Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 16, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1901 — Page 2

THE IKDIANArOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1901.

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SOL0310 I1I:AU OX TllIAL AT ALIJIO.V FOR KILMXti HIS SOX. Hatto C'ne nt Tcrre Ilnnte Condition of Mnnrlrf Thompson A Christian Science Cnae. Sj-edal to the Indianapolis Journal. ALltlONp Ind., Jan. 13.-The trial of Soloman Bear, accused of killing his son for remonstrating with him for trying to kill his brother-in-law. Isaac Craycock. of Churubusco, which was begun yesterday, was put well under way to-day. A Jury was secured thl3 afternoon. Seventy-five talesmen were examined. Insanity is the plea of the defense. Frank Bear, a son, testified as to the effort to take the gun from his father bi Isaac, who was killed. Sheriff Bell testified that the prisoner told him he had cut a man to pieces in Ohio years ago, but acquitted on the ground of self-defence, and that he would use the same defense this time. Large crowds are attending the trial. Chief AVltnew.i IIa Disappeared. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TEURE HAUTE. Ind.. Jan. 13.-The trial of Lon Mattox, accused of the murder of Ed Britton at Alum Cave, in Sullvan county, bVgan this afternoon In the Circuit Court here. Mattox and Britton married sisters, and one Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Britton went to the Mattox Hotel in Alum Cave to spend the day. The two men drank a good deal, and a quarrel arose over what Is said to have been a misunderstanding l.y Britton to something Mattox said. Britten threw a stone at Mattox and was following up the attack, according to the story of the defense, when Mattox used his pocket knife, indicting a slight wound in Britton's arm. The wound was not dressed promptly, and Britten died from the loss of blood. After the preliminaries had been arranged, the court continued the case until the next term, owing to the disappearance of the chief witness, the woman who was Mrs. Mattox. BONFIRE OF TOBACCO. Doffle Follower named III Stock BecnUKC III Son Died. Chicago Tribune. Clouds of tobacco srao'ie floating over Dyer. Ind.. Sunday afternoon were a sign that Albert Stummel, the proprietor or a general store in that village, was no longer a dealer in tobacco.- Stummel decided to cease selling tohacco because an elder In Dowie's church had said the death of Stummel's eight-year-old son Boy was due to the fact that the father dealt in tobacco. Because of this traffic, the elder said, Stummel's prayers were Ineffective. On hearing this Stummel ordered all his stock loaded into a wagon, hauled to a vacant place on the prairie and burned. The elder was hissed and Jeered as he departed for Chicago on the afternoon train. The boy was taken 111 last Wednesday afternoon. Neighbors pronounced the illness diphtheria. The mother and father ere believers in the Dowie faith and would rot consent to have a physician called. Their son continued to grow rapidly worse until Saturday afternoon, when he died. Early Sunday morning an elder from the Zion institution went to Dyer in answer to a summons. The boy was buried privately Sunday noon. The elder then called with Stummel at his store. Arranged on the shelves and counters was a large stock of tobacco. There is the cause of the lad's death." the elder is reported to have said. "Your prayers could avail nothing while you are engaged in such traffic." Stummel believed, and. calling his teamster, he ordered all the tobacco burned. The proceedings were watched with much Interest by the people of Dyer. Various comments were made and Stummel was upbraided for allowing his son to die without consulting a physician. When the elder left for Chicago he was hissed and warned to remain away. "WITH THE SICK. SXaarlce Thompson Very Wenk, bat In Xo Immediate Danger. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CUAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 15.-The condition of Maurice Thompson is about the same as It has been for a week. He rested somewhat easier last night, but seems to gain very little strength. Notwithstanding his extreme weakness there Is no immediate danger of a fatal termination of the disease. Xervnpaper 3Inn Near to Death. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. DECATUR, Ind., Jan. 15. Norval Blackburn, editor of the Decatur News, Is dying TO-DAY'S WEATHER FORECAST. Fair Except Occasional Ilnlnn, in Xorth Indiana Colder To-Morrow. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-Forecast for Wednesday and Thursday: For Ohio Fair in southern, cloudiness and probably rains in northern portion .Wednesday; colder In western portion; southwesterly winds, becoming northwesterly, fresh to brisk on the lake. Thursday generally fair. For Illinois Fair on Wednesday, except occasional rains in extreme northeast portion; colder; wind3 becoming northwesterly; fresh to brisk on lake. Thursday generally fair. For Indiana Fair, except occasional rains in extreme northern rortlon Wednesday; coK'.er; winds becoming northwesterly; fresh to brisk on lake. Thursday generally fair. Loral Olervntlon nn Jan. IS. Dar. Ther. R.H. Wind. Wther. Fre. 7 a. m . .'J. ST 35 76 West. Clear. 0.00 7 r. m..2).5: 54 4S South. Pt.Cy. 0.00 Maximum temperature, 60; minimum temperature. 31. Following is a comparative statement of the temperature ana total precipitation for Jan. 15: Temp. ire. Normal 0.03 Mean 47 0.00 Departure from normal 0 0.W Departure since Ji.n. 1 jS 0.33 Plus. C. F. R. WAPPENHANS. Local Forecast Official. Yesterday's Tcmpcrntnre.

