Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1897 — Page 1

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Flf weather. > 'T'HE WHEN BAND will play a dozen pieces on THE WHEN j 1 Balcony to-night. Programme* distributed in the store. .... j L\J I KNEE PANTS SUITS Reefer collars and double-breasted styles—stoutly made —handsome patterns. Splendid School Suits. Boys’ School Caps 25c Boys’ School Hose 25c Up-to-date Furnishings for Boys at 'l'lie Wtieo. We Offer for Immediate Delivery Desirable Novelties in Silks Printed “Roman Stripe” India Silks, Woven “Roman Stripe” Taffeta Silks, Printed “Novelty Plaid” Silks, Black Brocade, with Colored Stripe, Silks, Brocade, Satin-Ground “Duchesse” Silks (Samples Mailed if Requested.) murphyThibben & co. (EXCLUSIVELY WHOLESALE.) Ttie TISJLKPHONIS Will Save Delay, Labor and Inconvenience And Can Be Secured at Prices Lower than Ever Before Offered. No business house or residence is complete without it. The advantages cannot be overestimated. It saves you trouble and annoyance in a hundred ways. Every user can regulate his rates. The CENTRAL UNION TELEPHONE COMPANY, in keeping pace with the improvements made in the telephonic art, will soon practically discard its entire Telephone Exchange in this city and substitute therefor the MOST COMPLETE and MODERN TELEPHONE PLANT IN THE WORLD; one of the most valuable features of which will be the furnishing of most efficient telephone service to residences and small or moderate users at a very low cost. The minimum rater to be charged for the character of service referred to will be $25 PER ANNUM SIB.OO PER ANNUM $12.00 PER ANNUM .nd classification of service. According to location METALLIC CIRCUITS AND THE BEST “LONG DISTANCE” INSTRUMENTS will be used, and the quality of service for all patrons guaranteed to be as od as the best. The new facilities and service will be introduced with the opening of the new Exchange in the TELEPHONE BUILDING ON OHIO STREET, which v ill take place DECEMBER Ist, NEXT, or soon thereafter. Within the past week more than 200 orders have been received, and it is important that those desiring to contract should do so at once, as the earlier arrange, ments are made the sooner the service will be supplied. For further particulars as to rates, classification of sendee, etc., Call on the Manager personally, or by TELEPHONE No. 1, or any communication sent him by mail will receive prompt attention. Central Union Tc.ephone Company WALTER L. HILL, Manager.

..BIG -3t EXCURSIONS.. CINCINNATI AND RETURN 91.00 ROl\D TRIP 91.00. SUNBAY. OCT. 8. Train leaves Indianapolis 7:30 a. m., and leaves Cincinnati 7:00 p. m. TERRE HAUTE Ans RETURN—RACES 92.25 ROUND TRIP 92.25. Tickets sold Sept. 27 to Oct. 2; good returning till Oct. 3. HOMESEEKERS’ EXCURSIONS To the WEST nc4 SOUTH Oct. sth and 111th. One fare, plus |2, for round t rip H. M BRONSON, A. G. P. A. Cincinnati Trains c„ H. & D. R’y. leave Indianapolis: Arrive Cincinnati: “ 8:10 a. m. •* 7:80 a. m. “ 8:00 a.m. “ 11:20 a.m. ** *10:15 a. nv •• 2:25 p. m. “ 2:16 p. m- •• :00 p. m. 4:15 p. in. 7:40 p.m. 7:05 p. m. . •• 10:50 p. m. DAYTON TRAINS, C . H. & D. Ry. leave Indianapolis: Arlve Daytcn: ** 8:10 s, m. “ 7:la • m " “• ** *2:25 p. m.' - 2:16 p. m. - 6:SO p. m. - 1'- “• - 7 :S5 p. m. 7:05 p. m. “ 11-.00p.m. TOLEDO AND DETROIT TRAINS, C., H. & D. Rv. leave Arrive Arrive lAdianapolla: Toledo: Detroit: •10:15 a. m. *B.IO p m. *1:40 p. m. 7:06 p. m. 4:o# a. m. 9:15 m . •Except Sunday. Ticket Offices, Union Station and Ha. % West Wuldegton -treet. corner Meridian. The JPoptxiAr mOINOIN ROUTE ir t . h ? bM ' CHICAGOIicedTo' I H HOURS FOUR DAILY TRAINS Leave Indianapolis—7 :W a. m.. 11:60 a. m.. 8:25 p. m., 12:55 night. Trains Arrive Indianapolis— 3 30 a. in.. 7:15 a. So.. 2:25 p. m., 1:37 p. m. Local sleeper <n Indiana;) >lls ready at 8:30 p. m. Letr Chfago. returnir g. at 2:45 a. m. Can be talon anv time after 3;3u p. m Ticket otlices. 2 West Washington street. Union Station and Mns4,i-hu-**’tii-t venue I>p|.ot. GEO ,V HAV! FP D P A To Soollie and Ileal Anything, potter’s Witch Hazel Jelly 26-cent tut>es at druggists. Invalid Chairs Os all kinds and accessories tor the sick room. Trusses made and luoptriy adjusted. Store open every Saturday night. WM. H. AiIM.VIHOM; .V to.. (New No. 127) 77 B. Illinois St., Indianapolis !nd. Hard t out In Wyoming. CHEYENNE. V' yo., Oct. I.— Specimens of what is believed to 1- anthracite hav. been brought here from the newly discovered dept ii? tih l i .t-y 1 1. k, t. iVi . north of buffalo. Tht coal turrits fi7 pet cent, curiam, tin highest percentage of any coal yet found in Wyoming.

