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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-02
PosToFFICE ESTIMATES.
The Postmaster General Finds 1t Necessary
Increase Them Materially.

The Postmaster General Finds 1t Necessary
Increase Them Materially.
WASHINGTON March 3l.-Ths Postmaster
general has transmitted to the House through
the Secretary of the Treasury revised estimates
Of postal expenditures for the next fiscal year.
He says that when the original estimates were
submitted the department was not in receipt of
detailed statements of the results of the business
fer the fret quarter of the present fiscal year.
These and other matters of information have
since been received aud disclose so large and
continuing growth in the postal business as to
necessitate considerable increases in the esti.
mates of expenditures in the next fiscal year.
In the case of the item for the hire of clerks in
postofices which was originally set down at S5,-
$50 900 ian Increase of 100000 over the current
appropriationl, 1t has been found necessary to
add special item of $4,000 for
unusual business. The original esti@l
mate of $500 600 for rent. light and fuel for,
postofices. owing to the reclassihcation of ofi-
ces. has been Increased $3.50, 900, and separate
item of $25, 600 provided for extraordinary all
lowances The estimate for free delivery serv-
ice is increased $780, 600. to total of sc. O0C OOO
to meet the immense annual increase in the carsl
riers work. An increase of $50. 900 10 made Ia
the estimate for mail depre dations. and the
statement is made that service was self-support.
ing last year. Touching special facilities in tho
railway mail service, the Postmaster general
says that in his view the special appropriations
d. not conduce to the advantage OF the service,
for the that they not sufficient for
proper distribution, and create an indisposition
to cooperate for the best service at the ordinary
compensation. Especially has this been felt in
New England. If. however, extra pay is to be
given to lines South. the great and growing
trade between the Northwest and the new conn
merciel South should have attention.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-02
The MARIETTA Cen,ennial programme

MARIETTA. o.. April /. Tho committee on
arrangements have agreed on the following pro-
gramme for the centennial celebration. begin
ming April 5:
Thursday April $50 P. NJ, the Ohio State
Archaeological and Historical Society will meet in the
City Hail. Opening exercises: Prayer; music; presi-
dents annual address Hon. z g; Sessions, of Coura.
bus; music; address, The Building of the State"
Judge Joseph Cox, of Cincinnati music; short ad.
dresses; music
Friday, April $3.50 A. NJ, business meeting of
the Ohio State Archaeological and isorcal Society,
City Hail. election of officers, reports of commit
tes. etc. P. M. address, Why Is Ohio known a
the Buckeye Statel' Hon. VIM. NJ. Farrar, Cam
bridge. o. fAfter the above address the society win
take carriages and visit under of the Marietta
members the ancient earthworks about her places of
historic interest in Marietta. 73p P. NJ address,
William Henry Smith; music; short addresses.
April City Hall, $50 A. M.-order of exercises:
Prayer; music; address of welcome by the Governor
of Ohio, Hon. j. b. Foraker; music; Grafton Senator
George T. Hoar. of Massachusetts; music; address.
Hon. Rutherford B. Hayes exPresident Of the United
States; music. Afternoon 1s30 F. M.-Music;
ton, Hon. j. Randolph Tucker, of Virginia; music;
address, Senator John sherman of Ohio; music, short
addresses by Hon G.. b. Loring Rev. Edward Everett
Hale Hon. J. D. Collett and others; music. NJ.
general reception at City Hall.
Sunday April S-3 P. NJ, address at City Hall, by
Rev. Henry II. Storrs. D. D.. of New Jersey. 7:30
M, addresses at City Hall by distinguished clergymen
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-02
Louisville Printers Strike Declared on.

LOUISVILLE. KY. April 1.-The printers
strike here, both against the job and newspaper
Offices, was to-day declared off. and the men will
go to work wherever they can get a chance.
Many of them will secure permits and go back
to their old places in what now non-union
Offices. The letdown was caused by letter
from President Amson, of the international
union He iuclosed $500, which he said was the
last contribution the Louisville strikers would
get He said the executive committee consid-
cred the strike unwise. and unless the local
union stopped it he would do so himself. After
reading the letter, President Higgins. of the local
organization, declared the strike ended The
Courier-Jo ournal and Times, with their job
Offices. have long since been fully manned. The
typesetting machines run regularly. Other job
Offices are well supplied
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-02
Two ministers Killed by a Train.

