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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-04
THE GULF STREAM.
How It's Course Could BE Diverted to
the Pacific Ocean.
Scientific American.

SclenIiHc AHef1cdn-
NThe course of the Gulf stream could be
Changed by cutting across the Isthmus of
Panama channel of sufficient size to admit
the passage of the water forming it. The
stream would then flow into the Pacific
ocean and no longer cross the Atlantic to
warm the shores of Europe, as it now does.
as well as heat. If the water remained
equally distributed there would be no ocean
currents.
gether with wind and tide. the great forces
which move displace the water of the
sea, is continually causing INEQUALITIES Of
traction, draw the water from the poles
to the center directly under the moon at
the tropics, and it is brought by the tide
waves from the east to the west shore,
where it is held by the moon, sun and trade
winds and forced along the shores north
The islands forming the Caribbean sea act
on the principle of a breakwater or dam.
They hold the water that has been forced
into the Caribbean sea by the tides and
trade winds. which causes the water to be
higher in that sea and turn it into the
voir or fountain head, and whence the Gulf
stream flows like river from lake. 1t is
makes its way in the direction of the great
est deficiency of that element.
The warmth of the stream is accounted
piled from the tropics, the tide waves act
ing on the principle of an eddy, SO II
rests upon the assumption that the water
is higher on the east than on the west
side of the Isthmus of Panama. The con-
tinent of America is the great dam in
the ocean that forms the Gulf stream.
Place the continent of America so 1T will
lie east and west, there would be no Gulf
stream If there were no other land on
the globe than America there would be
no oceanic currents except those connected
with America, but such is not the case.
Africa has her nose in the way, Australia
and New Zealand Intervene, and Asia is
there to stop tides and make ocean cur
rents in the Pacific ocean. So when we
find large bodies of land directly in the
path of the tides we find ocean currents
also. All large oceans have their counter
currents or eddies The water that has
been carried west by the tides has to
return as currents to supply the deficiency,
thus imparting the eduy motion. The tides
tions, will produce every circumstance con-
neeted with the ocean currents. The pc
culiar formation of the land has a good
deal to do about getting up the Gulf
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-04
ERRORS ABOUT EVOLUTION.
People ErroneousIy Think We Are
Descended from Men with Tails.

Westminster Review.
The popular belief concerning evolution
is that person named Darwin wrote
look with the object of proving that men
were the descendants OF moneys. Mr.
John b. Martin, of Martins Bank, London.
relates an anecdote concerning customer
of the bank who insisted upon removing
his account because he had observed that
one of the partners in the bank had at
this person must have supposed that OAR
win had injured the human race by the
shocking discovery that men and mon
Everybody talks about evolution as IL It
were something which had been suddenly
and recently discovered Like electricity:
fever, womans rights, or the tariff ques-
ton, it appears to have attracted the at
tention of the whole world, from Or 2. Mr.. Glad I'D,
man having, according to a newspaper re-
port. kindly condescended to explain that
he did not agree with Darwin that mans
Everybody believes that he knows all
about evolution, and many people discuss
it in much the same way as they do the
or the lighting capacity of Corbett and
Jackson. Everybody is aware, in a sort OF
unconscious way, that the whole theory
systematized by Mr.. Spencer, the prevalent
impression being that we are all descended
from men with tails, who were the final
offspring-a sort of edition de luxe-of the
gorilla or the chimpsnzee. Practically
every part of this programme is de-
fusion. Mr.. Darwin no more invented eyo-
luton than Mr.. Edison invented electricity.
We are no more descended from men
with tails than we are descended from the
Manx cat, which has no tail, and our reia-
tionship to the gorilla Is not nearer than a
fftieth cousinship and is far more remote
than that existing between the cat and the
tiger. Scientists are not making daily eff
fort to discover the missing link because
such links as the missing are not of para
mount Importance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-04
M'NELLIE A FIGHTER
THE MINISTER BRINGS DAMAGE
SUIT AGAINST CHURCH MEMBERS.
sensatfon i'm Christian society Cir
cIes mt observation-disclosures Cou-
pie Locked Up at EIkharf.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

