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Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-14

Oven heard I'm Wanamaker,s.
Floor Walker-Anything you want to-
day, sir?
Customer-Yes, sir. want post
office appointment.
Floor Walker-Ah, yes, cir. We have
very nice stock on hand, but you'll
have to apply at the Washington branch
ct our business.-[N. Y. Sun.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-14
Kilrain,s Trial.

PURvIs, Miss, December 13.-The
Kilrain case was called today, and both
sides announced themselves ready for
trial. Ten jurors were secured, when
the court adjourned until tomorrow.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-14

New York, december IS NO trace
has yet been found of Dave Dillon or HE
boat, in which he was blown cut TO sea
yesterday. Some seafaring men think
he may have been picked up by an out
going vessel.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-14
Moloney Dying,

LOUISVILLE, KY, December 13.--John
J. Moloney, who. under Indictment for
murder, was returned hers from Los An
geles, CAL, two weeks ago, is dying Of
consumption,
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-14

STOCKTON, December 13.-The will of
Robert Kennedy, who was killed last
Tuesday, was filed today. He bequeaths
an estate worth about $40, 900, share and
hare alike, to three sisters, one of whom
lives in Philadelphia and the others in
Ireland.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-14

TEE Gable Road as usual came out
ahead yesterday in its fight with the
weather clerk. The energy and pluck
displayed by Superintendent Robinson is
worthy Of all recognition.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-14

CHICAGO, December 1S.-Lewis Wal.
lace, Jr., and A: W. Hatch, an Indiana
lawyer, today fled in Judge Gresham's
court sensational charges against Henry
Crawford, the well-known railroad law
yer. The accusations are that In 1855 he
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-14

PHILADELPHIA, December 13.--It ia
now believed Ditman Sis alive and wan
dering about during an alteration Of
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-14
Marine IateIIireuce.

New YORK, December 13.-Arrived
Rhynland, frem Antwerp; Germanic,
from Liverpool Trave, from Bremen.
LIVERPOOL, December 13.-Arrived
City of Chicago and Etruria, from New
York.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-14
Frank r. Con-

Frank r. Converse Dead.
MAIDEN, Mass, December l3.-Frank
T. Converse, the well-known story writer
for the youths publications, is dead.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-14

WASHINGTON, December 13.-At the.
session of the Pan-American Conference
today, President Blaine appointed vari-
GUS committees and the conference adj
journed until January I'd.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-14

LISBON, December 13.-Dom Pedro il
iadispoeed. He ID better today.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-18
LONDON'S LATEST MURDER
The Crime Committed in Whitechapel
District Within Call of the Police.
Yesterdays Testimony Before the Parnell
COmmission-Unsucccssful Attempt to-
Shoot the Emperor of Brazil.
MYSTERY.

The Latest Whitechapel Murder Committed
Almost Under the Eyes of the Police.
LONDON, July 1.-THE body found in
Castle alley, in the Whitechapel district,
last night, was that of a middle-aged
woman Of low character. Her throat had
been cut to the spine. When the body was
found it was lying on its back. The cloth
ing had been thrown up, exposing the alb
domen, which had been gashed in a horri-
bic manner in several places, though the
intestines were not exposed. No part of
the body was missing. Warm blood was
flowing from the wounds when the body
was discovered. A policeman, who, with
the Waterman of an adjacent warehouse,
must have been within q few yards of the
spot where the murder took place, when it
was committed, heard no noise. Policemen
have been placed at fixed points in White
chapel since the murders of this character
began there, and since the murder preced-
stationed at a point within a hundred
yards of the scene of the latest tragedy.
An old clay pipe, smeared with blood, was
found alongside the body 1t is supposed
by the police that this will furnish a clew
to the murderer, although it may have be.
suspected persons have been made, but
they were discharged from custody, there
being no proof on which to hold them. 1t
is stated that a letter was received by the
police officials before last nights murder in
Whitechapel, signed Jack, the Ripper"
in which the writer said that he was
about to resume his work."
AT a late hour tonight no trace had been
discovered of the W~hitechapel murderer.
The police despair of finding q c4ew.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-18
Farmer and Wife Brutally Murdered.

