Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 199, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 July 1903 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1903,

thf chimneys addled to the disagreeableness Of the tempest In the swirling, twisting, ft, sty ctmtds thetv eras forc and strength Out rau. 1 no little damage to property in the cJty. iKiwn town the tall buildings shook as frm as earthquake, windows crashed up-n the sidewalks, stands Were turm 1 ovcr and tree blown down. The wind had no consideration whatever for the straw hat and poVBCtd upon them ss if that were its mission from the West. It lifted th'-rn high in the air and then set them down on their qdge. spinning along like cart wheels with their owners fighting along after them, at the sam1 time attempting to rub the dust from their eyes. If thev Wert lncfcy enough to catch a fleeing hat tt dkln't matter whether it was their own or not. There- was not much rain with the storm. It was the wind that did the damage. One Of the large windows In the Kahn Tailoring Company s building was blown from Its setting and broken on the pavement. A number of other windows were broken by the wind and in all cases they shook and trembled and were on the verge of destruction. Awnings over the doorways were in many cases torn loose and caught up by the blasts of the wind. Porch furniture was scattered over the lawns or piled in a heap at the ends of the verandas. QJIEAT TREES UPROOTED. Further out from the center of the city. Where there are more trees and shrubbery, tfce wind seemed doubly strong. Great trees were bent and swayed and in many instance uprooted. No one was reported injured, although in many places property wad damaged und traifta blocke!. The bicycle policemen had many calls to points where trees were blown across the streets and the way was made dansjeroun. They pent a good part of- the night in the placing of red lights signals of unknown danger. The man on the tower of the court house was the most reliable witness bf the storm. He said that the building under him swayed and shook, while his altitudinous lookout rocked like a boat. He declared the wind the strongest and most violent in many years. A great deal of damage was done to the telephone" linns, especially the long distance ones. The New Telephone Company's line to Knlghtstown was damaged and connection was impossible with the northern cities of the gas belt. The wires of the Bell Telephone Company were also bady mixed. Kokomo, Anderson. Logansport and Danvllle were all cut off communication. The lines Into Illinois were arso not working. In tip? city many branches and trees were cauffht among the wires and caused tssaportry,.. trouble. The wrecking crews of both companies were working all night and are stiil in the -tleld'. The telegraph companies vsuffered too. more especially in the tyeot. where the storm was worst. DAMP AND COOL TO-DAY.

8hoaers and Lower Temperature for Indiana Fnlr on Sunday. WASHINGTON. July 17. Forecast for Saturday and Wwtr Indiana and Kentucky ShowerS and cooler on Saturday; Sunday fair; fresh northwest winds. Ohio Showers on Saturday; Sunday fair; brisk to high southeast winds and thunderfctorms along the lake. . Lower Michigan Showers on Saturday; Sunday fnir; fresh to brisk northwest winds preceded by thunder storms and squalls. Illinois Fair in north, showers and cooler .in south and central portions on Saturday; 'Sunday fair; fresh northwest winds. North Dakota, 8outh Dakota. Nebraska and Kansas Fair on Saturday and Sun- " day, rising temperature Sunday. Minnesota Fair on Saturday and Sunday; fresh northwest Winkls. Wu .: Showers on Saturday, followed by fair; Sunday fair; fresh northwest winds. Iowa i air oh Saturday and Sunday. Local Ohiten atlons on Friday. - Bar. Tem. K.H. 7 a. m..Hi M 79 t p. BS..S.TI 78 t Maximum tcinperatun tur. wind. Weather. Prec. svt. Clear. 0.00 S'east. Cloudy. Trace , b0, minimum temperaCDsr.parativa latenten t of the mean temperature and total preclpltat ion on July 17: Tern. Prce. 7 0.14 7) Trace , a o.u 3 0.7T Normal wiskI - . - .. -y - Departure Departure for muntu IVepnrture since Jan. 1. Plus. W. T BL1 3l 4.55 THE, Section Director. Yesterday's Temperatures. B' at lass 7 a. m. Max. 7 p. m. Abilene. Tx 73 )S M tfiartMo. Tex H 4 78 Atlanta, Oa T fe 88 84 Bismarck. N. D 55 74 7: Bu.'Calo. X. Y 80 7 74 Cairo. Ill It 79 8$ Calgary. Alt. rta 7J ; 84 Chat tan- 05a. Tnn (4 80 86 Cheyenne Wyo 50 58 -Cfcoao. Ill 4 7 6 ,.Clloionat1. O 0 K 80 '.Cleveland. O 58 o 74 a ,H , 83 -74 oB(.f r'H.i. Kan . 7t 83 74 Davenport, la 88 78 74 "Denver. C .1 58 71 72 Podge City, Kan 7' 78 78 DUSuqU 1 84 74 68 Duluih. M'nn 54 64 I "El Puo, Tx 70 94 IS .alvfstoq. Tex $u SS 83 Grand Junction. CI S3 J 74 Grand Rapids, Mich 7S 84 Hivrf, Mnt 7,2 80 74 Helena, Mont 7d 74 Huron. 8 D ..64 m 71 . Jacksonville. Kla 70 78 Kanxas City, Mo 74 92 Littir Hock. Ark 73 f) 8$ Iu;v!U. Ky fc 62 S8 83 Marquette. Mich : 62 7-) 6 - Memphu, Tejua 7i 80 88 Mo t'tah 50 84 $2 ' Montgomery. A!' 74 94 s Xaanvllle. 7nn 8 90 88 " Hew .tns LS 7 v, Kw York.'K. Y J .' i 2 v. 74 Norfolk, Va 8 v , 74 Msstta I'.atte. Neb 58 78 Tt Oklahoma. O. T 70 98 90 Omaha, Xeh 68 78 7 Palestine. Tex 70 $0 88 Parkrrabi.rtf. Va 84 80 74 Fgtitadelptua. P 88 82 M Hhtvirury. 