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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

How Mr.. Mygatt Succeeded In Verifying
His Suspicious.

How Mr.. sIygatt Succeeded In Verifying
His Suspicious.
Norwich Comm Bulletin.
At his last visit to this city, about the last OF
December or the 1st of February Bank Exam
liner Mygatt after finding the other banks in ex-
cellent condition. without anything suspicious
In their accounts or manner of doing business
was led to suspect that all was not right at the
merchants National He left the city, however.
and let it be surmised that he was NOT going to be
seen mere again till his next regular>visit But
last Thursday he dropped in on the Merchants
BANK, and began a re-examination of the affairs
OF the institution. He was not expected and
the cooking up" process which had been re-
sorted TO before his previous visits could not be
SET at work The result was that very few
minutes investigation showed the examiner that
the bank had been Systematically robbed of q
large amount OF money. He at once took charge
Oh lCs affairs, putting his assistant behind the
desk with the officers, while he pursued his ex-
aminationS.
Hitherto, whenever the Bank Examiner has
been expected, 1T had been the custom of the
cashier and assistant cashier to secure enough
money on temporary paper of sort or an
other to tide over week or two returning these
loans when the examiner was safely out Of the
way. BY this means, and a constant under
stating of their deposits. especially in the
account of the city deposits Mr.. Webb being
city treasurer, and necessarily the sole authority
regarding them), they were enabled to hide
their populations for long time. Mr.. PHELPS
the clerk, was never permitted to handle the
cash account, and thus everything was kept in
the hanes and confined to the knowledge of the
two parties who were interested in deceivng the
directors of the bank and the examiner. 1t was
only by bit of remarkable luck or Of unusu-
ally sharp insight that the examiners suspicious
were finally aroused And even then it took
shrewd management to uncover the entire fraud
which had been practiced.
In the course of the investigation at the Mer-
chants Bank it became evident to the examiner
that there was something wrong in the affairs Of
the Shetucket bank also. Armed with the facts
which he had learned in connection with the
former Institution, he soon discovered that the
Shetucket bank was out between $40 600 and
$50, O00 chiefly by bad loans made by President
Webb and Cashier Roath to themselves. When
Mr.. Mygatt first came to the city, along in De-
cember, he found among the cash of the She
tucket bank little over $3l 900 in drafts on
New York, etc, which on his second visit had
been replaced by notes made out by Messrs
Webb and Roath to themselves. and endorsed by
themselves. As soon as these facts were brough
out meeting of the directors Of the Shetackek
bank was called, and the resignation of Cashier
William Roath was accepted.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26


THE Medical Record makes plausible ar
gument in support Of the position that the
cholera can be kept out Of the United States
if the proper precautions be taken at once 1t
appeals to reason that plans for its exclusion
should be matured early and thoroughly en-
forced. The Record says:
EFF the present National Board of Health
were clothed with adequate powers it could pre-
vent the introduction Of foreign pestiences
into our seaports. Cholera is a portable entity,
which is carried from place to place by per.
sons or luggage. The qualified health officer
can intercept the cholera contagion. With
cholera 5000 miles away. and approaching us
only along the great thorough}ares of com
merce, it would not be- difficult to at once in
augurate system of sanitary inspection of
travellers and luggage along these routes which
would effectually prevent the germs of the
scourge from reaching the mainland Here is
National Board of Health already organized
and prepared to perform she very duties re-
quired by the present emergency. This board
las In the past proved itself fully competent
to execute all needful sanitary duties Why,
then, should Congress waste precious time in
endeavoring to create new board"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26


TIRE bill introduced by Mr.. Edlnuuds into
the Senate, or one whose provisions shall grow
out of it under the careful scrutiny of the
Judiciary committee, must be passed at once
through both houses of Congress. In the
presence of the awful crime in London. and
the possible danger to our own country, there
sholld not be, there cannot be, any higgling
Surely there is no friend of humanity who
can afford to lock hands with the scoundrelly
assassins who secretly and crimnally use
dynamite against the lives and property of
innocent people. Not in that way comes
relief. The dispatches indicate that the intro
daction of the bill had salutary effect in
England, where the public feeling is by no
means complacent toward the United States,
inasmuch as we have not hitherto lifted voice
finger authoritatively against the murderous
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

Mr.. j. F. LEGATE has written letter civ
ing his version Of the Clarkson negotiations
Taking Mr.. Legate's say-so, it is plain that he
was dickering with the Republican national
committee for money, the consideration being
that Mr.. st. John should be kept in Kansas,
where he could do no harm to'the presidential
ticket And in trying to make that arrange
ment Mr.. Legate evidently believed he GOULD
control Mr.. st. John. Mr. Legate's letter is a
complete Endorsement Of the gravamen of the
charges that have been made.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

THERE is even more criticism against the
appointment to a naval heutenancy of Will
lam Mason Wright, friend of the Freling-
huysens, who failed to pass an examination at
West Point than over the naming of son-in-
law Davis for a life position in the Court of
Claims In these closing days of the admins
tlation there would seem to be more pressing
and important business for the President and
his chief Cabinet officer than to be finding
soft places for the relatives and dependents of
the Secretary of State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26
THE GRANT FUND.
Conflicting Statements about the Safety Of
the Quarter of a Million.

