Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 77, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1899 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1899.

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Emalllhrd 1M53. Sole AffrnU for llutterlelc Patterns. EXTRA The Last cf the Famous Weigert Collection of Rugs Carpets and Hangings WILL EE SOLD At Auction ToDay! Every riv oes to the highest bidder. It's too good an opportunity to miss. Rug Room, third floor. Pettis Dry Goods Co "Contempt Prior 'To investigation is a foe to all knowledge." "The proof of the pudding is the eating.1 ' Comments unnecessary. Hence, buy, bake and eat the bread from.... Princess Fatent flour, and you will be satisfied. Every package guaranteed. BLANTON MILLING CO. Drugs First Quality. POPULAR PRICES Huder'sDrugStore WASHINGTON AND PENNSYLVANIA STS. Open all night. PijlliiUl 32.33 When Building. AMUSEMENTS. EnKllihWThe Little Corporal. A Francis Wilson comic opera haa long been recognized as an entertainment wherein Wilson's Jovial eccentricities are vaudevilllzed. so to speak, into a sketch," -with a musical backgronnd. In Tho Little Corporal, " first seen at English's last night, Ilarry B. Smith has furnished one of the best of these sketches, and Dudwlg Enslander has set it to music that is even more pretentious and extended than the score of a Wilson opera absolutely demands. "The Xdttlo Corporal," from the first solo and chorus, a French war song," by Denis O'Sulllvan, that had to be repeated, was an Immense musical and comic success, adding another to the list of excellent operas seen here this season. Francis Wilson, with his voice full of little musical gurgles. Is on the stage fully as much of the time as any audience could expect, and while he is off there aro brilliant solos, tender duets or martial choruses until for tho first time in a number of years there Is a Wilson organization which challenges crltcism as a real comic opera. The comedian himself seems to be doing a littlo more straight singing than formerly, and his voice appears to have sprouted two or three new notes in the south register, until he has a range of a full octave or more. Another year of as much development and the smart critics in the big cities will be driven to trat him seriously, lie is the hardest working member of the company at all times, and one would not be surprised to see him end up one of his eccentric gyrations by turning a flipflop or walking off tho stage on his hands. His famous ascending-scale calliope shriek eems to have been laid up for repairs In The Little Corporal," but the samo hilarious result is attained by looking cross-eyed and Introducing other facial contortions known to the stellar muggers. In the finale his voice is useless and he detracts attention from the excellent ensemble work of the organization by making faces at the audience. These aro almost as much overdrawn as some of Lulu Glaser's awkward attempts to be funny with her ample feet. Wilson's topical song is by no means tho best number in "The Little Corporal," being far behind the rustic duet with Miss Glaser, where this well-matched pair imitate the familiar squeals, cackles and bowwows of the barnyard. "The Cobbler's Ghost," a song of the Frenchman's spirit that haunts the old chateau, is a regular children's ghost story told in song and full of delightful musical shivers. Both these songs are in the first act, which is particularly full of good numbers. Including the Grenadier's song, by Louis Cissavant. Cassavant with a tritle heavier organ would be a good match for Eugene Cowles. Ills role of the bluff comic opera sergeant is one of the hits of the opera. Dennis O'Sulllvan. another new singer to these parts, is a long way the best baritone heard here in comic opera. His voice bears out all the line things said of him in the East. Maud IJerrl is also a new prima donna in the Wilson company, with a tuneful, mellow voice, which if not so fiorid as Lulu Glower's, Is better suited to prima donna dignity. Her duets with O'Sullivan were alwuyg encored. The first act is crowded with good songs and comedy, but the second develops senti mental loucnes ana approacr.es the tragic coloring of grand opera when the leading baritone Is about to be shot for displaying form of Bonaparte la almost too faithfuliv portrayed for comic effect. The act was an immeiiso hit. and when the curtain fell Mr. Wilson was recalled until he made a bpcech. Many considered this chatty elocutionary effort one of tho very best things In thfc show. It sparkled with wit and topical allusions, its only defect being that It came too glibly to convey the impression of an ex tcmiora effort. The third uct returns to comic opera again In Its well-accepted form, Wllscn making his t-ntrar.ee on a double-hump carnal and furnishing most of the re st of the entertainment himself, with slight assistance of a bunch of pretty giris as wives of the Bedouin chief. Throughout the opera Miss Olasor is more of .t running mate comedierne to the happy-faced star than a vocal artist and labored consistently to show the audience that fhe is "the real thing." On one oeca?!m Miss Glaer bumped into a bright chorus girl, who looked good enough for an understudy, and gave her a cat frown that was not at all Incoming to the usually smlllrg Glaser feature?. No one can deny that MUs Glaser is "the real thing" at all times, but a little les I-know-lt subjectivity would not hurt the character. Th Iattl Corporal" Is drilled Into ths company with gnat perfection. It is taste1 1 . 1 CLEVER COCKS who ar3Tc!a!e making rr.u-h cf ir r n?.t?r!as u:s It as a iiwyrirsr ai stir.?ihf r.!ns ' .reuiert In th-J F.-erarar.on -f rich Graves. Zri's. Ciucia and Cv-rury it eoes so rvjch f arC.er tran ai7 kindrj 1 preiratlon. aai keeps Enr Jir rurif.tseJ -rvJ sir.-i in Blue. J.v. UEBIG.

