Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 249, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1901 — Page 4

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LOUIS Union News Company. Union Depot. WASHINGTON'. D. C Biggs House. Ebbltt House and Wlllard's Hotel The condition of the city treasury seems to afford a campaign topic of much interest. Candidate Magulre can escape a Rood deal o' trouble if he does not write a letter of acceptance. 1 With the movement to impeach the chief of police the woes of the Taggart regime accumulate. .Mayor Taggart advocated a sinking fund a;few months ago. Such a fund should be created to pay off his temporary loans temporary, because they are renewed every ninety days. vith the regular duties of his office, his ePTorts to obtain money to meet current expenses and his contentions with the Council and Mr. Bookwalter, Controller Dunn must be leading a strenuous life. As Missouri is bound to have a Democratlc senator why not continue Mr. Vest? lie is a model of the hide-bound variety arid he is entertaining when he speaks. Two such qualifications in one man are rare. The Republican councilmen should conn-It able lawyers to ascertain whether or not they have authority to vote the money the controller asks for; if they have they should do it, but if they have not their duty M c.Vor. Mr. Bryan was right when he said in Ids Lhbor day speech that the American people did not want him as a "ruler." As a matter of fact, the American people do not want any man to be their "ruler." The word applies to absolute monarchies. If the telegraph in small and densely populated Great Britain is operated by the government at a heavy loss, government management In this country would be as iure a source of bankruptcy on a wide scale as the Taggart regime In this city is on a small scale. Word comes from Richard Croker that he is eo passionately fond of rural life in Great Britain that he hopes to settle down there. If the anti-Tammany people are fairly In earnest Mr. Croker will be relieved from the cares incident to Tammany's sway In New York city. The crowds now visiting the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo are making up for the light attendance during the early months of the season. The idea of a PanAmerican exhibit was a happy one. and the success of it will tend to a better acquaintance of the people of America. The objection to the Constitution which tho convention has prepared for Cuba Is that it makes the President very much of a dictator, as do the constitutions of most of the South and Central American republics. The discovery of this danger has led the conservative element to desire annexation. J : The opposition to the policy of having Congress furnish a large anuunt of money for different kinds of world's and smaller exhibitions should not be encouraged. If the thing goes on. State fairs will be asking government aid and small towns will attempt to boom themselves by international expositions. One afternoon a report was started that the Ohio Democratic committee had lnvit'd Mr. Bryan to take part in the campaign. The next morning that committee announced that Mr. Bryan had not been Invited, and that the Ohio Democrats would depend on home talent, but the first told story is yet going the rounds of the press. The German press Is troubled over the expressions of Vice President Roosevelt relative to the Monroe doctrine. They are the same views that most Americans hold, but those editors cannot see why tho United States ehould be interested in keepIn? European nations from acquiring terri- "' tory In South and Central America unless v the United States Intends to take possession of It. Because of the lax methods of many gtardians cf pensioners the Interior Department issued an order some time since requiring guardians to report their disbursements to the government at Washington. This rule Is causing some complaint, but It ehould not, since tho party that IT rant & pension or bounty has a right to know If the peron to whom it is granted receives It. President Shaffer has made another blunder In rejecting the proposition of the president of the Steel Corporation by which ail the mill.-J the union wat able to do.-e fhall remain union and thoe which showed an average output and a fair proportion ef their men at work shall be considered nonunion. Mr. Shaffer will not coni.jr an7 proposition except the full, recognition

of the union, thus rejecting the proposals which other labor leaders are said to regard as reasonable. Just now about everybody except Mr. Shaffer and a few of his associates see that his light is lost, yet he insists upon terms which only a victor could propose. At all points about Pittsburg the Steel Corporation Is gaining, even in McKeesport, where the mayor has taken the side of the strikers. When it is understood that all the men who are members of the Amalgamated Association can have their jobs and that the mills which have been union could remain so if President Shaffer had not objected there is reason to believe they will soon take their places in spite of Mr. Shaffer. FREEDOM OF DISCI SSION. Before the last Congress adjourned, Representative Babcock, of Wisconsin, a member of the ways and means committee, after consulting not a few of his associates in the House, presented a bill putting certain iron products on the free list. The Journal does not undertake to say whether the measure was wise or not, but does say that the criticism .Mr. Babcock received has. In a large measure, been unjust. Few men have done more for the Republican organization in recent years than has Mr. Babcock as chairman of the Republican congressional committee. But because he presented this bill the good service is forgotten, his motives are impugned, his loyalty to his party Is questioned, and trade journals which are not Republican have threatened to prevent the re-election of Speaker Henderson unlesä he shall pledge himself to drop Mr. Babcock from the next committee on ways and means. Such attacks upon Mr. Babcock are at war with the traditions of the Republican party, lirst set forth in the words, "free soil, freo speech and free men." Free discussion of measures has always been accorded Republicans, eo long as those discussing them accept the final decision of the party for the time being. Time and time again Republicans have offered amendments to tariffs enacted by Republican Congresses. The late Representative Dingley is reported to have expressed the opinion that the present tariff law should be amended as the conditions of trade and industry might require, without general revision. The Dingley tariff was suited to the conditions at the time it was enacted, but that was four years ago four years in which the most wonderful changes have occurred. During these four years It has been demonstrated that the producers of iron and steel In the cruder forms can make the world's prices. In 1S94 Mr. Carnegie expressed indifference as to a tariff on his products. It has been asserted time and again that the United States Steel Corporation does not care whether there is or is not a tariff on its chief products. In this connection, so far as they relate to the cruder forms of iron and steel, the schedules of the Dingley law are essentially those of the Gorman-Wilson act. The fact that the extensive combinations made in the manufac ture of iron and steel have enabled the American producer to

