Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 April 1896 — Page 8

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1GC3.

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Ilonso Cleaning, Are Yon? Heed any ' The BEST is here. Why not got the BEST? Pretty conceits, lato novelties, staple stuffs all hero for you to see to buy if you choose. Mr. E. T. A. Akass Who for the past twelve years has been with one of the leading drapery houses of the city, has taken charge of this department, and will bo pleased to see his friends. L S. Ayres & Co. f i Artistic Pianos. "You're going to seo tho greatest revolution in piano case styles, and it will not be long before it will come about, and it la going to start from the West and strike out in all directions. Just as sure as I am writing these lines, the Eastern piano factories are doomed to become tho imitators of tho original styles the Western houses are now creating. Just look at those JJaldwin Pianos, made in that most artistic piano factory of tho Ualdwin Company, at Cincinnati. There is nothing made in the East to compare with those styles in the eyes of connoisseurs and people of taste and culture. "That class will discern at a glance that art lines have been incorporated in piano case work when they see tho Jjaldwln uprights. There Is nothing commontiace about tho work done by that house. ont put me down as an enthusiast I am giving you the real, solid facts, and there is not one. traveling man of intelli: gence who will not agree with me." Musical Courier, April 22, lS'JO. The Clothes We' Make ' Looks well, feel well, wear well, and the price for thein is only moderate. Don't these warm days suggest a lighter suit than the one you are wearing? Our assortment of cloths is unsurpassed. Our work is the best and well, we want to make your next suit. We'd like to talk the matter over. Call onus. WOUNG & w 11 McMURRA 11 TAILORS, 12 e 14 N. Meridian St. ART EMPORIUM. Telephone SCO. Vlicn the Drawing TeachcrsCome When tho Drawing Teachers' Association come the members will find a welcome at the Art Emporium. Wo have many new things to enow them. THE H. LIEBER CO., A3 S. Meridian St. ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo lLacesX o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o n o o O Laces! o o . o o a no grcai uio ccan imo o morning, and Inco loveliness Is o colS Qt most uupoctlc prices. o o o Nottingham Laces, SSc, 78c, OScS 5 up to 81.02 tho pair; worth Toctog o sa. o o o In this sale you'll find beautiful g u Brussels, the genuine artistic laces, o S at S3.75. 2 0 000000000000 S 1 BADGER I o ii s ciTDWiTimn rn o o o o o o () o o o o o o o 75 tod 77 East Washlnjton Street, 23 tod 24 VlrxlnU Avenue. ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo WEATHER INDICATION: "XOT MO HOT!" That'a hat moot people wouM like to ie It. TL latltfi Hnml.t, UoWEVKIU weir our flud Washb Clumoli (ilovK at T.'x: and ft. Kid Glove I'rireeSI, f i.so, tU'i auJ $2. MAIL OUDEK Til 1E. Preparations for Wild M.M Charts GooJbar, In charge of car No. of tho Wild Wcat show, is in the city with eighteen men. Jle will put up the show's posters for many mile around thU city. Thia Is the fame show that Buffalo Hill has exhibited In all the principal cities of Kurope ani aX at the Columbian Kxpo-ltlon. The WlU West exhibition, which will be given hTe on May 8 and 9. 1 (ilvUcd Into three dlitlnt departments, earn on imiortint and txtenive notuh to to a complete show in italf. They are the rrpro luctlon cf scenes Hnd Incident from actuil lire among the Indian?, cowboys an i rione r frontlcrsmpn, a congress of th roujh riders of the world an.l a. military alliance of the nick d cavalrymen of lir.iUf.il. Germany, Vrance, Itussia r.J tha United States. Vtzzz and I.-oa Uuvlaieada.-Wo. L. EUor.

