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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-03
No Reason for Believing that There Has Been
Any Dishonesty in the Recent Manage
ment Of the Bureau.
An Italian Who Desires to Extend the
Territory Of the Great Republic.
How the Signal Service Narrowly Escaped q
Cursing from Irate emocrats-AnOther
List of Presidential Appointments.
Ex-COsIMIssIONER LORING.
Satisfactory Character of His Work in the
Agricultural Bureau.

Satisfactory Character of His Work in the
Agricultural Bureau.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, June "A great deal of ad
verse criticism has been heaped upon DR.. Lor-
ing, the late Commissioner of Agriculture.
Some of the papers, and even the Associated
Press, have been led to intimate that there might
be something crooked in the expenditure of the
appropriation in conducting the Department Of
Agriculture. There is some question as to the
real value of the Department of Agriculture as
branch of the national government 1t may
have been of enormous benefit to the farming
community, but its chief object seems to have
been to furnish members of Congress with sew
eral hundred voluminous reports and several
thousand packages of seeds, which have been of
more or less use in assisting the congressman to
secure elections 1t cannot be denied that
since Commissioner Loring assumed control of
the department, its work has been much more
ested in agriculture but to the country at large,
and especially to the scientific and other So
ceties which take an interest in advancement in
this direction. DR.. Loring expended the money
appropriated for the use of the Department of
Agriculture just at the time when he thought it
would be of most value to the people for whom Il
was intended. The Doctor is something of an
agriculturist himself; at least he knows that
the fall months not the proper time to plant
vegetable seeds, and he knows also that winter
wheat should not be sown in April. The new
Commissioner of Agriculture seems to have for
gotten that when he took hold CT the Office the
work in nearly all the branches had been com
pleted, and that although the appropriations for
several of the departments were exhausted, the
work for this department was also complete for
the season. Thus far there is nothing whatever
to show that there was any dishonesty in con-
nection with the bureau under DIR. Loring. He
paid rather a high price for some of his seeds,
but then other men have done the same thing
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SELF-DESTRUCTION.
Suicide of R. M. Reynolds, Late First Auditor
Of the United States Treasury.

ST. LOUIS, June 2-R NJ. Reynolds late
First Auditor OF the United States Treasury,
killed himself this morning at the Southern
Hotel There is an ar-shaft In the hotel over
the rotunda, which cuts through the different
floors At FIVE minutes to 6 Reynolds either
jumped or feel over the railing on the third
story into the air shaft. He struck the marble
door Of the rotunda with report heard all over
she hotel, and was picked up quite dead in front
of~the Office clerk. His skull was fractured and
one of his legs shattered visit made to Rey-
noldss room disclosed the fact that it was full of
gas, although the stopcock was turned, hence
the theory is held in the hotel that it must be
suicide; that after the failure to asphyxiate
himself he took the terrible dive to the marble
Eoor below Reynolds had made careful toilet
this morning He had been in st. Louis since
Saturday stopping with Mr. =. ID, Ayers, put
he left that gentlemans house and put up at the
hotel last night. He was in excellent spirits
when last seen alive, and no motive can be sug
gested for the self killing. He was on his way
TO Kansas to buy land. He left the United
States Treasury only couple of weeks ago.
He was about sixty years Of age and fne-look
ing. healthy man.
The coroner's jury, after hearing considerable
testimony. rendered verdict of suicide The
remains will be sent to Washington for burial.
but went to the Southern Hotel last night, and
after registering asked for an outside room, high
up. He said he would rot have an inside
room on any account. The clerk gave
him front room in the fourth story, which
Satisfied him. Before he went to the hotel he
had been stopping with Chas. n. Albers an old
friend, and according to Mr.. Albers, was the last
man in the world to commit suicide He was in
good health, apparently happy, and was on his
way west to invest in a new enterprise, of the
success of which he was very hopeful. Others
besides Mr. Albers speak of him in about the
same terms which leads to the belief that the
death was caused by accident rather than sui
eide.
The friends in Washington of ex-First Auditor
Reynolds do not think that he committed
suicide They say that he was subject to at
tacks of vertigo and assume that his mind was
affected when he fell through the air-shaft in
the Southern Hotel He was in comfortable cir
eumstances, so that the loss of his Office could
not be supposed TO have driven him to self
destruction.
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A WEATHER STORY.
How a Signal Officer Secured Fair Weather
for the 4tll of March.

