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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-30
PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS
. Belief that Serious Trouble Will Be
Encountered in the Senate.
Points from the Annual Report of Agricult-
ural Commissioner Colman-An Effort
to Provide a Place for Hughes East.
THE PRESIDENTS NOMINATIONS.
All the Opposition Thereto Will Not Come
from Republicans.

All the Opposition Thereto Will Not Come
from Republicans.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-"I am very sure that
there will be some trouble in securing the con-
frmations of the Presidents nominations" said
a well-known Southern Democratic congress
man to-day. There will be some trouble in one
instance, 1 know"
what! will you fight it9 You, a good Bour-
bon Democrat!"
Eyes, sir. Ishall fight at least one nomina-
tion," was the reply; land I presume there are
other Democrats as good and prominent as l
am who will object to combinations. I don't
propose to stand idly by and see thieves put
into responsible positions and their nominations
confirmed. O, no; that is too much. A man was
some time ago appointed to a place in
my district who is a wellknown
thief. The Office is one of prominence and of
trust. 1t requires the highest degree of honesty.
The appointment is simply a travesty on good
government and honesty"
1t is quite probable that the most formidable
opposition to combinations will come from mem
bers of the party in power. Political jealousies
and repulsion of impositions will lead them to
bitter warfare.
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General and Personal.

Mrs. Hugh McCulloch and Miss May McCulloch are
at present in Florence, where Mrs. McCulloch lived
turnine 70 tbis con nney VIII III * , = n bn bof u Na ~
Years: The ex-Secretary has returned from the farm
to his house, where he is pleasantly surrounded by his
niece, Miss Cox, and his three grandchildren.
The demise of Vice-president Hendricks will not
interfere with the programme of dinners, receptions,
and other social and official observances and festivi-
ties at the White House during the winter. The pre-.
eedents are said to be against allowing the death of
the V1ce.president to interfere with the Inequalities
winch the President is expected to extend to the
public, to the members of the two houses of Congress,
the Supreme Court, the army and navy, and the
diplomatic corps. The Vicepresident is not regarded
as a member of the administration in as full a degree
as a Cabinet minister. ana his death is officially re.
garded as a bereavement to the legislative rather than
the executive branch of the government.
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Indiana Notes.

The newspaper men of Jacksonville, propose to or.
ganlze a press club.
Joseph 2. Durham has been appointed postmaster
at Wageland, vice j. S. Lewis, deceased.
Ten dollars is the fine for wife-beating at Jefferson.
vile, as assessed by a justice of the peace.
Levi Dodge, of Constantine, Mich. has been to
Charlottesville to see about a location of a paper mill.
w. E. Wilson was convicted of forgery at Co
lumbus, and sentenced to three years in the peniten-
tiary.
A little daughter of David Foster. of Manchester
fell into a tub of hot water, and was scalded to
death.
Thomas Wen, while driving a rabbit from a hollow
log, near Liberty, was mistaken for a wild turkey,
and shot by a party of hunters. His injuries are Sc
rious.
Frank A. Neal, of Wesley, one day last week husked
40 bushels of corn in ten hours. This would be
fourteen bushels an hour, or one bushel in less than
five minutes.
Henry Reeser, who escaped from the sheriff of Clay
county, some month ago, while en- route to the peni.
Tertiary to serve q sentence of five years, surrendered
to the authorities at Jeffersonville Friday night.
An inquest by a. commission in lunacy has been held
on Mrs. Andrew Luce, wife of a prominent clergy.
man in LaGro She was pronounced insane. and will
be taken to the asylum at Indianapolis. Mrs. Luce
has been in bad health for two years, and her insanity
is due to continued sickness.
The Bon Ton, "a paper of good tone" as il an
nounces itself, is the latest weekly literary venture at
Logansport. j. E. Sutton is editor and publisher. 1t
proposes to be a vent for Logansport literary talent,
and the INITIAL number contains contributions from
Judge Horace P. Biddle, DR.. j. A. Adrian, Willard G.
Nash, Daniel Pratt Baldwin, S. L. McFadin, James T.
Dryer, Samuel L. Mcclure. DR.. W. H. Bell, Miss Kate
White and Mrs. A, Ell. Beals.
The trial of DR.. A. j. Boswell, charged with an as
sault with intent TO kill, on the person of Thad But
Ter, editor of the Andrews Express, will come I'D to-.
morrow before Judge Winfield, of Logansport, at
Huntington. Mr.. Vaughn, prosecutor of Wells coun-
ty, will represent the State: The grand jury of Hunt
ington county failed to indact Boswell, and he is held
to the coming trial on a bench warrant. Great inter.
est is manifested in the trial.
The libel suit of William Ward and Henry Crum.
rine against the Wabash Times Association. in the
sum of 50, 600 each, came up in the Circuit Court, at
Wabash, and, on motion of the defendants attorneys,
achange of venue was granted to Grant county, where
the trial will take place in January. Negotiations are
pending for the purchase OF the Times property by
John Eastman and Harry Sailor, two young journal.
lists who have editorial control of the paper at
present.
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JAY GOULD TO RETIRE.
Tie Great Spectator Decides to Abandon
the Active Pursuit of Money.

