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FUNERAL DIRECTORS. FI-AXNER * BUCHANAN—I 72 North Illinois street. Lady embaUner. for ladies and children. Ottiae always open. Telephone sill. Hacks at lowest prevailing price. SOCIETY MEETINGS. MASONlC—Pentalpha ixwlge, No. 561, F. and A. Masons. Stated meeting in Masonic Temple this (Thursday) evening a* 8 o’clock. Election of officers-. VESTAL W. WOODWARD, W. M. WILLIAM H. SMYTHE. Secretary. FOR SALE. FOR SALE —The Union Trust Company (trustee) offers for sale 1,911 shares of the common stock Os the Belt Railroad and Stock Yard Company of Indianapolis. Sealed bids for the whole amount ©r any part will be received up to and including Dec. 13. The company reserves the right to reject any or all bids. 11. M. FOLTZ, Secretary. FOR RENT. TO LET —House eight rooms; thoroughly modern. (New) 1701 N. Delaware, inquire FRANK E. JANES, (new> 207 N. Delaware. TO LET—House eight room*; thoroughly modern (New) 1703 N. Delaware. Inquire FRANK E. JANES, (new) 207 N. Delaware. FINANCIAL. LOANS-Monty on mortgage. C. F. tiAlbha, io Last Market street. LOANS—burnt ot *ouo and o\er. City property and farm*. C. E. COFFIN & CO., bo East Mai ket etreet. LOANS—On city and farm property at 5 and 6 per cent. Correspondence invited. MEREDITH NICHOLSON. 605 Stevenson building, Indian* a polls. FINANCIAL—Money to loan on tarm and city properties in Indiana, lowest rates, with partial payments; money on hand; no delay. C. N. WILLIAMS U CO.. 319-322 Lemeke building. MONEY—To loan on Indiana latm*. Lowest market rate; privileges for payment before due. We also buy municipal bonds. THOS. C. DAY a CO., Room 326-330, third floor Lemeke building, Indianapoli*. FINANCIAL—Money to loan on furniture, pianos, etc., in small or large amounts, on lowest terms; easy payments; confidential. SECURITY MORTGAGE LOAN COMPANY', Room 207. Indiana Trust building (old Vance block), corner Washington street and Virginia avenue. W A VITID—S M IWANTED—S3O a week and expenses paid men to seil cigars on time: experience unnecessary. The W. I* KUNE COMPANY, St. Louis, Mo. WLVTED-MALfc^Ji ELI*. .WANTED—MaIe Help-Government positions. Don't prepare for the postottice or other civilservice examination without seeing our illustrated catalogue of information. Sent free. COLUMBIAN CORRESPONDENCE COLLEGE. Washington, I). C. WANTED—Men to learn barbering. As special inducement tools are donated; wages made Saturdays while learning; only two months required; .free shaves; constant practice; positions guaranteed. Catalogue mailed free. MOLER SYSTEM BARBER SCHOOLS, Chicago, 111. CHANCE. BUSINESS CHANCE —The whole or an interest in the leading merchant tailoring store, located In a live Indiana gas-beit town of 20.000 population; good location and nice clean stock of wool•ns; will invoice about Si. 800; good opening for right party. Address MERCHANT TAILORS, care Journal. IS EMEN TS. NOTICE OF PRINTING AND STATIONERY LETTING, I. O. O. F. Notice is hereby given to printers and stationers and blank book houses that the printing committee of the Grand I .wise, I. O. O. F., of Indiana ■will receive bids at the office of the grand secretary, W. H. Leedy, for the blank books, stationery and printing of the Grand I-odge. 1. O. O. F., of Indiana for the ensuing vear. Schedules of the quantity, quality, style, etc., of the matter •will be furnished to those desiring to bid by W. H. Leedy, grand secretary, at the grand secretary’s offic, Indianapolis. All bids to be sealed and made according to schedule and the items numbered in tbe bids to correspond with the numbers on the schedule. The successful bidder will be required to give a bond to secure the faithful performance of the contract. Bids will be received up until 10 a. m. of Thursday, the 3th of December, 1897. J. B. KENNER, J. B. KIMBALL. J. F. WILDMAN, Printing Committee.

