Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 10, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 January 1901 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1901.

House by a voto of 'JS to 22. There was but one ballot anI sixty votes were cast. Fcr assistant clerk P. Ii. J. Schäfer, of South Iml. was elected on the first ballot, receiving forty votes. W. A. Wildtnan. of Grant county, his opponent, recelved twenty-one vote?. Everett Ilranyar.. of Huntington, who was a candidate for the assistant clerkship, withdrew from tho race yesterday afternoon. There were two candidates for the ofHcc of chief doorkeeper of the House, William T. Murray, of Conncravllle, and Sol Pennington, of Kokomo. Murray received thirty-nine votes and Pennington twenty. The caucus adjourned a little after 3 o'clock. It was not a closed session and the public was admitted. THE MEN SELECTED. Samuel It. Artman, who was chosen speaker of the House, Is thirty-four years of age, and has been Identified with the Interests of IJoor.c county nearly all hl3 life. He was formerly county surveyor, and was city attorney of Lebanon for eight years. He resigned this place last June. He has also been a member of the Lebanon School Hoard. William Essmann, chosen as chief clerk of the House, is a resident of the Eighth ward In this city. He was for two years superintendent of the county workhouse. He is thirty-two years of age. D. H. J: Schäfer, assistant clerk of the House, was mayor of South Bend for four years. During the last campaign he was chairman of the St. Joseph county central committee. W. T. Murray, chief door-keeper, i3 a Fayette county farmer and a veteran soldier. He Is fifty-four years of age. .. TIIK SKXATK CAUCUS.

Charles X. Elliott, of Thin City, Lost Other Selections. The Republican senators met in caucus last night in the office of the Lieutenant Governor, at. the Statehouse, and selected the following officers for the Senate: President pro tern.. Senator W. R. Wood, of Lafayette. Chief secretary of the Senate, V.'. W. Huffman, of Anderson. Assistant clerk, Harmon L. Hutson, of Angola. Doorkeeper, Clemmens Pelzer, of Evansville. The caucus convened at S:13 p. m. and In less than half an hour the senators had made their selections. Senator Frederick A. Joss was made the unanimous choice of the senators as their caucus chairman. Senator Keyes. of Dana, was selected as the caucus secretary. As soon as the caucus was called to order the chairman appointed Senator William A. Guthrie, of Dupont, and Senator T. H. Johnson, of Dunkirk, as tellers and announced the order in which the officers of the Senate were to be selected. The first office to be voted for was that of president pro tem. of the Senate. The names of two candidates were presented William I:. .Wood, of Lafayette, and C. C. Iiinkley. of Richmond. Senator Wood was declared the winner on the first ballot, he having received twenty-three votes and Senator Ulnkley ten. As soon as the vote had been announced Senator Llnkley mado a motion to make Senator Wood's selection unanimous, and the motion was carried with great enthusiasm. TUR CHIEF SECRETARY. The name of V. W. Huffman, of Anderson, was th-n presented as a candidate for principal secretary of the Senate, and there being no other nominations, Mr. Huffman was made the unanimous choice of the caucus. The contest between Harmon L. Hutson, of Angola, and Charles N. Elliott, of this city, for the assistant secretaryship of the Seruite resulted in a victory for Mr. Hut3on by a vote of 20 to 13. Mr. Hutson's selection was then made unanimous. When nominations were called for the office of doorkeeper the names of the following five candidates were presented; Clemmens Ptlzer, of Boonvllle; J. D. White, of Indianapolis; J. F. Taylor, of Delphi; Courtland Ball, of Indianapolis, and Captain Rutledse. of this city. Mr. Pelzer w:as selected, receiving eighteen votes on the first ballot. Tho remainder of the votes were about equally divided among the other candidates. After the election of officers had been concluded Senator Ball and Senator Agnew were appointed a committee to escort Lieutenant Governor-elect Gilbert to the caucus, and by'ä unanimous vote he was made an honorary member of It. The Lieutenant Governor responded to the courtesy with a brief speech. Before the caucus adjourned a committee vras appointed for tho distribution of patronage, composed of Senators Johnson. Guthrie and Ball. It was d'eclded that eaci senator should have the recommendation of one first-class appointment. WHO THEY AUE. Senator W. R. Wood, the caucus selection for president pro tem. of the Senate, is engaged in the practice of law with J. Frank Hanly at Lafayette and Is well known in Ms profession. Senator Wood was elected four years ago to fill out the unexpired .term of LUutenint Governor Haggard and was re-elected two years ago. He has been prominent In the Senate during his entire service. W. W. Huffman, selected for principal secretary, is the president of the Columbia Directory Company, at Anderson, and is prominently known in business circles. He has long been a warm personal friend of Governor-elect Durbin and Is prominent in Madison county politics. Harmon L. Hutson, selected for assistant secretary; was formerly engaged in the practice of law at Angola and is a warm friend of Lieutenant Governor Gilbert. Two years ago h gave up his practice in Angola and earr.e to this city to accept a position In the office of Charles Remy, reporter of the Supreme Court. He is well known in state and district politics. Clemmens I'Mrer Is well known in Republican politics. He resides at Boonvllle, and locally did his party good service at the last election. He was doorkeeper of the Senate two years ago. DEMOCRATIC CAUCUSES. Complimentary Selections ns Made hy the Minority. The Democrats held their caucuses at the Grand Hotel last night to elect the minority candidates lor the offices In the House and Senate. The only contest of any consequence was over the candidate for speaker of the House. Cyrus E. Davis, of BloomfieM. was opposed by