Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 41, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1901 — Page 4

INDIANAPOLIS JOrnilAL, SUNDAY, FE3UUATIT 10, K?,l 4 CREATES A SENSATION other pension bIJl pajps this Senate until this oli man gets justice." The resolution offered yesterday by Mr. Berry, calling on the President as to whether the American minister to China had Joined with other powers In demanding the execution of Prince Tuan and other Chinese oKicials, was adopted without debate. When the naval bill was taken up the Fenate committee's amendment to continue the six years' course and not to graduite the three high cla.sea at the academy at this 3 time was agreed to 40 to 1. Amendments authorizing the President to fill vacancies In the grade of ensign by appointment from amonx boatswains, gunners or warrant machinists, not exceeding six in any one' year, and to appoint to the Naval Academy not exceeding three of the acting carets who served with credit during the Spanish war. were adopted; alo the amendment Increasing from five to ttn the number of cadets to l appointed to the Naval Academy each year by the President Mid striking out the House provision for th increase of the navy by authorizing the construction of two unsheathed seagoing battleships and two unsheathed armored cruisers and inserting in lieu of It an extended provision referring the whole matter of the construction of the proposed I G. II. RAY CONVICTED ncpnusiTATivn nnowx stiioxgly co.dl:.u.s a colo.mal policy. FOt'XD GUILTY OF COXSPII1IXG TO DEFRAUD SHELBY COUXTY Republican Member of the IIouc from the President Own Mnte Wins Ueuiorrntle Applause. Vindication of the Law After a Lone Ilelgn of Oftlclnl Coruption In f the Connty Offices. ß cm PLEADS FOR THE FILIPINOS KEITH SENTENCED TO HANG It is only ONCE A YEAR that the Bovven-Merrill Company call the attention of the public to a general clearing-up sale of books. The values which are offered at this time are as unusual as the occasions are rare. AND IRKCS GIVIXG TIIC3I ASStltaci:s of i.I)cpi:ndi:nci;. JUDGE WELBOItX OVERRULES 3IOTIOX FOR A NEW TRIAL. v . .-v jo n luv Still IUI J 1. Iii iJ. instructions to prepare plans and speclllKiuuiis iur me vessels ana suun.ii. witm iu Congress next December, together with a report upon all controverted questions. lie Also Condemns the .SnjCKCstlon thnt Calm He HeM -I'll cbforker' TII1- . man's Oath lu the Senate. Mnnrlce Thompson Expected to Die nt Any Hour Election Reform Wave Strikes Monroe County. SNATCHED BY A THIEF.

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WASHINGTON. Feb. 9. Consideration of the diplomatic and consular appropriation till In the "House to-day developed something of a sensation, when Representative Brown, of Ohio, standing In the center cf the Republican side of the chamber, made a statement strongly condemning a colonial policy and urging that Congress should at once give assurance to the Filipinos that the purpose of the United States was to give them Independence. His announcement that he would advocate a resolution to thU effect was loudly applauded, particularly on the Democratic side, and at trie closecf the speech many of his Republican asiociates crowded about him and congratulated him. Representatives Miers, of Indiana, and Dlnsmore, of Arkansas, also spoke on the Philippines. Consideration of the diplomatic and consular bill went over at 2 o'ciock and the rest of the day was given "over to eulogies of the late Representatives Daly, of New Jersey, and Wise, of Virginia. Mr. filers, in the course of his speech, severely criticised the policy which "denied to tho .Insular possessions those blessings under the ' Constitution which had been held out to them." Mr. Miers also dealt with the growing power of concentrated wealth and the domination of trust3. Mr. Brown urged that Congress should cow give definite assurance to the Filipinos as to the purposes of this government. He advocated the speedy adoption of a resolution declaring that "it Is the purpose of the United States In retaining possession of tho Philippine Islands, to aid their inhabitants, when they submit to the authority cf the United States, In establishing a capablo and atabl free government, and when this purpose shall be fully accomplished, the United States, under such reservailDrt and conditions as may be wise and just, will relinquish sovereignty in tnose Ulands." Mr.' Brown said: "A colonial policy will be a radical departure from the course which our government has consistently adhered to In, Its spienuld career or more than a hundred years, a coionial policy will be maintained at the cost greater than any turn of money can measure of violating principles which we have cherished as tiY very life of free government. A colonial policy will require us to govern without the consent of the governed. A colonial policy will destroy the high ideals which we have so proudly followed from our beginning es a nation. Congress has never yet announced to the Filipinos what the national purpose is with respect to them. If tnis body will tell them now tell them explicitly and solemnly that it is the fixed determination of this Nation to establish

