Indianapolis Journal, Volume 52, Number 55, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1902 — Page 2

TUT. INDTAXArOLTS JOURNAL. 3IOXDAY, FEBTCUATTT 24. 1002.

ly some irsons unknown." The three trainmen were arrcsUd at the time anil Kave bond. Th v admitted shooting. but tald th.it as It was dark they did not see whether nr nt thoy hit any one. They were not examined officially ty the coroner for the reason that, ting accused of crime, they could not be made to testify In a way that would Incriminate themselves. piiou:nm(;s auaixst m:ai h.

Former Deputy Inspector Matthen I'rrpnre o Itintltut Them. Facial to th Iniiinapcll Journal. KOKUMO, Ind.. IM. .-Kx-Deputy Ga3 Supervisor C. C. Matthews Is here from Alexandria, to meet Supervisor Leach at the latter's home and answer the charges against him tht resulted In Matthews's dismissal by Leach. Matthews says he Is here at the Instance cf the Indiana Natural Gas Belt Manufacturers' Association, and says he will not only refute all charges agalnt him. but that the association will Jile imrHehme.r.t proceedings against both Mr. Lach and his superior. State Geologist Blatchley. Matthews, who is still In the employ of the manufacturers" association trying to top the waste of gas, ?ay3 all Iii efforts were hampered by Leach, who on each occasion interfered when he arrested violators cf the waste law. He says he was discharged once for arresting oil men for wasting pa?, and "was dismissed arrain when he made the secret test of the Chicago Gas Company's main near Falrmount. Matthews says the association Is in the fight to a finish and he hopes to prove In court that Blatchley and Leach have neglected to perform their duties In the enforcement of the gas waste law. Professor Leach I out of the city at present, and his Floe of the contention cannot be obtained. Matthews says he (Matthews) is out over th field collecting further evidence on which to base impeachment proceedings. VASIII.C;T0 Col-XT! HEI'I'IHJCAXS Choone Delegate to State and Conjcresftlonnl Convention. Frelftl to the Indianapolis Journal. SALEM. Ind., Feb. 23. The Republicans of Washington county celebrated Washington's birthday by holding a mass convention in Salem for the selection of delesates to the state, congressional and joint lepresentative conventions. The meeting was largely attended and enthusiastic. Bamuel 1. Morris, of Salem, was chosen chairman, and J. A. Kemp, of the Republican Leader, was named as secretary. After the selection of delegates Hon. Jas. J Goodrich, state chairman, was introduced and made a few remarks. Chairman Iorris then Introduced Union B. Hunt, secretary of state, who made a brilliant speech that wai enthusiastically received, ile was followed by Nat U. Hill, of BloomJngton. and Frank Martin, candidate for auditor of täte, made the closing speech. The delegates to the state convention are: V. S. Kennedy, William Rrown. Wesley Klgln. Alfonso Thompson, It. It. Newlon, J. S. McPheeters, J. S. Denny, W. it. Lindey, C. M. Crlm, Harvey Morris and John 2l. Colglazler. The delegates to the congressional and Joint representative conventions to be held In New Albany are: J. W. Carlisle, L. IT. iJaker. Ieroy Matthews. Frank Lirewer. It. C Morris, Emmet Allen. Foster J. Heacock. H. G. Thompson, John C. F. Marshall. II. L. Seig and R. F. Meade. The convention was one of good feeling and showed that the party Is unanimous In Its earnest efforts for continued party success. Hancock County Democrats. Frclal to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENFIELD. Ind.. Feb. 23. The Democrats of Hancock county held their primary nominating convention Saturday, and It was a hard and bitterly fought contest. The party has been in power here so long there are many different and warring factions. The two Democratic papers, the Democrat and the Herald, are on opposite sides, and their strife is very bitter. The primary resulted as follows: Prosecuting attorney. A. C. Vanduyn. renominated, no opposition; treasurer. J. A. Hippo, renominated, no opposition; auditor, W. I. Garrlott, by nineteen majority, over Mayor John F. Eagan. of thin city; clerk, John M. Hall was nominated over Will A. Service by one vote; Councilman William R. White was nominated for recorder by 112 plurality, his closest opponent being the Incumbent, Raleigh Sltton; surveyor, Frank Lewark, renominated, no "opposition; sheriff. L. U. Larrabee. renominated by large majority over Thomas R. Derry; coroner. Dr. Milo Gibbs, over Dr. Noble I Howard; commissioners. William Marsh, over Frederick. "Wicker, and Ed Martin and Robert Wilson, renominated, no opposition. ConnerMvllIe I'rlmnrlrs. Fr-ecUl to the Indianapolis Journal. CONNERS VILLE, Ind., Feb. 23. The Itepubliean primaries for deciding nominees for the city offices will be held Tuesday afternoon. The race between Thomas J. Clark, present incumbent, and Richard WEATHER FORECAST. Partly Cloudy To-Day mid To-Mor-rovr, Tvlth. Variable Wind. WASHINGTON. Feb. 23. Weather forecast for Monday and Tuesday: For Indiana and Illinois Partly cloudy on Monday and Tuesday; light variable winds, mostly west. For Ohio Partly cloudy on Monday and Tuesday; rising temperature on Monday In northeastern portion; light south winds, becoming west. Forecaster Garriott to-day issued the following special bulletin: Higher temperature Is exacted to cause a general breaking up of ice in the mountain rivers and streams of Pennsylvania, western Maryland and West Virginia during the next two days, resulting in leu gorges in places and dangerous floods in lowlying lands. Local Observation on Sunday. Rar. Ther. H.H. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7a.m..U).W : 1'J East. lt. cldy. 0.00 7 p. m.Jy.ss A2 . t2 S'east. Cloudy. O.iX) Maximum temperature, 46; minimum temperature. 31. Comparative statement of the mean temperature and total precipitation on Sunday, Feb. 23: - Temp. Pre. Normal 32 .13 Mean 33 .00 Ieparture 6 .13 Departure fince Feb. 1 310 2.62 Departure since Jan. 1 310 i.Sl Plus. W. T. RLYTHE. Section Director. Yesterday's Temperatures. Stations. Atlanta. Ga Ruffalo, N. Y Calgary. N. W. T.. Chicago. Ill Cairo. Ill Cheyenne, Wyo. ... Clncinanti. O Davenport. la Pes Moines. Ia Galveston. Tex Helena. Mont Jacksonville Fla. . Kansas City, Mo... 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MOVEMENTS OE STEAMERS. NEW YORK. IVb. 23.-Arrived: Campania, from Liverpool; St. Louis, from Southampton; Kronprinz Wilhelm, from Bremen. QUEENSTOWN. Feb. 23 -Sailed: CmLrlit. from Liverpool, for New York. UOVILLK. Feb. 23-Sailed: Anchoria, fron Glasgow, for New York. LTTTTRPOOL. Feb. 23.-Arrlved: Taurie, from New York.

