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Crasy was appointed to wait on the independent Republicans and notify them that the seventy-four Democratic members were ready’ to unite with them on the fusion movement. The independents said they could not, at this late date, muster enough votes to make fusion a success, and admitted that they believed the Democrats were sincere in their efforts for fusion. The House Democrats will reconvene to-morrow morning to hear the reports of the state committee and the committee to confer with the indei>endent Republicans. The Democratic senators also held their caucus to-night, and Harvey W. Haines, of York, was nominated for president pro tem. THE XKBIt VSK A CONTEST. Eleven Republicim* Willing to Aco*pt Senator Allen'* Seat. LINOOI-A", Neb., Jan. 2.—The twentysixth biennial session of the Nebraska legislature convenes at noon to-morrow. The Republicans have a majority of nine on joint ballot, seven in the Senate and two in the House, assuring that party, in all probability, a successor to United States Senator Allen. The most interesting struggle for the time being is a contest for organization of the lower house, the canvass for speaker being especially exciting. What in the early stages of the struggle looked like a Republican split and the possibility of a fusion speaker has to-night given way to a better feeling and prospect of some sort of an agreement before the hour of convening. Date to-night a caucus on the speakership was begun with prospects of continuing until long after midnight. The first ballot for senator will be two weeks from to-morrow' and while the Fusionists will give their solid support to Senator Allen, the Republican strength will be divided among eleven active and passive aspirants. The Republican list includes Judge M. L. Hayward, of Nebraska City; D. E. Thompson, G. M. Lambertson. Allen W. Field and M. It. Reese, of Lincoln; John L. Webster, of Omaha, ex-Congressman Hainer, of Aurora; Capt. C. E. Adams, or Superior, and three or four others of little prominence. There W’ill be no Republican caucus on the senatorship at least until after the first bollot is taken. The caucus of the Republicans on ftpeakerflhip brought together forty-seven of the fifty-two members. It adjourned at midnight after agreeing to support Paul F. Clark, of Lincoln, for speaker. Five members remained away ami while not declaring they will support the fusion nominee they assert they will not vote for Clark. Present prospects are therefore good for a dead-lock on the opening day of the session. ♦ ROOSEVELT INALGI RATED. Ex-Governor Itlark's Welcome an<l Colonel “Teddy’s*” Address. ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 2.—Theodore Roosevelt was inaugurated Governor of New’ York to-day. In spite of extreme cold weather, the ceremony was witnessed by a great crowd of people gathered in the assembly hall of the Capitol. Preceding the inauguration there was a parade of civic and military bodies. Bishop Doane, of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Albany, offered prayer, and Secretary of State McDonough administered the oath of office to the Governorelect, afier which Gov. F. S. Black welcomed his successor, saying, in part: “To all those citizens who place integrity above personal advantage there will arise from this occasion a strong encouragement and a most sanguine hope. Although the State is now upon the full tide of prosperity and many full-grown evils have been killed and many others wounded, yet there is much to be done, and the people welcome to this high official post one whose career has demontrated his integrity, his courage and his skill. They have vested you with ample power and they will exact great results, but if the qualities that have thus far moved and supported you hereafter keep you company, you will have nothing to fear and the people nothing to regret.” Replying, Governor Roosevelt said, in part: “Avery heavy responsibility rests upon the Governor of New’ York State, a State of seven millions of inhabitants, of great wealth, of widely varied industries and with a population singularly diversified, not merely in occupation, but in race origin, in habits of life and in ways of thought. It is not an easy task so to frame our laws that justice may be done to all alike in such a population, so many of whom have interests that seem entirely antagonistic. But upon the fundamental issues of good government there must always be a unity of interests among all persons who wish well for the commonwealth. There is less need of genius or any special brilliancy In the administration of our government than there is need of such homely virtues and qualities as common sense, honesty and courage. * • * We mU st realize, on the one hand, that we can do little If we do not set ourselves a high ideal, and, on the other, that we will fail in accomplishing even this little if we do not w’ork through practical methods and with a readiness to face life as it is and not as we think It ought to be. Under no form of government is it so necessary thus to combine efficiency and morality, high principle and rough common sense, justice and the sturdiest physical and moral courage as in a republic. It is absolutely impossible for a republic long to endure if it become either corrupt or cowardly, if its public men, no less than its private men, lose the indispensable virtue of honesty, if its leaders of thought become visionary, doctrinaries, or if It shows a lack of courage in dealing with the many grave problems which it must surely face, both at home and abroad, as it strives to work out the destiny meet for a mighty nation. It is only through the party system that free governments are now successfully carried on, and yet we must keep ever vividly before us that the usefulness of a party is strictly limited by its usefulness to the State and that in the long run he serves his party best who most helps to make it instantly responsive to every need of the people and to the highest demands of that spirit which tends to drive us onward and upward. It shall be my purpose, so far as I am given strength, to administer my office with an eye single to the welfare of all the people of this great commonwealth.” At the public reception in the executive chamber in the afternoon fully six thousand .people grasped Governor Roosevelt's hand arid two thousand more were unable, to gain BUmittanco. Before the reception an elegant hronzo inkstand was presented to Governor Roosevelt by the members of the Hamilton Club, of Chicago, a large delegation of which was present at the inaugural ceremonies. The presentation was made by the president of the club in the presence of the delegation. Governor Roosevelt responded, thanking the club for its expression of esteem. He also received an autograph album containing the signatures of the members of the club. After luncheon there was a reception at the executive mansion. W ARM FIGHT I\ MONTANA. Legislature May Heeome Deadlocked on the Senntorship. HELENA. Mont., Jan. 2.—The Legislature met at noon to-day and organized by the election of T. P. Cullon, of Dawson county, as president pro tem. of the Senate and H. O. Stiff, of Missoula county, as speaker of the House. Ralloting for senator will not take place for ten days. The candidates are A. W. Clark, the Butte banker; ex-State Senator Matts, of Anaconda, who represents the Daily element, and VV. G. Conrad, of Cascade county. Indications point to a deadlock for a time, as it is believed neither candidate goes into the fight with a majority. Clark's friends are sanguine of ultimate success. Six years ago Clark was the regular Democratic caucus nominee, but in the election for senator was defeated bv Daily's control of a minority of his partv in the Legislature. Indications are for a long and hotly contested fight before the senatorship Is settled. DELAWARE’S FACTIONAL FIGHT. Effort to Unite the Addlcks and Regular Republican Wings. DOVER, Del., Jan. 2.— The Delaware Legislature will convene at noon to-morrow and among the most important matters that will be taken up by that body will be the selection of a United States senator to succeed George Gray. The Legislature is Republican and it is believed the next senator will be of that polit'cul faith, providing the existing bitter factional feeling in the ranks of the party can be healed. J. Edward Addicks, the leader of one faction know’n as the Union Republicans, has announced his candidacy for the position and Is being bitterly opposed by the '‘regulars,'' or antiAddlcks wing of the party. An effort was made to-night to bring the factions together In caucus for the organization of the Senate and House. This, however, was ineffectual.

