Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 January 1897 — Page 8

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THE. INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1897.

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KDWARD rillLMPS AND CARL 1IAHYEV ARRESTED IN REDMOND CASE. Slated for IloMtery nnd an Arrcunorlca to the 3Iurder of rircmau l'rnnk Iledmond. MAN .WHO FIRED IS AT LARGE PRISONERS CHARGED AVITIf DUIVIX G TO GREENWOOD. A Chain of CJrenniatantinl Evidence AVcluIiiK-l'hlIllp'ft i;eed Store Xcar - Old 31 un Eldrldjfe'a IMace. Formal charges of robbery and accssory to murder were placed against Edward Phillips and Carl Harvey at the police station last night. The men have been detained thero since Monday night, and there arc several circumstances which point to them as being implicated In the affair, at least after the fact. Phillips keeps a feed store at 277Va Massachusetts avenue, the second door north of Job Eldridse's second hand store and next door to Mrs. Randolph's restaurant. Charles Hubbard, .the colored man who was present at the scene of the attempted robbery while the struggle in Eidrldge's store was still in progress. has Identified Harvey as ono of the men who attempted to. rob Eldride. Hubbard tells a straightforward story of what he saw, and Implicates three men instead of two, as, has all along1 been supposed. Ho says he lives at 100 Yandes street, and is at present unemployed. Last Friday he had been down town, and on his way back stopped at Kline's saloon, 2C3 Massachusetts avenue, and took a drink with Kline. "It was just half-past 6 when I started out," ho said. "I remember the time, for a clock In the saloon struck the half hour as I was passing out the door. The saloon is only a few doors from iIdridge'B store, and as I approached tho store 1 heard some woman screaming and saw that something was wrong. I entered the store and by a dim light saw a man coming from tho rear. Stoves are piled up all around the place and the man was picking his way among the stoves and coming toward me. He passed me with a row of stoves between us, and I got a good look at him. That man was tho man arrested as Carl Harvey. I did not know his name at the time. I passed on back to the rear where two men were struggling with Eldridge. As I rushed up to help the old man, the taller of the two men poked a pistol in my face and told me to get out. Of course, I could not face that weapon, and started to get out, backing toward the door. The two men followed me out, and one of them turned Into the alley and disappeared. The tall one ran across the street. I did not get a good look at the faces of the two men who were struggling with Eldridge, and do not believe I could identify them. They were muffled up. I am positive about th3 one 1 first saw. He was Harvey." Job Eldridge was seen last night and asked if there were three men in the store concerned in the robbery. He said if there were he did not know it. "Only two came in the tirst time, and I think only two came back when they attempted to rob me. They Were the same two. There was only one single lamp burning in the store at the time. It had not been cleaned for some time and gave a very poor light. I think, though, if thero had been three men I would have known it. because 1 was in the front part of the store when they came in, and would have heard the door open and close if another had followed them in." "Another suspicious circumstance." continued Eldridge, "is the fact that neither Phillips nor Harvey came Into the storo Saturday morning to see me. Everybody else in the neighborhood who know and many others who did not know me came in to talk about the matter and inquire about my injuries. Phillips and Harvey came to their store together rather late, but they never came Into my place. I went in thero later in the day, but neither of them spoke of the attempted robbery or the murder." A EAR KING DOG LOCKED UP. Mr. Eldridge did not think either of tho two men was Phillips or Harvey. Such a thing had not occurred to him. "But," ho said, "I think the robbers came from tho feed store. They were muffled up so closely that I could not see their faces, and one of them could have been Phillips for all I know. There Is a suspicious circumstance connected with the affair. 1 board here at Mrs. Randolph's restaurant, and her dog is a great friend of mine and frequently follows me into the store. If anybody strikes at mo he will set up a loud burking. On the night of the murder the dog was nowhere to be found, and did not make his appearance until the next morning. I believe he was looked up in the feed store." Mrs. Randolph knows Phillips and Harvey well. She could not say that cither of them was ono of the robbers, though shs saw two of the robberc while they were struggling with Eldridge and as they ran out of the store. "The roLbers were muflled up so closely that it would have been impossible to have recognized them," she said. Mrs. Randolph says that Harvey and Phillips have been leading a fast life. Frequently ty got drunk, ;md on such occasion? Phill'ps would stay at the store all nigh. At other times lie would not tay at ti-o store. Thursday morning ut 1 o'clock, she says, Harvey came. in. pot breakfast for three, but 'she did not tee tho third person and does not know who It was. Roth Mrs. Randolph and Eldridge say that the feed store was closed much earlier than usual on the night of the murder, and earlier than Phillips and Harvey claim they close it. Mrs. Randolph savs hhe m;t Harvey in the back yard behind the store at about twenty minutes after G and the store was closed then. She says the store is usually kept open until 8 or 9 o'clock at night. If it turns