Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 197, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 July 1901 — Page 3

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TIIE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, JULY. 16, 1001.

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I LADIES' 75c to $1.50 j SHIRTWAISTS 39c The Best Opportunity of the Season Shirtwaists made of percales, chambrajs and ginghams, in stripes and solid colors. Have the Iishop sleeves and narrow band cuffs, nicely made and perfect fitting .... 39c Pettis Dry Goods Co. SUIT CASES $2 to $20 Traveling Bags BatKing Suits Paul H. Krauss 44 East Washington St. Shirt Maker. Men's Furnisher. LARGEST BUSINESS LARGEST ASSORTMENT LOWEST PRICES . . . Geo. .J. IVXor-ott 26 & 23 East Washington Street DIRECT FROM TIIE CUTTER. J. P. MULLALLY, Jeweler 28 rionument Place. m MAKE UdtRAl ADVANCES 0 y AND AU.TPAN5ACT.0Ni STRICTLY CONFlDEhmALl NoS Loan Office.i.qkmarket sr. Furniture, Carpets Stoves W. H. MESSENGER 01 Fast Washington St. Indiana Dental College Drpurtuirul of Dentistry luiterslty of Indianapolis. for s'.l kinds of dentM work. Th Uta are to cover ihn costi cn!j. Receive ratler.ts from S a. m. to & p. m. B. XV. Cor. Drlannrr ami Ohio Streets. AMUSEMENTS. Richard Golden announces that 'again next eason he will present "Old Jed Prouty." He cannot find a new play to suit him. he says. Richard Mansfield, who dedicated the Garrkk Theater In New York, will be the first actor to play in Philadelphia' new Garrlck Theater. The nnv house has two Stained glass windows, in one G crick is portrayed, and in the other is a picture of Mr. Mansfield. v X K Robert Hilliard. who was seen here at the Grand Opera House last season in a sketch called "The Littlest One." from one of Richard Harding Pa vis's stories, will be a star next season under the management of A. II. Chamborlyn. of iwton. The play to te user "As a Man Sows," by two English writers. PERSONAL 'AND SOCIETY. Miss MarJJe Taylor Is visiting friends in Milte n. Ind Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Herron have gone on an Eastern trip. Miss Susan Pursell will leave to-day to Visit friend- in Sprir.ufield. O. Mrs. a. it. Howe will Lave this week to spend the rummer at Sylvan Reach. Mls Anna Hamm.rlv. of leter. Mo Is visiting Mr. and Mrs. It. Seaman Mills. ' Mrs. J. ihn A. Butler and son will leave to-day fur Bass lake to penl the summer. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. I e Souchet will leave soon tu visit the Pan-Ain rlcan Imposition Mr. and Mrs. Edwin A. Hendrickson have returned from a trip to Chicago and Mil-wau'u-e. Miss Margaret Shellhouse will leave tomorrow for Iuk Wawasre, to lenialn until fcjp'.einb r. Mr. and Mrs. Stoutchtou J. Fletcher cave a bruke party laut ntRht for their friend In the Victoria. Miss lo!ln Itadollffe and Mr. Frank Chapman of I.rookln, N. V , are visiting Mrs. l.eah H.-i y. MUs Julia Landers is vi-dtlng Mrs. Stearin in ejamd n. j;,. , where she will remain through the month. Mrs. Panirl Stewart and the Mi.-ss Huth ar.'i lilruimr Carey r. i.. 1 Mi l'rancfi Crum will leave to-day for P.a.-s lake. M!d Martha Laridciw will . utertaln an Inform! ijn h party one evening this week

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in honor of Mls Hunter and Miss Sp.iulding. guests of Mrs. Harold H. Hibben. Miss Caroline Ooodhart has gone to FoP?key. Mich., to visit her sister. Mrs. Nelson, and remain during the summer. Mi. Pooth Tarkington will leave to-morrow for Southampton, to l the guc.-t of Mr. P.ichard Mansfield for a fortnight. Master John Tarkington Jameson will Kive a trolley party to Proad KJpI! followed by a steamboat ride, this afternoon. Mrs. Frederick Wright and chlMren. who hav- been the guests of Mrs. lPnry Severin. Jr.. have returned to their homes in Peoria. III. Mr. and Mrs. James Rush, of E.-ansville. were yesterday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hush. They will go this morning to Bu:falO and Niagara Falls. Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Ingersoll and family, who have been residing in Colorado for the past year, have returned to Indianapolis and are with Mr. and Mrs. T. J. East, Highland place. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Grehar received their friends informally last nicht for their son. Sergeant Major Oorge S. Greher, of the Forty-fourth Regiment, who has just returned from the Fhilipplnes. ROBERTSON-MATHEWS. Special to th Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSON VI LLH. Ind., July 15. A romantic courtship that has existed for a year between Mls3 Anna Mathews, daughter of the late Judge N. C. Mathews, and Frederick Robertson, of AnnapolU. Mo., terminated this morning at 10:30 o'clock, when the couple were married at the home of the bride by Rev. J. S. Howk. Just two hours alter their first meeting. A year ago Miss Mathews answered, through idle curiosity, an advertisement In a matrimonial paper, and n correspondence that resulted in the marriage followed. After a reception here thir evening the couple lett for their future home. Mr. Robertson is postmaster and a leading merchant of Annapolis. TWO SECRET MARRIAGES. Fp'Clal to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH. Ind., July 15. Two secret marriages were made public to-day. The first was the wedding of Robert Knight and Miss Anna Nordquest. society young people of the South Side, who on Sunday drove to Mexico, Miami county, where they were married by the Methodist minister at the parsonage. They returned last night and began housekeeping at their home on Vernon street, which, unknown to their friends, had been fitted up. The second wedding was that of Harry Woods and Miss Agnes Williams, who went to Huntington Saturday night, were wedded there and returned to Wabash this morning. GHOST'S PACE VERY SLOW

