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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-11
Brief Mention.

Altoona has a brass band composed wholly of
women.
GA Knox county farmer is charged with raising
wolves to secure the scalp bounty.
Rev. H. S. Black. for some time pastor of the
Baptist Church at Hillsboro, has accepted call
to the Baptist Church at Pana.
The prohibition camp meeting has closed at
Decatur 1t is not thought to have made any
converts to the third-party movement.
The Galesburg City Council has granted the
College City Street Railway Company the right
to construct four lines of street railway. The
principal line is to run to Lombard University
and will be completed before the end of this
month.
Frank Maze. the man who in Nav last shot
dead j. A. Welker, near Golden, was delivered
to the sheriff at Anna by two citizens of johnson
county, Three hundred dollars was offered for
the arrest-$200 by the State ard $lOO by Union
county.
The dead body of man has been found in
Oak Ridge cemetery, near Springfield. A British
bull dog pistol laid near by and it appeared that
ball had passed into the head at the mouth and
out behind one ear. The case is one Of suicide,
and the man seemed to have been dead several
days. The body has not been identified.
Postal clerks on the line of the Louisville e.
Nashville railroad between Louisville and St.
Louis and on other lines running through the
southern part of Illinois. have lately been
ordered to deliver and receive mail on SUNDAY
the same other days of the week. The order
is meeting with general protest from the public
in the sections where the orders have been
issued, they considering that the postal clerks
have as much right to day of rest as the com
munity they serve.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-11
President Bates,s Statement.

NEW YORK. Aug. 10.--In relation to the cable
correspondence between Messre. Garrett, Pen.
der and Field, Mr. d. H. Bates, president of
the Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Company, says:
1.-THE wild rumors which have been circulated
during the past month concerning an alleged
arrangement between the Western Union and
Baltimore 81 Ohio Telegraph Companies have
been repeatedly denied by Mr.. Garrett and my
self, only to be renewed in some varied form to
meet what were each time deemed to be the most
explicit deniais. 1t is remarkable that the state
ments have not only remained uncontra-
dited on this side by those who
must have known their falsity, but
it has now been necessary to secure an
official denial from Mr.. Fender, who is, be-
lieve, an honorary Western Union director. The
Baltimore & Ohio, which, since the absorption
by the Western Union of the American
Union and Atlantic and Pacific
companies. in 1881, has operated an
independent teleeraphic system. has never
faltered in its policy of maintaining its indie
pendence believing that ample and substantial
lines between the important trade cen
tres of the country, built at low
prices for cash, would command ade-
Quate custom, and afford fair return upon
investment and instead of selling as some
would wish us to do, we still extending and
adding to our system, covering territory until
lately occupied by the American Rapid, whose
lines were recently absorbed by our rival, and
contracts have been made for additional extern
sions to various other points.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-11

