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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-30
THE KENTUCKY PLAGUE.
A Visitor Describes the Terrible Condition of
the People in the BackwOOds.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Nov. 29-Arthur II. Loomis,
the travelling representative of New York firm,
is in this city to-day, having just returned from
trip through the plague-stricken district of
eastern Kentucky. Mr.. Loomis said: II was
four days in Martin county without disposng of
single article. The people are absolutely crazy;
they have no use for anything but cofins A
great deal has been printed in the newspapers
about the situation in Martin and adjoining
counties, but it has been an imperfect reflex of
the existing deplorable condition of the people.
1 know of instances where whole families have
been swallowed up in graves where one
man has survived to bury his family
and friends and then been found dead with no
living creature near him except perhaps, faith
full dog Flocks of sheep and droves of cattle
that used to browse on the hillsides and along
the range of the Cumberands now lie dead and
rotting. While the pebbles glistcn on the bot
toms of the creek beds, wells and cisterns have
been drained to the bottom, and springs are no
longer to be relied unon for a supply of water
The ground is literally parched, and where veg
citation formerly bloomed luxuriantly there is
nothing now but decay. Thousands are said to
have died within the past two weeks.
What, in the opinion of the natives, is the
cause of this fatal caamityP
ut is very evident that the chief agent of
death rs starVatlon. Ihe people III those dis
tricts are almest without communication with
the outside world. An occasional drummer
like myself, strays among them once year and
a few of the most prosperous visit some large
cities once in a lifetime. A good season brings
with it bountiful crops. Wool and other native
products are rudely manufactured into clothing.
But when the crops fail them the order of
things is reversed. am speaking now of the
backwoods neighborhoods where the plague has
ragged with the greatest fatality. i learned,
while in Martin county, that the
crop yield for two successive seasons
had been failures, and the natives
are without money and without means to pur-
chase bread The shutting off of the water
supply has brought to the surface poisonous
liquids, which, faInished for water, the people
drank and the consequence was death. The
first symptoms are violent gripings and after
this raging headache, and hot fever ensues,
and the patient usually fingers two days, suffer
ing mental agony before death l understand
that several physicians have been commissioned
by the State to make careful analysis of the
water, and describe the poisonous ingredients
Before L left there was light rainfall, with
prospects Of continued falling weather. and the
opinion prevails that the plague has passed
through its most dangerous stages, and is now
on the wane. During the last two days of my
stay heard of very few deaths"
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Close of the Neiveille Bigamy Case.

TOLEDO, O., Nov. 29.-The Neiveille bigamy
case came to a sudden termination this morning.
opening argument for the prosecution had been
made. and it expected that this morning the
jury would be addressed on behalf of the prison
er, but when the court opened his counsel re-
marked that they didn't care to say any
thing to the jury, whereupon Judge Lennon de-
livered his charges and the twelve men retired,
only to return in about fifteen minutes with a
verdict of guilty Neiveille took the matter very
coolly and had nothing to say farther than thank
ing his counsel for the able efforts which they
had made in his behalf An effort will be made
to secure new trial and in case they are un-
successful in this, it is rumored the case will be
taken to the Supreme Court, but such talk is
only rumor. The extent of the punishment in
such cases is seven years in the penitentiary.
Neireille will probably not be sentenced uutil
near the close of the present term of court.
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BUTLER'S MANSION,
Lease of the Property to the Government,
and Sale of the Furniture.