HATE INSPECTION II I'll RAI "WILL PAY MAY SALARIES TO-DAY. State Factory Inspector May Take a Hand J. II. Eckninn, Local Agent, Explains. "It Is Just such cases as one 1 have in hand now," said State Factory Inspector McAbee yesterday, "that have caused such drastic measures to be put on the statute books. The weekly pay law was brought about by persons that neglected to pay their employes regularly. Now, here is the Joint Rate Inspection Bureau, with headquarters In the Monadnock building, Chicago, and sixty or seventy employes In this State. It has not paid salaries Tor May, yet. The concern comes under the interstate-commerce law, and I don't believe we can touch It. but we are going to try." J. R. Eckman. whose office Is In the Board of Trade building, is the Indianapolls agent of the Joint Rate Inspection Bureau. "We are going to pay the May salaries tomorrow," he said last evening. "We always are a couple of months behind have been so for years. You see. the Chicago office apportions the expense of the bureau among the railroads of the Central Traffic Association every month, and then has to wait until, the different railroads send in their checks before salaries are paid. When a man goes to work for this bureau he understands he won't be paid for a couple of months it's very uncertain. But when a man quits the bureau he gets all that Is coming to him. We paid the April salaries June 2; we are a bit later with the May salaries." JACOB SIEG'S LICENSE. Mayor Tafftcart Will Hear Evidence In the Cane on Saturday. Superintendent of Police Quigley yesterday filed a complaint with Mayor Taggart against Jacob Sieg, who conducts a saloon at the corner of Prospect and Madeira streets, asking that the saloon license of Mr. Selg lie revoked, on account of the unlawful manner in which he has been conducting the place. Accompanying the complaint filed by Superintendent Quigley was a report of the fight that occurred at Selg's saloon Sunday afternoon, in which Cal Bailey, white, was fchot, and William Henshaw, colored, was cut. The report claims that John Egelhoof and Andrew- Vogel, the two bartenders, locked the saloon after the brawl and left Ratley. who was badly Injured. In the saloon. The report further says that Sieg has been conducting hts stloon in an unlawful maner for some time. On receiving the complaint Mayor Taggart ordered a summons sent to Mr. Sieg to appear before him next Saturday morning at ! o'clock, when evidence will be heard and a trial held to deride whether h;s license shall be revoked. Mr. Sieg was ordered to summon his witnesses in order to present his side of the case. Deputy City Attorney Bell will conduct the prosecution. In Police Court yesterday morning all of the cases growing out of the Sunday afternoon light were continued. BABY ON THE DOORSTEP. The Persons Who Left It Drove Away in a HiiKK). W. F. Bradbury, of 15 Southwestern avenue, reported to the police early this morning that .about midnight he was called to the door by a knock. When he opened It he saw a buggy disappearing down the street. On the doorstep were two baskets. In one was a tuberose and a baby: in the other basket were numerous articles of apparel for the infant. Mrs. Bradbury became at once Infatuated with the child and says she wishes to keep it. There was nothing to give a clew to the identity of the donors. CITY NEWS ITEMS. Dr. George E. Hunt will enter upon his duties as the secretary of the Commercial Club to-day. Pnlted States Marshal Tettlt completed his list of appointments yesterday by appointing Thomas K. Martin, of Indianapolis, as deputy United States marshal. Courtland Hough, a photographer in the Pembroke, cut his wrist severely yesterday. He was Ir: the act of developing a glass-plate negative when the plate broke, cutting the wrist. Dr. Geis sewed up the Injury. Vice President Davis, of the Indianapolis Water Company, .-ays there is no shortage fif water on account of the long continued dry weather, but the engines and pumps are working overtime to supply the demand. He said the p-ople i-hould obey the rule of the company which prohibits the u?e of garden ho.-e when tire pressure la on. The directors of the College of Phsiclans and Sur neons have decided upon erecting new building f..r the ?ohoo and in another location. A site on Kentucky a venuis Pfing coMfddrd and also one on Pas. Market str.'t. The chans will involve a complete reorganization of the company and the stok and property will b soid and apportioned among the holders. Helpline n I.lttlf. WhTi tho uie !i, t and irr 'ins; hotter. An 1 earth is diy .m a u rn-nut Id- tfer. Whin Iii rn Is crisp aii'i th sky Is -opj,f. Aii'l n."r. th.in n lurWn i! csch tf rasnhoj ;ie r, Wh-n th" s r.rlil rl.-a-la's rlht Vulc U A not at M, h n hi r t rei'd-f. 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ESSENCE OF THE CRIME