N. Elliott, for mayor, will be a warm contest, also the contest for clerk. There are five candidates for th Council In the First Ward and six in the Fourth, while the Second and Third wards will have no fight, there being no opposition. The interest centers in the race for mayor and seems pretty even "guessing." Labor Ticket Nominated. Fpwi.il to the Indianapolis Journal. ELWOOD, Ind.. Feb. 2Z. The laboring men of Klwood la.n right nominated their city ticket for the coming May election, and the mass meetings and later nominating conventions were of such enthusiastic proportions that the old party managers are doing considerable thinking. The ticket put In the field is a3 follows: Fir mayor, William McDonald, of McKinley Lodge, A. A.: for clerk. R. M. Yelvinton. of Typographical Union; for treasurer, Daniel Close, of Local No. U". Flint Glass Workers; for city Judge, J. W. Carson, brlcK mason. Councilmen First ward. T. K. Daley and A. C. Katcllffe; Second ward. Luther Douge and John Hafkett; Third ward, George Hartman and Kdward Kbeck; Fourth ward, J. II. Lyt, Jr., and William J. Willlamj. K. IL. Lee was chosen as permanent chairman of the city comralttt, and Daniel Ilickey secretary.

IM1IAM OIlITCAitY. Judge William II. Dewolf, n Leading Lanier of Vlncennm. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VINCENNES, Ind., Feb. 23. Judge William II. Dewolf suddenly expired while sitting in a chair at his home on Broadway this afternoon. Heart failure was the cause. He wa3 just recovering from an attack of la grippe. His age was about seventy-two years. Judge Dewolf was prominent as an Odd Fellow in Indiana. For many years he was attorney for the Baltimore Sc Ohio Railroad Company and was one of the leading lawyers of Vincennea. A widow, one son and two daughters survive. He leaves an estate valued at about $50.000. Judge Dewolf wan very active in his profession, e:en the last week appearing la court. In his early years he was the partner of the late Judije Niblack. and subsequently he formed a partnership with Smiley N. Chambers, now of Indianapolis, which lasted through eighteen years and until Mr. Chambers was appointed United States district attorney. Since this partnership was dissolved he had been associated with his son, e. H. Dewolf. Arrangements for the funeral have not yet been announced. Smiley N. Chambers says of Mr. Dewolf: "He was a very able lawyer, a very industrious man, never allowing his business to drag or to push him. He always pushed his business. He was a conscientious, highminded gentleman, thoroughly devoted to his profession. Politics had no attractions lor him, although he was a very pronounced Democrat in his views and always acted in harmony with his party. "My partnership began with Mr. Dewolf In 1S73 and continued for eighteen years. A strong affection existed between us and continued to this day, when the news of his death comes to me as a great shock. Mr. Dewolf is the last of a regime of great lawyers practicing in Vincennes during and Immediately following the war. Hon. Henry S. Cauthom alone survives. Some of these who have passed away are Samuel R. Judah. Abner T. Ellis, Cyrus M. Allen, Nathaniel T. Usher, Fred W. Viehe, James C. Denny, William E. Niblack, Thomas R. Cobb and George G. Kelly. It was a great bar and of high reputation throughout the State." Other Deaths in the State. RICHMOND. Ind.. Feb. 23. The funeral of Mrs. Anna M. Jackson took place yesterday afternoon from the parish house of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Dr. Z. Test and the Rev. F. O. Grannls conducted the services. The pallbearers were John Rurchenal and Mr. Laughlin, of Cincinnati; Henry E. Robinson, C. W. Ferguson, Judge D. W. Comstock and Horace Starr. GLASS WORKERS' MLMIXATIOXS. Completed List Announced liy President Ilurns, of L. A. HOO. Special to th Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE. Ind., Feb. 33. President Simon Eurns, of L. A. 300, National Window Glass Workers' Association (including four trades), announces from headquarters at Pittsburg that the list of nominations for the annual election of officers, to be voted on next month, is completed. In addition