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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-11
Brief Mention.

The Illinois Baptist Bible Association is in ses-
sion at Decatur, with B. r. Jacobs, of Chicago
presiding.
The funeral of Charles D. Wright (''Majah
Gutrppah"), took place in Chicago on Wednes-
day. The wife of the deceased is seriously i'll
from the shock of his sudden death.
George F. Miller. Republican, has been ap-
pointed sheriff of Piatt county, to fill vacancy
caused by resignation of John E. Andrew, who
resigned to be deputy United States collector of
internal revenue.
Jennie L. Ross, daughter of ex- Congressman
L. w. Ross. of Lewistown, and G.. K Barrere
son of ex-Congresslnan Granville Barrere, of
Canton, were married at the residence Of the
brides parents, in Lewistown ON Wednesday.
A Ere at Mt Erie caused much damage The
losers are j. w. Vandeveer, drugs; G. E. Quinn
by, clothing; f. A. Travis, groceries; Drs Mum
dy & Gum and Dr. M. FL. Sheldon, Office fix
lures and drugs; David Holmes, livery stable;
F. M. Yohe harness shop. Scarcely any goods
were saved except Yohe's stock Of saddlery
Only one house was left in the block Vande-
veer and Quimby were insured; Travis was not
In a quarrel at Nokomis Albert Allen was
shot by young man named Hartmann. Allen
threatened to shoot Hartmann. The latter went
to his home, still followed by Allen. who was
armed, when Hartmann's mother came out and
endeavored to make Allen leave In few
moments Hartmann came out of the house with
q revolver, and reaching over his mothers
shoulders fred at Allen. The ball took effect
in his right breast, inflicting wound which will
prove fatal. Hartmann was arrested, and is
held without ball. to await the result of Aliens
wound.
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INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS
The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of
all Kinds in the Two States.
Row Among Shelby County Democrats-Fa-
tally Cut by His Wife-Assignment at
KnightstOwn-A Horrible Death.
INDIANA.

Democratic Row Caused by the Offer of a
Reward for Return of Stolen Goods.
Special to the indianapolis Journal
SHELYvILLE, Dec. 10.-At the time Judge
Hord's residence was burglarized, and 1000
worth of valuables stolen a reward of $3.50 was
offered by the Judge for the finding of the prop
erty and capture of the burglars AS will be re-
membered. Jesse Kay, farmer, found the goods
and was given $50 for his services. The Shelby
Democrat, few days ago, came out in long
article charging Sheriff Magill, Democrat with
black-mail, in that he attempted to get 800
out of Judge Hord for alleged services
in watching the cabin where the goods were
found to capture the burglars when. the Demo
crat says, the whole thing was false and a con-
spiracy between Ray and Magill. The
affair has created profound sensation
and tonight the Shelby Republican prints a
card from Sheriff Magill denying the charge
and making serious charges against the editor of
the Democrat. To prove his innocence Magiil
prints the following letter from Judge Hord:
James Magl: have not yet received your
paper or article published and referred to by
you. | can only judge of the contents from
your letter. L will say that any statement that
you demanded money of me is wholly unau-
thorized. as l gave You none nor did you
demand any of me. If any such state
ment is made on my authority it is wrong
Ray if you desire 1t. What l said was not I'M
derstood for publication, but did give him a
statement of facts as understood it before you
and Barger came to my house. K. NJ HoRD"
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THE FIRE RECORD.

