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Minor Notes.

Robert Bruner, an employe Of the Peru wooden
mills. is missing, and is supposed to have
drowned himself in the Wabash river.
The Peru Evening Journal, owned and pub
lished by Richard Kilgore. has changed hands.
c. F. Crowder, of Kokomo, and VIM. Brenton,
of Peru, assumed.c control yesterday.
At Connersville Thomas WEIGHS three-year-
old child played around the house ali day,
limbed upon her fathers knee, coughed and
died in a minute. She had been subject to
worms, and it is supposed one got into her throat
and choked her.
Mr.. Z. w. Lawson, whose name was men
toned in connection with that of Ferguson, a
man who recently swindled Richmond people in
photographs, explains that he was not a partner
of Ferguson, but was merely employed by the
latter and received q salary. The journal makes
this statement in justice to AR. Lawson.
The ex-prisoners of war of Washington coun-
ty, met for organization at G. A. r.
Hall, at Salem, on Tuesday. DR.. A. tanning. a
former ndersonvilie prisoner, was elected pres
ident, and James B. Berkey, who also spent
some time in the same prison, was elected sec
rotary. Fifteen names are enrolled in this or
ganiZation.
Gosport Lodge, No. 100, Z. of P, at Gosport,
was instituted on Tuesday night by Eden Lodge,
No. SO, Z. of P, of Spencer. assisted by Ami
versary Lodge. No. 80, of MartinsvilIe. Repre-
sentatives from Franklin Lodge, No. %, of
Bloomington. and Palestine, No. 1877. lof Bedford,
rendered Eden Lodge valuable assistance. Cos
port Lodge starts with twenty two charter mem
bers. The members Of the various lodges pres
ent were handsomely entertained by the Gosport
brethren.
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INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS
The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of
All Kinds in the Two States.
KOkomo's New Gas Well Promises Better Re-
suits Than Those Previously Opened-Hay-
ing Fun with a Judge-Gleanings.
INDIANA.
Kokomo's --latest Gas Well Proves the Most
Valuable Yet Opened.

Kokomo's --latest Gas Well Proves the Most
Valuable Yet Opened.
Special to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal.
KoKoMo, Dec. 29.-The vein of natural gas at
we'll No. 3 in South Kokomo, mention of which
was made in to-day's Journal, has developed
into a ''gusher' that exceeds either of the wells
now burning, and far surpasses the most san
guine expectations of the stockholders. This
we'll has a great advantage over either of the
other wells. from the fact that it
is a dry well, and is constantly
increasing in volume. While the other wells
are u mine of wealth to their owners, and are
the admiration of all who see them, yet they
both emit a constant flow Of hydrolene, or min
eral water, which is said to possess sixty grains
of mineral to every pint of water. and by ex-
perts is said to be a remedial agent more power
full than the famous waters of Lafayette, White
Sulphur, French Lick or Lodi The waters
from these wells are drunk by hundreds of our
people, and already some remarkable cures have
been reported.
The mueh-talked-of gas field of Kokomo is no
longer a theme of fancy, but a reality, which
promises a substantial growth and a bright
future for Kokono. One can now stand on
either OF the bridges spanning Wildcat creek
and see three famous gas wells within a quarter
of a mile of each other. from each of
which is leaping high into a crisp. mid
winter atmosphere, a burning fame of
natural gas, each II of which is sufficient to furnish
light and fuel for three cities the size of Koko-
mo. The officers of the company who are to-day
developing the most valuable gas well west of
Findlay, O., are: President, Hon. j. f.. Elliott;
vice president. John E.. Moore; secretary,
John w. Stringer; treasurer, John B.
Carter. This is a strong company,
and has already leased for gas and oil opera
tons several hundred acres of land in the vi
cinity of Kokomo, Fairfield. Sharpsville and
Tampico. The city authorities are already
communicating with many manufacturing com
panies throughout the country. and are busy
answering questions as to Kokomo's advan-
tages and the extent of the natural gas fields.
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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

