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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-23
TELEGRAPHIC BREVlTIES.

Governor Richardson, of South Carolina,
has accepted DR.. McDow's resignation as
surgeon of the First Battalion of Infantry.
Governor Merriam, of Minnesota, has re-
fused to pardon Bob Younger, the Missouri
outlaw, who is dying of consumption in the
Saltwater penitentiary.
An educated Englishman, arrested for in
toxicati0n in HObOken, n. j.. last night, is
booked as Lord LenOX, aged fifty, of the
Hoffman House." He passed the night in a
cell.
John Rose. one of the most prominent
assassinated yesterday. He was leader
of feudal faction. and was to be tried
shortly for killing his father-in-law
Ferdinand Knack. German farmer liv-
ing near Springwater. Wis, is under arrest
for poisoning his second wife, who died
His first wife also died suddenly last April.
John Westerline, John Fisher and Andrew
Streicher, three of the men who were in
jured in the Ridgeway tannery explosion
at Brockwayville, Pa, last Friday, have
since died, and John BargessOn is expected
intense pain, and death was a relief.
Near Franklin, KY, on Sunday, George
Harris. and Sam Bryant. both colored,
quarreled over Bryant's charge that Harris
had stolen tobacco plants. Bryant made a
move as If to draw pistol and Harris
killing him almost instantly.
The Dominion government has had one
of the persons afflicted with leprOsy in
Inverness county, Cape Breton removed to
the leprosy lazarettO at Tracadie. n. b. 1t is
understood that there is some doubt about
the other two cases reported. but they are
being investigated, and action on them
will be taken at once.
District Attorney Fellows. of New York
city, said to a reporter yesterday that he
viii bring no more boodlers to trial unless
some new evidence not available in the
trials already had, can be procured. The
result of the trials thus far, he says, Is to
show that conviction is impossible, and to
prosecute under such circumstances is to
waste the public money.
On Sunday night Dan Malone. a negro
twenty-five years of age, attempted to as
sault respectable woman, Mrs. Rachel
Skinner, living six miles from COvington,
Ca Her screams brought assistance, but
the negro escaped. Subsequently he was
captured and identified and confessed his
guilt. Yesterday morning, as he was being
brought to town he was taken from the
officer by sixty masked men and hanged.
Cora BrinzinghOhen. o fourteen. year-Old
girl, ran away from her home at Howard
City, Kan, last Saturday, with Mary Pelly,
q companion, and started on foot for Kansas
City. COra's father followed and caught
up with the runaway yesterday afternoon.
AS he was about to take his daughter into
custody. she drew q revolver from her
pocket and shot herself in the head, fatally
wOunding herself The cause of her leaving
home is not known.
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The President ar Deer Park.

DEER PARK, Nd. July 22.-The President
has refused to further commute the sem
tence of Jack Spaniard. otherwise known
as Cherokee Jack" who has been SEN
fenced to hang for murder at Fit. Smith,
Ark, Aug. 8. reprieve was granted some
time ago. in order that the President
might have an opportunity to fully ex-
anime the papers in the case. The cOnclu-
sion was reached this afternoon that suffi-
cient grounds did not exist for executive
clemency, and the Encouragement was so
notified.
The remainder of the Presidents time to-
day was taken up with correspondence
which had begun to increase. The Presi-
dents routine is to busy himself till the
middle of the afternoon with official bust
ness, then to stroll through the woods or
drive till dinner with his family. and then
TO take another turn at business in the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-23
SURVEYORS Drowned.

DENVER, Col, July GA party of sur
veyOrs, headed by Frank NJ. Brown, left
here on May % for the purpose of exploring
the Colorado river, with the view of build
ing a railroad by that route to the Pacific
coast. To-day the following telegram was
received from the expedition:
KANAB, U. T., July %.
President Frank NJ. Brown was drowned in
the Colorado river, near Marble canyon. July 10,
by boat capsizing while running the rapids.
He was thrown into q whirlpool and was unable
to get out, while the other man in the boat was
thrown into the current and carried down about
600 feet and landed. All of the other boats OF
the expedition went through the rapids safely,
and my boat reached the point wnere Brown was
drowned half minute after the accident hap
pened. and less than five seconds after he sank
for the last time. Five days after, while work
ing our way down, another boat was driven
against a cliff, and, in pushing 1t on, was cap
sized. and two bOatmen-Peter HasbCrOugn and
Henry c. Richardson-were drowned before as
sistance could reach them. 1t is impossible to
recover any of the bodies.
ROBERT B. STANTON, Chief Engineer.
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Denied She Had Committed Suicide.

