Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 189, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1903 — Page 2

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WARM AGAIN TO-DAY. A TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE GENERAL INDIANA NEWS MOB VIOLENCE FEARED COMSTOCK NOVELTY CASE AN OPPORTUNITY YOU MUST NOT MISS

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So Change Im Temperature and Tri(hrr Will lie Fair.

r WASHINGTON, ju... .. - l un-uirt for "Wi dnesday and Thursday: Indiana Fair on Wednesday ani Thursday; light southmat winds. For Illinois Fair on Wednesday and Thursday. xept showers Thursday in west portion. ir-b southeast to east wlnos. Twer Mihtsrar! Fair on Wednesday and Tuursday; Uglu t fr--b southwest wind. Ohio Fair op Wednesday and Thursday; light south to r jthwet winds. Kentucky Fair o': Wednesday and Thursday. Local ObMTvationR n Tuesday. liar. Tvio. H.H. Wind. Weather. Free. 7 a. tn M :? U N ast. Clear. I p. m..30 0 45 S'eaat. Pt. cldy. 0.00 Maximum temporalere, 90; minimum temperature. W. Comparative statement of the n.ean temperature and total precipitation on July 7: Tern. Free Normal H M-t a "3 L i irture 1 lxcarturtt for month M 0.14 0.00 ".14 085 Departure since Jan. 1 ö L Plua. W. T. BLYTHE, Section Director. lesterday'a Temperatures. Stations. Abilene. Tex AmAriilo, Tex Antonio. Tex Atlanta, Ga PU.oarck. N. D .. HufUIo. N. V U ri, ni Calgary. Alb rta t'h tuLioog n. Tenn Cht yerne. Wyo ... :ti. H tnnatt. 0 7 a. m. Max. 7 p. m.

TO 92 M 4 52 86 m 70 84 76 72 SO 71 to P 11 74 4 M r.; 60 54 7 90 82 62 82 72 72 82 78 70 88 84 6 78 7 , S3 84 84 SO J es so m 9 2 8S ! ea s-i 8G 82 86 70 6 4 J 84 82 68 88 M 64 82 St 82 42 60 60 72 S 86 B 9 80 I 74 SO 88 41 74 70 74 S4 82 H 92 M 64 94 86 76 5H S) 12 82 80 72 90 78 76 82 88 7 92 HI 68 SK 82 72 82 76 68 92 82 72 90 86 74 94 88 72 P2 88 4 W RL 68 86 82 62 84 S HI 92 &S rA 69 5 66 ; 78 72 so m 70 90 8. 48 70 70 O) S i 72 70 94 66 SO 88 72 86 82 72 9 82 74 92 7S 64 81 76 72 92 88

Clevcl id, O Columl.il. Conordla. Kan Pavenport. Ia Penver. i?l Dodge 'it. Kan .... Dubur.U'.. Ia Pchith. Mint! El Paio. Tex Galveston. Tex Grand Junrti .n. Col Grand Rapids. Mich. Havre, &! nt Hei na. Mont Huron. S D Jacksonville. Fl Kansas City. M Lander. Wyo lattle Rock, Ark Loulsvill, . Xy Marquette Mich Memphis , Tnn Ksaasa.. TJtah ontgomery. Ala ... Nashville, Tenn N'W Orleans. I .a .... Nw York. M. Y Norfolk, Va North Platte. Neb ... Oklahoma. O. T Orr.aha. Nth Palestine. Tex Farkersburx. W. Va Philadelphia. I'a "tthurg. Pa ... Pueblo. Col Qu Appelle. Assin .. Kapid "itv. S. D Bt. Lout. Mo St. Paul. Minn Bait Iike City. Ctah .anta Fe. N M Shrv. i rt. I.a Springfield. Ill Bjvinirfleld. M Valentin. N-h VI ksburg, Miss . Washington. 