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OBITUARY.
Michel Eugene ChevreuI, the Noted Centen-
arian Chemist and Writer.

Michel Eugene Chevreul, the Noted Centen-
arian Chemist and Writer.
PARIS, April 9.-M. Michel Eugene Chew
reul. the distinguished French chemist, is
dead.
Michel Eugene Chevreul was born at
Anglers, in the department of Main-et-
Loire, Aug. 81, 1856. After completing his
studies in the Central School of Anglers he
went to Paris and studied chemistry under
Vauquelin, and afterwards took charge of
the laboratory of that chemist. From 1910
to 1924 he was a professor in various insti-
tuti0ns. He then became director of the
dye-works, and professor of special chem
istry at the Gobelins', where he distin-
guished himself by important researches
in colOrs. He was elected a member of the
Academy of Sciences in 1926, and four
years later succeeded his instructor,
Vauquelin, as professor of applied chem
lstry In the Museum of Natural History.
He was afterward made fellow of the
Royal Society of London and president of
the Society of Agriculture. In 1851 he was
awarded a premium. Mt the London Indus
trial Exposition, for the benefit his labors
had conferred on industry, and in 1852 he
agement of Useful Inventions the prize of
1900 francs for his work, 'Recherches
Chemieues sur les Corps Gras dc rigine
Animale," which had been published in
1923, and is yet considered of high value.
its suggestions having given rise
to the manufacture of stearine candles,
and to the use of oleic acid
in the preparation of wool for
cloth. Another work of his, on sanitary
influences, introduced the practice of char
ring the interior of water-casks. He was a
member of the international jury at the
Universal Exhibition of 1851 in London.
and of 1855 in Paris. He was appointed di-
rector of the Museum of Natural History
for five years in 1864 and again in 1869.
Besides many articles on scientific subjects
in the D~ictionnaire Ges Sciences Nature.les,
the Journal des Savants, and other PERIOD
icals, he published many works of great
value to science, most of which nave been
translatedinto various European languages.
He also contributed many important pa
pers to scientific societies, and continued
lecturing until he was over ninety years of
age. Besides his scientific honors, he was a
commander of the Legion of Honor. His
one-hundredth birthday was celebrated
with much enthusiasm in 1856.
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upon his bosom and he will 60 off asleep.
He has all the symptoms of general disso-
luton. That may not come for some time
yet, but it may happen at any time. One
of the most touching things connected with
bis honorable old age was his extreme fond
ness for Mrs. Cleveland. He visited the
White House to see her whenever he was
able. and delighted to be in her presence. to
hear her talk. This liking for the young
mistress of the White House was recipro-
Gated by Mrs. Cleveland, who took great
pleasure in entertaining him.. They were
the best of friends. On the morning of the
4th of March, despite the bad weather, Mr..
Bancroft called at the White House to bid
Mrs. Cleveland goodbye. As he was leav-
ing, he grasped her by both hands, and as
he wept, invoked in a broken voice the
blessing of God upon her. Mrs. Cleveland
was deeply moved, and she also wept as she
babe goodbye to her old friend.
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Postal Clerk THOMPSON.

DETROIT, Mich, April9.-John G. Thomp-
son. the postal clerk who disappeared from
charged with stealing registered and money
letters, was in Detroit, yesterday. He de-
MED all charges, and said he was out for
his health. He was well supplied with
money on his arrival, but lost it all In
gambling. He was still in town last night.
but to-day he is missing. 1t is known that
he received several kilograms from home,
which may lave had something to do with
his going away. 'TLompson's family is one
of the best in Columbus. He has been in
with great cost to his parents. His father
was John g. Thomson. the well known
Democratic manager in Ohio. who died in
Washington Territory while holding a gov
rnmeu pOSitiOn.
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INDIANAANDILLINOIS NEWS
Short-Sighted Police Give Allegiance to
aboard That May Soon Be 0usted.
Sunday-School Workers-Suicide of q Book
keeper-Injured by an ExplosiOn-Drummer
Robbed-Attempts at Train recking.
INDIANA.