Lease of the Property to the Government
and Sale of the Furniture.
Special to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29-General BENJAMIN F.
Butler, late candidate for President, has written
"6nis" to his political life, so far as Washington
is concerned. He does not intend to frequent
this city in the future, and when called here it
will be on business, to be transacted as quickly
as possible, then to leave The sale of the furni-
ture in his blue-stone mansion. on Capitol Hill
yesterday, gave emphasis to this declaration. A
few years ago this distinguished lawyer and
statesman was the most familiar parsonage to
the people here. Since he left the Senate he has
been drawn hither only on business errands
Now he proposes to have as few errands as DOS
sible.
His magnificent residence has not been occu-
pied by him for several years. 1t is now leased
to the Senate, to be used as committee rooms,
that that property will not require its owners
personal attention hereafter 1t has been a
source of annoyance to General Butler for some
time. 1t is too valuable worth upwards of $780,
OOOl to be rented as ordinary property, and he
spent good many days here last winter, en-
deavoring to lease it to the government He
only succeeded few days ago General Butler
will spend the remaining portion of his days at
Boston. He will continue to practice
law but will not as usual, solicit the practice
He is a millionaire, and is one Of the most indie.
pendent men in the country.
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AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
A Demand for the Judicial and Reve-
nue. Offices TO Be Made.
The New Administration to Rebuild the Navy
Butler Retires from POlitics-Reviv-
ing the Fitz-JOhn Porter Bill.
THE RUSH FOR OFFICE.
The judicial and Revenue Offices To Be De-
manded by the Democrats.

The judicial and Revenue Offices To Be De-
manded by the Democrats.
Special to the indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Nov. 90 1t is clear that most
of the positions judicial and affecting revenue
will be demanded under President Cleveland by
the South. For years the South has proclaimed
against the present system of revenue col
lections, both internal and customs, and against
the general government of the United States
courts. Nothing different has been proposed in
relation to the courts, but as better plan for
revenue matters the repeal of all laws on the
subject has been oft-tlmes proposed. Quite a
number of applicants have already filed
with leaders of the party their claims to
these places They all come from the South.
Congressman Phil Thompson, of Kentucky,
whose term expires on March H. has pre-empted
the position of Commissioner of Internal reve-
nue.. He has been here and in New York, look
ing alter the matter most of the time since it
was determined that Cleveland had plurality
in the Knickerbocker State. 1t seems pretty
well settled in the minds of representative men
here that he will become Commissioner soon
after he gets out of Congress
Should the South get the attorney general
ship, and Kentucky the Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue as it seems probable, unless ex.
Senator Mcdonald of Indiana, is put in the
former place instead of the Interior Department,
there will be very radical changes in court
and revenue matters-changes that may be
equal almost to a repeal of the laws.
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CAPITAL MISCELLANY,
The Fitz John Porter Bill To BE Brought
Up in the Next Congress.

The Fitz John Porter Bill To Be Brought
Up in the Next Congress.
Special to the indianapolis journal.
WASHINGTON, Nov 29.-General Slocum, of
New York, who ehampioned in the House in the
Fitz John Porter BILL says the measure will be
passed early in the first session of the next
Congress- and that Mr. Cleveland will not veto
it He feels we'll over the likelihood of Senator
Logan being out of the way then, and says
justice, though long delayed, will be much en-
joyed by General Porter. He denies passion
ately that there is any intention to subsequently
introduce measure granting General Porter
back pay, although he thinks that is due Pope,
the officer that Porter refused to aid in the bat
tie at Manassas, is one of the three highest of
icers now in the regular army, and he will not
be delighted with the outlook for the man. who
it is alleged stayed away from action against
orders in the hope that Pope would be annihi-
lated. Pope is Major general, ranking with
Hancock and Schofeld
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EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS.
Gen. Wolseley Applies for More Troops and
Oficers-Gordon's Danger.

Gen. WoIseley Applies for More Troops and
Officers-GOrdOn's Danger.
LONDON, Nov. 90 Gen. Wellesley has applied
to the war Office for more troops and officers The
Army and Navy Gazette states that he urgently
demands 80 subalterns. The authorities do not
know where to find them. Private letters from
English officers at Wady HalCa state that there is
considerable sickness among the men Of the Nile
expedition What boats are there have been
forced up the Nile at an incredible cost of time
and labor. They also state that Gen. Wolseley
intends to abandon the river route and try the
land march from Depbeh. The collection of
munitions of war and provisions for the army at
Dongola is so low that an advance on Khartoum
is considered impossible before February
1t is reported at Wady Halfa that Gen. Gordon
and his forces are i'll most imminent danger from
the want of ammunition and that he has been
obliged to withdraw his advanced lines IN order
TO act strictly on the defensive
Jesuit priest, Nincentivi, has left Dongola
upon a mission to the Mahdi, to obtain the re-
lease of several priests aud Sisters of Charity
detained at FL Obeid-
The messenger from General Gordon, who was
reported, yesterday, to have reached Merawi,
has arrived at Dongola He brings dispatches
from Gordon eight weeks old. After leaving
Khartoum the messenger was captured and de
tanned some time at Shendy
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Detroit Newspaper Tribulations.

