Indianapolis Journal, Volume 50, Number 362, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 December 1900 — Page 2

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1900.

ca?e Involves many Important legal questions and bitia fair to be a subject of litigation for years to ctme. The Pre 5 Merit ha ordered that the military reservation at Nomf, Alaska. be made it public reservation, under the control of Ihe War Department, and that the military reservation previously set aside near the raft tdde of the Nome river be known as the Fort Davis military reservation. Senator Allison, who is the second member on the Senat? mmmltec on finance in point tf seniority, said yesterday that the House bill amending the war revenue law wouid bv taken up by that committee immediately after the reconvening of Congress, lis also -stated that no hearings would bo granted by the committee. It I a stated In official diplomatic quarters tLut recent publications in relations to Secretary Hay's presumed attitude with reriect to the existing- conflict between Chile, 1'eru anl Bolivia were Inexact ar.d tonvey an erroneous impression, which has proved oulte annoying to the representatives of the countries concerned. In accordance with an order issued by the War Department yesterday the division of customs and Insular affairs of the office of the secretary of war, created in December, lsS. hereafter will be known as the "division of insular affairs," and will have charge of matters pertaining to the civil affairs connected with the government of Cuba and the Philippine islands, as distinguished from matters of a purely military character. lleprescntatlve Southard, of Ohio, called on the President yesterday to urge the selection of a man from the western division of the Northern Judicial district of Ohio for the judgeship created by an act of Congress passed just prior to the adjournment of Congress tor the holiday recess. It is understood, however, that the President has offered the position to a Cleveland lawyer. The latter. It Is said, ha3 not either accepted or declined the proffer. It Is said that Governor Dole, of Hawaii, will make a recommendation to the Hawaiian Legislature, which meets in February, for the settlement of tho claims of Chinese and Japanese growing out of the destruction of their property at Honolulu at the time of the bubonic plague outbreak. It appears that the Chinese claims are less than they were at first estimated, and that the total of the Chinese and Japanese slaims la approximately $l,S00.OJ0. United States Charge Beaupre, at Bogota, has cabled the State Department that he has been informed by the Colombian government that the Invading troops were overtaken by the government forces at Kcsario; also that their leader. General Cribide, was defeated at Corazel in tho province of Bolivar. He was retreating with a few remaining followers througli the department of Magdalena toward the Venezuelan line. The war Is said to be progressing favorably for the Colombian government. Nothing 1 known at the White House concerning the story cabled from London to the effect that the New York Yacht Club would Invite Emperor William, of Germany, and the Prince of Wales to witness the yacht races for the America's cup next summer, and that President McKinley would write concurrently to the Kaiser and the Prince, inviting them to visit the United States. At the White House It is stated that nothing of thesortlsin contemplation. The Irlncc of Wales was a guest at the executive mansion during President Buchacan't) administration. The Senate committee on relations with Cuba probably will meet immediately after the expiration of the holidays for the purpose of further considering the question of irregularities under the Cuban service, ns directed by the resolution of last session. The Lawshe report made to the secretary of war has not been received by the committee, und it is presume! that if Secretary Hoot concludes to send this to Congress at all he will send it direct to the Senate under the trims of the Bacon resolution. Those who have become familiar with the export say that it contains very little information that has not been given to the public already. The vast Industrial forces of Germany are organizing for a tremendous struggle with the agrarian and commercial Interests, according tu a report to the State Department from United States Consul Schumann, at Mainz. He says that the manufacturing interests of Germany surely will demand the passage of a protective tariff during the present session of the Hcichstag. Three of the strongest Industrial societies of Germany recently convened to organize a national Industrial council. The imperial government apparently was in sympathy with the movement, and, while the eitorts so far have failed, they are not to be abandoned. AHEEICAN LEAGUE NO. 2.

Organization ot Completed Yesterday ouooiifllctln; Schedules. CHICAGO. Dec. 27. No definite organization wa3 accomplished this afternoon by the baseball men who came to Chicago to promote the American League, No. 2. The standard of salaries, by-Mws and the general lines of the final organization were discussed, but a telegram from Manning, ot Kansas City, saying he would be hero with his representatives early to-morrow, caused the magnates to postpone final action until his arrival. Ban Johnson, president of the American League, spent the day with the minor league men, giving advice and keeping things moving along smoothly, lr is the intention' to have nonconfllcting schedules in all cities where the American -League has two clubs or where the American has but one and the new Western League a club. Dan Stuart I3u Itoute to Nevada. " CHICAGO, Dec. 27. Dan A. Stuart, the big Texas sport promoter, who successfully brought off the Fitzsimmons-Corbett fight at Carson City after he had been suppressed in Texas by an extra session of the Legislature and after Congress had outlawed the fight in the Territories, passed through Chicago to-night en route to Carson City fiom the East. It is said he intends to bring off another top-notch carnival m Nevada. MUCH COLDER TO-DAY. Rain Will Turn Into Snow aniP the Temperature Will Drop. WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. Forecast for Friday and Saturday: For Ohio Rain or snow in northern, rain In southern portion on Friday. Saturday colder and fair, except sncw flurries near the lakes; variable winds becoming fresh to brisk northerly Friday night. For Illinois Colder on Friday w ith snow In northern and rain turning into snow In southern portion. Saturday fair, fresh northerly winds. For Indiana Much colder on Friday with rain turning Into snow. Saturday fair, fresh northerly winds. Local Observation on Thursday. liar. Th. R.1I. Wind. Weathor. lr 7 . m... .3.24 24 6 S'east. lt. cl'dy. 0.00 1 p. ra... .50.00 CI li N'east. Lt. rain. 0. 3 Maximum temperature, ZÖ; minimum temperature. 2X Following h a comparative statement of the mean temperature and total precipitation tor lec. 27: Temp. Pre. Normal 27 o.i Mean 2J n.4 lTarturo 2 v).:,3 Departure since Dec. 1 4 l.s Departure sir.c Jan. 1 1S4 l.-ii I'lua. C. F. R. WAPPEN'IIANS. Lccal Forecast official. Yesterday's Temperatures.

