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The Indianapolis journal., 1884-05-06
OUTRAGE In A MEXICAN PORT.
The Captain Of an American Schooner I'm.
lawfully Imprisoned by Mexicans.

GALVESTON, May 5.--Captain Dujay, of the
American schooner Rebecca, of Galveston, in a
communication to the News relates story of out
rage andimprisonment at the hands of the Mexi-
can authorities at the port of Tampco. On the 18th
of February last his schooner, in distress leaking,
put into Tampico, carrying regular clearance
papers from Brashear, La, for Tampico, but
had thirty packages of merchandise for delivery
at Brashear, Tex, which port she was com
PEELED to pass on account of rough weather and
the dangerous bar. The authorities of Tampi-
co forcibly took the thirty packages consigned to
Brashear and ordered an immediate discharge
of the entire cargo Captain Dujay
was arrested on charge of attempt
but was released the next day at the solicitation
of the American minister The judge before
whom Dujay was tried insultingly refused to al
low the American consul to be present during
the trial. After the litigation over the
judge decided that the goods must pay treble
duty. Duiay protested he had no money On
the 18th of April the Mexican authorities boarded
the schooner, hauled down the American flag
and embargoed the vessel. Dujay appealed 10
the American consul, who placed the crew in a
hotel Dujay, after a short stay, returned to
the United States, leaving the crew with the
consul and the vessel in the hands of the MeXi-
cans. He thinks that but for the efforts of Min
lister Morgan and Consul Cassard, he would still
be confined in a Mexican prison.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-05-06
SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT
Two Persons Probably Fatally Injured and
Twenty Others Seriously Hurt

CHICAGO, May 5.-Dense fog prevailed over
the southern part of the city this morning. A
Chicago & Eastern Illinois suburban train left
Auburn with passengers, coming INTO the
city to business and stop was made at South
Englewood. Just as the train was pulling out a
heavy locomotive of the Grand Trunk road,
which enters the city over the same tracks,
plunged into the rear of the passenger train,
splitting the last car and telescoping the
other two, pinning the passengers in
with broken timbers and flooding the interior
with steam from the engine boiler. Two per
sons were probably fatally injured, and twenty
others seriously Following is list of the in
iured:
Henry Wilson, engineer of the passenger
train, cut about the breast and face, two ribs
broken; John Carroll, of Englewood ribs broken;
p. j. Murphy, of EnglewoOd badly cut about
the head and body a man named Will
Jams, leg broken J. Cahill, of Engle-
wood, badly crushed; A. G.. Massey of
Englewood, head and body injured; A.
j. Hewett, head cut j. Somers. arm broken;
J. M. Mccarthy, internal injuries; F, Wilson,
internal injuries; NJ. j. McGrath, leg crushed.
Nine others were injured but were removed be-
fore their names were learned 1t is thought
Wilson will die
Engineer Terwilliger, of the Grand Trunk en-
gine, was arrested and locked up in the town of
Lake police station, but was subsequently re-
leased on bonds. He claims the accident due
to the fog that he did not see the lights of the
train in time to avert the accident
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-05-06

LONDON, May 5.-The Post understands that
the conditions upon which the French consent to
a conference with England upon the Egyptian
question are that England gives up annexation
and protectorate, and, on the other hand, France
recognizes the service rendered by England in
Egypt and acquiesces in the right of England to
maintain military occupation of Egypt until re-
organization is completed. France stipulates
that the withdrawal of the British be definitely
fixed before occupa tion shall cease; the Egyptian
army to be reorganized and to be officered partly
by British; that France and Italy must be allowed
share of influence in respect to the financial
and judicial administration of affairs in Egypt;
France pledges herself not to interfere by arms
with the affairs of Egypt, recognizing that
England alone has that right.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-05-06
A Threatened Lynchine in Utah.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May 5.-Fred Hopt,
alias Welcome on trial seven days for murder
committed July 3, 1880, has been found guilty
of murder in the first degree.
This is his third trial An appeal
was carried to the Supreme Court of the
United States twice, and new trials ordered
The officers had to use precautions to prevent
lynching. At the time of the verdict the crowd
was barred out of the court room, five hundred
men in front wanting to force their way in. The
father of Hopts victim, John W. Turner, sheriff
of Utah county, dispersed the crowd by making a
speech, asking them to abide by the law. The
United States marshal captured a long rope from
negro who was secreting it in the building
ready for the crowd.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-05-06
Heavy Wind at Rock Island.