NOTIC E OF PRINTING LETTING. Notice is hereby given that the printing committee of the Grand Encampment, I. O. O. F., of Indiana will receive bids at the office of the grand scribe, W. H. leedy," Indianapolis, for tbe blank books, stationery and printing of the said Grand Encampment for the ensuing year. Schedules of the quantity, quality, style, etc., will be furnished those desiring to bid by the said grand scribe. All bids to be sealed and made according to schedule and forwarded to W. H. Leedy. grand ecribe, Indianapolis. The successful bidder will bn required to give bond for the faithful performance of contract. Bids will be received up to 10 •• m. Thursday. Dec. 9. The committee reserves the light to reject any and all bids. J. F. WALLICK, W. H. TALBOTT, D. M. BELL. ~ „ Printing Committee. r W. H. LKEDY, Grand Scribe. NOTICE. Notice Is hereby given that the undersigned, who are directors of the Indianapolis Infirmary of Indianapolis, Indiana, a corporation organized under the general laws of the State of Indiana, have filed in the office of the clerk of the Marion Circuit Court a petition for the change of the name of said corporation to Indianapolis Sanatorium and Surgical Institute. FREDERICK A. WILMANS, QUINCY VAN Ht'MMKLL, HENRY VAN HUMMELL, Directors Holtzman & "Leathers. Attorneys. NOTICE. The board of trustees of the Central Indiana Hospital for the Insane will receive sealed proposals until Friday, Nov. 26. at 10 a. m. for fur nlshing a full line of supplies for the month of December, 1897. Requisition book will be on file at Room 45. Statehouse, from and after Monday. Nov. 22, IKS7. By order of board of. trustees. YELLOW-HAMMER NIMRODS. A Policeman and the Jnll Coolc Sturt Out to Exterminate Game. f George Tomlinson Is one of the patrolmen assigned to duty on the patrol wagon. East month he was on day duty. “Jim” Thomas Is the colored cook at the county jail. The two men are great friends and are also enthusiastic sportsmen. Tuesday they decided to make an excursion to the cqqntry and exterminate the edible game. They were not particular what sdft of game*.but hud a little leaning toward quail. Sheriff Shufelton allowed Thomas to use his horse and buggy, and the men planned for a day’s hunt in the vicinity of Traders’ Point. They borrowed shotguns. This was at Tomlinson's suggestion. The last time they went they were inspired with the belief that none but a poor marksman needs use a shotgun. They felt that they could handle a rifle more humanely and with les*s damage to the meat of ’he gume. Tomlinson thought of the small shot that his teeth had come down upon while eating a succulent bird on some former occasion, and was convinced that birds, as well as squirrels and rabbits, should be shot through the head with a single ball, on that former trip they had accordingly taken Winchesters and returned empty-handed, except for two twelve-year-old rabbits they purchased from a small farmer boy. And, besides, they both had harrowing experiences. Thomas mixed himself up with ills gun and discharged it half a dozen times before he could let go of it, and finally dropped it in the middle of a forty-acre meadow and refused to touch it again. Tomlinson came near shooting his brother’s face oft. Tuesday they decided to profit by that former experience and so they borrowed shotguns. When the number of shells to be taken came up for consideration, somebody suggested that they ought to take fifteen or twenty apiece. “Oh, that won’t be half enough.” exclaimed Tomlinson. "I have promised a mess of birds to a dozen different people and they will want from three to seven apiece. It will take at least fifty birds for them, and then 1 must get a few rabbits. I promised Mathey to bring him a few lor pickling and I want some birds and rabbits for myself.” “Why, certainly,” chimed in Thomas. ’’l must give Mrs. Shufelton at least a dozen for depriving her of the use of tier horse for the day. Then there is Al Taffe and John Long, and the bicycle cops—all have promises for birds. We better take a hundred shells apiece at least. We’ll need them if we get all the game we want.” Early Tuesday morning the colored cook and the wagon man were seen driving away from the jail. They were in high spirits and talked of the day ahead of them, us they drove out into the country. “It is well enough for the State to pass laws protecting the poor quail,” said Tomlinson. ns he thought of the slaughter he was going to make that day. Thomas thought that if the State would Just let him alone the quail would be extinct in a season. The men returned from their hunt Tuesday night late. They were tired out and did not wait to deliver the game to those to whom they had promised it. Tomlinson went over to the stable and went to sleep, and the cook was starting to bed when someone asked about the game. “Oh, it’s in the buggy,” he said, and went on to his room. Somebody went out to the stable and searched the buggy. Presently he came back into the Jail office carrying two birds. They w r ere what is commonly known as the yellow hammer—about as palatable us crow.

HEAVY NET EARNINGS - ♦ LARGE INCREASE SHOWN BY PENNSYLVANIA LINES FOR OCTOBER. . Fewer Pusses for Live Stoek Shippers -Iteorgunizallon of the Union Pacllie Suld to lie Possible. The official statements show that the net earnings of the Pennsylvania lines east and west of Pittsburg increased, in October, $3,143,400. Below is given a statement of comparison of earnings and expenses of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for October and for ten months of 1897, with the same periods of 1896, which shows: Pennsylvania lines directly operated, gross earnings for the month increased $333,900; expenses increased $281,600; net earnings increased $118,300. For ten months the gross earnings increased $1,127,500, expenses decreased $1,010,200, and net earnings increased $2,13/,700. On lines west of Pittsburg and Erie for the month the gross earnings increased $500,100, expenses increased $225,300, and net earnings increased $334,800. For ten months gross earnings increased $217,300, expenses decreased $878,400, and net earnings increased $1,095,700. Estimating November and December, it is said, the increase in net earnings of the Pennsylvania proper will be, for the year, at least $4,000,000, or 3 per ce.nt. on its capital stock. As the road earned over 6 per cent, in 1896 the lines east of Pittsburg will, in 1897, earn between 9 and 10 per cent, on its capital stock. W ill Be Reorganised. S. H. H. Clark, one of the receivers of the Union Pacific Railroad, yesterday announced at St. Louis that he had been offered the presidency of that company by the reorganization committee, but that, owing to ill health, he had refused the position. His ill health is due to the heavy work imposed on him for many years. Mr. Clark will sever all connection with the Union Pacific and remain in St. Louis. It is not known whether or not he will return to the Missouri Pacific, of which he was vice president and general manager for many years. It is not believed, as reported, that E. W. Winter, formerly president of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, will succeed Mr. Clark as president of the Union Pacific. A dispatch from Omaha says: It is believed here that the change of the Union Pacific to its new owners will be followed by a complete reorganization. The purchasers of the Union Pacific were forced to pay $i3,0u0,000 more for the property than they had counted on. The only way they can get that back is to work it out of the property. To successfully accomplish this tremendous task a reorganization of the railroad will, it is claimed, be absolutely necessary, though the reorganization may be gradual. There is a good deal of talk about a Northwestern man to take charge of the property, presumably based on tne fact that Marvin Hughitt, president of the Northwestern, is the only active railroad man on the committee having temporary charge of the road. But W inslow S. Pierce, attorney for the Gould interests, is also a member of that committee. There has been a great deal of talk about the probability of the election of Horace M. Burt, third vice president of the Northwestern, to the Union Pacific property. Those who predict Burt’s election urge that President Hughitt wants to take care of H. R. McCulloch, general traffic manager of the Northwestern, by making him third vice president to succeed Mr. Burt. Edwin W. Winter, formerly president of the Northern Pacific, is still named by those very familiar with railroad mutters of an executive nature. They predict the election of Mr. Winter either its president of the reorganized Union Pacific or as chairman of the board of directors. The lists are filled with nearly half a dozen candidates, and in all reasonable probability they seem to run like this: Edwin W. Winter. Horace G. Burt, Edward Dickinson, Wiliam H. Truesdale and Oliver W. Mink.