Mishawaka Factories and Mills Suffer to the
Extent of $4,000.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MIsHwAKA, Ind, Dec. 10.-Fire broke out al
6 o'clock this evening in the A. II. Andrews &
Co.'s school furniture factory. The wind was
blowing gale at the time, and the fire spread
with fearful rapidity. The whole building was
a mass of flames in few minutes The wind
carried the blazing cinders to the large
Touring mill of Joseph & William Miller and
the Perkins wind mill factory, and to numberless
lumber piles adjacent, and soon these were
enveloped in flames. Assistance was telegraphed
for tc South Bend and Ekhart The former
city sent three hose companies, and the latter a
steamer, and by s o'clock the fire was under con
troll. The main portion of the Perkins factory
was saved The total loss Is estimated at SIS.
600, on which there is about $25 900 insurance,
distributed as follows:
A. Fl. Andrews & Co.. loss $25, 900; insurance,
$12 00O Joseph g. William Miller, loss $35,
600; insurance. Sd. 900. Perkins Wind mill Com
pany, loss, $l5 900; insurance not ascertained,
as the proprietors are all absent from the city,
but it is estimated to be SIC, 000
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Minor Notes.

A chess club is to be organized in New Albany
The immediate delivery system at Crawfords-
vile has been abolished.
Forty people went from Corydon to New Alba
ny to attend Talmages lecture.
Tippecanoe county has just borrowed $50. 900.
paying therefor at the rate of 81 per cent
protracted meeting is in progress at the
Christian Church, at Upton, and considerable
interest is being displayed.
John Clarke absconded trustee of Barr town
ship, Daviess county. is reported as having left
Canada and gone to Australia.
The State shooting tournament which was to
have been held at Charlottesville last Tuesday,
and Wednesday, was postponed ON account of
bad weather.
The Montgomery County Commissioners nave
employed John FL. Burford to act as attorney
for that county, at a salary of $500 per year
with no extra pay.
Alvin Askin, a farmer living two miles west of
and, as yet, has been unable to hear anything Of
the horse or thieves.
The Hood Holloway damage suit which has
occupied several days of the present term of the
Upton Circuit Court, was decided yesterday in
favor of the defendant
The supper given by the Upton NJ E. Church
on Wednesday evening was not largely at
tended was expected. The small attendance
was caused by bad weather.
The creditors Of A. Salinger, of Lafayette,
who recently failed, have filed a suit 20 set aside
preferred debts, and charging him with intent
to defraud his other creditors.
Three weeks ago some gold and silverware
and overcoats were stolen from w. G. Mauzy's
and Father Mackey's residences, at Rushville.
Yesterday Detective Carr returned nearly all
the goods, having recovered the same through
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Fatally Cut BY His Wife.


RICHMOND, Dec. 10-Yesterday Newton Dem
mis- and wife, who live near Franklin, Dalton
township and belong to one of the largest and
most prosperous families in that part of Wayne
county. being third cousins, went to Quaker
meeting at the town of Dalton. During the
meeting Dennis spoke. as Quakers are won't to
do of their concerns" and said something that
his wife took to be reflection up
on her family, for whom her husband
has not the best of feeling. state of affairs that
has led to considerable quarreling between the
two Returning home. quarrel got very hot
to chastise his wife she nearly disemboweled
him with butcher-knife This evening Dennis
is reported as fatally wounded, and his wife is
under $4,000 bonds charged with attempted
murder
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One of Fashions Follies.

