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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-01


Washington Special.
The contest fer postmaster of Evansville, Ind.
is about as close and lively as ardent politician
could desire, and blanket would cover the four
contestants in the fight. The first is Capt E. T.
Carson a well-known Democrat and retired
merchant who is also wen known in mercantile
circles in Louisville. Captain Carson is strongly
urged and supported for the position by the
Evansville Courier aHd its able editors Hon. j.
g. Shanklin and George W. Shanklin, Esq
These two gentlemen have strong and sub
ssantial personal and political following, and,
though the odds are against them, may win the
fight Next to Captain Carson comes Dir Fred
e-ick LaunsteiR, editor and proprietor of the
Evansville Demokrat, the Democratic German
organ of the district and an influential paper
among the Germans of the State. The support
of Mr. Launstein for the place is mostly from
the Germans, led by Hon. John j. Kleiner. the
member Of Congress for the Evansville district.
Close al the heels of Mr.. Lannstein is Mr. p. V.
Jones, editor OF the Tribune News lively and
enterprissng afternoon paper, devoted to Demo
ratio principles Mr. Jones is backed for the
dice by many Democrats, including Colonel
3enby. just appointed minister to China. The
Durth contestant in the race liz Mr. Joseph
seit9, ex county auditor, and at present tax col
.ecter Of Evansville He is said to be good
Democrat and is popular with the masses
There Is no telling at this time which one of the
above four will get the place.
Removals in the Pension Medical Bureau.
WAsHINdros, May 3L-Dr. Neil +. Graham,
of Minnesota, assistant medical referee of the
Pension Bnreau. and Drs VIVA. Fl. Gobrecht and
John H. Ross, Of Indiana, medical examiners of
she psnsicn Office, have been enoved for Of
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-13
The EAST. Z

RETURNS on the 9th from the recent
election in New Jersey state that the Re-
publicans secured majority of nine on
joint ballot in the Legislature-five in the
Senate and four in the Assembly.
MORMON converts to the number of $50
arrived on the 9th in New York from
Europe, Ell route to Utah.
ELECTION returns from Pennsylvania
give Quay (Rep.) plurality for State
Treasurer estimated on the 9Th at 43, 716
AT McKeesport, Pa, plant for the
conversion of natural gas into better IL
Illuminating material was completed on the
9th, with the idea of extending pipes to
New York.
THE will of Josh Billings (Henry Shawl.
who left an estate valued at $685. 900, was
filed in New York on the 9th.
THE Methodist Church Missionary Com
mittee, in session on the 9Th in New York
City, appropriated $205,126 for foreign
mission work.
TIE Freedman's Aid Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Churh met in eight
zenith annual session in New York on the
9th. The report of the Board of Managers
showed that the society had 100000
members, had expended 81, 5S7, O15 since its
organization, had taught one hundred
thousand students, had graduated fifty
physicians and educated hundreds of min
listers.
THE Grant monument fund in New York
had on the 9th reached the sum of 1884,
600.
The sudden death of John Mccullough,
the tragedian, occurred at his home in Phil
adelphia on the afternoon of the Sth. He
was forty eight years of age.
A BOAT containing two men at Niagara
Falls was drawn into the rapids and carried
over the falls on the Sth and its occupants
drowned
Ex-JUDGE ALBERT CARDozo, who was sus-
pended from the judiciary in 1872 on ac-
count of the Tweed ring expose, died in
New York on the Sth, aged fifty-seven
years.
On the Sth mass-meetings Of workingm en-
were held in New York City for the pur-
pose Of agitating the question of univers-
al working day of eight hours for this
country.
COMPLETE election returns on the 18th from
Pennsylvania give Quay, the Republican
candidate for State Treasurer at the recent
election plurality of A, 1877.
PoLANDERs in large numbers were on the
9th leaving Shenandoah, Pa, for Illinois.
FERDINAND WARD on the 9th stated that
he received harsh treatment at the hands
of his keeper in Sing Sing Prison. He de-
MED that he had any money left, but al
legged that Warner received in excess of
$1,000,000 from the firm of Grant & Ward.
AT Chester, Pa, all the departments ex-
cept the foundry in John Roach's ship-yards
were started up on the 9th, employment
being given to one hundred and seventy
,NorS0nS
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-13
THE CIVIL-SERvICE.
Dorman b. Eaton Reappointed Com
Decentralization Cleveland Gives His
Reasons for recognizing the Board.

