Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 214, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 August 1903 — Page 3

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Copper and ticket Platen In lie Made mt Klwnod-ShoUnn HplMict'Mlicr Indiana RtWli Special to the In lianapob Journal. LAFAYKTTE. Ind.. Aug. 1. Miss Maggie Heeger. for ight years a faithful employe at the national headquarters in this city of the Jointers. Decorators and Paper-hangers Of America, wvday received notice from the executive committee of the union that she was to be handsomely rewarded for her service. A few days ago Miss Seeger broke down under the pressure of her duties. She had been the mainstay of the officers of the union and many times during the absence of National Secretary M. P. Carrlck had di- ; rected the policy of the 1.000 local unions In i the United States. She has been a young woman of great energy, but the strain was ; too much. The members of the executive council, j which is in session here, advised her to take a vacation, and every local union in the country has been asked to contribute toward a fund to send her to some health resort. Already $600 has been received and 11.000 more has been pledged. The organization feels that it is its duty to assist Miss Seeger. although she is not indigent, but is the owner of a comfortable home. üHOT(d N EPISODES. Sullhnu Coiitr Man Loses Ills Hat Boy Loses an Ear. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SULLIVAN. Ind., Aug. l.-A dispute between Joe Wright and Thomas Shirley, of Fairbanks town5hip. this morning, caused Shirley to fire a shotgun at Wright. The charge shattered the top of Wright's hat, but inflicted no Injury. Shirley is under arrest. NORTH Jl'DSON. Ind., Aug. 1. Guy. the thirteen-year-old son of F. M. Canby, a farmer near this place, went hunting yesterday afternoon with a shotgun. He saw a rabbit take refuge in a brush heap, and. jumping on the brush, poked into it with the butt of his gun. The hammer caught n a branch and the gun was discharged. iuy la minus one ear and a large part of his scalp and may not recover from his injuries. Shot His Slster-ln-Law. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BLIFFTON. Ind., Aug. l.-Ira Huff accidentally shot and probably fatally wounded his sister-m-law. Miss Ida Starr, at Poneto, to-night. She was called from upstairs to go to supper, but went into the parlor, where Huff was. As she entered he picked up a revolver and pointed it at her. She j told him to turn It away, as it might be loaded, but it was discharged, the bullet taking effect in her throat. The girl probably wdl die. Huff claims that the shooting was accidental. Miss Starr is twenty-one years old. NEW VENTCRE AT ELWOOD. Tin Plate Plant Will Turm Oat Nlclcel and Copper Sheeta. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELWOOD. Ind., Aug. l.-The American Tin Plate Company has decided to begin the manufacture In the hi; plant here of sheet nickel and sheet copper for commercial purposes. The .decision has been reached after a aeries of experiments In which the feasibility of the plan has been completely demonstrated. All grades of both products, together with a double product, one side nickel and the other copper, will be turned out. For the present no new building will be required, but employment will be furnished to a number of additional men. New Merchants' Association. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH. Ind.. Aug. l.-The Retail Merchants' Association of Wabash was organiexd to-day and practically every merchant of Wabash is a member. The object is to firmly organize the merchants of Wabash for fighting adulterated food and securing proper laws as well as associating the dealera for social reasons. They also say they will fight all monopolies in the city. The Wabash grocers and butchers were already organized In an association, giving them union delivery and protection against bad accounts, and this additional association v. ill unite all business men of this class fatty together. Farnltnre Firma Combine. special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON. Ind., Aug. 1. Two. of Anderson's largest furniture firms have combined and will do business as one firm from now on. The announcemant was made today that Ritchie & Stein and J. M. Canaday decided to unite their stores. The new firm has secured a rive years' lease on a threestory business block opposite the Union Traction Company's waiting rooms and will be In business there by Sept. L Both firms were well known and have been in business here for many years. aj STILL AT HER DESK. XHsa Wilson and Her Sncceaaor Work Tog-ether at Evansville. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. EVANSVILLE. Ind., Aug 1. Miss Mary T. Wilson, who was removed as bookkeeper and supervisor of amusements at the Southern Hospital for the Insane by the trustees, still remains at the institution and claims to be holding her position despite the trustees. William Koch, who yesterday was appolntad to succeed Miss Wilson, was on duty to-day and he aud Miss Wilson worked in harmony. Superintendent Laughltn stated to-night that Koch wa. recognised by the trustees and himself as filling the duties of bookkeeper anil that they were paving no attention Whatever to Miss Wilson. She is acting under the advice of her attorneys, Oeorge A Cunningham and A. J. Ciark. two well-known Republicans. These attorneys sav that Mws Wilson will retain her place and draw the salary that goes with it. CASE OF SOWVMItl LISM. Ne York Man Left B. .V O. S. W. Train in His Sleep. aTAaWtaTOTON, Ir.d.. Aug. L A queer case of somnambulism occurred here this morning, Philip Martin, of New York. n route to Little Rock. Ark., leaving a Baltimore & tihio Southwestern train and having to be awaken d. When the train arrived here at 3 o'clock this morning Martin rolled out of his sleeper and hastened to the car door and then out. plunging into a weed patch, dressed only in his night clothes. He was found after the train left by Age.it Johnson, and when asked what he was doing replied: "L am hunting Kindling wood for my wife to .-tart a tire ' He left here on the lis & (J train. Svltebuiau Hadly Hurt. d tu the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE, in!. Aug. 1 -When Monon north-bound switch engine No. 96 was cross ing Main trt-u this arternoon the pilot, ' i-1 i- i . mrn was iotse ami dragging, caught tl the erossing and was torn completely on. For titty feet the iron and heavy piece of Wood tore up the rlh between the rails. and when the engine was stopped H ws learned that David Hartneil, a brakeman who waa sitting, on the pilot when ti struck! had been severely but not fatally hurt. House Ho. im I. Occupant Missing. ap Ul to the IndlaruipollM Journal. LAPOKTE. Ind . Aug. l.-The city is conaiderabl taarC-Md wr the mysterious disappear. n: r K llufT. until recently ' a Laporte business man, whose residence i

burned t the gnitind early this morning. He lived alone, and at 10 o'clock last night neighbors noticed that h was at horn-, evidently preparing to retire. At 4 o'clock this morning the house was envelope' m flame, and before the tire could he extinguished the building and content! were so badly burned that it is impossible to tell if the ruins contain the bones of Huff or not.

