Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 47, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 February 1901 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 190L

very young when the war closed and his espousal of the Confederate side may be regarded as the result of his Southern environment, rather than a matter of conviction. This is indicated by his indifference to political matters during the greater part of his life in Indiana. He voted with the Democratic party until two years ago and was once elected to a state office-- that of geolo-gist--and has been a member of the Legislature, but he never showed an active Interest in general politics unlii within the Lift two years, wht-r. the Democratic financial vagaries and the parly opposition to the cour.-e of the administration regarding the Philippines roused his attention and I.idignation. and led to his open renunciation of his old paty and hi. classification of himself as an expansionist. ThL- announcement was made through the Journal, to which he contributed several strong papers tn Democratic shortcoming. Frr.rr. his y.uth up Mr. Thompson han Uta In the. habi'. of making lo:;g occasional excursions into unire.,ae;!ti ri0'ionj to tudy nature. He w: 5. a ready and accurate skeiehtr. ar.d from every exi'trsiou brought licme rwncIlnsH of birds, plants, animals. bits of landscape. ter.ons and places that serve to enrich hi written memoranda. Hi was an enthusiastic sportsman. a crack s:;ot with rifle, pistol, and shotgun, and as an archer he surpassed every authentic record in wing-shootlng. lie was alo ar. e.ithusla-ttic and expert bicyclist. Mr. Thompson married Miss Alice Lee. of Crawfordsville. Their home has always been in that Indiana town, though in rtCent years he. with hi family, has spent the Winter in Day St. Louis. Louisiana. The Soat:ern ciimate enabled him to got hi covtied open-air life without the dangers of th.j Northern cold. It was generally April befoi these birds of passage flitted back to Crawfordsville and mmmer. Mrs. Thompson survives her husband. There are two daughters and ono son. One daughter is manici, and the children in her home .at Tampa have often drawn the grandparents from their more familiar haunts fat t her west. The son is a lawyer la Crawtonlsvllle The younger unmarried daughter Is is ait home. Some one recently drew this sketch of Mr. Thompson's appearance and habits: "In person he is above medium height, elender, almost slight, but straigh. litiv;. Pnd compact, a fincwy athlete with a largo head, dark gray -brown l ye.J. gray hair that vas evl'leritl;' on ro very Muck., larlc skin, a thin, strongly marked face, semi-aquiline Lose, and a Ion:;, very slight mustache. lie 1.- n. hard and raiid worxer, a tine conversationalist, and. it Ir. said, enjoys tho distinction of not havir.se a 'inlshcd manuscript on hand, and of never having failed to till a literary engagement to the letter o the contract. He invariably visits and minutely studies the regions In which thi teener of his stories and xoems are laid. Before writing 'A Song of a Mocking Bird.' he made several vlsltr to the hid country ot western Florida, wandering from Tallahassee to Pensacola and Moblle, and thence to Louisiana, studying the mockingbird in Its native groves, and treasuring up Impressions of what he saw and heard. He coos all Iii.'? writing in the early morning." It wa.4 in gathering the materials for "The Story of Louisiana" ant "The Stories of lntiiar.a" that Mr. Thompson became familiar with the history of Vincennes, and it is uround the old fort on the Wabash that he wove his historical romance, "Alice of Old Vincennes," in which fact and fiction are cunningly Interwoven. It was Mr. Thompson's original Intention to write a drama based on this history, but a letter from his publishers was received asking for a story on this subject, and the drama was changed Into a romance.

A FRIEND'S ESTI3IATEManrlce Thompson' Work Reviewed. by Meredith Nicholson. No better estlmcte of Mr. Thompson's work has been given than that by Meredith Nicholson in "The Iloosiers." Mr. Nicholson says: "No other Indlanlan has lived so faithfully as Maurice Thompson a life devoted to literary ideals, and none of his contemporaries among writers of the West and fckmth has been more loyally devoted to belles-lettres than he. Abstract beauty- has appealed to him more strongly than to any other writer of the Indiana group, and he has expressed It in his poems, through meula suggested by his own environment, with charm and grace. "Mr. Thompson had written experimentally In boyhood, and after his removal to Indiana he continued - the cultivation of his gifts, and. beginning slowly, attained to an abundant production, in both prose and poetry, that made him through many years the Western author whose name most frequently occurred In the indices of the best magazines. During his youth in the Cherokee country he had been initialed Into the mysteries of archery by a hermit who lived in the midst of a -pine forest near his home. Mr. Thompson and his brother. Will II. Thompson, were both enthusiastic archers and hunters, and their adventures in the wilds of Florida were full of romantic