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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-11-06

MENKEN 6 COMPANY.
Today we oder some Special Drives
IN
Ready Made Garments,
For Ladies, Gents. Boys, Misses
and Children.
Gentlemen can get choice OF our
Finest Suits, worth $50 and $4O,
for $50.
Boys can get Splendid Suit knee
pantel, to ~ years, for IS %.
Boys can get an Elegant Dress Suit
today for $l2, marked down
from SIS.
Gentlemen can get 0Vercoa!s from
Sl2 so 10 ST 90.
Boys can get Good Knee Pants for
81 %, worth 81.
WE OFFER TODAY ALSO,
500 Mems All Wool Suits for $40.
800 Mems OveTcoats for So 30.
100 Boys overcoats for 20 80.
REMEMBER OUR DOLLAR HAT.
Equal 10 any 81 hat. Style came as
the s. hats.
A Great Shoe Day.
81 90 will buy Ladies' Genuine
Pebble Goat Button Shoes.
81 So will buy Calf Button Shoes
for boys.
IS will buy Mems Calf Button,
Lace aud Congress Shoes.
81 So will buy Misses Goat Button,
sole leather tips, sizes ii to-.
We have a Splendid Variety Of
SPRING HEEL SHOES,
And Common Sense Shapes.
walking Jack cts q Jerseys
New Boucle Jerseys, 81 70.
Misses New Jerseys, 81 %.
London Walking Jackets, So rs.
Paris Beaded Jerseys, IA 30.
WE OPEN TODAY
500 Elegant Asirachsn Walking
Jackets at q each.
100 All Wool Russian Circulars at
Sill so.
30 Seal Plush Short Wraps at Sis,
SIT so and $50.
New Millinery.
We have Just received some Felt
Hats and Novelties, which will be
exhibited today. We call atlen-
ton toour
Misses Trimmed Hats, 81.
Ladies' Felt Hats, 65c.
Feathers and Wings marked down.
Gloves and Hosiery.
n Every day something new is in
trOduced in these departments.
Today We shew an entirely
NEW, EMBROIDERED SUEDE
GIOVH
Also all the late shades in Eoater's
Genuine Kid Gloves, which cannot
be had elsewhere in Memphis.
GENTS DRESS AND DRIVING
GLOVES,
in great variety. All at popular
prices.
MENKBN & COMPANY.
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Peabody Hotel.

O. B. GALLOWAY i .PROPRIErORs
Ratios o. 80 and % per day. according to
size aad location Of roOm-Speoial
mhdo ratoR.
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walking Jack cts q Jerseys

New Millinery.
We have just received some Felt
Hats and Novelties, which will be
exhibited today. We call at!en-
ton TO our
Misses' Trimmed Hats, 81.
Ladies' Felt ii ate, 65c.
. Feathers and Wings marked down.
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GaasOn'a Hotel.

W. II. BINGHAM............MAKAaER.
European plan. Enlarged and rsfurnished.
Prices according to size and lOOa-
ton Of rooms.
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MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL--sATURDAY, NOVEMBER g. 1885,
HOTEL ARRIVALS.
The New GayOso.
HARRINGTON. STEWART 4 WHITE.

CHAs. @, ROTH. Manager.
Rates " 30 70 "a per ay, according to leoa-
tion Of rooms
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REBUILDING THE NAVY

False Reports Circulated by Democrats Con-
cerning Intentions of Republicans.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, April 23.-The Democrats are
proclaimng in the House that the Republican
members intend TO obstruct consideration Of the
reconstruction bill for the navy because the Re-
pubicans do not want them to get the credit for
accomplishing an act which the Republicans
have been unable to accomplish for many years
that is, to build navy which will be credit
to the country. The Democrats even 60 SO far
as to charge the Republicans with conspiracy
to defeat consideration of the measure. I am
told by three or four leading Republican mem
bers Of the House, and it is notorious with the
Republican Senator'S that there will not only be
no objection to consideration. but that almost
every Republican will heartily support the
measure and that there is no fastdiousness
about where the credit shall accrue. The Repub-
licans simply want to get new navy or build
up the old one so that it will be of some service
should navy be needed. Just at this time the
Democrats in their desperation over failures in
many things, are indulging in great deal of
clap-trap about what the Republicans will and
will not do
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THE TELEPHONE INQUIRY.
Several Witnesses Examined, but Nothing Of
Importance Elected.

