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a MILITANT PREACHER
HE SHOOTS AT TOUGHs AMI FA-
TALLY WOUNDS A GIRL.
Tragic Incident at a Revival V
Sui to Recover $4,000 from an
~Ex-COunty Treasurer.

Srecial to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON Ind, Aug. 5.-Rev. John
Walstein, who has been holding revival serv-
ices at Concord Christian Church near here,
received word last night hat he would be
egged If he preached again. He went pre-
pared and, when he opened services, laid a
pistol on each side of his Bible, announcing
that he would defend himself if necessary.
1t was not long until a disturbance was
raised at one of the windows. In an in
slant the minister commenced firing toward
the window. He scattered the toughs, but
one bullet passed through the abdomen of
the three-year-old daughter of John Standi-
FORD who was sleeping on one of the
seats. The little girl is dying. In the ex-
cltement Walstein made his escape. Standi-
Iord refuses to prosecute WalStein and for
capture him.
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each, eight have two and twenty-three have
one. a total of sixty employees. As each Of
the collectors az these thirty-eight ports
VIII be allowed one excepted deputy, the
to twenty-five.
OF far greater consequence, however, than
the inclusion OF new classes is the virtual
announcement the President makes that the
existing classification will remain practi-
cally unimpaired. During the past I'VE
months the demand for a modifying order
mas been clamorous and unremitting.
Probably on no other executive has so
great an amount OF pressure been brought
In the hope OF accomplishing a single OBJ
iect. How Well the pressure has been resisted
IS now quite apparent. Finally. by way OF
answer, we have the order of July Fl. The
President fultllls his pledges literally. He
declares that he will maintain the law rather
than weaken II and thaJ instead of limiting
its operation he Will extend ii where extern
sion is practicable. The suggestion that Mr..
Mckinley settled on this policy only after
he had noticed the popular disapproval with
which reports Of his intention TO do other
wise had been received is quite unfair 10
him. 1 have had several interviews with
the President on this subject during the
past few months. On July ?, a week before
these reports were published, he assured
me positively that no changes or serious
character would be made and that the ex-
ceptions other than those recommended by
the CiVil-service Commission would be con-
fined TO isolated cases, in which, owing TO
peculiar circumstances, an exception might
seem necessary. When again saw MIN, on
the Gath. he spoke in the same encouraging
way, adding that he would seek 10 improve
and extend the system rather than 10 re-
strict it.
| do not believe thai at any time since
March 4 the President has intended to do
anything but what he now has done. l be-
leve, moreover, that with the order of July
81 as an earnest of Mr.. Mcktnley's dispo-
sition and purposes. ii is to be expected that
this administration will carry the reform
OF the civil service very near to complexion
and that for that accomplishment 1t will be
Historically remembered.
GEORGE MANENY,
Secretary of the National Civil-service Re-
form League.
New York, Aug. 4.
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ROBBED THE STRONG BOX.
Silver Dollars Stolen from the Treas
ury by u COIOred InbOrer.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-During the
progress of the count and weighing of the
silver In the vaults of the treasury to-day
incident to the transfer of the government
funds to the new United States treasury,
Thomas Martin, of this city, a colored
laborer, engaged in handling the bags, was
arrested on a charge of abstracting silver
from the yaluts. A shortage of $40 was
found last Monday in the weight of one of
me bags. Another shortage of SIS was
found to-day. and as Martin was suspected
a watch. was put upon him when he left
the vaults during the noon rest. After
leaving the vault Martin went into the sub
basement, where there is a pile of firewood,
ana hid the eighteen silver dollars among
the sticks. AS soon as he mac left the
cellar the light was turned on and the
money discovered. The case was put into
the hands of Chief TIazen, of the secret
service, who placed Martin under arrest
and took him to his office, where he made
a written confession. Slugs of lead were
put into the bags to balance the weight of
the coin abstracted. Martin has been a
helper at eight reweighiugs of the treasury
cash, and never before has been suspected
OF wrongdoing. The whole amount taken
was SIS, Of which Martin had spent $3.50,
the remainder being recovered. The pen
atty in this case is a term in the peni-
tertiary of from one to ten years and a fine
OF not more than s.. 600, or both.
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Movements of Stenmers