New YORK, Nov. 28-Jay Gould is to retire
from Wall street. His connection with the
brokerage firm of W. E. Conner & Co., with
which he has been identified for eight or ten
years, will be severed Jan. l. His son will take
the same action. and as soon as Mr.. Gould's
yacht, Atalanta, can be made ready, Mr.. Gould
intends to start on q long voyage, which may ex-
tend over four or five months. The time for his
sailing has not been fixed, but if arrangements
can be completed he will leave New York before
Jan. l.. He will visit the Windward islands, and
probably go as far south as Rio de Janeiro.
During his absence his son. who is a vice -presi-
dent in the companies controlled by Mr.. Gould.
will attend to his business interests, and with
this purpose will occupy his Offices in the West
ern Building.
II have been nearly twenty five years in Wall
street" Mr.. Gould said to-day. speaking of his
retirement, land it is about time, / think, that
/ made way for younger and more active men. /
am nearly fifty years old, and have earned a
rest. Ny connection with Wall street, however.
has been slight for a long time. l sold out all
my speculative holdings during the summer,
and the change, SO far as I am concerned will be,
therefore,, hardly a change at all. A year ago l
contemplated this step, but was prevented by
certain reasons from taking it. There could not be
a better time than the present for me to dissolve
absolutely my connection with stock specula-
ton. Confidence has been largely restored, and
the business of the country now rests on SUBJ
stantial foundations. I cannot be charged with
having abandoned o sinking ship, for | have
clupg to il through the storm. and pleasant
weather now attends it,"
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MINOR MATTERS.

An Effort Looking to Securing a Place for
Col. Hughes East.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.--An effort will be
made by the Indiana and some other friends Of
the late Vice-president Hendricks to influence
the Vice -president pro ten pore Of the Senate,
when elected, to retain Col. Hughes East,
the Vice-president's private secretary, in the
position he occupies, or give him one OF
the other Offices the Vice-president COM
mands. Colonel East is a painstaking and
accommodating official, courteous to everybody,
and has friends throughout Washington. He is
not possessed of much means, and has a family
consisting of a wife and three daughters, whom
he has just removed here from their Indiana
home. The position of private secretary is a
confidential one, and he will scarcely be kept in
that, but there are other places, and he will I'M
doubtedly be given one of them.
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TIE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 80, 1885

