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Thomas Taggart knows that the campaign Is warming up. *As the days pass, the gladsome smile of years has taken on a worn and nervous cast. The Taggart crowd would give $3,000 to have the election to-day instead of a week later. The John F. White vote Is the ghost which the Taggartites see over their shoulders. It gives them a creepy feeling. Do not forget that there ha* never been so bold-faced a steal of public money to promote party ends as the SIO,OOO steal for Pogue's run. A little personal effort on the part of Republicans with their Republican neighbors' the present week will increase Mr. Harding's vote by hundreds. There are startling rumors to the effect that the Taggart regime has fallen into a sower. There can be no more undesirable place in or under the earth. In spite of the frantic efforts of the mayor and his cabinets, kitchen and otherwise, to smother the scandals of his administration quite a number of them are escaping. As the days pass and the curiously crooked things come to light it goes without saying that Harding is a great deal better man for mayor than is Taggart with his advisers. One hour's flood in Pogue’s run will sweep away the dirt for the handling of w'hich SIO,OOO is being paid, but the transaction may insure Mayor Taggart two or three hundred votes. , One ought not to vote for a man for an Important position because he “is a clever fellow.” It was Tweed’s being "a clever fellow” that gave him the power to swindle the city of New York. In spite of the evasion which has been practiced, every candid man who has read the Journal knows that the Taggart bogs are included in the park territory. The expose is as clear as day. The Republicans gained all along the line last week. A good fight this week And a full vote a week from to-day will end tho Taggart regime, even If it has not fail en into an Interceptor. ' It was the “deruced clever fellow” who as county auditor approved bills for materials at 50 per cent, above the market price, and above what the Denny administration was paying for the same quality. A Republican was heard to say that ho was inclined to vote for Mr. Taggart because he is “a clover fellow.” And yet. he has never been, so fair that he would not sustain the frauds which his associates have perpetrated upon tho ballot box in Marion county. A Chicago paper declares that the bucket Blxop is the most Insidious form of gambling in tho world. This is doubtless true, but there are those who fail to see the difference between gambling through the bucket shop and trading through an agent who belongs to the exchange. “After much effort in which the reputation of the Board of Public Works was used to further the cause of private pav- • Ing companies,” the News starts out. What! supporting a regime in which tho Board of Public Works ‘\vas used to further the cause of private paving companies!” Great Scot! Tho Pogue’s run steal will hurt as well as help. One Democrat who would have taken a job complained yesterday that “there was no employment on Pogue's run for decent men with families, ns none but bums and toughs tire given w r ork there.” This may be too sweeping a statement, but it is very near the truth. The New York women who have organized for the purpose of securing laws to regulate tho marriage of dissolute and ▼.’clous parents by establishing a bureau of heredity—ln other words, to prevent the multiplication of the unfit—are taking up a work begun by Victoria Woodhull twentyfive years ago. Victoria came near being mobbed, but her successors are classed as reformers laboring for the moral happiness and usefulness of the community. Times change. Dodge No. 5, Brotherhood of Boilermakers and Iron Ship Builders, of Cleveland, 0., “having become disgusted" with the attacks on Senator Hanna, has passed a resolution denouncing such attacks as “slanderous” because, as the employes of the company in which the senator is mainly Interested, they can say that they “have always been treated with fairress and justness seldom met with by any labor union.” Yet Democratic papers will continue to caricature Mr. Hanna as ti:e robber of labor. A paper published in Philadelphia, a place where inoffensive citizens are killed on their own premises and no effort is made to find the murderers, snarls at Governor Mount aod thinks if ha would stay at home from

Nashville for the purpose of hunting the Versailles lynchers It would be to his credit. It seems to be the Philadelphia idea that it is the Governor’s duty to take a gun on his shoulder and go down and beat the bushes in Ripley county. He has a better way than that. If the Versailles lynchers are not caught and punished it will not be Governor Mount’s fault. Meanwhile, perhaps it would be well for the Philadelphia paper to look after the asassins in its own neighborhood. ARE YOU A REPUBLICAN? Are you a Republican? If so, why? Is it because you believe in the principles for w’hich the party stands? And is it not also because, as a rule, you have found that Republicans in office have given to the people better and cleaner administrations than Democrats? Assuming, of course, that these questions are answered affirmatively, what then is the thing for you to do in casting your vote for mayor next Tuesday? In the campaign about to close in this city the greatest efforts of the Democrats have been directed toward the winning of Republican votes. Why? Because the party leaders realize fully that in order for them to be successful they must win them in large numbers. The city of Indianapolis, as it stands to-day, is Republican on a fair vote by a good majority. The defeat of the Bryan ticket by 6,000 plurality last fall left the Democracy with but one hope of politicaHrsurrection and that a forlorn one. In order to stand even a ghost of a show of success hereafter, so far as Marion county Is concerned, they must, of necessity, carry this city thi3 fall, and in their extremity for a candidate who is not in every way discredited in advance they put forth Mr. Taggart—(“Oily Tom”)—the man who says “Good Dord” to the anointed and “Good Devil” to the 800 gang; who rides in the carriage with Bryan and counsels in the back room with Holt and Frenzel; who is fish on Friday and beef on every other day of the week; who convinces the ministers of his holiness, and has for his trusted