance COM
paLIes having refused payment of the claims
alleging that the fire was caused by negligence.
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PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 5.-Richard Bracken, a
restaurant4keeper of this city, and or f, IF the
notice that his uncle, Richard O'Keefe has Just
died at Brazil, leaving to him fortune of nearly
$1,000 O00 Bracken is an industrious gray haired
Irishman, forty five years old, who came to this
country fugitive fifteen years ago He was ar
Mountjoy, Dublin prison. He stiH shows the
marks of prison chains on his wrists He was
confined until July 6, 1867. when he was iber-
ated under the habeas corpus act. He then came
to America, and as president of the Wolf Tone
Club became one of the bitterest haters of Eng
land in this city. He will go to South America
to look after the unexpected fortune.
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ILLINOIS.
MIR. Mccartney Files Notice of Contest in the
Sixteenth District.

MIR. Mccartney Files Notice of Contest in the
Sixteenth District.
SPRrNaFIEED, Dec. s. -Attomey general James
Mccartney, defeated Republican candidate
for Congress from the Sixteenth district,
has filed notice of contest of Mr.. Landis's seat
He charges Landis and his agents with bribery
throughout the district; that fraudulent returns
were made in several counties; that votes
cast ''for congressman at large" were
counted for Lands; that the polls in one pre-
cinct were opened two hours before the ap
pointed time; that theballot boxes were removed
from the polling places and that changes in the
returns were made whereby Lands gained 1000
votes more than he was entitled to. 1t is stated
that, though Mccartney, as a member of the
State eanvassing board, refused to sign the GER
tifcate of Landis's election, it Was thought to be
merely on account of personal feeling, and that
he made no objection as to irregularities before
the board
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TIE LEMAN-BRAND CASE.
One or Two Witnesses Examined, but Moth
ing of Importance ELECTED.

CHICAGO, Dec. 5.-The federal grand jury to-
day heard a number of witnesses i'll the Brand
Leman election fraud inquiry, but elected moth
ing of Importance. The jury adjourned till
Tuesday. 'Oneeor two important links in the
chain of evidence are yet understood to be miss
ing
AT ameeting of the citizens committee to-
night, it was dsci led ito advertisein the morning
papers reward OF $4,000 for tho detection of
the perpetrators of the election frauds in the
Second precinct of the Eighteenth ward.
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The Alleged Prohibition Outrage

BIaden7burg co.. Specialize New York Sun.
The true history of the murder committed
here some time ago, and autographed over the
country as a Prohib ition outrage. is as follows:
Awholesale liquor dealer, of Mount Vernon,
sent stock of liquors to this place, and put
them in charge of the murdered man. On the
night of the Democratic jollifcaton a crowd be-
came drunk and noisy, and Arson, in endeavor-
ingto put them out of the saloon, received the
fatal injuries. While he was unconscious and
the extent of his injuries were unknown, the
crowd of drunken roughs Quilted the saloon. Not
a sober man took part in the outrage.
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WHEN you feel ill from any cause, get your
blood in good condition and disease will not long
remain in your system Cling to that which is
good and remember that thousands live to testi-
fy that the best blood cleansing tonic and alter
alive medicine that.can be compounded from a
thorough knowledge of drugs, is DIR. Guysott's
Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla, A perfect blood
purifier, a true strengthener of mind and body.
Avoid using btters, mineral and alcoholic poi
sons, and put your trust in this simple remedy
that you know contains only what is beneficial
and nothing that is harmful to the most delicate
invalid.
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INDIANA AND ILLINOISNEWS
Re-. Mr.. LOuckS Wearies Of Editorial
Abuse and Sues for Damages.
Proceedings of the State Horticultural So
ciety-Child Mangled by Savage Deg
State Notes and Gleanings.
INDIANA.
Rev. MIR. Loucks Sues Editor LOuthain for
Ten Thousand Dollars Damages.

Rev. MIR. Loucks Sues Editor Louthain for
Ten Thousand Dollars Damages.
Special 70 the indianapolis Journal
LoeANsPoRT Dec. 5-W. E. Loueks pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church, this evening
filed a complaint for SANDER against B. F.
Lcuthain, editor of the daily Pharos for $40, 900
damages. Angered by a sermon preached by
Rev. Loucks. on Sunday before election,
Louthain filed his paper with the basest in
situations. Twice he was compelled to retract
but later he reiterated the derogatory state
ments for which he was knocked down
in the street by the minister. Follow
ing this, Louthain printed slanderous articles
concerning Loucks and repeated the
stories freely in conversation about town. The
session of the church took the matter up and at
tempted to get statement from the girl whom
Louthain states Rev. Leucks grossly insulted
while employed as domestic in the family, but
could get no satisfaction The girl came here
from Illinois, and, it is claimed, made state
ment but this the session could in no way get
hold of. Louthain kept up the attack and Mr..
Loucks's only recourse was the law. He is
backed by his entire congregation and by public
sentiment He is pastor of the largest church
in the city, and is well known throughout the
West as an able expounder of the Gospel
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THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT.
II VIII Not BE Thrown Open to the Public
for Two Years.

