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loading from the jail to eternity? Somebody had 1o carry the word to Milan that there was to be a lynching. Beggatt got it at Milan. On that night 9 o’clock aiul 11 o’clock were fatal hour*. William Harrison Black seemed to bo telling tho truth to every ono who heard him when he said that at 9 o'clock, looking in the direction of the Hassemer House, ho saw William Kenyon coming from it. If that is so Kenyon was uway from the jail after 7 o’clock, was he not? At that hour the accused was at that corner, Skeen and Stelnmetz tell you* Stelnmetz had at that time just placed Levi and Jenkins in jail. If the lynehing had to bo held buck until the five men were in jail 'hat is the way it would have happened, is it not? What did Kenyon go to that corner for, if not to see Hez Hughes, Calvin Skeen and Charles Wilson? He had been out riding. After his riding William Beggatt comes to see the lynching. ‘O,’ they say, ‘no one has said what they talked about.’ Does your honor suppose that until some ono of tills guilty crowd has compunctions of conscience or is in fear of punishment you will ever know what they said? Do conspirators ever tell such things?” The attorney general showed how Black’s testimony discredited the story told by Kenyon with reference to tho assault on the jail. Those vigilant guards were there :.o that when the sheriff might be called '•count ho might say he,had placed men to watch, who were overpowered. It was a shame and a farce. •‘A puff in the lamp, a step to the left, a call for help and Ripley county would not have been, disgnvced.” said Mr. Ketcham. HUGHES’S ALLEGED ALIBI. “Hughe* was in town nfiorning, afternoon and night. What was he doing ad day and all night? At 11 o’clock he went to Calvin Skeen’s house. What for? Why did he not go home? He got in Cal Skeen’s bed, banished Skeen's wife; got in bed long enough to establish an alibi, and then, hearing a noise, went up town and found the plot so carefully hatched was working. At 1 o’clock he went home, not back to bed with Skeen, so that his al>sence would not be known, so that it could be said he was at home. Mr,'. Hughes, although a witness, asked to bo allowed to remain through this hearing with her husband. After Steinsnetz had her husband in Versailles at 9 and 11 o’clock and Cal Skeen had him in town at 9, 11, 1- and 1 o'clock she did not testify.” Mr. Ketcham t hen took up the attempt to Impeach Charles Kelly. He admitted he was a convict, a poor, motherless and fatherless waif, who had never had good Influences about him. If he were not of bad character he would not be in the Reform School. “What is there that should induce him to further soil his soul by laying the charge of murder on this man if it were not true?” exclaimed tho attorney general. “Ho saw that face and heard in that voice the man who struck tho life out of Ilenry Scheuter. There was not one word of evidence to show he had any feeling against tho defendant. He was not asked a question on that score. The evidence points with almost unerring certainty to the guilt of the defendant. We do not say that your Honor should find Hughes guilty beyond a possibility of doubt, but that if there is doubt of liis innocence he should be sent to a higher court.”

THE DEFENSE OPENS. Major Cravens, of counsel for tho defendant, followed Mr. Ketcham. He declared he was neither an advocate nor apologist for lawlessness. “For tho helpless m?n in jail who were mussaered,” said he, “my heart beats as tenderly as the attorney general's. We are not here investigating the crime, but investigating an honorable and upright citizen of tlie county. We don’t ask any concealment or darkness. Whether the sheriff of the county was at his post is no business of yours or mine, nor of the attorney Kenoral, nor of tin defendant. Whether Baggott went to Versailles on Sept. 14 on an errand of mercy Is no business of ours. But why not quote him truly. He said he had information from two sources that there was to be excitement at Versailles, either a rescue of the prisoners by their friends or a lynching. Why did the learned attorney m* ntion a rescue? "He asks why did not Hez Hughes go home? For the same reason I would not go home if you, ’squire, should say to mo, 'Cravens, abide with me to-night.’ And if, •luring tlie night, there should be a crime in Cross Plains, would any one say 1 was guilty because 1 did not go home? "My distinguished friend says all the evidence the defense has is the impeachment of Kelly. All the evidence of the State is tho evidence of Kelly. For an hour he entertained you, but not more than five mintites was given to Hez Hughes. The rest of tho time was given to the sheriff, to Buggott, to Kenyon. They are as foreign to the case you have been investigating as the sins of Adam in .the garden.” Ho said that Kelly came to the hearing, <iot on a process, but in company of Judge McMullen, who got out of a sick bed to examine him, not as a representative of the State, but as Mr. McMullen. PRICE OF KELLY’S TESTIMONY. “Kelly said he would not stay in the Reformatory until he was twenty-one years of age,” said tho attorney. “He would not run away, but would walk away. How? By a pardon from the Governor for giving evidence against the men charged with the lynching. That accounts for his being here and testifying against Hez Hughes. Would any court incarcerate a man on evidence of that kind? Will tho great State of Indiana ask such a thing? I am not here representing Wm. Baggott, Baylor Andrews nor anybody that testified in this cake but my neighbor, Hez Hughes, and that is what your Honor is here for. Is Hughes accountable for Baggott? No; only for himself. These men may be as guilty as Cam, but what has that to do with Hez Hughes? Ho said Calvin Skeen had been called to the stand by the state, and had testified Hughes was there with reference to tlie purchase by tho county of the Osgood and Versailles pike, and that the trip to Osgood taken by himself and Wilson was to see Daily Wilson, who owned a controlling interest. Hughes was there without disguise—just plain, honest, Ripley county Hez Hughes. “Two grand juries, since the perpetration >f this heinous offense, who enjoyed advantages your Honor has not—process of court to compel witnesses to appear, and th prosecuting attorney, besides a judge on the bench to aid them—have investigated this horrible deed. If they failed to return an indictment, why is it we find ourselves here to-day before a justice of tlie {•taco in a remote part of tho county? Is t because it enter- and the mind of someone that Justice Craig would assume the rcrpousibility of doing what two grand