agents the Bolsters, the Heiers and the Flynns; who has for each and everyone of these the same greeting, the same argument, the same guarantee of good faith—the Taggart smile. This man’s name is put at the head of the ticket with “All things to all men.” as the real platform and Republicans are ask *1 to vote it in order to sustain the plea f the independent organs that this particular brand of independence is the proper kind of politics. One day the organs shriek that Mr. Harding is “the candidate of the machine,” the next they howl that the same machine is opposed to his election. Granting for the sake of argument that there is a Republican machine, simple justice demands that it be stated that no man’s nomination was ever freer from machine dictation than that of Mr. Harding, and. the same regard for truth prompts the statement that never in the political history of this city has any man in any party been so completely the creature of the machine as has Mr. Taggart. He and his associates made the Democratic machine and fostered it until it became hts absolute master. It had for Its makers Thomas Taggart and John E. Sullivan. In Sullivan’s lamented absence it has to-day for its creature Mr. Tom Taggart. The evening organ sneeringly refers to the Republican nominee as “Newt” Harding. If ever a man did business on the easy familiarity with which the boys deal with his name it is “Tom” Taggart That is really all there is to it, that he is "Tom” to everybody "Oily Tom,” says Biff Flynn. As for Mr. Harding, he harTived in this community ever since he was born. His life has been an open book and every p.'ige is free from blot of any kind. He has held but one public office—that of prosecutor, and at the expiration of his term both of the organs which are now opposing his election for mayor gave him the highest commendation. In his profession he has always held an enviable position. Personally, he has the respect of all who know him, and politically he is a sound, all-wool, yardwide Republican. Nothing in his past career and nothing in his environment or associtution will warrant the suspicion that he will make other than an honest, conscientious mayor if elected. As for Mr. Taggart, nobody will claim that he Is not a “good fellow.” That Is his stock in trade. That he has made a good mayor the Journal denies, and the public records sustain the denial. He has no claim whatever on the taxpayers of this city. For more than ten years he has been under salary from the public and there never has been a day or an hour of that time when he has not been working for the defeat and the discouragement of the Republicans, whether he was allied to the gold, silver, wide-open or air-tight wings of the Democracy. No Democrat ever appealed for Republican assistance with poorer grace than does Mr. Taggart. What does the result of next Tuesday’s election mean? It.means that with the defeat of Taggart the campaign of IS9B is practically closed in favor of the Republican ticket. The defeat of Mr. Taggart means the utter annihilation of Democratic hope for the next general campaign in this county. His election will Inspire his party with new hope, awaken it to renewed effort. Republican success in Marion county means a Republican majority in the Legislature, and the election of a Republican United States senator. If the Republicans had nominated a candidate inferior to his opponent in mental caliber or in business capacity the appeals for Republican support on the part of the independent Taggart organ might be made with some reason. But in both respects Mr. Harding is Mr. Taggart's superior. This being true, what is the Republican voter to do about it? ACHIEVING FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE. The fact that the balances in our direct trade with Germany, France and even Australia are coming direct to us from those countries has caused uneasiness on the part of bankers in London. Heretofore when dealing with foreign countries settlement has been made in London. If we purchased merchandise In Australia, or even in France and Germany we paid for It by draft or bill of exchange on London, and if w r e sold goods in foreign countries we were paid in a similar manner. These methods have compelled the paying of tribute to London bankers. Recently, however, we are buying and selling abroad without regard to London. The trade balances are now' largely in our favor. Consequently, Germany has been sending gold direct to us, and Australia recently Shipped $6,000,000 direct to San Francisco. Those wtoo keep the run of such matters estimate that in the course of a few months $25,000,000 of gold will be received in settlement of balances which has not or will not pass through the London clearing house. Not long since the managers of the Bank of England declared they had no fear that gold would flow from London and Europe to the United States this autumn. They relied upon their old device of checking the

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outflow of gold by advancing the rate of discount. This season the governor of that institution said that our securities w’ould be sent back Instead of gold. Many have come back, but American securities are so desirable now as an investment that investors will not part with them. Consequently, gold has been sent to pay the large balances, which are likely to continue in our favor. Furthermore, there is so much gold in Europe that when the Bank of England resorts to its old device of checking the outflow by advancing its rate of discount, Berlin and Paris, the growing rivals of London, send it direct. It seems that the leading cause of this breaking away from the London clearing house is the largely increased stocks of gold in European countries. There is no longer the fear of scarcity. The government of Russia has much more gold than has the Bank of England, and the banks of France and Germany are rivals. The increase of gold is due to the doubling of the output of the mines and the largely increased coinage by the leading nations. The more gold the less the power of British bankers over it. During the last campaign the country heard much of the domination of England over the money of the United States because of gold monometallism. The experience of the past year goes te show that the surest way for this and other countries to secure financial emancipation