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ILLINOIS.
An Atrocious Case of Wife Murder by q Sixty
Year-Old Farmer.

An Atrocious Case of Wife, Murder by Sixty
Year-Old Farmer.
CARAu, Sept 15-Wiliam Finley, a farmer,
sixty -one years of age. who lives five and half
miles southeast of this city, brutaly murdered
his wife, aged sixty years. yesterday There
were no witnesses of. the tragedy except two
grandchildren, boy and GIRL aged respectively
four and six years. The wife and husband had
been on unfriendy terms several days, and yes
terday he became violent and struck her twice.
telling her TO the earth. Then in a
frenzy he erasped butcher knife, and
as the poor woman reganed her
feet and fed from him, he repeatedly thrust the
blade into her head and body. Running a few
steps she fell dead. The little girl ran to
neighbours and gave the alarm, and a messenger
was sent to this city. Officers were seat after
the criminal, but he has not yet been found, and
it is thought that he may commit suicide in the
dense woods that adjoin his premises. The body
of the dead woman bears twelve CHASTITY wounds,
one in the chin, three in the top and back of the
head, six in the right side and two in the back
Finley has family of five sons and two daugh-
tiers, all grown.
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Minor Notes.

The Montgomery County Fair Association
cleared S. 900 last week
The special delivery stamps have been received
oy the Charlottesville postofice.
The New Castle Courier is publishing very
creditable daily during the Henry county fair.
A ten-dollar note was lost at Elkhart the other
day. and the entire town turned out to hunt
for it.
The Franklin Township Sundav-school Assoc-
alton will meet at Shannondale, Montgomery
county, Sept "a.
After six years Jerry and Godfrey Knight
have retired from the partnership of the Oliver
House, at South Bend, w. B. Titus succeeding
them.
David Coyner, the man who was cut by VIM
Armstrong. at Charlottesville last week. is
quite i'll, and has not been able to be taken home
yet His recovery is rather doubtful.
Louis L. Corner, seventy-three years old. a
veteran or the Mexican war, and soldier of
the late war. died at New Albany on Monday
He was buried yesterday with Masonic honors
Out of SO applicants for teachers license in
Montgomery county, at the recent examination
4O failed, received certificates for months 3S
for IL month, for "a months, and l for SO
months
The Kokomo City Council. at the regular
meeting on Monday night, ordered a special
election for Thursday, Oct. s, to decide whether
the people desired water-works or. not There
"PP0oi W 10 iA euO city n pTebty cQudi ulflSlVu
of opinion on the question.
j. A. Mount. residing near Shannondale
Montgomery county, ON whose farm the masIo-
don teeth were recently found, will in few
weeks begin search for the remains of that
animal which he is positive are near the same
place where the teeth were found
Willie Albers. boy employed in the compos-
ing room of the Evansville Courier, while passing
through the press room, fell into an old we'll into
which the exhaust steam is turned. his right leg
going into the scalding water. His injuries are
painful but not thought to oe dangero
Judge Stanfield died at South Bend, on Sat
urday. of Bright's disease from which he had
been sufferer for more than year. He was
born in Logan county, o., in 1916. and settled
in South Bend in 1881. He was chosen circuit
judge in 1852 and again in 1870. He was several
times elected to the Legislature, and was Wing
candidate for ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, running TO- :
900 votes ahead of his ticket His wife and
three children survive him. During the later
years of his life he was attorney for the Lake
Shore q Michigan Southern and Chicago &
Grand Trunk roads
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Strangled by a Jealous Husband.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. Isl. G. Gull. a
farmer. living near Livermore in Alameda
county. stranged his wife to death with his
hands in the presence of six-year old daughter,
yesterday, and> then attempted to commit
suicide by hanging himself with rope to a bed
post. Seeing what her father was about to do,
the child began to cry, and begged him not to
kill himself The fearful pleading of the little
one induced the murderer to abandon his inten-
ton of suicide He then hitched up his team
and drove off. He was found two hours later
asleep in his wagon, about two miles from town.
and was placed under arrest Gull has been con-
sidered insane for some time. and was known to
be intensely jealous Of his wife.
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Indiana Postmasters Commissioned.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON Sept. 15-Postmasters' COM
missions have been issued for the following
Indianians:
Ella F. Edwards, Celina; Samuel Biteman,
Geneva; Frank Fl. Butler, New Haven; Alfred
II. Mcguire. Oxford; Bayard T. Hale. Point
Isabel Charles n. Wales, Xenia; John T.
Hedrick, Alfordsville; Christopher c. Swain,
BARRIERS Mills; George W. Donaldson. Bicknell;
Will N. Underwood, Cannelton; Charlotte A.
Wait, Chill; Francis N. Griffith, Denver; Will
lam F. shively, Edwardsport; Thomas p.
Latham, Paramount: George Stocker, Hobart;
Scott 1nge. Knightsville; Lewis Byrum. Laconia;
William S. Campbell, Lovett; Franklin P. Jar
rell Marco; Reason c. Hilburn, Newberry; John
NJ Whitmer Star City: John Schweitzer, Up
land; Sidney S. Reed, Wheeler.
The time schedule On the star mail route from
Maxinkuckee to Marmont has been changed by
the department as follows Leave Maxinkuckee
daily, except Sunday. at 10 A. NJ; arrive at
Marmont by II A NJ; leave Marmont daily, ex-
cept Sunday, at II M; arrive at Maxinkuckee by
p. M
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THE FOURTH-CLAss POSTMASTER.
One of the Devices by Which He Seeks to In
crease His EmoIuments.