Several Witnesses Examined, but Nothing OF
Importance Elected.
WASHINGTON, April 23-When the telephonic
investigating committee met to-day, Architect
Clark testified that Senator Harris had told him
that it would be gratifying to him (the Senator)
if young Rogers were appointed as electrician
of the House, but when witness told him of
the reasons why the appointment should not be
made. the Senator thanked him for speaking
plainly about the matter. The witness had
spoken to Mr.. Young about the application las
that gentleman was a member of the committee
to which the resolutions had been referred), and
he had merely said "well," when the matter
was explained. The witness had also talked
with Senator Garland about the Rogers's tele-
phone, which be was anxious to have put in the
Capitol, and had told him he must apply to the
President pro tempore of the Senate. The wit
ness had talked with Senator Harris and also
Messrs Stockslager, Rees and Keenan, of the
public buildings committee about the applica-
tion, and had told them that if the appointment
were made it might produce scandal similar to
the Credit Moblier affair, because four of the
eight members of the company were members
of Congress He had also told Senator Harris
that his political or business opponents would be
sure to take advantage of it and that gentlemen
had thanked him, saying that it had never ap
peared to him in that light. The Speaker of
the House had also approved the witnesses re-
jectiou of the application when a similar expla.
nation was made to him. The witness had O.
ceived letter from DIR. Rogers, announcing
that no would be pleased to have him accept
$4,000 in telephone stock. but the witness had
declined the gift because he did not regard it as
proper for him to connect himself with any cleo
trical company.
Mr. Dunn, of Arkansas was the next witness,
and said that ne made some inquiries during the
Forty-seventh Congress about the Pan-eectric,
as some of his personal friends were connected
with that company. He found that he could not
buy the stock. as the company declined TO sell
pending the decision of the courts on the ques~
ton of infringement He afterwards learned
that Rogers and Looney were willing to sell
their stock. but he concluded not to invest in it,
Both Senator Garland and Mr.. Young had ad-
vised him to invest no money in the stock Sen
ator Garland had said the stock was like lot
terry ticket. and expressed the opinion that while
all other patents might fall Ia contest with the
Bell patent on the question of infringement, yet
che Pan-electric patents might stana on one
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Indications that Some Sort Of Revolution
Is Near at Hand in the Matter of Consid-
ering Nominations and Treaties.
Effort to Create an Impression that Re-
publicans Oppose Building a Navy.
Continuation of the House Investigation Con-
y cerning the Pan-Electric Telephone Com
pany-Other Washington News.
EXECUTIVE BUSINESS.
Proposed Changes by Which 1t Is Hoped to
Dispose of Accumulated Stock.
gnecial to the Indiauapols Journal.

Proposed Changes by Which 1t Is Hoped to
Dispose of Accumulated stock.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, April o. There is talk Of de-
voting Mondays to executive business in the
Senate. 1t is believed that by giving one whole
day to executive work there will be better at
tendance of the Senator'S, and more careful con-
sideration of the business which comes up be-
hind closed doors. In connection with this prop
osition 1t is stated that the committees In the
Senate having nominations in charge are work
ing almost daily to clear up the calendars, and
that it is intended to dispose Of all nominations
which can possibly be disposed Of by the first of
May.
The Senate has postponed further considera-
tion of the Hawiian treaty, and the proposition
to abrogate it until some action is taken upon
the measure by the House. There is con-
fict of authority between the House and
Senate in the matter Of making and
abrogating treaties Mr. Carlisle and Messrs.
Morrison and Randall and some other prominent
statesman in the lower body of Congress claim
that the Senate can neither make nor unmake
a treaty. 1t is reported here that the advance
in the price of sugar the Pacific slore. made
within the past three or four days, is anticipatory
of the abrogation of the Hawaiian treaty.
There is great dissatisfaction with this treaty
among certain classes, and 1t Is based On the as
sertion that the United States pays twice as
much money to the Hawaiian Islands as it gets
from them, besides admitting free of duty, or
practically free all of the sugar productions of
the islands.
With the prospects of considering nominations
in open session of the Senate and considering
these other suggestions relating to executive
sessions, it begins to look as though there would
be kind of revolution in the secret business
in the Senate.
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Free to Fiji Out Checks.

