Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1894 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, "WEDNESDAY, XAKCH 7, 1891.

has. What. deprive all these men of employment by shutting off the track! is the exclamation of the mapnatrs, usln the same oM armament that bodes pood for the few at the expense of evil to the many. TIIC GILWD Jl'KYS VISIT.

OLrrl.T Frci!orlrki Tnken the Twelve to Iloliy Truck. Yesterday afternoon the grand Jury of Lake county visited the race track, under the firuanlianship of Sheriff Fredericks. This ITrand Jury v.-as Instructed at Crown Point la.st week by Judge Gillette to investigate the track, and if it found that the law of the State was beinjj violated, to return indictments against the men connected with ihf- management. The grand Jury can easily satitfy ltsflf that the law is being violated with impunity; In fact, the Jury cannot conscientiously ignore the violation. Over fifty witnesses have been before the grand Jury during the last few days, and It Is expected by the law-abiding1 people of the county that the jury will take the first steps towards ridding the State of the disgrace. Uefore visiting the track the grand Jury called at a gambling room In Hammond, and the gamblers were so brazen faced as to allow an Inspection of their notorious lawlessness. Mayor Iteilly and the city officials Joined three hundred citizens of the county In signing a petition to the grand Jury asking that it return no indictments against the Itoby FcJr Association. This petition was presented yesterday to Foreman Peter Gelssen. A reporter for the Journal visited the Itoby track on Tuesday. The raised platforms to the grounds from the railroad stations are protected from the rain and enow by covers, and It was possible, when the snow was falling heavily during the winter months, to alight from a train and reach the amphitheater without getting wet. The amphitheater is a long and wide affair, the front of which Is faced with glass, and the entrances to which are protected by storm doors. Scattered throughOut are large heaters and d ums that are furnished heat from the stoves in the betting ring below, which Is also faced with glass. Thus is comfort provided when the wind outside Is howling or the air Is filled with snowflakes. More attention, however, is given to the comforts of the betting ring than the amphitheater, for the latter Is nearly always deserted. Few people care to sit behind glass and watch sport that is the merest farce. Those that attended the races in cold weather were those who went to gamble. This class remained In the betting ring, not even venturing outside to see the horses flounder in mud and Bnow around the track, or even when the horses came under the wire, preferring to wait until a man dashed In from the snow to announce the name of the winning horse. It was a question as to which was to be the most pitied the horses, compelled to plunge through snow and mud. or the little Jockeys that rode them, much to the danger of receiving frost-bitten noses and ears or contracting pneumonia. Some of the Jockeys are under twenty-one? years of age, and here was clearly a case for a society for the prevention of cruelty to children. These little men are usually frail; they are required to be of diminutive size or light weight In order to ride the horses. The good Jockeys seldom ride at a winter track, unless it be at New Orleans or in the South, although Itoby has a few of them who have won certain prominence on legitimate tracks. In the middle of the Itoby course is a marsh, filled with water during the wet season. Kfforts have been made to drain the territory actually occupied by the track and the water is thus drawn to the center of the course- This makes the outer edge of the track better going, as the turf expression 1?, than the inside, and in the etretch the Jockeys reverse the usual order of things and try to secure a position on the outside of the track. Instead of next to the pole. In other words, they take the longest distance around the track. A tine sand has been spread on the track, and the foot of a horse will sink about twelve Inches In this with every Jump. The management has set up the claim that the more it rains the harder the track gets, and this Is perhaps true when the weather 13 freezing cold. Such a track would soon ruin a horse. Within sight of the amphitheater are two church steeples in Colehour, and when the horses are ready to start from the seveneighths pole the range of the Judges' vision extends straight over the horses to the church steeples. The Judges have no arduous duties other than remaining In their little glass cages while the horses are running. It is but seldom that anyone is ruled off the track, and the riding of the Jockey3 is not watched with eagle eyes, ndeed, it would require a man with the eye of an eagle to see any crookedness on the part of a Jockey across the track when the air was filled with snowflakes. The usual slate on which a card is hung announcing the time made by the winning horse does not loom up at Koby as it does at the legitimate tracks. The actual time would show what a farce winter racing has become. It was announced last week that In one of the Koby races the time for a mile race was a fraction over two minutes, and it was not a bad day at that. It is a pretty slow thoroughbred that cannot make a mile in I'M. It is claimed that W. P. McGrane has thirteen two-year-old colts at the track. G. W. Legg 13 another owner of horses that run there. He has May Thompson, a threo-year-old that as a lllly was one of the most promising on the Western turf. She Is not in her old-time form, however, and has not been heard of in the racing at Hob j'. John Condon, a wealthy man of Lake county, is Interested in the track, and has a stable. It is said. He owns S50.COO of property in Hammond. II. Shields, N. Hill, C. J. Mclntyre and Sid Reagan are the only Jockeys at Koby known elsewhere, and none of these has ever won a big event. The horses that race are for the must part broken-down animals that would be dear at $JuJ each. Occasional!) one hears of a horse that has won a few small purses on legitimate tracks, but these winnings were In days before the horst3 lecame disabled, and before their owners pent them to Itoby. A DAY AT TIIC TRACK. Running of the Chenp "Skntrs The Crowds that Attend. The keen wind from the lake failed to blow Inland last Tuesday, and the afterBoon fcr racing at Koby was almost springlike. The largest crowd of the winter was present, numbering almost four thousand people, embracing all the types to be found In the conglomerate population of Chicago. Three lone people sat within the spacious glas3-faced amphitheater, thirty or forty women were out on a balcony, and the remainder of the four thousand were In the betting ring below, which was so densely crowded that it . was impossible to move about without crowding elbow3 and Jabbing people in the sides. Four thousand people in a betting ring will make any two dozen bookmakers , smile and feel good-na tured. Tho- management of the track has been rnticlpatmg Increased crowds, and this week a large force of carpenters has been employed enlarging the betting ring and making other additions. The big throng in the betting ring remained there throughout the afternoon, not one-fourth of them taking the Interest to go outside and see the horses run. It was purely a matter of gambling. It was the same to them os if the sixteen stands occupied by the bookmakers were f?o many roulette wheels or faro banks. Probably three hundred ptople lined the fence around the race track's stretch when the Hag fell for the horses to start, and the-, for the most part. were young men and boys who had not become so blase even to such poor excitement as that furnished by the spiritless running of the broken-dwn horses. A few of the women were elderly, and without a semblance of the character so tndel'.ibly stamped on other women, much younger, but with long wrinkles In their fes. lily hi I by the lavish spreading of reuse and i-cwdor. Soir.e of these women Wen. evidently respectable. Young men with ribbrns on their hats announcing the:r vocation made frtr.uent trips to the place wher" the women wor?. The.? young men were hitrurtd with mon?y whic.i the wornen bt on the racr. 'lxt"CTi bookmakers who receive bets cn the Koby rac-s :ilcne tmd it Immcnr-:y profitable to do business at this track. Th customary amount piM by the bookmaker to the management of a track for the privilege of opening the betting stand Is iivj a day, so It can be svn what a great source of revenue to the management of the track are the sums recti ved from these bookmakers. At one end of the ring Is the fer-i-Ti book, where bets are made on the

races at New Orleans and East St. LiOuls. The men who run this book pay even a greater privilege fee? than those who have books sokly for the Koby races. The management receive other fees for the refreshment privileges. The income is certainly not less than $1J a day. and will probably exceed this sum. The purses alleged to be paid cn the races amount to about 1,000 a day. A glence at the betting ring shows that the cream of Chicago's population never rlres to the surface of Koby's race-track gambling den. The coar?e face of the "IJll-er-a venue" tough leers up prominently beside that of the young clerk, who has taken a day off on the strength of sickness in his family to leave the otlice and come to tho track to gamble. Negro touts were sprinkled plentifully throughout the mass of people, and it was not a strange sight to see men with knife-scars and the scars of disease- on their faces. The tin-horn gambl-r was a prominent figure, but he dil not come to lo?e his money, but rather to give same slight acquaintance a random tip and borrow a dollar or two on the strength of it should the tin win. Twodollar bets are taken at all the stands, and a majority of the bets are of this clas. few of the well-to-do men sometime? to be found on the legitimate track being ?een at Koby. A stranger would be fully warranted in keeping his hand on his pocketfcxxjk and his iucketbook In his inrlde pocket, although It was no uncommon stent to see men recklessly flashing rolls of bills about the stands. It has been estimated conservatively that the average amount snt-nt by a man in a betting ring is

and it would be safe to estimate that the crowd last Tuesday put $20,000 into the this of the bookies, not over two-thirds or which was returned in the payment of bets. The odds which the bookmakers at Koby offer make it almost impossible for them to lose on the day. THE ALLEGED PURSES. The first race on Tuesday was for an al leged purse of $200. It was a selling race, one in which the owner places a price on his hor and if it wins the owner of the horse coming in second is entitled to buy the winner at the price named; that is, unless the owner of the winning horse auctions him off, all the money received above the selling price marked on a card going to the owner of the second horse. With one exception, the highest price marked for any of the thirteen horses in the first race was $200, eight of them being listed at $100. liven these prices are perhaps fictitious, but they indicate to some extent the worthlessness of the animal3 except for this farce. The second race was won by an aged hcrse named "Georgle H," which was able to lift its feet out of the dep sand qulckar than the other old "skates." Seven of the horses in this race were aged animals. th?.t is over six years old. A strong tip on "Flitter," another aged horse, was circulated In the betting ring, and this somewhat shifted the betting. In the third race (selling) the horses were all listed at $200. A great deal of money was put on the favorite, but the favorite didn't win. Ordinarily at a race track when the gong sounds announcing that the horses are off the betting ring is almost emptied at once. Hera the lack of a scramble at such a time was noticeable, and when the horses crme under the wire there was not so much as one shout. The listlessness of the professional gambler prevailed. It was no more than the turn of a roulette