New York Special.
The uneasiness of prominent contributors to
the $3.50 900 fund raised four years ago for the
relief of General Grant as to the present condi-
ton of that fund has been increased of late by
the continued decline of the Wabash securities
in which it is invested. The fund is one of the
liabilities of the +. ID. Morgan estate, and re-
Gently published statement is that one of the
heirs declares that the responsibility of the fund
extends no further than to the payment OF the
interest for three years longer
George Jones, of the Times who WAS chief
mover in the raising Of the fund, said this morn
ing: "There is no possible danger to the fund
through the depreciation Of Wabash securities.
The money is invested in special mortgage bonds
which on a definite specified section of the
road, and are as good as governments. Even
should the Wabash road go up completely to-
morrow, the fund would be all right The Nor
gan estate would go on paying the interest for
three years until It's guarantee expires, and at
ter that would pay over the entire amount OF
the principal to the committee that raised it.
whenever it was demanded. The fund is safe;
positively, absolutely So" Cs...+
John L. Terry one Of the executors Of the
Morgan estate, said "AIr Jones's statements
are correct The fund is as safe as it ever was.
If the Wabash should 60 all to pieces,
cially responsible for the entire amount
of the investment in those bonds
The bonds row pay over g per cent Their
value in few years will increase and, by tho
tlulc eApl WHICH, W TIC Is In
six and not in three years. the bonds win be
worth good deal of money. / believe the
stories about the unsafe condition Of the fund
are being worked up to influence votes in Con-
gress on the Grant retirement bill"
Even these positive statements fail to satisfy
many contributors to the fund One Of them
says: Il believe that in five or six years the
fund will have dwindled to nothing l am sur
prised that Governor Morgan should have in
vested it in such securities and l have heard
Mr.. Terry express the same feeling. The inter-
est is guaranteed for six years, but there is no
guarantee about the principal"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

THE old Liberty bell, now en- route to New
Orleans, was first rung Aug ~, 1853, to call
the Pennsylvania Assembly together. On the
Sth Of July, l776, it was rung to celebrate the
proclamation of the Declaration of Independ-
ence The last time it was rung was on the
9Th of July, 1895, when the remains Of Chief
justice Marshall were carried through Phila-
delphia, followed by the e4tire bar of the
city, on their way to Virginia. 1t was then
that the historic crack was discovered.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

would never vote for Smith and he could not
be elected. After five ballots in the morning
not fthirty or forty as the copied account
says, the joint convention adjourned for din
ner. During the adjournment the Democrats
arranged to drop Howard and take up Hanne-
gan, whom they knew they could elect with
the help of Hoover and Kelso The sixth
ballot, and the first after dinner, settled the
question. Hannegan got seventy-six votes
and Smith sixty-nine. This was the first SEN
atorial election in Indiana in which any
crookedness appeared, though there have been
one or two since.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

VARIOUS devices have been resorted to from
time to time by wives anxious to restrain erring
or cratic husbands, generally bent on going to
lodge" about seven nights week This woman
has hidden her husbands wooden leg. another
his false teeth, his crutch, or other adjunct to
defective anatomy. But in this particular in
stance the husband had none of these mechani
cal appliances, so the wife was put to her wits
to devise some other method and finally, with a
fine display of knowledge of materia medica,
she applied croton oil to his most intimate gar
ments. whereby he was So blistered that life
was torture except at such times as he was at
home and in bed, with the medicated habili-
ments laid off. This plan worked for about a
year, when the secret was revealed. The wretch
is now suing for divorce.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY, never very conserv-
alive or coherent, declares that "the explo-
sions are a terrible emphasis to Parnell's
demand for an Irish Parliament and that is
the only preventive" The journal would
like to have the Irish Parliament restored, but
it never can be and never will be secured by
infamous assassination Men that believe in
assassination are not fit to rule, nor do the
best friends of Ireland, at home or abroad,
approve of the dastardly crimes now being
perpetrated in London.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