Kit luti'Mifl Im Not Satiftfied. 9i ,-,'ial to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND. Ind.. Ahr. 1- This city is one of the several that wen voted federal buildings bjj tha last Congress. Richmond's appropriation is $G,i0u. As this is not considered sufficient to purchase a site and erect a building such as the citizen- believe Richmond should have, there Is a movement t get the appropriation increased. RepräsentativWatson. Ni was largely responsible for the appropriation being made originally, will, it is said. ndav.r to secure ui increase of from 3,0W to fcJO.uüO from the next t'onxress. Warm Times in a Whisky War. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. EXflLISH. Ind.. Aug. 1. The climax in the whisky tight was reached here to-day when the remonstrators liled t'.ieir pap -rs. the count showing them to have eight over the necessary majority. The saloon men lunl given out free drinks until from twenty to thirty were intoxicated, and tor a while it looked as if there might be trouble. The Rev. A. J. Goodnsaa wuh followed by two of the saloon keepers to his home, and a revolver was drawn on R. L. Sloan, one of the temperanci wurkus. President at Wilmington. RICHMOND. Ind., Aug. 1. The Rev. Albert J. Brown, of Indianapolis, io-day succeeded James B. I'nthank as president of the Friends' College at Wilmington. O. Mr. Unthank retires to his farm near this city. Indinun Obituary. NEW ALBANY. Ind.. .Aug. l.-Sister Uta. who was Miss Emma Kraft, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Kraft, of this city, died to-day at the convent at Oldenburg, Ind., which she entered about nine years ago. She had been In ill health for several months. She was thirty -one years old. Before she took bar religious vows and retired from the world she was one of the most popular young women in the city. The interment will be at the Oldenburg cemetej-y to-morrow. ANDERSON. Ind., Aug. 1. Mrs. Virginia Mahaffey, aged fifty-eight, fell dead at the De Vors restaurant this morning. Mrs. Mahaffey was subject to heart trouble. She was seen to fall over, and before assistance could reach her she was dead. Two sons and two daughters survive. VINCENNES, Ind., Aug. 1. Polly Myers, a pioneer of Verne, Knox county, died today, aged eighty years. MRS. GULLER ARRESTED CHARGED WITH GIVING A BOY POISONED CANDY IN A SI ORE. Alleged to Have Killed the Son of the Man Who Succeeded to Her Deposed Husband's Position. BUNKER HILL. 111.. Aug. 1 Mrs. Ida Guller, wife of the deposed agent of the Union Dairy Company, was arrested late to-night, charged with causing the death, by means of poisoned candy of Edward Mears Checksfleld, the six-year-old son of James Checksfleld, who was appointed to succeed Ouller. Mrs. Guller listened to the reading of the j warrant until the policeman read "and Mrs. Ida Guller is believed to be guilty of the crime." Then she moaned and staggered j into the arms of her mother. At the conI i .... sa i . . ,..it i i Imsum ui i ue icauiiig, jars, vjuuer crieu pitedlisly and begged to be allowed to stay at home. Arrangements will probably be made to grant her request, as the jail consists of one cell in the City Hall. The coroner's jury returned a verdict, but it will not be made public until to-morrow. STORM IN NEBRASKA. Buildings Wrecked, Treea I proofed and One Man Killed by Lightning. LINCOLN. Neb, Aug. 1. Reports from nearly every section of the State show that the rain of last night and to-day was general and heavy, exceeding two inches in many places. At a number of points the storm was severe, the worst for years at Franklin, where a number of houses were struck by lightning. At Wauneta Thomas B. Northrup was killed by lightning. Near David City there was a heavy hailstorm and corn was beaten down. The wind destroyed trees and shrubbery in the town. When not accompanied by wind and hall the rain was of much benefit. Near Grand Island wind wrecked the home of Oscar Koepler and the barn of John Fonner. tearing up trees by the roots and playing havoc with the telephone lines. In Koepler's house, which was rent into hundreds of pieces, were his wife and five children. None was injured, but the furniture was demolished. AMIABLE JERRY SAYS NAY. Mr. Matthen Would Not Accept the State Committee Secretaryship. Sjecial to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON. Aug. 1. J. A. Matthews, of Indiauapolis, private secretary to Senator Fairbanks, has returned from Delaware Gap, and will leave to-morrow for Old Point Comfort and Virginia Beach. Mr. Matthews was questioned to-day concerning the report connecting his name with fie secretaryship of the Indiana Republican central committee. He said: MJ am not a candidate for the secretaryship and could not accept if elecud. A number of gentlemen have b i mentioned for the place, any QM of SrbOBB would make an excellent secretary. The eV imlttee wiff be fortuuate if it can lind a secretary sho Will bring to the office the same Industry and ability that Mr. Whitaker has displayed. " Mr. .M il thews will return t. Lndlanapolla the latter part of next are k. JOHN E. MONK. NEW COUNTERFEIT. Photographic Production of a FiveDollar ntiunal Hunk Note. WASHINGTON. Aug. l.-A new five-dollar counterfeit has been discovered on the Fourth National Bank of Boston, check letter A series of ls.s2. Tillman register, Morgan, treasurer. This note ia a photographic production on ordinary bond paper, bearing a few red lines in silk fibre in Imitation of genuine. The numbers of the new bill have bten colored with a pen. Oth. rwise the note is a straight photographic production lra. Kooaevelt Chops Wood. OYSTER BAT. Aug. l.-Thir. staid old place was very much Interested this week in th published accounts of Mrs. Koosevclt s prowess with an ax. It has been noticed that the President's wife is throwing herself heartily into all sorts of athl-tic amusements and the iccrcat on she is enjoying is telling in her appearance. When she first came here for the summer she looked t.reu from lurt strenui yen-on at the Capital and with the t'r. sn!' at i:nmd it. 1 y h-aan tuking the frenh air cure, backing it up with lots of physical exercise. Those who have seen the pile of wood which she cut up .-ay that she ev rtVutly did not mince matters even ii this violent form of exercise, l? is one ofathc i'rcKlüent's favorite exercises, as Is well known, la go out and wrestle wiih a big tree until he has felled it. Mrs. Kooseveit. of course, did not go at it as strenuously as that, contenting herself with cutting up what had already been cut down. She is setting au example to the women of this section In her pursuit of health. She goes at any form of recreation with the same vim that distinguished her iu her seaSon at the capital.