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WAGON WHEAT, oi o ACME MILLING CO., a6a West Washlnkton S*. anti-cigarette law killed. JudK© Lnrion's Reasens for Declaring A Tennessee Act Invalid. nlf?T ILLE ’ Tenn - ° ct - J — The nialn point at issue in the habeas corpus proceedings brought by W. S. Sawrie in the Federal Court attaching the cigarette law passed by the Tennessee l egislature May 1, 18S17, was that the law wa_ In violation of Article 1 Section 8, Clause 3 of the Constitution of !™L,r. nlted States in that it prohibited interstate commerce and that he was re illegally and held in C us'- . un „ de u an order Issued by a acting under this law. The court holds that the petitioner was engaged in inteistate commerce that j l * 9 <£ cigarettes imported from Kentucky m original packages and that if the Tennes,could stand it would be an absolute TOhlWUon of a ii commerce in cigarettes U, ud * e Lurton sums up as follows: “The Tennessee statute is too broad and is repugnant to the commercial clause of the Constitution of the United States in so fir as it inhibits the importation of cigarettes irom foreign nations or other States or h‘n r i, S lL e by the importer in the form in which they were imported. I reach this conclusion without any hesitation, though reluctant to strike down a statute a°med MAN SOLD FOR $4,000. Wife Aliened <0 Have Disposed of Her Husband to All o< li or—tv 0111a 11. ST. LOUIS. Oct. I.—According to the Post-Dispatch, John A. Truitt, a conductor c.n the Northern Central electric streetcar line, was sold to-day by his’ wife for 24,000 to a woman who declares that she loves the man more than his wife does. The deal was the sequel to the following remarkable statement made to Mrs. Truitt by a Mrs. Stephens, who lives in this city with her father: w TTuitt,, I love your husband, and I want him. 1 have traveled the world over and he is the hist man 1 ever loved I will him up!” * 4,000 Caßh for him 1£ you W UI give Truitt, who is the father of four children seems to agree to the deal. It is stated that last Tuesday Mrs. Truitt, knowing that h r husband loved another, attempted to morphine Use b> s wallowing a big uose of Officer* Riveted li> Architect*. DETROI TANARUS, Oct. I.—The American Institute 01 Architects to-day elecVd the following officers: President, Georg. B Post New York; first vie* president, W’ I, b’ Jenney. Chicago; s.ct nd vice president C Howard Walker. Bo.won; treasurer. S.’ a! 1r at Chicago; secretary. A.ft and Stone 1 loviden. e; diiectors. Ed U. Kendall. NVw j"ik; Casa Gilbert, St. Paul: lames s Rogers Detroit; YV G. Preston. Boston! George \\ Rapp, Cincinnati: Edmund W vYhc inght, Boston; Gl-nn Brown. YVushIngton; George M. Fredericks. Baltimore in memoirs left by steamer for the St. Clair ilats this afternoon. M Inert t up ceie a F, TORONTO. Oct. 1.- The Steinert series is piaetnady concluded. Dineen, Toronto’s 'i-.a-K pllcher. said to-day that Toronto wo u ,ut piuy any more games m Syracuse, an ; as the Syracuse players say the same ot Toronto, the series has ended in a lizzie thu score being: Toronto won 3; lost, L

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2, 1897.

ROBBED BY BANDITS SENSATIONAL. HOLD-UP BY ROAD AGENTS IN INDIAN TERRITORY. — ■ Ilock Inland Train Stopped Near Mlnco in Broad Daylight and Plundered by Five Ranked Men. • • - PASSENGERS STOOD IN LINE * AND RELIEVED OF ALL THEIR MONEY, WATCHES AND JEWELRY. ■ One Man’!* Ear Shot Off Because He Didn’t Obey the Order “Hands Up!” —Fruitless Attaek on the Sufe. EE RENO, O. TANARUS., Oct. I.—Bandits robbed the south-bound Rock Island passenger train and all Its passengers at 11 o’clock this forenoon at siding No. 1, about five miles south of Minco, in the Indian Territory. The railroad and express officials have feared a hold-up in that section for several weeks, and armed guards have been put aboard all-night trains at El Reno and carried through to Chickasaw. It had not been thought that the outlaws were bold enough to attack a train in midday. This morning the tranimen were completely surprised, and they were not prepared to offer any resistance when five masked men came upon them at the lonely siding. The place is uninhabited and the only persons in the vicinity at the time were four section men. These men flagged the train, the robbers having compelled them to do so. The bandits were hidden at the time in a brush pile and jumped out as soon as the passenger train had taken the sluing. Under the pressure of Winchesters and ugly-looking six-shooters the trainmen, the express messenger and all of the score or more of passengers were made to climb down from the train and stand in ft line, hands up, on the prairie along the railway. While three of the robbers covered the badly frightened crowd with their guns, the other two coolly and carefully robbed them, passing from one passenger to another down the line. The bandits secured about S3OO in cash and such other valuables in the watches, pins and jewelry as were In sight. The few women passengers were not compelled to give up their valuables, and Rev. Mr. Roe, one of the passengers, who was sick, was not compelled to leave the coach. Jim Wright, of Minco, showed a disposition to resist when the bandits ordered "Hands up." They shot one of his ears off to prove to his satisfaction that his bravery was ill-advised. Wright’s hands then w T ent up. No one else was injured. The passengers and trainmen having been thoroughly plucked, three of the bandits turned their attention to the express and mail coaches, the others standing guard over the helpless crowd on the prairie. The registered mail pouches were quickly rifled, but the through safe In