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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1890. faille, -with panels of brocade, square open-In? in bodice, in 'which she wore a diamond pendant. The invited guests were Mrs. Logan, Mrs. Hale, Mrs.

llorraan, Mrs. McMillan. Mrs. Hiscock. Mrs.

Piatt. Mrs. Pugh. Mrs. Quay, Mrs.

Cockrell, Mrs. Keed. Mrs. Carlisle, Mrs. Burrows, Mrs.

Springer, Mrs. Lodge, Mrs. Butterworth. tbo Misses Plaino, Miss Sinipkins of New York, Miss Wana-maker, the Misses Halstead. tho Misses Windom.

Mrs. Clover. Miss Miller. Miss Knsk, Mrs. Harlan.

Mrs. Drum, Mrs. J. V. Linday.

Mrs. William S. Harrison, Miss Maud Grosrenor, Miss Anna Wilson, Mrs. S. II.

Eikins, Mrs. Charles Emery. Mr. Wilmerding. Miss Tracy.

Mrs. and Miss Kansdeli, Mrs. Carr and Miss Proctor. After the receiving party had taken their places, tho reception proper began. The members of the diplomatic corps, headed by Baron Fava, the Italian minister, 'and many of them accompanied by ladies, filed through the Blue Koom and into the East Koom.

The uniforms of most of tho members of the corps shone vf itb renewed brilliancy under the glare of the gas. Following them came the members of the International American Conference, a majority of them dressed in conventional dress suits. The International Marine Conference came at the heels of the pan-Americans. The resplendent naval uniforms attracted considerable comment from the lookers-on. The members of the Venezuelan commission completed this' segment of the programme.

The Chief-justice and the Associate Justices of the United states Supreme Court, the Judges of the United States Court of Claims, and the Judges of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia were announced after a few minutes intermission. Chief-justice Fuller shook hands cordially with the President and the others, and became so fascinated with the scene in the receiving-room that he went behind the line and remained there for some time. After the judiciary came a number of Senators and Representatives, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, judicial officers of tho District and a few ex-ministers of the United States who came with the congressional party. By this time the East Koom was well filled with diplomates. Congressmen and others.

Ladies were plenty. Here tood a member of the diplomatic corps, in resplendent uniform, talking to a member Df the pan-American congress, attired in conventional full dress, while just beyond were a couple of army officers, chatting with a grim-looking Justice and the lady that clung to his arm. The officers of the army, the navy and the marine corps were due at 11:40, and they were promptly ou time, notwithstanding tho fact that the beginning of the reception had been delayed. Scholield, with an orange nash across his breast, walked past the lino at the head ot the bureau chiefs of the War Department, each clad in the uniform to which his rank entitled him. Adjutant-general Kelton and Generals McKeover, Rochester, Bennett, Macfeely, Casey and Colonel Barr, with officers of the Third Artillery, the Sixth Cavalry, and a number of those on special duty in this city, constituted the army contingent.

Admiral Porter did not head the navy. Ho sent his rcgTcts, and allowed the bureau chiefs of the Navy Department to represent him. The naval representation was composed of Commodores Kamsey, Brown, Milville, White, Sicard and Wilson, and a number of officers on special duty in Washington. Colonel McKinley headed, the marine corps officials With tho passing of the marine corps, the crowd in the East Koom began to thin out, and some of those who helped to receive in the Blue Koom took their departure for their homes, where they were to hold receptions of their own. Secretary Blaine, with Mr.

and Mrs. Emmons Blaine, Mrs. Eikins, Miss Simp-kins, of New York, and James G. Blaine, were among those who departed early. At noon the President and the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the Civil-serv-ice Commissioners, the Interstato-com-mtrce Commission, assistant secretaries of departments, the Assistant Postmasters-general, the Solicitor-general, the assistant attorneys-general, the Commissioner of Labor, the heads of the bureaus of the neveral departments and the president ami officers of the Columbia Institute for the Deaf and Dumb were announced.

Only lifteen minutes were taken up in receiving these. Following came the veterans of the Mexican war, the Grand Army of the K' public, the Loyal Legion and the members of the Oldest Inhabitants' Association of the District of Columbia. At 12:85 the general reception of citizens began. The crowd was unusually small on account of the rain, and at twenty minutes past 1 o'clock, forty minutes before the time set for the close of tho reception, the President shook hands with the last comer. After keeping the doors closed for ten minutes, the President ordered them opened and kept open until r.

the regular hour for closing. A few minutes later the President, Sirs. McKee and those of the receiving party that remained, went to luncheon. The reception to-day was the one-hundredth held on New Year's day by Presidents of the United States. Mrs.

Morton was the first wife of a Vice-president who has assisted at receptions at the White House on New Year's day for the past sixteen years. Others Who Received. Ppeclal to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 1.

Vice-president Morton's palatial residence, after the White House reception, was the center of attraction. On tho first floor, the library, the music-room, the drawing-room and the dining-room were all thrown into one. About the rooms were palms of various kinds, while the mantels were banked with roses fringed with ferns. Small tables were placed about the rooms loaded with flowers. Full-length portraits of Mr.

and Mrs. Morton were prominent among the many handsome and costly pictures that adorned the walls. The Vice-president and Mrs. Morton received tho guests at the right of the door entering the library. The reception began at 12.

noon, and continued until after 2 o'clock. At times the number of callers made even the spacious parlors uncomfortably crowded. In the dining-room, opening off from the draw ing-room, a handsome collation, with wine, was served. The Cabinet and judiciary receptions today were: Mrs. Wlndom.

assisted by Mrs. W. D. Windom, Misses Florence Windom, Hutchison and Davis, and Mrs. Foster.

