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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-17
ECCLESIASTICAL HIGH COURT.
Rome Believed to Have Already Established
Such an institution in America.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 16.-The appoint
ment of a high ~eccleastical tribuna by the
Pope for the Roman Catholic Church in
the United States is believed to have
been already consummated, although
inquiry to-day failed to develop
the existence of official notification. The
information obtained is to the effect that
the tribunal of the church will have re-
ferred to il all cases In which the church in
the United States is concerned for adjudica-
ton, and that tribunal consists OF Cardinal
Gibbons, of Baltimore; Archbishop Ryan.
of Philadelphia, and Archbishop Corrlgan.
of New York.
A prominent priest of the archdiocese,
who did not desire his name used, when
questioned. said: That such a court has
been constituted by Rome, and consists of
his Eminence, Cardinal Gibbons. Arch
not think there is any doubt. Where any
of these three are interested IN a
case, then the senior archbishop next
takes his place-that, is, the next senior In
point of appointment. The object of
burden of hearing appeals from this coun-
try. Rome wants to get rid of these on &C
count of her inability really to hear the
multitude of cases that press from
all quarters. Reasons for this are the great
distance between us, the dltnculty tnat is
experienced in bringing witnesses and OF
securing proper evidence, and the delay
caused in adjusting cases. L am pretty
sure of the information l received that
the members of the court have
been appointed and are organizing. 1t
must be nearly three months since the
matter was decided upon. The court will
not interfere with the present courts es-
tablished in the country for the trial of
cases further than that instead of an ap-
peal being made directly from the metro
politan to Rome, it will be from the metro
politan to the new ecclesiastical tribunal"
will the decisions of the new court be
final!" was asked.
Il am inclined to believe that Rome will
never shut off an appeal to her. j do not
see how she can. think that the hope is
that the decisions will be so cOnspicuously
Just that no one will be tempted to COM
plain of them."
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Brief Mention.

Christian Fueger was drowned in Kicka-
poo creek, at Peoria.
John Anderson is under $500 bond in
Anderson with intent to kill. Both are
Swedes.
The State Board of Health has lnforma-
ton of a troublesome epidemic of diphtheria
at Gibson, and has taken steps in cO-Opera-
ton with the local authorities to check the
malady.
Thousands attended the annual reunion
of the Stephenson county Soldiers Asso-
citation at Orangeville. Rev. q. Il. Van
Horne. of Rockford; Congressman HIT,
General Atkins and others spoke.
The fifteenth annual reunion of the One
hundred and fOurteenth Regiment, Illinois
Volunteer Infantry. was held at Virginia.
Upward of four hundred soldiers were
registered, and two thousand visitors were
in attendance. The principal speaker was
Andrew Jackson Lester, of Springfield, who
addressed the multitude in the afternoon.
The next reunion will be held at Greenwich,
Aug. Ii, 1890.
The convention of the Illinois Pharma-
~ceutical Association has adjourned after a
successful meeting at Quincy. The follow
ing officers were elected: President, II.
Schroeder, of Quincy; -vice-presidents, X.
w. Diller, of Springfield; t. G.. LOehr. of
COllinsville, and DR.. Schubert. of Kanka-
kee; secretary, III. c. Martin. of Chicago;
names of Henry Smith, of Decatur: L. e.
Hogan. of Englewood, and J. Il. Boyd. of
Quincy. will be recommended to the Gov
ernOr for member of the State Pharmacy
Board. Kankakee will be the next place Of
meeting.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-17

False Stories from Washington Corrected by
. Letter from That Gentleman Himself.
Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Aug. ia great many
stories have been sent out from Washing
ton during the past twenty-four hours
which uniustly reflect upon Mr.. NJ. NJ.
Hurley. of New Albany. in connection with
his d~eclination of the third authorship. 1t
Is asserted that the President asked him to
decline" because of the suit growing ont
of the disputed rent bill for the New Albany
postofice. The Journal correspondent was
shown a letter tonight from Mr.. Hurley to
Hon. John L. Smith, of this city, In which
the former gives his reasons for declining
the Office. The first is his natural prefer
ence for residence in New Albany. He
continues: Another, hat my present
business is congenial, more SO than public
Office. The third reason was that the Star
Union line has made it to my interest to re-
main in their service" Mr.. Smith says
that any story giving other. reasons why
Mr.. Hurley did not take the place are
absolutely without foundation.
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Losses by Fire.
Special to the indianapolis Journal

