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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-12
NO TARIFF LEGISLATION.
Wilson'S ~ommitte Not Inclined to
Push Any More Bills.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 1.-THE ways and
means committee of the House met to-day
for the first time in many months. 1t was
expected that the meeting might bring i'm
portant developments, in view of the gov
ernment's need of increased revenue. No
positive conclusions were reached. how
ever, beyond the reference of several ques-
tions to the subcommittee and a favorable
report on the bill exempting from duties
exhibits ut the Baltimore exposition in 1897.
The action of the committee. though, was
looked on as something significant In indl-
eating that no tariff leg station would be
pushed at this session. MIR. Wilson stated
Informally during the meeting that the rev.
enues of the government had shown n
promising Increase since the wooden sched-
ule went into effect on Jan. | last. Mr..
Reed suggested that this increase was prob
ably OF n temporary character. natural to a
change which was first put into effect. Mr..
Whiting urged that IL would be continuous
and would develop a healthy increase in
government revenues. The resolution OF
Mr. Pence. asking the Secretary or the
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MINNEAPOLIS. Mimi, Jan. 1.-THE Nor
wegian Lutheran Seminary at Robbinsdale,
q suburb of this city, erected by the Nor
wegian synod in 1883. burned to-day. The
building was valued at 10000. The forty
four students lost everything they had in
the building and Professor Skud also lost
his library. There was no insurance upon
the building, but the professors library was
insured.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-THE furniture es-
adjustment of Jordan & Moriarity, extend
ing from 37 to I'll Park Row, was damage
by fire to-day. When the names had been
extinguished the damage vas estimated at
Z 1900, insured.
TORONTO, Jan. 11.-Losses by last nights
fire will amount to $750,000, with insurance
of half that amount.
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600 DAYS IN JAIL.
Alexandria Saloon Keeper Prefers
that to Paying His Fine.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ANDERSON. Ind. Jan. 1L-Six hundred
days in Jail is what Hiram p. Williams,
an Alexandria -saloonkeeper. proposes to
take rather than pay $3.50 as a fine. Mr..
Williams was in court to-day and five
charges of selling liquor to minors and al
lowing them to congregate in his saloon.
He fought the cases in the lower courts and
fought them at the county bar. Judge FL
lison found him guilty and he was fined $25
in each case. making S125 in all. TO this was
added q little over $40 in costs. the total
being $500. He assured the court that he
would not pay and his attorneys, both from
Alexandria, advised him to lay it out in
Jail. He proposed to do this and Sheriff
Starr put him on the register for six hun
1-al d9yS
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THE EZETA AFFAIR.
Reply to the S~enate-Our
treaty with Salvador.

WASHINGTON. JAM II. -Responding TO a
resolution of the Senate. the President has
sent to that body a complete copy OF the e.-
tradition proceedings of General Ezeta. late
Vice President of San Salvador, and other
refugees who were granted asylum on
board the Bennington. The record is very
yoluminous. 1t appears from the CORE
spondence that the authorities of the new
government of Salvador made strenuous eff
forts to have Ezeta and his companions
surrendered to them. both Immediately aft
er they took refuge on board the Benning-
cisco, on the ground that he was a COM
mon criminal but this demand was re-
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Undisnifed Assaults.
Pittsburg acknowledgement.