Secretary Proctor, assisted, by Miss Proctor and Sirs. Carey, bis niece. Mrs. Proctor, was too ill to assist. Mrs.

Miller, assisted by Miss Miller, Mrs. Butterworth, Miss Ballard of Chicago, Mrs. Beall and her ftister. Miss Julia Landers. Mrs.

Major CI oss. Miss Stockinger. Mis3 Moore, Miss Kansdeli. and Mrs. O.

W. Chapman. Mrs. Tracy, assisted by Mrs. Wilmerdinger and Mim Tracy, Mra.

T. B. Mason, Mr. ana Mrs. Bainbridge Hoff, Mesdames Fulton.

Kay-inond, Meade. J. C. Fremont, C. O.

Mc-Cawley and Sicard. Airs. Noble, assisted by Misses Margaret and Leonore Halstead and Mrs. General Shields and Miss Katchelor. Mrs.

and Miss Kusk, assisted br Mrs. Willitts, Mrs. Han-gan and Mrs. La Follette of Wisconsin, Miss Scidemore. Mrs.

Walker, assisted by Miss Markle, Miss Clarke and Miss Morgan of Philadelphia, and Miss Kobinson of New York. Mrs. Fuller, assisted by Misses Grace acd Mildred Fuller, and Miss Alice Woodruff of Auburn, N. Miss Flaunigan of New York, Miss Lucy Corkhill. Mrs.

Justice Field, assisted bv Mrs. Coudit-Smith. Miss Condit-Smith, Miss Alice Coudit-Smith. Miss Mattie Mitchell. Mrs.

and the Mioses Whitney of 8an Francisco. Mrs. Justice Harlan and Miss Harlan, assisted by Mrs. George W. Smith of Chicago.

Mrs. R. D. Harlan, Miss Noble and Miss Elizabeth Flag. Mrs.

Reed, the wife of tho Speaker of the House, held a reception from 2 to r. M. this afternoon at her apartments in the 3horeham. Sba was assisted in receiving aer guests uy a nnmocr or personal friends. So elaborate preparations for the reception were made.

Secretary Blaine gave the customary breakfast to the members of the Cabinet. and in the afternoon the Misses Blaine held ft formal reception. Anions Indiana People, tseclid to the Journal. Washington, Jan. Almost every In-dianian in this city was at the President's reception, and nearly all of them afterward called upon the families of Attorney-gen cral Miller and United States Treasurer Huston.

Mrs. Huston had a bevy of hand some Indiana girls with her, and her house was quite brilliant. Mrs. Goldthwaite, of Marion, and Mrs. Gardiuer, of Washington, assisted Mrs.

Huston and Miss Hus ton, together with some ladies of this city. Attorney-general and Mrs. Miller's re ception was from the early hours of the afternoon onward. Miss Miller assisted her mother. They had also with them Mrs.

and Miss Butterworth, Miss Ballard, of Chicago, a guest of Miss Butterworth; Mrs. John E. Beall and her sister. Miss Julia Landers; Mrs. Maj.

CIoss, Miss Kansdeli. daughter of Marshal Kansdeli; Miss Money and Miss Stocking, of Eau Claire, Mrs. Orlew W. Chapman, wife of the Solicitor-general of the Department of Justice; Miss Keyser. and Mrs.

and Misa Farqubar, of Indianapolis. It was a gathering of ladies well acquainted with each other, and all familiar with the hospitality of the Miller homestead in Indianapolis. In the dining-room there was a bountifully-spread table and the young ladies did escort dntyforthe gentleman towards that room. The drawing-room and hall were prettily decorated with cut flowers and potted plants. The ladies were light demi-toilets.

Mrs. Miller wore a splendid dress of royal pnrple velvet and lavender brocade. The tram was of plain faille, tho body open in squares filled with crepe. She wore a shell comb in her hair and a diamond pendant at her throat. Miss Miller wore a skirt of light green lace, bodice of green velvet.

cut, and a corolet of braid and white jet. Mrs. Kansdeli. wife of the marshal of the District, wore a trained dress of rich black ilk, the V-shaped opening draped with lace. Miss Kansdeli was in blue crepe, short and slightly open at the neck.

Miss Jannette Halford wore a grey dress with white vest and frills. MINOR MATTERS. Tensions Issued to Resident of Indiana and Illinois. The following pensions have been issued to residents of Indiana: Original Invalid Eppah Bobbins, Lagraupe; William Sbaughnessy, Alonroevillc; Famuel E. Til ford.

Indianapolis; David W. Hprinkle, New-burg; BenJ. F. Sunday, Farmland; Wesley Burk-dall, fievmour. Ellison Martin.

Poseyville. IncreaseFrancis D. Swain, Quincy; Richard EiiKle, Farmersbnrg; James IJrackney. Brazil; James Brooks, Thorntowu; John M. Amnions, Marion; Edwin Oanuan.

Clarpool; Zion Brewer, Wortbington; Henry Jnengst, Cannelton; Alonzo Doolittle, Leavenworth. Reissue Horace J. Walter, Middleburr; Oba-diah A. Francisco, Oscood. Reissue and Increase Edward Lighter, Dayton; A.

