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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-21

NEW YORK, March 2O-The parlors of the
Fifth-avenue Hotel were crowded to-day
with cattle men from all parts of the
country. 1t was the fourth annual meet
ing of the Holstein-Friesian Association,
and the delegation in attendance was a
large one. Among them were: n. III.
Albaugh, of Tadmore, O.: J. Den Bleiker,
Charles, I'LL; o. z. Chapman and c. w.
HOrr, Wellington, o.; Edgar Huidekoper,
Meadville. Pa; VIM. M. Light, Benson,
Minn.; l.. III. Payne, Garrettsville, O.; VIM.
Singerly, Philadelphia; Martin L. Sweet.
Grand Rapids. Mich. and Thomas B.
Wales, Iowa City, la. After voting on
several amendments to the bylaws, M.
Bnrrill introduced ex-senator Warner
cattle question. His remarks were loudly
applauded. After his speech papers were
read by the following gentlemen: Prof.
Samuel Johnson, of the Michigan Agricult-
ural College; DR.. Peter Collier, director of
the New York Agricultural Experiment
Station; Prof. G. Z. Morrow, dean of the
College of Agriculture of the University
of Illinois; Benz. c. Sears, superintendent of
the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station.
The election of officers resulted as follows:
President, Edgar Huidekoper; first vice.
president, G. ID. Wheeler; second vice-presi-
dent, Jere Allis: third vice-president, John
A. Frye: fourth vice-president, ID. II. Bur-
rill. Directors for two years: &. n. H0rr.
G. K. Payne, NJ. l.. Sweet: treasurer, W..
Brown Smith; secretary and editor, Thomas
registry, F. Hoxie. 1t was decided to hold
the next annual meeting in New York, on
the third Wednesday of March. 1890. Four
teen new members were elected.
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WILKEsBARRE, Pa, March 20.-The ex-
tensiye car and paint-shOps of the Central
railroad of New jersey, at Ashley, about
two miles from here, were destroyed by fire
at l o'clock this morning. The buildings
were of brick, and were erected in 1867
They were immense structures, built in the
form of a section of q round-house. About
200 men were employed in these buildings.
The fire spread with such fearful rapidity
that absolutely nothing was saved; all Of
will be a loss in this respect of $4,000, or
more, many of the men each valuing their
tools at from 500 to $500 kit. The build
ings belong to the Lehigh Coal and Naviga-
tiOn Company, and were leased by the
estimated that the loss on buildings will
reach fully $4,000. The property within
the walls of the buildings, besides the prop
erty of the employees already mentioned,
were several baggage and smoking cars,
gOndOlas and coal cars. All of these were
consumed. The loss on rolling stock alone
Will foot up to nearly $50, ZOO, and the loss
on paints and materials will reach from
$4,000 to $4,000. The buildings and stock
surance protection. The origin of the fire
until after 5 o'clock this morning.
TORONTO, Ont, March 20-The chair
factory of Herr Bros was burned to-day.
Loss, $S0,O00 insurance, $4,000.
CATLIN. H., March 2O.-John Balte's
store burned last night. Loss, $500; in
surance $500
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THE COPPER FAILURE.
The Soiciete des Metaux in Danger Of Bein
Forced Into Baukruptcy

The Soiciete des Metaux in Danger Of Being
Forced Into Bankruptcy.
PARIS, March 20.-Le Paris saws: "a
group of holders of SOiciete des Metaux
shares has applied to the civil tribunal to
dissolve the company, in order. if possible,
to prevent the concern going into bank
ruptcy. 1t is believed that judicial liquid
ator will be appointed Immediately"
The statutes of the new Compton Ma
tional d'Escompte fix the capital of the
concern at 100000 francs. The capital
may be increased, however, and it will
probably soon be doubled. The Temps
says that NJ. De Normadie will accept the
presidency of the new Compton National
dEscOmpte if the post is offered to him.
In the Chamber of Deputies to-day, NJ.
CbevillOte gave notice of an Interpolation
regarding the Compton d'Escomte.
especially with reference to the assistance
given to the company by the Bank of
France.
LONDON. March 21.-The Chronicle, in it's
financial article to-day, says that Morrison &
Kekewich's creditors have accepted a COM
position of rs Cd on the pound in connection
with the affairs of the Societe des Metaux.
There are numerous uncOnhrmed rumors
regarding copper affairs. One is that NJ
JOubert, manager OF the Banque de Paris et
Pays bas. who is connected with the SOciete
des Metaux, has resigned. Another rumor
is that new combination has been formed
to take 10000 tons of copper from the syn
dicate at f45.
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A FARM HANDS CRIME.


