Decatur Democrat, Volume 40, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 17 April 1896 — Page 2

MOUSE NONCONCURS Postoffice Appropriation Biil to Be Referred to a Conference. MR. MANTLE DISCUSSES SILVER. x ■ I Ibea.lcrK of Labor Grgaillziit hm* r.'ot. st * tl.o Ti . iit in. i.t Os Ma. hinist* >n | Jiav.v.va rd** New Mexico Statehood Kill Mill lie Favorably Report«•<! Bill to | Admit Arizona Postponed. Washington. .April 10.—Tlm house j ‘yesterday, after debating the lull to abolish compulsory pilotage on sailing ; vessels engaged, in the coastwise trade, | defeated th, measure by a large majority, ai to 117. The District *4 ( omm- ; bia appropriation bill, which was re- j committed early in March after a pro- ; tracted tight against appropriations for private and sectarian charitable institu- j ations. was brought into the house with , the specific appropriations stricken out * and containing 141 lien thereof an appropriation of a lump sum for charities to . be expended under the direction of the district commissioners, with the proviso that no part of the appropriation should I go to institutions in ecclesiastical or sec- j tarian control. The feature of the debate was a vigorous attack on the A. P. A. bv Air. Fitzgerald (Dem,. Mass.) The house noncoijenrred in the senate amendments to the postoilice approprta- . tion bill and agreed to a <•* ..nt* niue. | Messrs. Loud.ißep..'t'al. i. >:nifh (Rep... Ills.) and Kyle (Dem.. Miss.) were appointed conferees. A resolution was adopted calling <ll Secretary Olney for information reia- ' five to any efforts made by the government to secure, the liberation •*f Airs. Maybrick, now confined, in. an Englisi j prison under life sentence for p* isoning 1 her husband. v '. TARIFF SILVER BILL. . • —zr- • — ' I Mr. Mantle Says the Bingley Bill Is Not ■ a Patriotic Measure. Washington, April 10. —After being In retirement for some weeks the tariff j silver bill was brought forward in the , senate yesterday as a text for a speech by Mr. Alantle of Montana, one of the

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SENATOR MANTLE, five Republican senators who voted against considering the tariff. Mr. Mantle defended the course id' the silver Republican senators, declaring that the Dinghy bill was not framed as a patriotic measure. He .urged that iinsectional protection should be linked with bimetallism. A sharp tariff colloquy followed between Senators Mills, Hoar.’j Hawley and Mitchell, as to the effect of • the Wilson bill on Wool. Some progress’ i ■was made on the Indian appropriation bill, but the sectarian school question wetrCnviT until today. " The calendar was cleared of all private pension bills after an hour specially devoted to pensions. WILE BE BEI’OKTEI) FAVORABLY. New Mexico's Statehood Bill to Be Voted on soon Arizona Bill Cost poned. Washington, April 10. —'1 lie house .committee on territories has voted to report. favorably the New .Mexico.statehood bill to the house, and also decided do defer action on the Arizona bill. So tevejily divided was the committee, that •the fate of the bill rested on a single •vote. This vote decided to place the .question of New Mexico's admission before the house for settlement and also sidetracked for the time the decision of Arizona's fate. There were six votes to (report the New Mexico bill and four against a favorable report, while the >vote on the question of tabling the Arizona bill was a tie, with five members on each side of the question. Those who voted to report the New Mexico bill were: Republicans. Scranton of Pennsylvania, Perkins of lowa. Lefevre of Mew York, Avery of Michigan. Hadley qf Illinois. Democrat, Cooper of Texas. Opposed—Republicans. Knox of Massachusetts. Taft of Ohio. Low of New York. Democrat, Owens of Kentucky. '4 TO AID ORGANIZED LABOR. protest Against 11 It real ment of Inion Men In th* Brooklyn Navyyard. ! Wash ingtON, April 10.