DETROIT, Mich, Nov. 29.-On last Saturday
Lloyd Breeze formerly the proprietor of the
Evening Journal, bought the Morning Times, a
United Press paper Editor Tomlnson, of the
Journal, this morning secured preliminary in
junction to restrain him from publishing the pa
per as an afternoon daily, as had been an
nounced. The injunction was granted, condi-
tional upon Breeze being allowed to publish if he
furnished SO, 900 bond to reimburse Mr. Tomln-
son in case the suit finally went against him.
The bond was filed with eight suretles, three
Republicans three Democrats, one Greenbacker
and one Prohbitionist, all of whom are million
aires. The first issue of the paper came out at
P. NJ. as thirty-two column folio, with full
Associated Press reports 1t will have three
issues daily. The change to an afternoon paper
hundred newsboys headed by brass band H SI''f"
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NAVAL PROSPECTS.
The Present Appropriation To BE Continued
for Six Months More.

Ihe Present Appropriation To BE Continued
for Six Months More.
Special to the indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29-The unqualified an
nouncement that the present appropriation for
the maintenance of the navy would be continued
another six months by the present Congress, in
stead of passing new bill, as usual, creates
little comment here. There is no surprise ex-
pressed at the refusal OF the House to place ad-
ditional funds in the hands of the Secretary of
the Navy for disbursement, for it refused to do
so last winter, when it become necessary to con-
tinue the old law for six months. The comment
is more of prediction than anything else of
what it all means. 1 have heard good many
expressions the subject, but that most fire.
quently corroborated is this, from an Illinois
Democratic member
"When we begin the consideration of q bill
appropriating money for the navy we propose to
go right down into the hull of the organization.
our ravy fair one, how much should then be
appropriated annually to maintain it, and then
the work of reconstruction will be begun. Be
fore the end of the new administration we will
have good navy"
Are you afraid to trust the present Secretary
with the funds, l asked
''Oh no; there is nothing in that report It Is
simply not worth while to begin studying the
navy until we are ready to act When we are
ready to act we will havea President"
1t is stated that t.. re will be some attention
paid to the matter of patronizing ship-builders
when the work of reconstruction is begun"
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Killed in Railway Wrecks.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia, Nov. pa Burlington,
Cedar Rapids & Northern livestock train ran in
to a Chicago & Western train, causing a bad
wreck, killing the fireman, Fred Phillips, and
badly injuring Joe Benjamin, the engineer.
MEMPHIS Tenn, Nov. 90 "A freight train GO
ing east on the Chesapeake q Ohio Southwestern
railroad colded with a freight train west bound,
two miles east of Honings Station, this morning.
Engineer Jack Moore and Brakeman Robert
Nicely of the west-b bound were killed outright.
Pat Welch, engineer and the fireman of the
other train were buried underneath the cars and
it is thought they too will die.
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New Way of Sinking Responsibility.