1. C Wichita. Kan .... MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS. NEW YORK. July 7. Arrived: Minnehaha, from London; Bremen and Kaiser Wilhelm dor Grosse, from Bremen; Bovic. from Liverpool. Sailed: Goorgic. for Liverpool; Kronprinz Wilhelm, for Bremen. QL'EENSTOWN, July T. Arrived: Westerland, from Philadelphia, for Liverpool, and proceeded; Oceanic, from New York, for Liverpool. LIVERPOOL, July 7. Arrived: Bohemian, from Boston; Sailed: Aurania, for New York; I'ltonla. for Boston. PLYMOUTH. July 7. -Arrived: Graf Waldersee. from New York for Cherbourg and Hamburg, and proceeded. HAMBURG. July 7 Arrived: Blucher. from New York, via Plymouth and Cherbourg. KINSALE. July 7. Passed: Dominion, from Montreal, for Liverpool. GLASGOW. July 7 Arrived: Mongolian, from New York. ANTWERP. July 7. Arrived: Vaderland. from New York. LONDON. July 7. -Sailed: Cambrian, for Boston. Scores of the Whist Playera. DETROIT. July 7 The scores of the open-air games of the American Whist League result d as follows: Section A North and south winners: Mrs. James T. Shaw, Detroit, and C. Rogers. Ypsilanti; score. 96-21 plus; east and west winners: A. It. M tt alt. e'hicago. and Mrs. R. L. Lloyd, Toledo; score, ", irt-21 plus. Section B North and south winners: Mrs. George Waterhouse and B. M. Fitzgerald. Ypsilanti: score, 9 16-21 plus; east and west : J. E. Gallagher and W. Lv Elgery, Grand Rapid, Mich; score, 11 5-21 plus. Section C North and south winners: Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Hunter. Indianapolis; score, 4 1-3 plus. East and west winners: Mrs. N C. O'Brien, Detroit, and J. E. Faber, New York. Student Meld for Stealing Automobile. BOSTON, Jt:!y 7 John Lankrshim, a sophomore at Harvard College, was to-day held in tLSN bond fr a further hearing on July 16 on an accusation of breaking Into a vehicle agency and the larceny of a xtine-hundred-dollar racing automobil. Lankershlm wes arrested as he was packing a dress-suit cas- to sat to-day i'or Paris on the Kronprinz Wilhelm at H -bokn. The young man protattd that his lather was a millionaire banker of Los Angeles. Cnl.. who could pay several tin;. -over the value of the allegvd stolen machine. Lankershim was locked up in-nding a reply from his father in Paris about bail. Fast Long Run hy a Battleship. WASHINGTON, July 7. The big battleship Keas s.-.i'.- smashed all ocean records tor speed in the battleship class in her journey to Kiel, making a total distance of 3.345 miles from New York to the Needles at the high average speed of 16.62 miles per hour. She made the entire run without a single top or disarrangement of the machinery, wh.eh showed its perfection by running up thj speed to 14.5 and 15 knots on the last fow days of the voyage. Repalrlua Flood Damaste. RTTSBURO, July 7 -Nearly 1.500 men are now at work ropairir the damage done to the Pennsylvania t - .ad lines by the noou ai jeannette :.nu vicinity. The officials have estimated the entire damage sustained in the disaster at more than I&OU.UU). Colored I ailed States Consul. AN JUAN. P. R.. July 7 -Christopher P. Payne, who has been appointed to succeed Consul Van Home at St. Thomas, arrived Isrre to-day. Mr Payne, whs It a colored Bnaa. as the object of many attentions on the part ol the negrovs hero. Killed Wife and Self. WASHINGTON. Pa.. July 7. - A. R. foung. an attorney of Pittsburg, shot his slfe and then committed suicide at a hotel here early this morning. No reason tot das dead is known.

