Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1899 — Page 3

\New York Store EKbIiIUIipiI ISS3. ) Sole Agent* tor Bultrrlck I’uttcrn*. ■■ j 400 Pairs < Os Good I $3 SHOES Ready to-day at $1.83 a pair! £ Couldn’t you use a pair? j j Pettis Dry Goods Cos j Hobson’s Choice “Take that or nothing.” At the close of the nineteenth century competition has induced dealers to treat their customers better. Princess Patent flour will he delivered if ordered by your dealer. Do not accept any brand of so-called “patent” flour as the equal of Princess. Every package guaranteed as to quality and purity. Ask your dealer for it. BLANTON MILLING CO. ..GREAT ALTERATION SALE.. 20 per cent, to 50 per cent. Off —ALL FINE WINTER SHOES—Geo. J. Marott, lN ola DFNTTCT Dr. A. E. BUCHANAN l/ml 1101 3 2.33 When Building. AMUSEMENTS, - Park—“ Joli Martin’s* Secret.” Sutton Vane’s play, “John Martin’s Secret,” began a three-day engagement at the Park yesterday under the most favorable auspices. At the matinee the “standing room only” sign was displayed, while the audience at the night performance was only slightly smaller. The play is a melodrama with elaborate scenic effects, and it is better than the average melodrama of the Sutton Vane vintage. Perhaps the most picturesque scene is that showing Madge lewis’s home on the bank of the Thames, with the lights of London shining in the background. Another attractive setting is that which reveals the diamond mine, with the hoists in full operation. It may be doubted if patrons of the Park were ever before treated to more lavish displays of mechanical and scenic effects. The company presenting “John Martin’s Secret” is fuliy up to the standard. Some of the peoplo give promise of better things, if occasion arises. P. A. Anderson as Israel Kevosky did a fine bit of character acting and received liberal applause. Another entertaining part was Henry Vogel’s impersonation of Kiassie Van Spiel, a Dutch farmer. May Williams as Lucinda Bright and Thomas W. Hill as Watty Evans delighted the audience with their lively antics and witty sallies. These people also sang a song, with a cake walk accompaniment, that was well received. F. Gillespie in the role of Clifford Weed on did work that stamped him as an emotional actor of exceptional ability. The reception accorded this pluy proves that h melodrama of sterling worth is a strong drawing card at the Park. “John Martin’s Secret” will remain the rest of the week. Monday the May Howard Musical Comedy Company, which has been looked forward to with eager anticipation, will begin a three-day engagement.

Note* of the Stage. Charles C. Stumm is in the city ahead of the Rays, Johnny and Emma, who will be at the Park the last of next week in “A Hot Old Time.” W. A. Brady, one of the managers of the Manhattan Theater, New York, and Miss Grace George, who plays in “The Turtle” at that theater, were married at St. Thomas's Roman Catliolio Church, in Now York, last Sunday. Patrons of English's will miss the goodnatured countenance of Manager Joseph H. Gavin after this week. Mr. Gavin has resigned and will be succeeded by Mr. Ad Miller, who has been manager of the Great Southern in Columbus, 0., another of the theaters in the circuit controlled by the Valentine company. Mr. Gavin has been connected with the theatrical business in Indianapolis for thirteen years, and his friends arc numbered by hundreds. His courteous treatment of patrons might be said to be notorious and his many friends will regret that he is going out of the business. Mr. G. C. Miller, who has been advertising agent at English’s, will also leave this week, returning to Columbus, where he succeeds his brother as business manager of the Great Southern. Mr. Pat Brown, who has been connected with English’s for some time, will succeed Mr. Miller as advertising agent. Howell Hansel, the Grand Stock Company’s new leading man, arrived from New Y'ork last night and will begin rehearsing with the company this morning. A duplicate part of Jack Paden, the character he will assume in “Friends,” was delivered to him before leaving New York, so, having had a day's study of It, he is prettw well up. There will be another matinee of "The Banker's Daughter’’ to-morrow. Tin* audience last night was largo and enthusiastic. Not enough praist haa yet been given to tlie beautiful settings of this play. The home Interiors are rich and in excellent taste, while the American embassy' in Paris and the part of a ruined chateau where the duel occurs are remarkably fine specimens of the scene painter’s art. The audiences at the Grand have become so accustomed to seeing these Lautiful stage settings that they take them now as a matter of course. No production thus far has really equaled “The Banker’s Daughter” in the matter of scenery. It is not likely that any of the patrons of the better class of amusement in this City have forgotten, if they saw, and have failed to hear of if they did not see Mr. Clay Clement when he visited this city last season. No more artistic, interesting and high-class comedy creation has ever been offered in tills city, than Mr. Cl merit's charming Virginia play, “The New I>omiuiun." This seuson he comes with a m w play ami a company that has been strengthened until ItMs pronounced one of the most perfect organizations of players now before the public. Mr. Cleimnt will present during his coming engagement at English's, Jan. 19 2d and 21, his new play, "A Southern Gentleman.” in which he will be seen as General Joseph Carroll, of South Carolina, a eharaeter said to be fully as charming as his Baron Hohenstaufen, in which Mr. Clement so pleased his patrons last season. "The New Dominion” will have at least one presentation and “Baron Hohenstaufen” will be seen during the coming engagement. The IJliputians aro said to be more in evidence than ever in their new play, “The Golden Horseshoe,” which comes to English's to-night for three performances. Franz Ebert, the eh lot tunmaker, who has