CREST OF REFORM WAVE

IT STRIKES EVANSVILLE AXD IS SHAKING IP THE DRV BON EIS. Slot Machines Removed from Saloons and the Latter Munt Be Cloned Sunday Policy Also Matt Cio. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. EVANSVILLE. Ind., Aug. 1. Evansville, long known as an "open town," is nowstruggling with a reform wave, largely the result of the recent rioting in this city, and the liberal element is stirred up more or less in consequence. The president of tne Board of Public Safety this morning handed to Police Chief Heuke an order instructing him to have all policy shops and money slot machines in the city suppressed at once, and that if any of the offenders attempted to continue business to arrest ami preaecaCa them. Policy and money slot machines are regarded as great evils, and. although they have been closed up several times, the people back of them have continued to open and operate at intervals. To-day the chief of police and his men made it plain that the orders were to be carried out to the letter, and that no man violating the law could look for favors. There are nearly three hundred saloons in this city, and nearly all have been operating slot machines, and, as the saloon men are ordered to have them removed from their places of business, there were busy times to-day among the saloon men and the machine owners. It is understood the machines will be shipped from the city. Orders have also gone out to the saioon men to close their places of business at Ü o clock Saturday nights, and to keep closed during Sunday mornings. This is something entirely new in this city, and a great protest has gone up as a result of the order, it has never been the custom to close the saloons here on Sundays. Orders for I 'insley's Rnrlal. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSON VI LLE, Ind., Aug. l.-The remains of John Tinsley, the negro murderer of Patrolman Massey, who died at the Reformatory yesurday, probably will be buried in the cemetery attached to the Reformatory. The sheriff of Vanderburg today wired to bury the body here, but the officials of the Reformatory notified him that the orders must come from the judge of the Vanderburg Circuit Court. It is thought he will indorse the plan to have the body interred here. CORONER RETI RES VERDICT. Blame Not Fixed for Ten Deaths In the Evansville Riots. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. EVANSVILLE. Ind., Aug. l.-Coroner Wailing this evening returned his verdict regarding the deaths of the ten persons, some of whom were killed outright and others who died later, as a result of the clash on the evening of ,July 6 last between a mob and the local company of state militia. The coroner tells how and in what manner the parties came to their deaths, but does not fix the blume. He says he examined about sixty witnesses persons i who were present but is unable to deter- ! mine who did the firing. John Alvis, w alter nson and Kobert Burns, whose ages range from eighteen to twenty-one years, pleaded guilty in the j City Court yesterday to the charges of j stoning houses of negroes on Monday night ; last. Judge Mnttison postponed his decision. Albert Merkel, nineteen years old, ras tried for an assault and battery on j John HawKins, a negro, who was assauiteu by a gang on the street last Tuesday, and who had a narrow escape. A decision in Merkel' s case also was postponed. ANOTHER ARREST MADE. Danville Lahorer Who Wm Shot In Attack on the Jail. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. DANVILLE. OL, Aug. 1. John Robinson, a laborer at Oaklawn, a Danville suburb, was arrested to-day for attacking the jail. He had six shot in his leg and two In his fingers. He claims he was Just passing the jail to look for his son. Nothing official about the exchange of the troops is obtainable, but Colonel Clansby, when asked about it, said he had heard in an unofficial way that the Chicago troops will leave on Monday. From other parties ir was learned that they will be succeeded by an Areola company. Saloons around town are adopting the Southern custom of having the negroes go to the end of the bar for their drinks. Other L saloons have raised the price to 25 cents. A tew negroes are leaving uanviue, not so much on account of fear as what they claim is unjust trade discrimination against them. Illinois Troops Relieved. SPRINGFIELD. 111., Aug. 1. Adjt. Gen. Scott this morning issued an order directing Companies H and I, Seventh Infantry, L N. C which have been on duty at Danvil" ", to proceed to their home station at Areola, and ordering Company A, Fourth Infantry, of Areola, to proceed to Danville. The new company will report to Sheriff Whitlock for orders. JAMES H. CHAFFEE DEAD. Waa One of the Heroea of Bret Harte "TennfMfe'n Partner." SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. l.-James H. Chaffee, one of the heroes of Bret Harte's story, Tennessee's .Partner," ia dead in Oakland at the age of eighty years. For fifty years he and his old partner. Chamberlain, lived and mined and trusted each other, no shadow ever clouulng their friendship, and it was the chivalrous affection whLh existed between the two men which Bret Harte painted in his incomparable manner. Chartee lived for years at " Second tiarrote," forty ajflaa uistant from the If oaomltC. and thousands of persons from all parts of the world who ha e visited the vain-y have met the old pioneer. Chalice was born at Worcester, Mass. "Calamity Jane." DE AD WOOD. S. D.. Aug. 1. The noted female character. "Calamity Jane," who has been known on the frontier since UTS. died this afternoon at Terry, eight miles trom Deadwood, of inflammation of the towels. She has requested that she be buried in Mount Moria h Cemetery at Deadwood beside "Wild Bill" Hickok, who was murdered here in 1876. Her name was Mrs. Jane Burke, and her last husband, much onager than she. is said to be in Denver. A married daughter is in North Dakota, but the woman refused to give her address and reterred to an estrangement. Rev. Dr. Charles Mcliarg. NEW YOBK. Aug. 1 Bev. Dr. Charles McHarg, uncle of the late Mrs. Porter, wife of the American ambassador to France, and one of the best known Presbyterian ministers in the State, is dead at his notne in Cooperstown. He was eighty years old. TRIAL OF JETT AND WHITE. They Are Alleged to Have Alluded to the "Dog That Was Killed.' CYXTH1AXA, Ky., Aug. l.