Etation. Min. Max. 7 p. m. Atlanta. Ga 40 U a Bismarck. N- D S 1S e Huffalo. S. Y -2 22 22 Calgary. N. YV. T 2 ?1 m Chicago. Ill 22 21 ZU Cairo, HI 34 4) 4 heyenne. Wyo 10 2) j' Cincinnati. O 24 42 IS Concordia. Kan 24 24 24 avenprrt, la 24 42 82 Ia Mo'.c la 24 24 14 Calveiton. Tex 2 70 (i f-lna. Mont 2) 2 Jaksonv..!. Fla 44 M Kana City, Mo 24 4) 22 Lutl P.ock. Arle 42 C2 r tarqutle. Ml-h Z2 IN "2 MmrM. Tfnn 4 it ;j Nifchvii!, Tenn Zt :a f. rlan. La f 12 g Nw Ycrk City 2 3 22 M-th fiatte. Neb 22 Si 12 Oklahoma. O. T .' 42 f,4 41 C)m ArL 4rf 2 -ittstur?. I'm 24 42 IH Qu' Appelle, N. W. T 4 J) 4 li.PT'1'1 fit. S. D 14 It It Pall Uki Oty 2 Z1 .12 tl. (Uta, Mo 23 4) J5 Et. Paul, Mtr.n H 24 Ji 4 trinjrr.ld. Ill 24 24 24 r r'.rmr'VI-l. ilo 23 ) 4 W Jc i.ury. Mias ;") 62 ) Llüitoa, l). C 21 4J 16

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Till ST XX Tili: E STAT 12 OF THIS LATE JOIIX HILT, OF LAI'OUTU. Indianapolis Dank Involved Pherson and Cox Ca en Fort Wayne Pioneer Dead I'xploslou at Iledkey. Fpcclai to the Indianapollü Journal. LAPORTi:. Ind.. Dec. 27. On the application of Mr. Ada Hilt Street, of New York, principal heir to the half-million-dollar fortune left by John Hilt, the lec dealer, the Laporte Circuit Court has terminated the trust estate which was created at her father's death, and has ordered the discharge of the trustees, William J. Vogt, of this city, and Volney T. Malott, the Indianapolis railway man. When John Hilt died in 1S9i he left a will which residents of Joliet, 111., attempted to have set aside on the ground of unsoundness of mind on the part of the testator, and the result was a family settlement, whereby the Joliet claimants received a share of the estate, though the youngest daughter, then Ada I lilt, aged fifteen, was to receive the bulk in 1C0'3, the two trustees beinjr given control of the property, which. Included 470 shares of stock In th3 Indiana National Bank at Indianapolis. By the terms of the termination of the trust estate Mrs. Street sells to Mr. Malott SCO shares of the stock for $123.600, thereby giving Mr. Malott control In the Indianapolis bank, and Mrs. Street, Who married her husband, a New York newspaper sketch artist, last January in a. New York hospital, at what was supposed to be his deathbed, comes into actual possession of $-'G0,'JUO. She was twenty-one years old this month. Julian Street, her husband, has a sister residing in Chicago. wm:cKi:i) nv explosiox. Redkey Restaurant Shattered When a tins Leak Wan Sought with Matches. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. I1EDKEY, Ind., Dec. 27. Late last night the town was severely shaken by a natural gas explosion In the restaurant owned by S. L. Moots,, of Hartford City. The front and rear were completely blown out and the counters and furniture broken and scattered in every direction. The floors in all the rooms were torn up. A leak had been made manifest and John V. Fralick, the manager, Eugene Shafer, night clerk, and Charles Havelin, night watchman, went to find It with a lighted match. The explosion followed at once. Shafer was burned about the-head; Fralich on the head and hands, and Havelin's back was sprained and he was otherwise bruised by coming in contact with the celling, in his upward flight. Robert Rees, proprietor of the Rees Hotel, with John Manor, was standing in front of the house when the explosion occurred, and both were hurled into the street forty feet away. They were bruised and cut with flying glass. Guests in the hotel part were thrown from their beds and with others came running out of the building half clad. That any one escaped from the restaurant part alive is a mystery, as the wreck is complete, but none of the injuries is serious. A broken gas pipe beneath the floor was the cause. The financial loss exceeds $1.500, with no insurance against such accidents. Major Stlne Seriously Injured. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. . UNION CITY, Ind.. Dec. 27.-J. H. Stlne, who was a major in the Union army in the civil war, received injuries to-day which may prove fatal. In crossing the street he slipped and fell, striking his head on the curbing and fracturing his skull. Major Stlne, who wrote "The History of the Army of the Potomac," was, for many years, connected with the Treasury Department at Washington. He lives near this city on what is known as "Historical Farm." the place containing a shrub or tree from every Important battlefield recorded in history. STATE LOST A POIXT. Motion to Strike Out Evidence In Phersou Trial Overruled. FRANKLIN, Ind., Dec. 27.-ThIs morning Judge Buckingham heard argument on a motion In the Pherson murder trial to strike out the evidence about the piece of board and the hairs found on it. He overruled the motion and the evidence went to the jury. The State then rested its case. R. M. Miller made the opening statement for the defense. He said it would rely on the failure of the State to show a motive for the crime. He referred to the long friendship and intimacy between the two men. continuing on the day of the murder. On the day of the killing, at Knapp's house, Pherson asked Knapp when he was coming out, and Knapp said he couldn't come until the next day. Pherson went home? got an early dinner and went to Greenwood, whence he started home about 3 o'clock. The troubles of his daughter Clara at Whlteiand, and the partial Insanity of his wife, were events which had disturbed his mental poise. His army record and his poor health were presented. A statement concerning early intimacy of Knapp with Ruth was not permitted to be made. The discovery of Knapp's deception, taken with his other troubles, was said to have caused temporary Insanity, and Pherson's act was said to have been Justified by the circumstances. Editor Swan, of the Greenwood Era, said that Douglas Dobbins told him on the day of Pherson's arrest that Pherson' .was of unsound mind. Dobbins denied having so stated yesterday. I.yda-Cox Murder