the “regulars'' of the House refusing absolutely to go into caucus owing to the absence of Representatives Pilling and Conaway, who are sick, and because the cal! was not signed by a majority of the Republican members of the House. Both factions held separate conferences and the Addieks faction decided to favor Representative Clark. The refusal to go into caucus will throw the contest into the House to-morrow, when the strength of the factions will be tested. BURROWS MAY WIN. Slxtjr-One of Ills Supporters Have Signed a Call for a Caucus. LANSING, Mich., Jan. 2. -Governor Pingree and the State officers-elect took the oath of office at noon to-day in the executive parlors at the State Capitol. Chief Justice Grant, of the Supreme Court, administered the oath in the presence of a large attendance. This evening the regular inaugural reception was given. The Legislature will convene on Wednesday at 12 o’clock, when Governor Pingrce will read his message. The senatorial situation remains unchanged to-night, both the Burrows and Pack factions claiming to be confident of victory. I .ate to-night the Burrows men show a list of sixty-one names signed to their call for a joint caucus to nominate a senator Wednesday night, with eight more names they claim will be added to-night or tomorrow morning as soon as the members arrive. This, it is believed, settles the senatorial contest in favor of Senator Burrows, although the Pack men say they will be able to control some of the votes signed to the Burrows call. Simple Ceremonies in Wisconsin. MADISON, Wia., Jan. 2.—Wisconsin’s new state officers were inaugurated to-day, the formal ceremonies taking place in the Assembly chamber. The new officers, except Governor Scofield, the only one who succeeds himself, gathered in Milwaukee and came to the capital on a special train. They were met at the depot by the old state officers, Mayor Wyman and other members of the local reception committee. Taking carriages, a procession was formed, headed by the Governor’s Guard. At the Capitol the new officers were escorted to seats and each was presented by his predecessor to Chief Justice Cassoday, who administered the oath of office. Each was then escorted to his department, where they held informal receptions this afternoon. There was no inaugural ball, and the ceremonies were of the most simple character. AVjoinink’h InuuKiirnfion. CHEYENNE. Wyo., Jan. 2. The ceremonies attendant upon the inauguration of De Forest Richards as Governor of Wyoming were participated in to-day by a large crowd. A procession, led by the City Band and composed of the Fort Russell battalion, of the Twenty-fourth Infantry, University Cadets, new state officers and city officials, ex-soldiers and sailors and citizens on foot, escorted the Governor-elect to the Capitol, where the retiring Governor, VV. A. Richards, delivered a short address. Chief Justice Potter administered the oath of office to the new Governor, who delivered an inaugural address, which was heartily cheered. There was a reception and ball at the Capitol to-night. Davix AVIII He Re-Elected. ST. PAUL. Minn., Jan. 2.—The Republican members of the two houses of the Legislature caucused to-night on officers of the session that opens to-morrow, that party having the majority in both houses. A call for a caucus Wednesday evening to nominate a successor to United States Senator C. K. Davis was issued to-night. No opposition to Senator Davis is expected. Hnnse May He Tied. CHARLESTON, W. Va., Jan. 2.—The Supreme Court has refused to grant the writ of mandamus asked for by Dent, Democrat, to compel the issuance of a certificate to him as representative from Taylor county. If he is denied a seat in the House of Delegates there will be a tie in that body.