Interest. The bow was with them a kind of protest against the shotgun, and assured a less murderous extirpation of game. Their own skill with the primitive weapon was remarkable, and as a recurrence of interest in the bow in this country Is not imminent, they may be considered the last American archers. Proliciency In this sport and the acquaintance with woodcraft to which it led were important influences in Mr. Thompson's first literary work In the seventies, a great revival in archery swept the country, and this was wholly due to a series of articles on archery and on hunting with the long bow which Mr. Thompson "printed in the periodicals. These papers were gathered Into a book, and although he had published three years before a volume of sketches called 'Hoosler Mosaics, his writings on this subject, with the attractive title, 'The Witchery of Archery, gave him his first footing as an author. The long bow has again fallen Into disuse, but the freshness and zest of those sketches have not passed away. However, the archer had found In his woodland more important material than he had yet made use of; for while he was following Robin IIoodr he was also the servant of Theocritus and Meleager, and he wrote at this period many lyrics that suggested, by their spirit at least, the Grefte pastoral poetry more than anything la English. They were published under tho descriptive title, 'Songs of Fair Weather,' and are Included also in a larger volume of Mr. Thompson's verse, 'Poems.' E. 8. WEATHER FORECAST. Fair To-Day and To-Mnrrow Winds Mostly Fresh AVesterly. WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. Forecast for Saturday and Sunday: For Ohio Generally fair, except snow flurries on the northeastern lake shore; rising temperature in northern portion on Saturday. Sunday probably fair: southerly, shifting to northwesterly, windy. For Indiana Fair on Saturday and Sunday; winds mostly fresh westerly. For Illinois Fair on Saturday and irobab'y Sunday, variable wind, becoming fcoutheasterly. Local Observation on Frida. Dar. Ther. It. 1 1. Wine. Weather. Pre. 7 a. m.. 30.03 21 SC S'east. Clear. 0.00 7 p. m..i).Vi 47 1 South. Clear. 0.Ü0 Maximum temperature, 51; minimum temperature, 2Ü. Following Is a comparative statement of the tem;erature and precipitation Feb. 15: Temp. Tre. Normal :i2 o.n Mean " .w Departure from normal M OA'S lexarture since Feb. 1 Ttj 0.61 Departure sinco Jan. 1 Zj 1J6 . PIu. C. F. 11. W A P FK NH A N'S. Local Forecast Oihcial. Yrterday' Temperature. Stations. Atlanta t?a. Min. ,. IN ". K. . I'l .. 16 Max. 52 r.i J4 Zi) 4') o) t'i Ci r.i :.s 41 &f 41 U) u .' 4 Ü) 41 x w 4 7 P. m. A) r.i Z) 44 3 1'6 2i 51 44 54 4-' M ID to &f C4 SI i . 14 C;i Ai 2G U. j? liismarck. N. D I uffalo. N. Y Calgary, S. W. T... ChicaiTO Cairo. 111.... v.J IN "'I 4S ") . Cheyenne. V, yo Cincinnati Coneordla. Kan Davenport, la IK'S Moines. Ia tialveston. ie.; Helena, Mont Jacksonville, Fla... Kansas' City, Mo... I.ittia Rock, Ark... Marquette. Mleh... MemTihv. Tenn .Nashville. 'JV?:!-.... Netv Orleans lew X rl North I'l.U'e. NVh i Oklahom. O. T Omaln, Neb. llttsburj: c? r An-, ito, X. v,. t tapld City. S D Fall Lahe City. L'iuh ft. Lou I--t. Paul. Minn urif::r.eM. Ill 1! II 2 i vi 41 Sprinrrt.tl.:, Mo V.hlrrtfjii. I), ff.. 4 4 4j 23 r'i v.rltra that he has never known -any

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fancy he is able to people them with figures of mythology, and in no other spot3. he says, has his Imagination been equal to his task. It is pleasant to find th!s comment runninpr Into a re'ertr.cc to Mr. Thompson: 'When I -was the literary reViewer of a New York daily,' says Mr. Xadal, i was always on the lookout for verses of a young poet who lived in this part of the world. I remember that one of Ms poems related how that once when Diana wan at her bath In sorae clear spring, no doubr known to the poet, a sort of sublimated t"! oosler of the fancy, himself quite nude ai,i classic, passed near by. He quickly, however, ran avay far through the green thick proves of May " 'Afeard lest down the wind of Spring He'd hear an arrow whimpering. "There Is a great deal of the Indiana landscape to be found through Mr. Thompson's poems, though he often looks southward to the north Georgia hills and to Florida. Servile descriptions he dots not give, but against bxickgrounds traced with greit delicacy and beauty he throws suddenly, and for a moment only, some Meeting spirit of the woodland. There is in hla language 'the eontlnuil slight novelty which 13 indispensable in poetry that is to haunt and taunt the memory. As an instance of his ability a poem called 'lief ore Dawn may be cited: " A keen,-Insistent hint of dawn Feil from the mountain he'ght; A wan, uncertain gleam betrayed The faltering of the night. " The emphasis of silence made The fog above the brook Intensely pale; the trees took on A haunted, haggard look. " 'Such quiet came, expectancy Filled all the earth and sky; Time seemed to pau.je a little space; I heard a dream go by.' "Such subjects he always handles finely, leaving the thought In a spell of mild wonder and awe, as if something beautiful had passed and vanished. Similar effects were often possible with him in his