Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 247, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1901 — Page 2

Tili: IXDIAXAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY,

SEPTEMBER 4, 1901

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Mh.!i-i1 Vrlt mid Thront. f-peci to tie In-lianapoIU Journal. ItROOKVIM,i:. In-!.. Sept. Z. Last nlßht John K. Millar, unmarried, thlrty-eiRht year of ace. slashed both hU wrists find cut his throat with his razor, lie th-n walke! out of hi.j ro'-m ami across a hall and knocked on the l-or of a room occupitd by his two Filter., when he f 1 1 to tho Uor ami expired. He 1 ft a note, as follow-: "Youiik rn n. tukr warning from drink. This In the effect." Knot Cilrl Followed I.OTfr. i cial to the Indianapolis Journal. KNOX. Ind.. Sept. 3. Ausrusta Gites, a Kfd eighteen, committed suicide la5t night by taking morphine. Two weeks ao her lover, Jcuse Chance, lost his life In a lire, and since then she hid been despondent. She came homo from South fiend yesterday ;nd wnt to the home of a neighbor, paying she wanted to surprise her father. She frequently sjoke of her loer and said she had no desire to live. Old Man Slashed His Arm. ial to the Irv'ianaiU Journal. VA I. PA It A I SO, Ind.; Sept. C Henry Nienian, aetl eighty years, for thirty-five years a resident of Pine town-hip. this county, attempted to commit suicide yesterday by slashing his arms with a razor. Two Attempt nt Lnporte. Social to the Indianapolis Journal. LAPORTT:, Ind., Sept. 3. Fred Newman, while despomlent over 111 health, tried to commit suicide by cutting his throat. Charles Payne took a dose of pari green while despondent. Goth may recover. m:yi:hai viom:t iihaths. J?xplomlon of (."lovrr Ilnller' Holler Fatnlly Hurts One Man. Prcl.il to the Indianapolis Journal. MIDULKTOWN, Ind.. Sept. C While hulling clover seed to-lay on the farm of J. I. Sanders, three miles cast of this place, the boiler of the machinery exploded. Parts of the boiler were blown twenty rods. Asa Fadely, the engineer, was cut on the head, and a shoulder blade and one leg were broken. II is injuries are? fatal. David Richmond, a helper, was truck in the face by the belt and seriously hurt. He Danced His Life Out. LAFORTK, Ind.. Sept. C Excitement and overexertion In dancing caused Louis Baker's death to-day. Last night he attended a dance at John Itaylandcr's house, near Stillwcll, this county, the merriment being continued until 4 a. m. Ho then went to bed. and an hour later rose to do his chores on Fred Dome's farm, where he was employed. Half an hour later he was found dead in the barn. Coroner Howell's examination showed that Raker had danced himself to death. Michal Fitzsimmons, aged seventy-five years, while walking on the street to-day, stumbled and fell, striking his head against a stone. He died tlvo hours later at thfe Holy Family Hospital. John Kizer, aged eighty-four years, was thrown out of a buggy in a runaway, and will die. The horso had frightened at Frank Badur's carriage, and Badur. on reaching home, was taken with peritonitis as a result of the chock of witnessing the accident. "Wabash Man Dropped Dead. Ppecial to th Indianapolis Journal. WABASH. Ind., Sept. 3. Charles K. Newhous, a prominent insurance man and partner in business with Mayor Joseph K. McHenry, dropped dead this evening while walking about his yard. He had been ill for ome time. He was forty years of age. He leaves a wife and two children. "Tjlwood plants to reopen. Thlree Cilnss Factories There to Ileaume In a. Few Days. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. EL.WOOD. Ind., Sept. 3. The controversy between the men and tho management of the McCloy lamp chimney factory In-this city over the factory rules for the coming fire has been settled and tho plant will begin operations on "Wednesday, after a shutdown of tvo months. The factory employs nearly four hundred men and boys. The local plant of the Macbeth-Evans chimney factory, on of the largest plants of the kind west of the Alleghenies, will resume partial operation a week from next Monday. All but twenty-two of the hand shops have been laid off and the men discharged, and in their stead paste-mold ware will be made. The factory formerly employed six hundred men. but only about four hundred will work there this season. The plant of tho Elwood Bottle Company, which has been idle for the past two years. Fine it was abandoned by the Nlvlson & WEATHER FORECAST. Pair "Weather Throughout Indiana, with LlRht Ensterlr "Wind. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. Forecast for Wednesday and Thursday: For Ohio Fair on Wednesday and Thursday; light variable -winds. For Indiana and Illinois Fair on Wednesday and Thursday; light easterly winds. Locnl Observations on Tuesday. Bar. Ther. K.H. Wind. Weather. Fre. 7 a.m. .30.20 64 M North. Clear. .00 7 p.m. .30.13 7S 'v64 N'east. Clear. .00 Maximum temperature, S2; minimum temperature, W. Following 13 a comparative statement of temperature and precipitation for Sept. 3: Temp. Pre. Normal 68 .10 Mean 70 .00 Departure from normal 2 .10 Departure since Sept. I I .30 Departure since Jan." I 113 9.63 rius. W. T. BLYTIIE. Section Director. Yesterday's Temperatures. Stations. Atlanta. (Ja ..... : . 1 , x- 1 1

