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frrent alterations in the temperature—hot days and cool nights—work a great hardship on the sick. There have been all told 168 cases and 6 deaths here and eight cases In the country adjacent. Havana's Sanitary Condition. WASHINGTON*, Sept. 27.—Sanitary Inspector Brunner, in his last report to the Marine Hospital Service concerning the health situation in Havana, says: “The sanitary condition of the city is at its worst. There is absolutely no effort made to perform any sanitary work, there being evidently no money availabie for such work. Therefore, with the people unable to secureproper and suflieient food, and living surrounded by the worst sanitary conditions, the city ot Havana is ripe for all epiuemic diseases and the existing conditions are getting worse every day.” Dr. Brunner reports a decrease in the number of yellow fever patients at Havana, which he says is due to the fact that the sick soldiers are no longer brought to the city. Biloxi in Bad Condition. BILOXI, Miss., Sept. 27.—The yellow fever situation here to-day does not seem to be improved. There were quite a number of new cases reported and one death—that of David Chinn —and the epidemic seems to be spreading very rapidly. One of the cases reported to-day is that of T. P. Gill, a prominent business man. The Board of Health report: Total fever cases to dale, 114; now under treatment, 65; new cases, 17; total deaths to date, 5. Jackson Wants No Mails. JACKSON, Miss., Sept. 27.—City Health Officer Todd has requested Postmaster Porter, of this city, to stop entirely the receipt of United States mail from all infected points, even though it be fumigated. Postmaster Porter has wired the superintendent of the Railway Mail Sendee at Atlanta for instructions. TEXAS EDITOR’S SUIT. Wants Pay for Booming Levi P. Morton in the Search Light. NEW YORK, Sept. 27.—An echo of Levi P. Morton’s boom for the Republican presidential nomination was heard in the Supreme Court to-day when a lawyer in the case of Patterson vs. Hackett made application for the plaintiff for the appointment of a commission to take testimony in Austin, Tex., and in Travis county, in the same State, from the following named persons: W. P. Mabsen, W. S. Teague and M. Williams. William P. Mabsen was the original plaintiff in the cane and for some legal technical reason assigned his claim to Stephen G. Patterson, of this city. The real defendant is the Republican state committee, although the chairman, Charles W. Hackett, is named specifically. Mabsen is the owner of a paper in Texas known as the Search Light, which has some circulation among the colored people there. Mabsen alleges that he entered Into an oral agreement with the defendant to boom the then Governor Morton in his presidential aspirations. The exact amount sued for is $396, which is the sum total asked for the publication of various editorial articles; also, a portrait laudatory of the presidential aspirant inserted during a periou of several months. Mabsen alleges that during the months of February, March, April and May, I9G, he did "yeoman service” for the cause for which he had an oral agreement to boom, including several editorials written and published in the Search Light. It is not known whether Mabsen succeeded in so influencing his colored brethren as to cause a Morton delegation to he sent to St. Louis. Justice Lawrence reserved his decision. Movements of Steamers. BREMEN, Sept 27.—Arrived: Spree, from New York, via Plymouth, etc.; Koenigen Luise, from New York, via Southampton. NEW YORK, Sept. 27.—Arrived; Tauric, from Liverpool; Aller, from Bremen; Spaarndam, from Rotterdam; Mobile, from Mobile. QUEENSTOWN. Sept. 27.—Arrived; Gallia, from Boston, for Liverpool. CHERBOURG, Sept. 27.—Arrived: Spree, from New York, for Bremen. GIBRALTAR, Sept. 27.—Arrived: Werra, from New York, for Genoa. NAPLES. Sept. 27.—Arrived: Marsellia, from New York. GIaASGOW, Sept. 27.—Arrived: Sardinian, from Montreal. LIVERPOOL, Sept. 27.—Sailed: Cuflc, for New York. —— Reasons for a Storm. Chicago Post. Our compliments to Prof. Wiggins, and we beg to assure him that he mckes the reason for the predicted hurricane of Sept. 2S very clear to us. Shortly before that time, he informs us, Luna. Jupiter, Mercury and Mars will be in conjunction, and it doesn’t take an. astronomer to tell that trouble will follow. When a quiet, modest little woman like Luna, who is also something of a flirt, gets her dates so mixed that she undertakes to meet a bright young fellow like Metcury and two such haughty and irascible men as Jupiter and Mars at the same time and place a storm is sure to follow. Consequently, we are satisfied that Mr. Wiggins's prediction is all right, and we shall be glad if he will speak to the referee about awarding us the kinetoscope privilege. New Transportation Line. SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 27.—A rival to the North American Transportation and Trading Company in Alaskan steamship business has appeared, it is the Alaskan Transportation and Development Company of Chicago, capitalized at $5,000,000. Senator Mason, of Illinois, and Albert Blatz. the Milwaukee brewer, are among the prominent Western men Identified with the company. A fleet of six modern steel steam ships will bo operated between Seattle and St. Michael s, giving at leu.-t a weekly service. Six light draught steamers will l< operated on the Yukon from St. Michael's to Dawson City. Two of the ocean Steamships are of 2.500 tons register and carry eight hundred passengers each. Two others are of 1,500 tons, and the remaining two of 1,000. Prow Cotton to Silk. Philadelphia Record. The Dry Goods Economist Judges from experiments now In progress that a serious effort is being made in various quarters in New England to turn a considerable part of the machinery now employed on cotton to the making of Mlk. Such a change would seem to he the dictate of economii laws, the Southern mills being able to compete sharply in the manufacture of cotton goods, while New England skill and capital might hope to find profitable employment in the finer textile industries. The innovation will not be made without larg expense, but it will come gradually, if at all. Given the assurance of profitable return. the mechanical cost should not be a retarding consideration. Return of n Scientific Expedition. PRINCETON. N. J.. Sept. 27.—The expedition to Patagonia, which started in February. U 96. under the direction of Prof. W. B Scott, of Princeton University, recently returned to this place. A large tract of new country was traversed and many discov ries of scientific va,ue Were mail*. AUer spending a year on the mainland the ex pedltlon proceeded to Terra del Fuego nnd udjoining islands, where important collections were made, especially of the plants in the archipelago* A large collection of specimens has been brought back, including a complete series of mosses, some eight hundred skins and skeletons of various animals, eight tons of fossils, including more than one thousand skulls and many complete skeletons. Charged with Forgery. BINGHAMTON. N. Y., Sept. 27.-A. J. Deveireaux. a well-known business man of this city, was arrested to-day in Richmond, Va., for alleged forgery. Devereaux is a member of the firm of A. J. Devereaux A Cos., sales agent for church and school furniture. and he acted as agent for the Grand Rapids Furniture Company, of Grand Rapids. Mich.. traveling extensively throughout southern New York and Pennsylvania. Women to Rc \ eterlnnry Surgeons. NEW YORK, Refit. 27.—For Uie first time In the history of the New Yo<*k College of Veterinary Surgeons, which began its regular classes at the college to day, its fortieth annual session, women have been taken into the classes. The women will attend the lectures with the m n nnd go through exactly the same tuition during the entire year. Royalty on Gold. DENISON, Tex., Sept. 27.—The Chickasaw Legislature, now in session at Tishomingo, I. TANARUS., has passed an act placing a royalty on all gold that is hereafter mined in the Chickasaw nation