6ptCldi ~ IA u
MADISON, Ind, Aug. 16.-MOffett's bust
ness block. occupied by Connolly Bros,
~clOthiers; Lustig, tobacco, and Dr.. Goodies
dental rooms, burned at 2 O'clock this morn
ing. The building was insured for s. Zoo in
the North American. Lustig was partly in
sured.
JAMESTOWN. n. Y, Aug. 16.-A dispatch
just received from Cherry Creek says:
The Masonic Hall, News Office. furniture
store, grocery and dry goods store, marble
works and blacksmith shop are burned to
the ground. The fire is now under control.
The loss will reach $4,000; partly insured.
CHARLESTON, w. Va. Aug. 16.-The Mont
gomery Hotel. James Tuberts's dry goods
store and Louis Cohen's clothing store. at
Coal Valley, were destroyed by fire this
morning. The fire originated in the kitchen
of the hotel. All the houses belonged to
John Montgomery. His loss will reach S15,-
600; insurance., 5000.
P%ITTsBURG, Pa, Aug. 16.-The tow-boat
William Bonner, owned by Charles Juette
d Co.. of this city. was burned to the
waters edge, near Rush Run, o., about Z
o'clock this morning. The boat was en-
route to Pittsburg with a tow of coal
barges from Bellaire. When the fire was
discovered the boat was headed for shore,
which was reached In time to allow all the
crew to escape. The loss is about $4,000.
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THE CONVENIENT POSTAL CARD.
New Sizes to Be Observation-Disclosures Num-
her of Cards Now Used Daily.

New Sizes to Be Observation-Disclosures Num-
her of Cards Now Used Daily.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-Acting Post
masrer-general Clarkson to-day awarded
the contract for furnishing postal cards to
the Postof6ce Department for four years.
beginning Oct. / next, to Albert Dagget, Of
New York. There will be a material reduc-
ton in the cost by the change of contracts,
although the cards in the new contract
will be superior in quality to those in the
old one; and. besides, the public
will be afforded better facilities for
correspondence and for advertising by the
addition of two new sizes of cards. Size
No I is to measure Q 1916 by AS inches, and
weigh 5 pounds Il ounce a thousand. The
cost of this card will be 81 cents a thou
sand. Size No. 2 is to be 8 by SIS inches.
the same size as the present card. and weigh
of the present card is 5 pounds 4 ounces a
thousand. The cost in the new contract Is
IS cents a thousand. and iii the old contracts
was 81 7-l00 cents a thousand. Size No. 3 Is
to measure 3s4 by 6ls inches, and weighs
pounds M / ounce a thousand. The con-
tract price is so cents a thousand. This is a
reduction of nearly II per cent. in the price
of the cards. and increase of about ~ per
cent. in weight. Allowing for the difference
in weight, the cards will be about one,third
cheaper in the new contract than In the old
one-the average price of the cards being
about 9 cents a pound in the old contract
and about @ cents q pound In the new one.
The estimated number of cards to be re-
quired during the four yearsOf the contract
term is z, 900, 000, 000, at q cost OF about $780,
600.
The reduction in cost Of the four years
will amount to fully $50, 000, as compared
to tine prices in the old contract. The post
age on the estimated quantity of cards to
be called for during the four years will
amount to $20,O 900, 900. The contract will
require nearly seven thousand tons OF pa
per, or an average of about SIX tons for
each working day. The use of postal cards
was first introduced into this country in
1873, and the issue for the first year was
about IOO,0 600, 900 cards. The contract price
was then 1898 a thousand cards, or about
three and one-half times the average price
in the contract just awarded.
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PLUMs FOR ~INDIANIANs.