to those announced a week ago for president, secretary and treasurer, the following candidates make complete the list and this week voting sheets containing the names of the candidates will be sent out to the hundreds of preceptories all over the country: - Executive Roard (blowers) A. J. St. Peter, Arnold, Pa.; James Cunningham, Jeanette, Pa. ; Harry C. Williams, MonongixhiJit, Pa.; Ernest Hugg, Jeannttte; John Walier, David Johnson and George Grant, Brownsville. Pa.; William Willis, Arnold; Harry Crouch and Jules Jennert, Morgantown, W. a. Executive Roard (gatherers) James Arter, Jeannette; Thomas Whetsel, Arnold; Leo Harrison, Brownsville; James Sneyd, New Castle, Pa.; Joseph Dessey, Arnold; Thomas Pommellette, Jeannette. Executive Roard (cutters) James Holden, A. Dtgerdyn and William Wilkins, Jeannette; Earl Smith, Morgantown; E. E. Hazelbaker, Brownsville. Executive Board (tlatteners) Joseph White, George Deithron and Thomas Young, Jeannette; James McCabe and Wil liam Meclere, Brownsville. Western Wage Committee (blowers Al fred I'. Bonneau, Hazlhurst, Pa. ; William Alton, Ernest Hugg. William Dressier and Edward Barrett, Jeannette; Charles E. Mayers, Marlon. Ind.; Alf Leroy and Harry Stedler, Sandusky, O.: H. R. Clark, New Castle, Pa.; William Weil, Frankton. Ind.; E. S. Woolbert, Anderson, Ind.; Thomas Shields and William Miller, Arnold. Pa.; Harry Welch, Albert Ault and J. R. Unks, Muncie; Sidney Owen, Smethport. Pa.; Geo. W. Grant, Brownsville; Jules Jennert, Mor gantown; D. K. Miller, rairmount, Ind.; H . I. Langan, Mannlngton, . a. Western Wage Committee (Gatherers) Elwood C. V elser, kairmount; Fred C. Merchant. Haztlhurst; Fred Keed. Ander son; Barney Mangan and Brazier Wescott, Jeanette; Ed G. Schell and Frank Rryant, Sandusky; George Lnmbollotte, Eldred. Pa.; Michael Holland. Arnold; Frank Green anil John Coulson, Muncie; Leo Harrison, Brownsville; Marshal Springer, Gas City; William McBerney. Quaker City, O. Western Wage Committee (Cutters) Wil Ham Montgomery, Vincennes, Ind.; Jules Duez and Jules Flatu, Hazelhurst; Charles Ernshaw and Robert Pinch, Jeannette; George Bell, Sandusky; Jules cry. El dred; Harry Parker, Muncie; Jesse 1). Per kins. Port Alleghany. Pa.; Isaac Ellison, Fairmount; Andrew V. Davis. Kane, Pa.; Joseph Atkinson, Converse. Ind.; E. H Leech. F. H. Lehman and George N. Tal colt. Mannlngton. Western Wage Committee (Flatteners)Joseph White, Thomas Young and Lewis ttone. Jeannette; b red Stlckman. Lldred; Thomas I-ltzpatrick. Arnold; Charles Wil Hams. Muncie; Clark Floyd, Quaker City; William llahn. iralrrnount. Delegates to the General Assembly, Knights of Labor James Cunningham, William Jatiua. August Delison. A. Rupert. William Lowers. James Arder, Samuel I'ersol. Joseph Bird. George G. Smith, John 1. Morgan, jr., and Edward Barrett, Jean nette: John Weber. Greenfield. Ind.: Charles Klme and David Tarr, Hazelhurst; Jult-s Marlkr. J. C. Hirsch. W. E. King. Arnold; Fred Mahley, Anderson; Camilla Birron. Albert Niece and R. Alton, jr.. Sandusky: Jerre Martin. Eldred; George Grant, John Bates. James Ashton. Browns ville; George Hard, William Swltzer and A. J. Smith. Muncie; Harry Williams and H. C. Davis. Manongahtla; Harry Rhodes. New Castle. Pa.; O. H. trmar and Hector Desgains. Hartford City. Ind.; Alfred .tilers, Quaker City; Fred Summers. Marlon; R. Wlttebort. Fred Janiuet and Alme Bourdoux, Point Marion. Pa.; Samuel Deeley and Richard Barrett. Mannlngton; Frank Green. Muncie. All of the Ii. members of the organization are eligible for nomination, and there is great interest in the election, which is especially Important this year. Farmers Institute In Curniel. Special to the In.Unapolls Journal. CA KM EL, Ind.. Feb. 23. One or the larpcst an-! most Interesting Farmers Institutes ever held in this locality closed a two days' i-.lon last evening. The tlrT day Charles Roberts dismissed "Dairying as a Side Issue in Farming." Cott Hodgln showed that It is profltalle to feed beef fcr market, Theodore Wilson spoke of strawberry culture and Al Kinzer presented the merits of the various farm crop... Dr. Ilurty gave his Illustrated lecture on germ (lls-ases and home sanitation in the

