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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-22
A MOTHERS AWFUL DEED.

Wheeled Her -Four Little Children to q Gem
etery and Cut Their Ihroats and Her Own.
Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
PARIS, Nov. 2l.-A horrible tragedy is re-
ported from Mulhausen. in Alsace. A
woman named Kern, the wife of . basket
maker, Theobald Kern. had been driven to
desperation by the misconduct of her hus-
band. He had become SO dissIpated in his
habits that he was unable to earn a living
for his family, and remonstrsnces on the
part of his wife seemed to make him more
of O drunKard. On Saturday last there was
no food in the house and the little ones
were crying for bread. They had had but
little to eat for several days and were
almost without clothing. The husband was
away drinking. Mime. Kern. driven to dis.
traction by the sutferings of her children
as well as her own, put the four youngest
in a wheelbarrow and told the fifth child to
follow her. She wheeled the barrow
through the town. the people VINO saw her
wondering but not suspecting what
went straight to the cemetery
and wheeled the barrow to the
cemetery chapel. There she came to a halt
and took the little ones out of the barrow.
She knelt down hereelf, caused the others
to kneel and offered up prayer. Then the
mother rose and drew q sharp knife. TAX
ing hold of one of tho children she quickly
cut It's throat. She just as quickly cut the
throats of three Others and reached for the
fifth. The latter tried to get away. The
keeper of the cemetery heard the cries of
the victims and ran TO interfere. He was
In time to sieze the fifth child before the
mother had succeeded in infiicting fatal
blow upon 1t, although it was wounded by
a cut from the knife. The frenzied woman
made no attempt TO injure the keeper. but
turned the knife against her own throat
The keeper ran TO grasp the weapon from
her. but too late. She drew the knife
across her throat and fell, with the life
blood gushing out on the cemetery path.
The tragedy created the greatest excite
ment In Mulhausen and vicinity. The
mother and children will be buried In q
cOmfnuD QrAya
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SALVATION ARMY CONGRESS.
Great Gathering of Religious Enthusiasts at
New York-Letter from the President

NEW YORK. Nov. 2l.-Carnegle Music
Hall seldom held larger, and certainly
never q more enthusiastic gathering than
1t did tonight when MIR. and Mrs. Balling-
ton Booth addressed the first meeting in
connection with the continental congress
and wsr council of the Salvation Army.
There were delegates present from differ
ent parts of the country. A banquet was
served in the Lenox Lyceum at O'clock.
This banquet was for the 800 officers At
it's conclusion torch-light procession was
formed. Besides those at tho banquet
other companies fell in line until the pro-
cessIon mustered nearly three thousand
men and women. There were q good many
amusing features in the torch.Iight parade.
Joe the Turk. the sensational exhorter
ish costume and carried hugo red
umbrella with the army war cross
painted thereon. Captain Happy Billy and
Special Fowler. from Texas. were dressed
in full cowboy uniform. Commander
Booths carriage was escorted by band of
cadets, preceded by q company of ten torch
bearers. When the procession reached the
Music Hall the proceedings began.
Commander Booth presided. and made an
address of welcome. he said the day was
coming when the American people would
recognize the work of the Salvation Army.
Then he read statistics to show the work the
army had done. He said that In the United
States the indoor congregations that had
attended the army meeting for tho past
twelve months had aggregated Is, 199. SIS.
The converts made in the same time were
81. 43s: cities and towns occupied, 462 num-
ber OF corps and outposts, 555; soldiers and
recruits. l3 100: officers. 1.500. Mrs Ball
ington Booth then spoke. She said she
would be on hand tomorrow night and
dedicate her three weeks old baby to tho
cause OF salvation.
Then the commander read letters of
sympathy with the objects of the army and
congratulstions upon it's work. One was
from President Harrison. The Presidents
letter was written on mourning paper aud
was as follows:
Commander Balllngton Booth. New York City:
My Dear sir-I have your letter OF the 18th of
November. and beg 10 thank you for your SYM
patty so kindly expressed for me in my great
sorrow. / am very liberal In my judgment OF
methods, and / think it well that all those
who are endeavoring TO subdue the fortresses OK
vice approach them on the same lines. To all
whose sincerity and usefulness are proved by
devotion and results can give my hearty good
wishes and cheerfuIly extend them TO you aud
your associates. Very truly yours.
BENJAMIS HARRISON
The meeting was then adjourned with
prayer.
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OFFICERS OF THE K. OF L.
Powderly Placed in Command for Another
Term-Help for Homestead Strikers.

