The Indianapolis Journal (Indianapolis [Ind.])
August 8, 1883

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. ESTABLISHED 1823. WHEN INDICATIONS. WEDNESDAY.—Fair ncather, station ary temperature. An Indiana exchange says: “The When Cloth ing Store excursion lias brought thousands of people and thousands of dollars to Indianapolis, benefits that have been shared by all the mer chants of our capital city. The When has run thirteen excursions to Indianapolis this 3'ear from March 17 to August 1, bringing to that city 1.0,450 persons.” We are selling- Light and Medium Weights in Men’s, Youths’ and Boys’ Clothing, strictly at manufacturer’s prices. The largest lines of Summer Underwear and Hosiery in the State. W HEN A WIFE'S DEED. fill© Kills Her Husband in a Fit of Nervous Insanity. Baltimore, Aug. 7. L. L. Conrad, a law yer prominent in professional and social life, was shot and killed last night by his wife, near Glydon, in Baltimore county. Mrs. Conrad has been suffering from illness for some time, accompanied by evidences of insanity. Conrad and wife, the latter a confirmed invalid for years, came to Bloomfield, where her mother, Mrs. Mary G. Worthington, and her brother, John Tolly Worthington, live, on Saturday, to spend the summer. Mrs. Conrad lias for years suffered excessively from neuralgia of the stomach, which has produced nervousness and insomnia. Worth ington brought Conrad’s mail to him from Baltimore last evening, and when he got home Mrs. Conrad was almost frantic with pain. While Conrad was reading his letters Worthington held his sister in his arms. She frequently called her husband to come to her, and said she could not bear him to leave her. When tea was announced Mrs. Conrad said she was so nervous she could not sit down, and she walked up and down the room. She took a little cream, and then held her bowed face in her hands, saying it made her pain even more intense. Mr. Conrad asked her several times how she felt. “Oh, niv love,” she answered, "my nerves are setling me wild.” Shortly after Mr. Conrad gave her an inhalation of oxygen, recommended by Philadelphia doctors. This was given her for five minutes. About 10 o’clock he gath ered up the things he used for her comfort during the night and started up stairs, carry ing a light, while his brother-law followed, carrying Mrs. Conrad in his arms. lie then left the room, and Mrs. Worthington and Conrad prepared the invalid for bed. Be tween 10 and 11 Worthington went to the door of the sick chamber to get a lamp to set in the hall door. Conrad gave it to him, and that was the last time he saw Con rad alive. About 12:20 Mrs. Conrad ran screaming into her mother’s room, which adjoins the one occupied by herself and hus band. She was terribly excited, and cried out, ‘‘Oh, my God! 1 have hurt Mr. Conrad.” Mrs. Worthington, who is old and infirm, got out of bed, and, followed by her daugh ter, proceeded to the other room. Here,, to her horror, sh£ found her son-in-law dead, tiie blood trickling from a wound in the head, back of the left ear, and a Remington revolver of thirtv-two caliber, on the bed. Heath had been instantaneous. The relations between Conrad and wife had always been of the most tender and friendly character. They had been married fourteen years. Dieoo soldiers were marshaled at the entrance to receive him. Mr. Benjamin dismounted, returned their salute, and accompanied by the General and chief of his staff, was es corted to the reception room, where further courtesies were shown and refreshments en joyed, Mr. Benjamin next made an informal call on the Minister for Foreign Affairs, at his residence, according to the custom of the country. He has held his office thirty-six years, and is a conservative and astute states man of kindly manners and disposition. On the 10th of June Mr. Benjamin received a call from the Grand Chamberlain, who is a son-in-law of the Shah, and who informed Mr. Benjamin that his Majesty desired to re ceive him at 1 o’clock p. m. on the 11th. Mr. Benjamin was taken to the palace In a landau furnished by his Majesty and drawn by six horses, each mounted by a liveried postillion. Twenty royal firauslies, or foot rnnners, clad in scarlet and wearing plumed tirars, preceded the carriage, together with a score of horsemen, accompanied by a moh maudan and u second master of ceremonies. Mr. Benjamin arrived at the gardens of the palace, which are beauti ful with fountains and shrubbery, and foliage arranged artfully, after a style peculiarly Persian. All were ushered into a spacious and handsome hall, where the first master of ceremonies and other gentlemen and