How Signal Officer Secured Fair Weather
for the Attn of March.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, June 2.-An interesting story
is told in connection with the weather on the 4th
of March. The lieutenant who had charge of
the indications" in the Signal Office during that
month made his observations on the afternoon
of the Sd, and was very much chagrined to notice
that the prospects for rain on the day of the in
auguration excellent; but he did not like to
tell an anxious public, and especially that portion
of it which had been waiting for twenty -four
years for this day, that the weather would be
bad. He therefore returned to the indicator,
and pushed the finger around until it pointed to
fair When the newspaper men came in for
the report in the afternoon, they were told'that
the barometer promised fair day on the NOR
row. Late that evening the wind, which had
been blowing from a rainy direction. shifted, and
before the midnight report was given out the
barometer had changed to "fair7 of its own &C
cord. The lieutenant in explaining this circum
stance, said: IF the Signal Service had an
nounced on the afternoon of the Sd that the
weather the next day would be rainy we should
have been cursed from one end Of the country to
the other, and some fools would have said that
it was the scheme of tie Republican officials to
mar the pleasure of the Democratic Inaugural
ton BY promising fair weather we gave the
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Cable Notes.


The law prohibiting manual labor in Austria
on Sunday goes into operation on the 11th inst.
Alfred Meissner, the Austrian poet. died at
Brenezeon on Friday, and was buried on Monday
evening. A
The Atheistlc congress. at Rome, is fiasco.
No English delegate put in an appearance, and
very few others attended.
His Royal Highness, Prince Charles Antoine
of Hohenzollen, of the Catholic branch of the
German roya! family is dead.
Prussia has presented a scheme in the Bund-
esrath for a canal from the North sea to the
Baltic, to cost 165. 000, 600 marks.
All accounts agree that Emperor William has
greatly improved. His internal pains and throat
affection have vanished and his appetite is
better.
Darwin's memoirs will be issued about the end
of July. The work contains copious correspond
ence with Herbert Spencer Sir John Lubbock
and Professor Huxley.
1t is reported that Mr.. Binne, superintendent
of the most remote station of the international
Congo Association, recently committed suicide,
owing to dispute with another officer.
Cardinal Gubert, archbishop of Paris, has
written letter to NJ. Goblet Minister of Public
Instruction and Ecclesiastical Affairs, protesting
against the decree secularzing the Pantheon.
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MINOR TOPICS.
Presents and Good Advice Sent to Consul
Mackey, at Rio Grande do Sui.

Presents and Good Advice Sent to Consul
Maclxey, at Rio Grande do Sui.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WAsHINGToN, June 2.-Judge j. T. Mackey.
OF this city, father of United States Consul
Beckford Mackey, at Rio Grande do Sui, Brazil,
received cablegram from his SON this morning
The trial of the young man will begin to-day.
He notifies his father that Solerino, the most
eminent lawyer of the province has volunteered
to defend him. All the foreign consuls, thirteen
in number, will be present at the trial Young
Mackey is the only native citizen of the United
States representing the government in Por-
speaking country who speaks the Por
tuguese language. Judge Mackey said this
morning: "The State Department has granted
my son three months leave of absence in reeog-
milton of his services. His mother sent him
Bible and her prayers; sent him a pair of Colts
revolvers and cne hundred cartridges (revised
edition), and cautioned him that while reading
his Bible and saying his prayers, he should not
forget to see that his revolvers are properly
loaded
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THE AFGHAN BOUNDARY.
General Luinsden Thinks that Trouble Is
Only Postponed Short Time.

