Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 January 1902 — Page 1

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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS

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SATURDAY, EYEjSIKG, JANUARY 18, 1902.

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!TWO CENTS

j| SPUDDING FIRE

Twenty Horses Burned in a C allege-Avenue Barn.

FIRE ATTACKED THE ADJOINING HOUSES AND BLOCKS.

SEVERAL NARROW ESCAPES

JHE TOTAL DAMAGES ABOUT TWENTY-NINE THOUSAND. •'Y' ' r Persona Slightly Injured — The Fire Had Great Headway When Oticovered.

A Are from unknown origin etarted Shortly after 3 o’clock, this morning, in Anson J. Gardner's livery stable, at 1W8 College avenue, and spread to tbe adjoining property within e few minutes. The stable was totally destroyed. Including twenty head of horses and about seventy vehicles of all patterns. The dwelling of John C. Stark, of 1612 College -enue, which adjoined the stable on the rth, was almost totally wrecked. A two-story frame businas# block, at 1606, adjoining on the south, own by Fred C. Gardner, was destroyed, and a long onestory brick block, owned by Thomas J. Cook, composed of five store rooms facing Birteenth street, was more or less damaged, The Are also spread to the home of Dr. W. B. Stewart, at 1614 College avenue, and to several bams and small structures In the alley In the rear of College avenue. J Thomas F. Quinn, captalneOf the No. 3 truck company; James Cullen, a member of the company, and Acting Assistant Chief Jacob Petty were all slightly Injured by falling timbers. Miss Lena Stark was painfully burned about the hands. The lower floor of Fred C. Gardner’s building was occupied by Charles D. Glthens, a merchant tailor and haberdasher His stock was destroyed. The upper floor was occupied by Frank Spalding, his wife and two children. Thomaa J. Cook’s building Is occupied by A. Martin, a barber; Dr. W. P. Howie, a dentist; E. B. Kaley A Bro.. bicycle repair shop; Herman A Rothrock, plumbers, and George D. Marshall, a blacksmith. Four of tbs horses burned belonged to A- J. Gardner, and others to Dr. Lash. Frank Lewis, Dr. Ross, D. 8. Pray. Andrew Hagen, M. Dalton, 8. Barrett, Horace L. Hewitt, E. E. Parry, J. S. Ferrell. G. W. Miller, Fred Gardner. James Cunning, Mr. Rolls, Mr. Myers and bfr. Bremmermann. The Losses. The losses aggregate about 129,000. The loss on the stable and contents la estimated at about 116,000, summarised as follow*: Building, 16,000; horaea, *4.000; and vehicles. 16,000. A. J. Gardner's loss is covered by Insurance, and many of the horse owners carried insurance. Fred C. Gardner's block was valued at 18,000, covered by insurance. Githen's loss is estimated at 62,500; insurance, 6750. Frank Bpguldlng lost everything, Including the clothing of his family and $238 secreted under a pillow of his bed. The loss on the residence of J. C. Stark, including the furniture,, is estimated at about 64.000, partly ln*«ured. Dr. Stewart’s loss is small, as arc also the losses to the occupants of the Cook block. The Are burned on two sides of & large twostory brick block, occupied by G. C. Fisher’s pharmacy, J. M. Kelly’* grocery’ and a number of flat holders, without causing much damage. The awnings were burned away and some water was thrown In the rear of the building. Had to Run for Lift. The fire was under great headway when discovered, and there was no chance to save the horses. Earl Ross, Leonard Merrill and Albert Savage, stable men. slept in the ofliee-room, and were awaken«H> b) the sparks beating against the Windowpane which leads Into tha main itao«;-room. So tierce was the Are that the men had to run for their lives, escaping with only a part of their clothing. The alarm was Bounded Immediately, and the second alarm was turned In a few minutes later. Tbe stable men ran to the rear of the barn, but the fire had spread to all parts, and they were unable to reach any of the

horses.

The structure burned like tinder, and the lire spread tu Fred Gardner’s block and Mr. Stark's residence almost before the department could get to work. Tha firemen realised that the stable could not be saved, and directed their efforts to the adjoining property. ,> ‘ hast was so great that it broke a window on the second floor of Stark cWelling, in which AHss Lena Stark was sleeping, and set fire to the room before she was awakened. She had a harrow escape from being at least se-

aurned.