out that tho police, have arrested the right men credit for it must be given to Detectives Splan, Frank Wilson and McGuff. for it was through them that the tirst start on tlio caso was made. Splan knew of the presence of Harvey In tho city, and also that he was a man who might commit a robbery. Harvey had but recently been re leased from the Columbus penitentiary, and had a former police record known to tho detectives. It was also known tle.it lu had been working at Edward Phillips's feed store, which Is but two doors above Eidridgo's store on Massachusetts venue. His description was that of thj short man of tho two robbers. ARREST OF HARVEY. Monday afternoon Detective McGufT was sent to make inquiries concerning Harvey's whereabouts at the time of the robbery and murder, and he learned enough to justify Harvey's arrest, and at C o'clock he had sent Harvey to the police station. Harvey's presence there was kept quiet, and he was put through a rigid examination. He was guarited in his talk, but he gave tnough information to lead the police to believe ho was one of the nun who drove to Greenwood Friday night. The story of the men seen at tlreemvood was published in the Journal at the time. Three men drovo In thro at about 12 o'clock. One of them remained there until the morning south-bound train and the other two drove back to this city. It was dechleel Monday night to send Harvey to Greenwood for identification, smd accordingly Detectives Stout and McGuff took him in a closed carriage and drove to the village. Frank Hoyt. keeper of a livery stable, and Tom Saiul-rs. a night watchman, had talked with the three men wiu w-ri there Saturilay niht. and hail gone with the.:n to the houi. Ah five men sat there together for half an hour, so that there was plenty if opportunity to see who tho men were. Hoyt iirA Sanders identified Harvey in the dark by his video, and afterward positively recognized him as one of the three men. Harvey was brought back to the city at about 1 o'clock Monday night, and it was the important fact that he had been identified that brought SuperinttnJcnt ColKrt to the police station at this unusual hour. Upon the strength of Harvey's statement that ho hod been with Phillip

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driving about the citv Friday night. Col bert ordered the arrest of Phillips, and he was brought in. Tho two men tell about the same story cf their doings on Friday night. They say they closed the feed store at 6:30 o'clock and drove with their spring delivery wagon to David R. Marshall's livery stable at Oak street. Then they walked back down to Carter's drug store, at the corner of St. Clair street and Massachusetts avenue, where they learned of the murder. Then they walked to the engine house and talked about the affair for a while and walked on down to Illinois and Washington streets, where they separated. Harvey went to John Ferris' saloon, at SO West Washington street, and Phillips went to the Occidental bar. At 9:3J o'clock the two men met at Ferris's saloon and took a car to tho Oak-street stable, where they secured a horse and buggy and drove around town until midnight, when they drove to Booth's stable on West Market street, and put up tho rig nnd then went to the room of Laura Alice Spoon, in the Miller block, and, spent the night. ; They deny having been at Greenwood and cannot account for their whereabouts during the two or throe hours they admit having been driving. It was probabl..- the coldest of the several nights of the present cold spell, and the men claim thj.t thy were tlrunk, yet they cannot tell of a single place they went. until they put the horse and buggy in tho stable and went to the woman's room. This is the substance of their statement, as repeated by Superintendent Colbert yesterday afternoon. THE WOMAN DETAINED. The woman is also detained at the police station. She says she is twenty-two years old, and has known Phillips for a number of years. She got acquainted with him through the marriage of a relative of hers to Rernard Phillips, a brother of Edward. Roth families lived in Monroeville tien, but moved to this city several years ago. Bernard Phillips has since died and his widow is now living in the Sterling block, on Virginia avenue. She formerly had a millinery store on South Illinois street, where the Lake Erie ticket office now is. Eaura Spoon was known by the namo of Laura Phillips. She talked freely about Phillips and Harvey. She said -.ey came to her room about midnight Friday. They told her they had been driving and that the horse was standing down in front. Harvey went out, as he told her, to put tho horse in the stable, and returned in a few minutes. They all ate a lunch, and the men remained there until morning. The police) have investigated the men's story at every point, and claim they have learned that the statements made by them aru false cloar through. In the lirst place. they diil not, according to Superintendent Colbert, close the feed store at G:?,') o'clock, but some time earlier, and they did not drive their spring wagon up to the Oakstreet stable at the time they claim they did. Superintendent Colbert says he can show that at the very time of the attempted robbery and murder, Phillips was in the alley back of his store. Tho police also learn that the horse and buggy was not driven into Booth's stable until 3 o'clock Saturday morning. TRACING THE MEN'S MOVEMENT. Regarding the claim of the men that they spent the time from about 7:30 Friday night to 9.C0 in Ferris's and the Occidental saloons tho police are unable to get any information to verify or contradict the statements. The bartender at the Occidental saloon, who was on duty that night, called yesterday