Dorman b. Eaton Reappointed a COM
Observation-Disclosures Cleveland Gives His
Reasons for Recognizing the Board.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.-The President
formally appointed Dorman B. Eaton a
Civil-Service Commissioner ,esterday, to
serve temporarily. His successor has been
selected, it is said, and is well-known
New York Civil-Service reformer. The
new board will not meet before the goth.
President Cleveland said in an interview
yesterday that his course in the reorganiZa-
ton OF the Civil-Service Commission was
taken in the expectation that friends for
the cause could be made in the Democratic
party, which is at present to large extent
charged with the enforcement of the law,
by changing its political complexion. Prom
inent leaders in the civil service movement
strongly advised him to select one of the
commissioners from the South, which was
done. He continued:
can not rid myself of the idea that this
civil-Service reform is something intended to
do practical good, and not mere sentiment
intended for the purpose of affording OPP
portunity to ventilate highsounding notions
and fine phrases. My plan of giving it the
greatest possible usefulness involves the
removal of stumbling blocks from the way
OF good, honest men who are inclined to its
support, and demonstrates in every public
manner its value as adapted to the everyday
affairs of the Government. Thus two Dem-
ocrats were selected. and l certainly in
tended TO select them for the two
prominent positions in the commission,
and this was done largely in Difference
to the sentiments and opinions held by
good men in the Democratic party. And it
has also occurred to me that it was a plain
dictate of common sense that one of the old
commissioners should if possible, remain for
q time to aid the new ones. When
Mr.. Eaton finally retires / shall appoint Re-
publican, whose selection will, hope, detract
nothing from the strength and efficiency of
the new commission.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-13
THE CATTLE-GROWERS.

Partial Programme of the Business to
Be Transacted at Their Coming Con-
vention in Chicago.
CHICAGO, Nov. THE third National
Convention of the cattle-growers OF
America will be held in the Sherman House
November II and 49, The convention will
be composed of delegates appointed by the
cattle-growers', breeders and dairy
mems associations and societies, State
boards of agriculture, agricultural
colleges, and the agricultural press
of the United States, Canada and
Great Britain, and delegates-at-larg to be
appointed by the Governors of States and
Territories, to represent the general cattle
interests. Every important question bear.
ing upon the cattle interests of the country
will be given attention during the con.
venti0n. Addresses will be delivered
on the Importance of the cattle interest
by Hon. N. j. Colman, United States
Commissioner of Agriculture; on grazing
interests, by Judge j. NJ. Carey, of Wyom-
ing; on shipping of cattle, by United States
Senator John r. Mcpherson, Of New Jer-
sey; Oh transportation, by Senator Cullom,
of Illinois; ON canned meats, by A. A.
Libby. of Chicago; on American dairy in
terests, by Major H. E. Alvord, of New
York: ON creameries, by G. w.
Simpson, of Massachusetts; on contagious
disease of cattle, by Prof. d. d. Salmon, of
Washington, D. c.; foreign restrictions
upon the cattle trade, by Hon. Abram S.
Hewitt, of New York; ON National and
State legislation, by Hon. James Wilson, of
Iowa, and On the art of breeding, by
Colonel w. A. Harris. of Kansas.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-13

