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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-27
Released on Bail,

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
FoRT WAYNE, Feb. 26.-John DrGgemeyer,
the young painter who tried to kill his brother
Charles, and fired four shots at him, has been re
leased from Jail on $500 bail.
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Lilac sisters of tIte Poor.

TERRE HAurE, Feb. 2G.-Fifteen Sisters of
st. Francis Little Sisters of the Poor, are ex-
pected here tonight, to enter st. Anthonyls Hos
pital, founded largely on the Hberality OH
Human. These sisters are from the mother
home of the order. Olso, Westphalia. and came
over in the steamer Servia. in charge Of Sister
Dec Gratias, mother superior Of the order in In
diana.
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brought suit against Page, Taylor & Co, pro-
prietors of the Daily News, claiming s., GOO dam
ages for alleged defamation in an article
questioning the officer. further usefulness on
the police force. Yesterday the p~atrolman &C
cepted SO III full satisfaction of his demands.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-27
DrODned Dead.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
SPENCER, Feb. 26.-Samuel Steele, q highly
respected citizen and stanch Republican, of this
county, dropped dead at his home, four miles
east of here, tonight. Heart disease is the sup
posed cause.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-27
Charged with Embenzlement.

New YORK, Feb. 26.-Goff, Gent & Thomas,
of Columbus, Ind, grain dealers, are represented
in this city by Oscar O.. Bennett, for whom they
purchased a seat in the Produce Exchange.
Bennett andhis book-keeper, Z. R. Russell, were
both arrested to-day on the charge of appropriate
ing funds of the firm.
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follows: Suspension of the sinkingfun provided
for under the liquidation law; reduction of inter
, IL per cent; taxation of resident foreigners,
and reduction Of the army and civil administra-
tions. The total, which it is estimated viii be
realized by these reforms, is over e, 000, 600
yearly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-27

HANOI, Feb, 1.-THE Chinese are r~econnoit-
ering. A party advanced to within five klo-
meters of this place but retired before the
shells of the French. Sontay is powerfully
garrisoned. Works Of defense are being rapid
ly erected. Hunghoai is also strongly fortified.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-27
The Electric Light at Fort Wayne.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
Fort WAYNE, Feb. 26-The City Council to-
night made a contract with the Fort Wayne
Jenney Electric light and Power Company to
light the city for one year, beginning with
July l.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-27
A Terrible

scourge prevails among the Sun Indians. Over
one hundred children have died with measles the
past month. The scourge is still raging. Scenes
about the Indian Villages are sickening in the
extreme.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-27
Not a Friend of the Parnemites.

LONDON, Feb. 26.-Archdale, appointed high
sheriff of Fermanash, is reported as saying if he
ever got a Parnellite at one end of a rope he
would give a very heavy tug at the other end.
The Parnellite members of Parliament intend to
question the government in regard to his Ian
0111pe.
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WE sincerely believe that every case Of pull
monary disease, not already beyond the reach Of
human aid, may, if promptly treated, be relieved
Iectoral.
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Iihcl Smit Settled.

Special to the Indianapolis journal.
Fort WAYNE, Feb. 26.-The latest libel suit
against a Fort Wayne newspaper has just been
settled, George Humbrecht, a patrolman, had
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-27
Wants to Go North.

OTTAWA, Feb. 26.-Joseph De Letoime, of the
Department of the Interior, desires TO join the
Greedy relief expedition He has invented a gil
gantic aerial navigation machine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-27
Unknown Man Killed.

New ALBANY, Feb. 26.-An unknown man
was run over and killed by a Jacksonville, Mad
ison and indianapolis train this afternoon.
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Singular Conduct of the Acknowledgement.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Ex-senator VanWyck, of
Nebraska, is very indignant at the Attorney
general, because the resolution adopted by the
Senate, over a month ago, calling for contracts
with attorneys in the star-route prosecutions,
and the name Of the official who is responsible
for them, has not been answered. He says he
proposes to make a move to force an answer,
and insinuates that there is something wrong be-
hind it all. He says it should have been an
swered within %twenty-four hours.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-27
Cattle nisense Lecislation.