the express car resisted all the force and ingenuity of the road agents. When the messenger had convinced the bandits that he could not open the strong-box, they resorted to dynamite. Several heavy charges were exploded, hut the safe proved bandit preof, and, though it was badly battered, its contents were saved to the express company. Having taken forcible possession of everything that they could carry away, the bandits , mounted their horses and rode off toward the west. As soon as the trainmen cculd collect their wits they got their scared passengers aboard and hurried on to the next station south—Chickasha, from which point the tailroad officials were notified of the holdup. At Chickasha a posse of citizens was hurriedly formed. These citizens set out in pursuit of the gang, and officers have been dispatched from El Reno and other points In this section. It is hardly possible that the bandits can be overtaken in the prairie country, and they will probably be able to reach the Wichita mountains, to the w r est of the scene of the hold-up. Officers here believe the gang to be the same one that held up Santa Fe trains at Edmunds twice during last month.

SHOT BY HIGHWAYMEN. Stage Coaches Held Up, Passenger* Robbed nnd Two W ounded. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. I.—Yesterday three stages, traveling from Angel’s Camp to Milton, Cal., v.ere held up by two masked highwaymen and robbed. From the description furnished of the two ’•obbers they are supposed to be the pair w r ho recently held up the Ukiah stage and killed Mr. Barnet. Five of the passengers have arrived in this ctly. They are Clarence M. Ackerman, A. Maloff, Manuel >’, izrella, Mrs. Abrahams and M. Singer. Two of them, Ackerman and Maloff. were wounded. Ackerman is in St. Luke’s Hospital with a bullet lodged immediately under the cuticle of his left breast. The seriousness of his wound has not been definitely determined, but it is the belief of Dr. R. F. Gray, the resident physician of the hospital, that he will not die. The same bullet whl h rut a hole through Maloff’s left ’wrist plowed its way almost clear through the oocs 01' Ackerman. There is a possibility, Dr. Gray says, that the bullet struck one of Ackerman’s ribs on the right side, deflected and passed around his body at the baca until its force became spent an inch below the left nipple MEN AND WOMEN FIGHT. Trolley Excursion End* In Murder and an Encounter with Beer Glu**ea. NEW YORK, Oct. I.—A trolley excursion of a political association of the east division of Brooklyn to Dexter Park had a murderous ending early this morning. A young woman whom William Klynger had taken, drank and chatted with John McNalley. Klynger objected and made an insulting remark to the woman which McNalley resented with a blow. Klynger retaliated and his biow killed McNalley almost instantly. The friends of the two men took up the tight and when a riot call brought out the police they found men and women engaged In a free light, using beer glasses and stones. Klynger disappeared, but was captured later. Armeniau Decorations. OXFORD, Mass., Oct. I.—Dr. Edward Randall Knowles, who was recently honored with the cross and rank of commander of the Order of St. Catherine of Mount Sinai, has received notice from Prince Guy de Susignan, the legitimist prince royal of Armenia and Cyprus, that upon his request, the cordon of the Royal Armenian Order of Mount Sinai has been bestowed on Dupuy De Lome, Spanish minister to the United States, and Hon. Frederick C. Pentteld, of Connecticut, late consul general at Cairo. Tins ordtr, instituted in 3003, ant dates the Hospitallers and every order of knighthood except the papal decoration of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Tlie West Intliu Steamship Company. PHILADELPHIA. Oct. I.—The Press tomorrow will say Negotiations are in prognss among a number rtf capitalists in Philadelphia. New York and Boston which, ii successfully carried out, will result in the sul e* Put ion of Amer Kan built steamships for the large number of foreign built trait now engaged in the West India fruit trade. 'Th© new ships wlli be built here by the Cramps, who are largely Interested in

the undertaking, and will be speedy, firstclass vessels in every particular, calculated to reduce to the lowest time the passage between northern and W r est India fruit ports. The new corporation will be known as the United States and West India Steamship Company and expects to be subsidized by the government, ns are a number of others or the American lines to the West Indies. SHRUNK OVER ONE-HALF. Estate of the Lute Senator FallWorth Only About Twelve Millions. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. I.—The Call says to-day that the appraisers of the late James G. Fair’s estate have completed their task and will present their record to the Probate Court in a few days. The report will show' that the value of the Fair estate has been very much over-rated. Instead of being valued from thirty to sixty millions, the appraisers say the official figures will be about $12,000,000 and certainly not more than $15,000,000. These figures have been reached after seven months of continuous and careful w-ork by the appraisers Fair's fortune is Invested for the most part in real estate, the greater pari of which is in this city, but the principal item of the estate consists of $4,000,000 in bonds of the Southern Pacific Coast Railway, built by Fair and now a part of the Southern Pacific system. The valuation of the Fair estate is significant in view of the testimony given by Fair In a trial several years ago in Yolo countv, when, in reply to a question, he said he was worth at least $30,000,000. It is evident that in the last few years of his life Fair sustained serious losses, the facts concerning which are carefully concealed. BATTLE OF THE BONES ANOTHER DAY OF THE LUETGERT TRIAL OCCUPIED BY EXPERTS. Lectnre by Dr. Alliport an Seen molds. Temporals and Phalange*—Witness Trapped by the Prosecution. * CHICAGO. Oct. I.