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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-18
D:sannoinfed In Love.

1t transpires that there is quite romance
connected with the life of Ernest Borstel.
the German who committed suicide in the
rear of the Journal building, Friday night.
lie had quite a number of friends in the
city, who offered TO take charge of his re-
mains. He was born in Heidelberg Ger
many, and his widowed mother, who has
some wealth, still lives there. Several
years ago, after receiving his share of his
fathers estate, Borstel came to this coun-
try, and engaged in the grocery business
at Phillippi, n. j. A year and half ago
he made visit to his home in Germany.
ana on the voyage back became acquainted
with Carrie Remeirs, a seventeen
year-old girl of a good fam
i lSycr+ in in . Cleveland level o. In a
the engagement was broken off. Later, it
was clandestinely renewed and day in
last August was fixed for the marriage
ceremony. Borstel appeared at the girls
home on that day, but he found that she,
SIX weeks before, had become the wife of
Charles Reich, of Cleveland. He persuaded
the newly made bride to elope with him, but
she returned to her husband in a few
days Distracted, Brostel left Cleveland,
wandering over the country, reached this
city few weeks before Christmas. For a
while he stopped with William Myers. on
East New York street, a lf-brother of the
girl to whom he was engaged, but later he
went to No. 205 East New York street.
where he made his home at the time of his
death. He has wealthy brother in Texas,
and his friends say Borstel himself owned
a fine farm in that State. The last time he
was expecting S1,100 from his home in
GERMANY.
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The President Pro TENS Story.

Kingston freeman.
The inauguration of President Harrison
was the topic of conversation on Saturday
of number of men in the Kingston post
Office. One man startled the others by re-
mark: "Do you know that once sat in the
chair of the presiding officer of the Senatef
You need not look so astonished; 1 did, and
presided, too"
The deuce You didw chOrused several
voices How was that?"
Il was member of Union regiment. 'It
was somewhere in ga. We were near WASH
ington, and and Z member of the regiment
got pass tosee the Capitol. We walked up
the steps and went nosing around until we
got into a big room with desks and chairs
in it. thought | had seen picture that
looked like that room, and / says: GOSH this
is the Senate room, sure as you are alive,
and not q soul in il but ourselves. Say,
Bob" Pm going to sit in the Presidents
chair Bob said L mustn't; / would get
arrested by the provost and put In the old
Capitol. But went straight up and got In
the chair. Gosh ding it, but ii was a nice
chair. picked up the mallet. raped on
the table, and said i, Senator Bob come
to order Bob come to order. / said,
i hereby proclaim that this war shall
be prosecuted to the bitter end
Bob seconded it, and ID was
passed without dissenting voice.
Then adjourned the Senate sine die, and
we lett just III time TO clear a file of sol
diers belonging to the provost in the en-
trance way. Bob and /, when we got
back to the regiment, told the boys how
we had run the United States Senate, and
we got the reputation of being the biggest
true-stretchers in the regiment"
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Deadly Natural Gases.

Walter Weed reports to Science the dis
covery of deadly gas spring in Yellow
stone Park; a fair rival of the Death VAL
ley of Java, which is attributed to the nox-
ious power of the upas tree. There is also
a story of similar valley. in California,
perhaps entirely apocryphal. The exhala-
tion of carbonic gas in this case seems to
have killed squirrels and other small Great
ures Where it rises through small creek
it causes an appearance of boiling. al
though the water is quite cold. Moving
and where the scoop of the valley begins
in suiphurous rocks. Mr.. Weed found a
freshly dead silver-tip grizzly without a
wound. and companion quite decOmposed.
Near by were four more bears and the
bones of an elk, with dead rodents and in
sects. No signs of violence could be dis
covered in any of these cases. 1t is simply
V-shapped head of gulch where at
times gaseous exhalations accumulate so
as to be deadly. 1t will not form favorite
resort for visitors to the park.
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THE NAVY'S STUaIBLING-BLoCK.
Cruisers Can Be Constructed Quickly, but
Guns and Carriages Take Plenty OF Time.
RroolIxr,

