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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-13

New York Letter.
No amount OF wealth is sufficient to elm
mate one innate human quality. 1t Is the
desire of getting something for nothing
that some people have. There is q bar
room in the Wall-street district where
the highest prices are charged for
drinks. They set forth a big free lunch. A
friend said to me: Go there and watch
full the appeal of gratis grub is even to
millionaires." L went. The sideboard
had crOwding mob IL front, and
if roll of these strUgglers for a
handful of bread cubes q plate of bean
soup or diminutive sandwich were made
out many name would be recognized as
good at the bottom of q check for hundreds
of thousands. The soup was worth about
cents a quart. but yet the negro
who ladled it out was as impOr-
tant parsonage as is Speaker Crisp
when a score of members are clamOrin q
for recognition during q lively debate.
The other viands were of help-yourself
kind. and the eager use of forks and spoons
which were not washed between mouths
would have sickened any one at a
bOugnten meal. The favOrite dellcacy
was lot of Frankfurter sausages in a
little can of warm water. Men worth
millions elbowed and pushed their way
TO it. Perhaps some one may say. it was
an American vulgarIsm, but i guess
not. From all accounts the sight of a
free table throws the London aristoc-
racy in Just as much confusion. This is
true at any rate, of those New York gath
erings which are most pretentious In their
aping of English manners. A brisk strug-
gle for free food invariably occurs at the
balls and receptions in the mansions of
Fifth avenue. Beaux and bellies who would
eat placdly and without the least regard
to cost in a restaurant become at these
times as ravenous as wolves.
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PREPARING FOR A STRIKE
Lancashire Mill-0wners and Cotton 0p-
eratives About to Begin Struggle.
Fifteen Million spindles Will b Idle on Sat.
urday-President Pslacio of Venezuela
Ready to Flee if Necessary.
ANOTHER GREAT STRIKE.

Employees and Cotton Mill Owners in Lanca-
shire. Eng, About to Engage in q Struggle.
Special 20 the Indianapolis Journal.
LONDON, April IL. - Efforts to settle
the dispute between employees and
miil-Owners in the Lancashire cot
con district have failed. and on
Saturday. when the notices pire. Is. coo. 900
spindles will be idle. A number of firms
have obtained permission from the
Masters union. on condition OF
paying large fines. to complete
important contracts now under way, but
after these are finished no more work is
to be done until the dispute is final
ly settled by the enforced going of one
or the other contestlng parties.
The dispute. which has now reached such
extensive proportions, Is the outgrowth of
strike which took place last Septem-
Der In one of the mills at Staley
bridge. The men complained that their
weekly wages were practically reduced a
twelfth by reason of the use of infer
Tor cotton. which caused lessened
output. An investigation. which was
conducted by commission consisting
that the statements of fact made by the
men were true. Eleven thousand spinners
are directly affected and seventy Thousand
workers In other branches indirectly
connected with the cotton industry Will
feel the effect of the stopping of the Lam
cashire production. The union Is perfect
ing arrangements for Drotracted struggle.
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MANY HOMELESS NEGROES
Hundreds Thrown on the Charity of the
Whites by the Flood in Mississippi.
Everything They Possessed Swept Away BY
the Raging Tcmbigbee Rivera Dozen
Families Drowned and Many Cattle.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 1.-the Missis-
sippi river is within one and one-half foot
of the danger line. The st. Francis basin
is rapidly filing ND, and grave fears are en-
tertalned that there will be serious de-
struction. The levees from Memphis to
Vicksburg are in fairly good condition.
yet they are not able to stand great rise.
The plantations below here on the Arkan-
sas side are submerged, and planted crops
Of corn are ruined.
In southeast Mississippi the situation is
grave. In the vicinity Of Columbus the
Pearl river has been bank full for several
weeks and the recent heavy rains have
spread it over a territory fifteen miles wide.
In addition to the loss of life Friday 1T was
reported that dozen negro families west
of Columbus have been drowned. There is
great restitution among the negroes many
of them having all they possessed swept
away. The territory in which there has
beer such an appalling loss OF life is far
away from a telegraph office, and the water
has almost entirely cut Oft communication
between the people and the outside world.
A dispatch from Columbus, Miss. says
can be stated in this way: A belt of coun-
try, ranging from five to fifteen miles wide.
running north and south. is one stretch of
ebris. made up of ruins of houses. and
fences, and carcasses of stock. and IL is
doubtful whether there is left standing in
that belt one dozen houses. The pitiful
scenes of the past few days have opened
the hearts of oil, and public and private
charity prevents the cruel suffering OF
those who were rescued. But the
most helpless time will come when the
water subsIdes, as there will be left in
this place one Thousand to twelve
hundred negroes who have not one cent
and no credit. The places that were their
homes are now nothing but mudholes. The
landlords of the tenants are IN no cOndl-
ton to replace these destroyed farms. An
estimate of the loss of life is purely guess
work, but the death list is long one. but
asyet no deat tn is reported among the w hltes.
az the low lying lands were inhabited al
most exclusively by the negroes. and such
whites as lived there were always kept
we'll protected by keeping good boats. The
old mound builders built wiser than they
knew, as these old Indian relics saved hum
dreds of negroes besides countless head of
stock. A mass-meeting of citizens was held
at the City Hall in Columbus this afternoon
to devise ways and means TO help the poor
in this hour of their need. The Mayor was
authorized to ask the federal government
for the loan of a thousand tents 10 give
them shelter.
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CHANGED WIVES WHEN HE PLEASED.