—James O'Conjnell of Chicago, grand master of the 'lnternational Order of Machinists, and Samuel Gompera of the American Federation of Labor, yesterday urged the committee on naval affairs to make an investigation of the treatment of machinists in navyyards. Acresolution has been introduced by Represenative 'Otey charging that members of labor '' organizations are discrirtiinated against by the management, of navyyards, and .particularly in the Brooklyn yard. The two speakers represented that Mr. Otey’s charges are true and that the inumagement of the yards is tyrannical and the system of appointment manipulated so that labor organizations are ill:treated. . y River and Harbor Consideration. ■ Washington, April 10.—The senate committee mi commerce lias decided to take up ti e river and harbor bill today and to sit daiiy -until its consideration is concluded; The committee will .devote today, tomorrow and Monday to

hearing senators who have amendipents to offer and after that time will pre*** the bill to final consideration as soon as practicable. To Arm Naval Militia. Washing ton. April 10. —In the senate Senator McMillan gave notice that he would mak - an effort to have the naval appropriation bill amended so as to provide $.5(:.c00 forarming ami equipping the naval militia of the various States. VESSEL CAPSIZES. - Struck by a Squall In Mission Bay and Rapidly Sinks. San Fra n< isco. April 10.— No strati ger disaster ever happened to a vi ssol than the accident which has befell British ship Blairmore morning. While riding at anchor in .Mission Hay the vess, 1 was struck by a violent squall which, together with jhe swift flood tide, threw thef crat'd ofi her starboard side. c;ipsi/ing her coihphiti ly and sinking her in less’tlian 1.5 minutes. Fifteen seamen srt'ttggH'd in the water. Six were confined in the hold and were probably pinped down by the falling? dunnage used tA held the ship s ballast in place. The imprisoned sextette never reached the deck, and the bodies of the six are imprisoned in the steel hull. The Blairmore's masfs lie level with the bay bottom under seven fathoms * t water, and It* T a signet the sailors' sunken tomb is visible above the waves. T..e unfortunates who lost their lives Wire: T. Luiriv:*-. ::rst mate. HexRY > \RK. m am.ill. Rot AM -D ..... appre:. :ee. G. Kian>>a; m. seaman. 11. Sixs:!. sNi». watchman.! SAM K ** war.:. Tile - that caused' the disaster was the ”:**-' *vv* r< expend*‘treed-on the south-ar::, i'.tt® bay for many years: MONTANA MINE HORROR. Seven Impri-oned Miners Are Given Vp For Dead. Butte. Nil'll.. April 10.—Dispatches from Basin are to the effect that the fire in rhe Hope mine has been extinguished, but that seven imprisoned miners are without doubt dead as nothing can be heard from them. They are; John Bi ■ KLEY, shaft boss. Pat Bi * Kley. Martin Sullivan. Hi gh Ab Keown. Barney Wall. Will Belden. E. D. Al< Aether. The shaft is tilled with burned timbers, but that would not prevent the voices of the men being heard if they were alive, and therefore it is positive that they are dead. It will be several days before rhe bodies can be reached. The cause of the fire is still unknown. BACK FROM CHINA AND JAPAN. Steamship Officials Bring Little News of ( the Epidemic There. Ban Francisco. April 10. —The Pacific mailship Rio de Jgiieiro arrived yesterday from China and Japan. The ship presented a delapidated appearance. neai*ly all gs. her cabins and the woodwork on the t?pper deck having been consumed during the neriod on her last trip from this port when she ran short of coal. The ship's officers - bring but little news of the epidemic in the 'Orient. Hong Kong had been declared an infected port, and 1 the steamship line from there to Vladivostoek' I’rad suspended operations. At Hub*' a general quarantine station j has been established and‘sysr*-mafic esAforts are made t<> combat the dread disff»ase. -Other tham the black plague, I cholera ami smallpox in a firulent form have faade their apjs-ttranee. In Japan more jnodern -methods are employed than in China, and as a result the death ta'e-is low* r in the kingdom of the mikado th’.in 111 the lat ter country. BATTLE IN LOUISIANA. Two White Men and Twenty-1 Hive Negroes Reported to Have Been Killed. Lafayetie. La., April !