Indianapolis Journal, Volume 48, Number 336, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1898 — Page 3

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AMUSEMENTS. English's—“At the French Ball.’* Fanny Rice, who, fc years, has pursued tho philanthropic) occupation of making people forget their troubles, made Indianapolis a short visit last night, playing to *a fair-sized audience at English’s. Theatergoers here are so familiar with “At the French Ball" that they know It backwards, bo that on Miss Rice alone falls the obligation to furnish entertainment. The audience paid little attention to the others in the play. They were all outclassed by Miss Rice and her ever youthful charms. This Hi tie comedienne has determined never to flow old and last night-she showed to her ndlanapolis friends that her youthful vivacity and sweetness were not plated on and. therefore, could not wear off. Her delightful faculty of taking her audience into her confidence, whispering her fun into its ears and then laughing with it was as attractive as ever. The story of the play mattered little; the audience waited for Miss Rice to make an entrance and do something funny or clever. The players who helped Miss Rice were just acceptable and neither offended by their inability nor diverted attention from the star by unusual attractiveness. Grand Stock Compiiny's Return. “The Idler.” as presented by the Grand Stock Company at a matinee yesterday and again last night after two days’ absence, attracted large audiences. It will bo aeen for the last times to-night and to-morrow matinee and night. It is one of the best plays yet given by the Grand Stock Company and is a beautiful performance, interesting from begining to end. Next week the stock company will give “In Alizzoura,” something entirely different from the usual run of plays and whicli will afford half a dozen neoplo in the company splendid opportune jfor a display of talent. “In Mizzoura” takes a big cast and realistic stage •ettings. Park—“ Down In Dixie.” “Down in Dixie,” which began a three days’ engagement at the Park yesterday, seems to have lost none of its old-time drawing power. Large audiences were present and greeted the numerous clever specialties with prolonged and frequently vociferous applause. “Down in Dixie” is a Southern melodrama, the time of which was originally before the civil war, but the lines have been rewritten, so that now it is able to take advantage of whatever interest attaches to the more recent Uispano-Amer-fean difficulty. Os course there is a story which has to be told, but no one bothers about that. The people are interested in the songs, and dances, and comical antics of the pickaninnies, of which there seems to be an unusually large number with this '■allow. The Florida Quartet is composed of -iulne darkies, and their singing reflects i r on the State from which thev derive the. qiame. The Carolina Banjo and Mandolin Club furnished an entertainment by Itself. Tlie showiest and noisiest feature of the performance, however, was the “AllAmerican Pickaninny Band." which marched about the stage discoursing music of considerable excellence. This organization received several encores, to one of which it responded with a fine rendition of “Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep.” Mrs. Milt G. Barlow, as Mammlc Green, was instantly recognized In the colored auntie and sho received quite an ovation. Her excellent work as a delineator of negro character has not deteriorated. The scenery and effects accompanying “Down in Dixie” are good. The play remains the rest of the week, with usual matinees. Monday it will be followed by “Daughter!, cf the fc>oor,” a melodrama of the seamy side of life in New York. Coghlan mm n Playwright. Mr. Charles Coghlan. the eminent English actor, who opens his engagement at English’s to-night In “The Royal Box,” is one of the brightest writers who has contributed to the contemporaneous literature of the stage, in America, at least. He has written nine plays, ail of which have been well received and displayed great literary merit and dramatic worth. It is not generally known tliut Mr. Coghlan played In French before he ever appeared bn the English 6i age. His education was substantially gained In tho. French capital, although he sicnt three or four years in study at Berlin. In his early youth he was a book worm particularly devoting his attention to the reading of dramas and all literature pertaining to the stage. When sixteen years old he wrote a five-act play in blank verse having for its time of action the reign of Charles 11. lie read this play in costume In a public hull in Isrndon when but eighteen years old to a (stying house. Mr. Coghlan made productions of the “Merchant of Verilca” and “The School for Scundul” in London before Henry Irving had attained 'o any prominence, either as an actor or a

producer, and ho employed Ellen Terry, when an unknown artist, In one of his London productions made at the Court Theater In 1872. "Lady Flora,” Mr. Coghlan’s first piece, was presented at the Court Theater under the management* of John Hare. Coghlan has been known to translate a play from the French, completely remodeling and rewriting it. and producing it with success within a period of seven weeks. He is a brilliant writer in both French and English, and there is probably no English-speaking actor in America or England who is more brilliantly educated. TTie dialogue in his newly-adapted play from the French of Dumas. “The Royal Box.” Is claimed to be original, and its literary brilliancy has been the subject of commendation by well-known writers. Bostonians’ >t-w Opera. “Ulysses.” CLEVELAND, 0., Dec. I.—A large audience at the Euclid Opera House to-night witnessed the first production by tho Bostonians of the new opera, “Ulysses,” by Roland E. Phillips and W. If. Neidlinger. The hook is replete witli humor of t lie best kind and tho music is bright and catchy. The story is from the Homeric Os Ulysses. Tho time is the close of f*? G Trojan war. Ulysses, recognized as King, desires to bo reiv;irded witli the crown of immortality, and he wants it at once. To this end he devotes all his energies to finding a marriageable goddess whose alliance would place him at once among the gods of Olympus. The story follows his fortunes along this line, as well as those of his matrimonial adviser, Oudeis, who, although a slave and an arrant coward, has certain kingly and immortal aspirations of his own. Taken as a w'hole, the verdict of the first night audience wa3 that the success of the new opera was unqualified. Especial individual hits of the evening were made by Mr. MacDonald, in the title role, Mr. Barnabeo as Oudeis, Mr. Brown as Nestor. Jessie Bartlett Davis as Circe, Queen of the Sirens, and Helen Bertram as Porphyra. JUDGE BAKER FINED HIM. A Hartford City Man In the