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a a a INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS Veterans of the Seventh Battery Spend a Couple of Days in Social Reunion. Republican Senator Elected to the Illinois Legislature--The Usual Chapter of Criminal Happenings and a Accidents. INDIANA. Annual Election of Officers and Reunion of the Seventh Indiana Battery. Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

VINCENNES, Jan. a two-days' session in this is the fifth annual meeting of the Association of the Seventh Indiana Battery, the members departed for home last evening. Some brought their wives and children, and they had a very social and pleasant time together. The following officers were elected for the coming year: J. W.

Hiller, of Columbus, president; J. C. Owens, of Vincennes, vice-president; E. R. Murphy, of Bedford, secretary and treasurer, and A.

D. Broady, of Vienna, chaplain. The next meeting will be held at Columbus, Jan. 1890. The executive committee is composed of John W.

Hiller, I. C. Owens, A. D. Broady, E.

R. Murphy, T. J. Hunter and G. C.

Masterson. At the last evening session an informal banquet was given, and, after the manner of camp-fires, many amusing and some sorrowful incidents were related. Every member seemed pleased to assemble together once more and exchange friendly greetings. The Death of Mrs. Edith Cowgill.

youngest. Of these six are living. The Late Mrs. A. M.

S. Harrah. Correspondence of the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Jan. 2.

-The death of Mrs. Edith Cowgill, whose funeral took place yesterday at North Manchester, removes one of the most prominent of the Wabash pioneers. She was eighty-nine years, five months and six days old, and was the mother of a large family of children, among whom are Hon. Calvin Cowgill, of this city, and Mrs. Jacob Harter, Mrs.

Joseph Harter, Mrs. Wallace, and Mrs. Ella Rhodes, of North Manchester. Edith Cowgill was born in Guilford county, North Carolina, July 25, 1799. Her parents were Nathan and Ann Mendenhall, who removed from North Carolina to Clinton county, Ohio, when Edith was but seven years old.

She was the eldest of a family of eight children. Her parents were members of the Society of Friends, in which society she had a birthright, which she retained until death. She married Amos Cowgill, conformably to the usage of the Society of Friends, on Jan. 21, 1818, and resided, in Clinton county until 1836, when the family removed to Randolph county, Indiana, and resided 1 in that county until the autumn of 1846, when another removal was made to Kalamazoo county, Michigan, and two years later they settled down in Wabash county. Amos Cowgill died at North Manchester in 1856, and Mrs.

Cowgill has since resided in that place, making her home either with her daughters, Ella Rhodes or Catherine Harter. She was the mother of fifteen children, of which Calvin Cowgill is the oldest and Ella Rhodes the Mrs. A. M. S.

Harrah, who died recently at her home in Worthington, was born in Union county, Ohio, in 1817, near Marysville. Early in life she married Sylvanus Hempstead, who died at Brazil, soon after they removed to this State. In 1842 she was married to S. B. Harrah, who survives her.

As an educator she had few equals, and Indiana may justly feel proud of her work. She taught in Brazil, Cloverland, Manhattan, Bloomfield, and at one time conducted a young ladies' seminary at Greencastle. She was especially interested in young people, and took great pleasure in assisting young men in studies of theology and law. Many of the prominent men in the State were her pupils. For the M.

E. Church, of which she was a prominent member for years, she cherished a strong affection, yet her Christian influence went out in helpful sympathy to all sorts and conditions of men. Her fearless devotion to principle was remarkable, and for years she stood almost alone, when advocacy of temperance and anti-slavery meant 50 much. Indeed, her whole life was one of extraordinary strength and beauty, and in every department of society, church (and state she left her impress. M.

WORTHINGTON, Jan. 1. G. A. R.

and W. R. C. Officers Installed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

COLUMBUS, Jan. 3-The installation of the officers to serve during the ensuing year of the G. A. Sons of Veterans and Women's Relief Corps organizations of this city, took place at the Isham Keith A. R.

hall here last night. The ceremonies held were union, and were conducted by Col. I. N. Walker, division adjutant of the and Mrs.

Hitt. State president of the W. R. C. The evening's entertainment was made very enjoyable by the rendition of an excellent literary programme.

A Jealous Cigar-Maker's Suicide. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Jan. Bockstein, aged thirty-two, a cigar-maker, who was jealous of his wife, shot himself through the heart this afternoon, at his home, while his wife was at a neighbor's house. He had upbraided her during the day, and threatened to kill her.

Found Dead in Bed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CONNERSVILLE, Jan. Uhl was found dead in bed at her residence in this city, at 11 o'clock to-day, having died some time during the night, it is supposed, as she slept alone. Mrs.

Uhl was fifty-seven years old, and the wife of John Uhl, a wellknown business man. Will Dig a Big Ditch. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PORTLAND, Jan. E.

Morris, representing the Dayton Dredge Company, was the successful bidder for draining the Loblolly swamp. This ditch is to be fourteen miles long, and $18,000 is the price to be paid for the work. Minor Notes. Dr. Thomas S.

