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initiation he repudiated his first oath and swore fealty to th* Southern Confederacy. It was Tranter’s confession that caused the arrest of Bowles. Milligan and Horsey, and on his testimony principally they were convicted. After President Johnson had released the "indiana consnirators,” Horsey returned to Martin coun.y, poor in purse and broken in spirit. His property had been dissipated in attorneys' fe< s. and he was no longer a man of influence. The war feeling was gtill high, and Horsey was practically an outcast. Some time ago Horsey was running a little apple brandy still in the wild hill country of northern Martin. His beard had grown until it completely covered his face, and he looked for all the world like a “wild man of the woods." He was talkative and still uncompromising, claiming that he had been greatly wronged and that the wrong could never be righted. Horsey’s contention was that the organization was not in opposition to the United States government, and he always claimed that perjured witnesses brought about his downfall. PERI OIL FIELD. It Frontlsen to Heroine as Productive as Any In the Country. Special to the Tndianapolls Journal. PERU, Ind., Oct. 17.—The greatest excitement in oil circles since the discovery of crude petroleum in this State is now on at this place. Strangers are coming to this city daily from the various oil fields of Ohio, Pennsylvania New York, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and even from Canadian fields. The Peru field bids fair to be as productive as the world’s famous Sisterville pool of West Virginia, the McDonald pool of Pennsylvania, and the famous Wood county pool of Ohio. Considerable capital from this State, from Chicago and Cincinnati is being invested in oil developments, while a great number from Ohio are here. Ohio's famous operators are so enthusiastic over the new field that they are putting in any amount of money. The field has not been given a thorough test as yet as far as hunting for a second pay streak in the Trenton formation. None of the wells are down any great depth in that formation. The general average depth of the producing wells is from fifteen to thirty feet in the sand, while there may be another and more prolific pay below. In the Ohio field the second and third pay has been found, along close to a hundred feet in the sand, and there Is no reason why the same should not exist here. The next sixty days will give a good idea of the extent of the field, and will show In which direction it extends. The following wells have been completed in the Peru fields: Earm No. ProducOwner. Well Owner of Wells, lion. Dukes—People's Oil Company 6 600 Kader— Bolds Bros 1 400 Dukes—Block & Cos 1 500 P. B. Co.—Peru Basket Cos 2 3 0 Brown—Runyon oil Cos 1 100 Whistler—Runyon Oil Cos 1 150 Buckley—Bolds Bros 1 150 Miller—Miller Oil Cos 1 150 Zern—Ohio Oil Cos 1 25 McKenna—Porter Oil Cos 1 80 Oates— Runyon & St. John 1 75 Young—Klondike Oil Cos 1 75 Mercer—Mercer & Kier 1 75 McCrea—Home Oil Cos 1 140 Kitchen—Trenton Rock Oil C 0.... 1 75 Quigley—Oil City Oil Cos 1 25 McCaffrey—Wall-street Oil Cos 1 10 Hammel—Edwards Oil Cos 1 • 45 Mehl—Equality Oil Cos 1 50 Kiley—Miami Oil Cos 1 25 Eighth Street—Peru Oil Cos 1 40 Unknown—Peru parties 2 dry Canal—Jews’ Oil Cos 1 20 Rhodes—Eureka Oil Cos 1 30 Swick—Spider Oil Cos 1 20 McGrady—W. P. Black 2 300 Fulwiler—Fulwiler Oil Cos 1 15 Totals 35 3,525 Dry holes, 2. Daily average of producing wells, 106% barrels.

UPRISING OP CITIZENS. , Doff-ln-the-Manger Policy of the Panhandle at Hartford City. Special to the Indianapoils Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Oct. 17.—The citizens of this city are stirred to the fighting point over the dog-in-the-manger conduct of the Panhandle Railway Company. For the past two years the city has been in litigation with the company over an effort to extend Water street across the tracks. The company fought the extension at every turn and with a view of forever preventing the city from opening the highway, the company has put a gang to work digging trenches for a foundation for a rtew station house to be erected directly across Water street. The building of the depot was kept a secret from the people, who are now threating a boycott and injunction. At a meeting of the City Council Friday night it was decided to engage two more attorneys to assist the city attorney in fighting the case. A special meeting of the Council will be held Tuesday evening to further consider the matter. There is a general uprising against the railway company and private citizens threaten to begin injunction proceedings if the city do not at once secure a temporary restraining order. COUNTY SEAT ELECTION. Seymour Confident of Defeating Rro want own at the Polls This Week. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SEYMOUR, Ind., Oct. 17. —The election on Tuesday, to decide the question of the removal of the county seat from Brownstown to this city, was the all absorbing theme of conversation here to-day. All day long the streets were thronged by men excitedly discussing the outcome, and the women had to go to church alone. Every kind of business is neglected arid men are giving their entire time to what Is known as electioneering. A number of Brownstown men ventured into the city also, and have been trying to stem the tide which has set In against them. This city and township will cast one-third of the vote of the entire county and It will be cast almost unanimously for relocation. At the last presidential election 1,876 votes were cast In this township, and the entire vote of the county was but 6,288, of which number Brownstown township cast 808. During the past week there has been speaking in everv schoolhouse in the county, both sides having speakers in the held. Hon. Jason B. Brown will close the campaign here Monday night. Indiana Y. W. C. A. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Oct. 17.—The thirteenth annual convention of the Young Women’s Christian Association of Indiana v/ill be held here next Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Miss Harriet Taylor. international city secretary, will have charge of the conference on city work. The city secretaries for the State. Miss Amgy Manning Taylor, of Fort Wayne, and Miss Caroline Palmer, of Indianapolis, will he present, as will also Mrs. R. R. Bourland, president of the Peoria Association. Miss Annie M. Reynolds, of London, world’s secretary of the association, will address the convention. Among other speakers will he the Rev. J. dimming Smith, of the Tabernacle. Indianapolis; Mrs. J. S. Norvell, of Chicago; Prof. Belle A. Mansfield, dean of the music school at De Pauw; Miss Mercy Hoagland, president of the Fort Wayne association. and Mrs. E. E. Stacy, of Indianapolis. Miss Carrie B. Sharp, of Fort Wayne, will have charge of the Bible work. The programme of music for the sessions has been arranged by Miss Beatrice O. Sanders. instructor of music in the State Normal School. Dr. Botany Joiicm Shoots .lames Kay. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW ALBANY, Ind., Oct. 17.—James Ray. colored, was shot and probably fatally wounded this afternoon by Dr. Botany Jones, during a dispute over a doctor’s bill. Jones tried to escape, but was caught by Chief of Police Adams, east of the city. The bullet entered Ray's spinal column, and he Js partially paralyzed. Jones is a notorious negro character from Jeffersonville, and has been arrested several times for minor offenses. Mother anti Daughter Dying. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., Oct. 17.—Miss Rosenbaum, who was shot on Thursday night by Miss Lyda Hardin, Is dying, and her mother. Mrs. Rosenbaum, is also dying of grief and nervous prostration. The physicians say their deaths will not be fifteen minutes apart. All the Rosenbaum family Is prostrated. Miss Rosenbaum was shot by the Hardin woman because she tried to persuade her brother John not to go with Miss Hardin. The latter is in jail. ” Mine™ May Ask un Advance. Bee cia' to the Indianapolis .lout mil. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Oct. 17.—The Indiana coal operators of both the bituminous end block fields are unable to supply the demand for their product. The result has been an advance in the selling price oi coal, ar.d it is- possible that the miners of the bituminous held will follow the example of

those in the Clay county block field and ask an advance of 4 cents a ton in the price for mining. Mrs. Thompson May Die. iSpecla! to tlie Indianapolis Journal. CRAW FORDS VILLE, Ind., Oct. 17.—Mrs. Will Thompson who was shot Friday night by her husband because she refused to live with him again, is very low and she is not expected to recover. The doctors have not probed for the bullet, but think it is lodged near the spine. Thompson is still in jail, having failed to get anybody to go on his SIO,OOO bail bond. Vlritiuiun Killed ly the Cara. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VINCENNES, Ind., Oct. 17—Thomas Pettus fell under a passenger train at Riverbridge, on the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway, at midnight. Both legs were cut off and he died this morning. He lived at Pocahontas, Va., and had sll in his shoe. He was trying to steal a ride to St. Louis. Texas Fever in Vigo County. Special tc the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Oct. 17.—Dr. Willis, of the county Board of Health, says there are four hundred cases of Texas fever in the county, and that while the death rate bo far has not been heavy, there is danger of serious results from the epidemic. One dairy west of the city has been quarantined. More Orders than It Can Fill. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELWOOD, Ind., Oct. 17.—The Elwood window-glass factory just now is the busiest industry in the State, and orders are coming in from all over the country, more than the factory could fill with eighteen months’ steady work. Indiana Obituary. ATLANTA, Ind., Oct. 17.-Philip King, a pioneer, died here yesterday. He was born irt Pennsylvania, Dec. 24, 1815, came to this State in 1839 and settled at Thorntown, Boone county. In 1840 he married Joainah Miller, who survives him. In 1865 he removed to Indianapolis, where he resided until 1867, when he came to Buena Vista, now Atlanta. Mr. King did much to build up the town of Atlanta. Two sons, John L. King, of Indianapolis, and Wm. 0., of Atlanta, and three daughters, Mrs. Sarah Good. Mrs. Laura Essig and Mrs. Mary A. Cochran, survive him. One son, Milton, served in an Indiana regiment during the war and died in the service. Franklin 8., the youngest of the family, died eight ye,ars ago, and the oldest daughter, Jerusha A., who became the wife of Albert Meredith, of Thorntown, Ind., died in 18S9. LEBANON, Ind., Oct. 17.—R. M. Richey, an old settler, aged seventy-two years, died to-day at his home in this city of typhoid fever. Ha was born in Kentucky and moved to Hamilton county, this State, at an early age, residing at Boxleytown. In 1845 lie blazed his way to this county and took up his residence here. He was twice married. His second wife and three children survive him.