Guns and Carriages Take Plenty Of Time.
Washington Special to Brooklyn Eagle.
General Tracy got his first big surprise
to-day. He had sent a dispatch TO the Union
iron-works, at San Francisco, asking how
soon the cruiser Charleston would be ready
for sea trial, and got a reply that she
would be in readiness in about three weeks.
The inquiry was made for the purpose of
getting definite information as to when the
vessel could be put in commission. If the
government had urgent need for her, and,
as 10 emergency Is apt to happen In three
weeks, the answer of the contractors was
entirely satisfactory.
But the surprise came when the General
sent for Commodore Sicard, chief Of the Bu-
reau of Ordnance. and asked him.z6out the
Charleston's armament Sicard shemmed
and hawed at great rate and finally con-
fessed that it would take some time, if not
longer" He tried to give the general i'm
preston that the vessel might be armed
with temporary battery of old guns now
on hand if she were absolutely needed TO 60
to sea inside of six months, but did not sue
coed in carrying conviction with his re-
marks. The truth of the matter is that the
Charleston, under the most favorable cir
action before Oct. /. She is to carry y
eight six-inch guns in her main battery.
There are at pres present six OF these
though four of them were intended for the
Petree, they could all be sent to the
Charleston in an emergency; but as the
construction of the gun carriages has not
kept pace with the manufacture of the
guns, there are not carriages available for
all of them at present Even after these
guns and their carriages are finally on the
vessel much time Will be required to place
them in position, that even If the
Charleston had been tried and accepted, it
would be still some months before she
could, under the most favorable circum-
stances. be put in fighting trim and sent to
Samoa or any other point. The gun circles
are not even designed, it is understood, and
the rifles could not be mounted in less than
six months. Even after the guns are tested
land in testing they may fail it will take
over a month to get them to San Francisco.
The General has found a big old mares
nest right in the Ordnance Department,
and nobody will wonder Ii he cleans it out
without much ceremony. But Sicard seems
to have big pull. Secretary Whitney
reprimanded him several times and once
seriously looked about for another ord
nance chief. He could find none who could
compare with Sicard in gunnery knowl-
edge Sicard is better versed on the SUBJ
ject than anyone else in the navy, but he
seems TO be unfortunate in the practical de-
tails Of his Office, as evidenced by the trouble
With the Atlanta's gun carriage.
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ROMANCE AND REALITY.
Photos of Pretty Young Girl and the
Scheme of Shrewd Sharpers.

Chicago News
During the balmy days of last September
two Frenchmen, who gave the names of
Marseilles du Clairemont and George Pot
there, and Louise GallOwer, q gross and
hOmely woman who weighed about five
hundred pounds, rented rooms of Mrs. AL
bert Decamp, at No. Is South Green street
They represented that they were artists,
and that the madame, whose nom de guerre
was Pauline Meller, was really the wife of
Pottiere.
They had not occupied the rooms more
than a day or two when they began to re-
ceive by mail as many as forty or fifty let
5ST TSp bs o Sy Rn0tSgfHp55S sas
in response to their advertisements for
pictures to enlarge, but Mrs. Decamp
noticed that the photos were invariably of
men. never a woman or a child apparently
desiring to be enlarged in crayOn or other
style of art.
The explanation of this is an advertise
ment which appeared in numerous country
papers signed by Pauline Meller, in which
she described herself as young and charm
ing and anxious to marry.
II A few days later registered letters began
to arrive, and the landladv thought her
dodgers must be doing a very thriving
business. Two weeks ago Pottiere and the
woman left for New Orleans and Du Claire
mont, who represented himself as the bust
ness manager, although the letters were all
dOulCcSC0 W ouIhC, AOmdiHCu OchlHus
The sequel to the story was told yesterday
by letter from German resident of
Brooklyn, N. Y, who says he answered the
~ad' of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Pauline,
and in reply received a photo of beautiful
girl and a heart-rending story of hardship
and privatiOn which moved his soul to pity.
Gazing on the picture and broOding over
the sorrows and misfortunes of the sup
posed lovely original, his ardent nature
asserted itself and he determined to marry
the young girl if on further correspondence
the syren should develop as many graces of
mind as she evidently had of person. To
relieve her more immediate and pressing
necessities he at once forwarded SO by reg
istered mail, and TO this day, like probably
hundreds of others, he is waiting for an
acknowledgements of the receipt of the
money.
1t is said that the lady never wrote the
letters, but that one of her companions.
who is dexterous with the pen, indited the
amatory epistles which brought in such a
prolific crop of shskels.
Inquiry at the postoface yesterday devel-
oped the fact that there Is in the Chicago
postofice regular stack of registered let
ters addressed to Pauline Meller, which Mr..
Du Clairemont is most anxious to handle.
This the authorities will not allow, and
have ordered the whole bundle forwar ded
to New Orleans to an address supplied by
the lady herself.
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NYE AND RILEY's MODEsTY.
The Two Lecturers Subject to Acute Fits of
Stage Embarrassment.