George W. Louttit. of Fort Wayne. Davis Is a new man in the Legislature and was supported by the new rr.err.bers. Louttit relied upon his old f i lends and the politicians who have seen srv!r In the Legislature before to elect hirn. The contest was sharp and all even In? before the caucuses were called both candidates and their friends worked vigorously lor the leadership of their party in thv Legislature. When they went into caucus both were fueling confident, but it soon developed that Davht was the hiror.sT. The ote was dos, how r.ver. standing ir to Is in his favor There were a number of contestants fur the smaller oftices In tho House. whl'-h requited in the election of Kojnus V, Stuart fcr chief clerk. C P. Hanna a tUtant clerk. ChurfeH E. Murphy, of Brook 'iii, caueus rnairr.an, ana Lutntr a: F'S.3en doorkeeper. Te cindidatcs fur the minor offices of th Senate xtiecttd are: Principal svre t:ry. B. S. Gray, of Frankfoit; a-s'?tant rrcretarj. Ld V'cl"r. of Columbia City; .'.rrxcejkTi Jes?e II. Slier, of Carthage. I I.'- fVnate caucus was quiet and no one ,"v ; ..:cd Eph Inm'art, of Washington, for

the office of president pro tern. W. E. Stillwell, of Princeton, was elected caucus chairman. After the caucuses a Joint session was held and the policy of the party in the coming session' of tho Legislature was outlined and discussed. Frank W. Cregor, of Carthage, was elected chairman of tho Joint caucus, and Milton T. McCarty, of Lurllngton. secretary. One Important question the joint caucus settled was- the matter of raising the salary f the Governor under suspended rules. The subject was dlrcussed at some length and it was finally decided that the Demorrats will stand against any suspension of the rules for that purpose.

rimiAUY ELECTION LAW. It In Conceded to lie One of the Most Important of Measure. It is conceded by members of both branches of the Legislature that the primary election bill will be one of the most Important measures to come before the body. Some of the legislators decline to give their views on the proposed legislation until they have become thoroughly conversant with the details of the bill that has already been prepared. Representative Roberts, of Madison, said yesterday that he doubted if a majority of the members of the House would be in favor of the bill at this time. They feel that it is a very important matter, and they want to know all about the provisions of the proposed measure before they talk much about It. There is considerable gossip concerning voting machines among members oX both branches and there seems to be a senti ment which favors the use of the machines. One of the most enthusiastic supporters of a primary election law is L. F. Perdue, of Terre Haute, a prominent Republican, who was in the city yesterday, but who Is not a member of the Legislature. He says this is about the only legislation in which he is interested. However, he would not be in favor of making nominations !irect by primary elections. He simply wants some sort of a law that will make it possible to select delegates in an honest way at primaries. ''I believe Terre Haute people pretty generally favor some sort of a primary election law," he said. "The socalled primaries that are now held in most of the wards in Terre Haute are howling farces. Men ofvall parties, without regard to residence or any sort of qualification, vote at our primary elections. Boys, white and black, and perhaps not over sixteen or seventeen years of age. have voted, and repeating has been common, not in one place only, but men have been accused of going from one precinct to another and casting their ballots. I recall on one occasion when a Democrat voted at my precinct one night and the next night was elected a delegate to a Democratic convention at a precinct over in another ward. Men of principle have refused to take any part in primaries because they were crowded out and run over by the mobs scrambling to get in their work. As chairman of two such primaries in my ward last summer I had the opportunity of seeing and knowing that five hundred votes were cast and fully 40 per cent, of these were Illegal and Democratic votes. I do not believe I favor voting for nominees direct, but I am in favor of voting for delegates to conventions under stringent laws that will make such choosing honest and will make Republican primaries Republican and Democratic primaries Democratic. Unless this can be done the corrupt vote oi our large cities will work ruin to our republican form of government and override the will of the people of the State." STREET IMPROVEMENT BILL. It Una Been Drawn Up Zy the Com mercial Club Committee. The street improvement bill to equalize burdens connected with street improvements has been prepared by the Commer cial Club committee of which Dyron K. Elliott is the chairman. The bill was drafted by C. A. Kenyon. a member of the committee, and the language in the main is practically the same as the present bill. The main changes are amendments to Sec tions 73, 73 and 77. Section 73 Is so amended as to provide that on remonstrance day property owners Interested in contemplated improvements shall have a hearing before the Beard of Works and it shall then be determined whether or not the proposed improvements are Just to all concerned. The finding of the board is to be final in such cases. Section 77, as amended, pro vides that the assessment roll shall be made up under the existing law. The board Is tc advertise the proposed improvements. stating that on a certain day property owners concerned may have a hearing be fore the board. If the board finds that cer tain property owners are not benefited to the amount of the assessment levied on their property, the board is to reduce the assessment. The reduction is to be such as will be Justified by the actual value of tho property concerned. If it is found that any property is assessed insufficiently, the assessment may be Increased. If the board finds that the city Is benefited more than certain property owners the board is to order to be paid out of the city general funds an