READING, Pa, April Rev. Clayton Mum
ma, of this city, and Rev. John Connard of Dem
Yer, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania while walk-
ine on the tracks of the Pennsylvania Schuylkill
Valley railroad, this afternoon, near Bushongis
furnace. were struck by q passenger train.
Munma was almost instantly killed and Con-
nard was so badly injured that he died at 7:30
O'Clock this evening, in the Reading Hospital.
The time OF The accident the men were watch
ing train on the Reading road, cross the Leb-
anon Valley bridge, and did not notice the ap-
proach OF the Penusylvania train. Rev. Dir.
Connard preached his initial sermon in the Mem
MONTE Church here, this morning, aud was TO
have taken up his residence here next week. He
was married and leaves wife aud seven chil-
dren. He about forty years Of age Mumma
was about thirty five years of age.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-02

theis own cars and the company is in cond-
tion TO stand the strike aud its consequences
better than at any other time
Quietude as intense that IN the Burln gton
domains was thesrule IN the Fort Wayne yards
Tonight conference was held between General
Manager McCrea, of the Fort Wayne, and
committee from the compauy's who quit
work yesterday Mr.. McCrea offered to let the
whole number return TO their posts, but added
that they aust rot expect the company to dis
crimnate against the Burlington. The commit
tee promised TO pat the matter favorably before
full meeting OF the strikers The meeting will
be held to-fnorrow
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-02
Other Fires.

WHEELING, w. Va, April IA large barn.
two stables, a stock shed and storehouse belong
ing TO John MeCrum, and operated dairy
by John CrIswell, a few miles east OF this city,
caught fire last night from furnace used in
cooking food, and were destroyed, with hay,
grain and valuable machinery, aud twenty-five
cows. Loss $4,000; partly insured.
ALBANY. y. Y, April Fire to-daw com
pletely destroyed the Central TheAter, owned
and managed by Peter j. Curry. Loss 500 900.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-02
GENERAL LABOR NEWS.

New York Printers Withdraw from the Gen.
trail Labor Union.
NEW YORK, April 1.-At a meeting of Cen
trail Labor Union, to-day. Typographical Union
No. withdrew from membership. forestailing
their expulsion for encroaching upon the rights
of the German compositors The Carl Sahm
Club and the Progressive Musical Union also
usiA
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-02
strike of Freight Brakemsn.

ST.. JOSEPH, Mo-, April 1.-All the freight
braksmen on the Kansas City, ST. Joseph g.
Council Bluffs road struck tonight at IL o'clock
They assign for q reason. danger to their lives in
working with 'scab" engineers. This makes
SEQ strikers now in the city. There have been
outbreaks, though the yards of the Burling-
ton are vet patrolled by Pinkerton mon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-02
SPRING OVERCOATS.

We have the finest collection of these garm-
ents this season that it has ever been our good
fortune to get together. They in prices
between So and $50, and we are sure cannot
fail to please every taste. The wide Wales are
particularly taking coat in appearance, both
as to stuff and to style. They are made up plain
and with silk face In any case these coats
have a "set" not surpassed by the best custom
work See for yourself.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-02
TIE FIRE RECORD.

Serious Damage Done In the New York
Tribune Building.
NEW YORK. April Fire broke out in the
Offices of the Homer Lee Bank-nots Company,
in the Tribune Building at o'clock this morn
ing. and despite the supposed fre-proof floors,
eat its way 70 the floor above. On this floor
arc located the rooms of the reporters and city
editor OF the New York Tribune. The fire de-
stroyed hies, manuscripts and valuable papers
In she Tribune Office which cannot we'll be re-
placed. The loss is estimated at Sc. 000 The
cause Of Ere is unknown.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-02
The Machine Constructors.

