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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-24
Narnral-Gas Explosion Wrecks q Building.
Snectal 10 the Indianannlia Journal.

MARION. Ind, Feb. 23.-Late last night Robert
Lenfestey. living about three miles east of this
city, undertook to repair a naturalgas regulator.
He entered the building with lantern. when an
explosion occurred, throwing him out of the
building. He was seriously burned and the
huildIng wrecked.
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Corbett IN at Minneapolis.

MISNEAPoLIs, Mimi, Feb. 23.-Pugilist Corbett
Is sick at his hotel in this city, suffering from the
effects of severe cold contracted Tuesday after
taking hve-mile run. His company gave no
performance tonight
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Forecast for To-Day.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 23.--For Illinois and Indi-
ana-Fair; westerly winds; slightly colder in ex-
treme southern portion.
For Ohio-Snow rain tonight. clearing Fri
day morning; westerly winds; slightly colder.
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w.nt the verdict Reversed.

PARIS, Feb. 23.-Charles de Lesseps. Marius
Fontane and NJ sans-Leroy. who were commit
ted for trial by the Judicial Chamber. on Feb.
z, for giving or receiving bribes appealed to the
Court of Cessation to-day for a reversal or the
COmmittals.
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YET ANOTHER MILLIONAIRE
A. C. Beckwith, the Wealthiest Man in
Wyoming, Appointed Senator
He Isl Democrat. Self Educ tied, Owns Bank,
Herds of Cattle, Coal Mines, Vast Tracts
of Land, and His Hobby Is Horses.



CHEYENNE. Wyo.. Feb. ga. c. Beck
with, Democrat, . citizen of Evanston.
and the wealtbiest man in Wyoming. will
be United States Senator for the next two
years. His selection for that office was an
nounced by Governor Osborne this even
ing. 1t became necessary TO appoint
on account of the Legislature adjourning
without electing. The leading candidates
were A. L. New and John Charles Thomp-
con. They and their supporters made such
sharp fighting that the Governor thought
to make the least trouble by overlooking
both of them. Beckwith and New are
friends, the former having been behind
New all through the senatorial contest.
General Thompson's friends are in a rage.
He was within one vote OF an election on
the joint ballot.
The new Senator is q genuine Westerner.
He has always been Democrat, and was
q member of the national worlds fair COM
mission for Wyoming. He came to this
place thirty years ago. working his passage
across the plains with q bull team. building
the fret house and opening
brought him wealth and he set
tied in Evanston. a thrifty town
near the Utah line In that section he is Q
big man. He owns the local bank, herds
Oh cAttlo anu tractS Oh range. coal mines
and coal and timber lands. His hobby IS
horses. and he breeds trotters on the
finest farm In the mountains. Mr.. Beck
with was born IN New York sixty years
ago. but moved to Missouri with q
party of trappers at fifteen. He is self
made man. education and all. He 10 gray
haired. but tall. straight and vigorous.
Personally he Is very pleasant gentle
man, but with directness that sometimes
embarrasses those approaching him. Sem
ator Beckwith will 60 on to Washington at
QHQa.
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lth nraiseworthy diligence,

W TN prdlstWUTtUy UIIlItIfCc, ~ -,
with particular brilhance. IL VIII De
interesting 10 watch how far the new admins
tration VII be willing to move in the direction
OF free trade AS regards Hawaii We 90 no not
care to abandon our belief thatthe good sense
and good faith of the American Senate may
be trusted implicitly"
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LOOK to your interest You can buy Salvation
OIL. the great pain cure, for 20 cents.
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WILMINGTON, Del, Feb. % Peter +. Smith,
paying teller OF the First National Bank. OF this
city, is a self-confessed embezzler to the amount
OF $4,000. and he is now IN charge ofthe United
States marshal. and will be given a hearing to-
morrow. Smith pleads that the money was
spent on his family. His method was 10
put them spindle through the old
cancellation holes and pocket the amount OF the
check. the last payment not being charged
against the GepositOrs. Bank Examiner Stone
Gays the bank IL solid and fully able 10 pay de-
pOsitors every cent, over half of the surplus OF
$4,000 remaining intact Smiths confession
agrees with the result of the balance sheet. He
Lad been taking money for fifteen years.
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BANKER MOsHER's RASCALITY.