California Assembly Organized. SACRAMENTO, Cal.. Jan. 2.—The Legislature w r as organized to-day. H. E. Wright w r as elected speaker of the Assembly and Thomas Flint was elected speaker pro tem. of the Senate. Colonel D. M. Burns has formally announced his candidacy for the United States Senate. Idalio State Officers Sworn In. BOISE, Ida., Jan. 2.—Governor Steunenberg and other state officers w’ere sworn in to-day without any special ceremonies. Both houses of the Legislature met at noon and adjourned until to-morrow without effecting organization. BOXING MATINEE. Otven Zeigler and Matty Matthew* Fight to a Draw. NEW YORK. Jan. 2.—The Greenwood Athletic Club, of Brooklyn, held a boxing show, which began at 3 o’clock this afternoon and the house was uncomfortably crowded. The star event was a twentyround bout at catch weights between Owen Zeigler, of Philadelnhia, and Matty Matthews, of this city, both welter weights with good records. They fought the twenty rounds hard and fast, each displaying a great deal of science and good judgment. From the opening round neither let his opponent have an idle moment, and before five rounds had gone through each man’s face was well marked up. Zeigler was very strong in the last round, but Sam C. Austin, the referee, could not decide on either man as a winner, and declared the bout a draw. The decision was a popular one. Fought with a. Broken Ilnnd. ROCHESTER, N. Y., Jan. 2.—“ Kid” Goulette, of Rochester, and Marty MeCue, of New York, fought a twenty-round draw here to-night before the Rienzi Athletic Club. Goulette broke his left hand by a swing on McCue’s elbow in the third round, but he continued the fight pluckily to the end. Goulette did all of the aggressive work. Both appeared strong at the finish. MURDEROUS TRAMPS. Two Hobos Kill a Ainu, Bind n AVomnn and Steal a Team of Horses. ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 2.-John Wellmei. of Lafayette, Nicollet county, was shot in the head and hip by two tramps whom he had given shelter. They bound Mrs. Wellmer to a lounge with a clothesline and escaped with VVellmer’s team. When the men had gone Mrs. Wellmer began gnawing at the ropes with her teeth and after several hours of hard struggle succeeded in biting the cord in two and liberating herself. Going immediately into the yard she found her husband dead and his body frozen. A large posse of farmers, armed with the rope with which Mrs. Wellmer had been tied, went in pursuit of the desperadoes. FOLDING-BED VICTIM. AVomnn Found Dead in Her Home, in AVhich She Lived Alone. SPRINGFIELD, 111.. Jan. 2.—Mrs. Lueretia Kent, a widow, met her death in a manner horrible. Her fate was revealed when a friend entering the house found her dead body. One hand was pinioned inextricably under a heavy folding bed. The body was badly discomposed, showing that death had occurred several days ago. When found the woman’s broken hand was still clasped in the bed as in a blacksmith’s vise. How the accident happened will never be known definitely. The woman lived alone in the house, and that accounts fer the tardy discovery of the body. Close of the Eisteddfod. MILWAUKEE. Wia. Jan. 2.—The Western Eisteddfod, a Welsh festival, which is national in character, closed a successful meeting at the Pabst Theater to-night. The feature was a grand choral competition, in which choruses of Milwaukee, Oshkosh and Racine took part. First honors-and a prize of SaOO were carried off by the Orpheus Choral Union, of Milwaukee. J. H. Williams conductor, the Racine chorus, led by Louis Evans, being second. The next Eisteddfod will be heid in Chicago on Jan. 1, 1900. Resolutions were adopted favoring the establishment of a Welsh or Cambrian chair at Marietta College. Four Minerr Fall 180 Feet. JAMESTOWN, Cal.. Jan. 2.—Four miners were killed in Jumper mine to-dav by the dropping of a skip, which fell 180 feet to the bottom of the shaft. One other was slightly Injured-

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ANTI-SALOON METHODS MORAL REFORMERS IN VALPARAISO AROI SE INDIGNATION. Den of Gns-llelt Thieve* Discovered in Hartford City with a Quantity of Stolen Rooty. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VALPARAISO, Ind., Jan. 2.—The citizens of this city have been considerably worked up for the past ten days over the conduct of the Anti-saloon League and the manner in whjch it has been pushing its crusade. The work of the League has been under the management of Rev. W. E. Story, of the Baptist Church, with Rev. H. A. Tucker, of the Methodist Church, as the originator. The league has received the condemnation of the best citizens of the city in and out of the church. The w’ork culminated in the filing of twenty-nine affidavits against druggists and saloon keepers for illegal selling of liquor. The crusaders secured a Chicago detective, who came here representing himself to be an attorney on legal business. He visited the drug stores, claiming to be sick, and induced the druggists to fix him up some blackberry wine, and then filed affidavits against them for selling in less quantities than a quart. The league also hired minors to disguise themselves and buy liquor in the saloons, so that affidavits could be filed against the saloon keepers. The first case came to trial before Judge Gillett and a jury in the Porter Circuit Court, resulting in a verdict of acquittal for the druggists. The other cases against druggists were dismissed. During the trial Judge Gillett took occasion to denounce the methods employed by the league in securing evidence, saying it had a tendency to degrade the law’. Friday evening Rev. Tucker announced in the evening papers that union services of all the churches would be held Sunday evening in the M. E. Church, when H. H. Russell, of Delaware, 0., superintendent of the AntiSaloon League, would preach. Rev. John L. Brandt, pastor of the Christian Church, announced in Saturday evening’s papers that he would hold services as usual Sunday evening, ana that he did not approve of the work of the league. At the morning services yesterday Rev. J. B. Flemming, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, denounced the methods of the league in no measured terms, saying he did not approve of the manner in which it was conducted and would have nothing to do with it. The dissenting ministers have all received the approbation of their congregations and of many of the leading members of the other denominations. Another chapter was closed in the fight by the Anti-saloon League to-day when it was learned that Frank Smith, one of the leading workers of the Baptist Church, who 'tad been acting as a private detective of the league, was a fugitive from justice. Saturday evening he succeeded in passing several forged cnecks on different business houses and left on the midnight train for Pittsburg. Smith came here a few months ago from Cleveland and by associating with the reformers and being active in church work he secured a position in a hardware store. One of the checks was on the First National Bank of this city and the others i'' ere . °n Grafts, Hire & Cos., bankers, Mqjitua, 0., signed E. C. Smith. INDIANA OBITUARY. Rev. John. A. Moorman, Aged Randolph County Pioneer. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WINCHESTER, Ind., Jan. 2.—Rev. John A. Moorman is dead at his home in Farmland of heart failure. Some weeks ago he had suffered a stroke of paralysis, from which he never fully rallied. He was born in North Carolina in April, 1821, and came here when only two years old with his father, Tarlton Moorman. He leaves two half brothers, Thomas Moorman, of this dty, born in 1815, and Richmond Moorman, of Richmond, born in 1817; and two full brothers, Stephen and William Moorman, who reside here. He was twice married, Luther 1 Moorman, of this city, and Nanev "• Huffman, of Farmland, being the ch ldren by his first wife, and Malinda De Seim of Redkey, Emily Burres of Farmla j ’ Lavina Greenwell, Caleb S. Moorman and John Allen Moorman, the latter two being conductors on the Belt and Big Four Railroads, all of Indianapolis, being the children of his second wife, who survives him. He had been a local Methodist preacher for over sixty years. For a numebr of years he practiced law. He served a term in the State Legislature as representative from this county. During the civil war he served his country in the commissary department. At the time of his death he was one of the oldest Odd Fellows in the State The funeral services will be held at his late home on Wednesday.

