Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 186, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1903 — Page 3

PART ONE.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, JULY 5, 1903.

WRECKS ON RAILWAYS

SEVERAL. FATAL TROLLK LINE AM) STBAfl ROAD ACCIDENTS. Car Full One Hundred Feet and Maaarles Foir Persona Fourth of July Collisions. PITTSBt'RG. July 4. A traction car on the Center & Larimer line of the Pittsburs Railways Company jumped the tracks on the Lincoln-avenue bridge to-day and went over the bridge, failing to Beech wood boulevard, nearly one hundred feet below. Thar were three passengers and the conductor and motorman on the ear at the time, making six persons in all. Two of these were killed outright and two were probably fatally hurt. The dead: Jacob Kuntz, motorman; Thomas Gloria, Italian, city employe. James King and son were removed from the wreck unconscious and were taken to the hospital. It is thought both will die. The conductor Jumped before the car left the bridge and escaped unhurt. It Is said the motorman disobeyed the orders to slow up at the bridge, and this was the cauae of the accident. Eleven Peraons Injured. BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. July 4. Eleven persons were injured this afternoon in a street car collision which occurred at Ware's station, on the Bessemer electric line. Most of ths injuries consist of broken bones. The collision Is thought to have been the result of a change In schedule. 'The most seriously Injured are W. A. Norman. M. A. Barnes, James Hambrick, motorman. and Conductor Oscar Algood of Birmingham. Blown from the Tracks. TOPEKA, Kan., July 4 A trolley car containing a number of passengers was blown from the tracks of the city railway this morning while in transit on East Sixth street. Several powerful dynamite bombs had been plari on the tracks by unknown parties and the passing car exploded them. No one was seriously injured, but all were given a severe shaking up. Oae Killed, Others Hart. GRAND RAPIDS. Mich., July 4.-Two cars on the Grand Rapids. Grand Haven & Muskegon lnterurban road crashed together to-day Just east of Berlin. Wayne Connor, of Grand Rapids, was killed and some of the passenger wen- badly shaken up, but none seriously injured. THROUGH AX OPEX SWITCH. Fassender Train Strikes a Switch Engine and Kills Two Men. BUFFALO. N. Y.. July 4 Two persona were "killed, one badly injured and a score lightly cut by flying glass In a collision between a switch engine and a passenger train on the New York Central within the city limits to-day. Dead George Meyers, fifty years old, engineer; Thomas Kennedy, eighteen years old. flagman. Seriously injured Edward Wheeler, eighteen years old. Rochester. Surgeons dressed the injuries of a large number of passengers and they proceeded on their journey. The train went through an open switch on to a siding, where it struck the switch engine. Mevers was caught between the tender and the engine and instantly killed. The yard engine toppled over on to a flagman's shanty, crushing Kennedy, who was in?ide. Bnrled Inder a Landslide. LA CROSSE. Wis.. July 4.-While on its way from Austin. Minn., to this city, the regular passenger train on the Southern Minnesota division of the C, M. & St. P. road was buried beneath a landslide near Hokan. Minn., whkh the engineer saw coming in time to reverse his engine and prevent a terrible wreck. The train was stalled for eight hours and was only got out at 2 o'clock this afternoon. No one was Injured, but the engine and fore part of the train were badly damaged. Three Killed on a tirade Crossing;. LANCA8TER. O.. July 4. John Olive, owner of a sawmill near here, his wife and eight-months-old child were killed by a Cincinnati & Muskingum Valley passenger train at a grade crossing here this afternoon. They were crossing the railroad track in a buggy when struck. All were killed instantly. Ran Down by m Train. CANNONSBURG, Pa.. July 4-At Oak Grove this evening Arthur and Robert Patterson and Frank Hardy were run down by S Chartiers Valley train and killed. COST IN CASUALTIES.(CONCLI IIID FROM FIRST PAGE.) waa no formal observance. Most of the business houses were open, but the factories generally suspended operations. William Mc Bride, aged ten. was shot through the hand by a bullet from a toy pistol which t not supposed to be loaded, and Han y Foster, aged twelve, had a finger blown off by the premature explosion of a cannon cracker. Blinded by a Firecracker. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind.. July 4.-The eleven-year-cld daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel K. Mays, living on Railroad avenue, was seriously injured this morning by the explosion of a fire cracker, which destroyed the right eye and injured the other. It is not known how seriously the other eye is Injured, but It Is feared the girl may become blind. Wounded h Playfnl Kitten. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WATMK. Ind.. July 4. There was but one serious accident in this vicinity today. Oliver Falls, of Huntertown. was cleaning his rifle when a playful kitten Jumped on the gun. catching its foot in the trigger. H received a ball through the abdomen and will die. Shot Below the Heart. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. AURORA. Ind.. July 4. While examining a revolver this evening William Sohns accidentally shot Thomas Neal. The ball entered Haul's left side below the ht-art, passing entirely through his body. Neal is in a serious condition to-uight. Both men live here. Splcelaud Boy Hurt. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. 8PICELAND, Ind.. July 4.-Ivanhoe, the ten-year-old sun of Robert J. Pleas, had his face and ejreg badly burued to-day while hooting fireworks. The sight is not thought to be permanently injured. SHOT IS THE FOREHEAD. Allegheny Woman Killed While Sitting oa the Front Steps. PITTS Bl'RG. July 4.-Whlle Mrs. Catharine Sohn was sittng on her front steps this evening in Allegheny, talking to friends, she suddenly fell over in what her companions suppot-d was a faint but when thy picked her up she was dead. A physician who waa called discovered a C-Cü liber rifle bullet hole in her forehead thr buhVt having penetrated the brain! Where the shot came from is not known. DIE TO IUI M ill KF. I IM ONION. One Hundred nnd Fifty Peraons Injured In Cincinnati. CINCINNATI. July 4. -One hundred and Äfty persons were injured here to-day In celebrating the Fourth. The more seriously injure 1 are children, but none la exported to die. Most of the incidents were caused by prematura explosions. l. tiinft of a Me rap Iron Caoaon. HARLAN. la.. July 4. -Charles Kinsey la 4ssvd. Qeorge Anderson la in a precarious

condition, having lost a leg. and Peter JenSen probably will lose both eyes as the result of a premature explosion of a cannon which Kinsey made from scrap iron. The cannon was about two and one-half feet long, thejiron having been esst around a piece of gas pipe. Anderson was ramming home a charge of powder with a steel rod when the explosion occurred and the cannon was blown to fragments and he bled to death. Anderson, who was at the muzzle of the gun. hud a leg so badly laecrated that it was necessary to amputate it.