Min. Max. 1 p. m. .....64 .V2 76 .....64 !4 Si 64 7t 11 .....4:i 72 54 .....64 74 70 64 so 7(5 ,....5S 7 5S .....6-' 82 7S ....5i SS 84 .....60 S4 NO 54 SS M ,....7J Si SO ,....r2 us tw .....70 7$ ....60 Si 82 .....m 82 62 82 70 6! St 78 ....f-o si) 7,; 74 7S ....6; 7 72 M 82 7S M 86 82 60 8 82 ....6) K 76 ....SS 0 72 ....64 84 SO ....M 70 70 ....62 81 SO M M Si ....öS 84 TS 60 8-i 82 . . . . o 8S 7S 61 76 6S

iii'iiiiin.n, jut ....... Buffalo. N. Y ..... Calgary, N. W. T Chicago. Ill Cairo. Ill Chevenne. Wyo .. Cincinnati. O Concordia. Kan ., Davenport. la Des Moines, la .... Galveston. Tex ... Helena. Mont , Jacksonville. Fla. Kansas City, Mo ., Little Rock. Ark Marquette. Mtch , Memphis, Tenn , Nashville. Tenn , New Orleans. Ia. New York city , North Platte, Neb ... Oklahoma. O. T Omaha. Neb , Pittsburg. Pa Qu Appelle. N. W. T Rapid City. S. D Salt Lake City. Utah, St. Louis. Mo , St. Paul. Minn , Fpringneld. Ill , f-prlngneld. Mo , Vicksburg. Miss , Washington. D. C .... MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS. NEW YORK, Sept. 3.-Arrived: Hohenlollern. from Naples; (leorgic. from Liverpool. Sailed: Servla. for Liverpjol. BREMEN. Sept. 3. Arrived: Kaiser Wilhelm dtr (Ire-sf. from New York, via Cherbourg and Southampton. BROW HEAD. Sept. 4. 4:15 a. ni Passed: Teutonic, from New York for Queenstown nd Liverpool. PLYMOI'TH. Spt. 3.-Sailed: Pennsylvania, from Hamburg and Boulogne for Nw Ycrk. LIZARD. Sept. 4. 12:4) a. m.-Passed: St. Taul, from N-w York for Southampton. CHERBOURG S. ft. j.Sad.l: Koenik'en Louise, from Bremen for New York. GENOA. Spt. 2-Arriv.d: All.r. from New York, via Npl-s. GLASGOW. Sept. 3-Arrled: Furnessla. from New York. LIVERPOOL. Sept. .-Arrived: Sicilian, from Montreal.

Weuskopf Comj'any. will al.-o resume operations Wednesday as eo-pr.tive f.tctory. of which City Cour.cilm.m Philip Hamm is the manag r. It will employ about IV) mTi and boys At the meeting of the (Tis Brit Labor Day C iioa at Alexandria, the J1 gat s r prs .itir.g ihf leading organizations of EIwool gave notice of th- grneral desire on the part of the Elv.ood laborers to celebrate Labor day at hoir.e in the future. It is loubtful If Elwood has any representation at all at the Wabash gathering next year, whih promises to mark the end of the gas belt celebrations ami the return to local affairs.