Original Fashion In Which the Contest for
stmas at Upton Was Settled.
Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-John NJ. Robin
son has been appointed postmaster at Tip
ton. vice r. NJ. Robinson. resigned. There
were eight candidates at Upton. Each
candidate selected three friends, and the
tw~enty-four men thus selected balloted I'M
til there was an election. On the seven
teenth ballot a majority of the twenty-four
votes were cast for Robinson. Charges
were made by some of the defeated candi-
dates. but twenty of the delegates united
in a statement of the facts. Mr.. Cheadle
recommended Mr.. Robinson, and he was ap-
pointed to-day.
Thomas w. Burt. of Lafayette. has been
appointed to a position in the Government
Printing Office, to take effect Sept. 2.
Oscar Ball, of Rossville. Clinton county,
was appointed postmaster of that place to-
day, vice l.. Il. Fisher. removed. Mr.. Balls
father died in the defense of the unity of
the Nation. and his appointment is the
recognition of the young Republicans who
were a great factor in the redemption of
Clinton county from Democratic misrule.
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THE MADAGASCAR MURDERER.
Acknowledgement Miller Decides that Capt.
Duverge Cannot Be Brought Home.

Acknowledgement Miller Decides that Capt.
Duverge Cannot Be Brought Home.
WASHINGTON, Aus. 16.-The State De-
partment has received an opinion from
the Encouragement in the case of Captain
Duverge, which will be accepted as settling
the question of the right of this govern
ment to bring to the United States for con-
finement persons convicted by consular
courts of offenses and sentenced to impris-
onment. In this case Captain Duverge was
found guilty of killing Consul Stanwood,
and was sentenced to imprisonment for ten
years. AS there were no proper means of
carrying out the sentence at Madagascar,
the scene of the murder, IL was sought to
bring the prisoner to the United States and
contine him here. The AttOrney-general,
however. decides that this cannot legally
be done directly. During former admins
t~rations prisoners sentenced by consular
courts in the Ottomaa empire were brought
the Encouragement explains that this was
lone only when the prisoner had been
sentenced to death and the President had
used his power of making a conditional
pardon, and committed the sentence prac-
tically in that way.
In the case of Captain Duverge recourse
may yet be had to a similar device, which
would result in his confinement In the
United States for a term less than ten years,
q pardon being extended for the remainder
of the time; thus imposing the necessary
conditions. but meanwh1 the officials of
the State Department are not without ap-
p~rehensions that the prisoner ma by his
escape, avoid any official solution of the
problem.
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which were made during that time Oft the

which were made during that time Oft the
Pacific coast. Chief Gilbert says that after
joining the ship at San Francisco, early last
winter. work was commenced on the south
ern coast of California. and continued
for three months between Point Con-
ception and San Diego. After completing
work on that part of the coast, a cruise
was made into the Gulf of California. AT
south of Guyamas beds OF oysters were
found which are thought to be fully equal
to the best on the eastern coast. and the
question now to be determined is whether
there is a suitable place on the California
coast where they can be propagated.
Part of the work was of scientific inter-
est; many new and very interesting forms
being obtained. Having finished the
southern cruise, the vessel proceeded
northward and did some work off the coast
of Oregon and Washington Territory, locat-
ing fishing banks there. Professor Gilbert
before be joined the Albatross was con-
nected with the University of Cincinnati:
Recently he has been elected professor of
zoology in the University of Indiana, at
Bloomington.
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THE sQUABBLE WITH THE CREEKS.
Ex-Governor Porter Protests and Thinks the
Attorneys Have a Right to Their Fees.

Ex-Governor Porter Protests and Thinks the
Attorneys Have a Right to Their Fees.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-EHGovernor
Pleasant Porter. of the Creek nation, to-
day filed with the Department of Justice a
protest against the proposed proceedings
in the matter of Ex-Governor Saml. j.
Crawford, of Kansas. and other persons
who, as attorneys for the Creeks, received
the 10 per cent. of the purchase money as
compensation for services rendered in
bringing about the purchase by the United
States of the interest of the Creeks in the
lands embraced within Oklahoma. Porter
and two others were authorized delegates
of the Greek Indians for the sale of these
lands, and, with the approval of the Creek
Council. employed these attorneys to assist
them. He says that the Creeks, afraid of
being cheated out of their rights in 1884,
employed counsel to represent them. and
after a long contest. succeeded, in January
last. in securing from Congress g. 2S0.S57 for
their rights in the lands. That the en-
ployment of counsel was necessary. Mr..
Porter says, is shown by the fact that the
claim was never settled until counsel were
employed, and by the fact that the Creek
nation has never, unaided. been able to Sc
cure the payment OF any claim, large or
small, against the United States.
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General Notes.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-James HI. Paris
and Frank Frank, of Frankfort, who have
just returned from a three-months' tour of
Europe. have been in the city this week,
leaving for home to-day.
The Department of State has been in
formed that the Nicaragua government has
appointed Senior Don Horacio Guzman. the
present minister to the United States, to
represent Nicaragua at the congress of
American nations.
The Treasury Department has granted
the application OF a New Orleans firm to
tended for transmission to interior points,
taken from the list of explosives, so that
they may be forwarded under bono in the
ordinary manner.
Bids were opened at the Treasury Depart
ment to-day for placing an iron roof over
the New Orleans custOm-hOuse and max
ing certain repairs. j.. Schneider. Sons Il
Co. of Cincinnati, were the lowest bidders
at 1874 900.
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Good Crops in the Northwest.

MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 16.-Tbe Market Rec
ord's kilograms from various points cover
ing the entire Northwest show a yield of
wheat much above expectations. OF the
whole. not one reported a single unfavor-
able condition. At Huron, Oak, where
threshing shows a yield of twelve to four
teen. and in Grand Fork county the wheat
is yielding, where threshed. an average of
twenty bushels, and that is claimed for an
average of the county. Bismarck, James
town and Fargo, in North Dakota. also saw
the WELD is above expectations. The har-
y~esfing, stacking and threshing is going
forward in all parts of the Northwest
under the most favorable weather. and gen
eral conditions.
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Pension Agents and Their Paw.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-It has developed
that one of the matters under investigation
by the Pension Office commission is the
possibility of a deficiency in the a%ppropria-
ton for clerks in branch pension offices.
The amount appropriated quarterly for
clerk hire is S17S,OOO. When Commissioners
Tanner came into office he ordered an in
crease estimated at about 20 per cent. in
the clerical force of branch offices. When
this was made known to Secretary Nob he
sent a circular to pension agents warning
them that there was likely to be a deficiency
and instructing them to cut down their
forces; Severas pension agents, among
Washington recently to see what can be
done. They claim that the increase in bust
ness makes an increased force necessary.
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Gale on Lake Hnron.

OWEN SOUND. Ont. Aug. 16.-The gale
yesterday was the worst of the season. The
wind averaged forty-five miles per hour
from the northwest. Thursday morning
the steam barge Chamberlain and tug
Lancy Pin lost q raft OF 10000 logs off Cape
The tugs Oriaping ana Superior also lost
a raft of $1,000 logs twenty miles east of
CabOt's head. 1t is still blowing hard from
the north and west.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-17
Feared Yellow Fever.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 16.-Assistant Surgeon
Carter, of the Gulf quarantine station, Ship
island. Mississippi, reports to Surgeon gen.
eral Hamilton of the Marine Hospital Serv-
ice under dateof Aug. 3. that the Norwegian
bark Safir arrived from Rio Janeiro on the
I'd with a crew of sixteen members, all of
whom were well. Eight of the crew. how
ever. had been sick IN Rio Janeiro with
fever. two of them with yellow fever. One
of these was sick on %shipboard. None of
the sailors were landed. and the vessel was
G~uarantined and disinfected.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-17
Putnam County Teachers.

Spec1al 10 Tie Indianapolis JournaL
GREENCAsTLE, Aug. 16-The teachers OF
Putnam county closed their institute to-
day, after having declared it both pleas
ant and profitable to be here. DR.. Baker
continued his remarks on the human anat-
omy. and Professor Mace gave an interest
ing talk on tornadoes and cyclones. Dr..
CHM, one of the visiting instructors. had
something to say on primary number work.
Additional papers were submitted by
teachers. which were alike creditable to
their authors, and an interesting feature of
the institute. Resolutions were adopted
expressive of thanks to the Instructors and
for other favors rendered. They also ex-
press the Willingness of the teachers to as
sist the trustees and superintendent in en-
forcing the new schoOl-bOOk law. The
trustees were asked to furnish ajanitor for
each school,. County Examiner Lyon takes
hold of the work assigned him with con-
siderable zeal and interest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-17
STEAMSHIP NEWS.