special to the indianapolis Journal.
JEFFERSONvILLE, Ind, April 3.-The
ming of damage suit at Scottsburg, by the
rev. j. y. McNellie, against several of the
leaders of the Christian Church at that
place, has caused a sensation, as the af-
fair has in connection with it several incl
dents which SAVIOR greatly of white-capism
Rev. McNellie alleges that the defendants
entered an order on the records of the
church which prohibits him from further
preaching in the church, and that the order
is fictitious one, having never been passed
by the church board. The defendants de-
clare the suit an outrage, but others do
not view it in that light. The opposition to
Rev. McNellie has resorted to White Cap
methods. The following letter has been sent
to him:
I'VE don't want to cause you any trouble
NOR 90 we want You to cause US any more.
we nave liked it so you can't preach in the
cnurcn anywhere. We sent another letter to
you you before but you didn't pay any atten-
VIII DO you as we said. So look out
COMMITTEE OF SIX
The letter contains an admission that
W mite Cap methods were used before in the
sendlng OF the anonymous letters. The suit
VIII pc heard Saturday. The affair has
caused great excitement, and the town is
divided on the subject some fayoring fhe
McNellie is an evangelist the threat to pre-
vent ms preaching in any other church of
the denomination is regarded as being seri-
GUS; as the nature of the steps necessary
10 pc taken to attain such an end would
De the Ming and sustaining of very serious
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-04