58 7s Puebi-v Col ..i 84 74 S Qu" Appelle. Aisin 80 T2 7-Ra4-i i "lty. S. D v 7 ft? bt. Mo 7S 81 bt. ln il. M.r.o 86 7-i 74 - Salt Ijik "irv, Ctah 80 7s h San Antonio. Tea 74 92 8S ana Fe. X. M 71 T4 Rprl.-.fle4d. Ill 2 H M Spr)r:rflld, Mo 74 HO sS Valentin Nb S8 76 74 "Va5hlniton, D. C 5 82 78 MTIehtra. Kin ...76 84 78 MOVEMENTS OFSTEAMERS. Qi'BfKNBH N. July UL J: a. m..rTied. A i frosl Nw York, for Liverpool; a rM proceeded i 17th. Lucania. from New York, for Liverpool. Sailed: CommonWealth, for Boston. S LJVKRPOCil.. July 17 Arrived: NVw Enifland. from Boston; Carpathian, from Htqr,VoT? Belgnlnd. from Philadelphia. Sailed: Cymric and Armenian for New , Yxr. CHERBOl'JUi. July 17. -Arrived: Ka!er "Wilhelm der Grosse, from New York vis Plymotrth tor Bremen, snd proceeded. PI.VM"l'TH. July 17 Arrived: Grosser Knrfnrst, fpm New ork f.r Cherbourg; nnd Bremen and procedd. NANTt'CKKT l.KiHTBHfP. July 17. Paascd. Campania, from Liverpool and Qtieeni-town for ?ew York. - BOULOGNE. gl R MKR. July 17. Ar- , Itved; Rjndam, from New York for Rotterdam MOV1I.LK, July 17-8ailed: Anchorla, fsr New YnÄ. Tunttdan, foi Montreal ORKEXOCK July 17. -Arrived; CarthageSftn. from. Phila'i ! HAMBITro, July 17 -Arrived: Phoen'eia. front New Ynr. W. Y?h; Jui iTUsj!: Cedrlc lor

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Ql F:i:R STtTE OF AFFAIRS I THE TOWN OF tOLLEK CORXKil. Mndents and the Cause of Poverty -Damage Suits for Injnries Re. eel ed Incendiary Burn Fires. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND. Ind.. July 17.-There is a situation somewhat out of the ordinary at College Corner, the half Ohio and half Indiana town south of Richmond a few miles. This situation arises from the effort to have the town made "dry." The Indiana skie has succeeded in doing this under the Nicholson law, and the Ohio sidp is now trying to do It under the Bal local option law. An election under that law has been called for the first week in August, and It is thought there will be a lively contest. The Ohio and Indiana sides of the town have separate governments. CollejfH Coiner is alo peculiar inethnt it is locatud in three counties I'nloii, in Indiana, and Preble and Butler, In Ohio. Saloonn Ate TakliiK Heart. Special to the Indianapolis Jcurnal. SCMMITVILLE. Ind.. July 17.-Due to the lack of interest in the matter of remonstrances by the Law and Order League, four saloons are now running and another will apply. In the height of the remonstrance work the drinking places were cut down from seven to one. An effort is l"'ing made to harmonise the warring factions in the place and unite in work fur the progress of the town. 8ICKMISS M OLD AGE. University Students Find Them the C hief Causes of Poverty. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BLOOMIN JTON. Ind., July 17-Two students from Indiana University have hit upon a novel way of spending a part of their summer vacation. After the close of college in June, Frank C. Gray, of Indianapolis, and Hal W. Trovillion. of Bloomington, left for Chicago to study certain phases of the social problem of that city. They have just returned from a very Interesting trip with a lot of valuable data bearing on the problems of charity and drink which now confront society in the larger cities. They went into the slums of Chicago and made a careful strudy of the people in some of the most congested portions of the city. After observing the destitute circumstances of the tenement claHses and investigating u number of typical caseg, they concluded that poverty is caused in most cases hy sickness and old age. rather than by drink and Intemperance, which figures at a very small per cent., but to which some attribute a large portion of the poverty. The place of the saloon in the lives of the Iswtff classes in the city was also a theme for investigation and a part of their study. The saloon was found to be the most cosmopolitan institution in certain parts of the city, providing in many of the crowded quarters the laboring man's club and favorite meeting place. Nearly everywhere in the slum district the saloon was the center of social life, and institutions started up as substitute agencies usually have failed. These young men are but two of several in the department of social science here who are spending their vacation in this way. Some are in New York studying conditions there. They have been led to enter practical observation work through the Influence of Dr. W. H. Weatherly, professor of soda! and economic science at the University of Indiana, and who himself, before coming here, sint several months doing charity work in the slums of New York. Dr. Mllla to Visit Europe. Spedal to the Indianapolis Journal." RICHMOND. Ind., July lt.-Dr. J. X. Mills, ex-president of Karlham College, arcompa-, nied by his wife and daughter, will spend the coming year in Germany, sailing from Philadelphia on the Steamship Haverford on Aug. 15. They expect to take up their residence either at Berlin or Leipsic afier a few weeks' triD through England and Holland. . BAR FIRES. Farmers in Warrick and Monroe County Suffer Severely. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KVANSVILLE. Ind.. July 17. Eugene Sargent, a farmer living near Newbury, Warrick county, suffered heavy loss from fire early this morning. His large barn was completely destroyed by fire, including several head of horses and mules, buggies, wagons, farm implement, more than 2') bushels of wheat and about seven tons of hay. The loss Is heavy, with but slight insurance. An incendiary is supposed to have started the fire, as no one but a farm hand was on the pluce, the family being away on business. BLOOMINGTON. Ind., July 17 Early today the barn of Thomas Bauch was destroyed by tire, evidently the work of incendiaries. The loss is fl.Tino. which Includes his harvest; insurance, $8&0. Carnival Will Be Held. Special to th Inuianapolia Journal. LAFAYETTE. Ind., July -Notwithstanding the fact that President Stone, of Purdue University, and the Ministers Association stoutly opposed the fall festivul project, the Retail Merchants' Association at last night's meeting decided to hold the annual street carnival this fall. Chairman Ben Born, of the canvassing committee, presented a petition signed by 114 merchants asking that the festival be held. The ministers' committee presented their objeetion. but after a general discussion the request that the festival be abandoned was voted down. Visited Soldiers' Home. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 17. The State Board of Charities visited the Soldiers Home to-day and made a careful inspection of Ae institution. Commandant Smock was t ongfrat dated on the excellent condition of affairs as found hy the visitors. Among those in the party were: Secretary Amos Butler, of Indianapolis; Will P. Cooper, of Fort Wayne: Sydney B. Davis, of Terre Hants, and Demarchus C. Brown, Irvington. Yerdtet lr 8;t.tHM for Injuries. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. N 1-7 WIM KT. Ind., July 17 At 3 o'clock this morning a jury in the Circuit Court, after being out eight hours, brought in a vtrdict of 3,nno for the plaintiff In the suit of John M. Karls vs. Samuel C. Cowglll and Alexander Conner, for Injuries received by the plnlntlfT in falling In a trench opened near the defendant's drain tile factory at Hillsdale; eight miles from here, in December of 1901. DtTHtnr AYantn ft Hospital. Special to the I ml la r. a pol is Journal. PKt'ATI'R. Ind.. July 17. A petition asking the County Council to appropriate $10,000 for th erection of a county hospital m Decatur was put In circulation here to-day. The movement has been on foot for some time, and definite steps are now being made to have the board take Immediate action on the matter. re-k letlSS Sur for Dninnsrt. Speet! to the Indlauaiolia Journal. PARIS, Id.. July 17. -A Shelbyville attorney was here to-day and filed, suit for JJ0.000 against the Wallace show proprietor, who was here with th show to-day. on behalf of Lon Stone, a victim nf the show-train wreck at Shelbyville. Indiana Ohltnary Ml'NiTE. Ind.. July 17 -rJohn A. Keener, member of the City Council from the Fourth ward, died at. his home this morning after a loug sickness. Mr. Keener is the third member to die since the Council was elected, one year ago. Catin Climen Budd and WrUht died la the .ast few months. Yes-

terday the wife of Councilman Porter died. 1

Mr. Keener had been a practicing attorney of Muncie for thirty years, and was well known -throughout this portion of the State. He was serving his third term in the Council. He was born irl 1846 in Dayton. O. He was a member of the Masons and Odd FelJows. and und held nearly every elective and appointive office in the two orders. He left a widow .and three daughters. RICHMM. Ind.. July 17. Mrß. R. Deacon, an aged woman of Walton, Ind.. arrived in Richmond last night en route to CampbehtaM. O.-. called by the. probably fatal sickness of a relative. On her arrival here Mrs. Deacon was strhken with paral.is and apoplexy. "and wars removed to St. Stephen's Hospital, where she died this morning.. Ai effort was made to communicate with her husband, but the word was too late far him to get here previous to his wife's death. HARTFORD CITY, Ind.... July 17.-Mrs. Hannah ark. aged eighty-two years, one of the pioneers of this county, died today of dropsy. She was born in Muskingum eoijnty. Ohio, and had been a resident of Rlackford county for sixty years. The funeral will be held in this city Saturday morning. TERRA HAUTE. Ind.. July 17. The funeral of W. H. Carbee. the veteran express messenger between Indianapolis, and St. Louis, was in Id this afternoon from the home of his son. Mr. Will Carbee. Mr. Carbee died in Indianapolis on Wednesday. LEBANON. Ind.. July 17. The body of Mrs. Anni- Martin, who was killed by a train at Enfiefd. 111.. Tuesday, arrived here to-dajr, and was taken to the homered" her father, the Rev. M. H. Williams. The funeral will be held to-morrow. A MO, Ind., July 17. James Haworth. one of the oldest residents of Hendricks county, died last evening at his home here. The funeral will be held Sunday morning at 10 o'clock. GENERAL INDIANA NEWS BHIEF ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL OVER HOOMERDOM. Gravel Roads Defeated by Voters El wood's Xew Secret Order Terre Raute Saloon Census. NSW CASTLE. The first reunion of the Coffin family held here since 18S5 began n Friday at the residence of Thad Coffin, in the norfh part of town. The home is located on the topmost one of a senmounds, covered with trees, and modernized with golf links, tennis court and ball diamond. A substantial camp has been established for the two weeks picnic, and tents, thoroughly equipped, are placed for the sleeping accommodation of the men. City water has been piped to