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fully costumed, brilliant soenlcally and all through a surprisingly finished and entertaining work. There will be a matinee today and the engagement closes to-night. Notes of the StaKe. To-night winds up the engagement of the American Burlesquers at the Empire, the Roeber and Crane Company following Monday, with Ernst Boeber, the wrestler. IJghy Eell wUl close to-night in Chicago, where he had taken Mrs. Burnett's new play, "Jens Hurst. Gentleman." after producing It In Washington. The p!ay Is not a howling James O'Neill, the D'Artagnan of the b!g "Musketeers" production in New York, played the part two nights and then retired

to recover his voice, s. Miner Kent, wno played Aramis, going on la the star role and doing very nicely. Olga Nethersole will be seen as Carmen, Monday night, at English's, and the rest of the week will be well filled with entertainment. Tim Murphy returns In "The Carpetbagger," Tuesday and Wednesday, and the Binda Rossa follows Thursday for matinee und night concerts. On next Saturday that great character comedian, E. M. Holland, will be seen at the head of Charles Frohman's company in "On and Off," one of the greatest farcical successes of the year at the Madison-square Theater in New York. The last two performances of "Incog" by the Grand stock company will be given this afternoon and to-night. "London Assurance," which follows Monday, although a comedy, is something more than that. It is a play of much brilliancy and without any farcical tendencies whatever. There is a serious vein running through It and It satirizes certain features of English life. It provides splendid opportunities to no less than seven members of the stock company. In addition to the roles for the other members. The matinee at the Park to-day will afford the ladles and children a final opportunity to see the wonderful act of Rudlnoff, the Frenchman whose smoke pictures, bird imitations and shadowgraph work make up a specialty most delightful and altogether new to Indianapolis. He is really remarkable in his lino and has no imitators. It will be a long time before anything so interesting will be seen here. The entire programme of the Joseph Hart Specialty Company U above tho average and refined throughout. The closing performance will be given to-night. Devil s Island will be at the Park all of next week. PERSONAL AND SOCIETY. The Maennerchor will give its Easter ball, Monday, April 3. Miss Blake is the guest of the Misses Mary and Alice Snyder. Mrs. S.. Gill has returned from a visit to Mrs. Doxey in AndersonMrs. W. II. Hubbard and Mrs. W. E. Kurtz have gone to Atlantic City for a few weeks. Mrs. D. B. Brenneke will leave for Columbus. O.. to-day to visit her sister, Mrs. William Foor. Mr. and Mrs. James Youndt and children, of Salt Lake City, are visiting Mrs. Youndt's mother, Mrs. Mary Donough. Miss Yeager, who has been spending the winter with her sister, Mrs. Frank C. Wood, has returned to her home in Danville, Ky. Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge gave a theater party, last evening. In honor of their visitors, Mr. and Mrs. Schuyler Colfax, of South Bend. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Dennis, who have been spending the winter with Mr. and Mrs. William Daggett, returned to their home in Detroit yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. P. Zlnn entertained at 6 o'clock dinner last evening a large party of Fowler (Ind.) friends that have recently moved to this city. Dr. Louis Burckhardt win leave on Sunday for Germany, where he will be married Monday, April 3, to Miss Adelaide 8chmidt, a sister of Mrs. H. O. Pantzer, of this city. Mr. Joshua E. Youtz has gone to Ohio to bring his family to Indianapolis for permanent residence. They wld make their home at No. 66 Woodruff Place, center drive. The Magazine Club will meet this afternoon at the English Hotel, and letters from members who are away will be read. In addition to those already mentioned there will be one from Mrs. Oscar Huey, who Is at Daphe, Fla. Mrs. Frank F. Rogers and Ml?s Margaret Lockwood entertained a party of Woodruff I'lace mends at cards yesterday afternoon. Shamrock markers were used and the prizes were of green and white china. During the afternoon Mrs. Fremont Swain sang and Miss Margaret Lockwood gave a violin number. The Cavendish Whist Club was entertained, last evening, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hawkins, the gentlemen being the guests of honor. The hostesses with Mrs. Hawkins were Mrs. C. E. Merrifleld, Mrs. P. E. Mutchner and Mrs. F. H. Carter. They wore belts and collars of green and a badge of shamrock, for the day. There were also shamrock score cards. Mrs. Charles D. Johnson gave a card party yesterday for her visitor. Miss Blanche Coppock, of Walnut Hills. Most of the appointments were In green. The tables were covered with that color and green and the shamrock figured In the refreshments. The flowers were hyacinths, tulips and carnations of white with their green leaves. Miss Coppock will be the guest of honor at a theater party this afternoon, and other companies will be given for her next week. Miss Voss gave a St. Patrick's day high tea, yesterday, entertaining Mrs. J. M. Lilly, Mrs. A. P. Fox, Mrs. Hugh McGibeny, Mrs. E. C. Thompson, Mrs. M. W. Mansfield, Mrs. S. C. Parry, Mrs. T. H. Smith. Mrs. J. T. McShane, Mrs. K. I. Blakeman. Mrs. Edward Hawkins and Mrs. Frank Fitzgerald. The polished table was almost covered with dollies of Mexican drawn work.. At either end was an epergne embedded in shamrock, and holding the guest favors of green baskets filled with bon-bons, in the center was a large vase of calla lilies resting in a puffed center of green silk The green and tho bhamrock idea were carried out in various of the appointments of the tea. The annual meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution was held yesterday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Albert Baker. The reports of the different ofllcers were read and Miss Florence Malott gave a report of the national meeting of the D. A. It., in Washington, in February. The society took action on the death of its first regent. Mrs. Merrick Vinton, which occurred last week. The annual election resulted as follows: Regent, Mrs. George W. Sloan: vice regent, Mrs. James K. Carnahan; recording secretary. Miss Mary Foster; corresponding secret iry. Miss Sada Niblack: treasurer, Mrs. C. S. Denny; registrar. Mrs. H. C. G. Bals, and historian, Mrs. Mary B. Jackson. CITY NEWS NOTES. A defective flue caused a J.7X) fire damage at No. 211 Bellefontaine street last night. Senator Newton W. Gilbert, of Angola. president of the State League of Republican Clubs, was in the city yesterday. Sandborn Lodge No. 302, .Knights of Pythlar.. was yesterday Incorporated. The lodge win be located in Knox county. The Girls' Industrial School have been given free use of two halls and other rooms at xis ilast Market street and will move Into tneir new quarters to-day. The annual conference of the Women's Missionary Society of the Central Baptist Association was held yesterday at the College-avenue Baptist Church. Dr. A. W. Bravton left his horse and hucrgy standing near the Sayles block yesteVua, ano wnen ne looked for his property it was gone. No trace of it could be found. The horse Is a bay. Because of a hole in the ground beneath the pavement a horse broke through the asphalt on Washington street, near Arsenal avenue, yesterday morning. The hole led to an sewer. The horse way uninjured. University Unit Team. The Athletic Association of the University of Indianapolis held a meeting In the medical collfg... last night to ratify the constitution presented by the board of control of the university and to talk ov r the pxosnects of the ball team during the coming season It was agreed that the university presented stror.giiT candidate. for places on the team this season than had ever represented the uiMiium.-ii in any io.-mer season. TIip members of the football team of "j were present and elected S. G. Jump as captain for the season of M. I.oiik John" llcaly De.iil. John Mealy, who ten ytars ag j was known as a great baseball pitcher anJ familiarly designated as "L.5tig John" Healy, i dead in St. Ixmis of consumption. In 17 he was one of tho American players who made the trip around the world n-i played in Europe Asia and Australia. He piU th diamond two years ai;o and Vxonv a St. Ixwl policeman, but was oilled to plve up his pc.-ition last year on itreounl of llj health llc.iiy was a favorite player in this city on ;hu Indianapolis team a dozen years ago. Coloring Matter Prohibited. The Suite Board of Health is receiving numerous Inquiries regarding the pure-food

law. and In particular regarding those thing which have In them artificial coloring matter. On this point the law is specific and prohibits the use of such coloring.