compete in the markets of the world without protection is reason why a Republican may favor a modllication of the duties; on such products which were established in liy, without being denounced as a traitor to his party. There is another consideration. It has been asserted and not denied that the United States Steel Corporation has offered to deliver steel billets In a British seaport for $10 a ton less than they are sold In New York. If this Is the case, it would seem to be in the Interest of tens of thousands of manufacturers in this coun try who use crude iron and steel as a raw material that some legislation be adopted which will deprive the British competitor in the manufacture of goods made of steel billets of an advantage of $10 a ton In his raw material. If the duty on billets were 13 or 20 per cent., or if they were on the free list, those sold in England at $10 a ton less than those sold In New York could be reimported for home consumption. At any rate, it might prevent the selling of American billets abroad for three-fourths the price demanded here. The Journal is not advocating such legislation, because it does not fully understand the bearing it would have, but it holds that the Republican congressman who suggests such legislation is none the less a party man ar.d does not deserve the aspersions which certain high tariff rather than Republican publications have made against him and the threats they have made to influence Speaker Henderson. Many congressmen have declared that there is no demand for such legislation. If they would go about among their constituents seeking their opinions upon this subejet rather than declaring to them that no change is wanted, It is more than possible they would discover that they are self-deceived. With a surplus of $b642,62S for the month of August against a net deficiency last year of $4,800,000 in July and August before the repeal of the stamp taxes it looks as if the next Congress might be able to make another cut. The gain is due to the decreased expenditures of the government in the Philippines and to the failure of Congress to pass a river and harbor appropriation bill. Talking of surpluses, what a surprise such a thing would be in the Taggart treasury! If any one had said, when Charles A. Towne made his last speech against the money power, corporations and trusts, that during the next year he would be the head of an octopus and before , a Legislature urging that tho gross receipts of oil corporations should not be taxed 2 per cent., his friends would have denounced the prediction as a vile slander. That is just what Mr. Towne has been doing. If the loans can be made upon the value of the taxable of the city upon which the next levy will be made current dues can be paid; if not, creditors must wait. Whether loans can be made for the present year based upon the valuation of next yertr is a question for lawyers. Nevertheless, no one can fall to see that the financiering of the city by the Taggart regime has come to a humiliating stage. The Strike nntl Ordinary Laborer. Railway Age. One of the most trud features of a strike by an organization of skilled workmen is the fact that it abandons the unskilled laborers who are not members of the union to unaided idleness and want. With a thousand highly paid members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, tftfel and Tin Workers in a given ndli, there may be 3.". or more unskilled workmen, earning the common laboring man's wages, whet are not admitted to the privileges and protection of the great organization. When a strike throws all these thousands Into enforced idleness the union men are immediately made the recipients of "strike benefits," raised by levying upon those member who are allowed to remain at work in order to support their striking brethren. B it the far greater number of.

men whose occupation is taken away without action of their own are abandoned to their fate. The union usually has more than it can do. in a great strike, after the speedy exhaustion of the war fund in the treasury, to support its members, even for the period of thirteen weeks, to. which strike benefits are usually limited. It must not take its children's bread and give it to the humble attendants outside the gate of the lodge, and their sufferings must not be considered when the rights of the union are In contest. If, as is claimed, the labor union i? the expression of a philanthropic and unselfish spirit toward its members. It seems, on the other hand, to manifest an intensely selfish and unfeeling spirit toward humanity at large, when it votes want and misery upon others far greater in numbers and more needy than those for whom they are sacrificed. Here seems to he a rerious defect in the principle of trade unionism, commonly illustrated, which no platitudes about "lighting for labor's rights" and "fighting for our personal liberties," can cover or cure. The reasons for a strike need to be very urgent to justify its leaders in bringing calamity upon the manv for the assumed benefit of the few. Such reasons are conspicuously wanting in the present steel strike.