NEWARK, n. j., March 20.-After Ferdi-
nand Mutter, milkman living on the road
between Lyons Farms and Irvington, had
left home, this morning. to serve his Gus
toners, Joseph Salzman, his hired man,
enticed the three children of the family
into the barn, tied them hands and feet,
and buried them in the hay; went to the
house, attempted to assault Mrs. Mutter,
and, on being desperately resisted, struck
her on the head with hammer, rendering
her unconscious. Salzman then ransacked
every trunk, box and drawer in the
house, in search of money, but overlooked
a pocket-book containing $15O. and
i''SS he was thus engaged, Mrs Mrs. Mutter utter
regained consciousness, but, fearing another
attack, she lay still, feigning death. Salz-
man. before leaving the house, bent over
her and felt her face, and was apparently
satisfied that she was dead. He then went
out. Mrs. Mutter, thinking he had gone
away, staggered to the door, intending to
give an alarm. Salzman had not left the
premises, and. on seeing him, Mrs: Mutter
started to run, but was overtaken and
dragged into the barn by Salzman, who
there struck her twice on the head with the
hammer, and, while she lay senseless on the
floor, beat her with club until it seemed
certain that she was dead. He then fled,
aLO Adc nOt GU bCCl lOuuu. COOu dlttI ITO
left one of the children managed to crawl
out from under the hay, and, seeing
his mother lying covered with blood,
ran out and cried for help. A neighhor re-
sponded. and Mrs. Mutter was carried into
the house and cared for and the children
released. The woman's skull is fractured
in three places, and she is not expected to
live until morning. She is forty years old,
and was married to Mutter in Switzerland.
Her youngest child is five months old.
Mutter became crazed when he returned
home and found his wife dying. He
started to this city, but instead of inform
ing the police at headquarters, where he
was advised to 60, he wandered about
this delay gave Salzman good start. De-
tectives are now searching in all direc-
tions for the murderer, who is Swiss
twenty-four years old, five feet six inches
complexion. He came to this country on
the steamer Britannia last November
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DESPERATE TO BE HANGED.
The Bloody Career of Matt Zimmerman, Now
Under Sentence of Death at Cheyenne.

CHICAGO, March 20.-A special dispatch
to the Journal from Cheyenne, Wy. T.,
says: 'Matt Zimmerman. the cowboy des-
Monday, has been delivered to the Nebraska
authorities. and is now awaiting identified
ton and the execution of the death SEN
tence. Zimmerman is young man, but
his record is a startling one. Seven years
ago, when he was but nineteen, he raided
the ranches in Hitchcock county, Nebraska.
in company with Courtney Belmont,
young Mexican, and stole a big band of
ponies. With these they rode off toward
the East, and were soon followed by Sheriff
Woods and a motley posse of cowboys.
Near the hamlet of Minden, in Kearney
county, the stolen ponies were found at
were busy securing them, Woods and one
deputy rode into town to look for the
thieves. They found them at sup
per in the Prairie Home hotel. Woods,
without much thought of resistance,
in hand, and sung out for the desperadoes
to surrender. Quick as flash Belmont,
who had his pistol lying on his lap. made q
snap shot and Woods fell dead. Zim-
norman, with an equally quick shot,
for the door. As they were leaving the
room they fired another vOlley as if to in
timidate any one from following them, and
X. b. Kelly, guest, who was trying to get
his wife slowed away out of danger, was
killed. On the porch they met John X.
Collins, mail carrier, who had Just driven
up, and deliberately shooting him down,
they rode off toward the Kansas line. There
was general turnout in pursuit, and even
the State militia was ordered to join in the
hunt. A week later Belmont was killed by
a farmer named Foutz. at whose house the
thieves had stopped. Zimmerman, who
partners death, was easily captured. He
was taken back to Minden, tried and
sentenced to death, but the Supreme Court
reversed the verdict, on the ground that as
Sheriff Woods had no warrant, Zimmerman
and Belmont were justified in resisting ar
rest. A second trial was had, and again
conviction followed and the death sentence
was imposed. Again the Supreme Court
reversed the findings. Back Zimmerman
went before the same judge, Gaslin, and for
the third time he was found guilty and SEN
fenced to be hanged. The usual appeal to
the Supreme Court was taken, and while it
was pending the prisoners lawyer hit
upon a novel method of securing his
ing United States commissioner that he
had the right, pending the hearing, to ad
NIT Zimmerman to bail. He fixed the bonds
at $4,000. Straw bail was furnished, and
Zimmerman levanted. This was four years
ago. and nothing was heard of Zimmerman
until his recapture in Utah last Monday
Meantime his case has been decided against
him by the Supreme Court, and the chances
of his being hanged are very strong"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-21
THE OKLAHOMA BOOMERS.
Intense Excitement in the NeighborhoOd ofOk.
lahoma City-SeriOus Trouble Feared.