THE statement copied the other day from
contemporary that ''the Indiana Legislature
was tie in the session of 1912 49, is a mis-
take. The senatorial nominees and the ballot
ing are correctly described, but there was no
tie The Wings had a majority of two ON
joint ballot, seventy-six to seventy-four But
by the detection of Kelso of Switzerland
county, and Hoover, of Wayne, they were re-
duced to seventy two on the first ballot For
some reason. which has never been known,
generally. both Hoover and Kelso broke their
express pledges to support Mr.. Smith, and
threw their votes away, Mr.. Kelso voting for
Hannegan every time, while Mr.. Hoover
voted once or twice for flanagan and as
often for Smith, after he knew that Kelso
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26
NEW YORK NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Special Agent Martin shows How the Gov
eminent Is Swlndled.

eminent Is Swlndled.
Washingt Special to Boston Herald.
ct was quite natural" said Mr. Martin, chief
of the special agents of the treasury, that those
men who constituted the fraud roll should OBJ
ject to removal. | see that some of them have
been talking to reporters about congressional
Investigations, suppressed reports. etc The fact
is that while there were some very Efficient
men on the list. tho majority wereof the class
which is of no earthly use"
ut is said by one of the discharged mon that
the undervaluations were discovered by these
men. Is there anything in thats'
at is an absurd story. The differentiation
of imports was discovered solely by the special
agents Of the treasury. 1t was known that for
eign manufacturers Of silks, for instance. in
voiced their goods in some cases at 10 per cent.
below their actual worth. Secretary Folger APP
pointed expert appraisers at Lyons and other
places and in this way the undervaluations were
discovered"
us this system of fraud still carried onYr
ITO certain extent, but we have been able
to reduce it to the minimum. and there are no
undervaluations compared With what there
were.p
"Are the firms engaged in these robberies
American importers2"
There are no American importers The New
York importing concerns are made up OF English,
French, German and Swiss manufacturing firms.
OF all the firms engaged in importing in New
York, 80 per cent are foreigners. 1t is almost
impossible to buy goods direct from European
manufacturers, who will trade only through
their American agents
How do you account for thisl"
'Well, the foreigners have been in tho habit
of fixing our tariff rates, Congress really has
nothing TO do with it, for these men have, in the
past placed such values their goods as they
chose and have paid duty accordingly In or
der to do this. they save held the trade in tbnir
own hands Hence the exi-.ssne state of affairs
in New York, and other wholesale ccn,ers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

above all, it is haggard with the miseryof self
conflict, and pathetic with the remediless trouble
and desperation of remorse.' Willie Winter
lie and brittle Macbeth is practically new
creature. His massive robustness dates from
the 18th of March last when at Kalamazoo,
Mr. Booth had the underpinning renewed, and
new copper rivets putup each side with cork in
soles and padding across the shoulders and in the
chest. The Macbeth of yore was greatly wind
broken; to day, as you see lie is indeed great
shorter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

ALIEN LAND HOLDING.

The question of alien landlordism is one
now pressing for solution, and can better be
disposed of by the present Congress than by
any of the future, near or remote. Already
21,000,000 acres of American land are owned
by the nobility of England, much of it in
great blocks. It is not in consonance with
the American idea that any man or 'class' of
men should become landed aristocrats in this
country 1t was this objection that made
land grants to railways so unpopular
though in such bounties to corporations
the land was donated in alternate
sections which arrangement to some degree
precluded the requirement of vast unbroken
tracts, the sections not appropriated for rail-
way purposes being, for the most part, taken
up by men who occupy them for the purpose
OF farming. But, instead Of decreasing, the
danger Of land monopoly is increasing for it
is becoming apparent that much of the land
now held as security for money advanced by
British capitalists must eventually pass into
their hands through foreclosure of mortgages,
which would swell their Amer can possessions
to about 100, 0O0, 900 acres, an area equal in
extent to four such States as Indiana. Com
pared with the Nation as a whole, such an ex-
tent of territory is not large. but as the pos
session of men in no wise interested in Amer
lea beyond the mere matter of receiving
rentals from it, it issinimical to American in
terests. The influence such concentrated
wealth would WELD on Territorial and State
legislation could but be hostile to the welfare
of small holders
But British capitalists are not content with
the possession of 21.OO0,OOO acres. Having
embarked in the business of sheep and cattle
raising, they have fenced in other millions,
to the inconvenience of actual settlers and
men who are anxious to turn the great plains
into small farms. The legislation now con-
templated should be perfected so as to abolish
this evil, and to render impossible the further
requirement Of public lands by non residents
In this country where laws of entail do
not obtain, there is little danger of landed
aristocracy, unless it come in some such shape
as that under discussion. 1t cannot be toler-
ated, and should not be permitted to gain
further foothold. If it come to such pass that
mortgages must be foreclosed, let the law pro-
vide that the lands Hereunder offered for sale
shall not be bought in by the foreign bond
holders. This would work no injustice, since
the demand for such lands by native or natur-
allied Americans would insure a fair price
American lands for American citizens is
wholesome doctrine. The law makers of the
Nation should see that it is not dish onored
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

