Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1896 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1836.

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Estvbtished 1853. Saturday Bargains In Domestics Good quality cream-white Embroidered Flannels, sold elsewhere at 50c. Sale price 27c a yard. Fine Eiderdown in all the leading plain shades, at 35c a yard. A strictly all-wool fancy Skirt for 98c. - A splendid value. 50c plain prey and white Cotton Blankets, at 31c a pair. Kegular 61.25 fine Marseilles Bed Spreads, already hemmed, for 98c each Carriage Robes, Fur Robes and Horse Clothing, at special prices. Pettis Dry Goods Co. CARPETS . . A U the gatheredi iches of the looms, at prices that no one . here can Equal, for goods from The simple sort to the most Sumptuous and ornate. - 4IT Albef 17 and 19 West Washington Street. tWThe finest Carpet display room. The largest slock. EST" The lowest prices. Drs, Coughlin & Wilson, Dentists S. W. cor. Market and Penn. sts., opp. P. O. Formerly in "The Denison." Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking powder. Highest of 111 In leaveniug strength. Latt.tt United State Government Food Report. Royal Baking Powder Co., Niw York. want a Long contract. Works Board Trj liiK to Saddle One on the City. ' The Board of Public Works seems anx-? leus to saddle off on the city a long con- ' tract for street sweeping and ' cleaning. Yesterday a communication was sent to the city attorney, asking if a three years' contract can be made, considering the fact that an appropriation has been made for next year only. It was reminded that the charter does not specify that such contracts shall be approved by the Council. A Street Ainemimrnt Puzzle. L. E. Morris in mad a peculiar complaint to the Board of Public, Works yesterday. Mr. Marrison owns property at the corner of Walnut and New Jersey streets. Some time ago he was assessed for the improyement of the Intersection of the two streets. At that time the alley in the rear of Mr. Morrison's property was called Clinton street. Under the law property owners between streets are assessed for intersections. As the al-ey was called a street at that time, no one to the east of it was assessed. Now Mr. Morrison has beer, assessed for the intersection of East and Walnut streets. He says that if the alley was a street before, it is yet, and he (ught not to be assessed, as he lives west of it. If Clinton street is an ahey, pec pie between St. and East-street ought to have been assessed for the New Jersey-street crossing. Mr, Morrison says. For the New Jersey-street intersection Mr. Morrison was assessed $02. while the assessment for the East-street intersection is 4S. He claims that he was cither assessed Jit) too much on the first, or else he ought not to be assessed at all on the other. The question will bo referred to the city attorney. OlMtribntlou of Vapor Llfthtft. The Board of Works yesterday ordered the distribution of 200 vapor lights in different wards as follows: Third ward IS Fifth ward. 20. Sixth ward 4. Seventh ward 3. i ighth ward 'M, s eventh ward 8, Twelfth ward 5. Thirteenth ward 8, Fourteenth ward 37, Fifteenth ward 32. total 161. The distribution of the remaining forty-nine will be determined upon soon. UOAItD OF WORKS HOl'TIXE. Bids on I'illliigr State Illteh. Sometime ago the Board of Works adverted for bids for tilling in the streets and alleys across the State ditch, from Kuckle street to Columbia avenue. All told there are about twenty contracts. Yesterday was the day for opening bids on twlve of the contracts. Bids were received on but lour and the board ordered readvertlsements on the others. The following are the contract.; awarded: For tilling the roadway and VidewaJks of Tenth street, from the first alley east of Yandes street to Columbia avenue, the contract was awarded to It. B. Drake at 93 cents a lineal foot each side. For tilling and improving Yandes and Alvord streets at the State ditch crossing the contracts were awarded to P. E Phillips at $2.'.Kih lineal foot each side. It. B. Drake's bid of $3.5') a lineal foot each side for improving Columbia avenue at the State ditch crossing was rejected, it being regarded too high. vi'htfr Mnln Ordered. The Indianapolis Water Company was ordered to lay a water main ia Church street from Bay to Morris. " ' Wanlt the WhIIw Condemned. Building Inspector Bunting yesterday recommended the condemnation of the walls of the Pearson & Wetzel building, on South Meridian street, which was recently damaged by fire. The building is owned lWilliam S. Hubbard. The owner was noiflied to appear before the lKard Oct. 'i'',, when a number of condemnation cases are to be considered. Contract on Steel Girder. Tho contract for placing five steel girders under the canal bridge at West street was awarded to the Haugh-Noelke iron works at 6y3 complete. , Many people cannot drink coffee. The most delicate stomachs can handle Postum Cereal, the delicious grain coffee.

