Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1899 — Page 8

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POLKA DOT CHALLIES A dozori now colorings in this popular French material have just arrived—polka dots and pin dots—in the following colors: Black grounds, with red, turquoise blue, violet, pink and green: navy blue, with white or red, cadet blue with black, and CAred with black. Price, a yard €J\JL Plaids for Skirts. These in pattern lengths, 4*4 yards, 45 inches wide; all the jtopular colorings are represented in the fifteen designs, and each pattern is exclusive—only one of a kind; the material is a soft unfinished Chev- ()A iot. The price for a skirt pattern..>U.VU French Pattern Robes Almost a mid-season assortment of these is already on display. Yesterday brought dress lengths of Vigourex, with various colored dots; heavy corded Bengalines, with soufle stripes, and several more patterns of fancy colored Crepons and Grenadines. Prices S2O to $35 Each. L.S. AYRES & CO. Mole Agents for Stamford Patterns. ART EMPORIUM, Telephone 500. Cyclone Dry llntes We recommend these plates to those desiring good plates at a low price: 3*4 by 3%, 25c a dozen. 3*4 by 4*4, 27c a dozen. . 4*4 by 4*4, 36c a dozen, 4by 5,40 c a dozen. fi by 7,66 c a dozen. { WK MAKE FRAMES. WE FRAME PICTURES. THE H. LIEBER CO. 24 West Washington Street. Manufacturers of Grilles and Fret Work. IN OLDEN~ TIMES ONE of the most ancient modes of attracting 1 public patronage, long before the age of printing, was by means of criers. These medueval criers carried horns with which to fix the attention of the people when about to make a publication. In the present age the newspaper has taken the place of the criers, and attractive advertisements that of the horns. We are in it. We are “blowing” about carpets just now. Albert Gall Carpets, Wall Papers, Draperies 17 and 10 Went Washington Street. Hardwood Floors laid, finished and refinished. AT COST! AH Winter Shoes FOR CASH C. FRIEDGEN 21 North Pennsylvania St.

Many People Have come to us because of our claims to have the largest and best selected stock of Diamonds in this State. They continue with us because we have not failed in a single instance to substantiate our claim. J/“* CIPP? Importer of • DIAMONDS Room 4,18+ North Meridian Street —TIII£ ATWHotel English Monument Circle Central location, absolutely fireproof, magnificently furnished. Largest hotel in the State—3oo rooms—first c'ass in every particular, at moderate rates. American plan, $2 per day and upwards; European plan, $1 per day and upwards. Fifty rooms, with bath, on the American plan, at $2 50 per day. Liberal rates by the week or month. INTERSTATE HOTEL CO. : : Proprietors WOMEN IN THE PLOT. Plan of Worlihoune l'rinonerit to Escape Discovered. The detect!ves of the police Oepartment are looking for some women who, under the pretense of visiting at the workhouse, have contrived to supply certain prisoners there with tools wherewith the latter had planned to make their escape. Chief Colbert gave Superintendent Essmann information that led to a thorough search of the prisoners' cells yesterday morning, and some saws, several files, a chisel and a can of oil to deaden the sound of sawing on the bars were among the articles found in the search. Tom White, who had a year to serve on a charge of petit larceny, is wearing a ball and chain as a result of the find in his cell. He had the saws concealed in a cane-bottom chair. The other tools were found In the cells of Frank Mays, convicted of housebreaking, whose term would have been up in November, and Eli Blank, who would have been released a year later. The latter are also enduring punishment on account of the discovery. They had not yet begun work, but it is certain that a conspiracy to escape existed. The Law ami Order Convention. The evening session of Feb. 1 of the State Anti-saloon convention will be held in legislative hall, State Capitol. The other sessions, beginning with Tuesday evening, Jan. 3i, will be held In Plymouth Church, tw-o sessions being held there on Wednesday. The committee having the matter in charge haa arranged an entertaining musical programme for both Tuesday and Wednesday evening sessions. Speakers of note and ability will take part at all the sessions of the convention. Questions will be discussed that are far-reaching in effect and that bear directly upon good government and home protection Opportunity will be given for free discussion of the various papers after they have been read. There will be one hour fiven to an open parliament in the Wednesday morning session There will be a question drawer and an opportunity for a free expression of ideas concerning the league work; a general discussion of the liquor laws of the State, and how to use them. There will also be reports from the different cities of the State that have been organized under the Anti-saloon I/ecgue movement. The army canteen will he discussed by a chaplain, who has personal knowledge of the effect of the canteen upon the troops.

