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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-08
New Albany Presbytery.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MADISON, April THE Presbytery of New
Albany holds its semi-annual meeting tomorrow
evening at 7:30 o'clock, in the First Presbyterian
Church of this place. The session will be opened
at that time by a sermon by the retiring mod
orator, Rev. NJ. E. McKillep, of Charlestown,
after which the P~resbytery will be organized
and new offers elected. The body will remain
in session until Thursday, and all its proceedings
will be open to the public, which is cordially in
vited to attend. The Women's Presbyterian
Missionary Society will also meet in the Second
Presbyterian Church on Wednesday morning, at
9 o'clock, and continue through the day. In the
evening, at the same place, there will be a union
meeting of the Presbytery and the ladies' So
ciety, to hear the reports of the latter and to
listen to a sermon by Rev J. F. Baird, professor
of Latin in Hanover College, on the subject of
''Sabbath-school Literature"
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SURPRISING THE DIRECTOR.
MIR. Lowry Finds 1t Necessary to Contradlc
Judge Holman.

MIR. Lowry Finds 1t Necessary to Contradict
Judge Holman.
Special to the indianapolis journal.
WASHINGTON. April To-day, while the
House was considering Mr.. Stockslager's propo-
sition to set aside the 9th instant for considera-
ton of bills appropriating money to construct
public buildings for various cities, it became
necessary for Judge Lowry to take Judge Hol-
man down a peg or two. Mr.. Holman declared
that the Treasury Department had not recon-
mended any of the amounts recommended by
the bills from Mr.. Stockslager's committee on
public buildings and grounds, and that the bills
all came before the House with the Endorsement
of the committee only. This fired Judge Lowry,
who was Logging for the bill making the appropri-
alton for the Fort Wayne building. He looked
savagely at Mr.. Holman a moment, then sprang
to his feet and exclaimed: The gentleman from
Indiana is hasty. L beg to inform him that the
supervising architect of the Treasury has in
dorsed one of these bills. 1t is the one for Fort
Wayne"
Mr.. Holman shut up like a clam at low tide,
and Mr.. Stockslager carried his point.
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THE DANvILLE COMMITTEE.
Ex-Congressman Desendorf Testifes-A
journment Until Next Monday.

Ex-COngressman Desendorf Testifies-Ad-
journment Until Next Monday.
WASHINGTON, April Tx Congressman De
sendorf, of Norfolk, Va, was examine by the
Danvilie committee to-day. He was the regular
Republican candidate in his district for repre-
sentative in Congress. He was asked by SEN
ator Vance to tell what he knew of drawing the
color line in the last canvass, and who drew it.
He said the whites; he believed that of the
colored vote of Virginia, 800 out of every 1000
would vote the regular Republican ticket if left
to exercise their own %volition, yet since the ad-
vent of General Malone as a controlling power,
the colored vote had been manipulated and con
trolled to a greater extent than ever, even going
as far as the sending out of a circular
purporting to be signed by the Presi-
dent of the United States, saying he
wished them to support the Readjuster ticket.
The witness believed there had been more perse-
cution of Republicans by Malone than there had
been just after reconstruction by the Demo
cratic party, and expressed the opinion that if
the Republicans of the North and of the South
had stood by the Republicans of Virginia, they
would have had two white men where Senator
Malone had one. Witness did not think Ma
hone could hold his party together fifteen
minutes if it were not for the support Of the
administration.
Senator Sherman said to witness, "You
complain that it is a Republican
administration" Il don't complain at
all; l say it was a fact that they turned out
those who supported them, and put in those who
worked against them and who spent their money
against them, and not only that, but who spent
money contributed by Republicans"
''They worked for the success of the coalition
partyl"
eyes, sir. And if Hancock and English had
been elected they would have been in the Demo
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A Juryman WHO Wishes a v~indication.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, April T.-Chairman Springer
says his committee will hear John T. Mitchell,
foreman of the first grand jury that failed to re-
turn star-route indictments, in any statement
he may want to make about the. proceedings of
the grand jury. Mitchell says he will show that
the governments attorneys betrayed their en-
ployer and did not try to make good cases be-
fore the grand jury. 1t has been a question in
Mitchells mind, and was for sometime in that
of the committee, whether he had a legal right
to testify to what occurred before the grand
jury. He says that he will do this because Bliss
has charged that the grand jury was corrupted.
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DEMOCRATIC TACTICS.
Gripping the Government by Insufficient
Appropriations.