Stations. . Min. Max. 7 a.m. Atlanta. Ga 44 Ol SS Bismarck. N. D 20 42 20 BuiTalo. N. Y .. 34 36 2G' Calgary, N. W. T 15 28 22 Chicago. Ill 31 50 4S Cairo. Ill 41 &J 62 Cheyenne. Wyo CO 40 30 Cincinnati, 0 3S CO 54 Concordia. Kan 36 55 42 Davenport. Ia CS 52 44 Des Moines. Ia 31 54 41 (lalvt-ston. Tex 5S CS C4 Helena. Mont 2S 22 28 Jacksonville. Fla 42 CS 53 Kenias City. Mo 40 G2 4S Little Rock. Ark 42 CS 42 Marquette. Mich 30 34 31 Memphis. Tenn 50 68 62 New Orleans. La 50 82 W New York City 24 44 4) North Platte. Neb 2S 5; 2$ Oklahoma. O. T 3J CS 56 Orrnha, Neb 33 52 41 Pittsburg. Fa 31 52 45 Ju'App-lIe. N. W. T 2 10 2 Rapid City, S. D 2 A) 32 Bait Lake City 24 40 34 St LouU, Mo... 44 70 CO Vt. Paul. Minn :$ 42 40 Cpringrteld. Ill 23 C2 54 rpringfltld. Mo 44 TO GO Vicksburg. Mis3 4 CS 64 r;i:-ir.jtca, D. C .S3 t3 4i

of appendicitis. He has been sick only three days. He is sixty years old and has been engaged in the newspaper business In Decatur for fifteen years.

Condition of General Shank. Ffxcial to the Indianapolis Journal. PORTLAND, Ind.. Jan. 13.-The condition of Gen. John P. C. Shanks is somewhat Improved to-night. During the day he rallied considerably and was able to take some nourishment. INDIANA WO 31 AN INVOLVED. Murder and Attempted s'nlclde In Alabama The Criminal' Letter. . ANNISTON, Ala., Jan. 13. E. K. Shaw killed his wife by cutting her throat and attempted suicide in the same manner. The couple was under guard at a restaurant on a charge of swindling, when the tragedy occurred. A letter was found addressed to Sirs. J. F. Smith. Crown Point. Ind.. stating that Shaw left to her all his personal effects, some property in Florida and a $3.000 policy of Insurance. The uxoricide will be held on the charge of murder. Despondent Man Killed Himself. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Jan. 15. J. B. Mullen committed suicide by shooting himself in the right temple late this afternoon. He was found In a Big Four box car by two boys. Mullen's home is at St. Charles, 111., where he owns property. He came here a month ago In search of work. He was refused work by an Indianapolis firm in a letter received by him to-day, and immediately left his boarding house and killed himself. INDIANA OBITUARY. Jeplttlin Lon;;, WnbnMh County Farmer and Argonaut of 1S1!. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Ind., Jan. 15. Jephtha Long, one of the old residents of Wabash county, and a "forty-niner," died suddenly of apoplexy last night at his home near. Peoria. He was engaged in feeding his stock when stricken, and was ' picked up unconscious by his relatives, who went in search of him. Mr. Long was eightytwo years old, and, after his return from California, whither he went In 1S4S while the gold craze was at its height, he located on his farm, and from 1S52 to the day of his death resided there. He leaves six children. Other DenthN In the State. SULLIVAN, Ind., Jan. 13. A telegram was received here to-day announcing the death of Edward Pearson in Pueblo, Col., where he went some time ago for lung trouble. He was formerly prominent in political circles and was a well-to-do farmer of this county. The body will be brought here for,burial. HAGERSTOWN. Ind.. Jan. 13. Mrs. Sarah Clapper died at her home near this place last night, aged eighty-two years. She was the widow of Jacob Clapper for many years prominent In financial circles in this and Henry county. He died several years ago. Seven children survive. WARSAW, Ind., Jan. 13. Mrs. Phoebe Milllce, an old resident of this city, died of heart trouble this morning. She was visiting at her brother's, Just out of town, and was engaged In conversation when she fell from her chair dead. MUNCH:, Ind.. Jan. 15. The burial of Dr. J. W. Botkin. of New Albany, took place to-day at Farmland, where he formerly lived. Dr. Botkin was Hshty years old and was the oldest practicing physician in Indiana. KOKOMO, Ind., Jan. 15. William Tolle, a wealthy Union township farmer, 'died suddenly yesterday while in a field superIntending a gang of ditchers. He was seventy years old. REPUBLIC OFFICERS RETIRE. Will Manufacture Iron in Opposition to Their Lnte Employer. MUNCIE, Ind., Jan. 13. Announcement was made to-day of the .retirement of three Important officers of the Republic Iron Company. They are District Superintendent John L. Smith and Secretary William M. Myers, of the Indiana iron works, and W. C. Ely, one of the late owners of the Marion iron and steel works. For some time they and a large company of former iron manufacturers have been planning for the establishment of a big iron works in Terre Haute to be run in opposition to the Republic. It is said that the 120.000 bonus asked has been raised. GOOD WELL NEAR MUNCIE. It Starts at the Rate of One Hundred and Twenty-Five Darrein Dally. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Jan. 13. A good oil well was developed to-day on the McGalliard farm, less than two miles from Munde, In a new field. Mrs. W. S. Silvers, of Marion, the wife of the owner, fired the charge in the well and it began to spout at the rate of 123 barrels a day. Excitement In Unabated. BEAUMONT, Tex., Jan. 15. The excitement here over the big oil well increases with each hour. There l3 no indication that the flow of oil from the- geyser Is diminishing, nor Is there any change In the character of the fluid. Captain Lucas, upon whose land the well is located, is busily making preparations for an attempt to stop the Immense flow, and it will be made tomorrow. The town continues to fill up and the streets suggest a great holiday event. Physicians are becoming real-estate men, The lumber industry Is forgotten In tho wild rush for oil lands. The business of the District Court, in the middle of the session, has been continued and the court is Idle. Throngs of people frequent the streets until late at night and every thing is oil. A lot near the business center, which could have been bought last week for $3.000, now Is unpurchasable at $20,0u0. George T. Craig, of the Craig Oil Company, Toledo, O., estimates the well's output at from 3,000 to 5 000 barrels a day. CHRISTIAN SCIEXCE VICTIM.. Child Dien of Diphtheria 'o Qnnrnntlne Over Infected Ft. AVnyne House. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FT. WAYNE, Ind., Jan. 15.-A child of Mrs. M. A. Miller died yesterday cf diphtheria, and to-day it developed that the little one had been treated by Christian scientist, one I. N. Woods. No quarantine had been maintained and the rase was never reported to the health authorities. Many persons were exposed. An alftdavlt was filed against Woods to-day and lie was arrested. Doth Franchise Will He Granted. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CRAWFORDS VI LLE, Ind., Jan. 13. The County Commissioners were in session today, considering the two petitions for elec-trlc-road franchises from Indianapolis to this city, and after a long discussion the terms were agreed to and the prayer of the petitioners will be granted at the regular February session of the commissioners. One of the roads will come into this city over the old State road, passing through New Ross, Mace, Jamestown, Lizton and Rrownstown. The other will go from Indianapolis to this city by Danville, Roachdale and Ladoga, and then on to New Richmond and Lafayette. These roads must be running within & days, and with the usual restrictions. The passenger fare shall not exceed 1 2-5 cent a mile, and with a freight rate not to exceed two-thirds of the present freight rates. Address by Mr. Cobb. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind.. Jan. 15. Mrs. Mary Bryan Cobb, of New London, this county, one of the five surviving Daughters of the Revolution, who was ninety-eight years old last week, Is fully recovered from her Illness. Yesterday Mrs. Cobb walked from her home to the New London High School and delivered an address to the pupils of Miss Woolley's room. She talked of school methods in early days and all the wars tlnce the revolution. She has a personal recollection of all of them, including the war of 1S12. She taught school in Kentucky In her youth and is the oldest teacher la

the United States. She also Is a widow of the war of IS 12, her first husband being Louis H. IJryan. great-grandfather of W. J. Bryan. She was the second wife of the elder Bryan. Kuhns Is Soon to Wed. K E N D A Li V I L L E, Ind., Jan. !3.-A man from Green township, who is a relative of the Kuhns family was in this city to-day. He says Marvin Kuhns has not left this part of the country, but makes-hls home in Noble township. Noble county. He has informed his friends that he Intends shortly to wed a woman of Columbus, O.. named Higglns. but the date of the wedding was not given. Marvin Kuhns is said to have Issued an open .letter from Ft. Wayne, the purport of which Is that he desires to be left alone; that if he is left alone he will lead an honest life and ob.'ervc the laws, but if he is not he "will plant all the sheriffs In the State' before they shall take him alive. Power of Attorney Deelnred Valid. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Ind.. Jan. 13. Judge Shlvely, lr. the Wabash Circuit Court, to-day rendered a decision In a liquor license case in which he confirms the right of remonstrators to avail themselves of the power of attorney In defeating applications. The case was that of George Holdredge, who sought a license In Roann, and who was defeated by the Board of Commissioners, the latter holding good the remonstrance, by power of attorney, of a majority of the voters of Pawpaw township. Holdredge carried the case up, and Judge Shively pronounced valid the power of attorney to remonstrate against applicants for license in the township. Richmond Dramatic Club. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Jan. 13.-The Richmond Dramatic Club, which devotes its energies to raising money for the charitable Institutions, to-night gave a successful double bill at the Gennett Theater to a large audience. "The Facts In the Case" and "Timothy Delano's Courtship" were presented. Those who took part were Mr. nnd Mrs. Fred Jay, Miss Estelle M. Roney, Miss Mary V. Shiveley, R. K. Shlveley, Mr. nnd Mrs. S. E. Swayne, Miss Jeannette G. Craighead, Clem Husttellwalte and Mrs. Guy S. McCabe. New Carpenters' Organization. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Jan. 15. The union carpenters of the gas belt cities and towns have organized tho Carpenters' Alliance of the Gas Belt. The movement is designed to establish eight hours a day and a rate of 30 cents an hour. The officers are: President, William Baker. Anderson; vice president. James Woolman, Marion; secretary, H. r. Baker, Muncie; treasurer, John Kaough. Gas City.- The membership Includes almost every carpenter in the counties of Delaware, Madison and Grant.

