Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 2, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1901 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1901.

Crowe said to have been arretted at OelI Ich, S. !., and discredit the report. - ai..,i;.i:i AitiinsT or pat.

The Elnslve Crowe Sold to Have Been Captured In South Dakota. SIOUX CITY, la.. Jan. 1. A special to the Journal from Chadmn, Neb, says: "Pat Crowe, charged with complicity In tho abduction of Eddie Cudahy, of Omaha, has been captured. Three ueUrtlves folic wing Crowo's trail came upon him to-day on the Flr.e nidge reservation near Oelrlc-hs, S. D., and captured him aft?r a wild chase. Crowe was driving a team and buckboard. He whipped the horses and tried to outrun the horsemen, who soon brought him to a halt with their six-shooters. John De !f elder, a cattleman, has just reached tcvtfn with the news and say the jMisbe had stepped at a ranch about thirty miles out for lunch and to feed their horeses. PACKER CIDAIIY CRITICISED. Detective Say He Prevented Capture of the Kidnaper. Omaha Letter In New York Times. The amazing conspiracy resulting: In the abduction of young Eddie Cudahy, the only on of the millionaire packer of Omaha, anä the payment of . a ransom, continues to be an absorbing topic of conversation In this city. The ease with which the daring plot was consummated and the boldness with which the whole thing was destined and executed seem almost incredible at this day and time. From the window of his temporary prison young Eddla Cudahy could have seen his father's packing houses, provided the curtains had been removed. In fact, he remarked after his release upon the nearness of his place of captivity to the packing houses because of the pronounced odor. This phase of the case was the first clew the Pinkertons selected. The boy related that tho ordor from the packing plants was most Intense the whole time he was a prisoner. The detectives sought the local Weather Bureau and ascertained that during all of Tuesday evening and Wednesday and Wednesday night, the period of the boy's imprisonment, the wind at Omaha was due north. The detectives then agreed that the boy's temporary Jail was but a hört distance north of the packing houses, and at once began a search of all the vacant houses in the section that were located in that territory. They are very numerous, but the force of searchers were near to the very den In which the robbers had confine 1 their victim when a boy who had seen the horse describe! as belonging to the banditJ tied at the old house telephoned tho police, and the search for the place was over. One of the most singular phases of the whole case, according to a leading Pinkerton man engaged on It, Is the ease with which the bandits secured, the ransom and the Immunity from interference which they PI?ared to have enjoyed. The Pinkertons point out that here was the opportunity for tho polio to have bagged their game, and. in fact. It was about the only weak point of the case, so far as the bandits were concerned. Chief of Police John Donahue admits, to, that in attempting to secure the gold deposited by the frantic father the robbers left a breach in their plans which would have resulted In their capture, but he explains that he was unable to do as he desired at this Etage of the game because of Mr. Cudahy's positive refusal to take the police into his confidence for fear that they would scare the bandits away in trying to capture them and he would risk the life of his son. Mr. Cudahy' told the chief clearly that he must keep his hands off until he got his boy; then he would offer a reward, and they could go to work on the case. Chief Donahue did point out the ease with which the men could be taken while they were trying to escape with a hundred pounds of gold, but the point the bandits made in their letter demanding the money that the police had- prevented the father of Charley Ross from paying the ransom demanded and the boy had thus been lost to his parents forever had the desired effect. MEN MIGHT HAVE BEEN CAPTURED. It is now clear that it would have been the easiest thing in the world to have either captured or killed the daring chief of the outlaw band who undertook the dangerous task of receiving the ransom. In fact, the chief of Omaha's police had figured the case out very correctly up to this point. The letter of the kidnapers explained that Mr. Cudahy should take the gold in his buggy and drive west. along the CenterStreet boulevard until he reached a point where he should observe a lantern tied to a tree or bush by the roadside. The letter did not explain how far the father would have to go, and in this there was great cunning manifested on the part of the thieves. Had the letter stipulated a certain point for the cash to be delivered a cordon of officers and civilians would have been placed around the place, and capture would have been certain. As numerous vehicles passed the point where the lantern signal was shown just before and just after Mr. Cudahy arrived, and no light was seen, it is quite certain the robbers knew of the approach of the Cudahy vehicle, and did not light the signal until the Cudahy buggy was within a short distance of the rendezvous. In fact, Mr. Cudahy said he was within a few yards of the light when it suddenly ilared up as if Just lighted or just uncovered. These facts make tt quite probable that there was one robber stationed at the point where the signal light was to be exhibited and anothei on a bicycle who followed close behind the Cudahy buggy to be sure there was no guard following Mr. Cudahy who would undertake to Interfere with the operation of the robbers. Either this was the case or but one robber was out on the road. This Is the view many of the detectives take of this phase of the case. Mr. Cudahy recalls that when he was within a quarter of a mile of the place where ttv light was shown a small man bending low over a blcyle passed by him swiftly and disappeared in the direction of where the light was seen a few minutes later. The detectives think this man m the wbee! was either one of the bandits, who was to first ascertain that there was no one following Edward Cudahy, and a? then to dart forward and have his brother bandit in waiting show the signal, r that he carried the lantern and dismounted from his wheel at this point with the lantern which he carried or had secreted In advance, which he immediately lighted and displayed. if this were so the robber of necessity cither followed Edward Cudahy from the time he left his home, or was intimate enough with the Cudahty vehicles to be able to recognize the buggy as tt pa?ed him In Ills hiding place, somewhere along tho road. The last proposition Is more likely, because at that time the entire