STORY TOLD BY HICKS CLAIMS NOW HE FIRED AT MRS. ROM--11l LT IN SELF-DEFENSE. The Police Are Not of that Opinion, and Look on the Statement us a Lauie Defense. — From remarks let fall by Fritz Hicks, accused of the murder of Mrs. Josephine Romhilt, the young man will endeavor to establish self-defense as an extenuation of the fatal shooting affair of Tuesday evening. He claimed yesterday, for the first time, that he had not fired the only shots that evening and showed a hole in his garments w'hich he claimed was made by a bullet. “There were five shots fired,” he told a Journal reporter. “Three of them 1 fired, but they were not the first. I will not now say who fired the other two, but that will be apparent when the circumstances are fully known. They were fired before I used my gun at all. “One of them struck me,” he added, showing the hole ia his coat. “It struck my suspender buckle and glanced off, saving my life, for the buckle is just over my heart.” The hole extended through his blue serge coat and gray vest, just above the buckle mentioned. Beneath the buckre the shirt was torn, as if by the buckle’s edges. “Was the shot which you say struck you fired by any of the men about the hotel?” Hicks was asked. “No.” “Then, did either the laundress or Mrs. Romhllt have the weapon?” “I have told you again and again that I will not say anything about Mrs. Romhilt, but when it comes to a trial, if 1 have to, I will tell more about the shooting than any of Mrs. Romhilt’s relatives have told you. I fired in self-defense. I had been drinking, but I knew what I was doing. I had the revolver in my pocket, hut had r.o Idea of using it until I was forced to. I was not in love with Her daughter, and never went any place with her. This story about the board bill Is alfeo false, for nothing had been said to me recently concerning it, although I was a little behind in my payments.” The circumstances attending the shooting as they were reported to the police do not corroborate Hicks's story, no other weapon found and only the shots fired by Hicks being heard. These were two or three, according to different witnesses, hut no person besides Hicks has been found who claimed there were more than three. The holes in Hicks’s garments have frayed edges, such as would mark a bullet hole, but the lateness of Hicks's defense is held against him by those to whom he told this story of the affair. He has not consulted his attorneys yet, who would doubtless have told him to refrain from making this claim until the trial. He was taken back to jail after waiving examination in Police Court yesterday morning, and will be held to the grand jury. He made no statement to Judge Cox, but seemed fully to realize the serious nature of the charge against him. As soon as he was up yesterday morning he called for the turnkey and asked how Mrs. Romhilt was. Being told that she was dead, he walked slowly back to his cell and did not appear again until breakfast, his face bearing the evidences of a first realization ot the nature of the crime with which he is charged. The two bullets that caused Mrs. Romhilt's death were found by the coroner close together, although one had entered the breast and the other the back. They had pierced the stomach and liver. Three holes were found in Mrs. Romhilt’s cloak and on the body there was a flesh wound where one of the shots had grazed In passing through the garment. Two bullet holes were found in the wall of the laundry at the Illinois House and the revolver was found with all its five chambers empty. This would lead to the belief that there were that many shots fired in the laundry and that two of them went wild, but it does not substantiate Hicks’s story, inasmuch as these were found in the side of the room opposite that on which Hicks probably stood after climbing through the window. At the coroner's inquest begun yesterday morning the testimony of Mary Wachstetter was taken. She was near Mrs. Romhilt at the time of the shooting. It was substantially the same as the testimony she gave the night of the shooting, but she would not swear that she heard more than two shots fired. She declared she knew nothing of the relations between Hicks and Mrs. Romhilt or Gertrude Romhilt, the daughter. The Wachstetter woman is making preparations to go to Chicago, but the coroner thinks it unnecessary to take steps to detain her as a witness. To-day the physicians in attendance, the son and daughter of the murdered woman and her brother, William Essmann, will be examined. Mr. Essman scouted the idea advanced by Hicks that someone else had fired any of the shots. He said that when he was called to the bedside of his sister Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock, she started to make an explanation of Hicks’s action, but was unable to complete It. When her brother entered the chamber she said: “Well, Will, I suppose you want to know the straight of this matter. Hicks has been paying attentions to Gerty and I refused to let him take her to the theater—” She did not proceed, as the nurse advised Mr. Essmann to not talk to the dying woman of the tragedy, as she was very w'eak.

