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rt.ANXER & BUCHANAN—I7S Nor*-> Illinois street. Lady embaimer, for ladles and children. Ofliee always open. Telei'hoce 641. Hacks at lowest prevailing price. FIXER At. NOTICES. GlPE—Members ct Washington Lodge, No. 114, K of H., will assemble at the lodgeroom. Sunday. Jan. 9, at 1:30 j>. m., to attend the funeral service of Brother S. H. Gipe, at East Park M. E. Church. (Interment at East Germantown, on Monday.) H J. JACOBSEN, Reporter. JOHN ROUTIER. Dictator. • HlllCH NOTICES. Friend*. FRIENDS' of Alabama and Thirteenth streets. Services by Harriet Green at Jh:3o a. m. and 7:45 j>. m. Sabbath school at 9:15 .. m. Y. P. S. C. E. at 6:3b p. m. Everybody welcome. Spirit outturn. FIRST SI’IRITUALIST CHURCH—Alabama and New York streets. Services p>day at 10:30 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. Mr. Thomas Grtmshaw, the gifted and talented English trance medium, will answer questions from the audience jiertaimng on Spiritualism. After the evening ieeture Mrs. Josephine Ropp will hold a public seance. KUAMUE LOAN S>—Money on mortgages. C. V. SA I this, 73 East Market street. FINANCIAL— Bost6n New Method Bhoe Repair Company. 150 East Market street, repairs snots While you wait. __________ laja.no—bums ui *oo ana over. City property and farma. C. E. COFFIN & CO.. 9o Kagt Market street. FINANCIAL—Money to loan on tarm and city properties in Indiana; lowest rates, with partial payments; money on hand, no delay. C. N. WILLIAMS A CO.. 315-322 Lemcke building. MON Elf —To loan on rnaiuua lamir. Lowest market rate, privileges for payment before due. We also buy municipal bonds. THOS. C. DAY A CO., Room 325-330, third floor Lemcke Building. Indianapolis. 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. IjOAN liON FURNITURE, PIANOS. ETC. Without removal. Interest 7 per cent, a year. On Huiiding Association Plan. PERSONAL PROPERTY SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION Room 4. Lombard BuUdlng, 24V4 Test Washington. FINANCIAL—Money to loan oil farms or city property at 5, 6 and 7 per cent., for three or five yeais; private funds; you can pay anv part of principal at any six months' period and stop .interest on that part of principal. Loans made on short notice. Don’t fail to call on or address H. H. BEVILLE, Room, 4, 2‘d West Washington street. 'Phone 293. FINANCIAL— : Commercial Credit Association. Rooms 7 and 8, Talbott block, northwest corner of Market and Pennsylvania streets Money loaned salaried people holding permanent positions with Ijeiponslble concerns, upon their own names, without collateral security or indorsement, in sums t suit. Can be repaid In small weekly, semimonthly or monthly payments. Business strictly confidential. LtOANS - TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS To loan In sums of 110. *ls, *2O. *3O. *SO. MOO. *2OO or any amount on FURNITURE. PIANOS. ORGANS. BICYCLES. STORE FIXTURES, ETC.. At rates which honest people can afford to pay The property to remain in your undisturbed possession. EVERYBODY WHO WANTS MONEY CALL AND SEE US. INDIANAPOLIS MORTGAGE LOAN COMPANY. Room 10. 87 East Market street. FOR SALE—Liquor store in town of 7,000; good location and good business; owner wishes to retire. D. H. ROYER. Greenville, O. FOR SALE. FOR SALE —Boston New Method Shoe Repair Company, 150 East Market stieet, repairs shoes while you wait. I'OH RENT. FOR RENT— Boston New Method Shoe Repair Company. UJ) East Market street, repairs shoes while you wait. FOR RENT—Factory'buildings recently bccupied Or Ben-IJur bicycle works, on Garden street, between Meridian and Illinois. Can be subdivided. H. C. LONG. FOR RENT —Business and Manufacturing Property. Three-si or- building. Nos. 68 and 7b South Delaware street, opposite the north approach to the viaduct, within a lew hundred feet of the main trunk line freight depots. The three floors and cellar are about 33 feet by Ilf* In the clear. It Is equipped with steam power, tubular boiler. S5-horse power Atlas engine, two Dean steam pumpe, sbaiting, pulleys, belts, water and gas pipes, elevator to all stories, large driven well, capacious water tank on roof, platform sca'e. FSfwer connection and other appurtenances. It is ■suitable fcjwi wholesale commission or light manufacturing business. Will consider the rent of the storerooms separately. Apply to J. S. CRUSE, Agent.;.,\V A .NTH D—S A LESMEH. WANTED—S2O a week and expenses paid men to sell cigars on t.me; experience unnecessary. THE W. L. KLINE COMPANY, St. Louis, Mo. WANTED—MALE HELP. WANTED—Government positions. Don’t prepare for the post office or other civil-service examination without seeing our illustrated catalogue of information. Sent free. COLUMBIAN CORREBFUMiKM'E COLLEGE, Vi ashing ton, D. C. f1.500 a year to right jmrty selling Quak-r bath cabinets. Permanent, easy job; no capital. Everybody buys. Turkish and vapor baths at home, producing health. strength and beauty. Write quick. A. WORLD MANUFACTURING COMPANY, (5) Cincinnati, O. W ANTED—FEMALE HELP. W’ANTED—Ladles to address envelopes, circulars and write for us at home. Reply with selfaddressed stamped envelope. PEERLESS COMPANT, South Bend. Ind. _ WANTED-Home work Tor women. To make novelties at Home in your iqare hours you can earn *5 to s'i a week. Write at once to BIJOU MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 222 North Tenth street, Philadelphia, Pa. _ WANTED—Ladies, pin money. Make patches on our darning machine; we pay 70c per hundred; make 1.200 weekly. Stamped addressed envelope for sample. SOMMERS. Department 220. American Tract building, New York. S. WANTED—You to call on the phrenologist; examInations free. 710 Madison avenue. WANTED—Heston New Method Shoe Renatr Company. 