Ph1ladeph1a Press.
Every woman who writes letters, and few of
them grow too old or Indifferent to make up n
combination of postscritps. must now be pro-
vided with a seal and its adjuncts. The outfit
consists of small tray, and on it match box,
a lamp, or candle and stick, box containing
sticks of wax of various colors and the seal it
self. These outfits come in great varieties and
many of them very handsome. The cheapest
are of polished copper ware, and the most ex
pensve made of sterling silver and elabor-
ately ornamented The price runs from 81. 80
up to $15 and 500 set. The seals cost about
the same, the price varying according to the
handle. Some handles are made of copper
some Of carved wood and others of ivory and
silver. The engraving of the seal plate increases
the price The statoners and jewelers. are doing
a brisk business just now IL working at coats-of-
arms, crests, monographs and initial letters. A
monogram costs between So and SO, and crests
and eoats-of- arms charged for according to
the amount of delicate detail there is III the
work.
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secure a route to the far West-that is Ohio,
with Illinois as remote possibility. Central
was bad stock, but old Vanderbilt got hold OF
Hudson River first 1t was q limping sort of
property, with an indefinite charter single
track and great future. The track he bought
for song, the charter was thrown in, and the
great future was what Mr.. Vanderbilt was spec
ulating on with a surety. After Hudson, the
capture of Central was easy. Twelve local lines
were snapped up piecemeal, united and such
men as Henry Keep the Pruyns, Martins, Pages
and even Mr.. Corning, the manager were pushed
aside by the rising Commodore, and by the usual
mode of an election with only one side present A
change was made in the directory and the new
board were all Vanderbilt men. Central :
Hudson were united. The capital added b. plain
arithmetic, amounted to $36, 900. AS united
by Vanderbilt they had total capital of $40,
O0O 600. There was water there but the divi-
dends were paid the water, and soon there
came 100 per cent stock dividend, and $9O, :
600, 900 was the total set down to capital in the
companys reports.
When, on Nov. H. 1869, the Vanderbilt bronze
was unveiled on the facade of the ST. Johns
depot, the world had learned to know that the
man whose figure filled the central niche was the
railroad king Of America The start had been
made Of the most colossal fortune the new world
ha ever seen. The Commodore had seized the
helm IN the rising industry of rapid and abund-
dant interstate communication To tell of the
influences sent out in thousand directions with
stock boards. legislative assemblies. upon the
bench and into the columns of the press would
fill volume Water was poured in by the lake
full to become gold. Hard, far-seeing schemes
were carried boldly through, injustice done in
not few instances. no doubt, and so. from the
foundations laid by bold navigator with his
wee sailing craft across New York bay a fortune
fit to buy State rests at one mans disposition.
Close calculators put Mr.. Vanderbilt's wealth
at upwards of 5000, 0OO 600, and one of them, who
says he has reason to think he is not far out of
the way, has prepared the following list of the
properties of the deceased:
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he was perfect philosopher Mr.. Vanderbilt's
idea of his relations to the rest of the world was
about this-that he did, according to his stand
point, as near right as he knew how.
He recognized that the very fact of his
wealth. and of the character of the in
vestments in which i. was put necessarily
subjected him to large amount of criticism
and discussion. He became accustomed to
abuse, and while don't think he was much af
fected by it, ne was nightly pleased when the
newspapers said nice things of him. That fa-
nous alleged expression of his. The public be
damned, has had the changes rung on 1t a thou
sand times, and has probably furnished mater
ial for more firstclass blood and thunder editor
ials than anything else that was ever said; but
in the sense in which it was used he never said
it. He was not coarse man, and | think the
universal verdict will be that he never made any
difference between man worth five million dol
lars and man worth five cents. He was chart
table in his way. l know lots of people to whom
he was in the habit of sending anywhere from a
hundred to five Thousand dollars in the course
of a year. know one man to whom he handed
800 900 in lump. When Commander Gorringe
brought the obelisk here he was financially in
VOWED, aud Mr. Vanderbilt sent for him and
gave him check for $40, 000-a fact which has
never been published.
"There was popularity about Mr.. Wander
bilt, and that was his fearessIess. He was con-
stantly in the receipt of letters notifying him at
what hour and place he was 10 be shot or stabbed.
his habits were very regular. He always drove
out at the same hour, over the same road always
went to his Office at the same time and by the
same way, and left at the same hour, so that it
was easy for anybody to get at him. but he went
right along the same as if there was nothing
threatening. If he was informed that he was to
be shot at particular corner on a particular day
he was pretty sure to go past that corner at that
time-not in a spirit of bravado, but because
that was his custom. He usually handed the
letters over to me and l investigated large
number of them. Most of them were from cranks
from the impecunious people who imagine
they scare something out of rich men. Some
/ thought were serious threats, but he never
permitted me to do anything with them. He
said that he didn't propose to be everastingly
afraid of somebody shooting or stabbing him"
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The Mausoleum at New Dorp.

