Indianapolis Journal, Volume 52, Number 359, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1902 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAT..' THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23. 1002.

COAL MEN IN SESSION

tiii:v api'ot cofi:hi:ks foii 3ii.i:uv 3iKi:Ti.(i .m:.t jiontii. Plans for Installation of Dr. Ilryan at I. IV Powder Explosion at Paoll Other mii of the State. S;cial to the Indianapolis Journal. Ti:nitK HAUTE, Inl.. Dec. 24. The Indiana bituminous coal operators held a eesglon until after midnisht, last night, discussing plans for united action at the ennual Interstate joint conference with the miners to be held In Indianapolis next month. President Talley was authorized to appoint twelve delegates to the conference, but all other operators are Invited to attend the sessions. The twelve, however, are to act on all matters that come up for decision and four of the twelve will be named as the scale committee which, with like committees from the operators of other States and committees from the miners' organization, will prepare a basis of agreement to Ik? rubmitted to the conference. The meeting, which was composed of about forty operators, did not take action Instructing the delegates as to the amount to txs contended for as the price of mining for the next scale year, that matter being left to the delegation. BECOMES AX IMJIAXA CO.MPAXY. Graham and .Morton Transportation Line Ilecricniilzea In This State. BENTON HARBOR. Mich., Dec. 24. Secretary Morton, of the Graham and Morton Transportation Company, announced to-day that the company had been reorganized under the laws of Indiana, and that the entire fleet of boats operated by the company had been purchased by President J. II. Graham, while the real estate of the company has passed Into the hands of the Crawford estate. The property that the Crawford estate has purchased comprises both Michigan and Illinois real estate, docks and buildings. The business offices of the company will remain, as heretofore, at Benton Harbor and Chicago, although under the reorganization Michigan City, Ind., Is the company's headquarters. It Is understood that there will be no chunge in the oMlcers of the company. Contract for n Xfw Factory. Fpecial to the Indianapolis Journal. LAPORTE, Ind., Dec. 2. The Laporte Iind Company o-day awarded the contract for the erection of a factory here for the rianet Company, which will remove to Laporte from Chicago, to F. M. Garthwalt, of Chicago, the amount being The Interior work, plumbing, kilns. CHRISTMAS WEATHER. Cold "Wave Predicted for Indiana Toliny Fair To-Morrow. WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. Forecast for Thursday and Friday: For Indiana Fair and colder on Thursday, with a cold wave; Friday fair; brisk to high northwest winds. For Illln' Fair on Thursday; colder In touth portion; Friday fair; continued cold; brisk to high north winds. For Ohio Fair and colder on Thursday, with a cold wave, except snow In northeast portion; brisk to high west wlnda; Friday fair and continued cold. Local Observntlon on "Wednesday. Bar. Tern. R.H. Wind. Weather. Prec. 7 a. m.. ..o 3- W South. It inow. 0.01 7 p. m... 30.(0 16 18 West. P't cloudy. 0.05 Maximum temperature, 36; minimum temperature, 1. Comparative statement of the mean temperature and total precipitation on Dec. 21: Temp. Prec. Normal 33 0.10 Mean 26 OM Departure from normal 7 O.0I Departure since Dec. 1 23 1.23 Departure since Jan. 1 6 4.1 1 PJus. W. T. BLYTHE, Section Director. Yesterday's Temperatures. Stations. Mln. 3S 26 36 -6 Max. 50 46 43 - 36 40 4 4S 22 40 38 26 10 - 32. 42 10 2S 60 52 62 36 26 . O 14 -2 56 26 50 40 30 4S 4$ 54 54 32 41 36 24 44 34 fi2 40 30 36 38 10 5) 36 6 42 31 3S . 51 30 7 p. m. 42 40 41 8 31 40 4 46 10 Abilene, Tex Amarillo. Tex Atlanta. Ga Bismarck. N. D Buffalo, N. Y Cairo. Ill 20 36 CaUary, AlbTta 12 Chattanooga, Tenn 30 Chicago 30 Cincinnati. O. 30 26 2t IS 8 26 8 26 2 4 52 46 6S 18 mm 12 2 48 16 46 30 46 38 48 50 ' tm 42 32 14 40 6 56 4) 30 Cleveland, O , Concordia, Kan Davenport. la Denver, Col 21 21 10 26 " 6 26 s 12 30 4 28 4 S Des Moines, la Dodge City, Kan Dubuque, la Duluth. Minn Kl Paso. Tex Fort Smith. Ark Galveston. Tex Grand Haven, Mich Grand Junction, Col.... Havre. Mont Helena. Mont 12 Huron. S. I) 4 Jacksonville. Fla 4f Kansas City, Mo 26 XJttle Rock. Ark 22 Louisville, Ky 32 Marquette. Mich 2S Memphis, Tenn 2S Modena. Utah 2S Montgomery, Ala 34 New Orleans, La 40 . New York city 20 Nashville. Tenn 34 Norfolk. Va 26 North Platte. Neb 22 Oklahoma. O. T 30 Omaha. Neb 4 Palestine. Tex 38 Parkersburg. W. Va 21 Philadelphia 20 Pittsburg. Pa 24 Pueblo. Col 22 Qu Appelle, Assin 14 lUpId City, S. D 6 Bait Lake City 32 8t. Louis 34 Bt. Paul, Minn 6 Panta Fe, N. M 26 Hprlngrleld. Ill 32 Fprlngfield, Mo so Vlcksburg. Miss 31 Washington, D. C 20 -20 6 42 ft 4 42 14 26 50 30 Had Weather In the Northwest. MINNEAPOLIS. Minn.. Dec. 21. Dispatches to the Journal tell of a forty-mile wind and rapidly falling temperature at points In Minnesota and the Dakotas. The mercury In the Red River valley is 12 below and vlll reach 20 below or more before morning. Train service on lines in South Dakota Is crippled. At Huron, a division point of the Northwestern, the 8 a. m. express from the cast had not arrived and no train from the west reached the city during the day. Wisconsin In an Icy Grip. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 21.-Tho entire