conference with Mayor Harrison, told him that
Messrs. Freeman and Mead, of the Department
of Public Works, must be dismissed. He offered
to dismiss one of them, and the compromise was
agreed to. In order to relieve himself of the re-
sponsibility, the Mayor took Mr. Hirsch with
him to Mead's Office The Mayor stated that he
would toss up a quarter and Rirsch was to
guess head or tail" If he guessed correctly,
Freeman should go, and il he failed to call the
turn, Mead should go. A shining coin was
tipped into the air, glittered for moment and
fell with clear ring on the floor Hirsch picked
it up, with the remark: Il have lost. Mr.. Mead
must gon
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Washington Notes.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29-Frank Miner, col
ored, who murdered his wife in 1882, was day
sentenced to be hanged the second Friday
after the next general term of court
The Treasury Department purchased 100000
ounces of silver for delivery at the Philadelphia
mint, thus completing the monthly minimum
amount of 50, 900, 900 required by law
General Buffers granite palace, on Capitol
hill, has been rented by the Senate. 1t is to be
used for committee rooms and Offices. Rental,
$1,000 per annum. The auctioneers voice was
heard in the halls to-day, knocking down.
various articles of furniture
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DefauItine state Auditor.

RICHMOND, Va, Nov. 29.-The legislative
committee which has been investigating the
charges against Attorney general Blaire, of
exacting illegal fees from the State submitted a
report to-day, in which, among other things,
they disclose the discovery of defalcaton in
books in that Office failing to show the proper
credit for taxes paid by tho clerks of county
courts on law processes. The amount involved
so far is $780, but if these Irregularities show
up in the same proportion in all the counties the
amount will reach 500, 900 to $50, 900.
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Suit Against the Elevator Company.


Late yesterday afternoon, Messrs. Hill 6
Lamb, attorneys for the First National Bank of
indianapolis, filed with the county clerk suit
against the Western Elevator Company, Z. d.
Brown, president on a note given by the
latter to the bank for $50, OOO the demand of the
plaintiff being for $780, 600 The note was made
on Oct. 15 1883, and payable on demand. 1t
shows that the interest was paid on it until Nov.
!, 1884, at the rate of 1888 80 per month, pay
ment being secured by mortgage.
A visit to the county recorders office disclosed
the fact that at430 p NJ on Friday this mortgage
was filed. 1t bears date July 25 1884 The prop
erty mortgaged to the indianapolis bank to secure
the payment of the note, if suit be brought is as
follows: All the elevator belongings, and ma
cbinery of every description belonging to the
elevator company wherever situated with all
the interests of the said elevator company in
real estate leases and contracts in
cluded in this mortgage, together with all
crops, offices, leasehods, etc This comprises the
elevator in this city the south side of the
main and de-tracks of the Indianapolis Spring
field G. Decatur Railway Company, in block
No 5 in Holiness Westend addition to the
city of Indianapolis; the elevator the south
side of the l. il St L. railroad tracks east of
Main street, in Paris, ILL.,, and also the elevators
owned by the Western Elevator Company in the
towns of Newman. Douglas county; Hammond,
Piatt county, and Weldon, Dewitt county. all
in Illinois. In addition to the mortgage, the
bank holds, as collateral all of the stock of the
Western Elevator Company.
These are the same elevators formerly run by
B. D. Brown & Co., and by Brown & Boyd At
the time of the reorganization of the First Ma
tional Bank, in August, 1888 these firms owed
the bank large sum, and that was one of the
troubles then encountered, considered and dis
counted The leading stockholders expected
loss from this source and estimated value of
bob Al
aarge amount of this Indebtedness has since
been paid and the remainder strengthened
by valuable securities, and by being placed in
better shape. Brown has not transacted his
business through this bank for long time and
the Middletown Bank did not owe it anything
Its stockholders are numerous and very nearly
all persons of undoubted wealth, and the bank is
doing very prosperous and satisfactory bust
npsa
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seven Men Killed by an Explosiop.

ELIzABETHTowN, KY. Nov. 30 = News has
just reached here that the boiler of a saw-mill,
about seven miles from this place, exploded to-
day, tearing the building to pieces and killing
John Morgan, James Morgan, Richard Flgg aud
four others. whose names are not known. Two
other persons are seriously injured, and it is
thought they will die
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-Several hundred resi-
dents of Washington, friends of General and
Mrs. Logan, called at their residence this even
ing to welcome the Senator and his wife back to
the capital. The affair though informal, was
under the management of committee of ar
rangements. A section of the Marine Band was
in attendance, and the house was decorated from
top to bottom, outside and within, with banners,
lanterns and flowers There was no speech
making. The parors and library of the mansion
were crowded with ladies' and gentlemen, while
those for whom there was no standing room filed
through in procession, paying their respects
with shaking hands and the word welcome" in
passing.
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Citizens in Pursuit Of Thieves.

