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Labor Notes.

CHICAGO, April -Four hundred and fifty
employees of the Brunswick Balke-C Calendar
Billiard table Manufacturing Company to-day
demanded an advance in wages of from Is to &c
per cent, and requested that piece work in the
bar-ixtures' department be abolished. The
company is given until tomorrow evening in
which to reply.
PlTTsBuRG, April There is considerable
dissatisfaction among the Oakland street car
employees over the discharge of thirteen con
ductors, and another strike may be ordered.
The company claims that the men were dis
charged to reduce expenses, but the employees
say they were relieved because of their connec-
ton with the Knights of Labor. A number of
the men quit work to-day, and cars were taken
out by the officers of the road.
CHICAGO. April John Coleman. a Pinker-
ton watchman, who was arrested for shooting a
striker during the trouble at the McCormick
reaper works, in April, 1885. was on trial for
assault with intent to kill. before Judge Gar
nett, this morning. During the strike a wagon
loaded with Pinkerton men was attacked by a
crowd of strikers, and the defendant and several
of his companions fired. All swore they fired in
the air or on the ground, but one of the strikers,
George Roth by name, was shot in the back, and
a witness testified to having seen Coleman fire
the shot. The court was unable to determine
who did the shooting, and the defendant was dis
charged.
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Gently paroled by the Governor. has returned to
bis home in Logansport He will 90 to q far
Western town and settle.
Herb, a saloon-keeper at Mooresville, Floyd
county. struck Edward Lamb, who was under
the influence of liquor, over the head with a
brass beer faucet 1t Is feared Lambs injuries
may prove fatal.
The Stanley family of gypsies, who own good
farmMpear Dayton. o., are encampsd near
Jeffersonville. They think young Stanley, who
killed Augustine, a negro deck hand. the other
day, and jumped overheard, has been drowned.
DIR. Morgan, the Oldest physician in Motgom-
cry county, is lying at the point of death from
the effects of having taken a dose strychnine.
He has been sick for a long time. and had be-
come impressed with the idea that he never could
recover.
A Kentucky sheriff arrived at Greencastle
yesterday In search of James Sawyer, who is
charged with the murder of a colored man In
four miles north of town, and is now In jail. He
Is a negro.
At Louisville, KY, Sam Mead, & young man
from New Albany. who had forged orders on
Bamberger, Bloom & CO., signing the name of a
New Albany merchant named Talcott, and who
cot valuable goods on the forgery, was given
four years in the penitentiary.
The Town Council Of Rockville has granted
permission to John j. Safely and his associates,
under the name of the Rockville Telephone
Company, to erect and maintain telegraph and
telephone poles and wires in the streets and
alleys Of Rockville. The company will connect
all out towns in the county with Rockville and
give the citizens a direct wire to Indianapolis.
This private line to the capital city will cost So
900 or 1900 and be of great value TO business
men.
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Brief Mention.

Edward G. Ivey, the victim of the bcx-car
tragedy at Decatur, has died after twenty five
days of suffering.
The Evangelical conference of Illinois is in
session at Freeport to-day, Bishop Dubs. of
Cleveland O.. presiding.
The labor agitation has driven VIM. w.
Handley, a Centralia mailer. crazy, and he has
been taken to an asylum.
Maj. John B. Brayton. ex-secretary of the
Illinois Temperance Union. and who was a
member of General Garield's staff, was buried
on Tuesday at Decatur.
Louis p. Schmidt, a Freeport cooper, has
committed suicide by hanging, at Davenport.
Temporary insanity, he had been expelled from
the Knights of Labor.
DIR. Niram Nance, the father of Ex-Governor
Nance of Nebraska. a wealthy citizen of Kewa-
nee, who has resided there for the last forty
years, died on Tuesday of pneumonia.
George Gaines, a wealthy citizen of Elwood
township, Vermillion county, and the senior
member of the well-known firm of cattle-breed-
es of Gaines & Son, died yesterday morning.
At Bloomington Isaac N. Morford commenced
suit yesterday to recover $40. 900 from Robert
n. Baker, Mary ID. Baker, and William William
son for depriving him of the companionship of
his wife. Morford says that his wife desires to
live with him, but that her father, Robert III.
Baker, detains her, and that Baker is abetted by
the other two defendants. Baker is a farmer,
worth probably $50, 600.
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N MATTERS.