State of Wisconsin Is In the grip of Icy weather this evening; many of the cities have been swept by a blizzard. Snow covers the ground and the temperature has been falling steadily for twentyfour hours. UOVEIIENTS OF STEAMERS. LIVERPOOL. Dec. 21. Arrived: Noordland. from Philadelphia; Oceanic, from New York; t.'ltonla, from Roston. Silled: Haverford, for Philadelphia; Teutonic, for New York. NEW YORK. Dec. 2l.-S.iHed: St. Louis, tor Southampton; Cymric, for Liverpool. .SOUTHAMPTON. Dec. 21. Arrived: St. Paul, from New York. GLASGOW. Dec. 21. Arrived: Laurents n. from New York. ANTWERP, Dec. 25.-Sailed: Switzerland, for Philadelphia. ANTWERP. Dec. 21. Arrived: Finland, from New York. PREM EN, Dec. 21. Arrived: Cassel, from New York. LONDON; Doc. 23.-Salled: Mesaba, for New York. NAPLES. Dec. 23. Sailed: Vancouver, f-7 U:tcn. ,

etc., will bring the buildings up to $12.0. of which 136.iQ will be paid by citizens of Laporte. The new company will employ 200. men.

INSTALLATION' OF DR. IIRY.W. It Will Take Place on I. I. Foundation Day, Jan. -. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RLOOMINGTON, Ind.. Dec. 21. The formal Installation of Dr. William Lowe Bryan as president of Indiana University will take place at Iiloomlngton on Jan. 20 and 21, in connection with the celebration of the eighty-second anniversary of the founding of the institution. The dedication of the new science hall, for which appropriation was made by the last Legislature, will take place at the same time. It Is the Intention of those having charge of the exercises to make the celebration one In keeping with the simple dignity of the occasion. To this end representatives from the educational Institutions of the State, and from leading universities outside Indiana, will be invited. It Is also the Intention to secure the attendance of Governor Durbin and other official representatives of the State, and the presence of a large body of alumni Is expected. President Faunee, of Urown University, will deliver the principal address at the Installation exercises. At the dedication of the new science building, which will be given up largely to the work of the department of physics. Dr. Nlcholls, professor of physics in Cornell University, will be the chief speaker. President Angell. of Michigan University, has signified his Intention to be present, and will take part in the exercises. Rose Polytechnic Xotes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Dec. 21. The result of the term examinations at the Rose Polytechnic Institute have been made known to those who passed. There Is a report that thirteen freshmen failed, but the school authorities do not verify the report. Dr. Gray, of the faculty, has been making tests of the properties of paper Insüiated cables, and Is working In co-operation with Mr. Preece, of London, who for many years had charge of the telegraph and cable service of the English government. The Investigation Is in regard to the patent right suits brought by the National Cable and Conduit Company against all other companies using paper Insulation. The case will be tried next spring in the New York Federal Court. There is to be a series of lectures on special engineering topics by noted engineers in the next term. TO INVALIDATE A FRANCHISE. Salt Filed Agnlnst the Valparaiso Water "Works Company. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VALPARAISO, Ind.. Dec. 24. Another chapter was added this afternoon in tho celebrated water cases which have been in court the past ten years, causing tho city heavy expenses by the filing of a suit in the Porter Circuit Court attacking the franchise of the Valparaiso City Water Works Company, which was granted in 1SS3. The title of tho case Is Oliver- P. KInsey, Samuel S. Stainer and William G. Windle vs. the City of Valparaiso, William F. Spooner, mayor of Valparaiso; the members of tne Valpariso City Council and the Valparaiso City Water Works Company. Kinsey is vice president of Valparaiso College and Stainer and Windle are bank directors. The plaintiffs ask to have