Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 263, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 September 1903 — Page 4

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a 4 THE INDIANAPOLIS JOT'RNAL,, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1903. PART ONE.

MUNICIPAL LIGHT PLANT

CONI' A OF FOKT W U K i ITIZl'.X OFFUKS TO Hl II I) 11 ( ii) to Take PoiifiiloB at tlie End of Ten Yrari-Filipino loath Barred (row Prlnrrlon 'hool. I&aclal to the In.ilanu;olfa. Journal. FORT WAYNE. Ind.. Sept. 19. A com pany of citizens. .-me of whom have large wealth published an address to the people to-day offering to build the city an t electric light plant which will furnish street lights for $70 a year and charge 10 cents a kilowatt for commercial use. The plant is I to become the property of the city in ten ; years, the city paying over to the company Ma tfiu.ouo which has been raised by taxation for a municipal plant. This is an incident in a hard fight which is being made to commit the city to social- j Ism. The Council nas now a franchise pending, but has been enjoined from passing it until the courts pass on the motion for a permanent injunction. The persons making the offer are Charles McCulIoch. Henry Bead el I. J. H. Rahe, Joseph F. Gets, A. itMlber. Paul E. Wolf, Cooney Bayer and W. O. Gross. Receivers for Klllaon Bank. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PORT WAYNE. lud.. Sept. 19.-Referee Harris to-day appointed Hugh G. Keegan, of this city, and Charles D. Nichols, of Lima, receivers pro tem. tor the defunct Ellison banks. F. J. Dunton arrived here to-day to protest with power of attorney against the appointment of Keegan, as being the law partner of the brother of Rolliu Ellison, owner f th- banks. Jn Order to assure the protectants that their interests would bo protected the referee appointed both. The hrst meeting of the creditora will be mid Oct. . l HR1EO SIXTY-FOllt YEARS. Aged Couple, of Serf Albany, Celebrate Their Anml ve rsmry. Ipeclal to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW ALB.v.i, Ind.. aWpt. 19. Dr. and Mrs. Hamilton Wolfe to-day celebrated the sixty-fourth anniversary of their marriage at the home of their daughter. Mrs. öftiva Palmer. Lr. Wolfe is eighty-four years old and Mrs. Wolfe is two years younger. They were married at LanesvUle, Harrison county. 8ept. 1, and moved to Washington, Ind., soon after their marriage, Tr. Wolfe, practicing medicine in that city f r over fifty years. About eight years ago they moved to this city to live with their daughter. They have rive children. Mrs. Palmer and Mrs. Ella 8. Fugit, of this city; Mrs. Neva Stephens and Mrs. 8. M. Hopkins, of Washington, and Mrs. Emma Goodwin, who li in Illinois. They have fourteen grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. A family reunion was held to-day in this city. BACK TO Hü M i.i. IKISO. Charles Cileason, Escaped (outlet. Who Was Taken at Shelby vllle. bpecial to the Indiana polls Journal. SHEL.BYVIL.LE, Ind., Sept. 19. W. E. GUlenwaters, deputy warden of the prison at Nashville, Tenn., arrived this morning after his prisoner, Charles Gleason, an escaped convict who was captured in this city last Sunday. Gleason and Harry Ryan wen convicted in 1901 of robbing the postofiice at Covington, Ky. On Aug. 4, 1903, in company with fourteen other convicts, they made their capc frwm the Nashville prison by blowing up the walls a 1th dynamite. One of the convicts was instantly killed by the explosion. Since their escape seven have b-en recaptured. Gleason was given a sentence of live years and had served nine months of hia time. Ryan was given a shorter Henfence and has been recaptured, served his time and is again in prison on a similar offense. The officer and his prisoner left this afternoon for Nashville. Escaped front Manchester Jail. LONDoW Ry.. Sept. 1. William McCullum, who was confined in the Manchester Jail on the charge of murdering Sid Baker, escaped laat night by cutting through the floor. Bert Stewart, a fellow-prisoner, escaped with him. McCulluin was captured several months ago near North Vernon, Ind. WORK OX A POWER HOI It Will Be Beiraa at Oace at Decatur Progjresa of trading;. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. DECATUR. Ind., Sept. 19. The tract of land offered by the Commercial Club to the Springheld &. Fort Wayne Traction Company for a power-houne site had been ned over to the company and work of erecting the plant will be begun in a week. The power house will be the main station of the line and the conditions on which the ita is given the company are that they have the line In operation between hero and Fort Wayii'- by Jan. 1. 1905. and that It b extended irom Decatur to the east, west or south county line by Jan. 1. 1906. The raain offices are to be located here and tlfty men are to be paid from the local offices. Thtt trru.Anur hefwern Iter ;inil Vnrt U'uvnn