MADISON, Ga, April 12.-Bishop Atticus
o. Hay good. of the Methodist Church. of
California. has telegraphed Rev. Warren
Gambler, president of the Emery Methodist
College. Oxford. Ga, to have arrested if
possible. Rev. Erhard Dunbar and wife, the
former being o minister in the California
Conference. and to divest him of his MIN
isterial credentials. The charge is that
Mr.. and Mrs. Dunbar are living in illegal
union. and the story OF the case Is an inter-
esting one
Mr.. and Mrs. Dunbar arrived at Oxford
some time ago to visit their son, who was
attending college there. They were we'll
received. and Dunbar filled the pulpit
for DR.. Gambler on more than
one occasion. 1t develops that TWEEN
who is native of Florida. married beau
tiful woman there and raised O small FAM
lily. He afterwards eloped to Little Rock.
Ark. and assumed the name of Seth
Burnett. He was admitted to the
Methodist Conference of Arkan-
sas. Here he had another family.
Hebeca me tired of his second wife and
family and eloped with Mrs. HerndOn. the
er. going to southern California. where
he resumed his own name. Dunbar's
second wife devoted several years to
ferreting ont his whereabouts. and
nnally suCceeueu In Locating MIN III Ca1-
fOrnia. The attention of the authorities of
the Methodist Church there was called to
the case. md they at once concluded that
the man was a by pocrite. In the meantime
Dunbar. suspecting something wrong. had
left California. stating that he was go
ing to New York, but instead went TO
Oxford. The bishop promptly telegrapbed
to have Dunbar and his wife intercepted.
but the message was sent too late. as the
couple had left Oxford. Their son.
VINO was at college, and whom they
had been visiting. knew nothing
of the situation until informed by
President Gambler. The son. after hearing
the story. Immediately followed his parents
to New York. kilograms have baOh sent to
New York to arrest the couple.
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WAS 1T THE HILL BOON?
Something Exploded in New York State Yes
terday and Shook the Ground for Miles.

