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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1894.

lend his Influence to the passage of the seigniorage bill. They had met casually at the Secretary otTic?, and as Mr. lfland was going to the Capitol. Mr. Carlisle accompanied him for the purpose of talking over the Bland bill with the silver leader. Th.se talks brought out the fact that the Secretary was not strenuously opposed to the coinage of the seigniorage, although he did not approve of some of the propositions In the Bland bill by which this added sliver coinage was to be secured. It is understood that the Secretary pointed out a flaw In the first section of the bill, which Mr. Bland himself concaded should be modified. The section; provides: That the Secretary of the Treasury shall Immediately issue silver certificates in the amount equal to the seigniorage of the silver bullion, to wit, Mr. Carlisle pointed out that the mandatory provision that the Secretary "shall immediately issue $.". 11.681" of silver certificate? is hardly necessary, as the current expenses might not require the compulsory issue of such a largs amount of silver certificates at a single stroke. Mr. Uland eaid that he had not appreciated this point, and was ready to offer an amendment when the bill was taken up by which the Secretary will be given authority to Issue the silver certificates as circumstances demanded. Instead of being- compelled to issue them in blocks Immediately. Mr. Tracey has made a preliminary canvass of the House, which satisfied him that the seigniorage bill would be dafeattyi by 8 or 10 votes if a full membership could be secured, but this Mr. Tracey does not expect. 113 Is ready, however, to raise the point of consideration against the bill, and this may delay the debate on it. Patents Granted Indlantans. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.-Patents were granted to Indiana inventors to-day as follows: Charles F. Bane, Lafayette, device for automatically opening valves in airbrake couplings; Rufus C. Eeardsley, Lafayette, conduit electric railway; Nathaniel H. Bledsoe, assignor of one-half to G. A. Ilabus, Fort Wayne, identifying check; Sidney M. Ferguson, assignor of one-half to himself and J. M. Well. Klwood. mail bag fastener; Charles C. Gilmore. Indianapolis, gas-making apparatus; John N. Kailor and M. T. Reeve, assignors to Beeves & Co., Columbus, clover huller feeder; Klwood W. McGulre, Richmond, adjustable journal bearing; Thomas E. Fhilllps. assignor of one-half to B. A. McGee, G. W. Bolenbacher. P. K. Busklrk and J. Karsell, Bloomington. and J. II. Dunn, Louisville, Ky., separating fibres of reed cane; Griffith W. Williams. Greensburg, fence wire ratchet; Edward T. Wires, assignor of onehalf to A. Chancy, Terre Haute, cap and draw pin for foundry use; James J. Wood, Fort Wayne, alternating dynamo. Another Anti-Option Hill. WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. There is a possibility that the Senate will pass the George anti-option bill, which was Introduced only a short time ago, aid seek to prevent dealings In options and futures by making It a crime. Instead of taxing them out of existence, as provided for in the Washburn bill. Several Senators have announced that they are willing to give the George plan a trial, even if they prefer the other. The principal objection, made to the George bill is that the dealers will either evade it or it will be declared unconstitutional. It is expected that Mr. Hatch will have a light on his hands to secure the reference of his bill to the committee on agriculture, of which he is chairman, Instead of the ways and mean3 committee, where his opponents will try to send It. To Hestore Ex-Clerks. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. A favorable report was to-day made by the House judiciary committee on the Bynum bill providing that the Postmaster-general may reln- . state those railway mall clerks who were dismissed between March 13 and May 1, without examination. This was the period in which notice was given that railway mail clerks would be brought within the civil service and before it went Into effect. About one thousand mall clerks were dropped from the rolls, their dismissals being dated April 23. 1SS9. Quite a number of them had run3 in Indiana. Crowdn at the White Hnaae. WASHINGTON. Feb. 6. The last evening; reception of the season was given by President and Mrs, Cleveland to the general public at the White House to-night, and was attended by an enormous crowd. Long before the doors were thrown open the line of persons waiting to shake hands with tha President and Mrs. Cleveland reached far outside of the White House gate. The east room, where the President and Mrs. Cleveland, assisted by members of the Cabinet and their wives received, was brilliantly lighted and beautifully decorated with tlowers, palms and ferns. Music was furnished by the Marine Band. Republicans BlsmUaed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.-W. T. Brown, of Indiana, and W. C. Tenney and N. Hill, of Ohio, clerks In the Pension Office, have been dismissed. They are Republicans. The object in dismissing them is really to make room for Democrats. Mr. Brown has been drawing a salary of tl.000 a year. W. S. Odell, formerly of Indiana, an Inspector in the health department, this city, has been asked to resign. Mr. Odell was a Union soldier and an Intense Republican, hence his dismissal from the federal service. Look Doric for I'ockhnm. WASHINGTON, Feb. C.-Tne Senate committee on Judiciary has postponed until Monday next consideration of the Peckham nomination. This is supposed to be slightly unfavorable to the nominee. Senator Lindsay, of Kentucky, was favorable to the nomination of Mr. Hornblower, but is reported against Peckham, in obedience to the resolutions of the Kentucky Legislature. Several members of the committee have net given any indication how they will vote. Confirmations liy the Senate. WASHINGTON. Feb. 6.