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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-20

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19-Frank r. Holdings
worth, of Chicago, reached the city to-day, after
a visit Of several weeks in Florida. he says the
condition of affairs there is very discouraging.
The loss to the orange crop from the recent cold
snap will not fall short of 81, 500, 900. The prin-
cipal loss is in the destruction Of the young
trees. 30 per cent. Of which are ruined. These
trees, in many cases five years old, were too
young to bear a crop. and the time and labor
spent to bring them to that stage of development
is entirely thrown way. Many persons who had
invested their means in the planting of orange
trees have grown discouraged, and are preparing
to leave the State. Mr.. Hol~lingsworth says
that. owing to the strineency of the money mar
ket. Is and 20 per cent. is being charged by the
bankers and others for short loans, and in some
instances this has reached as high as "a per cent
per annum.
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OhCN 0AA y h0
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19-In the House, to-day,
Mr.. Matson introduced a petition from William
M. Tate. late postmaster at Bloomington, asking
Congress to direct the Postmaster-general to ad-
just his salary, there being a balance of $2H due
him on commissions.
d. S. Alexander, of Buffalo. N. Y, late Fifth
Auditor of the Treasury. is in the city on profes-
sional business.
The President today approved the act legal
izing the election of the Territorial Legislative
Assembly of Wyoming.
The President to-day approved the act provid-
ing for the performance of the duties of the
President in case of the removal, death or ina
bility both of the President and Vic -president
Secretaries Endicott and Whitney left Wash
ington, this morning, for Wilmington. Del, to
attend the funeral of Miss Bsyard. They are
expected back to night.
Representative Matson was among the Presi-
dents callers to-day. The Colonel seems to be
~exerting himself just now in behalf Of his Office
seeking constituents.
Colonel Hughes East is anticipating daily his
appointment to the secretaryship of Wyoming
Territory.
D. M. Bradbury and wife. of indianapolis, are
at the Riggs.
Commissions were to-day issued for the fol-
lowing Indiana postmasters: James T. Tut
wiler. at Libertyviile; Henry kneals, at Mont
morenci; John Fl. Adams, at Reynolds.
Isaac Leap has been appointed postmaster at
Rosston, Boone county.
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Probability of a Dispute Over the Bill Pre-
sented by the Pennsylyania.
Special to the indianapolis journal.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 19-There is going to be
some trouble, it is said, over the settlement of
the bill presented by the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company for taking the congressional party
from here to indianapolis to attend the Hen
bricks obseqnies. At the time the party was
being arranged there was a good deal of rivalry
between the Baltimore & Ohio and the Pennsyl-
vania companies, and some pretty sharp bid
ding was INDUCED in. Rates were cut by the
Baltimore & Ohio, but it is stated that the Penn
sylvania Company had friends ir the House and
Senate who are known to be attorneys for that
road, ard that they went SO far for their client
as to secure the award for the Pennsylvania
without permitting the bid of the Baltimore &
Ohio to be opened. Ever since the funeral there
have been ominous expressions made by certain
congressman who objected to their confreres in
terfering in such matters, and it has frequently
been remarked that the bill of the Pennsylvania
Company would not be paid. That bill
is now before a House committee, and
it is reported to night that some trouble may
grow out of it. The bill is much larger than that
proposed by the Baltimore 81 Ohio. and the COM
mittee, if it recommends its payment, will de-
mand that it be scaled down to what the Balti-
more & Ohio proposed. The Pennsylvania Com
pany's bill is said to be about 81 200 or s., 500
more than the bid of the B q o., which is 20 be
opened simply az a reference. Should the mat
ter come before the House for discussion it will
probably lead to tart debates, as there are mem
bers who openly charge that the contract made
with the Pennsylvania was secured through con-
gressional influence.
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Union Lumber Dealers Association.