Indiana Notes. The History Club has been organized at Earlham College for this year. Prof. Cyrus W. Hodgin will be the president, and Miss Francis Wright secretary. Manager Forbes Holton, of the Union window-glass works, of Anderson, announces that the plant will be put in operation next Friday. The Union is not a trust plant. "Kid ’ Graham, an Indianapolis pugilist, is in Elwood, and has issued a “den” to the Elwood pugilists for a tw T enty-round go or a fight to a finish for any sum from SSOO up to SI,OOO. A movement is on foot at Richmond for the organization of a company of capitalists to buy the Minck brewery, of that city, and convert it into a plant of sufficient size to supply the local beer trade. Anew advertising scheme is being introduced into Richmond. The person introducing it selects one of the largest attended churches and agrees to furnish free of charge one hundred hymn books. The fly leaves will be filled with "ads.,” and from them the publisher derives his profit. Yesterday was an important day with the congregation of St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, of Richmond. Within the past few weeks the interior of the church has been remodeled, the auditorium being made into one of the most modern in the city. A handsome pipe organ has been added, and this was dedicated yesterday. AN ENGINEERING FEAT. Span of an Iron Bridge Replaced In Two Minutes and a Half. PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 17—The feat of replacing an iron bridge span 242 feet long, 25 feet wide and 30 feet depth with one of the same dimensions of steel was accomplished in this city to-day in two minutes and thirty-two seconds. In this space of time nearly 1,700 tons of iron and steel were moved a distance of twenty-five feet, and there was not a slip or a hitch in the entire proceedings. This remarkable feat of engineering was accomplished at what is known as the connecting railroad bridge over the Schuylkill, just above Girard avenue. It is the bridge that bears the tracks of the New York division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the busiest division on the Pennsylvania system. The time set for the replacement was the forty-eight minutes intervening between the passage over the bridge of the Chestnut Hill accommodation trains leaving Broad-street station at 2:47 p. m. and at 3:35 p. m. A work train crossed to the eastern end of the bridge and stopped. The gangs of trackmen began to unspike the rails of the west-bound track on the old span. This done, the grapplers of the work train took hold of the ends of the rails, the engine started up and the entire length of rails, 242 feet, was snaked off in short order. Meanwhile four stationary engines, one at each end on a level with the bridge foundations and another at each end on scows securely moored at the base of the bridge piers, were puffing and emphasizing their readiness for the task they had to do. Tfcere was said to be less than a hundred horsp power represented in these four engines, yet so well was everything arranged that they moved the leviathan without any apparent overexertion. Then the signal was given for the little stationary engines to exert themselves. It seemed as if they all started at the identical instant. There was a tightening of the cables, an almost imperceptible creak of a wheel somewhere, and the big bulk began to move northward. It was like clockwork. As the edge of the old iron span began to show beyond the bridge piers the crowds on the north side of the river set up a shout, and as the breadth of the new steel span began to disappear behind the piers the crowds on the southern coigns of vantage also joined in the cheer, and almost before the cheer had died away the mighty feat had been accomplished. In just two minutes and thirtytwo seconds from the time of starting the engines the new span occupied the exact position from which the old one had been removed.

MURDERER LYNCHED. White Man Pursued by an Arkansas Mob and Hanged. DERMOTT, Ark., Oct. 17.—A lynching In which the victim was a white man named Cole occurred near Wilmot early Friday morning. Cole had committed a cold-blooded murder and was pursued, captured and strung up by a posse composed of the murdered man’s friends. Cole was of unsavory reputation and a habitual loafer. He was arrested on Wednesday by Constable James Jones on the charge of having committed some slight misdemeanor. When taken before a justice of the peace Cole was placed under bond, which he succeeded in giving ani was released. As he walked out of court he muttered a threat against the constable. saying that he was being unjustly persecuted and would get even with the officer. Later Cole secured a double-barreled shotgun and, slipping up behind Jones, fired both barrels into the constable’s back, killing him instantly. In the excitement Cole made hIH escape, but a large posse was soon organized and started in pursuit. Bloodhounds were secured and the search for Cole was continued until early Friday morning, when he was found in the woods eight miles from Wilmot. The mob made quick work of him. A rope was tied about his neck and he was swung up without ceremony. The mob returned to Wilmot, leaving the body of Cole swinging to a tree. Jones was an old officer and stood high in tho community. Hotel Proprietor Mardered. FOND DU LAC, Wls.. Oct. 17.—John Beaman, aged fifty, proprietor of the Beaman House, was murdered this morning by William Paine, colored, in the presence of several white men in the hotel bar. Paine was intoxicated. He escaped during the excitement. Several hundred men organized in squads and are scouring the country for blit.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. MONDAY, OCTOBER, 18. 1897.

RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE POINTS FROM THE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT. ■ - ♦ Fourteen Postal Clerks Killed and IOS Injured During the Year—Other Postoffice Statistics. WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—An abstract of the annual report of the general superintendent of tho Railway Mail Service follows: At the close of the year there were 1,164 railway postoffice lines, manned by 6,854 clerks; 33 electric and cable lines, with 102 clerks; 42 steamboat lines, with 57 clerks; making total number of lines 1,239 and total number of clerks 7,013. In addition to these there were 311 clerks assigned to duty at important junctions and depots, and 238 detailed to clerical duty in the various offices of the service; making a grand total of 7,562 clerks. The miles of railroad covered by the railway postoffice car service was 154,225; of electric and cable, 303, and of steamboat lines, 7,459. The grand total of miles traveled of all classes of service was 282,830.031. There were 654 whole cars in use and 173 in reserve, and 2,026 apartments In cars in use and 540 in reserve. Tho number of pieces of all classes of mail matte-r distributed on the cars during the year was 11,571,540,680, exclusive of registered matter and city mail. Os registered matter there were 16,256.663 pieces in all. The amount of city mail distributed for stations and carriers during the year aggregated 462,469,640 pieces. The increase of ordinary mail handled over the previous year was 3.7 per cent. A comparative table covering a period of ten years shows that there has been an increase in the amount of mail handled of 77.2 per cent, and an increase in the working force of 48.6 per cent. The number of pieces of mail matter handled correctly to each error in distribution during tho past ten years has increased from 3,694 to 11,960. The number of errors in distribution during the year was 967,538, a decrease of 14.7 per cent. The number of pieces of matter, illegibly addressed, handled during the year was 11,972,764. There were 589 casualties during the year, in which 14 clerks lost their lives, 33 were seriously and 75 slightly injured. This is a larger number of casualties and fatalities than have occurred during any previous year since the organization of the service. The passage of the bill for the relief of the families of clerks killed in the line of duty; of clerks injured and unfitted for service permanently or temporarily, and for the retirement on partial pay of clerks who have served so long as to be unfitted for service, has gain been urged. The reorganization and reclassification of the service is again strongly urged by the general superintendent. Recommendation is made for the enactment of some legislation to prevent unwarranted and unlawful interference with postal clerks while on duty in mail cars. The distribution of sec-ond-class matter by publishers and mailing agences has been followed up during the past year, with considerable success, and the. congested condition of affairs in the larger postoffiees has thereby been considerably relieved. Mr. Shallenberger’s Report. WASHINGTON, Oet. 17.—The annual report of W. S. Shallenberger, second assistant postmaster general, made public tonight, gives an interesting review of the principal developments In the entire postal transportation service of the United States and connecting foreign mails. It shows an aggregate of appropriations for this large part of the postal service for the current year of $51,041,238; the probable deficiency is $500,000, making the estimated expenditures this year $51,541,238. This will be $1,623,045, or 3% per cent, more than for the fiscal year just closed. The estimate for the fiscal year 1899 is $53,337,260, which is $1,796,021 more than the estimated expenditure for the current year. The annual rate of expenditure for the inland mall service in the year just closed was $49,862,074 and for foreign mail service $1,791,170, after deducting $258,029 for intermediary service to foreign countries. The summary of all classes of service in operation June 30 last, follows: Number of routes, 32,491; length of routes, 470,032 miles; annual rate of expenditures, $49,862,074; number of miles traveled per annum, 420,850,479; rate of cost per-mile traveled, 11.84 cents; rate of cost per mile of length, $106.08; average number of trips per week, 8.60. For star mail service, the estimate for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1899, is $5,495,000. Last year there tvas an increase of 5,330,749 miles of travel in star service, so essential to the rural districts. Last year there was only one pneumatic postal tube in operation in the country, that in Philadelphia. Since then four more contracts have been executed, in Philadelphia, New York, Boston and between New York and Brooklyn. Concerning this new postal feature, General Shallenberger reports: “It Is quite possible to carry second, third and fourth-class matter as w’ell as first, w T hen it can be made profitable. Extension to stations several miles distant from the main office, eventually, will save clerical force as well as expedite delivery in distant cities from twelve to twenty-four hours. The most important source of revenue to the department will be the large increase of local correspondence and special delivery letters. The extension of the tubular system will be necessarily slow, and probably confined to populous centers.” The report takes an important position as to newspaper mail and a plan to make the profits on short hauls offset the long runs. General Shallenberger says: “There seems to be no good reason why the great bulk of legitimate newspapers carried by the government at a great loss to the government to remote places should be permitted to be taken away from the mails by railroad and express companies whenever there is a short haul that w'ould make the carriage of them profitable to the government. The carriage of newspapers, packages, etc., by railroads and express companies may have been justified, years ago, when the railway mail service was less efficient, but with our present facilities, such as may easily be obtained, I am convinced that the department can and should carry the great bulk of newspaper matter that has been for years withheld from the mails and sent in baggage cars and special express trains." Delegates from Japan. WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. The delegates from ttlie Japanese government to the coming Bering sea conference in this city arrived here to-day. They are K. Mltsukuri and S. Fujita, both from Tokio. The former is a graduate of Harvard University and occupies the chair of biology in the Tokio University, maintained by the Japanese as a national institution. Mr. Fujita is the head of the Board of Fishery in the Department of Industries of the Japanese government. Both are middle-aged men, who have been closely watching the interests of Japan in the Bering sea controversy and were selected by the Emperor as his representatives at the conference on account of their knowledge of the subject. WOMAN FOR A HORSE Pretty, Blue-Eyed Gipsy Girl Offered in Exchange for an Animal. PORT JERVIS, N. Y., Oct. 17.—A band of gypsies © n route south were encamped near Dingmans, Pa., where one of their horses stranded them by falling dead. They pitched their tents in a piece of woods and from last Thursday until yesterday they stopped every wagon and bicyclist on the way asking them if they had a horse to trade for a woman. They showed the woman they were willing to trade. She is*twenty years of age and pretty, dark brown hair, fine teeth and blue eyes. She seemed much interested and watched each person who approached with Interest. “Why do you wish to trade her for a horse? Why don’t you buy a horse and take the woman with you?" the leader was asked. He said: “Because we are one too many any way and she has too many new' ideas for us and it is cheaper to keep a horse than a dissatisfied woman.” The girl when asked her opinion of the proposed trade said: "It’s all right here. I am willing to go. If I ain’t worth more than a horse you neeeln’t take me.” But the trader was unable to effect the desired trade and the camp broke up and left the vicinity. Robber* Secure $2,000 In Cold. OROVILLE, Cal., Oct. 17.—When the R mo stage was leaving Quincy early yesterday morning the driver and express messenger found that the office of Wells Fargo & Go. had been robbed of the express box contain-

