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ROBBED his PATRONS.
Philadelphia Rcal-Estate Agent Accused q
Embezzling from 85O,O to $4,000.

Philadelphia Rcal-Estate Agent Accused Of
Embezzling from 100000 to $4,000.
PHILADELPHIA, May IA. Ellwood Lam
caster, q young man who carried on the
business of real-estate agent at No. 92 Wal
nut street, has disappeared, and it is
charged that he has embezzled funds in
trusted to him by various parties to invest
in real estate. The amount is variously
estimated at from $4,000 to $4,000. The
heaviest loser is VIM. K. Fleming. who
says he gave Lancaster $4,000 to purchase
q dwelling-house. Lancaster informed
Fleming that he had bought the house, and
for several months gave him money which
he said was obtained from rents of the
properties Recently. however. Fleming
has been unable to get any money from
him Lancaster putting him off with ex-
cuses. A number of other persons were
victimized in various ways by Lancaster.
VIM. Diebel. a hosiery manufacturer. who
charges Lancaster with embezzhng $1,000
from him, has caused q capias for the ar
rest of the fugitive to bc issued. and it is
now in the hands of private detectives.
The Indianapolis journal., 1890-05-08
Organizations at War.

LYNN, Mass, May z. The Boot and Shoe
makers International Union has advertised
for twenty-seven sboemakers to take the
place of Knights of Labor called out of b.
q. Patton & Co.'s factory because of the
employment therein of q non-union man.
The tight between the two labor organiza-
tiOns has wrought the shoe operatives of
Lynn to pitch of excitement not before
witnessed here for wears.
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Gas, Steam & Water

known shipping man, is a defaulter to the
amount of $4,000 The bonds stolen by
amounting in all to si5O.OOO. which were
deposited with Mr.. Onion by the British
American Jamaica Assurance Company, of
Toronto, Canada. in accordance with the
law which requires foreign insurance COM
panles doing business in this State to keep
a certain proportion of their resources here
for the protection of their local customers.
The Indianapolis journal., 1890-05-08

CHICAGO, May THE executive COM
mittee of the Coal-miners' Union of Illinois
is in the city for the purpose of comforting
with the mine operators. A member of the
committee said to-day that general
strike is not probable; that the indications
are that compromise will be effected to
last until next fall. The miners ask the
operators in northern Illinois to sign an
agreement to advance wages in case the
price of coal is advanced, or in case the
southern illinois operators advance wages.
These terms have been agreed to by Con-
gresham Scott, of Pennsylvania, proprie-
tor of the Spring Valley, ILL.,, mines.
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Insist on Boycotting Union Men.


FORT WAYNE, Ind, May THE confer
ence committees of the Master Builders
Association and the striking carpenters
have been in session for three days, but
gotiations are off for the present. The
bosses cOncede all demands Of the strikers
except that which forbids the employment
of non-uniOn men. The bosses are now ad-
vertising for non-union carpenters and will
endeavor to fill the places of the strikers.
A long struggle IS inevitable, as the men
are well organized.
The Indianapolis journal., 1890-05-08

NEW YORK. May THE bishops of the
Methodist Episcopal Church met this aft
ernoon, at the rooms of the Methodist Mis-
sionary's secretary. Bishop Bowman, of
st. Louis, presided, and Bishop Andrews
acted as secretary. The object of the con-
ference is to fix the various dates for the
district conferences which are to take place
in the fall. and to apportion the work
among themselves.
The Indianapolis journal., 1890-05-08
A.abama Flection Case Renort.

WASHINGTON. May Tin the House to-
day Mr.. Rowell of Illinois presented the re-
port of the committee on elections in the
Alabama contested election case of Nc
Duffee VS.. Turpin. The report. which
favors the claims of the contestant, was
ordered printed. The remainder of the day
was devoted to discussing the tariff bill.
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THIS is the best time of the whole year to
purify your blood. because now you are
more susceptible TO benefit from medicine
than at any other season. Hoods Sarsapa-
rilIa is the best medicine to take. and il is
The Indianapolis journal., 1890-05-08
Confident of Success ar Boston.