George H. Bohrcr. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 2.—George H. Bohrer, of this city, who w*as one of the wealthiest and best-known men in this part of the State, died this morning after a long illness. Mr. Bohrer has been a sufferer for some years from rheumatic and kindred troubles. He was president of the Lafayette Brewing Company and interested in other enterprises. Other Death* in the State. MARTINSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 2.—Samuel Musser, the oldest man in Morgan county, died of old age yesterday at the home of his son Robert, near Waverly. He was born in Virginia, April 14, 1799, and lias been a resident near Waverly since 1844. KOKOMO, Ind,, Jan. 2.—Charles J. Cunningham died at his home, five miles south of here, yesterday, aged sixty-seven. He was a veteran of the civil war and one of the wealthiest farmers of this county. The remains will be shipped to Westboro, O. RENSSELAER, Ind., Jan. 2.—Mrs. Florence T. Sears, a widow’ed daughter of the late Alfred Thompson, died suddenly to-day of erysipelas, aged forty. She was prominent in northwestern Inaiana. , WILKINSON. Ind., Jan. 2.—William M. Axtell died at his residence, at this place, this morning, of consumption, aged thirtyfive. The remains will be taken to Tipton for burial. PORTLAND, Ind., Jan. 2.—Jacob H. Shull, a pioneer of Jay county, died to-day at his home north of Portland, at the age of eighty. Ho will be buried at the Liber Cemetery. “Pence” for Gas-Belt Thieves. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Jan. 2.-For the past several years a “fence” for thieves has been known to exist somewhere on the South Side. Several times search w’arrants have been issued and places searched, but nothing discovered. Dunkirk and Hartford City officers to-day searched the residence of MikejMcPhee, a son-in-law of Bart Wilhelm, a former policeman, and a great amount j of stolen piunuer was recovered. Among Ithe property was a fine doll, which was identified as having been stolen from the may in the Dunkirk postoffice a few days agfo, the robbers having been caught in this house. Two revolvers were recovered, one of which was recognized as having belonged in the safe of the Indianapolis Brewing Company, at Dunkirk, which was blown on the same night. A quantity of jewelry was also found. A number of the small articles were founa on the person of Mrs. McPhee. The McPhees acknowledge the plunder was left at their place by the thieves now under arrest. The men have been given their preliminary hearing before Mayor Day, of Dunkirk, and bound over to the Circuit Court. The men gave their names as Charles Howard, George Davis Charles R. Hughes and Martin King. The Hartford City officers will claim the SSO reward allowed by the government for the conviction in each case, making a total of S2OO. Centenarian* in Poor Farm. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Jan. 2.—The Wayne County Poor Farm, located west of the city, contains two inmates w r ho are a hundred or more years old. One of them is Berry Taylor, colored, who is 105. In 1848, during the Mexican war, there were three drafts taken in South Carolina for soldiers. The age limit for the last one was fiftyfive, and Taylor was excluded because he was over that age. That w'as fifty years ago. The other inmate who has reached a hundred is Margaret Taylor, also colored. She remembers Incidents that took place seventy-five years ago. Sixty-five years ago, in 1833, when the great “rain of

fire” took place, Margaret was a married woman, with several children. Stone River Itnttle Sprvivor*. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Jan. 2.—The second annual meeting of the North Indiana Stone River Association was held here Saturday and to-day, the membership being the survivors of the battle of Stone River. There was a campfire and banquet. The members present were: Milton Bell, O. A. Somers, J. B. Ward, S. A. Pennington. Henry >IoNutt, D. A. Smith, Sol. Burkett and W. A. Markland, of Kokomo: L. J. Baker, of Marion; Joseph Shuman, New London; .Tames Bell, Cassville; J. A. Finney. Bunker Hill; J. O. Symonds and J L. Goodwine, of Galveston. The following officers were chosen for next year: President, O. A. Somers; secretary, Sol. Burkett; treasurer, D. S. Shafer. General Manager of tlie Trust. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Jan. 2.—H. G. Chisnell, local manager of the Kokomo plant of the Pittsburg Plate-glass Company, was notified yesterday that he had been elected general manager of the trust and was asked to report at once at Pittsburg to begin his new duties Mr. Chisnell will have charge of all the nine plate-glass factories controlled by the trust at a salary said to be $19,000. The factories in the combine are at Kokomo and Elwood, Ind.; Crystal City, Mo., and six in Pennsylvania. A year ago when John F. Neal was general manager, the office was altolished, but at the annual meeting of directors a few days ago it was recreated. Mr. Chisnell’s headquarters will be at uittsburg. Rare Praise for Office Holder. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Ind., Jan. 2.—Secretary of tho Treasury Gage has recommended that the salary of Abe L. Lawshe, deputy auditor for the postoffice department at Washington, be increased from $2,500 to $3,000. Mr. Gage puts his request on the ground that Mr. Lawshe is one of the most efficient officers the treasury department lias ever had, and lias been especially valuable in ferreting out frauds in the money order department, and formulating anew system which will make such frauds impossible hereafter. Mr. Lawshe was editor of the Converse Journal, in the campaign of 1896, an original McKinley man and a delegate to the St. Louis convention. Work: on Wrecked Pumping: Station. Special to the Indinnajiolis Journal. PORTLAND, Ind., Jan. 2.—The officers of the Ohio and Indiana Pipeline Company are putting forth every effort to get in shape the wrecked pumping station near Redkey, but several days will probably elapse before it gives the same service as of old. Several of Portland’s lumber firms have been rushed to furnish the material for the new buildings, and last night forty loads were sent out and a number more to-day. A small army of men are at work on the buildings, and are doing everything possible to clear away the debris. From all reports there is much suffering along the line. Work of the Grand Jury. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PORTLAND, Ind., Jan. 2. —The grand jury commenced its sessions to-day, and before adjourning is expected to take up the mysterious murder of Nimrod Williams, who was found dead along the tracks of the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad on the morning of Sept. 31, with his head split open. The finding of the body of Clarence Kirkland in a shock of fodder on Erastus Whipple's farm, east of Portland, Feb. 19, will also be looked into. It was at first supposed that Kirkland had crawled into the fodder and died of exposure, but later developments have made many believe that he was foully dealt with. A Seottsburg flankmpt. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW ALBANY, Ind., Jan. 2.—Philip Steinberg, of Seottsburg, Ind., filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition to-day in the office of Deputy United States Clerk Cardwell. His assets and liabilities were not given. Steinberg was formerly of the firm, of Steinberg & Goldstein, dealers in wholesale notions. The End of Dorn Elroy. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELWOOD, Ind., Jan. 2.—Miss Dora Elroy, an inmate of Madam Alice Sheffer’s place, in this city, died suddenly yesterday afternoon after an illness of two days, of stomach trouble. Miss Elroy came here recently from Danville, 111., and was twentysix years old and very handsome. This is the fourth death in this house in the last few’ weeks. Southern Indiana Poultry. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW ALBANY, Ind., Jan. 2.—The annual exhibition of the Southern Indiana Poultry Association begins to-morrow in this city and until next Friday. Over 1,200 fowls were received from this vicinity and distant States to-day. J. W. Felch, of Natick, Mass, has been engaged to act as judge in awarding premiums. Pension Examiner Transferred. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW'ALBANY, Ind., Jan. 2.—Charles D. Shanks, special pension examiner of the New Albany district, composed of Floyd, Harrison, Washington, Orange and Crawford counties, has been transferred to Bedford, and was succeeded to-day by J. T. Butler. R, T. Powell, who was assistant examiner, has been transferred to Athens, O. Accidentally Shot lllmsclf. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WINCHESTER, Ind., Jan. 2.—This morning while out hunting Frank Harmon, of this city, accidentally shot himself and died two hours later, after being brought home. The shot entered the abdomen just above the hip and passed through his body. Three Stores Burned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BLUFFTON, Ind., Jan. 2.—Fire destroyed three buildings in the West End this morning, occupied by Albert Watson, grocer; Frank Humphrey, cigar manufacturer, and J. W. Bell, restaurant. The buildings were the property of J. L. Humphrey. Loss, $5,000; insured for $2,200. The Grip nt Richmond. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Jan. 2.-The physicians of this city report about 350 cases of grip and it is estimated that the total number of cases is not fewer than 500. Up to this time there has been but one death. Indiana Note*. H. J. Martin, editor of the Franklin Republican. and Miss Eetella Clark, of Lebanon, will be married on Jan. 10, at the home of Mrs. J. H. Perkins, in Lebanon. C. F. Smith, of Terre Haute, who was elected state council instructor of the O. U. A. M., last August, left Terre Haute yesterday for a tour of the State, to visit councils and open new ones. The vital statistics of Wabash for 1898, just compiled, show that, during the year, there were sixty-five deaths in the corporate limits, or, estimating the population of the city at ten thousand, only deaths per thousand. The funeral of Henry Nehf, the Terre Haute druggist, whose body was found in the ruins of the big fire, w’here he rendered service as a volunteer fireman, was held yesterday and was largely attended. The Terre Haute fire department turned out and there was a large attendance of citizens. At a meeting of the board of trustees of the State Normal School, at Terre Haute, President Parsons was instructed to get bids for a fire escape for the new building. It was also decided to take out an additional $48,000 insurance. The trustees are carrying $102,000, but the buildings cost $250 000 and the contents are valued at $50.000. Orders were telegraphed from Washington. last week, to Postmaster Spaugh, of Hope, to put on an additional carrier for free rural mail in Hawcreek township, Bartholomew’ county. Special Postoffice Inspector Dice made an official visit to Hope last week and highly complimented the present carriers, Joseph E. Chouse and Harry M. Carter, and, as a Christmas present, ordered an increase of SIOO in their wages. Arrival* from Dnwtioii City. SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 2.—The steamer Ai-Ki. from Alaska, has a number of passengers from Dawson City. Among them are Capt. EL M. Strickland, of the Canada mounted police, who left Dawson Dec. 3. Considerable opes water is reported on the Yukon and lakes. Lake Bennett is not frozen over. A great many prospectors are com-

ing up the Yukon to the Thistle ereek district, which was discovered last fall. About 500 pounds of mail from Dawson reached Bennett Dec. 23. It left Dawson Nov. 20. WOMEN SEVERELY BURNED. explosion of Gaa in tlie Colorado State Capitol. DENVER, Col., Jan. 2.—Miss Nettie Zeigler, clerk to the State Board of Agriculture, was probably fatally burned by an explosion of gas at the Capitol. Mrs. Martha A. Shute, secretary of the board, was also severely burned. The two women ran screaming from the building with their clothes and hair aflame. M. S. Crawford, who was passing, extinguished the flames, and in so doing suffered severe burns. Gas had been escaping in a vault, and the explosion was caused by striking a match. The Capitol was not much damaged. DROVE HER TO SUICIDE ♦ DEVELOPMENTS REGARDING THE DEATH OF MRS. MARX-AVELING. Her Husband, the English Socialist, Secretly Married Another Woman and Let Ills Wife Drink l’oison. • o LONDON, Jan. 2.