a water ordinance under which the company is operated, declared void and set aside; the city enjoined from paying the rate of hydrant rental stipulated In tho contract, and from paying city taxes on property of the Water Works Company on the ground that the terms of the franchise are illegal, in that the length of time llfty years was unreasonable and therefore void. The complaint also states that the provision for exclusive right created a monopoly and Is void; that the provision requiring the city to pay taxes of the water company violates the rule for equal and uniform taxation. The object of the suit Is to knock out that part of the ordinance fixing the terms of the franchise fifty years and the effect, if the plaintiffs win the suit, will be that the city will have to pay only a reasonable rental for the fire hydrants and the company will have to pay taxes on the property the same as any other property owner. Representative E. D. Crumpacker Is attorney for the plaintiffs. The suit is brought on behalf of many taxpayers. Petition for Hallway Franchise. Ppecial to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind., Dec 21. A petition was filed with the Grant County Commissioners to-day for a franchise for a new electric railway by the Bundy-Clark Company, brokers, and it is backed by men of money. It is said that the line will bo built In the spring-. The proposed line will extend east through or near Landess, Van Rurcn, Warren, Ruckeye and Liberty Center, west through or near Roseburg. Herbst, Swayzee, Sims. Sycamore, Greentown ' and Ver mont. Marion will be the center of the line. The general offices of the company and the power house will be located here. The road will compete with the Clover-leaf for about sixty miles. "Wrecked by Gunpowder Explosion. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. PAOLI, Ind., Dec. 21. The explosion of a can of gunpowder did great damage to the J. P. Riley hardware store this morning. George Ball, a clerk, was trying to clean tho flue with a little gunpowder and the flash of fire from the stove Ignited a twen-ty-flve-pound can of powder near by, causing the explosion. Ball was terribly burned, almost the entire plate-glass front was destroyed and the brick walls of the ofttco annex were torn out. The goods near the stove were slightly damaged. Christmas live at the Home. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENSBURG, Ind., Dec. 2i.-The inmates of the I. O. O. F. Home In this city celebrated Christmas eve in an oldfashioned way this evening. There was a tree. Its base trimmed In the national colors and its limbs laden with presents and ornaments. The presents are gifts from lodges and individuals over the entire State. Chas. I. AInsworth, a member of the Home com mittee, delivered an address, and there were songs, recitations and scriptural read ings. Little Irl Ilarned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind.. Dec. 21. Marchie, the Ht-tle-four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alford Walker, living at Reed's Station, a few miles west of here, was fatally burned Wednesday evening while the mother was at a neighbor's. The child attempted to place a stick of wood In the stove, using her skirt to shield her hand from the fire. The tlames caught the skirt and 'enveloped the body, which was burned to a crisp. After four hours of terrible suffering she died. Has One Husbnnd Too Many. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HAMMOND, Ind., Dec. 21. After mourn ing her husband as dead for four years, Nellie Ross met him on the streets of this city to-day. In the meantime she had met and married a Greek named Kallzos. Nel lie Wicker was sixteen years old when she married Charles Ross, five years ago. After a son had been born to them Ross left Hammond and not a single trace of him had been learned until to-day. The young woman, her child and Its father left Ham mond to-day. Arretted on Perjury Charge. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VINCENNES. Ind.. Dec. 21. Ray Harris and Mel Barnett, of this city, were nr rested here to-day and ta,ken to Mount Carmel, 11L, to aniwer to a charge of per Jury. It Is allegea that they testified false ly for the defense in the case against Bill Epperson, who was convicted recently . of horse stealing, uotn prisoners are well connected, and belong to prominent fam ilies. Fell Inder the Wheels. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE. Ind.. Dec. 24. Riley Ewtng. a prominent farmer of this county, was run over by a Big Four train at the depot In this city to-night and so badly Injured that he probably will die. lie tried

to board the train as It was pulling out and fell under the wheels, which passed over one leg and an arm.

