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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-08
THE NEW ANESTHETIC.
The Successful Experiments Made by an
0culist of Boston.

Boston, Dec. 6.-Dr B. Joy Jeffries, the ocu-
list, speaking of the use of the new an@sthetic
occoaine in ophthalmic surgery, says: II used
cocoaine during November with little different
result from what some others report From
two to eight per cent solutions were tried
think that four per cent will answer if, of
course, the drug is pure. We can be assured
however, Of the effect before operating The
solution with acid smarts little, but not longer
than thirty seconds, and so does the drug dis
solved in hot, distilled water in thirty more sec
onds have always found the eye insensible to
pain. 1 do not understand the reports of gen
tlemen here and abroad of having to wait several
minutes In one case of squint the pupil was
dilated. Several drops have to be used for this
operation, and hence the effect is probably more
marked. Anasthesia can readily be kept up by
the application of drop every few minutes. In
nearly thirty operations have seen no i'll effect
attributed to the drug In the third of these
should have used ether The time and poin
saved in the cases of foreign bodies in the cornea
were well worth saving. if the drug only
allowed us to hold the lids apart continuously
it would be most valuable From one to ten
drops have proved sufficient for the operations
| have done. The expense is nothing compared
with the relief from pain, and in children the
fright, ETC. see no reason why we should not
use drop to quiet the eye as to get thor
ough inspection in adult or child.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-08

if you will, but feeling gradually grew upon
Mr. Cleveland that Mr.. Hendricks took too
much upon himself, and was confusing his posi-
ton with the one for which he was not running.
Then again. his appearance in Brooklyn as
the orator of the administration, speaking for
the man who was unable TO speak for himself,
without stopping for any such slight formality
as consulting anyone else was at least impru-
dent and ll-advised and somewhat disrespectful
to Mr.. Cleveland. When the latter read the
speech. he smilingly remarked that Mr.. Hen
bricks appeared to be disposed to save him from
any of the affairs or troubles of the presidency.
AS for the meeting itself it was just what Mr..
Cleveland described-friendly and cordial. but
not one word was said about politics When
Hendricks was about to plunge into the matter
he was full of, Mr.. Cleveland suddenly called his
attention to a portrait behind him, and, as
Mr.. Hendricks whirled about to scan the fea-
lures, Cleveland backed away and quietly passed
into another room, as if he thought the conver-
sation was at an end. AS Hendricks left the ex-
ecutive chamber he said to friend, This ap
pears to be the day of Dogberries.'" ,"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-08
The Makers of Prescription Glass.

PITTsBURG, Dec. THE prescription glass
blowers of the United States met here tonight
to consider the proposed reduction in wages of
25 per cent. ordered by the manufacturers
About 200 delegates were present from Phila-
delphia and Millville, N. j., in the East, and
Parker City, Ottawa, Wheeling, St. Louis.
Bellaire, Alton, Martins Ferry and
Pittsburg in the West. The meeting
strictly secret. but after adjournment
which was near midnight, it was learned that
a resolution had been adopted in favor of resist
ing the 20 per cent. reduction to the bitter end.
The reduction has so far been enforced only in
this city, and about seven hundred men are on
a strike 1t is probable however that the
action taken tonight will result in a general
strike of all prescription workers in the country
in which case eight thousand men will be af-
fected
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-08
INDIANAPOLIS

$50; Dickinson county, Virginia, $50; Pike coun
ty, Kentucky, 100 Floyd county, Kentucky, 70;
Leslie county, Kentucky, 50: Knott, 90; and
Scott, Bell, Menifee and Wolfe counties Ken
lucky, 400, which brings the grand total up to
2045-a startling figure truly. and one that can
not but strike a sympathetic chord in the breast
of everyone who reads this. My figures for the
counties which have not visited are based on
statements of men whose reliability is not ques-
toned Therefore, have no fears that have
overestimated the ravaSes of this most destruct
tive demon
After leaving Virginia, and while en- route to
Mount Pleasant, on my return trip, met DR.. j.
.. Carson, of Bowling Green, KY, who had been
sent out by the State Board of Health to investi
gate the disease and its causes. met him after
ward at Mount Pleasant and he informed me
that he had visited several houses where there
were people sick, and he had formed the opinion
that the malady was not contagious, though he
was not certain that under certain circumstances
it could not be communicated from one person to
another. He referred to the condition described
in a previous letter. He attributed the sickness
to malaria, as well as impure water, and was
not satisfied as to whether vegetable or mineral
poison had caused the latter to become so bane-
full DIR. Carson procured walls of water from
several streams on which the plague has ragged,
but heavy rains. which fell day or two before
his arrival coupled with the severe frost, has no
doubt SO purified it that it viii! not be of much
use in his investigations. DR.. Carson like every
physician met had theory, and he informed
me that both Doctors Mentor, of Lee county,
Va, and Blair, of Mount Pleasant agreed with
him in the more material points. His researches
will probably be of more value than any off
hand opinion, and will doubtless result in the
discovery of the real cause of the epidemic aud
of cure should it recur.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-08
A COMING POLITICAL DEBATE,
With the Bill to Admit Southern Dakota as
the Starting Point.

