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The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15
SWAIN COURT-MARTIAL.
Considerable Talk of Counsel Regarding
Witnesses to Tuesday.

wAsIISGToE, Feb. II = In the Swain Court
martial, TO day. testimony was given showing
that the stable where some of General Swaims
forage was delivered was a club stable, where
number of gentlemen, including Swain. wac
were acquainted with Bateman, the banker, kept
their horses, and that Bateman managed the
stable,
The Judge Advocate asked the court TO ad
j0urn till Monday, stating that he had hoped %
finish the introduction OF testimony to-day, olt
BatemsD, who he said, is a material witness IL
the case, has been detained at Havana for several
Dix was sent to Havana, by the direction OF the
secretary OF the Treasury 10 bring Bateman 10
FaEpa, but he the Judge Adv0catel had
learned that IL has been stOrmb bound 81 Havana,
but is now on the way to Tampa. He said be
hoped 10 get the witness here by Monday. Mr.
Advocate delay the proceedings TO await the ar
rival of this witness. He attacked the psiey Of
the prosecution in this case, With regard 10 the
Introduction OF testimony. General swain.
he said, had not been furnished
with list Of the witnesses who
names of the witnesses were asked for in court
the other Gay the Judge Advocate, in giving them,
omitted to give tie name of Bateman. he said IL
is not storm on the coast of Cuba that detains
Bateman, but apprehension of a storm in Wash
ington. he added that if Bateman is
to be BROUGHT here, the defense would
require the presence OF witness from Chicago
and the deposition of witness now lying sick
in Athens, y General Grosvenor) to controvert
his Statements.
The court issued subpoena for Alexander "
Hout, NJ. D., of Chicago as the witness Tor the de-
interrogatoIies to General Grosvenor Adjourned
until Tueyday.
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PoUGHKEEPsIE. Feb. 1.-The ice is in fine con-
dition for boating and there is great activity
among the clubs here and at New Hamburg. This
afternoon the leading boats of the Poughkeepsie
Club had q scrub race 10 New HAMBURG DR..
Barons Northern Light getting there first. There
was also handsome race between the ice yachts
of the Carthage Club for the champion .pen-
nsnt. Ten yachts started. the wind being
quite liebt Esch yacht carried only one mau.
The Mischief turned the upper stake-boat first
closely followed by the Whit As the race r0
gressed the wind increased. when the Vision
capsized. The Mischief increased her lead and
won the race easily, Whit second. The Arctic
won the race for the second class boats The
crews of the Shrewsbury boats have arrived
with two or three boats. and quickly pos
sible the race for the challenge pennRnt of
America will be arranged. The annual regatta of
the New hamburg Ice Yacht CIuo will occur to-
morrow.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15
THE BOSS LIAR.
A Boy Who Can Discount ochiItree or
Mulhatton.

NEW J YoRK, Feb IA few days ago Mrs. Edith
Churchill, of No. 20 Church street. jersey City
Heights. complained to the Jersey police that dur
ing her absence her apartments had been entered
by q sneak thief, who stole pair Of gold brace
let's valued at sSo She suspected William
o. Burch, fourteen years ola, living in
the neIghborhood. He was arrested.
After spending night in the
Fourth Precinc! police station he confessed he
had stolen the bracelets. and said he had buried
them in a lot. An officer went with him to the
lot, ana finding the ground frozen hard procured
several pals of hot water TO soften the earth.
Then with pick-axe he dug several feet in the
ground in search of the bracelets. The boy
fnallyt0ld him to stop. because he hadn't hidden
the lost bracelets there. He said that he
bad taken them TO Payne's pawD-shop on
Newark avenue and pawned them for a dollar.
he was taken to the place and after the pawn
brokers' clerks had examined all their safes and
elosets without finding them, the boy SAID he
hadn't taken the bracelets there but had sold
them 10 an Irish woman on Water avenue. He
was taken before the woman, and when he stated
chased the stolen bracelets from him, she
to scald him. He then admitted that she had not
purchased them, and he was taken back to the
Police Station. This morning he told Captain Nc
Kaig, when he was again questioned, that he
hadn't stolen the bracelets and knew nothing of
them. The boy is an orphan, who is known TO be
incorrigible, and he will probably be sent TO the
KQform School.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