PITTsBURG. April AT a meeting of the
Pittsburg Machinery Constructors Assembly to-
night. a resolution was adopted ins;ructing
their delegates to the coming national conven-
ton at Washington to support the movement to
secede from the Knights of Labor. There are
600 machine constructors in this district and
over Is, 900 in the country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-02
The Labor Party In the south.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April Labor oreaniza-
tions met in convention yesterday and ad-
journed at IL o'clock last night They resolved
20 cut loose from the old parties and nominated
full county and legislative ticket. The
Knights of Labor, the Wheel, Alliance trade
unions and all other societies, aggreeating
thirty-dve different organizatioas in jefferson
county, were represented. Delegates pledged
themselves and their respective organizations to
aid and support the action OF the convention.
The Democratic county convention will asemb!e
here Saturday next
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-02
WIN. Walter PheIps,s House rsurnea-

NEW YORK, April William Walter
PheIps's house, near Englewood. N. j., was de-
stroyed by fire tonight Loss, $4,000 MIR.
Phelps is in New York. The family were forced
10 take refuge with neighbors. The fire was
caused by the explosion OF illuminating gas in
the art callarY
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-02
The Farmers. Trust.

TOPEKA, Kan, April Ia call has been is.
sued for a convention 60 be held at Topeka May
], for the purpose of ORGANIZING a farmers
trust Circulars have been sent TO the Govern
ors OF all the States west Of the Mississippi and
70 Illinois and Wisconsin to send delegates 20
the convention.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-02
Trouble Impending at Kansas City.

KANSAS CRY, Mo-, April 1.-THE switch en-
gineers and fremen of all the roads entering the
city, with the exception of tho Burlington. held
q meeting late on Saturday night, at which they
resolved that after II o'clock noon of Monday.
April 2, they would refuse to handle any Bur-
linRton cars freight except 1t be live STOCK or
perishable freight which has been started pre-
ious to that hour a committee of the
gineers and fremen of each road called on the
superintendents to-day and notified them Of the
order. The plan laid out by the meeting Is for
the engineers to refuse to haul Burlington
freight and yet stay with their engines until
they are discharged for disobeying orders IT
road engineers put in the yards to do
switching, new men are hired IN
their places, then the switehmen will refuse TO
switch with incompetent men. man will be
considered incompetent who takes another
workman's place The managers of the lines
have not, as yet, made known what they viii
do. but it is presumed that they will attempt to
handle the freight
just what position the road engineers will
take is not known. If the switch engineers
strike. it will paralyze all freight business the
lines leading out of the city, and will cause the
suspension of work all the large manufacto-
ries mills and packing houses in the city.
This movement involves about fifty engineers
fifty fremen and 150 switchmen.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-02
The Men at Mllwnukee Threaten TO strike.

TIC IA eh at UAIEWauhSS EHTetAI1n 10 StrIk6
MILWAUKEE, Wis, April 1.-The switehmen
employed in the yards of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee g St. Paul Company held largely attend
ed meeting tonight, and formulated demand
to be presented General Manager Roswell
Miller, that 20" freight shall not be handled by
the road under any circumstances In the event
that the demand is not complied with they will
quit work at IL o'clock tomorrow forenoon
The engineers have thus far taken action,
but threaten to follow the example of the switch-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-02
GENERAL Strike NEWS.
The Engineers of the Pittsburg Division viii
Sustain Their Striking Brethren.