the Starting Point
Special to the Indianapolis journal.
WASHINGTON, Dec 1T is not altogether i'm
probable that there will be some senatorial de-
bate in the consideration Of the bill to divide Da-
kota Territory and admit to statehood the
southern half when it comes.up in the Senate
this week Republican senators say it may be
interesting if it is made party matter,
The recent vote in Dakota disclosed a popula-
tion of 43O 900 on the basis of fve persons to
each voter. The Republicans propose to hold in
their arguments, that the election returns from
some of the Southern States show that
there eight persons to each voter This
will be stated to make the apparent popula-
tion in Dakota appear to be COS 900, according
to the Southern count Should this be dis
puted the charge will be made that the ratio of
population in the South on the election returns,
discoses suppressed vote-that is, that since
the returns from the elections would indieat..
eight persons to each voter, and the census
makes the ratio less, there is prima facie evil
dence of suppressed votes. This kind of igur.
ing would of course, raise the questions of
intimidation at the polls South and sec
tional lines, bringing about very ami
mated debate This argument will not.
however be used unless there is a disposition
shown to make the Dakota matter one of party
In that event the history of the admission to
statehood of the Southern States will be brought
up for the purpose of showing that none of them
had so large population Dakota has at the
time of their admission.
As for a stand off on the question of politics
only Utah remains in the field now Two Re
publican senators and two Republican congress
men would come in with Dakota All other
Territories than Utah are so nearly Republican
if not surely 50, that the Democrats wonld
scarcely consent to accept one of them to offset
Dakota
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-08
THAT SCENE AT ALBANY.
The Meeting Between the Head and Tail of
tho Democratic Ticket,


New York Special
Though Mr.. Cleveland has taken occasion to
deny the report of an open disagreement be-
tween himself and Mr.. Hendricks, it is positively
known that the latter was not at all pleased with
his reception at Albany and returned next day
to the Hoffman House, cross, sarcastic, disap-
pointed and took the first train for home, when,
as has since been ascertaned, he had engage
ments for himself and wife in this city for near
ly a week ahead. A Democrat who is closer to
Cleveland than most party men, and whose
name if disclosed, would carry weight with it,
was questioned tonight about the situation of
affairs between the two men, and, after much
hesitation. he sad ''Mr. Clevelands statement
is correct, even allowing for the truth
of all that is said about Mr.. Hendricks. 1t is
nevertheless true, also, that the latter made him
self prominent all through the campaign in way
that was not particularly pleasing to the head of
the ticket. He carried in his pocket all through
the campaign cartoon from an Indiana paper
representing the Democratic ticket as a kanga-
roo, and he used TO pull this out every occi-
sion He never failed to sneer at the head of
the ticket and spoke Of it in the same damning
with faint praise way he did of Mcdonald at
Chicago, when the best word he could say for
the latter was that he was eminently reapasta-
BILE. Again, his letter about the Maria Halpin
affair was exasperating You may call jealousy
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-08
The South Norwalk Hatters.

New HAVEN, Conn, Dec. THE striking
hatters of South Norwalk have formed coop
erative hat manufacturing association, and $5
900 has been subscribed lot has
been bought for $1,000 cash, and
building will be erected at once.
The factories are still guarded, and the manu-
facturers still profess to fear violent outbreaks
One new man arrived to-day, and he was sent
back forthwith. Mrs William Kavanaugh.
whose husband is on the strikers committee
attacked by nervous prostration last night.
A gang of men collected in front of her house
and howled threats of burning the city
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-08
The Methodist Centenary.

