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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-05-15

DURITY TOBACCO.
The hest smoking made
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-14

Near II o'clock on Friday night Fount T.
Hines and wife, of Evansville, who had just re-
tired, heard knock at the door. Hines asked
who was there, and received an answer that he
was poor old traveller, and wanted some
matches. Hines replied he had no matches for
him, and ordered him to leave. Mr. Hines then
arose and took out two pistols giving one to his
wife. He went to the,front room. While there
his wife arose and went into the kitchen. On
going back to the bedroom, Mr.. Hines heard
noise in the kitchen, and opening the door he
saw the form of person, supposing it was their
midnight visitor. He looked second time to be
positive, and feeling certain it was burglar, he
fred when Mrs. Hines threw up her hands and
exclaimed, sob. I'm shot!7 A physician found
her in critical condition, but this evening
thinks she will recover. The man who was
proving around the house was arrested on Sat
urday, and gave his name as Dan Kinney 1t is
not thought that Mrs Hines can survive her in
Jury,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-14
STATE NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Something About One of the Most Sue
cessful Thieves in the Country.
The Son Of Wealthy SalOOn-Keeper Ar
rested for Stealing from His Father
---Gleanings in Tive States.
INDIANA.

a PiclzpOcket Who Says He Can Make So 900
a Month at the Business.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
LAFAYETTE, April13 On Mays, last, Richard
Preston, known as WINDY Dick" one of the
most successful pickpockets of the United States,
stole the pocket-book of Congressman 7. B.
Ward at a city depot Good work by local
officials landed Dick and his associates in jail
here. 70 save himself, Preston turned States
evidence, and succeeded in sending his two COM
panons, Charles Curtis and George Gaynor to
the Northern penitentiary for two years each.
Preston was furnished nole pros in his own
case for this move by the prosecuting attorney;
but, becoming impatient in Jail he escaped, and
was not recaptured until last November, when
he was found at Atlanta, Ga He was returned
here and has been in Jail since, awaiting trial.
His case came up in the Circuit Court yesterday,
but Congressman Ward failed to respond as the
prosecuting Witness although Curtis and Gaynor,
upon whom Preston peached, were brought back
from the penitentiary, and were here ready to
swear the truth in revenge for Dicks treaehery
The Prosecuting Attorney therefore entered
nolle pros on the Indictment fled an informa-
ton and had the case continued.
Preston has several times been caught, but has
| always succeeded in bribing his way to liberty.
At one time, in the South, he gave So, 900
to be allowed to escape from JAIL and certain
parties in this city now wear diamond cuff-but-
tons, diamond pins and other jewlery which he
| had when arrested.
! He is so successful in pocket picking that he
claims to be able to make without effort, s., 900
| per month at the business. The prosecutor
who made the promise far Dicks liberty, is now
| out of office and the new one is not inclined to
| observe the agreement.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-14
Chicago Hotel Guests Enraeed.
Chicago Letter in Baltimore Sun.

SHlO"So LetteT III DdlIIlHOre sun.
The Palmer House is in state of eruption
Last wick Mr. Willis Howe, whose title has been
raised to managing partner of the Palmer
House Company" sent a notice to each of the
two hundred guests of the house requesting them
to vacate their rooms week in June and an
other in july during the two national political
conventions Then ensued deep lamentation
among the regular boarders, many of whom had
resided at this caravansary for years before Mr.
Howe left his clerkship at another hotel Pro-
tests were numerous, secret Indignation meetings
were held, Potter Palmer was appealed to, and
recourse had to various expedients with a view
of changing the order of the managing part
ner," but all in vain. Yesterday all the regular
boarders who failed to acquiesce in the Howe
programme were notified that their rates of
board We're forthwith raised 100 per cent This
was the last straw, and the regular guests have
resolved to quit the house in a body on the last
day of May. 1t is arranged that at a certain
hour on that day two hundred carriages will
form in line in front of the Palmer House, and
every regular boarder will file out, and the grand
procession will move through the principal
streets. followed by a long line of express
wagons loaded with the baggage. The exodus
being complete. the evicted people will then scat
ter to their new homes, never to return to the
house of the managing partner"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-14