DKCATI'R SKRO BAITER IS FIXED 0K DOLLAR AMI COATS.

Monro Wliitecnpping Caie-Xew Presbyterian Cliarcli at Richmond Siunll Fire ut Jonciboro. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. DECATUR, Ind., July 7. As tho outcome of the negro outrage here Saturday evening Will Foreman, of this city, was arrested and fined $1 and costs, amounting to $9 80. This was the only arrest made, and the charge was assault and battery. Leading citixens are planning to put a stop to any similar outbreak in the future, and an effort is being made to have the negro John Johnson, living at Wren, east of here, return aud file affidavits against the members of the mob charging them with Inciting a riot. The business men will do all in their power to raus- the arrest of every m- mber of the mob. Foreman was not one of the ring leaders, but was one of the persons who was beaten by the police. WaNffWf Case Cioe to Jury. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BI.OOMlNGTON. Ind.. July T.-The Britton whltecap case, for damages, went to the Jury at 4 o'clock this afternoon after a i very careful and explicit instruction, espe- j dolly tourhing mob law. by special Judge ; iirniey. ine case uh: ufi-n uuuy lumcnKu :u d tlie general opinion is the Jury will disugree. DANIEL G. REIIFS CHI RCI1. Plana for New Initcd Presbyterian Strnetnre at Richmond. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind.. July 7.-Plans for the new I'nited Brethren Church to be built in this city by Daniel G. R id. the New York, multi-millionaire, are now being drawn by a New York architect and will soon b ready for presentaiiun to the building committee of the church. The general features have been decided on by the committee after making investigation of churches in a number of cites. The general design of the edifice will be Gothic, and the structure Will be of solid Bedford stone. There will be a stone tower. The auditorium proper will seat htwen "i0u and 600 on the tower tloor. and there will le a commodious balconv. The Bunday school room will be at the rear. The contract will be let as soon M tho pians are received here and bids can be sectired. The church will represent an expenditure of $100,OUO. Another Caatle In Spain. Special to the Indianapolis Journal, JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., July 7.-Alex-ander Ball, an aged resident of Memphis, this county, has received word that he is an heir to an estate of $12,000,000, his share to be about $500.000. The State that is about to be settled, after years being spent in locating the many heirs, is that of Joe Ball, who fiourishtd at the time of the revolutionary war. He was a cannon maker and also owner of a fleet that was hired by the government for transport. He died in 1843, leavings a son, John Ball, and five daughters. Alexander Ball, of this county, is tho youngest son of John Ball. Fake Foot-Knee Caaea Continued. SPRINGFIELD, 111., July 7.-The "fake" footrace cases against Alderman Evan T. Brewer. Johnny Sommers and others, were continued until September by Judge Creighton this morning. Witnesses for the prosecution from Indiana and Iowa failed to app ar. It is gen rally believed that the Sopnmbcr grand jury will investigate the cases. Alexander McCarren, one of the defendants who has been in jail for several witks, attempted to give bond for his appearance, but was unsuccessful. Jessie Hentx Kelly Suen for Divorce. P) t'ial to the Indianapolis Journal. VINCENNES, Ind., July 7,-Jossie Hentx Kelly, a handsome young bookkeeper, filed suit for divorce this evening against Attorney Charles B. Kelly, of New York city, grandson of CapL M. O'Donnell, a prominent citixen of Vincennes. The complaint alleges abandonment and failure to provide. The Kellys have a son. John B. Kelly, three years old. For two fmn Mrs. Kelly has supported herself and son. Killed in a Runaway. Frecial to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Ind., July 7.-Mrs. Jacob Strauss, of Laketon, Wabash county, was killed on Sunday in a runaway accident at Wilson. SC D. Mrs. Strauss was seventy years old. She left two daughters. Mrs. George Ogden, wife of the principal doorkeeper of the House of Representatives last winter, and Mrs. L,-wis Award, of Laketon. Two sons live In Wilson. Kidnaped by Their Parents. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIEJ, Ind., July 7. Anna, aged nine, Dahlia, six, and Ethel Wililams, six, were kidnaped by their parents lc.st night from the Delaware county Children's Home. The children were seized in the yard, placed in a buggy, and driven away. No trace of them can be founl. The court had ordered the children placed in the home. Small Fire at Jonesboro. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JONKSJJORO, Ind.. July 7. Fire this morning did between $1,200 and $1,500 of damage to the Pierce & Coppock grocery store in this place. It broke out in the b in ment. and be cause of its location was hard to get at. Two-thirds of the damage, which was mostly to the stock, was by smoke and water. Unknown Roy Drowned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., July 7 A youth of sixteen, who told boys he met on the river bank that he was from Pennsylvania, but did not tell what he was doing here, drowned in the Wabash while swimming with them. Boy Drowned While Bathing. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SEYMOUR. Ind., July 7. Daniel Sage, the twelve-year-old son of Mrs. Julia Sage, drowned in White river at Rockford this evening, while bathing. The body was recovered four hours later. Delphi Company Ready. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. DELPHI. Ind., July 7-Company L, of this city, was ordered to await in readiness to move to Evansville at a moment's notice. Sixty men are now assembled at the armory waiting orders. Toy PNtol Canned Lockjaw. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MATTOON. 111.. July 7 -Emory, the ten-year-old son of Taylor K i t .n, died tonight from lockjaw caused by a wound received from a toy pistol. Boy Dies from Lockjaw. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PERU. Ind.. July 7-Frank H'.ers. aged fourteen, died from lockjaw to-day, resulting from a toy-pistol wound in the hand, received on July 4. Indiana Obituary. MICHIGAN CITY. Ind.. Julv 7.-H. H. Walker, for many years one of the prominent politicians of northern Indiana, died at Burlington. Vt.. to-day. The deceased held several offices of trust in this city snd was one of the pioneer residents of the city. In compliance vith his dying request, his remains will be brought here and lani ai rest by the side of his wife and daughter. Gold from the Klondike, SEATTLE. Wash., July 7 -The steamer Ioiphiu arrived in port this morning with $5v000 of Klondike gold abard. Th amount is the largest brought down by auy vessel during the present season. The gbld was consigned to the local assay office From the I Dawson banks.