—The monotony of the scientific and painfully technical proceedings of the Luetgert murder trial to-day was relieved by a hearty laugh at the expense of Dr. Allport, the chief osteoiogical expert of the defense, during the afternoon session. Dr. Allport had identified a piece of bone as the temporal of a human being. He observed that the bone would indicate that the person had been large and strong. "Yes. I suppose he was,” observed Assistant State’s Attorney McEwen. "He was a gorilla.’’ This announcement rather staggered Dr. Allport, but he joined in the general laugh among lawyers, experts and spectators. There was a warm tilt between the witness and Assistant State's Attorney McBwen during the afternoon. After answering a question Dr. Ailport proceeded to give a little explanatory lecture, digressing somewhat from the subject under consideration. When he paused Assistant State's Attorney McEwen gazed at the witness a moment ana remarked: "You are a little too fresh.” Ex-Judge Vincent was on his feet in a moment appealing for protection for the witness. "A little rebuke like that is good for some people,” remarked Assistant State's Attorney McEwen. “One small head does not contain all there Is to know about bones.” Ex-Judge Vincent continued to demand that his chief anatomist be protected by the court. Judge Tuthill put a stop to the dispute l?y leaning over his desk and remarking: "Geptlemen, proceed with the trial of this case.” Dr. Ailport never worked harder while delivering a lecture on descriptive and comparative anatomy before a class in the Northwestern University than he did in his descriptive talk before the Jury in the Luetgert case to-day. He drew' diagrams and pictures of bones, including sesamoids, temporals, phalanges and others, and described them. Then he drew' more pictures of the same bones in the lower animals and compared them, pointing out the difference. Few in the crowded courtroom appreciated the remarks of the demonstrator. It was Greek to nearly all except the attorneys and the experts. The jurors followed the descriptive talk dreamily. The severe crossexamination took a considerable degree of positk'eness out of the witness. The questions put to him by Assistant State’s Attorney McEwen, but framed by Prof. Dorsey. tested his knowiedge of bones severely. After falling into several cleverly laid pitfalls Dr. Allport became wary. His answers were not so prompt, decisive and terse as at first.. He hesitated and explained, and when the ordeal was over the witness was much pleased. The battle of the bones will continue tomorrow. Prof. Eckley Is to be called to tell the jury what he knows about bones, both human and lower animal. The experts are not expected to finish before the middle of next week. When they get through Luetgert Is expected to go on the stand. Already Suite’s Attorney Deneen is receiving requests for passes on "Luetgert day.” The prosecution Is planning the delivery of a crushing blow to the defense in the Luetgert murder trial. When this blow reaches the solar plexus of the case, all sesamoid, phalanges, temporals and other anatomical exhibits will, it is claimed, be knocked out of consideration for the time being. It is now asserted that the prosecution will produce upon the witness stand three of the women whom witnesses have identified as Mrs. Luetgert. One of these is the woman who was seen by half a dozen persons in Kneosha, Wls., on May 4 and 5. She is now in Chicago and is being watched constantly by a detective. This is the woman who left one of her slippers in the Kenosha police station. She was described by several witnesses who saw her at the Northwestern station at Kenosha, and at two of the leading hotels of the tow'n. and identified by means of a photograph of Mrs. Luetgert. This woman will be put on the witness stand. She will relate all conversations she had with the police officials and others in Kenosha, it Is said. She is said to be a character well known in certain districts of Chicago. Defective Decelle has traced the woman met on the country road near Kenosha May 5 by Fred Schebe and identified as Mrs. Luetgert to Joliet, where she is now said to be located. She will be called to the witness Stand, it is said, and will testify that she is a local evangelist and was in the vicinity of Kenosha on the day mentioned in the interest of some religious work. Chicago detectives are now in the vicinity of Elgin. 111., running down the story of Peddler Opdyke, who positively identified one of the two women w'ho slept in a grove near his wagon at Lake Urich. near Elgin, on the night of June 4, as Mrs. Luetgert. It has been discovered, it is said, that these women were gypsies, who belonged to a band of nomads seen in the vicinity of Big n during the first two weeks of June. If this testimony is introduced and well supported, it will have the effect of arousing a doubt as to the identifications of witnesses who believe thev saw Mrs. Luetgert soon after her disappearance. The production of the women who have been identified as Mrs. Luetgert w ill follow the closing of the evidence of the defense, and will be in the nature of rebuttal evidence. Juror Fowler, whose illness some time ago caused a recess of two days in the trial, is ill again, having been attack'd with a severe chill. It is not thought his illness will prove serious.