ST. LOUIS. Nov. 21.-The sixteenth an
nusl session of the KNIGHTS of Labor will
soon be at an end. To-day's work en-
braced practically all that remained to be
accomplished. and. unless something un-
forseen comes mp to be attended to t0-mor-
row. the body will finish its deliberations
and adjourn, sine die. Practically all that
now remains to be done is to select the
place of holding next years session and to
consider the question Of the disposal of the
general headquarters at Philadslphia.
At the morning session to-day the settle.
ment of tho Homestead strike was the chief
subject Of conversation among the dele
gates. and there was feeling of regret at
the defeat of the Amalgsmated Associa-
tion. A very general idea prevailed that
the men will have to adopt some secret
form of organization. proposition to
strike out of the Knights of Labor plat
form the demand for graduated income
tax led to lively debate. 1t was finally
decided to change the plank so az to make
it read: THAT q graduated tax on incomes
and lnnerIranoes be levied.v The following
resolution was unanimously adopted.
Resolved, That 1t Is the sense of this General
Assembly OF the Knights of Labor, that the out
come of the recent tremendous struggle at
Homestead is deplorable. but 1t has been of far
reaching results in settling, temporarily atleast,
great economic questions
Resolved, That in the declaring of of the
strike at Homestead, and the discussion follow
ing. We should not lose sight OF the thousands
OF working people left in ideness, and on the
verge of starvation. Therefore be it
Ordered, That the general executive board OF
the Knights of Labor be Instructed to issue an
appeal for aid for these unfortunate people. and
distribute the same TO the best advantage of
those who need help
At 4 o'clock motion to proceed to elect
officers for the ensuing year prevailed. NJ.
Powderly was reelected general master
workman by vote of 102 to scattering.
Before the ballot was taken he said he did
nos desire the office again. Other officers
were selected as follows:
General worthy foreman. Hugh Cava-
neugh; secretary treasurer, John w. Hay es;
members of the executive board, Terence
v. Powderly, ex otficio chairman: A. w.
Wright John Devln. John Davis and I. b.
Mcclure. All of the foregoing except Mr..
McGuire were reelected. Tie latter was q
member of the board up to 1885. when he
was defeated at Indianapolis. Since then
he has been acting as general organizer for
the executives board. and will probably
continue to act in that capacity.
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H0TEL-KEEPERS LIABLE.
A ST. Louis Judge Decides in Favor of Man
Whose 0yercoat Was Stolen.

ST. LOUIS. Nov. 81. Judge Fisher gave Q
decision this morning. in the case of j. N.
Labold against the Southern Hotel COM
pany. which will be of interest to hotel
keepers. Labold gave his overooat to q
man who attended the hatrack near the
dining room. When he came out he found
that some one else had taken it. He wss
refused satisfaction, and sued for the value
of his overcoat In giving his decision
Judge Fisher said that while the porter
was not compelled to receive On overcost
at the entrance to the dining groom. still,
from the fact that he did receive it, the
hotel became responsible for il and was
liabla for if
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ASK YOUR GROCER FOR
FLOUR.
JUMPED OVERHEARD.
A Score of Negroes Plunge Into the Water tc
Escape Arrest-0ne Drowned.

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 21.-The new basin
at the intersection of Willow street was
the scene of excitement yesterday after
noon. Two or three thousand people,
mostly colored. lined its banks. all
watching the struggles of nearly q score of
negroes, who had risked their lives to es-
cape arrest by plunging into the chilly
waters of the canal. One man was drowned,
two are misslng. and two others are dying
from the effects of the plunge and the large
amount of canal water they swallowed
The negroes had been shooting ''craps" on
board of q schooner, and the game was
raided by three policemen. The sight of
the blue-coats caused panic on the schoon.
or, and the negroes plunged overheard.
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PROSPEROUS INDIANA CITY.