Home-Made (annon Kills ".Ufdget." NEW YORK. July 4. August Edgley, twenty-one years old. of Jersey City, who was known as the "Midget." scored as the first Fourth of July victim hereabouts. EdpUy blew off the top of his haad with a home-made cannon. He made it from a piece of gas pipe. Several persons warned him that he could not shoot it with safety. but he paid that he would take his chances. He loaded the pipe with a quarter of a pound of gunpowder and touched it off with the lighted end of his cigarette. There was a terrifnc explosion and the piece of Iron, flying upward, carried away the top of the lad's head. Twenty Minor Accidents. WASHINGTON, July 4.-Over twenty causalties. mostly of minor character, were reported to-night as a result of to-day's celebration of the Fourth. The only serious case, however, was that of John C. Slmonds, of Laramie, Wyo., who was on a visit to Washington. While he was preparing an illuminating mixture of chloride of potash and muriatic acid an explosion occurred in which he received Injuries which probably will prove fatal. High Dher Dashed to Death. DAVENPORT. Ia.. July 4. Before a crowd of 3,000 persons, T. R. Bergquist, of R-ck Island, 111., a professional high diver, was dashed to death on a barge at Grand isle, in the Mississippi river, by the breaking of a ladder. The ladder from which the dive was made had been placed on a barge, and Just as Bergquist leaped the ladder broke and he fell on the barge, mashing his skull and breaking almost every bone in his body. Sixteen Dead at Pittsburgh PITTSBURG, Pa., July 4. Independence day was one of fatalities and accidents. Up to midinght sixteen bodies had been taken to the morgue. Of the dead three were killed in a trolley accident, four were electrocuted, three were the victims of heat, two were run down by railroad trains and four loFt their lives through nreworks. Added to the deaths are many accidents' such as usually go with a celebration with powder. British Gnaner Killed. COLOMBO, Ceylon, July 4. A British gunner was killed and another was injured to-day, owing to an accident to a gun of a land battery while tiring a s&lute In honor of the Independence day, as a compliment to two American cruisers now in this harbor. The Cincinnati and the Albany are probably the two vessels referred to in the dispatch from Colombo. Mangled with Dynamite. BLOOMINGTON. 111.. July 4. George Shuler, a well drigger. and three children were probably fatally injured to-day by the explosion of a stick of dynamite with which Shuler intended to celebrate the Fourth of July. Shuler was walking with the children and accidentally dropped the dynamite. Shuler's abdomen was laid open and the children were hurled several yards and terribly mangled. Fatal "Slide for Life. FORT DODGE, la., July 4. Clara Fox, of Omaha, was instantly killed to-day while making a "slide for life" on a wire stretched from the courthouse tower to a telephone pole half a block away. The harness in which she hung became unbuckled Just after starting. She fell into a crowd 100 feet below, striking W. H. Wheeler, of Fort Dodge, probably fatally injuring him, Thirty Persons Hurt. OREGON, Wis., July 4. A panic among 2,000 persons resulted to-night from the accidental discharge of the village's entire stock of fireworks. Nearly thirty persons were either burned or injured by the trampling of the crowd. It is probable that some of the women or children received internal injuries which will prove fatal. Fell from a Balloon. SPRINGFIELD. 111.. July 4. During the Fourth of July celebration at Virginia today Ernest Courtney, of Jacksonville, was probably fatally injured. He was making a balloon ascension when his balloon caught in the top of a tree and Courtney was hurled to the ground, striking on his head. Congressman's Daughter Injured. STURGEON BAY. Wis.. July 4. Ethel, daughter of Congressman Miner, was seriously burned by the explosion in her face of a giant firecracker. An Even Two Dosen. KANSAS CITY, July 4.-Twenty-four persons were injured here in celebrating the Fourth. Most injuries sustained were minor and no fatalities will result Thirty-Five Casualties. ST. PAUL, July 4. Casualties of the Nation's birthday totaled thirty-five for this city. None was fatal. TRANSPACIFIC CABLE. (CONCLUDED FROM FI RSTPAGE.) tariff on Filipino products in accordance with the broad and liberal spirit which the American people desire to manifest toward the Philippines and of which you have been an earnest exponent." At 11:25 President Roosevelt sent the following message around the world, westward to President Mackay, who was with President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay: "Congratulation and success to the Pacific cable, which the genius of your lamented father and your own enterprise made possible." The time of transmission was twelve minutes. The President s message was receiyed by Mr. Mackay at 11:55 p. m. lit replied as follows: "I thank you deeply for your message and I earnestly hope th.it the Pacific cable by opening the wide horizon of the great East inuy prove a useful factor to the commtrce of the United States." Mr. Mackay's message was sent eastward 0V r the same lines as President Roosevelt's am! was received by President Roosevelt at 12:04- midnight. The time ttf transmission was 'A-j minutes. These messages were followed by the large number of congratulatory no's.-T4 to Governor Taft and President Mackay from Governors of the different States anu other distinuui.-ln 1 men. Former President G rover Cleveland sent the following message to Governor Taft: "I desire to Join iny fellow-countrymen both livre and In Manila In congratulations on the establishment f telegraphic communication beiwetn iese two distant points of our common country. May this means of intercouse always be a conservator of good will and national prosperity. ' e h ROITE OF THE MESSAGES. President's Round-t he-World Greeting Sent Over a Long Circuit. OYSTER RAY. N. Y.. July 4.-The course of President Roosevelt's message around the SfOtW was over the Postal Telegraph Company's land line from Oyster Bay to San Francisco, thence by the Commercial PAcilic cable to Honolulu, to Midway, to Guam and to Manila. From Manila to H"nK-Kong the message passed by the cable which was lifted and cut by Admiral Dewey in lvv Frm Hong-Kong it went to Saigon, to Singapore, to Penag. to Madra, to Bombay, to Aden, to Suez, to Alexandria, to Malta, to Gibraltar, to Lisbon and to the Azores. From Hong-Kong and the Azores it passed by foreign cables. At the Azores the message was taken up again by the Commercial cables and sent to Canso. to New York and to Oyster Bay. The President's message was sent through the following sections of historical electrical circuits welded into one circuit and interpolated in the circuit of the Postal Telegraph Company. L Section, of the wire over which Prof.

Samuel F. Morse sent the first message by means of the Morse telegraph. 2. Section of the wire over which audible speech was for the first time transferred by means of the Bell Telephone by Prof. Alex. Graham. 3. Section of the Atlantic cable through which the first cable message was sent across the ocean by Cyrus W. Field. 4. Edison plug and section of wire, through which was lighted the first incandescent lamp ever lighted fron an electrical lighting central station. 5. Section of the first trolley circuit put up at the historic Richmond, Va., Electric Railroad by F. J. Sprague. 6. Section of wire through which the current of electricity was sent by President Cleveland when he opened the world's fair at Chicago. 7. Section of the wire through which the electricity was sent to illuminate the headquarters of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by Moore's system of vacuum tube lighting, this being the first room in the wcrld so lighted. 8. 8ection of the cable through which the first current of electricity was transmitted from Niagara Falls electric power plant April 16, lsuö; loaned by William H. Hammer, of New York. MESSAGES FROM GOVERNORS.