MINISTER IN DISGRACE REV. GEORGE F. CAMPBELL EXPELLED BY THE METHODISTS. Charged with Gross Immorality by Ills Wife—Bank Wrecker Cudxvallader ou Trial. *■ □ ~r Special to the Indianapolis Journal. J EI'PERSON VILLE, Ind.. Sept. 27.—As anticipated here, the conference of the Southern Methodist Church, Louisville district, iu session at Henderson, ,Ky., after hearing the charges preferred against the Rev. George A. Campbell, pastor of Morton Chapel Church, of this city, recommended that he be expelled from the church and the ministry. The bishop decided accordingly. The charges were of various acts of immorality of the most disgusting kind, preferred by Rev. Campbell’s wife. Rev. and Mrs. Campbell moved to this city a year ago from central Kentucky, and, under the leadership of Rev. Campbell, the membership increased, and on ail sides words of praise could be heard of his ability. After a few months, however, rumors began to be circulated to the effect that himself and wife did not live happily together, and at one time Mrs. Campbell left him, but he persuaded her to return. Four weeks ago, while he was preaching a funeral sermon, Mrs. Campbell packed her trunk and, with her two little children, went to the residence of Rev. Tinsley, pastor of the Wall-street Methodist Church, and asked for a refuge from her husband, whom she charged w r ith cruelly mistreating her. She at once filed suit for maintenance, as she had not lived here the two years required by the statute, before she could liie suit for divorce. Tnis proceeding will be heard at the present term of court. Charges were then preferred by Mrs. Campbell, a committee of ministers appointed by the presiding elder, held a preliminary investigation, and Rev. Campbell tvas taken before the conference for trial. Morton Chapel is one of the largest churches in the city; its congregation is larg'e and composed of the' most prominent people of the city, and the unhappy state of affairs existing in the pastor’s family ha,s produced the sensation of years. _ Mrs. Campbell has placed her two little children in the Orphans’ Home, as she is unable to support them. INDIANA OBITUARY. Elder A. 11. Morris Snecuinli* to a Stroke of Paralysis. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GKEENCASTLB, Ind., Sept. 27.—The remains of the late Elder A. H. Morris, whose death occurred at Brazil to-day, the result of a stroke of paralysis w’hile addressing woman’s missionary meeting last week, v/ero brought to this city this evening on a late train. The death, though exr peoted, casts a gloom over the city. Elder Morris was born in Oxford, 0., and was in his fifty-second year. He had been a resident of this city for over eight years, during which time he had held the pastorate of the Christian Church, in which he had been remarkably successful. Elder Morris was one of the leading ministers of his church in the State and was also well known in educational circles in Indiana. He had been in school work in Connersville, Liberty, Noblesville and other points. He was superintendent of the Hamilton county schools for a number of years, and was superintendent of the Sailors’ and Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home at Knightstown for five years. In his ministry in this city he was popular with the masses and induced a large number of people to join his church. He was a member of the G. A. R., the Masons and the Odd Fellows, which organizations will take part in the funeral exercises in this city Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Rkoda Spivey. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RUSHVILLE, Ind., Sept. 27.—Mrs. Rhoda Spivey, widow' of the late John Spivey and a woman quite well known in Rush and Fayette counties, was buried yesterday at Fayetteville. She was born in 1830 near Cincinnati, and while yet young came to Rush county with her parents, Daniel Long and wife. They located near Farmington. In 1850 she married John Spivey, who died eighteen years ago. Ad V. Spivey, Martin V. Spivey, Daniel Spivey, Mrs. William H. Mauzy and Mrs. J. Walter Wilson, of Rushviile; John T. Spivey, of Omaha, and J. R. Spivey, of Bluffton, are surviving children. ADVANCE STEF BY HICKSITES. Decide that Men and Women Shall Sit Together Hereafter. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Sept. 27.-The Ilicksite Friends began their business session this morning. There are still a few old-fashioned hats and coats among the members of the society. This meeting has taken a step in one thing in advance of the orthodox Quakers—that of doing away with separate meetings for the men and women and having one meeting. There are several visiting ministers attending. George R. Thorpe, of this city, was chosen clerk and Sarah E. Warner, of Selma, 0., assistant clerk. Epistles were read from the New York. Baltimore, Philadelphia, Gem sset 7 , uhio and Illinois Yearly Meetings, and a committee consisting of Davis t urn as, Anna M. Starr, Amse Darlington, Susan J. Heston, Martha A. Battain, Abbie M. Hirst, Margaret F. Shoemaker, Franklin Edmondson, Howard Swain, Ellis Good, Alice Winder, Eila Gib--on, Emily Chandlee, Lydia Hughes, Lewis f'homas, Elizabeth G. Packer and William W. Foulke appointed .o formulate replies. A consideration of the state of society was entered into and the first answer read to the queries productd much comment ar.d discussion. It was to tiie effect that but few of tile members are diligtnt and punctual in the attendance of meetings. A Robbing Gas Company. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Sept. 27.