150 East Market street, repairs shoes while you wait. Wan TED—Buyer for 30-horse engine or boiler; also, a nice lot north of Twenty-fifth. Address P. 21, care Journal. WANTED—A good business man with some money and Is willing to Invest same with the Inventor to secure United States patents and bull'd large model of the best Invention of the age. Reference required. Address D. A. H., care the Journal. WANTED—AIaska. Situations of all kinds guaranteed. Free transqiortation. Yearlv contracts. High wages. Referemes required, ability health. Apply Immediately. YUKON PROSPECTING AND EMPLOYMENT COMPANY, 1137 Marquette building, Chicago. LOST. LOST —Boston New Method Shoe Repair Company, 150 East Market street, repairs shoes while you wa 1 i. LOST—Jan. X, black satin bag containing pearl opera glasses; Initials, e. R. F. Return to 207 Indiana Trust Company. Reward. NOTICE—Stove repairs and stove repairing of all _klnds. A. A. HELSTERN. 335 Virginia avenue NOTICE—How to become lawful physicians, pharmacists, dentists or lawyers. Lock Box i6. Chicago. _ NOTlCE—Boston New Method Shoe Repair Company, 150 East Market street, repairs shoes Othile you wait. A X CEBUSINESS CHANCE—How five hundred or mere dollar? for each dollar Invested can be made Within a very short time In a legitimate enterprise, managed by responsible parties. (No Board of Trade, stock exchange, turf or lottery scheme.) Fortune knocks at everyone’s door but' once In a lifetime. For full particulars, address PROMOTION COMPANY. 51 Dexter building, Chicago, CL AIIIV OVA Vl\ CLAIRVOYANT—The great astrologer and clairvoyant, Madam May, will be for a short time at fNew No.) 32 North East street, near Market Street. Cars pass the door. MUSICAL. MUSICAL—VocaI instruction. Voices tested free. MARY M. BHEDD, Talbot block. Two .lew Local Publication*. Two magazines published in this city have made their bow to the public during the last week. The Indiana Law Journal is a monthly. and according to the announcement in the first number “one of its aims will be to further the effort now on foot to harmonize some of the laws of Indiana with the sound and progressive legislation of other States, especially in those matters wherein a conflict of laws so generally operates for injustice." The journal will urge the adoption of higher standards of legal education. W. P. Fishbaek la the editor In chief and William F. Elliott, Charles W. Moores and W. P. Kappes associate editors, John W. Kern, John H. Baker and D. P. Baldwin are among the contributors to the current number. "Up-to-date Farming and Gardening" Is the name of a monthly that will be devoted to agricultural interests. The name of the ftUtor is not announce^

THE BOWLING AVERAGES J. G. -MUELLER STILL AT TOP OF THE TOURNAMENT LIST. Lyra Cn*ino* Hogging Close to the Lenders—Capitol City Men Distinguish Themselves. < * STANDING OF THE CLUBS. Clubs. Played. Won. Lost. Per’ct. Indianapolis 12 11 1 .917 Lyra Casinos 12 10 2 .8-33 Independnt Turners...l2 8 4 .667 Social Turners 12 7 5 .583 German-Americans ...12 4 8 .333 Old Guards J 2 4 8 .3:13 Capital Citys 12 2 10 .107 All-Americans 12 2 10 .167 The feature of the week in bowling was the fact that the Capital City team won a game and tied the All-Americans for second place from the bottom of the percentage table. It has so persistently clung to the tall end that for the sake of a change Its name Is made to appear next to last in the table this week. The Indianapolis club still holds the lead, with the Lyra Casinos crowding close. Eight games were played during the week. Tho Capital Citys and Lyra won two games each, the All-Americans and German-Amer-icans lost two each, and the other four teams won and lost a game each. The games Friday night were between the Indianapolis and Social Turners, the Old Guards and German-Americans and the Lyra Casinos and Independent Turners. The Indianapolis Bowling Club played against the Social Turners on the Independent Turner alleys defeating them easily. The individual averages stijl remain high, although the tournament is more than half over, J. G. Mueller, of the Lyras, holds fast to the top place, with more than six points to spare. He fell off a point during the week. Twenty-five men are still in the "thirty” class, having an average of .130 or better. The following table shows the averages of all players who have participated In five or more games, together with the number of games each has played and the name of the clubs to which the players belong: Stand- No. Avering. Name. Club. games. age. 1 J. G. Mueller. Lyra 12 .148 2 Charles Kraus, Lyra 12 .142 3 I. Dicks, I. T. V 12 .141 4 A. Lauter. I. T. V 12 .140 5 Wm. F. Off. I. B. C 12 .139 6 E/ Gay, Lyra 12 .138 7 L. Goebel, Lyra 9 .138 8 Jul Keller. O. G 11 .137 9 F. E. Kotteman. I. B. C 11 .137 10 H. C. Bauer, I. B. C 12 .136 11 C. Von Hake, Lyra 11 .135 12 Joe Schaf, Lyra 12 .134 13 H. Tuttle. C. C 12 .134 11 L. M. Wainwright, A. A 6 .134 15 Adam May, I. B. C 8 .134 16 John Pfau. I. B. C 10 .134 II Gus Mueller. I. B. C 12 .134 IS Robert Keller, Lyra 12 .133 18 Gus Pfeiffer. C. C 12 .132 20 F. Jungclaus, I. T. V 11 .132 21 O. Deluse. I. T. V 12 .131 22 Fred Wiley. A. A 8 .131 23 Albert Goepper. G. A 12 .130 24 J. Siersdorfer, I. T. V 12 .130 25 A. M. Kuhn, O. G 12 .130 26 W. C. Mannfeld, I. B. C 8 .129 27 Charles Fields. I. T. V 11 .129 28 W. Krag, A. A 5 .129 29 George Niebergall, Soc. T.... 12 .129 30 Fred Koeckert. I. T. V 10 .128 31 H. P. Lieber, G. A 12 .138 32 M. Birk. Soc. T 11 .128 33 Geo. Seidensticker, I. T. V.... 5 .128 34 Wm. Kothe. Lyra.../ 11 .128 35 Ji. Slelken, Soc. T 9 .128 36 T. Wynne, Lyra 10 .12.8 37 L. Hirsch, Soc. T 11 .128 3.8 J. Becker, jr., O. G 12 .128 39 W. Baumgartner, C. C 12 .127 40 Dr. C. Hohl. I. B. C ....8 .127 41 A. Hall, C. A 8 .127 42 F. Maas. Soc. T 9 .126 43 C. C. Perry. Lyra 