United States Marshal Maratta, of Dakota,
has decided to resign soon. 1t is rumored that
he will be appointed Territorial Auditor by Gov.
Church.
Rev. Clayton Kelso, a Presbyterian ministe r
of Macon, Mo-, committed suicide on Tuesday
morning at his home by hanging himself by the
neck from a beam ia his barn. He had just re-
turned from the funeral OF his sister, and it is
supposed that excessive grief over her death I'M
balanced his mind.
committed suicide at Las Vegas, N. NJ. on Tues
day. He appeared in that town in June last,
and invested $75. 900 in a bogus cattle company.
The investment proved an entire loss and left
him without means of support. He ended his
existence by a pistol shot
By a premature explosion OF powder in Law
renee, Brown q Co. colliery, at Frackville, Pa.
Thomas Fisher was SO badly burned that he died
soon afterward. Richard Penn was badly
burned, and Harry Mccormack was hurled quite
a distance and had an arm broken. Three Ital-
ians, names unknown, were frightfully burned
and scalded.
The Alliance accommodation. on the Fort
Wayne railroad. jumped the track near Darling
ton. O., forty miles West of Pittsburg, on Tues
day evening, wrecking two passenger coaches
and the baggage car. Four passengers and two
employees received painful bnt not serious in
juries, and q number of others were slightly
bruised and cut. The accident was caused by q
broken frog.
The executive committee of the Freedmen's
Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
Of which Bishop Walden is chairman, has had
under consideration, at a meeting at Cincinnati.
charges against Professor Calkins. of the Chat
tanooga University. one of the schools under the
charge of the society. The committee found
Professor Calkins guilty'of a discourtesy, in a
public store, TO a Rev. Mr.. johnson. q colored
minister of Chattanooga, and recommended the
trustees of the university to request Professor
Calkins to resign.
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A
The Presidential Succession-The Chief Ex-
ecutive's Condition Not Alarming,
special to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal.

The Presidential Succession-The Chief Ex-
ecutive's Conditipn Not Alarming,
Special to the indianaooiis Journal.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 29.-In discussion Of
President Cleveland's illness, a good many in
quiries have been made to-day as to who would
succeed him in event of his death, which is not
likely to occur very soon, but which is a ques.
ton of debate among many people in Washing
ton just at this time. The presidential success
ion bill was approved and went into effect on
of State Bsyard would succeed to the presi-
dency, and after him the other members of the
Cabinet in this order: Secretary of the Treas
ury, Secretary Of War, Attorney general, Post
master general, Secretary of the Navy and
Secretary Of the Interior.
President Cleveland took considerable exer-
else in his room to-day, hobbling around, SO as
to gain strength for the ordeal of Sat-
urday, when the great New Years recep.
ton In the White House viii take place.
Mrs. Cleveland told a lady friend this
afternoon that she believed the President would
be able to participate, and that if he was not
strong enough to stand up he would occupy a
chair and receive his friends sitting. She was
very enthusiastic about the coming event. and
music are going ahead under the impression that
the President will either be strong enough to
receive or that his wife will do 30. The physi-
clans have warned the President against taking
so much exercise at this time, and apprehena
serious results if he should take a cold, which is
easy under this damp, cold atmosphere. No
one is yet admitted to Mr.. Cleveland's room,
and he is denying himself to all kinds of public
and private business. He will, in all probable
ity, pull through this attack, and there is no
need OF fears concerning his condition; but he is
in delicate health, and viii require exceeding
good care now and in future. He is ripe for ap-
oplexy or any of the various rheumatic affec-
tiona.
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r AND JUDGE.
An Interesting Wrestling Match Which Re-
suited in q Draw.

An Interesting Wrestling Match Which Re-
suited in q Draw.
Jefferso on City fMo.) Tribune.
A most important and distinguished wrestle
took place in the State Treasurers Office Tues
day evening, the principals being Gov. Marina
duke and Judge E. Fl. Norton. 1t appears that
Gov. Marmaduke made some remark to the eff
feet that nothing would be easier than to place
the spinal column of the Supreme Court Judge
across a red stripe in the carpet. Judge Norton
replied that the Constitution of Missouri gave no
person the right to down the Supreme Court,
except justices of the peace, and that at all
events he believed himself able to make any
chief executive feel dizzy-hea1ed.
This was enough. The room was cleared for
action and Ed. I. Noland selected for referee.
No rules were to be observed. but each was to
do his best to down his opponent. Gov. Marina
duke opened by making a charge. and succeed
ed in capturing one of the Judges ~coattailS.
The Judge fled a lien on the Governors vest,
and thus they waltzed across the room several
times. AT first it seemed that the Supreme
Court must suffer defeat, and then later on it
looked bad for the administration. A chair
finally got between them and ended the first
heat.
After a brief rest the referee called time, and
both promptly responded. Each realized that
tbey had undertaken a big job, and proceed
ed cautiously. The Governor issued a requisi-
tion for the Judges coat and the right side of his
vest and secured service. In the meantime
Judge Norton had commenced hebeas corpus
proceedings to secure possession Of the Cover
nors collar and coat and proved successful
Back and forth they went over the room. The
Governor applied all his military tactics, and
the Judge had frequnt recourse to legal strategy.
The struggle was long and vigorous. Each ex-
erted his strength in vain, and finally, at the
end of five minutes, the referee called the match
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Losses by Fire.