Its authorityin their country and that when this end shall be reached they shall have a cnance to become. In due time, free citizens of a free government; If Congress will say this to them, and say it now. we may confidently expect that tneir rude weapons or warrare win ian irom tneir hands and they will sue for peace peace which they will know means more for them than any thing ever held out to them or to their fathers in any generation. "This declaration would now be opportune. It would be at this time a wise act. which the government is strong enough to perform without having its motives questioned by friend or foe. liven the most de luded Filipino could not misunderstand It. It would go to him, as he would know and as all the world would know. In the day of our triumph and his defeat. This declaration by Congress would now go to the Filipinos as a great nation's amnesty to them. ny not proclaim tnis to the inhabitants of the Philippine islands, and why not proclaim It now? It may be answered that this Is about what we really Intend to do.' It may be asserted that as we are now going, and without a pledge or a word from us, the ultimate end of our occupatlon of Filipinos' territory will be Flliplno freedom and Filipino government. But we have not said this to the Filipinos. We have carefully and studiously refused to eay this to them." Mr. Brown also referred to the talk favorable to holding Cuba, and said: "We hear it said now It is almost common talk that it was a mistake for our government to give assurance of a purpose to leave cuoa- aien assert, without any apparent sense of shame, that while it was all well enough for U3 to fro to war for the sake of humanity, and In humini ty's name, we should have left ourselves free to bring the Cuban people into subjection to us. and free to take their Island Into our keeping and hold it as our .property. Deep regret Is expressed because of th." fact that before the world we pledged ouselves to the people of Cuba that we would not make conquest of their lfland. but that we should leave it to them. The man who says we should have resorted to this double dealing in April, lt, now very logically and very naturally cots a step further and says we ought to violate the pledge we then made and take Cuba, whether she wants to conic to us or not. What moro miserable, more Inhuman, more unpatriotic course could be advocated? It is the climax of greed with out one fparjk i tuiiM'H'nte. it is me same avarice without a sinsle redeemlüK feature. It Is the doctrine of a free'cot?r of the world. It is the code Tf a pirate of the seas." Mr. Dlnsmore said the country was to be congratulated on the speech just made, as It gave evidence of a courageous purposo to tllsrvpaM the policy of the party In power. "The slprn of the tlm." he said, 'indicated a deliberate purpose fo break faith with Cuba. As to the Filipinos. there was no doubt they had expected as sistance from the United States, rather than a&srre5?lon. Despite the assurances that the defeat of Bryan would end th? war. tne war was stl'.l on. growing bloodier as It progressed, and entailing vast ex penditure. NAVAL BILL DISCUSSED. Senate Did Xot Tnke lp the Ship Meas ure Till manM Onth. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9,-Durir.g almost the entire session of to-day the Senate hd under consideration the naval appropriatior. Mil. Practically the bill was completed wV.en it was laid aside for the day, all the committee amendments being adopted; but as the measure was about to be placed on its passage Mr. Butler precipitated a dls cusslon of the armor plate question. In order to enable some others to speak on the matter the bill was laid aside until Monday. Eulogies upon the late Representative Alfred C. Hirmer. of Pennsyl vania, concluded the session. The passage at the beginning of to-day's cession of a bill granting a pension of $30 a month to Stacey II. Cogswell, Company F. Thirteenth Indian Volunteer Infantry, induced Mr. unman to make some force ful comments on the House not takinc action upon a bill providing a pension for e Mexican war veteran who had resided In South Carolina during the civil war. and natuially had Iren in sympathy with the Confederacy. The bill had been passe 1 by the Senate, but the House invalid pension committee wa delaying final action unon it. Mr. Tillman ursed. He said there was iuch sectional animosity in the House com mit tee that the members refused to Dermit action upon the bill for the benefit of th'.s cm 'Mexican veteran. "Is the war over, cr Is it not?" demanded Ilr. Tillman, with vehemence. "Let us i:nd out whether It Is cr not. I swear by C3 Alnbhty God that I will rct Ut ca-

