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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-25

Tho onnoston among certain Army officers 10 the
ross,,o of the bill now before Congress- WHICH IT,
ourps lncnl promotion in the different arms Vi ''o
military service and repeais exisuns III" pS w.
n ,,S,,,,rts were exempted from lincal promotion
So, o,ti,ued undcr thc former system Of regimcntm
',n,no,ion has assumed serious proportions. ana inc
F -, ,his feature of the bill is believed TO be
,,.nnos.ed hv the earnest opposition TO IT, In tho
'.,,,,,ion T., The Army has been regmental. and
tho result /, that officers who were graduated from
,ycst Point in 1876 and were assigned TO the 81
C,ya,ry. for example. are now junior IN RANK 20
officers who we're graduated IN l'So ana were ~
""' - .oc,ucnts in which a greater number Of
e, have occurred and these officers who through
,,,,or,o, nr,motion have lost in rank ar the ones
o,nos,ng the contemplated change In the law
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-25

TILE PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED
s.m. and abroad A the "world's Great
is is, k passenger Train.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-25

and are urging their friends in Congress, as an act on
justice TO continue the system which excerpts them
temporarily from the provisions Of tho law requiring
lncal promotion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-25

While there has been good deal of tJsculaton
ohort Tho returu hone If the squadron of Evolution
comnanded By RearAdmiml Walker. and now ntiichcd
10 The south American station. and while many pre-
dic,lons moro or les, sensational and erroneous have
,,.n mnde IL can b. stated with authority. That not
only have no orders directing the return 81 the sdladOn
% tbe United states been issued. but that IN" NAVY
bep,r,rn.nt has not as vet given serious attention
io The matter II Is probable however That tho
sduadr)n viii be directed to all homeward on vt
L. IrtlN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-25

Publicity has not vet toen given To tn" sentence
q, tha General court martial which recently tried
Commander j. D. Graham charges preferred agaln..
hn nv the Secretary Of the Navy for misconduct ana
rismona cement during his command OF the Monltor
noet ucar Richmond VI. But as The charge, ursn
Witch Commander Graham was tried were OF ule
49,, corious nature and as It Is known that because
10 tho nahcquateneS, Of the first Sentenc" IN VI" o
80 record was returned the court for rrNlsni,
~ IT'S sentence II Is believed mat the 'hh se"'-
~ the cour. Is that 81 dismissal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-25

Ia TO,ca Falrvlcw and Ileian Won N H'H"IIH
last wccl. for the Metropolitan Handicap The pressure
on the Rancocas candidate was such That The "d's
wcre cut down to q 10 /. " Matt Alirh Is pu'h"S
ralryIcw Al Morrl, Park. Louis stuart IS pushing
tristan ot Monmouth Cooper +, pushing Tournament
f,r fine suburban with hopes that the white Jacket
and bnc spots7 will De ia front at the hnsh Thee
,-, lc latest quOatlOua.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-02-04

Both are ambitious, audacious and un-
scrupulous. Both are utterly selfish.
Both have been known as political
scbemers from the day they entered
politics. Both have made it the object
of their lives to control the political
machines of their respective States.
Both have shown an utter disregard for
the press and for public opinion. Both
have allied themselves with the worst
elements of their party, and have PAN
dered to its worst tendencies. Both
have surrounded themselves with men
who stick at nothing in politics. and
have openly rewarded by appointment
to office those who have done their
dirty work. Both have shown by their
acts and almost declared in words that
they regard party success as far more
important than the maintenance of any
principle. That two such men should
have it in their power to dispose of the
Democratic nomination for the presi-
dency speaks badly for the party, and
does not augur well for the country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-02-04

