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Bteimalt, George T. Elmore and Jacob Elliott. Seven challenges had been made on each .side. After the jury was impaneled the judge appointed F. C. Elsinore bailiff of the jury, and gave the usual instructions, cautioning the jury not to read papers nor discuss the cast- during the trial. Prosecutor Wiltsie stated in reply to a question from Mr. CJriiiiths that several of the witnesses would be put on the stand by the state to-morrow. At 4:30 o’clock Mr. W iltsie began his opening statement. This was a very impressive rehearsal of the killing of Patrolman Wore. While Mr. Wiltsie was speaking Mrs. Ware and her little boy came into the courtroom. They were at once the center of interest. The little boy is an interesting child, with large, thoughtful blue eyes. In one hand he carried hi* doll. He pressed close to his mother's side and looked up at Mr. Wiltsie with solemn, thoughtful face while the story of his lather's murder was b< ng recounted. Mrs Ma e was moved to tears, and after a time could not restrain her emotions and sobbed softly. After telling the story of the killing Mr. Wiltsie read the indictment. Then he took up the law. defining the different degrees of murder and fixing the punishment for murJer in the first and second degrees and for •nanslaughter. Air. Wiitsie touched on the nanslatighter clause but lightly. Mr. Potts, 'or the dt-fense, entered an objection to Mr. Wiltsie’s manner of expounding the law as aeing argumentative instead of a statement .if facts. The court overruled the objection, and an exception was taken by the defense. Then Mr. Wiltsie recounted the events leading up to the tragedy, telling the jury that Policeman Ware had been married seven years. Oct. 31, 1895, he entered the police force and up to the time of his death was regarded as a brave and efficient officer. He was only thirty-four years of age when he was shot down. The prosecutor described the scene of the crime in the vicinity of the Cincinnati Brewing Company s plant, in the southeast part of town. A Mr. Sulivan, employed at the office of the brewing company, went to the office at about 8:15 o’clock in the • evening. When he passed the alley he saw Neiland run out of it and saw a brickbat hurled at him. A moment after Ferriter appeared with blood running from his face. This was the first seen of Ferriter. The fact that he had blood running from wounds at that time is regarded as a strong point, as it is understood that the defense will undertake to show that Ferriter was beaten by the policeman until he was half dazed and that the blood streaming from his wounds when he was arrested was the result of the patrolman s clubbing. Mr. Sulivan telephoned for the police. Within five minutes Patrolman Ware arrived on his bicycle. As he appeared Neiland, Callahan and others of the crowd that had been fighting ran away. Ware alighted from his bicycle and a little after Ferriter, who had gone for beer, appeared in the alley. Ware called to Ferriter, telling him that he wanted to talk to him. THE MURDER OF WARE. “Can’t you fellows drink beer without fighting?” he asked. Ferriter declared that there had been no trouble and an Ware advanced toward him he dumped the can of beer to the ground and seemed about to draw a revolver. Ware was compelled to strike him as he offered resistance when the officer placed his hands on his arm. “What have you got there?” asked Ware, dragging him to his feet. "You can’t arrest me nor search me,” said Ferriter with an oath. After a time, finding that resistance was useless, Ferriter said that he would accompany the officer. “Well, John,” said Ware, “that’s all I want of you.” The officer then walked with the prisoner towards the brew reiy. Again the fighting began. A witness came up and asked the officer if he needed assistance. That was about seventy feet away from where the shooting occurred a moment or two after. Ware was compelled to strike Ferriter again, and knocked him to the ground. By this time Ferriter w'as cowed into submission. Wiltsie said that it might be true that the blows struck by the officer were followed by bleeding. The attorney w’as stopped in his argument by further objections by the other side. After considerable argument the statement of the case to the jury w'as resumed. Mr. Wiltsie described the scene immediately preceding the shooting. A witness who will testify was leading the officer’s bicycle. Ware left Ferriter sitting on a doorstep, intending to telephone for the patrol wagon. He had walked a step or two w'hen John Hensley saw Ferriter stand up, draw a revolver from his pocket and shoot. At this point in the story Mrs. Ware was unable to control herself, and wept. Mr. Wiltsie told how the murderer fled, and described the thoughts that were in his mind as he ran in wild fear. Mr. Potts objected to Mr. Wiltsie trying to state what was ir. Ferriter’s thoughts, and Mr. Wiltsie withdrew part of his statement bearing on this subject. He went on to say that the state would be able to show that Ferriter fired several shots as he ran. Then he told how Patrolman Rochford and others gave chase. As Rochford overtook him Ferriter reached for his revolver. “Try that again,” cried Rochford, “and I will kill you.” After arresting the man Rochford asked him why he had killed Ware. "I did not know that I had killed him,” answered Ferriter. “I shot him, but I did not know that I had killed him.” When Ware was tenderly picked up by other patrolmen his revolver was found in his left hip pocket and his mace in his right. By this circumstance the state will try to show that Ware did not beat the prisoner very severely, and simply used his hands on him. Mr. Wiltsie closed his opening statement at 5:30 o'clock and the court adjourned. Before the adjournment four members of the “800 gang ’ were sworn in as witnesses in the case. In regard to the line of defense, it is understood that the point will be made that Ware had no warrant for Ferriter’s arrest; that the latter had done nothing that would warrant arrest, and that the patrolman was not killed in the discharge of his duty. Mr. Wiltsie is fortified w’ith a recent decision by the Supreme Court on this question. which will probably go hard with the defense. The prosecutor has a brother living at Carthage who is a peace officer. He went to arrest a “tough” character who had committed some offense which the officer had not witnessed. Afterward proceedings were brought against him on this ground. The case went to the Supreme Court, where it was held that if an officer has knowledge of a constructive offense, either by information or otherwise, he is justified In making an arrest. NO INSANITY PLEA. Self-Defense, Ferriter AVIII Claim— Bight Sentences in Morgan Connty. Special to the Indiana noils Journal. MARTINSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 4.