BALTIMORE, Dec. THE celebration of the
centenary of Methodism begins on Tuesday next
and continues until the 10Th, The conference
will consist of about 600 members, appointed by
the annual conferences or by the bishops of the
church, representing the Methodist Episcopal
the Methodist Episcopal South, the African
Methodist Episcopal, the African Methodist
Episcopal Zion, the Colored Methodist Episco-
pal the independent Methodist, the Canada
Methodist, the Primitive Methodist and the
Methodist Protestant Church. episcopal
churches will be represented unofieially
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-08
Close on the Track of the scouudrels.

CHICAGO, Dec. Tt was rumored late to-
night that the detectives engaged on the ballot
forgery case in the Second precinct of the
Eighteenth ward have secured confessions from
two of the participants in the fraud, and that
complete details for conviction of all those con
cerned will be ready for presentation to the
federal grand july when it assemblies next
TnesdaY
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-08
Reducing Wages of Coal Miners.

ST LOUIS Dec. 1T is announced that dur
ing the past week there has been a reduction of
Is per cent in the wages of coal miners in the
Beleville, Ill, district in which there are some
$50 miners. There has already been reduction
of twenty-five cents per day all round at the
Abbey mines which are worked by machinery
and sixty men have been discharged. The shut
ting down of various large manufacturing es
Establishments here which obtained their coal
from these mines is given as cause for curtail-
ment Of force and reduction Of wages
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-08
From the Journal OF Sunday. !
GROVER CLEVELAND,
Tie Description Given by Man who Hat
Known Him All HIS Life.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
WAsHINGToN, Dec. 6.-"Peoplo at Buffalo
and Albany are greatly amused at some of the
stories they see in print about Presidentelect
Cleveland" said Buffaloau who has known this
new celebrity all his life speaking to the Journal
correspondent this afternoon. "Many of the
statements arc ridiculous, he continued, "and,
presume were written by persons who never saw
Cleveland, and who have no reliable information
concerning him l was raised at Lockport near
Buffalo and have done business in the latter
place since was a boy. was delegate in tho
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-08
Accidental Death of Donald Harold.

CHICAGO, Dec. THE body of Donald Har-
old, of the company playing Dreams at Hav-
erly's Theater, was found dead beside railroad
track this afternoon. He boarded an out going
train to bid goodbye to friends, and. it is sup
posed missed his footing In getting off and was
killed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-08
BUSINESS AND WAGES.
Employees Decline to Accept a Reduction,
and Work Will Not Be Resumed.

PITTsBURG, Dec Work will not be re-
sumed at Shoenberger's iron mill to morrow the
employees having refused to accept the reduction
ordered. The mill closed down indefinitely last
night.
Long & Co., whose mill has been idle three
weeks on account of slack orders, have notified
their employees that steady work will be given
them all winter at 10 per cent. reduction. AS
the cut includes the Amalgamated Association
well as all others, it is probable the offer
will not be accepted
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-08

ST. LOUIS, Dec Geo NJ. Echert & Co.
millers, ofDarmstadt, St Clair county, Ill, have
assigned to Sebastian Feitsam, of Belleyille
The liabilities are placed at $25 900; assets, $20,
O00
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-08
Elevator Burned,

SYCAMORE, H., Dec. Tho Ellwood elevator
and its contents, a part of the Northwestern
stockyards and other property, burned last night
Loss, $50, 600; insurance small,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-08
NATIONAL CAPITAL NEWS.
The House Will Pass Some Kind Of
Interstate Commerce Legislation,

And the Probability Is that the Reagan Sub
stitute Will Be the Measure Selected
The Objections of the Railways.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-08

CATARRH is a constitutional disease. Hoods
Sarsaparilla is a constitutional remedy. 1t cures
.atarrh. Give it a trial.
Sun River sun. [volume] (Sun River, Mont.) 1884-1885, 1884-04-24
CAPTURE OF HORSE THIEVES.

Last autumn thirteen horses were
stolen from the ranch on Sweetgrass
managed by Sam Roberts. No clue
to either thieves or horses was OBJ
tained until the capture Of Charles
Andrews, now in the county Jail, who
had with him three of the stolen
horses. He claimed he bought them
from the Indians. Yesterday Sheriff
Blakely received notification that a
band of Indians supposed to be Flat
heads were camped near Gallatin
City and had with them the remainder
of the stolen horses. Under Sheriff
Ponsford with a posse was imme-
diately dispatched to apprehend them.
This morning the sheriff received a
telegram from Ponsford dated at
Gallatin city, saying he had arrested
five bucks and captured the balance
of the band of stolen horses. The
Indians claimed, he said, that the men
who stole the horses were not in the
camp Ponsford asked instructions
of Sheriff Blakely, and will probably
bring the whole encampment into
Bozeman.--Livingston Enterprise.
Sun River sun. [volume] (Sun River, Mont.) 1884-1885, 1884-04-24