been married since he was last seen here, gives a number of character impersonations during the play and his drolleries still keep him the favorite of ai! the little comedians. Ho appears as a Yankee tar in a funny dress simulating the sailor’s roll and smoking a short black pipe. Then he dons a white flannel suit and with false black whiskers gives an imitation of Sousa leading his band, conducting with all the fervor of the march king. Ebert also takes part in the frog chorus, anew piece of work by the IJliputians. and in all the ballets. Ebert is regarded as finished a comedian in his way as any of the grown-up actors. Selma Goernrr. in her new role, is spoken of as a miniature copy of Della Fox. She appears in a natty suit of hoy’s clothes and her acting is always refined and artistic. Adolf Zink is an able assistant of Ebert in all his elfish pranks and invariably comes in for a large share of the applause. Helene Lindner, the new member of the Liliputians. is the tiniest one of all and is said to score a hit in the musical part of the programme, appearing In the band, where she carries a drum many times larger than herself. Then there are Bertha Jaeger, Max Walter, Mrs. Toni Meister. Hermann Ring and Mrs. Elise Lau-Ebert. the Liliputian bride of Franz Ebert, all of whom assist in the mirthful scenes and in the special ballets. LINGERIE FOR WOMEN. Some of tlie Materials Shown in Depart ment Stores. A tour through the local department stores this week where white wear sales are in progress fully demonstrates that the sales are popular. One of the encouraging features in the present January sales is the class of goods offered. They are several degrees higher in price and in quality than those offered the trade at previous seasons, which indicates that the standard is going up. The ladies’ lingerie department is elaborately decorated, the finer garments being papered with bright-colored tissue paper, which sets off tire laces of the undergarments to perfection. There are genuine bargains in this department, and the garments offered could not he duplicated at twice the price quoted. Gowns can be purchased from 39 cents to $6. They are made of good material in many various styles, with tucking, insertion and ruffles. A combination of short skirt and chemise is show'n, which will become very popular. They are made in the Empire effect, of the finest nainsook and dainty laces and embroideries. Lovely skirts are seen among this assortment, some with several bounces of lace, the body of the skirt being made of cambric, while the flounces are mg.de of India lawn; some have the flounces in eombinati9n with insertion and tucks, while others are less elaborate and less expensive. A iovely skirt shown had a deep flounce with an insertion of linen lace and a footing of the same lace at the bottom of the flounce and a deep dust ruffle underneath, all for $1.98. The skirts range in price from 79 cents to SB. The latter are fine, with trimmings of Uuchesse lace and insertion. ' Among other things worthy of mention is the new wash goods, which are prettily and advantageously displayed in draped booths. They comprise the finest fabrics from the famous looms of Mulhonse, Wesserling, Belfast, Manchester and Glasgow. The leading styles for 1899 are shown in swisscs, organdies, dimities, madras, sateens, ginghams, piques, javanaise, etc. The advanced Parisian colored plates are shown, with the goods in thirty or forty different styles. Many of the skirts are shewn with polonaise and flounces, and Van Dyke flounces w’lll be favorites. The probabilities are that fancy piques will supplant the plain shown last season. Their greatest rivals will he French sateens which, in design, are much like foulard silk. Exclusive patterns in organdies are higher priced than previous seasons, and come in twenty-five to thirtyyard pieces, just enough for two dress patterns. The colors in the wash goods are more brilliant than ever before. The pinks are brighter, blues more intense, greens deep, and designs are given over somewhat more to conventional designs. Many plaids are. shown. The swissos are predicted to become very popular, and pretty black and white effects arc among the most prominent. The undermnslin sales will be continued throughout this month, and are well worth seeing.

PERSONAL AND SOCIETY. Mr. E. J. Foster has gone to Texas, to remain several weeks. Miss Morrison, of Detroit, is here to spend the winter with Mrs. Eli Lilly. The Kate Wheelock Whist Club will meet to-day with Mrs. F. M. Herron. Miss Alice Fenton, of Chicago, is now' the guest of Mrs. A. ,M. Robertson. The Misses Parke, of New Harmony, are guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Fishhack. Miss Txndse Marshall will spend the month of February in St. Iv>uis and Chicago. Miss Alice Zollinger, of Detroit, is visiting Miss Daisy Clark, on North Meridian street. Mrs. Thomas B. Arnold left for Washington city to-day to visit Mrs. Charles Gates Dawes. Mrs. L. W. Fletcher received informally yesterday afternoon, assisted by Mrs. Samuel H. Fletcher. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Franklin (Moore have returned from their wedding trip and are at home at the Victoria. Dr. Caroline McElroy will leave in a short time for her former home in Delaware, 0., to be with her father. Mr. William J. Turner, who has been spending the week in the city, returned to Philadelphia yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. William Scott and Miss Grace Wasson will sail for Egypt, Jan. 25, to be absent some time. Mr. J. C. Shaffer, of Chicago, will come ♦ o-day to attend Mr. C. E. Coffin’s dinner this evening for Mr. Beveridge. Mrs. William Coughien and daughter Macy have taken the residence at the corner of Pratt and North Capitol avenue. Mrs. Noble C. Butler has Issued invitations for a high tea Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock in honor of the Misses Fletcher. Mr. and Mrs. Schuyler Haughey, who have been visiting relatives since Monday, will return to their home in Chicago to-day. The annual exhibit of Western artists will be held at the I’ropyiaeum, Feb. 2-13, inclusive, under tlie auspices of the Art Association. evening Mr. Beveridge was entertained at dinner In the ordinary of the Denison as the guest of C. E. Wilson, the Governor's secretary. Mrs. Henry Bliss and Mrs. Horace J. Eddy have issued invitations for a tea Saturday afternoon. Jan. 21. at the home of the former, on North Meridian street. Mrs. Thomas Taggart and daughter Lucy will leave next week for the East. They will attend the Yale promenade, and later Miss Taggart will return to Smith College. The Young Woman’s Missionary Society of the Second Presbyterian Church will meet this afternoon at 2:3b o'clock with Mrs. 11. 11. Friedley. 1843 North Delaware street. Mr. C. S. Skidmore, of Charleston. 111., spent yesterday with his daughter, who is at Mrs. O. N. Patterson's. Mrs. George Edwin Hunt is spending a few days with Mrs. Catterson. Invitations have been received for the marriage of Mr. George W. Boyd, of Philadelphia, and Miss Miranda Noyes, of Washington, D. C., to take place Jan. 24, at Ingleside, the Noyes's family residence. (Mrs. E. S. R. Seguin gave a small coffee yesterday afternoon, the guest of honor belong Miss Maria Waite, of Toledo, who is visiting Mrs. Edwin Spear. Miss Summers, of Louisville, was among those present. Invitations have been issued by Mr. and Mrs. Herman C. Dew-enter for the marriage of their daughter Mary Amelia and Mr. Charles P. Grecian, to take place Wednesday morning, Jan. 18, at SS. Peter and Paul’s, at lb o’clock. A reception will he given Feb. 7. afternoon and evening, for the bride and groom at No. 1320 North Alabama street. DO BBT NS—BKNJ A MIN. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BEDFORD, Ind., Jan. 12.—Charles O. Dobbins, the junior member of the large dry goods firm of W. M. Dobbins & Son, has arrived home bringing Ms wife, who was formerly Miss Daisy Benjamin. Thev were married at Saginaw. Mich., the honn’of the bride. The bride was formerly a resident of Seymour, Ind., her father being a former wealthy farmer, removing to Michigan a few years ago. A New Hebrew Temple. The Indianapolis Hebrew Association will build a temple at Tenth and Delaware streets on a lot purchased yesterday from A. P. Stanton. The building will cost $30,000 and the seating capacity will be 609 persons. The work will begin in the spring, and It is expected the temple will be finished by September. mmm—mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmrn—mmmm Facts About Champagne. G. H. Mumm'i Extra Dry Is made from choicest grapes and first pressings. Its importations in 1898 aggregated 86,855 cases, or 52,649 more than any other brand. Bottles will bear green neckband and star label.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1899.

BALLOTING IN HANCOCK ♦ ELEC TION SCANDALS AT GREENFIELD AIRED YESTERDAY. A. C. Harris Brings to Light, in the htoner-Cregor Content, Some of the Conditions. The Senate elections committee took up the Hancock county end of the StonerCregor contested election ease yesterday /ind listened to witnesses of a different character than those who testified the day before. As two lines of evidence were entered into, it was difficult to determine to what extent either side had gained, as neither line apparently was completed yesterday. All the attorney's for Stoner took a hand in conducting the ease, although from his familiarity with the county and his personal knowledge of the witnesses Attorney Huff was largely in evidence. At one point Addison C. Harris, the newly appointed minister to Austria-Hungary, conducted affairs. Throughout the proceedings there was constant wrangling between the attorneys, which at one point became so flagrant that Senator Brooks administered a reprimand to them. It was not possible to complete the work mapped out by the committee by 7:15 last night, and the testimony of one witness was interrupted to allow the session to adjourn until this afternoon. The first attempt of the Stoner faction was to show that a conspiracy had existed to doctor the canvassing sheet made out by the clerk of Hancock county. William A. Wood, present clerk of Hancock county, said that the canvassing sheet came to him when he came into office and that he had brought it with him to court. He was positive that there had been no changes in it since it came into his possession, as it had been kept under lock and key all the time. Attorney Huff then asked him to state how many votes had been cast for the different candidates for joint senator as shown by the totals on the sheet, but Judge Ballard, for Cregor, objected, claiming that the canvassing sheet was not in the nature of competent evidence. He held that the law required that the best evidence should be submitted and that therefore the original tally sheets were the best evidence and should be introduced if that sort of testimony was to be handled at all. Senator Brooks here expressed the opinion that under some circumstances he would look on the canvassing sheet as competent evidence for the reason that he had had some experience in joint senatorial elections and had found it to be the rule that transcripts taken by sheriffs of different counties to the sheriff of the oldest county from which the senator was to he elected were almost invariably taken from the canvassing sheet and were considered absolutely accurate. After considerable discussion among the attorneys and the senators it was finally agreed to admit the sheet in evidence. Witness Wood then read from the sheet that the certificate of the vote as made out by the board of elections was; Cregor, 2,480; Stoner. 2,068; lxury, 33. * At this point Mr. A. C. Harris said it would be shown that the vote in the Seventh and Eighth precincts of Center township had been changed on the canvassing sheets. In the Eighth precinct, where Stoner received 116 votes, the sheet sdiowod that he had received 106. Continuing, the county clerk read that the footings of the columns as shown by the sheet were: Cregor. 2.500; Stoner, 2,078; Leary, 33. Attorney Huff then produced a deposition signed by Jacob H. Cook, an election judge, to tli© effect that Stoner had received four more votes in Center township than he had been credited with on the returns. This, together with the sheet, was formally placed in evidence and another phase of the question was taken up. MARKS ON THE BALLOTS. Oak S. Morrison, poll clerk of the third precinct of Center township, said that he knew of from fifteen to twenty ballots that had been marked by the Democratic clerks on election day, and that all but one of them were cast for the Democratic ticket. He then told of some trouble that occurred in the voting place because, as it was alleged, the Republican sheriff said he saw the Democratic challenger make signs to party workers outside through an open window', and that it was believed that the men who asked to have their ballots marked by the clerk on the plea that they did not know how to read or write did so in order to receive money for voting the Democratic ticket. His testimony, however, was not direct on any point. Wm. R. McCowan, Republican committeeman, said he saw Robert Bennett, the Democratic challenger, make signals to people outside, and that among the latter were County Central Committeeman Felt, who was present yesterday and grinned as Mi - Cowan made the remark. He said he remonstrated about the open window, because it afforded such fine opportunities for signaling, and ordered that blinds be put over it. This was done, but within a few minutes they were down again, only to be ordered up again as soon as he noticed their absence. McCowan, too, was at sea when asked to specify what the signals were and who the “floaters” were that voted under the “signal” plan of remuneration. John Weber, sheriff of the precinct, said he saw a man named Scott going back and forth to the window making signs. He protested about it, and, without waiting for any one's authority, covered up the window, which was later ordered closed by McCowan. On one occasion he saw a man meet another man after he had voted, and as he put it, "take something out of his pocket and hand it to the other man, who took it and put it in his own pocket.” What the something was, however, he was unable to say.

