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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1895.

the place that whoever flrd the shot that killed him had fired the best shot ever fired in the country- The people on all sides were loud in their praise of the man who killed him. He was recently implicated in the killing of a man who, it 1h alleged, he robbed, shot and threw the body into a river. He was arrested, and was only a nhort time ago released from custody. A SON OF THE "BIG MAN." "Thomas Morrow, the man who was picked up near the dead man, was found to be phot through the breast, and I think twelve buckshot struck him. He was picked up and carried by myself and another person to the depot at Greenwood, where, he died at 4:08, after suffering Intense agony. This man was a son of the big man who had been killed Instantly, and was about thirty yeara of age, and was a tough customer. He, I heard, lived near his father, and had been in. trouble several times. Home person came to me and stated that five horses were found tied at the top of the tunnel, but I -cannot vouch for the truthfulness of this statement, as I did not see them myself. Coroner L. D. S. Patton., ot Somerset, was telegraphed for and came to the scne of the robbery about 4 o'clock p. m., and held an inquest over the remains, but I do not know what the verdict was. No one made an attepmt to arrest ny of us detectives for killing the men." "The hader of the gang," Altgood continued, "is a man by the name of Underwood, and he ia a desperate criminal, having been implicated In several arson cases, end has been arrested on the charge of murdering a friend. This was some time ago. I, do not know which way this man went after the affair was over. He renided In the vicinity of the attempted rcb?ery. and I am of the opinion that all parties concerned were residents of that portion of the country. 'Martin, the man who was so badly wounded, and will, it Is thought, die, says he is from the State of Pennsylvania, and that he was a tramp, riding the 'blind baggage,' and was not with the gang which held up the train. Wheiv asked how he came to be shot he said that he was trying to get out of the way and .was hit by a load of shot. When found by the engineer he was riding by the side of the tender, and was taken off the train at Cumberland Falis, a few miles below. He Is mortally wounded and cannot recover, fceing shot In several places." A telegram from Cumberland Falls says the third man who was taken from the engine has since died, making the third man dead:. The robbery was planned to have been committed on the 11th of this month, tout on account of a creek near the ecene being out of Its banks the men were afraid they would be "caught, and postponed It. A farmer says the men have been -amping lr a hollow near by for five weeks. One of the gang gave the others away to the officials, and the trains have been loaded with detectives for the past month. STORIES OF TIIAIXMEX.

fThe Engineer and Conductor's Account of the "Hold lp." CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., March 27. When the "held up" train arrived here the engineer and, conductor were at once interviewed. They related thrilling stories of their experience. Engineer Thomas Springfield, who lives here, has been running on the road for a number of years and Is regarded as a reliable man. This Is his Slrst experience with train robbers. To a reporter he said: ."We were coming along n time. Engine E86 Is a humner and Rankin, my fireman, was keeping her hot. We had a mail, express and baggage car, a pmoker, two day coaches, and two sleepers. .We left Somerset on time. I slowed down a little as we ran through tunnel No. 9, about sixteen miles south, of Somerset, in iTulaskl county, Kentucky. About three toundred yards- this side of the tunnel a man on the track with a? white light lantern flagged me down. This Is one of the loneliest spots on the entire road. You know It Is up in the . rugged mountain district. There. Is not a house without two mile ot the place. In fact,; I don't know of a house that is nearer than Greenwood. That little station was about two miles to the eouth, The road somewhat curves, too, and altogether a better place could not have ibeen selected for a train robbery. The fellow la front kept swinging his lantern. He .fctood in the center of the track. I could not imagine what was the matter." "Did you think of train robbers?" asked the reporter. , ' , "No. I did not." "Did you suppose that a "freight wreck was ahead?" "No, I did not. I did not think anything. J Just saw the fellow swinging his lantern and I stopped the train I did not see anybody else. "When I stopped to see what he was swinging the lantern for the fellow climbed Into the cab and said: 'Stand here till I tell you to go on, and pointed a pistol at me. He stood on the left hand side of the cab. As near as I can recollect he had a big black mustache, a slouch hat and rather seedy clothes. He looked like a rough countryman. The fellow did not sav another word, but just kept his pistol jointed at me." "Did he not seem alarmed when the shooting was going on?" , "No, he Just kept standing there with his pistol pointed at me. I dan' t know what Kind of a pistol it was, but It was a big one." With this the engineer straightened cut his hand and placed his left hand almost to his right elbow to show the length cf the robber's pistol. It might have been a horse pistol. "Kankln, my fireman." continued Springfield, "looked out of the cab on his side, and said: 'They've killed two of them.' But the fellow kept me covered with his fcig pistol and did not say a word. After one or two more shots were heard up in front the robber backed out of the cab and said 'go ahead.' I opened the throttle and we ran on to Cumberland Falls, about four miles further down." When asked why he did not shoot the robber as he left the train Springfield said that neither he nor his fireman had any weapons. "After the fellow told me to go ahead," said the engineer, "we had gone but a short distance when Rankin found a wounded man on the tender. We stopped at Cumberland, four miles from the tunnel, and put him off. leaving him in the telegraph office. They say he was badly shot in the arm and side. He said he was a tramp stealing a ride, and that he was not with the train robbers, but we do not believe it. We were not stopped by the robbers more than ten minutes. We came on to Chattanooga and got here on time. That's all I know about it. and I don't want to experience any more fellows standing in my cab pointing a big pi3tol at me." THE CONDUCTOR'S STORY. Conductor Peter Gorman, who was in charge of the train, says: "We were sixteen miles south of Somerset, and had come through tunnel No. 9. I was in the rear sleeper checking up my fares when the train came to a stop. I got off on the ground with the flagman. I saw the blaze of a pistol, and then another one. I told tho flagman he had better climb back on the train, as the shooting was going lengthwise of the train and he might get shot, and 3 did the same. I then went forward and found that the train robbers had boarded us. There were live of them. One watched the engineer, three entered