Federal Coart—Other laiei. James J. Maddux, recently a candidate for the mayoralty of Hartford City, was on trial yesterday in the Federal Court for sending objectionable letters through the mails. While he was making his race for office the editor of the Hartford City Times criticised his character, to which act Maddux took exception and retaliated by sending him a letter in which he made charges against, the moral nature of the editor which took the shape of indecency. Judge Baker fined him $lO and costs on his own statement of the case, at tho same time remarking that newspapers sometimes attacked public men through their columns when the victims had little or no chance to rotaliate. On the recommendation of Attorney' LaFollette Maddux was given ninety days in which to pay the money. Jacob Wolf, who keeps a saloon on East Washington street, was allowed to go on his own recognizance pending a study of the law touching his case. He was accused by' James Owen, a civil war veteran, of appropriating the pension check belonging to him. The testimony was conflicting on both sides, but it seems that Owen habitually received credit for drinks, and when he received his pension check lie took it to Wolf, whom he owed SC, and asked to have it cashed. Wolf, he claims, kept the check. Wolf, however, says Owen owed him all of the cheek except SO, which he paid him. The point which Commissioner Moores wants to decide is just how far the law against the pension money of soldiers subject to garnishment covers this case. Dr. James Foubian was found guilty of violating the pension laws in the Federal Court yesterday. He was charged with forging the name of Mrs. Elizabeth Tyler, of Heltonsvllle, to an application for a pension. Mrs. Tyler said she never authorized him to apply for the pension. His own son, whoso name was signed to the document as a witness, said also that he never signed it, and that he had never authorized his father to do so for him. Foubian will be sentenced to-day. John G. Mason, a young farmer, was fined SSO and costs In the Federal Court for sending an obscene valentine to a girl of Clayton, Ind.. who had jilted him. His manifest ignorance of the law' or the amenities of society brought him a lecture from tho court in addition to his fine. Judge Baker yesterday sent Thomas Gordon, the Elwood counterfeiter, to the penitentiary for a year and a half and fined him $lO, while John Councilman, who robbed the Thelma postoffice, w'as sent over for two years and was fined $25.

MANY WOMEN ARRESTED. The I’ollce Make Another Raid on the Resorts. The wholesale raid of resorts made by the police two weeks ago was repeated last night. The inmates of seven houses, all on either West Washington street, West Chesapeake street, West Georgia street or South Senate avenue, were taken to the police station in the patrol wagon. Twenty-eight women and fifteen men were slated. The warrants had been sworn out by the patrolmen in the districts. All but five of the women were bailed out. Two of the houses were of the less degraded class. It is understood that the raids will be continued until all the resorts of the kind will have paid fines in Police Court. Attention has been drawn to the resorts run by “Wes” Stout on West Alarket street and by Chris Zimmerman on West Washington street by the fact that girls are often seen in them. The police have arrested a number of women as they have left the doors, but the proprietors are undisturbed. Southern Hospital Crowded. Tho report of the Southern Indiana Hos* pital for the Insune, liled yesterday, shows that there are now' 310 applications for accommodation, of which 155 are urgent, but none of them can be accepted because of insufficient room. In addition to f'M.OOQ tor the maintenance of the institution, the board of trustees asks the following appropriations: New' addition for women, $46,000; cottages for consumptives, $12,000: two detention hospitals (cottages), $46,000; ooiler and boiler fipuse, $14,000; laundry, $10,000: assembly room, $10,000; dairy farm, $12,000. Changes at the Postoffice. Frank Rlchmann, private secretary to Senator Fairbanks, who, it had been reported, would enter on his duties as cashier of the Indianapolis postoffice yesterday, did not do so. and Postmaster Hess stated that he had not appointed him as yet. Postmaster Hess has appointed William W. Welling, one of the stampers, to be stamp clerk, to fill a vacancy in the postolfiee. and has appointed William I. Ileim to be a stamper, to succeed W. E. Miller, resigned. Change of Venue Granted. Judge Alford, of the Criminal Court, yesterday granted the petition of George White, charged with murder, for a change of venue. The court sent the case to 'Morgan county. Crowding Street Cars. Philadelphia Times. Tho first reported demonstration of some members of an Anti-crowding of Street Cars Association, just formed in Omaha, was, when the car was comfortably full, to order the conductor to go ahead, and the order was given in such an earnest, not to say threatening manner, that the conductor went ahead much to the satisfaction of his passengers. But he left behind him, dissatisfied, an equal or probably a greater number of would-be passengers and though this first success of the association was received with general favor, it is just these would-be passengers who will finally bring any such attempt—in this country, at least—to nothing. Os course, tho man who is on the car is an anti-erowder to the point of bitter partisanship, but the man who is not on but wants to be. forgets or repudiates in an instant all he has ever said on the subject. If any of the frequently proposed laws for not crowding the street cars were passed in any city of the United States, they would bo violated and made of no effect by the patrons of the cars themselves, and without any trouble to the company. The only possible solution of this problem, now geographically universal, is tile running of more cars. If there were a simple law prohibiting the collection of more than half faro from i>eonle who do not get seats, it would be so easily enforced that the companies would speedily put on enough cars to got every one of the half fares that was escaping them. 8:1.00 t iirliouettcn 81.75. Owing to the fact that so many of my friends misunderstood the time of closing that cut on our $3 carbonettes to $1.75 1 have decided to extend the cut until the 13th of December. Remember the*e are the fined $3 carbonettes made in this city, and w ill positively close on tho above date. See our large carbonettes, crayons, pastels an i water colors for Xmas. Tho finest line of artistic pictures for weddings and Christmas presents in the city. J. H. Clark, 37 East Washington street, two doors east of New York store.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNJu FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1898.

