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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
THE REVOLT OF THE HALF-BREEDs.
Hints that Middleton Has Capitulated-Goy-
eminent Troops Working att Disadvantage.

WINNIPEG, April lit was limited to-day that
private messages pointed to a capituiation be-
tween Middleton and the rebel ringleaders, but
the story is discredited. Many fear that the
rebels have made a detour and attacked
from communication and supplies. The absence
of dispatches would indicate the destruction Of
the telegraph wire, which it is essen
tial to keep intact, in order that
Middleton may communicate with the gov
eminent Middleton is understood to have
formed a plan for eluding the rebels by making
u forced march at night from Clarke's Crossing
toward Prince Albert, through the territory &C.
cupied by the Indians. He is anxious to form a
junction with Irvine, and relieve Prince Albert
before giving battle to the rebels, as he fears
that Riel. even if defeated, would retreat from
Prince Albert, sack the town and murder the in
habitants.
A special to the Sun from Qu'Appelle says:
"Nordert Welsh, a wealthy half breed in the
Qu'Appelle valley, has arrived from the rebel
camp. claiming to have deserted. He asserts
that Middleton is running into powerful bands,
and Riei, by evading him, will come down to
Touchwood. seize the supplies there. and then 60
on to Fort Qu'Appelle with two field pieces which
he has. Welsh says Middleton's scouts are
not worth anything. They never sight the en-
envy, whereas the half breed scouts are con-
stantly within range of the government scouts.
Riel has every hope of starving the troops out
by cutting off supplies. The fact of
the rebels crossing to the east side
of the South Branch in force, according
to other reports, together with Welsh's opinion
of our situation, gives his account the appear
ance of being reliable. According to Welsh,
Riel says he will rule or perish-will be king or
die. Welsh says Riel also claims to have the
promise of aid from Fenians and Irish National
lists. and says he is acting under divine direc-
tons.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18

som great beetle. In The costume OF
Mary Stuart, as given liz Lacroix, we
have the same hard teetle-like form;
more beautiful, indeed. as the finest
specimen of the Carabus tribe ID 20 the sacred
Ateuchus. The slashes in her black dress show
the white robe underneath; her waist, her arms,
and her throat are bound round with bands Of
precious stones; while from her waist, which, by
the way, is by no means a slender one. is sus-
pended a golden tassel garnished with pearls and
precious stones. But consider the crowd Of poor
women whom these two rival queens led dow
the Dance of Death. A painted
butterfly, with none of the Insects
grace, Is poor Eleanor of Austria, as
depicted in Lacroix. Her body is prisoned In .
horney cuirass. and her ruff is backed by two
additional fans of lawn; her sleeves are diapered
like a chess board; and from under her arms de-
scend two pieces of stuff broidered with gold and
shaped to look like an enormou pair of heavy
double crutches. Her rival, Marie Touchet.
wears no such ~frightful costume; she is, never
theless, one of the same tribe, a less hard and
ugly specimen than Catherine de Medicis, less
hard but not so beautiful as Mary Stuart. But
for forms completely ~insectile, nothing perhaps
ever went beyond these seen in the court OF
Henri III of France.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
In WAISTS.
What History Has to Say of Corsets-Tor-
lures of the Queens.

What History Has to Say of Corsets-Tor-
lures OF the Queens.
May Magazine of Art.
Catharine de Medicis is credited with intro
ducing the corset into France, but tight lacinp
existed long before her appearance in Fontaine-
bleau. AS early as the fifteenth century we read
of "a pair of bodies" the evident origin of the
word ''bodice.' But it was during the latter part
of the sixteenth century that it assumed the
ugly forms depicted. No doubt it was at this
period that it became, as Bulwer has it, a whale
bone prison. its busks of ivory and wood turning
it into a sort of cuirass. Gosson thus describes it:
'aThese privie coats, by art made strong
With bones, with past. with such-ike ware,
Whereby their backe and sides grow long.
And now they harvest gallants are;
Were they for use againt the foe,
Our DANES for Amazones might goe.
but seeing they doe only stay
The course that nature doth intend,
And mothers often by them slay
Their daughters young, and worke their end,
What are they els but armours stout,
Wherein like gyants Jovs they foutl'
1t is instructive to study the faces of the un-
happy women who formed s'the flying squadroa"
of Catherine de Medicis. The history of the
times still more unfolds itself IL we study their
costume. Catherine de Medicis, shut in her
s'whalebone prison. the folds Of her skirts
hanging stif1y and diagramically, her sleevss
like two long black wings. her little black cap.
stiff staff collar ard white ruff, appears like
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
Afghanistan