COLUMBUS, O., Dec. go .-Glenwood & Green
lawn street-railroad stables burned tonight
with six cars and other contents. The damage
is about ST., O0O, with insurance Of 81. 900.
JoHNsTowN, N. Y. Dec. 29-Charles Kings
glove-leather establishment was burned last
night. Sixty men are thrown cut of employ
ment. The loss is estimated at about $50, 900;
insurance, $35, 000.
ST. LOUIS. Dec. 29.-The Wholesale fancy gro
Gerry and spice-house of VIM. Schotten & Co.,
No Ill South Second street, was totally de-
stroyed by FIRE at 7 o'clock tonight. Loss, $780,
900; insurance not known.
GALEsBURG, Ill, Dec. 29.-The Galesburg
consisting of G. Brechwald e. Co., and Aaron
Nash. was totally destroyed by fire this evening.
The fire caught in the scenery of the third story,
from a defective due. The building cost S75,-
600; insured for $25, 000. Other losses will az
gregate SIG, 900 to $780, 00.
PIrTsBURG, Dec. ga confederation at
Greensburg. Westmoreland county, this morn
ing. destroyed one OF the finest blocks in the
city, and. for several hours, threatened Gestruc-
ton to the entire business portion of that thriv-
ing place. The fire was discovered at 2 o'clock,
and is supposed to have originated in Temples
hardware store. The fire apparatus was wholly
inadequate. and the flames quickly spread to the
adjoining buildings. The citizens worked hero
ically to stay the progress of the fiery element,
but it was not until 6 o'clock this morning that
the flames were under control. Ten buildings
were consumed, including the Laird House,
Temples hardware store, old Press Office, Caleb
Stark's dwelling. and four stores. The Laird
House was the largest and finest hotel in Green's
burg. 1t was o brick building, four stories in
height, and finely furnished. The guests were
all sound asleep when the fire started, and many
of them barely escaped from the building in
their night clothes. The loss is estimated at
$780, 900; insurance, 500, 600. No one was in
iured.
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The Fund for Mrs. L.opan.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-The responses to the
invitations sent out by telegraph, by Captain
Lemon. asking a subscription to the fund for
the benefit Of Mrs. Logan are coming in rapidly.
and at 10 o'clock the total amounted to SIG, 900.
Nothing has been heard from the committee in
Chicago engaged in soliciting funds, and similar
committees are engaged ia other cities who have
not reported results. Mrs. Logan's property is
incumbered for nearly its full value, and the
purpose Is to raise a sufficient fund to clear il of
incumbrance and leave her sufficient to enable
her to live in the manner to which she has been
accustomed. One-thousand- dollar subscriptions
have been received from William Walter Phelps.
George NJ. Pullman, John b. Drake, of
Chicago; George w. Childs, A. j. Drexel.
II. B Payne, r. A. Aleer, Governor of Michi-
gan: George E. Lehman, Hon. Philetus Sawyer,
III. S. Smith, of Detroit; James Mcmillan, De-
troit; Fred Billings. New York; $500 subscrip-
tons have been received from John Wanamaker,
J. B. Henderson. w. D. Wasburn, Senator
Spooner, Marshall Field. Senator John Sher-
man and George A. Halsey, of New Jersey. A
$3.50 subscription from Hon. X. b. Hayes; $3.50
subscriptions from Senator Plumb, of Kansas;
II. B. Baldwin, of Detroit; cash, st. Paul; Hon.
Charles Foster, Ohio. and Allen Sheldon. of De-
troil; 5000 subscriptions from M. A. Hanna, of
Cleveland; John A. j. Creswell, of Maryland,
and VIM. P. Kellogg. of Louisiana; 800 sub
scriptions from G. w. Van Setback, Of Milwau-
kee; L. NJ. Dayton, of Cincinnati; Welsh Post,
u. A. IT,, of Ann Arbor, Mich. and many 9TH
ers, making an aggregate of $26. 600. 1t is ex-
pected that the subscriptions will reach $1o0, 900
before the end of the week.
New YORK, Dec. 29.-General Slocum and
Major Tate, United States marshal for Brook
lyn, who are acting az a committee of the Ct. A.
r. TO obtain subscriptions to the Mrs. Logan
fund. report that their arrangements are rapidly
progressing. A committee of prominent men
has been selected by them to receive subscrip-
tons. From the disposition already shown on
the part of the public, a large amount is ex-
pected TO be realized.
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THE ATTACK ON LINCOLN.
A Gossiper Whose Unpleasant Recollection
Are Very Untimely.