Those charities are still continued out of her funds
and through the influence of her example.
God drew her to Him by five months of
acute suffering She bore her agones from of
the lver) with meek resignation and sorrow for me-
who was to lose her but none for herself
Several days before her death she made distinct
declaration of her faith viz that she relied not on her
good and charitable works but only the merits of
her Redeemer. THEE days before her death she par
took of the holy communion with fervent responses
and such expression of pious rapture as never
any human face before.
Ny grief for her is selfish. You know what have
loSt-a peerless creature wise just and full of genius
yet devoted to She alone sustained me III the
hard battle of my life, and now. old and broken, l
must totter without her, sick, sad and lonely.
My renorse is for this: had lived entirely for the
world, and dsqueted her with my cares instead of
leading her the path of peace and robbed God of
saint. though not of believer. did also aftlict
self with doubts of her eternal welfare but where
Bereaved Christians torment themselves with this ten
der anxiety than bereaved rationalists do Mr..
c. Graham when he knew the particulars of her life
and death, never shared my anxieties He removed
them entirely. That living evangelist showed me my
doubts We're in reality doubts of Gods goodness and
wisdom. and of His special promises But the words
Mr. Stanton has put into his mouth deny the faith and
ignore the charity of her whole life and negative
hope, which is positive doubt, upon her condition at
her death.
Christian parents who have lost their young and
all who have cherished Christian love and buried its
objects viii surely sympathize with my bleeding heart
and aid these cruel surmises Of brutal
gossip.
For the reasons gave you DO not object to minor
inaccuracies but kindly make it erstood that do
not in my person indorse any mans religious ami
mosities. 1t would i'll become to asperse the
Church Of England any other community that has
bred holy whose shoes am not worthy to tie.
am, my dear Hatton, yours sincerely,
CHARLES READE."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-14

The late H. H. Hitchcock, Of Galesburg, be-
queathed the bulk of his estate estimated at
about $1,000 to Knox College, giving his
widow 81, 200 year and the use of the house
and furniture.
The trial of James Ryan for the murder of
Abe Throop was finished at Paxton, on Satur-
day. The jury returned a verdict of guilty and
the prisoner was sentenced to thirty three years
in the penitentiary A motion for new trial
was overruled.
Ellen Cole, a resident of Crete township, Will
county, recently gave birth to an Legitimate
child, and destroyed it by putting it in a stove,
where the body was partially consumed. The
unnatural mother owns considerable property,
but has been out of an insane asylum but two
years.
Quite an extraordinary case has been de-
veloped about ten miles from Decatur. The
wife of a well-known citizen gave birth to a
male child, which had but one arm, that being
the right one On the left shoulder, where the
arm should be, there is perfectly developed
head, the neck being also perfectly developed,
but where the head should be is something that
resembles an arm minus the hand. All other
parts of the body were perfectly developed
The child lived about three hours after birth
The parents we're offered large sum of money
for the body, which they refused, and a close
watch has been placed over the grave to prevent
its being robbed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-14
Cable Notes.

Byron, the dramatist, is dead.
Messrs. Ghislin, bankers, of Charleroi and
Antwerp, have failed. Liabilities, 10000, 900
francs.
A new Russian gold loan of 9150, 900, 900 has
been concluded The proceeds will be devoted
to railway construction.
The Paris Gaulois says the Pope is preparing
a strong encyclical letter against the order Of
Free Masons and other secret societies.
The remains of Beethoven and Schubert are
to be exhumed from the Wahring church-yard
and transferred to the Central cemetery, Vienna.
Edward Smith, American consul at Mann
helm, Germany, died of apoplexy on Friday
evening in railway carriage near Reading,
England He was on his way home.
Mary Anderson is passing the Easter holidays
in England She will visit Mr.. William Black,
the novelist, at his home, in Brighton The
Lyceum company presented Miss Anderson with
a brooch i'll chrocidolite, with new moon of
diamonds at the bottom and star of diamonds
at the top.
The letters of George Eliot, which are now be-
ing prepared for publication by her husband,
Mr. Cross, abound in references to the American
civil war and the Franco-German struggle. The
writer shows much interest in the French re-
public, but she was entirely with Germany in
the war of 1870
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-14
AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY.
A Young Woman Kept fer Seven Weeks
Chained in Room by Her Betrayer.