dignitaries, gorgeously arrayed, were in waiting. Here Mr. Benjamin was invited to the seat of honor, and treated to “tea and kaliaun,” or water-pipe. Soon after, the announcement was made to Mr. Benjamin that his Majesty was in readiness to receive him, and thereupon he was conducted by the first master of cere monies to the palace itself. “At this mo ment,” says Mr. Benjamin, “a salute tired in honor of the United States thundered over the city, and on entering we ascended a mag nificent staircase. The walls were decorated in part with paintings of European masters. From the staircase we entered the audience hall, of vast proportions and most impressive effect. His Majesty stood at the upper end. Leaving my outer shoes at the door, a* prescribed by the treaty of Kourmantschia, I made a low bow and walked up to where the King was standing.” Mr. Benjamin then addressed the King in French, and presented his letter of credence. His Majesty replied that it gave him great satisfaction to see an American legation at Teheran, and considered that both govern ments could be further benefited by increas ing the intercourse and diplomatic relations of the two peoples. After this ceremony, his Majesty expressed strong hopes that the United States, now that it had established a legation in Persia, would maintain one per manently at Teheran. At the conclusion of the audience with his Majesty, Mr. Benjamin made a formal call upon the Secretary tor Foreign Affairs, and paid his respects also to his Royal Highness Naib Sultan, who is Minister of War and one of the sons of the King, and thanked him for the military escort. THE BADAJOZ RISING. Strict Inquiry To He Made Into the Causes of the Insurrection. Madrid, Aug. 7.—General Blanco, com mander of the forces in Estremadura. will make strict inquiry into the causes of the rising at Badajoz. The papers severely blame the officials of Badajoz for allowing the insurgents to surprise them. The in surgents arrested the prefect,the general com manding the troops and four officers in their beds on Sqndav morning. The editor of a Republican newspaper was one of the lead ers of the insurgents. The authorities at Elvas disarmed nine hundred insurgents and some civilian fugitives from Badajoz. They will all be interned m a fortified town on the coast. The reported object of the ris ing was to cover up a robbery ©f public money, and that a deficiency of £9,600 had been discovered in the Badajoz treasury. The Imparcial says the ring-leaders of the revolt were Colonel Gutierrose, Major Ma rino. Lieutenant-colonel Vega, and Major Barriga, The former two enlisted thirty vears ago, and owe their present rank to bravery in action. The latter two were also distinguished officers. No news has been received relative to their whereabouts, Six million pesetas in gold, in the Bank of Spain at Badajoz, were left untouched by the in- price five cents. surgents. Some refugees telegraphed to the newspapers that the statement that the ob ject of the revolt was to conceal a deficiency emanated from the government. They say that they acted in obedience to the pro grame of Zoriila and Salmeron to promote the welfare of the country. The Portuguese authorities interned the refugees in the for tified town of on the western coast. A Great Stock-Jobbing Operation. London, Aug. 7.—The Times’s corespondent at Madrid says the rising of the military at Badajoz ended in the most undignified man lier. Very little harm was done by the in surgents beyond slight damage to the rail road and the robbery of regimental and mu nicipal moneys. It is doubtful whether the movement was ever serious. It it stated in some quarters that the outbreak was only part of the programme of a gigantic stock jobbing operation, induced by a certain clique, which fora long time has been mak ing extraordinary efforts to destroy the im proving credit of Spain. ANN AME SE IM PA LEII ENT. 1 lie Horrible Torture of the Orient and Its Stoical Endurance. Pan In Letter. The Annamese have brought the science of impalement to a much finer point than might be inferred from the process hereto fore described. A French officer, who wit nessed an execution in Tonquin before the recent troubles, gives a very curious account of the apparatus of impalement. A lofty stake, with sharp point, is fixed into the ground as firmly as a telegraph pole, and with the upper part a chair of iron, having an orilice in the center of the seat, is con nected. The point of the stake fits the orifice in the chair, and the latter is lowered or raised by machinery set in motion by a crank—so that several feet of the pole can be