General Lulnsden Thinks that Trouble Is
Only Postponed a Short Time.
LONDON, June 2.-The Times's CONSTANT
nople correspondent reports an interview which
he had with Gen. Sir Peter Lumsden. The
General said that if the Russians had been con-
fined to the Deserts Sun" no plausible pretext
would remain for them to seek to expand or to
encroach. When that limit had been over
stepped, then the water supply, pasturage. and
the other elements of Russian chicane arose to
complicate the matter For this reason Sir
Peter believed that the difficulty had been only
temporarily smoothed over. The Russians were
visibly bent upon reopening the question within
few weeks, or months, at best. General
Lumsden believes that the object of Russia in
her recent demonstrations against the integrity
of tie territory of Afghanistan was to concen-
trate the attention of Great Britain by directly
menacing her Indian interests in order that she
(Russia) might have freer scope for her opera
tions in the direction Of the possessions of
Turkey.
The Times says the impression created By the
perusal of the second batch of Afghan dispatches
Is that NJ DeGiers took measures to quietly in
sure Russian success, leaving the honors of the
debate to Earl Granville, who busted himself
constructing the most admirable arguments,
which, however, had an awkward habit of disap-
pearing at the very m oment one expected them
to be of some practical benefit There can be
hardly question that in the whole controversy
Earl Granville demolished every one of the Rus
sian arguments and excuses, and arrayed on his
own side all the considerations of morality, and
then failed to draw any practical conclusions.
A dispatch from Sinzous says the Russians are
evacuating Penjdeh. bit public notice OF its
cesson has been posted at Herat The Afghan
soldiers are incensed. They had expected to
avenge their defeat Influential kfghans ex-
plain that they would prefer to fight Russia
alone, first, in order to show them that they are
fighting for home. not for England.
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WEsTMNsTER, Nd, June AT 1:30 o'clock
this morning body Of masked men rode into the
city and went at once to the Jail where Town
rage on Mrs. Knott, near Mount Airy, few
days ago They broke down the door OF the
jail, overpowered the sheriff, and proceeded to
Cooks cell A rope was placed around his neck,
after which he was led out and put into wagon
and the maskers proceeded out on the Mount
Airy road. At3 o'clock the body Of Cook was
found hanging from tree, about two miles from
this place Two bullet wounds were found in
The back of his neck A piece of paper tackled to
the tree bore the words, written in penci This
man confessed his Grille" The words were
written on a letter printed Law Office of Milton
g. Urner. Frederick No ciew has yet been OBJ
lained as to who were engaged in the lyrching
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A DELICATE DILEMMA.
The Position in Which DIR. Hamilton Was
Placed by MIR. Hendricks.

The Position in Which Dr. Hamilton Was
Placed by Mr.. Hendricks.
Washing gtonf S pecial.
fairly good story on Vicepresident Hen
bricks has just got out here. 1t seems that
an old friend, physician, visited him at
Willards shortly after his inauguration, and
in the goodness OF his heart and the fulness
of his desire to benefit all his party adherents,
Mr. Hendricks asked him if he couldn't think
of some place in the government service that
he would like to have. The Doctor did not
know. He hadn't thought about it. If there
was anything it would be in the line of his
profession, and he would look around and see.
In the course of few days he lad looked
through the Blue Book and made a selection.
for which an application was duly made out,
ndorsed by the Vice president. and filed. The
doctor went home. and waited for notice of his
appointment.
When. after some weeks of watching at the
postoffice and telegraph Office, he failed tc
hear anything from it, he wrote the Hon.
Thomas, asking him to mako inquiry and find
out what the matter was He failed to state
what place he had applied for, and Mr.. Hen
bricks could not remember In vain he culgeled
his brain, but could not for the life of him rec
ollect what Office the learned Doctor had fixed
his hopes upon. Remembering. at last,
that something had been said about it being
in the line of his profession, MIR. Hendricks
decided to make inquiry at the Office OF
the Surgeon general Of the army. That
official could not remember that any one of the
name had asked place in his department, and,
after searching the files, reported that no appli-
cation from any such person had been received.
Mr.. Hendricks called on the Surgeon general of
the navy with similar inquiry and similar
result Then he bethought of him of the Sur
geon gen eral of the Marine Hospital service. the
genial and ever obliging DR.. Hamilton. He asked
Hamilton If he could tell him any thing about
the application of his friend. Hamilton couldn't
but informed Mr. Hendricks that if any applica-
tion had been made for place in his division it
could be found in the Office of Mr.. Higgins the
appointment clerk of the Treasury. across the
street
By this time Mr.. Hendricks was tired, and as
Hamilton seemed to be thoroughly obliging
fellow, he asked him if he wouldn't make inquiry
about it in his behalf. "And, by the way, said
Mr.. Hendricks, ''if you find the papers and that
my friend is seeking place in the Marine Hos
pital service, hope you will dc all you can TO
secure him the appointment"
The doctor promised faithfully to render the
Vice-president and his friend every assistance
in his power Ralf an hour later he found the
application of MIR. Hendricks friend in MIR.
Higginss ofGce, and very much to his surprise
and confusion, found he had applied for his own
position as Superintendent Under the circpm-
stances Dr. Hamilton hasn't felt justified @in
pushing the claims of the Vice presidents friend
any too actively.
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IA PAYING TELLER'S GRAB.
The Manhattan Banking Company Finds It.
self Short More than $160,0O0