Census Bulletin Giving Statistics Of Manu-.
factures for South Bend.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2l.-To-day the Cen.
sus Office issued special bulletin giving
statistics of manufactures for South Bend.
The statements presented include only es-
tablishmsnts which reported a product of
$500 or more in value during 1890. the cen-
sus year. and so far as practica q able. only those
establishments operating works located
within the corporate limits of the city. In
1880 st. Joseph county had 2lS manufactur.
ing esta blishments with capital of S.. .760..
447. employ ing 1858 hands, paying in wages
Sl.47l,9S3 consuming materials valued at
So, 1856 100. and producing manufactures
valued at sc. 749. 756. In 1890 the total number
of plants was $40; capital in vested, $40. l41,-
642; hands employed. 5.3i1; wages paid. 81
8S9 65s; cost of materials used, g. 150, ass;
value of product, SS.427 1885,
The population of South Bend in 1850 waa
13. 2s0: In 1890 it was 81. SIG. The debt of tho
city In 1880 was 1916. .975: in 1890 il was $751;.
5s4. The assessed valuation in 1880 was S4,s
S29.005; in 1890 il was So, 224, ,4l0.
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md Hubbard afterwards appointed seconds

and Hubbard afterwards appointed seconds
TO arrange for duel.
! The death of Baron de R4inach. who was
one of the men compromised in the Panama
scandal. has caused considerable discus
sion here. and stories are afioat that rather
than stand prosecution he committed sui
eide. These stories find credence IN many
quarters. This morning il was said that
his death was caused by cerebral exotic
nent, brought on by the discovery that pa
pers showing that he was compromised in
the canal scandal had been stolen from
bin. His family refuses to allow an au-
.oDsy to be held. and this 10 taken a. con-
hrmation of the suicide theory. though his
family gave their reason for refusing
that an autopsy Is contrary to the Jewish
religion. Baron de Reinach leaves q fort
Cne of Is, 100000 francs.
1t is reported that NJ. Arton. formerly q
trusted agent of the canal company, who
absconded few months ago upon the dis
eovery of defalcations in his affairs with
the Paris Dynamite Company. has returned
70 France. and is now in hiding at Passy.
He has in his possession numerous com-
promising documents that relate to the
Panama cOmpany's subsidizing of the press
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COST OF PENSIONS.
Commissioner Raum Say. $50 900. 900 WIZ

Commissioners Raum Says S1SO, 200, 900 VIII
He Required for the Next Fiscal Year.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2l.-There appears to
be more than usual interest attached 10
the forthcoming annual report OF the COM
missioner of Pensions. for the reason that
the pension APPROPRIATION figures conspic-
uously in the annual budget of the gov
eminent 1t has been pretty we'll under
stood for some time past that the estimates
for the next fiscal year would show Q large
increase over any previous year. This ex-
pectation was based on the fact of the
large issue of pensions during the year con-
sequent upon recent pension legislation,
which admitted to pensionable status q
very large number of soldiers who were
not pensonable under the former
laws In few days the report OF
General Raum will be completed and
. full statement of the condition of the
Pension Office will be presented. State
mente have been made that the amount
that will be required for pensions durin0
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Death Of Noted Young Marksman.