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THE SCANDAL GROWING

GRAVE EVIDENCE AGAINST CITY HOSPITAL SUPERINTENDENT. Charged with Torturlnj? One "Woman , and Tensing: nn Iimnne Patient The Hoard of Health Involved. The investigation at the City Hospital was completed at midnight. But meager information concerning the investigation has been given to the press from day to day, and the most damaging and sensational features of all have been suppressed. It leaked out yesterday that charges of cruel conduct and inhuman treatment of female patients, one of them an insane woman, were made by Miss Wicks, principal of the Indiana School of Nursing, against Dr. John D. Nichols, the inexperienced young superintendent of the City Hospital, during the course of the investigation Thursday afternoon. The charges were corroborated by other nurses. Evidence also showed that gross neglect had been exhibited in another case where a male patient, upon whom an operation had been performed, lay from one day until the next without any orders for his care having been given by the physician in charge. It was shown that Dr. Nichols had no knowledge of this case, although he was the superintendent in charge of the hospital. Information touching these three cases and the charges against Dr. Nichols in reference to them was not given out after the testimony was concluded Thursday afternoon. Last night an effort was made to conceal the facts relative to a noisy session during the afternoon, during the course of which some acrimonious language passed between Dr. Morrison, president of the Board of Health, and Mrs. C. F. Sayles, secretary of the board of managers of the nurses' school, and other managers who were present. Mrs. Sayles was relating the facts that led up to the open rupture between the school and the Board of Health. She said that charges of maltreatment and cruelty were made against the management of the hospital by Miss Wicks, and when these facts were laid before the Board of Health that Dr. Morrison requested her not to make them public, assuring her that if the matter was kept quiet and nothing was said as to the charges some way might be devised to smooth over all differences and the Indiana School of Nursing be allowed to remain at the hospital. This statement was challenged by Dr. Morrison and other members of the Board of Health who were present at the time the conversation took place. All testified that a wrong interpretation had been given to the words used. The ladies resented the imputation that they had made misstatements and withdrew from the room in anger. The story as outlined above was obtained by questioning several of the persons who were present and by putting their! different stories together. CRUELTY TO A WOMAN. All the trouble occurred while evidence In support of what Miss Wicks testified to Thursday was being introduced. Miss Wicks testified that in February, shortly after Dr. Nichols was made superintendent of the hospital, she noticed the first act of cruelty. A colored woman was taken to the City Hospital from the workhouse. She was unruly and very noisy. The nurses were unable to quiet her and sent for Dr. Nichols. He spoke to the woman In a tone of voice caluculated to aggravate rather than calm her, ordering her to shut her mouth and keep quiet. His manner toward her was not such as to quiet her and she redoubled her screams. Then Dr. Nichols grabbed an instrument known as a tongue forcep, which is used in holding down the tongues of patients during surgical operations. He went to the woman's bedside and laid hold of her violently. She fought and struggled like a mad woman, but he overcame her by placing his knee upon her breast and holding her down in the bed. Then he jammed the forcep Into her mouth and got hold of her tongue. All the time she was struggling and fighting. Finally, after he had the instrument fastened, he angrily informed her that if she did not keep quiet he would "pull her tongue out by the roots!" Miss Wicks's story of this cruel occurrence was corroborated in every respect by at least two other nurses, one of whom said that she was so overcome by the scene that she was compelled to rush from the room to avoid witnessing what she feared would be a horrible termination of the affair. TEASED AN INSANE WOMAN. The treatment of the insane w oman, while perhaps less cruel, considered in a physical sense, was none the less inhumane, Inasmuch as the unfortunate woman was made the victim of cruel practical jokes. In the height of her deliriums, if anything occurred to anger her, the woman was given to using violent profanity. Miss Wicks testified that Dr. Nichols pinched and teased tho woman to enrage her, in order that he might be amused by her oaths. He even threw water on her to increase, her rage, according to the testimony. Then, it is said, he slapped the woman in the face, in punishment for abusive language addressed to him. Shortly afterward she was removed to the Central Hospital for the Insane. Various explanations are given for the deplorable neglect on the part of some one which resulted in a man, suffering great pain from a surgical operation, lying for hours without attention from his physician. Several nurses testified that the physician in charge of the case gave no orders for the man's care. One of them said, however, that orders had been given to the day nurse, who forgot to transfer them into the night nurse's order book. Miss Wicks's explanation of the case was this: The head nurse in charge of the ward in which the operation was made was away that afternoon. Knowing that a major operation was about to be performed and that the patient would need especial attention. Miss Wicks detailed one of the junior nurses to look after the case. She remained at the man's bedside all day. No orders were given her. When she left the ward at night she did not transfer orders Into the night nurse's order book, because she hail received none herself. Miss Wicks testified that when she made her last round at night, about 10:30 o'clock, eight hours after the operation, no orders had yet been given. Her testimony was backed up by that of the other nurses, with the one, exception above given. Miss Wicks declared in her testimony that if the order hooK shows, that any order was given for the man's tare it has been Inserted recently. NICHOLS MAY BE REMOVED. Tho Board of Health has been cognizant of all these facts for several weeks. They were first made known some weeks ago, when President Morrison called the managers of the Indiana School of Nursing together to have four young women who were dismissed for Infractions of the rules, reinstated. At that time the managers refused to be ruied by the Board of Health, declaring it impossible to reinstate the girls under "existing conditions." Demanding an explanation of that expression, the hoard was Informed of the cases above referred to. Dr. Nichols was confronted with the statements. lie denied them via toto and challenged proof. Tuesday members of the Board of Health denied the charge that a big scandal was about to be brought to light at the City Hospital, but nevertheless decided to order an investigation. It was given out that if the Investigation disclosed that Dr. Nichols had been guilty of any wrong that he would be removed at once. Last night Dr. Morrison, president of the Board of Health, repeated this assertion. Members of the State Board of Charities and Correction, who were asked for Information concerning the nature of the testimony given during the day, referred a Journal reporter to Ernest Bicknell, secretary of the Indiana State Board of Charities. Mr. Bicknell said that the gist of the testimony taken during the afternoon was given by the m:rses, who testified to in gleet of patient by Superintendent Nichols. Several of the nurses testified that lr. Nichols paid but little attention to the patients in the different wards of the hospital. They said that he appeared in the wards at Intervals more or less infrequently and made hurried inquiries concerning patients, without Investigating the cases himself. Some of the nurses thought that he did not go into the wards often enough. Others excused him by saying that he had a multitude of duties that made