—ls John Ferriter be sentenced to hang or to serve a life sentence for the murder of Patrolman Ware he will have the unenviable distinction of being the first to suffer thuswise at the hands of a Morgan county jury, for, within the recollection of Judge G. W. Grubbs, who has lived in the county many years, neither penalty has yet been inflicted. The county, and, singularly enough too for an Indiana hill county, has been disturbed comparatively little with brawls or affairs leading to the shedding of human blood. The Ferriter case is the first one, with murder as the charge, ever venued from Indianapolis. Two years ago was the most recent murder trial heard in the Martinsville courthouse, and on that occasion the defendant escaped with a two years’ sentence, subsequently being acquitted when he received anew trial on the overthrow’ of the verdict in the SujJTeme Court. This affray was a well-remembered occurrence at Brooklyn, where Albert Page killed Hiram Gregory on the main street of that town, the shot entering the victim’s back. Gregory was the son of an ex-county treasurer. There were extenuating circumstances that led to so light a verdict. The Supreme Court re-.ersed the case, principally on the common law instructions as to self-defense Kl ven by the lower court. Deputy Prosecutor John E. Sedwick does not recall a murder case, other than the one just mentioned, within the last decide. The prosecution enters the Ferriter case In an atmosphere not conducive to rigorous punishment if the light sentences that have prevailed in years past may be taken as a criterion. Unless the slayer of the Indianapolis patrolman be hanged or sentenced for life. Prosecutor Wiltsie will have little satisfaction in the verdict, as he realizes howinadequate a return under the new indeterminate sentence law would he in this case. The prisoner is under thirty years of age! and, if convicted of manslaughter, would have the benefit of the two-to-fourteen-year feature of the law. In fact Mr. Wiltsie will tell the jury that if it do not give the prisoner the limit of the law it had better turn him loose, for a light sentence would be a travesty on justice. Messrs. Griffiths and Potts contemplated a plea of Insanity, to be coupled with that of self-defense. They announced, however. Just before the trial that the only plea would be self-defense, their contention being that Ferriter had been so severely assaulted by Patrolman Ware, who used his mace, that he was dazed and shot in Velf-defen.se. believing that the policeman intended to follow up the assault with more brutal treatment. Mr. Wiltsie will be able to show, on the other hand, that Ferriter had proceeded at least seventy feet with the officer after the officer had struck him for the last time; that Ferriter had become tractable, promising the policeman to accompany him without further trouble. The policeman had

set his prisoner down on a stoop, and w-as turning to secure his bicycie when the tough suddenly arose and fired the pistol ball that entered the policeman’s brain. Mr. Itooliford’a Connection. J >hn J. Rochford said yesterday concerning his connection with the Ferriter prosecution: "I do not see how there could have been an understanding that I was to conduct the prosecution in this case. Shortly after the crime I tendered my services to Mrs. Ware, but I never heard from her and they never came near my office. I think Ferriter is unquestionably guilty and he will probably be convicted.” RAIL ALASKA. Overhead Trolley Line to Be Constructed Early Next Year. NEW YORK, Oct. 4.—Captain John Irving, of the Victoria and Sitka Steamship Company, commander of the Islander, is at the Fifth-avenue Hotel. Said Captain Irving in an interview to-day: “There will be a railroad over the passes and down the Yukon to the foot of the White Horse rapids before midsummer next. This enterprise is partly responsible for my visit to New York. It will be an overhead trolley, chiefly for freight, and will simplify the trip to Dawson City to such an extent that we shall carry goods down the Yukon instead of up the river from St. Michael’s. On my first trip to that port, early in June, I shall carry lumber for barges which will be taken to the upper Yukon. After the railroad is built our boats will rarely descend below Fort Yukon. The barges will be floated or pushed down stream from the end of the carrying trolley and towed back. We shall he able to make several of these short trips per month. There will be no fear of provisions running short then.” “Will the building of that freight trolley be an expensive undertaking?” was asked. “On the contrary, it will be very inexpensive,” replied Captain Irving. “However, it will not carry passengers. The system employed so successfully for transporting ore and coal will be used. The packages will not exceed 100 or 209 pounds, and will be carried on an overhead wire, propelled by a series of endless cables. Elevations and steep grades are not factors in this method of transportation. The trees along the route will serve to support the carriers. A large storehouse can be erected at the terminus, and the goods shipped through all ordinary winter weather. This will do away with the hardships of the trip. Any man can walk over the Chilcat pass if he is unincumbered. Tw-enty miles of climbing from Dyea takes him over that obstacle. Then the lakes and river do the rest. We will undertake to deliver his supplies ahead of his arrival.” gl0,04)0 in Duties Collected. VICTORIA, British Columbia, Oct 4. Collector Milne received a letter from the Canadian customs office at Tagish lake stating that lie was about to forward SIO,OOO, the amount of duty collected from prospectors w r ho took American goods over the Slcaguay and Dyea trails on their way to the Klondike. Alex. Trainer, who has been with the Dominion government survey party on the Stiekeen route, states that two thousand men passed Telegraph creek bound for the Klondike by all the Canadian routes. Lord Dougina* Roys Claims. SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., Oct. 4. Lord Douglass, of Harwick, England, arrived in this city to-day from the Nichipicoten gold fields, where he secured an Interest in seven valuable claims. He is an enthusiastic believer in the great possibilities of this new mining region, and has telegraphed his brother, Sholto, at Seattle, to meet him here, when the two will further investigate. Returning prospectors to-day report recent rich finds that insure fortunes for their owners. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Bishop and Mrs. W. E. McLaren, of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Illinois, have returned from London. The funeral services of Gen. Neal Dow will be held at the Second Parish Church, in Portland Me., at 2:30 o’clock to-day. Charles De Kay, until recently United States consul general at Berlin, arrived with his family at New York last night. The Right Rev. A. Gaughran, Bishop of Kimberly, South Africa, was a passenger on the Anchor line City of Rome, w’hich arrived at New York from Glasgow yesterday, Thomas R. Burch shot and killed Thomas Martin Sunday night on a ranch four miles north of Denver, Col. Burch was watching for thieves who had been stealing apples from his orchard, and mistook Martin for one of them. A dispatch to the London Times from Buenos Ayres says that the situation at Rio Janeiro is going from bad to worse. The financial condition of the government is critical owing to the great falling off in revenue. Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, has decided to fill the void caused by Governor Tanner’s declination to attend the celebration of Chicago and Illinois day at the Nashville exposition. Secretary of Treasury Lyman J. Gage will represent the commission at the celebration, Oct. 9. The architects of the world have been invited to enter a competition for the new building of the University of California. Models and maps of the ground will be placed at various accessible points in Europe and America, and ample time will be allowed for the preparation of the designs. Anew scheme for handling the gold output of the Cripple Creek (Col.) mines will be put into use by the operators in that district. The plan is to set aside the output for one month, take the bullion therefrom and ship it by special train to the United States mint at Philadelphia in one single consignment. Business Embarrassments. CHARLESTON, W. Va., Oct. 4.—.Janies C. Mc-Graw and Kate A. McGraw?, of Harper’s Ferry, made an assignment to-day of all their property to Jas. M. Mason, jr., for the benefit of their creditors. TJie assignment covers the brewery which was built hy Mr. McGraw about three years ago, costing $50,000, and other real estate in Harper's Ferry, estimated to he worth $40,000, and about SIO,OOO of personal property. LOUIS VILLI., Ky., Oct. 4.-The Phoenix Brewing Company, one of the oldest brewing companies in the city, assigned to-day to C. C. Vogt, with liabilities of $250,000, and assets slightly in excess of this sum. President C. A. Weber states that the failure was caused hy Le filing of a number of attachment suits aggregating $13,000 hy Goepper & Cos., a Cincinnati turn. CHICAGO, Oct. 4.—ln the Federal Court of Appeals to-day Judge Woods handed down an opinion sustaining the action of Judge Grosscup in appointing a receiver for the C. H. Fargo Shoe Company, and setting aside the preferences of the United States Rubber Company. L. W. Candee & Cos., and the Metropolitan National Bank. CINCINNATI, Oct. 4.—Sachs & Morrison, wholesale clothiers. Pearl street, assigned to-day to Max B. May. Assets stated to be $25,000; liabilities, $50,000. Chattel preferences were given to the amount of SS.SOQ. Unexpected losses on contracts are said to be the cause of the assignment. How 41ie Busy Bee Doth. Leslie’s Weekly. At this time of the year, when people are returning from their vacations, when many are coming home to rest after a season of activity and dissipation, and when many more are returning with freshened energies for the battle with the world, it might be well to remember that there is such a thing as overdoing and undoing one’s self even after the annual recreation. The prosy moralists, from our boyhood’s days to man’s estate, never tire of quoting the example of the busy bee who improves each shining hour and gathers honey wherever he may find it Os course, the interests of virtue demand that this active worker should live to a good old age and go down to an honored grave with the love and esteem of animate and inanimate nature. But listen to the testimony of the latest writer on this interesting insect. “The bee’s life is rather short,” he says; “not over fortyfive or forty days long in the busy season of summer. In winter, however, a period of comparative idleness, it is estimated to extend over a greater len; P of time, but, with the exception of th :een, no bee lives to be a year old.” This is an age of grim .v, and these facts about the little uee rn y eriously discourage tho lessons of our y.,th. They show that wlu?n the e <v. rks overtime, sipping from the innocent Lowers, possibly including a few wild oats, be is shortening his little life, hut when he strikes a season of comparative idleness he lengthens his days. It is well to work, but, in the interests of the mortality rate, do not work too hard. Surprise. New York Times. Shades of Fitzgerald! What, for a title. Is this? Mr. James Whitcomb Riley has a serial poem, which has for the name “The Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers.” “Doc” is not of Shlrax, but of Indiana—a Persian Hoosier hero. The poem is to appear in the Century in th* November and December numbers.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1897.

AGAINST THE FACULTY ♦ DE PAL'W ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION’S INDIGNATION MEETING. ♦ White Caps Nearly Strangle a Decatur Policeman for Wife BeatingFour Strikes in One Day. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENCASTLE, Ind., Oct. 4.—About 300 students of De Pauw held a large and enthusisastic meeting in the interests of football this morning, and to hold their annual election of directors of the Athletic Association. After the business meeting an indignation meeting was held in Plato Hall. Here it was that the students expressed their sentiments on the Williamson incident, by. which that player stands charged by the authorities of the university with professionalism. The meeting was called to order by Captain Roller, of the football team, who gave the students’ side of the controversy. He said that the player in question was not a professional; was not receiving pay for his services and had given his word that he wanted to continue in De Pauw throughout the year and would ultimately graduate from the institution. The objections to Mr. Williamson, he said, came from the charge that he had violated a rule of the Athletic. Association, which is as follows: “No person shall be admitted to any intercollegiate contest who receives any gift, renumeration or pay for his services on the college team.” This rule is one of those adopted by the Chicago Athletic Association and forms the basis of one in the local association. The students claim they cannot get the authorities to offer any proof or evidence that Williamson is a professional, and their belief is that the authorities seek to abolish the game or have misunderstood the case altogether. Captain Roller was followed by Charles Beard, John Dawson Howe and Paul Burlingame, all of whom expressed their opinions and claims freely, and spoke for the rights of the students. They alleged that the downfall of football meant death to all the various college enterprises at De Pauw, and that if the football team be knocked out by the adverse ruling against Williamson, the Glee Club, the Mandolin Club and college publications would all be dropped. The speeches, while earnest and enthusisastic, were full of feeling of love for the university and of reminiscences, w’hen the student body had in the past rallied to the support of the institution in time of need. A petition was drawn up and signed rapidly by about two hundred students, directed to President H. A, Gobin as follows: “We, the undersigned students of De Pauw, having at heart the welfare of the university, and believing that the interests of De Pauw would be greatly advanced