ALBANY. n. Y. March 1.-Two distinct
earthquake shocks were felt throughout
Montgomery. Warren and In Otsego county
to-day. The first occurred at 1l:23 and
lasted thirty seconds. The second occurred
two minutes later In JOhDstown and
Cloversville people rushed wildly from
houses. thoroughly frightened. Rafting
of dishes. falling of plaster. trembling of
buildings and vibrating of lamps appear TO
be the only result. At Utica the shocks
were about four minutes apart. and the
first one was felt at 1850 A. VI. Both were
accompanied by rumbling noise as of dis.
tant thunder. Reports from Holland
Patent. Westernville Alder Creek and a
number OF places near Utica say that both
shocks were felt there. and In some ln-
stances the shocks were severe. In Utica
in several instances pendulum clocks were
stopped. and articles on shelves and In cup
boards were shaken.
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dictments. The rebate checks are still be-
ing sent out, they say. and there seems to
be no disposition TO stop that part OF the
operations.
Bruno w. Gottschalk. dealer in Eu-
rOpean bonds. of New York and Chicago.
was yesterday convicted OF grand larceny
In the second degree at New York.
A dispatch from Sierra Leone says that
the British have captured and destroyed
Tambi. In the interior. Their loss was nine
wounded. two OF whom are not expected
to recover.
The London Chronicles Vienna CORE
spondent says IL is reported from st.
pOrtation of grain from Russia Will be
WITHDRAWN this month.
plot has been discovered to depose the
Sultan of Zanzibar in favor of the Prince
of Muscat. lie is reported that the British
favor the deposition of the Sultan in order
TO extend their pr0tectOrate over Muscat.
The Mississippi Democratic State execu-
tive committee has selected June as the
date of the State convention TO select del
egates to the Chicago convention. Or six
teen committeeman who met Yesterday
two are for Hill and fourteen for CIeve-
land.
Prince Edward of Leiningen. brother of
Prince Ernest, head of the Leiningen FAM
lily, while alighting from his carriage at
Nice. was run over by passing vehicle
ana SerlOnsly injured. fTlnce EuWarQ was
born In 1888 and IS q retired major of the
Prussan army.
1t is stated that the illness of NJ. De
Giers. Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs,
who. for some time past. has been suffering
from erysipelas in the head. aggravated
by avery painful nicer in the ear. Is result
ing In permanent deafness and that his
resignation from office is probable.
The Hamburg-American Packet Company
has made arrangements with the New York
postoffice by which mail for foreign cOun-
tries will be received at their docks up to
the last moment before the steamers de-
parture. No supplementary postage will
De charged. This service will begin per
| steamer NOrmandia, April 81.
Deeming. the Australian murderer. was
| in Halifax a few years ago on alleged MIN
! ing business. He showed n man whom he
| met there letter he had received from
| Kate Edowes. one of the women who was
| subsequently, murdered in Whitechapel.
| The letter revealed motive for the MUIR
| der of tho girl. Deeming went under two
| OF more aliases in Canada, one of which
was Ruel
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MANITOwoC, Wis, April lathe works
of the Manitowoc Manufacturing Company
were destroyed by fire last night. The
company manufactured opera chairs. school
furniture. etc.. and at the time OF the fire
was engaged in getting out the chairs for
the Minneapolis convention hall The loss
is fully S200,O0); insurance, $50 ZOO. Over
225 hands are thrown out OF employment.
LEAvENwORTH. Kan. April 12.-The great
mercantile house of Henry Ettener was
destroyed by fire tonight. The building
covered half block. was three stories
high and filled to the roof with dry goods.
clothing. boots and shoes. the entire stock
being valued at S150.0O0.
SPRINGFIELD, o., April 12.-The Winters
Art Lithographing Company burned this
morning. Loss. $4,000; insurance. $50. 900.
The company had the contract tor all the
worlds fair lithographIng. Some OF the
stones were destroyed.
MUNCIE. Ind. April 13.-This morning. at
l o'clock. incendIarIes fired the new build
ing of John L. Weis, corner of Walnut
street and Dinner avenue, and it burned to
the ground. Loss. 8, 600; uninsured.
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PALACIO READY TO FLEE.
In Event Of Defeat by the Rebels Venezue-
las President VIII Leave the Country.

In Event Of Defeat by the Rebels Venezue-
las President Will Leave the Country.
NEW YORK, April 12-The Herald's Cara
cas-, Venezuela, correspondent says: Gen.
Crespo has reappeared at the head of o
strong force of enthusiastic followers.
CrespO's headquarters are at Valencia. and
he is said to be strongly intrenched. There
are fifteen hundred men under his CON-
mand. 1t is rumored that another engage
ment has taken place between the govern
ment forces and the revolutionists, but the
result is unknown. Nearly all of Palacio's
men are now in the field. Car
acas is virtually defenseless. People
here are hourly expecting to near
that Crespo is sweeping down upon the cap
ital. PalaciO is SAID to he fully prepared
for such move. and it is common belief
that at the first intelligence OF the serious
rout of his army he will try to leave
the country. He could do so at n moments
notice, for he has transferred the bulk of
bis wealth to place of safety and his fam
lily is out of danger.
The press. cable and mail censorship
here continues rigid. 1t isexceedinGly diff
ficult to get news. The writer's of cOntis-
Gated letters are fined or imprisoned. Ru-
mors of plots are rife In Caracas. Every
body is expecting another resort to dyna-
mite. A strong force of soldiers still guard
the yellow house.
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GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.
An Expert Examines Deeming and Says
Is a Criminal by Ihatinct