Tboup, Roanoke. Original Widows, etc. Mary mother of Jo-siah R. McClain. Indianapolis; Richard, father of Francis M.

Davison, Metaniora. TO RESIDENTS OF ILLINOIS. Original Invalid Geo. L. F.

Stuff. Elrin. Beatoration Henrr C. Younsr, Aurora. Increase James A.

I'ettiford. Venice; Charles M. King. Joliet. Original Widows, etc.

Minors of George Botkin, Cooperstown. STOLE HIS CHILDREN. The Notorious Dr. E. H.

Coates, of St Louis, Breaks Out in a New Spot. St. Louis, Jan. 1. Interest in tho famous divorce suit of Coates vs.

Coates was renewed to-day. when Mrs. E. II. Coates received a letter from Dr.

Coates, her former husband, announcing that he had left for parts unknown, taking with him their two children, Emma, aged seven, and Mattie, aged five years. When Mrs. Coates was granted a divorce it was stipulated that the father should have the children with him at certain intervak. Dr. Coates came to St.

Louis from Montgomery, shortly before Christmas, and sfnt for his children. This morning the mother received a letter from Coates stating that he and the chil dren were hundreds of miles away and that she would never see them again for four and one-half years. Mi's. Coates is prostrated with grief. Dr.

E. 11. Coates shot and killed Dr. Keith on Thirteenth and Pine a couple of years ago. He claimed that the shooting was provoked by Keith's attention to his wife.

Keith wai a man of nearly seventy years of age, and Coates's assertions were not credited by the friends and acquaintances of the old Doctor and Mrs. Coates. Coates was captured after tho shooting and put in jail on a charge of murder in the first degree. When his trial came up his defense was insanity. The plea was sustained by the jury and Coates was acquitted, but sent to the insane asylum.

After remaining in the asylum for about three months he was Ret reo on tho ground that he was thoroughly restored. The police were notified of the abduction to-day and furnished with accurate descriptions of the children and father, so as to telegraph all over the country to have them intercepted. Emma, the eldest child, is a blonde, with sharp features, blue eyes and spare bnild. She is slightly under size and has a peculiar walk, dragging her feet. The younger, Mattie, is also a bloodo with blue eyes.

Her features are full and she is considered pretty. Cattlemen's Convention Called. Ft. Worth. Jan.

1. A call was issued some timo ago by William L. Black, chairman of the committee appointed to investigate the cause of depression in the cattle business, for an interstate convention of cattlemen to meet at Ft. Worth, March 11, 1690. This call is followed to-day by an address to the cattle industry of Texas and other States, signed by all cattle organizations of Texas and many large cattle owners of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado and Illinois.

It joins in the call, and sets forth at length the importance of cattlemen agreeing upon some uniform plan of conducting their business in the future to defeat the combination of buyers in the prominent markets of the country. The address asks the chief executives of several States and Territories who have business relations with either Chicago, Kansas City or St. Louis to send a full and efficient representation of the banking and mercantile element with the delegation that may be sent to represent their respective sections. Governors of the following States and Territories have to date agreed to appoint delegates to the convention: Texas, Nebraska, Kansas, Arkansas, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan. Illinois, South Dakota and New Mexico.

Deadly Work of a Desperado. Merrill, Jan. 1. A terrible New Year's tragedy occurred to-day, asithe result of which David Sarvis, a well-known killedVKobertTrnax, chief of police, fatally wounded, and Frank Holbe. night watchman, dangerously wounded by George Hendler, a drunken, dissolute character.

Hendler had been refused credit at Sarvis's saloon and came in early this morning. After buying several drinks and paying for them he whipped out a revolver and shot Sarvis in the back, killing him almost instantly. Chief of lo-lice Truax attempted to arrest him and was shot through the luncs and is not expected to live. Holbe was shot in the shoulder and arm. Hendler held the crowd at bay for a while, and when attempting to escape stumbled and dropped his revolver.

He was immediately pounced upon by the crowd and taken to jail, lie will probably be lynched. Coming Prize-Fights. San Francisco, Jan. 1. At a meeting of California Club directors the date of the McAtiliffe-Carroll tight was changed from Feb.

20 to March 21. The purse is $3,500. McAuliffe has a bad hand and Carroll wants-time to get to the weight, ho the principals are well satistied. The February date will be tilled in with Pete McCoy and Jack Gleason, who will light to a finish for a 51.500 nurse. There is considerable ill-feeling between the last pair aud a hot time is expected.

The club is in communication with Frank P. Slavin with a view of matching him with Joe McAuliffe. In caso of failure another attempt will be made to bring Kilrain here. A Slaniac and Ills Knife. New York, Jan.

1. Charles Kitter. a baker, aged forty-nve, became crazy to-day as a result of too much liquid refreshment, and while calling on two young women at 32 Cherry street drew a knife and badly cur them both and then ran amuck through the tenement house, creating a small panic. He was finally captured, and the two girls were taken to the hospital. One of them, Kitty Farrcll, is likeiy to die from her injuries.

Electric-Light Men Strike. PiXTsiitTitfs, Jan. 1. At a meeting of the Electric Union, to-night, it was decided to call out all the union workers of the Allegheny Couuty Light Comnany within forty-eight hours if the non-union carbon-setters were not discharged and union men reinstated. Tho electrical unions will call upon the Federation of Labor and other labor organizations to fight the Westing- 1 iiwujnj la tv ava a iuo uviuuuuj uiu nut 1 granted.

