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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-29
A PRACTICAL JOKE.
How Bewildered Theatrical Manager Was
Deluged with Unexpected Goods.

READING, Oct. PA well-dressed, slightly
intoxicated man, representing himself to be
James A Herne, whose theatrical company is
now playing here, visited two dozen shops in
various parts of the city on Saturday afternoon,
and ordered a great variety of articles in the
name of Mr. Herne, asking in each case that the
purchase be sent with a bill to Mr.. Clark. the
manager of the company The articles included
an overcoat, large bunch of bananas, a barrel
of campaign torches eight pairs of blankets. a
saddle, three boxes of cigars a wheelbarrow
load of assorted groceries, three bushels of
beans, several pairs of boots and a lot of No. 7
slippers.
Soon after, Manager Clark was walked from
his nap at the Grand Central Hotel by the ar
rival of the overcoat. He sent it away, saying
he had not ordered it. Then came the bananas
and next the beans, and for two hours the be-
wildered Cark's door was besieged by porters
with bundles of every description. Hard upon
the goods came the angry shop keepers. seeking
to collect their bills, Clark disclamed any
knowledge of the affair." and the real Herne was
equally in the dark, while the angry merchants
sought in vain for the man who had victimized
them An effort was made to have a warrant
issaaE for his arrest but Alderman Brownwell
declared that he knew of no law that had been
violated, and the joker, at any rate, had disap-
peared. The affair is still unexplained
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was responsible for that conversation, and that
| asserted that it was true not only as | recol
lected it then, but az he recolected it now; and
more, that l asserted the truth of the inference
he himself draws from it. Nothing could be
wider of the mark. OF course. 1 do not know
whether the conversation with Mr.
Blaine was correctly stated to me or
not, but [ do know that [ stated il as
1t was narrated to me correctly as far as | re-
member it. and also know that there was no
possibility, in the narration of it, that | could
have stated, as Mr.. Beecher has it, that Mr.
Blaine sent to me in day or two any pronosi-
ton of any form or kind whatever That would
have been clear statement of my own, while |
was simply narrating a conversation as reported
to me by third party, of which such an asser-
ton could form part. While with regard to
these things and Mr. Beecher's statement acquit
hm OF all except faulty memory perhaps not
strange with him in the circumstances with his
temperament, | cannot say much for his CON
duct as gentleman for bringing me into a con
troversy of this sort by the use he is trying to
make of free social conversation with him while
a guest at my table, and where he puts his mem
DRY against mine seven or eight years afterwards,
and practically takes an oath that his is the in
talllble memory and that mine is wholly at
fault
II saw an interview purporting to be with
him, published in Truth some years ago. pro-
Tossing to detail these same statements of his
They get into the newspapers now from him.
ana upon his authority 1t matters little whether
he makes his statement verbally so near a news
paper that he knows it will be published. or
whether he sends it there over his own sigma
ture. The breach of propriety is the same, and
when the statements are stated to be inaccurate.
he follows them up making sharp issue, as
Stunning his memory to be infallible, to prove
that am deliberately false in my recollection,
in which am quite as likely certainly, to be
correct as anybody else. ] cannot but feel that
for guest, invited to all the freedom of table
conversation, thus to drag some of it before the
public at such time and for such purpose,
with the assertion that, if do not remember
just as he does of us is, in his language, a
continental liar and that he is not that one is
the grossest possible breach of every rule of
good society, well as inconsistent with the
character of gentleman. j. f. joy"
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BEECHER CONVICTED.
Mr. Joys Denial of the Reverend Gentle
mans Statement.