and looked at Phillips. He says he has seen the man in the saloon frequently, but does not remember seeing him Friday night. He says, however, he would have remembered It had the man been Intoxicated, as he says he was, and had staid in the place for the length of time Phillips claims to have remained there. There are no chairs in tho Occidental barroom, and a drunk man spending two hours in the place would have attracted the attention oi the bartender, think the police. Ever since the men have been detained at the police station they have been subjected to pumping and sweating, but have given little Information. For a while they talked freely to the superintendent and detectives, but have now grown angry and refuse to say anything. The sweating process was continued yesterday morning, and then for the lirst time anything like un admission was made. Harvey was being questioned and he suddenly turned to Superintendent Colbert and said: "Why don't you turn Phillips cut?" "I will if you will tell me ary reason why I should not hold him," answered Colbert. "Well, he had nothing to do with this case." And after a pause: "Nor did I, for that matter." Notwithstanding1 the denial of Phillips and Harvey and their statements of where they were during the night of the murder, it is certain that they were at Greenwood Friday night. Not only did Frank Hoyt and Tom Sanders identify Harvey when be was taken to Greenwood Monday night, but they came to this ity yesterday and identified Phillips as the man who wa with him. The large man who was with them was taken to a hotel, where the three men and the two Greenwood men sat alout talking for half an hour. Phillips had a- bottle f whisky and before be and Harvey left for Indianapolis lie gave the big man a drink out of the bottle and said to him: "Brace up old man. Don't let a little thing like this worry you." THE BIG MAN DISAPPEARS. It was about 1 o'clock according to the statement of Hoyt and Sanders, when Phillips and Harvey started back to Indianapolis and tho third man went to bed. Saturday morning the big man ate breakfast and then went down to tho other hotel near tho railroad and registered again, and ate another breakfast. At both places he registered under the name of Watson, but used a different initial. When the train from Indianapolis was about to arrive the hotel proprietor told Watson that he was goin?r down and asked him if he was ready. Watson put him ofT, however, und when the train arrived, he boarded it from the east side, away from the crowd at the station, and paid a cash fare. Superintendent Colbert thinks the fact Lof the telegraph office at Greenwood being closed at night prevented the arrest or the tali man while there, lie was unable to gt a message there and the knowledge of the Redmond murder did not reach there until the train on which the tall man started south brought the morning papers. Then people who bad seen the three men at one? notified Colbert and he attempted to intercept the man on the train. The train had passed Columbus before a telegram reached the trainmen, and it wad found that the man had Ifr the train at Columbus. Every town on all the roads leading out of Columbus was notified and there is still hope of catching the man. Phillips is the son of Samuel Phillips, of the firm of Phillips & Pattison, clothing manufacturers at 10$ Soutn Pennsvlvanla street. He lives with Ills father at 240 Central avenue, but during the last few years has spent little time at home, though living in this city all the time. His father Ts well-to-do and was greatly shocked when told of his son's arrest. "I knew Ed was pretty wild, but thought his wllclness was confined to drinking and carousing." He said: "The store at 'J",l'2 Massachusetts avenue was mine, though he managed it and did not have to make any accounting of profits to nie. j set him up in business, thinking It would cause him to settle down. The buggy which he drove Friday night, I suppose was mine. He frequently borrowed it, and had .had it for about a week tb last time'." The police say Harvey Ins a bad record. They say he was !it recently released from the Ohio penitentiary on a sentence for a crime committed at Cincinnati. It was his record that led Captain Solan to think of him when it was learned that he had been staying at the feed store so close to EldrhU'o's store. Both Harvey and Phillips refuse to talk for publication. Harvi y was brought Into the superintendent's oftice last nicrht in lhr presence of Ch:iiies Hubbard and had to sit and listen to Hubbard relate his storv of the ease as given above. He refused to discuss what Hubbard said, but as he was being led back to hia cell ho was heard to remark: "That nigsrer don't know anything about this case, lies In it for the money and notoriety ho thinks he can get out of it. I'll kill him for this." REV. T. I. C0ULTAS CALLED. Aft!k Perm inn ion to Go to u Morristovtxi, . J., Church. t Rev. T. T. Coultas. pastor of Roberts Park M. E. Church for the last three and a half years, has asked the official board of the church permission to accept the pastorate of tm of the leading Mrthodist churches of Morristown. N. J., which is a wealthy town, only : short uistMi.ce from Nv. Vorktity. The Morrl-!ovn .-.-.ngrega-Hon has r.'. uiift stdl a desire to have Mr, C ult u come to Its church. The board will not e-onslder th ma;ter until next week. Dr. Coultas came to Roberts Park Church from Torre Haute. Most of his ministerial life has teen pent in the J Hi lois Conference. He is about forty years !d and has a family. His ttve-year term a 1th Roberts Park would not expire until i year and a half from now. He is popular with his congregation, and has done much to strengthen the church.