Evansville's Police Desert the Old Commits
sioners for the New Board.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
EVANSVILLE, April 9.-The new board of
police and fire commissioners of this city
made a demand on the old police board to-
night for control of the police department.
The old board refused the demand. on the
ground that the act of the recent Legis-
lature, creating the new board, was uncon-
stitutional, but were unable to remain in
charge. owing to a desertion on the part of
the entire department, Neutrality-suspicious.,
the men claiming that it was a matter of
bread and butter with them, the new
board having the Endorsement of the City
Council that will have the paying of
salaries to those of the new board, while
the claims of those under the old board
will not be recognized unless the Supreme
Court decides the law in question to be I'M
constitutional. The old board still con-
tends that they are the only legal commits
~sioners, but Will not organize a new depart
ment for the present. Should they finally
win in the present difficulty there will be q
general slaughter of heads.
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Minor Notes.

A horse show will be held at Crawfords-
vile on April Is, and at New Ross on April
20.
Benjamin Cripsi, of Elkhart county. lost
his home by fire on Monday. Loss, $1,000;
insurance, q, 900.
Fiander Williams is under arrest on the
charge of burglarizing the New Harmony
postOffice last Thursday.
Spencer is arranging to give Francis Muir
ply a warm reception at the opening of his
meetings there on Saturday evening.
Mrs. Lucinda Scaggs, wife of Zach
Scaggs, a farmer of Morgan county,. died
at her home Sunday night of heart dlease.
in her sixtieth year.
The last case against S. nj. Coffman, of
the Charlottesville Argus-News. for $1,000
damages, has been dismissed In the Tippe-
canoe county court.
F. A. Richardson, engaged in the hard
ware business at MOOresville for forty
years, died yesterday after a long illness.
He was we'll known In Odd-fellow circles.
Frank Calvert, at one time editor and
proprietor of the Wabash Plain-Dealer, but
lately a farmer and politician, dice y~ester-
day morning at Mount Etna, near Wabash.
r. P. Robbins. eighty years old, a resi-
dent Of Porter county for ffty-four years,
years, died on Monday in Portage town
ship.
The infant son of L. P. Fisher, of CO.
lumbus, died on Monday. He was three
month"; old, and weighed three pounds. At
its birth the child weighed one pound and
ahalf.
The Monon-line has compromised the suit
of Rev. A. G. Mcdaniel, of Charlottesville.
for damages received in slipping from the
depot platform at Greencastle, by paying
him $3.50.
James Wilson, the young man found near
Gosport last Friday with his skull crushed.
is still living in an unconscious state. He
was knocked from a freight train by COM
ing in contact with a bridge.
Mrs. Sarah Crull, of Dublin, was in Rich
mOnd yesterday hunting for her daughter,
who disappeared with A. b. Larkin, apho-
tOgraph solicitor, over a week ago. 1t is
supposed to be a case of elopement.
John Perry, the .horse-thief recently
captured at Wabash, has been sentenced to
four years in the penitentiary. He is
wanted in Ohio for numerous crimes, INT
will be rearrested when his present term
expires.
The directors of the Prison South have
elected Abel Ewing, of Greensburg. deputy
DR.. G. H.. Runcie. of Fort Branch. Gibson
county, physician. vice DR.. Wolf. of New
Albany, resigned.
mammoth stalk of corn raised on the
farm of Samuel Brumfield, in Ohio town.
ship. Bartholomew county, is on exhibition
at Columbus. To the ear. which is large
and solid. it measures nine feet and seven
inches. The entire height of the stalk is
eighteen feet.
Judge Ferguson, of Jacksonville. has de-
cided that the bondsmen of A. j. Howard,
eX-warden of the Prison South. are not re-
sponsible for his last term; When his last
renewed, under the superstition that the
first one was good. By this ruling the
| State will lose a large sun of money.
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NEW YORK, April 9.-Henry R0thschild
& Co., special partnersin the firm of Downs
IL Finch. the shirt manufacturers, at 43 and
45 Leonard street, who assigned last week,
to set aside the assignment on account of
fraud. 1t is claimed that Downs g. Finch.
OH the eve of the assignment, disposed of
about $16c,0 600 of the firms property. Upon
the application of the plaintiffs counsel.
Judge Beach. of the Supreme Court, has APP
pointed Miles OBrien receiver of the prop
erty. The receiver gave boad Of $4,000,
and is now in possession.
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Brief Mention.