GIFTS FOR CHRISTMAS -a MA> Y ATTRACTIV E NOVELTIES DISPLAYED IX THE STORES. Dainty Designs for All Sorts of Parse* —Military Game* Becoming Popular. _* Sterling silver novelties are displayed In great number for the benefit of the Christmas shopper, which Is much in evidence Just now' as the time approaches for Santa Claus to make his rounds. Nut bowls, salts and peppers, bon-bon dfi.hes, sugar and creams, in the bead and rococo pattern; also sauce boats, in unique designs and delicate workmanship are shown. Chocolate spoons and muddle come separately or in fancy boxes. A dozen spoons and muddle, in the colonial pattern, which is so fashionable, retail at S2O. Oyster forks come in the same fashion, only' in the Dresden pattern, and punch ladles in the colonial style. Sets of forks, knives and spoons are shown In both the Josephine and old English pattern, or the Canterbury pattern. There is no end to the sterling novelties, such as nail files, button hooks, glove stretchers, curling irons, match boxes, in pretty and new designs, from 10 cents to $2 or $3. Whisky flasks, In overlaid sterling or all sterling, make desirable gifts for a person who travels. In mirrors, brushes and combs, which come in sets, there is quite a reduction In price. The mirrors are heavy weight and all new patterns and sell for $8 and upwards; the brushes sell at $2.75 and upwards; combs sell as low as $1 and some bring fancy prices. The styles most in vogue are the Louis XV, or tho rococo, or the popular and dainty bead edging. The real shell-backed mirror, brush and comb are more appropriate for elderly people and are more expensive. Military brushes in ebony, shell or sterling still retain their popularity as gifts for men, and range in price, the sterling from $5 to sl2, and the ebony from $2.50 to $7.50. Soap boxes in sterling is another novelty much in demand. The patterns this season are all new and range in price from $7.50 to $lO. Atomizers for tho dresser, with sterling tops, in cut glass or fancy colored glass, also cut-glass perfume bottles, in a variety of sizes and designs, sell from $1.75 to sl2. Powder boxes aro also shown in cut glass, as well as cold cream boxes. Sterling cigarette cases are new and have been in much demand. The bead chains are used for either fans or other little jeweled trinkets and still retain their popularity for evening w r ear. An entirely new thing for table decoration is called foxglove glass, and is imported by one firm on Washington street from England. It comes in the natural shape of the flower, to represent branches and on each branch is a vase, the shape of the foxglove, which may be utilized for violets or other dainty flowers, and will make a lovely center piece for a dinner table. They ran be had in groups or single and are inexpensive. Other glass vases which are new in Indianapolis are set in wrought iron holdera. Chafing dishes is a subject all housewives are interested in, as they are used so extensively. Some very nice ones are made of nickel tin and come in various sizes and shapes, oval or round, writh the single or double burner. Accompanying each one is a spoon and fork and an alcohol flagon. They are also supplied with a frying dish and a nicely arranged book of receipts. One of the conveniences of this chafing dish is that the burner does not have to be removed in order to be filled, as the flagon is of such a design that it can be filled while the burner is lighted. Baking dishes in the same ware also have their merits and are useful holiday gifts. A handsome wall decoration, comparatively new in Indianapolis, comes in blue-tinted bi3que placques, with figures in white Parian marble. They are in almost bold relief and are very dainty and inexpensive. Quite a large one can be purchased for sl2. There are other little statuettes and fancy figures in bisque or solid bronze, new' subjects in Henecke Parisian finish statuary, as well as the ivory finish and life-size heads of the composers, authors and statesmen.