INDIANA AKDILLIXOISNEWS The Daily Chronicle of Current Events Happening in the Two States. Terre Haute Gamblinjr nouses Closed for a Time at LeastArrest of a Boy Forger Blew Out His Brains. INDIANA. Popular Indignation Causes the Closing of Terre Haute's Gambling Houses Facial to the Iiuliauapolis Journal. Terre Haute, Jan.

1. For the first time in several years tho gambling houses in Terre Haute are closed to-night. The order to do so, made by the police board last night, in conseqnence of the suicide of young Byrns, was delivered to the gamblers, to-day. There is a general opinion, however, that it is the purpose of the gamblers and their police ring friends to keep the houses closed only until the public indignation is alla3ed. The StlnesTllle Murderer Captured.

Epeclal to the Journal. Bloomington, Jan. George Buskirk, the man who shot and killed Elsie Kaston, and seriously injured James Douglas, at Stinesville, Christmas eve, was placed in jail this morning. At a late hour yesterday evening he was found hiding with a trapper in Knox county. When found he made no resistance, giving up a revolver he had in his pocket.

He refuses to talk further than to say that the killing was in self-defense. He says that Kaston drew a revolver, and that Douglas was after him with a razor. There is little feeling here, and a fair trial will follow. Saved lly a 'Gladstone. Milton, Jan.

l. A dog supposed to be afflicted with rabies bit Clarence, the eleven-year-old son of James Wert, at Dills-boro. on Christmas day, and after biting several dogs and a number of cattle, the animal was shot. Yesterday the lad was broimht to this nlace. and the famous mad- stone, which is kept in the safe of the couuty treasurer, at Burlington, and owned by the Tanner heirs, was applied.

Tho stone adhered to the wonnd for three hours, and on falling oil' was dropped into a cup of milk, when green bubbles were seen to arise, and tiie boy was pronounced safe, Crushed by a Saw-Io. Fpeclal to the Indianapolis Journal, Martinsville, Jan. 1. Andrew Cain, while "snaking' a log off a hill on his father's farm, near here, yesterday, was seriously hurt. The end of tho log was dragged against a Kmall stump and the horses were stopped.

Andrew, while trying to disengage the log, was working on the lower side, when the horses started suddenly and the log rolled down on him mashing his legs and thighs in a severe manner. Wabash College Honored. Craw ford sville Journal. Prof. J.

M. Coulter, of Wabash College, has been appointed scientific head of the Botanical Department at Washington. The appointment was made when the Professor was at Washington a few weeks ago. Ills duties are such as pertain strictly to the scientific part of the Jotanical Department, and will not necessitate his withdrawal from Wabash. Youthful Forger Arrested.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Siielbyvillk, Jan. 1. Elmer Hall, a nineteen-year-old incorrigible, was arrested in this city last night charged with forgery, having used the name of John F. Young to two orders for clothing.

He nas until lately been an inmate of the reformatory. Suicide of a Farmer. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Corydon, Jan. 1. Louis Peas, a Heth township farmer, committed suicide yesterday by blowing out his brains with a iiistof.

No causo is assigned for the act. Ie leaves a wife aud two children. Minor Notes. Wm. Cain, a butcher at Martinsville, killed three hogs yesterday that averaged C50 pounds each.

Rev. J. A. Davis, pastor of the African M. E.

Church, at Brazil, died Tuesday, and his remains wero shipped to Franklin for interment. New Year's calls were received yesterday afternoon from a to o'clock by the Eclipse Club, of Shelby vi lie, composed of married ladies, at the home of Airs. W. L. Carter.

At least 100 calls were made. Refreshments were served. The Masonic lodge in Hartford City gave a banquet at their hall last night. They publicly installed the following officers: I. G.

Burris, W. H. B. Smith. S.

J. H. Khoades. J. W.

The F. and A. M. have prospered during the past year. Diphtheria is playing havoo among tho children at Delaware, and the mortality is alarming.

Nine deaths have occurred, and africntinl number are prostrated. Two little children of Alfred Doles were buried in the same coilin on Satnrday, and the deaths are averaging one a day. 1 he physicians seem unable to control the disease. J. N.

Norris and his wife. Mary L. Norris. were arrested at Huntington, charged with forging the name of Mrs. Havens, Xorris's mother-in-law, to notes for a considerable sum of money, lhe forged notes were given in payment for a bakery, and being defaulted, the forgery was discovered.

Nor ris went to jail, while his wife wasad mitted to bail. Mrs. Sarah J. Weaver, of Crawfordsville. deeded to the First National Bank a bouse and lot in that city, and it in turn took up the S500 worth of forged paper put out bv her.

The property was incumbered, and the bank will still come out a slight loser on one of the notes held by itself. Mrs. Weaver was released from custody, aud will not be prosecuted. Daniel Bowman, formerly proprietor of the Woodford (Ky.) feun, and later a well known business man of Chicago, was found dead on the Monon road, near Bloomington yesterday. He had fallen oil the platform of a sleeper in some way, and was crushed to pieces.

He was preparing to commence the publication of a paper in Chicago in a low aays. lie was wiuejy Known tnrougi out tho South and West. ILLINOIS. Gleanings from Exchanges and Cullings from Correspondence. Tuesday morning the boiler at the saw mill of W'yatt Williams, seven miles below Carmi, exploded, killing John Moore and fcam Cozart and wounding two others.