BRIEF ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL OVER HOOSIERDOM.

Noblesvllle Democrat Sold er Elwood Councilman Anderson Bridge Contract Fireman Badl" Hurt. CRAWFORDSVILLE.- The State Log Rolling Association of the Modern Woodmen will be held here on S-pt. 30 and Oct. L The first day will be devoted to business affairs and the next day to prize drills and contests. The executive committee having the matter In charge consists of Harry Fine. president; Dr. Ball. Lebanon, vtce president; Dumont Pck. secretary, Max Tannenbaum, treasurer. L. W. Otto and F. E. McCapil. ANDERSON. -The Indiana Bridge Company, of Muncie. carried off the contract for the erection of the Delaware-street bridge across White river In this city. The Muncie company defeated some twelve other bridgo company. The price is $26.600. This bridge will be th largest in the county. The County Council will be called in special sessk i lo'makc the appropriation for the structure. ELWOOD. The City Council has elected George Brir, cashier of the Citizens' Exchange Bank, as a member of the Council, to succeed William Davis, who has removed to tjas City t i assume the superintendency of the tin mill there. Mr. Brier was formerly a member of the Council and until a fewweeks ago was treasurer of the Board of School Tr;:stces. He is a Republican, as was Mr. Davis. SHELBY VI LLE. The smallest baby born here In the last few years is the child of Mrs. Thomas Kennedy. The infant only weighs 3; pounds, but Is well developed and has "the best of chances for living. The local traction company on July 4 carried the largWM number of passengers for one day since the road has been in operation, the number being :,360. RICIIM' XO. Formal announcement hns bees made by Charles R. Unthank, ex-sheriff of Wayne county, that he Is a candidate for mmberhip on the R-jmblican state committee from the Sixth congressional district. Th election will be held next January at the district convention. Col. E. P. Thayer, of Greenfield, the incumbent, is a candidate for re-election. N UILESVILLE. The Noblesville Democrat has been sold by J. M. Fippen to De Willa Spannulh. It will be continued as the Democratic organ of Hamilton county. Mr. Fippen and his son Frank will open a law office in this city. Mr. Snannuth has been connect .1 with the Greenfield Republican for st.veral years. FRANKFORT. A local civic federation has been organized for the purpose of suppressing gambling? and other vices now flourishing in Frankfort. Martin A. Morrison ll the president. As the result of its efforts no pools or beer will be sold at the races this week. ANDERSON -The City Drug Company has sold Its store, managed by Clarence Hughel, to John Rust, recently of the firm of Rust & Rust. The latter took possession at once, and will make many improvements. The consideration is said to have been $8,500. PERU. A. E. Richprdson, of Delray, Mich., a fireman on Wabash train No. 12. which WM wrecked near Ashley, is at the hospital here with a badly fractured skull. ' but may recover. Seven injured pass-ug- n were taken to Ashley. SEYMOUR. Maurice Bothwell, whose skull was crushed Monday night when he attempted to step from a rapidly moving Panhandle passenger train, is still unconscious, and death Is expected at any hour. PORTLAND. Frank Moore, arrestl for exploding dynamite on the city streets on July 4. resulting in cnsiderable damage to property, was heavily fined, and in default of payment is in the county jail. GUSSIE" M'KEE DEAD. Indiana Woman Who Wan Known as Kew York's loolroom Qneen." NEW YORK, July 7.-"Gussie" McKee, well known, in this city as the "poolroom queen," died to-nifcht from cancer of the stomach. Mrs. McKee was formerly the wife of Lieutenant Martin, of the United States army, who was cashiered for falsifyinghis accounts. Mrs. McKee was .born in Livonia, Ind., twenty-six y ars ago, graduated from the Southern Indiana Normal College at the age of sixteen, and taugh school In Livonia for three years. Later she removed to Chicago, where she secured a position as a Western Union telegraph operator. Five v ars ago she came to New York, and soon after that gained notoriety in the raiding of a poolroom, in which, her relatives declare, she had but a slight interest, and that she rarely frequented the race tracks. During the last few years she toured the country as leading lady in several theatrical companies. MRS. BLAINE ILL. Widow of Maine's Late Statesman Breaking Down Children with Her. AUGUSTA, Me., July 7. Mrs. Blaine, widow of the late James G. Blaine, is reported to be seriously ill at her home in this city. Her children, Mrs. Beale, Mrs. Damrosch and James G. Blaine, are with her. Mrs. Blaine has been ill for some time, and her condition Is due to a general breaking down of the system. Obituary. NEW YORK. July 7. Dr. Charles Lancaster, author of several medical books and high school grammars, is dead at Plalnfleld, N. J., in his ninety-sixth year. In his early manhood Dr. Lancaster was the intimate of Holmes, Longfellow and other poets. He was noted as a strong opponent of capital punishment. ST. PAl'L. July 7. Word has been received here that James P. Castle, aged twenty-one, son of Capt. Henry E. Castle, of this city, now auditor for the Postoffice Department In Washington, is dead. Flint Glass Workers I nlon. CINCINNATI. July 7. -The American Flint Glass Workers' Union seated Its 225 delegates to-day, refusing a seat to but one delegate from Philadelphia, where the local lodge is said to be financially delinquent. Amendments to the constitution occupied the time of the delegates to-day. The question of Amalgamation with the Green Glass Bottle Blowers' Association will not come up before next week. Accident Insurance I nderwrlters. ALEXANDRIA BAY, N. Y.. July T.-The annual meeting of the International Association of Accident Insurance Underwriters opened here to-day with an attendance of 12T delegates representing twenty-seven leading companies of the world and a capitalization of eighty millions. Franklin J. Moore, of Philadelphia, presided. A Distinction. "I dislike to be called a 'poetess. " said s young woman who sometimes wrote verses for publication. "Perhaps." suggested her matter-of-fact brother, "If you will writs a little better nu.ility of poetry people will call you a poet." Quite So. Philadelphia Ledger. A New York judge thinks that women should be taught to think. Almost anybody who should examine the retrsals in the courts would naturally think that judges tj ould be tar.ght to think, too. Anthracite Coal in Colorado. DENVER. Col.. July 7. It is announced that genuine anthracite coal has been discovered in Routt county. Colorado. The fbdds are believed to be as fully extensive as those of Pennsylvania. An Intelligent Justice. Philadelphia Ledger. They must have intelligent cows In Maryland, where a justice of the peace decided thut a railroad should pay for the killing of a cow because the company had no sign up st the crossing". Probably Not. Washington Star. Mrs. Eddy, of Christian Science fame, has hist been presented with an automobile. Her faith will not prevent her from keevins a careful eye on the gasoline tank.