Rates to Be Restored. Passenger rates between Chicago and St. Paul and Minneapolis and Duluth will be restored on the 12th of December. All the roads interested in the traffic in that portion of the territory of the Western Passenger Association were represented at a meeting in Chicago yesterday and the decision to restore rates as soon as the legal notice could be given to the Interstate-com-merce Commission was unanimous. Such of the roads as think they have grievances requiring redress agreed to hold their woes in the background for a time and the meeting promised collectively and individually that when the troubles of any of the roads were presented for adjustment they would be fixed up as quickly and in as satisfactory a manner to the complaining road as possible. Between now and the 12th the rate of $7. made by the Milwaukee & St. Paul, will be in effect on all the roads, but last night Chairman Caldwell sent a message to all other passenger associations and interested lines asking them to refrain from using the $7 rate for basing purposes. It wtts the general opinion among all of the roads that the one thing to do was to get the rates back to the old standards as quickly as possible. If this was not done it would only be a short time before the demoralization would be spread all over the territory of the Western Passenger Association and possibly to the Pacific coast as well, "he meeting did not take up the matter of rates to the Pacific coast, being occupied fully with the St. Paul situation. The through western rates will come up for an overhauling to TTie y trunk line passenger committee yesterday authorized a reduction of $5 in the fare from Chicago to St. Paul and all points beyond, meeting the cut of the same amount made by the warring railroads. Thus the Western railroad war has brought the rate between Chicago and St. Paul down to $7. This action was taken before the agreement was made to restore rates. New Movement Against Scalpers. Probably the most Important resolution to be considered by the National Live Stock Exchange at the convention to be held in Sioux City. la., Dec. 3, is one relating to the return passes to live stock shippers who come to market in charge of live stock. In consequence of the alleged abuse of the privilege by the sale of these passes to the scalpers, the Western Passenger Association has notified shippers that after a certain date the practice of issuing passes would be discontinued. To avert this move, timely action is proposed on the part of the National Live Stock Exchange with a view toward assisting to remove the cause of complaint. Another reason assigned for the withdrawal of the return pass privilege is the application of the Kansas law both in Kansas and Nebraska, which, it is claimed, compels the railways to accept overloaded cars of live stock without reference to weights, thus necessitating extra attention for the protection of the railway claim department against deatli losses. The railways, it is further asserted. will conform to the humanitarian feature by carrying experienced live stock attendants on every train under the express direction of live stock agents familiar with the business. The proposed resolution reuds: “That this association does hereby urge on the Senate of the United States and the House of Representatives the prompt enactment of laws whose object shall be to suppress the practice of ticket scalping and confine the stile of railroad tickets to the properly authorized agents of transportation companies, together with suitable provision for the redemption by sueh companies of unused tickets, or portions of tickets, presented for that purpose by the original purchaser.” Too Many DenUheud*. Western roads have been requested to record their vote on a recommendation of the executive committee, to whom was referred the question of suggesting relief from the abuse of privileges granted to shippers of live stock. The committee recommends that after Jan. 1 the practice of returning free persons accompanying shipments of live stock, including horses, be discontinued. The committee found that during the year 1896 the receipts of cattle, hogs, sheep, horses, mules and calves at Chicago, Kansas City, St. Louis and Omaha amounted to 490,490 cars. On the basis of one man with every three cars tlie total number of persons for whom round-trip transportat'on was obtained was not less than 163.000. During the first ten months of 1897. with a total of 12,330 cars forwarded from Kansas City, there were passed 317 owners, 1% bona fide employes and 913 deadheads, showing that

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out of a total of 1,426 men passed in charge of live stock 64 per cent, were really passengers not entitled to free transportation. Personal, Local and General Notes. The passenger station of the Big Four at North Bend was burned early yesterday morning. W. F. Wilson, general manager of the West Shore line, who is on a Western trip, was in the city yesterday. J. R. Cavanaugh, car service superintendent of the Big Four, is confined at home by an attack of pneumonia. William Lamb, chief of the passenger car distribution on the Big Four, and wife, returned yesterday from their bridal trip. The Wabash reports gross earnings for October $1,305,010, increase, $210,901, and net $488,798. increase, $113,265. Net increase for four months was $284,038. Oscar Armstrong yesterday took charge, of the city ticket office of the Big Four at Lafayette. He has been ticket agent in the Union Station for some years. The Panhandle is building a new depot at Hartford, Ind., and has put Us own mechanics at work on the building, a number of the bridge men now being idle. In November there weie handled on the Big Four svstem 143,612 loaded cars, against 125,529 in November, 1896, an increase for November this year of 18,083 cars. President Van Horne, of the Canadian Pacilic Railway, says the company has decided to build a road of its own to Itossland. B. C.. pushing the work as rapidly as possible. J. A. Barnard, general manager of the Peoria & Eastern, and his chief engineer, are spending three