The next witness was Joseph Hamilton, and he displayed a fine knowledge of ward polities and the current tricks to secure votes. He said he was a Democrat, but had worked for Stoner. During the latter part of his testimony he refused to answer a question regarding his relations with Stoner, and left the stand for half an hour, lie said he had talked before election with about twenty people who had told him that they could get money by having the poll clerks mark their ballots for them. He could not remember their names, but said he had a list of them at home, fie remembered that one of the men had told him he had arranged to have his hallot marked for a price, and that the required “signal” was not given when he came from the voting place. On the strength of this showing, he said, Leander Jenkins, who was the financier of the outfit, refused to pay the price agreed upon. This led to a wrangle in which the voter said that he had not asked the clerk to mark his ballot, but that ho had voted the ticket, and. as a proof of it, he said that he had marked both the plow and the rooster. At this Judkins, he claimed, said that, as he had lost his vote by not letting the. clerk mark his ballot, he had nothing coming to him. During the cross-examination, by Judge Black, Hamilton was asked if Stoner gave him any money to work for him, and Hamilton replied that he "couldn't say that he ever did particularly.” Additional attempts to extract the sumo information brought out some skillful parrying from Hamilton, who wound up a long string of equivocations by saying, "When a follow is working at elections he doesn't like to tell all that happens.” At this point the senators became undecided as to the legality of insisting on Hamilton answering the question, on the grounds that it might Incriminate him if he said that he had received money from Stoner. Senator Wood wanted the question answered, and while the attorneys were hunting up the statutes bearing on the subject another witness was called in the person of Andrew B. Semple, ex-clerk of Hancock county, who was taken in hand by A. C. Harris. He was shown the canvassing sheet submitted in evidence, and said, in answer to a question, that the figures were entered on the sheet on two different days, one part of them on the day before the board met and the rest on the same day. When the board convened there were only about five precincts which had not reported and had been entered on the sheet. WHAT MR. HARRIS ASCERTAINED. Mr. Harris asked him if the sheet had ever been changed in any way. and he replied that he and his deputy. Gurney Saxton. had changed them somewhat on the day after the board met. At the meeting of the board he said he had found a discrepancy in the totals on the sheet, and the

members of the hoard had authorized him to make the change? in the totals to correspond with the figures iu the columns. Mr. Harris pointed to a plaee on the sheet where there had been an erasure made, and asked him how it had oeurred. The witness replied that Chairman William C. Martin had read off all the figures to him and that he had copied them on the sheet instead of taking them from each inspector, as is usually done, and that a mistake was made in calling them off and was corrected on the spot. In answer to a question from Mr. Harris. he admitted that after the board had left another mistake was found in the sheet, and that he had corrected that one too. Tills one was detected by John Corcoran, exchairman of the county central committee, who looked over the sheet when they were alone on the. night after the board meeting. When his attention was called to it he added the column again, with the result that Corcoran's assertion was found to be true. Mr. Harris then called his attention to a row of totals made in red ink, in which one of the totals showed that a figure had been changed and the correction made in black Ink. This was caused, according lo Mr. Semple, by Corcoran calling his attention to another error and making the correction in hlaok ink. .At this point Senator Gilbert asked the witness if any errors were found in the returns of any candidate other than Stoner, whereat Mr. Semple said there had been several found, at the same time pointing them out to the attorneys. When asked by Mr. Harris what the figures were which had been erased by the “correction.” the witness said he could not remember, but that a duplicate of the sheet had been made but not signed by the inspectors, and that this was on file at Greenfield and might furnish the desired figures. During the testimony several tilts occurred between all the attorneys, but in which Mr. Harris took no part,’ except to fidget to show his annoyance at the lack of dignity shown. On one occasion, when Captain Curtis referred to him as “the eminent counsel.” he bowed and said gravely. “Thank you.” Neither direct nor cross-examination brought out any other facts from the witness. and he. was excused. The preceding witness, Hamilton, was recalled. Before he had time to say that he had reconsidered his determination not to speak of Stoner giving him money. Senator Gilbert said that the committee had also decided on something, and that was to ask him to tell all he knew about the matter. He then said that Stoner had given him monev at different times to “treat the boys with.” At one time he had given him sl, and at other times from $1 to $2, making in all, perhaps, about $lO. Interrogations brought out the fact that Stoner had given him $5 after election at different times, and that it had been accompanied each time with some such remark as that he had been a good friend to him and he wanted to show his appreciation of it. He said that Stoner had never given him money with which to buy votes, but merely to “treat the boys” and try, if possible, to win their votes through personal friendship. In answer to a question from Senator Hugg, Hamilton said he had.known Stoner for from sixteen to twentv years and had been a neighbor to him and stood in the altitude of a close personal friend. He also assured Senator Hugg that what little money he received from Stoner had not influenced his own vote for him, but that he worked for him as a neighbor and a good friend.