William Davenport, of Collinsville, while hauling bricks, on Tuesday, fell oft" his wagon, the wheels passing over his head. The coroner rendered a verdict that the de ceased met his death while under the in' fiuence of liquor. The Farmers Mutual Benefit Association is about to monopolize business in the southern part of Shelby county. They have opened a general store and are doing most of the business, and purpose to put up an elevator and shiptheirown grain and stock. Fire broke out in Pritchard's barber-shop.

at Warren, luesday. destroying with, it backer's saloon, Saur'a bakery, Baer Safraith's saloon and C. F. Battle's cigar factory, store and dwelling. Loss, between ,000 and $10,000.

partly insured. The tire is supposed to be the work of an incendiary. Trie Dakota Destitution. St. Paul.

Jan. 1. Governor Miller, of North Dakota, savs in regard to the destitution there: Confiicting reports nave been abroad everywhere, some portions of the community claiming there was not much destitution, others that there was a great deal. There is much sutlering in Homo of the northern counties. The year before last they had a very poor crop and last Year a still poorer one.

Many of these people wcut thero with very little means and were not prepared to meet failure of crops. Whatever property they have, such as stock, has been mortgaged all it will stand." Foul i'lay lu a Skating Contest. I a ro li Jan. 1. The first of a series of hkating matches between Axel Paulsen, of this city, and Hugh J.

McCor-inick, of St. John's, came oil this afternoon at the Palace Rink, in the presence of a large audience. McCormick trailed Paulsen the entire distance, until the shot was fired announcing the last lap. Then ho spurted, gaining about ten when a chair. was thrown across the track, causing him to sustain a terrible fall.

He regained his feet and made a desperate ettort to overtake Paulsen, the latter winning by the narrow margin of a couplp of feet. A protest has been entered against pa3ing over the stake money, 230. Time for five miles. ten miles. fifteen miles.

1 hour, 1 minute, and 37 seconds. DISPENSED WITH THE UNION. Philadelphia Press Takes Matters Into a Own Hands, and Lets Its Printers CJo. Philadelphia, Jan. 1.

The following' notice was posted in the composing-room of the Press here, last night: Owing to the vote of the members of the Press chapel, showing their determination to violate the agreement under which they came into this office, and also a eubaequent agreement made by a representative committee on Arrll 4, 1880. wherein said committee stated: "We do not propose to make anv alteration in our scale of price, except with the consent of the em- 1 ployer," therefore, in view of the threatening attitude tending to violate this statement, as well as the uncertain and evasive an swer of the president of the executive council of the International Typographical Union, have been obliged to contract with the National Printers Protective Fraternity for a new and permanent force. The Presa will retain In ltd employ any of its present force who see fit to remain under the new organization, and will guarantee permanent employment to all jrood men. Members of this chapel who see fit not to remain in the employ of the Press will call at the cashier's desk any time to-morrow after 10 o'clock for full settlement of wages. R.

J. Cook, Manager. Meetings of Typographical Union No. 2 and of the Press chapel of tho union were held to-day. but notning of public interest was done.

All of the locked-out printers of the Press were to-day placed ou the strike-benefit list-87 per week until they obtain employment elsewhere. It is saidtnattne Press managers have secured nearly a full complement of men. and they will experience littlo or no difficulty in issuing the paper as usual. Messrs. Jones, Plank and others of the executive council of tho International Typographical Union, are expected to return to this city to-morrow, and, as they have complete jurisdiction in the matter of tho general demand for increased rates for composition, nothing will be done until their arrival.

Newsboys Indulge In a Klot. Pittsburg, Jan. 1. Several hundred newsboys, returning from their annual New Year's dinner, almost created a riot on Fifth avenue this afternoon. They first attacked a crowd of Italians and Hebrews, and then turned tbeir attention to the nonunion gripmen and conductors on tho Pittsburg traction road.

The boys began by calling the men "scabs" and then made an assault upon the cars. Sticks, stones and mnd were thrown, and a general fight followed. The streets in the vicinity were soon blocked with people, and the regular police being powerless to disperso the crowd, were compelled to call upon the reserve force. Finally the boys were driven oil and quiet restored. Fortunately no person was injured.

The traction strike is regarded as a failure. All the cars are running to-day with new men, and no further trouble is apprehended. In No Hurry to Iect the Miners. Punxsutawny, Jan. 1.

There are no new developments in the strike situation here, to-day, excepting that the air is full of wild rumors. Writs of ejectment, which, if executed, will put between 500 and 600 families out in the cold, were issued to-day, but as the sheriff has until February court to to make his returns it is not likely that he will be in any great hurry about serving them. It is understood that he will divide the time about evenly between the miners and comnany and serve the writs about two weeks nence. This will be an expensive delay to the corporation, as it is losing from 2,000 to $3,000 a day by maintaining its array of Pinkerton men and keeping its works idle. Violence Feared at Terre Hcute.

foeclal to the Indianapolis Journal. Terre Haute, Jan. 1. There was no change in the strike situation on the Ev-ausville Terre Haute and Evansville Indianapolis roads to-day. Some of the officers of the road were here from Evansville to consnlt with the men, but no agreement was reached.

The indication is that the company will try, to-morrow, to move trains, and a bitter light is expected. There is danger of violence here. Struck for an Advance. Piiovidence, R. Jan.