INDEX OF TfrPAY’S ISSUE. Fsgc. 1— Costly Fir* In College Avenue. Talk of H. 8. New for the Cabinet. Andrew Lang Denounces Kipling. Locomotive Boiler Explosion at Victor, la. 2— Aged Lovers Married at Alexandria. Democrats After Brick. Strike at Jeffersonville. A Forgotten Indiana Heroine ♦—Editorial. Scraps. Case and Comment. American Poet Series. 5—Review of the Books. For the Scrap Book. *—Girle’ Industrial School May Join Y. W. C- A- . J. Clyde Power's Isthmian Canal Survey. 7—Some Street Car Observations. Demollshment of First Parsonage Built In Indiana. Little Stories of Daily Life. 1—Sporting Gossip. Latest In the Baseball War. % Motor Races for Newby Oval. A-Gay Times at Washington. Camden (Ind.) Masons Erect a New Temple. "The Crystal Sceptre." Rath bone Confident of Acquittal. 10—General Market Repents. Stocks. Bonds and Live Stock. U-Next Week’s Bowling Tournament at Buffalo. Averages of Local Bowlers. 13—Next Week at the Theaters. The Lehmann-Hofmann Concert. Music Notes. 13—Preparations for the Coronation. Weekly London Letter. 14~ArtHlery Punch Record. New York's Poor Rich Men. Churches Making Gains. Stories of Congress. 15— Germany versus America. Romance of a Blind Couple. Earthquake In Mexico. Mr. Dooley on Financial Needs In Matrimony. Questions and Answers. 16— Confusing Twlnshlp of Two Pairs of Indiana Twins. Girl College Athletics. Butcher Shop Robbed. 17, 13, 18—Classified Advertisements. 38—Our Girls and Boys. 31—Of Interest to Women. 23—Personal and Social. State Personal Mention. 23— The City’s Night Schools. Farm, Garden and Pasture. Northern Logging Camps. 24— Through the Microsoope. Sanitation of tbe City of Havana. The Point Print Standard. Diary of a Flat Dweller.

POKES AT KIPLING

Andrew Lane Denounces the English Poet

ANOTHER SHAKY BRIDGE.

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were carried out to places of safety. Bveryone present offered a helping band. Within a few minutes after the fire started the police from the three adjoining districts were on hand, and assisted materially In watching property and advising the tenants,

A Bag of Money.

In the Stark dwelling was a bag of money. The patrolmen said this waa given to a young man to hide, and he hid It in the barn in the rear of the house. A few minutes later the barn was on fire, and tbe bag was recovered with difficulty. Another member of the family, the police said, lost aqme diamonds in the street, but they Were recovered. For a time it was thought that the fire would spread to at least a dozen*dwellIngs in the neighborhood on account of the failing sparks. Dr. Btawart's roof caught fire and burned through, but the firemen discovered this in time to save the property. A number of small stables and structures in the rear of residences in Broadway and across the alley from the livery stable caught fire, but they were

saved by the firemen.

The telephone poles In the alley In the rear of the stable caught fire and tbe service was crippled. An electric wire leading from the Home heating and lighting plant. In Alabama street, across the top of the Cook building, caused the firemen much trouble. Several of the linemen who were on the roof were knocked

PUTS IN A GOOD WORD FOR THE AMERICANS.

MARIE CORELLI IN A HUFF

SHE SAYS THE GERMANS HAVE INSULTED HER KING.

New British Stamps and Uniforms Are Entirely Too German to Suit the Author,

LONDON, January 18/-Andrew Lang Joins the long list of critics of Rudyard Klpilng’s poem, "The Zanders,” with a scathing denunciation of the author’g personality. Mr. Lang takes the character In "Stalky and Co.,”- generally supposed to be Kipling himself, holds him up to derision for his “unathletlc brutality," and concludes:; ' “The Americans notoriously excel in many games, like the Australians. Surely they are none the worse for that. It is not the games, but the fanaticism about the games and the rubbish written against the games that we have to re-

gret.”