men 1t didn't make much difference. but
as soon as the girls began TO take II up
early in the season as this you can see
tne machines spinning every decent road
rigs with en- If ' it's TIN chat s1 bad now what
VIII II be when the dry season comes and
the .., roads are all easy for. the wheels,
cycle, and there's an awful lot of EN- that
do can just take her spinning down 10
up tho Hudson river, or down ON staten
island for a good long. ride and get back
IN our stables and twir ITO our ringers RS" and
, wonder how We're going to make bust
day, when business ought to peb be- iiveiest
and prices biggest. Why, III bet that 50
per cent. or more of the girls that used
able have learned how to ride wheels. l.
tell you for fact | know three livery
and ali of EN- old hands in the cuisines Ii sS
and they're going to give il up this. sum
and asked him how Things she were soing
and he told me he was going to quit
!. What's to pay?' 1 said, Made your
:. No said he but don't want to lose
what I've got. There's nothing in horses
I'm going into a better line, where there's
WHAT'S that?' asked.
Bicycles said he. Don't have to groom
'en, don't have TO feed EN- and they don't
get sick and cost you vet bills: Besides
that you can. get prices for EN- where Your
exercise. There's no more money in keep
ing horses until they make law declaring
bicycling a criminal otfense,, for everybody
is stuck on the wheels, and III something
don't happen you won't see amy horses In
this city few years from now except on
drays and street cars. No more horse for
me. I'm going to get in out of the rain
said he. and 1 guess he was pretty near
right.
II know it to be a fact that probably the
biggest bicycle company in the country is
now making arrangements for the manu-
facture on big scale of light wagons and
carriages, made on the bicycle style of steel
wheels and rubber tires. They claim that
these equipages will cost less than a horse
and carriage and be only half as expensive
to maintain, and that in five years they will
have completely done away with the use or
horses. I'm waiting myself. and as soon as
/ see one of those things run I'm going TO
get out and get into something else besides
the livery business
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-04
POSTOFFICE ROBBED.
$4,000 Worth of Stamps and silver
ware Stolen at Springfield, III.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, April S.;-The post
office here was robbed of about 10000 worth
of stamps and silverware to-day. The rob-
berry was committed about noon, while
Postmaster Ridgley was at dinner. The
robbery was not discovery until o'clock,
and those implicated have so far covered
up their tracks Access gained to the
vault by the use of dl e keys. The
vault is located in the pc tiers private
office, and the combination never turned
except at night. In order to secure en-
trance to the vault two keys had to be
used, one to open the spring lock on the
door of the office and the other to the
inner door of the vault. Both of these
doors were locked when Mr.. Ridgley re-
turned to the Office after lunch:
Besides the stamps Mr.. Ridgley had stored
in the vault his daughters wedding pres
ents, valued at $1,000 The stamps and sill
verware would make an enormous package,
and it is hard to conceive of a method to
take them from the building in broad day.
light without observation 1t was O'Clock
when Assistant Postmaster Murphy had oc-
casion to go to the vault for stamps. He
order and everything of value removed.
This was the first intimation that the place
had been looted.
Mr.. Ridgley until few days ago had
about $4,000 in cash in the vault and the
theory is advanced that the thieves had
some intimation of this, and that they were
after it. The work is no doubt that of ex-
fully a week in order to secure their keys
the only opportunity they could avail
themselves of was at noon when the post
master and most of the clerks are away.
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Other Deaths.
TOLEDO O., April 3.-Joseph Bender.
formerly proprietor of the 1o.e4o
German Express and Toledo Com
mercial. died at his home in THIS
city to-day of pneumonia in his
sixty-ninth year. Mr.. Bender was the as
sociate on the New York Stats Zeitung
of the late Anton c. Hesing. OF Chicago.
who died on Sunday last. He also held a
on the Louisville and Milwaukee German
papers.
BOSTON, April Samuel Anterior, fif-
ty-nine years a director of the New Eng
land National Bank. of this city, died sud-
denly to-day at his home. in Dorchester, OF
heart disease. He was eighty years old,
and, senior member of the firm of Ather-
ton. Stetson & Co., was a prominent inquire
in the shoe and leather trade.
CHARLESTON, S. c.. April 3.--Gen. Sam
uel j.. Lee, the colored brigadier general
of the National Guard, was buried here
to-day, with military honors. The funeral
was the largest seen here in many years.
1t is estimated that ten thousand people
were in attendance.
DUBUQUE. Ia. April 3.--George L. Tor
ings Bank. died here to-day, aged sixty
four. He had been forty years a resident
of Dubuque, was once postmaster and had
been identified with many public enter
prses and charities
COLUMBIA, S. c.. April 3.-John II.
Houston died suddenly in Greenville, S. c.,
to-day He was one of the defenders of
Fort Sumter and won promotion in the
Confederate array by his gallantry there.
PARIS. April 3.-The widow of Alexander
Dumas died to-day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-04
STRIKERS RIOTING.
Number of Men Who Went Back to
Work Beaten Up at Muncfe.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
MUNCIE, Ind, April 3.-AIonday a dozen
men employed in the nut and bolt works
of the Indiana Iron Company, struck for
higher wages after the company refused to
recognize their request. The strike was
very peculiar inasmuch as they were
engaged by the bolt makers as assistants
They demanded that the bolt makers be
paid more wages SO they could get raise.
Yesterday some of the men returned to
work and this greatly enra ged the others.
They assembled at a saloon near the works
yesterday afternoon and decided to lay
for the men who had returned and assault
them last evening they left the works.
AS result general fight was soon OH
and clubs, stones, knives and fists We're
used with little regard for the dangerous
reults. After fighting for a half hour the
twenty or more participants became ex-
hausted with blood flowing in the street
Foreman Charles w. Parker of the bolt
is to-day out CT danger. Others attacked
and seriously injured were John Sailors,
Edward Foulke and Charles Smith. Those
of the attacking party who were badly
done up were Fritz Kdisch Peter Mulyey-
HILL Dan Ryan, Thomas Mulveyhill and
Tom Nolan. TIE nut Works cane to Mum
Gle from Toledo and nearly all the men
come from there with it. To-day Vice
President G. O.. Cromwell, of the iron c ,n>
stigators of the riot. This morning thu
rowdies were in waiting for the men anG
started more trouble, but the police soon
sCuelched the trouble.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-04
THE FLOUR OUTPUT.
Marked Falling on In Grinding Dur
ing the Past Week.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, April 3.-The
Northwestern Miller says Minneapolis mills
ground LAG, $40 barrels of -four. against 164,010
the week before 1t is likely to be some
what larger this week. The water is better,
but not enough to drive all the mills and
this restricts operations. The river is un-
commonly low and the absence Of rain
makes full power unpromising. There is
a shade of Improvement in. flour, mainly
that more patent can be sold for export.
On basis of about 20 cents per eighty
pounds. c., l.. f. London. considerable patent
has been worked. A limited quantity of
clears has also been sold at los to
15s Sd. About all are sold ahead on clears,
as far az they care TO be, and pretty firm
as to prices. Domestic trade still comes in
small lots from a wide area. Sales for
last week Appropriated 10000 barrels.
Prices not materially changed. Mill
feed that can be got out at once is in very
active demand at full prices. Export ship
ments $500 barrels. against $500 the week
before. $3.50 in 1894, and 36,0i5 in 1898.
Superior-Duluth mills made a. SO barrels,
compared with 1850 the week before. Out
put promises to be lighter this week Lib
eral sales OF botn patents anu clears were
factory prices. The demand for clears
abroad Is good and the mills sold as far
8 to 10 cents advance. Large amounts of
patent also worked domestic and foreign
nut though IN DetIer demand, is yet con-
siderable of drug Most of the sales have
been for lake shipment. Exports nothing
compared with 2.61f barrels the week before
ST. Louis mills turned out $500 barrels,
against 1880 the preceding week. Flour
going on the market at present is mainly
for the South. From the East t.ere is little
inquiry and sales are small. Foreign buy
ers are not near high enough to permit
business.
Milwaukee output 81 1910 barrels. against
40, $50 the previous week The greater part
Of the domestic sales last week Were of
ala md trA fnt iUn n Fr@.s
straight patent, but at very low prices.
Trade Is a little more duh with North Da-
kota mills. with conditions in wheat caus-
ing buyers to hold back orders.
Correspondence from the vaney of the
Ohio shows that perhaps 10 per cent. of the
old wheat remains in farmers hands. In
the foreign markets the tendency was quiet
and rather weak but no decline was re-
corded. An unsatisfactory -four market pre-
vailed at New York, a moderate local BUSH
ness comprising most of the trade. Little
no effect produced at PHILADELPHIA
by the advance in wheat.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-04
RUNAWAY WIFE ARRESTED.
bullet Found i'm the Charred Body of
the Murdered Husband.