It almost Impossible for him to spend a great deal of time looking after patients personally and that he left those duties to the house physicians. Much time was taken up last night by the testimony of the house physicians, who appeared before the board to rebut the testimony of the nurses. Dr. Nichols himself was given an opportunity to refute or explain the serious charges of cruelty made against him by Miss Wicks and other nurses, Thursday. A BRJ2EZY SCENE. Dr. Morrison admitted that there had been a breezy time during the afternoon session of the board, when Mrs. Sayles testified that he hid urged the managers of the Indiana School of Nursing to conceal the charges of cruelty and maltreatment, but would not discuss the testimony given. He said that the trouble between himself and Mrs. Sayles arose over her testimony that certain words had been used at a conference between the Board of Health and the managers?. Dr. Cllne, a member of the board, and Dr. Ferguson, its secretary, both took the stand to contradict Mrs. Sayles. They did not intimate that she was testifying falsely, but declared that she had misunderstood or misconstrued what was said on that occasion. Considerable feeling developed, Dr. Morrison admitted, and he said that the ladies withdrew from the room in some anger, but afterward returned. Dr. Morrison refused to repeat the words that had been used on the occasion in question. Mr. Mr. Bicknell, when questioned as to the nature of the testimony given by Dr. Morrison and Mrs. Sayles. said that he had not paid close attention to it, and did not remember Just what was said. It was his Impression that the question involved related to a previous meeting of the Board of Health and the managers of the nurses' school. The Board of Health has laid great stress on a. charge of cruelty that was made against one of the nurses, who held a disobedient child's head under running water. The child is a poor waif that knows not its parents, and has no friends. He is afflicted with curvature of the spine, but otherwise Is of a very healthy nature. He is not a patient at the hospital, but virtually makes that institution his home. When the manpgers of the school defended the boy's punishment as perfectly proper the Board of Health contended that the hospital is not a penal institution, and that the nurses had no right to punish patients. The four-year-old comes and goes at wi;l, and is a general favorite with the nurses, whom he seems to love, judging from the

arrectionate manner in which he runs to their sides. It is said that as the child's parents take no interest in him. the nurses all regard him as one of the family, and that they would not think of hurting him. Sometimes, they say, it is necessary to punish him as any other child is punished, in order to keep him from running wild. This charge of cruelty sinks into insignificance when compared with the charges made against Dr. Nichols. REPORT TO THE GOVERNOR. John R. Elder, one of the members of the State Board of Charities and. Correction, was unwilling to express any opinion last night upon the evidence. He said that it would not be proper to do so until the entire investigation was closed. Mr. Elder said that it would propabiy be two or three days before the board would be ready to submit its report to the Governor, possibly that it would not do so until the regular quarterly meeting, which is to be held on Tuesday of next week. Until the evidence has been written out by the official stenographer and has been reviewed by the board it is likely that no recommendations wid be made as to what should be done in the premises. It is even possible that the board will not indcate what steps should be taken by the Board of Health, but will simply sum up the evidence and allow the Board of Health to be governed by it. It Is well known that the present superintendent was appointed because he was a political henchman of Mayor Taggart's. It is said that the Board of Health seriously doubted the advisability of appointing him to a position involving such grave responsibilities as devolve upon the superintendent of a large hospital. At the time the appointment was made it was claimed that his youth and inexperience might well make them question his fitness for such a position. Those who predicted disastrous results assert that the utter lack of executive ability, which is largely responsible for the present demoralized condition of the hospital, shows the 'folly of appointing a young man without demonstrated executive ability to care for the unfortunate poor who must resort to the hospital. When Dr. Nichols was appointed his friends claimed that he would be kept from making, serious mistakes by the presence of his mother, who, it was explained, would be with him. The Board of Health, it Is shown, cannot mislead anyone by bringing counter charges against the nurses' school. The managers of the school are ladies who. are well known and possess a large measure of public confidence and they object to having the work they have so faithfully labored to accomplish set aside to make the hospital a mere political machine. The proposition of ! the Board of Health to establish a training school as an integral part of the hospital is without precedent. One of the strongest arguments advanced against the proposition is the fact that it will remove the safeguard which the hospital has had against mismanagement. It is said that the presence of a committee of ladies of high character operates as a strong safeguard. Superintendent Nichols testified 'ast night as to the charges of cruelty and maltreatment made against him by Miss Wicks and other nurses. In the case of the colored woman, who it was alleged, he held down with his knee and placed a tongue forcep. on ner tongue, tnreatening to tear it by the roots. Dr. Nichols's testimony was greatly at' v riance with others. He said that the woman was a morphine fiend and had taken, chloral. She was making loud outcries and could not be quieted. An effort was made to administer a small quantity of morphine, but she spat it from her mouth. Then Dr. Nichols said that he suggested that she might be subdued if she were threatened with the forceps and he held them to her mouth, telling her that he would use them if she did not keen quiet. He said that he placed his knee on her arm, but did not touch her breast, and he denied emphatically the statement that he placed the Instrument in her mouth. As to the insane woman Dr. Nichols admitted that he did laugh at some of her expressions, as they were so odd that he could not help being amused by them. He denied having done anything to excite her or enrage her into using profane language. He says that he did everything possible to quiet the woman, shook her gently to arouse her attention, and even slapped her gently on the cheeks. He said that even that was not sufficient, when he turned to a nurse and directed her to bring him a glass of water. He dipped his fingers Into the water and flipped a few drops into her face. All this was simply done to arouse her attention and get her mind directed towards himself. Dr. Nichols said that Miss Wicks was not present when this happened. CITY NEWS NOTES. City Engineer Jeup has been called to Detroit by the death of his sister. Rev. N. W. Heermans, of Michigan City, will preach at Grace Cathedral Sunday morning and evening. The topic of Rev. Dr. Lasby's sermon to-rr.orrow morning, in the Central-avenue Church, will be "Sabbath Observance." The late General Conference made a request th.it sermons be preached upon the r.bove named topic in all Methodist churches on this day. Fnnernl of Willard Mehols. The funeral of the late Wlllard Nichols, the veteran journalist, took place yesterday afternoon from his late residence, 277 North Delaware street, religious services were conducted by the Rev. Mr. Carstensen, who spoke feelingly of the amiable dualities of the dead man and paid a tribute to the profession of which he was an honored member. The pallbearers were Messrs. Henry Cop, C. F. Hildebrand, Oscar W. Sears, Charles Dennis, George K. Trask and C. M. Walker, the last three having been newspaper coworkers with Mr. Nichols. Leiitcne of Colored Cliiba Organized. A league of colored Republican clubs was formed last night at a meeting held at the Herculean Club's rooms. Representatives of all the colored Republican clubs In Marlon county were present and the action was unanimous. The following officers were" elected: President Dr. S. A. Furniss. Financial Secretary W. H. Gibson. Treasurer H. C. Turner. Each club will select a vice president, and they, with the officers elected last night, will comprise an executive committee. Morrla Iain da Shot. KANSAS CITY. Mo.. Oct. 23. Morris Landa, manager of the International Export and Grain Company and prominent on the local grain market, was shot and killed In h!s offic at the f'o''k Vxcnnre building this evening by Fred H. Waitt. a bookkeeper whom he had discharged end whom h attempted to put out of the room. Waltt had been drinking.

