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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-03
TRAGEDY AT CHICAGO.
A Father Accidentally Kills His Son, and Adds
to the Horror by Taking His Own Life

CHICAGO, May 2-Alexander Ribbola, an Ital-
ian. sixtytwo years of age, living at 3242 Butter
field street, this morning became engaged in a
quarrel with John Hipsman German hostler,
sixty years of age The barn in which Hips
man is employed is directly opposite the barn on
the Ribbola premises. The quarrel was caused
by Mr.. Ribbola accusing Hipsman of throwing
slops in the alley which is between the two
barns. Hot words followed and the two old
men, thoroughly enraged, separated for the mo-
ment to procure weapons with which to assault
each other. They soon came together, Hipsman
with pitchfork and Ribbola with revolver.
The latter began hostilities by firing a
shot, which was not true to the aim Hipsman
then abandoned his pitchfork and rushed upon
his assailant, grappled with him and tried to OBJ
tain possession of the revolver. While the two
cid men were struggling, domestic in the en-
Felix and Stephen, that Hipsman was killing
their father. They sprang out of bed, and after
dressing partially, ran out to the rescue of their
father. Felix rushed in between them; as he
did So shot was fred and Felix sunk with a
low moan to the ground. Hipsman then re-
leased his grasp upon Ribbola's wrist and ran
away. Ribbola fred two shots at the fleeing
man, but neither took effect. Then the
fortunate father saw his bleeding and uncon-
scious son lying on the ground. With
wild cry, 'My Godl I've shot my boy!"
he raised his sons head and placed it on
his bosom, and called upon him to speak.
Receiving no answer, he showered passionate
kisses upon the face and lips of the still uncon-
scious and apparently dying boy. Maddened by
grief, he left the PROSTATE form of his son and
rushed into the house. after again crying out,
"Pve shot my by" this time to his daughter. He
entered his room, removed his boots, threw him
self on bed. placed the muzzle of the revolver
into his mouth, and, with the last remaining
shot, killed himself instantly. The boy was
shot through the lungs and cannot recover. The
Ribbola family is one of the Oldest best and
favorably known of the Italian families of Chi
cago. Felix, the wounded son, is twenty three
years of age, and has been for some time past a
clerk in the freight department of the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy railroad. Stephen, the
other son, is about twenty six years of age, and
is paying teller at the Illinois Trust and Savings
bank He is noted amateur athlete, and has
won several prizes in the Athen@um gymnasium
contests. Hipsman, the hostler, has been
arrested.
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POLITICAL NUTS TO CRACK.

Neither Republicans Nor Democrats Are
Anxious to Control the Next House.
washington Special in New York Commercial Adver-
tiser.
A general feeling prevails here among pollti.
clans, and has found frequent expression of late.
that the next House of Representatives is likely
to have a Republican majority. The chances
seem to be in favor of this happening in any
event, but it is a curious fact, and one that is
only just beginning to crop out above the sur
face of politics, that the leading men Of both
parties would really prefer to loose the next
House rather than gain it. OF course, they will
not positively try to get beaten, and they will
"go through the motions" of campaign work next
autumn; but in their hearts the leading Republic
ans hope that the Democrats will continue to
control the House, and the leading Democrats
hope that the control will pass over to the Re-
publicans
This seems singular and almost absurd at
first thought. but it is easily explained What
both parties are after is the presidency. Neither
cares particularly about the House. in itself
considered. The question, then, is as to the ef-
feet which the control Of the House in the Fiji
tieth Congress would have ON the presidential
election of 1888.
From the Republican point of view the argu-
ment is that, with Republican Senate assured,
Democratic House would be almost impotent
Tor gaming any actual advantages Ior us party,
while it would be practically certain, judging
from the record Of the present House, to do
many things to injure the prospects Of Demo
cratic success in 1888. In the present abnormal
and shifting condition of political affairs in this
country the minority is the safer position for
either party in the legislative branch of the gov
ernment The minority has no responsibility.
1t has merely to oppose and criticse and look
on while the majority goes ahead initiating legis-
lation, and laundering at it oftener than not
There are many difficult questions looming up
nowadays which the Republicans would very
willingly be excused from graphing with. as
fContinued on Second Pagal
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Gladstone to His Constituents.