pressive policy has been determined
upon. As a result a number of dis
missals have been made, and moro are
said to be impending, of old and trusted
employees. This policy avors of pro-
scription. The mere fact that the en-
ployes of a corporation belong to a
mutual benefit society, even though
1T DO secret. need not alarm the COM
pany, and certainly should not be
cause for dismissal, especially when all
purpose of interfering with the affairs
of the company or taking part in any
labor trouble is disclaimed. The right
of organization is a sacred ore, and
when the object is proper it should be
encouraged rath ,r than denied.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-02-04
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mrs. HUMPHREY WARDS last novel is dis
appointing her publishers. who. in the slim
demand Tor the book, feel as IL they were
peddling ice in q blizzard.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, the venerable
heroine of the Crimean war. is SO exhaust
ed by an attack of la grippe that her con-
dition Is reported as extremely critical.
She is about seventy-two years old.
Mr.. AND Mrs. RUDYARD KIpLING and Mrs.
Kipling's mother and sister will visit the
United States early IN the spring. The
party will remain O few months in America
and will then start on q tonr of the world.
S%TUPENDous is the WORD used in describ-
ing the performances of Sophie Menter,
who is playing the piano with her pupil,
SapeinikOff. They are now in London, and
the possibilities are that they will come
over here.
OVER on the other side trained nurses
have quite O social standing. Miss Edith
Curwen Ward. who lately nursed Prince
George of Wales. is contem plating the or
ganIZation of q hospital for the treatment
of lip disease. She ia assisted In her work
by representatives of the very best society.
DURING the lect ures of DR.. Lymon Alb
bott on '"Tbe Evolution of Christianity
in Huntington Hall. Boston. standing room
has been at q premium. THE interest of
Boston's most representative people in DR..
Abbott's mastery unfolding of his great
theme has been something phenomenal"
says the Advertiser of that city. which
compares him as an original thinker with
Bishop Brooks.
THE following advertisement recently
appeared in n matrimonial paper. ga
stamp collector. the possessor OF q collec-
tion of 12.544 stamps. wishes to marry a la
dy who is an ardent collector and the pos
sessorof the blue penny stamp OF Mauritius,
issued in lS47." IL appears III the Moniteur,
of the Island of Mauritius. and the stamp
which the young lady must possess is val
ned at about 1000 on account of it's rarity.
A VISITOR 10 Ceylon found Arab Pasha.
the exile. IN his bungalow in the cinnamon
gardens, near Colombo. amid q grove of
cocoanut trees. Arabs cbildren-Ma-
homed. agea eight. and Edouard. somewhat
younger--were playing barefooted OH the
veranda. The eXiled chief is described as
tall and portly and of gentle manners. but
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-02-04
FRIGHTENED KIDyAPERs.


POUND RIDGE, N. Y, Feb. 3.-Eight-year-
old Ward Waterbury. who was kidnapped
from the vicinity of the school-house near
Long Ridge, Conn.,. Monday afternoon. and
for whom his parents and the entire neigh
borhood have been searching far and near
ever since. was brought home az 8 o'clock
this morning by John Close, of Stanwich,
Conn. Mr.. Waterbury was at home, hav-
ing but just returned from his trip 10
Miller's bridge. where he had been sum-
mOned by the letter, signed River Boys"
making an appointment there with him..
He had gone alone TO the spot in accord
ance with the d emands of the letter writ
ten. Remaining there until after 1870 this
morning he came 10 the conclusion the
kidnapers had been frightened away and
did not come. Then he drove homeward
Father and mother were endeavoring to
console each other in their misery when, at
8 o'clock. the door-bell rang and John
Close entered with the missing boy. As
Mr.. Waterbury opened the door in answer
TO the ring, Ward aprang into his fathers
arms and then into his mother's There
was q very affecting scene. John Close
was warmly thanked by Mr.. and Mrs.
Waterbury for bringing Ward back.
When the excitement had become somo-
what subdued Mr.. Close told how he had
come to get Ward. Mr.. Close u q clam
digger. and Is a man of humble clrcum-
stances. He lives at Stand wich. Conn,
convenient to his clam-beds AT 2 O'CLOCK
this morning there was q loud Knocking at
his front door. The knocking continued.
and finally aroused him. He opened the
door and saw q little boy standing outside.
IL am Ward Waterbury, said the hoy.
land L want to 60 home.D Mr.. Close asked
Ward to come In and he did so. He then
told Mr.. Close bis story. He said q man
had brought him mp to the house On HE
back and had told him 10 &C aud knock Oh
Mr.. Closes door. Then the man ran aw ny.
Mr.. Close had heard of the abduction OF
Ward Waterbury. and he decided TO take
Ward to his parents immediately. So he
hitched up his horse and at once drove 20
Mr.. W~aterbury's house. at Long Ridge. ar-
irving there at 3 o'clock.
Ward Waterbury then told tho story of
his abduction. while his father and mother
and Mr.. Close sat around and listened. The
boy then said he was approached by two
tall. pleinly-dressed men. about 4 o'clock
Monday afternoon, as he was passing near
the schO0l.house. They asked him 10 show
them the way TO a nearby place. and he
consented. After he had gone q short
distance, and as soon as they were ont of
sight of the school, the men told him rough
ly be must 20 with them, and picked him up
and started to the woods. he dad not know
where or how far he went. but only that
long after dark that night he vas taken TO
q small house where he was kept until last
night, when he was taken 10 the gate To
Mr.. Closes place, and left as already de-
scribed. The police are hard at work on
the case, but as yet no clew has been OBJ
tanned.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-02-04
MUTlNOUS CONyICTS.
Boston Police Compelled 10 Club Deer Island
Prisoners Into Submission.

