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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-24

THE Democrats are not very hopeful or
jubiliant over the prospects in Virginia. The
Memphis Avalanche says: "The nomination
OF General Lee has resulted in precisely the
kind of canvass the Avalanche feared and
predicted Up to this time, however, the
signs are hopeful that the result will be more
favorable than the Avalanche expected"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-24

He is wise saloon keeper who keeps his
business out of partisan politics, and saves his
money to pay his high tax, rather than to
squander it in the effort to insult the people
Under the lead of such disreputable men as
s'Sim" Coy, "Sam" Dinnin, and Bowling.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-24

Ii the press agent at Louisville had sent the
facts of the testimony of General Grant in
stead of the editorial opinions of the Courier
Journal, it would have been much more to
the point A suffering country can get along
without Mr.. Wattersons views, being quite
able to make up its own judgment upon the
evidence. furnished.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-24

CLERK DALTON, the mighty boss who pre-
sided over the count Of the Hamilton county
vote, is evidently coarse grained, brutal
hummer, whom 'twere base fattery to call
anything else but Democrat. When pre-
cinct A Of the Eighth ward was announced,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-24

THE taxpayers of Indianapolis, and of In
diana, are determined that the saloons must
pay their way. The people are very tired of
paying taxes created by the traffic.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-24
July and December.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, No., Oct 90 This morn
ing. at o'clock, Mr. John Painter was married to
Miss Sophia Horrell, and they took the train
Immediately for visit to his former home in
Kentucky. The groom is the weathiest man Of
this city, eighty-four years old, and this is the
third time he has been married. The bride is a
hghly-respected maiden lady, half century
younger than her husband
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-24

THE able saloon keepers who had paid their
corruption money, and had pinned their faith
70 the coat of the Hon. "Sim" Coy, felt and
looked sort O dazed yesterday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-24

THE canvass of the official vote of Ohio on
1he head of the State ticket, as returned to the
secretary Of State, shows Foraker's plurality
30 be 16,329. Leonard's vote was 2S,034, and
She total vote was 72S, $50.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-24

THE Cincinnati Enquirer abandons its fast
and furious claim to the Ohio Legislature
1t yesterday published the following in its
editorial columns:
Here is the way the next General Assembly
Of Ohio will stand, in the light of the official
counts made in all the districts and countless
Republicans. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. II
Democratic majority in Senate ......... 3
HOUSE-Republicans- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. SO
Republican majority in House. ............ 6
Republican majority on joint ballot. -.....-... 3
These are the figures the Journal and other
Republican papers have been printing for a
week or more, on the supposition that the
Cincinnati steal would be successful on the
face of the returns. The Enquirer has per-
sistently claimed that the Democrats would
have the control of the Ohio Legislature
Three is not SO deep as we'll nor wide as
church-door but it will serve, as the Demo
cratic Mercutio will find out next January
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-24

THE States that hold elections on the Sd of
November are New York and Virginia, in
which the chief interest centers, and Iowa,
Massachusetts,, Michigan, Mississippi, Ne
braska, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-24

JUDGE FORAKER, and Senator Sherman,
and General Logan are going into Virginia
next week. The Republican party is moving
on the enemys works.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-24
A Successful Str,ke

CHICAGO, Oct. 23.-The striking coopers who
stopped work at Armour g. Co. g packing house
TWO weeks ago will resume to day, having been
day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-24

THE opinion of the Liquor League is that
Dmebody threw club in the late city
,lection. The league knows what the club
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-24

ST. JoHNsBURY. VT, Oct. 23.-John A. Logan
arrived here to-day to attend reunion of the
Third Vermont Regiment, at which he will de-
liver an address
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-24
More Mormon Elders in the so,.,

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Oct. 23-Twentv addi
tional Mormon elders from Salt Lake City ar
rived here to day. They will leave at once for
their new fields of labor in East Tennessee and
north Georgia. There are now 100 of snem in
the South. "
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-24
wife-NIurder and Suicide.