f""1 progressing rapidly and the grade is now

within four relies of Decatur. It is the Intention of the company to have the line 1n operation b'Uwn here and Fort Wayne by July, 1904. Abollaaea a t nrt. to the Indianapoll Journal. ALEXANDRIA, Ind.. Sept. lt. The Indiana Union fraction Company has completed the nev cut-off between this city and Orestes and operated cars over It today. This abolished the last curve between Alexandria ur.i Klwood and will shorten the runnfiig time several minute. - ' ' a IT SWELLED TO HEAYE.V Trunk Opened at I n ion City Was Loaded with Llabargcr. laacial to tho Indianapolis Journal. UNION CITY. Ind., Sept. 19. A laughable incident took place here this mornlug. Aa old trunk tied with rope arrived on the Dayte4 & Union Railroad. The trunk, which he J been checked from Dayton to Union ty, emitted an awful odor. On the train's arrival her the local trainmen ware given a communication from oue of the officials of the road, which read: "This trunk has bad smell. May contain something dead. Investigate." Immediately the report spread that the trunk contained a dead human body. Hundreds gathered around, the Inner circle remaining a respectful distance away fmm supposed casket. Three men w re deputltod to open the trunk. The latter was ea-ried Into the baggage room and was Opened behind cosed doors, in the meantime the crowd and the excitem- ut on the outside rapidly p Teased. After a long wuit th- doors suddenly opened and the three Investigators bolted ut. The trunk was filled with rye bresd. some old skirts and limburger cheese. .. IMH OBlTt H. Aged Mil Who Had Just Asked Fortaae Teller to lroalae. fltOStai to tl Indianspoits Journal BUCHA KT. Ind.. Sept. 19.-BeuJamin !jch waiter, wealthy retirejl farmer ,f Gardner. 111., aged seventy, died instantly of heart disease Just after he asked Mrs. Mary Williamson, a fortoae teller, how ktug he was gdUg to live, addiug that he W4 always enjoyed gool health and prosperity. He was visiting Elkhart relatives and weat to Mrs. Williamson's home with his

nephew. He was a widower, but a son and daughter live at Gardner.