Boston, Feb. a-The prisoners at Deer
island became mutinous this morning and
q large force of policemen were sent there
to subdue them. When the police arrived
q large number of the ~convicts were gath
cred IN ''loafer's hail." and q request for
them to keep quiet and go about their
work was not sufficient. Then they began
making a horrible tumult and threatened
the police, who numbered about sixty. The
police drew their clubs and In a short time
put the mob under Subsection. The police
men had to use q great dea Of force. and
many of the prisoners have sore and badly
cut heads.
Commissions Devlin attributes the
trouble to n lack of room at the institn-
ton. He says: There are between SO
and 900 adult prisoners on the island. and
oniy 40 cells. 1t Is therefore necessary to
put the inmates into the dormitories in
pairs. No amount of vigilance on the part
of the officers can prevent them connecting
schemes for insubordination under these
conditions. There is no way TO prevent &c
unless we get more room. Since the new
drunk law went into effect we have been
oyercrowded. Men who used TO pay a tine
of IS or $40 for getting drunk are now sent
10 the island. Formerly we used to have a
few hundred to care for during the winter.
They were the same year after year. mostly
broken-down old men. Now we have "a
large number of the hot headec young
fellows who enjoy nothing better han a
row of some kind we have not got room To
accommodate such O big crowd"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-02-04

GRAND RAPIDS. Mich. Feb. &-Frank w.
Newberg. a colored crook. formerly of De-
troit. was to-day. In the Superior Court.
ment at Jackson for burglary. Newberg.
with two colorcd pals" on Dec. so. burg
larIzed the residence of Mrs. Florence
Gonzevoort, on North strert. Newberg.
who is of h~erculean proportions. entered
the dining-room at supper time. ollowe ed
by his two companions. and. with drawn
pistols. demanded all the cash i'm the house.
All the family fled except Mre Come
voort's son. q yonng man. whom the burg
lars ovcrpowered. They secured all has
cash and whatever else IN tho house could
be easily carried of. Newberg became fn-
rious to-day npon receiving his sentence.
and. seizing "A chair. tried 10 BRAIN de-
tcctive Joseph Smith. but was finally over
powered by tie united oxertions OF six ?
licenson.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-02-04
TAT b b

NEW YORK. Feb. 3.-When mail wagon
No. l6, j. j.. O'Keefe driver, which left the
postofios at Z o'clock last evening with the
mail for Hoboken. n. j.. arrived at Hobo
ken 10 VIDA found TO be empty. Word was
at once sent to the department and a mes
senger dispatched TO the Delaware. Lacka-
wanna 4 Western depot TO see IL the miss
ing pouch had. by mistake, been placed In
wagon M IS. which bad the mail for the
7:45 p. N. train. When driver Walker OF
that wagon examined the pouches in his
wagon. 10 found SIX of the ones be had
started Win nnn SosS bv error ~ have hs sne
placed in his WAGON. He had started With
ten pouches. The missing ones were for
buffalo and Emporiam. Mt. Morris, Waiver.
liz. Scranton aud Buffalo. y. Y. and Scran-
ton. Ia. The catebers on the back of both
wagons were found open and the locks
gone. They had. it is supposed. been opened
on the ferry-boat Orange while crossing the
river.
LATER--A dispatch from Buffalo says the
missing pouches arrived there this morn
ing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-02-04