TWO ILLEGAL VOTES. The Stoner faction at this point again changed its tack and called in Eli Robaok, who said he lived on School street, Greenfield, and that he had moved there about eighteen days before election, his brother's house in which he formerly lived having been torn down, and necessitating his moving into another precinct, where he now resided. Attorney Huff, as soon as he had admitted that he had not lived in the precinct long enough to entitle him to vote, declared that his vote was illegal and that urder the statute he could be compelled to tell now r.e voted. This was agreed to by the committee, after some demur, and Roback said he voted the Democratic ticket. On crossexamination, however, he said that he was only living in his present home temporarily and expected to move back to his old house as soon as it could be completed. He was then excused and his brother was called. He gave his name as Jc-nn F. Roback and told the same story as P.li. He was asked what ticket he voted and he said it had been Democratic. John L. Frey was the next witness and said he lited “part of the time in Indianapolis and part of the time in Greenfield.” He moved his family to this city June 7 and now lives at 705 East Eleventh street, still retaining hts property at 60 North State street. Greenfield. In the latter place, however, he has only a part of goods stored in one room, the rest of the house being rented to another party. In spite of the fact that his family and home are in Indianapolis, Frey said he voted, in Greenfield last November. Hardly had he made this admission, when Attorney Foley snapped out: “What ticket did you vote?” "Well,” returned Frey, "i don't know as its any one's business what ticket I voted.” "Yes it is.” snapped back Holey; “you have shown by your testimony that your vote was an illegal one, and therefore we have a right to compel you to tell how you voted.” This assertion made Captain Curtis wrathy, and with a voice choked with emotion and thunderous with passion, he denounced the methods pursued by the lawyers for Stoner, saying that he. as well as' the committee, had listened for hours to the “rankest sort of stuff” in the way of evidence, and that he was bound to say that tiie people of Madison, Hancock and Rush counties had some rights in the case, as well as Mr. Stoner, and that he appealed to the court to put a stop to such methods. This brought Attorney Folev to his feet, red in the face and item tiling with ange:. lie was too excited to do more than blurt out "It comes with bad grace f.\> n you. Captain Curtis, to speak of stuff when you have spent the day practicing the worst kind of pettifoggying methods. ’ This aroused Senator Brooks, who in dignified terms, but with a glitter in his gray eyes, said that for himself he was in favor of Chairman Gilbert Insisting on the attorneys in the case deporting themselves as became gentlemen, even if the help of the attendants had to be invoked to compel it. Captain Curtis, in explaining the rights of the witness to refuse to answer the question, said that a man might send his family to New York, together with all his household goods, and keep them there for a year, still retaining his residence in Indianapolis by his expressed intention of returning here. In his own case, he said, he had done exactly such a thing and he defied any man to dispute his right to have returned here at any time during that period and cast his vote as a citizen of Indianapolis. Senator Gilbert then said that a majority of the members of the committee held that they had no right to compel a man lo tell how lie voted in an election until it had been clearly shown that his vote had been illegal and that therefore it was felt that the prosecution must prove the illegality of Frey's vote before they would order him to tell how he voted. Iti commending this stand of the senator’s. Judge Black said that unless It was adhered to, the sacred right of the voter to keep to himself the secret of the ballot box was violated and the law creating that right was futile. “Os what value,” said he, “is the law to a voter if he is compelled to tell how he voted and it afterward develops that he was a legal voter?” Senator Brooks gave it as ]*is opinion that a m;|n had no right to vote in his old home after he had moved from it to another voting precinct, except when he was compelled to do so by a combination of circumstances and does so with the intention of moving back again as soon as possible. In this particular case he felt that Frey had moved, not because he had to. but because he chose to do so and that, therefore he was an illegal voter. By this time it was 7 o'clock and after a consultation between the lawyers and senators it was decided to continue the case this afternoon and the witnesses were told to report at 2 o'clock. The first question to be disposed of to-day will be as to whether Frey’s vote was illegal or not and on that will depend whether or not he will be compelled to tell how he voted on election day. CITY NEWS_NOTES. Sheriff Clark is suffering from a severe attack of grip, and is confined to his room. The Woman’s University Club will meet at the Propylaeum to-morrow afternoon. Rev. J. Cumming Smith will make an address. For the benefit of St. Alban's Deaf Mute Mission. Prof. Albert Berg will deliver a lecture this evening on the "Philippines" in the guild room of Christ Church. At the meeting of the Department of Indiana, W. R. C.. to be held in Terre Haute in May next, Mrs. Ella D. Zinn will be presented as a candidate for department president. Henry Sholcr. of Chicago, to-dav, with a force of workmen, will move the old Columbia Club building twenty-five feet to the rear of Its present site. The building is of brick and is now propped up on jacks. Couldn’t Stop tlie Nlarringe. A woman called on Judge Allen, of the Circuit Court, yesterday, and asked if he could suggest any plan by which she could prevent her son frem getting married. She said he was about to be married to a young woman in one of the hospitals of the city, and she thought he ought to be restrained. The mother told the court that her son was not in good health, and was in no condition to m tkj a living for a wife. Judge Allen frankly told the woman that he regretted there was no law to prevent some marriages, but lie did not see how her eon could be enjoined from entering the matrimonial state.