NEW YORK, July 22.-On July 12 mys-
terious young woman committed suicide at
a Third-avenue lodging house. She was at
first supposed to be Mrs. Kitty Doane, of
Toronto, but later it was discovered that
that was not her name. All efforts to
identify the suicide failed until yesterday.
William Reynolds. a young tinsmith. called
at police headquarters and stated that the
young girl was his cousin. Kate McCOr-
mack. of Cleveland, O., who ran away with
a sewing machine agent named Kibler some
months ago. Reynolds told romantic
story, and the police thought that at last
the question of identity was settled. That
they were mistaken was proved this morn
of Cleveland. walking into headquarters
and denying that she had committed sui
eide, and telling the police that Reynolds
was troubled with an awful Imagination.
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Mrs. Hogan Believes Her Husband Dead.

JACKSON Mich. July 22.-Mrs Hogan has
heard no news from the professor. She has
given up all hope and believes he has met
with death. She left last night for New
York. She states that her husband had
with him 81, 900 in cash, and a balloon and
outfit, which he must have left with
friends
LOUISVILLE, July 22.-An inflated bag
answering to the description of the gas
holder of the Campbell air-ship passed over
this city last night. In order to be sure
that it was not a toy bolloon it was
watched for two hours. 1t went straight
across the city from northeast to south
west, as if carried by a steady current, and
appeared to be two miles high.
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VIII Fight the Salt Trust.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
PITTsBURG. July 22.-The Pittsburg Salt
Company has positively refused to sell out
or enter into any agreement with the salt
trust known as the North American Salt
Company. and as a consequence the latter
is determined to crush the big Pittsburg
firm if possible. The Pittsburg Salt Conn
pany is the largest firm opposed to the
trust. 1t comprised what was known as the
Central salt district before the trust was
formed. One of the firm said to-day: I've
of course shall not antagonize the North
American Salt Company, but if, when it
begins operation on Jan. /. 1890, it tries to
ruin our company, we think we can defend
ourselves. and hope for the patronage of tn
consumers"
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The Fashion in Dogs.

washington Post
The fashion in dogs is as capricious as
that in bonnets. The pug is said to be rap
idly going out. A lady now. looks more TO
the intelligence of her dog than the fiatness
of his nose. The dainty, delicate little
!. fox terrier while the gymnasium physics
culture-tennis-b baseball girls. with tough
muscles and natural waists, affect only the
big dogs-mastiffs, st. Bernards and settlers.
Who can telli Another generation in the
der the entire class of fiat-nosed. wea keyed,
long haired small dogs entirely obsolete.
The new fashion will commend itself to all
real lovers of women. 1t is a step in the
right direction. If women must pet dogs
let them be dogs of best Neutrality-suspicious.
that can walk, dogs that can sleep on the
floor, that can eat plain food. such as the
woman herself lives on. Let it be dog
that could stand guard over the house. give
warning of intrusion, and be something
more of protection than a nuisance.
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A Half-Witted Horse-Thief.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.


PERU, July 22.-WOrd reached this city
to-day of the finding of J. r. Killers horse
and buggy. which was stolen at midday
from the public racks of this city, on a
farm some nine miles south of Indianap-
oils. The thief. q balf-witted person.
named Allen Griffin, residing in Wabash
county. has not vet been apprehended 1t
seems this is one of Griffin's manias, this
this point, where he has relatives living.
When near. or in the neighborhood, he
always turns the team loose, without re-
gard to it's welfare How he ever managed
to pass along the highways to where the
from the fact that rewards were offered
and officers watching at every town and
village
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INDIANAANDILLINOIS NEWS
The Story of a Minister Charged with
Conducting Two Establishments.
Susan Fussell's Funeral-Clay County Regu-
lators-A Fight in Court-The Result of
Shooting Scrape-Business Failure.
INDIANA.