-The Senate In executive session to-day confirmed the following nominations; Thomas Moonlight, of Kansas, o be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Bolivia; 11. IT. Wheeler to be pension agent at Detroit, Mich.; First Lieutenant Samuel Reber, Ninth Cavalry, to be first lieutenant by transfer in the signal corps. General Aotes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. W. T. Shelurne was to-day appointed postmaster at lolletvllle. Hamilton county, vice Harvey Hand, resigned. Mrs. Thomas J. Brady, of Classic Shore. Va., wife of General Brady, formerly of Muncie, is visiting friends here. E. C. Fletcher, of Indianapolis, is at the Arlington and A. L. Conger, jr., .of Akron, 0.. and Muncie, Is at the Ebbitt. Mrs. Bynum was among the guests of Mrs. Hoke Smith at a breakfast to Mrs. Cleveland yesterday. Representative Brookshlre introduced a bill to-day to pension, at $12 a month, Andrew J. McGlnnls. who served in Company U, Sixty-third Indiana Volunteers. TO-DAY'S WEATHKlt FORECAST. Generally Cloudy, with Showers "Warmer Soalli Wlntlt. WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.-For IndlanaGenerally cloudy, with showers; warmer; south winds. For Illinois Generally cloudy, with showers: slight changes in temperature during Wednesday; south winds. For Ohio Increasing cloudiness, probably srowers in western portion; warmer; south winds. Local Observation. Indian a id lis. Ind.. Feb. t.

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7 a.m. 7 r. m. 3tt.2f Swet. jClear. ronth. 'Clear. 0.00 O.OO 3) 12 Maximum temperature. .V.!; rolutxnum temperature. The following 1 a comparative statement of thn teiuperaturo and precipitation, Feb. C. 13U1: Tern. Pre, Normal. 30 0.12 Mean 41 .0O Depart ura from normal "11 0.12 Kxteitsor defb 1 ncy inco IVti. 1 "4 0.63 Exees or dettcieucy since Jan 1 '240 2.3'J plus. C K. It. Waitkniianh, Local Forecast Official. United states Weather liureau. The Harrison Telephone Company. CHICAGO. Feb. 6. The Harrison International Telephone Company met here today and decided to organize at once In every State and Territory, proposing to give service at greatly reduced rates. At prent its instruments are used mostly on private lines. ComiftIenr Pre ft r It. We siak of the exquisite "Pal? Select" and "Coiim.Ma. Jjt. orc-wei ana ixutieu by tho Home Urvrin Company. Tel. Ki'J.

J7xVTAL NATURAL GAS

A Two-Story Brick Building: Demolished by an Explosion. One Child Killed and Another Seriously HurtOther Inmates Escape Without Serious Injury. A natural-gas explosion at 4S3 Madison avenue, at 1 o'clock this morning, killed little Itosa Kuechler and Injured five other people, besides completely wrecking the two-story building", which was occupied by Louis Kuechler as a saloon and a residence. It seems remarkable that any of the people buried In the ruins were able to escape, so complete was the collapse. The explosion was loud enough to be heard in any part of the South Side, and within half an hour a crowd of people were gathered about the place, many of whom joined In the search for the victims under the ruins. Firemen at engine house No. 4 rushed to the place and with their axes began to clear away the beams and bricks to reach the family. Mr. Kuechler and his wife slept in a room over the front of the saloon and in another department directly behind this were their children, Julius, aged fifteen; Rosa, aged twelve; Louis, aged ten, and Charles, aged eight. The front part of the building was of brick and behind was a frame addition, in the second story of which slept Theodore Schrelber and Hugo Zwlcker, two young men who boarded with the Kuechlers. The boarders did not suffer from the force of the explosion, but the apartment in which they were was crasned in somewhat, and they had to make their escape through a window. It was a half hour or more after the explosion before the firemen were able to take any one from the fallen walis. The boy Charles was the first one found. His face and head were badly contused and the blood was streaming- from his nostrils. He was still breathing; however, tnd Dr. Schafer had hopes that he would live. Little Rosa, a pretty child, was the next victim found. There were no signs of life in her body, and as her head was badly swollen It was bellevod that she wan killed by the falling of a oeam. Her ledy was taken to the residence of Mrs. I tonard Miller, Just north of the wrecked sa'ton, where Charles had oeen carried srortly before. Julius, the oldest eon, had dug his way out and was in Meyer's barber shop, south of the saloon, when the firemen began strenuous work to rescue the father and the mother. Louis, another son, had also succeeded in escaping from timbers that held him. The roof of the saloon had fallen directly over the bed occupied by the father and the mother, and the failure of the explosion to split the roof probably saved their lives. The rescuers could hear an occasional moan from under th roof, and they knew at once that one and possibly both were alive. Soon the lusty cries of both were heard. THE PARENTS SAVED. The mother was the first taken out and she was able to walk to the barber shop. A few minutes later Kuechler was rescued, and he was also able to make his way to where his wife had been taken. Strong arms supported him, however. Patrolmen Shafer and Hanahan are the policemen on that beat, and they say they were in the saloon about 10:30 o'clock. They did not notice any signs of escaping gas. They smoked In the saloon and soon left to make their rounds. A fire was In the stove, which Is of the "cannon" make. Hugo Zwlcker, one of the boarders, stated last night that artificial gas was used In the saloon for lighting purposes, while natural gas was uted lor heating pxirposes. Some time ago, he says, Mrs. Keuchler complained of escaping gas. and the saloonist made some attempt to fix the key to the stove In the saloon. He said that the key turned too easily. Zwlcker had noticed, on coming home at night, that there was an odor of gas. He said the family had all retired when ho got in at 11 o'clock last night He thought the gas was burning in the stove. There was :c stove on the second floor of the building. Julius Kuechler said, after he had made his way out of the wreck, that