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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-05
lie Nominates New York Man to Succeed
Fred Douglass. Thus Trampling on the
Democratic National Platform.
MIR. Whitney Is Bent on Making a Repu-
tatiOn, and Is Willing to Pay for It,
Mr.. Blair Growing Nervous Over the Outlook
for His Educational Bill-Romeis To Be
0usted and His Seat Given to Hurd.
THE PRESIDENTS SURPRISE.

He Nominates a New York Man Success
or to Fred Douglass.
Special to the Indianapolis journal.
WASHINGTON, March A great deal OF
surprise was expressed when it became
known, this Afternoon. that the President
had nominated James M. Matthews, of New
York, to be recorder of deeds for this city, to
succeed the venerable Frederick Douglass, re-
signed by request. Matthews is acolored man.
as well as Douglass, but the surprise and the
consequent indignation of Democrats, as well as
Republicans here grew out of the Presidents dis
regard of provision in the platform adopted by
his party at Chicago, in 1884. to the effect that
officers in the Territories and the District of
Columbia should be filled by residents thereof.
It was fully expected that to this Office one of the
representative Democrats here would be called,
and when it was learned that New Yorker was
named, indignation knew no bounds. The Pres
ident has repeatedly trampled this pledge Of his
party under his feet in regard to Territorial ap-
pointments, but this act completely disgusts
every one The selection of colorei man to
supersede Fred Douglass is regarded by repre-
sentative colored men as puerile. and weak SUBJ
terfuge for displacing Republican and reward
Hon. Tim Campbell, the Democratic mem
Der from Brooklyn, when he heard of the ap-
pointment of Matthews as recorder of deeds,
was standing in the lobby of tae House, and he
exclaimed: what! another bloody nagur2 To
- with the Irish seems to be the policy of this
administration"
The Office of recorder of deeds pays over sc, 600
per annum. Matthews began life as Manning's
boot black, and every time Manning has risen in
political life Matthews goes up peg or two
The following explains itself:
OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF DEEDS
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,
WASHINGTON, d. O., Jan. 5, 1885.
ITO Hon. Grover Cleveland, President Of the United
States:
''Sir-In accordance with a purpose expressed
to you at the executive mansion several weeks
ago, now very respectfully beg leave to tender
my resignation of the Office of recorder OF
deeds for the District of Columbia. the same to-
take effect on the 1st day of March next, or as.
soon thereafter as it shall be year
appoint my successor. In making this commu-
nication cannot withhold the expression of my
grateful appreciation of your kind considera-
ton in allowing me to choose both the time and
the manner of my retirement from the Office I
have so long held subject to your pleasure.
very respectfully yours,
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
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SECRETARY WHITNEY.
A Shrewd and Ambitious Man Who Is De-
termined to Make His Mark.

A Shrewd and Ambitious Man Who Is De-
termined to Make His Mark.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, March f. Secretary Whitney
is the sharpest man in the Cabinet said Re-
publican Senator to-day. "When this Congress-
was organized the members of the Senate and
House committees on naval affairs were by
large majority against Mr. Whitney his ambi-
tions and reforms Now both committees are
largely in sympathy with Mr.. Whitney and all
that he has proposed His reconstruction bill
will therefore be passed"
'How do you account for this change of sem
timent."
why, he mas brought these men in contact
with him. You must not believe that these
three thousand dollar dinners and receptions
have been given by the Secretary in vain. He
is one of the shrewdest and most plausible men
ever saw. He is open and frank. He had cer-
tain work he wanted to accomplish, and feeling
that it was all right. but that he had to encouns
ter certain prejudices and suspicious, he con-
cudej to get an audience with the men who
would first be called upon to consider his propo-
sitions. So he got them before him, and he
talked and explained, and now they are his
L
think / understand Mr.. Whitney He is very
wealthy and very ambitious. He wants to make
a reputation, and he is willing to let it cost him
something"
What he is not corrupt|
'Oh! no; l do not charge him with that, or
with any wrong-doing. AS I was saying. he is
willing to go to trouble and expense in convinc-
ing the people that he means we'll in his work.
So he gave these entertainments brought the
public men to him, and he has demonstrated his
sincerity in his plan to rebuild the navy. He has
done nothing but explain his position, and that's
as have said, he has done we'll. believe hes
will execute any plan and dsburse any money!
Congress may give him faithfully and well. He5
wants to be President We aave for many yeargt
been trying without avail to have new ships andl
a new navy. What would recommend Mr. Whit
ney for the nomination. and what would recoms
mend him for election more than the successfuH
execution of design former Secretaries have5
been unable to start upon whether it has been by5
contrary legislators or other obstaces2 Mr.
Whitney is sure to be the shining light Of this
administration"
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OTHER LABOR NEWS.
The Mccormick Case Will Now BE Referred
{. to the knights of Labor.