Asking; .lien to o Gust. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION. Ind.. Sept. 3. Louis Follett. formerly, manager of the Moorewood plant of the American Tin Plate Company at Gas City, now connected with the New York offices of the company, has been at Gas. City the last two days trying to induce fome striking employes of the mill there to return with him East and assist in breaking up th strike bv taking places vacated by strikers. Follett came to America with Gas City men from Wales a few years ago. and, having such friemlly relations with them, he thought h might succeed In such a plan, but so far he has failed. Borrowing Labor from Clili'iigo. Special to the lnll ir.apolis Journal. VALPARAISO, Ind., Sept. 3.-President M. A. Snider, of the mica factory of this city, the largest of the three In the Unitel States, announced that It would be n-ces-sary to work all hands yesterday, U3 the company was behind in tilling orders, consequently 225 workmen Iid nt observe Labor day. it is impossible to g t enough men here, and the company has ben forced to employ laboring men from Chicago. Plants Are ot to He Closed. ?I eclat to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO. Ind.. Sept. 3.-The stories sent from here that the Pittsburg Plate-glass Company had closed its plants at Kokomo and Elwoo! as a punishment of the l.L'oo operatives for their aid of the ste-l strikers are false. The two fuctotb's closed down for the week t make repairs. Both plants will be in operation next Monday. Both are nonunion and the men are not contributing to the aid of the steel wtrkers. A FIGHT IX COl .NCIL. c;ohenM .Hay or Struck, by it C.'oniicilninn After n Wrangle. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELKHART, Ind., Sept. 3.-There was a quarrel in the Goshen Council Monday night, when Mayor B. F. Deahl's veto of a hot-water heating franchise was discussed. Attorney W. L. Stonex, who represented the company of local citizens who asked fcr the franchise, answerd the veto by declaring that the mayor's motive was to secure a franchise for a company representel by himself and his brother, Anthony Deahl. He also accused the mayor of endeavoring to influence councilmen to oppose the ordinance. The mayor challenge! the statement, and at Stonex's request Councilman Orlando Hamilton and George Swank corroborated it, declaring themselves to have been tho members sought to he influenced. After the formal session of tho Council. Mayor Deahl and Councilman Hamilton renewed the dispute, and Hamilton struck the mayor. HHPHESEVriXG 129 C 1 1 1 It C II IIS. White River Conference of the United Urethren Church. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Sept. 3. The fifty-sixth annual session of the White River Conference, United Brethren Church, began here this evening, the preliminary sermon being delivered by Rev. J. E. Shannon, of Marlon. The conference will close Sunday afternoon. The territory boundaries are Wabash on tho north, Columbus on the south, Frankfort on the west and the Ohio lino on tho east. The conference has a membership of 10,090, with 120 churches and 79 pastors. The total membership in the United States is 250,000; value of church property in the conference. $225. (WO. The sessions are being held in a fine new church just completed at a cost of J2),(00, during the pastorate of Rev. W. M. Karstedt. The conference has two districts, Marion and Indianapolis, the elders being Dr. Wilmore. of Anderson, and the Rev. Mr. Roberts, of Upland. At the first formal session of the conference to-morrow addresses of welcome will be delivered by Mavor Armstrong in behalf of the city, and Rev. E. G. Shouse In behalf of the Kokomo Ministerial Association. Bishop E. B. Kephart, of Annville. Pa., will preside. About 350 ministers and delegates are in attendance. Affairs of the Friend. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Sept. 3. A few years ago there was a request from six quarterly meetings, headed by Marion, asking the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends to set off a new yearly meeting, the sessions of which should be held at Marlon. The petition was denied. At the session to be held the last of this month the request will be renewed. It will come this time from but three quarterly meetings Wabash. Marion and Fairmount. The petition will go to a committee to report next year, and, as that is also the time for the General Conference, It is probable the request will go before that body and will be the first case of the kind to come before the Five Years' Meeting, which is created by the newly-adopted constitution that the yearly meetings in the United States and Canada will then be working under. The General Conference will in all probability be held in Indianapolis. The last General Conference was held there. Rpiftcopiil l'ustor Changes. fpeclal to the Indianapolis Journal. VALPARAISO. Ind., Sept. 3 Rev. C. E. Brandt, who resigned the pastorate of the Episcopal Church of this city, has acct pted a call from the Episcopal Church at Bristol, Elkhart county. IHG PLANT FOR MITCHELL. Pennsyl vnnin Company to Ilnild a $IOO,Xtt Cement Factory There. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MITCHELL. Ind., Sept. 3. Mitchell is soon to have a new industry in the form of a cement plant, covering about twenty-one acres of land and employing three hundred men. The Lehigh Portland Cement Company, of Allentown, Pa., has purchased 200 acres of stone land near here and will commence work on mill buildings in about three weeks. It will require two hundred men four months to erect the buildings. Grading has been begun for sidetrack to convey material to the site of the plant, which will be situated within the corporate limits of Mitchell. The erection of the plant will involve an expenditure of S4J0.000. and it will have a capacity of 2,2u0 barrels per day. The company will operate its own electric light plant, using forty arc lights and two hundred and fifty incandesce nts. It will be one of the largest plants In the West. It was secured for Mitchell by Noble L. Moore and John W. Edwards, jr., and Special Agent II. A. Trendley. of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad. FOR l.MHAX.VS EI11CATORS. of Affair of Schools. Colleges and Teachers in the State. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Ind.. Sept. 3. Nearly two hundred teachers are present at the sessions of the Wabash County Teachers Institute. The leading speakers are Trof. Petty, music; Prof. Bonebrake, Cincinnati, pedagogy; Prof. Hippenstcel, of North Manchester, and Prof. S. L. Haw es, of Bloomington. sociology. MUNCIE. Ind., Sept. 3. The third term of the Eastern Indiana Normal School opened this morning with an enrollment of about 150. The faculty cnsi.ts of the following instructors this year: President. F. A. Kumler; dean and instructor In psychology ami pedagogy. J. A. Shafer; Greek and German. Prof. M. N. Sherrick; mathematics and science, T. C. Louicks; Latin. Miss Juan Kumler; English and oratory, S. 1. Connor; business. Jam.-s Street; shorthand and t r.ew; rinvr. Mi..Ali B'm.lrr: piaiu. MI. Muttlr U. Kumler and Miss Anlro:i; itarm.iuy. Mr. Mark H'lin; i-e. F. W. Kraft: :na.ni-Ii: a:d orchestral music. E. W. G trrcn. BLUFFT N. Ind.. Sept. .t.Th.- w enacted by th- last legislature rcjulath-s; the salaries of school u. h rs will i-j-!ilt In lb1 shot icoini; : tin- it r:ri of s aou! in lit of tiie ni;u townships of Wells ,iur.-

tv. In ihf icht townships the trustees have cut the tt rm of school from seven months to six months a year. The lncrtasl wages will, even then, it is claimed, result in a deficit of $1.5os jn each township. In Nottingham township tho wages oT teachers increased, on an average, from $1.S to $2.:;"5 a lay. PORTLAND, ind., Sept. Forfst S. Cartw right, of this city, winner ef on of the Eastern Indiana HUh School Oratorical Association contests and nf a State Hih School Oratorical Association contest, left to-day for Toledo. Ia.. where he has been namd as Instructor f rhetoric and oratory in a Liberal United Brethren college, which will have an enrollment this year of live hunflred. ELWOOD, Ind.. Sept. 3.-At the meeting of the City Council last night S. B. Harting was elected. member of the school biani to succeed tho -late D. K. Leeson. The board ha-s Just let the contract for a new fiftcen-thousand-dollar ward building. - DANVILLE. Ind., Sept. S.-The fall term of the Central Normal College opened today with a good atendance. All the regular courses are tilled and indications point to a very successful year. BLACKFORD COI XTY MARL.