LONDON, May 3.-Mr. Gladstone, in a mani
festo to his Midlothian constituents. explains
that his great age has prevented his taking part
in the speeches Of the Easter recess and has
obliged him to reserve his limited powers for the
House of Commons and for that reason he uses
his pen instead of his voice. Continuing, he
says Never have known an occasion when a
parliamentary event 80 rang throughout
the world as the introduction of the
home-rule bill. From public meetings. from the
highest authorities in the British colonies, and
in America, from capitals such as Washington,
Boston and Quebec, from remote districts lying
beyond the reach of ordinary political excite
ment. / have received conclusive assurances that
kindred people regard with warm fraternal SYM
pathy the attempt to solve the troubled relations
between Ireland and England, which exhibit che
only great failure of political genius to solve"
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SECRETARY MANNING.
Anxiety to Learn What He Intends Doing
When His Health Is Restored.

Anxiety to Learn What He Intends Doing
When His Health Is Restored.
special to the indianapolis journal.
WASHINGTON, May 2-There is great deal of
anxiety to know just what Secretary Manning
proposes to do when he shall have gained some
strength. He has ridden out once or twice since
he became a corvalescent and his friends assert
that he is rapidly reaching point of physical
health which will warrant him in returning to
the Treasury Department. 1t is very well
known that President Cleveland does not desire
Mr.. Manning to leave the Treasury. He has
proved himself to be a wonderful executive
officer since he became part of the administra-
ton. as well as shrewd political officer. 1t was
principally owing to the wisdom of Secre-
tary Manning that what promised to be
very unpleasant fight between
the President and the Senate was
averted and the chief magistrate has seldom
made move affecting his political status with
out consulting his trusty lieutenant, Mr. Man
ming Mr.. Manning will in all probability, so
his friends say, resume his duties for short
ceptance OF his resignation. as he is advised that
close application to his work again would GER
taInly result disastrously. Who will be his
successor is question which is agitating the
politicians. For some time it has appeared quite
certain Ithat the Assistant Secretary, Mr. Fair
child, would be chosen for this place, but lately
there is more evidence in favor of the Hon. Dan
iel Lockwood of Buffalo, and it is quite likely
that, in spite of the GOODNESS which has existed
for some time between this gentleman and the
President, he may be chosen to fill the place to
be vacated by Secretary Manning.
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MISCHIEF IN GALICIA.
The Oppressed and Superstitious Peasantry
Ready for an Uprising.

The Oppressed and Superstitious Peasantry
Ready for an Uprising.
VIENNA, May 2.-The Galiciau disturbances
and fires continue The government has wasted
great deal of time this week in trying to con-
vince the people that the dsaffected Galician
peasants are not in earnest. The peasants, how
ever, have answered words by deeds, as flames
kindied in score of towns and villages can tes-
tify. Arrests on large scale have been made
in various parts of the province, but the threat
ened rising is far from averted All the ele-
ments of mischief and rebellion are ready, and
a train may at any moment be fired by the apos-
ties Of revolution. Still it is difficult to see
what precise agencies are at work, but it Is
tain that they are Of several kinds-nihilistic,
socalistic, agrarian, political and anti
Semitic The West Gacian peasants for CEN
turies have been wretched and downtrodden,
but. being little better than animals.
their Polish rulers have managed to keep them
under their heel. They earn barely enough to
exist, and they are scarcely represented, even in
directly, in the local diet. Seventy five per cent.
of them can neither read nor write, and most of
them are repulsively filthy. All are stepped to
their lips in superstition. The other day some
hundreds of the peasants suddenly fiocked into a
railway station, soaring the officials out of their
wits, for they took the invaders for murderers
and rebels But the peasants explained that they
had not come to kill or steal, but that they had
heard and believed the current report that the
end of the world was imminent and on refec-
ton had decided to await the catastrophe in the
station.
Even more alarming than the excitement
among the peasantry are the revolutionary move
ments noticed among the workingmen employed
in the Gacian mines and petroleum wells.
Hardly any precautions have Aesa taken to pro-
tect the men from the dangers they run In their
work They earn their miserAhle wages at
| deadly risk, and are swin3led out of much of
what little they earn by overseers and middle
men, An inspector who lately visitsd Galcia
| gives heartrending account Of what he saw
| there. Men and women were herding together
| like cattle-flthy. hungry and hopeless. The
unscrupulous spectators did what they chose
| with their petroleum slaves. f they fell i'll,
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Losses by Fire.

