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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-03-09
IOWA WILL HAVE LOCAL OPTION.
A Measurs Passed by the Senate Yesterday that
Wipes Out the Prohibition Law.

DIS MONIES, Ia, March a-The Iowa pro-
hibition law was practically wiped out Of
existence to-day. The State Senate this
afternoon. by o vote of ~ to p. adopted the
Catch bill, which allows county option,
each community being given tho
right to settle the liquor question
for itself by elections to take place not
oftener than every five years. The matter
can be brought up only on petition of one
fifth of the legal voters Three Republican
Senators tins afternoon sided with num-
Der of Democrats in the passage OF the bill.
There Is little doubt that the measure will
receive tho approval of Governor Boies
and become a statute. An acrimonious de-
bate preceded the final roll-call the ques-
ton at Issue being as to where rested the
political responsibility for the bill. The
announcement of the vote was received
quietly. but with signs of relief by the big
audience present.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-03-09
vERrTABLE "BACK NUMBERS
German Colonists I'm Russia Who Adhere G,
the Customs of tho EIghtsepth Century.

German Colonists I'm Russia Who Adhere to
the Customs of the Eighteenth Century.
LONDON, March S.--A correspondent.
writing from the Russian province of Sar-
atov, the center of one of the famine
stricken districts, says: Imagine q body
of men taken out of the eighteenth cent
ury, carefully preserved and kept apart
from the influences of modern progress.
Iatter-day customs and ideas. and
you have the German colonists Of
the NOlga. They all look like
figures out of old German wood-cuts.
with their solemn, sallow. obstinate. clean
shaver faces. their hair dressed like o
periwig. their gannt forms and their Curl
Gus. old fashioned garments. They all
wear stocks. and they are all very digni-
fed and stately. They have still the Same
furniture which they brought with them
more than a hundred years ago. and sleep
in four-po bedsteads. The women, when
young have the pure and beautiful faces OF
the Gretchen. The condition of the colo
nists is really worse than that of the Rus
snaamui% the foI Gssr hsvs
natural protectors or guardians. The
estate-owners TO whom the Russian
peasants formerly belonged still take %
sort OF patriarchal interest In them and
help them in their distress. But the
German colonists have no one 10 whom
they can look except few wealthy en-
ployers of labor. The colonIsts have q
feeling that they are being left alone TO
die. No hand Is stretched out TO save
them. Even the goveInment's AID. scanty
enough in oil conscience. has been metod
out more grudgingly and in smaller guam
titles 10 them than TO others. The Red
Cross Society has passed them by alogeth-
-. - Srl.. h.
the inhabitabts of the Russian villages in
SaratOy are fed, the Germans are starving.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-03-09
BIG POLICY PLAYER.
A Brooklyn Book Keeper Lost Fair-Sized
Fortune at the Little Game.

NEW YORK, March s.-Wm. A. Losey, of
$50 Monroe street. Brooklyn. who has boon
for eleven years the confidential book
keeper for Madison Brothers 81 Co.'s paper
warehouse, IS Beekman street. was ar
rested to-day and locked up charged with
embezzlemens. HIS peeulatons have ex-
tended over o period of about two
years past. and in that time he had
taken S3l .70237 of the firms money. This
sum he invested in different policy shops
in this oity. In the same time he had won
in playing policy the sum of 49,. 500. IS.
which he spent again IA Foley, making his
total loss s64,0C6.0S. He has played as high
as S.5 day, and in some of the shops had
dropped $3.50 in one day. In some cases
he had won as much as the latter sum in
day, but then this lost again.
The defalcatiOns were only discovered by
the firm last Saturday. when q deficit OF
5000 came TO light on the company's books
This was followed later by discoy cries of q
like nature until tho total of 93l. 700 81 was
brought to light. Losey was immediately
suspended. and his arrest followed. Seven
of the policy dealers with whom be did
business were also put under arrest and
held pending examinations
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-03-09
CURRENCY REFORM.
An Austrian Commission Discusses the Cues
tion--Cold Standard Favored.