EVIDENCE COMING IN

roLici: sow believe Tiinnc mex WEBB I.V THE IIIItTII nOIlIICHV. More People Who Snvr the Trio anil Describe Llntner Mr. Illrth Threat. A Journal reporter learned yesterday that the police and detectives. In working upon tho HIrth case, have proceeded upon the theory that there were three men connected with the robbery and subsequent murder. While the tall man. declare J by Mrs. Illrth to be Al Llntner) and a ntiort, heavy aet man were committing the robbery and murder, their pal remained outside to warn them of the approach of any policeman or other persons that might chance to pass that way. A number of Incidents that seem to support this theory came to light. Jacob F. Poe, a conductor on the ML Jackson street car line, hauled two men to Mlley avenue, the first thoroughfare west of Hlrth's caloon. on the night of the murder. TTie taller of the two men, described as hollowfaced and eallow, was the spokesman, and Poe believes that he would be able to recognize him Instantly, both by his general appearance and peculiar voice. The men allgMfd from roe's car at the Mlley avenue crossing, a few rods from Hlrth's place. Ifaughvillc lies five squares from Washington atreet. the eastern part of that town being almost on a bee-line north from Hlrth's saloon, and not more than a ten minutes' walgk from It. It was about half past 9 o'clock when the men alighted from Poe's car. Fifteen minutes later, long enough for them to have walked to Haughvllle, J. P. Thorpe, the marshal of Haughville, drove three auspicious characters away from the streets of the suburb. Marhsal Thorpe said that two of the men he drove away answered almost exactly to the description of tho two murderers Riven by Mrs. Illrth, and that he thought from, descriptions of Al Llnter given in the Journal that he might have been one of them. When tho men were ordered out of town by Marshal Thorpe they walked west. At midnight nlrht watchman Hall, employed at the Malleable iron works, saw the tallest man of the trio returning through the town. At that Ume he was walking south, towards Hlrth's ealoon. At I o'clock another street-car conductor, who al?o runs on the Alt. Jackson line, left Washington street and walked up Mlley avenue. He was on his way home. On the northwest corner of Washington street and Mlley avenue there stands a church. Ahe passed the church the conductor saw three men sitting In the shadows. When he drew near them they lowered their heads, as If wishing to avoid observation. They were sitting In such a position that the conductor could not help noticing that one of them was much taller than his companions, and that he wis rather slender build and seemed to have stoop shoulders. Night watchman Low said last week that he saw two men drinking a can of beer bought at Hlrth's saloon in that viclnltyl shortly after midnight. Both of the men seen by Ixw corresponded In appearance to the. description furnished by Mrs. Illrth of the burglars who did the shooting. All these statements dovetail together. Presuming that the two men who alighted from Poe's car were Joined by a third, either In the vicinity of Hlrth's saloon or up towards Haughvllle, they would have bad ample time to arrive in tho suburb about the moment three men were driven away by Marshal Thorpe. It Is not unreasonable to suppose that the men separated after walking out of Haughvllle, with the understanding that they would meet In the vicinity of Hlrth's near midnight. It was about that time the exact moment Is not known that watchman Low claims to have seen two men drinking beer, and that the watchman at the Iron works says hpsaw the talleat of the trio driven out of town by the marshal walking towards the saloon, the central spot around which tho men seem to have wandered all the early part of the night. They eeem to have been waiting for a favorable opportunity to commit their contemplated riime. The police havr) always maintained that the robbers were not only faml.'lar with the interior of Hlrth's saloon and residence, and knew all about his habits, but that they alo evidently knew tho entire neighborhood If this Is true, the men evidently knew at what hour the atreet car men would rwiss the place, and also when the patrolmen miRht be expected to cover that part of their beat. WHAT CONDUCTOR POE SAW. Tho next day or two after the murder conductor To remembered the circumstanco of tho two men who alighted from his car, and also recalled several other susplclous Incidents he had noticed that night. Ho mentioned his susrlclons to fellow-em ployes, and later determined to visit Superintendent Colbert. This ho did, and gave part of tho Information that led to Lint ncr's arrest. Last Sunday Too -was requested to call at the station house, doubtless for the purposo of Identifying Llntner a one of th men who rode on his car. lo promised to go to police headquarters