Mai© Stenographers In Request. WASHINGTON, Oct. I.—There is a larger demand for male stenographers and typewriters in the departments at Washington than the Civil-service Commission has been able to meet. The salaries range from Siliti to SI,OOO per annum. From the following States the opportunities for appointment from this examination are better than from the otmts; Utah, South Carolina. laiuisinna, Tennessee. Arkansas, Kentucky, South Dakota, Maine. Texas. Washington, Mississippi, New Jersey, Missouri. New Hampshire. North 1 irollna, Pennsylvania, low a, Alabama, Kansas, Minnesota. Wisconsin and lUin . In addition to appointments to the departments at Washington appointin* nts ate sometimes made from this register to the local service in the Suuett,

MAM SELF MURDERS " - DOCTOR WIDOWS A BRIDE OF A DAY BY LEAPING OUT OF A WINDOW. • Robert W. Flairs:, of Yonkers, Seised with Aeute Mania at the Murray Hill Hotel, New York. MOTHER AND FOUR CHILDREN ASPHYXIATED BY ILLUMINATING GAS IN ANOTHER NEW YORK. HOTEL, \ A Californian in Still Another, and a Politician in a Philadelphia Hostelry—Epidemic of Suicides. NEW YORK, Oct. I.—Nearly a score of unfortunates met tragic deaths in and about this city to-day. It was suicide day. To some death came in sleep; several suffered the agonies that come with caustic poisons; shooting was found an easy way to rid one of the burdens of life; a convict cut his throat with a piece of glass. One, a woman, brought her four children for a day’s pleasure in the metropolis. She and the children are dead now. A physician In high standing who came here last night with his bride of an hour, leaped from a window In his apartments In a moment, his friends say, of frenzy. No day within recent years has been so replete with tales of weak human nature. Here Is the list: MRS. CAROLINE RIVINIUS, of West Point. N. Y., and her children, Laura, fiften; William, aged eleven; Albert, eight, and Elezabeth, five, found dead in the West Shore Hotel, at Forty-second street and Eleventh avenue, asphyxiated by gas, thought to be murder and suicide. HARMON S. BURT, of Norwich, Conn., registered at the Devonshire Hotel. East Forty-second street, as E. W. Smith, of Providence, R. 1., found dead in bed from poison. C. F. K. ROYCE, San Francisco, Cal., found dead at the Grand Union Hotel. A tube through which gas was flowing from an open jet was in his mouth. Nothing was found by which he might be identified. DR. ROBERT W. FLAGG, a prominent young physician of Yonkers, who came to this city last night with his bride, leaped from the window in his apartment in the Murray Hill Hotel this morning for what reason it is not at present known, fractured his skull and Injured himself otherwise so badly that he died late this afternoon. THEODORE MILLER, out of work, killed himself by shooting at his boarding house on Seventh avenue. RUDOLPH KNOCHE, out of work, drank carbolic acid and died an hour later. At White Plains, EDWARD L. HAFNER and FRANK C. HOLLY, of Norwalk, Conn., the former a cigar merchant and the latter In the employ of a druggists’ supply company, were found dead in their apartments asphyxiated by gas. MRS. BERTHA HUMMEL died in the Seney Hospital, in Brooklyn, from the effects of carbolic acid, which she took while despondent this morning. JULIA CUTTO, of Brooklyn, worn out by family troubles, ended her life to-night wMth a draught of carbolic acid. GEO. MARTIN, serving a sentence for burglary in the King’s county penitentiary, cut his throat this afternoon with a piece of glass, part of a broken lamp chimney, and cannot recover. MICHAEL WALSH was found dead at the Fulton Hotel, from the effects, it is believed, of drugs.