FROM HITHER AND YON. After Meetln. Atlanta Constitution. "Br'er William say he want te-r go ter glory in a cherryoot er tire." "Yes, he want ter git 'climated To' he gits dar." The Main Point. Life. He I am afraid my religious views are not the same as yours, dear. She That need not necessarily make any difference. We both belong to the same golf club. Wome Vet. Puck. Mother If you marry him in haste you will repent at leisure. Daughter Well, I can't bear to think of any other girl repenting at leisure with him. Not rioston. Boston Herald. Some years ago a Boston woman died, and her husband, who was a strong Spiritualist, desired to hold communication with her. He asked "If she was happy." "Oh, yei," was the response. "I'm happr here. Yet, after all, it isn't Boston." - Soli of the Asphalt Ganj. I wukkin hahd en I wukkln longSen dem clock han's roun. I poundln good en I poundin' strongSen dem clock han's roun. Oh, bring dat stone en bring dat san. En roll it hyah ter de wukkln man, En dis day's wuk all I can stan' Sen dem clock han's roun'! I wuk las week twell I got mah paySen' dem clock han's roun'. I got mah UT ol dollar-er-day Sen dem clock han's roun. I roll dem bones, en dey don't roll right, I done th'ow monkeys en hab er fight. But I gwine th'ow sebben termorrer nightSen dem clock han's roun! Oh, wuk like dis hit aln no funSen dem clock han's roun. Hut de money nice w'en I is doneSen' dem clock han's roun. Oh. bring dat asphalt down de line. En roll her smoove twell she lookln fine Termorrer night t rolls fer mine Sen dem clock han's roun'! W. D. N'esbit. In Baltimore American. TOPICS OF METHODISTS SOUTH AFRICAN AVAR DISCUSSED AT ECUMENICAL CON F EltENCE. .MesssgeR from the Archbishop of Canterbury mid the Rlshop of London Not Head. LONDON, Sept. 5 The Ecumenical Methodist Conference to-day unanimously declined to hear the secretary read the message of the Archbishop of Canterbury, in which he expressed a hope that some day the Methodists would be united with the Episcopalians, and on similar import, the message of the Bishop of London, on the ground that they had been addressed to the editor of a religious newspaper, and not to the conference. Discussing the position of Methodism, the Rev. T. E. Duckies, of King Williams Town, Cape Colony, said the war would purify the administration of the natives. Bishop Hartzell, missionary bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Africa, said the present time was the beginning of another empire of Anglo-Saxon civilization. The war was merely an incident. Dr. Leonard, of New York, thanked God for what Great' Britain was doing In South Africa, and expressed the hope that the war would soon end with the union jack floating. Most of the time of to-day's ' conference was taken up by reports of the progress of Methodism in the United States, Canada, Mexico and South America. The proceedings were enlivened by an ardent pro-English speech delivered by the Rev. Joseph Gibson, of Ingersoll. Ont.. who defended the action of the British in South Africa. Frequent interruptions arose from the English delegates, one of whom finally declared that if Mr. Gibson proceeded he would have to be answered in a controversial strain, as he was voicing sentiments by no means shared by many present, whereupon the chairman ruled Mr. Gibson out of order. The Rev. J. F. Goucher, of Baltimore, read a paper on "The Present Position of Methodism in the Western Section." The Rev. J. D. Hammond, of Nashville, Tenn., reported on Methodism in the South and the Rev. W. Johnson, of Belleville, reported for Canada. Among the other speakers were Rev. J. P. Rrushingham. of Chicago, and J. W. Butler, of Mexico City. SEARCHING TOR ROBBERS. Arknnsnns Having a Itesnlar Man Hunt in n Wild Country. TEXARKANA, Ark., Sept. 3. The six men who robbed the Cotton Belt train at Eylau Tuesday night are still at large. The bloodhounds which were taken to the scene were of no service, as the trail was dead. The trail of the robbers, however, was struck by W. H. Ward, a Texarkana newspaper man and a member of the sheriff's posse. Ward was accompanied by Yardmaster Taylor, of the Cotton Belt. The men discovered where a horse had been hidden near the company's fence and where a bag of booty is supposed to have betn loaded. It required the efforts 01 two men to carry this bag from the express car to the engine. Ward and Taylor, by the use of a lantern followed the trail several hundred yards and found where six horses had been tied. They kept the trail until it ran past an old mill site on through a blind trail, which was abandoned several years ago. For several miles they followed the blind trail until it entered the main county road- and it was shown that the horsemen heaa?d for Texarkana. Ward and Taylor were exhausted and returned to the main posse. When they reported the entire posse returned here and the trail was abandoned. One of the horses known to have been used by the robbers was found by Ward and Taylor, it being the property of a negro. From this house the rirst start toward the capture of the men who are believed to be implicated was made. News reaches here to-night that the agent at Redwater. seven miles below the scene of the robbery, shot a man who is believed to be one of the bandits. The entire county is swarming with officers who are running down everv clew.

l'rlee of Window (ilnss Ailiniiced. DETROIT. Mich.. Sept. " -About fifty members of the National Window Glass Jobbers Association met here to-day. It was decided to advance the price of window glass 5 per cent., the advance to take effect at onre. Represent 1 ves were present from all the lare jobbing houses located in cities east of the Mississippi rivtr. 4