Greetings Sent to Manila by Messrs. Durbin, Nash, Beckham and Frasler. Governor Durbin wrote the following letter at the Invitation of Clarence Mackay to be sent to Manila in celebration of the opening of the new cable: "Indianapolis. Ind.. Julv 4. 1903. "Hon. A. L. Lawshe. Auditor for the Philippine Islands, Manila. P. hi "Fourth of July greetings from the State of Lawton, Gridley and a thousand other Indiana heroes who have borne a part in making glorious the American name in the Orient, to a Hoosler who is helping to show the world that our country knows not only how to conquer, but how to wisely and wvll discharge the responsibilities victory has imposed. Kindly convey Indiana's good wishes to all the sons and daughters of the State who. as soldiers, teachers, civil officers or private citizens, are helping to bring the blessings of enliphtened civilization to I a people whose destiny Providence has placed within the keeping of the great Republic. "WINFIELD T. DURBIN, Governor." CHATTANOOGA. Tenn., July 4. Governor Frazier, of Tennessee, who is now in Chattanooga, to-day sent the following cablegram to Gen. Luke E. Wright, at Manila: "Congratulations on completion of the great Pacific cable, bringing the Filipino people closer to America. May American example bring to the islands industrial prosperity and civil freedom." FRANKFORT, Ky., July 4.-Governor Beckham has sent the following to Governor Taft for transmission over the newcable: "Please express Kentucky's congratulations and best wishes for the health and happiness of all American soldeirs and citizens in the Philippine islands." COLUMBUS, O., July 4. Following is the message which Governor Nash sent to Governor Taft: "I congratulate you that your official home is now connected with your native home by cable. For the people of Ohio, I wish you the utmost success in your great work." FROM WASHINGTON OFFICIALS. Secretary Root and Others Congratulate Governor Taft. WASHINGTON. July 4. Secretary of War Root to-day sent the following cable message to Governor Taft: "Congratulations to Philippine government and people upon being brought nearer to the people of America, on whose friendship and good faith rest the hopes of a glorious future for Philippine patriotism. One more great event is added to those which should make the Fourth of July a day of happy memories in the archipelago." Judge Charles Magoon, the law officer of the insular Bureau, addressed the following SneswaSS to Governor Taft to-day, which is to be sent over the new cable: "Congratulations to you and the personnel on the completion of another tie that binds together our common country. Our natal day is a fitting occasion for the inauguration of an enterprise evidencing the welcome fact that the arrows of war on our national emblem have been converted Into electric currents of commerce, advancement and purposes of peace." Gen. A. W. Greely. chief of the Signal Corps, sent the following message to Governor Taft: "Felicitations that Filipino aspirations so happily fostered by you and your associates politically are to-day so emphatically promoted commercially by connection with the United States through American enterprise, as reported by Mackay aud his associates." General Greely also sent a message of congratulation to President Mackay, of the Commercial Pacific Cable Company. Colonel Edwards, chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, cabled Governor Tat't as follows: "Congratulations to you, your associates and the people of the Philippine islands on the completion of the cable and the beginning of the many resulting benefits. No portion of the American public exceeds the army in rejoicing over the progress of peace in the islands." General Mlles's Message. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., July 4.-Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles arrived at Chattanooga this morning. He went to Chickamauga Park, where he spent the day inspecting the army post. He left tonight for New Orleans. Gen. Miles sent the following message of congratulation to the commanding general of the Philippines: "The anniversary of our national Independence is an appropriate day for sending greetings and congratulations on the completion of this great achievement, another triumph in the interest ot peace and civilization." A FRENCH EXPERIMENT. Message Sent Around the World in Six Honrs and Twenty Minntes. PARIS, July 4. Apropos of the reports in. connection with President Roosevelt's intention to send a cable dispatch around the world, to-day the Temps has sent an experimental message around the globe with the viCw of determining the speed attainable. The message was filed at the central office of the ministry of posts and telegraphs at 11:35 yesterday, via Malta, Singapore. Brisbane. Vancouver and the French cable. The answer was received at 5:55 p. m. ysterday after having traveled 37,-tiu miles and circling the globe in six hours and twenty minutes. The Temps says there was no attempt to make a record, as the paper had only ordinary commercial facilities. It expects President Roosevelt's message will make better time, owing to exceptional facilities, and congratulates the American cable managers on their remarkable ability to girdle the earth. GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. Empercr William and Prince Henry took lunch Saturday on Cornelius Vanderbilt's yacht North Star at Travemund. An express train from Rome to Pisa was derailed yesterday at Mont Alto. Six persons were dangerously injured and a number of others were slightly hurt. Prof. Raphael Pumpelly. the American geologist and author, who at the head of a party is exploring Turkestan, has arrived at Tashkend from Samarkand, and is actively pursuing his investigations. The centenary of the admission of the Canton of Vaud into the Swiss Confederation was celebrate-! Saturday by a banquet and processions. All the high Swiss officials took part in the celebration, a remarkable feature of which was an open-air performance of an allegoric:!! piny illustrating the history of Vaud. Twenty thousand persons witnessed the play, in which there were 2.600 performers and more than 100 horses and fifteen chariots. Highly political prisoners who had been transferred from a preliminary prison to the convict prison at St. Petersburg on account of overcrowding, aud who were placed in solitary confinement, rebelled and sang revolutionary songs. An uproar and a conflict between the guards and the priso-ers followed and attr a ted a large crowd of sympathisers with the latter. The Grand Duke Vladimir visited the prison at the head of a company of infantry, which had been summoned to quell the riot. He declared that the overcrowding was deplorable, remarked that the army was not designed to do the duty of prison guards, and immediately reported the condition of the prison to the Czar. Cathedral C'onseernted. GRAND RAPIDS. Mich., July 4. -St. Andrew's Cathedral, erected to take the place of the structure that was burned as the result of a stroke of lightning on March 25. ML was consecrated to-djiy in the preadence of his Excellency, the Most Reverend Diomede Falconio, apostolic delegate to the United States; Archbishops Quigley, Elder

and Moeller; Bishops Foley. McCloskey. Cljatard. Maes. Ellis, O'Donaghue, Alerding, Horstman. Jansen and Richter; also priests of the Grand Rapids churches and thousands of Roman Catholic laymen.