SCHOOL BOARD MUDDLE

JOINT SESSION OF INDIANAPOLIS AFFAIRS COMMITTEES. Dunn Dill Read nnd Defended liy Ha Author Arenmrnl in Ilelialf of Roth Measures. At a joint meeting of the Senate and House committee on affairs of the city of Indianapolis, held In Room 1C Statehouse, after the adjournment of both branches, yesterday afternoon, there was a long and animated discussion cf legislation in tho interest of the public school, system of this city. Senator New introduced a bill prepared by J. P. Dunn, modeled on the Cleveland law, in the Senate, and Representative Elliott introduced it in tho House. Mr. Dunn was before the committee to discuss his bill, while Charles W. Smith. John P. Frenzel and Austin 11. Brown, of the Commercial Club committee, talked in support' of the bill prepared by them for tho solution of the financial straits in which the schools are Involved. Brief talks were also made by Justus C. Adams, preslde-nt of the Board of Trade, A. O. Baker and Allen M. Fletcher. After Senator New, chairman of the Senate committee, stated the purposes of tho meeting Mr. Dunn read his bill section by section, making a running comment. The first section of the bill establishes a school district in all cities of over 100,000 Inhabitants, and declares that the boundaries of such district shall be the city boundaries, and pe known as a school district of the lirst grade. The next two sections provide that: The school government in districts of the first grado shall be vested in a board of school commissioners, which shall consist of a school council and a school director. The Board of School Commissioners shall have anil exercise the powers now conferred by law on boards of school commissioners in cities of thirty thousand (IJO.oOu) or moro inhabitants, also the powers now conferred by law on boards of school commissioners in cities ot 100,(J inhabitants, and as herein provided. The legislative power nnd authority shall be vested in the school council, which shall consist of eight members, each of whom shall serve for a term of four years, and two of whom shall be appointed annually by tho mayor of the city. Section 4 provides that the Council shall organize annually in Juno by electing one of their number president and electing a clerk, who shall not bo one of their number, who Is to receive a salary of $2.(Mt a year. This section also provides the treasurer of the county shall be treasurer of the board and make monthly re-ports of receipts and expenditures. The subsequent section says: "Every legislative act of the Council shall be by resolution. Every resolution involving an expenditure of money or tho approval of a contract for the payment of money or the purchase, sale, lease or transfer of property, or levying any tax, shall, before it takes effect, be presented duly certified by the clerk to tho school director for approval." It is provided that if the director refuse to approve the action of the Council that body may act over his veto by a vote of six of the eight members of the Council. APPOINTMENT OF TEACHERS. By Section 6 power Is vested in the council to make rules for the appointment of all teachers and employes, prescribe their duties and fix their compensation. A committee composed of the president, director and superintendent of scrool is to select text-books, provide rules for tho library and select books for it. Other sections of the bill provide: The school council shall, at their meeting on the third Friday in June, 1S9$, elect a superintendent of schools, who shall serve for a term of three years, and a librarian who shall tserve for a term of three years, and until their successors are elected and qualified, and their successors shall be elected for equal terms. The superintendent of schools shall have the sole power to appoint and discharge all assistants and teachers, authorized by the nchool council to he employed, and shall report to the school council In writing annually, and oft--ner If required, as to all matters under his supervision, and may be required by the school council to attend any or all of its meetings. The librarian shall have tho sole power to appoint and discharge all assistants in the library, including the Janitors employee! therein, and shall report annually as to all matters under his supervision. All other employes of the Board of School Commissioners shall be appointed or employed, and discharged by tho school director. The school director shall be elected by the qualified electors of the district, and. except as otherwise provided in this act, j all powers heretofore vested In and performed by the Board of School Commissioners in such districts, shall bo vested in and performed by him. The first election of such director shall be held at the time of the municipal election, on the second Thursday of October, lhj7. and biennially thereafter. He is to be paid $3.f00 per year. liy several sections following the city controller is made auditor of the School Board and provisions are made for hi auditing the accounts o? the board. He Is required to Issue warrants for the payment of moneys drawn on the county treasurer, ex officio treasurer of the board. Section 21 provider that public advertisements for bids shall be made when ft is proposed to expend more than $ 1,500. Provisions to meet the financial necessities of the schools follow: The board is empowered to issue bonds to pay $4'X.fort of its debt and 130,000 Manual Training School bonds. It is authorized to levy a 5-cent tax on the I10O for building purposes. ARGUMENTS ON THE BILL. Mr. Dunn contrasted his bill with that of the Commercial Club. He wud that each provides for tho refunding of the JIW.GOO debt, but when it came to a question of fund.