evening. The second day the various aspects of corn culture were presented by Artie Myers and Fred Elliott. Mrs. Florence Ross, of Southport, told of the needs of a woman on the farm, and Mrs. John S. Conklin. of Wostfield. told of the part of a girl's education which is being neglected. Henry Harold talked of the silo and ensilage and William Ward of the care of the orchard. Miss Marcla Hoagland's topic was "Literatur? for the Family." The exercises were enlivened by music and recitations by young ladies of the town. Henry Harold is president of the institute and Al Kinzer secretary. Eurlliam College. Fpecial to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind.. Feb. 23.-In a few months a book of college views will be issued. On Thursday evening the History Club met at the home of Prof. Cyru3 W. Hodgln. The Anglican Club met on Thursday evening, and an excellent programme was givn. The members of the Phoenix Literary

Society were entertained Friday evening by an excellent programme in observance of Washington's birthday. Those who participated were Agnes Neave, Elizabeth Houston. Eela KlnRead, Oertrude HSU anil Ethlean Coppock. O. A. Hobb. W. Reft can. R. R. Barrett and Vivian Floyd furnished the programme at the meeting of the Ionian Society triday nlght. Will rnsh Work of Construction. Fpecial to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Ind., Feb. 23. The Fort Wayne & Southwestern Traction Company is receiving 33,000 ties at Lagro, Wabash county, to be used in building the line from a point three miles west of Andrews .to Wabash. As sdon as the weather settles a trifle the company will commence distributing the ties and expects to have the road completed to this city by May 1. The company has secured an option on fifty acres of land between Lagro and Andrews on which it will establish a park, making it a resort for Wabash and Huntington patrons. There is a fine supply of water available and the location is a most attractive one. "Wayne County Soldier's Heroism. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Feb. 23. A letter from the Philippines conveys information of a heroic deed on the part of Iarry Phelps, a Wayrns county boy. The company was making a tramp of twenty miles over swamps, mountains and rivers. In crossing a river two of the soldiers came near drowning and escaped by the exertions of Phelps, who risked his own life to save theirs. I he major recognized the deed and said he would see that Phelps was advanced. To Welcome Al.oe to Old Vincennes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VINCENNES, Ind., Feb. 23.-When Vir ginia Harned comes to this city to present "Alice of Old Vincennes" she will be given a royal reception by the citizens. Arrange ments have been made to convey her to historic points ma carriage; to give hr a reception by ladies of the city at the Grand Hotel in the afternoon; to shower the stage with bouquets, and to close with a reception at the Pastime Club rooms after the performance. Vast Crowd at the Services. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Feb. 23. The union services being conducted by Dr. Cornelius Woelfkln, D. D., of Brooklyn, attracted 8,00) rersons at the Auditorium this after noonvand evening. The entire police force of the city was required to take care of the Immense crowds. The meetings con tinue this week at different churches each day, nearly all the local ministers taking part. TABLE FACTORY BURNS. Costly Fire Destroys an Important In dustry nt Flndlay, O. FINDLAY. O., Feb. 23.-Fire, originating from an unknown cause, destroyed the en tire plant of the Findlay Table Manufac turing Company this morning, causing a loss of $1)7,000, with insurance of $50,000. The company manufactured fine dining tables exclusively and was one of the largest industries of its kind in the coun try. As a result of the fire 100 men arc thrown out of employment. During the progress of the flames Fire man Stephen Smith fell from a thirty-foot ladder and was severely Injured. The plant probably will be rebuilt in the near future. Tennessee Town Iladly Scorched. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 24.-A telephone message from Hartsville, Tenn., at 1:30 o'clock this (Monday) morning, says the entire south Fide of the business por tlon of Main street has been destroyed by lire and that the north Fide is thereatened. Hartsville has no tire department, and the names are being fought by bucket brigades No estimate of the loss has been given. At 2 o'clock the fire was reported under control, and the loss was estimated at $50,000. Serious Klre nt Portlund, Ore. PORTLAND, Ore.. Feb. 23.-Fire to-day destroyed every building except two en the block bounded by Front, Main and Madison streets and the Willamette river. The docks facing the river between Main and Madipon streets also were burned. The loss Is $70.0o0, principally to the flour lng mill of Albers & Schneider. Serious Fire nt Limn. LIMA, O., Feb. 33. Fire to-night de stroyed the Lima Steel Casting Company's plant. Iyoss $50,000, insurance $25,000. The fire department was helpless because of the low pressure due to u shortage of the water works supply. An Arlstoeratic Walter. New York Press. Herman, who waits at table in Push's had been ill for two weeks. "How did you pass the time when laid up?" a regular patron asked. Ah, communing with my self and my wife," was the reply. "It is my custom to take my wife out to dinner once efery two weegs. to the finest dinner as New York can supply. That is her recreation. It also is mine. We haf dine at Delmonlco's. Sherry's, all the fashionable hotels, the finest of chop houses, etc. The last place we dine was the Waldorf-Astoria. "Indeed!" How did you like the Waldorf-Astoria?" Herman, solemn as an owl: "Oh. the food was pood enough, but the service it was horrible, horrible!" This from a waiter In a place where the average meal costs 33 cents, seemed interesting. But there 13 no doubt that Herman ia an aristocrat and a connoisseur. Beet SiiRur Arrojcanee. Buffalo Commercial. In view of the fact that 2,50:1.000 tons of sugar are consumed in the United States annually, and that of this amount the beetsugar interest supplies only 73.KK) tons, the arrogance of che position taken by the otlk-ers ami lobby of the Beet-Sugar Association In resisting a fair reduction in the tariff on Cuban products can be appreciated. The great bulk of th. sugar consumed In the United States will be Imported for many years, and the admission of Cuban sugar at a reduction of 50 per cent, in the duty will leave a large market aad a good profit for the domestic beet product. President Oxnard has testified that the manufacture of beet-sugar In America would pay If all the raw sugar imported came in free of duty. Senator Clark Sells n Mine. CHICAGO. Ftb. 33 A dispatch to the Record-Herald from Butte. Mont., says: "United States Senator W. A. Clark has sold his Colusa-Barrott group of mints to the Amalgamated Anaconda Company. The consideration is withheld from the public, but the price is understood to be in the millions. The purchase by the Amalgamated Company was made as a settlemtnt of litigation between the Anaconda and Senator Clark's Co'usa-I'arrott Company. The great Anaconda lode was Involved in the controversy. Insniie Woman Kills Her Hnsltnnd. KICKAPOO. 111., Feb. 23.-Mrs. Jenkins, becoming suddenly insane to-day at her home here, sucurtd an ax and brained her hucband, who v;u asleep on the bed. after which she seized a pistol and blew her brains out. The woman had been acting ;ueerly of lite and Is supposed to have become suddenly deranged. Three email children witnessed the tragedy.

