Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 18, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 January 1899 — Page 3

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AMUSEMENTS. English’*—-In Old Kentucky.” A melodrama of such high class, and with the wealth of scenery, properties and effects of “In Old Kentucky,” which began a brief engagement at English’s last night, is seldom seen. Few such plays are written and, If written, few managers care to invest the large amount required to produce them adequately. “In Old Kentucky,” however, came from the pen of a man who knows the scenes and people whereof he writes, and is produced by a man who has the money and Is willing to spend It to make the piece a signal success. The thea-ter-going class who thoroughly enjoy a play that gives them something more than a taste of real life, a play replete with exciting, yet not Improbable Incidents, - will cheerfully acknowledge a large debt of gratitude to T. C. Dazey, author, and Jacob Litt. producer of "In Old Kentucky.” The piece opens with a mountain scene in Kentucky that is the very acme of stage realism, showing the movable bridge leading to the lofty home on the mountains of the heroine, Madge Brierly. In the next act the audience is transported from the mountains to the valley, into the heart oi the worldfamous "blue-grass district,” and set down right in the midst of the spacious grounds of Woodlawn, the beautiful home of the rich hero of the story. Every Kentuckian of any importance owns a stable of thoroughbreds, and this presupposes an army of darky care-takers. “In Old Kentucky” carries twenty-two such darkies, and they are the “real thing.” Such singing, dancing and band-playing as was done by these sable sons of Dixie land last night have rarely been heard or seen in Indianapolis. The original “pickaninny band,” with its "youngest bandmaster in the world,” and a drum major who is a perfect magician with the baton, was there in all its glory. The several scenes of the third act, showing the paddock. a part of the grounds just outside the grand stand and the grand stand itself, with the race just finishing and Queen Bess in the lead, ridden by Lulu Tabor in jockey garb, aroused great enthusiasm almost equal to that caused by a genuine race. The melodramatic characters are in most excellent hands. A better person to portray Madge, the fresh, rugged, lovable mountain heroine, than Miss Lulu Tabor could scarcely be found. Her acting is full of the charm of genuine realism. A splendid bit of character acting was afforded by Mr. Pierce Kingsley in the role of Joe Leroy, a young moonshiner. Other fine character delineations were given by H. B. Bradley as Colonel Sandusky Doolittle and Charles K. French as Neb, an ante-helium darky servant. George R. Caine furnished an excellent portrayal of the old style villain, almost as good in his way as Simon Legree in “tJncle Tom’s Cabin” fume: Frank Dayton, as Frank Layson, Miss Lillian Mortimer as Barbara Holton and Miss Julia Hapchett as Althea Layson, all seemed quite at home in their re4+++++++++++++++ + Do You Like + + Goodies? + + X + 4- Try...* + + Grape=Nuts + + For breakfast, + 4* x + lunch or dinner. J ++++++++4- + 4- + + + + + A TOOTHSOME NOVELTY. The food expert who invented Grape-Nuts, the predigested food, struck a popular fancy. Tills novelty has had a surprisingly rapid sale. Many people do not eat grains for breakfast because they are too often poorly prepared. but Grape-Nuts, being thoroughly cooked and ready for the table, appeals to the good judgment and taste of all particular people. L Leading grocers sell Grape-Nuts.

spective parts. “In Old Kentucky” may be seen again this afternoon and to-night. To-morrow night it gives way to Clay Clement and company in “A Southern Gentleman.” Note* of she Stage. Johnny and Emma Ray will begin their engagement at the Park to-morrow afternoon in “A Hot Old Time." The May Howard Company will close with the two performances to-day. A. R. Wilber is in the city in advance of Hoyt’s “A Texfjs Steer,” which will be at the Park next Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday, with Katie Putnam as Bossy and Herbert Sears as Maverick Brander. The Chinaman in the “Bowery Burlesquers” at the Empire is improving rapidly. lie has advanced in two nights from three bars of "The Wedding of the Chinee and the Coon” to five, while his cake walking is done with an earnestness that shows him to be a careful and conscientious student of the finer shadings of dramatic action. _ “Friends” was repeated by the Grand Stock Company last night to another delighted audience. It is the general opinion of those who have seen it that “Friends,” as played by the stock company, takes rank with the more notable successes of that organization. There will be a matinee to-day and another one Saturday. While Howell Hansel has been engaged for leading business, Mr. Kirkland will eontinue, as in the past three months, to share the “leads.” Avery attractive lot of photographs of Miss Shannon were placed on exhibition in the lobby of the Grand last evening. Kltchell took some fifteen negatives of the Grand stock company’s leading woman, and the various poses are show'n in the big panel now on exhibition. These photographs are to be given away as souvenirs next Monday night at the Grand. Every lady attending the opening performance of “A Scrap of Paper” will receive one. It is the intention of the management to continue this custom of giving photographs to the ladies until a complete set of pictures or the stock company has been presented. Each Monday night photographs of some member of the cojnpany are to be used as souvenirs. Whatever (’lay Clement has thus far accomplished as an actor and a dramatist possesses one distinctive virtue—originality. He has impressed the stamp of individuality on his achievements, and, as that individuality is a pleasing and Intellectual entity, it follows that Mr. Clement, in a play by Mr. Clement, constitutes a highly agreeable and delectable compound. The theater-goers everywhere recognize this, and, expecting something beyond the conventional from Mr. Clement, quite naturally accord the player and his play liberal patronage. “A Southern Gentleman,” Tn its. present form, is said to be a pleasing succession of character studies, brightened with touches of humor, bits of mild philosophy and gleams of dramatic fire. There is said to be much to admire in this tale of the South. It is a simple story of a middleaged Southern gentleman who has served with distinction in the Confederate army, and who twenty years after the war loved and won the daughter of the woman he had worshipped in his youth. The villain In Mr. Clement's play is a man who in a duel killed the father of the heroine, after his honorable antagonist had fired in the air. Twenty-two years later this man is a suitor for the daughter’s hand. General Carroll (Clay Clement) persuades this villain to "withdraw” his suit, and himself, who, when a young lieutenant, acted as a second of his unfortunate fellow-oflicer, steps in and wins the girl.