amount Justified." No large amount, however. Is to be thus paid out without a specific appropriation for the purpose. Section 77 provides that the first lot front ing on the street or- sidewalk to be im proved shall bear the assessment, but after a hearing before the board, and if it is found that the property in the rear of the first lot and within 150 feet of the street to be Improved Is benefited, the rear nroncrty shall bear a part of the assessment and the owner of the front lot shall be re lieved of a part of the original assessment. CARRYING OF LIVE STOCK. A IIII1 Designed to Make Rnllrnmt Liable for Damastes. W. T. Whitington, an attorney, of Crawfordsville, who was in the city last night. expects to prepare a bill which should be very popular with farmers and stock shippers. The bill is designed to prevent and forbid railroad companies from exempting: themselves by contract from liability as common carriers of live stock. The bill will be presented by Representative Scott or Senator Johnson, both of whom come from Montgomery county. "A large number of the States already have such a law," said Mr. Whitington, yesterday evening. "The law as it now is in Indiana rermlts a railroad company to exempt itself from all liability for damages to live stock carried by It by contract, ex cept such damage as Is caused by the com pany's negligence, and the burden 13 on the shipper to show that negligence. In most cases this Is very difficult for the shipper to do. In litigation claims against railroads for damage to live stock 1 have found that not one shipper or farmer in twenty-five ever reads the finely printed contract, in which the exceptions and exemptions are couched. The exceptions are always printed in fine type and they are in a lengthy contract which the shipper seldom has opportunity to read before sign ing the same, and if read, very few if any of them would understand Us nieanine." Mr. Whitington points out that If loss or injury occurs to stock that Is being shipped, the railroad company is In full possession of all the facts which It Is almost impossible for the shipper to ob tain. He thinks there is no good reason why railroads should not carry live stock under the law applicable to common car riers. SENATE APPOINTMENTS. The X nine a of Men Who NVIll Get Places Made Pnbllc. The committee appointed by the Repub lican Senate caucus to distribute its patron age, immediately after tho caucus at the Statehou?e, adjourned to the Denison Ho tel, where it remained in executive session until after midnight. When the senators separated for the night they announced that all places had been .'Ued. but said the committee had not decided upon their distribution. Tho full list of those that will fill the various appointive positions In the Senate, as given ou; by the committee, is as fol lows: W. K. Penrod. Fred Snyder. D. S. Coe. W. E. Brown. D. M. Bli. Orison H. Hayey. Daniel Flannagan. Chnrles WhitUnbraken. Charles N. Elliott. W. II. Rights. Thomas Cutter. C. C. Lyons, George I!em. Isador ulfson, George Y . Baxter. E. I Sheehan. Philip Lahr. Lawrence Lyons, Porter Berein. John U. Jones, John W. Burns. J. N. Temple, jr., J. B. Smith. John Pearson. David Springer,- Jes.1o Lynn, Andrew Curtis, A. C. Beechcr, John Jack,

Jeremiah Crow, Ross Ringel and E. It. Ficyd. In addition to the above the following pages have been selected: - Thomas It. Lindley, of Xoblesvlllc, the son of Senator Themas J. Lindley; Albert Burns, son of Senator Albert M. Hums, of South Bend, and u young man named Hughes. The Janitors selected by the committee are William Jackson, Thomas Kincher, E. Ü. Day and John Gates. FIRST MEETING TO-DAY.

The Governor's Measaee Will Be Heard by Doth Houses. This morning at 10 o'clock the Sixty-second General Assembly of Indiana will hold Its first meeting. The House of Representatives will be called to order by the secreiary of state and the Senate by the retiring Lieutenant Governor. The two branches will then organize, the House by elcctlng a speaker, principal clerk, assistant clerk and principal doorkeeper and the Senate by electing a president pro tem., secretary, assistant secretary and principal doorkeeper. These places were selected at the caucuses last night. The two houses will hear the Governor's message about noon and then the Legislature will adjourn until next Monday in order to give the incoming Lieutenant Governor and new speaker time to select their committees. PLACES IN THE HOUSE. Llat of Appointments Not Yet Completed. There are about thirty-five people to be appointed to places in the House in addi tion to the five pages and the force of janitors. Theso thirty-flvo represent as sistant doorkeepers and clerks. At 2 o'clock this morning it was announced that the appointments had not yet been 'agreed upon. But one appointment was announced that of Frank Le Fever, of Union City, who is to be a page in the House. It is understood that William Russell, of Madison county, i3 to be an assistant doorkeeper, and J. O. Lee, of the same county. Is to have a clerkship. To Increase Governor's Salary. The matter of Increase of the salary of the Governor will come before the Legisla ture in a bill which will be introduced by Senator Johnson, of Jay and Randolph counties. An effort will be made to secure a suspension of the rules In order to pass tne Dili Derore the retirement of Governor Mount Monday next. In which case the benefit of the Increase proposed would go to Governor-elect Durbin. It Is thought there will be little opposition. The salary of the onice is now $5,000 a year. The proposed increase is $2,500. Bill for Cities and Town. J. E. McHenry, mayor of Wabash, and Arthur "W. Brady, city attorney of Muncle, who were appointed at a conference of the mayors and city officials and the State Board of Commerce to frame a bill pro viding a new form of government for the cities and towns of the State came to Indianapolis yesterday with the draft of the bill which will be presented to the Legisla ture for action. A conference of all persons interested will be called for next week to consider their