—There Is a war on the Noblesville Gas Company. For ten years the gas company of this city nas been drawing fat dividends on stock that has been watered several times over. During the last four years of hard times the stockholders have received 24 per cent, pur annum on their watered stock. The company has given splendid service and no serious accidents have happened during the nistory of the plant. For these reasons, and also on account of the company giving what was considered reasonable rates, no opposition has ever been made against this home company. But the fat dividends seem to have whetted their appetites for more, and tho company has now commenced a “squeezing game” on the people. The ordinance regulating rates protects gas consumers in residences, but everything that is not covered by the ordinance from a blacksmith shop to the eourtbouse, is now the victim of this greuuy monopoly. The company is now putting on meters in all the factories and mills supplied by it and all public buildings and intends to make them pay according to meter measurement. There is a vigorous “kick” against this sort of robbery, and the company will feel the just indignation.of nine-tenths of the people, e ruler me new arrangement it will cost four times as much for fuel as under the contracts ruling for several years past. Several lawsuits are expected unaer the ordinance to test the legality of the meter system. The County Commissioners will probably sink a gas well on the county fann tor the use of the poor farm and the courthouse. qhe School Board of this city has under consider ition the sinking of a well for its use. and other industries will probably organize a manufacturers’ gas company. The people are very much aroused over the matter and there is much talk of another gas plant for this city. It is a splendid held tor a competing company. Attempt to AA reek Vamlalia Train. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BRAZIL. Ind., Sept. 27.—A dastardly attempt to wreck the west-bound Vandalla mail w-as made last night near Harmony. Tho train was due here at 5:32 p. m. Desperadoes piled railroad ties across the track in a sharp curve east of Harmony near tho place where Engineer Barr was stoned to death during the big miners’ strike in 1894. The train was running at forty miles an hour when the curve w’as reached and the engine dashed through the obstruction before the engineer could reverse tho throttle. That the truin was not hurled down the steep incline is a wonder

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to the trainmen. Sheriff Hyde was immediately notified and detailed several deputies to investigate, but no clew has yet been discovered. The only thing near the spot to indicate that anyone had been about was a smoldering campfire in the woods near by. Many think it was the work of expert train robbers, as the place selected is said to be one of the most desolate and obscure spots on the Vandalia. It is surrounded by heavy timber and no inhabitants are near. If the work was done by robbers they evidently intended for the engineer to see the obstruction on the track and stop, allowing them an opportunity to “hold up” the train, which is principally composed of express and mail cars and usually carries valuable packages. The air brake on the engine was broken and was otherwise damaged. Officers ate diligently working to secure a clew' and it is said that detectives will be sent here by the Vandalia Company to aid the local officers. Banker Cadwnllnder on Trial. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WINCHESTER, Ind., Sept. 27.—The trial of Nathan Cadwallader, president of the late defunct C.iizens’ Bank of Union City, was called this morning with Special Judge W. D. Robinson, of Princeton, on the bench. The special charge on. which Cadw’allader is to be tried is that of receiving deposits after the bank was notoriously insolvent. The entire day has been spent in a futile effort to impanel a jury. A venire of twenty men and another of fifteen have been summoned. The defense this afternoon moved to continue the case on the ground that the jury commissioners in drawing the names for the special venire of twenty used only the names of those residing in the central and western part of the county and rejected those drawn who were known to reside in the eastern part of the county and near Union City, tne home of the defendant. The point raised was rather anew one among attorneys here. Judge Robinson, after due deliberation, overruled the motion and proceeded with the case. Judge W. A. Thompson, of Muncie, will assist the prosecution, w'hile the defendant’s counsel are Senator Shockney, of Union City, Hons. James S. Engle, John VV. .'.lacy, Enos E. Watson and Judge J. J. Cheney, ot this city. State Normal Opening;. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Sept. 27. The school year of the State Normal begins with an unprecedentedly large attendance, 488 being enrolled for the fall term, which indicates an attendance of GOO by Thanksgiving. The standard of admission has been raised. At the spring term last year there were 1,400, but President Parsons says next year not more than 1,000 will be accepted. He points out that there are now twice as many persons holding teacher's license in the State as there are schools. There will be no military instruction at the school this year. Prof. M. A. Howe, of the department of civil engineering at the Rose Polytechnic Institute, has received and declined an offer from the Imperial University of China to establish a department of engineering in that institution. He has also just received notice that his book on “Arches” has been adopted as a text-book in tne University of Ireland, at Dublin. Glass Company Offers to Arbitrate. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Sept. 27.—There is a feverish spirit of unrest in Anderson on the part of workmen, manufacturers and citizens relating to the outcome of the settlement of the wage scale and the resumption of the window-glass factories. There are about four hundred skilled operatives in Anderson waiting for the settlement to start the factories. Manager Forbes Holton, of the Union glass works, has signined his desire to start nis plant, one of the best in the Indiana gas belt, but on account of the division in the ranks of the men has not been able to do so. To-day Mr. Holton made a public proposition to President Burns, of L. A. 300, to submit to arbitration the position of the factory and he agrees to stand by the award of the arbitrators. He names the editors .of three daily papers of Anderson, togethofr with the State Board of Arbitration, as the arbitration commission. Tramps Torture a Farmer. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELKHART, Ind., Sept. 27.—Jonas Sw'anson, aged seventy years and living alone on his farm east of here, came to this city this morning and narrated an outrage that W’as perpetrated on him last Saturday night. Late at night four tramps appeared at his house and proceeded to effect an entrance by smashing in the door with a large stone. Tney gagged and bound the old man and succeeded in finding $25, tne proceeds of tne recent sale of a cow. They then turned up the flame of a lamp anu applied it to the soles of nis feet and along ins legs to compel him to tell where he had more. Failing in this, however, they left him lying on the Uoor bound and gagged, and he remained there until yesterday noon, when he was tound by a passing neighoor. The old man was brought here- this morning, where ho has a relative, Fred Ulesan.

