Indianapolis Journal, Volume 50, Number 302, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 October 1900 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1900.

street. I reeled and fell unconscious. An ambulance took me to St. Joseph's Hosjital. wh re l recovered. The surgeon said 1 hal lxen drugged. A story Is told of McAlistcr's adventures at Hot Springsi. Arle, where he ppent some vfks three years ago. He was nearly lynched, according to the story, for the name practices which have brought him to Jail In this city. He had followed a respectable woman one Jay In a carriage and made an Insulting proposal to her. The insult Warne known and a crowd chased McAlixter. threatening to lynch him. Another life may be added to the heavy pcore of Jennie Bosschleter's murderers. The murdered girl's mother; who has been prost rated with grief oveY her bereavement, has become seriously ill. It wassald at her home to-day that she la unable to partake of nourishment, and is fading away day by day. The wife of George J. Kerr, one of the prisoners. is also seriously ill. Her child, when born, was dead. Site hope?, if she recovers, to leave Pateron and the disgrace her husband's actions have brought on her, and to makf her home with relatives in New Yrk. The youns girl whom William A. Death, another of tho prisoner?, married but a few weeks ago. has had to go back to work In the silk mills. Th3 Indignation of the people of Paterson still runs high. They are not satisfied that thf prisoner should wait until January to be tried and with the apparently snail-like progress being made by the prosecution. OHIO IlIVEIl MYSTERY.

TJoCy of Mia Cmiha Seghmeyfr Found Floating In the "Water. PITTSBURG. Oct. 28. The mystery connected with the finding cf the body of Miss Emma Seghrneyer floating in the Ohio river, opposite Glenfleld, yesterday, deepens a3 investigations proceed. Miss Seghrneyer, who was twenty-eight years of age and of good family, left the home of her mother at Glenfleld on Oct. 19 to visit an aunt at Sewickley. The mother, supposing her daughter was with the aunt, suspected nothing wrong until the body was found. She say!; there was no known cause why her daughter should commit suicide. She was a faithful member of the church, engaged to be married, and apparently happy. Foul play in the case is indicated by the fact that the body of the young woman was found in the water on the opposite sid3 of the river from her home, while the stage of water since her disappearance has been so low that it would be almost Impossible for the current to carry the body across the stream. In addition to this the face and head of tho victim was badly battered m much so that the men who took the corpse from th river failed to recognize Miss Seghrneyer, though they had been acquainted with her for years. The coroner id making a searching investigation. EXPLOSION IN A CHUECH. Interior of the I'dlfloe "Wrecked by Acetylene Cns and Man Hurt. CHICAGO, Oct. 2S. An explosion of acetylene gas that was to be used for a Btereopticon entertalnJfcont wrecked the interior of the First Presbyterian Church In Austin to-night, and the operator, George W. Leitch, recently returned from missionary work In India and Ceylon, lost his right hand and, suffered other injuries. The accident occurred while preparations were being made for a stereoptlcon lecture by Mr. Leitch on "Ceylon and India." The gas was In two cylindrical tubes about four icet long, one or the tanks sprung a leak, and the light that was In the lantern Ignited it, causing: the explosion. ITANY ARE PERISHING. (CONTLUDKD FROM FIRST PAGE.) Ron district (Klondike), 516.371.4SS.13; Washington. Oregon, Idaho and foreign gold coin. $125.762.80. Since Oct. 24 the office has received an additional $l'3,0OO from Nome and S30.0UÜ from other points. The probabilities are that before the season closes Nome will have furnished J3.CKJo.000. Latest Arrival front the Klondike. SEATTLE. Wash., Oct. 28. Tho steamer Dolphin arrived from Skagway to-day with 120 passengers and $200,000 in gold from the Klondike. The Klor.dlkers came up the river on the Zealandle, leaving Dawson Oct. 14. The river was then full of float ing ice for 100 miles and the weather was bitterly cold. Two small steamers left two Ua3's later and are now wind-bound on Lake Labarg. River navigation is over tor the season. Idaho Blue Stem Wheut Sold. LEWISTON, Idaho, Oct, 28. Twenty-five thousand bushels of blue stem wheat were sold here yesterday for Chicago delivery. The first shipment was made over the Northern Pacific to-day. The local quota tion on blue stem is 43 cents, and the freight rate to Chicago is C cents per bushel. The seller does not give the price received, but it Is said to be 2 or 3 cents better than the market price. This shipment is the first made from the extreme Northwest to Chicago this season. Kentucky River Steamer Darned LOUISVILLE. Oct. 2S. The stern-wheel steamer Falls City caught fire in a state room at 3 o'clock this morning and the pilot house, texas and cabin were burned. The loss is JS.ÖO0. The boat was Insured and will bo rebuilt at once. She cost $40.OUO. belongs to the Kentucky River Packet and Towboat Company, and plies between Louisville and Frankfort. The origin of the hre Is not definitely known. WEATHER FORECAST. Showers To-Day, but Fair To-Morrow Southeasterly Wind. WASHINGTON, Oct. 2S. Forecast for Monday: For Ohio and Indiana Showers on Mon day; Tuesday fair; . fresh southeasterly v.inds. For Illinois Generally fair Monday, ex cept rain and cooler In northern portion. Tuesday fair; fresh westerly winds. Local Observation on Sunday. Bar. Ther. R.H. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7a,m..3U0 54 7S North. Clear. .00 7 p. m..2y.97 70 41 South. Pt.cldy. .00 Maximum temperature, 76; minimum temperature, S3. Following Is a comparative statement of the mean temperature and total precipita tion tor Oct. : Temp. Pr. Normal 43 .10 Mean 61 .00 Departure 13 .10 Departure since Oct. 1 213 Departure since Jan. 1 jn Z.VJ Plus. C. F. R. W A P PE N II A N S . Local Forecast Official. Yeaterdny'a Temperature. Stations. Min. Max. 7 p. m Atlanta. Ga. Bismarck. N. so D....... 56 CS CO 72 TS W 7S CI 82 42 7$ 70 80 &6 SO 44 Buffalo, N. Y.. Calgary. N. W. T 2; 72 W Chicago. 111. ... Cairo. I1L Cheyenne, Wyo. Cincinnati. O. .. Concordia, Kan. Uavenoort. Ia. 54 62 2S 62 CO CG Des Moines. la Galveston. Tex Helena, Mont Jacksonville, Fla Kansas City, Mo Little Rck. Ark........ Marquette. Mich Memphis. Tenn 76 40 72 C4 CO C2 C4 74 74 Nashville. Tenn 5$ 74 74 LS 52 New Orleans, La.. New York city North Platte, Neb. Oklahoma. O. T.... M GO C2 74 GO a &o 54 64 bO CO 76 70 12 ii 40 CI CG SA Omaha, Neb. Pittsburg. Pa Qu Appelle, N. W. T... Rapid City, S. D Salt Lake City 4 42 50 44 72 52 ÜS 6i 71 5a 50 42 St. I-rOUlS. Mo C2 St. Paul, Minn prince Id. Ill 3 hprinnrid. Mo CJ Vicksburg. Mls M Washington, D. C ..