DUBUQUE. Ia, July 17.-John Elkins, n
tenant on the farm of Allen Porter. in
Clayton county, about seven, miles north
east of Edgewood, and his wife were
b%rutally murdered in their s~leeping-room,
killed with a rifle, which he had in the
house, and which, after being used, was
hung back in its place on the wall.
Mrs. Elkins's head was battered to pieces
broken and mutilated. Suspicion points
strongly to two sons of Elkins by a former
wife, with whom Elkins had frequent quar-
rels. The eldest of the boys, about twenty
three years old, has been living away from
home a great deal. and the other, aged
about eleven. slept in the barn last night.
contrary to his usual custom. Elkins was
supposed to have had about $500 in the
house, which has not yet been found.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-18
Ex-oFFICE-HOLDERs.

They Are Meeting with Little Success In Get
ing Back Their Old Places.
speciar 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, July 17.-Some of the men
who held important Offices under the last
Republican administration, and who were
removed by President Cleveland and his
Cabinet officers, have an idea that they
have a sort of claim on the Republican
party and that they have a right to demand
their old places back again. Most of this
class of gentlemen have been hanging
around Washington ever since they were
removed, and have not performed any
any good reason why they should be
man named Clark, who held q posi-
ton as chief of a division in the
Land Office, and who, after Intellectually
attempting to get his old place back again
from the Secretary of the Interior, visited
the President and laid his claim before
him. He was not received as cordially as
he expected to be, and his mission was en-
tirely devoid of result, except so far as 1t
convinced him that he had better look
around for something else. The President
been in the service. and he replied: About
twenty years." General Harrison is re-
ported to have said, II think that you
have had your full share, and that you
ought to be willing to step aside and give
some other equally good Republican and
equally capable man an opportunity.
There seems to be a mistaken idea that the
fight last fall was to put the ex-office-hold-
ers back again"
have been yet ~reappointed in the Treasury
Department.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-18
Cable Notes.

During his visit TO England Emperor
William will come to London ~incognito.
Princess Augusta. sister to the Queen of
Denmark, died in Copenhagen on Tuesday
night.
An imposingImonument to the late Empe-
TOR Frederick was unveiled yesterday at
Braunfels.
The corporation of London has given so
guineas to the fund for the sufferers by the
railway disaster near Armagh, Ireland.
In the rifle contests at Wimbledon, yes
terday, the Rajah of KolapOre's imperial
challenge cup was won by the Canadian
team.
A shock of earthquake has been felt on
the island of Arran and the mainland of
Scotland. The shock was so severe that
houses were violently shaken. '
NJ. Beernaert, Belgium's Minister of FL
nance, introduced a bill in the Chamber of
Representatives. yesterday, providing for
the imposition of q license duty on publ
cations.
The Prince of Wales has put ansemphatic
veto upon the pOpOsal to establisha Masonic
lodge in connection with the National Lib
eral Club. The grand master is afraid of
Masonry becoming in IN way involved in
politics. and when recently the Primrose
Club, the Tory organization, made a similar
proposal, he refused to sanction it for the
same reason.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-18

Gleanings from Exchanges and Cuttings
from Correspondence.
The annual convention of the TazeweIl
County Sabbath-school Association Is to be
held in Pekin, Aug. q and ".
John Savage, an old settler of Blooming
ton, a veteran of the Mexican wal and q
prominent Mason. died last Monday.
The cornerstone of the new Methodist
Episcopal Church was laid at Monmouth
last Monday with appropriate ceremonies.
Cyrus Burbridge, of Barry, dropped dead
last Monday. He was seventy-two years
old. and had resided in Pike county fifty
four years.
Charles Johnston. late deputy postmas-
ter at Warsaw, has been fined $500 and
costs in the United States Court for en-
b~ezzling money orders.
The old settlers organization of Jersey
county has decided to celebrate the fiftieth
anniversary of their organization Satur-
day. July 20. General Palmer has been in
vited.
The annual reunion of the O~ne-hundred-
and-twelfth Illinois Volunteers will take
place at Toulon Aug. %, and Of the Seven
ty-sixth Illinois Volunteers at Urbana
Sept. 4 and 5.
Miss Sadie Mann, one of the leading
ladies of Canton, confessed that she made
away with a child found murdered in a
sewer there. The confession has raised
considerable excitement, and was a total
surprise to every n
Two men, Green Triplett and Bill Allen.
both living in the westeren part of Pope
county, got into an alteration about a
woman day before yesterday, which re-
suited in a fight, in which Triplett was
literally cut to pieces by Allen.
Word was received at Bloomington yes
terday of the death of DR.. George p. Pex at
his home in Readville, N. j. DIR. Pex was
~ ~ ~ NC m v,rNvfnnnf otfs1on ~ v1s
nois, his home being at Perry, Pike county.
He was an eminent surgeon and naturalist.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-18
The American Girl.