Society Leader Indicted. FRANKFORT, Ind., Jan. 15. The grand Jury has returned an indictment against Charles E. Miller, the young society and business man, who was recently arrested and who confessed to burglary and attempted safe-blowing. The report has not been formally made public, and he has not yet been served with a bench warrant, but there is not much chance of such an occurrence taking place for some time, as he left the city soon after his release on bond. Miller's bond was placed at $300 and this was given by his father and brothers. Golden WeddlnR Celebration. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUlE.Ind., Jan. 15. The golden wedding anniversary of Professor and Mrs. Jacob Breinig was celebrated last evening with a family dinner, after which there was a dance and reception at Germania Hall under the auspices of tho Maennerchor Society. There were forty-four persons at the family dinner, including twenty grandchildren. Professor and Mrs. Breinig were born In Germany in 1S32, were married in 1S51 and came to this country the following year. Indlunn Notes. The Eastern Indiana High School Oratorical Association will hold its annual contest in Portland, on May 3. . The second trial of W. W. Gates, convicted of manslaughter for the killing of J. W. Meek, la set for Feb. 13 at Richmond. The Bunker Hill coal mines, owned in Sullivan and located at Farnsworth, have been leased to the Chicago Consolidated Fuel Company. Strickland W. Gilliland has severed his connection with the Richmond Palladium and will bo identified with the Tribune, Marion's new paper. Representative-elect Holllday has given notice that he will recommend Daniel Conway for appointment as postmaster of Cayuga, Vermillion county. A lodge of Elks has been organized at Richmond with thirty charter members. W. J. Robie is exalted ruler. New Castle Louge will conduct the installation. The Methodist Church at Zionsville, Boone county, is holding an enthusiastic revival, as the result of which ninety converts have been admitted to the church. E. G. Illbbard and Samuel W. Gaar, of Richmond, have established a shovel mill In that city. H. A. Urban, of the New Castle shovel Company, will be the manager. A miner named Huff was struck on the head with a club in the hands of a fellow-miner named DufTelt, near Sullivan, yesterday. Huff's injuries are believed to be fatal. Charles A. Howells has disappeared from Crawfordsville after disposing of his property and dissipating that of his wife. He left her and their three children In straitened circumstances. Justice A. Mercer, of Ashevllle, Clay county, has been arrested on a warrant sworn out at Brazil,,' accusing hftn of embezzling the funds of a lodge at Ashevllle, of which he was financial secretary. Wabash surgeons will operate on Russell Purdy, a five-year-old boy, who swallowed a $3 gold piece about six months ago, for his reilef. The coin was located in the bronchial tubes by means of the Roentgen rays. Delaware county Prohibitionists perfected a permanent organization at Muncie Monday night with C. M. Stager president and Dr. Shoemaker secretary and treasurer. Resolutions were passed indorsing the riotous conduct of Mrs. Carrie Nation at Wichita, Kan. John Brown, an Anderson electric light trimmer, has discovered that the burned out carbon ends are good for rheumatism, and. having impartea his secret to a few friends, the news has spread, and all rheumatic Anderson chases the electric light trimmers up and down the highways in search for the precious carbons. MAY Kill THE TRUST. Linseed OH Company Convicted of Sei Hurt Short Gallons. CHICAGO, Jan. 13. A decision rendered lr the Appellate Court to-day may prove the death blow to the linseed oil trust. The case is that of the Heath & Milligan Manufacturing Company against the National Linseed Oil Company, which was reorganized two years ago and became the American Linseed Oil Company. The court found that the custom of the company in selling seven and one-half pounds of oil as constituting a gallon was illegal and amounted to short weight. Ia so hpldin the court reversed the finding of the court below and ordered the entry of a Judgment against the company for $12.012 and costs. The case was a test one brought by Heath & Milligan after the discovery by A. M. Heath that a gallon of linseed oil in reality weighed seven and three-quarter pounds Instead cf seven and one-half pounds, as sold by the trust. In holding that the plaintiff is entitled to recover overpayments the court has thrown the door open to successful suits against the trust by every concern with which it has had dealings within the last five years. The amount involved, therefore, is enormous, and In the opinion of many it may mean the death blow to the trust. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Eromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it falls to cure e.. W. Grove's signature la on each box. 2s.

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AXOTIIEIl HATCH OF ZIONISTS NOT PERMITTED TO LAXD. Their Cases to Re Investigated by Immigration OKlcialH Convention of National Building- Trades. TORTLAND. Me., Jan. 13. On the steamer Tunisian, which arrived from Liverpool to-day were thirty-three lace makers from Leeds, Nottingham and other English cities bound for Zion City, Wis. Acting upon advice from the Immigration Burean at Washington, Collector Moses refused to allow the party to land until the case was laid before the authorities at Washington. The letter received from the Immigration Bureau stated that It was understood these people were being brought here by Rev. J. A. Dowie and that they had signed contracts to work in the silk mills at Zion City. The collector was cautioned to use extra vigilance In examining these people to see that their landing did not violate the alien contract law. NATIONAL HOLDING TRADES. General Secretary-Treasurer Stelnblss Takes Issue with Gompers. CINCINNATI. O., Jan. 15. The whole morning session of the convention of tha National Building Trades of America was devoted to the annual report of General Secretary-treasurer Stelnblss, who deniei the assertion of President Samuel Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, that the National Building Trades Council or any of its affiliated councils hold aloof from the central body, chartered by the American Federation of Labor, and are antagonistic to the purposes of the American Federation of Labor. Mr. Stelnblss asserted to the contrary that from its very inciplency the National Building Trades Council has extended the brotherly hand of fellowship to all labor organizations, striving to solidify the labor movement by exchanging fraternal