Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 76, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1901 — Page 2

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 1901.

year. The operators here have nothing to pay about the matter beyond the fact that It does not seem possible for the coal compcr.ies to meet the miners in Joint convention. Mitchell nt Scrnnton. SCRANTON. Pa., March 1?.-President Mitchell reached here from Hnze'.ton tonight, in company with the Scranton delegation. To the Associated Press correspondent he said: "I propose to rcmnin in Scranton for several days. On Monday I will have a meet ins uith the district president" at the St. ChnrKs Hotel, to discuss plans for carrying out the task assigned tluyn by the convention." l'r,?i,;tM Mitchell said he would probably make a puMio statement to-mrrov. ivini: the miners' -ide of the prevt trouble. LIVES POSSIBLY LOST

sKvr.itAL muht imctouv tiiiti.s mpponh to iiavi: i'i:nissii:ii. Some IlfMOii(tl by .T;unpin Into n Net Firemen Injured T o I'nctorie IJwr;ied. ST. JOSEPH. Mo.; March in. Tiie NoyesIvirjnan shov factory ami the Richardson, Roberts & Byrnes; overall and shirt factory. Third and Parson streets, were destroyed by tiro late thi? evening, causing the death, probably, of several persons. All the victims are girls and wer' employed in the rh'rt factory. Miss Louise Eslondau, aged twenty, is known to bo dead. Florence Terry and Miss Mattie Irry leaped from the third story of the .Noyes-Norman building and were caught by firemen In a rut. They are badly burned. John Fryede, a fireman, was severely Injured. The fire is supposed to have started in the engine room, where a fireman had Utn usir.g gasoline to clean machinery. Flame? broke out at 4 o'clock and ten minutes later the structure had fallen in. Many people saw several girls at the fomth-story window of the shirt factory just a moment before the walls colJap -cd, and are certain none escaped. The aggregate loss is $1'X,m. Toy Store l)ett royeil. MILAVAPKKE. Wis., March hi. The b Inecke Toy Company's live-story brick structure. Nu. 41 to 7 Oneida street, was gutted by (ire to-niqht. entailing a loss estimated at from W'.om) to $l:r.'j.'. Of this amount about $H.t will fall on the buildin? and the balance on stock. The amount of Insurance carried could not be obtained to-night. The lire was under control at midnight and was confined to the Meineckj building. Other l'Ir. ATCRON. O. March lß. The mower and reaper factory of Sieberling & Miller, at lovlestown. was burned this afternoon, entailing a loss of and throwing h0 men out of employment. Insurance $"2",tx). The town has no tire department, and only the supreme efforts of a fire brigade with buckets, composed of hundreds of citizens, saved the town. MONTKRLAL. March P'.. The wholesale diug house of Leemlng, Miles & Co. burned to-uay. J. Dumas, a fireman, was killed by falling walls. The loss will amount to about tJöo.OüU HOLLAND. Mich.. March IS. The manufacturing department of the Holland Furr.iture Company was destroyed by lire today, entailing a loss of $..'). MARRIAGE A TONIC. Scarlet Fever Patient AVedded, timl Iloth Probably Will Herover. NEW YORK. March lG.-Rugene S. Reynolds and Miss Adelaide Fitzgerald were married to-day at the residence of Howard Willett, White Plains. X. Y.. though the bride and groom are arlllcted with scarlet lever and have been in a quarantine for clays. The bridegroom was in a critical condition eariy in the day. and when he was told of this he asked Miss Fitzgerald to consent to an immediate marriage, and this she did. The couple have been engaged for some time, and were to have been married April 24 next. They returned from Aiken. S. C, a few days ago, and were visiting Mr. Willett when both were stricken with scarlet fever. A turn for the worse came in Mr. Reynolds's condition last night, and early this morning he determined on marriage if possible, believing death to be near. The Rev. Father Francis J. Meany, assistant rector of St. John's Catholic Church, was taken to Mr. Reynolds's room. Mi3s Fitzgerald, who wes able to be up, was assisted to this room and the cevemony was performed. Mr. Reynolds set med to brighten up considerably after the marriage, and to-night the doctors said he may get well. CUBANS MAKE CONCESSIONS. Willing to Permit the Inlted State to Iletnii: tiie Ixle of Pine. HAVANA. March, 16. It is stated that in a majority of the individual reports of the members of the constitutional convention on foreign relations it will recommend that the United States be given the Isle of Pine3 end allowed to establish sanitary measures under the direction and control of the Washington government, but the other proVisions as outlined in the Piatt amendment will not be agreed to. The report of the committee will be an extensive document, ITiving reasons in detail why the amendment cannot be accepted. It is expected that the report will be submitted to the convention next Tuesday or Wednesday. 3IesciiKer Robbed. PHILADELPHIA. March 1;. Messenger Dougherty, of the United States subtreasury, was robbe! by a pickpocket, in the corridor of the post office, to-day, of registered mail believed to contain over $1,(M). The thief was not detected. WEATHER FORECAST. "Warmer it ml l'nlr To-Day, with So a titerly Wind Monday Fair. WASHINGTON", March K.-Forecast for Sunday ami Monday: For Ohio Generally fair on Sunday; warmer; southwesterly winds, light to fresh on the lake?. Monday fair. For Indiana and Illinois Fair; warmer on Sunday; southerly winds. Monday fair. Local Observation on Satnrilny. Bar. Thor. R. II. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7a.m..C0.3) -J2 71 N'west. Clear. o.u) 7 1. m..C:J.L 3S GO S'west. Cloudy. 0.00 Maximum temperature, 4-); minimum temperature, 1TJ. Following is a comparative statement of the mean temperature and total precipitation for March Iti: Tern. Pre. Normal C7 .11 Mean 31 .(X Departure 6 .11 Departure since March 1.. 41 .7r Departure since Jan. 1 217 2.00 Plus. C. F. R. WAPPENHANS. Local Forecast Official. YestcrdajS Tempernturos. Min. Max. 7 n. m.