Jane Hading. N New York World.
Most of the young American girls it has
been my lot to meet possessed beauty like
the English and piquancy like the French.
with something added in the shape of
health and spirits, producing a tone of
mind and a frame of body we know little
about in France. They dress prettily, with
just q touch of eccentricity,. which. how
ever, becomes them exceedingly well. They
are genuine from head to foot, and perfect
little Parisiennes in their way. The defer
ence paid to them by the male sex is war
ranted by the fullness of qualities they
possess. They are, in fact, an epitome of
every creatures best" Besides the beauty
and piquancy i j have alluded to, they have
a %vivacity of intellect, an aptness of speech
and address, and a noble uprightness of
purpose, which includes every charm, and
here again they combine the Gallo and
Saxon blood. Nowhere in the world are
women so tenderly and carefully coDsid-
cred as in the United States, and that is no
doubt why the United States is the only
country in the world-not excluding my
own-where the young girl is the chief per-
sOnage. the Characteristic type. Whether
brunette in New York, blonde in Boston, or
sparkling and languid creole in New Or
leans, they rule supreme.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-18
LOgses bv Fire.

CoLyMBUs, o., July 1s.-Fire broke out at
1:3O this morning in the Breyfogle Block. on
High street, one of the best properties in the
city. The indications are that other
buildings. will be. consumed. The
loss will probably reach 500
the German Furniture Company. McAu-
ley's awning factory and other enterprises.
FRESNO, Cal, July 1.-THE Russ House
and stables were burned this morning. A
number of horses persisted. 1t was at first
thought that q number of persons had per
ished in the flames, but it seems certain,
after a thorough search of the ruins, that
no lives were lost. Several persons were
burned, though not severely. The financial
loss is $4,000.
LOWELL, Mass, July 1.-THE large stable
of the Lowell horse-railroad, on East Mer-
rimac street, was burned tonight, togeth-
er with ITO horses, thirty cars and much
grain. Loss, about $780, OO.
SHELL Rock, Ia. July 17.-Seven build
ings were burned at this place last night.
Loss, 10000; insured only in part.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-18
Muldoon StiIl Sulliyan,s Friend.

NEW YORK, July 17.-William Muldo on
publishes this morning a card in which he
says:
AZ have just read an article in this morn
ing's papers, which is unjust n untrue,
person. with the intention of making
trouble between Sullivan and myself. l
have always been and still am his friend.
Our close cOmpaniOnship while training has
only strengthened our Friendship. A few
unpleasant things occurred during our
time, and forgiven n forgotten. l want
it understood that / Inn John l.. Sullivan's
go behind his back to complain of any
grievances. We are both men. and any
trouble we may have we will settle face TO
or to the public. We parted the best of
friends, and we entertain to-day the warm
est friendship for each other. / know that
he entertains the deepest love for his
parents, brother and sister. He is kind
hearted and generous to a fault. 1 am posi-
tive that he fully appreciates what has
been done for him by his hackers and train
ers. He has, in Charlie johnson, of Brook
Ign, whose name is used in my alleged in
terview. q true friend, and one whose
friendship and generosity cannot be
equaled. This is what l have to say about
Sullivan, johnson and myself.
Our treatment by the Southern people,
especially in New Orleans. was very gener-
Gus, courteous and kind. and / would like
the friends of Mr.. Sullivan all over the
country to extend their heartlest thanks to
the Young Mems Gymnastic Club and the
representatives of the daily press of New
Orleans; also, to Pat Duffy. who was untir-
ing in his efforts to see that we were prop
erly cared for and made as comfortable as
possible.D
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-18
D~issributinp Bel,ef at John.tovn.