Snd Christmas for Ilia Mother. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TIIORNTOWN, Ind., Dec. 21. Mrs. Fred Bushong, of this place, to-day received a telegram stating that her son William, a brake-nan on the Big Four, was instantly killed at Springfi.-ld. O., last night, while making his lirst run on the Springfield division. He was twenty-eight years old and unmarried. Murderer Arrested In Kentucky. Facial to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind.. Dec. 21.-The po lice received a message this evening that Tim Newlin, who killed Walter Gossman in a gambling room in this city last Saturday night, has been arrested in Henderson, Ky. Death of n Centenarian. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. DANVILLE, III., Dec. 21. James Kildao. 102 years old, supposed to be the oldest resident of Illinois, died to-day of old age at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in this city. Church Floor Uurned Out. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CRAWFORDSVILLE, Dec. 21. The First Presbyterian Church floor burned out to night, inflicting damage of $1,000. Indiana Obituary. GREENSBURG. Ind.. Dec. 21. Mrs. Eliz abeth Dobyns died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John L. Braden, last even ing, aged eighty-seven. She was born In Mason county, Kentucky, in 1S15. In 1S36 she married Will E. Dobyns and together they came to Decatur county in 184), set tling in the vicinity of Clarksburg, and Fince that time she had been a continuous resident of this county. MARION. Ind.. Dec. 21.-Harry Lottridge had written to his parents at Jonesboro that he would .arrive home yesterday to spend the holidays, but instead a telegram came announcing his death at v est Superior, Wis. He was a son of Justice F. M. Lottridge. He was a musician, and had been traveling with a theatrical company, .giving musical specialties. RICHMOND, Ind.. Dec. 21. Word was received from Chicago to-night of the death of R. E. Forkner, a well-known resident of .his city. Ho was there visiting his son. J. Ed Forkner. the artist. He was about sixty years old. He had served as town ship assessor. NEW ALBANY. Ind.. Dec. 24. George W. Clipper, aged fifty-eight, fell dead this morning while building a kitchen fire. Heart disease was the cause. He was a soldier in the Fifty-third Indiana Regiment during the civil war. Indiana Notes. EVANSVILLE. The Tuple's Theater of this city has been leased to Harry G. Sommers, of New York city, for a period of live years. The two local theaters are un der one management at present, but there is to be competition beginning with next season. The Peoples will be remodeled. The amount of consideration is not given. MARION. The survey for the new steam road to extend through Marion from Fort Wayne to Indianapolis has been completed. The right or way has been changed from going by way of Huntington and Mount Etna to Van Buren and Warren. RICHMOND. Benjamin Starr, of this city, probably is the most expensive mem ber of the Stnto Senate. The special elec tion at which he was chosen to succeed the late C. C. Blnkley cost J2.S21.73, which is about ?1 for each vote cast. PANIC IN AN ASYLUM. Lives of Orphans Endangered, but Xnne Seriously Injured. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 21.-A small blaze in the storeroom of the Presbyterian Orphan Asylum on Preston street, in this city, to-night caused a panic among the Inmates of the place. The entire building was filled with smoke, but the matron managed to get all of the children out of the house safely, with the exception of two little boys, who were rescued by a fireman after they had been almost suffocated. The boys were revived, however, as soon as they were taken Into the open air. Other Fires. ALBUQUERQUE. N. M.. Dec. 21. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Hospital has been destroyed by lire, which is supposed to have originated from a defective tlue. Dr. J. B. Cutter, the physician In charge, and his assistants worked heroically in getting out the 200 odd patients. But little furniture or anything else about the buildings was saved. One person died from exposure and fright. The railway company has just completed an addition costing $3.000 to the main building. The total loss will amount to about $15,000. CORUNNA, Mich., ?)ec. 24. Fire, which broke out In a jewelry store in the business Fectlon of this city early to-day, destroyed property" valued at $40,000 before it was extinguished. Among the buildings destroyed is the three-story First National Hank structure, in which, was located the Masonic hall. ST. LOUIS. Dec. 24. Fire, believed to have started from an electric wire, caused JOO.OoO damage to-night in the building occupied by the Strauss & Stumer Mercantile Company, clothing, and the Galer & Strok Millinery Company. CORNING, N. Y.. Dec. 24.-Lawrence-vllle, Tioga county, Pennsylvania, was visited by a disastrous fire to-day. It originated in a millinery store from an overturned lamp. Loss more than $00,000. GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. Several alleged Anarchists who were refused admission into the United States have arrived at Genoa on the way to their homes. They have been placed under police surveillance. William Waldorf Astor has given $250,000 to build a new out-patient department for the Hospital for Sick Children, in Great Ormond street, London. It will be dedicated to the nemory of his daughter Gwendoline, who died recently. The depression in the British cottonspinning Industry Is evidenced by the fact that eighty-five joint stock companies in Lancashire, with an aggregate capital of $23.175,000 and having 6.W7.0U0 spindles, record a net loss of $7,150 for this year. A violent snowstorm has been raging at Constantinople for -forty-eight hours. Communication by land and sea is interrupted and the telegraph wires are down. The weather Is intensely cold. There have been many heavy falls of snow in all the European provinces of Turkey. A dispatch from Shanghai says the missionaries and others at the capital of the province of Kansu report that although Gen. Tung Fu Slang Is undoubtedly accumulating stores and men, tho local authorities attribute this. action to his fear of arrest and do not expect any aggression