younger nays; and it 13 a question whether the moods from which such work proceeds recur after youth; the dream, has departed and taken that from the heart which 'never comes asaln." Those early pieces could not have been written by an Indoors man; there is a refreshing quality of the . open air in ever line of them. The note U unusual, and Is perhaps best sounded rarely; llshtness and deftness are necessary to him who would evoke its entire purity and melody. It Is a pleasure to rind a poe: to whom America is so satisfactory as a tfeld that he dares to set up the mockins bird against the nightingale. Mr. Thompson make the home songster a medium of communicating the spirit and significance from democracy to our friends ovir seas. The movement through all these pxms is free and vigorous, and the irregular lines please by the happy chance o? the rhymes. The pleasant- winds of which the poet writes so refreshingly creep often loto his treasures. Patriotic subjects he touch-?3 with nobility and fervor; and he became the laureat-3 of reconstruction when he renned his ringing poem. 'To the South.' Again, when invited to read a poem betöre the Phi Deta Kappa, of Harvard, in 1&KJ, he chose for his subject, 'Lincoln's Grave,' expressing, with greater care, similar feelings of loyalty, and recounting Lincoln's high qualities with generous appreciation. HIS PROSiS WORK. "Mr. Thompson has also published a number of novels: 'A Tallahassee Girl,' 'His Second Campaign,' 'At Love's Extreme, A Banker of Bankerville,' "A Fortnight of Folly and 'Stories of Cherokee Hills,' a vclume of short tales reminiscent of slave days and the author's boyhood. 'A Tallahassee Girl' is a graceful and iretty story, the scene of which is laid at tne South, as is true also of the two tales that imrredlately followed It. They convey distinct Impressions of phases of Southern life in the early post-bellum period, and abound in romantic color. 'Alice of Old Vincennes is a captivating tale of the French period of Indiana history, closing with the surrender of Vincennes to Clark. lhe heroine is " delightful, ana Father Deret is a character worthy of Dumas. The book snows in all ways a marked advance over any previous prose work "of the author. He has also written 'The Boys' Book of Sports, 'Louisiana, in the stories of the states series, and 'The Ocala Hoy, all for juvenile readers. He has written many essays in which some pnase of literature ha3 been observed from the point of view of a nature-lover; and his toucn in such instances is always light and his natter bright and stimulating. Two volumes of such papers have been collected, By-ways and Bird Notes and 'Sylvan Secrets.' The scientist and literateur meet In his discussion cf the mind and memory of birds, and the anatomy of bird song; and his essay on Shakspeare written within sound of the gulf of Mexico, to the accompaniment of the songs of mocklngbiids, is wholly characteristic of his ln-c'ei-endence in literary matters. He has been one of tne most courageous champions of the romance as against the analytic and realistic. He delivered at the Hartford Theological Seminary, in 1883, a series of lectures dealing comprehensively with the question of morality In literature, and he embodied these in a volume. The Ethics of Literary Art.' . Mr. Thompson became in 1889 literary editor of the New York Independent, reserving, however, . the privilege of continuing his residence at Crawfordsville. His home, 'Sherwood Place,' is on a quiet margin of the town, and the house has stood for half a century shielded from the public eye by native beeches and alien pines. Mr. Thompson's life is wholly devoted to study and writing. His instincts are thoroughly scholarly, and in some directions, as in Greek poetry and old French literature, where long and loving study have given him special knowledge, he Is an authoritj. He has no complaints of the world's treatment of him or his work, and he declares that his writings have been" received with much more cordiality than they have deserved. He is exceedingly kind to beginners In literature, and his criticisms have been .of benefit to many young Western and Southern writers. Wabash Callege conferred upon him in 1900 the degree of Doctor of Letters." A volume of essays and out-of-door papers entitled "My Winter Garden" has been published since the foregoing chapter in Mr. Nicholson's book was written. During the past year also Mr. Thompson has contributed many little editorial essays to the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post. One or two volumes by him are now in the publisher's hands, one a novel called "Sweetheart Manette." In point of circulation "Alice of Old Vincennes," his latest novel, has been by far his most successful book. It Is a source of gratification to his friends that he lived to see this success, and a cause for sorrow is that he is not iiermitted to enjoy its continuance and to repeat it in a later book. Mr. Thompson's range of scene and subject has been wide, but it is a matter of pride and gratification to Indianians that his latest and best work of fiction a book involving much historical research had his own State for Its background. GILBERT A. TIERCE.