BRYAN GOES TO CHURCH

AXD IS ALMOST MODIIGD BY A CUOWD OF (.THIOL'S pcoplk. Then He Tnken n Nap, and Later Start on Another Republican Vote-MnkiiiK Expedition. NEW YORK. Oct. 2S.-Mr. and Mrs. Bryan breakfasted at 10 o'clock In their hotel with ex-Governor William J. Stone and several others. After breakfast the party adjourned to Mr. Bryan's room, where the candidate received Representa tive Richardson and several local politi cians. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan then left the hotel and walked through Madison square to the Madison-avenue Presbyterian Church. When Mr. Bryan first appeared on the street there were very few people about, but those who were there Instantly recognized him, and with many a shout followed him to the door of the church. Yale and Harvard boys who came to New York with Mr. Bryan on Saturday were also at church, and occupied seats a short distance In front of Mr. Bryan. Dr. Parkhurst, the pastor, was not in formed of Mr. Bryan's presence, and his sermon was an exposition of a portion of the Scriptures. Word was evidently passed through the congregation during the serv ice that Mr. Bryan wa3 in the church, for when the benediction was pronounced almost the entire congregation made a dash for the door and filled the sidewalk and street In front of the building. This crowd was also augmented by those who were on the street and in the square, and by the time the party reached' the hotel 2,000 people were crowded about them. So dense was. the crowd, in fact, that it became nec essary for several park policemen to go in advance of Mr. Bryan and clear a way for him through the crowd. As he disappeared in the entrance of the hotel the crowd cheered. Mr. Bryan slept In his room from 1 o'clock until 5. when he dined. From the time he finished dinner until 9 o'clock to night, when he left the Hoffman House. there was a steady stream of callers. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan were both kept busy shak ing hands. Among the callers were Con gressman William M. Sulzer, Frank Camp bell. James K. McGuire, John A. Mason, ex-Governor William J. Stone and Con gressman James R. Richardson. Promptly at 9 o'clock Mr. Bryan and party loft the hotel for the Grand Central Depot, where they took the train for Albany. A squad of twenty-two policemen, two roundsmen and a sergeant kept the crowd back, and a platoon of twenty mounted policemen escorted Mr. Bryan to tne depot. Mr. Bryan a private car, the Rambler. was attached to the New York Central train which was scheduled to leave at 9:20 and had on board besides Mr. and Mrs. Bryan, Len II. Wager, sergeant-at-arms of the Democratic State committee, who was m charge of the train. As the train pulled out with Mr. and Mrs. Bryan on the rear platform there were more cheers. Mr. Bryan stops first at Albany and comes back to-morrow, arriving at Weehawken at 6:23 n. m., where he will be met bv Representative Sulzer and driven to Hamilton Fish Park for a ten-minute speech, and thence to the Academy of Music in Brooklyn, arriving there at 7:40, where he is to address a meeting. He will speak also at several other places in Brooklyn during the evening. Commercial Traveler See McKinley. CANTON, Oct. 2S. President McKinley attended church this morning. Later the President and Mrs. McKinley and Captain and Mrs. MeAVilllams went to the country home of Mrs. Marie S. Saxton for lunch. Mrs. Saxton Is an aunt of the ladles. A few social callers were received during the day and evening, Including an impromptu delegation of . commercial travelers, who called to shake hands with the President. They were received in the reception room, and a few pleasant words were exchanged. Eleven different States were represented In the party, from New England to the Pa cific. Rot'Mfcvelt IIa a Quiet Day. BINGIIAMTON, N. Y., Oct. .-Gov ernor Roosevelt spent the day very quietly here, taking a long drive with Mrs. Roosevelt during the day and going to the Episcopal Church In the evening. The trip to-morrow Includes but three stops, Cortland, where the party stays for an hour. Ithaca, where a three hours stop will be made, and Elmlra, where the party will spend the night. OBITUARY. Prof. Frederick Max Malier, of Oxord University. Prof. 31uller Dead. LONDON, Oct. 2S. The Right Honorablo Friedrich Max Müller, corpus professor of comparative philology at Oxford Univer sity, died to-day at 12:23 p. m. His disease was an affection of the liver. Until ten days ago he was able to continue writing bis autobiography, dictating to his son. He was perfectly conscious until this morning. Frequently during his illness dispatches of inquiry were received from Emperor William. A sketch of Prof. Muller s life was print ed in the Journal of Sunday. Col. John M. Fleming. KNOX VI LLE, Tenn., Oct. 2S. Col. John M. Fleming, aged sixty-eight years, and for many years editor of the old Knoxville Tribune and later of the Sentinel, died to-night at the East Tennessee Hospital for the insane, where he has been for the past seven years. He was a noted Confed erate soldier and a prominent politician. William II. Cunningham. CHICAGO, Oct. 2S. William II. Cunning ham, for many years manager of the Western department of the Fire Association of Philadelphia, died here to-day, aged sixtytwo years. FRENCH PROGRAMME. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGR.) Senate, to pass a bill, of effacement as "a lneasure necessary to assure definitive ap peasement. "While these Internal events are being accomplished' he continued, "our position is being strengthened abroad, where we are supported, when necessary, by the valor of our army. Our policy has regained for us our former authority and success. We have shown ourselves determined to abdicate nothing of our rights, and we are convinced that aggressive blustering has nothing in common with true patriotism. When the exposition opened the government deemed that, after undergoing such violent shocks, the country would best be left to taste the benefits of a needful truce. This period of peace has been filled with glorious work. No more fruitful ideas were ever agitated than came to the front In the exposition congresses." AS TO llAMv INSPECTION. Not In the Tower of Dank Examiners to Detect Alvord Cases. New York Evening Post. Defalcations of bank officers and clerks are not so uncommon as to excite great surprise, but when they rise to the magnitude of $700.000, they rather take nway one's breath. Yet it is perhaps easier to mystify the accounts and make away with that sum In a bank which constantly handles fifty million dollars than 570.000 in one . which has only five million to look after. Still mor difficult would It be to spirit away $7.000 from a small bank in a small town where the eyes of the superior officer can see everything that goes on, and where even the neighbors can discern any signs betokening that a bank clerk is living beyond his salary. Every bank defalcation, large or small. ought to teach a lesson, ought to make the next one more difficult of accomplishment, ought to contribute something to the protection of the banking business and of society. The American Bankers' Association has for years maintained a bureau for the detection and prevention of forgery and sneak thieving. By careful study of the methods, mental processes, and haunts of the rascals who- "work" the banks from