A Call for Tar anil Feathers. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MONTPELIER, Ind., Sept. 27.—From 10:30 to 12 o’clock Saturday night considerable excitement prevailed here. The wife of William Reynolds found her husband in company with a woman named Bowman, and the two women had a tight, neither being much hurt. Later on Airs. Reynolds, her sister and the Bowman woman met ana another encounter took place. Reynolds was present and is said io have aimed a biow at his wife. A crowd had collected, and Reynolds’s conduct aroused its anger. There was talk of tar and feathers for Reynolds and the Bowman woman. The marsnai interposed and placed Reynolds In jail. Fearing runner violence, tne authorities procured a horse and buggy anu took Keynoius to Hartford City, where he was detained in jail until this morning, when he was released, there being no cnarge against mm. Charged with Stealing Two Deeds. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NOBLESVILLE, ind., Sept. 27.—Thomas Fond, a member of a well-known family living in rtie eastern part of this county, was arrested at his home, near Lapel, Saturday night, charged with grand larceny. He is charged by Mr. Manley, owner ot the Ford mills, with stealing two deeds, one for I,smj acres and the otner for rorty acres of land in Arouroe county. Manley anil Ford liad been making a trade for several days and were in Noolesvilie Saturday to close the deal. ’I he abstract not being ready, the deal was put off for a day or two. Ford is charged with getting hold of the deeds from Atanley and tiun denying tne fact and refusing to deliver them, r-oiu gave bond ar.d the trial is set for Wednesday. Eight years ago Ford was sent to the penitentiary for Hiring a young man to burn the La pet grist mill. AY reels of n Fast Fort Wayne Train. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ruti'l' WAYNE, ind.. Sept. 27.—A freight train wreck on tho Pennsylvania occurreu at Kosciusko, west of here, at lit o’clock this morning, caused by tlie train breaking apart and tho rear portion leaving the track. Thirty cars were derailed and badly wrecked. They were loaded with iron girders for bridges and other heavy freight, that is not damaged by the wreck. The track was blocked until 8 o’clock this evening, and passenger trains were sent via tne Big P our, Wabash and Nickel-plate roads. The tram was one ot the test trains nowbeing sent over tlie lines to test tne capacity ot the new Heavy locomotives now being built, and it is said tins was the heaviest train ever pulled out of Fort Wayne for Chicago. AA an Ready for tlxe Mob. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. iviuivo.uo, ind., Sept. 27.—Prompt and vigorous preparations were made by Sheriff Sumption, of this place, to resist the mob that threatened to lynch Noah Johnson, the Grant county murderer. From the armory of Company L, Second Regiment, State Alintia, the sneriff procured a dozen rules and sixty rounds oi cartridges, and placed them in the jail. He also gave orders to arm the prisoners in case oi attack. Extra guards were also stationed in ami around tne jail. Saturday and Sunday tne air was lull of rumors that the mob was headed this way, but itie lurmers have evidently given up the job. as no dangerous demonstration has been heard of to-day. Died After His Father’s Funeral. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Sept. 27. -Walter B. Bohannon died at Bowling Green Saturday within a few hours after attending his father’s funeral. The father, James It. Bohannon, a merchant of this city, died suddenly Thursday from heaxt disease, and the body was taken to Bowling Green for interment After leaving the cemetery the mourners went to the house of a relative. As they were entering the door Waiter

Fohapnon fell unconscious. He died two hours later. Death for a Young; Lover. Special to the Inu ianapolis Journal. ORLEANS, Ind., Sept. 27—William Wilfong. seventeen years old, was found dead by the Monon Railroad, near Turner’s Station, six miles east of this place, this morning. The coroner is now investigating the case, which seems to be a mystery. His body bears no evidence of being struck by a train. Rumors are afloat that bullet-holes have been found in his body, w'hich would point to murder. Young Wilfong had attend! and church last night with his sweetheart and met his death after leaving her for his home. Ex-Treasurer Hutton's Shortage. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CRAWFOEDSVILLE, Ir.d., Sept. 27.—Experts Fosdyke and La Rue to-day submitted to the Board of Commissioners their report on the investigation of the books of ex-Treasurer John C. Hutton. They show’ that Hutton’s shortage is $9,479.11. This does not include interest, neither does it take into account the premium that he received on the sale of upward of sloo,ooo in county bonds, except on one issue of SII,OOO. Suit lias been ordered on his bond. The case w ill come up during the present term of the Montgomery Circuit Court. Millionaire Stratton's Heart Relents. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind.. Sept. 27.—Mrs. Elizabeth Hamlin, of this city, to-day received a check for SIO,OOO from her brother, Winfield Stratton, the millionaire mining king of Cripple Creek, Col. Stratton was born and raised in this county, and after becoming rich refused to have anything to do with his sister on account of a misunderstanding which they had years ago. A few weeks ago he sent to each of her two sons, Earl and Harry, checks for $5,000 each.