A Minister Who Wore the Livery of Heaven In
Chalmers and Served the Devil in Delphi.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
DELPHI, July 22.-Rev. C.. G. Palmer, q
young Baptist minister, filling appoint
ments at Brookston and Chalmers. in the
adjoining county of White, has disap-
peared, and the indications are that his
companion at this time is Miss Mary
McGoon. of Pawpaw, Mich, but who has
been living in this city some time. Palmer
leaves wife and child without dollar.
The game that Palmer played was desper-
arely bold, and the good people of this and
White county hold up their hands in horror
when they think OF it, and the scandal is
to-day on everybody's tongue. He gradu-
ated from Franklin College, the Baptist
institution in this State, eight years
ago, and at once entered the
pulpit, in the meantime marrying a
sweet and charming wife. He was
stOn. short time after he located there
Miss McGoOn came to this place in COM
pany with Palmer, the two claiming to be
cousins. She opened out as a dress-maker.
the evening with his counterfeit cousin,
taking her to church, and on several occa-
siOns the visiting pastor filled the Baptist
church pulpit in this city. he and the regu-
lar pastor, Rev. Van Cleve. having been
classmates in college. Suspicion was soon
aroused. by frequent visits. and the matter
coming to the ears of Rev. Palmer's wife,
she came over Sunday and exploded a
bOmbshell. The result was that the minis
ter and Miss McGOon left for parts IN
known. 1t now turns out that prior to
leaving the young preacher raised over
$1,000 on notes Endorsed by members of his
congregation. and the victims are hot on
his trail. Several ministers of the Baptist
church met in this city to-day to take ac-
ton on.the matter.
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Paris Dispatch in L ndon DAILY News.
1t appears that we may at last look for.
ward to a metropolitan railway. but Ii Will
only serve one point of Paris south OF tha
Seine. The projected line is to be seven
miles long. with a short branch line; a
central terminus will stand at the back or
the Madeleine. The main line will run
from that point to the Bastile by the opera,J
connect the termini of the Bsstile-N in
cennes, the Paris-Lyons and the PariS-Or-
leans railway. From the latter 1t VIII be
brought ronnd again by the Rue de Rivoh
Madeleine. The underground. part of the
line will be four miles long. the rest will
go through cuttings and by viaducts. NJ;
Yves-Guyot is granting the concession OF
the Metropolitan TO a syndlcaiae OF caH,tal .
subyention or guarantee of interest. They
will Issue shares of the value of 5000, 90
francs and bonds for S6.0O0,OOO francs.
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ILLINOIS.
Two Men Who Fought Harmless Duel and
Then Took Turn in the Courts.


Then Took Turn in the Courts.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
MARSHALL, July pa few days ago
Joseph RalstOn and William H. Harris.
both of York township, met in the road and
engaged in duel with rifle and revolver.
Neither was hurt but each had the other
arrested for assault with intent to
kill. Harris's trial was held last
Thursday, and after hearing the
evidence and the argument the
Justice took the case under advisement.
The decision was given Saturday, and it
was that Harris be bound over to the Cir
cult Court in the sum of $500. Harris not
appearing to furnish bond, an investiga-
ton was made, and it appears that he has
fled the country, scared away by threats of
white-capping by his neighbors for SLAM
derous statements made during the trial
concerning number of respectable women.
Harris was for many years the acknOwl-
edged leader of the township, gaining the
sObriquet of 1.-The Duke of York" His con-
duct has finally alienated nearly all his
friends
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Brief Mention.

Mrs Harry Heap, ST., died at Mattoon
yesterday evening. after short illness.
Kenton w. kibble has declined an ap-
pointment as naval cadet from the Six
teenth congressional district of Illinois.
Mattoon's Citizens Natural gas. Oil and
Fuel Company elected directors last Satur-
day evening. and is now ready to receive
bids for drilling.
The trustees of Kaskaskia commons last
week finished survey and plat of their
lands. They find abont 2. 500 acres of virgin
soil in Kaskaskia bottom in which there
never was furrow. Upon farms adjoining
been raised this year. The lands are to be
leased. and the income applied to the Kas-
kaskia schools.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-23

MENAsHA, Wis, July 22.-During the
past two years people have, at various
times. claimed to have seen a sea serpent
in Lake Winnebago. Others who saw the
alleged monster said it was q whale. In
one or two instances af!idavits to the truth
of the claim were made. 1t is now found
that there is some ground for the stOry
told. Saturday afternoon, while two boys
were spearing frogs near the lake, they saw
the monster in a shallow place. Assist
ance was summoned and q sea lion eleven
feet long was captured. 1t escaped from a
circus here four years ago, and the fact
had been forgotten.
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The Suspected CrOnin Murderer.