BosToN, May THE striking carpenters
of Boston are SO confident of success that
preparations for tho indignation meeting
in Faneuil Hall have been suspended.
Their leaders declare that the men will be
working eight hours q day before such
meeting could be held.
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American Tract Society,

NEW YORK, May THE American Tract
Society held it's annual meeting here to-
day. Gen. o. o. Howard presided. The
treasurer's report showed that the total re-
ceipts for the year had been $l22, ,26S, and
that the balance on hand was s6.s94. The
society has issued S.4S5 distinct publica-
tions. 1t has six periodicals, with an ag-
greRate circulation of 2. .413, 600.
Hon. VIM. Strong, judge of the Supreme
Court. at Washington, was elected presi-
dent; Major-general Howard, vice-presi-
dent; Rev. L. w. j. Wylie, ID. D., and Mr..
~ vice-presidents; John f. Anderson. a
member oil the board of managers, to sue
ceed Judge VanVorst, deceased.
The Indianapolis journal., 1890-05-08
One Thousand Volts Passed through Him

DETROIT May Joseph Gingrass, an
employe of the Detroit electric-light, was
told yesterday by the superintendent to go
to the basement and cut one of the wires of
he was familiar. An hour afterward he
was found lying dead beside the arrester.
The shock of one thousand volts from a
live eincandescent-light wire had instantly
killed him.
The Indianapolis journal., 1890-05-08
The Nj. e. Church South.

ST. LOUIS, May 7.-This morning at 9
o'clock the quadrennial General Confer
epce of the Methodist Episcopal church
South began in the Centenary Methodist
Episcopal Church, at the corner of Sixteenth
and Pine streets. This is the first meeting
of the General Conference in this city since
1850. There are forty conferences repre-
sented in the General Conference. and the
States of Alabama. Arkansas. Colo
RADIO, California, Georgia, Louisiana,
Kansas. North Carolina. South Caro-
lima. Maryland, Mississippi. Montana,
Kentucky, Texas, Indian Territory,
Tennessee, Oregon, Virginia. West Vir-
ginia. Illinois, and Brazil and Mexico. The
conference is composed of eight bishops
and 290 delegates The venerable senior
bishop, j. G. Keener. presided over the
preliminary proceedings and read the
opening hymn. DR.. John Matthews de-
livered cordial address of welcome, which
Keener
The pastoral letter, signed by all tho
bishops, and which is read only once in
four years. was presented by Bishop Wilson,
of Baltimore. The letter is very lengthy,
church at home and abroad. The letter
says: THE conduct of the affairs of the
church during the quadrennial period has
been met with as little difficulty as can be
expected under any system administered
by men. With very few exceptions. the
preachers have been blameless nor have
we to mourn many departures from recti-
tude and propriety of life among our mem-
bers. Four years ago there were reported
in the general minutes 4.406 travel
ing preachers. of which number
1855 were effective; the report
of the last year shows 4,S62, of which 1926
are effective. an increase of 456 in the itin-
Grant ranks. The local ministry has grown
in the same period from 5,943 to $3.50, an
addition of 326. There were, according to
the minutes of 1885, 9SO,645 members. The
last returns give ! ,166,019, an increase of
1S5, 1884. The whole number of preachers
and members at present estimated is l.
III, 150 an addition to our force in the four
years of 1856 1856
The letter contains this paragraph: The
literary enticement of our time constitutes
positive threat to the manhood and wom-
anhood of the coming generation. All the
worst and vilest element of life are pushed
forth daily from the press in the attractive
form of fiction, and becomes the almost ex-
elusive nutriment of thousands of young
minds. At any cost, our young people
should be secured against this pesto
The Indianapolis journal., 1890-05-08
All Miners May BE Ordered Out.