-The second trial of Curtis Jett and Thomas White for the murder of J. B. Marcum has occupied one week and the prosecutiou is still calling witnesses. Among the witnesses who tied to the mountains during the trial at Jaekwas Henry Freeman and he was held in eonrincmcnt here several days until he agreed to test if y. He was on the stand aaaln to-day for the third time and told ill about his aaluou near Jackson; that he had kilk-d a man himself and served ihru- yars in the penitentiary for the same and that Jctt and While came to his place

for whisky on the night after Marcum was shot and talked freely about "the dog that had bnen killed." Freeman testified that while they were drinking Jett sa d: "I had to et ahead of him some way and I did it the best I could." Freeman was disconnected in his evidence, but the examination brought out many points. Freeman testified that White said to Mm that Marcum fell soon after he i White) had passed out of the courthouse. Other vrftaeeaea who testified at Jackson repeated their statements. Qooritoe Tombs, one of the wltneses for the prosecution in the Jett and White is. died to-day at Mrs. McKinley's boarding house of appendicitis. He was one of the most expert rifle and pistol shots in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. He Was sentenced for life for killing Mr. Rose at Clay City, hut was pardoned after serving some years. PREACHERS LIVE LONG.

crnne Life of a Minister Is Near Three Score nnd Ten Year. PRINCKTON, N. J.. Aug. 1. A report of the Theological Seminary Alumni Association, given out by Rev. J. H. Dulles, shows the interesting fact that the average mlnister's Hfl comes close to the three-score-and-ten-years mark. The report states that of the forty-one ministers who have died during Um past year one had reached ninety-six years and eight months, two had Ia.-sd their ninetieth year, five their eimdieth. fourteen their seventieth and six their MXtieth. The youngest died at twenty-tune. The average o! the forty was sixtyeight years. GENERAL INDIANA NEWS BRIEF ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL OVER HOOS1ERDOM. New Co-Operative Store at ElkhartSaloon Fight at Paoli Hancock County Horse Thieves. JEFFEBSONVILLE. Guy Dorsey, son of Capt. J. Ira Dorsey, is home from a three years' service iu the army in the Philippines and Japan. When he joined the army he was nineteen years oid and weighed only a little more than one hundred pounds. He returned a robust young man of 160 jKunds. Soon after enlisting he was attached to the medical department and commissioned sergeant. When he was not acting as clerk he was engaged in nursing the sick and assisted in caring for many cholera patients. He was stricken with the disease, but by prompt action saved his life. NEW ALBANY. The annual camp meetings of the Ohio Fabs Holiness Association will begin next Thursday afternoon at the camp grounds on Silver Heights, west of the city. A series of preliminary meetings will be begin Tuesday. The workers selected for the meetings this year are the Bev. D. F. Brooks, of Oermano. O.; the Bev. C. W. Huth, of Indianapolis; the Key. C. E. Cornell, of Cleveland, 0.; Mrs. Mattie Wines, of Whiteiand. Ind., the children's evangelist, aud the Kev. and Mrs. J. M. Harris, of Evanston, 111., evangelists of song. PERU. Frank Emerick. of Peru, has broken the record for bass at Lake Manitou. near Bochester, by drawing out u tine specimen weighing nine pounds. Discussion has already commenced as to the probable successor of Senator Charles Do Haven, who represented Miami and Howard counties. Unlajaj there is a call for the Legislature to meet in extra session there will be no necessity for choosing a successor until the regular election. Miami county will expect to name the man. ELKHART. The Heme Supply Company, a co-operative organization recently launched here, has allotted all its Jö.ouO worth of shares though not all have been paid for, and at a meeting last night the seventy stockholders present decided to invest in a grocery store, adding other staple lines as the business grew. The shares are rated at $25, noi more than two to any one person. Stockholders are to receive their goods at cost. Railroad men are chiefly Interested. PAOLI. Howard Scott, who was defeated for saloon license here about two years ago. has again given notice of his intention of applying for license. This town, while harboring blind tigers, has not had a licensed saloon since Nov. 5 last. By use of the power of attorney 4 names were placed on the remonstrance against this applicant, and not a name has been removtd since Aral rikd. This remonstrance, which still holds good, gives the anti-saioon people a majority of 166. BOME CITY. Carl Boberts. of Chicago, met with a serious accident while practicing gymnastics with Clark Boulton, son of Dr. Boulton, of Indianapolis, near Judge Vesey's Summer Days cottage. Mr. Boberts tried to leap from the shoulders of Mr. Boulton and turn a somersault, but alighted on his head and right side and was picked up unconscious. He had suffered a d u le fracture of the right arm below the elbow. GREENFIELD. Horse thieves have been active recently in Hancock county, the latest victims being Ed Easton, of Buck Creek township, who lost a fine sorrel horse, and J. B Parker, of the same neighborhood, who lost a horse and buggy. Three horses also have been taken from farmers near Knightstown. So far no thief has been caught and no animal recovered. BICHMOND. Perry J. Freeman, one of Bichmond's best known residents, ex-mayor, ex-postmaster aud former law partner