NEW YORK, June Between IL and II
o'clock tonight Mr.. j. p. Baldwin, cashier of
the bank of the Manhattan Company, visited the
Offices of the newspapers and gave to each a copy
of statement sent by said bank to the clearing
house this afternoon The statement is signed
by D. G. Hayes, the president, and sets forth tha.
as the paying teller did not appear at his desk
this morning, and sent no excuse for his alb
sence, meeting of the directors was called.
An investigation into the paying teller's accounts
showed q deficiency of $l60,610. The paper
made known that this fact was given out in
order that the exact amount of the defalcation
might be officially published. 1t was added
that the unimpaired surplus of the bank, after
deducting the above deficit, is 1925, ,000
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Special to the indianapolis Journal
WAsHINGToN, June 2.-The following Indiana
patents were issued today:
Fales. Edward A.. Indianapolis, making am
monium sulphate; Goldman. Benedict. Auburn,
metal roofing: Hunter Freeman s., Fort Rit
ner. street car heater; Lodge. Littleton W. T.,
assienor to Novelty Manufacturing Company,
Indianapolis, cuff-holder McCliere, Jesse D.,
Jeffersonvile, book rest: Mccormack, James f.,
Indianapolis, shaft hanging; Olds, John d., Fort
Wavne steam engine valve gear, balanced slide
valve: Power, John W.. Carthage, weather strip;
Raleigh. Maurice F., Evansville. bedstead fasten-
ing; Ross Thomas b., Evansville, sash fasten-
err; Stokes. Robert L., assignor of one half to e.
Joseph, Jetersonville lamp bracket; Winebren,
John. assignor of one-half to j. ). Shipiey,
Heckla cant-hook.
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MORE APPOINTMENTS.
Two Collectors and Another List OF Presi-
Dental Postmasters.

Two COLLECTORS ana Another List OF prest-
Dental Postmasters.
WASHINGTON. June 2.-The President to-day
appointed Charles III. Robinson to be collector Of
customs for the district of Wilmington, N. c.;
Tully Scott. to be receiver of public moneys at
Oberlin, Kan; John c. Byxbee, collector of Gus
toms for the district of New Haven, Conn.
The President to day appointed the following
named presidential postmasters:
David G. Eastburn. at Fowler, Ind, vice Geo
W. Mellish, resigned; John L.. Etzel, at Cleas
Lake, Ia, vice A. d. Elderidge, resigned; David
Frakes, at Ouray, Col. vice Albert Moore, re
signed; A. ii. Simpson, at North Clarendon, Pa,
vice Fl. E. Norris resigned John r. Drunt at
Usage Mission, Kan, vice j. F. Curtis
resigned; Augustine G. Respess, at Mays
vile, Ky, vice NJ c. Hutchins, resigned;
John Kittle, at Seward. Neb, vice
E. Vanpelt. commission expired; Joseph +.
Henderson, at Aledo, H.. vice John McKinnv,
com mission expired Justian Mayberry. at
Burlingam. Kan. vice George w. Doty, COM
mission expired; W. III. Gibtes, at Columbia,
5. C.. vice c. NJ. Wilder, commission expired;
Abe Wentz. at Mechanicsburg Pa. vice Miss
Catherine Singer, commission expired; c. A
Lambert, commission expired Martin V. Mere-
dith. at East Saginaw, Mich. vice William G.
Gage, suspended because he had been foand
guilty of fraudulently appropriating to his own
use part of his allowance for Office rent, by
means of false vouchers, ard of sub-letting a
portion of the premises without accounting for
the rent received for the same.
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Harmony i'm the English Cabinet.