CLOTHING DEALER STABBED. Jacob Serenlierg Attacked ly Two Negroes. Jacob Nerenberg, a second-hand-clothing dealer at No. 334 Indiana avenue, engaged in a fierce fight at 9:30 o'clock last night in front of his place with Bert Taylor and Clarence Able, two drunken young negroes. Nerenberg came out of the affray stabbed in the left lung. Taylor was arrested by Bicycle Patrolmen Schroeder and Hauser and charged with assault and battery with intent to kill, and Able escaped. Nerenberg had tried to protect ills property. The two negroes had tried to take it from him. Dr. Booz, who attended Nerenberg, said late last night that he Would have to wait for developments before he could determine whether the wounded man would live or die. Nerenberg has a wife and four children. Taylor's home is at No. 232 Bird street. The most tangible story gathered from the members of the excited family was that the two negroes had gone into Nerenberg’s store and had dickered with him for some clothing. They could not agree, and the two young men left. As they passed out of the door Able reached up and tore a pair of trousers from a hook outside the door. Nerenberg rushed out and called to them. They ran back to him and the fight began. Nerenberg had been suffering with the grip for three tveeks and was weak. The struggle did not last long. Nerenberg fell, bleeding from knife wounds, and one of the colored men ran away. Mrs. Nerenberg, called out of the house by the noise, caught the other of her husband’s assailants by the arm. “Let me go!” he said; “I didn’t stab him!” And he pushed her away. Several men were standing about, but none of them made a move toward the negro, and he, too, walked away, but not far, for Merchant Policeman Fleming caught him and called Bicycle Patrolmen Schroder and Hauser. Nerenberg was carried into the house and physicians were called. He had a gash across his forehead, one in his cheek and several in his scalp. The serious wound was below the heart. The patrolmen sent Taylor to the police station and then made a search through "Bucktown” for Able, but they were unsuccessful. They found a bloody knife in the street and Taylor said it belonged to him. A minute later he denied it. He corroborated the story as told above, with the exception that he did not say he was in the store. He did not do the cutting, he said, and swore it with his right hand upraised. CITY NEWS NOTES. A meeting of barbers will be held at the Denison shop this evening at 8 o’clock to consider the barbers’ bill now in the Legislature. Mr. R. B. Gruelle will deliver an illustrated lecture on “Old Chinese Poreclain and Pottery” at the First Spiritualists' Church Friday evening. The, Marion County Homeopathic Medical Society will meet to-night at Plymouth Church and Dr. O. S. Runnels will read a paper on “Opportune Surgery.” There will be a meeting of the board of the Boys' and Girls’ National Home and Employment Association at 1 o’clock this afternoon, at the Commercial Club rooms. Mr. Joseph Gunterman and pupils will give a musical recital this evening at I. O. O. F. Hall, No. 822 Virginia avenue, for the benefit of the Joseph It. Gordon Relief Corps. The Progressive Piano-forte Club will give the fifteenth historical recital Jan. 20 at Carlin <fc Lenox's rooms. It is composed of J. M. Dugan's pupils. Miss Mary Klatte, a pupil of Madame Spanuth, will sing. Effort* for u Military Post. Senator Fairbanks had a conference yesterday with the secretary of war with a view of securing his co-operation for such legislation as may be necessary to establish a military post at Indianapolis. Secretary Alger turned a friendly ear to the proposition, and it is safe to say, according to a Washington disoatch from the Journal's correspondent, that when the proper time comes he will be found on the side of Indianapolis. Owing to the congested condition of business in both branches ot Congress, however, the chances for favorable action this session may be regarded as slight. Worrell a Revenue Agent. John Worrell, who was formerly a deputy in the office of state statistician, has been appointed an internal revenue agent and will report to the revenue office at Cincinnati. Worrell will receive $8 a day in addition to his traveling expenses. His home is at Clayton, Hendricks county. Thoniii* I’d.t Special Meeting. George H. Thomas Post has made arrangements to hold a special meeting next Tuesday evening in honor of members of the Grand Army who are members of the Legislature, who will be specially Invited by the commander. Comrades of tlie other posts in the city are invited to attend. Incorporated, The Gearing-Halier Planing Mill Company, of Evansville; capital, SIO,OOO, was incorporated yesterday. The Consolidated Paper and Bag Company, of Elkhart, capital $30,000, was also incorporated.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1899.