CHURCH AFFAIRS. Rev. J. Cummlng Smith lectured last evening in Worthington on "Mother Earth." Rev. A. B. Phflnutt will address the meet ing of the Your.g Women's Christian As sociation to-morrow at 4 o'clock. Dr. C. I. Fletcher will trive his illustrated talk on Cuba and Porto Kico this evening. at Mick's Hall, on North Illinois street, for the benefit of the new Grace lresbyterian Church. Miss Margaret Merker" of Louisville, Is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Lewis. This afternoon at Plymouth Church Miss Merker will give a talk on "Inexpensive Household Decoration." The annual "thank offering" service of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of Broadway M. E. Church will be held at the church to-morrow evening. An address will be given by the pastor. The missionary society of the Fourth rreshyterian Church will hold Its praise meeting this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Mrs. F. F. McCrea and Mrs. A. B. Mitchell will speak and Mrs. S. I Morrison will sing. The ladies of Central-avenue Church gave a reception and supper last evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Gorsuch. Green predominated in the decorations of palms and ferns and was used in various ways. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Cooper entertained the members of the choir of the Centralavenue Church. The members of the music committee, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Barry. Dr. and Mrs. I H. Dunnlr.g. Mrs. Fisher and Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Dalryniple assisted. During the evening there was music by members of the choir and Mrs. Barry. Section No. 2 of the Central Christian Church gave a reception yesterday afternoon at the home of Mrs. F. C. Gardner. on Broadway. The dining room was deco rated with green. In honor of the day. Mrs. P. II. Jameson and Miss Lucy Jameson, two of the oldest members of tho church, were present as guests of honor. A musicale was given yesterday at Mrs. Claude Grifflths's, at the Blacherne, by Mr?. Griffiths and Mrs. F. E. Matson. for a missionary fund. The programme was given by Mrs. Zelda Soguin Wallace. Miss Clarissa Koons. Mrs. Griffith and Mrs. Matson. Miss McDowell. Miss Todd and Miss Margaret Clark, and included voice, piano and violin music and recitations. In the musical service to-morrow evenlne. at Mayflower Church, the choir will be assisted by Mrs. C. H. Badger and Mrs. S. L. Morrison. The programme will be as fol lows: "Te Deum," in D minor Schafter Quartet. "Abide with Me" Parks Ladies Quartet. "I Heard the Voice of Jesii3 Say"...Harrlss Mrs. Badger. "Art Thou Weary?" Schnecker Quartet. "He that Goeth Forth Weeping" Illllcr Ladles' Quartet. The ItecrullM Stranded. Yesterday Captain Black received a message saying that Harry Asbury, Lawrenceburg, Ind., a member of a detachment sent from here to San Francisco, had disappeared with all the railroad tickets and the men were stranded at Las Vegas, N. M. White's Meeting with Ills Family. Yesterday morning George White, convicted of the murder of Howard Hansing, passed through the city en route to Michigan City. White broke down completely upon meeting his wife, children and brothers, who were at the station to see him. Failed to Destroy Ilcvemie Stamps. Louis Koerner, a South Meridian-street saloon keeper, was yesterday arrested by the federal authorities for failure to comply with the law requiring the destruction of revenue stamps on boxes of cigars, but was released on a j00 bond. THE CZAH WANTS AX IIEIU. Millions of Teople Awnlt ttie Birth of the Czarina's Third Child. St. Louis Tost-DIspatch. One-tenth of the population of the globe Is awaiting the news from the Imperial palace where. If all goes well, the Czaxina of Russia will soon present to her husband their third child. They have at present two little girls. It is said that the treatment discovered by Dr. Schenk has been resorted to in order that nothing may be left undone to supplement the prayers of the faithful that the child may be a boy. The Russian throne needs an heir. If a prince is born, there must be a long regency; If a princess, tho throne will pass to the junior branch of the family. One hundred and thirty millions of people, forming the most diverse, yet the most firmly cemented of empires, devoutly orthodox moujiks of Little Russia in their sheepskin shubas; dashing Cossacks of the Don; Finns of the far north, blinking at their Illimitable snow fields; restless Kirghiz nomads shepherded upon their vast steppes by hussars, only less wild than themselves: slant-eyed Kalmuks of the Baikal; tiny Aleuts of the Kamschatkan peninsula; bearded Mussulmans of Orenburg; the swarming millions of Manchuria, whom the lengthening rails of the Siberian line have brought within the ru!e of the White Czar; the even million Greeks in and out of Greece Itself, who look to the Czar as tho head of their church, and the people of tho great Slav states of the Balkans and of Austria, twenty millions or more who dream under their alien banners of the great panslavlst union of the future all these, profoundly stirred by the crisis In the Russian state, wait for tho tiny, feeble wall of a new-born babe in the St. Petersburg palace. They wait to hear the old court physician speak the word to thrill the wires and make the plains rejoice: "It is a boy!" For the Russian peasant, profoundly religious as he is Intensely loyal, reveres his Czar, his "little father." not only as the Caesar, the visible representative on earth of the empire of Constantlne, but also as the supreme pontiff, the head of the Greek Church. Alexander II. the Czar