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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-25

THE partial wrecking of dwelling house
by an explosion of natural gas is very prac-
teal and unpleasant proof that we have the
new fuel. Unless people are careful this acct
dent may be the forerunner of others even
more destructive. It must be remembered
that natural gas is very infammable and ex-
plosive; knows no law but the law of nature,
and is a dangerous agent to handle. The
danger can be reduced to a minimum by the
strict observance of rules which experience
has proved to be necessary, and those
who expect soon to become consumers will do
we'll to acquaint themselves with these rules
Perhaps the most important is never to turn
on the gas before a light is inserted in the
stove. If turned on for few moments before
being lighted, even while one is striking
match, enough gas will escape to fill the
stove and perhaps partially fill the room, and
when the light is applied an explosion follows.
Apply the light first and turn on the gas af-
forwards is an infexible rule. Some other
rules are printed in another column. If these
rules are carefully observed and strictly en-
forced with children and servants, the danger
of accidents from the use of gas will be very
greatly reduced if not entirely removed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-25

dangerous precedent in compelling the gov
eminent to officially recognize the deprecia-
tion of its own currency. Under that prece-
dent thousands of claims for readjustment
would spring up, morally and inherently as
just as the soldiers claims, and it would only
be a question of time when they would be
recognized 1t would be tantamount to re-
opening the accounts and readjusting the ex-
penses of the war period up to the resumption
of specie payments. The government could
not afford to do that, and is under no obliga-
ton to do it. In this regard the soldiers have
no higher nor different claim on the govern
ment than that of others who had dealings
with it during the years of deprecated cur
rency. All contracts of that period were made
on the basis of iuctuating currency. and it
is too late now to attempt to substitute new
one. The government owes great debt to
the soldiers, but this is not the way to pay it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-25

abounds with great mineral wealth. Should
the bill become law, and it seems probable
that it will. there will be more than 10000
900 acres of fine lands restored to the public
domain. subject to homestead entry. Still
another bill proposes to allot lands in sever
atty to the Indians, and bring them under
the protection and operation of the law. This
would practically break up the tribal relation,
which experience has proved to be the first
essential step towards civilizing them. These
are practical and sensible steps toward solving
the Indian problem, and should be taken
without further delay. The reservation and
tribal systems irritating and dangerous.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-25
Mr.. Clevelands Political Shrewdness.

#. ID. Mussey's WashiDgton Letter.
To-day Mr. Sevellon Brown, the chief clerk
of the State Department, retired" and was
succeeded by a Southerner. There are very
few official people in Washington, comparatively
speaking, who served under any previous ad-
minstration. Mr.. Cleveland has been very
shrewd in this matter. He smart enough
to see that a sudden dismissal of ali the old
tried and trained employees of the government
would result in REORGANIZATION and trouble in
carrying the machinery of the government.
So he used his mugwump excuse to prevent this
sudden change and keep in place the DID, sea-
soned people as long possible, until through
subordinate positions new men could be worked
When ali this had been done he threw off the
mugwump pretensions, as a would throw
off his coat when the sun SEone out, and to-day
in every movement and in every act of the
President the effort to secure reelection is as
plain as the nose on your face, and, indeed,
there is no pretense of concealment any longer.
His present TO the Pope at Rome care
fully arranged affair, calculated especially to
destroy the friendly feelings supposed to be en-
tertained by the Catholics towards Mr.. Blaine
and il appears to be welEexecuted flank
movement. His message was for the benefit of
free-trade. New York and the South the two
influences that he relies upon for reelection.
His later appointments are all made for politi-
cal-or rather for Observation-Disclosures in the
coming campaign There was some fear for
West Virginia among the Democrats. but to-
day West Virginian remarked: 'Grover is too
Faulkners election and his appointment to-day
of Judge Hoge, he has probably fixed West
Virginia all right"
Never in the history of the government has
the executive Office and its official power been
more openly. boldly and unscrupulousy used
election of the same. 1t is the day of reform in
poIitics
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-25

GENERAL HovEY, of this State, has intro
duced in the House a blu to paylto soldiers of
amount of their original pay, to make good the
difference between the value Of the green backs
in which they were paid and the gold coin in
which the greenbacks were eventually re-
deemed. General Hovey is an able man and
was gallant soldier but we think his zeal
for the veterans is carrying him too far
Whatever the government may do now Or in
the future for the soldiers, it should do in
direct way. The bill introduced by General
Hovey is open to one serious objection.
not to mention others. 1t would establish
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-25