The Engineers of the Pittsburg Division VIII
Sustain Their Striking Brethren. y
PITTsBURG. April Representatives of all
the lodges Of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers in the Pittsburg division held an i'm
portant meeting this afternoon ct their hall in
Butler street. The business was to discuss the
Chicago. Burlington s Quincy strike. and also
TO consider tho reports relative to strike
among the P:ttsburg s. Fort Wayne employees.
The meeting was well attended and lasted about
four hours The chairman. in opening the pro-
ceedings, requested the meeting TO deal first
with the rumored strike of the Pittsburg &
Fort Wayne engineers, fremen and switchmen.
In "A few minutes it was concusively stated
that no strike on the line named had taken
place. would any occur. Information was
rendered to the effect that the reported strike
was false. and was intended to do harm.
The Western strike was then taken up, and
every representative warmly supported the
strikers. After interesting discussion it was
agreed support the G., B. & Q. strikers
through thick and thin. A circular signed by
5 E. E. Hoge. chairman of the strikers COM
mittee, replying to statements of the c., B. &
O.. officials, was then read. The circular, which
has been sent to every lodge of engineers In the
country, admits that the strikers demand pay
based upon the number of miles run, but II is
claimed that the comparisons made justify all
their demands
This evening official of q local lodge stated
that the strike would not reach Pittsburg, but
there will be such a general stoppage the
Western lines within few days that no live
stock or other freight from west of Chicago can
be forwarded to Pittsburg. It will all be
stopped at Chicago
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-02
A GREAT STRIKE SPREADING
Probability that There Will Be Trouble
on the Chicago Belt Road.

The Managers of that Important Line Deter
mined Not to Allow Any Discrimination
Against the Handling of Any Cars.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-02
WHEN INDICATIONS.
M0NDAY-COlder. generally fair weather.
THE YEARS COAT.

Spring clothes the earta in new coat,
and it is about ready to begin the operation.
We don't clothe the Earth, and don't want to,
bat we clothe large portion of the people on
this part of the earth, and ue call their atten-
ton just now to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-02

VITALITY, exhausted by 0verwork or disease,
lis surely restored by use Of Ayers SarsapArslla.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-02
a General Tie-Up Expeoted Wednesdsx.


CHICAGO, April Judging from appearances,
aud from the talk INDUCED in by railroad men,
Wednesday will the commencement of a
railroad strike that can result only in an injury
to the town. 1t is admitted by railroad men
that the only preventive of strike for Chi
cagoans and surburbanites tomorrow morning
is the nearness of election; but Wednesday,
when the political battle is over, rs lroad war
will bloom in all its yigor. Ia the arlington
division of the yards to-day all was ouia II. The
Town OF Lake police, usual. were on the
grounds. but they not needed.
In the big Fort Wayne yards,
extending along Stewart avenue, from
Forty-seventh to Fifty-ninth street, all Was
quiet Switchmen, engineers and firemen were
painfully conspicuous oy their absence. In the
big round house at Fifty hfth were twenty en-
gineers and firemen, and several Town of Lake
police officers hung about, but there was abso-
lnssly nothing for them to do. In the Fort
Wayne company's employ in Lake there are
fully 500 men, and of that number perhaps 125
employed as engineers, frsmsn and switch
men. The Fort Wayne company had been ex-
pecting trouble and accordingly took time by
the forsiock. Everything was cleared up by
Saturday. The yards are noW empty, save os
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-31
SOUTH CAROLINA.

Perry Benson. living at Greenyiel
tried to commit suicide by hanging himself
Sunday evening Perrys wife was way from
home at the time, and on coming i'll found
him with rope around his neck, and it tied
to n raiter in the top of the house. She at
once concluded what he was trying to do, and
gave the alarm. AS soon as help arrived
Benson was cut down He was helpless and
would have died from strangulation IN Il few
moments More officers were called and Ben
son taken to thes station house DrS. R0wiey
and PEBBLES were called in and on eNamina-
ton concluded that it would not be necessary
to send linn to the asylum. Benson Says a
tree fell on his head some years ago, and his
head has given him trouble ever since, and
added that lie had no reason for trying to kill
himself, but was sure he was ''Goniured,
that some one had buried a charm in his
backyard and lie could find it if they would let
him out for awhile.
The store of p. \. Plowman, at Pines Cross
Roads. Collector county, was blown up Friday
night by the explosion of key OF powder.
Hampton Sneed, who was in charge Of the
store, was at the desk writing when the eX-
piosicn took place, and says he can form 40
idea how the powder caught fire. The first
that he knew that he was blown about fifty
feet into yard and covered up by the shattered
timbeIs With the exception Of slight injuries,
these two were not hurt, but, one Aaron
O'Bryan, who was standing near the powder,
was terribly burned and wounded by the fire
and tmbers and lost one eye. lie is in 4 criti-
cal condition Five or six negroes, who were
i'll the store were severely injured, two or
three of them.it is said, fatally. Tile store was
completely demolished.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-31