from England is to adhere to the gold standard. Certainly the surest way to financial subjection to England would to be adopt a policy w’hich would deliver the United States over to silver monometallism. Once upon a silver basis, England’s bankers would reap a rich harvest in turning our silver funds Into gold, the money of commerce. So long as we maintain a decided trade balance, we wili have a surer grasp upon gold than has any other country. Our own product "tvill soon exceed $50,000,000 a year, while we will be able to draw upon the stock of other countries. THE TAGGART LANDS. About three weeks ago one of the Journal staff entered the extensive apartments of the suspended Park Commissioners and asked to see all the records regarding the lands which that board has certified for purchase. The clerk courteously presented the record of the boundaries of the territory and a description of the land as it was made in February when the boundaries were so amended as to exclude the possessions of Mayor Taggart. The clerk in charge gave the Journal man to understand that that w r as all the record affecting the lands of the mayor. It now turns out that such was not the case, that on several subsequent dotes the commissioners took action which affected the lands of the mayor. It appears by the court records that on April 16 the board ordered a certificate to be filed with the Circuit Court to the effect that the lands of the mayor should be Included within the boundaries of the park system. If the lands of the mayor were needed for the park system and a fair price were paid for them there is no occasion for this apparent jugglery. If it had been given out in a manly way that these lands would be purchased because they were needed there could have been no ground for fair criticism. The transaction assumes a very different aspect when the clerk of the board and Mayor Taggart’s special favorite tells an inquirer that certain votes of February embraced the last action of the board in relation to the purchase of land, when such was not the case. To cause an inquirer to infer that the Taggart lands are not embraced in the plans of the Park Commission when they are is a deception for which there is cause. There can be only one cause for suppressing the record, and that is that the lands of Mayor Taggart are, by the action of the board, to be purchased at an exorbitant figure. In showing consumption to be an Infectious disease, physicians and health boards have put an obstacle in their own path that they had not anticipated. If the malady is “catching,” people do not want hospitals and sanatoriums for the treatment of consumptive patients established near them. A New York doctor w r ho was about to establish an institution of the kind in a village he had selected as suitable was forbidden to do so by the local authorities, on the ground that its existence would be a menace to the general health of the place. He has appealed to the State Health Board for assurance that there is no danger to the public in such a hospital. Suqh assurance will not be very convincing, after all that has been said of the dangers of infection, unless it is accompanied by the promise that such sanatorium shall be Isolated—a condition of affairs that will be far from pleasing to the patients, consumptives being commonly of social proclivities and given to wandering about. In view of the absence of all restrictions upon the victims of this disease and the intimate association w'ith family and friends they have always enjoyed, the sudden dread which they inspire in certain quarters is not without its amusing features. However, if it is disseminated as the doctors say, its microbe is more to be dreaded than that of the yellow fever, from which all men flee in terror. One of the Democrats who was a leader In the anti-Bryan movement in this city a year ago asked a Republican to vote for Mr. Taggart on the ground that if Mr. Taggart should be re-elected it. will be easier for the Republicans to elect a delegation to the Legislature in 1898 and thus insure another Republican United States States senator. A Republican city administration, he want on to say, would create dissensions in the party which would make it much more difficult to carry the county a year hence. He declared, further, that between a silver Democrat for United States senator and a gold Republican he would be for the Republican as he was in 1596. This should be very instructive to the hundreds who W'ere enrolled, a few months ago, to stand for the 16-to-l heresy. News from Cape Prince of AValen. Volume 3 of the Eskimo Bulletin, “the only yearly in the world,” has been received at this office. It is six by ten inches in size, is printed at Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, and bears date of July, 1897. Its “news” is mostly of a local character, and, consisting as it does of a record of the preceding year’s important happenings, is not very new’. It is not without its sensations, however, tho murder cf a young Eskimo chief in a drunken affray, which occurred last January, being given much prominence. An account is given of a trip up the Yukon by some members of a colony of Laplanders on reindeer sleds. While in the Yukon valley they were five days without moss and several of the deer died. These Laplanders have been under contract with the United States to remain in Alaska for three years—a term which expired this summer, when it was thought they would return home. They