the ras probably escaped from the cellar. After he found himself Imbedded In the debris he began to claw his way out. He heard his father crying and he made an attempt to reach him. but found that he was unable to do so. Julius was not injured, and stolidly considered the situation, while the firenen were digging for his parents. The f jrce of the explosion must have carried tne debris extremely high, to judge from the manner in which the brick structure was rent asunder and the bricks crumbled to dust. Iron rods were hurled across the street, and some of the bricks were torn out of the walls In such a terrific manner that they were stripped of their mortar. The gable roof of the front of the building fell flat after the explosion. A singular feature of the affair was the presence of much water In the street directly In front of the building. There Is no water pipe connection to the premises. Several tire department vehicles were sent to the scene, but there was no occasion to throw water on the place, as there was no signs of fire. Kuechler was formerly the custodian of Garfield Park, but after the last administration went Into the saloon business at the above place. Kuechler had lived on Madison avenue only about seven months, having before that time resided on Orange street, where he owned a house. For fifteen vears he lived on MeCarty street, lie and his wile are about fifty years of age. HOW TUB HOY ESCAPED. Julian Snym He Das Ills Way Out to the Top of the Pile. The first persons who emerged from the ruins were the two boarders, Theodore Schrelber and Hugo Zwlcker, who were in the frame portion of the house, which the explosion left practically unharmed. They were followed some moments afterwards by Julius Kuechler, the oldest child, a large and strong boy for his age. He was covered with mortar and dust, and his legs and arms were somewhat bruised. He says he remembered nothing from the time he went to bed until he was dropped into space by the falling of the floor. He saw a huge sheet of flame, heard a terrific noise Just a second before he dropped, and the next he knew he was covered with bricks and pieces of timber. Fortunately nothing fell on the boy of sufficient weight to injure him. and he burrowed upward throujtfi the debris until he made his escape. The smell of the gas. he said, almost suffocated him, but he held his breath ns much as -ssible and trot out safely. Julius wa.s i given some overalls to put on, and was ' f 1 - - 1 fc 1 v soon in rainy goou snape ag-ain. inougn much excited as he recalled the experience he had passed through. The next -ivi rerno.eil from the ma?9 of ruins was Charles Kuechler, a boy of ten, who was lilted carefully from beneath a lot of jagged timbers and carried as gently as possible over the pile of broken br.cks to the sidewalk. Sergeant Barlow he!d the unconscious boy In his arms and asked where he should take him. "Right into my house." called out sympathetic Mrs. Miller, who lives next door, end whose TTlile home was transformed for the time being Into a hospital. "I have everything ready for him," she said, ami he was carried through the cun jus, staring crowd Into the little cottage, where tender hands cared for him. He was pale and senseless. His head was somewhat cut, but he was evidently not fatally hurt. A careful examination soon ! set at rest any fears that his Injuries were fatal, and he was bathed and given tne needed attention and was Foon sleeping quietly. Ills injuries are not considered te1 rious. The crushed body of little ttosa Kuechler. twelve years ol, the or.ly victim of the xploslon, was found a few moments after

Charlie had been taken from the ruins. They quickly saw that life was extinct, and the unfortunate child must have been instantly killed, her neck having been broken. Like her more fortunate brother, she went clear through to the cellar, and it is probable that a beam fell across her neck and broke It Her body was - not noticeably bruised, and the only mark on her was a cut on her upper lip. The limp, lifeless form was placed In a blanket and carried into Mrs. Mlllers's cottage. Rosa's death was kept from the parents, whose first Inquiries after their rescue was for her. Mrs. Kuechler was next reached by the tireless 'force of police and assistants. She was apparently not injured to a serious extent but had been pinioned with her husband in the cellar bv timbers, and both had to be literally sawed out of the place. She cried so lustily for help that the rescuers were directed to the place they lay. Her escape from fatal or even serious injury Is remarkable, and she was able to walk with assistance into the little barber shop adjoining. Her chief concern was her children, and she asked repeatedly for them, being told that they were all right. She was removed soon after to the house of a mirried daughter, Mrs. Kmma Fessler, on MeCarty street, opposite Schmidt's brewery. Her husband, Lewis Kuechler, was the last one taken from the wreck. He. was half unconscious and groaned as if in great pain. The rescuers bore him to the barber shop next door, where he soon regained consciousness, and it was found that no bonea were broken, though his injuries appeared to distress him considerably. With his wife he was taken to his daughter's home. Unless Internal injuries develop, he will recover, for ho showed no marks of his terrible experience. Officers Hanahan and Shafer were among the llrst to arrive on the scene. The latter reached the spot ahead of his companion, and called to him to throw away his cigar. The smell of gas was overpowering, and they were driven back from the rooms for a few moments by the suffocating odor Soon, however, the sc?ne was alive with people, and the work of rescue began systematically. It was a well-managed work, and many willing hands lent their aid to the pulling aside of Joists, bricks and mortar. Every care was exercised as the workers reached the imprisoned ones, and the rescue was accomplished in the best Imaginable manner. The scene was one of destruction, the entire brick front of the large house being literally blown to fragments.