SCRANTON Pa, April 12-Wm. S. Madden,
medical mountebank of this city, was arrested
to-day. charged with forcibly OBTAINING Miss
Sadie McCIenahan, aged twenty-one, of Lewis
town, Pa, in his room for the past seven weeks.
The girl first met Madden at Lewistown, where
her mother lived Under promise of marriage
he accomplished her ruin. 1t was afterward
discovered that he had wife in Altoona, and
the feeling against him became so strong that
he was forced to leave Lewistown. He then came
to Scranton. Early in February last Madden
went to Lewistown and represented that he had
procured divorce from his wife, and finally
prevailed upon Miss McClenahan to come to the
city. She arrived here on Feb. 10, and Madden
took her directly to his office, where he com
PEELED her to remain till the next morning. He
said he had not yet obtained divorce from his
wife. Miss McClenahan tried to escape, but
Madden got stout chain and chained her to the
bedstead. The girl cried for help but he jumped
on her. ehol1ed her and threatened to kill her.
At the expiration of a week he drove staple in
the floor attached leather strap to it, and de-
tanned her
This afternoon she requested Madden's permits
ton to go to another room for moment. he
consented, and she Immediately fled. She ran
barefooted to the Susquehanna House, where
she told her story. Chief of police Delainy was
communicated with, and Madden was arrested.
The straps and chains with which he detained
Miss McClenahan were found in his room.
Madden admitted having confined the woman
in the place, but excused his action with the ex-
traordinary statement that the girl consented to
the imprisonment in order to keep quiet. For
the first two weeks he had her meals taken to
her. but he then became fearful that suspicion
would be aroused and supplied her with sand
witches.
Madden was held upon fourteen charges of as
sault. His bail amounted to 81, 800. He was
unable to secure bondsmen and was committed
to prison The prisoner was at one time a part
ner of S. A. Gibson, another mountebank now
in prison on a charge of assaulting a woman pa
tient.
The story of the girls sufferings is on thou
sand tongues throughout the city tonight, and
hostile demonstrations against Madden may re-
S11lt
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-14
THE KELLY MOTOR.
1t Will Move Sometime in the Indefinite
Future.
Philadelphia Record.

Philadelphia Record.
There was no exhibition of the Kelly motor
yesterday, because the engine was not ready.
Il never authorized anyone to state that there
would be an exhibition of the machine on the
10Th instant, said Mr.. John W. Keely last
evening Il did not set any date and it was
an error for such an announcement to have
been made. The way in which it occurred,
most likely, is that l informed the board of
directors that [ would give ten days notice of
the day when IwOuld be ready for them. This has
been misconstrued into meaning the 10th
instant At present I am engaged in the grad
uation of the generator, and may have that con-
cluded by the end of the present month, or per-
haps later. When that is concluded the trans
mission of the power must be arranged An
inventor cannot be pushed. and every one knows
that. The machine is like the first watch move
ment made. 1t must be tested and run awhile
to learn where the defects are. l do not pro-
pose to show the machine until all the parts are
complete and perfect, and l must say that every
thing is moving along satisfactorily Three of
the directors have examined the apparatus, and
they are perfectly satisfied with the mechanical
progression. The only persons who are dissatis-
ned are few stockholders who look at the thing
IN purely business point of view, and with the
idea of the great benefits that are to accrue
both to science and the world in general If 1
should be successful to morrow, and the stock
was to increase in value to a fabulous figure,
then those persons would say that Kelly was
the greatest man in the world. Had it not been
for certain retrogressions brought about by uI-
FAR criticisms in the newspapers upon subject
the writers knew nothing whatever about /
would have finished long ago The time has
not been set for any display and l cannot tell
when / will be ready"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-14
Down. Evervbodx!