Bile to say what this choice will be until matters
develop a little. All personal and politi-
cal arguments would seem to point to-
ward casting his lot with Austria,
for it was not Austrian agents who have been
striving to undermine him at Sofia and Philip
opolis, and it was not the Austrian Emperor
who ordered his disgraceful dismissal from a
certain regiment. Besides, Roumella, which
lies between him and Russia, is already under
Austrian influence, so it will be relatively safe
for him to join the embryo Balkan confederation
which the Hapshures are building up against
the Romanofs; but this is complicated by the
fact that Austria has responsibilities toward the
wretched King Milan and his Inundated
subjects, and she must protect them
from the full consequences of their mis-
hap. If Primo Alexander should be able
to restrain himself and reconcile the natural de-
sire for a complete triumph with the Austrian
necessity Of championing Servia, the way would
seem clear for an arrangement which would
leave Russia absolutely baffled and friendless.
But If he insists on forcing the dregs of the cup
down King Milan's throat a peaceful solution
would be impossible, and Austrian loops would
occupy Servia next week.
The situation is really at its very darkest. It
may be that the dawn of light is near, and it may
be that devastation aud horror are near. 1t is
Tor him and his protector, Lord Salisbury. to de-
termine.
Tn fugitive King Milan is hiding from the
wrath of his soldiers in the field, and dreading to
face the rage of his subjects at the capital.
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The Life-Saving Service.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-The annual report of
the General Superintendent of the Life-saving
Service shows that at the close of the last fiscal
year the establishment embraced 203 stations,
157 being on the Atlantic, 3S on the lakes, 2 onthe
Pacific and at the Falls of the Ohio. The number
of disasters to documented vessels within the
field OF station operations during the year was
256; there were on board these vessels 2,206
persons, OF whom 2, 196 were saved.
The estimated value of the vessels
involved in these disasters was So, 519, $50, and
that of the cargoes 81, 084, 905, making a total of
1904 .455. Of this amount SO, 1852, 760 was saved.
The number of vessels totally lost was hfty-six.
The total loss of life within the scope of the
service is the smallest ever reached since its gen.
eral extension, except in the year 1880, when
but nine were lost. Since that time, however,
the field of operations has been greatly enlarged
by the addition of twenty -four stations.
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INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS.
Desperate Fight WOod-Choppers
in Which One Man Is Seriously Hurt.

Desperate Fight Between Wood Choppers,
in Which One Man Is Seriously Hurt.
SDecial to the Indianapolis Journal.
WABASH, Nov: 29.-At a late hour yesterday,
Joseph Spencer and Sylvester Hall, wood chop
pers, while engaged at their work, four miles
east of this city, became engaged in an ~alterca-
ton, and Spencer, who is the younger of the
two, set upon Hall and pounded him unmereiful-
ly. Hall and Spencer went to the cabin occu-
pied by both with their families, where Spencer
renewed the attack, breaking Halls furniture
over his head and throwing all the glassware
in the house at him, cutting many ugly
gashes in the old mans head and
crushing in his skull. Spencer fed,
taking to the woods, after he had driven off the
women and children of both families. But for
the care Of neighbors Hall would have bled to
death. A warrant for Spencer's arrest, charging
him with an assault to kill, was placed in Officer
Frank Illness hands this afternoon. Lines
tracked the fugitive to an old cabin in the woods,
near the scene or the tragedy, where he sue
ceeded in arresting Spencer, who was brought to
this city and placed in Jail. He will be tried to-
morrow morning. Spencer is known az a vicious
and quarrelsome character, and has been in
many serious scrapes before. Hall, who is an
old man and somewhat inirm, is IN O critical
condition
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and the appointment of r. A. d. WiIbanks, for many
years a clerk of the Supreme Court.
The demise is announced of John T. Stuart, Of
Springfield, in whose Office Abraham Lincoln studied
law.
Rev. John H. Honour, of Charleston, and Rev. DR..
Charles Hawley, of Auburn, passed away ON Thanks
giving Day.
AT Galesburg, a man named Carlton, while getting
on the cars, had his pocket picked of $500 In money
and 5000 in notes.
A boy aged fourteen years, named Snyder, living
near Cabery. was killed and eaten by hogs while sleep
ing on a strawstack near his fathers house.
George w. Rossiter, a saloon-keeper, was found
dead in the street in Gilman. with two bullet-holes
in his head. He had been murdered and robbed of a
large sum of money by parties unknown.
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Social Changes at the Capital.

Washington Special.
The death of Mr.. Hendricks changes the situa-
ton, so far as the social situation is concerned.
Mrs. Hendricks would have been next to Miss
Cleveland, and she had made great preparations
for social activity during the coming winter.
She is a very ambitious woman, fond on society
and political power. She was fully as much of
a politician as her husband, and a great deal
more energetic. She would have built up for
herself a very formidable place in Washington.
In the case of an unmarried President there is
not the same Difference paid TO any lady selected
by him to preside over the White House as there
10 to a Presidents wife. The wives of the other
officials, while they are obliged to yield to the
ladies designated by the President, do not take
kindly to such designation. AS Miss Cleveland
is not fond of going out, Mrs. Hendricks would
have been the most conspicuous figure, taking
precedence over all other of the official ladies at
all of the gatherings of the winter. Her retire
ment with her husbands death gives the place
to the wife of the Republican Senator who will
De elected when the Senate meets. II this should
happen to be General Logan, Mrs. Logan will do
the honors to the satisfaction of even the Demo
cratic members of the official families at Wash
lngton. She is a lady of rare experience in So
cial affairs, with abundant tact and a very wide
popularity.
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SPANS DEAD KING.