THE CITY HAS NO TITLE INJURY AS TO I NIVERSITY SQIARG BY REV. MR. JENKINS. * Could Not Up l soil to Help Along University of Indianapolis I’lan. o Rev. Burris A. Jenkins, one of the trustees of the University of Indianapolis, was investigating the title to University Square yesterday. Dr.' P. 11. Jameson was under the impression that when he was a member of the Council tho State transferred the title to the city. On investigation yesterday Mr. Burris found that the State had by a resolution of the General Assembly given the custody of the square to the city to improve and beautify for park purposes, hut not transferring it outright. When the trustees learned that possibly the city owns the square it was thought some arrangement could be made by which the site of the university might be located. After conferring with Deputy Recorder Franklin, Controller Johnson and Park Superintendent Power, Mr. Jenkins was rather disappointed to learn the city does not own the ground. Now that there is talk of the State selling the Institute for tho Blind, the friends of the University of Indianapolis are casting about to see if means can be found by which the university may acquire iL If the city owned University Square and were disposed to sell it a large sum might be raised to apply toward the purchase of the Institute for the Blind. University Square itself would hardly be large enough for the purposes of such a plant of buildings as tho founders of the University of Indianapolis hope to see reared some day. GARFIELD PARK LAND. Part of It to Sell—Adjacent Strip Offered City. Fred Schlegel, who owns 4.33 acres lying in the northwest corner of Garfield Park, has offered to sell his land to the city for $5,500, about $1,270 an acre. The Board of Works is considering the proposition. The price named is considered too high, although the board thinks the city ought to acquire this land, so that the park would be complete west to the J., M. & I. Railroad tracks and south from Raymond street to the dam over Pleasant run. T. J. Montgomery, a member of the board, looked over the premises yesterday afternoon. Ho said that the board has the right to condemn the land and acquire it at its fair value, to be fixed by appraisers. This course may be pursued in the event an agreement cannot be reached with Mr. Schlegel. Bast fall the board bought a ten-acre strip on the east side of the park to give an entrance to the park from Shelby street. There were ten acres in this tract. The price named in the deed was $7,000. That would he S7OO an acre. There was criticism of the transaction at the time. While considering the proposition to buy Mr. Schlegel's land the board is also discussing the advisability of selling a triangular strip containing 2% acres at the southwest corner of Garfield Park, but separated from it by the J., M. & i. tracks. Being outside the main park and divided from it by high railway embankments, it is regarded as valueless for park purposes. It has been leased to a market gardener, who his paid the city tor the land "on the shares" of his corn crop. The board thinks it may be possible to sell this strip to adjacent market gardeners. It faces on Southern avenue. German House Promenade. The second promenade concert took place last night at the German House. These concerts are of the same character as the summer night concerts in the garden, though they have not become so well known and have not been so liberally patronized. The concert was given by the When Band under the direction of Harry Kiuusmann. All of the selections were applauded, and the excellence of the solo number of Mr. Charles J. Kiefer wais acknowledged so vociferously that, a second selection was given. The programme was varied and there were numbers by Sousa, Gounod. Meyerbeer, Donizetti and other favorite composers. It is the desire of the members of the Musik Verein to make the concerts as popular successes as those of last summer. The next one will be given in March. The Bowling' Scores. In the bowling games last night the following scores were made: Calumets, first game. 1,614; North Sides, 1,340; second game, Calumets, 1,646; North Sides 1,416. Metropolitans, first game, 1,385; Oneidas, 936; second game, Metropolitans, 1,403; Oneidas. 1,102. Columbias, first game, 1 ,i*2i; Crescents, 1,259; second game, Columbias, 1,484; Crescents 1,217. The Oneidas played with but seven men, several of their players being sick with the grip. Memorial Presbyterian Services. Tho morning services next Sunday at the Memorial Presbyterian Church promise to be of unusual interest, there being the ordination and installation of the following officers, who were recently elected at the annual congreg itior.al meeting: Elders, Mr. E. P. Ferris and Mr. John Bickle; deacons, Mr. Arthur Hood and Mrs. J. P. Durham; trustees, Mr. W. D. Allison and Mr. J. Edward Stiltz. There will be especially prepared music by Prof. W. H. Donley and ids large number of singers. Charge Against Harry Pruitt. Harry Pruitt was arrested yesterday by Detectives Aseh and Dugan on a warrant from Spencer. Owen county. Pruitt is a plasterer, and a short time ago he was working at Spencer. He will be tried there and tile prosecuting witness will be a girl about sixteen years old. Pruitt has a wife and a child here. MILES SCORED. (Concluded from First Page.! reply, and the witness then said: "When a man refuses to deny a libel or falsehood, or a statement attributed to him. it is well known that he assumes tlie matter. When he avoids the question the supposition is that he cannot deny it. My question is not answered yet. He has not denied the interview published in the New York Journal, dated Dec. 23. and, having refused to distinctly deny it. he should be held to the strictest accountability for it. If he made those statements as set forth there, then he lied again, and if he made the statements that ‘pretense is the precise unn to he used’ (as he said then, referring to the ‘experiment’), then he lied with as black a heart as the man who blew up the Maine possessed, and he deserves to be characterized and known to America and Europe, where his statements have gone, as being the colossal, prodigious liar of the nineteenth century. "I submit, to this committee and the whole country that tills account of an interview with him in the New York Journal going uncontradicted, undenied, and when the opportunity was given him a refusal to deny jt in terms, places upon him the onus and responsibility for the statements in that interview, which statements I here and now denounce as unmitigated falsehoods, vile and slanderous, so slanderous that it can in? only called filth. I submit to this committee and to the country at large whether it is the characteristic of an honorable man to permit such statements as are made in this alleged interview with General Miles in the New York Journal to go uncontradicted, if untrue, and whether or not it is not the first duty of a gentleman, an honest man, an honorable man. to deny such falsehoods as are to he found in the article 1 refer to if they were not made by him.” This interview was headed as follows: "Miles makes grave charges against the administration; poisons used in beef made soldiers ill; tons of bad beef sent to troops in Porto Rico." Continuing. General Eagan said: “When I was commissary general in May last. Gen. Miles had already selected for his staff as chief commissary one of the ablest commissaries of the regular army. Major H. B. Osgood. Judge of my surprise when one day General Gilmore, the adjutant general for General Miles, told me it was General Miles’s wish to have Major .John D. Black, recently appointed from civil life as a volunteer commissary, made his commissary on his staff. 1 expressed my surprise that the senior officer of the armv should so select a volunteer officer totally devoid of experience in the subsistence department, and therefore wholly Incompetent for such an imißtrtant duty. Shortly after, and about June 7, General Miles sent a very ordinary, commonplace telegram to the adjutant general at Washington inquiring wbat subsistence stores the subsistence department had at Tampa and aomvwhero clao* and