What Was Done Yesterday in the Executive
Session of the Senate.
WASHINGTON, April lin the executive ses-
sion of the Senate, today, a considerable num-
Der of suspended cases were acted uron favor
ably. They were of three classes-frst. Of
postmasters whose predecessors and neighbors
had made no opposition to q protest of any kind;
second, of those against whose combinations
protests had been made and charges filed by
others than the outgoing postmasters. but which
charges proved. on investigation by the commit
tee, to be without foundation; and third, cases
in respect TO which the suspended officials had
themselves become satisfied that there were no
other charges than that of partisanship, and had
indicated their wish that the investigation should
rest there, and the appointee be confirmed. The
cases were mostly from Virginia and North Caro-
lima, but there were scattering cases from other
States. Among the adverse reports was that OF
a Virginia postmaster who, since his appoint
ment, had published in a newspaper with which
he was connected articles offensive to one of the
Virginia Senators. Among the favorable reports
was that Of the postmaster at Memphis. This
was recommended by his predecessor, who said
he would not take the Office again If offered to
him, as he was going into other business.
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Mr.. FORSTER was undoubtedly a well-hated
man, his nickname, ''Buckshot" Forster, being
bestowed upon him during the heat Of the Irish
troubles connected with the suppression of the
Land League, Mr.. Forster having advocated the
substitution of buckshot cartridges for the usual
ball cartridges used by the Irish constabulary.
During our civil war he was one of the few emf
nent Englishmen who pleaded in Parliament for
the cause of the federal States by urging Great
Britain to maintain respect for the blockade OF
Southern ports. He was in full harmony with
the late Charles Sumner. On a visit TO this
country in 1874, he placed a monument over his
fathers grave in Tennessee, and kept his mem
DRY alive by e~ndowing a Quaker school at
Friendsyille.
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I%NDIANAAND ILLINOIS NEWS
The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of
All Kinds in the Two States.
Took His Life by Throwing Himself Under
a Train-Wife- Beater Fatally Shot-Se-
riously Burned by Kerosene-Notes
INDIANA.
A Lafayette Man Commits Suicide by Throw
ing Himself Under a Train.

A Lafayette Man Commits Suicide by Throw
ing Himself Under a Train.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LAFAYETTE, April This afternoon, Colt
leib Woortbrech. of this city. committed suicide
by throwing himself under a train at the. Third
street crossing of the Wabash railroad. He had
been a resident of this city for a number of
years, and leaves two sons and one daughter,
living at Covington. Ind. His wife died at the
Insane Asylum a short time ago, and he had
been respondent ever since. He approached the
railroad when a switch engine was passing with
a few empty cars, and attempted to throw him
self between them. He struck the side of a car
and was hurled back into the gutter. but imme-
diately picked himself up and tried it over again,
successfully. His left shoulder was mashed, his
neck broken, and his right arm fractured in two
places. He was about f~fty-five years of age.
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THE FIRE RECORD.