WANT TO RESTORE LILT. The Japanese Think They Have a Right to Interfere in Hawaii. SAX FRANCISCO, Feb. 6. The steamer Peru arrived here to-day with latest advices from China and Japan. The Japan Daily Herald, speaking of the Hawaiian question, says editorially: "A cablegram to President Cleveland from the Emperor here, informing him that his imperial Majesty intends to restore tho Queen of Hawaii to her throne, wouia be approved by him." The piper advies that three o; four Japanese men-of-war be sent to Honolulu with peremptory demand for restoration of the Queen, and says that Japan has the right to interefere for protection to the Japanese on the Islands. The following statistics or loss by floods last October have been compiled: People killed, 1,400; missing, 1.000; buildings entirely demolished, 40,000; houses damaged, 300,000. The steamer Kalge Mara la reported wreck! with a loss of sixty-three people. Tornadoes and earthquakes have been experienced during the past month and great damage done. OBITUARY. Gen. Jacob Ammen, AVho Grndunted at Went I'olnt In 1831. CINCINNATI. Feb. 6.-Gen. Jacob Ammen. retired, United States army, died suddenly of heart disease at Ickland, O., thl3 afternoon, aged eighty-six years. Jacob Ammen was born in Botetourt county, Virginia, Jan. 7, 1808. He graduated at West Point in 1S31. After several years as Instructor In mathematics at West Point he accepted a professorship at Bacon, College, Georgetown, Ky., and from there went to JeiTerson College at Washington, Miss., in 1SJ0. In 1S40 he came to the Indiana State University, holding the chair In mathematics one year, and going back to JeiTerson College, from where he returned to Bacon College in 1S4S. In 18S1 he became captain of a company of Ohio volunteers at Blpley, O., and was promoted to lieutenant colonel the next month, taking part in the West Virginia campaign. He was promoted to brigadier-general in 1S'J2 and placed In command of the camps of instruction in Ohio and Illinois in 1SG3. He resigned In 18C5, being then in command of the East Tennessee district. Lt. Scuolleld. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.. Feb. 6. L. Schofleld, the tirst man to make railroad and bar iron in the South, died last night, at his home In St. Llmo, a suburb of this city. Mr. Schoheld was eighty years old. He was bom in England, but emigrated early to this country, and was for some time associated with Peter Cooper and Abraham S. Howett. In 1S59 he went to Atlanta, and during the war made much armor for confederate vessels. Schoneld also invented many valuable mechanical appliances. Other Dcnths. PITTSBURG, Feb. 6. Captain James Gault, who had charge of the tirst steamboat navigating the Monongahela river, died last night at Point Breeze at the home of his son, Thomas Gault He had been in declining health for several years, sufTerlnsr with a complication of ailments. He was seventy-nine years old, and was well known along1 the Monongahela and Ohio rivers. BEItLIN. Feb. 6. A dispatch from Abkaziu. announces the death of Proi'essor Theodore Billroth, the celebrated German surgeon. Professor Billroth was born at Bergen, April 26, 1S20, and was the author of a number of valuable works on surgery. MEXICO CITY, Mex.. Feb. 6. Miguel Norena, the foremost Mexican sculptor, is dead from typhus. He was the designer of the statue of Cuanhtemoc, on the Pasco de la Reforma in this city, and leaves many other monuments to his penlus. DAYTON, O.. Feb. 6. Charles Anderson McDanlel, aged fifty-two years, paymaster In the United States navy for thirty years, died here to-day from cancer of the stomach. He will be buried here. COLUMBIA. Mo.. Feb. C Prof. B. C. Hinde. of the University of North Carolina, died here to-day at the home of hi3 father. Dr. II. K. Hinde, aged thirty-one. LONDON, Feb. 6. Mr. Joseph Leigh, member of Parliament for Stockport, Is dead. Mir. Leigh was twice Mayor of Stockport, and was a cotton magnate. NEW YORK, Feb. 6. Harry Watklns, one of the oldest actors In this country, last nifrht died suddenly of heart disease at his home in this city. PARIS. Feb. 6. Marie De Raisme, one of the promoters of the women's movement in France, is dead. Xot Seekliiif a. Divorce. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 6.