CHICAGO, May 2-The Tong Manufacturing
Company's warehouse containing piano stools,
fancy cornices, ETC., was damaged SIG, 600 by fire
to-day The loss is covered by insurance.
New YORK, May AT 1890 this morning
Ferguson Brothers sash and blind factory in
West Fortieth street, was discovered on fire,
and damaged to the extent of $50 000 A falling
wall caught three fremen, but one only Lewis
Sigmuhnd, was seriously injured. He had both
legs crushed.
CLEVELAND May AT an early hour this
morning fire broke out in the rear of August
STRAUSS clothing store, at Obcrlin, O., and be-
fore the flames were subdued dozen or more
wooden buildings had been destroyed. About
twenty business places were burned, the losses
on the buildings and stocks aggregating $24, 600.
The insurance aggregates $26, 000
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BosToN May 1.-Frederick Douglass has
written letter to the Hon w. j. Bird, which
appears in this weeks issue of the State. Says
Mr. Douglass II am Republican, and did all
i could to defeat the election OF Mr.. Cleveland.
He was under no political obligation to me what
ever. yet | held the Office of recorder nearly q
whole year under his administratioE-an Office,
by law, held not for any term, but solely at the
pleasure of the President While in Office,
President Cleveland treated me as he treated
other ofice-holders in the District He was
brave enough to invite Mrs. Douglass and my
self TO all his grand receptions, thus rebuking
the timidity-I will not say cowardice or pre-
iudice-of his predecessor. I am Republican,
and, If living shall do all can to elect Re-
publican in 1883; but honor manliness wher-
aver find it, and / find it in President Cleve-
land, and should despise myself II should let
ANYBODY think otherwise. Whatever else he
may be. he is not snob, and is not coward"
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KINCADE's MILITARY RECORD.
His Sufferlngs and Sacrifices as Revealed by
General Bragg's Report.


General Bragg's Report.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, May "A very wide and new
departure is being taken by General Bragg, of
Wisconsin, chairman Of the House committee on
military affairs, in drafting reports bills be-
fore his committee. Some of them are unusual
in form and quite amusing and interesting in
character. He has first reported bill to remove
the charge of desertion from the military record
of Edward Kincade, a resident of central Ohio,
and well known to many Journal readers, that
is a model of composition and is being eagerly
sought as relic of humor and on account of it's
sentiment. In the report General Bragg, who
was the famous commander of the Iron Brigade,
says:
when mans military record gets awry he
is liable to be sensitive. and the noblest instincts
of his nature stir him to demand instant repara-
tion or correction. Edward Kincade is not an
exception to the rule. unless it may be that he
was little tardy in getting to the front
1.-THE military history of the country is so i'm
perfect that the committee are not ADVISED
where kincade first saw the light and breathed
the air that fills all true Americans with never
dying patriotism and corresponding thirst for
federal appropriation. But let his birthplace be
where it may, hs was resident in 1847 OF that
State, great In resources, great In territory,
great in wealth and population, but lit has been
said in envious jealousy greatest of all in the
love of it's people for federal Office, which they
always delight to honor
sThirty-nine years ago, or to be exactly accu-
rate, it will be thirty nine years the oath day
of May next lthe precise hour of the day is not
stated in the record) since Edward Kincade heard
reverberating through the Buckeye tree-tops in
Ohio the sound of men marching for Mexico.
His enthusiasm was aroused, and he rushed to a
camp and enrolled his name on the scroll OF fame
IA militia muster-rol. He was in the vigor OF
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FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

