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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09

Circuit Court of the United States for the
Western district of Wisconsin,. These are
all suits brought TO recover the value of
bonds issued by the city of Watertown.
The city's charter provides that all suits
against the city must be by service OF pro-
cess on the Mayor, and the. law of Wiscon-
sin declares that n suit shall not
be considered TO have commenced until
process has been served. The plaintiffs in
these cases served process on various city
officers, but were unable to serve process on
the Mayor. for the reason that that officer.
to elude service. resigned Office as soon as
sworn in. In 1883. the city voluntarily en-
tered an appearance in. suits brought
against it, alleging that the actions were
barred by the statute of limitations. The
plaintiffs demurred TO this plea. on the
ground that service had been made OF at
tempted; that a suit had therefore been be-
gun within the time prescribed by the
statute of limitations, and that a conspir-
acy TO defraud them existed on the part of
the city officers. The Circuit Court gave
judgments for the city, however, stat
ting that, unde the Wisconsin
laws, suits could not be held to
nave begun until actual service of process,
and that this not having been lone within
the prescribed time, the suits were barred.
This court, in opinions by Justice Bradley,
affirms these judgments. The court holds
that it must follow the opinions of the State
courts in this matter, and that it can grant
no relief unless the Constitution of the
legged. The courts, it says, have no power
in such cases.. The States have a right to
enact laws of the character involved in
these cases. and an appeal must be TO the
legislature and not to.the courts. hi ques-
tion of conspiracy is disposed of with the
against a municipal corporation. Judg-
meltS affirmed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09
Dakota Sufferers Want Assistance.

CHICAGO. April S.-The following letter
from Dakota prairie fire sufferers was re-
ceived at the Mayors office, to-day:
OUIDA, SULLY COUNTY, ID. T., April 5, 1889.
To the Hon. Mayor and Citizens of Chicago:
The heaviest wind-storm that ever visited CEN
trail Dakota sprang up Tuesday forenoon, April
2, and about noon, when the wind was blowing
at the rate of sixty miles an hour, three distinct
fires started and swept over nearly the whole
east end Of Sully county. The fires travelled
with the speed of an express train, and nothing
could be done TO check their progress. 1t was
only by herculean efforts that the back fires
could be subdued. No reliable estimate of the
damage can be arrived at yet. but at this date
the losses in SILLY county reported
at Ouida are as follows: Twenty-Five resi-
dences, the occupants of which were forced to
fee for their lives without having time to rescue
any furniture or clothing. Forty-eight barns,
the owners reporting that they were unable to
save hay or grain. The seed for sowing all went
up in smoke, as well as all the farming nipple
ments. Twenty-Five head of horses. thirty-eight
head of cattle, thirty-One head of swine, four
mules and six hundred and fifty head OF sheep.
This is only portion of the losses. One hundred
farmers have reported with only one suit OF
clothes each and no shelter save that furnished
by those living beyond the fire line. All who
lived in the burned district are without homes,
farming implements or seed for sowing. If they
receive help IL should come shortly, because the
time is nj hand for putting in the crops. Ii any
assistance can be rendered. please send in care
of County commissioners of sully county.
This appeal is signed by the county
officers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09
Welded IN CHURCH.