Changes in Fan handle Agents. G. W. Patrick, w’ho has been ticket and freight agent for the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railw'ay Company at Scottsburg since April, 1893, is to be transferred to Rushville, vice R. G. Baughn transferred to Shelbyville. Ira G. Parker, who has held the agency at Crothersville for the past ten or more years, is to be transferred to Scottsburg. Harry H. Dowd, for years agent at Vernon, gets the Crothersville agency, and C. E. Matthews, of Madison, takes the agency at Vernon. Other Deaths in the State. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SCOTTSBURG, Ind., Sept. 27.—William H. Gobin, a prominent farmer, died this morning at his home, in Johnson township, from paralysis, aged seventy-seven years. He was the father of County Sheriff James Gobin. Lulu Dismore, residlm 1 - with her parents east of this place, died Sunday of typhoid fever, aged nineteen. Indianapolis Colored Boys Tried. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FRANKLIN, Ind., Sept. 27.—Henry McIlraine and Will Jones, colored, of Indianapolis, have been found guilty of petit larceny, their theft hating been committed during the fair. Herbert Morton, their companion, was tried by the court to-day and his case taken under advisement. He is from Indianapolis, and his father is a preacher. Child Burned in a Bara. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ROCKVILLE, Ind., Sept. 27.—Mary Timberman, aged five, tv as burned to death at Bridgeton yesterday.i She and several other girls were playing in a hay loft of her father’s barn, and set fire to the hay. Both her legs were burned off at the knees. Two horses were also burned. The other girls escaped. News of the Young Theologue. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. EVANSVILLE, Ind., Sept. 27.—Edwin Carter, the young theological student who has been reported missing for ten days, this afternoon telegraphed his mother from Alexandria, Va., that he had arrived at his destination. He gave no explanation, saying a letter was on the way here. Friends Lave been searching for him for several days. Blooded Horne* Burned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Sept. 27.—The barn of Charles Palin, near Wingate, was burned last night by an incendiary. He lost all his grain, hay, wagon, Implements and five bloodfd horpes. .One was Major Elston, for which he refused SI,OX! last week, and another was Peggy M., who broke the track record last W'eek at Cayuga, Suicide' of Prof. Burnliam. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CROWN POINT, Ind., Sept. 27.—While crazed by typhoid fever, Professor Harry Burnham, a Chicago ‘ teacher, committed suicide at Lowell this morning. After his watchers left his bedside he placed a pistol in his mouth and blew out his brains. He was considered one of Chicago’s best instructors. Christian Church Dedicated. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WEST LEBANON, Ind., Sept. 27.—Yesterday, at Alvan, a town twelve miles from here, was dedicated anew Christian church, by Rev. L. L. Carpenter, of Wabash. There was an indebtedness of about $9-0, and Air. Carpenter raised nearly $1,2t0. A Lost Carrier Pigeon. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. DANVILLE, Ind., Sept. 27.—A carrier pigeon became lost here to-day, and, alighting on the roof of the Republican office, was captured. It has a brass band on each itg. One is stamped K 32903. One wink' is stamped 32953. Indiana Notes. At a meeting of the members of the Seymour First Presbyterian Church Sunuay a call was extended to Rev. J. T. Charlton, of Louisville, Ivy., to become pastor of the Seymour church. Rev. Charlton has been tilling the pulpit for a short time. Typhoid fever has a strong hold In Rush county. There have been tnree deaths in as many days, with the strong probability of a larger mortality if the present drought continues. The fever was first noticed in epiuemic form at the county Orphans’ heme. District Commander E. H. Neal, of Jonesboro, has announced that the next meeting of the distiict Knights of Pythias will take place at Peru. Tr.e date will be announced later. The Seventh district is composed of the counties of Miami, HowaHi, Wabash and Gram. CAPfUhEDbY BANDITS. Two Americans Supposed to Be Held fox* Ransom in Switzerland. TOLEDO, 0., Sept. 27.—Harry Tollerton, aged twenty years, son of Attorney B. W. Tollerton, and Professor Daniel J. Holmes, of Meadville (Pa.) College, nave been traveling in southern Europe since June, out now no one knows where they are and circumstances indicate that both are held by Swiss banditti who are demanding a ransom for their release. They were last heard from on the Bth of September at Martigui, Switzerland. A few days previous to ttiat time they had received sufficient funds through Geneva to provide them with money for the rest of their trip to Berlin, where both were to enter the university on the 22d of this month. Mr. Tollerton received a cablegram from Professor Holmes, dated Lucerne, requesting an immediate remittance of SI,OOO by cable to Cologne. He cabled to the United Sta es consul at Lucerne for information as to the whereabouts of the young men. and what, if any, trouble had befallen them, and also cabled to Holmes for particulars. The reply from the consul was indefinite and unsatisfactory and that purporting to be from Professor Holmes was even more so. A second demand for SI,OOO was made on the 23d of this month, asking that the money be cabled to Lucerne. Last Saturday a third demand w’as made for an immediate cable of SSOO to Lucerne and the remaining SSOO by mail. To-day a message was received from Assistant Secretary Day at Washington to tho effect that the minister at Berne and the consul at Horgen had been cabled to make a searching investigation. Illinois Town Burning:. GALESBURG. 111.. Sept. 27.—Williamsheld, a town of five hundred inhabitants, twenty miles west of here, on the Santa Fe road, is threatened with destruction by a fire which started this evening in the general store of Zenor Ryan and spread rapidly to adjoining buildings. A special tram bearing tiro engines, doctor*, and helpers left hero at ID o'clock.