Case. MONTICELLO, Ind., Dec. 27. In . the Lyda poison case, to-day, the defense caused a sensation by undertaking to impeach the testimony of the State's first witness, Martin E. Lux. Six citizens of the neighborhood In which Lux lives gave testimony as to his untruthfulness, and the defense seems confident that it was successful in its impeachment. George Austell, a brother of Mrs. Lyda? and Mrs. Clara Jefferson, his daughter, were other witnesses for the defense. During this forenoon witnesses continued to testify to the pleasant relations existing between Mrs. Lyda and her husband, and that Cox was held in high esteem by Lyda. Dr. Walker, of Lafayette, testified that a person could not walk during strychnine convulsions. In death the body would be rigid, arms flexed. lingers clinched, eyes bulging and face distorted. These symptoms were not present in Lyda's case. In answer to a hypothetical question covering the circumstances of Lyda's death, Dr. Walker said that he died of uremia. INDIANA OH1TUARY. Myron F. Ilnrbour, on Aed Resident nnd Pioneer Fort Wayne Teacher. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE, Ind.. Dec. 27. Myron F. Harbour, aged ninety years, died at his home here from the infirmities of old age. He was a native of New York, a descendant of the oldest families In New England. He came here in 1S35 and taught the first public school In this .part of the State. He was a man of culture and highly educated, and during his life amassed a comfortable fortune. He collected the funds for the building of the first public school and thi first ITesbyterlan church In th's city. He went to California In ll: and remained two years. E. L. Harbour, i.f Larwill. is a nephew of the deceased. Mr. IJarbour was a leajtiTg Republican here since 1. Other Heaths In the State. WORTH 1NGTON. Ind.. Dec. 27.-Mr. Abrain Spainhower. a prominent citizen of this place, died at his residence this morning after an illness of fever;! months. H was eiahty-four years old, and had lived in Wnrthlngton more than forty years. At one time lie was commissioner of Greene county. For many years he had been the senior elder in the Christian Church, also a prominent member of the Masonic lodgo

at this place. His widow, three sons and two daughters survive. LOOGOOTIJE, Ind.. Dec. 27. Moses McRri'?e. one of the host known of Martin county's pioneer citizens, died at the old McRride homestead mar Dover Hill on Chri.-tn.as night at the ago of nearly tighiy-i-tven years. He was born in Ohio in 1M4 tr.d moved to this county in the year of Ms marriage, commanding on the way one of the largest emigrant trains hat ever crfsed the State. He was a leading foreo in the educational development of Martin and Lawrence counties. NEW ALRANV, Ind.. Dec. 27.-Charles II. Fitch, aged seventy-two years, died today of uremic poisoning caused by Ilright's disease. He left a wife and three children. He had been engineer for the water works company for the past twenty-five years. He was a member of the Masons, Odd Fellows and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. MUNCIE, Ind.. Dec. 27.-Yesterday morning, at her home, south of Muncie. Mrs. Melissa Harrold died from a broken hip suffered in a fall a few weeks ago. She was eighty-eight years old and had lived in Delaware county more than sixty years. V I NC E N N ES, Ind., Dec. 27. Lee Gees died this morning of appendicitis. An opera t lot; had been performed in the hope of saving his life. He left a youn widow, a bride of but a few weeks.

DL'MOCHATIC SIIARI PRACTICE. Sladlsoii County Auditor Commissions n Defeated Township Assessor. Sfeclal to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind.. Dec. 27. Adam Huffman, assessor-elect of Stony Creek township, came to Anderson yesterday for his commission and found that O. P. Crim, the Democratic auditor, had issued tho commission to his Democratic opponent, whom he had defeated at the recent election by over 1G0 votes. Auditor Crim held that as Huffman did not qualify within the time prescribed by law it became his right to appoint an assessor for the township, and he named the Democratic nominee, J. It. Julian. Huffman will enjoin the newly appointed assessor from performing the duties of the ofllce, claiming that he had not been ofliciallv notified that he must qualify within a given time. Eastern Hospital Visited. The legislative committee, accompanied by Governor-elect Durbln, visited the Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane, at Richmond, yesterday. The needs of the institution were fully set forth by Dr. S. E. Smith, medical superintendent, but no expression as to recommendations was made by the committee. The financial exhibit presented by Dr. Smith was so well got up that the committee pronounced it the most systematic document of the kind yet encountered. Other state officials will be asked to adopt the same form. The requests' for appropriations are the same as those in the report of the hospital already published. The Governor-elect met many friends there. CAUSED IJV A COHN. Suit for ?2,04)0 Damages Filed in the Adams Circuit Court. Sjecial to the Indianapolis Journal. PORTLAND, Ind., Dec. 27. An action out of the ordinary has been filed In tho Circuit Court of Adams county, John Reynolds, a section hand on the Clover Leaf Railroad, being the plaintiff, and G. W. Roop, a shoe dealer, the defendant. Reynolds says he had a corn on his toe, which pained him so badly that he couli scarcely work, and that Roop cited several instances in which he had successfully cured them. According to Reynolds's allegations Roop operated on his corn, paring it down with a shoe knife and then applying a lotion. The complaint states that this treatment caused blood poisoning to set in, with the result that the toe had to be amputated. Reynolds now wants damages from Roop in the sum of $2,000. Heavyweight Thieves Arrested. Fractal to the Indianapoli Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Dec. 27. One of the boldest attempts at robbery ever made in Anderson was that of Albert Rogers and Leonard Bowles, who were caught last evening in the act of taking three tons of weights from the gas plant in the heart of the city and scarcely a square from the jail. The men drove up to the tanks and began removing the weights and loading them into a wagon. When remonstrated with and finally taken before the police superintendent the men declared they had purchased the weights as old iron from C. K. McCullcugh, former operator of the plant. Mr. McCullough ordered the men held, and they later confessed to their intent to dispose of the property unlawfully. Xenrly Ready to Start the Cars. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Dec. 27. Charles L. Henry, manager of the Union Traction Company, is using every energy at his command to open the line from Muncie and Anderson to Indianapolis by the 1st of January. The test of the power plant, made on an all-night run of the big engine last night, was entirely successful. To-day experts tested the convertors and reducers at Fortville, Lawrence and Yorktown, and if these machines are in working order Manager Henry will be in readiness to send cars Into Indianapolis with his own power as soon as the Indianapolis street railway makes the connection at the end of College avenue with the Union Traction Company's tracks. Small Strike nt Dunkirk. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Dec. 27. The L. A. COO blowers and gatherers employed in the trust plants known as the Gem and Klondike, at Dunkirk, are on strike. George E. Moore, superintendent of all the trust plants, gave two league cutters places there after President Burns had decreed that the men should not go to work. When they assumed their duties the Burns men quit work. It is a clash of authority between the trust and L. A. 200. It Is said the latter organization intends to dictate who shall be employed and who shall not, and Moore does not propose to yield to the labor organization. Burns has been sent for to pass on the case. An Honest Man in England. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WINAMAC, Ind., Dec. 27. The Bank of Winamac received a letter on last Saturday from Southampton, England, dated Dec. -i, signed John Whale, No. 4 Trinity Terrace, Trinity road, and reads as follows: "Inclosed you will find a bank note for $100 that I found in a sack of American oats at my employers store. I have taken it to the American consul here and he told me to send it to your bank. In case of any reference you may write to Mr. Thomas Knowlton. T. C. 101 St. Mary street. Southampton. England." The bank note is a Bank of Winamac draft, given April 25, and was made payable to Thomas W. Richards, of Pontiac, 111. It was lost while handling oats. Larger Faetory Projeeted. Special to th'i Indlsr.arolis Journal. TEURE HAUTE, Ind., Dec. 27.-ContracU have been let by the North Baltimore Glass Company for an addition to the plant recently erected here, which amounts to $KUM. The factory when completed will b one of the best equipped in the country and will make a specialty of manufacturing all kinds of bottles. Train Wnrinly Welcomed at Muncie. MUNCIE. Ind.. Dec. 27. The first train on the Muncie extension of the Chicago, Imllana & Eastern road, just built here from Matthews, arrived this evening, and there wus great tooting of whittles. The passenger train of three cars brought In thirty-six passengers nnd took out several. The road connects with Panhandle trains direct for Chicago at Converse. III! of Ilurford Accepted. Special to th Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Ind., Dec. 27. The contract for the printing and stationery of Wabash county for the year 1901 has been awarded to William B. Burford, of Indianapolis, and the l'ltfvn Dealer Company, of city, tho

latter getting the third-class work. There was but one other bid submitted, that of Levey Bros., Indianapolis. This concern offered to provide costly records at a cent each, and to lithograph and print 2-cent stamped envelopes for $11 per thousand, though the stamped envelos alone cost at the postofllce $21.00 per thousand. The bids on other articles, however, were high, in order to equalize the proposal.

Indiana Notes. The Terre Haute lodge of Elks took in a class of forty yesterday afternoon and evening. This is the largest class ever taken in by the lodse at one time. James McCoy, of Peru township. Jay county, suffered the loss of his right arm. at the elbow, while operating a corn shredder yesterday morning. . Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Dollison. of Wabash, yesterday celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage, the observance beirfg in the rooms where they began housekeeping half a century ago. Mrs. F. Schwcdes, wife of the pastor of a Terre Haute ndnlster, swallowed part of a plate of false teeth yesterday. The piece of plate lodged in her throat and a surgical cperatlon was necessary to remove it. Vigo county farmers closed a two days' institute at Terre Haute yesterday. Prof. Latta. of Purdue, and H. L. McMahan were the principal lecturers. The attendance was large and much interest was manifested At the annual meeting of the board of trustees of Eastern Indiana Conference of the Christian Church at Albany the matter of accepting the RiJgevlile Normal College was discussed and a resolution was adopted rejecting the offer of Dr. Garvin. Elmer Sanders, living near Lebanon, while hunting, was shot and serlouslj wounded by the gun of a companion, who dropped the weapon, causing an accidental discharge. If Sanders had not been carrying a number of rabbits slung across his back he would have received the whole lead. CARRIE NATION IN JAIL. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) jail to-night, whence she issued a manifesto "to the friends of temperance everywhere," in which she acknowledges there was "method in the apparent madness. "I came to the Governor's homo town," she continues, "to destroy the finest saloon in it, hoping1 thus to attract public attention to the flagrant violation of a Kansas law under the very eye of the chief executive of the State." The damage to the saloon Is hard to estimate. It was finished with stucco secured from the world's fair buildings and many blocks of it are shattered. The painting of "Cleopatra" cost Mr. Noble, its author, nine months time painting it, and was still his property, being rented by the saloon. It has been seen at nearly all the street fairs from Canada to the gulf. KISSFVG ODER THE DAX. It Intoxicates, and Therefore Is an Evil, According to the W. C. T. U. NEW YORK, Dec. 27. Promiscuous osculation is under the ban. The kissing habit must cease. The Demorest branch of the W. C. T. U. has declared against it.. The organization admits of no compromise. It does not urge temperance. It preaches prohibition, according to its principles. The kiss is an intoxicant, therefore, the kiss, like the saloon, must go. This decision was arrived at this afternoon at the regular meeting of the Demorest unlonites at the home of Mrs. Shirley, US West Twenty-third street. The matter came up i,n connection with the vice crusade, when Dr. Anna Hatfield interrupted a torrent of eloquence apropos of the saloon as the source of all evil to prove that the nectar quaffed from red lips was more fruitful of consequences than any alcoholic beverage ever distilled. "I think kissing is the worst thing a young woman can do," said the doctor, "and the amount of hugging and kissing that some girls of our best families, too submit to is literally a menace to our morality. I know a young man well who declares that he rarely leaves a girl without kissing her good night. He says that they not only eagerly accede to his request, but that several have insisted upon being kissed. "I have carefully inquired into the matter, and I find many young women imagine this is the way to get husbands. It is reprehensible. These are the supposedly well-brought-up daughters of rich parents. The girls must be taught that lt is wrong, not only to kiss a stranger, but to kiss the men they are engaged to. Too great care cannot be taken." "I should suggest that an excellent and efficient way to stop the Impropriety," said Miss Thomas, "would be to instruct the young men in the evils of kissing." "But they like it," said one woman impetuously. Crusade in Hawaii. Correspondence of the Assoc! ited Press. HONOLULU, Dec. 19. Honolulu is about to have a temperance crusade led by the W. C. T. U. and the Ministers' Union. Two lepresentatives of the W. C. T. U., Miss Jessie McKerman and Miss Ada Murcutt, are expected here on the steamer Coptic on Dec. 2y, and after they have started-the agitation Rev. Dr. Chapman, of the Antisaloon League of Oakland, will come. He is expected early in January. It is part of the plan of the crusade to diffuse sentiment in favor of the bill of Congressman L.ittlefield, of Maine, to absolutely prohibit the yalo of intoxicants to the aborigines of the Pacific islands over which the United .States exercises control. Gave Klplln&r One of Ills Plots. Denver News. Ralph Greyson, of Gloucester, Mass., who gave Rudyard Kipling the plot of his "Captain Courageous," is at the St. James Hotel. "Kipling visited Gloucester, Mass., five years ago." said Mr. Greyson. "In search of a sea plot, and in this way we met. My father has been 'commander of a fleet of fishing smacks and, therefore, was well provided with all sorts of sea adventures and him among others Mr. Kipling often conversed with, being introduced by me. Father's chief adventure eventually was selected by the great author. "It was a real fact. A boy who had fallen overboard twenty-five years ago from a transatlantic steamer was picked up by my father. He was the son of wealthy English parents, as events proved, a pampered youth, but he was made to do his work on the smack like any sailor, for there was need of them. The smack was called Selma B. and she did not return to Gloucester for three months afterwards. Meantime the boy had been given up as dead and his parents were, of course, prostrated. Great was their joy at his restoration to their bosoms and no small reward came along as a gift to the sailors. It was a good thing for the youth, too, for the hard work made a man of him and he is living a useful life, we understand. Finally Kipling got hold of him and he is Immortalized in fiction." Councilman exonerated. CLEVELAND. O.. Dec. 27. The trial of Councilman John It. O'Donnell before the Cleveland City Council cäme to an end tonight when, by a vote of 13 to 6. his colleagues decided the charges against him of accepting a bribe to vote to award a contract to the Gamewell Fire Alarm and Telegraph Company, of New York, had not been sustained by the testimony. Director of Law Ilogsett accused the Council of utterly disregarding his advice and announced that he would refuse to take part in the trials of Councllmen Stuer, Purdy and Henry. The Festive Crnn Cornered. CHICAGO, Dec. 27. A corner in beans is the latest novelty in the Chicago market. It Is belnj engineered by the Albert Dickinson Company. Within two we?ks the price has risen from $1.81 per bushel to $2.20 and dealers predict a further advance to $2.30 within a fortnight. Heavy purchases by the government are said to be at the bottom of the boom in prices. The Arc and Youth of Iligginson. Boston Journal. It is hard to real!?e that Col. Thomas Wentworth Hlgginton is seventy-seven. The ardor that i-ent h'm to flsht at the head of a brave black regiment fr the principle which his pen, and tongue had advocated ha? kept him young long after most of his contemporaries. What Wo Slay Hope For. Troy (N. Y.) Budsef. A Minneapolis man has Invented a telephone that can be used without wires. If improvement continues at this pace in a century or two we may get a telephone that will not, nine times out of ten, say "busy" when we ask to be put in com launioatlon with some one.