A1Snantstdns
New York Graphic.
The changes made during a generation in the
Asiatic attitudes of Russia and Great Britain
may be illustrated by a few facts. In 1888 the
frontier posts of the two great countries, so far
as the Afghanistan situation was concerned,
were 800 miles apart At the present time
there are not over 500 miles between the armies,
and hardly 700 between the stated posts. The
Russians in 1888 were at Orenburg, and the ad-
vanced British post was Ferozepoor, 300 miles
beyond the Indus. The advanced station of the
British is Quetta, which commands the Indus
Valley railroad and the road to Kurrachee,
a port of Beloochistan, on the Arabian sea,
and the nearest commercial point for that
region. There are now four living Ameers
of Afg haniStan-the one on the throne. who is a
nephew of Dost Mohammed's son, Shere Ali.
The first named was removed by the British in
1889, and this act was the cause of the massacre
of Cabul in 1912, when Lord Elphinstone and
Is, 900 British troops were slain. Shere Ali is
now a fugitive in Central Asia, Yakoob Ali, his
son, is a pensioner, residing in British India, and
Ayoub Khan Is in prison in Persia. If the Rus
slams make good their footing at Herat they can
easily set up one of their puppets. The English
have the shortest road for their troops, but Rus
STA has gained the first and most advantageous
position. England has the advantage, however,
of being able to mass her troops more readily,
provided the Afghans hold in check the Russian
advance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
The Ameer of Afgbanistap.

Ameer Abdurrahman Khan was born in 1880.
He is the eldest son of Afzul Khan, and is thus a
grandson of Dost Mahammed, who ruled Afghan
istan till his death in 1868, and nephew to the
late Shere Ali. who was deposed and expelled by
the British invasion of 1879, and who died soon
afterwards in exile. When Shere Ali was recog
nized by tho English, Abdurrahman, who had
married a daughter of the Turkish Ameer of
Bokhara, took refuge in those countries north of
Afghanistan beyond the Oxus, which had then
not yet been subjected to Russian control. He
was pursued, however, by the prosecuting spite
of Shere Ali and Yakoob, who had seized his
mother, wife and sister, and detained
them many years prisoners at Candahar,
and who compelled the Ameer of Bokhara to
deny him an abode in that state. Abdurr altman
was fain to put himself under the protection of
the Russians, then gradually advancing their
conquesSs in Turksstan, and was received by
General Kaufman. who procured him, in his poy-
erty, a Russian pension Of 20, 900 roubles a year,
and afterwards permitted him to reside at
Samarcand. After num i~ntrigues ana in
ternal dissesions, the throne was again vacated,
and the present Ameer was chosen in 1880, and
has been very substantially supported by the
British governments Of India, under Lord Ripon,
receiving from it a regular subsidy of EGO, 900 q
year, with large gifts of artillery, rifles and am
munition to improve his military force.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
T%ELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The will of the late Gen. Ans son Stager was
admitted to probate yesterday. The estate is
valued at $3.50, 900, and is left to his three sur
yiving daughters in equal proportions.
The attorney for the Gould system has OBJ
tanned from Governor Ireland, Of Texas, formal
papers asking the United States government to
demand the extradition from the Canadian gov
ernment of Baum, the Dallas cotton swindler,
on charges of forgery and arson.
About 5 o'clock yesterday morning, while a
Flint & Pere Marquette freight train was cross
ing the Detroit, Lansing & Northern track, at
Plymouth, Mich. a freight on that road ran into
it. just back of the engine. Both trains carried
live stock, a large number Of which were killed.
The roads were blocked until nearly noon. The
loss Is heavy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
Brief Mention.