with the idea of killing several of the new
mon. The strikers and their friends have
been quiet for several days. and IL was
thought they had ~bandoned the fight and
THAT all trouble was over.
The moterman Of the car says that az he
was approaching the station-avenne cross
ing he noticed n laborer with a dinner
bucket in his hand standing on the track.
As the car neared him the man crossed the
street and ran up Brady street and disaD-
peaTed. When the car reached that point
the explosion occurred. The moterman
thinks he recognized the nan who ran up
Brady street as one of the strikers. and he
cartridge on the track. The belief that il
was one OF the strikers. however. il not
shared in by the officials of the road. IL -
the general impression that il was some
oyerzealous sympathizer. All along the
sympathy of the citizens of Manchester and
Woods Run has been with the strikers.
but this mornings affair Is not only regret
ted but condemned by the residents TX
pressions of censure were heard from ali
sources. and while the strikers max not
have been Instrument IN the matter. vet
il was considered bad for their cause. The
strikers had Just adjourned when the re-
port was heard. The assembly convened
at midnight, and il was ESQ A. NJ. when an
adjournment was made. At the meeting
relief money. was paid to the men. The
directors OF the Manchester line will spare
neither trouble nor expense to find the per-
petrator OF this mornings outrage. Re-
Gently the company offered 81. 600 reward
for the conviction of any man interfering
with the work or damaging the property
of the company, aud this afternoon, at n
special meeting. another $1,000 was offered
for the arrest and conviction of the indi-
vidual who threw the bomb or cartridge
this morning.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-02-04

To inquirers from SeLerSbury and
elSerhere, the Journal has tosaythat all
~frareling agents sent ont at any time to
represent its interests y supplied Nth
credentials. Inability to produce such
tokens of authority on the part of any
person processing to be an agent Of this
paper, marks him as a fraud. Mr..
Smith King is at present the only az
hO,lzed trareHng subscription agent
for the Journal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-02-04
DYNAMITE FOR "SCABS."
Allegheny City Street-Ca Wrecked BY Strik.
ers, but No One Seriously Injured.

P~ITTsBURG. Feb. S.-Woods run car No. I.
of the Manchester electric street-car line,
having or board thirteen of the new EN-.
ployes of the company. was wrecked on
Beaver avenue at 4:5O o'clock this morning,
by the explosion of q dynamite cartridge
which had been placed on that track. The
explosion occurred as the car was passing
the Manchester locomotive works, and
though the conclusion was SO severe that
the car was thrown from the tracks and
badly wrecked, and the windows shattered
in all the houses on the side of the street
nearest the track over which the car was
running. strange as it may seein, not one
person was hurt. The car is known as the
all-night car. n had picked up the en-
employees on their way to work. When the
car reached the acknowledgements IL was
running at full speed, and the men were
talking and laughing. Suddenly there was
a terrific explosion. and the car was lifted
bodily from the track. 1t was badly
wrecked. and all the windows were broken.
Several of the men were cut by the flying
glass, but no one was seriously hurt. Many
persons were thrown from their beds By the
iorce of the explosion.
One of the striking conductors, who was
seen by a reporter. said that he had heard
two of the strikIng conductors threaten
that they wonld put dynamite upon the
track. He said he saw these same two II N
on Beaver avenue early this morning. and
near the scene of the explosion. He also
said that some days ago Two of the so-cniisI
'.sympathizers" asked him to take q hand
In a plot to do up" President Dslzeli and
General Manager Greenwood. of the COM
pany. He told the men that he would have
nothing To do with such a scheme. and at
once reported what had been said TO him To
Dir. DaIZell. A great crowd soon collected
eral sentiment seemed to DO that the men
who hal committed the deed had waited
until the car was wolf loaded with The
hated ''scabs.' and then fired the mine"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-02-04