Experiments Show that It Is Vuluahlc for Several Wares. l-cci.il to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY. Ind.. S pt. 3. A report from a Zanesville, O.. pdter establishes the fact that the deposits if white marl in this county are f great value. Samples of the clay hal ben sent there to be worked and burned and the result has b en satisfactory. While the clays have only be-n experimentell with in a crude way there is every assurance that much liner products chu be made. With this assurance it is probable that an effort will be made to form a company and manufacture' lay war. There is a number of large tic posits in various parts of the countv. On the J. S. Fulton farm, north of' the city, is a deposit of line white marl over 1 n a r s in cxlcnt. This bd is ten feet deep and lies tinder two feet of top soil. Ex-Postmaster James B. Chapman has experimented with it to u great extent at the Croninger & Merridcth tile mill in this city. He is eertain that it will make excellent tioor tiling and a light edor-d building brick. It is smooth, free from lirt and burns a creamy white. Other leposits of this marl are fouinl -on the farms of ExCounty Commissioner Zadok Williams and He.iry Kirkpatrick. On the Chapman farm, southwest of this eity. is a deposit of black clay over thirty teet in depth, which will make a highlass paving brick the ciual of any made trom shale rek. WHEN SHE WENT AFTER Till. COWS. Failure of the Elopement of a Fnrroer'M Daughter anil Ills Hand.' Sjecl.il to the Indianapolis Journal. DANVILLE Ind., Sept. 2. Bert Annadell worked for Lon Johnson, a farmer. Johnson's daughter and Annadell fell in love, and Sunday evening, when she went after the cows, she met Annadell, and they walked three miles to Danville, where they engaged a rig to tako them to Annadell's mother, who lives in Bridgeport. Soon the father was on their trail, and captured them at Bridgeport, where they represente! themselves as man and wife. Annadell is in jail. AH RESTED IX MIDSTREAM. Ivokomo's Chief of Police Jumped Into Creek After Ills Man. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Sept. 3. Yesterday, during the athletic contests at the ball park, Lon Lyons, of Windfall, broke through the gate with his horse and buggy and drove around the bicycle track, knocking down people. Superintendent of Tolice Taylor started for Lyons, who left his rig ami ran into the creek. The officer followed and arrested him amldstream, both being In to the neck. AV. i. GHESIIAM'S MOTHER. f She Will Celebrate Her Xlnety-Slxtlt Birthday To-Day. LOUIS VI LLE, Ky., Sept. 3. Mrs. Sarah Rumley, the mother of the late Gen. AV. Q. Gresham, will celebrate the ninety-sixth anniversary of her birth to-morrow at her home near Ixinesville, eleven miles west of New Albany, Ind. Mrs. Rumley, who is still active and vigorous beyond her years, has survived all the eight children born to her except Col. "William Gresham. of St. Paul, Minn., and Miss Meade Gresham. ICE CREAM MADE WITH HAIL. A Stortn for the Benefit of n Covington Preacher and His Guests. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COVINGTON, Ind., Sept. 3. The Rev. Isaac Archbood, living south of this city, entertained twenty persons at dinner Monday evening. About 3 o'clock in the afternoon there, was a heavy hailstorm, which furnished ice enough to make Icecream for the whole company. BANKER KEY SEXTEXCED. He Will Serve front Two to Fourteen Years at MIehlf.un City. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HUNTINGTON, Ind., Sept. 3. J. M. Key, the wrecker of the Commercial Bank, of Andrews, was brought into court to-day and upon a plea of guilty of forgery was sentenced for a term ranging from two to fourteen years. He was anxious to have sentence passel upon him. He will be taken to Michigan City next week. HIS FRIEXHS GUARDED JAIL. Cunningham Will He a. Cripple for Life from Evans's Shot. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Sept. 3. John Cunningham, who was shot yesterday by Milton Evans, will recover. One of the bullets went through the knee joint and he will be a cripple for life. Evans Is still in jail, being unable to give bond. The jail last night was guarded by Evans's friends, who feared mob violence. KIDXAPED HER CHILD. 31rs. James Cooper Arrested nt Vlncennes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VINCENNES. Ind., Sept. 3. Mrs. James Cooper was arrested here to-day for kidnaping her daughter Madaline, aged ten years, from the Board of Children's Guardians at Terre Haute. The prisoner and the chihl were ta&en to Terre Haute this evening. Asks for n Receiver. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LA PORTE, Ind.. Sept. 3. Samuel E. Cochrane, a stockholder of the Leslie Lumber Company of Michigan City, to-day made application in Laporte Circuit Court for a receiver, making various charges, the principal one of which is that Guilford Leslie, the principal stockholder, has diverted some of the company's money to his own use. The company has a paid-in capital of $14.900, has been In business a little over a year. and. according to the complaint, the profits the first year were $11, Oto. but no dividend was declared. The mill was recently closd. and Mr. Leslie is nowconducting a pure-food plant at Jackson. Mich. Eltvnod Woman to Build Mausoleum. Special to th Indianapolis Journal. ELWOOD. Ind.. Sept. C. Mrs. Florence Leeson to-elay announced that she had set aside the sum of $r,ono to be expended on the erection in the city cemetery of a fine mauoltum to the memory of her husband, the late l. E. I.eTon. who was one of the cify's leading business men and one of the few thirty-third legree Masons in the State. The contract for the mausoleum is to be let in a few days. e'liHiiRe oh Walnli tHDiiiifr. S;' i (I to tlif indlanapep; Journal. WABASH. Ind.. Sent. 3. T. A. Wildoner. br.?inss manager, and Benjamin Klnerk, "litor of the Wabash Daily and Weekly Tin:; s. one of. the Democratic organs here. )e:.-jcr"ed to-dav and were succeeded In the n.ana.ii-:nent by Charles F. Arthur, lot-