P~ittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
Toward the close of every administrators
there is a disposition in Congress TO be-
come rowdy and insulting toward the Pres
ident. By that time his patronage has been
bestowed, his term of office is coming to an
end, and there Is nothing much to nope or
fear from him. Ranking griefs and bitter
d-isappointmentS then can have their say
without running any great risk, and nasty
things are apt to be said. The tendency is
not peculiar to our times. Before Washing
ton left office charges were heard In Con-
gress that he had been overdrawing his
salary.
-Four years ago it was President IIarri-
sons turn; now President Cleveland is
catching it. Congressman Sibley lad his
own averment he had been padlocked be-
fore. 1t is a. pity for his reputation that
made a ludicrous scene in the House, but
he was funny at the expense of his own dig,
nifty. His speech hurt Sibley a Ercat ceal
and does not hurt Cleveland at ALI.
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A COINCIDENCE.
Verre Haute Saloons Closed Out of
Respect to "a Brewery Agent.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Jan. n.-There
were two funerals at 2 O'Clock to-day of
~well-known citizens, but who represented
the opposing sentiments in regard to the
saloon business. Capt. S. II. Potter was
eighty-siX years of age when he died a
few days ago, and for forty years he had
opposed the saloon and what he considered
to be the Dissertation of the Sabbath. His
funeral was attended by the older citizens
of business standing. The funeral of
Frank Poker, township trustee and city
agent of the brewery, was a public event.
The brewery people had the snow scraped
from the streets for the marching bodies
of Knights of Pythias, Masons, Red Men,
Order of Moose and the Democratic Jack
son Club. They marched several hundred
strong in a binding snow storm. Nearly oil
the saloons were closed from . to ) O'Clock,
something never before done in this city.
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sMTTHA Is MISSING.
Ex-Clarl1 County Treasurer 81 Greatly
Wanted Man..

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
JEFFERSCNVILLE, Ind, Jan. 1.-THE
News, tonight, had the following: THE
bondsmen of ex-Treasurer A. w. Smitha
met at the courthouse Thursday afternoon
to make preparations for a settlement of
the judgment against them and their prin-
cipal. They had notified Mr.. Smitha to
be present, but he failed. He was last
seen on Friday last going north on a b.
& o. S. w. train.
The bondsmen were extremely indignant
at his failure to be present, and used him
in ungloved manner. They say they are
satisfied he has somewhere on deposit at
least $4,000, and that he could readily
make good his shortage if he would. I'm
less he is forthcoming at the proper time
they are determined to have him indicted.
and, If possible, If he can be reached. send
him to the penitentiary. The amount due,
with interest from the date of defalcation,
is over $4,000. The bondsmen expect to
make arrangements to settle the same
speedily.
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Armour,s lee Cutters Strike.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
HAMMOND, Ind. Jan. 1.-THE ice men
working for p. D. Armour at Cedar Lake
this morning struck for an advance of forty
cents a day. The men were being paid
ten cents an hour and were charged So a
week for board. The matter was compro-
missed with nearly two hundred of the men
by the company offering to furnish the men
free board. About two hundred, most of
whom are from Chicago. walked to Ham,
mond, eighteen miles, through a binding
reached this city. On being informed that
there was a strike here they started for
Chjcapn
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INCOME TAX LAW CASE.
Another Suit to Test the Constitu-
tiOnality of the Act.

NEW YORK. Jan. 11.-Louis H. Hyde.
who resides at Orange. \. j., commenced
a suit in equity to-day in the United
States Circuit Court against the Continen-
tai Trust Company, OF which he is a share
holder. to test the constitutionality of the
new income tax law. Mr.. Hyde is repre-
sented by Messrs. Seward, Guthrie, Mora
wetz and Steel and Joseph H. Choate as
his counsel. It is understood that a num-
Der of corporations and individuals largely
affected by the income tax have COM
the constitutionality of the act.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-12
Hnrrison's Level Head.
Chicago Inter DC

Chicago Inter OCEAN.
Ex-President Harrison shows American
grit and q level head in insisting upon it
that an ex-President is nothing more than
an American citizen. Because he has filled
the highest office within the gift of the
people is no reason that he should remain
the balance of his life nursing his retired
dignity. In a recent tilt with some of his
brethren at the bar General Harrison re-
sented an allusion to his ex-presidency and
openly proclaimed that he was simply. a
lawyer at the bar and had no claims for
any favors not granted to the humblest
member of the profession. The people hon
or such men.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-12
Seal. Practically Extinct.