Six children of George Rudolph, Davis
Junction. Ogle county, died of diphtheria,
last week. and were buried on Sunday.
Annie Kleb, aged sixteen, of Carlo, wanted
to marry a boy about her own age, and be-
cause her parents objected she took a dose
of poison. She may recover.
The Springfield Presbytery and Woman's
Foreign Mission Society are in session at
Decatur, with about one hundred ministers
and as many ladies in attendance.
Mrs. DR.. Grieseman, of Peoria, is in Jail,
as a result of causing Miss RichlenwOld's
death by criminalpractice. The girl charged
her with the offense on her death-bed.
The Pavilion summer theater, a wooden
structure on the Bloomington baseball
grounds, was burned by an incendiary on
Monday. Loss, $4,000. Later in the day an
attempt was made to burn the baseball
amphitheater, but the fire was discovered.
and put out.
Mrs. King. of Peoria, went to Decatur on
Monday, and swOre out a warrant against
her husband, Thomas King, charging him
with bigamy, committed in Decatur, March
12, when he married Miss Eliza Dodson.
King is a barber. Mrs. King No. / was i'll
at home at the time of her husbands second
marriage.
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Recognizing the Drummers.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, April 9.-TObias Herte, of
Bedford, one of the brightest and most pop
lar commercial travellers in the country,
was to-day appointed a special claim agent
under the Indian Bureau. at a salary of
$4,000 "a year and expenses. This appoint
ment is a recognition of the Commercial
Travellers Association of the United States,
of which Mr.. Hertz is an active member.
He will leave for his home at Bedford to-
morrow, and will proceed to Washington
Territory, which will be his field of labor,
as soon as he closes up his affairs at
Chicago.
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Manley ID. Wilson.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, April 9.-To-day's Post has
this among its gossip about prominent men:
"a tall, well-dressed gentleman, with a
youthful face, keen dark eyes, and a brown
mustache, a typical product of the wide
awake West in his general makeup, was
pointed out to loungers at the Ebbitt House.
last night, as the Republican who made
'ObjectOr' Holman hump himself in the last
campaign. Mr.. Manley d. Wilson was the
individual receiving this attention. He
halls from Madison, an old HOosier town
and is an attorney. He was the nominee of
his party for Congress in the Fourth dis
trict. which formerly was overwhelmingly
Democratic. Mr.. Wilson made a brilliant
canvass, and came within zoo votes of cleo
tiOn-u
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The .Jesuit Libel Suit.

TORONTO, April 9.-It is understood that
the Mail Printing Company. in the libel
suit brought against it by the J~esuits, has
retained NJ. Bernay. the celebrated Paris
advocate, to assist its Canadian counsel in
the preparation of the defense. The Jesuits
have retained four prominent members of
the Montreal bar. The Mail, among other
pleas, will raise the question of the invalid
ity of the Jesuit incorporation.
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A Secret of the Confessional.

WnKEsBARRE, Pa, April "a few
months ago burglars broke into the resi-
dence of John Reilly. a prominent man of
this city, chloroformed the family and
stole nearly $1,000. To-day Father O'Hearn,
pastor of ST. Mary's Roman Catholic Church,
handed Mr.. Reilly 500, which he said had
been given him this evening by a promi-
nent man. who had made q confession to
him and had told the story of the robbery.
The story is a secret of the confessional.
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Indiana Patents.
Special to the Indianapolis jour

Special to the indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON. April 9.-Patents were to.
day issued for Indiana inventors as fol-
lows:
Peter Anderson, a~ssignor to III. G.. Odds, of
Fort Wayne, corner iron for wagon boxes;
Benjamin +. Berger, South Bend. c~ultiva-
tor; Andrew j. Galloway, Chester Hill, corn
planter and drill combined; Clark Child
dister, Decatur, gate; Joseph Frenick, La
Porte, wheel; Thomas j. Hartman, New
Paris, drive apparatus for piles, ETC.; James
A. Little, Cartersburg, spade or shovel: Ed
ward j. Purdy, Michigan City, hunters
portable stool; George w. Pyle, Geneva, re-
tail case and support for stores; Abbott M.
Reeves, Indianapolis. metallic mat; George
w. Schock and w. H. Wansbrough, South
Bend, paint mixer; Frederick w. Tremain,
Fort WAYNE, washing machine.
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Murdered by His Wife.