MIR. Joys Denial of the Reverend Gentle
mans Statement.
New York Special.
Mr.. James F. Joy to-day makes reply to the
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher in a business like
and dignifed manner His dispatch from Lon
don contained the sweeping denial
"Blaine never made me an offer to appoint a
committee to suit me in any manner or form
or for any consideration of any kind whatever .
His second dispatch charged Mr.. Beecher with
misrecollecting the conversation at his house. 81
judge" he telegraphed, "that Mr.. Beecher
wholly misrecollected the conversation with me-
No such talk as stated by him ever took place "
Thereupon Mr.. Beecher retorted that if Mr. Joy
upon his return, should reiterate his statements
he would be "a continental liar" Mr. Joy, hav
ing critically examined everything MIR Beecher
had to say on the subject. says:
II have read, L think, everything which has
been written relative to conversation which
Mr. Beecher processes to narrate as having taken
place at my table in Detroit some years ago
when he was for little time my guest | no
tice especially the language in one of his letters
to Gen Alger about continental liars Know
ing full we'll. therefore, the present state of the
controversy, and knowing, also perfectly the
conversation which did take place at that time
| can state with the most absolute certainty that
| never said in that any other conversation
with anybody that Mr.. Blaine when Speaker
made me an offer or proposition directly, or
through third person. that he would appoint
committee to suit me- or put man upon that
committee such rs l wished if / would buy Lit
tie Rock and Fort Smith bonds of him at par or
otherwise. This is perfectly certain. He never
sent man to me to make such proposition
within a day two, as Mr., Beecher says.
or at any other time. This will. think
dispose of these allegations of Mr.. Beecher.
While state these things with clear GER
tainity with regard to them, do not say that
Mr. Beecher is a continental liar or thata CON
tinentar falsehood lies between him and my
self His memory, from lapse of time or in
certainly at fault in these respects. l was
simply stating conversation of third party
T1Tn Mr.. Blaine as stated by that party to me
Mr. Beecher, while not recollecting it correctly
in the most material part, seems to think that
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GRESHAM AND MCOLLOCH.
The Former Appointed to the Circuit Bench
and the Latter to the Treasury.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Oct 2S.-General Walter O.
Gresham will step out of the Treasury Depart
ment and turn over his portfolio to Hugh Nc
Culloch, who was to-day appointed to that Office
by the President. General Gresham will leave
for Indiana the latter part of the week, and, af
ter brief period of rest, will assume his new of
fee of Judge of the Seventh judicial circuit
Mr.. McCulloch will be no novice in the Treas
ury Department, as he filed the same position
during Johnsons administration and gained the
reputation of being one of the ablest inanciers of
his day. Previous to his first appointment he
was president of the State Bank of Indiana,
with headquarters at Indianapolis, but lived at
Fort Wayne. He now lives over the Maryland
line, few miles from this city, and it is under
stood that he accepted the appointment because
he is in straitened circumstances, and the sal
airy, even for few months, will be of great as
sistance to him. He is quite an old man, having
been born in 1871 in Maine He will probably
take the oath of office tomorrow morning
Friends of Judge Gresham still hold to the
opinion that he will be appointed to succeed
Justice Bradley on the Supreme bench before
the close Of President Arthurs administration.
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MIR. HENDRICKS SCARED.
He Addresses Letter to His Faithful
Friends, Appealing for Aid.

He Addresses a Letter to His Faithful
Friends, Appealing for Aid.
Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks has been giving
out, through interviews in the press. that he has
no doubt of the result in Indiana and that the
Democratic organization is perfect and the en-
thusiasm unparalleled. To give the lie to these
assertions, the Journal is able to present the
following private letter. which Mr.. Hendricks
yesterday sent out to his personal friends max
ing the most pteous and abject appeal for their
aid The letter is as follows:
"INDIANAPOLIs, Oct %, 1884.
Dear Sir-In many public addresses during
this canvass have urged the Democracy of In
diana, generally, to make an earnest and de
termined struggle for success at the approach
ing elections but believing, as | do that much
depends upon the activity of individual Demo
Gratis election day. l am induced to
address you and some more of my
brother Democrats, personally. The re-
quest that | have TO make is that
you do everything in your power to effect
thorough organization before election day, and
that you be present at your precinct early on the
4th of November, and devote a full day to the
cause l have earnest belief that the best
interests of the country are deeply involved in
that days struggle, and that our success is the
cause of the country. / hope you will see to it.
as far as you possibly can, that every Democratic
vote in your precinct is deposited in the ballot
box, and at the earliest hour practicable. l am,
with great respect yours, etc
'"r. A. HENDRICKS"
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A Brakeman,s Remarkable P,uct