some such similar inquiry to the quartermaster general and the chief of ordnance. CAUSED AMAZEMENT. “I made a formal written reply to this, and. to my amazement, the next morning 1 saw it published in the press of the country that General Miles had sent or found it necessary to send a serious reprimand to the quartermaster general, the commissary general and the chief of ordnance for conditions that he fount! there. No such reprimand was ever received, and General Miles has no authority in his commission or his position under the law or regulations to send reprimands to me. This uncontradicted story of a reprimand to the head of three of the most important departments of the army aided as much as anything in exciting the yellow journal press, the knaves of so-called journalism, to harass and villlfy and libel the conscientious, aide and hard-working officers on duty in Washington. Since ; sking tha‘ an investigation be made to learn who gave out this garbled and alleged reprimand. I have instituted inquiries to find my requests with the newspaper clipping inclosed. The adjutant general’s department has reported its inability to find it.” General Eagan, referring to newspaper attacks. asserted that the secretary of war bad nothing whatever to do with the furnishing of refrigerated meats or tinned meats, nor had he attempted to control the contracts, awards or purchases, and in this collection, in heated language, he attacked three New York newspapers and their editors and proprietors, whom, lie said, should be indicted and tried for treason to the United States during this war, as giving aid, comfort and information to the public enemy for the sole purpose of gain. "Were l a man of means,” he protested, “I would take this subject upon myself: I would put journalistic knaves, purloiners of the secrets of the government behind the bars, where they belong." General Eagan made a vigorous attack on the inspector general’s department in connection with this investigation. He asked why were not those inspections made while the armies were in the field, where were the officers of this department, anil said the principal officers of this department "took other positions and let the inspections of the army, which were never needed so much as during the war, go so far as they were concerned, for personal aggrandizement, as we know they took volunteer rank with Increased pay, and now at this late date we find tliis department suddenly endeavoring to get ex parte views of people in a manner not authorized by the secretary of w'ar—the proper authority—about things that are parsed. EX-PARTE REPORT. "The senior major general of the army and the inspector general of the army,” he continued, "do not seem to be content or satisfied with that with perfect propriety and within the law. and as contemplated by regulations, samples of everything furnished the army now in existence can be obtained, examined, analyzed, and every statement for or against the food furnished verified. This is not enough. I have not felt at liberty to object to this method of procedure, for the reason that my objection, however well founded, however well based on law and regulations, I feared would be given to the world as an evidence that l and my department feared an inspection: and this, too, when and while I and the whole department courted it. But we did not court ex-parte reports made at the instigation of people wa ll known to be hostile—parties whose actions already, and whoso statements here before your committee show but too plainly what animus is behind all." Referring to Inspector General Breckinridge’s investigation, General Eagan pointed out various reports of officers that have been published, and quoted a telegram he received on Jan. 1 from Lieut. Col. A. B. Smith, depot commissary at Havana, as follows: "Commissary General. Washington: Guild, inspector Seventh Corps, ordered by Breckinridge to inspect and report on all meat and request samples. I will, without further instructions, decline to recognize Breckinridge’s authority, but will personally show all stores desired unofficially.” “Colonel Smith Is an old, experienced officer,” said General Eagan, “and, not knowing there was anything like a game in progress, he stood upon the regulations, and from a strict military point of view properly refused this improper course, unless he. had evidence (hat it was authorized, as he should have been, by the secretary of war. For. it can be readily seen that if this sort of ex-parte examinations are made and ex-parte reports solicited, no man’s reputation is safe; every man’s character may 1> • put In jeopardy. Designing people might ruin Christ even, if He were here to-day. But. as I believed this course not only improper and not contemplated by the regulations, believing further that it was a trip to produce just such a refusal as Colonel Smith made. 1 replied to Colonel Smith the same day. saying. ‘You will not stand on 1868 army regulations, but you will allow meats and every article of subsistence stores to he inspected by Guild, and. if necessary, to he inspected twenty times a day. Inform Guild of this dispatch. Furnish copy of this disnatch to every commissary in Cuba for their guidance, and in compliance in similar cases.’ "I had no right.” General Eagan explained. “to send that dispatch, but took it upon myself to send out this authority, fearing a refusal would lie interpreted hy the world at large that the department was afraid of any and every kind of investigation. When I informed the secretary of war the following day, and he understood and realized that the inspector general, doubtless at the instigation of the senior major general of the army, was inaugurating a systematic inspection, not contemplated by tlie regulations, nor authorized by proper authority, he promptly informed me lie would not have approved my course, although he thought perhaps I was right. BRECK J NRIDGE CRITICISED. “Inspector General Breckinridge has recently addressed It ers direct to officers of my department ca’ g for reports to him about the various art. les of food furnished during the past year to the army. He does this without the authority of the secretary of war. In effect we have in this two officers of the army—General Miles and General Breckinridge—who take upon themselves to investigate matters pertaining solely and exclusively to the secretary of war; to call for ex parte reports, and to do this directly, not through the adjutant general of the army, but direct and without the knowledge of tho secretary of war or the adjutant general of the army. Your committee will readily see at once how far tho thing has gone and to what extremes these men go to establish and make a case. General Breckinridge has also addressed, I am credibly informed, a similar letter direct to the surgeon general. I and my department, who are concerned in tliis rnaitdr, are being tried, not with sworn evidence, nor with opportunity to confront ihe witnesses, still less the opportunity to refute any statements made, because they refer to things gene; to things consumed, things not in existence. and. therefore, every one is given a free hand and a free license to comment as they please, because of the inability to refute with any evidence whatsoever tho statements that have been made by people who know that their statements cannot be controverted because tlie evidence in the case is out of existence.” General Eagan said it appeared from tho seeking of these reports that the subordinates w re inspecting their superior, trying him by ex parte reports obtained at their own instance. He referred to the reports from officers and submitted by General Mile's as irresponsible statements, and said that few army officers would take advantage of the situation to make statements which they knew there was no power nor means upon earth to disprove because the substances they speak of have passed out of existence; the proofs are gone. One of these officers goes outside to tell about competition for contracts and what was used in canning, both tilings without his possible knowledge. If General Miles had informed himself as much about army rations as he pretends to have informed himself about refrigerated beef, which he falsely calls “embalmed beef,” then he should have been enabled to inform you that this very tinned beef we are speaking of has been a part of the army rations since Feb. 8. 