The Mayor OF Coliinewood. Ont. has volun-
teered TO raise cooTed regiment for active sery-
ice in the sOudan.
At Portland Ore. three Senatorial ballots were
taken yesterday. Hirsch received -, gain OF j.
George received a. Boise. Z
The trustees of the Petersburg. Va, defGnct
Planters and Mechanics Bank, to-day PAID the
depositors dividend Of p per cent.
The trsins on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad
have been and are now running regularly on
schedule time. No snow blockade on the road.
James Kane. of Philadelphia, who was recently
convicted OF shooting aud killing his brother was
brought into court yesterday and sentenced 10
death.
The final match between the Montreal and OF
tawa Curling Clubs, for the Governor General
medal. took place yesterday, Ottawa winning py
four goals.
Francis Baum. arrested at London, Ontario, ON
a charge of forgery committed al Dallas. Tex. nas
been remsnded until Saturday next 10 SLOW OF
witnesses from Dallas
The new flint glass factory OF King, son & 90.
of Pitsburg, which is the largest in the coustry.
will start up on Monday. giving employ nsnt 70
over 250 men. Natural gas will ne USED eA-
cluflyely.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15
Co,orea Educational Conference.

NEW ORLEANS Feb. 1.-THE educational con-
ference of colored commissioners hold sessions
every evening. Professor II. E. Brown, from
oberlin College, Ohio. in an address spoke of the
industrial schools for white youths at Chicago
and elsewhere. which were endowed handsomely.
He did not see why all the great schools for
skilled labor should be in the North, for that sec
ton did not contain ali the water power or az tne
N lneraIs. He thought such schools should be
Established in the south for the benefit of white
ard black Industrial schools ought to be estas-
lished because the resources OF the South have
never been developed Only the ccarser and
cheaper kinds Of cloth were made IN the SOUTH
Instead OF pig iron. the South ought TO be making
locomotives. M. ~. Gibbs, of Arkansas, spoke
earnestly and eloquently in favor OF the move
mept TO establish Industrial schools for The col
ored youth He claimed that the preiddices OF
was excluded from the workshops fox years.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15
Steamship Subsidy Proposed.

WAsHIS6roS, FeD. IA Senator Frye to-day in
Postofce APPROPRIATION bill. and asked its refer
ence to the Committee on Postofiices and Post.
roads:
the fiscal year OF lS5lss6 between any ports OF the
United States and any foreign ports. or between
ports of the Atlantic and ports OF the Pacific
through any foreign territory, an amount not ex-
ceeoing S6C0600 OF the net revenues of the United
States Postofiice Department on mail matter sent
to foreign countries during the fiscal year 1856
The Postmaster General shall contract for said
service after legal advertisement with the lowest
responsible bidder: provided that the rate Thereof
shll not exceed fifty cents mile for one trip each
wsy actually travelled between terminal points
and that the mails so contracted for shall be car
ried on American steamships
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cptIldI % IIt cElIIUtls
LoGANsroRT. Ind, Feb. l4.-In the Sensational
SANDER suit of Rev. Loucks vs. B. F. Louihain.
editor Of the Phsros the attorneys for the plaintiff
have secured change OF venue 70 Carroll Cir
cuit Court on an sfndavit that the
plaintiff could not obtain justice "a
this county owing TO prejudice against him.
The defendant was desirOus OF having The case
tried here, but the editors friends feel that The
FACT that change of venue he's been asked and Sc
cured by the plaintiff. f. the precursor OF victory
for the defendant when the trial occurs.
sheriff snyder and L. n. McCreery are IN To-
peka kan. looking for Billy Green. a hunch back.
who killed a young man named Brumoaugh a.
Young America, this county, in lss0 They had
received information that he working a
carpenter out there. They are expected 10 return
In few days with the murderer.
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Condoned Els pauehtsr,s Retraxal.

SYRACUSE. Fl b. 14.-John Z. Herman, aged
twenty.three. fresh graduate OF an Illinois in
stituton, for two years served pastor of the
Second Evangelical Lutheran Church in this city.
he is large In stature and coarse in feature. He
boarded IN the family of Philip Yeakel, carpen-
ter and fell passionatey in love with his dsugh
ter, Q prepossessing girl of eighteen. she was
faithful member of his flock, and played the Or
gan in his Sunday ay-school. 1t has Just become
known that she become q mother four days ago.
Her father intercepted Herman's fight and
com pelled him to ackno 8ledge the childs pater-
nifty. Together they went 10 the Presiding Elder
al Lyons. TO whom the same acknowledgment
from preaching. Yeakel expresses pity for Her
man. and says the young man viii marry his
daughter next Sunday. become one OF the house
hold and work wi tn MIN Gs a carpenter until he
Is fit TO go into the ministry sgain. Herman's
home is in Warsaw, Wyoming County, his father
being farmer He graduated from Warsaw
Union School in 1881.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15
Canadian Contingent.