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Recovered by Police. PHILADELPHIA, Pa... Feb. 9.-Peter Well, an aged and prominent manufacturer. was to-day knocked down on the street by highwaymen as he was leaving a national bank and a satchel containing 13,000 was wrenched from his hand. The money was recovered by a policeman, who captured the thief after an excitinsr chase. The highwayman said his name was Joseph Ed wards, put tnis is believed to be fictitious. CLOSING IT UP RAPIDLY CAIlXEfiin PAPERS EXPECTED TO HE SIGNED OX WEDNESDAY. Influence In Lake Shipping Xcw Fnrnncc Belns. Unlit nigr Combination of Sucnr Plantations. riTTSBURG, Feb. 9. Alexander R. Pea cock, first vice president and general sales agent of the Carnegie Steel Company, who has been In New York, where he has been taking a part in the CarnegieMorgan deal, returned to Pittsburg to-day. Ho went immediately to his office and to all visitors he sent out word that he was too busy to be seen. President C. M. Schwab will return to Pittsburg Monday morning. He will carry some important papers relating to the deal to be signed by some of the Pittsburg officials and of at tending to the business that has accumu lated this week. He will leave Monday night to go back to New York. When the Carnegie president returns to New York the Gotham people are expected to have affairs in such shape that, with the papers hie will have prepared here, the deal can be concluded on Wednesday. Whatever may be going on at New York the Carnegie Steel Company is making some important improvements at the Homestead steel works, which will greatly increase the output. The company has broken ground for four more open-hearth furnaces, which will be erected in No. 2 open-hearth department. The department must be extended two hundred feet to accommodate the four new furnaces, two of which will be placed on each side of the mill. Lach will have a capacity of fifty tons, and the four will give employment to about two hundred men, exclusive of out side laborers. The new furnaces have been made necessary by the expansion of tne rouing ana armor plate mills. W hen the four new furnaces are completed there will be forty-six at the Homestead mills. with a capacity for making nearly a third of the open-hearth steel In the United States. A new pipe-fitting department Is to De erected at tne Homestead works. The Increase in the steel mills has outpaced in rou snop, and it also will be rebuilt. A Povter in Lake Shipping:. CLEVELAND. O., Feb. 9. By the pur chase. of the Carnegie Steel Company and auxiliary interests, the ships of the Pittsburg Steamship Company which is domi nated by the Carnegies, J. P. Morgan & Co become a factor in the lake situation, being In possession of twenty-two steamers with an average carrying capacity of be tween 4,000 and 4,500 tons each. The Pitts burg Steamship Company's fleet comDrise3 eleven steamers, five of which are new ana with a carrying capacity of 5.UJ tons each. The other companies represented are the Lackawanna Transporation Company and the Lehigh Valley Transportation Com pany, which are properties allied to railroads which Mr. Morgan Is supposed to dominate. In addition the transfer of the Carnegie property carries with it the con tract with the Bessemer Steamship Company, Rockefeller's interest, for transportation for upwards of roo.i-oo tons of ore a year, the output of one Carnegie's mines In the Ip.ke Superior district, which gives im carrying capacity on the lakes of up wards or tons or ireignt per year. In addition to these boats N. Monsarrat. ptesldcnt of the Hocking Valley Railroad. a Morgan interest, last year purchased tour boats which were supposed to carry the product of Morgan's Ohio mines. It is raid that this fleet is to be added to this year, rumors to- thatv effect having been prevalent last year, but which were balked Im cause of the excessively high prices asked by the owners. COMBINATION IX SUGAR. flavrnilnn Plantation to Re Absorbed by n Rise American Company. SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 9. The Tost says: "Notice will shortly appear of the incorporation In New York of the Ameri can and Hawaiian Commercial Company. This strongly-backed corporation will in turn absorb the property and Interests of the Honoka, Hütchlscn, Kilauca, Onoraea and Pauhua sugar plantations, issuing shares to holders In those companies at rates proportionate to their holdings. The details of this gigantic deal have not yet been mads public, but enough Is known to warrant the statement that besides the companies named a number of strong plantations in the islands, not listed here, will Join issues with this powerful corporation." The Post says that the late strength of the sugar market can bo credited to the pending formation of this combination of tne sugar companies. Xevr Street-Rnllvray Combination. CLEVELAND, O.. Feb. 9. There are wellfounded rumors to-day that all the suburban lines running into Cleveland and the Big Consolidated Electric Street-railway, will enter a combination to be controlled bv Henry A. Everett, president of the Big Consolidated. The stock of the Big Conso'.Mated Company to-day jumped from 67U to VI, and over 3, shares of it were io'.d. Mr. Everett now controls the Akron, Btdford & Cleveland, and the Cleveland, Paint sviHe & Eastern, ana has part ownership in the Lorain & Cleveland. The first move In the deal was made to-day. when the Lasalle, 111., city lines were transferred to a company with JuuO,mj capital, composed of Elstern and Western financiers.