The Mccormick Case Will Now BE Referred
to the Knights of Labor.
CHICAGO March fully 800 men are at
work in the Mccormick reaper factory this
morning The strike is considered at an end
The unemployed workmen held meeting this
morning, at which they prepared and address to
Mr.. Mccormick in which they stated that if the
five non-union men. now working in the foundry,
are placed in some other department., where
they will not deprive the old hands of employ
ment, settlement is possible. The address
says: while we do not dispute the right of
Mr.. Mccormick to hire and discharge whom he
sees ft we hold that no man shah be discharged
during the working season without just cause"
When Mr.. Mccormick was asked the result of
his conference with Inspector Bonfield and Lieu
tenant Kipley who seem, in some way, to be
acting as committee who represent the locked
out men, he said his position remained un-
changed He did not know that he had any set
tlement to make with any body Of men. 'If a
man comes to the gate" he said, 'askirg for
work, and we have need of his assistance, we
will put him to work, and if he is not skilled or
we don't want him, we will discharge him. We
propose, if we carry our works at all, to do 80
on business principles"
When committeeman were asked if this was
their final effort toward arbitration, they said it
was; the matter would now be referred to the
district assembly, Knights of Labor, and then
to the national executive board. The constitu-
ton of the Knights they said. required them to
trate, to stand up for union principles They
feel that they had obeyed the first part of the
law, and now they were going to obey the latter
napt
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THE BURIED NANTICOKE MINERS.
The Work of Recovering the Bodies of the
Dead Men Finally Abandoned.

NANTICoKE Pa, March 4-Last Thursday
the bore hole into the mine tomb was completed
and from the developments then made it was be-
lieved that the work of clearing away the gang
way would proceed rapidly and the point where
the entombed bodies are would soon be reached
Since then, however, it has been ascertained by
measurement in the bore hole that great body
of water really does exist over the mine and
that to proceed further with the work would
endanger the lives of the men so engaged,
and accordingly orders were issued to stop
the work, and all efforts to recover
the bodies will cease until such time as
the dangers resolve themselves. The entrance
to the main gangway was boarded up last even
ing while the sorrowing friends stood by and
protested that they thought that the bodies of
their children, fathers and husbands were Sc
curely locked within without doing this. What
further will be done toward securing the bodies
cannot now be stated. The friends of the en-
tombed men say that the company has not used
every possible endeayor to get the bodies; that
but few men were engaged in the work, and
there was no real disposition to even recover
them, only false show being made of an at
tempt to reach them They are exceedingly
angry about the turn affairs have taken, and
now going to proceed to law about the matter.
They assert willingness on their own part to
90 in and recover the bodies, but say that the
officials of the company refused them the oppor-
tunity to do So The putting down of the bore
hole was done on their appeal. and they believe
they will yet accomplish their purpose in obtain
ing the bodies of their friends.
Superintendent Morgan. on the contrary, says
that ali has been done which was possible, and
that the work is only abandoned when the use
lessness of the undertaking becomes so fear
fully apparent. '.It will not do" he stated this
morning, ito go any further in this work Other
valuable lives would certainly be sacrificed, and
that we are determined to guard against, now
that we see most clearly the danger that will
soon break forth. If the friends of the entombed
men would only perfectly understand the situa-
ton and sympathize with the company in its Of
forts, and not to be led by the talk of unscrupu-
lous men, who are exciting their feelings in order
to secure from them what means they may Dos
sess, there would not now be any discomfort ex-
listing, but they would see that it is useless to
further prosecute the work. They have at all
times been accorded chance of investigating
the work of the company, and all along seemed
content with what was being done. We regret
very much that the chances were against the
work, and would have been only too glad to have
found the bodies and restored them to their
friends. If the parties interested are determined
upon legal proceedings in the matter the com
pany is prepared to show the work already done
and the dar gers that exist in interfering with it,
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The Strike on the Texas Pacific.