RECEIVERSHIP NO MORE

THAT OF THE UXIOJJ NATIONAL. SAVINGS AND LOA AXXILLED. Gaines Snlt Dinmlaaed by Agreement of PartiesJudge Baker's Ruling In an Infringement Case. By agreement of the parties concerned the suit of Harry L. Gaines and others against the Union National Savings and Loan Association was dismissed yesterday and the receivership was annulled. The original suit was filed by Harry L. Gaines and was tried before Upton J. Hammond as special judge. A great deal of animus was developed In the trial of the case and several days before the appointment of a receiver Judge Hammond announced that he would place the business In a receiver's hands. This caused considerable stir and criticism because all the evidence had not been submitted. Within a few days after the filing of the case other persons were joined as plaintiffs. The defendant then openly charged that the new plaintiffs were secured on the promise that there- should be no cost to them and that by joining in the suit they would be guaranteed full payment on their stock in the final settlement of the association's affairs. . Affidavits were filed showing that some of the new plaintiffs had been told that a trust company of this city was backing the suit. Then the name of W. T. Noble was brought Into the case by the defendant and affidavits were filed showing that he had said that he would get even with the association for what he considered a wrong It had done him. Preston C. Trusler was finally appointed receiver and Immediately filed a bond of $1,200,000, but he never had charge of the affairs of the association, for an appeal was taken immediately, and a bond was filed by the company to take the affairs out of the receiver's hands. The negotiations for the dismissal of the case have been in progress for some time and last Monday the papers were drawn up and agreed upon. They were then sent to the various plaintiffs for their signatures and were returned and filed in court yesterday. A CLITB OF THIEVES. Thirty Small Roys Organized to Read Novels and Steal. A tale was unfolded in Police Court this morning that rather opened the eyes of the court and the lawTyers, Five small boys, Nicholas Connell, William Morgan, Willard Burnes, Dick Logan and Martin Luskey, none of them over fifteen years old, had been arrested for robbing Smith's grocery at Illinois and Seventh streets. Willard Burnes, on the stand, explained that they were members of a club composed of about thirty boys of their own age, called the "Bungaloo," organized for the purpose of theft. Their headquarters was at . the old Landers pork house, 'where the club met to read dime novels, tell stories and plan robberies. A Case of Stove Lining. Judge Baker, of the United States District Court, yesterday overruled a demurrer to the complaint in the case of Buck's Stove and Range, Company, of St. Louis, against Frederick ,'Keichle et al., of Evansville. The plaintiffs used a white enamel as a lining for stove and range doors since 1S66 and acq aired ''great celebrity" on that account. It is charged that the defendants used a similar lining with the sole Intent to palm off their goods as those manufactured by the complainants. Plaintiffs demanded damages to the extent of $10,000. Judge Baker cites a number of decisions showing that it is not necessary to show that the distinctive mark was a trade mark to constitute a cause of action. "It is sufficient'' the opinion says, "to justify the interposition of - a court of equity If shawrt that the stoves and ranges were manufactured by the defendants and purposely constructed In the similitude of those manufactured by the complainants, with thes intention and result of deceiving the trade and public and Inducing them to purchase fie goods in the belief that they are of the plaintiff's manufacture. The imitative device used upon the stoves and ranges manufactured by the defendants are alleged to be employed by them for the purpose and with the result of deceiving the publfc and thereby diverting the trade of the complainant to the defendants. This th2y have neither moral nor legal right to do." The demurrer was overruled and the case will be tried on Its merits. Section Foreman Sued for DIvoree. Mary Brackett yesterday filed suit against her husband, Sidney Brackett, for support and made the Big Four Railroad Company a defendant to answer as to the wages paid Brackett, who is employed by the company as a section foreman. They were married fourteen years ago and have one child. The plaintiff alleges that during their married life Brackett continually beat, choked and whipped and several times threatened her life; that several years ago he abandoned her for lewd women. She asked that he be compelled to pay her $10 a month. "Free Silverltes" Discharged. The police arrested twenty-one men at 509 South West street for gambling. Edward Givins testified that the room where the men were arrested was the headquarters of "The South Side Free Silver Club," and thereupon Judge Cox found the entire crowd not guilty. The police were ccnvince.l that gambling was going on in the piace. Higher Courts Adjourned. Thye Supreme and Appellate Courts have adjrmrned till the first Thursday after the election. THE COURT RECORD. Supreme Court. 1S0S0. Goodman vs. Board of Commissioners. Warren C. C. Affirmed. Hackney, J. 1. The board of commissioners is the agency through which lands that are benented by a free gravel read are made to bear their proportion of the cost of constructing the road. 2. In an appeal from an assessment for the construction of a gravel road the interest of the county Is such as to entitle the commissioners to be made a party. 3. The board of commissioners may order a reassessment for the construction of a gravel road when the first assessment is insufficient. 17!74. Patterson vs. Browning Vanderburg S. C. Affirmed. McCabe, J. 1. A second adoption of a child will not destroy the right -of tho child to-inherit under a prior adoption, nor the relations created thereby. 