the outside, the bureau has largely reduced tho amount of successful fraud3 and has landed in the penitentiary most of the fraternity who perpetrate them. The Alvord case and the Schreiber case chow that there Is work for a bureau which shall apply Itself to frauds hatched inside of the banks also. It is easy to say that this is a duty which each bank must perform for itself. But suppose it is not done. Is it not cheaper to have the necessary work done, or at least mapped out. systematically by the association, than not done at all? Some people think that this is the duty of the national bank examiners. Accordingly, whenever a defalcation occurs, especially if it has been of long continuance, there is a general disposition to censure the examiners and to put blame on them for not detecting the shortage at its beginning. But the truth is, that system of public examinations was never intended to deal with frauds concealed by false bookkeeping. To go beyond the bookkeeping requires personal Inspection of all the assets, and not only that, but investigation of the solvency of the bank's debtors. A few years ago a bank failure occurred at Albany, where the books showed the proper surplus, and where the bills receivable corroborated the books; but the bills were themselves fictitious. The makers of them were of straw. Obviously, a bank examiner who should pursue his investigations beyond the showing of the books might use all his time on one or two banks. It may happen that some very large investments easily tested will attract his eye. and lead him to a special Investigation which may have Important consequences, but as a rule he has to assume that the books are correctly kept, and that the assets are what the books show them to be. Such an assumption may be erroneous, but generally it is the condition upon which alone he can get through his work at all.