wheel; no more than the dealing of the cards from a faro box. There were curses, but even the professional gambler will curse his luck. After the result of the race is announced In stentorian tones to the men in the ring the bookmaker slaps up a new card for the next race, smllas and rubs his hands. The claim of the Koby Fair Association, the title under which the management is Incorporated, that a large r.umber of men Is employed as special otricsrs may be true, but if so the men were not so proud of their official stars as to keep them exposed to view. One man wearing the uniform of the Chicago police, with badge gone, was seen making bets. . A half dozen or more men are employ eel In the stands where lets are made on foreign races. Th?y move about divested of their coats and wearing immaculate Uncn. A sleek, contented lot are they. Posted conspicuously on the foreign board is this notice: "The train to the city will not leave till the last race at Fast St. Louis is over." This means that the gamesters of Koby will not let their victims get away until every opportunity has been had to pluck them. It matters not whsther the races at Kob are finished, the men who pay the privileges for running the foreign book must have the privilege of holding the crowd till bets can be m;de on the last race at East St. Louis. This shows that Koby is but a part of the big gambling system maintained throughout the country, with three or four race tracks at th games which people can play at pool room.3 al! over the land where such evils are permitted. The pool room run at Indianapolis during the Sullivan regime pretended to send away by wire bets on the' different race?. so as to evade th3 law of Indiana. A blank order was given a bettor to sign. Hut the pool-room men at Koby resort to no such trick as this. They violate the law without a pretense of keeping within its limits. It Is claimed that a great many petty defalcations in Chicago the past winter have resulted from losses at this winter track. The most glaring example Indiana has of the danger of this track to the community U that of Cal Armstrong, who spent a good portion of his forty-thousand-dollar defalcation at K y. Hammond, Ind., contributes quite a quota of young men who gamble at the Koby track. LOCAL CRAXD Jt'ItY INVESTIGATES. Tron'a Pool Iloom May He Closed Foppiuno'H Evidence. Joe Foppiano, formerly an employe of Tron's pool room on North Illinois street, went before the grand jury yesterday, presumably to tell that body what he knows about Tron's. violation of the law. Sine the change of city administration an effort has been made to punish the men who have so daringly violated the law, and If an Indictment is returned it will rest largely with Prosecutor Iloltzman whether this sp -cle3 of gambling is continued In Indianapolis cr not. The State has not been very successful in stopping th gambling through the Criminal Court of Marion county as at present constituted. The room in the rear of Tron's has made a fortune for Its proprietor, and if indictments are returned th3 place may bo closed. Foppiano, It is tuld, was discharged by Tron, so ho claims, because he voted for Denny, and on this account h? is not averse to giving evidence against the place. The granl jury 13 expected to report today, but may not have considered the pool room case sufficiently to report on it for a few days. General Mile Kntertnlned. NEW YORK, March 6.-C,eneral Miles, the veteran Indian fighter, with his aid-decamp, 'Captain Maus, arrived at Sandy Hook this noon on board the steamer Ordinance, and was received by the salute due hi3 rank. After inspecting the "gun lift" and mortar battery, he, together with his aid, proceeded to the proving grounds, where, under the command of Capt. Frank Heath, aided bv Lieutenants Wheeler, Peck and Harmon. Major Comly directed a series of gun firing from modern guns, such as he. in his long service in the United States army, never saw before. Firing was going on from small field guns, large sleso rifles and the largest coast-defense guns, including the large twelve-inch mortars. Cnrnejcle'M Diclmrscd Employe. riTTSm'KG. March 6.-F. K. Perry, Edward Sill. Dennis Klley and T. E. James are the names of the four former employes of the Carnegie Steel Company who. It is claimed, gave the information to the government relative to the quality of the armor plate delivered to the Naval Department. It is not denied that they received money for their services, but their friends are exceedingly wrothover the imputations of conspiracy laid upon them in recent publications. It Is stated that It would be practically impossible to substitute one piece for another, and that all tho men did was to give notice to the government that defective plate had been sent out. Knre Malformation. NEW YOKK. March 6. When coroner's physician Donlln made the autopsy at St. Vincent's Hospital on the body of Thomas Hines. who died in the institution of a fractured skull, the doctor found that the dead man was the subject of c very peculiar and rare malformation, known r.s Siamese kidneys, the pa'r of organs being joined together by a tuK of fleshy substance, through which thre had been complete circulation. Ordlnirilv the kidneys are entirely distinct, and the recorded instance: where they wire joinel are rare. An AnNlKtitnt Cn h 1 e r. Confession. PEXTEi:. Mich.. March S.-O. C. Greg ory, assistant cashier of the Dexter Savings 15ank. has confessed to detective lh- ' k.r. of Detroit, that he himself stole th $.5.2,!0 from the vault of the bank last Thursdav. ami that his story of being attacked and slugged by masked robLerj was purelv fiction. hat led to the confession was the finding of over $:UX) concealed In a roo-n back of the bank. He was arrested to-day. Openlnr of v I;in t ion. CHICAGO. Mnr.h C The stvimer Chlcora arrived here from St. Jrs?ph an 1 Henton Harbor, Mich., last evening, thus opening the marine sendee earllfr than last year. Although Insurance does not become oieratlve until April 1, some vessels, encouraged by the mild weather, will soon start for Buffalo.