yesterday, but as he had a late run he could not pet away, and telephoned to th superintendent that he would call this evening. Mr. Poc was Reen nt his home. No. 22 Klder avenue, tho second street west of Hlrth's saloon, yesterday afternoon. He was considerably BurprUed when ques tloned about the two men who rode on his car and refused to jillscuss the question, stating that he had been cautioned not to talk. U do not wish to appear discourteous to you," said he to the reporter, "but until I have called upon the superintendent I would prefer to say nothing." "Do you know Al Llntner?" "I cannot say. I may know him, but not by name." "Will you describe the taller of the men who rode with you?" "I would really prefer not to do so at present." "Was ha tall and slender, hatchct-faced and of sallow complexion?" Mr. Poe declined to answer this question, but his eyes brightened, as If In recollec. tion. when the different details of Llntner' personal appearnnce were mentioned. "Would you be able to Identify tho men who rode with you?" "I think so." He said that the Journal's Informant misquoted him In stating that he had said the two men get on his car at the corner of Kast and South streets. Ho did not say where they did get aboard the car. Mr. Poe thought that he would be able to recognize- the voice of the taller of the men, who acted as spokesman while on hl car. Superintendent Colbert looks forward with a (rood deal of Interest to conductor Poe's efforts to connect Untner with the men who alighted from Ms car at Mlley avenue that night. Marshal Thorpe said that he had not .peken of hU experience to Superintendent Collert. 8o far as the superintendent knew the marshal had never come In contact with Al Llntner. it was rather dark when the marshal ordered the trio of men to leav Haughvllle, but he thought that he would remember the tallest man, in particular, by his general make-up and the tone of his voice. He said that the tall man was slen der. about six feet high, possibly a little taller, and wore no mustache. It might be a little difficult for him to Identify either of the men. but he thought that his deputy and perhaps other people living in Haugh vllle would recognize them, as they wero seen by several persons. Another man asked him to make the fellows "clear out." "Don't you think it would be advisable for you to se5 Iantner?" he was aked. "Yes, and I think I shall go to seo him to-morrow. Is he at the Jail?" Tho marshal was Informed that Llntner was still at the station heuse, where he l detained awaiting Identification by Poe and the - other conductor, the man who saw threo men lurking in the shadows of the church on Mlley avenue. A NIGHT WATCHMAN'S STORY. Superintendent Colbert said last night that Thorpe had net been at the station house, but that he would bo sent for If he did not come to-day. Night watchman Hall, of tho Iron works, will also bo Interviewed by tho detectives. The name of the conductor on -the Mount Jackson line who saw the men near the church cou'.d not be ascertained, but It Is known that he has been visited by th detectives, and that he has attemp;ed to Identify Llntner or will do so In the next day or two. The superintendent has asserted that the police were In possession of much damaging evidence und If llntner Is identified by Poe. the mtrshal of Haughvllle. and ethers, he is likely to have a rouh TOW to hoe In trying to establish An alibi. Mr. Gren, superintendent of the American flake hominy mills, where Amos Llntner, brother of tho accused murderer, was employed, said yesterday that ro far as he knew Al IJntner had never visited his trothcr Axnos while the latter was working

at the mills. However, he said that Al could have seen h!s brother at the mllis without his knowledge. Amos at one time was a driver and later worked as a packer. Most of the time he worked at night. It would have been possible. Mr. Green ays, for Amos to have left the mill at night and to have gone to Hlrth's saloon, just across the street. Amos himself admitted that he frequently went to the saloon and often saw Leo Hirth, but declared that "Ai" never accompanied him. Green says that Amos always walked to work down the railroad tracks from North Indianapolis and that it wa but natural to suppose that Albert took the same route on going to his work on West Washington street. The tracks Intersect Washington street atout a half block from Hlrth's aloon. Al IJntner's statement that he was never near Hirth's saloon seems far-fetched, to say the least. 