Rock ISLAND, May Sit has been raining al
most steadily for three days. This afternoon
about half past four o'clock cyclone swept
across the southern end of town, carrying every
thing before it Three houses one of them a
two-story brick were completely demolished, half
a dozen others were unroofed, and many barns
were scattered to the winds. The fair grounds
were in the track of the Storm and all its build
ings and fences were leveled. Trees were up
rooted or stripped of their branches. 1t is i'm
possible as yet to estimate the damage. For
tunately nobody was killed, though four persons
were more or less seriously hurt Boats in the
river were driven across to the Iowa side, but no
serious damage to them is reported
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-05-06

wish to check against the So 900 he had deposited
with them. This being done, he drew out from
the bank almost the sum total of the said depos-
it. When he returned to Washington it is al
legged that he took the certificate of deposit
which he received and sold it to third party
The certificate being duly presented at the
bank of Bateman & Co, payment was refused
of course, and a letter setting forth the above
facts was sent by the bankers to Secretary Lin
coin. Meanwhile suit had been brought by the
holders of the certificate of deposit against
Bateman & Co. By means not as yet made
public the withdrawal of this suit was
brought about: and, thereupon, Bateman & Co
withdrew the charge against Swain which they
had made in their letter to the Secretary of War.
Mr.. Lincoln, however, refused to accept this
withdrawal, and ordered the inquiry by court
martial to be begun on the 28th inst. 1t is
claimed on behalf of General Swain that he lent
the s., 900 to Swain & Co., and took from them
a promissory note, which was negotiable, of
course. Later he negotiated this promissory
note, payment on which was refused by Bateman
& Co., who insisted that there were certain off
sets against it which should be previously con
sidered. General Swain offered to submit the
matter to arbitration, which offer Bateman & Co.
refused The holders of the note then sued the
bank, and Bateman & Co. wrote that letter to
the Secretary of War; which was the origin of
the proceedings to be taken next week Subse-
quently the bankers accepted General Swaims S
offer to submit the matter to arbitration, and the
holders of the certificate of deposit withdrew
their suit against Bateman & Co.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-05-06
A HUMAN TIGER,
An Infsriated Soldier Kills Eleven Comrades
for Chatting His Countrymen.

An Infsriated Soldier Kills Eleven Comrades
for Chatting His Countrymen.
NAPLES, April 15.-The castle of Pizzofalione,
on the hill overlooking the lovely shore of Santa
Lucia, in this city, has been the scene of a re-
markable tragedy. The castle is a military bar
rack filed with infantry. The tortuous road
down to the sea is Oordered by cabins inhabited
Cured on the night of Easter Sunday, about 9
o'clock a knot of Piedmontese and Lombardy
soldiers began to chat a Calabrese corporal
jeering at his country, mimicking his patois, and
tantalizing him in every way. A sergeant in
terfered and drove the soldiers to bed. An hour
afterward one Salvatore Misdea, a Calabrian
soldier of the Nineteenth Infantry, stole quietly
from bed, took his gun and hundred rounds of
cartridges, and stationed himself at the door of
the barrack. He piled the cartridges on bench,
loaded his musket, and, kneeling down, began
to fire upon every PiedmOnteSe and Lombard
soldier in sight The first shot brought down
the sergeant who had stopped the warfare of
words II e fired as rapidly as possible, every
shot either killing or wOundng Il comradc.
The sleeping regiment was aroused. As fast
as the soldiers sprang from their beds they were
shot DOWN The regiment was panic-strcken.
The graduates, who rushed for the door and
tried to corral the human tiger were shot dead
The remainder of the soldiers sought shelter in
their rooms. Misdea then entered the rooms one
after the other killing and wOuudmg all but the
Caabrese. From the windows of each room he
would shoot down the soldiers outside In one
room half a dozen soldiers lad crowded under
their beds. They caught the infu1iatcd man bv
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-05-06
AsSOuan ThrOnged with Refugees from
KOrOskO, Which Place Is Being Quietly
Evacuated by the Egyptian Forces
Letter from Gordon Declaring He Will
Move South from khartOum.
The Reading of the Communication Causes
Unpleasant Feeling in the Commons and
May Result in a Vote of CenSure.
THE EGYPTIAN REBELLION.