days on the Western division, inspecting the road and the shops at Urbana. Charles F. Hammant, who for many years has run between St. Louis and New York via Indianapolis as a Pullman conductor, is very low at St. Louis with typhoid fever. Isaac Sidle, the oldest engineer in time of service on the Wabash lines, was buried at Toledo on Tuesday. He has been in the employ of the Wabash forty years, the last thirty-five running a locomotive. F. L. Pomeroy, general manager of the White line, yesterday had a conference with the representatives of the line in this territory. Among the agents in attendance was S. D. McLeish, of Evansville. The Northern Pacific road, under the title of “Key to the Klondike,” has issued a very attractive and instructive folder. Much information is given which will be of interest to any person contemplating going to the Klondike region. E. O. McCormick, passenger traffic manager of the Big Four, and F. D. Comstock, treasurer of the company, were in the city yesterday en route to Lafayette, where they, with their wives, attended the wedding of a brother of Mr. McCormick. The business at the stock yards is now eclipsing all former records. On Tuesday Western lines delivered at the yards 155 carloads of hogs and cattle, and yesterday 181 carloads. On Tuesday 309 carloads of stock were handled on the Belt road. A telegram from James Barker, general passenger agent of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, states that the company has put on a line of tourist cars to run between St. Louis and Galveston, anew feature in passenger service with the lines running to the gulf. * In November there were handled at the city freight depots of the Pennsylvania lines at Indianapolis 36,791,522 pounds of fn-ight. representing 3,662 cars, against 32,267,075 pounds, representing 3,029 cars, in November, 1896. Increase this year 4,524,447 pounds. The Belt Road Company is short of power, and Superintendent Zion is trying to rent a couple of engines from the Big Four or Panhandle. Belt road engines are now handling a large number of cars for the packing houses, the four large concerns being in full operation. There will be no change in the grain rates east from Chicago for some time, the traffic officials of the Eastern roads having failed to reach an agreement. It is likely that the matter will be taken up at a meeting of the PJastern lines to be held in New York within the next ten days.

A. Galloway, superintendent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton main line and Indianapolis division, was in the city yesterday for a conference with Superintendent Graves, of the Indiana. Decatur & Western as to handling the interchange of business at this point more expeditiously. John G. Mason, district passenger agent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, has been appointed general Southern agent of the road, succeedinr John Leahey, resigned on account of ill health. John Williamson, ticket agent at the C., H. & D. station at Cincinnati, succeeds Mr. Mason as district passenger agent. The receipts from the sales of tickets over the Big Four lines at Indianapolis for November were $41,570.30, against $32,457.10 in November. 1896; increase this year, $9,113.20. The increase is the more striking from the tact that last year there was a ticket office near the Union Station, which increased the expenses at this point. Col. J. G. Everest, general agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, and R. C. Jones, traveling passenger agent of the same road, are in the city. Mr. Everest states that the company expects to put on its new trains between Chicago and St. Paul by Christmas, and that they will excel in completeness and elegance any train now running. The manner Samuel Felton, receiver of the Columbus, Sandusky & Hocking, is handling the property is spoken of in very commendatory terms. While increasing the business of the road he has introduced economies which have considerably lessened the operating expenses, and it is said that never before was the service as satisfactory as at present. J. J. Turner, general manager of the Vandalia line, is in the city. He states that the traffic of the Vandalia lines was carried in October at a saving of $6,000 on the same volume, through the use of the heavier freight locomotives, as compared with those in use in October, 1896, and the exhibit of November will be fully as favorable to the heavier locomotive. The Lake Shore and Lehigh Valley Fast Freight line, operating over the Lehigh Valley, the Lake Shore and the Big Four lines, bids fair to be a formidable competitor of the older fast freight lines, the new line having made arrangements for daily service of package freights between New York and Indianapolis, delivering'goods at Indianapolis forty-eight hours after shipment. In accordance with the policy of economy adopted by the receivers of the Baltimore & Ohio an electric lighting plant has been installed at Philadelphia for the purpose of lighting the passenger station, yards, freight stations, freight yards, docks, roundhouses, machine shops, etc. Twice as many lights are in service now as when the company purchased the current from local lighting companies, yet the expenses have been reduced one-half. The latest move in the fight of the Seaboard Air-line against its competitors is shown by the following order; “On and after Dec. 5, and until further notice, the Seaboard Air-line, in order to meet the action of its competitors, will allow free three hundred pounds of baggage for each passenger holding full ticket and 150 pounds for each half ticket between stations on its line. There will be no change in the free allowance in checking baggage through to points beyond the Seaboard Air-line.” Some of the roads of the Western Passenger Association are in favor of the formation of anew and stronger agreement, as it is claimed that the agreement under which the present organization is working is not sufficiently strong to enable the chairman to keep the roads from demoralizing the rates whenever they take a notion. Other roads are of the belief that, there