on, his part. Mme. Balenza, who was arrested on her arrival at Buenos Ayree from France, has been released. Mme. Balenza was said to be an Intimate friend of Romain d'Aurlgnac, who, with other members of the Humbert family, was arrested at Madrid Dec. 20, in connection with the famous Paris cafe frauds. Official papers have been Issued at London which give full details of the new British scheme for naval education, under which the training of officers Is to be unified and simplified by the adoption of a single system for the training of cadets for all three branches of the service, executives, engineers and marines. The police of Paris have seized the papers of Jean De Li Mar, manager of the Klondike Mining Company. He is suspected of irregular proceedings. The company is a Paris concern and all the parties interested are Frenchmen. Three arrests have been made. M. De La Mar asserts that the mines are being worked and that they yield $12.0i0 a month. The condition of the winter crops in nearly all European Russia Is regarded as absolutely bad. This condition arises from the delay In sowing, which was due to the late harvest and the rainy autumn and winter, and the seed did not germinate sufficiently before the advent of early and Intense frost. The crop outlook is serious even in several of the southern provinces of the country. k There Is no foundation fcr the report that the Pope is ill. The pontiff is in good health and excellent spirits. He did not retire until 10 o'clock Tuesday night, rose at 7 yesterday morning, celebrated mass In his private chapel and celebrated a Christmas eve mass at midnight. After the last ceremony the Pope, wished all present a merry Christmas and said, laughingly: "Do I look as If 1 hadtbeen 111 yesterday?" Count Stephen Bethlcn, a Hungarian deputy and member of an ancient and no

ble family committed suicide yesterday at Abazzi, a watering place n the Gulf, of Flume. At dawn yesterday morning the count took a small boat and rowed out a short distance from shore. ITe then shot himself. Before doing so he tied himself to the mast of the boat in order, to prevent his body from falling overboard. The co'int has recently suffered from nervous prostration. While full details of the recent earthquake disaster at Andljan are not obtainable, owing to lack of communication, the brief dispatches received at St. Petersburg describe the situation as horrible. The temperature has fallen to the freezing point and thousands are homeles. One section of the city has been completely destroyed, only one cotton gin and one church are standing there. The first shock drove the Inhabitants generally in doors, otherwise the less of lite would have been much greater. TRADE, INDUSTRY, LABOR. The wages of all engineers, firemen, conductors, trainmen and station employes of the Alabama Great Southern have been increased from 5 to 10 per cent., effective Dec. L This affects about 1,500 men. Freight traffic on the Iowa Central is badly tied up in the yards at Marshalltown, a division point, because of a strike of the switchmen. Superintendent Sweeney failed to reply to their demand for an increase of wages, presented three weeks ago. N. S. B. Beardsley, president of the National Salt Company, announced yesterday that on account of the more convenient location of Ithaca with reference to the company's salt plants the general offices of the company would be moved to Ithaca from Scranton, Pa., immediately. William Potter, the member of Company F, Second Regiment, who was expelled from the Schenectady Painters' Union because of his service in the Hudson Railroad strike, was reinstated yesterday by that organization and Immediately applied to his former employes to re-employ him. Ills request was acceded to and he was put to work. An operation unique In the history of Nova Scotia mining is planned by Ochiltree McDonald, who has bonded coal areas near Port Morien, according to a dispatch from Glace Bay, N. S. The coal areas which he

controls are wholly submarine and he is planning to sink a shaft on a rocky islet known as Flint Rock, mining his coal from under the ocean bed. The 4,700 engineers and firemen on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul system, have been given an increase in pay of about 10 per cent. The joint committees of the locomotive engineers and firemen on that system, which have been in Chicago since Dec. l adjusting tne wage scaie, rpncherl an nirrpement with the manage ment of the entire system yesterday. To increase the export of Siberian butter the department of agriculture of Russia has appropriated $H9,OU0. In his report of the plan to the State Department, United States Consul Smith, at Moscow, says the amount will be used In increasing the num ber of instructors for creameries in W estern Siberia, in maintaining creamery schools in Kurgan and Omsk province. At midnight 250 cab drivers quit work at St. Louis because their employers failed to pay higher wages. About eighty-five liverymen and undertakers are affected by the strike. There are 570 members of the local union of cab and carriage drivers. As a number of the larger firms of liverymen and undertakers complied with the demands their drivers did not strike. Acting Governor Northcott and State Au ditor McCullough, of Illinois, acting as tax commissioners, have fixed the rate of the State tax levy at 40 cents on the $100 of assessed valuation. Of this amount 2.8$ cents is for general revenue and 1.12 cents for school purposes. This is the lowest rate for years. The amount of taxes to be raised is $4,500,000, but this Is reduced $1,000,000 by the amount refunded to the State by the federal government on account of expenses incurred during the civil war. The rate last year was 50 cents. Chase S. Osborne, Michigan State railroad commissioner, who formerly was a reporter on a Milwaukee newspaper, and his associates have been offered $2.000.000 for their iron ore properties in the Sudbury district, north of the Canadian Soo, in Ontario. Diamond dilll operations have been in progress for several months and it is believed a large deposit of ore has been encountered The offer to purchase Is said to come fror? tho Clerguc interests, and is one reason for the loan of $3,500.0u0 made yesterday by the