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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-01
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

During the year 1888. 3s3, 595 immigrants
We're landed at Castle Garden, an increase
OF 1,977 over the previous year.
Mayor Hewitt, of New York, has appoint
ed ID. LOwber Smith as commissioner of
public works. He was at once sworn into
Office.
AT Charlottesville. Va, last night, police
man Seal was murdered by a negro. The
murderer escaped. The officer was on duty
at the time
The boiler in Dush's shingle-mill. five
miles northeast OF Milbrook, Mich, explod-
ed yesterdy,, killing w. w. Dush. the pro-
prietor, and John Carr, the night watch
man. Bert Smiley was fatally injured. The
whole establishment is complete wreck.
Two negroes who sand-bagged III. III.
Rucker, Chicago travelling man. two
weeks ago, III st. Louis, and robbed him of
$50 OF his employers money, were arrested
Sunday night, and lodged in Jail Fuckers
gold watch was found in possession of one
of them.
At a dance near Horse Cave, KY, Thurs
nent country merchant, quarrelled with
one Calf, and drawing his pistol. began
shooting. At the third discharge a fen
year-Old boy named Powell, the son of a
well-tO-do citizen, fell dead. Young made
his escape.
While Mh1ie William Price, a prominent and
Tenn, was on his way home from that city
Saturday night, he was fired upon by an
unknown man. Both barrels of shotgun
We're emptied into him at short range. in
fiicting fatal wounds. The murderer has
not yet been found. mas
Patrick Redding, foreman, met a bor-
rible death at the Shenandoah coll;er,-
strippings, Yesterday, by a premature dis.
charge OF dualIn. An assistant misunder-
before Redding could get away after conO
Meeting the battery wires. Several lahorers
narrowly escaping the same fate.
United States Marshal Benson arrested of
West Plains, Mo-, on Sunday. and lodged in in
! rni at 81. LOUIS, Alfred DAVIS, notorious
have been after for long time. He had =
vallse containing complete set of dies and
molds for the manufacture of quarters and and
halves, and large quantity of counterfeit
money.
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Minor Notes.

The Martinsville Daily Tribune ended a
short but brilliant career on Saturday aft
ern0On.
A. ID. Perry well-known farmer and pr
oneer of Pulaski county, died on Saturday
of paralysis.
Rev. DR.. Porter, of Melbourne, Australia.
occupied the pulpit at the Christian Church
in Martinsville on Sunday.
man in Montgomery county has just
been sent TO the penitentiary, for one year,
for stealing seven quarts OF oysters.
Three arrests have been made at Hamlet,
LaPorte county. in connection with the
mysterious death of a young man named
Haley.
Lorenzo Jackson was arrested at WaldrOn
yesterday ON the charge of burglarizing the
residence of William Pence. He was bound
over 10 the Shelby county court in the sum
of $500.
A sneak-thief giving the name of Emmett
Callahan. of Chicago, was caught in the act
of r0bbing the cash-crawer of Goshen
store on Saturday. He says he is member
of the Canadian pium-smuggling gang.
Ohio w. Dowden, an old, wealthy and
ecce nitric bachelor, of Lawrenceburg, was
found dead at the entrance to his sleeping
apartment yesterday morning. He had
been on a spree for two or three days past.
Elkhart, South Bend and LaPorte are
now without telephone service, owing to q
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CALLED INTO COURT
Western Union and Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph
Companies Charged with Violating Law.

PHILADELPHIA. Dee. 31.-Sherifl krumb-
haar received from Harrisburg. to-day. a
writ of quo warranto commanding him to
summon the Western Union and the Balti-
more 81 Ohio Telegraph companies before
the Dauphin county court, to answer for
an alleged violation of the Constitution
and the laws of the State. The writ, which
is returnable Jan. 90 was served.thls after
noon by a sheriff's deputy on the principal
officers of the company, stationed at the
main office, at Broad and South Pennsyt-
vania square. The paper filed by the Attor-
general, which forms the basis OF the
suit, sets forth that the Western Union Com
pany, on Oct. 5, 1887, Iii violation OF the
Constitution of Pennsylvania, purchased
the entire stock, and thereby q controlling
interest, of the Baltimore g. Ohio Telegraph
Company. and still holds the same,
$3.50 shares of the capital stock,
of the par value of $3,S75, 900, and
paid therefor S5,OOO,OOO; that the
Baltimore & Ohio company, was Compel
ing line in this State with the western
Union, and that it's stock, lines and fran,
chises were by reason of the sale forfeited
to the State. For the same reason the At
general claims decree of forfeiture
and escheat of the line, property and
franchise of the Western Union company
in this State. The Attorney general also
claims forfeiture of the line, franchises
and property of the Baltimore g. Ohio
Telegraph Company of Pennsylvania, be-
cause of such purchases and consolidation.
The recent triumph of the Garrett interest
in the election of the new Baltimore 81
Ohio president is believed by many to &C
count for the suit, but it is stated on au-
thority that the Attorney general has taken
the step of his own free will and would
have moved in the matter over a year ago
had he been in possession of positive proof.
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ILLINOIS.
Gleanings from Exchanges and Cuttings from
CorresnOndence.