NAV press it too far some time. 1t is not
n South America alone that this feeling exists.
The common Mexican hates US bitterly, and
those of the higher class equally distrust u.s."
This officer continued. saying that in a visit to
Mexico he discovered strong sentiment there
in favor of an alliance with England. He added
that the Mexicans think they could secure great
commercial advantages by such an alliance.
1.-THE trouble with our government" said this
officer in conclusion, lis that we have no prac-
teal diplomacy. What the new Secretary Of
State may do in this respect have no means OF
knowing A really great diplomatic like
Palmerston or Beaconsfield were in England, or
such as Metternich was to Austria and Gorts
chakof to Nicholas and Alexander of Russia,
would see in this great >move on the inter
national chess board, and to the successful
player stake worth the winning
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-11
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Edward ". Sader, dealer in yarns, New
York, has made an assignment
The herds of swine in South Essex, Britain.
are being decimated by hog cholera.
Fire at Eugene, Quebec. yesterday, destroyed
property valued at $40 900. Insurance, $1,000
An Erie. Kan, special says: Mrs frankie
Morris, who was on Saturday found guilty Of
numbering her mother, was married on Sunday
evening to Harvey d. Copeland, of Wichita.
James Harding, pickpocket, and John Rob-
bins housebreaker, serving long sentences
at the Work house at Cleveland, escaped on
Sunday night by saving the bars in their cells
The firm of Emmons & Roach, iron manu-
facturers, New York. has made an assignment
on account of depression in trade The junior
member of the firm is grandson of John
Roach
The window-glass manufacturers conference
committee will meet similar committee of
workers next week, at Pittsburg, to fix scale of
wages for the ensuing year. 1t is believed that
a settlement will be reached without strike
The Montreal branch of the Irish National
League have decided to send a manifesto to the
various branches of the league and other Irish
societies throughout Canada. and to solicit sub
scriptons In favor OF the Irish Parliamentary
fund.
A Canton, O., special says assignments
were made yesterday to g. C. Bowe, of that city,
by Rank Bros, millers, and David Rank, senior
member of the firm. Liabilities. $4,000.
Assets about 500, 900. Unfortunate Arizona
mining speculations are said to have precipitated
the failure.
Rev. w. r. Covert of Pttsburg, pastor of the
Church of God, will leave for New York on
Thursday for the purpose of commencing pro-
ceedings looking to the recovery of Harlem
Commons, in that city. He says he has dis
covered facts which show that the Coovert family
are rightful heirs. and he is sanguine that his
claims will ha established
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FEMALE CLERKS MUST GO.

A Treasury Official Says They Cannot Be
Managed by Male Chiefs of Division.
Washington Special.
What appears to be the sentiment of the
present administration III regard to the employ
ment of women as clerksY" inquired the CORE
spoudent of a high treasury official yesterday.
''Unless the rules of the Civilservice Com
mission are changed was the reply, 'the
women will be slowly eliminated from the de-
partments. Four out Of five heads of depart
ments will ask for man when there is a
vacancy made by the resignation, death, or
dismissal Of a woman. [ have had two vacan-
cies within the past month, and have filled
them both with men. | am opposed to women
having places in the departments unless they
can be put into divisions by themselves under
chiefs of their own sex. Then believe their
work would be up to the average Of the men;
but whenever they are brought under the rule
of men they use the arts and privileges of their
to get out of work altogether, or to slight 1t
whenever they can. Moreover ali the bother
about leaves Of absence comes from the employ
ment of women in the departments. One Of the
committee which recently inspected our depart
ment told me that change in the rule in
regard to sick leaves and leaves of absence
would have been made unless 1t had been nee
essary to bring the female clerks under iron
clad rule. Out of sxty-fve cases where the
leaves from all causes had exceeded sixty days
in year forty nine were female clerks, and the
men employed outnumbered the women four to
But the ladies in the departments seem to be
unanimously opposed to having women over
them"
Then they warrant all, by implication, say
on the subject"
"Do you think women would make good chiefs
of divisionY
II do. 1t would take no more judgment to
select good chiefs from fifty women than from
fifty men. All men are not fit to direct others
Some of the best clerks have proved total fail
ures as chiefs. | have nearly a score of ladies
in my division, and I could select at least three
out of them capable in every respect to my.
division after a little experience mean
with corps of exclusively female clerks"
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Taxing Georgia Bachelors.

Atlanta Constitution.
The number of old bachelors is increasing in
every community. They try to be very gay and
frivolous, and are anxious to leave an impression
that they happy, but they cannot conceal
the fact that they are bald headed and thin
legged. Married men in certain cases made and
provided have perfect right to be bald headed
and thin-legged but bald headed and thin
legged old bachelor is standing insult to the
community in which he lives What right has
ne to be bald headed and thn-leggedl What
right has he TO pretend to be comfortable, and
to assume all the privileges of citizenship when
he has evaded the first and most important duty
of citizen! Let the bin to tax them be hurried
forward to its passage The times are ripe for it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-11
Part of Train Plunges into WeIland Canal.