the place to assist the spring, which flows from the side of a hill, and colored electric lights beautify the grounds at rdght. There are about sixty people in camp. CONNER8VILLE. Wheat threshing is in full blast, but the farmers are not particularly boastful of their averages. The average so far as heard from is about sev enteen bushels to the acre, while last year it was from rw nty-üve to thirty. The best yield reported to date was on the farm of E. R. Lake, south of this city, sixteen acres averaging twenty-eight bushels. Corn is looking well and promises a big yield." SHELBY YILLE.H. L. Simons, of the Indianapolis Painters' Union, spoke to a large crowd on the public square, Friday afternoon, on the benefits of labor unionism. Shelbyville is much agitated at present "er Um matter of unionism or nonunionis;c, and a number of speakers on both sides of the question have been accorded careful attention in public addresses. RICHMOND. The meeting of the old settlors of Wayne county will be held at King's grove, near Ccnterville, on Aug. 15. This is one of the best-known organizations of old settlers in Indiana. The Richmond Street and lnterurban Railway Company has reduced the time its men can work to nine hours. There is some dissatisfaction among the men. LAFAYETTE. Enoch Francis Haywood, one of the largest land owners and wealthiest man in Tippecanoe county, is to retire from active life soon nnd remove to Indianapolis. He is one of the most prominent grain raisers in northern Indiana and was once a candidate for State senator 00- the Democratic ticket. KYANSYILLE.-The golden wedding of Mi. and Mrs. Joseph Schüler, Sr.. at Jasper was celebrated Friday evening. Mr. Schüler is one of the oldest citizens of Dubois county. A Michigan concern signed a contract Friday with the Evansville Business Association to locate a large basket and veneer factory here this year. CROTHERSVILLE. The blackDerry crop in this vicinity is unusually large and men, women and children are reaping a small harvest in picking ond seliinK the berries at 10 cents to 15 cents a gallon. The berries art' not cultivated in this vicinity, but tne wild crop is of excellent quality. HARTFORD Cl i Y The gravel road election held in J jrkson township of this county on Thursday resulted in the defeat of both roads. Center road was defeated by 60 votes and the Lefever road by 110. Nearly the entire voting population of the township was out. PORTLAND. Willie Hommell. charged with obtaining money und r false pretenses at Anderson, aud who was returned here by order of the Anderson courts, has been declared insane- and will be committed to the asylum at Richmond. MARION The geology class of the Marion Normal College, comprising about seventy students, will go to Indianapolis on Saturday, by special interurban car, to inspect the department of geology at the Statehouse. The students will be in charge of Prof. A. Jones. JONKSBORO A new company has been organized and ineoiporated here under the name of the Magic Washing Tablet Company. It has begun the manufacture of the goods and will put it on the market in a short time. ELWOOD. Elwood's thirty-eighth secret order will come Into existence next Friday evening, when J. ü. Ferguson, of Omaha. Neb., will institute a lodge of Woodmen of the World, with over a hundred charter members. TERRE HATTE. The police have taken a census of saloons and reported 1st in the city, twenty-five mor' than a jraar ago. The city llnoese is 8275, and SOW Is the time for the semi-annual payments. MARRIED FOUR TIMES, And Lived to Be Nearly One Hundred and Six Years Old. EPPING. N. H. July 17. Mrs. Georgianna Witham, of this place, is dead at the age of 105 years and 10 months. She had been married four times. Within the last year she had traveled on the railroads and had been able to walk unassisted from the waiting rooms to the cars. j Killed a Woman and Himself. SALINAS. Cat., July 17 Charles Craven, a son of a local rancher, killed Sadie Black, a young woman, and committed suicide. Their bodies were found In a disreputable aoose with tnir throats cut, Craven. in a letter, said the girl's refusal to live respectably caused his deer. Cuba Will Exhibit at St. Lonis. HAVANA, July 17 Both houses of Conen s have passed bills for the reorganiza- ! tion and increase of pay of the rural guard. A bill has been passed which appropriates J90.O: to defray the expense of a Cuban exhibit at the St. Louis txposition. Elahth Victim of Tetanus. PH11.ADKI.CII July 17 Thomas Gorman, twelve years old, died to-day of tetanus, the result of an injury received on the Fourth of July. This makes the eighth victim from lockjiw in this city since Independence day. liiehi:iK Reports Mndr Him Mad. K A LIS PEL. Mont.. July 17. Ed Burrell. a negro carpenter, has gone insane from reading reports of lynching of negroes. He ran wildly through the streets shouting ;hut a mob was after him. He was taken to the asylum. Accidentally Killed by Her Son. CAIRO. 111.. July 17 Mrs. Will Davis was accidentally killed to-day at Thebes by her tifteen-year-old son. The boy dragged a gun from under a bed and it aas discharged, the ball strlkius Mrs. Davis and killing her Instantly. (.old front kaifway. SEATTLE. Wash.. July 17.-The BlackIUUll Hilft 1 ". -i 1 'u . . I. niiuii 11 h" on July IS, rerichtd he;e to-day with eighty passengers aud f,000 in gold.