Other Deaths. LAFAYETTE. Ind., Sept. 19. Veteran of wars in France and Germany, the latter his native land, and of the civil war in America, Peter J. Welschbetllg. one of the most prominent German citizens of Lafayette, died at noon to-day. Mr. Welsehbellig was formerly proprietor of the Germania Hotel, managing that hostelry for fourteen years prior to 1886. He was born in Prussia in 1SC3, and after serving a few years in the German army went to France, where I he enlisted in the French infantry. He Sea V ad seven years as a soldier there, seeing active service in Algiers, Africa. In lata he came to Lafayette, and later enlisted in the Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers, being mustered in at Indianapolis on Aug. 24. lvl. He was captain of Company G of his regiment. On Sept. 12, 1862. he resigned on account of injuries received at the battle of Shiloh. He left a widow and five children. TERRE HA UTK. Ind., Sept. 19. Sister Mary Alexander, of the 8isters of Providence, aas buried in the cemetery at St. Mary s of the Woods to-day. She was Hary Heineman, was born at Connersvihe on Dec. 27, 1858, and entered the order in Ishu. For some years she had taught art and music at the college at St. Mary's. LIGOX1EK. Ind., Sept. l!.-Mrs. E. B. Oirber, wife of E. B. Girber, representative from this county, died at her home at noon to-day aged seventy. The husband and four children, two sons and two daughters, survive. SEYMOUR. Ind., Sept. 19.-Gcorge H. Meyer, who had traveled out of this city for years for the John C. Groub Company, is dead, aged forty-live years. He was one of the best known traveling men in southern Indiana. DECATUR. Ind., Sept. 19.-Willim M- yens, aged sixty, a prominent and wealthy farmer of Adams county, fell dead her this evening. Heart failure was the cause. BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Sept. 19. Isaac Stultz. a resident near Victor, died suddenly last night of heart disease. He had not befcn w ll for some time. MRS. BOYESEVS WIM.. Memorial YYladow to Dr. Fravela Is One Item älft to a Library. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAPORTE. Ind.. Sept. 19. A memorial window, to be constructed in the Methodist Episcopal Church, of Westvile, Laporte county. In honor of Dr. Theophilus Fravela. is provided in the will of Mrs. Janie Garland Stewart, who died at Asheville, N. . which has just been filed in the Probate Court. Dr. Fravela was Mrs. Boyesen's stepfather. To the Ladies' Home Library, of Westville. Mrs. Boyesen left $1,000 and an office building in Westville, formerly occupied by Dr. Fravela. Numerous bequests of small sums of money and articles of bric-a-brac, jewels and books ure made to relatives and friends and the residue of the estate of Us.oon is to be divided between Mrs. Boyesen's r-ons, Kalph and Norman Boyesen. Bound to Federal Grand Jary. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE. Ind., Sept. 19. Benjamin Stockdale, owner of the steamer Tecumseh, was to-day bound over to await the action of the federal grand Jury. The charges against him are overcrowding the Tecumseh, running without a government license and one other technical violation of the navigation laws. Stockdale was arrested last week by Deputy United States Marshal Rankin, together with Wallace Marshall, president of the Lafayette Engineering Company, the latter being accused of running a barge from this city to Terra Taute without a license and without officers. The ' of Stockdale came up before United States Commissioner Frank Kimmell to-day and the defendant was bound over in the sum of 1200 to appear before the federal court. The case against Marshall and other officers of the Lafayette Engineering Company has been postponed. Aeeased of Knibesslement. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE, Ind.. 8ept. 19. Oscar S. Crawmer, foreman of the Postal Telegraph Company's linemen in this city, was this morning in Justice Shaw's court bound over to the Circuit Court in the sum of $1.000 on the charge of embezzlement. The prosecuting witness was William L Capen, superintendent of construction of the company. Crawmer has been an employe of the company for the past fifteen years and has held the position of line foreman fOf nearly half that time. He is alleged to be about 1660 short in his accounts. The foreman when sent on the road with a gang of men is given enough money to defray expenses and par the linemen off until he can reach some point where he can draw on the company. Cars Stopped by a Hone. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SHEL11YV1LLE, Ind., Sept. 19. A horse succeeded in delaying the interurban cars which left this city yesterday morning at 5 o'clock for quite a while. Some time during the night the animal had strayed on the bridge near London, and became fastened by getting its legs between the ties. In that condition it remained all uii; lit. Several of the passengers on the car. which was stopped by the animal, secured ropes and handspikes, and by considerable work removed it, and finally suei ' led in dragging it off the bridge. The first car was delayed about an hour. Burglars Touk a s.vmi stud. Special to the In llunapolls Journal. ML'NCIE, Ind.. Sept. 19. Last night burgjars robbed the residence of Ralph Ault, a well-known merchant of this city. They took a 1500 diamond stud from Mr. Aull s shirt, which was on a chair near his bed, and other articles, the total valued at $tiOu. This was the third attempt to rob the house, and Mr. Ault had kept a shotgun beside his bed, but he failed to hear the burglars. Made aa Honorary Member. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. N W CASTLE, Ind., Sept. 19 At a reunion of the Thirty-sixth Indiana Regiment, Mrs. Martha Grose, widow of Gen. William Grose, of the Thirty-sixth, was made an honorary member for life, and a resolution was adopted urging that she be granted a pension of $75 a month. The resolution will be forwarded to the Pension Department at Washington. Snakes Are Killing Horses. Special to th Indianapolis Journal. PAOL1, Ind., Sept. 19. Mrs. Allio Thompson, living in the suburbs of this place, hab lost two Valuable horses from the effects of a snuke bite. The snake is supposed to be of the rattler, and Is being hunted to prevent the loss of other stock. John Marshall, of this township, also had two very tine horses bitten by a rattlesnake, which was dually cornered and killed by Mrs Marshall. Probably laeeadlary. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ALK X A N DRI A, Ind., Sept. 19. A large barn three miles east of thia city on the farm of Homer Hall burned with all contents, including three fine horses, last night. Loss. fl.&uu; insured. This fire and others of similar mysterious origin In thia vicinity lends color to the belief among farmers that there is a band of incendiaries operating in tbis county. Indiana otra. N E W CASTLE. The ministers af this city have issued a letter of commendation to the merehants wh close their stores at 6 o clock excepting Wednesday and Saturday nights, und to those who do not open for business on Sunday. There has lately b-en Mime contention as In the closing nights between certain merchants and the clerk union, which was organixed a few months ago. COVINGTON A petition is being circuited in this city asking that Mrs. Elmira Drake's case be dismissed from court. The petition expresses the belief of the signets that the evidence against Mrs. Drake, who is aceused of im1soiiiiik her husband, is not nulficlent to warrant the expense that another trial will put on the county. Mrs. Drake's second trial has been set for the November term. 8HKLRYVILLE.The CithKr.s' Natural Gas Company has brought in another good gas well in their Hancock county territory, and another one will be finished next week. Thia makes the eighth well the company has sunk this year and thev will drill four