Whenever any officer remotely connected with cricket or football Is killed or wounded in South Africa several of the papers now always sardonically refer to him as another "muddled oaf,” or "flanneled fool,” after Kipling’s lines. Marie Corelli, In a letter to a paper, caps the climax of the anti-German feeling existing In England. This author dpclaims passionately against the similarity of the new British army uniforms with those of the German army. "Bearing in mind,” she Writes, “the absolutely criminal offense against our King, by the vile prints circulated In Germany, 1* It justified, or Justifiable to Insult our brave officers by compelling them to wear any uniform even remotely resembling that worn by admitted slanderers of our King, army and country?" Marie Pirelli adds that it Is scarcely necessary to allude to the “widespread indignation which prevails everywhere at the color and design of the new postage stamps, which are so essentially German In appearance." MUTILATED THE RECORDS. CHickamauga Commission Makes the Charges Against Indianians. CHATTANOOGA. January 18.-The annual report of the Chickamauga-Chatta-nooga National Military Park commission to the Secretory of War Is Jyst made public. The report says there are now 71.68 miles of improved roads In the park. There has been expended for road construction and betterments 611,077.57. The health of the ten square miles comprising the Chlckamauga park has been excelent, cs has been "that of the adjacent region for several miles In all directions around the park. There has been no death within Its boundaries and only one case of typhoid and two of malarial fever.

m\ 1903 ELECT'On'

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i DRINKS SIXTY-FIVE | CUPS OF COFFEE DAILY. (Special to Th* Indianapolis News.] ALEXANDRIA, Ind., January 18. —Mrs. Dooley, of Summitvtlle, is in a condition approaching nervous prostration, resulting, as alleged, from excessive use of coffee. It Is said that she drinks as many as sixty-five cups of strong coffee dally and often get* up In the night to indulge In the beverage. She finds it impossible to break off the habit and the doctors are powerless.

TALK OF 0. S.

Washington Times Says He nay Enter Cabinet

AS HEAD OF THE INTERIOR J PARTMENT.

HITCHCOCK TIRED OF OFFICE

WILL IT CARRY THEM?

SUPER IN THE CAST AT THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE.

mEsimoraiOKF m joi iif ms in the tin

These cases were a mile from the park,

. . . The water supply In all section* of the ° Wn H COralne ln cont * ct w,th the park continues abundant and excellent,

wire. The current was finally turned off. V

The Destruction in the Barn. The struggles of the horses In the fire

could be beard distinctly In the street. They were overcome oue by one until all were still. None of them attempted to run from the barn, although several of them had broken loose. In the stable were some fine equipages. Fred Gardner lost a new carriage, a surrey, buggy and

another vehicle.

The majority of the vehicle* In the barn were family carriages, and ihere were also a number of delivery wagons. There were g number of horses In the barn that were regarded as fast and highly prised by their

owners.

No one can account for the origin of the fire Tbe stablemen -said that the only light In the barn was a gas jet near the center of It, which is kept burning all

night. There was no way, they said, for ; The Prize-Fighters Discharged by it to come In contact with any of the; Philadelphia Magistrate.

AND SHE COULD NOT GET OUT

Locomotive Boiler Exploded at Victor, Iowa.

THEY WILL DEMAND A TEN PER CENT. INCREASE.

NEELY ON WITNESS STAND. Indiana Man Denies Frauds in the Havana Postoffice. HAVANA, January 1S.-C. F. W. Neely was a witness for the first time in the postal frauds trial yesterday. He gave the details of his appointment* and furnished an explanation of the sale of surcharged stamps. He admitted that he had ordered Moya to sell $1,500 worth of these stamps, but regarding the sales on April 24. 25 and 26, 1900, he said that Rich had charge of the stamps then. Neely added that Mr. Lawshe had established the precedent that the official accounts of the office should be kept by the auditor’s department. All witness had to do was to see that his accounts balanced with the auditor's, and to give an account of the total number of stamps received. The details did not matter. He was obliged to show how he had disposed of stamps. He explained the double entry of a $12,000 credit In the postofflee accounts, which he said was due to Marshall, his bookkeeper. He did not know if any one was to blame. Regarding the sale of copper coins Neely said these were deposited In the bank for safekeeping and were sold In lots by the bank. His accounts were credited with the lump sum obtained. No vouchers for tbe sales were presented. e Witness admitted that he was formerly connected with the Neely Printing Company, of Muncle, Ind., but said he had sold out his Interest before he came to Cuba. He had held a mortgage of *10,000 on the plant, but had transferred It to a firm in Chicago against his own bills. He denied that he had received $3,000 for a keyless lock, and that he had given Reeves $4,600 before he (Neely) went to the United States. He spent the day before he left with Rich and Newman. The examination of ex-Dlrector of Posts Rathbone was concluded. Senor Machado, of counsel for Reeves, one of the accused, put a few questions to the witness regard ing the position of Reeves betore July L 1899, when he was made assistant auditor. The object of his questions was to show that Rathbone was responsible for any defects in theo rganizatton of the bureau accounts.