DR. FLAGG’S SUICIDE. Jumped Out of it Murray 11111 Hotel Window Wliile Demented. NEW YORK, Oct. I.—Dr. Robert W. Flap#, a well-known resident of Yonkers, and the oldest son of the late Dr. Levi W. Flagg, being seized with an attack of acute mania, in the presence of his bride of one day. leaped out of a window of the Murrhy Hill Hotel to-day, and, falling on the sidewalk. reoeived injuries which resulted in his death. His skull was fractured, one of his legs was broken in two places, and he suffered internal injuries. His bride was in the room at the time, and she went to the hospital with him in the ambulance. Dr. and Mrs. P'lagg reached the hotel about midnight, and after registering were assigned to rooms. Both appeared to be in good spirits and breakfasted about 8 o’clock this morning. They chatted with each other and seemed not to have a care. After breakfast they returned to their rooms and had been there only about fifteen minutes when Mrs. Flagg rushed screaming down the stairs to the lobby of the hotel. Her husband had jumped out of the window. His skull had been fractured, his leg broken and he had received severe bruises of the body. He was carried into the hotel, where his wife met him calmly. The ambulance surgeon said that the man was dying. Mrs. Flagg, who was Miss Eleanor Turner, is about twentysix years of age and good looking. She was a professional nurse in the Yonkers Hospital. She at the hospital here that in conversation v/ith her husband the latter had become greatly excited and rushed to the window to jump out. She tried to restrain him, but he thrust her aside and jumped. At Dr. Flagg’s residence in Yonkers it was said that when he left home yesterday he was In a very nervous condition. Dr. Flagg was taken from the hospital to the residence of Dr. W. Todd Helmuth, jr., an old friend, and there the operation of trephining was performed upon the injured man. Three horns later Dr. Flagg died. + ASPHYXIATED HY GAS. Mother and Four Children Dead In One Hotel and u Man In Another. NEW YORK, Oct. I. A woman and her four children were found dead by asphyxiation in the West Shore Hotel, Forty-second street and Eleventh avenue, this morning. The woman had evidently killed her children and committed suicide. They were registered as “Mrs. Caroline Ravinius and four children, of West Point.” They arrived by a train from West Point at 8 o’clock last night. The woman appeared to be about forty years old. The children w'ere two boys, one about fifteen and the other about seven, and two girls, about thirteen and seven years old. The victims of the terrible tragedy were the wife and children of Robert Ravinius, an enlisted man in the United States army at West Point. Ravinius is a printer in the administrative building. He has been in the army thirty years and expects to be retired in uuiy next. He was greatly moved on receiving news of the death of his wife and children. He is a German and speaks English imperfectly. Neighbors scout the suicide theory, saying that Mrs. Ravinius was an excellent woman and that her home iife was very pleasant and her love for her children marked. She had made frequent trips to this city. They knew of no reason wffiy she should wish to take her life. Mrs. Victor Laher, a sister of Mr. Ravinius, says that the trip of her sister-in-law to New York was merely a little pleasure excursion, as the children had had no outing during the summer. Robert Rivirnus, husband of the dead woman, arrived in this city to-night. He said that he could ascribe no reason for his wife’s suicide. She was always happy, and had new r spoken to him of self-destruc-tion. Sr'he was perfectly familiar with the use of gas. The trip, he said, was merely a pleasure excursion, and Mrs. Rivlnlus expected to return to West I’olnt on a tram leaving New York at 3:30 p. in. C. E. IC. Royce, fifty-five years old, who registered at the Grand Union Hotel as from

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San Francisco on Tuesday last, was found dead to-day in his room. He had committed suicide by inhaling gas. His Third Attempt Snccessfnl. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. I.—Clark E. K. Royce. who committed suicide to-day at the Grand Union Hotel in New York, was well known here on account of his previous attempts to take his life in this city. He was formerly secretary and treasurer of the California Y T eterans Home Association, but a shortage of over $2,000 being discovered in his accounts he wss discharged and indicted by the grand jury for felony. While the investigation was pending Royce registered at the Burlington Hotel here under an assumed name and tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head. He recovered, however, and stood trial, but was acquitted on some technicality. Some months later he attempted suicide by inhaling gaa at the Grand Hotel, but was again unsuccessful. He then disappeared and has not since been heard of until to-day. Tito at Philadelphia.. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. I.—Two men, unknown to each other, were found dead in adjoining hotels to-day, both having committed suicide. One was Robert Jonee Monagahan, a prominent lawyer of Westchester, Pa., and well known as a Democratic politician of Pennsylvania. He inhaled illuminating gas. Mr. Monaghan was about forty-fiva years old. lie had been a candidate for Congress. Overwork impaired his faculties some years ago, when he disappeared for six months and was finally located in Australia. The second suicide was Josiah Daniels*, of Woodstown, N. J. He took laudanum in a room of a £otel next door. HENKY GEORGE CHOsEN. Nominated for Mayor of Greater New York by the Democratic Alliance. NEW YORK, Oct, I.—At the city nominating convention of the Democratic Alliance of Greater New York held to-night Henry George was unanimously nominated for mayor. The nominating speech was made by Charles Francis Adams. The nomination was greeted with enthusiastic applause. The platform in part follows: The Democratic* Alliance is a body of Democrats loyal to the policy of the great Democratic party. Our aim and object was to find a basis for united action of all Democrats in the pending municipal contest. We deemed it essential that the Democratic party of Greater New York should reaffirm the Chicago platform, pledge itself to the policy of municipal ownership and operation of franchises and to the principle of direct employment instead of the contract system. The action of the city convention of Sept. 30 is clear to all men. Tammany and her allies hide aw’ay the national banner of Democracy and are ashamed to march under its folds. The Benedict Arnolds of last fall, who deserted to the enemy on the eve of battle, are to be restored to places of honor and friendship; the franchise grabbers are to retain their clutch on the city’s highways by Tammany’s aid and connivance, thus Tammany and her allies separate themselves in principle and policy from the great Democratic party of the Nation and must be looked upon solely as a local body of unprincipled spoils hunters unfit to sit in the councils of the party whose doctrine they ignore and whose honor they betray.” The platform also declares In favor of municipal home rule, municipal ownership and operation of franchises, three-cent street-railway fares, dollar gas, eightehour day and prevailing rate of wages, representation of labor in administration and legislative branches of the city government, free open air places for the holding of public meetings and opposition to government by injunction. The Tammany county and borough conventions, which were called to order tonight by ex-Police Commissioner James J, Martin, after completing permanent organizatiqn, adjourned on Leader John C. Sheehan’s motion to meet again on Oct. 7. Negro Party on the Ballot. COLUMBUS, 0., Oct. I—The Negro Protective party, by petition, to-day was placed, on the Ohio ballot sheet. This makes five state tickets, with the gold Democrats to come. The negro party, by mandamus, wdll try to compel the secretary of state to put Lincoln’s picture at the head of their column in the ticket as their emblem.