Chicago. Ill 2? 40 24 Cairo. Ill 2S 48 44 Chevennc. Wyo 0) rJZ Cincinnati, O -i M 40 Corcordla. Kan 2S 74 M Davenport, la -4 4i 41 De.-; Moires. la J4 M f K-tn?as City, Mo 0 hs Little Rock. Ark HI . 52 Marquette, Miel: IS MemnrY.s, Tenn 114 CI It Nashville. Tenn "A 4S 4 J North Platte. Nfb IS 71 C Oklahoma. O. T 10 C3 Omaha. Neb 2 C2 (-) Pittsburg, pa 2; :: r-' Rapid City, S. D 3d OS G'J Salt Lake City 3S CJ C2 Et. IouL. Mo CO Ü2 W Springfield. Ill 24 Ai 42 OpringfieM, Mo 23 Id VI Vicsbur. His Si 13 12

LINEMAN ELECTROCUTED

TIIIli:i: THOUSAND VOLTS PASS TIlUUKill A Sl'LLIVAN .dAVS BODY. Suicide of a Woman n Vniin; Man nnil a Razor Form a Deadly Combi nation Fiitrell Ant Ion to Hit nur. Social to the Indianapolis Journal. SULLIVAN, Ind., March 16. Sanfor.i Burkhardt, an employe of the Citizens Electric Light and Power Company, of thij city, was instantly killed at 7 o'clock this evening by three thousand volts of electricity passing through his body. He v:as shaking a street lamp to loosen the carbon. The cable which he grasped was charged and his body completed the circuit to the ground, the entire voltage of the system passing through his body. Rurkhardt was twenty-six yars old and married. W omnu'H Appalling Kxperience. special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., March 10. Mrs. George Gowdy, of this city, had a thrilling experience yesterday. In driving along a rural road Mrs. Gowdy passed a traction engine and a spark from the engine Iodgtd among some woolens and straw in the buggy. A short time later fire blazel up in Per lace and almost instantly her clothing and the buggy upholstering were enveloped ir Harnes. This frightened the horse into a run, which addel to the volume of flames and prevented the escape of the burning woman by jumping. Although enduring terribio torture, Mrs. Gowdy managed, alter a time, to pull the horse up to a farmhouse, where meti came to the rescue. Her clothing was completely burned off and she was badly, out not fatally, injured. Old Man Killed by it Car. Sreclal to the Indianapolis Journal. PENDLETON, Ind., March 1C John Kulp, seventy years old, at one time one of the best known glass workers in the gas belt, was struck by a south-bound car on the Union Traction Company's line just north of Pendleton to-night and instantly killed. The old man lived with a son in Converse, but was visiting another son here. He left a widow. ML'XCIK CHIMIN Ali ACTIONS. Murderoti.H A4nnlt Cane Given to Jury Leach to lie Tried Monday. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., March 16. At midnight a jury in the Circuit Court received the case of the State vs. Archibald Reall. a farmer, charged with assaulting with intent to kill Frank Alliier, of Muncie, because Miller was found shooting rabbits on Beall's farm. Reall used - stones, almost killing Miller. Judge Letller held a night session of the case to complete it, to make room for l tu trial of Dr. Garrett Leacn on Monday. He is charged with complicity in the death or Mary Far wig, of Ricnmond, John Diehl, a rich manufacturer of Anderson, now being in prison for the crime. He will bo brought here to testify. Futrell AnvioiiM to Haut;. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND. Ind., March 1G. It is given out to-day that on Monday a motion for a new trial will be made in the Robert Futrell murder case. Futrell got a sentence for life, but he is dissatisfied, and says he would rather hang than be a slave in prison. It is believeu the motion will be overruled. a woman's iti:(;iti:rs Set Fortu n Cause for Suicide A Young: -Man Rnli Deed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BLUFFTON, Ind., March lt.-Mrs. Malinda Miller, of Chester township, committed suicide last night. She tied a rope to a rafter in the barn and jumped off the manger. She was thirty-live year3 old, and left a husband and a seven-year-old girl, it is allegel that she had prom lied her first husband not to remarry, but did so. last June, and that regret for Lreaking her promise was her reason lor hanging herself. PORTLAND, In I.. March 15. Fred Garbrie, twenty-two years old and unmarried, took his razor this morning and walked out to the well curb, where he stopped anu drew the blade across his throat, inllicting a fatal round. No one has any idea of his reason for the act. LITTLE PROGRESS MADE. Miners and Operators Discuss the Coittraet Mr. Epperson Case. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., March 16. The jcint conference of the Indiana miners and operators did not make much headway today, the time being taken up with some of the many details of a long contract, but there is little doubt of an agreement the first of the week. At a meeting of the miners' convention President Van' Horn submitted a letter from State Mine Inspector Epperson, in which he said he had not opposed the bid requiring expert "shooters" of explosives, but had only informed the Legislature that he thought the bill to increase the efficiency of his office was more important to the mining industry. A motion was made to call on State Geologist Rlatchley to remove Mr. Epperson, but after some discussion ll was decided again to ask him to. come before the convention, in his letter he said he would refer to State Labor Commissioner McCormack and others at Indianapolis as to his action before the Legislatur. The commitee that made a report against him said that the men he named were the ones that gave information against hbn. They are to be asked to be present v hen Epperson appears. SAYS HE WAS HYPNOTIZED. Farmer WIto Signed Notes A KvjreKn tliiT Nineteen Ilnndred Dollars. Si ecial to the Indianapolis Journal. WAR ASH, Ind.. March 16.-It is now stated that- Raltzer Cook, the Pleasant township farmer, paid $1) for the fifteen shares of stock in the Iowa nursery with which he was promised employment by a swindling agent this week, on condition that he take and pay for the shares. Mr. Cook Is much excited over the trouble, and declares that both he and his wife,, in whose presence the swindle was worked, were hypnotized by the visitor. He assert3 that he has no recollection of signing the notes, and that he understands now that. Instead of $l.y0. he executed notes for ne irly $2.eon. Three of the notes have not yet been found, and It is feared they. too. have been negotiated. Mr. Cook nvers that not until his len-year-old boy informed him that he had signed the obligations was he aware of the fact, as all he intended doing was to go out on a trial trln lor the nursery, with the agent, to see how he liked the work. The loss will probably cost him his farm. Disfranchised tor Vote-Sell! nc. Fpfcial to the Indianapolis Journal. FRANKFORT, Ind., March 16. George Harnett and William Marshall, of Boylestown, charged with vote-selling, entered pleas of guilty before Judge Kent, in the Circuit Court, here, to-day, and were fined Jpj.r) each and disfranchised for a term of Un years. These are the first convictions of the kind In Clinton county, and about fifteen similar cases arc pending in the Circuit Court. Interurban Conductor Stabbed. Si eclal to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., March 1G. Scott Bennett, a conductor on the Interurban road out of Elwood, was stabbed twice this afternoon at 3 o'clock as his car was leaving Elwood for Anderson by one of a crowd of drucken elazaworiicri. He was not rtxlcus-

ly Injured, but was badly bruised by being thrown off the car. He had refused to accept a hat. check from a. passenger in lieu of a fare, and the glassworkers sided with the passenger. No arrests have been made.

Home Treanrcr Hn ItenlRiied. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind., March 16. Major II. O. Helchert, treasurer of the Marion branch Soldiers' Home, has tendered his resignation to Representative Steele, the local manager. He gives poor health as hi reason. No intimation as to who his successor will be has been given out. Indiana Note. There is a case of smallpox near Darlington, Montgomery county, a man named Hutchinson, at the home of George Potts, being the victim. Many persons nave been exposed. A special . election in Miami county has been ordered to be held on April 23, to vote on subsidies of $';o,Cm) from Peru and $15,0 from Converse,, for the C. R. & M. Railroad. The Fayette Circuit Court has imposed fines ranging from $10 to $16 each on eighty citizens of the county, under indictments for failure to report dogs to the assessor in their list of taxables. H. V. Wells, superintendent of the municipal electric-light plant at Frankfort, has resigned, to take effect at once, owing to Council's dissatisfaction with his management of the institution. William Kearney and Sim and Roy. Knott were arrested, at Montpelier, yesterday, charged with stealing and cutting up an oil well cable valued at SOO, owned in Montpelier, and were taken to Wells county jail to await action by the court. Walter Jones and Harry Day, young men of Hagerstown, have invented a lockout system for use on party telephone liens, by which all persons except the one who is called will Tie kept from hearing what goes over the line. The device has been satisfactorily tested, and the Inventors have refused $5.0X) for their patent. FOUR PERSONS BURNED KD DAVIS'S l"CLK TOM'S CAIHX" C03IPANV COMES TO CJKIKF. Special Car Destroyed and Four of the Occupants Incinerated One from Indiana. I MISSOULA, Mont., March 1C At Olive, a station forty-five miles west of Missoula, this morning a special car containing the Ed Davis "Uncle Tom's Cabin" company, was burned, four members of the company losing their lives. The