11 . .126 44 C. J. Kotteman, I. B. C 6 .126 45 A. Cook. C. C 11 .126 46 George Mannfeld, I. B. C 11 .125 48 W. J. Brown. A. A 12 .125 49 George Marvin, G. A 12 .125 50 O. Kipp, G. A 10 .125 51 P. Kehrein, Soc. T 11 .124 52 F. Benninger, 1. T. V 11 .121 53 Wm. Stumps, O. G 10 .124 54 L. McDaniel, A. A 12 .124 55 G. R. Root. A. A 11 .122 56 P. Locs. Soc. T .....11 .123 57 A. V. Brown. A. A 7 .122 58 A. J. Mannfeld. I. B. C 5 .122 59 J. Karrmann, O. G 11 .122 60 H. Kahlo, C. C 8 .122 61 O. Leonhardt, Soc. T 5 .122 02 Jos. Keller. O. G 12 .1,22 63 Chas. Becker. O. G 11 .122 64 Geo. Vonnegut. Soc. T 6 .121 65 Lige Martindale, G. A 11 .121 66 Wm. C. Leppert, I. B. C 9 .121 67 Jacob Willem. Soc. T 9 .121 68 Dr. Bueller. G. A 12 .121 69 Charles Off. I. T. V 11 .120 70 H. Pfaffiln, G. A 5 .120 71 F. Zwicker. Soc. T 7 .119 72 E. Wood, C. C 12 .119 73 B. Walcott. A. A 10 .118 74 J. Elliott. G. A 10 .118 75 J. Walliok. G. A 10 .118 76 F. Bachmann, O. G 8 .118 77 S. P. Stoddard. C. C 5 .117 78 H. P. Hibben, A. A 12 .117 79 F. Vonnegut. O. G 5 .117 80 G. R. Sullivan. A. A 9 .117 81 L. Coulon. I. T 9 .117 82 Robert Lieber. G. A 9 .116 83 L. Slelken. Lyra 9 .116 84 Henry Kothe, O. G .....10 .116 85 Ed Retrain. C. C 11 ,116 Sfi John Wocber, O. G 8 .115 87 C. Bookwalter. C. C 7 .115 88 W. Critchlow, C. C 9 .114 89 W. Wheelock. A. A 5 .113 90 E. Wiles. A. A 8 .112 91 P. Havelick, C. C 5 .108

Indoor Baseball. There will be a practice game of indoor baseball Monday night at Mozart Hall between the South-side club and a picked team. It is expected that the league will be organized next week and it Is expected that there will be four teams from the North Side and four from the South Side, so that while the clubs will work for individual records, there will also be a spirit of rivalry between the two sections. It Is probable that the Independent Turners and the German House will have teams. North Indianapolis will also have one. \ To Get Philadelphia’s Advice. There was a meeting yesterday of the Indianapolis Meet Club and D. M. Parry, chairman, and Evans Woollen, secretary, were authorized to go to Philadelphia, at the club s expense, to consult with the managers of the 1897 meet regarding plans for carrying the project through successfully. The club has received almost positive assurances that the Citizens’ Street-railroad Company will build a track for the meet. IT REFORMS^CONVICTS. Warden llf‘rt Believe* in Indeterminate Sentence Lair. A. T. Hert, superintendent of the Reformatory at Jeffersonville, was in the city for a while yesterday on business connected with the institution. Mr. Hert says that experience is demonstrating the fact that the indeterminate sentence law is one of the most saultary reform measures ever adopted by the Legislature. It is not only disciplinary in its effects, but works a permanent good to the convict. “4. criminal,” says he, "is really a sufferer from disease, and when proper mental and other influences are brought to bear upon him he may in many cases be cured, but the only persons that are at all competent to judge when that cure is effected are the men who have charge of him while in confinement. The case of a criminal is similar to that of an insane person. Suppose some one should argue that the commissioners who adjudge people to be insane should have the right to fix the term of confinement for the patient. The absurdity of such an argument is manifest. It is the same with a jury fixing the term of imprisonment—lt has no means of knowing how long an incarceration will be necessary in order to eradicate the criminal tendencies of the convicted criminal. When the physicians of a hospital for the insane find that a patient is sufficiently recovered to permit of his liberty being restored to him he is released, and not before. The Indeterminate sentence applies the same principle to the criminal. He is not allowed his liberty until the prison authorities have good grounds for believing that it will be safe to let him loose again in society. We have released on parole during the year seventy-five men, and with two exceptions they have comported themselves as well as the ordinary lawfully disposed per-

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son. The two exceptions violated some of the rules governing their parole, and were remanded back to prison. We keep a careful watch over prisoners on parole, and require regular reports as to their conduct. Then, too, every prisoner who is released must have employment before he can go. We secure this employment in the majority of cases, and thus tho indeterminate sentence gives every possible inducement and incentive for the reformation of the criminal. I hope that the Supreme Court will uphold its constitutionality.” Mr. Hert says that the institution has been run on a smaller per capita cost during the last two years than ever before. The per capita for the last year was $113.30, and for the preceding year $102.82, making the average for the two years $108.06.