NOT ALL WILL RESUME SOKitAL ANTHRACITE MINES TO ItEJIAIN IDLE FOR A TIME. Nearly All Lnrsre Companies, llovrcver, Have Compiled Tilth Demands, and AVI II Start To-Duy. HAZLETON. Fa., Oct. 2S.-The Lehigh and Wllkesbarre Coal Company, operating the Audenrled, Honey Brook and Green Mountain collieries in this district, has not yet complied with the demands of the anthracite miners. It is said the company will grant the concessions by Nov. 1, when work will be resumed. There will be no resumption of work at the Mllnesville col liery, which is operated by the A. S. "Van Wickle estate. Owing to an agreement with tht Pensylvanla Railroad officials they say they cannot afford to grant an increase of 10 per cent., and if the men return to work they will have to be contented with the old rate of wages. The Van Wickle Company has granted the Increase at its other collieries at Coleralne and Beaver Meadow. It is said that Calvin Pardee, owner of the Lattlmer mines, will not take back those men who struck before the mines were closed down by 800 marchers some weeks ago. The firemen and brakemen on the Dela ware, Susquehanna & Schuylkill Railroad have submitted a number of demands to the railroad ofilcials. The former demand that thirty hours constitute three shifts. and that they be paid $7 for the same, instead of $5.10. which they receive at pres ent. The brakemen demand an increase of 10 per cent. In their wage. The engineers have no grievances. This railroad Is owned by Coxo Bro3. & Co., which oper ates six collieries In this region, and was built for the purposo of hauling coal from Us mines to the tracks of the Lehigh Val ley railroad. In the "Wyoming: Valley. WILKES BARRE, Pa., Oct. 28.-A11 the coal companies in the Wyoming valley. with a few exceptions, have now posted notices granting their employes the 10 per cent. Increase asked for by the Scranton convention. The exceptions are a few Individual operators who do not employ many hands; but it Is said that when the men employed at these collieries report for work to-morrow they will be told that they will receive the wages paid by other companies. The Kingston Coal Company had notices posted to-day granting th? increase. This company employes 2,200 men, and was the last of the big individual concerns in the valley to grant the in crease. The officials of the Susquehanna Company had a conference with their em ployes on Saturday night and agreed to pay the advance. President Mitchell and the executlv-3 board of the United Mine Workers vis ited Pittston this afternoon. They were received by a large crowd, and there was the greatest enthusiasm. Addresses were made by President Mitchell, Fred Dllcher and others. Mr. Mitchell told all tho miners to go to work to-morrow. He also congratulated them on their good behavior during the strike. BRYAN AND CROKERISM. The Candidate Has Given It the Right Hand of Fellowship. Harper's Weekly. Two weeks ago we invited Mr. Bryan, who seemed really in need of an issue large enough to be paramount all over the country, to study Crokerism, and after a through consideration of its intricacies and real significance to take his stand upon one side or tho other of the questions In volved. We apprised him of the fact that In Crokerism he would find at last a ques tion large enough to cover every inch of territory in the United States, with suf ficient surplus to reach to the Philippine Islands on the one side, to Cuba and Porto Rico on the other. We told him in simple terms that as the issue unfolded itself to him, as it surely must do if he would study it Intelligently, and with a mind unbiased by personal considerations, he would see how, in its essence, it is a sort of omnium gatherum in which Imperialism, free riot. discredited courts, any kind of money, all kinds of money, morality (public and prl vate). government monopoly, private own ership of public franchises, public proprie torship of private business all conceivable questions that can possibly come up for discussion in a political campaign are di rectly involved. In order that Mr. Bryan should not be deceived Into thinking that Crokerism Is merely a local issue, we pub lished at the same time an article, the truth of which has not been denied, because It cannot be. showing the cost of Tammany Hall in flesh and blocd. We showed where that flesh and blood In some part came from, and therefore in Just what respect the existence of this gTeat New York voting trust - Is a menace to the welfare of every home in this country. We stated to Mr. Bryan that he would find the theme significant enough, once he had mastered It, to consume every moment of his speak ing time from then until the 6th of November, and we added that whether he touched upon it publicly or not. he would better study it closely, because sooner or later It was bound to obtrude Itself upon him, and he should be prepared either to give to It the outstretched hand of fellow ship or to administer that stinging rebuke to which It Is co richly entitled. Mr. Bryan appears to have accepted the Invitation, and he has openly chosen the side upon which he must stand or fall Sooner than was generally expected, Crokerism obtruded itself upon him, and the candidate spoke. - "Great is Tammany!" he cried at Cooper Union on the evening or Oct. 17, "and Croker is its prophet!" he added, with a vehemence wheh showed his measure of the debt he owes to the autocrat of New York city. Thej Is nothing equivocal about this It U a square, outspoken declaration, and from this time on we have the candidate's own authorization for declaring the alliance between himself and Crokerism to be final and complete. This unblushing defiance of public sentiment but confirms the constantly growing impression that Mr. Bryan realizes at last the Impossibility of his election 10 me presidency. To Cure a Cold In One Dar Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tableti. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature Is on each box. 25c.