Special 70 The 1ndianapolis Journal
NEW HAVEN, Conn.,. Nov. 21.-The par
ents Of Augustus l.. Traeger received a
cablegram to-day announcing the death of
their son on board the steamer Kaiser Will
helm on Saturday. Nov. u Traeger was
twenty-five years of age. He was prob
ably the best marksman of bis age in the
country. At the age of eighteen he
won the amateur cham pionship of America
fo- trar-shooting. which he held until he
became i'll. His remains will be back on
the KAISER Wilhelm.
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the farmers In Kent IN regard to the ad-
vocacy by the fair traders Of Q duty on
grain. He suggests the adoption OF ala.
ing-scale tariff, that shall cease TO be levied
home production yields q profit. and tho
giving OF . preferen tial tariff 10 grain from
the British colonies.
The Telegraph calls the proposals moon
shine. The Daily News says: eve are
not going to make Mr. Lowther our Nc
the disguise from Lord SalisDury's In
sidious suggestions" The Morning Con-
servatlvs) Gays that Mr.. Lowthers sug-
gestions are utterly impossible.
Cable Notes
Eleven new cases of cholera and three
deaths were reported ct st. Petersburg
Sunday.
During the prevalence of q gale Sunday
the wreck of the Inman line steamer City
of Chicago broke in pieces and completely
disappeared.
An attempt to start another revolution IN
Chill was nlpDed In the bud by the arrest
of the ringleaders. The latter were Bal
maceds sympathizers, many of whom are
still In the army.
A dispatch received at Paris from Porto
Novo states that the French troops have
entered Abomey, the capital OF Dahomey,
without meeting with any opposition.
King Behanzin has vanished, and the
French are In full possession of the capi.
tai.
The court at Gelatz has condemned
Princess Gortschakott to transfer TO heI
brother. Prince Gregory Stourdzs. the sum
of s.. .O00. COO and residence held by her In
Paris and Baden Baden, nnder the disputed
Will OF her father. the late Governor OF
Moldavis. The Judgment financially ruins
the Princess.
The Lisbon correspondent of the London
Times says that he believes there 10 snme
truth in the semi cial statement that
the Engiiah government hae informed the
Portuguese minister in London that on no.
count of the unfriendly attitude of the
Portuguese British fleet will not be al
lowed to visit the Tagus
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Illinois Bank Burr,.rir.d.

SPRINGFIELD. ILL.,. Nov. 2l.-Charles Rea-
rick & Co.'s Bank. at Ashland. was entered
last night by burglars who secured tools at
the village black smith shop and broke
open the back door and vault. using q
sledge hammer and wedge The safe in
side the vault was blown to piecea About
$500 was secured.
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SPRIN6FIELD, o.. Oct. 81. - Rev. J. T.
Bishop n retired Methodist minister. died
yesterday, and just before his demise made
all arrangements for his funeral. selecting
his coffin, the location OF the grave, the
officiating minister and undertaken He
gasped ont before death that he wanted to
save his relatives trouble.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-22
SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS

Fracture Splints Special Trusses Clutches Elastic
Hosiery Deformity Braces and Surgical Appliances
Of every kind The largest stock of ARTIFICIAL
EYES In the State. WM III. ARMSTRONG q CO.,
~ South Illinois Street
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GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

Anti-Rent Cam paign Begun by the British
Sociaiistic Democratic + federation.
LONDON, Nov. 2L-The ocialistic Demo-
cratic Federation. through its committee
on unemployed workingmen, began to-day
o new rent campaign. Waite. the Socialist
who organizes the demonstrations of the
unemployed, addressed q meeting yester-
day. In the course of his speech he said
that if after to-day any man paid a farthing
in rent while his family did not have suffi-
cient food. he would be cur. Waite de-
clared that he did not believe in paying
rent. He had not paid any in seven years.
and meant never to pay any. This state
ment was greeted with cheers. He called
upon his hearers to initiate the Irish, and
pay their landlords with blackthorns.
Emergency committees, he added, have
been formed In every district to assist ten
ants who resist their landlords. If the
property owners succeed in distraining
their tenants 1t would cost broken head ds.
Then the distrained. together with their
wives and children. Will go To st. Stephens
and camp out before the Houses of Parlia-
ment. This plan of campaign. the speaker
shonted. would pain thousands of dirty
landlords. Throughout his speech he was
greeted with hearty applause, which
showed that the sym pathies of his audience
were with him. Waite's threat that organ
empty menace. A vast number of cases
are already occurring in the slum districts.
where landlords dare not execute w rits Of
eylctl0nS
Claimed to Have Cast Out u Devil.
BERLIN. Nov. ga rather unusual and
very sensational case has just been settled
in the courts in Richstadt, IN Bavaria. A
Protestant woman named Herr began an
action for slander against q Catholic priest
Father Aureiin. whom she accused of as
serting that she had. by the agent Of
witchery imbued her son with the devil.
In his defense Father Auralin called in
several prominent olergymen. He claimed
that he had eliminated the devil from tho
boy. The boy himself deposed that he knew
nothing of the alleged exorcism. The
woman was allowed small damages.
Lowtner's Scheme TO Protect Farmers.
LONDON. Nov. 21.-Mr. James Lowther,
who will be chairman of the coming agri-
cultural conference, has written letter to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-22
THE PANAMA CANAL SCANDAL
Sensational Charges of Bribery Made
In the French Chamber of Deputies.