LANCASTER, Pa, Nov. 29.-The jewelry store
of Daniel B, Shiffer, at Bowmansvle was
robbed last night by Welsh Mountain gang of
thieves of $500 worth of goods. The thieves
stole horse and wagon in the vicinity to carry
away their booty. The animal was recovered
this morning near Welsh Mountain, almost dead
from hard travel. A large posse of citizens was
organized and started into the mountain, deter
mined to make thorough search for the thieves,
and summary vengeance will be taken in the
event of their capture.
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Murdered by a Trayeling Snowman.

ST LOUIS Nov. PA special from Chatta-
nooga to the Post Dispatch says Henderson
Sage. travelling Snowman giving magic lantern
exhibitions, stopped, Thanksgiving night, at
Neelys Mill, in Scott county, Mo, and next
morning Neely was found murdered. Sage was
arrested and acknowledged committing the
deed, but claimed that it was done in self-ds-
feuSa
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A Forger Sentenced.

YOUNGSTOWN, O., Nov. 29-Samuel Wanna
maker of this county. who uttered fifty forged
notes amounting to $25, 600, was taken from the
city hospital this afternoon and sentenced by
Judge ARIEL to fifty years in the State peniten-
tiary. Wannamaker is nero skeleton and can
live but a few months He will be taken to the
Columbus penitentiary on Tuesday He is fifty
wars old
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domains under the pre-emption and timber
culture acts had better stir themselves at once,
as the laws will probably be repealed this win
ter. The United States land officers have gen
orally recommended it, and it may be done
along with the passage of the sundry civil or
some other appropriation bills, guaranteeing pas
sage. There are great frauds, it is alleged in
the execution of these laws.
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A Nebraska Tragedy.

OMAHA, Nov. 29-At Osceola, Polk county, a
man named Smith, on Thursday night, fatally
shot his wife and when Jailed cut his own
throat Previous to the shooting the man had
been put under bonds to keep the peace at the
instance of his wife, and before that had been
charged with incest, his daughter being the vic
him. OF the latter accusation however, he was
acquitted by expert evidence.
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Handy to Have in the House.

MONTGOMERY, N. Y, Nov. 29.-John S. Sam
of century ago, acquired notoriety by buying
for himself metallic coffin, on Thanksgiving
day had paralytic it and, falling on hot
stove was severely burned. A neighbor, hap
pening in, found him insensible. his head rest
ing on the stove, with his right side and face
burned to a crisp The unfortunate man is in a
critical condition, but may recover.
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drifted around in that narrow compass of space.
Just before the Engel bore down upon them
they threw overheard the body of the dead man.
The Engel arrived at the Breakwater at
o'clock this afternoon, and Bertrand put
ashore. He is in good condition, with the excep-
tion of his frozen feet Hansen was sent to the
Turley, which is now lying at the Breakwater,
and is reported as doing well.
1t is said that bark passed the lost mems
boat on Tuesday and that, notwithstanding
their hailings and signals, she paid no attention
20 them.
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An Angry Ex.omninI.

LONDON, Nov 29.-Adyices from Cairo state
that Zebeher Pasha is furious over his enforced
removal to Alexandria, and the order which com
pels him to live under surveillance. He denies
that he has ever carried on a secret correspond
ence with the Mahdi, and has appealed to
Sir Evelyn Barring the chief representa-
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Stock of Clothing Damaged by Fire.

BALTIMORE, Nov. 29-Fire this morning in
the large four-story clothing house of Rosenfed
Bros did damage to stock to the extent of $50,
600, which is fully covered by insurance. The
building was damaged S, ,OOOi insured