-Mr. E. C. Butler, secretary of the United States legation In the City of Mexico, arrived here to-day. At the time Mr. Butler left his post of duty a dispatch was sent from the City of Mexico to the effect that he was coming to Kansas City to prosecute divorce proceedings against Mrs. Butler. Mr. Butler said to an Associated Press representative to-day that the statement emanate! from untrustworthy sources. "I came here to visit my wife's frl?nd.V he said, "and not with any intention of seeking a divorce." nnslneKH EnilmrrnnNtnentn. CHICAGO. Feb. 6. Judge Grosscup, of the United States Ccurt, decided to-day the motion to remove the American Building and Loan Investment Association receivership from the United States to the State courts. He will retain Jurisidction of the case, but agreed to appoint a receiver as recommended by Attorney-general Maloney. NEW YORK, Feb. d. Andrews & Doty, commission merchants In precious stones. No. 27 Broadway, assigned to-diy to Geo. W. Gb.ze without preferences. The firm has a rating of about $"0,0O0. Ileer Drlnkcri Boycotted. SPRINGFIELD. O.. Feb. 6. Another sensation In the St. Luke's German Lutheran Church trouble was sprung to-day, when lvl Schmidt, a prominent member, charged that the minister. Rev. Arthur E. Grtn?el, refuses to give communion to members who drink beer. The Illlnol Delegation. The committee of the Illinois Board of Agriculture who came here to inspect the Indiana State fair grounds, spent the morning at the pork yesterday and left in the afternoon for Columbus. The eround3 and buildings pleased them very much. The only criticism they had to make was concerning some of the speed barns. Local Fire Insurance Compnny. There will be a meeting of manufacturers at the Commrclxl Club this evening to discuss the advisability of organlnzing a mutual ftr tn'.ir.ince COniDlllV. Th uro. ! motors of tht entf rprise have securd some tW.a cf a statistical nature that will be presented.

FUEE-THADE SHOWING

Exhibit of British Commerce in 1893 Far from Encouraging. The Cause as Viewed by a Leader of the Social Democratic Feneration Revengeful Murder in Italy. LONDON. Feb. 6.The publication of the government Board of Trade returns for 1S33 has produced a profound " impression throughout the country and has deepened the gloom caused by the present commercial depression. The total imports last year were 4O5,OC0,C9O, as compared with 123,793,SS2 in 1S92 and 433,441,204 in 1S9L The value of re-exports of foreign and colonial products declined last year by nearly 6,000,ouo as compared with 1892. Hence the country not merely Imported less for its own consumption, but lost the handling of a large amount as brokers and the usual profit thereon. The value of British exports in 1893 was 218.496,246, as compared with 227,077.063 In 1892 and 247,235,150 in 1S3L The apparent balance against the country was 127,627,fc52 In 1893, as against 126.409.521 in 1S91. One of the leaders of tlxe Social Democratic Federation declared to-day that the present conditions would materially advance the cause of radicalism and republicanism In Great Britain. Said he: "We have lost the market of the world, thanks to capitalistic greed and the war between capital and labor. Our much-vaunted free competition has overreached itself. We have taught our rivals the blessed principle of buying in the cheapest and selling in the dearest market to such purpose that they have set up business on our own lines anil are never at a loss to rind an Englishman who will help to ruin his country's reputation for the sake of personal gain. Individualism stands to-day a confessed failure and mammon, bankrupt, will soon have to put up the shutters." PLOTTED FOR TE. YEARS. An Italian Kills UU Brother's SInyer on the Latter' Wedding Day. LONDON, Feb. 6.-A dispatch from Rome says: "In 1SS4 Signor Clampanella, a resident of Clvita Lavlgna, became Involved In a dispute with a young main named Falclnl, and the latter wis killed, it being subsequently proved that the killing was done in self-defense. Falclni has a brother who, at the time, was ten years old. He determined to avenge the death of his brother, and as time went on he began to lay his plans to put an end to Clampanella s life. The latter was to have been married to-day, and great preparations had been made for the event. The invitations hail been issued, and almost everybody in the village, which has only eight hundred Inhabitants, expected to have a dance and a feast. Karly this morning Faicini avenged his brother's death. He treacherously cut the throat of the expectant bridegroom and then placed the corpse in the nuptial bed that nad already been prepared. Falclni surrendered himself to the police, acknowledging the crime without the slightest trace of remorse. The bride-elect was informed of the fate of her Intended husband, and some of the friends took her to the room in which the murderer had placed the body. When she saw the corpse lying on the nuptial couch her grief was frightful. It it is feared that she will lose her reason. Falcinl'a sister and brother-in-law have been arrested, it being suspected that they instigated Falclni to commit murder when he did. The town was horrified when the news of the murder was made public and the carnival fetes were at once stopped." HOTEL BUKXED. Guests Escnpe in Their Msht Clothes nnl AVnlk In tlie Snow. SOMERSET, Fa., Feb. 6. The Park Hotel, one of the largest hotels in this section, was destroyed by fire early this morning. The flames spread so rapidly that the occupants had to leave the building in their night clothes, and many of the women and children were taken from the windows with the aid of ladders. One servant girl, Ella Harmon, was overcome by the smoke, and was rescued with difficulty. She was badly burned and may die. The guests suffered greatly from the cold, and had to walk through the snow In their barefet to places of shelter. The building contained thirty rooms, and was formerly the home of the late Judge J. Black. Loss, $30,000. Threw Children Oat of the Window. CINCINNATI, Feb. 6.