delegates with central bodies of the American Federation of Labor and working Jointly and In harmony for the betterment of labor and humanity. He recommended that the general secretary-treasurer be instructed to open correspondence with the executive committee of the American Federation of Labor with a view to fraternal affiliation. Among other things the report of General Secretary-Treasurer Stelnblss recommended that the general executive board thoroughly investigate the conditions of the lockout of the building trades council in Chicago and endeavor to bring about a satisfactory adjustment for the welfare of all concerned. Other recommendations are: To compel all local organizations of building trades councils, whose trades or vocations are nationally or Internationally affiliated with the National Building Trades Council, to affiliate .themselves with said respective national or International body, and that all local unions who are not represented by a naticnal or international body be compelled to affiliate direct with the National Building Trades Council: that the general executive board be in sole charge of strikes or lockouts of local building trades councils who apply for financial aid; that a regular strike fund be kept on hand by the local building trades council to be used for no other purpose, so as to be forwarded to the general office at once when assessment is levied; that the general secretary-treasurer institute correspondence with the National Building Contractors Council with a view to devising some plan to be placed before the affiliated organizations for consideration and adoption whereby compulsory action between them and enforced by both organizations, and which members of either organization must abide by under penalty of suspension or expulsion, can be practically enforced. When the report was finlshed.lt was referred to the committee on officers' report. The reading of this report occupied the whole day. Indnstrinl, Trade nnd Labor Notes. The directors of the American Tin Plate Company have declared a dividend of 8 per cent, on' the common stock, payable quarterly. Tho German labor market statistics for December, lfMX). show a considerable deterioration. There were 162 persons demanding work to every 100 positions, as against 121 persons in December, 1S99. Tne Westphallan rolling mills have made another reduction In prices, which are now 6 marks below the December figures. The Silesian mills have made a reduction to 126 marks in order to meet the Westphallan reduction. The directors of the Federal Steel Company have declared a dividend of 5 per cent, on its common stock for the year of 1900, ray able Feb. 20. No action was taken regarding an amendment to the constitution permitting future dividends to be paid quarterly. At the convention of . the Bricklayers' and Masons' International Union, in Milwaukee yesterday, a resolution was presented and referred that colored artisans should be admitted to all trade unions on terms of. equality. Several proposed changes to the constitution will be .considered. The Wllllamstown (Pa.) colliery, controlled by the Pennsylvania Railroad, has suspended operations. The employes demand that the laborers and timber men should have a ten-hour day Instead of eight. The colliery employs 1.000 men and was the last to quit work during the anthracite strike last fall. Upon the application of J. N. Kehoe, of Maysville, Ky., who holds a chattel mortgage of S70.000 and Is also a stockholder, L. D. Nfckerson was appointed receiver for thx Baltzler Billet Company, near Findlay, O. The object is to protect Eastern stockholders and continue the present sucessful operation of the plant. Ypsilantl, Mich., : capitalists propose building an electric road from Windsor to Chatham, Ont. Joseph Webb, representing the American capitalists, met the railways committee of the Chatham and the Kent county councils on Monday and this joint committee passed a resolution promising to give the road all possible support. The Home Market Club of Boston, at its meeting yesterday adopted resolutions opposing the proposed reciprocity treaties between this country and Algeria. Jamaica, J3arbadoes, British Guiana, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Argentina and several other small countries and provinces on the ground that they "are too liberal In their concessions to those countries." Eugene II. Purdue, for many years president and business manager of the Cleveland Leader Printing Company, has severed his official connection with the paper and will shortly go tb Carlsbad for the benefit of his health. Charles W. Chase succeeds Mr. Purdue as president of the leader company. The name of the new business manager has not yet been ann unced. The twelfth anrual convention of the Ohio Mine Workers opened at Columbus yesterday, being the largest in the history of the organization. There are several matters of importance to be considered, among them being to secure an advance in pick mining and a decrease of the differential between pick and machine scales. An effort Is to be made to secure a change of national headquarters from Indianapolis to Columbus. A delegate convention representing the employes of the twenty-r.Ine blast furnaces of the Mahoning ana Shenango valleys, was hehl at Young3tcwn, O., yesterday, and action taken In ltgard to the cut Iti wages announced by the operators for Feb. 1. The base of wages is to be reduced from $1.90 to $1.65 per day, and resolutions adopted by the employes state that if the cut Is insisted on a general strike will be ordered, taking effect on Feb. 1. Carriage rates In Chicago are on the boom. Advances have or will be made in every section of the city averaging an increase of $1 on each service. Boarding rates will also be increased if the plans of the leaders do not fall. It is argued in "dffense of the uilform advances under contemplation that the expenses of conducting a livery stable are much higher than in former years and that the necessity of higher prices for boarding Is made mcessary by the cllmbinj? prices on hay and oats. The Social Democrats of Madison, Wis., wrote to Senator Pettlgrer as a body urging him to Introduce a substitute for the I pending ship subsidy bill, which will pro vide xor tue hiuae arauuai 01 money ex-

pended In building new vessels to be owned by the government, and to te known as the commercial navy, to be chartered for commercial purposes in time of peace and used as transports In time of war. but always to be officered and controlled by government officers. The senator Immediately notified the president of the organization that he would Introduce such a bill at the proper time. OBITUARY.