Mr.. Frederick L. Harvey and Miss Holman
United i'm Marriage.
Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, April S.-A small but select
company was assembled in the Trinity
Protestant Episcopal Church, at the corner
of G. and Third n. W., this morning, to
witness the marriage of Frederick L. Har-
vey, of this city, and Miss Pamela Dean
Holman, daughter of Representative and
Mrs. William s. Holman, of Aurora. Harry
X. Willard, s. +. Trimble, and James NJ.
Durant, with large whit 3 rosebuds in their
coats. seated the guests in the body of the
church. Mr.. and Mrs. Holman arrived
shortly alters o'clock. and were escorted
to the front pew. Mr.. Hervey and Miss
Holman entered the church arm-in-arm,
preceded by the ushers. the organist play
ing a wedding march. The bride wore a
plain dress of blue cloth, and a hat with a
flaring brim, covered with black net, and
trimmed with o few green leaves. Mrs.
Holman was in black, with yellow flowers
in her bonnet. Rev. Thomas G.. Addison,
ID. d., rector of the church, performed the
ceremony, assisted by the Rev. NJ. r.
Platt. Judge Holman gave the bride
in marriage by speaking from the pew.
After the ceremony the bridal procession
moved down stairs and left the church.. Mr..
and Mrs. Harvey entered one carriage and
the groomsmen another, and drove to the
railroad station. where the newly welded
pair took the train for the North. On their
return they will reside at No. 1923 Seven
teenth street, Northwest.
Among those present, and not already
mentioned, were Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey, par
ents of the groom; Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Har-
vey, of Philadelphia: Miss Alley, of New
York; Mr.. and Mrs. Horatio King. Mrs.
Talbot, Representative S. S. Cox, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. p. Dole, Mrs. Senator Frey. Mrs.
Mrs. Addison, the Misses Freeman, Miss
Prall, the Misses Clarke, Mr.. Carpenter,
DIR. Magruder Muncaster, Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Clarke. Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Mend
ley, Mr.. and Mrs. W.. w. Wood, Mr.. and
Mrs. Melville Church. Mr.. and Mrs. J.. b.
Church, Miss Lou Durant, Mr.. Durant. Miss
Lizzie Freeman. Mrs. Smallwood and Miss
Newf0n
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09
THE LADY OF THE WHITE HOUSE.
Mrs. Harrison Is Her Own H-ousekeeper an
Superintends Things.

Mrs. Harrison Is Her Own H~ousekeeper and
Superintends Things.
Washington Special.
The domestic routine of the White House
is very much similar to what the Harrison
household was in indianapolis. Mrs. Har-
rison is her own housekeeper. She looks
after everything. Every morning she gives
her orders to the retinue of servants. The
steward gets his instructions regularly
every morning. So does everybody else.
Mrs. Harrison's management of the house
hold of the executive mansion is the per-
s~onification of simplicity. She goes about
the residence portion of the White House,
which is the west end part, as though she
was in a little, quiet, unpretentiOus home.
She is not awed of the great high ceilings.
the big rooms, the stately furniture or the
immense portraits of the dead Presidents
and their wives, who look down upon her
out of their gilded frames.
Mrs. Harrison is very active and of a
very cheerful disposition: b goes shop
ping and carries bundles back to the White
House, and gets out of a common, coupe
with as little pretension as though she was
entering her old home in the West. The
servants of the White House have come to
like her. Sh has a 1 word for all OF
them.
So far four servants have been dis
charged, a drunken waiter, who drank too
much on Inauguration day; drunken watch
man, who thought he had been there SO
long that he couldn't be discharged, and
two colored laundresses, who marched off
for several afternoons at 3 o'clock with the
keys of the laundry in their pockets, and
who didn't return until o'clock in the
mornings. The report that all the cOlored
servants were to be discharged is not true.
Captain Densmore said to-day that there
was now one more colored servant en-
plOyed than at the time Mr.. and Mrs. Cleve-
land vacated the White House.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09
The McClellandtown Outlaws.

UNIONTOwN, Pa. April SIN addition to
the terror inspired throughout Fayette
county by the McClellandtOwn band of
outlaws. they are creating greater terror
in the adjoining county of Preston, in West
Virginia. When they were driven from
their refuge near M~arkleysburg they went
across the line into West Virginia, and are
now said, by reports brought in from the
mountain districts, to be located in a house
near Glade Mills, a small hamlet. Reports
say that there are six of them in the gang
now, and that nightly they commit some
depreciation on the citizens in'the vicinity.
So great is the excitement over their pres
ence, and the robbing and vlctimizing of
the gang, that the neighbOrhOod
is in despair. Local desperadoes
have joined forces with the gang
and they threaten all kinds of vengeance
on any one who interferes with them. The
place where they hold forth is near a dis
tillery, and this adds to their recklessness
Appeals from the people in the neighbor-
hood nave been sent to the nearest town of
any size. KingwOod. asking for help. the
mountain district being so thinly populated
that force enough cannot there be mus
tered. An organized effort is to be made to
capture them under the command of West
Virginia officers The district is far away
from telegraphic communication, and is
only accessible by a long journey. so that
particulars only reach this place in a frag-
mentary way.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09
THE PEOPLES MONEY.