l. S. WILLIAMS, ARRESTED AT SWEETSER, TAKEN TO MARIOS,

And Later Hurried Out of the City Charged with Criminal Assault Lynching; Irged by Mother. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind.. July 7 Urged on by the appeals of a frantic mother to her neighbors to assist In mobbing the man who had ruined her child, an attempt was made today to take U. S. Williams from the hands of Sheriff Mills and Deputy Sheriff Willlams when his artest was accomplished at Sweetser, six miles west of Marion. The pleas of the mother excited the crowd and the prisoner was hurried on a run to the sheriff's buggy, which was a block from the place where the arrest was made. After placing the prisoner In a buggy the officers whipped their horse into a gallop and escaped from the town before the mob had time to take action. Abner Veach, father of the little girl who was assaulted, mounted a bicycle and rode to Marion at the side of the sheriff's bucgy, pleading and begging with the officers to turn the prisoner over to him. Williams was placed in the Marion jail, although he begged to be taken to a city more distant from Sweetser, as he feared mob violence. Williams is a music teacher, and has been located at Sweetser for a year. It hi alleged by Hazel 'Veach, aged thirteen years, daughter of Abner Veach, hardware dealer of we tser, that Williams criminally assaulted her yesterday afternoon while she was at his studio to take a music lesson, but she did not say anything to her parents until this morning. Word was sent to the sheriff, and he and his deputy hastened to Sweetser. The affair had been kept quiet pending the arrival of the sheriff, but when the officers reached the town word of their mission passed around rapidly, and before they had made the arrest of W'illiams men, women and children were In the street. Mrs. Veach, mother of the child, was almost wild, and insisted ,that the crowd take the law into Its own hands. In order to avert any possible attempt to mob Williams he was spirited out of the city late this afternoon, and is now iu jail In a neighboring town. Williams is thirty-five years old, anjd it Is said that he formerly resided at IndianajK)lis, where his wife and two children live. Killed Himself with a Musket. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VEVAY. Ind., July 7. At Florence, eight miles east of this place, yesterday Joseph Henry, aged thirty-eight, killed himself by firing a charge from a musket into his stomach. He was despondent over his physical condition, having recently suffered injuries which prevented the performatu of manual labor. The charge from the gun ignited his clothing and when his body was found It was burned almost to a crisp. Coroner Knox returned a verdict of suicide. AFTER TWENTY YEARS ALLEGED WIFE MIRDERER HE. TIHVS TO HIS OLD HOME. Joseph F. Paxton Is Reported to Hare Been Seen 'ea r Rnlhec, but Officers Fall to Find film. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PORTLAND, Ind., July 7. -Joseph F. Paxton, indicted here over twenty years ago for the murder of his wife, near Balbec, is reported to have been seen last night at the home of his brother, Mahlon Paxton, near Bluffton. Officers from there went out to the Paxton farm, but failed to find him after a diligent search, although his brother admitted he had been there. Paxton was accused of having killed his wife by smothering her with bed clothing or a pillow. Her sister lived with them and she had accused them of intimacy and it was thought this was the motive of the crime. Shortly after the inquest was held bloody clothing, identified as belonging to Mrs. Paxton. was found hidden in a hollow log. After the funeral of his wife Paxton disappeared. The grand jury returned an indictment and an effort was made to locate him, but without success. He was once seen in Kansas and the sheriff made a trip there, but without avail. No reward was offered at the time and the matter dropped from public attention until to-day. 1 - TRIAL OF MRS. DRAKE. Accused Woman Is Put on the Stand in Her Own Behalf. Epecial to the Indianapolis Journal. COVINGTON, Ind.. July 7. Mrs. Drake slept little last night. She was informed yesterday that she would be placed on the stand to-day. It was then that she seemed to realize her position and beci me very nervous. She retired late, slept little and was up early this morning, appearing anxious for the trial to begin so that the strain would be over. She was placed on the stand at 10 o'clock and testified that the last meal she prepared for Robert Drake was a supper consisting of hog jowls, onions, pickles, bread, waffles and coffee. Drake ate three slices of jowls, only one of which would go into the frying pan, which was large, at a Aie; six onions, three inches in diameter; drank two and a half cups of coffee, ate four large slices of bre i with a large amount of butter and a number of hot waffles. After supper he I jad the paper until late and retired apparently feeling well. She was awakened by him about 2 o'clock. He complainfti of distress in the stomach and bowels and had severe attacks of vomiting, which continued during the night. He had had trouble before with his stomach. Mrs. Drake was asked to describe the personal appearance of Robert Drake. She cried as she gave the description and finally broke down entirely. She said Drake worked on the farm and while at work was poisoned by ivy vines. He used suiphate of zinc as a wash to cure it. He was an habitual user of patent medicines. He had tried the home treatment of the Keeley cure for whisky. She denied the report that she at one time instituted surety of the peace proceedings against Drake. Mrs. Drake will be on the stand to-morrow. CHINESE CASHIERED. High Officials of Kwanaj-Si Province Punished for Corruption. PEKING. July 7. On the recommendation of Tsen Chun Hsuan, the mw viceroy of the provinces of Kwan-Tung and Kwang-Si, an edict was issued to-day cashiering all the high officials in Kwnng-Si. including the provernor, on account of corruption, incapacity and for connivance with the rebellion which has been constant for the past year, provoking a threat on the part of the French to interfere. General Su and another general h;r. been dismissed and one taotai has been exiled from the province, with hard labor, because of having plundered the people. Tsen Chun Hsuan. whom the throne orders to organize a militia to defend the province, is distributing large famine relief, which, it is expected, will be unnecessary when the present crpps have been harvested. Yancy Johnson, colored, of 632 East Court street, was arrested yesterday afternoon by Bicyclemen Askins and Duncan and charged with assault and battery on his wife. Johnson and his better half have had a number o' quarrels and both have been in the Police C-rL

BANKS ARE SlIXO TO PROTECT THEMSELVES OX MAXY KOTES.