The Two Lecturers Subject to Acute Fits Of
Stage Embarrassment.
Philadelphia North American.
1t is well-established fact that some of
the most prominent men and women on the
stage when they first face their audiences
are seized with such dread spells of en-
barrassment or stage fright that their work
becomes absolutely painful Men and
women who have trOd the boards for years
have been known to lose their power of
speech and flee in dire confusion in the
wings.
Anyhow the other night Bill Nye, Poet
Riley and Richard Malcolm Johnston, the
deep-voiced story writer, sat in a box at
the Academy.
81 never 60 on the stage without expert
encing that awful fear known as stage
fright" said Mr.. Johnston. but it soon
wears Off"
ooh, know what it is" answered Nye,
rubbing his hand over his hairless dome.
"Been there, too, ehf
''Well, should say So"
ibid you ever get badly rattledp
mo. / find, however it's best to forget
the audience and go right ahead"
"Well, maybe don't get embarrassed"
said Riley, as he put on his eyeglasses
II tremble like leaf sometimes when
start on. When out West. L got going once
on a poem and did very well, getting
through couple of stanzas in good shape.
Suddenly / caught a face in the audience,
the words slipped from my memory, and
was in a plight. I tried to think of them,
but couldn't, so I rushed wildly off the
stapen
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A MARRIAGE ON TAMPA BAY.
The Duke Of Sutherland's New House and
Home in Florida.

Home In tlOr1Oa.
Tarpon Springs Letter In Boston Transcript.
On Monday, the 4th day of March, there
were two weddings in the pretty little
Episcopal chapel at Dunedin. First there
was married the rector, Rev. Mr.. Know les,
to charming English girl, Rt. Rev. Bishop
Weed officiating, Then came the marriage
of George William Granville Leverson
Cover and Mary Caroline Blair, Rev. Mr..
Knowles, assisted by the bishop, officiating.
And pray, think hear you say, of what
interest to us can be marriage in south
Florida. Hist! good people, do not speak
too loudly, for be it known that George
other than his Grace, the Duke of Suther-
land, and Mary Caroline Blair is the lady
who, to put it as mildly as possible, has
been his friend for the past two or three
years.
1t is very wrong in me, doubt not, to
write of this marriage, for the Duke is a
on the occasion of the opening OF the Hotel
Sutherland, (which hotel by the way is now
q pile of ashes Jan. 8, | was approached
delicately and implored not to write of
and Mrs. Blair were present, and the Duke
being in mourning tor the late duchess, and
quite out of society flor that reason, of
course1 would not for all the wealth Of the
Indies that it should be reported that he
poor wss mans feelings, as Who would
not respect grief shown SO. touch
ingly, for even as tho ambassador
extraordinary laid the. case before ne
his Grace was promenading the grand cor.
ridors with his friend upon his arm. and l
touched very lightly upon the ducal pres
ence. But do not misunderstood me. was
reporting for Southern paper. whose ed
itOr, on that particular occasion, wished to
cater To the wishes of certain persons and
it was for that reason that | avoided ex-
pressing the sentiments of the majority on
q subject of some interest. said nothing.
But the former beautiful and gentle duch-
ess has been dead a little over hreemonths
now; we are to infer that the period OF
mourning is past, and the present Duchess
of Sutherland is, in Western parlance, In
our midst.
There was some attempt at q wedding a
la mode-ceremony in the church, luncheon
or breakfast at the hotel. The Duke, Mrs
Blair and Miss Blair drove down to Dune
din on Sunday; on Monday their few
bangers-on followed them. Companion
nursery maid, governess, combination OF
both. and last and really least, the few
people here whom they have found willing
TO tosdy to them. The Duke. on the occa-
sion of his wedding. consented to drop hii
hunting suit with those abominable kmick
erbockers, which make him look even more
slender as to UNDERMINING than he il; and
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going to the other extreme. appeared in a