-At midnight tonight fire was discovered on the ground floor of a tenement The man that discovered it threw a bowlder through the second-story window and awakened the occupants, who were Mrs. Combs, her son, aged four, and daughter, aged six, and Miss Coleman, a friend. Mrs. Combs threw her two children out of the window on the stony pavement twenty feet below. The boy, Marlon, Is dying, Mrs. Combs is probably fatally injured, the girl, Stella, Is unhurt and Mise Coleman jumped and escaped with slight Injury. Iluulneas II lock Ilnrned. SAVANNAH, Ga., Feb. 5. A fire that started yesterday morning in the Bay-street block occupied by the Savannah Grocery Company caused a loss estimated at between $250,000 and $500,000. The fire spread rapidly, and destroyed several large buildings and their contents. AMUSEMENTS. St. Joeph I In II "A Celebrated Cnc. The best amateur performance seen in years in this city was that of "A Celebrated Case." under the auspices of SL Joseph's Commandery at St. Joseph's Hall last night. Nearly every seat in the house was taken and the audience at times became violently demonstrative, insisting on curtain calls following the thrilling climaxes at the close of the first and third acts. The surprising excellence of the work of the amateurs is easily explained by the fact that two well-known legitimate actors, temporarily in the city, took two heavy parts and put the cast through a week's rigid discipline. Though no dress rehearsal had been given, the candidates for Thespian honors were remarkably free from that bugbear to every young actor, stage fright, and with possibly one or two exceptions every member of the cast went through the exacting roles with the self-possession of veterans. Naturally the work of William Lloyd, as Jean Renaud, and Frederick Lorraine, as Count D'Mornay, was strikingly strong, but that was to be expected of two such finished performers with their years of experience. Mr. Lloyd was the famous John McCul-loug-h's leading man for several years, having supported that great tragedian throughout his extensive repertoire when Mr. McCullough was at his best. He has also supported Fanny Davenport, Thomas Keene and the late William II Sheridan, besides having starred with his own company. In addition to a noticeable resemblance, perhaps unconscious, In his makeup, Mr. Lloyd displayed a number of traits that vividly recalled the old master, McCullough. Gifted with a sympathetic voice, the effect was preatly heightened by what seemed absolutely perfect elocution, making It, indeed, a pleasure to hear him read the lines of the old soldier personated. Mr. Lorraine was another surprise, as well as treat, to the audience. His ttress and action was strikingly artistic, which is undoubtedly the result of his perionce for three seasons with Marga:-et Mather. Mr. Lorraine can boast of having played Parl3 in "Romeo and Juliet" more times, consecutively, than any other actor. His face has de eloped Into what may be called distinctively tragic since last seen In this city wltn Miss Mather, making heavy roles far more suited to his talents. His voice is deep and flexible, and was well meant to Inspire hatred In the villainous Impostor, Count D'Mornay. The scene with Valentine whs thrilling. Miss Ada Metzger easily lei the women In the cast, and should be classed among the professionals by eason of her several years' experience. Her role was heavy and well sustained, as was also that of Miss Kate Ward as Adrienne. who has also had e:yerlence before the footlights. Miss Mattie Scudder was an acceptable Duchess IJ'Ar.bciterre, and Miss Teaze Ward very proper as the Chauolnesse. Miss Nettle Williamson had little to do as Julia, the maid, but did it well. In the prologue Miss Lilian Frey, who Is a mre child, acted with surprising show of talent. Willis L. Scudder. as Dennis O'Rouike, was the signal for laughter at each entrance with the quaint comedy role of a true-hearted, discerning Irishman, and Herman Frey was exceptionally crood as the Duke DAub?terre. E'igne '.iMn oth looked and played well the Viscount De Langey, while Jams E. Twyman and liert Hunter, in the roles of sergeant and servant, finished what may be called an amateur company without a "stick" in it. The rlay was appropriately costumed in the time of Louis XV, following the battle of Fontenoy, which" occurred 17l". but the limited stage caused some unavoidanle crowfMns: a tim'-s. Th" music was furnished bv M'3 Mfbel Glenn, planl.u, and J. Fremont Frey, the zither artist. Important. Salvation Oil. the greatest cur oo earth for pain, ts only 25 cents.