DEATH OF H. H. CULVER XOTED PHILANTHROPIST, WELL KNOWN TO MANY INDIAN lANS. Fonndep of Cnlvor Military Academy at Lake Masinkuekee—Ex-Seopetary of Navy Robeson Dead. ST. LOUIS. Sept. 27.—Henry H. Culver, of this city, founder of the Culver Military Academy at Culver, Ind., and a wellknown manufacturer, died at his home here, No. 3501 Morgan street, at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The deceased had been unwell for nearly six months, and his disease baffled the skill of prominent physicians of this city, Chicago and Indianapolis. Early in the summer he was taken to Lake Maxinkuckee,’ near Culver, in the hope that the cooler atmosphere would prove beneficial. The change, however, did not inure to the benefit of his health, and he continued to grow' worse. A few weeks ago he was very low, and his entire family was called to his bedside. Subsequently he rallied in some measure, and on Saturday, Sept. 18, he was brought to St. Louis and taken to his home. Mr. Culver was a successful business man, a practical philanthropist and had an eventful life. He was born near New London, 0., in IS4O. He received a common school education, and, on reaching maturity, he and his brothers, Messrs W. W. and L. L. Culver, came West to embark in business. They served for a time with the stove and hardware firm of McCreery & Cos., of Springfield, 111. Afterwards they engaged in the stove business at Mattoon, 111. A few years later they went to Kansas City, w here they engaged in the stove and range business. In IS<3 they removed their business to St. Louis and established the firm now known as the Wrought Iron Range Company, with which the deceased was connected till the time of his death. In 1564 Mr. Culver was united in marriage with Miss Emily J. Hand, of Plymouth, Ind., who suivives him. The family consists of five sons and one daughter, namely, Walter L. Culver, Henry H., jr., E. It.. E. R., Ida L. and K. K. Culver. Ail are grown, and the first-named three sons are married. L. L. and W. W. Culver, brothers of the deceased, reside in this city. In 1884 the deceased, with a view of helping young men to secure an education, founded and endowed an institution of learning at Culver Ind., known as the Curver Military Academy. It is on spacious grounds overlooking Lake Maxinkuckee, and large and substantial buildings have been erected. It is now the largest military academy in the United States, with the exception of West Point, having an enrollment of 233 students. The education of the youth was a pet hobby with Mr. Culver, and perhaps two score of young men who were unable to pay for a higher education have been educated gratuitously by the deceased in various prominent institutions. A few years ago, when the Brooklyn Tabernacle was destroyed, Dr. Talmage, knowing Mr. Culver’s generous qualities, telegraphed to him soliciting a donation o£ SIOO,OOO to help rebuild the church, and promising if it were given to have the name of the donor stamped on each brick in the building. Mr. Culver, however, preferred less ostentation and to use his money in advancing the interests of the school. The deceased was a thirty-second degree Mason, belonging to Tuscan Lodge. A. F. and A. M,, Ascalon Commandery, Knights Templars and a member of Moolah Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. In religion he was a Methodist, bolding his membership at Culver, Ind. The funeral will occur on Tuesday at 2 p. m. The remains will be placed in a temporary receiving vault at Bellefontaine Cemetery until arrangements can be made to inter them on the grounds of the institution in which he was so deeply interested at Lake Maxinkuckee.

George Maxwell Robeson. TRENTON. N. J., Sept. 27.—Ex-Secretary of the Navy George M. Robeson died to-day at his home, in this city. He had beon in failing health for several months. George Maxwell Robeson was born in Warren county, New Jersey, in 1827. He graduated at Princeton in 1847, studied lawand was admitted to the bar in 1850. He took an active part in organizing the New Jersey troops at the beginning of the civil war and was appointed a brigadier general by the Governor. In 1567 became attorney general of New Jersey, but he resigned on receiving the appointment of secretary of the navy in the Cabinet of President Grant, on June 25, 1869. He held this office till March, 1877, and was subsequently a member of Congress from March 18, 1879, till March 3, 1883. >laj. Lewis Glnter Dying. RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 27.—Major Lewis Ginter, the millionaire cigarette manufacturer, lies desperately ill at his country home near this city. There is no hope of his recovery. The report this evening, however, is that no alarming change has taken place in his condition to-day. BOUGHT HIMSELF TWICE. Strange History ol' a Slave Revealed in a Law Coart. Boston Journal, The will of Nathan Springfield, now* on trial in the Supreme Court, brings to light incidents in a career that was remarkable. Nathan Springfield was born in Virginia, in 1812, a slave. On Dec. 16, 1896. when nearly eighty-five years of age. he died, leaving property valued at between sGu,tv<i and $43,009. In his youth Nathan acquired the trade of a blacksmith. He was owneu by a Methodist minister. After attaining his majority Nathan bargained with his master to buy his own freedum fur ss.o. The p.edge was given, and the youth went to work with a will. The young slave accumulated the sum and gave it to his master as a ransom for his freedom. Tire clergyman took the money but failed to keep bis agreement. Nathan remained a slave. Later his master sold him to a wealthy planter. Still nourishing a, desire to be liberated. Nathan made a bargain with his second master, this time offering S4OO as a ransom. Consent was given, and tho young man. after much labor, procured the money. But he was again destined to disappointment. The second master also kept both money and slave. Exasperated by this treatment. Nathan discarded arbitration and resolved to gain his freedom by flight. At the age of thirtvfive an opportunity was affordt and, and he made his escape, coming to Boston, lie left a w ife behind him, but the wife of the second master, knowing of the previous negotiations, induced her husband to release the lonely wife, who soon after rejoined her husband in Boston. Nathan worked at blacksmithing In and about Boston for a time, and later started peddling straw. He was industrious and saving, his business grew rapidly and within a comparatively short time he was the proprietor of a large and profitable hay, grain, straw and coal business. At his death last December he owned real estate in the West End, Cambridge and other places, and had large deposits in various Boston banks. Mr. Springfield was an active church member, being one of the founders of the Twelfth Baptist Church, and he took a lively interest in everything that pertained to the advancement and uplifting of his race. He was tw’ice married. His first wife died while he was a slave in Virginia, and there he married the second, who Joined him in this city. He had twelve children by his second wife, all save two of whom died when quite young. Theophilus Springfield, the only surviving child, is now forty years of age. He is married, but is under guardianship as an insane person. The second child, a daugnter, married Thomas Seman, but she died before her father’s death. She had two children, one of whom died before its grandfather, but Frederick, the second grandchild, is living, and is now a young man about twenty-three years of age. Thus the only two heirs are Theophilus Springfield and Frederick S' man. the grandson, who, with others, had entered protest against the third codicil of the will, upon which the action of the present case hangs. The will as originally drawn bears the date of Sept. 12. 1894. made ny Nathan Springfield when he was about eighty three years of age. Ho bequeathed a lumber of legacies to personal friends and to institutions and provided for those nearest in kin. There is a provision in the will winch states that upon the death of the son and grandson tho residue mail be di ided among their children, two-thirds to go to the son’s children and or:?-th;rd to the children of the grandson. Should neither have offspring the property shall be divided equally between the Twelfth Baptist Church and the Home for Aged Colored Women, both of which in>tltaion received legacies. It is upon the third codicil that the hitch comes. This was made July 17. 1396.