will be no need of anew agreement until they have secured the membership of the roads that aro at the present time on the outside of the agreement. The matter will, it is expected, be taken up at an early meeting of the executive committee of the association. Until a few months ago Tar twenty years or more, the Big Four, ;h( Pennsylvania, ti e Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, the Indiana, Decatur & Westeri and the Vandalia maintained at considerable expense ticket offices near the Union Si; tion, giving as a reason for this expense tuat it was necessary to protect their roads against scalpers. A few months ago all fines agreed to close what they called their lower offices, and the res lit has been that every one of the roads row shows an increase in receipts from sales of tickets for every month since these offices were abolished. The fact is that the lower offices aided rather than injured the business of the scalpers, as the latter found it very handy to drop in at one of these offices and purchases tickets in a way that answered every purpose for scalping. For years past it has been the practice of the local freight agents to accept what is called the shippers’ count on beer shipped by the Indianapolis breweries, but they say they will do so no more. The weighing and inspection bureau officials have been investigating matters, and find that some of the breweries have been returning false reports. Detectives were set to work, and it was found that they were reporting only about 75 per cent, of the quantity of beer shipped. One car was reported to have hut seventyflve barrels of beer in it, and investigation showed that there were 105 barrels, counting kegs and half-barrels, as the rules of the road prescribe. A number of equally flagrant violations of the rules regarding shipment were discovered before the roads, through the inspection and weighing bureau, placed a check ou imeh irregularities.

MASONIC MUTUAL SUIT BENEFICIARY UNDER A POLICY ASKS FOR A RECEIVER. ©_ Han Only Received Dribs on Her Claim —Tillman Jacobs’* Companion Found Not Guilty. © Suit was yesterday brought against the Masonic Mutual Benefit Society of Indiana and Haroid C. McGrew, secretary and general managet. The plaintiff 6s Ola Layton, who brings suit on an insurance policy, and asks that a receiver be appointed to wind up the affairs of the society. The plaintiff claims that her father, George W. Leighton, in 1888, was issued a policy by the defendants for $1,500, payable at his death to his heirs. The plaintiff says her father died at Jasper, Ind., and she furnished the necessary proof of his death. She claims the defendants represented that the new by-laws required them to pay off policies in installments of 5 per cent, a month. The plaintiff says she and her attorney endeavored to get hold of a copy of these by-laws, but failed. It is claimed that a number of small payments have been made on the policy at long intervals. The charge is made that the society is insolvent and that assessments are made to pay i ge salaries to officers and other employes. It is averred that the appointment of a receiver will best protect the interests of the plaintiff and others. © ROBBINS’S DAY IN COURT. A Prisoner Testified Against a Man VVbo Got Him in Trouble. William Robbins had his day in court yesterday before Judge Baker and there is reason to believe that he rather enjoyed it. He had been released the day before from the Marion County Jail, where he had served a sentence of five months for impersonating a federal officer. Yesterday ho was called to testify against W. B. Simons, who got him into all the trouble, and he told all he knew. Simons was arrested in the courtroom last June by order of Judge Baker, and the circumstances were a bit like the plot of a Park Theater play. An old farmer in Randolph county named John McFarland had been elected a township assessor. He did not want the office, and sold it to a neighbor for SSO. Simons, who lived at Union City, found this out and went to Robbins, who was employed in the lumber business at Mathews, and suggested that they separate McFarland from a portion of his money. Accordingly, Simons prepared a warrant for McFarland s arrest, and Robbins served it on the old man. lie was very much frightened and wanted to settle, though he was unwilling to pay the SSOJ demanded. The pseudo officer agreed to compromise for s2oo, and took the farmer’s note for that amount. He mailed the note to Simons, who was to negotiate it, but something of the story got into the papers, and the note was not negotiated. Simons kept Robbins frightened for months with the notion, that the United States authorities were after him. Finally the two had a row over the purchase of a wheel, and Simons toid the story of Robbins’s action to the authorities here, and Robbins was arrested. When arraigned last June he pleaded guilty and made a clean breast of the whole story. Simons was in court to assist the prosecution, and Judge Baker ordered him under arrest. He was later released on bond, but Robbins served five months in jail. Yesterday when Simons was placed on trial Robbins told the whole story to the jury. The trial will be continued to-day. —© —, FAILED TO IDENTIFY JENKINS. State’* Main Witness Fell Down in Ills Evidence. James Jenkins, who was indicted in the Criminal Court with Tillman Jacobs, was tried yesterday. There was more than one indictment against the men. Jacobs was convicted of the crime of highway robbery and sent to prison. Jepkins was tried on the charge o-f steuHpg.a cow, an. offense in which Jacobs was also implicated. The state’s attorneys felt they had a sure case against Jenkins when they went Into the trial yesterday. The prosecuting witness was Parker A. Cowell, who identified Jacobs and Jenkins in the jail and before the grand jury as the men who had stolen the cow. Yesterday when Cowell was culled to the witness stand he M fell down” on his evidence, and when Jenkins was pointed out to him he failed to identify the prisoner. The court found Jenkins not gutltv. H.' wilt be held, however, on the charge of highway robbery.