OUT IN THE COLD WORLD “OLD 1I1LL” MAL4DY, LOATH TO GO FORCED FROM JAIL. Once He Fnuglit Policemen, but \otv He Plead* to Re Sent “Home” to Prison. “When a ‘goodl thief gets to he forty or fifty years • old,” said Captain of Detectives Colbert yesterday, “he becomes clumsy. Asa result, he is caught more frequently. Then he becomes disheartened, begins to drink hard, and at last he goes ‘on the rocks.’ ‘Old Bill’ Malady is about fifty years old. He has been a thief all his life, but he never was a ‘good’ thief. He is dissipated and broken now.” “Old Bill” Malady’s last term of imprisonment—he has been in prison many of the last twenty years of his life—expired Monday. Several days ago, the day of his release approaching, he began to lilnt that he would like to stay and work for his board and lodging. He was a trusty and his industry about the jail was something remarkable, esyiecially after he had intimated that he would like to remain as a voluntary boarder. Yesterday morning it was necessary to tell him he must go. He moped about like a boy leaving home to go away to school, and his beseeching expression was pathetic, but lie had to take what little clothes he had and leave. This peculiar desire of Malady to remain behind the bars whe.i he might be at liberty, is the ultimate consequence of a life of crime, old policemen say. Twenty years ago, when Malady was a young man, he was good looking and active. He was seldom known to work. He seemed to he by nature a thief. His tricks were never dariiig. One of his favorite schemes was to steer a drunken man into an alley and rob him. So far as is known he never had a hand in a “big job.” But he was game to fight when the police went after him and several policemen now on the force can relate tales of tussles they had with “Old Bill” Malady. As the years went on he sank lower and lower, stealing and going to the penitentiary alternately. He came to spend considerable time in barrel houses, a sure mark of degeneracy, the police say. The last time he was arrested a girl named Shipman, one of his relatives, charged him with attempting to assault her. There was always doubt as to the truth of the charge, but Malady was sentenced to the Penitentiary for from two to fourteen years. Judge McCray granted him anew trial. The trial was held, and the court would have discharged Malady had it not been that the prematurely old man made this appeal to him: "Judge, if you put me out. I’ll have to go to stealing again, and it’ll be the same thing over again, (iive me a sentence to the jail that'll hold me till spring.” The court complied and gave Malady a four year sentence in the jail. Malady became a charity prisoner, as it were, and was immediately made a trusty. Like Frank Girton, the colored man sent to prison a few days ago for grand larceny, steel bars formed “home” for him. Malady made no pretense that he really “had any right in jail,” When Judge McCray’s term expired he wanted to release Malady, but "Old Bill” pleaded hard not .to be turned out in the cold world, and the judge decided it would be the better part to let him stay his sentence through. “F.very time before that I’ve been in the pen,” Malady was wont to say, “I’ve been guilty, but this time I committed no crime.” And when the keepers of the jail turned him out through the iron door yesterday morning they pitied “Old Bill”—without a home, without friends and trained to no work but to steal, and that only clumsily and pettily.

PERSONALAND SOCIETY. Mr. Gustave Recker left last night for Grand Rapids, Mich. Miss Yolland, of Columbus, Ind., is the guest of the Misses Min ter. Miss Bessie Black, of Springfield, 0., is the guest of Mrs. John M. Spann. Mr. Robinson, of Boston, is visiting Dr. and Mrs. Edward F. Hodges. Miss Ada Kendall, of Lafayette, is the guest of Mrs. J. G. McCullough. Mrs. Charles Daily has returned from a visit to friends at Columbus, O. Mr. and Mrs. George T. Porter have returned from their wedding trip to Florida. Mr. W. H. Messenger left last night for Grand Rapids to be absent until Saturday. Mrs. Ed Nell will entertain the card club of which she is a member Friday afternoon. Dr. and Mrs. W. F. Christian will entertain the Phi Gamma Deltas the evening of Jan. 27. Mrs. Brink and children, of Baltimore, will come to-day to visit Mr. Christian Brink and family. Mrs. Ndrman S. Byram, jr., who has been visiting her parents at Columbus, 0., has returned home. Miss Kate Carmen, of Mattoon, 111., Is visiting hes sister. Miss Adelaide Carmen, at the Blind Asylum. The Daughters of the American Revolution will meet to-morrow afternoon with Mrs. Edward H. Dean. Mrs. C. B. Lockard will go to Europe next week, where she will join her daughter, Mrs. William Reid. The Ladies’ Merry Club will meet on Thursday, Jan. 19, at the home of Mrs. Walker, 1732 College avenue. Miss Charlotte Brown, of Harrisburg, who has been visiting her cousin. Miss Annette Brown, returned home yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand L. Mayer and family will leave Saturday for New York and sail from there a week from to-day. Mrs. John Chandler Pierson has issued invitations for a card party for Wednesday, Jan 25, at No. 2206 North Meridian street. Mrs. John Dolfinger and daughter, of Louisville, who have been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. Birk, will return home this week. Miss Wasson was the hostess for a hearts party yesterday afternoon, entertaining twenty-five young ladies for Miss Bella Sharpe, of Helena, Mont. Mr. and Mrs. George D. Wilton left yesterday for Chicago, where they will spend a week, and later they will go to New York for permanent residence. The eighth section of the Free Kindergarten Society will give a tea this afternoon, from 