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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-16
TERRITORIAL APPOINTMENTS.

The President Fails to Keep the Pledge Made
by His Party at Chicago.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Oct 15.-Democrats here from
the Territories are very indignant over some
recent appointments made by the President
affecting the federal Offices in their bailiwicks.
The President has already, in number of
instances, grossly disregarded that portion of
the national platform adopted at Chicago, when
he was nominated. which says that only bona
fde residents of the Territories shall be appointed
to Offices therein. Several men have been ap-
pointed to positions in the Territories who did not
even claim a residence in the Territory where
the officer is located, and nearly all the men ap-
pointed who claimed residence therein turn out
to be carpet baggers new comers, and to have
been appointed through influence exerted by
men in the States.
The man Marratta. appointed last week to be
United States marshal for Dakota, is an in
stance, and his appointment is making much
trouble in the Territory Marratta came from
Pennsylvania, and, while he claims a residence
in Dakota, he was not indorsed by the people
there, and his selection it is said here, over the
head of man generally indorsed by bona fide
residents, is causing great howl. The ap-
pointment.was made at the instance of ex-Speak-
er Randall, of Pennsylvania. 1t is like rubbing
salt in q wound. the Dakota Democrats here say,
to give them nonresident officials and select
them without consulting the people they are to
serve.
Up to month ago it was believed the Presi-
dent would adhere to this pledge of his party
and give the Territories the officers belonging to
them, but since that time he has gone clear out
of the way in making nearly ALL if rot all, of the
Territorial appointments There are deep
curses heard around these liggings.
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THE FAR NORTH.
General Miles Thinks Lieutenant Aliens Ex-
plorations Unusually Important.

CHICAGO. Oct. 15-Gen. Nelson A. Miles re-
ceived telegram yesterday from Lieut.. Henry
It. Alien, of the Second Cavalry, stating that he
had arrived safely at San Francisco. after his
Alaska explorations, having completed journey
through the regions of the far NORTH which, in
the opinion of General Miles, exceled all explora
ions on the American continent since Lewis and
Clarke, and the worlds record since Livingstone.
Lieutenant Allen left Sitka last February and
iourneyed to the mouth of the Copper river
which he followed until he reached the great
Alaskan range of mountains. These he
crossed on snow shoes to the head of the Ten
nah river--in itself marvellous accomplishment
For 700 or 800 miles he followed the Tennah
until it emptied into the Yukon, the great river
of the north to its mouth, distance of 400 or
500 miles more. Upon the completion of his
great journey Lieutenant Allen repaired to Fort
Michel. on the Behring sea, and returned on the
steamer Corwn
The exploration Of the Tennah and Yukon
rivers has been the ambition of explorers long
before Alaska came into the possession of the
United States, but the Russians failed each
time it was attempted. Since then several ex-
plorations by American officers have ended in
failure, until among the army officers on the
Pacific coast the feat came to be considered we'll
nigh impossible. Lieutenant Aliens companions
were sergeant and an officer of the signal
corps. together with the Indians whom he per-
suadeG to join him.
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BOYCOTTERs IN COURT.
A Test Case to Determine the Power of the
Law to Deal with the Evil.