WASHINGTON Jan. u.-Some interest
ing facts in regard to Alaskan seal fisher
les were given to the House committee on
Territories by Governor Sheakley, of Alas
ka, to-day. The Governor declares that
seals are practically extinct, and will be
entirely exterminated within a short time.
Although the government authorized the
killing of 10000 last year by the fur COM
market. He said no less than 10000 pups
had died because their mothers We're killed
by poacherS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-12
GAS EXPLOSION AT PERU.
John SeISraft, Fatally
burned mud His House Wrecked.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
PERU. Ind. Jan. u--John S~elgraft, of
the firm of A~rInantrout x Selgraft. was
probably fatally burned in a natural-gas
explosion this morning. One of the chill
dren was also seriously burned. Selgraft
struck a match in his cellar and an explo-
ablaze he ran and threw himself in the
snow and put out the flames. Nearly every
shreds of clothing was burned from him and
ii is feared he has internal injuries. The
house Is a complete wreck, being. sprung
apart and the interior q mass Of ruins. Aft
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-12
Christ.s Followers Disputing.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BRAZIL, Ind. Jan. 1.-THE debate which
has been in progress at ASHORE, this
county. for the past four days between
Rev. John r.. Bailey. of Indianapolis, of the
Baptist denomination, and Rev. Denny.
of Sullivan, of the Christian Church, closed
to-day. The subject was which church was
established in accordance with the teach
ings of Christ and His disciples. The debate
has created universal interest and was at
tended by hundreds.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-12
General Notes.

WASHINGTON. Jan. IA delegation
of Democrats from Oklahoma is at the
Capitol to urge the territorial committee
Of the House to report a bill for statehood
for Oklahoma, with the Chickasaw Indian
nation attached.
Members of the Tennessee Centennial ex-
position made speeches to the House COM
mittee on appropriation to-day, asking for
a government exhibit for the, exposition in
1896.
The Department of State has received a
dispatch from Consul-general Mulligan, at
Apia, reporting the death of Robert Louis
Stevenson.
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to a depth of three or four inches, ard
the stone laid on this. By SO doing the
cost is greatly reduced. There being no
gravel at Martha's Vineyard, cheap cotton
cloth has within two weeks been spreat
II has been found that the sand does not
work up through the stone and much less
stone is required. Layers of tarred paper
were tried, but without success. as the
stone pressed through them. This is prob
ably the first experiment ever made with
cloth, and while the stretch on which 1t is
used is not long. the showing will be vala-
able.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-12
STEAMER WREt kED.
The Prescott and Tvenfy-Thrce Peo-
ME Lost in u Gale.

LONDON, Jan. lit is regarded as GER
tain that the British steamer Prescott,
bound from Sunderland, for Marseilles.
foundered with all hands on ~board-twen-
~ty-three in all-during the recent gale.
A terrible gale is prevailing along the
Irish coasts. The Cunard steamer Etruria
was unable to enter Queenstown harbor
because of the storm, and proceeded with
her passengers and mail direct for Liver
rannl
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TERRE HAUTE. Ind, Jan. 11.-Dr. Nc
Laughlin. of Seelyville, a member of the
medical examining board, died this morning.
KOKOMO, Ind., Jan. Thames Mattix,
a pioneer resident of this city, died this
morning, aged seventy-five.
SEYMOUR, Ind, Jan. n.-Miss Mollie
Williams, of Crothersville, died, yesterday,
of consumption, aged thirty.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, Jan. n.-To-night
a blizzard is raging and the snow is badly
drifting over the tracks of all railroads
passing through this city. Passenger trains
from all directions are arriving from two
to three hours late.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Jan. IA snow
storm that during the day gave promise of
turning into rain suddenly changed to a
blizzard late this afternoon. At 3 O'clock
the thermometer registered so degrees above
zero, but at 9 O'Clock it was at zero and
falling rapidly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-12
CIeveIand Denounced by Bryan.

WASHINGTON, Jan. misrepresentation
William j. Bryan of Nebraska, in a 81 eech
tonight before the Virginia Democratic
Association, denounced President Cleveland.
He declared tf,at the President was rot a.
Democrat, that his conduct was Tot Demo-
cratic, that he was wrecKing the Demo
cratic party and that he was the first DEM
ocratic President who had Eeen u.ia BILE to
control his party. Mr.. Bryan also criticised
Secretary Carlisle
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-12
Not Carlisle, but cleveland.
Philadelphia Press.