special to the Indianapolis Journal
ELKHART, Ind, April 3-Edward Mosh.
er and Irs. William H. Kehries, who have
been accused of the murder of the wom
ans husband last Sunday night, returned
here this morning and were at once ar
rested and placed in JAIL They claim that
AFTER being driven to Joness Crossing sun
Gay night, after hearing the pistol shot
they took train and went to Detroit
Mich. without knowing of Kehries's death
AZ Detroit the woman says she became
noInesick and, wanting to see her children
came came back here, bringing Mosher with her
On nearing of her husbands death she
appeared to be greatly. affected, Weeping
bitterly. She says her husband undertooiS
to shoot her. Sunday evening because she
nad begun divorce proceedings and that
II was TO save her own and Mosher's life
that they started TO- Canada This after,
noon Coroner Kreider, who was unable
yesterday to find bullet wound on the
dead man, together with number Of ply
sicians, thoroughly dissected the body ano
found bullet wound below the right nipple
and the ball itself in his hip. Mosher, Mrs.
Kehries and Gilbert Borne, the latter the
man who drove them to the station, are
in jail.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-04

Robert Burr is on trial at Rockport for
murder in the first degree for killing Capt
Williamson, an Airline engineer, in this
city, Oct. 10
Professor Adolph Gerton instructor in
French and German at Eariham College
has letter that is relic of the Elbe
disaster. He received 1t short time ago.
long overdue.
Prof f. j. Lair, formerly of the Shelby
vile schools. has been elected principal of
the Third ward school at I<okomo, taking
the place of Prof. J. G.. Leach. who re-
signed to accept the appointment of Stat~
Natural Gas II spector-
Dr. G.. W. II Kenlper, commander of
Wilnams Post No. rs, G. A r.. yesterday
received s66. "a and a letter from Washington
saying it was his final pay for army service
rendered during the war. The check was a
great surprise as he did not know that
Uncle Sam was indebted to him for his
army work
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-04
WORSE THAN DIcKENss FAT BOY.
Deputy Marshall Taylor Slept, Despite
Loud Explosion.

Deputy United States Marshal Taylor
was detailed on duty that required him to
be up all night, and yesterday came into
the Office and went to sleep in chair
The attaches of this Office are rollicking
set of fellows, and practical joke is one
of their daily advertisements. They set fire
to a fire-cracker sis inches long and an
inch in diameter and exploded it under his
chair. 1t did not phase the peacefulness
of his slurnbers such was his WEAKNESS.
The report was terrific and it's muffied
sound reached the street below, which was
full of people leaving a matinee. It began
to look as If the police would be called, but
the sound could not be located. Marshal
Hawkins is working Deputy Taylor too
hard
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-04
Indiana Deaths.