dead are: MINNIE HEARST, cook, aged twentyeight, Mitchell, Ind. RERT REED, musician, aged twenty-six, Columbus, Kan. RENE LUCASSE, musician, aged twenty-four, Kalamazoo, Mich. JOHN HOLLMANS, musician, aged twenty-four, 1'arkersburg, la. The car was attached to the regular eastbound train. The fire broke out in the sleeper apartments. Most of the company escaped without injury and stood at the doors of the car and seized the unfortunates whose night clothes were burning as they ran from their berths, and rolled them in blankets. One, crazed with pain, enveloped in flames, broke through the cordon at the door and jumped into the river, from which he was rescued with difficulty. When the fire was discovered the train was stopped, and by hard work the dogs and donkeys and paraphernalia of the company were saved. The origin of the fire is a mystery. Coroner Hayes was notified of the tragedy and went to the scene of the wreck, taking coffins with him, but the manager of the theatrical company denied that any of his people had lost their lives. Even members of the company Insisted that no one was missing. Late this afternoon it was learned for the first time that lives were lost. The coroner has with so.ie difficulty procured the charred remains of Minnie Hearst, Bert Reed and Rene Lucasso. The body of Bollmans lies at the morgue. $300,000 TO BE EXPENDED. Part of the National Capitol to ne Reconstructed and Refurnished. WASHINGTON, March 16. About $300,000 will be expended on the Capitol during the congressional recess. The architect of the Capitol has been authorized to prepare plan3 for the reconstruction and fire-proofing of the central portion of the building and the renovation and redecoration of tiie lotunda. Plans are also to be prepared for a new fire-proof building adjacent to the Capitol grounds to be used for additional committee rooms, storage and power plant. The House has provided an appropriation of $31,200 to be spent in improving the ventilation. The House has also allowed $61,000 'for refurnishing the hall in which it meets, together with the rooms of the sxeaker, the sergeant-at-arms and new committee rooms. The reconstruction and Jire-nroofing of the roof ot the central portion of the Capitol will cost $133,500. Rattle Casualties in Philippines. WASHINGTON, March 16.-General MacArthur's latest casualty list in the Philippines is as follows: Killed March 3: Near Silang, Cavite, Company E. Signal Corps, George W. Patton. Feb. 16: Raid Hill, Leyte, Company M, Forty-third Infantry, John Gremmins. Wounded March 4: Signal Corps, First Lieut. Wm. E. Davies. slightly. Feb. 22: Gasan, Marinduque, Company G, Second Infantry, James Burke, hip. severe; Company K. Second Infantry, Corporal Harry Leasher, chest, slight. Feb. IS: Mount Masaiopot, Marinduque. Company B, First Infantry, Thomas Millard, shoulder, serious; Company I, Second Infantry, Charles G. Mannert, thigh, moderate. Jan. 2: Jlmlnez, Mindanao, Company C, Fortieth Infantry, Wm. I. Birch, thumb, slight; Walter Lawrence, arm, slight: Ernest S. George, arm, slight; Corporal Lemuel Woodyard, arm, slight. Movements of Steamers. NEW YORK. March 16. Arrived: Campania, from Liverpool. Sailed: Westernland, for Antwerp; Statendam, for Rotterdam, via Boulogne; Umbria, for Liverpool; Astoria, for Glasgow; Graf Waldersee. for Hamburg, via Plymouth and Cherbourg; Minneapolis, for London. LIVERPOOL. March 16. Arrived: Lucanla. from N,ew York. Sailed: Cevic, for New York; Etruria, for New York. ANTWERP. March 16. Sailed: Friesland, for New York. RREMEN. March 15. Sailed: Grosser Kurfürst, for New York, via Cherbourg. HAVRE. March 16. Sailed: La Gascogne. for New York. George Ryers Knocked Out. HOT SPRINGS. Ark., March 16. George Ryers was knocked out to-night by Frank Cnilds in the seventeenth round of what was to have been a twenty-round contest. Ryers was ten or fifteen pounds lighter than Childs and much less vigorous. lie was the cleverer of the two, but his blows lacked steam and when he landed did but little damage. Childs in the fourth round stood perfectly still and let Ryers hit him on the chin and mouth three times In succession, making no effort to defend himself or avoid the blows. He knocked Byers down three times with left swings on the chin before the fight ended and had it ail his own way from the third round to the finU-h. Creedon and Stift will tight twenty rounds next Friday night. The Alabama a Good Ship. WASHINGTON. March 16. The Nav Department has received from Admiral Evans, the president of the trial board, the report upon the final trial of the battleship Alabama, which took place from March 11 to 13, off Pensacola, Fla. The horse power developed was 7,506 and the gpced made 15.2 knots. The board says that the trial developed no weakness or dstzzX la Lull cr machinery.