who was murdered by the Nihi!ists, was a giant In strength. He could bend nn Iron bar with his unaided hands. His jaws, his legs, his sinewy frame, were all of the Herculean order. Tho present Czar Is far otherwise. Ife is a melancholy product of the close Intermarriages between European roj'altles. the result of which is epilepsy, suicide, insanity. When the Czar and Czarina visited Paris In the gifted Paris correspondent of Ivmdon Truth thus described him: "The Czar has Just body enough to maintain and sheathe a high-strung nervous system. The Czar's Impressionable nerves are seldom without the curb. But he cannot when stirred prevent the nervous centers suddenly drawing to themselves all the blood in his body: this makes his pallor striking and brings on a state that ought to, but does not. make him quiver all over like a strongly excited thoroughbred horse. Doctors might say from this that he is a 'case.' He is not. One detects no morbidT ness. " The morbidness was to come. To such a constant condition of nervous tension it was the only possible end. With such a temperament a peasant is merely eccentric. A king, with his vast responsibilities, becomes insane. The very restraint under which he must live but Increases Ms malady. The bow forever bent breaks at last. There Is little left of the sturdy Romanoff in Czar Nicholas but the mutinous nose, the nose of Peter II and Paul I and Catherine. He has slender bones, tlnv hands and feet, a feeble chin hid bv a full beard, pleasant blue eyes, a charming manner. The Czarina is blue-eyed, like her husband, and has a wealth of auburn hair. She is quite as tall as he and seems more robust, but she. too. has a sad heritage of tainted blood. She was the Princess Alixe of Hesse, cranddauchter of Queen Victoria. She inherits her share of the royal taint that made King George III a lunatic and clouded the reason of George IV to a less extent. Another of Queen Victoria's grandchildren, -the young Prince of S.ixe-Coburg-Gotha. has just ended his life In an insane asylum after wasting his manhood in shameless debaucheries. Another strain of royal blood the baby prince or princess will inherita strain as charged with insanity os that of the house of Hanover itself. The Czar i the son of a Danish princess. This prince-.", was one of two daughters of the match-making Queen of Denmark, who wedded one of her tall girls to the future Kivg cf Great Britain, the other to the future Czar of Russia. Beloved as she is. the Princess of Wales Is undeniably eccentric. Her sister, the dowager Empress of Russia and mother of the present Czar, is equally so. The taint of k'nsrs seems to touch queens more pltyinttly. What a melancholy outlook for the poor little babe that may soon open Us eyes upon a life made miserable by the menace of madness, tortured by terror cf Nihilists and weighted by the care of a great empire if it Is a boy! But a boy it may not be. in spite of the great theory cf Schenk. Of Course Xot. Washington Star. "Nrvor allow It to be said that you ever gave n bribe." said the man of high Ideals. "Of course, not." replied the painfully practical person. "You don't want to let anybody know 'about it except the man who not it. Arid he doesn't dare say any-

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WRITES OF THE GIll'ESOME SIGHT IX THE Ct'IlAN' "UO.NEVARD." Jade Levi, of RuhIivIUc, Shot by the Sweetheart of Ml Levi Thirteen Pxttoka Stores Burned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. . HARTFORD CITY, Ind., March 17.-John Nolan, a private In the One-hundred-and-sixtieth Indiana, writing from Cuba to his parents in this city, says In regard to his visit to Havana: "The first place we visited was tho boneyard In the Cristobal Colon Cemetery, about a mile outside of the city. It Is a place about fifty feet deep and one hundred feet square. In this cemetery the people rent a grave, and when the rent becomes delinquent the dead bodies are taken up and thrown in the boneyard. There are said to be 800,000 skeletons in this pit. From here we went to the deadhouse, in which were eight bodies covered with lime, for the purpose of eating the fiesh from the bones. "I also visited the graves of the Maine victims and General Garcia, A photographer from Indianapolis, named Huey, was present and photographed a dead body In a coffin which was about to be burled in the cemetery. The mourners removed the coffin lid and lifted, the head of the cadaver up so ha could get a good view. The dead bodies are buried six and eight In a grave, and there are from twenty-five to thirty funerals a day. Graves are dug in advance and always waiting for the dead." The City Overreached Itself. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RUSH VI LLC, Ind., March 17.The criminal a'ction of the city of Rushville against Joseph Greenfield, manager of Mlnces's clothing and shoe store, has been compromised to the advantage of Greenfield. Harry D. Minces, of Cincinnati, known over Indiana as a promoter of "fire-and-damaged-by-sinoke-only sales," opened a store here about a month ngo. The city has an ordinance against transient stores, and merchants Induced the officials to Invoke Its aid in getting rid of Minces's store. Greenfield was arrested in the absence of Minces, and. being a stranger, ho couid get no one to go on 1ns bond, lie spent one niylit in jail and was lined $10 and costs next day and appealed to the Circuit Court. The ordinance Is not signed by either the mayor or cierk. and the minutes of tho meeting at which it wa3 adopted were not signed by the mayor. This and the fact that Greeniield was not the proprietor of the store left the city In an awkward plight, and It was anxious to compromise the suit. All proceedings against Greenfield are dismissed and costs paid by the city. Green field agrees to bring no action for damages for imprisonment. FatuI Kuniuvii)- for the Smiths. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CARTHAGE, Ind., March 17.-Henry C. Smith and wife were driving down a hill Just northwest of town yesterday, and their horse frightened and ran away. The buggy smashed Into the approach to the bridge, throwing both occupants against the railing and seriously injuring them. Smith's hip received a compound fracture, and he was so badly hurt that he died in a few hours. Mrs. Smith's left leg is broken in one place above the knee and her right leg In two placid above the knee. Her recovery is still doubtful. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are well respected people here, about sixty years of age. and lived on a farm Just north of this place. It is a strange coincidence that Mr. Smith's daughter, living in Cor.nersvihe, dreamed thrte nights ago that hc-r parents were in a runaway and seriously hurt. Unborn Gives $1,HH Bond. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON. Ind., March 17.The arrest of George Osborn, agent of the United States Express Company, of Elwood, has caused a stir In both business and social circles here. Mr. Osborn was the company's agent In Anderson for two years, and a more popular one has never been connected with the office. Public sentiment is overwhelmingly in his tavor. This morning on application before Judge McClurc Osborn was released on bond in the sum of Jl.tXO. Mr. Osborn states that while his position is embarrassing, he Is not Vorrled In the least about being able to prove his entire innocence. He has been in the employ of the company for nine years and states that he has never lost a day or had a black mark to his account. $SOO Windfall for Octoffennrian. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., March 17. Thomas MI11Ikan, an inmate of the Howard county poorhouse, received notice from the Postofflce Department yesterday that a sum of money amounting to about $SX) was due him as a star route mail carrier for service in Kentucky in the fifties. MUlikan drove a mail hack for years before the civil war, but supposed himself fully paid until receiving the notice to-day. He Is eighty-three years old and blind. Five years ago he was sent to the penitentiary for forgery, and while serving time his wife secured a divorce. On his return from prison he went to the poorhouso, tho family refusing to take hlra in again. Jews Made Good IlouRh Illders. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., March 17. Recently a prominent Hebrew of Anderson addressed a letter to Governor Roosevelt, of New York, asking about the services of members of the Rough Riders under his command in the Spanish war in Cuba who were Hebrews. To-day the Governor's letter in reply was received here and he ays: , "My Dear Sir I thank you cordially for your letter. My Rough Riders of Jewish faith showed themselves splendid soldiers and true Americans. One of them I promoted to a lieuu nancy for signal gallantry in battle. Faithfully yours. "T. ROOSEVELT." Fulton to He u Cadet. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., March 17. Scott Fulton. Eon of W. J. Fulton, of this city, received a letter from Congressman George Cromer to-day, stating that he had sent to the War Department his nomination to fill the vacancy to De made in June. 1:0, in the Military Academy, at West Point. This Is the only cppolntment of the kind to be made from the KIghth district and there were many applicants. Fulton is a member of the 1SW graduating class of the Hartford City High School. He has been the captain of the High-school football team two seasons. lluslness Part of Pntoka Dnrns. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PRINCKTON, Ind.. March 17. The little town of Patoka, four miles north of here, was nearly wiped out by fire last night. Thirteen stores were lost. The loss on buildings is $9 and on contents about $7,w. with. no insurance. The fire originated in the rear of a saloon and was well under headway before discovered. It was the work of incendiaries and cttWrs are chasing clews. The town hs's suffered from a large numbi r of tires of incendiary nature within the last six months. But two store buildings are now left in the town of 1,000 Inhabitants. G11 Company to Give Hebntes. SiK'Cial to the lnlianaill Journal. ANDERSON. Ind.. March 17. President J. J. Netterville. of the Citizens' Natural Gas Company, won in his contest with the Fort Wayne Company In his contention for a deduction of kp.s bills on account of gas failure. H. C. r'aul. of Fort Wayne, was here and proposes trt all consumers of thLs city who were sht rt of gas during the cold spell appear at the olfice and make a satisfactory shoeing of fuch shortage, and uion this a rebate will be made. The Fort Wayne Company on its part agrees not to contest such claims, but share its portion of such rebate. Shot Ills Sweethenrt's Father. Ppeclal to the In.ltar.apoll Journal. RUSHVILLE. Ind., March 17.-Riley Wilheim tried to kill Jude Levi, of this city, to-day with a shotgun. He fired one charge at Levi, part of which struck Levi In the head, cutting his scalp. Wllhelm is a suitor for the. hand of Clara Levi, a daughter, and the old man had forbidden Wllhelm to see hh duiiRhtor. The young man also threatened to kill Clara Levi and hirnselj. Wll

helm Is twenty-one years old. WilheJm was on horseback at the time. A warrant is out for his an est.