SPOUTS SALT WATER

ii vim nun city imiospectohs TRICKED I1Y A FREAK. They Supposed the "Well W'n a Ilonanzit and Rushed to Lease Land All Aronnd It. RUNS 500 BARRELS A DAY niT A LOOK IN THE TANK SHOWED FLOW "WAS NOT OIL. A Findlay, O., Married Woman and Dr. Golden, 11 Charlatan, Stirred l p Sonth Ilend. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Sept. 5.-One of the greatest disappointments ever recorded in the Indian oil field is that of the Pierce & Thomas well on the Madison farm near the Wayne paper mill. After being drilled in the well filled up to the top -with crude petroleum. After being shot there was not an oil operator present who did not estimate that it would flow from 100 to 200 barrles a day. Just after the shot the baler got fast in the well and It required several days to dislodge it. "When It was put to pumping and its owners were in a happy frame of mind. On looking Into the tank, it was discovered that the output which flowed so freely was nothing but salt. A head of oil had preceded it. After the lirst showing of the well oil men went alter leases in the heat of the excitement and everything in a radius of three miles that was not already covered by lease was gobbled ud and derricks went up like magic. There was a feeling that an Inexhaustible supply had been tapped, and there was a race to see who would get down the next well. One company has over one hundred acres under lease in the immediate vicinity of the salt water gusher, and the No. 1 well on its lease is 400 feet down. The owners of the salt water gusher also have a rig up for a No. 2 well on the same lease, and another on the lease across the road. Oil men here claim the well Is the greatest freak they ever encountered. C. R. Thomas, one of the owners, says the well is flowing 500 barrels of saltwater a day, and he feels that it may change back to oil as suddenly as it changed to salt water. The outcome of the new wells drilling will be watched with even greater Interest than that of the one Just completed. Sayn Indinnn Field Is Dent. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind., Sept. 5 W. F. Hindman, an oil man from Cartersburg, W. Va., was here to-day looking after the purchase cf oil leases in the Grant county field. Mr. Hindman stated that he believed the prospects of the Indiana oil field are better than those of any other fields now being developed. He has visited the Texas and Bakersfield, Cal., fields, and says he would rather take his chances in Indiana. The present good price of Indiana oil, he says, will likely be maintained indefinitely and may be further increased at no distant date. Mr. Hindman states that the present methods of pumping and piping oil in the local field are expensive and wasteful. He says that under the present system a well must yield at least twenty-five barrels a day in order to pav. while la portions of the West Virginia oil fields wells that pump less than a single barrel of oil a day are paying. This, he says, is due to the fact that several wells are operated by a single pumping engine. ELOPED WITH A "DOCTOR." Flndluy, O., "Womun Took Children with Her to South Ilend. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. DA PORTE, Ind., Sept. 5. Di Francis Golden, who also travels under the names of Dr. Powell and Dr. Bianca, was arrested at South Bend yesterday on complaint of Charles Bradley, of Findlay, O., the charge being that the doctor, who professes to be a faith healer and medium, had enticed the wife of tho complainant from her home. Golden first made his appearance in northern Indiana about a month ago, when he sent a package by registered mail to Michigan City from Fort Wayne. The next day a woman that claimed to be the person whose name appeared on the wrapper called at the Michigan City office and claimed the packet, but the postmaster was not satisfied and refused to surrender it. A man that claimed to be the sender then appeared and offered to tell what was in the package in an effort to get it, and said it contained $1,500 in cash. The postmaster" then referred the matter to the department at Washington, which ordered him to return the package to Fort Wayne, where it was given to Dr. Golden. His arrest brought out the fact that the money, according to Mr. Bradley's story, belonged to him and that he had obtained it by selling property at Findlay and that his wife had taken the bills and disappeared with the clairvoyant. There was another woman in the party and the supposition was that the trio had gone to the Pan-American Exposition, where she was to appear as "Lunette, the Flying Lady." Bradley spent much time searching for his wife and finally found her at South Bend, where the doctor was making arrangements to open a "cafe and healing parlors." Her two children, whom Mrs. Bradley had taken along, she surrendered to her husband, but she refused to accompany him home, preferring to remain with Dr. Bianca. Mr. Bradley dismissed the charges preferred against the couple when his wife consented to give up the children and returned to Findlay. 4 EDI : CATION AI AFFAIR S. Dr. Ilnftftett, of Thomtowii, Deelines Xew Orleans University Presidency. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. THORNTOWN, Ind., Sept. 5. Rev. T. J. Bassett, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, has declined the position of president of the New Orleans University. This is one of the leading colleges of the South. Dr. Bassett feels that his duty lies in devotion to the ministry. This makes the fourth offer of this kind which he has had this summer. He will be returned to his charge here by the Northwest Indiana Conference at Brazil, Sept. 12. Dr. Bassett is best known as former president of De Pauw University. Strict at Terre Hante. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind.. Sept. 5. The Vigo county township trustees have joined the County Board of Education in making more strict the rules under which teachers will be employed in the county schools. Recently the board stipulated that teachers would be employed only on examination or on regular licenses, which meant that many old-timers would be required to pass muster according to latter-day require ments. Now tho trustees have decided that no one will be employed that has not com plete-d a full year work in a professional school lor training leacners. excepting those who have taught two of the past live years. No person will be continued in employment whose time outside of school hours during the term of employment Is nent in other lucrative employment or in preparation to enter other profession or the business worm. Ilon't I.Ike C entral School Sj klein, Special to the Indianapolis Jourr.al. BROWNSBURG. Ind., Sept. a Much dis satisfaction exists among the farmers over the abandonment of the old district schools and the conveying of children to the t t ntral schools. Pttitions have been signed b

nearl$' all the farmers of Lincoln township to put an end to the new system. The farmers say that the children suffer with cold during the long country drives in the winter, and they claim that It costs more to convey the children than it would to pay teachers.