Virgill, a leading physician of Fort Wayne, died of Bright's disease on Wednesday. The third case against the Argus-News, at Crawfordsville, for publishing a lottery advertisement resulted in a fine of $10 and costs of total, $21.10. On Wednesday, a young daughter of Moses Arnold, a farmer living near Wabash, was horribly burned about the limbs and body by her clothes catching fire from the stove. Joseph Stetler, a farmer residing near Lynn, The died disease recently, from hasty consumption. was caused by a beard of wheat lodging in his throat, and afterward working into his lungs.

Alexander Crayton, of Martinsville, aged sixty-three years, died at his home on Wednesday evening. Mr. Crayton has been a consumptive for the past fifteen years, and was a well-known citizen. The corn-husking record craze is still going on among the Montgomery county farmers. Marcus Horney, of Potato Creek, husked and cribbed 2,328 bushels in 26 days, being an average of 89 bushels per day.

The gang of burglars which has been terrorizing the people of Logansport for the past month, blew open the safes John Mutchler, a brewer, and James Wilson, a grain-dealer, on Wednesday night, but secured nothing. The Decatur county court-house will be remodeled, and in contract for that purpose a will be let early March. The contemplated improvements will cost from $25,000 to $40,000 and the work will be completed early next fall. A fellow named Cass Arnold, at Crawfordsville, on Wednesday night, ate a regular supper and afterwards sucked sixty-two and eggs, heart ate five of fried oysters, the legs, wings then ended a with chicken, and a piece of pie, a dish of oyster soup. The board of trustees of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home, at Knightstown, has passed a resolution thanking the G.

A. R. posts and Woman's Relief Corps of the State for remembering the institution so handsomely on Christmas. The board also extends a special vote of thanks to Mrs. Auna Weldon, of Fort Wayne; Mrs.

Hawk- JANUARY-4, 1889. THE act. The committee of conference is at present a good ways apart on these provisions, and there is no immediate prospect of an agreement. STATEHOOD FOR TERRITORIES. Democrats Are Slowly but Surely Coming Around to the Republican 1 Position.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Jan. is practically certain that if the Springer territorial statehood bill is taken up at this session, the House will pass it in about the shape the Republicans want it. The Illinois statesman cannot hold his party together. Enough Democrats have made up their minds that South Dakota, Montana and Washington Territory should be admitted to assist the Republicans in the admission of all or any one of them.

Mr. Cox is the champion in the Democratic party of the Territories, regardless of polities, and will do all he can in the interest of each of them independently of the rest. He is receiving letters constantly from people in the Territories, placing their cause in his hands and praying him to see that none of them suffer from partisanship in the House. If the omnibus bill passes the House, is amended in the Senate, and gets into conference, Mr. Cox feels sure that some of the Territories will be admitted, whether all are or not.

If a disagreement is reported from the conference he will move for a new conference and do everything he can until something comes of it. Popular demand, and a fear that if action on this question is not taken at this session President Harrison will call an extraordinary session of the Fifty-first Congress, are the influences which move the Democrats to act with the Republicans now. South Dakota Alive to Her Interests. ington. Washington Is Also Anxious.

To the Western Associated Press. YANKTON, D. Jan. statehood executive committee has issued a call for a delegate convention of the counties in southern Dakota, such convention to be held at Huron, Jan. 16, 1889, for the purpose of taking steps to further statehood for South Dakota.

The committee believes South Dakota's chances at Washington are waning, and many fear two or three years will elapse before admission is achieved. In view of this belief, this action has been taken. It is urged that action be taken by the present Congress, and that in case such action is not done, that the strongest pressure possible be brought to bear to secure an extra session for the purpose of admitting the State. Results are desired, and hard work is promised. The Dakota bill is expected te come up on the 15th, and on the 16th South Dakota will be in convention assembled, with a good many eyes on Wash- ELLENSBURG, W.

Jan. delegates attended the statehood convention which convened here this morning. Ex-Governor Watson C. Squire presided. A long petition was adopted praying Congress specially to admit Washington with the Idaho panhandle annexed.

The petition sets forth that the people in the Territory are fully prepared and willing to shoulder the responsibilities of statehood, having a population of 240,000, a gain of 180,000 in eight years. address to the people urging them to leave no stone unturned to obtain speedy admission was adopted. Democrats and Republicans alike are anxjous for the admission of the Territory under the name Washington, which name the convention favored. COLORED CATHOLICS. Statistics of Missionary Work in Africa--An Address to Cardinal Gibbons.

WASHINGTON, Jan. was a large attendance at the third day's meeting of the colored Catholic convention. Archbishop Elder, of Cincinnati, addressed the delegates, urging them to continue on in their good work. The committee appointed to wait upon the President reported that he would receive the congress to-morrow afternoon. Letters expressing sympathy with the objects of the convention were read from John Boyle O'Reilly and the Catholic Knights of America.