Takes n. Chance for III Life. Special to the Iniiar.apoiis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind.. March 17. Attorney George M. Ballard has been taken to Chicago to undergo a delicate surgical operation for the removal of tumorous growths. The operation is thought to be the only chance of saving hi life and could not be longer deferred. Advices state that there is about one chance in ten for Mr. Ballard, but he has tho nerve to take the chance. The result of the operation is awaited by hundreds of Andersonians with much anxiety. Ills Wife Did Xot Kill HI in. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELKHART, Ind., March 17. Coroner Eisenbeiss la conducting an autopsy on the body of John Mammon, who died mysteriously Wednesday night, to determine whether death was caused by a blow given by his wife, wno was Irritated because he was brought home by an ofiicer in an apparently intoxicated condition. The officer saw her strike him on the head with a stick of stove wood, but the coroner found death was the result of heart disease. Eloped to Portland. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PORTLAND. Ind.. March 17. D. Warren Harvey, a letter carrier from Lafayette, and Miss Mary A. Smith, of Redkey, the daughter of a wealthy stockholder In a glass factory, were married in this city last night by Rev. Father C. Maujay, the aflair being an eiopement. They had not met for two years, but maintained a steady correspondent and by letter arranged all the details. Harvey came In cn one train and his intended arrived on another. Pendleton Gives Away Franchise. Special to the Indiana poll? Journal. PKNDLtrrON, Ind., March 17. The City Council last night granted a franchise to the Pendioton Water Works and Electric Light Company to put in a water works and electric light system. The combined plant will amonu to j4,;aj. Lnder the terms of the trancMse the city pays a nxed amount to tue) coaipuny lot ligius and nre nydrarts, and aiitr a .enn ot years the plant belongs to the cuy. 'xcere is some opposition. Indianapolis Man for Trustee. Si-eeLd tfc the Indianapolis Journal. Lb BAN ON, Ind., March 17. The creditors of the bankrupt firm of Smith & Dodson. clothing dealers of this city, held a inc-tting heiu to-day and selected Cass Connaway, 01 muianapoiis, as trustee unuer -i,vaj bonus. About thirty-one claims, uitiounting in all to about J)7,5ou, were tiieu una auocd. 'iDe claim of A. C Daily, exauuitor of .tate, for o,(AW was not allowed tor want ot proof. Divorce 011 Heels of Honeymoon. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GKbbNCASTLE, Ind., March 17. A suit for divorce was filed to-day in the Putnam Circuit Court by John 11. James, representative from Putnam county. They were mat ned in June, 1M?, and separated in January. Tho ui legations of the plaintiff are cuei and inhuman treatment and abandonment. Safe Blowers Frightened Away. Specia.1 to the Indianapolis Journal. DANVILLE, III., March 17. The Georgetown, 111., bank was blown open with dynamite last night, but before . the robbers could secure any money they became alarmed and fled. They went irom Dan-, vide ten miles to Georgetown on a hand car. Franchise Through Iloone County. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LEBANON, Ind., March 17. The County Commissioners to-day granted an electric franchise on the Michigan road to the Indianapolis ,& Loganspori Traction Company. This is tho company of which Mr. Marott, of Indianapolis, is one of the proprietors. Killed In Boiler Explosion. Si-eclal to the IndlanapclU Journal. CICERO, Ind., March 17.-Alfred Bennett, of this place, while working at a sawmill fcur miles northeast of town, fell on the saw and was Instantly killed, the accident tesultlng from a boiler explosion. Indiana Obltuury. MUNCIE, Ind.. March 17. John Gough. a young farmer north of this city, was found dead In bed by his parents to-day. The coroner's verdict is that he died of epilepsy. James Wright, one of the oldest citizens of Delaware county, died to-day at his Home in Cammack. He was born in Ohio and came to this county many years ago. Indiana otes. A unique St. Patrick's day ball was given at Warsaw by Mr. and Mrs. N. Straus. About two hundred and fifty Invitations were Issued, the guests appearing in costume. Deforest L. Skinner, president of the First National Bank at Valparaiso, has submitted a proposition to the mayor and City Coun cil offering to pay $10.XO as a bonus for a water works franchise. TO BE TRIED FOR FRAUD. Manipulators of "Discretionary Pools' Known am E. S. Dean Si Co. NEW YORK. March 17. D. B. Kellogg, Samuel Keller and Myron S. Bernard, members of the old bucket shop firm of E. S. Dean & Co., were each held in $2,000 ball In the Court of General Sessions to-day. The three men were charged with acting In conspiracy to defraud several thousand persons throughout the United States who forwarded them money to put in what was known os "discretionary pools." The concern failed, with liabilities over $200,000. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The steamship Etruria, sailing from New York for Europe to-day, will take out SGI,CM) ounces of sliver. The collier Prutus has gone to Mare Island navy yard. San Francisco, preparatory to taking a cargo of coal to Guam. The battle ship Iowa has been ordered to the Union iron works, San Francisco, to have new tubes put in her boilers and condensers. W. F. Rattlgan. aged about forty years, of Pittsburg, committed suicide at Wilmington, Del., yesterday by Inhaling illuminating gas. Four companies of the Second Volunteer Engineers, now at Honolulu, have been ordered to Sn Francisco to be mustered out of the service. The "movement" works of the Welch Clock Manufacturing Company, at Forestville. Conn., were destroyed by fire yetsterday. Loss, $00,000. Oliver Provost was hanged at Port Arthur, Ont.. yesterday. He was executed for the murder of two French swine herders named Carriere and Dehin, on Feb. 10, 1S97. Rev. Augustus Jessup, of Baltimore, has accepted a call to St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Atlanta, Ga. The new rector is at present assisting Rev. J. S. B. Hodges, at St. Paul's. In Baltimore. The women nurses who have been at the Camp Shipp field hospital, at Anniston. Ala., were discharged yesterday. Orders were also received, directing that the field hospital be closed Monday and the patients transferred to the regimental hospitals. The patients, who are few in number, are convalescent. The hospital corps Is ordered to proceed to Savannah next Monday. At a meeting of the Eastern Bar Iron Association it was unanimously agreed to adopt the Western scale of extras. This action is very Important, as it not only secures uniformity on the American markets, but will obviate confusion in the export trade. No change was made as regards prices, but the new list Is equivalent to an advance, varying according to specification of sizes, the average being in favor of manufacturers. 3Iovements of Stenmers. QUEENSTOWN. March 17. The British steamer Lucania. which arrived this evening from New York, reports speaking at noon, off Brow Head, the overdue British ship Carnavon Bay. Captain Griffiths, from Tacoma Sept. 17 for Queenstown. BALTIMORE. Md.. March 17. Arrived: Munchen. from Bremen. QUEENSTOWN. March 17. Arrived: Luennia. from New York. GIBRALTAR. March 17. Sailed: Kaiser Wllhelm, for New York. BREMEN. March 17. Arrived: Trave. from New York. LIVERPOOL. March 17. Sailed: Taurlc, for New York. NEW YORK, March 17. Arrived: Palate, from Hamburg.