Consolidated Lake Superior Company. The Missouri Supreme Court has denied the Weltmer School of Magnetic Healing, of Nevada, Mo., a rehearing in the suit against C. M. Bishop for libel. The court holds that the business is not legitimate and that the company is not entitled to the protection of the libel laws. The court also holds that its opinion is not in conflict with the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in a suit requiring the postmaster at Nevada to deliver mail to the school, because this court had evidence before it while the United States Supreme Court passed on the law on a demurrer only. The directors of the Consolidated Lake Superior Company met in Philadelphia yesterday, and after the meeting announcement was made that the company had effected a loan of $3.500,000. The announcement was made through Theodore C. Search, vice president and treasurer of the company, and was as follows: "Arrangements have heen made with Messrs. Speyer & Co., of New York, and associated banks and trust companies of Philadelphia for a loan of $3.500,000. Provision has been made for proper representation of the banking Interests of New York and Philadelphia ih the board of directors." A new suit was Instituted in the United States Court at Trenton, N. J., to have the National Salt Company adjudged a bankrupt. A former suit was dismissed by Judge Klrkpatrlck because of proceedings instituted in the New Jersey Court of Chancery for the appointment of receivers. The allegation is made in the new suit that in August last when the officers of the National company, cognizant of the fact that the company was insolvent, transferred property to the value of $1.022,000 to Mllo M. Behling for $150.000, and that Belding was permitted to obtain a Judgment for $238.u00 for a balance claimed to be due him as a creditor of the concern. It is charged that the claim of Belding was purely "colorable," and In the interest of the International Salt Company, with which he was connected. In connection with the agitation on the part of the people of New York to compel the elevated and surface roads to furnish better accommodations. Mayor Low has written a letter to the president of the surface car companies 'in which he asks why it is not practicable to run at all hours of the day and evening as many cars as are now operated during the rush hours, and why, during the crowded hours two conductors should not be placed on every car, one of whom should be required to remain always on the rear platform. The mayor also suggests the vestibuling of the cars for the protection of the driver from the weather. In a letter to the manager of the elevated road, the mayor says It does not admit of doubt that the service is open to serious criticism, and declares he thinks trains ought to run as the public convenience demends. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. President McLean, of Iowa State University, announces that the investigation Into the recent student riots has practically closed. The sophomore class has agreed to pay the damages, approximating $500, resulting from the riot. Benjamin C. Jolley, former confidential clerk of the Weare Commission Company, and Charles G. McNeil, of Sioux City, la., who were Jointly tried in Judge Brentano's court at Chicago, on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the commission company, were found not guilty by the Jury. Gratz B. Slrlckler has been assigned by James Knox Taylor, supervising architect of the Treasury Department, to superintend the erection of United States government buildings at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Mr. Strlckler reached St. Louis yesterday and had a conference with Director of Works Taylor. A commission as first lieutenant of the Twelfth Regiment. National Guard, signed by Governor Odell, has been received for Cornelius Vanderbllt by Col. George R. Dyer, of New York. Mr. Vanderbllt only two days before he was taken ill passed an exceptionally high examination for the position,. to which he had been elected some weeks previous. Not for a long time has there been so light a Christmas mall at New York as this season. Last year the two days before Christmas found the postoffice clerks swamped by outgoing and incoming mall. No extra force has had to In? put on since the first of the month, when extra men are always hired. Why there is so little mall Is a puzzle to the officials. Cardinal Gibbons, in accordance with his annual custom, has sent letters of greeting appropriate to the season of Christmas to the Pope and each of the. cardinals, numbering over sixty, throughout the world. Ills Eminence has likewise sent a letter to each of the Catholic crowned heads, including the Emperor of Austria, the King of Spain, the King and Queen of Portugal, the King of the Belgians, the King of Saxony and the prince regent of Bavaria. The

cardinal sends these Christmas letters to the monarchs every year In accordance with ctinuette. as he himself Is a prince of the Catholic Church. Being an American, however, the title is merely one of form in his care. The Hepburn Doat and Oar Company of Toledo has commenced the construction of what will be the largest ice yacht In the world. It will be entered for the world's championship to be held at Gull Lake. Mich., this winter. The dimensions are 26 feet track of runners; backbone. 54 feet; mast. S) feet; canvas, $u0 square feet; total weight, one ton. A clerical error In the commutation of Rev. Rowlan P. Hills, the Nebraska bigamist, will prevent his getting his liberty until April. 1004. A mistake of one year was made In calculations. It Is probable Governor Savage will not shorten the sentence. Hills had arranged to marry his second wife at Blair when released. He was pardoned yesterday on the supposition that his term ended April, 1303. At the Salvation Army dinner to the poor In Toledo to-day James J. Corbett, John J. Sullivan, Mayor (Golden Rule) Jones and the Rev. F. D. Kelsey, all national characters, will address the diners. Sullivan and Corbett. who are appearing at rival theaters this week, both volunteered to act as waiters at the dinner, but the army suggested that they make a speech. When they learned that Jones and Kelsey would speak they accepted the invitation.