'Mrs. Hirth was somewhat better yesterday and was able to be up and around the house. In the afternoon her attorney, William T. Ilrown, called to see her In relation to some matters In connection with the settlement of her husband's estate. He found Mrs. Hirth In no condition to discuss business and left her after'.cautlonlng her to try and forget her sorrow. Mrs. Hirth is In a very deplorable state of mind, and seems to be unable to think of anything but the incidents of her husband's murder. She broods over it constantly and can talk of nothing eke. Her relatives try to induce her to forget and are extremely unwilling to admit strangers to the house as she will Insist upon talking about tho murder. It seems almost impossible that she can endure the strain upon her mind much longer. Mrs. Hirth insists vehemently that she Is not mistaken in Identifying Llntner. His guilty actions when brought Into her presence, the sound of his voice, his gestures and everything about him, convince her, she said yesterday, that she Is not mistaken. HAD SHE SEEN' LLNTNER BEFORE. She insists that he shall be brought to Judgment and boldly declares that If he is not punished she will take the law into her own hands. Her husband's blood, she says, calls for blood. It is only when speaking of the murdt? that she grows excited. At other times tho Is calm and reasonable. She refused most positively to state whether or not Ehe had ever seen Llntner before the night of the murder, when she claims to have seen him shoot down her husband. When the case comes to trial she says that she will tell all she knows. On the Saturday of the murder Mrs. Hirth was confined to her room and says that she does not know whether Al Llntner visited the saloon during the day. It was because of her illness that her husband did not take the $200 into town to pay his bills. She saw him count it and knew the exact amount that was placed In the wallet. It was all In paper, but she does not know the denomination of the bills, and says that she will not attempt to swear to the money. She would not lntimato whether there was anything familiar to her in the figures of the men who stood In the door of her bed chamber and fired revolvers at herself and husband. She had not heard of Amos Llntner, and was surprised to learn that he had once wcrked at the hominy mills and had been a constant patron at her husband's saloon. If she recognized the men she saw the night of the murder as patrons of the place, Mrs. Hirth keeps that knowledge to herself. A strange coincidence Is tho faot that Hirth was shot on the night exactly a year from the time Tom Cunningham was arrested for trying to break Into Hirth's house. The guilty man, whoever it was, narrowly missed having his head blown off by the discharge of both barrels of a shotgun In Hirth's handa Mrs. Hirth vouches fos this statement. About 4 o'clock in tr.e morning Hirth heard some one tryinrf to get into the bouse at the back wlndctvv. He slipped from bed and armed himself with a double-barreled shotgun. Crouching close to the floor he saw the flash of a dark lantern at the wlndow. Later he heard two men going around to the front of the house and saw them flash the light into the room. This occurred three times and Hirth plainly saw the faces of the housebreakers and always Insisted that one of thorn was Cunningham. The men returned to the back window and Ibroke open the ehutter. Their "jimmy" was applied to tho eash and he heard tho wood cracking, when he raised his gun to shoot. At the same instant a flash of the lantern caught him (full In the face and partially blinded him. Ho pulled both triggers of the gun, but missed the window and that a big hole through the side of the house. Instantly he ran out In his nlghtclothes, but tho men had disappeared. So certain was he that one of them was Cunningham that he followed him to his home. Just a short distance away. He heard noises within the house and went to tho nearest telephone to call the police. He was informed that he could get to patrolman Terry 'Moore's house, on Michigan street, quicker than the patrol wagon could be sent, and he rushed to More's house. The patrolman had not returned and Illrth left word with his wife for him to drive to Cunningham's house at once. Cunningham thrust his head out of an upper window and demanded what was wanted when Moore knocked at hi door. When informed that he was wanted Cunningham came down rtalrs and got Into Moore's buggy. On the way to the station house he threatened to get even -with Hirth. Cunningham was acquitted in Police Court and his case never went to tho grand jury, although Moore testified that Cunningham's boots were covered with fresh mud and that the uppers were still wet, just as If he had been walking through wot grasrf a few moments before he was arrested. Italn had fallen that night. Tho ground was muddy and the grass was wet. Cunningham's attorney objected to Hlrth's Identification of his client as it had been made through the glass of the door. Notwithstanding the strong corroborative circumstantial evidence offered by patrolman Moor the case was not pressed by the State's attorney. RUN DOWN BY A ROAD H00. Mtsi Kntc tVhecler Scrlonsly Injured While Illoycle Illdlnff.