of ex-Representative Henry C. Johnson, will leave Richmond for Evansville. He has bean at BvanavUle for some mouths and is now here to remove his family to that city. He Is connected with the construction of the Evansville & Princeton traction line. WABASH. John Porter, of Lagro, is considered in a serious condition as the result of swallowing a chicken bone recently. Physicians then examined him and stated that he would not suffer permanent Injuries, but that the bone would be digested. It is now stated that the lining of his stomach is torn and that his condition is critical. LAFAYETTE. As the result of being overcome by the intense heat of a week ago Friday, Oscar Gushwa, a wealthy farmer south of the city, has been unconscious since that time and on- Saturday his physic.an said he could not recover At the time he wat overcome Mr. Gushwa was In the held cutting grass and fell over unconscious. NEW CASTLE A new order, the Daughters of America, was organized here Friday night by a Muncie team. V G. M. Hodges has sold to the Indiana I'fnon Traction Company his right of way secured for the Richmond & Northwestern lnterurban Compauy between New Castle and Middletown. CUBAN PATRIOTS MODEST. Want Only Fifty Million Dollars for Their Services in the Lnte War. HAVANA. Aug. 1. The total of the claims of persons listed as revolutionary soldiers and civilians entitled to pay for services rendered during the recent revolution in Cuba is $51.f0.000. The claims will m '-onsiderably reduced by the auditing commission and some doubtless will be disallowed. UNIVERSITY OF X OTH 12 DAME. Notre Dame, lud. Attention is callea to the advertisement of Notre Dame University, one of the f?rat cdurational institutions of the Waat, which appears in another column of this paper. Thosre who may have occasion to look up a college for their sons during the coming year would do well to correspond with the prealdeot, who will send them a catalogue free of charge, as well as all particulars regarding terms, courses of studies, etc. Privat rooms are given free to students of the ihomore. Junior or senior years of any of the collegiate courses. There is a thorough preparatory school in connection with the university, iu which students of all grades will have every opportunity of prcpuriiiK themselves for "higher studies. The commercial course. Intended for young men preparing for business, may be linhhul iu one or two years, accordingto Um ability of the student. St. Bdward I Hall, f'-r bo;, s under thirteen, is a unique department of the institution. The higher courses aiv thorough in every respect, and students will find ever opportunity of i rfoctin c themselves la any Una of work they may choose to aalact. Thoroughness in class work, exactness in the care of stu ints and dsvotfc n to the best interests of ail are the ftlattnfnitaWing characteristics of the uui rsity of Notre pan.e. Hixty years of active work In the cause of education have made this institution una of the most famous in the country.

ASSEMBLY AT PINE LAKE I

IT AVII.L LOSE TO-DAY. AFTER A VERY SKtESSFIL SESSION. Neuro question Discussed Seventh Day Adventista ear 1'cra-Swedish Lutheran Mission Workers. Special tr the IndianaiKlis Journal. LAPORTE, Ind., Aug. l.-Thc M Lake Assembly devoted the afternoon session to an animated discussion id' the negro question. The main address was delivered by Prof H. H. Smith, A. M.. who holds the chair of Cireek in the Roger Williams Cniversity, the Baptist ntgro institution at Nashville, Tenn. His subject was "The Education of the Negro.' He said that many whites In the South do not wish the negro to be educaud. This is because they w.-h to keep him in a s. rvile condition. Indeed, au element in the South, not Christian, is determined not to recognize the manhood of the colored man. The education of the negro does not unlit him for every-day work, church duties or social harmony. The hope of the Nation is in the education of the colored man. It is because many colored young people have been educated since the war and have counseled patience on the part of the illiterate, he said, that the country has been preserved from a rebellion by this greatly abused peopi4 All the negro asks is to be treated Cairijr and justly. Prote&bor amuh was followed by the Rev. S. C. b miner, ut Indianapolis, aiotrict secretary ol tne Raptutl Xsanonal Home Mission society, Kiii) spoae on a lour of iiu-pection he recently made in the South. '1 he nrst hour at tne morning session was veiy interesting. The Rev. E. J. conant di.-cusseu the bcrlpiures with reference to Uta "Kingdom of Heaven." The Rev. F. A. Case talked of the Roman, or Closing, period of the apostouc church. He gave a complete chronological review of St. Paul's hie, nd later too, up ttie closing even is of his ministry, 'this brought to a ciose Dr. Case's interesting lectures. Dr. J. A. Leavitt laiaed on "lue Ground of Our Obligation to Evangelize the World." Roston VV. mith, of Mnuieapolis, delivered an illustrated lecture on "The Gospel on Wheels ' to-mgnt betöre a crowded auditorium. The assembly will close to-morrow, after the most successful gathering ever held. The programmes have been more interesting than ever before, and the attendance has been most gratifying. BATTLE GROUND CAMP. I Last Sessions Will Be Held To-Day Meeting of Stockholders. Special to th Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 1. To-morrow the final services of the twenty-ninth annual Battle Ground camp meeting will be held in the tabernacle, after which the cottagers will return to their homes in many different cities of the West. The Rev. W. W. Wood called the stockholders' meeting to order last evening and heard the report of the committee appointed to consider the proposition to combine tha Chautauqua method with next year's camp meeting. The committee, after long deliberation, reported that it was unwilling to recommend any movement that would detract from the camp meeting idea of evangelism. The committee recommended that a permanent committee be named to look further into the matter with reference to planning some Bible study work in connection with the camp meeiiug next year. The question of having free gates and free enterta.nment for certain ministers next year was not decided. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society held an interesting meeting last night. Mrs. W. P. McKcnsey presided. The Kcv. W. N. Dunn and the Rev. C. VV. Tinsley, the latter pastor of the Centenary Church at Terrs Haute, took part, and later Dr. E. D. West, a returned missionary to India, told of the work being done there. The young people's meeting to-day was conducted by the Rev. S. H. Anderson, of Oshkosh, Wis. Frederick Willis, secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at Omaha, Neb., lectured on American boyhood. To-morrow the Rev. Dr. Clark, of Ohio, will lecture on "Two Visions and a Baptism." Tnere will be a large attendance at the final session. m LLTrfERAX MISSION WORKERS. Srredish Church Holds an Annual Conference at Laporte. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAPORTE, Ind., Aug. 1. The mission meeting of the Laporte district of the Swedish Lutheran Church is being held at Zion Church, Michigan City, the first session having been held this afternoon, when addresses were made by several of the visiting pastors. This evening there was a general discussion of the subject: "The Best Methods for Interesting the Young People in Church Work." To-morrow morning two of the visiting clergymen will address the Sunday school. The Rev. George A. Johnson, of Chesterton, will deliver the sermon. At 3 o clock in the afternoon the fifth annual convention of the Luther League of the Laporte district will be held. About 3u0 delegates from the churches in this district will be present. This organization is made up entirely of the young people of the congregations in the Laporte district. There will ue talks by several of the members and matters pertaining to the interesting of the young people in the church will be taken up. Officers will be elected and the next meeting place selected. Seventh Day Adventiats. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PERU, Ind., Aug. l.-The State conference and camp meeting of the Seventh-day Adventists Is now in full operation in Brownell's grove. It is expected that by the first of next week there will be five hundred people living on the grounds in tents. The Rev. J. J. Hankins, of Indianapolis, presides at all sessions. The daily programme is for prayer and Bibie stuuy at 6 in the morning, youths' meeung at 7, children's meeting at 8, and public service at 10. JO; preaching at 2:30 in the afternoon, youths' mating at 5, and song service and prtacning at 7:o0. Admission to the g. ounos is tret, and many people living in the city go down to attend. The hygienic restaurant, at which all kinds of health food are sold at prices making a meal cost from 6 to 12 cents, is quite popular. Epworth League Convention. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Aug. 1. The eighth annual convention of the Wayne County Epworth League will be held in this city on Aug. 12 and 13. The programme was issued to-day. Among those who will take part are Edwin Jones, Chester; Curtis Lantz, Hagerstown; Miss Fiossie Neff. Greeosfork; the Rev. W. D. Trout. Cambridge City; the Rev. E. E. Trippeer. Economy; Mrs. Fannie Martin. Chester; Mrs. Thad Frazier, Richmond; Mary Baker, Centerville; the Rev. M. S. Mania, the Rev. J. P. Chamness, Miss Lydt Mayrlck. Miss Alice Towle and Miss Elizabeth Henderson, Richmond. Frl 'lids' Bible Conference. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Aug. l.-A strong programme was presented at the Friends' Bible Conference at Earlham College to-day. It included the following: "Ezekiel: 111 Book." by Prof. Klbert Russell; "The Ri - tiy Discovered Laws of Hammurabi and the Laws of Moses." by Prof. Ira M Price, Chicago University; "The Question of the Siti-per." by the Kev. Kobert tü. Pretlow. Wilmington, o.; "Ezekiel: His Message." by Professor Russell, and "Ancient Assyria and the Children of leiael." by Prof Price. This was illustrated with stertoptlcon views. Transport Sheridan Sails. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1 The Cnited States army transport Sheridan sailed today for Manila via Honolulu and Guam. B4 afldaa about lou saloon passengers, incluoing Col. J. B. Kerr and ttve other offlc ü of the general staff of the Philippines, she carries Ä6 men of the Twelfth Cavalry, twenty-six hospital corps men. rtve casuals, one gunner for Guam, two artillerymen for Honolulu and six signal men. The Sheri-

dan also had on board two million dollars in cash. 4.000 tons of army supplies and 400 bags of mall. WILL FIGHT THE ETTLING.

Inaurnnce ( nmpanln to Appeal from the VI isconsln Man's Decision. NEW YORK, Aug. 1 Vice President Gage K. Tarbell, of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, said to-day that an app al to the courts would be made from the deeision of Insurance Commissioner Host, of Wisconsin, that mutual life insurance companies doing business in Wisconsin must distribute their surplus among policy holders at least once in five years. Mr. Tarbell said : "The decision Is viewed as wholly unsound aud at variance with all judical expression anil with expert life Insurance opinion. The question will, of course, be taken to the courts, which are, after all. the only medium through which a satisfactory construction as to the meaning of a statute can be sought. The effect of the decision, if sustained, would be that all companies would be compelled to write their policies so that dividends should be paid unually. or every five years, notwithstanding the preferences of the policy holders for some other m od e of distribution and Una provisions of the company s policies. The decision affects all companies alike, ami if sustained will cause them to change the practice in that State