The miners of southern Illinois have
organized branch of the National Fedora
tion of Miners.
Rev. w. f. Short, president of the Illinois
Wesleyan Female College, of Jacksonville,
dedicated Asbury Chapel at Pleasant View,
Platt county, on Sunday.
Charles ID. Kane, Democrat, of Pinckney-
vile, has been elected States attorney, to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Il. NJ. Davis. His plurality over the Re-
publican candidate was 175.
Simon Bolinger, of Decatur, after an un-
successful attempt at several branches of
business, committed suicide, Sunday morn
ing, by taking arsenic, because his wife
would not give him money with which to
start saloon.
Henry Prettyman, Western Union line
repairer, fell between the cars, near Quincy,
on Saturday night The wheels almost cut
Off one of his feet, and, no one having seen
him fall, he was left alone with his man
gled foot. He tied his vest around it, and
crawled along the track nearly three miles
before meeting anyone. The foot was am
putated on Sunday, and he is likely to
recover.
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Christmas. When the detectives ordered
him 70 halt he whipped ont big revolver
and opened fire. His first bullet passed
through a portion of Stratton' s coat. The
detect yes returned the fire and Wallace
fell to the ground mortally wounded.
AS the dying desperate breathed his last,
be confessed that he and Cap Hatfield were
paid $50 each by a deputy sheriff OF Buch-
anan county, Virginia, and others, for Kill
ing JET Mccoy about two years ago. The
murder money was placed IN the hands of
Devil Ance" Hatfield. the father of Cap,
and was paid to them when the bloody
work was completed.
The death of Wallace is good thing for
the country He was captured once before,
but Knocked the jailer down and escaped.
His crime was a peculiarly horrible one.
About two years ago Tom Wallace stole
away Miss Daniels. niece of jeff Mccoy,
one of the sons of Harmon Mccoy, slain
during the war. When the girl learned
that she had been made the victim
of a mock marriage, she left Wallace
in Virginia and hid with her
with fairy. He gave Cap Hatfield $50 to
help him recover the girl. The two men
crossed the Tug and went TO MIR. Daniels's
cabin. The old man was sleeping In one
daughters slept in another. Hatfield cross
examined the old woman as TO the where
.abOuts of her daughter. Failing to dis
cover the hiding place of the fugitive, Cap
Hatnelu wrapped the marry part Oh "a COW
tail about his fist and beat the invalid
woman with the heavy stump till she was
almost dead. Meanwhile Wallace kept the
old man in bed at the muzzle of
a cooked Winchester. Soon after
JEFF Mccoy was in West Virginia.
when he was seized near the mouth of
Thacker creek by Tom Wallace and Cap
Hatfield, who tied him to a stake and pre-
pared 20 kill him. McCOy's InOther waded
across the river and begged on her knees
for the life of her son. She was kicked and
forced back 10 Kentucky. Meanwhile jeff
shrugged free from the cords that bound
him, and, leaping into the river, SWAN for
his life. Wallace and Hatfield stood on the
West Virginia bank and kept up a fire on
their victim. Mccoy had reached the
shore and was struggling up the high bank.
His old mother fell on her knees in trans
port of gratitude for the life of her son.
The young fellow had just seized a corn
stalk TO help him in the last upward bound,
when a bullet went through his head and
he fell on tree stump below, stone dead.
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Other Strikes.