ST. LOUIS, May TT is rumored here
that the next move of the Confederation of
Labor is to order out the coal-miners all
over the country on the 18th or 18th of May
The Indianapolis journal., 1890-05-08
Forged HIS Uncle's Name.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. May 7.--J. S. Cross, of
the real estate firm of Cross e. Cordes, has
left Memphis, and some queer business
transactions behind him. Several bills
were filed in the Chancery Court this morn
ing by Cordes. alleging that Cross was con-
cealing himself. and had absconded to
avoid the payment of his indebtedness. 1t
has also developed that Cross is indebted
to five Memphis banks in the sum of $4,000.
which he obtained by forging the name of
his uncle, j. II. Faires. When last heard
from Cross was in Kentucky. He has PROM
ised to return and straighten ont matters.
The Indianapolis journal., 1890-05-08
General Notes.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON. May 7.-GeOrge w. Sloan,
of Indianapolis, is here.
John s. Patterson and wife, of Pidun, o.,
are at the Ebbitt.
The wife of Representative Owen, of the
Randall, received to-day from to 9o'clock.
This was her last reception before her de-
parture for her home at LoganspOrt.
Mrs Lula SmithsOn, the only child Of
Col I. j. Harrison. of the Seventh Indiana
Cavalry, formerly of Kokomo, is to be ap-
pointed postmistress at Pulaski Tenn.
The Office is worth about 81 400 year.
It is reported that j. c. Duianey, the
librarian of the Pennsylvania State Sen
ate, will shortly be appointed to place on
the Board of Utah Commissioners, to sue
ceed Mr.. Godfrey, of Iowa, who will be
given 9 place in the consular service.
The members of the Senate naval COM
mittee were taken down the Potomac to-
day on board the new torpedo boat Cush-
ing. She ran at the rate of twenty-seven
miles an hour. reversed at eighteen miles
an hour, and turned within her own
length. As1e-
Rheumatism confines Senator Edmunds
to his bed. 1t is thought his condition is
not serious.
The Indianapolis journal., 1890-05-08
BOOk-Binders.

New YORK, May THE book binders
national trade district assembly, No. $50,
Knights of Labor. is holding It's fourth an
nual convention to-day in Granada Hall,
Brooklyn. Delegates are present from the
principal cities of the United States.
The Indianapolis journal., 1890-05-08

New YORK. May THE Times this morn
ing says: There is no chance of Mr.. Rich
ard Croker, the big chief of TammaDy Hall,
The Indianapolis journal., 1890-05-08
OTHER FIRES.


Eighteen Residences and Several Factories
Destroyed at Scranton, Pa.
SCRANTON, Pa. May 7.-At o'clock this
evening fire broke out in the works of the
Bloom Carriage Manufacturing Company,
on Eighth street 1t spread rapidly to ad-
joining property, and destroyed eighteen
private residences, the patteru-shop and
the boiler-house of Finchs foundry and
the machine works of Brock 81 Ross. For
two hours the fire ragged with great fury,
being famed by strong wind. Most of
the families in the burned dwellings were
unable to remove their belongings. One
block of twelve houses was carried away
completely. Every fire company In the city
was summoned TO the scene, and at 10
O'clock the fire was under control. The en-
tire loss Will reach 100000, only part of
which is insured.
The Singer Works and Other Fires.
ELIzABETHPoRT, n. j.. May THE en-
machine factory on First street was gutted
by last nights fire. Thefames worked their
way to the main building extending along
Trumbull street, cleaning out the stock,
needle. finishing, adjusting. inspecting and
milling rooms. The pattern department
was also destroyed, together with $4,000
finished machines and 100000 needles.
The loss is estimated at S2,0O0,000; fully
insured by the Singer company. All work
Is suspended and over 1900 operatives
are idly gazing upon the burned building.
1t will be at least two months before work
can be resumed.
WINDSOR, Ont, May THE brick block
owned by Mrs. McAdbury. of Detroit
Mich, and occupied by. Jacob BRISTOL, to.
bacconist; w. T. Mossip, wallpaper, and
u. LOranQer & Co.. manufacturers of
spices, was burned this morning. Loss.
s17,O00; insurance, $4,000.
.MIDDLEsBoRoUGH, KY. May THE
livery-stable of G. f. Clay was destroye cd
by fire this morning at 2 o'clock, and
twenty-six fine saddle horses were roasted
alive. Loss, $500; mostly covered by in
'surance in the Etna, of Hartford, Conn.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
BLooMINGToN, ILL.,, May 7.-Early yester
day morning quarter of the business por.
tion of Latham, Logan county, was de-
stroyed by FIRE. involving loss of S6,0O0
The Indianapolis journal., 1890-05-08
Bishop o'Connor Dying.