Burning of the Gem City MiIls-An Indian
apolis Firm Among the Losers.
QUINCY, ILL.,, April THE Gem City mills,
the largest Touring mills in this section, were
entirely destroyed by fire last night. The total
loss is nearly 5000, 600. The buildings were
owned by a stock company of Quincy men, and
cost 1926, 900. Taylor Brothers, the ~lessees, took
possession last winter. They had Is. 600 bushels
of wheat and 1000 barrels of -four in the ware
house and elevators Their loss is about $50, 900.
Nordyke & Co.. of indianapolis, had just fitted
the mill on a contract. and the machinery had
not been accepted. Their loss will be $50, 900.
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MISCELLANEOUS Notes.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON. April z.-Bills introduced by
Senator Harrison, granting pensions to John NJ
Young, Simpson S. Skirvin, Dudley B. Branch,
Caroline e. French, Elizabeth Barker, James G.
Handler and John Willhoite, all of Indiana. were
favorably reported by the Senate committee on
pensions to-day.
The committee on coinage to-day instructed
Representative McCreary to report favorabrSz
bill for the establishment of a sub-treasury At
Louisville, XIV.
Senator Blair introduced a bill in the Senate,
to-day, TO provide that eight hours shall consti-
tute a days work for all letter carriers, and that
their salaries shall not beSreduced by reason Of
the decrease in the hours of labor,
Mrs. Senator Harrison has left for IndianApo-
lis for a two weeks visit. Il
DIR. C. S.. Burr. formerly of Anderson, nov Of
Mitchell, d. t., is at the Ebbitt.
The Kidd-Steele contested, election case will
be argued before the House committee on cleo
tons tomorrow. Ex-Representative &c. John
Ellis and John Paul Jones are attorneys for
Kidd, and Kersey & Baldwin, of Marion, for
Steele.
The following Indiana postlaasters were COM
missioned to day Andrew A. Cast, Akron; Will
lam B. Spry, Lake Village; Douglass A. Kitley,
New Britton.
After the 10th inst, service on the star mail
route from Leavenworth TO Corydon will be re-
duced to three times a week and the schedule
changed to Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Changes in the, time-schsdules of star mail
routes in Indiana have been ordered as follows,
Oatsville to Petersburg-Leave Oatsville on
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, at z A. M.
arrive at Petersburg at IL A. NJ; leave Peters
burg on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. at
] P. NJ arrive at Oatsville by 5 P. NJ. Pyrmont
to Rossyille-Leave Pyrmont on Tuesdays
Thursdays and Saturdays at $50 A. M; arrive az
I'D ~x.1I ~ 10, 90 r, n q oua pncrus11n 1s n.~1m.
days, Thursdays and Saturdays at 1870 P. NJ; ar
rive at Pyrmont by 4:08 P. NJ.
Secretary Manning continues to improve. The
President called upon him to-day.
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TURNER.

lie Appears In Philadelphia and Announces
that There Is No Hope of SettIemenu.
PHILADELPHIA, April THE Record to-mor-
row will print an interview with Secretary
Turner, of the Knights of Labor. who stopped
here to-day on his way to Scranton TO confer
with Mr.. Powderly. He said: 1--WE
were willing to make many sacrifices
to have the troubles in the
South west settled. but it appears from events
that Jay Gould and Fl. M. Hoxie will not have
1t that way. When we arrived in St. Louis we
found that the company would in reality
employ no Knights of Labor. What was
worse, they were discharging members
OF the order who had in no way par
tlcipated Ia the strike. For instance, the
telegraph operators were not called out, rs
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Minor Notes.

Morris Mcdonald has organized a telephone
company at New Albany. and petitioned the
Council for right of way.
There is no foundation for the statement that
Potter Palmer. of Chicago, is to erect a hotel at
Lake Maxinkuckee.
The Charlottesville Daily Dispatch will be-
come the properly of G. F.. Crowder, formerly of
the Peru Daily Journal, next Monday.
The Commissioners of Cass county, at their
next session, will make an appropriation of
$40, 600 for a soldiers monument
The Charlottesville postmaster walked two
miles in the snow-storm last Tuesday to deliver
a special-deliyery letter. His profit was s cents.
Samuel w. Austin. an old citizen of Craw-
louisville and cashier of the First National
Bank, was stricken with paralysis on Tuesday
evening.
John Gregg, twelve years old, in trying to
jump on a freight train at Knightsville, was run
over, and both legs we're cut of. He will also
lose his right hand.
R.. S. Thomson, who represents Wabash Col
le2e in the State oratorical contest, is a son of
the late Prof S. 5. Thomson, and a brother-in-
law of Chas. Fl. McCarer, of Indianapolis.
Will A Kearney. the young attorney who
was sent to the penitentiary from Logansport
several months ago for DEMONSTRATING, and re-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-08
MARY ANDERsoN is computed to be worth