1. The weavers in the merino-mill have struck for an increase of 72 cents per cut. Their present pay is 50 cents per cut. Nailers Strike. riTTsnuRG, Jan, 1.

The sheet-mill of the Brooke Iron Company, at Birdsboro, is closed by strike of nailers, who demand 3 cents per keg increase. BACK FROM CANADA. Gideon P. Brown Ketnrns to Boston to Try to Straighten Out Ills Boston, Jan. 1.

Mr. Gideon P. Brown, formerly senior member of the failed firm of Brown, Steeso Clark, and treasurer of the Riverside and Oswego mills, arrived here from Canada yesterday. He disappeared mysteriously from Boston on Aug. 6, last.

Ho said to a reporter last night: have very little talk to make about my affairs. Enough has been said. I have this to say. however, that I have returned voluntarily to Boston to do all in my power in the settlement ot m3r an airs, and those of the firm. I feel that my departure was a mistake that I would not have made, but the blow came upon mo so suddenly, this was 60 unlooked for, that I found myself going away from Boston almost without knowing it.

3lv health was so anected that it was a long time before I regained complete possession of my faculties. I was comnletelv used un fop some time. 1 have returned and will do all lean to effect settlement. There was no reason for my leaving. If I had had proper time for reflection I would not have done so.

I never at heart intended to wrong any one." a Other Business Kinbarrasstnents. Ppeclal to the Indianapolis Journal. Moxticello, 111., Jan. 1. There is a stir in business circles here over the failure of Oscar Loy, the owner of the laree tile works at Monticello.

Judgments to the amount of 10.000 nave come against him, and he has not been able to meet them. The loss falls heavily on Mr. Joseph Van Gundy, who has indorsed for him for some $10,000. He will lose his entire estate. The banks had each advanced Mr.

Loy money, much of wnich has been speut in experimental improvements and in the purchase of new machinery. Foxi iu Lac, Jan. 1. The assignee of the Foud du Lao Furniture Company, the Fond du Lao tfash. Door aud Blind Company, and tho Wisconsin Land and Mining Company, known as the C.

J. L. Meyer Company, has made a report, showing liabilities of The heaviest creditors are iienry E. P. Sawyer, S.VU77.W; C.

J. L. Meyer, The assets nearly equal the liabilities, and creditors will receive dollar for dollar. Boston', Jan. 1.

Chas. M. Barrett fc hides aud leather dealers, No. -JoO Purchase street, have gone into insolvency. Assets and liabilities not stated.

Bad Location for Shops. Wilkf.sbarre, Jan. 1. At noon, today, the ground under the Lehigh Valley railroad locomotive-shops, which are located directly over a coal mine, caved in. The foundation walls of the building cracked, and some of the machinery was badly injured.

There was considerable excitement among the 400 workmen jin the shops, but no one was injured. Opponent Inaugurated. IJjciimond, Jan. 1. Gov.

P. W. McKinney was inaugurated, to-day, Judge L. L. Lewis, president of the Supreme Court, administering the oath of ollice.

The Governor went at once to his otlice, wherts he received many callers. The legislative hall was densely crowded, and the short ceremony was soon over. The Legislature convened to-day. Jligh-s in r-V 1 MARINE NEWS. Captain of an Emigrant Steamer Brought to Time with a Blank Cartridge.

New Yokk, Jan. 1. The steamship Spain, from landed sixty-three passengers at Castle Garden to-day. When the steamer came up this morning the anchor was dropped while the vessel was in the middle of tho channel opposite Bedloe's island. The aucLorage boat drew alongside and ordered her captain to leave the channel and take a proper anchorage.

The captain 01 the vebel showed no disposition to comply with this order, but when a blank cartridge was tird across the steamer's bows her commander speedily moved to the legal anchorage grounds. Stark on a Bar. Sea Isle City, X. Jan. LThe steamer Commonwealth has settled on the bar and is full of water, with the sea washing over her at high water.

The vessel and part of the cargo will probably be a total loss. The tug North America has been sent for, but the high sea prevt nts any work being done on the wreck. There is an insurance of $1:15.000 on the vessel, and the cargo is partly covered by insurance. Capt. Lnocn Townsend.

of the Atlantic Gulf Wreck ing Company, has taken charge of her. The City of Paris in a Collision. Jan. 1. While proceeding up the Mersey to Liverpool, this morning, the Inman line steamer City of Paris, Captain Watkins, from New York Dec.

25, collided with an outward-bound steamer. The City of Paris lost her bowsprit aud the other steamer one of her mants. The passengers on the City of lVris were greatly alarmed, but nobody was hurt. A heavy fog prevailed at the time. of the collision.

A Salvage Agreement. Montreal, Jan. 1. Canada learns that England has agreed with France that boats of the latter wrecked on British cpasts shall be salved under care of the French consul, and vice versa. Canada is not included but wants to be.

Losses by Fire. New York, Jan. 1. Tho five-story brick building at Nos. C17 to (5 West Fifty-second street was partially burned to-day.

Loss. $22.5,000, as follows: Buildintr. owned by Jacob New, Liberty silk-works (H. A. Van Liew 150.000: Mahler silk ribbons, Persian Carpet and Kug Company, 810.000; J.

J. Morrison, plaster ornaments, Eaton Coal Compound Manufacturing Company, 20,000. The losses are well covered by insurance. There are usually about 850 men and women in the building, but. this being a holiday, the only persons on tho premises were the watchman.