2. Under Section 2iA1, R. S., 1S04, an adopted child inherits the same as a natural child. 1S04. Union National Savings Association vs. Gaines. Marion S. C. Dismissed and cause remanded by agreement. Appellate C'onrt. 1979. Pond vs. Simons. Cass C. C. Affirmed. Gavin, J. 1. The jurisdiction of the court by which a judgment Is rendered may be questioned in a collateral proceeding, and the jurisdiction of a foreign couit is always open to inquiry, and the court of another State constitutes a foreign court. 2. Where a judgment purports to have been rendered in a foreign court in vacation it will be void. 1442. Robertson vs. Hamilton. Vigo S. C. Affirmed. Davis. C. J. 1. In an action for slander the statement of the husband of the plaintiff in her absence is not admissible as part of the res gestae of a conversatlon in which the plaintiff was present. 2. Character can be proved by general reputation and not by specific acts disconnected with the act charged. 1720. Conboy vs. Accident Association. Marlon S. C. Rehearing granted. Superior Court. Room 1 John L. McMaster, Judge. Arthur Fosdyke vs. Mark Smith et al.; note and foreclosure. On trial by court. Room 2 Lawson M. Harvey, Judge. Charles J. Gardner vs. Rush White et al.; receivership. Finding for plaintiff on account: receiver denied. Cornelius S. Niemier vs. Cyrus L. Cooper et al. Dismissed by plaintiff and costs paid. Equitable Savings and Loan Association vs. Sarah A. Dynes; foreclosure. Dismissed and costs paid. D. E. Meyer vs. Emma M. Crane; notes. Finding for plaintiff; judgment ugalnst dtfend tnt for $1.V).30 and corns. Henry T. Nolting vs. James K. Bradley et al. ; street-improvement lien. Judgment against defendants for $1".).P and costs. Henry T. Nolting vs. Otto Minger et al.; street-improvement lien. Judgment against defendants for $47.44 and costs. Emma and Charles Tyler vs. Citizens' Street-rail road Company; damages. Judgment against defendant by agreement for

$500 and costs In favor of Emma Tyler and for 1 cent and costs in favor of Charles Tyler. Room 3 Pliny W. Bartholomew, Judge. Maggie Hibbs vs. Elmer E. Ilibbs; divorce. Decree granted plaintiff. Criminal Court. Frank McCray, Judge. The State of Indiana vs. Henry Peters; assault and battery. with intent to kill. Tried by court; finding of guilty of assault and battery; fined $0 and costs. The State of Indiana vs. Martin Ryanv sodomy. Tried by court; finding cf guilty; defendant sentenced to six years in the Prison North. The State of Indiana vs. Theodore Klesee, grand larceny. Tried by court; fined $5 and costs and sentenced to the Prison North for three years. New Suits Filed. Flavius J. Meyers vs. Allen Shaw et al.; foreclosure. Room 3. Mary Bracket vs. Sidney Bracket et al.; for support. Room 2. Anna Hines vs. Joseph Hines: divorce. Room 1. ISSUE WITH THE POLICE

CORONER FINDS HARVEY SINGLETON KILLED CAL VORHIS. Police Have Been Claiming and Hold. Ing George White as the Murderer Verdict Yesterday. Coroner Castor has arrived at a verdict in the case of the murder of Calvin Vorhis and he fixes the guilt upon Harvey Singleton. The police have been holding George White as the murderer and Will Porter as an accessory to the murder. The coroner has examined all the eyewitnesses and a number of other persons whose testimony might throw any light upon the case and the written testimony is rather conclusive against Singleton. Frcm the testimony gathered It seems that George White and Will Porter met Harvey Singleton at a billiard hall and the three went to a restaurant on Ohio street, near the canal. White stopped to eat something and the other two went out into the street. When White came out he met Jewel Hawkins and started to go home with her. They went up to Indiana avenue and met Singleton and Porter, who walked along behind them. On the avenue they met "Doc" Thorntpn, who tried to get tho woman to leave White. Then they met Vorhis and he called to the woman, but she refused to go to him, and then he tried to pull her away. White and Vorhis quarreled and were about to fight, when Singleton pushed White aside and received the blow which Vorhis aimed at White. He then pulled his pistol and shot Vorhis, fired two shots at Thornton and snapped the pistol twice at Vorhis after the latter had fallen. This is the substance of the testimony of White and it is pretty well corroborated by Thornton, Porter and Jewel Hawkins. The Hawkins woman first told the police that White did the shooting, but tinder oath to the coroner she said she did not know who fired the shots. She says that when Vorhis came up to fight with White she ran away a distance of about a hundred feet and had not turned around until she heard the first shot fired. She then turned and could see the body of Vorhis lying on the ground and saw two other shots fired. She explained that she had first said that White did the shooting, because she had left him and Vorhis about to fight and thev were alone. Robert (Doc) Thornton testified that an unknown mat a friend of White's, stepped in between White and Vorhis and tired the shot which killed Vorhis and then fired two shots at him (Thornton) as he ran across the street. He was positive that neither White nor Porter did the shooting. He did not know the man, but he was the man who was walking with Porter when they came. along the avenue behind White and Jewel Hawkins. George White testified that Vorhis was drunk and wanted to take the woman away from him and got Thornton to help him. Vorhis said that he did not think he was as good a man as White, but he felt willing to fight him anyway and he did strike at him. Just as White was about to defend himself from another blow Singleton pulled him aside and the blow struck Singleton. The latter then pulled his pistol and fired straight at Vorhis and Vorhis fell to the ground. With the first shot Thornton ran across the street and Singleton aimed two shots at him and then snapped the pistol twice at Vorhis. Vorhis said "You have shot me through the breast, but that