For a while longer a few worsIipers in
New York may coddle the myth that Presi-
dent Cleveland is a good man with wicked
partners. The country does not. The
American public knows its Presidents.
Cleveland is known. He is the one archi-
tect of the ruin of his own reputation. If
the condition of the national finances and
of the national currency demands the resig-
nation Of any one 1t demands the ~resigna-
ton of Grover Cleveland.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-12
The Ohio Th~irty-Three Feet High.
Snecial To the fundamentals Journal -

MADISON. Ind, Jan. 11.-Capt. John
Barrett's wharf boat, leased from Capt.
John W. Thomas, which sank this morn
ing, was carried off by rising river this
evening with $50 barrels of salt and other
freight The boat was valued by Superin-
tendent Mercer at 81, 900. The river is al
most thirty-three feet and rising two inches
an hour
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-12
Wants .FiIIcd Cheese Taxed.

WASHINGTON. Jan. l1.-At to-day's
meeting of the National Dairy Union short
addresses were made by Representatives
Hatch and Grout, Assistant Secretary
Dabney, of the Agricultural Department.:
ers' A resolution was adopted pefitioning
Congress to place "GIled cheese under the
internal revenue laws, to tax it 2 cents
per pound, and to require that dealers in
filled cheese be licensed, the same as reg
ular dealers in oleomargarine.
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So, There.
Atlanta Constitution.

Atlanta CONSTITUTIONS.
We are not disposed to ~criticise any DEM
ocrat for his failure to approve any of the
naphazard and foolish measures Of financial
relief that nave recently been introduced.
But we think it is a shame and a disgrace
that the Democratic members of Congress
cannot make up their minds. If they have
any, to unite on the pledge of the platform
and thus save the party from the ruin that
n ~ ~
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BRAZIL, Ind, Jan. I.-WEile at work in
Kealy mine, north of this city, belonging
to the Diamond Coal Company, to-day, q
young man named Hays was crushed to
death and a man named Fletcher was bad
ly mashed and probably fatally injured.
Both men were at work in the same room
when they were caught by a heavy fall of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-12
Thrce People Asphyxinted.

NEW YORK, Jan. I.-Two men and u
boy were suffocated by gas this morning in
a room on the third floor of the tenement
house, No. 49, Grand street. The dead are
Jacob Rosenberg. aged thirteen: Abraham
Bersan. twenty-five years: Joseph Jacobson.
twenty-seyen years old. An overturned gas
stove caused the tragedy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-12
Onered by Hendricks County Comm
siOners-Nrs. Henshaw Dead.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
DANVILLE, Ind. Jan. 1.-THE excite
ment over the Belleyille tragedy continues
undated. The death of Mrs. Henshaw
last evening at 5 o'clock has increased the
bitterness of the feeling. This afternoon
the commissioners offered a reward of ST.
coo for the arrest and conviction OF the
murdererS or $500 for the arrest and con-
viction of one of them. This action was
taken on a petition of many taxpayers,
and 1T is believed that the arrest of the
murderers will follow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-12
Looking Into Fawcett's Conduct.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LAGRANGE, Ind, Jan. ia government
official has come here to investigate the
conduct of Postmaster Fawcett as a result
of the action of citizens in denouncing and
exposing him. The government representa-
tive has had a conference with@ Fawcett's
bondsmen, three of whom, it is said, want
him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-12

William Turbot age eighteen years. was
arrested last evening by detectives Kinney
and Richards and locked up as a fugitive.
He is wanted at Oshkosh, Wis, where It
is said he is supposed to be implicated in
the theft of Some jewelry. The local de-
partment knows nothing of the case except
the meager contained in the
dispatches ordering his arrest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-12
On a Cotton cloth Foundation.