Miss Kate Wheeler, a young woman employed as stenographer by the law firm of Ualley & Cady, was seriously injured In a bicycle accident at Washington and Pennsylvania streets yesterday evening. Miss Wheeler had Just mounted her wheel and was riding toward home, when she was run down by a team of horses. The wheels of the heavy wagon pissed over the bicycle and demolished It. Miss Wfhcclcr was knocked Ho one side by the horses and was badly bruised. Mr. Bailey had not yet gone home, and had Miss Wheeler taken to a physician's office, where sho received medical attention. She was then taken to her home. No. 53 Lord street. People who witnessed the accident say that tho driver was entirely to blame, as it was due to his carelessness alone. He got down from his' wagon and Inquired If Mlsa Wheeler whether she was seriously in. jured, and then drove away without giving1 her his name and without offering to Day for tho damage to the bicycls. Patrolman Moore, who Is stationed at that crossing, had gone to the station house Just before the accident, and when he returned th man had driven away. UNCONSCIOUS FOR THREE HOURS. Hal Heed, Ilnsebnll Reporter at the .News, Thrown front Ills Wheel. Hal Reed, baseball reporter of the News, while riding out to the ball game yesterday on -hU bicycle, struck an obstruction at Oriental and Washington streets and was thrown violently to the ground, remaining unconscious from 3:13 o'clock In the afternoon until after 6 in the evening. 3Jr. need thinks his wheel was gripped bv the sharp curve of the street-car track at the Junction of the two streets. He was thrown over the handle bars of bis wheel, alighting cn Ills' head. Passersby carried him into a neighboring house and summoned a physician. It took three hours for the injured man to regain consciousness. His injuries are not serious, however. Bicycle accidents are unusually numerous this season, although few serious ones have been reported. Most of these accidents are caused by the projecting wfet caps, against which there is an ordinance i-ai Mayor Taggirt will not enforce. GREAT CLOUDS APt'KAK. AGAIX. Lend to Iteports of Fire nt Stntehoasc anil St, John's Church. Some one telephoned to fire department headquarters last night that the steeple of S:. John's Church, cn South Capitol avenue, was on lire. Tho apparatus from headquarters made a hurried run to th'e church, but failed to find any trace of fire. One of the firemen says that there 'were two million white gnats circling nbou: the steeple and that. In the falling lUht, tne man had rosslb.y mistaken the Insects for smoke. Later a man rushed Into engine house No. 6 and Ka!d that the dome of the Statehouse was burning. He tried to get Inside to warn the Janitors, but found the doors locked. A run to the Statehouse disclosed that the dome wad enveloped In a cloud of the same 1 Insects.

HER HUSBAND'S POE US

3IHS. SIDXEY LAXIEIt GIVES II RADIX GS AT PLY3IOLT1I CIIIHCH. How the "Widow of the Sooth's Distinguished Poet Has 11 ecu Received In the Eait. Mrs. Lmler, wife of the most famous poet of the South, i a woman whose gentle retirement and sweetness must have been an Inspiration to the writer of the verses which have made the name of Lanier so well known. She Is the guest of MU3 Charity Dye while In the city for a few days. Mrs. Lanier has been giving readings from her husband's published and unpublished works. In a pleasant conversation yesterday she speke of these readings. In nearly every place where she has given them there has been something of especial Interest. The first reading was given a year ago last February in Dr. Heber Newton's church, All Souls', in New York city. This was followed by other readings in New York city. "Then I went to Cambridge, where I was the guest of Mrs. Ole Bull," said she, "and read before the Metaphysical Club. After that I was at Wellesley College and then at Hartford, before the Indian Club. This Is an organization trying to d- much for the Indian. The readings were given at the home of Mr. Clemens (Mark Twain.) He has a beautiful house, with great rooms and a hall which may'be thrown together for a large audience room. Then, in July, I was at Grcenacro School, in 'Maine. There they have a social congress, where the aim and scheme Is' to bless mankind. It was founded by Sarah Farmer. In the fall" I went to Atlanta and read at the exposition, and my audience was a cosmopolitan one, for there were people from all over the world. In November I went to Baltimore. This was Mr. Lanier'a heme from 1S73 to 1SS1, and the place where he spent his last years. He was greatly beloved there and the readings were a personal and social matter. After this I had a Christmas trip and went again to Massachusetts. I read in Longfellow's library, where I was the guest of Miss Alice Longfellow. There was such a beautiful audience of the choicest literati of the place. The room was crowded. "Yes, It l3a large, long room," said she, in answer to a . question. "A long room which opens Into a broad hall, and that, too, was full. I had anticipated feeling timid, but when I saw the people and they showed such sympathy It all disappeared. Mr. Longfellow's sister, Mrs. Greenleaf, was there and his daughters. In December I went to Dana Hall, the oreparatory school for Wellesley, to Boston, Charleston and Worcester. In response to an Invitation from the young men of Wofford College, at Spartanburg, S. C, I went there. I thought if Mr. Inier has left a message it is surely as much for men as for women." In resrard to her- husband's writings, she feels that there is much of value in both the published .and unpublished manuscripts and his essays and poems and letters. Said she, "He was not. a routine thinker nor a routine poet: he had a new line of thought, an originality c thought His poems are a testimony of the teaching from within. You know In the schools of elocution the pupil is saturated with the thought of the poem and then he is asked to repeat It and make the audience feel what, he feels. I have had many persons tell me that they better understood Mr. Lanier's poems after I have read them. I knew him and what he meant