Father of the Order of the Holy Ghost, read an interesting paper on Catholic missionary work in Africa. He said there were twenty-eight missionaries and 500 missionary stations in that country; there were sixty schools, with an aggregate attendance of over sixty-two churches, and about fifty hospitals for old infirm. The committee on resolutions reported an address, which, after considerable discussion, was adopted, and a committee pointed to present it to Cardinal Gibbons. The address sets forth, that there are at present twenty colored Catholic churches in the country, each having a school annexed; besides, there are sixty-five colored Catholic schools and eight orphan asylums and reformatories. The Catholic hospitals, are open to both colored and white children.

About 5,000 children are taught in these schools, and over 300 children cared for in the asylums. They have but one Catholic priest, and seven colored students are preparing to follow his noble example. Over 150 of the colored women are at present consecrated sponsors of Christ. The address warns colored people against all secret societies condemned by the Church. and hopes they will join those benevolent societies which have the church's sanction.

With regard to unions of mechanics, many of whom are Catholics, it is hoped that they will give an opportnnity to boys to become masters of trades. The address continues: "As the evil of intemperance is increasing at a fearful rate among our people, we hope they will do their best to keep those under their charge from all evil habits. Light and frivolous reading is now depraving the intelligence of many of our youths, and we therefore hope that parents and guardians will place in the hands of their children such reading as will be useful and entertaining." PRESIDENTS AND CABINETS. Consolation in Advance for Republican Leaders Who May Be Disappointed. Washington Special.

The lesson of recent history is that politicians who think have a good chance to be elected President some day should keep out of General Harrison's Cabinet. Perhaps this thought may have occurred to Representative McKinley of Ohio, who is said to have expressed great willingness to stay where he is for the present. There is a remarkable contrast between the first and the second half century of our governmental history in this respect. The rule in the earlier days was that a President had always been either a Cabinet officer or Vice-president, or both; in later times, on the contrary, this has been the rare exception. John Adams, the second President, as is well known, had been Vice-president under both terms of Washington.

Jefferson, the third President, had been the first Secretary of State under Washington, his nomination being confirmed 1789, and he was also Vice-president under Adams. Madison, the fourth President, had been Secretary of State throughout both terms of Jefferson. Monroe, the fifth President, had been Secretary of State under Madison and also Secretary of War under him, remaining in the Cabinet for six years. John Quincy Adams, the sixth President, had been Secretary of State throughout both terms of Monroe. Jackson, the seventh President, inaugurated in 1829, made the first break in this remarkable uniformity, since he had not been a Cabinet officer.

But Martin Van Buren, the eighth President, followed the old rule, having been Secretary of State during the earlier part of Jackson's first term, when he was succeeded by Edward Livingston, and he had also been Vice-president during 'Jackson's second term. The election of William Henry Harrison, the ninth President, made another break in the custom, as he had never been a Cabinet officer; and it is worth noting that Harrison's Secretary of State, Daniel Webster, never succeeded in reaching the presidency. Secretary of War in the elder Harrison's Cabinet, although one of the candidates for President in 1860, was a long way from getting votes enough to be elected. Polk, who was elected in 1844, had never held a Cabinet office, but his Secretary of State was Buchanan, who became President twelve years later. There, however, the old rule had its last real illustration and an opposite custom came in.

With the single execption of Jackson, the rule was uniform from the time of the elder Adams to the time of the elder Harrison that a President had always before served as a Cabinet officer; and with the exception of Buchanan and also that of Grant's peculiar ad interim tenure of the War Department for five months, rule has been uniform from the time of the elder Harrison to the time of the younger Harrison that a President never has served as a Cabinet officer. On the contrary, the names of more that one defeated aspirant for the nomination and defeated candidate for the presidency shows how heavily in the last fifty years the odds have been against a President's being selected from those who have held a Cabinet office, just as in the preceding fifty years the odds were the other way. A list extending from Henry Clay, defeated in 1844, after being Secretary of State under John Quincy Adams, to James G. Blaine, defeated in 1884, after being Secretary of State under President Arthur, will illustrate this point. Accordingly, any ambitious Republican who is not invited by General Harrison to take a seat in his Cabinet can solace himself with the assurance that he may be President yet.

HON. JAMES G. BLAINE. He Visits the Capital on Business, and Will Shortly Arrive in Indianapolis. Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

WASHINGTON, Jan. Blaine arrived here so quietly this afternoon that he was in the city an hour or two before his presence became known. He was met at the railroad station by his friend Mr. Phelps, and together they drove to the Richmond. After a bath, Mr.

Blaine put on his dresscoat, and, after a hearty dinner with Mr. Phelps, the two gentlemen left the hotel, leaving a message that they were calling on some friends and would not return until very late. Mr. Blaine's visit is purely a matter of business. He is here to contract for the erection of a new house, near Dupont Circle, and not far from the present imposing Blaine mansion.