Divorce Complaint*. George W. Thompson has sued Florida Thompson for divorce. They were married in 1886. Thompson says his wife abandoned him and went to Kansas City to live. He made an effort to get her to return to him. but she refused. He says he made two trips to Kansas City to see the woman and each time importuned her to return to Indianapolis with him. He says the last time he visited her in Kansas City she told him she was married to another man. Nelson Blackwell, in a complaint for divorce from Lillie B. Blackwell, charges the plaintiff with desertion and cruel treatment, lie says his wife left him in May, 1897, and, went to Chicago. In October she returned and demanded that he give her all their house furniture. Being a dutiful husband, he obeyed. He claims that while his wife was “packing up” she cursed him and threw a piece of glass at him, striking him in the face. Minnie Stephenson wants a divorce from William Stevenson on the grounds of cruel treatment. She says he abused her shamefully. They have not lived together since last September. F. A. W. Davis In the Runic Cane. Two witnesses were examined yesterday in the suit of the receiver of the Indiana Banking Company against John C. New and John C. Wright to recover alleged damages. These witnesses were James M. Winters and F. A. W. Davis. Mr. Winters was examined briefly, but Mr. Davis was kept on the stand most of the day. Mr. Davis was cashier of the Indiana Banking Ccmpany in IS7B, when it purchased an interest in the First National Bank. The witness testified to having had a conversation with Mr. New relative to the sale of First National Bank stock to the Indiana Banking Company. The witness remembered nothing about A. D. Lynch, the bank examiner, taking part in the negotiations. Mr. Davis was examined at length concerning the transfer of stock. Dawsons Fighting for a Child. Habeas corpus proceedings were brought in the Superior Court yesterday by Kate A. Dawson for possession of her son, Frankie B. Dawson, aged four years. Samuel C. Dawson, husband of the plaintiff, is the defendant. Dawson resides in Perry township. He separated from his wife a year ago. She claims he drove her from the house, and since then she has been living with her parents. She says the child is in the possession of the father, who refuses to give it up. The mother claims the father is morally unfit to have the custody of the child, and shows the court that she has a comfortable home and is prepared to take good care of the boy. Judge Harvey granted the writ and set the case down for final hearing. Alntii Wheeler’* Damage Salt. Alma Wheeler brought a $5,000 damage suit against the Citizens’ Street-railroad Company yesterday. She was laid up for five weeks on account of an accident which happened last September. The plaintiff lives with her family on East Tenth street. One evening she started down town with her daughter, and boarded a car near her home. After they had gone a short distance the plaintiff decided that she would return home and signaled the conductor to stop the car. In getting off. she says, the car wae jerked abruptly forward and she was thrown to the pavement. Wishmeyer ( tied for Contempt. Christian F. Wishmeyer has been cited for contempt of court by Judge Harvey, of Room 2, Superior Court. Two years ago residents of Mount Jackson secured a judgment for $250 damages against Wishmeyer and others for maintaining a nuisance in the suburb. Wishmeyer was the proprietor of a building in which the "Abbey” resort was operated. The defendants went to the Supreme Court with the case, but the lower

court was sustained. It is now charged that Wishmeyer maintained the nuisance after having been enjoined by the court. Trial of Hammond Poatofflce Clerk. James C. Riley, a clerk in the Hammond postofflce, was tried in the Federal Court yesterday on the charge of abstracting a letter containing money. The letter had been found under a shelf in the postofflce, and the defendant claimed that he got it there by accident. The jury deliberated over the matter until late in the night, and returned a scaled verdict. Claims 5;i,700 for the Calverts. Henry W. Tielking, who constructed a number of stone culverts for the Indianapolis, Greenwood & Franklin Railroad Company, has brought suit to foreclose lien which he holds against the defendant s property. He claims there is $3,700 due him. Salt Over a Pastured Horse. A damage suit, in which Joseph Tyler Is plaintiff and John H. Furnas is defendant, is on trial in Room 2, Superior Court. The plaintiff pastured a horse on the defendant’s farm and claims the animal was injured while in Furnas’s charge. THE COCUT KEcORD. Superior Court. Room I—B. S. Higgins, Special Judge. Frederick Rand, Receiver, vs. John C. Wright and John C. New. On trial by jury. Room 2—Lawson M. Hurvey, Judge. Carl Morrison vs. David Beverland; contract. Jury returned verdict for defendant. Joseph Tyler vs. John H. Furnas et al.; damages. On trial by jury. Room 3—Vinson Carter, Judge. A. 11. Nordyke vs. Charles B. McCreary; replevin. Judgment on verdict for $237.70 and costs. Russell Wind Stacker Company vs. John P. Heaton; note. Defendant defaulted. Finding and judgment for $137.49 and costs. Mary Roth vs. Frederick Hartman et-al.; foreclosure. Finding and judgment against Frederick Hartman for -V1,721.87. Eliza Lester vs. James W. Madln; breach of promise.. Suit withdrawn and judgment against plaintiff for costs. Circuit Court. Henry Clay Allen, Judge. Howard Kimball vs. John A. Smith et al.; proceedings supplemental to executions. Submitted to court and evidence heard. Criminal Court. John F. McCray, Judge. The State of Indiana vs. Tillman Jacobs and James Jenkins; grand larceny. Separate trial of James Jenkins by court. Evidence concluded and cause submitted. Finding of not guilty. Xcw Suits Filed. Alma Wheeler vs. the Citizens’ Streetrailroad Company; damages. Superior Court, Room 1. . Ola Leighton vs. the Masonic Mutual Benefit Society of Indiana et al.; suit for receiver. Circuit Court. Alfred M. Donkle vs. Maud Switzer et al.; suit in replevin. Circuit Court. Kate A. Dawson vs. Samuel A. Dawson; petition for writ of habeas corpus. Superior Court, Room 2. John V. Farwell Company vs. Charles P. Bowman, et al.; suit on account. Superior Court, Room 1. Louis A. Kinsey vs. Caspar Sehmallholz; suit to foreclose mortgage. Superior Court, Room 1. Minnie Stevenson vs. William Stevenson; suit for divorce. Superior Court, Room 1. George W. Thompson vs. Florida Thompson; divorce. Superior Court, Room 3. Nelson Blackwell vs. Lillie D. Blackwell; suit for divorce. Superior Court, Room 2. Lewis Baum vs. Ellen R. Souder; suit to foreclose mortgage. Superior Court, Room 2. Edgar Blair vs. Benjamin Osborn; suit in replevin. Superior Court, Room 3. Henry W. Tielking vs. the Indianapolis, Greenwood & Franklin Railroad Company; mechanic’s lien. Superior Court, Room 2.