THROAT CUT IN A CORNFIELD. "W. II. Sehnuder, of Piereeton, Married Fire Days. Found Dead. Frlaf: to the Indianapolis Journal. WARSAW, Ind., Sept. 5. The body of William H. Shauder, who lived near Princeton, was found in his cornfield to-day with his throat cut from ear to ear. A corn knife was lying beside him. He was married five days ago and was seemingly happy and contented. He was respected throughout the county. It is not known whether it was a suicide or a murder. Kokonio Pioneer Killed by Trnln. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Sept. 5. William Funk, one of the earliest settlers of this place, was killed by the cars here this morning. He started to his farm, three miles east. and in crossing the Panhandle tracks was struck by the Richmond and Logansport special. He was hard of hearing and almost blind and did not notice the approach of the train. His horse was killed and the buggy torn to pieces. Funk was seventy years of age. He was prominent in Democratic councils for forty years, but at the last election voted for McKinley. A Man Killed nt Liberty. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LIBERTY, Ind., Sept. 5. Thomas Mullin was killed in a runaway accident south of this place yesterday evening. He and others were hauling gravel when two teams became unmanageable. Thomas Dougherty was severely injured. NOT MICH GAS WASTED. State Inspector Leneh at Work In the Marlon Field. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind., Sept. 5. State Gas Inspector J. C. Leach was here to-day, visiting the oil and gas field surrounding this city. He was looking again after the alleged violation of the law intended to prevent undue waste of the fuel gas that Is so much in evidence since the opening of the oil industry in this field. His assistant, Mr. Kennedy, is now moving to this city so that his entire time may be given to watching the oil wells for the unnecessary escape of gas. Mr. Leach said: "No stone Is to be left unturned. A great deal of talk about wholesale violation of the law has its foundation in ignorance and a mere desire to be kicking. The law gives oil men permission to have forty-eight hours in which to confine the gas in a well after the gas is struck. It Is during that first forty-eight hours that the gas pressure is stronger than It will ever be again. The law recognizes the fact that there is a stage in the' proceedings at which confinement of the gas and the prevention of waste are utterly Impossible. With this provision of the law and with several new wells coming in almost daily it will be readily recognized by thoughtful people that it is unavoidable for the air to be strongly redolent of natural gas continually for some distance from the wells, even without any violation of the law. "Another thing, the very persons who are foremost in the oil business are men who are virtually interested in the preservation of the gas supply. Does it stand to reason that they would willfully waste the product that has a cash value to them In addition to the oil? The Marion Gas Company, the Citizens' Gas Company, the Marion Fruit Jar and Bottle Company, the largest oil producers in -this field, are all deeply interested In the gas supply. I do not believe that any of them are willfully wasting it." UNITED IlItETIIltEX. Several Transfers Made and Niue New Churches Reported. Special to the Indianajolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind.. Sept. 5. At the White River Conference, United Brethren Church, in session here, five transfers were made, two from another conference and three from a different denomination Messrs. Boyd and Halstead, from the Miami, O., Conference, and Messrs. Belfry, of the Congregational, E. G. Walk, of the Christian, and A. E. Scotten, of the Methodist Episcopal denomination. Elder J. T. Roberts, of the Marlon district, reported nine new churches dedicated during the year, as follows: At Modoc, C. J. Roberts pastor, cost $3.000; Matthews, F. H. Lynnville, $3,000; Wabash circuit, J. A. Bray, $l,7oo; Rovlestown circuit, M. A. Bobbins. $1.500 and $S00; Elwood and Dundee, C. C. Weimer, $1,500 and $1,000; Alexandria, A. J. Bowers, $000; Kokomo, W. M. Karstedt, $lS.0O0. Newchurches are being built at Greentown, $2.500; Marion, $7.0u0. Total collections of the district were $35,00. an increase of $11.000 over last year. Church improvements aggregate several thousand dollars. The membership has grown very rapidly. The conference has decided to make an additional district. Rev. W. M. Karstedt, of this city, is mentioned as the presiding elder for the new district. Colored Methodists' Meeting. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Sept. 5.-The A. M. E. Conference was opened this morning by Dr. Watson. Dr. Jennifer, secretary of the Connectional Preachers' Aid Society, and W. Henderson, an Indianapolis attorney, were present. The Rev. J. O'Banyon, of the Indianapolis district; the Rev. M. Lewis, of the Evansville district, and tho Rev. C. C. Townsend, of the Richmond district, made reports. W. O. Tyler, of the State University, who won the State oratorical contest, delivered an address this evening on "The Middle West." DEATHS IN INDIANA. A. II. Carlton, of Terre Hante, Whose Career Was Important. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Sept. 5. A. B. Carlton died this morning of malarial fever, at the age of seventy-five years. He had not been in good health for several years, and for two or three years past was blind. He was born in Bedford, and as a boy went to school to the late Richard W.' Thompson, who was a teacher in the Bedford Academy before he moved to Terre Haute in the early forties. Mr. Carlton resigned his position on the bench of the Circuit Court at Bedford in 1S73 to move to Terre Haute and become the law partner of Daniel W. Voorhees. In 1S76 he was elected to the Legislature from this county. President Arthur appointed him a member of the Utah commission created by the Edmunds law, and he held that position for seven years. He leaves a wife, four daughters and one son, the latter a wellknown newspaper man, who was a Washington correspondent for a number of years and now represents a California Press Association in New Y'ork. NOBLES VILLI". Ind.. Sept. 5 Xavi'-r Joseph died suddenly at his home in this city last night of neuralgia of rbv heart, aged seventy-seven years. He was born In Germany and came to this country in 1n5o, locating at first at Louisville. He came to Noblesville In 1SC4 and had lived here ever since. He leaves a widow and six children. The funeral will be held Sunday afternoon. KNIGHTSTOWN, Ind.. Sept. S.-Mr. Faust, the widow of the late Benjamin Faust, died this morning at the Faust home, four miles south of this city. She was sixty-eight years old and leaves a daughter. She was a member of the Christian Church and one of the oldest settlers in that section of th r.junty. MUNC1E. Ind.. Sept. Ü-William Barnhouse, an old resident of Munele, died of paralysis to-day, at the age of seventy years. AFFAIRS OF It It'll MOM). Seven Cane of Smallpox on North Fourteenth Street. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND. Ind.. Sept. 5 M. M. Lat-ey, who was at one time employed by the commissioners cf this county as a tax ferret, now has a claim of over $1.0) for his services. The Gounty Council has refused to appropriate money to pay it and he will bring suit. Henry Webeker. an aged resident of this city, wai struck by a street car this morn