PITTsBURG. Jan. 19.-At to-day's session of
the Union Lumber Dealers Association the re-
port of the board of directors was approved. It
recommended that no claim be made upon whole
sale dealers and manufacturers for sales made to
contractors or consumers within a distance Of
fifteen miles from the public square of any
wholesale market, provided that said lumber is
consumed within that distance, and the secretary
may be doing business within that distance. The
election of officers for the ensuing year resulted
as follows:
President, II. c.. Weight. Dayton, O.; vice.
president, A. L. Sheafer: Pittsburg, secretary
and treasurer, j. M. Campbell, Canton, O.; di-
rectors-F. B. McFarlan, Cincinnati: VIM. Wig
man, Pittsburg; III. Sheldon, Fremont, O.; W.
e. Blakely, Shelbyvllle, Ind.
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MINOR MATTERS.
Arguments Before the House Judiciary Com
mittee in Favor of n Bankruptcy Law.

Arguments Before the House Judiciary Conn
mittee in Favor of a Bankruptcy Law
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-The House commit
tee on the judiciary devoted their meeting to-
day to hearing arguments by representatives of
commercial bodies upon bankruptcy legislation.
The hearing was opened in behalf of those who
favor the enactment of a national bankrupt law
by NJ. S. Wise, attorney of the New York Board
of Trade and Transportation and other mercan-
tile bodies. He was followed by j. Waldo
Smith, of New York; ". T.. Steele, secretary of
the Philadelphia Textile Association; j. w.
Gayne, of st. Louis, representing the Chamber
of Commerce; Mr.. Hurst, Of Baltimore, and Mr..
Woods. of the Boston Merchants Association.
The hearing was adjourned until Thursday next.
The tenor of the arguments was in
favor of the enactment of a general
bankrupt law, and ~favoring the bill now
before the committee, introduced by Mr.. Collins,
and commonly known as the Lowell bill. The
chairman, Mr.. Tucker. in defining the points on
WHICH the committee would like to hear argu-
ment, remarked that there were a number of
members OF Congress who were not anxious for
the passage of a bankrupt law, but who would
be willing to vote for such a measure if it were
fairly drawn and the machinery provided for
carrying it into force were perfect.
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AUTHORIZATION in iowa.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia, Jan. 10 -MayorVaughn,
of this city, chairman Of the executive committee
of the convention held at Des Moines, Dec. 16,
by the mayors Of twenty-five leading cities of
Iowa. issued a proclamation to-day. addressed
''To all who Love Liberty in Iowa" The address
says: 1.-THE Prohibitionists all over the State are
at work day and night holding meetings, select
ing delegates, writing letters, and doing all in
their power to assist and encourage their friends
in the General Assembly to make the prohibition
laws of the State stronger, and more tyrannical
and fanatical, if possible, than they are now.
In view of this fact, it is necessary for those who
believe these laws to be obnoxious, tyrannical
and unenforcible. and all who desire to see en-
acted a substantial license law that will put an
end to free whisky and the pocketsaloon
epidemic, to act together withoutregard to party
politics. All such persons are requested to meet
in the City He'll, in Des Moines, OF the 28th.
If citizens who earnestly feel impressed cannot
come in person, let them send an agent who will
fairly represent them. II a representative can
not be sent. let them contribute letter after
letter, in order that overwhelming proof of public
sentiment may be impressed upon the meeting,
and that members of the Legislature may not be
in doubt as to the duty they owe their ~constitu-
ents.n
Mayor Vaughn urges every mayor and alder
man to come to the State capital, prepared to
stay, if necessary. ten or twelve days.
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A Peculiar Legal Case.

DETROIT, Mich, Jan. ia peculiar case was
decided in the Recorders Court to-day. Samuel
Henry SCHNEIDER, arrested for an attempted dia-
mond robbery in Buffalo. Buffalo officers were
about to take their prisoner away, when his
attorney got out q writ of habeas corpus. Schind-
Ter claimed that he was innocent, and called
the diamond robber. 1t was shown that Ashman
was lying. and SCHNEIDER was taken to Buffalo,
where he subsequent confessed. An action
for perjury was thea oegun here against Ash
man. The peculiar p4ase of the case was that
Ashman was an extradited prisoner, awaiting
trial. 1t was a question whether he could be
tried for an offense committed after his exrradi-
ton. Judge Swift decided that he could be so
tried. and the trial took place tonight, the jury
returning a verdict of guilty. No such case has
ever been tried before, and it is probable that it
will go to the United States Supreme Court
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The Presidency of Yale College.