Ohe Oh tie hetfces ny which no Seeks I'd IN
crease His Emoluments.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.-Postmaster j. w.
Flags, of Ellsworth Mass, has been recon-
mended for removal for mailing circulars at his
Office that should have been mailed at Boston
Fourth class postmasters are paid salaries based
on the number of stamps cancelled at their
offices. If such postmasters can, from friendship
or through corrupt means, induce business men
living in cities of the presidential grade to mail
large quantities of matter at their Offices, the
effect is to increase the postmasters' salaries
This practice is believed to prevail to gre at ex-
tent in the small towns surrounding Boston, and
to smaller extent, around New York The in
spectors investigation has revealed the fact
that there are persons in these cities
who make q business Of furnishing and address
ing great quantities of circulars, free of cost,
upon the payment of one cent postage upon each
circular They take these circulars to a small
village postoffice, and stipulate with postmas-
ter for share in his commissions, and this
share, it seems. is large enough to make the
business lucrative. There is said to be no
statute under which such persons can be pun
ished. and it is probable that the attention of
Congress will lie called to the need of legislation
in this particular But the regulations of the
Postoftice Department authorize the Postmaster
general to recover from postmasters any moneys
paid to them in excess of their lawful commits
sions. and under this provision ST. 600 has been
recovered from postmasters guilty of the above
described practice
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OF the United States have been investigating
during the past two years and which must
sooner or later come up for discussion in Con-
gress The United States consul for the Congo
country has recently made trip which he de-
tails in a racy way. The roads he travelled are
given good deal OF attention in his report and
must excite some comment, since everybody
wants to learn how people travel in wild, bar
barous country.
All the roads. theagent says are simply the
narrow paths from village to village, which are
followed by travellers, and so narrow are they
that the Indian fle' of march is by force
adopted. No rule has been observed in the orig
inal laying out of these paths nor have they
been improved. Only natives can be depended
upon to find the way without guide, and it not
unfrequently happens that the traveller takes the
wrong path and travels many miles, even days,
out of h is way before finding his mistake These
paths cross each other in every direction, and
great difficulty is experienced in keeping the
right one. Natives often tie the grass over the
path just at the point where the main path may
be intersected by another. thus purposely lead
ing one astray
Insthe valleys one may march many miles
through the tall, rank grass, often twelve to
twenty feet high, without being able to see out,
either right, left or overhead. In the dry, as
we'll as the wet season, the grass is wet and in
the early morning the traveller is thoroughly
drenched within few moments after entering
the valley. This condition arises from the heavy
dews which prevail throughout the dry season.
The traveller through the valley of the Congo
must wade swamps waist Deep swim rivers,
climb the rugged clay hills and cross miles of
arid sandy plains, without water and with
out a tree to shelter him from the scorching sun.
Then the tribes may be friendly or unfriendly.
Each tribe has separate dialect, and communi
cation is difficult. The natives are cruel,
Shieving set have villages inclosed by stockades
from six to twelve feet high, and are almost con-
stantly at war. They live in huts, and eat roots
and ground-nuts. Few wear any clothing what
ever. Their only money is represented in beads,
gin gums and powder The outlook for this
country in the way of trade in Congo is dsheart-
ening.
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Brief Mention.