SHOT IN HIS DOORWAY

Mysterious Murder of Stephen Geer, of Jeffersonville. Bloodhoniuls Track the Assassin Sudden Death of Ex-Jndffe Lyman Walker, ot Peru Other State Sews. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSONVILLE. Ind., March 6. At 2:30 o'clock this morning Stephen Geer, aged fifty-six. a dairyman residing in the suburbs of this city, was assassinated In his own dooryard. He was awakened by the violent barking of a small dog. On going to his back door dressed in his night clothes he found the animal crouching outside. He carried It Into the house and returned to the door. When he started to step outside a shot was fired and he fell in the doorway. His wife and daughter rushed to the door and saw Mr. Geer lying in a pool of blood. By the time neighbors reached the house Mr. Geer was a corpse. Not les3 than a hundred shot were In his body besides a number of slugs. The charge literally tore away his left side. The main charge entered the abdomen. Foot prints were found back of the stable. They wre followed for a quarter of a mile towards the Ohio, but were then lost. The cause of the assassination is not known. Robbery is not suspected. A more inoffensive person could not be found in the county. At noon W. A. Carter, of Seymour, arrived wdth his bloo ihounds, which were taken to the spot. They took up the trail readily and started off in the direction of the Ohio, following the foot prints found by the officers early in the morning. They kept on towards the southwest and at last came to a cottage occupied by an old colored man, Paul Jones, his wife, daughter and son-in-law. Hiram Stinson. This they entered, but after going around the house two or three times came out to the fence and there seemed somewhat confused and finally were forced to give it up. They were taken back to the scene of the crime twice, and each time without hesitation took up the trail and ended at the cottage. The inmates of the house were arrested, but denied the crime. Mr. Carter stated that had either of the colored mn been gulltv the dogs would have immediately picked him out and attacked him. The evidence was regarded sufficient to justify the officers in holding them until the case can be further investigated. The murdered man came to this city when very young from Einsledeln. Switzerland, and for a greater part of his life was engaged in the dairy business. Jl'DGG WALKER DEAD. Heart Fnllnrc Causes Ills Sadden Demise nt Lnl'orte. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PERU, Ind., March 6. Judge Lyman Walker, of this city, died nt LaPorte last night of heart failure. He was in his fifty-seventh year, and went to that city Thursday last wdth hopes of recruiting. Ills death was entirely unexpected. Mr. Walker was probably one of the ablest Jurists In the northern part of the State and a man widely known. Mr. Walker ilrst came to this city In 1861, taking charge of the public schools, and to him belongs the honor of establishing the first graded school in the city. In 1S78 he was elected judge of the Twenty-seventh Judicial circuit. In politics he was a Republican, and as such took an active interest In the affairs of the party. His wdfe died but a short time ago. The remains will be brought to this city for interment, burial to take place Thursday afternoon under the direction of St. John's Commandry, Knights Templar, and Scottish Rite Consistory of Indianapolis. WABASH. Ind.. March 6. The Wabash Bar Association will attend the funeral of Judge Lyman Walker, of Peru. This morning an invitation was received from thp Miami Bar Association, and a meeting of the Wabash bar will be held to-morrow morning at 9 to make arrangements for attending the obsequies of the dead jurist, who presided In the Wabash Circuit Court from to Other Dentha. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RUSHVILLE, Ind., March 6. Mrs. Margaret Young, mother of George W. Young, died to-day at the advanced nge of eightyfive. Her death resulted from paralysis. She was born in Ireland In 18X). She has lived on the same farm ever since coming to this county. ANDERSON, Ind., March 6. Mrs. James Wysor.g, an old and resnected citizen, dropped dead from heart disease at the home of her daughter to-day. Mrs. Wysong was in her fifty-third year. ELKHART. Ind.. March 6. Mrs. T. Robinson, aged fifty-three, died of consumption last night after a long illness. HOUSE THIEF GANG ARRESTED. Officers Run Down the Men "Who Hare. Terrorized Iloone Connty. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LEBANON, Ind., March C When Homer Patterson, chief of the famous Patterson gang of horse-thieves and burglars, was sentenced to the penitentiary about two years ago. It was thought that famous organization had received Its death blow, and for a year very little or nothing was heard of the remaining members. About a year ago, however, a series of robberies were committed, and since then it has not been sxfe to leave anything from a horse to a chicken over night without a guard. Stables, stores and residences have been raided, and the gang again became a terror to the county. One night a half dozen stores would be entered and the next night an equal number of hen roosts would be despoiled. It was apparent an organized gang was doing the work. As a consequence, the Council doubled the police force and everything possible was done to capture the offenders. About three months ago William Werts. an old "pal" of Patterson, wns arrested and sent to join his chief in Michigan City. Efforts to get Information from him proved successful, and within the past week Elmer King, who was arrested with Patterson on one occasion for horse stealing; Elza Amburn, Jesse Hall, Charles West, Jesse Arbogast and Elmer Fleming have been captured. The latter stole a horse and buggy at Colfax last week and was arrested nfter an exciting chase. They are all old offenders. A POLICY HOLDER KICKS. Salt to Tent n Syntem of Life Insnranoe Alt Too Common. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GOSHEN, Ind.. March C A suit which will go far toward testing the validity of the so-called "speculation" life-insurance scheme, was brought to-day by Hon. W. J. Davis, a policy holder In the Ex-Soldiers Life Insurance Company, of this city. The suit is to enjoin the company frqm paying Edwin G. Ritchie $2.C0 on a policy taken ov.t by him. on the life of his father, who died a few days as;o. The policy was taken out without the knowledge or consent of the party Insured. The company stands ready and willing to pay the entire amount if not prevented by the court. Mr. Davis, as a pollcv holder, is Interested in the assets and dividends of the company, and for that reason brings suit. ALLERTO.VS FILE "WORKS. The ClilcnRO CnpItnlUt Will Enlarge the Anderson Plant. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, March G. Samuel W. Allerton. late Republican candidate for Mayor of Chicago, is here. Mr. Allerton is interested in the Arcade fiJa works of this city, and at a meeting to-c.tty it was decided by the above company to enlarge the capacity of the plant by adding another large building, which, when completed, will mak? the largest file manufacturing industry in the world. Three hundred men are now employed. By enlarging the plant it will require r0 more people. Connty nnd City Prlmnrles. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND. Ind., March 6. The Republican primary election to nominate both city and county oJIIcers was held yesterday, and the contest was the most exciting in ytars. Hon. Henry U. Johnson received the unanimous vet? cf the county indorsing hl3 nomination for a third term In Congress, and Hen. Charles K. Shivcly was unanimously nominated State Senator to succeed tho venerabl; John Yaryan, deceased. Th i-rst or ;ne ticket Is as follows: Representative, Philip S. Blnkley; prosecuting attorney. Rosea? E. Klrkman; clerk. Charles . Swain: Sheriff, Albert G. Ogborn; auditor, Alonzo Marshal; recorder, Nathan S. Lamar: treasurer, William P. Cook: commissioners. Solomon Woody and James A.

Scott: coroner. Dr. J. M. Bulla. About 5.500 votes were cast, and some of the pluralities were very small, that of Dr. Bulla being but 2 votes. The city ticket is as follows: Mayor. James S. Ostrander: clerk. Henry J. Winder; treasurer, Geb. H. Scott. Ostrander led by five votes only and Winder w ith four. Good Prospect for Inprnlls. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. INGALLS. Ind., March 6. The prospects for business here this spring are excellent. During the past fall and winter six factories have located and erected large buildings. All the factories that have had time to complete their plants are running and are pressed with orders, and at least one is working overtime. A large chemical plant, which will utilize five acres of land, is being erected, the buildings being of brick and stone. The chemical works which lost its plant by fire a few days ago has already begun the erection ol larger and fireproof buildings on the sdte of the former location. Ten brick houses and a large number of frame cottages are under erection. The Methodist denomination has commenced to build a very neat churcn building, and the Christian Church will also build a house of worship. Contracts are already let for the erection of over twentyfive new houses, and a prosperous and busy building season Is assured. Two more gas wells are in, making five in all, which furnish a supply largely in excess of the needs of town and factories.

Skotaki Wnntn Another Clinnce. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SHELBY VILLE, Ind., March 6. Skotskl and his backers here are very anxious that the match with Herb Hale, which ended last night by an accident In the ring, shall be continued as soon as Skotskl recovers from the Injury. He suffered a severe bruise on the leg and side from the fall, but will be In good shape in a week or two. It is understood that Hale Is ready to meet him. If this be true the match will probably come off here in three weeks. W. T. Dunbar, who trained Skotskl for this fight, has challenged Hale to wrestle him for a purse of $5uu or $1,000, and the challenge has been accepted. "Senator" Piles, of this city, seriously objects to the statement in the Journal to the effect that he was a second to Skotskl in the fight last night or took any part In the same. Inlr of Home Tlileves Caught. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind., March 6. John McGuire and Pat Casey, glass-blowers, were arrested at Alexandria last night, brought here and lodged in Jail. They were accused of having stolen a horse and bugg3 belonging to L. M. Cole last Sunday night. To-day the outfit was found fast in a hedge fence In the suburbs of the city. A robe was missing, but an overcoat belonging to Cole was found in the buggy. The horse had evidently wandered off, and continued wandering until he found himself In the peculiar predicament described. He was In a famished condition. Winning Ticket Xomlnnted. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CRAWFOKDSVILLE, Ind., March 6. The Republican city primary election was held to-day. There were four candidates for Mayor, three for treasurer, seven for clerk, two for marshal and three for the Council from each ward. After Ihe votes were counted the nominations were secured by the following: Mayor, Frederick Bandel, ninety-seven plurality; treasurer, W. E. Nicholson, fifty-nine majority; clerk, J. D. Tracy, eight plurality; marshal, J. 1. Grimes, forty-five majority; councllmen, John F. Wllhlte. George E. Robinson and William N. McCampbell. Bandel and Nicholson are nominated for second terms. KnlKlitstovrn Morton Clnb Opened. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KNIGHTSTOWN, Ind., March 6. The Morton Club was formally opened last night in the new Watts Block. The club, row in its infancy, consists of leadCng business men and c4tizen3 of the town. The club bocks show 150 names enrolled, It has been placed on a solid financial basis, as sufficient money has already been subscribed to defray the expenses of the club and other incidentals necesssary to guarantee a winning campaign this fall.. Senator L. P. Newby was made president of the club, G. P. Graf vice president. W. K. Deem seceretary and Edgar II. Cole treasurer. Proprci nt Retlkey. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. REDKEY, Ind., March 6. The report sent from Dunkirk to the Journal in regard to locating the wool factory is erroneous. The citizens' committee and Mr. C. D. Morrison signed contracts on March 2, three days previous to the reported signing at Dunkirk. Work will be begun at once. With a new $25,000 school building, new three-story $25,Kx) hotel and the erection of fourteen business blocks, to be completed this summer, Redkey will be the busiest town of 5,0u0 in the gas belt. Another Imllnnn Prize FiRht. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KNOX, Ind., March 6. A prize fight was pulled off last night at Armitage's ranch, near Wllders, on the C. & C. railway, fifteen miles from here. Thrs principals were Joe Mlshnic, of Porter county, and Charles Solzer, of Chicago. Mlshnic won in the sixth round. Solzer was badly worsted. He retired with a broken arm and his face beaten into a pulp. The fight was for $100 a side and $1S0 gate receipts. One thousand dollars changed hand3 on the result. They Fear the Wilson Bill. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FKANKTON. Ind., March C Three of Frankton's window-glass houses have shut down, awaiting the result of the Wilson bill, throwing about three hundred men out of employment. Frankton's prospects are very promising If not affected by the Wilson bill. The town has three window-glass houses, one Hint house, a large Iron mill and a horseshoe factory, and a tin-plate works, to employ four hundred men, is among the probabilities. .Must DIsehnrjie the Children. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., March 6. To-day the Humane Society officers informed Muncie manufacturers that they must discharge all -boys or girls in their employ under the age of twelve years. There Is a statute in this State prohibiting the employmsnt of children, and the oiiicers will see that it is obeyed. Several hundred boys a;id girls of an illegal age are working in the glass factories and other industries here. Elwood Foundry Goes to Alexandria. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ALEXANDRIA. Ind., March 6. This city has secured the foundry and machine works of Elwood, which employs fifty men. Free site and fuel have been donated to the proprietors. Lew HefTner, Bert Warner and J. E. Jeffries, and work on the building3 will be commenced at once. Boys Fntnlly Pound n Companion. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SEYMOUR, Ind., March 6. Yesterday evening Frank Streltt, aged fourteen, got in a fight with other boy3, who knocked him down and beat and kicked him about the chest ana abdomen in such a frightful manner that he went Into spasms, lie is in a sad condition, and Is reported dying to-nlght. Mohr Succeed Mnjor. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SHELBY VILLE, Ind., March 6.-The City Council to-night elected William F. Mohr city clcTk in the place of Edward Ames Major, who resigned to accept the poetmastership, to which he was recently appolnted. lousiness Embiirrnfinmcnts. LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 6.-The Louisville Terminal Railway Company was piaced In the hands of a receiver to-day bv Judge Barre, of the federal court. H?rber't V. Harris was named as the receiver and given full charge of the property. CHICAGO. March 6. A receiver for the Woman's Land Syndicate is asked in a bill filed in the Circuit Court to-day by Ada I. Yates and other bondholders. Allegations of fraud and deception are made. TACOMA. Wash.. March 6. A receiver was to-day appointed for the Mason Mortgage and Loan Company. Tne company was incorporated for $l.w.tx0 arul did a large business. Lotvei by Fire. CULLMAN. Ala., March 6. Nine hulld!n?s In the business portion of this place were burned e.irly this morning, a tijiat'tv o' ,vrnmlte stored In a w: rshou5e exploded during the fire. Clabe Mitchell was killed, and George Dinkleburg and a child of Rev. G. W. Lee fatally injured. WOBURN, Mass., March C. O. and E. G. Place's tannery, the largest In this city, burned drlv tms morning. Loss, vjo.Otw. Nothing succeeds in removing coughs and colds like Dr. Bull's Coura by up.