A Big Vault Where 500, 900, 900 in Gold,
Silver and Securities Is Deposited.
New York Star.
j. w. Hyatt. the United States Treasurer,
sits in the small private Office of the sub
treasury every day, in charge of the gov
ernment's money building until Ellis III.
Roberts. the newly appointed Assistant
Treasurer, qualities. Il will leave my de-
partment in Washington" said Mr.. Hyatt.
lin the best possible shape. The only
notable thing that has occurred during my
administration is the completion of a vault
in the United States Treasury. 100 feet
square, the largest in the world. This
vault will contain S6.OO0,O 900 silver dollars.
1t is divided into eight cages. Boxes con-
al ming 1000 silver dollars each fl the
cages. The vault has an outside wall of
solid brick and is lined with solid plate on
the inside. Each cage is armored with iron.
There are three great doors which must be
opened before access can be had to the sill
YER. The first door lets one into a corridor
running around the cages. Visitors are al
lowed TO walk in this corridor in the day
time. Then there IL a door TO get to the
cages and one to each cage. The combina-
tlon of no one door is known by more than
one man, so that when L am not present it
requires three men to get at the money.
w depend more upon our watchmen,
however. than bolts me bars TO protect the
money in the Treasury. There is altogether
500, 900. 600 In gold. silver and bonds depos-
tied there; Strangely enough. the bond of
the United States Treasurer is only $50 .000,
$4,000 less than is required of the Assist
ant United States Treasurer at New York
city. Bonds. however. would not protect
the United States funds III a Treasurer
wished to be dishonest. The amount Of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09

The Bond of Treasurer Huston Presented at
the Department and Approved.

The Bond of Treasurer Huston Presented at
the Department and Approved.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, April S.-George w. Rob-
ertson returned, this morning, from Con-
nersville, whittier he ven to secure the
bondsmen for United States Treasurer
Huston. The bond was filed to-day, pro-
nounced gilt-edged and approved. Mr..
Robertson has been selected to represent
Mr.. Huston in the count of the money in
the treasury upon the outgoing of Treas
urer Hyatt. Under the law the Secretary
of the Treasury selects one, the incoming
Treasurer another, and the outgoing
Treasurer the third man to superintend the
counting of the money on hand every time
a Treasurer gives up his Office. There is
about S194, 900, 900 in the treasury, of which
$50, 0OO, 900 is in silver, S25. 100000 in gold
coin, and the remainder in paper money.
Besides this, there are $3.50. 600, OOOin United
States notes and gold and silver certifi-
Gates; also, about $21S, 900, 900 of bonds be-
longing to national banks. The work will
take about five or six weeks, and when it
is completed Mr.. Robertson will be ap-
pointed a national bank examiner, and his
field will be Indiana.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09
Decision as to Disputed Lands.

MARQUETTE. Mich. April S.-The register
and receiver of the land Office for this dis
trict have decided in favor of the script
locations on the lands, within the indemnity
limits of the old Marquette, HoughtOn q
OntOnagOn railroad grant, recently declared
forfeited. as against the homestead and
pre-emptl on settlers. who claimed the
lands in dispute by virtue of actual entry
thereon as soon as they were thrown open
to entrance against the scrippers, who had
previously applied for the Ian DIS. The To-
cal officials held that the applications of
the %scrippers constituted an appropriation
as soon as they became subject to entry.
The finding win be appealed from, and the
contest transferred to Washington. where
the settlers will make a determined effort
to nave the ruling of the local officials re-
versed. The decision affects lands on
which there Is pine estimated to be worth
not less than So. 900, 600, while some place it
at $4,000 and the contest will be fought
out to the last. The hearing in these cases
has occupied the attention of the register
and receiver from the 18th of March until
the 9Th of this month, and there have been
not less than a dozen lawyers engaged in
cnpAncfipU IL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09
THE NIINUET.
How the Dancers Feet Are Trained to It's
Measures.