The Prussian Government Arranges for
Prompt Suppression of Riotous Strikers.
BERLIN, May 1.-The Prussian government,
fearing that strikes are impending. has issued
decree, ordering the police to interfere in case
strikers intimidate workingmen. Extra vigl
lance is ordered against strikes connected with
the social democratic agitation, the leaders of
which make use of the strike for higher wages
to widen the breach between the employers and
of existing political and social order and thus to
bring about great rupture between the laboring
classes and their employers. Socialstic meet
ings and publications will be put under energetic
surveillance
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THE OUTLOOK AT CHICAGO.
Serious Trouble Expected To-Day-A Scene
at q Meeting of Cabinet-Makers.

Serious Trouble Expected To-Day-A Scene
at q Meeting of Cabinet-Makers.
CHICAGO, May 2-There was no excitement in
the city to-day. The weather was beautiful,
and the masses seemed to be enjoying the warm
lem. Capitalists and owners of large establish
ments affected attended the meetings Of
many labor organizations The streets were
not nearly 80 crowded as on Saturday, and
even Socialist headquarters were deserted.
There was no disorder at any of the freight
houses or in the lumber districts, but in both
trouble is expected tomorrow. Leaders of the
labor movements expect many strikes tomor-
row, SO that additional manufacturing establish
ments WILL no doubt, be involved. General
opinion is that the roads cannot afford to pay
the advances demanded by the men, and they
will not make any concessions anyhow. 1t is
thought that the seat of war, if any, tomorrow,
~gill be at the Burlington yards, as that COM
pany has declared It's intention OF do
ing its business despite the strikers.
An unexpected complication in the freight
handlers strike seems to have come up
in the shape of reported refusal of the switch
men of the various roads to handle cars loaded
by 'ScaDS lL Is uOL Certain, uoWofers tndt
such action will be taken. In thelumber district
some trouble is anticipated from the employees,
many of whom are foreigners. LumOermen de-
clare they will not make the concessions de-
manded by the men. and il they are determined
to make mischief there is very largo and diff
cult territory to be guarded. The English
speaking laborine element is a unit against dis
order and will use all influence to see that the
laws are respected. The manufacturers that
closed down Friday night to give the men holi-
day will not open again in the morning, on ac-
count of uncertainty of the business, and others
that have refused the demands of their en-
ployes will form combinations which Will tess
the staying qualities of the mon locked out.
At meeting of the Rothschld strikers this art
ernoon, communication was read addressed 10
their workmen at Chicago CINCINNATI, 81. Louis,
Kansas City and Denver. saying the firm would
pay 10 per cent advance on pieco ana cay
work, and inaugurate the eighthour system.
They wished all men to return to work on Mon
dav. Maya A heated debate followed the read
ine of this. and the majority of the men seemed
in favor of accepting the firms offer, but HauschA
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TELEGRAPHIC BREYITIES.

has resigned.
John H. Aufdemort, late redemption clerk in
the sub treasury, at New Orleans, and Erasmus
Shepard, recently convicted of conspiracy to de-
fraud the government, were sentenced by Judge
Billings to pay fine Of $40. 600, and imprison
ment for two years, the maximum penalty
A dispatch from Green Bay, Wis. announces
q fatal quarrel between three brothers, named
De Lande. near that city. An alteration over
property interests led to battle among the
brothers, during which one was pounded to
death with heavy chair, and another probably
fatally stabbed.
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Death of Hon. Thomas Mulford.