A Test Case to Determine the Power of the
Law to Deal with the Evil.
LONDON, Oct. 15-Boycotting in Ireland has
become so extensive that all except the National
ist agitators are becoming very much alarmed
concerning the effect which this practice may
have on the industrial interests of the country.
1t is the general opinion, emanating chiefly from
government circles, that the people have per-
feet right TO buy or not to buy as they please,
from farmers, manufacturers and dealers, and
that the revenge which they take some of
them by refusing to deal with them is quite
within their rights as consumers. The indirect
effect of this the general current of business
does not lie within the scope of the law to rem
edy. Even the posting of notices of boycotting
certain men has not heretofore led to any suit
for libel. which might have a restraining effect
on the boycotters. case has finally arisen,
however. which bids fair to lead to an intelligi-
BILE decision as to whether the extremists have a
legal right to injnre mans business by posting
him one to be boycotted
This case will be taken as test as to how far
the law has any power to deal with boycotting.
1t is in the shape of an action for libel, which
has been instituted by Mr.. John Punch. a mer-
He asks for $50, 600 damages, and his case is
based on the conduct of the butter buyers in
causing statement to be printed that machine
made frkins fail to preserve the quality of the
butter packed in them as handmade firkins do.
Mr.. Punch has two large factories in Limerick
devoted to the making of frkns, and the buyers
are eopposed to his of machinery in their manu-
factnre Tney have published notice that they
wAl not buy butter from farmers who pack 1t in
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not only that congressional district, but all
parts of the State, will stand by him. He served
three years and three months and was three
times wounded, one ball going through
his body. The capable physicians in
the district refuse to work on
the board if DR.. Miller is to be slaughtered
merely because MIR. Holman disiikes his Repub
lcanism, and so the board remains disorganized.
DR.. Miller, they say, has been one of the
most efficient men OF the board, and that, being
backed by such men as DR.. Catch, the present
Democratic treasurer of Dearborn county, they
do not think his Republicanism will interfere
with his melting out full justice to the soldiers.
DIR. Catch, it is stated is so firm in his desire
for the retention of DR.. Miller that he offers
to come here and interpose in his behalf, if it
will do any good. Mr. Holman, however re-
mains implacable. and refuses to permit the
board to organize while DR.. Miller is mem
ber of it, and there is more of the controversy
ahead. Mr.. Holmans action is generally
characterized in the district as pure cussedness.
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WHEN CLOTHING STORE
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Proceedings at Yesterdays Session Of the
American Board of Commissioners.

BosToN. Oct 15-At to-day's session Of the
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions, reports of committees were received
showing the character and progress of the work
in the various foreign fields. A portion of the
report on the work in China, which condemned
the recent outrages upon the Chinese in this
country and called upon the government of the
United States to protect the emigrants and pun
ish their prosecutors, was received with great
applause.
Connected with the report on Japan missions
q resolution was presented calling upon our
government to consent to revision of its treaty
with Japan so that the clause relating to extra
territorial jurisdiction be abolished
The committee to consider charges by DR..
Leonard Bacon, of perverson of the funds Of the
board, reported that, from full investigation,
they are satisfied that the report of the treasurer
is correct in every particular, and that the finan
cial affairs of the board are managed upon sound
principles The report was accepted. and com
mittee appointed to make an investigation OF the
financial condition of the board
It was voted to hold the next meeting at Des
Moines, Ia
The woman's board. cooperating with the
American board. held meeting, at which only
women were present
The board met at o'clock and elected the fol-
lowing officers: President, 'Mark Hopkins D.
D., LII D.; vice-president Eliphalet W. Batch.
ford; prudential committee. Augustus G.
Thompson. D. D., Hon. Alphen Pardy. Ezra
Farnsworth Hon. Joseph S. Ropes, Egbert c.
Smyth Edwin B. Webb. Charles G. Burr, Ed
ridge TORY, Albert II. Plumb, William P. Eli
son, Rev Charles F. Thwing; corresponding
secretaries, Nathaniel G.. Clark. E. K Alden.
Judson Smith recording secretary, Rev. Henry
A. Stimson; treasurer. Langdon S. Ward: audit
Ors, Hon. Avery Plummer, Hon. Arthur w.
Tufts, and James w. Gordon.
AT the request of the prudential committee,
a committee was appointed to examine the af-
fairs of the treasury.to report through the public
press.
President Hopkins, now in the twenty-eighth
year of his service president spoke at con-
siderable length recalling some of the incidents
connected Herewith. Addresses followed by
Presidents Bartlett and Seeley and Prof. Barber.
Music Hall was at the same time filled with q
large audience, listening to Rev. Dr. McGowan
of Iowa. and DR.. Powell and DR.. r. S. Storrs
of New York. The sessions of the board will
close ut noon to morrow. ~.
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THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY.
Subscriptions to the Educational institution
To Be Erected at Washington.