LAREDO, Tex, Nov. 6.-Passengers ar
irving on the Mexican National train report
political uprising in Lampazos, Mexico,
an important station eighty miles south
of this place and fifty miles from Busta-
mente, where the election troubles first broke
out. A cavalry regiment of State troops
will reach LampazOs to-day. The town is
barricaded and held by the authorities.
The revolutionists have surrounded
the place, and an attack is expected before
reinforcements arrive. Lampazos is the
home of General Naranjo Secretary of War
under President Gonzales, and on this ac-
count the uprising is especially significant,
as it is well known that Naranjo is bitterly
opposed to the present Administration. Mar
anjo left Lampazos few days ago, and is
now in Monterey. He disclaims any con-
nection with the present disturbances. His
enemies charge him with being the
prime mover during the past two
months. President Diaz has made sweep
ing changes in the Federal officers
in the frontier States, replacing Gonzales
adherents with his chosen followers.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-13
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE jury in the trial of Mr.. Stead, editor
of the Pail Mall Gazette, and others, on the
charge of abducting the girl Eliza Arm
strong rendered verdict of guilty on the
18th in the case of Mr.. Stead and Mrs. Jar
rett. Sentence in the cases was deferred.
A BATTLE recently fought between rebels
and Abyssinians resulted in the former los
ing 5000 and the latter 1900 men.
AT Palermo, Sicily, the United States
Consul reported on the 18th that two thou
sand deaths occurred in that city from
cholera up to October 12, and stated that
over sixty thousand persons had fled from
the epidemic.
Mr.. JOHN BRIGHT in recentspeech open
ing the political campaign in Birmingham
charged both parties in England with blum
dering in their foreign policy He said he
was opposed to war with Burmah and did
not favor the annexation of that Kingdom
DURING the week ended on the 18th the
mortality from smallpox in Montreal and
vicinity was 302, decrease of fifty-two as
compared with the preceding week
KING THEEBAw's reply to the British I'LL
timatum was received at Rangoon on the
9th, end was regarded as hostile and made
quaee. The British evolutionary force, it
was announced, would cross the frontier
without delay.
A DECREE was issued by the Egyptian
Government on the 9th ordering the seiz-
ure of crops, animals and houses in cases
of non-payment of taxes.
A BILL was introduced in the Mexican
Congress on the 9th providing for compul-
sorry education throughout the Republic
ANOTHER respite has been granted Louis
Riel until the 10Th of November
TELEGRAMs stated on the 9th that during
binding snow-storm the Canadian Pa
cific Company's steamer Algoma was
wrecked on Isle Royale, in Lake Superior.
Twenty-Five of the crew and twelve passen-
gers were reported lost. The survivors of
the wreck, thirteen in number, were taken
off the island by the Athabasca. The steam
er was valued at S450,000.
RUMoRs were afloat on the 9th that Irish
workingmen were forming society in
Dublin for the purpose of keeping out of
that country all goods of British manu-
facotlre, with the exception of such articles
as Ireland is unable to produce.
ADvIoBs of the 9th from Lima PERU,
state that Maquel Aprado and Heraclio
Fernandez, the revolutionary sub-prefect
of Huari, and fourteen members of his staff
had been shot by inhabitants.
THIRTY-five deaths occurred from small
pox in Montreal on the 9th and seventy.
one new cases
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-13
FERD WARD TALKS.


The Bank Wrecker Doesn't Like His
Prison Treatment His Finan cial Condi-
tion.
NEW YORK, Nov. 1O.-The Sun says:
Ferdinand Ward was looking badly on
Sunday and trembling as though he had a
chill. To a reporter he said: Zone thing
is certain, and that is that will not live to
serve my term out unless I get something
that | can eat and work that l can do.
Keeper Scripture, who has charge of the
shop where | work, is very harsh to me.
Ii stop moment to rest he yells out to
me not to loaf. 1t hurts me more than
can express to have people say that have
lots OF money When was sentenced all
the money I had in the wide world was
$50. sold my watch that cost $3.50
for 500, and that made up the sum
that was found in my possession. My
wife has very small income, not enough
to support her, and so she is going to live
with my brother. think Holt ought to
recover all the money Warner got from the
1rm. In my statement to Davies / charge
Warner with having received $3.50, 900, be-
cause this is all that | can prove, but he
really received more than 81, 900, 000."
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-13
WEST AND SOUTH.

PROPERTY amounting to nearly $500, 900
was destroyed in Chicago on the 9th by
fire in the old Farwell block on Monroe
street, occupied by several clothing and
shoe firms.
A VERDICT was rendered in the famous
Walkup poisoning case at Emporia, Kan,
on the 9th declaring Mrs. Walkup, the ac-
cused, not guilty of her husbands murder.
AT Fndley, o., an oil well was struck on
the 9Th, which flowed three hundred bar
rels day. Great excitement prevailed in
the town.
AT Benton Ridge, O., Mrs. Mary Slower,
blind woman, was burned to death the
other day, her clothes taking fire while
she was working about stove. Her hus-
band, also blind. was severely burned
while trying to save his wife.
AN old and wealthy citizen of Mansfield,
O., John Peterson, was swindled out of
$1,000 on the 9th by the bogus lottery
game.
The death of Daniel Hughes, the Oldest
man in Cook County, ILL.,, occurred on the
9th at the residence of his daughter, Mrs.
u. Lewis, In Chicago, in the 102d year of
his age.
NEARLY four thousand coal miners in
augurated another strike on the 9th in the
Hooking and Sunday Creek Valleys, o.
The men demanded an advance from fifty
to sixty cents per ton, but the operators
refused to concede it.
TEN inches of snow fell on the 9th at
Glendale, D. T., and the weather was ex-
tremely cold.
DEATH ended the life of Judge Eben
Newton, the Oldest member of the Ohio
bar, on the 9th at Canfeld, Mahoning
County, at the age Of ninety lone years.
THE Grand Jury at Tacoma, w. t., on the
9TH returned thirty two indictments against
the anti-Chinese rioters, including the
Mayor, Police Judge, the city editors of
two newspapers and osher prominent per-
sons.
THE Missouri-Florida Cattle Company's
ranch, near Demirg, N. NJ, was sacked and
burned by Indians on the 18th. The wife and
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-13
THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches.
FROM WASHINGTON.