that they followed ince lsTu." THROUGH A BRIDGE. Train Planem at Fall Speed nnd the Fireman Is Killed. PLATTSBURG. N. Y.. Aug. 1. A freight train on the Delaware & Hudson Railroad to-day plunged at full speed through an open draw bridge, killing the fireman, Ed Braw, and seriously injuring Homer Elliott, the engineer, both of Whitehall, N. Y. The draw bridge spanning the Chasey river at Coopersville was closing after allowing a steam yacht owned by James Averill. Jr., president of the First National Bank of Champlain, to pass through, win D the locomotive crashed into it, hunin the draw bridge into the river, bottom up wards. Eight of ths twelve cars th. i plunged Into the river were loaded with ! live stock, and the animals were drowned. Four Men Killed. COUNCIL BLUFFS. Ia., Aug. 1. Four men were killed and a tramp severely hurt to-night in a freight derailment on the Wabash Railroad at Rony creek crossing. The dead: Hreman Carter, Brakeman Moore, two tramps. The train, rounding a sharp curve, struck a cow. The locomotive and half a dozen cars left the track. MAIL ROUTtS FOR PIKE SOUTHER INDIANA COUNTY WILL BE WELL SUPPLIED SOON. Seven to Be Eatabllahed on Sept. 1 Additional Carrier Appointed for the Free Delivery Service. Special to the India. napolle Journal. WASHINGTON, Aug. l.-Rural free delivery has been ordered established in Indiana, to take effect Sept. 1, as follows: Coe. Pike County Area covered, eeventeen square miles; population served, 70. Little's, Pike County Area covered, twenty-two square miles; population served, UM. Petersburg. Pike County '(additional service) Area covered, thirty square miles; population served, 1.728. Stendal, Pike County Area covered, fiftysix square miies; population served, 2,250. Union, Pike County Area covered, twenty square miles; population served, 912. Velpen, Pike County Aiea covered, fortyeight square miles; population served, l.&j). insiow, Pike County Aiea covered, sixty-four square miles; population served, 3,414. Rural carriers and substitutes have been appointed in Indiana as folows: Bedford George C. Campbell; substitute, Leland R. Campbell. Beaford James H. McPheeters; substitute. Earl McPheeters. Bedford Isaac H. Crim; substitute, James McKinley. Beaford Doli R. Bowden; aubstitute, Charles F. Goodrich. Bedford William E. Butler; substitute, Harvey Fox. roit Ritner Alfred S. Lee; substitute, Anderson F. Lee. Mitchell Geoiga Z. Wood; substitute, Grace A. WoodMitchell Albert R. McBride; substitute, Edward Busick. Mitchell John Mead; substitute, Raymond Mead. W iliiams Maurice E. Wltsman; substitute, Kent its man. Greencastle James L. Wells; substitute, Sidney Wolfe. JOHN E. MONK. DRIVEN FIvOM THEIR RETREAT. Three Hundred Siatera and Prlesta Forced to Flee from Flooda. NEW YORK. Aug. 1. Three hundred Dominican sisters and priests from New York, Brooklyn and other parts of the country have been driven by floods from the retreat and sanatorium at St. Joseph'?, twenty miles north of Port Jervis, N. Y. A cloudburst wrecked two heavy dams furnishing the buildings of the retreat with power and electric light. Pipes weighing tons and machinery were swept down stream and lost. One side of the valley was swept clean, but the buildings remained intact and no lives were lost. TWO SUCCESSFUL NEGROES. Instances Showing Practical Results of Industrial Education. Booker T. Washington, World's Work. in the August After having spent aerated years at the school, during which they worked upon the school farm, Frauk and Dow L. Rid left Tu?kegee at the completion of the B Middle Class. Frank, the older brother, left In the year 1888, and Dow in the year lsyi. Before coming to Tuskegee these young men had lived upon a rented farm with their fath.-r. but on rt turning home thf-y decided to buy a farm of their own. They entered into an agreement to purchase a farm of 320 acres, four miles from the old homestead, and with little or no money, but with a determination to succeed, they began to cultivate the laud. They agreed to pay $5.50 per acre for the place, and regardless of the fact that they had little money at the time they bought the farm, with.n a few years the whole amount of H,ftl was paid. In addition to this farm, the Reid brothers, as they ;: styled for miles around, have bought anothfr ferm of tM acres at $10 p'-r aere. This far.Ti is about two miles away from the ftret place mentioned. When the lam payment- upon this last purchase is mad- in the fall. aft r the crops have ben gathered and mark it will make a total of 14,010 made and paid for land alone by the young nu n since tieyounger one left Tuskegee some twelve yeaia ago. The stock and farming implements on these farms are far superior to those seen upon most of the plantations. On the farm of 330 acres an- s-v i been fine horses and mules, all large and in gd condition; th-re are thirty well-bred cows and fifty fine, healthy-looking hogs. b sides a larR.- number of chickens and guineas, which furnish plenty of eggs for the families' use. The farming implements, including plows, aaawers. rakes, harrows, tc, are of the latest improv -d Deering make. Th four doubl wagons, the single top buggy, the road wagon and the go-cart are all in good order and are kept under cover when not in use. Net infrequeutly do we find farmers In the South, who. when the crop 1 made, leave the plows, the mower, the rake, and. in fart, all the farming implements standing out in the field in all the weather during the winter months. A visitor to the Reid brothers' plantation, however, will not find this to be true with regard to their farm machinery. Kach piece of machinery on this plantation has a place under a shed built for the purpose, and is kept there when not in use. A large cotton gin with an eighty-tooth saw, is owned aud operated by these young men. Last year, besides g nuing the 12S halea of cotton raised upon their own plantation, they ginned the cotton raised by nearly all I the other farmers In the neighborhood.