- This is the gross cost, the ./mount in the aggregate for the last year being a little over $90,000. The earnings for the institution aggregated $65,009. The appropriation for. the year was $56,100, which amount was based on a population of 850, but owing to the changing of the character of the institution from that of a prison to a reformatory the number of prisoners is on the increase and now numbers 910. The administration expenses for the last year were $30,000, which were paid out of the earnings, and the net cost of the Reformatory to the State for the year was about $25,000. The board of directors last week leased 214 acres northwest of the prison, which will be cultivated by the prison* rs. No products, however, will be sold, everything that is raised being intended for the institution. It is thought that this farm will result In a large saving In the cost of maintenance. SALE OF PREMIER PLANT ♦ SOME OF THE CREDITORS TRYING TO HAVE IT POSTPONED. Litigation Between the Receiver and a Chicago Capitalist Over a> Mortgage. Some of the attorneys representing the creditors of the Premier Steel Company were in the Circuit Court yesterday evening asking Judge Allen to postpone the sale of the plant. Last October the court, at the request of the creditors, instructed Receiver McGettigan to dispose of the Premier works at public sale, and fixed Jan. 15 as the date of the sale. The receiver was authorized to receive bids up to this date. No bids have yet been filed. The attorneys were asking that the sale be postponed, in order that certain litigation between the receiver and H. E. Southwell, a Chicago capitalist, might be settled in the Supreme Court before the property is disposed of. This litigation involves the validity of a first mortgage given by the Premier Company to secure SIOO,OOO of bonds. Three years ago the plant was leased to the American Steel Company, but the lease was not renewed, and the concern has been idle for the last year. The attorneys asking for the postponement of the sale claim this is necessary in order that the actual Interests of all the creditors may be determined. Smiley N. Chambers opposed a postponement or the sale. He pointed out that, after the Supreme Court has actually passed on the matter now before it, sixty days must elapse before the case can be certified back to the Circuit. Court, no matter what the decision may be. Mr. Chambers insisted that to put off the sale longer than the date advertised would simply mean the plant will not be sold until next fall. W. H. H. Miller, who represents creditors anxious for a postponement, suggested there would be plenty of purchasers at any timo it was seen fit to dispose of the plant. After the attorneys had orally presented their views to the court Judge Allen asked that the requests be submitted in writing, together with a list of the creditors. He said he would not consent to put off me sale unless a majority of the creditors felt it would be wise to do so. The question will be finally passed upon Monday.

NEED NOT REVEAL THEIR AGE. Judge Harvey’s Kindness Towards Fair Divorcees in His Court. Judge Harvey, of the Superior Court, has made a ruling that should increase the popularity of his court among young wives who seek to be divorced from uncongenial husbands. The court has won the everlasting gratitude of one fair plaintiff by his decision on the question of age. It was in the suit of Alma O. Karcher against Joseph Karcher, which came to an end yesterday evening. The Karchers live on South Meridian street. Mrs. Karcher is a goodlooking young matron, who may be anywhere between twenty and thirty years of age. She sued her husband for divorce. When she was put on the stand Attorney David Gooding began to ’question her. "State your name, your age and residence,” commanded the attorney in one sweeping sentence. The woman started to reply, then hesitated and looked appealingly at the court. Judge Harvey, with a keen analysis of the feminine character, interfered. ‘‘Never mind,” he remarked to the attorney, "she needn’t tell her age if it’s embarrassing, go on with the evidence.” Mrs. Karcher’s blue eyes flashed a look of gratitude on the court as she proceeded to speak of her marital unhappiness. Karcher charged his wife with being a “dirty” housekeeper. He said she would let the table dishes accumulate without washing and failed to keep her children In proper condition. He also complained that she practiced bicycle riding in their “front room” and when they kept a servant girl, he said, both his wife and the girl would devote part of their time to riding the wheel about the house. Judge Harvey, after listening to the stories of both, said he thought a divorce should be granted. A property settlement must be made between the Karchers before the decree of divorce will be entered. Supreme Court. 18415. Barman vs. Spencer. Grant S. C. Reversed. McCabe, J.—l. Ordinary care is all that the law requires at the hands of any one to exempt him from the imputation of negligence. Extraordinary care would be requiring a person to anticipate and guard against dangers of which they are ignorant. 2. In an action for negligence where the complaint shows that plaintiff’s injuries were caused solely by the negligence of the defendant and without any fault or negligence of the plaintiff it is sufficient to admit any and all evidence tending to prove the plaintiff’s freedom from contributory negligence. 3. Where a person goes upon premises by the express Invitation of the occupant for friendly and social purposes as his guest, where the landlord has covenanted with the occupant for repairing the premises, the landlord is liable for his g r oss negligence In leaving the premises in such a condition as will cause injury to the guest without her fault. Daughters of the Revolution. A well-attended meeting of the Indianapolis Chapter of the "Daughters of the Revolution” was held at the residence of Mrs. Tarkington. 