The English Plan for Relieving Khartoum-
Thousands of OfRefuGees at Assouan.
LONDON, May 5.-General Wolseley has ad-
vised that General Graham be placed in com
mand of the autumn expedition for Khartoum,
if an English force is sent. The warotfice plan
is that 5000 troops shall start from Assiout for
KhartOum about the end of July.
An Assouan dispatch says: Two thousand
refugees have reached here from Korosko and
more are coming daily. The evacuation of Ko-
rosko is proceeding quietly, Refugees from
Khartoum are expected here in a few days.
Several Bedouin sheks and tribes will es-
cort Col Wortey, of the Egyptian army, in
reconnaissance along the banks of the Nile tC
maintain communication between Assouan and
Dongola"
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-05-06
FOR BOCENTS
The WEEKLY JOURNAL.

In order to place the WEEKLY INDIANA
STATE JOURNAL in the home of every Repub-
lican in the State, and thus do good campaign
service for the Republican party, we have de-
cided to send the paper till after the presiden-
tial election for 80 cents. This will include
the number beginning from the present date,
and the one succeeding the November election
giving the result of the national campaign
THE WEEKLY JOURNAL is a complete family
newspaper. 1t is specially edited, and much
of the matter appearing in it is especially pre-
pared for the wants of the weekly readers. 1t
is a compendium of the NEWS OF THE WORLD
from all quarters; it has full and accurate mar
ket reports; its editorials are political, social
and general; it has the news of the State
and of the city; it has a record
of the proceedings of Congress- it will have a
complete report of the national conventions at
Chicago. It's literary and miscellaneous fea-
lures are of the best.
THE WEEKLY JOURNAL is a newspaper that
should be in every family in Indiana, and at
the price named for it there is no reason why
it should not be, at least during the exciting
and important campaign upon which the
country is about to enter. Political COM
mittees cannot do better than to see that
eopies of The WEEKLY JOURNAL are placed
in the hands of those persons in their
counties who are not now readers of
some sound Republican paper. The
tariff question is the one issue which
is likely to be most prominently dis
cussed, and to this the Journal pays especial
attention, advocating the maintenance of the
principle of protection to American industry
in whatever revision of the tariff laws may be
made necessary in the future developments of
business and labor. In this question the
farming community is deeply Interested, and
the discussions of the Journal will be
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THE WEEKLY JOURNAL is the only paper in
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The Indianapolis journal., 1884-05-06
MINOR MENTION.
Appointments and Changes in Postal Routes
in Indiana.

Appointments and Changes in Postal Routes
in Indiana.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WAsHINGToN, May 5.-A postoffice has been
established at Ryman, and BENZ. R. Sherwood
appointed postmaster The following Indiana
postmasters were commissioned to-day: Hugh
w. Mclaughlin, Brice; Benz F. Overmeyer,
Leitersford; VIM H. Greer, Mahalasville; Geo.
NJ. Sturm, St. Meinrad.
Time schedules have been ordered changed on
star mail routes in Indiana, to be adopted on
July l, as follows: Princeton to Petersburg
Omit Princeton and begin at Oatsville, decreas-
ing distance twelve miles, and increase the
service to six times week. Friendship to Dills-
borough-Extend route to begin at Cross Plains
increasing the distance four miles. Liberty to
Brookville, increase the service to four times a
week. Elkinsville to Brownstown, increase the
service to three times a week, change schedule
to Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays between
Elkinsville and Freetown, and Mondays
Wednesdays and Fridays between Freetown
and Brownstown. Morocco to Rensselaer,, omit
Rensselaer, and end at Pilot Grove, decreasing
the distance nine miles.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-05-06
ANXIOUS FOR AN INVESTIGATION.
Mr.. Kellogg Urges the Springer Committee
to Order Inquiry.