TOPEKA, Kan, March 20.-There are at
Fort Reno some 600 regulars. and in that
neighborhood are 2,0OO or 5000 boomers.
Military operations at this end of the line
are conducted by Capt. Woodson, of the
Fifth Cavalry. Lieut.. Macomb has COM
mand further south, where there are many
more boomers, near Purcell, a city of 1900
population. The settlers have been going
into the forbidden lands and blazing the
claims they intended to pre-empt when the
Territory is opened, which private
advices here say will be by
at 2 thirty1sday proclamation to be
denf Even tSs invasion tse regaTssd
as unlawful. and the invaders were in
structed to desist. Day by day they have
been going out and marking the best home
steads along the streams on the uplands
troops, they fled to the timber and, as they
could outrun the soldiers, it was simply q
picnic for the boomers to dodge back and
forth. The most intense excitement pre-
walls about Oklahoma City and among the
denounce the clubbing in the Crutch coun-
try Yesterday as an outrage, and say they
will notify the United States authorities
that if they do not furnish the protection
demanded; the boomers VIII take 1t into
geance on the soldiers. The for
mer are generally well provided
with Winchesters and arms of the
latest approved patterns. with plenty of
ammunition. There are many reckless and
desperate men among them. The authori-
ties here fear that there will be bloodshed
before the row is over. In view of the un-
expected and threatening turn of affairs re-
ported. it is matter of discussion among
officials and old residents what will be done
III case the Opeuipp of the strip ia follow ed
by reign of terror. and whether, the proc
Iamation once issued, the President or
Congress would have power to withdraw it
IN order To stem the tide of settlers and pre-
critical aspect of Oklahoma affairs more
threatening.
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NEW YORK, March 2O.-Ex-Mayor Abram
s. Hewitt and Edward Cooper are the pro-
prietors of the New Jersey steel and iron
works. at Trenton, n. j.. with Offices in this
city. Messrs. Hewitt and Cooper and Super
intendent Joseph Stokes, of the iron-works
have been for some weeks in the South.
They have made comprehensive tour of
Alabama. Georgia and Tennessee. and now
Superintendent Stokes is quoted in Tren-
ton dispatch as saying that on April /, the
works will be removed to Chattanooga,
Tenn. He says that the raw iron and coal
supplies come from that region, and the
company finds much of its market there
also. If the works were there the company
would make q saving of S76,00O in the IS, 900
tons of iron used in year. The works
employ 300 men, paying them 81, ,O00, 900 in
wages. The works were established in
Trenton in 1648. At the Office Of Cooper,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-21
YESTERDAYS NOMINATIONS.