A royal elephant fight in Murmah is
thus described: There are fifteen o.
cphants on side. A pair Of then are
never started alone ut fight. The
fights are always arranged for the
amusement Of mobiles, and Me great
events. The battle is terrific. The
elephants are given toddy, made out
OF tho fermented juice OF the palm,
wnicn Jney drinK out Of Duckets.
Jersey lightning is water compared
to the stuff. It makes the elephants
rccl and tumble about like drunken
men. They snort and trumpet and
create terrible racket. In the fight
at Theyatmo the mahouts or drivers
straddled their necks and urged them
on. The beasts had been maddened
by prodding and beating, and rushed
ut each other like mad. There were
some that weeled around and ran
away, but those that kept on made
the earth shake when they came TO-
gether. They ran right into each
other. They locked tusks, and gored
and lashed ono another with theil
trunks. Tusks were run into elephant
shoulders six or eight inches. Tht
fights in India are tho same, o.
course. In Burmah fights take place
between elephants and tigers. Kint
Thebau has men fight tigers; thu
Burmese in power arc cruel. On,
king used to make the people lie dowl
for his pony to walk over.
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A NOVEL SWINDlE.

A swindler has recently beon OK
tensiyely operating in Baltimore,
Philadelphia and elsewhere, and has
secured large sum. His plan Of
operation is novel. He would ascer-
tain in what bank merchant had a
deposit, and would then represent
himself as a United States secret Scr
vice agent, and state that hearing
the cashier of the merchants bank
was circulating counterfeit money, he
desired to obtain evidence against
him. So he would request the mer-
chant to draw II sum Of money in notes
and silver as evidence. This done he
would select several bills Of the largest
denomination, and, pronouncing them
countereit; give the merchant bogus
receipt for the amount. In Baltimore
he gave his name as John Il. Smith,
in Philadelphia as De Forest. He is
of dark complexion, five feet ten
inches high, weighs 100 pounds, and
is supposed to come from New York.
Sun River sun. [volume] (Sun River, Mont.) 1884-1885, 1884-04-24

The Bear and the Lost Child.

Mr.. Geo. Swift, ranchman in the
Grand valley, told story lately
which shows how unenviable is
the life Of the stock raiser in that
wilderness. A short time ago Mr.. Swift
lot his 3-year old daughter ride upon
his horse, and after she had ridden
about forty rods from home he lifted
her of tho animal and told hor to run
home. On returning about I'm hour
later he found that the little one had
not reached home, and, going to tho
place where he had last seen her, he
found bear tracks in the sand. A
pvsso vac f....,sa, ....1 Ill .AieLL "..s
spent in searching for the lost child.
In the morning, us the searchers
were passing swampy spot where
the underground was thick, they heard
her voice. They called to the little
girl to come out Of the bushes, but
she replied that the bear would not
lot her. The men then crept through
the brush and when near the spot
heard a splash in tho water, which the
child said was the bear. They found
hcr standing upon log, extending
halfway across the swamp, and it
seemed as though the bear had under
taken to cross the swamp on the log,
and, being pursued, loft the child and
got away as rapidly Us possible. She
had received some scratches about
tho face, arms and legs, and her
clothes were almost torn from her
body, but the bear had not bitten her
to hurt her, only the marks of his
teeth being found upon her back,
where he had taken hold Of her
to carry her. The child told her res
cuers that the bear had put her down
occasionally to rest, and would put
his nose up to her face, whereupon
she would slap him and he would
hang his head by her side and purr
and rub against her like cat
Her father asked her if she had
been cold during tho night, and she
told him the old bear lay beside her
and put his '"arms'' around her and
kept her warm. ~ believe the little
ones story" concluded Mr.. Swift
s'for there was evidence to prove its
truth, and never knew her to utter
a falsehood. Stranger than fiction, il
it not?"
Sun River sun. [volume] (Sun River, Mont.) 1884-1885, 1884-04-24

Susan B. Anthony says tho meanest
thing ever said about her was in a
Western paper, just after woman
suffrage convention in which she took
prominent part. It was story
about her carrying poodle dog to
the convention in her arms, and hold
ing it in hcr lap all the time except
when she rose to speak. Il don't own
u dog" she says, "and never did. l
never even spoke to one"
Sun River sun. [volume] (Sun River, Mont.) 1884-1885, 1884-04-24

A servant girl in New Haven stole
her mistress false teeth. The woman
told policeman that "Shc shesh Gosh
shwenshy shollarsh." "Wait till I
find an interpreter" interrupted the
policeman, thinking the woman was
a newly arrived Hungarian; but she
was an American, and when her teeth
were in she could talk the head of
him.
Sun River sun. [volume] (Sun River, Mont.) 1884-1885, 1884-04-24
NOTICE OF FINAL ENTRY.