ANOTHER VICTIM DEAD

l'AHK IIOTF.L niSASTHIt IlKSVLTS IX M M:T i: C TI I FATA LIT V. District Attorney Jerome Invent icntes the Conditions, Finding; a Hint of Incendiary Origin. MISS RANDALL NOW AT HOME she iji:schim:s Tim senxus ix l'AIUv-AVHMH IIOTF.L. How Severn! People Were Enabled to Kscupe Relatives of Colonel Piper in This City. NEW YORK, Feb. 3.-Sophla Beach, sixty-one years old, a guest of the Parkavenue Hotel, who was burned about the face and body on Saturday morning, died in Bellevue Hospital to-day. This makes the nineteenth victim. All the other lire victims in tho different hospitals probably will recover. The Rev. William Boardman, of Norwalk. Conn., who is suffering from burns about the face, hands and body. Improved somewhat to-day. The body of tho unidentified woman at tho morgue was recognized as that of hl3 wife Julia. Coroner Goldenkranz will begin his official inquiry into the loss of life to-morrow. He has summoned a large number of the guests. The ruins of the Seventy-first Regiment Armory and the scorched upper stories of the Park-avenue Hotel were gazed at to day by thousands. A single lire engine sent a stream of water on one spot of the armory ruins where were stored 50,000 rounds of cartridges and a small quantity of powder. The heat of the fire did not explode this ammunition, for it was in a subcellar packed In steel boxes. The other ammunition in the armory was all exploded while the fire burned. So great was the crowd seeking admittance to the hotel that police guards were placed at the entrances. District Attorney Jerome arrived at the hotel in the morning, accompanied by half a dozen of his county detectives and Fire Chief Croker. They examined the burned portion of the hotel and talked with Mr. Reed, tha proprietor. Then the elevator shaft was examined; and In the basement was found one hand fire extinguisher empty. It was the only one the chief found In the hotel. One of the assistants told the visitors there was no way in which fire could have got to the elevator shaft without some one deliberately placing it there. The officials refused to give any opinion of the origin of the hotel fire, if they had formed one. During the day the walls of the armory which remain were shored up by men from the city building department. 3IISS II AX D ALL AT HOME. She Describes tlie Terrible Scenes in Park-Avenue Hotel Fire. Mis3 Matilda Randall, millinery buyer for the William II. Block Company, who was a guest of the Park-avenue Hotel during the great fire in New York Saturday, re turned to her home at 618 North Meridian street, yesterday. Miss Randall played a very creditable part in the catastrophe and probably saved several lives. She tells the story modestly, but realistically. "With my niece, Miss Fikes, of Decatur, 111.," sho said, "I had been to the theater in the evening. We returned to the hotel afterwards and had started to retire when I noticed the red glare from the Seventyfirst Regiment Armory across the street. We stood at the window watching it for a few minutes and the thought came to me that we had better be on the safe side so I told my niece to dress and be ready la case we were warned to leave the hotel. "In a few minutes more that warning came and the uproar In the hotel became frightful. Men and women were crying and acting wildly. W hen we reached the hall the elevator shaft was flaming and smoke was pouring from lt. I had noticed earlier in the evening just where the back staircase was and I decided that there our safety lay. Collecting as many of the per sons in the hall as 1 could find hastily, I led them to that stairway and together we reached the street without the slightest injury. Trobably twenty-five or thirty fol lowed me down the stairway, although at the time I did not notice how many there were. We went later to the other part of the hotel that was untouched by the fire and remained there until we left New York. "I shall never forget the horrible sights I saw during and after the fire. Men's faces convulsed with fright; beautiful women thinly clad fainting; and more terrible than all the sheet-covered, lifeless forma that were taken out of the blackened ruins. "I heard the proprietor of the hotel, Mr, Reed, say that he was confident the hotel had been fired by an Incendiary. He de clared that It would have been impossible for it to have caught from the armory. He said the roof was covered with five or six inches of snow and ice, and that no spark or brand could have reached Inflam mable material through that impenetrable sheath. Tho fire, he believes, started at the foot of the elevator shaft and the progress of the fire seems to bear his state ment out." RELATIVES IX THIS CITV. Col. Alexander Piper n. Consln of Mrs. Ilriidahaw and 31 r. Eider. Col. Alexander riper, U. S. A., who lost his life in the terrible conflagration in New York Saturday, when the Park-avenue Hotel was destroyed, was a cousin of Mrs John Bradshaw and Mr. John R. Elder, of this city. Mrs. Bradshaw's father and Colonel Piper's mother, as brother and 'sister, spent their youth in Carlisle, Ta.. and Colone Piper went from there to West Point when a young man. The circumstances follow lng his death were particularly pathetic. His wife, partly clad, managed to escape from the hotel and went to the residence of a friend. She was ignorant of the fate of her husband, and as it was feared that the shock might kill her, she was not Informed of his death. Colonel Piper was seventy years or age. OBITUARY. "IHlly- Emerson, Fnnioni Minstrel of the Old School. BOSTON, Feb. 33. William Emerson Richmond, or, as he was familiarly known. "Billy" Emerson, the famous minstrel. died last night at Dlman's Hotel on Eliot street, where he has lived for severa! months past. Death was due to a complP cation of diseases resulting in consumption He was fifty-six years old and was a na tive of Belfast, Ireland, having come to this country when a year old. His first j stage appearance was In 1SÖ7, with Joe i Sweeny's minstrels, as a balladist and Jig ! iiiror' ,,.-fp the f a-? of hi o-rer ; he Is said to have received the highest ealI ii t i paiu to a.i lO'n v 1 a U J.1 po'iofn r in minstrelsy, ills widow lives In San Francisco and a Kon by his first marriage resides n New York. Other Deaths. CHICAGO. Feb. 23.-Erskine C. Murphy, who at one time was superintendent of the Iowa division of the Chicago. Burlington & Qulncy Railroad, died here, to-day. of heart disease. Excitement over a burglary that occurred In his residence during his absence Is said to have been responsible for his death. ST. LOUIS. Feb. 23. The Rev. Brother Clement, who had been a member of the Order of Christian Brothers for the past

thirty-five years, died to-day at the Christian Brothers' College In this city of pneumonia. Brother Clement was born in Germany in 1SC3 and stood high as an educator.