PHYSIOLOGICAL phenomena are being dis
covered with marvellous frequency just now
Morgan county, this State, has, within the
near past, furnished a case of almost complete
ossifcation while the subject was yet alive,
and now Chicago reports the death of man
whose bones had turned to something resem-
Either case is almost without parallel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

HAS the cause of Ireland fallen into the
hands Of assassins of women and childrenq 1t
looks like it. From.the assassination of men
taken by surprise the infamous business has
descended into indiscrimnate slaughter of
innocents. The miscreants deserve hanging
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

EDWIN Booth has now reached that point
when he ought to be ready for translation, hay
Ing succeeded in pleasing Willie Winter. the
mise en- scene critic of the New York Tribune.
Willie Winter says of his Macbeth" as pre-
sented by him the other night: The ideal that
he gave of Macbeth, many years ago, was the
same that he gives now, but the performance.
at that period. was comparatively slight and
fragile. 1t Is now robust and massive. and.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

THE phlegmatic but volcanic Joseph Cook
is greatly wrought up over the multiplication
and increase of Mormon polygamis.s, and de-
nounces polygamy as the most cursed monop
oily on the face of the earth. He declares that
if Mormonism be let alone twenty five years
longer f'it will hold the balance of power in
every State west Of the Mississippi except
California and Oregon"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

WHY cannot the government supervise the
manufacture, and use. and shipment of all
dangerous explosives as it does now respect
ing whisky There would be no danger of
improper use of dynamite if there were no
concealments in its handling and use.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

THE Nebraska Supreme Court comedies
with the view taken here, that telephone COM
panies must accommodate the public without
discrimination
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

IL the Iowa Prohibition State convention
the name of John P. ST. John was not even
mentioned It is only in Indiana and in a
few other places where the Prohibitionists are
foolish enough to tie themselves to "the
Drainless and mercenary sneak"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

THE passage of a law against the dynamiters
is not so much demanded because of our re-
lations with Great Britain as it is on the
grounds of self protection.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26
In Pursuit of a Murderer.

James Linden, prominent citizen of Wolf
county. was murdered by William Caskey. a
drunken Desperate The murdered man had
befricnded Caskey. and large band Of citizens
is now pursuing the criminal
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

To the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal:
What is the name of the United States consul
at Paris9 Can you give his address, NJ N.
GREENWOOD.
George Walker. letter addressed to him
officially will reach him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

INDIANA had some pretty severe winter
weather last week, but New Philadelphia, O.,
comes forward with the toughest yarn of the
season, claiming that the ice gathered so thickly
on forty acre tract of timber near that place
that every tree upon it was effectually leveled.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

having large sale in Washington, one book
seller disposing of hundred copies a day. If
the mugwump construction of Cleveland's
civiservice letter is correct, the guide should
consist of map of the roads pointing out of
Washington
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

Philadelphia Record
Possibly Mr. St John thinks libel suit rather
doubtful method of vindication. But sfr.
Clarkson doesn't live in Indiana, and Iowa juries
may be found more trustworthy than any in the
vicinity of indianapolis
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

washington Post

Washington Post.
II should be the aim of the government to ex-
pend annually all the money that can be afforded
in the construction of public buildings until the
government has home of its own in every ctT
or town where the amount Of public business il
such as to require building
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

COMPLAINT is made that ia staid old Boston
young debutantes appear extremely decollete,
much to the scandal Of those who believe that
young girls should be as modest as virtuous.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

GREENE county. this State, has woman
ghost seven feet high ghost of that charac
ter six feet high would answer all purposes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

THOMAS HARRISON, the "boy preacher, is no
the father of Mayor Harrison, of Chicago. HI
is the latter's great uncle.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

THIS dynamite business must be unqual-
ifedly condemned from beginning to end. 1t
is scoundrelism that civilization can not
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

THERE is safety in the enforcement of law.
All outside of that is dangerous. None may
tell whittier it will lead.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

farms In that region were worth when the Democrats
undertook to break up the Union-New York rrib-
ma ~
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Telephone Calls.
Business Office 23S Editorial Rooms. -. 242
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Csn he found at the following places
Observation-Disclosures Exchange in Europe 449
Suand.
pARIs-American Exchange in Paris IS Boulevard
des Capucines
NEW YoRK-st. Nicholas and Windsor hotslA
CHIcAGo-Palner House.
CINCINNATI. Hawley & Co.. 154 Vine Street
L0UISvTLLE-C. It. bearing, northwest corne
Third and Jefferson streets.
ST LoUTs-Union News Company, Union Depot and
Southern Hotel
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

ARIs-American E1changein Paris IS Boulevard