New York Graphic.
The question of the presidential succession
not of the Nation, but of Yale College-which il
now agitating the minds of the alumni of that in
s~titution, has excited a good deal of newspaper
comment. The latest contribution to the discus
sion is made by a writer who has taken pains to
investigate the character of the college for the
purpose of ascertaining whether there is any
ground for the supposition that the president
must necessarily be a Congregational minister.
The examination of this and other documents re-
lating to the government of the institution fails
to disclose any such provision, express or i'm
piled. The claim, however, rests upon the fact
that a long line of presidents has sanctioned this
custom, and that for this reason it would be, in
the present instance, unwise to depart
from the established usage. In the case
OF President Day and President Woolsey
1t was thought necessary to ordain them as
clergynlen before they were installed in the pres
idency to which they were chosen, although they
had never previously been engaged in minister
ial labors. They had both received a theological
education, however, and it was only because
teaching that they had never been ordained to
preach. With these two exceptions. there has
never been a president of Yale College who was
not at the time of his election an ordained min
lister, and the fact that. in the instances referred
to, pains were taken to fully qualify the non-cleri-
cal candidates before they assumed the duties OF
their office would seem to indicate that there
was some law, although it may be an unwritten
one, to which recognition was due. AS the ma
jority of the fellows with whom the power of Sc
lection lies are clergymen, it is hardly likely
that they will depart from their time honored
custom in the present case.
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The Rogers Art Collection.

ANN ARBoR. Mich. Jan. 10 The first install
ment of the great collection of models aud casts
of statuary. which comprises all the works
executed by the eminent sculptor, Randolph
Rogers, of Rome, during his active life of more
than thirty five years, and presented by him to
the University of Michigan, has been received.
1t consists of fifty five large cases, containing,
besides other works of art. statues of Abraham
Lincoln, John Adams. America Victory
'.Nydia." a group of Indians, and various medal
lions and figures on soldiers monuments in this
country. The remainder of the collection will
be sent soon. No other college or university in
the country will have so large a gallery of
~statuary as the University of Michigan when
the whole Of the Rogers collection arrives.
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Buried Under a snow-sHde.

ASPEN. Col, Jan. 19.-TEis afternoon, as the
4 O'Clock shift were waiting to go on at Aspen,
the men heard a noise, and looking
up, saw a snow-slide coming down As
pen mountain. They made a rush
for a dump, and succeeded in getting
under it. barely saving their lives. The slide
struck the shaft and engine-house, completely
demolishtng them, and killing John Rose, a mine
carpenter. The engineer was thrown under the
boiler and buried under ten feet of snow
ard. one of the owners of the Canadian mine,
and several other gentlemen, were near the shaft
house, but escaped with a few bruises. An
hour later there was another slide
on Washington mountain, burying two
wagons, mules and drivers under fifteen feet of
snow. Seven men. who started from here this
morning for Maroon pass, to return at noon,
have not vet been heard from. They are sup
posed to be buried under a third slide, reported
in the pass about noon.
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Miss Bayard,s Dressing.
Washington letter.

One thing Miss Bayard's tact concealed iG her
lifetime which may be said in her favor now. In
her fathers many-daughtered household she
her costumes were glowingly described by report
orial pens. She was picturesque in her style, and
made ingenuity ami a dramatic sense of adapta-
ton take the place of an extensive wardrobe.
At a White House reception one day, when
some lady was inquiring for a pin, she said,
brightly, '.Pins? 1 could not go out in society if
there were no pins" Her much-paragraphed
costume of Queen Hortense's Court, at Miss
Dora Miller's fancy dress ball last year, she
laughingly said was studied from picture. and
evolved by the aid of 1.-THE colored prima donna
of st. Augustine's Church
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Minor Notes.