Tin: "courts delictf ix the KEITH-Kirnil 31 1' It DE II CASK. Tale Told About This Point In Lnw by GoMftiperM In the Attorney General's Olllce. One of those random groups of gossipers that are continually forming and breaking In the offices of the Statehouse was discussing, in Attorney General Taylor's room yesterday afternoon, the "corpus delicti," which, the legal dictionaries say, means "the body of the offense; the essence of the crime." The discussion was started by one of the members of the party inquiring about the status of the Keith-Kifer murder case, which has been appealed to the Supreme Court. The brief filed in the Supreme Court by the attorneys of Joseph Keith, who 13 charged with the murder of Nora Klfer, was lying on the attorney general's desk. "I have not read the brief yet," he said, "but in glancing over it casually I notice that the attorneys probably will bear strongly on the corpus delicti. Some of the features of the face of the body supposed to be Nora Klfer's have slipped away, I understand, and the hair Is gone. "It is very difficult to make a case against a supposed murderer if the Jury be in the least doubt about the Identification of the body of the person murdered. This Is right, too. because there have been cases in which, after the supposed murderer has been hanged, the person that he was supposed to have killed has turned up alive. There have been cases where the accused pleaded guilty to the charge of murder and pleaded falsely. These cases of mistaken execution have been very few in this country, but in England they have been numerous." A CASE IN FICTION. One member of the party called attention to a book of short stories written by a New England attorney, in which he showed the different ways in which the law can be surely evaded. When the book appeared the majority of New England attorneys felt that it should be suppressed, because of the dangerous Information it would s-pread. Some bar associations adopted resolutions against the book. "The first story in the book." said the man that called the attention of the party around Mr. Taylor's desk to it, "dealt with the corpus delectl. An attorney that had a mania that prompted him to fool the law advised a man that wanted to get rid of a woman how he could do the murder safely. "The man. following the lawyer's Instructions, sent to the woman's home a case of wine bottles, which were filled with nitric and sulphuric acids mixed. The case was carried into the cellar by the servant, and that evening, before thero w;s time for the discovery of the acid, the murder was comm'tted. The man went to the house after dark and was received by the woman in a front room. He stabbed her, and carried the body upstairs to the bathroom. "He removed the brass stopper and the ring set in the tub to embrace the stopper, and substituted a platinum ring and stopper. A platinum wire was attached to the stopper and this the murderer drew up over the side of the tub. The servant had left the house, as was her custom in the evening, and the man went down to the cellar and brought up the bottles of acid. He put the body of the woman in the bathtub and poured the acid over it. He let enough water into the tub to make the liquid rise completely over the body. "He had brought with him four Bunson burners, wrapped in a piece of newspaper, and some rubber tube. He placed the burners under the bathtub, attached them to the gas fixture by means of the tube, and lit them. After some time the water and acid in the tub began to boll, and the man had to go out of the room to escape the fumes. At last, the body of the woman was In solution in the acid. The man entered the room quickly, turned off the gas. Jerked the t-topper out-of the tub by means of the platinum wire, and the-contents of the tub rlowiy ran down the pipe Into the sewer. As the man left the house he was arrested as a burglar. Though all his tools were found, he was acquitted because the prosecution could not prove the corpus delicti to the satisfaction of the Judge that presided at the trial." "It strikes me," commented another member of the party, "that that case Is too romantic to be truly illustrative of the situation in law." MR. TAYLOR'S STORY. "I remember a case in this city," snid the attorney general, "in which a man's wife identified a body as his when in reality he was alive. It illustrates how delicate this matter of Identification Is. The man was an undertaker, and he was In the habit of indulging in wild dissipation at frequent Intervals. He was shot at one time, and the bullet passed through the back of his neck, leaving two deep scars. He had a great mole on one side of his neck, and he had only four toes on one foot. "A train was wrecked in Texas while the undertaker was off on a spree, and a clipping from a newspaper was sent to his wife, in which his name was given as one of the men killed In the wreck. She came to me with the clipping and the letter that accompanied lt. I recognized the letter as being the handwriting of her husband, but she would not be convinced. Incidentally, I told her that it would be a good thing, in a way, if the dead man were her husband. This angered her. The newspaper clipping said there was $2.osX) in the dead man s pockets. "The wife of the undertaker went to the Texas town at which the wreck had occurred. When she arrived she found another woman there that also claimed the body as that of her husband. These two women contested for the body. The wife of the undertaker found the bullet scars on the neck and the mole and the deformed foot. She was positive that her husband had been killed and that his body was thct taken out of the wreck. "When she returned to this city and asked me to bring suit for the money found in the dead man's pockets, I refused. I told her that I was satisfied that her husband was still alive. After two months, that drunken undertaker appeared at his home. He still had his scars and te mole and was still minus the toe." BREWERY EMPLOYES. They Will Flock to Cincinnati on ot Sunday. The four organizations of the United Brewery Workers' Union, the Brewery Beer Drivers and Stablemen, Engineers and Firemen and Beer Bottlers, and their branch locals at Anderson. Alexandria and South Bend, will leave on a special train next Sunday morning, for Cincinnati, to attend a flag dedication and reunion of the members of the union In Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. The union expects to leave the city with at least five hundred members. It is estimated that fully six thousand members of the organization in the three State? will be in Cincinnati