CHICAGO, July 22.-Burke's lawyers have
made no sign of an intention to take an ap-
peal from Judge Bain's order for his extra
ditiOn, and in a letter received by Judge
Longenecker. to-day, from his assistant.
George Baker, the latter expressed the
is merely conjecture. however, as the sus-
pected Cronin murderer has until Friday
to take action for an appeal or for habeas
corpus The case against him in this city
was on the July calendar, in Judge McCOn-
nelps court, and to get it out of the way
Assistant States Attorney Elliott to-day
entered the formal order, continued by the
people for service" the usual proceeding
when an indicted person is not within the
jurisdiction Of the court.
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Susan Fussell's Funreal.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
SPICELAND, July 22.-The remains of
Susan RUSSELL. inclosed in a beautiful cas-
ket, yesterday lay in state in one of the
parlors of her cottage. The room was
filled with choicest flowers, many
of which had been sent by friends, and
hundreds of people came to look upon the
face, and pay their tribute of respect to
this noble woman. This morning, from 8
to o'clock, funeral services were held at
her home, an immense number of peO-
pie being present. and Rev. Brew
ington. of Knightstown. assisted by
Harmon RayI Post, G.. A. r.,
conducting the services Mrs. III. L, Davis
read a well-prepared obituary of the life of
the deceased. The remains were taken to
the Friends burial ground at Fall creek,
near Pendleton, for burial. She leaves
quite an estate, part of which she left to be
used in finishing up the work of humanity
she had spent her life in doing.
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Charged with Murder.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
DELPHI, July 22.-Charles Gros, a Poland
er, is now in Jail at Monticello, charged
with the murder of his wife's four months
old child. FIVE years ago Gros came to this
country. leaving his wife and the children
on the other side of the water. By INDUS
try and thrift he acquired home and a
piece of land near Reynolds. He then sent
for his family, and his surprise can be i'm
agined when his wife appeared with
deeply affected by his wifes infidelity and
hated the infant from the time he first saw
it. Its sudden disappearance and reports
made by the other children led to an in
vestigation. which disclosed the mangled
remains of the little one in grave in the
garden. The Polander SAYS he doesn't care
what becomes of him, so they don't hang
him
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Steamship News.

LIVERPOOL, July 22.-Arrived: Kansas.
from Boston.
from New York.
GLASGOW. July 22.-Arrived: State of
Georgia. from New York.
SOUTHAMPTON, July 22-Arrived: Elder,
from New York for Bremen.
NEW YORK, July 22-Arrived: Ems from
Bremen; Aurania, from Liverpool; Ethiopia,
from Glasgow.
LONDON, July 22.-Sighted: Amsterdam,
from New York, for Amsterdam; Hermann,
from Baltimore, for Bremen.
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The Court Not Heard From.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
EVANSVILLE, July 22.-In Justice Mlehle's
court, to-day, during the trial of State
case, August Thiele, son of prominent
wholesale and retail stove merchant, and a
member of the firm, took exceptions to
something Maj. j. G. Winfrey, counsel in
the case, said while addressing the court.
Thiele jumped to his feet and interrupted
the attorney by calling him q liar. Win
frey. who is Kentuckian, resented the
insult on the spot by picking up chair
and knocking Thiele down. After some
difficulty on the part of court officers quiet
was restored. The court will pass on their
conduct tomorrow.
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Obituary.

NEWARK, N. j., July 22.-Rev. E. d.
Rankin, one of the best known Presby teri
an ministers in the country, died of heart
trouble this evening. at the age of seventy.
He was graduate of Harvard.
LOUISVILLE, KY, July 22.-Will Brown,
a son of Samuel Brown, a Pittsburg Pa.
millionaire, died at Princeton tonight, of
He had been an engineer on the OHIO Val
ley railroad till he was married, about
three weeds ago. He was then made a
passenger conductor.
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Took Him at His Word.