New York Herald.
The Vanderbilt mausoleum is In the Moravian
Cemetery at New Dorp, S. l. 1t consists of eight
sets of small vaults, with nine chambers to each
set, to hold altogether seventy-two bodies. The
vaults are of solid Q .incy granite, and the foun-
dation walls reach fifteen feet below ground
When finished. great tower will rise up, and
from it will extend high in mid-air two towers
or lanterns" Light will be admitted through
glass ten inches thick, protected by massive iron
bars. Three hollow gothic columns ornament
the facade of the tomb. The figures and designs
inside the tomb cut in Indiana limestone.
The design over the vault where Commodore
Vanderbilt and family will lie represents the
Creation. Other carvings represent Paradise,
Moses delivering the Ten Commandments, King
Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, the Virgin
Mary and the Infant Jesus, the Crucifxion and
the Ascension. The inner chamber will contain
an altar and reredos
The tomb is set directly into hil and it will
be embarked with earth, in which trees will be
planted. Beneath it is a double concrete floor.
The estimated entire cost is 1925, 900.
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Some of His BenefactiOns.

New sun.
In 1880 Mr.. Vanderbilt gave 100000 to build
Astrological hall for Vanderbilt University, to
which the old Commodore had given 81, 900, 600.
In 1884 he gave $780, 900 to the College of Physi-
clans and Surgeons in this city The loan of
$3.50, 900 to General Grant and the sequel are too
fresh to need recalling
When Lieutenant Commander Gorringe found
that the expense of bringing over the obelisk was
$3.50 900, $50 900 more than he had contracted to
transport it for Mr. Vanderbilt paid the extra
$50 000 and added 900 of his own motion.
Mr.. Vanderbilt was like his father in using
money. He gave withheld as the fancy seized
him. When the great railroad strikes of 1877
occurred, the employees of the New York Central
received 500, 900 for refusing to join the strik
ers. But his gifts were voluntary acts, and he
seldom gave when solicited to give.
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Larceny, Arson, and Lynching.

KENTON, Tenn, Dec. 10-About 9 o'clock
Tuesday morning two clerks in the store of
White 81 Boyle were awakened by a suffocatiug
smoke. and discovered the store to be on fire. A
thief had entered, stolen some goods. and then
fired the house. By prompt efforts the flames
were extinguished Had the young men been a
few minutes later in making the discovery they
would undoubtedly have been burned to death,
and the whole business portion of the town de-
'stroyed. Soon afterwards Sam Fowler. a col
ored ex-convict was caught with the stolen goods
in HE possession, and he was promptly placed in
Jail. Yesterday morning his dead body was
found dangling from the limb of tree where
mob. during the night, had hanged him.
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Trouble for Liquor Sellers.

Special to the Indianapoli Journaz.
LAFAYETTE Dec. l0-The Law and Order
League lately organized in this city for the strict
enforcement of all liquor laws, has made
it's first move by submitting to the County
Commissioners a remonstrance against the issu-
ing of large number of liquor licenses, on the
ground that the publication of the applications
was made in German paper. and that the
law regarding such publications was
thus evaded The officers of the League claim
that the legal point will hold and that large
number of licenses must be refused. State
Senator johnson, who owns the German paper
referred to- states that he will contest the cases.
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Assignment at Knightstown.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
KNIeHTsTowN. Dec. 10 This morning notice
was posted in front of e. S. Ball and O. S. Nc
Laughlin's hardware store, reading CLOSED. {"
After further inquiries it was found they had
made an assignment to Elisha Holloway, of In
dianapolis for benefit of their creditors. The
liabilities are supposed to be about So O0O the
assets. including stock and notes, about $780,
The home creditors quite numerous, and
their losses will be severely felt
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$32,5OO,OOO