LOGiANSPORT, md, April 3-Abra ha m
Hildebrand died yesterday on his farm in
jefferson township, aged eighty-three He
settled in Cass county in 1892. and with his
wife, who survives, spent sixty of the sixty
three Years of their married life on the
farm where he died. They had six children
twenty-six grandchildren. forty great-grand-
children and three great-great- grandchil-
dren.
WABASH. Ind. April 3.-AIrs Margaret
Hutchens, one of the old residents of this
county, died this morning, suddenly. at her
home in Waltz township. of old age and
ailments aggravated by an attack of the
grip She was eighty-five years old, and
had lived since 1850 in Wabash coNnty.
JEFF ERSONyIII.E Ind, April s.-Wil-
liam Johnson, aged ninety-four died this
morning. He was born in Maryland. but
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-04
THE BICYCLE CRAZE.
Marked Falling OF In the Use of
Horses md Buggies.
New York Sun.

New ~ rk sun.
So widespread has the bicycling craze be-
come that the livery stable keepers are
beginning to feel the effects of It sorely.
1t is the Sunday trade the best-paying
trade in the livery business. that has fallen
off chiefly, the reason being that the young
men who used to take their girl friends
driving every pleasant Sunday afternoon
now take them bicycling instead at much
smaller expense. A horse and buggy costs
about S. for a Sunday afternoon, while
pair of bicycles can be rented all day for
81 apiece, or tandem for about 81. The
natural result is that every Jack who has
a bicycle is teaching his Jill to ride, or IL
Jill is the cyclist she is insisting that Jack
shall purchase or hire a wheel, so that he
accompany her on her Sunday afternoon
spins, and the academies where riding is
taught are full of bruised but persevering
learners in the art of wheeling.
Walk along any of the boulevards of
this city or Brooklyn some fine Sunday
afternoon and YOU can see the result or
this There will be two bicycles out for
every horse and buggy. and good propor-
ton of the bicycling, you will fad, is done
in pairs. which means much loss of custom
to the stables. A man up town who f. wise
in the matter of horses said, recently, ia
discussing the matter.
One outside the livery business can
hardly believe what a falling of In trade
there has been since bicycling became so
popular. As long as Il was confined to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-04

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April ga small
city ply stefan Crow has advised all people
who are not vaccinated to attend to the
precaution at once Two cases of smallpox
have been discovered in the city during the
last few days, and both parties afflicted
had been in crowded quarters where many
people were exposed to the plague.
ATCHISON KAN April 3.-Fifty Atchi-
son men who went to Chamois, Mo-, to
work on the river for the government re-
turned to-day smallpox having broken out
among the government forces at that place.
Men from all over the country were ex-
posed. and it is feared that the disease will
be widely distributed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-04
POLITICS In A CHURCH.
President Cleveland's Brother Re-
quested to Resign His Passionate.

WATERFOWL, N. Y, April Bly,
vote of % to 1, during an exciting session,
the congregation of the Presbyterian
Church at Chaumont, this county, last even
ing decided to ask Rev. William Cleveland,
brother of President Cleveland, to tender
his resignation of the pastorate. 1t is re-
ported that politics has been = disturbing
element although Mr.. Cleveland took no
part in politics. Mr.. Cleveland will appeal
to the presbytery.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-04
OBITUARY.
Mrs. Paran stevens, n WelI-Known
New. York Society woman

NEW YORK April 3.--Mrs Paran Stew
ems, who, with the late Ward McAllister
was, Tor many years, society leader of
New YORK, died of pneumonia. at her home,
O'clock this afternoon.
Mrs. Stevens was one of the large fam
lily of Judge Reed, prominent jurist of
Massachusetts, and was born in Lowell,
little more than sixty-one years ago
While she was only girl she met Paran
Stevens, owner Of tho fremont Hotel, of
this city. to whom she was married year
later. Mr.. stevens died twenty years ago,
leaving an estate valued at almost a mil
lion dollars. Two children were born to
the couple They were Henry Stevens who
died twelve years ago, and Mary Fisk Stew
ems, who is the wife of Sir Arthur Henry
Paget, of London. The Pagets have three
children. who will be the direct heirs of
Mrs. Stevens. 1t was stated at her home.
TO Lady Paget on Tuesday, bidding her
come to this country immediately and il
is thought that she sailed yesterday and
may not know of her mothers death till
she arrives in this city.
Henry Hammond
DANIELSONyILLE Conn.,, April s-Hen-
~ Hammond, the Aboiitionist, died here
this morning.
Deceased was born in Pomfret, Conn.,. In
1914. He was instrumental in forming the
first anti-slavery society in the State and
in 1si7 was associated with Hon. Salmon
=. Smith. of New York. and others. in
forming the memorable Buffalo platform.