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These testSj made in the and unprejudiced official evidence that the " Royal". ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., TEUTH'S CONFESSION Laboucliere Says He Is Now Convinced Radicals Love a Lord, Also 'Wc Are a Race of Snobs," and "Wo Have Not Only a Peer Premier, hut a Peer in a Poke." LONDON, March 6. Mr. Henry Labouchere, In an article, which will appear In to-morrow's Truth, will say: "The responsibility for the acceptance of a peer as Prime Minister rests upon t"he Radicals, unless a clear statement Is made in the Queen's speech that we are to have a different policy regarding the House of Lords than Lord Rosebery Is supposed to entertain. Some of the Radicals will make it clear that they will reject the tinkering of the pernicious assembly of the peers and the right of that body to Interfere with the nation must cease. Lord Rosebery's public utterances with regard to Ireland are not at all satisfactory. The secrecy with which Mr. Gladstone's resignation and Lord Rosebery's appointment was managed was clever, but most unfair. Had the proper time been given at least a hundred Radicals would have protested against a peer Premier. We have not only a peer Premier, but a peer in a poke4 I do not object to any Individual peer because he was born in the purple, and if Lord Rosebery is really a Radical the difficulty of his being a peer may be surmounted by a bill allowing peers to reno-unce the privilege of the peerage in order that they may sit In the House of Commons." Mr. Labouchere then proceeds to argue that the House of Commons cannot remain the ruling assembly while the Premier Is In the House of Lords. In this connection he says: "We will not have real control over him, as we can only turn him out by a hoRtllo vote at the cost of ruining the party. We are also idiots to suppose that the electors will not perceive the utter absurdity of our position when we appeal to the country with the battle cn of "The Abolition of the Lords.' " Mr. Labouchere concludes as follows: "I am now convinced that the Radicals dearly love a Lord. Love of and subserviency to the titled is the weak spot in the Anglo-Saxon race. We are a race of sncbs, and never harrier than when indulging In an orgle of snobblsm." In a speech at .Yeovllle to-nlght the Duke of Devonshire said that Mr. Gladstone's retirement was an event of the highest political importance. It was a satisfaction to all that he had not outstayed his parliamentary reputation. It was the abdication of a ruler and leader of men in the plenitude of his strength and power. He, however, had left his successors a legacy of unsettled controversies. Added to the Newcastle programme, there was the new task of undertaking the ouarrel with the lords. If the declaration of war was the broad, clear issue of the House of Lords' rejection of the home rule bill they were willing to fight the matter before the country whenever the government pleased, but If the quarrel was based upon other and more recent measures he would regard them as mere pretexts. The Liberal Unionists, the Duke of Devonshire continued, would only offer Lord Rosebery a fair and honest opposition. They would uncompromisingly oppose home rule, but if home rule was shelved and the government devoted Itself to useful legislation, such as the strengthening of the navy, the Unionists wm!d be in no hurrj' to displace the government. The Liberal Unionists rejoiced that the government was headed bv a man not indifferent to the Interests and the greatness and honor of the country. The House of Lords, however, would not consent to the gerrymandering of the British constituencies under the guise of a registration bill. Iiord Rosebery took formal possession this afternoon of the offlces recently occunled by Mr. Gladstone as Prime Minister of England. The new Premier first visited the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt. Hon. William Vernon-Harcourt, and then passed Into Mr. Gladstone's rooms, where he was cordially greeted by the ex-Premier as his successor. The Rt. Hon. George Shaw-Lefevre. M. P. for central Bradford, formerlv Postmas-ter-creneral and more recently First Commissioner of Public Works, has accepted the presidency of the local government board in succession to the Rt. Hon. Henry Fowler, who succeeds the Earl of Klrnberlv. Secretary of State fop India, upon the. latter's succession to Loid Rosebery as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The Times announces that M . Richard Knight Causton, M. P. for Southwark. west, has been appointed second "whip." Mr. Causton is now a Lord of the Treasury. II is In favor of home rul fcr Ireland. The drawing room which the new Premier attended this afternoon was the smallest, so far as attendance Is eonrned, which the Queen has held in years. This Is remarkable from the fact that the Queen will not hold another one until 1893. There were only 142 people present, and the ceremony only lasted an hour. Lord Rosebery occupied a conspicuous place near the Queen, and the other Cabinet Ministers were present. Mr. George Armltstcad, to whose residence at Liack Craig Castle, In Scotland. Mr. Gladstone paid a visit laft" fall, has declined Mr. Gladstone's offer of a peerage. Mr. Armitstead will accompany Mr. Gladstone to Brighton Mr. GliMlstone'a Eye. LONDON, March G. It Is reported that Mr. Gladstone Intends to consult Dr. Pagenstecher, a celebrated oculist of Wiesbaden, with regard to the trouble with his eyts. The Telegraph says: "Mr. Gladstone has placed himself in the hands of Sir James Paget, the famous surgeon and oculist, and the oculist Nethercllff. We regret to say that there Is undoubtedly a cataract forming on one of his eyes, with the project of a similar weakening of the other, but nothing that is not likely to yield to ordinary treatment. We are under the impres5!on that he has by no means made liw last speech in l'arllament. " nisTriuiANcns ix costa iiica. Another Central Anicrlcnn Republic In ii PIorderMl Stuff. j LONDON, March 6. A di.-patch received here from Panama says that a revohij tlon has broken out In Costa Rica, but it ; adds so far the rebels have not been suc- ! csssful. WASHINGTON. March 6. Minister P?ralta. of Cota Rica, has no information about the reported revolution In his country. i The troubla there arose as a result of th