LONpoN, Feb. 26.-The Lords passed the bill
for the better prevention of the introduction Of
the foot and mouth disease by foreign cattle.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-27
The jackson Fire.

JACKSON, Mich, Feb. 26-Three bodies
have thus far been found in the ruins of Sun.
days fire. Anumber of bones have been fshed
out. 1t is believed six or seven persons per
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-For several days
there has been a lot of Indians here from the
Indian Territory. They put up at first-class
hotels and live like lords, spending money freely,
and some surprise was expressed at their prince
iy living at first, but it is now developed that
they are opposing the passage of the bill grant
ing the right of way through the Indian Terri
tory to the Gulf. Colorado & Santa Fe railway,
which would be in opposition to the Missouri
Pacific, owned by Gould. 1t is said Gould is
putting up the money for these Indians, n dthat
they do not represent a majority Of their tribe in
opposing the granting of the right of way. A
scandal may result.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-27
Starting Out Early in Life.

Atlanta Constitution.
Miss Daisy Backus, of Selma, Ala, aged live
years, was bethrothed on her birthday to Master
frankie Butler, who presented her with a gold
engagement ring.
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TORONTO, Feb. 26.-Writs of habeas corpus
and certiorari have been granted in the case of
Lee, the alleged Cincinnati forger. asSxs
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-27

between the two great friendly nations if, in the
place of the present incompetent representative,
an American minister were sent to Berlin.
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BosroN, Feb. 2G-The national bird show
opened to-day with 1000 entries, embracing
almost every class known on this continent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-27
Steamship Arrivals
Insane Asylum Horrors,

LONDON, Feb. 26.-Arrived: Western Lane
City of Chester and England, from New York.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-09-11
Swallowed by a Big Pike.

"a peculiar thing happened to me
about a year ago." remarked the pres
ident of cur fishing club when the
mem bers had gathered yesterday at
the foot of t,he old dock. Il was troll
ing for pike in lake in Lvccming
county. Pennsylvania, when l was so
overheard. Besides little money,
there was n certificate for 100 shares
of Western Union stock"
''W. U. rather went down that day,
didn't it," intcrposed the reel-maker.
"Quite a Decline" answered the
president. ''but it was only tempor-
airy. Two days afterward | caught q
beauty of q pike near the same spot,
and when | split him imagine my sur
prise to discover my pocketbook and
| my amazement to find that it now con-
tanned certificate for 800 shares Of
Western Union stock. | couldn't eX-
plain the seeming miracle for months
until the thought happened to strike
me that the stock had been watered."
THAT was pretty good luck OBJ
served the manufacturer of rods, who
was balancing himself on the top of a
spile, "but just the same you only
caught one fish. Now, l once brought
up twenty-four fish on single hook. -"
1--WE don't permit lying in this club, !"
said the president. sternly.
'It's true" returned the other, with
out even winking, ''For lack of some
thing to do had thrown line off dock
into Harlem river. | sat there for an
hour and half without feeling a bite,
except mosquitoes, when on pulling up
felt that n heavy weight was on the
line. On investigation found that l
had hooked twenty-four fish"
'What kind of iish?" exclaimed ey-
cry one.
'Td hooked box of sardines that
had been dropped overheard by some
excursion boat.
1t cost him the price of split bam-
boo rod to fix things so he would not
be dropped overheard. .-Nea0 York
Journal.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-09-11
The Origin of the Blue Book IS