Subscriptions to the Educational Institution
To BE Erected at Washington.
Washington Special.
Bishop Ireland, of Minnesota, in an interview
to- day stated that 5000 900 had already been sub
scribed for the Catholic University to be estab-
lished here. This is double the original sub
scription with which the movement started.
''One gentleman from New York." the Bishop
continued, subscribed So, 900 to-day, and not a
dollar has been begged The work of soliciting
has not yet been begun, but have no doubt we
shall have million dollars by the first of the
year"
'Will the buildings be erected at once7"
ut is the intention of the directors TO proceed
at once with the erection of one wing Work
will probably be begun on it within few weeks,
and will be continued during the winter. The
plans under consideration contemplate the ex-
pendture of $3.50, 900 on it, You can, therefore.
judge what immense structure the university
edfce will be when it is completed"
What branch of the university will first be
established"
1.-THE philosophical and theological depart
ments for the higher education of the clergy
None will be admitted to the privileges Of the
university except those who have received d.
plomas from other institutions"
'Then there will be no collegiate course"
'None at ali. Ours will be university of a
grade above anything that has yet been at
tempted in this country. Its course of study
will compare with the post graduate course of
other higher educational institutions. We shall
have trouble in filling our chairs. The plan
of funding contemplates the endowment Of
each chair with $780, OcO, the interest on which is
expected to provide very handsome salaries"
How soon do you think the university will
reach state of complete organizationv
THAT is impossible to say. The faculty of
philosophy and theology, of course, will be filled
at once. Those of law science ard medicine
will follow on as rapidly as possible. but it is
hardly probable that more than one faculty will
be added each year.
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Stealing BaIlot-Roxea.

Cincinnati Special to Chicago Tribune
Your correspondent visited Precinct F this
evening. It is in one of the most dangerous
rough stood in the door of the voting place and
tried to shoot down an unoffending Republican
who was riding by in wagon There were two
Democratic and one Republican judge in the
precinct. At 10 o'clock last night when the
count was about half DONE messenger from
the Democratic gang drove up in a buggy called
out the Democratic judges and consulted with
them They returned to the room, declared
that they were tired of work. locked up the
ballot box and sent it to Thomas Muvihill,
the Democratic city clerk, who has it and
three others In his possession and refused to
allow the votes to be counted, assigning no
reason for this unwarranted conduct. The regis
tration law was openly violated ty the Demo.
cratic judges in these precincts. and the book of
registration was not used at all. The Reput-
lican judge informed your correspondent that at
least seventy-fve illegal votes were cast This
theft of the ballot boxes is the boldest and most
deplorable crime that has ever been committed
here in connection with elections save the Null
len outrage. There is vast deal of indignation
over it, and it is proposed by certain influential
citizens to raise large sum of money for the
purpose OF prosecuting the persons concerned in
the rapo of the ballot boxes.
1t is simply appalling that such outrages as
the gang has been and is now perpetrating are al
lowed AT the station house, where three Of the
boxes are guarded, after the Republicans had o6-
tanned permission of the chief of police to remain
along with the Democrats. the lights were sudden
ly extinguished and the Republicans forced from
the room. Then three prominent Democratic
ring politicians seized one box and bore it out of
the room and attempted to secrete it in an ada
cent alley. They were overtaken too soon by
the Republicans, however. to open the box.
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A CHANCE FOR BUSINESS MEN.
Persia Desires Modern ConveDiences and Is
Willing to Pay for Them.