Xew B. O. Line Projected. WARREN. O.. Feb. 9. General Superintendent Finney and Superintendent Dlnkle, of the Pittsburg & Western Railway, with three surveyors, went over the line of the old' narrow gauge road to Ycungstown to-day. It Is said on good authority that the Baltimore & Ohio Itailivad will construct a new main line of double track between Niks rnd Youngstown and will run all passensrr trains over it between Akron and Pittsburg, shortening the line two miles. Read th3 Kcii ZZzizt?, Fcr C'!:, Tc? Rents, etc. en Vzz? C

Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SHELBY VI LLE, Ind., Feb. 9. The jury lu the George M. Ray conspiracy case brought in a verdict of guilty this morning at 10:33 after-being out for twenty houiv, on the fifth count of the indictment, which alleges a conspiracy between Ray and the then County Commissioners, Adam A. G'.rtcn, William Amos and James L. Cherry, for the purpose of defrauding the county on an Illegal contract for the printing of county supplies. Although the verdict was returned in private the courtroom was fairly well filled with men, who had seen the defendant and attorneys going toward the courthouse. The reading of the verdict was received without any demonstration more than a sigh of relief and the expression, "Well, they have landed him at last.Mr. Ray had been partly prepared for the result, for last night one of his friends gave out the Information that the jury stood ten for conviction. Up to 10 o'clock last n!ght, however, Mr. Hay himself contended that there would be a hung jury. In hl3 paper, after the evidence was all In, he announced that "the State has failed to make a case in the opinion of all unprejudiced minds. As It is, the verdict will be acquittal." Ray was not placed in jail, but was nermltted to tro to his home for din

ner in custody with Deputy SheriK Chester Luther. The penalty for the offense for which Ray was convicted is two to fourteen years in prison. The crime for which Ray is to suffer punishment is a peculiar one, and the outgrowth of the fax administration of law in this county for a period covering a period of twenty years or more. The first move looking to the house cleaning in thU county began with the public meeting to protest against the building of six bridges by Commissioners Girton, Amos and Cherry. At this meeting, held in January, 109, were representatives from every neighborhood of. the county. As a result, three of these bridges, contracted for on petitions more than ten years old and with many of the petitioners long dead, wera ordered not to be built. Then followed extravagant improvements on the county poor asylum. The crime for which Ray was convicted was the furnishing of supplies contrary to law on a contract dated on March 6, made with the same board of commissioners which tried to build the bridges. Within a few days after the passage of the county reform law, which prescribed the manner of purchasing county supplies, this contract was made and under it Ray printed 83,000 blanks for the clerk's and sheriff's offices without any order from them. The evidence in this case disclosed the fact that the custom of the commissioners had been to make a contract with a printing house for the supplies needed durng the year, the officers ordering whatever they needed, and at the end of the quarter the bills would be paid. Ray's defense -was that others had ignored the law of-ls73, and he ought not to be punished. Proof was admitted that blanks for other oiflces were furnished without orders, far In excess of their needs, in some instances from obsolete forms and on others In quantities that would last five hundred years. One of the jurors in conversation this morning after the jury wa3 discharged said that the ballot was clear the first time as to the question of guilt, but they took ten ballots to determine on which count of the Indictment to return the verdict. The verdict seems to give entire satisfaction, and Prosecutor Blair Is being congratulated on every side. Judges Klrkpatrlck had been informed that Ray had said when he went to the penitentiary it would be for something. Sheriff Luther had been instructed to stand close to the prisoner and a number of men were on guard in the background. He made no response to the verdict. Ray having been found guilty makes it look dark for the commissioners. Adam A. Girton, William Amos and James L. Cherry, who