26 East St. Clair street, yesterday afternoon. Action was taken with regard to the proposed purchase by the government of Fort Ticonderoga. The secretary was instructed to address the members of Congress from Indiana urging them to vote for the proposed appropriation to purchase and preserve this relic of revolutionary fame. Under directions of the general society, plans for the organization of the Junior Auxiliary were perfected, and Miss Tarquinia Voss was appointed by the regent as director from this chapter. One application has already been presented. The requirements for this are lineal descent. An interesting letter from Mrs. Whitmore, regent of the Daughters of the Revolution in Colorado, was read, calling attention to the general observance of Flag day in that State, and the fact of this recognition of “Old Glory” being more general In that Western country than In any State this side of the Alleghenies. Another meeting will be held Jan. 20, to perfect arrangements for the observance of Washington-s birthday. At this gathering a paper will be read by Mrs. Henry Beck on “Historical New England,” from facts gathered from a recent visit to these revolutionary scenes. An issue of Bonds. The Indianapolis Sentinel Company has made an issue of SIOO,OOO ten-year 6-per-cent, bonds. These obligations are secured by a first mortgage Upon the plant, franchises and other property of the company executed to Samuel E. Morss as trustee, which instrument was filed for record yesterday. The bonds are Issued for the purpose of increasing the mechanical facilities and extending the business of the company.

FIRE WRECKS LOMBARDY THE BEAUTIFUL HOME OF MR. AND MRS. J. T. BRUSH DESTROYED. 1 The Loss in Neighborhood of $20,000 —Xurrotv Escape of Two Firemen. The Lombardy, the residence of John T. Brush, situated a short distance east of the Belt road on Washington street, just beyond the city limits, was almost totally destroyed by fire yesterday morning. The loss to house and furniture will be in the neighborhood of $20,000, with only $9,500 insurance. The insurance is placed as follows on the house: German, of Indianapolis, $2,500; Northwestern, of Milwaukee, $2,500; New York Underwriters', $2,500. There was $2,000 on the furniture. The house was built a little over two years ago, and cost about $35,000. It was one of the most beautiful residences In the city. It was three stories In height, the first being of cobble stones, the second and third of terracotta, with a many-gabled roof of green. It was an ornament to the neighborhood and an Ideal place to live. It sat far back from the street, surrounded by a grove of maples. The furniture was of the most expensive style, and there were thousands of dollars’ worth of works of art and rare bric-a-brac. A great deal of the furniture and bric-a-brac was removed from the building. The fire started between 5 and 6 o’clock yesterday morning, and it was thought it had been extinguished with only a light damage to a single room, but In about two hours the fire broke out again. Mr. Brush returned home from a trip out of the city at 4 o’clock, and shortly afterwards heard a noise In the billiard room on the first floor, followed by the smell of smoke. A picture falling from the wall had caught lire from the grate, and the room was in flames. A telephone message was sent to the fire department, and members of the family and neighbors set about to subdue the flames with a garden hose and chemicals. Before any fire apparatus was seen the fire was thought to be extinguished, and the fire department was notified. Mr. Brush retired, but was again aw r akened by the smell of smoke. The whole upper part of the house was in flames. The fire had been smoldering between the walls and eating its way up until it found an opening in the nursery, one of the upper rooms. Then it burst forth and flourished without resistance for a considerable length of time before being discovered. The third floor was used by the servants, and they were all downstairs at work at the time. An alarm Was turned in from Box 852, at the Belt crossing, and very quickly there was a response from hose company No. 3. truck No. 4 and chemical No. 1. Captain Meurer telephoned for additional help as soon as he saw the situation, and other companies were sent out. Chief Barrett went himself to take charge of the work. Two lines of hose were quickly turned on the burning building, but the streams had little effect on the mass of flames. Another line burst when the water was turned on. Other companies arrived, however, and everything that could be done was done to save the house, or as much of it as possible. It stands now a mass of ruins. The roof and the beautiful gables are gone, the third floor la burned out and the walls above the second story are ruined. The lower part of the house Is not so badly damaged, only from water, smoke and the falling debris. FIREMEN HAVE A CLOSE CALL. While the fire was raging at its worst Captain John O’Brien and Fireman Maurice Healey, of hose company No. 3, had a narrow call from death. With Fireman Thoijias O’Hara they climbed with a line of hose up to the roof and wc;e pouring a stream of water into the fire. The fire was burning inside ditedtly under them, though they did not seem to know it until the roof gave way beneath them and O’Brien and Healey were thrown into the furnace. The several hundred people who saw the catastrophe rushed to the rescue, with little expectation of taking the mep out alive. The stairways were out off by sheets of flame, and the rescuers were kept back. It seemed that the men must perish. But O’Hara did not fall with the others, and his coolness did not desert him. He held to the hose and turned the stream into the hole, throwing the water on the two men below him. This probably saved them from almost Instant death, for the fire was all around them. O’Brien went into the hole first, striking the floor below on his head. Healey fell on him. They jumped up, refreshed by the stream of water, and tried to reach the stairway, but the room between them and the stairs was all ablaze. They returned and had about given up hope of escape when they discovered a dormer and crawdled out on the roof again. Healey suffered only slight burns on the hands. O’Brien fared worse. He received a cut above the eye and a bruised shoulder, and was painfully burned about the head and hands. Both men