An Austrian Commission Discusses the CUES
tion--Gold Standard Favored.
VIENNA. March 6-Dr. Z. Steinbach,
Austrian Minister of Finance. on welcoming
the members of the commission on currency
reform. said that besides the question OF
the resumption of specie payments the
commission was to consider other impor-
tant and difficult currency questions that
have arisen in consequence Of the far
reaching change in the firm ratio of value
which had so long existed between gold and
silver. The change had bad most sweeping
effect upon the Austro- Hungarian ratio Of
values. This change cannot. therefore. be
omitted in the future regulation OF the
currency. Herr Bauer. director OF the
Vienna Banking Association, and Herr
Benedikt. editor OF the Noue Freie Presse,
members of the Currency Reform Commits
sion. spoke in favor of o gold standard.
with temporary continuance of silver
currency to the extent of 1O0. O00. 900 forms.
In Pestb, to-day. the Hungarian commits
sion of twenty-One currency experts met
Finance Minister Wekerte and concurred
In the adoption of q gold standard. While
it was admitted that silver ought TO be ac-
corded an important place in the new sys-
tenn, there wac difference of opinion as 10
how far that metal should be employ ed. the
amount of circulation suggested varying
from 120. 600, goo TO 50,000,0 900 1orine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-03-09
Dolngs of Four HighweYmen.

PITTsBURG. March Sat Finleyville,
twenty-five miles south of this city. on the
Baltimore IL Ohio railroad. gang of four
highwaymen assaulted Conductor j. j. Nc
Millin. bound and gagged him. tied him TO
q post. and relieved him of his watch and
money. They then went to the telegraph
tower and at the muzzle of revolvers forced
Albert McNeill. the operator to surrender.
He was taken down stairs and bound and
gagged. after which he was also relieved
of his valuables. The robbers next turned
their attention to the safe in the office. 1t
was locked. but they placed charge of
powder in the keyhoie and blew it open.
The explosion wrecked the Office, but the
report attracted the attention OF trainmen
In the vicinity. and the desperadoes were
frightened OFT before they could secure tho
contents of the safe, which were scattered
over the room.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-03-09
RIGHT SORT OF 4 BROTHER,
lie Pounds Up Muncie Editor for Making
Charges Against the Misses Love.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE. Ind, March s.-To-night George
c. Stoll, editor and proprietor of the
Muneie Tribune, was dan gerously as
saulted by John c. Love, as q
result of publication made in
the Tribune relative to the Misses Mamie
and Edith Love. sisters of Mr.. Love. Both
young women are teachers in the Muncie
public schools. The former teaches music.
Stoll charged that Miss Edith Taught In
tho city schools without being able to
pass an examination, and received
exorbitant pay for little work. Great
excitement was caused by the at
tack. which has been anticipated.
Mr. Love is q travelling salesman for a New
York y-goods house, and came home to
defend and protect his sisters, who are
leaders in Muncie society. He was ar
rested and quickly gave 500 bond to await
developments. Stoll received four severe
cuts in the face and head. and the attend
ing physician says they were made with a
weapon.
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900 FOR WAGON WHEAT
ACME MILLS. West Washington st.
ITALIANS WANT INDEMNITY.
Families Of the Iynched Sicilians Bring Suits
Against the City of New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS. March S.-A new and un-
expected chapter in the history of the Hem
messy assassination and the lynching of the
Italians that followed has came out.
Claims will be fled in the United States
Court aRai nst the city, this week by the
families of the Italians who were never
naturalized for DAMAGES. The claims will
vary from $4,000 % $4,000. and the total
will amount TO between $3.50. 600 and $780,
600. Not one of the families of those who
were naturalized Is included in the claim.
lt Is q claim against the city. Judge
Samoola. one of the best-known citizens of
the State. is beginning the suit. 10 is
brought to prevent prescription. The heirs
of the mobbed Italians have a claim
against the government already, but it is
said that it will be worthless unless suit is
brought against the city within one year
after the occurrence. The year has al
maef Dired
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-03-09
To Navigate Roth Rivers and Seas.