There is good bit of wit in Judge Jera
NJ Wilson yet. He was in Ebels restaus
rant the other day putting away soft-shell
Worthington.
"Haye a soft-shell crab. ColorelP said
the Judge.
GRABS are poison TO me. Judge"
waiter, bring Colonel Worthington five
or six soft-shell crabs"
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Important to "Britannica" Subscribers

KANSAS CITY, July 22.-Scribner's Sons
are sole importers of the ninth edition of
Encyclopedia Britannica. The edition was
photographed by the Henry Allen Com
here by Subscription. several of the e snba
scribers refused to take the books on the
ground that they were not getting what
they expected. The Allen company brought
suit to compel those subscribers to take
the plaintiff to-day in Justice Clayton's
court, the justice dismissing all the cases,
eleyen In uumber.
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Jackson Wants to Fight Sullivan.

NEW YORK, July 22-"Parson" Davies, of
Chicago. arrived in town tonight. He is
stopping at the Continental Hctel. At the
Holman House the Parson met +. J. Van
NJ. I. Van Horn won $4,000 OH Sullivan,
and began Safeguarding Davies, who was
a Kilrain man, about the backing he had
given Kilrain and Jackson, the colored pu-
gilst. Davies became angry and knocked
Van Horn down. Davies says Jackson can
get $4,000 backing to fight Sullivan. Da-
vies is here to arrange the fight. If possible.
jackson will be here on Thursday.
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General Notes.

SPECIAL to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, July Cool w. r. Hol-
lcway. of Indianapolis, who has been here
the greater portion of his time since the
4th of March, returns to indianapolis to-
night
The Washington Critic asserts that the
friends of Hon. James B. White, late Rep
resentative from the Fort Wayne district
of Indiana, are confident that he will Sc
cure the gubernatOrial nomination on the
Republican ticket In Indiana, three years
from neXtfall.
The Attorney general to-day appointed
James l.. Caldwell, of Nebraska, special as
of the government suit brought against the
Union Pacific Railroad Company and
Western Union Telegraph Company,
under the act of August, 1888, with special
reference to the operation of telegraph
lines owned by the railroad company.
Definite arrangements for the trip of
President Harrison to Bar Harbcr, where
he will be the guest of Secretary. Blaine,
are not yet concluded, but probably. will
be decided upon by the President while at
Deer Park, this week. His present inten-
ton is TO start early in August, about the
fifth. but inasmuch as the Maine coast is
likely to be wrapped in fog until
the middle of the month he may conclude
to defer the trip until the latter part of the
month. when the weather is usually much
more pleasant.
The Secretary of the Treasury has ap-
pointed the following storekeepers and
Samuel Mckeehan and John Richey, at
Cincinnati. q.
The Secretary of the Treasury to-day ap-
pointed Charles Hedges, of Texas, to be
chief of division in the Sixth Auditors
office, vice c. L. Mitchell, resigned.
Bond offerings and acceptances at the
Treasury, to-day, aggregated S23. 200 regis
tered four-and-one-halfs, at Sl.067s.
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wou,d-Be Lynchers Frustrated.

CLINTON, La, July 22.-About one hun
dred men assembled here last night for the
purpose of lynching two negroes, Charles
and Isaiah Dent, the principal actors in
the recent assassination of Herman Proc
torius. The officials adroitly carried the
prisoners away and sent them to New Or
leans for safe keeping, and when the lynch
ing party called at the jail, at A. NJ, they
were informed that the prisoners were then
safe beyond pursuit.
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Across the Continent on Horseback.

DENVER, Col. July 22.-Millionaire John
Allen, the New York hotel man, and Prof.
f. III. Platt, of riding school fame, rode in
to Denver at noon yesterday on jadsd
bronchos and leading mustang ponies.
They left New York May IA, bound for the
Golden Gate, and have made the journey SO
far without the slightest mishap. They
hope to reach their destination by October.
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Two Have Been disposed Of"

GREENvILLE, Miss, July 22-It is now
known that at least two of the murderers
burn plantation, have been disposed of,
namely, Joseph and Gabe Webster. Three
hundred and fifty dollars reward has been
offered for each of the following-named
parties who participated in the murder,
Isaac Perkins, Alfred ID. Yates John Per-
kins and Dave Perkins-all colored.