neighborhood around the Cudahy residence was In a state of alarm, and a stranger found waiting around there, as the robber must have done if he were looking for Mr. Cudahy to start on his trip to the woods, would have been arrested or would have excited Suspicion. Mr. Cudahy noted that the lantern was extinguished before he had proceeded fifty yards from the spot. This was anothc-r Indication of the boldness of the robber, and of his utter indifference to danger of detection. WHERE THE POLICE ERRED. Here was where the detectives are inclined to think the Omaha police erred in not making certain the capture of at least one of the robbers. They knew the route Mr. Cudahy would take to reach the locality described by the letter of the bandits. The route was over a natural blcy,cle course. It is sand boulevard, and stretches for seven miles west Into the adJoining county. At intervals of every quarter section along this boulevard are intersecting dirt road, which, on that night, were in perfect condition for bicycling. The detectives of the Pinkertoa agency argue that It would have berii the easiest thing Imaginable to have placed a couple of well-armed and nervy policemen In citlren'K clothes Just beyond the city limits along this route to witch fur the approach of the Cudahy bug;?y. They could have let th? waKon feet a half mile ahead of them, or at least far enough ahead that It could just be discerned by the bicycle teouts. Jf one of the bandits had tccn following on a wheel he could not have been any further back than thla behind the Cudahy buggy. Taking It for granted that one of the bandits en a wheel was behind the Cudahy bugtry. tho detectives would have probably located the thief before he did them. If he took alarm and parted on a run for it they could have needed right after him. Certainly the presence of a strange man in that eection on a wheel at that time at right would have been sufficiently suspicious for the detectives to have halted ti2. Tha city ha a number of very

speedy bicycle men. If they had been forced to arrest the bandit scout on his wheel before he had committed an overt act, they would at least hive been in a position where they could have made the man explain who he was and what he was doing out there at that hour. Had he been a known crook it would have been certain evidence of his guilt. Had It been an honest man the police had stopped by mistake, one officer could have taken him back to town fcr identification while the other continued on after the Cuuahy buggy. If the bicycle detectives had not been interrupted they would have continued In Mr. Cudahy's rear until they saw his vehicle stop and the driver place the sack of frold near the lantern. The scouts could lave crept up near enough to watch any one moving around the light without exciting the su-piclon of a robber lying In wait near that point. The moment the detectives saw a man around the lantern they could have recourse to two titers. They might have followed the retreating lorm at a distance, which would have been easy, since the robbers were carrying a hundred pounds of gold, or' they could have rushed In with pistols ready and either killed or captured their man. If he made a fight he would have been killed. With hfs heavy load he might have been posbly pounced upon and taken without firirg a shot. In that event he would have teen forced to tell where Eddie Cudahy was, or, at least, held as a hostaee for the boy's safe delivery. Better still, if the scouts remained undiscovered, they could have leisurely followed the retreating thief back to the prl?on of the boy, and there taken the whole outfit or from the darkness killed them with their pistols. CUDAHY BOY NOT IN DANGER. Of course, there was the chance of tho plan failing and the robbers then murdering or crippling the boy and taking flight. It Is the consensus of opinion that the robbers, discovering that the ransom was not obtainable, would have ' fled without hurting the boy. They could not have taken the boy with them, neither could they have remained long where they were without discovery. They would not have dared put their horrible threats into execution. Which contemplated burning out the boy's eyes. Had they done this, and- they were captured, their Immediate lynching would have followed, whereas, if they had been captured, after releasing the boy, a short term in the penitentiary would have been their worst punishment. Many critics of Chief Donahue's course In accepting the suggestion of Edward Cudahy that he not interfere in the plan to pay the ransom, take the position that the chief was under some obligations to society In general to attempt to capture the kidnapers in spite of the possibility of injury to young Cudahy; that the protection of the thousands of other children of rich and poor alike was an obligation that the Omaha poilce were charged with which made it imperative that Edward Cudahy's wishes in the case be absolutely ignored. TTpon this theory it is explained that If the chief had spied upon Cudahy regardless of his wishes and no good had come of the act. the chief of police would have been doing his whole duty to tho people in general. However, the chief has many supporters in the position he took that the father whose son was in jeopardy ought to be permitted to govern his conduct of the case until his boy was afc. SHORT OF NATURAL GAS.

People of Detroit In Much the Same Trouble as Indianapolis. DETROIT, Jan. '.Manager Walbridgc of the Detroit City Gas Company, stated tonight that it is his belief the supply of natural gas will temporarily fail if the present cold snap continues for twenty-four hours and advises customers to provlle other fuel at once. Tho company serves over 4,(0 families with gas from the Canadian fields and much discomfort and possible suffering Is expected. The temperature at 8 o'clock to-night was thirteen above zero and falling slowly. Tim large consumers of gas were ordered some time ago to substitute coal for natural gas and most of them have complied, but the county jail and cne hospital are still dependent upon the gas. BEJOICING AT SYDNEY. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) This was followd by a second message, as follows: "Her Majesty's government sends a cordial greeting to the commonwealth of Australia. They welcome her to her place among the nations united under her Majesty's sovereignty, and confidently anticipate for the new federation a future of ever-increasing prosperity and influence. They recognize in the long-desired consummation of the hopes of patriotic Australians a further step in the direction of permanent unity of the British empire, and they are satisfied the wider powers and responsibilities henceforth secured to Australia will give a fresh opportunity for a display of that generous loyalty and devotion to the throne of the empire which has characterized the action in the past of Its several states." Three cheers were given for the Governor General and another salute was fired. Ten thousand pupils of the public schools surg the hymn, "Australia, Fair," and the proceedings were concluded by the choir singing a Te Deum, the "Hallelujah Chorus" and "God Save the Queen." The Earl ofHopetoun was the recipient of numerous messages of congratulations from the officers of the various colonies. The city was brilliantly illuminated thl3 evening with unique and appropriate designs, and the shipping in the harbor was all aflame from stem to stern. The crowds gave every sign of rejoicing. Melbourne, Brisbane and the other capitals have all been celebrating on a smaller scale and swearing In the local governors. The state banquet in the town hall was a brilliant affair, being attended by 1,000 guests. Some disappointment was caused by the absence of Lord Hopetoun, who was much fatigued by the exertions of the day, although he has not suffered further ill effects. The new commonwealth Ministry Is expected to form on protective lines. QUAY IN SADDLE. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) Sears, of Burt county, the Republican caucus nominee, was made speaker of the House by unanimous consent. Senator C. F. Steele was made President pro tem. of the Senate. . Populists Throw Off Mask. DENVER. Col.. Jan. 1. All the Populist members of the State Senate, eight in numbere-. entered the caucus of the Democratic members to-day and announced their intention to join the Democratic party. Correspondent Lost. BERLIN, N. IL. Jan. 1. A searching party has left her for Mount Washington, in an endeavor to find William II. Bodwell, correspondent of the New York Herald, who was lost on the mountain yesterday, while attempting to make the ascent with two other men. Bodwell, with Chester Stiles, of Cambridge, and Ray Evans, of Oorham. went up the mountain on foot for the purpose of taking a view. Druggist Killed by a IlurKlnr. PUEBLO. Col., Jan. 1. Walter C. Castley, a druggist, was shot through the head and instantly killed In his store this morning by a burglar. The body was found by a clerk in the employ of Castley when he entered the store at 6:30 a. m. The cash register had been rilled and every pocket in the murdered man's clothing had been turned inside cut. The murderer escaped. The Battleship Wisconsin. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1. The new battleship Wisconsin was formally turned over to the government yesterday at the Union iron works and went under the stara and stripes. Since the vessel's trial trip seme weeks ago the Wisconsin has been undergoing much minor work and. while not entirely completed, is practically finished. Killed Iii Fat her AntHKonUt. EATONTON. Ga.. Jan. 1. Will Turk, a boy of seventeen, to-day shot and killed Kimball Aiken near here. Thomas Turk, a prosperous merchant, was engaged in a light wit; Aiken, also a prosperous merchant, v ..n he called on his young son Will to choot Aiken. The boy fired at once upon hi father's antagonist, who ft II dead. Six Persons Injured. WAYNE. W. Va., Jan. 1. Westbound pzsäenger train No. 3, on the Norfolk Western Railway, en route to Columbus, ran into a rock near here this morning with serious results. A half dozen persons were Injured. Th!r names are not known. -

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SEXSATIO.YAL FHAXKFORT STORY 31 A DE OX POOR FOUXDATIOX. Keith Trial Under "Way at Princeton Plierson and Lyda-Cox Cases Marion Kuhns ut Albiou. f pertal to the InJlanapnli.? Journal. FRANKFORT. Ind., Jan. 1. The sensational story sent out from here to-day to the effect that the Democratic county tn usurer, John F. Fall, is holding his offlej by force cud with armed men preventing Its seizure by the Republican treasurerelect, Alexander B. Given, has a very lender foundation In fact. Mr. Given was elected by i plurality of twelve votes, secured the certificate of election and has been acknowledged by tho auditor and commissioners, who are Republicans, as the treasurer. Mr. Fall Instituted a contest In the courts to set aside the certificate, and on the advice of his attorneys announced that he would not relinquish his office until tho contest was settled. Mr. Given thereupon instituted quo warranto proceedings and the papei3 were made returnable Jan. 11. To-day Mr. Given made a formal demand for the office and the demand was as formally refused. Given then received a tax duplicate from the auditor and opened an office in that official's apartment In the courthouse. Mr. Fall did not have any "armed men with revolvers bulging from their pockets" guarding his office. His two leputies were left In the office, as they usually are, after he left, after receiving and refusing Mr. Given's formal demand. There have been no threats on either side, no hint of a resort to force. The parties to the pending actions are perfectly friendly in their personal relations. Xo Longer a Democrat. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 1. Henry D. Vancleave, who has always been a Democrat, has announced that he will hereafter support Republican policies and candidates. He favors the ship subsidy bill. STATE STATES ITS CASE. Opening: Outline and Three Witnesses Heard In Keith Trial. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FRINCETON, Ind., Jan. 1. A jury was secured in the Keith murder case a little before noon to-day and the State opened its case at once. The jurymen arc: Martin Meyers, coal weighman; William Lynn, mechanic; Joseph P. Farr, brick mason; Marshall Hanks, farmer; Oscar Clark, liveryman; Edward Gough, farmer; Benjamin E. Wright, blacksmith; Calvin Emmerson, farmer; William Hyneman, farmer; Caleb Lawrence, carpenter; Abner Berry, farmer; Willis Hyneman, farmer. Both sides expres satisfaction with the jury. Prosecutor LIndsey made the opening statement for the prosecution. He said the State's case would be largely circumstantial, but that such a chain of circumstances would be produced that the guilt of the defendant could not be questioned. Frank B. Posey, attorney for the defense, asked for permission to make his opening statement when the prosecutor closed. The court overruled this petition. Three witnesses were examined by the State this evening, all officials of Vanderburg county, who testified as to the condition of tho body when found in Pigeon creek, near Evansville. The defense will attempt to prove that the crime was committed in Vanderburg, and not Warrick county. Keith's wife sat with him this afternoon. The parents of Nora Kifer went when the clothing of the dead girl was exhibited and the witnesses told, of her cop Jltlon when found. Ell Lincoln, cousin of the martyred President, is a witness in the case. He lives in this county. 