Peter Force, New York Journey
man printer, came to Washington in
1915, became the proprietor of a print
ing office, and originated, and for some
years compiled without charge, the
biennial Register" better known
from the color of its binding as the
blue Book" of which the government
purchased small number of copies.
Fond of American history, he in time
collected large quantity of rare books
and pamphlets, many OF which had
been thrown away from the executive
departments as rubbish, and purchased
by him of the dealers in waste paper
In 1883 he originated the idea of COM
piling and publishing 4 documentary
history of the country under the title
of ''The American Archives" and in
order to secure the necessary appro-
priation from Congress he associated
himself with Matthew st. Clair Clarke
the Clerk of the House of Representa-
tives. This publication was q LOB, !"
which distributed considerable sums of
money, for number of years, among
the politicians at Washington, but it
was the only way in which Mr.. Force
could carry out his plan, and he was
not enriched by it. lie was instinct
lively gentleman and worthy disoi-
pie of FauSt-tall. stalwart, with a
bushy head of hair and keen eyes,
which would beam with Joy when any
one brought him q rare autograph or
pamphlet, The simplicity of mis- man.
ners, bearing an expression of the gen.
tleness and purity of his heart, made
him beloved, as we'll as reyered. by all
who knew him. After his death Con-
gress purchased his collection OF books
and manuscripts, and it now graces
the Congressional Library. Boston
Budqet.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-09-11
Took Hat and All. ~

ooh, by the way ho said as he sud-
denly halted and wheeled about on a
tall, slim, side-whiskered man with a
melancholy look, "haye you got a
match about you?"
Tho other fumbled in one pocket and
another and finally admitted in re-
gretful voice that he hadn't carried
such thing about him for the last ten
years.
ooh. WELL" said the other as he re-
turned the stub of cigar to his pock-
eft. you can lend me chew of fine
cut"
The melancholy man removed hand
kerchief, gloves, keys, knife and a lot
OF silver change, and after q hunt of
five minutes acknowledged that he had
never used the weed in his life
Don't happen to have a cigar han
dy, ehP" queried the other.
The melancholy man felt in his coat
tail pockets-hip pockets-pantaloon
pockets, and got one hand down to his
boot leg when he remembered that he
didn't smoke.
Don't. eh? Sorry l stopped you.
Beg pardon and hope you won't take
any offence, but-that is-ahem-you
might lend me your knife acd lead
pencil and half dollar until | see you
again.
The melancholy man did not hesitate
an instant. He passed over the articles
mentioned, or, rather. placed them in
his straw hat and handed the whole
business over.
"Ihanks-a thousand thanks, See
you later-good morning.,
And he tossed his hat into the gutter,
placed that Of the melancholy man on
his head and marched off with the
bearing of man who could ride six
blocks on street car and then have
money enough left to pay his way
across the ferry.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-09-11
The Transmission OF Emotions.

The wife of Arthur Severn, the dis
tinguished landscape painter. woke at
o'clock with start, feeling 3 hard
blow on the mouth, and with dis
tinct sense of being cut and bleeding
on the under lip. She seized her hand
kerchief and put it to her mouth as she
sat up in bed, and was surprised on
taking it away to find that it was not
bleeding. She concluded she had been
dreaming. At breakfast her husband,
who had been out for an early sail. ap-
peared with bad cut on the lip made
at that hour by the tiller, which had
struck him in a squall
A case of transferred emotion is that
of Rev. j. Nj. Wilson, headmaster of
Clifton College, 4 senior wrangler and
a distinguished mathematician. When
in good health. one evening, while n
student at Cambridge. he suddenly felt
i'll, trembled with y sort OF fright,
thought he was dying. tried TO study,
but could not, went to see friend,
who tried to distract his mind, but
could not. After three hours it passed
of, and the next morning he was well.
In the afternoon a letter informed him
that his twin brother had died the ey-
ening before.
4 case OF transfer of will Is given bv
Alexander Skirying, a foreman of
masons. While at work, one morning.
he suddenly felt an intense desire to 90
home. 1t was long distance and no
could not well leave his work, and he
resisted it. But the feeling became
uncomfortable, and, though ne believed
his wife would ridicule him, he went
home. There he was met by woman
who asked him: ''Why. Skirvinr, how
did you know?' He knew nothing,
but he had been compelled to come
home. He was told that his wife had
been run over by a cab, and seriously
injured, and had been pitoously calling
for him.
lhes5 cases DO not go into the sup
Sfnatural. They DO not concern vis-
ions of the dead or assumed communi-
cations from them. They DO not pass
belief. We have all known of similar
cases in our acquaintance. Science has
laughed at them as Incredible. but we
may remember that Layoisire said:
"Stones cannot fail from the sky; Cor
there are no stones in the sky" But
there are stones in the sky, and stones
do fall. The incredible happens, and
it is of no use to deny such facts as yye
have given. The IqGeDCRdenk
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-09-11
Girls, Beware.