Another Lot of Forged Paper. Aggregating
82O0, 900, Unearthed at Lincoln, Neb.
LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 23.-Another lot Of
forged paper. aggregating 100000, on the
National Bank, has been brought to light
In this city. One batch OF notes. now in
Bhe hands of attorneys for collection for
Eastern banks. amounting to $4,000. Is
signed by an ex-employe of Mosher.
named Hnlburt. and Endorsed by
Mosher as president of the Ma
tional Bank. They were foated by
Mosher and the money squandered by him.
Mosher admits that be got the cash. but re.
fuses to say where &c went. The bank was
opened to-day for the purpose of admitting
creditors TO file their claims and wind mp
It's business. 1t is now stated by conserva-
tive men who are intimate with the affairs
of the bank that Its liabilities will
exceed $1.c0o.OOO, with assets prac-
tically nothing. Mosher admits that
his efforts to raise money To settle his short
age have failed. 1t is not expected that
the bank will pay more than 10 cents on the
dollar. Business mon who have had faith
In the statements that full settlement
would be made are In n state of great ex-
citement tonight. In the Legislature, to-
day. q resolution ordering Immediate steps
60 be taken To protect the State was passed..
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Miss Hollingsworth wa. Lied About.

Special 10 the annpolis Journal
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Feb 23.-There has been
decided lAange of opinion here regarding Mics
Hollingsworth, and on every hand the remark Is
made that sho has been sadly treated from be-
ginning TO end The fact seems to be- that when
the young woman left Coates College, where
life was unbearable. too free use was made Of
her good name both in private and by the press.
Young men who had met her begged to be spared
the publlcity of having their names connected
with hers and told all. and more. too, than they
knew about her. Then scandalous intimations
were made in the newspapers chiefly because
she was 'mIssing," and apparently unwilling TO
deny anything that might be said.
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oldest Brick House In the County Burned.
Special IN the Indianapolis Journal

MILFORD. Ind, Feb. 23.-Last night the house
OF John Bartholomew burned to the ground
while the family was at church. They had been
smoking meat in the house. IL was the first
brick building erected in KOsciusco county, hav.
ing been built in 1S47.
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Democrats Didn't Get q Bite.
Special to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Feb. 23.-E. ID. Bailey,
representing the national board Of Clvil-service
Commissioners has been here making prepare
lions for the application of the civil-service law
to the postofce here Postmaster Greiner sup
piled him with list of five names from which
three will be selected for the local board Of CON-
missioners The five names are those Of en-
plOyes OF the Office, which, in fact has had the eff
feet of arousing the Ire OF the Democrats, who
believe that even If the law permits of the seicc-
ton or employees altogether that the board must
not be composed OF members of one political
party. In this belief they hope to have the ac-
ton just taken set aside. The Office passed un-
der the law today and the first examination OF
applicants will be held about the middle OF
next month. the next in July and thereafter
semi-annually the first Tuesday in February
and the first Tuesday in July.
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general discussion of applicants his name
bad not been used. Ii seems. however. that
the Noorhees-Lamb faction of the Democ-
racy bad quietly agreed. several months
ogo, to get the appointment for him. That
he is the choice of this faction Is now
frankly admitted by those who are best
acquainted with the situation. Ex-Judge
jump is ex-Congressman Lambs law part
ner. and was not supposed to want office OF
any class. The firm has the best-paying
law practice In the city, but the collector
ship with the g. 800 salary. Is decided IN
ducemeDt for him. liz is now well under
stood that Lamb has prevailed on Senator
Voorhees, to recommend Harry Donham.
another lawyer for postmaster. The re-
port has been received here through private
channeis from Washington that all the
Democratic members of the incoming Con
gress have consented to recommend the
appointment of ex-Judge Jump. Among
the other applicants are William NJ. Moss.
the Bloomfield editor: j. NJ. Hoskins. OF
Clay county: George Dixon. of Evansville,
and James Bolton. of this county.
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A Country Newspaper Story Sized Up.


Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
MILFORD, Ind, Feb. 23.-The following pair
Of clippings show the different estimations in
which the country fakir is neld in two northern
Indiana counties:
"From Hartford City comes the queer story
that Willie Smith. of that place. who was bitten
by cat two years ago, has another one OF those
peculiar attacks in which he acts like an enraged
feline. He will run up tree. tear the bark OF.
and come down head foremost with the same
sure-fOotedness of a cat, and run around on all
fours. His case is reported incurabe.-Elkhart
Truth.
"A fearful catastrophe, truly. Fred Aughe, OF
Goshen. tells us that he once knew man who
was bitten by mad COW; horns grew upon the
unfortunate man, he would bawl, back up TO a
stool TO be MIXED, and in fact, act just like a
cow. He finally died In great agony because
they sold his calf for veal, and the man who
sprung the canard on poor Willie Smith deserves
the same fate.-MilfOrd Mail"
The Somerset reporter., 1893-12-11

Hawaii has about 80 miles Of railway
and 2jo miles of telegraph lines, and
almost every dwelling and business
house in Honolulu has its telephone
The city also has street railway and *
lighted by electricity
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Gov Clea,cs on the Situation.

COZ. Henry Il. Clcaves va. interview -
ed by correspondent of the Boston
journal saturday aud. in response to
inquiries gave hi. views a. follows;
''The recent elections clearly and un-
mi-iakably indicate that it is the belief
Of the Soter- ii the great producing ami
industrial States Of tire nion that the
present bu-iue.- d.prcs ion j. the result
81 placing in power 4 party committed
hk it, platform aud the declaration of
IT. leading statesmen to the principles
81 free Trade
~ he future prosperity Of the country
j. ncuaeed Tx the proposed attack OF
Drlupcfdttc Congress upon the protective
policy II the country. II the CONNER
cial. manufacturing and other great bust
nc-- Interests could he assured that no
material change would be made in the
tariff laW-. confidence would be restored
and w should witness a return of ia
tional prosperity
The hr-t interest. Of the STATE of
Maine require the continuance of the
wise protective policy OF the Republican
party. The proposed Wilson bill
strikes with "A heavy hand at the pros
perity OF our sta,e. II passed it will
most seriously ana iniurously affect
the great agricultural interests Of the
state il lime and lumber interests. and
cripple il, great manufacturing indus.
tries. The bill will not promote industry
aud labor, bur will put the great indus
trial aud producing people tn free and
independent labor Of America. into
direct and immediate competition with
the poorly paid and cheap labor of
other countries.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-12-11
Tribute to the Republican Rule

The admirers of the President have
had Il great deal 10 say concerning the
happy manner III which he uses words
to express idca- IN hi public documents
When they examine the last message
with care they will not take so much
pride in the President choice of words
! n dealing with the tariff he refers ito
the indirect and Stealthy manner in
which large part of our taxes are ex-
acted. That l. to say unGer the Re
publican form of government the wheels
have been kept in motion without any
one feeling the burden or knowing that
he was faxed Now it ia proposed as a
part of the Democratic programme to
change all this and subject the people to
a direct form OF taxation in order to
make good the loss of necessary revenue
that will follow the adop ion of the
Wilson taritl bill The President has
succeeded in marking the difference be-
tween Republican and Democratic taxa
ton in lucid manner. but We doubt if
his admirers will point with pride to this
sentence As evidence of the Presidents
happy form of expression. 1t is the
truth. but is not calculated to increase
popular support for the tariff smashing
programme. | nder the Republicans the
foreigners paid the tax and the burden
of government support was so light on
the people that they did not feel it. In
der the Democratic scheme of so-called
tariff reform ii i proposed to make the
foreigners direct present of some $50
000.o0O annually and levy tribute on
American people in order to secure the
revenue necessary for government ex-
I}uHH9r WIN.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-12-11