NEVER STRONGER THAN NOW Cuban Army in Good Condition—Spanish Reports Denied. NEW YORK, Oct. I.—A New York merchant who has extensive business interests in Cuba, and is kept informed of the progress of the insurrection by trustworthy correspondents in different parts of the island, received word to-day that Col. Baldemero Acosta, of the insurgent army, has safely landed in Vera Cruz. He is seriously wounded. His wife is with him. According to the merchant’s correspondent the insurgent colonel was enabled to escape with the connivance of Spanish officers. The correspondent also states that the recently reported capture of a Hotchkiss gun, a lot of war material and tventy-three Americans was founded on these facts: A Spanish gunner, who had been with the insurgents in Tampa, Fla., turned out to be a spy. He informed the military authorities of the location of the place where the Cubans had buried a tw'elve-pound Hotchkiss gun, w'hich had been landed in Plnar del Rio about ten months before. It had never been dug up, because in landing it had been so injured as to be rendered useless. On the finding of this abandoned gun wits based the official report of the capture of the valuable war munitions and the American volunteers. The correspondent concludes by saying that the insurgents were never stronger than they are to-day from the extreme east to the extreme west. YVeyler Has Xot Resigned. HAVANA, Oct. I—The correspondent here of the Associated Press has investigated the report printed in New York to-day from this city, via Key West, saying that Captain General Weyler has sent his resignation to Madrid, to take effect as soon as practicable, and has been informed from the best sources available that up to the present moment the captain general of Cuba has not resigned. "Window Glass Association. PITTSBURG, Pa., Oct. I.—The ways and means committee of the new American Window-glass Association met here to-day and made arrangements to establish a general sales agency for the combination in Pittsburg, and issued a call for a meeting of all firms concerned in the consolidation, to be held next Thursday in this city, for the purpose of ratifying the action of the committee and election of officers. Murder Mystery Unsolved. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 1.-The grand Jury to-day ignored the bill against Marion Stuyvesanf, who was charged with the murder of Major W. C. Wilson, the aged librai.an, and ordered the dischaige of the prisoner. Stuyvesant, who was Maj. Wilson's colored porter, has been in jail ever since the murakr occurred, on Aug. It}, and his acquittal leaves the case surrounded with as much mystery aa ever. Half a Tov n Burned. CHICAGO, Oct. I.—A fire which broke out early to-day at Willow Springs, sixteen miles from Chicago, on the drainage canal, destroyed nearly half the town and made fifty families homeless. The fire apparatus was inadequate and assistance was sent from Chicago, hut before the special trafn arrived the tire had burned out. Loss about $50,000, with but little insurance. Drowned In the Ohio. HAWESVILLE, Ky., Oct. I.—While crossing the river in a ski ft last night at 7 o lo k Ben Davis. Bid Jackson and R<.b rt Hardin, all colored, were drown and, and George Crockett, a prominent farmer and grandnephew of Davy Crockett was r scu.d with great difficulty, together with Bate Davis, colored. The men had all been drinking. Hamilton's Half-Mile Truck Record. LAFAYETTE, Irtd , Oct. I.—At the bicycle meet at the fair grounds this afternoon W. W. Hamilton, of Denver, rode a mile unpaeed on a half-mile track in 2. 0s l-a. breaking the state record and making anew world’s record for a dirt road. L. O. Watson (Toot), of Indianapolis, wou ail four of the amateur events.