LACKEY'S HORSE SALE

MOST SLCCCSSFI L OF TIIK SRHIES IS IIIIOI'GIIT TO A CLOSI2. Prices Received Averaged Nearly f5.?00 Many Private Sales 3Iade Some of the Last Day" Bargains. ?:ec!ai to the Indian-loci's Journal. CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind., March 16. The Lackey horse sale closed this afternoon. 1. was the largest and most successful sale ever held by Mr. Lackey. During the five days' auction over 43) horses were sold and the total sales will aggregate over $133,000, or an average of nearly $3M per head. Many horses' were sold privatelj' on the street by farmers and other local dealers and it is estimated that nearly GC0 horses changed hands during the week Tho success of this sale has encouraged Mr. Lackey to hold another one about the first of May, and a good many breeders already have spoken for space in the catalogue. Following are some of the rales to-day: J. A. McCormick. Marietta, O., b. m Etile Powers; sold to Karl Lynn, Clinton, ?i.n. . John Mulhall, Springfield. O., d. m. Kelley C; to James Watson, Indianapolis, $160. W. J. Hoddy, Columbus, O., b. s. Aline; to R. Rush. Chicago, $tjr. Frank Hill, Madison, blk g. Hawk; to H. Miller, city, $103. Albert Eagle, Dayton. O., s. g. Willie Wilkes; to C. Ammon, Gordon, O., $16u. Arthur Nichols, Winton Place. O., b. f. Estella; to J. A. Denny, Jamestown, Pa., $1-S. O. Whiton, New Burlington, O., b. s. Clipper Hal; to W. S. Vanhorn, Lexington, Ky., $16;. D. S. Enoch, Crawfordsville, b. g. Champ; to J. A. Denny, Jamestown, Pa., $240. W. AV. Herron. W yoming. O., b. s. Coilinwood; to M. Niks, Cincinnati, $230. William Herron, Wyoming, O., b. m. Elina IL; to George Watson, Indianapolis, 5320. Charles Davis. Jacksonburg, b. f. Helen D.; to J. Hilligoss, Homer, $110. Charles Davis, Jacksonburg, br m. Bettina; to Blair &- Baker, Indianapolis, $120. John B. Fletcher, Newport, Ky., br g Ruminate; to G. II. Niks, Wyoming, O., ICfio. E. E. Kirk, Spieeland, r. m. Ruth Ashrr.ot e; to B. Bowman, Battle Creek, Mich , $125. 'lhcmns Harris, Anderson, r. m. Bell of Russia; to George Watson, Indianapolis, $iS0. Stephen Shepherd, New Madison, O., L. m. Nallie Mathers; to Blair &. Baker, Indianapolis, $200. C. E. Westover, Mays. b. m. Bessie; to C. W. Warwick, Madison, $165. x . J. Perry, Fort Wayne, ch. g. Major; to George Connolly, Madison. $235. - William Herron, Wyoming, O., br m. Coast Lady; to Mode Nichols, Lexington, Ky.. ?:?00. William Herron, Wyoming, O., b. g. Uncas; to J. A. Forman, Chicago, $160. Henry Ihlendorf, Reading, O., b. g. Little Joe; to S. A. Watson, Indianapolis, $1!X. J. S. Antrim, Dayton, b. g. The Captain; to W. C. Peel, Rocktjord, 111., $190. Fromholz & German, Cincinnati, b. g. Andy; to M. W. Edwards, Newtown, O., -v-r W. W. Herron, Wyoming. O., b. g. Little Joe; to Dick Meyer, Pittsburg, Pa., $lfr). Dick Hunt, Anderson, b. f. Lottie; to Blair cSc Baker, Indianapolis, $140. W. W. Herron, Wyoming, O., br. g. Brown Frarfk; to Blair & Baker, Indianapolis, $170. J. S. Antrim, Dayton, b. g. Wilmarch. jr.; to Blair & Baker, Indianapolis, $360. Fiomholz German. Cincinnati, b. g. Dapple Leaf; to Taylor Kitchen, Rushville, $1!0. Frank Hill, Madison, r. m. Mary Denmark; to A. Rush. Indianapolis, $173. S. W. Blackwood, Columbus, b. g. Lithopolis; to C. Maiory, 'Battle Creek, $450. Murat Youiik. Marion, r. s. Roy; to R. A. Stover, Bedford, $200. S. H. Turner, Columbus, d. m. Rexemma Medium; to II. Stoner, Indianapolis, $160. ' uA. W. Legg, Windfall, b. g. Frank Merrivvel!; to luuir tc Raker, lnulanapolis, $175 Frank M. Bottler, Indianapolis, c. s. Frank R.; to Blair & Baker, Indianapolis. $l!K). William Herron, Wyoming, O., br. m. Mauge and Nina Lee; to Blair & Baker, IncManapolis, $CSX). Harry Gilbert, Richmond, b. g. Pinsy G.: to R. C. Smith, Harrisburg, Pa.. $135. Simon & Squires, Marion, c. g. Jim C; to W. L. Hawkins, Marion, $130. Wood & Connolly, Indianapolis, s. m. Jean Lewis; to A. C. Conley, Harrison, O.. $103 S. II. Turner, Columbus, b. m. Columbus Girl; to J. B. Colman, Pittsburg, $i$3. C. W. Phellis, Mechanlcsburg, O., b. m. Feline ; tc Allen Risk, Hartford, Conn, $2C0. S. II. Turner, Columbus, g. m. Pilotta M.; to R. G. Wiley, Grecnview, O., $255. Belmont Farm. Xenia, O., b. m. Justine M. ; tc John Rush, Mason, 111., $400. J. S. Hen wood, Centerville, b. g. Atwood; to C. L. Young, Indianapolis, $200. John L. Sweigert. Muncie, br. f. Angv Cnwaru; tc J. A. Denny, Jamestown, Pa". George "W. Stoner, La Place, 111., b. g Baron Waltz; to J. McCormack, Bluff ton, $175. S. W. Blackwood. Columbus, b. g. Llthopolis; to D. B. Mccarty, Indianapolis, $210 Frank Hill, Madison, s. m. Daisy Wilkes; to W. M. IVel. Indianapolis, $120. W. J. Hoddy, Columbus, b. m. Lady; to