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AFRAID TO LEAVE THEIR POSTS.
Department Clerks Are Not Asking Fur

Department Clerks Are Not Asking Fur
loughs, Lest They BE Made Perpetual.
Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, July 16-Chiefs Of various di-
visions in the departments say that they have
never known the time when SO few applications
were made for leaves OF absence by clerks as
now. 1t has been customary at this time of the
year in the past for clerks to take at least por
ton of their regular allowance of thirty days
leave, and up to this time in July from % to so
per cent. of these annual leaves have been con-
sumed OF the current year not more than or
lO per cent it is estimated of these leaves have
been taken, and there have been no intimations
that any large proportion will be taken at all.
This strange condition of affairs comes from
fear on the part of the clerks to leave their post
of duty. An old official in the Treasury said
this morning II have never heard Of so MANY
able bodied men and women in one locality as
there are in this department at this time Why,
there haven't been dozen sick leaves granted,
even since the 4th of March, that have heard
Of, while it has been customary to grant that
many every week heretofore. The fact is. there
is such doubt about the stability of the present
arrangement that clerks feel that they would
not enjoy the vacation were they to
take one, so great would be their fear
of displacement during their absence That
trip that Higgins made through the department,
short time ago, in which be would draw his
finger across his throat at two or three clerks in
each room seems TO have terrified almost every
one. l. myself, have been waiting for the time
to come when could feel some security in leav-
ing, but it has not arrived yet 1 suppose the
new officials here who have the power to oust
the Republicans are only waiting for some pre-
text upon which it can be done, and absence
from department, even though it be sick
or regular annual leave, might be distorted into
the preteXt."
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Shops at the Joliet Prison Burned.

ST LOUIS, No. July 18.-A special to the
PostDspatch from Joliet, Ills, says that a
furious fire ragged within the walls of the State
penitentary at that place all night. Originating g
in the cooper shop it spread so rapidly that it
soon threatened to eat up all the wooden struct-
ures in the enclosure. The fire got beyond the
control of the prison fire department Tho mayor
was called upon, and he promptly sent one
steamer to the aid cf the prison authorities. At
a late hour this morning the fire was suhdued
The loss to the State is at least $25,0 j. H.
Winterbotham &5 Sons, contractors, lose $75 600
The prisoners behaved heroically, and the trus-
tees worked like Trojans in fighting the fire.
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West Shore Foreclosure Case Postponed.

NEwBURG, N. Y, July 1S.-To-day had been
set for the trial of the action Of foreclosure of
the $50000000 mortgage of the West Shore
Railroad Company before Justice Charles F.
Brown, in Supreme Court chambers in this city.
Joseph H. Choate of New York, appeared for
the North River Construction Company, and
for Judge Green, as trustee and receiver, de-
fendant; Stewart II. Boardman, of
New York, for plaintiff, the United States
Trust Company; W. II. Adams for the New York
Central George o. Vanderburgh, for the West
Shore; J. D. Janeway, for the Syracuse, Ontario
& New York Company, and John B. Kerr and
b. F. Dunning, for the Ontario e Western;
besides a large number of counsel representing
creditors Mr. Choate had interposed
demurrer and demanded postponement of
the argument thereon as well as of the
trial of the action for foreclosure. After argu-
nent, the court appointed Tuesday next for the
hearing on the demurrer Mr. Clarke renewed
his request for a-postponement of the trial, say
ing he had not time to procure necessary docu-
mentary proof and the presence of witnesses.
He had wish to obstruct the progress Of
the trial, but was physically unable to enter upon
it now. Stewart Ii. Boardman, on behalf of the
trustee, urged an immediate trial of the case.
Mr.. Bowers, counsel for the Taylor committee
of bondholders, of New York also protested
against further delay in the matter as being
against the interests of his clients. The judge
then postponed the date of the foreclosure action
until the second Monday in September.
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THE FIRE RECORD.
Main Office of the Western Union at Phila-
delphia Burned.