BOstOn IraISGrlpI-
The Massachusetts Highway Commits
sioners are trying an interesting expert
ment. The board has found in building
macadanfzed roads that upon loose, sandy
soil. much stone is wasted by being driven
into the sand. In such cases. gravel. when
accessible. has been placed upop ths~sGla
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-12
Priests. Fight a Duel with Knives.

PALIA. Mex, Jan. u.-News comes from
Parras of a duel unto death witt knives be-
tween two Catholic priests. Parras has two
parishes, ono administered to by Father
Brfoneu and the other by Father Floris.
.Jealousies have for Il long time existed
between the two priests over the religious
duties. Fathnr Brfcneu is dying and Father
Floris is behind prison walls. To add to
the sensation IL is said that a woman was
the real cause cf the tragedy,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-12
A. Georgia Obituary.

II gave him his medicine regular,
From morn till the set of sun.
He took Two powders at 10 O'Clock.
And another powder at 1,
But doctors cannot help us.
When death knocks at the door:
Goodbye. my darling husband.
You left at ten minutes to Ar
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-12
s2.3oO.ooo in Cold Withdrawn.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.--Advices to the
Treasury Department from the subtreasury
at New York report the withdrawal of 3d.
800, 600 in gold for export. This leaves the
amount of the gold reserve 81, 474, 100.
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Owes 1t to Them.

Philadelphia Inquirer.
John Burns proposes when he gets back
to England ito form a union for the
Journalists John ought also to do some
thing for the newspaper men. If it had
not been for them he would never have
hean haard Of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-12
4 Comparison.
Syracuse Standard.

Syracuse Standard.
Two drunken men holding each other up
present some such picture as those two
decayed politicians, Cleveland and Hill, In
their attitude of mutual support.
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Murray-WaIIace.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
SEYMOUR. Ind. Jan. 11.-George W..
Murray and Miss Orpha Eta Wallace were
united in marriage at $50 O'Clock, Thurs
day afternoon, at the home of the brides
parents in this city.
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ARMY ~Promotions.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE President,
to-day, sent to the Senate the following
nominations: Lieut.. Col. William Winthrop,
deputy general, to be colonel and assistant
-iudge-advocate general; Maj. Edward Hun
ter, judge-advocate, to be equity judge
advocate general, with rank of lieutenant
colonel; Lieut.. Enoch Herbert Crowder,
Eighth Cavalry, to be major and judge
adyOpata
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FAIR AND COLDER.
Will Have Zero Weather
the Day.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.-For Illinois
Fair; colder; northwesterly winds.
For Ohio-Fair; colder with a cold wave;
winds shifting to northwesterly. ;,
For I~ndiana-F'air; colder; northwesterly
utindS
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WASHINGTON, Jan. ia treasury
statement issued to-day shows that the eS-
penditures so far this month exceed the re-
ceipts by Sc, 213, 743, which makes the de-
ficiency for the fiscal year to date $50, us, 20i.
OF the total receipts SO far this month ST.
7,244 was from customs, $3,017,9 H from in
Gus sources. The total receipts since June
80 are S170,273, 760 and the disbursements
$204, 051, 1868.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-12
Movements Of Steamers.

NEW YORK. Jan. Il-Arrived: Eibe.
from Bremen; Paris. from Southampton.
SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. u.-Arrived: Ems.
from New York.
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CINCINNATI, o., Jan. 11.-At midnight
the Ohio river measured forty-four feet.
being only one foot below the point of
overflow at certain places. AS the rise Is
not rapid, there is no alarm, although this
rise is expected to continue tomorrow.
Thursday midnight the river was thirty
eight feet, a rise of six feet in twenty-four
hours. If this continues as expected there
will be over fifty feet tomorrow night, and
that means an overflow. AT 6 a. m. 1t was
thirty-nine feet four inches; at noon forty
one feet; at 6 D. m. forty-three feet nine
inches. The severe cold weather Tonight
indicates relief from both snow and rain.
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REWARD OF $1,000

er the explosion the house caught fire, but
the blaze was e~xtinguished.