A late issue of the Courier-Journal contained
the following:
THAT leeherous hanger-en of the painted harlot
of protection, the Atlanta Constitution, has the
effrontery and the insolenee to speak of the
Courier journal as a free lance"
To this the Constitution responds:
'If we have ever called Watterson's paper free
lance we regret it. No man that knows Watterson
will call any paper he has control ola free lance.
He was cowardly dOdger during the war, hanging in
the of the army ready be either side for
consideration He carried free lance then and
there not man in either army afraid of lance
this Watterson. We have neither space nor
time to handy abuse with this blaekguard."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-14

Washington Letter.

There is a man in the government Hospital
for the Insane on the hill there" said the ex-
Governor of Maryland as we looked from the
Capitol across the Eastern branch of the Potom-
&C, who is perfectly sane on every subject ex-
than any other man in America. The authori-
ties have humored him so that he has been able
to cover the walls of his large room with intri-
cate schedules of the games played since base
ball began its career. He has the record Of
every important club and the individual record
of every important player. He takes an astro
logical view of the game, He explains every
defeat and every success on astrological princi-
pies. 1t is because a man was born in this
month or under this star or that. He has figured
it all out. His sense has gone with it. He is
the typical baseball crank"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-14

Evansville. on the basis of its new city di-
rectory, claims population of $4,000.
A boy named Hugh McCray living near Nash
vile, was run over and killed by a runaway OK
team yesterday.
After two years suspension the Putnam Dem
ocrat Greencastle, took up its burden again last
week. Howard Briggs is editor and publisher.
The excavation for the cellar of the Crawfords-
vile music hall has been completed and the
work of bricklaying will commence this week.
Albert Luther the man blown up while using
dynamite on Friday afternoon for the purpose
of killing fish in Sugar creek, near Falkland, is
not dead. His right hand and left leg have
been amputated, the former at the wrist and the
latter just above the knee. He is thirty nine
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-14
A Case for Sympathy.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
FORT WAYNE, April 12.-At 1 O'clock this
morning policeman watching q boy hanging
about the fashionable saloon of John Leichner
saw him force the back door and approach the
cash drawer which he robbed of So and was ar
rested as he came out. The policeman recog-
nized him at once as young son of the proprie-
tor, who used to work about the saloon. He was
locked up. He complains that his father had
so beaten him that he lived in great fear Of him
and had not ventured to go home for several
nights and wanted money for food and lodging
Once before the lad applied for lodging at the
city prison Leichner is the wealthiest saloon
keeper in the city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-14
s1r. HoInran's Craftsmanship.

B0stOn Her0Id.
The best governed States spend the most
money. The more enlightened people are, the
more willing they are 70 be taxed for really use
full purposes Massachusetts stands in the van
of American States, and Boston in the van of
American cities, both for good government and
its cost. Money economically expended for de-
sirable purposes of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
police. health streets, lights charitable institu-
tions-is to a certain extent a benefeenee con
tributedby the rich to the poor. 1t is absurd
for poor man to protest against liberal appro-
priations for worthy public purposes, but all
should resist extravaganza or dishonesty
Mr.. Holman is not a statesman of the high
est character.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-14
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.
Lawrence Barrett Scores a Decided Success
in 'EYoricIx's Love-"

LONDON, April 12.-Lawrence Barrett, as
Yorick, in 'Yorick's Love" scored a decided sue
cess this evening. There was present large
and critical audience from the highest ranks of
the theater- going public. At first the actor was
quietly received but as the play progressed the
house warmed into sympathy with him, and at
the end of the first act he was greeted with a
round of applause. The enthusiasm increased
during the performance, and when the curtai n
fell on the last act Barrett was recalled several
times He expressed his gratitude in q few sen
fences with modest and well-chosen words. He
said that during the evening telegram had been
handed him from Irving, in New York, assuring
him that he would have hearty reception from
the Lyceum audience. This prediction had been
fully realized, and his friends in America would
be as deeply gratifed that it so as he himself
WAS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-14
Very Funny Joke.