hOW III duCc rec II 4TdtucQ 10 ltS
Measures.
American Analyst.
"The first thing,n says a teacher of the
newly fashionable minuet. that a lady has
to learn is to hold the skirts of her dress.
In the beginning of the minuet she must
take her Overskirt with both hands. just
%clutching the edge of the garment with the
from the floor about as high as
the tips of her boots. Then standing
squarely upon both feet she is in the first at
titude of the minuet. Following chat comes
the bow, which is a most difficult accom-
%plishment. think it quite likely that one
of the reasons why the minuet went out of
favor was the very considerable degree
of skill which is required to dance 1T prop
erly. 1t is even easier to learn to become q
tirst-rate Walter than an indifferent minu-
etist, if / can use the word. The bow is
made by drawing the right foot back and
placing the toe upon the floor and bending
the whole weight OF the body back upon 1T
and keeping the left foot square down
upon the floor. The lady should sink her
self as far as possible without losing the
balance. AS she goes down, the heel of the
left foot may come slowly OFF from the floor,
but the heel of the right foot must not
touch it. 1t Is an exceedingly trying move
ment until one has mastered 1t, and it
takes not only muscle, but some nerve TO
keep the equilibrium. In this movement
llOh hOl "A y Nyto "A
be directed slightly upward, and her
head should not bow forward. 1t should
rather turn a little bit in thedirection of the
eyes. The movement must be made very
slowly, and the recovery executed with
equal elaboration. The gentleman's bow.
during this interesting. process, is of a
similar nature. 1t consists of laying his
hand upon his heart and ending forward
very low. Partners should recover the
same moment. There is another old dance
somewhat similar to the minuet in
itsi measured etiquette, and that is the
pavane. In that the bow is very similar to
the one in the minuet, the difference being
that she incllnes her head forward and looks
down upon the ground. 1t sometimes is a
harder thing to prevent ladies from looking
upon the ground than TO teach them to keep
their balance upon their toes. / remember
when / was studying the ballet in Paris that
the teacher was always crying out: Come,
ladies, are you looking for pins upon the
floOr!' The novice, you see, is always i'm
terror about her feet, and apparently wants
to look down TO see if they are all right.
AS a matter of fact, the balance can be-
much better preserved by looking upward,
and it is a much more graceful way of do
ing it.v
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09
GENERAL BROWNIES BLUNDER.
He Burns the Wrong Letters, and No End OF

He Burns the Wrong Letters, and No End OF
Trouble Is Likely to Follow.
Special to New York Tribune
Gen. TOM Browne, of Indiana, is in a
plight not unusual for Congressman in
these office-seeking times, when their mails
are overburdened. He explained the
trouble to a group of sympathizing col
leagues, in the Postoffice Department, the
other day.
II told my secretary said the Indiana
Congressman, that we must catch up
somewhere within a week of our letters.
We took off our coats the first evening we
could get, and went to work. To every let
ter that could possibly be answered with
out further investigation / dictated areply.
Those that were more important, and would
require looking into, / laid aside. We
pulled steadily, and by half an hour after
midnight | had the satisfaction of knowing
that i had at least gone through my mail
mp to date-something | couldn't say before
at any time during the last six weeks.
There was one g0od-siZed file of letters
answered. and the writers were soon to be
made happy by getting word from their
Congressman. There was another good
sized file not answered, but sorted out and
in shape TO be attended to. Better get these
out of the way l said to my secretary. and
j took the answered letters and pitched
them into the CRATE. Then i set fire TO the
whole lot and watched them 90 up in
smoke with a good dea of pleasure while l
INDUCED myself in an extra cigar before
going to bed. The next morning / started
In early to have that leftover mail out of
the way. / picked up two OF three of the
letters, but i didn't read them. A single
glance told the story. I'd burned up the
unanswered letters and carefully saved the
answered ones. Now there are at least 800
people in my district who have written me
important communications and are wOn-
dering why / can't be civil enough to
acknowledge the receipt of the letters. l
can remember about seven of the writer's.
The other 293 are blanks in my memory.
You can imagine my feelings. What am l
going 20 doi"
Better not try to work that story of on
your constituents said an unsympathizing
Congressman. Il got behind myself and
had a little story of that kind published in
my home papers. Result-every person
who has written to me since November con-
cluded hat his letter had been burned and
sat down and wrote again.
General Browne protested that his had
been q genuine accident.
$50 much the worse" retorted his col
league. You'll be sorry if you let it be
known at home"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09
A t SEA cow.
Description and Habits of This Queer and
Rare Animal.