Smith, and his family, who made their escape from the top iloor, and the engineer, Charles Trepler, who also escaped. The fire originated in the dye-room near the engine-room. Upfer Marlboro, Jan. The engine-house of the Southern Maryland railroad, at Brandywine, was burned last night, together with two locomotives and a large amount of machinery. The loss is estimated at $30,000.

Special to the ImUanapoiis Journal. Fort Wayne, Jan. 1. Fred Werl-ing's residence, near New Haven, this county, was burned to the ground vester-day morning. Loss, S3.000; insured." Prize-Fights Forbidden at New Orleans.

New Orleans, Jan. 1. Mayor Shakespeare has issued a proclamation prohibiting all prize-fights, glove lights and other pugilistic encounters, and instructing tho chief of police to stop them and to use whatever force is necessary to do so. The Mayor bases the proclamation upon the action of the principals in the last two fights. There was a great deal of scandal attending the Mcllale-Bowon meeting, Mc-Hale being found to have clotn and plaster of Paris under his staves, and the light between Ward and Miller on Monday resulted in a foul.

The Mayor expressed the opinion that it is impossible to have fair fights, even when given under the auspices of the most reputable citizens, and accordingly instructed tho police to stop all encounters. This will necessitate the Kilrain-Vauquelin fight coming oil' in a neighboring parish. An American Professor in Japan. Baltimore, Jan. l.News has been re ceived at the Johns' Hopkins University Prolcssor Merri weather, who recently accepted the position of professor of English and history in the Tokio University, Japan.

Upon arriving in Japan he was received with great ceremony and eveiy mark of honor. A special palace was given him as his residence, with more than fifty servants. A stable containing some of the finest horses in the kingdom was placed at his disposal, and in every way he was treated with royal splendor. While at Johns Hopkins Professor Merri weather was assistant secretary of the American Economic Association. Balloting for Senators in Montana.

Helena, Mont, Jan. 1. The Republicans of tho Senate and House met in joint session at noon to ballot'for United States Senators. Col. W.

F. Sauders was elected unanimously on the first ballot. For the second Senator the first ballot stood: Mantle, 11; Kickards. 11; Leavitt, Hersh, Power, 3, and Carpenter, 1. The joint 6ession dissolved until to-morrow.

The Democratic House and five Senators met at noon for a joint session, but no quorum was present. The informal ballots taken for United States Senators indicate the choice of XV. A. Clark, of Butte, aud Martin Maginniss, of Helena. More Carolina Murders.

Charleston, S. Jan. 1. Two murders were reported from Darlington county, yesterday. On Dec.

28 Aleck Easterling, colored, while sitting in his dining-room with his famil3, was shot dead through the open door. The assassin escaped. Ou Doc. 29 George Windham, aged eighteen years, white, and Kobert Gaudy, aged seventeen, colored, quarreled in a wagon in which they were returning from a neighboring town. Windham stabbed Gandy to the heart, drove home, unhitched the horses, and then fled, leaving the body in tho wagon, where it was found the next day.

Arthur Kill Bridge Opened. New York, Jau. 1. The drawbridge built by the Baltimore Ohio Bailroad Company over the Arthur Kill from Eliza-bethport, N. to btaten islaud, was forinallj' opened to-day.

A special traiu of the Staten Island railroad, having on board Eraetus Wiman. President Norton, of the Louisvillo iV Nashville, and a number of other railroad men, was run over the struct ure. The bridge is NX feet long aud feet high from the water. l'lrU National Eisteddfod. Chicago, Jan.

1. The first national Eisteddfod held in America met in Central Music Hall this afternoon. New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio were well represented, but the largest lists of delegates were from places nearer at hand. Every seat on the main floor and in the balcony was taken, and an enthusiastic crowd ft was. Vetoed the "Robfwr Gas St.

Louis, Jan. l.Jnst before the daily papers went to press this morning. Mayor Noonan sent a note to thm s.iying that" ho had vetoed the gas bill recently passed by the municipal assembly, popularly known as the "robber gas bill." It is a New Year's gift which the citizens generally will bo very gratified for. llellef for Kansas Sufferers. Wichita, Jan.

1. A train of eight-teen cars left here last night for the sutlering districts in Stevens, Morton aud Hodgeman counties. The cars are loaded with TJ. 'VyzioV 17,1889. standi wm clothing and food, cousisting of fi our.

meal, meat and groceries, which have been collected from this and surrounding counties. The reports yesterday were to the effect that several hundred persons are suffering at present. People at the end of the railroad at Liberal and vicinity are ready with wagons to make an attempt to transport the relief from forty to seventy miles to where it is needed. It began to snow again yesterday, and it is believed that the weather may get extremely cold and thus increase the suffering. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Boston has ordered a heroic size bronze fttatue of Farragut, and will pay $22,500 for it. The Morton House, in New York, last night spread a banquet for 500 district messenger boys. At 109 years of age, Charles King, of Mid-dletown, yesterday gathered about him forty decendants for a reunion. Cattle dead of disease have Main in the water drunk in Reading, and the people have a typhoid fever epidemic. The Massachusetts Legislature convened yesterday.