-s for buildings and grounds instead of borrowing $00,000 a year for five years and establishing a sinking fund to meet it, his bill provided for a levy of 3 cents on the $100. The city is now paying oft about 000 a year, he said, which he regarded as filling the requirements of a sinking fund. Charles W. Smith inquired what power the board would have to borrow money under his bill. Mr. Dunn saiei the same powers were given the board as now existed under old laws. Mr. Smith asked hlm'what provision there was for tho new board to assume the debts and liabilities of the oid? Mr. Dunn seemed to think the old laws would cover this point, but said if net it would be possible for the lawyers on tho commmlttei to suggest such amendments as should be made. Austin H. Brown, chairman of one of the subcommittees that had acted for tho Commercial Club, said that lie would suggest that the subject of reorganization of the schools and the betterment of the deplorable financial conditions existing should be covered by separate bills. Whether the schools were reorganized or not, ho said, something must be done in a financial way. Charles W. Smith, for a number of years a member of the School Board and later attorney for the board, spoke of the work that had been done by the committee of which he was chairman. He described tho different fundi of the School Board, going over particularly the same ground he covered at the meeting of the Commercial Club directors last Friday and reported in the Journal of last Saturday. He explained that there was no legislation necessary as to the Gregg fund, the library fund or the Manual Training School fund, o-s they were in a condition to care for themselves. The trouble that had to be. remedied was the constantly-Increasing debt for current expenses, now amounting to JtSl'.iXA'. Mr. Smith explained that this debt had plied up because the School Board was so limited in its powers to levy taxes that It could not create an income to meet running expenses. The School Board of this city can levy but 34 cents on the JloO for all purposes, while $1.25 can be levied when necessary in the townships of the State. While on this subject the committee had sent to other cities to ascertain what their tax levy amounted to. ur.d learned that the levy for Richmond was AH cents. Lafayette 43 cents. Torre Haute ."3 cents and Evansvi!!e 42 cents. The lowest levy in Ohio was that of Cincinnati T..3 cents. As a result of Its Investigation tho .committe had decided the levy of 25 cnts on the $!" was enough to pay all current school expensea and pay the interest o:i the bonds and pav off $2.000 of the debt, leaving JlOa.W) to be provided. A sinking fund of 2 cent on the Jl , it was estimate-d, would pay the debt. Mr. fcniith contended that Mr. Dunn's bill did not in any wav contemplate the ultimate discharge of this debt. He said that there is an immediate demand for money for now buildings. This the committee's bill provided for by a series of loans of I'W. -uXi a year for live years. To meet this deit when it became due. in thirty years. It w'9 proposed te establish a second linking fund of not to exceed Hs cents on the SlijO. He said that a 5-cent tax levy, as

proposed by Mr. Dunn, would produce about $50,tj a year on the present lax duplicate. On the subject of the reorganization of the School Board, as provided for in Mr. Dunn's bill, Mr. Smith had some objections to offer. The trouble at present is that the people are not in close enough touchnot in a position to exert Influence over the board. With the power to apioint the board vested in the mayor he thought that the board would be still further removed from the influence of the people. Either those appointed would consider themselves under obligations to the mayor and allow him to control them, or else they would be entirely independent of the mayor and public alike. Tho election of a director at city elections would not divorce the head of the board from politics. The power to appoint janitors and other employes vested in the bill ho regarded as evli, as it would create patronage to be dispensed. Mr. Smith had never heard but one man sav that there was a "rake oft" In the log rolling of the old school boards. If the committee were to go on. the idea that school boards are dishonest he said it ought not to forget that one man can bo bought more easily than a whole board. When Mr. Smith was about to conclude his remarks Senator Hugg. a member of the committee, said that he had been in the hopes some one would devise a better plan for holding school elections, referring to tho disgraceful scenes with which everyone Is acquainted who has ever voted In a "school election. Mr. Dunn replied to Mr. Smith arguments. Justus C. Adams, president of tne Board of Trade, urged the committee to adopt some such plan as that outlined in Mr. Dunn's bill in order to afford relief to tho city from the mismanagement and unsatisfactory conditions which have so long existed. Messrs. A. O. Baker and Allen M. Fletcher ateo spoke in favor of Mr. Dunn's bill. John P. Frenzel made an earnest plea for Mr. Smith's bill. There was no formal action by the committee, but the sentiment seemed to be In favor of Mr. Dunn's bill, perhaps In a modified form. THE BALL A GOOD THING

INDIANAPOLIS WOMEN COMMENT ON THE JIRADLKY-MAHTIN FUNCTION. Expenditure of Half a, Million on So Lavish a. Seale Will Benefit Many People. Now that the good dominie of New York has censured tho quarter-million dollar fancy-dress ball, to bo given by Mrs. Bradley-Martin, In New York, and has thereby secured notoriety for a few days, the whole feminine country is talking of the affair. Somo expressions have been obtained from Indianapolis women. Mrs. May Wright Sew all says she never troubles herself about the way rich people spend their money. She thinks it is much better to have them tpend it than to hoard it. "It is much better to spend a emarter of a million dollars for an innocent pleasure like a party than for a war ship, which is only to kill," said she, to a reporter. "I am very glad that there are people who have that much to t-pend. It perhaps may be that the people who are invited to the ball will have to do some studying in history, and that will not hurt them. A little study may even be of benefit to them. The money expended will not simply go to the head of the house providing for the different departments for the ball. The criticism was made by Dr. Itainsford that the people who were patronized by the ball guests already had enough money. If all of the men who are dependent on their business for a largo income should cease to have business, they would not long have their income. The people to bo patronized for the ball may be rich, but if all of their business should stop, their weaith would soon be dispersed. It is not only tho head of a business that is to be benefited by the ball, but all who work for him. The modistes have their employes, even to the apprentices; all the people who furnish the refreshment:, to the far-away places where the food is first bought; the carriage men and their employes; the vast army