PITTsBURG, Dec. 31.-The brick-makers
of Pittsburg and Allegheny have decided
to demand an advance in wages of 10 per
cent. on March /, and to strike if the in
crease is not conceded.
CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 31.-About thirty
switchmen in the yards of the Lake Erie q
Western railroad, at Lima. O.. went ON a
strike tonight because they were not in
Guided in an advance of wages granted the
conductors and brakemen. 1t is said that
the strike will extend
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of
Various Kinds in the Two States.
An Alleged Car Thief's Trick to Get cut of
TrOuble-Probably Fatal Accident at Leb-
anon-A Wabash Minister Recognized.
The Shrewd Trick of an Alleged Car Thief
and His Final Arrest.

The Shrewd Trick of an Alleged Car Thief
and His Final Arrest.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
COLUMBUS, Dec. 31.-An important arrest
was made in this city at an early hour this
morning. One night last August a valuable
set of new harness belonging to Col. White,
was stolen from his stable here. The theft
was fastened upon William Watson, who
was taken into custody at Frank
lin, but after few days in jail there he
was released. For some time freight cars
here have been broken into and goods stO-
len, but no clew could be had as to who
was doing the thieving until about week
ago when freight conductor on the .Jeffer-
sOnville. Madison IL Indianapolis railroad
detected man rObbing car at Edlnburg.
He placed the thief under arrest, when
man. who has since been recognized as
Watson, sprang out of an adjacent car, and,
with drawn revolver, requested OF the
conductor that he be allowed TO take charge
of the prisoner. as he was railroad
detective, and desired to turn the arrested
man over to the proper authorities IN this
city. The conductor believed the story
and put the man in the custody of the al
legged detective. This was the last seen of
either man until the arrest of Watson to-
day. 1t is thought he will divulge some
extensive rObberies.
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Steamship News.

diana, Furnesia, from New York. Mon;ti
ban, from Philadelphia; Siberian, from Bos-
HAMBURG, Dec. 31.-Arrived: Australia.
from New York
ROTTERDAM, Dec. 31.-Arrived: Chester
from Philadelphia. ''i'
LoNDoN, Dec. 3.-Arrived: Minnesota
from Baltimore. iieSo'a'
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The Case of AriIkman Barrett.

LONDON, Dec. 31.-Chief Constable
Wyetheford. of Bradford, asserts that the
evidence against Barrett, the milkman, as
the murderer of the boy John Gill. is of the
most serious character. He has decided to
withhold the details of the evidence for
the present, but states that Barrett laughs,
sings, and occasionally by wild look in
his eyes and in other ways indicates his IN
sanity. Sufficient testimony was taken to-
day 90 warrant the interment of the body
of the boy, and the inquest. was adjourned
clews discovered by to-day's proceedings.
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The Gordon Relics.

LONDON. Dec. 31.-General Grenfell has
ordered the Soudanese who offered to bring
the clothing. sword, papers etc, of General
Gordon. alleged 70 be buried near Berber.
TO go Immediately and fetch them. Implicit
faith Is placed in the statements made con-
corning these relics. and ii is expected that
they Will shortly be recovered.
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The Presbyterian Conference.

NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-The conference of
Presbytelians of the North and South was
continued to-day. The proceedings were
secret and the members positively declined
to make public any part of their delibera-
lions, stating that the same course was
pursued at the last conference 1t was in
ferred, however, that the Northern and
Southern delegates We're getting along har-
mOniOusly and that union might be con-
fdently looked forward to-
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LOWELL Mass, Dec: S1.-Mrs. Mary A.
Long Haskell, third wife of Rev. Mr.. Hask-
Billerica, was arrested this afternoon for
polygamy on complaint of Rev. Mr.. Hask-
ell James {. Wilkinson, prominent real
estate agent, who was married Feb. z, 1888,
to Mrs: Haskell, in New York, has left the
city with some of Mrs. Haskell's money.
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Good Start for the New ye.r

CHICAGO, Dec. a.---The Chicago Theo,og-
c lca oe an thy an institution under the
gins the new year with a Gift Of ss.n n vo-
The last q 500 of the $500 600 required to So.
cure the $4,000 of Mr.. r. @. Peters. of NJ
1 ISL Mich, was pledged this afternoon.
a o8em0 oa was the last day Mr.. Peters's
proposition just three years ago. '''"'0 'ne
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GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.
German Newspapers Gratified Over tn
Peaceful Outlook i'm Europe.