0BITUAEY. IVate Snlsbary, Controlling Partner In "Raffalo Bill'" Show. NEW YORK, Dec. 21. Nate Saulsbury, controlling partner In the Buffalo Bill Wild West show, died to-day at his home in Long Branch, aged fifty-seven years. Disease of the stomach, from which he had suffered for several years, was the cause of Mr. Salsbury's death. Other Deaths. SALT LAKE. Utah. Dec. 21. George W. Thatcher, aged sixty-two, a Utah pioneer and for years prominent in political and cnurcn arrairs, is dead at his nome in Logan, Utah, after a long illness. Mr. Thatcher crosol the plains with his parents with the first band of Mormon pioneers. In the early days of the State Mr. Thatcher was one of the famous "pony express riders" and later was identified with many public enterprises. Mr. Thatcher was a delegate to the national Democratic convention in Kansas City in 1900. GUTHRIE, O. T., Dec. 21. Former Chief Isparahacher, of the Creek Indians, died suddenly to-night at Okmulgee, I. T., at the age of ninety years. He had been prominent in Creek affairs for three score years and had been connected with every treaty of importance between the United States government and Indians during that time. Recently he was chosen to represent the tribe in Washington on matters of importance concerning the Creek Nation. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 21. Information has been received to the effect that Major Kmory S. Foster, a Union veteran of the civil war and a prominent citizen of this city. Is dead at Oakland, Cal., as the result of an old wound. He was sixty-four years old. Major Foster has held numerous public offices of trust and for nine years was editor of the St. Louis Journal, the Times and other papers. CHICAGO, Dec 24. Capt. Alexander Hansen, during the Spanish-American war commander of the transport Seguranca, running between Tampa and Santiago, is dead here of Brlght's disease. Captain Hansen came to Chicago from his home in Morrlstown, N. J., three months ago, and was a guest of his brother. He was fifty-seven years old. The remains will be taken to Morrlstown for interment. DAVENPORT, la., Dec. 21.-Julius Lischer, county attorney and one of the most prominent Republican politicians in Iowa, died this morning from a complication of troubles aggravated by active participation in the last campaign. NEW YORK. Dec. 24. Howard Ellis, a lawyer of this city, and a former United States consul at Holland, dropped dead in liroadway to-day. He had been attending to a law case a few moments before. NEW YORK, Dec. 24. Joseph L. McBlrney, treasurer of the National Lead Company, died to-day of pneumonia. MURDERS AND SUICIDES. John Moog, seventy-five years old, who for the past twenty years had kept a cigar store on South Fourth street, St. Louis, was found dead last night in his store. Somebody had entered the place, shot Moos and stolen his cigars. At Cordell. O. T., J. A. WThite, editor of the Cordell Beacon, fatally shot A. J. Johnson, a prominent townsman. The cause of the tragedy was an old quarrel, which was renewed when they met and attempted to discuss their differences. George Bundahl, a laborer, thirty-eight years old, shot and killed Caroline A. Moen, aged nineteen, and sent two bullets Into his own bfain at Crookston, Minn. He is still alive but will die. It is thought Bundahl did the shooting because the girl jilted him. Adelbert Lemon, ten years old, sbn of the Rev. H. A. Lemon, Nebraska State evangelist for tho Christian Church, shot himself at Lincoln yesterday and died at night. The boy said that the act was premeditated. He told the doctors he had bought Christmas presents, had had a good time and wanted to die. Thomas J. Sharkey, the private detective who was convicted of manslaughter in the second degree for having killed Nicholas Fish, the banker, in New York on Sept. 27, was yesterday sentenced' to state's prison for ten years. Later Justice Scott, in the Supreme Court, granted an order directing the district attorney to show cause on Monday next why a certificate of reasonable doubt should not issue pending an appeal. The New Jersey Court of Pardons has decided to take no action In the case of Llbbie Garrabrant. who is serving a life sentence for murder. The case had been before tho board of pardons a number of times. She has been in prison about thirty years for killing a man in Paterson when she was only sixteen years of age. At the time of the murder she was sentenced to be hanged, but her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. John Doyle, a wealthy mine owner, has been missing for two weeks and foul play is suspected. He left Gray's Landing, on the Colorado river, for Salton. Cal., ninety miles distant, to employ miners to take the places of twenty Mexicans who had refused to work. A week later Doyle's pack and saddle animals wandered Into Ehrenburg with everything intact. Ehrenburg is in an opposite direction from Salton and it is surmised that some of the Mexicans waylaid and killed Doyle and led the animals toward the Nevada settlement to conceal the crime. LIVES LOST IN VARIOUS WAYS. The one-year-old child of Frank Bowman, of Marshalltown, la., was burned to death yesterday. The mother left the child alone In the kitchen and It played with fire. At Fall River, Mass., last night a man and a girl were killed and a woman probably fatally injured in a collision between a New York, New Haven & Hartford passenger train and the vehicle in which they were riding. Capt. John McKenna, keeper of the lighthouse at Lime Point, near San Francisco, was killed by falling over a twenty-foot cliff situated near the government property of which he had charge. He is supposed to have made a misstep in the darkness. While working on the Arkansas Valley & Western grade, twelve miles north of Sapulpa. I. T., two men were killed and one wounded by a premature explosion of dynamite. The dead are William Corry, of Nemaha, Neb., and John Flynn, of South McAlester, I. T. Roy and Earl Smith, aged nine and eleven years, respectively, were drowned while skating on a pond near Akron. O. The Ice under Earl broke first. His brother made an attempt to save him, but the ice also gave way beneath him and he joined his brother in a. watery grave. Prof. Jacob Forney, of the Alabama State University, was accidentally killed at Sprlngville, Ala., yesterday while shooting sparrows with a parlor rifle. Professor Forney had rested the gun by a seat In the garden and was about to sit down, when the weapon fell and was discharged. The bullet entered his mouth and ranged upward through the brain. Professor Forney was a sort oi me late aiaj. uen. John 11. Forney, of the Confederate army. Cornelia Vnmlerbllt W ill Recover. NEW YORK. Dec. 24.-On leaving the Vanderbllt residence to-night Dr. Austin Flint said: "Mr. Vanderbllt has turned the corner. He will get well." Mrs. L S. Hager. Alexis. N. C, writes: 'I was attacked by pneumonia. Our best physician pronounced It severe and dangerous, being in both right atid left sides. As the disease did not respond to treatment I resorted to Jayne's Expectorant, and In a few days I was able to be up and walk about and soon began work again."