of people In the hotel; the florists ana ail will contribute their work for tho ball and receive remuneration. There, arc always people ready to criticise your manner of spending money, but 1 hold that no ono has it right to know how I spend my money except myself and my creditors, if 1 have any. To spend the money oven for so short a pleasure as a fancy -drtss party is better than to give it away. Mrs. Bradley-Martin is not only to sicnd a quarter of a million, but the thousand or more guests whom she has invited will spend their money, and so the good of such un event and the money It will put in circulation will go a great ways." Mrs. 1. II. Levey said that she was glad thero were people who could give such events In this country, that she thought the spending of so great a sum was a greater good than in giving it away in a few big donations. Some people say that Mrs. Bradiey-Martin might 'give that money to the. poor. She might give it to the poor to-day and there would be just as many poor line themselves up for help to-morrow. To put the money in circulation, whereby the people who received any share of it would earn it, was much better than to give it outright, whore its value and the gift would not be appreciated. Mrs. Ievey thinks it is better to let people earn what they tet than to give it to them. Mrs. W. R. Brown was Inclined to Mrs. Levey'H opinion and would encourage fine entertaining where people have the money to do It with. To give away the whole sum or even largs parts of it ould not benefit so generally as such a party a3 tho one under way. One woman, who entertains handsomely, said that she would give an entertainment every week if she could. She could not give it on so grand a scale as Mrs. BradleyMartin was going to do. but she would spend all she could every time she entertained. Another said that people always criticised even some features of her simple companies, and there were always kind friends who would repeat to her any criticism they heard. She thought that even with her husband's limited income she should always entertain her friends to the best of her ability and to the limit of htr pocket book, because the people, she invited to her house she thought enough of to do that. Mrs. E. C. Sewall said that she approved of such social events and thought that it was bettor to spend .a quarter of a million dollar!, which would be shed broadcast and do good in many ways than to buy some jewel or picture for merely selfish reasons. In giving the ball. Mrs. Bradley-Martin was giving pleasure to a thousand people, and that many more were receiving the benefit of her money. One lady said that she. for one, was glad that the ball was going to be given, for she likes to road about such line things and that she honed the papers would have a full description of the whole thing. For her part, pink teas, weddings with Bride roses, and ree-cptions with a single kind of flowers in each room, was fine for Indianapolis, but orchids and satin hangings and gold plates and gorgeous gowns and jewels would be very nice to read about" and discuss. She thought Mrs. BradleyMartin a public benefactor, and that she should really be called the "Lady Bountiful." There eloes not seem to be a bit of doubt but what Mrs. Bradley-Martin will have the full approval and consent of many of the people in Indianapolis in giving the ball. MISREPRESENTING AGE. A New Offense Apparently Discovered by the Police. The unusual charge of misrepresenting his age was placed against Frederick Boorbauer, of 173 Massachusetts avenue, who was arrested last night by Patrolmen I?ppert and Woolley, in a blllard hall, at the corner of Massachusetts avenue and Now Jersey street. The clerk at the place. Guy Rigifs. was arrested with him on the charge of allowing a minor to play pool. There are no liquors sold In the place, and It lias no connection with any saloon, and Is not. therefore, covered by the Nicholson law. If there is any law covering the offense of Bcerbauer it has not been enforced recently. Becrbauer is nineteen years old. Ill w Time Had Expired. A colored man, who gave the name of James Slaughter, was arrested yesterday for loitering and Superintendent Colbert thought they had in him a life prisoner who escaped from the Kentucky penitentiary. The warden was notified cf the arrest arid last n'.zht a message was received from bim saying that the prisoner answers the description of Joseph Slaughter, who was discharged from the prison Dec. 9.

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GENEKOIS RESPONSES TO CHARITY O R GAM f. ATI O N 'S A PPE A L. General IlarrUon Yinlt Headquarter! Many Men Working; on the lee Fornix A Poor Woiunu Evicted. A compromise has been effected between the weather man and his friend up north, the latter havfr.g agreed to cease blowing his breath any colder. Iralicatians now are that zero weather Is about over for Indianapolis, except that during the night the mercury will be allowed to loaf around that point on the thermometer which is marked by a goose egg. Tho weather began to grow warmer Tuesday and during the night thero was no time when it was colder than 2 below zero, and during the day it warmed to the point of 6 above. Last night it cooled off a little again and prospects are that the same process will bo repeated to-day with occasional Hurries of snow. Tho last addition to the wintry programme has livened things up a bit. Ever since, the cold spell began there has been a longing for an Inch or two of snow to give an opportunity for sleighs and sledding parties. Tho longing has been gratified to some degree and yesterday the air was filled with the unwonted jingling of sleighbells. If nobody breaks contract and a little moro snow falls, the hearts of those who have sleighs stored away will be filled with rejoicing. Ice cutting has begun in earnest now, and on nearly all the ponds the frozen liquid is being cut into square chunks and carted away to storage houses, thero to await the coming of summer and tho fixing of an adequate price by its ' owners. Ice men are hoping for a continuation of the cold weather until they can house the crop waiting for their knives. The ice is of excellent quality, from eight to ten Inchon in thickness, and with ten days moro of suitable, weather there will be no fear of a scarcity when warm wentner comes. Hundreds of men are applying for work at the icehouses and ponds and though