were also Indicted for the same conspiracy. Friday afternoon they were called in and placed under $6,000 bond each. On Glrton's bond were William Avery and George W. Bury. On Amos's bond are John Doyle, Adam A. Girtoh and Charles A. W. Amos. On the bond of Cherry are John F. McCain and Martin Cherry. Sheriff Luther this afternoon was asked why he did not place Ray in jail, as he would any other prisoner, and he said. "There is no hurry." He was responsible for the man at the proper time and would have him here. Marsh Wilson was not put in jail here at all, but between his conviction and the transfer to prison lived as the guest of the sheriff and had the liberty of the town. One of Sheriff Luther's bondsmen was heard to say this afternoon that If he did not confine Ray he (the bondsman) would go after his (Luther's) bond. The people seem determined that Ray shall be put in Jail. At a small meeting of citizens held this afternoon the statement of Sheriff Luther was reported, and the decision was reached that if Luther did not do his duty they would prepare Imreachment proceedings against him the llrst of the week. This would mean his suspension from office and the appointment ot another sheriff. Riy spent the afternoon on the streets and In stores, settling some of his personal affairs. During the trial he characterized the proceedings as a farce. In his paper to-night he makes an appeal to his friends to stand by his paper and principles in his enforced absence if the conspirators and political enemies should succeed In forcing him into the penitentiary. The jury stood politically, nine Democrats, two Republicans and one Prohibitionist. Ray in III Own Defense. The Shelbyville Democrat. In its issue of yesterday, after reviewing the verdict, the case and the circumstances leading up "to the Indictment and trial, says: "And yet, in all this hue and cry, no man has ever been able to locate or place hit hand upon a single dollar that George Ray has ever taken, legally or illegally, out of the county treasury of Shelby county, directly or Indirectly. Men who engage in business do ho from a business standpoint, and it is not fair to hold a printer responsible for the amount of a given order for Job printing, as he has a right to presume that those with whom he does business know their requirements and desires. A printer, so far as regulating such requirements, acts simply as a piece of machinery. George Ray, in this Instance, was not a public officer he had no official responsibilities; he was not charged with any duty In an official sense and should not in any way be held responsible for the judgment resting upoa the shoulders of others." Dronffht Ilia Own Pnntahment. The Shelbj-vllle Republican says of the Ray verdict: ''Ray has been tempting the fates for years and he has reached the end of his. line by landing where J. Marsh WllEoa eo7 la and tvhere others are almost sure iu -luiiuw. jus vonvicuon is not i c-rrrJ-s. Tfcs jury was largely ccrr.r?::J c a

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In his favor on that score. There were but two Republicans on the' panel." STRIKES MONROE COUNTY. Election Reform Ware Tliroirn Three Indictments on the Shore. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BLOOMINGTON. Ind., Feb. 9. Election relorm struck Bloomlngton suddenly to day when the grand jury returned Indictments against three men for selling their votes. A man named La Salle was arrested and appeared before Judge Martin. La Salle pleaded guilty and was disfranchised for twenty years, the Judge saying he was only sorry he could not also disfranchise the man who bought his vote. - Vote Seller DIsf ranchUed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CRAW FORDS VI LLE, Ind., Feb. 9. Alfred Shepherd and Ahin H. Hamilton, two Crawfordsville vote sellers, have appeared before the 1udge of the court and entered a P'ea of guilty to the charge, and each was disfranchiseed for twelve years. This makes tMrty-four who have been disfranchised tor this effense. , SENTENCED TO HANG. Joseph n. Keith to Expiate the Crime of Killing Nora Klfer. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PRINCETON, Ind., Feb. D. Judge Oscar M. Melborn late to-day sentenced Joseph D. Keith to be hanged at the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City, before sunrise, on Friday, May 24, by the warden or his deputy. Keith heard the sentence passed without tne least sign of emotion. The overruling of ' the motion " for a new trial earlier in the day had prepared him for the ordeal. Mrs. Keith sat with her husband, his hand resting in her lap. Shs shed ' no tears, but shook with emotion. A great throng filled the courtroom, fcnt the silence was only broken by the fatal words pronöunced by the Judge. Attorney Chappell, for Keith, gave notice that an arpeal would be taken. The costs of the reporters' transcript will exceed $1.000. to be paid by Warrick county. Keith will be taken to Michigan City within a few days. At 1 o'clock this afternoon Judge Welborn formally overruled the motion for a new trial. During the morning the court spoke at considerable length on the points in the case, and thoroughly reviewed the evlderce and the charges in the motion for a new trial. A sensational feature was the lonu talk made by the prisoner when given an opportunity. He reviewed the evidence, claiming It was false and manufactured, and that he was the victim of circumstances brought about by malicious persons. He grew very excited and broke down and wept In referring to his mother. He talked -for forty minutes, after which the court again took the case, setting aside many of the pleas advanced by the prisoner in his own behalf. ' MR. THOSirSON 311X11 "WORSE. Sinking Rapidly Durlnff the Afternoon, vrith No Hope of Recovery. Special to th Indianapolis Journal. CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind., Feb. 9. Maurlce Thompson's condition continues most serious. He was very restless last night whenever, he" roused from his unconscious spells, but this morning, he appeared to be slightly better. This afternoon, however, his vitality was very low and he appeared to be sinking rapidly, a marked change for th worse having become apparent In only a few hours. At 10 o'clock to-night it If believed that he will not live over to-morrow, and death may come at any minute. The immediate cause of his condition is pneumonia. At 2 o'clock this (Sunday) morning a telephone message from Crawfordsville stateu that Mr. Thompson was still alive, but was growing weaker. I STREET-RAILWAY SYNDICATE.

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pose to consolidating the street-railway systems of important cities In northern Indiana. Ohio and southern Michigan, together with the interurban electric roads entering those towns. Articles of Incorporation wero filed here to-day by A. A. Purman, of this city. Hugh A. Holmes, of Detroit, is president of the company, and the directors are, J. B. Book, W. H. Holmes and W. R. Brown, of Detroit; William Nichols and James Murdock, of Lafayette, and T. McNalry. of Logansport. New York and Philadelphia capitalists are interested. TO FIG1IT THE STANDARD. Cndahy and Manhattan Companies Pool Interests in Indiana Field. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELIER, Ind.. Feb. 9. To-day saw the completion of a pipe line deal in Montpeller whereby the Manhattan Oil Company purchased the Indiana Pipe Line and Refining Company's lines, which include about 300 miles of underground pipe. The latter company Is the Cudahy com-j-any. Both the Manhattan and Cudahy companies sold their production to ths Standard Oil Company, but they are combining the pipe lines to fight the Standard in buying production of other oil operators. The purchasers also got several pumping stations and telegraph lines to Chicago. The Indiana headquarters for the Manhattan Company will be left in this city, and the other offices removed to this point. It. J. Sidney, a superintendent for the Manhattan, says It is not a purchase, bvc a combination of the two big companies. Petition to Sell Trees Estate. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RUSIIVILLE, Ind., Feb. 9. John Blessing, guardian of Cyrus E, Trees, the Manila banker, has petitioned the court for an order permitting him to sell the Manila Bank, with its building and fixtures. Mr. Trees was declared of unsound mind last Monday. He is a wreck physically and mentally, and is being treated in a private sanitarium at Indianapolis. John Blessing, of Shelbyville, to whom the guardianship papers have been. issued in the Trees , case, gave a bond for $105,000 for the personal estate of his ward, estimated at $i3,O0O. The real estate owned by Mr. Trees is variously estimated at from $00,000 To J75.000. His obligations amount to $55.000. which include $24.000 of deposits in the Manila Liank and 510,000 worth of grain in the Trees eievat or. Label League Elects Officers. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Feb. 9.-Thc Women's International Union Label League closed a three days' session to-night with the election of the following officers: President, Mrs. Ellen LUllbrldge, Muncie, re-elected; first 'vice president, Mrs. Julia Flewellen, Lockport, N. Y.; second vice president, Mrs. Margaret McAllister, Elwood; general secretary, Mrs. Bell Grant, Muncie; general treasurer, Mrs. VIrnle Collins, Chicago; executive board, Mrs. Jennie Reuter, Peoria, III.; Mrs. Kate Jones. Elwood; Mrs. Mary Engel, Marion; Mrs. Kate Leigh, Clinton. 111.; Mrs. Libbie Kapp, Alexandria. A banquet followed the election. The next convention will be held at Peoria, III. Reception to W. O. Tyler. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb. 9. Willis Ol Tyler, Indiana University's winning orator at the State contest at Indianapolis Friday night, was given a great ovation on Ms arrival this afternoon. An open car-nt-ge, handsomely decorated, was in waltiLS and Mr. Tyler was driven about the square followed by several hundred students. A formal reception will be given in hl? honor at the university cn Thursday morning. Lockjaw Caused by the Grip. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW ALBANY. Ind., Feb. 9.-John iXines, aged forty years, died to-night of lockjaw, resulting from an attack of the grii. ' Old Had Killed by Er-csnre. Fpecial to the Indianapolis Jocrwil. FltAlJIlFOIlT. Ir..U Tc'j. C.-C r-

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away last night and was found dead to-day j In a wheat Held, where he had perished i from exposure. Mr. Claplnger was formerly a wealthy resident of Michigan township, but lost his property, and had been a county charge for three years, Box and Handle Factory Darned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind., Feb. 9. The box and handle factories, owned by the Marion J3ox and Handle Company, were destroyed by fire at 11 o'clock to-night. The loss will exceed $15,000. fully covered by insurance. Indiana Obituary. WABASH, Ind., Feb. 9. Alex. Stitt, forty years ago one of the leading merchants of Wabash and a son of Archibald Stitt, a pioneer hotel keeper of the Wabash valley, died this morning at Columbus, O. Mr. Stitt suffered an attack of paralysis ten ytars ago. and never recovered from its effects. For some time past he was a member of the stone and lime firm of Stitt, Price & Co. He left a widow, a son and a daughter. MONON, Ind.. Feb. 9. The body of James T. Dowell, of Rushvllle, who was killed In the wreck at Greenville, Pa., will be burled here to-morrow. Mr. Dowell was forty ears old and leaves a wife and daughter He. was in tho employ of the Adam Produce Company, of Rushvllle, and had gone to New York with a car of poultry. On ' his way home he was killed. His r rother, Frank Dowell, lives near here. ANDERSON, Ind.. Feb. 9. Joseph Wilkinson, one of the oldest citizens of Madison county, died at his home here to-day, in his eighty-seventh year. He had been closely identified with the development of Anderson for half a century. He was prominent in the councils of tho Methodist Church and has a son filling one of the pulpits of the Methodist Church In Chicago. JEFFERSON VI LLE. Ind.. Feb. 9. A telegram received here this morning announced the sudden death In Chicago of Miss Addie McCune, a well-known young woman of this city. Miss McCune was in Chicago visiting her brothers, and the last heard of her, previously, she was in the best of health. MONTPELIER. Ind.. Feb. 9.David Sills, who lived west of Montpeller, dropped dead this evening, while chopping wood, at his home. Heart disease is supposed to be the cause. Mr. Sills is one of the oldest settlers of this county. MORRISTOWN, Ind.. Feb. 9. Joseph H. Wrennick, nearly all his life a resident of Shelby county, died here to-day, aged seventy years. Indiana Note. The Blackford Glass Company, of Hartford City, in drilling for gas within the city limits, opened an oil well of copious flow. Mrs. Anna Locke, of Hagerstown. wlf of Aaron Locke, celebrated her ninetyfourth birthday yesterday. Her husband is two years her Junior. James Gulnn. an Anderson farmer, who removed from Virginia to that village more than sixty years ago, will celebrate