insisted on staying with their company until the work was over, but were sent to the city by Chief Barrett. Mr. Brush was unable to estimate his loss or to say positively the amount of insurance carried. The figures given above were obtained from an insurance firm, and are probably correct.' As-to the loss, it is such that it can never be restored by insurance money, even Pf the ht>us6 and furniture were covered to their full intrinsic value. Mr. and Mrs. Brush were both collectors of fancy bric-a-brac and souvenirs and works of art. The house was full of curios and valuable articles obtained from various parts of the world, some of them of great intrinsic value and others valued on account of association or the circumstances under which they were obtained. Mr. Brush had a fine collection of paraphernalia and souvenirs of the Mystic Shrine which no moriev could have purchased. There were also many pictures, ceramics and tapestries which cannot be replaced. It is considered extremely unfortunate that the fire apparatus did not go to the house when the first message was telephoned to headquarters. It is probable had the firemen gone that they would have discovered the fire still smoldering in the wall, would have extinguished it, and confined the loss to the billiard room and the wall. Mrs. Brush telephoned and gave the operator at headquarters a description of the location of the house. The tower watchman was instructed to pull the nearest box and he did so, but the firemen who made the run to the box did not have the acccurate description of the place which had been given to the telephone operator at headquarters. They looked about and could see no fire and returned to the houses. When the second alarm came in the fire was burning out through the roof, and there was no trouble locating it.

JOHN L. REAGAN, ASSIGNEE, Succeeds Mr. McKee—The Krug-Hey-notds Inventory. John L. Reagan has been appointed to succeed Edward L. McKee, assignee of the affairs of the Krag-Reynolds Company. Mr. McKee resigned in the Circuit Court Friday. Mr. Reagan will give a bond on Monday. All of the attorneys in the litigation are satisfied with the appointment. The new assignee has had considerable experience in the wholesale grocery business, and is at present employed in the capacity of bookkeeper at the wholesale establishment of John L. Moore, on South Meridian street. The resignation of Mr. McKee as assignee and the appointment of a successor does not interfere with the action of the Superior Court in selecting a receiver for the company at the request of creditors. David W. Coffin was named in that capacity last week, and is at present engaged in taking an inventory of the stock, after which an appraisement will be made and a report submitted To the Superior Court. The assignee is an officer of the Circuit Court. It will be his duty, after an investigation, to attack the mortgages filed by the KragReynolds Company, if he finds such a step necessary in the interest of the creditors. In the event the mortgages are set aside the assignee will distribute the assets under the direction of the court. Receiver Coffin will probably file Ms report with the court on Thursday. He thinks the fixtures and stock in the storeroom-; on East Maryland street will invoice about $190,000. The stock for the most part is in excellent condition, and the receiver is now of iht) opinion he will be able to find one purchaser who will take the entire outfit. There are 1.835 bags of coffee in the store, the most of it In the best condition. Tho receiver has employed four sets of ap-

The Klondike Cloak House... Its Last Week In Existence Just six more days and yet we have more than 500 Jackets left. Most all the furniture is already sold. The mirrors, counters and carpets are left yet, and it goes without saying, they, too, will be closed out at a sacrifice. (Any person having Cloaks laid away, with part paid on them, must come this week and take them out, or they will forfeit tne amount paid on them, as it is the last week the store will be opened.) We have been offered better prices from several merchants for the stock, but the security was not satisfactory, and we prefer to dispose of it at retail until we get good collateral for the stock tu bulk. The biggest stock in the city left yet in Jackets, Capes. Furs, Skirts an 1 Seals to be disposed of. We are more heavily stocked in Jackets than anything else, and they will be sold at some price.

All Children’s Cloaks, Jackets and Gretch- QQ r ens up to $5, to close at .-row All Children’s Satin-lined Blouses up to sls, A CD to close, at ip'+.uu All $8 and $lO Ladies’ Rough Jackets, to Cfj close, at All $7.50 and $lO Ladies’ Plain Beaver Jack- <JI2 QS ets, to close, at lPaoVli All $lO and $12.50 Fancy Jackets, in rough Q 5 and plain cloths, for All sls and $17.50 Cloth Jackets, with all AA satin lining, to close, at mJO.vtV/ All $lB and S2O Imported Plain Cloth Jackets In best cf English Beaver, with all- EA silk satin duchess lining, to close All Misses’ Colored Jackets, ages from 12 to 18 years, goods up to sls, silk lined, to $5.50 All Ladies’ Fancy Colored Jackets, In tans and browns, all-silk lined, goods as high CA as S2O, to close, at qJCJ.c/vr All Ladies’ Russian Blouses, in fancy colors, silk-lined, all high-class novelties, <t*7 SEA goods up to $25, to close at ‘■P* $5 Oak Cloak Racks for $2.50 Chandeliers, as good as when put in 4Qthe store, to close, at All the Cloak Hangers we have left, to | r $4.50 Novelty Wool Skirts, 5 yards wide, <L| EL A best lining and findings, to close, for kp*.uJV

This is the Greatest CLOAK and JACKET SALE ever held in this city. Some of the best values yet to close. C?TORE OPEN A.T & O’CLOCK TO-MORHOWAI The Klondike Cloak House !37 and 30 Soutli Illinois Street.