<>.—information received here from St. Laudry parish says that Dr.F. JGL Marfin, in command of some 500 men at .Mallet, has been shot and wounded. No particulars can be obtained as to who shot Colonel Martin or the nature of his wounds. Dr. G. A. Martin, a resideht of Lafayette and brother of Colonel Martin, was much concerned on receipt of the information and endeavored to ascertain definite news by- telephone from his brother a' Mallet. but could get no reply except that the colonel was not at home! Further information is that two white men and 25 negroes have been killed in the affray. SHORT WIRINGS. V — S— — The-treasury yesterday lost, 1114.200 in gold, leaving rhe true amount of the reserve #127,795,910. Battleship Indiana floated out of the drydock yesterday and will be immediaUely attached to the north Atlantic squadron. ' The latest political button to appear in Washington reads as follows: ;‘l haye troubles of my own. William K. Chaii--1 dler.” The report that Germany has joined the ’ protest against the king of Corea's pres--1 ence in Lhe Russian legation at Zeoul is denied. The sentence of J. C. N'etzer, convicted i of fraudulent banking, lias been affirmed 1 by the lowa supreme court. He will go to . the penitentiary for five years. ) Morris E. .Jessup of New York has ac--1 cepted the presidency of the American p Sabbathsi hool union, to succeed the late j du slice St I'onifofAVashiiigTbn. j Judge N. L. Bennett, of Campbell county, a Ky., reduced his own salary from #1,700 to 1)1,400. He swl he thought thacounty was e paying more than it could afford. j Deputy Sheriff John W. Hanchev was . Rssassinated in his yard at Milligan’ Ela , _ by unknown parties who lired upon.,Jiim three tiipes, killing him instantly. At -Millican, l ex., .lonn Biiiots shot, and tilled his <raiigh!y r L Ahis* Mollie Brook*, e Herhmsly 'wiiiiiidi il h* * sti e(-t hi-a rl, A. C. I Sorrels, and then cpmin'itted suicide. '■ TtV - “oi.i.gi’afiilat**<l Cardinal _ Silibmis, \aiighi.i ,uni Liigue for having J signed tH*‘appeal for ,\ng|o ,\nmrican'arhit ration and oJli*i-> th< in eneouragcmeijt.»o ptiscx ere iu ilivii’ <tim. . . . -i’ . _ ■ ■' 1 ,

’ COMPETITION LIKELY Bids May Be Accepted For the Publication of the Patent Office Gazette. CAPTAIN LUDLOW’S REPORT. He Tells «»f the Collision of the XVan-of-War Uunlcrcj The George Bill to Establish a I nitorm system of Bankruptcy AmeiHlec! Krri proeit y Asked l or I lour. AV\siiington. April 14.—At the instance of Mr. Gorman the senate deter- '■ mined to open the publication of tin' patent office Gazette to general competition. Reference was made during thy discussion to the inves^gation some months ago into the circumstances by whieh a friend of the then assistant seeretarv of the state. Air. Josiah Quincy, was awarded the contract. Air. Gorman carried his amendment for an open competition, although Air. Platt, chairman of the committee on patents', was in (qtposition. The rest of the day wa-s given to the Dupont ease, Senator Burrows. Alieliigan. ami Brown, Utah, supporting Mr. Dnjxmt's claim. AS AMENDED. The Geurgr Bill to Establish :i Tniform •system ot Bankruptcy Considered. AVaslHNgiov, April 14.—The George bill to establish a uniform systeni of i bankruptcy was reported to the senate I yesterday from the judiciary committee. I The .most important amemlmeitf made : was that providing that, where any debtor who being a banker, broker. I inerclrant, trader or manufactitrer, ow- : mg SSOO makes an assignment or co.n- --! veyance of ins property, or gives any I lien or incumbrance thereon contrived I or devisdd with the actual intent on hi.