An Expert Examines Deeming and Says He
Is a Criminal by Instinct.
MELBOURNE. April 12.-Mr. NJ. Marshall
Lyte. solicitor for Deeming. the notorious
criminal now un0er arrest here. employed
doctor to make an examination of the
prisoner. The doctor says that Deemng is
an instructive criminal. His head meas
ures only six and one half inches in diam
eter, which is exceedingly small, compared
with his height. The doctor describes his
whole character as one of extreme stupid.
lty and cOarsest anImality. HIS escape
arrest hitherto, the doctor saws, must have
been due more to accident than to any
cunning he was capable of. The doctor
declines to give expert testimony at the
trial on the ground that scientific evidence
Goes not obtain a right hearing In the
courts.
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Her Father Fought in the Revolution.
To the Editor OF the indianapolis Journal:
In the Lagrange County Register of n

To the Editor OF the indianapolis journal:
In the Lagrange County Register of re-
cent date l found the following:
The Indianapolis Journal says there are few
persons now living whose fathers served in the
revolutionary war, and two OF these live in In
diana They are Nelson Prentiss, of Albion. nd
his sister, Mrs. Eliza Johnson. of Llg0nier Their
father was Nathaniel Prentiss, OF Connecticut
He enlisted as drummer boy at the age or
twelve years, but afterwards became soldier.
He used to tell to these children, now living.
how General Washington looked, and also de-
scribed the execution of MAJOR Andre, which he
witnessed.
1t gives me infinite pleasure TO write that
there is yet one more immediate descend
namely. my mother. Mrs. Fidelia Bettes
McManus, youngest and only living child
of Ensign Nathaniel Bettes, of the Tbr-
teenth Massachusetts Regiment. who
served, from 1875 until 1850. in the war of
the Revolution. He was in the noted COM
mand of Benedict Arnold which marched
through the wilderness into Canada, TO the
relief of General Montgomery, before One
bee. in the fall and winter of 17l5. He
was at the surrender of Burgoyne; was in
geant, sergeant-maior, ensign and adJutant
to MaJOr-commandant John Porter. at W est
Point. from 1873 until 1850 when. by reason
of sickness and death in his family. he was
discharged at his own request. In 1915 he
and his sons came to Portage NOW Summit)
county. Ohio, and took M a section of land,
at present the north suburb of Akron, but
which has always been, and is now, known
as ''Bettess Corners" The following year
he moved his family there from Connecti-
cnt, and died there at the advanced age OF
nineJytwo years. He was the father of
thirteen children-my mother the young
est who is now In her eighty-lirst year.
Her father had often met and talked with
General Washington, and was a personal
friend Of General Lafayette. His colonial
home on the Pennington river, Connecti-
cut, surrounded by stone wall, was fine.
Substantial structure. and is at the present
time in perfect preservation. and is owned,
| believe. by Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge OF st.
Nicholas. Although SO ripe In years my moth
er at this time is enjoying more than fairly
good health. and life seems very good to
her, surrounded by children. grandchildren
and great-grapdchildre Her mind Is
active and vigorous. She reads the cur
rent daily news and has been lifelong
student of the Bible. BY birth and IN
stinct. as it WERE she has been an Aboli-
ZIONIST. and later a Republican. and num-
bers among her kindred Benjamin Wade
and John Brown. whose soul gees march
ing on. We live together. my mother.
family and self on u farm near Lima, La
grange county, Indiana.
LIMA. Ind, April IL. s. Il. MCMANUs.
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DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN.
Forecast for To-Day.