Elijah W. Blaisdeil, One of the Founders of the Republican Party. ROCKFORD 111., Jan. 15.-Elijah W. Blaisdeil. one of the founders of the Republican party, and who Is said to have been tho first man to propose the name of Abraham Lincoln for the presidency, is dead. Mr. Blaisdeil had been a resident of of Rockford tor forty-seven years, and during the time was a newspaper publisher, an author, lawyer, real-estate dealer and politician. E. W. Blaisdeil was born at Montpeller, Vt., in 1S26. In 1S53 he went West and settled at Rockford. He purchased the Rockfcrd Forum, changed its name to the Republican, and began an agitation against slavery. Editorially he advocated the formation of a party which should stand against the extension of human bondage. He called a mass meeting of the citizens or his congressional district, and proposed a resolution which set forth that a new party should be formed to be known as "The Republican party," and it was passed without a dissenting voice. Shortly after this. Mr. Blaisdeil attended the convention at Springfield and listened to the great anti-slavery speech of Abraham Lincoln. Thr trend of the speech led the editor to urge Lincoln for the presidential nomination of the Republican party, then forming. D. II. Wharton, Naval Engineer. NEW YORK, Jan. 13. Benjamin O. H. Wharton, a retired chief engineer of the United States navy, is dead at his home, In Montclalr, N. J., of heart trouble, occasioned by an attack of grip. Mr. Wharton was born in Stevensburg, Va., sixtyeight years ago. He enlisted in the navy as an engineer in 1S63. He was a member of the Pennsylvania Commandery, Loyal Legion, and of the Naval Order of the United States. Ada Rehnn's 3lother. NEW YORK. Jan. 13. Mrs. Harriet Rehan, mother of Ada Rehan, the actress, died at her home in Brooklyn to-day. She had been 111 only a week and her death was due to bronchitis. Miss Rehan is confined to her bed .with an attack of the grip and has not yet been jiotfled of her mother's death. Johnnn Fabcr, Penell Maker. NUREMBERG. Jan. 15. Johann Faber, founder of the Faber lead pencil factory, is dead. "WATTY'S" NEW LEAGUE ORGANIZATION TO JIB PERFECTED AT NEW YORK ON THURSDAY. Nitronal Board of Arbitration to Give American Association Representatives a Hearing, MILWAUKEE, Wis., Jan. 15.-The Sentinel will say to-morrow: "A. H. Koch, Charles Havener, H. D. Qulnn and Joseph O'Brien, left Milwaukee yesterday (Tuesday) for New York, where they will meet the other organizations of the American Association on Thursday for the purpose of floating an organization which will be in full accord with the national agreement, but bitterly opposed to the American League. According to the best Information the circuit of the American Association will comprise Milwaukee, Chicago, Indianapolis, and either Louisville or St. Louis in the West, and Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, or Providence In the East, although at one time the backers of the organization proposed to place a team in Baltimore to compete with McGraw's club. There is no question In the minds of the Milwaukee backers of the association that Louisville will be the choice of the delegates, instead of St. Louis, as the backing there is ample. "The Milwaukee club will be financed by H. D. Qulnn, Chicago by Charles Havener, Indianapolis by H. W. Watklns, and Louisville by Kentucky capitalists. In New York It is presumed Manhattan grounds will be used at the suggestion of Andrew Freedman. Philadelphia will be governed by A. H. Koch, of Milwaukee, who still controls an option on grounds in the Quaker City, and in Washington the backers of the club will be Noyes, Dwyer and Walker, who were identified with the movement to organize , the National Association, which was entirely abandoned. In Boston, Irwin and Hart will be In control. The Milwaukee backers of the movement say Providence is also an applicant for a franchise in the American Association, and that if the plans In any other of the Eastern cities are disarranged the Rhode- Island metropolis will secure the vacancy. A. II. Kosh said before h.j left Milwaukee that the American Association would surely be in the field." In response to a request of the association organizers, the members of tho national board of arbitration will convene at the Fifth-avenue Hotel, New York, Friday evening to give a hearing to the representatives of the American Association. General SportlngNevrs. Oscar Gardner, of Wheeling, W. Va., defeated Tommy Hogan, of Buffalo, N. Y., before the Phoenix Athletic Club, of Mem-j-his, last night. Hogan was knocked out after two minutes of fighting in the sixth round of what was to have been a twentyround bout. A Cincinnati evening newspaper says that replies have been received from twentyseven Governors in regard to prize fights, and only one. the Governor of Nevada, states he would allow the Jeffries-Ruhlln fight in his State if It cannot be pulled off In Cincinnati on Feb. 15. Tho Hamilton (Ont.) shooting tournament opened yesterday, a large number of crack shots being present. In the grand Canadian handicap, thirty-three men shot at ten birds. Clean scores were made by A. C. Courtney, of Syracuse, N. Y., and 'A. C. Eddy, of Scotland. The baseball problem In Minneapolis was solved yesterday by the sale to A. B. Beall, formerly of Sioux City, of C. II. Saulspaugh's interests, including a lease of Nicollet Park and players under American Asso-. ciation contracts. Mr. Beall will have the Western League franchise. Jack Glasscock will captain the team. George West, one of the foremost drivers of light harness horses in the country. Is dying at his home in Chicago. Last night physicians announced that the end seemed only a question of hours. West was taken 111 with an aliment of liver when he sailed from Queenstown three weeks ago on his return from a trip abroad. William A. Brady, wiring from New York, regarding the proposition to take the Jeffries-Ruhlln fight to Kansas City, Mo., says he Is still confident the fight will take place at Cincinnati. If a final proposition is made to Kansas City, Brady adds, protection will have to be guaranteed. The county sheriff has alreadx declared emphatically that he will not permit the fight to take place in Kansas City. "Major" Taylor came in first in the mile profesional handicap at Boston last night in 2:12 1-5, but Ross, McEachern, Waithour and McLean, who finished in the order given, protested, on the ground that Taylor, in patsing from rear to first, fouled each one, and thejudges reserved decision. In the trial heats. Waithour and Ross won. first and second, respectively. In 2:11 and 2:05 4-5. Yesterday's Race Winners. At New Orleans Sarilla. 4 to 1; Stirer Coin, 5 to 1; Azlm, 6 to 1; Varo. 8 to 5; Lady Contrary, 6 to 5; Lillian Heed, 11 to 5. At Oakland Del vista. 7 to 1: Kenll worth. 1 to 3: Gusto, 20 to 1; Topmast, 12 to 5; Nellie Forest, 4 to 5; Flaciero, 5 to L