NEW ORLEANS, March 4.-The employees of
the shops along the line of the Texas Pacific
railroad, in Texas, have been on strike for
some days. This afternoon the receivers of
the road filed a petition in the
United States Circuit Court, setting
forth that last night party Of
armed, masked and disguised
entered and took possession of the shop and
roundhouse at Big Springs Tex. took the loco
motives to pieces, and committed other depreda-
tions on the property of said railway company,
and asking for instructions and protection. The
petition further says:
'"The employees in the shops along the line of
said road in Texas are on strike, and the OBJ
ject of the parties appear to be to prevent the
operation Of the road until the demands of the
strike complied with"
Judge Part issued an order to the receiver to
stop any and all traffic on the road at any or all
points where its continuance would jeopardize
the safety of the property, and. il necessary, to
apply to the federal court for protection by the
United States marshal Of the district.
FoRT WORTH Tex, March 4-The time given
the strikers on the Texas g. Pacific railroad to
work or suffer discharge was extended TO this
morning None of the men went to work. New
forces are being organized in every de-
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The strikers said they proposed to give him
enough work to do at home. He asserts that he
agreed. last night, to grant their demands. and
was willing to concede twelve hours a days
work: The strikers, however. formulated long
list OF demands, fixing hours, trips, etc, and de-
manding that several officers be reprimanded
and one OF them discharged. and called on him
to come to their meeting and sign it, which he
declined to do. A. written demand was sent him
to-day, to which he replied as follows:
Your communication Of this date is received,
and has been carefully read. In reply I desire
TO suggest much shorter and more explicit way
OF procuring your demands. 1t is this That
you demand the resignation of thepresdent and
pany of Brooklyn, and that hereafter its railroad
lines shall be in the charge and controlled by
the executive board of the Empire Association
of the State of New York."
An effort was made to get car started over
the route at 4:30 p. NJ in order to save the char
ter OF the road. The appearance of the car was
met by storm of hooting and yelling. "Dea-
con" Richardson was on the platform of the car,
surrounded by police. The car did not make
very rapid progress. 1t had got about fifteen
feet when big double truck was drawn up
across the track. and the came to stop. At
ter little trouble the truck was got out of the
way and the car proceeded. It had not gone far
when it was stopped. A pile of stones had got
on the track mysteriously. These were removed,
but when the car got to the corner of Hicks and
Atlantic the crowd set cross-town car, which
was RAINING up, across the down track and just
in front of the "Deacon's" car. While this was
being removed the crowd hooted and yelled, and
finally lifted the front wheels Of the from the
track. When the car was placed on the track
again 1t was found that the crowd had cut the
traces on the cross-town car, and it had to be
taken off. Deacon Richardson's car started again,
but a large truck got in front of it. There was
big crowd on it, hooting and yelling at the
occupants of the car. The policemen jumped
on the truck and clubbed the men right and left
until they broke and scattered in every direc-
ton. The truck was removed, and the car
passed over the route. second attempt to run
car was not essayed. Shortly after o'clock
this afternoon an attempt was made to start a
car from the stables on the Fifth-ave line
but it'll had only got on the street when it was
surrounded by a crowd and the traces cut. A
quantity of railroad iron was placed on the
track. and no further efforts were made to run
cars on that line
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STRIKE IN PROSPECT.
Indications of Serious Trouble Among the
Workers at Racine, Wis.