more before the work is completed. The company promises the i itlsens plenty of natural gas during the coming winter. ELKHART. At Sunday's service the Rev. E. H. Emett, pastor of the First Baptist church for several years, will announce j hi resignation, as he has decided to accept j a call from the church at Brockville. On- ( tarlo. He is a prominent member of the

Northern Indiana Baptist Association and is widely known as a successful evangelist. LEBANON. C. D. King, one of the most prominent of the local Masons, has received word that he has been elected to the thirtythird degtee. the highest in Masonry. This is the first time such an honor has fallen to a Boone county man. TELL CITY. A washing machine factory from Norwood. O.. has been secured for this city by the efforts of the Merchants' Association. It will locate here at once, and will be in operation by the first of the year. PERU. When Postmaster Newby, of Bunker Hill, entered his offic e Monday ! morning he found his safe blown to pieces and the contents stolen. The amount is not known, but is small. No clews have been found. PROVIDENCE DIRECTED HER. Miss Loulla Cunning-ham's Excuse for Killlns Her Slater. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. jy.-The wife of John E. Wilson, a detective, was shot and killed this morning at her home, and Miss Loulia Cunningham is in jail charged with the murder. Several years ago Wilson married the sister of Miss Cunningham, who went to live with them, and continued to make her home with her brother-in-law after the death of her sister. Wilson married Miss Alice Carey, of Louisville, last Sunday, and brought his bride to Nashville. No cause Is known for the deed, other than the statement made by the prisoner that Providence directed her to commit th crime. WANAMAKER JURY OUT. Xo Verdict Reached in the Political C aae I d to 2 o'clock a. ni. BEAVER. Pa., Sept. 20. Arguments began Saturday morning in the Robinson-Wana-maker slander suit and after four hours of talk by the lawyers the jury was charged by Judge J. Sharpe Wilson. R. S. Holt, of Beaver, for the prosecution, opened the arguments and while he talked Mr. Wanamaker sat at the counsel table with his face resting on his hands most of the time, and apparently greatly interested in the speech. The case was given to the Jury last evening with instructions to inform Judge Wilson when a verdict was ready. Cp to 2 o'clock this (Sunday) morning no word had been received from the jury room. STRUCK BY A GUN WAD. Crate I)la-er Wouuded Darius the Firing- of a Military Salute. NEW YORK. Sept. 19. An odd accident has occurred in Orange, N. J., at the burial of James J. McGrath, who was killed in the Philippines. The members of Company K, Fifth Regiment, escorted the body to St. John's Cemetery, and the squad was told off to fire a military salute over the grave. As the volley was nred a grave digger fell, crying out with pain. The ceremonies were suspended immediately and the laborer M carried to one side. It was found a felt wad frota the gun had struck him on the arm. Indicting a painful wound. After it was seen he was not seriously injured another volley was iircd. TWO GAMBLERS KILLED. Shot by a Mayor Whose Son They Were Threatealngr with Knives. FORT SMITH, Ark., Sept. 19.Judge Russell, mayor of Gans, L T.. this morning shot and instantly killed two gamblers of Cherokee blood named Puck Martin and Jim Shoots, who were advancing upon a son of the mayor with knives and with the expressed intention of cutting his throat. Mayor Rupseii interfered and the men advanced upon him, when he tired. Both men fell in their tracks dead. Young Russe! i was city marshal last year and raided a gambling house conducted by Shoots and Martin. TO