Government bonds, 4 per CENT, 1872, 500, 900
Government bonds other denomina-
tions ..-.... 49, 10000, 900
10000 shares Michigan Central 80 1000. 600
300, 600 shares Northwes tern 81 900 900
1901 600 shares Lake Shore .--.- 10000, 900
30, 200 shares Chicago g. Rock Island 384G. 900
so, 900 shares New York Central - 100000
20. 900 shares Delaware g. Lkawanna 254O, 900
100000 shares Philadephian s.
Reaung y, IOU,OOO
20 900 shares misc railroad securities 1000, 900
Various railroad bonds $4,000, 900
City and State bonds 5000, 900
West Shore bonds 5000 900
Manufacturing stocks and mortgages 1000 900
Fifth-avenue mansion .. 100000
House No 10 Washington square,. 100000
Nassau us streets ' .-t,... 1 - 100000
Property in Twenty-second, Cortlandt.
and West Fourth streets .....-- 100000
Paintings, statuary, stables horses
carriages, etc MISREPRESENTATION. 10000
Total $2o5, 900, 900
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The Greensburg Postoffice Burglarized.

Inc UreehsUury FOSCOnco BurRIar1Zed.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
GREENsBURG. Dec 10.-About O'clock this
morning the safe in the postofice was blown
open by burglars and about $75 was taken. In
the hurry to escape, another bag of money and
fourteen registered letters were left unmolested
The night Waterman was in front of the build
ing. and saw light struck, and at once started
to secure assistance to surround the building,
when the explosion occurred and the burglars
escaped with their spoils.
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Brakeman Ground to Pieces.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
ANDREWS, Dec. l0.-A. V. Knee, a Wabash
brakeman, residing in this city, fell from the
top of freight train between the cars. in the
city limits. last night. and was killed. His body
was horribly cut up. one hip being found thirty
feet from the trunk. Probably twenty cars
passed over his body, his arms and legs being
broken. He was young man, unmarried,
about twenty-five years of age. and resided with
his widowed mother. He has two brothers in
the service of the Wabash railway.
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saw-Mill and Lumber Burned.

EAST SAGINAW, Mich Dec. 10.-Ths sawmill
Of Burnham Il Still was destroyed by fire at an
early hour this morning with about 1000, 900
feet of lumber. The mill was valued at $25, 900.
and insured for $l5, 600. The loss on lumber is
about 800 000 insurance. The mill had a
capacity Of 5000, 600 feet and was shut down on
Nov s.
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Charged with Incendiarism,

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
ELKHART. Dec. 1O.-Last summer about one
half the village of Bristol was destroyed by fire,
which was thought to he the work of an incen-
diary. asst night Milton Wells, an employee of
the Lake Shore Railway Company, was arrested
for the crime He was released On $500 bail
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CATARRH is caused by impure blood and oft
entimes leads to consumption. You can be cured
of catarrh if you take the common-sense view.
which is that the only proper method of cure is
to purify the blood. Hoods Sarsaparila is the
best blood purifier
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ILLINOIS.

Mysterious and Fatal Sickness in a Mon
ticeiio Household.
MONTICELLO Dec. l0.-An unaccountable ia
tally is carrying off the family of James Arms
worth, wealthy farmer. living about six miles
west of Monticello Six weeks ago Mr.. Arms
worth died very suddenly; son followed on the
28th of November; daughter died yesterday,
and her son and daughter are not expected to
live through the night. There is no other sick
ness in the neighborhood. which makes so many
deaths all the more mysterious.
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Steamship News.

LONDON, Dec 10 Arrived of Killdonan: Cir
cassian, for Glasgow
NEW YORK. Dec. 10-Arrived: Nevada, Hell
vetia, from Liverpool; Labrador. from Havre.
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LITTLE Rock, Dec. 10-In Texarkana Tex,
tonight, fire destroyed F. A. FELTON, Sc Co. e
foundry and machine shop. Loss, $40, 600; in
surance So. 600
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Fire in a Business Block.

MINNEAPOLIS. Mimi. Dec. 10.-A fire this
morning in the Hennepin Block caused loss Of
$40. 600; fully insured.
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WHY. Oh, why?

The editor signs
At the messages SIZE
And he wonders why President Grover
Didn't put in his licks
To make less prolix
His thoughts which are scattered all over
columbus Dispatch
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ALWAYS twenty five cents; always prompt and
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