Some of Them Are Said to be ForgeriesSmall Amount of Prop--rty Recovered. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HUNTINGTON. Ind., July 7.-New developments are being brought to light constantly in the Comstock Novelty Company matter. The latest is the recovery by United States Deputy Marshal Rankin of a team of horses and a dray, which Cornstock had delivered to B. F. Bowen at Logansport. together with stock of the value of abcut $1,200. The directors held a meeting here to-day. E. E. Allen is in charge of the property, acting under orders of Judge Anderson, of the District Court. The First National Bank of this city has filed attachment proceedings in the Circuit Court on twentyone members of the company to protect a note for $650 which Vice President Fulton says is a fotgr-ry. The aegtvgat amount of notes held bv thre' banks in this city is $13.000. and there is also a mortgage Sgsjnst the property for $5,O00. The signatures of W. B. Bartlett on several notes are said by Bartlett s brother to be forgeries, but the banks say they are genuine and will endeavor to collect. The Parke- Ranking Company, at Parker, and a bank at Farmland each hold notes for $1,500. Voted for Gravel Roads. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FLORA, Ind.. July 7. The proposition to build twenty-two miles of free gravel roads at a cost of $42,000 in Monroe township of Carroll county to-day resulted in a majority for the roads of 233. This makes over one hundred miles of new gravel roads voted for in the county in the past six weeks. MORTGAGE FILED FOR RECORD. It Reveals Tremendous Scopcof I nlon Traction Company's Plans. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., July 7.-The Girard Trust Company of Philadelphia filed a mortgage for $5,000,000 for record with Recorder Davis, in this county, this afternoon. It was executed by the Indiana Union Traction Company. This movement completes the merger of the traction companies and gives the lessee company ample funds to complete the lines proposed and improvements, including the power house, car barns and shops to be built In this city. The mortgage covers thirty-two printed pages and contains a total of 9,768 words. The bond issue of $5,000,000 is secured by this mortgage and is payable in thirty years from July L 1903. The interest rate Is 5 per cent., payable semi-annually, and at any time after five years the bonds may be redeemed. The purposes of the company are revealed in this instrument, for it covers eighty of the ninety-two counties of the State as counties in which the Indiana I'nion Tracts on Company proposes to operate. The mortgage was signed by George F. McCulloch, as president, and Arthur W. Brody, secretary, of the Indiana Union Traction Company. Two Franchises Granted. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., July 7. The Board of County Commissioners to-day granted two franchises for electric lines through the county, making three that have been granted at the present session of the board. The Union Traction Company of Indianajolis was given a franchise for a road to extend north through the county from here to Underwood, passing through the towns of Memphis and Henryville. The company has already secured a franchise through Scott county, and Mill build the lino north to connect with the one from Indianapolis to Columbus. . The other company to receive a franchise to-day wras the Louisville & Cincinnati Electric Company. Mnrtgave for $5,00O,tO0. The new Indiana Union Traction Company filed a rive -million-dollar mortgage in the county recorder's office yesterday alternoon to the Girard Trust Company, of Philadelphia. Property of the company in nearly half the counties of the State is named as security. Similar mortgages axe being filed all over the State. MIST WORK TEN HOURS. Ultimatum of Hiu Four Officials to the Wabash Machinists. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Ind., July 7. The twenty-five machinists employed at the shop of the Michigan division of the Big Four in this city were astonished this moruing when they were confronted at the door of the shop by Master Mechanic W. J. Thomas and told that unless they were ready to work ten hours a day, with the exception of Saturdays, until further notice, they would not be permitted in the shop. Last week notices were posted to the effect the shop would be run ten hours a day aft?r July 6. The machinists made no open complaint, and went to work yesterdavy but instead of putting in ten hours knocked off at r o'clock, working the usual nine hours. They expected to go back to work this morning, but the master mechanic named conditions, and the men would not accept them. One man returned this afternoon, but the others are still out. and say they will not go back. The men are paid by the hour, so that wages are not involved. William Garstang, superintendent of motive power of the system, chanced to be in Wabash this afternoon, and has been closeted with the division officials. They say the men will work ten hours or not at ali. Other shop men refuse to walk out In sympathy, but the syst Cffi is short of power 'and the machinists' action seriously inconveniences the company, as little work can be done on the engines. Repairs to a Big; Bridge. Bpecial to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE. Ind., July 7. At the next meeting of the county commissioners it is probable that steps will be taken to Improve the Main-street bridgp over the Wabash which, it is" claimed by local engineers, is unsafe. The structure, which is bv fr.r the largest nnd met i m r.-. in the city, and over which thousands of persons pass daily, has not received much attention in late years, and the floor, especially, is in a dans roUl condition. Only loose boards form the sidewalk and thoroughfar , and many of these are unsafe. The proposition now is to asphalt tho floor and build a new railing. This would strengthen the bridge and calm the fears of all. The commissioners wil' take the Matter up In a week or two and come to some decision. THREE NEGB0ES ARRESTED. Charge Agaiust Them Is Taking ha rue of a Pocketbook. John Richey. 714 Aldrich street; Lawrence Bowen. -7 Sahm street, and Charles Parker, 443 Arch street, all colored, were arrested last night by Patrolmen Shea and Vaughn and locked up at the police station on a charge of grand larceny. It is claimed that the men lest nlht stole a pocketbook containing over $60 and belonging to a man named Gaugher. The latter rented a buggy from Bowen's livery barn on St. Clair Street and went out for a short drive. After he returned the rig to the stable and walked several blocks toward his home he missed his pocketbook and was convinced that he had dropped it in the bottom of the buggy. He went back to the livery barn and asked the negroes who took charge of the rig when he returned It f they found the lost property. They said they had not, but tluir actions were so suspicious that he caused them to be placed under arrest. The men claim that they did not find the pocketbook and nothing was found in their pockets that would indicate that they were guilty of the theft. But the police think they stole the money snd hid it in the barn.