juries, w. judge and a prosecutor have not done?” Ho reviewed the evidence that had been Introduced to impeach Kelly, and quoted the statute with regard to reasonable doubt. “Black said the voices he heard were disguised. When Kelly says ho recognized jlughees voice he is an infamous liar,” lie added. Major Cravens read Kelly’s testimony before tho coroner, when ho said he recognized no one. At that time lio was ttot a prisoner with a hope of pardon. THE GOVERNOR DEFENDED. Hugh l). McMullen, for tlie State, took up the cudgel for Governor Mount, saying when the defense talks about Kelly being promised a pardon they were virtually charging him with subornation of perjury and branding him even more despicable a culprit than tlie murderers. Ho was followed by Messrs. Rebuck and Thompson, for the defense. Mr. Thompson was even more intemperate and bitter in attacking Governor Mount. “Why did not the Governor come to Ripley county and file the affidavits?” lie asked. "Was it because he was afraid lie would be prosecuted by a Ripley .county grand jury for perjury or subornation of perjury?” This caused the first ami only demonstration from the crowd that had gradually packed the schoolhousc. It was promptly checked by Justice Craig, who said any such demonstrations would not be tolerated. "Why had not Governor Mount Opened the treasury a year ago to help ferret out some of the damnable deeds done in this county.'” asked the attorney. 'This investigation is an insult to Judge New, to th* prosecuting attorney, the grand jury and every one concerned in >nXorcing law la this judicial circuit.” It was growing dark in the unlighted school house whPn Mr. Ketcham cloned the . rgume it. II read from the statutes the oath the Governor Is required to take, pledging him*lf to enforce the laws, lie declared when Ripley county could not en-

force the laws It was his duty to Intervene. Ho denounced in most scathing terms the insulting remarks that had been made with regard to a promise of a pardon to Kelly, and convinced every ono that there was absolutely no ground for such a malicious falsehood. Ripley county had never asked for aid or it would have been given most promptly. He showed that the Witness Kelly hail been warned l>efore being taken to the coroner not to tell if he knew any one of the mob. For him to have done so would have meant his own death at the hands of that. same mob. MILITIA I\ READINESS. A Dispatch at 'Washington the Governor linen Not Inderatand. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Ind., Feb. 28.—George 11. Pennington, colonel of the First Regiment Indiana National Guard, to-m.-Ut wired Company D hero to hold itself in readiness to move to-morrow morning. Nothing else was stated. It is believed the company may be taken to Versailles, where tho lynchers of the Levi gang are being tried, and many threats have been made against tho state authorities. Governor Mount was asked last night about the report that a militia company at Washington had been ordered to hold itself in readiness to move to-day. “There must be. some mistake about that,” said he, “for I have ordered no such step as this. I left my office early this afternoon, suffering from a severe headache. If there had even been a call for troops I certainly would have been notified. I have heard nothing from Versailles to-day. When I talked with the attorney general over long-distance telephone yesterday he told me there was no indication of trouble in Ripley county this week.” NOW SHE WILL “SHINE.” W ealthy Chicago Widow Pays $21,2500 for a Single Diamond, CHICAGO, Feb. 2S.—Mrs. Celia Wallace, widow of the wealthy iumlicrman, J. S. Wallace, of this city, has added to her magnificent collection of jewels tho second largest diamond in the United States. The price paid for the precious stone, which is only surpassed in beauty and intrinsic value by tho famous Tiffany diamond, was $21,COO. The jewel was the property of a former Governor of Wisconsin. Mrs. Wallace is the woman who offered to adopt and educate tho young Cuban girl, v Mlss Cisneros, at tho time of her visit to Chicago. OBITUARY. i Col. John Thomas Schurf, uu Ex-Con-federate Olilccr and Historian. NEW YORK, Feb. 28.—C01. John Thomas Seharf died at his residence in this city today of paralysis of the heart and pneumonia. 110 had been ill since Saturday morning. Colonel Scliarf was born in Baltimore in 1543, and was graduated from Georgetown University. In 1861 lie joined the Confederate forces and was wounded in the second battle of Bull Run. In 1864 he took part in the capture of the Newbern, off the coast of North Carolina. In 1864, while bearing a dispatch to tho Confederate government, he was captured in Maryland, on his way to Canada, and imprisoned in the Capitol Prison at Washington. He was pardoned in 1865 by Andrew Johnson. After tho war he engaged In mercantile business in Baltimore, but gave that up in 1874, when lie was admitted to tho bar. In 1878 he was a member of tho State Legislature, and, later, land commissioner for the State of Maryland. Ho was appointed Chinese inspector oi ino isoutnern uisirict of New York in 1893 by Grover Cleveland. Ho resigned this position last September. Among other works which ho publisned were histories of Maryland, Baltimore and the Southern States. Story of a. Recluse. OAKLAND, Cal., Feb. 28.—The death 0. - ! Henry Odenkerchen, who was for many years almost a recluse in the lonely hills of Altamont, has revealed a story of lost fortunes and devotion to a dead wife's memory. Thirty-five years ago he was one of the wealthiest inhabitants of New Haven, Conn. Ho was identified with the Winchester Arms Company, having many largo contracts with that corporation. He lost, his fortune througn a shipwreck which carried to the bottom a cargo of ammunition and arms in which he was heavily interested. Before lie came to California his wife died. Her remains Were interred in a New Haven cemetery. As the city grew' it encompassed her resting place. A short time before his death lie refused to accept SIO,OOO for the plat. He was postmaster and express agent at Altamont, hut liis ventures in this State did not prove successful. The Ferris Wheel Inventor’s Remains. PITTSBURG, Feb. 28.—The remains of George W. G. Ferris, known throughout tho world for liis daring invention and construction of the great Ferris wheel at tho Chicago world’s fair, are still held at tlie crematory of Undertaker Samson, in this city, for the unpaid funeral expenses, contracted over a year ago. Mr. Ferris was practically penniless at his death, but carried insurance to the amount of $25,1X10. This, it is said, was more than eatcn> up by the numerous claims left.