will be all right." White said he saw and heard all this and that Singleton ran east toward the canal after It was over, and that he followed him and told him to go away. White then eame back to where Vorhis lay and Thornton snld to him "Whitey. you know who done this and if you don't tell, I'll say it was you." Thornton admitted saying this and thus explained his first statement that White did the shooting. The coroner's verdict in the case is as follows: "I. Hiram C. Castor, coroner, having examined the body of Calvin Vorhis and heard the testimony of the witnesses, which said testimony is hereto attached, do hereby find that said deceased came to his death the 12th day of October, 1S96, -it the City Hospital, from a pistol shot wound and I further find that one Harvey Singleton committed murder by firing the fatal shot which caused the death of said Calvin Vorhis." A UNIVERSITY CONTEST. The Football Game to Be Played at the Bull Park To-Day. The first big foocball game of importance will be played this afternoon at the ball park betwe?n the teams of Indiana University and University of Indianapolis. Both teams have been training hard for the contest. Coach Gontciman, ot Harvard, has the Indiana team in hand, and the wearers of crimson and cream are confident that at last, after years of patient waiting, victory will perch on their banrr. Mr. Flint, of the local team, and his followers are just as confident, however, that U. of I. will come out victorious. The probable line-ur will be: I. U. Positions. U. of I. Sheek It. E Freeman Endieott R. T Look Sparks It. O Kingsbury Cook C Terrell King, capt L. G Kettenbueh Orme L- T Lister Polk L. E Parker Binford Q. B Roberts, capt Youtsler H. H Hester Eagleson L. H Moore Gillespie F. B Fulkerson Nearly all of the above men are players of experience. Degree of Pocahontas Ofllcers. The Great Sun Council of the Degree of Pocahontas,- which has a membership of four thousand in Indiana, has elected the following officers: Great Pocahontas Mrs. Sue BIddlecome, of Warsaw. Great Winona Mrs. Lou Hicks, of Lebanon. Great Minnehaha Mrs. Sue M. Feltus, of Terre Haute. Great Prophetess Mrs. Alvira Weir, of Commack. Great Keeper of Records Mrs. Hattle Hopkins, df Indianapolis. Great Keeper of Wampum Mrs. Addie M. Cook, of Indianapolis. Great Trustees Mrs. Mary Hupp, of Bourborc Mrs. Nettle Westcott, of Indianapolis; Mrs. Jennie Bennoy, of Fort Wayne. Great First Scout Mrs. Annie Saltzgaber, of Lafayette. Great Second Scout Leida Roser, of Richmond. Great Guard of the Teepee Mrs. Lottie Alms, of Warsaw. Great Guard of the Forest Mrs. Alice M. Neff, of Indianapolis, 'school No. S2'n New' Flag. ' School No. 32, tbe first in the State to hoist the flag over its building, replaced its tattered ensign with a handsome new one yesterday afternoon. The exercises opened with patriotic songs by the pupils. Cap.. Wallace Foster mad the presentation speech and was followed by an address by Mrs. Samantha West Miller, chairman of the committee on patriotic teaching for Indiana. Tho flag was then hoisted whi'e the pupils, teachers rnd guests Joined in singing the "Star-spengle.l Banner." TO LIVE WELiTaSd'hAPPIIV Use "Garland" Stoves and ranges.

HUDSON PUT TO SLEEP

EVANS WOOLLEN DEBATED THE SILVEKITE TO A STANDSTILL. The Gold Democrat Hnndled Two Adversaries Some Pertinent Questions and Their Answers. Henry T. Hudson did not know it was loaded when he tackled Evans Woollen for a debate on the money question, but he knows it now. In the language of one of the listeners, "Woollen cleaned Hudson up so completely that he would not make a decent grease spot If squeezed in a hundred-ton compress." The debate took place at the O. P. Morton Club, on Shelry street, and was a three-cornered affair; that is, there were two against one. John Gaylor opened the debate for silver and was followed by Evans Woollen. After two or three rounds in which Gaylor was very mush worsted, Hudson, took the cause of silver and when Woollen got done with him, the crowd would not even stay to hear his final reply of ten minutes; they had had enough. It was very amusing to watch tho face of Hudson when near the close Woollen said: "Mr. Hudson still contends that the law of 1S73 was passed without debate and came in the night like an assassin. I say to him that he states what is not correct. The Congressional Globe shows 144 columns that is devoted entirely to a record of the debate on that bill, and further I will say to Mr. Hudson that I can prove to him by the records that the clause demonetizing silver was in the very first draft of that bill as prepared by John J. Knox. .Does he dare dispute that?" All this' time Hudson sat motionless, his face bearing a set expression that indicated utter despair, but the final collapse came when Mr. Woollen, quoting from some of Hudson's statements, brought up the question of the amount of gold in this country and in England. Hudson had stated that the ax?t of 1873 was passed at the behest of England because that country controlled the gold supply of the world and was interested In that metal, while this country had a big production of silver and that it should have been taken care of. He made this statement In proof of his charge that the gold men of England were back of the money legislation of this country. "Now, 1 want to say to Mr. Hudson," said Mr. Wo 'Mien, "that this statement Is about as far r.'rom the truth as most of the arguments he has used to-night. I will read here from .the United States treasury circular No. 123, dated July 1, ISttO. It states that the stock of gold in this country is $600,100,000, and that the gold of the United Kingdom amounts to $$0,000,000." "I don't take that statement as accurate," interrupted Hudson." "Mr. Hudson says he questions the truth of the report. If he will not take the report of the officers of the United States government as authority when it merely states a statistical fact. 1 have nothing further to say on the subject." (Applause.) In opening the