* * part to liefraud his creditors, such act shall be deemed bankruptcy. The measure provides for voluntary bankruptcy. At the same time Air. Alitchell of Oregon submitted the views of the minority of the committee in the shape of the measure agreed on by the house committee on the judiciary with some modifications. The latter provides for voluntary bankruptcy. CAPTAIN LI lILOW'S REPORT. He Tells of the Collision of Hie Monterey and Hie Swedish Steamer. Washington. April 14.—Captain Ludlow of the Monterey has reported to the navy department by telegraph the collision between his vessel and a 3,000-ton Swedish merchantman. The Monterey was lying at anchor at the time iu Puget sound.. The Swedish steamer struck the warship on the starboard quarter dead abeam, denting in o;e plate below the water line, and knocking off three rivet heads. The Swedish steamer was reixirted to be in danger of sinking at the time of sending the dispatch. The Monterey was ordered to Seattle to go Into the new dry dxx-k. To Amend Hie Sundry Civil Bill. Washington. April 14.—1 n the senate yesterday Air. Cullom gave notice of an amendment to the sundry civil bill providing that out of the appropriation made for the bureau of engraving and printing the linreau shall provide the full amount of internal revenue stamps required by law and that the printing, of postage stani] Bshall be done by contract to th* lowest bidder. Senator Gordon of Georgia ga\»e notice of a proposed umeiident to rhe naval bill appropriation <>0,0(10 fiifynus and aczoutl’emeiits lor the- naval militia of the various star* s. , lUdpi-ocity For Flour. Washington, April 14. —.Messrs. John Crosby and ( 'harles U. Bovy, representatiy- of the \Vashburg-< Josby company of JBftHreapolls, appeared before the subwminitee on reidproeity of the ways and means committee of the house yesterdai' to urge the readoption of the reciprocal features of the tariff act. Thtw- claimed the laws of European Countries discrimi 11ateagai 11st American flour. • . !>!«<• iissed 'TTie’TJisTrict of Coliuobia. Washington, April 14. —The house spent yesterday transacting business relating to the District of Coltimbia. Several billet were passed, It was the intention of Mr. Bartlett (Dem., N. Y) to call uj) his bill to authorize racing in the District of Columbia, but he was given no opportunity to do so. It is expected that he will ask unanimous consent for the consideration of the bill today. IN HONOR OF JEFFERSON. Many Democrats Celebrate'the Bii’<li<iay of the DlsHnguixlieil Virginian. Monticello, Va., April 14. —Yesterday the 153 d anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birthday , was fittingly observed here, where, he ?ived and died, by a gathering of a large number of prominent democrats from all sections of the country. The distinguished guests included'Vice President Stevenson, Secretary Herbert, Postmaster General Wilson, Attorney General Harmon, ex-Gov-krnor Russell of Massachusetts, Chauncey F. Black and Lawrence Gardner, president and secretary resuectivelv of the National Association of Democratic clu^ 1 and nearly two score of senators and representatives, besides a number of national com mitteelhen. The exercises commenced shortly after 2 o’clock*, and upon the broad lawns were assembled several hundred people ■who had come frorti the surrounding towns an farms. Three addresses were delivered,the first by Chauncey F. Black the second by ex-Governor Russell and the third by ex-Sen at or Daniel of A irginia. Lady For |l’niversWy Trustee. Peoria, ills , April 14—The Republican woman of Peoria county have arranged for a mass convention-to be held at tjhe Y. M. U. A. uuditoriMm heye. Delegates will be selected to the state convention at Springfield, and it is mole than probable instructions will be given for Mrs. Sue Simpsofi; of this city, aS candidate for- trustee of the state university. .