An Indiana Soldier Who Became Governor und TL' lilted. State Senntor. CHICAGO, Feb. 13.-Gilbert A. Pierce, formerly United States senator from North Dakota and in lvVJ territorial Governor of Dakota, died to-day at his apartments in the Lexington Hotel after a long Illness Mr. Pierce was formerly a well-known newspaper man. Gilbert A. Pierce was born at East Otto, N. Y., hi January, ls41. He came to Indiana when sixteen years old and subsequently studied law at Chicago University. Alter hi3 admission to the bar he practiced at Valparaiso. Ind., for six months before the outbreak of the war. Ujon the Monday following the tiring upon Fort Sumter he enlisted in Company H, Ninth Indiana Volunteers, and was elected second lieutenant. He served in western Virginia under Gen. C. II. McClellan and parUeipated in the battles of I'hlllppi Hill, Laurel Hill and Carrick's Ford. On June 3. iMil. he was appointed captain and assistant quartermaster by President Lincoln, and was assigned to duty at Paducah, Ky. He served at Fort Donelson and Shiloh and also in the Vlcksburg campaign. He was promoted a lieutenant colonel and chief quartermaster of the Thirteenth Army Corps In lvU, and was made colonel and inspector of department in lvji. Dy a written order from Secretary Stanton he was assigned to duty as special commissioner of the War Department in the South, and served with General Foster On the surrender of Mobil he entered that city with the victors. In l!uS Colonel Fierce was elected to the Indiana legislature and was chairman of the committee on benevolent institution?. In 1WV he was apiolntrxl one of the financial secretaries of the United States senate. He reslgnel this position to accept an editorial chair on the Chicago Inter Ocean. In 1STS he became managing editor of that ix:per. holding the position tor several years, in 13 he became connected with the Chicago News, and wa thus engaged when uppeinted as territorial Governor of Dakot.. When the grand reunion of all the armiei tr.ok place at Chicago in Ii;- Governor Pierce was chosen to read the original poem on the occasion. He represented North Dakota in the Unitod States senate In Iii9-9J. Failing of re-election to the tcnat he ac3in re-entered the newspaper business eel bccjxxt edltor-ia-chi:X cf thti

Minneapolis Tribune, but falling health f mpelled him to go South. In February, he was appointed minister to Portugal, but th!3 position, too, he was cornrelied to resign on account of his health, and ince that time he has not led an active lire. Mr. I'ierce was an author and playwright of some note. He published "Dickens's Dictionary" and later two novels "Peggy, a Country Heroine." and "A Dangerous Woman." lie also wrote many sketches for the leading magazines.. In JiG0 ho married Maria Bartholomew.

Marshall S. Pike. BOSTON, Feb. 15. Marshall S. Pike, poet, finger and actor, is dead at his home in Upton. He had almost attained the age of efghty-three years. Ills name thirty years ago was familiar in most households as that of a poet, singer, musician and author of famous songs. Many will remember him as the author of that beautiful song "Home Again." Mr. Pike was the authcr of "Indian Warriors Grave." "Lone Starry Hours" and numerous other compositions. He was prominent as a singer, his soprano voice gaining for him a wide reputation, ar.d famous as an organizer and director. He was born in Westborough. May 20, 1S15. When the civil war broke out he organized the band of Harry Wilson's regiment and went to the front as drum major of the Twenty-second Massachusetts Volunteers. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Gaines's Mill. June 27, 1M)2. and was sent to Libby Prison. Mr. Pike formed a glee club, which was a comfort for his comrades. Ju1c Jee J. Phillips. SPRINGFIELD, 111., Feb. 13. A telegram received here early this morning announces the death at his home in Hillsboro, late last night, of Judge Jesse.J. Phillips, of the Supreme Court of Illinois. Judge Phillips had been ill for several months. He served as captain, major and lieutenant colonel in the Ninth Illinois Volunteer Infantry during the war, and was brevetted colonel and brigadier general. lie was elected Judge, of the Fifth Circuit Court of Illinois in 1673, serving until lsy3, when he was elected to the Supreme beuch. The Drummer Boy of Shlloli." LAXCASTElt, Pa.. Feb. 15. George W. Brientnall, who died here yesterday, was one of the famous soldiers of the rebellion. When scarcely more than fifteen years of age he enlisted as a drummer boy. At the battle of Shiloh he displayed remarkable coolness and bravery and was afterwards known by the sobriquet, "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh." In this engagement he was blinded by powder in both eyes, but his sight was restored by a surgical operation. Brientnall received a promotion for standing at his. post, when all his comrades had fled, against sixty of Mosby's guerrillas. S. E. AVilkinnou. CHICAGO, Feb. 15. A private telegram received here to-day announces the death In New York city ot S. E. Wilkinson. former grand master of the Brotherhood of Kailway Trainmen. He was at the head of this order for eleven years. During the past two years he had been connected with the immigration service at Ellis island until transferred recently to the Interior Department as special land agent. Wilkinson was a native of Illinois and resided at Peoria and Galesburg. , Altou Dalr ymple. ST. PAUL, Feb. 15.