NEW YORK, Aug. 5.-Arrived: Germanic.
from Liverpool; Bremen, from Bremen;
Ems. from Genoa. Sailed: Normannia, for
Ha mburg.
BREMEN, Aug. ARRIVED: Lain. from
New York, via Plymouth and Cherbourg.
QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 5.-Arrived: Bril-
fannie, from New York, for Liverpool.
BOULOGNE, Aug. 4.-Arrived: Spaarn-
dam, from New York, for Rotterdam.
NAPLES, Aug. ARRIVED: Kaiser Will
helm ii, from New York.
LIVERPOOL, Aug. ARRIVED: Rhyn-
land, from Philadelphia.
HAMBURG, Aug. 5.-Arrived: Patria,
from New York.
LONDON, Aug. 5.-Sailed: Mohawk, for
New York.
GENOA, Aug. 5.-Salled: Fulda, for New
York.
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The Gold EeNer.

Old King Cole was a merry old soul,
And a merry old soul was he,
So he called for his pipe,
And he called for his bowl.
And he called for his fddlers three.
They brought his pipe and they brought his bowl
And they brought them speedily,
But he called with his might,
And he called with his soul,
But in vain fog his hddlers three.
He looked up high and he looked down low,
And not a one could he see.
So he called for his man,
And he told him to 20
Where he thought they would likely be.
The man went West with a merry heart.
oh, away off West went he,
And he found all the men
In a klondike part.
And they captured some millions three.
And old King Cole. the merry old soul.
When hc heard their history,
He called for his pick,
And he called for his bowl,
And he sailed for the Bering sea.
Montreal Herald.
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Exports of BucIsMhent.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5-TAe expectation
of American b~uckwheat during the last
fiscal year attained sufficient Importance to
be made a matter Of special note by the
Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury De-
partment. Heretofore this article has been
included in "all other breadstuffs, and prep
a~rations of, used as food, which is used to
cover the expectation of breadstuffs not
sufficiently important to be especially
enumerated. During the last year there
were exported l,677, 1902 bushels of buck
wheat. The Netherlands furnish the great
est market. l.O6S,06 bushels of this total
having been sent to that country: 425, ga
bushels were exported to Germany, and
154.557 bushels to Belgium. Denmark,
the balance in small quantities. The value
of the years exports of was
S61S go
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ships owing to the lack of this particular
arnor, which must be worked into the hull
structure.
Meanwhile the acting secretary is proceed
ing to carry out the direction OF Congress
on the lines laid down by Secretary Long,
and he has completed the personnel of the
special board which is to make an inves-
LEGATION OF the cost of establishing a gov
ernment armor plant. AS announced to-
day. the board will consist of Commodore
Howell, commandant of the League Island
navy yard: Captain Mccormick, captain of
the Norfolk navy yard; Chief Engineer
Perry, from the Monterey; Civil Engineer
Menocal, from the New York navy yard;
Lieutenant f.. +. Fletcher, from the tor
pedo station. with Lieutenant w. 1. Cham
bers, from the Minneapolis, as recorder.
This board will meet Monday next in the
Ordnance Bureau here for organization
and to outline the plan of work. 1t is not
Yet even to be conjectured how long the in
quiry will last, but from the magnitude of
the task and the probability that difficulty
will be encountered in securing the informa-
tion as to the cost of plants and cost Of
production of armor, the end cannot be
reached very much earlier than the as
sembling Of the next session of Congress, to
which the results may be reported.
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BREVITIES.

William Elmer Rockwell, a w~ell-known
baseball player and manager, is dead in
San Francisco of meningitis, aged forty
two.
Oct. 6 and Z have been designated as au-
thors' days at the Nashville exposition, and
the leading authors of the United States
have been invited to be present.
TIL body Of a man believed to be William
II. Middleton, a member of Cigar Makers
Union, No. POI, of Knoxville, Tenn, was
found on the Erie tracks at Cory, Pa,
Wednesday night.
Jerse Perryman. a young negro who
criminally assaulted Miss Nellie Waters.
near East Abuchie, Miss, on May q, was
hanged at Hattiesburg yesterday. About
1000 people witnessed the execution, which
took place in the courthouse yard.
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OBITUARY.
Frederick De Forrest Allen, Phi. D., of
Harvard University.