i 1. I*..■■ - ■"• *■'“ ■ !■ -•-■ I 1 n‘. ■ ■ ■ 11 w •* ' GERMS OF DISEASE KILLED. Fpideml'’*, It Is Said, Are No More to Be Dreaded Than Enrnche. Chicago, April. 14. - Professor W. P. Pratt and Hugh Wightman, the elei’ti’othdfapeutist and the bacteriologist of Bemietf Medical college of this city, elaime to have practically proved that epidemics will be impossible in the future. They claim that Asiatic cholera is no more to be leered than earache, I, ami that diphtheria, glanders amity- | phoid must all yield toThe new remedy. ■ I the Roeiitgen ray. ! The germs iu tbi'se diseases were 1 grown in tabes in proper media. .Magnetic lines in force from the Crookeslithe were passed through them. Ihe application lasted twohours. The i'hol1 era germs were the easiest ami appear jlO have been wiped out entirely. Diphtheria germs have been treated very , tetnlerlv and favorably, ami .after eight I days failed to show the slightest signs <>f life. There has been no activity in the bacteria, ami with certain liuxlitications the doctors are now ready to announce that the ray, properly applied, will destroy any form of infectious or contagious germ. This is indors'ed by the college faculty and tin 1 entire electrical equipment, the best in flu* west, will be turned over for future proof of the discovery which is now maintained 1 to be a fact. TESTING A NEW GUN. Result* of Ex|o‘i’iiii< nts Before the I nited slates Ollh’ers, New York. April 14. —A test of the new Dudley pneumatic gun. for tiring projectiles containing high explosive gelatine, was made yesterday at East Island. Long island Sound, before Alajor General Nelson A. Miles and the board of the ordnance of the United States army ami navy. The gun was operated by Designer Howell B. Elwell. In the first test five projectiles were fired in rapid succession, the projectiles I ■ weighing 33 pounds and containing 13 pounds of the explosive, being thrown I i a distance of from three quarters of a mile to a mile and a quarter. The . second test, hoyvever, did mH result so favorably, fin - during a target trial with projectiles the gun explodeH at the third shot, the officers who were stand- | ing in a semicircle behind it escaping I onlv bv a miracle. One man, a specta- ! tor.' was badly cut by a piece of the pietal. Another test will be made. EXPLOSION OF 'FIREDAMP. ■ Five Men Frobably Fatally Injured In a l’e 11 nsyKania Mine. WilkesbaßHE, Pa., April 141-<Five men were probably fatally injured by an explosion of firedamp during a fire in the red ash vein of the Woodward mine last night. They are: William Powell, fire boss. John Evans, mine foreman. James Lewis, ini tier. ‘ William I). Morgan, miner. Arthur Golightly, laborer. There is very little chance of recovery of the men, all of whom inhaled gas. The tire is still burning, but the superintendent said there was no danger of its spreading to any extent. The mine is one of the largest in the Wyoming valley and is operated by the Delawiire, Lackawanna and Western Railroad eoini,auy- '" '. •- ■ a ' ' NOT SOON ENOUGH. He Was Rescued From Hie Hands of II is Wife and Stepson, but. .May Die. St; Lot IS, April 14.—Joe Hatlcezaka, a Pole, whose screams for mercydrew a crowd t 1 his home, 142 G <>'Fallon street, yesterday, was rescued from the ham s of his wife and stepson, wljo were trying to kill him with a hatchet. Blood i covered the man's head and. .was spatteredover the woman and her soil;, who desisted when the neighbors came in. The badly wounded man pointed to the hatclu t and a trunk and said ’’they wanted to get rid of me." When tak( 11 to the citv hospital an examination revealed the fact that his skull had bet n crushed and the doctors said he could not live. Mrs. Hatlcezaka was arrested, but her son\escaped by jumping from a second story\ window. EX-SENAtOR TRUMBULL ILL. I _____ ■ Suddenly SH-fiffteh While Eulogizing exGovernpr Koerner. Belleville, Ills., April 15.