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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11

How Miss Ella White Swindled Confdine
People Out Of More than &25, 900.
Elmira pal Special 10 Philadelnhia Innuirar

How Miss Ella White Swindled Confiding
People Out of More than &25, O
Elmira PA Special to Philadelphia Inquirer.
The woman who carries the palm from
all her sex for a~rtfulness and successful
~humbuggery halls from Elmira. But her
sins AVE at last found her out and the
aristOcratic swindler Is now in iaiI. Her
victims numbe more than q score and are
chiefly women. The. amount she has
mulcted from them will exceed Sos. OO0. This
great sum has been blown in at a local
bucket shop: The remOrseless tiger has
scOoped it all up. Miss Ella White came
here from Susquehanna. and represented
herself to be the daughter of a wealthy
man. Her prepossesslng and youthful face,
with beautiful diamonds sparkling in her
ears, her captivating name and her ele-
CANT wardrobe, did not belle her words. and
for her own diversion, being an accom-
plished pianist. she took pupils in music.
best families of the city.
The proprietor of the Commission "Stock
Exchange" A. T.. Wheeler, lives at Rack
mans clearinghouse. where Miss White
resided. He first induced her to buck the
tiger" and it was through him that her
speculatiOns were conducted. Every morn
ing Mr.. Wheeler departed with @instruc-
ions from the beautiful gambler as to how
he should play the market for her that day.
The lady was not successful. and having
lost everything she had by putting up mar.
gins, she began to work an immense conf
dence game upon her friends. After mort
gaging her seal skins and diamonds, she
placed an incumbrance upon the upright
piano in her boudoir for 500. A yonng
saleslady's suspicious Were aroused. and
the mortgageor directed the sheriff to seize
it. The officer invaded Miss Whites rooms
while she was giving an afternoon card
party, and cansed CONSERVATION by Juggling
off the instrument. 1t quickly developed
that the piano was not Miss Whites, but
the property of a local dealer. from whom
she rented it at s. a month. This discovery
astonished all who knew the yonng
musician, and led to others of a far more
damning and sensational character.
m~ortgaged to her lady friends miniux
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11

in the garden of a lunatic asylum. and by
lnyenting little tales for the benefit OF the
old ladies in the neighboring p~oor-house.
A NOVEL branch of learning has been in
PRODUCED into the higher grades OF the pub
lie schools of New Haven. 1t consists OF q
bulletin board, upon which are pasted each
day clippings of important home and for,
elgn news taken from newspapers. SpeclaI
attention is given to matters brought up IN
connection with the study OF history or
geography, The pupils lake q great inter
est IN the bulletin" and We with one an.
other IN bringing the greatest number OF
Items which are suitable to be pasted.
ABOUT six months g Colonel Cruger.
chairman of the centennial army commit
tee, quietly engaged Twenty-Five first-class
bands for April 30 in New York. He told
each that there was to be a parade on that
day, and as he was a military man no sus-
plclOns were aroused. and he got them at
the usual figure. When too late the band
masters woke up to the fact that they were
engaged for the centennial military parade;
usual rate. Those who have engaged bands
for the civic parade ave had to pay high
for them.
THE Duchess of Cambridge, who died last
Saturday at the age of ninety-two, was a
daughter of that Landgrave of Hesse-Cas-
sci who sold mercenary troops to the Brit
ish in our revolutionary war. She mar
ried the Duke of Cambridge three years
after the battle of Waterloo, and had been
a widow nearly forty years, having been
generation which called George III father.
She was the one of the whole lot whom peo-
pie were best pleased to have survive, for
she was a lovely, wise. sweet old lady, not
ably we'll preserved and alert In mind to
the end.
COOK of renown in n. Y.
Insists you shall never ST. D.;
But you roast 1t or cure 1t
If you would endure it
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11