—Some remarkable facts have developed regarding the suicide of Mrs. Marx-Aveling last March. It appears that she learned that Dr. Aveling, the English Socialist leader, with whom she had lived for a number of years, had secretly married a young lady. He admitted tiiat this was true, and intimated that he was tired of her, whereupon Mrs. Aveling said the best thing she could do was to commit suicide. Dr. Aveling, it further appears, allowed her to send to a drug store for poison, and went out walking while she drank it. The public prosecutor would have taken action in the matter but for Dr. Aveling's sudden death on Aug. 4 last. Mrs. Eleanor Marx-Aveling was the daughter of the late celebrated German Socialist loader, Karl Marx. She committed suicide, according to the London dispatches, in March last, though the news was not made public here until April 2. She was about forty-three years of ago, and was the youngest of six children. When quite a young girl she studied Shakspeare, and when she grew up she helped her father in his literary labors. After her father’s death she was understood to have married Dr. Aveling, and came with him and with Herr Liebknecht, the German Socialist leader, to this country in 1896. They addressed a meeting of Socialists, Anarchists and Communists in New York, and made a lecturing tour through the country. The late .ars. MarxAveling was good linguist and acted as interpreter at the labor congresses in Paris, Brussels, Zurich and London, and wrote articles for the labor papers. She committed suicide by taking prussic acid. ROBERTS REPUDIATED. Reorganized Latter-Day Saints Opposed to Him Sitting In Congress. INDEPENDENCE, Mo., Jan. 2.—'The elders of the reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, at a meeting here to-day went on record as unqualifiedly opposed to allowing Congressman-elect B. IT. Roberts, of Utah, to take his seat in the national House of Representatives, The resolution adopted reads: “It being a matter of public knowledge that he is a polygamist in state and practice, contrary to the laws of the land, he should not be permitted to represent his State in the legislative halls of this country.’’ The local organization is the strongest Mormon Church outside of Utah. Its members, known as the "Josephites,” have persistently opposed polygamy.

COMPRESSED-AIR MOTORS. St. I.onis Street Railway to Be Run with New Power. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 2.—Negotiations are nearly completed for the equipment of a part of the St. Louis street-railway system with compressed-air motors. It is announced that a few minor are yet to be arranged before a local test of this new motive power is made. The recent visits to New York of John Schullin and other leading Western street-railway men is believed to have been in this connection. The plans for St. Louis are being carefully guarded and the name of the local road to take the initiative is withheld. The Sheriff's Side of the Case. To the Kditor of the Indianapolis Journal: Now that the press of Indiana, and especially that portion located at Indianapolis, have had their turn at Scott county and its sheriff, it seems to a reasonable-minded person that the time has arrived for someone to give the other side of the question a little attention. Just in proportion to the ratio of sensible people in Seottsburg—and I believe the average fair—the lynching of Marion Tyler is condemned. Seottsburg is made up of people from at least fifty cities and towns in the State. At least tifty cities and towns in the State contain people from Seottsburg; hence it is not a geographical question. Crime is not confined to the hills of southern Indiana, as the Carthage Record insinuates. There is no evidence that the sheriff was a silent partner, as the Terre Haute Express puts it. This yellow journalism bears the same earmarks as the howlers about the maltreatment of soldiers at the close of the Spanish war. Was there ever a lyncher in any county in Indiana punished? Has any lynching in any county in the State been indorsed by the conservative element? We feel the sting of shame, but let someone “without sin” send the first poisoned arrow. We know we are disgraced, but to get up on the housetops and hang the mob in effigy will only make the spectacle more ridiculous. Our sheriff made but one mistake, and that was when he unsuspectingly turned the key in the door which admitted the mob. After this he was hardly accountable for his acts. Where is the editor so devoid of charitable instincts that he cannot see that after a man is held up he is done? Mr. Gobin was covered with, guns from the opening to the closing scenes „ , JOHN W. MARTIN. Seottsburg, Ind., Jan. 2. The Sleeping Disease. New r York Commercial Advertiser. The sleeping disease is creeping into the papers again. About once in so often we hear of the sailors in such and such a hospital who have been to the coast of Africa and have come home with the sleeping disease. It is, of course, microbes, and they get into the blood and breed and freed for six or nine months, and at last he patient dies, having meanwhile slept most of the time. The trouble with the sleeping disease is not that it kills off two or three sailors every six months—plenty of things do worse than that without making any especial trouble in the w’orld—but it haunts thousands upon thousands of decent, respectable men, whose only fault may be that they have been staying up too late of nights for a week or so. That puts their on edge a little, and then they read about the sleeping disease, and straightway have qualms and quivers, and imagine they have only six or nine months more to live—and that mostly in bed. Os course they forget all about it in a day; but since the sleeping-disease item is one which travels the whole spectrum of the papers, from the quietest drab to the brightest yellow', it is sure to meet the eye of the nervous man twice a week until the epidemic has run its course. If the symptoms of the sleeping disease were not so common one could bear to read about it better; but there is hardly one of us who has not the symptoms strongly marked at one time or another, and the papers ought to have some mercy on nervous folk. No one likes to think of African microbes breeding in his blood. Otfuwn Votes for Sunday Street Corn. TORONTO. Ont.r Jan. ?■ Municipal elections were held throughout Ontario to-day. The mayors elected in the principal cities are: Toronto, John Shaw, rc-elected; Hamilton, J. V. Teetzel; Kingston* Dr. Ryan; Ottawa. Alderman Payment; London, John D. Wilson. The citizens of Ottawa voled on the question as to whether street cars should be allowed to run In that city on Sunday, and decided by a large majority that they should.