ing and seriously injured. He is deaf and did not hear the car. John R. Gray, son of John E. Gray, of Cambridge City, this county, has been promoted to be commercial agent of the Southern Pacific Railway system at Riverside, Cal. Seven cases of smallpox were discovered in this city this afternoon, and the patients and others exposed, several in number, are now under quarantine. The families in which the cases were found are the Huells. Hamiltons and Nooks, on North Fourteentn street. The disease was brought from Cedarville. O.. by Miss Nettie Hamilton. The Richmond Natural Gas Company is making every effort to renew its gas supply by leasing new territory. Three thousand acres have been leased in Henry. Madison and Hancock counties, and the large pumping station will bo moved from Clietfrtield to the new territory. The company has not found it possible to maintain sufficient pressure in the cold weather for the past few years. FOR DOTTEREirS Ml UDER.

Elmer Hudson Arrested for Complicity and "Warrants Out for Others. Special t the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Sept. 6. Elmer Ilodson, son of former Marshal Hodson, of Greentown, was arrested at that place by Deputy Sheriff Haynes to-night and placed in jail, charged with complicity in the murder of Benjamin Dotterer, who was killed by robbers on Saturday night at his home, three miles east of here. Marshal Scott and Deputy Stanley Cooper also have a warrant for Joseph Parsons, of Galveston, for a part in the same affair, and went to Galveston to-night to arrest him. There are two others implicated, and warrants are out for them. Hodson was identified by the Dotterer family and Is in jail without bail. m STOLE FN I TED STATES NAVY SHOES. Valparaiso Section Man Stnmhled on to a Henp of Plunder. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VALPARAISO. Ind., Sept. 5.-Frank Algrin, of this city, a section man employed on the Grand Trunk, accidentally stumbled upon some stolen plunder yesterday afternoon. While doing his usual work along the tracks near Thornton Junction, he stepped over into the woods, where he noticed a large heap of stuff covered with leaves. He removed the top layer and discovered seventeen cases of shoes. They were consigned to the United States navy. The articles were thrown off a Grand Trunk freight train Wednesday, and it Is supposed the thieves covered up the articles intending to return later. It was discovered Wednesdav evening by the Grand Trunk officials that some freight cars had been entered, but the plunder could not be found until the discovery was fortunately made by Algrin. INSANE W03IAN SAVED MONEY. Mrs. Metcalf, of Terre Haute, Has n, Guardian for Her Investments. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Sept. 5. When Mrs. Minnie Metcalf was taken into custody as an Insane person several years ago there was surprise at finding $700 on her person, as she had been supported by a charity organization. When she was sent to the insane hospital a guardian was appointed and he invested the money in a building and loan association. Mrs. Metcalf was released a year ago and $So0 was handed to her. Last week she again was adjudged insane, but it was taken for granted that she had spent the money. A letter from the authorities of the insane asylum at Indianapolis says that $700 was found in her clothing. The same guardian has been appointed for her. YOUNG "WOMEN ORATORS. Ileunice Howard First and Olive Darnard Second at Greenfield. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENFIELD, Ind., Sept. 5. The annual county oratorical contest occurred at Gant's Opera House In this city to-night. Each of the nine townships and the town of New Palestine were represented by a young woman. The first honor was awarded to Miss Beunlce Howard, of Center township, her subject being "Countries," and the second to Miss Olive Barnard, of Green township, whose subject was "Nobility." The decision was satisfactory to the audience. There was a very large attendance. TYPHOID AT OLDENIIL'RG. Forty Cases of Fever and One Death in the Convent. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BATES VILLE, Ind., Sept. 5. Typhoid fever in a most malignant form has set in at the convent at Oldenburg, three miles north of here. Forty cases und one death are reported. Health officers are making an investigation. Kankakee Valley Doetors. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VALPARAISO, Ind., Sept. 5. The annual meeting of the Kankakee Valley District Medical Society was held at Plymouth yesterday. Forty physicians were in attendance. The next meeting will be held at Rochester the second Tuesday in December. The following officers were elected: President, Dr. Wm. Kelsey. of Monterey; vice president, Dr. G. W. Glazebrook, of Knox; secretary. Dr. Huffman, of Rochester; treasurer. Dr. Grove, of Rochester; board of censors. Drs. Hill, of Logansport. Loring. of Valparaiso, and Aspinall, of Plymouth. Long; Trestle nt Marion. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION. Ind.. Sept. 5. The plans for the C, R. &. M.'s Railroad through this city are complete. The crossings are to be overhead. The bi? trestle that will carry the road through the heart of the city will begin just east of the Big Four tracks, near where the line crosses the tracks of both the Big Four and Clover Leaf, and the other end will be just west of Gallatm street a 2.10O foot, continuous trestle with an average height of eighteen feet. Tue streets crossed will be Adams, Washington, Boots and Gallatin. Crawford County Officials Settle. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ENGLISH. Ind.. Sept. 5. The County Commissioners listened to the defense made by ex-Sheriff Ballard and ex-Auditor Fleming to-day regarding tho shortage found against them recently. A settlement was reached. Mr. Fleming paying into the treasury $1.500 and Mr. Ballard $72:. The investigation showed thru Fleming was short $2,477 and Ballard $59. Many of the taxpayers are indignant over the big slice taken off the Fleming account. Telephone War nt North Manchester. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NORTH MANCHESTER. Ind., Sept. 5. The Ed River Telephone Company has be,-.i organized here. It is the outgrowth of deferences among the stockholders of the North Manchester Telephone Company, several of whom withdrew from the company for the purpose of organizing an opposition company. The new company lias strong financial backing, and a lively telephone war is looked forward to by the citizens of this place. Miiucic Man Hurt nt Nohlesville. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NOBLESVILLE. Ind.. Sept. 5. C. Graves, aged twenty-three years, whose home is at M uncle, was struck by a gravel train on th" Midland Railway thi afternoon two miles west of this citv. His left foot was crushed and was amputated later. He wa. sent to his home In Muncie. Decatur Count) Ta I.e . Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENSIU'RG. Ind.. Sept. 5.-The County Council to-day fixed the county tax ley nt 42 cents on $!''. which indudts 7 ei;t for the county bond fund. Tbl, is cuts less than the levy made Inst year. The estimates of expenses by the different county officers were not m ttrh.lly changed. Hurt Himself Instead of the Cow. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAFTE. Ind.. Sej t 5.-Jarn s Johnson, at Athcrton, in this county, will