forced through the body of any one seated in the chair. There is a lofty platform, rising to the same height as the pole and reached by a ladder. The ex ecutioner compels his victim to mount and take his seat on the chair, whereon he is im movably chained. Then the crank is turned forty or fifty tunes—the stake being buried further and further in the criminal’s bodv at each turn. All this appears unutterably horrible to Europeans, but the Orientals arc not consti tuted as we are. They fear ordinary forms of death very little, and decapitation or hanging has as little terror for them as the work-house for the common Anglo-Saxon criminal. Moreover, their nervous system —especially that of the Chinese and kindred races—is not altogether similar to the nerv ous sytein of Aryan races. The French offi cer who witnessed the method of execution above described avers that the criminal con tinued to eat a banana until the operation was half completed, aud many travelers con cur in bearing evidence that the Chinese ex hibit under torture a degree of fortitude equal, if not superior, to the well-known stoicism of the American Indian. But it is rather strange to learn that the part of the iron machinery used in the impaling pro cess referred to bear3 the trade-mark oi a French iron-master. SCENES IN ISCHIA. Probability tlmt Many Person* Suffered a Lingering Death in the Ruius. London Correspondence Jlostou Globe. The state of affairs at Is-ciua is worse now than ever. At first it was decided to cover the whole scene of the earthquake with chlorid of lime to protect the living in their necessary work among the ruins, so great and deadly has become the stench arising from the bodies of the more than B,QOO human beings known to have perished. But when it was found that scores of living per sons were entombed in the ruins, the plan of wholesale disinfection had to be abandoned. To-day a man was rescued alive from the ruins. The efUuvia that followed from the crevice which his person had acted upon as a tight-fitting cork overpowered his rescuers, all of whom fainted. There can be no doubt that many persons still remain alive in the Ischia rums. It is probable that all those remaining alivo to-morrow will have to be abandoned to their fate, as every part of the scene has ceased to be endurable. Scarcely a rescuer is left able to resist the terrible vomitings compelled by the indescribable stenches now prevalent. The entire isiand has been almost constantly shaken by a series of intermittent shocks ever since the great disaster of last Sunday. Strange to say, the odors which will now ren der further rescues impossible, and drive the force of humanitarians from this once beau tiful island, will probably iet in the hordes of Italian brigands who now hover about in sufficient number to pass any probable gu.ard, waiting their chances to rush on the scene for any plunder. GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. The Arrest of McDermott—He Claims Ameri can Citizenship. London, Aug. 7.—A dispatch from Liver pool says James McDermott, arrested there yesterday, from America, was remanded to jail on a charge of being engaged in a con spiracy to murder public officials. McDermott was arrested on board the steamer City of Montreal, on which became from America. The warrant for Ids arrest was issued in Cork, where he had been s-ccu in company with o’llerlihy. Some cor respondence with O’Donovan Rossa and. James Stephens was found upon the prison er, who said he was an American citizen, and would call noon the American government to protect him. English 'National Debt Reduction. London, Aug. 7. —ln the House of Com mons, the national-debt, bill passed the sec ond reading—l 49 to 9.5. The bill proposes to replace terminable annuities expiring in 1885. The effect will be in twenty years to cancel £173,000,000 oi the national debt. Among the opponents of the bill are the Irish members. Some Conservatives urge that the gain by expiration of annuities be applied to a reduction of taxation. Sup porters of the measure urge, among other tilings, that America and tiie colonies will hereafter become formidable rivals for com mercial supremacy, and that it. is desirable to reduce the debt while the operation may be easy. Monday’s Death List from Cholera. London, Aug. 7.—The death* from cholera in Egypt on Monday, were 593 in number, including 78 at Cairo. The lleorgiiniz ition of Egypt. London, Aug. 7.—ln the Commons, Mr. Gladstone read extracts from n private letter from Egypt, stating that the organization of Egypt under Lord Duff, i n’:; 'plan, was about completed Tiie reorganization of the