MERRlToN, Ont, Aug. I0-As heavlly-laden
Pacific express, drawn by two engines,
tering the Grand Trunk yards here, at 2 o'clock
this afternoon, it was found that the
air brakes would not work, and the
train could not be stopped with the
hand brakes The swing bridge at the crossing
of the Welland canal. just beyond the depot
was partly open, and the train dashed past the
depot and both engines and the foremost cars
were plunged into the canal and adjoining pond
The extent of damage is not known. One en-
gineer is known to have been killed and the
other train hands to have been badly scalded.
None of the passengers were known to be in
inrad
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-11
An Excellent Order.

WASHINGTON, Aug 10-The recent general
army order sending officers back to their regi-
ments after period of four years on detached
duty, is provoking much discussion among Off
GERS in Washington. But two officers now on
duty here will be compelled to join their regi-
ments at once. They are Captains Gregory and
Davis, of General Sheridan's staff. Captain
Davis was recently assigned to staff service, but
he has been on detached duty for a number of
years. Officers who favor the order say that
favoritsm is now ended; that officers will not be
allowed to remain from their commands ten or
fifteen years; that captains who have never seen
their companies will have opportunity to look
At them, and that men who have been on the
frontier for almost score of years will now be
permitted to taste the sweets of army life.
That order" said an officer to-day, means
the resurrection Of the army"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-11
CHINESE OUTLAWS.
How the Bronze Criminals Manage to Defy
the Courts of California.

the Courts of California.
San Francisco Letter.
That the Chinese have secret tribunals Of their
own where false testimony is prepared and
whose edlcts are death for the Chnaman to
dlsobey, is no longer matter of conjecture.
They are not only not amenable to law but
they are governed by secret tribunals I'M
recognized and unauthorized by law The
| records of these tribunals have been discovered
and are found to be antagonistc to our legal
system. These tribunals are formed by the
several Chinese companies or guilds, and are
recognized as legitimate authorities by the
Chinese population. They levy taxes. com
mand masses OF men, intimidate interpreters
and witnesses, enforce perjury, regulate trade
punish the refractory, remove witnesses beyond
the reach of our courts control liberty of action
and prevent the return of Chinese to their
home in China without their consent. In short
they exercise oespotlc sway over one-seventh
of the population of the State of California This
system is inherent and part of the fiber of the
Chinese mind, and exists because the Chinese
are thoroughly and permanently alien to us in
language and interests. The testimony of a
number OF persons taken, to the effect
that rewards offered and paid for the life
of certain Objectionable Cinnamon. Charles
L. Jones. the district attorney of Sacramento
testified that an interpreter in certain case
told him that the Chinese would kill him if the
defendants in certain robbery case were con-
vlcted I'VE went out of the court room said
Mr. Jones, land he told me he was afraid to 90 on
L street l told him not to 60 there, but did
not think they would trouble him. Half an hour
afterward he was brought back shot in the back.
and Ratchet having been used on him. mutilat-
ing him terribly. This was in broad daylight.
about IL o'clock in the morning on Third and /
streets, one of tie most prominent places in the
city OF Sacramento. There were hundreds of
Chinese there at the time. but it was difficult, in
the prosecution of the case, to get any Chinese
testimony at all 1t happened that there were
few white men passing at the time, and we were
enabled to identify two men, and they were con-
victed and sent to the penitentary for life after
three trials. They attempted to prove an alibi.
and after swearing q large lot of Cinnamon, thew
said they had twenty more. The Chinese use the
courts to get possession of women Sometimes
1t happens that where man is married to
woman they get out warrant for his arrest
and before he can get bail they have stolen the
woman. and carried her off to some distant place"
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K. Parkey, Bowers; George T.. Gordon Grand.
view; Horace S. Strickland, Owensville; Brad
ford GlaZebrook San Pierre