-Alton Dalrymple, a millionaire who. with his brother, Oliver A. Dalrymple, owned and operated the famous Bonanza wheat farm in North Dakota, d'.ed at his residence in this city to-day aged forty-eight years. Mr. DaJrymplo had for several years? suffered from Bright's disease. About three weeks ago he had an attack of grip and the resultant complications caused his teatii. An AmlersonvIlle Prisoner. DENVER, Col., Feb. 13. Capt. Edward B. Moore, who served during the civil war m the Fifty-fourth Ohio Regiment, is dead at his home In this city. He was born at Bridgetown, N. J., in 1830. He took part in the battle of Shiloh, was with General Sherman on his march from Atlanta to the sea, and was for a time a prisoner at Andersonvillc "Aunt" Peggy Jones, 124. CARROLLTON. Ky., Feb. 13. Aunt Peggy Jones, colored, died at Ghent, Ky., to-day. She was 124 years of age. Her oldest living child, Charlotte, is over 100 years of age. These colored people have alwaya lived in and about Ghent. Charlotte is active and Aunt Peggy was a wonder for her age. Chief Good Thunder. REDWOOD FALLS, Minn., Feb.' 15. Chief Good Thunder, aged eighty-five years, who was one of the friendly Indians during the uprising In the sixties and who acted as Gen. H. H. Sibley's chief of scouts, died at his home at the agency, six miles east of here, to-day of pneu-monia. Joseph A. De La Harpe. NEW YORK, Feb. 13.-Joseph A. De La Harpe, who was well knowrn as a scenic artist In the theaters of this city, and who of recent years was connected with the Brooklyn theatrical house of Hyde & Beahman, is dead at his home in Brooklyn of liver trouble. The Rev. E. P. Goodwin. . CHICAGO, Feb. 13. The Rev. E. P. Goodwin, pastor, of the First Congregational Church of this city, and ons of the best-known divines In his denomination in the country, died suddenly to-night. READY EOR THE TRANSFER. The Carnegie Company Said to Have Ceased to Exist. NEW YORK, Feb. 13. "The Carnegie Steel Company, as such, has ceased to exist except by courtesy.' Thi3 statement was made to-day by a high official of the American Steel and Wire Company. By this it was Implied that all details for the transfer of control of that company to the Morgan syndicate have been completed, and that the only delay in making complete and final announcement is due to matters affecting the other companies wnich it is believed will ba taken in. Sehvvnh Elected President. NEW YORK, Feb. 13. The World tomorrow will say: "Charles M. Schwab, of the Carnegie Steel Company, was formally selected yesterday as the head of the big steel combination. 'Mr. Schwab enjoys the confidence of every one with whom he has dealt. said one of Andrew Carnegie's close friends and business associates last night, 'lie is the only man in the country qualified by ability, training and temperament to manage the new empire industry. He has the confidence of Messrs. Morgan and Rockfeller, the love of Carnegie, and the good will of the 50,000 or more employes of the Carnegie Company. " May Ivlclc Over the Traces. PITTSBURG, Feb. 13. Jhe Leader to-day rays: "At the present time the negotiations are at a critical stage and it is possible that the American Sie el end Wire Ccnjanv and one other concern may not agiee to enter. The valuations will be on a close basis and a arood bit of water will be squeezed out. In addition to the 'cash payment of $2.50n.iV'0 to Mr Carnegie he will receive Jl.w for each of his 86.0 shares of itock. making a total of over J 152.0 V 0 for Ms Interest, from which the income will be icatly J?,0 .." a yeir." PLANT TOO COSTLY. Hnrrnrd t'nlvrrilty lttiiinlnc: hi Debt Retrenchment Begun. NEW YORK. Feb. 13. A Boston dispatch t the Eveulng Post says: "Harvard has not money enough to run her $15.W0,.XO plant. The university's expenses are running ahead of its income, even more than last year, and the deficit already amounts to $i).(HÄi. Retrenchment is staring the faculty of arts and sciences In the face. The veterinary school has been given up. The Slavonic department is now abandoned. Every additional member added to the student body costs double the sum he pay a. Thie is pointed out as the caus of llarvard'i financial embarrassment."

APPLAUDED IN THE COURT

AtniENCB SHOWS AriMIOVAL OP EVIDENCE AGAINST 1UXKAHD. The Kentlngs Acquitted nt MnncieEvidence in I.oomiller Case Death of Jacob Turner of Muncic. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Ind., Feb. 16. The evidence Is all in in the Rinkard murder trial and the case will go to the jury to-morrow. Nearly all of to-day was occupied by thvi State In tho Introduction of rebuttal testimony on the question of Rlnkatd's insanity. Dr. Whitson. coroner of Grant county, in reply to a long hypothetical question, which required twenty minutes to state and which Included a history of the crime, said he believed such a man was of sound mind. Deputy Sheriff Frank Brewer, who has been in charge of Rinkard since his incarceration here, declared he thought Rinkard was now sane, though he knew nothing of his condition on June 9. During the day the large audience manifested its hostility to the prisoner by applauding the evidence of Dr. Morris Modrieker, Dr. T. R. Brady and Dr. Powell, of Grant county, who pronounced Rinkard sane. Dr. Modrieker surprised the court and jury by savlng that inasmuch as Rinkard attempted suicide he considered that act evidence of his sanity, as he did not believe an Incane man would try to take ms own life. Aeiiulttnl J the Keating Cne. MUNCIE. Ind., Feb: - 15.-The Jury this morning returned a verdict of not guilty in the trial of Joseph and Charles Keating, charged with the murder of their brother-in-law, Allen llobinson, a year ago. The jury deliberated all night, returning the verdict this morning when court opened. INDIANA OBITUARY. Jacob Turner, of Muncle, Popnlar Usher nt the White House.Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. A telegram was received at the Wrhite House to-day announcing the death at Hot Springs, Ark., this morning of Jacob H. Turner, of Munde, one of the ushers of the executive mansion, perhaps the best known and certainly the most popular of them. He was stricken with acute Bright's disease last October and for a time his life was despaired of, but he recovered sufticiently to go home in time to vote. From there he was taken to Hot Springs In what has proved to be the vain hope of saving his life. Mr. Turner was a veteran of the civil war. He was appointed a White House usher by President Harrison, resigning when President Cleveland was inaugurated the second time and being reappointed by President McKinley. Other Indiana Necrology. SHELBY VILLE, Ind., Feb. 15. Joseph R. Stewart, the pioneer furniture manufacturer, of Shelbyville, died at his home In this city to-night. Mr. Stewart was born in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, on Jan. 6, 1&31, and came to this county in 1S51. marrying Miss Artlissa A. Evans, the next year. For years he was president of thn Stewart & Blakely table factory, of this city. Funeral services Sunday afternoon. None of his immediate family survives. UNION CITY, Ind., Feb. 15. Peter J. Wiese died at his home In this city this morning, aged fifty-five. He was an employe of the Big Four Railroad system for nearly thirty years first as operator, then as train dispatcher, and last as trainmaster. On account of falling health he resigned and entered mercantile life. He left a widow and one son. GREEXCASTLE, Ind.V Feb. 13. Mrs. Mary J. Harper, seventy years old. died, this morning of Bright's disease and apoplexy. Ehe came here ' from Indianapolis, and was the mother of Thaddeus Harper, ot Indianapolis. The funeral will be held at Colfax, on Saturday afternoon, at 2 o'clock. EDINBURG, Ind., Feb. 13. Mrs. Angelina Green, aged seventy-nine years, died at her home in Edlnburg, this morning. PORTLAND, Ind., Feb. 13. Mrs. A. L. Beals, a well-known resident of Westchester, Is dead at the nge of sixty years. Evidence In a Murder Case. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PRINCETON, Ind., Feb. 13.-The coroner's Investigation of the Loomlller murder case was continued to-day. Considerable circumstantial evidence against Martin Hobbs, arrested last night, has been secured, but no evidence against his suspected accomplices has been brought out. The coroner suspects there Is a woman In the case, and her arrest soon is not Improbable. Hazelton people have quieted down, and violence Is not now probable. The body of Loomlller was sent to St. Louis to-night for cremation. Glass Prices "Will De Higher. PITTSBURG, Pa., Feb. 13.-Two windowglass combinations have notified the National Window Glass Jobbers Association that specifications on the last consignment of the order for 750,000 boxes must be In by Feh. 20. It was also announced that representatives will meet the executive committee of the jobbers' organization between that date and March 1 in New York. Representatives of both combinations admit Chat prices probably will be higher, and it is reliably reported that an advance ranging from 15 to 20 per cent, will be made. "Wind ovr Glass Men on. Strike. Sreclal to the Indianapolis Journal. DUNKIRK, Ind., Feb. 15. The blowers and gatherers at the American Windojv Glass Company's factory No. 17, In this city, refused to return to work this morning, owing to the discharge of Flattener Devaughn, who was one of the new men. Hi3 place was given to one of the old, experienced men. Simon Burns has been sent for and the trouble probably will be adjusted. Over one hundred workmen are idle. Wealthy Farmer Hang Himself. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COLUMBUS, Ind., reb. 15.-Bartlett O'Neal, aged sixty-three years, a wealthy farmer living a few miles east of Columbus, committed suicide early this morning by hanging himself from a beam in his barn. Mr. O'Neal was Injured by a fall from a horse about three years ago, since which time he had been in poor health. Two Tinners Iladly Hurt. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO. Ind., Feb. 15. This afternoon Harvey Jackson, a tlnrer, and his helper, Milton Martz. fell from a barn roof, twenty-five feet to a brick pile. Jackson's skull was fractured and several bones were broken, the injuries being pronounced fatal. Martz also Is in a critical condition. Indiana Notes. Hanover College defeated Moore's Hill College at basket ball yesterday by the score of 25 to 7. A yearly conference of Mormons, which has been in session at Brazil for two days, adjourned yesterday. The company furnishing natural gas fuel to Wabash has abandoned its contention for 'meters and a 10 cents per thousand rate. Twelve hundred men and boy participated in a fox drive near Dunkirk yesterday. They covered a tract of country fivo by three miles and brought in five foxes. While scuttling in a skiff at Evansvillo yesterday over a chew of tobacco William Gray accidentally threw Major Walker in the river, and the latter was drowned. Both were colored. Jefferson Gates, a young farmer in the country west of Edlnburg. climbed a tree yesterday after a coon which he had treed. He fell forty feet and suffered injuries which are expected to prove fatal. Mr. "Wilcox nriicnlHnce. Delegate Wilcox denies the charge that I he is a traitor, declaring that he wrote ' letters to Filipinos under misconception and

that all his doubts were dispelled when Congress gave to Hawaii Its splendid laws. While the lamp holds out to burn the vilest sinner may return. If Wilcox has been truly converted he may become a good American citizen.