—While delivering the oration at the funeralxif ex-Governor Koerner, ex-Senator Lvman Trnmbdll was taken ill. Considering his great age, a consultation of four physicians was held. They finally decided that it would be safe to take the senator home, under the care of Dr. L.. J. Bechtold. The illness of Mr. Trumbull has taken a serious turn, and the dix’tors in attendance express great fears as to his recovery. Corbett Full of Fight. Chicago, April 14.—Last night from the stage of- the Chicago operahouse, James J. Corbett announced that the Nat-ioual Sporting club of London had offered a purse of SIO,OOO for a fight between himself and Fitzsimmons. ‘'Fitzsimmons is going abroad May 2" sa id Corbett, "and 1 close my season the second week in May. I intend to take the first boat that I can get for England, and hope to bring Fitzsimmons to an agreement to fight.” j SHORT WIRINGS, ' Jordan Phillips, an Arkansas* preacher, ’ will be banged May 22 in Arkansas county f for wife murder. . The 75th anniversary of the independence ’ of Greece was appropriately observed tn ’ that country yesterday. By the death of Mrs. Anna W. Dickinson of Boston, 11380,000 will be distributed to various asylums and hospitals. j The .Massachusetts legislature is considering an appropriation of #IO,OOO fpr a monument to Ben jamin Butler. The United Mine Workers of America are in session at (,'olunibus, O. Ihe treasurer's report was read and accepted. The Democratic convention at Ebens--1 burg, Pa., elected .lames A. Gray as delegate, decided against the unit, rule and indorsed Pattison for president. ; Schaefer defeated Garnier in a liilliard [ sontest last night 300 to 222. 4 Josiah-Steele and Gustav Kreuger were - fatally burned at, Cambria, Pa., yesterday -by an explosion of firedamp.

TRAMPS AS ROBBERS They Hold Up an Agent and Friend and Lock Them In a Car. LITTLE GAIN FOR THE EFFORT. Prepiiration** Bring Haile For flu* <«. A. K. ! Enrmnpnient Wiitrhiiuin of thr Tollrs- i ton Ginn Club Arrhiriitnlly Killrii Mys- ' trrioim Drath <4 »laroh at A\ r>lsboro Indiana Xotrs of iiilrrrNt. Sorin Bend. Ind., April 13. R. K. McGhnl'Ty. uighl’ agent of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad nt Mishawaka, this county, and William Lamphen*, a friend in tin- office with him, were held up early yesterday morning by two burly tramps. Tim agent had jiist received permission from his train dispatcher to leave tlm station for a short time ami turning around peered inf", the barrels of two big revolvers. From, Lam pl tore the tramps secured only $1.2.5 and from AfcGladery $3 and a fine pail’ of shoes. The only pocket in AlcGladery's clothes which they' did not touch contained $l6O, which he had recently drawn from a bank. The tramps then took sll from the till, stopped tlm clock ami marched the two men to a boxear, where they hx’ked I hem in and escaped. McGladery and Lamphen* remained prisoners until nearly daylight, when a train crew released them. .hsTice 4’AME di i< kly. Arrested mid *%ent. Io the iary Within an limit*. Muncie, Iml.. April 13.