debate John Gaylor had the floor first. He talked for just three minutes and then relinquished the floor to Mr. Woollen with the question: "Why did Congress demonetize silver in 1S73 when the $To2?" in a dollar was worth more than "I will endeavor to answer the question." said Mr. Woollen. "By the legislation of 1834 this country virtually went to a gold basis, and silver disappeared almost completely. You who can remember know for a long time prior to 1S73 silver was not in circulation. In 1870, when the government was preparing for a resumption of specie payment, the Secretary of the Treasury thought It wise to revise the coinage laws to meet the new circumstances. He appointed John J. Knox to codify the existing laws and draft a new coinage law. In going over the existing laws it was found that there was a provision for the coinage of a silver dollar, but there had been no silver dollars coined for so long that the law was simply, obsolete. . It -was . like old lumber on the statute books and in the new law it was simply left out, as it was considered a useless incumbrance. As to the law being passed surreptitiously I need say only a word. It was in Congress for three years and was debated time and again. When the first draft of the bill was prepared copies were sent to leading authorities on money .all over the world, and many of tho letters that came back called attention to the fact that the silver dollar was dropped. Mr. Kelly, chairman of the committee, called attention to the fact." MONEY OF THE CONSTITUTION. Mr. Gaylor had spoken several times of silver being the money of the Constitution and in closing Mr. Woollen asked him to show wherein that was true. He defied him to show a place in the Constitution where silver was mentioned as the money of the United States. This Mr. Gaylor utterly ignored, but when It came time, for Mr. Hudson to speak the question was taken up and two passages from the Constitution were read. The first was Section 8 of Article 1, which provided that Congress should have power to coin money and regulate its value, without mentioning" either gold or silver. The second was Section 10 of the same article, which provided that no State should have authority to make any money except gold or silver legal tender In payment of debt. Mr. Hudson held up those sections as conclusive proof that silver is a constitutional money. He turned to Mr. Woollen and said that he could not answer that assertion. It did not take Mr. Woollen long to explain that the section in which silver was mentioned was merely a section that prohibited the States from making paper money legal tender and was inserted because at the time of the adoption of the Constitution each State had its own issue of .scrip, and it was necessary to limit to the metals the authority of the States in declaring what should be legal tender. A large part of the time of Mr. Hudson's first argument was devoted to an attempt to show that the Ponocrats are the regular Democracy. He claimed that Jeffeison had declared that silver was the money of the Constitution and then he came down to the time of Hendricks and first asked If all present would not agree that Hendricks was a Democrat of the old school. There was no dissenting opinion. Then Mr. Hudson took from his pocket a typewritten copy of a portion of the speech of Mr. Hendricks delivered at the Democratic State convention Ft b. 21, 1X78. The speech was strongly in favor of silver so far as it went. Among other things was the statement that Mr. Hendricks believed that the restoration of silver would mean the payment of the United States bonds in coin, which might be either gold or silver, while under the law at that time thev could bo paid only in gold. Without considering the circumstances under which it was delivered, the speech seemed to show that Mr. Hendricks was an ardent advocate of the free coinage of silver. When Mr. Woollen tackled the question he put an entirely diit'erent face on the matter. He showed that the speech was delivered less than a month before the passage of the Biand-Alllson law, and that It was directed entirely to the question of restoring the legal-tender quality of silver, which was restored in the Bland-Allison law and has rtmalrud ever since. This killed that little speech as an argument for th regularity of the present organization. Taking up the question of the comparative increase of prices and wages under free coinage. Mr. Woollen said: "We all agree that it would raise prices. Mr. Bryan says so. That la a vital point on which we are agreed. I agree with him that the prices of all things will probably double, but that means that the prices the consumer will have to pay will tie doubled. Now, why do prices tro up faster than wages? I will again take Mr. Harrison's thought: 'A merchant can mark up tho price of his goods, but can a workman mark up his wages?' (A voice, 'That's pretty wcakl'j It may te pretty weak. I then quoted u man whom you have been quoting, but 1 will give- you Borne better authority. You all agree that the Sentinel is correct on thesu questions. April 20, lr.. It had this to say: 'Tho reason of the break during the war was that it takia several years to readjust wages to a changed standard of vaiue. They do not move as quickly as prices. Hence, if the currency were depreciated by adopting frt-e coinage we might expect at least thr-e or four years cf loss in wages for workingmen under the most favorable conditions.' Mr. Hudson, Is tho Sen.inel good authority?" (Laughter.) From the cheering at different points In the debate It soemed that the silver men were In the majority, and this was expected, for thj fourteenth ward Is strong y Democratic, but the end showed that sound money has a very strong hold there. When Mr. Woollen had completed his last argument he announced that Mr. Hudson would have an opportunity then to anwr anything he may hav said during thle last argument. 'Mr. Woollen started to wit down mid Mr. Hudson stepped on to the platform.