merlv of the North Manchester Teader. The Times is owned by N. G. Hunter, a local attorney.

Asks S?.",eMH for Criminal Assault. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VINCENNES. Ind.. Sept. 3.-Clara Helderman er'ered suit to-day against William Henry Harrison for $',.) for alleged criminal assault. The defendant is a young farmer. The plaintiff is the wife of Willis Helderman. Harrison's tenant. Recently Mrs. Helderman caused Harrison's arrest on the same charge. Munde Man Has Lockjaw. special tr the India na polls Journal. MUNCIE. Ind., Sept. .J. Earl, twentythree years old, son of T. J. Loc kwood, a leaning business man. has lockjaw and there is no hopes of his recovery. Two weeks ago his hand was auht between cylinder rollers i:i his lather's bakery and mashed. Death In Indiana. ROCKVILLE, Ind.. Sept. 3.-W. N. Stevenson is dead at the ag of eighty-one years. He was a dry goods merchant in Rockville for over twenty years. He came from Greencastle to Rockville, and was an active member of the Methodist Church. The burial will be at Greencastle. BROOKLYN. Ind.. Sept. 3 George W. Passmore, a prominent Rtu' cryir.an of this place, died at his home here to-lay of typhoid fever. He leaves a wife and seven children, all married except two daughters. PORTLAND. Ind.. Sept. 3. Philip Phillilts, one of the bcst-knowsi mm of tlse ounty. lied last night at the home of his son-in-law. at Green Postoffice. He was eighty-four years old. WASHINGTON. Ind.. Sept. 3. Roy, the oldest son of John C. B. Bülheim!-, died this afternoon of pe ritnitis. He was twenty-three years ld. The funeral will be Thursday afternoon. WABASH. Ind.. Sept. 3.-Mrs. 1'wis Stoops, aged forty, living on the Mikesell farm, four miles northwest of tho city, was found dead in bed this morning at 5 o'clock. Indiana .Votes. VALPARAISO. Dr. B. B. Freeman, one t the oldest practitioners in Laporte and Porter counties, is critically ill at hi? home in the city. While attending a patient a few days ago he re ceived a paralytic stroke and phsicians say he cannot recover. Dr. Freeman was prominent in G. A. R. circles, his lecture. "The Rock of Chickamagua," beinjr delivered in many cities. At Knox Tuesday Mrs. Cora Gentry, of Knox, and Theodore Gullen, of Indianapolis, both deaf mutes, were united in marriage. The sign language was used in the ceremony. Mrs. Julia E. Work. In charge of the Northern Indiana Orphans' Home, has been placed on the committee for the care of the tlependent children of the National Council of Women to represent the State of Indiana. MORRISTOWN. The Town Board, at a special meeting Monday night, passed a new gas ordinance to take place of the one' repealed at the last meeting of the boanl. and the gas company will begin at once the laying of its mains. The new ordinance provides for a compromise price of $1.75 for cook stoves and an average price of $2.21 for heaters for seven months. NORTH VERNON. Frank L. Clifford, engineer of the electric light plant and superintendent of th water plant, has resigned. RH x. Marus, oiuncilman for the Second ward, who recently tendered his resignation, has reconsidered the matter at the suggestion of his Republican supporters and again taken his place in the councllmanic chamber. WABASH. Frank W. Morse, after thirfour years of service with the First National Bank of this city, has retired from the position of cashier of that institution. Mr. Morse entered the , bank's employ as bookkeeper in 1C7. He becomes vice president of the new Farmers' and Merchants' Bank, which will open for business Sept. 15. RICHMOND. The wedding invitations Issued by O. B. Eikenbury, of Eaton, O., for the marriage of his daughter Bertha to Sheridan E. Mills, of this city, Sept. 11. have been recalled, owing to the illness of the bridegroom with scarlet fever. CRAWFORDSVILLE. The first brick In the new $10,kX Masonic Temple was laid Tuesday by Major L. A. Foote, the oldest member of Montgomery lodge. No. 50. He was assisted by the young tons of W. W. White and W. W. Goltra. PORTLAND. Thomas E. Borden has been arreste! on two warrants, based on granl jury indictments, which chargel that he obtained the signatures of John Branstetter and Charles E. Bishop to a note for $20 by false pretenses. UNION CITY. While assisting in barnraising near here Tuesday Charles Daily, a bachelor, fifty years eld. was hit on the head by a heavy timber and received injuries which are thought to be fatal. COVINGTON. The Eighty-sixth Indiana Regiment Volunteer Infantry will hold its thirty-sixth reunion here Oct. 1. Gen. George F. Dick and Gen. J. R. Carnahan will attend. O. Boord Is secretary. BLOOMINGTON. Carl Jackson, a wellknown young man of Ellettsville, was instantly killed Tuesday in a lead mine at Smithvllle, Mo. His body will be brought home for burial. ROCKPORT. A large barn on the farm of E. R. Payne, three miles south of Rockport, burned Monday night. About eighty tons of hay were destroyed. Loss, JL, insurance, $l,3w. MUNCIE. Richmond and Muncle colored Odd Fellows held their annual basket picnic in Whlteley Park Monday, three hundred colored people coming from Richmond on a special train. KNOX. Center township voted on the construction of thirteen miles of stone roads Tuesday, and the election was four to one in favor of building the roads. ELKHART. Judge J. II. Baker has appointed Attorney George H. Harper, of Goshen. United States commissioner, vice C. D. Sherwln, of Goshen, resigned. SELLERSBURG. William McKeand. local agent of the Prudential Life Insurance Company, was assaulted and robbed of $50 Monday night. MEDIATION OFFER. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) Except for these precautionary measures of defense the country is described as being in a state of complete peace. The new minister from the United State, Mr. Bowen, had arrived at Laguayra, from which point he had been escorted on a special train to the capital. Aug. 21 had been set for the presentation of his credentials to President Castro. The Venezuelan papers give Mr. Bowen a cordial welcome. They also print with favorable comment a letter from President McKinley to President Castro acknowledging the receipt of notice of Castro's choice as provisional President and expressing hopes for a long continuance of friendly relations between the United States and Venezuela. Letter front President Castro. NEW YORK. Sept. 2.-E. Gonzales Esteves, the Venezuelan consul general here, received to-day a brief personal letter from President Catro informing him that the President considered that affairs were in good condition in Venezuela. A translation of the letter, which was in Spanish, follows: "J have received your letter of the yth Inst, and have noted all the matters of which you speak. Since the last information that we have communicated by cable there have been no occurrences worthy of mention, either on the frontier or in the rest of the republic. Events are progressing most favorably." Xovr Im the Time for Reprisal." CARACAS. Venezuela. Sept. 3. The Repubiica, semi-official organ of the government, published to-day an inspired article ending as follows: "The hour for notes has passed, and the time for action has arrived. Diplomacy has laid before the world the just reasons which its has had and has for asking compensation for the grievance? it has suffered. It has exhausted all the means at its disposal for settling threatening questions between nation and nation. We have waited long enough. Now is the time for reprisals." Veterinarians In Convention. ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.. Sept. 2. -The thirt y-elshth annual meeting of the American Veter'nary Medical Associationof the United States begun here to-day with several hundred veterinarians present. The sessions will continue until the -nd of the week. On Friday a surgical dinic will be hold in a big tent erected on the lawn of or.e of the hotels. The officers pre-nt are: President, Dr. Tate Butler, Raleigh. N. ('.; secretary. S. Stewart. Missouri, and treasurer, William H. Lowe, New Jersey. - The executive committee of the National Association of Manufacturers will meet in Philadelphia to-day t consider the advisability of calling a convention of the association for the purp' "f memorializing Congress to revi.-e th present tariff laws nd to encourage reciprocity treaties with other countries.

