The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-09
NEWS In SUNDAYS JOURNAL.
Resume of important Events at Home aud
Abroad ChrOnicled in the Issue Of May s.

The Mississippi is FIVE miles wide at Bur-
lington.
Twenty persons were poisoned by eating
fruit cake at the North Texas Insane Asy-
lum.
A Solomon is needed at Dallas. as two
women are claiming TO be the mother of
the same baby.
Anderson. who married Ellen Purcell, of
st. Louis. has been found guilty of steal
ing 81 200 from her.
New York sugar refner threatens to
remove his business to Germany if the
bounty Is Withdrawn.
Tanners in the South and West are in SEES
for decrease of production for ninety
days.
The Chinese minister outlines his objec-
tions TO the new exclusion law, but de-
clines to predict what his government
viii do.
Secretary Noble consents to give the
House Pension Bureao inquiry committee
the information 1t socks relative to certain
dismissRls.
Ex-senator INGALLS, is going to Europe
after the Republic an convention is held
He will deliver the Decoration ay Grafton
at Springfield. Mo.
Saturdays race miners: At st. Louis:
st. Leo: Sir Carr, John g., Highland. Rose
Powers. Fan Ring. Ceverton. Forest Rose,
Fakir. Bullet. At Lexington: Hopeful,
Odrey, Wadsworth, BranGOlette, Dutch
Oven. Major Tom.
Base ball-Western League: Kansas City
2. Columbus ]; Toledo Q. Omaha D; Mil
wauks 8. Minneapolis O. National League:
Brooklyn 4, st. Louis 3; Philadelphia q,
Louisville 3; Washington q Pittsburg j;
Baltimore 4, Cleveland 3; Chicago s. New
York 3; Boston 3. Cincinnati 2; Washing
ton 8, Pittsburg /.
From the Second Edition orthe Sunday Journal.
kiplings Impressions of New York.
LONDON. May 7.-"Rudyard Kipling.
novelist" sends to the Times his final
impressions OF New York city. He says:
., mIhs more re-, ! studied it the more r.
the paving of its streets, bad i'll it's police
management, and bad in its sanitary ar
ranRements. No one that talked to has
approached the management of New York
shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and
reckless extravaganza. No one is likely to
do so. because reflections cast on the long.
narrow pig trough are construed as
malevoleDt attacks against tho spirit and
the majesty Of the great American people
and lead to angry comparisons. Yet, if all
the streets in London were permanently
torn up and all the lamps were taken down,
this would not prevent the New York
streets. taken in q lump. from being first
the approaches OF katfir kraal.
"One of these days. you ale told. every
thing Will be taken IN hand and put
straight. and the unvirtuous rulers of the
popular indignation. Everybody will
unanimously elect the right mon, who will
justly earn the enormous salaries at pres
emf paid TO inadequate aliens. AT the same
time the lawlessness inSrained by the gov
ernors among the governed during forty
years of brutal laxity of public conscience
in regard to public duty. the tOughening
and suppling of public morals, the reck
disregard for human life bred by mpOtent
laws, and fostered by familiarity with
will miraoulOusly disappear.
I'm a heather land three things are sup
posed TO be the pillars of moderately de-
cent government. They are: Regard for
and good roads. Yet. in this Christian
city they think lightly of the irst-their
own papers, their own speech and their
actions prove it. They buy and sell the
second at . certain price. openly and with
out shame, aud are apparently content to
die without the third. The blame of their
city evils 10 not altogether with the gen.
tlemen, chiefly of foreign extraction, who
control the city. These find the people
made to their hand, q lawless breed. ready
to wink at one evasion of the law If they
may profit by another, and In their rare
hours of leisure content to smile over the
details of O clever fraud"
He then says; The cultured en- American
The otherwise American. who 10 aggressive.
| straIghtway proceeds to thrust q piece of
half-banged. municipal work under the
nose of the alien as sample OF perfected
effort. There Is nobhing more delightful
than to sit for strictly limited time with
a child who tells you what he means to be
when a man. But when the same child,
loud voiced. insistent and unblushingly
eager for praise. but as thin-skinned as che
most morbid hObGledehoy. stands about
all your ways. telling you the same story.
| in the same voice. you begin to yearn for
somebody fnlshed-say Egypt and q COM
pletely dead mummy.
lit is neither seemly nor safe to hint
that the government of the largest city in
the United States is q despotism of the
alien. by the alien, for the alien. tenn pered
with occasional iusurreetiops of decent
folk"
Gossip from Berlin.
BRLIN, Nav THE Emperor has had
an uneventful week at Potsdam until
yesterdays ceremonial of introducing
der bitter cold wind and n sharp
fall of sleet the imperial family.
leading generals. officers of state and
foreign military representatives. assembled
| at POtsdam. The foot guards we're formed
In open square in the Lustgnrten. The
Crown Prince took his position as lieu
tenant on the right of his company. The
| Emperor. drawing his sword. took COM
mand of the regiment aud delivered a
short but animated speech, in which he
told the men he contded his son TO their
care. He relied upon his son and his COM
rsdes to continue the honorable traditions
| or the re gimenL The troops. led by the
Crown Prince. then marched past the
palace where the Empress, surrounded by
q group of women. was watching the
| spectacle of her sons installation as an
officer from window overlooking the
square The Emperor will go TO Dantzic
on May Is, where he will view the garrison
and launch a cruiser that has been built
at the imperial dock.
An incident has just occurred that proves
| the growing dread here of the efficiency of
tile American emigration commission. Sol
ONION Gunfeld. of Turkish birth. living in
the United States, sent to his wife, who
resides in Gallicia, ticket and money 10
allow of her joining him in America. The
German authorities refused TO permit her
to pass tho .routier. Gunfeld appealed to
Mr. Blaine, the American Secretary OF
State. who instructed Mr.. Phelps. the
American minister here. to do what he
could in the case. although Gunfeld's wife
was not an American citizen. AS a result
| of tho ipformal negotiations the German
authorities refused to allow her To mass for