going to the other extreme, appeared In a
pair of black trousers quite magnificent as
to breadth of legs. The bride wore a
cream-colored nun's-veiling, a dress some
what the worse for wear, if / am to believe
the remarks of some who were present
Miss Blair stood up with her mother, and
Mr.. Knight gave the blushing bride away,
that is (excuse the dreadful slang he would
have done it if the New York World had
nottaken that task out of everybody shands
some two years ago. However, in q clerical
sense, Mr.. Knight gave away the bride.
The Dukes chef had prepared and taken to
Dunedin the cold meats, pasties. etc., that
furnished forth the wedding feast, and
present few invited guests, and fear
some of those guests will boast until the
close of their lives that they We're at the
Dukes wedding.
of the Duke of Sutherland this winter,
and SO have written nothing of his house
hold nor himself. But this same household
furnishes such q text for sermon that
now. that all is over, and the Duke has
done what he could to clear the name of
the woman who has been his guest SO
many years. perhaps you would like a
glimpse of them all. 1 am not good
word-painter, but only write simple fact.
This particular peer of England 5aa is rather tI
nothing in look or bearing to show gentle
blood. The new duchess is abundant as to
quality, but decidedly of coarse texture; q
tall fleshy, black-haired woman, in whom
one looks in vain for the attractions that
would drive man mad and make him for
sake home, wife and country for her sake.
The daughter of the duchess, Miss Blair,
is but a child, girl of some fourteen
years, perhaps; uninteresting one must call
her.
But what do you care, or what do care
for these English people, who have perhaps
been made the target of as many false re-
ports as truef Not a whit, 1t is for my
own country people care. 1 care that the
name of American is no longer proud one
for some of us to bear, because some Ameri-
cans are willing to suffer any degradation,
accept any slight, if only they can murmur
"Your Grace!"
have seen women who have passed by
those of their own country with averted
eyes and with dresses held just a bit one
side do humiliating things, that they might
be allowed to know the woman who right
fully or wrongfully has been accused of
some sad things. i know that at that we'd
ding breakfast there were people who would
no more have attended the wedding of the
poor and lowly under such circumstances
than l would take in my ungloved hand
live Goals. / know it because l have seen
them tried, yet they call themselves
honored sons, and this is what Americans
are coming to. TO fall down and worship
rank, to allow q man with a title to do
ANYTHING, and yet to be the first to cast a
rough, rough stone at any of their humber
neighbOrS who may step aside, just little
bit, from the narrow path.
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Two Men Killed in a Collision.

CHARLOTTE, N. c., March 16.-This morning at
O'clock two freight trains telescoped at Clifton,
6. c., on the Piedmont Airline railroad, seven
miles north of spartansburg. Two men were in
and three or four cars were completely wrecked
The men killed were a colored train hand and
tramp who was stealing ride. Engineer o. L.
injured that his life is despaired of. Conductor
F. B. Laird had one of his legs broken, his hip
dislocated and his head frightfully gashed, but
Will probably recover. Fireman Thomas Hunter
and fagman were painfully, though not fatally
mi,
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Riotous Soldiers.

BUFFALO, n. V, March 16.-According to re-
ports received here there is serious trouble at Fl
Niagara, arising from dissatisfaction among the
1t is said there have been frequent dcser-
tons. and that on Thursday last, batch
of eight men left in body for Canada. There
has been riot, it is said. in which three men
ceived bayOnet wounds and one was seriously
hurt. The soldiers who fed the fort are at st.
GATHERINGS, Ontario. They say they will send
statement OF their grievances to General Meigs,
inspector of the United States forts.
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The Vicksburg Survivors.