the baggage car and one remained on the ground on the -left-hand side of thi train. When the train stopped Algood went out of the car, and as he stepped on the front platform the robber, or the robbers, on the ground yelled: 'Throw up your hands or I'll shoot you.' Instead of doing this Algood drew Lis pistol and began shooting. The other robbers in the baggage car then ran out and Griffin and Eddy Joined Algood in the fusillade. They killed one man. another was wounded and died at 4 o'clock this morning. The third we left at Cumberland Falls. "It was all done so quickly that there does not seem much to tell. In ten minutes we were going on. A wrecking train followed close behind us as the second section of our train, and we left the detectives and ' their prisoner to be taken on bv it. The day coaches were fairly well tilled. The passengers were somewhat alarmed, but as the train soon moved on they were reassured. Not one of the railroad employes r passengers was hurt. Nor. so far as I know, did a bullet enter a coach. The shooting was done along the train. We found one oarblne they had dropped. The robtxrs evidently thought they entered the express car when they entered the baggage car. I don't know who the robbers were, but they are tsupposed to be men living near where the robbery was committed." Superintendent Campbell, of the Southern Express Company, says there wa .only between $40 and $60 in money In the express safe. David Laskl, the express messenger on the train, seized his carbine when the shooting began and kept the doors tightly locked.. He knows nothing about the hold-up. In one of the day coaches, when the train, stopped and the shooting began, a man with a big mouth and loud and children began crying and -everybody began throwing money and Jewelry under the seats. They did not sleep any more. H. Oberdorfcr, of New Orleans, and A. G. Miller, of Louisville, were among the passengers in the sleeper who stopped hera. Mrs. Cooper, Wife of Governor McKlnley's corresponding secretary, sent a telegram

to her husband at Columbus. She was quite Jubilant over the outcome and angry because she was not wakened. ... SIX IN TIIK (iASG. All Lived in ih Mountain About Somerset Martin at Vet Dead. SOMERSET, Ky., March 27. The coroner will hold an inquest to-morrow at Greenwood on the bodies of Jesse Morrow and his son Thomas. T. R. Griffin, chief detective of the railway, who managed the job, is Mayor of Somerset. He and his assistants, Eddy and Altgood, are experienced officers. There were six robbers. Frazer was left with the horses on top cf the tunnel, one flagged the train and mounted the engine, while the third stood guard on top. of the earth cut, while the three remaining ones attached the express car and met the detectives. They all live hereabouts, and expected to get home before daylight with their booty. It is not known whether the express safe contained an unusual quantity of money. It is not known whether the gang had confederates advising them of special consignments, but tlv indications are that they had no outslda assistance. Samuel Frazer, who piped off the gang, is the only one that has not escaped. The officers will chase the other three. The physicians performed an operation upon William Martin, and he is dying to-night. His intestines have three buckshot in them. The Adams Express Company senc word here to-night that a liberal reward would be paid for the capture of the three robbers who escaped. .

OFFICIALS PLEASED. Hallway' and EsprrKt Managers Tlofcled" Over the Onteomc. V CINCINNATI, March 27. The men wearing the broadest smiles here to-day were General Manager Carroll, of the Queen & Crescent route, and General Manager Barrett, of the Adams Express Company. It was on account of the occurrence this morning near Greenwood, Ky., where, in the mountains, 175 miles from Cincinnati, and twenty-three miles from the State line between Tennessee and Kentucky, the south bound train was stopped by six robbers, just as it emerged from the mouth of a tunnel, and after a fight lasting only ten minutes half the robbers were killed and wounded and the others put to flight. General Manager Carroll was seen at the company's headquarters. He was elated 4ver the news. "Yes, it is true that there was an atetmpt to hold our r-iin, No. 3. up and 53 per cent, of the would-be train robbers are hors du combat. That man Griffin is the man for just that sort of work. He is the special agent of the Chattanooga division and assistant to Superintendent Griggs. It was the regular through express, leaving Cincinnati at 8 o'clock in the evening and due in Chattanooga at 8 in the morning, and the train was on time in Chattanooga. They were only delayed ten or twelve minutes, Just long enough to wipe those fellows out, get off and load them up and care for them and then make up lost time. The attempted hold-up was in a wild and lonely spot and well calculated for just such work. I do not know whether there was any especial treasure or property on the train. The Adams express can tell about that. I have not the information in detail yet, but I will venture to say that very few of the passengers knew of the trouble. It was at a time of night when they would be asleep. Some might have heard the shooting, but it was all over so quickly and train on the move again that it would be impossible for them to know much. There may have been some tip to the men that a hold-up was intended, but I have nothing on that score.' General Manager Barrett, of the Adams Express Company, who was also delighted with the repulse of the robbers, said he looked on it as an important event. The express company, he said, has adopted the plan of a secret service to protect its property against robbers. This Is the first result of the new method. While it is costly, it Is infinitely more effective than any number of lynx-eyed detectives - employed to arrest and punish robbers. ' Prevention, he thinks, in this matter is better than cure. Superintendent Barrett says the robbers could have had no knowledge of the amount of money carried by last night's train; that they made their attack as a pure venture. He declines to say what would have been their reward if they had been successful. ANOTHER HOLD LP. "-" Train Stopped and Express. Car Robbed by Two Men LITTLE: ROCK, Ark., March 27. Train No. 64 on the Iron Mountain road was held up . by robbers about 10 o'clock to-night eighteen miles north of Poplar Biuffs, "Mt., by two men. The robbers cut off the mail,, express and baggage cars and ran about half a mile and robbed the express car. It is not known what booty the robbers got. The conductor lost his watch and money, and It is supposed the passengers wrere also robbed, but details of the hold-up have not been received. OBITUARY. James Keelnn, Once a. Noted Confederate Spy. KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 27. James Keelan, a noted Confederate spy, died, penniless, in the City Hospital here to-day. Keelan was the one spy relied on for conveying important information from the Confederate Cabinet to different army commanders, and with his death he carried down many a state secret. He was born in Caseyville, 111., in 1844. His first exploit occurred in 