by the maintenance of a good football team, and further believing that the case of Mr. Williamson has been decided without full knowledge of all facts and conditions, do hereby petition that the case of Mr. Williamson be reopened for the admission of other facts necessary to a fair and complete investigation.” This was placed in the hands of Messrs. Gilmore, Burlingame, Priest, Beard, Howe, Captain Roller and Manager Hamrick. Messrs. Roller and Hamrick are working hard for the sucess of the team and claim that Mr. Williamson lias not had a fair deal and that without him they will be unable to put a representative team on the field. A large number of new’ students this morning signed the athletic roll and deposited a dollar each for membership fee. Treasurer, Prof. A. R. Priest gave a statement of the finances of the association, which show’ed an indebtedness of about a thousand dollars. It wras necessary to raise about $325 of this amount at once and liberal contributions were given to that end. The election of directors resulted as follows: F. G. Gilmore, H. S. Renich and John Haskell, of the city; Professors A. R. Priest, Alexander Stephenson and Lieutenant Ham, of the faculty, and Messrs. Roller, Neely, Haines, Neece and Miss Cartright, of the student body. The committee to whom was referred the Williamson matter called on President Gobin this afternoon and* presented two long petitions, one signed*>y students and the other by citizens. They asked a reopening of the case and presented the matter clearly to the president, but were given little encouragement. President Gobin agreed to submit the question of senate action on the case to the state of university committee, consisting of Dr. Swahlen, Prof. Longdon and Colonel Weaver, and if they should regard it favorably the case will be again taken up by the senate. Football at De Pauw’ has at present a gloomy outlook. The matter took a more favorable turn at a late hour to-night and the special committee decided to call a meeting of the faculty senate for 4 o’clock to-morrow. The students will be given three delegates at the meeting and regard the outlook now as being bright for their side. WHITE CAPS IN DECATUR. Officer Parrish Dragged from Bed and Nearly Lynched hy a Masked Mob. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. DECATUR, Ind., Oct. 4.—Last Tuesday night Officer James Parrish brutally heat his wife, knocking her down and stamping her with his feet. Her screams brought neighbors to the scene, who found her lying on the floor. A physician was summoned, w’ho pronounced her condition serious. Parrish fled, but returned later in the night, and has been staying, at home since. As everything has not been the most harmonious in the Parrish home for some time, not much was thought about the matter, only that Parrish should be arrested. But as the law had been slow, a gang of White Caps proceeded to mete out what they thought justice. Last night about midnight ten White Caps went to the Parrish house and quietly gaining admission proceeded up stairs, where Parrish was soundly sleeping, fastened a rope about his neck, and just as he awoke the rope was given a jerk, which landed him on the stairway, breaking the banister down. He was dragged to the street, and at ever step a cat-o’-nine-tails was applied to his body. His cries for mercy could be heard for blocks and awoke the entire neighborhood. He was dragged about tw’o blocks to a large tree, where it is supposed the avengers intended to hang him, but the approach of neighbors frightened the White Caps away. They gave Parrish a terrible flogging and he had to be carried home. His entire body was badly mutilated by t/ie wire lashes and his left ear almost torn from his head. The Parrish home this morning presented a sad spectacle, both Mr. and Mrs. Parrish being confined to their beds and both in a serious condition, each blaming the other for their misfortunes. The six-year-old boy related the story of how his father beat his mother The White Caps are not known, but Parrish says he thinks he recognized one of them. It is the general opinion they came from the vicinity of Henpeck. where Mrs Parrish’s parents reside. Parrish has been an officer here for a number of years. MRS. MAHAN WANTS DIVORCE. Herself anil Two Children Driven Out with n Shotgun. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RUSHVILLE, Ind., Oct. 4.—William E. Mahan, sixty-five years years old, living rear town, drove his wife, son and daughter from his house early yesterday morning, drawing a shotgun on them and threatening to kill them if they should return. Mahan remained in the house after his family left, and at 11:30 o’clock fire broke out in the dwelling and Mahan is said to have been seen running from the house. The building and everything in it was destroyed. The loss amounts to SI,OOO, with insurance of $750, in the Rush County Farmers’ Insurance Company. The insurance company is probing the matter, and the facts will he presented to the grand jury next week. Mahan is a man of violent temper, and is given to frequent debauches. He owns a farm and personal property worth SIO,OOO. He was married twice, his first wife securing a divorce from him. His family can assign no reason for his unnatural conduct. Mrs. Mahan came to town this afternoon and instituted proceedings for divorce on the plea of cruel treatment. She sets up the act of yesterday as one of the main points, and asks for $3,000 alimony, $1,500 for the education of her son and daughter, and S3OO for attorney's fees. SEVENTY BOYS ON STRIKE. Able to Tie Ip the Thomas Evans Glass Works at Marion. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind., Oct. 4.—Seventy boys employed as finishers, molders, carriers and cutters struck at the Thomas Evans glass works to-day, and the result is that sixtysix out of sixty-eight shops at the factory have been idle to-day. and over 229 people are out of employment. Heretofore the boys have been paid by the hour, and when

pay time came Saturday night they were paid by the piece. They say that this reduces their earnings 25 per cent. The employers state that it is the custom to pay by the piece in every otner factory of the kind in the country, and that they are simply adopting the plan of their competitors in paying thus. the boys were paid off Saturday night they held a meeting in the grove near the factory and appointed a committee to confer with workmen in similar lines at Alexandria. Peru and Elwood with a view to the formation of a union. Another meeting was held in Middleton’s Hall yesterday to give further consideration to the matter. The employers say that it will be but a few days until the places are filled and the factory running again as usual. ♦ THE STRIKE RENEWED. Operators Refuse to Give Advance and Men Walk Out. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. EVANSVILLE, Ind.. Oct. 4—The coalmining situation in this section is still unsettled. Recently representatives of all the mines in this district met here and adopted an advance of 5 cents a ton, and this has been accepted by most of the operators. A few. however, refuse to pay the amount asked, and to-day the miners of the Union mines went on strike, and those at the Lauder and also the Kelly and Nester mines in Warrick county, each employing about thirty-five men, went out. Strike in Air-Line Shop*. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PRINCETON, Ind., Oct. 4.-Fifty men employed as car-repairers at the Louisville & St. Louis Air-line shops, struck at noon to-day. The piece-work system w’as recently adopted on this road and the price per piece paid is not satisfactory to the men. An attempt will be made to adjust matters tomorrow. Meridian Glass AA'orks Tied l : p. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. 4.—The carrier boys at the Meridian glass works w’ent on a strike to-day for higher wages and better hours. The plant is shut down. Murdered by His Nephew. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENFIELD, Ind., Oct. 4.—Sunday afternoon, while drawing water at a partnership well between the farms of Albert C. and Benton Scott, brothers, Albert Scott was killed by the fourteen-year-old son of his brother. The boy hit his uncle over the head three times with a heavy pump handle and fractured his skull. Mr. Scott lived about ten hours ,but was unconscious most Special tc the Indianapolis Journal, of the time. The affair was witnessed by the two little children of the murdered man. They say their cousin hit their father in the back of the head while he was stooping over drawing water, knocking him down and then hit him twice. The children cried out: “Oh, papa, Albert is going to hit you,” but before he could straighten up he received the murderous blow. Mr. Scott was a large, powerful man, aged forty-seven and weighed about 170 pounds. There was an altercation at the well about a week ago, when young Albert claims his uncle slapped him, pulled his ears and threw him over the fence. He also says his uncle was inclined to quarrel yesterday and threatened him with his fists. This statement is not corroborated by the little children of the dead man. The nephew has been arrested and is now in Jail. AV. R. C. District Aleeting. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PLYMOUTH, Ind., Oct. 4.—The annual convention, Department of Indiana, District No. 1, W. R. C., met in this city last Friday, over one hundred delegates being present. They were welcomed to the city by Mayor Johnson. A critical exemplification of the ritual of the order was given and general business transacted. Among those present from other cities were: Mrs. Mary Travis, department president, of Crawfordsville; Mrs. Sims, past department president; Mary A. Davis, of Michigan City; Mrs. Yockey Bremer, Mrs. Hart, district president, of Laporte; Mr3. Gorsuch and Mrs. Lavina Calvert, of South Bend; Mary L. Campbell, of St. Louis; Jane Ryari, of Walkerton; Mrs. Bertha Buman, of Knox, and Rosa Isabel, of Goshen. In the evening an interesting camp-fire was held at Centennial Opera House. Judge W. B. Hess delivered the address of welcome and Rev. W. W. Raymond spoke on “Woman and her Relations to War.” The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: District president. Mrs. Mafy A. Davis, of Michigan City; delegate to national convention, Mrs. Mary Hilton, of Plymouth; alternate, Mrs. Lavina Calvert, of South Bend. Unsuccessful Hunt for Robbers. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PORTLAND, Ind., Oct. 4.—Driven to desperation by the scores of cases of petit thievery which have occurred w’ithin the last few months, nearly a hundred farmers living in Bear Creek township, reinforced by a number of sufferers from western Ohio, formed a posse yesterday afternoon for the express purpose of running down the perpetrators of the crimes, if possible. Well armed and well equipped for trouble, if any should come up, the posse started out and scoured several large tracts of timber, where the culprits were thought to be hiding. At one dense woods covering nearly three hundred acres it was thought the pursuers would certainly be successful. The hunt went on nearly all night, but without success. The angry farmers then returned home. Sudden Deatli of LWk-Jaw. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE, Ind., Oct. 4.—This morning Frederick Etchey died at his North Side home of lockjaw, after a few hours of terrible suffering. A week ago he stepped on a rusty nail, the point penetrating his left great toe. The wound was poulticed, and nothing more w’as thought of it until yesterday morning. When he awakened his reck was so stiff he could not move it, and in an hour the muscles of his throat became paralyzed and soon his jaws locked, the teeth being about a half an inch apart. During the last few hours he suffered from paroxysms. He leaves a wife and four children. * The Cur AA’ork* Busy. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., Oct. 4.— The Ohio Falls car works have received a number of orders from different railroads and the work will keep the big establishment busy for at least two months. The Southern Railroad Company has ordered four coaches and five hundred box and fruit cars. The Cincinnati Southern has ordered two hundred freight cars and the New York, Ontario & Western road has ordered five parlor curs and two coaches. The Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern ias iust closed a contract with the company for repairs for three hundred freight cars. The quarantine regulations throughout the South are interfering greatly witli the company in securing lumber and the work is consequently delayed. Paroled Convict Arrested. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., Oct. 4.— Captain Aley, of the Prison South, has returned from Richmond, where he rearrested Charles Beehm, who was recently paroled from the Reformatory. Boehm has been violating the conditions of his parole and his liberty was thus forfeited. This is the first instance, under the workings of the new law, where the authorities remanded a paroled convict. Thomas Wolf, who was released, has returned of his own accord. He had little less than a vear to serve and concluded that he would like to spend the time, including the coming winter, which he expects to be rather severe, behind the bars. No New Trial in Farley AA'lll Case. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Oct. 4.—The attorneys in the famous Farley will case that w’as tried at Lebanon on a change of venue from this county, received a telegram this morning stating that Judge Higgins had overruled the motion for a new’ trial. This is a victory for the Evanses, whose contest broke the will. The attorneys will go to Lebanon to-morrow r to close up the records in the case. It is not known whether an appeal will be taken. May Be AA'oife’a Brother-In-Law. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Oct. 4.-On Saturday afternoon a well-dressed man fell unconscious on Walnut street, Cincinnati, was taken to the hospital and died at night without gaining consciousness. A letter was found on him bearing the signature, “Henry Wolfe, Morristown, Shelby county. Indiana,” and addressed “dear brother.” There is a Henry Wolfe whose home is Morristown, but he has no brother, but he has a brother-in-law in Chicago. Disemboweled His Adversary. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PRINCETON, Ind , Oct. 4.-During a quarrel over a horse Martin Cross disemboweled Bud Booten with a butcher knife at East Mount Carmel, this county, this morning. Booten lived but a few minutes,