for the reunion. The Indlannpolis delegation Is going to lay plans for bringing the next national convention of the United Brewery Workers to Indianapolis in K'2. The convention this year will be held in Philadelphia and the local union will use this reunion to advantage in laying plans to capture the big convention. The train will leave the Union Station Sunday morning at ' o'clock and will take the delegation directly to Chester Park, where the reunion and celebration is to be held. On the programme is a big banquet to be given to the brewery workers by the national organization. Returning the special train will leave the park at i:3 In th evening. The committee that has charge of the arrangements and train is composed of George Mueller. George W. Hagedorn. L. Gorlus, J. Rouins. A. Ktmpa. A. Heidenrich. J. Long. William Engelking H. Kleis. J. Winkenhaus and A. Mueller. InventlKate Home Realty Company. Attorney General Taylor and State Auditor Hart have ordered an Investigation of the methods of ;he Home Healty Company, with an office at 54 Stevenson building. It is alleged that this company Is doing the same sort of illegal business for which the Fraternal Co-operative Company and th Indiana Iteal-e.-tate Company were forced to close their offices. The Home Realty Company is Incorporated under the voluntary associations law. Its scheme is to pupply homes on the Installment plan. It Is charged that it has tried to absorb

some of the business scattered by the breaking up of the Indiana Real-estate Company. - This is denied by George L. Dkkerson, president of the Home Realty Company. George U. Bingham will make the investigation of the concern. W. F. A. BERNHAMER DEAD.

The Tally Sheet I-'orcery Cane In Which He Figured Recalled. The death yesterday at Chicago of William F. A. Bernhamer removes the last of the principals of the famous tally sheet forgery cases here In 1. for which Bernhamer and Simeon Coy served terms in the penitentiary. Judge Woods, who sentenced them, died a few days ago. Bernhamer came here from Shelby county and after admission to the bar practiced law here. He became Interested in polltics and in Ks, after a sensational trial, was convicted of the forgery of tally sheets of the city election at which time the Democrats were all returned as having received good majorities. After one year in prison he returned to this city but did not remain long, going to Chicago, where he began the practice of law. There he became Interested in politics and was employed in the legal department of the city. He was at the time of his death assistant corporation counsel. Bernhamer always protested his Innocence and after leaving here was very bitter toward citizens of Indianapolis for what he called their persecution of him. He leaves a widow, formerly Miss Louisa Steeg of this city, who has been faithful through his troubles. He was fifty-two years of age and lived at 41 Jackson boulevard. The burial will be at Chicago to-morrow morning. He leaves no children. Edward, in the railway mall service, and George Bernhamer, in the ice business at Chicago, are brothers. He also leaves two sisters. Mrs. Carrie Overholzer. of Chicago, and Mrs. Rudolph Warnling, of this city. OTIS H0UK KILLED HIMSELF. He Took Morphine After a Quarrel vUth IHm Wife. Otis Houk, twenty-seven years of age, committed suicide last night at his home, 312 West "Washington street, by taking morphine. His wife told Drs. De Vaney and Hicks, of the City Dispensary, who were called, that they had had a "few words," but she gave no further reason for his wishing to end his life. The drug, so far as could be learned, was taken about S o'clock and when the doctors were called at 11 o'clock he was beyond help and died about fifteen minutes later. He was, however, able then to talk a little and told the doctors -he had taken "dope" and that this was the third time. His wife said he had frequently after a quarrel threatened to kill himself, but she never thought he meant it. His wife was Georgia Waldon and they were married six weeks ago. She was known In the "West End" as Sheeney Nell. His parents live at 221 West Michigan street. Removal to Liirger Quarters. The Union State Hospital has been removed from North Capitol avenue to the building formerly occupied by Dr. Dunning as a sanatorium, at 431 North Alabama street. The building hfs been remodeled and increased In capacity, and Its location near the business part of the city, within easy reach of physicians, makes a desirable place for a hospital. Dr. John Kolmer is superintendent of the hospital and receives all patients, whether able to pay or not. Persons having means are expected to pay for treatment, but those not having money are given the same care and careful treatment as the other class. The building is now so arranged that forty-five patients may be cared for at one time. Loiik Time on a Park Bench. A man giving the name of Thomas Finan was taken yesterday morning from University Park to the City Dispensary, where he was attended by physicians. He had been lying on a bench in University Park all of Sunday and was forgotten'by the park policeman at night "when he left. Yesterday morning he was still on the bench, and the Dispensary wnwcalled. He had been without food and was evidently suffering from lack of it and also from the heat. Injuries Received In Diving:. Jesse Blake, nineteen years of age, dvlng at Söl1, Mulberry street, while swimming in White river, dived from the bank In shallow water and struck his head on the river bed. He was rendered unconscious, and had to be dragged out by companions and taken to the City Dispensary and attended by Dr. De Vaney, after which he was sent home. His injuries are thought to be only temporary. He appears to be suffering from