DURING October the losses by fire in the
United States and Canada reached s., $780,
00O-about g, 25O, 900 less than the average
for October in the past ten years.
ADvIcEs received at Washington on the
9Th from the Governor of Arizona reported
the shipment of nearly 10000, 900 worth
of precious metals during the year. The
population of the Territory was estimated
at $4,000.
DoRMAN B. EATON has been reappointed
on the Civil-Service Commission, having
consented to serve for few weeks until
Messrs. Eigerton and Trenholm familiar
ize themselves with their duties.
The annual report of Paymaster- General
Rochester to the Secretary of War shows
that the disbursements by his bureau dur
ing the last fiscal year amounted to 3d.
4s3,727, including $4,000 to the signal
service, $212,O to the military academy,
and 2,349, 443 on army pay rolls.
In the United States and Canada there
were $50 business failures during the seven
days ended on the 9th, against 191
the previous seven days. The dishibu-
ton was as follows: Middle States, 28;
New England States, 20; Western, 3d.;
Southern, 30; Pacific States and Terrific.
ries. 20; Canada. "a.
JAMES A. BAYARD, son of Secretary of
State Bayard, has been appointed Secre-
tary of Arizona.
A PROCLAMATION was issued on the 9TH by
the President commanding rioters at Seattle
and other places in Washington Territory
to dispense Immediately The order was for
the protection of the Chinese.
LEvERETT SALToNsTALL has been appoint
ed Collector of the Port of Boston
Don CARLOS BUELL. has been appointed
Pension Agent at Louisville and Robert
McKinstry Pension Agent at Detroit.
THE exchanges at twentysix leading
clearing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggregated ST.
070, 1902, against 1864, 1913, 494 the previous
week. AS compared with the correspond
ing period of 1884, the increase amounts to
1876 per cent.
THE newly appointed Civil-Service Com
missioners met in Washington on the 9th
and organized by electing Mr. Edgerton, of
Indiana, as President.
The issue of standard silver dollars for
the week ended on the 18th was 786,047.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-13
THE ROUNDUP.
Figures Approaching the Actual Result In
the Recent Elections in New York, Iowa
Pennsylvania and Elsewhere.

Figures Approaching the Actual Result In
the Recent Elections in New York, Iowa
Pennsylvania and Elsewhere.
The Knights of Labor claim for them
selves the credit of re-eIecting Governor
Hill, in New York, saying that their order
voted almost unanimously for him because
OF the stand he took toward the labor meas
ures to be brought forward in the next
Legislature. With eight counties to hear
from, including the counties of New York,
Albany and Erie, the Prohibition vote is
16, els, against Is, S53 cast for ST. John last
year. The New York Tribune places Hilrs
plurality at 1925, and the Republican ma
Jorlty on joint ballot in the Legislature
at 80.
The Dubuque Herald estimates LARA
bees majority in Iowa at S,373. The
FuslonistS have gained s votes in the Sem
ate and lost 10 in the House, and the Re-
publicans will have majority in the Leg
iSlature on joint ballot of 80. Over So
600 Republicans, it is estimated, failed to
vote.
Quay's plurality in Pennsylvania is A.
137. SwOpe (Dem. is elected to Congress
from the Nineteenth District by plurality
of 1886.
With three towns unreported, the total
Gubernatorial vote in Massachusetts is as
follows: Robinson, liz, 800: Prince, 80,
1873; Lothrop, 1852; Sumner, 2,184; Rob-
inson's plurality over Prince, 22,216.
Corrected returns from Connecticut show
that the House of Representatives will con-
tain 1872 Republicans and 116 Democrats.
There will probably be several contests.
Returns from nearly every county in
South Dakota show light vote was pollet.
The State Constitution was adopted by 10,
600 majority. Minority representation was
carried, while Prohibition is in doubt
The full Republican State ticket was elect
ed. Late returns show Huron to have
1000 over Pierre for the capital. There is
great rejoicing here
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-13
CONFESSED THEIR GUILT.
Three Persons Arrested in st. Louis,
Charged with the Recent Dynamite
Outrages, Own Up.