there is a great deal to do there will rot be enough to satisfy all tho applicants. Yesterday about 250 men were put to work and it is probable that as many more will be given employment as soon as all the macldnory is ready and all the packers buckle down to business. Tho decrease in cold has operated favorably in relieving somewhat the distress of the poor. Though still far from comfortable where fire Is scarce, they are yet freo from the danger of freezing. The charity organization rooms wer as crowded yesterday as at any time during the last few days with those seeking aid, but not one was turned away. The appeal for help has met with a hearty response and a stream of kindly people poured in all day long with their offerings. Considerable money was received and quantities of blankets and clothing. The pile of old clothes heaped up near Secretary Grout's desk contained a varied assortment of family relics now dedicated to the relief of the suffering. There were hats, bonnets, coats, trousers, drefss. and shoes, and some In a state of respectability and some otherwise. A warm and odorous "sweater," a souvenir of happy days on the towpath last summer, had a prominent place in tiie collection, and close by lay a pair of gray trousers, rendered double in thickness by the contents of a paint pot lavishly f pread over their surface. Some thoughtful person had sent their last summer's underwear, and there was also an appropriate present of a white Illusion party gown and a pair of white satin slippers. But there were plenty of good warm clothetj to bring comfort to the chilled bodies of many of the city's poor. Ex-President Harrison was one of the callers at the charity rooms. He has already made a contribution, but came to express his willingness to do more if morn was needed. This seemeel to be the sentiment of all who called, and there was a spirit of generous plenty about the rooms which did one good to pee. Everybody said, as he lumied down hi armload, or took a coin from his pocket, "Jf you noed moro tell me and I'll do what I can." Mr. and Mrs. Harrison were particularly Interested In the case of a widow who was about to be turned out of her house to satisfy the claims of a man who held a chattel mortgage against her. They saw that the creditor had his due and that the widow retain. d her home. Mr. Harrison gave 110 to the Bureau of Justice In addition to his Vrovious subscription and told Secretary Grout to fool free to call on him. He said he thought the suffering would Increase while the cold weather lasts mid he wanted to do his share In relieving it. The Charity Organization Society rurr.ishod aid yesterday to 135 families, supplying them with rood and fuel. SET OI T IN THE STIIEET. A Poor Ynsherwomnn nnd Htr Five Little Children. Mrs. H. B. Home, of No. 211 Newman street, a woman who has toile-d incessantly to keep the wolf from the eloor, found herself nnd her five children set out from her home yesterday morning. She could not pay the two months' rent which was due the agent, Philip Strack, a. little redbearded man who does n joint real-estate and tonsorlal business at No, 1S3 Columbia avenue. For a long while Mrs. Home has done family washing to provide for her children, and only last Monday, when the weather was so terribly cold, she did two washings, although her physical condition makes work very hard for her. She pay the constables came and set her few pi. -cos of furniture out on the sidewalk. The tlTermometcr was in the neighborhood of zero. Kind neighbors came to her In her distress. One permitted her to store her handful of household ttVcts In a shed, another neighbor, who is .by no means well provided with the world's goods, generously offered to care for the children for a few days, and the mother went somewhere else. Several men called at St rack's tonsorlal emporium and realty office during tho day. and at least one said some very rharp things. Strack. this man says, was evasive, first declaring that he bad not ordered the poor woman set out. and again Mating that she would have to move. But -he had already found her goods on the sidewalk, however It may have been brought about. Mr. Strack was somewhat warm, df.-pit the weather, for, as he hlnwlf said, "Fifteen men have already bfen here to see about that case." COURTHOUSE FENCE FOR SALE. StoiiemaitoiiM Will Re An Led to II Id One KILoOo Offer. County Commi.ioner Harding has at last taken an interest in euttiag down the

courthouse yard. Yesterday he had a conference with a stonemason, who will make accurate measurements ef the istone fence and make a bid for th' stor.e. As an offhand proposition, this rru.n said yesterday that lie would give ?2..7.m for the fenee and remove It. but It is thought that much more than this amount can be secure.!. When the measurements are made, stone men will bo arked to make bids for the stone. Mr. Harding and Mr. McGregor are both strongly in favor of cutting down the lawn, and it is believe-d that Mr. Greer will fully Indorse it when ho Is able to return, contddering the new light that has been thrown on the qustlan recently. The proposition of the city to accept i. lease for six years, with an option for ten year., at ?!.0o a year, und to pay ono year in :alvanee. It is believed, will be accepted by the county. In that event work will buln very soon. Mr. Harding said yesterday that If work could begin by Feb. 1 f-e thought it would be atisiactory, and would relieve a roat many people. There can also bo a considerable revenue derived from the sale of the dirt that Is to bo removed. Already sowral men have sent word that they wanted to buy some of the dirt if the work should bo undertaken. In case It cannot br :uld. It w IH be used to fill and widen the approaches to the Kentucky avenue bridge, and to widen the roadway of Michigan street l ear the river. Commissioner Harding i ays bis only objection to the city's proposition is that It Is not sulciently sp-Tplc. H' wants to know just what is desired in tho way of now plumbing and othr repairs asked, and thn be will be in a position to kt.ow what he will favor. A I!u;n;at;eiiinter MtrloLen. T. N. Radcbaugh. a Panhandle baggagemaster, living at Colimbus. O. ftii with

a stroke of apoplexy at the Union etatlon yesterday aft moon. He wa takrn to St. Yincent Hospital and his wife and daughtef summoned to his l-dslde. He is In a rlous condition, but it is believed he will recover.