FORT JERvIs Oct. 28.-An instance of most
remarkable nerve and endurance is reported
from the Susquehanna division of the New Nork,
Lake Erie g. Western railway While freight
train on that disvision approaching Emira
brakeman named Daniel Thomas was missed
Two men and locomotive were sent back to
look for him, as he had evidently fallen from
the train A mile this side of Seeley's Creek
bridge they met Thomas walking toward Elmira
on the east bound track. His clothing was
nearly all torn from his body, and he was COW
cred with blood. His right arm had been cut off
at the shoulder by the car wheels, and
Thomas was carrying the severed lember in his
left hand, which was clasped about the fingers of
the severed hand His collar bone was broken
in two places, four ribs were fractured his head
badly cut and ne was terribly bruised He
had been thrown from car by a sudden lurch of
the train lie said as soon as he cond recover
himself after the train had passed over his arm
he regained his feet, hunted up his arm, and
started up the track hoping to meet with help
He had walked nearly a mile when he was met
ythe locomotive. Notwithstanding his terrible
injuries, Thomas never lost consciousness. He
was taken to DR.. Updegraffs Office in Elmira,
where he was given all the aid possible Not
withstanding his wonderful nerve, it is feared
that his wounds will result fatally.
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THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Another Effort to Select Successor for the |
Chair of Bishop Pinxney.


Chair of Bishop PinSney.
BALTIMORE, Oct. pa special session of the
Protestant Episcopal convention for the diocese
of Maryland began this morning at IL o'clock, at
ST. Peters Protestant Episcopal Church, for the
purpose of electing bishop to fill the chair left
vacant by the death of Right Rev. DR.. VIM
Pinkney, late bishop of this diocese. This is the
second convention held for this purpose. Con-
siderable interest is manifested because of the
fruitless attempts of the body TO elect a bishop
at the last convention, in May. At that session
two days were spent in casting thirtee@ @lots,
during which DR.. Eccleston received sixty
two votes, not quite majority. Rev.
Dr. George Leeds, of Grace Church,
Baltimore, has recovered his health, which has
gained him many friends Rev. Dr. j. H. Ec
clestoD, of Emanuel Church, Baltimore, was his
strongest opponent Ten ballots were taken,
with little change The last ballot resulted
Eccleston, so; Leeds. Ga; scattering IA; total
number of votes, 12S necessary to a choice. Sc.
At 10 p. m. the convention adjourned until to-
morrow, when baloting will be resumed. When
the convention adjourned to night there were no
indications of an election being soon reached.
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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

At Murray City, O.. on Saturday night, Dep
uty Sheriff Locke, in trying to quell disturb
ence, shot two Polish miners one fatally
Norman Jones, of Fitchburg, Mass, aged
twelve, has been arrested for placing obstruc-
lions on the track to wreck trains for fun"
James Brandon living two miles from Ran
dolph Cattaraugus county, New York was MUIR
dered by his son Thomas on Saturday. Both
were drunk.
The schooner Lucy loaded with 800 tons of
coal, in tow of the steamship Raleigh, from New
Orleans is reported lost, with three of the crew,
off Sabine pass.
A stranger was murdered near Weinsburg, O.,
by three brothers named Tam The murder
was the result of quarrel. Two of the muir
derers were arrested.
Near Jacksonville, Fla, last night VIM
Rogers "a prominent and wealthy citizen ofNew-
port R. L., was found dead, with his throat cut,
in a stable, by his cousin G. B. Rogers
The strike among the Colorado coal miners has
extended until the number has swelled to 1000,
causing the suspension of operations in nearly
all the principal coal mines of the State.
The twentieth anniversary of the confedera-
ton of Canada occurs in 1886, and the idea has
arisen of celebrating the event by an interna-
honal exhibition at Montreal on a grand scale
Frank Pckert superintendent of McClures
coke works, at Scottsdae, Pa, was fatally
stabbed last night by young man named Nc
Cormack, a charger at the Emma mines, in a
quarrel over uog.
Joe Hickman, miner at the Good Hope, N
NJ, camp, was shot and killed yesterday after
noon by his partners, Frank Beck and Tom
Welsch, on refusing to join them in the murder
and robbery of another miner of $780, com
pany of lynchers are in pursuit of the murderers
Owing to misplaced SWITCH Michigan Cen
trail freight train last night ran into siding
near Montrose, where several cabooses were
standing, ard in which some railway employees
were sleeping, wrecking them and setting them
on fire. Herbert J. Thayer, a conductor, was
burned to death. His brother had both legs
broken and was otherwise injured; he will die.
Henry Roberts, of Louisville was found dead
III an empty room of the house where his di-
vorced wife lived with her children, yesterday
morning. He had been shot The two had not
been living together for several months 1t is
supposed that he went to see her, Sunday night,
and she shot him. She denies that she killed
hsn, and says she does not know how he came
to be in the room.
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LABORERS IN 1884.
The Condition OF the American WorLingman
as 1t Was One Hundred Years Ago.