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106 WALL ST., NEW-YORK. X& AMUSEMCXTS. MATIN EE TO-PAI La.tt i tr.'ormauce tonight. BONNIE 13KSSIE BOX Kill LL, In her rtplihtfnl musical comxljr, P L A Y M A T E S . A comrny of J rtUts, presenting a loan lit ot choice novelties. PR:cES-urrLetra, 73c; orchestra clrcV $l:;n circle, 5t)c; balcn -. Joe: irallcry, Ru. MMluw. All lov.--r floor, ftoc; IU ony. 2"c "Cl'oniinjr mo.i tAA. ENGLISH'S op,'iilW. Thura laj, Fri.lav aart Saturday, March 8, 0, 10, Madueo Saturday, ANNIE WARD TIFFANY, In her musical edition of Alfrel Kenoe y' American comedy, LADY BLAUMKY. MUSIC, MIRTit AND TRUE IKIH WIT. Tltr Iwly Hlarnry G1ms Club a mk;cUI feature. riucES orcJieMr, "ic; rc.;ra irro. 1; 'rcs circle, 50c; lKl.ny. '2o0: jrallrrv. l"o .Matln -e: All lowtT floor, SOo; b lcny. '.ic. lit re "on-'UZ A. ALL WKEK! Matinee Daily- S;. c al ttr ictioal A. Y. ftcursuii'a lU co.ii'uny in t ie jroru Oriental ecucl E In which w:ll be seen tho Imj crl il City of Kr ly Moonlight A Volcano la r.ilt Ki.iittio The Swamn of Zanzibar Vl.e llv.ilvlu l'i l.ir of Fl t TIa irtlHoi-i i.t luiicr 'Mie cu t inea' (.lotto. r?Ju aUwi-.e in irie-u. Mulit: Hc, l'ie. Sue, Matinee: 10c tic Go tee OAZA. EMPIRE. THEATEK, t'-oraor an t Da . Kta. M ATI NEK t 2. 10c. 15c 25c TO-XIOHT at 8. 15c, 3"c. ;oc Plimmer Athletic and Specialty (o ixTRODraxi BIT.L PLIMMEK, CIIAMPIOX BANTAM-WEI HIT OF WOLD. fsTXext week FIELDS ci IIANS JX. KATHARINE HOME AXXIVERSAltY 11ECEPTIOX. ThefrlPmia of tho KATHARINE HOME ar In vite i to tho Anniversary KtHrrptlon at th llo . e. WEDNtSIUY, M AUCH 7. FKOM S to V P. M No mlmiMion. If cucM will take tho North In. llunaill car to Teni.aM-e inl 'lwe!Mi ''nf ihey wi!Il HKiMirel a iavel '.k to the Hi-me, t.ije mi aire south. National Tub Work? WRorcnfTRox pipe Fori - Oas, Steam and Watet U'lr Tubes, C.it and MM!rlU Iron Kittiii-a (l.lnoW MII1 M I Y.l II 1 . l, V lven. Slop Oik, fc.ac.ne Triniiniiu;. iMi-am (iitie I'll. .e i'Ufr. I'lpo tJuttr. V1r. sor w PI ii ami Ine. Wnnthe. stc n Tr-ip. 1'HinuH. Mtclirn Mnk !!oe, lii-ltinjf. liih-.it M't.tl. S4.1. dir. W.ilte ami C rwl N'!pIn Wat ami all ori- r-im-plk-a me '. In rouiirci i iritSk tin. Strain ami V.'i.ter. hU ii i o tvp;te a i ty. htt-.ini-:io:i:i4 a pp. rut xr Public liu l.l i.r . r hi m, Mii:. 3l.o,. ticrnM. 1-j.un-'.r.r. l.nu.lior Ir-hu, etc C'U ami rhrrml to or Wr any ;zo Wio iiht in n fnun Si Inc. to 1 loci.ee diameter. Knight & Jillson, 75 anl 77 S. PENK8YT.VANIA PT. altitude of the Catholic party, which claims that their candidate hnt a majority at ViS primary election of Feb. C. In the same election the Liberal party divided Into three factions, each of which had a candidate. The secondary elections, vhl"h tvM de:ils the question, are to be held In April. A dispatch from New Orleans reports thfe arrival of a steamer with new. from Costa Hlca to the effect that a 1-attle has b:en fou-ht at a place the Identity of which is not clear, and resulted In a defeat for the rebels. . Death of Mis Iiln Van Rttrn. PARIS, March C Miss Ida Van Ktten. the American writer, who had been livlns for several months at the Continental Hotel, In this city, died at 3 o'clock this morning. She sent for a doctor, but when h? arrived, fifteen minutes later, he found h?r a corpse, Mrs. Eustls has taken charge of the case. Tne deceased voman's body will be placed In the mortuary' chapel of the American Church on the avenu? De LAlma to await the Instructions of her friends In the United States. The cause of Miss Van Etten's d-ath Lh ofllclallv certified to as heart failure. A report that she died of starvation is declared to be untrue. A sum of money was found in her possession. Several friends had previously undertaken to provide for her wants Snlvimc from the Kronarsi. COLON. March 6. Two Drltish schooners, loaded with arms and stores, recovered from the wreck of the United States corvetti Kearsarfje, have left the scene of the wreck for the island of Grand Cayman. It is not know what disposition they will make of their earo. A considerable quantity of arms an 1 storv?. rescud by othrr vessel, have been landed at the Islands of Old I'rovllence and Sin Andres. The arms were taken possession of by the Columbian government and the stores were sold at auction. The position of the Kearsarge on. lioncatior reef has not changed. llehemled III 3Iothrr. LONDON, March C A dispatch to the Times from Paris says: An officer who has returned from Dahomey says that wln, Kinff Hehanzln found that escape was impossible he summoned his agvd mother and ald to her: I am poln? to surrender to France. My father must knor of It. You, therefore, shall see him and tell him." The Kin: thervuion had his mother beheaded, whlU he CiJndv lookuJ on smoking a pli.

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