LAST YEAR’S DISASTERS ■ -- FRIGHTFUL RECORD OF LOSS BY STORMS AND WRECKS AT SEA. Almost Unprecedented Destruction of Life and Property—Sinking of L Bourgogne and Otlier Steamers, ♦ Baltimore Sun. The last twelve months have been exceptional in the severe storms which have from time to time swept the seas and played havoc with the shipping and other industries. Especially has this been true the past fall, and as a result hundreds of coasting vessels plying along the shores of the United States have been consigned to the cold barren bed of the ocean, where their water-logged hulks are lying thickly encrusted with salt, or else beached along the coast, with their hulls gradually bleaching in the cun. In addition to the elements, fire has had its share of the victims, and the late war with Spain has contributed not a little to the losses of ships sustained by the various countries this year. The year opened auspiciously for the shipping trade, and it was not until the 31st of January that the first heavy loss was reported, when the British mail packet, Channel Queen, was wrecked in a storm off the Guernsey coast, and nineteen persons on board were drowned. A respite followed until the day after the destruction of the battle ship Maine while anchored in the harbor of Havana, February 16, when the French line steamer Flachet was wrecked on the rock-bound coast of Teneriffe, of the Canary Islands, and so tierce was the raging storm that thirty-eight of the crew and forty of the passengers were lost. Following immediately on this casualty great anxiety was felt toward the latter part of February concerning the French line steamer La Champagne, from Havre to New York, which was greatly overdue, and a huge sigh of relief went up from the numerous friends and relatives of the passengers of the unfortunate steamer when she was towed into Halifax badly injured. Following rapidly on this news word was received from Asiatic waters in the shape of a cablegram from New Caledonia, dated March 1, that a severe hurricane had destroyed a. French gunboat, and on the 22d of the same month the bark Almy, for Glasgow, was wrecked. On the following day forty-eight men of the New Foundlancl sealing steamer Greenland perished while searching for seals in the Alaska ice lioes. THE SPANISH WAR. Yar having been declared between the United States and Spain, attention was turned from these losses and riveted upon the unprecedented successes achieved by the Americnn naval fleets, and while the Spanish war vessels were not destroyed by storms, still they may be included among the losses for the year. Immediately upon the declaration of the war Commodore (now admiral) Dewey was ordered to proceed at once to Manila and reduce the Spanish fortifications at that point and destroy the Spanish fleet in those waters. On the Ist day of May his squadron, with the Olympia as his fidgship, startled the world by the unprecedented feat of destroying the entire Spanish fleet and reducing a fortified harbor without the loss of a single man. By this action in Manila bay he sunk or captured the entire Spanish naval force in Pacific waters, and at one fell swoop destroyed Spain's naval power in Pacific waters. This performance was duplicated off Santiago harbor by Rear Admiral Schley on the 3d of July, when the Atlantic squadron, under command of Admiral Cervera, comprising the Cristobal Colon, the Almirante Oquendo, the Vizcaya, the Infanta Maria Teresa and the torpedo boats Furor and Pluton, were sunk in the short space of two hours by the American fleet, with the loss of but one man killed and less than ten wounded. This engagement rendered Spain powerless, as it destroyed at once and forever the only really powerful naval force remaining that Spain possessed. LA BOURGOGNE.

The day following this great victory, while tho nation was celebrating the glorious news, an accident occurred, wdiieh was destined for many people to change their joy into mourning and gloom. Y’hile steaming through a dense fog sixty miles off Sable Island the French line steamer La Bourgogne, from New York to Havre, collided with the British ship Cromartyshire. The Bourgogne was making eighteen or twenty knots an hour, while the British vessel was making five with sails set. The shock was terrific, and in ten minutes this superb liner, with the greater portion of her crew and passengers, settled and sank. The Cromartyshire. while almost in a sinking condition herself, at once proceeded to rescue as many of the unfortunates as possible, but only succeeded in rescuing 165 of the 725 persons on board, the balance, 560, perishing as the ship plunged downward to her ocean gravp. Nearly all of the cabin passengers perished, the majority of the survivors being steerage passengers and sailors. The surviving passengers told astounding tales of cruelty. All order for the time being was lost, and men and crew fought like wild beasts to secure a seat or standing room in the lifeboats. Women and children were thrust aside, and it was stated some men even committed murder to escape from the doomed ship. At any rate, only one woman out of two hundred was rescued, and to substantiate the stories of the brutality a large proportion of the crew was saved. The bow of the Cromartyshire was stove in and she was partly dismantled, and had it not been for the calm sea she, too, might have foundered. This, without exception, resulted in greater loss of life than any other disaster of the year for any single accident or wreck. WEST INDIAN HURRICANE. On the 29th of July a severe storm ravaged the northeast coast of England, damaging much shipping and ravaging the coast, leaving desolation and ruin in its wake. On the 11th of September a hurricane in the British West Indies, in addition to destroying thousands of buildings and rendering 50,000 people homeless and destitute, cut a wide swath in the shipping in that region and killed 500 people. This storm was widely heralded and word cabled to all the Y T et Indian islands open to communication. In spito of this a vast amount of shipping was damaged. Two vessels were sunk off the Windward islands. The British ship Loanda, 1.447 tons. Captain Dodge, from Rio Janeiro: the American bark Gray Lynwood, of 592 tons. Captain Gilley, from New York for Port Spam, both lying at Barbados, besides two barkentines, were blown out into the ocean and cast ashore and wrecked at St. Vincent, British West Indies. Extensive damage was also done to the native vessels, many being blown out to sea and swamped. Following this news was received that the Leopard, of Labrador, with a crew of eighteen and twelve passengers, was lost during a severe storm off the northwest coast of that region on Sept. 27. On the. 2d of October a severe hurricane, raged in Georgia and along the coast of that State and South Carolina. The next day reports began to come in of the extensive damage done. The entire sea coast was