3 to 6 o’clock, at the home of Mrs. Peake, No. 756 Laurel street. Mr. and Mrs. Allan Wright Hewitt have come from East St. Louis, where they have been residing, and will make their home with Mrs. Hewitt’s parents, Judge and Mrs. P. W. Bartholomew. Mrs. Claude Matthews has returned to her home, in Clinton. Mrs. Matthews and daughter, Miss Helen, Matthews, will leave soon for Kentucky, to visit friends until the middle of March. Circle No. 4, of Central-avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, will be at home to the ladies of the church and their friends this afternoon from 2:30 to 5:30. with Mrs. Coerper, 2114 North Delaware street. A reception to young men will be given by the Young Men’s Brotherhood of the Central Christian Church on Friday evening. James W. Noel, representative from Marlon county in the Legislature, will make an address. Mr. and Mrs. Albert W. Coffin entertained about fifty friends at cards last evening for Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Fietcher. Progressive euchre was played and the new method of counting points, instead of games, was used. The prizes were pieces of bric-a-brac. Mrs. Coffin was assisted by Miss Mary Sewall and Miss Florence Plum. The rooms were prettily decorated with carnations. Among the guests was Mrs. Oscar Williams, of Omaha, who is visiting her sister, Mrs. S. D. Pray. MRS HARRIS’S BREAKFAST. Mrs. Addison C. Harris, wife of the newlyappointed minister to Austria-Hungary, gave a breakfast yesterday in honor of her visitors, Mrs. Howland De Pauw and Mrs. James Hubbert. of New Albany. The table was adorned with a basket of red and yellow tulips and was handsomely appointed. The guests to meet Mrs. De Pauw and Airs. Hubbert were: Mrs. John M. Judah, Mrs. Henry Jameson. Mrs. S. E. Morss. Mrs. John H. Holliday, Mrs. James M. Winters. Mrs. Noble C. Butler and Mrs. O. B. Jameson. MR. AND. MRS. SPANN’S PARTY. Mr. and Mrs. John M. Spann gave a large party last evening and chose the spacious clubhouse at Woodruff Place as the scene of the festivities. The host and hostess received their guests, who were then entertained at dancing in the hall on the upper floor, where an orchestra furnished the music; with billiards in the billiard room, or cards in the cardroom on the first floor, or at bowling in the alleys below stairs. Many participated in one or the other of these pastimes or visited the different floors and watched the others. The clubhouse never looked so attractive, for several large

pieces of furniture have been added to it recently and some pretty hangings have been put in place. The decorations were elaborate and arranged with special reference to the different rooms. Over the high mantels there were low embellishments of maidenhair ferns and vines, and in the high corners were tall palms. Vines were used and the staircase was festooned with ropes of green. In the dance hall the stage was furnished like a parlor, and throughout there was an air of genuine hospitality. Asa surpise on her friends Mrs. Spann had Miss Bessie Black, of Springfield. 0., come yesterday, and no one knew of her arrival until the hour of the party. Miss Black has made long visits to Woodruff Place and is well known and a favorite. Among the other giu sts who were present were Miss Olney. of Clinton, la.; Miss .Alice Fenton, of Chicago, and Mr. Robinson, of Boston. The costuming was handsome and, wjth the setting of palms and vines, the gay colors of the gowns only made the effect more brilliant. The party was the most notable social affair that has been given at the clubhouse and was one of the handsomest ever given at Woodruff Place. MATHEWS—BISHOP. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MADISON, Ind., Jan. 17.-Dr. W. R. Mathews, of China, and Miss Mary Bishop, a graduate of Franklin College, were married to-day at North Madison. WORD FROM MR. TAGGART. He I* at Mobile, Hopeful—A Launch Reported Stranded. The first hopeful tidings from the gulf coast, containing a probability that th<> Taui Jones, with Miss Florence Taggart aboard, was not lost, came late last night in an Associated Press dispatch from Mobile, Ala., which said; "Thomas Taggart received a telegram to*, night from Fort Morgan, saying a report had reached there that a launch had been stranded on Dauphin island, at the entrance to Mobile bay. Mr. Taggart at once ordered a boat sent to investigate. It is not known what time the boat left for Fort Morgan. Fort Morgan is seventy-five miles from this city.” This was followed by a dispatch from Pensacola, Fla., saying it was feared that the launch had gone down with all on board. The tug Simpson, which left there Saturday in search of the Paul Jones, had returned from a thorough search of the gulf, from Port Eads to Pensacola, and could find no trace of the launch or passengers. Mr. Taggart arrived at Mobile at 4:15 o’clock yesterday afternoon. He sent a telegram to Mrs. Taggart announcing his arrival and saying the people had no fear that the launch was not safe. Later he sent the following telegram: “Two revenue boats are in search of the party. Every person familiar with the coast betw-cen the lighthouse and Mobile feels sure the boat is ashore on one of the many small islands. The boat is supplied,with plenty of provisions, and I am much encouraged. The government and Seuator Fairbanks and Congressman Overstreet are offering all possible service. Mr. Jones feels sure the boat is safe.” Peril* of the Gulf. Edson Brace, in St. Louis Republic. It seems madness for the little naphtha launch Paul Jones to have breasted the choppy waters of the north gulf. The vessel proceeded from New Orleans down the Mississippi, 101 miles to Cubit’s Gap, which is the first of a number of mouths