BOSTON, Aug. 5.-Frederick De Forrest
of classical philology at Harvard. has died
from the effects of a paralytic shock.
Prof. Allen was one of the best known
and Oldest members, in length of service,
of the Harvard faculty, though only fifty
three years of age. Curtius, whose pupil
he was, mentioned him profusely in his
works and everywhere in terms of profound
respect. He was born in Oberlin, O., in
1874. After graduating, in 1863, he visited
Europe and studied tor several years at
the University of Leipsic. In 1866 he be-
came a professor at the University of Ten
a professorship in the University OF Gin
cinnati, and later was called to a. chair at
Yale. After a brief stay there he accepted
the professorship at Harvard, which he held
up to the time of his death.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
COLUMBUS, Ind. Aug. 5.-Governor
Mount, Major Charles w. Lee. the Repub-
lican candidate for Congress in the Fourth
district, with the Rev. u. NJ. Browder, the
Populist candidate, were the attractions at
the twenty-ninth annual Sunday school
picnic of Brush Greek to-day. This is an
institution peculiar to this county. The
number of people who attend this meeting
will average three thousand a year. Every
Sunday school in the county is represented.
Friends meet who see each other but once
a year and then at this time. Governor
Mount and Major Lee were listened to with
much interest. Politics were not discussed
upon the platform, but over the grounds
the subject was not tabooed.
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Society really seems to be relapsing into
it's original elements IN some parts of the
South, and tho unrestrained rule of the
mob is fast being substituted for that tf
the constituted authorities. The morning
papers record the l%ynching of one man in
Georgia, one in Louisiana, and one IN K"l-
lucky, the moving of a mob upon a Tennes-
see Jail for the same purpose, and the mar
row escaps from vengeance of 81 criminal
in Florida. The Offenders In most of these
is now known as ''the usual crime of as
saulting white women, but in the Georgia
case the lynchers set out to execute also a
man who is already under sentence OF
death for train-wrecking. a white man ac-
cused of murder. and the white woman
who was his partner in the crime; while
in the Kentucky instance the mob hanged
a man of bad character, as they expressly
explained, 'on general principles no
proof being found of his having committed
n murder of which he was suspected, the
woman in the case being whipped until she
was covered with blood.
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Tariff Law Comparisons.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-The completed
comparison of the tariff bill, prepared by
Mr.. Chas. II. Evans, the tariff expert, was
made public to-day. The following are some
of the comparisons, in addition to those
given last week: The average ad valorem
duty of the flax, hemp and jute schedule
is lower in the new law than in the Wilson
law. That of the Wilson was 1854 per cent.
The present law is 45.18 per cent. The aver
age adj valorem of the pulp, paper and book
schedule under the present law is 5000 per
cent. Under the Wilson law 22.1S per cent.
The average ad valorem of the sundry
schedule under the Dingley law is 1885 per
cent; under the Wilson law 1T was "a. 70
per cent. The total value of articles trans
ferred from the free list to the dutiable
list is placed at $101, 96S, 941. Only two ar
ticles We're transferred from the dutiable
to the free list. These MtTa ~cocoanuts in
the shell and sheep dips.
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Son of "a Lawyer.

MEMPHIS, Aug. 5.-William Collier, ar
rested at Providence, r. l., is the oldest
son of w. A. Collier. a lawyer, and at one
time president of the Appeal-Avalanche
Company. Young Collier left Memphis sew
eral weeks ago TO push street car adVertis-
ing work for a relation. He intended to
enter a Unitarian school. Collier is splend-
idly educated and has always shown an
aptitude for philosophic and metaphysical
subjects: He was esteemed here as a most
honorable young man.
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EUFALA, Ala, Aug. Sat Harris this
morning, at l o'clock, a negro gained en-
trance into the room OF a young woman. it
is believed, with intent to rape. Before
achieving his purpose he was scared
away. He was arrested in a short time
and guarded in a store. When the train
passed the station the crowd had deter
mined to hang the man, and the latest
news is that the determination was carried
out. No Geographic communication can be
had with the village.
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An indianapolis Woman Robbea