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FARMS IN THE TROPICS WARXIXG TO WOILD-BE INVESTORS IN SOUTHERN COUNTRIES. It Is a Safe Rule to Investigate with Care Risks of Central American Investments. Los Angeles Times. Is tropical agriculture a safe investment? This is the question that is going the remnds nowadays. "Shall I put my money in rubber land In Mexico?" "How about bananagrowing in Costa Rica?" "Will truck gardening pay in Panama?" "Do you think there is anything in raising oranges in Porto Rico?" "Is banana culture in Jamaica a good thing?" These are samples of hundreds of Inquiries the Ameriean consuls in the various tropical countries are being besieged with. The man who knows nothing whatever aboutthi8 form of investment, and who starts out to investigate for himself. Is soon bewildered by a mass of contradictory opinion. In the morning you meet the fellow who has tropical land to sell. You know he is a promoter and naturally zealous in the cause he Is exploiting, but hu argument sounds so plausible that you begin to wonder if you really have been neglecting the chance to get rich quick. He points a short cut to wealth, and you finger your money and hesitate. In the afternoon you call on the government representative. He does not boil over with aathusiasm. Neither does he pronounce against the venture. He says a great deal In a pleasant way. but on the whole is rather noncommittal. You go away wondering. In the evening you meet another fellow who has a lot of detrimental things to say about tropical agricultural schemes in general. He does a real good job of what is vulgarly but expressively known as "knocking." This difference of opinion and lack of opinion reduces you to your original state of doubt, and you go to bed without writing the promised letter to your friends at home settling truquestion "whether qr not it is a good thing." REFLECT UPON IT. After you have time to think it over you will draw conclusion9rf your own. You will ask yourself: "If this land is likely to pay several hundred per cent, profit on the investment, why do the men who own it want to sell It?" "If It Is such a good thing why is it being peddled around In small pieces, when any capitalist would be glad of a chance to Invest his means where such a return is probable?" You wonder why you had not thought of this before, and make up your mind to ask the promoter about it. He says he has not got the money to develop property, and as a consequence is forced to dispose of a certain portion of hi- holdings in order to get a start. He says the professional money loaner won't take any chances because the fi'dd of investment is to far away, and the conditions surrounding it too uncertain for him to risk. This is the truth. There are many tropical promoters who have put every dollar they own and every cent thy could get from their friends into the scheme, and, having failed to secure monrj- from the banks, as they expected they would be able to as soon as they made a start, have bten forced to peddle their stock in every possible way in order to keep afloat. It takes a lot of money to develop a tropical plantation. A whole lot of money has got to go in before any will come out. REASON FOR IT. The reason why the professional money loaner and the rubber man cannot get together is this: While the business of producing it may be one of great promise, it is -till in an experimental state and the experienced capitalist never likes to have other men experimenting with his money. He is always friendly to anything that promises well, but the rubber men are too sanguine for him. Their claim that the Industry is capable of earning enormous profits may be all right, but these profits are not yet visible. This is easily and conclusively proven (using Mexico as an example) by the fact that the official list of exports does not contain any such Item as cultivated rubber. If the business had advanced to the stage where it was profitable there would certainly be some evidences of it in the market. There is no disposition on the part of any one to discourage worthy endeavor along any legitimate line of enterprise, but many ui inese men, in me glow or their enthusiastic anticipation, have become too strong in their claims. Borne of them arcguaranteeing impossible profits to small investors. The clerk and furrner and laborer are going into it bt lieving that it is a sure thing while it is merely an experiment. It may be a promising experiment, but it is an experiment for all that, and things should be called by their right name. KEEP ON SAFE SIDE. It is always a safe rule to go slow on any get-rlch-quick proposition. The official or writer who advis? the public against promoters who are offering several hundred per cent, profit to inve-stors are not on.-mies to honest enterprise. A scheme that will bring returns like these is hard to tied, and doesn't have to go begging when It Is discovered. A warning against such is really protection to the wel! meaning. To say that tho rubber business in Mexico is yet in an experimental state, and. further, that the most money that has be-n realized tbi .- has been made by th BSSfl who sold th land, is not pronouncing agains the fu: pi-ospects of the country ir the particular industry in question. It is merely making the truth known to head off the sharks who are despoiling th" public on The pretense that It it a bonanza now yielding riches to the investors. No honest operator who is. ioii.g business y1' siuar.- v;.n take any exception 'sC truth and this is the truth. Honest endeavor in any line of develop, ment always attracts swindlers who Imitate the operation of legitimate concerns. en account of the cleverness aud resourcefulness of the gentry who live by proving ssj the cqpidity of the public it is hard to tell the sheep from the goats. A favorite trick of the tropical swindlers in shewing a party f prospective buyers of land over a plantation is to produce specimens of products purported to have been grown on the plac An ex-employe of one plantation told me that it was the regular practice of his employers to exhibit coffee which thev claimed to have raised on the land themselves, but