recommendations. To-Nlghf Reception. The committee in charge of the arrange- v ments for the reception to be given this evening in the Commercial Club rooms for the members of the General Assembly de sires it particularly to be understood that all members of the club are expected to attend without individual invitation. The list of the ten-minute speakers is as follows: Governor-elect Durbin, Lieutenant Governor-elect Gilbert. Senator Ephraim Inman, Representatives Samuel R. Artman, James P. Siütesman, Representative Cy w. jjavis ana John w. Kern. Hospital for Inebriates. A bill looking to the establishment of a State hospital for the care of inebriates and persons afflicted with an uncontrollable thirst for Intoxicants Is one of the measures which will be Introduced in the Legislature by Senator Charles Whltcomb, of Vigo county. He is now at work preparing the bill, which he thinks should be made partly self-supporting by a special tax upon the liquor Industries. Opposed to Inereased Salaries. W. B. Anderson, editor of the Anderson Herald, and president of the Republican Editorial Association, is opposed to the proposed new fee and salary bill and to in creasing the salary of the Governor. He says he has interviewed twenty-five editors of Indiana papers who hold the same views. FOUR KILLED, TWENTY HURT. Result of an Explosion of Gas In a Mexican Coal Mine. EAGLE PASS, Tex., Jan. 9. An explo sion of gas in coal mine No. 5 at Hondo, Coahuila, Mexico, last night caused the death of four men and the injury of up wards of twenty others, among the latter being three brothers named Sullivan, maimed beyond recognition. General Manager Johnson left Ciudad Porforlo Diaz promptly by special train and is on the ground with medical and other aid for the sufferers. Wu Had to Pay Charges. Washington Special to Chicago Timesiieraiu. Minister Wu told a curious story to-day Illustrative of a certain phase of Chinese character. During the height of the troubles at Peking Mr. Wu received almost every day from a certain Chinese viceroy a cablegram making inquiries as to what the United States government was going to do and giving hints as to what was going oi in China. Sometimes these cables werf only a few words in length, but on othea occasions they ran up to hundreds of words. Each called for a reply, and though Mr. Wu naturally made these as short a? possible, the aggregate cabled matten dur ing three or four months ran Into the thousands of dollars. The joke of the thing Is that Mr. Wu had to pay the charges both ways, as the messages from China camo collect," and the minister did not. dare to send his answers in the same convenient way. The viceroy in question was a powerful man at home, and If Mr. Wu were to have offended him the head of the Chinese plenipotentiary1 at Washington misht at any time have fallen into the official basket. So the poor minister con tinued to pay his $l.w a word and look as pleasant as possible. Hoanekeeplno; for n Millionaire. Ladles Home Journal. In the mansion of a modern millionaire the most interesting feature Is the invisibility of the housekeeping machinery. Everything runs with precision, and one never sfes "the wheels go i round." By 9 o'clock in the morning every department Is Immaculately clean and in perfect order. except the bed chambers, where those who dwell In the lap of luxury may still be slumberinK: or perchance they may be breakfasting In lonely grandeur. Millionairedom lies abed late the fvmlnlne part especially, to whom beauty sleep la an Imperative necessity. In a great house. whatever the size of the family proper, two cr ten. It matters not. a certain number of servants Is always requisite to insure the proper conduct of the affairs of the house hold If the people live elegantly and en tertain frequently the department of service must be composed of skilled hands who or? inrrfates of the house. The chef nnd butler only my rleep out. And America Also. Minneapolis Journal. The Philadelphia Record says they have pure beer in Germany because German brewers are compelled to make their beer from malt, hops nnd water; the substitution of any other ingredient for these three la nn nfYr-n.- ntinishftble bv fine, f m nrl nnmerit and the confiscation of the brewing plant. Hence there has never been any cafe of poisoning from beer In Germany, although the consumption of the beverage is enormou. u he nrltlsn government might profit by Germany s example. The Indignant Citizen. Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Don't drag my name Into print In con nection with this absurd affair, cried the irdlgnant citizen; "but If you do be sure to spell out mjr middle name In full."

BIG SUIT FOR PENALTY

FIVE THOUSAND A YEAR ASKED ON SEQUESTER E D PR O PE RT Y. Total In fSMXX Argument Under Way I Keith Trial Raid by Horse Tüleve in "Wnyne County. Fpeclal to the Indianapolis Journal. CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind., Jan. 9. A suit for penalty has been filed here, entitled the State of Indiana ex rel. William Reeves, prosecutor, vs. William Cox, for failure to give In personal property to the assessor during every year slnco 1S84. It is alleged in the complaint of sixteen paragraphs that each year Mr. Cox had not give in notes held on personal property in Howard, Clinton and Boone counties and also had ?4,000 in school bonds of Thorntown which he sequestered. The total amount of property thus sequestered each year amounted to $28,513, and for each of the sixteen years that this was done there is a penalty of $5,000 asked, which will be a total of $S0,000 for the entire period. Osteonnthy Case Henrd. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENVILLE, O., Jan. 9. The demurrer to the indictment in the case of Dr. Gravitt, osteopath, on which argument was heard hero to-day, was sustained by Judge Cole. The indictment was found for practicing without a medical certificate, and the case Interests such practitioners throughout the United States. It will go to the Supreme Court. Prominent attorneys are in the case, including Senator Foraker. , RAID BY HORSE THIEVES. Three Fine Horses, a Dngsry and Harness Taken Near Dublin. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. DUBLIN, Ind., Jan. 9. Last night horse thieves made a raid in this part of the county, taking three horses and one buggy. The first horse stolen belonged to Stephen Wilson, near Lewlsville, seven miles west of this place. Samuel Kinsinger was the next victim. He lost a fine driving mare, harness and buggy. William Sweet was tho third sufferer. He had the best horse on his farm stolen. The losers live west of here cn the National pike. Nothing has been learned of the thieves or of the stolen property. Suicide of a Conductor Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LOGANSPORT, Ind., Jan. 9. Isaac N. Craig, a former Panhandle passenger engineer, committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart with a revolver a few minutes after last midnight at his home in this city. He had not retired for the right and was found by members of the family who were aroused by the shot, lying on a lounge in the sitting room. The deceased was forty-nine years of age and had been a resident of this city for a number of years, having removed here from Rich mond. For several years past Mr. Craig had been suffering with an ailment of the heart which eventually caused him to give up his work with the railroad about four years ago. He left a widow and three children. INDIANA OBITUARY. Samuel Rodifer, n Pioneer Resident of Lebanon, a Natlre of Virginia. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LEBANON, Ind.,' Jan. 9 Samuel Rodlfef, a pioneer citizen or Leranon, died this morning. He was born In; Virginia and was about eighty-four years of age. He had been a resident of Lebanon since 1SI9. He was three times married. Two children survive. One is Mrs. John F. Gabrlelle. of Carthage, Mo., and the other is Mrs. C. E. Wilson, wife of Governor Mount's private secretary. Charles E. AVllson. private secretary to Governor Mount was called out of the city yesterday morning by the death of his father-in-law, Samuel Rodifer, of Lebanon. Henry Cllne, Jackson Democrat. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RUSHVILLE, Ind., Jan. 9. While his fellow-Democrats over the country were observing Jackson day, Henry Cline, aged ninety, a Democrat, who cast his first vote for Old Hickory in 1S32, died suddenly at his home here. His death is supposed to have been caused by heart failure or apoplexy, but his relatives, to make matters clear. called In Coroner Wooden, who held a post mortem examination this afternoon and found death was due to congestion of the lungs. Henry Cllne was born in Kentucky, but early in life located in Rush county, while the country was yet a wilderness. He accumulated a fortune, which afterward he lost, and he died penniless. David neck. Veteran Postmaster. facial to the Indianapolis Journal. SALEM, Ind., Jan. 9. David Beck, who held the position of postmaster at Beck's Mill for forty-five years, died Monday and was buried at that place to-day, 'with Masonic honors. He served four terms as country commissioner. He was appointed postmaster by Buchanan and served until his last sickness compelled him to resign. He was born near his last home in 1S21 and was one of a family of thirteen children. Other Deaths In the State. RICHMOND, Ind.. Jan. 9. Mrs. Matilda Clawson, who had long been a prominent resident of Fountain City, Wayne county died this morning. She was seventy-six years old. Mr. Clawson died some years ago. Four children survive. Jackson Rambo, once a wealthy farmer of Wayne county, died yesterday, penniless and friendless. In the Richmond Jail. He was more than seventy years old. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Jan. 9. The wife of Charles H. Drybread. superintendent of the public schools of this city, died suddenly last night at the supper table, of what is thought to have been heart disease. She .was thirty-four years old and the mother of three children. Interment will be at Bloomfield. PORTLAND, Ind., Jan. 9. Mrs. Mary E. Lewis died at her home in this city, this forenoon, as a result of a stroke of paralysis suffered last Monday. Mrs. Lewis was born in Wilkesbarre, Pa., on Nov. 24. ISIS, but for many years has been a resident of Portland. LEBANON. Ind.. Jan. 9. Charles W. Rrown. a prominent citizen of Lebanon, died this morning, aged sixty-nine. He was bom near New Ross. He left two children. He served In the Ninety-ninth Indiana Regiment during the civil war. - ARGOIENT IS UNDER WAY. The Taking; of Testimony Completed In the Keith Marder Trial. Sreclal to the Indianapolis Journal. PRINCETON, Ind.. Jan. 9. The Jury listened to the opening speech in the Keith case this evening and the remainder of the argument will be heard to-morrow. The jury will get the case on Thursday night or Friday morning. Attorney rhlllip Zoracher made the opening argument for the State. Defendant Keith was on the stand all morning and an hour this afternoon. The cross-examination lasted four hours and was an ordeal for the defendant. He was not excited or worried at any time and his material testimony was not shaken. Keith took the stand against the advice of his counsel. William Clark, Nora Kifer's fiance, testified that they were engaged to marry on April 3. and that he gave her money with which to purchase her wedding outfit. On rebuttal the reputation of Jennie Loge, who told of seeing Nora Kifer on May 15, was shown to be bad for truth. The case was finished at 2:30 this afternoon, and the argument was begun. Tho feeling here is that the Jury will not agree. Nenbltt Jury DlNSKreed. Frecial to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind.. Jan. 9. The Jury In tho trial of Marcus Nesbitt, charged with the murder of Frank Stillwell, a Swayzee so

loon keeper, at Swayzee last September, reported a disagreement at 3 o'clock this afternoon, after being out ninety-nine hours. The jury was discharged by Judge Paulus. The final vote of the Jury would declare Xesbitt guilty, but it was a question of the degree of crime that could not be decided.