RIOT IN OHIO. Italian Killed. Another Serloualy Mnrt and Several Citlsens Stabbed. MII.FORD CENTER. O.. July 4.-In a riot between citizens and a gang of Italian laborers employed on the Panhandle Railroad this afternoon one Italian was shot and killed, another seriously wounded and several citizens stabbed. The dead man is Francisco Chealana. The injured are .Louis Brancisco, foreman and Interpreter, shot in the hip; John Hoffman and John Connor, citizens, badly cut. Several other citizens suffered minor Injuries. This afternoon the Italians came to town and several of them becoming Intoxicated engaged in a quarrel with two citizens. A tight n?ued, during which Marshal Perkins appeared on the scene and tried to frighten the Italians by shooting in the air. A running fight ensued and many shots were fired by citizens and the marshal at the Italians, who used stilettos. To-night four of the Italians were arrested on the charge of inciting a riot and are in jail under heavy guard. Great excitement prevails. Obituary. PITTSBURG. July 4. Augustus W. E. Painter, one of the most prominent iron manufacturers and financiers of Pitishurg, died early to-day at his home in Allegheny, after an illness of eighty-one weeks of diabetes, aged sixty years. Mr. Painter retired from active business after the absorption of his company by the American Steel Hoop Company. LONDON, July 4. Mrs. James WRdsworth Ritchie, daughter of G. Meade Tooker and daughter-in-law of Mrs. C. Adair, and formerly of Newport. R. L, died to-day of blood poisoning at Ashwell, Rutlandshire. Leo lias Inflammation of the Lungs. BERLIN, July 5. A Rome dispatch to the Lokal Anzeiger, received at 2 o'clock this morning, says that Dr. Mazzoni visited the Pope's sick chamber, and later announced that the condition of his Holiness was unchanged. The Tageblatt's Rome correspondent says the Pontiff is suffering from severe inflammation of the lungs. Cardinal Oreglia Di Santo Stefano, the Pope's chamberlain, the correspondent adds, will prepare for the eventuality of the death of his Holiness, in which case he will take charge of the affairs of the church. Trngedy in a Dance Hall. CHICAGO. July 4. Salvatore Parona. an Italian laborer, to-night shot and killed Glovunnia Saivatino and mortally wounded Theresa Pruneerta, a young woman who employed Saivatino as a porter in her dance hall and concert saloon in Wentworth avenue. The woman and Parona had some words and he slapped her face. Saivatino threw Parona out of the place, and soon he returned with a revolver and shot Miss Prunesta through the Jeft eye and Saivatino in the abdomen. The man died in a short time and the woman is expected to live only a short time. Fire in lianna Mine Dying Out. HANNA. Wyo.. July 4. The fire in the Union Pacific mine is now confined to a small place, and has been shut off. Many experienced miners are here, and It is believed that by Monday or Tuesday the bodies of the 230 victims will be reached. It is possible that the lower workings may be sealed up and thus become tombs for the unfortunate miners. There is no physical suffering here, and the coal company is supplying the families of all victims with food. Bnrned While Sleeping on a Boat. ST. LOUIS, July 4. Patrick Conners was burned to death and Frank Haynes was very seriously scorched in a fire which destroyed the floating coal digger or steamshoval "Pittsburg," anchored in the Mississippi river at the foot of Mullanphy street to-day. Haynes is in a critical condition. Tiie property loss was small. At the time of the fire the two men were sleeping on the boat. Other men were on the boat at th6 time, but they escaped. Mr. Watson at Liberty. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LIBERTY, Ind., July 4..--Four thousand people came to Liberty to-day to attend the local celebration and to hear Representative James E. Watson, of the Sixth district. John F. Ellis, of Anderson, followed Mr. Watson; Races and a baseball game were features of the celebration. Liberty defeated Rushville by the score of 14 to 11. Strike at Denver Smelters. DENVER. JYily 4. The managers of the Denver smelters were taken completely by surprise last night, when, at a meeting of the Smeltermens' Union, a strike was declared, taking effect at once, and they were wholly unprepared for the walkout which followed. The strike is the first move in a general campaign for an eight-hour day for all unions affiliated with the Western Affiliation of Miners, and the fight will be made to a finish. Day for "llomeeomers." CINCINNATI. July 4. President Otto Armleder. of the Cincinnati Fall Festival ition, announced to-day that arrangements had been completed for one of the most unique features ever given by this association at its annual events. The fall festival will be held from Sept. 7 to 19 and one day has been set aside for a reunion of former Clnclnnatians who are now living elsewhere. This day will be knows as "Homecomers' day." Antomnhillsts at Mammoth Care. DAN VILLH. Ky., July 4. The Chicago Automobile Club, en route to the Mammoth Cave, reached this city yesterday noon with fifteen persons and four touring machines in the party. As they were nearing this city one of the automobiles became uncontrollable and ran Into a telegraph pole. dWmaging the machine