Browns brow. says the Boston
Globe, was clouded.
Some girl scrape?" queried his
friend Bilkins
''Well, to tell you the truth" re-
piled Brown, ''there is girl at the bot
tom of it. You see, ever since | made
that strike in Atchison, and-thank
heavenl-pulled out of it, I've been
kinder keeping my matrimonial wealth
er eye open, as it were. / thought I'd
found her. but, well'-heaving a deep
sigh-''it's all over now"
Tell me about it, old fellow" said
Bilkins, sympathetieally,
"Wen, you know Eve been to New
port for the past four weeks. | met
her there. She was bud-to look at
i tell you. and Twas awfully gone on
her. Everything went smoothly until
found out how much she knew"
'Ignorant?" queried Bilkins,
"No, just the other way, l har;nen-
ed to hear her talk the otheer day With
Prof, Buzaer-it makces me shudder to
think OF it! T. was all about esotoric
haoun n-.sm, planetary changes, and
world periodsi Think of i'll ii let me
out, of course. You could not expect
such woman as that to take any inter-
est in housekeeping and-and babies,
now could youP"
There is much truth in what you
say" replied Bilkins, thoughtfullv.
and Brown looked relieved and lighted
a cigar.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-09-11
A Drunken Flock of Crows.

Charles Fogg is married man and
lives with his father-in-law near Water
bury, Conn. There is also engaged
upon the place an ingenious youno.
fellow who does all kinds of work.
Crows had become verv troublesome
and destructive in the corn fields, and
this lad had read in some wise arricuI-
stural paper that corn boiled in alcohol
and distributed over the fields would
be freely taken by the crows, and the
birds would become intoxicated, and
could be easily captured. Not having
alcohol, he took cider and bottle of
laudanum, boiling his corn and distri
buting it in the field He acted ,ri-
vately, preferring to experiment with
out telling the family. Nothing came
of it for several days, and the lad him.
self had almost forgotten it; but one
morning an old lady of the ne;Ghbor-
hood came in and requested the non
folks to come up and see what was the
matter in the corr field. She sad mill
mons OF crows were there, ard would
not fy away nor bulge for her but
We're ''acting awful funny" Sure
enough, when the men and the lad
went out there, they found hundreds of
crows rolling about on the ground.
tapping their wings, cawing and max
ing themselves generally ridiculous
In fact, they We're All drunk rs lords.
and a number of them We're easily dis
patched. NGU London Dag. I
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-09-11
The Boy and the Bee.

A boy about 10 years old who was
yesterday slouching around the Bates
street end of the Central Market sud-
denly gave a yell, clasped both hands
on his stomach, and began war dance
that soon drew crowd.
Il 'spected as muchr shouted We
man, as she waved her hand toward
the boy. Them ere boys eat any
thing from green melon down to a
peach stone. Serves him just rightn'
81 thought he looked kind O. colicky
around the mouth afore he tackled
them spoiled gooseberries, added a
man who had come in with lead OF
potatoes.
Il don't see how they keep from
dying, really don't" put in woman
with a cucumber in each hand. III
there was any way-any lawful way
to open that boy and look into his
stomach, you would find three or four
old bananas, piece of watermelon,
six or eight green apples, four or five
tomatoes, at least two cucumbers, and
lot of sour berries"
"Saym yelled the boy. as he capered
around, somebody get the perleece or
somebody!'
''Oh, it's all very nice to want the
police and the doctors and the medical
college ambulance" sneered a fat man
who had some tomatoes in basket,
''but why didn't you think of these
things bcforen'
"And with the cholera raging in
France and likely to come over here
any day!" added a peak-faceG woman
who had been buying fish.
The boy laid down and rolled over
and sat up.
'Wen. l don't want to be on the
Coroncr's jury" said a man whose
hair and whiskers had just been dyed
in barber-shop near by.
.And 1 wouldn't see him die for q
$40 BILL" added a young man with
eyeglasses on.
just then policeman pushed his
way into the crowd and asked the
trouble, and some one replied that a
boy had been seized with the bilious
collie.
"Seizea me right herem whined the
lad as he stood up and clasped his
stomach.
He had on a shirt torn down the
front and held by a single pin, and his
pants were held up by a strap. The
officer opened his shirt, and a humble
bee, looking as large as walnut.
crept out and was brushed to the
ground. just below the boys chest
was a red swelling larger than his fist
and still growing.
mo collie about that" observed the
officer, as he crushed the sputtering
bee. Only one person in the crowd
had remark to make, as the boy
loped off. That was the woman with
the cucumbers. She sort o shook
them after the retreating figure and
called out:
''This orter be q great moral lesson
to that boy, but | doubt it-can't help
but doubt it. If we had any right
any legal right-to open him to-mor-
row and look into his stomach. We d
wonder why that bumble-bee fooled
his time away instead of tackling a
grindstone!'-Detr'oH Free Press.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-09-11
She Was MaSnetized.