The Remains of the Late Alfonso Removed
to the Palace of the Escurial.
MADRID, Nov. 29.-The body of the late King
Alfonso was removed to-day to the palace of the
EscuriaI. The remains were followed by the
royal family, the members of the Cabinet, and a
long procession of the nobility and other mourn
ers. The bier was covered with floral wreaths
and crowns. The weather was dull.
Ex-Queen Isabella has written a letter to
Queen Christina, in which she places her in
fuence at Christmas service. The Queen has
received a declaration to the same effect from
the Duke de Montpensier. Queen Christina
was intensely agitated during the ceremony
connected with her taking the oath of
allegiance to the Constitution. The moment
the eremony was over, she retired to her apart
ments in a hysterical condition.
At a reunion of Moderate Republicans, which
was attended by Senior Casteler, it was agreed
not TO attempt a revolution. but to quietly wait
DEVELOPMENTS.
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A Startling Transformation.

NEW YORK, Nov. 28.-The Times's London
cable letter says: Never was a Kaleidoscope
transformation more startling and swift than
the change which has come over the face of
affairs in the Balkans. The prince who, Just
two months ago. was an object of universal
wrath and scorn in European official circles. has
become the most heroic and striking figure of
the day. In September the crowned heads
and diplomatic bigwigs were debating how to
make his punishment drastic and degrading
enough sufficiently to chastise him and to warn
others. In November they verge on the ridicu-
lous in their efforts to establish as a
fact that they always admired him and wished
him we'll. In the meantime, he is VIGOROUSLY
intrenched on Servian soil, with the enemy at
his mercy. 1t is difficult 20 describe the com
pleteness of the Servian collapse, moral as we'll
as military. We are beginning to learn now by
devious ways that the most of the earliest
stories of Servian victories were made out of
whole cloth. that the soldiers behaved through
out with utter poltroonery whore there were not
five or six to one, and that King Milan person
ally acted consistently the part of an abject cow
ard, and yet, months ago, there was not an
authority in Europe, except the Russians,
who would not believe that he would
have an easy promenade to Sofia, and
that the Bulgarians would fee like
frightened sheep on his approach. Rarely, in
deed, has so big and CLASSY a bubble been pricked
so we'll Not since Garibaldi's Messini days,
prooaoly, mas Europe peen so warmly enthusiast
tic over an armed hero as now over Prince Alex
ander, of Battenberg. Perhaps the chronicles
of his achievements win dwindle when time ends
them, but just now they read like the tales of a
veritable Cid. In this era of warfare by long
range artillery. and OF man1uveriug by electric
buttons, the spectacle of a monarch who fights
with his own sword in hand-to-hand battles is
inspiringly welcome. Everybody hopes that, I'M
like Garibaldi, he will prove to possess a clear
head as well as a ~knightly heart. The time is at
hanj xvhau ha will need a haad nf a wary supor;or
order. He has won An unexpected-an almost
unexamplsd victory-and now ne must solve the
problem of keeping the fruits of it. This cor
respondence has been OF little service If it has
not made it clear that he is between the mill
stones Of Russian and Austrian ambition, and if
he wishes to save himself from being ground he
must make a speedy and sagacious choice as to
which side he will climb out on. 1t is impossi-
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FOREIGN
The Socialist Trials at Warsaw Alleged
Crimes of the Prisoners.

1u0 SOCIdllSC 1TIaIS AT warsaw Alleged
Crimes of the Prisoners.
WARSAW, Nov. 29-The Socialists whose trial
began yesterday include Bardowski, Judge de
paix, of Warsaw; Iglestrom, nephew of the Rus
sian General Iglestrom; Sakolnicki, a colonel of
artillery; Luvy, a military engineer; Wary
niski, an advocate; Kunicke. a civil engineer
of st. Petersburg; DR.. Rechnieueski, of the Mos
cow University; Janowiz, a large land owner, of
Lithuania; several Warsaw journalists, and FIVE
workmen. One of the workmen, named Helsser,
is charged with killing his own broth
or, whom he suspected of being a
spy. The prisoners are charged with
belonging to the central committee of a Warsaw
society, allied to the executive committee of the
Narodnai Volice; with organizing workmen's
committees throughout Poland; with making an
attempt upon the life of the Gear through a mine
under a street in Warsaw. and numbering two
police agents. Newspapers have been forbidden
to report the proceedings of the trial. Some of
the leading members of the bar of ST. Peters
burg, Moscow and Warsaw have consented to
defend the prisoners. The trial is being con-
Quoted in the citadel.
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TIE BALKAN A
Bulgaria Notifies the Powers that Servia Has
Violated the Armistice.