MoRAvIA. N. Y, Oct 23-This afternoon
Henry Dickerson shot and killed his wife. and
then shot himself. Jealousy was the cause.
Dickerson cannot live.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-24

HIGH tax aud local regulation of the liquor
traffic is the platform toward which the prac
tical thought of the country is rapidly con-
Verging.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-24

Mr.. DEPEW's letter has started stream of
history. 1t pours in from all quarters, and
will prove full Of interest and value.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-24

voters.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-24
ADDITIONAL DIyPArCHEs.

ApvICEs received by the steamer Oceanic,
which arrived at San Francisco on the
18th, say the typhoon in the Philippine ISL
ands November destroyed over 400
houses, including thirteen churches and
ten converts. Eighteen lives were lost
and 800 cattle destroyed.
A COMPANY OF the Eighth United States
Cavalry was ambushed recently bv
Apaches near White House, northwest of
Silver City, n. NJ, and four soldiers and
Surgeon Maddox killed.
PROF. JOHN c. DRAPER, the well known
chemist, died of pneumonia recently at
New York.
THE suit of the City of st. Louis against
the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company for
S1Oo,000 and interest at seven per cent
from March, 1865, was recently settled by
the company giving to Comptroller Camp
bell its draft on a New York bank for
sis, HIS. At the close of the war in
March. 1SG5, the County of st. Louis lent
100000 to the old Pacific Railroad Com
pany, whose bridges had been burnt and
its span destroyed during the war.
THE City Bank of Houston, Tex. closed
its doors recently. The liabilities were said
to be over S1,GO0,0O0. The bank had been
losing money for years.
The clearing house returns for week
ended December 10 showed an average in
crease of 3G1 over the corresponding week
of last year. In New York the increase
was 46.2.
A RECENT dispatch from Monterey, Mex
leo, says: All of the revolutionary forces
lately in the field have been disbanded and
have returned to their homes Several of
the leaders have been appointed to fat
Government Offices.
THE Senate was not in session on the 10Th.
In the House Mr.. Morrison reported reso-
luton providing for the creation of seve-
raj select committees to take into consid-
Grafton the Presidential Succession bill and
other matters.
INTEREST in the Walkup poisoning case
has been revived by affidavits charging the
widow with immortality while in the Gus
tody of the Sheriff of Emporia, Kan.
Friends of Mrs. Walkup maintain that the
affidavits resulted from the failure of an
attempt to blackmaiL..
JOHN HARGRAvEs, a provision merchant
of Liverpool, New York and Chicago, is re-
ported to have suspended payment with Ii
abilities estimated at S3Jo,OOO.
THE French Government has ordered the
suspension of hostilities in Madagascar so
as to facilitate negotiations for treaty of
peace, which Admiral Mot is conducting
with the Malagasy officials.
DISPATCHES recently received in st.
Petersburg state that a terrible dynamite
explosion occurred a the Pleijuichin mine,
Siberia Accounts were conflicting as re-
CARDS the number killed, some placing it at
100, others IS high as loo.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-24
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

SAMUEL DYER, Abolitionist, the staunch
friend of Garrison and Phillips, died on
the 18th at Southampton, Mass, of soften
ing of the brain, aged seventy-eight.
PRINCE FERDINAND, of Saxe-Coburg,
father of the King of Portugal, died on the
18th of facial cancer, which had been ag-
gravated by fall.
DR.. I. E. HOLLAND, of st. Louis, has been
appointed on the Board Of Pension Exam
iners to fill the vacancy caused by the
death Of DR.. E. C. Franklin
GENERAL ROBERT TooMBs, the we'll known
Southern statesman, died at Washington,
Ga, on the evening of the 18th. He had
been criticslly sick for several weeks pre-
viously and was unconscious when he died
NJ. ADoLPH DEUCHER, at present Vice
President of Switzerland, has been elected
President for the year 1886 He is Radi-
cal
THE balloting on the 18th for Mayor of
Boston resulted in the reelection of Hugh
O'Brien, Democrat, over J. NJ. Clark, Re-
publican, by majority of S,597 in a total
vote OF HOT. O'Brien's majority is the
largest ever given to 4 Mayoralty candi-
date in Boston.
The President sent the following new
nominations to the Senate on the 18th:
John Bigelow, of New York. to be Assist
ant Treasurer of the United States at New
York City, salary 5000; General Franz
Sigel, of New York, to be Pension Agent at
New York City.
HoN. JOHN R. GooDIN, a prominent
Democratic politician of Kansas, died at
Wyandotte, Kan, on the morning of the
18th. He was sent to Congress from the
Second District about ten years ago, and
was also at one time a Democratic candi-
date for Governor.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-24
FREE SILVER,