In nation of 60, 600, 900 people there must
needs be a good many cranks. One of these
thinks he has invented an air ship, flying
machine, and Representative Durham, of
Illinois, has introduced bill asking for an
appropriation of $3.50, 900 to defray the expense
of constructing one of his machines. Mr..
Cox, who was occupying the chair, could not
refrain from perpetrating a joke, and, said if
there were no objections the bill would be
referred to the committee on ventilation and
acoustics
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-25

THE postal service is honey combed with
dishonesty as well as incompetence. The
appointment of thousands of new postmasters,
postofice clerks and railway mail clerks has
introduced a good many thieves into the
service, while the removal Of trained inspect
ors and the appointment of green men in
their places has practically destroyed the
detective service. Thus, while there is more
stealing going on than ever before, the ma
chinery for discovering and catching thieves
is equally Democratized and getting worse
every dav
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-25
NEBRAsKA's BRAVE GIRL.
Miss Minnie Freeman Tells How She Saved
Her Little Pupils from Death.


Omaha Special.
Miss Minnie Freeman, the plucky little school
teacher at Nina Valley, whose heroism care
and presence of mind saved from death her
thirteen little pupils during the terrible storm
last week, was in this city to-day. II have had
newspaper notoriety enough" she said, when
approached by the reporter; II merely did my
duty" When pressed, however. she told the
denly and struck the DOL house just abont
the time for closing. n. from indications
that it was going to be q regular blizzard aud
told the children to all wrap up we'll While I
attending to them the door blew in and
then the windows. put my cloak on and was
wondering what was e"' odo had made
up my mind that the b, would not last
long Then happened mink of ball of
Irvine I had taken & Of from little fellow
it during school hours began tying the chill
dren together and when had completed this
task / fastened one end of the string TO my arm
and awaited developments. Very soon the roof
of the building blew off and I SAID. Come on.
children and we started. The nearest house
rsree- quarters of mile away, and in order
to reach it we had to face the storm for about
ope-third of the distance I thought at one
time we should be lost. and came near losing
hope, for / was nearly exhausted You see
carrying the smallest child-a little girl
and my talking to the children and urging them
to keep up their spirits tired me very m UGH.
When we were about half way to the house one
of the boys abont six years old said, Teacher,
/ can't go any farther but told him. if hs did
not come along would whip him, and it was re-
markable to see how that child exerted himself
afterward. Now, you need not smile, do not
whip my scholars very hard WE'LL we cot to
the house, and beyond few frost bitten fingers.
noses and ears we were all in as good condition
when started"
Miss Freeman then spoke of the large number
of letters she had received since the story of her
bravery got into print. Most of them were
turally of a complimentary nature, but nine
tanned offers of marriage One eccentric indi-
vidual Enclosed $40 note with the following
Miss Freeman. you are daisy and can have
the keys of my trunk at any time. Yours truly.
-
The heroine is rather above the medium
height, has dark brown hair and grey eyes. ard
is rather pretty. She is well educated being
graduate of York College, and is fine artist,
one of her paintings being now on exhibition IN
this city. Rumor has it that she Will soon Us
married to a young Omaha business man, and
in all probability the story is not far from being
true. as when questioned concerning il she re-
piled that ''she had nothing to say" COM
mittee is at present at work in this city collect
ing funds with which to purchase a handsome
gold medal to be presented to her at an early
date They meeting with marked success.
Each person approached almost invariably re-
spends with handsome sum.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-25

Two important bills relative to Indian af-
fairs are now before Congress, each of which,
if passed, will add a large body of fine land to
the public domain. One is to ratify an agree
ment made between certain government COM
missioners and the various tribes in Montana
and Minnesota by which 1900, coo acres
viii be opened for settlement and the other
is to divide up the great Sioux reservation in
Dakota The vast territory included in this
reservation is situated almost in the heart of
that thriving territory, obstructing as it
does, all commercial and other business of the
people residing east of it from the Black Hills
country on the western border, which
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-25
The Modified Oath.