Gen* W. I’’. Taliaferro. RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 28.—Gen. W. F. Taliaferro, a Mexican war veteran, and commander of the Virginia troops during the John Brown raid, a major general in the Confederate army and an ex-judge, died at his home .in Gloucester county last night. Joint Robertson. BELLOWS FALLS, Vt., Feb. 25.-John Robertson, a prominent paper manufacturer, died yesterday at Palm Beach, Fla. He was a member of the firm of John Robertson & Son, the Robertson Paper Company of Bellows Falls and W. A. Colo & Cos., of Putney, Vt. Col. Matthew C. Galloway. MEMPHIS, Tonn., Feb. 28.—C01. Matthew C. Galloway, founder of the Memphis Avalanche and afterwards editor of the Appeal, died to-night in his seventy-eighth year. Former Billiard Champion. CHICAGO, Feb. 2S. — Frank J. Parker, the old-time billiard player and at ono time billiard champion of the Lnited States, died at his home here to-day of paralysis. WITH A HAT PJN. “Drummer’’ from Paris Alleged to Have Been Stabbed by a \\ oman. CHICAGO. Feb. 28.—1 tis almost a certainty that Bartholomew Brandt Brandner, the Parisian drummer who is dead at the Palmer House, was murdered with a woman’s hat pin. The autopsy showed not only concussion of the brain, but a small puncture which began near the corner of tne left eye and extended far into the interior of the skull. It was not of greater diameter than the lead of a pencil. Four detectives have been detailed on the case. Brandner entered the hotel at a late hour bleeding profusely and fell to the floor. Jt was said to-night that jealousy on the part of a woman is now believed to be the cause of the assault which resulted in the death of Bradner. Before deliriuui made iis conversation incoherent ho told his nurse that he had had trouble with a woman in St. Louts, but when questioned further he refused to say anything connecting the quarrel and his injuries. Bradner, on the night he was injured, said that he thought lie had ’>een drugged, and this, taken in connection with a. peculiar injury under the left eye, the result of a stab with u sharp, slender blade, probably the ornamental pin worn ia women’s hafr. has led to the theory that Bmdner’s injuries resulted from a premeditated attack, actuated by a desire for revenge. Thus far the detectives at work on the ease have been unable to obtain any delinite clews of those supposed to be connected with Bradner’s death. Last of the Boones Dying:. CHICAGO, Feb. 28.—Daniel Levi Boone, son of Dr. Lewi Boone, one of tho early mayors of Chicago. and a grand nephew of the noted Daniel Boone is lying dangerously ill at his home m this city, lie is the last surviving man descend cut of the famous Boone family. Mr. Boone has been an invalid for tho past four or five years.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, MARCH 1, IS9B.

GLIDDEN WILL CONTEST ♦ ESTATE OF THE WELL-KNOWN HORSEMAN SAID TO BE DWINDLING. Serious Accident at Ovcr’a Gian* Fac-tory-Reform Training; School Building Dedicated. ♦ air Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RUSHVILLE, Ind., Feb. 28.—Augusta and Mary Lail, minor daughters of George S. Lail, of Indianapolis, have instituted suit hero to set aside the will of their grandfather, Augustus Glidden, the noted horseman. While they are the direct heirs and recognized as such in tho will, the property is, however, tied up in trust in such a manner as to put it entirely beyond the control of the two granddaughters. F. E. Glidden, brother of Augustus Glidden, is the executor of tho will and t.ho trustee for the Lail girls’ estate. Tho complaint in the case just filed asks that the will be set aside for three reasons—unsoundness of mind of the testator, because it was unduly executed and because its execution was procured for tho purpose of fraud. The real motive back of the contest is dissatisfaction among the Lails over tho management of the estate by F. E, Glidden, who, they say, under the will, is virtually the owner of the property. Mr. Glidden died May 5, 1896. Since then claims against his estate and judgments have been paid and other valid claims are pending until at least $20,000 will be consumed in settling the estate, which originally was supposed to be worth $75,0(8). The family of F. E. Glidden, in whose house the will was written and where Mr. Glidden died, are liberally provided for in the will. F. J. Hall, Martin & Megee and Judge W. A. Cullen appear for the plaint.ffs. GAS WELL TURNS OILER. Indiana Price Up Another Cent, Now Being 43 Cents it Barrel. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind,, Feb. 28—The People’s Gas Company of this city owns a gas well directly south of the Panhandle depot. Two years ago salt water crept in and a separator was put in to eliminate the salt water from the gas, and performed its function admirably. Recently the Harry Carreil oil, a half mile distant, was shot and since then the gas w r ell has been flowing oil instead of salt water. Indiana oil is now 45 cents, having gone up another cent Saturday. Oil men say that if Indiana oil reaches 60 cents there will be one of the greatest oil booms at Hartford City ever experienced in the State. The monthly oil report for February shows the Blackford county field to be in the lead in new w'ork. The Cudahy Oil Company intends to put. in a pipe line here, if their wells now located come in oilers. Tfvo-llundred-Burrel Well Struck. PORTLAND, Ind., Feb. 28.—A mammoth oil well was finished by Letts &. Hardison, on the McNutt farm, in Jackson township, this afternoon. The well is said to bo good for two hundred barrels of oil daily. Oil Well Failure. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BLUFFTON, Ind., Feb, 28.—Well No. 2, at Ossian, ten miles north of this city, has proven a failure. Salt water was struck at 130 feet in Trenton rock.