first council since the Whitsuntide holidays on
Thursday A complete reconciliation has been
effected on the Irish crimes act. The
remaining business before the dissolution
of Parliament includes the crimes act,
the Irish land purchase bill, and the Scotch
crofters BILL Parliament will terminate at the
end of July.
The affection from which Mr. Childers is suf-
fering is diabetes.
The English government has resumed negota
tions with Italy for the occupation of Suakim by
that power
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FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

An English Protest against Sanitary Restric-
tions on Commerce.
LONDON, June 2.-The Times of this morning,
in an editorial says that Englishnen will read with
alarm of the decision of the sanitary conference
sitting at Rome, placing the important matter
of the detention of vessels in the discretion of
single medical officer. The article continues:
"We have no hesitation in saying that England
cannot possibly assent to such regulation,
which would prove to be an embargo against the
whole ,of our Oriental commerce. 1t is" says
the Times, further evidence of the unfriendly
spirit of the European powers, led by France"
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CEDAR KEYS, Fla, June "A negro des-
perado named Stetson shot and mortally wound
ed negress Anna Harris, in this city,
yesterday. aud then fed through the streets,
with Archibald Turner, policeman, and
water-sde, Stetson leaped into a row boat and
pulled down stream. Turner, aided by Span
lard. manned sail boat and started in pursuit
AS Turner leaped into the row boat to make the
arrest, Stetson. with lightning like rapidity,
officers body. inficting wounds which will result
in death. The Spaniard then felled Stetson
senseless with the tler, and delivered him to
the authorities.
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skirmishes with Osman's Arabs.

SUAKIM, June 2.-Yesterday hostile Arabs
made an attempt to wreck the Suakim- Berber
railroad. but they were dispersed by few
shells. The railway plant has been offered the
government of Egypt as a free gift.
To-day Nile boat carrying a force of tribal
police, surprised party Of Osman Digna's men
at Adiz A fight ensued, and twenty of the
hostile Arabs were killed and number taken
prisoners One hundred and fifty of their
camels and !, 900 sheep were captured
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A Protest Against a Beer Tax.

LONDON, June "A mass meeting was held
in her Majesty's Theater, this afternoon, to pro-
test against the budget proposals to increase the
tax on beer and spirits. Resolutions were
adopted denouncing the ''onesided scheme" of
Mr.. Childers Chancellor of the Excheauer, to
violate every principle of equity and justice by
imposing on one class the whole burden of the
expenditures of foreign war. Several persons
who attempted to move amendments to this
resolution were summarily elected from the
premises
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Telephone Litigation at pittsbure.

pITTsBURG, June 2-The National Improved
Telephone Company and the Western Pennsyl
vania Telephone Company have entered suit in
against the Bell Telephone Company and the
Central District Printing and Telegraph Com
pany. The object of the suit is to restrain both
companies from using the Blake transmitter, and
10 recover damages for the infringement of the
Blake instrument IL is the intention of the
plaintiffs to institute similar proceedings in sew
eral other cities at once.
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EnnbeZZler Marsh,

LIVERPOOL, June 2-Arthur E. Marsh. who
embezzled $4,000 while acting as superintend-
ent of the business of Koch, Sons & Co., of
New York. and who was arrested at Queens
town on board the Nevada, last Friday it has
been ascertained remains in this city under
surveillance. He is becoming somewhat bolder,
and now offers to return to New York on GER
tain conditions. Mr.. Koch will not accept any
but an unconditional return, and insists on per-
sonally accompanying the prisoner as far back
as Queenstown.
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Poetry Thrown at MIR. Lowell,

LONDON, june 2-Punch, this week, has a
poem laudatory to exMinister Lowell and ex-
pressive of regret at mis- departure. The poem
contains the following sentiments:
What should all like best would be to keep you
here forever"
you have won our hearts,"
Your words and your ways are what we like"
Commend to the Yankee heart"
If you can return do.
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A Canadian Banks Heavy Loss.

MONTREAL, June 2.-The Union Bank of Lower
Canada yesterday issued circular marked con
fdental," to the stockholders saying that on
account of heavy losses at Winnipeg it would
be impossible for them to pay dividend. The
bank lost $33l, 600 at Winnipeg by the failure of
the lumber firms. 1t has capital Of 81, 0O00 600,
and no reserve