STORM IN THE NORTH

SEVEN AND A QUARTER INCHES OF RAINFALL AT LA CROSSE, WIS. Winona, Minn., Visited by Electrical Storni and Alo Downpour of )taiu-Ilnllun)H Suffered. LA CROSSE. Wis., Oct. 2S. In the twenty-four hours preceding 8 o'clock this morning seven and one-quarter inches of rain fell in this city. . The storm was the severest in this city, although it was generally felt within a radius of fifty miles of here. The Milwaukee road suffered much damage to Its tracks and no trains have arrived from the east for twent-iour hours. The La Crosse river marshes are flooded and most of the hay that escaped the last Hood has been destroyed. On H. Goodard's farm the house was undermined and the family sought refuge in a tree, where they remained until rescued to-day. The Green Bay road has a washout on the marshes, which will require some days to repair. At Ilokah the dam in Lake Como broke to-day and the lake has almost disappeared. There Is a good deal of damage throughout the country. Fire caused by electricity damaged the La Crosse knitting works to the extent of several thousand dollars. Many Washouts. SPARTA, Wis., Oct. 2S. The heavy rains of yesterday and last night have raised the streams In this vicinity, and caused much damage to bridges and other property. Many washouts on railroads are reported. No trains are expected in before to-morrow night. Severe Electrical Storm. WINONA. Minn., Oct. 23. This city and vicinity was visited to-day by the worst storm in many years at this time of year, lightning doing considerable damage in the city, and railroads suffered considerable loss on account of washouts and high water. The Chicago & Northwestern had a thousand feet of track washed out near Rockland. Wis., and a thousand near West Salem, Wis. The Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul road had two washouts. All passenger trains between here and Milwaukee are badly delayed. FLOOD IN HAWAII. Over Nine Inches of Rainfall In n Rrlef Space of Time. Correspondence of the Associated Press. HONOLULU, Oct. 20. The heaviest rain storm which has occurred here within two years broke at 7 o'clock Tuesday night. For half an hour the rain fell In torrents. and within a short while the streets were Impassable. The rainfall in Nuuanu valley, about twenty-seven miles from Honolulu, was 8.13 inches, and it varied slightly near the city. The Nuuanu stream was soon swollen beyond Its boundaries and came sweeping down with increasing speed. It broke its banks and washed every movable object away. Acres of the town on both sides of the river were submerged to a depth of three feet, and some of the houses near the bank were almost washed away, the Chinese being driven away in wild haste. The water covered the floors two feet deep in some cases. A good-sized por tion of River street was washed away, and the bridge leading to the Palama district was carried off. The heaviest rainfall in the city proper was 4.17 inches, while the heaviest on the island occurred on the north side of the mountains, being 9.10 inches. A native workman was drowned. The official returns of the registration in all the Islands of the territory have been received. Only 11,210 persons registered in the group for the coming election. This is 2,000 less than the registration during the last year under the monarchy. By islands the registration is as follows: Ha waii, 2.717; Maul. 2.058; Oahu. Including Hon olulu. 5,704; Kaulal. (J3., Hawaiian postmasters who held office under the republic are endeavoring to have the United States redeem several thousand dollars worth of Hawaiian stamps. Under the laws of the republic the postmasters purchased their stamps outright. When annexation came no provision was made for redeeming these stamps. The United States collier Justin left for Guam Oct. 16. INTERVIEW WITH MR. BRYAN. Gralnn of Wisdom While Shaving and Between Changed Issues. Minneapolis Journal. FLI-UP-THE-CREEK, N. T., Oct. 19. I had a long talk with Mr. Bryan this morn ing while ho was shaving and changing issues. "I have a great deal of trouble with my stock of Issues," said Mr. Bryan to me as he ran a skewer through the free silver issue and put it In the refrigerator. "The porter mislaid my imperialism issue down the road there somewhere and I had to use a trust issue in an imperialism town. That was embarrassing of course. Cioker telegraphed ahead for a bunch of fresh issues, and we will get them now at every express office along the road. We can't keep them long, you know, for we're run ning a little light on Ice through New York State," and Mr. Bryan smiled. "How about the prosperity issue," I asked. "You know you prophesied four years ago that we should have a period, of adversity if Mr. McKinley were elected The people seem to be knocking you a lit tle for that interview. "ThaVs u secret," said Mr. Bryan, as:uming a confidential tone and dropping his voice almost to a whisper. "You are the first person to whom 1 have ever re vealed the truth about that interview. It didn't count. When I made those state ments 1. had my fingers crossed. Isobody has ever got on to it. I was saving that to spring the last days of the campaign. It will knock llanna out of the box com pletely. won't It?" "If you are elected. Mr. Bryan." I asked him next, "will you pay the obligations of the government in gold or silver: "If I am elected the first thing I will do will be to buy Mrs. Bryan a new bonnet." said the presidential candidate, "and I will pay for it out of my first month's salary. If they pay me in gold of course I won t be able to pay for the bonnet in silver, will I, now? I make that point perfectly plain, don't I? I have answered the question without evasion, haven't I? Try me with another. "How about the ice trust, Mr. Bryan?" 1 inquired. f "There is no ice trust," said Mr. Bryan. hotly. "Ice can freeze everywhere when the weather is cold, can't it? The question is childish. Everybody cuts some ice, you know. Besides, I will be elected, if at all. in the winter time, and then there will be ice enough for everybody. The ice question will not be a paramount Issue then. "Have you promised Mr. Croker a place in the Cabinet, Mr. Bryan? I asked. -wen. l uia tell croker i would nnd a place for him." said Mr. Bryan, looking carefully about to see If Croker was within hearing, "but I had my fingers crossed that time, too. and I'm going to put him in the attic with the rest of the rubbish." "How about the cotton bale trust?" '. said. "There is no cotton bale trust worth men tioning said Mr. Bryan, "and for that reason I am not mentioning It." . "What do you think of the charges made against you by Governor Roosevelt?" asked. "I throw them back in his teeth," said Mr. Bryan. "How about the full dinner pail?" "The full dinner pall Is an appeal to the stomach and a threat to the teeth. It may sound a little paradoxical, but with regard to the full dinner pail I may say that there is nothing in it." "if you are elected, air. uryan, wm you be a candidate for a second terrai I asked. in conclusion. "As I feel now, I believe that one term is enough." answered Mr. Bryan decidedly. "I may like the situation better than I ex pect, and if so my feelings may change. The paramount issue la livi may b a eec

cr.d term for Willie. If I feel that that is the most important matter, I shall certainly cast loose a few hawsers of speech in lwl lor Willie C." "Do you approve the disfranchisement of negroes in the South. Mr. Bryan?" I asked In conclusion. "In the North this may seem a sort of hkin game." answered Mr. Bryan thoughtfully, "but when you get down South the matter assumes an entirely different complexion. I hope I make myself clear." , Mr. Bryan then went to the rear platform and tossed off several flowing bumpers of conversation to the Amalgamated Gum Chewers Union, warning them that the trusts were bottling up the liberties of the I eople in the full dinner pail. ENOUGH MERCURYT0 KILL