Mharch S6, 1884. (
nj Noticc is hereby given that the following named
Nsettlcr has filed notice of his intention to make
proof will be made before John w. Tattan. Pro-
bate Judge of Chotcau county Mont. at Fort Ben.
ton NJ. T., on May u, 1884,. viz: John q. Ernst
who made pre- -emption Ds NO 4o,o lots and sec !
tip 10 Of Ms + sen SEA sec IlS MEX tp 10 N Of n
~.
lie names the following witnesses to prove his
land, viz. James A. Walker, August Erickson.
Robert Price and Ebert Il. Bywatcr all Of Fort
F. Atkinson, Register.
Sun River sun. [volume] (Sun River, Mont.) 1884-1885, 1884-04-24
NOTICE OF FINAL ENTRY. !

LAND OYYICE At HELENA, AONr.,
April II, I'm. !
NOTICE IL hereby given that the foll0winx-
sNnnmed settler has filed notice Of his intention
that said proof viii be made before the RsNjatsr
and Receiycr oi the Y. 3. Land Office Ut Helena.
NJ. T.. on May =, 1885,. viz: John 3 Taylor who
SEA NE,4 SEA and lot $. sec. IS, tp. 10 N Of
u.
continuous mt s rcsdence i upon. and cultivation Of
said land, viz: William Beckett and Abram Col:
let-of Helena, N. T.. and Charles johnson and
Phil Travis Of Ulidia, NJ. T.
'' ~ " +. Atkinson, Register.
Sun River sun. [volume] (Sun River, Mont.) 1884-1885, 1884-04-24

DecpnSed.
NOTICE IL hereby given by the undersigned,
~ Administrators OF the Estnto Of Louis Is. Ber.
theloie deceased, to the creditors Of and 10 NJ
persons having claims against tho said deceased
10 exhibit them, with tho necessary, vouchers,
within ten months after tho first publication Oi
this notice, to the said Administrators ut her
idcnce ut Florence, Levitt and Clarke county,
Montana, tho same being the place for the trans
action Of tho business q said estate:
MRS. HELEN BERTHElOTE.
Adminstratrix * Of the estate Of Lewis y. Berthe.
lOte, deceased.
Dated this, 9TH day Of April 1881.
Sun River sun. [volume] (Sun River, Mont.) 1884-1885, 1884-04-24
NOTICE OF FINAL ENTRY.
LAND OyYIcE, HxLxxA, MONT.

NOTICE II hereby given that the f0llowing.
~ named settler has bled his intention TO make
final proof In support Of her claim, and that asid
proof will be made before Isaac N. Haslett, . no
tary public. In and for Ch0tsau county, nontans.
~ Old Agency y. T., ON May III 1885. Wis; ashsccs
tns xSS made y P r. =. az
she names the following witnesses 70 prove hsr
continuous residence upon, and cultiyStion af
Evans, John Kennedy and Robert q. EmsTson.
all Of Old Agency. =. Atkinson. Register.
Sun River sun. [volume] (Sun River, Mont.) 1884-1885, 1884-04-24
Notice OF Final Entry.

LAND OFFICE, HELENA, MONT. I
Feb. IL, 1884.
NOTICE is hereby given that the following
~ named settler has filed notice Of his intent
ion to make final proof in support Of his clnim,
and that said proof will be made before l.. s..
Wells n Notary Public at Sun River, NJ. T: in
and in and for Lewis and Clarke county, Mon.
May 81, 1884, viz Koderick Lclsod, who made
pre-emption ID No. b,als for the Eis sEia SEA
Nei4 sect swi4 nwl4 SEQ 5 tip 10 N Of range 2 u.
He names the following witnesses TO prove his
continuous residence upon, and cultivation Of,
berson, Ghas Roimell and Grant II. Mexican, all
Of Sun River. +. Atkinson, Register.