This codicil reduces the bequests to the Twelfth Baptist Church and the Home for Aged Colored Women from SSOO to S3OO. and it makes other radical changes that the heirs object to. The codicil specifies that s6txi be given annually to the children of his son and S3OO annually to the offspring of his grandson, Frederick Seman. This must cease, however, when the children attain their majority. The codicil goes on to state that the residue should then be divided equally betw r een the Twelfth Baptist Church and the Home for Aged Colored \Vomen, but the properly shall be handled by a board of trustees, so that it may be managed outside of the institutions involved. The case is still on trial. LOCOMOTIVE _EXPLOSION. Engineer Killed, Fireman Badly Injured and Passenger* Shaken Up. HARRISBURG, Pa.. Sept. 27.—Engineer Bennett Mitchell was killed and Fireman John R. Crawley seriously Injured this morning by the explosion of a locomotive on the Northern Central Railway at Georgetown. a few miles north of Harrisburg. The victims were both residents of Harrisburg and had been in the passenger service of the company many years. Mitchell was thrown up the side of a mountain a distance of sixty feet and was dead when found. Fireman Crawley was hurled in an opposite direction almost to the edge of tho Susquehanna river. He was so badly scalded that it is thought he will die. The wrecked locomotive came out of the shops Saturday after an overhauling and the railroad officials cannot account for the explosion. The boiler was blown 150 feet and alighted on a mountain side which rises at an angle of sixty degrees from tho track. The trucks were thrown into the river and the tender along the bank. AH the cars except the rear Pullman sleeper were derailed. None of the passengers was injured, although several were badly shaken up. The explosion occurred opposite a watch box, winch was reduced to kindling wood and the watchman badly hurt. The wires and tracks tor a ulstance of 150 yards were badly torn up and telegraph communication and travel w'ere suspended for several hours. Twenty-Seven turn Wrecked, HUNTINGDON, Pa., Sept. 27.—A rearend collision of east-bound freight trains on tho Pennsylvania Railroad, five miles west of here, this evening, caused? the destruction of twenty-seven cars and a large quantity of general merchandise. The four tracks were torn up for a considerable distance, and traffic on the middle division was temporarily suspended. The westbound express and passenger trains are lying here awaiting clear tracks. Many of the cars were telescoped, wmie others, with their contents, were thrown down the embankment Into tho Juniata river. The train crews escaped injury. BRAVE MEN OF BUENA VISTA. Their Burial Grouud I* Shamefully Neglected, Saltillo Letter in St. Ixmis Globe-Democrat. The hardy young Americans who left their comfortable homes in the United Slates more than haxf a century ago and came to Mexico with General Taylor to fight against the people of this country probably did not think that should they fall in battle their bones would be left to crucible to dust in an unmarked spot fix this distant land. But to-day the dead heroes of the Buena Vista battlefield, where six thousand American volunteers under General Zach Tayior whipped twenty thousand Mexicans under Santa Ana after a desperate and bloody battle, lie under but a few feet of earth in a neglected place just outside this city. At the time of their hasty burial their devoted comrades evidently sought to make the spot somew hat sacred by constructing an adobe wall around it. This wall is fast succumbing to the ravages of time, and In places it is completely gone. I visited the burial ground of the dead heroes to-day. A tramcar took me as far as the pretty San Francisco Plaza and from there 1 walked through a dirty, narrow street until I came to an arroyo. on the other side of which the faint marks indicating the cemetery may be seen. Had I not received careful directions 1 would have passed the place unnoticed. On the side toward the city the wall is entirely gone for the most part, and a much traveled w agon road passes through the place and over the sacred dead. The place w'hich had once been inclosed by the adobe wall embraces probably tw*o acres, but investigation shows that many were buried west of the wall and up close to the arroyo. Some time ago the report wras published in the press of the United States that the bones of the buried soldiers were protruding from the ground, and that the place presented a sickening spectacles This report was not strictly true, but it is undoubtedly a fact that parts of many of the skeletons have come to the surface. The ground is strewn with fragments of bones, and it is evident that they come from the men who were buried there. None of these bones is large, as the heavy traffic through the place has broken them up into small pieces. If any 6kulls came to the surface they were no doubt quickly taken by the Mexican children who were about and made innocent playthings or. Had they ever appeared they certainly would pot have remained intact on the surface long. In the arroyo, through which floods of water pass at times and wash one side of the burial ground, there are also many pieces of bones among the rocks, and among them I saw an unbroken rib bone which looked like that of a human. There is not a spear of grass nor a sign of vegetable life within the inclosure. It is perfectly barren. The plane should certainly receive attention at the hands of the United States Congress, even if nothing more is done than to take such steps as will stay the ravages of time and weather on the treacherous soil and permit the bodies lying there to rest undisturbed. It could easily be made an attractive and ev*m beautiful place by laying it out in walks and planting trees and plants. The ravages of the floods in tho arroyo on the soil of the cemetery could be ( hooked by the building of a si istpntial wall ; long that s de. jn rddition to the several hundred who were killed in battle all of the soldiers who died in the hospital here were also hurled there.