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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Burglars entered Griff Mlckel's large department store at Mlddleport. O.. and. blowing open the safe, stole $1.200. The Russian cruiser Varlag. was formally placed in commission yesterday at Cramps shipyard. Her officers and crew have been aboard the vessel for some tim-2. The Nineteenth Century Club, of New York, gave a dinner at Sherry's last night. The principal speech of the evening 'was by ex-Governor McCorkle, of West Virginia. A convention for the purpose of urging upon the present Congress the immediate passage of an act bringing early statehood to Oklahoma will be held at Guthrie Jan. 30. The arrival of the United States cruiser Philadelphia at Panama has not caused any commotion. Everything is quiet there, the revolutionists having dispersed Into the Interior. General McDowell and Dr. Snipes, merchants In partnership at Helena, Ark., quarreled over a business settlement yesterday. Snipes shot at McDowell three times, the third bullet inflicting a wound from which he died. The People's Rank of Livingston, Overton county, Tennessee, was entered by burglars and robbed of $5,003. No trace of the burglars has yet been discovered. Livingston is about fifteen miles from the nearest railroad point. It is said at St. Joseph, Mo., that J. D. Richardson, manager of the Biscuit Trust, will arrive from Chicago in a few days and will offer a big reward for the apprehension of the murderer of his brother, who was killed Christmas eve. Scott Wike, who served In the lower house of Congress two terms, beginning with 1SS6, and who was assistant controller of the currency during President Cleveland's lact term, Is lying at the point of death at his home near Barry, Pike county, Illinois. The New York Consolidated Rubber Company, in its answer to the suit of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, In the Akron (O.) Circuit Court, sets up a counter claim of $150.000 damages for failure to observe its contract for handling the Consolidated Company's goods. Nearly 200 Social Democrats, including E. V. Debs, met in convention in Chicago yesterday. Many women held credentials. The meeting resolved Itself Into a defense of Debs's political methods. Two Illinois branches bitterly criticised the call for a convention at this time. A decree was entered in the United States District Court at New York yesterday declaring the 33-karat diamond pendant and other jewels smuggled into this country from Mexico last October by Vallno M. Preza and Alejandro Marcuci forfeited for failure to pay duties. At Thomasville. Ga., three weeks ago Emmett Slmms was assassinated as he was returning from a call upon a young woman. Yesterday William Doss, a young lawyer, was arrested on a charge of having committed the crime, the warrant being sworn out by the father of Slmms. Six men broke into Carpenter & Jacobus's Bank at South Lyons, Mich., Monday night, and after blowing open the safe secured $300. G. D. Hamilton, who lives near the bank, was awakened by the explosion and began an Investigation. The burglars shot at him without effect and made their escape on a hand car. The police of New Orleans have been asked to find Rita and Memle Holhouse, aged sixteen and eighteen, and their Infant sister. The two-girls left home with the child on Sunday to visit relatives and have not since been seen or heard of. The kidnaping theory has been advanced to account for their disappearance. Rowland D. Mahany, Republican, of Buffalo, has served formal notice on Representative Ryan, Democrat, that his election as a member of the Fifty-seventh Congress will be contested. The alleged grounds for contest are bribery, political intimidation and transposition of election returns. Ryan's plurality was 316. At the hearing yesterday in the Scranton, Pa., councilmanic bribery cases William Boland testified that ex-Councilman EdWard James said: "I'm not In the Council for my health. You will have to play ball and put up with the other fellows if you want that ordinance to go through. Five hundred dollars is what my vote Is worth." At Olive Hill, John Knipp shot Frank Thompson, his son-in-law, nine times with a Winchester rifle, killing him instantly. Thompson is said to have threatened Knlpp's life and was advancing at him with a knife. He was so close that he could not get the gun to Ms shoulder. Knipp went to Grayson and gave himself up. The Baptist Ministers Aid Society, of Ohio. Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisnsln, held its annual meeting at Fenton, dch.. yesterday. Officers were elected as follows: President, W. H. Doene, of Cincinnati; vice president, C. F. McFarren, Bluff ton, Ind.; secretary. Rev. C. II. Maxson, of Cincinnati; treasurer, H. B. La Tourette, of Fenton, Mich. James Sturgill, a Letcher county, Kentucky, farmer, was shot and instantly killed by Deputy Sheriff John Elkins while resisting arrest, rifle In hand, for the murder on Christmas day of John Cole, his neighbor. Sturgill had escaped and kept in the mountains of Letcher county until Monday, when two deputy sheriffs found him at the house of a friend. The trustees of the Lincoln Memorial School at Cumberland Gap, Tenn., have had a division and some of them have started a rival college, calling It the Jefferson Davis Memorial School. The falling out was due to sectional differences. The Lincoln Memorial School, established by Gen. O. O. HoWard. is one of the leading institutions of its kind in the South. W. A. Clarke, Jr., and Miss Mabel Fester, the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Foster, of Butte, Mont., are to be married after Easter. The young man is the youngest son of Senator W. A. Clark and is engaged In the practice of law in Butte. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia. Is twenty-two vears of age and is a millionaire in his own right. The seventeenth Council Union of American Hebrew Congregations met In Cincinnati yesterday at Odd Fellows' Temple with 200 delegates and many visitors present. Among the features of the opening day were the address by Gen. Lewis Seasongood and the Isaac M. Wise memorial service. Max B. May presented the bust to the governors of the Hebrew Union College. Six hundred delegates 'are attending the twelfth annual convention of the Western Implement and Vehicle Dealers' Association at Kansas City, Mo. F. K. Allen, president, in his annual address denounced "catalogue houses" as abominable pirates hostile to the Interests of the retailers. The report of the secretary showed that the association had .grown satisfactorily during the past year. Cornelius L. Alvord, Jr., who pleaded guilty last week to stealing $020.000 from the First National Bank of New York, was to have been sentenced bj' Judge Thomas in the United States Circuit Court yesterday, but on the application of his counsel Judge Thomas postponed the sentence until to-day. Alvord's counsel had some matters pertaining to the case to fix up before Alvord goes away. The Supreme Court of Ohio refuned to grant a rehearing of the two cares of the heirs of ex-Pr?sldent R. C. Hayes vs. James Hunt, administrator, which were recently decided against the estate. The point at issue is the payment of an annu.ty to an imbecile uncle of the late Iresidnt Hayes, which stopped with his death. The courts have held that the heirs must pay the claim, which was made a lien upon Spiegel Grove, the Hayes homestead. Joseph G. Stefford, a marine, attached to Company C In the Brooklyn navy yard, was killed In a barroom on the New York Bowen' yesterday morning by the bartender, who called himself John Henry, of Brooklyn, but who the police say 1 Joseph Roberts, of New York. 8tefford was In the saloon drinking and became boisterous. He praised the Irish and condemned Americans. The bartender was angered and a fight followed. Roberts sauck the marine above the left car and

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CA killed him instantly, Roberts then escaped. Detectives raided a counterfeiters den at No. 343 West Lake street, Chicago, at midnight on Monday, captured J. I. McGarry, the supposed leader of the band, and secured three bags of ypurious coin, with a complete outfit for manufacturing iL For six months the federal authmtles and the police have been searching for the gang, which has been operating extensively throughout the city. Thou?nda of dollars In counterfeit half dollars, quarters and dimes have been passed. Cable .otc. Paul Kruger has gone from The Hague to Utrecht to consult an oculist. The will of the late Lord William Reresford appoints his widow executrix and sole legatee. The customs committee of the French Chamber bf Deputies have adopted the proposal to raise the import duty on corn to 5 fiancs. The official annual statistics show an Increased death rate in Berlin for 1300 of 4 per cent., as against an increased birth rate of 2 per cent. Coquard, a murdered, who barricaded himself in his house at Saint Savlne, France, and defied all the police and a company of Boldl-?rff, hanged himself when he saw he had no chance of escape. The keel of the Shamrock II, challenger for the America's cup. was run while Denny's yard, at Glasgow, was closed on New Year's day. Since then a score of the slda frames have been set up to port and starboard. The French minister of foreign affairs, M. Delcasse, denies that he Intends to replace M. Pinchon. the French minister at Peking. He hopes that Pinchon will bo enabled to pursue the negotiations to tho end. "The new Austrian Reichsrath offers all the elements of an even more distracted Parliament than the last." says the Vienna correspondent of the London Times, "and already It is predicted that a deadlock will come between Easter and Whitsuntide, and perhaps sooner." Several members of the medical and nursing staffs of the American hospital ship Maine (which arrived at Southampton, June 13 from China) have volunteered for further service in the event of the Main again going out to China in the hospital service. They will enjoy a short holiday before going to the United States. The passenger list of the White Star lino steamer Oceanic, which palls from Liverpool via Queenstown for New York to-day. contains tho names of Arthur Paget, Sir William Orr Ewing. Sir Weetman Pickln. son Pearson and Robert Lorraine, who has Just returned from South Africa, where he served in the yeomanry, and who goes to New York to play the lending part la Frohman's "To Have and to Hold." MESSAGE FE01I UARS. Shaft of Lischt That XV mm Seen tiy am Observer In Arizona. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 3S. Professor Pickering, of Harvard Observatory, to-day said: "Early In December we n -?ived from the Lowell Observatory In Arizona a tele-' gram that a shaft of light had been seen to project from Mars (the Lowell Observatory makes a specialty of Mars), lasting seventy minutes. I wired these facts to Europe. The observer in Arizona is a careful, reliable man. and there is po reason to doubt that the light existed. It was given as well from a well-known Keographljal point of Mars; that was all. Now the story has gone the world over. In Europe It Is stated that I have been In communication with Mars and all sorts of exaggerations have sprung up. Whatever the lijrht was we have no means of knowing. Whether It had Intelligence or not no one can say. It is absolutely Inexplicable." Movements of Steamers. NEW YORK. Jan. 13.-Arrived: Spaarndam, from Rotterdam; Norge. from Copenhagen, etc. Sailed: Trave. for Dremen via Southampton; Cevic, for Liverpool; Sardinian, for Glasgow. ST. JOHN, N. 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