Three Persons Arrested i'm st. Louis,
Charged with the Recent Dynamite
Outrages, Own Up.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Nov. 6.-The gang of
dynamiters who attempted to blow up sew
eral street cars recently were arrested yes
terday. They are street-car strikers and
members of Cleveland Assembly, Knights of
Labor. AlonZo Pinkerton, Master Work
man of the Assembly; David keenan,, the
Treasurer and Willard P. Sears, the Judge
Advocate, are among the prisoners. to-
gether with four other members of the AS
sembly--George B. Witthrow, Phillip
Burns, John Shaughnessy and M. Weathers.
A detective attended the meetings of the
strikers, logged some of them repeatedly
after meetings, and on one occasion:saw
one of them place an explosive on a street.
car track. The detective secured the OK.
plosive.
Finally Wednesday night one of the gang
was quietly arrested. He was subjected to
rigid examination, and he told the
whole story. Another was quietly taken
into custody, and few questions put to
him. He, too, wilted. The other arrests
quickly followed. They have all con-
fessed, and each is trying to make his part
in the conspiracy as light as posi-
BILE and blaming the Others for dragging
him into it. The dynamite was purchased
in Louisville by Weathers, who was sent
there for it. Master Workman Pinkerton
signed warrant on Treasurer keenan, for
twenty dollars out of the lodge treasury,
ostensibly to buy food for the families of
the striking conductors and drivers, but in
reality for Weathers.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-13
LATER.

THE Indian Government ON the 10th
formally declared war against Burmah,
with the sanction of Queen Victoria, and
sent forward en- invading army of Is, 900
men.
THE National Butter, Cheese and Egg As
ISOLATION commenced it's annual session in
Chicago on the 10th.
SIXTY families at Point aux Esquimaux,
Quebec, were on the 10th said to be starv-
ing, and would die of hunger unless relief
speedily arrived.
DURING the last fiscal year 1921 post
offices were established, $50 discontinued,
and II ,203 postmasters appointed.
THE post-office at Plymouth Box, Utah,
has been discontinued for the reason that
the inhabitants of Plymouth have all moved
away except the postmaster, his four wives
and fifteen daughters.
GEORGE ScHAEFER, a banker and dealer
in cotton at Hampton, Ga, failed on the
10th for $4,000.
THE exposition at New Orleans was form
ally opened on the 10th Complete ex-
hibits from twenty -two States and Terri
tories had arrived, and fine displays from a
dozen countries to the southwark were in
position.
THE Methodist Episcopal Missionary Con-
ference at its recent session in. New York
appropriated S46,700 for missionary work
during the coming year, an increase of So
200, over last year.
TwENTY-s1x deaths occurred in Montreal
on the 10th from smallpox.
FURTHER advices of the 10th say that
oil
recent wreck of the steamer Algoma on
Lake Superior.
WILLIAM HYDE, President of the Missouri
Republican Company, was on the 10th APP
pointed postmaster at ST. Louis
THE eighth annual American Fat Stock
and Dairy Show opened in Chicago on the
10th.
THE November crop report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture says that the corn
yield for 1885 is above the average of the
last ten years.
GEORGE j. FRYER, express agent and
postmaster at Glencoe, Can. absconded on
the 10th, taking $1,000 left with him by
banks to be expressed. He also took
woman with him, leaving his wife in desti-
tute circumstances.
AN lncendiary fire on the 10th destroyed
the courthouse and County Treasurer's
office of Leon County Tex. many valuable
records, which could not be duplicated, be-
ing destroyed
In the Eliza Armstrong abduction case at
London the defendants found guilty of in
decent assault were sentenced as follows on
tire 10th: Mr.. Stead, of the Pal Nal Gazette,
to three months, in,Driso..ma,t Pahocca
Jarrett six months, Sampson Jacques one
month, and Nine. Louise Mourey six
months.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-13
Collision of Steamers.

: CINCINNATI, o., Nov THE steamer
Mountain Girl, carrying Holland & Nc
Mahons Circus from Lawrencebnrg, Ind,
to Vevay, or Rising Sun, collided at about
one o'clock yesterday morning about mile
below Laughery Island, dozen miles
below Lawrenceburg, with the steamer
James w. Gaff, and was sunk with
ten valuable horses, number OF
snakes, and all the circus tents
and paraphernalia. John King, of Cincin-
natl. and Richard Harrcll, of Lawrence
burg, are missing, and 1t is believed that
they were drowned. Some of the circus
men say they saw King in the water The
remainder of the people on the Mountain
Girl, numbering between thirty and forty,
were rescued and brought here to-day by
the Calf. Many of them arrived hatless
and shOeless, and some nearly naked.