LONDON, May 2.-The Right Honorable
Thomas Freeman Mulford, Earl of Redesdale is
dead, aged sixty one years. He was a member
Of the Royal Commission Of the Law of Divorce,
and published pamphlet entitled, "The Law Of
Scripture against Divorce" He opposed discs
enlistment and disendowment of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in Ireland. He took prom
inent part in the debates on the Alabama claims
in the House Of Lords.
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one helped them. and their places were filled
by other slaves. If they broke their necks no.
body cared. for ''the workman is regarded as a
beast of burden, worthless directly be has lost
power to work. Rumors of Belgian riots have
reached these people, and it is feared that their
example may be followed. The garrisons and
gendarmerie have been strengthened in every
direction. and any attempt at organized risings
will be ruthlessly repelled
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Prize Drill Postponed.

LEAvENwoRTH, Kan, May 2-Owing to the
meut Association to make the necessary arrange
ments with the railroads for transportation,
they have postponed the grand prize drill, which
was to have taken place May Is and 49, at
Fort Leavenworth, to the fall of this year 1t
will certainly take place at that time.
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Jones and Small at Baltimore.

BALTIMORE. May 2-Sam Jones and Sam
Small the evangelists, arrived in this city last
night and TO day opened their crusade against
sn Jones held meeting this afternoon and
one tonight in the Biddle-street roller rink
Fully 5000 people were present each time, and
many more were unable to gain admittance.
Small will commence work tomorrow. The
evangeists are assisted by a choir of 100 voices,
and every arrangement has been made for the
carving on of an extensive revival.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-03

Your system Is now more susceptible to the
benefits of reliable medicine than at any other
season. Take Hoods Sarsaparilla
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The Greek Response Not Sufficient.

ATHENS, May ALI the foreign ministers
here, except Sir Horace Rumbold. the British
minister. have received instructions to the effect
that the reply of the Greek government to the
of the powers is insufficient
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Steamship New

New York, May 2-Arriyed: Normandie,
from Havre: Ethiopia, from Glasgow; Baltic,
from Liverpool
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-03

UsR the great specific for s'cold in head and
satarrh--Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
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Ex-President Arthur Out for q Walk.
New York, May 2-At exp President Arthur's
house, tonight, it was stated that Mr. Arthur
had felt so much improved during the day that
he lad been outside the house walking.
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Icontinued on second Pags.l
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-11-05

The most censorious are generally
the least iudicious; who, having moth.
ing to recommend themselves, viii be
finding f,ult with others. No man
envies the merit of another who has
enough of his own.-Rule Of Life.
An Englishman in Madras has by a
lucky accident made photograph of a
tiger in the act of Selling its prey. 1t
was only partial success, however, as
he didn't have time to tell the beast to
''look pleasant. W Boston Post.
Fate of the spellcr:-
an and an and an and u. with an al
the end spell "Su,"
nd an e and a and an e spell ~" pray what
is speller to dor
Then if also an and All anda and an h g d
spell eide
There's nothing much left for speller TO dt
but to go and commit Siouxeyesighed,
CHICAGO NetDS
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NOT AFFECTED BY AGE.

Some old specimens of Royal Bak-
ing Powder that had been kept on the
shelf of a grocery store for ten years
were recently tested by Professor
Schneider of New York, for the p irpose
of measuring the loss of strength they
had undergone. 1t was found that
although the powder had been ex-
posed to atmospheric changes during
all this time-for it was not in air
tight cans-its loss of raising power OF
strength was less than one per cent.
the powder being practically as good
as the day it was put up.
This is a most valuable quality in
baking powder, one which few possess.
Most powders if not used when first
made are found to be Ineffective. If
kept even a,few weeks they lose their
leavening power, become lumpy or
caked, and valueless. This is particu-
larry the case with "bread preparations"
or baking powders made from .phos,
pilates.
This superior keeping quality in the
"ROyaP arises from the extraordinary
care in its manufacture, and the
scientific principles employed in its
combination. The articles used in its
composition are thoroughly dried by
heat before being compounded, and
are so prepared and coated as to pre-
vent the action of the acid upon the
alkali permaturely, or except under
the influence of heat or water neces-
sarily used in cooking or baking.
The Royal Baking Powder is now
used extensively in Australia, Africa
and other low attitudes, where it has
been found to be the only baking
powder that will withstand the hot
moist atmosphere without deterior-
alton.