MIR. Kellogg Urges the Springer Committee
to Order an Inquiry.
WASHINGTON. May 5.-At a meeting of the
House committee on expenditures in the Depart
ment of Justice, to-day, Mr.. Springer read a let
ter from Mr.. Kellogg, in which the latter asked
that he be allowed to appear before the commit
tee with counsel. Mr. Kellogg further said if
the committee did not investigate him he would
ask the House to appoint special committee to
conduct an investigation. Mr. Fyan remarked
after hearing the letter: This looks suspicious;
it looks as if this committee was called upon to
white-wash Kellogg. Price, the who test-
fed against him has gone, and his own witnesses
are here to be called"
Mr.. Stewart said: ''I think Kellogg ought to
be informed that it is not part of the business
of this committee to determine whether he is
guilty or innocent; we make ourselves ridiculous
by exceeding our jurisdiction"
kellogg wants to prove that he is a good vir-
tuous, Christian gentleman" interposed Mr.
Miller II would like to accommodate him. he
continued 'but I'm not willing to accommodate
anybody
Said Mr. Stewart II would like to know if
there was any deviltry on the part of any body to
shield Kellogg"
"Kellogg is a member of the House, and it
would not be right to bring in testimony against
him, said Mr. Stephenson.
This is a question of jurisdiction" Mr. Stew
art interposed; We've gone out of our jurisdic-
ton four hundred times, and it hardly looks fair
to bring up that question now
The committee instructed Mr.. Springer to con-
fer with Mr. kellogg and suggest that the latter
offer resolution in the House asking for an in
vestigation. 1t is the intention of the committee
to investigate the conduct of officials of the
government in the prosecution of Kellogg
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-05-06

of those which were aided by the last
Congress, and less than one-third of the
estimates of the engineers have been allowed.
This has not been, however, without the fore
thought that the House will remedy the trouble
1t is intended that that shall be done, but that
the responsibility shall lay upon the whole
House and not the Democratic committee
A big fight viii take place over the Missouri
river. Those interested want million appro-
priated. The bill provides half the amount
Said member of the committee to a complain
ing member to-day:
''We expect you to get more by amending that
bill; but the committee can't afford to put it in
in the original bill"
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-05-06
Notes and Personalities.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON May 5.-Dr S. E. Munford, of
Princeton, president of the Indiana State Medi-
cal Society with his wife, is attending the meet
ing of the American Medical Society.
DR.. Smythe and wife, of Greencastle, are
guests at Representative Watson's; Dr. Wooden,
of Indianapolis; King, of Philadelphia, Hancock
county; w. H. Bell, of Logansport; and How
ard, of Greenfield are attending the medical
society.
John G. Chambers and T. B. Harvey and Ia
dies, of Indianapolis, are at Williards
1t is said at the Treasury Department that
James A. Connolly, of Illinois, will decline the
office of Solicitor of the Treasury, to which he
was recently nominated.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-05-06
RIVERS AND HARBORS.
The Annoyances to Which the Chairman of
the Committee Is Subjected

the Committee Is Subjected
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON May 5.-There is probably no
craftsmanship of a committee in the House any
where that is less enviable than that of the com
mittee on rivers and harbors. 1t is always an
annoying and thankless task to compile bill
providing for the improvement of the rivers and
harbors of the country. No one is satisfied, and
nearly every one speaks ill of the chairman of
the committee, it seems. This is all to be antici-
pated. 1t is expected that very many will ask
for provisions for improving navigation" on
this, that and the other little stream, but there
seems to be more general complaint at the make
up of the present bill than any that has been
prepared for years
Mr.. Willis, of Louisville, KY, is the chairman,
and, living by the Ohio, is presumed to know what
is needed for the improvement of the rivers etc; ;
but the trouble is, there has been in the eyes of
many members, entirely too much parsimony
shown; too great has been the desire to econo-
mize, and the result is great dissatisfaction.
There have been 103 rivers droDped from the list
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-05-06
THE MORRISON BILL.
Belief that the Motion to Strike Out the En-
acting Clause Will Fail.