''That's mighty strange power the
girls are getting nowadays" remarked
q North Clark street car driver to a
lean man.
whats that?"
why, this magnetism they call it..
went TO little dance up at Goose Is
land night before last, and feel of the
head of me-"
The driver removed his hat and the
lean man felt a lump just above the
ear that stuck out rs big as a hens
egg"
That was an awful welt that you
got. Did he hit You with brass knuck-
les or q sand bags'
at wasn't he at ALL" replied the
driver, putting his hat Oh carefully, sit
was she, sir-a girl, and that's what
I'm telling you. She hit me just one
clip with her bare fist, and that's what
she did to me. When | came TO told
the boys she was magneti1ed like that
Georgia terrier, but don't understand
IL very well yet. I'm thinking that if
this thing gets fashionable there won't
be much fun in getting married. y
Chicago Herald.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-09-11
The Appearance of a Sun Spot.

Professor Langley. of the Allegheny
Observatory, will contribute to the
Centany series of popular illustrated
papers on ''The New Astronomy
His first article, in the Septem ber
numb Der, treats of the spots on the sun,
and CT one of the spots he says:
There were wonderful fern-lke forms
IN this spot, too, and an appearance
like that OF pine-boughs covered with
snow; for, strangely enough, the in
tense whiteness of the solar surface, in
the best telescopes, constantly sug-
gests cold. l have had the same i'm
preston viyidly in looking at the inn
mense masses of molten-white iron in
a great pudding furnace. The salient
feature here is one very difficult to
see, even in good telescopes, but one
which is of great interest. 1t has been
shown in the previous drawings, but
We have not enlarged on it. Every
where in the spot are long white
threads, or tilaments, lying upon one
another, tending in q general sense
toward the center, and each of which
grows brighter toward its inner ex-
tremity. These make up, in fact, as
we now see, the penum bra, or outer
shade, and the so-called crystal is
really affiliated to them. Besides this,
on close looking we see that the inner
shade, or umbra, and the very deepest
shades, or nuclei. are really made of
them, too. We can look into the dark
center. as into a funnel, to the depth of
probably over five thousand miles; but
as far as we may 90 down we come to
no IlOui1 or solid tfopl- on1 saa prl,-
volumes of whirling vapor, disposed
not vaguely like our clouds. but in the
singulariy definite, fern-like, flower
like forms which are themselves made
of these 'filaments,' each of which is
from three to five thousand miles long,
and from fifty to two hundred miles
thick, and each of which (as we saw
in the first spoD appears to be made
up like rope, of still finer and finer
strands, looking, in the rare instanits
when irradiation makes an Isolated
one visible, like q thread of cossamer.
or the finest OF cobweb. These suorest
the line threads of spun glass; and
here there is something more than q
mere resemblance of form, for both ap
pear to have one casual feature in
common, due to viscous or sticky
fluid; for there is much reason to be-
ieve that the solar atmosphere, even
where thinner than our own air, is
rendered viscous by the enormous
heat, and owes to this its tendency to
pull out IN strings, in common with
such otherwise dissimilar things, as
money. or melted sugar. or melted
glass;