OMAHA. Neb.. MAY bishop OConnor.
of this city. is sinking very fast and no
hopes are entertained for his recoycrS.
The Indianapolis journal., 1890-05-08

,w From indianapolis Union station.
III VlGnnSuIydnid IinGS.
Erxf--Wess- Soufh-Norfh.
EEst--Wess-- south-North.

Trains run by Central Standard Time.
Lave for Pittsburg Baltimore d $50 a N.
Washington, Philadelphia and New 2:s6 m.
York. (uo o.5O M
and d 1920 pm.
Leave for Columbus. 900 am; arrive from
Columbus, $50 pm.; leave for Richmond, 4'oo
pm.; arrive from Richmond, 9:40 am
Leave for Chicago, 10:35 am. .2:2O am-s
arrive from Chicago, d 4:05 pm; 3:35 am
Leave for Louisville, q 400 am, 7:36 an, q
4:lO um 500 prn Arrive from Louisville, $50
am q 1890 am, $50 pm., d 1915 am.
Leave for viDcennes and Cairo. 7:25 am, 4 10
pm; arrive frum vincennes and Cairo: 1O:So
am, 5:l2 pm
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d. daily; other trains except Sunday.

VyANDALIA LINE-sHoRTEST ROUTE TO
ST. LOUIS AND THE WEST
Trains arrive and leave Indianapolis as follows:
Leave for St Louis, 7:30 am. ll:50 am Loo m l1.Oo
pm 700 pm
GreencastIe and Terre Haute Accom- 'dation, 400 pm
Arrive from St Louis, 3:45 am. a. D am, 25Opm s45
pm. $40 pm.
Terre Haute and Greencastle Accom- daton. 1000 am
Sleeping and Parlor Cars run on through trains
For and information apply TO ticket agents OF
the company, or II. r. DER1NG, Assistant General
Passeu Agent
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For the Benefit of prohibition States.

WASHINGTON, May 6-Representative g.
Boutelle. of Maine, to-day introduced in
the House bill intended to repair the
damage inflicted upon the State prohibition
laws by the recent decision of the Supreme
Court in the original package case. The
bill is in the shape of a section which 1t is
proposed to add to the interstate e-commerce
act, and reads as follows: THAT nothing
contained in this act shall be construed to
authorize the sale or traffic in Intoxicating
liquors in any State contrary to the laws
thereof
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and July, which it is intended will return
information of vast general interest. Judge
J. ). Neah, an old newspaper correspond
pervision of the work, and it is to be con-
Quoted upon an expert and Intelligent
plan, so that whatever is collated In the
way of information will not only
be reliable, but to the point of in
terest. Superintendent Porter has de-.
cided to form collection OF
all the newspapers, magazines and periodi-
calls printed in the United States during
the present census to serve as q permanent
memorial of the development of this i'm
This collection will be made in duplicate.
one to be deposited in the library of Con-
gress and the other to be placed IN the Ma
tional Museum. A large collection In this
direction has already been secured from
priyate libraries
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Senate Combinations.

WASHINGTON. May The Senate. in Sc
cret session this afternoon, confirmed the
following nominations:
Collectors of Customs-G. W. Pendeter, Ports
mouth, N. H.; John 8. sherry, jr., Sag Harbor,
n. Y.
Surveyors of Customs--T. II. Saxton. Port JEFF
ferson n. "; j. A. Farris, Wheeling, w. Va.
Postmasters-H. b. Durham, Wilmington, Ill;
J. Z. Harwood, Plano, ILL.,: l.. l.. Lee, Warren, Ill
The Indianapolis journal., 1890-05-08
Stole $50. 600 yYorth of nonds.