—John Miller was arrested Saturday afterm.on at the Columbian hotel on the chargv of lar- ! cetiy, he having stohfii a number of ar--1 tides from tin* proprii‘tor's room. His ' arrest occurred at 2:30 o'clock. He was taken before the mayor, bound over to court, placed in jail and then taken before Judge Koons and at 3:10 o'clock was sentenced to one year iu the. penitentiary. He came here Thursday from Chicago, where Ik* has a mother and child. He stated that he was a machinist by trade, I but from articles in his trunk the * police think that he is a professional crook. Among the articles was a great amount of silverware, on which “Marble hotel" was engi’aved. The quickness in which he received his sentence breaks all previous Sheriff Sherry left for the penitentiary with Miller at once. GRAND ARMY l*R EI*A RATIONS, List of Speakers Who Will Entertain the Old Sohiiers.* £outh Bend, Ind., April 13. —The principal speakers for the annual encampment in this city on May 13 and 14 of the Indiana department. G. A. R., are: Comniander-iii-Chief \\ alker, Adjutant General Robbins, Gener.il James R. Carnahan. Dr. W. T. Stoft r Henry C. Adams, Dr. D. R. Lucas. Hon J. B. Cheadle and Dr. Daniel Ryan. The great reception campfire will be held on the evening of May 12, and the prekiding oftieeFwill be. General Carnahan. The presiding officers on the following evening at the several camp tireswill be Department Commander H. 15. Slyvelt*y, Fast I omniamler A.'ll. Marsh anil Past'Connmmder .hum s T. Johnston. Mystery Sui roirn.ls Hix Death, Laporte, 1n41., April 13.—Jacob Kuberna of this city was found dead on the-. Grand Trunk railroad track at Wellsboro, this county. How his death occurred is shrouded in mystery. He was waiting to take a train home,;and as it was late he walked a short distance down the track, and that was the last seen of him until his dead body was found. Will Be With the Marion Chronicle. IndianAi’oi.is, April 13. —Walter K. Landis, wlqa has been iu this city several vears as the correspondent of Cincinnati Commercial Gazette and on the local staff of The Journal, will leav’fc the city this afternoon for Marion, where he will be with the Marion Chronicle, in which paper he has recently obtained an interest, Gnn Club Wat.-linian KlHeil. Hammond, Ind., April 13.—Richard ,B...Ston’e of Louisville, Ky., a watchman .on* the grounds of the Tolleston Gun club, was accidentally shot and killed. . While pushing a boat in the river his rifle was discharged, the ball entering his right side ami passing through his body. , INDIANA NEWS NOTES. Florida is in the throes of a hydrophobia scare. Jay county infirmary, costing #21,000, has been completed. —Herbert Dilling of Jonesboro is demented on the subject of spirit uiilism. A receiver has been appointed for G. M. Wysong& Co., confectioners, Indianapolis. Several citizens of Shelbyville are organizing a company for the relief of Cuba, A thief stole *SOO from the bookkeeper of the Bates House, Indianapolis, Saturday. ' - .... R esidents of Mitchell have voted to bu ild 21 miles of macadamized road iu that city and township. Wade Simpson and Miss Laura Nutter of Martinsv de eloped Saturday and were, : married at Jeffersonville. William Uoughlen, aged 76, and Mrs. Martjjia W. Morrow, aged 70, pioneers of ■ Indianapolis, died Saturday. Charlotte I.udoviz.. an actress, aged 17, who-Xravelle'’ with the "Eight Bells” company. died at Elkhart Saturday. 1 The boot and shoe store of E. <). Harris of Thorntown was -plundered Saturday i night and #SO worth of goods taken. The jury in the White saloon case at Shelbyville disagreed Saturday. The remaining cases will be pushed to the end. Members of the senior class of. the Girls Classical school at. Indiuntipolis successfully gave “Love’s Labor Lost Saturday 1 UighlOver 400 Indianapolis bicyclerS'Took out ‘ licenses Sari* relay. It-was the busiest day r I in that. Jibe ever experienced by the city controller.