1859, when he was arrested for carrying mail between Missouri secessionists quartered at Memphis and their relatives at home. For this he was tried by court-martial at St. Louis and banished ' from the State. He continued to carry the mail, however, and was again arrested, courtmartialed and sentenced to be shot. By the aid of friends he escaped, went to Richmond, and soon became the Confederates' most trusted spy. When Richmond was threatened and it was necessary to" take some decisive step Keelan placed torpedoes under certain Baltimore & Ohio trains transporting federal troops. Many were killed, but Keelan escaped. Since the war Keelan degenerated Into a professional card player. He at one time had considerable money, but died penniless. Francis Chamberlain. CHICAGO,' March 27. Francis Chamberlain, at one time the enly white child in Chicago, died to-day. His father came to Chicago in 1832. They were here at the time of the Fort Dearborn massacre, and Mrs. Chamberlain was saved from death by the noted Indian chief, Black Partridges The Incident has been perpetuated in bronze, on the spot, the lake front and Eighteenth street. ' ' Mrs. Julia Ireland. ST. PAUL, Minn., March 27. Mrs. Julia Ireland, mother of Archbishop Ireland, di?d this morning at her home in this city, at the ripe age of eighty-seven years. She had been tailing in health for some time and her death was not at all unexpected. The funeral will take place from the Cathedral in this city at 10 o'clock Friday morning.; ',. '-, :.-.. Mm. P. C. IIoss. NEW YORK, March 27 Mrs. P. C. Hoff, sister oC Wilson Marshall, the discoverer of gold in California, has died in Lambertsvllle, N. J. ' Negro Colonists Dissatisfied. CITY OF MEXICO, March 27. Negro colonists who arrived from Alabama and located in Durango are dlssat.sned and are. leaving in great numbers. The greater portion are making their way to the Rio Grande on foot. It is rumored that President Diaz in his message opening Congress will refer .to the United States laws suspending transportation of bonded goods to the free zone of Mexico. The steamship Diego, which was supposed to have been wrecked, came in under sail to-day, but very badly damaged. Hog-as liar of Bullion, CARSON, Nev., March 27. The Tribune this evening contains a statement claiming to be authoritative, that a bogus bar of bullion composed of some valueless composition has been discovered to have been substituted for a bar of gold bullion to cover up the mint shortage. This is one of the bars received by the present smelter and refiner, Harris, from the previous administration at the estimated value. Humors are current that arrests will shortly be made, but nothing definite can be learned. . Colored Itieendlury Lynched. OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss., March 27. Robert Betat, colored, who set fire to Mr. Flurry's barn at Bluff Creek, destroying the barn and contents, was lynched last night. Special furniture eale all this week at Eastman. Schleicher & Lee's.

HOW M'BEIDE DIED

DAVIESS COUNTY CORONER PROBING A POISON MYSTERY. Bishop "Warren Open 31. . K. ConferenceDeed of Janiea Fleming, Whom Grief Has Driven Insane. - Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Ind., March 27. The investigation by the coroner into the death of James McBride, at Plainville, this county, reveals a state of facts that has aroused the entire town. It has been generally known that the wife and son had frequently threatened McBride's life, and it is also known that little or no concern was manifested when the man was on his deathbed, the wife even refusing to prepare him nourishment. When the man died grave suspicions of four play were circulated. The citizens sent for the coroner an hour after death was announced, and when that official arrived at the McBride home his authority was questioned by the wife and son. He asked to make a post mortem examination, and was refused, but Mrs. McBride was persuaded to consent. The stomach, kidneys and spleen Indicated alcoholic or arsenic poisoning. The stomach was removed and sent to Louisville for expert analysis.- The inquest revealed the fact that Mrs. McBride had purchased two drachms of arsenious acid several months ago, but had refused to state to the drug clerk her purpose with it. She told the coroner it was prescribed by a reputable physician of this city, and that she took it for neuralgia, dosing it on the point of a knife. She said she had taken half of what she got, but she refused to produce the other in court. Mrs. McBride sail her husband died of delirium tremens. Eight or ten witnesses testified that McBride was seldom intoxicated, had been so but one time in six or eight weeks, and with this moderate use of liquor a physician testified that the tremens could not be possible. McBride began vomiting after meals three weeks ago, and grew worse day by day. He had convulsions and burning pains in his throat and stomach. Witnesses testified that McBride's son had hun.ed for him with a rifle, and the wife tried to scald h.m, and had expressed a wish for his dea h. The coroner will probably order arrests to-morrow. FIFTY-SECOND SESSION. Formal Opening1 of the Conference at . Logan sport. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LOGANSPORT, Ind., March 27. The fiftyseeond annual session of the North Indiana Methodist Episcopal Conference began this morning in the Broadway Church, Bishop H. W. Warren presiding. After several changes were made in standing committees the following conference officers were elected: Secretary, L. J. Naftzger, of Richmond; assistants, : E. T. Gregg, of Decatur, and L. A. Beeds, of Llgonier; statistical secretary, Thomas C. Neal, of Marion; assistants, T. M. Kemper, of Marion, and L. Reeves, of Harlin; railroad secretary, Joshua E. Ervin, of Angola; treasurer, Jasper I. McCoy, of Jonesboro; assistants, J. C. White, of Upland: T. M. Guild, of Elwood, and W. B. Freeland. A resolution was adopted instructing the committee on qualifications, owing to the growing number of superannuates, to make rigid investigation concerning candidates for admission and report to the conference. F. M. Stone stated that there was a growing demand to do something for weak charges that cannot be touched by the Missionary Society. A committee was appointed for this purpose. A resolution was adopted that conference stewards be instructed not to count as a means of income any government pensions received by recipients of conference funds. W. E. Osborn was transferred to the Louisiana Conference. Presiding Elder Mahin, of Richmond district, and Presiding Elder Herrick, of Muncie district, read their reports. The report of Presiding Elder Birch, of Kokorao district, who is lying critically ill here, was read by W. D. Parr, who stated that Dr. Birch wished it announced that he would lay down his office owing to ill health. Tributes were paid and a committee appointed to prepare suitable resolutions. G. K. Morris, of the Boston School of Theology, lectured this afternoon on "The Bible as an Instrument." The conference missionary anniversary was held at night. Chaplain C. C. McCabe delivering an eloquent address. THE "WHIRLWIND. Idle A. R. V. Men i nt Fort Wayne Almost Destitute. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE, Ind., March 27. A large number of employes of the railroads running through Fort Wayne have been out of employment ever since the A. R. U. strike and their condition has become one of destitution almost. They have circulated a monster petition which has been signed by nearly every manufacturer and business man of Fort Wayne, and have appointed a committee of citizens to present this petition to the different railway superintendents in Fort Wayne next Saturday, and after an interview with the superintendents the committee will go to Cleveland and present the petition to General Superintendent Johnson. It is rumored here that a similar procedure at Elkhart, in which care the committee called on President Caldwell, of the Lake Shore, resulted in many of the men being reinstated. Mayor Oakley Is chairman of the committee. INDIANA DEATHS. Dr. J. L. "W. Yost Expired While Making: a Professional Call. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MITCHELL, Ind., March 27. Dr. J. L. W. Yost died suddenly of heai t disease this evening at 6:40 o'clock, at the Putnam House, where he was called to see a patient. Dr. Yost had a wide reputation as one of the best physicians in southern Indiana, His death causes much sorrow. Other Death in the Stale. MADISON, Ind.,. March 27. The late Robert Elliott, burled on Monday, was born Aug. 18, ISIj. in Montgomery county, Ohio. He came with his parents to Jefferson county. Indiana in 1S16. He married Miss Catharine Patton in 1836. Mr. Elliott united with the Presbyterian Church in 1832, and was, subsequently chosen to the office of ruling elder at the organization of the Monroe Presbyterian Church, which office he held up to the time of his death. He leaves seven children, with twenty-seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild. A brother and sister also survive. WINDFALL, Ind., March 27.-Mary A. Dolllns, a prominent widow of th'.s place, was found dead in her bed this morning. The cause of death was rheumatic heart trouble. She was a member of the M. E. Church and the Order of Eastern Star. She lived with her aged mother, Mrs. Maria J. Fox, and two. little children survive her. ELKHART, Ind., March 7. Mrs. Frederick Connett, aged twenty-live years, very prominent in society, art and musical circles here, died yesterday afternoon. Henry Thompson, aged eighty-two years, a leading pioneer of this section, die! yesterday. MORE LIKELY DYNAMITE. Fish in Orr's Lake Said to lie Dead for Want of Air. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAPORTE, Ind., March 27. Orr's lake, near this city, wiJely known as the anglers' paradise, is likely to lose its popularity as a fishing resort, as it is believed that all the black bass and sunfish died during the winter, caused from the air, being excluded by the thick and long continued, ice. The ice Is now out and the shores are lined with dead fish and in places they lay in the water by thousands. Black bass that will weigh from one to six pounds lay along the shore by the wagon load. it DRIVEN MAD HY GRIEF. Young Man Drives Ilia Family from Home and Cut Hid Throat. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW ALBANY. Ind., March 27. James Fleming," a well-known young man, became violently Insane last Monday" and escaped from home. He was caught this morning ten miles below the city Just as he started to plunge Into the Ohio river. He Was brought home, and this afternoon chased his family from the house with a caseknife. He did not succeed in injuring any of them and drew the weapon across his own throat, severing the windpipe., He was arrested by officers after a hard struggle, ami was only subdued by becoming ex

hausted. He was placed in Jail and is not expected to recover. His insanity was caused by the recent deaths of a brother and sister, the latter dying at the Insane asylum at Indianapolis. Glass Worker Strike nt Albany. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ALBANY. Ind., March 27. The Buckeye window glass works shut down yesterday indefinitely. The shutdown was caused by a disagreement between the company and the Window Glass Workers Association on the number c' employes to be hired " in the flattening department. The company has been employing only two, when the association claims there should be three. Simon Burns, of Pittsburg, president of the Window Glass Workers' Association, was here Monday and demanded the employment of more men in the flattening department, i which the company refused to do, and shut down the works. Over one hundred men were thrown out -of work.

Simpson llnrby Captured. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ' DECATUR, Ind., March 27. Last night Sheriff Ashbaucher and detectives Erwin and Cowan captured Simpson Burby, a highwayman, wanted at Bloomington, Neb. He was captured in the woods two miles north of this city, where he had been camping for several days. Burby offered no resistance after finding the officers had him surrounded. He was brought to town and lodged in jail and the sheriff at Bloomington notified. The crime for which Burby is wanted was committed last August, when h called a farmer out of his house one night, struck him over the head with a club aiia robbed him of $400. Burby was at one time a resident of this county. Held for Trial. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSON VILLE, Ind., March 27. William Taylor, the ex-policeman charged with killing lawyer J. R. Tucker, was today,, given a preliminary hearing before Judge Ware and held over to the Circuit Court under a bond of $2,000. During the trial the testimony - of the physicians who attended Tucker developed the fact that the dirk with which the fatal stab was made entered the heart at least half an inch. In spite of this Tucker lingered at least five hours before he died. The remains of the murdered man were buried to-day; at neon, in the Eastern Cemetery. May Go Forty Miles for AVat;r. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT , WAYNE, Ind., March 27. This City for the past six months has experienced a water famine, almost, and last night, at a meeting of the Council. Mayor Oakley suggested that water be brought from Fish lake. This Is a body ot pure water located forty miles north, in Steuben county. A committee of Ave was appointed to superintend the surveying of lines from Fort Wayne to the lake to determine whether it is practicable to bring a supply of water to the city. Fish lake, It is said, is one hundred feet higher than Fort Wayne and if that be the case there will" be no trouble. Forest Fire In Brown. Connty. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COLUMBUS, Ind., March 27. In the center of Brown county, within a mile of the county seat, Nashville, a great forest fire has been raging for twenty-four hours, and the damage done on account -of the high wind will run into the thousands. The home of Jesse Harding, a well-known resident, and all the other buildings on his farm were consumed this morning, and his family narrowly escaped being caught in the flames. The citizens of Nashville and the surrounding country are fighting the fire, which is not yet under control. Overland Electric Road. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAPORTE, Ind., March 27. This city and Michigan City, twelve miles distant, are soon to be connected by an electric railroad, the County: Commissioners to-day granting a franchise to the Lake Cities Railway Company for the construction of the same. Messrs. Tuttle and Tillotson, of Michigan City, are the promoters, backed by Boston capital. Besides connecting the two cities with LaPorte's famous summer lake resorts, lines will be operated in each city. . Work of an lnrendiiiry. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. i HAGERSTOWN, nd.i March 27. A large barn belonging to In Wise, . near . "this place, was set on tire in 'three places last evening and destroyed. With it was burned 350 bushels of wheat, 200 bushels of oats, five calves, one cow, two young horses, eight' tons of hay, a large outfit of farming implements, two buggies and a dozen sets of harness. No , insurance. Mr, Wise was badly burned about the head while releasing stock. Company L Remustered. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., March 27. Company L, Second Regiment, Indiana Militia, remustered In this city last night with an enlistment of sixty men. The company is under command of Captain Martin, an old United States army officer. This company has been called into active service at every call for troops in the . past three years. Major Thayer, of Greenfield, was the mustering officer. : Kokomo Athletic Club Open. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., March 27. The Kokomo Athletic Club openeJ its new clubrooms with a fine" entertainment this evening. Sparring and wrestling contests by home talent and contestants from neighboring cities gave a good exhibition. The Kokomo club is prepared to entertain propositions for scientific contests and put up good purse to secure them "Chock" Pope Was the Ivickcr. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Ind., March 27. A young man named Matthias Abbott was kicked in the stomach, about a year and a half ago, and ruptured, from the effects of which he died in the asylum Tuesday. In his dying deposition he claimed ' his injuries were made by a colored boy named "Chuck" Pope, in a sporting house. Pope is in jail. Scalped with Plate Glass. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELWOOD, Ind.. March 27. This morning w hile Frank Knotts, an employe of the plate-glass factory, was assisting to carry a large plate of glass from the horse to the bench it suddenly broke and a large segment fell on him, ripping open his scalp from the top of his head to the base of the neck, inflicting a dangerous wound. '-.Fatally Shot by a Saloon Keeper. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., March 27. Joe Davy, a saloon keeper at Geneva, a mining town w here many shooting affrays have occurred, last night shot Jack Maloney, who had thrown a rock through the saloon window. Davy shot him without warning. Two bullets entered his breast, causing fatal wrounds. An Incubator Lamp Explodes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FRANKFORT, Ind., March 27. Mrs. A. M. Stones, residing near Middlefork, was badly burned last evening. She was adjusting a lamp in an incubator when the lamp exploded, the flames enveloping her clothing and burning them from her body. Her injuries, it is thought, will prove fatal. Prof. Geo. E. Fellows Resigns. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BLOOMINGTON, Ind.. March 27. Dr. George E. Fellows, - professor of European history of Indiana University, has resigned and will go to Paris to complete work on a French history. Dr. Fellows has been here for four years. He is a graduate of Berne. Indiana Notes. Richard Richards, a miner, was fatally crushed under the cage in the Peerless coal mine at Coal Bluff yesterday. The largest class, twenty-one in number, that ever graduated in the public schools of Decatur will receive sheepskin this spring. The barn of Thomas Wilson, near Waynetown, burned Tuesday, having been eet on fire.- Four horses, hay, grain and implements were destroyed. No Insurance. J. W. DeFord, State organizer of the Journeyman Tailors' Union of America, organized a strong union at Elwood last night with the following officers: C W. Theobold, president; A. H. Reich, vice president ; W. E. Parson Fecretary ; Joseph Hess, treasurer. Every tailor In the city is a member. At Niles. Mich.. Tuesday night, William Jones, aged fifty, stepped on the track of the Big Four road in front of a locomotive which was , slowly backing and stood apparently spellbound till run down. One leg was cut on just below the hip and the other below ' the knee. The injured ican died at 6 o'clock yesterday morning

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BUILDINGS AND STOCKS OF GOODS, WORTH 9050,000, BURNED. Public Library Saved by the Wind Shifting: Victims of Fire at Various Points Five Children Lost. MILWAUKEE, March 27.-Lower Grand avenue, where the greater part of the wnviesale and retail commerce of the West Side " throbs, was the scene this morning of one of the most uisastrous fires in the history of the city. Some of the leading mercantile institutions are In ruins. The fire was the most disastrous since the Third ward conflagration of Oct. 28. 1802, and the loss will reach nearly Jl.OOO.WO. It furnished a magnificent spectacle for the thousands that filled the avenue and watched it from surrounding buildings. There were, however, luckily no fatalities. The principal losses are: Planklnton estate, on building, $235,000; Landouer & Co., wholesale dry goods, $400,000; Benedict & Co., clothing, $10,000; Y. M. C. A. building, $25,0U0; Roebel & Reinhart, art store, $20,000; F. Hopkinson Smith, paintings, $15,000; Aubon Marche, $10,000; Columbia Clothing Company, $5,000; Tanner & Co., furniture, , $100,000; Darling & Wambold Company, $80,000; Schlitz Brewing Company, $8,000; Wm. Hallman, building. $9,000; Matthews Bros., building, $5,ouO; James Morgan Company, dry goods, $2,000; other losses, $5,000, making a total of about $950,000. The insurance carried on the principal buildings and stocks burned was as follows: Planklnton building, $160,000; Landauer & Co., $175,000; Davidson building, $30,000; Barling & Wambold, $55,000; Y. M. C. A..' $25,000; Benedict & Co., $10,000; Tanner Company, $80,000. The Milwaukee public library had a narrow escape, but was saved by a favorable shift of wind. The burned district takes in both sides of Grand avenue from Third to Fourth street, with the exception of the Matthews block on the south side and the buildings east of the alley on the north side west of Fourth street. The corner store of the public library building is gone on the north and the Foster block and Y. M. l,. A. building on the south. F. Hopkinson smith's pictures lepresent over a year's hard work in Europe. It is not known whether he carried any insurance. Perished in Her Home. FELTON. Mich., March 27.