'The case will occupy at least two weeks. Favorable to Defendants. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MONTICELLO, Ind., Jan. l.The defense In the Lyda-Cox murder case to-day continued its evidence by introducing an affidavit by Ella Heister, the domestic employed at the Lyda home, to the effect that she had nver seen anything improper in the relations of Mrs. Lyda and Starr Cox. Defendant Cox was placed on the stand, and after giving the details of his life, declared jthat he never had been alone with Mrs. Lyda, had improper relations with her, and had no thought of Lyda being poisoned until rumors to that effect became current. This testimony was supplementary to that of yesterday, when Mrs. Cora Ferrell testified that Lyda, In a conversation in her presence, had justified suicide as a means of ending trouble, and had intimated that under certain conditions he might take his own life. Other witnesses testified as to Lyda's morose disposition, ill health and despondency, and others showed that he was badly involved financially. Dr. R. J. Clarke testified that uraema was the probable cause of Lyda's death. Experts in Pherson Trial. FRANKLIN, Ind., Jan. 1. To-day in the Therson murder trial was given to expert testimony. Dr. C. F. Payne testified that Pherson Is physically and mentally weak. His examination of Pherson had showed him to be unfit for labor of body or mind, with a predisposition to heart disease. His whole system showed effects of poor nutrition. Such a man, he said, would be weak mentally, and of small will power. JII3 emotions would become stronger as' his will power failed. It would take twenty or thirty years for a man to reach such a condition. He could distinguish right from wrong, and ordinarily would resist the latter, except under great emotional stress. Dr. P. W. Payne, father of the preceding witness, testified to much the same effect, but said such a man would hardly have the will to do right, as a matter of principle. Both doctors estimated Pherson's age at about ten years more than the actuality, sixty-one years. - - KUIIXS AT ALBION'. He Visits Friends There and Walks the Streets in Safety. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KENDALL VILLE, Ind., Jan.' l.The Sun says: "Marvin Kuhns spent Saturday and Sunday with friends in Albion. lie appeared on the streets with the free and open-air manner of any person who had been absent from his acquaintances for a long time, and he was warmly greeted by those who had known him before his 'unpleasantness In Ohio, and no allusion was made to it by any one. Albion people appear much as others who have met him with regard to his return to Columbus, that is. If tho prison authorities wait him they must come and get him. No one there will molest him." Identity of John Owen. f pclal to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE. Ind.. Jan. l.-A letter received by Sheriff Meyers, at Paris, 111., partly clears the mystery as to the identity of the man John Owen, hanged there Dec. 21 for the murder of James Hogue on a Big Four freight train. The writer Is Dr. Sproule, of Williamsburg, Bell county, Kentucky. He says Owen married his sister-in-law. in 1J&3. at I'ineville. also in Bell county, and after he had obtained possession of jl.ootf she had, which took him two months, he deserted her. When he went to lineville he seemed an exemplary man, a close student of scientific works, and made a favorable Impression on everyone. Subsequent disclosures show that he went to Pinevllle with the deliberate purpose to marry the woman to get the money, -which ho had learned she-had

accumulated. Later, Dr. Sproule says, they learned that he became the poiice character known as "Shiner" Sul'.van, of Louisville.

LOST HIS UPPER LIP. Ex-Fish Commissioner Badly Hurt While Celebrating; at Kokomo. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Jan. 1. Detective Oscar Welty, ex-deputy fsh commissioner, was one of a party who gave J. Frank Dimmitt an "initiation,;" as county treasurer this morning. During the festivities a giant firecracker tore away Welty's upper lip and othervrlse : disfigured his face. Others of the "courthouse gang" wer slightly injured. The explosion was in the treasurer's office. Books-and papers were scattered in all directions, but none was damaged to any marked extent. Small Hoy Instantly Killed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW ALBANY, In!., Jan. 1. Harry, the Fix-year-old son of Thomas Weeks, was instantly killed this afternoon by a haybed falling on him His father and two brothers were within a few feet of him and witnessed the accident. v 1 : OX A METER BASIS. Wabash Xntnrnl fins Consumers Will Pay by the Thousand Feet. Special to the Indianajon Journal. WABASH. Ind., Jan. l.-Mayor McIIenry has issued instructions to all natural gas consumers to take; the readings of their meters where the same have been installed, and report to the city authorities such reading, and at the end of the month make another report of the reading of Jan. 31. The purpose is- to ascertain in a general way the quantity of natural gas consumed during the longest and coldest month of the year as a basis for fixing the meter rate in February. On Feb. 1 all gas contracts terminate and the company will then furnish fuel by meter only. The City Council, a citizens' committee and the company officials will endeavor to agree upon a fair rate, and the citizens are to furnish the data. The company is putting in over 2,000 meters at an outlay of $20,000, and will make no charge therefor. ' Charged with Deadly Assault. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CRAWFORDSVILLE, lild., Jan. 1. Prosecutor Reeves to-day filed information against Jo Douglaa, charging him with assault with intent to kill Frank Parish and Charley Doyle. These two men were shot by Douglas over a week ago, while they were attempting to gain admission to the Douglas house, and Douglas Iui3 been in Jail waiting the outcome of the injuries inflicted on them. Farish seems to be improving, but he will be blind, while Doyle is reported as slowly sinking, being still unable to eat. Tried to Saw Out o( Jail. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SHELBYVJLLE, Ind., Jan. l.-Shcriff Luther this morning discovered an attempt at jail breaking. William Mitchel, under sentence for the attempted murder of Will Orebaugh, and Marshall Palmer, held for trial for shooting to kill Phil Thomas, at Falrland. secured an old knife blade, which they converted Into a eaw. This morning Sheriff Luther discovered a place where they had sawed in two the locks of the lat door. Only an hour's work would have given them their liberty. Safe Blown to Xo Purpose. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BEDFORD, Ind., Jan. 1. On going to his business house this morning, Charles A. Knight, a merchant of North Bedford.found that his safe had been dynamited during the night and almost destroyed. No money was obtained, as he keeps his cash in the banks: Mr. Knight has been a victim to burglars a dozen times or more and this ii the second time his safe has been blown. Diphtheria at Hartford City. ' Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Jan. 1. Miss Hat tie Florettle Farley, a member of a theatrical company, died of diphtheria this morning at the Hotel Ingram, while in quarantine. The deceased was a Chicago girl fourteen years old, and resided at 2wJ Bissell street. Her father, E. V. Farley, arrived at the bedside of his daughter last evening. The body was sent to Chicago for burial, to-day. Indiana Obituary. MADISON, Ind., Jan. l.-Capt. William E. McLeland died this afternoon in his eightyseventh year. He was brought here from Kentucky when six months old. Ho had been postmaster and sheriff, was quartermaster of the Sixth Indiana Regiment and was chief commissary of his division during part of the civil war. KENDALLVILLE. Ind., Jan. l.The wife of William Bunyan died yesterday afternoon at her home in this city, after a long illness, at the age of sixty-five years. Indiana Xotes. During 1900 the real estate deals In Montgomery county amounted to $11,540,318.86. Carl Seabold, living at Markle, near Montpeller, is under treatment and quarantine for the smallpox. The City Council, of Kokomo, has taken the preliminary steps in the establishment of a public library and reading room. The Rev. L. L. Carpenter, of Wabash, dedicated a Christian Church at Manilla, Rush county, Sunday, and. raised sufficient funds to wipe out the debt incurred in its erection. Mr. and Mrs. Noah Johnson, of Morristown, celebrated the golden anlversary of their wedding. Monday. Both are natives of that vicinity, and are more than seventy years of age. MV. and Mrs. Henry Dreckman, of New Albany, yesterday celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage. 'I hey have always resided there. They have eleven children living. The Rev. George H. Relboldt. who has served for some years as pastor of the Methodist churches on the Brownsville circuit, south of Richmond, has been chosen by Bishop Hartzell, of the Methodist Church in Africa, to take charge of the new Methodist school to be established at New Ontalla, in Zambezla. Educational Test for Orientals. VICTORIA, B. C, Jan. l.The provincial government has proclaimed the new regulations for carrying out the immigration act which was passed at the last session, prescribing the educational test. A big fight will be made by the companies engaged in bringing in Japanese and Chinese, as the act is an effective bar to, their entry. Two Men Killed by Boiler Explosion. WARREN, O., Jan. l.The boiler in Hitchcock's sawmill, near Courtland, exploded to-day while the employes were at work there. Edward and Lucius Hitchcock were killed by flying fragments of the wrecked machine, while three other person? were severely Injured. The cause of the explosion Is unknown. ' Mrs. Hammers Committed Suicide. CHICAGO, Jan. 1. M. D. Hoff, the mining operator, who with two others had been held pending an investigation into the death of Mrs. Hammers, who was found dead in her room Sunday with a bullet wound, was released today. The coroner's Jury rendered a verdict that Mrs. Hammers committed suicide. German Editor Killed. PITTSBURG. Jan. 1. i. P. Sain, for the past seven years city editor of the Volksblatt, this city, fell backward from a street car. and was almost Instantly killed tonight. Ills neck was broken. He was forty-six years of age, and has been connected with German papers in this city many years. Engineer Killed and Fireman Hurt. CHICAGO, Jan. 1. J. W. Bell, engineer, was killed, and John Scott, fireman, fatally Injured by the derailment of a Chicago & Northwestern locomotive at Harrington, near here, to-day. The engine ran off the turntable and tumbled into the pit underneath. Sluser and Editor Wed. PHOENIX. A. T.. Jan. l.-Miss Vivian ralmer. a singer of St. Louis, and Lawrence Hamilton, formerly managing editor I of tho Springfield. 111., Ncw3, were mrneu tizsm iwunuw- ....... . . .

NO LOVE FOR THE NEGRO

EX-REPRESEXTATIVE MILLER SO SAYS OF THE REPl I1LICAXS. . He Talks Like a Democrat Another Xegro Professor on Lines of Social Demarkation in the Country. CHARLESTON. S. C, Jan. l.The feature of the Emancipation day celebration at Beaufort, this State, to-daj-, was the address of ex-Congressman Miller (colored), now president of the South Carolina State Colored College. He preached good will between white and black men and . said that when all the circumstances are "considered it is a matter for congratulation that the white people tire doing so much for the educating and uplifting of the negroes. He opposed any reduction of congressional representation, clalmlu that it would indirectly be a blow to the colored man, who will eventually come to his own. He cited the alleged persecution of negroes by Governor Tanner, of Illinois, and said that neither the North nor the Republican party wanted the negro, that nothing In favor of full suffrage rights for the negro could be found in President McKlnley's message and that perhaps the enly leading Republicans now standing up for the race were Chandler. Mason, Allison, T. B. Reed and Harrison. XO LOOSE SOCIAL L1XES. Xegro Professor Demands Rigid Demarkation Between the Races. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 1. Prof. William H. Councill, president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Normal, Ala., speaking at the Bessemer emancipation celebration to-day, touched the social equality question, speaking In part as follows: "This question has been an eating sore, because men have misunderstood the negro; and because it lias been used, simply and purely, North and South, to make white partisans stand close together, as if the negro with one mighty bound would land right in the center of white social circles and carry off every heart in them. There has never been a time when the true negro thought so little of himself that he would surrender his racial identity and be wiped off the face of the globe by another people. There has never been one moment in the South when there was such a spirit slumbering in the negro's breast. The white woman of the South, who is one of the purest women in the annals, of the world, has maintained on her side the purity of both races in the South and today, in building the negro race in the South, it can have no higher example of integrity than the white woman of the South. Whatever may take place in the future, I know not. But I do know now that the salvation of the negro in this country depends upon drawing the social lines tighter, tighter all the while, North and South. The moment they become slack, the white man becomes brutal tho negro goes down forever." DEATH OF I. DONNELLY. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) and on her return to America gave impetus to the theory of the Baconian book published in the year, of her death. 1850. -This book felL into Mr. Donnelly's hands. He was even then a profound Shakspearean scholar, and investigated her assertions with a view to disprove them He became convinced of the truth of her contentions, and .wrote- voluminously in their support. In "The Oreat Cryptogram" he applies Bacon's blliteral cipher,' as explained in Do Augmentls, to the tombstone inscription evolves the sentence, "Francis Bacon wrote the Greene, Marlowe and Shakspeare plays." The same cipher, applied to the text of the original editions of the books, developed many equally remarkable statements. In his second book, referred to above, Mr. Donnelly advances the theory that there is a metallic casket to be found in Bacon's grave, in which will be found papers proving the truth of tho translated inscription. Among his other writings were 'Atlantis," designated to prove the antediluvian existence of a great island, peopled with a race of highly civilized men, in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, and that its destruction gave rise to the stories of the deluge, found among all peoples, and various works on sociology and of a semisclentlfic nature. In addition to his other political honors, Mr. Donnelly served one term in Congress, where his oratorical ability gave him marked influence. He was twice married. His first wife was Katherine McCaffrey, whom he married in Philadelphia, in 1S55. She died in 1S94, and In lSys, on Feb. 22, he married Miss Marlon Hanson, who survives. Mr. Donnelly's sister, Eleanor Celia Donnelly, born in 1S.1S, is tlie foremost living Catholic poet of the day. Rev. Hannibal Goodwin. NEW YORK. Jan. 1. After serving twenty years as the rector of the House of Prayer, in Newark, N. J., the Rev. Hannibal Goodwin Is dead at his home in that city. He .was known as an advanced churchman of the Episcopalian high church school, and the inventor of a well known film for photographic work. He was seventy-eight years old and had been retired from active work for thirteen years. He was a graduate of Yale and of the General Theological Seminary In New York. He filled pastorals In Bordentown and Trenton, N. J., - and in San Francisco before becoming rector of the House of Prayer in lh87. During his active service and after his retirement thirteen years ago, he devoted much time to amateur photography, finally inventing a film for cameras. It was only a year ago that long litigation over this was ended in his favor. Judfre Louis Gottsehnlk. LOS ANGELES. Cal., Jan. .L Judge Louis Gottschalk died of heart disease early this morning. By queer coincidence this was his birthday, lie was sixty-two years old. He was a captain in the Union army during the civil war. lie was elected city attorney of St. Louis in 1S64, and resigned his commission in the army to enter upon his duties. Later he served six years as circuit judge in Missouri; was a member of the State Senate, serving for.a considerable time as president pro tem. of that body, and was for eight months acting Governor of Missouri. In 1SS4 he came to Los Angeles, and in 18S9 was appointed by President Harrison as consul at Stuttgart, which position he filled for three and a half years. Elieneier L'pham. JAMESTOWN, N. Y., Jan. 1. Ebenezer Upham, a former publisher of the Jamestown Courier, the Dubuque, la.. Times, Des Moines Register, Chicago Inter Ocean and the Industrial World, of Chicago, and for a great many years partner of Frank W. Palmer, the present government printer, died at his home "in this city last night, aged seventy-three years. RECALLED BY CUDAHY CASE. Charley Ross Father Tried to Pay the Ransom Asked. New Orleans Times-Democrat. "I see that the scoundrels who kidnaped young Cudahy used the Charley Ross case as an argument to bring the father to terms." said an old newsnarwr man "Thw j reminded him that Mr. Ross had allowed tne üetectives to persuade him to refuse the ransom, and, consequently, he never saw his boy. I happen to know that statement is untrue, and my authority is Christian K. Ross himself. The whole story of his negotiations with the kidnapers was never made public, because it was thought at tho time it would frustrate the plaus of the police, and later on Mr. Ross had a horror of talking about the case. But he did not refuse the ransom. On th; contrary, he made a desperate effort to comply with the exact conditions laid down by the abductors, and they themselves were to blame for their failure to get what they demanded. When the villains proposed, by letter, to return the child for fctt.Ooy cah," continued the old newspaper man, "the detectives were anxicus to surround the place of rendezvous and capture whoever came after the money. To this Mr. Ross would not agree, fearing that the news would reach the gang and hH boy would be killed before the next step could be taken. He was so apprehensive that the oollee would rarrv nur th&i nian. 1 without advising him. that he entered Into seem correspondence with th kUnapcri

and asked them to instruct him exactly how and when the money should be paid, promising to follow their Instructions to the letter. The whole country wa3 meanwhile aroused, and the miscre-tnts were evidently greatly ' alarmed. They half formed and rejected many plans and finally, after a delay of weeks, told Mr. Ross to take a certain suburban night train out of Philadelphia and ride forty miles, f-tanding on the rear platform. He was to have the money with him in a white canvas bag and throw it off, on the tracks, when he aw a red and green light at the right-hand side of the road. It was bitterly cold and raining on tho appointed night, but he made the trip, precisely as ordered, and, to his Infinite disappointment, saw no lights. A few days afterward the kidnapers wrote that they were merely 'testing him,' and he was directed to repeat the journey at another given date He was suffering from cold, contracted during the first night ride, but again he followed their directions, and again the lights failed to appear. He never heard from the abductors again. This was told me. years ago, by Mr. Ross hirrself, and you wlli see that he acted precisely as did Mr. Cudahy under parallel circumstances. Perhaps both gentlemen were unwise, but the possible consequences of a bold stand in such a case are too shocking for any parent to contemplate." BONDSMEN SETTLE.