have demonstrated the usefulness of the reindeer during their stay, and twenty of them have been sent to the Yukon, where their usefulness and adaptability as pack animals will be tested. The herd of the cape now consists of 360 deer. “Our herders,” says the Bulletin, “have an original method of their own for milking deer, and in the summer months bring us many bottles of delicious milk, richer far than that of any Jersey. Driving is no longer an unknown art. Each of them has been driven more than 500 miles during the winter. It is an exhilarating pleasure to drive a team of fleet-footed deer. They trot along at the rate of four to eight miles an hour. Often, when traveling at great speed, they skim their noses over the surface of the snow and scoop up a mouthful, reminding one of a locomotive taking w’ater when at full speed.” Among other bits of local Information are these: “Soap is becoming an article of exchange at the cape.” “The extremes in temeprature were minus 39 in March and plus 96 in June”—a variation that even Indiana could not exceed. It is also related that May and June were “good months for w'alrusing,” and that a building boom had struck the town, “three new buildings (above ground) having been erected.” There is a special dog-sled dispatch by way of the Yukon, dated March 25, to the effect that Bryan was President and that the United States had gone to war with Spain. An editorial paragraph relieves any alarm its readers may feel at this “dispatch” by explaining that it was a practical joke originating on a Yukon steamer—an annual publication having the advantage over a daily of finding out mistakes before they are printed and correcting them in the same issue. Now thqt popular interest is turned In that direction the Cape Prince of Wales people w-H probably get news from the outside world oftener than once or twice a year, but this will not necessarily make their annual Bulletin more interesting or unique. HUBBLES IN THE AIR. The Cornfed Philosopher. “It may have been noticed,” *teaid the Cornfed Philosopher, “that the world does not think quite so much of the man who goes about doing good as it does of the mar: who does well.” Degrees of Misery. Kind Citizen—l cannot imagine anything worse than going to bed hungry for want of the price of a meal. Dismal Dawson—You got another Imagine cornin’. How about not havin’ even the price of the bed? Looking Forward. Minnie—Think you shall keep up your bicycle riding this winter? Mamie—l guess not; but there is one thing I intend to do; I mean to put in the winter learning how to ride baekw'ard on a tandem. Just a Guess. “What kind of costumes are ‘spectacular ones?” asked Mrs. Potts, who was reading the dramatic column. “Costumes you can see through, I suppose,” answered Mr. Potts, after a moment’s hestitation. MOTHERS OF THE HANGED ♦ MRS. JACKSON AND MRS. WALLING SPEND THE DAY IN THE CITY. ♦ Tlie Latter Has Been Here Since Friday, and Mr*. Jackson Came Ip from Greencastle to See Her. Mrs. Jacksdn and Mrs. Walling, mothers of Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling, the young men recently hanged for the murder of Pearl Bryan, spent several hours together in this city yesterday. They met at the Union Station and passed six hours in each other’s company, talking of the case which brought them together as Close friends months ago. Mrs. Walling has been in the city for nearly three months. Lately she has been staying with her cousin, Mrs. Michael Slavin, who lives at 51 Drake street. Mrs. Slavin has been before the public before on account of her friendliness to Mrs. Nancy Clem. Mrs. Clem boarded with Mrs. Slavin a long time previous to her death and died at her house. Mrs. Walling came there only a week ago. She had been staying with other friends in the city, but a few clays ago she brought her trunk and decided to make Mrs. Slavin’s house her home during the time she will remain here. Mrs. Jackson has been living quietly at Greencastle since the ending of her son’s career. Visiting her was the wife of the physician who attended her son during his last hours. She has been in delicate health and went to Greencastle for a change. She returned to her home in Covington yesterday and was accompanied as far as this city by Mrs. Jackson. They cqme over on the train which reached this city at ll) o’clock and were met at the station by Mrs. Wailing. As prearranged by letter Mrs. Walling remained in the ladies’ w'aiting room, so as not to attract attention by their meeting. Mrs. Jackson and her friend left the train a little after the first rush through the gates and sought Mrs. Walling. The meeting between the two women was affectionate. They threw themselves into each other's arms without a word and stood there weeping for several moments. Then they took seats and talked long and earnestly together, the other woman finding the opportuity to excuse herself and leave the bereaved friends alone. At noon the three’ women went out to lunch, and at 3 o'clock a train for Cincinnati bore Mrs. Jackson's friend away and for another hour Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. Walling enjoyed the company of each other. They never left the Union Station, but they found a quiet spot in the room reserved expressly for ladies and out of sight of prying eyes. Mrs. Jackson left at l o’clock for Greencastle and Mrs. Walling returned to the home of her cousin. It is Mrs. Walling's intention to go in a few days to Hamilton, 0., where she will make her home. MINISTERIAL* ASSOCIATION. It Decide* that It Will Live—Meeting;* to Be Held at St. Paul'*. Thirty members of the Indianapolis Ministerial Association met in the parish house of St. Paul’s Church yesterday morning, the occasion being the first meeting of the association since the summer vacation. The topic of discussion was: “Shall this Association Live or Die.” The opinion of the ministers who spoke on the subject was that the association should be continued. Rev. M. L. Haines presided and said he thought there was a necessity for the association to go forward. He felt the necessity of touch with preachers of other denominations. He said that, strict Calvinist as he w’as, he felt the need occasionally of rubbing up against the errors of Armenianism. Dr. Carstensen thought the association a necessity. He suggested that a programme of good subjects be selected for discussion and the best men be procured to handle these subjects. Rev. D. R. Lucas was in favor of continuing the organization because the time has come when churches have to be awakened to certain local interests with regard to morality which makes a necessity for unity. The association by resolution finally decided to continue the monthly meetings for the ensuing year. The association accepted the invitation of Dr. Carstensen to hold the meetings in the parish house of St. Paul's Church. The following executive committee was selected: Rev. G. A. Carstensen, chairman; Rev. It. Roberts, Rev. D. R. Lucas, Rev. C. A. Hare, Rev. G. L. Mackintosh. Rev. J. P. Brown was re-elected secretary and treasurer, besides being made a member of the executive committee. The ladies of St. Paul’s Church served luncheon at noon In the dining room. It was decided to hold the next meeting the first Monday in November.