WASHINGTON. April 12.-S P. M.-For In
diana and IllinoIs-Showers. with possible
severe local storms in southern Illinois.
preceded by fair in Indiana: eliGhtly cooler
in western Illinois; warmer at Chicago;
southeast winds
For Ohio-Fair; slightly warmer by
Wednesday night: variable winds.
A storm of considerable intensity is de-
veloping in northern Texas. wind velocity
of ttirty-six miles being reported from
Able and Amarillo. This storm has caused
very steep temperature gradients, amount
ing to one degree in ten miles. second
storm appears to be developing in Alberta.
The clearing conditions have remained sta
tionary over Lake Superior. Rain has
fallen In the Missouri valley. and on the
Immediate Atlantic coast. The temperature
has fallen west of the Missouri valley, and
III Kansas and Indian Territory: 1t has re-
manned stationary in the gulf States and
New England; and has generally risen else
whore Rain may be ex pected in the Mis-
souri,. middle ANA upper Mississippi valleys.
The lower Mississippi will rise.
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III Hill Farm mine on Juno 16 1890. was com.
pleted this afternoon by the finding of the
last three bodies. Two bodies were found
yesterday. and one. that of Barney Maust.
was found week ago. All the bodies. ex-
cept that of Maust. were found in the slope
hey 0nd the fatal bore-hole 5000 feet under
ground. The men had retreated as far as
they could get, and were probably the last
of the twenty mine victims to succumb to
the effects of the smoke and poisonous at
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Ann Arbor Professor Injured.

ANN ARBoR. Mich. April 12-Dr. Edward
Campbell. professor of chemistry, while
making some invest cations this afternoon.
had his eyes nearly put ont by the explosion
of gas. DR.. Campbell is one Of the greatest
scientists in the University of Michigan.
and it Ia feared the loss of his eyesight
may blast his career.
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Must Repair Their Capital.

PHILADELPHIA. Pa. April Estate Su-
perintendent of Banks Krumbhaar to-day
notified half dozen financial institutions
of this city that they must make good i'm
palrments in their capital or they would
be closed. Mr.. Krumbhaar refused to dis
cuss the matter. but two of the institutions
30 notified by him are the Finance Com
pany of Pennsylvan a and the investment
of PhIladelphis. Both of these companies
were said to have been badly shaken dur
ing the financial panic of the fall of 1890.
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Trial by Jury.

New York Weekly
Citizen (breathlesslyl lis Snapshot
guilty.
Court Oficer-I don't know.
Jury still Quit"
mo; jury's in"
"Disagreef'
They agree"
"Eh, gave a verdictr
Yes"
"Weil. what was the verdictr
Guilty"
why in creation didn't you say SC in
the first place."
Say whatF'
Guilty"
"fou didn'task me what the Jury thought
about II. You asked me if the man W as
guiity-s different thing altogether
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Taimage Advertises His Newspaper.

NEW YORK. April l2.-About two hundred
people attended this afternoon at the pier
of the Inman line, on the invitation of Rev.
DR.. Ta!mage, TO assist in asking Code
blessing on the ESQ. Geo pounds of flour rep
resenting the first installment of one mill
ion pounds which the Christian Herald has
Russia by the steamship Conemaugh. The
Conemaugh will sail in few days for Riga
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Coming Home for a Bride.

ROME. April 12.-Mr. II. Remsen White
house. first secretary of tho American lega-
ton here. who has been acting as charge
d'affaires since Minister Porter was given
leave of absence. has started for Boston.
where be will marry Miss NJ. r. Burney.
daughter of Henry Williams. of that city
Augustus e. Bourn. the American consul
here. will have charge of the legation until
the return of Minister Porter
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Sunk Her with Cannon Balls.

LONDON. April 12.-Advices from Fayal
say that the British steamer Main, from
New Orleans for Liverpool, which caught
fire at sea and ran for Fayal. at which
place she arrived March %, was burning
from stem to stern. and number of can
non balls were fired into her to sink her.
She went to the bottom and the fire was
extinguished. The holes were su bsequent-
ly plugged and arrangements had been
made to salve the remaining cargo when
the steamer suddenly parted forward and
the vessel are sinking deeper into the sand
daily.
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Ohrtnary

CHICAGO. April 12.-France b. WIlkie. o
weil-known Chicago newspaper man. con-
nected for many years with the Times.
died tonight at his home in Norwood Park.
He had been Ill for some time.
DCBUQCE. Ia, April l2.-Mother Mary
Xavier. superior of the ST. Francis nuns.
died in this city to-day. She was one of
the founders of the order, and came to
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Isaac Needed q Doctor.


Quaint Isaac p. Gray. of Indiana, is sitting
mp o. nights with the emaciated remains of
what only a few brief weeks ago he re-
garded one of the lustiest and most
promising presidential boOms In the Demo-
cratic menagerIe. A post mortem exami-
nation indicates that the infant died VIC
tim OF the faith cure.