so l Geo - J - Marott ’ s j *>o j PER CENT | January Shoe Sale PERCENT| WILE OPEN MONDAY MORNING One of the Greatest January stSHOE SALESas Os Broken Lots, Samples, etc., ever offered to the public. NOTE THE FOLLOWING BARGAINS Men’s Hand Welt Calf and Cordo- Ladles’ Shoes 98e and $1.28 wmmmn /XT van Congress Shoes, sizes 6to Worth $l6O and $2.00. . Worth $5.00 to $6.00. sl ' 9 Hand Welt and Turned jf Broken Lot Men’s English Enamel \ alue, $3.00 and $4.00. |||||gkK Shoes, worth $3.00, nw go Misses’Shoes^ B9o fcßpplß BOyS> t ZeS 6 Sprln£r Heei s\°23 Children’s Shoes, sizes 6 to 10 1-2 See Windows —I Geo. J. Marott j 26 and 28 SO PER i EAST WASHINGTON STREET ; CIS Jg*T

praisers. A. M. McCleary and H. H. Lee will fix the value on the coffee, William Kothe and George C. Brinkmeyer will appraise the general stock and Thomas J. Blackwell and Brice E. Brown have been selected to appraise the machinery. James Broden, of M. O’Conner A Cos., and William J. Griffin, of Schnull & Cos., both of whom are expert credit men. have been employed to go over the insolvent firm’s books and accounts. DEATH OF JOHN N. SCOTT. He Was a Drolher-li -Law of ExPresident Harri ion. John N. Scott, who was a brother of the first wife of Gen. Benjamin Harrison, is dead as Las Vegas, N. M. His death was caused by pneumonia. He was recently appointed claim and depredation agent for the State of Washington. Mr. Scott was rormerly a resident of Indianapolis. He caine here from Ohio some time between 1856 and 1860 and engaged in the practice of law. He afterward went to Shelbyville and lived for a time, but returned to Indianapolis and was residing here in 1867, when he was elected to the office of police judge. He served.on * term before the Supreme Court declared the act creating this office unconstitutional. He was in the late war, serving as a captain in the Seventy-ninth Indiana Regiment. He was wounded in the battle of Stone river. He reniov6-d to Port Townsend, Wash., shortly before General Harrison was elected to the presidency. He held a government position under President Harrison. Mr. Scott leaves a widow and a son and daughter. He was fifty-eight years of age. NO MORE FREE FEEDS. Outsider* Tools Advantage of the County Society’s Spread. The Marion County Agricultural and Horticultural Society held its regular monthly meeting yesterday at the Statehouse. About thirty of the members were in attendance, and aside from several very cerditable papers there was an election of officers for the ensuing year and an interesting discussion on the subject of holding any more of the culinary exhibits for which the society is justly famous. The officers elected were: W. B. Flick, of Lawrence, president; Miss L. Hobart, of this city, secretary; Ida F. Richardson, of this city, treasurer, and I. N. Cotton, of Broad Ripple, general superintendent. Theodore Wilson read a paper on ‘‘The Business Methods of the Farm,” which largely related to the social features of farm life. Mrs. C. Robbins, of this city, gave a talk on the proper caring for flowers in winter. Mrs. Robbins has a great many beautiful flowers in her home, and many have wondered how she kept them in such a flourishing condition. "The principal secret for caring for flowers,” she said, “is found in giving them the proper drainage. The water that drains into the saucers through the pots should be emptied every day, for if

it is not the water will be reabsorbed by the earth in the pot, resulting in the plant being kept too wet. I have found that it does not matter how frequently the plant is watered, provided the drainage is good. I use about a tablespoonful of common ammonia in one gallon of water and rind It has a very good effect. The outside of the pots should be cleaned from time to time with ammonia water, so that the air will have an opportunity to reach the roots of the plant.” Mrs. Robbins says that she uses jardinieres only on state occasions, as they do not permit of the proper drainage. The society has had some sad experiences with its culinary exhibits in the past. At these exhibits premiums were given for the best-cooked turkey, chicken, roasts, pies, puddings and toothsome things In general. When the premiums were ail awarded the society set itself to the pleasant task of eating up the exhibit. In order to assist them in this part of the programme the members invited all their friends and the public in general, knowing a good thing when it came their way, attended in large numbers, it finally became so that the ladies who did all the cooking arid waiting on table found nothing left for themselves to eat, and then they declared that never more would they compete for premiums. So the masculine members of the 'society did some thinking and also some talking, and now the culinary exhibit will be a strictly invitational affair. The next exhibit will be on the second Saturday in February, and admission will be by ticket only. Civil-Service Examination*. The Civil-service Commission has ordered that the usual dates for the regular semiannual postoffice, custom house and internal revenue examination for 1898 be so changed as to allow the widest possible use of the first, second and third-grade basis series of examination questions in all examinations of corresponding grades. This means that all spring examinations for the services named will be held during the time the