Fans are a necessary adjunct to almost every evening gown and this season they are a trifle larger than last. Some very dainty and beautiful ones are shown In white, with ornamented and carved sticks and decorated in silver and spangles. Black fans, with delicately carved ebony sticks, inlaid with gold and decorated in hand painting and gold spangles are sold. They range in price from $1.60 to $lO. Hair ornaments are also very fashionable. They are dainty creations in jeweled aigrettes and ostrich tips, velvet in lover knots, tinsel butterfly and aigrettes in iridescent effects, lover bow knots in slitter jet, which range in price from $1 to $3. SOME UP-TO-DATE GAMES. The variety of games shown this season is almost endless. They range in price from 6 cents to $5, and will afford quite as much amusement to grown folks as children. Take, for instance, one called “the Klondike’’ game. It is played with dice on a board, showing the various points of interest and temperature from Seattle to the gold fields, and can be played by two to four players. A player may move as many points as the dice indicates, provided he is not landed on a square pertaining to an accident, in which case he must turn back and the other player gets ahead. The game is full of interest and the person reaching the gold flelds first wins the game. The game of “naval war” is another which excites a good deal of interest among boys. The “white squadron” is a game depicting tiie vessels in the war of ISI2. “The siege of Havana’’ will become very popular and can be played with two, three or four players, Each player has a battle ship and ammunition, and tire object is to capture Havana. It is played with dice on a board which shows the city, fortifications find harbor, and an indicator which shows the position for the ships. The enemy’s colors are green and yellow, while the Americans’ are red, white and blue. Another war game is “the war in Cuba" between the Spaniards and Cubans, which brings into prominence Maceo and Gomez and Weyler, names which are interesting and familiar to every American boy or girl. A game which is both instructive and Interesting is called “the game of New York,” which is a folding board edition of the famous postoffice game. It is played on a picture map of New York city, the district embracing the business center! including a portion of the residence portion and the Brooklyn water front. The idea of the game is the distribution of toy letters from the postoffice at the corner of Park Row and Broadway to every part of the city. The utensils f,r playing consist of four metal letter carriers, a dice box and a package of toy letters. Another which is similar is the "wide world game and journey around it.” starting from New York city and visiting the various prominent cities and towns in every country “Napoleon Bonaparte, or the Little Corporal ’’ is another picture board game, and the players start at Bonaparte’s birthplace the Islam! of Corsica, and follow him througn the differeat phases of his life, his experiences and victories, until they reach the goal, St. Helena. A popular game for little girls is called "merry Christmas,’’ another is “bo-peep,” “Christmas goose,” “golden locks.” “ten little niggers.” The game of golf is also predicted to become popular, and lovers of golf on cold winter evenings can spend the time comfortably on the links in one’s own parlor. "Carom”'is a game on the order of pool, only instead of using the cue and balls discs arc used. Miniature bowling alleys are also shown. A dissected picture of the battle of Manila will afford much amusement and useful instruction, ('roquet games for indoor amusement is another of the season’s novelties in games A calendar is always a popular gift, and some very unique and handsome ones are shown by the Washlngton-street inert bants Some have Bible selections for every day or every month of the year, while others have quotations from various authors or poets. Many of the calendars are decorated with large photographs of authors, musicians, poets or other prominent people, so that people may obtain a calendar with the photograph and quotations of their favorite author. Others have excellent pictures of heroes of the late war—Captain Sigsbee, Hobson, Colonel Roosevelt and others, and there is also an endless variety of floral calendars in many different designs. Very i>retty ones come iu the shape' of huge >unches of roses or pansies, with the calea-

dar under the flowers. A rather unique one is a Chinese children calendar, the etchings taken from life. PERSONAL AND SOCIETY. The D&nzadores Club will dance to-night at the Brenneke Academy. Mrs. Thomas L. Sullivan has gone to Martinsville for a short time. Mra. Arthur D. Gates has returned from a visit to relatives at Delphi. Miss Mary Kurtz has gone to Anderson to visit her aunt. Mrs. Haugh. Mr. and Mrs. George G. Tanner have returned from a visit to Gas City. Mrs. Elwood and Mrs. Blackman, of Chicago, are visiting Miss Jessica Bird. Miss Julia. Landers will entertain a number of friends at cards to-morrow evening. Miss Walton, who has been visiting Mrs. W. J. Holliday, returned to hpr honm in Cleveland. 0.. yesterday. Mr. R. B. F. Peirce and daughter, Mrs. W. J. Hughes, have gone to housekeeping at their home, No. 1150 North Meridian street. Mr. and Airs. George E. Hume will return home to-morrow from their wedding trip. They have been spending this week in Washington. Mrs. J. W. Beck will give a tea Dec. 14 for her daughter. Miss Anna Louise Beck, at their new home, No. 1730 North Pennsylvania street. Mrs. Wm. J. McKee entertained ten at luncheon yesterday in honor of Miss McGregor, of Milwaukee, who is visiting Mrs. John N. Hurty. The young ladies of the First English Lutheran Church will serve supper Friday evening at the chapel, and will have fancy articles and candy for sale^ Miss Miriam Moore, who has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. Kate M. Bowdes. went to Louisville yesterday to make a visit before returning to her home in Evanston. Mrs. S. E. Morss received yesterday, having Mrs. Wilson, of Kansas City. Mrs. Davis, of Pittsburg, and Miss McCurdy, of Bloomington, as her guests of honor. Among the entertainments to be given this month will be a masquerade party, given by Mrs. John C. New. Dec. 20. and a large reception by Mrs. John F. Carson, Dec. ID. Mr. and Mrs. George Chapman have returned to their home, at Eau Claire, Wis. Mrs. Hannah Chapman, whose guests they have been, has gone to Dansville, N. Y., to join her sister, Mrs. Moon. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest M. Wiles will entertain a few' friends at whist this evening for Mrs. John Wiles, of Kansas City, and Mrs. James Rust and Miss Bowman, of Cincinnati, who are spending a few days with them. Mrs. Charles Divine will return from a short visit to Cincinnati to-morrow night and spend a few' days with her parents, Air. and Mrs. John S. Lazarus, before going to join Mr. Divine in Memphis, where they will reside. Miss Mary Ileinnicke and Mr. Charles Bakemyt r were married Wednesday evening at the home of the bride’s mother, on Davidson street. Rev. J. C. Peters officiating. Mr. arid Mrs. Bakcmyer went at once to their own new home, No. 1431 Chestnut street. Mrs. Franklin W. Hays entertained the Scribblers’ Club yesterday afternoon. Air. James Whitcomb Riley was an invited fuost. Tho guests from out of town were udge and Airs. Penfield, of New York; Airs, and Miss Rogers, of Cincinnati, and Airs. Frank Nelson, of Greencastle. The Young Women’s Missionary Society of the Second Presbyterian Church will meet this afternoon with Mrs. W. H. Tennis, No. 713 North Pennsylvania street, and preparations will be made for a tea to be given Wednesday afternoon at Airs. E. T. Wood’s, No. 725 North Pennsylvania street. A farce, “The Musical Surprise.” will conclude the food show at the Mayflower Congregational Church to-night. The characters in the farce will be assumed by Mrs. Josephine Bremerman Edmunds, Aliss Josephine Hyde, Air. H, G. Cold well, Mr. Frank B. Fowler and Air. Charles J. Buchanan.