PROF. EMMERICH'S HUMOR Muslelanft I nli.n Oltjeeteil to the Training Seliool Orehrstra. "And the band played a" was the bit of humor which Principal Emmerich, of the Industrial Training School, inscribed on a. card and sent In reply to a communication he received a ilay or so ago from the musicians' union, which had written him, through its officers, asking why it was that he let the training school orchestra play music at training-hchool entertainments. The pupils who constitute the orchestra have committed the offense of not belonging to the union, it seems. The orchestra, plavevl at the commencement exorcises last, night, and furnished very good muric. tcx, but the programme Included no nonunion melodies as far as known. This orchestra is composed of training-school pupils who have a talent for music, and was organized solely to play at school entertainments. Principal Emmerich has no disposition to antagonize any latmr union, but he falls to see whero the union comes in in this case. SOME FEDERAL PLUMS POLITICAL GOSSIPS HAVE THE REST PLACES ALREADY FILLED. Senator AVUhnrd to Re DIMrlet Attorney Prominent Cnllera Ypon the Senator-Elect. There was a heap of gossip about federal patronage flying about yesterday, and Senator-elect Fairbanks had numerous calls from prominent Republican politicians, among them W. T. Durbin, of Anderson. Indiana member of the national committee.; the chairman of the- state committee; Representative Watson, of the Fourth district; A. E. Nowlln, of Lawrenceburg, and Georgft. F. McCuIlough, of Muncie. There are eleven places of general Importance that are usually filled by Indiana men and it was the talk of the lobby at the DenIson last night that the following appointments had boon practically agreed upon: District Attorney A. W. WIshard, Indianapolis. United States Marshal S. E. Kerchevai. Rockport. Collector of Customs A. A. Young. Indianapolis. Collector of Internal Revenue for the Eastern District-A. E. Nowlin, Lawrenceburg. Who is to bo the collector for the Western district, who Is to bo pension agent, deputy district attorney, bank examiner or member of the Mississippi river cxmmUion were questions the gossips had not yt made up their minds about. The newsy part of tho "slate" thus set forth was In tho fact that Mr. Wishard had determined to usk for the appointment as district attorney. His relations with Mr. Fairbanks' campaign lor the Senate were such that it was conceded upon all sides that he could have It if ho should ask for it. but the numeroutt aspirants hud hoped that he would set his eye upon some other post.- He did not make, up his mind to become an ap-dicant until n'ght before last and apprised Mr. Fairbanks of the fact only yesterday. Senator Sluvely's friends thought lie was very near it. since the withdrawal of Senator lt Follotte, and J. B. Kealinsr. of this city, had been a very hopeful aspirant. Experienced politician have regarded the other three recommendations mentioned as piJictloally settled for several months, though there have betrn hosts of applicants for the plaoe-s, particularly that of marsnal, which has seemed peculiarly attractive to all tho sheriffs and ex-sheriffs of the State. Mr. Kerchevai waa one of the nost influential members in the state committt'o; In fact, his vote was the determining factor In the reorganization of tho committee In January. Mr. Yuuhr was chairman of the Marlon county committed during the campaign nnd had the. almost solid support of the Republicans who are active in the politics of the county. Mr. Nowlln was a member of the state committee for two terms, nnd w;w the controlling facter in the contest In his district in tbq reorganization of tho committee. He l now auditor of Dearborn county and was a delegate to St. Louis. Poor Rill, Don't Aet Mll, And ir You Feel Too rhllly Open a bottle of "Columbia" beer, nnd you'll warm up anil forget that there is a young north pole in our close proximity. No better or more wholesome malt brew in the city. Bottlod nnd browevi by the Home Brewing Company; telephone 10M. Insure with German Fire Insurance of Indiana. General offices. 29 South Delaware street. Fire, tornado and explosion. For forty years Cook'w Imperial Extra Dry Champagne has stood the test for purity and its delicious bouquet. Feed your horse JANES 8 Dustless Oatau McGilliard Acrency Co. Fire Insurance. Insure your home In the Glens Fallt. Kimball TUnci. Carlln tic Lennox, SI Last Market Hreet. Minute Repeaters, Split Seconds, Chronographs, Fine Watches, All Grades, All Makes, AH Prices. Conic and sec our line. Julius C. Wall, u Son, IXDIAX.VS LEADING JEWELERS. a (52.65 How does this strike you? For J2. we will f end for ono jer.r io any address (or all different) a ropy of" The Puritan." "MoClure's" ami "Munsry'd." t'omrnince any number; sent anywiie re. Order must be received not later than Jan. M, 1K7. 8end pottal note or t-tuinpj. No local checks. CATHCART, CLE LAND & CO., ROOICS15L XICIV, 6 Cast Vtaihiaztoa Mre:L InJIanapollt SCHOOL SUPPLIES ! " THE ALUSON-ENOS CO., 92 North Meridian Street, INMAN'APOLIS. IN'D. L , , .... . J W. ft Messenger, Furnitare and Carpets, 101 E. Washington St. CHAFlMi U1SHMS And HAKIMi DISHES FIVE O'CLOCK TKAS IS'cw Goods and Lovr Prices LILLY & STALMER, 6i Eist Wast. St. The Sanday Journal, by ilill, $1 a Tear