DOSE WITH EXPERTS t ♦ BATTLE OF BOXES NOT PROFITABLE TO LUETGERT'S DEFENSE. ♦ Ex-Jadge Vincent Drops Farther Testimony as to Sesamoids, Femurs, Etc., Mach to Relief of Jurors. LUETGERT WANTS TO TESTIFY . ALLEGED .WIFE MURDERER MAY GO ON WITNESS STAND TO-DAY. Says He Can’t Be “Lied” to the Gallows, and that He Will Make Every. thing; Plain When He Tnlks. CHICAGO, Oct. 4.—An unexpected turn of affairs occurred in the Luetgert trial during the afternoon session of court. The defense suddenly dropped its line of expert testimony and put on witnesses to impeach the evidence of witnesses for the state. It was apparent that ex-Judge Vincent, chief counsel for the defense, had at last, tired of the expert evidence. The testimony of each succeeding witness was practically a repetition of that of preceding witnesses. Nothing was being gained, while the record of the case was being swelled with a volume of technical medical verbiage. For a week bones had rattled before the jury and eminent experts had disputed about them. The controversy had become tiresome to the jury. The counsel for the defense observed this and stopped. Dr. Reise may be called on to tell of the result of another experiment, but the real story of the experts as to sesamoids, femurs, metacarpals, temporals and other bones has been told. This afternoon ex-Judge Vincent, Attorney Phalen, Arnold Luetgert and others who are interested in the defense held a consultation relative to whether or not Luetgert should go on the witness stand. At the close of the conference to-night ex-Judge Vincent said he had not decided on the matter. It was intimated that Luetgert might be called to the witness stand to-morrow. In fact, it is expected he will be. State’s Attorney Deenen sought information on this point to-night, but learned only that counsel for the defense would announce their decision to-morrow morning. It is known that ex-Judge Vincent would rather that Luetget remained off the witness stand. Attorney Phalen, his associate, desires that the big sausage maker tell his story to the jury. Luetgert is anxious to explain matters, and the leading counsel for the defense seems to fear the prisoner will talk too much if he goes on the stand and thus injure his case. Luetgert said this morning: “I will give it to them straight and make liars of many people when 1 get on the stand. They can’t lie Luetgert to the gallows. My story will make everything plain.” MOB OF CURIOUS PEOPLE. There was an undiminished crush of people at the Criminal Court building this morning. All kinds of schemes were resorted to by the throng in efforts to reach the second floor of the building, on which Judge Tuthill's courtroom is located. The police and deputy sheriffs experienced great difficulty in handling the crowd. Only those who possessed tickets were admitted. Less fortunate people tried to squeeze their way in with the ticket holders. This plan brought several enthusiastic citizens into violent collision with the officers and hot arguments ensued, in which the right of the sheriff to exclude any one from a public courtroom was exciteuly disputed. But the otlicers in charge of the entrance were inexorable and hundreds of men and women slowly tiled out of the courthouse when the courtroom had been tilled to its utmost capacity. Among the visitors was Juuge J. N. Thompson, of the Court of Appeals of Louisiana. He occupied a seat on tne bench with Judge Tuthill. Luetgert and his inseparable cigar reached the courtroom half un hour before the opening hour. The big sausage maker was cleamy shaven, neatly attireu and apparently in the best of spirits. He greeted Ills attorneys and friends pleasantly and grinned at Police Inspector Shaack, who regarded him coolly. ”1 can stand this sort of thing a lifetime, so far as the physical endurance is concerned,” said Luetgert, when complimented by Phalen on his personal appearance. “But I wish it was over with,” continued Luetgert, as he sent a cloud of tobacco smoke in the air. “It wears on a man's nervous system, and especially if the weather is warm, as it has been most of the time during my trial. I feel much better since I recovered sufficiently from the injury to my leg to abandon that crutch. A crutch is an insufferable nuisance to a person who is not used to it.” MORE EXPERT TESTIMONY. Professor Eckley, of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of Chicago, was recalled to-day for cross-examination on several matters In connection with his Identification of bones. Hi 9 testimony was simply a repetition of that of other witnesses along the same line, and he was not kept on the witness stand long. Professor Plummer, of the Northwestern Medical College, the second witness of the day, gave evidence much to the liking of the defense. After a brief examination of the temporal bone introduced by the state end positively identified by Professor Dorsey, of the Field Columbia Museum, as the right temporal of a woman, Dr. Plummer, with emphasis, declared the bone was not the temporal of a human being. “It bears but a very superficial resemblance to the human temporal,” said the witness. "The line here which has been identified as a facial nerve is simply a trace which indicates that two bones have been joined or glued together. I notice what appears to me to be vegetable matter. It is of a somewhat greenish tint, peculiar to vegetable matter and to no other matter," The bone which has been identified by the experts of the prosecution as a human femur was handed to Dr. Plummer, and without hesitation he denied that It was a femur of the human race. “It resembles in a slight degree a human femur,” said the witness, “but the bone is much smaller than the average human femur. There are other distinct characteristics of the human femur missing. Besides, this bone looks rough and of a degree of thickness not seen in the human femur.” During the afternoon session Professor Eckley was recalled a second time and admitted that on one occasion he did say that