Airs. Robert Springsteen gave a card party yesterday afternoon for her sisters, Airs. Gordon, of Washington, D. C., and Airs. AI. D. Watson, of Chicago. Mrs. Gordon will leave to-morrow' for Winchester to make a short visit. Airs. Gordon is the daughter of the late General Dumont and the wddow of Maj. Jonathan W. Gordon, of this city. She now has a position in one of the departments at Washington, D. C. Airs. John Holliday Alurphy gave an exhibit of embroideries yesterday afternoon at her home, 6h North Pennsylvania street. The articles were large and small doilies, designed by Miss Mary Williamson and exquisitely embroidered by Airs. Alurphy. Airs. Murphy’s work won a medal at the world’s fair, and the needlework shown yesterday is beautiful. One art in which Airs. Murphy excels is the use of color, the shading as well as the sitches being especially commendable. The exhibit wrill continue open to-day. Aliss Alice Wick has resigned her position at the Public Library. Yesterday Miss Wick was presented with a pretty brooch by her associates in the library, Airs. McElhenen making the presentation. Aliss Wick has been connected with the library for fifteen years, her first service being in 1876. She remained eight years, and for the past seven years she has again been holding the position of reference clerk, in which she has been faithful and efficient.. Aliss Wiek will remain in the city. Miss Allen, who has been in the library for a number of years, will succeed Aliss Wick. MRS. AIAUS’S RECEPTION. One of the handsome receptions of the season was given yesterday by Airs. Frank Alaus and her sisters, the Misses Scholl. The elegant home on West North street was embellished with American Beauty roses in the drawing room, pink roses in the second parlor, scarlet carnations and poinsettias, set in maidenhair ferns, and asparagus in the library, and masses of yellow chrysanthemums on table, mantel and buffet in the dining room. A harpist and violinist in an upper balcony played during the reception hours. The entire house was lighted by electricity. Mrs. Alaus and the young ladies were assisted in entertaining by Airs. Charles Scholl, Mrs. S. E. Perkins, Mrs. George Turner. Mrs. Robert Keller, Airs. F. P. Herron, Airs. Clarence Nichols, Aliss Gertrude Henry. Aliss Chipman and Aliss Krause, in the drawing room; Mrs. Frederick Rush, Airs. T. A. Wagner, Airs. Bernard Vonnegut, Aliss Emma Wasson. Aliss Hewitt, Miss Chambers, Aliss Culver, in the dining room, and by Airs. Burton Parrott, Aliss Walk, Miss Huey and Aliss Holmes in the library. Among the guests were Mrs. Varrelman, of St. Louis, who is visiting Mrs Maus. AIRS. ECKHOUSE’S RECEPTION. Mrs. AI. Eekhouse gave a handsome reception yesterday afternoon for Mrs. Gilbert Hart, Miss Carrie Hart and Airs. Hass, of Washington, D. C., and Aliss Clara Eckliouse, of Avondale, who are visiting Mrs. Joseph Eekhouse. The spacious residence on North Meridian street was elaborately decorated for the event, there being masses of palms, curtains of smilax and rare vases of flowers. White roses, carnations and chrysanthemums were in the drawing room, American Beauty roses, with candles of corresponding color, in the library, and in the dining room the table was ornamented w’ith pink roses and violets and pink candles. Mrs. Eekhouse was assisted in entertaining by Airs. J. Q. Van Winkle, Mrs. H. J. Kantrowitz, Airs. Francis R. Jennings, Airs. Joseph Eekhouse, Airs. Samuel E. Rauh, Alisses Gertrude and Minnie Kirshbaum and Bertha Eekhouse. A large number of ladies accepted Mrs. Eckhouse’s hospitality. Last evening Airs. Joseph Eekhouse gave an informal company for her visitors. GOLDSAIITH—SOUTH. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Dec. I.—Aliss Mary South, daughter of Col. E. E. South, agent of tho Big Four Railroad Company, W’as married last evening to Mr. Arthur Goldsmith at the residence of her parents, the Rev. John E. Sulger, of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, performing the ceremony. Miss Lena Goldsmith was maid of honor and Air. Ellsworth Cook, of Shelbyville, 111., W’as best man. After the wedding supper and reception Air. and Mrs. Goldsmith left on a wedding trip to New York. Air. Goldsmith is associated with his father, Charles H. Goldsmith, the commission merchant. CLOVER—PENNINGTON. k?l>eclal to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND. Ind., Dec. I—Miss Lulu Pennington, daughter of Air. and Airs. A. H. Pennington, of this city, was married on Tuesday at Chicago to Air. Alexander Clover, formerly of this city, but now in business there. The marriage was not op|K)sed by the parents, but they desired fi postponed. How’ever, Aliss Pennington left for Chicago without their knowledge and the marriage took place. GAUTIER—JONES. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NORTH VERNON, Ind., Dec. I.—Air. Conrad C. Gautier, of Greer.castle, and Miss Katherine Jones, of this city, were united in marriage last evening at the home of the bride in this city, Rev. John F. Baird officiating. Air. Gautier is a oruggist who formerly resided in this city. Aliss Jones is the daughter of the Into Jonathan Jones, once one of the leading business men of this city.