The Condition OF the American Workingman
as 1t Was One Hundred Years Ago.
In the opening chapter of his History of the
People of the United States" Mr. McAIaster
gives the following picture OF laborer a century
ago:
There can, however, be no doubt that won
derful ameloration has taken place since that
day in the condition of the poor Their houses
were meaner their food was coarser, their cloth
ing was of commoner stuff. their wages were,
despite the depreciation that has gone on in the
value of money, lower by one half than at pres
ent. A man who performed what would now be
called unskilled labor-who sawed wood, who
dug bitches who mended the roads. who mixed
mortar, who carried boards to the carpenter and
bricks to the mason, or helped to cut hay in the
harvest tme-usualy received as the fruit of
his daily toll two shillings. Sometimes, when
the laborers were few, he paid more, and
became the envy of his fellows if, at the end of
week. he took home to his family fifteen shill-
ings, u sum not greatly exceeded by 81. Yet all
authorities agree that IN 1874 the hire of work
was twice as great as in IVA
"On such n pittance it was only by the strict
est economy that mechanic kept his children
from starvation and himself from Jail. In the
low and dingy rooms which he called his homs
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GOV. CLEVELAND.
Reviewing the National Guard in a Drenching
Rain-S Storm.

Reviewing the National Guard in Drenching
Rain-StOrm.
NEW YORK, Oct. Ex-Governor Cleveland rose
at o'clock this morning, despite the fatigue in
cident to his reception at Newark last night
He breakfasted in his room, at the Hoffman
House, with his private secretary and Adjutant-
the afternoon he was engaged in receiving visit
ors.
Up to o'clock it was uncertain whether the
review of the National Guard would take place
Rain had been falling all day. and a number of
regiments which had arrived thor
oughly soaked while waiting for orders. The
vicinity of the reviewing stand, at the Worth
monument was crowded with spectators with
umbrellas hoisted. The weather having bright
ened and the rain having moderated, definite or
ders were issued for the review to take place
Notwithstanding the rain, both sides of the
streets through which the procession passed were
thickly lined with men and women, who stood
until all the regiments had passed For an hour
before the time for the march of the column the
vicinity of the grand stand was packed with
people 1t was ten minutes past when the
Governor in an open barouche, drawn by four
white horses, reached the stand He was accom-
panied by Adjutant- general Farnsworth, in full
uniform. The stand comfortably filled.
The Governor was surrounded by his staff dur
ing the review He stood from 4:15 until 5:10
P. NJ. without an umbrella in the rain lifting his
soaked hat in response to sautes, and again as
the colors of the respective regiments passed.
After the column had passed deafening voley
of cheers was gwen for Gov. Cleveland, and he
returned to the Hoffman House.
Governor Cleveland and his staff were enter
tanned, after the review, by Major general Sha-
Ter and his staff in the Hoffman House The
Governor left the hotel in time to take the train
for Albany leaving the Grand Central Depot at
. p. NJ.
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Consecrating an Assistant Bishop.

CLEVELAND, O., Oct. 2S.-Rev DR.. Nelson S.
Rulison was consecrated, this morning, as as
sistant bishop of Central Pennsylvania, with i'm
pressive ceremonies, in St Pauls Church. of
which he has been rector for some years.
Among the participants were the presiding
bishop of the American church, Alfred Lee, of
Delaware Bishops Stevens, of Philadelphia;
Howe. of Central Pennsylvania; Bedell, Of Ohio;
Knickerbacker, of Indiana; Whitehead, of Pitts
burg and Potter; of New York city. The ger.
mon was delivered by Bishop Potter.
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Mrs. Flanagan's Luck.

HoLYoKE Mass, Oct. 29-Mrs. Flanagan a
Woodworking woman here, has been notified by
a New York savings bank thata fortune of some
900 awaits her there, being the estate of an
eccentric and only sister who died two years
ago Mrs. Flanagan did not know her sister
was dead although we'll aware of her place of
residence, and the bank has been searching for
her twenty three months.
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Candidate Hendricks Addresses Private Let
ter to His Friends, Personally Appealing
for Their Assistance on Election Day.
James F. joys Response to the Charges
Brought by Rev. MI. Beecher.
How Young Mr.. Roosevelt Carried Himself
in a Critical Moment-American
LabOrers Century Ago.
AN INFAMOUS LIE.
The FalsehOod Told by an Evansville Paper
Concerning Major Calkins.