HANGING IN HIS ORCHARD

FARMER NEAR HAMMOND a HO WAS AFFLICTED WITH DEMENTIA. President of Columbia City School Board Kills Himself Shooting; Affray Near Auburn. Ppecal to th Indianapolis Journal. HAMMOND, Ind., July 17.-Clinton Taylor, a wealthy farmer, and landowner living at Creston, a small station near this city, committed suicide this morning by hanging himself to an apple tree in his orchard. No reason except dementia is assigned for the act. Taylor's wife and daughter had gone to Lowell, aa adjacent town, to do some shopping, and he had requested them to show him their purchases when they returned. They searched for him on their return, and were shocked to see his body swinging in the"-wiui when they sought for him. Taylor disappeared from home several months ago, and was found wandering in a field near Mumenee, m., but alnce his return hud exhibited no signs of insanity. Killed Himself with a Rifle. ane iiii to tha Indianapolis Journal. COLUMBIA CITY, lud , July 17.-Joseph Clark, president of the Columbia City School Board, committed suicide this afternoon Dy blowing the lop of his head off with a Winchester rifle. Despondency from long sickness with rheumatism, it is thought, prompted the deed. He left a widow and a family of rhiluren, nearly all of whom are grown. Ethan A. Clark, city treasurer, i? his eldest son. He was treasurer of Whlt- ! v county for four years. He was nearly fifty-eight years old. QtARREL OVER WHEAT CROP jinxes One -Noble County Farmer to Mioot Another. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. AUBURN, Ind., July 17. Jacob Münk and George Stratcr. Noble county farmers, engaged in a quarrel over the division of a crop of wheat. Münk, who had been warned to stay away from the farm, went to claim his share of the wheat when threshed and was met by Strater, who held an iron bar in his band to emphasize his demand of Münk to vacate. Münk drew a revolver to defend himself and Stratcr went to the house to procure a gun. While Strater was in the house Münk got into his wagon and drove away, but did not K t far Whan Strater appeared with h's gun and fired on him. Münk held up the wagon eat to protect himself, but the charge of buckshot with which the gun was loaded scattered, several shot taking effect in the left hip. lacerating the flesh badly. When Münk arrived at the surgeon's office, to which he immediately went, he was so weak from los of blood that he had to be lifted from the wagon. He is in a very critical condition, with small hopes for recovery. Strater was at once arrested and placed under $1.000 boud, which was promptly furnished. PLANT NEARLY FINISHED LAFAVETTE STRAWBOARD MILL TO BE IN OPERATION SOON. Work on the ew Terre Haute Hridge Shelby County Taxable Oil and V Gas Field Notes. "peclal to the Indianapolis Journal. i. A FAYETTE, Ind., July 17.-Work on the new strawboard factory south of the city is being rushed and within two weeks the contractors will install the machinery. The plant will employ 200 men. It was erected at the solicitation of the Commercial Club, whose members subscribed for most of the stock. Thomas Bauer, president of the company, is supervising the erection of the buildings, which include three brick structures wlthsteel framework. There has been considerable difficulty in getting laborers, and this has delayed the work. The factory probably will be in operation late this fall. The plant will cost 000,000, and the output requires the laying of fifteen side tracks to accommodate the cars which will haul the product away. Will Build a (Hans Factory. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., July 17 The I'tlca Co-operative Window Glass Company has been organized here and is capitalized at $ü0,000. The stockholders are glassworkers of this city, Muncie, Dunkirk, Eaton, and Sandusky, O. The concern will be an eighteen-blow tank and will be erected at Utica, O. The town of Ctlca gave the company a bonus of five acres of land and gas at the rate of three cents a thousand for a period of ten years. At a meeting of the directors to-day. the following officers were elected: President, Samuel McKlttrick. Sandusky; vice president, Thomas Blackstone, Dunkirk; secretary and treasurer, James Moorehouse, Muncie. Ready to Begin Work. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE IIAl'TE. Ind.. July 17. Two barges with bridge building equipment have arrived here from Lafayette, sent by the Lafayette Bridge Company, which has the contract to build the $270.000 bridge over the Wabash at the foot of Main street. The barges had no difficulty coming down the river, although they are large craft. It is expected to begin work on Monday. SHELBY T A X ULFS. Large Increases in tbe Appraisement List Over 189. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SHKLHVVILLE, Ind., July 17. The Board of Review has completed its list of taxable property in Shelby county. The total landed assessment is plac"d at $18.910.450. This places the average value of land, unimproved, at 838.61 an acre, and improved at $14.26. This Is an 8 per cent, gain o r the assessment of four years ago. Real estate in the city of Shelbyville is placed at J4 440.?5or- This shows a decrease from four years ago of almost 880,000. but with the improvements shows a gain of $230.000. Persona! property in the county shows an Increase of $70o.o00 over four years ago, and is now valued at $4.931,880. Madison County Assessments. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON. Ind.. July 17 The Board of Review for Madison county has completed its labors and not a single appeal has been taken so far. The board had a rather difBcult task in assessing the property of the Window Glass Company of Alexandria. Recently that corporation installed blowing machines and while the actual coat of the machine is probably not to exceed $1,000. yet the board saw fit to assess a valuation of $10.000 on the four machines in the use of the company. The officers set up the claim that the machines were the property of a New Jersey corporation, but the board elicited enough answers to questions to establish the fact that the owners of the alndow glass factory were the owners of almost sH the New Jers corporation nsning the machines. Madison county increases Its taxable property about $2.000.000 and the total is $31.667.83.'). The auditor s report will show that Anderson property is taxed at' $8,410,990. Gas Situation Is Better. F pet la I to ths Indianapolis Journal. SUMMITV1LEE. Ind . July 17 -Slnce the removal of the big Chicago gas pumping station, four miles east of this city, the prospect that the gas supply will partly regain its local strength is good. The station was the sirougest puller la Madison

county and the suction of its pumps could be felt st open plac behind ths pumps three miles away. Within an area of six miles from this place six stations are yet working, but the combined volume does not equal that of the Chicago station now beiug dismantled.