K. Parkey, Bowers; George T. Gordon, Grand
view; Horace S. Strickland Owensville; Brad
ford Glazebrook, San Pierre.
Judge Carlton, of the Utah Commission, will
leave here for Terre Haute to morrow.
Maj. lWm. p. Gould. of the pay department of
the army has been placed on the retired list
ExMinister John W. Foster is expected to join
his family in September at Lake George. where
they are spending the summer.
AL b. Bunch of Anderson. and Charles Morris,
a veil known Hoosier. put their names on Ebbitt
register to day.
Congressman Kleiner who has been here some
time working postmasterships in his district,
expressed good deal of disgust TO-DAY at the
slowness of the administration in discussing
changes in Offices. He has succeeded in secur-
ing Democrats for all but four five presidential
Offices in his district and is somewhat chagrined
because he has not had those filed. He has his
war paint on
The issue of standard silver dollars from the
minis during the week ending Aug. 8 was $3.50,
$685. The issue during the corresponding period
last year was 1921, 498.
1t is said at the Treasury Department that
there will be no changes of any consequence in
that department during Secretary Manning's
absence. He is reported to have left instructions
IN regard to filing certain vacancies, including
one or two chiefs of divisions, and making a few
minor appointments, but nothing beyond that
A report that Supervising Architect Bell is to
be succeeded in a few days, is contradicted on
good authority. The candidates for his place
have all gone home disappointed.
The White House is now closed to visitors,
and viii! not be reopened until the Presidents
return in September In the meantime the
building will be overhauled, and made as clean
and comfortable as possible Considerable re-
pairing will have to be done. and several i'm
provements in the arrangements will be made.
The clerical force will remain on duty during
the summer Assistant Private Secretary Pru-
den is in charge. The President will always be
within Geographic communication with the
White House. and will in that way attend to all
matters requiring action on his part
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-11
CLOSING THE STAR CHAMBER.
A Change in the Manner of Removing Re.
publican Ofice-Holdara.

Removing
publican Oh1ce-Holders.
Washington Post
But it now seems evident that the department
has discovered its error and receded from tha
false and fatal position originally assumed The
wrongs that have been inflicted cannot of course
De repaired Hundreds of men have been ex.
pelled from office and sent into the world branded
with mysterious crimes. They know that they
were removed by reason of charges preferred
against them; but what those charges were who
preferred them and how great or how little their
en0rmlty-these things they do not know and
Will never be told. 1t is to be expected that the
victims of so shocking a barbarity are chating
under IL ana that their friends will cherish the
wrong through all the years to come Further
more it may be taken for granted that all fair
minded men having eognizance of cases in point
will hold In adherence and contempt the methods
and their authors 1t is to be questioned whether
so much and such grinding injustice can be-
wholly condoned by this tardy and unacknow1-
edged, though unmiStakable, act of reparation.
1t is to be doubted whether the ghosts of all this
cruel wrong will down into their graves under the
exorcism of a Peccavi which ma be substantial
and distinct, but which is clearly lacking inI
frankness. No formal admission has been made.
No official utterance has TRANSFERRED The Star
Chamber has simply been closed. The lettre do
cachet no longer figures agent of the gov
eminent The outrage has been suppressed; the
lntormer is out Of employment; candid and
straightforward practices have succeeded the
dark and sinister of few weeks back. There
has been no confession, but there has been a
visible and conspicuous change.
For so much the Democratic party may we'll
be thankful To have its skirts cleared of that
mean and reeking stain is something-it is much.
Honest mon may breathe more freely now, and
the people may tell themselves that the Demo.
cratic party, though it wavered for moment. is
erect once more, dealing fairly in the bright
radiance of day and walking upright before the
world. Let us be thankful
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Mysterious Disappearance.

Special to the Indiana polls Journal.
VINCENNEs, Aug. 10-A sad case of mysterious
disappearance has just come to light here. Joe
Pollock, the young son of Mr.. Joseph Pollock,
ST., proprietor of the Broadway Touring mills,
went to Texas to engage in telegrarhing. Since
the 4th of August he has not been seen or heard
Of. Young Pollock was stationed at Lone Oak,
Tex, temporarily, as railroad agent On the
night of the 4th inst. friends of Pollock noticed
several bad characters around the depot, and
suspicion of foul play is entertained. Some of
the best detectives in the country have been
engaged in the case, and to day left for Texas to
thoroughly investigate the matter. The last
heard from young Pollock was a letter he had
written to his parents, dated on the Sd.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-11
INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS
The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of
ALI Kinds in the Two States.
Distressing Death ola Child-MadisOn County
Teachers Institute-Death of Wayne
County Pioneer-Fatal Accident.
INDIANA.