st. Louis GIobe- UelnOcrat.
Dispatches from Washington inform us that
'Mr. Lamar, when being sworn into Office as an
associate justice of the Supreme Cours of the
United States, took the modified oath"
Certainly he did He could not truth
fully swear that he never bore arms
against the United States" could he
plead that he never gave aid, counte nance,
counsel or announcement to persons engaged in
hostility thereto" The old oath seems to be
deemed good enough for those who fought to
preserve the government who may chance 10
get an Office. but for the privileged beings who
fought to destroy the governments something
newer and better must be provided. This is
great glorious. and peculiar country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-25

The Supreme Court of the United States
having very properly declined to interfere in
the case of Maxwell, the st. Louis trunk
murderer, his attorney now says his only hope
lies in petition for rehearing by the Su-
preme Court, and that failing. in an appeal
for executive clemency. The attorney is
trifing with justice, and ought to be
disbarred. Maxwells guilt has been proven
beyond reasonable doubt, after full and
fair trial, and he should have been hanged
1npo ano
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-25

A CONSIDERABLE number of prominent citi-
zens who distinguished themselves by testify
ing at the first trial to the high moral charac-
ter of the tally-sheet gang conspicuous by
their absence on the present occasion. As
the reputation of the gang was no better
then than it is now. or, rather. is no worse
now than it then, curious people are
wondering at the absence of these once swift
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-25

LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL who is trav-
cling in Europe, said to an interviewer at Ber-
lin, 1T is impossible to prevent people from
inventing stories for the papers. One
journalist thinks he must not be outdone by
his rival. so if one invention is contradicted it
is speedily replaced by another" His Lord
ship should come to this country, where that
sort of thing is not tolerated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-25

Mackin late of Chicago, was man of IN
blemished reputation. Indeed, he was the
best secretary the Democratic committee
ever had, and was a regular curled darling of
Democratic society in Cook county; and yet,
Mr.. Joseph Chesterfield Mackin went to the
Joliet penitentiarY
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-25

THE four thousand two hundred men of
the Sixth Kentucky district who signed Mr..
Thobe's petition for a reopening of his case
are likely to make more trouble for Mr.
Carlisle in his next campaign than they did
in thelast, and they pushed him pretty close
to the wall that time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-25

GIVEN Post No. 133 Grand Army of the Re-
public, Department of Ohio, has issued crcu-
lar in the interest of comrade Aquila Wiley of
Wooster, o., the next departments COM
mander. General Wiley enlisted as a private
in April, 1861 and came out brevet brigadier-
general of volunteers. His military service and
career are in the highest degree creditable, and
the General would be a commander of whom
the department could well be proud
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-25

YET, with all his splendid reputation and
excellent character, to which there are so
many swift witnesses, Mr.. John E. Sullivan
tract for butter, nor to supply maggoty stuff
for the use of the patients of the insane asy
lum. We have heard of locality large
number of whose inhabitants were formerly
of most unspotted reputation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-25

SEvENTY-Two hours between Muncie and
indianapolis or Indianapolis and Muncie, is
about the average time for mails under
the reformed Democratic postal service. If
the expression be pardoned, the postal service
is "simply damnable."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-25

AS we understand it, the men on trial in
the United States Court are not arraigned for
being of bad reputation. They are under
trial for conspiracy to forge the tally-sheets Of
the November election, 1886, and which were
forged and the verdict of that election vitiated
and DESTROYED.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-25
creveland.s Lack of Gratitude.


To elect Mr.. Cleveland tho only speaker whom
Democratic State committees would allow to
speak in 1884 in New York and New Jersey was
Samuel j. Randall, and every speech he made
was an assurance that the Democratic party
would stand by protection But with Mr.
Cleveland in the chair what is the use made of
tho victory which by the Randall
tacticsl It is simply to off with Randalrs
heads while eleeful Cleveland ruhs his hands
drhu ekIas
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-25

AT first thought it would seem that a cy-
clone insurance policy ought to cover the
damages growing out of naturalgas ex-
plosion; but probably it will not. Insurance
men are so particular about these things.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-25

No wonder the Southern Congressman are
particularly indignant over the effort to prove
that their colleague, Mr.. Carlisle did not hold
a legal title to his seat in the House. If an
honest count were allowed to have its own
way in one case there is no telling where the
thing might stop, and more than one Demo
cratic Congressman might have to 60
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-25

Mr.. CARLIsLE's illness is said to be due to
overwork and the bad air in the Capitol build
ing. This may be true. but the physically
afflicted Speaker has shown no dispo
siticn to escape the pressure of his duties and
the ill-ventilated congressional halls by Civ
ing Mr.. Thoebe chance to prove that he,
Carlisle, had no business there.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-25
The bay In street-Cars.



