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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-11-30

Western Union was up IL. Prices
were decidedly we k in The early
trading. Reading and West P lat
wsre the piiacipsl sufferers. Wtst.
EN- Union aud Jersey Genital, how.
ever, were remarkably strong, and the
remainder OF the market quickly re-
covered it, losses, many other socks
la,er sho wing d cided strength, amor g
which Lackswanna, Texas Pwific,
Uhlon Pac fc snd Xmas and Texas
were in turn remarkable. The up
ward movement gathered a re ewed
strength in the last hour and the mar.
KIT closed very active and strong
cl Sc to the best prices reached.
Sales 1929 shares. Reading, 242,.
$40; Texas Pacific, 1925; L csa-
wanna, $500; Western Union, 3d.
760; Union Pacific, 33 0S0; Jersey
Central, 26,500, and Kansas and
Texss, % 635. Almost the entire &C.
tive list is higher tonight, and the
prominent advances comprise Texas
Pacific, %: Denver and Rio Grande
preferred, %; Reading ard Union Pa
efic, each II; West Point and Jersey
Central, each II Louisvil and Nash
vile, II; Yves ern Usion and North
ern Pacific preferred, each It. Rail
road bonds also wen. the broadening
int est in speculation, and the sales
were $S,522,000. Denver and Rio
Grands As contributed SOL, 600 Texas
Pacific income trust rece pts, 1929 600;
Erie seconds, 1907, 900. Prices were
generally e m throughout, and final
declines few. Indianapolis, Decatur
aud Springfield firsts gained at lO6;
Ohio and Mississippi IS. q at "a;
Utah Southern ex ension 7s, 2 at So;
Texas Pacific incomes, q a, 60s; the
Trust receipts, 2 at 624; the Rios
coupon of, o. at 75l; the Trust re-
ceipts, 2f, at 773, aud the Terminal
Trust receipts, 81 at n; mining shares
were in good demand. Bodie, 200;
Coleraine, 2S5; De ,dwood, 1880; Yellow
Jacket, Ais; Mono, 200. Petroleum
opened strong at 784, advanced to 784,
broke 77S, rallitd and closed strong
at 775; sales, 2l1 barrels
The total sales of etoeks TODAY were
742, 279 SHARES, including Canada South
eIn, 1887; Delaware, Lackawanns and
Western, So, 500; D 3lawars and Hud.
son, 1926; Erie, 1880; Kansas and
Texas, 22,6S5; Lake Shore, 1918;
Louisville and Nashville, 1920;
Northwestern, Il 167; New jersey
Central, 26,500; Northern Pacific.
$3.50; Ohio and Mississippi, 600; Pa.
Cific Mail, 10620; Peoria, Deca Jur aud
Evansville, S1G0; Reading, 24S 1910;
St. Paul, 1890; st. Paul and Omaha,
$3.50; Texas and Pacific, 1925; Union
Pac ic, 33,0SO; Western Union, 3d..
760; Northern Pacific preferred, 4750;
Oregon ard Transcontinental, 7645;
Hooking Valley, 5000. Closing quota
lions:
GOVERNMENTS.
U. s.. 3s, 1OOH.. As, coup, 129.
AS, coup, lllh, Pacific Ga of 1895. 126lh
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-11-30

The New Orleans future market
opened steady, and closed dull but
steady and l to 4 points lower. Sales,
l6 200 bales. Quotations were as
folloWa:
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-11-30
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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-11-30

LONDON, November 80. - United
States bonds, As, 1929; 4Is,1l3s. At
lantic and Great Western firsts, 144
Allan ic and Great Western seconds,
15f. The Bank OF England gained
$4,000 on balance today.
PARIS, November 29.-Three per cent.
rentes, S3f Zoe for the account,
BANK oLEARINas.
CHICAGO, ILL November 29.-Bsnk
clearings today, $l0,677, 900.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, November 29.-Bank
clearines today, $2,82S,26l; balances,
$t20,11l.
New YORK, November 29.-Bank
clearings today, $lS9, ,274; balances,
$4, l58, 831.
BosToN, MASS, November 29.-Bank
clesriDgs today, $l4,631, 0l2; balances,
81, 391, 267.
BALTIMORE, Nd, November 29.-
Bank clearin0s today, So, $751;, Ala; bal.
ances, $3.50, 268. y
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, November 2e.-
Bapk clearings today, $ll, 1857 ,6O5; bal.
ances, $2,5l4,0l9.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-06
Bank Closed-rne Cashier Missing