NEW YORK. May TIT was To-Day discov-
cred that VIM. Guion. the old and we'll
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-02-14
A MilliOa Dollar Shit.

in the suit of the State against the
Delaware & Hudson Canal Company
for about $1,000,O0O- back taxes have
been finished, and the court reserved
its decision.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-02-14

goes down in dark and murly water tho
diver, no matter how skillful he may be,
finds the chances of success reduced to the
baicst minimum. Many OF the hooking
devices are limited by tho length of the
pole to which they arc attached, and
the others. fastened to long lines, are
with difficulty manipulated under very
readily supposable circumstances.
Officer DcbroSse had two drowning
cases occur under his own eyes, either
ono of which might have been turned to
a rescue had the proper implement been
a hand. The first was at Marseilles
in 1856. and tho other TO later than the
evening of September IS last beside the
French line pier in this port. A sailor
Was engaged in painting the side of the
vessel and fell into the sea, sinking al
most at once, but eating his posi-
ton under the water by the bubbles of
air rising to the surface. Two good div
crs went to his rescue, but the bottom
was fully thirty feet away and the
water SO black that at half that depth
the divers wcrc ull:hle to see any thing
at all. Several sailors rugged up from
Il raft u device for dragging the bottom.
but the raft was not easily managed. A
boat was hastily procured and for up
ward of two hours the efforts towards
'escuing were kept up, the ship-carpen-
er hastily rigging up sort of fishing
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-02-14
PolNTsoN PROMINENT PEOPLE.

LEW VILLAGES favorite novel is said
to be 1vanhoe, and in this +. T. Bar
mum and Margaret j. Preston agree
with him.
Mrs. RICHARD A. PRocToR, widow of
the astronomer, who was carried off by
yellow fever, is gaining livelihood by
delivering her husbands lectures.
PRINCE BISMARCK was on one occasion
challenged to fight duel by an Aus
trian statesman, Count Rech5erg. Both
were at the time Ambassadors to tho
German Diet at Frankfort.
DIR. NANsEN, the explorer CO Green
land, lives at Aasgaardstrand, In one
story cottage, close by the sea, sur
rounded by pretty garden, and with a
vast forest CT fir and pine in the back
ground.
Mrs. LEVI P. MORTON teaches her
daughters letter writing by giving them
her own notes to answer. If the effort
pleases her it is stamped and posted.
If not, corrections are made and the
copy" returned.
M. GoUNoD, the famous musical COM
poser, Is a man of intense religious feel
ing. AS he has grown older he has be-
come more ascetic and exclusive in his
habits, until to-day he lives almost the
life Of hermit.
HENRY M. STANLEY, the African ex-
plorer, lectured in jefferson City, Mo-,
some years ago to seven people. three
Of whom were deadheads. Since that
time Stanley has grown to be a great
deal bigger than the town.
Mrs. CUSTER, widow Of the gallant
General, is said to be woman absolute
ly without fear. She used to accompany
her husband wherever he would allow
her to go during his campaigns, and
her fondness for out-of-door life has
never left her.
MARK TWAIN is reported to be grow
ing indolent with his advancing years.
He no longer has the incentive of pow
erty to force him to work, and the prod
ucts Of his pen grow smaller every year.
He retires early tt bed and never break
fasts before ten o'clock.
Mrs. HARRISON has been obliged to
give up all reading and china painting.
To friend she is reported to have said:
slave of my pen. i meet the mail with
o budget Of letters. Write as briefly as
l can it Is impossible for me to get my
writing-table cleared"
PERHAPS the late Walker Blaine's
most striking characteristic was his I'M
failing good nature. Nobody ever knew
him to lose his temper. There has
been times, by no means remote, when
politicians, office-seekers and broken
down heelers subjected him to a con-
slant strain, but he never said a cross
word, and was always the same we'll
poised gentleman.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-02-14
TO SAVE LIFE.
The Clever Invention OF . French
Naval Officer.
A. Grapnel Which VIII Reach Eathse
Vertically Horizontally, and
Bring Up n Body from Any
Depth OF Water.