MRS. WRIGHT IS WRONG ♦ FALSELY CHARGES TW O VOl XO MES "WITH STEALING HER FIRSE. — Find* the Money After the Trial I On. Confesses* Her Mistake and Invites Them to a Party. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Dec. I.—Lynn Wilcox, of Chicago, and E. E. Ransdell, of Franklin, who have been canvassing the city for a local paper, wore arrested yesterday, charged with stealing $25 from the home of Mrs. Mary C. Wright, whero they were soliciting. The trial was held this evening, and the woman swore positively that the money was in her pocketbook when the young men called and was missing when they left, and that it was taken while she was momentarily out of the room. After the trial this evening Mrs. Wright’s husband insisted that she search accustomed places where she hides her money, and the bills were found in an old lounge, where - tho woman remembered having hid them. She fainted and later sent the court word to release the prisoners. She also sent an invitation for Wilcox and Ransdell to attend a party at her home to-morrow night. No verdict was to have been given in the case until to-morrow. EVANSVILLE ASKS RELIEF. Want* Legislature to l)evi*e n Plan for Paying Off Her Debt. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. EVANSVILLE, Ind., Dec. I.—During the session of the incoming Legislature the city of Evansville will send a committee of influential citizens to Indianapolis to endeavor to have the charter under which this city is operated amended in a number of instances. One of the most important changes that will be asked is that provision be made so that this city can establish a sinking fund looking to the wiping out of the city debt, on which more than SIOO,OOO has been paid annually since the city compromised with the holders of city bonds after repudiating her obligations some years ago. The debt of the city is $2,155,000, with no provision whatever for the redemption of bonds when they fall due. The Legislature will be asked to make it compulsory on the part of those in power to raise a certain sum of money each year to be used exclusively in reducing the city debt. It is intended, of course, that the manner in which this money is to be raised shall be provided for by law. The people of the city can see relief only through the Legislature, as there is too much politics here to accomplish results in any other way. A taxpayers’ league, composed of prominent citizens, has been organized and is now at work on the amendments to the city charter that are desired. Jury Awards $4,000 for a Ilcel. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Dec. I.—ln a damage suit against the Big Four Railway Company, which has been occupying the Superior Court the past week, the jury returned a $4,000 verdict to-day in favor of Mrs. Lotta Penketh. It is one of the largest verdicts rendered in this county against a railway corporation and was a surprise to the attorneys of the Big Four. Mrs. Penketh was run down on Meridian-street crossing in this city by a freight train last September and lost her left heel. She was riding a bicycle In the company of her husband, and the crossing, one of the most public In Andersoh, was without flagman or any signal of danger to w F arn them of the approaching train.

Mother anil Daughter Dead. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Doc. 1.-George R. Williams, ex-county clerk, to-day received from Cincinnati a telegram informing him of the death of Mrs. Ruth Johnson Williams and her duughter, Miss Minnie. Their deaths took place within four hours of each other. Mrs. Johnson w - as a daughter of Dr. N. R. Johnson, of Cambridge City, and an aunt of Hon. Henry U. Johnson, congressman from this district. She was also an aunt of Robert Underwood Johnson, associate editor of the Century. The dispatch did not state the cause of the deaths. The daughter was an expert artist in steel. Her age was forty-six and the mother’s sev-enty-six. Green Accused of Shooting His Wife. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., Dec. I.—Geo. Green was arrested to-night at Cementvilla for shooting his wife, w'hose dying statement, taken by Prosecutor Montgomery, accuses her husband of firing the fatal shot. About 8 o’clock Saturday night, Nov. 19, Mrs. Green was called to her door and fired on. The mystery surrounding the affair was cleared away by the woman’s statement to-night. The woman has lingered at the point of death ever since, and at 7 o’clock this evening the physician stated that she could not live two hours longer. The shooting is supposed to have been caused by jealousy. Soldiers* Home Plans. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind., Dec. I.—Major Steele has been in consultation with Governor Chapman, of the Soldiers’ Home, in regard to the location of the new chapel which is to be built next summer. The plans have been approved and the contract will soon be let. Major Steele is making an effort to get a separate building for the nurses employed in the hospital, and will make a strong plea for this building, as well as a building for the electric light plant, at the meeting of the board at Washington next week. Increased appropriations for the purpose of beautifying the grounds will be asked for. New Gas Leases Filed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Dec. I.—There is unusual activity In the Mau.son county natural gas field by representatives of the various gas companies, and gas leases are being picked up as fast as they can be secured. Last night the Consumers’ Gas Trust, of Indianapolis, filed thirty-four leases with the county recorder, covering hundreds of acres of the best territory in the field that has never yet been drilled. There is no apprehension of short supply, as there aro thousands of acres of territory in Madison county that have not been touched. Jmlge Leffler on the flench. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Dee, I.—Judge Joseph G. Leffler assumed the bench in the Delaware County Circuit Court this morning and the affair was one of importance, made so by the presence of nearly every member of the bar, who made brief addresses following those of Judge George H. Koons and his successor. The new judge is less than fortyyears old and prominent in Indiana Sons of Veterans’ affairs. } Earllinin'M Oratorical. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Dec. I. Earlham College held its primary oratorical contest tonight to select a representative to the State contest at Indianapolis. J. C. Levering, of Maryville, Term., won first place with an oration on "‘Gladstone vs. Bismarck.” Earl Harold, of Richmond, won second place. Indiana Notes. Mrs. D. Sonnestein, of Muncie Ind., died yesterday at Colorado Springs, Col. The Illinois Smelting and Refining Company, of Chicago, will locate Us factory at Hartford City. Freddie Oland. aged eleven, the Muncie boy charged with murder in the first degree for killing five-year-old Andy Bodemiller, has been released on $2,000 ball. Hon. Charles A. Robinson, late Democratic candidate for Congress In the Sixth district, has entered the lecture field. His lecture will be “The Personal Side of Abraham Lincoln.” Jesse Matthews, the jockey, passed through Riclunond yesterday to his home in Hagerstown. He was accompanied by some well-known horsemen. They will spend a week there and then go to New Orleans. The two hundred voters in the suburb of West Side, separated from Muncie by the river, have voted to be incorporated and the town will be known as Normal City. It