CLINTON, Mass, Jan. 1.-The Lancaster
National Bank, of this place, closed it's
doors last night, after an examination of its
books bp the directory. President w. H.
McNeal is missing, and has not been heard
from since last Tuesday. He Is charged with
having used the banks money for specula-
tive enterprises in which he was interested,
and which do not furnish sufficient security.
The directors seemed depressed and are ex-
ceedingly reticent. Cashier Forester ex.
presses himself very plainly, and his con
demnation of President McNeals financier-
ing is unmistakle He says that the latter,
since his elevation to the Presidency of the
bank last January, has invested the bank S
funds according to his own inclinations.
His operations have at times been far from
straight. At the present time the bank has
asurplus of about s., 500. The bank holds
the paper OF the Low Cattle Company, of
Wyoming to the amount of $50, 600. So far
as can be learned the deposites amount to
over 500 900, and according to statements
from a quarter which is supposed to be
authentic, the President has appropriated
this amount, The belief prevails that the
examination of the books of the bank will
develop new and startling features 1t is
SAID that resident of Clinton saw him in
Nashua, n. H., last week The real con-
dition of the banks standing will not be
known for few days, and probably not then.
LOWELL, Mass, Jan. 1.-The City Institu-
ton for Savings has $50. 900 deposited in the
Lancaster Bank, which has been regarded
with distrust for some months. The City
Institution has II. 00e depositors and a sur
plus of 100000. Charles Glidden, Treasu-
urer OF the Erie Telephone Company, is one
OF the Lowell depositors in the Clinton
Bank.
FITcHBURG, Mass. Jan. wv. III. McNeal,
the missing President Of the Lancaster Bank,
of CliRtOn, was at the depot here about AS
train to the Moth. One of his acqualntances
here twice tried to speak to him, but Nc
Neal took no notice of him.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-06

apparent astonishment aud said: "You're
mistaken. madam you're mistaken
u think not. Mrs. Talmage said. ''but let
me look at it"
She then turned down the collar and saw
the trademark of the house at which Mr..
Talmsge had purchased the coat on the last
visit to London. Then, all doubt being re-
moved, she said firmly: Take of that
coat; you're thief"
open the door FIRST" the man said, rails
ing his clenched fist threateningly, and at
the same time removing the coat, with the
ready assistance of the girl.
As soon as he had Invested himself of the
coat, the door was opened and be hastily de-
parted. The police sent out general alarm,
calling tor the arrest of a gray-whiskered
and gray-mustached man, fifty years old,
five feet seven inches tall, and wearing
brown suit and derby hat. The description
tallies with that of a sneak thief who has
been robbing the residents of the Hill. Mrs.
Talmage related the adventure to her hus-
band as soon as he returned home. He COM
plimented her on saving mis- most comfort
able winter overcoat, but expressed his re-
greet that the thief, who, he said, resembled a
broken down minister he knew, had not
been captured. my son." he said this
evening, twas upstairs at the time, and il he
had been called down there would have been
a tustie in the hallway
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-06
An Attempt to Burn n Village

PITTsBURG, Jan. 3.-A Commercial Gazette
special says: A desperate attempt to burn
down the town of Tarentum, Pa, was made
at an early hour this morning. The fire was
first discovered in Essler's livery stable, on
Gaines street 1t soon spread to Rue G.
Jones grocery store and Dr. Volzser's resi-
dence, and all were destroyed. The villains
had taken every precaution to make de-
struction sure. They had cut the ropes of
two of the alarm bells and broken the prin .
cipal pumps in the village and carried off
the fire buckets. The cries of fire aroused a
lad named William Dible, an employee of
the planning mill, upon which was a large
bell. He ran to the mill, and on finding the
bell rope cut climbed to the roof and sounded
an alarm by striking the bell with a ham,
mer. This awakened the entire community,
who turned out en- masse and soon extin-
guished the flames. The loss is $4,000, par
TALLY covered by insurance. About two
weeks ago there was an attempt to burn the
village. Six or seven large buildings were
destroyed entailing loss of over $4,000.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-06
A BAD FIX.
Further Developments IN the Cooper MUIR
der Case.
Special to the Sentinel.