OH Company Organised. Spclal to the Indianapolis 'journal. MUNCIK, Ind . July 17 -The little Gem Oil and Gas Company was formed In this city yesterday, composed entirely of Muncie capitalists, who have acquired leases on 200 acres of land in tha Parker City Oil field, the richest In the sHate. The contract was let to-day for the first well. The officers of the company are: Jerre Garrard, president; W. E. Floyd, vice president; Dr. G. A. Green, treasurer; L. Lawyer, secretary. Violators of Gas Waste Law. Fpecial to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION. Ind.. July 17.-Eleven affidavits against oil operators fsr violations of the gas waste law were filed in Justice Holman's court this afternoon by Bryce A. Kinney, state gas and oil inspector. Kinney says that he has found gas waste pipes crooked rn all possible directions, run out into the underbrush and every means used to conceal the fact that gas was being psrmitted to escape. He promises to make a vigorous prosecution of all cases. Sueeessfnl Business Year. Hpeclal to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW CASTLE. Ind., July 17. The New Castle Handle Company to-morrow closes the most successful year it has had in seven years. Over 25,000 dozen handles have been manufactured. NEGROES GO ON RECORD COLORED PASTORS OF EVAXSVILLE DE I IM) Sl'PPRESSIOX OF DIVES. Rigid Enforcement of Lam Wanted, with Harsh Measures for Idle and Vicious Liquor License Increase. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. EVANSVILLE. Ind., July 17. The colored ministers of Evansville held a meeting at the home of the Rev. J. D. Rouse, pastor of McFarland Chapel, this afternoon, and passed resolutions of condemnation for the shiftless and idle negroes that infest the dives of this city and caused the recent outbreak against the colored race here. The police are asked to deal harshly with this class and not to permit the negro divas that were destroyed by the mob to reopen. These dives, it is contended, are the sources of crime and vice. The police are appealed to to strictly enforce all laws on the statute books and the City Council Ib asked to increase the liquor license from $75 to $). It is thought this matter will be taken up at the next meeting of the City Council. The resolutions are signed by every colored minister in the city. Refugees at Terre Hants. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE. Ind., July 17.-More negro refugees from Evansville were in Police ourt to-day, and the judge told them no sentence would be imposed for vagrancy if they would leave town. They paid they arrived in Evansville on Sunday from the South, and were told it would be better for them to move on north. Dlschargred for Militia Service. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VINTENXES, Ind., July 17. Charles Hngp nbottom, an employe of the Vincennes p-arl button factory, was discharged to-day for serving in Company A during the recent Evansville riot. His employer. Eugene Aubrey, Is a member of the Socialist party. COLORED BOY IS BE ATE X. Youthful Bedford Whitccappera Emulate Recent Examples. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BEDFORD, Ind., July IT. A number of small white boys and a little colored companion were playing near the city limits yesterday when a fight to settle a dispute occurred between the negro and one of the farmer, in which the white boy was badly beaten. In invoicing himself he found he had two dislocated fingers and a badly scratched face. This angered his compt -ions, and, having heard of the whit eapplngs in adjoining counties, they concluded to follow the example. They caught the little negro and. tying hist to a mall tree, proceeded to give him a switching. The occurrence was reported to Mayor Smith, who is investigating the affair, and if it is found to be as represented he will make it hot for the youthful whltecappers. Burns to Window Class Workers. PITTSBURG. Pa., July 17.-Presldent Simon Burns, of the Window Glass Workers' Assoc iation, the old organisation, has written a lengthy open letter to the. window glass workers of the country. An it he makes a number of important suggestions and proposltlois. All are in the line of hkjh wages and high prices for glass, with a restriction of production to the actual consumptive capaeity 01 the country. He advocates the reunion of nil factions of workers in one solid organization and also a combination of the manufacturing interests by the establishment of a general selling agency. He proposes that all glass made be sold through one agency and at a profitable price. Manufacturers who refuse to consent to the plan for maintaining prices are not to be permitted to make glass, and none is to be sold to jobbers who cut prices from the establish d rate. Air. Burns agrees to retire entirely from the movement if the glass workers desire, or he will remain at the head of the organization of workmen and conduct their tight for high wages. Losses by Eire. PHILADELPHIA, July 17. The contents of the Merchants" Warehouse Company's two-story corrugated iron building was destroyed by fire to-day. The place was filled with hemp, flour, malt. hay. straw and other miscellaneous goods. The loss is $150,000. covered by insurance. Five loaded freight cars also were destroyed. BEAUMONT. Tex.. July 17. Fire this morning destroyed the Sabine Hotel and natatorlum at Port Arthur. The buildings are the property of the Port Arthur Town Site iompany. The loss is $100,000, partly insured. DENVER. July 17. McPhee & McGinty's paint, oil and glassware house at Eighteenth and Wasee streets, burned to-day. Eoss estimatedat $200,000, covered by insurance. Victims of au Automobile Accident. PROYIDENVU. R. I.. July 17 - The condition to-day of Mrs. Sayles, of New Orleans, who with U. H. Beeee and Mrs. Pe- se Were injured last night by the overturning of an automobile in wnich they rar-; ridiag. was said to be serious. It was saUL however, that she has B ehance to recow. Her left arm was broken at the shoulder Mr. Beese sutTered internal Injuries and an interior tractors of the skull and is thought to he fatally hurt. His wr.t FtcsJvtd less sertOUS injuries -than the other: Mi. Beese was driving the machine when lie lst control of it and the accident followed. Suspected of Poisoning; a Woman. SEATTLE Wash., July 17 Mrs. Annie M. Mull died suddenly Monday evening and her infant daughter thirty-six hours later. An autopsy indicates poison by carbolic acid or similar drug. E. C. Crowell. who was engaged to marry the woman, has been lodged in jail on suspk-lon. He protests his innocence. Mrs. Mull was divorced '.ast January. Abner McKinley ot Seriously 111. SOMERSET. Pa.. July 17. -The illness of Abner McKinl- v i? not as serious as reported. I.ASt Saturday h came here from New York, where he sufferd from beat prostration. On Tuesday he was completely prostrated and yesterday had an attack of vertigo. This gave rise to toe alarming reports sent out last night. To-day. however, he had almost entirely recovered.