Indications of Serious Trouble Among the
Workers at Racine, Wis.
CHICAGO, March A number of labor strikes
are threatened at Racine, Wis, large manu-
featuring center In the city, which has popu
lation Of 21,000, are almost, if not quite, one
hundred manufactures. including in the list the
great works of the J. I. Case Thrashing Machine
Company, with its varied side issues, such as the
plow works, as we'll as tanneries, M. M. Seers's
trunk factory, the Racine woolen mills and
scores of other industries Dependent for their
daily bread upon these are 4200 mechanics,
whose wives and children are as much interested
in the wage question as are the workingmen. A
reporter, yesterday, Went to view tho ground.
1t was found that there were strained
relations existing between Mr.. j. /. Case
and the men employed in the plow works. A
little over a year ago, under the old manage
ment, cut was made in the wages of the hands
ranging from 10 to 25 per cent. Then the works
were closed, and were reopened about three
months ago, under company with Mr.. Case at
the head A few days ago the men in the black
smith shop struck without giving the company
any intimation of their purpose. This had the
effect of shutting down the entire plow works.
Mr.. Case Immediately sent Secretary Wallis and
Superintendent Robbins to Chicago to find out
paying. They visited the works of the David
BradlA s<sompauy. On their return an offer was
made to the men to advance the pres
ent scale 10 per cent. A committee
of the strikers visited the company's
Office. They wanted the old wages
which were in vogue when the equaized reduc-
tion was made restored. Secretary Wallace re-
piled that they had left in body they must
be treated as a unit, and if there was any equal
izing to be done they must do it among them
selves. Mr.. Case was seen at his Office by the
reporter and said, in substance:
II am free to say that do not know what the
outcome will be. No scale has been agreed
upon, and there may be trouble. l have told
my men plainly that if they raised much more
trouble / should most certainly close up the
works. If they pressed me too hard. said. they
would have to take the business and run it.
have already lost $780, 900 or $780, 900 in the pow
company, and I will not lose any more. The
situation Is strained and alarming and cannot
tell what will happen"
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partment, and the places of nearly all
have been filled. The freight offices
were opened to-day, and are receiving
all shipments. except live stock. The strikers
are discouraged and think the movement has
been badly handled. The State executive board
of the Knights of Labor is here. and will dis
cuss means of assisting the strikers. The indi-
cations now are that an effort will be made to
inaugurate general strike on the Gould lines as
the only chance of success.
GALVESTON. Marcn 4-There are many strong
indications tonight that the labor troubles on
the Texas Pacific. and other lines in north
Texas, will be extended to this and other south
Texas points within the next forty eight hours.
D. III. Black, member of the distrlst
executive committee of the Knights Of
Labor, arrived here this evening from Fort
Worth, and has been in secret conference with
the local assembly until midnight 1t is thought
the local Knights will seize the opportunity
while the north Texas roads are paralyzed to en-
force the Mallory boycott against the Gulf. Colo
rado 81 Santa Fe road, and the Missouri
Pacific, both of which lines paid no
attention to the order boycotting NAL
lory freight. AS the Santa Fe road
handles the bulk Of the Mallory freight, it is
thought the first aggressive move will be made
against that line. The local Knights have made
known other grievance, and their intentions
are carefully concealed. There is great feeling
of impending trouble.
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Fight Between strikers and workmen.