of the Mississippi, nine miles above the light at the head of the government jetties. There is a depth through the pass of eight feet at low tide, but the silt and mud deposits, which are continually shifting with the variations of wind and tide, make its passage always a problem of skill and hazard. This pass opens due east, and a straight departure east must be held four miles before a vessel is shut off of these uncertain conditions. Then the course, as laid out for the Paul Jones, would bo about 10 degrees east of north for thirty-five miles, when Errol island would rise to the right. Then the course would haul slightly eastward, and thirty more miles would raise the Chandeleur light. Then the course would lie due north to make the Ship Island light, some forty miles from the northern point of the Chandeleur crescent. Prudence would have dictated to a navigator with such a little vessel as the Paul Jones that after making the Ship Island light the inner course should be taken to Mobile. There is, along the coast, off the States of Mississippi, Alabama and part of Florida, an almost continuous line of outer reefs, built up in the course of the ages by the beating of the seas and the accretions due to their dynamic force. These are of sand and shells, and possess great firmness. There is an average of ten miles between this line of sand dunes and the mainland. The intervening lagoons afford, as a rule, what might be called duck-pond navigation. This is the course that naturally w T ould have been taken by the launch. But a gale from any quarter south of east and w r est changes this condition of safety. The water is driven before the wind and banked up as the snow in a northern blizzard. It rises, even in a moderate southern gale, six, seven and even ten feet. The lowlands are submergd and everything that cannot live under w : ater or lly must perforce perish. From the 4th to the 7th of January stormy conditions prevailed on these coasts. The official accounts do not, as usual, show the precise local movement, because, of course, the officials do not care to be too definite; but it is well known of all navigators in these waters that an enormous submersion is a concomitant of any sort of a blow at all from the southerlies. This is w r hat destroyed a second time and caused the abandonment eight years ago of the beautiful coast town of Indianola, Tex. While sailing in my little sloop, Silver Moon, in Morgan’s Harbor, thence to Bay Bodreau, not far off the course of the Paul Jones. I saw and photographed the lugger Innocence, a handsome, white vessel, sitting on a flat prairie five feet above the sea. She had been carried ashore by the hurricane of Oct. 1, 1894, and set there in the midst of a green environment of grass and brush, a picture of beautiful Isolation. These things typify the forces of the wind and sea. There is but little chance of the Paul Jones having made a haven in the storm that prevailed the second day after she cleared the gap. With a sea wind there are no havens on these flat coasts. Everything is under water till the storm is past.

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. C. G. Foster, federal judge for Kansas, has resigned, in accordance with the bill retiring him recently passed by Congress. ' In the pool tournament at Chicago John Daly, of Chicago, last night defeated William Clearwater, of Pittsburg, by a score of 125 to 49. The special committee of the Eastern Ball League has formally awarded a franchise for Worcester, Mass., to C. A. Marston, of Fall River. The Rev. Stopford Brooke, of Boston, has accepted a call to the church in San Francisco of which the Rev. Dr. Stebbins was the former pastor. The body of Senor Romero, late Mexican ambassador at Washington, arrived at the City of Mexico yesterday. Funeral services were held in the hall of Congress. Santiago Murphy, arrested in New Orleans for taking funds from the National Bank of Mexico, is not a relative of the President of the Mexican republic, as has been stated. William L. Shellabarger has been appointed receiver for the City Electric Railway Company of Decatur, 111., and his bond fixed at $60,000. He has been secretary of the company. The steamship Doric sailed yesterday from San Francisco fur the Orient, via Honolulu, with a large number of cabin and steerage passengers. The Doric carried a quantity of medical supplies for Honolulu and Manila. Ferdinand W. Peck, commission to the Paris exposition of 1900, has appointed F. B. Sheldon, of Providence. R. 1., director of the department of textiles. Mr. Sheldon has been connected with the textile industries since 1870. It is said “Lucky” Baldwin has decided to erect an eight-story fire-proof building on th property occupied by the old Baldwin Hotel in San Francisco, which was burned several months ago. The building will cost 13,000.000. , The D. E. Rose Company, of New York, dealers In cigars and cigarettes, made an assignment yesterday to Frederick Wiener. The company was incorporated in 1893 with a capital stock of SIOO,OOO. The liabilities are estimated at $70,000. A movement has been begun by the Farmers’ Club at San Jose. Cal., having for its object the creation of a great association of interests to control the dried prune output on the Pacific coast. The enterprise is to be along the lines of the Wine Growers’ Association and the great raisin combine at Fresno. Frederick Milliken, employed at the National stock yards. East St. Louis, was knocked Insensible by highwaymen Monday night and robbed of money, watch and valuables, and his body dragged across the railroad track in front of a fast approaching passenger train. He was struck by the engine and hurled into a ditch. His chances of recovery are slight.