RIGHT OF WAY REFUSED. Rnshrllle Citizens Afraid n Hntlrray Would Injure Their Village. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RUSHVILLE, Ind., Jan. 9. The county commissioners have refused to grant a right of way over the Arlington pike to the Indianapolis. Morristown & Rushville Traction Company, which proposes to build an electric line from Indianapolis to Rushville. The company asked for tho use of only a mile of the pike as an entrance into the city. Newspapers, business men and citizens urged the commissioners not to grant the petition for the reason that It et a precedent and soon other comnanins would also be askinsr for turnnlke rights-of-way for electric lines. The real motive oacK or tne opposition is the fear that the proposed electric line will be of commercial disadvantage to tho citv. ns it win cause more shopping in Indianapolis by peo ple wno now do their trading here. The traction men arguo that whatever business is lost in this way will be made up by trade from the smaller towns of the ccunty. The Indianapolis traction line will tv built, notwithstanding the refusal of the turnpike right-of-way. The traction company will condemn a nrivate riar... on the south side of the Arlington road. GARRIOTT'S SUCCESSOR. He Will Be Chosen at a Special Election In Jackson nnd Washington. Si clal to the Indianapolis Journal. SALEM, Ind., Jan. 9. A proclamation by Governor Mount, ordering a special election to fill tho vacancy In the Indiana Senate caused by tho death of Jephtha Garriott, was received to-day, and will be published to-morrow. Already the Republicans have filed their petition in both counties, naming Edward E. Daugherty, of Jackson county, as their candidate. There were five Democratic aspirants in this county and ns many in Jackson, and the party was all at sea for a time. A compromise was thought to have been affected, and a petition was filed to-night giving the nomination to John C. Lawler, recently Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor. Later it was learned that a petition will be filed to-mcrrow on behalf of C. S. Mercer, of the Seymour Democrat. The election will be held on Jan. 24. Five Generations Celebrated. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Jan. 9. Five generations of one family helped celebrate the sixty-sixth wedding anniversary of James and Mary Lewis, near Mlamitown, eight miles north of here, to-day. The äged couple were married in Woodford county, Kentucky, on Jan. 8, 1SC3. coming to this place two years later and were among the earliest settlers of the Miami Indian reserve. He is eighty-eight, she eighty-five. At the gathering to-day there were present eleven children, twenty-six grandchildren, twenty-one great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren. Aged Woman Killed at Marlon. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind., Jan. 9. Mrs. Sarah Forst, seventy-four years old, was run over and killed by a car of the Union Transfer Company here this morning. She was accompanied by her three-year-old granddaughter, Flossie Brindenberg. When the car was only a short distance from her she tried to cross the track, leading the child directly in front of the car. She was struck on the right shoulder and terribly mutilated. The child's escape was miraculous. It was not Injured further than a slight scratch on the knee. Mrs. Mary Bryan Cobb I Very Sick. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Jan. 9. Mary Brs'an Cobb, the step-greatgrandmother of William Jennings Bryan, is reported dying at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Moses McDaniels, at New London, this county. Mrs. Cobb was born in Frankfort, Ky., Jan 11, 1803. She has enjoyed good health until a few weeks ago. s Indiana Notes. Scarlet fever is raging south of Richmond across tho Union county line. Two schoois in Harrison township have dismissed because of it. Mrs. Mary Morrison, of Knox county, has sued a neighbor, Henry C. Mooney, for $5.000 damages because, she avers, he called her a thief in the presence of divers persons. ' The Superior Oil Company has drilled in a well near Portland which for the first day made seventy-two barrels an hour and. Is yet producing liberally, though on a smaller scale. A clairvoyant at Jeffersonvllle, who has cut a wide swath in that town and in New Albany, has left the former place owing several hundred dollars In unpaid bills and for borrowed money. The Connersville Council, In special session, last night granted the necessary franchise for a second electric light plant and for a street railway. The former action probably will result in litigation, as feeling is very high for and against the project.' Crawfordsvillc Y. M. C. A. has elected the following officers: President, O. M. Gregg; vice president, Howard O'Neal; treasurer, Louis McMaines; recording secretary, James Osborn, During 1500 7,013 persons used the gymnasium and the baths were patronized by 6,881. J. Ralph Benton, caucus nominee of Kansas Republicans for United States senator, is a native of Marion township, Lawrence county, and was educated chiefly at the Mitchell public schools, where his oratorical powers were frequent subject of comment. He left Lawrence ennntv nnd wen West nearly thirty years ago. Dr. S. M. Townsend, of Madison, 'a spiritualist, was induced to search through some discarded boxes in the cellar by what he believes to be his wife's spirit and found there her will, which had been sought several years and which completely changes the disposition of her property as made by the courts. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Jay Riordan, a saloon keeper, was arrested at St. Louis yesterday after the grand jury had returned three indictments against him charging fraud in the recent election. Archie W. Benedict, a guard of Auburn, N. Y., prison, was killed yesterday by a convict, Clarence Egnor. Benedict had threatened to report Egnor if he did not conduct hlmelf properly. By the accidental discharge of a blast in the malachite mine at Middlepar, A. T., Jack O'Brien, a miner, was blown to atoms and his working partner, Clav.de Newell, seriously injured. About forty of the- manufacturers of mirrors In the United States and Canada are in conference in Cleveland. O. Their business is being done behind closed doors and their deliberations will continue for several days. One of the children burned In the Rochester Orphan Asylum fire, Allan Bellmore, two years old. died yesterdav. This was the twenty-ninth death from the fire. Coroner Kellndlen has not decided when he will hold the inquest. Thyslclans, carrying on the crusade of ctmpulsory vaccination, will to-day start a house-to-house canvass of Kansas City, Mo., vaccinating everyone who cannot display a good scar. A few additional cases of smallpox were found to-day. Ex-Governor Hazen S. Pingree, of Tetrolt, appeared In the county court at Lansing, Mich., yesterday to answer to the charge of contempt as the result of utterances in an interview given to a Detroit taper.. The hearing will be given later. Dr. W. D. Swan, of the Kansas State Board of Health, reports 287 cases of smallox in the State. "The type of the disease is more severe than it was last winter," the doctor says, "and I think there will be a considerably larger number of fatalities." Concerning the widely circulated and printed report of his engagement of marriage to a New York woman Senator-elect J. C. S. Blackburn telegraphed to the Louisville Times yesterday an emphatic denial, saying: "The report is absolutely false." The board of managers of the New York Coffee Exchange has decided to list tea on the exchanre. The opening call will be ! made on Jan 2L at UJ o'clock, half an