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TREY DEMAM) WAGE IMREASE HIXMXG IP TO HMJ PER CENT. 3Iost of the Employes of the StaneliM'd Company Arc Said to Have Struck I HI on I its Sued. PITTSBURG. Sept. 3. A new strike Is on. It is that of the chainmakers. They refisMl to go to work to-day and the strike is claimed to be widespread. The men demand an increase of wagos. The advance asked for in the Pittsburg district averages 2i per cent., and in tho East the alvance asked runs all the way from I to h0 per cent., depending on the kinds of chains made. The strike has been started by the Chainmakers National Union of the United States. The works of the Pittsburg Chain Company we r' idle to-day. The plant has been working night and lay. running sixteen lires on each turn. At the offices of the company the strike was termed a "hurry, "' and it was predktod the nun would return to work in a few days. Moreover, it was claimed that a number of new men had bem se-iurcd to take the places of the id rike rs. About 12, chainmakers employe! in the plant f the Standard Chain Company, at Rankin, also went on strike to-day. The move hal b-en anticipated ami the re-n.-ainiler f the plant is working as usual. 'lte officials issert that the chainmaking le partment will also be starte! in a few days. About 175 men struck at Columbus, O. A telegram from ork. Pa.. says: "Ninety-six chainmakevs struck this morning at the two plants of the Standanl Chain Company, in this city. They lemanded a scale of wages entailing an aelvanco of 35 per cent. The shops arc still running with a reduced force." TRADES I XIOMSTS SI Ell. t Employers Want Damages Because I'lants Were Picketed. SWANSEA, Wales, Sept. 2.-A commotion was caused at to-day's session of the trales union congress here by the action of some employers in endeavoring to recover damages, under the House of Lords decision of July 22 last, from labor organizations fr picketing by their unions. A delegate from Blackburn was served with a writ yesterday restraining him and the members of the Blackburn branch of the Weavers', Winders' and Warpers' Association, from picketing Banister & Moore's works, where a strike is now in progress. Damages and costs were claimed. Besides this suit the Ta ff-Vale Railway is suing the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants for 1:20,0 ) damages, Incurred as a result of the strike of lf00. These suits will be strenuously iefenled, but their seriousness puts In the shade almost every other tpic of discussion. President Bowerman to-day devoted the principal of his address to this topic, declaring that union funl3 were threatene! with demolishment, and that the position was intolerable. He said the parliamentary committee favoreel an alteration of the constitution of the union with the object of minimizing their liability. Packing House Men May Strike. CHICAGO, Sept. 3. A strike of 17,000 skilled workingmcn In the packing trades throughout the country is threatened. The last day for the packing firms to give an answer to the recent demand of the butchers ami meat dressers for an increase of 10 per cent, in the present scale of wages expired to-night. President Michael Donnelly, of the Amalgamate Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen's Association, announced to-night that he would try to secure a definite reply to-morrow from J. Ogden Armour, of Armour it Co., and Gustavus Swift, of Swift & Co. Among the signs regarded as omlnious of a strik-? is the fact admitted to-night by Mr. Donnelly that a large hall is being sought In the stockyards district as a headquarters for the Feven h"eal unions, numbering 3,000. That no ultimatum has yet been issued was made clear by President Donnelly. But he did not conceal that he has been disappointed at the failure of the packers to answrer within the stipulated time the demand for a revision of the wage scale on the basis of the 10 per cent, increase. Stationary Engineers. ROCHESTER, N. Y., Sept. 3. Over 1.000 delegates and alternates were present when President D. H. Leahy, of New York city, called the twentieth annual convention of the National Association of Stationary Engineers to order in the Council Chamber, City Hall, to-day. The most important subject to come up for discussion probably will be the question of whether the association shall be resolved into a big labor organization or maintain Independence and freedom from labor entanglements. There are 347 lodges, with a membership of 20,000 in the association. In connection with the convention there is a machinery exhibit on a grand scale in Fitzhugh Hall, and most of the big machinery manufacturers in the Unuited States have sent exhibits. Union Sued for Damages. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3. The Taclflc Coast Steamship Company has begun suit in the Circuit Court to recover damages to the extent of $2ö,onn, which it alleges to have sustained by the? strike of its firemen and sailors. The fuit is brought against the Pacific Marine Firemen's Union and the Sailors' Union of the Pacific coast. This is the first suit commenced in the pending local labor war by any employer claiming to have signed an agreement with a labor union, and its outcome will be watched with interest. Jones Resumes with Xonunionlsts. COLUMBUS, O., Sept. 3. The Press-Post resumed publication with a nonunion force entire, to-day, after a suspension of ten days. Trouble occurred between the management and the Newswritcrs' Union over the alleged repudiation of the contract with the writers, a lock-out took place and the mechanical departments followed the discharged men. New men were finally secured and the paper made its appearance again to-day. General Inliir Xews. Salaried employes of the American Tin Plate Company in the Wheeling district were yesterday ordered by telegraph to report to Cambridge to help operate the plant there. It Is said all will obey the order. After being on strike for nearly four months the 400 car-repairers in the Ashley shops of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, yestenlay reported for work. All will not be taken back, as a number of newmen have been employed. The organized electrical workers of Pittsburg ami Allegheny went on strike yesterday because of their failure to enforce a wage demand on ten days' notice. The result is that all building operations hinging on the completion of the electrical work are tied up. John T. Butler, of Buffalo, president of the National Association of Allied Building Trades Unions, stated yesterday that there was positively no truth in the story that the executive council of the American IYderalion of Labor h id he!d a confen-nce in Buffalo Monday night, relative to the big steel strike. As a result of a mall vote of the members of the International Assoiation of Cigar .Makers it has been deid d to postpone for thn-e years, or until Sept. 1. 1:'4. the convention which wvs to have h.-en hdl in Baltimore next week. The vote was taken luring the last two weeks in August, and the result has jut been announced. Commercial TrHeler Picnic. The commercial travelers of Indianapolis have ngag"d Washington Park for Saturday. Sept. 14. and will give a picnic. There will be a big ball same between the two teams composed of the Fats and the Leans. There -will also be a foot ra e for a silver cup between Riley Hunt and Walter Linlley. distance, seventy-five yards. Harry Halderman will be th captain of the Fls and will occupy first base, while Willie Murphv will captain the Leans and plav left field. Sam Smith. Morrl O'Connor. Charles Albrecht and Johnnie Madden will do the twirling, while Dick Smith and Pete Trone will do backstop work. The boy

have got together the best talent possible In Indianapolis, and there will be a good game. Tom Potter and Charles Roth have been engaged as chief rooters, while W. 11. Watkin. manager of the park, has agreed to umpire4, provided the boys will furnish him with a coat of armor, sword ami pistol. This will insure, fair play, as "Watty" will stand no foolishness. Every one 1- invited. The admission will be 25 cents. The Commercial Travelers have played every year for charity, and the proceeds this year will go to a charitable institution. THREE CHINESE PERISH.