H. H. Sprague is President of the Senate and W. E.Barrett House Speaker. Robert Roberts, employed as ianitor and porter in a Kansas City iodging-nouse.

was shot fatally by William Loston, the colored engineer of the building. John Green, the colored farm laborer who butchered his wife in a most shocking manner on tho streets of Georgetown, in broad daylight on the morning of Aug. SI, has been sentenced to hang Jan. 15. W.

H. llenson, of Norwav. era- Iloye of French's circus, who was shot at layou Sara. Monday night, by Henry Ward, colored, died, last night, of his wounds. The murderer was arrested.

The Wyoming axle-works, at Wilkes-barre, the largest plant of the kind in the country, has been sold to an English syndicate at a price said to be nearly a million dollars. This company paid a dividend of per cent, last year. James liannerraan, of tn firm of Meyer, Bannerman fc of St. Louis, was yesterday elected president of the Western Commercial Travelers' Association; James C. Miller, of Chicago, was elected second vice-president, and W.

A. Goyer.of St. Paul, fourth vice-president. Movements of Steamers. New York, Jan.

1. Arrived; Hermann, from Antwerp; Nevada, from Liverpool; Wilkommen, from Bremen; Maraala, trom Hamburg; Polynesia, from Stettin; Columbia, from Mediterranean ports; Newport, from Aspinwall. London-, Jan. 1. Sighted: Gothia and Rhein, from Baltimore, for Hamburg and Bremen, respectivelj-.

Boston. Jan. 1. Arrived: Steamers Mil-lane, from London, and Boston, from Antwerp. Southampton.

Jan. 1. Arrived: Lahn, from New York, for Bremen. Rouen. Jan.

1. Arrived: Gwendoline, from New Orleans. Trouble Brewing at Barnwell. Charleston, S. C.

Jan. 1. Dispatches received here to-night indicate that there are probabilities of trouble in Barnwell. Telegrams have been received at Black-ville, and other neighboring towns, asking for help, and a special train left Blackville. lifteen miles distant from Barnwell, with reinforcements.

It is said that tho negroes intend to burn the town. The trouble is by no means over, and the whole country Bcems to be up in arms. The Kansas Sugar Industry. TorEKA, Jan. l.George F.

Kellogg, of Sterling. State Sugar Inspector, last night filed his annual report concerning the 6orghum sugar industry of Kansas. The report shows that the grand total of sugar manufactured this year was 1,203,275 pounds, as against pounds manufactured last year. In addition to tho foregoing, Inspector Kellogg states that fully 209.000 pounds more sugar will be obtained from the 'second." which will tako a month or six weeks longer to get out Obituary, Hartford, Jan. 1.

Eliphalet Kimball, a veteran of the Texas army of independence, died here, this morning, in the ninetieth year of his ago. For the iast decade he has been dependent on Hartford, charity, Texas granting pensions only to veterans actually residing in tho State. Omaha, Jan. 1. Father Dameu.

S. died at Crcighton College, at 9:45 tbi evening, from a stroke of paralysis received about five months ago at Cheyenne hile on his way to the Pacific coast Mysterious Death at Cincinnati. Cincinnati, Jan. 1. About this morning a man was found lying on the sidewalk, at Thirteenth and Vine streets.

lie said he lived at Thirteenth and Jackson. He was taken to that house, but the inmates did not recognize him. He died after entering tho house. It was afterwards ascertained that his name was Joseph A. Hollings worth, and that he was a representative of the New York Mutual Accident Insurance Company.

TIIE HANDKERCHIEF SPECIALIST. Why a 3 Ian Employs Another to Wave a Farewell to His Departing Wife. Manchester Guardian. The other morning, as a departing Cunard steamer was casting oil" its lines and swinging out into the stream at Liverpool, an elderly-looking business man hastily embraced a lady, who was one of the passengers, and rnnhed down the gang-plank to the wharf. Going up to a melancholy loafer who was watching the busy crowd, tho gentleman drew him behind a pile of rci ght and said: "Want to earn five 'Rather." You see that lady in black on the forward deck, there!" said tho gentleman.

"Yes." "Well, that's mv wife going to New York. Now, of course she'll expect me to stand hero for the next twenty minutes while tho steamer is backing and tilling so as to wave my handkerchief and watch her out of sight Seer I understand." "Well, I'm too busy to fool about here. Stock to buy; business to attend to. She's a littlo near-sichtcd. so I'll just hire you to wave this handkerchief instead.

It's a big one, with a red bonier, aud so long as sho sees it she'll think it's me. Come up to arj Lime street when they are well off, and I'll pay you." "'Sposin she looks through a telescope or suthinT "In that case have to bury your face in the handkerchief, and loos as thouch von were creeping." 'ThaCll be two shillings and sixpence extra." "All right. Time is money. Look sharp, now. You can kissyour bauds a few times; say threepence for a kiss," aud.

snapping his watch, the over-driven business mau rushed off. We print this affecting little incident to call attention to the fact that the man thus employed has gone into the business regu-larfv. He is now a professional fareweller, and business men and others can save valuable time, aud yet give their departing relatives an enthusiastic send-off, by applying to tho above specialist any steamer-das'. Ho early to avoid the rush. An Old lartueriihip.

V.anlilDj;ton Vest. The recent removals of Southern negroes are not attributed to politics, but to mean whiaky, says an exchange. Figuratively speakinp. mean politics and meau whisky live on the same block. Of Course.

Lowell Courier. M. Eiffel's daughter is to be married. Of. course feho will go on a 'wedding tower 11.