Rev. J. w. Crane, Methodist minister at
Moawequa, has lost his voice through hard work
at a revival five weeks ago.
Two sons of Henry Heienzman, living three
miles east of Duquoin, were playing with a gun.
when it was accidentally discharged, instantly
killing the younger boy, aged seven years.
August Elder has been arrested at Danville
for burning the barn of Henry Volker, six miles
south of that place. Elder confesses the act,
giving as the cause a grudge against Volker.
At Centralia, a little school girl named Maggie
Davis, while crossing a swollen stream on her
way home, was washed off the bridge and
drowned -Four companions with her narrowly
escaped the same fate.
In q row at Quincy following a game of cards
IN which the mayor of the city, Mr.. Jarrett. had
taken q hand Thomas Reardon was shot in the
back Of the head with a load of buckshot by
James Neal, and will probably die.
solomon Sennef, charged with incen0iarism.
is on trial at DIT. Carroll. He, in partnership
with George S. Melendy, was the owner of a
creamery which was insured for it's full value in
several companies. On the 22d Of April, 1884.
the building was burned, and suspicion pointed
so strongly toward Senneff that he was indicted
by the grand jury for setting FIRE TO his own
property.
Richard Kearney. who killed Anton Berato,
an Italian miner, at Braidwood, on March %,
has been captured at Des Moines, la. The two
men quarreled while drinking in a saloon, and
kearney, Selling . beer glass, struck Berato on
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
Failure of Maddux Bros.

CINCINNATI, April 17.-Maddux Bros, whole
sale grocers and dealers in tobacco and cigars,
made an assignment to Thornton M. Hinkle.
Their assets are estimated nominally at $3.50, 900
and their liabilities at $1,000 The firm is
composed of Lewis Maddux, OF New York;
Thomas Maddux, Darwin r. Davis and Charles
L. LOCKER, of this city. Preferred claims have
been secured by mortgages as follows: Mrs.
Ann Maddux, So, 500: The Maddux Company, of
New York, $50, TIC; L. 0. Maddux, 50, 27O; Mad
dux, Hobart & Co., $3.50; the Bishop Flour
Company. $4l9. The failure is attributed to
losses made by the New York management.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18

WiNNbhpUlBT rIUuh6.
We are safe enough in estimating next sum-
mer's wheat crop in the United States at not
more than 400. 900, 900 bushels, or 100. 000, 900
short Of the last crop. The acreage in Europe
shows an even greater reaction, and the crop
prospects are hardly more reassuring. Coinci-
dent with this sharp decline in the supply, there
promises to be a sharp increase in the demand.
In the first place, there are more people to feed.
Our own population is increasing at the rate of
more than a million a year, and Europe's popu-
lation is growing enormousiy-alarmingly. the
have a marked effect upon the demand for
breadstufs. If there should be a great war in
Europe-and it seems almost ineyitable--there
would DO an abnormal qnickening of industrial
life and a corresponding demand for provisions
and the cereal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
ILLINOIS.

A Sleeping Man Walks Off a Flying Train
and Narrowly Escapes Death.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MARSHALL, April 17-Harry K. Brown, of
this city, had a narrow escape from a horrible
death last night He was coming home from st
Louis in a Vandalia sleeper, and at Hagerstown
got up, while asleep, went out and deliberately
walked off the steps while the train was going at
the rate of forty-five miles an hour. He landed
in the soft mud at the side of the road. His
forehead was badly bruised, and he was terribly
shaken up. Had he fallen moment sooner or
later his brains would have been dashed out
against a pile of ties. He was brought home
this morning.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
The Loucks-Loutkain SANDER Suit.

TIC SlandeF suit
Dpeeial to the indianapolis journal.
LoGANsPoRT. April 1Z-All persons interested
in the Loucks- Louthain SANDER suit, now on
trial at Delphi, returned to this city this even
ing. The examination in chief of witnesses for
the plaintiff was concluded this afternoon, when
Judge Davidson adjourned court until next
Wednesday. Mollie McHale, the domestic upon
whose statement the defense rest their case.
arrived from Peoria, ILL.,, to-day. and will take
the witness stand on Wednesday. when the real
interest in the case will commence.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
Cable Notes.