to express." ... Mrs. Lanier was asked about the poets of the South and she spoke of William Hayne, son of Taul Hamilton Hayne, as a fervent, strong 6inger. "I have seen but a little of his writings, but what I . have seen have been very pood. Joel Chandler Harris is a beloved writer of the South known best as 'Undo Remus.' He wrote a poem on Mr. Lanier. Charles Hubner la another very attractive writer." Mrs. Lanier was asked about her home. "My home is In Tryon. N. C." said she, and with this she opened a large envelcpe on her lap and brought out several photographs of the surrounding country. From her homo sho can look far on over a broad ravine to the mountains, back of. which is the Ashevllle country, the great health and pleasure resort. Early this year Mrs. Lanier went again to Georgia, where she gave readings At Savannah she gave three, which were social affairs as well, and sho Fpoke in the most gracious way of the women of the South, who are so "stately and graceful. They are very conservative. They have never learned in that part of the country what It Is to hustle. They have that soft. . musical speech, and the poulation Is made up of those large old families of the sea Island planters. On Mr. Lanier's birthday anniversary'. Feb. " I read at iMaeon in the ttrst woman's coUege established in the world. That Is something to know. It has not grown as its years might warrant, but It Is the oldest and Is the mother of women's colleges. Mr. Lanier and I were both born in Macon, but I left there In 1873. and 1 had almost forgotten Just what the people were like. Then on my trip to Mllledgevllle, the old capital, where Mr. Lanier had attended college. He left this place to go to the war. I read beforo two school?, tho State Normal for Women and the military and aKricultural college. Oglethorpe, and was the truest of Captain Newell. Captain Newell took me for a drive and he showed me the church which Mr. Lanier Joined when be wnn fourteen, and the houses where they ued to go and serenade. Captain Newell pointed out the houses where they used to be invited In. and those where they were not," and Mrs. Lanier laughed at the recollection. "At Midway, a few miles out from here," continued the speaker, "a tree was pointed out as 'Lanier's tree.' Mr. Lanier used to go there and He under it to read and study, and it has always been called 'Lanier's tree " Mrs. Lanier spoke with tender affection of Brunswick, the scene of the Marsh poems, the "At Sunset" and others, which are so wondrously full of beauty and feeling. "I wonder more people do not go there," said she. "There is the sea and thcro is the aroma of tho pines. Tho great live oaks hang full of Spanish moss. It is on an arm of the ocean called Turtlo river and is full Pt health." Mrs. Lanier has four sons. They show the literary genius of their father and his love for music. The eldest, Charles. Is business manager of the Review of Reviews. The third son Is in the art department of Scrlbner's. The second is busy with a vineyard near his home at Tryon and the youngest is still at his studies. Mrs. Lanier is giving the readings, which have met with favor everywhere, to supply the family exchequer. She will go to Chicago from here, where she will be the guest of Mrs. Franklin Flsk. In the past year she has only spent fourteen weeks at home. .Mrs. Lanier is like a picture from an artist's portfolio. She has sympathetic gray eyes, wide apart, black hair thickly marked with gray and a languid pose, which belong to her Southern birth. Mrs. Lanier's readings last evening at Plymouth! were under the auspices of the Plymouth Institute. The- room was artistically decorated with great branches of dogwood blossoms and bowls of wood violet Mrs. Lanier was introduced by ltev. F. E Dewhurst. Mrs. Lanier does not pretend to be an elocutionist, but reads her husband's writings as one familiar with his thoughts and expressions. There is a musical rhythm to all of his writings, affected, no doubt, by his great musical talent. The first was 'The Song of tho Chattahoochee," and this was followed by "Remonstrance." Two short poems, "Life and Song" and "The Stirrup Cup." gave the writer's vision of life ami death. In a series of letters written from New Votk and Baltimore Mr. Lanier gives a description of his efforts to get a musical hold. He Is finally encaged In the Peabody Orchestra, and he gives a vivid acount of going to the hali. getting on the stasie. finding his seat and when the score is plactd before him, finding It something entirely new, and not a symphony, wfclch he had been told would be the only thing rehearsed which he had practiced. An account of a violin adagio with orchestra accompaniment he likens to opening buds and flowers. In another letter he tells of hearing N'llsson, Brlgnoll. Wehll. Vleuxtemps and others. He concludes: "Urlgnoll Is too fat, and the other too lean, which expresses their music." Mr. Lanier was a writer of music, song to the iwords of Tennyson and music for the flute, on which he was an expert player. He tried to get general or musical correspondence for several paper, but was not successful. He rlayed for. and was highly eompllmentc 1 by. the elder Dr. Damrosch. "Ccrn." one of hlsi best-known potm.. was offered to a nubllsher by Bayard. Taylor, but the publisher refused It an! sent the message that the man who wrote It had better not try writing any more. It was finally accepted by the editor of Llpplneott's. with a request for more. Ily request he wrote a series of Indian papers, called "Sketches of India," for Llpplncott. He also wrote a cantata for the opening of the Centenrrfal. and the words were printed before the musl They called forth derision, very painful to the wrltfr. lie wrote an exnlanstory letter of several columns to the New York Tribune. Another letter was a New Year letter to his children, la which he closed by eayinj: "Let us teach

them to love all things above the world, all things In the world and all things under tho world: that is the sum and substance of a perfect life." In conclusion Mrs. Lanier read: "The Trees of the Master," and gave an account of how it was written.