The FalsehOOd Told by an Evansville Paper
Concerning Major Calkins.
Special to the Indianapolis journal.
EVANSVILLE Oct 28.-The TribuneNews, Of
this city, an evening newspaper, published the
statement that Major Calkins, the Republican
candidate for Governor, was drunk last night
while speaking. The following named gentle
men, Democrats and Republicans, all of whom
were present and heard Major Calkins, have
signed the following
The publication in the Tribune-News of this city
and the dispatch sent from that office that Major
Calkins drunk here last night, is infamous lie
Charles Viee, Samuel NJ. Archer,
Jonathan S. Jaquess, ]. W. Wartman,
Joseph Cuppler, H. G. Gooding,
II. 5. Bennett, ID. b. kumbler,
Charles Decker, II. $. Cook,
Phil G. Decker, II. NJ. Lndev,
F. Lndley James Wiltshire
w. G. Roseman, !. H. Dannettell,
+. H. Ketcham, Eugene Iglehart,
James L. Orr VIM. Dean,
Geo. B. Niele, n. II. Stockwen,
e. W. Bement, W. II. Merithew,
R. P. Hopkins r. NJ. Hobbs
c. R. Bement w. F. Nisbet,
VIM. Heiman, \. w. Foster
Alexander Gilchrist, H. Graham
K. P Huston, John Gilbert
A. II. Foster, E. o. Hopkins,
A. o. Durand JAS. w. Reid.
Richard J. Dixon Herbert Walker
Philip Dawson, p II. Mccormack,
Chas. II. Thurman, L. NJ Baird
D IL. hlcferSon, Patrick Raleigh,
Chas. Wheeler, VIM II. Greiss,
John H. Rocker, Henry Refs,
d. White, John W. Rocker,
William E. French Heber Ingle,
W. F. Nisbet jr. Victor Bish
Edward Bowles George w. Haynie,
John l.. Dow. William p. Leonard,
George b. Wheeler, George S. Ingle
Jacob Bennington, G. y. Wells
William Fl, Gudgel w. NJ. Blakey
Walter S. Viele, H. S. Fisher.
The gentlemen who have thus expressed them
selves most all prominent citizens of Evans
ville-bankers, merchants, lawyers, and are gen
tlemen who met or heard Major Cakins.
The following has also been furnished
We were present at the meeting and heard the ad-
dress of Major Calins last night from beginning to
end. There not the slightest appearance of in
toxication in Major Calkins's appearance,
so far as saw and and opinion is that he was
perfectly sober JOHN L. PITNER,
Pastor of Trinity NJ. +. Church.
j. s. WOODS
Presiding Elder.
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A Pitiml Sinht.

What sadder sight can be- imagined than that
of noble man, whom the world can i'll afford to
spare, stricken down in the prime of a useful
life by consumption. Thousands are yearly fll-
ing consumptives' graves who might be saved by
the timely of Dr. Pieree's Golden Medical
Discovery" which is a positive cure for con
sumption in it's early stages. 1t is the best
Alternative aud pectoral in the world. All dug
gists.
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Probable Loss of Vessel and All on Board.

froDaDIe Loss OF Nessei ana All on Board
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28-The steamer New
bern, which arrived from Guaymas to-day
brings news of disastrous storms on the coast of
lower California The steamer Estado de
Sonora, which left Mazatalan Sept. 90, with
nineteen passengers and crew of thirty eight
is believed to be lost, with all on board The
steamer was a Mexican coaster of seven hun
dred tons, owned by Don Joaquin Redo, and in
sured in this city for $4,000
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Safe Robbery at Roekaway Beach.

HUNTERS POINT l.. l., Oct 2S.-Tha store of
A. B. Smith, at Rockaway Beach, was entered
by burglars during last night. The safe was
blown open and large amount of Rockaway
Improvement Company bonds, several hundred
dollars in cash and other valuables carried off
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BALTIMORE, Oct 29.-Maria NJ. Kiersted and
Mary A. Perry. trading as Kiersted & Perry.
dealers in ladies' and children's clothing and
furnishing goods have made an assignment to
James N. Mailer for benefit of creditors. The
bond of the trustee is $40 000