not agHhi o.n strike a cow with a milking stool. Becoming impatient with the lr.i;y be wa tnilklnir. he raised lh- M.d ocr Ids he-id to strike the anim.'il. bur" the bs of the st.ol caught in the Umh 'f a tret and his shoulder wh dislocated' ciusing him intense suffering fr twlve hour before a surgeon could put his .-hulder i:i place.

Indiana Notes. ELWOOtV "harle Secrest. of Alnsk.. Ind.. received scri-cis injuries in-an accident at the phUe gl.iss works In this city Thursday. 1 While working 0:1 a iiddT hslipped and fell backward to the ground, a distance of fifteen f. et. His right leg was dislocated. Fre.1 Bowers, a former eipploye ,f t;!f Pittsburg Plate Glass Company in this city, has riled suit against the company for $i j rsonal damnges. (Nearly a year at h-' wa injured in an accident in the factory n,i he alleges that he was p rmanctitly, crippled. COVINGTON. The Eighty-sixh Regiment Indima Volunteers will hlld a teunion here Oct. 1 and 2. Gen. George F. Dick anei (Jen. J. It. Carnahan will le!ir addresses.: A joint reunion of th.r soldiers of the civil war and the Spanish-American war will le held at l.odl tn Sattirdav. A. F. White 'and B. S. Alkman wfll spik. Another Fountain county poy'i;i Rice drew a ejuarter section of land in Oklahoma. Mr. Rice lives in Hillrboro and received his certificate on Wednesday. DUBLIN. State Organizer Helt. of the Anti-saloon League, will conduct a week's crusade at Cambridge City -Sept. 16. Th? district schools of this Jackson townvhip will open Sept. .. Trustee Penny announces the following ;teachei: Anna Miller and Daisy Petty, dif'trh-t No. 1 (Penn il'ei: Una Beard. No. 2 Kiser'si; H. S. .Scheidler. No. 3 (Scheidler'M; pearl MeCray. No. 4; Bande Dill and Mit-s Maude Doty (East Germantown.) VALPARAISO.-Mrs. Sarah Kt eney, of lie ar Plymouth, who was attacked bv a sow and severely bitten a few davs ko. died from the .effects. T,eVi Bivant. e,f Laporte oiunty. a photographer, is suffering from a severe case of blood poisoning. He recently tore a hang nail troin one of his lingers, and later dipped the finger Into acid, with' the result that his system became poisoned. KNIGHTSTOWN. At the fourth annual Ogden reunion Wednesday the following ofticers were deleted: James Mortitt. president; Henry Wiggins, vice president; Miss Mayme Griifin. treasurer, and J. .'. Cooper, of Greenfield, secretary. Ahetut peetpie were present. Rev. William Grose, of Springfield O., who preached in the village a thirel of a century' ago. rcspomled 10 the address of welcome. MONTI C ELLO. The first spar of the new steel bridge that the Morion 'Railroad is building over the Tipjteeanoe river at this place was swung into position Thursday. The bridge will have five sjtans and will be 571 feet in length, the rails being eighty feet above the water. RIDGEVILLE. At a special 1 meeting Wednesday night the Iteianl etf trjiste'es of Ridgeville passed the ordinance granting a franchise to the Eastern Indiana Traction Company through the town, thu closing the last link In the Interurban litue from Richmond to Portland. I TERRE HAUTE. The internal revenue collections for the Seventh district for August were exceptionally large for a midsummer month, the total being Sl.itD.OM. of which $1.252,0o2 was from the tax !n spirits at the two distilleries here and the one at Vincennes. CRAWFORDSVILLE. Tho LlndVn Hotel at Linden,-ten miles north of here, was burned Wednesday night, the explosion 0 a lamp being the cause of the fire. The housa was owned-by Mrs. Jeihn Vyse and the loss will be $3,(00, with $2,400 insurance. THORNTOWN. The annual reunion of the Booker family was held here on Thursday. Mrs. ' Elizabeth Terrigen, of Albany, N. Y.. a member of the family. Is 100 years old. A letter was received fretm her. LIBERTY. Youthful thieves have been working Liberty recently. The night watchman captured Harvey Grant, aged seventeen years, In Ross & Stevens's meat market. THE CORN OUTLOOK. Estimate of the Probable Yield and the Value of the Crop. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. k What appears to be the most careful and intelligent inquiry of the conditions In the corn crop yet made has just been completed by Bradstreet's and it shows a probable yield of at least 1.4W,00ö,öo0 bushels. This would be a decline of about TOO.OoQ.OOO bushels as compared with when the crop was 2,l(K),rH 0oo bushels, as estimated by the Department of. Agriculture in Wa'shlngteui In Its final figures. It wpuid be a reduction of about COO.OOO.OOO from the estimate maele at the beginning of July, before thei drought had come in destructive shape and when rains were looked for at any day. As the Globe-Democrat has m,ore than once pointed out, a falling off in the yield of corn or wheat does not necessarily mean a reduction in the income of the waeat and corn growers. In fact, the opposite is sometimes the case. The l,212.(Nj0.0nO-bushel corn crop of l8-4. for example, brought to the producers Jlo.Ooo.ooo more than did the 2.151.000,000 yield of the succeeding yea-. There had bee-n a elrop in price, as estimated on Dec. i of e;jch year, fretm 43.7 cents a bushe 1 in 154 to 2.T.a cents in 1VC. This more than effset the increase of over f00.0"0 bushels in the later year. In the present Instance there, is also an increase in prices' as compared with IO00. and this Is much more than the decrease In yield which is indicated at tue present time. It is, of course, the consumer and th railroad and general transportation interests, and not usually the producers, which suffer in a reduction of the crops. Unless the falling off amounts to about &o per cent, the grower commonly makes un in increased prlee what he loses in elecreased product. The loss of the railrnadf, steamboats and general public, however, may be serious in a shortage in yield. In the present case the loss will not be felt so severely as it would have been in an ordinary year, because the wheat yield this year is innen greater than it ever was before; ? and the level e.f general pretsperity throughout the country is higher than it has te n at any time in the past. Here are allowances which have to be made in computing the effect of the corn shortage. Metrrover, it will be possible, if the weather be favorable from this time onward, to have a larger rorn crop than the ,t.,() bushels which it now indicateel. SMOKELESS GUNS LOCATED. English Soldiers to He TauK. Lesson Learned from Roers. London Express. , The English War Office's new s jic me for the training of Tommy Atkins in mam livers embraces many novelties, which will in due course see the lisht of praetic.il demonstration. Among the.we- none is rnor interesting or fraught with great-r po-j-bilitie'S than the d"iee for training soldiers to loe-ate guns tiring .-niokeliss powder. Arrangements are being mad" o carry out experiments in this direction s.X. ldershot. and the sappers have- already constructed an ingenious battlefield upon Ash Ranges, which will make field finng very re alistic. In the trial to come an infantry force will appretaeh the- ranges, end wii immediately be fire-el upon by detain guns. EnibMor will b" made to locate the fj-i pi. 1 es and ihe infantry will moe forward in eov. r. As they a. Ivan- e st;rpri.-j targe t r-p;- se-niing cavalry and mounted unfai.try will spring tip " Hank and front., an armored train will run out and all the f. 4turea of a modern battlefield will represent".! against the- advancing force-, 'ihn method will call for great initiative- iroia e ommanders. and the targets wlir ,. so made that good shooting will be recorded by the Lirp'ts being knocked over.. As an induc-ment to make Infantry tak cover a new ie i e has Iwe-n adopted. Artillerymen are to ace-ompany the advar.ctrf e-nlumns, and wh.-n a liMant gun r.res it dummy shell thiv will prndnc- a corresponding explosion among the Htta:-krs by mean- of a small mortar, thus temftdng th lessetn of oer and caution as ii-t .hf means short of live shell could do.ONLY SIX ESCAPED.; Telte of the Crew of the Hark. Lls He Reil Perished. VICTORIA. B. C. S. pt. .V-The -steamer Mtowera. vvhi.h h. Ju-t arrivd. brirgf, news ef the- vvre-ek of the bark l.iriie IV1L. of Liverpool, while bound from Wellington to Newcastle, and of In r e 'vw c f eMj-Mcen, six survive. Sono- were 1-t-t wh.e i ehe ho.il in which they I ft the bar k a;-lz-'d Two iicd in the boat and th other two who had just strength to get ashore were fo:rnl eled on the roek when reci;e r arrived. The Lizzie Bell was 1."' tons and was oned by Ptter Bell, of Liverpool.

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