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llt'STON Tuesday. July 7. S:9 p. m.. Otha-; n. Huston, aged eighty-four years, at his real dence, 935 North Illinois atrcet. Burial at V. cersburg. Pa. Short services at huus. , i p. .n. Wednesday . LtNTZ Mrs. Wllemenia Lent. Tuesday. 5- 45 p. m. Funeral from residence of h r -n. fl. W Lenta. Massachusetts avenue, fast of Brightwood, Thursday, 1 p. m. Friends invited. LOST. LOST A white crepe hawl on ISth at., bnaeCollage av. and Illinois st. Beward at IIS Eat New York t. which was really wild coffee that he (the employe) bad obtain d tr.-m the Indians. RubbeT milk Is also exhibited in bottlea I examined some of it with a great dial of Interest, but after hearing the coffee story 1 am a little suspicious, and the n vt v.n'p I see a fellow making an exhibition of thla sort I won't be real certain that it is nut g at milk he is shoaing. ARE OF PROPERTY INTERESTS. One great drawback to tropical investments in general is the lack of adequate protection of property interests. Of course, Porto Rico and Cuba are quite safe now because the American flag Is la the form-r and the Piatt amendment is a protective measure in the latter. And there is little likelihood of trouble in Mexico. President Diaz is always firm in the administration of justice to foreign capitalists, his friendship for the American being especially marked. Jamaica is also peaceful, but it is an English possession, and it Is very diftlcult for an American to get concessions I that are worth anything from the Ensli-n officials. When it comes to putting money in tne Spanish countries it is a hazardous i undertaking. I examined a lot of pap rs pertaining to some of these claims, and was particularly impressed with the outright robbery perpetrated in one instance. An American owned a good-slsed plantation near the boundary line of two provinces, one day the officials swooped down upon him and confiscated his entire proicrty land, buildings, stores and all. He, of course, protested against the outrage and api-akd to the proper authorities for redress. The reason given for the confiscation was that the boundary line had been changed, so that his estate was in another province, to which he ewed taxes that had not been paid. That the whole thing was nn i .. . scheme to mb him could be easily seen, for the reason that no legal steps whatever had been taken in the matter. This unsettled condition of governmr t makes it an undesirable field for the in--stor. In most instance? he will be at the mercy of unscrupulous thieves. If a osn corn is large onpugh to influence the government or strong enough to defend Itself against it, like the United Fruit Company, which has nearly $15.000,000 inv. -i. Centra America and the West Indies, it will get along all right. But the conditions are against the small speculator. She Soured on lllni. New York Tribune. President Roosevelt is intensely amused at a little incident which occurred on his Western trip, and he has confided It to a number of his Washington friends. It seems that one of the newspaper men on the special train was a man noted for his personal beauty and his rapturous mode of expressing himself concerning tho fair sex. At Sioux Falls the handsome s.rlbe met a "damsel fair" the President pronounces the first word as If It were hyptv Bated and there immediately ensued lent flirtation, which was carried on for some time by means of telegrams. Th young woman urged a repetition of his visit. This he could not make, but it finally arranged that she should risll an aunt in Kansas City at tho time th- 1 ielent would pass through there on thf I turn trip. Up to this time the correspondence had been carried on over tbj wire, briefly expressed, and the young v. a subscribed herself "Sugar." Now. howev the newspaper swain determined to use the mails for a lucubration more extensi; florid than he had the cheek lo Irma the wire. His companions tried to dlasu him. but without avail. He burn- d the Pintsch light inditing the effort of his life. No sooner had the young woman had time to receive the epistle, however, than there came a brief message over the wire. It read, "Blank, President's Special Train I leave for New York to-night. All off. Vüiegar." I nntanly Young: Men. Now York Evening Post. ,A great efforS is being made to thr w open the doors oT the College of Ch t(,S. i) to women, the representative wonv of the city and State using their best endeavor in behalf of the idea. Aa Jisual, I -young men object, on the usual , that the entrance of women "would alter the spirit and tone of robust manlin'---(' mmenting on this ungenerous atiii a local paper says: "In other words would rob every young woman In the city an education merely to have a monopob athletic sports. This question of cosd -cation should be decided by a board trustees and not by a baseball team ' The young chivalry of Charleston should sider the university students of their B These young men. when they p their protests again.-t the admittance of women we re vain, resolved on a philosophic al attitude. They would ignore the existence of the girl stud nts. When a br girl took first honors at graduation tiny grandly overlooked her and held a jubilation for the youth who came off second best. In this way were they enabled to bar the prest nee, of the inferior sex within their classic walls. Couldn't "Work" the Pope. New Orleans Times-Democrat. The following story of the Pop. wit is current In Italy, where he pers o y is most popular, ereiu among the antiClericals. He has sorn nephews who i 1 it some what difficult to extract morn v : him. The wife of one of these neph I said to have undertaken to get somhim. She solicited an Interview, and. having obtained It, said: 'Holy Father. I . .me to seek your advice. I am poor. I have a large family, and. alas! I am in dt bt I have been gifted by heaven with a good voice, and the proprietor of a music hali has offered me a large salary to appai on hi stage and sing a few simple songs. (Might I to accept the offer?" "Certainly.'- rhis Holiness, "and I only thif my official pasition will not allow me to be present at your debut." fx Matter May Think. Providence Journal. Professor Shaler is too well lr formed and honest a scientist to claim originality f r the view which he now fullv commits h itself . that Intelligence Is possessed bv ev rything in th universe, from man down to the lowest grade of plant.. Indeed, he is careful to say that he does not profess to be a pioneer in the maintenance of this view-. He certainly Is not. To ssv nothing of the early Oriental pan heists, with their doctrine of an intelligence not merely manifested in natural laws but permeating everything, there Is what Ixvke said about matter being possibly made to think, which in the light of the new theory or matter which European scientists are sdvanctng seems much less absurd than it may ones