Mr.. GLADSTONE believes in taking up
one reform at a time. The great major
ity of the Irish people want home rule,
and he is doing all he can to help them
get it. Some Scotchmen want home
rule, but the people of that country do
not unanimously demand it, and until
they do Mr.. Gladstone is not in favor of
giving it to them. Does he mean to COM
pliment the national trait of persistence
and the peculiar ability of the canny
Scot to gain his ends when he says that
when Scotland unanimously calls for
home rule she can have it?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11

THE ministers of st. Lawrence, a
South Dakotatown, in the burnt district,
have issued an appeal to the churches,
benevolent societies. boards of trade,
and people in general of the United
States, asking aid for the suffering resi-
dents of that region. Two million dol
lars, they declare, will not more than re-
place the property destroyed by fire,
and it is impossible for their feTlow-cit-
liens to supply all the wants of the FAM
lilies now without shelter, food or cloth
ing, save the little they wore when flee
ing from the flames. They need money
to buy lumber, seed wheat, and, i'm
many cases, horses to replace those con-
sumed in the fires, but they also call for
clothing, household furnishings, and
last, but not least, food for the people.
The appeal is n that should be re-
sRonded to promptly, and it is to be
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11

THE contest in the Fourth congress
sional district of Alabama, between
Turpin, Democrat, and McDuffie, Re-
publican, is based on a small difference
of $4,000 votes. Turpin was declared
elected by $4,000 majority, and holds the
certificate, while McDuffie claims that
an honest count would have given him
the district by $4,000, and has the evil
dence to prove it. 1t is a popularity of
congressional elections in the South that
the footing is generally found on the
wrong side of the ledger. Democracy
grows very rank in that climate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11

BY order of President Harrison the
new military post neal Denver, Col, is
named Fort Logan. This honor to the
memory of the greatest of our volunteer
generals comes very gracefully from a
soldier President and will be highly ap-
preciated by the veterans. Citizens of
Denver wanted the post named for their
own city, and the name of Mcclellan was
also urged by some. Fort Logan sounds
better than either, and is more apprO-
nrinfo
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11

DEBATE on a pending bill in the Mis-
souri, Legislature brought out the fact
hat of seventeen justices in the city of
st. Louis five make $4,000 a year, and
the remaining twelve from $1,000 to
$4,000 each. DOgberry justice comes
high in that city. The bill proposes to
make the salaries of justices $4,000 a
year. Even that is a high price consid-
ering the quality of the article dispensed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11

UNIVERSAL sympathy will be felt for
Gen. James Longstreet in the loss by fire of
his fine residence neal Atlanta, with all it's
contents. The loss occurred on Tuesday,
and the General watched his burning res
idence from the roof of a hotel in Atlanta,
where he was stopping. without being able
to do anything. He lost his books, manu-
scripts and even the old confederate uni
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11

Hon. CORNELIUS VAN Corr, the new
postmaster of New York, is also a menu
Der of the Legislature, and delayed his
acceptance of the postofice in order that
he might wait and vote for the high
license and ballot-reform bills. He
ought to make a good postmaster.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11

THE official order to Gen. BOulanger
is that he can be allowed to remain in
Belgium only on condition that he will
abstain from political agitation. This
seems to offer the alternative of Danish
ment or death, for it is not to be sup
posed that the e~ffervescent Frenchman
can exist i'm a state of political calm.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11

IT is gratifying to note the earnest man.
ner with which other local papers are urg-
ing street sprinkllng, the use of a covered
patrol-wagon, the employment of a police
matron and other needed reforms advo-
Gated by the Journal for the last two years.
1t is by such unanimity of action on the
part OF the press that important improve
ments are secured.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11
wanamaker's First Postonice Enterprise.