to such an extent that the entire party is still here today awaiting repairs. Conple Fonnd Dead. PHILADELPHIA. July 4. The bodies of A. EL Delan, an architect, and his wife. Sophie, were found to-day in their home at By berry, a suburb, both having been shot. The police's theory is murder and suicide. The bodies were found by friends who h il been invited to spend the day with the couple. No reason for the crime can be assigned. American Rabbis Adjourn. DETROIT. July 4. With the observance of regular Sabbath morning services the fourteenth annual meeting of the Central Conference of American Rabbis ended today. The conference sermon was preached by Kev. Dr. Samuel Herschberg, of Boston, on the appropriate subject for the Fourth of July. "Judaism, Americanism, Cosmopolitanism." Moclio" to Represent Venesuela. CARACAS, Venezuela. July 4.-Gen. Jose Manuel Hernandez ("El Mocho") has been appointed Venezuelan minister to the United States, superseding Senor Augusto F. Pulido. who tor over three years has acted as Vsnesuelan charge d'affaires at Washington. General Hernandez's son and r Para will be secretaries of the legation. Cost $ 2.000 for Two Rides. PITTSBURG. July 4.-Just as Charles Allen, of Allegheny, and two women friends alighted from an automobile, at Duqu. ne Garden the machine blew up' and in three minutes was a mass of flames. Mr. Allen purchased it for $2.X)u and had used it twice, at the rate of IM80 a ride. Thou Shalt Not Kill Seised. BERLIN. July 4 An edition of Count Tolstoi's pamphlet. "Thou Shalt Not Kill," which a Leipsic firm recently published, was seized by the police to-day on the ground that it contains statements regarding Rmperos William which are classed as high treason. Italian- 1'elebrnte with Riot. PITTSBURG. July 4 -The Italian laborers employed at the Wabash tunnel workings near Greentre engag. d in a riot to day and a number were seriously injured. Five of the participants are now in Pittsburg hospitals and two will dsn. Fire Loss of $200.000. WHEATLAND. Cal.. July 4.-Fire to-day swept through the business portion and part of the residence district of Wheatland, causing a loss of I2Ü0JU0. I

government contracts

NOT IM81AL TO AWARD THEM TO OTHER THAN LOWEST BIDDER. For Many Reasons It Is Sometimes Found Best to Do This Numerous Illustrations. Washington Letter in New York Post. In behalf of James T. Metcalf, the superintendent of the money order system, who was deposed the other day because he had interfered between bidders in a competition for the contract for printing his books of forms, a precedent has now been found in which Postmaster General Payne himself threw out the entire group of bids on a pneumatic tube contest, in spite of the fact that the lowest bid would apparently have saved the government a good deal of money. This Is by no means a surprising discovery. Every observer of experience in Washington has seen bids "held up" scores of times and the award afterward made to another than the lowest bidder, or the whole batch of bids canceled for the best of reasons. The outside public are always clamorous for the acceptance of the lowest bid. This is natural in persons who do not know what such a policy, rigidly adhered to, would entail. Your correspondent has investigated these matters again and again and has rarely failed to find an African stowed away somewhere in the lowest bidder's woodpile. At one time, for instance, the Indians were saved from receiving a dried-apple ration in which the vermin were torpid or invisible to the naked eye, till heat was applied, when they crawled out in armies. Shoddy clothing, paper shoe soles and the like have been turned down so many times that one would not suppose the rejected bidder would dare come to the front with another proposal; but the brass of some of these fellows is infinite in quuntity and bombproof in quality. They will not only try to Impose bad stuff upon the government with the full knowledge that the first inspector they cannot bribe will throw it out, but they will go off and procure the publication of "scandals" in careless or irresponsible newspapers, holding themselves up to public commiseration as victims of official despotism and graft. And if the department they have repeatedly attempted to cheat finally grows desperate and refuses even to consider another bid from them they will blazon this as evidence that corruption stalks openly through the halls of the executive government, and induce some member of the opposition in Congress to introduce a resolution of inquiry; and the big headlines announcing this fact, serve, in the minds of a large part of the uninformed reading public, all the purposes of an Indictment, trial and conviction rolled into one. FOLLOWING PRECEDENT. All this, of course, is entirely apart from the present controversy, of whose merits it will be Impossible to judge at this stage. The writer's only purpose in citing such illustrations is to make the point that, as long as no charge is made that any of the contractors money has stuck to Mr. Metcalf's fingers, he must be credited with having done only what has been done again and again, time out of mind. The present writer, drawing upon his unaided present memory as to incidents which have passed immediately under his own eye in the same