delphia Burned.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, July 18-Fire broke out
about two o'clock this morning in the operating
room of she Western Union Telegraph Company
on the fourth floor Of the Mutual Life Insurance
building, Tenth and Chestnut streets. In a
comparatively short time, the entire room was
gutted-chairs, tables and instruments, including
duplex and quadruplex implements of consider
able value being destroyed. A handsome and
valuable switchboard was also destroyed. Only
few operators were on duty at the time, and
after sending an alarm they made hasty escape
from the room. The prospects at noon are that
the company will be able, in a few hours, to
handle business. The fire is supposed to have
been caused by an electric spark, carried into
the office on a wire which had come in contact
with electric-ght wire. Many of the COM
pany's wires connecting with other cities DO not
enter the main Office, but work directly from the
principal branch office at Third and Chestnut
streets, and the business to that extent is. there
FORE not interfered with
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VICE IN NEW YORK.
Investigation Shows the City To Be Less
Wicked than London.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
NEW YORK. July 19.-It is likely that no less
than half dozen separate investigations of vice
in New York have been made during the week,
all under the incitement of the Pail Mail Ga
zettes revelations of depravity among London
aristocrats and in the expectation that similar
facts as to the wrongs OF very young girls would
be developed There has been happy disap-
pointment AT least two newspapers, whose
editors had made up their minds to duplicate, if
not exceed, the English sensation, were con-
vinced by the work of their reporters that the
material for such purpose was not in exist
ence.
Several charity organizations have also looked
into the subject and arrived at the same con-
clusion. The Rev. Dr. Talmage happened to
have been previously informed. Taking mint
from q sermon by his friend Spurgeon, and
further led on by letter from that great
preacher giving confdentially an idea of the
extent of the crimes now divulged to the
world, Talmage resolved to thoroughly ac-
quaint himself with the truth as to New
York. This was at the time when he was getting
ready to deliver series of discourses on night
scenes in the metropolis. He talked with police
officers, with journalists With the agents of So
cieties, and with inmates of reformatory institu-
tions All assured him that, while juvenile de-
pravity sadly common, there was no such
thing in New York as a regular traffic in inno-
cence. He declared that he was glad to conclude
that there was no need for the contemplated
sermons.
However the present comparative guiltless-
ness of New York in this respect is in part due
to reform. A year ago the Society for the Pre-
vention OF Cruelty to Children set about the ex-
tirpation of what there was of illegally young
vice The age of consent fixed by the law of this
State is fourteen years 1t was determined to
enforce this proviso thoroughly throughout the
city. The society had plenty of backing, both of
money and personages and this made it
strong enough to defy all the hiadran-
ces which thea police could put in its
way. In Bleecker street was a resort
known as the House of Mirrors, by reason of it's
many looking glasses, and kept by Madam Will
lett. who ostensbly sold corsets in store on the
ground floor. This show of legitimate busi
ness was merely a cover for the entrance of girls
under the legal age. She was driven out in
jiffy, although her wealth had previously pro
tected her.
A still worse concern was that of Mother Mon
ter, in Elizabeth street, police headquarters.
Chambers street was the Sonora, resort of lit
tie girls who ostensib]y peddled fruit in the
streets. The keeper was sent to the peniten
tiary. The same fate befell Billy McGlory,
owrey Geoghegan and Sandy Spencer, in whose
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The Baldwin Murder Case at Atchison.

ATcH!soN, Kan, July 18-The coroners jury
in the Mary Baldwin murder case after an in
vestigation lasting since July 8, returned YER
dict at o'clock this morning, charging William
Baldwin, the dead girls brother with the crime.
and cold blooded that ever occurred in this com
munity, the victim, who was temporarily oc-
cupying the family residence alone having been
surprised in her sleep by the murderer and over
come with chloroform. AS it became evident
suspicion Immediately attached to young Bald
win, who would be especially benefited fnan-
cally by the removal of his sister. The chain of
evidence, however is not complete, and unless
some new circumstances develop before final
trial, he will hardly be convicted.
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Married a Second Time.