The Mexican veterans of Illinois held a re-
union at bingham yesterday.
1t will require 800, 900 to meet the expenses of
Sangamon county for the coming fiscal year
Laura Mccall. fourteen years old, is missing
from Oakland, near Nation. She is believed
to have gone to Chicago dressed as boy.
The Rev. J. w. Deifendorf, pastor of Wesley
Mission Church. Peoria, will soon resign his
charge and embark in the insurance business
At French Village, George Williams shot and
killed John Eickup. Both were waiting upon a
Miss German, and the murder was the result of
jealous quarrel.
M. S. Mahan a hardware merchant at Henry,
fell during an epileptic fit while alone in his
store He had lamp in his hand at the time
which broke. igniting his clothes and burning
him SO that he died.
W. H. Simma. near Gibson City, has a musk
melon patch about ten feet wide and sixteen feet
long on which there sprouted $50 muskmelons
The fruit is so thick that the melons are piled I'D
four feet in some places.
At Mendoza, Peter Faber, a wealthy German
farmer who had retired from the active duties of
the farm and had moved into the city, committed
suicide with revolver. The deceased had suf-
fered sunstrOke some years ago
Reuben Wagner, proprietor Of the failed e ank
OF Forreston, made all assignment Monday to
Matthew Blair. one of the depositors. The
banks assets amount to ST. ,000 wi tn liabilities
of 800, 900, including sos. 900 on deposit Bad
management and losses in other ventures are
alleged to have caused the disaster.
Official returns OF the election for county
judge of jefferson county, held last Saturday,
give W. T. Pace, Democrat total vote of .532
to 1.070 for George B. Leonard, Republican. a
majority of 456 for Pace. The vote cast for
Pace was $50 less than Cleveland's vote last fall
The vote cast for Leonard was TIA less than
Blaine's vote. Clevelapd's majority was SAP, or
Sc more than PAGES majority. The poll of
Saturday was a little less than two-thirds vote.
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Too Many Tariff Tinkers..

oDeCIaI tHe
WASHINGTON, Sept ia Western con-
gresham, now in this city. said to your cor
respondent to day, that if there was not a ces-
sation Of work on tariff bills nothing would be
accomplished by the House on the question dur
ing the entire session this winter and next sum-
mer. TOO many cooks said he, always spoil
the broth, and it looks now as though there
would be twenty or thirty tariff bills presented
at the very opening of the session OF course
they will present as many ideas of how the tariff
ought to be revised and will undoubtedly lead to
division of the Democratic representatives,
unless one bill is early selected by caucus A
specific free-raw material bill is the one that
will succeed, if any of them will"
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INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS
The Rapid Fall of Young and Prom
Using Lawyer and Politician.
Heavy Robbery Near Wabash-Farcical Ter
minatiOn of What Once Promised a
Lynching-Wife Murder in Illinois.
INDIANA.
a Once-Promising Young Lawyer Charged |
with Stealing q Horse.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LoGANsPoRT, Sept. 15.-Will A. Kearney. the
young man who stumped the State last fall, in
the interests of the Republican party, making a
most brilliant canvass, was arrested at Sheldon,
ILL.,. last night, with horse belonging to Judge
Anathy Smith in his possession He was brought
to this city and placed in Jail to-day. He states
that another man stole the horse and passed it
over to him as his own property. Few people
take any stock in this story He has been in
volved in number of questionable transactions
recently, collecting money and falling to turn it
over, ETC., and last Wednesday a motion was
made by Judge Chase to disbar him from prac-
ticing at the Cass county bar The next day he
disappeared with the horse. His downfall is
directly attributable to wine and women. There
is little prospect that he will escape the penten
tiary.
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Heavy Robbery Near Wabash.
Il to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WABASH, Sept. 15.-Information has just
leaked out of heavy ROBBERY committed night
before last at the home of Joseph Ray, a wealthy
old gentleman living on Hill street, this city.
The thief entered by window which had lost
its fastening, and crawled over table, upsetting
a water pitcher and basket of clothes-pins.
This noise did not awaken Mr.. Ray, and the
burglar opened small chest and distracted
from pocket book in locked inside drawer the
sum Of 81. $50 in bills. The pocket-book was
then returned to its resting place. and the thief
made off through door. Officers who have
investigated the matter are Of the opinion that
the robbery was committed by some attache
about the premises, or at least by some one
thoroughly cognizant of the interior arrange
ment of the building.
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A Mormon Conference.