dying in a pool of blood on his cabin floor. Later details of the tragedy say that jealousy was the cause of the deed. Cross is in jail. Ben Putnam has been arrested as an accomplice in the crime. Sold ly the Receiver. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENWOOD, Ind., Oct. 4.—Grafton Johnson, cashier of the Greenwood Banking Company, has purchased the J. T. Grubbs planing mill and screen door factory. located at this place. The sale was made this morning by Receiver Wiley and the price paid was SB,OOO. This sale will settle up an estate over which the heirs have been wrangling for the past year. Dnninffe Snlt Against the 1.. E. & W. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GKEENSbI'KG, Ind., Oct. 4.—The damage suit of a Mr. Maus against the Lake Erie A Western Railway is now on trial here. Maus was injured while operating a pumping station at Rushville in lsr2. W. TV. Lambert, of Columbus, is his attorney, and George Shirtts, of Noblesville, and Judge Eugene Bundy, of Newcastle, are for the defendant. This is the second trial. Frans Maurer Found Dead. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAPORTE, Ind., Oct. 4—Franz Maurer, one of the oldest German residents of this city, was found dead this afternoon on the floor of his sleeping room over his place of business. The deceased lived alone, and had not been seen since closing his store Saturday night. His features were distorted, and his death is supposed to have resulted during a lit. Year in Prison for G. N. Mills. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ird., Oct. 4.—G. N. Mills, the Massillon (O.) man caught robbing the Andersori and Hoxey Hotels lat Friday, pleaded guilty to-day and was sentenced to the Prison North for one year. He has served one term from Lafayette. He is past middle age, and had the appearance of a well-dressed traveling man. Lost His Ilnrns anl Wheat Crop. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAPORTE, Ind., Oct. 4.—A fire this morning on the farm of Wesley McCarty destroyed tw’o barns, granaries and other outbuildings. McCarty lost his entire w'heat crop of 1,000 bushels, and seven horses. Loss, $6,000; insurance, $1,80*), in Ohio Farmers’. Sylvester Indicted for Arson. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDEKSON, Ind., Oct. 4.—H. C. Sylvester, of Fortville, was arrested to-night on. an indictment charging him with burning a i35 barn to get fk*o insurance. Indiana Obituary. SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Oct. 4.-George W. Isley, one of the best-known citizens of Jackson township, died of typhoid fever today at no'on. He served as auditor of Shelby county from 1875 to 1878. The funeral will be from St. George Lutheran Church under the auspices of the Ancient Order of United Workman. John Coleman, aged about ninety-one years, died at his home in Washington township from the effect of a fall. He was a pioneer of the county. His surviving children aro Mrs. Charles Williams, of Chicago; Mrs. John Maddox, of Morristown. He was the grandfather of Mrs. Nadive. who was murdered at Flatrock two weeks ago. JEFFERSONVILLE. Ind., Oct. 4.—The venerable Jefferson Meade, one of the most prominent residents of Washington county, is dead at the age of eighty. His brother, Benjamin Meade, died a few weeks ago at the advanced age of eighty-four, and word has just been received that Aunt Katy Farrell, a sister, had died at her home in Red Bird, Mo. The three were the only surviving members of one of the most prominent families in this part of the State. KOKOMO, Ind., Oct. 4.—The body of Miner T. Thomas, of Galveston, one of the most prominent residents of this part of the State, who died at Minneapolis, Saturday night, were shipped home to-aay and the funeral services will he held at Galveston Baptist Church at 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, conducted by Daniel Pratt G. A. R. post. He leaves a wife and one child and a brother, Dr. William Thomas, of Indianapolis. BRAZIL, Ind., Oct. 4.—Michael Huffman, aged eighty-six, was found dead in bed at his home, in Staunton, this morning. Mr. Huffman was as well as usual when he retired last evening and it is supposed that a sudden attack of heart disease caused his death. He was among the oldest residents of the county. PLYMOTH, Ind.. Oct. 4.—The funeral of Uncle DaVld Cummins, who died on Saturday, aged eighty-four, took place on Sunday at Fail-mount Church, He had been a resident of Marshall county sixty-two years. SEYMOUR, Ind., Oct. 4.-Mrs. Thomas Godfrey, sixty-eight years old, died at her home in this city this afternoon of cancer of the stomach. She leaves a husband and five children. Indiana Notes. The Twentieth Indiana Regiment will hold a reunion in Laporte next Wednesday and Thursday. The Richmond City Council, at its meeting last night, passed an ordinance abolishing all the wine rooms of that city. The Wayne county grand jury will be called in special session to investigate the assault and robbery of John E. Gray, of Cambridge City, for which four young toughs of Cambridge City, including a son of Mr. Gray, are now in jail there. By the death of a bachelor brother at Greenville, 0., Dr. Prezinger, of Elwood, has come into possession of property and cash amounting to SIOO,OOO. In the property list is included the finest hotel in Greenville. Dr. Prezinger win move to Greenville and conduct the hotel. Cyrus Hull, formerly of Chicago, hut now of Princeton, Ont., has, after many weeks of battling with the Chicago police and his former employes, been discharged pn a charge of forgery against him by his employers, Hay & Walker, real estate dealers and contractors, with oflices in the Stock Exchange building. At Buck Falls, in the Creek nation, George Wilson, aged sixty-live years, married a sixteen-year-old girl, and in the absence of Henry Crouse from home the couple went to live in the latter’s furnished house. When Crouse returned and tried to eject them Wilson shot and killed him and then took to the woods. Cattle Changed Routes. New York Times. Advertising agents can be trusted to see the possibilities of any incident and often display a talent that raises their trade almost or quite to an art. A peculiar specimen of ingenuity in this line comes all the w-ay from Oklahoma and is issued in the interests, real oi supposed, of the Rock Island Railway. It seems that while fourteen carloads of cattle were in the Santa Fe yards at Reno, awaiting shipment over that line, the animals suddenly took it into their heads to break down a length of fence and rush wildly across ti>e prairie. What their motive may have been is not known, but they