~JoHNsTOwN, Pa, July 17.-Of the $780,
600 received by the local finance committee,
$4,000 has been paid out in the Sl0-a-head
distribution. The committee rlgidly ex-
cludes reporters from its daily meetings.
and to-day, when a representative of the
New York Herald asked for a statement as
to the expenditure of the $4,000 sent here
by that paper. he was refused admission,
aud told that the statement could not be
given. The finance committee is satisfied
with the action of the Pittsburg committee
in handing it's money to the State commits
sion.
At 9 o'clock tomorrow morning Judge
Cummin. assisted by sixteen clerks and
five notaries, proposes to begin paying out
the $500, 900. Every applicant will be quail
flied as to his list of losses and amount of
property owned at present. The state
ments will not affect the amount to be
paid out, but will be filed at Harrisburg
for future reference.
Three bodies were found to-day-A. G.
Houng,. George c. Hamilton and Miss An
ME Cullin.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-18
THE EAN TOWER.
Barnum Should Buy 1t and Bring IL Over
Where 1t Would Be Appreciated.

Where 1t Would Be Appreciated.
Hartford Times.
The strange news comes over the ocean
that the wOrld-famous leaning tower of
Pisa is to be disposed of at a rattle; Italy
has only two more leaning towers-both at
Bologna, and neither of them SO far out of
the perpendicular as Pisa's. If there is a
disposition to get up a corner In leaning
towers, and bull the market, it would seem
to be easy to do it. for the market is not
we'll stocked, and it might be practicable
to bring the famous structure over here
and set it up just pack of Bunker
Hill, or behind the John Mason statue on
Pequot Hill-or even, if no better or
such a purpose. it might be erected near
the Egyptian obelisk in New York's park.
There it might possess a certain symbolic
significance, implying that even aldermen
sometimes lean a little over the straight
line of the perpendicular, when the bag of
coin that somebody ties to their cOat-tails
is heavy enough to exert q pull.
Pisa's famous marble tower, with its cir
and its upper story overhanging the lower
by a difference of thirteen feet, is a puzzle
to philosophers and antiquarians. Whether
its singular leaning attitude was the result
of design or of acc1dent neverhas been ascer-
lained. One OF the many interesting things
connected with the leaning tower is the
certainly as great an & trimental philoso-
pher-as any within the Christian era.
demonstrated, by experiments conducted
from the top of that structure, the error of
Aristotie's theorem that the velocity of fall
ing bodies is proportional ia their weight.
The learned but angry scientists of Italy
confidently gathered in front of the tower
to witness the crushing and ~silencing of the
pestilent philosopher whose reasoning they
had been unable to c~onfute, but whose
audacious laundering was now to be ex-
hibited and demonstrated, in the shape of
an object lesson. of his own foolish propos-
ing. But the philosopher. instead Of being
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-18

Samples of the Sort Told by Frequenters OF
the Chicago Press Club.

samples OF the Sort Told by Frequenters OF
the Chicago Press Club.
Chicago Mail.
Captain Meredith, John Richie and
George Shields, known as "old bosses" and
"old timers" sat around in the Press Club
one afternoon recently and talked about
the times of the war. and told of the funny
capers that cannon balls and musket balls
cut.
Captain Meredith said he once found a
dead rebel behind a big tree. The lead
man was resting on one knee in a position
to shoot. His musket was in his hands, the
and one eye was open. squirting along the
gun barrel. There wasn't mark on the
body, but the man s stone dead. There
was a ten-pound canp"" ball buried in the
tree. The man fa' killedby the con-
Mr.. Shields said e he saw a cannon
ball go into the grL.nd about 200 yards in
front of where he was standing. He
thought that was the end of the matter,
out of the ground fifty yards beyond the
place 1t struck. 1t then in its flight struck
a stump, .carromed of, broke a soldiers leg
and, rolling on a few yards further, upset a
camp-kettle and scalded a mans hands.
John Richie said he saw a man hit with
spent" cannon ball. He walked over to
where the man lay TO see what he could do
for him-give him a drink out of his can
teen, or a chew OF tobacco, or something
but all that was visible was a mass of
about 160 pounds of flesh and blue cloth,
mixed up like sausage. with an eye and two
teeth sticking out on top.
Captain Meredith said that, speaking of
cannon balls, one of the most move sights
he witnessed during the war was a nno
ball about as big as a -four barr4 going
through a horse lengthwise-that is, length
wise of the horse. There was left of the
six inches of it's tail. The Captain said he
could always tell the body of a rebel from a
Northern man on a battlefield, because
wherever q rebel was wounded corn-bread
OOzed out.
When it reached this stage 1 saw that
there was q disposition to break down the
ropes and let everybody take a hand in the
lying, SO l got away before 1 was crippled.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-18
THE PARNELL COMMISSION.