RESULT OF PROF. WITTHAl'S'S ANALYSIS IX TIIK It I CK CASK. Poison Found In the Organs of (he Dead Mllllonnlre Had a PenChant for Patent 31edlcines. NEW YORK. Oct. 2S. Following the announcement of Professor Witthaus's discovery of enough mercury to cause death in the kidneys and intestines of William Marsh Rice, the old millionaire whose sudden death more than a month ago led to so many sensational . developments, and the chemist's further statement that mer cury formed no part of the fluid used in embalming the body, a consultation of the authorities will be held to-morrow, which may decide the next step in unraveling the mystery. District Attorney Gardiner, Coroner Hart, Professor Witthaus and Dr. Curry, who was Mr. Rice's physician, will meet in the district attorney's office, and it Is probable the chemists will have a supplementary report to make. Although the amount of mercury found was sufficient to kill a man If administered In a soluble form. Professor Wltthaus did not say so in his first report. He was then asked to make this plain In an additional statement and to tell if he could form any idea whether this poison might have been a principal Ingredient of any medicine Rice was taking, or if It must have been administered with some ulterior motive. That Rice had a penchant for patent medicines and that he frequently took them s admitted by his physicians and others who knew him. Dr. Curry says that in none of the medicine prescribed for the old millionaire by him was there any mercury; but he adds that he found Mr. Rice was taking a medicine that was given to him by a friend, and that it was not without some argument that he induced his patient to stop taking it. An endeavor to learn what druggist prepared the medicine prescribed by Dr. Curry for Mr. Rice was futile to-day. Many physicians spoken to agreed that one of the easiest ways to bring about a man's death would be by tho administra tion of mercury in minute doses. They also said the symptoms of illness noted in Mr. Rice just previous to his death would bo caused by this poison given In this manner. It would produce retching and dysentery, and the autopsy, in all probability. would show traces of the poison in the stomach and more in the intestines. For a week before Mr. Rice's death he was ill. and he was led to believe this resulted from his partaking of several baked ba nanas, lie was weaK, out ne nia not seem to fear he was in any immediate danger of death. JOURNALISM THAT IS YELLOW. In What It Constdta and Urn Baleful Effect on Society. Chicago Journal. Wrhat is "Yellow Journalism?" It is a term coined, first of all, perhaps, by the thoughtless, and meant to express the unspeakable In the passing news literature of the day. Yellow is the color that fever hospitals arc mostly painted a dull, drab yellow, that suggests the forlorn men tal and pitiable bodily condition of the patients within it. Thus the terra "yellow journalism" Implies feverish journalism, unhealthy journalism, journalism that is sickly, leprous, unclean. Yellow journalism is the journalism that pries into private affairs, that stations ill kempt and odoriferous hirelings at key holes, that lays bare sacred and cherished household traditions and secrets to the gaze of the vulgar and debased. It respects no man or woman and no man or woman respects it. It is an enemy of peace, of decency and the home. It flaunts vice in the eyes of innocence and Invades the sanctity of the very church. It brazenly plumes Itself on its own effrontery and makes boast of the horrors of life that it carefully and persistently reveals. . Yellow journalism is the friend and in stigator of crime. It paints crime in allur ing colors and so debauches the young. It crowns the brow of the murderer with a chaplet of laurel, and by the nasty rela tion of every circumstance of his homicide incites In the depraved a desire to become as infamous as the prisoner himself. It gives the thief the praise of printed words for his acts and militates, as far as it can. against the law in 'striving to create for him an unwholesome and morbid sym pathy. Yellow journalism does worse. It illus trates its exploitation of crime with atrocious and deplorable pictures. It sets upon your breakfast table a hotch-potch of hor rible headlines and grotesque faces that astound the understanding and provoke the gorge. It destroys the appetite and exasperates the temper at one and the same time. Yellow journalism sometimes undertakes spectacular deeds. By the power of money, grievously misapplied, it buys Jailers, thereby rescuing captive heroines from prison, and expends the proceeds of the advertising thus gained in the perpetration of further monstrous Iniquities against de cency and the home. It can unearth scan dal; it can ferret out domestic woe. and Hay the sufferers for the amusement of thj Vicious and abandoned. It can dig Into the muck and bring out so-called "news" of the moral deformities of the unfortunate. And with it all there is not a dollar spent. not a counterfeit motive sacrilegiously usurped, without one ultimate end In view the gaining of further advertisement and the eventual reap.ng of hastier profit. Yel low journalism Is, most of all, sordid. Its aim Is money, and the method of securing It to the last degree unscrupulous and bad Under the Impudent pretense of concern for the workingman's welfare it bam boozles him with its mendacity and de frauds him of his pence. Such journalism is vice in its meanest form, and the more contemptioie uecause practiced In the slim disguise of an assumed and fraudulent virtue. Yellow journalism is a pander to immorality. Convicts study it; degenerates love it; harlots swear by it. It is an enemy of the fireside, or the altar and of parentage It has assailed the integrity of the Nation: it has slandered the chief magistrate of the people with insults too vile for print; It is the retich or nervous prostrates, of nym phomanlacs and Fcum. It haunts the scui lery and combs the sewer. It is a sore on the public body. It reeks with its self-cre ated odors. It pokes the glandered nose of obscenity Into forbidden places. Yellow journalism, so-called, is an affront to our social life. It is a menace to public order. It is a blot on the community's face. There Is but one example of It In Chicago, and that is more than enough. 3IarlinI Ivilled by a ToukIi. FALLS CITY, Neb.. Oct. 2S.-City Marshal Wake, of the town of Rulo. was shot and killed by "Bill" Hunt last night. Hunt was disturbing speakers at a political meeting, and the city marshal attempted to arrest him, when Hunt shot him twice, killing him instantly. An effort was made to form a mob to lynch Hunt, but he was hurried to the county Jail at this place. , Citizen Tralna Lucidity. Chicago Journal. Here's what George Francis Train, Citixen or tne ona, has to say about it: "Just tell the people who are supporting Bryan that it is all off. He can't be elected. He will sink In tho whirlpool of defeat. I have consulted the oracles and they ail read dis aster for Bryan." And there be those that call George Francla cr&xy. Wno-ca-ccQj