ing $2,000 in gold. The telephone and telegraph wires leading from Quincy has been cut, so that no intimation of the robbery reached any other town until brought by stage to-day, thus leaving the robbers ample opportunity to conceal their identity and make good their escape. Cincinnati's r disaster. It Hj* Affected Attendance at Theaters! —Two More Victims Dead. CINCINNATI, Oct. 17.-Mrs. Kate White, one of the injured in the Robinson’s Opera House accident last Friday night, died tonight. Two others of the injured are in a critical condition, but with hopes of pulling through. The accident has affected the attendance at theaters so injuriously that the managers have called a nieeti ig for tomorrow to petition the city building inspector and state inspector of buildings to examine and report on the condition of their respective theaters. Later—Sinc midnight to-night Mrs. A. Scudder, of Covington, Ky.. one of the victims of the opera house disaster, died at the hospital. This makes two deaths tonight and four fatalities thus far In all. SITUATION AT NEW YORK INTERESTING TALK WITH EX-PRES-IDENT BEJAMIN HARRISON. * “It I Not a Time,” He Says, “For tlie Conservative Forces to Fall Apart” —The Issue* at Stake. * NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—1n an interview with Murat Halstead to-night former President Harrison said: “I have been detained here by the fact that all my family have had the prevailing influenza and the doctor would not consent to our going home. We hope to have his consent by the middle of this week, as we are all convalescent now'. “I have been watching the campaign in Now York with Increasing interest. I have read the papers. Some of my old personal and political friends, who are supporting Mr. Low' have labored with me and I with them when they called. If I do not get out of town soon I am afraid I shall find myself In the melee. “I do not see that any distinct issue is presented between General Tracy and Mr. Low. I have heard no arraignment of General Tracy because he was for or opposed to any measure of municipal administration. He seems to stand for an honest, economical, progressive and public-spirited city administration. The issue seems to me to be whether you shall have any issues—the Citizens’ Union holding the negative and the Republicans the affirmative. “There is great force in the suggestion that ordinarily a city election ought to turn upon questions of city administration, but there are national questions that will not be ignored. The men who voted for McKinley in 1896—whether Republicans or gold Democrats—will not fail to inquire how' the candidates for mayor of Greater New York stand upon the questions—whether public and private debts are to be paid at 40 cents on the dollar, and whether the just powers of the courts are to be upheld against assaults of the mob. They will want to know whether a particular election is going to scatter or w'eaken the forces that won these issues in 1896. New York’s mayor, they well think, ought not to be a repudiations or a friend of the mob. “It is folly to say that the St. Louis platform is not an issue and that the business men of this Greater New A'ork are not to take account of influence the election may have in the further fight that is to be made between the advocates of repudiation and disorder are dispersed. Good local purposes and management are not the worse for being associated with good national purposes and measures. Business men have not forgotten that the Republican party met these grave and threatening issues boldly and offered a rallying point to the Democrats, w'ho had been overwhelmed in their own convention. What has the Republican party done since 1o forfeit the confidence of those who voted its ticket in 1896? “The business men of New York have a right to make sure that the issue of this city contest is not such as to weaken or disorganize the sound-money forces throughout the country. They are not asked to vote for unworthy and incompetent men in order to do this—their opponents themselves being the judges. “The problem of currency reform is also pressing itself upon public attention—and, if it is to be wisely solved, it will be by the Republican party and its B°nnd-money allies of the campaign of 1896. It is not a time for the conservative forces to fall apart.” Judge Gaynor, of the Supreme Court, tonight made public his decision in the matter of the legality of the Citizens’ Union nomination petition. He denies the motion and sustains the police commissioners.

Chicagor ns to Invade New Y'ork. CHICAGO, Oct. 17.—The Cook County Democratic Marching Club, at a meeting to-day, decided to accept the invitation of Richard Croker to accompany Mayor Harrison on his trip to the East to take the stump for Tammany in the Greater New York campaign. Among those who will assist Mayor Harrison in his efforts on behalf of Candidate Van Wyck are Chief of Police Kipley, Corporation Counsel Thqrnton, several aldermen and the heads of several city departments. YELLOW-FEVER VICTIMS. Five Dealhsi and Twenty-Four New Cases at New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 17.—While the new cases did not run up rapidly here to-day, the deaths were somewhat numerous, comparatively speaking, having reached five as early as 6 o’clock this evening. Here is the list of new cases and deaths to-day: New Cases Schneider, Guanolon, Guy Maloney, Domeinco Miceli, W. G. Malo. the, P. S. Harvey, Miss Agnes Shields, Miss M. Roddia, Frank Schonezmann, I.orrena Scanlon, Parnsto, Michael Wierners, Winter, Jules Eibert, Francis Elbert, McKnight, Miss Myram Duggan, Miss Louise Clay, Ogden, William Haack, John Goode, Sadie Henican. Deaths—James Burns, Gould, Mathieu Levy, William Bockfield, Domenico Miceli. Tho official report of the Board of Health is as follows: Cases of yellow fever to-day, 24; deaths. 