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acting Clause VIII Fail.
Special to the Indianapolis journal.
WASHINGTON, May Sit is the Judgment of
the coolest and most farseeing Republicans, to-
night, that the motion to strike out the enacting
clause of the tariff bill tomorrow, will fall this,
Notwithstanding the Morrison men showed their
fright and their cloven foot and their despera-
ton to-day by 'railroading7 OFarrel of Vir-
ginia, into seat made vacant by the resignation
of Paul, the Readjuster, who was appointed
judge of the United States Court. There has
Enthusiastically been weakening in the Randall
ranks. They are not so well closed up tonight
as they were aweek ago, while Morrison claims
accessions from California, Ohio and Maryland
He claims Lamb of Indiana, also beyond any
question; but in that he is probably mistaken.
Speaker Carlisle believes the enacting clause
will stand by majority of to 10.
Mr.. Morrison, in an interview this evening rel
ative to the vote tomorrow on the proposition
to strike out the enacting clause, said: Il claim
it, but it will be exceedingly close"
Great interest is felt here tonight in the pro
ceedngs of the House tomorrow. 1t is the
the Democrats proclaimed that if they fail to
l
lost completely at the polls this fall. They
have staked their all upon the fate of the meas
ure.
Greater work was probably never done in the
interest of any bill than the Morrison bill Its
friends have worked forit day and night since the
moment it was conceived. 1t was the great pro-
duction of the committee on ways and means.
Everything else in the party has given way to
it. 1t has held the boards. Trade and bicker-
ings have been in progress at all times. The
enemies of the measure have had no organiza-
tion against it. They have merely asserted their
principles, and they were opposed to the bill
But the friends of Morrison have not tarried.
They have kept the ball moving moving
Some very vigorous work has been done the
past ten days for the bill To serve 1t all man
ner of trades have been consummated, and those
who have been won have been persuaded to an
nounce the fact. Under the circumstances it
will not be surprising if the bill receives a ma
jority of the House.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-05-06
Surrendered to the Authorities.

WASHINGTON, May 5.-Frank Langston, son
of the United States minister to Hayti, who shot
and killed one colored man and wounded another,
in this city, about two months ago, and who has
since been absent was surrendered to the au-
thorities, to-day by his father. Langston dis
appeared on the night of the shooting and has
been living with his brother in Louisville, KY,
since that time. He came in on Western train
this morning, and when the father and son met
there was a most affecting ,ene
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-05-06
Gordon win Retreat to the South.

LONDON, May 5.-The parliamentary docu-
ments just published include a dispatch to the
British minister to Egypt from General Cor
don, dated Khartoum, April 16, in which he
says:
SO far as I understand the situation, you
state there is intention of sending relief here
or to Berber, and you refuse me Zebehr Pasha.
consider myself free to act according to the
circumstances L shall hold on here as long as
can. If L can suppress the rebellion l shall do
so; otherwise shall retire TO the equator and
leave you the indellible disgrace of abandoning
the garrisons of Senaar, Kassala, Berber and
Dongola, with the certainty that you will event
ualy be forced to smash up the Mahdi under
great difficulties if you would retain peace in
Egypt"
The documents include a telegram from Col.
Stewart to Sir Evelyn Barring, in which he
says:
Gen. Gordon has acquainted me with your
intention not to relieve Khartoum. 1t is proposed
shall go to Berber trusting to the success of
your negotiations for opening the Suakim and
Berber routes Doubling, however, the success,
so far as the Berber road is concerned, unless it
is opened by advancing troops, l am inclined to
think retreat safer by the equator, and shall
therefore follow Gen Gordons fortunes"
Vice-consul Pomer also telegraphed the min
ister
II shall follow Gen Gordon to the equator
1t is a less risky route; but should the Arabs
possibly reach Berber we would be entirely
blockaded northeast and northwest"
The reading of General Gordon's dispatch to
Sir Evelyn Barring produced an unpleasant i'm
preston in the Commons, and it is believed will
materially effect the vote on Sir Michael Hicks
Beachs motion censuring the Ministry
An Arab journal affirms that Ell Mahdi de-
mands f500,0OO ransom of General Gordon the
to be paid to the Mahdi within three
months
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-05-06
Quiet Election at Thorntown.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
THoRNTowN, May 5.-The municipal election at
this place passed off quietly to-day with but lit
tie or no interest manifested. The following
ticket was elected: Trustees, o. N. Ridgeway
and A. c. Clark; treasurer, James Hanna; clerk,
Thomas Bradshaw: marshal Green Mcdaniel.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-05-06
THE STATE OF FLORIDA.
Safety and Humanity Sacrificed to the Mania
for Speedy Voyages.

LONDON, May 5.-The observer is astonished
that the City of Rome did not follow up the in
formation from the sailing vessel reported as
having some of the crew of the State of Florida
aboard, and attempt to elicit further facts 1t
says the importance of the matter would Justify
even delay of the vessels passage, but the
fact is the growing mania for swift transatlan-
tic passages has taken away from shippers the
even when. as in the case of the State of Florida
a feeling of humanity naturally stimulates curl
osty. No explanation is yet Forthcoming of the
strange silence of the officers of the City of Rome