INDIANA OBITUARY. Marcus Mote, the Well-Known Richmond flanker Painter. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Feb. 28.—Marcus Mote, one of tho best-known characters of this city, tho State and the Society of Friends, is dead. Some time ago lie became deranged and had been a patient at the Eastern Hospital. A wife and three children survive. Tho children are Mrs. Frank Ilaugli, of this city; Kirk and Samuel Mote, of Warren county, Ohio. Mr. Mote was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, 1817, and. was eighty-one years old. For many years he lived in Warren county, Ohio, and at Lebanon he met Thomas Corwin. Ho became an intimate acquaintance of the great Ohioan, and in later years painted a picture of him that now hungs in the Ohio Statehouse at Columbus. The public has never known who the artist was that did the painting, as the picture bears these words: “By an unknown artist.” Mr. Mote came to Richmond about forty years ago, and at once took an active interest in the study of drawing in the schools, and he was Instrumental in having the Legislature pass the hill requiring that drawing should he taught in the public schools of the State. Mr. Mote enjoyed the reputation of being the first Quaker to overcome the teachings of his church and devote his life to painting. He labored under many difficulties when young, but his talent was boon with him, and could not be repressed. At two and a half years old he began to draw. He got his colors from red and ydlow root and red ink, and used a squirrel's tail for a brush in his first painting. In his early life Mr. Mote came near being disowned by the church for his persistency in painting, but escaped through the powerful influence of friends. Other Deaths in the State. COLUMBUS. Ind., Feb. 28.—Herman F. Schaeffer, of St. Louis Crossing, Bartholomew county, died at his home yesterday. He was sixty-two years old. For thirty-five years he had been the station agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at St. Louis Crossing. The funeral will take place at Hope to-morrow morning. Adam Glick, one of the most prominent farmers of Bartholomew county, died at his home this afternoon. He was sixty-five years old. YORKTOWN, Ind., Feb. 25.-J. Wesley Hensley, aged sixty, a well-to-do farmer living about three miles east of Yorktown, who has been partially insane for two years, went to tlie barn last night and took a halter off a horse and put it around liis own neck and hung himself. He was found cold and stiff in death's arms this morning. ELKHART, Ind., Feb. 28.—Mrs. Charles B. Brodrick. wife of one of the leading manufacturers mul bankers of this city, died at her home here last night of paralysis. She was stricken suddenly yesterday. She was fifty years old and leaves a husband and a young son. GREENS BURG, Ind.. Feb. 28.-Joseph Davidson is dead, at tlie age of fifty-one, of bowel obstruction, after a week’s illness. He was the only son of the late Andrew Davidson, who was a supreme judge of this State during tho fifties. He leaves a wife and son. EVANSVILLE, Ind., Feb. 28.—Cap*-. F. T. Hodge, a wealthy wholesale liquor dealer, died to-night, aged eighty-one. His deatli was indirectly due to a recent runaway accident. KOKOMO, Ind., Feb. 28.—William Seerist, an old resident of this city, died to-day, aged sixty-nine. Death was caused by a fall on the icy pavement a week ago. MADISON, Ind., Feb. 28.—Mrs. Moody Park, widow' of Madison’s first mayor, died last night, aged ninety-two. She was a native of New' England. + --■■■■ ■ REFORM SCHOOL BUILDING. Dedication of tlie New Training School Built by the Boys. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. I LAIN FI ELD, Ind., March 28.—The new school building just completed at the Indiana Reform School for Boys was dedicated to-day with appropriate ceremonies. At an early hour friends of the institution to arrive, tho first being D. M. Geeting, superintendent of public instruction, and A. W. Butler, secretary of the Board of State Charities. The morning was occupied in visiting tho various divisions and industrial departments of tho school. Great interest w is especially,manifested in the manual training school. The impression is that this department is not excelled in the State. The course of study is so systematical arranged and graded, and tho training so thorough, that it is believed no boy who completes the course can fail to possess the ability to earn his livelihood on leaving the school. The excellent management under which this institution is working, and the co-operation of trustees and officers, is apparent in every department. The new school building fills a long-felt want, and will greatly mid to tho educational facilities of the institution. The building is of

brick, erected at a cost to the State of $4.being the amount appropriated by the 7 last General Assembly. This was the full amount expended for material, the work being entirely done by the boys of the Reform School. Tlie bricks of which the building is constructed were made, burned and laid in the walls by the boys, and the carpentering, plastering, painting, cement work and steam fitting were likewise the work of their hands, proving that, economically considered, the State is the gainer by the W'ork of these boys, and that the money expended in their education is well invested. The dedicatory exercises w* re held in tho chapel in the afternoon. They were conducted by Superintendent Chariton, and were appropriate and interesting. The following programme was rendered: Address of welcome by president of the board of trustees, Gen. George F. McGinnis; "Statement of Cost of Building and Its Benefits.” by Trustee W. C. Ball: “What the Reform School Teaches,” by Representative J. M. Barlow: “The Board of-State Charities,” by A. W. Butler, secretary. These exercises were supplemented by brief addresses by Prof. Geeting, Representative Richard Miller, of Terre Haute, Capt. Joseph Balsley, mayor of Seymour, and Captain Barrett, superintendent of the Ohio Reform School for Boys. The songs, “When I First Came Down to Plainfield.” “Ain’t I Glad I’m a Hoosier.” and “The Farmer,” were enthusiastically sung, by the boys. Much regret was felt at the absence of Governor Mount, who was detained at home on account of Illness. Interesting letters and telegrams were read from friends of the institution who were unable to be present. —• STREAM OF LIQUID GLASS Burnt Out In C. H. Over Factory and Canned SIO,OOO Damage. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Feb. 28.—The C. 11. Over & Cos. window-glass factory, one of the largest in the gas belt, met with a serious accident this afternoon and came near being destroyed by lire. The big continuous tank in which is kept hundreds of tons, of molten glass, from which the blowers work, burst and the contents poured out and ran about tho factory. Several of the workmen had close calls from being caught and burned to death. The men were equal to the emergency, and with the assistance of the city fire department prevented the building from burning and ditched the glass into the pit surrounding the furnace, where it will lay and cool off. and will then be placed back into the furnace. The greatest damage is the mouth’s loss of time to the factory and four hundred men employed there. The loss is estimated at SIO,OOO by the firm. Organising Nonunion Miners. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Feb. 28.—President Knight and Secretary Kennedy, of the Indiana district of the United Mine Workers, havo returned from southwest Indiana, where they Spent the latter part of last week organizing the six hundred or seven hundred miners in that part of tho State. In the Evansville district there aro about four hundred men, and only thirty are in the organization. President Jfcnight explained to them that they could not expect to havo t.ho advantage of union wages unless they were organized. Committees were appointed to visit all the mines and urge the men to join the organization. All except one or two operators are in favor of organization, because it will place all operators on an equal basis, whereas now there are varying prices for mining. President Knight made the announcement in Evansville that he would not l>e a candidate for re-election. He will have served two terms of one year each in April, lie has perhaps the best record of any man who has held the posi ion.

Married u Klondike!-. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Feb. 28.—Ephraim L. Pounds, back from the Klondike, the owner of rich claims, was wedded yesterday to Mrs. Ada Watson, who was his playmate in chilhood. This afternoon, accompanied by his bride, he started for London, where he will deal with a syndicate in regard to his claims in the Klondike, lio was only eight years of age when lie moved from Terre Haute, and since then he has been around tho world. He was an expert quartz miner in the Western States before he went to Australia and South Africa. He went 1o the British northwest three years ago, and when the lylondikeobig discoveries were made he was' on hand to buy claims whose value he knew through his long experience in gold mining. Mrs. Watson is tho widow of E. M. Watson, who wa,s the leading implement dealer of Terre Haute at the time of his death, ten year's ago. Covington a Town of Clubs. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COVINGTON, Ind., Feb. 28.—Apropos of Indiana's being a State distinguished for social and literary organizations, it may bo mentioned that in all probability Covington has more such organizations in proportion to its size than any other town. Aside from the lodges and business and religious associations, there are fourteen clubs in this city of 2,500. Os the literary and self-improvement elubs there are tho Woman’s Club, the Afterwhiles, the D. O. E. Club, the Mother’s Club, the O. K. Club, the Bachelor Girls, the Picked Eleven, the Dramatic Club, the Budding Literary Society, the Physical Training Club and the Orphans’ Club. Then there are the Whist Club, the Merry Tw'elve and the Dancing Club, which are purely social societies. Seven of these associations are for women alone, while they have equal part with the men in four others. NoblcHvillc Revivals. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NOBLE3VILLE. Ind., Feb. 28,-For four weeks the Christian Church has been holding meetings every afternoon and evening, and at the evening services many are turned away, not being able to get even standing room in the large new church building. Over three hundred have united with the church up to date. .The evangelists, Scoville and Scott, will probably close their labors in a few days, as they have pressing engagements elsewhere. Tho Methodists are also having a splendid revival under the management of the pastor, B. F. Kemp, and assisted by tlie Indiana Conference evangelist. Rev. J. D. Hurtsock, of Greeneastle. During the past two weeks over one hundred have united with this church, thirty-five of whom were gathered in Sunday. Other churches of the city aro feeling the effects of the revival. Children Fight for .Mother’s Property. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Feb. 28.—The ndministrator’s sale on the old homestead of Mrs. Nancy Wilson, near Poplar Grove, this county, was the scene of a cutting affray Saturday. Thomas Bell, a son-in-law of the dead woman, was stabbed by Thomas Wilson, his brother-in-law. In dividing up the clothing and other small property of tho old lady the children became involved in a quarrel, which resulted in young Wilson attacking Bell with a poeketknife. Bell’s face was frightfully slashed and one thrust entered the back under the shoulder blade. Wilson, who is a brother of County Commissioner J. W. Wilson, was arrested. Bell is not expected to recover. Record-Breaking Revival. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BLUFFTON, Ind., Feb. 28.—The revival which has been in progress for six weeks in the Methodist Church closed last night. It goes down on record as the greatest spiritual revival in the history of the local ohurch. The eai'nest work of tho pastor, Rev. Somerville Light, was highly appreciated by the entire membership. Thus far there have been 210 accessions during this conference year. During the revival the Vincent Chapter ot the Epworr.h League received 67 new members, which now has a membership of 225, the largest chapter in the Fort Wayne district. The chapter’s benevoleut work this year amounts to $1,200. Mrs. Sweigert Found Hanging. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW CASTLE, Ind., Feb. 28.—Mrs. John Sweigert, living south of this city, attempted suicide while visiting at the home of her mother, near Cambridge City, yesterday. She went into an outbuilding to crack some hickory nuts and was found there hanging from a rafter. She was nearly dead and it required five hours of labor to bring her back to life. She is mentally unbalanced and will be committed to East Haven -Asylum. ( bailee for a Boycott. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 28.-Anderson merchants have decided to put a free hack system into operation between this city and Middletown, and the merchants and people of that city are rising in arms against any intrusion upon home trade. They threaten