5; total cases to date, 823; deaths, 93; recovered, 409; under treatment, 326. There are seven cases of yellow fever and one suspicious case at Bay St. Louis, a noted resort on the gulf. The place has been quarantined. In Mississippi. JACKSON, Miss.. Oct. 17.—The State Board of Health in its official statement tonight chronicles one new case of yellow fever at Cayuga—that of Armand Anderson. At Clinton there are two new cases. Dr. R. D. Miller, who relapsed, and Mrs. R. D. Miller. At FSdwards. E. K. Noblin died this morning. Three new cases were reported there to-dav. There are six persons seriously ill, two of whom will probably die within the next forty-eight hours. Five New Cases at Mobile. MOBILE, Ala., Oct. 17.—There were five new cases of yellow fever reported to-day, as follows: Thomas Mabry, Harry Flinn, Thomas O’Connor, Mrs. V. B. McAtee, Luclen C. Webb. There were four recoveries and no deaths. Total cases to date, 164; deaths, 21; discharged, 101; under treatment, 42. Body of u Suicide Found. ELGIN, 111., Oct. 17.—The body of Albert Hammers, an official of the Modern Wood men, who disappeared three weeks ago and for whom all Woodmen camps had been searching, was found to-day in an abandoned mill a few miles north of here. He had taken his life. Chicago Alderman Shot. CHICAGO, Oct.. 17.—Alderman J. A. Haborkorn was sirot and perhaps fatally wounded by George Jensen in a saloon quarrel to-day. Jensen, who is under arrest, claims that the alderman attempted to bite off his nose. Sir Edwin Arnold Married. LONDON, Oet. 17.—Sir Edwin Arnold, the pcet and journalist, author of "The Light of Asia," and colleague of Mr. J. M. Losage in the editorship of the Daily Telegram. married a Japanese lady in London yesterday. TO Cl RE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c

WRECK OF THE TRITON ONLY FORTY-TWO OF PASSENGERS AND CREW RESCUED. * One Hundred and Fifty Lost, Many Probatly Recoin in k Food for Slmrka—Terrible Scenes. * HAVANA. Oct. 17.—The gunboat Maria Christina, which left this port yesterday for the scene of wreck of the coasting steamer Triton, bound from Havana to Bahia Honda, Pinar del Rio, which sank yesterday morning between Rornica and Mariel, has returned, accompanied by the tug Susie, which went with her. The two vessels arrived here at 1 o’clock this afternoon, the gunboat having on board nineteen and the tug boat twenty-three of the members of the lost ship’s company, of whom thirteen are civilians and soldiers. The whereabouts of the others of the company are unknown. The Triton struck the rock during a heavy rainstorm. Her cargo shifted, and fifteen minutes later she sank in 120 fathoms of water. A scene of terrible confusion and panic ensued as soon as the passengers realized the meaning of the crash. In a wild struggle they rushed for the boats. The first boat that was lowered capsized immediately and all of its occupants were drowned in the whirling waters. The next was struck by an enormous wave and turned over, drowning twenty, but the frail craft righted again, and eight who had been thrown out regained it. Some were good swimmers and kept themselves afloat for hours; others floated around for twen-ty-four hours on planks. Four soldiers on one plank whom the strong currents carried east of Havana, opposite Morro Castle, were saved this morning by a pilot boat j going towards Cardenas. They declare that last evening there were many others near them on planks, but when morning came all these had disappeared. Some of them probably became food for sharks. Those who were rescued tell heartrending stories of scenes during the terrible quarter of an hour before the Triton sank. An army captain, his wife and daughter went down together, locked in a last embrace. A mother with twins fifteen months old drifted helplfessly away on the crest of a great wave. All the other ladies and children were drowned. Just as the Triton was sinking Captain Ricardo, her commander, committed suicide by shooting himself with his revolver. It is impossible to give the exact number of those who were lost, but it is estimated that they were no fewer than 150. No passenger list has been found. The consignee says that the vessel, which carried a general cargo, was not insured. The forty-two rescued persons suffered severely from the exposure. All of them were more or less bruised and many of th*m badly w’ounded.

Movements of Steamers. NEW YORK, Oct. 17. Arrived: Havel, from Bremen; Obdam, irom Rotterdam. QUEENSTOWN, Oct. 17. Sailed: Lucania, from Liverpool, for New York. HAVRE, Oct. 17.—Arrived: La Touraine, from New York. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 17, Arrived: Pennland, from Liverpool. MOVILLE, Oct. 17. Arrived: City of Rome, from New York. LIVERPOOL, Oct. 17. Arrived: Corinthia, from Boston. ANTWERP, Oct. 17.—Arrived: Noordland, from New York. WHY IT “U. Li. See**” Opinion* Concerning the Recent Defeat of the Republican*. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Premising, first, that no sape man will dogmatically assert that the defeat of Mr. Harding was owing to this or that, or even to any certain combination of causes; and, secondly, that his defeat was in no sense whatever a declaration against Republicanism, though a most disastrous defeat of the local party and its policy in local affairs, I wish to state my conviction as to the chief, if not the only cause; pnynising, further, that it may be wise, sometimes, for party leaders to listen occasionally to humble privates; and that it is always wise to look stubborn facts and figures square in the face and to adjust ourselves to them or be sure we can overcome them. Here we have, first, Mr. Taggart, one of our wealthiest citizens, a success In his private business and a man of pleasing address, who had, by a lavish expenditure of public money, ingratiated himself into the favor of the ruling class, the nontaxpayers, and who, himself the partial proprietor of one of the most aristocratic and therefore one of the most dangerous saloons in the city, had made all saloondom his fast friend by his wide-open policy; appointing a man chief of police who demeaned himself publicly so disgracefully that he had to be dismissea from the service for the temporary good of the party. Though elected two years ago under the most solemn and repeated pledges that he would enforce the law against gamblers and all offenders, he had, from the beginning, so connived at all offenses that professional gamblers go unmolested and the closing of saloons on the inhibited days and hours is hardlyy thought of; and there never has been as many murders and other crimes which grow out of saloon patronage. To meet this disgraceful condition the Republicans nominated a very worthy man, though comparatively poor, and a good worker in machine politics, and