EOUND IN A CREEK. Body of 3Ilsinjr Kansas City 3Ierchnnt Attempt at Extortion. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 13. The dead body of William Stelp, of Johns & Stelp, hardware merchants, who mysteriously disappeared on Jan. 31 last, was found to-day In a creek in tn outlying portion of the city. Stelp had taken his life with a revolver which he still clutched in his hand. Abcut the time the body was found a relative of Mrs. Stelp handed Chief of Police Hayes a letter, received by the woman, in which the writer offered to return Stelp on the payment of $1,000, which was to be left at a point designated. Chief Hayes began preparations to trap the alleged "kidnapers," but before they were carried into effect the body was found. W. T. Beals. a teamster, was arrested to-night while hanging around the place where tne money was to be left. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. II. H. Gates has ' been elected secretary of the Adams Express Company, vice Charles Steele, resigned. . The greatest snowstorm ever known In tho Texas Panhandle has Just ended. The snow Is two feet deep on the level in Randall, Swisher, Briscoe and adjoining counties. There Is heavy damage to cattle and general ranch Interests. George Whitely. a well-known mining man, and two Mexican miners, have been found dead In their tent one mile from the mining camp of Schulte, thirty miles from Tuczon. A. T. Indications point to death from either charcoal fumes or poison. At Logan. Kan., yesterday Joseph B. Ilinton, aged twenty-two years, a. rejected suitor, to-day shot Maggie Shurtz, aged seventeen, and then himself. Both will die. Ilinton had previously threatened to kill the girl. The Milwaukee Sentinel has been sold to Charles F. Pfiester and other Republicans of that city. The terms of the sale have not been made public. The new owners will assume control next Monday. The Milwaukee Sentinel is the oldest newspaper in the State of Wisconsin, having been established in 1S37. There was a smallpox patient on board the North German Lloyd steamer Oldenberg, which reached New York Thursday night from Bremen. The sick man, who traveled in the steerage, was removed to the reception hospital. The steamer will be disinfected and all her passengers vaccinated before she Is permitted to go up to the city. The Automobile clubs of America Issued a challenge to the world- yesterday for an endurance race from New Yorc to Buffalo. The race Is to take place the last week in August or early in September. For the event and also for a series of international races that are to follow the clubs will öfter prizes, cups and medals to a cash value of $5,000. Automobllists of every nation are Invited, to participate. A new world's record for skinning 540 pounds of whole fish has been established at Gloucester, Mass., by Freeman 11. Brown, who performed the required work In forty-three minutes and fifty seconds, against George E. Christchett. a noted skinner. The men were required to skin, properly cut, weigh and pack the fish in ten forty-pound boxes. The best previous record was about one hour. Tho complainants in the case of a lumber company against the Southern Railway Company moved to dismiss the action, and Judge Speer, of the United States Court at Macon, Ga., issued an order to that effect. This was the case in which the right of a corporation to consolidate lines was attacked. The attorneys held that two adverse decisions of the State Supreme Court made it useless for them to proceed. The six months' strike between the Cleveland Molders Union and the National Founders' Association was declared off tonight. The agreement reached permits the employers to complete their contracts with the nonunion men, union men to take their places at the expiration of the contracts, which Is not to exceed forty , days. The minimum rate of wages is to be 27Vi cents an hour for floor and bench moiders. Adolph Segal, who has associated with him several wealthy capitalists, will build on the Delaware river front in Philadelphia one of the largest sugar refineries in tho United States. It is stated the new refinery will be operated independently of the American Sugar Refining Company, which controls practically all of the refineries now in operation. Several millions of dollars will, It Is said, be expended upon the plant. At a conference arranged by Lord Minto, the Canadian governor general, held at Ottawa Thursday evening, It was declared the opinion of the conference that it is the duty of every government, municipality and Individual citizen to adopt organized methods for lessening the spread of tuberculosis,, which disease, it was stated, was causing, directly or indirectly, probably one-fifth of the total deaths In the Dominion. The government was asked to assist. Crimes of Various Degrees. i - George Thomas, colored, was hanged at Beaufort, S. C, yesterday for assaulting Mrs. John Dunkerley, of Savannah, nearly a year ago. John Day, Robert M. Haly and James Fitzgerald, the Shanesville (O.) bank robbers, were sentenced yesterday. The former got nine years and the other two ten years in the penitentiary. Day pleaded guilty. Mrs. S. F.v Osgood, of Seattle, wife of President and Onager Osgood of the Seattle & Benton -Railway, was robbed of jewels, said to be valued at $5,000. on tho Oregon express, north of Sacramento, whilo Mrs. Osgood was asleep In a crowded Pullman coach. The stolen jewels were inclosed in a small bag which Mrs. Osgood woro about her neck. John L. Wilson, for fifteen years a tiusted employe of the wholesale dry gcods firm of J. M. Robinson-Norton & Co., lcuisville, is unuer arrest charged with the theft of about $3,000 worth of silk. In the presence of the two arresting oliicers. Wili.on made no denial of the charge and said he had sold the silk to A. Benjamin, a cap manufacturer, who also was arrested. Mrs. Lulu Prince-Kennedy, her father, Charles W. Prince, and her two brothers, William and Albert Prince, of Kansas City, wi.i be tried for the murder, on Jan. 1 last, of Philip II. Kennedy, contracting agent of the Merchants' Dispatch Company. Mrs. Kennedy, who shot and killed her husband, was yesterday indicted by the grand jury for murder In the first degree. Later warrants against her father and brothers, charging them with being accomplices in the crime, were issued. The trial was set for the April term of court. The killing of Kennedy was the culmination of a sensational wedding which he had brought suit to have set utlde, asser;ing that it