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KMGHTSTOWX WOHA SI I MBS TO A FRAt TIRED SKILL. EffArood Man Killed In California Accidents In Clay County MinesOther Casualties. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KNIGHTSToWN. Ind.. July 17-Mrs John Morris, sr.. died to-day from a fracture of the skull received in a fall yesterday. She fell to the bottom of the cellar stairway and struck her head against a stone wall. She never regained consciousness. Mrs. Morris was sixty-one years old. a member of the Christian Chur. and belonged to a prominent family. Jumes O. Aihlison. a local merchant, and Mrs. Joseph Carey, of "his city, are her son and daughter, and Judge John M. Morris, of the Henry Circuit Court; Judge Douglass Morris, of the Rush-Shelby Circuit Court; A. O. Morris aud Mrs. D. L. Heritage, of this city, and Joshua I. Morris, of New Castle, are her stepchildren. Bad Runaway at Elkhart. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELKHART, Ind , July 17.-A mare hitched to a light wagon ran away in the business district to-day, trying to overtake her colt, which had become frightened. She tried to leap over a horse which David Garl, a young farmer, had Just driven to a hitching rack, and knocked his horse down and on him, breaking three of his ribs. He w the runaway coming and stepped tc hsl buggy and seiz-ed his baby, which I -hurled In the air and fell xp the pavemf nt, but escaped Injury. The only property damage was to the Garl buggy. Killed In California. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELWOOD, Ind., July 17. A message from the officers of the Lodge of Modern Woodmen at Los Angeles, Cal., this morning conveys the intelligence that Charles Bu n, who until last March was employed on the city car lines, was instantly killed there last night. No details of the accident were given, but it is presumed that he was killed in the electric power home, where he was employed. He left a family and allowed his $1,000 insurance policy in the Woodmen to elapse two months ago. Fell from Train und Was Killed. Special to the Indlar.ar oils Journal. DECATUR, Ind., July 17. Carl Breckenridge, aged seventeen, son of F. H. Brecaenridge. of Hillsboro, O., was killed here early this morning by a west bound Erie train. He was stealing a ride and fell between the cars. His right arm was mangled and his skull WSS fractured. He was found by men who were attracted by his screams. He was conscious long artough to tell his name and his home. He died after three hours. The body will be shipped to Hillsboro to-morrow. . Painter's Long Fall. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE, Ind.. July 17. George Detwiler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Detwiler, of this city, was seriously injured in Monticello yesterday while working on a scaffold, from which he was painting a high barn. The skeleton work gave way and the boy fell to the ground, a distance of forty-live feet. He has been unconscious since the accident, and it is feared his injuries will result fatally. Small Accidents at Mines. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BRAZIL, Ind., July 17. Nelson Rickard was probably fatally hurt to-day in the No. 7 mine of the Zeller-McClellan Company, hy fall of slate. He has a wife and four children. James Risley, a carpenter, fell from the Crawford Company's tipple at Saline City, last night, and received injuries' from which it is feared he will aot recover. He was brought to his home In this city today. GLASS BLOWERS C0NFEJL Flints and Green Bottle Men Discuss Proposed Amalgamation. CINCINNATI. July 17. The convention of Flint Glass Workers, that has been in session here for two weeks, expects to conclude to-morrow with the election of officers. The convention next July will likely be held at Marietta, O. The delegates are now ready for the conference with the manufacturers at Atlantic City next week. The conference committee of the two organizations has been in session during the afternoon and to-night considering plans for the proposed amalgamation. It is now thought that this committee will not report in favor of any federation or amalgamation, but that" there will be a compact for a closer alliance, while th? autonomy of both the old organizations will be preserved. It is not expected that final action can be taken on the conference committer report for even afflliatlou in the future at the present annual meeting. HI SUA AND CHINA. How tbe .Northern Bear Is Devouring His Asian Neighbor. W. M. Ivins, Jr., in The World s Work. On looking at the map the first thing noticeable Is the enormous extent of contiguous territory under tr.s Russian flag, and the second is the great length of her land boundaries snd the sfnallnvss of her coast line on open and navigable seas. The careful consideration of this boundary line will suggest the reasons for Russia's past history, present diplomatic and industrial policy and future aims and aspirations. More than a century and a haif ago she had arrived on the Pacific, but because of the great distance and difficulty of travel, and also because of her inability to carry on trading by sea she had cot been able to advance far enough south to get control of a port on the open ocean But the necessity of such a possession has been constantly before the eves of the Governors of the Amur province on the Sea of Japan for the last flftv years and they hare done what they could by hook or by crook to encroach on Chinese territory. Not only have they made the best use of the roving bands of Cossack wio could be backed up or left to their fate as seemed the most politic, but they have been so steadily at wirk advancing the Russian influence at the Chinese court that now it is preponderant. Because of this court Influence nnd ajao because of her mervelous diplomacy she has managed to work farth r and farther so ith in the province of Manchuria until now at least half of what was included la its original boundaries is now under her flag. Thos mobt intimate with Russian policy know, moreover, that through her 'Kalmuck sovereignty she has been enabled to establish a decisive influence at the court of the Llama of Tib-t. This far Eastern Pope has been gradually surrounded by a court not only of Russian sympathizers, but also to a great extent of Russian subjects. As a matter of fau less than two years ago the man who, in Western parlance, corresponds to tbe Llama's prime minister was in St. Petersburg n. iking his obeisance to the Csar and his ministers as a loyal subject of the Russian crown. 'Ihus having an almost impregnable hold on th two most Important of China's rulers, lbs Emperor and the Buddhist high priest, she was able to make advances of a kind and in a manner Impossible to any other nation. Senator Fairbanks. Worcester (Mass) Spy. If 8enator Fairbanks and hia wife carry l ack to their Indiana home as kindly and agreeable an impression of Worcester at the people of this city who have mei them cherish for these distinguished visitors, they will be glad that they came. The occasion of their visit was the Lancaster anniversary. Mr. Fairbanks, atl one of the most tamos among the descendants of the Lancaster pioneers, was the orator last Tuesday, but as the guests of Senator Hoar and other friends, Mr. and Mrs. Fairbanks have had a good opportunity not only 10 see Worcester sua her