Professor Dorsey, whose evidence he testified against, was one of the best men the state could have procured as an expert. Prof. Wm. B. Hall, of the Northwestern Dental College, an expert In chemistry, gave scientific testimony with reference to the action of potash on false teeth and the plates to which they are attached. It was his opinion that the potash solution in the vat in which Mrs. Luetgert’s body is said to have been disintegrated was not of sufficient destructive power to seriously affect the teeth, but it would undoubtedly either destroy or greatly damage the mouthplates. A CHEERFUL WITNESS. David Victor, a carpenter, who lives in the vicinity of the Luetgert sausage factory, was called on to tell wnether he had ever observed Mrs. Luetgert in a sad or morose condition of mind. He said he had not. She was always cheerful and happy when he saw her. “How many times have you seen her cheerful and happy?” asked State's Attorney Duncan. “Oh, I don't know,” answered the witness. “Well, about 275 times?” urged the questioner. “Not so many.” “We'', 274 times, then?” “Yes, that’s about right.” “So are you. You may go,” said the state's attorney, and the cheerful witness stepped down. Druggist H. F. Krueger, at whose store at Clyboume and Ashland avenues, Frank BiaJk bought a bottle of Hunyadl water ou the night of A£ay 1. explained that there

are six different varieties of this mineral water and that Binlk called for a bottle of the variety for which Luetgert had expressed a preference. Thus it was sought to be shown why Luetgert sent for the water when he had forty-nine bottles of the water in his factory. Frank Geisley, wbo was employed in the grocery department of Luetgert’s sausage factory, told of seeing Luelgert around the factory during the forenoon of May 2 as usqal. The sausage maker seemed to be in his usual frame of mind, according to the witness. There is a rumor to the effect that a woman has been found at Lincoln, 111., who will go on the witness stand and testify that she was the woman seen by the police and others at Kenosha. Wis., on May 3, 4 and 5. Captain Sehuettler had a talk with this woman on Sunday. One of the incidents of the trial to-day was the sawing of a temporal bone by Dr. Pierce and Dr. Rieze. The operation was watched by Assistant State's Attorney McEwen for the prosecution and ex-Judge Vincent for the defense. The bone sawing was done in a waiting room near the courtroom. The surgeons were slow and Judge Tuthill, growing impatient, sent a bailiff after them, remarking: “Those fellows have been out there long enough to saw a cord of wood.” The turn taken in the proceedings to-day permitted the counsel to get a line on the probable length of time it will require to finish the trial. State’s Attorney Deneen said to-night that three w’eeks more ought to see the end of the case. Newspaper reporters who have been reporting the trial have organized a “Sesamoid Club.” The club members meet dully at the close of the afternoon session of court and “shake the bones” for refreshments and cigars. Several dogs owned by persons around the Criminal Court building have been rechristened of late and now answer to the names of “Sesamoid,” “Femur” and “Articulator.” ENORMOUS POTATO CROP. Successful Treatment for Blight mul Hot nt Cornell University. ITHACA, N. Y., Oct. 4.—The potato crop of the Cornell University farm this year is attracting very wide attention, because of its high excellence at a time when rot and blight are general throughout the Atlantic Coast States. The yields at the university, on Indifferent, gravelly and loamy soil, which has had no fertilizer for four years, Is 300 bushels per acre, absolutely free from rot. The cost of the crop per acre, liberally estimated, is about S2O, in the following items: Seven cultivations, at 50 cents $3.50 Four sprayings, at $1 each 4.00 Sixteen bushels seed 8.00 Plowing and planti lg 3.00 Total $18.50 The only item which is liable to much Increase Is the cost of seed, the seed in this case having been bought when potatoes were cheap. Ncfw the net price for the crop is 60 cents per bushel, or SIBO an acre, leaving $l6O profit on each acre of the crop. The land is of a kind ordinarily purchasable at about $35 an acre for farm purposes. It is well within the truth to say that this crop (and others before it) shows that, with scientific knowledge, a potato crop can be produced worth more than three times the purchase value of the land it is raised on. The important points in this successful potato culture are stated by the College of Agriculture to be: (1) proper fitting of the land; (2) proper planting; (3) proper and sufficient cultivation: (4) proper spraying. The last is a specific against potato blight and potato rot. In raising this enormous crop the college neglected fertilizers, and did not select land best suited to potato culture. Elsewhere on the farm, these factors being added, the record-breaking yield of 380 bushels to the acre has been reached. It should be added that the potatoes are of uniformly, marketable quality, with no waste. The average yield in this State this year is estimated at not more than sixtyfive bushels to the t acre, and the largest average yield the State has ever known was 120 bushels. The prevention of blight and subsequent rot by spraying with Bordeaux mixture is an idea which is already being taken up by farmers. The usual method of using it, however, is to wait until the blight appears and then spray. It is then too late. At the university the potatoes are repeatedly sprayed while green and healthy, and tho blight never appears. The report of this amazing crop at Cornell, together with the generally poor crop in the State, has led to a great demand for a recent bulletin of the experiment station treating of potato culture and the prevention of blight and rot, and thousands of copies are being mailed weekly to farmers. STATE LAW UPHELD. Decision Against tlie Kansas City Stock. Yards Company. TOPEKA, Kan., Oct. 4.