J. Burri. St. Louis. $1S0. C. W. Rork. Casner, br. m. 403; to George Watson. Indianapolis. $lso. Lee Hartman, East Germantown, br m. Minnie Wild wood; to C. A. Crainer, Eaton. O.. $173. J. A. Mclntyre, Sheridan, s. g. Sam; to C. A. Smith, Marion, $110. . -Homer Southard. Marysvllle, O., r. g. Major S.; to C. A. Burris, Harrison! o.. $215. O. W. Lemar, New Rurlington. O., br. g. Quarter King; to J. . Xenia, $205. William Herron, Wyoming. O., b. m. Eena II.; resold to Blair fi Baker, Indianapolis, $3'X. Author Nichols. Winton Place. O., b. m. Etfie Hamilton; to Mode Nichols, Lexington. Ky.. $150. Dick Hunt. Anderson, c. g. Hallow Eve; to Mode Nichols, Lexington, Ky., $130. O. Whitson, New Rurlington, O.. c. m Orleans; to Blair & Baker, Indianapolis. $130. O. Whitson, New Rurlington, O., blk. m Lady Hall; to J. W. Miles. Xenia, $160. Omer B. Green. Rushville, s. g. Rej Light; to Blair tc Baker, Indianapolis. $lw. John A. Bjrb.ink, Richmond, g. g. Princ; to Dr. Kessinger. Martinsville. $200. Frank Hedrick. Jamestown, O., b. g. Jay Russell; to J. W. Mills, Xenia. $2S5. George W. Stoner, La Place. 1. c. Graceto S. L. Brenner. Dayton. $170. D. S. MeCann. Milliards, O.. b. m. Helea Bean: to H. Miller, citv. $130. Griffith Gartin. Hartford Citv, 524; to II Hawkins. Decatur. 111.. $370. W. J. Hoddy. Columbus, br. g. Willie IL; to Reil. Hartford City, $130. J. A. Mclntyre. Sheridan, b. m. Coasterene. to W. T. Hawkins. Marion. $21. J. W. Reed, V. S. Portland, b. s. Leland D. ; to William Brown, Spieeland. $165. Rhoadcs & Son. Monticello. 111., b. g. Isaac R; to C. B. Landes, Arthur, 111., $125. Clark & Bond, Franklin. O.. br. g. No. f.25: to Mike Bowerman, Lexington, Ky . N. E. Rhoades & Son. Monticello, III , b. g. Rervin; to S. H. Turner, Indianapolis. $175. George W. Stoner, La Place, 111., br. m TSlla Bell; to S. E. Martin. Camden. O., fl60. George W. Stcmy, La Place, blk. f. Bessie Baron; to L. D. Commons, Centerville, $ic. C. W. Rork, Casner, 111., br. m. No. 4y3; resold to W. A. Short. Buffalo, $170. George W. Stoner. La Place, b. m. Juvcrnia; to J. Denny, Jamestown, Pa., $1C5. W. J. Hoddy, Columbus, b. s. Max Wilkes; to RIair & Raker, Indianapolis, :2-o. Harry Gilbert. Richmond, d. b. g. Pinev G.: resold to W. Peel. Indianapolis. $125. J. W. Reed, Portland, n. f. Emily J.; io Id. F. Webber. Dayton. $130. W. J. Hoddy. Columbus, b. m. Nelly B.; to Blair & Baker. Indianapolis. $270. N. E. Rhoades ft Son. Monticello. b. g. Berwin: to S. H. Turner, Boston, $200. O. Whitson. New- Rurlington. O.. b. m. Lady Hal; to J. W. Mills. Xenia, $1G5. John Klein, Indianapolis, b. m. Nettie: to Roach t WeatherlanJ. Lexington. Ky., $130. Xevr Account lnc System. WASHINGTON, March 16. Under the direction of Colonel Edwards, chief of the Insular bureau of the War Department, an order has been prepared and approved by the secretary putting into effect a new accounting system for Cuba. The most Important change Is creating an auditor and deputy auditor, doinsr away with the c. ; tiat auditor. T3 culltcr Lx mada ab-

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Letters of patent have been granted at Tallahassee, Fin., for the Incorporation of the Pensacola Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company, with a capital stock of $Joö,rO0. The Hooven-Owens-Rentschler Company, of Hamilton, O.. was incorporated, yesterday, with H.OtMJ.OOO capital stock. It will make steam and electric engines, etc., and equip large plants of all kinds. It is authoritatively announced that Speyer & Co., New York, have purchased the total amount of Mexican National stock and income holdings of the Mexican National Construction Company. The governors of the New York Stock Exchange have decided to close the exchange on April 27. In order to facilitate arrangements for beginning business at the Produce Exchange building on April 20. The Central Bank of Mexico has held its annual meeting and re-elected Enrique Creel as president. Its capital has been increased from $6.000.01 J to $S,00.000, $2,000,000 being furnished by the National Park Bank of New York. It Is announced that Vermilye & Co. and Hallgarten fc Co.. of New York, have purchased from the Seaboard Air-line system $10,000,000 5 per cent, gold bonds at par end interest. Full details and particulars are to be made public on Monday. The Coclnono Copper Company, capital $6,000.000. has been incorporated at Trenton, N. J., to mine and smelt copper and other ores. The incorporators are Donald Grant. Faribault, Minn., Lawrence P. Doyle, Chicago, and Thomas F. Noonan, Jr., Bayonne, Mich. Another hotel building is to be erected on M'chigan avenue, Chicago, at a cost of between $1,000,000 and $1,500,000. It