brought up at the Rock Island yards and rushed into them in a tumultuous and irresistible manner. Having arrived here, it was considered more convenient to change the shipping plans than to drive the steers back where they came from, and as a result the Santa Fe earnings for that week were not quite so large as they would otherwise have been. The Rock Is and people are said to have been much impressed by this illustration of what they regard as bovine good sense in the choice of routes to the butcher, and according to report they meditate sending out a circular calling'attention to it. If they do it is almost certain that their rivals will issue a rejoinder to the effect that really intelligent cattlemen choose to direct the handling of their traffic for themselves, and do not intrust it to the decision of crazy Texas steers. X Rays Disenchanting. Kansas City Journal. “I should not advise any one to look at a fellow-being with the help of an X ray,” said the young woman who goes in for science a bit. “The other day I did, and I cannot get the lattice work effect out of my mind Whenever I see a person who looks particularly proud or dignified I have great pains to keep myself from laughing in his or her face and mocking: ’Pshaw! you are not so fine. You're only trellis inside.’ Os course you could not speak to a stranger, even to a friend, in that way. He would be offended. No. I don't advise my worst enemv to look at her neighbor, negligee in her skeleton. She would get too much satisfaction from it. For Psychologist*. Guelph (Canada) Advocate. Mr. J. Cotteral, of Guelph, fell asleep at 4 o’clock one afternoon, and in a dream saw a dead body covered with a white sheet, and on lifting it recognized his son. He awoke with a start, and related his dream to a friend. That night he was aroused by a telegraph messenger, who brought a telegram informing him that his son had been drowned at Hamilton. The dream and the drowning occurred at the same time. The Journal has for sale, very cneap. a quantity of shafting; an Atlas engine, 30-horse power and ir. good condition; a lot of office furniture and fixtures; a power exhaust fan. and numerous odds and ends connected with the printing of a newspaper, all of which will be delivered auer Oct. loth, when we expect to move Into our new building, on the southwest quarter of Monument pluc*. Address or call on JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY. Indiau&polia. Ind.

LITTLE TOWN IN ASHES ♦ - FULLY FIVE HUNDRED PEOPLE HOMELESS AT AUSTIN, PA. 4 Only Five Honaea Left In tlic Place—- " Water Scarce on Account of Drought—Hotel Burned. - - . WELLSVILLE, N. Y.. Oct. 4.—The little lumbering town of Austin, Potter county, Pennsylvania, was about destroyed by fire this afternoon and evening. About 3 o'clock a team drove into the livery of R. W. Phillips with a load of straw-. The straw struck against a lighted gas jet and in a moment the whole building was ablaze. The livery of P. A. Gallup, just north, was soon in ashes and the tire spread to the business portion. It was found necessary to blow up the wooden building occupied as a drug store by George Heimig In order to keep ‘the fire from tlie mills. A south wind was blowing and carried the fire to the Methodist Church and parsonage, the Presbyterian Church and new opera house. The tlames then turned toward the long* line of wooden dwellings, mostly occupied by employes of the big Goodyear sawmills, and soon eighty houses had been burned to the ground. The big pumps, which are supplied by a main pond near the village and which are used only in case of fire, were found to be entirely useiess on account of scarcity of water, tne pond being at this season extremely low. A special train was run from Costeiio, a neign boring village, which carried to Austin an the nre apparatus wnicn couid oe procured in that town. Turner is the street on w-hich all the dwelling houses were situated. To-night it is a smoldering mass of ruins. Only live dwelling houses are left in the town. Fully 500 persons are homeless and are seeking refuge in the few business houses on Main street. Insurance men who are upon the scene place the loss at from $16j,000 to $225,000. To-night the town is infested by a gang of toughs from outside places and It is feared that considerable ot the property saved will fall into their hands. Blaze In a Prison. TORONTO. Ont., Oct. 4.—Fire at the central prison here this afternoon did nearly $60,000 worth of damage. It started in the dry kiln of the broom factory, a threestory structure, to the west of the main prison, and the eighty convicts and their guards working there had barely time to escape with their lives. It quickly spread to the rope factory to the east and the lumber piles to the west. The fire in the rope factory was confined to the cupola, but the valuable machinery was seriously damaged by water. The fire got under control about 5 o’clock, after reducing the broom factory to the bare walls and destroying half the lumber in store. The losses to the contractors in the various industries are covered by insurance, but the loss to the government on buildings will be total. Other Fires. EXCELSIOR, Minn., Oct. 4.—The Hotel Lafayette, at Minnetonka Beach, a huge wooden structure, owned by the Great Northern Railway Company, was burned to-day. It was unoccupied, except by the watchman. The Lafayette was built in 1880 and finished in 1882, and every year since has been a resort for prominent people from all parts of the country. It was the largest summer resort house in the West, being 745 feet long, 95 feet wide and 90 feet high. The total area of floors in che building amount to three and one-half acres, or five acres including the kitchen, laundry and servants’ quarters, which were all detached from the main building. There were three hundred bedrooms. No figures have yet been given out as to the loss, but the insurance is said to be about $75,000 WINONA, 111., Oct. 4.—Fire, supposed to have been started by tramps, destroyed the stock barn of Burgess Brothers last night. Thirty horses, many of wnieh had taken premiums at the recent State fair at Springfield, were destroyed. Loss, $70,000, insurance on barn alone. PEAT BOG INUNDATED. How an Illinois Farmer Saved His laind from Fire. DANVILLE, 111., Oct. 4.—John Goodwlne, jr., has opened up his giant six-inch well two miles east. This well was bored when artesian water was first found in this vicinity, but it furnished such a volume of water that Mr. Goodwine became apprehensive that it would undermine his farm and inundate his premises and stopped it up. During the prevailing dry spell a peaty bog on the farm, located in the middle of a large cornfield, caught fire. The smoke from the burning bog was suffocating, and as the soil, which is of the vegetable formation, was burning several feet below the surface, all ordinary means of quenching the lire failed. Asa last resort Mr. Goodwine ordered his employes to open up the big well and turn it into the burning bog. When the rocks and piling were withdrawn and the well opened bowlders weighing six pounds were thrown out and a sixinch stream of water, rising to an altitude of twenty-five feet, was soon running. The volume of the well was measured, and it was found that it was flowing 86,400 barrels or over 2,600,000 gallons of water a day. The well had been nowing but two days when the burning bog was submerged. Hundreds of people visit the well daily. Bad for Spring; Wheat. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE, Ind., Oct. 4,—Allen county is now suffering* from a drought which will cost the farmers many thousands of dollars this fall. During the weeks this county has been without rain the sun has scorched the vegetables, and it is impossible to find pasture for the cattle save in the immediate vicinity of streams. All the small water courses have run dry. The ground is too hard to plow for wheat, and the time for sowing has now gone by. A few farmers, and a very few, who sowed wheat early in the season have fields dotted here and there with green where the wheat has come up, but there is not enough to be worth harvesting. Unless heavy rains come this week there is small prospect for Allen county farmers next year. Destruction In Manitoba. WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Oct. 4.—Reports continue to pour in from all parts of the province of destruction by prairie fires. In some districts not a farmer escaped loss by the fiery wave that swept over the country. Appeals were made in all the city churches last night for aid for those who suffered loss in the bush country east of the city. This was where the two women and five children lost their lives and many other families had thrilling escapes from fires which hedged them in on all sides. Several families lost homes, crops and all live stock and as they are new settlers they are left destitute. On Saturday afternoon the fire ran to within one hundred yards of one of the principal residence portions of the city and firemen had to be called out to beat out the threatening flames. Sheet of Flame Two Miles Wide. RAPID CITY. S. D., Oct. 4.—Serious fires have been raging north and south of this place for four days and the citizens are exhausted from fighting the flames to save their homes. All night 300 men made a deseprate stand against the line of fire approaching from the north and finally succeeded 4n saving the town, though many farmhouses were burned. The fire had approached within two miles of Rapid City. It had been burning for four days in the heav-iest-timbered part of the Black hills. It was swept toward Rapid City in a solid sheet of flame two miles wide: From various points in Nebraska come reports of disastrous fires. Much farm property has been destroyed. Much stock has perished. The woods and prairies are very dry, no rain having fallen here for two months. Danurrona Marsh Fire Is Spreading. Special to the Indianapolis Journal GOSHEN, Ind., Oct. 4.—A large day and night patrol is engaged in watching the fire on the great Yeoman marsh northeast of this city which, for the past week, has baffled all efforts to quench it. It is now beneath the surface in the muck, which makes it more difficult to fight. It caught under the roadbed of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern’s Michigan branch today and as this road runs through the marsh on a muck foundation, the situation is decidedly serious. The residents in the vicinity are praying for a good, soaking rain, which It Is thought Is the only thing

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That you may realize how bad I was, I will say that I was confined to my bed and went before the college physicians here who said my case was anew one for them and wanted seven or eight hundred dollars to undertake a cure; the great pain hud brought on a rupture, and I knew an operation would be death to me on account of blood poisoning. Nearly every one here knows of my terrible suffering from piles and I feel that I cannot praise the Pyramid Pile Cure enough and the Pyramid Pills also. My husband will join me in highly recommending the Pyramid, my daughter was cured by one box only. For several years I weighed but about ninety pounds, now I weigh 150 and feel in perfect health. 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Farmers are hauling w’ater to be used in case the flames get across the roadway. Everything possible is being done to keep the fire within certain territory, but unless rain comes soon dire results will surely follow. Clouds of Smoke. CHICAGO, Oct. 4.—Captains of incoming vessels to-day reported having passed through vast clouds of smoke from forest fires at the foot of Lake Michigan and the head of Lake Huron. The smoke is so dense that navigation is becoming dangerous, '-®ssels being compelled to pick their wa’’ irough the channel in the straits, all Ugh- louses, light ships and buoys being hidden from view by the clouds of smoke. Indians Will I-w Heavily. SILOAM SPRINGS, Ark., Oct. 4.-A destruet’ prairie fire is sweeping over the Che country west of here. The fire see; > be desolating a vast stretch ot cou. ry, and, as the drought in that section has been unprecedented, everything is dry and inflammable. No reports have come In from the burnt district, hut it is apparent that the Indians will lose heavily in the way of stacked grain and hay. Several People Badly Burned. MILLER, S. D., Oct. 4.—Persons just in from twenty miles north state that as a result of a big prairie fire one man has died and three others may die. Seven or eight were badly burned, one family of five named Preston all being in a dangerous condition. Hundreds of tons of hay and grain were destroyed. The fire was caused by men making a fire break. Water Costs 5 Cent* a Quart. OSCEOLA, Ark., Oct. 4.—Owing to the long-continued drought in this vicinity wells and springs have gone entirely dry, and the people are now compelled to buy water for drinking purposes. Water sells rapidly at i cents a quart, and the demand greatly exceeds the supply. Movements of Steamers. NEW YORK, Oct. 4.— Arrived. Friesland, from Antwerp; Cevic. from Liverpool; City of Rome, from Glasgow; Massachusetts, from London. HAMBURG, Oct. 4.—Arrived: Bohemia, from Baltimore. Sailed: Pennsylvania, tor New York. GIBRALTAR, Oct. 4.—Arrived: Fulda, from New York, for Naples and Genoa. QUEENSTOWN. Oct. 4.—Arrived: Pavonia, from Boston, for Liverpool. MOVILLE, Oct. 4.—Arrived: Parisan, from Montreal, for Liverpool. BREMEN, Oct- 4.—Arrived: Havel, from New York. l*ear Tree In Full Bloom. A pear tree in full bloom, with anew crop of leaves, is a phenomenon to be seen in the yard of Miss Mattie Stewart, on North Meridian street. This development is the more remarkable from the fact that the long-continued drought has caused an early loss of foliage to other trees. A FoffH and Ills Money. Kansas City Journal. At lola W. J. Bryan went Into a drug store and purchased a glass of soda water. When he had gone a rubberneck bystander bought the empty glass for $L I $ : MOST SICKNESS *> Can be prevented by natural living. Coffee T is a poison to many. I POSTUM builds I HEALTH 1 and ... X STRENGTH. |