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HUT Fltmi THE WIRES AMI SERVED W1TIIOIT TR IMMINGS. A Little of Everything, nnd Certain to Floase the Palates of Rentiers Who Like Facts Cut to the Hone. Manitoba's South African contingent of volunteers was given a welcome on its return to Winnipeg yesterday. Frederick W. Wurzburs, of Grand Kapids. Mich., has filed a trust mortgage for SWO, covering his entire stock of dry goods. A certificate of incorporation was filed at Dover, Del., yesterday, for the Midland Canal Company, of Fargo, N. D.; capital, $1.000.000. Julius Thompson, colored,- who killed Gotlleb Melrose near Rantoul. 111., Christmas night, was arrested at Centralla and confessed the killing. The American Crystal Palace thoroughbred poultry and Belgian hare show opened at Kansas City, Mo., yesterday, with about 1,200 specimens on exhibition. H. A. Seymour, of New York, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. Individually, and as a member of the former brokerage firm of Seymour, Johnson & Co., with liabilities of J6SS.830; assets, $750,695. The Rev. Jay Benson Hamilton, of Brookljn, yesterday confirmed a report that he has been nominated for the presidency of Waiden University of Nashville, Tenn. He has not yet 'signified his acceptance. Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor of the New York World, and A. C. Harmsworth, proprietor of the London Daily Mall, were passengers on board the steamer Teutonic, which arrived at New York yesterday from Liverpool. W. R. Neff and Mrs. Myrtle Wright, charged with the murder of G. A. Barber, of Iowa, for the purpose of securing insurance on his life, were yesterday discharged at their preliminary hearing at Pagosa Springs, Col. John W. Foster, formerly secretary of state for the United States, is in the City of Mexico on business for tho Mexican government for which he is legal adviser at Washington. He was formerly American minister to Mexico. The first international council of Grand Masons, colored, met yesterday In the Jacksonville. Flat, Masonic' Temple, with colored Masonic dignitaries present from all parts of the world. The sessions will continue until next Mopday. In a runaway accident, at Flint. Mich., yesterday. Dr. George W. Howland was killed, and G. H. Qulgley, a prominent business man, fatally injured. The men were driving when the horse took fright and ran away, overturning the buggy. The steamer reported ashore south of Miami, Fla., Is the Homerick, of Baltimore, luden with coal for Mexico. Wreckers have contracted to float the vessel for $7,000. Sho is on the reefs near Caesar's creek, twenty-eight miles south of Miami. William Bonnor, of Liverpool, will on Jan. 1 become vice president and general manager of the Thomas J. LIpton Company, with headquarters in Chicago. Mr. Bonnor at present is the general manager of the LIpton Company in Liverpool. The Right Rev. Bishop McFaul and Vicar General Fox, of Trenton, with clergymen from different parts of the State, officiated at St. Joseph's Convent of Mercy at Bordentown, N. J., yesterday, when twelve young women professed and received the white veil. Frank Davis, Buck Chad well, Estepp Morgan and Richard Davis fell out at a dance at Walnut Hills, Ky., and a fight ensued. Fifty shots were fired. Frank Davis was killed. Morgan and Dick' Davis were mortally wounded and Chadwell was slightly wounded. The sum of $293 In silver dollars was taken to the leper settlement at Holokal, Hawaii, on Dec. IS, being one dollar for each leper as a Christmas gift from tho people of Honolulu. The money was produced from the annual concert for the benefit of the unfortunates. Currier & Bunker, who did business as stock brokers at No. 21 Park Row, New York, made an assignment yesterday for the benefit of creditors to William II. Bonyge. The senior member of the firm, Israel L. Currier, was a member of the Cdnsolldated Exchange. Refusing to disclose the names of the men who attempted to slay him, John Garvorsio. an Italian, lies dying at his home in Chicago. The case is the most mysterious Italian crime that has come to the police, and it Is said to bear every evidence of a vendetta. A bequest of $100,000 has been placed in the hands of the directors of the New Jersey Training School for Feeble-minded Children at VIneland by Thomas II. Vinter, executor'of the Maxham estate. The legacy will pay off all obligations and give the institution a cash balance of about $G0,000. The 2,500 employes of the Lehigh ValleyCoal Company at the Heidelberg, Dorrance, Prospect and Franklin collieries, near Pittston, Pa., resumed work yesterday, after being on strike since last Friday because they were not receiving their pay semimonthly. An agreement with the company was reached. W. J. Bryan lectured at Abilene, Kan., last night for the benefit of the city library fund, having an audience of about COO. His topic was "The Ancient Landmarks," and he discussed taxation, trusts, the money question and imperialism from a Democratic standpoint. Ho left later for Galveston, Tex. Rev. Father John Welg, a Catholic missionary who went through the recent Boxer troubles in China and escaped after a series of desperate experiences, is in San Francisco, on his way to his former borne In Bavaria. He was stationed in southern Shan-Tung, and sixty native villages were under his charge. The failure of the banking firm of Francisco, ' Martinez, Negrete & Sons, of Guadalajara, has created a sensation in the City of Mexico, where tho firm has for many years been identified with its business developments. The liabilities of the firm are $2,300,000. The failure is due to financial stringency. Ephraim Noble, a son. Alex. Arbough, a son-in-law, and two grandsons were arrested at Ironton, O., yesterday, charged with the murder of Geoige W. Noble. The murder of Noble occurred last August. He was beaten to death with clubs. He was a wealthy stockman, for the murder of whom a reward of $500 had been offered. It is now thought that the suicide, at Honolulu, of the American scout, Frank Bennett, was due to remorse on hearing of the death by poisoning of Miss Clara Schneider, and that her death was also by suicide, for which Bennett held himself responsible. A searching investigation by the police failed to bring forward any proof that Bennett gave her the poison. The New York Times says this morning that the North American Company, which has been one of the conspicuous financiering companies of Wall street, has passed into the control of J. P. Morgan, and is to be used by him to further the great coal deal, known to the street as "the coal trust." of which the acquiring of the Pennsylvania Coal Company was the initial step. A new steamship service is to be established from New York to South African ports and Calcutta by the Deutsche Danipschlffahrts Geselschaf Hansa, the new service to be known as the Hansa