Mrs. Susan Monfort, a lady extensively known,
died in Madison, on Monday night, aged eighty
five.
doc" Worrall, at Jeffersonville, has been
heavily fined for setting up a gambling APP
paratus.
The citizens of Waterloo have hsld an indig-
nation meeting to protest against the appoint
ment of A. Kelly as postmaster.
This week a number of New Albany and Louis
vile ~cigar-makers will leave for San Francisco
to take the places of Chinese workmen in cigar
factories.
J. S. Tibbetts, OF Jeffersonville. who has in
vented a machine for making gas from coal-oil is
organizing a company at that place for the man
u%facture of the machine.
George Buchanan, alias Charles Hill, who lives
nine miles southwest of Logansport, and Jacob
sawyer, of Lafayette, have been arrested,
charged with stealing cattle.
The police of Huntington are raiding the
poker-rooms of that place, which have lately in
creased in number, and in the boldness with
which they carry on their games.
Two tramps have been arrested at Jefferson
vile, who have been recognized by Thomas
Harrell, of the j., nj. & l. road, as the two foot
pads who assaulted him with intent to commit
robbery.
Henry Lilly, of Jeffersonville, seventy eight
years old. is not expected to live, as he is danger
ously i'll. He is a well-known and much-respected
citizen, and son of the first Auditor of the State
Of Indiana.
At Jacksonville, the jury in the case of Hon.
Edwin Bean, of Chicago, prosecuted by a farmer
for malicious trespass in crossing a field on the
way to a country church, were unable to agree
and were discharged.
Evansville has made the discovery that it's fire
department is it's ~costliest institution. During
the past fifteen years the yearly expense has
grown from SIG, 739. II, in 1870, to $47, Cos. SO, in
1886, which is out Of all proportion to the growth
of the city.
A man named Reynolds left Attica on horse
back for Independence. When near the latter
place he came near running over O boy named
mark. Reynolds got off his horsAArtlrash the
boy when the latter struck Reynolds in the fore
head with a stone. Reynolds is badly hurt. He
is unconscious, and it is thought may die.
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Cure of Plenrisy.
80 MAIN STREET, GLOUCESTER, Mass,
April 16. 1855.

AAPIII LOi AOSVs
Allcock's Porous Plasters have been used in
our family for the last three or four years with
very be lefcial results. Previous to that time l
had been subject to attacks Of severe pain in my
left side. Hot cloths and liniments afforded
temporary relief, but after a while the pain al
ways returned. In the fall of 1880, after a very
severe attack, I was advised by a friend to try
an Allcock's Porous Plaster on my side, which
greatly benefited me. After that l tried several
kinds of plasters to see which was best, and
finally decided that Allcock's suited my case the
best. I have worn them constantly on my eide
ever since, and have never been troubled with
the pain. except when l left them off for a few
days. We always keep a supply in the house,
and whenever a pain seizes any of US, in any
part of the body. we just apply an Allcock's
Plaster, and can most heartily recommend them.
JAMES PETTIGREw.
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VOORHEES,.
He Favors the Admission of Dakota Mon
tana and Washington Territories.i