DEATH OF A JOURNALIST ♦ JOHN RISSELL YOt NO, LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS, PASSES AAVAY. Lone Prominent in Newspaper Clrele*. Once Rinixter to Chinn and a Warm Friend of General Grant. WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.-John Russell Young. librarian of the Congressional library. died at his residence here at 9:40 o’clock this morning, after an illness of several weeks. Mr. Young was at the point of death nearly all yesterday. This morning it was evident that the end was close. There were with him at his death Mrs. Young. Berkely Young, his son; Dr. Freer, his physician, and Ralph J. Meeker, one of the old newspaper friends of the librarian. Soon after Mr. Young s death Assistant librarian T. C. Alvord appeared, followed shortly by the other assistant. Hon. Ainsworth R. Spofford. Dr. Freer, the attending physician, made a brief written statement that death was due to acute Bright’s disease with complications, overwork and too much brain work. The funeral will be held Saturday morning at 11 o’clock, at St. John’s Episcopal Church, in this city. The service will be rendered by Rev. Alexander Mac Kay Smith. The interment will be in Washington, and will be private. John Russell Young had a notable career as journalist, diplomatist, public official and the intimate associate of distinguished public men. He was born in Downington. Chester county Pennsylvania, Nov. 20. 1841, where his father tilled the soil. When John was four years old his parents went to Philadelphia, and when he had reached the proper age he was entered as a pupil in the old Harrison Grammar School. Eater he became an apprentice in a printing office. Death scattered the Young family, and John was taken to New Orleans, whence he returned in 1857. The Philadelphia Press was in want of a "copy boy” and advertised for one. Young was one of fifty applicants. The foreman of the Press composing room was M. C. Hart. Foreman Hart handed each applicant a roll of Colonel Forney’s manusesript. No one who has not seeen that wonderful "copy” can appreciate the dismay that Oiled each youthful heart when those weird hieroglyphics first confronted them. Horace Greeley’s famed attempts at callgraphy were copper-plate impressions compared to it. Os all the applicants young Young was the only one who could decipher the manuscript, and thus began his entrance to newspaper life. His salary was $5 a week, but was reduced to $4.50 when the Press foreman found that he would not work on Sundays. In those days reporters went home, or rather left the office before midnight, and in consequence it at 2 o’clock one morning that Copyholder Young was sent to report a fire. He did so well that next day he was made a member of the local staff, his city editor being William Dunn. One of his fellow-reporters was George Alfred Townsend, whose pseudonym of “Gath” become known throughout the land. Young rose to be news editor, and when the war broke out was sent to join the army as a correspondent. He was at the battel of Bull Run and wrote the first account published of that memorable contest. For a while he helped Colonel Forney to edit the Washington Chronicle, and in 1862 he was sent back to Philadelphia with the title of editor-in-chief of the Philadelphia Press. Young remained the editor of the Press until 1865, when ho had a difference with Colonel Forney and resigned and entered the employ of Jay Cooke in the latter’s scheme to float the 7-30 loan. Samuel Wilkinson, of the Tribune, secretary of the Northern Pacific Railroad, was at the head of a literary bureau formed for the advocacy of the financial plans that Cooke had control of. Young was made part of this and sent to New York, where he organized branch bureaus for the distribution of the loan among workingmen and soldiers just returned from the war. At the same time he was contributing to the editorial coltimns of the Tribune at Wilkinson’s invitation. His articles attracted Horace Greeley’s attention and led to his regular employment. In six months he was made managing editor, succeeding Sidney Howard Gay. He continued in this position for four years, resigning in 1869, when he had trouble about giving the Associated Press news to the Morning Post, of Philadelphia. He was succeeded by Whitelaw Reid. For one yeanj olio wing he traveled through the far West writing pamphlets for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad and corresponding with the New York Herald and Times. In 1878 he established the New York Standard, the financial backers of which were Benjamin F. Butler, Thomas Murphy, Sheridan Shook and E. D. Webster. It had a fitful existence for two years and then suspended by reason of the stockholders refusing to place it on the financial basis they had promised, and which was necessary for its ultimate success. While editor of the Standard Young performed a delicate task for the United States government, which many of his close friends at the time were unacquainted with. The reasons for secrecy, however, no longer remain. The character of the loans and securities of the government were not understood in England, and it was desirable that the press and public of Great Britain should be made acquainted with the desirability of American investment. It was a matter for delicate treatment. Young, at the suggestion of General Grant, was sent to lxmdon as the special agent of the United States government, although his holding this relation was kept a profound secret. He wrote a number of articles on United States securities that were published in the Times and other London journals, and successfully accomplished the object of his mission. While abroad on this occasion he and George Wilkes, of the Spirit of the Times, ran over to Paris, then in the power of the Commune, and succeeded in passing the lines. They witnessed the siege and