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ARRIVAL OF TRAPOUT MEADE WITH 3IOXKV FOR ClIIATS. Gen. Lope Reccio to Be Appointed Civil Governor of the Province of Piiiar Del Rio. HAVANA. March 17. The United States transport Meade, formerly Berlin, having on board $3,000,000 for the payment of the Cuban troops, previous to their being disbanded, according to the agreement arrived at between Robert Porter, President McKlnley's representative, and Gen. Maximo Gomez, commander-in-chief of the Cuban army, arrived here at 10 a. m. to-day, es corted by the United States cruiser Chicago. Governor General Brooke will to-morrow appoint the Cuban general. Lope Reccio, who, with his troops, laid down arms last December, to the post of Civil Governor of the province of Puerto Principe, on the recommendation of Brig. Gen. Louis H. Carpenter, military commander of the department of Puerto Trlncipe. Private Bannister, of Company B. Eighth Regiment, was shot and seriously wounded last night by John Carter, owner of a small cafe at the foot of the Prado. Carter, who was arrested, alleges that Bannister Insulted him. Petitions from the various wardst, signed by two thousand property owners, have been forwarded to President McKlnley. They describe Havana's needs in the matter of sewerage and pavement from a sanitary standpoint and ask the President to allow the City Council to ratify the contracts to this end and awarded under Spanish rule. General Brooke visited the palace yesterday. It is said that the repairs to that building will be completed by the middle of April, when the governor general will move his headquarters there. The Cuban generals have resolved. It Is said, to adopt a middle course. It is pointed out that they consider it their duty to return to their commands in order to preserve concord. Their action in the matter was unexpected, and it Is asserted by those who are familiar with the plans of the generals, that the latter will use the'r influence with the Cuban troops to rescind the power vested by the voters in the members of the Cuban Military Assembly, thus obtaining the deposition of many of the members and having the Assembly so weakened as to make it inefficient. It is claimed that the generals' inliuence with the troops is so great that they will have little difficulty In accomplishing this result. Brigadier General Edward B. Wllliston. military governor of the province of Pinar del Rio, will leave to-morrow morning and rroceed Immediately to Fort Henry to Join his regiment, the Sixth United States Ar tillery. General Henry C. llasbrouck, commanding the Second Brigade or the fcecond Division of the Seventh Army Corps, will succeed him as military governor, having left for Tinar del Rio city to-day. General Willlston received a dispatch from Washington asking him if he desired to Join his ltgiment and go to the Philippines, and he Immediately answered In the artimative. His administration In the province since he succeeded General Davis has been very successful and his departure Is regretted by civilians and officers alike. The appointment of General llasbrouck Is temporary-. In view of the possibility that General Davis may return. Dr. Gulllermo Dolz. who was recently ap pointed civil governor of the city of Pinar del Rio, Is a popular man and highly esteemed by the Americans. Just now he is actively engaged in establishing In conjunction with the military authorities a Cuban rural police force on which will be represented tho twenty-one municipalities In the nrovinee. The long distance telephone service, which will Drobablv be installed between the nrovinces and will connect with the munlci palltles, will help In the mobilization of the ponce in case or an emergency ana win certainly be a great help to commerce. Capt. Ambrose Hlggins. of the signal service, in the province of lanar del Rio. has success fully broken in a number of Cuban telegraph operators, who can handle English messages and also receive by sound, thus retaining in employment many who would otherwise be discharged, and in addition materially strengthened the provincial telegraph serv ice. In case of the recall or muster out of the American operators Captain Higglns will undoubtedly be retained in the service for a time at least. The United States transport Thomas, for merly the Minnewaska. arrived here this morning, and to-morrow morning at j o'clock the Two-hundred-and-second New York Volunteers will take train at Guanajay for Havana, embark immediately on arrival here and sail for the United States by the Thomas in the evening. The health and spirit of the command are excellent. The new Ward line steamer Havana, which has been chartered for this special purpose, will sail to-morrow for Savannah with the Second Louisiana Volunteers, the regiment breaking camp at Buena Vista at 10 o'clock and marching to the city. Sixteen steamers have been chartered by the quartermaster's department to transport troops from Cuba to the united States. Thts afternoon Governor General Brooke was waited upon by Rev. Mr. Kent and Drs. Hubbell. Cottrell and Kent, who conferred with him as to the best method for prosecuting Red Cross work in Cuba, He Eromised to give them all the assistance In is power, and advised them personally to visit the towns, suggesting the names of several where Red Cross institutions might be established In the care of Cubans that would materially heln Cuban hospitals el ready established but lacking resources. Of the latter there are many, and heretofore the efforts or civilians have been principally directed to maintaining the military hos pltals. The first load of Red Cross hospital supplies Is expected next week, when opera tlons will bo actively undertaken at once. SIMJKT AT SANTIAGO. St. 1'ntrlek'M Day Celebrated by the Jockey Clul wltlt IlncIuK SANTIAGO DE CUBA, March 17.-Wear-crs of the green were much In evidence In Santiago to-day. The St. Patrick's day meeting of the Santiago Jockey Club proved a great success. The weather was fine and the event was the all-absorbing topic of talk among Cubans, more than 5,0 of whom witnessed the races. Of theso there were nine, the programme being well carried out. Music was furnished by the band of the Fifth regular infantry. The most Interesting event of the day was the fifth race for the general's cup, half mile, for horses entered and ridden by officers of the department. The cup was presented by General Leonard Wood, honorary president of the club. Eight started, end there wa3 considerable rivalry among the different officers engaged. After an exciting contest the race was won by Dolly, owned by Lieut. Normeyle, of the Fifth regular Infantry, and ridden by Lieut. Hamilton, the sc-cond at the finish being Roosevelt, owned und ridden by Captain Shelley, of the Fifth 1mrrunes. The third race, for the Ward line purse, half mile, horses entered by members of the Cosmopolitan Club, Nautical Club and San Ctrlos Club, was won by Captain Shelley's Lion. There were two muly reces, one for the "Den" stakes, for mules ridden by government teamsters or packers, in which the prizes were presented by Captain Scott, Captain Judson and Lieut. Matthew E. Hanna, and the other for the Venus Cafe stakes, quarter of a mile for mules ridden by sailors of the United States survey steamer Eagle. There were six entries in the latter race, and the contest proved very diverting to the Cubans. There was considerable private betting during the day. The horses entered showed a gre-at improvement uion those of the Washington's birthday meeting. In fact, nearly everybody had put his animal through a course of training, and some of the horses were so much better as to be scarcely recognizable. A band of twenty bandits has been rousing great trouble In the neighborhood of San Luis, holding up merchants and stealing I? Makes the food more o a 1 tAKtma