CTlppluS IhO ny LuSuIlClent
Appropriations.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, April lit is very obvious
now, said a Republican member to-day, ''what
the battle-cry of the Democrats will be the com
ing campaign"
what is it," l inquired.
Economy. 1t all resolves into the same old
~whoop-reform. We heard something of that
sort in 1876 and in 1880"
will the Democrats not take up tariff
'Would a man pick up a hot poker with his
bare hands! No. They wish tariff and kindred
topics were in Guinea"
'Why do you think economy and reform are
to be in the whoop of Democratic w~arfare!'
II read it between the lines iii the appropr1a-
ton bills. Did you not know that the astute
statesman gathers more of the vital issues in an
approaching presidential campaign from the APP
preparation bills than anything elsel 1t is true.
You see a hobble to the welfare of the govern
ments institutions in every appropriation bill
where there is new legislation. Two objects
are in view: They are the reduction of the ag-
gregate amounts of the appropriations, and the
Gripping of the interests, so that as many PEG
pie may be Disguised with the service as posi-
bic. That is Democratic tactics"
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Prospects for an Ugly Strike.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
BRAZIL, April Trouble is imminent among
the striking miners at Coal Bluff and the neigh
boring mines. On Saturday delegations of
Parke county strikers dispersed themselves
among the miners in Vigo county, along the !. &
st. L.. road, and, although they were without a
grievance, they, too, were persuaded to strike.
Some of these men afterward returned to work,
but were compelled to desist and forced to leave
the mines and the State before Thursday under
penalty of death. There is great excitement,
and the sheriff was appealed to on Saturday by
mine owners, who fear destruction of their prop
erty, but that official declines to interfere until
the miners commit some overt act. They after
ward swore out warrants against the ringleaders,
and a special session of the grand jury has been
called for tomorrow. A delegate meeting of
strikers from Parke, Vigo and Clay counties is
called for tomorrow at some mining village, and
the action they may take will be watched with
great interest. Idle workmen are standing
about in groups, some advocating a return to
work, others threatening violence to any man
who resumes pick and shovel. The l. g. st. L.
is hauling coal from the west end of its line for
its own use and for that of the Decline. The
situation is looked upon as very serious.
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A Modest and Generous Senator.

Washington Letter.
While talking with Senator Wade Hampton
last evening a daughter of the late Reverdy
johnson came up with an autograph album in
her hand. This book was for the names only
of United States Senators. The purpose of this
lady is to raise a little contribution toward the
founding of a hospital for helpless Southern
soldiers at Richmond, a work so laudable that
it would be like an offense to argue the duty
and glory of it. This book is to be sold when
filled to any one who will pay the most for it.
Each Senator has subscribed S.. But the one
thing which the beautiful lady with radiant
face came in haste to tell Hampton was this:
One United States Senator-was he from the
North? was he from the South9 the East or the
West! it was "a secret, and a precious one and
sacred-this Senator modestly set down the lit
tie So, not willing to be known as giving more
than some of his fellow-Senators who are not
rich, and then slyly handed her a check large
enough to set two decimals to the right. All!
there is heart in this world after all, and don't
you despair for humanity.
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Judge Lowry Has Occasion to Speak
Sharply to Director Holman.
Testimony of Ex-COngressman DezendOrff
Before the Danville Investigating Com
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. News.
THE r BILL.
Republicans VIII Not Oppose Its COnsidera-
ton in the House.