partial paralysis. A Illlnd Man Injured. Adam Hall, a blind broom peddler, living In Mount Jackson, was struck by a street car at Massachusetts avenue and New Jersey street yesterday morning and suffered severe bruises and a scalp wound, which was sewed up by Dr. S. H. Moore. He got off one care and walked in front of another going in an opposite direction. He was taken to his home by the street-car company. Sew Plant nt Anderson. The Victor Wire Fence Company, of Anderson, was Incorporated yesterday, with a capital stock of $7TS,in. The directors are J. L. Vermillion. J. E. Van Derventer, Marx Carll. Lafayette Swank and Jennie Van Derventer. FOR DISABLED "SCHOOLMA'AMS Fund of Nearly fU.NMi,noo Created by the Late Lew! Elktii. PHILADELPHIA. July 15. Unr the provisions of the will of Lewis Elkin, M was well known in financial and railroad circks, adndtted to probate to-day, the bulk of his fortune of J-u0",0mö is left in trust to create a fund for the benefit ot disabled female teachers who have taught In the public schools of the city for a period of twenty-five years and have no means oT support. The beneficiaries of the tund are to receive an annuity of $10. Mabel Strong Dies In a Hospital. NEW YORK. July 13.-Mabel Strong, of Cleveland, O . who came to this city with Charles Wildrick, who was arrested for fraud and sent to the penitentiary for six months, died from consumption in St. Lukes Hospital yesterday. Miss Strong was the deaughter of a wealthy Cleveland man. She lived with Wildrick at a hotel until he was arrested for defrauding the proprietor in the payment of his bill. Her father came to this city and tried to get her to go home with him. but she refused, and was taken to St. Luke's Hospital. Lord ItohertM to Mnry Cutl Lee. RICHMOND. Va.. July lS.-In -a letter just received by Miss Miry Custis Lee Lord Roberts, commander-in-chief of the British army, says in part: "It may be that I shall never be able to carry out my wish of visiting your great country, but I hope that some day I shall do so, and that I may see the monument in the college chapel at Lexington. 1 shall consider it a privilege to be able to show my respect and admiration for one of the greatest soldiers of any age Lee, of Virginia." Cbarhon Epidemic SpreudliiK. JACKSON. Miss., July 13.-During the first week or two of the charbon epidemic In the delta more than per cent, of the animals affected died, but since a supply of the virus for inoculation was procured the death rate has been materially reduced. Unfortunately the disease Is spreading all over the country, not only in the deita. but in the hills, several cases being reported to-day in Hankln county, the adjoining county to this and only a few miks north oi Jack.-on. Epworth LeaKiiem Arriving;.SAN FRANCISCO. July l'.. Several thousand delegates to the Epworth League convention arrived here to-day. It is calculated that ln.fm) delegates have already arrived and that 40.iM) more nre on route. From thcsi figures, which the railroad officials and the local Epworth Leaguers say are authentic. It is certain San Francisco will b called on to entertain 50,io strangers during the next week or ten days.

SURE CAUSE OF ACTION

CLIENT Sl'FFKRS FHOM CAPTION OF AN ANDERSON ATTORNEY. Caftnin llndley Tells n Story Itelated to Him by One Charley" Itaggctt. "Charley Baggett, a lawyer up at Anderson, told me of another attorney In his town that makes very sure, exceptionally sure, of his cases before he goes into them," said Cassius Hadley, as he tilted back his chair and put his feet on a pile of law books In the attorney general's office yesterday afternoon. "It seems that a client of this lawyer had a little store, and the owner of the property wanted the tenant to get out. The tenant refused to move and the landlord nailed up the passage way to the store to cut off the tenant's trade and starve him out of the place. "The tenant went to the lawyer and explained his case. He wanted to sue the landlord for damages. The lawyer wasn't certain that the case was a good one. After due consideration he advised his client to go back to his store and tear down the obstruction in the passage-way. This should be done while the landlord was about, the lawyer advised. In the hope that he would commit some overt act. 'If he Interferes,' the lawyer advised his client, your cause for action will be complete. "Well, the client went out and acted on his attorney's advice, as all good clients should. About an hour afterward Charley Baggett was called into the other lawyer's office for consultation. The client was there and Baggett says he was the most wretched man he ever saw or imagined. There was a cut over one eye and the other was blacked. His cheek was gashed and blood flowed from his mouth. His teeth were so badly battered he could hardly enunciate. 'His clothes were torn and dirty and through one mangled sleeve could be seen a skinned elbow. The lawyer and his client related the story to Baggett and the lawyer asked Raggett's opinion. " 'Well, Baggett said. I believe his cause of action is complete.' " Swindled by Two Young Men. Two young men secured yesterday morning from Mrs. Nancy Bailey, a grocery keeper, of 42S Agnes street, $1.05 by confusing her and working the change racket. One presented a 12 bill and asked for a small article costing 5 cents. He received $1.95 In change and then the other boy stepped up and said he had just found a 5-cent piece in his pocket. He gave this to the woman and asked for the $2 bill. Then the other lad presented a lot of small change and asked for a silver dollar. After receiving It one of the young men remarked they had better leave or the woman would think they were trying to "shortchange" her. It was some minutes before she recovered from her confusion