A Chicago Schooner Wrecked in the st.
Lawrence-Crew Escapes.
WATERFOWL, n. Y, Aug. 16.-The three
masted schooner A. Mickey, with a cargo of
q, 200 bushels of corn, bound from Chicago.
for Prescott. Ont, struck a shOal near the
Rock Island lighthouse. opposite Thou
sand-island Park, last night, and sank.
The crew escaped in the boats. The
schooner is valued at $4,000. Tn grain
was consigned to A.. Wiser, of Prescott.
The vessel was partially insured, the grain
entirely. The captain has abandoned the
schooner, leaving the insurance companies
to decide on the question of raising her.
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Movements of Steamers.

HAMBURG, Aug. 16.-Arrived: Gellert,
from New York.
GRAvEsEND. Aug. 16.-Arrived: Colorado,
from New York.
GLASGOW. Aug. 16.-Arrived: HISTORIAN,
from Philadelphia.
NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-Arrived: Amster-
dam, from Amsterdam: Augusta Victoria,
from Hamburg; Saale. from Bremen.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-17

New YORK. Aug. 16.-The original odd
Black Joe' died at Mount Holly. n. j.,
has lived for years. Just on the outskirts OF
the town. His proper name was Joseph
Queen, and he was undoubtedly the Oldest
man in the State. being III years old. lie
was born in Virginia. in l7s7. and the fact
is recorded in faded characters In an old
family Rible.
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MINOR MATTERS.
Tanner Corrects the Impression OF nl-Feel-
ing Between Noble and Himself.

Tanner Corrects the Impression of m-Feel-
ing Between Noble and Himself.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-The attention of
Pension Commissioner Tanner was to-day
called to a published interview in Chicago
with Assistant Secretary Bussey, in which
he is represented as speaking of Secretary
Mobiles relations with the Commissioner
Mr.. Tanner said: Assuming that Gen.
Bussey was reported correctly, / object
most decidedly to his creating the impress
sion that there are any personal differences
between Secretary Noble and myself. Mr..
Noble is one of the most lovable of men; a
man of broad views. and while there may
be some official differences between US,
these differences are not of q personal char
acter. Any statement tending to create
any other impression is untrue"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-17
Big Deal I'm Coal Lands.

SPRING VALLEY, ILL.,, Aug. 16.-Forty
thousand acres of coal-fields. in Bureau.
Putnam and LaSalle counties, have just
been purchased by the Spring Valley Coal
Company. one of the northern Illinois cor
against a reduction of wages. All the bot
tom coal lands lying along the Illinois
river, for about six miles on each side, has
been purchased.
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Town in the Hands of a Mob.

AUSTIN, Tex, Aug. 16.-The long-looked-
for outbreak between the contencing POI
litical factions in Fort Bend county COM
menced at Richmond, the county seat,
tonight. The number of the contestants Is
not known, but scores of shots have
been fired. and Sheriff Garyey and a man
named B,ockney were badly wounded;
Richmond is in the hands of the mob and
intense excitement prevails.
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Paving for the Yorktown.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 16-The Navy De-
partment to-day ordered the payment to
Cramp a. Sons, of Philadelphia, of $1,000
on account of the new gun-boat, Yorktown.
vessel, although a reserve fund of 500 600
will be held until a date four months after
her second trial. in order to guard against
loss in the event of the discovery of any
hidden fault.
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NEW YORK. Aug. 16.-The special board
to inquire into the causes of the accident
work. There are three large holes in the
heavy outer plates OF the hull and a long
indentation under the boiler-room. The
ribs of the vessel are bent inward where
she struck, and they will have to be re-
paired too. The constructor thinks 1t will
take six weeks to finish the repairs.
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COLUMBUS. o., Aug. IA freight wreck
occurred on the Cincinnati, ST. Louis a.
Pittsburg railroad, two miles west of here
at 2:35 this morning. James Mears,
a stock-dealer of. Steubenviile. was
is fatally injured. his neck being
broken. Engineer Ed Stolz, of Bradford,
and fireman John Gardner. of Columbus,
were slightly scalded and bruised. The
company's loss wall probably exceed s., 1000.
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Epidemic.

CHICAGO. Aug. I6.-There is excitement
in Lake View owing TO the breaking out of
gjanders in the stables OF the Lincoln Ice
Somnany. The disease is spreading among
the horses rapidly, and il has already been
neAessary 10 shoot seventeen of them. The
Veterinary surgeons lave so far been pow
erless to check the epidemic, and the
health department and police have been
vctsfa1