COST $30,000,000. J. D. Rockefeller May Erect Fifteen Larve pfflce Balldlua;. CLEVELAND. O., Sept. 19. It is said that John D. Rockefeller has decided to erect no fewer than hfteen large office buildings and business blocks in the downtown district of Cleveland at a tust aggrogating more than $30,000,000. Mr. Rockefeller, or his agents, will neither confirm nor deny the report, which was widely discussed in real-estate circles to-day. OBITUARY. ST. LOFIS, Mo., Sept. 19. Colors on crafts of the river were at half-mast tonight iu memory of Captain Henry Keith, a master and navigator, who is dead at the City Hospital. Captain Keith was born at Newport, Ky.. in WIS. He had been ill for several days, and finally went to the City Hospital. Scarcely had he entered the institution wheu he dropped dead from heart failure. FISH KILL LANDING, N. Y., Sept. 13. Dr. Egbert Guernsey, the eminent homeopathic physician of New York city, died at his summer home here of pneumonia to-day. Dr. Guernsey was eighty years old and was well known in American medical circles as editor of the Medical Times and president of the Metropolitan Hospital, New York. PITTSBURG, Pa., Sept. 19. Walter Fisher, a member of the D. H. Baldwin Company, piano dealers of Cincinnati, dropped aV ad to-day In the Seventh-avenue Hotel. Five week? ago he was operated upon for appendicitis. AUSTIN, Minn., Sept. 1?. W. T. Wilkins, former state senator and banker of this eity. died this morning of pneumonia, ajpsd seventy-six years. He was born in Chautauqua county, New York. LOUISVILLF. Ky.. Sent. 19. Mrs. Elizabeth I. Cherry Waltz, an authoress aud literary editor of the Courier-Journal, died this morning. She came from Columbus, O., four years ago. CI NTH IAN A, Ky., Sept. !'.-Judge J. C. Helm, of Newport, Ky.. died here at the home of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Kate Victor, lo-day of tuberculosis. Steam Hnniaeers Eleet Ollleer. WHEELING, W, Ya.. Sept. 19.-The vention of the International Association of Steam Engineers came to a close late tonight. The following officers were elected: resident Patrick McMahon. New York; vice president. J. E. Bruner, Cincinnati; secretary and treasurer, R. S. McKee, Peoria, 111.; general trustees, H. F. Smith, Pittsburg, and W. C. Burrell. Detroit; delegates to American Federation of Labor, J. F. HamlU, New York: George B. Lighthall. Chicago, and J. J. Glass, Buffalo; journal trustee, H. W. Phillip, Chicago. Omaha, Neb., was selected for the convention in 1904. Rebuffed by Tobacco Trust. LKXINdTOX. k'v.. Sent. 19 Th r-nm. mittee of the Hurley Tobacco Association returned to-night from New York after a conferenee with James B. Duke, president of the Continental Tobacco Company. The committee ssked Duke to take Its contracts at cents of an increase. Duke declined. As a result It Is probable an independent warehouse will be established here, bo W. B. Hawkins, ehalrman of the commitee, says. Sentry to Ilr Coart-Martlnlril. PITTSBURG. S ;d. 19.-The United States sentry who shot ami killed Y. H Crowley teu days ago. will be tried toy eourt-mar-tial next Tucsda. an order to that äfftet having beim received to-day by Commandant Drury. of the arsenal, from Major General Adna R. ChafT'c ai Governor's island. New York. It is alleged that Crowley was deteeted in carrying away copper from the barracks and refused to halt when ordered to do so by the sentry. Supply OKIcer short In Accounts. MANILA. Sept. lli.-J;mes W. Walsh, jr., constabulary supply uflirer, stationed at Masbute, in tin pi inee of Viscayas. iu the military departm nt of Luaon. has been arresied on the eharge of defrauding the governmeut. He is .-id to be short $6.000 in supplies, wirb a deceit 0f x.lMj in his cash account.