A LIST OF SUDDEN DEATHS. Coroner Was Kept ilnay with Investigations Yesterday. John Bremer’s death, which occurred Tuesday evening at 1613 Ludlow avenue, was found yesterday to have resulted from a liver trouble, which affected the heart. The coroner’s autopsy proved that neither morphine nor the blow from the footpads produced death. It is not true, as reported, that Dr. Outland attended Bremer. The man was dead fifteen minutes before Dr. Outland arrived. The coroner and his deputy were kept busy yesterday. Last evening, at 519 Stevens street, Mrs. Christina Trincel died suddenly of heart disease. She was seventy-one years old and had been under the care of a phvsician for some months. Minnie White, a domestic living at 406 West Seventeenth street, died at 1 o’clock yesterdav morning. Heart disease was the cause. She was forty-four years old and unmarried. She came here recently from Rochester. Simon Miller, eighty years of age, was. found dead in his bed yesterday morning at his home on West Twenty-seventh street. Exhaustion and old age, the coroner found, produced death. Another case reported by the coroner was the death of James Thomas, a colored exsoldier about fifty years old. He died suddenly at his home in McGuffln's alley, between old Seventh and Eighth streets. GAS BILLS COINCIDENCE. Two City Employes Miike an Interesting- Comparison. Two city employes noted a peculiar coincidence in their artificial gas bills yesterday. One lives in Morton Place and another in the central portion of the city. The bill of the Morton-place man up to Sept. 20 was $2.63, that of the; down-town man $2.13. Their bills to Oct. 20 were increased to $3 and $2.50, respectively, and to Nov. 20, $4.13 and $3.63 an increase in each case of 37 cents on the October hills and $1.13 on the November bills. Both tnen say that they are sure there ought not to be such an increase and inasmuch as it was the same to a cent for two months on both bills they are wondering if the increase was an arbitrary amount and if others were affected in the same way. There was less complaint yesterday of the natural gas supply—due, probably, to the warmer weather. Tag* Must Uc on Vehicles. The police are on the trail of owners of vehicles who fall to have tags, showing their licenses have been paid, attached to the harness or vehicles, ■ as the law provides. John Furnas, manager of the company that cleans the city streets, was one of the persons brought into Police Court on the charge. He showed that he paid SOO for licenses, but kept the tags at his stables The court held that they must he kept on the vehicles or harness. He was fined $1 and costs. w ~ , George Hoagiand, Joseph Murphy and Charles Lancaster were fined, R. S. Kingsley was discharged and the case against Nelson Mills was continued. Murphy League Officers. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year at the Central Murphy Gospel Temperance League: President, James Martin; first vice president, Joseph Taggart; second vice president, Thomas McGarrahan; chaplain. Charles 11. Sparks; secretary. William Robinson; assistant secretary, Walter S3. Durbon; treasurer, Samuel Johnson; trustees, James Whittock and Barney Durming. Friends’ Bonrdingf Home Moved. The Friends’ Boarding Home for Girls has been removed to 211 East New York street. The board of managers is much pleased with the new' quarters. The house is well suited to the purposes for which it is designed, beside which it is centrally located and is convenient to all car lines. A reception to the board of managers w as given by the patrons of the home last week. Free Silver Rules the Hospital. Dr. Charles H. C. Poucher, appointed superintendent of the City Hospital a month ago at the "demands of the mob,” as President Morrison, of the Board of Health, put it, yesterday took formal charge of the hospital. He succeeds Dr. Charles E. Ferguson, who was ousted at Mayor Taggart’s behest "because he is a gold bug.” A Thlrty-Flve-Cent Forgery. Charles Sims, a colored man, twenty-nine years old. is locked up at the county jail on the charge of forgery. He presented an order to a Martindale-avenue grocer for 35 cents’ worth of goods. He claims that the order was given him by a traveling man whom he knew when he was employed at the Denison House. Better bargains In standard make* of pianos that, any one. Call and see Wulachner’*.