service. The Hansa lines include at present some thirtyfive vessels, which ply between Hamburg and Antwerp, and Colombo. Madras, Calcutta. Bombay, Karachi and Rangoon. The United States training ship Adams, which Is one of the vessels which trained her guns on the city of Honolulu during the days of the provincial government, arrived at Honolulu, Dec 18, on her first visit since annexation. She; is on u cruise from San Diego, with 125 naval apprentices on board. She will leave about Jan. 8. and is to be tack in San Francisco on the middle of March. Abraham Johnson and wife, both over eighty years old, were bound, tortured and robbed about midnight at their home, a short distance below Marietta, O., on the West Virginia side. Their assailant, a negro, gained entrance to the house stealthily. After securing all valuables ho left his victims ftill bound. Mi's. Johnson is almost totally paralyzed from the shock and her husband is badly injured. The United States torpedo boat Kricsson sailed from New York, fur Hampton Roads, yesterday. She will be one of the torpedo fleet, which, accompanied by the battleship Alabama, will shortly rail to join the North Atlantic squadron on its annual winter cruise in the tropics. Th flagships Kearsarge and the Massage sailed from Hampton Roads, on Saturday, for Feusacgla,

and the rendezvous will be made somewhere In the gulf. Mystery surrounds the death of H. C. Payne, proprietor of a small hardware store in St. Iouls, and for twelve years principal of the public school at Old Orchard, whose body was found to-day near the Missouri Pacific Railroad tracks, at Webster Grove, a suburb, with the head nearly seered. There were no bruise on the body, showing that death was caused by the clean cut that left the hoad hanging by a thread of skin. Payne's valuables were not touched, his watch and money being found in his pockets. The December grand jury, at Chicago, which has taken up consideration of dives and the charges of corruption made against the police and other departments of the municipal government, yesterday summoned Mayor Harrison and Chief of Police Klpley to appear before that body and tell what they know concerning the charge. Mayor Harrison was out of town, but Chief Klpley promptly responded to the request of the grand Jury and spent nearly two hours before that body. It Is understood the chief entered a strong denial of the charges of bribery and extortion from divekeepers, entered against his department and against him personally. The United States Soldiers' Christian Aid Society, with principal offices in NewYork city, was incorporated at Albany. N. Y., yesterday. It proposes to labor to advance the social, moral and religious condition of the enlisted men of the United States army and unite the efforts of benevolent and philanthropic persons throughout the conntry in their behalf, to aid In the establishment of post chapels at all of the United States posts and stations; to aid in the free distribution of proper reading matter and to co-operate with each and every effort to promote virtue and tho morals of the army. Cable TVotcii. The Prussian Diet has been summoned to assemble Jan. S. The Czar and Czarina will return to Taarskoe-Selo, near St. Petersburg, about Feb. 2. The King of the Belgians, who has been at Wiesbaden consulting Dr. Apagenstccher, the oculist, has returned to Brussels. More than 6,000 persons.' four-fifths of whom went to the United States, emigrated from Christiania, Norway, during the last twelve months, as against 3.300 in lbUl. The Hamburg Real-estate Association has voted 20,000 marks for the preparation of plans for a university, as a means of enhancing real estate values in Hamburg. The Finnish Senate has voted 60,000 marks annually for five years to a steamship company for the purpose of keeping open winter communication between Sweden and Finland. The Berliner Tost, summarizing Germany's naval progress this year, says that seven vessels have been launched, including two battleships, one large cruiser and four small cruisers. Emperor William will go to Hamburg, Jan. 3, to Inspect the Hamburg-American liner Princess Victoria Louise, prior to her excursion to the West Indies. His Majesty will spend the night on board. A strong International syndicate has been formed for the development of the mineral resources of Pemararaland, Africa. The bulk of the, capital, which is British, will be held jointly in London, Paris, Berlin and New York. Elizabeth Alma Blake, of New York city, charged with having appeared. Doc. 21, at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, where she claimed to be a daughter of Princess Henry of Battenberg, was subjected to a medical examination, in London, yesterday, and sent to a lunatic asylum. The Paris prefecture of police has not heard of the alleged duel, in which, according to a report circulated in New York city, Paderewski. the pianist, was killed on a small Island in the Seine. The musical publishers, Chandens & Durand, who have business relations with Paderewski, do not believe he is there. A serious fire occurred In the East End of London, at the-East India docks, yesterday. Five immense sheds, filled with goods, including a thousand bales of hemp and quantities of Jute, were destroyed. The shipping In the neighborhood and other warehouses were only saved by the great exertions of the firemen. Richard Croker, who has been rusticating for several weeks in Carlsbad and Nice, returned to Wantage two days before Christmas, where he received a summons to appear. Jan. 2, to reply to inquiries respecting his income in connection with the income tax. He left Wantage yesterday, presumably for the continent. On the reassembling of The Hague Senate, yesterday. Senator Rengers disclaimed, in behalf of the house, all responsibility for the letter of the president of the Senate to Mr. Kruger, Dec. 7. In so doing the senator pointed out that the Senate merely authorized the president to express sympathy with Mr. Kruger. The establishment of a free harbor at Emden is expected to make it an important port for American wood. Westphalian firms have already ordered 10,000 tons of pitch pine to be sent there for shipment via the Dortmund-Ems canal. A joint stock wood company has been ordered in Emden to import pitch pine and other woods in large quantities. To occupy the post of first Russian consul at Bombay, the government has appointed M. Klemm, for many years in the Foreign Office service In Central Asia, and latterly secretary of the Russian political agent at Bokhara. Russia secured the right of consular representation at Bombay after long and difficult negotiations, the British government being slow to admit that the commercial interests of Russia justified the departure. The real objection, naturally, was fear that the consulate would serve for political Instead of commercial purposes.