fall of the gay capital, and Young sent a ten-col-umn account of it to the Standard which Wendell Phillips said was unexcelled in its vividness of narration and the purity of its English by even the productions of Macaulay. For years afterwards John Russell Young was as much a traveler as a writer. When the Standard suspended the elder Bennett employed him on the Herald, and he traveled all over the globe for that journal. In 1877 he started with General Grant on his memorable trip around the world and wrote a book describing the journey. Grant recommended him to Garfield as United States minister to Japan, and the appointment would have been made had not death intervened. The recommendation was repeated to Arthur, but Minister Bingham, although proffered an advancement to the Austrian court, expressed a desire to remain in Japan. Young was then given the Chinese mission, which he filled until Cleveland appointed his successor, returning to the United States to continue his literary pursuits. When the new Library of Congress was completed attention was directed to the choice of a librarian embodying literary ability and executive management, and President McKinley named Mr. Young on July 1, 1897., He entered upon his duties while the library was still in its cramped quarters at the Capitol and saw it expand into the classic temple of the arts and literature which it now occupies. The transition involved not only a removal of vast stores of precious volumes, but the complete reorganization of the library staff. Mr. Young directed all of this, bringing about the change from the old to the new with smoothness and success. It is said that his time has been spent in part on a contribution to literature, w'hieh he had hoped to complete as the chief literary achievement of his life.

W. K. Sullivan. CHICAGO. Jan. 17.—W. K. Sullivan, former managing editor of the Chicago Journal and well known throughout the country among the newspaper men, died today from an attack of pneumonia. Mnj. Jed Ilotelikln*. RICHMOND, Va„ Jan. 17.—Major Jed Hotchkiss, Stonewall Jackson’s celebrated engineer, died at his home in Staunton tonight of grip, complicated with meningitis. Edward Holst. NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—Edward Holst, the musical composer, is dead in this city of Bright's disease, aged fifty-five years. He was a native of Copenhagen, Denmark. COURT MARTIAL. (Concluded from First Page.) what purports To be the statements'of fourteen officers expressing dissatisfaction with the canned fresh beef. “General Allies,” says he, "does not inform the investigating commission how he obtained them nor does he inform the commission that these adverse reports on this article of food were furnished to the War Department for its information that it might take proper steps in the matter if the statements made by the officers quoted by him were correct.” General Eagan submits that suoh invlta-

tlons to criticise are apt to procure adverse criticisms and would be taken as evidence of desire for adverse reports. "In this connection,” he asserts, "it is proper to say that there is what is known as an inspector general’s department in the army, whose appropriate duty is, when directed by proper authority, to examine into the matter of this kind and make an intelligent, responsible report. A report that can be met and refuted if it is false; a report that, if untrue, the author can be held duly accountable for it; a report that would tye of value to the government and serve to guide it in future purchases; a report of things in existence that can be examined and tested.” General Eagan repeats his former statement o f thankfulness that "this land never gave and never will, thank God, the purse in addition to the sw’ord to any general, and whenever Congress permits any general, be ha whomsoever he may. to control the purse as well as to wield the sword that day the mistake of this country will be made, and that day designing men with military command and the pu-se of the United States at their disposal may set themselves up and do things that this country is and always has been afraid to.” As to the presence of “an experiment.” charged by General Miles in connection with the tinned beef. General Eagan says: "Gen. Miles in saying that this food was sent to the army as a ’pretense for experiment’ says that which implies corruption, which ninetynine out of every hundred people will understand to mean corruption, because it was a ’pretense of experiment,’ he says, not even giving credit to me for furnishing it as an experiment, but that I furnished it under ‘the pretense of an experiment.’ This is a serious charge and should not be made by any man lightly or without ample evidence to support, it. Taking the statement in the sense that was probably intended, the sense that has been accepted by the press of the country—indeed, some of that press, because of it, called for my dismissal from the army and my court-martial—l answer that it was not furnished under the pretense of an experiment nor even as an experiment. In denying this I content myself with saying such statements are untrue and unworthy of more emphatic denial. His statement reflects upon the honor of every officer in the department who has contracted for or purchased this meat, and especially and particularly on the commissary general—myself.” In conclusion General Eagan declares on oath that the secretary of war had nothing whatsoever to do with the furnishing of refrigerated or tinned meats, "nor has he in any manner whatsoever controlled or attempted to control contracts, the awards or purchases of these articles.” General Eagan sums up ids whole case in conclusion and finishes, hoping that his statement "will offset the statements made by General Miles, and will in some measure at least do justice to those that have been wronged.”