One is Killed by Jumping to the Street nnd Three Are Suffocateel. NEW YORK. Sept. S.-Three Chinese lost their lives In a lire on Pell street, in the heart of Chinatown, to-day. One of them was instantly killed by jumping from the third floor to the street. The other two, were found on the fourth fioor after the flames were subdued. They had ben suffocated. The damage to the building, which was used as a restaurant and lodging house, was about $23.000. Other Fires. ALLENTOWN. Pa.. Sept. 3.-The plant of the Lehigh Foundry Company, at Fullertown. Pa., was totally destroyed by fire to-day. Loss. $.Vi.c0o; insurance partial. The structure was new, ami was fully ciuippel, employing 400 men. The company will rebuild.NEWMAN. 111.. Sept. 2.-The fire which this morning threatene! to lestroy the business portion of the town was confined to ten frame buildings, the most important being a restaurant, butcher shop ami the electric-light office. The fire started in the restaurant. Loss. $10.1". well insured. HANCOCK. Mich.. Sept. 3. Fire to-day destroyed the sawmills of ArmstrongThilmän Company here. Loss, $l).ve partiallv insured. In addition to the buildings burned the entire summer's cut of hardwoid. pine and finished lumber was destroycil. CALUMET. Mich.. Sept. 3. Fire in the business portion of South Lake Linden burned over marly one block, and caused a loss of km. TRAMP STRUNG UP. Tortured Into Confessing He Tried to AsbuiiH a Little Girl. WEEPING WATER. Neb.. Sept. 3. Edward M. Llngell, the tramp who attempted an assault on the four-year-old daughter of Walter Perry, near this place, Saturday, was twice strung up to a telegraph pole yesterday afternoon by irate citizens, made to confess his crime, and then turned loosei and warned to leave the country at once. After the first suspension Llngell was lowered before he was seriously hurt. He was allowei to pray and send word to his mother, and was then haule! up a second time. He was left snsnended until almost uncon scious, when he was again lowered. On further examination the crowd determined that Llngell was not right mentally, and,after making him take an oath to leave the country at once, he was released. DR. CALDAS QUARANTINED. Yellow Fever Expert froui Culm "ot Permitted to Land. NEW YORK, Sept. 3. Among the passengers who arrived to-day by the steamef Mexico from Havana was Dr. P. Caldas, the Brazilian who went to Havana to test a yellow-fever serum of his own discovery. Dr. Caldas says he had yellow fever at Bio de Janeiro thirty years age), but was unable to produce evidence to that effect. He failed to satisfy the sanitary authorities at Havana that he was immune from yellow fever and therefore they refused to issue to him a certificate which would pass him through quarantine. He was sent to Hoffman island for observation. Dr. Caldas. through an interpreter, said he would embark on the first steamer for Brazil. NEW CONSTITUTION ADOPTED. Only Twelve Alnhnmiaii Voted Against It People Mnst Ratify It. MONTGOMERY. Ala., Sept. 3. The newConstitution was adopted in the constitutional convention to-day by a vote of 132 to 12. Frank S. White, of Jefferson, was the only Democrat who voted against it. Alabama's new Constitution will go Into effect as soon as ratified by the people. This morning the new Constitution was' read at length from the parchment copy and afterwards delegates came forward and signed their names to it, alphabetically. The convention adopted resolutions authorizing Governor Jelks to spend $1.000 in giving publicity to the new Constitution. FRAGRANT in a handy Patent Box (new) S0Z0DONT LIQUID - 25c Urge LIQUID and POWDER. 75c At all Stores, or by Mail for the price. HALL & RUCKEL, NEW YORK 66 Dumb as an Oyster .99 is an old, old saying. It is not applicable to Indiana. Every oyster sold in this market, whether fried, broiled, escalicped, raw or in the stew, asks for ' , : The Taggart Butter Cracker This great cracker is sold by all good grocers. A A The Parrot tTaggart COMFORT AND EASE Have your vehicles fitted with Kelley SpriatHeld RIBBER TIRfcS. They wear like tet-l. und make rldins: dellulitlul. Tin s Mipplicd and put on at the factory. D. B. SULLIVAN, 130 S. Capital Ave. I'bone-O!d l-'N New '.Tri. Pl'.YSICIAM. II. O. I. FEICTCII Id KKSIDFZNCE 1023 North Pcnnityiirania lft. OFFICE Hi South Meridian rtrtL Office Hours 9 to 10 . m. : 2 to 4 p. m ; 7 to I p m. Telephon Offle. 90f7; reslJne. 47. Lest You Forget We Say It YetUneeda Biscuit

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