The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-18
NEWS IN SUNDAYS JOURNAL.
Resume of the Principal Home and Foreign
Events Recorded in the IsSueO Of March IL.


teller i'm national bank, is charged with
being defaulter to the amount of S5s,595.
A detective named Baldwin was assaulted
and seriously injured while trying to ar
rest n colored ''moonshiner" IN West Vir-
ginia.
A battle between the Abyssinian Senoussi
and the Mahdists is reported. in which both
sides lost heavily and the latter were de-
feated.
The opinion is gaining ground at Wash
the nomination of Corporal Tanner to be
Commissioner of Pensions.
Russell Harrison, son of the President.
has purchased an interest in Frank Leslie's
Weekly. and will take charge of the paper
from Chicago to the Pacific coast.
Edward Mcmahon. upon reaching home
Friday night. at Fall River Mass. found
his wife, Maria, burned TO death. lying I'M
Der the bed. Her clothing caught fire.
-, Arthur Dale suicided at Chattanooga,
Tenn, by Glowing out his brains with a
shotgun. He has been gradually becoming
insane. and preferred death to insanity.
C. c. Scott. one of the proprietors Of the
mitted suicide by jumping from the third
story of his hotel, during tit of temporary
insanity.
A relI gious enthusiast at Bridgewater
Adair county, Iowa, has been preaching
and fasting for forty days and nights, and
closed his term of fasting Tuesday night
with big supper.
The Jury in the case of eneineer Cook
charged with responsibility for the coils
ion at Mud Run. Pa. last October in which
sixty persons were killed. returned ver-
dict OF not guilty.
NJ Sacramento, Cal, Harry Holmes. who
mad been held to answer TO a charge of
cell. He had starved himself, having re-
fused food for two weeks.
Four prisoners in the Cambridge Md
jail escaped. Friday night, by saving Oft
an iron bar in rear window in the lower
corridor, and jumping through it to the
ground, distance of ten feet.
James Irwin, superintendent OF the Car
negle gas-line, was arrested at Green's
burg, Pa, charged with murder. He turned
on the gas without notifying the workmen,
and pipe burst, killing one of them.
i. Z. Allen, jr:, arrested on complaint of
ofhcers of the Wells, Fargo & Co. express
charged with embeZzling several thousand
dollars. while express messenger, has been
released. There Is no cause for the case
against him.
Further searches of the houses of mem
bers OF the French Patriotic League have
resulted in the finding of papers. showing
and the House of Parliament was cOntem-
plated. The league is said to have an en-
rolled army of two hundred thousand men.
Iron. the Second Edition of the Sunday Journal !
Late News from Samoa.
copyright 1885, by the Western Associated Press ]
APIA, Samoa, March 2.-During the past
month the German authorities, both con-
inactivity. This condition of affairs dates
back to the arrival of the steamer Walnut
with dispatches for the German CONSUL on
Jan. %, and is, no doubt. the result of the
a state of war in the Samoan islands seems
TO have become dead letter, while the
military occupation of Apia, which the
declaration of martial law would seem to
have implied, has no existence save in the
man consulate. A guard is still kept at the
American and English consulates,
has been no official retraction
proclamations with which the town was
Hooded, and consequently no settlement
OF the matter at ISSUE The German consul
has made repeated overtures to Mataafa
looking towards the adjustment of the
peace, but the terms proposed always en-
bodied strong German interest in the
future administration of affairs, to which
Mataafa declares he will, under no circum-
fore been of no avail, and the German Off
Gals occupy the unenviable position of
men who have deeply compromised them
selves without seeing their way clear to
retreat consistent with the preservation
of their dignity. Mataafa, in the midst of
his warriors, rests secure in his in
trenched camp and awaits the arrival
of Admiral Kimberly, having full faith
IN the support OF the United States. His
plcket-lines extend down the coast for a
distance of five miles, close espionage being
maintained on the road leading from Apia
to Lauly and Lutumui. Tamasese. with
his forces, now reduced by desertion to
about six hundred warriors, still occupies
the large fort at Lutumui. A great num-
Der of his former adherents have Joined the
standard of Mataafa, or, grown weary of
war, have returned to their own districts.
There has been no collision between the
opposing forces for long time. On Feb. s
a small detached party of Malietoa's men.
which was accommodating in the vicinity
of the FORTS fell in with fora ging party of
the enemy, and succeeded in killing one of
supporters, one Solo Futi, ruler from Ma
tauta, in Savay.
On Feb. 2. her Majesty's ship Calliope,
Capt. ID. J: Kline, arrived from New Zea-
land to relieve the Royal, and the latter
sailed for Auckland on the 4th instant.
This change has been a source of untold
satisfaction to the English residents in
Samoa, as well as to their consular repre-
Captain Hand, of the Royal by the colonial
press, simply voices the indignant feeling
q his cOuntrymen in Samoa, whose in
terests he looked after in a dilatory luke
warm manner, and whose property he an
nOuneed himself without authority to pro-
tect. There can be no doubt that the cor
dial feelings and unity of purpose which
characterized the relations between his
predecessor, Commander Pell, of the Wiz
ard, and her Majesty's consul, had no ex-
istence in the case OF Captain Hand.
Early in The month, Capt. FritZe made
known the fact that the consular courts
the American and the English-were con-
sidered by him as open for the hearing of
causes, despite his proclamation of martial
law, reserving to himself, however, the adj
mlnlstration of the police under the regu-
latlons of Jan. IS 1883. Thus, by acknowl-
edging the ability of these courts to per-
form their civil functions undisturbed, he
virtually abrogates the necessity for the
establishment of martial law, and gives
rather farcical aspect TO that arbitrary
act on the part of the German commander
Another fact, proving that Germany
recognizes their original stand to be IN
tenable, Is found In the reissue of the
Samoan Times, the English newspaper
which was suspended by the German consul
rs a dangerous organ. The editor felt the
pulse of the press censor on Feb. 4. by the
publication of a single sheet extra" and
on the 9ts instant, the regular sheet again
The revival OF the suppressed paper has
called for no comment from DIR. Knappe. the
German consul, which evinced far calmeI
frame of mind than that displayed In his
dictatorial actions of three weeks ago.
On Feb. 5, the steamer Lebeck left this
port for Sydney, carrying with her Bran
dies the 0x-(rerTnan artillery officer apl