submerged, and numerous vessels were driven by the tremendous waves over the shore and stalled in the marsh back of the sea line after the storm subsided. Immense damage was done to the rice cron and dwellings adjoining the sea coast. Four vessels were torn from their moorings in Savannah, the British schooner Syanara. bound for St. John’s. New Brunswick: American sehooner Millville, to Millville, N. J.; the Fannie L. Child, for Boston, and the Italian bark Kranklin, and were all more or less severely damaged. The Stephen Bennett went ashorW off Sandy Hook, and the Isaac H. Tillyer and the Y'andering Jew sunk In the storm. The British steamer Lucania was also partly disabled in this storm on her trip to Queenstown. THE MOHEGAN. On the 14th of October the Atlantic Transport Company’s steamer Mohegan, formerly the Cleopatra, of tho Y’llson-Furness-laiy-!and line, leaving Indon for New York on the 13th with futy passengers and a crew of 150,. went ashore off the Lizard, between Manacles ar.d the Lowlands, and 116 of the 161 persons on board were lost, as it was next to impossible to rescue anybody with the heavy sea running. On the 17th the barge Electra. with 1.300 tons of coal, sprang a leak off Montauk Point and went to the bottom like a ball of lead. On the 19th a heavy storm was reported off the New England central States coast, and a number of fishing schooners foundered, most o no crews escaping in boats. In Asiatic waters on the 23d of June a Chinese war vessel was wrecked at Port Arthur and 130 of her crew drowned, and at the saxue time the Chinese junks and fishing suffered severely, and on the

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26th of October sixty Japanese were drowned as a result of a collision between two steamers. Another storm swept the Atlantic coast on the 11th of November, and as a result the newly raised Maria Teresa, which was proceeding to Newport News, had to be abandoned, the crew believing her to be in a sinking condition. The vessel did not sink, however, but stranded on Cat island, where she rapidly went to pieces. During this storm the Westmeath was abandoned. On the 15th of November the British steamship Londonian sailed from Boston for London with a large general cargo and 650 head of cattle on deck. On the 23d, in a violent gale, the ship shifted the greater part of her cargo and also capsized. For tw'o days the men were in danger of drowning, and then the Vedamore hove in sight and rescued forty-five of the crew by three days of hard work, during which time several men of the Vedamore were nearly drowned from the huge waves breaking two of their lifeboats while attempting to rescue the imperiled sailors. On the third night the ships parted company, and the Vedamore believed the Londonian had swamped and the captain and twenty-two men on board had been drowned. A week later, however, the steamship Maria Rickmers discovered the derelict, with eight additional survivors, including the captain, half starved to death, hoping against hope that they wou’d be rescued, and succeeded In saving them but a few moments before the doomed ship sank. It seems another boatload had tried to get to the Vedamore, and all but seven were dashed to pieces or drowned by their boat being crushed like an egg shell against the side of the Ixmdonian. THE PORTLAND. There remains yet one more severe storm to chronicle, in which the Portland went down with all on board off Cape Cod and fifty-six vessels were totally wrecked, fortythree of which had an aggregate tonnage of 12,202 gross tons, and forty-nine additional were thrown ashore with scarcely a chance of i ,r.g saved, and of these vessels twenty-eight had an aggregate tonnage of 7,159 tons. The Portland was a sidewheel steamer, plying between Boston and Portland, Me., and when this severe storm arose on the New England coast had just commenced her trip, was blown 100 miles out of her course, and finally wrecked off Cape Cod, without a survivor living to tell the tale. During this storm the stotamer Ohio went ashore off the Spectacles, and was subsequently floated by the combined efforts of five tugs. The White Wings, of Gloucester._ Mass., a fishing schooner, was lost. Eight of the crew of the Johanna Swan were saved by the German bark Anna. The ship, which had on board a cargo of yellow pine lumber, was wrecked shortly after leaving Satillo for New York, and drifted about until Dee. 2, when the Anna very courageously effected a perilous rescue, and on the 18th of this month a crew of ten were rescued at sea from the disabled schooner Deer Hill, St. John’s. New Brunswick, in midocean by the British steamer Pawnee. The above list of vessels, which are only the principal losses, show that skill, invention and science still must make many strides before they will be able to overcome the danger of collisions in fogs, the perils of the deep and the ever recurrent dangers of severe storms, hurricanes and typhoons, ■which were the dread of the ancient mariners, and still seem to cause no little injury to the modern creations of man’s genius in the art of ship building. Mr. Stend’n New Testament. W. L. Alden’s Tendon Letter. Mr. Stead has a habit of doing extraordinary things. He has just published anew edition of the New Testament, translated into modern newspaper English. In this remarkable production the Gospels seem to have been written by a reporter of a Chicago newspaper, and St. Paul preaches much in the style of Rev. Joe Parker. Mr. Stead's object is a good one. It always is, for a more thoroughly honest man never lived: but he has more than once made serious mistakes. He fancies that the language Math of the authorized and the revis'd translations of the New Testament cannot bo readily understood by plain peo- ’ ,£'? r tb ‘ s reas on he has given the pubrrF ‘ h * s amazing translation of the New restament into reportorial dialect, and. doubtless, feels that in so doing he has conferred a great benefit on his generation. It would be quite useless to argue with a man " u ‘"“fflnwl that the language of the authorized translation presents any difficulties to even the most ignorant reader. The oversubtlety of St. Paul’s reasoning and the "vstioism of St. John undoubtedly offer oimcultiea to ail men; but these difficulties are inherent in the thought rather than the re ae ’ ar< ‘ r - Stead has not made the slightest progress toward removing them. Washington Notes. Y ABHTNGTON, Jan. 2.—A postofflce has cmint^ S T^\V sheil I>,na,< l- Huntington county. It diana, Emery Shutt, postmaster. not'nv!t^ rs * n o, bas boen commissioned postmaster at Blankenship. Ind. first-class naval cadets at Annapolis. who received notice yesterday that th y be graduated immediately after ahead examination, four months ahead, are two Indiana bovs—Allen BuchanMartlnavliie. nSV “ and * ' TO CURE a COLDIn7>NE DAY Ku A " ‘hs eenuina h. 11 ffi to curs. 2s, ■*"* K ® auinß “*■ L. B. Q. on each tablet.