INDIANAPOLIS EDITOR STANDS WELL WITH ROOSEVELT.

OPERATORS WILL FIGHT IT

She Needed Her Face, and After Six Hours of Digging. It was Rescued from a Plaster Grave.

The attention of the Secretary Is reluctantly called to the mutilation of the official rosters of the commosslon in the report of the Indiana comlmssioners for the Chlckamauga National Military Park. In the published report of that commission there Is included what purports to be a transcript of the official roster of the Union and Confederate armies as published by the national commlssidn. Examination shows various serious changes

All was quiet on the stage of the Grand Opera House save the rustle of the stage hands as they completed their work. It was Thursday night, the audience had departed and 12 o’clock had come. "Sure you can take that cast?" said "The Great Lafayette” to the property man of the house, Charles' Miller, and Charles was sure he could. He had built battleships^ and castles of pasteboard and armor of tinsel and tin, and the simple task of taking a cast for a face, for Lafayette to use on a lay figure, was child’s play by comparison. A negro girl, one of the supernumeraries in Lafayettee’s troupe, was offered as the victim, and “The Great La-

fayette” departed.

All was quiet save the deep breathing of the victim and the splash of the plaster. “Nothin’ like making It good and solid,” muttered Miller, and he applied

In the reproduction of this official docu-! the mixture with a lavlah hand. Layer

meat, arising In part through omission of certain clauses In the text, in part by direct changes, and in part, by interpolations This column also contains a number of erroneous transcripts of authorised Inscriptions on Indiana monuments and markers as they appear on the field.”

THE MAHERSHARKEY CASE.

TWO TRAINMEN KILLED AND SEVERAL INJURED.

ALL PASSENGERS ESCAPED

SEVEN ROCK ISLAND COACHES THROWN FROM THE TRACK.

Failure to Unionize West Virginia Mines May Prevent Any Rise in Scale—Present Officers will be Re-Elected.

Oes Moines Pullman Sleeper Overturned—Cause of the Accident

will Never be Known.

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Spaulding Family’s Experience. The family of Frank Spaulding had a thrilling experience. He and Mrs. Spaulding were awakened by the cracking of

woodwork or Inflammable material In the barn. Several persona said they thought the fire was of Incendiary origin. The Gardner stable was formerly the College avenue roller skating rink. It wa* well built and covered a space of

about 60 by 125 feet.

CANFIELD JONES’S LETTER To tha Committee of the Second

Presbyterian Church.

A dual letter of declination was received J this morning from the Rev. Canfield Jones, j by the committee oa. selection of a pastor for

PHILADELPHIA, January 18.-Peter Maher and Tom Sharkey, ’who were arrested yesterday, at the Instance, it is alleged, of the Law and Order Society, and held In $5,000 bail to keep the peace, appeared at the magistrate’s ofllce to-day, and were discharged. James H. MacFariand. the promoter of last night’s bout, who was also under bond, was released. The magistrate said that as the men had not committed any overt act which jnight be construed as a violation of the statute prohibiting prise-fighting, there was no complaint against them.

WILL BE CONFIRMED.

th* Second Presbyterian church. No official call had been extended by the congregation, but ite committee had unanimously determined to recommend the official call whenever Mr Jones should give assurance that he would

flames, and almost before they could get j accept. He made a visit two weeks ago to out Of their bed the lira had burned i look over the field, leaving with decided inthrough Into their apartments. Tbe two • oUnationa toward acceptance, saying that

children, w-.o were sleeping In the front: whU * 116 muBl fl™t consult with his family j Baker, of Indiana, this afternoon. Memroonv adjoining, were seised and wrapped auri “wlou of his Erie church before a j bers of the committee said that if there in bed Clothing and carried out and into antt5 . decision, he had inue doubt that it J was any opposiUon to the confirmation it

the Polk apartment house on the opposite

There is No Fight Against Francis E.