BELIEVERS IN RECIPROCITY. They AVlll.Hold n. Meeting in Chlcaso to Advance Their Views. CHICAGO. Feb. 33. Within the next few days a conference will be held here for the purpose of launching a movement to orce congressional action on international reciprocity. The Western Reciprocity League, of which Governor W. E. Stanley, of Kansas, is president, and James Deerlng, of Chicago, vice president, will arrange the conference. A. B. Ault, of Topcka, secretary of the eague, is in Chicago for this purpose. He will endeavor to bring together manufacturers who favor reciprocity and others interested in the movement. Tariff concessions to Cuba will be only one of the league's demands. The application of the principle of reciprocity to the trade relations between this country and all foreign The ratification of the reciprocity treaties with nine' nations, action for which has been pending in the United States Senate for more than two years, will be especially urged. UNIVERSAL PEACE MEETING. Societies Listen to Addresses nt Wnih-ington-Call on Mr. liny. WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. At the meeting to-night of the Universal Peace Union and National Association for the Promotion of Peace addresses were made by Hon. John W. Hoyt, ex-Governor of Wyoming; the Rev. Daniel C. Martin, of Pittsburg; Mrs. May Wright Sewall, president of the International Council of Women; Miss Clara Barton, of the Red Cross Relief Association; Prof. Daniel Bathellor, of Philadelphia; the Rev. Amanda Deyo and Alfred II. Love, of Philadelphia, president of trie Peace Union. Yesterday afternoon the officers of the association made an informal call on Sec retary Hay at his residence. President Love made a short address, in which he set forth succinctly the objects of the organization, alluding in complimentary terms to the Hay-Pauncefote treaty with Great Britain and the success of the PanAmerican Congress. Secretary Hay responded in a very happy and ccrdlal vein. SMSSSBSBSBBBBBSBBBSBBBSSSSSSSaSBSBBSBBBBBBBBSBSBSBSBBBBSM RELIEF TRAIN WRECKED. One Sinn Ivllled and Two Injured on the Grand Trunk. CHICAGO, Feb. 23. One man was killed and two others injured to-day when a Grank Trunk wrecking train plunged over an embankment while speeding through Evergreen Park on its way to the relief of a disabled freight train four miles beyond that point. The Dead. PETER MATTHIAS, caught beneath the wreckage and crushed to death. Injured. CASPAR SNYDER, right leg broken and badly cut and bruised about the body. OSCAR RUNDQUIST, right arm fractured and body bruised. The wreck was due to spreading of the rails as a result of loose spikes. TO BE WELL DISTRIBUTED. Ashes of Dr. D. S. Yonng to De Scattered, Partly with n Gun. CINCINNATI, Feb. 33. After the remains of Dr. Daniel Schuyler Young were cremated to-day it was learned that he had provided for the ashes to be taken to his old boyhood home, in Montgomery county, New York, where his wife was buried, onefourth to be sprinkled on her grave, onefourth over the path to his old schoolhouse, one-fourth at his old home and one-fourth shot out of a gun at the old homestead. This specific disposition of the ashes caused much surprise among the learned associates of the noted 'physician, scientist and author. DEATH OF A FRENCHMAN. It Is Deiner Investigated by the Coroner at Cincinnati. CINCINNATI, Feb. 23. The coroner is Investigating the sudden death here of Taul Fremy, a Frenchman fifty years old, who died suddenly of morphine poisoning". Jennie Palxous, who came from France with Fremy many years ago, and who was with Fremy at the time of his death, s very low from the effects of an overdose of the same drug. She denies that they attempted self-destruction. The couple had lived sumptuously here for several years and were reputed to be In receipt regularly of large remittances from France. DREYFUSS HAS A LETTER Hearing on Dasehall Injunction Sni t Ills Pertinent Statement. PITTSBURG, Feb. 23. President Dreyfuss, of the Pittsburg baseball club, received an important letter to-day from hia attorney, W. A. Northrup, of Jersey City, stating that the hearing of the injunction proceedings in the National League would be held in New York March 3 or 4. President Dreyfuss denied emphatically the reports recently circulated that the Pittsburg club intended abandoning the National and Joining the American League. MIchlRan City "Wins a Game. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAPORTE, Ind., Feb. 33. In the second contest in the Triclty Bowling League last night Michigan City was first, with 2.317 pins; Laporte, 2,236. and South Bend, 1,!05. The first contest was won by Laporte. Fighters Leave for Xew York. LOUISVILLE, Feb. 23.-Terry MeGovern and Dave Sullivan, principals in Saturday night's flffht, both left to-day for New York. Lese Majesty. New York Tribune. Prince Henry of Prussia, according to a story told by a diplomat who was once attached to the British embassy in Berlin, was one day chatting with an English friend In a cafe In Bonn, when he became an objt-ct of suspicion to one of those meddling minor offlciils who flourish in such numbers In Germany. The prince is too discreet a man to discuss affairs of state in a public place, but on this occasion some subject arose which, while not of general interest, related to the Imperial family. The conversation was in English, and the spying ofiicial was acquainted with that language. At length Prince Henry remarked: "Why. my dear fellow, don't you see that the Emperor would be even crazier than some people seem to believe he is If he did anything like that?" The ofiicial leaned toward his Royal Highness and said: "Sir, are you aware that there is a lese majesty law In this country? Let me hear another remark of that kind and I make a complaint against you." Ine Englishman took in the situation and a moment afterward remarked: "As I was saying to your Royal Highness beforc'we were Interrupted." The meddler gasped, arose hastily. Interrogated the manager of the cafe and withdrew. How "Words Are Made. Boston Transcript. The addition of many new words to the English vocabulary Is due to the fact that those who coin the new words are ignorant of the good wordf". already in the language which would fill the requirements which the new words are improvised to fill. This was well Illustrated by Senator Tillman, of South Carolina. In some remarks which he made In the Senate a few days ago, in the course ot which he u?ed the expression, "I spoke unthoughtedly." The uncouth word "unthoushtedly" does not add a shadow to the mearnlng conveyed by the good old word "thoughtlessly."