Fred ID. Grant for Minister to Austria and
John c. New for Consul-General to London.
WASHINGTON, March 20.-The President
sent the following nominations to the Sem
ate to-day:
Fred ID. Grant, of New York, to be Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotenti-
ary of the United States to Austria-Hun-
gary.
general of the United States at London.
Paul Fricke, of Texas. to be United States
marshal for the Western district of Texas
Seligman Bros, of London, England. to
be special fiscal agents of the Navy Depart
Passed Assistant Engineer David Jones,
to be chief engineer; Passed Assistant En-
gineer James III. Chasman to be chief en-
gineer; Assistant Engineer Reynold l.. Hall,
to be passed assistant engineer; Assistant
Engineer Ira y. Hollis, to be passed assist
ant engineer; Lieut.. Frank 4. Fletcher,
Junior grade. to be lieutenant; Lieut..
Alexander Sharp, junior grade, to be @
Lieutenant; Lieut. Harry III. Hosley, junior
grade. to be a lieutenant; Ensign u. j.
Werlich, to be a lieutenant, junior grade;
Ensign Simon Cook, to be lieutenant.
Junior grade; Ensign John K. Fillmore. to
be lieutenant, Junior grade.
Edward Rhodes Stitt, of South Carolina,
to be assistant surgeon in the navy.
The nominations made to-day were re-
ferred, in a brief executive session, to the
appropriate committees.
Frederick ID. Grant, who was to-day
nominated to be minister to Austria
Hungary, is the eldest son of General
Grant. He is thirty-nine years of age. He
accompanied his father during the war. and
was in FIVE battles before he was thirteen
years old. He entered the Military
Academy in 1867, and was at one time
staff. He was lieutenant os the Fourth
Cavalry. when he resigned from the army
in 1876. having seen much active service in
Indian campaigns. While in the service he
married Miss Ida Honore. daughter of an
old citizen of Chicago. and has two chill
companied his father on part of his tour
around the world, and assisted in the
preparation of his Personal Memoirs"
Since General Grants death, Colonel Grant
has resided with his mother and cared for
her estate.
John Chalfant New, of Indiana, who was
nominated to be consul general to London,
is fifty-eight years of age. He is native
lege Virginia. He served during the war
as sQuartermaster-general for the State OF
Indiana, and before that time had been
clerk of Marion county. His financial rec
ord includes service as financial secretary
to Governor Morton, of Indiana. cashier
am president of the First National Bank,
of Indianapolis, United States Treasurer,
and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
Since his resignation of the iast-named Of
flee, III 1884. he has been actively engaged
in politics. being at present a member of
the Republican national committee. and
ex-chairman of the Republican State CON-
mittee of Indiana. In 1880 he became pro-
prietor of the indianapolis Daily journal.
Colonel News family consists of his wife,
a son and two young daughters.
Paul Fricke. nominated to-day to tho
! marshalship for the Western district g
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-21
THE SOUTHERN IRON INDUSTRY.
Andrew Carnegie Finds that Alabama Is Be-
coming Pennsylvania's Greatest Competitor.

BALTIMORE, March 20.-The Manufact-
urers' Record, of this week. will publish
letter from Andrew Carnegie. giving his
views upon the iron interests of the South
based upon his recent investigating tour.
Mr.. Carnegie states that the first feature
which impressed him was the general ex-
cellence of the plants in the South. The
modern blast-furnace is the prod uct of evo-
luton. The pioneers in the business have
had to build and rebuild these. Our South
ern brethren have reaped the advantage,
and have become possessed all at once or
the modern type. This remark applies also
to the machinery in the mines, and mode OF
opening handling facilities, etc. ALI is of
the latest pattern. The character
of the coal, iron-ore and lime
stone, and the ease and cost of
mining are all better, he says, than
he had expected to find. Upon the much
disputed question of the cost of pig-iron
production in Alabama, Mr.. Carnegie says
that $40 ton for foundry iron. which is
the highest grade, is q liberal estimate
With good management, and for series of
years, some of the best located and best
managed furnices may be able to do even
better than this figure. The ability to
manufacture at this price must give the
Southern manufacturers large market for
their pig. When the next stage comes, and
they seek to manufacture the pig into more
advanced forms, believe it will be done
by converting pig into steel by means of
Bessemer and open-hearth basic processes,
and / advised our Southern friends,
when there. to make some expert
ments looking to this desirable desirable
speculation has entered. more or less,
into this Southern field. Some ill-advised
enterprises have been undertaken, and con-
siderable reaction may take place. But
this is only the froth upon a wave of solid
wealth, and legitimate manufacturing;
other districts, will meet its due reward.
In concluding this letter Mr.. Carnegie says
that he regards the South as sPennsylvania's 8
most formidable industrial enemy in the
future.
In referring to the industrial activity
throughout the South and the investments
that Northern capitalists are now making
in that section the Manufacturers' Record
says: Never was the union of Northern
and an E Southern resources j, in the deyeiopment
the fact that New England men are
Ala, where 1900 people are now
living, having as nucelus the Shelby
furnaces railroad shops, etc. 1t was from
Shelby ore that Shelby's furnaces made
iron for the plates that covered the Con-
federate gunbOat. Tennessee. whose
armored sides withstood the incessant
cannonading of Farragut's feet at Mobile
bay during the memorable naval engage
ment of Aug. 5, 1854, as few iron gunbOats
have ever done. 1t is in this same town
New England capital, backed by New Eng
land brains, is to build great industrial
clty-North and South no longer fighting
against each other, but uniting to develop
the wonderful resources of this country"
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The Famine in China.