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Ö RICHMOND WINS AT POLO. Defeat Ilaclne in a. Fant Game on the Home Floor. Clubs. Flayed. Won. Lost. Tet. Indianapolis 20 14 6 .700 Anderson 13 11 S .579 Richmond 18 10 8 .556 Kacine 18 7 11 .333 Muncie 18 7 11 .3 Elwood 21 S 13 .3S1 Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Dec. 21. Richmond had no trouble In winning from Racine at polo to-night, the score being 9 to 3. The visitors were crippled, Cameron and Smith being out, and were outclassed. Richmond's floor work was the prettiest ever seen here, and Sutherland, the Racine goal tender, was given twice the work that Jessup had. Clarence Jessup, goal tender for the local polo team, will retire from the game as soon as a successor can be found. Two Polo Games To-Day. Two polo games will be played at Cyclorama Rink to-day. The afternoon game will be called at 3 o'clock and the evening game at 9. Richmond will be the opposing team. There will be no game to-morrow evening, as the schedule was revised at a meeting of the league in Anderson on Tuesday. The following games scheduled for Indianapolis were thrown out: Dec. 2G, Muncie; Jan. 2, El wood; Jan. 23, El wood; Feb. 28, Racine; March 3, Anderson; March 26, Richmond. The following games were Included in the Indianapolis schedule at home: Jan. 28, El wood; Feb. 6, Muncie; Feb. 7, Anderson; Feb. 10, Richmond; Feb. 11, Elwood; March 2, Racine, The change gives Indianapolis more games at home during the latter part of February and the tirst of March. UNEARNED RECORDS. Weight Used by Flanagan and Sheridan Was Too Light. NEW YORK, Dec. 24. James E. Sullivan, chairman of the A. A. U. record committee, to-day announced that a fifty-six-pound weight wrhlch has been used at many athletic contests and with which three records, including one world's record were supposed to have been broken, had been weighed and measured by him to-day and found both under weight and under size. Using this weight John Flanagan on Oct. 20, 1901, was credited with a world's record of 36 feet Inches. With the same weight, on Oct. 26, 1H02, Richard J. Sheridan, of the Pastime A. C, was credited with the American record of 38 feet 4V4 inches, unlimited run and follow. These two records were accepted by the A. A. U. At the Star A. C. games at Long Island City, Nov. 1, 1102, James S. Mitchell threw the same weight 30 feet 2 inches from a stand without follow. This also would have been a record if accepted by the A. A. U. The matter will be called to the attention of the record committee and an investigation will be made of all other weightthrowing records made with this weight. The test showed that the weight was one and one-half ounces light, and the triangular handle measured from one-half to twoand three-quarters Inches too much. SAD SAM WON. Captured the Ingleslde Handicap In a Contest with Ilnachuca. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 24.-The handicap at six furlongs was the feature at Ingleside to-day. A field of four went to the post, with Kenllworth favorite at 3 to L Sad Sam took the lead and held it until the end, wining against a fierce drive from Iluachuca. Winners in order: Montana Peeress, 20 to 1; Nigrette, 4 to l; Red Dennis, 6 to 1; Sad Sam, 4 to 1; Sylvia Talbot, even; Stuyve, 5 to L Two Favorite Won. NEW ORLEANS, Dec 24. Elsie L. and Sarilla were the winning favorites to-day. Winners in order: Hiram Johnson, 7 to 1; Athelene, 10 to 1; Boundlee, 20 to 1; Elsie L., 6 to 6; Sarilla, even; Bummer, 3 to L Ten Men Wounded by One Shot. ALTO PASS. 111.. Dec. 21. Ten men were shot by the accidental discharge of a shot-g-un in the hands of Mastln Batson at a turkey shooting match at Phillip Creek, near here, yesterday. Abe Norton received twenty-three shot in the head and face, and is more seriously wounded than the others. Seven shot struck James Brookes, a boy. in the neck, cutting the flesh away almost to the Jugular vein. The others received lesser wounds In the face. Frozen to Death In a Cornfield. WOODSTOCK. 111., Dec. 24.-Hildlng Holm and Frank Smith, eight and ten years old. were found frozen to death In a cornfield near here to-day, and their companion. Arthur Carlson, ten years old. was found severely frozen, but alive. The boys ran away from the Chicago Industrial Home on Monday, having told their companions that they were going to spend Christmas at their former home In Rock-ford.

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