Baker.

WASHINGTON, January 18,-The Senate judiciary committee expected to dispose of the nomination of Francis E.

aide ot the street.

They had no clothing, and Spaulding returned to the building. He ran up the stairway, and, after seising an armful of garments, found that his escape by the stairway had been cut off. The curtains in all the rooms werejrarning and the heat was so great that he was almost overcome, Ha found an exit leading over the rqof to the adjoining building. Spaulding works at Polk’s creamers-. He allowed his Insurance to lapse about a month ago. Under the pillow of hie bed was 1288 in savings. Ho was unable to recover this money when be reached the apartments the second time. Burning embers and millions of sparks floated Into the air for a distance of a block or more, causing much apprehension to property holders. Garden hose fines were hastily arranged, but the majority of th*m were found to be frosen. The flames could be teen from any part of tbe city and considering the hour a large crowd of persons congregated

Out Property.

holders near the fire were ap- « lest their dwellings would and furniture and personal effects

woum be affirmative. b« expressed MmaeU I had not been voiced in committee. The as delighted with the city aid with the nomination, it was said, would be reported

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together, tbe mo*t attractive be bad ever ! 1 *

personally known.

His letter of this morning, however, «ay S

that his sense of duty compel* aim to yield I

owr tiw. Hun** Filipino. T.k.

INSURGENTS SURRENDER.

ling tbe church he was moral-

incurred a large debt In remodel! building and erecting a mission. 1

ly under obligation to stand by the work for

the present.

The committee of the Second Preebyterian church concurs as to his duty, and says it will at once look elsewhere for a pastor. The salary proposal was 34.000 and tbe parsonage.

GAMBLERS ARE HELD UP.

by layer the face was concealed, until there was nothing of life about the mass, apparently, save the hysterical snorting and snuffing through the quills/in tho victim’s nostrils. • Time passed. The plaster was setting. "You see, casts ain’t like bens. The more they set, the better." But the victim did not apparently have the same theory or philosophy. She began to grow restive and finally to endanger the cast. "Guess It’s set,” said Miller, and he walked confidently over, caught It by the edges and started to lift it from the girl’s face, but without effect. A stage hand volunteered, but it was soon evident that when the cast was lifted the girl’s face would come with it The girl wanted her face—U was not her fortune, but she needed it for every-day purposes. So word was hastily sent to "The Great Lafayette.” He Came Hurriedly. He came. He came hurriedly, and It was evident that he had used great haate from the moment he had arisen from his

bed.

"Grease her face?" he demanded of the property man, but the man said, “Naw. Used cold cream. Always do.” And then, with the look of a man who has abandoned hope, Lafayette turned to the girl. He did not try to lift the cast. He knew that was hopeless, but looked longingly at a stage ax, and reflectively at a saw, but the saw was to be used only in case of fire, and he pulled out his pocketknife and set to wprk on the misshapen mass of plaster. The task seemed hopeless. but the stage hands«formed relays of relief, and the work went on. The auno#phere and the stage were thick with plas-

ter and plaster dust.

According to tbe testimony of some of those who assisted In the work of salvage, plaster was chipped, hewed and broken for j nearly six hours, but at last the features, 1 or part of the features of the girl emerged |

from the mask.

VICTOR, la.. January 18.—As the Denver limited passenger train No. 5, on the Rock Island road, was passing through this town early to-day, the boiler of the locomotive exploded, causing the death of the engineer and fireman, and slight injury of two porters and a brakeman. The dead are: G. R. WILLIAMS, of Brooklyn, la., engineer. E. HOAH, of Valley Junction, la., fire-

man.

The accident took place within 260 feet of the depot, and the noise of the explosion aroused every person In the town. The force of the explosion threw every one of the seven coaches of the train from the track, but only overturned the Des Moines Pullman. The passengers were uninjured. Pieces of the wrecked locomotive were strewn around for a distance of two hundred feet, and the boiler was found 150 feet away from the scene of tbe accident. The cause of the explosion will never be known, # owing to the death of the engineer and fireman.