THIRTY FRESH CASES fever record for the seasor BROKEN AT NEW ORLEANS. # - •‘Yellow Jack’’ Rapidly Spreading Throughout the City, but the Death Rate Nut Yet Alarming, e~ NO CLASSES NOW EXEMPT • ♦ RICH AND POOR ALIKE STRICKEN WITH THE DREAD DISEASE. Nineteen New Cn*e Yesterday t Ed* nardit, Twenty-Eight at Biloxi and Seven at Mobile* ♦ NEW ORLEANS, Oct. I.—To-day was again something of a record breaker in the matter of new cases. They cropped up in all directions, but up to 6 o’clock the death record was still low. The fever is rapidly spreading In many directions, but the large majority of cases are proving to be of a harmless type. The weatner is warm and the conditions excellent for new cases. But the death percentage has fallen considerably below the record of 1878. —Deaths.— ANTONIO SINACOA, 610 St. Philip street PALL PHILLIPS, 126 Charles street. HENRY A. BOURRIAQUE, 1225 St. Roch avenue, announced after close of official report. —New eases.— MRS. DVtENNAN, 2113 Bralnerd street. ANTONIO SINACOA, 540 St. Philip street REV. BEVERLY WARNER, 2115 Chestnut street. MISS AMANDA GINNIN, 2122 Bayou road. EMMA BROWN. 519 Mlro street. W. P. TATE, Fourth street, near Chippewa. JOHN MATHES, 2029 Conti street. DAISY LONGLEY, 1129 Fourth street. MRS. MAY DAHLBTROM, 115 South Howard street. MADELINE TOMMALI, 1425 Chaxle9 street. DAN CAOAN. 1151 Dublin street. LIZZIE SALVADOR!' 2716 Chippewa street. EDWARD J. MALLET. G. 306 Hurst street JAMES H. FLEETWOOD, 727 Lower Line street. LORETTA RTLEY, 1323 Constance street WILL JOOR, 606.3 Laurel street. EVA JOOR. 6063 Laurel street. BESSIE DICKINSON. 1435 Jackson street MILO FERGUSON, 1500 Henry Clay avenue. JOHN J. BRITTON 2103 Rarrone street. ALBERT BALDWIN WOODS. 1432 Euterpe street. MARTIN REGAN, 322 Howard avenue. EDGAR PERRILLOUX, 85.31 Elm street. MRS. ADAM MARK, St. Ann and Bourbon streets. WALKER KEEGAN. IDA KEEGAN. 3606 Magazine street. DR. W. H. MAGRUDER. 624 Louisiana avenue. NEELEY, colored. Marine Hospital. CARSON, Marine Hospital, The most important new case is Dr. Beverly Warner, the pastor of the rich Trinity Church. His case is a mild one. Rich and poor have alike been stricken to-day and the reports to the Board of Health seem to show that the best drained and kept streets are presenting cases as numerously as those which are minus of sanitation. The authorities continue to keep the water wurks plugs open, and every gutter Is filled with running water. A number of some ten or more, were discharged to-day as cured. Among them is Mrs. A. T. Wimnerly. To-day Prof. Metz disinfected the various houses in which sickness has occurred and where the patients have been discharged. A bittter fight Is being made on the Board of Health because it Is insisting in quarantining Inmates of houses In which yellow fever exists and those houses which immediately adjoin. Dr. Gatteras expressed the opinion that It is possible to confine the intection within the room where the patient may be lying; this has strengthened the fight of the public against quarantine measures. In spite of the storm of protests, however, many eminent physicians and professional men are urging the board to continue its present course in quarantining houses. The crisis is either here now or close at hand, and it is not considered wise, no matter what may be the public indignation, to jeopardize the health of the whole community by allowing people in infected houses or living next door to them to go at random. The fever here has. of course, not been declared epidemic and for that reason physicians are disinclined to report yellow fever. A number of doctors said to-night, in a formal protest, that if their names are reported In connection with yellow fever cases, their practice will be ruined. Nobody would send for them if they have had anything to do with yellow fever cases. The official bulletin of the Board of Health says: During the twenty-four hours ending 9 p. m., Friday, Oct. 1, there wereCases of yellow fever, 30; deaths, 2. Total cases of yellow fever to date, 258; total deaths from yellow fever to date. 30; total cases absolutely recovered, 76; total case* under treatment, 152.

Story of Refogeei n* Hagerstown. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HAGERSTOWN, Ind., Oct. I.—Four refugees from New Orleans arrived at thi* place a few days ago. They are Frank Lo Sfcure, Isaac Lontz and their wives. Mr. Le Seure avers that the stupidity of tbs physicians alone is responsible for the plague spreading. Instead of confining the people at the resort where the disease first appeared, they were permitted to scatter in all dirctions and carry the germs of th* disease, which turned out to be yellow fever but w’hich was pronounced something else by the physicians. He says the citizens there aiv making a wild rush to leave Certificates from the physicians are readily secured, but railroad transportation is difficult because of the crowds trying to get away. When they left the cars were loaded and locked in New Orleans and the windows closed and not opened until the train reached Memphis. At every town armed guards were stationed to prevent the landing of any one or the opening of the cars. Mr. Le Soure is a civil engineer In th© am*, ploy of the State of Louisiana. _* SPREADING AT -MOBILE. Two Additional Foci of lufeedon Established Yesterday. MOBILE, Ala., Oct. I.—The number of cases of yellow fever continues to increase slowly, there being but seven reported today. There was one death, Mrs. A. Hoffman, on Savannah street, near Jefferson, mentioned last night. The new cases are: T. A. SKELLY, St. Manuel street, near Augusta. MRS. ALICE GILLTAN, corner Church and Conception streets. ALICE COHEN, same place as above. TAYLOR BEAN, city hospital. HERBERT TUBBS, city hospital. ROBERT ELLIOT, 115 Church street. MRS. BONNEAU, Augusta street, near Marine. Total cases, eighty-one; deaths, twelve; discharged, forty; under treatment, tweiitynlne. Mrs. Gilllon and Mine Cohen are sick in the house where Taylor, one of the first yellow fever victims, died. The case of Miss Heiter. on Jackson street, announced yesterday, is traced to the same place. Miss Cohen, who was an inmate of the house hiving visited Miss Heiter for several hours just after Taylor died. The case yesterday on State street, near Kennedy, is that of * man who was a guard in the infected dl*. trict. He has carried the infection to the northwest part of the town, where many of the poortr people dwell. Thus are established two additional foci of Infection. The Commercial Club has called a mooting of citizens for to-morrow to form a re--11. f committee to assist people thrown out of employment. There is much priv.it* charity at work. Mayor Bush loading, having empowered the chief of police to relieve every sufferer that applies for aid, hut there are many persons who will not apply