REVIVAL OF LAND CRAZE

SOUTH DAKOTA EXPECTS iTiHMKX) IM3IIGHANTS THIS YEAH. "Water Is Sow Snld to lie Plenty and Stock liaising: and Farming Is Orowlnfir rrontnhle. Sioux City (Ia.) Letter. South Dakota Is land crazy and 200.000 immigrants are to be brought into the State this year. South Dakota was land crazy ence before, but the delirium i3 the wilder now because it took so long to recover from the first excesses. That the railroads are committed to the task of bringing in the 200.000 would be inferred from the fact that a land company affiliated with the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul has. Elnce Jan. 1, acquired 2?, 600 acres In northern South Dakota in the northern part because the south took its flight last year. Five other parties, following in the wake of the railroad, have bought, in six weeks, 66,400 acres. Along before the eighties South Dakota was called a wilderness, and there was no desiro to Interfere with the habitations of Indians, hunters, trappers, antelope and coyotes. But about that time two pairs of rails snaked across the State and stopped tt the Missouri. Word went back there were millions of acres of virgin soil, only waiting to be tickled by the plow, and they would give forth a mounteous harvest. It wasn't long after coach loads stopped at the side stations, and men. married and single, picked filing fees out of their vest pockets, went out on the prairie and set up in farming. Towns began peering through the map where before was a bald plain. And it was a short step till every town became a city and every quarter a candidate for townsite honors. The right to claim proximity to a gridiron called a town meant a fortune. The people tried to raise wheat. It didn't rain and the wheat didn't grow. The loan companies began foreclosing their paper taken up when shanties were built and tools were bought. Then the exodus began. Men who came with little went with nothing. They didn't say good words about South Dakota and immigrants studiously avoided the State. It wasn't till 1V.5 that people began to find out they didn't make money in South Dakota because they had none to start with. Then some one bored a well and the water epouted out at th? top. Across -the Missouri cattlemen found their way with great droves of stock. They picked out good draws, built dams across them and when the snow went away the dams were full. To-day every ranch has Its dam. or water hole, or spouter sending out water at from 78 to 90 degrees in temperature. It is an unfortunate farm that doesn't have an artesian well. The people in the eighties lost their crops because there was no water from above. The farmers of 1!M began watering their fields from below. Last year South Dakota had the best crops west of the Mississippi. There wasn't any particular advance in land prices till lS'JS. It could be picked up most anywhere in the State for J5 an acre. This is the way it climbed, in averages for tho State: 1S93 J6.0011900 '. .110.00 1S99 8.K;1901 15. 00 And this year the average is expected to near the twenty-dollar mark. Before 1S0S, 50.000 acres of land was a big total sale for the State of South Dakota. Since then it has looked like this: Acres. Acres. 1808 200.000,190!) 1.000.000 m) : 5oo,ouo,i9oi 2,000.000 A few big stakes were made in South Dakota land deals last year. Mr. Edmunds, of Yankton. bouKht an 8.0u0-acre ranch two years ago, for $20,000. When he sold the last quarter last year he was $)0,000 richer. The Adams & Floete Company, Chicago, turned sixty quarters twice; they made $100.000. South Dakotans who came to the State in the eighties haven't forgotten the exodus. But they say it won't happen again. They say the people have learned what to do with South Dakota. This is what they mean: In five months last vear fifty-seven of 131 creameries in South Dakota paid $453,44 for some 53.243,000 gallons of milk; so the 131 must have done a 1901 business of about $2.000,000. Seven years ago there wasn't a dairy in the State nor a cheese press. The ' farmers found South Dakota was made to grow range cattle. Cattle sheds are a curiosity there. In the range country, where the cattle of a single ranch graze by thousands on as many acres, there are two kinds of grass, the buffalo and the alkali. The buffalo grows in knots. It curls up like fine excelsior In tre fall and cures on the ground. The cattle go rooting for their feed in winter and turn up fat In the spring. Then the farmers found that South Da kota wasn't a wheat country. When twothirds of the 23.5 inches of rain comes in June, July and August, it isn t wise to try to make the wheat grow through the cold, dry winter. But, as it was.. South Dakota grew 21,000,000 bushels of wheat In 1900 ninth in the United States. The men who are moving to South Dakota now have money. They are the sons and grandsons of men who went early to Ohio, Illinois. Iowa, and the jvmnger generation moves west. They come with money to put up their bulldlnes. build their fences, plant their trees ana buy tneir implements. They will keep on coming, for there are millions of acres of ranch land west of the Missouri the land of the buffalo grass to be had for 50 cents an acre from the government. When the 416.000 acres of the Rosebud Inoian reservation tana worm from Jl.oiiO to $1.000 a quarter is opened in accordance with the treaty, there will be 25,000 claim ants to rush for the land. PKACTICI2 AM) KXCRCISK. AVhnt Jonef Ilofmnnn linn to AVould-Ilo Pianist. New York World. Sny to When Liszt was asked one day what ona should do in order to become an efficient piano player, he replied: "One must eat well and walk much. There is a deal of truth In this saying. in order to study successfully one should enjoy perieci pnysicai neaitn. uvery student of the piano should strive to strength en her muscles, for no other instrument taxes them so much as the piano. Some of the simplest melodies often re quire the utmost expenditure of finger lorce. w nere a person nas a correct touch the skin of the fingers does not become hard, and where it does harden it usually denotes tnat too mucn lorce had been expended. Do not waste too much time on finger exercises. In the end they will mar the true musical nature of the student. For exercise I would advise you to select the more difiicult passages from good compositions, and at the same time study a new piece. In order to pa?3 the hand from one place on the piano to another remove It always directly upon the key to be touched, and transfer the arm before and after the toucn from the strained into tho relaxed s-tate. In this way you will acquire endurance. Do not practice until you an fatigued. Stop before you become tired and wait until elasticity returns. Move the arm as little as possible, and rely upon the activity of the fingrs. Remember that a well-played piece, and one that you can readily compreher.d, la better adapted to develop in you the sense of the beautiful In music than a poorly played dSlficult composition. Music that is technically dilficult should be heard played by a competent musician rather than attempt it yourself. It is better to play a little more on oneday and a little les on another and not have any set hours for playlr.g. The trouble with most of our schools of music is that they are as If cat in a mold. They work in a mechnical. clockwork fashion, mapping out a course ami following It religiously. This cast-iron method of instruction is one of the worst enemies of art. No two individuals have exactly the same sentiments. Nor has every ont- the nan.e amount of musical ability. Therefore, to follow out the previously mapped out course without r gard to the person's individual ability Ik likely to do more harm thn good. Now, its to the time valuation of each note. If a performer were to give to each 'ihm

note the exat time value marked In the score, the performance would t like that of an automatic plino. As 1 hae al 1 In my previous lessons, bam to recognize the value of each musical thought and then study its time value the fame as you would If you were singing. After you know the musical thought th n determine the difftrer.ee in tirr.e htwtu the several notes contained in the thought, according to your own l. s-t Jul:in nt. But remember that the thought as a whoiu fchould tally exactly with the time value of the sum total of Its notes, as marked on the score. By this I mean that in playing a ree you ehould try ratlu r th:m inu rpr t merely the composer's notes to interpret hia thoughts. 1 can oest illustrate this by taking as an example three grtat actors dt claiming the same Shaksjeartan pire. Each repeat the same words, yet recites the piece differently. It is because each interpret some of the thoughts differently than the other, or according as he understands them, and therefore accentuates certain words and makes certain pauses that the other d'xs not make. It is the same In music, and the importance of expressing musical thoughts according to your own conception cannot lo overestimated. It is this powt r cf expression that marks the differ nee between a good player, and therefore in orcur to interpret musical thoughts you must first Kam to recognize them yourself. Consequently, always make your brain and your fingers work together. Do not merely play the notes as you tee them written, thereby going through a mere mechanical movement, but learn to know the thoughts you are trying to express. This phase of music is so Important and so often overlooked that I shall illustrate my meaning again. A music composition should be played Just as you would read a story or a poem out loud. Bemember that single words, like single notes, mean nothing. A number of words express an Idea the same as a number of notes express an idea of music. It is the association of ideas following one another In consecutive order that goes to make up sti.rv or noeni. The same thing pre-