and realized she had been tricked. Assessment of Corporations. The State Board of Tax Commissioners will begin the assessment of corporate property this morning. There are few requests for reductions from last year's assessment. Michael Grimmer, member of tho Lake county Board of Review, has appealed against the board's assessment of the Standard Oil Company. The company was assessed $192.760 on additional Improvements and $665.9s3 on personal property. Grimmer says the amounts should be $2X),000 and I'JOO.O!), respectively. DUnil'S ALLY, llLENNERHASSETT. Ills True Story Related nt Last by a .Member of the Family. "The True Story of Harman Rlennerhassctt" is related for the first time in the Century for July by Mrs. BlennerhassettAdams: Harman Biennerhassctt, born in Hampshire, England, in 17G5, was a direct descendant of King Edward III of England through Constance of Langley, wife of the Earl of Gloucester and daughter of Edward Duke of York and Isabel of Castile. The Blennerhassetts are English In origin, none of them having been known in Ireland before the reign of Elizabeth; but previous to that time, as far back as 1357, the familyoriginally of Blennerhassett, a small town in Cumberland, afterward of Carlisle, subsequently of Flimby Hall, Cumberland many times represented Carlisle in Parliament. They have been continuously in Parliament for more than five hundred years; on one occasion a father and two sons represented their county and county town at the same time. The old manor-house of Flimby Hall is now owned by the Earl of Lonsdale, whose ancestors bought the Blennerhassett estates. Over three of the doorways of Flimby Hall the Blennerhassett crest is cut in stone; the walls are ten feet thick, and the great oak beams look as if they would last forever. When Harman Blennerhassett broke the entail and sold the estate to Thomas Mullln, afterward Lord Ventry, he received $160,000 in money. Outside of this was an income not vested in the $lrt,oaa. and besides a small income of ?6,fo0, which belonged to the entailed property as a separate portion, and could not be transterred. the use of which he had until he died. His wife also came of a family with money; but, as will be seen, she was disinherited when she married Harman Blennerhassett. Her sisters, however, laid aside money for her benefit, and sent it to her regularly. Early in 17'5 Harman Blennerhassett, then thirty-one years old. married in England, Miss Margaret Agnew. daughter ot Captain Robert Agnew. of Howlish. County Durham, a young lady of eighteen. Her father was lieutenant governor of the Isle of Man, and a son of General James Agnew of revolutionary faine. Soon after their marriage, the young couple embarked for America, landing Aug. 1. 176. After extensive travels through the eastern part of the country, a portion of the Island In the Ohio which bears their name was purchased, and preparations for building were begun. The house and grounds when completed represented an Investment of $6a,or0. After the island house was no longer an abode, Blennerhassett and his family removed to a plantation of l.ooo acres oil the Mississippi river, six miles above Port Gibson. This home they called "La Cache." and here they lived for twelve years, when they sold the property for $2M. and. after stopping in New York to pay a visit to the family of Mr. Emmet, proceeded to Montreal. In 1S21, Blennerhassett. after a residence in America of twenty-five years, left Canada for England, where he hoped to be benefited through an Influence he no longer possessed. Ten years of heartache and buffeting passed, and then came falling health, which "nded in his death at Port Pierre, on the island of Guernsey. Feb. 2, 1S31, in tho sixty-sixth year of his age. We now come to the secret of the Blennerhassetts. which was carefully kept from their children. Catharine, one of the sisters of Harman Blennerhassett. married an Agnew. It was her daughter Margaret who married Harman Blennerhassett, her mother's brother, and it was for this cause that phe was disinherited. The young lady was absent at school; her uncle was sent to take her home; instead of doing so he married her. But he reckoned without his host, or perhaps he did not reckon at all. When he returned with his bride the family affection that he thought would greet them, the family Influence that he thought would protect them, were wanting. The couple was met only with reproaches; because of his thirty-one years, he was held responsible: becau.-e of her eighteen years, she was pitied, but not the less blamed. Since remaining In his own country meant social ostracism. Blennerhassett sold his property and brought his young wife to America. No political entanglements were about him to cause him to come to this country, for though a close observer of current events he took little Interest in politics; his tastes were quiet literary and musical. Nothing brought him to Arjertca bit the fact that his family would not countenance his marriage. A letter from Blennerhassett to Colonel Als-ton states Blennerh ssett s lo.ses through Burr at &( $I2.5oO of which had been paid. A request is made for the payment of JlG.Ooo lx months hence, the balance to he adjusted by agreement, the alternative of acquiescence to this proposition being the publication of u book containing much inner history, which Blennerhassett believes will yield "jRCio. On Burr's return from Mnsland a Himllar communication was addressed to him. But that was not demanding Jlu.t) "hush money." It was simply calling on Burr and Alston to fulfill an obligation of long standing, a just and honest debt which they were seeking to evade. Blennerhassett'8 reason for Joining Burr was not love of adventure, but to remove himself farther from those who knew him.