New YORK, April 23-Ralph P. Barber, who
for six years has been treasurer of the Fl. O.
Barnard Manufacturing Company. dealers in
straw goods, at Broadway and Prince street, was
prisoner in jefferson Market today, charged
with having stolen $4,000 from his employers.
The company found that its account books did
not balance, and, fastening the cause on Barber.
asked detectives to fnd him. The latter learned
that Barber's wife owned house in Englewood,
N. j., but that Barber was frequently away
from home at nights the plea OF press of bus
mess. They also learned that he seldom stopped
at the Office later than or 5 P. NJ They traced
him to No. 1873 Mercer street, Jersey City, where
he had been living with Miss Grace Ricard and
paying $50 per month rent for the house. After his
arrest Barber confessed that he had stolen &c.
900. and had lost all but SO, 800 of it in grain
speculations. Mr. Barnard had the fullest con-
fdence in Barber. and intrusted him with signed
blank checks to dll out. 1t was by the use of
these checks that the money was stolen. He re-
ceived salary of $3 900 year. and is fifty-seven
years old. He was held for trial in default of
SO 600 bail
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INDIANAPOLIS SATURDAY MORNING.,

were then ironed, and after bidding their fellow
prisoners goodbye, were taken to the scaffold at
3 o'clock. Before being handcuffed, jackson at
tempted to cut his throat with bottle that some
Of the prisoners used as flower vase, but was
prevented by the guards, after he bad cut an
ugly cash in his neck. Some delay occurred at
the gallows, awaiting Wassons minister. and
after the ministers prayer the doomed men bade
each other good bye, and as the ropes were ad-
justed bade their last farewells to the guards,
porters, and Others present. The drop was
sprung at 346 P. NJ, and both men died without
struggle. This makes seventyone men hanged
on this gallows within the past twelve years. all
for murders committed in the Indian Territory.
EVANSVILLE Ind, April pa special to tho
Journal says that Robert Fowler, the murderer
of Miss Ida Burnett. was hanged at Morgan
field, Union county, Kentucky, day, at 1920
o'clock. He confessed his guilt and said he de-
served his punishment When the drop fell, the
rope broke and he fell to the ground. The fall
was five feet and it is supposed his neck was
brokon. He was raised and the rope tied to the
beam, and in twenty minutes he was declared
dead. His remains were then delivered to rela-
tives. Five thousand people witnessed the hang
ing
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Shot and Killed by Her Lover.

PHILADELPHIA, April 23-May Johnson, col
ored, aged twenty-five years, living in Yeager's
court in the rear of No. 7O4 ST Mary street. was
shot and instantly killed this morning by her
former lover, William Bush, aged twenty-seven
years. The couple formerly lived together as
man and wife, Last Tuesday Bush was released
from the Eastern penitentiary, after serving an
OF two years for robbery. This
morning he visited the woman in her room and
accused her of being unfaithful to him. A quar-
rel ensued, in which he drew a revolver and fired
five shots at her. two Of which took effect, one
in her head and the other in the arm. Bush fed,
but was hotly pursued. and he finally sought
refuge in police station where he was prompt
ly locked up
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-24
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
Moderate Gains in Merchandise Movements
Increase in Number Of Strikers.

New York, April g. Special kilograms to
moderate gains in the movement of general
merchandise at Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Detroit
Memphis Peoria, st. Louis, st. Joseph Kansas
City, aud San Francisco. The greatest activity,
relatively, Ia at Kansas City, Detroit and Gin
cinnati. The heaviest movement Of products is
eastward via the Lakes, including nearly 7,000,-
600 bushels Of wheat and half as much corn. At
Eastern centers, trade is irregular but generally
of moderate volume The most depressing fac
tending the attitude and outcome of existing de-
mands. .of organized labor. The New York
stock market has been dull and spiritess. The
existing situation induces caution and delay.
Government bonds are dull. Railroad invest
ment bonds are steady, while speculative issues
are duh. The gold shipments this week In the
direction of Paris have been thought to be in
dicative of a further decrease in the surplus
bank reserve, and money on call has accordingly
ruled higher. Interior domestic money markets
report moderate improvement in mercantile
collections.
The general industrial situation is more aagra-
waited than week ago, there being at least
43 GOO strikers reported against 81 900 last week.
Refined sugar is l cent higher. owing to q
strike at the Brooklyn refneries There is an
advance at New Orleans and San Francisco Of
from 5-16 to sc for refined sugar Raw sugar
has felt none of the advance. Louisiana sugar
plantation reports are not wholly favorable
Wheat is 12c higher at New York. and 203c
at Minneapolis. Increased exports, and reports
of probable hostilities in Europe have notice
ably decreased the visible supply.
The movement of dry goods is moderate, COM
pairing favorably with that of 1885. Wool is
dull under heavy imports and new-cip supplies
There is decreased tobacco acreage in Virginia,
owing TO low prices, also on account of damage
from floods and bugs Crop prospects in seed
districts are favorable. There is less activity
for export varieties. Cotton is dull and feature
less.
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TEXAS KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
Mysterious and Unexplained Shooting Of the
Retiring Grand Chancellor of the Order.