will be constructed by the Congress Hotel Company, the lessees of the Auditorium and proprietors of the Auditorium Annex, and is to be situated directly south of the last named hotel. Owing to the strike, the docks at Marseilles are guarded by troops, and admittance to them Is denied, except in the .case of workers. The adjacent streets are protected by troops, and cavalry and infantry are held at the dockyards, ready for any emergency. The House of Lords, of England, has rendered a decision in favor of the Mexican National Construction Company, settling the long-pending question of the sale of $4,500,000 worth of subsidy loans held by the trustees of the Mexican National Railway Company, as a guaranty for the last $12,000,000 raised for the corporation. A carload of California oranges were sold at New York yesterday for the benefit of the Children's Home Society of California. The fruit was donated by the California growers. The highest price bid for a single box was $10. Some of the boxes were resold tims and time again. There were CSS boxes sold, and the amount realized by the sale was $747. The employes of the Colchester cotton mills, at Burlington. Vt., have been notified that the concern will be shut down for an indefinite period as sfon as the stock on hand is run off. The Winoski and Burlington woolen and worsted mills, which went Into the hands of receivers last week, will, it Is expected, be sold at auction unless disposed of at public sale. The troubles are ascribed to a poor market and lack of ready capital. It was stated yesterday that out of a total of 50,rm0 common and 15,00t) preferred shares of the Pennsylvania Steel Company all but about S.000 shares of common and 3,000 shares of preferred stock have been actually deposited with the Girard Trust Company, of Philadelphia, assenting to the plan for Increasing the resources of the company by increasing its capital stock to $D,OUO,000. This is equal to -S4 per cent, of the common stock and SO per cent, of the preferred. The bankers have until April 1 to decide whether the reorganization plan shall become operative. William J. Latta has resigned the presidency of the Telephone, Telegraph and Cable Company of America. A circular letter to this effect has been sent out to the stockholders, and a new" plan of reorganization is to be voted on at a special meeting in Jersey City on March 2S. There are &0.0O0 shares of authorized stock in this companv, -which, at $00 par value, means $C0.0uO,OCi0 of capital. The stockholders have paid in $15, in assessments on each share, and it is proposed to now terminate the assessments at this figure and make $3,000,000 the total authorized capitalization. Unless contractors discharge all nonunion paper hangers and decorators at once there probably will bo a general strike of the allied building trades in Pittsburg and Allegheny on Monday. The paper hangers and fresco painters struck on March 1 for an advance in wages and their places were filled by nonunion men. The edict has gone forth that no union men will be permitted to work on any building or In any shop with nonunion workmen. The trades Interested are carpenters, plasterers, steam and gas fitters, electricians, marble workers, painters, tllesetters and structural iron workers. CRIMES OF ALL DEGREES. At a voting place in Colemansville. Ky., yesterday James Humphreys was seriousiy cut by a man named Brown. Two masked men held up a street car at Wichita. Kan., and shot the conductor, who is in a precarious condition. "The jury in the case of Fred Rechow, cn trial at Kan?as City, Mo., for the murder of Hilton Turner, was discharged la.it night, unable to agree. William Edward lüdwell, former confidential clerk and cashier of the Philadelphia (Pa.) branch of tho New York Lire Insurance Company, was arrested in Chicago yesterday, charged with embezzling $2,000. Constable John Schleif, aged fifty years, of Shamokin. Pa., upbraided William Wagner aged twenty years, because the latter paid attention to Dchlelr's eishteen-year-cli Cxushter without hla conssst, end