The lot on which he now intends building was purchased at almost a song years ago, and has been held in trust by Mr. Phelps for Mrs. Blaine and her children. Since its purchase it has increased in value ten-fold, and Mr. Blaine has refused a number of the most tempting offers to sell, among them that.

of Vicepresident-elect Morton, who offered Mr. Blaine his own price for the lot, on which he desired to build a great hotel worthy of Washington. Mr. Blaine, it is needless to say, declines to say anything. Mr.

Blaine will probably leave here for Indianapolis to-morrow or Saturday. MINOR MATTERS. Wishes to Know Why Pardons Are Delayed in the State Department. WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.

Representative O'Ferrall, of Virginia, has prepared a resolution which he expects to offer in the House, asking the reason for the delay of the State Department in issuing warrants for the release of offenders against the law who have been pardoned by the President. On Dec. 21, the President, at Mr. O'Ferrall's request, pardoned D. H.

Martin, of Patrick county, Virginia, convicted of violating the internal revenue. laws. Martin is a cripple, in bad health, and with a family suffering during his confinement. Mr. O'Ferrall, in order that Martin might be with his family during Christmas, immediately on the granting of the pardon had the Attorney -general call on the State Department for a warrant for Martin's release.

He then left for home, feeling assured that Martin would be released before Christmas, but yesterday he learned, to his indignation, that the warrant had not yet been issued, and that the man was still in jail. "The President," Mr. O'Ferrall said, "acted with promptness; the Attorney -general did not delay for a minute, and yet the Department State has held, still holds back, the necessary warrant for the release of a man pardoned two weeks ago." Favorable Report on Army Nominations. WASHINGTON, Jan. Senate committee on military affairs to-day ordered a favorable report to be made on the following army staff nominations: Capt.

P. D. Vroom, of the Third Cavalry, to be inspector -general, with the rank of major, vice Farnsworth, deceased; Capt. Edward Hunter, of the First Cavalry, to be judge advocate, with the rank of major, vice Curtis, promoted; Capt. G.

B. Davis, of the Fifth Cavalry, to be judge advocate, with the rank of major, vice Gardner, retired; First Lieut. R. Craig, of the Fourth Artillery, to be assistant quartermaster, with the rank of captain, vice Forsythe, promoted. No action was taken on the nominations of Capt.

D. M. Scott, of the First Infantry, and First Lieut. Charles Hoy, of the Twenty-third Infantry, be commissaries of subsistence, owing to the absence of members interested in their cases. McKinley Can Wait.

CHICAGO, Jan. T. Brooks, general solicitor of the Pennsylvania railroad, lives in Salem, in the county adjoining that in which Congressman McKinley lives. In talking of him at the Grand Pacific, yesterday, Mr. Brooks said: "Mr.

McKinley dined with me several weeks ago, before the speakership contest had developed to any great extent. He seemed to me to be in a passive attitude regarding the matter, and Lot disposed to make a hot fight for it. He cannot afford to run the risk of making enemies, which he cannot avoid making it he is chosen Speaker. There is bigger game for him in the future. If he waits, there is no office in the country so great that he may not have it." General Notes.

WASHINGTON, Jan. Stanford and Mrs. Stanford gave a reception, this afternoon, to Bishop a and Mrs. Newman. It was largely attended.

United States Marshal Wilson and Mrs. Wilson gave a dinner, this evening, to the President and Mrs. Cleveland. The other guests were the Chief-justice and Mrs. Fuller, the Postmaster-general and Mrs.

Dickinson, Secretary Vilas and Colonel and Mrs. Dan Lamont. Mrs. Cleveland wore a pale-blue silk, combined with white lace and brocaded in pink rose-buds. Col.

Daniel McClure, assistant paymaster-general, has been placed on the retired list of the army. A bill was favorably reported to-day by Senator Cockrell, from the committee on military affairs, authorizing the Secretary of War to procure and present suitable medals to the survivors of the forlorn hope storming party at Port Hudson. Anxious to Meet Sullivan, NEW YORK, Jan. following letter was received at the office New York Clipper this afternoon. NEW YORK, Jan.

3, 1889. New York Clipper--Having seen it published that John L. Sullivan and his backers, who are matching him against Jake Kilrain for $10,000 a side and the Police Gazette diamond beit, representing the championship of the world, are anxious to meet Mr. Kilrain or his representatives, I desire to state that Mr. Kilrain or his representatives will meet Sullivan and his backers at the Rossin House, Toronto, at 11 A.

on Monday, Jan. 7, to sign articles. Hoping this will suit Mr. Sullivan and his representatives, I remain yours, LOUIS B. ALLEN.

Several sporting men leave here for Buffalo to be present at the signing of the articles. Priest Dies from Inhaling Gasoline Vapor. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. Father Edward A. O'Reilly, a learned priest of the Order of St.

Augustine for thirteen years, died at the Augustinian College, at Villanova, Wednesday, from inhaling vapor of gasoline while he slept. Father O'Reilly has been ailing for the past three months, but on Tuesday night was very much better, and was left alone. On Wednesday morning he was very low. and died soon after. No one can account for the way in which the gasoline escaped.