ROUT FOR PARNELLITES ♦ LABORERS SUCCESSFUL IN THE IRISH MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. John Morlry, the English Liberal, Criticises the “Prevailing Spirit of Jingoism and Imperialism.” DUBLIN, Jan. 17.—Judging from the results already known at midnight, the Irish elections to-day have been remarkable for the success of the laborers and the waning power of Parnellism. The new feature is that women were allowed to vote for the first time. In Dublin the representation of labor has been quadrupled, while the Parnellites have secured little more than half their former strength, although, owing to internal dissensions in John Redmond’s party, it is rather difficult to give an accurate estimate. Mr. Redmond himself has been elected for one ward, but he did not head the poll, and therefore misses the aldermanship. Timothy Harrington, member of Parliament for the harbor division of Dublin, is in the same boat, having been topped by anew laborite.' In Cork the Parnellites have done better, but they have failed to retain their former ascendancy, having now only a majority of one over the Dillonites, while the laborites have secured nine seats. However, wherever the issue was between a Farnellite and an anti-Parnellite and the question was squarely fought, the Parnellites were victorious. Speaking generally, there is an increase of nationalist power, but nothing like a rigorous exclusion of unionists. John I)nly May Be Mayor of Limerick. DUBLIN, Jan. 17.—UndJr the new Irish local government act, John Daly, the former political prisoner, and his supporters, have captured twenty-four out of the forty seats comprised in the new Limerick corporation, and Daly is almost certain to be lected mayor of that city, unless he should be declared to be disqualified. IN A PESSIMISTIC MOOD. Alorley Fears International Trouble— Will Retire from Liberal Connells. LONDON, Jan. 17.—Right Hon. John Mcrley, Liberal member of Parliament for Montroseburg, addressing his constituents this evening at Brechlin, said he entirely concurred with the reasons whch led Sir Wiliam Vernon Harcourt to resign the leadership of the Liberal party in the House of Commons. It was his own intention, he declared, to retire from active and responsible participation in the formal counsels of the heads of the Liberal party, although his zealous and eager co-operation could always be counted upon for the advancement of every Liberal cause. Mr. Morley proceeded to criticise the "Prevailing spirit of jingoism and imperialism.” He denounced it as "entirely opposed to all the lessons of Mr. Gladstone”—lessons to which he would feel himself untrue were he to allow himself to drift into acquiescence with a course of policy which he believed "injurious to our material prosperity to the national character and to the strength and safety of the imperial state.” He frankly admitted that he took a pessimistic view of the difficulties threatening throughout the world. “I think,” he exclaimed, “we are nearer the beginning of them than the end.” It w T as his firm conviction that "the prevailing spirit of imperialism must inevitably bring militarism, a gigantic daily growing expenditure, increased power to aristocracy and privileged classes, and war.” The Llppe-Hetmold Succession. BERLIN, Jan. 17.—1n the Reichstag today Herr Leuzmann, Freisinnige-Peoples party, raised the question of the Lippe-Det-mold succession, strongly criticised the action of the Federal Council and called on the people of Detmold to draft their succession law without delay. The Imperial Chancellor, Prince Hohenlohe, defender! the Federal Council. He pointed out that its decision was entirely reserved regarding the position of the Lippe legislature in respect to the rights of the princely house and he justified the action of the council in not entering into the merits of the dispute. Finally the chancellor suggested the possibility of a rapprochement of the contestants at a later stage of the proceedings. After further debate the estimates of the imperial chancellery department were agreed to. Confessed to Lese Majesty. BERLIN, Jan. 17. —Herr Schmidt, a Socialist member of the Reichstag, has voluntarily informed the public prosecutor at Madgeburg that he was solely responsible for the publication in the Socialist Volks Stimme of the article purporting to be a conversation between the Prince of Bagdad and his tutor, on account of which the editor, Herr August Mueller, was sentenced last week to forty-nine months’ imprisonment on the charge of lese majesty. The whole case must now be reopened. The Madgeburg court interpreted the allegory of which Herr Schmidt confesses the authorship as an insult to the second son of Emperor Wiliiam, Prince Eitel. A (iencroHK Brewer. COPENHAGEN, Jan. 17.—Carl Jacobsen, the well-known brewer, has notified the municipal authorities here of his intention to present the city with his splendid collection of art treasures, valued at over 5,000,000 crowns ($1,750,000), on condition that a suitable building is provided for their care and display. Agrarian Revolt. LONDCiN, Jan. 17.—The Buda-Pesth correspondent of the Daily Mail says that an agrarian revolt Is in full swing In the Arad district. Fierce conflicts have taken place, in which sixteen rebels and ten soldiers have been killed, and the rebellion is rapidly spreading. Cable Notes. Owing to the severe storm the Elbe has overflowed and flooded the lower quarters of Hamburg. It Is said the Russian government Is arranging for combined military and naval evolutions on a grand scale next spring in

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