DUBUQUE. Ia. March s.-The Iowa IRON
works of this city. have undertaken to
build q boat on an entirely new plan, the
object of which Is TO navigate the river and
the ocean 1t will have one bow and two
sterns, each of which will have a rudder
and screw. so If one 10 disabled there will
remain half the power TO make port. she
will carry an Adjustable center-board
which, IL il thought. will answer the pur-
pose of deeper draft. The boat will be
three hundred feet long and from thirty to
70 thirty-hve feet beam. She Will be built
entirely of steel and will cost about $780,
600. IL Is expected that she will carry
cargo in weight equaling about sixty thou-
sand bushels of wheat on five feet of water.
are obtained. The vessel. when finished,
will be sent with a cargo to the Amazon.
She viii then 20 mp the river i've hundred
miles or more. 10 the coffee plantations.
and take from them direct the products
which now have 10 be transferred half q
dozen Tunes lef"re reaching = market.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-03-09

sAustria's Currency Commission Begins
Discussing an Important Question.
Gold Standard Favored BY Many Of the Mem.
bers-Nineteen Members of Wedding Par
tyof ,Albanians Shot by kontenegrins.
THEY DOUBTED HER POWERS,
And She Beat Them TO Death with a Club
Deed Of a Furious Woman.

And She Beat Them TO Death with a Club
Deed of Furious Woman.
SAN Francisco, March S-Honolulu adj
vices received by steamer to-day report
that family of twelve persons were
brought as prisoners from the island OF
Lauai, Feb. 81, charged with murder.
Some members Of the family have three in
dictments against them. The story told is
that remarkable curing powers had Sc
cured for Puulolo. one of the female mem
bers of the family, the reputation of
"kahuma," or one possessed of super
natural powers Acting under the guild
ance of the spirit which had power over
her, she beat and killed her sister with
club for daring 10 question her powers.
The furious woman also dubbed TO death
her nephew, boy of six years. the remain
der of the family acquiescing or assisting
in the deed. A brother OF the woman.
about thirty years of age, was then seized
and held by the family while Punlolo
burned HIM over the face and body with q
flaming torch. Another man. her fourth
victim, was also held by the members of
the family while the woman beat him TO
death with club. AS resultof the crime
the natives have deserted the place where
the tragedy occurred.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-03-09
Mrs. Jefferson Davis Brings a Lawsuit.

son Davis. widow of the ex-President of
the Southern Copfederacy, has brought
suit in the United States Circuit Court to
restrain Robert Bedford and the Bedford
Company from transferring the rights of
this company in the memoirs written by
her of her husband to the United States
Book Company. In her complaint Mrs
Davis says that on March 4. 1890. she en-
tered into q contract with Robert Bedford
for the sale of this book. This contract
was afterward transferred TO the Belford
Company. Mrs. Davis further claims that
royalties to the amount of $1,000 are due
her on the sale of the book. ana she brings
suit for the recovery of this sum, with in
terest, from September last
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-03-09
Confessed to Robbing the NAH.

DUBUQUE. Ia, March SD. ID. White.
brother of the general superintendent of
the railway mail service. was arrested last
night on charge of robbing the mails and
guilty and gave bail for his appearance at
the April term of the United States Court
White is postal clerk. running between
McGTegor and Sanborn. Ia and was
trapped by means OF decoy letters and
marked money, the inspector finding the
marked money on his person. When ar
rested. White broke down completely and
made n confession.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-03-09