departmental examinations are being conducted. The exact dates for each service cannot be fixed at this time, but it is safe to Bay that all postoffice, custom house and internal revenue examinations for the spring will be held between March 15 and April 25. No applications for these examinations will be accepted unless filed in proper form by March 1. No exception will be made to the requirement. lieland T. Power*, Impersonator. Leland T. Powers, impersonator, will give the comedy “Borrowed Spectacles” at English’s Opera House Wednesday evening. The best test of Mr. Pow’ers’s continued popularity is the fact that this is his seventh engagement with the Y. M. C. A. lecture committee. Each year he presents one of the old standard comedies, such as "The Rivals,” or one of the new' popular plays like “Lord Chumley.” “Borrowed Spectacles” is adapted from the French and was given here about a year ago by John Hare, an English actor. The sale of seats will open to-morrow morning at the opera house box office. When Mr. Powers was here the last time every seat was sold the first day of the sale. The Burn* Anniversary. The eighteenth annual concert of the Indianapolis Caledonlun Quolting Club, cele-

All 520 Satin-lined Astrakhan Capes and AA fur-trimmed, to close ipifil/v All 5? Plush Capes, lined and fur-trimmed, ICO Ail IS Plush Capes, fancy beaded, trimmed, 412 C(\ plaited backs and fur edge, to close All SSO Skunk Capes, to close. sl7 850 All SSO Marten Capes, to close $17.50 All $12.50 and sls Long Plush Capes, 30 Inches long and 4 yards round, fur <tCt AA trimmed, silk-lined, to close All S2O Imported Plush Capes, jet cmbrold- &A ery trimmed, to close kpvF.uvr All SSO Seal Coats, to close, for sl9 SO All $4 Mackintoshes, to close All $lO double texture Mackintoshes, sep- 41x5, QS> arate capes and skirts, to close... All $8.50 Mackintoshes, double capes and 412 QSL velvet collars, plaid linings, to close All $12.50 Silk-lined Mackintoshes, to 7C close PCF. 1 O All $3.50 Wrappers, fleeced flannelettes, 4tf "2®% prettily trimmed, to close, at “fbad All $0.50 Cloth Wrappers, in all t colors to $2.50 All $25 Marten Collarettes, to close, for All $25 Seal and Astrakhan Collarettes, to $9.50 $lO Display Show Tables, Beage carved and <C2 QCL adjustable, to close .......

brating the or.e-hundred-and-thirty-nlnth anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, will be given at Y. M. C. A. Hall Jan. 25. The work of securingstalent has just been ' completed. Rev. J. Gumming Smith has consented to deliver the oration on the life of Burns. The list Includes Miss Bessie McAlpine. of Chicago, impersonating Scottish characters; Miss Agnes .Rankin, of Detroit, Highland dancer: Miss Ethel Osman, dialect reader; Miss Bradford, soprano: Miss Shaffer, contralto; the Caledonian Quhrtet, under direction of Mr. Andrew Smith, and Faiquhar Beaton, of Detroit, champion piper of America. Mr. Beaton will play among other selections this now famous "Cock of the North.” Contract for tlie K. of P. Tent*. The executive committee of the Knights of Pythias encampment committee has awarded the contract for furnishing the encampment tents to the Wagner Tent Company, of Cleveland. The contract calls for 3,500 tents large enough to accommodate twenty thousand uniformed men, and provides that more tents may be called for if needed and that the tents are to remain in the field until released by the committee. The members of the entertainment committee so far as selected from Indianapolis people are as follows: C. S. Denny, chairman; F. J. Scholz, E. M. Johnson, W. HSchmidt, E. P. Thompson, William E. English. John R. Pearson, Charles M. Reynolds, George W. Bliss, Carey C. McPherson, Geo. W. Sloan. Charles C. Perry, Samuel B. Sweet. Nathan Morris, William A. Sullivan, I*. W. Bartholomew, George C. Webster. W. L. Helskell. J. A. Hamilton, C. A. Bookwalter, George R. Colter, E. P. Vance, A. B. Tolin, W. C. Kneule, W. H. Johnson, M. D., J. T. Layman, Jr., W. W. Lowry, Bert A. Boyd, W. L. Dunlap. THORNS TO SIT UPON. Many people gather thorns by falling to heed the warning sent out by diseased kidneys—coated tongue—parched skin—feverishness—dull dragging pain—general feeling of weariness—is sure evidence of kidney and bladder trouble. Take Utah Kidney Beans at once—they will cure you—they have curv'd thousands of others. The Turners of Philadelphia make Utah Kidney Beans. E. B. Samuels, county clerk of Hickman county, Clinton, Kentucky, testifies that ho suffered for years with horrible pains in the back, kidneys and bladder—was treated by many physicians—they gave him no relief—he got so that he could hardly stand alone—Utah Kidney Beans, he says, completely cured him. He gladly recommend* them to all sufferers. IndiunapaUft Agents. Henry Httder, Browning & Bon. Bate* House Pharmacy, It. 1. Kails. H. C. Pomeroy. Frank Carter. Stir. Muehi, Fisher’s Pharmacy, L. H, Renkert, I. N. Heims. 1,. A. Gable, Baron Brue.. L S. Stockman, J. P. Gault. George Borst, Ch&s. Rolling, t.narles Watson. Edward Reich. Conrad l Keller C. W. Etchrudt. <’. E. Rueh. Ha, ay Bros., Alma Babb, Charles Lambert, ilaWfle Field. A. M. F.rater. E. F. Steward, Uus Lendari < A. I'. Moninger. North imUunapolle a B. Gaula Jfe Brc. West Indianapolis- Charles Hahn,. TURNER’S LITTLE LIVEK TURNERS— Avery small pill. Turns your liver. A tru* laxative. An after-dinner pill. /