"A Gossiper Whose Unpleasant Recollections
Are Very Untimely.
Louisville Courier-Journal
BY an unpleasant coincidence, Just as the
country has with one accord laid aside allunkind-
ly feeling to do honor TO the memory of General
Logan, it comes to the public that Judge Nell
son. of New York. knows many things not cred
liable to Mr.. Lincoln, and is disposed to tell all
he knows. 1t was once told to Mr.. Lincoln that
General Grant drank too much whisky, where
upon the President, in his humorous way. sug-
gested that it might be we'll TO learn what brand
of whisky he used and distribute a lite among
the other generals of the army. So it might he
well for Judge Nelson to inform the country
what particular treatment rescued Mr. Lincoln
from his insanity, so that the prescription might
be distributed generally among our statesmen.
lief In God. and wrote a book ridiculing the idea
of the existence of a Supreme Being.
The almost sublime faith Mr.. Lin
coin manifested in the eventual success IS
of the Union cause did not evince a frame of
mind compatible with the rejection Of so COM
mon a belief. He may have thought that MIR.
Seward was a little too fervid in his Thanksgiv-
ing proclamation, and may have reconstructed
the document in accordance with his palmer
taste, but there is no proclamation signed by
him wherein the Deity is mentioned that has
anything IN the remotest degree suggesting a
doubt of the Divine power over the affairs of
men. Altogether Judge Nelson has not impaired
the glory of Lincoln, nor added to his own fame.
and he jnst now stands in the attitude of a dis
turber of the harmonious grief of a people who
are again illustrating this national habit of lay
ing aside all animosity, difference and especial
scandal in the presence of death. Lincoln had
his faults, and Logan had his. and so has every
man his. but it is a good thing for us, and fair to
them, when they are gone. to recall their virtues.
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General and Personal.

Special 30 the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Ex-senator Jones. of
Florida, bas changed his mind about returning
to the capital this winter. He says he won't
come b~ack-just because SOMEBODY said he
would.
1t is said Senator Mahone will 60 into railroad
building and management when hs retires from
public life on March 4 next.
Representative Holman. of Indiana, told a
friend, recently, that he would not run again for
Congress; that he would retire at the end OF this
term. He made this statement two years ago,
but it seemed no other Democrat in the district
wanted the place. If he comes back for another
term, it will be because there is not among his
constituents a man who either aspires, or who
is believed to have the proper fitness for the
place. 1t seems that the office is going begging.
1t is now said that the object of Mrs. Cleve-
land in making the prolonged trip to New York,
recently, was to secure a number of elegant
dresses to be worn at the White House dinners
and receptions this season. She is reported to
have some exceedingly handsome garments,
General Miles called at the War Department
to-day, and had an extended interview with
Secretary Endicott. The General will leave
main a day or two before proceeding to Pres
colt, A. T., where he will direct the removal of
his headquarters to Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs.
Miles will her husband West
Ia OSCTolhFf vi tu0 navy mas gwen permits
sion to all members of the G.. A. r. and ex-
soldiers and sailors, employed in the Navy De-
partment and navy-yard in this city, who desire
to participate in the procession next Friday, on
the Occasion of General Logan's funeral. to alb
sent themselves from duty in the forenoon.
The department will be closed in the afternoon,
under the operation of the order issued just
before Christmas. 1t is probable that the other
executive departments will follow the same
course.
AS an evidence of the carelessness of the
public in addressing letters, officials of the
Dead-letter Office today exhibited a, list of
sixty-four letters addressed to "Pittsburg, O., !"
all but nine of which were intended for and
were subsequently, delivered to parties in Pitts
burg, Pa. Nearly all of these letters were to
business firms. and many of the envelopes bore
business cards. Another common error In ad-
dressing letters is said to be the substitution of
Chicago, N. Y" for Chicago, III.
1t is the intention of the Secretary Of the
Navy to appoint, at the Washington Navy-yard,
by Feb. l, G superintendent of the new gun
mandatory at the yard, and he desires public
ity to be civ IN to the fact and applications to be
sent to him before Jan. Is, stating the oualifca-
tons of the person making application. The
matter of salary has been left open to secure
the services of a proper person.
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~spective places of worship, there TO join in the me-
mortal service to our dead hero.
BosToN, Dec. 29--Tbe following t~elery..n has
been sent to Mrs. Logan by Mrs. E. Florence
Barker, lpast national president and w. r. c..
chairman:
MAIDEN, Mass, Dec. %.
Mai. Gen. Hiram G. Berry Relief Corps, No. 8,
auxiliary to the g.. A.. R., learn with deep sorrow Of
the death Of the great general. grand statesman, sol
der. friend and champion of the cause in which we
are laboring. The Grand Army Relief Corps, the Ma
ton and humanity have suffered with yourself an
irrsparable loss, and so. 600 members of our order
will sorrow with you in the loss Of your soldier hus-
band. Il. FLORENCE BARKER,
For Relief Corps, No. 6.
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n