It is expected that several hundred delegates will be in the city by to-night for the thirteenth annual convention of the United Mine Workers of America, which will begin Monday forenoon at 10 o’clock in Tomlinson Hall The Pennsylvania anthracite miners, two hundred strong, will reach Indianapolis to-morrow by special train. There were many arrivals during the day. Fear Is expressed that the convention will be unwieldly, as It Is believed there will be over one thousand delegates, making It the largest convention ever held by organised labor. President Mitchell will preside. Ben TIUett, the famous English labor leader, will arrive to-nlgnt to be the guest of the miners until Thursday. President Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, may also visit the convention. It is understood that the miner* will present a demand for an Increase of at least 10 per cent, over the wages they now receive, but it is almost equally certain that the operators will make a stubborn resistance, as many of them claim that they are either operating at a loss or at a very small profit. The miners will also ask for an extension of the run-of-mlno basis to ’ the districts where the screen basis now prevails. This has been In controversy for a long time and will probably be one of the most important features of the convention. West Virginia Stumbling Block. The agreement that now exists between the miners and operators as to wages was made here two years ago and ratified at the joint conference at Columbus, O., last year. The miners feel that they are now entitled to an advance, inasmuch as the same scale has prevailed for two

years.

The fact, however, that they have failed to unionize West Virginia may prevent them from getting the raise, as the operators of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, who sign the competitive agreement, charge that the West Virginia operators, who pay non-union wages, are enabled to undersell them. An invitation was recently extended to the West Virginia operators to attend next week's convention, but the Mine Workers’ officials have little hope that they will be present. The situation In West Virginia will probably receive attention next week, as the miners aro determined to unionize the

EXTRAORDINARY NERVE. Terribly Injured Man Mounts a Horae

and Seeks Aid.

[Special'to The Indianapolis News.]

JASPER, Ind., January 18.—Joseph Goetz, township assessor, while hauling logs out of a distant wood, was caug’e by one of the logs, which slipped and struck him, breaking the bones of the lower leg, one of. the broken bones being forced through the felt boot which he was wearing. With great difficulty he pulled the broken leg from under the

log and, mounting one of his horses, he, „ „ rode to his home in this city, three miles ; Slate ’ Pl «^ ent Mitchell. Vice-President distant, where surgical aid was had. Mr. Lewl8 and Secretor y and Measurer WUGoetz had one of his hands accidentally ! son wiU ** w,thout position. shot off two years ago, which made hie Th « recent that Mitchen mi * ht r *-

feat the more difficult.

PAROLE LAW WORKING.

tired, UUV *>*«■ IWJOTU iuiulktibwie uuuga I _ . - luarv Vl at the stage carpenter. She was not seven months 1,430 men have been paroled, t *

Two Robbers Gel Away with the Caeh Bex. OMAHA. January 18.—Two robbers held up a dozen men In a gambling room over a saloon at Fourteenth and Douglas streets early to-day and secured the cash box and $200 in money from the customers of the place. They were captured ten minutes later, however, by the police and locked up. They gave the names of Frank WUllams and Frank Jones.

Oath of Allegiance.

WASHINGTON. January 18,-The War Department ia advised of the surrender of 365 Insurgents to Brig-Gen. James F.

Wade, at Cebu. Philippine islands. J»nu- i 426 fr ° m the 8tate Pri8 ° n and from ary 14. On January IS they took the oath; ner from districts of her face. Blta of | th ® Indiana Reformatory. Of the total at Tagllbaran, Bohol. ’ i hair about the outskirts of her face had | number of cases, 246 have turned out un- : departed with the plaster and her eye- satisfactory. It Is also said that the . Trouble with Employ** I jSSSr loo^ sin^eS’ 1 ' sorry i paroled men have earned since their re-

erkhis. State President of > said. "Humph. 1 ’ ! lease a

if 1,430 Men Released, 246 Have

Turned Out Unsatisfactory.

SE bJS Si iifSSiaSLr&S! cEST to'fo , ««.■* op.™.-.

tire at the end of his present term is untrue, as he has made up hie mind to re main at the head of the organization for

at least another year.

The national executive board of the miners met here to-day to take up griev ances that will be presented to the convention. The joint conference of the mln-

Peraiatent Report that Mlaaourian wilt Retire-Political Significance of New’s Selection.