Republicans VIII Not Oppose Its Considera-
ton in the House.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, April mo, sir, we will not
attempt to defeat the consideration of the Nor
rison bill, y said Mr.. Kasson, of Iowa, a member
of the committee on ways and means, and one
of the leading Republicans of the House, in con-
versation with your correspondent. Far from
that is the wish of the Republicans of the
House. We want to discuss the bill, freely and
fully"
"Will it pass the Housed"
"Oh! 1 have no idea it will. 1 am confident
the Democrats recognize that it is an elephant
on their hands, and wish they were rid of it.
Mr.. Cox, of New York, seems to view the mat
ter in the same light that others do when he
says that he will be glad when the tariff is
eliminated from partisan politics. But the
party has gotten its foot into the quagmire and
is sinking by its position on the tariff. 1t can
not maintain its position before the country.
No, if the tariff bill is not freely discussed it
will not be our fault"
Mr.. Kasson thinks Colonel Morrison is himself
quite displeased with the tin toy he has made
and named the horizontal tariff bill. The situa-
ton is growing more and more in accordance
with my prediction several days ago-that the
body of Democrats wish somebody would kill
the Morrison bill and bury it, gently.
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Miss HiIl,s Hoodon.

SAN Francisco, April In the Sharon di-
vorce case to-day George Dudley Gillard, en-
ployed in the Masonic cemetery testified rela-
tive to Miss Hill having placed a package of
grave. He said in the spring of
1883 Miss Hill, accompanied by Miss
Bracket, called at cemetery. Miss Hill said she
had just had her fortune told, and in obedience
to commands wanted to place a package in a
newly-made grave. Witness, who was person
ally acquainted with Miss Bracket, granted the
request. Miss Hill went Town a ladder into
the grave and placed the package under
the coffin shell. She insisted on witness accept
the charm wouldn' work. Witness said he was
present when the package was exhumed. He
was sure that it had been put there by Hill.
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ILLINOIS,.
How an Ingenious Youth of Sixteen Almost
Hanged Himself.

How an Ingenious Youth of Sixteen Almost
Hanged Himself.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
DECATUR, April Last night a lad named
Edward Paxton, aged sixteen, went out to the
wood-shed with his little brother, aged three,
and informed the latter that he was about to
commit suicide. He took a check-rower tarred
rope, and, climbing up a ladder, fastening one
end to a nail and slipped the moose in the
other end about his neck. Just then the ladder
broke, and Edward was as neatly swung as ever
Marwood performed the act. The screams of
his little brother attracted the attention of the
family and the boy was cut down, not, however,
until life was almost gone. The boy was not
revived until 3 A. NJ. 1t is not known whether
he intended to commit suicide or was joking.
He is a nephew of John 7. Montgomery, who
was tried for the outrage on Emma Bond at
Taylorville. A strange fatality seems to follow
every member of that family.
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War Against Lewd Women.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the Indianapolis JOURNAL.
BLOOMINGTON, April Some days ago 125
prominent citizens of the southern part of the
city petitioned the City Council, representing
that the presence of numerous women of bad
repute in their vicinity was very obnoxious,
and asking that the law against them be imme-
diately enforced. The officers have been some
what tardy, and tonight a vigilance committee
of twenty-five citizens, wearing masks, singled
out Mrs. Brown, a notorious character, who
keeps a rendezvous for prostitutes, thieves
and robbers, and notified her that she
must vacate the house she was in and leave
the city by tomorrow night. In case she de-
clined to do as bid, her house will be torn down
and she will be used pretty roughly. 1t is said
the committee will proceed further with their
missionary work.
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PENNSYLVANIA Democrats.

ALLENTOWN, Pa, April chairman Hensel,
of the Democratic State committee, arrived here
this morning. He met the local committee, and
final arrangements for the convention were
agreed upon C. E. Boyle and j. X. Bogert are
spoken of for temporary chairman. The only
name so far mentioned for permanent chairman
anticipated is IN the Select Selection of Gee gTns' at
large. Tomorrow evening the State committee
will fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Harry Packer. Eckly B. Coke is expected to be
chosen. Much depends upon the wishes of Ran
dali whether delegates to the national conven-
ton be instructed.
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Minor Notes.