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o year. Ask your oxrn dealer. p hour after the exchange opens for trading in coffee. Both articles will be dealt in on the same floor. Rev. Maica M. Selman, who a few weeks ago resigned the pastorate of the Unlversalist Church at Ravenna, O., and renounced that faith, yesterday announced that she had returned to the fold and would resume pastoral work in the Universalist Church. Felix N. Cobb, a politician and lawyer, of Carrollton, Ga,, committed suicide at Atlanta yesterday. He left a letter to his parents saying domestic trouble was the cause of his act. Cobb was the candidate of tho Populists for attorney general of Georgia in the last election. The National Tube "Works Company has completed the purchase of the Standard Seamless Tube Company, of Elwood, Ba. I J. Hearne, first vice president and general manager of the national company, waa made president of the Standard Company and W. H. Latshaw secretary. Heirs of David Whitney, jr., the recently deceased millionaire lumberman of Detroit, have arranged a schedule of bequests conforming to what they believed was Mr. "Whitney's desire. The Presbyterian Home and Foreign Missionary Boards will each get $5,000. Detroit charities get $3S,000. The Canadian Department of Militia will call for recruits to-day for Baden-Powell's constabulary in South Africa. A cable has been received from Joseph Chamberlain agreeing that the recruits be attested in Canada instead of Capt Town as was at lirst suggested by the British government. The thirteen councilmen of Scranton. Pa., who resigned to escape prosecution for bribery are to be placed on the stand in the pending bribery cases and asked to disclose what they know of the alleged crookedness in the City Hall. If they refuse they are to be prosecuted for perjury At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the American Sugar-refining Company, in Jersey City, yesterday, a resolution was adopted that the company's surplus, less the amount necessary to pay the dividend due on Jan. 2 and less any amount that may be required for future dividends, shall be reserved for working capital. The executive board of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, concluded its labors at St. Louis, yesterday. The board voted $2.000 to the aid of the striking telephone linemen in San Antonio, Tex. It placed the rest of the available funtls of the order at their disposal, should they need additional financial aid. Three tramps were arrested at Phoenix, A. T., last night for the killing of Under Sheriff Samuel Devore. Devore tried to arrest the tramps for stealing a barrel of liquor and was shot and killed by them. A threatening mob besieged the jail all night and nearly all yesterday. The prisoners have been placed in the penitentiary. An Jnquest into the death of seven persons on Oct. 29, in the recent fire and explosion at Tarrant & Co.'s drug house. New York," was begun yesterday by Coroner Bausch and a jury. Captain Devanny, of the city fire department, and two other witnesses were examined but gave no testimony, bearing directly on the cause of the explosion. Cornelius L..Alvord. Jr.. the former note teller of the First National Bank of New York, was arraigned before Judge Thomas in the United States Circuit Court at New York yesterday and pleaded guilty to three counts of an indictment charging him with embezzling $700,000 from the bank named. The " Indictment contained fifty-seven counts. Alvord will be sentenced Tuesday, Jan. 15. Harry K. Deer, messenger and assistant bookkeeper of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank, of Sharpsburg, Pa., is missing. It is alleged that his accounts are short $3.000. Deer, it is claimed, has been speculating in stocks and his recent trades have not been profitable. He is ttfenty-two years old and was regarded as one of the most trustworthy employes of the institution. The committee appointed by the Judges to investigate the accounts of Circuit Court Clerk W. S. Rainey, of Memphis, has begun an examination of the books, and a superficial inquiry has. it is alleged, disclosed a defalcation of nearly $19,uO0. The Judges suspended Rainey pending an investigation and he has left the city. The impression prevails that he has gone to Chicago. The commission to report a comprehensive plan for the immediate widening and improvement of the Chicago river was apIolnted yesterday by the trustees of the Chicago ship and drainage canal. The commission includes three civil engineers and two lawyers: Judge O. N. Carter, J. I. Wilson, A. B. Powell, L. E. Cooley and L. P. Fristedt. Tatrick Doody and James Hoolihan were fatally hurt and a number of others severely Injured by an explosion which occurred yesterday in the works of the Standard Oil Company at KIng?land and Meserole avenues, Brooklyn. The men were repairing one of the huge boilers in which the oil is refined when the explosion, which is said to have resulted from an accumulation of gas, rent the vast iron receptacle. A tragedy occurred on Leatherwood creek, twenty miles from Hazard, Ky. Reuben Cornett, Jack Cornett, Jim Singleton nnd Hiram Holbrook met at Melvern Hart's. Soon after meeting they quarreled. Reuben Cornett took refuge in Hart's house. Singleton and Holbrook attempted to go in, whereupon Hart killed Jack Cornett with an ax and Hart's son shot both Holbrook and Singleton, wounding them badly. At a meeting of the congregation of the Westminster Presbyterian Church, of New York, last night a unanimous call was extended to the Rev. Dr. John Lloyd, of East Liverpool, O., to fill the pulpit of that church. The pulpit has been vacant since the first Sunday in December last, when the resignation of the Rev. Dr. Robert Sample was accepted. Dr. Sample goes to fill the chair of Christian ethics at Lincoln University, near Philadelphia. The annual meeting of the board of governors of the National Bureau of Identification begnn in Chicago yesterday. Chief of Police Philip Deitsch. of Cincinnati, presiding. The epidemic of safe robberies in Illinois. Ohio and Indiana was discussed and plans to aid the police in the smaller cities and country towns were made. It is proposed to provide the police in the smaller places with photographs of safeblowers, bank robbers and paroled convicts. Tho board will be in session three days. The Kentucky Court of Appeals has granted a rehearing in the case of "Wallace Bishop, under sentence of death at Covington for the murder of a tramp and the subsequent kllllnc of Policeman Cllne while defying arrest. The case was affirmed in December, but the rehearing is granted on the ground that the Jury shouM have been Instructed on the law of manslaughter as well as murder. Bishop was a tromp. His family are respectable peonle. formerly of Illinois, but now living in St. Louis. An Investigation is being made Into the lynching of two negroes at Madison. Fla.. last week, a special term of the Circuit Court having been convened. Judge White instructed the grand Jury to make a diligent investigation of the lynehing and !f the mrnec of the lynchers can be ascertained to indict them for murder. In his charge the judge declared that the perpetrators of the lynching were guilty of murder In the eyes of the law and that the grand Jury should go to the bottom of the crime. The .ill of John Charles GIbney, of New York. Pennsylvania, and the Republic of Colombia. South America, which was filed at New York yesterday, disposes of property worth several million dollars, yet the petition and affidavit accompanying the will say tha testator xt&a worth only $100.