Reception to Ilible Class. A reception to the Bible class of the Young Men’s Christian Association will be given at W. T. Brown’s residence, 1317 Park avenue, Monday evening, next. Wednesday evening there was a social dinner at the Y. M. C. A. participated in by the gymnasium classes. It was most successful, about thirty gathering about the board in the upper dining room. Spring; Style Hats, 1NOU! At Seaton's Hat Store. MAKDI RAS. Pennsylvania Lines. Will sell tickets to Birmingham, Mobile and New r Orleans, account Mardi Gras festivities, one fare for round trip, Feb. 6 to 13, inclusive. Tickets good returning from destination to and including Feb. 28. For particulars, call on ticket agent. No. 48 West Washington street, or Union Station. Heart Chocolates for Weak Heart Cure grip and all forms of heart disease and prevent sudden and premature death. 50c. All druggists. Iron and Wire Fences For all purposes. Ellis & Helfenberger. Telephone 958. Insure with German Fire Insurance of Indiana. General offices, 29 South Delaware street. Fire, tornado and explosion. Win. H. Coburn Coal Cos. Anthracite coke and soft coJ. Telephone 2143. Wegman pianos. Carlin & Lennox, 9 E. Mkt. st. Feed your bone JANES'S Duatleas Oats. Fine Cameron Pianos at Wuiachner’s. Made for you—Y. B. 10c Cigars. Seeing is Surely Belie?iog Our stock is the LARGEST IN THE STATE OF INDIANA. Our assortment of fine Diamond Jewelry IS THE MOST COMPLETE. The quality of our goods is SUPERIOR TO ANY SHOWN IN THE STATE. You are invited to inspect our stock and compare prices. |uliu<; C. Walk, f> Son, INDIANA'S LEADING JEWELERS Y. B.lOc Cigars Are prized by every smoker of good cigars PATTON BROS., 14 East Washington St.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, I’RIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1899.

MR. STORMONT THORPE Jls a man of forty, perhaps; a man of great force of character; a tremendous and at the same time an inscrutable personality; but a schemer, a speculator, a promoter, one of the chartered privateers of commerce. He has penetrated the four corners of the earth in his search for fortune, and has just missed Finally, coming back to London with some thousands of pounds and a Mexican rubber concession, he floats a company. At every turn he is blackmailed and bled. The “Kaffir crowd,” the group of wrecker-brokers, “with names like Rhine wines,” play with him and throw him down. But at last the indomitable nerve of the man conquers. The press is silenced, the blackmailers quieted, and a board of directors secured, with “a noble marquis” for a chairman, and Lord Plowden, “the handsomest man in England,” as its star member. But investors fail to take the stock. Out of 500,000 shares all but an insignificant 5000 or so are unsubscribed for; and the “wreckers” start selling the stock, “short.” Thorpe, is desperate, ruined; but when he totters at the edge of bankruptcy, when he has nothing but a grand suite of offices and a single coin left, “the big idea” comes to him. Only a few thousand shares or so of the stock are owned outside; he holds the rest; the wreckers are offering Rubber Consols which they haven’t got; if he buys them, when settling day comes he can make them pay his price for the shares that they must deliver. In ten minutes his broker is quietly snapping up every offer of Rubber Consols, and the great corner is under way. Os all his dummy directors, Lord Plowden is the only one who sees what Thorpe is planning. And by casting his vote with him at a directors’ meeting he enables him to carry through those plans, and assures him a free hand in running the corner. After the meeting, Thorpe, expanding in the sunshine of his new prosperity, promises Plowden, who has everything in the world but money, to make him rich, to give him 100,000 shares of Rubber Consols. Stunned with gratitude, “the noble lord” tells him of his poverty, his struggle to keep up appearances, and his ambitions, winding up by inviting him to visit his country place. Thorpe accepts, borrows thirty pounds from his sister, and starts for Hadlow House with Lord Plowden. The Market-Place Harold Frederic’s story, grows in interest with each succeeding installment. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST With the above synopsis you can begin this story this week. Fully illustrated. 5 CENTS THE COPY. £2.50 YEARLY. ALL NEWSMEN THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY. PHILADELPHIA