The Bill to Readjnst Salaries OF Postal
Clerks to BE Reported Favorabiy.
Special to the Indianapo Is Journal.
WASHINGTON, March a-The House bill
to reclassify and readjust the salaries of
postal clerks. introduced on Feb. 9. by Mr..
EnlOe of Tennessee was to-day unanimous
ly approved by the House committee on
postoftices and postroads. This measure.
if favorably acted upon by the House and
Senate, will give the hard worked postal
clerks q slight increase in salary andswill
readjust many of the inequalities that now
exist. The Postoffico Department favOrs
the legislation. The postal clerks commit
tee, which has been hero on the ground
working for he.passage of the bill. is very
exultant over the prospects for success.
This is the first measure reported back to
the House by the postoftce committee this
season. and Is the one In which tie postal
clerks at Indianapolis take so much in
terest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-03-09
General Notes.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON. March S-Mr. and Mrs
Moses Epstein of Frankfort. W no have been
attending the wedding of Mrs. Epstein'e
sister. leave for home tomorrow morning
Mr.. i. p. Thompson, postm a ster. and w
o. Patterson. superintendent of mails al
Indianapolis. are ut the Ebbitt. They
come On postal business
REPRESENTATIVE Brookshire introduced a
bill to-day to pay Capt. Robert L. Bryant.
OF Charlottesville. S535 ia satisfaction for
his services in the late rebellion as commits
sary of subsistence on the staff of Briga-
der general Lew Wallace from Oct. z, 1861.
To Feb. ,. 1902.
MIR. HOllebens, the new German minister
to this country, was formally presented to
the President this morning by Assistant
Secretary Wharton.
The nomination of j. III. Burford to be
associate Justice of tho Supreme Court of
Oklahoma Territory has been confirmed by
the Senate.
The President has signed the bill for the
relief OF Aquilla Jones. late postmaster OF
indianapolis who sustained a loss OF s.. 4SS
by robbery. and the census deficiency ap-
preparation bill
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always been On emergency since he had
been In the Navy Department.. Laughter.i
There had been the Itata matter. the ltai-
ian affair and the ChilIaB war, besides bur-
RED work to get armament and batteries
ready for ship builders. so that they could
not assert that the government delayed
their work. Since the Gillian peace all
men had worked eight hours. For him tho
Gillian war lasted four months. No con-
Wet labor was used by him. either in the
form of materials or otherwise The Com
modore said he divided the men in the
navy-yards between the two political par
ties. as far as possible.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-03-09
Laughed and Joked Before He Died.

WLKEsBARRE. Pa. March s.-Charles
Wall was hanged i'll the prison yard of the
Wyoming county Jail, at Tunkbannock.
this morning. for the murder of his wife.
In his cell. all the morning. Wall laughed
and jOked for over two hours. and before
the execution lie INDUCED in profane re-
marks. He gave no sign whatever OF sor-
row OF repentance. claiming all the time
that be was innocent and knew nothing OF
the crime. He said he was sober at the
time the murder was committed. but was
poisoned before he left home. and was not
responsible for what he did when he re-
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PHILADELPHIA. March S-A health officer
of the city. this morning, informed the
Health Board that the leper Charles Wing.
who is now at the Municipal Hospital has
been employed rs cook at the Peabody
Hotel. this city. in which there are 125
guests Major Neale says that several wit
nesses have testified that Charles Wings
feet and legs. at times, have been so that he
has been compelled to sit upon the table
while mixing the flour.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-03-09
THE PROPOSED TREATY
Discussed In Secret Session by Senators an,
Bitterly Opposed by Some.

Discussed In secret StssiOn by SENATORS and
Bitterly Opposed by Some.
Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON. March s.-The Behring sea
arbitration treaty was sent to the Senate
to-day by the President. and at $50 the Sem
ate went INTO executive session to consider
it, on motion of Mr.. Sherman. chairman of
the committee on foreign relations. The
message of the President. and the full text
of the treaty were read. There was moth
ing of an Important nature in the Presi-
dents letter. it being simply a letter of
transmission. and containing no recon-
mendatlons or sugge stions
After short. concise explanation of what
the treaty proposed. and al appeal to the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-03-09
A New Comet ip the Heayens.

ROCHESTER,. n. Y. March S.-Professor
Swift. of tho Warner Observatory,
Rochester. n. V. discovered at day break
Monday. bright telescope comet. As
read from the circles II was in right asceu-
sion eighteen hours. tifty-niDe minutes; de-
cliuaton, south thirty-one degrees. twenty
minutes. 1t is moving in easterly di-
rectlon. It can be seen with an opera
glass but no tail was visible through the
great telescope.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-03-09

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
CLEVELAND. March S.-Bishop Horst
mann arrived in this city tonight from
Pittsburg. In spite of the mud and falling
snow, thousands of people were on the
street to greet him. There was q long
parade. composed OF Catholic societies of
this and surrounding cities. He was es-
corted TO the Bishops place. where he was
greeted by local priests and laymen. In
the morning he will otficiate in an Ella borate
mass at 81. Johns Cathedral, assisted by
the dIgnitaries of the surrounding cb urches.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-03-09
Tho House Rests q Day.