vails in music. A piece should be pi a.) tu Just as you would read a poem. colds aiu: ixri:cTioi's. Clnira that They Are ot caucni vj Uipimure to the Weather. Dr. II. W. Gardner, in the Lancet. The evidence that all colds are infectious and that without the presence or mrecuon it is impossible to catch a cold la probaDiy far stronger than your corresponuem. ur. Clayton Jones, thinks. Colds are almost unknown in the Arctic circle, not on ac count of the action of the continuous cold, but because the greater part of that region 13 uninhabited. When Sir William Conway and his men were exploring Spitzbergen, though they were exposed to great privations and were almost constantly wet through, they never caught a cold, but directly they came down to Andree's settlement on the coast, where tome forty men were living in almost constant intercourse with the mainland, they all developed violent colds. Nansen and his men never caught a cold during all the three years of his voyage, notwithstanding the utmost exposure, but directly they reached civilization on the coast of Norway, though still within the Arctic circle, they all suffered badly from colds. The weather Is not always keen and bracing in the Arctic regions; during the summer time in Franz Josef Land, at any rate, it is exceedingly damp, and raw mist-laden east winds prevail; yet the members of the Jacksonllarmsworth expedition never caught a cold there, though all but two of them did so directly they reached civilization. More noteworthy still weie Conway' experiences in the Himalayas. While among the mountains he and his men, notwithstanding great exposure, never caught colds; nor did they ev.'n when they vlsltel the small remote native villages; but once they came down to a village where there was a small European settlement in communication with the outer world, and there they all took bad colds. Nor is it only in the Arctic regions and among high moun tains that colds are absent; the wme immunity from them is noticeable during long sea voyages, and when camping out in the desert; and, still more unexpectedly, in the best open-air sanitariums, such as Nordrach. where the ventilation is practically perfect, it Is found that the patients do not catch cold. There is. I believe, plenty of other evidence to show that there are places remote from ordinary human life where colds cannot be caught whatever the exposure; probably many of your readers can bring forward Instances. On the other hand, that ordinary colds are in the highest degree infectious is now becoming a matter of common knowledge and any medical man If he goes about with open eyes can collect evidence for himself. I have watched a cold pass from house to bouse, and have even traced It from one village to another, and have listened, not without some amusement, while the different sufferers from it have explained to me just how they caught It ascribing It to some open window, change of garment, or other fancied imprudence. I know hous s where all the members of the household, including visitors and children, are constantly catching colds, and they are not the airy or even the draughty houses, but stuffy, grimy, badly ventilated and dark ones. No doubt it is possible to have an inflammation of the nasal mucous membrane, as of the conjunctiva, from some simple Irritant, but such an event is rare, whereas the ordinary Infectious cold is by far the commonest of all diseases. Surely, therefore, it is important that its Infectiousness should be fiankly recognized. Sad but C'Iorious Dar for Turkey. Minneapolis Journal. The Terrible Turk who has been going around the country giving exhibitions of wrestling is not the Terrible Turk who went to the bottom of the ocean steamer BurKoyne several years ago. The ejrlginal T. T. was, in fact, drowned, as narrated, but eastern Europe is full of tcrribles who are ready to step at once to the front. The latest T. T. is a bad-looking beact, very muscular and with considerable malice in his face, which is half the battle. But the Terrible made the mistake of his life when his manager showed him up in a Texas town and offered $." for any one who could throw the Mohammedan. It happened that there was dwelling In this Texas village a blacksmith who was also a T. T., but the initials in his cae stool for Terrible Texan. He was two yards high and the meat on him was as touch as a steak particularly recommended by the butcher and cut off about two inche behind the horns. The two T. T.'s decided to take each other on. and In less than "five minutes the village blacksmith, instead of standing under the chestnut tree, was sitting upon the Sultan's subject. In fact, the latter was so badly sprained that he is still in the doctor's hands. In addition to this feat of arms, th blacksmith, who was refused the fiftydollar -prize when he called for It. took it out in "licking" the Turk's manager, a job which was most thoroughly done. It was a happy and glorious night for Texas. A II by rnnnil tlie Fi rut Diamond. Mr. Howard Hensman. in his new biography of Cecil Rhodes, tells the following Ftory of the first diamond found In South, Africa: "In 1mT7 diamonds had been discovered ia the region to the north of the rance river. This discovery was mad accidentally. Aw Boer farmer one day saw a native chili gleefully playing with a small pebble that glittered and coruscated in the nun with unusual brilliance. He tok the stone from the child, examined It Jüid carried It home with him. H could have had but little idea of what the ftone really was, for prolably the only time lie iad ve-r heard of diamonds was when he read the Old Testament; but a Boer has always a keen eye for business, and. thinking that the More might have some commercial value, the farmer showed it to a British trad-r r.amd O'Reilly. O'Reilly seems to have recognized the tone Immediately as a diamond, and bought it of the Boer after considerable haggling for 20. Next h( i ubmitted it to In. Atherftotie. of (Irnhain-tow n an authority on mineralogy who unhesitatingly declared it to be a diamond of th purest water. The diamond was then h.own to Sir Philip Woodehou-. high commissioner at the Cap, and was bought by hid from O'Reilly for .)." The nturnl Cemeiiienoe. Cleveland Leader. Th commercial reviews say that there is too much prosperity in the iron and sttel business.. This m ans thet th" American pvple want more than, the mills can produce and orders are beir.g placed abroad. Republican control nevt r fails to produce results. Proliubly Something Illae. Milwaukee Sentinel. With proud and haughty mi.n und It won! there is no mistaking the tiiemlxr for Kentucky gave rovalty such a raklnj trnt the throne of earth with terror, or with tomthlr.g else, are shaking.

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