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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-25
PREACHER HOLINESS SALARY.
1t Was Small, So He Added to II by Counter
feiting Coin and Is Now in Jail.

CHICAGO. May A-Captain Porter, of the
United States secret service, mas just re-
turned from southern Illinois, where he ar
rested a preacher of the gospel for making
counterfeit coin, and in doing SO came near
shedding ministerial blood. The counter
feiter was the Rev. jeremiah Holmes. pas
tor of q Cambellis 70 Church at Duquoin, IL.
About five years ago o gang of counter
feiters were arrested at Duguoin and four
of them were sent to the penitentiary. 1t
was believed at the time that Holmes was
implicated with the men. On Monday last
A. p. Adkins, q farmer with whom the
preacher boarded, wrote to Captain Porter
stating that he had seen q canvas bag con
tanning $50 in counterfeit coin In Holiness
room. The preacher, the letter said, had
gone away to hold O revival, and the
farmer accidentally discovered the coin.
Captain Porter, accompanied by three
deputy marsbals, On Wednesday traced
Holmes to q hut in the hills near Stone
port, north ot Cairo. The officers surrounded
this little house, and after O struggle
Holmes surrendered. Three other men
were found in the hut. but no counterfeit
money was discovered, nor were there any
traces of a counterfeiting outfit. Holmes
was at first defiant, but after he had been
landed in Jail at Cairo he broke down and
confessed. Holmes became pastor of the
weeks ago, and only last Sunday he was
elected superintendent Of the Sunday
school connected with the church. He has
Q wife and six children, and he told Capt.
Porter his salary was SO small he had to do
something to pay his
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-25
BlINOR MATTERS.

Where New Senators will Sit In the Next
Congress-Peffer in the Corner.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, May 24-There has been
considerable changing around of seats IN
the Senate chamber. Senator Colquitt, of
Georgia. has pre-empted Senator Joe
Browns seat, right in the front row of the
Democratic side. and next to the main
aisle. Mr.. Carlisle goes to Reagan's place
the old Beck seat-in the second row FAC
ing the Vice-president. Mr.. Brice gets Col
Quits old seat in the rear row of the DEM
ocratic side, and Hill gets the next one to
il, that of Hampton. Gordon, of
Georgia. will occupy Bates for
mer place, and the TeDnessean
will move around to the one vacated by
Falkner, of West Virginia. The new Sem
ator from Louisiana, Mr.. White. who suo-
ceeds Mr.. Eustis, will sit where Mr.. Payne,
of Ohio. had q desk. and Mr.. Palmer, of IL
linois. will be q close neighbor of MIR. Bar
bour on the outside row. On the Republic
an side the shifting has been just as
marked. Washburn succeeds Ingalls,, and
Quay will sit where Mr.. Evarts used to do
his talking. Walcott g~oes1down from q back
seat to the place vacated by Mr.. Spooner,
and Senator Dixon. of Rhode Island, will
occupy the chair soon to be vacated by Mr..
Edmunds. The kansas stateman, PETER,
has been awarded an extreme right hand
corner seat, lately occupied by Senator
Allen.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-25

UNION LEAGUE CLUB CIGARS
PRICE, : : 10 cents.
THE BRIDEGROOM CANE NOT.
J. Perry Bowen, an Alleged Literary Feller,"
Forsook HIS Would-Be Bride.

BUFFALO. N. Y. May 24-The friends of
Ont. who assembled here Friday night to
attend her marriage with J. Perry Bowen,
took a heart-broken girl back to Canada,
for the bridegroom deserted her at the last
hour. j. Perry Bowen. protesting to be a
literary man of wealth and family, arrived
in Buffalo three weeks ago and engaged
apartments at q fashionable boarding
house. Miss Flenner was an occupant of
the same house. Within two weeks she
dismissed the young man to whom she had
been engaged for two years and became
engaged to Bowen. He was q handsome,
well-dressed man. forty-two years old, but
seemingly younger. q fluent talker and ap-
parently familiar with most of the cities of
the world. He represented himself as an
Englishman, whose family was living at
frequency with which he received letters
and kilograms from Washington seemed tC
bear out his assertion.
According to his story his father had be-
Queated him q fortune of $780, 900 so invested
as to produce q large revenue. Besides his
alleged elegant house in Washington he
deliberately described his winter house in
ST. Augustine. Fla, where he proposed to
take bis bride. In one OF the letters which
be received from his mother she uged him
not to divulge the death-bed secret of his
father. He explained this by saying that
there was q family secret connected with
the possession of the estate, which each
heir in turn was compelled to swear never
to make known. Bowen said his sister.
Agnes Bowen, had an important position in
the Pension Department.
While here Bowen devoted himself to
writing o novel, the manuscript of which he
left behind him. On Wednesday Bowen
and his fiance took apartments at the Tiff
House, the Rev. Henry A. Adams being en-
gagged to perform the marriage
At the last moment 1t was postponed,
Bowen announcing hat it must be deferred
until his mother and sister, who were to be
accompanied by distinguished party from
Washington, could arrive. That night
Bowen disappeared. and then IL was found
that he had borrowed money and con-
tracted debts everywhere. Miss Flenner's
trunks were seized for the hotel bill. and
on Friday night her relatives took her back
In Canada
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-25
SURPRISE IN STORE.