WASHINGTON, March SIN his prayer
this morning the Chaplain of the House
feelingly referred to the death of Repre-
sentative Kendall of Kentucky. After Mr.
McMillln of Tennessee had gwen notice
that he would tomorrow call ND for con-
sideration the free wool BILL Mr.. McCreary
of Kentucky announced to the House the
death of his colleague Mr.. Kendall. and as
a mark of respect to the memory of the de-
ceased the House adjourned. The Speaker
appointed the following committee TO take
order respecting the funeral ceremonies:
Messrs. Paynter. Mansur, Amerman. Bailey.
A committee was also appointed by the
Senate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-03-09
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

Nineteen Members ola Wedding Party Shot
by Montenrgrins.
CETTINGE. Montenegro. March Sat
Kolaschin, a town on the frontier of Al
bania. forty Albanians, who were escortIng
a wedding procession, met a number OF
Montenegrins. AS the Montenegrins were
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-03-09
Conference OF Postmasters.

Special 70 The IndianapoIl5 JOURNAL.
WAsHINGToN, March s. - Postmasters
Thompson of indianapolis Higgins of Fort
Wayne. and Smith of Lafayette. will be
present at the conference of prominent
postmasters at the PostOffice Department
tomorrow, when there will be an inter-
change of views intended to improve tho
postal service. There are forty-hve post
masters in the city tonight.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-03-09

WASHINGTON, March S.--The Commits
sioner of Indian Affairs to-day forwarded
contracts for supplying the Indians of the
Northwestern tribes with milch cows and
bulls; $500 cows were bought at prices
varying from SlS.69 per head to s23.9s. and
400 bulls at from S26.2S TO s33.35 each. The
aggregate of the contracts was S250.00O
OF the whole number of milch cows pur-
chased LOCO will be supplied to the, Crows,
1900 to the Indians at Standing Rock
agency. 500 will be sent to Pine Ridge.
1900 to the Rosebud agency. 600 to the
Crow Greeks. 600 to the Lower Brules. 200
to the Santees. 140 to the Flandreau reser-
walton and 60 to the Poncas,
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WASHINGTON, March s. - Patents were
to-day granted to Indiana inventors as fol-
lows: Edward ID. Chapman and L. l.. ID.
Foster. Goshen. springs for beds, cushions
and chairs; Charles NJ. Dyer, Cloverdale,
telegraph relay; August II. Herzog, Mlsha-
waka fOot-rail for counters: Benjamin K.
Osborn, near Nora. truss rail fence; James
Pittigan. Goodland. washbosrd: Charles
l.. Ratiiff. Marion, index; David Wiser,
Plymouth. DRIVE well filter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-03-09
Bills Passed by the Senate.

WASHINGTON. March s-Among the bills
passed by the Senate to-day were the fol-
lowing: To prohibit the sale of firearms
and ammunition to Indians residing upon
reservations; referring to the Court Of
Claims the "Tice Meter" claims; appropri-
ating s275. OOO for the construction of two
United States revenue cutters for service
on the great lakes: to amend the act of Aug.
%, 1890, to reorganiZe and establish the
customs collection district of Puget sound.
The pure-food bill was discussed. amend
ed and ordered printed before the final
vote on it's adoption was taken.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-03-09
Narrow Escape of General schofieId.

WASHINGTON. March s.-This morning.
as General Schofeld was driving to the
War, State and Naval Building. his car
rage was run into by an express-wagon.
The wheels of the carriage were blocked.
and the carriage was overturned. 1t was
found necessary to remove the General
through the window. but. fortunately. he
was not hurt beyond receiving o rather Sc
we're shaking up. His escape was due 10
the GOODNESS of the driver. who managed to
control the horses. notwithstanding the
OyerturninQ of the carriage.