He Favors the Admission of Dakota, Mon
tana and Washington Territories.i
New YORK, Jan. ia Washington special
to the Post says that last week Senator Voor-
bees introduced a bill to admit Washington Ter
bill to admit Montana as a State. The Senator
was aked if he intended to make the admission
of Dakota conditional on the admission of Mon
tana. as it had been reported the Democrats
were disposed to do. He replied. II can speak
only for myself. think the best arrangement
we can make is to admit Dakota. Montana and
Washington Territory together. They must all
come in soon. and they might az well come now.
/ don't see how we can prevent Dakota coming
in, She has a voting population of so, 900, and is
certainly entitled to admittance. I
thought at first that l should oppose
the division of Dakota, but I do not see how 7
can. The Territory has an area of five times
my own State, and South Dakota will be about
as large as Ohio and Indiana. Montana has a
voting population Of 26, 900, aud Washington a
voting population of 10000. There are not IF
teen congressional districts in the country with
the population of Washington, and not a hun
dred with that of Montana. Dakota is Repub-
l1can; Montana IS DCmOcrdClc, ana 1 am cOnH-
dant will remain so. Washington is close, and
may be won by either party. If she comes into
the Union by Democratic votes, under a Demo
cratic administration, our chances in the new
State will be all the better. II seems to me
E4uch the better plan to take in these three Ter
ritories at once. They are entitled to it, and po-
litically it will be as fair and practicable an ar
raDgement as can be-"
Several prominent Democrats are reported to
agree with Mr.. Voorhees,. Mr.. Springer express
es the opinion that the House committee on Ter
ritories will report favorably on the division and
admission of Dakota, unless the party shall hold
a caucus upon the subject. In that event, it is
his opinion that the decision would be adverse.
The members of the Dakota delegation, head
ed by Judges Edgerton and Moody, called on the
President this afternoon by appointment, and
formally presented the claims of the Territory
for admission into the Union, with a view of
securing his aid and cooperation in attaining
that end. The President showed a decided in
terest in the subject, many features OF which, he
said, we're new to him, and in the course of an
informal conversation remarked that the ques-
ton should be impartially considered from a ju-
iieial stand point of right and justice without
cgard solely to its partisan aspect. He GER
s.inly impressed the delegation with the belief
nat he proposed to treat it on that basis. He
assured them that he would give the matter care
ful consideration, and would do what he thought
right in the premises. The delegation thanked
him for the interest he had shown in their cause,
and departed we'll pleased with the interview.
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Patents for Indianians.

Special 70 the indianapolis Journal.
WAsHfSGToN, Jan. 19-Patents were issued
TO Indianians to-day as follows:
Lewis w. Fisher, Rockville, portable fence;
Robert Al. McGrath. Lafayette, car axleIbox;
Charles e, Mortified, indianapolis. a~ssignor to
VIM. Johnston. Wilmot. o.. lathing: John Il.
Obenchain, Logansport. roller mill; VIZ. II.
Pence. Losantville, band cutter and feeder for
ihreshing machine; Thomas B. Thorn, Vim
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Wages of Goyernment Printers.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1a-The House committee
on labor held a meeting tonight and listened to
the arguments of a delegation representing all
the branches of the Government Printing Office
in favor of the bill introduced by Representative
FoTan, of Ohio, to establish the rate of wages
paid to employees Of the Government Printing
Establishment prior to 1877, when. by an act,
the wages were reduced from sixty TO fifty cents
yer thousand ems, and from fifty to forty cents
IN hour. When the delegation retired the COM
. report the bill favorably to the House.
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finally agreed to give up his position on the naval
affairs committee to Governor Curtain. Mr..
Hewitt is largely interested in iron and steel in
serests in the East, and the committee on naval
affairs may have some strong influence to WELD
in making government contracts for ship-build-
ing material. The position is one which he re-
CARDS with some jealousy. Whether Governor
Curtin is given this compromise place or not, his
feathers have been clipped SO far as this Con
gress is concerned. There is a report that Mr..
Curtin will retire from congressional life at the
end OF his present term, and that he feels the cut
given him by the Speaker more keenly on that
account.
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Losses by Fire.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Jan. 19.-Fire at Mid
dleville, Barry county, this morning. destroyed
T.. D.. Finch & Sons flour mill and elevator, with
l3, 900 to IL. 900 bushels Of wheat and some -four.
The loss is $22, 600, and the insurance $l3, 900.
1t is supposed the fire was the work of an in
cendiary.
ST. Louis. Jan. 19.-The working departments
Of the Joseph Peters Furniture Company, em-
bracing machinery, cabinet and vanishing
shops, situated on Fifteenth street, betwe cen
OFallon street and Cass avenue, was burned to-
night. The loss is estimated at $50, 900 to $40,-
000; fully insured.
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strength and experience the conspicuous mem
bers Of the Cabinet have outranked the Presi-
dents.
The chance of going to the Cabinet for a Pres
dent Is so slim, and the chance of getting q good
President in such an emergency Is so much bet
ter than the old plan or any other plan that has
been proposed, it is not to be doubted that the
will stand perhaps as long as the Republic lasts