At a large meeting Of Americans in Paris, yes
terday, a company of twelve was appointed to
make arrangements for a complimentary ban
quet to Mr.. Morton, the retiring United States
minister.
The governments of France, Holland. Portu-
gal and Turkey have declared quarantine against
all vessels arriving from Spanish ports, on &C
count of the cholera epidemic on the eastern
coasts of Spain.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
An Ex-Concressman,s Crime.

CINCINNATI. April lin the United States
Court here. to day. Hon. John +. Mckinney. of
Piqua. O., was convicted of having received
excessive fees for collecting pensions. 1t was
proven that he received $3.50 for obtaining q
pension of 81, TOO. He was a member of the
Forty second Congress, and for many years was
chairman of the Ohio State Democratic central
committee. Sentence was deferred until to-
morrow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18

DoN'T make the mistake of doctoring liver and
kidneys TO cure consumption. If you will lay all
other remedies aside, and put your trust in DR..
Wistars Balsam of Wild Cherry. it will surely
benefit you Try it for coughs and colds, and see
what an excellent remedy it Is
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS
The Daily Chronicle Of Happenings Of
All Kinds in the Two States.
Destructive Fire at Bristol, Elkhart County
The Loucks- Louthain Suit-A Som
narbulist's Narrow Escape.
INDIANA.

Bristol, Elkhart County, Again Visited by .
Destructive Fire.
1pscial to the Indianapolis Journal.
ELKHART, April Hast night, Bristol was
visited by q most disastrous fire, destroying
nearly all the business portion Of the town which
was left after the fire Of a few months ago. Six
teen buildings were burned, involving a loss of
over $40, 600. But few of the buildings are In
sured, there being only a little over $13, 600 in.
surance on the whole.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
Tobacco Barn and Contents Burned.

LANCASTER, Pa, April 1.-THE large barn,
farm buildings, covering hale an acre on the
farm of Israel L. Lands, near Petersburg, this
county. were burned last night, with their con-
tents. including 100. 900 pounds of cased tobacco.
and twenty acres of last years crop. The loss
is $40. 900; partially insured.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
Suicide of a Cincinnati LAWYER.

CINCINNATI, April 17.--Benjamin NJ. Piatt,
aged fifty two a member of the law firm of
Hounshell, Piatt & Helm, was found dead in his
Office, this forenoon, having shot himself through
the head. His home is in Covington, where he
leaves a widow and six children Two letters
were left by him, addressed to his wife, showing
that the act was premeditated. They have not
yet been opened. Financial trouble is supposed
to be the cause of his suicide.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
America and a European war.

cprIHgHeId KepubIcan,
We are glad to observe that there is hardly 4
journal whose views upon economic subjects
have any weight which does not discourage the
expectations of any great increase of business for
us from an Anglo-Russian We. The tremen-
dous European contest of 1861 did not prevent
the American reverse of 1879. The European
depression which followed in fact probably ar
gravated somewhat our own.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

The Hague Banking Company Fails, and
the Sub-Manager Commits Suicide.
Til HAGUE, April 1.-THE Hague Banking
Company has failed. under circumstances indi-
eating a criminal misuse of its funds. Meinheer
Polack. the manager, is in South America.
Meinheer Violin. the sub-manager, when it be-
came impossible to conceal the company's condi-
ton, confessed and committed suicide. The
liabilities have not been ascertained,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
BUSINESS DIFFICULTIES.
in the United States and Canada for
the Past Week.