How can youcpect to be comfortable during warm weather tf you smother your body In woolen underclothing? The Dr. Delmel Linen Underwear is comfortable because it is ventilating. It gives the skin a chance to breathe. Booklet telling mil about it and the garments may be bad at LEADING DEALERS EVERYWHERE The Deimel Linen-Mesh Co. (Originators of Linen Mesh) 49t Broadway, JVeie Vors:. environs, but to see the men snd womea of Worcester. We believe It is characteristic of Worcester to like simplicity of character. Ue like Senator Hoar most because of his modest v. Senator Fairbanks is rjersonaUy pleasing in the same way There is evidently a tie of mutual affection and respsct between these two great men. We hesjista Fom times, here in Worcester. 10 call Senator Hoar a grat man. but that in simply hecause he is a member of our family, a citizen, a neighbor. We would resent It, if all others did not call Mr. Hoar a great man. Senator Hoar has a his;h place in the esteem and respect of ail Americans. If he were President he could d t command mora honor and more affectloi. from ids fellowcltlzens. He has had about all the political honor one man can have. Ssnator Fairbanks may be the next Vica President. He may be President of the United States. His sterling Qualities, his eloqnence. his political strength' moke him a presidential posibillty. In the political world to-dav few men are as prominent as he. The Senator Is a man with a bright future, as well as a rrilltant past. We wish bim all success. TAKES BACK HER COACHMAN. Countess Mabel Russell Forgives He Bogus Prince Husband. LONDON. July 18. It is announced tliat Countess Mabel Russell has forgiven and become reconciled to her husband, William Brown, a coachman, who was married to her at Portsmouth last December under tha title of Prince Athrobald Stuart de Moden, a Bavarian nobleman. Brown, who disappeared shrtrtly after the marriage, was srrested last April on the charge of making a false entry in the mrrlage register and was tried at Winchester assizes on June 30. H. pleaded guilty of misdemeanor, snd was sentenced to two days' imprisonment. , As he had been in .custody some time he was Immediately released. ABOIT HERBERT SPEÜCER. He Is in Good Health, bat Will N rl8u No More Books. Letter in Washington Post. H takes the semi-invalid to work hard, live long, and think clearly to the end! t get word from an authoritative source- loday that Herbert Spencer, who was elght.vthree last April, after expecting for six'y years that each new birthday would t the last, is absolutely eound In mind, despite all the reports to the contrary. Hs is fssbls In body, and a few months ago there was pome uneasiness regarding his condition, but the advent of sunshine on the sands of Brighton after a long, depressing period of cold and rain has pulled him up wonderfully. - "'- He has finished his lifs work, however, and probably will never write another word that is intended for the public eye. Not long ago an enterprising America a magazine asked me to offer him any sum. that he might name for an article of any length whatever on any subje-1 that might interest him. But th only answer was" that while he appreciated the compliment of such an offer, he regretted his Inability to comply with it. He has received plenty of other offers almost as liberal in the last two years. The aged philosopher is now practically alone In th world. Affairs of the heart never Interested him. and he now has not one near relative alive. Huxley and Tyntell arc gone, and nearly all hi other old friends except John Morley, and he is said to feel his isolation keenly The ma Who acts iir his secretary snd writea practically all his letters for him is almost his onlir companion in the lonely house at Brighton. All requests for Interviews, for permission to take photographs, for autographs, and for everything else of that sort are declined, usually by sterotyped letter. An intimate friend of Mr. Spencer told me to-day the story of hw the sage was "discovered" In America. He saya he thinks the facts were never published before. Tha little book I think it was "The First Principles of Sociology "which had been published obscurely nre. found Us wav over to the tables of the famous old American publishing house for which the lata E. L. Youngmans was literary adviser. Tha author was unknown and the subject was dry. and no attention was paid to ellfeer until one day Mr. Youngmans's sister happened to pick up the neglected volume la an idle moment Sh r. ad it from beginning to end with Increasing interest, and told her brother that she hsd discovered a great philosopher. He was Incredulpus, and said there was no public for books on sociology. 8omewhat against his will, his sister finnlly persuaded him to read tha book, with the result that he went to tha head of his publishing house to say that an American edition of the book must by all means be published whether it proved profitable or not The advice waa accept- . i. and although the book had no great sale. It attracted ths attention of so many thoughtful folk in America that Mr. Spencer's audience was assured from that time forth. (din IN THE FLOODED LANDS. Outlook as Seen on a Tone of the ffatw merged Kansas Valleys. Kansas City Letter. Just one month ago ths waters whictt had overflowed ths vslley of the Kaw rives and thofro of its tributaries went down, snd ths soaked fields were again open to ths sun. I have this weak been over the sntlrs course of ths flood's track, and. deoaptlva though the appearance of flood waters is, it is remarkable how rapidly has cams the recuperation of the submerged farms. Over lands where, as told by ths drift in the branches of trees, tbs water has latelv been ten to fourteen feet deep, there .aris now waving the long lines of corn leaves The -rop. as first planted, was. of course, washed out. aud it was the first thing replaced. In five day from planting ths new crop came up. and with so wet a subsoil, it has grown steadily beneath the summer sun. H needed no rain, nor will it need any for two weeks yet, except to prrvent ths baking of the soaked soil. However.' there have been localVahower, and the corn is rix to ten inches high It Is probable thst one-third of the washed-out area has been replanted, and is thus thriving. The remainder of tha overflowed soil is of two c lasse that covered with river sand or gouged by the correal into holes snd rsvlnes. and that which has been put into fodder crops rather than Into corn. Probably ach of these glasses would Include one-third of the lancfin the sixty-five miles between Kansas City and Topeka. over two to three miles of vuiley. West of Topeks to the limit of the Iteoded area, the proportion of replanted area is larger and the damage materially leas. la view of the great recuperatie power of the drained lands, it Is evident thai the fsrres sre much less injured than the town. Hers and there is s farm that seems to have been ruined, but generally the portion entirely wiped out is far lea than would he anticipated. On the uplands the wtm is waist-high, and though there is some replanted srea that i taking desperate chances, the condition at this data is wed up towards ths average. But it is all late, snd the aext six weeks will tell thr story of its nur rasa ia meeting summer A Uaaraateed Care far Piles Iuhlng, Blind. Bleeding Or Prot radios; Piles. Ycur druggist all! refund your money If PAZO OINTMENT fuJN t ture you. w( vents.