Persia Desires Modern Conveniences and Is
Willing to Pay for Them.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.-In a dispatch to the
State Department. dated Sept z, the dragoman
of the United States legation at Teherap gives
the substance of recent conversation with the
Persian Minister of Foreign Affairs, in which his
Excellency asked whether the Americans would
engage in business in Persia. as the Persian gov
ernment was disposed to offer every facility in
their power to improve business relations be-
tween Persia and the United States. Any pro-
posals, he said, for concessions for tramways
railways, mines, or commercial projects
would receive the most serious and favorable
consideration from the government provided
that the persons making them were known and
introduced by the minister of the United States
that he would be glad to do everything in his
power to encourage American industry in Persia
He wished this should be brought to the atten-
tion of the business men of America His
Majesty, the King the dragoman adds, has also
several times expressed himself in manner
showing very favorable inclination toward
Americans.
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NAvIEs OF THE OLD WORLD.

How Our Government Obtains Information
as to the Building of War Ships.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.-There was received at
the Navy Department, yesterday, from the Sec
retary of State, a document which was marked
in such a manner as to attract the attention of
every official in the Navy Department who had
an opportunity to see it; but so secret were it's
contents kept that very few of even the higher
officials in the department have been able thus
far to catch even glimpse of it. The document
was communication forwarded to the Depart
ment of State by United States consul of one
of the British ports, where ship-building is car
ried on quite extensively, and it announced that
the consul had been able to secure information
that was exceedingly valuable from an inter
national stand point. The consul went on to say
that, Immediately upon the breaking out of the
difficulty between the Spanish and Ger
man governments, growing out of
the occupation of the island of Yap.
by of Bismarck's gnnboats, the emissaries
of the Spanish government had visited the ship
building centers of Great Britain, and had con-
tracted for the immediate construction and
armament of five cruisers for which they agreed
W pay @o,ooO,OoV 1ue Vessels are 10 De UullL on
the most approved modern designs. with the OBJ
ject Of obtaining great speed. Arrangements
have been made to supply the cruisers with the
most effective modern machinery that can be
built in Great Britain and they will also be
armed with the very best long range, light guns
that have thus far been designed. According to
the consul, these vessels are all on the stocks,
and are being pushed rapidly toward completion.
Of course, the name of the Spanish government
does not appear in the contract,
but they apparently being built
for private parties. or for sale
to anyone who may want them The object of
the Spanards is undoubtedly to so build up their
navy as to be able to cope with the more power
ful one of Germany in case there should again
be any outbreak of the Carolines difficulty, and
it is thought in diplomatic circles here that in
event of tie death of Emperor Wilhelm Bis
marck would certainly attempt once moro to
plant the German flag upon the islands. About
year and half ago Secretary Frelinghuysen,
at the instance of President Arthur, directed all
United States consuls abroad to secure all infor-
nation appertaining to the ship-buding of the
governments to which they were accredited, and
in obedience to these instructions there has been
forwarded to the intelligence office of the Navy
Department very comprehensive statements
from these consuls. and the United States to-day
is thoroughly posted upon the navies and their
armaments, as well as the merchant fleets Of the
civilized world 3l.n<rl
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ENGLISH POLITICS.
Lord Salisbury Accuses Gladstone of Dodging
on the Religious Question.

Lord Salisbury Accuses Gladstone of Dodging
on the Religious Question.
LONDON, Oct. 15.-Lord Salisbury. in speech
at Brighton, said that Mr.. Chamberlain's propos-
ais would be fatal blow to capital and the in
terests Of industry. Mr.. Chamberlain's state
ment that the church and state question would
not be mooted in the next Parliament was with
out foundation If the question was not settled
in the next, it would be settled in the following
Parliament 1t would be the greatest conflict in
English history wave of infdelity
was passing over the land, and
MIR. Gladstone bowed to it. He was
unable to consider it the great issue of modern
civilization. After reference to the religious
question, and to relations with France. Lord
Salisbury urged his hearers to show themselves
worthy of the coming struggle. Referring to
Great Britain's foreign relations, he said it was
England's policy to shun quarrels where she is
not concerned.
Lord Rosebery, speaking at Paisley, this
evening, said that, Notwithstanding the denials,
there some kind of compact between the
ParnelliteS and the Conservatives
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FOURTH DISTRICT PENSION BOARDS.