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MEDICAL CODE OF ETHICS. A Man Who Helped to Make It Thinks tho Time for Repeal Has Come. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Our alopathlc brethren are about to meet and discuss the advisability of so changing the code of ethics as to allow their members to consult with physicians of another school. Probably they will not take it amiss If one who helped make the code should offer a few suggestions. At the time that the code was madCylt was a necessity, but circumstances qive changed since. The community doe3 not understand the question, and therefore denounce the old school as intolerant, while the profession Is only trying to protect the people from dangers. The profession is the natural protector and custodian of the health and lives of the jeople, and look with great care that nothing that science can do or prevent shall Interfere with their object. It is a lamentable fact that there Is no subject that the people think they are so well qualified to judge of as the qualifications of physicians, when there is no subject on which they are so liable to err. Physicians only are the proper persons to Judge of the qualifications of physicians. Some forty years ago I said to a Iriend of mine, Colonel Condit, that there was no man so ignorant but that If he would set himself up for a doctor some people would employ him rather than a well-educated physician. The Colonel replied that thl3 was a slander on the Intelligence of the people. He went on to talk about some ignorant fellows who were practicing medicine, and at last told of a fellow who lived In the woods and cut cord wood for a living. He cut his foot and was laid up all winter; he could not read or write, but his wife got hold of one of Thompson's pamphlets on the lKtanlc plan or cure. She read the pampfhlet to Peter, her husand. and the Colonel told about him as follows: "I was in the southern part of the State, about a year afterwards, and as I rode along the road I met a man that I thought I knew; he was on horseback and had alarge pair of saddle-bags under him. When he got nearer I saw lt was Pete Snyder, the wood-chopper. I asked him what he was doing. He replied that he wa3 a doctor, and I laughed heartily at tills Idea. Just then a little fellow came up to us and asked me who we were talking about. I replied, 'O yes. Bill, you remember Pete Snyder?' 'Well said the little man, you may say what you please about Doctor Snyder, but I tell you he is better ner any of the medical doctors; he cured my brother when the medical doctors couldn't.' "There, Colonel," said I "Is the proof of Just what I have been saying." The Colonel turned away with "D m his ignorance." Old Arecunna once gave this advice to Calif Almanzor in regard to the selection of a physician: "Seek for the antecedents of a man in whom you place a trust so precious as the life of your wives and children; see if he has had by long study and extended travel acquired a competent knowledge of his profession; but refrain from committing a trust so precious to an ignorant or dissipated man." This advice is as good now as lt was one thousand years ago. Sxwne console themsleves with the idea that 'the people would rather be humbugged than not. As the divine Word has lt, "Tne people are destroyed for want of knowledge." "The prophets prophecy falsely, and my people love to have it so." Or as the Latln maxim is: "Mundus vult decepi cryo de3cpeatur" (the people wirh to be deceived, therefore let them be deceived.) Let us look at the condition of society at the tlm that this code of ethics was made. There was an ignorant farmer in New England (Thompson) who started a new practice in medicine, founded on his maxim, "All vegetable medicines was "cordin" to natur, but all minerals was not 'cordln to natur." He developed the plan of vomiting the patients with lobelia and then steaming them, and following this by stimulation with red pepper tea. This was what he called giving a course of treatment. If this course failed he gave another, and so continued till the patient either got well or died. Thompson took out a patent for his plan of treatment and sold it to ail who would buy, with his pamphlet of directions. His followers were called "botanical ph siclans," and they called the old school "medical doctors." Thre are many amusing stories told of the cunning and ignorance of these doctors. I will give a few by way of illustration: One of these lotanic doctors was once called to sej a woman who had some chronic disease, or thought she had. The doctor looked wise, and, after talking to the old woman for a few moments, said: "Madam, I know Just what Is the matter with ye. The whole of the nerves have fallen down Into the pezerlnctum, and that keeps your head a-goln tls-er-is-er, tls-er-ls-er all tha time." "La, doctor," said the patient, "you are the first doctor to tell me that, and now I know you can cure me." The doctor answered her that he would. Soon after I commenced to practice my profession I was called into the country to see a young woman. Her mother did not seem satisfied with me as a young doctor; she seemed to be angry. She said that her daughter was not satisfied to use the treatment that her botanic doctor wanted her to use, so she had to send for a "medical doctor." 