THE STATE VS. R0BY. The Deputy Attorney-General Goes to Crown Point. Deputy Attorney-general llcores went to Crown Point yesterday to consult with exSenator Kopelke, whom the State has employed to' assist the Attorney-general In his efforts to root out the Itoby racing. Toe fifteen days' meeting on the Forsythe track will be ended in a few days, and as soon as the sport Is transferred across the road to the Sheffield track the State will proceed against the managers, probably by means of Injunction. A map of the three tracks, Sheffield, Forsythe end Itoby, has been prepared, and will be used as an exhibit in the petition. THE OliDEfi-OF EQUITY JUDGE DROWN APPOINTS WILLIAM I CHI n CI I MAX AS RECEIVER. Defaulted Claims to the Extent of f23,00O Hovr the Supreme Council Used the lleierve Fund. The Order of Equity, a beneficial organization which has its headquarters in this city, has gone into the hands of a receiver. The receivership was created late yesterday evening In the Circuit Court on the application of William W. Manee, a member of Taylor Council, No. 3, Order of Equity, of this city, through his attorneys, Carson & Good and Baker & Daniels. The suit for receiver was brought against the Supreme Council, of which William P. Landers Is supreme secretary and G. R. Jones supreme counselor. The troubles of the order weue detailed In the Journal a short time ago. The corporation was orgnaized under the voluntary association act, Aug. 19, 1SS9. The Supremo Council has under it dependent branches called subordinate councils. The plaintiff, Manne, averred that he was admitted to membership by Taylor Council, No. 3, In January, 1S01, and received an Instrument known as a "relief fund certificate." The plaintiff showed that In Issuing this certificate the society bound itself to pay a sum not exceeding $500 upon satisfactory evidence of the sickness or disability of the member or upon the termination of the certificate. Maneo asserted that he is In good standing with the order and has obeyed all of Its rules and regulations. He says that, under the terms of the certificate, the sum of $o00 became payable to him Feb. 14, 1S96, and Is now past due and wholly unpaid. He averred that immediately after the maturity of the certificate he filed his claim for the benefit and tendered the certificate at the main office In this city. He demanded the payment of $500, but offered in the event that the secretary did not have the funds on hand, to wait until an assessment could be levied on . the members of the order. Tho supreme secretary, it was charged, replied that there were no available funds on hand; that It was not the practice of the order to levy assessments for the payment of any particular maturing certificate. The plaintiff asserted that he was Informed that "he would have to wait his turn," because there were other certificates older than the plaintiffs and of longer standing. Since then the plaintiff, as he averred, has made repeated demands for the money and was always met with the reply that he would have to wait until the defendant had sufficient funds on hand to pay his claim. The complaint charged that there are many similar claims against the order that are in default and that the defaulted payments on matured certificates will aggregate $25,000. It was claimed that since the organization of the order it has levied and collected for Its relief fund over $3,000 a month; that the defendant had in Us relief fund until a 6hort time ago as many as 5.000 member?, but the membership has been declining rapidly of late and there are not now more than 2.000 members. Since Feb. 13, IS;. It is averred, the Supreme Council has neglected to notify its members of the amount paid out since the last assessment. It is alleged that there has been collected into the relief fund more than $240,000, and, as made known by the council at this time, $200,000 had been paid out in sick benefits and on matured certificates. Under the constitution, It Is claimed 20 cents of every dollar received Into the relief fund was to be set apart as a reserve fund, which was to accumulate and remain intact for five years from Aug. 19, 1889. The plaintiffs show that If the reserve fund had "been allowed to accumulate; .according to the constitution, Ihere would now be In the fund about $25.0fiO. The plaintiff averred that he had been informed by the supremo secretary to the