Mrs. Mary McGarrey, residing at 21 Hich-
igan avenue, was on a Lake Erie x West
ern train last evening when two intoxicat-
ed women boarded the train at Upton. Be
fore leaving the train at Alexandria they
assaulted Mrs. McGarrey and stole her gold
watch. AT the instance of the Muncie po-
lice, to whom Mrs. McGarrey complained,
beth women were arrested Mrs. McGarrey
Is said to be a distant relative of President
Mckinley.
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WCHtIuH NUNCss
WASHINGTON. Aug. 5.-To-dav's treas

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-To-day's treas
ury statement shows: Available cash bal
ances, $3.50, 6S9, 613; gold reserve. $40, III, 1873.
John w. Holiday, of Ohio, was to-day
appointed chief clerk of the railway mail
service and succeeds Alexander Grant, of
Michigan, appointed assistant general SUI
perintendent.
Negotiations are now in progress with
the French government looking to the con-
clusion of a treaty of the trade ana COM
merce to govern the relation between the
United States and Tunis. This is to take
fit modern conditions and particularly the
existing protectorate over Tunis maintained
by france.
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Argentina Buxing our whent.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 5.-The Bureau of
American Republics has received informa-
ton that merchants of Rio de Janeiro have
chartered two vessels now at San Francis
co to convey cargoes of California wheat
TO Rio. This is the first time in history
that such a thing has occurred, and is at
tributable to the short crop in the Argen-
tine Republic and Uruguay.
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siIberberg,s release

WASHINGTON. Aug. 5.-The United
States consular agent at Freitburg, Ger
many. reports to the State Department that
he has secured the release of Harry Siber-
berg, alias John c. Drayton, of Little Rock,
Ark, who was condemned Jan. 20 last to
two and a half years Imprisonment. and
that he was placed aboard a steamer bound
for Baltimore July %. The German governs
ment required an escort for SiIberberg to
Bremen and a bond of 1000 marks as guar
antee that the gentleman of dual name
should keep away from the Faderland.
Silberberg's offense was that of resisting
one of the petty German police, which is
regarded as the most heinous offense in
Germany,
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GnsoIine Cnrrinre MoIor.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind, Aug. 5.-Jesse p. Fulg-
hun, of this city, a pattern maker, has for
the past year been working on a scheme
for q gasoline motor to run q carriage. The
plans have been perfected and VIII be test
ed. The motor is being constructed. 1t is
riage and the inventor claims that it can
be run for one day on three gallons OF gaso-
limo
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Pension Practice RuIiur.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-The issue as to
whether an attorney has the right to col
lect a fee for services rendered in preparing
and fling evidence under a rule to show
cause why a pensioners name should not
be dropped from the rolls in cases under
the famous act of June q, 1890, is involved
in a case decided to-day by Assistant Sec
rotary of the Interior Davis. He holds that
for the prosecution of all claims other than
those where application is made for pen-
sion, in which fee agreements are not
recognized by the Commissioners of pen
sions, the compensation of an attorney
shall be such sum as the commissioner shall
direct to be paid to him, not exceeding $50
in claims filed under the general law nor
over $40 under the June q act. Proceedings
to show why names should not be dropped
are held TO constitute prosecution of a
claim for pension. but in no sense an APP
plication for pension. All conflicting de-
cisions are overruled by this ruling.
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Suit for Possession of an Office.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
COLUMBUS, Ind, Aug. 5.-Henry Reth-
wisch, treasurer-elect of Bartholomew
county, has brought suit against the pres
ent incumbent, John Walker, asking pos
session of the Office. The demand made is
5000. The complaint alleges that the de-
fendent's term has expired and that the
plaintiff, having duly qualified, is now en-
titled to the office.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-United States
Consul Henry Robertson. at Hamburg, has
urgently requested the State Department
to warn American shippers of dried beer
grains, to refrain from the practice they
nave adopted of adulterating the grains
with ground corn. He says the bright
future of the important trade is threatened
by this practice and that already the larg-
est German importers are about to cancel
heavy orders and protest drafts upon rrcof
of adulteratiOn of the grains-
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BRAZIL, Ind, Aug. 5.-Joseph Ginger
man, alderman from the Second ward, was
seriously, if not fatally, injured to-day. He
was driving the city sprinkler when the
team ran away and he was caught under
the wrecked vehicle. One leg was torn off
near the ankle and broken in another place,
While several ribs We're fractured.
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Little Girl burned in a Brush PiIe.