Macon County Lawyers Make Merry at the
Expense of Judge Hughes.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
NATION, Dec. 29-Members of the Macon
county bar have INDUCED in considerable merri-
mont lately at the expense of Judge Hughes, of
this city. While holding court in Decatur
a burglar named Conley appeared before
the Judge and pleaded guilty, at
the same time making a stump speech about it
having been his first offense, and a poor old
gray haired mother and three sisters being de-
pendent upon him in Three Rivers. Mich: how
he could not find work, took to tramping
and finally to stealing to support
them. The story touched a tender
spot in the heart of all who heard him, and the
Judge regretfully told him that, in compliance
with the law in such cases, the best he could
do for him was a sentence Of two years.
Conley thanked the Judge and returned to Jail.
and was heartily welcomed within the walls
of Joliet prison a week later by the old-timers
with whom he had served twelve years. The
Judge now tells the lawyers that he put no faith
10 the fellows story, and would not have given
him more than two years for the petty offense
he was guilty OF.
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Sent Home for His Health.

Washington Special.
The following hitherto unpublished order we'll
illustrates one element Of General Logan's mill
sary character:
Especial Order No. 1861
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE. !
VIcKsBuRG, Miss, July 90, 1868.
MajsrFeneral John A. Logan, commanding Third
Division, Seventeenth Army Corps, Army of the Ten
nsssee, whose health was so much impaired at the
beginning of the yicksburg campaign that the general
commanding directed q leave of absence to be for
wArded to him, which he declined to avail himself of
because of the active operations of the army in which
le has borno so conspicuous a part. being still in en-
Eeebled health. is. for the benefit of the same, hereby
ordered to proceed to the State Of Illinois. As soon
rs he has sufficiently recovered he will rejoin his COM
maud at this place. BY order of Major-general U. s.
Grant. JOHN A. RAwLINS,
Assistant Acknowledgement.
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afflicted with the first twingss of the rheumatic
difficulty which finally carNed him off, and the
conversation was surned on the subject OF the
coming presidential nomination at Chicago,
when Logan said: "About every Republican
member of this body expects to be nominated at
Chicago; but none Of US will be. There is one
objection about a United States Senator as a
presidential candidate that has always been
fatal"
What is THAR inquired enc of the group.
GA Senator is too we'll known" was the reply.
Senator Hoar wanted to know what, in Logan's
opinion, were the requisites for a successful can
vass for the nomination in the convention, and
got the terse reply, "Obscurity and mediocrity. !,
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N MATTERS.

Warning to Soldiers Who Contemplate APP
plying for Pensions.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-Ex-Union soldiers
throughout the country who are applying for
pensions through the Pension Bureau, or Con-
gress, or who hope TO secure pensions by the
passage of a universal pension bill, should be
warned against certain fraudulent" agents
here. There are three or four persons in Wash
ington now who claim to be acting with Congress
with a view to securing pension legislation. and
who are calling upon those who would be bene-
nted by legislation for contributions ITO pay ex-
penses." True they only ask for twenty-five or