TERRELL. Tex, April 23-The Grand Lodge
Knights Of Pythias has been in session here
since Wednesday morning AT 9 o'clock yester
day morning, in room in the Harris Hotel, w.
Alexander Abey. the retiring grand chancellor
Of Texas, shot himself with pistol, the ball en-
tering his breast just to the left of the heart
There is much mystery surrounding the affair."
and it is uncertain whether the shooting was
accidental or suicidal Abey is a prominent
lawyer Of Longview, and has occupied the high
est Offices in the Knights of Pythias order in
Texas.
Joseph r. Clemans, who has just been elected
grand master of exchequer, was in the room at
the time of the shooting. Clemans and Abey
have been warm friends for many years Glenn
ans says that Abey met him yesterday morning
and asked whether he tClemans) coule lend him
good pistol, as his (Abey's) was ont Of order.
Clemas said that his pistol was in his valise at
the hotel. and together they repaired to the room
While Clemans was getting his revolver from his
valise, Abey was sitting on the edge of
the bed. Clemans was suddenly startled by the
report of a pistol, and, turning, saw Abey gasp
ing on the bed his weapon on the floor. For
several years Abey has had feud with p. S.
Aren, county clerk of Galveston county, prom
inent Knight of Pythias who is in attendance
at the convention. The theory is that Abey, in
view of the possibility of meeting Aren. desired
to be well armed. and that he was examining his
own weapon when it was discharged. The shoot
ing occasions much excitement. Abey is very
low, and there is very little chance for his recov
cry. Shortly after the shooting he sent for
Aren, but what passed between them at the bed
side is not known. For number of years Abey
was editor of the Longview Democrat retiring
recently. There are many believers in the sui
eide theory, but the motive for selfdestruction
remains hidden.
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miscellaneous Notes.

Special to the indianapolis journal.
WASHINGTON, April 23-M. w. Hopkins, of
Danville, Ind Mrs. NJ f. Reeves. w. d. Foulke,
wife and two children, and Arthur NJ Reeves,
of Richmond are at the Ebhitt
James B. Cook has been commissioned post
master at Glenwood, Ind
Senator Harrison left here for Indianapolis
this afternoon, to be absent few days.
General Browne will start to his home at
Winchester on Sunday morning. He will re-
turn within ten days or two weeks.
A. R. Shroyer and family, of Logansport, are
here sightseeing They will remain until next
week.
After May / service on the star mail route
from Kempton to West Middleton will end at
Wiles. omitting West Middleton, and decreasing
the distance five and a half miles.
Notice of the confirmation of General Rose
Grams. to be Registrer of the Treasury, has not
reached the President Upon inquiry, it is
learned that the nomination is still hung up in
the Senate ON motion to reconsider the vote by
which it was few days ago confirmed.
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MINOR MATTERS.
Facts from the Treasury Department-Ex-
ports, Imports and Internal Revenue.

Facts from the Treasury Department-Ex-
ports, Imports and Internal Revenue.
WAsHINGroN, April %. The total value of
exports during the twelve months ended on March
81. 1856, was 1865, 500, 800. and during the pre-
ceding twelve months, $743 791, ,ol3, decrease of
$77, ,093. The values of the imports for the
twelve months ended on March 81, 1856, were
$614 IT'S 670 and for the preceding twelve months,
1896, ,202, 655, an increase of 18,576,015.
The collections of internal revenue for the
first nine months of the fiscal year ending on
June 80. 1885, were as follows: From spirits,
$50, 591. 795; from tobacco, $20 1369l8 from fer
mented liquors, $13, ,662. 75Q; from miscellaneous
items, $179 1885, making total of $84 571 ,252, or
increase of ST. 974 048 over the collections for
the corresponding period OF the last fiscal year.
The increase was 1920, ,2S0 spirits, 81 ,286, ISL
on tobacco. and 1898, 1907 on fermented liquors.
The aggregate receipts for March, 1885, were
$549 825 greater than the receipts for March 1885,
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Failures for the Week.