The way to make money is to save it. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the most economical medicine to buy, as it is the only medicine of which can truly be said. doses for one dollar." Do not take any other preparation if you have decided to buy Hood's Sarsaparilla. ins, of Brazil; Mrs. Sallie Jackson, of Jetfersonville, and Will C.

David, of Indianapolis, for faithful discharge of duties. The Henry Post, G. A. at New Ross, has installed the following new officers: Commander, J. D.

Hurt; senior vice-commander, W. H. Mc Vey; junior vicecommander, Joe Airheart; quartermaster, Gilbert Gray: outer, guard, George Lewis; chaplain, F. G. Arthur C.

Everett, of Wabash, an expelled Knight of Labor, has gone to the southern part of the State, owing, as he to an alleged boycott against him. in the says, northern counties. He also claims to have received numerous White Cap notices of a threatening character. ILLINOIS. Lehman, Republican Candidate for State Senator, Elected by a Large Majority, Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

MATTOON, Jan. returns from Coles, Cumberland and Douglas counties, in it. State Agricultural Association. Indianapolis Journal. on the special election of State Senator, are authentically reported, and show that Mr.

Lehman, Republican, will have at least 1,000 majority. Cumberland county, which gave the Democratic nominee a majority of 299 at the regular election last fall, and the only Democratic county in the district, gives Lehman a handsome majority. The Democrats made a vigorous canvas, and thought they would elect their man. Lewis L. Lehman, the Republican Senator-elect, is a man of strong ability and successful executive force, and will compare well with the most able men in the State Senate.

He has filled local offices in Henry and Coles counties in a highly acceptable manner. As a financier he has few equals in this part of the State, having retired from the presidency of the Mattoon National Bank about four years ago, since which he has made a trip around the world. He is a man of good education, good habits, and is in the prime A few weeks ago he was married to Miss Ella Granger, one of the most popthe victory in politics, to-day, places him ular young ladies of this city, which, with in a position to feel "very well, thank you." Investigating Lester Wood's Murder. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PARIS, Jan.

coroner's jury in the Lester Wood murder case has been hard at work, since yesterday morning, collecting evidence, and did not complete their task to-day. Several theories have been advanced, the correct one probably being that Wood was assaulted by more than one person. It also transpires that Wood had some unfriendly words with some one just previous to entering the house. Two of the Ambergy boys and a young man named Frank Miller, a relative of the Ambergys, are held as prisoners, the evidence so far being of a damaging. nature as to the part they took clusively.

Boy Kicked to Death by a Horse. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MONTICELLO, Jan. the meeting of the State Board of Agriculture, to-day, the reports of the last fair showed that the society lost as the result of locating the State small town, away from the center of the State. The society cleared $8,000 on the last fat-stock show at Chicago.

There was a committee appointed to confer with the members the American Horse Show to secure harmony with that association. It is thought that the horse department of the fat-stock show will be discontinued, and the exhibits in future will consist of fat stock and dairy products ex- MARSHALL, Jan. was received here to-day of a sad accident in Orange township, eighteen miles southwest of this place. Otis, the thirteen-year-old son of by a vicious horse and fatally injured. He Sylvester Crandall, was kicked era in the face and his older brother had out to feed the horses, and Otis carelessly came too close to the vicious animal's heels.

Brief Mention. applications Governor for Oglesby pardons, is being now flooded his weith is drawing to a close. Nearly the entire business portion of Altona was destroyed by fire on Wednesday. The loss is estimated at $20,000. Sadie Lemmer's of Woodstock, a dropped dead at a roller-skating rink in that place, on Wednesday night.

Warren Crandell, a twelve-year-old boy, was drowned in the river at Rockford, Wednesday night, while skating. State Auditor Swigert's youngest son, Howard, aged nine years, died at Springfield, on Wednesday, of pericarditis. Hundreds of school children at Pekin are suffering with measles, and the health officers have ordered the schools closed. On Wednesday Thomas Fullford, of Chesbecame violently insane on a railroad He imagined that he had been robbed. An odd wedding took place at Dennison, Clark county, on Wednesday, that of Francis S.

Dulaney and Miss Sarah E. Ray, both deaf mutes. They were married by a onearmed preacher. Mike tried to black-mail J. M.

Little, treasurer of Fayette county, out of $50, at Vera, on Wednesday, but the latter drew a revolver and fired four times at Pollard, barely missing him. Sherman Williams, of Sullivan, has been sentenced to a term of five years in the penitentiary for burglary. Williamsis a cripple, having lost his legs above the knees, several years ago, in a railroad accident. Losses by Fire. BOSTON, Jan.

stables of the paving and health department of this city were burned this afternoon. Ten thousand bushels of grain and tons of hay were destroyed. The buildings, cost 000, and were among the elaborate of their kind in the world. Hoseman Pratt, of engine No. 13, and ladderman Sturgis, of truck No.