to boycott those who patronise the free hack and come to this city to purchase their goods. The hack begins Its run to-morrow. Two Children Fatally Burned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Inti., Feb. 2s'.—'This morning while the three-year-old daughter of John L. Sellers was playing near a stove in the absence of its parents her clothing caught tire anti was burned off. The child died two hours later. The six-vear-old daughter of Michael McDuff was fatally scalded from her neck down this evening with the contents of a pot of boiling coffee. Suicide of Farmer Hemes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Feb. 28.—Wesley Henren, aged sixty-four, committed by hanging last night in his burn, four miles west of Muncie. When found at 6 o’clock this morning by his son his body was cold. Mr. Hensen owned five forty-acre farms in this county. The act is attributed to the slight derangement of his mind superinduced by continued ill health. Mexico Gold Mine Venture. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BLUFFTON, Ind., Feb. 2S.—A stock company is being organized in this' city to be known as the National Dredge and Mining Company, with a capital stock of $300,00), with a paidup value of $20,000. They have an option on one hundred acres of river bottom in New Mexico which prospectors have demonstrated are rich with gold. - - - - Life Insurance l'or Firemen. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 28.—Citizens of Anderson to-day presented every member of the Anderson fire department with a one-thousand-dollar life and accident insurance policy, paid up one year. Two refused to accept the gift. Contract for $10,1(11 C hareli. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PORTLAND, Ind., Feb. 2S.—A. A. Fletcher, of Martin’s Ferry, 0., was this afternoon awarded the contract for building a new Methodist church in this city, at $10,464. There were fifty bidders. HARD TO SOLVE. (Concluded from First Page.) send on the Baclie hereafter all the remains of the dead recovered in a condition making it possible to place them in coffins. The difficulty experienced in recovering the bodies is not understood oy any but the divers. The latter yesterday worked for three hours trying to bring out one body intact, and one of the divers had a bad fall and several got their air tubes tangled. Even they could not extricate the remains. The principal efforts of the divers are now directed toward clearing the upper wreckage, smokestacks, decks, guns, hatches, bridges, cranes and gratings. Then if not before all the dead can be removed. Only one body was recovered to-day, and it has not yet been identified, though there are hopes that it may be later. With any others recovered in time it will go with the wounded on the Bacho to the Dry Tortugas and Key West. On her next trip north the Bache will carry to Key West the first company of wounded taken to the Dry Tortugas. Captain Sigsbee was much gratified at recovering to-day in good condition his insignia of the order of the Red Eaglo (Prussian), and the gold medal presented to him by the international fisheries exhibition in London in 1883. Lieutenant Commander Wainwright. ’the executive officer of the Maine, who waj'a(J most worn out. with constant work on the wreck, had a good rest yesterday and says ho feels now like anew man. Captain Sigsbee to-night reported that the work of the divers to-day was slow and must necessarily continue slow, owing to the difficulty of making an impression upon tlie muss of heavy debris. But they are doing the best they can. Late to-day Captain Mctlee, of the tug Right Arm, received orders from the contractors to hire such lighters as are necessary to remove the debris from the wreck. This will facilitate the work of removing the dead and generally hasten operations. Captain Sigsbee continues to receive letters in groat numbers. All the queries about the men who lost their lives when the Maine was blown up are answered as soon as possible if there is anything to be told. One of the saddest letters received by Captain Sigsbee was from the brother of a dead man, who wrote that when death was claiming the victim his friends at home were celebrating liis birthday and wishing him many happy returns of the day. Chaplain Chidwick has been commended by Captain Sigsbee as a* man, a priest and an officer. Ho is always cheerful and is doing the most effective work possible. The chaplain hopes to recognize some of the bodies when he receives descriptions taken from the enlistment papers which are on file at Washington. Senator Proctor, who passed most of the day indoors, writing private letters and reading, says his visit will be too brief to make his observations of any interest to the public and. therefore, he has nothing to otter for publication. Ho had expected to pay his personal respects to Captain General Blanco to-day in company with his traveling companion, Colonel Parker, and Consul General Lee, but the captain general has been unusually busy in getting ready for the outgoing mails and has fixed 1 o'clock to-morrow afternoon for Senator Proctor’s call. The senator has not yet witnessed the distribution of relief under the auspices of the Red Cross Society of the United States, but he will do so to-day. or to-morrow. Miss Clara Barton’s latest additions to her staff are men who have been in the Red Cross service for years, and who have seen duty in Armenia and elsewhere.