Representative Men Assemble in New York
and Resolve I'm Favor of the Free Coinage
OF Silver.
NEW YORK, December 1.-THE main
parlor of the Metropolitan Hotel was occu.
pied by gentlemen last night who assem-
bed to hear the silver question discussed.
Probably sixty or seventy-five persons were
present The meeting was under tile au-
spices of the Autobiography League. The
Hon. Edward Pierrepont presided. He
gave an extensive review of the silver aues-
tion i'll this country and Europe He said
among other things that silver did not fluc-
tuate any more than gold. In the
period extending from 1888 to 1873 there
was but little fiuctuatiOn in the London
prices of silver. In 1888 the price
was fifty odd pence per ounce and forty
years after that the price was exactly the
same. There is no nation now coming sill
yer. but all nations are coming gold. If ali
were to stop gold coinage, the result would
be fall i'll the value of gold and fnctua-
tiOn in the prices. Resolutions demanding
the free coinage of silver and in favor OF
an equal bi-metailic currency were adopted.
After several addresses had been made ths
meeting adjourned.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-24
A Remarkable French Story.

A French writer tells this remarkable
incident of the French-Prussian war: A
young officer of the French army was
suspected of being spy. One night
mis- house was surrounded BY German
soldiers. Seeing that capture was in
evitable, he handed bundle of secret
dispatches to his ten year-old brother,
with Instructions to bury them, and
under no circumstances tell where they
were. Soon after the young officer
was captured. together with his father.
AS the dispatches could not be found
on the person of the prisoners. search
was made for them. The little bow
did not deny concealing them. but re.
fused to reveal the place. His father
and brother told him to remain firm
even though they should he killed be.
fore his eyes Next morning the pris-
oners were led out to be execnted
The boy still refused to tell where the
were. Just then a terrible
expression of agony passed over his
face. The boy opened his mouth: a
torrent of blood poured out Of il. In
vestigation showed that ne had bitten
off his tongue, so great had been his
temptation to speak and save his
father and brother.-Zoiselr B.sde
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-24
A MO0ERE FaSLE.
rhe Boy and the Bulldog, u Tale with
Two Morals.

rhe Boy and the Bulldog, u Tale with
Two Morals.
Once upon time certain little boy
Observed his sister curling her hair
around a hot poker, and When he saw
her golden ringlets twist up like Geor-
gia pine sharings, what he considered
an overnight Idea struck Him.
THE folks next door say their pug is
Better than our bulldog, because it's
tail curls over It's back so tight. III
just curl the bulldogs tail Now, and
run him up and down in front of their
house. and make them feel Mean"
So he called the Dog, AMI heated the
poker until it was almost red, in order
to get a Good curl. Grasping the dogs
tail, he quickly Wound it around the
Poker; but it was not wound Around
the poker half as quickly as the dog
was wound around the boy. He picked
him up by the Small of his back, and
shook him out of his Clothes, and left
nothing on him But his freckIes and a
look of terror. The boy was Then
obliged to lie in bed until his father
could Afford to get him Il new suit of
clothes, which was a month Later.
The Moral of this little fable teaches
us Two Things; first, that bright, orig
lnal ideas are dangerous In the hands
of people who don't know how to Use
them, and, second, that when we ex-
pertinent with a bulldog, we should
MuzZle him before beginning
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-24

At the request of Governor Hill, the
United States Supreme Court has expe-
oited the hearing of the case of William
>. Roberts, President of the defunct
bank of August, Ga. The State of
New York demanded his extradition
ON the charge of stealing a deposit of
fourteen thousand and five hundred
dollars, and depositing it to his own ac-
count IN the Mercantile National Bank,
New York. On the 18th the Supreme
Court removed the last obstacles to the
cNtradition Of Roberts and a detective
immediately left New York for Augusta
Ito fleet his arrest.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-24
MISCELLANEOUS,