4, were badly hurt by falling timbers. The origin of the fire is not known. HAMMOND, Jan. to-night which originated in the oil department of the Chicago Carriage Company's works, damaged the building to the extent of 000 and the stock partially insured. The man in charge of the fire department was acting the as referee at a dog fight in progress on outskirts of the town, and had the key of the engine-house in his pocket.

OMAHA, Jan. New York dry goods store, occupied by A. R. Logie, at No. 1812 Farnam street, was gutted by fire about midnight Wednesday.

Loss, insurance, $40,000. The origin of the fire is unknown. ST. CATHARINES, Jan. pulp-mill, a frame structure, was destroyed by fire this morning.

The loss is insurance, $9,500. A man named John Boyle was burned to death. GALESBURG, Jan. business portion of the village of Altoona. was burned last evening.

The losses amount to $30,000, partially covered by insurance. Business Embarrassments. NEW YORK, Jan. receiver was appointed to-day for Henry Werner, wholesale dealer in hides, at Cliff and Hague streets. Mr.

Werner has been in business twenty-five years, and at one time was one of the largest dealers in the "Swamp." His present liabilities are reported as $300,000, and his $250,000 in hides. He had branches Germany and France, and most of the creditors reside in those countries. NASHVILLE, Jan. Honefort Paper Company filed a bill in the Chancery Court, to-day, asking for the appointment of a receiver for the Daily American Newspaper Company, to have the same wound up as insolvent, and to collect a judgment recently obtained for about $18,000. MINNEAPOLIS, Jan.

W. Walrath, retail crockery and glassware, assigned today. Assets abont $30,000, with liabilities not exceeding $50,000. Governor Luce on Liquor Legislation. LANSING, Jan.

Luce was inaugurated at 2 o'clock thisafternoon. A considerable portion of the Governor's annual address is devoted to the temperance question. Upon this subject he says in part: "Believing that the sentiment of a large portion of the State is ripe and and ready for it, I commend to your consideration the passage of a local-option law, if one can be devised free from constitutional objections. If our Constitution prohibits us from securing an efficient law for localities, it does not prohibit a general prohibitory law, and if we are denied other opportunities, no doubt in the future this course will be resorted to." THE CASE OF SIR R. D.

MORIER Correspondence Between the Bismarck. Accused Embassador and Herbert Receiving Information from Bazaine Denied Morier, but Bismarck 1 Declined to Right the Wrong Done the Englishman. R. D. Morier, the LONDON, Jan.

to Russia, has furBritish embassador nished to the press the correspondence that has passed between him and Count Herbert to the Cologne GaBismarck in relation Dec. 19, Sir R. D. Mozette's charges. On to Count Herbert saying that he rier wrote had heard in July that Count Herbert had several person, Major Deine's report, published in the Cologne Gazette, mentioned to he did not suppose that and that while Count Herbert believed the story, it expedient to write he deemed to General Bazaine to inquire as to the truth of the alleged conversation.

In to his letter, he received from Gen. answer emphatic denial. Morier thereBazaine an fore appeals to Count Herbert, as a gentleof honor, to cause to be inman and a man North German Gazette an imserted in the mediate denial of the foul and infamous Morier incloses his letter to calumny, Bazaine, dated July 25, and Bazaine's re, ply, dated Aug. 8. Bazaine, after apologizing for his delay in answering, which was due to his absence from Madrid, denies in the most unqualified manner the truth of the apocryphal asks forgiveness for his bad conversation, writing, which he says was due to mental sufferings, and concludes by referring to his agreeable recollections of Morier's kindness to him when in Madrid.

Count Herbert, in a letter to Morier, dated Friedrichsruhe, Dec. 25, acknowledges Morier's letter of the 19th, and says he regrets that neither its contents nor tone enable him to comply with its astonishing demands and step out of the limits imposed on him by his official position, in regard to statements made by the German press. Morier wrote to Count Herbert on Dec. 31, as follows: "As you decline to disassociate yourself, either publicly or privately, from this monstrous calumny, have no course open but to publish our correspondence." He concludes by saying that, although he does not share it, vet the belief is general that the Cologne Gazette contributor derived his information from official sources, and this, he says, is an additional reason for an appeal under his own name to that publicity which his anonymous calumniators SO treacherously used against him. In a postscript says: never again notice attacks of the Cologne Gazette or analogous prints." Throughout the letters Deine is not mentioned by name.

He is referred to "the military attache." Daily Telegraph, after expressing regret that Count Bismarck is unable to give a better answer to Sir R. D. Morier, says: "If there is no way of repudiating calumnies against our embassadors, which pretend to be official, a way ought to be found or made to defend them from the kind of journalism represented by the Cologne Gazette." The Daily News says: "Perhaps Sir R. D. Morier's letter displays rather more irritation than it is good for a diplomatist to show.