1 inquired what her doctor said was the matter. She said: "My doctor says she is liver-grown." I concluded, as the patient would not take the botanic treatment, that I could do as well with medicine, so I gave the patient a large dose of calomel and Jalap, and succeeded In knocking the liver loose, and she soon got well. Conscientious physicians could not consult with nor recognize these emperics; therefore we made the code. It grew out of the necessities of the time. But the conditions In the profession are different now. We find among the followers of Thompson some scientific, learned physicians, with a medical college as well equipped with scientific professors as any. The code has had Its day, and this part concerning consultations should be repild. There is no doubt, however, that Thompson and his followers did good in showing that diseases could be cured without calomel, the lancet and other gross perturbing medication. So gross and unscientific was the practice In those days with the most educated physicians that one of their own writers sold, "Medicine Is so bad that it cannot be worse; lt must mend or end. It is not a science for a methodical mind." Hut the evil Is not yet removed. The multiplication of colleges, "regular. Irregular or defective," U going on. The colleges are , turning out young .men. In all the schools, sadly deficient In medical knowledge. I will rejoice when the Legislature shall paas a law compelling every one who would practice medicine to submit to an examination before a competent board of examiners and 1 required to show thorough knowledge of the different branches of medical science, before being allowed to practice In thU State. This board should be composed of eminent physicians of nil the scliools, In . proper proportion, and diplomas should enly be recognized as certificates of hating pushed through a regular curriculum of study; l.ut a certificate from this board would only allow a physician to practice

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To-morrow, FrtiUy anl tstuMa.v. Fe'jw S, 9. 10; Matinee taturUy. lie tarn of the celebrated LILIPUTIANS In their nevr and greatest pocUcular play, A Tit IP TO MAILS More rorjrrou, dazzling ami brantiml than nnj of thir former auccea.scs. Pricvi orchestra ami orohtra circle. fi lr-4 circle, 75c: tirst two rows in baloonr, r v 1. balcony. 53c; uallery. 2 5c Matinee -orchestra and orchestra circle, 75c; dre circle, tOC ami all tpataira, -5c. bale now oieii. This afternoon an t evening. Mr. ami Mrs. It O BERT WAYNE In a revival of I'etit'a melodramaTHE BLACK FLAG Prese. tod by a auicrior company an t with areclal stage fflecia. Sight Pricea-lOc, UJc, 3lc Matinee rricea 1.1 20o. To-morrow afternoon The Diamond lsreaker. EMPIRE THEATKli Corner Abai an I Da. 6t MATIXF.E at 2. IOC, 15c 2Zc TOXIOUT at S, 15c, 3 c. ovc MANCHESTER'S French. Polly Comp'y Beats may be necured by Telephone 1704. Xcitweek CITY CLUB C . A NIGHT WITH BURNS Scotch Songs and Recitations AT THE PRESHYTERIAN CHURCH. Ninth and Delaware streets. FRIDAY NIOHT. Fob. O. 1S04. During the evening Piper nrjson. of tli Ciledo. nlan Club, will play American and hcotch airs ADMISSION. .. 15 rETT. WROtGBMEON PIPE' rou GaSy Steam and Wate t BilfT Tubes, Cat ami Malleable 1 ro Flttimrs (black and 1 va u 1 ilk. V Ives. Stop t ocXs, lintnn Trimming Ream CUnnn, imr. HctkW Plate and Wnnche, Stcan Traps, pumi. Kitchm sinXs, llmw, licit In. Iibldt Metal. fl. 1t. Wulte and CuUred Wiping Wat and all other Sui. plus me I In connect o:t wiiti liaa. Mteam and W'wter. w u l (ins Millie a s p-'ia tf. ftfamheitln Anna rut a lof iiiiiM I'.u l.iiiirH Ntoie rMni Mills, Shops. K.ictrie, Lann'h 1 timber Drv-hol . etc. Ct and Thrwwl tirlr any sire w o iclit iron Fljs, fr.nn lj lnca to li laches) diameter. Knight & Jillscn. 75 and 77 S. PENNSYLVANIA ST. in this State, liy this arrangement all the barriers between schools would be remove 1. and after the physician had achieved his license to practice lie could pursue wh.it flan his jud;rmnt would dictate. Hut as ontj as the old school does not differentiate between the learned and the unlearn M because they are not of their school their influence against the unlearned will be of no effect. J. T. UOYD. Indianapolis, Feb. 6. CITY NEWS' NOTES. The Homeopathic Medical Society meets to nigrht at Dr. Koyd's office. V..i;. Clarke is to read a paper against vaccination. Superintendent of Police Powell hai ordered the arrest of all drunken perrons unable to take care of therrulveJ on the street. HI men are obeying the order. A meeting was held by citizens of Irvlngrton last night to agitate the question of petting better improvements in the line of lisht, water and the further extension of street improvements. Charles Mitchell. Chester Morton. William Preln and James Home are four younff colored boys who broke into a car containing rubber belonging to the tile works. Detective Thornton is now looking for them. The funeral services of the late Merchant policeman, James Golliday, were held yesterday afternoon at the family residence. No. 217 Ve.t Vermont street. The Merchant force uii'-nvlcd the funeral In a body. Col. I. N. Walker, senior vice commander of the National Kncampment of the Gra.nl Arrny. left yesterday afternoon for Boston, to attend the meting" of the Massachusetts department He will be the guest of Commander-in-chief Adams. The committee on university extension work has secured Dr. Klchanl G. Moulton, of Cambridge. England, to deliver a ooursa of lectures In this city on the subject. "Stories us a Mode of Thinking." The lectures will be given on Fix consecutive Monday evenings, beginning April 9. Gambling: nt West Indlannpolla. West Indianapolis citizens are complaining that the gamblers and iiorts who were driven from the city by the strenuous efforts of the police are still locating in their suburb, lt U raid that the tov.n cfttcials are not attemntinr to drlv the. tVll-.ws from the suburb. This In nd to be one of the arguments for annexation. Sharnti Tefelu'w Xcw Ilnbbt. The congregation Sharah Tcftla. of South Meridian street, has elected Rabbi I. Fhareshfsky. of Pniladelbhlx to take charge of the congregation for tho tena of two years.

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