AlALC
Boston Advertiser Table Talk.
as JOIN Wanamaker is at the
mead OF the great pOstofiice machine of the
country, the story of the first postoffice en-
terprlseln which he engaged has peculiar
interest,". IL was rather a personal enter
prise, and there were only two subscribers.
these were Mr.. Wanamaker himself and a
pretty girl named Mary Brown. The post
master-genera was only a poor clerk at
the time. Mary Browns parents did not
know what there was in store for him., and
own distinctly on the attentions of the
clerk to their daughter. But that did
not break up the attachment at
first, for the two young peo-
pie continued their correspondence
quietly. The arrangement by which it was
done was unquestiOnably Mr.. Wannamak-
ers first pOstofiee enterprise. 1t was ex-
tremely simple. but worked to a charm, a
cord dangling from the young lady's win
dow very early in the morning, as the ener-
getlc young clerk passed on his way to
work, taking up his missive and bringing
down a reply, when it was gently pulled
from below. 1t served eXcellently to carry
many an interesting note, until the young
lady yielded to the urgent desires of her
parents and gave up the match. The par
tlculars of the incident can be vouched for
In every way, and, in fact, came to the
Breakfast Table through one of the leading
clergymen in the city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11

INDIANA's example in erecting a SOL
diers' monument is exciting the emula-
ton of other States. Iowa has ordered
one to cost not exceeding 800, 900, and a
commission is now receiving designs. 1t
is only a question of time when every
Northern State will do likewise, but we
doubt if any will exceed Indiana in the
liberality of its provision or inthOrough-
pess of preliminary preparation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11

Judge Murray, of New York. discharged
fourteen knights of Labor from his coke
yards, and refused to reinstate them on an
order from the local assembly. For this
gle the Judge. An interesting investigation
follows, with crOss-examination of Mr..
Patrick Doody as to the meaning of the
word razzle-dazzle as it reappears i'm the
minutes in his handwriting. R~azzle-dazzle
proved: on examination. to mean simply
boycott.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11
An Example of Modern Craze.

For a good example of the modern craze.
see the Oklahoma excitement. Half the
people who are gathering on the border
ready to rush into the new territory do not
really know what they are there for. They
go because others do, and it is safe to as
sert that in less than six months the num-
Der of settlers remaining on Oklahoma lands
will be less than the number of those who
AVE left in diSgnst.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11

A NEW preacher in New York is described
as tall and dark. with aquiline features.
fearless in debate of public Questions and a
lover of baseball" Now if he will take
his texts from the modern poets and preach
about everyday topics and current events
there is no reason why he should not be
very popular.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11
He Is q New York Lawyer.
Chicqp on Tr1huna

Sundry ill-natured papers are comment
ing unfavorably on Mr.. Cleveland's action
in accepting an Office of minor Importance
connected with the management of the
New York parks at a salary variously esti-
mated at from 81 to $40 per day. They do
not stop to reflect that Mr.. Cleveland is now
a New York lawyer, and that New York
lawyers take everything resembling a fee
that comes in their way.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11

THE Atlanta Constitutions subscrip-
ton movement for a Georgia COnfeder-
ate Soldiers Home is making good prog
ress, having reached in less than a week
$16, 1874. The Constitution started out to
raise $4,000, and is confident of sue
ceeding. The prompt and liberal sub
scriptions are creditable to the people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11

Mr.. Van Colts appointment is a political
act, but it is not quite so political an act as
President Cleveland's reappointment of
Mr.. Pearson was. We utterly reject the
idea that President Harrison has turned
his back on reform" because he has not re-
appointed a man whom law has brought to
the end of his term.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11

The decision of an Iowa court hat cider
is one of the liquors whose manufacture
and sale is affected by the prohibitory law
will not result in a decrease of the supply
of pure cider vinegar" as retailed by the
grocers. The stock of sulphuric acid Inc
water is unlimited.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11

JUDGE HILTON really ought to have been
satisfied with the lions share of A. 7.
Stewards estate without charging up to
the widow the, mourning garments worn by
his family to the funeral. Some people
never know when to be satisfied.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11
At His Old Tricks.