On the other hand, Count Herbert's reply lacks appreciation of Morier's position and extreme provocation. It is a pity that a rumor so absurd should be allowed to bring into disagreeable prominence the anti-English feeling that appears to exist in certain official quarters in Germany." The Times's Berlin correspondent says he thinks it probable that a third person in London imparted the news to Marshal Bazaine without Morier's authority. The Standard says: can say little for the discretion of Morier, and still less for the sense of honorable obligation entertained by Count Herbert Bismarck. There is some excuse for the former, but next to none for the latter. Impartial judges, both English and German, will believe that Count Herbert made the manner of Morier's demand a pretext for declining to make amends." The Times says: "We regret the result of Morier's appeal to Count Herbert Bismarck.

The responsibility for calumny 80 gross ought to be either manfully assumed or frankly repudiated. There is no reason to disbelieve Deine in consequence of Bazaine's testimony, which can be only treated as worthless. We regret that we are constrained to say that the attack appears to be part of a SyStem of persecution against ell who were most intimately connected with Emperor Frederick, a system that does not spare even those who were nearest and dearest to him. We may take the liberty of pointing out to Prince Bismarck and his youthful imitators that the easy movement of international intercourse is not facilitated by the 1 manner, apparently copied from the worst days of Napoleon, when he was trampling upon Russia. We wish to preserve and strengthen our friendship with Germany, but we beg Prince Bismarck, and those who take their tone from him, to treat English public men as English gentleman, and to curb the extravagance of invective and imputation which rages in the semi-official German Sir R.

D. Morier, in his first letter to Count Herbert Bismarck, says: "I did not do your Excellency the injustice of supposing that you insult believed a story so palpably absurd, nor you by crediting you with a cynicism so abnormal as to suppose that a man who was honored with the friendship and confidence of the late Emperor Frederick could have been so unutterably base as to use that confidence and friendship to betray him and his army to an enemy." Major Deine, besides being German military attache, at Vienna, is a personal aidde-camp of the Emperor. He is now in Berlin, and recently took luncheon with the Emperor. Deine's first report is dated April, 1888. and his second November, 1888.

The latter, which confirms the former, seems to indicate that the recent inquiry arose out of the Gefficken affair. Dinner to Hon. Thomas C. Platt. mentary PHILADELPHIA, Jan.

complidinner was given at the Aldine Hotel, Thomas C. to-night, by Thomas Cochran to Hon. present were: Platt, Hon. of T. New York.

Those man, Mayor Fitler, C. Thomas Platt Jesse SeligWanamaker, A. J. Drexel, G. W.

Dolan, Childs, John James Miliken, James Dobson. Edward C. Austin Knight, Corbin, Lindley Armos Smyth, George B. Roberts, R. Little, Charles Retch Emory Wister, Smith, Joseph Edwin N.

Benson, William John L. Lawson, S. F. Allison, A. J.

Antelo, Moriarty, H. O. Armour, Gen. Horace Porter, D. H.

Hastings, A. Gen. J. F. Hartranft, Thos.

and Cochran, John W. H. Michener. Cochran, Clayton French Obituary. White, DETROIT, Jan.

O. manager the of theatrical died at an early White's hour this Opera-house, this city, man, tonitis. The body will be sent morning of periton for interment. to WashingST. LOUIS, Jan.

E. B. Eno, a member, well-known died last provision-broker evening at and exchange 2738 Morgan street. his residence, a wholesale WASHINGTON, flour Jan. M.

Galt, died to day, aged merchant fifty-five of years. Washington, Dynamiters Attempt to Wreck a Train. READING, Pa, exploded Jan. the quantity of dytrack of the Philadelphia Reading railroad, at Mowere hanoy partly Plain last, wrecked, night. Four dwellings badly the town was and for a shaken up.

rails were torn distance of twenty feet, and an acci- up dent train. was The barely explosive averted is to a fast freight been placed on the track by train-wreckers. to have supposed No one was injured. A Legal Luminary Goes Wrong. torney WASECA, at law and Jan.

D. Crump, atcounty, is missing, and is probate believed judge to of have this gone check Canada. A few days ago he to for $5,500, and had it cashed drew St. a Paul. The check went at officers are looking for to Crump.

protest, and now is believed to be the cause Gambling Crump, who is a prominent Mason, of his has ruin. fingers and a thumb on each hand. five WEIGHT ROYAL POWDER ABS PLUTELY PURE ROYAL pol BAKING POWDER Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and wholesomeness.

be More sold in oponomical competition than the with the ordinary multifude kinds, of low -test, short-weight and cannot alum or photphate powders. Sold 106 only Wall in N. cans. Y. ROYAL BAKING BLEW OUT HIS BRAINS.

Clarence S. Galey, a Former Resident of Crawfordsville, Kills Himself in Chicago. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CHICAGO, Jan. very deliberate suicide was that of Clarence S.