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GRANT Tim SIICOM) IN PRODUCTION OF t'ltfDU I'ETltOLElM. Indiana Output In October Less Than In September Price Delow the Profit Mark. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MONTPELIER. Ind.. Oct. .-During the month of October now closing there were 233 wells completed In the "Greater In diana" oil field. Of this number the. dry holes and wells amounted to 54. The new production daily for the month of the new completed -neV.3 is 3,460 barrels, or an average of IS; barrels. This is a decrease in completed wells of 15 from the Septem ber figures, 2yo barrels less In the produc tion, and twelve less dry holes. In new work under way there are 170 wells drilling and SO rigs up and ready for the drill. This is a decline from the September report of 4 drilling wells and 22 rigs up, or a total decline in new operations of 06. The decline in new operations is not due to the scarcity of territory to drill, as there Is plenty of it, but the cause is the decline In prices of fluid, yand as there is no telling to the let-up of the decline, the pro ducers have concluded to drill only where they are compelled to to live up to the conditions of their leases. Oil well ma terial, while it has declined some, has not as yet declined on an average with the drop in the market. Wells county, as usual, leads, with Grant a close second, while there is a hard race for third place between tho counties of Blackford, Jay, Adams and Huntington. All are very close in number of wells completed, drilling and rigs up. The largest sale of oil property for the year In the State has been consummated during the month. The property referred to was purchased by Pittsburg parties by the name of F. M. Johnson & Co., and consisted of close to 1,000 acres of oil leases, seventy-two oil wells and an output rated at ISO barrels a day. The sellers, who were Alford & Heald, realized $64.000 for the property, which is mostly located in Van Buren township. Grant county. What the month of November will de velop In Khe oil field is a mystery, but a drop further in the price will make the operators more shaky than they now are. Oil can be produced at a fairly good profit in the Indiana field at $1 per barrel, but when it gets below 80 cents it takes a man a long while to catch up losses when he happens to find a dry hole. If air wells drilled were good paying wells then It woud be a very different story, but at least three out of ten prove failures in near ly all tho oil fields. The following are the conditions of the Indiana field for the months of September and October: Completed Wells. October. September. County.

Wells 56 1,110 3 55 1.210 4 Blackford IS 220 2 19 265 3 Jay 18 160 4 15 'M 3 Adams 17 10 1 16 190 1 Grant 37 9J0 3 39 alO 3 Huntington 17 370 2 22 4M) 2 Madison 8 TO 4 7 90 5 Miami 4 50 0 6 ÖO 1 Delaware 3 60 0 3 40 0 Marion 2 20 0 5 SO 2 Wabash 3 30 0 2 20 ll Jasper IS 110 1 IS 310 2 Miscellaneous .. 37 90 24 46 ICS 39 Totals 23S 3,460 54 253 3,850 66

Decrease completed wells, A. Decrease new production, bris Decrease dry holes Abandoned wells Average November wells, brls Average December wells, brls Average January wells, brls Average February wells, brls Average March wells, brls Average April wells, brls Average May wells, brls Average June wells, brls Average July wells, brls Average August wells, brls... Average September wells, bris Average October wells, brls Drilling Wells and Rigs. 15 390 12 37 18 1-2 29 1-7 20 221-6 18 19 211-2 18 2-3 17 1-3 20 2-3 18 3-4 October. September. County. Drg, Wells 37 Blackford 12 Jay 11 Adams 10 Grant 32 Huntington .... 11 Madison 5 Miami 3 Delaware 5 Marion 2 Wabash 2 Jasper 13 Miscellaneous .. 27

ig. Tot. Drg. Rig. Tol. 17 54 24 24 68 4 1G 17 5 22 6 17 15 7 22 5 15 12 6 18 14 46 27 12 39 4 15 18 7 25 4 9 9 4 13 2 5 3 4 7 4 9 3 4 7 2 4 2 4 6 1 3 2 2 4 6 19 1C 11 27 11 GS 36 22 58

Totals 170 SO 250 134 112 206 Decrease drilling wells 21 Decrease rigs up and building 32 Decrease In new work 56 TUB WniTE HOUSE IS RICKETY. Threatening: to Collapse as a Result of Its Use as an Of3ce Building;. . "In the plan for building a new house for the President elsewhere than on the nres cnt site it has been proposed to utilize the present mansion for offices, writes Col Theodore A. Bingham, United States army. in urging the adoption of Mrs. Harrison's plans for enlarging the house in the No vember Ladles' Home Journal. "One plea therefore has been that the historic build ing should be left as it is. This Is certain ly to be Insisted on. But It Is said the mansion is too pure a piece of architecture to be marred by additions. This, however. Is a specious argument, since the original design contemplated side additions, and if the building in its present state were used as offices it would be wrecked in five or six years. Those who have no experl ence with public buildings or with this building-in particular nave no conception of the wear and tear on a President's office. It surpasses that on any other office in the country, me present execu tive mansion was lightly built and is al ready expensive to keep In proper repair, Its floor beams are not strong enough to endure office u.e. Great difficulty has arisen In the past with the few rooms now used as the President's executive offices, and great watchfulness has to be constantly exercised. Several times the floors have threatened to break through. The stairs have already broken down, one flight being new supported by a chain. Still, to remodel for oifice use only the whole Interior of our historic executive mansion would be not only a very expensive matter, but would fall to meet the requirements of the case, and also, it is believed, the approval of the country at large." Movements of Steamers. NEW YORK. Oct. 28. Arrived: Furnessla, from Glasgow and Movllle; Menominee, from Iondon; Hekla, from Copenhagen and Christlania. Sailed: Laurentian and Astoria, for Movllle and Glasgow; Mesaba, for London. QUEEN STO WN, Oct. 2S. Arrived: Lake Champlaln, from Montreal for Glasgow and proceeded. Sailed: Etruria, from Liverpool for New York. SOUTHAMPTON, Oct. 28. Sailed: Deutschland, from Hamburg, for Cherbourg ahd New York. TONTA FERRARIA. Oct. 28. Passed: Aller, from New York, for Gibraltar, Naples and Genoa. MO VI LLE. Oct. 28. Sailed: Tunisian, from Liverpool, for Montreal. ANTWERP, Oct. 2S. Arrived: Westernland, from New York. HAVRE. Oct. 2S.-Sai!ed: La Toüralne, for New York. Surety Xeeded. San Francisco Chronicle. Senator Jones, chairman of the Democratic national committee, vouches for Bryan that he will obey the laws If he la elected President; now, who will vouch for Jones? Important Proviso. Boston Journal. The London Statist, which is perhaps the ablest and most conservative financial 8uthcrity, declares that the most prombinj field of Investnitnt b tha Acsricsa