No, my The hay used for heating the
streetcars of our city Is cut up and fed to
the horses afterward-it is too rich and JUICY
for that-put Is sent to renovatng establish.
ment. whore it is thoroughly cleaned and little
caloric added. when il Is again placed in the
cars At the end of the sold weather it is sold
for fertilixing purposes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-25
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
LONDON-American Exchange in Europe, 449
Strand.
PARIS-American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard
des Capucines.
NEW YORK-Gedney House and Windsor Hotels.
CHICAGO-Palmer House.
CINC1NNATI-J. p Hawley & Co.. 154 Vine street.
LOUISVILLE-C. It. Deering northwest corner
Third and Jefferson streets.
ct. LOUIS-Union News Company, Union Depot
and Southern Hotel.
WASHINGTON, D. C-Riggs House and Ebbtt
House.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-25

THE grand old Democratic postal-service
continues to lumber along, sometimes carry
ing the mails and sometimes not
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-25

THE Supreme Court has again affirmed the
telephone law in a case appealed from Knox
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-25

Telephone Calls.
Business Office. 23S Editorial Rooms. 242
The Clifton clarion., 1888-01-04
Some Wealthy &ypsies.

I have no doubt that half mil
 lion of the million and half gypsies we now have among Us are what arc known among the Romany as drom gypsies that is, gypsies of the road; gypsies whose heritage of patriarchal and pill griming tradition will no more permit them to herd in towns, save out of necessity, than will foxes. Of these, as I have pre- viously stated in print, I have names and addresses of nearly 1000 heads of families, or petty tribes, whose combined wealth ex- ceeds $20,000,0G0. Hosts aside from these have gained or are se- curing little properties. These largely consist of fine farms, country tavern stands, toll-gate privileges, tracts of woodland of which they are very fond, livery and sale stables in the smaller towns and villages, and, not in frequently, extensive town prop critics, particularly the larger sale stables in metropolitan cities. Thousands upon thousands are able to live comfortably without effort upon rentals and other in comes. But they are never idle, and they never fail of passing some portion of each summer upon the road. Their tradings, or prep arations for trading, never cease; nor does their fortune telling, for the wife of a gypsy worth S25O,O 900 and l have the acquaintance Of more than one of these-wlll as nimbly tell your fortune for silver as would the wife Of the most poverty stricken gypsy tinker l ever helped solder a pan or patch kettle.
The Clifton clarion., 1888-01-04
their origin in Central America. is

their origin in Central America, is pronounced in the opinion that it will not be long before one of the mountains in that vicinity will be vomiting fire. Dr. Goodfellow, of Tombstone, who is in the employ of the United States government, leaves Magdalena for Bavispe to- morrow with Col. Kosterlitzky to continue his scientific researches. The Mexican scientific commis- sion, which thoroughly investi- gated the earthquake country in August, is preparing an exhaus- tive report at Hermosello of its researches. The report already covers several hundred pages of legal cap, and is not yet com pleted. It is expected that the copy will be placed in the hands of the printer on March l. Elab- crate maps, showing the surface confgurat1on of the country in the month the commission visited r it, are being prepared and will be embraced in its reports. t
The Clifton clarion., 1888-01-04
A Very Slick spotter.

4 number of the conductors On the Canadian Pacific have got themselves into trouble. Some time ago a spotter passed along the line and caught eight con- ductors between North Bay and Vancouver. His method of act ing the spy was contemptible one. He was a middle-age sickly man, and he represented himself as an old conductor who had no money and was broken down in health. He said he was trying to reach the Pacific Coast and appealed to the various con ductors as he met them to pass him along as an act of kindness to an old brother conductor. Touched by his pitiful story and evident distress the conductors yielded to his earnest request and let him ride free. All the conductors who 50 befriended him were reported; four have already been discharged and four more will also, it is said, be similarly treated. This is said to be the only charge against these men, and there is consider, able indignation felt at the severe punishment meted out.