Special to the Sentinel
COLUMBUS, Ind, Jan. 3.-There were fur-
Their developments in the Cooper murder
case yesterday evening, which fastened the
crime almost beyond a doubt on Evan Fix
and two young men who were last seen in
company with Cooper. After the arrest of
Fix, Sheriff Brown and Marshal Haggarty
went out TO the Fix farm near Newbern,
nine miles east of this place, to make a search.
In looking around they found a drill with
gaps in it that corresponded with tie ridges
made in the club found within three feet of
the murdered man. Further search out in
the rear of the barn disclosed the very piece
of timber-the tongue of an old wheat drill
from which the bludgeon was cut
the end of the pieces left in
the barn-yard. and those on the club prove
conclusively that this link is all that is
needed to show that some one at the Fix
farm committed the crime or knows who
did the bloody deed. The post-mortem
by heavy blow, and that the shots were
fired after the man quit breathing
as one of the balls entered the
right side just over the diaphragm,
passe. out of it and under
the lungs without wounding the latter. Had
the man not ceased breathing the lungs
would have filled the cavity above the dia-
phragm and been perforated blythe bullet.
1t is still mystery as to the motive of the
killing. Several theories are adduced. One
is that the parties had visited women of
doubtful character, and in a quarrel Cooper
was killed. After the killing it is
thought the body was placed in
a buggy and taken some four miles and
thrown out at tine root of a beech tree in an
open woods not over forty yards from pub
lie road. Nothing has ever happened in this
county that has created greater excitement,
yet the people of all classes are unit in al
lowing the law to take its course. A Senti-
mel representative visited young Fix in the
County Jail last night after the pieces of
timber from which the club was cut
had been brought in, and he seemed
dumbfounded when told where they had
been picked up. He denied knowing any
thing about the club or ak with which it
was cut. 1t will be hard for him and his
friends to explain the overwhelming evil
dence of his knowledge OF the foul deed and
lift the awful cloud that has enshrouded
him. Tie investigation will be finished to-
morrow ana further developments and ar
rests are looked for
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-06
Mxsterious MACHINE Found.

CHICAGO, Jan. Ia mysterious piece of
mechanism was found at the new Office
building of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Railroad, corner of Adams and
Franklin street about o'clock this morning.
1t is believed to be an internal machine. 1t
is said to have been lying there about a
week, partially covered with dirt and in
some way became revealed last night. Po
liceman Madigan was called and the ma
chine was carefully taken to the Harrison
Street Police Station where several expe-
rienced eler icians looked at il. They were
unable 10 u,cide the nature of the queer
machine. There is a round piece of tin
,bout six inches in length, which it is
thought may be filed with dynamite. This
vessel is hermetrically sealed, as are other
portions. 1t will be turned over 70 expe-
rienced persons for examination to-day,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-06
A MAIDEN'S ERROR.
IT Prevents Her Wedding and VIII Cause
Her Death.

New York, Jan. 3.-Rev. Andrew Grey,
pastor of the Millerton, n. Y, Presbyterian
Church. arrived in New York Thursday, ex-
pecting to meet his affianced BRIDE Miss
Rachel A. Nicholson, of Fox Harbor, Nova
Scotia, to whom he was to be married i'm
mediately upon her arrival. The plan was
to spend few days in the city and return
to Millerton Tuesday next. Fate ordained
otherwise, however. Miss Nicholson is now
lying between life and death in the New
York Hospital with slim chances in her
favor, At the Thutieth Street Station,
whittier he had gone to explain the case to
Captain Williams, and invoke what aid it
was in the power of the police to give, Mr.
Grey told the reporter his story: ''Miss
Nicholson is twenty-six years old, he said,
'and like myself native of Nova Scotia. We
have known each other four or five years and
were engaged TO be married l came here to
wait for her on Thursday, and yesterday
Miss Nicholson arrived by the New York ex-
press from Boston, according to arrange
ment She was very tired and I took her
over to the Hotel AbbOtsford, where 1 had
remained myself the previous night. She
was TO rest there until to-day, when we in
tended 10 get married, probably by Dr. Guy
Ter. My room was the only large one vacant
in the hotel, and gave it up TO her, taking
one on the lower floor myself. We chatted
together and were happy until IL O'Clock,
when she retired I had promised to call
her at 9 O'Clock this morning. She did not
answer when l knocked, and 1 became
alarmed and called the clerk. We opened
the transom and found the room full
of gas. Then we burst open the
door. Miss Nicholson was lying in her
bed senseless. She had been smothered in
her sleep. One Of the burners was probably
turned on. ! did not notice it in my distress
and bewilderment, but 1 suppose she either
blew the gas out or accidentally turned it
partly on again after having turned it off,
We called doctors, and by their advice she
was at once removed to the New York Hos
pital in an ambulance, and everything is now
being done to save her life. Miss Nicholson
is the daughter of a farmer at Fox Harbor.
Both her parents are dead"
The Rev. Mr.. Grey was exceedingly nery-
Gus, and seemed dazed by the shock he had
sustained. He is a young man. At the hos
pital it was said that there was some hope of
Miss Nicholson's recovery, though she was
still in extreme danger. She had recovered
once sufficiently to tell her name, but re-
lapsed into inconsistencies again.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-06
A SNEAK-THIEF
In Rev. Mr.. Talmage's House Talks Mrs.
TaImage Into Letting Him Go.