put him on a platform in which there was a tame, not to say amoiguous, allusion to enforcing the law, and there all that part of the campaign ended. After months of silence on the part of the Republicans, in which Mr. Taggart was getting in his work with the ruling class by employing them in work not needed, and with the saloons by Opening the city wider than ever, the campaign was opened by a vigorous attack upon the park business, a scheme which was so far advanced when Mr. Taggart took the office that he could not have materially changed its trend if he had wanted to, and for which leading men of both parties were equally responsible. That some ugly things were unearthed is true, but they all related to dollars and cents, and the campaign proceeded upon the theory that the voters of Indianapolis were blind to the ten times greater pecuniary burden the saloon was inflicting upon them, not to mention the moral desolation it was causing, for not one bold, heroic word was spoken against the great crime of Mr. Taggart's administration, and all attempts of the class of Republicans who oppose the saloon to turn the campaign In that direction were treated with contempt because the saloon element must be placated. To a humble private it seems sjrange that Republican managers of a campaign should ever court the saloon influence. That, by tradition, if not by nature, belongs to the Democratic party and never has been diverted from it, in Indianapolis at least, and never can be. They seem to forget that there are 117 Christian Endeavor and similar societies in the city, every one of which is anti-saloon, and 149 Protestant congregations, and every one but two or three is pronounced against the saloon, and there Is that powerful temperance organization in the Catholic Church known as the Knights of Father Mathew, and there are ten Catholic congregations whose pastors, in the main, echo the sentiment of Archbishop Ireland, as given out only a few days ago: “If I had the power I would close the door of every saloon, of every distillery, of every brewery, until the accursed traffic should be wiped from the face of the earth.” If I did not want to be courteous I would sav the Republican manager who attempts to barter this influence for the mere pottage he rnay get from the saloon influence is a fool, and having said it I would stick to it. Look at a few facts bearing upon this subject. We have had seven municipal elections in the last fourteen years. In three of them the platform pronounced emphatically against the saloon’s disregard of the law’ and the nominee stood with both feet on the platform, and In his speeches he was as relentless against the aioon as the lato candidate was as to Mr. Taggart's bog, throtigh which the city might lose $15,000. But he was elected every time, largely by Democratic votes: for there are thousands of Democrats belonging to the Christian Endeavor and similar association* and the churches who may be depended upon to vote every time against the saloon when such bravo, defiant appeals are made to

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them with an honest purpose. On the other hand, in four of the elections our political bosses decreed that the saloon must be pleased, the platform was tame and commonplace on the saloon question, and the nominee was as dumb as an oyster afterward, never speaking one manly protest against this greatest abomination, and in more than one case seeking favor by mingling with the bummer element, if not drinkinar with it. But they were defeated every time, on the heels of great Republican majorities on national issues. Is not the Republican politician a fool who insists on such exchange of Influences? I do not affirm, but I defy any man to deny. Take a few pertinent facts bearing immediately on the late election. Last spring a mammoth petition was filed asking that saloons be excluded from the first four wards. It. was said to contain the names of three-fourths of the voters In the district and irrespective or party. The canvassers reported that 80 per cent, of those approached signed with enthusiasm, and that more than half of those who refused gave as their only reason a fear of the boycott the saloon was threatening. Let us study the figures of those four wards in the fight of vhis fact. They are instructive and may give an inkling to the cause “of the defeat of Mr. Harding. 1 assume that the Journal is substantially correct in estimating that 8,000 voters stayed at home, and that these were mostly Republicans. I do not concede that party politics should control In a municipal election, as they certainly did not in this, and would not had the issue been as bold and heroic an attack on the saloon as its enormity demands. Why did Republican voters stay at home? Simply because there was no Republican issue at stake, and they refused to indorse the wide-open policy of the party, preferring that, if the saloon must run riot it should be under Democratic auspices, many of those who did go to the polls either not voting at all for mayor or voting for some side candidate or for Mr. Taggart. Look at these figures: While in those four wards Mr. Taggart ran ahead of his mate, Mr. Stuckmeyer, 404 votes. Mr. Harding ran 213 behind Mr. Hays, his companion, and yet in the other eleven wards he ran 4 ahead of him. Is there no connection between the fact ar,d the figures? Mr. Harding is not personally responsible for the failure of that petition, but he had not the manliness to denounce its failure in such burning words as he and his denounced the bog transaction. With him the possible loss of $15,000 demanded the moving of heaven and earth, and men of all parties should rebuke it by voting against Mr. Taggart, but the preservation of homes and schools against roadhouses and beer gardens and low doggeries was nothing. Can we blame the Republicans for not voting when this home protection should have been the paramount question at issue? At least this is their apology, whether they are right or wrong in it, and if our party managers are wise they will ponder over the condition they must face in the future more than they ever have in the past, and fortunate will it be if next: year, when a United States senator depends upon the legislative delegates from Marion county, a Republican ticket Is not nominated that ignores the Christian Endeavor and Epworth League and other similar associations of Protestant Christians, and the Knights of Father Mathew and all the Catholic churches, with such men as Archbishop Ireland in the lead and our own Bishop Chatard and the venerable Bessonies close after him. Democrats may elect saloon men, but Republicans In Marion county never can. U. L. SEE. Indianapolis, Oct. 16.