Will Pay $2:5.000 of a Tax Receiver's Shortage and Be Released. ALTOONA, Pa., Jan. L On a confessed defalcation of between tOO.000 and 140,000 the County Commissioners have agreed to accept $25,000 from Tax Receiver McCuIlough's bondsmen and call his accounts square. He owes $23,000 on his 1S98 duplicates and $50,000 on his 1SO0 duplicates. These amounts include the sum total of his peculations. The compromise was effected yesterday after several conferences had been held by the bondsmen, commissioners and attorneys. The bondsmen are to pay $12.500 for 1S18 and the ame amount for 1S99, the commissioners claiming McCulltugh's duplicates are square up to and including 1S97. Although McCullough is still missing, he is not likely to escape punishment, as one of the bondsmen proposes to offer a reward for his apprehension. DIPLOMAT WHO SHOOTS ASTOX1SIIIXG SKILL OF THE MINISTER FROM BRAZIL. Absolute .Master of Rifle and Pistol Astonishing Feat Without the Use of Firearms. Kansas City Star. In Senhor J. F. de Assis Brasil, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the United States, the Republic of Brazil boasts not only one of the most astute diplomats at Washington, but also an amateur marksman of unparalleled skl'l. One afternoon recently Senhor Brasil" talked in an entertaining strain on t?iorlsmanship and shooting. He went over to an oaken gun case and, helecting firüt one piece and then another to illustrate the point under discussion, he began a series of performances wonderful to behold. "It has always seemed peculiar to me," he remarked, "that most men stand facing their antagonist, full front. Bob Acres had the light idea in presenting the least possible surface to the opponent. Moreover, when one stands firmly with the feet a little apart, the toes pointed out and the head turned well to the left, his poise is steadier. Again, if the palm of the left hand is spread and the gun well balanced on the outstretched hand, there is much less tension than In the usual mode of holding the piecci. "Most men pull the trigger with the Index linger of the disengaged hand. If you will try the second linger you will find it gives better control and enables one to further steady the aim with the thumb and index finger.' Then the speaker threw open a window and said: "Which blade of grass shall I cut?" As some one looked Incredulous, the minister smiled in return and added, "Perhaps you cannot distinguish one from another, try this," and he tbssed a shot smaller than a French pea on a bit of sidewalk in the yard. As the shot rolled along in tho sunshine until it nestled in some inequality in the pavement, he resumed, "Now, I'll fire when you. say." "Fire!" Tlink! snapped the little rifle, and the tiny shot popped off to one side. Senhor Brasil smiled. "In the summer, it is more amusing to clip the wings off a fly, but this is good practice, firing down at such an angle as this." The shot was fired from the second story window at an angle of about forty-five degrees and the object was about twentyfive feet distant. "This is merely a little toy gun, with which I amuse the children sometimes. It is not so very accurate," depreciatingly, "but perhaps I can show you another thing that conveys better my meaning. There is a something, an intangible rapport, that the true marksman must have. Then he cannot fall. Here, I will wave this rifle about so (describing with the barrel circles about a foot in diameter), and when you give the command I will shoot." "Go snap!" went the command and the explosion simultaneously it seemed. The missile sped straight to the mark, a small matchsafe across the room. "You see, one must shoot at the precise psychologic instant or the bullet will go astray." It seemed as If the shooter had not aimed at all and someone said so. "Oh, well, that is not always necessary," retorted the minister, laughing. "I'll hold the rifle in one hand, waist high, and see if I cannot put another bullet through the aperture made by that other one." Presto, he had reloaded, cocked and fired the rifle in a trice and the second pellet had followed the first. "The archer does not aim. he knows the power of his bow and the trajectory of his arrow. He and his instrument are en rapport and the shaft pierces the bull's-eye. So it should be to-day with modern weapons." Then he whirled the rifle under his leg and put another bullet through the tiny match box. Leaning over and looking through his legs, with his head almost on the floor, Senhor Brasil fired once more and unerringly. "Bah, that Is all theatrical." he said, "let m not discuss it. But would you sit down ever there and let me place this other side of the match box on top of your head. There! The head a little more to the left. Now I will put a bullet through the head of the little man pictured on the box." Walking oif a few paces the minister drew a bead and fired. "Oh, but you moved, ever so little," he murnured "Yes, involuntarily, of course, out still I fancy we did not miss the mark alt gtther " Stooping down, he picked the box off the floor end pointed smilingly to the hole through the neck of the man. Shall we try again? Perhaps the next one will go Btralghter." "N-no." ejaculated the William Tell subject. "Tho er neck was straight enough. Very rood shot, indeed." 'Perhaps yon would bo " kind enough to hold this card and let me see if . cannot split it," turning to another gentleman in the party. "I will fire at your command, m'sleur." Ping! Again the aim was true, and the thin card was sliced as if by a knife blade. Again, holding a small hand mirror in his hand, the minister hit the bull's eye with the cenltude and accuracy of a clock ticking off the seconds. Extinguishing a lighted match and exploding a cartridge half in bedded lr a board immediately behind it was still another diverson. Yet more wonderful was the simultane cus shooting of two sparrows, fifty or sixty feet Hpait. as they pecked at little mounds of grain. Sighting first one pistol and then the other, the marksman, standing midway betwecjt the two birds, shot both at the samo instant He never uses a shotgun in hunting, believing bullets are more humane. "A bullet kills instantaneously," he said, "while shot scatter and malm." Senhor-Brasil Is fond of partridge shootHe prefers a rifle always, but he thai