MARY ANDERSON is computed to be worth
$500, 600, which is said TO be safely invested in
real estate, gas stocks and railway shares. both
in England and America. A small portion Of it
is in American bonds. She expects to clear this
year $3.50, 600. But our Mary is not so rich as
her sister professional. Lolita, who. as a rule,
lives ~frugally, and is eminently business-like.
She claims to be. and probably is, the weaithiest
woman on the stage. Her dollars are estimated
rs t~otaling up to considerable more than a clear
million. Most of the money is held in the name
of her mother. Mrs. Crabtree, who has been her
daughters business manager ever since she APP
peared on the stage. Lolita has sustained only
one serious monetary loss. A man she was en-
gagged to was at the bottom of it. She let him
have $40, 900 to speculate with. He lost the
whole of it, and Lotta's heart and hand at the
same time.
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Nominations by the President.

WASHINGTON, April THE President to-day
sent to the Senate the following nominations:
o. W. Cutler to be collector of customs for
tine district of Niagara, N. Y; Edwin Warfeld,
surveyor of customs, Baltimore; Thomas g.
Hayes, United States attorney, district of Mary
land: Geo. H.. Cairnes. United States marshal,
district of Maryland; G. p. Shepard. register OF
the land Office, Worthington, Mimi; Edmund
James. receiver of public moneys, Carson City,
New; S. /. Lorah. receiver of public moneys,
Central City, Col: Jno. A. McClernand. of Illie
nois, member of the Board of Registration and
Election in the Territory of Utah; c. A. Lake.
pension agent, Des Moines. Ia; c. w. Johnston,
register of the land office, Roseburg, Ore; w
I. Barney, register of the land Office, Oregon
City, Ore: Chas. r. Sausser, of Ohio, agent: at
Yakima Indian agency.eW. T.; James J. David,
of Mich, agent at Usage Agency, /. 7.
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Justice.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
LEBANON, April Peter Cox. a druggist, and
somewhat conspicuous as the only Democratic
member of the Common Council, Is lying in a
critical condition at the Germania Hotel, suffer
ing from a severe drubbing administered by his
step-son, George Bof6nger. His head is dec
Grated with several frightful wounds from a
stick of stove-wood welded by the outraged rel
alive, and the attending physician has expressed
some doubts of his recovery. Cox has the repu-
tation of being a wife-beater, an6 no sympathy
is expressed for him.. His wife is a lady OF ex-
emplary character, and the action of the son in
defending her is upheld by popular approval.
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HI b NEWS.
Riotous Demonstratlons suppressea and S,

Riotous Demonstrations Suppressed and Sew
eral Participants Arrested.
CHICAGO, April AT least a thousand men
and boys gathered in front of Brushke g. Ricke's
furniture factory, last evening, and threw
bricks and other missiles at the non-union work
men AS they left work. The deputy sheriff who
is guarding the property came out to take a look
at the situation, and the crowd began throwing
eggs at him. He went inside. and the crowd
yelled and talked some of setting the factory on
fire. just about the time the situation began to
assume a warlike appearance the Chicago-aye-
nue. patrol wagon arrived, and the mob disap-
peared. with the exception of G. Waller, John
Thiemann and FL. Jagdelfeldt, who were taken
to the station. On the way over the wagon was
saluted by cries of rats" from windows and
doorways.
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Boycotting a Baker.

DETROIT, April Z The iourneymen bakers of
this city, all of them Knights of Labor, recently
demanded a reduction in hours, and all employ
ers acceded excepting j. T. Ruhl. The men
thereupon struck and a boycott was announced.
After a short struggle he gave in. Before the
men would 90 to work they made Ruhl pay the
expenses of their strike, to the amount of $55,
and, in addition. a fine of $25 for not granting
the demands of tie men when made.
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Fort WORTH, Tex, April I-Everything is
quiet here and trains are moving regularly.
One company of rangers were sent to Alvarado
to-day on rumors of trouble there, but later ad-
vices show that the rumors were without foun-
dation. Initiative steps have been taken by the
Parker County Farmers Alliance looking to the
nomination and election of a laboring mans
State and county ticket.
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Steamship News.