LONDON, Sept. ia Mormon conference was
held in London to-day. Delegates were present
from Norway. Sweden. Holland and Germany
President Penrose, of Salt Lake City, in his ad-
dress, boasted that Mormonism is spreading
in England. Scotland and Wales, but al
mitted that small results were being net
with in Ireland He said there were six Mormon
meeting houses in London and several thousand
converts, and that two years ago last January
1900 Mormon emisrants had been sent to Utah.
He predicted the defeat of the United States gov
ernment in its efforts to suppress polygamy.
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Testing the Muncie water-Works.

Special to the Indianapolis journal
MUNcIE, Sept l5.-In the presence of a large
number of our citizens and visiting committees
from other cities. the water works were form
ally tested here to-day, and it is due the company
to say that the test is satisfactory. test was
made few weeks ago, but it was found that
the pumps in use were too small to furnish suf-
fcient pressure. They wese replaced by
larger ones, with which pressure all the way
from 125 to 16O pounds was carried for almost ten
hours to-day. With five hundred feet of hose,
the company to-day succeeded in throwing seven
streams at the same time through ch-and-a-
quarter nozzle ITO feet high, and four such
streams much higher. The people appear to-
night well satisfied with the result of the test
and believe that for fire protectection the pres
sure and water supply are sufficient
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General and Personal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.-Judge Jere M. Will
son, of this city, who figured prominently as an
attorney for the defendants in the late starroute
trials, was to-day retained to argue the case of
Joseph Mackin, Chicago's convicted election con-
spirator, before the United States Supreme
Court Emery A. Storrs. who died last week,
was to have argued tie case for Mackin.
The President to-day appointed the following
collectors of customs: John McWilliams for the
district of Providence, r. l.; Jno. S. Hager. for
the district Of San Francisco; VIM. j. McKinnie,
for the district of Cuyahoea; John Flanagan, for
the Southern district of Oregon.
The President to-day appointed JAS. c. Reed
to be postmaster at Corinth, Miss.
A meeting of the Cabinet was held to-day, at
which all the members were present except
Secretaries Bayard and Endicott 1t is under
stood that the silver policy of the government
was one of the questions considered.
The Postmaster general to-day appointed the
following named fourth-class postmasters:
Ohio-Carothers. Peter Betchman.
Indiana-North Union. John M. Baoye.
Illinois-Mazon, s. J. Campbell
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Much Cheaper than Hanging.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MARION. Sept 15.-The negro Wallace, whose
arrest, two months ago, for attempted rape, oc-
casoned so much excitement, resulting in an at
tempted lynching and tho death of young Kiley.
was tried in the Circuit Court, to-day, and the
jury returned, after several hours deliberation
with verdict of fine of $40 and costs. There
are threats, however, that it will not be safe for
Wallace TO run loose in the neighborhood, and he
is likely to give this part Of the country wide
berth
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The st. Joseph Poisoning Case.