OTTAWA, Feb 1.-THE statement that the offer
for service in Egypt of a Canadian contingent,
made by Colonel Williams. had been declined. is
incorrect. No reply has been received from the
home authorities, and 1t is understood that the
matter is still under consideration The offer of
Colonel williams is to supply a battalion for sc-
tive service as efficient as the Canadian service
Can produce. Offered by graduates OF the Null
tsry COLLEGE of the existing militia, and by many
veterans OF the British army resident in Canada
who have seen service in India and who are new
daily sending in applications for places in the
contingent. On reaching the field it would be for
the General commanding to say what duty they
would be fitted for
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15

voorhees, and Cobb Satisfied With
Their Visit to Cleveland-nli
nois Senatorial Contest.
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National Notes.

WASHINGTON, Feb. IA delegation OF Chippewa
Indians from Turtle Mountain reservation, Ds-
kota. called on the Commissioner OF Indian
Affairs today, and urged him TO enlarge the
boundaries Of their reservation. The Commis-
sioner replied that they had $50 acres of land for
each man, woman and child of the tribe, which
was as much as they could use, and be refused TO
entertain their request.
A cable message was received at the Navy De-
partment to-day from Commander Ludlow, dated
Vile. France, reporting that ne will sail in the
Quinnebaug on Monday for the Turkish coast. in
pursuance of telegraphic orders from the Depart
ment, to Inquire into the reported indignities to
American citizens
cable message has been received here an
nouncing the death, in Paris, of B. B. Hotch-
hiss, of Connecticut the famous gun inventor.
Repre- resentative Res an will, on Monday send
70 President elect Cleveland petition signed by
about 100 Democratic members of the House ask
ing him not to commit himself on the silver ques-
ton in his inaugural address.
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voorhees, and Cobb's yisit to Cleveland
An Albany Rumor.

ALBANY, n. Y, Feb. 1s.-President- elect Cleve-
land to-day received United States Senator Daniel
W. VOORHEES,, of Indiana, and Representative T..
r. Cobb. OF Indiana. who urged the claims of ex-
Senator Joseph E. Mcdonald, of Indiana, for q
place in the Cabinet. They represented the move
ment for Mcdonald was an earnest and spontane-
Gus one that had taken hold of q large element of
the Democratic party all over the country, which
must in some way. be satisfied. They were well
pleased with Mr.. Cleveland. and their visit was
in every way enjoyable
Gossip here runs entirely on the subject Of
Daniel W. Manning for Secretary of the Treasury.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15
Parliamentary Probabilities.

LONDON, Feb. 14,-At the approaching session
OF Parliament the political conflict against the
present Government will open on the presenta-
Iion of the Governments demand for a vote Of
credit of e25, ,OeO on account OF the suakim expe-
dition. II is understood that the Conservatives
will support the request for the new credit, but
will accompany the vote with vote OF censure
against the Government. An early dissolution
and aDpeal To the people is now expected and
discussed Il is believed majority OF the Lib
erals, Conservatives and Parnellltes slike c9ncur
in the desire for early dissolution.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15
SENTINEL SPECIALS.


Special 70 the Sentinel.
RENSSELAER,. Ind, Feb. 1.-THE cannon ball
train on the Menon route, which left Chicago
at II p. m met with a very bad &C
cident near this place about O'Clock
this morning becsuse OF 8 broken rail. The entire
train was thrown from the track, badly wrecking
the baggage ard smokIng cosches. The rear coach.
which contained most of the passengers. was
overturned bur with little damage. he train
wss ia charge Of Conductor A. $. Gather.
wood, of indisnspolis. ana there were
about twenty passengers on the tain. The in.
iured ere Colonel Il. 81. Dayton, OF Cincinnati.
badly cut aud bruised Mrs. L. NJ Dayton. his
wife, badly bruised between the shoulders and
cut aLove the rieht eye; Edwin FULLER,
OF Chicago, bad cut on The head
Mrs fuller, head bruised; Conductor
Csthervood of Indianapolis head and
wrist bruised; Mrs. L. A. Pietre, Chioago, head
bruised: @rs. NJ. g. Foster. san Francisco. an
aged lady, head and face bruised, sna nervous
sheck very severe o. G. Rife, Indianapolis, head
bruised and cut. UDiBlured-J. IL kea1aer, wife
and son Ms Hfbbard. Mrs. Hilliard, al Of south
Bend; Edward and Mary Hassey, OF indianapolis.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15
TELEGRAPHIC EEWS.