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On the completion of this road Mr. GIbney was to receive a substantial reward from the Colombian government. Legislative and Inaugural Note. The Connecticut General Assembly convened yesterday. Governor George P. McLean wa3 formally inaugurated. John Lind retired as Governor of Minnesota yesterday and Samuel R. VanSant took his place. Roth delivered addresses. The Democratic memlers of the Illinois General Assembly will neet next week and nominate a candidate lor United States senator. All seem to agree that Samuel Alschuler, of Aurora, the party candidate for Governor in the late campaign, ought to be the man. The Republican members of the Massachusetts Legislature will, on Tuesday next, nominate United States Senator Hoar to succeed himself. The Democrats will hold a caucus on Monday, and it is expected that Hon. Richard Olney will be placed In nomination. Senator Ellsworth will introduce in the New York Legislature a bill conferring Iower on the State Land Board to cede Governor's island to the federal government. The purpose to which the island is to be devoted are the defense of New York harbor and in connection with the improvement of Buttermilk channel. The Legislature of North Carolina convened yesterday. It is overwhelmingly Democratic in both houses. Walter E. Moore was elected speaker of the house. II. E. London was elected president pro tem. of the senate. Tho Legislature will elect F. M. Simmons United States senator to succeed Marion Butler, the Democratic members having been instructed to vote for him. The biennial message of Governor McMillan was presented to the Tennessee Legislature yesterday. The message shows that the State was never in a more prosperous condition, both from a business and governmental standpoint; that encouraging progress is being made In tho liquidation of the State debt and that the uniform textbook law has resulted in a great saving to the ieople. The Governor recommends more stringent regulations for the assessment of personal property. The Great Hrldjfe. New York Evening Post. According to the bridge commissioners, the Brooklyn bridge is crossed daily by 303.000 people, of whom 130,000 are pedestrians. Special occasions increase this figure to a half million, while a stormy Sunday reduces It to below 100.000. This amount of travel makes the famous edifice one of the busiest thoroughfares in the world. Down-town Broadway is more crowded during the business hours of the day, but at nightfall it is like an avenue of tho dead. Un-town Broadway is alive with travel day and night, but it is doubtful if the number of passers-by equals the total mentioned. Of Ileal Interest. Baltimore Ame'rican. People have had enough of successful living on a dollar a week and the like. What would really interest In that line would bo a written description, say, from the Count de Castellane, of how people can fall to live on J'JoO.OOO a year, with daily details. Men do not like to go to doctors. Nine times out of ten they wait until they are laid flat on their backs before they will consult a physician. There is some reason in this, for when a business man feels out of sorts and goes to a physician, he is often Riven violent drujrs that make him, for m time, unfit for business and really sick. There is a way of avoiding both extremes that of neglecting the health and that of taking violent drug that rack the entire system it is alwa s to keep on hand a bottle of Dr. Pierce' s Golden Medical Discovery. If a inan will resort to this great medicine whenever he feels that he is out of sorts and threatened with illness, he may keep in good health. It is the great appetite sharpener, blood-maker and fleshbuilder. It fills the arteries with the rich, red, tissue-building blood of health. It docs not make flabby fat like cod liver oiL but the solid, muscular and nerve tissues of health. It does not make corpulent people more corpulent. " I went to inform you of a cure effected by Dr. Pierce's medicines," writes Mrs. Nelson Sraith, of Mount Vernon, Jcflrmon Co.. Ills. Atxut six years ago I had grip, ending with bronchitis anI consumption. In tr.e rprlng of my ert dition became very serious I bad con?uriptktt and I couched day an.l nicrht: coulJ not lie tlown at alL Our family doctor said I could not get well. Thr nei-hltcrs came iu to see m die. end a lady friend rejm mended Dr. Tierce's luctii eines o Rtronjjly tht we immediately went out nnd bought "bottles cf hi Golden Medical Di.iovcrv and Favorite lrecription. After tisingr thee medicine, fmud I wa recemnrr benefit and continued. I weighed 120 when I to Cod and to Dr. Tierce for those wonderful medicines. I waut to add that I cn trCd-Lc? fc ny acilibcrs and fricada.'

commenced liking medicine, now weipa l?y. I sleep well, have a splen lid appetite, feci weiland believe. X am enttrxlr cured. I cm thankful