New YORK, Dec. 39.-Rev. DR.. Talmage
left his house, in Brooklyn, about noon yes
terday. He had been gone only a few mo-
ments when the door bell rang, and the trim
little Irish servant girl who attends to the
bell admitted a thin, gray-haired man,
wearing a rather seedy brown suit and Der
by hat and eyeglasses. He looked as if he
had been chilled by the wintry wind, and
the girl noticed that he had no overcoat.
With an air of assurance, and in a rather
pleasant voice he asked if DIR. Talmage was
in, and having been answered in the mega
tive he inquired for Mrs. Talmage. The
girl having told him that Mrs. Tall
mage was upstairs, he handed her
letter and asked her to deliver
it. She took the letter, which was addressed
to DR.. Talmage, and started upstairs. Be-
fore turning into the hall on the second floor
she heard rustling on the hat-rack below,
| and looking over the rail. she noticed the
| visitor examining the four or live overcoats
| hanging on il. 1t struck her at once that
| the visitor was a sneakthief, and she lost no
| time in hurrying 10 Mrs Iaimage and stat
| ing her suspicious. Mrs. Talmage tore open
the envelope and found a begging letter
| from "a Christian in Distress" She went
| down stairs to see the visitor, whose appear
ance had meanwhile undergone trans
| formation. He was wrapped in fine chin
chilla overcoat, his derby hat had been re.
moved and a partially bald head, with a
| broad. intellectual looking forehead, was ex.
posed.
The Girl noticed the change. where did
| you get that coat2' she asked. lyon did
| not have it when you came in" Then turn
| ing to Mrs. Talmage she added: That's the
| Doctors overcoat."
IT.. As she spoke she stepped past the visitor
and adjusted patent fastening on the door
which prevents it being opened on either
side.
"Take that coat of" Mrs. Talmage said
cit belongs to my husband"
The man raised his specialized eyes with
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-06
GOVERNOR HILL.
His Inauguration the Most Imposing Ever
Witnessed at Albany.

Albany, n. ", Jan. 1.-The ceremonies
attending the Inauguration of Governor
Hill to-day were among the most imposing
ever witnessed at the capital The weather
was extremely fine, and but for the muddy
condition of the streets, nothing could have
been desired. The attendance of.the visit
ors from all parts of the State was very
large. The parade of military and civic or
CARNATIONS was most successful and impos-
ing about $500 men being in line. The
streets were crowded with people,
and great enthusiasm was man
ifested. The procession marched to
the Executive Mansion, the Governor and
Mayor rode in a carriage drawn by gaily
CAP arisoned horses. reaching the Washing
ton avenue entrance of the Capitol shortly
before l O'clock. The Governor and party
Were escorted to the Assembly Chamber, and
as they made their appearance on the tenn
pOrary platform were greeted with long
continued applause. Prayer was offered by
Bishop Doan. Judge Learned made brief
address, and administered the oath of Office
to Governor Hill. The Governor then
delivered his inaugural address, which
was chiefly devoted to review in
brief of the career of the Governors
OF New York since the inauguration of July
80 177O. of General George Clinton He
closed with few words of praise to his i'm
mediate predecessor. Governor, now Presi-
dent, Grover Cleveland. and pledged his adj
ministrative reform. At the conclusion of
the ceremonies the Governor with his staff
proceeded TO the Executive Chamber and re-
ceived callers for one hour. At O'Clock
they proceeded to the Executive Mansion,
where callers were received from TO p. M
The Governor entertained his military staff
at dinner ttoS evening
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-06
Cut to Pieces. br an Engine.