Special to the indianapolis journal.
CHAMPAIGN. Sept 15.-The mystery deepens
in the ST. Joseph poisoning case. No reasonable
ground is found for selecting any individual as
being guilty of the awful deed. The superstition
that Miss Hasty poisoned her employers and
then herself, because they prevented her mar
riage to their son, is now disbeieved by many
The excitement has become intensified with dis
cussion and the failure to find any sort of reas-
enable solution. 1t is understood the grand jury
will investigate the case.
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Matrimonial,

Special to tho indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.-Frank Jones, of
Rockport, Ind, member OF the Capitol police,
and Miss Ella Ferguson, of this city, were mar
ried by Rev. G. o. Little, of Assembly Presby-
terian Church, at $50 o'clock this afternoon.
The ceremony occurred at the residence of the
brides mother. There were several Indianians
present, among others Col. w. Z. Mclean,
Deputy Commissioner of Pensions; ex-State
Senator G. r. Faulkner, Congressman ]. J.
Klener and wife; Judge H. J. May and wife;
Col. r. j. Bright, and House Postmaster
IYcurguS Dalton.
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Brakeman Fatally Injured.

Special to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal.
KoKoMo. Sept 15.-Will E. Critics. brake
man on train No 5, of the T., G. & St l..
narrow gauge, met with serious and perhaps
fatal accident this evening. He was coupling
a car, when he caught his foot in frog, and a
car was backed against him. He was caught by
the brakebeam and crushed against he ties
his pelvis bone left foot and elbow being badly
crushed. His physicians think he will hardly
live till morning His father. W. H. Critics, is
conductor on passenger No. 4. Young Critics is
twenty-three years of age, single, and resident
of Delphos
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Russia Didn,t WANT zultikar Pass.

LONDON. Sept. 15.-M. Lessar. the chief of the
Russian branch of the Afghan boundary com
mission, was interviewed before leaving London
He said that Zulifkar Pass was of no strategic
Importance. The eastern mouth of the pass re-
mains in Russia's possession. aud the Afghans
might erect fort works if they pleased. There
was no general desire among the Russians to at
tack Herat through Zuifkar Pass.
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ment, under civil-service rules. He got three
extensions of the times fixed for entering upon
his little sinecure, and wound up by refusing to
take the place. When the appointment clerk
received the refusal he was paralyzed, almost
1t pretty nearly took his breath. Such a case
had never occurred before, and he knew not what
to do. Ohio is now far behind the Hoosier State
in the matter of dsinterested patriotism
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An Indiana Man Who Actually Declined a
Place I'm Department..
Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Sept 15.-Indiana secures the
pastry again She has produced people who
have figured in many ways here, but has reserved
one to commit the oldest freak of the age. A
few weeks ago one of her sons was appointed to
a first-class clerkship in the Postofice Depart
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High Prices for Jerseys.

NEW YORK. Sept ia sale of twenty seven
head of registered Jersey cattle took place to-day
herders and dealers in fancy stock attended the
sale. bull calf, son of BLACK Prince of Lin
den," sold for So, 900. "Fillpail Second" four
year-old cow, brought $1,000; the bull "Biack
Prince OF Linden" went at ST. $50; the cow
.Westphalia' sold for 81, 100 and the famous
cow Oxford Kate" sold at S. $50
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Apaches Again on tho war-Patb.

SANTA FE, N. NJ. Sept 15-Although the
country to the south is filled with troops, and
efforts are being made to head of the small band
of raiding Apaches. not an Indian or "a squaw has
been captured. The Indians are now working
northward from Grant county toward the San
Carlos reservation On Sunday they killed
Avento Orela and George Horn. A portion Of
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Gable Notes.

Joseph Beaum. the French painter, is dead
1.-THE Maiden Tribu.e."a drama in two acts,
based on the Pail Mall Gazette's recent articles
exposing London vice, is being performed at
Pesth, in Hungary.
Miss Nevada will be married to Mr. Palmer OF
Oct l. The civil ceremonies will take place at
the English embassy in Paris, and the religious
ceremony in the Church of the Peres Passion
iSteS
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Literally Crushed to Death.

Special TO the Indianapolis journal.
VINCENNEs, Sept 1b.-John Webster, a tele-
graph line repairer of this city. met with horri-
BILE death yesterday at Fort Ritner, on the Ohio
& Mississippi railroad, by being crushed between
the platform of the depot and a moving train
He was literally mashed to jelly. He carried
accident policy of s., 600 in the Equitable Life
Insurance Company of Cincinnati