The Postmaster General Will Institute .
Reform In Western Postal Service.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, May 24-"It's the West in
the future" said Postmaster-general
Wanamaker after returning from his
Pacific tour with the President, the other
day, land that section Is going to attract
the attention hereafter. / thought / knew
something of growing countries before l
turned my face toward the setting sun but
l found before / got to San Diego that the
West was doing more han l conceived.
Before we got on the Union Pacific railroad
to return, anu after we had spun around
washington State, at q tangent, L was
amazed. The West must have better mail
facilities-faster mails. more of them, and
better postofice facilities. How quickly
we make q big city in the West. with fine
buildings, large factories, and beautiful
streets, with all that pertains to a
metropolis! No signs of hard times out
there. Everything is progress; enterprise.
nerve those people show! What
profits their real estate yieldsl"
If the boomers in the majority of towns
and cities through which the President
passed could hear him predict their bust
ness future and on their enter
prise and deserts. they would print his
words In red and make of them Q book. He
is very enthusiastic of the growing West.
and it Is safe to say the country through
which be passed will not suffer from the
effects of his visit. But President Harrison
is a Western man. with q good appreciation
o. the improvements going ahead n what
is due the co~untry-quite wide in contrast
to his Immediate predecessor. b was SO
dumfounded when he went as far as tho
Mississippi that he didn't know what to
say u failed to comprehend.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-25

NEW YORK. May Pat smeeting Of the
Parnell delegates reception committee held
to-day. resolutions were adopted declar-
ing that the action Of certain members of
the Parliamentary Fund Association in
forwarding to Justin Mccarthy $4,000, the
proceeds of the Dillon-O'Brien reception. Is
q gross breach of faith to the Subscribers;
that ii should be sent to Messrs. Kenny and
Webb. the authorized joint treasurers of
both sections Of the Irish parliamentary
party.
b resolutions express surpriese that
Eugene Kelly. the treasurer. in face OF his
repeated assurances that he would retain
the funds until the discussions in the party
were settled. should nave consented to
hand over this portion of funds to the ex-
elusive control of Mccarthy and his sup
porters. Resolutions further state that 1T
is proper 20 inform the Irish people at home
that the attempted formation of o national
federation of America merely emanates
from o handful of gentlemen Individually
responsible. but representative of nobody
except themselves and who do not hold
any public meeting 20 create this proposed
organization and who are wholly unable TO
obtain any public Endorsement Of their &C.
lion
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-25
WESTERN CONGRESS CLOSED.
Free-Coinage Men Might Not Have Succeeded
but for Absentees Not Voting.

DENVER, Col, May 24.-The transmissis-
sippi congress voted for the unlimited
coinage of American silver. and then ad-
journed to meet in Omaha next October.
1t was in session four days. Silver and
irrigation to a large extent o~vershadowed
all other matters. There was opposition to
both. and this fact alone brought them into
prominence. On the other subjects there
was q unanimity that kept the surface
unrufied. The scope of the convention was
highly diversified. although several unim-
portant propositions were side-tracked be-
fore the meeting organized.
The movement to urge the repeal of the
tariff on Mexican lead was to have been
backed by Texas and Kansas City smelters.
but through the diplomacy of the West
the subject was Lot even referred
60. A discussion would have en-
gendered more acrimony than was
evoked by the silver resolutions.
The extreme Western delegation carried
the convention by storm. and the agricult-
ural States had only q feeble hearing.
Hence the result of the Omaha meeting re-
mains problematical. That meeting will
adopt resolutions to be submitted to the
national Congress, and with the possibility
of q moro complete representation from
delegates who were this week In Cincin-
natl. silver resolutions may be amended to
provide for the coinage of American silver
only. The closeness of the vote before ad-
journment demonstrates that the silver
men have overestlmated their strength, al
though Iowa, Louisiana, Kansas. Nebraska
and Arkansas were not in the convention.
The vote was 81 to IS in favor Of unlimited
free coinage. With the presence of absent
delegates tie result might have been diff
fereut.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-25
SAD FATE OF CARRIE HARTE.
She Went to Play with Her Doll and Was
Found Drowned in q Cask of Water.