--The farmhouse of Frank Annis, north of the village, was burned early this morning, and Mrs. Annis perished in the flames. An inquest is being held this afternoon, and the testimony thus far is rather damaging to her husband. His ten-year-old daughter has testified to facts which tend to show that the house was set on fire. Annis said he had gone for a physician to attend his wife when the Are started. . Five Children Darned to Death. MINOT. N. D., March 27. The residence of Phoenis Christensen, a carpenter, was burned last night. Five children, ranging in age from three to fifteen years, perished in the flames. The mother and father, with four other children, eecaped. One of the children was badly burned, but will recover. The fire Is supposed to have caught from a stove in the kitchen. Two Fatally Burned. WEST SUPERIOR, WTis., March 27. An oil stove . exploded in the house of J. P. . Nelson, a dairyman, to-day, fatally burning a baby and a fifteen-year-old boy. Mrs. Nelson and another son were seriously burned. ' Other Fires. PERRY, O. T.. March 27. Prairie fires are raging in Otoe and Ponca Indian reservations, several miles north of Perry. It was reported here to-day that a number of Indian wigwams1 were burned last evening in the Otoe reservation and one Indian papoose was burned to death. The fires have done great damage, and with the prevailing high wdnd much more is looked for. OREGON, 111., March 27. The business section of this placte was destroyed by fire last night. Loss. $50,000. BIG DAY AT MUXC1K. (Concluded from First Page.) the committee quotes the statement: "The South was eager to repel invasion." The committee shows that the rebels are the aggressors by firing upon Sumter and seizing federal property. Quoting again from page 307. that "the enemy invaded the North," the committee points out the contradiction therein to the statement on page 28S. The committee points out the fact that "while a brief but glowing description of Pickett's charge at Gettysburg 13 given, no corresponding gallantry on the part of any Union army is recorded." The committee asks the reader to compare this admiration of Confederate valor with the fine lines devoted to the battles , of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. "Why," asks the committee, "should an impartial writer ignore one of the most gallant, difficult and successful charges ever made by any army in the world, made up the rugged edge of Missionary Ridge, in the face of cannon and rifles, to brilliant success, and yet stop to praise Pickett's rash and fatal assault at Gettysburg:?" After going through the Montgomery book as above indicated, the committee falls upon Ellis's Eclectic Primary History and riddles it. -It quotes, giving the page, that the slave States believed that the election of Lincoln endangered slavery and that they, the Southern States, had other complaints: that the child "must remember that the South looked upon the Union as a leagute or partnership from which any member could withdraw." It is also quoted that among the secessionists "were numbered some of the most skilled soldiers and statesmen of the age," but there is no word of similar praise for any Union statesman or soldier. Attention is called to the fact that a picture is printed showing the federal army in disgraceful rout at Bull Run. Children are told that the Confederates could not be conquered until destroyed, buL are not told of any corresponding valor on the other side. Thus the committer goes through the book and closes by declaring that Barnes's school history is equally objectionable. To bring the matter before the convention, the committee above named presented the following preamble and resolutions to the encampment: "Whereas, under the providence of God, to make treason odious Lincoln and Grant lived, and hundreds of thousands of lives and millions of treasure were sacrificed by an earnest and patriotic people: and whereas, in all lands and in ail time, love of country and patriotic devotion to its institutions have ever been recognized as the true gauges of pure and perfect citizenship; and whereas, the broken crowns and wrecked monuments of the ages are the memorials of lax faith and forgotten allegiance; and whereas. Lie safety and pprpetuity of a country depends upon the properly directed intellect of its youth; and whereas, youth is so much the season of impressions, and Impressions the basis of belief, leading up to conviction, that it amounts to criminal indifference to permit the facts of history to be suopressed or distorted, as they are conveyed through educational channels: and whereas, the school histories read and taught in the schools of Indiana, notably Montgomery's, Barnes's and Ellis's, tend to pervert or change the truths stamped on the pages of time from 1861 to lw; to measure by a common standard and from the same level the traitors Davis and Lee. and the patriots Lincoln and Grant; to justify the promptings and first steps of treason, and to belittle tho deeds and prowess of the Union army by giving undue prominence to momentary successes of the traitors: therefore be it "Resolved, That we, the surviving soldiers of the war for the Union, declare that the treason of those long past years had no justification in theory or in fact; that the leaders in that unholy cause were not alone branded by overt acts of treason, but by perjury and other crimes, and that the place in history of such traitors as Davis and Lee Is below that of Benedict Arnold; that in comparison with tne work of the traitor army, the grand achievements and heroic deeds of the patriotic sons of the North are as the glow of the morning to the shades of evening, and that these facts should be taught to and impressed upon the minds of the youth of the land; that a history which does not mention treason or traitors In connection with those days Is unworthy a place In any educational system. Resolved. That the so-called histories of Montgomery, Barnes and E11U are mere caricatures, and that they pervert the facts of history, pander to the opinions and feelings of traitors, mislead the youth of the land, tend to create a sentiment of disioyaity, if not to encourage treason, and are unworthy a place in our public schools, and should be suppressed. "Resolved, That the department commander appoint a permanent committee of five, whose duty it shall be to bring about the adoption and teaching in our public schools of a just and patriotic history one that shall embody all of treason and , all at patriotism, and ebau hold up for the