A wellattended meeting of the members of the
executive committee of the Vicksburg Survivors
Association resident in this city was held at
Saturday night, to arrange for the meeting OF the
association the 22d of May next. The Gov
ernor was elected chairman of the committee,
with Charles w. Brown secretary. A committee,
consisting OF the Governor, and comrades
Brown, Ruckle, Thompson, Waugh and Miller,
was directed to issue an address to the survivors,
giving the details Of the proposed reunion.
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The Harrisons are nearer Sabbatarians
than any people that have been in the
White House for generation. The Presi-
dent would not himself open his Sunday
mail or allow Private Secretary Halford to
do il. Rather remarkable. every member
of the Cabinet is a Presbyterian except
Secretary Proctor, who is an Episcopalian.
and Secretary Rusk. who some say is q
Druid. others Buddhist and others still .
disciple of Confucius.
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, March 16.-A great SEN
sation has been created here by speech dellv-
S. Hewitt, of New York city, who, in the course
OF an able and lengthy discussion OF Southern
affairs, stated that Chattanooga, In his opinion,
would have more than million and half popu-
lation before another hundred years had passed
Mr.. Hewitt accompanied by ex-Mayor Edward
Cooper and several superintendents of Cooper,
Hewitt a. Co.'s works, in New Jersey, visited
this city to investigate the propriety of removing
their works here.
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Failure ut ST. Louis.

ST. LOUIS March 16.-Methudy & Meyer we'll
known lumber merchants, filed general assign
ment this afternoon. to Fred A. Wislizenus, for
are placed at $24S, 500, and the amount of their
liabilities is not given. The firm IL one Of the
oldest lumber firms in the city. and Mr.. Leopold
Methudy has been prominently connected with
q number or public movements. He was presi-
dent of the North American Sangerbund Asso-
citation last year. The members of the firm ale
Leopold Methudy, George G.. Meyer, and Harold
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-18
Injured by Explosion of Natural Gas.

ho nf Inen %ar. T;1.nc ,atrai tas tan ~
Harrison City, near Greensburg, Pa, when
Superintendent Irwin turned on the gas in the
ignited and a terrible explosion followed One
man named Hogan, was killed. and several
others injured, one probably fatally. The in
Hospital, this city.
James Irwin, the superintendent of the Car
negie gas line, was this evening arrested charged
with murder. 1t was he who ttrnedon the gas
without, 1t is alleged notifying the workmen on
the line; Irwin claims the gas was turned on
by accident and his friends arc making q great
effort TO have the justice Of the peace withdraw
the charge of murder and substitute one of man.
slaughter. There is great excitement at the
scene of the accident,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-18
The Difference.

Baltimore American
The first appointments made by Presi-
dent Cleveland four years ago caused al-
most universal condemnation. Those made
so far by President Harrison are classed as
"all good men, This is the difference be-
chief magistrate.
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Prisoner starves Himself to Death.

SACRAMENTO, Cal, March 16.-Harry Holmes
who has been held TO answer q criminal assault,
was found dead in his cell this morning. he had
starved himself TO death, having refused food for
two weeks. On Thursday and Friday, physicians
pumped nourishment into Holiness stomach
but Ii failed to give him any strength, and he
wasted away to a skeleton.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY MARCH 49, 1889

in some manner, the wagon was started and
went over the bluff. Her mother heard the child
scream and went to her assistance, but her dress
caught in the wheel, and the wagon rolled down
the precipice thirty five feet dragging the mother
and child. The girl was instantly killed. and the
mother was so badly injured that she is not
pected to live through the night.
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The Steel-siin Combine.

holders and dealers in mining and railway
stocks in the Northwest, and a man who
says he has been acquainted with the pre-
liminary details of the steel-mill combina-
ton for two weeks. was ut the Grand Pa
cific to-day. With the stipulation that his
name should not be used, he made some
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-18

THE honest public sentiment of the poo
pie of the United States Is unanimously in
favor of DIR. Bulls Cough syrup. The
druggists pronounce it to be the only stand
ard cough remedy.
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Resignation of Senator Chace.

PROVIDENCE. r. l., March 16.-Governor Taft
to-day received a letter of resignation OF his
once OF United States Senator from the Hon.
Jonathan Chaee. 1t will be read TO the General
Assembly on Monday.