effect that the fund had not been allowed to accumulate, but has been wronjcfully depleted and drawn upon by the Supreme Council. It was charged that the reserve fund is represented by an equity of redemption In a parcel of Indianapolis real estate and upon which the Indiana Mutual .Hulldlng and Loan Association has a -fifteen-thousand-dollar mortgage. The real estate. It was averred, is not worth more than $3,000 over and above the mortgage lien. In support of the application for a receiver it was shown that there are three thousand dollars' worth of assessments about to be collected, and that this amount will arrive at the home office In a few days. The plaintiff insisted that this money would be paid on certificates that have matured since his own unless the supreme officers were prevented from so doing by the court. It was further alleged that the Order of Equity Is now insolvent,- and that Its present members will leave it before another assessment can be levied and collected Into the relief fund. The plaintiff intimated that the supreme officers, in the face of a desperate financial condition, are seeking to make some change In the nature of the business, and the plaintiff believed that It was attempting to purchase with its remaining funis a life insurance charter granted by the Stste to another corporation. It was urged upon the court to appoint a receiver to take charge of the books and papers of the order and to collect all debts, dues and demands and pay the same ratably to the creditors and certificate holders. Judge Ilrown, after hearing the complaint, appointed William F. Churchman receiver, who at once furnished a bond of $10,000, with M. B. Wilson as surety. The officers of the Order of Equity have claimed to have subordinate branches in fifteen different States. The order, it Is said. Is larsly represented In Pennsylvania and In the city of Chicago. A membership of six thousand has been claimed, but the attorneys who brought the suit for the receiver say there are now not more than two thousand members. The plaintiff In the suit for receiver paid in all t3V) on his flve-hund reddollar certificate, which was to be payable In Ave years. Some time ago the order amended Its laws so that one-thousand-dollar certificates, pavable In ten years, could be Issued. The officers of the Supreme Council are: W. F. Lander, of Indianapolis, secretary; C. R. Jones, of Indianapolis, councilor; Frank Bowers, of Indianapolis, vice councilor; GranvUle S. Wright, of Indianapolis, treasurer; J. H. Taylor, of Indianapolis, medical examiner; J. Harvey Blair, of Indianapolis, adjuster; Mrs. Emma J. Sander, of Indianapolis, chaplain;' J. H. Chamberlain, of Frankfort, marshal; Mrs. Anna B. Copeland. of Transport, guardian; James C. Dickson, J. H. Orndorf, F. A. Lander, John Moore and J. F. Albershart. trustees; fleorge A. Lemming, general manager. The property In which the order has an equity of redemption adjoins the Meridian-street M. E. Church on the south. It - is claimed that when the property Is sold and the fifteen-thousand-dollar mortpajre satisfied the order will not be able to realize more than $1,000 or $3,000 on Its equity. Supreme Secretary Lander has an office In the Iron Hall Building, where all of the books and funds are kept.' Acting on the instructions of Judge Brown, the receiver went to the office about 6 o'clock yesterday evening prepared to take charge of the papers and assets. Secretary Lander was not there, and the clerk in charge declined to turn over the keys. Later In the evening an effort was made to find Mr. Lander, but he could not be located. Late last night Mr. Lander was seen and sail: "I did not know of this receivership until late to-night. I was given no notice of the application far a receiver, and had no opportunity of resisting it. We propose to go before the court to-morrow morning, however, and take steps toward having the receivership vacated. As far as these charges are concerned, they amount to little. The Order of Equity Is not Insolvent, and we are organizing new council all the time. There are about eighty councils In all, ani thirtyfive of them are here In Indiana. There is r.o specified time when thse matured certificates should be paid. They are settled in their regular order, and th one on which this suit u based would hzvm been tettled la its

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