Bulgaria Notifies the Powers that Servia Has
Violated the Armistice.
LONDON. Nov. 29.-Advices from Sofia state
that the Bulgarian government has notified the
powers that the Servians, in violation of the
armistice, have attacked the Bulgarians at Arzer
Paianka.
A Rustchuk dispatch says it is rumored there
that a special messenger, bearing dispatches
from Queen Victoria to Prince Alexander, is en-
route to Sofa.
A dispatch from Semlin says the Danube
Shipping Company and the Austrian and Hun
garian railway companies have been ordered to
make preparations for the transportation of
200, 900 troops to Servia.
Advices from Servia say the Servian people,
press and army express Indignation over the CON
ciusion of an armistice with Bulgaria, when
there is a chance for Servia to retrieve her fort
unes.
A dispatch from Semlin says it is rumored
there that 40, 900 troops have been ordered to
mobilize in the Temzvar and Pesth districts.
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KILLED in Saloon Fie hts.

about IL o'clock last night IN a saloon on the corner
of Michigan and Perry streets. this city. John Keller,
o s~tevedore, with two friends, was drinking at the
bar, when James Devine, accompanied
by two friends, came in. A few words
we're passed, when Keller and his friends went out.
As they closed the door, Devine began taking oflhis
coat, when Keller returned, pointed a revolver at him
and fred. The ball entered Devine's abdomen, and
he died in a few minutes. Keller escaped.
LIVINGSTON, Tex, Nov. 29.-Last night. during o.
fight in Greers saloon, W. FL. Muckelroy was shot and
instantly killed by J. M. and w. M. Greer. Sixteen
shots were fired. and five balls penetrated Muckelroy' s
body. The evidence at the inquest to-day shows that
Muckelroy fired the first shot.
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A Manufacturing Company in Trouble.

RICHMOND, Nov. 29.-A bill was fled to-day in the
Chancery Court by A. Y. Stokes and George W. Allen,
for themselves and other creditors of the Gallego
Mills Manufacturing Company, praying for the ap-
pointrnent of a receiver. The aggregate liabilities of
the company are placed at $676,4oO. Judge Holla-
day appointed Thomas Potts, of the firm of Stokes &
Co., receivers, to take charge of the property and
operate the mills. subject to the orders
in the country, the original plant being made nearly
one hundred years ago. The mills have been de-
stroyed by fire several times, the last time at the evac-
uation of Richmond. Their manufacturing capacity
reached IL, 900 barrels of -four per day. The entire
property is probably worth over 81 600, 600.
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DETROIT, Mich, Nov. 29.-At Tecumseh. last
night, Aaron Palmer, while drunk, shot two brothers
named Anderson, merchants of that place. Palmer,
through the streets fourishing a revolver and bowie
knife and terrifying citizens and police. About III
o'clock he entered the post.otice, which was open for
the late mail. The Andersons tried to pacify him.
and succeeded in getting him to the sidewalk,
where he shot one of them. A handto-hand
encounter ensued with the remaining brother, in which
Palmer shot him twice. Palmer fled. Amob searched
for him all night, and he was finally captured this
afternoon near Tecumseh His victims are in q pre-
cArious condition.
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Showers of Stars.

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Nov. 29.-Dr. S. R.. Calthrop. the
astronomer, was on the lookout last night for a shower
OF stars connected with the Biela comet, which it was
calculated would Hume the heavens between 7 and 9
o'clock. At o'clock, as the radiant point was near
the zenith, the shower burst into view, stars dropping
downward in the north and east to the number of i29.
At / o'clock there was another shower, in which DIR.
Calthrop counted 100 stars. The spectacle was a verv
brilliant one. 1t has great astronomical value, on ac-
count of its connection with the comet, and the
promptness of its appearance. The shower was first
observed on Nov. 81, 1872.