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COLORED ORATOR WINS E. C. ROBERTS TO REPRESENT BUTLER IX THE STATE CONTEST. ♦ He Will Also Stand for University of Indiana polls— I The l’riiuury Last Night. Ezra C. Roberts, a young colored man of the senior class, at Butler College, won first place in the primary contest in the Butler College Chapel, at Irvington, last night, and will represent Butler College and the University of Indianapolis in the state oratorical contest, which will be held in this city the third Friday in January. The result of the contest was the expected, and the decision of the judges seems to meet general satisfaction among Butler College people and at Irvington. Mr. Roberts lives in Kokomo, Ind., and for three years has attended Butler College. He is bright and intelligent and is a hard v/orker and a strong student. He has participated in three primary contests, each time winning second place. Last night he threw himself into his speech with much fervor and won out by two points, he having a grade of nine and Mr. Bass having a grade of eleven. Mr. Hobbs followed with thirteen and Mr. Johnson with twenty-one. The chapel was packed to the rear seats with college men and women and Irvington and Indianapolis citizens. Among the audience was a good sprinkling of colored people. David Rioch, president of the college oratorical association, presided and introduced the speakers. The first speaker was Emsley Johnson, a sophomore, who spoke on “Daniel Webster.’’ He was followed by C. Herbert Bass, a junior, who spoke eloquently on “The Crime of Charity.” His oration won much applause. Ezra C. Roberts, the successful contestant, came next with a strong oration on “Government and Law,” which was an argument against lynchlngs and mobs. The race question was brought in. The last speaker was Robert W. Hobbs, also a junior, who delivered a good oration on “Bossism in Politics.” While the grades were being made up John L. Griffith, one of the judges on delivery, was called upon for a speech. He responded, complimenting the orators of the evening and paying a tribute to the enthusiasm of the college boys. The enthusiasm during the evening ran high. CL.ss yells were given every few minutes. The seniors, who supported Roberts, gave vent to this one: “Government and law, government and law’! Roberts, Roberts, rah-rah-rah!” Other intricate yells, the waving of beribboned caneß and the stamping of feet were the outlets for the collegians’ spirit. The judges on delivery were John L. Griffith, Prof. Edwin Scribner Ames and Prof. Jacob Dorsey Forrest. Two of the judges selected Albert J. Beveridge and Evans Woollen—were absent. Among those contributing numbers to the entertainment of the audience during the evening were the following: Misses Bessie Frazier, Ethel Roberts, Georgia Galvin and Messrs. Settle, Waters, Marion Loop and Carl Loop.

CRUSHED BY AN ELEVATOR Hurry Jones Perhaps Fatally Injured at Old Jiiornul Building;. Harry Jones, the colored elevator man at the old Journal building, was perhaps fatally injured yesterday. He was standing near the elevator when he noticed the car moving upward from the first floor. He ran to it and reached it as the floor o' the car wrns about midway the top of the elevator door. He tried to jump into the car. but found himself dangling with half his body only in the car. He reached for the lever to stop the car, but struck it with his hand and caused the car to ascend more rapidly. His body was thus drawn between the car and the sides of the shaft, a space of only four inches, and was Anally dropped Into lh No P b’ones broken. Dr. Furnlss, who attended him, found that the injuries were internal, in the chest and bowe.s. It is still uncertain whether ho can recover. He was resting well at 31 o’clock last nignt. Limited Tenure of Office. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: In your issue of Monday last I noticed an editorial under the head “The Evil of Life Tenure,” which in all respects Is so fair that even the devotees of civil service must approve it. The law has been in force in one form or another for about twenty years, and we have seen its effect on the thousands of men who have obtained employment under the promised life tenure. The most of these persons have no identity with any community and do not assume the duties and responsibilities of citizenship, but seem entirely willing someone else shall look after their interests. They have a fixed salary during life, and why should thev care who administers the government. The important question which eunnot he affirmatively answered k>. Has the public service received any b*ofit from the examinations? I think it Bs not. The questions put to applicants ffkve very little relation to the duties they are expected to perform. Life tenure in such places is not in accord with popular government, and it should be limited to u term of years. The mugwumps. Anglo-maniacs and theorists combined and imposed this law upon the country, and national conventions of both parties have sanctioned it, well knowing that a large majority of the people opposed it. Os the Democratic masses not 10 per cent, ever favored it, and a large majority of Republican voters has always opposed it. The system may be suited to China, Turkey or even England, but it is un-American and it should be repealed or greativ modified by abolishing the commission and limiting service to a term of years. If it is a good thing for the federal government. why is it not put in force in Indiana? In this county, time out of mind, the tenure of the clerk, recorder and treasurer has been limited to a single term, and yet the business has always been done satisfactory to the people. I think the same rule prevails in many other counties, and by that means the offices seem to be the property of the people, and not of a single Individual. M. L. BLNDY. New Castle. Ind., Dec. 1. Freedom’s Foremost ( liiimiilon*. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: A short time since allusion was made in the Journal to the possibility of a European combination to override our continental poliev. Since that time the Austrian premier has made a stormy appeal for the concert of Europe to break down the growing power of the west beyond the Atlantic. There are muttering indications that the great continental powers are coming to an understanding (of which the dismemberment of Poland was the infant prophecy) looking to the partition of China as the most available solution of the problem of cheap food, outlet for emigration, enterprise and colonization, independently of this continent. The

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