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AN ENGLISH PUBLISHER MR. PEARSON IS A RELIEVER IN TIIE INFLUENCE OF LICK. Ills Idea of the American Kind of Sensationalism A Rising Profession Abroad. Xew York Evening Post. Replying to-day to some Inquiries made of him regarding how to succeed, according to his English view, in Journalism, Mr. C. Arthur Pearson, the chief British rival of Mr. Alfred Harmsworth as a publisher who makes large profits, declared that very much the same qualities are required as are necessary for success in other trades and professions "energy, promptness and the best possible use of one's wits." He added that "the great thing for an aspiring Journalist to bear in mind is that quick action and prompt decision are qualities of the first Importance to a newspaper man; that discretion in printing what he finds out is of at least as much Importance as the obtaining of 'scoops,' and that keenness to gather exclusive information should never permit him to violate the canons of good taste or to Intrude upon the privacy of individuals. "Certainly the work of the Journalist Is making very rapid strides In all countries, so far as Its dignity is concerned. In England and in most countries on the continent of Europe the class of men entering Journalism is much superior to-day to the class which selected the profession a few years ago. "Not so very long ago a majority of English journalists were men who, for one reason or another, had drifted into journalism, many of them after having made failures at other professions. Nowadays a bright lad from college considers journalism as offering him an opening at least equal to that afforded by any other calling. "I remember that seventeen years ago, when I went into journalism, my grandfather, a Church of England clergyman of the old school, was horrified at my selection of what he considered quite a disreputable calling. 'The boy has been brought up as a gentleman.' be wrote my father, and should not be allowed to enter a profession which I understand is followed by most second-rate persons. "Tills kind of impression of the calling of journalism has entirely faded away in England to-day. and the Journalist has taken his proper place as an exponent of a profession which is at least as honorable, and probably more important than any other." RELIEVES IN LUCK. 'It was Interesting to learn that he attributes his own progress personally to good luck. "1 do not think that ordinarily people attach nearly enough Importance to this factor," he said. "It doesn't seem to me possible to explain in any other way the fact that many brilliant men serve others far less brilliant than themselves. For success in business I am quite convinced that good luck is the principal factor. It is, of course, necessary that its advert should be attended with sufficient snap and intelligence to take full advantage of this gift of the gods, and men of unu.'ual genius must necessarily be excluded. My remarks are intended to apply to ordinarily successful men of business, not tc Carnegies, Rockefellers or Morgans." Then, speaking generally of newspapers and the taste of the public, he observed; "The main difference in taste between the two countries England and the I'nlted States, which seems to be evidenced by a comparison of English and American papers, is undoubtedly the greater love lor sensationalism displayed by the public here. There are, of course. American papers, of which the Evening Post is an example, which do not indulge in sevencolumn headlines when a man shoots his swttheart. or a negro Is lynched !n Texas; but the fact that they are so exceptional to the general rule looks as though the taste of the great public here demands sensationalism in a form which could not possibly prove acceptable In England. "This is from the point of view of the editor. "From that of the proprietor the striking difference i the immense volume of trade advertisements which American newspapers carry, particularly those emanating from owners of Urge retail stores, a class of business which is practically nonexistent In England. "To my mind the New York newspapers would be Improved by an abandonment of scare headings, by the use of fewer varieties of type, and by the drawing of a stricter line of demarcation between news and advertisements: but this, after all. is only the opinion of one to whoe eye the newspapers of this town come as something strange and unaccustomed." THE EUROPEAN PRESS. He was asked if European' newspapers were not being used nowadays as diplomatic instruments, for good or ill. "The tendency towards using Inspired editorials for conveying diplomatic suggestions or warnings to other nation do.s not obtain at all in England." he declared. "It Is undoubtedly a method us"d often and to excellent purpose by the German and Russian governments, but I think Is open to such obvious possible abuses that England and America would do very well to leave it severely alone." Mr. Pearson expressed himself as decidedly opposed to what Is known as "fake" journalism, and explained the publication, in his paper, of the massacre stories at the beginning of the trouble in China In thl way: "The stories were bona-fi le Shanchal cables, and were held In our office two iUys for verification, which was finally otralnei from our correspondent in China. Virtually the same yarn was cabled to and printed In the Mall. We exhauted erv int-ans of verification, and then printed the story In good faith." Yesterday to many assembled reporter Mr. I'rarson tald: "The chief fault I find with American newspaper 1 that they deal to- much with people's private affairs. Its undu-