had been forced. Doing: of State Legislatures. A bill was Introduced In the Illinois House yesterday to punish kidnaping by hanging. Jeffries and Ruhlin may fight for the heavyweight championship In San Francisco within a month or two. The San Francisco Athletic Club wants the bout, and has made a big offer. The Virginia Legislature has adopted the report of the conference committee on the constitutional measure. The election of members will take place on the 23d of May next, and the convention will assemble on June 12 following. Senator Horton has Introduced a bill In the Minnesota Legislature appropriating $10 000 for a statue for me late United States Senator Cushman Kellogg Davis, to be placed in Statuary Hall in the national Capitol at Washington. A memorial to Congress strongly protesting against the passage of the ship subsidy bill, now pending before the United States Senate, was passed by the Wisconsin Assembly yesterday by a vote of 7S to 15, after a lively debate. In the balloting for United States senator In tho Delaware Legislature yesteror.y the anti-Addicks. or regular Republicans, cast seven votes for Dr. Hiram M. Burton (Union Re-publican), and three vot?.s for IJeut. Governor Cannon (union Republican), for the short term. For the lull term they voted as heretofore. 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W. M. SHAW, D. P. A., Cincinnati, 0. FRENCH DEFEATS BOERS FLVMER ALSO HAS A FIGHT AND PUSHES BACK DC WET. Lord Methnen Outwitted While Trylug to Concentrate Boer Kamille Interview with Kroger. LONDON, Feb. 15. Ad vices from Lourenzo Marques say it is reported that General French has captured a large Boer force in the Ermlo district. The Boers occupied Murraysburg, Cape Colony, on Feb. 7. A dispatch from Colesburg, Cape Colony, says: "Plumer's column engaged De Wet between Colesburg and Phllllppstown, Feb. 13, and gradually pushed back the Boers. The British had a battery of field artillery and the Boers one five-pounder. The shrapnell burst' splendidly. Ten of the British were wounded, during many hours' fighting. An occasional dead Boer was found. The engagement was continued on Thursday. All the males ab Orasfontein have been arrested. There is plenty of evidence that they were assisting the Beers." Advices from Cape Town say: "For a month Lord Methuen has been scouring the country between Kuruman and the Transvaal, bringing In women and children, cattle and food, from all the farms. Fifty women and one hundred children, together with a few men, he has sent to Vryburg. On one occasion, while he was pursuing a commando, the Boers sent off their wagons in charge of women and girls in one direction and went themselves in another. The women were such expert drivers that the British had considerable difficulty in catching the convoy. General fcmith-Dorrien has occupied Amsterdam and Taungsfeb." The ammunition, guns an ! shells surrendered by the Boers to the Portuguese at Komatipoort will be sunk at sea. Kruger Interviewed. LONDON. Feb. 15. The Pall Mall Magazine will publish, Feb. 18, an interview with Mr. Kruger, in part as follows: "Will no one arbitrate? Will no one give us a chance of defending ourselves? We may have done wrongly; we have our faults and our weaknesses. We declared war, but our hands were forced, and we can prove It Get some one to Judge between England and ourselves. But the Lord will help us in the end. AVe shall win. I do not know how or when, but we shall win at last." Referring to his reception in Europe, which has bitterly disappointed him, Mr. Kruger says: "I care nothing for flowers: nothing, nothing. The people who tend them mean well and I am grateful, but 1 care nothing for them. What I want Is a fair hearing. If they will only give us a fair hearing and Justice. I ask for Justice. We are a little folk, but we have made great steps." Regarding Mrs. Kruger he said: '"I am sorry for her, too. I have a deep sorrow for her, but I have more sorrow for my country. My wife has her children. Six are still with her. They were left with her in her home. Two of my sons have died on the battlefield. Two were captured. 1 believe two more are dead also, as I have not heard from them for two months, and I know they were in the thick of the light. Thirty-one sons and grandsons I have in the field, yet I could not go on commando. I have not heard from my wife for sixteen days, but she has six children with her and she is not to be pitied." Debate on Boers and Beer. LONDON. Feb. 15. In thollouse of Commons to-day the debate was resumed on the address in reply to the speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament. The discussion ranged from hospitals in South Africa to arsencated beer. The principal subject, however, was the government's war policy in South Africa. Many members spoke. Mr. Labouchere elicited some opposition cheering by the remark: "It is a noble determination on the part of tho Boers to incur all risk3 rather than to submit to a foreign power, and I honor them for it." Note from Other Lands. It is officially announced that the Duke of Cornwall and York and Princess Victoria have recovered, from their colds. A passenger train bound from Sydney to Hurstville, N. S. W.. was derailed near Sydenham and rolled over an embankment. Seven persona were killed and twenty-six injured. Criminal Commissioner Thisl. of Berlin, has been sentenced to three vears penal servitude and live years deprivati in of civil rrghts, owing to the charges brought against him on account of .nia connection with the Sternlerg case. During yesterday's discussion in the budget committee of the Iteicnstag. one of the German military commissioners said the tests with tne macnlne guns firing three hundred shots per minute, were satisfactory and that the whole army woulu be fitted out with them during the present jear, forming a special corps. Earl Amherest. presiding at a special meeting of the British Grand Lodge of Freemasons, announced that King Edward will fifsurr.e the title and position of protector of the English Freemasons. The Duke of Connaught was nominated for grand master, in succession to King Edward. Th'i election will take place March C. Memorial services over the remains of the late King Milan of Servia, who died in Vienna Feb. 11. took place In that city yesterday. The body was afterwards taken to the railroad station, the Emperor and archduices following the hearse on foot. Tho ccCa rras taken by way cf Carlo wlta to

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