—Judge Foster today handed down his opinion in the Kansas City stock yards case, in w’hich he decided against the company on every legal question raised. The opinion is very sweeping and the decision is a complete victory for Attorney General Boyle. The Stock Yards Company will appeal to the United States Supreme Court. The Kansas City Stock Yards Company case grew out of the efforts of the stock yards company to prevent the enforcement of the law passed by the last Kansas Legislatuie reducing yardage charges. The taking of testimony ip the case was begun in Kansas City on April 30 last, George W. Clark, assistant attorney general of lvensas, acting as special master. The purpose of the stock yards people was to prove that the present charges were reasonable, that the prices fixed by the Kansas Legislature were ruinous and that in attempting to fix rates the State interfered with tne interstate commerce. The yards lie in both Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kan., being situated on the Kansas and Missouri line. To the company, which is the second largest in the country, the result of the case means thousands, if not millions, of dollars. The case was brought in such a shape as to make Attorney General Boyle, ana not the State, defendant, although it was an attack on the state law passed by the last Legislature to regulate and reduce charges on live stock at the yards, and an application for an injunction to restrain Boyle, as a state officer, from enforcing the law. There were three points on which the stock yard owners relied. Judge Foster said none of them could stand. His decision, boiled to a few words, is: The law governing stock yards companies is only an incident of commerce, and, in the absence of action by Congress, It is subject to state laws. Congress has not acted to fix regulations governing it. The charges fixed by the Legislature would give a reasonable return on the capital invested. OFFENDED. Chicago Federation of Labor Refused to Aid Their Celebrutlon. CHICAGO, Oct. 4.—Anarchists, W'ho are arranging for a demonstration in memory of the men executed for the Haymarket massacre have dropped a bomb, so to speak, into the council of the Chicago Federation of Labor by asking for the official indorsement and co-operation of union labor. Tho invitation stirred up a half hour’s violent debate. The executed men were declared to have been both the brothers and the enemies of man as fast as succeeding speakers could get the floor and express themselves. At length the high council o? union labor went on record by repudiating any implied fraternity between unionism and anarchy, and flatly refused to take any part in the coming exercises. The invitation to take part in the memorial services was rejected by a vote of about four to one. After the vote a majority of the anarchistic element left the hall in a body. The Anarchists will hold the memorial meeting as usual, but it is expected the gathering will be a tame affair. Will Take Tanner’* Place. CHICAGO, Oct. 4.—Mayor Carter H. Harrison and Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J. Gage, loyal Chicagoans, have leaped Into the breach left by Governor Tanner and will head the Prairie State delegation that will attend the Illinois day exercises at the Nashville exposition on Oct. 9. Mayor Harrison informed the Illinois exposition commissioners to-day that he would go and take any part in the function to which they wished to assign him. Lyman J. Gage also promised to accompany the commission and do what he could. Six Survivors of the Nevarehe. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 4.—A special to the Bulletin from St. Michael’s, Alaska, says that six of the crew of the lost steam whaler Nevarehe were picked up by the whaler Charles W. Morgan, of this city, and are still on board of that vessel. It is feared that the remaining twenty-two of the Nevarche's company have been lost on the ice. as their ship went to pieces soon after the captain and his wife and several of the crew, who were picked up by the revenue cutter Bear, left her.

J. S. DODGE HONORED INDIANA’S G. A. R. COMMANDER MADE CONSUL TO NAGASAKI. William R. Finch, a Wisconsin Editor, Appointed Minister to Paraguay and Uruguay. 1 COLORED MEN NOT DESERTED —* ATTITUDE OF THE ADMINISTRATION TOWARDS SOUTHERN NEGROES. • Postmaster Loftln, Who Wan Shot by Georgians, Has Not Y'et Sent In His Resignation. ♦ Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—James S. Dodge, commander of the G. A. R. for the Department of Indiana, was to-day honored by President McKinley with the appointment of consul to Nagasaki, Japan. Several other important appointments were announced as follows: William R. Finch, of Wisconsin, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Paraguay and Uruguay; George W. Diekison, of New York, consul at Belleville, Ont.; Alvin Smith, of Ohio, consul at Trinidad, West Indies: Percy McElrath, of New York, consul at Turin, Italy; Joseph Perrault, of Boise, Idaho, to be surveyor general of Idaho. James S. Dodge, who has been appointed United States consul at Nagasaki, Japan, was born in Morrow county, Ohio, of Scotch ancestors, Aug. 26, 1846. Two years later his parents removed to Elkhart county, Indiana, and located on a farm. In 1850, when but four years old, his mother died, and six years later death deprived him of his father. He was then cast entirely on his own resources, and passed the next seven years of his life on a farm. In June, 1863, he enlisted as a recruit in the Third Ohio Cavalry, when but sixteen years old, and served to the end of the war. He was with his regiment at Snake Creek Gap, Buzzard’s Roost, Chickamauga, Resaca, Peach 'rree Creek, Atlanta and other historic fields. He was with Kilpatrick on the latter’s famous raid, and with "Pap” Thomas at the battle of Nashville. He was at Selma, Ala., and Columbus, Ga., and was present and took part in liberating the last of the Union prisoners at Andersonville. He also assisted In the