CLEVELAND, Jan. 3.-The mutilated body
of a man was found at an early hour yester-
day morning on the Lake Shore track, near
Glennville. Pieces of the body, toes and
fingers we're found lying along the track, and
pools of blood in different places showed
that the engine must have struck him several
times. Sections OF clothing, with pieces of
flesh attached, were indiscriminately scatter
ed around Late in the morning the skull,
in several sections, was found several hun
dTCd rods from where the body was discov-
cred. In one piece of his vest was found a
letter to j. B. Neal, and signed by Anna
Neal. The letter was written upon the back
of an order page from Grocer ID. McConville,
Steubenville 0. 1t was dated from that
town.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-06

large portion Of the legations inlthe city par
took. Mrs. Bayard, assisted by her daughters
and Mrs. Andrews, of Baltimore. received
from to O'Clock in the afternoon. Mrs.
Manning was assisted in receiving by Mrs.
Fairchild and Susie Tiiden. Mr. aud Mrs
Endicott received large number of callers
her new home. She was assisted by Mrs.
General Hazen, Mrs. Raymond Rogers, Mrs.
Hopkins, Mrs. Howard, Miss PosDer, Mrs.
Worden, Mrs. Howell and Miss Mabel Wed
del. Mr.. and Mrs. Villas were assisted by
Mrs. Colonel Lamont. The Christmas holt
day is a sad anniversary to the family of the
Attorney General, and they were not recefv-
ing to-day.
Outside the White House the largest re-
ception of the day was that of the Speaker
and Mrs. Carlisle. A large number of ladies
of the families of members of the House as
sisted Mrs. Carlisle in receiving.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-06
Selecting Code of Signals for the United


WAsHINGToN, Jan. 3.-The committees Sc
lected by the Secretaries of War and the
Navy consisting of General Haven, of the
army, and Lieutenant Reeder and Comman-
der Hoff, of the navy, to report upon a more
reliable code of signals for the service of the
United States, has held several meetings the
past week 1t was agreed 10 procure the dill
forent codes now used by the different gov
ernments of the world, and to instruct a GER
tain number of men at Fort Mier in the use
OF them. 1t will be the duty of the officers
to devise one better than that Sc ected at the
trial. The report will be submitted to the
Secretaries, who in turn will submit it 70
Congress for application. BY this course it
is hoped that a simplification and improved
code OF signals will be produced, TO be used
in both the naval and military service.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-06
Comes to Grief.

AKRON, o., Jan. 3.-Ten months ago John
c. Kuehner, barber, aged twenty-five, Dor
rowed 800 from Miss Kate McAllister, a
young lady to whom he paid his attentions,
on condition that he marry her some time
in September last. Kuehner claims that he
was to marry her in September or pay the
money within year. He left the city in
June, and made his headquarters in various
towns. Correspondence suddenly ceased,
and his intended instituted proceedings
against him, charging him with grand lar
ceny. An Indictment was found against
him by the Grand Jury. Sheriff Gamble
Gamble ferreted out Kuehner, and returned
with the prisoner from New Bethlehem, Pa.
where he had a barber shop.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-06
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
An Oldtime ReeeptiOn-Large Attendance
The Day Perfect-The President
Beats the Record.

WASHINGTON, Jan. For the first time in
several years New Years Day dawned clear
and beautiful. The boar frost was soon dis
PEELED by the rising sun, and long before
noon the temperature was like that Of a
spring day. The occasion was observed here
as in former years by general calling; bust
ness was suspended to a considerable extent,
and all the executive departments were
closed. At the entrance to the White House
grounds two policemen kept back a crowd
of curiosity seekers; mounted policemen
kept the carriage approaches clear, and a
long line of officers formed in either side of
the doorway 10 the Executive Mansion. The
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-06
Socialist Meeting.

CHICAGO, Jan. 3.-August Spies, an active
member of the local Socialists, delivered an
address to the usual Sunday gathering of
anarchists to-day. which was unanimously
adopted as the sentiment of the meeting.
The address reminded those present that the
accession of Emperor William, and that his
reign had been a disgrace to civilization.
Observation-Disclosures were cited with more or
less accuracy in support of this accusation,
and uncomplimentary epithets were not
spared. The audience endorsed this opinion
enthusiastically. and after similar remarks
had been made by other well-known Social
lists on the subject adjourned in the best of
humoE,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-06
Business Failures in the United States for
the Past Year.

New York, Dee. 31.-R. G. Dun & Co. re-
port that the total number of business fall
ures in the United States during 1885 was
1861, with Liabilities of a little more than
S124 coo, 900, as compared with &c, 96S in 1884,
with liabilities of S226, DOC, 0OO While the
failures for 1885 are only per cent. less in
number than in 1884, the liabilities have de-
creased nearly 80 per cent. The number of
traders reported in business in 1885 was
9l9,990 OF these, one in every eighty-six
failed. The average amount of liabilities of
each failure was in 1885. S1l.678, against
$40 6S2 in 1854, and So, 369 in 1878.