“Not How Clieup— Bnt How Good.” |> INDIANAPOLIS |j In boxes. The best is none too good for you, therefore be sure CRAIG’S name is upon the box. Craig’s Candies BIG BARGAINS IN JEWELRY Spoon Sale Next Week Co+uAtocfe, IB East Wnslilntjton St. INDIANAPOLIS PRINTING COMPANY Fine Job Printing, Poster Printing, Catalogue Printiog, Book Printing, Magazine Printing. 41 Virginia Ave. ’Phone 1220 ABSTRACTER OF TITLES. THEODORE STEIN. ABSTRACTER of TITLES Corner Market and Pennsylvania streets Indianapolis. Suite 229, First Office F'.OOt, ’’The Lemcke.” Telephone 1760.

Black Dresses 7 yards of double-w’idth, brocaded Jacquards, sold regularly at 25c yard; Wednes- Cl nj day, the 7 yards for vl.V’t 6 yards of 40-inch figured Black Goods—3sc regularly per yard—Wednesday, the 6 EA yards w’ill go for 48-inch, new Granite Cloth, in black—all-wool—this fabric attains great brilliancyfringe and Grecian pattern —worth 65c per yard AA Wednesday, 6 yards for v 6 yards of French Novelty Silk and wool combinations, value $1 per yard; Wednesday the C/4 Sift suit for '4.t)U Silks Plain Taffetas, all-silk-Mnstead ''ift, of 50c, Wednesday for $1 Novelty Silk, for Waists. EC,. What is left Wednesday c/CJC 1,000 yards of all kinds of Silk W'orth 55c to 65c, Wednes- .. day at, per yard ajvjc 38-inch Perea Silks, in plain colors,, figures and stripes, regular 35c grade, Wednes- -4 S. day lOC BROSNAN BRO&TISBWest Wash.St 35 Per Cent. Off On CLAY WORSTED SUITS that will cost you $lO more anywhere else. We five you summer prices on OVERCOATS. ' Samples /yt 39 and 41 Sent oat s. Illinois of Town. TAILOR Street.

*, Fr,a** rr, at ***rag *r, -a Can you use anything in this k line? 5 1? Jf W r ******************************** ° i | Dog Biscuits j S kJ 5 3 ja ************ *** ******fT************. * i OR i jf if X Jf * i Puppy Cakes| * k ? ; if A Complete Jf * Line of Dog Remedies for the * Diseases of the Canine. °<y l Charles Mayer & Cos. * 29 and 31 W. Washington St. J a 4 4 <C 4 <C * 4 4 Furniture, Carpets MESSENGER’S HO East Washington St.

FRANK H. CARTER, Druggist, Xo. 77 i! and 770 MamiaehniietU Ave. Southwest Corner of St. Clair Street. S3 YEARS ESTABLISHED. So. IB YV. Washington Street. Successor to Browning & Son.

FROG HAMS 100 dozen, at 25c per dozen. IS*Year Old BOURBON - - - at 20c per Drink Get the key and help yourself out of the original package. I handle only first-class, aged and strictly pure goods. CHAS. MUELLERSCHOEN, BY “THAT DEPOT.” CaVriages and Sleighs The H. T. Conde Implement Cos. 27 to 33 Capitol Ave., North. STEBh RANGES We sell “Jewels” because they are the best. They are low in price, too. A full line of Heating Stoves .it reduced prices. LILLY & STALNAKER, IN and 116 East Washington Street.

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COKE! COKE! Lump and Crushed —FOR SALE BY The Indianapolis Gas Go. For tickets call at office— No. 49 South Pennsylvania St. WarF mm Stcninsltliis wall from New York for Havana. Prgreo and Vera Crux, Wednesdays. For Havana dlrrct, Saturdays. For Nassau, N. P., Mantla. K. Cienfue*os, Uanntanainu and .Manxanlllo, Cuba, Thursdays. For Taiuiiieo and Moileau Coast Ports Fridays. OEU6HTFUI TOURS TO/Jfffk COVERUMTHESCCNEOF THE TROPICS THE SPANISH WAR • jas”e!*ward A CO. GiQk} 114 W.U aw. ** M Sunday Journal, by Mail, $2 Per