Special to the indianapolis journal.
RICHMOND, Ind, July 1S.-Frank Knollman
and his wife, Anna Maria Knollman, were mar
ried in 1852 and lived happy life, to all out
ward appearances, at least, for twenty years,
raising children, one of whom is now married
In 1879 his wife became possessed of determi-
nation to move to Cincinnati, where some of her
people lived, and when he refused to consent to
the change she left him and established board
ing house in the Queen City. For two years he
waited in vain for her to return, and when she
came not, he applied for and got diyorce but
they continued on friendly terms Last week he
got letter from her expressing desire to re-
turn, and he, Barkis like, being willing, the old
relation was promptly patched up, and is now
''as good as new"
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COLONEL INGERSOLL
Refuses Party of Believers an Opportunity
to Convert Him.

to Convert Him.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
New YORK. July 1S-Col Robert G. Ingersoll,
the agnostic, is in town as counsel in the big tel
egraph fight AS usual with him when in New
York, he spends an hour or two every day in the
gorgeous and garish Stokes barroom His bev-
erages at these times are not alcoholic, and he
never stands up at the bar, but is served while
lounging over newspaper at a secluded table.
He was thus engaged when three young men
addressed him. They said that they were COM
mittee from the Christian Believers which they
described as an organization of orthodox Protest
ants devoted to the battling Of unbelief Their
special object was to convert Ingersoll and to
that end they had collected all his published inf
deity, studied it carefully, and prepared answers
to his arguments. They wished to arrange a
series of conferences with him. The Colonel
replied that he lacked the time for such proceed
ings The spokesman of the committee, Robert
Bradbury Hammond, student in the Union
Theological Seminary, appealed strongly to
Ingersolfs good nature, to his sense of fairness,
and finally to his courage, but without avail for
he declared positively that he could not 60 into
the proposed discussion
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Investigation Shows that the Pail Mall
Gazettes Sensation Could Not Be Dupli-
Gated in the American Metropolis.
The Protestant Episcopal Church Or
ganizing for a Great Revival,
Which Is To Begin simultaneously in Thir'
teen Churches in New YOrk-OppOsi-
tion in Certain Quarters.
JOHN KELLY.
He Is Slowly Regaining His Health, but
Will Forsake Politics.

He Is Slowly Regaining His Health, but
Will Forsake Politics.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
NEW YORK, July 18.-The wife of John Kelly
writes from Sharon Springs to a friend: 'Mr.
Kelly is getting along towards restored health,
but by long, slow process Of perfect rest. He
will not have anything more to do with politics
that is perfectly certain and assured" Mrs.
Kelly is understood to have great influence over
the boss of Tammany; and yet her assertion Of
his permanent retirement from political leader
ship may have no more solid foundation than
her desire. The question is an aggravating one,
not only to local statesmen, but to those con-
cerned in national politics. Tammany has 60, 900
votes to use exactly as she pleases The same
number of ballots are not so safely punched for
sure delivery elsewhere in the country. Their
disposition in next autumn's State election, in
view Of an Endorsement Of President Cleveland's
administration being considered essential, is a
matter of vital Importance.
Information as to Kellys exact condition is
not obtainable, even by his nearest friends, for
their letters no not elicit answers lit is thought
they do not reach him) and those who have visit
ed him failed to lead him into political talk.
Thus it is all uncertainty whether he will resume
the dictatorship of Tammany, In the event of
his abdication, the struggle for the vacated po-
sition will be noteworthy, Samuel j. Tilden
has sanctioned a campaign by Andrew Fl. Green,
who was the City Comptroller who fought off the
thieves from the public treasury after the down
fall of Tweed, for the leadership of Tammany
and. should Green be successful, Tammany
would fairly and squarely support Cleveland
nominee for Governor irrespective Of
patronage and with view to
earning favor by fealty Mayor Grace is
thought to desire the place for himself He
would probably keep up the antagonism to Cleve-
land because of the Presidents refusal to ac
cept his choice for the collectorship. A number
of small men, long identified with Tammany as
lieutenants to Kelly, are ambitious to succeed
him. To man they are bitter in their animosi-
ty to the administration for ignoring them. Gov
ernor Hill has promised that, if he gets the nom
nation for Governor, he will contract to bring
Tammany into line This he would do by
shrewd disposal of State appointments The
impression here is that Cleveland's policy as to
Tammany rests with Secretary Whitney, who is
perfectly familiar with the make up of the Dem
ocratic party in New York city.
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A Fight against Toll Roads.