1888. whether General Miles is ignorant of this I do not pretend to say. but he takes it upon himself when asked who fixed it ns a part of the army ration to say: ‘You will have to ask some one here in Washington.* This application shows how reliable his statements are.” General Eagan went on to say that Gen. Miles’s chief commissary selected by him over experienced officers had public subsistence funds in his possession, but could not use them for lack of a check book, though Colonel Sharpe, chief commissary on General Brooke’s staff, who because he did not happen to be a selection of General Miles, "had sense enough to provide himself with a check book.” He questioned the right of General Miles to divert the customs

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We buy old gold. 16 Knwt VViiMliiiiutun #4t. funds to the purchase of beef when the subsistence department had over $‘.00,000 available. DEVOID OF TRUTH. “Having traversed General Miles’s statements,” he said, "having shown him to you to be a liar; having demonstrated the animus that pervades this whole matter, I now go back to his statement that in his judgment food was one of the serious causes of so much sickness and distress of the troops. The design to say, to imply, to assert, to insinuate, that sickness was caused for such reason in Porto Rico Is to make an assertion wholly untrue, devoid of any facts, devoid of truth, ami can only be prompted by a base motive and under cover of the qualification ‘in my judgment.’ ’’ Questioning General Miles's course in submitting briefs of reports from regimental commanders. Genera! Eagan says thii course is unprecedented in the history of the army, not within his province or contemplated by lew and regulation, and thero would be just as much justice m the President or secretary of war sending out a circular letting inviting criticisms on the conduct of General Miles during this war. General Eagan said the first intimation of chemical treatment he had had was in Gen. Miles's statement and it seemed to him “the raving nonsense of a madman.” His own (Eagan’s) conduct and work had been looked into and he saw' no reason why Gen. Miles’s eonduet sind work should not lie looked into on this showing, adding “it is high time and proper this committee should examine into the truth and falsehood of the statements and examine into his conduct of the war.” Further, he said, General Miles legal ly had no control of tho purse, as he assumed in Porto Rico, nor do<*s the law authorize him to set aside food furnished under the law, but it does determine how to hold accountable the party furnishing improper food. Ho charged that if Chief Surgeon Daly, with General Miles, had ever made an expert examination of the beef, then he "wilfully and deliberately falsified the facts.” General Eagan concluded as follows: If l have used harsh language before this commission in dealing with the subject, l ask the commission to hear in mind that grouping together the statements made by General Miles means that I have furnished or allow* and to fie furnished to the army embalmed beef which has diseased soldiers, and that a great deal of sickness arose from Its use; that I have furnished meats to the army under the ‘pretense of experiment.’ meats that mado the soldiers sick and this, under the pretense of experiment, this because of enrruption. Nearly all the press of America, because of General Miles's high position in the United States army, has accepted these views and his statements and many of them have railed for mv disgrace, court-martial and dismissal from the service. Also, that these statements of General Miles were held back by him. not furnished to the government. for Us appropriate action and use, hut sprung upon you and tho country at a time when the eonntry, from the falsehoods that had been told in regard to starvation and supplies for the army, was in a state of excitement and ready to believe most anything. "The subject I have treated here is a filthv subject and you cannot touch pitch without being defiled; you cannot touch base, malicious, libelous falsehoods, misrepresentations without calling a spade a spade, and telling the whole truth aqn characterizing things as they are. The damage tha.t has been done by these statrsments is behoved to be very great, but T Indulge th hope and the belief that my statement, when published to the country, when read by the representatives of foreign governments here, will offset the statements made by General Miles and will, in some measure at least, do justice to others that have wronged, maiigrjed and libeled. For myself. I content myself with expressing my profound helief that either General Milos or 1 should be put out of the service; either he is right, or E am right : either he dishonors his uniform with his false statements and libels, or I dishonor mine in feeding soldiers with poisonous beef, causing their sickness and doing so under ‘pretense of experiment.’ ” W. D. Miles, general manager of the Armour Backing Company at Kansas City, testified before the commission to-day that the company had supplied to the government about 1.000,000 pounds of refrigerated beef and nearly 1,500.000 pounds of beef in tins, and no chemicals of any kind were used. Ho said they had also supplied tho English, French and Japanese government with tinned meats of the same kind, and the Japanese government has recently stipulated that future deliveries must be of tho same quality as before, and the beef supplied them was exactly the same as that furnished the United States government. P WOMAN’S SELF-TORTURE. Pricked Herself with Needle* fop Breaches of Convent Rules. CHICAGO, Jan. 12.—A remarkable case of self-torture as a punishment for fancied sin has been brought to light here. Lena Walshlacger, a young woman who came to this country from Germany about a year ago, Is in the hospital recovering from an operation to remove a needle imbedded in the walls of her stomach. The needle was the third to be removed from the young woman's body, two others having been taken out last March. Tho Roentgen rays have revealed the presence of seven more. She says that two years ago she was an inmate of a convent in Germany, where she had been put by her mother when the latter emigrated to the United States. Miss Walshlaeger frequently broke the rules of the institution and, according to her story, she w'as told by one of the priests in the convent to prick herself with a needle for each breach of propriety. Th* gil l tried to carry out these instructions, but ner eouarge faded her, so she arranged a number of needles in the belt of her skirt waist in such a manner that the sharp points would pierce her whenever she moved. She endured this, she nays, for several months, then, unable to bear li longer, ran away, and with the aid of friends came to Chicago, where her mother lives. It is the theory of physicians that the needles worked their way into tho young woman’s flesh while punishing herself in the novel maimer. After the seven needles are located and removed another skiagaranti will bo taken to determine if any more needles remain.

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