WASHINGTON, March 20.-The United
States consul-general at Shanghai has in
formed the State Department at the re-
quest of the Shanghai committee of the
North China relief fund, of the distress
existing over a large area of China. Thou
sands are starving and dying from expos
ure in northern China. Relief has already
been received from America and England.
More is needed. Until the spring crops are
sure the spring planting. money is required
from abroad, as in the famine districts
there is neither seed nor money to purchase
1T. 1t is stated that relief, to be really eff
fective, must continue until next June,
the season of want.
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A Call for Aid Against Desperadoes.

PITTsBURG, March 2O-Word was re-
ceived her tonight that six desperate men,
among whom are known to be Lewis, Rem
sey, Sullivan and Tasker of the party
which committed the outrageous tortures
of citizens at McClellandtown, last week,
are located near Markleysville, a mountain
settlement in the southern border of Fay
cite county. They are armed to the teeth
and constantly on guard against surprise.
Markleysville people cannot raise posse
strong enough to make an attack on the
men, and they have asked for assistance
from Uniontown, the county-seat. They
also ask the County Commissioners to in
crease the reward for their capture to 81 600.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-21
FOREIGN Notes.

King Alexander has written to his mother,
ex-Queen Natalie, to remain absent from
Servia, as her presence in the country
would render his position difficult one.
At the banquet at Rome. on Tuesday,
Cardinal ParOcchi, the Pope's vicar, said
that if in the future it should become nee
essary for the Pope to leave Europe, he
would find sure refuge among the Amer
lean bishops. who would receive him with
honorable hospitality.
The Paris Figaro says the public prosecut-
or intends to apply for the annullment of
the marriage of Prince Alexander of Bat
tenberg and Marie Leisinger, the opera
singer on the ground that the Prince in
duced the Mayor of MentOne to perform the
ceremony by fraudulent declarations.
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show that England has been throughout in
cordial accord with America, and that she
declined to accede to Germany's request for
assistance and cooperation in the restoring
of order in Samoa until she had learned the
American governments views on the sub
ject. On Jan. 90 last. Lord Salisbury COM
planned TO Count Won Hatzfeldt, German
ambassador at London. concerning Prince
Blsmarck's statement in the Reichstag that
in Samoa Germany and England were lad
vancing hand in hand" The British Prime
Minister said that the views of the two
countries were Identical so far as the future
government of Samoa was concerned, but
not otherwise
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-21

Edward King Is Honorably Discharged, and
Will Return to America

PARIS, March 3O.-Every American news
paper man will be glad to learn that Ed
ward King, for twelve or fifteen years q
prominent member of the American colony,
has succeeded IN settling all his obligations
and has been honorably discharged by the
courts, before which he was brought on
charges growing out of the financial
troubles in corporation with which he
was connected. Mr.. King had incurred
obligations with friends, which he had
fully expected to be able to meet. but the
collapse of his enterprises greatly embar-
rassed him. He was in the south of France
for his health at the time of the crash. He
came to Paris, surrendered TO his creditors
and evinced every desire to make an hon
Orable settlement. This has now been
effected. and all charges against Mr.. King
have been withdrawn. He is at sea, on his
way to New York. He was for many years
the Paris correspondent of the Boston
Journal and the New York Evening Post.
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Murdered by a saloon-Keeper.

HARTFoRD, Conn.,, March 2O-At New
Britain, this evening, Frederick Ruff, aged
John O'Brien who came into the saloon for
liquor. During the quarrel Ruff drew re-
volver and shot OBrien through the right
lung. OBrien died within twenty minutes
after the shooting. He was but twenty
- under arrest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-21
CIrcular To Goal Miners.

and W. T. Lewis, president and secretary of
the Miners National Union. have issued a
circular TO the miners, deploring the failure
to agree at the recent meeting of miners
and operators. and intimating that the dis
solution of the interstate agreement will
result in only temporary benefit to any one;
that there are some who yet have to learn
from experience that which others have re-
allied
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-21
Tithes Riots in Wales.

LONDON, March 20.-Riots have occurred
in Wales over the collection of tithes.
While law officers were serving notices of
distraint at Cardigan and Penrhyn to-day
on those who refused to pay tithes mObs
attacked the police protecting the officers,
jured. The military will probably be called
out to quiet the district.