PORT JEFFERSON. l.. l., April 9.-Lewis
Conkling, colored. aged forty-ive years.
was murdered early this morning by his
wife. who has a bad reputation. The hus-
band and wife were quarreling, when a son,
Joseph, aged twenty years. interfered. The
father was defending himself with a knife
and threw his son down, w%hereupon the
wife grabbed an AK and buried it deep in
her husbands hip. He died in less than an
hour, and before the doctors arrived. No
arrests have yet been made. Coroner Wood
end, of Huntington, will hold an inquest
this afternoon.
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the Treasury this afternoon accepted the
following bonds: Four-and-a-halfp per cent.
registered. s1,157,sOO. at S1.0S; four
and-a-half per cent. coupon. 5000
at S1.0S; four per cents. registered, S41,-
$50, at S1.29. Several of these offers were
received after the regular opening of offers.
1t was stated yesterday that all bond
offers were accepted. 1t should have been
all except the $4,000 tours at S1.29 lie.
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Movements of the President.

WASHINGTON, April 9.-Secretary Hal
ford said this evening that the President
had made no arrangements to leave Wash
ington before the Goth of this month, when
he will go to New York to attend the CEN
tennial celebration. The President has
declined a number of invitations to visit
various cities, including the invitation of
the Manufacturers Club, of Philadelphia,
to attend a reception to be given to Post
master-general Wanamaker tomorrow
yening.
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POstofice Candidate Selected.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
COLUMBUS. April "a representative Re-
publican citizens meeting was held here
last night, to select a candidate, whose
appointment to the position of postmaster
will be recommended. The aspirants who
entered the contest were Frank Coats,
Ward Salmond. Amos Hartman, Joseph
Griffis. Marshall Taylor, w. E.. Larue. al
Mclaughlin, JnO. NJ. Williamson and New
ton Spurgeon. A number of ballots were
taken, and resulted in Amos Hartman, a
prominent business man here, being Sc
1ected.
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A Fight Expected.

LOUISVILLE, KY, April9.-The expedition
against the murderers of Deputy Marshal
Russell Wierman has been resumed. Reve-
nue. Agent Brown. with forty men. is now
on his way to Knott county. where the
m~oonshiners are encamped about their dis
tilleries. tits understood he is acting under
orders just received from Washington. A
fight is expected.
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Illinois Men to Be Appointed.

Special to tho Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON. April ct is stated in
official circles that at the Cabinet meeting,
to-day, it was agreed that Captain w. M.
Meredith. of Chicago, should be appointed
Chief of the Bureau of Engraving and
Thomas. of Illinois, Second Comptroller of
the Currency.
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Appointments by the President.

WASHINGTON, April 9.-The President
made the following appointments this after
noon:
Frank Plumly, of Vermont, to be United
States attorney for the district of Vermont:
George A. Knight. of Texas, to be United
States marshal for the Northern district of
tory, to be agent of the Indians in the Ter
ritory: James Mcdowell. of Dakota, to be
register of the land offic at Huron, d. II.
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Democratic Aspirants to Office.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, April 9.-Late Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury Thompson, of
South Carolina, whose appointment as
Civil-service Commissioner was defeated
at the recent session of the Senate on &C
count of his fragrant political record, is an
ardent applicant for reappointment to that
position. Judge Durham, of Kentucky, at
present First Comptroller of the Treasury,
and Richard Randolph McMahon, of West
Virginia, are also aspirants.
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White House Visitors.

WASHINGTON, April 9.-The rush of visit
ors at the White House was resumed this
morning with increased vigor. The Presi-
dent gave a patient hearing to all who
came prior to 1880 o'clock. at which hour
the Cabinet assembled. Among those who
saw the President were Senators Sawyer,
Frye, Allison, Davis, Sherman, Stewart, His
cock, Vance, Beck, Stockbridge, and Nc
Millen, Mr.. Justice Harlan, ex-Representa-
tive Lacy, of Michigan; Representatives.
Cannon, Owen, Dunnell, Williams, Adams
and Houk; .ex-Representative Butler and
friends, Representative Morrill, and friends,
ex-Representative James and friends, Gen.
Plummer, of Florida; Judge Stephenson
Burke. of Cleveland. o., Mr.. James A. Rob-
erts, DR.. Piece and DR.. Sloan, of Buffalo.
Representative Weber also headed a large
delegation from Buffalo, who talked over
local appointments.
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Child Burned to Death.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
MoRRIsTowN, April 9.-Minnie, the four
year-old daughter of George Shekell, who
lives near Fountaintown, was burned to
death, yesterday, while playing with fire
and burning trash. Her clothes were
burned off. The mothers hands were Sc
verely burned in trying to put out the fire.
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greater price. 1t was also resolved to boy
colt twine-binding reapers so long as the
trust exists. The farmers declare they will
allow their hogs to eat the wheat in the
fields before submitting to the Irvine trust.
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Ballot Reform in New York.