The body found in Stony Branch, near Cedar
Grove, Sunday morning, proved to be that of c,
B.. Newlands, a Connersville plumber.
The Bedford Bank sold $40, 900 worth of Law
renee county bridge bonds, on Saturday, to a
Chicago banking house at a premium
Ayoung man named Bill Bird was fatally
stabbed, at Peru, on Sunday afternoon, by Sam
uel Dingman, because of an old grudge.
John F. Zohn's store, at Bedford, was entered
by thieves, Saturday night, and 800 worth of
clothing and tobacco taken. The thieves got
one of the hook and ladder company's ladders
and got in the second story window.
Willie Frazer. eight years old, was accident
ally shot, on Friday, at st. Omer, ten miles
southeast of Shelbyville, in the breast and
shoulder with a heavy charge of shot from a gun
in the hands of a young man named Murray.
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STATE NEWS AND GOSSIP.
James F. Garrett Charged with Out
raging Mrs. Charles Smith.
A Terre Haute Woman Disobeys a Doctor,
and Causes the Death of Her. Child
and Also Of the Physician
INDIANA.
james It. Garrett Identified as the Assailant
of Mrs. Smith.

of Mrs. Smith.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
CRAwFoRDsvILLE, April Marshal Myers,
of Danville, Ill, arrived in this city, to day, in
charge of James F. Garrett, a young man who
claims Lebanon, Ind, as his home, but who at
one time worked at house painting in this city.
Young Garrett is charged with committing an
outrage on Mrs. Charles Smith, two weeks ago.
He was placed in Jail, and Mrs. Smith sent for
to identify him. Garrett, with several prison
ers, was placed in Che lobby of the Jail, and Mrs.
Smith was brought in. She passed along the
line, carefully scrutinizing each prisoner, and
when she came to Garrett, she informed the of
ficer that he was the man. She heard him talk
ing in the cell afterward, and recognized his
voice. She is very firm in her belief that Gar
rett is the guilty man. Garrett denies the
charge. and says he can readily prove his inno-
cence. He was fully described by Mrs. Smith
at the jail before she was taken to where the
prisoners were, and the young man answered
the description in every particular. The case
looks bad for him,
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A Sensitive Physician.
le indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, April DIR. Killner pre-
scribed an opiate for a child. The mother gave
a triple dose, and the child died. At the cor
oner's inquest the testimony of the other physi-
clans was that the child was poisoned Killner
left the room where the inquest was held, and
then it was learned that the mother had not fol
lowed directions. Parties went in search of
Killner, who was found in a comatose condition,
having taken poison. He is dying tonight.
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He is a son of Aaron Frazer, the negro who shot
and killed John Walton in 1880, at ST. Omer, and
is now in the penitentiary for life.
A young boy named Fowler had trouble with
another boy named Groonendyke, at church, at
Hartford City, on Sunday night, and in the fight
that occurred succeeded in carving Young
Groonendyke f~earfully, cutting him in the back
four or five times.
year-old boy, in attempting to step over a slack
ened belt in his fathers sawmill, at Markle, was
caught and nearly every bone in his body bro
ken by the rapidly revolving belt. Death fol
lowed in a few minutes.
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CTNcINNATG, April sheriff Hawkins, hav
ing been asked by a vote of one of the companies
of the veteran regiment why he called them to
duty at the jail on Saturday night of the mob
they refusing to gol, publishes, to-day, a long
letter. saying it would be more appropriate for
him to call on the regiment to explain why they
refused to obey a lawful command of their
colonel. He charges the conduct of the men to
the bad advice of one of the captains, who re-
ported to the police for patrol duty, instead of
as ordered. Colonel Hawkins closes by tender
ing his unconditional resignation as colonel of
the regiment.
Typographical Union No. 3 has resolved that
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A Sensational Bank Suspension.
Havana Special.