To bring up helpless man from the
bottom OF the sea in time to permit res
torative measures to be applied is the
problem which First Officer Emmanuel
Debrosse, OF tho French line steamer
Bourgoyne, had set himself and which
he thinks he has very effectively solved,
says the New York World. His posi-
ton in the commercial marine gave him
abundant chance to study the question
of lfe-saving in all its various phases,
to note the merits and dement's of the
existing systems and to know from OBJ
scrvation just what was needed and how
best to apply it.
In the commercial ports of Havre,
Marseilles, bordeaux and ST. Nazaire
the great French society for succoring
the drowning had placed all known ap-
pliances. There were grapples and lines,
bolts and poles and other devices to be
thrown in various ways to the strug-
Cling victim. How we'll these numer-
Gus appliances do their work the statis-
tics of the work of the ife-saving corps
most eloquently testify, but against
each and every one of them there are
, objections, and the unhappy exceptions
were entirely too many when all the de-
vices failed and tho loss of human life
| was recorded. Even the plucky life
saver who plunges in at the risk of his
own to save the life of another can not
| always meet with success. If the bod!
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-02-14
SLEEPLESS NIGHTS

Why So Many People Wake In tbs Morn
Ing Feeling More Tired Than on Ro-
firing
eeplessness is simply rapid road to the
insane asylum. Madness with complet ly
shattered brain and nerves stares in the face
that unfortunate who passes wakefu1, rest
less, tossing, Sleepless nights. No greater
calamity can befal person than to become
sleepless. What wonder that t ere arc so many
shat cred nerves, tired brains and debiitated
bodies, when We consider the thousands upon
thousands who pass sleepless or disturbed nights
and rise mornings feeling indescrlbably mis-
cradle. dragged out, scarcely able to face the
days work? What wonder that many rise
mornings from their beds, where they have lain
wlth.wea,y lids and sleepless eyes. tossing from
side to side, or sin ply catching short unrefr sh-
ing maps, filled with dreams, feeling. heavy
headed, irritable with pale face. hagga-d looks,
dull and heavy-ringed eyes, and go about their
daily employment with tired limbs, e Exhausted
energies, nervelesS and ambitionless.
Myriads of people thus allow themselves to
drift toward the awful verge of insanity.
suicide, softening of the brain, paralysis,
idiocS, .etc., without knowing or realizing the
fearful consequences. Men low care, anxiety
or business troubles to drive sleep from their
eyelids, while women, with unstlu g nerves
and eNcitable temperament, pass hours upon
hours each night in s.eepiess, restless misery.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-02-14
THE kNiFFlN MURDER.
Miss Pursel and the Accused Husband
Nin,iicated by the Grand Jury.

Miss PurSel and the Accused Husband
Nin,iicated by the Grand Jury.
TKENToN. n. J.. Feb. 1.-the grand
jury, after considering the evidence in
the mysterious knitlin murder case, re-
ported to Justice Beasley of the Mer-
Ger County Court.
They found no bill against Dr. knit
fin nor Miss Pursel. who were charged
by Detective Rilger with the murder
Lawyer Barton novels for the dis
charge of the bondsmen. Prosecutor
Stoc TX ton consented to the discharge of
the suretics on DR.. kniflins bond, but
not those on Miss Pursels bond. He
gave no reason for holding them, on
cept that something might turn up.
Justice Eca,ley said that both the
accused were free because the grand
jury and coroner's jury after due DELHI
Grafton could see no evidence on which
to hold them. The order for the re-
lease of the bOndSmen was then signed,
David Fursel. brother of Emma pur-
sci, was present and was congratulated
on the outcome OF the grand jury's sit
ting.