department, can recall several notable cases which furnish some parallel with the Herman-Wynkoop episode. One of these was the award of the stamped envelope contract of 1894. The lowest bidder was the Pureed Envelope Company, of Hudson, N. Y., possessing an act of incorporation and a bank account, but no adequate plant. Its most serious competitor was a combination of the Plimpton Manufacturing Company and the Morgan Envelope Company, of Hartford, Conn., both well-known concerns and experienced and successful contractors. Postmaster General Bissell held up the award for some weeks till he could look into the question of the ability of the Purcell Company to carry out its contract. The Purcells insisted, as Herman does now, that financial backing was the main thing, and that the plant must follow as a matter of course; Mr. Bissell was not so sure. But presently the Purcells made a "deal" with the Plimptons and the Morgans, and secured the contract by arranging to have the higher-priced competitors do the work for them. On this basis they got the award. At the close of the next four years the Purcells bid again and again came in lowest. But meanwhile a split had occurred between them and the Plimpton and Morgan people, and they were once more rivals. Postmaster General Gary awarded the contract once more to the Purcells, they making an arrangement to have some one else do the work. The decision was rendered just before Mr. Gary resigned. Postmaster Genera! Smith's first act on taking office was to hold up the award made by his predecessor, as he did not consider that a fair wav for a contractor to do business. He stuck to his view in spite of all efforts to move him; an advertisement for fresh bids was accordingly issued and the contract relet, relieving the final award of all taint of suspicion. IN WANAMAKER'S TIME. Postmaster General Wanamaker held up the award in the postal-card contract of 1890 a long time, in order to satisfy himself whether Albert Daggett, the lowest bidder, was provided with facilities for not only printing the cards, but storing them afterward. The contract finally went to Daggett, but there was no question of Mr. Wanamakers' reluctance to take chances in a matter of so vital consequence to the public. Daggett succeeded, after some time, in producing a card of standard quality, and satisfactorily carried out his obligations, but not till Mr. Wanamaker's misgivings had been justified by a number of sorry experiments and a deluge of complaints from the public. Postmaster General Bissell held up the award of the postage-stamp printing contract of 1894 for fourteen weeks, and then decided against Charles F. Steel, of Philadelphia, the lowest bidder. Steel was on tenterhooks during all the period of suspense, having important options open and letting all his other business go as it would so as to be ready to proceed under his contract as soon as awarded. He was almost in a state of nervous collapse when the end came. The refusal of the contract to him was put on the ground that he was not in a position to fulfill It, although nobody ventured to deny that he was an expert of the first rank in his business of engraving, and had helped as an employe to assure the success of the old contractors. Indeed, in order to bring the figures in the case to the right basis the successful bidder the superintendent of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing was permitted to revise his bid after Steel's figures were known. These are only a few illustrations chosen at random, and from the postal system alone. Many others will occur to the mind of every one familiar with the government contract machinery. Slmetimes the departure from the lowest-bidder policy is amply justified by the sequel; sometimes It proves a blunder, or worse. There is no telling in advance how it is coming out. But the work of handling a government contract is very troublesome at best, full of bad risks and worrisome details, and nearly every employe of long experience would, if his candid advice were asked, rather stick by a contractor who already knows what to do and now to do it, even at a somewhat larger first cost, than experiment at the beginning of each contract term with a new hand and undertake to break him in. It was for taking the same view that more eminent men had repeatedly taken, but asserting it in the wrong way, and at a time and under conditions that his superiors could not forgive him for ignoring, that Metcalf suffered. But it is only Justice to him, now that he has paid the penalty of his error, to see that he is not wrongfully branded. T'nless something more than is now known or suspected be forthcoming later, the department's officers are as desirous as he could be himself to separate him In the public mind from the herd of crooks and grafters who have fallen victims to the Bristow campaign. Quarrel Ends In Murder. GALLIPOLIS. O.. July 4-Frank Stewart was shot and instantly killed to-night by Harry Lewis. The men had quarreled in the afternoon and later Stewart returned and renewed the quarrel. Several shots were exchanged. Lewis was arrested. Bob Burdette Will Preach. LOS ANGELES. July 4. Robert J. Burdette has accepted a call to the pastorate of a new Baptist congregation to be formed la Lo Angeles.