INGERSOLL’S SERMON. His Text Was ‘'There Is No Darkness but Ignorance.” 'I 4 Citicago, April 13.—Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll spoke before the iMilitnnt church congregation yesterday in response to an invitation extended by Iho | pastor, tin* Rev. John Rusk. After havittg been introduced Mr. Ingersoll said: ; l, Thi re is no darkness but ignorance," was tin* opening sentence of the address i by the noted orator, who from the outset argued forcefully for intellectual development. Ile contended that “every human being is a necessary product of #<■*) conditions, and every one is born with defects for which jje cannot be held re-

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KOl’.l- GT G. INGERSOLL, sponsible. Nature seems to care noth'- ’ ing for tne individual, nothing foe the I'■ . I SpoWles. His argument for the betterment of mankind wa< directed against war and the preparations therefor, which were accomnl'slmi' at a waste of slo.(mhi a t minute.:: f id which if used in another direct.*’i v oiild result in great good. * Churches also are conducted at too great ;:i uutliiy. For coiTectness he sugge-1 ‘u the laying aside of dogmas ami ere Ms and the formation of one genera 1 place of worship in towns of fou.’ *(■ five thousand people. He think there should be but one church in si • h towns, and that this should btf i I < pe*: seven days in a week. It should i b■* voted to all firms of amusement, in* hiding theatricals, music, billiards, t cards, etc. He would lessen crime bymaking seh(x>lsof the penitentiaries and would put dangerous criminals on some isolated island, separating the sexes. The problem of the home, the labor question end education of the children were themes which were daringly handled. The accomplishment of till he urged was not expected soon, be said, but a step in that direction would be for those earning a surplus in life's conquest. -|j to devote a part thereof toward rescuing the fallen, helping those who are helping themselves and to give work to the idle. “Let us flood the world with intellectual liL'iit. ' be said in concluding. CLEVELAND CONFLAGRATION. Many Live.*# I mprrilrd ami Property Destroyed In an Early Tloi iiing Fire. Ci.EVfiT,ANt>. April 13.—A tire which Started early yesterday morning in a 3.story tmiement house at the corner of Muirson and Oregon streets caused a loss of $10,001) and put the lives of the* members of 1.5 fqmilu s in peril for a brief period. The lire started on the > second floor of the building. wh *’h was * a frame structure, and the orcin (fit* of the upper suites of rooms al; reached th** tire escapes in safety, x. ith the exception of .one young woman named Mary Gox, who jiinipi'd from a third , story window and was badly hurt. Charles Watjiins with his wife and baby occupied one of the flats. He was awakened by smelling smoke. Hastily t rousing bis wife and child, he attempted • to escape by the way of the hall, but the flames dove him back. , Then he burst open the door of the room of Misses Mary and Anna Cox. Watkins told them to Come with him. k He then smashed the panel in the door leading to the next suite, occupied by Miss Mae Burke. From the window of this room the fire escape could be reached and Miss Burke had already started to descend it. Watkins nulled his wife and child and Miss Anna Cox through the hold in the door and placed . them oh the fire escape. He then went 1 back for Miss Cox, but just as he reached her she plunged from the windoyy. She was caught by men below and escaped A with a broken arm and a few burns. The losses are mostly covered by insurance. Miners may strike. Delegate* Selected to Make a New Scale Are DiaiiiiMKed. Brazil, Ind., April 13.—The action of j a nuihber of miner’s lodges in the block coal district indicates a strike, as they dismissed the delegates previously ap- ■ ? pointed to select a committee to confer I with the operators relative to a mining .scale. These miners claim that the operators will have to modify the proposijtioh they made last Saturday, inas- ’ much as they stated that they would not pay over 70 cents a ton, even if the j Pennsylvania scale . Went, to |l. The <*' miners also say they will not sigh the scale proposed by the operators unless * they have a benefit in rhe raise in the same proposition granted in competing i fields. NVouldbe Murderer EscapeH. Whitehall, Ills., April 13.—Fulton F. Worcester, lumber dealer and lead- I ing citizen, was shot twice with a revolver yesterday morning by a burglar. 'j in his bed chamber. The burglar then " jumped out the window ;ind escaped. 7 Bloodhounds were brought from Jack- , sonville, but so many pebple had visited the scene of the shooting that nbdefinite starting point could be found. Seven * other houses wi*re entered but nothing of value/procured. Mr. Worcester is suffering much pain, but it is thought that his injuries will Lot prove fatal. Weather. Indiana and Illinois—Fair, followed* by showers;.cooler. , . ' r ■ ' k :i