Light friction OF a part reduces sur
face temperature. In 10 experiments on
healthy adults, whose armpit tempera-
ture on both sides was equal, and whose
free surface temperature on the sur
face of both forearms was before mas
sage SO degrees +, or more, it was
found, on subjecting the left forearm to
gentle upward friction, that while the
temperature III both armpits and in the
untouched free surface Of the opposite
limb remained constant, the tempera-
ture of the left forearm fell i'll all cases
more than two degrees and in three
cases nearly four degrees.
After firm friction, rolling, squeezing
and kneading of the skin of the limb in
all cases, the free cutaneous tempera-
ture rose to SO degrees, but the armpit
temperature remained the same on both
sides, while III seven cases an interest
ing phenomenon was noticed on the op-
posite side-viZ, the right limb sensibly
perspired and the free surface tempera-
ture of the untouched forearm fell to "a
degrees during the time that the firm
friction of the left limb was in progress.
In regard to light friction it has been
impossible to detect any effect on the
patients sense of locality or on the tenn
perature sense. After firm friction of a
part for five minutes comes decided in
crease of the sense of touch, and the
sense of locality has in most instances
been apparently improved. New York
Ledger.
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N. B. Hese|ton, 1877 Water St. Skowhegan

/ be absolutely lacking IN particular
phase of culture.
1t is this education, which does not ap-
ply exclusively to the intellectually nor
to the moral sense, but envelops the
whole being through cultivation ofithe
receptive faculties and finer instincts,
which is denominated education by
| the French, and which should be applied
with greater care in America to the
training of youth, for as factor in en-
lghtenment and progress its value is
enormous. With the many splendid
qualifications given by nature to the
American citizen, and which the polit-
ical institutions under which he lives
has fostered. his sturdy self dependence
spirit of inquiry, his energy and natural
intelligence, if aided by strong de-
velopment in this direction, would pro-
duce remarkable results both in the in
dividual and for the masses.
For it is e, ldent that from a cultiva-
ton of this phase of the human mind
springs the conception and execution of
all that pertains to the arts, fine and in
dustrial, the being the tangible ex-
pressions Of ile aspirations and genius
of those from whom they have emanated.
Unless the trend of people be toward
an ideal existence, stretching beyond the
absorption of effort merely to supply
the wants of mans physical life, neither
poet, sculptor nor painter nor the arts
tic and accomplished artisan will emerge
to adorn and testify to their civilization
and their superiority. Indeed expan-
sion in this direction proves the condi.
ton of national life with sure and
true precision
The time Ids come when an education
tending toward similar results should
occupy public thought in this country,
heretofore too exclusively engrossed in
solving the problem of national exist
ence II is just to say, however, that
there has been an advance, noticeable in
large centers, which has been brought
about by friction and competition and
the contact with our nationalities, vary
ing opinions and antagonistic creeds.
But the general improvement has not
been in accord with the capabilities in
that direction of the American people,
nor proportionate with the increased
wealth, for outside of our large cities, in
the interior portions of the country, life
is still unjustiiably primitive, and
those living on plain and frontier in
mountain and forest, are uncultured be-
yond what their isolation would justify
Again it is noticeable that the educa-
ton of the children of those classes pos
The Somerset reporter., 1893-12-11

sessed of ample means is in these Unit
ed States generally superficial. The
American early youth among the edu-
Gated classes, which are those exerting
the most influence on the destinies OF a
people, is not subjected to that sober
discipline deemed necessary by the older
nations of Europe as being protection
to them, against their own irrepletive
impulses. through mental habits thus en-
forced, and as constituting a desirable
,tutelage in preparation for the later Sc
we're struggles of life. The overindul-
gence generally accorded the American
child and youth is the cause Of a general
disregard of authority and careless atti
tude toward obligations, a distinctive
feature Of the American youth. On the
part of those in authority the effort
would seem to be to gloss over the I'M
Dound basis of scanty learning by some
few gaudy accomplishments, equally SUI
berticially possessed. = New Orleans
Times Democrat
The Somerset reporter., 1893-12-11
American Children.