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EDICATIOXAL. 51st YEAR Only Permanent and Reliable One Here. Indianapolis -7 08L!8S ClfasiT V Our trade-mark past lSjeara. Bcwareof imitators i)ay in-t .Night. p j Hcpn Prriort When Hid. Phones 4M. J ELU. rfC&lOCCl nN VORICO'O HpSIUESS C0LLEG Methods copyrighted. Tim an! money aaved. Econd largest In the world. . I INDIANA NATIONAL BANK (Fireproof Building ) Safe rorolt: Vnulto mm DOCS TOCR BUSINESS COM PEL you to b often out of town? If to. wouM it not I el! to place your valuable papers In a aaie deposit vault undr your own lock and key! All Luslnts confidential. 8TECILS AND SEALS. seals;?; STENCILSSTAMPSj ggyTELlSSft. ISSLMERP'AH SI eu rucn. tecurity market, "provided always tho fcound-moncy party be returned to pöwer." This chance observation indicates the extent to which the financial credit of tho country Is wrapped up in Republican success next month. Texas Is Derelict. Omaha Bee. Stricken' Texas towns are still appealing for more asaistanca from the generosity of tho North. Up to date, however, Texas hau not seen fit to appropriate n dollar out of Its own State treasury to help its own people. Would not the appeal ptrlke more forcibly If the Texans showed a better disposition to do their share toward relieving the distress caused by the great gulf Hood? . .. ... "Worthy of Tallcyraud. Ilttsburs News. Princeton students asked Mr.' Bryan two Questions concerning free silver and the disfranchisement of the North Carolina rcgroes. This was Mr. Bryan's comprehensive reply: "Boys, I have ioken to many coIIck audiences, but this is thi nicest crowd of college boys I have ever addressed." Talleyrand could have got pointers from Brother Bryan In the lint art of diplomacy. More Republican Coercion.. Omaha Bee. It Is now in order for our friends th enemy to project another paramount ls?u coercion. The father of a lovely damsel In Kansas compeüed her steady beau to pledge hlmyelf to vote for McKinley In return for parental favor. That constitutes a foul assault on the doctrine of con sent and should be condemned forthwith. Meteoric. San Francisco Chronicle. The fllht of the Leonids, which failed to materialize last year, is looked for on the 12th of November next. The 'Democratic party will witness the vanishing of 1! brightest stars into the unfathomable depths of political obscurity Just one wet earlier. lias an Acceptance Cuming. Milwaukee Sentinel. The Hon. Adlal Stevenson might relxA the occasion cf his appearance in Milwaukee to make public acceptance of the Silver Republican nomination for Vice President. The record shows Adlal to be shy one acceptance. It Huns in the Blood. Kansas City Star. There Is no possibility that any party v.ill ever succeed in this country by making war on the flag. But why phould any party make such a mistake, and why should the same party be guilty of that blunder twice? Temporary Qnlet. Detroit Journal. The obfu!cation of the Hon. GeorRe Fred Williams Is only temporary. When the mists have cleared away he will call the Massachusetts State convention to meet right, away to elect Bryan delegates for Ills Dernier Ilrsort. New York Press. When a certain type of man lives Inland and has no chance to settle his hash by rot king a boat, and the nearest available mushroom patch is four hundred miles away, he becomes a Democrat. rrronnr)r Introduction. Kar.sa City Star. The Iroquois Club, of Chicago, will hold a reception in honor of Adlal Stevenson oa Saturday night. Mr. Stevenon is the candidate for Vice Ire.ldent on the democratic ticket with Mr. Bryan. ' HeroKniie tli I'armnrkt. San Francisco Post. Whenever Mr. Bryan's train reaches a place noticeable because of evidences of prosperity, he generally begins his remarks by paying: "I understand this is a Republican town." MMaMaMaHBaaBaaaaaMaaaMaaaaae Now nnd Heretofore. Washington Post. What changes time does make! One year ago this same Mr. Monnett was willing to accept a gubernatorial nomination at the hands of the trust-breeding Republican party. Ilnatneaa Advice. New York Sun. Without discussing the rating of the new firm of Croker & Bryan, we urgently advise that the Junior rarincr be not tlectcd President of the United States. Troth of the Matter. Kansas City Journal. The sirni. truth Is that the Denocrntla party cannot make any headway arlnst a prosperity administration, and reillzca the fact. No Intelligent Dcrsocrtt C77 expects Bryan to tt elected.

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