New YORK, April 1.-THE business failures
occurring during the last seven days throughout
the country, as reported to r. G. Dun & Co.
to-day, number for the United States 204, and
for Canada Is, or a total of 90, as against 212
last week, and 23l the week previous to the last.
The distribution of the failures is about the
same as in recent weeks, and there is nothing
important to note in regard to them. The as
signments in New York city are few and light.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18

OUR DARLING BILLY SUGAR. :
TO THE (:
|: MEMORY OF /:
/: WILLIAM KING MODAWELL. /:
son OF [:
WIN. B. AND MARY A. MODAWELL. |:
|: born ,July Sd. 1864, (:
died November 2Sth, 1870. I:
{: aged g years. 4 months and % days. /.
/. TO u DARLING BILLY. /.
In our thoughts, love, we seek thee ever, :
In our dreams thy bright form we see, I:
Nor can time thy absence e'er sever |:
That fond memory that binds us to thee. |:
|: PAPA, /:
/. MAMMA, /:
|. BINION. /:
{: TATTIE, /:
{: SIS, [:
/. Lou. /:
Papa's Gentleman. /:
Bless Mammals Man. |:
go, Iijah, and carry the news, /:
/: Another soul is gone home" /:
I: He beat his little drum in harmony with the !:
I: music of Heaven; !.
|: And runs his little train through the streets /.
of New Jerusalem. I.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
One Hundred Votes for Logan.

~SPRINGFIELD, April lin the Joint Assem-
bly, one hundred votes were cast ON the first
ballot for John A. Logan. The Democrats did
not vote. On the second ballot the vote was
the same. Adjourned During the Joint AS
sembly Mr.. Sittig occupied the deceased Mr..
Shawis seat on the Democratic side of the house.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
Fears for the Safety Of a Steamer.

LONDON. April lit is feared that the gov
eminent steamer Vorsetzen, Captain Lutgens,
which sailed from Portland Feb. IL, for Ham
burg, has foundered. as she has not reached her
destination.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
Prospect for a Renewal of Trouble.

Prospect for u Renewal of Trouble.
PARIS, April Ill is feared thai fresh
trouble will arise between the French and
Chinese governments In consequence Of OK
Premier Ferry having tardiIy instructed Admiral
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18

Courbet not to evacuate the island Of Formosa.
Several of the French journals express the
opinion that France should temporarilyannex
the Pocadores islands as a ~recompense for the
evacuation of Formosa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
Fire in an Oil-C,otb Factorv

MAsPETH, L. l., April 1.-THE printing de-
partment of the Sampson Oil-cloth Manufactur-
ing Company was burned this afternoon. Loss.
$50, 900; partly insured.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
RUSSIA'S BROKEN PROMISE.


reckoning, such consideration may e~en override
the inclinations of an army burning to meet the
enemy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
Darling Billy Sugar.

The following epitaph is copied verbatim from
a tombstone in Marion, Ala.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-01-22
A OIL for Charity.

Pursuant TO notice, there was full
attendance of the members of the COM
mittees appointed in the various wards
to take steps to aid the poor of the city,
at the city hall, yesterday, at3 pm.
There was considerable interest mani
tested, and donations amounting to SS5
was made by citizens. 1t was decided
that the committees work in their re-
spectiye wards, and that each ward fur
nish its wagon to collect the donations
and that the store-room adjoining the
drug store of Crowdus & Baldwin, on
Main street, be made the general depot
for the storage OF goods, to be looked
after by man appointed Tor that pur-
pose. The articles will be generally dis
tributed, regardless of ward bOunda-
ries. he wagon will call on
such persons who notify the
committees TO morrow morning
for such articles ss may be contributed
The various wards will please send in
to-day their routes.
The following is the programme adopt
ed by the fourth and sixth wards:
Fourth Ward: From Young street
south, Sigmund Loeb and Rahbi Silver
man. From Young street north, +. G..
Moore and QIillman.
These committees will call Thursday
morning, and those willing to give are
requested to 40 ready to furnish them
with the items. The wagon will call
Friday to receive the contributions.
Sixth Ward Ommittee-The Sixth
ward committee for the relief OF the
destitute will canvass the same as fol-
lows: NessJs. II. II. McEnnis and
John S. Witwer will call on all living
north OF Bryan and east of Pearl streets,
Gen. Lewis and John Henry Brown
will canvass all between Elm and
Bryan and east oi Pearl street.