BOGUS TRANSFER CHECKS

EXTENSIVE FRAID" PEHPETRATEÜ OX A BOSTOX "COM PAX V. tounterfet Slips Sold Cheaply to Com ! ductora, and ty Them Turned iu with Their Cash. BOSTON, Sept. 19. An extensive fraud that has beeu perpetrated upon the Boston and Northern Street-railroad Company by the printing of bogus transfer checks, their sale to conductors of the road at a nominal price, and by them turned into the company at their full value, was exposed today. Five persons, including the two men who printed the counterfeit checks, one conductor, who is charged with selling the bogus checks, and two other persons alleged to be the principals in the plot to defraud, were arrested to-night. In addition a large number of fraudulent checks and the plates from which they were printed were found by the officers. The police have the names of more than twenty other conductors who have been turning in these bogus checks at the company's office for several months past and their arrest 13 said to be only a matter of a short time. It is said that fully 8,000 of these counterfeit checks a week hae turned up at the office of the company since last November, and It is believed the loss sustained by the company will equal, if not exceed J100.UUO. "DIPS" AT UNION STATION PICKPOCKETS ROBBED RIGHT AND LEFT FOR A WHILE. A Trio of These Llght-Flngered Gentry Placed Behind the Barn by Watchful Policemen. Victor Lyster, of Topeka, Kan., Harry Browu. of Waynesboro, Pa., and Thomas Palmer, of Seymour, Ind., were urrcsied at the Cnion Station last night and locked up at the police station ou charges of picking pockets. The men, it is said, were workiug the Icrovvd at the station together. One or two of them would bump into some ttnauspecting person while the other stole his valu ables. Iavid Harris, 2i Gleen street, had ! Iiis pockets picked of about yx by the trio, and he identified all three of them at the police station last night. Another man was robbed of $30 by the same three, aud Bi- j cyclemen Simon and Morgan caught thwin in the act of robbing an aged lady of -her pocketbook as she was about to board a train out of the city. The men were arrested by Bicyclemen Simon and Morgan and Patrolmen Shine, Derossett and Barmfuhrer, and they are considered bad men by the local police. NEGRO DREW A KNIFE. Prlne Threatened Whit- Men and Wan HnMtled to a Cell. r.ttrclmen Samuels and Musgrovo last night arrested Warren Prlne, a surly negro, who, while standing- in front of the Occidental Hotel on Illinois street during the early part of the evening, drt w a longbladed knife from his pocket and said that he would killed the first white man who came near him. Several whites overheard the negro's threats and notified the police. When the officers of the law approaehed Prine they saw the opened knife in his hand and demanded that he give it up. He made a motion aa it to get away from them, but he was a moment la. tar tightly clutched by the police and was hurried to the station in the '"wagon of tears and sighs.'' Three friends of the arrested colored man, it is said, were about to attack several white men at the time the arrest was made, but they were frightened away by what happened to their companion. CITY NEWS NOTES. The Rinky Dink Bowling Club will meet this afternoon at the Indianapolis Turners' alleys. Mrs. Charles Zollcr. of Grecnsburg, will be tho guest of Mrs. Thomas Hendricks, 1Ü14 Hall place, tail w. ek. Mis.s Fairbank, of Port YVayne, will be entertained this w ek by Mr. Clare (J. Cameron at the Alexandria. The Standard Bearers of Roberts Park Church will moot to-morrow evening at the home of Mrs. J. ML Summitt. Mr. Uarl Kppcrt, a well-known cornotist of Terre Haute, will play to-night at the evening services of the Broadway M. U. Church. The Queen Esther Auxiliary will be entertained Friday afternoon by Mrs. Abbie II. Freeland, 1106 Pleasant street. Mrs. Emma Thickston, Mrs. Vaughn and Mrs. A. F. Moon will assist. e!ebratiug the completion of their new addition, the National Underwent- Company entertained its employes last night with a dance in the hall of their building. About 4 employes were present. The Methodist preachers' meeting will be lndd in the parlors of the Meridian-street M. E. Church at 10 o'clock to-morrow morning. A paper will be read by Rev. Elijah P. Brown, D. D. Subject, "Adding a Cubit to the Stature." Gustav II. Brinkmeyer, who was injured In a collision between a cab and a freight engine at Harding ttfttt and the Yandalia tracks, early Friday morning, i not a member of the firm of Brinkmeyer, Kuhn & Co., aa was reported in several of the daily papers at the Umc of the accident. Mr. E. J. Heeb. president of the Indianapolis Business University, was the recipient of numerous congratulations on the fifty-third anniversary of tho birkh of the university. This practical business college is one Of the oldest iu the Cuited States. It was established in IS?) by Thomas J. Bryant. .se Sweetly Soleniu Thought. Macy (lud.) Monitor. How time flies! Yesterday It was ice cream sodu. fans, lawn fetes and summer girls and to-morrow it is katy-dlds, fall school terms, hickory-uuts. squirrels and pumpkin pies. Seasons come ami go rapidly. The monotony of one scarcely develops until the fascination of another calls us on and to old age. O&nard tu Move His Stuck Farm. NAPA, Cat, Sept. 1!.-Henry L. Oxnard will move his stock farm from Lexington. Ky., to Napa valley. He has purchased more than bUO acrcg of land near Napa and, it is said, will immediately begin the expenditure of a lar&e sum in improvements, lie will soon begin the moving of his thoroughbreds from Kentucky. .Negroes Hang; n cgro. t.rXOHA. Ark.. Sept. 1!. Negroes last night overpowered the sheriff h.re. t-nk out a negro uamed Hi 11am and hang. him to a water tank, where his bodv was left dangling until this mnruing. Hellem was charged with assaulting two negio tirls aged five ml l-n years. I IB toil 'that Is Opposed to Strikes. ST. UOCIS. Sept. 19. A labor union, the fundamental principles of which are oppotdtion to all strikes and in favor of settling disputes with employers by arbitration, was finally organised to-day. The organization Is to be known as the Independent Association of Brass Workers. ssassiuuted on tin Highway. MALONK. N. Y.. Sept. 19. -O. P. Dexter, of Norwalk. Conn., a large holder ot Adirondack lands in Franklin county, and a man of wealth, was shot and killed while riding along the road near Santa Clara today. No clew as to his slayer has been obtained.