ALBANY, n. Y, April 9.-The Saxton bal
lot-reform bill passed the Assembly this
afternoon by the following vote: Ayes, "a;
nays, A. The Republicans almost all voted
for the bill and the Democrats against it
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The General Land Office.

WASHINGTON, April Git is stated to-
night, on what is believed to be the best
authority, that at the Cabinet meeting to-
day the President announced that to-mor-
row he would appoint Ex-Governor Stone,
of Iowa, Commissioner of the General Land
OfficeL
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Commercial Traveller Robbed by FoOtpads.
Special to the indianapolis J ournal.
FORT WAYNE, April 9.-William Garry, a
travelling salesman from B~inghamton, N.
Y, was 'held up" in the business portion of
the city early this evening by two footpads.
They pointed revOlvers at his head, and
took from him a gold watch and chain, a
valuable diamond stud, gold cuff-bottOns,
and S46 in cash. Garry then ran away, and
was fired upon by the highway robbers, but
escaped.
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Soldiers
-I--ta- r-r

~ 1CoA
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, April 9.-The Secretary of
War has issued orders correcting the mill
tary records of Indiana soldiers as follows:
The discharge of Daniel n. Dressler as
first sergeant, Company II, Twelfth Indiana
Cavalry Volunteers, July "a, 1865, is
amended to take effect N 80, 1855; his
muster into service as second lieutenant,
same company and regiment, July ., 1855,
is amended to date July 1, 1865; his dis
charge as second lieutenant. Nov. Is, 1866.
is amended to take effect Aug. 81, 1866; he
is mustered into service as first lieutenant,
same company and regiment, to date Sept.
/. 1865; mustered out and honOrably dis
charged as first lieutenant Nov. Is. 1865.
The discharge of Hanson NJ. Beck as first
sergeant, Company III, Twelfth Indiana
Cavalry Volunteers, Nov. 10, 1865, Is
amended to take effect Aug. 81, 1865; he is
mustered into service as second lieutenant,
same company and regiment, to date Sept.
charged as second lieutenant Nov. 10, 1865.
The discharge of James Dundon as first
sergeant, Company G, Seventh Indiana
Cavalry Volunteers, Sept. 10, 1867, Is
amended to take effect April 80, 1865; his
muster into service as second lieutenant,
same company and regiment, June 10. 1867,
is amended to date May 1, 1865; he is
mustered out and honorably discharged as
second lieutenant Sept. 10, 1866.
All are mustered for pay in the advanced
grades during the periods embraced be-
tween the aforesaid dates.
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suicide of an Ex-Door-Keeper.

OwENsBoRo, KY, April 9.-Dennis Col
Inns. door-keeper of the last Indiana Leg
i~slature. committed suicide here by cutting
his throat with a razor, the result of drink.
He lived at CanneltOn, M
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Suicide of a Bank Book-Keeper.
acial To fha I~ndianan0Iis Iourna1

9lNSASA w WIZ
EVANSVILLE. April 9.-P. D. Schor. a
prominent citizen of this city, committed
suicide this morning, at 6 o'clock, by hang
ing himself in the basement of the First
National Bank, of which he washead book
keeper. Mr.. Schor has been suffering for
four years with a neuralgia affection. and
the malady became so unbearable before
daylight this morning that he arose and.
telling his wife he must take a walk. left
stopped at two saloons for a drink of
whisky. Not returning at breakfast, his
wife sent his son Ernst, a bank messenger,
to look for him. The young man came to
the bank, and, discovering his father,
FASTENED to the police station. When the
body was cut down it was still warm, but
life was extinct. Mr.. Schor was fOrty-tive
years of age, and had been with the bank
for twenty-nine years. He was a Knight
of Pythias and an Odd-fellow. and stood
high in both orders. He leaves a wife and
four children in comfortable circumstances.
No cause other han his malady can be as
signed for the deed.
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ANDERSON, April GA large meeting of
farmers was held here yesterday. and
pledges were made to pay nc more han Is
cents per pound for trust binding-twine.
and not in any manner to patronixe any