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THE WM. H. BLOCK CO. but the people had evidently had enough of him, for he was simply ignored. The crowd came forward and surrounded -Mr. Woollen, offering him corjratu!ations and, left Mr. Hudson standing ready to speak, but without listeners. He did not get to say a word. 2VOT A MAX RKSrtlXDEl). PnpoerntM Couldn't iet it Meeting In the Twelfth Ward. The Popocrats widely advertised a meeting for 8 o'clock last night at South and West streets in the Twelfth ward, with Police Judge Cox and K. A. Lomasmey as the sreakers. This ward Is one of the largest Democratic ones in the city and hant bills were distributed in every saloon and grocery in the ward. When 8 o'clock cam there was not a man at South and West streets, and Cox and Lamasmcy evidently were given a tip that a crowd could not be obtained, for they didn't put In an appearance. PERSONAL AND SOCIETY. Miss T-avielle Lynch, of Edlnburg, 1 th guest ot Miss Annie Keaume. Mrs. It. C. Dain is the guest of Mra. George W. Parker at Pendleton. , Mrs. Harry King has returned from ft visit to friends at Providence, It. I. Miss Martha Martin will go to Pittsburff Monday to visit for a month or six week. Mrs. Orlando Primer left Wednesday to visit friends in Kocktord, 111., for a few weeks. Miss June M. Webb returned yesterday from Detroit, where she went to attend a wedding. Mrs. J. J. Higgins and Miss CalUe McMeehen have returned from a short visit to Lafayette. Mrs. W. P.. Allen, of St. Louis, waa entertained informally at luncheon yesterday by Mrs. 13. C. Sewall. Mr. and Mrs. W. 8. Welton returned yesterday from St. Paul and Minneapolis, where they have been for four months. Mr. Elijah Fox will leave early in November for Kansas City, where he will engage In business, representing a Cleveland firm. . Miss Jessie Arnold will leave Tuesday for Indian River, Florida, where she will spend th wlntpr with her uncle. Dr. G. W. Holmes. Miss Helen M. Darling, of Den Moines, la., is the guest of Miss Sara Dunn. Mooday both young ladies will go to Louisville in h brldnsmn Ids for a friend. The new members of the faculty of the Metropolitan School of Music gave art invitation concert last evening at the rooms on North Illinois street. There was an appreciative audience. Miss Agnes Duncan will return to-day from Fort Wayne, where she went lo bo bridesmaid at the marriage of Miss Ninde. Miss Alice N. Woods, who was also a bridesmaid, will go to Des Moines, la,, to visit before coming home. Miss Grace Stiles, formerly of this city. nnn vi r .iwiti'ii (v i :uiiHirn in i tiiiiii nu imia lis, were married Wednesday at Cleveland, O.. at the residence of Miss Whltelaw, 1020 Wlllson avenue, Mr. Hervey Humphrey, of this city, was best man and Miss lirlna J. Smith, of llushville, maid of honor. Tho coupie went on a wedding journey to Old Point Comfort. Va., and will take up their residence in Indianapolis. Mrs. H. H. Lee entertained handsomely at luncheon yesterday. The guests were Mrs. Solomon Claypool, Mrs. Chapman Williams, Mrs. James K. McCoIlougrh, Mra. J. J. Cooper, Mrs. W. S. Bark.ey, Mrs. George W. Sloan and Mrs. A. P.. Grover. The table was tastefully decorated in green and white, the center bowls overflowing with American Beauty roses. The floral decorations in the several rooms were of American Beauty roses. Mrs. W. Scott Moore gave a progressive eucher party yesterday afternoon to twenty tables of players in the parlors of Brenneke's Academy The guest of honor wan Miss Carrie Krels, of Cincinnati, who 1 visiting Mrs. Moore. The rooms were handsomely decorated with white chrysanthemums, palms and garlands of green. The appointments were all In Delft, the prizes being of this ware, and the score carde were round, with the monogram M. K., and a Holland scene painted in blue by Mrs. Moore's daughter. The hostess was assisted in her hospitalities by Mrs. John II. Murphy and her daughters, the Mlssea Moore. Mrs. Frank Northrup Fitzgerald gave her first reception yesterday afternoon at her home, No. Wot! North Alabama street, Morton Place. She was assisted in receiving by her guest. Miss Gratlgny, of Walnut Hills, and Miss Jennings, of St. Louis. Mrs. D. M. Parry and Mrs. I. H. Fitzgerald assisted in entertaining. Chocolate was served by Miss Lydia Parry, who presided at the Morocco service placed on a beautiful mahogany table In the reception hall. Tho music was furnished by harp and mandolin stationed In the upper hall. Tho several rooms were decorated with chrysanthemums of different colors and palms la Jardinieres. Friday will be Mrs. Fltrgerald's day at home during. the feason. Miss Annie Keaume was the hostess for a 4 o'clock tea yesterday afternoon, which she gave in honor of her guest. Miss Willlen. of Terre Haute. Miss I-avlelle Lynch, of Edlnburg. assisted the young ladles In receiving. The long parlor was adorned with palms and ferns and yellow and whlto chrysanthemums, the latter to carry out the gold and white tone of the room. Mist Keaume was assisted In the parlor by her mother. Mrs. Keaume, Mrs. N. S. Drlgge and Mrs. James H. Wilson. A harpist in tho library played a varied programme. At the polished table In the dining room were Mrs. Edmund F. Gall and Mrs. 'William N. Gates. In the center of the table was abowl of chrysanthemums of varied color and at the corners exquisitely wrought dovlles with the cups and glasses, which we're passed bv Mlas Mayme Keaume and her friends. Miss Hadley of Denver, Miss Josephine Keaume, Miss Louise Dyer and Miss Mary Hastings. The young girls wore gowns ct whlto organdie with colored ribbons. A large number or young people were the guests. Miss Keaume and Miss Willlen will go to Cincinnati to-morrow to spend three weeks and will announce day to receive informally on their return. MORGAN LA UXOR Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SEYMOUR, Ind.. Oct. 23. Daniel Morgsn and Mis Maggie Launge, both of this city, were united in marriage last evening at I o'clock at the German Lutheran parsonage, Kev. Philip Schmidt officiating. What the Friendly Inn l)eninla. William De Haas, an old soldier who claims Pennsylvania as his place of reside rice, was given a night's lodging at the police station hist night. He told the police thnt he had bcn refused shelter at the Friendly lr.n. He nppMed there and the huperinlciident told him that he would have to saw wood or unload coal from a car until noon to-day, and that he would have to leave his coat for security. He said he was not physically able to stand such work apd was turned away. Prevent sickness and save doctors' bills at this season by keeping your blood rich ana pure with Hood's Sarsaparllla. 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