Peaceful outlook In Europe.
BERLIN, Dec. 31.-German newspapers
generally comment ON the opening OF the
new year with expressions of satisfaction
at the peaceful outlook. The North Ger
man Gazette-Prince Bismarck's Organ-in
summarizing the existing differences be-
tween the various nations, says that the
dispute between France and Italy, with re-
gard TO Tunis, will not have any important
results. The paper eulogizes the Servian
Radicals, declaring that they gave convinc-
ing proof. by their action yesterday, of
their willingness and capability in the mat
ter of formulating a practical policy.
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Not Pleased with American, Tnstifuti.ops

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 3.-The police prevented
the Kilrain-Mitchell entertainment to-
night. There was a big crowd present, and
Mitchell suggested that as they could not
box they would wrestle, but the police said
police again demurred, and the men did not
strip. They were, however, given the re-
ceipts. Mitchell swears roundly at Ameri-
can intitutiOns, and declares he will go
back to England inside of three weeks.
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Young Yeople's Revival Services.
.aoia1 To tho Indianannlis Ionrnal

V"t1111I'Is
KNIGHTSvILLE, Dec. 31.-Ninety CONVEX
siOns is the result of the special services
that have been conducted in the Methodist
Church at this place. The young peoples
prayer-meeting meets every evening at 6
o'clock, and one of the prominent saloon
keepers has given them an invitation to
have prayer-meeting at his place on Wednes-
day night, which they have accepted. The
young people are making special prayers
for the salOon-keepers, and they regard this
an answer to their prayers.
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The Mexican Hoax.

CITY OF MEXICO, Dec. 3l.-President
Diaz, Secretary of the Interior Romero
Rubio and Secretary of Finance Dublin ex-
pressed great indignation when informed
of the circulation in the United States of a
rumor that an uprising had taken place in
this city. They say that peace was never
ON tirmer basis than at present. Presi-
dent .Diaz has expressed a resolution to
punish the author of the hoax if he can be
discovered
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rage license Saturday to marry MISS
Bishop. Then he collected All the S ~ To
discounting bills heavily. He made no l,, re,
turns to his employers and has not since
been seen. Cousin Lewis" was aiwasS
thought by the firm to be a man OIL eAoe'
lent habits.
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Killed by an Insane ,r.n

at s Pee aanpp policeman was killed to-niaSt
ont of f thia e; OF John b. Huekns, six miles
rest Charles a T Enere ne had gone to ar
me-; ;ns insane Asylum. Tanner w n.ni u, 70
; ~ insane in 1881. and nd sa aut
Tannesrn Tue Concord Insane Asvlnm'
asvlnm l naa h once been AN inmate Of the
became a v; nip been released. He again
to go. IN lig d Robinson. was sent
the ~ e. $50 hig Tanner. pu She Se hg
gun - ! lssat the stairs, aud, seizing n
Tame, ir,,.t f5sv killing. him instantly.
escant5 - - ut of the window and
fonnd ~ DDS. Later, Tanner was
six ~; = - .a7ee IS barn, at Barrinpfon
iodsed - ~ Sza brought back here and
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Edward Harrington sent to Prison.

DUBLIN. Dec. 31.-Edward Harrington,
NJ. P for West Kerry, and editor of the
Tralee Sentinel was to-day sentenced to
six months imprisonment at hard labor for
publishing reports of suppressed branch
OF the National League. Mr.. Harrington
did not appeal from the Judgment of the
court.
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A Wabash Pastor Honored.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WABASH, Ind, Dec. 31.-Rev. G. L. Bacon,
pastor of the NJ. Z. Church in this city, has
been honored with an invitation to deliver
the term lecture at DePauw Uni
versity, Greencastle, on Sunday, Jan. 13
This is one of the most important
lectures of the course at De PAW. and the
selection of Mr., Bacon is a compliment to
the invitation and his pulpit on that day
will probably be filled by Rev. A. f. Mahin,
presiding elder of the Fort Wayne district.
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Sick Man Attempts Suicide

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal
MADISON, Dec. 31.-Bird Curtis, of Col
insville, Conn.,. who is hopelessly ill at the
Western Hotel in this city. attempted sui
eide, this afternoon, by cutting his throat,
infiicting two gashes, one nearly severing
the iuCular vein.
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Gladstone Besiered hv Visitors.