ACROSS THE GOLDEN GATE. Remarkable Swimming Feat Accomplished by John Goughian. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 17.—John Coughlan, the long-distance swimmer of the Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club, to-day accomplished the remarkable feat of crossing the Golden Gate from Fort Point to Lime Point. He swam against a flood tide and made the distance in flfty-two minutes. A large number of people in boats accompanied the swimmer. This is the first time any one swam across the Golden Gate from point to point. Cavill, the Australian, swam from Lime Point, intending to land at Fort Point, but he was carried far beyond the fort on the beach. He swam from shore to shore in one hour, eighteen and one-half minutes. Coughlan’s swim was much more successful, as he reached his objective point and made the trip in twenty-six and onehalf minutes quicker time, just two-thirds of Cavill's record. EVADED THE MARSHAL Filibustering Schooner Silver Heel Probably on the Way to Cuba, NEW YORK Oct. 17.—'The revenue cutter Chandler, having on board United States Marshal McCarthy, in charge of a dozer, deputy marshals and three Pinkerton detectives, spent nearly four hours this morning cruising about the harbor in search of a schooner which, it was said, had sailed for Cuba with a filibustering party. The schooner which the marshal was in quest of w r as the Silver Heel, of Bangor, Me. It had been reported that the Silver Heel was boarded early Saturday evening by about twenty men, who were apparently equipped for an extended voyage. A number of packages had been loaded on the schooner. At 6:U5 this morning the Chandler, with Marshal McCarthy and the detectives on board, left the barge office. The Silver Heel had nine hours’ start on the tug. After cruising around for four hours without catching sight of anything that looked like a schooner, the Chandler put back to the city. Urged to Use Force. MADRID, Oct. 17.—El Imparcial says that the negotiations between the government and the chiefs of the Cuban Autonomist party have not produced the expected results. The ministerial organs urge the necessity of “energetic action to crush the rebellion by force of arms." The increase in the issue of bank notes by the Bank of Spain has created a bad impression. The Dauntless at Work Again. SAVANNAH, Ga„ Oct. 17. —The famous filibustering steamer Dauntless steamed away from Tybee in a southerly direction Saturday and has not returned. It Is supposed that she is on another filibustering expedition and will meet a vessel at sea which will transfer to her a cargo of munitions of war for the Cuban insurgents. STATE READING CIRCLE. A Few Fact* Concerning It* Organization and the I‘arpoae* of It. Wabash Tribune. People not directly interested in educational work know little of the mission of the Young People’s Reading Circle of this State. Since its organization in 1887 by prominent educators until the present Its growth has been productive of many favorable results. It was intended to remedy an evil that insidiously threatened the stability of the schools as an educational factor, not to supplant or subvert the prescribed curriculum, but to supplement it. It was found tha* some means must be devised to relieve the schoolroom of the monotony and tedium of the usual work. The minds of the pupils needed more than the regulation bill of fare. The idea became somewhat popular that the schools were not as progressive as other institutions of society and that a good, wholesome reading circle would be an auxiliary that would relieve them of that criticism. Many country homes were given an intellectual stimulus from the reading of these books and many a boy or girl had his first incentive to delve into the hidden treasures of literature and general knowledge as a result of this acquaintance. After a few annual purchases and distribution of these books by the trustees or school officials, a noticeable pride was manifest among the pupils in regard to the library; not only were they Interested In the reading, but also in the preservation of the books. The Reading Circle board has annually selected books adapted to the ages and inclinations of the pupils from the various grades, and suitable and wholesome literary food was placed at their disposal. Reside a disposition to Increase their knowledge of various authors, a commendable spirit pertaining to the use of books was noticed. They gradually familiarized themselves with the books so that they could with advantage use them In acquiring supplementa' knowledge and the ability to use a book well and intelligently Is certainly the desideratum after a knowledge of the book itself. This snlrlt developed by the use of the library Influenced many to become independent in their search for knowledge. In

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THE ORIGINAL SMITH. The Founder of ihe Family at Lat to H ave a Monument. Boston Transcript. All the Smiths will be proud, (more or less) now that a statue is to be put up in Pittsburg in honor of Tubal-cain. It would have amazed that worthy man, the original “instructor of every artificer in brass and iron," as the author of the Book of Genesis describes him, if his mother, flillah, or any of his relatives, had told him hat some thousands of years later u two-hundred-thousand-dollar bronze sthtne of him would be set up, so big that travelers by rail or river might see it passing by. A colossal bronze figure swinging an enormous hammer above a mammoth anvil may not be beautiful, but the Pittsburg people are evidently determined that it shall bo impressive in regard to size. Os course, the project has nothing whatever to do with art, any more than the Eiffel tower; it is intended as an apotheosis of industrial success, and the big pedestal of iron and steel will represent the solid basis of the fortunes of Pittsburg. The materials are exceedingly slight for a biography of the “patron" chosen by the Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania and the Pittsburg Foundrymen's Assoeation. About all that there is authoritative to tell of Tubal-cain is that he was sixth in descent from Cain and seventh from Adam himself. Being a descendant of original Adams has. of course, always counted for something. It is noteworthy in this connection that chief among the famous Smiths since Tubal-cain's time was Adam Smith, the great Scotsman and political economist, only child, by the way, of another Adam Smith, which seems to Indicate some idea of an unbroken line of connection. However that may be, there have always been shining lights hearing his name along the way that ieads back through tho dim past towards the days of tho first Smith, for in view of the colossal statue coming at Pittsburg, it is only proper to speak of Tubnl-enin’s business with a capital letter. His father’s name was Lamech; his mother’s Christian name was Zillah—or perhaps it Is more accurate to say her heathen name. It was Tabul-eain’s wife who was really the first Mrs. Smith, and the ancestress of all. the great men of her name. How well Sydney Smith would have enjoyed tracing the family connection if the whim had popped into his jocund mind! Contain John Smith. Sir Thomas Smith. Admiral Sir William Sydney Smith, of Napoleonic fame; Edmund Burke’s great friend. Sir William Cusaek Smith. LL. D.: the Greek and Engdish dictionary Dr. William Smith; the Father of Geology William Smith; the English Elizabeth Smith (who knew her Arabic;, Hebrew and Persian as well as she knew Greek. Latin, and all the modern languages); Horace and James Smith, of the “Rejected Addresses;" Elizabeth Oakes Smith, of Portland. Me.; Alexander Smith, of Ayrshire, who tried to he a poet, and Oliver Goldsmith, who was one. make up a pretty list of distinguished shades to take a friendly interest In the Pittsburg statue to the founder of thoiv family. O Rally Eye*. O babv eyes. With look so quaint and far away. With mvrterv -nd wisdom blent, peering Into ine dawning day. With sunrise look of sv.eet content. As one who has love's intuition; O baby eyes! O aged eyes. With look so calm and far away, With Ignorance and knowledge blent, Oa7lnc Into the twilight grar. With stinret look of sweet content. As one who sees love's full fruition, O aged eyes! -r. Milton Rllev, in National Magazine. T v**/-a 4 t ? % NATURAL ; COFFEE I ■•> % MADE OF GRAINS, I t % POSTUM ! CEREAL t t FOOD COFFEE. | £