MORGAN REACHING OUT. Steamship Combination May Take More Lines. NEW YORK, January 18.—Tbe report that J. Pierpont Morgan's steamship com bination would embrace the American, White Star, Red Star, Atlantic Transport, Leyland, Wilson and Dominion lines, amt probably the Cunard, is partly confirmed In dispatches from England. John Lee, agent of the White Star line,

said:

■There Is no doubt that there Is some significance to the trip to this country of J. Bruce Ismay, William S. Graves, Henry Wilding. Ralph Neville and John Dickson. Some offer may have been made to the White Star line to sell Its ships. Mind that I do not say that such an offer has been made. If a man owned a house worth $20,000 and some one offered him $30,000 for It, he would bo very foolish If he did not accept the offer. Something like this may have been presented to the White Star line officials, but I have no knowledge of it" Will Control Freight Service. LIVERPOOL, January 18.-The steamship Celtic, one of tbe largest Atlantic liners afloat. Is one of the six cargo steamers to be transferred to J. Pierpont Morgan's American syndicate. The names of the other five steamships to be sold have not yet been announced. The Journal of Commerce, of Liverpool, saya that the cargo fleet of the White Star Company, which is to be transferred to the American syndicate, will bo run in connection with the American railway Interests, which will seek to control the north Atlantic freight service. EMPEROR’S YACHT SAILS. The HohenzoHern Weighs Anchor for the United States. KIEL, January 18.—The imperial yacht HohenzolJern sailed for New York at 9:30 this (.Saturday) morning. Cincinnati After the Prince. CINCINNATI. January 18,-After consulting with leading citizens Mayor Julius Fleischmann has decided to extend, through Secretary Hay and the German ambassador at Washington, an invitation to Prince Henry of Prusaia to visit Cincinnati. WEATHER INDICATIONS. United States Weather Bureau, Indianapolis, Ind , January W. —Temperature.— January 187~1901. I January IS, 1902. 7 a.m. 12 m. 2 p.m. [ 7 a.m. 12 m. 2 p.ra. 12 18 22 1 40 40

[From a Stslt Correspond tin. ] WASHINGTON, January 11,-Tha Washington Times to-day prints the following: "It has been persistently stated that Secretary Hitchcock, of the Interior Department, would retire from the President’s official family before many weeks. The latest phase of this possibility Is that he will be succeeded by Harry & New, of Indianapolis, Republican national committeeman from the Hoosier State, editor and publisher of the Indianapolis Journal, and close personal friend of

President Roosevelt.

“Captain New is not, perhaps, widely known outside of the Hoosier State, but there, he is a potent figure In polities. He Wields a powerful influence In party affairs when he sees fit to put forth the effort. During the Spanish war he served in the volunteers as captain and aaalstant adjutant-general. He is ctose to President Roosevelt politically and personally. and when here the other day lunched at the White House.

What It Would Moan.

The political bearing of New’s selection for a Cabinet place reaches far beyond the confines o. Indiana. The chief candidacy for the next Republican presidential nomination up to the time of President McKinley’* death was that of Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana. New’* entrance Into the Cabinet of President Roosevelt would mean the poatponoment of Fairbanks’s candidacy to a more convenient season, thus removing from the President s path the most dangerous competitor he Is likely to have two years hence. It would be unnatural if President Roosevelt did not, under the circumstances, desire a presidential nomination at the hands of his party and election at tho hands of the people. Heretofore no vice-president who has become President because of the death of his chief, has ever so much as been nominated for President. The ambition to break this dismal record of failure U a natural one. Roosevelt certainly would like to be President by right of his own election to that place, instead of goth* into history as, to quote what John Tyler’s coachman cnce said, he was "a sort of a second-hand President.” JAMES P. HORNADAY.

Mr. New’s Statement.

Mr. New said this afternoon that there was nothing in the report but that he would prefer not to discuss It. “You may say,” he added, "that I am not anticipating or aspiring to anything of the kind."

—Relative Humidity.— 7 a.m., 78. i 12 m., 76.

• —Local Forecast— I \ Forecast for Indianapolis and vl cinity for the thirty-six hours end-I—-Jing at 7 p. m.. Sunday, January 1 seventy-fifth meridian time; Light rain, probably turning to light snow, and colder to-night. Sunday fair and continued cool.

SHORT HOUSE SESSION.

—Weather in Other Cities.— Observations taken by the United States Weather Bureau, at 8 a. m., sev-enty-fifth meridian time:

Station.