Is the location of the Eastern Indiana Normal University, now being built. The postofflee and a stock of groceries and notions at Johnson’s Crossing, six miles west of Anderson, on the Chicago & Southeastern Railway, was destroyed by fire Wednesday nignt. Wilson Johnson, postmaster. carried no Insurance and his loss Is $1,500. The origin of the fire Is a mystery. TROOPS LEAVING HAWAII. Seven Hundred XVIII Relnrn to the 1 nited Slate* in u NVeck. VICTORIA, B. C., Dec. I.—The steamer Mlowera has arrived here, bringing Honolulu advices up to the 23d. On Nov. 29 the steamer Australia was to leave Honolulu with five hundred men of the New York regiment, bound to San Francisco on the way to New York. A few days later two hundred more will follow by the Alameda. The troops are supposed to have been recalled on account of the ravages of typhoid. There are said to have been three hundred cases when the Mlowera left. Permission has been received at Honolulu from Washington to abandon Independence Park as a hospital site as soon as other quarters can bo fitted UPHawaiian planters have contracted with the American sugar refinery for the sale of the entire sugar output of the Island for the next two years. “We have sold out to the trust,” said a ieading planter, “but It was a case of could not help ourselves. Our first overtures were to the Arbuekles. We wanted to patronize the independent refineries and were open in our opposition to the trust, but the Arbuekles would not buy, and the American sugar refinery held out Inducements w hich no one else was prepared to meet.” A big demonstration took place when the steamer New-port sailed for Manila Nov. 16. The Hawaiian band played many patriotic airs. Three days later another demonstration was held on the occasion of the transport Pennsylvania sailing for Manila with the Kansas troops. A big batch of Galicians who were brought from Siberia to work on the Oahu plantation under contract struck and went to jail rather than go back to work. The majority received a sentence of two years. They were put to breaking rocks at the government quarries. Among the strikers are a number of boys under twenty years of age. Their contracts were declared null. An injunction has been issued restraining the bishop of Honolulu from the threatened revocation of the license of the Second Cathedral congregation and of Rev. Alexander Mackintosh, the rector. The citizens of Honolulu were preparing a big banquet for the troops on Thanksgiving day. TO PRY OFF TEMPLE DEBT

PLAN SI RMITTED TO W HITE RIBHONEKS BY MRS. M. 11. CAUSE. Willard Memorial Circle* to Be Organ ized and Members of tlie W r . C. T. IT.l T . Asked to Contribute. CHICAGO, Dec. I.—The temple trustees this afternoon finished a two days’ meeting. Mrs. Matilda B. Curse, president of the board of trustees, made the following statement after the final adjournment: “Since the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union at Its convention in St. Paul dropped the temple as an affiliated Interest, the trustees, fully realizing the great responsibility devolving on them, turn for aidjn the task they have set themselves to accomplish to those In all parts of the world who loved Miss Willard and desire to honor her memory by making the temple she so dearly loved and admired her monument. As one of the agencies for this object, and to allow all her friends the opportunity to contribute according to their means and power, they propose to form Willara memorial circles for w r hich a constitution and by-laws have been prepared and in which they invite the co-operation of all friendly to the undertaking. The constitution defines the purpose of the circles thus: “ ‘The object shall be to raise money to enable the temple trustees to purchase all outstanding stock and bonds held by the Women’s Temperance Building Association In order that the temple may become the memorial of Frances E. Willard and by revenue therefrom perpetuate her life and labors.’ “The other provisions of the constitution are that any person can become a member of a circle by subscribing for the Appeal, the official organ of the temple trustees, and the payment of $1 annually, which shall be sent to the treasurer of the temple trustees for the Willard memorial fund. The officers of each circle shall consist of a president, secretary and treasurer. When organized the secretary shall report to the superintendent of Willard memorial circles for the county, and to the secretary of the board of temple trustees. The treasurer of each circle shall, once in three months, remit all dues, contributions and funds in hand to the financial secretary of the board of temple trustees. “Auxiliaries of the World’s Women’s Christian Temperance Union, state unions or other state and national organizations co-operating as such to make the temple the memorial of Frances E. Willard, shall be entitled to one-half of the net Income from rentals, pro rate of tho entire amounts contributed by them, in payment for the building, provided such amounts are not less than cne thousand dollars. The other half shall be credited to the Willard memorial fund and will be disbursed by the temple trustees to the different departments of temperance work which in their opinion are most important. “Both sexes and all ages are eligible to membership in the circles and men as well as women are eligible to office. The circles when completed shall consist of fifty-nine members representing the fifty-nine years of Miss Willard’s life; any membership exceeding this number shall become the nucleus of another local circle. The badge of the society will be a Willard button which will be presented by the temple trustees to each member. Each circle is expected to givß at least one entertainment during tho year, the proceeds of which are to be devoted to the Willard temple memorial fund.” At. the meeting of the board of temple trustees other business transacted was that of the official organ of the board of temple trustees, the Appeal, is to be changed to a semi-monthly, eight page, Illustrated paper, subscriptions to be sent to the board of temple trustees, tho Temple, Chicago. The Right Timber for Senator. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: From newspaper comments and interviews it seems that many Republicans consider place-hunting ability the chief requisite of a good United States senator. Surely the percentage of the Republicans of Indiana who so think must be very small—possibly 1 per cent. These few, however, Judging from some other States, talk loud enough to be heard in the party councils and exert considerable influence. So we see fine placehunting senators from New York, Pennsylvania and other States. History has proved that the senators most successful in getting appointments have been painfully pusillanimous in the directorate of the Nation. Who of them ever notably championed a public measure, instituted a reform, or by his Intelligence, learning and intergrlty influenced Congress to enact a law of real benefit to the people of this country? Not one. In reel statesmanship they have been deficient, and they have been a hindrance to the Senate and a discredit to their States. No part of state officialdom so well advertises a State, gives its people good standing in the eyes of the world or disgraces it as Its United States senators. Indiana has a good senator and we have an excellent opportunity to select another who will be a great credit to this Slate. Why not lay aside all little considerations and select a man who has great learning to inform the Senate, to bring the members from the cloak rooms when he speaks, great eloquence to impart his learning effectively and move the Senate, great experience In life and government to ‘command tho highest respect of the Senate and the people, great Integrity to have the Implicit confidence of the Senate and the people, great love for the people and high ideal* of government, with a tireless energy and large working capacity for the accomplishment. of noble ends? When in our history ha* the Nation been more in need of such senators than now, as we are entering upon anew national life calling for a broad, farseeing statesmanship? Why not send from Indiana at this time a Churles Sumner? Another opportunity will not come soon. The State needs such a senator, the Republicans demand the selection of such a man by our legislators, and woe be to the noliticial future of the Republican legislator who. for the mere hope of a place, proves recreant to this righteous demand. V. 11. LOCKWOOD. Indianapolis, Dec. L

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“Not How Cheap—Hot How Good.” ' INDIANAPOLIS. j! In boxes. The best is none too good for you, therefore be sure CRAIG'S name Is upon the box. Craig’s Candies COLONEL ROOSEVELT. A Short Review of the Remarkable Career of the Doughty Colonel. Current Literature To call Col. Theodor© Roosevelt an Ad* mirable Crichton would seem to convey a “5?. 0f I dl *L a P¥ T ? val . for tlxa.t traditional prodigy is doubtless thought of by most of us as a rather unpleasant busybody. But there is hardly any one else to compare Colonel Roosevelt with in the point of versatility. Though he has just reached forty, he has attained eminence in literary, political and military glory, and his nomination for Governor of New York seems to ho* forced inevhaoly on the very ntrtchiriil against which he has stood out Boldly Furthermore, it is now the writer’s firm conviction that he will be similarly forced upon the national convention that meets to nominate the next Republican candidate for the presidency. A better personality is not in the field. And he Is a peculiarly American personality—as picturesque and national as Lincoln's or Grant’s, though he, unltka them, was horn in the “upper” classes. His very pedigree is distinctly American, for it la almost equally made up of Dutch. French, beotch and Irish elements; He is one of the cloud of witnesses to the productivity of Harvard. It was there that h combatted the ill health of his early boyrood and made himself a champion of boxlng and a polo captain. He then went to Europe and earned a membership in the Alpine Club by climbing the Matterhorn and the Jungfrau. At twenty-five he was in the West huntmg big game and participating In one of the last great buffalo hunts. Returning to New York, he joined the Eighth Regiment of the New York National Guard, and at thirty was captain. Meanwhile, he was up to his eyes in politics, lighting the boss of his district and getting himself sent to the Assembly at the age of twenty-four. There, too, he was a reformer, none the less practical for his enthusiasm. He was the Republican candidate for mayor of New York oity at the age of twenty-eight, and, though he was beaten, he polled a larger vote in proportion to the total than any Republican had ever received. He was made a member of the Civil-service Commission by President Harrison, and retained by President Cleveland, resigning to become the president of the Police Board of New York under Mayor Strong’s reform administration. Hi* absolute conscientiousness and his characteristic pugnacity gave that administration a national Interest. Next he appeared a a the assistant secretary of the navy, and threw extraordinary energy into the preparation for war with Spain, leaving his desk for the field at the beginning of hostilities. The magic of his name as second In command brought ten thousand candidates for the one regiment of Rough Riders that was known as Roosevelt's, though ho refused to accept the colonelcy of it till he won It by a superb display of courage under fire. A Victim of His Own Joke. Louisville Special. Oscar Turner, jr., congressman-elect from the Louisville district, attended tho Corbett-Sharkey fight in New York in company with John W. Vreeland, of the Farmer's Home Journal. While In a crowd of friends In the Lenox Athletic Club Mr. Turner deftly relieved Mr. Vreeland of his watch. A second later two detectives had pounced on him. Vreeland started to keep up the joke, declaring Turner a stranger. Tho detectives started off with their prisoner, who tried to explain. But the detectives would not listen. “Tell It to the judge.’’ they said. Finally, after much persuasion, they consented to go to the Fifth-avenue Hotel, w here the clerk Identified Turner and Vreeland as roommates. Bricklayers; Union, No. 3. of this city, has elected John Watson. Nicholas Dugan and O. W. Kanton to be delegates to the thlrtvthird annual convention to be heid at Hart* ford. Conn., on the second Monday in January.

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