Inconvenience Resulting from the Narrow
Meanness of Congressman Holman.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON. Oct 15.-Letters continue to
arrive here from Congressman Holmans district,
showing the depth Of the trouble there over the
disorganized condition of the pension boards
Mr.. Holman encountered the greatest difficulty
when he attempted to force Dr. G. B. Miller off the
Lawrenceburs board, and the enemies he made
BY it will make him much trouble in future
campaigns. DR.. Miller was one of the most
faithful soldiers in the Union during
the late war, and the soldiers Of
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Hot-Headed People Begin to Talk of Summary
Measures, but the Indications Are that
Calmer Counsel Will Prevail,
And that the Committee of One Hundred
Will Right the Infamous Wrong.
Foraker'S Plurality Will Be Between $4,000
and19 ,O00-Both Sides Continue to Claim
the Legislature on Joint Ballot.
HAMILTON COUNTY.
Great Indignation Aroused by the Attempt
ed Frauds on the Ballot.

Great Indignation Aroused by the Attempt
ed Frauds on the Ballot.
CINCINNATI, Oct. 15.-There can be no abso.
lutte certainty about the result of Tuesdays cleo
ton in Hamilton county until the official count
is made. The vote in the two precincts ofstha
Nineteenth ward whose counting was not fin-
ished last night, has now been counted, and the
result on Governor. with one country precinct
missing, which, in 1884. gave seventeen Repub-
,ican majority, shows thus: Governor-Hcadly,
33.667; Foraker, 33,3G2; Leonard, 1920; Hoadly's
plurality, 3O5 The returns are far from COM
plete on the Legislative ticket. The Times-Star
estimates that the average vote on Republican
members of the Legislature exceeds Forakers
vote by LOIS If that rate is maintained it
would elect the Republican delegation, except
Robert Harlan. Nothing can determine this
contingency except an official count
The Irregularities and alleged gross frauds in
connection with Tuesdays election in this city
have made most profound impression on all
classes of wellmeaning people. The palpable
crime OF putting more than two hundred votes
in one box in excess of the registration for that
precinct has aroused the deepest Indignation es-
pecially in the German quarter of the city A
AAes'S ihOcSbSi quito pIIFdtS, WAS uo!u QlRQG
to discuss plans Fiery talk was had, and d gem
eral understanding that steps would be taken to-
day for calling an indignation meeting. The
matter was discussed today but no formal call
made. Notwithstanding this there was a
large gathering about Turner Hall to night, and
an application was made for the hall for the pur-
pose of holding an indignation meeting.
The proprietor took advice, and refused
to open the hall. The men fingered
about the place. some uttering most violent de-
nunciations of the leaders, whom they regarded
as responsible for the violations of law, and
counseling summary measures Others argued
in favor Of moderation, and urged that the full
est possible support be given TO the committee Of
100, which is now at work preparing for the
discovery and prosecution of offenders against
the law. AS there was no opportunity to hold
meeting the crowds finally dispersed. The
police authorities had notice Of the proposed in
dignation meeting, and fearing that it would
result as did the one held at Music Hail to de-
nounce the Berner trial, when the mob burned
the ourthouse, strengthened the force, and
used all precautions to meet such result. The
holding of an indignation meeting has been dis
couraged by Mayor Smith, and by all who wish
peace; but there is widespread feeling that
some action will be taken to preserve the purity
of elections
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Dishonest Judges aud Clerks.

Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
There was not precinct in Hamilton county
from which, if there had been honest judges and
competent clerks, the full and exact returns
might not have been made ready before IL
o'clock Tuesday night All delays beyond that
time have arisen from drunken imbecity or
calculated dishonesty, and the two have been at
times mingled.
There has been 70 instance of delay that has
not been the signal of a Democratic fraud.
There has been no fraud or disturbance that has
not been under Democratic auspices. And yet
there are Democrats of the Gang gangy going
about telling lies, and charging the rascalties of
which they are themselves guilty upon honest
This is Characteristic of the whole tribe.