his ninetieth birthday to-day. Enoch Lecman. of Indianapolis, who sued the Pennsylvania road for fcr.OCtt damage for inlurjes suffered, was awarded a verdict or $4X) at Lebanon, yesterday. Mrs. William A. Byrne, of Corydon. has sued Mrs. Alice Bennett, widow of Dr. J. H. Bennett, for J10.000 for the alleged alienation of her husband's affections. Assurances have been received at Wabash that the Fort Wayne & Southwestern Railroad will be extended to Wabash from Huntington in the spring or early summer. The Madison County Farmers Institute adjourned at Anderson yesterday after electing W. C. Wood, of Pendleton, president and Flavius Jackson, of Chesterfield, secretary-treasurer. Hagerstown citizens and residents of the surrounding country have sent a petition, numerously signed, to Representative Watson, urging the defeat of the bill legalizing the manufacture of oleomargarine. Work on the new cellhouse at the Jcffcrsonvllle Reformatory has been stopped, owing to a strike of the workman on the heating and ventilating plants, who demanl that two nonunion men from Louisville be discharged. William Seeley. an ex-constable of Peru. Wi'S arrested after a desperate struggle, l'riday msht, for drunkenness. After be.r-r jocked up hc wreckod the watercl'jset; took cn Iren tr cn.1 str.shed ths T?ater pipes, rr r": :r - f.;rc? ir.ch r3 tc Kor,i th ' - - c -rl'J ci: 1 this Cs-tley

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witness: $1.23 $18.50 $1.23 ...$18.00 v drunken frenzy, stepped into the cage o kok at the pipe, and the sheriff closed th door on him. Marlon manufacturers, representatives of the Big Four, Pennsylvania, Vandalia and Clover Leaf railroads and several Indian coal operators met at the Marlon Commercial Club Friday night to discuss the ful question. The railroad men assured th manufacturers that rates under the prevailing 70 cents a ton transport fee would to given on coal if the mine owners would meet them half way, and the operators tentatively agreed to the proposal, thui assuring cheaper fuel. WKECKAGE OF THE ANDKADE. Found by the Cutter Grant on tfat Const of Vancouver Inliind. PORT TOWNSEND, Wash-. Feb. 9 -Th revenue cutter Grant returned this morning from a search for evidence that would lead to an explanation of the fate that befell the British shlzt Andrade, which, after arriving off the Columbia river ani taking aboard a pilot, was blown off thore and has never since been heard of. Th cutter made the entire circuit cf Vancouver island, and during the voyage discovered evidence that leaves no doubt as to the fate of the Andrade, a Loafs signboard, badly battered and bearing her name, having been picked up In the cruise at Carmanah. At Fort Rupert the Grant obtained Information indicating the- lss of another vessel called the Ilala. Captain Tozier says the west coast of Vancouver la well christened the "northwestern Pacific graveyard," for there is not a single spot on the entire wert coast where wreckage ca find a place to pile up that is not litterei with flotsam and Jetsam from vessels, oJ and new. Movements of Steamers. NEW YORK. Feb. 9. Arrived: Pennsylvania, from Hamburg. Sailed: Luc.nr.ia, ror Liverpool; Westernland. lor Antwerp. BOSTON. Fob. 9. Arrived: Sylvania fcr. J Commonwealth, from Liverpool. LIVERPOOL. Feb. S.-SalW: Ceorglc ani Servia, for New York. QUEENSTOWN. Feb. 10.-Arrivcl: E ruria. from New York. SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 3. Sailed: Vaderland, for New York. BREMERHAVEN. Feb. 9. Hailed: Rh-.J-ner, for New York. HAMBURG. Feb. 9. Arrived: Patrick, from New York. HAVRE. Feb. O.-Sailcd: 1 Aquitaine, for New York. ANTWERP. Feb. 3. Sailed: Fricslani for New York. GLASGOW, Feb. 9. Sailel: Sarnati for Boston. LONDON. Feb. 9.-Sa!led: Malntou. I0p New lork. Portal of Ütitry. Influenza, or the Grip-Caused by ore ct the smallest known bacü'.l: discovered la 1S52 by Cancn and Pfeiffer. IfeCl spreads by the scattering about by air currents of the dried nasal and bronchial secretion of these suffering from the urease, and its portal of entry Is by th nose and bronchial tubes. N. Y. Sun. The use of Dr. Humphreys' Fptific destroys the bacilli or germs and break the Grip or Cold. thile its tonicity fatales the flagging energies durir-g and o-e the attack. At all drug stores. C5c.. or mailed. Pocket Manual mailed free. Humphreys Homeopathic Medicine Co Cor. William and John Sts., New Yorx. o 1