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EDWIN MAUZY, SR., RESIGNS. He Is Out of Harmony with Republican Ora-anlsatlon, He Sara. Edwin Mauzy, sr., Republican committeeman in the third precinct of the Ninth ward, has resigned. He sent his resignation yesterday to Chairman Edwin D. VLogsdon, of the city committee. He has made the statement that he is not in sympathy with the policy of the present city administration. His reasons for resigning, he says, are identical with those of Dr. Henry W. Ridpath, who also tendered his resignation recently. Manzy is employed as a night watchman on the grounds of the National Technical Institute formerly the old Arsenal property and lives at 229 South Summit street. His successor on the committee has not been appointed. CITY NEWS NOTES. The Woman's Auxiliary of R. P. C. will meet with Mrs. J. hi. Tingle, 2114 Park avenue, to-morrow at 2 p. m. Last night D. T. Praigg's horse hitched in front of the Postal Telegraph building, got frightened and ran away. The tiring of cannon crackers was the cause. Mr. Praigg lives at 1803 North Delaware street. Transfer Agent Gibson at the Union Station informed the police yesterday that a woman had lost her pocketbook in the Union Station. Mr. Gibson suspected a couple who were loafing around the station. He boarded one of the cars that goes north on Illinois street and recognized the parties on the car. He did not get their names, however. At a recent commencement of Columbia University Charles A. Beard, of Indiana, won the Toppan prize on the subject of "Political 8cience and Constitutional Law." Mr. Beard will lecture on "Industrial Development," illustrated by stereopticon views, at the Central-avenue M. E. Church tomorrow.' evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture is under the auspices of the women of the church. The funeral of Thomas Carter Connor, aged sixty-two years, who died Thursday at his home, 641 Goodlet avenue, took place yesterday morning from St. Anthony's Church. A widow, six daughters and one son survive him. Mr. Connor came to Indianapolis from Johnson county ten years ago. He served through the civil war as cook at the government barracks at Jeffersonville. A passenger car on the Union Traction lines crashed into a telegraph pole at McCordsville about noon yesterday. A large number of people were on board, but none was seriously Injured. The accident was caused by the front trucks taking a blind switch, throwing the car from the track. The car turned onto its side and many passengers climbed out through windows. Conductor O. 8. Johnson and Motorman William Eller were in charge of the car. Fireworks Cause Small Biases. Several small flres resulted yesterday from the use of fireworks and other explosives, but no serious damage was done in any Instance. Early in the morning the fire department was called to 2440 Brightwood avenue, where a blaze in the home of Mrs. Eliza Love caused a loss of about $5. The fire war started by a small boy and big firecracker Yesterday afternoon the fire department responded to a call to 606 East Georgia street and extinguished a blaze in the residence of Walter Hattendorf. The damage amounted to about 1200 and resulted from fireworks. Window Casing; on Fire. The window casing of the rear room on the fourth floor of the building at 130 North Pennsylvania street, caught fire about 11 o'clock last night. The room is unoccupied and it is thought the tire was started by a spark from a skyrocket lighting on the window sill. The blaze extended out Into the alley between Ohio and Market streets and the fire was discovered by Councilman Billlugsley, who was staudlng in front of the Denison Hotel. The fire was extinguished before it spread to the walls. The damage will not exceed a few dollars. Y. M. C. A. Affairs. The remodeling of the Y. M. C. A. building will begin within the next ninety days. The improvements, to cost $17,000, include two large storerooms, to extend the full length of the building, and the association officers expect to realize twice as much rent from these as from the four small rooms now included. Physical Director A. K. Jones left yesterday for Mt. Eagle, a Tennessee re3ort, where he teaches physical co tore. The assistant physical director, R : olph Miller, will spend the summer at the Y. M. C. A. camp, on Lake Geneva, Wis. May Have Been Seeking; Trouble. Clarence Foxworthy. 1633 West Vermont street, was arrested last night by Sergeant Rockefeller and Patrolman Kimpel and slated at the police station for carrying concealed weapons. He was caught at Riverside Park and will be held as a suspicious character. A large stone with a string around it aas found hidden in his pocket, and it is thought that he is a member of the hungaloo gang and was out at the park looking for trouble. Texas Man Had a Weapon. F. A. Lawrence was arrested by Patrolman Beckman yesterday afternoon and charged at the police station with carrying concealed weapons. He claims Texas as his hoirif- and with the true SOW boy spirt brandished a heavy iron slug in the air as the turnkey was writing his name ou the slate. It is thought he is a desperate character and his prison record, If he has any, will be investigated to-morrow. Broke a Weighing; Maeblne. John Lee, of Terre Haute, was arrested last night by Patrolmen Cosier and Hlte and locked up at the police station on a charge of malicious trespass. Lee. It Is said. Imbibed too much "hops" while seeing the sights of the city yesterday and last night proceeded to break up one of the automatic weighing machines at the Union station. Bierde Police Called. Bicyclemen Trlmpe and Lowe were called to 707 North East street by A. Van Treae yesterday. The complaining party said that