The Examination Of Short for the At
tempt 10 Assassinste PhelaR-
The Court Room Crowded.
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The Council of War.

LONDON, Feb. 14-At council of war to-day at
the War Office It was resolved to increase the In.
dian contingent, TO be dispatched to the soudan
for General Wolseley's relief to $500 men, in
der to raise the total effective force which General
Graham is to have for his suskim expedition to
II 500 men. The council also reconsidered the
previous decision of the War Office declining the
colonial offers of military assistance. Both the
Earl of NorthbrOok snd the Marquis OF Harting-
ton urged the War Office 10 assent 10 the requests
to embocy the colonial eontiDgents in the expe-
ditiOn.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15

KANKAKEE, Ill, Feb. I4--Mrs. Andrew Shrefiier,
wife Of a well-to do farmer al Deselma, IL, Is
lying at the point OF death from injuries received
from q tramp. who was arrested and is in jail.
The Sheriff added extra guards at the County
Jail tonight Word was received st 10 O'Clock
that the woman was still alive. Threats are heard
that neighbors of the injured woman from Deslms
and Wanteno, should sue die, would visit Kanks-
kge tonight TO lynch the prisoner. Talk tAst the
sheriff may remove the prisoner to Chicago Tor
safety keeps the feeling at fever heat
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The standards Correspondept.

LONDON, Feb. l4.-The Standard this afternoon
publishes dispatch from its correspondent at
Korti stating that messenger had just arrived at
Korti. He declares that Kbartoum has not been
captured by the Mahdi. The messenger asserts
that ne left Khsrtoum six days after Colonel Sir
Charles Wilson appeared before the city in the
boats sent from Gubat aud when he (the messen-
ger) left, General Gordon still held Khartoum.
Government officials do not believe the messen
gers story. and state that official information
confrmatory of ii has been received,
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15
The Distribution BnI-KepOrters and the
New Rules.

LoNDoN. Feb. 14.-John Morley. a member Of
Parliament for Neweastleon.Tyne, proposes that
special act be passed. allowing the new electoral
registration to take effect IN autumn next, instead
Of postponing the operation of the new franchise
act Until the spring OF 1856. In the debate on the
Redistribution bin the Irish party viii oppose the
allotment of two members 70 Trinity COLLEGE. Dub
lin, and viii object 10 the reduction OF the con-
stituencies OF Carlow. Limerick and DrOgheda.
The members Of the press, holding seats IN the
press gallery, are greatly excited over the SPEAK
er'snew regulations abOllsning the rule granting
press representatives admission to the inner lobby
OF the Houfe of Commons and forbidding report
ers 10 90 into the leading corridors or use the CON-
mittee rooms, The reporters will ask the Speaker
20 rescind the Objectionable regulations. the re.
porters urging that managers OF papers VIII sup
press the reports of the debates unless the re-
s,riciiOns are modified, as happened in Austria.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. H.-Dr. Goersen. whose
execution is fixed for March next. for the muir
der of his wife and mother in-la1 by poisoning,
will probably escape the gailows. Sadie SOucer,
q niece OF GoerseR's diseased wife, and upon
whose testimony the accused was convicted. has
made confession. ia which she swears that the
story she told At both trials was false. and that
shs was coerced into committing perjury by her
aunts brother Jams A. Eouder. The probability
is that GoerseE's sentence Will be commutst 10
Imprisonment for life.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15

CHICAGO. Fep. IA The Northwestern LUMBER
man will publish this afternoon an exhaustive
review of the lumber product in the Northwest.
The white pine lumber cut in 1854 was 500 5oo ooi
shingle production IN 1884 was ,54S co., against
S,e64, 756 esq in 1883. There are on hand at the
mills 35i6 957416 feet of lumber. 43 per cent. OF
the entire cut. The lumber at distributing mar
kets make the entire stock on hand near 6090oO0,
0f0 foot
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15
The Coke Pool.