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emulation -of our youth the lives and deeds of the Union's defenders." THE CAMP FIRES. Reunions Held in Three of Monde's Larurest Halls. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind.. March 27. The campfires to-night Were all largely attended, and many people were turned away for want of room at each place. The meetings were devoted to speechmaking and the singing of patriotic songs. The Bald-headed Glee Club, of Indianapolis, was present at each of the meetings. Campfires were held at the courthouse, Walnut-street Opera House and Wysor's Grand Opera House. The following programme was carried out at the three places: ' . At Courthouse Prof. D. H. H. Shewmaker in charge. Music by band; invocation. Rev. J. F. Carney; welcome address, Judge Koons; response. Comrade J. R. Carnahan, who presided; "A Yankee Welcome," by Thomas Winsor (R. I. Patterson, author); song, Col. A. H. Graham; remarks by national, department and post commanders; W. R. C. and S. of V. representatives; song, Bald-headed Glee Club, of Indianapolis; recitation, "Appomattox," Miss Maud Pugh (R. I. Patterson, author); quartet, "Welcome" (composed by Mrs. J. V. II. Koons); remarks, S. of V., by Co:. Frank Martin, commanding; miscellaneous, picket line shots. At Walnut-street Opera House R. I. Patterson' in charge. Music, city band; invocation, Rev. W. B. F. Treat; welcome, .fost commanaer v. w. xa. ivcmiici , i. song. Colonel A. H. Graham; remarks, by national and department commanders. Representatives W. R. C. L. of G. A. R. and S. of V.; quartet, "Welcome," compo.ed by Mrs. J. V. H. Koons; recitation, "Appomattox," Miss Mayne Roberts: song. Baldhead Glee Club; patriotic drill, eight-year grade high school. At Wysor Grand Opera House Comrade John F. Wlldman in charge. Music. Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home Band; invocation. Rev. J. A. Maxwell, department chaplain; welcome address. Mayor George W. 'Cromer; response, A. O. Marsh, department 'commander, who presided; address. Gen. Frank G. Lawler. national commander; song, "Banner of Beauty and Glory," Mrs. C. H. Brown; remarks by department and past department commanders, representatives of W. R. C, Ladlea of the G. A. R. and S. of V.; song. Baldhead Glee Club: recitation, Mrs. A. C. 'Stouder; song. Col. A. H. Graham; dumbbell drill; song, Bald-head Glee Club. W. R. C. AND LADIES OF G. A R. These ' Two Organisation Both Held Sessions Yesterday. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., March 27. The W. R. C. held a business session this afternoon. The address of welcome was delivered by Mrs. J. C. Ross, president of the Muncie corps, and the response was by Mrs. Flora Wulschner, Indianapolis. Mrs. Wulschner paid Muncie a beautiful tribute on the manner in which the visitors were treated and the generous hospitality of the citizens. Reports were maae by . Mrs. Nettle Ransford, department president; Mrs. Eliza J. Chrisler. senior vice; Mrs. Gertrude Mitchell, Junior vice, and Mrs. Etta Hauk. secretary. . The reports, which show a steady gain in membership in the order, were referred to special committees for examination and approval. During the businesa session this afternoon a committee from the G. A. R., consisting of ex-Governor Chase, Captain Gordon and Judge Reinhart, was appointed to convey greeting to the W. R. C. The committee was warmly welcomed, and in turn Mrs. Jennie Myerhoff, Mrs. Mary Travis and Mrs. Mary Grisler were appointed a committee from the W. R. C. to acknowledge the visit and return the compliments of the W. R. C, to the G. A- R. h ...... , For the first time in the history of the order all the past presidents of the W. R. C. for the past ten years are present, and to-morrow they will have taken a group picture from wnieh a cut will be made. It is believed that Mrs. Eliza J. Chrisler will be elected president of the W. K. C. without opposition. . ' The Ladies of the G. A. R. held business sessions to-day. with Mrs. Martha J. Paugh, department president, presiding. The report of State Secretary Euna A. Lewis shows eight circles in the State, with a total membership of five hundred. This is a new order, and is composed exclusively of wives, daughters and sisters of veterans of the late war. In this it differs from the W. R. C, as that organization includes loyal women who may not have any blood ties to the veterans. Mrs. Martha Smith, of Lafayette; Mrs. H. A. Robinson, Mrs. S. A. Dille, and Mrs. Anna Erwin, of Logansport, were appointed a committee of greeting to the G. A. R., while Comrades James T. Johnston, J. A. Cochran and H. T. Hemington were received as a committee of greeting from the G. . A. R. ' OTHER ENCAMPMENT NEWS. Commander Marsh's Address Warmly Greeted Col. Walker's Dispatch. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., March 27. The address of Department Commander Marsh was listened to with the closest attention. Some of the portions causing applause were his recommendation urging that no worthy comrade be suspended because of inability to pay his dues, the suggestions regarding pensions, the announcement regarding the prospects of the State Soldiers' Home and the Instruction of the school boys in military tactics. When the name of General Harrison was mentioned in this connection it was greeted with the evidence of unmistakeable approval. The declaration that the Grand Army stood for law and order last November and would do so In the future brought out a round of cheers. It is regarded as a model address an expression of the best aims and purposes of the Grand Army to-day. . A dispatch received from Col. I.-N. Walker was read, expressing regret that for the first time in years he was prevented from attending the encampment because of the critical illness of his son Jn Peru. A committeee was named to tender by telegraph the condolence of the encampment. The report of the State Soldiers' Home committee was presented by General Carnahan. It showed good progress of the work and explains the bill passed by the Legislature. The new board will proceed at once to put up the administrative buildings. The committee urge positive action to influence friends in every county to furniii the means to build one or more cottages. It is proposed to build all the building with a single plant. Action was taken to transfer the Lafayette land to the State. Th? special committee to examine this report is composed of ex-Governor Chase, W. H. Armstrong, Charles Myerhoff, A. IL Dougall and R. I. Dellart. The report of the visitors of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home shows that March 5 641 children were in the institution; that 101 have been received and 103 discharged during the year; that fourteen have been indentured, and that 225 applications which cannot be accepted are on file. The institution has eighty-eight employes,, of whom eight are ex-soldiers, fourteen soldiers' widows and twenty-nine soldiers' children. Boys are learning trades as follows: Printers, 27; bakers, 14; carpenters, 10; shoe shop. 13; florists, 8; engineers, 11; painters, 2; dairy't 9; gardeners. 13; farmers, 5: butcher, 1; tailors, 4 boys and 7 girls; in sewing room, 31 girls; in cooking school, 14 girls. Dinner to the Officers. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE. Ind., March 27. A pleasing feature of the encampment was a 6-o'clock dinner xorved in the Boyce Block by the citizens' committee to Department Commander Marsh and staff and other distinguished members of the order. One hundred covers were laid, and it was a brilliant affair. The banquet hail and tables were beautifully decorated, and numerous bright and happy speeches were made. Miehlirnn's New Commander. MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich.. March 27. General . S. B. Daboll. of St. Johns, was elected department commander of the Michigan G. A. 11. to-day on the first ballot. Rheumatism In the back, shoulders, hips, ankles, elbows or wrists Is caused by accumulation of acid in the blood. Hood's Sarsaparilla. nev.trallzes the acid and cures rheumatism. . Hood's Pills are the best family cathartic and liver medicine. Harmlesa and reliable.