NO SUBMARINE MIXES. How a Fuke Map Was Worked tp for a Yellow Journal. CHICAGO, Feb. 28.—XV. E. Curtis, the Washington correspondent of the Record, says: The statement of Senor Du Bose that no submarine mines or topedoea have ever been placed in Havana harbor upsets one of the theories that have been most generally accepted by those who believe that Spanish treachery destroyed the Maine, and the suggestion now is that some individual, Cuban or Spaniard, attached a bomb to the hull. But the naval authorities are reluctant to accept that explanation because it reflects upon the seamanship and the military discipline of the Maine. It is impossible to believe that so cautious a commander as Captain Sigsbeo would relax his vigilanco sufficiently to permit such an attack. It is known that his guns were shotted and that torpedoes loaded for instant use lay upon the deck of his ship. One explanation is that a torpedo must have been loaded at an abandoned hospital on the shore of the bay opposite Havana, towed at the end of a rope or wire by a boat until it was in proper position to be carried by the current against the Maine and then released for its work of destruction. The Spanish announcement that there were no mines or torpedoes around the Maine is corroborated by a report which was received some days ago at the Navy Department. It appears that Captain Sigsbee, fearing lest there might be dangerous obstructions at the bottom of the bay, took the trouble one night soon after his arrival to tow a kedge anchor over the bottom of the bay all around the neighborhood of his ship. If there had been a mine or torpedo in the vicinity it would have been dislodged at that time. There Is not the slightest truth in the widely-published story that Consul General Dee has Informed the Department of State of his opinion that the destruction of the Maine was due to external causes and was the result of a conspiracy among persons of prominence in Havana. If General Dee has sent any such information it Is unknown to the President, the members of the Cabinet and the assistant secretary of state. The general effect of the Spanish announcement has been good; it has subdued indignation to a considerable degree. The character of the canards that have been sent out from Washington on this subject is illustrated by a single incident. A few days ago a newspaper in New York published a map showing the location of the mines in Havana harbor, which its reporters claimed to have discovered ’in secret archives of the congressional library” and

to have secured with great difficulty by the arbitrary intervention of Vice President Hobart and Speaker Reed. The original of this map was shown at the Navy Department Saturday. It Is an ordinary chart of Havana harbor published for sale by a private firm, and contains no reference whatever to mines or torpedoes. Those were located by the reporter after the map was photographed. There are no secret archives in the congressional library. This map was in the chart room with several thousand others, catalogued and filed, and always open to the public between the hours of D a. m. and 5 p. m., but a requisition from a member of Congress is necessary to enable an outsider to withdraw a booii or map, and the reporter in this Instance obtained one from the Vice President with a duplicate from the speaker without the slightest objection or the exercise of any arb.trary power. The stories that have been printed concerning the activity of the array and navy are based on similar pretenses. While it 1* true that the War Department has taken occasion to ask an increase of the artillery arm of the service In order to man the new coast defenses, and the secretary of the navy has asked authority to enlist a lot or sailors to man the new ships and the old ones which have been put out of commission for lack of crews, both requests were originally made in the annual reports or these officials, not only to the President, but to the previous Congress. There are half a dozen men-of-war in the navy for which no crews can bo furnished, and 2,000 more sailors are absolutely necessary at present, while at least 1,200 additional sailors will be needed next year when the mer.-of-war under construction at present are completed and ready for sea. Although we have been improving our coast defenses very rapidly, at the rate of from $6,000,000 to $10,000,000 a year, and are mounting mammoth guns at all the exposed points along the coast, there has been no increase in tne army since the close of the war, and it stands in numbers now where it stood in 1873. when the last reduction was made. It is no sign of war, therefore, bur only an ordinary precaution that the military and naval authorities should ask for the men they need. 'Die friends of Senator Hanna are much amused at the story that has been telegraphed all over the country that he is in New York trying to arrange for a war fund of $500,000,000 at the request of the President. The fact is that Mr. Hanna’s daughter, who Is attending Miss Porter’s school at Farmington. Conn., has been suffering from a disease known as nostalgia, and [icrsuaded her father and mother to meet her in New’ York for a brief holiday, which accounts for Mr. Hanna’s presence in the metropolis. BODIES OF VICTIMS. They Will Not Be Permanently Interred at Key West. WASHIXGHTON, Feb. 28.—Commander Forsythe, at Key West, telegraphed this morning that he had, in execution of the department’s order, secured a plot of ground in the cemetery at Key West in which will be interred the remains of such of the victims’ bodies as are brought from Havana. Admiral Sicard personally will look after the funeral arrangements. It is learned that the Spanish officials at Havana have consented to the removal ol’ any bodies hereafter recovered, a formality made necessary by the fact that the Cuban law does not permit such removals from fear of extending contagion. It Is understood that the remains are not to' be permanently interred at Key West; and this understanding gives a great deal of satisfaction to the naval officials here who have had trouble in times past in maintaining graves of sailors in proper condition owing to the infiltration of largo quantities of water into the graves through the porous and low lying coral strands. As the remains are inclosed in hermetically sealed zinc cases it is not believed they will suffer during their brief Interment at Key West. Captain Hawley, who is directly in charge of that branch of the Navigation Bureau relating to the enlisted men in the navy, is now directing the woi'k of his office to the issuance of death certificates to the families of the dead. These certificates are issued by the surgeon general and Navigation Bureau, and arc thus conclusive evidence upon the auditors of the Treasury Department, who are thereby obliged to pay over to the legal representatives ol’ heirs of the dead any sums of money that may be due them by the United States government on account of accrued pay or retained deposits. In the case of victims of the Maine disaster the department is obliged in many eases to certify to the death of the sailors without being able to secure evidence of that fact through the presence of a body. It is assumed by the officials that a man failing to<, report perished In tlie catastrophe. Letters are reaching tlie Navy Department from all parts of the country from alleged relatives of victims, and it appears that in numerous eases there are many claimants for the small sums of money or property that belong to the dead men. It. will be tlie duty of the department to try to adjust these claims and reconcile con- v flicts, and every effort is being made by the officials to do this as speedily as possible consistent tho requirements of the statutes. Captain Sigsbee has telegraphed that two more dead bodies were recovered yesterday. One was unrecognizable, but the other was identified as that of J. W. Johnson. Tlie captain also announced the death in the hospital at Havana of Sailor Holzer, who made such a gallant struggle for life.