Special to the Indiana polls Journal.
CROWN POINT, Ind, Aug. 5.-Mamie
Handley, aged five years. met a horrible
death at RoselaWn, Newton county. She
was playing near a burning brush pile when
she accidentally fell head first into the
flames. Her parents soon discovered she
was missing, and after a long search ound
her charred body in the heap of smoldering
emberS.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-Robert J. Trace
well, who arrived from Corydon, Ind, last
night, took the oath of office as controller
of the treasury this morning in the APP
pointment room Of the treasury. Later the
new controller held a reception to meet the
clerks In his bureau, and was introduced
TO the various heads of divisions in the
Treasury Department.
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Regular Army Officers.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-Second Lieuten-
ant James A Moss, Twenty-ffth Infantry,
and the detachment under his
now at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, have
been ordered to return to their former sta
ton, at Fort Missoula, Montana. Capt. N.
y. Phister, First Infantry, has been re-
leved from duty as instructor at the Fort
L-eavenworth school and ordered TO join his
command. First Lieutenant Chas. Young
Seventh Cavalry. has been detailed to at
tend the encampment Of the Ninth Battal-
Ion, Ohio National Guard.
Lieutenant George w. Adair. Fifth Caval-
Nv has raelnnnd
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Deaths in the State.

BEDFORD, Ind, Aug. 81. d. Tracey,
who came here from Sedalia, o., about
two months ago to take charge of the in
Surance business of the Metropolitan In
surance Company, died rather Unexpectedly
at his rooms in this city Tuesday night of
malarial fever and lung trouble. He was
about twenty-siX years of age. The re-
mains will be taken to his home in Ohio
for interment.
Michael Fitzgibbon, whose home is at
Buffalo, N. Y. died at the residence of
his brother, p. F. Fitzgibbon, this city, and
the remains were taken to his late home In
Buffalo to-day. He had left home for the
springs in the hope of regaining his health,
but was taken suddenly worse and died.
His brother is a prominent citizen of Bed
ford.
ALBANY, Ind, Aug. 5.--Miss Ollie Alb
bolt, aged seventeen. daughter of Mr..
George Abbott, was buried yesterday. She
Mrs. Austin, wife of r. A. Austin, super
intendent of the Albany Paper Company,
died suddenly yesterday of heart disease.
She was prominent in social circles, a
member of the Eastern Star. Daughters of
Rebekah and W. f. G.
near this city, died yesterday of typhoid
fever.
REDKEY, Ind, Aug. 5.-Mrs. Anna Cod
f IN hed a9 96is S @oeniSyv years af [be was %eejd d0una If geo ber
daughter, Mrs. Oscar Currant, whom she
had been visiting. The cause of death was
diabetes. Mrs. Codrick retired last night in
her usual health. but on attempting to
wake. her this morning it was found she
was dead. She had been a lifelong member
of the M. E. Church. The remains will be
buried beside her husband, at Fortville,
Ind.
Indiana Notes.
Murray Barker, a graduate of Earlham
College, has been chosen for the coming
CWyo.) High School.
The first annual reunion of the Genelin
and Osborn families will be held Aug. Is at
Plainfield. 1t is believed as many as three
hundred members Of the two families will
be present
Cordie Moss, aged nineteen years, who
at New Albany Wednesday night and lost
both legs, died last night at the United
Charities Hospital.
Orla c. Mock, of Dunkirk, yesterday filed
suit at Portland against the Pittsburg, Gin
$1,000 damages. Mock alleges that he was
arrested by an officer of the company on
the false charge of having stolen tickets.
Representatives of the Indiana and I'LL
nois Woman Suffrage Association and their
friends will visit the Nashville exposition
Sept. 2. The party will leave Chicago Sept.
l. Reduced rates have been secured and all
members and friends of the association and
women's clubs are invited.
The North Vernon fair attracted a large
attendance yesterday. The exhibits crowd
ed every department, and the indications
point to the most successful fair of several
years. An unusual and attractive feature
of the fair are the standing chariot and
hurdle races that are given between the
pacing and trotting races.