NEW YORK. May 24.-Carrie Harte, the
tbree-year-old child OF Joseph Harte. q
dealer in human hair goods at No. 400
broadway, Brooklyn. was found dead yes
terday morning in a partly-flled cask of
water in the cellar of her fathers house.
At the bottom of the casket lay her little
doll. which she had probably been playing
with on q box along side the cask, when
she lost her balance. fell into the water and
was drowned. The house in which Harte
lives and carries OF business was almost
entirely destroyed by fire three weeks ago.
The loss was heavy. For q year or more he
has been unfortunate. His wife died a
year ago. leaving five children. of whom
Carrie was the youngest. There has been
much sickness in his family and the de-
struction of his business added TO his
trouble.
When the children finished their dinner
on Friday afternoon they turned to the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-25

yard to play. Carrie selected q corner in
the yard for herself where che amused her
self with her doll. Carrie evidently tired
of her play, and. unobserved. made herway
into an unoccupied room in the basement
of the house. At 8 o'clock in the afternoon
Harte called his children into the house.
Carrie did not answer. He searched for
her. but failed to find her. All that day and
night he searched. and the next day went
to the celler. He rolled the cask over where
the sunlight shone through the cellar graf
ing and discovered o pair of tiny feet pro-
truding over the surface of the water. He
caught hold Of them and drew the body of
his child out. and carried it upstair. After
to the floor, and has not yet regained con-
aciousuosa.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-25
WHERE Is THE CHARLESTON?
Seven Days Since Word Was Received from
Her Captain.

Seven Days Since Word Was Received from
Her Captain.
WASHINGTON, May 24.-Secretary Tracy
said tonight that the Navy Department
had not received any news to-day of the
United States cruiser Charleston. which is
in pursuit of the Gillian insurgent steamer
Itata. This is the seventh day since any
word has been received by the
department direct from the COM
mander of the Charleston. The Sec
rotary is of the opinion that the vessel
will be heard of next at Callao. Peru, for
he believes that if she intended to put in at
Panama. the place at which it was expected
she would touch, she would nave been
heard of before this time.
Secretary Tracy's attention was called
tonight to the dispatch from San Francisco
Ieiterating the statements heretofore made
that an agreement lac been entered into
between the insurgent party of Chill
and the United States government
for a peaceful surrender of the Itata. The
Secretary. however, refused to discuss the
question, merely saving he had nothing to
say about the matter.
Inquiry of State Department officials to-
night regarding the alleged arrangement
above referred to elected the reply that 30
far as they are aware no such agreement
has been entered into.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-25
DUEL In THE ROAD.
Two Indiana Farmers Quarrel While Intoxi.
Gated and Shoot Each Other Dead.

ST. LOUIS. May PA dispatch to the Re-
public from Washington, Ind, says: Lofe
Sprinkles and Wm. johnson. ~neighbor-
ing farmers, went to Petersburg
yesterday and became very drunk.
They started home in the formers
buggy and seemed In the best humor. but
when o mile north of town q dispute arose
which terminated in blows. The men
fought like beasts, inspired and angered by
whisky. Finally each drew his revolver.
and a duel took place. johnson received
three balls and fell to the road q corpse.
HIS companion received q ball in the left
side. and died by the road sidea few yards
away.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-25
Two Clever Swindlers.

OMAHA. Neb. 24.-Five thousand people
went out to the fair grounds this afternoon
to see the Great Chicago Air-ship" sail out
for o trip TO the GardenCity and to witness
apiece for the privilege of passing into the
grounds and out again. for after the man.
ayers of the affair had secured the cash and
had the people safely corralled In the grand
stand, they mounted horses and fed with
their ill-gotten gains. and not the sign of
the air-ship has been seen in this city.
Messrs. Bush a. Dodd, the alleged pro-
prietors, are nowhere to be found.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-25

States that the insurgent warship Es-
meralda vas short of funds are denied by
the captain, who showed a newspaper cor
respondent letters of credit and cash
amounting TO more than $4,000. The Mex
lean government states that no reinforce
ments have been sent to Acapulco. as the
garrison there is sufficiently strong to pre-
vent the Esmeralda from landing or taking
coal forcibly. The government has no fear
feat.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-25
Land Court Appointments.