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Edgar A. Perkins,

the American Federation of Labor, has gone to Washington, Ind.. to try to settle the difficulty between the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern and its employes. Thirty-two employes of me road, all but two of whom are members of the Federation, were discharged, and the union charges that the company discriminated In the discharges and that In the settlement of the last strike the company agreed not to discharge the men to reduce exyenw. but to make a cut in time.

total of 82U,W7.S8.

| said, "Humph. 1 Supposed Robbers Imprisoned. EVANSVILE, Ind., January 1»—Frank

Jones, of Baltimore; Richard Bones, Indianapolis, and Charles Gray, of Greeacastle, supposed to be poatoffice robbers, were brought here to-day from Washington, Ind., and imprisoned. They will oe

given a hearing in the United Stales _ . , . . tn . court. They are charged with robbing Islands, doing much the Canneisburg postofflee. erty and causing a f)

SIR ELLIS BARTLETT.

Member of Pariiament Dead of Ap-

pendicitis.

LONDON. January 18.-Slr Ellis Ashmead Bartlett died to-day. the result of

an operation for appendicitis.

Bismarck. N. D,

Boston, Mass. .. Chicago, 111. .. Cincinnati, 0.. Cleveland, O.

Bar.

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Helena, Mont a30.04 Jacksonvllle, Fla 30.22 Kansas City, Mo 30.08 Louisville, Ky 29.96 Mobile, Ala *> 04 Moorhead, Minn;: 30.04 Nashville. Tenny J>.00 New Orleans. La. 02 New York. X. Y 30.16

CANARIES CYCLONE SWEPT.

Ship is Wrecked and Property Much o^&S^rtlSL^mmoutb^Mdsa! Kd SmI is

Damaged, Christ church. Oxford, and was admitted Qu ’ Appeile. Asein SMS 6 LAS PALMAS, Canary Islands, January \ to the bar in 1877. He had represented a

18.—A cyclone has swept over the Canary g d^rtsion^ of Sheffield^ to

damage

(hipwreck. ' Burdatt-Couttb.

nr.,, 1885. He was a brother of William Ash- , c 30 ng to prop- mea d Bartlett, who married the Baroness S aahlngton, D. -

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Patronage Wrangle and Deficiency Bill Reported. WASHINGTON, January 18.~When the House convened to-day, Mr. Joy, of Missouri, chairman of the committee on account*, precipitated a discussion by presenting a resolution providing for the appointment of two additional messenger*. The resolution, after explanation, wa* adopted. Mr. Cannon, chairman of the committee on appropriation*, reported an urgency deficiency bill, t\nd gave notice that next Monday he would call it up for consideration. He explained that the bill carried appropriations aggregating more than 616.900,000, and expressed the opinion that near the close of the present session It would be necessary to' pas* another urgency deficiency bill. After passing several minor bills the House adjourned.

FIGHT FOR CORONER.

Dr. Ouniavcy’a Friend* Say Ha ia Not the Ring Candidate. The usual hard fight is developing for the Republican nomination for coroner. Dr. Ira Dunlavey Is gathering considerable strength, but the charge that he 1* the candidate of the BookwaKer ring i* denied by hi* friends. There are, however. a number of administration men at work for him. The fight at this time seems to be centered on Dr. Brayton. who I* seeking a third term. The »tipporters of Dunlavey and other candidates say that In a direct primary they will defeat Brayton, a* there is a strong sentiment among the physicians of tha county against anyone having the office three terms. Dr. 8. Herbert Malpas ha* just announced himself as a candidate for coroner. He was horn in this city, and ha* lived here ail hi* Ufa. D. J. Reagan h*s announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for justice of the peace. He Is a well-known traveling salesman, having been on th* road for over thirty-three years. TWO YEARS FOR KRAUSE.

w. T. BLYTHE, Section Director.

Former Governor of Johannesburg Convicted at London. LONDON, January' 18—Tbe lord chief Justice, Baron Alveratone, to-day sustained the contention of the defense | ! of Dr. Krause that tbe charge of inciting to murder must fail, as there waa no that the letters In the case 1 Broecksman, but held that ” of attempting to "persuade” the jury. Dr. Krause wa* and sentenced to two year*’ Dr. Krause- was formerly. Johannesburg, and citing Cornelius prosecutor of J John Douglas Foster, « who was on the staff Broecksman was : to South Africa.