Phlladelphla Inqulrtf-
Secretary Blaine, we observe. is up to all
his old tricks. According to some of the
organs he is running his admin
istration to suit himself; according to others
he is not running it at all. The man who
can do this and wear a smile on his face all
the while must be dangerous.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11
Democratic Moral Depravity.


1t is characteristic of the Democratic
press to indulge in satIrical wit based upon
the fact that President Harrison and family
have PRAYERS in the White House every
morning. No doubt such religious services
are novel in the eyes of Democrats, but TO
ridicule them only indicates moral de-
prayity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11
A Man To Be Be Distrusted.

cleveland Leader.
In an interview on politics q Missouri
lady said she liked all of President Harri-
sons Cabinet except Secretary Proctor, and
of him she remarked that q man with whis-
with distrust. What brilliant. sclntillat-
ing ideas the dear ladies do nave on such
subjects, to be sure. For new light on
vexed political matters commend us to the
ladies'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11
WHY They wantonIy Insult Him.

Minneapolis Tribune.
The reason photographers continue to in
sult baby Mckee is because they realize
that by the time he is grown into vigorous
manhood. they will be lost TO sight, tho TO
memory dear.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11
The First They Would Know of 1t.

President Harrison and Secretary of State
Blaine are represented in some Washington
cordial relations with each other. Such
talk may be dismissed as idle. Should any
serious disagreement occur. the first intelli-
gence the public would get of it would be
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11

Five years ago the Democrats were howl
ing. turn the rascals out" After all these
wears the desire of their hearts is being
gratifed as rapidly as a strict adherence TO
the laws Will permit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11

To the Editor Of the Indianapolis Journal:
Was there a law passed by the last Legislature
In reference to killing squirrels! If so, was there
any emergency clausel JILL.
There was an act passed prohibiting the
killing of squirrels from the Goth of Decem-
Der to the LIST of June. Nc emergency.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11
The Flaw ia Human Nature.
snriueaeld tIn.) News.

That there is a wild and untamable lust
forever lurking in the breast of man 10
published to the world is as certain as the
calculations of an eclipse.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11
Where the Credit Belongs.

Omaha Republican.
Senator Teller is getting a great deal of
deserved credit for his fight against Senate
executive sessions; but wasn't il poor Rid
dleberger who began the movement four
wears agof
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11
A Coincidence.
Boston Herald.

UtV !"
Kaiser William is going TO send a lot of
German editors out of his kingdom Asim-
liar movement has been started IN this
country since the new administration came
H.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11
Doubts the Existence of a Fool-KiiIer.
No sbiu ofou POST

Far be 1T from our desire to turn icono-
clast and go to tearing down the idols aud
ideals the centuries hive builded up. But.
inst the same, after ading the reports OF
how the multitudes aI.' = aving good homes
and gathering at Oh a, we wonder if
there really is such Jfficer as the fool
killer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11

To the Editor Of the indianapolis Journal:
Has the township assessor the right TO list for
taxation a fire insurance pOlicyl
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11

form which he wore at the surrender, and
his sword. sash and spurs. and had not a
dollar of insurance on anything.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Telephone Calls.
Business Ofhce-------Z3s Editorial Rooms-----.--24
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11

A COOK of renown in n. Y.
Insists you shall never st. p;
ButyOu roast it or cure 1t
If you would endure it
AS for fried-yOu had better Oh. c.
TIL Globe.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-05-29
A MOTHERS PRIDE.