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shotguns and light and heavy calibre pieces. Their weight, the length of barrel, the rifling and particularly the sights and wind gauges are all made from his own data. The stocks are inlaid with gold, usually his family coat of arms or a hunting scene of pointers and setters afield. Among his galaxy of firearms is a unique cane gun. Barrel and handle look exactly like an ordinary walking stick, but a wooden plug ferrule may be withdrawn Instanter and a lever drawn in the angle of the handle; quick as a wink a hammer springs up and a cartridge falls into place. When he was a student at college Senhor. Brasil used to mystify the natives as he walked along, books in hand, by suddenly dropping a bird or squirrel a hundred yards away, apparently after merely pointing hU black cane at the objects. Another curio is a five-chambered pocket revolver, sith a barrel Just an inch long. The whole affair Is more compact than a short stemmed bulldog briar pipe, and yet he says.it is very accurate up to several hundred" feet. Still another flremarm is a double barreled, one barrel rifled, the other not, and so light and well balanced that the owner handles It with one hand, as It it were a pistol. A brace of duelling pistols, an dephant gun of very heavy caliber for shooting explosive bullets, air rifles and divers other pieces repose in the handsome plush-lined cabinet that just matches the bookcases lr the big library. Every variety of American firearm may be found in this collection hair triggers, hammerless guns and what not and yet this does not comprise all of his assortment. The most astonishing feat of dexterity the senhor performs with five matches without the aid of a gun. He calls it his "gun carriage demonstration." It is a sort of fancy billiard shot exhibition, and merely "shows the marvelous delicacy of touch that will come from long practice. It Is usually done across the width of a dining-room table. The gun carriage Is made of thre matches laid in the form of a letter "H." with the foot of the "H" parallel to the table's edge. A fourth match is laid over the- crossbar of the "gun carriage," llko the barrel of a cannon, resting on Its trunnions, with the butt end of the matrb. projecting a quarter of an inrh beyond th edge of the table and the hd pointing trthe opposite side. Acron the table a filth match is stood tip on end in a salt cellar. Taking an ordinary dinner knife, the minister bends the blade back like the spring of a catapult and strikes the "gun" sharply on theliutt. It flies across the table ind knocks down the upright match, about Tialf the timo striking It squarely on the head and lighting both matches. People who have never heen this done rarely believe It possible, but the minister has so far convinced all of his Intimate friends by an actual demonstration. Kitchener Equal to the Occasion'. Philadelphia Record. Eord Kitchener's whirlwind Journey from Tretorla to De Aar. in Cape Colony, and back again was a practical demonstration far more eloquent than words of the insignificance of the movements of tho Boers from a military point of view. It showed that all lines of communication from the capo to Iampopo river are unbroken, and are not even seriously menaced. Evidently Eord Kitchener is satisfied that there is no great danger of revolt In Cape Colony, and that the precautions which have been taken to isolate and corner the guerrillas under De Wet and those who have crossed the Orange river are sufficient for the purpose. The rumor that If Wet is endeavoring -to escape to the southward indicates that he has been headed off in his northward rush, and. perhaps, that his military career Is nearlng its end. Adds to the National Gnyrty. Booklyn Eagle. General Alger has written a book. Of old a wise man said: "Would that my enemy would write a book." Genf ral Mile?, one of tho most plctoral characters of war or peace, is not a friend of General Alger, nor is General Alger a friend cf his. It Is only necessary now for General Miles to write a book in order to oblige General Alger. As intimate enemies and as antsgonlstlc authors, they could add to the gayety of nations, to the rpi?e of the service, and to the intensity of partisanship. Elerenth Commandment Violated. Minneai-olis Tribune. There is a social upheaval in a South Dakota town caused by the confession at a revival by a someviiat notorious female character of offenses against morality which Involve some of the best known married men in the place. The woman feels better for having relieved her mind, but her co-sinners, with the divorce court yawning for them, ire fitting in sackcloth i.nd ashes pondering over the exceeding rinfulntts of sin when you get caught in it. Valuable Possession. Washington Letter. Mrs. Perry Heath has a trick dog which would support the family. If it ever encountered hard times. He forms part of the reception committee whenever Mrs. Heath presides at a levee in her hospitable home. Cnrrle Nation's Acts 'ot Approved. WICHITA, Kan.. Jan. 1. At the remilar "meeting of the Evangelical ministers of Wichita, held to-day. a resolution commending the action of Mrs. Carrie Nation in sirhlng saloon furniture was defeated by an overwhelming majority. Losses by Fire. BURLINGTON. Ia.. Jan. l.-Fire to-dy destroyed two buildings on Main street, owned by Schramm & Schmieg and by the Connor Mercantile Company. Guest's music store was damaged slightly. The losses are estimated at J1M.0U0; Insurance, $73,000. Woolen Manufacturers Fall. PHILADELPHIA. Pa., Jan. 1. Samuel Riddle's Sons, woolen manufacturers, with mills located at Glen Kiddle, Pa., havs presented a ietitlon in voluntary Kinkruptcy. The assets are said to bo XH.2t2, and the liabilities J301.000. Indiana Points the IV y. Chicago News. Indiana pupils at a school in Petersburg have hazed a teacher severely, and at first glance this seems to be an excellent thing to pass along at West Point. 9Iovenicnts of Steamers. LONDON. Jan. L Arrived: Mascanarao, from New York. SYDNEY, N. S. W.. Jan. l.-Salled: Aorangl, for Vancouver. General Batehelder HI. WASHINGTON. Jan. 1. Brigadier General It. N. Batehelder. U. S. A., retired, la critically ill in this city of diseases arising from kidney trouble. Congressman-Elect SJartln HI. SIOUX CITY, Jan. 1. Congressman-elect E. W. Martin, of Deadwood, S. D.. Is critically 111 of pneumonia. Lettlne It Down Easy. Atchison Globe. When women say of a baby that It Is "awfully sweet" it U a sign thy do not think It very pretty. To Cure a Cold la Ob Cay Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tatltts, AH druggists refund the money If It failj to evrew E. V. Grove's eignature !j cn cici t:i