Interview with Mr. Map1eson.
''By the by, did you hear what very absurd
joke was played on me in San Franciscan said
Manager Mapleson- Funniest thing ever heard.
The day was coming away some fellow came to
me with bill for forty-three gallons of cologne
water furnished to perfume the opera-house.
The idea of such thing OF course never
dered anything of the kind, you know, but had
to pay for it just the same, as would not have
been kept over by suit for ten times the amount
of the bill. The fellow knew that, too, and that
made him the more impudent. never saw such
a country as that West before The people all
seem to be rolling in gold"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-14
Obituary.

DAYTON, O., April 13-George Butterworth
ex-chief of police and councilman. as well as
prominent CITIZEN dropped dead from heart dis
ease to-day aged fifty seven.
Providence, r. l., April 14.-George A.
Leets died on Saturday night of gangrene and
pyamia, after an illness of two weeks, aged
sixty eight. Since 1878 he has been president of
the Providence & Worcester railroad.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-14
A Returning Defaulter.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
BLOOMINGTON, April 13.-A telegram was to-
day received from Fred Davidson, the default
ing agent of the Chicago 6 Alton road, at Lex
ington, H., who disappeared few days ago.
He is at Almo, Colorado, and telegraphed that
he is coming back Immediately. He sent check
to pay all his local debts, and will at report
to the officers of the Alton road and make ar
rangemeuts and settle up his shortage which
amounts to about $4O0 He says he lost 81, 200
by unfortunate investments. He is only twenty
years old, and is great favorite
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-14
A Thief will, a smooth Tongue.

special TO the Indianapolis journal.
LAFAYETTE, April 13.-A stranger of pleasing
address, representing that he was arranging to
go in business here, and giving the name Of
Miller, very adroitly gathered in two gold
watches from the jeweler, KachIein, of this city
yesterday afternoon, without being at cents
outlay. On Thursday and Friday he was a visitor
at the jewelry house and claimed to be unde-
cided between two watches. His request
finally, that the two watches be sent to his
room, that he and friend might look at them,
was complied with, and a boy was dispatched
with the watches according to the request Re-
suit Stranger succeeded in getting hold of the
watches, eluded the boy and is still absent with
the nrOuertV
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-14
The Independent Voter on the Increase.

ing every year. There is an increasing per cent.
in all parties who hold themselves ready to cor
rect abuses and vote for the best interests of the
people without regard to party This is a
healthy sign Ringsters, scheming trieksters,
dirty frauds and small bosses who ''set up" and
carry nominations by corrupt MEANS should
make note Of this fact.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-14

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
SHELBYvr4LE, April 12.-The partnership diff
fculties which have existed between George S.
Jones and Frank Drake, proprietors of the Shelby
Volunteer. were ended to-day, by Judge Woollen
ordering the Volunteer sold at public auction on
April &c. John Hoop was appointed to make
the sale. A movement is reported to be on foot
by number of leading Democrats to buy the
paper and make it the county organ of the
Democracy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-14

WE feel that we are doing the public favor
in calling their attention particularly to Hoods
Sarsaparilla. This is not patent medicine but
properties, and its effects upon the blood are
very positive. Spring debility, biliousness dys
pepsia and all troubles caused by impure blood
readily yield to this excellent medicine. We
think those who give it a trial for that 'out of
sorts feeling from which so many suffer and
which is peculiar to this season, will be quite
satisfied with the result
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-14
POINTS FROM THE STATE PRESS.
Suggestions Respecting Municipal Politics.
The Approaching National Campaign,
Purge Out the NEanipulators.

indianapolis World.
we trust the party will purge itself of the
party manipulators who are more anxious to Sc
cure personal present gain than a victory for
the principles and truths for which the party
stands, and this hope of an obscure colored
paper is the hope of a majority of the white and
colored voters of Marion county 1t is every
citizens duty to preserve this government of the
people, by the people, and for the good of the
people, instead of the government of few, by
a few, for the exclusive benefit of few.