NAPLES. Dec. 31.-Mr. Gladstone was be-
happy New Year. He was the recipient ST
large number of addresses, and especially
expressed his pleasure at the receipt of the
address of the New. England Society and a
eulOgistic poem by Ebenezer Elliott. He is
in excellent health and shirts
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JeffersonvilIe to Have street-Cars.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
JEFFERSONvILLE, Dec. 31.-The Ohio Falls
Street-railway Company was organized here
to-day, with capital stock of $4,000, and
will present an ordinance to the City
Council, tomorrow night, asking for
a franchise to construct line
in this city. The incOTporators are John
G. Zulauf, John +. Read, Ed j. Howard, Z.
c. Eakin and L. III. Myers, of this city, and
Dennis Long, Jacob kreiger, James Baird,
Joseph Huffaker, Edward Fulton. David
Frantz and A. L. Sabin, who represent
about a, 100000 in wealth.
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Death nv Flood and Disease.

ROME, Dec. 31.-The Vatican has received
wsof terrible floods, accompanied by great
loss of life, in ManchOria. Indian advices
say the cholera prevails in a virulent form
at QuilOn, on the Malabar coast. 1t is re-
ported that , 900 Christians have succumbed
TO the disease. Italian Carmelite mission
aries are attending the plague-stricken peo-
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Farmer Fatally Injured by the Cars.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
LEBANON, Dee. 31.-John Morton, aged
fifty years, a prominent farmer, and mar
ried, was struck by the west-bound express
on the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, st. Louis
* Chicago railroad. about one-half mile
east of this place, last night One of his
lower limbs was cut off just below the knee
and his head badly mashed. 1t is doubtful
if he can recOYer.
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A Travelling SaIesman's Big Damage Suit.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
LoGANsPoRT, Dec. S1.-Joseph E. Smell,
travelling salesman, filed damage suit in
the Circuit Court. to-day, against the Wa
companies. Mr.. Smell wants $4,000 for
damages received at Denver, Ind, on Oct. 81.
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New York Republican Caucus.

ALBANY, n. Y. Dec 31.--The Republican
caucus tonight nominated Fremont Cole
for Speaker Mr. Cbiekerinr for clerk Mr.
Thorn 50 for sueaograpiier, fsr Willard or
sergeant aJ-aTIas, SID mr sfeeb, O. Ousa-
rio, fcr aoor-kecI sT.
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Arrested for Alleged Bigamy.
al IN tho Fundamentals JournaI

CptCIdI 10 IIIt IHIudHdpUHS JUUIIIdI
MONON, Dec. 31.-One William Jones, a
conductor on the L., n. A. 81 c., and a
young woman claiming to be his wife, with
whom he has been living at this place for
three months, were arrested here, this
evening, by Sheriff j. p. Gwin, of this
county, on a warrant sworn out by wife
No. 1, who, after locating her unfaithful
husband, sought recourse in the law to
will be escorted by the sheriff and his dep
uty, on the midnight train, to Monticello,
where they will be put in the county Jail,
in default of bail
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CHICAGO, Dec. 31.-Henry Horner g. Co.,
their city collector. a relative Of the mem
beIs of the firm is missing Cousin Lew
Is" as they speak of him, obtained mar
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should Be Compelled to "Swear or"

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WABASH, Dec. I.-This morning William
Douglass was brought before Mayor Pettet,
charged with disturbing the Sabbath peace.
He plead guilty, and was fined and repri-
manded. Last night Douglass went home
intoxicated. maltreated his wife, and then
turned on the gas in his sitting-room. tax
came red-hot and fire alarm was turned
in, causing large crowd to collect. Doug
lass was in the act of Overturning the
stove, which would have fired the house,
when he was arrested by City Marshal Ellis.
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Counterfeiting Railroad Bond Coupons.

II
Seven coupons of $50 each of bonds issued
in 1868 to the Ft. Wayne, Muncie q Cincin-
natl Railroad Company by the city of TT.
Wayne, were presented for collection,
few days since, to the First National Bank,
of this city. Cashier Hartman directed an
inquiry into the commences of the coupons.
and, with the assistance of City Treasurer
Berghoff, discovered the coupons to be
clever cOunterfeits of coupons which had
1t is suspected that large numbers of the
coupons have been successfully hoated.
The aggregate amount of the bonds is $780,
600, and they We're redeemed in October
last.