Special TO the indianapolis Jonrnar.
CRAwFoRDsvILLE, Ind, July l8-There seems
to be determination among the farmers not to
pay toll on the Charlottesville & Terre Haute
road. 1t was mentioned in yesterdays Journal
that Larkin Branch had torn the gate down.
This morning farmer named Vancleave also
tore the same gate down. James Harding and
Seno Weilver have been arrested for threatening
to demolish the gate, and the trial of Weiiver
will take place to-day before j. W. Cumberland,
justice of the peace. There seems to be an eff
fort making 10 have the court condemn the road,
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AN OVERWORKED MEMBER,
The Hard Lot that Has Fallen to Colonel
Morrison, of Illinois.

Morrison, of Illinois.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WAsHINGTON, July 18.f there is one man
more worried than another in Washington Just
at this time, it is Congressman William r.
Morrison, of Illinois. He seems to have tho
whole State on his shoulders, so far as the dispo-
sition of federal Offices is concerned He is CON
suited for every place, it seems, above fourth
class postmasters. Such places as the General
Land office, filled by Sparks; Minister to Belgium,
by Lambert Tree First Assistant Postmaster
general, by Colonel Stevenson, and other places
of almost like prominence, were not given to
Illinois until Mr. Morrison had passed upon
them. He rises at o'clock in the morning and
goes until midnight with the Office seekers. He
may have thought he had pretty tough time
when he was combating General Logan for the
senatorship, recently, but that was nothing in
comparison to what he has now.
Mrs Morrison was talking to Mrs. Tom Bayne
at Pittsburg, the other day. "Gracious!" said
she, "how wish VIC were in the minority again
Now my husband is run nearly to death. He
used to stay at homo and have pretty good
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Belief that the Ticket Nominated at Rich
mond VIII BE Elected.

Belief that the Ticket Nominated at Rich
mond VIII BE Elected.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, July 18-Republicans here be-
lieve that the ticket nominated in Virginia on
Thursday morning will be elected this fall, and
that Bourbonism in the Old Dominion is to be
forever overthrown at the ballot-box. There is
the most perfect harmony in the Republican
ranks in Virginia that has ever been known. It
was suspected that Senator Riddlebergcr felt a
little sour toward Senator Malone. and that the
course the nominating campaign was taking had
increased the feeling, and that there would not
be harmony; but that has been more than made
up, and all elements opposed to Bourbon rule
and negro hating stand in unbroken column and
will vote for John S. Wise for Governor, and
every other man nominated On Thursday.
In every respect it is generally believed tho
nomination of Wise was the result of an exercise
of the very best judgement. He is an offspring
of an old Democratic family, extending all over
the State, and into all branches of politics He
is but thirty nine years old, is highly educated,
a fine lawyer, most attractive speaker, and
withal remarkably brilliant and popular. His
father was once Governor of Virginia, and the
son was at one time United States District At
torney for the Eastern district. He was a con-
federate soldier, and for that reason is popular
with the lighting elements" He respects the
colored man and defends the women. There Is
no party in Virginia now known as Readjuster.
1t is Republican. and all opposed to Bourbon
ism belong to it. Wise was member of Con-
gress from at large year ago, in Virginia, and
his election to the governorship is predicted
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time. 1t was life to be in Congress then; now il
bore"
II am glad" answered Mrs Bayne, 'that you
Democrats have the work to do for little while,
for my husband had turn at it lasting nearly
eight years. told him the other day thought
it would do him good TO let the Democrats take
the work of placing offices for four. years"
1t is hardly probable that Senator Voorhees,
has harder row to hoe than Colonel Morrison,
for the members from the Democratic districts
of Indiana seem to carry their burdens prvtty
completely while those in Illinois acknowledge
their weakness by leaning heavily upon Morri-
son.
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Trampled to DAs:h by Horse.