WASHINGTON. May 24.-At q conference
between the President and Attorney-gener-
al Miller. on Friday. it is stated, conclus-
ions were reached in all of the five Land
Court appointments. and that letters have
been sent to the five fortunate men de-
termined upon, rendering them the places.
known whether they will accept. The men
are all well-known lawyers. familiar with
the land practice. 1t is expected that the
appointments will be announced within a
week.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-25
General Notes.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON. May 2.-Hon. j. N. Hus-
ton, of Connersville, arrived this afternoon
on his way home from Virginia, where he
has extensive land interests.
w. A. Peelle. jr.. and N. E. G. Whitney, of
Indianapolis, are at the Ebbitt.
Mr.. and Mrs. Friedrich w. Heath, of Num-
Gle. are at the Ebbitt. on their way West
from q trip to New York and New England.
They will remain some days sightseeing.
Mrs. Burnett, widow of the late Mr..
Jerome &. Burnett, has gone to Indiana, in
company with her daughter, Mrs. Gertie
Beech, and her sister. Mrs. D.. Gould. Mrs.
Burnett will be greatly missed by her many
friends in this city, as she now expects to
make her home permanently with her
daughter at Lafayette.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-25

CITY OF MEXICO. May 24-Advices from
Central America say that on Wednesday
last a steamer resembling the Itata was
seen by q coasting schooner. The coaster
attempted to approach the steamer, when
the latter. which was running. south.
sheered OF from her course. This was
about thirty miles of shore.
The reports published in the United
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-25

NEW YORK, May 24-Secretary Blaine
arose this morning. ate q hearty breakfast
and sat mp during the morning. His feet
have almost recovered their normal condi-
ton and his appetite is u~nimpaircd. He is
c0nvalescing rapidly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-25
superintendent OF Immigration.

Special 10 the Indlanapono JournaL
WASHINGTON. May 2A-To-day's Wash
ington newspapers announce that ex-Con-
gresham Owen. of Logansport. who is at
the Ebbitt House. is seriously considered
for the position Of Superintendent of the
immigration Bureau. at this city, alleging
that he had q conference with the Presi-
terday. The place is worth $4,000 a year.
Mr.. Owens name was first connected with
the Office In these dispatches two months
ago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-25

In your blood Is impure ~ gulate your liver
with Simmons Liver Regulator.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1891-11-20

OFFICE: Room le, I'd Floor Bach, Cory
Co.'s Block.
WORKS: Eighth Avenue North, Thirteenth
to Fourteenth street.
Electric Street Railway passes both ONCE and
works.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1891-11-20
The Prospector.

The common impression of a pros
pector, away from the mines, is that
he is kind of ignoramus with a
pack mule, grub stake and some
crude Implements man who, when
he discovers something that looks
like gold, takes specimens to an as
sayer or metallurgist to see whether
they are gold or something else.
This is not the way An average
prospector is equal to several labor
atories combined; he can almost
smell gold. Not only gold, he
knows all kinds of rock, there is no
stone in his v 'cabulary. To qualify
his opinions by test as to the nature
of the metal would be like the pro.
verbal ''painting Of the lily"
The best dissertation of the origin
of gold, its distribution, old river
beds and the like we ever heard was
by an old prospector who crawled
into Nevada City about ten years
ago in snow ten feet deep, with his
feet tied up in gunny sacks. His
appearance at all was due to his find
ing a cigar box full of "grub" some
one had left in a camp he came
across. He was a college bred,
world traveller, a miner, q metallur-
gist and general scholar. We were
on the way down rained in for sew.
eral days at Grass Valley, and dur
ing this time learned more Of gold
from this prospector than has since
been found in books on the subject.
A "prospector" is not man to be
fooled with.-S. F. Industry.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1891-11-20
English Mining Methods.

Although American mining
engineers have dealt successful,
with many great problems, tits doubt
full if this country can show a mine
in which such advanced ideas have
been introduced as are in use at the
Lumpsey iron ore mine of Bel
Brothers, in the Cleveland district o1
England. This mine was recently
visited by one of the English
engineering societies, and the
workings were fully described by
the Engineer, from which these brief
notes are taken.
The shaft is 5e4 feet deep, about
$50 hands are employed in the mine
and 1000 tons of ore are raised in a
day of eight hours. The hosting
engine has two cylinders, forty-two
inches in diameter and seventy-two
inches stroke; the hosting drum is a
cone of seventeen feet at the other,
and gross load Of eight tons and
twelve hundred-weight is raised in
thirty seconds.
Steel girders, weighing fifty
pounds to the yard, are used in place
of timber for the supports in all the
main galleries, the increased first
cost being SO per cent.
All the handing in the mine is
done with an endless steel cable.
All the drilling is done by
mechanical means, hydraulic power
being chiefly used. In sinking the
shaft the inflow of water caused
considerable trouble, but the springs
are now utilized in driving the drills.
A series of six-inch pipes take the
water about 280 feet above the
bottom of the pit, which gives a
pressure of about 215 pounds, per
square inch at the bottom of the shaft.
From that point the water is
distributed through the mine to the
drilling machines One of these
machines will drill seventy holes one
and three-quarter inches in diamater
and fifty-six inches deep in shaft of
eight hours. Drilling machines driven
by petroleum engines have also been
introduced, doing about the same
work as the hydraulic machines.
The ore vein is nine feet thick,
but the ore yields only 80 per cent
metallic iron.