Matthew Harris Testifies Concerning Funds
Sent from America to Irish Leaders.
LONDON, July 1.-THE cross-examination
of Mr.. Matthew Harris, member of the
House of Commons for East Galway, was
continued before the Parnell commission
to-day. He testified that he could not say
whether $5SO,OO was the amount Mr..
Patrick Egan acknowledged receivingfrom
America. Witness went to New York in
1883, via Paris, getting money from Mr..
PaInsn to Ray, part Of his expenses. He
not believe that Sheridan would enter into
a conspiracy to commit murder. Mr.. Harris
declared that he had never melted any per-
son to commit crime. He had declared that
than could have been done by Bengal
tigers. or any other wild animals indigenous
to the tropics,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-18
Socialists and Royalty.

LONDON, July 17.-Socialists are not. as a
rule. enamored of royal p~ersonages, but it
is reported from Paris that the delegates to
the Socialist congresses are considering a
resolution complimentary to the King of
the Belgians, who they unhesitatingly say
is the most democratic of Kings. During
the Shah's visit, a couple of weeks ago, the
King took him through one of the big
factories at Seraing, where, addressing the
workmen, he said: "You work in your
sphere and / in mine. All workers are
members of the same family, and should
join hands," His Majesty then shook hands
with each workman.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-18
THEY SIGNED THE PLEDGE,
But When They Asked for Whisky There
Was Trouble.

But When They Asked for Whisky There
Was Trouble.
New York World.
1T was a strange scene," continued the
l was, out on the plans, the center of al
admlring group of Indians, standing on a
stump, dealing the drink habit some of my
most terrific blows. l told them that
whisky was the curse of the white man,
and gave some notable instances right here
in New York that l need not now repeat. l
said that the curse of our civilization was
whiskyl whisky whiskyl and these
benighted children of the forest drew
closer about me and listened with
said: Now, my dusky friends, will you
forego whiskyf Will you put the accursed
ire.water behind. yonf Will You cast rum
to the dogs, and be better, truer men and
reply, and was gratified to receive an af-
firmative grunt all around the circle.
Il got out my pledge-bOok and went
around for them to sign. None could write,
of course, but all were glad to affix their
enthusiasm. After / had their signatures /
thought it well to again ascend the stump
and offer them a few words of cOngratula-
tiOn. | had not proceeded far when a
large-sized warrior Interrupted me withthe
remark:
"'Ugh! heap talk! where's the whiskyf'
81 paused a moment, thinking l had not
understood him, and he repeated the Obser-
walton.
"'Whisky, my friendfI replied in much
surprise, Il have no whisky?'
''Tbe silence which followed was broken
by half a dozen braves and a squaw or two
repeating the same ridiculous observation:
ugh! white man talk much! Where's
the whisky?'
Il saw it ALL" said the Major. "These
poor children had taken me for an Indian
agent or something, who had come to sell
them a new kind of whisky. Their inter-
est in my remarks about fire-water, their
eagerness to sign my paper-it was all clear
now. 1t was still more clear when a dozen
stalwart bucks danced about in front of
me, brandished their hatchets and began
to clamOr for the whisky. i am not wholly
lacking in discretion. if do nave fits, and
my course was clear.
"'Oh, yes, my friends, the whisky,'I be-
gan. Il was just coming to that. l have
finest whisky that ever came to gladden.
the life of a noble red man. control sew
enty or eighty distilleries near Omaha, and
by tomorrow will have pipeline cOnnec-
tions with them. and will then be able to
pump whisky out here till life will be a
dream of riotOus pleasure. All / will have
to do will be to turn a stOp-ccck, and lo!
rum will flow to you in a living and ever
lasting stream
"And telling them that / would take a
run down to St. Louis and get the thing
started, / reached the place where my
horse was tied, and was soon leaving the
scene of my triumph behind me-"