EpeciaI 70 the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
EVANSVILLE, July 1S-Yesterday morning
} man named Hart, residing seven miles in the
country, arrived in the city and filled himself
mp with whisky. While in that condition he
was placed in horse-stall in an unconscious
condition. Shortly afterward some one turned
n horse in the supposed vacant stall without dis
covering the drunken man. About two hours
later his companions went for him and discov-
cred Hart nearly dead, having been trampled
upon and kicked in the head He was removed
to the residence of Mr. Pat Kennedy, on Sixth
street, for medical attention. At o'clock this
evening it was reported he had died from
injuries received.
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NG JULY 10. 1S85-TWELVE PAGES.

so as to make it free road, and this manner is
When the case comes up in the court, an effort
will be made to prove that the road was out of
repair, and it therefore was not lawful to
collect toll This is the same way the
farmers did last year on the Shannondale toll
road, and when the case came to trial the de-
fendant put in plea that the road was out
of repair, and the court sustained him. The
road was then a free road for six months, until
the company fixed it up according to law. When
the question was voted upon, some four years
ago. of the county purchasing all the toll roads
in the county, the farmers voted against it in
hodu
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PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS.
n Fresh List of Postmasters, Collectors, Etc.
Appointed Yesterday.

WAsHINGToN, July lS.-The President to-
day appointed Wm H. Black of Iowa, TO be
agent of the Indians of the Sac and Fox agency
in Iowa.
The President to day appointed the following
named presidential postmasters: Jno. Taliaferro,
at Winchester, Ky, vice a. Ii. Simpson, sus-
pended; BENZ Long, at Greenyile, Ala, vice ].
II. Perdue, suspended; Richard j. Wickersham,
at Lebanon, Mo-, vice G. NJ Wilson, suspended;
L. p Lezel, at Pierce City, No., vice Thomas
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A North Carolina Free-Shooter,

RALEIGH. N. c., July 1s.-A special to the
News and Observer, from Manly, N. c.. says
Tonight, Julius Lux. while intoxicated, drew a
pistol in the midst of a crowd, and began firing,
killing Samuel Sparr, white man. and severely
wounding three negroes, before e could be cap.
tured Lux and others implicated in the affair
are IN the guard house, under strong guard.
Excitement runs high, and lynching is expected.
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Nothing of Interest at Fort Reno.

KANSAS City, Mo-, July 18.-The Times's
Fort Reno special says Nothing of especial in
terest has developed here. General Sheridan
talked with number Of Indians including Stone
Calf, one of the leading dissatisfied chiefs. They
are divided on the question on the lease to cattle
men. The Indians appear to realize that II the
government undertakes to disarm them they
must submit, and all danger of an outbreak is
practically ended.
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Barn Burned.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
SHELBYvILLE, July 1S.-About o'clock, yes
terday afternoon, the fine large barn of Thomas
Brooks, one mile north Of Geneva, in Noble
township, caught fire from the spontaneous COM
bustion of heated hay, and was completely de-
stroyed, together with eight tons of hay, 115
bushels of wheat, and other property. Loss on
barn and contents, s., ,OC0; insurance, 5000, in
the Continental
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Death of the Daughter of L. s. Cumback.

Death OF the Daughter OF l.. 5. Cumback.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
GkEENcAsTLE, July l8-Nellie Ethel, infant
daughter of Louis S. and the late Lizzie II.
Cumback, died to-day, at the residence of her
grandfather, Dr. u C. Hopwood, of cholera
1nfantum, at the age of six months. The funeral
Will eake place to morrow Sunday at 10 o'clock
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Business for the Madison sbi,-yards

Hpe1iai 10 the indianapolis Journal
MADISON, Ind, July Is-The Cumberland
river packets-Thomas D. Fite, Ewald, and
McMillen-ail three arrived at the Madison shin.
yGfd this evening to DC repainted and repaired
The Charles Mcdonald is On the way, and the
Louisville wharf. beat is expected
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Hotel and Other Property Burned.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, July 18.-A fire at Spen-
Ger, Wis, last night, destroyed the Central Ho-
TEL Parrots sash and blind factory, Schaeffer's
shoe store and restaurant adjoining Loss,
about $4,000; insurance not stated.