CalZada, De La Reina, Eel Louvre, &c, and
the most remarkable feature concerned in
the outrages, and that reflects very little credit
on the Spanish tyrantS that now occupy the
island. is that the entire city of Havana is
patrolied By not less than 5000 police soldiers,
who are paid about SIS per month, and get paid
two months in the year Consequently, they
rob and plumber, and even murder man for
- cents i'll Spanish paper money, which is
about 10 cents i'll our currency. Matanzas has
always been the residence of rich sugar plan
ters that own large plantations, and during the
dull season they generally como to the city as
change. kidnappers, formed in bodies of
rom fifteen to twenty men, come boldly lntof
he city and watch one of these planters as het
goes out to take ride or some place of amuse-
ment, and when he least expects any
trouble he is bounced upon suddenly
by two or three of these murderers. who
Immediately put him into a carriage and he is
driven he does not know where, as he is blind
folded, and is kept IN the den until a ransom
is paid fer his release. The same thing hap
Fened to Senior Forres, a rich planter, III Man
tanzas, last week. lie was 'secuestrado"
(Sidnapped) and held prisoner fifteen days,
and WAS released after his check for $4,000
in Spanish pecos was paid by the i3anco rs
pano de AIautanzas" Spanish Bank of Man
tanZas.)
The pirates have another way of killnap-
ping. They will watch 4 planters maid go
out with his children for q walk, when they
deliberately come mp seize a child and away
they go. Two or three days after the occur
renee the parents receive Il letter by mail,
bearing the city stamp, saying: I'll you don't
deposit such and such an amount in such
and such 4 place, We will in ten days send
you the child's head by peon." Last week
the merchants of Havana gathered to the
number OF over two hundred, and accom-
panied by hundreds of citizens, appeared be
fore the palace of Captain General Marin and
demanded protection. He said he was doing
ali he could and would do no more.
No one in Havana or in any other city Of
Cuba IS allowed to carry arms under heavy
penalty. yet all criminals in Cuba are always
armed to the teeth, and ready at any moment
to Kill. About u month ago thieves broke in
to the captain-generals garden, "QUinta de
Los NTolinos, occupied 10y Whole regiment
of guards, and not only stole all the furniture
but went 50 far as to carry away over one hun
bred Gas fixtures belonging to the premises
The Spanish authorities claim they cannot
stop the brigandage in Cuba yet it is hardly
expected of them to do SO, when they require
all the time they can get to prosecute the cdi-
tors of the Cuban press
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-31
GOVERNMENT TESTS.
The Royal Baking Powder Daclared
sSzzpex5oG 20 all others.

The fact that Royal Baking Powder u.s. in all respects
the best baking powder offered to the public has been
established beyond question.
Prof e. A. Mott when employed by the T. S. Govern
ment to anayze the various baking powders the market
to determine which the best and most economical after
an extended investigation reported in favor the ROYAL
and it was adopted for government use.
Prof Mott has continued his examinations of baking
powders sold at the present day. and arms it as his
deliberate judgment arrived at after thorough research
and careful examination of the principal brands of the
market that the Royal undoubtedly the purest and most
reliable baking powder offered to the public Prof Mott in
his recent report, says:
'The Royal Baking Powder is absolutely pure for
have found in many tests made both for that company
and the U. S. Government
81 will go still further and that because of the
facilities that company have for obtaining perfectly nure
cream of tartar and for other dependent Don he
proper proportions Of the same and the method Of it's
preparation the Royal Baking Powder is undoubtedly the
purest and most reliable baking powder offered to the
public. DR. HENRY A. MOTT PHDn
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