Havana Special.
William Redding, the great horse dealer, went
into the savings bank to draw $51, 900, and Mr..
Limendoux asked him to wait "a moment. The
next moment a signal was made from the di-
~rector's room, and Mr.. Limendoux threw up his
hands and announced that the bank had sus-
pended. He then raised a revolver and fired
the fatal shot through his brain. Mr.. Linen
doux was a little over fifty years of age, and
was held in high esteem by all the Hanvanese.
The bank was supposed to be fortified with be-
tween 500, 900, 900 and $50, 000, 900. 1t was a
Cuban institution, and some of the Spanish
houses bore such a strong enmity to it that it is
asserted that they tried to break it down.
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The Last of the Roarn Express Robbers.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WABASH, April Chief Detective Furlong,
of the Gould system, arrived in this city late
last evening in charge of Little Az Perry, the
third and last of the Roam express robbers,
who was arrested in Boston. Perry is now in
generated in the county Jail, where he will be
held until the next term of court, which CON
yenes the fourth Monday in April. Perry is a
young man, being but twenty-four, is well
dressed, and bright and cheerful in appearance.
He does not seem at all dismayed at the pros
pect of serving the State of Indiana in a mental
capacity. The young man declined to be in
terviewed. Loomis, the messenger, will be the
principal witness against Perry, and it is likely
that he (Loomis) will be given his liberty.
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Gen. Grants Lack of Influence.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, April IA gentleman called
on Gen. Grant here, to-day, and requested his
assistance in a matter he was pressing before
one of the departments. Gen. Grant declined
to promise any aid. He said: 81 don't know
why it is, but 1 have no influence at all with this
Administrations"
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TIE FIRE RECORD.
Complete Destruction of an Elegant Fire
Proof ~FIat-Loss, $15O,OOO

HrOO1 Flat-LOSS, &lOO,OOO.
NEW YORK, April Fire in st. Georges fiat
to-day completely destroyed the building and
contents, Loss, $50, 900. There were several
narrow escapes, and three fremen and the
engineer We're badly burned. The lfe-saving
corps had its first experience, and rescued the
elevator boy from the seventh-story window,
one hundred feet above the street. The walls
threatening to fall, the occupants of adjoining
houses We're cleared out by the police. The
tenants of a house opposite hurriedly removed,
d~reading the fall of the front wall. Miss Parloa,
session opposite the fiat when the fire broke out.
Her pupils fed, leaving the dishes unfinished.
A sign-board outside seemed the only thing fire
proof. 1t bore the legend, "These elegant fire
proof flats to let"
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Wanted for Murder.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
VINCENNEs, April Thomas Scott, the
young man who was shot by John Doan, in a
row Christmas night, at Monroe City, this
county, died this afternoon after a long illness,
from his injuries. Doan disappeared at the
time of the row, and has not been seen since.
He is now wanted for the brutal and cowardly
murdAp of Scott
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
PEKIN, April There is serious trouble
among the coal miners across the river from
here. A general reduction of prices for mining
was ordered a few days ago, and some miners
refused to aeeede to the demand, while others
continued at work. To-day a delegation of
strikers visited Collury's bank, went down into
the pit and attacked the miners, killing one or
two of them.
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Railway SuppIies Burned.

ST, Louis, April THE large brick store
room of the Wabash railroad machine shops, at
Moberly, Mo, burned last night. There was a
large amount of general supplies, including five
carloads of sheet-iron, in the building, all of
which were consumed. Loss. $50, 900.
LATER-The loss is now stated to be $50, 900
to Z 1000, and embraces a large and valuable
library belonging to the company.
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Death of Richard Howard.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
DANvILLE, April 7.-Richard Howard, a prom
inent citizen of Newell township, this county,
was thrown by his horse, which was frightened
by a dog running into the road, on Saturday
evening, and received injuries from which he
died this morning. He leaves a widow and five
children. He was aged fifty four.
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The sundnv Nicht Eire at ST. Louis.

ST. LOUIS, April THE losses by the fire
last night are not so heavy as at first estimated.
The damage to Cast & Co. is probably $50, 900,
and to the building $l5,O 900, both fully insured.
Most of the plate-glass in the rear windows of
the Gay building, which was separated from the
burning building by only a few feet, were
broken, but the merchants were not seriously
incommoded.