Horrible Death of Child by Strangling on
Picket Fence.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
LAFAYETTE. Aug. l0.-Word was received
here to-day of ahorrble accident, which occurred
near Dayton. The three yearod girl-baby of
Eli Brand was climbing on an iron fence in the
yard, when her foot slipped and she fell, her
head catching between two pailings The acct
dent occurred at about 2 O'clock and when the
body was found, two hours later, life was extinct
The body found by the childs father, who
happened to step into the yard He had heard
it cry for help about o'clock, and paid no
attention to it, and the first ntimation of its
death was the horrible sight of the body sus
pended before him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-11
The Recent Fulton County Murder.

Special 10 the WHEREABOUTS Journal.
ROCHESTER,, Aug. l0.-The inquest over the
death of Michael Kahn, who was murdered at his
home in Wayne township last week. is still in
session. At the beginning of ADMINISTRATION it
was Thought that no positive evidence could be
procured pointing to Patrick Mcclure as the
murderer, although it was a wellsettled fact in
the minds of the people that he was the perpe
traitor of the crime. The testimony of Marietta
Granel, young lady living near the scene of the
murder, has caused quite sensation, as it is very
damaging to Mcclure, and will greatly assist the
prosecution in convicting him, if he is appre-
hended. A reward of $3OOis offered for the ar
rest of the murderer, but there is no clew to his
Whereabouts.
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THE LIST OF CASUALTIES.
A Wagon Overturned and Two Persons
Killed Outright.

CHICAGO, Aug. 10.-Three wagons full of peo-
pie, returning from picnic, came abreast near
the suburban town of Jefferson, late last night
A race ensued, and the horses were dashed into
run. Suddenly drunken man in one of the
wagons arose and snatched the lines from the
driver. The wagon was overturned instantly
and tn occupants thrown out. The driver was
killed, falling under one of the horses while a
baby was knocked out Of its mothers arms and
mangied to death. Several other people were
badly injured. The locality is remote from tele-
phone connections, and the names of the victims
have not yet been learned.
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Death of a Pioneer of Wayne County.

Special to the Indianapolis Journa1.
RICHMOND, Aug. lO.-Hugh Mofit, a we'll
known Friend. died at his home near this CITY.
last night Of cholera morbus. He was one of
the old stock of Wayne county pioneers. coming
here in 1911. when five years of age, with his
parents from North Carolina. Having nc children
of their own, he and his wife raised number
of homeless ones, including Mary Baker, who
married Hon. William Baxter, Matte Tyler,
wife of Grin Mote, Lizzie Mofit wife Of H. E.
Moon, and several who are yet young, all of
whom will mourn him as father.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-11
G.. A. II. Camp at Gettysburg.

ant day for the Grand Army encampment Gen.
S. S. Burdett, commander n-chief, accompanied
by j. c. Linham, department commander of
New Hampshire. arrived to-day and this evening
the different posts marched in review before the
two distinguished visitors. Addresses to the vet
Grams were made, one of which advocated a
Grand Army of the Republic monument to Gen.
Grant by fixed subscription of ten cents from
each member. This was enthusiastically re-
ceived A subscription of this kind would ag
gregate $50, 900.
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Fatal Fall from a scaffoId,

DETROIT, Aug 10.-The Evening Journals
Grand Rapids special says: ''While painting the
dial Of the clock in the tower of the Second
Methodist Church, this morning, John Fox and
Fred Schurer were thrown to the ground-a
distance of seventy feet-by the scaffold giving
away from them Fox was killed outright his
neck being broken. He leaves widow and four
children. Schurer's ribs were crushed in, ana
he was injured internally, so that he died at
noon"