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he had ordered Ada Davis out of his house because she had failed to pay any room rent for the last three weeks. The policemen told Van Trese that it was a matter over which they had no Jurisdiction. NEWS OF THE CHURCHES. Beginning with to-day. the Rev. David Ayrton Heron will begin a series of sermons on "A Summer Day at Jacob's Well." The first sermon will be on "The Journey to the Well." This will be followed by "At the Well, Weary and Hungry. " "The Living Water." "True Worship of God." "An Earnest Evangelist." "A Waving Harvest ' and "The Gathered Sheaves." K X X Services will be held at St. Paul's Church during the hot months, as usual. The rector, the Rev. Lewis Brown, is of opinion that the hot weather should not interfere with a church any more than with any other business. He will take a vacation in August, but he has made arrangements fat his pulpit to be tilled during his absence. A number of pastors on the South Side will also be at their posts during the hot months. XXX Beginning with to-day, the Rev. Charles S. Johnson, pastor of the Hoyt-avenue Methodist Protestant Church, will give a series of gospel talks on "The Life and Times of Abraham." The subjects, commencing with this evening, are: "The Divine Summons." "Tent and Altar." "The Two Paths," "Redeeming the Captive." A Righteous Doom," "The Supreme Test," "Choosing a Bride." Music will be furnished by the choir and orchestra. The services will begin at 7:45 p. m. XXX The dedicatory services of JLhe Second German M. E. Church will take place today. The programme Includes greetings from the former pastors of the church and from visiting pastors of the local chuxrhes. The former pastors of the church are the Revs. J. C. Marting, Beres, O.; Oustatr Maag, LawrencevUIe, O.; A. F. Zarwell, Pittsburg, Pa., and Fr. Muni, Cincinnati. The j.re.-ent pastor is the Rev. Charles E. Ploch. The programme for the gooo -fellowship meeting, at 3 o'clock this afternoon, includes prayer by the Rev. C. C. Edwards, Scripture lesson by the Rev. Levi W addresses from former pastors and greetings by visiting pastors, violin solo by pirees, vocal solo by Harry Paris, and ing by the cnoir. Children's Cirlef. Boston Transcript. The luxury of grief is indulged in by all ages, but it is doubtful if it is ever so much enjoyed as in childhood ! rhapa if our memories could take us back to the very earliest days of Infancy, we sh 1 find that we were often reveling in delight when we were sympathetically supposed to be writhing with stomach ache "and with no language but a cry." A little girl of most angelic dlsposl' -has just given the whole thing away. She had fallen fiat on a brick walk and barked her knoog and bumped her chin. To next door neighbor, who inquired from the window some time afterwards, if she had hurt herself very badly, the pufferer plied with a quivering lip: "Oh yes; I ought to be In the house crying now!" Thief 9hot by a Policeman. PHILADELPHIA. July 5 E. R Stinger, aged twenty-eight, was shot and killed by a policeman here to-day while attempting to steal a crate of peaches in the produce district. Stinger with three companions was discovered by the policeman, and when I ran away the pursuing officer fired, killing Stinger. Chinese at St. Loula. ST. I1CI8. July 4 Wong Kal Kah, Chinese Imperial vice commissioner n - rn tc the world's fair, accompanied by his wife and children, has arrived here from Peking, China, to remain until after the exposition. The commissioner's suite comprises thirtysix attaches and artisans. "Three years of delicate health trying doctors' prescriptions and patent medicines" without benefit might well sap the courage of any woman. And yet Mrs. Bryant proved that the question of the cure of womanly disease is only a question of using the right remedy. A few doses of ' Favorite Prescription restored her courage and revived her hope, because she could see "a decided change from the first. n Three months' use of the medicine restored her to perfect health. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescriptiott cures irregularity, dries weakening drains, heals inflammation and ulceration, and cures female weakness. Mm. Sarah Bryant. President of Memphis Social Science Cfub. residing at 271 Atkinson Ave., Memphis. Tenn.. writes: "I sadered with delicate health for three years, tiring doctors' prescriptions and patent medicines until I lost courage and thought I would never regain my health; but a tew doses of your 'Favorite Prescription' made ate change my mind. Could see s decided change frost the first, so I kept on taking it for three months f&i thl ally aud am now in periect health." Dr. Pierce Medical Adviser, in paper covers, is sent free on receipt of 21 one-cent stamps to pay r Trenn of mailing only. Address th k. V. Iicrcc, Buffalo, X. V.

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