nlilod to say the least of It. and would not be tolerated in England. I would hate to be an American Journalist, and prcT-r to be on thts other side, where we arv perhaps slow and conservative, but do things in a dignified manner. I may also say right here that I consider the New York Evening Post one of the best newspapers printed in the world. None of the other reporters used th! last tcntence in thtir mornings "stories." On the Express staff (this is his halfpenny London dally) I have several Americans. The Express is more of an American par than the Mall, and Englishmen accuse the Express of Uing American. It wouldn't dare to be. It is, however, tho only English paper that prints news on the first page. I have a project, not worked out, and in an inchoate condition, to establish a chain of papers around the world. The plan at present is to have one at Montreal, at Bombay and Calcutta in India, at Cape Town. Pretoria and Johannesburg: m South Africa, and at Melbourne, Australia. So far I have decided not to establish one In the United States. EXPERIENCE WITH CR 1 31 IN ALS. Police Officers Note Many Peculiar Character 1st les. New Orleans Times-Democrat. "Crime has made considerable progress in thes-e latter days," remarked an old police officer, "but one thing has impressed mo more than any other thing in connection, with the Mves of hardened criminals. Of course all offenders make an effort to escape detection and arrest. This is the first necessary thing with them, and they do all they can to throw the officers of the law oft of the right trail. But the greatest talent shown by crooked men has been along: different lines. The thing they study mon is the matter of escaping after they are arrested. Occasionally they resort to very clever schemes to get out of Jail, and occasionally they work them. too. I remember the case of a very shrewd crook who had a female aid, and she was In the habit of visiting the Jail every day or so and handing the fellow a basket with lunch ia it. The Sunday services in the Jail wero generally conducted by a man who had white side whiskers, and he wore a lonjr coat and a slouch hat. While services wer still going on one Sunday In the Jail, th door which opened into the main body of the jail was rattled as usual when f-ome person wanted to pass out. The turnkey responded, and found a gentleman with white side whiskers, a long black coat and a tlouch hat, standing at the door. I want to pass out for Just a minute.' he said, with an ecclesiastical air. and the turnkey let him out. Shortly after this the jail services were brought to a close, and tho real preacher appeared at the door of tho Jail. The turnkey was paralyzed. At first he refused to let the preacher out, but when he found that he was the real article, he let him pass through the door. The preacher remained to clear up the mystery, and. to find out who his double was The truth was quickly learned. The shrewd crook had escaped. Several days afterwards it was found that the woman who had been bringing the apparently harmless dinner pall to the Jail was smuggling things to ths crook, and In this way she "had furnished! him with the white side whiskers, the lotir coat and the slouch hat. The woman had lett town with the man she liberated, and so far as I know they were never apprehended. It was a clever ruse, but by no mean? new, except In the imitation of a preacher, and this new feature of the matter probably disarmed the turnkey and caused him to faJl to scrutinize tho man closely enough to detect the scheme." "I have known of other cases equally as remarkable." the officer continued, "and probably the most remarkable cae was that of a forger who escaped from one Jail three times, and had tho record of having escaped more frequently than any other crook in the rountry. Because of his numerous escapes he was closely watched. But his three last escapes from one Jail lmpresed me as being out of the ordinary. The first time be got out he wslked through! the front of the Jail disguised as a negro woman. The dress had Ik-cti slipped to htm In some way by one of the negro women who worked In the Jail, and he had secured, a soiled hat In the same way, and as he was a white man. he had usM the soot frem a lamp chimney to blacken hl faces. He was recaptured several weeks later. The second time he sawed out. When the officers Ix-uan to look Into the matter they eon found that he had used no erdlnary saw, and in fact they had kept Muh close watch on him that they knew no tool rnull have lx-en slipped to his cell. He was again caught. He was a frank fellow," and told the officers how he had got out. He had gone back Into the Jail with a very fino wire saw colled In the bottom of his shoe. He had used this to file his way out of the Jail. Because of the rmall teeth of the saw, and the delicacy of the tto generally, he was able to do the work without maklnjr any noise, and thus escaped detection. But the third time be escaped he took severs! prisoners with him. It was a novel and dangerous plan. There was an immense sewer running from the jail to the rler. a distance of probably S0 or feet. Tho wat?r was low. and the mouth of the fewer was probably two or three f-et below the surface of the river. With two nero the forger made his way down this sewer toward the river. The water was backed up some distance In the pipe, and several feet back from the river the pipe was completely filled. But the former took the chance. He e!ivd out through the end of the pipe, and in a few second showed on the surface of the river. The negroes followed, and they all escaped. The officers wre puzzled, and they ie, r knew how the forger f scaped until be told the xtory himself when he was recaptured. He Is novr serving out a term of years In the penitentiary of a Southern State, and l ptobably penned In for go.d. for an eU-ctric wire is strung aremnd the walls of the prison, and he enjos the distinction of liavlr-c given birth to this plan of preventing the escape of prisoners. But t-vni now the officials lle In dread b t he burrow under the earth. er adopt some other novel plan of breaking out of Jail." To Pre flit I.) ncliliii;. RICHMNl. Va.. July 15 The constitutional convention wa m -sslon but twen-ty-oc.e li.inutts to-day. The mmm important rts-dt.tlon introduced was offered by Mr. l'eüo. a Republican, of Henry county, whien aims to prevent lynching. H prov Me tti.it the Governor hall offer a reward t-i for the arrest and conviction of cv.ty person who h!l er.gigc in the ofttne. That the crime hall t murder in the lust degree, where the hanging or lynching is accompll.-h.-d. and thit it tha! ie tliej duty cf the Governor to pay to th- hrlrs of any p r-n Ijinhe l. ih inoruy b come out of the state tM.mury nd be charitable to the county or city in which the crituu w4 committed.