JAY GOULD has entered Judgment for
S261, 900 against the late firm of William
Heath & Co., bankers and brokers. of New
York. Judgment against the firm for
Sll2,50 was also entered by James lane.
1T was reported in London that Parnell
and Gladstone would agree on measure of
home rule for Ireland. The concessions
would be liberal, but would not imperil the
Imperial Confederation.
FIRE recently at Philadelphia caused
losses which aggregated nearly 100000.
Morren Bros, printers and typographers,
lost about $4,000; Newman & Hagedell,
shirt manufacturers, lost $4,000, and the
Electric Motor Company $4,000. The in
surance was s5S,O
The act of Dakota declaring itself a State
and electing United States Senators is de-
clared by prominent politicians to be reyo-
lutionary.
ESCAPING gas recently exploded in the
vault OF the treasury of Tcrre Haute, Ind.
Deputy Bell and City Clerk Davis were
seriously injured. The vault was de-
stroyed.
The Racoits of Burmah made a raid in
the vicinity of Mandalay the other night
and fired on the British outposts, wound
ing one officer and killing native The
British returned the fire, killing seven Da-
colts.
A VERY disastrous fire broke out in Jack
sonvills, Fla, early on the morning of the
18th. The loss amounted to over Sz50.OOO;
insurance, SS05,00O The fire started in
Hubbard's warehouses.
THE $4,000 bequeathed to the Wander
bit University by the late William H.
Vanderbilt will be used in the erection of q
fireproof library building and the purchase
Of books fer the same.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-24
A BIG SENSATION.

Sensational Arrests in San FranciscO-Plots
to Assassinate Prominent Citizens.
SAN FRANCISCO, December 16.-A most
sensational and startling plot for the whole
sale assassination of the most prominent
men in this city came to light here last
night. Some time ago the police obtained
information of the existence of an
organization called the ''SOeialis-
tic Revolutionary Association" conf
close watch was kept on their movements
and the police finally succeeded in obtain
ing the minutes OF one of their meetings
held November %. From these ii was
discovered that it was the intention of the
association to put out of the way about
twenty men, including w. 7. Coleman,
Congressman w. w. Morrow. Gen
eral Barnes. Mayor Bartlett, United
States Judge Lorenzo Sawyer. Leland STAN
ford, Charles CrOcker, Governor StOnemail,
the principal police officials and several
others. These names were placed OIL
the prospective list and placed in the
hands of the executive committee
to carry out the orders of the asso-
citation. The committee were to devise the
best mode of accomplishing the ends of the
plOt-and were thus engaged when the work
was brought to a sudden termination last
night by the discovery of the associations
headquarters by the police and the arrest of
four men found in the room, named Julius c. !
FOsher Henry Weiseman, Charles Mittel. |
stadt and Oscar EgSers. In the room was ,
also found a complete laboratory for the |
OF Internal machines The !,
men were taken to the city prison wI.ere J
they boldly asserted that they were dyna-
miters and proposed to get rid of the cti-
zens named and then raze Chinatown. The |
prisoners also belong to the an:i-COolie
League. No charge is yet entered against
them. Further developments are expected.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-24
Land Bills.

WASHINGTON, December 15.-The SEN
ate Committee on Public Lands held it.
first meeting yesterday morning. 1t took
up the measures referred to it by the SEN
ate and referred them to subcommittee.
These include bills for the repeal of the
pre-emption, timber cnlture and desert land
acts, for the forfeiture OF certain land
grants and providing for the taxation OF
railroad land, all of which have heretofore
been published. 1t is the purposeSst the
committee to have some of the most im-
pOrtant of these measures, the majority of
which have already been passed upon In
previous sessions, reported at an early day
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-24

KANSAS CITY, Mo-. December 17.-Cou.
siderable excitement was caused in financial
circles in this city yesterday morning by
the announcement that Il. n. HershfieId,
wholesale, retail and manufacturing Jew.
eier, OF Leavenworth and Kansas City, had
failed for si5o,o0O. The first knowledge
of the failure was communicated by the
closing Of the doors of the Kansas City
house, s2o Main street, at eight o'clock on
mortgage for s1S,5eo hold by Mr.. Hersh-
fields brother, Mr.. Louis II. Hershfield. n
banker Of Helena, Montana. The latter's
attorneys took possession of the store pre-
paratory to taking an inventory of the stock.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-24