II VIII Not BE Thrown Open to the Public
for Two Years.
washington Special
Although the setting of the capstone of the
Washington Monument, on Saturday next, will
mark the completion of the obelsk proper the
monument will not at once be thrown open to
the public The work yet to be done win re-
quire at least two years The most important
matter, and one that is not even decided upon,
is the design for the base of the monument
There have been numerous designs offered, two
of which seem to be the favorites. One of these
is TO make a gradual terrace from the present
level of the monument floor to the level of the
surrounding park Another idea is to have a
marble wall built around the present ter
race, with q balustrade and grand APP
proaches on each side. Nothing definite,
however, has yet been determined upon. Besides
this, the wooden stairway, in the interior. will
have to be replaced by an iron one, and the ar
rangements for lighting by electricity perfected.
The present platform elevator will have to be
abandoned and one for passengers substituted
At present, too, the steam engine which runs
the elevator is close to the monument and dis
figures it. 1t will be removed some distance and
the steam conveyed by tunnel
The capstone Is live feet high and three feet
square. 1t weighs $500 pounds and probably
two thousand pounds were chipped from It's
original block lis estimated. however, that at
least four tons of chips have been carried away
from the piles of stone around the monument
under the belief that they were chips from the
capstone For this error practical jokers are
responsible.
Among those now living who were marshals
of the procession when the cornerstone of the
Washington monument was laid, are Mr.. A. II.
S. White, General Capron and Joseph H. Brad
ley, all of this city 1t is expected they will be
invited to take part in the approaching dedi-
cation.
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Condition of the Iron and Steel Trade.

CLEVELAND, o., Dec. 5.-From a careful com
pilation of reports the Iron Trade Review com
putes that, within the past four weeks, twenty
five iron establishments have started up, giving
employment to II, IT'S men. In eleven establish
ments the force has beenincreased by $50 men;
in sixteen establishments time has been reduced
to eight hours; in thirty-nine establishments
wages have been reduced an average of l24 per
cent, affecting about 20, 900 men; twenty seven
establishments have closed downentirely, throw
ing ont of work 1928 men. These figures re-
late only to the iron and steel industry.
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Fourteen Persons Drowned.

Boston. Dec. ga special telegram from
Victoria British Columbia, says: "a few days
since it was reported that Boston sloop which
left here with nineteen Cinnamon, who were To
be smuggied, and two white men. for the Amer
lean shore, had been swamped and all hands
lost. In addition to this disaster two more
white men, who left Foul bay, seven weeks ago,
in leaky boat. with twelve Cinnamon, for
Washington Territory, have not since been heard
Of and are all believed drowned. The tempta-
ton to smugge Cinnamon across the border is
very strong. as fo.. each one landed the owner of
the boat receives $25.
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A Child Maneled by Savage Dog.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
LoGANsPoRT, Dec. 5.-The six-yearo old child
Of William Leight living two miles north of this
city, was attacked by avicious bull dog, yester-
day morning, and terribly bitten. The child's
teeth were knocked out, her lower jaw almost
torn away, and great gashes torn in her head
and face But for the arrival of the father the
little one would have been torn limb from limb.
Tho Child will probably recover.
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Suicide in a Justices Office.

CINCINNATI, Dec. 5-Leo Heller, a young iron
worker, attempted to kill Miss Inn in the Office
of Justice of the Peace Dunning, but, being pre-
vented by the latter, deliberately shot himself
Heller had been paying attentions to the girl,
who tired of him. He threatened her, and she
had him arrested therefor. Heller, Squire
Cunning and the girl were alone in the office to-
day, preparatory to the trial, when Heller drew
a pistol and pointed it at the girl, saying: "Ill
give you satisfaction" Cunning sprang at him
and prevented him killing Miss Inn, but could
not keep him from killing himself.
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Failures for the Week..

NEW YORK. Dec. 5.--The failures throughout
the country, as reported to the R. e. Dun & Co.
mercantile agency, number for the last seven
days, in the United States 294; Canada, 26; to
tai, 800 This is an increase of seventy -one over
last week. The increase is general in all sec
tions of the country but is particularly notice
.ablein the Southern and Western States