Proposed Lodge of Sorrow. MEXICO CJTY, Feb. 28.-The Mexican, German and Spanish lodges of this city have spontaneously invited their American brethren to a special lodge of sorrow to be held on the 3d of March in memory of the Masons who have perished in the Maine disaster, and as a mark of sympathy for the loss sustained by the order and the. United States. It is a noteworthy fact that the initiative was taken in this matter by Grand Orator CaVlos Roumagnie, a native-born Spaniard of Madrid, who supported the movement in a speech full of feeling. There is no ill feeling between Americans and the • better class of native Spaniards here. Contribution from California. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 28.—The entire proceeds from to-day’s attendance at the mining fair, the lurgest exhibit of matters relating to mining ever held on the Pacific coast, which has been attracting crowds to Mechanics’ pavilion for the past month, are to be devoted to the relief of the families of the victims of the Maine disaster. An extraordinary programme of a military nature was presented for the occasion. SETTLED BY HAITI. Italy’s Claim Aguinst the Little Republic Paid in Full. KINGSTON, Jamaica, Feb. 28.—The Italian claim has been settled by Haiti paying the full amountv demanded. The French government is now pressing a claim for damages for violation of treaty rights of French citizens. President Simon Sam will visit Rucmel and the provinces on March 0. Tho long pending claim of Italy against Haiti, just settled, was the case of an Italian merchant at Port de l J ai.v, whose vessel and cargo, worth SBO,OOO, were, it is alleged, illegally seized and sold by the Haitian government. BOTH WERE INNOCENT. Neither of the Seminole* Hunted at the Stuke Wan Guilty of Murder. GUTHRIE, O. TANARUS., Feb. 28.—Ever since the burning of the two Indians for the murder of Mrs. Daird, at Maude, I. TANARUS., it has been asserted that Lincoln McGeisey, the youngest of the two, was innocent, and all the evidence brought out at the hearings has served to corroborate this assertion. It is now learned that special agents of the government have seeured evidence establishing a complete alibi for Sampson, the other victim, proving he was forty miles from the Laird homo at the time of the murder. Many Made Homeless by Fire. NEW YORK. March I.—Fire that broke out at midnight in a four-story tenement house, No. 171 Harrison avenue. Borough of Brooklyn, damaged property to the extent of $30,000 ami made seventy families temporarily' homeless. Several smaller tenement houses were destroyed. A number of persona were slightly injured by falling walls. The Ilewt Advertising. Philadelphia Record. , Hysteria is an infallible symptom of weakness. That’s why the shrewd advertisers long ago stopped shrieking in order to try tho finely modulated, confidential tone which beats squarely on the drum of the public ear. What a Man Otvea to Ida Country. Bishop Doane, in North American Review. Wisest and best of ail the marks of ,i true patriot is the possession and the practice of an intelligent interest in the public affairs of his country. Hopeless tu the fueo of the

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They Don’t Want NVnr. New York Commercial Advertiser. Nobody in this country ever really want of war but irresponsible adventurers witjj.yellow journals to sell. I! was hard to believe this when the newspapers and tin 1 conyre--sional debates rang with tin- brazen ( lam-r of w'ordy battle, but it is clear enough now in the great hush that has fallen oii tie* chorus of orators and self-int* rvlewers tho approach of a possible actual crisis. Tho most remarkable feature of the situation is tho total disappearance of the oral belligerents who were, bellowing their divim lin y and irrepressible valor into every <i< n ear. Even the Senate, that old guard of the \<>- ciferoua army, which might die, but never was silenced, has lost its tongue, and the speaker of the House has become a sin* < wrist. Morgan and Mason have put off their clanging armor of triple brass, and the House has suddenly' forgotten that it wanted the reports of Cuban consuls. Tin* grim shadow of what they summoned h n stricken them dumb. These gentry and tie* tocsin-sounding Governors and the new-i iper interviewer didn’t want war; they only wanted to make a noise. The country will understand them better when they break out aguni. Hold. Kansas City Journal. It Is said that Alfred Austin writes -1 his verses in the daytime. This is bold. Most great crimes are committed uude. t!. cover of darkness. l*n triotlsm. Washington icst. Tpo Spanish omelet will at or.ee di : - pear from the menu of every patriotic tavern keeper. Chairman Bigler, of the Republican . .. mittee for the Eleventh district, lue is.-uoi a call for the meeting of the committ.-e in Wabash Thursday. March 3, to tix th tin • and place for holding the congressional convention. SELF-HYPNOTISM Ih Practiced l neousciousl > by People Hay by Day. In order to continue a habit some p wifi put up with more misery day by and. than they would stand for any other c. For instance, a man may have and twinges of neuralgia cr stomach trouble - weakness of the heart (all havii t: origin in a disarranged nervous system 1 , and be told many times that he could rid of his misery by leaving off the dru, . tobacco and coffee that cause the from But he stoutly asserts that they don’t hint him and are not the cause of his troubb . ’’Why,” one man said, “1 left off ioff<- .1 tobacco once for two weeks, and I felt id a lighting cock, but I couldn’t stand i powerful desire and had to take them p again.” Such experiences show the real lrypaotlo character of habit, and these habits art. to an extent, breaking Uowti the race. When a man shakes off the hypnotism lie clearly secs that bounding health and the ability to hold up one’s head like a man, to do Rim’s life duty and trnve the ability to can y out business projects successfully is \* r- i more than all the habits on the face of the earth when coupled with daily aches and ails and an ever-increasing inability to make things go. Min s great object in life is hupplu arul to portray as nearly as possible the perfect man designed by the Creator. Narcotic habits, like coffee and tobacco, break him down by as sure a law us that by which tho sun rises each morning. It is easy to break the spell of coffee If intern 1’ ood Coffeo is used, for when it is properly boiled It has the color ami flavor of Java coffee, and yet contains nothing but the most powerful food demerits, selected with especial reference to their abiland delicate tissue in braffi makes.red blood,” ewers a profound unfit*