KoERKIYo TAKAHAsKI, Japanese As
sistant Secretary of State, whose duties
are confined principally to the Depart
ments of Commerce and Agriculture,
WIS en- route to Washington to study
the American system of patents, with
view to employing the knowledge
thus gained to the benefit of that de-
partment in his own country. The
first Japanese patent law ever enacted
went into force last July, since when
an average of two applications per day
have been filed, mostly for patents on
agricultural machinery.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-24

p COLONEL EMIL FREY, the Swiss Min
lSter, recently returned to Washing
ton from a trip through the South and
West, made with a view to examine
into the condition of the Swiss in this
country. He says he found his country
men. as a rule, prosperous. The CEN
sus # 1880 gives the nslmber of Swiss
IN his country at eighty thousand.
Minister Frey says he would place the
number now at two hundred thousand.
and migration is increasing. Most of
the swiss, he says, take to farming,
but large proportion remain in the
large cities. There are now in New
York City five thousand, in Chicago
four thousand and in St. Louis three
thousand Swiss working at trades.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-24

\ NUMBER of dealers in eggs and
produce in Patterson, N. J., were called
on recently by a man representing him.
self IS Garrett Onderdonk, of Rock
land County, N. Y. He sold each a
load Of fresh country eggs at remark
bly, low figures. The eggs were deliv-
cred ~ another man, to whom the
dealers refused payment. Onderdonk
called for the money, but was arrested
under the act prohibiting sales of adul-
terated food. He plead guilty and was
fined fifty dollars and costs. He ad-
mitted to several dealers that the eggs
were artifeial and were manufacturers
by tirm in Newark, whose names he
declined to disclose. The shells were
made If transparent composition, and
the shape perfectly nodded. The portion
which surrounded the yofk was made
OF al6umen and the yolk of ground car
rot sad saffron.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-24
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
A Railroad Decision.

The Board of Railroad Commissioners re.
Gently received a letter from John h Nc
Leod, of Marysville, making complaint of
the high rates of freight in Northern Kan
sas, compared with other parts of the State
that the freight on corn from Marysyille to
st. Joe, distance of 113 miles, is 13 cents
per bushel; and desired the board to look
into the matter and afford relief to shippers
in that part of the State. To this commu-
nication the board replied: "The Board
of Railroad Commissioners have consid-
cred the matter stated in your letter.
namely, the rate On corn over the
st. Joseph & Western Railroad from
Marysville to st. Joe. The rate is the
same as the rate on the Central Branch
for the same distance, and only one and
one-balf cents higher than the rate on the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and Union
Pacific. The ST. Joe q Western is several
millions of dollars behind hand in its inter-
est payments, and is in bad shape tipan-
cially. 1t can not afford better rates Under
existing conditions. Besides, the b0ard
has no power to fix rates on grain from
Marysville to st. Joe. The powers of the
board do not extend beyond the State of
Kansas. The power of the board to fix
rates is limited to rates on shipments made
wholly within the limits of Kansas
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-24
Gas in the Vault.

TERRE HAUrE, December 17.-When
James Bell, deputy city treasurer, struck
match to light the gas in the large vault
just completed in the city Offices. this morn
ing, an explosion Of gas, which had leaked
from the pipes and filled the vault. COM
pletely demolished the vault and safe and
shattered the inner walls of the city build
Ing. 1t broke down the ceiling and mads
general wreck Of that part of the building.
Bell was badly burned and may die. CITY
Cleik Davis was injured by falling bricks.
There were no others in the Office. or the
loss OF life might have been great The
damage to the building is estimated q.
1900.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-24

THE suits of the United States Gov
ernment against Barlow & Sanderson,
Star Route contractors of Colorado, for
sixty thousand dollars claimed to have
been overpaid, resulted in verdict for
The defendants at Denver on the 18th.
An appeal will be taken to the Su-
IRENE Court.