LONDON. April ARRIVED: Assyrian Mon
arch, from New York.
BREMEN, April ARRIVED: Maine, from New
York.
HAMBURG, April ARRIVED: westphalia,
from New York.
PLYMOUTH. April ARRIVED: Rhetia, from
New York, for Hamburg; Waesland, for Ant
werp.
New YoRK. April ARRIVED: Scheidam,
from Amsterdam.
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A young Cir, Fata,lv BurneI

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
BLooMINGToN, April Miss Matte Sapper,
the sixteen-year-old daughter of Rev. c. F. w.
Sapper, met with a dreadful and probably fatal
accident this morning, while attempting to light
a fire with kerosene. The can exploded, and
the fire i~gniting her clothing. she was burned
nearly to a crisp. 1t is thought she inhaled the
flame, and will die.
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Obituary.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal

Special to the indianapolis Journal
BLooMISGToN, Ill, April This evening &C.
Cured the death of DR.. z. l.. Hoover, from gen
eral breaking down of the system. He had been
a resident of this city about forty years, and was
prominently known all through central Illinois.
He was a native of Gettysburg, Pa. He studied
medicine at New Lisbon, o., with DR.. McCook,
father of the celebrated fighting family. He
leaves a widow and one daughter.
To the Western Associated Press
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. April Mrs. Rose Gar
field Clemens, wife of Will NJ. Clemens, Journal
list and author, of jamestown, N. Y, died here
to-day of consumption. at the age of twenty
seven years. Mrs. Clemens was a relative of
the late President Garfield, and a well-known
writer for magazines and periodicals.
New HAVEN, Conn, April Thomas A.
Thatcher, professor of Latin and literature in
Yale College, was discovered dead in bed this
morning. He was in his seventy second year.
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The Fire at lacrosse.

The fire in the lumber district yesterday
caused a total loss of 1852, 900, with an insurance
of 500, 900. Fire this morning in business blocks
in Third street, caused q total loss of $40, 900,
insured for $27, 600. The heaviest losers are
George A. Metzger, wholesale drugs, SIG, 600,
insured. 81, 900; Fred Kroner, $15, 900, fully in
sured; S. Ganter. furniture, loss $4,000, fully
insured.
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n

A Wife-Beater Fatally Shot by a Man Who
Came to the Abused Woinan's Assistance.
sDecial. to the indianapolis Journal
BLOOMINGTON, April Last night Lincoln
Payne, of Farmer City, was shot twice by a
young man named Fuller, and is thought to be
mortally wounded. Payne went home from til
election under the influence of liquor, and oega
a TRADE of abuse against his wife. Fuller, VIII,
works for Payne. undertook to defend Mr.
Payne. when Payne attempted to stab him.
Fuller, in self-defense, fred upon Payne, shoot
ing three times, two of the bullets taking effect,
one in his shoulder and the other in his alb
doman.
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SCRANTON, Pa, April General Master
Workman Powderly is able to attend to his cor
respondence. and. expects to be sufficiently re-
covered within a few days to leave the house.
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Iron Works Burned.

MILWAUKEE, April THE iron works at
Florence, Wis, were completely destroyed by
fire last night. Loss, $50, 600; insurance, 3d.
400.
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BEWARE of worthless limitations of DIR. Jones's
Red Clover Tonic. The genuine cures headache,
piles. dyspepsia. ague, malaria. and Is a perfect
tonic and blood purifier. Price 80 cents.
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To promptly and permanently cure rneuma.
cents.
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A Boycott of the Whole Gould system.
Alleged Preparations by the Government

Alleged Preparations by the Government
Washington Special.
1t is said that the War Department has been
making secret preparations for over a week in
anticipation of railroad troubles in the West.
Should there be a call for troops, the State gov
rnments would render any assistance they
could, and in case Of emergency the United
States troops would be called out. The action
to assemble at given points has attained a sig
nifcance which was not understood at the time.
In the event of a serious conflict between the
strikers and the railway companies a large body
of troops could be rushed to the scene In very
quick time.