Rare Animal.
Thomasvin CGa.) Special.
There is now OF exhibition at the old
Allen House. on Jackson street, a mana
tee, OF sea COW. Captain w. III. Squires.
who EXHIBITS this queer animal, said to the
This COW is ten feet long and weighs
LOCO pounds. Its tail is twenty inches
across. We caught it in the inlet to the
st. Lucie river, which drains the Ever
glades of Florida. We used in the capture
This this is a very small cow. They
grow from Is to "a feet long. and to
weigh from 10000 to $4,000 poueds. They
are very powerful, and often break the
strong rope of the seine like spool cotton
feet long, just before we caught this one,
and it tore our seine all to pieces. Their
bones are like ivory, and worth 81 a pound.
The meat. in the markets of Havana, is con-
cents per pound. There is but one live
manate COW on exhibition in this country
besides this one. 1t is at Jacksonville, Fla.
There was one, known as Old Columbus, at
the geological gardens in Cincinnati, but
they killed and mounted it. There was one
also at Philadelphia, but it died and was
mounted. We caught all of them. Old Column
bus n the Philadelphia COW weighed each
1900 pounds. They make a fearful struggle
when first caught, but soon surrender like
a sheep, and become very docile. Though
creatures of immense power. they are easily
controlled. They have grinders, and eat
grass like a COW. The eyes are about the
size of a buckshot. The head tapers to a
point. There are two flippers in front, no
legs behind. They nurse their young, hav-
ing six nipples on each side. The sea cow
is found atOnly one place in North America.
the Jupiter inlet of the st. Lucie river. on
the coast of Florida. They are found at
three places only in the world-the mouth
of the Amazon river, the mouth of the :
Lucier river, and near Cape Town, on the Ca @
of Good Hope in Africa. They seem tohave
their habitatlon in the warm waters of the
Gulf Stream and its branches. The Gulf
Stream begins at the Amazon river and
mans very near the mouth of st. Lucie
river, missing at that point the shore only
three and one-half miles. They leave the
gulf stream here in pairs and enter the st.
Lucie river to feed upon the tender blades
of the manate grass. They leave in win
ter and return by pairs late in the spring.
Another curious thing about this queer an
imal is that it has one hair, about a half
inch long, that standsout perfectly straight
from the body to every square inch of sur
face. 1t lives in salt water. but feeds in
fresh water. When in captivity they are
kept in warm salt water and fed on COM
mon grasses, spinach and celery"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09

A boy giving his name as Joseph Wright
was arrested|yesterday for passing raised
checks for small amounts on Boston banks.
One check was altered from So to 500, and
another from $40 to 500.
The body of an unknown man was found
yesterday in a cellar on the homestead of
L. Ramer. in the town of Lake, Wis. hanged
by the neck with a piece of wire rope. The
man had been shot through the head. An
investigation has been ordered.
The hard-fought legal contest instituted
by the heirs of the late DR.. Scott Stewart,
of Philadelphia. to break his legacy of about
$500 O for establishing a hospital of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, was brought
to a close yesterday by a decision of the
Supreme Court in favor of the trustees of
the hospital.
Four Scandinavians. named Storhousky,
jacobson, Anderson and Rouse, became iii
vOlved in a quarrel, Sunday at Cadillac,
Mich, and in the fight which ensued the
two former were struck by an ak in the
hands of Anderson and terribly injured
about the head and back. Both men will
probably die. Anderson and Rouse have
bepn arrested
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09
Mr.. Miller as a Society Lion.

Special to Chicago News.
When the partner Of General Harrison in
the law business arrived in Washington he
looked like a plain country lawyer on an
outing; his suit of rusty black had an un-
fashionable cut and set, he wore a turn
down collar with a shoestring necktie, and
the kind of high-top boots which allow the
trousers to find refuge when the snow is
deep. Struggling and untrimmed whiskers
fringed his honest face. But the women
folk nave. been making suggestions, evil
IDENTIFY, for the night of the reception to the
japanese princess the Encouragement
came through the Riggs House lobby, and
it took three looks to identify him. He
wore an elegant full-dress suit of fine
material, fashionable cut, and perfect fit,
and he looked thoroughly at home in it. A
snowy bosom was decked out with a set of
quiet studs, and the glossy Piccadilly collar
was hedged around by a lawn tie of the
regulation order. Patent-leather shoes in
cased his feet. But at the other end the
most marked change had taken place.
Those whiskers had been taken in hand by
professional whisker trimmer and reduced
TO a cut so neat and becoming that it
changed the appearance of his face in a
marked degree. The transformation was
complete-the Attorney general has already
become a social lion.