How She Tried to Conceal the Condition
. of Her Drunken Son.
II am reminded of an incident which
witnessed few days ago on an outgoing
traIn,n says writer in the Indianapolis
News. "a Blaiply-dressed old woman and
q tall, awkward young man, evidently her
son, had been in the city, AID were going
home. There was an uncertainty ia the
boys step as he came into the car which in
dicated that he was considerably intoxi-
Gated They sat down together and be at
once began to talk in loud voice, His
words were driyeling nonsense, without o
unge of humor. His mother, however,
seemed strangely inscnslbls to her sons
Gisgrace. She laughed freely at the inco-
herent ramarss andPeplied to them, though
ia so low tone that her words were In
audible 90 the passengers
"People exchanged surprised glances and
began to talk of the unusual scene. Some
thought the mother Indifferent 70 her sons
condition, and therefore little better than
he herself. Others were more charitable
and did not believe she realized his condi-
ton.
''As listened, it seemed TO me the WON.
ans tones were not natural. There was
sonnet hing that sounded strained and az
fected in her laugh. Her cid bonnet was
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-05-29
S. WEDNESDAY, MAY %. 1889.

your beat" A moment later the students
might have been seen fling out of the sta
tion with their tonsoPial standard held
proudly aloft.
They had not gone far, however, when
they were again brought to a halt by an
other officer, who, like his predecessor,
wanted to know where they were going
with that pole. He WIS informed that that
was their business, and he in turn as
sured them that he would make it his busi-
ness, which he did by cscorting them to the
self-same station which they had just
quilted
whats the trouble, ofieerg'
''These fellers have stole BARRIERS pole,
and"
Very well; you may return to your
beat"
The captain smiled as he dismissed the
students. Hardly b d he resumed his un-
wonted gravity of aspect before the door
opened and again entered a policeman, six
young men and barber's pole.
And so 1t won't on. Six several times
were the students and their bGrberous
property brought by as many different po-
hcemen INTO that station, and had not an
officer been sreclally sent out to warn all
patrolmen under no circumstances to inter
fere with six young men and a barbers pole
it is more than likely that that pole and its
bearers would have been brought into that
station as many times that night as there
were patrolmen in the district
People who wondered what was the cause
OF the hilarious laughter which proceeded
from the usually grave and quiet station on
the night IN question are now fully informed
Of the same.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-05-29
WHAT eERLINERs EAT.
Our German Cousins Said to Mix Hors
Flesh with Their Sausage.

Our German Cousins Said to Mix Horse
Flesh with Their Sausage.
The amount of animal food disposed of in
the German capital is such that, divided up
equally among the population of the city, it
yields an allowance of two and half pounds
of meat week to every man, woman and
child in the place, including infants in arms,
members of the Legislature and paupers
In other words, SAYS the London Telegraph,
each and every Berliner, irrespective OF
age, sex or political opinions, is officially
creditcd with the consumption of 141 pounds
weight OF beef, mutton, veal, pork, lamb b
and horse-fesh per anuum No fewer than
1000 horses are slaughtered yearly for the
Berlin meat market, their flesh being partly
sold as ''butcher's meat in shops specially
affected to the retail trade in ''pferde-
fleisch," and partly ''worked up'' into
sausages, a popular variety of which is
hawked 'all hot'' about the streets late in
the evening and during the smaller hours of
the early morn. Poor Prussians are much
addicted to horse-fesh stewed in a savo~y
sauce; nor do the well-to-do disdain 1t as an
occasional Wand served under it's own
name. In Germany, Italy and even France
the flesh of horses and asses is unquestion-
ably converted into sassengers," ;" like unto
the aged hero of one Samuel Weller's most
gruesome anecdotes, in vast quantities, and
imparts to them close texture, rich color,
and aromatic flavor, in particular to Bruins.
wick 'wurst," ''nartadella of Bologna -
and "saucisson de Lyon" This bulk of the
substance to which these dainties owe their
being, however, is pork. fresh or salted
and in all probability the 47O,O0C pigs that
annually pay the debt of nature in tribute
to Berlinese appetites find their way to the
table in the shape of either sausage or ham
y Os nj iafl
bacon, whereas they are never weary of
smoked and cured preparations of pig. Be-
sides devouring this porcine host, Berlin
stands accountant yearly for the violent
death of 127,500 head of cattle, 131, 500 calves.
and $4,000 sheep, besides multitude OF
minor animals, all of which vanish in due
course down her capacious maw.