Fight Between Strikers and Workmen.
ST. LOUIS. March 4. - The wire mill on
Twenty first and Papin streets was last night
the scene of a conflict between strikers and non
strikers that resulted in the injury of two men
and in the arrest of four. Some time ago the
wire-rollers employed in the shop struck for an
increase of wages. They were receiving ST.
day and demanded 81. %. They were nearly all
boys between fifteen and twenty years of age,
and the company refused to gr mt the demand.
AS compromise, they offered the boys 81. 10 a
day, and told them if they choose they could all
come back to work at that figure. Some of them
went to work and others refused. Last night,
while the boys who were at work were on their
way home from the shops, they were waylaid by
a half dozen strikers, who attacked them.
j ohm Howard and Mike Fleming were injured,
and their cries summoned officers Kinney, Bo
land and McKernan. The strikers were pursued
and four of them arrested and locked up at the
Four Courts. They gave their names as james
Nolan, William Kiel. Benjamin Burke and Ed
ward Florian. Charges of riotously disturbing
the peace were entered against them.
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Miss willard and Social Purity.

CHICAGO, March 4.-The Chicago Central
Woman's Christian Temperance Union recently
appointed committee of conference. with Miss
Willard, superintendent Of the department for
the promotion of social purity, as chairman. and
committee today issued reply to statements
which, they claim, are being circulated through
the public press, regarding the White Cross
movement, and Miss Willards connection there
with Ine committee in their address state that
Miss Willard has established no "Victor;a
League" in Chicago. The report says: "She has
been instrumental in starting reading room
for women desirous Of abandoning their evil
mode of life and in the hope that, by the help
Of philanthropic people, this enterprise might
has never advocated exhibiting the effects of
lexual vice. whatever that surprising phrase
may mean
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Appealing to the Law.

ALBANY, N. Y, March 4-The State Railroad
Commission met to-day, and as the result of
Commissioner Kernan's investigation, report
was drawn up setting forth that the Dry-dock
Street Railway Company, of New York city,
had violated the requirements of its charter in
not running cars on March 2 and 3; that it
had been prevented by force on the Sd; that
the mere attempt to occasionally run car
is not sufficient, but the attempt must
be continuous to supply the transportation needs
of the public; that the company has no right to
deprive the public of these facilities on a mere
question of wages. and that there should be a
law in the interests of the public in the cases of
corporations and individuals engaged in public
transportation and the like, TO force both parties
to submit to arbitration. The board decided to
notify the road to resume travel on its line and
on default the Attorney general will be asked to
annul its charter
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Strike on Brooklyn Street Car Lines.

NEW YORK, March 4.-The drivers, conduct
ors, stablemen and other workmen employed in
the street-railway lines controlled by the Allan
tic-avenue Railroad Company, of Brookly, quit
work yesterday afternoon, and to-day no cars
were run over these routes. The lines thus af-
fected are the Fifth-avenue. Seventh avenue,
Boerum- place. Bergen-street, Butler-street,
Vanderbilt avenue, and the cross-town route
from the bridge to the Hamil-
ton ferry. This suspension caused
great Inconvenience to business men living
in South Brooklyn, as we'll as to passengers ar
irving on the Long Island railroad The total
number of men who quit work is about twelve
hundred aud few of them gathered about each
of the stables owned by the company this morn
ing. but. beyond arguing with new men. gener-
ally with success. not to go to work. made no
demonstration. The company was assured of
police protection, and one of Henry Bergh's of
fcers was present President Richardson,
who is also one of the directors Of the Dry dock
lines in New York, said the strike
was made without warning, and was because
hs took part in the fight on Manhattan Island.
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Boycott Against a Newspaper.

DETROIT, Mich, March About year ago
the typographical union announced boycott
against the Free Press because of the employ
ment of non-union printers. This has not been
enforced to any great extent. The knights of
Labor have taken ND the fight. and to-day de-
termined to boycott the newspaper.
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murderous Assault on schooi-Teaoher.

MABcELLus, Mich. March "A teacher in
the Thompson district school, named ID. j. Vim
cent. punished child of Thomas Cleland, q few
days ago, whereupon the father went to the
schoolhouse and attacked the teacher with a
razor, cutting him in several places. One cut
extended fourteen inches across the breast, sew
cred rib. and exposed the heart. Vincent's con-
1Ition is critical Cleland was arrested, but
waived examination and was held for trial.