in bad health. In respect Of the :itpqation
fault with the British o%ccupationi The
English are doing just what l intended to
do"
EUGENE RICHTER, tie leader of the Lib
eral party Of Germany. has the most re-
markable memory of any member of the
Reichstag. He is able TO commit long ia
bles of figures to memory. and when Prince
Bismarck was in power often corrected
illustration of his speeches. Herr Richter
Is q good speaker, and had he wished IL
might have been a Cabinet minister. he
is editor of one of the principal Journals OF
Berlin.
THE Empress of China takes great inter-
est in the working girls of the Flowery
Kingdom. A few months ago. according to
foreign papers, she established q cloth and
silk factory on the grounds of the imperial
palace in Picking. for the express purpose
of giving employment to women ana girls
who bad no work. The Empress is not al
lowed by court regulations to leave the
palace grounds. and she therefore decided
to have the factory where she could watch
its progress.
Mrs. STOWE has been credited with hav-
ing done much to bring the bloodhound
into disrepute in her "Uncle Toms Cabin"
but a reader who recently perused that re-
markaDlc book to discover just what the
anthor really did write about those
maligned plantation dogs. says that there
is but one reference TO bl0Odhounds in the
entire story. 1t was the artful play wright
who dramatized the story for the stage
who represented the bloodhound as fero-
cious and cruel, and made o very effective
stage property out of him.
THE two sons of a laboring mar in Span
dau. Germany. are most enthusiastic adj
mirers of Emperor William. A few days
before Christmas they wrote q letter to his
Majesty. saying that they wished two
swords. two soldier caps and two military
uniforms as presents. Their father. they
added. was too poor to purchase the arti-
cles. and they hoped his Majesty would
send swords. caps and uniforms which the
young princes had thrown away. The lit
tie fellows were not disappointed. as the
Emperor not only gave them the presents
asked for, but o large box containing other
toys.
A BOOK of verses underneath Q bOugh,
A jug of wine. a loaf of bread, and thou
Beside me singing In tho wilderness
Oh, Wilderness were paradise cnow.
-Rntaiyat Of Omar Khayyam.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-02-04
Col. George G. Minor.

CHICAGO. Feb. Sword was received in
this:city to-day that Col. George q. Minor
had died suddenly, at the Laclede Hotel,
IN st. Louis. whittier he had gone Monday
night on q brief business trip.
Colonel Minor was ~well-known as o SOL
der, having served both in the Mexican
and civil wars. 1t was be who drew up the
articles of agreement between the United
States and Mexico at the end Of the Next
can Wharf.-The treaty of Guadaloupe. Col.
Minor, who was then an aid TON General
Scott's staff. spoke French and Spanish
fluently and acted as interpreter for Gen
eral Scott during the entire war and while
the peace negotiations were in progress.
Colonel Minor was prominently identified
with several secret societies, amonQ them
the Patriotic Order Sons of America and
the American Protective Association.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-02-04
A FATAL BLOW FOR THE LOTTERY.

The Importance of the decision of the
Supreme Court sustaining the constitu-
tionality of the act of the last Congress,
prohibiting the use of the mails by those
in the lottery or gift-enterprise business
should not be lost sight of. The Presi-
dent called special attention to the lot
terry evil, and Congress passed a law
which. in the opinion OF experts. would
enable the Postoflice Department to put
a check upon the business. The law was
enforced, and thereupon there went up
a howl on the part of papers which were
profitlng by the business. Some of the
publishers whose editions with lottery
mails have posed as martyrs. They went
into court to test the constitutionality
of the law. The interstate-commerce
clause of the Constitution was invoked
and the right of corporations organized
under the charter of one sovereign State
to carry on in other States a traffic which
their laws make a felony was urged.
The arguments of learned counsel were
sent to the press with notes urging pub
LEGATION and comment, which, among
other things, set forth with much vehe-
mence of rhetoric that it was q violation
of the Constitution and an infringement
upon the sacred right of the individual
for the officials of the POstOflce Depart
ment to examine matchmaker and throw
out that which they deem improper.
Tho Gupran,o Court boc pnyy nascaH
upon the anti lottery law. That court
of last resort has declared that Con-
gress has full power over the mails.
That body may decide what matter is
criminal or immoral and exclude it from
the mails, and the Chief-justice, who is
q Democrat. remarks to the indignant
counsel of certain Southern papers that
the rightful exercise of this power is no
interference with h freedom of the
press. This changing Of would-be mar
tyrs in the cause of the freedom of the
press into viOlators of a law designed
to check fraud is lightning-like, but it
has been done, and done once for all.
Louisiana may persist in chartering q
company upon which Congress has
placed a ban and which the Supreme
Court has declared to be constitu-
tional, but the action of that State here
after cannot remove from the Louisiana
lottery the odlum which the national
legislature and the Supreme Court have
attached to it. Congress has branded
as an evil the agency which takes from
the people $40, 000. 900 q year and the
processes by which it is done as i'm
moral. 1t has declared, even, that a
national bank shall not be made a mere
cloak for the traffic. Now that the
power of Congress in regard to the use
of the mails by the lottery company has
been affirmed, why may not express and
telegraph companies be prohibited by
law from aiding the Louisiana Lottery
Company in doing business in States in
which the lottery is prohibited? If this
| can be done the new charter over which
the two factions of the Democratic party
in Louisiana are fighting will be of little
value to the company if they should
rot IL