HAWAII’S I K.I’F.R COLONY. Father Damien’* Great Work Now Carried on by Hi* Brother. Bishop E. R. Hendrix, D. D.. LL. D., In the Independent. Molokai, as is well known, is the name for the leper colony of Hawaii. The lepers do not occupy all the island, but only a grassy plain, ten miles in length, and varying from one to two miles in width on the north side of the island, and yet separated wholly from the rest of the island and its population by a precipice fully a thousand feet high, which can be scaled at only one point, and here it is securely guarded. Despite their freedom from taxation and rents, their ample supplies of food and clothing, their abundant herds of cattle and horses, and their fertile fields, which require so little labor, the lepers are virtually life prisoners, shut In by the ocean on one side and by the impassable mountain on the other. Most of the lepers are natives, but foreigners are found among the colonists, and all W'ho once come, to this part of Molokai, save to bring supplies or to inspect, as the Board of Health twice each year, do so with the expectation of never returning. Among the victims of leprosy are persons of excellent families, whose friends build cottages for them on Molokai and see that they lack nothing for their comfort. It is stated that the first person to be removed to the leper island was a lawyer who had been active in securing the regulation which required the removal of lepers in order to prevent the spread of the disease. No sooner did tha unmistakable evidence of the dread disease first appear than ho insisted on setting the example of patriotism in voluntarily surrendering himself to be removed to Molokai, although some y. ars might have passed before his condition would have been known to the public. The death of Father Damien, the Belgian priest, who died on Molokai a few years ago, attracted the attention of the Christian world to the religious needs of the lepers. Joseph Damien went there a young priest of thirty-three years of age and labored among the unfortunate exiles for some twenty years. After sixteen years leprosy appeared. and he suffered loss of smell, then of touch and of sight, until finally, after losing fingers and toes, tuberculosis attacked his lungs and throat, and then came his herioe death. Nor did he have to wait long for u successor. His brother, Pamphiie Damien, accompanied by four priests and as many nuns, has gone to take up hia work. IBs comrade. Brother Joseph Dutton, has been on Molokai for sixteen years. Th* reports of tho propaganda show that priest* and lay brothers and nuns have long ministered there in the hospitals and schools devoted to the lepers and their children. Nor is the work being done among tho lepers on Molokai limited to the labors of those praiseworthy priests and their associates. After the noble work which hua been done on each <>f the other islands by the American board, one is prepared to learn of a Congregational Church, with Its faithful pa-tor, on Molokai. H*re. also, sire to be found a Young Men’s Christian Association, a Sunday school, a Bible class, a singing school, a gymnasium and a reading room. One who has observed the .Hawaiian love of sweet melodies is glad to know, alao, of n band of sixteen leper musician* m Molokai.

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Loss, sli,6ao; Insurance, $2,800. Garmr’s cigar factory and six other buildings were destroyed. The Second Baptist Church, of Richmond, Va., has extendid a unanimous call to tn Rev. Carter Helm Jones, L\ D., of Louisville, Ky., to become its pastor. It is believed that tho call be accepted. Edward S. Stokes will relinquish *ho management of the Hoffman House, New York, his stock having been purchased by Graham Polly. John Caddiughain will be manager. Mr. Stokes is going abroau. Operations were resumed yesterday at the Hollidayshurg (Pa.) Iron and nail works after a long period of idleness. The Eleanor iron works, which have been shut down for improvements and repairs, will start Oct. 1. Senator and Mrs. Hanna celebrated the thirty-third anniversary of their wedding at Cleveland. 0., last night. The guests of honor were Dr. G. C. E. Weber, recently appointed consul at Nuremberg, Germany, and his wife. Ex-Secretary Lane, of the Savings, Building and Loan Association of B* lletuotaine, 0., was arrested yesterday and put under $1,600 bonds on a charge of embezzlement. Dwight Harrison, deputy inspector for building and loans, has found that Lane was short $10,675 in his accounts. A destructive timber fire has been raging in the Big Horn couniry. u. W. Green, special agent of the Interior Departm tu, who has charge of public timber, reports fifty-four square miles in the heaviest timber destroyed. The estimated loss is ow:* $500,000. The fire was finally extinguished by a snowstorm. Governor Ellerbee, of Columbia, S. C., issued yesterday a proclamation declaring that from Sept. 30 all positions of state constables will be vacated. At the same time the Metropolitan police commissioners, of which the Governor is chairman, issued a nroclamation removing the Metropolitan police from Charleston. “Baron” C. M. Fegenbush. who was taken to Denver from New York city several months ago for trial on a charge of having committed a forgery in order to rulao money on a mortgage on property in Denver owned by Dr. Lemon, of Alton, HI., was discharged yesterday. Dr. Lemon failed to appear to testify against him. At Cincinnati yesterday United State* Circuit Judge Taft rn >.de an order authorizing the lease by the Illinois Car and Equipment Company of the numerous plants controlled by the United Stntes Car Company in dinerent parts of the country. Tha United States Car Company is in the hands of Receivers VV. C. Lane and Fiavel McGee. Frank and Thomas Jones, brothers, and J..J. Smith, a half-breed Indian, are in jail at Billings. Mont., and have been positively identified by the cushkr of the Butte County Baxtk at Belle Fourche. S. D., as members of the gang that robbed the bank June 18. getting several thousand dollars and severely wounding some of the bank peop'ty. Live-Stock Sunltury inspector*. FORT WORTH, Tex., Sept. 27.—The convention of the live stock sanitary inspector* qpqvened here to-duy. Representative* Were present from Illinois. Indiana* Colorado, Indian Territory. Oklahoma and Texas. The Bureau of Animal Industry was represented by Dr. Norgatird and Col. Albert Dean, inspector at Mt. Louis. Th* first day’s session was principally devoted to the discussion of the dipping experiments recently conducted here by Dr. Norgaard, with a view to discovering some niTxtur* which will kill the tick which Is the germ of Texas or splenetic fever. so-morrow the convention will get down to business. “A Victim oC Circumstance*." CHICAGO. Sept. S7.—Frunk E. Nye. former Buperlntendent of tho city water offiu*. was arrested to-day charged with ombemzlement. It is claimed ihnt Nyw entered Into a conspiracy with other employe* to defraud the city, it Is asserted that cartaln lurgt> water bills were paid and that th* money was never entered on the books of the city ** having been received. Nye was reioaoct* o* bonds. 110 claims that it* t* Uu| victim *f circumstance*, and that Ue wEB k*i* trouble in moving hi* I*oloo*o4*