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IS last. It is now expected the case will go to trial on Monday. Careful investigation of the report of the burning of sixty negroes in a turpentine camp lire In Baldwin county, Alabama, shows there is absolutely no foundation for the report. The story was Invented by a faker. No Mobile newspaper printed a line of it. . In a duel with pistols at Cynthia, Ky., yesterday Washington. Slade shot William Hays, one bullet striking him in the arm and another in the mouth. Hays returned the fire, striking Slade in the neck, killing him instantly. Hays will recover. The hot contests in the county Democratic primaries were the cause of the trouble. The Erie (N. Y.) police arrested three vagrants yesterday on information of a brakeman on a Lake Shore train, who says he saw three men fighting near the track as the train .approached and that two of them flung the third one under the engine. The man was recognized as Felix Johnson, forty years old. a native of Waterbufy, Conn., where his parents live In comfortable circumstances. The jury in the insurance conspiracy cose of Dr. Michael N. Regent, Nora O'Brien and her son, James O'Brien, returned a verdict of guilty at Chicago last night. Regent will be sentenced to the penitentiary in addition to paying a fine. The O'Briens escaped with a .tine. The trio were charged with substituting false bodies for the members of the Knights ot toadies of Security ana. collecting the insurance. Henry Hobs, who is charged with committing an assault on Edith Shinkle, an eleven-year-old girl, near Winchester, O., on Friday, was given a hearing by the mayor yesterday. Later he was taken to Eaton, O., the county seat of Preble county, and placed in jail to await trial. The girl is reported out of elanger. The excitement over the assault has quieted down In Winchester, and there is no more talk of lynching the prisoner. Jacob Haskell, a clerk in the Ashtabula (O.) postoffice and a son of Col. W. C. Haskell, sealer of weights and measures for the District of Columbia, was arrested yesterday on the charge of rilling letters. It is alleged by the postoffice detectives that a decoy letter was opened by Haskell and the money and stamps contained therein found on his person. Haskell admits, it is ?aid, that he had rifled the letter, and confessed that he had been robbing the mall for several weeks. Mrs. Samuel Zweik, the wife of a traveling salesman for a New York neckwear house, took morphine and drank carbolic acid at the Saratoga Hotel, Chicago, last night. She drank the contents of an ounce bottle of the acid just as her husband was about to leave the room. After draining the contents she threw the empty bottle at her husband. She will die. Mrs. Zweik's maiden name is said to have been Annie Shock, and she is said to have come of an excellent family at Alliance, O. She is twenty-six years old, and unusually handsome. TELEGRAPH MISCELLANY. President Diaz, of Mexico, continues to improve in health. En-per Flick, right fielder of the Philadelphia National League team, has signed to play with the same club during th? season of r.wl. The Democratic convention of Toledo yesterday adopted a resolution indorsing Mayor Jones, of Golden Rule fame, for a third term. Eugene Zimmerman, of Cincinnati, the father of the Duchess of Manchester, and Miss U. Evans, aunt of the duchess, sailed from New York, for Liverpool, yesterday, on the steamship Umbria. Manager Tebeau. of the Kansas City team, has signed Outfielder W. Hartman, of last year's Toledo Interstate club. Pitcher E. C. Eyler. of Denver, and Catcher Thomas Messitt, of Scranton, Pa. The Clyde liner Cherokee, Captain Garvin, which arrived at New York from San Domingo and Turk's Island yesterday, confirmed the rumor that trouble Is brewing between Hayti and San Domingo. Arrangements have been completed for an automobile trip from San Francisco to New York city, to begin May 1 and to be run as a record for time, by Alexander Winton, who contested in the international race in Paris. Chairman J. K. Jones, of the Democratic national committee, J. G. Johnson, of Kansas, and ex-Governor W. J. Stone, of Missouri, met in St. Louis, yesterday, and decided to retain the headquarters of the national committee in Chicago. Four large boilers at Epplnger & Russell Company's sawmill, at Oicnstee. Fla., blew up last night ten minutes after 19o men there had quit work. The plant was one of the largest in the -State, and was wrecked. One person was- injured, and he was a considerable distance away. Members of the congressional river and harbor committee who recently visited Cuba reached Miami, Fla,, yesterday from Havana, and made an inspection of Biscay ne bay and Miami harbor. The committee will spend Monday night at Sr. Augustine and proceed north oa Tuesday. Before leaving Columbus for Indianapolis, yesterday. Governor Nash, of Ohio, anliounced the appointment of J. C. Morris, o Youngstown, O., as state commissioner of railroads and telegraphs, to succeed the Hon. IL S. Kayler. Mr. Morris served as the chief inspector Kayler. Two beer bills, one -Cov.-nor the right to compromise- Ine ' amrufit due from beer taxes during the last two years, the other flxins an.im?;ectton fca cl 13 ccu ca every barrel cl L;c czll tzx

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