Galey, who, this evening, about 6 o'clock, placed the muzzle of a revolver to his right temple and sent a ball right into the base of his brain. He lingered but a few hours after, dying at 9 o'clock. It was a painless death, because the man wholly unconscious and was paralyzed in the extremities. Galey was formerly a reporter on the Evening Mail, but has not occupied that position for a month Before the close of the old year. Not long ago he started a trade journal, but this had not been very successful, and he was in financial straits owing to the non-arrival of a draft he had been expecting.

Galey went to his room, at No. 244 East Ohio street, in the evening, a few minutes before he shot himself, and no one in the house noticed anything unusual in his deportment. He stood up against his dressing table, looked in the glass, placed the revolver close to his head, and fired. His room-mate, Mr. Beavis, found him lying on the floor, unconscious and paralyzed.

Dr. Sharpe was from his residence hard by, and on his arrival made a hasty yet thorough examination of the wound and pronounced it fatal, the ball having entered a little above the ear in the right tempie and lodged in the base of the brain. Evidently, Galey studied his position in the mirror before ha shot himself, for his feet were under the dressing table when he was discovered. His friends say that his only special woman friend was Miss Emma Stearns, of Cincinnati or St. Louis.

A blood-stained telegram. addressed to her, but not finished, was found in the room. Galey was a young man, perhaps 25 years of age, of slender build, with dark hair, and had all the appearances of a gentleman. He was considered quite clever and enterprising, and as a writer had acquired a reputation. Originally he hailed from Crawfordsville, where his parents live.

He was a graduate of Wabash College. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Governor Beaver has extended the respite of Samuel Johnson, under sentence of death, to Wednesday, April 17. He was to have been executed Jan. 17.

At Bayou Sara, in an altercation, J. F. Irvine, son of Mayor Irvine, shot and killed Thomas Powell, son of Judge Powell. Irvine was released on bail. The iron er es with which the Pennsylvania Railroad Company has been experimenting on its tracks at Jersey City, have proved failures, and will be replaced with white-oak ties.

A boiler in the hoop-factory of Col. John Ashford, at Clinton, N. exploded yester day, instantly rilling Colonel Ashford's two sons and a negro, and fatally injuring Colonel Ashford himself. Mrs. Kate O'Leary, who poisoned her two-year-old daughter and herself at No.

48 Curley street, Chicago, Wednesday night, grew rapidly better yesterday. Both are believed to be out of danger. The glass bandage which was placed on the lets leg of C. M. Depew after the strain of tendons at the heel, received three weeks ago, was removed yesterday.

It was sawed off. It was one-quarter of an inch thick. At a dinner party given by Charles Wilson, residing several miles north of Creston, on New Year's day, his family and nine rious condition. salted in a vessel of zine. All a are in a 80- guests were poisoned by partaking a of meat Carlos Patryn, of No.

563 Dixon street, Chicago, died, on Wednesday morning, from wounds he received in an encounter with Ignaz Habrylvic, last Sunday. Habrylvic was arrested at Milwankee. He says liquor was the cause of the trouble but Patryn first struck him. John Herd, a ten-year-old lad of Lebanon, I.T., while playing with a Winchester which he thought to be unloaded, playfully pointed the gun at the head of his playmate, James Bush, twelve years of age, when it went off and sent a bullet through the head of young Bush, killing him instantly. The Favorite stove-works, at Cincinnati, employing 300 men, has closed for the pur0.

pose of This removing its entire plant to Piqua, change of position is made because of larger grounds, cheaper fuel, which is natural gas, lower taxes and take cheaper rent for workmen. They with them the greater number of their employes. E. W. Gilcrease, county treasurer of Montague county, Texas, is short in his account with the county 84,000.

A called meeting of the County Commissioners is in session considering the matter. His bondsmen made application a few days of ago the to be community, released. He has the sympathy who do not believe be intentionally did wrong. Samuel Seanlen, of Louisville, who killed his wife and attempted suicide, three day. months Scanlen ago, was arraigned for trial yesterbetween lay for nearly two monthe with life and death, and appeared in court bandages over the marks of pistol killing shots that penetrated the brain.

The is admitted, and the defense will plead emotional insanity. The disappearance of comedian John A. is Mackey, now New York, on New Year's day, in at attributed to a dispute with his in manager his rehearsal. He was not quite up part, and his manager lost per and rated him soundly, whereupon temMackay took offense and walked out of the sick theater. It is known that he is neither nor crazy, but will soon be about again.

Steamship News. New LONDON, York; Jan. Celtic. from for Antwerp; De Switzerland, from Philadelphia for Antwerp. Puyten, from New York from SOUTHAMPTON.

York Jan. Lahn, for Bremen. dam, ROTTERDAM, New Jan. York. RotterBremen.

NEW YORK, Jan. Main, from Tried to Kill Himself with Shears. son of COHOES, N. Jan. Delahanty, afternoon attempted suicide by Delahanty, plunging this ex-Assemblyman a ty-three large pair places.

of shears His into his body in twene mother. while atthe tempting arm. to disarm him. was badly ent in ent and melancholy Delahanty had become despondmay recover. through sickness.

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