PITTsBURG, Feb. 1.-THE threatened disruption
of the Connellsville Coke Pool was ayerted by the
dissatisfied members rigning the agreement. and
the same combination that controlled the coke
trade last year will manage the affairs of the trade
another year. The pool now controls over 900
ovens Trade Is reported looking up, ana the
prospects of the future are exceedingly bright.
Furnaces are being fired up almost every day, and
from present indications there Will be necessary
incre sse of the output OF coke in few weeks An
increase of 10 per cent. was made this week. and
prices are frIner than for some time past, but
there will not be an advance until the trade war
rauts such move.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15

sUAKIN, Feb. ls.-sPies report a large assem-
blage of hostile tribes from the South gathered at
Tamaio. The Mahdi's men. the spies say, are per
fectly acquainted with the details OF the British
victories at Abukle and dubat, but they consider
them unimportant compared with the ProDhet's
success in capturing Khartoum. Tie story of this
success has been spread and msgnifsd everywhere
smcng the Arabs symDathiZing with FL Mandl,
and al are apparently great elated.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15

LONDON, Feb. 14.-Earl Northotook First Lord
OF the Admiralty; Childers, Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer and Harcourt, the Colonial Secretary. at
tended the council at the War Office this after
noon.
The Duke of Cambridge, Commander in Chief
of Her Majesty's Armies, today. at Aldershot,
reviewed the guards who have been ordered to
Egypt. He pronounced them thoroughly efficient.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15
Attempt to Wreck a Train.

LAWRENCE, Kss Feb. l4.-There was an attempt
made yesterday By three tramps TO wreck the
cas-, bound Santa Fe PASSENGER train. The party
boarded the train at Topeka, and refused TO pay
their fare. AS there were no stops between To-
peks and Lawrence. the conductor did not at
tempt TO put them of. but waited till the train
arrived here, when he locked the doU OF the cars
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15
Home Made dynamite Plot.

NEW YORK, Feb 14.-Some insane person or
crank laid plot to blow up August Fisgel, the
German Consul General. abouta week ago. After
making an internal machine in common box,
nearly the size of a soap box he was afraid to de-
liver IL in person. aud left IL under one OF the
seats of a Roosevelt street ferrybOat. suppOsing
that some one would discover il and deliver il as
addressed Mr.. Fiegel at once informed Superin-
tendent Walling. The box was kept on p shelf
until Thursday, when it was sent 10 Or. Cyrus
Edson. He analyzed the powder in tho can, aud
found ii 10 be a combination OF corn starch and
nitric acid. a most dangerous expl osiYe,,
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15
INDICATIONS.

WASHINGTON. Feb. l5-1 q. n.
For the Ohio and Tennessee Valley-lncreesins
cloudiness light local rains. east TO south WINDS
becoming variable. slightly warmer, followed Ia
the western portion by q slight fall In temper
ature.
For the Upper Lake Resion-Light local SHOWS.
followed bv fair weather. variable winds, genersny
shifting west and north. generally higher osrone'
ter, slightly colder weather in northwest PORTIONS
nearly stationary temperature In soG'heAs' po'-
tione
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rhe situation st Msssowah Improving.

ROME. Feb. H.-Dispatches from Massowah
state that the situation has improved steadily
since the Italian occupation The commander of
Saletto has been ordered to dlsperse the bands of
marauders sent to the vicinity of Massowah by
the Mahdi it is reported that the Government
will send an Italian General TO Massowah.
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DYNAMITE NOTES.
Policemen Cole and Cox Receive Eumer-
ous Presents.

LONDON Feb 14.-Policemen Cole ana Cox, who
were dangerously wounded waile endesvoring to
prevent the recent dynamite explosion in West
minister Hail, have received number of valuable
presents. Gladstone has given each OF the gallant
officers $50 from the Royal Treasury fund.
Sir Wiilism Hsrcourt. Home secretary,
has given Cole. who pluckily picked
up the bundle containing the dynamite and ct
tempted TO carry IL out, fl27; Cox, who went TO
Coles assistance, so. Sir James Ingam, the Mag
presented each of the wounded officers with go.
and the members of Parliament collected $500 for
their benefit. Numerous private individuals do
mated various sums for the same purpose.