ARE WE A SET OF THIEVES ? Two Little Stories That Dear on the Natural-Gas Situation.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Mr. Benedict, of the Indianapolis Gas Company, was evidently out of order the other day when he said the people of Indianapolis were Fteallng gas; that is, he was unparliamentary. It Is an offense In Parliament, or in Congress, to tell a fellowmember that he lies, and the offender is called to order at once, but If he says the honorable member tells an untruth he is permitted to proceed. Of course, nobody imagines it is because there is any appreciable difference between the two expressions, but the latter is more euphonious, hence less offensive. Mr. Benedict ought to have said we are pilfering gas, or something of that kind, and there would have teen no offense; or, he might just have said we have bored out mixers or wholly removed them, thus getting more gas than w;; contracted for, without characterizing the offense, and no one would have objtcted. It was not what he said, but the way he said it that gives offense. Besides, "steal" is plain Saxon and "pilfering" is French, you see. But is the Indianapolis Gas Company In a condition to read us a homily on honesty? Let me tell a story. A little over seventy years ago a stalwart pioneer entered a quarter section of the rich lands in Madison county and proceeded to business after the fashion of the times. Every year the "oienIns" grew larger and neighbors came nearer. By dint of hard work and close economy and driving hard bargains h easily kept the lead of the little community of settlers in his accumulations. He had corn to rell when nobody else had. or to trade for a lot of half-starved shoats or a If.usy calf, or an old dry cow, which h-; would fatten and sell at a large profit. So successful was he in this Industry that he soon became known among the Madison county settlers as the cattle king, so that whoever had a steerling to sell gravitated to the king as naturally as one now gravitates to the stock yards with a fat ho.; or beef. Of course, he grew rich and bought more land, and his two boys, as they grew into manhood, developed into shrewd traders; they could buy as cheap and sell as dear as the king himself, much to the Joy of the father. Though they early set up for themselves and in Fom'e sense became the business rivals of thoir father, there remained a kind of community of interest that made them play into each other's hands, at leant as against outsiders. For instance, when their output became entirely too great for the Indianarolis market they would unite their herd and drive them to Cincinnati, sometimes realizing fabulous profits. One spring the father's health woti'd not allow him to g with the drove, but he could trust the boys to cope with the Cincinnati butcher, nnd he sent his herd along with theirs. They were gene more than two weeks and when they returned they had a doleful tale to tell about the crowded state of th Cincinnati market, and how they finally had to tak whatever the fcutchtrs cX-

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Telephone 1304. 44 North Pennsylvania St. Some People Are not aware that Brjce's PieCrust Batter cr Crackers Are the finest thing in the way of a cracker that is made in tbis country. They melt in your mouth. Myfacilitiei are limited, but those people who try them will have no others. Ask for "Bryce'sOld Homestead Bread"' the name is a guarantee of purity. COKE! Lump and Crushed.... FOR THE INDIANAPOLIS GAS CO. STF. CI LS AND SEALS. SEALS TS 1' STENCILS STAMPS; gVjVIELi:85. 15 ELMERIDlANSI 0wu Fiocr. fered or drive their stock home, and they fcettled with him accordingly, he realizing not half he expected, which almost broke his heart. He had almost recoered from the shock when, the following Kummer, he chanced to meet the cattle klnjr of Jtandolph county, who had happened to be in Cincinnati with a lot oZ fat cattle, the same time with the boys, and who congratulated him on the fine prices the boys had realized on thflr cattle in the spring; just lucky to strike the market when there were few cattle in ant prices ruled high. This was a sorry revelation to the old man; his boys had not dealt fairly with him. Of course, he told them of it. and after statins the case, asked mournfully; How could you steal from your old father that way?" "You teached us to, pap," was the only answer. The story goes that the old klnjr never again called that transaction stealing, using iom more parliamentary word for it, realizing that there was a difference between skinning and being skinned. The application of this story is plain. But, after all, our offense, though unjustifiable, is not an unwarranted one, as the world goes. Let me tell another story. A third of a century or so ago I Mas playiii the role of an amateur gardener on a few acres out innhe country then, but In the city now. Among the things the wife and children were proudest of was a bed of Wilson's Albany strawberries, then all the rage. One day a neighbor who had no garden called, bringing her five-year-old boy with her. Naturally enough, she wai invited to look through the garden, see the flowers and vegetables, and especially the strawberry bed. about two rods square, just in fruitage. The berries wero beautiful to look at and not bad to take when properly prepared, but not Inexhaustible in quantity nor hardly the article to be preyel upon without stint. The boy's mouth watered, evidently wanting to get at them. "Try them, Billy," said tho wife, meaning, of course, only a few, as a specimen. But Billy did not take lt that way. Dropping on his knees, he said, "I don't care if I do, and I'll Just fill my belly for once. I never had as many strawberries as I could rat in all my life, and now I'll have 'em, for they don't cost anything." Billy didn't think he was stealing or attempting to steal, he only meant to have all he wanted of a good thing because It was cheap, though the act Itself could not be Justified when critically examined. That is about our situation in this gai matter. At ordinance rates, when we had gas, it was the cheapest fuel anybody ever t?cd in a city, but as it cost no more to use it extravagantly we et about filling our bellies with the luxury. Billy would not have thought of cleaning out the little patch, leaving none for the family's tupper, if he had had to measure all he ate above what was reasonably implied m the Invittlon to try them, nnd had to pay market price for the surplus. No more would we have bored out or removed our mixers or burned the precious fuel day and night, summer and winter, if we had hai to pay for all we burned above what was reasonably implied in the contract. But Mr. Benedict should not say we are stealing: we are only pilfering. He should b rarllamentary in the use of words. ani least of all should he proveke us to teil who "teached us how." U. L. SEC Indianapolis, Dec. 26. Movement of .Steamers. Ni:V YOHIC. Dec. 27. Arrived: Mcsaba. from Indon: Teuton!', from Liverpool; Trave. from Brcman. Sailed: H. II. Meier, for Bremen. CIIKRIlOtTRG. Iec. ST. Arrived: Craf Waldersce, from New York, for Hamburg. gUKKXSTOW.V. Doc. 27. Sailed: Cymric, from Liverpool, for New York. BOl'IXXLNi:. Doc. 23.S.iihd: Cap Frio, from Hamburg, for New York. LONIK)N. Dec. 27. Arrived: Manltou, from New York. MOVILLK. Dec. 27. Arrived: Ethiopia, from Glasgow, To Care a Cold In One Dajr Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. 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