Members of the Cabinet. the Press. Prominent
Financers and Contractors Involved, Ac-
cording to N. De La Hayes Statement
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Claimed to Have Cast Out "a Devil.


LONDON. Nov. 21.-Mr. James Lowther,
who will be chairman of the coming agri-
cultural conference, has written q letter to
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The meeting was then adjourned wi,
prayer.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-21

Director SauDOrn, in IL bulletin issued
from the Utan station, expresses. as he
did in his bulletins while at the Missouri
station, a decided preference for dry fod
dor over ensilagc. To the farmers of
Utah he says with confidence that more
loss in harvesting and storing food by
the silo system will be involved up to
the feeding point than by the air-drying
system, and this is undoubtedly true Of
most of the vast area lying west of the
one hundred'h meridian. He further
more thinks it a question whether cap
ping shocks of corn fodder until well
dried and then packing them close in a
tight barn will not conserve the fodder
better than the silo in most other sec
tons of the country.
After describing the silo at the Utah
station, Professor SaubOrn says: 1.-The silo
will hold eighty tons Of fodder, and with
lumber at $18 to SEQ per 900 feet would
cost from s. to So per ton. This is
for green food, four-ffths Of which is
water. 1t requires II tons Of green food
to make one of air dried food, and there
fore the silo would cost 50 to $40 per ton
of dry food held
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-21
FoIL66 AGAIN.
Tho Compliments Of q Victim TO . Num-
Dor of Public Nufsancss.

Dor of Public Nufsanoss.
The gentleman who endeavored to punch
out one of our eyes with his umbrella IN
der his arm at right angles with his body
is respectfully informed that he was foiled
in his nefarious purpose. and that up to
the present moment we have two eyes,
each in its normal condition, though no
thanks to him.
We have only to say to the young woman
in the big hat that, in spite Of her discour-
aging headgear and her persistent restless
ness, we did occasionally obtain glimpse
of the stage. We trust, however, she will
not take her failure to heart, but rise to
renewed effort in new and bigger hat, re.
enforced by more strenuous efforts to solve
the problem of perpetual motion.
The young man who left the car door
open to give the zero weather an opportu-
nifty to enter may be interested to know
that his thoughtfulness did not engender
the pneumonia in our lungs; that, in fact,
save for a continual sneezing an nfamed
throat and touch Of the pleurisy, his at
tcntions were without result.
The person who threw that banana skin
on the sidewalk in expectation that we
should be brought low is informed that
we saw it in time and escaped. 1t may
somewhat diminish the poignancy of his
disappointment to know that an elderly
woman fell victim aud received injuries
which are likely to prove fatal.
TO the young woman in whose favor we
reinQuishcd our scat in the horse car, and
who forgot to return thanks, we owe an
abjcct apology. We had supposed she was
a lady, or we should not have been so pre-
sumptuous.
We beg to disabuse the mind of that lady
whom we met while endeavoring to enter
store of the idea that swinging doors are
designed as auXiiaries in committing
mayhem They are sometimes made to
serve that purpose, but they were not made
especially with that view in the minds of
their promoters.
We sincerely hope that the lady behind
MS at the opera succeeded in cooling her
self with the fan which she piled so busily
At all events we can congratulate her
upon her splendid success in keeping the
back of urneck cool. Our physician thinks
that in course of time we may he able t.O
turn our head without having to turn our
entire body.
The gentleman whom we meet daily, and
who persists in passing TO the left is in
formed that two persons moving in oppo
site directions can each pass to the right
paradoXical as it may seem D him.
We owe an apology TO the gentleman
! who sat behind Us in the steam car this
morning and pcruscd oar paper over ON
shoulder 1t was paper three days old
We trust that our carclcSsncss in unintcn
tionallv misleading him led to no llnpleaS
ant consequences.
The gentleman whose pleasure it is tc
tread ON our heels is evidently misin
formed. We have no chilhains, and il