The Subtle Distinction Between "Instruc
ton" and Education" Made by the Clev
er and Farseeing French-The Need o
American Youth.
A subtle distinction between ''instruc
ton" and education" is admirabl,
drawn by that people most highly en-
lowed with strong analytical faculty
| The French, with the habit of keen scru
tiny, thorough investigation and just de
| duction usual with them. The difference
existing between acquired knowledge or
the one hand and inculcated virtues or
the other has been embodied in these
separate appellations, which carry With
+ them two distinct meanings. Both may
be largely possessed apart from the 9th
er.
But when both are combined in one
Individuality the highest degree of ex.
fellence has been obtained of which the
human race is capable,
With us in America it is fair to state
| that instruction from books, in school and
college, where the aim must of necessity
be only the development of the mind and
intellect, in conjunction with religious
teachings from the pulpit and at the
Preside, sums up the education generally
given to the youth of the country, even
among the prosperous and the wealthy.
But between these two lines of educa.
ton, both admirable and necessary,
stands more subtle and intangible form
Of mental and moral training which
embraces the development of the finer
chords of both the intellect and the
sentiments having for effect not only
10 instill a desire for knowledge and
virtue and reproval of vice, but to ed
ucate as to the desirability of that SUI
perior excellence which enables the pos.
lessor to strive for the ideal graces and
Beauties. which, when understood and
practiced, produce a perfect civiliza-
ton.
That religion alone cannot give this
result is shown by the fact that the ex-
teme and beautiful polish to character
and the broad aesthetics it evolves have
been possessed by men and women who
have acknowledged no attachment to re-
Ggious creeds and again by members of
christianity and paganism alike, while
the bookwcrm and the savant, whose
mind is the crowded receptacle of mar
telous agglomeration of knowledge, may
The Somerset reporter., 1893-12-11
AT THE WORLDS FAIR.


Among the Exhibits in the great Manufactures and
Liberal Arts Building at the Fair very heauti-
IulIv arranged showcase is devoted Ia the display of
the we-knoNn goods of the taW's Pen and lul,
Company of l0i Broadway, New York These
articles hay" become popular from their
large use by all who have any writing t" ito in every
depa tmeni of business and in all walks of life, AS
well as from the numbcreSs unstintcd endorsements
of prominent in the leading professions, that any
detailed description would be Supernuous. Fountain
Pens for many years used almost exclusively by re-
portcrs and travelling men, have within compare
lively short period become almost Indispensable to
the business man and to those whose aNocatons are
of literary characte" in any Way. lhls i because
these pens have of late been made so simple. clean
and thoroughly effective that can now, with the
least care depend upon always having and eonven-
iently carry ing upon the person pen in good work
ing condition, without danger of selling the clothes
o. fingers herewith the ink carried in the holder.
and readily rep!enishcd being sufficient to dc large
amount al work In consequence. also, OF this
largely increased use and of the improvements IN
PRODUCED in the manufacture the prices of this class
of pens have been very greatly reduced. In Caw's
''DashaWav' Fountain Pen, regular first quality
gold pen of ANY standard shape or size may be used
In this respect it differs from all other fountain pen,
Another difference is in its "douhlc feed. one ON
each side of the gold pen. which inSures more uni
form and reliable delivery of ink than can bc obtain
ed from a single feed President lcvelnd uses one
of these pens, and has furnished the Company with
handsome testimonial. In CaW's st! lographc
Pens the inventor seems to hay obtained the acme
of perfection and simplicity. The writing is done,
with circular point similar to Il pencil, hut being
tipped with an alloy of iridium and platinum, making
it almost hard diamond, it will last many years
The Stylographc Pen carries ink in the holder the
the Fountain Pen, and by m,ny it is preerre
copying ink may be used. but the ink manufacture
nd hac had vary 1arU he