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SANGUINARY BATTLE NEARLY 2,000 COLOMBIANS KILLED IN -A" RECENT FIGHT. , Government Lost TOO Men a ad th Rebels l.iiOO A March to Death Japanese Rescript. . COLON, Columbia, March 27. A great battle was fought at Enslso on March 15 between the government forces under General Reyes and the rebels. The latter were defeated after a struggle of ten hours, although 1,500 of the government, troops died while on the march.' The rebels, w ho numbered ;,500 men, were completely routed and the town captured. The government forces lost 700 men during the battle and the rebel loss amounted to 1,200. Two thousand rebels surrendered. ' The steamship Allianca. Captain Crossman, of the Colombian line from New York on March 20, arrived here after passing over her usual course. She was not molested. This is the steamship which was recently fired on by a Spanish gunboat off the coast of Cuba. The gunboat La Popa has arrived here with fourteen prisoners. " . THE ASSAULT ON LI. Rescript Issued by the Mikado After the Shootlnv. SHANGHAI, March 27. Following is a translation of an imperial rescript published in a special issue of the Japanese Gazette in connection with the attempt on the Ufa of Li Hung Chang: "China is now in a state of war with our country, but she has, with a due obpervanco an embassador for the conclusion of peace. We. on our part, named our plenipotentiaries, who were instructed to meet him and negotiate at Shlmonoseki.-- Since it was incumbent upon us, in pusuance with usage, to afford the embassador treatment consistent with the national honor, and to accord him a suitable escort for his protection, we consequently gave orders to all functionaries to use the utmost dilligence, and it is, therefore, with profound grief that we now have to express our rtgret that a ruffian should have dared to inflict personal injury on the Chinese embassa-7 dor. The culprit must receive the severest punishment provided by law. Our official subjects must respect our wishes to preserve the glory of this country untarnished, and must provide against the recurrence Of such violence." i The rescript is signed by the. Emperor and counterslKned by his Ministers. The Mikado has dismissed the prefect and chief of police of Shlmonoseki for remissness in affording protection, to Li Hung Chang. ' " Li Hons: Chang's Wound, WASHINGTON, March 27. Although nothing is said at either the Japanese ,or Chinese legations as to the condition of LI Hung Chang, the Chinese peace envoy, it la known that advices have been received In official circles that serious results are apprehended from the wound. In fact, tho information has been such as to cause noma discussion as to the effect his death might have upon the situation in the Orient. It Is generally believed it would prevent Japan . securing as good terms as fche had intended to insist upon. - . "Will Remain Neutral. ST. PETERSBURG, March 27. It is semiofficially stated that in reply to China's remif af that matlt'itA frti tH tmlfirn. tion of an armistice (luring the peace negotiations, Germany and the United . States have notified China that they are resolved to maintain a strictly neutral attitude in regard to China and Japan. The other powers to which a similar appeal was made have refused to interfere.. Japs Attacked by Cholera. LONDON, March 27. Dispatches received here from Shanghai says that there wera thirty-eight cases of cholera in one day among the Japanese troops at Port Arthur. Smallpox in a Hospital. PITTSBURG, March 27. The Homeopathic Hospital, containing nearly 200 patients, was quarantined, this afternoon by the health officials on account of the development of a case of smallpox. The patient is Luther Robinson, a colored deck hand, who came from Cincinnati by rail last Sunday. He had a companion, also colored, " who was complaining of not feeling very, well, but who went on to Baltimore. Robinson has been removed to the pest house and the quarantine will be lifted off the hospital at the end of twelve days if no more cases develop in the meantime. . Guardian for Beatrice Hay. . NEW YORK, March 27. Justice Bartlett. of the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, appointed George A. Miller, a New York lawyer, guardian for Beatrice Ray, adopted daughter of Robert Ray Hamilton. The child is about six years old. It was she whom Eva Mann presented to' Hamilton as his child. Under Hamilton's will an annuity of $1,200 is left to the child, to be derived from Hamilton's estate In Brooklyn. It was stated that this property is so incumbered as not to return an income of $1,200. It Is desired by tho friends of the child to sell the property and invest the proceeds. Dea lb. of an Athlete. GALESBI'RG, 111.. March 27. Walter Fuller, of the Knox College athletio team, died from injuries received by throwing the hammer seventy feet and breaking the college record. The strain caused a double Btrlcture of the intestines. A WOMAN'S STRANGE CASK. Loses Her Voice Twice, but llecoters It Once n Masculine Tone. Mrs. E. May Miller, of No. 229 North New Jersey street, 1 who suddenly regained her voice some time ago, lost it again about two weeks ago, regaining it again on the following morning. When her voice first returned It waa of a deep nviseullne tone, but after being lost and again recovered It is of a feminine tone. Dr. Outland. who Is treating the woman, Ik much puzzlei over the strange case and is unable to say certainly whether the voice will remain now or not. , MMW MM It Is denied that lajr Keley,' who was arrested Tuesday night for being in ah intoxicated condition, ha any connection with the National Detective Ayic'atton. Dr. Price's Cream Baking powder World's F-Ir Highest Award. WDM'MIT Thav nm P 11 UULUill-JUU.MU 0 "' " FOB Gas, Steam nnd 'lVVtfVr Bolr "'Tub!, Ctt. ' sii'l MtU-bl I r it lltuucs (black Dl 1 va u 1 1 fl, V Ives. 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