UTICA, N. Y, April 23--Emma NJ. Warner,
meat market, Moses r. Flanders, James II.
woodward Charles D. Lynch, grocers, and Jo-
seph 81 SssHers, meat market, all of lion, N.
Y, made assignments to-day, on account Of the
collapse of the Remington company. They were
small concerns
New YORK, April %. The business failures
occurring throughout the country in the last
seven days, as reported to r. G. Dun & Co.. to-
day, number, for the United States 169, and for
Canada %, or a total of 194. as compared with
total Of 1872 last week. and 2l5 the week previ
Gus to the last.
BENNINGTON, VT, April Establishments
amounting to $4,000 have been placed on the
Bennington mills, and the mills have shut down.
This is the largest milling property in Vermont
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-24
Counterfeiter sheppard,s statement.

GALVESTON, April 23.-Ex- Mayor Charles H.
Leonard, of this city, who is the person referred
to by Erastus Sheppard in his remarkable state
ment to the court yesterday at New Orleans was
seen to-day by reporter with reference to Shep-
pard's statement Mr.. Leonard declared he did
not know man named Erastus Sheppard and
denied ever having been engaged in the counter
feting business in New Orleans elsewhere.
MIR. Leonard, who is seventy three years old,
was twice mayor of Galveston. and served one
term as city collector. He has resided here and
elsewhere in Texas for fifty years. He is worth
over 100000, principally invested in real estate
in this city. Sheppard's statement caused great
SURPRISE here
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Action on the Blair Bin Postponed.

WASHINGTON, April 23.-The House commit
tee on labor to- day heard Representative Reagan
in opposition to the Blair educational bill His
principal objection was on constitutions; grounds.
After Mr. Reagans argument four or five mem
bers Of the committee made set speeches, defn-
ing their own views on the subject. The speeches
mated discussion Representative Daniels of
Virginia. moved that the committee report as
substitute bill to appropriate the proceeds
arising from the sale of public lands during the
next fiscal year. After session of two hours
the committee adjourned without action. The
committee on education did not obtain quorum
until few minutes before the meeting of the
House, and then adjourned until the third Fri
day in May, and consequently action on the
Blair bill by that committee is deferred until
that date
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Drained with an Az.

KANSAS City, April 23-George Armstrong,
an employe of the Richards & Conover Hard
ware Company, was killed to-day by H. T.
Smith, another employe. The two men were at
work together in the packing department., when
Smith, without warning. seized an ak and struck
Armstrong in the back of the head and then
over the left temple, breaking his skull. Arm
strong died this evening. He leaves wife, now
in Forestville, n Y. Smith, who is also married,
appears to have been acting queerly for several
weeks. His wife says he recently attempted
suicide. There had been no quarrel between the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-24
A New Pension Measure.

Special to the Indianapolis journal.
WASHINGTON, April %. 23.-Representative Owen
introduced in the House, to-day, measure pre-
pared by the Hon. M. L. Essick, prominent
attorney of Rochester, Ind, which attracts
some attention. 1t provides for service pen
sion, and pays all who served six months in the
late war for the Union a pension of So month,
officers and privates alike, all pensions now in
force to remain as they are The act however,
refuses to pension widows and orphans of sol
diers after 1890. if they become wives and chill
dren of soldiers after that date. The bill also
prohibits the retiring Of United States officers
on pensions or salaries.
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Arrested for stealing Buried Money.

LOUISVILLE, April 23-John Boyd. colored,
was arrested tonight at Hopkinsville, KY,
charged with stealing SIG, 900 from 7. J. Fuller
a wealthy farmer residing near Jackson, Tenn.
During the war Fuller buried $4,000 in gold in
his front yard He has allowed it to remain
there ever since for safe keeping During the
night his yard was plowed up and the money
was stolen. Boyd was supected and followed to
Hopkinsville, where he had deposited several
thousand dollars in bank
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Fonr Persons nrownad.

CLEVELAND. O., April % AT Defiance. o.,
Frederick Hillerman, aged thirty, went out in a
boat with his wife and two little children to fish
in the Auglaize river The boat capsized about
half mile from the shore, and all the occupants
were drowned before help could reach them.
The bodies have been recovered.