capture of Jeff Davis when the latter was fleeing in disguise. Mr. Dodge was mustered out of the service at the end of the war with the rank of first sergeant. In 1867 he entered the medical department of Michigan University, took the medical course, and continued in the practice of that profession until 1884, when he retired on account of the encroachments of rheumatism. Having prepared himself by two years of assiduous application to the study of the law, he was admitted to the bar of Elkhart county and entered on the active practice of law. Hard work and natural ability soon placed him In the front rank of his calling and made one of the leading advocates of the State. Mr. Dodge has ever been an aggressive and uncompromising Republican, and for the last twelve years has done much service for his party In the field, on several occasions stumping the northern half of the State. Asa political orator ho has few equals, and during campaign years he has been constantly in demand by tho state Republican committee. In 1892 he was a candidate for Congress, and although ho reduced his opponent’s majority one thou- • sand votes, he Was caught in the landslide that engulfed his party. Perhaps no one in the State has been more in demand for Fourth of July and Decoration day orations, and he is a frequent speaker at the G. A. R. reunions and various other celebrations. He was for several years commander of the G. A. R. post at Bristol, Ind., and later commander of Elmer Post, No, 37, of Elkhart. At the state encampment of the G. A. R., held in Richmond, May 13 of this year, he was elected department commander. Mr. Dodge is a member of the Century Club, a social and commercial organization at hla home, and is a member of St. John’s Episcopal Church. He is thoroughly domestic in his taste, and leads a pleasant home life with his wife and two children, a son and a daughter. , Mr. Finch, who Is named as United States minister to Uruguay and Paraguay, is editor and proprietor of the La Crosse (Wis.) Republican and Leader. He has been prominent In Republican councils in Wisconsin for many years and has the reputation of being a man of iiterary attainments and general ability. * NEGROES NOT DESERTED. Administration Will Stand by Colored Office Holders In tlie Sontli. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—Republicans and Democrats In Washington are exercised over the report that the administration has “gone back on” the colored brother in the South and yielded to the prejudice of the white man against the appointment of negroes to local offices. In proof of this the rumored resignation of L°ftl n . the negro postmaster of Georgia, Is pointed to. The story is that Loftin has resigned to try for a position in one of the departments in Washington, and this move on his part is accepted blindly by many as meaning the abandonment by the administration of further recognition of negro Republicans of the South. The Incident, however, has no such wide significance. If Loftin has resigned it is simply an individual Instance of a panic-stricken colored man who prefers going after safe employment in Washington to taking further risks of assassination at home. The stand he Is said to have taken in the matter affects him as an Individual, but by no means establishes the general proposition that the colored Republicans of the South are going to be deprived of tho support and protection which the federal government throw's about all Its citizens, regardless of race, sex or condition. It will be discovered, when the time arrives for a demonstration, that the administration is right up behind the Republicans of tho South, and that it will be made safe for any man to hold a government position In any part of the domain. An Associated Press dispatch says: Postmaster Loftin, of Hogansvllle. Ga.. did not put in an appearance here to-day. So far as the Washington authorities are advised, Loftin has no intention of resigning, unless an inducement in the form of another good position In the government service Is offered him. A suggestion that he be given another place was made by Loftins wife, who is also assistant postmaster, In a letter to the Postoftiee Department. In this letter she referred to the imminent danger of a renewal of violence and expressed fear fir both her husband and herself. She had oegged her husband to resign, but he had declined, saying he preferred to remain and fight it out. Despite his attitude, she urged that some other provision be made for him, for his own safety. Loftin has not communicated with the department for some time and no official proposition for a transfer has been made to him. Mr. Lyons, of Augusta, Ga., a candidate for the postofflee there, and a friend of Loftin, was here to-day ana said he was confident that the latter would decline to let the trouble force him to vacate his present office. Reception at the White House. WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—The President to-day renewed the receptions given on Monday to the general public and shook hands with about three hundred visitors in the East room. He also saw for the first time all persons who sought an audience. He was not able to give much time to each, but saw every one for a few moments. Senator Corbett, of Oregon, whose claim to a seat in the Senate will be taken up immediately after Congress assembles, saw the President for a short time and discussed Oregon appointments, several of which are pending. Bishop Arnett, of the African M. E. Church, of Ohio, paid his respects to President McKinley durtng the afternoon. Richard C. Kerens, national committeeman, for Missouri, with a number of Missouri Republicans, called In the afternoon. M. Patenotre to Retire. WASHINGTON, Oct. 4. M. Patenotre, the French embassador, called at the Stat* Department to-day to Inform Secretary Sherman that he had been notified by his government of its purpose to transfer him to Madrid and to place M. Cambon, the French Governor of Algiers, her* in Wash-