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Private Robert Jnnkley. Company H, Third Immune, gunshot, murder. RESIGNED TO HER FATE Mn. riaee, Who "Will lie Kleetroentedl Mext Week, Sow Trust In God. NEW YORK, March 17; Warden Sage, of Sing Sing Prison, has sent out the Invitations to the witnesses who will be present at the execution of Mrs. Martha Place for the murder of her steinlaughter, Ida Place. Jt is generally understood the execution will take place on Tuesday at about 11 a. m. The warden said to-day that Mn. Place had passed a quiet night and seemed to bo resigned. She lias now given up all hope and when her pplrltual adviser, Rev. Dr. Cole, of Yonkers, left her last evening she assured him that she would place her trust In God. She has had little appetite sine she learned Governor Roosevelt's decision yesterday that the law would have to taka Its course, and tdie ate sparingly of the breakfast which was sent to her apartments this morning. She has written a number of letters to her fifteen-year-old con, who is adopted in a family In Newark. The boy has not answered any of the letters, although his foster parents allowed him to visit his mother after her arrest for tho murder in Brooklyn. By order of Governor Roosevelt the execution of Mrs. Place will be conducted as privately as possible. There will bo present only the required number of doctors, including one female physician, the warden's deputies, a woman attendant for Mrs. I'lace. who will adjust the electrode at the leg and a limited number of newspaper men, possibly but two. The warden haa secured a woman who will attend Mrs. Place as she is strapped to the chair. The removal of hair from the back of the woman's bead where tho electrode mut-t be placed will probably not be done until everything Is prepared fop tlte execution and Just before she is taken from her cell to the execution chambr. viiivki:ks ix icaxsas. A IVevr England YIevr of a Humorous Leslnlutlve Proposition. Boston Advertiser. A bill has leen Introduced In the Kanu legislature to provide for the apinintmeiit of . commission to insect the whiskers of Kansas citizens and to supervise the whisker-growing industry In that State. Opinions ar oivided violently In Kannas over the bill, some politicians claiming that it Is a violation of the liberties of a brave and generous people, while others' assert that tho measure la a Just and equitable- movement for the protection of one of the growing1 Industries of the State. Certainly the culture of whiskers has been for many ye-ars the Inalienable right of leading statesmen of Kansas. The defeat of Ingalls by Peffer marked an era In history at Topeka. Mr. Peffer won, not by a neck exactly, hut by a chin that was cov-ere-d by a luxurious growth of flowing ripples and cascades of whiskers. throuRli which the winds sighed In admiration. When Mr. PcfTer came to Washington, even the Senate pages spoke of him admiringly, not as "the great fctatesman of th prairies'," but simply, solemnly and rcverentlv as "his whiskers." For a time no politician with a beard that weighed less than seventeen ounces could hope for political success in Kansas. In a State where whiskers stand for statesmanship the Importance of a proper state suierviion for whiskers must be eelfapparent. Kansas thinks eo much of Ufa insurance inrpfctlon that Kansas agent mav cotno to the East and charge about llK) per hour for their valuable services merely in writing a report that will allow in uranva companies to do business in the Populist State-. If such valuable and expensive men, are none too good to be compelled to iH up at the hotels patronized by the money devil, merely In the interests of seeing that Insurance comiKinles prottta are kept down, shall the State of Kansas dare to ignora the proud and luxuriant whisker industry? No! The bill must be enacted at once. Delays aro as dangerous and as ierlloui as they are Insulting to the proper pride of the Populist prairies. An lnspector of. whiskers (with a salary of $00,CM) a year, to be paid by all hair-restorer companies doing business in Kansas) should be appointC' before another week pae. No manufacturer of combs and brushes should bo allowed to do business In Knnsaa until he has paid a license fee of $10.0i and has had his books examined by agents who will charge at least JO an hour for their services ani collect mileage and hotel expenses in addition. Tho money power must not be al lowed to beard Kansas with Impunity! P.NEl.MATIC 1IOIIM2 COIXAIU A "Wonderful Invention Which la Al ready on the Market. Philadelphia Inquirer. An Inquirer reporter was yesterday Kjveni an opportunity to see the practical workln? of the new pneumatic horse collar, which is being manufactured and placed in ths market bv the United States Pneumatio Horse Collar Company, of New York. Thu collar, which 1 aptly deerited s V-in t the horse what the pneumatlc-tlrcd blcycla Is to the bicyclist, has been In tife on tha harness of Truck D. of the Philadelphia fira department, since Jan. 22 last, and in that time, so Foreman Berry declared, the tniclc had gone to a greater number of fires than ever before In its history for a similar period. Notwithstanding this the collar hal stcod the Mrflin even better than the ordinary horse collar, while the comfort cf ths truck horses had been increased and their work lightened twofold. The new collar is light, durable and na more expensive than the edd-style collar. The fact that the old-time padding of hard leather and straw or hair, uncomfortable and une.lar.tie-. producing gall Fpots andl Fores, is replaced by soft elastic air cushions, make? it a marvel of Its kind, allowing it to adjust lt?elf to the shni of every horpe upon which it may be placed. Th collar Is patented In the United Slates nnl a nurr.tr of other countries, and a limited amount of additional stock In the company manufacturing is to be placed cn the market at once throuph William A. Mears A Co.. 7OO-T01 Itnd Titl building. thl city, the money to be used in providirc additional facilities made necessary by the rapidly growing demand for the collar. A number of the larue't brewing firms In Now York, the American Express Company, and several other b!g uers of horfe flesh have already eouliintd or are nrenurinff to cuutii their st a Men with It. BtftCSDW(S V delicious and wholesome pyr n co.. hf vcr.