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"MERELY MARY A" TO BE PRODI CI) 1 (H TORLR. I. a Valliere" Also to Be Seen ttrat 1 1 on iid Artora SfrirH broad by Agent Tyler. NEW YORK. Aug. 1. George C. Tyler. theatrical agent, arrived on the Lucania to-day and announced that for Miss Eleanor Robson he had secured the Bataill play, "La Valliere." the English society draaw which Mrs. Humphry Ward and Louis N. Parker have written, and a play by Mr. Zangwill. Id substance a dramatization of his story. ' Merely Mary Ann." He contracted with Signor Tomasso Salvlnl for ai. American nagemen of thirty performances next spring in a repertoire including Othello," "King Uear." "Ingomar" and "La Mort Civile." Mi-s Robaon Jointlystarring with Sai viui. whose lines will ba iu Itaiiau. The entire supporting company will use English, aa was the case la Salvini's formt r American tours. Sal viui a I give four Performance a week, and hia engagements will be eontined to the larger rittta luring the remaining nights of the week Miss Robaon, supported by Edwin Arden and her own company, will appear in classical repertoire. Miss Robaon will open her season in "Merely Mary Ann" on Oct 26. and will go to the G Theater, New York city, for an indefinite engageim nt. beginning about Jau. 1. Miss Robaon Bailed for home yesterday on the Cedric Mum Tilley will sail for America on tha Cedric Aug. 29. and will open at Chicago on Oct. Brateta NoveJd will come to this country next year for one hundred pi rformain s. which will not be permitted to conflict with Saix'lni. Signora Duse will returu to this country during the season following this, and there ia a similar arrange meat with Mme. ReJane. Miss Bessie Abbott, the soprano of the Paris opera, will probably be pres nted t the American pubhe next season iu English opera, though tha precise date for the opening of her American tour has not yet been definitely ii- uled. Mr. Tyler has contracted with Sir Conan Doyle tor a play based on his published uai ration of iucldents In the Ufa of hin Napoleon hero. Brigadier Gerard, which will be used for James O'Neill. Sudermann 's Sew Play. BERLIN, Aug. 1. Herman Sudermann, dramatist, has finished his play, "Socratea aud Iiis Hot-spur Companion." The flrat production will be given at the Lessing Theater in October. The play treata of the revolutionary movement of 1848, showing how the tempestuous aspirationa for liberty of that period wire transformed Into the present-day liberalism. Heinrich Couried, director of the Metropolitan Opera House of New York, haa contracted with Madame Gadskl to appear as Brunnhilde, in additiou to the previous roles for which she was enraged Kdi'h Walker, of the Vienna Court Opera, whom Conrled engaged for Wagnerian roles, la aa American, who made her debut at the Royal Opera in Berlin several years ago. THE SISTME CHAPEL. Bad Condition of the Koaf EaAaagere Priceless Works of art. London Standard. The condition of the roof of the Statine Chapel in Rome has for some time beeu unsatisfactory, and the Pope, just before he was seized with his present illness, cava orders that the necessary work of repair should be taken in hand at once. The gravity of this statement will be appre elated by those who realize the unique place in religious art occupied by the chapel that Ptinetti built for Sixtus IV, more than four centuries ago. There are said to im several fissures In the plaster, and some of the wooden supports of the vault are giving way. Iron cross-bars are to be substituted and the cracks made good, and we are assured, with the familiar Italian optimism, that all danger will then be at an end. We trust it may be so, since any disaster to the immortal Sibyls and Prophets wlih which Michael Augelo enriched the world would be a imuh more serious matter than the collapse even of a Campanile. But this is not the first occasion on which the Sistine rof has been matter of concer Before now water has even trickled through cracks in the dome, while the paintings themselves, once so resplendent, have become taded by time and dimmed by the smoke of tapers and incense. On the whole, the Popes have taken good care of the treasures which art and ambition have iavishni upon the buildings under their care, and it is impossible to Imagine that any pains will be wanting to preterve the monumental conceptions that we owe to the macnincent Ideas of Julius II. Tha vault of the Sistine ia, indeed, the moat conclusive instance in history of what art owes to the patron. When he b.gau the work In 1508 Michael Angelo regarded himself as a sculptor only. Color was strange to him, he waa persuaded to the task with difficulty, and tha payment he received for it would be despised by a fashionable decorator. Yet in this narrow and lofty fane, which, before it was overlaid with his genius, must have been gloomy in the extreme, he poured out his soul in a nevs revelation. In travail and weariness, with no companions aave hia color grinder and the impatient Pontiff, who would not be denied, aud with little relaxation except the aermons of 8aona. he paluted his way to immortality. Even so great a man as he had to cope with troublesome material dlfflcultlea. Bramante failed to devise an appropriate scaffolding, and the creator of this gran .- lose Old 'l .at;iment cycle, who gave lift to the statuesque forms of the mysterious Siblys, had to Invent his own. In his la of experience with the medium he made the plai-ter too wet, and would at first have c spaired. It was a Titanic work, with Its great surface, its sternly splendid Imagln-iiik-'s. the of awe and immensity that broods over It. the tenchuical illusions whh h convert a mere ceilh,; into a limitless vault peopled by patriarch and oracle. Botticelli and Peruglno. Pinturcchlo. and Ghlrlaudajo ha made the walla of the chapel glow with tht ir frescoes, but they are all a mere preparation for the dome, which seems to typify art arid ternlty. Nor docs this ceiling exhnuM all that Michael Angelo accomplish 1 in the then detached building which anally became part of the corpus of the Vatican. Lite in life. 'The Last Judgment" waa to come aa a frescoed altar piece for which the reckless Papal magnificence destroyed the ti ree Peruginos that occupied Ita place. But who th.it enters ih Si-tine, and reflects that the great Florentine spent thirteen years of his life within these solitary walls, has much thought for any other man? The place is bis monument- Not even the prudery of Paul IV, aho clothed the female saints in vesture of huea aa crude as the puces and magentas aud s). ferinos of the early sixties, could destroy the noble austerity of the picture which ita author refused to paint tu oll. aa being a mere vehicle for the Idle and th lazy. It Is difficult to amlle at the grim revenge which placed the Popes artistic mantaumaker in the pictured hell. As the scene of ceremonies gorgeous or touching, the chapel Is famous In religious history. Mme. de Stael ban left a graphic description of the gradual extinction of the candles during the chanting of the Lenten Miserere in the Sistine. when the Sinl look like phantoms in the twilight, aud the ear can haidly support the mournful cadences. She was afraid to listen once more to the rutgar sounds of that world which seems so far away when the silver trumpets are hush, d an; th- I'ope-Kiio; is no more upon his throne. To Dr'.cet unnterfeit Mi er. Philadelphia Record. The clerk in th grocery t.K.k out of hia pocket a little packet of blue vitriol stone. This he placed In a draw r under the cor.uter. ' What are you going to do with that blue vitriol stone?" a pat.ou said. "Watch me. and 1 11 show you." the cbrk answered. He took a silver Quart- r out of the cask register, rubbed the stone over it. then welted It. See?" he said; but the psli. li saw nothing, for nothiuit h id happened. "Now watch again." sa d the clerk. He took another quarter, rubbed It with the slofi". weiied it. an : it in .mediately turned bl ick. "It turns black i. it is counterfelt," the clerk explained. Thin Is the boss way to th tc. co rfeit ci. ms. Von just rub them with the stone, and wet them. and. if they turn black, they are no good, but they are all right if they ke. p the.r color ou can make thi lest in a half second without the customer's knowledge. The adrnataaje of that is that if your suspicion are wrong, the customer, knowing nothiug of texu can't take offense."

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