A MERITORIOUS SHOWING

New Fall Merchandise

Fall Raistings NAPPED OXFORDS, white grounds with dainty printings, in stripes aud figures, also piaiu f J colors MERCERIZED HOPSACKING. very s'iky and bright, pink, old rose, reseda, green and two shades of blue, 50c quality kJkj FLEECED MERCERIZED VOTINGS, white grounds with stripes and figures, also plaiu A 1 colors MERCERIZED ETAMINES an elegant new vesting for fall, in black, navy, cadet and light blue, pink, tan A A old rose and m MERCERIZED VESTINGS, white grounds, with woven stripe effects in colors GERMAN VESTINGS, medium and heavy weights, mercerized in the yarn and warranted to retain their finish; an endless variety of styles and colorings; specially priced 95, 85, 75 and 55 WOOL HOPSACKINGS, entirely new plain colors, in all the latest HQ fall tints MZ WOOD WAISTINGS In a variety of weaves, all the latest fall effects and colorings, 5'Jc, CWk i'Jc and Colored Dress Goods CHEVIOTS, all wool, 42 inches wide, in the shades of brown, blue, green, garnet and castor, 75c Af quality W CHEVIOTS, 50 inches wide, shrunk aud sponged, iu ail the popu- K-h lar shades, 1.25 quality 0tJ PEBBLE CHEVIOTS. 50 inches wide. shruuk and spouged, the M w shades for fall, 1.50 f Q quality a.a NOVELTY Z1BELINES, nobby twotoned effects, all wool, 4ti '7 iuches wide, 1.00 quality M Z l l'i; I.INES. 5" inches wide, plain and two-toned effects in all f colors, 1.25 quality NIB Z1BELINES. new and catchy, 10 inch's wide, a variety of styles and colors, 1.76 f quality I.OO GRANITE CLOTHS, notice the width, 50 Inches, a bright finished cloth, .strictly all wool in twelve beautiful shades, 1.00 72 quality a as FRENCH BURLAPS, 50 inches wide, all wool, in the very latest fall shades, will make a sweel rSM gowu, XM quality NOVELTY BCRLAPS, two-toned efeffects In all the late fall color combinations, 1.50 f Q quality wmmw NFB ETAMINES. very dressy and new, iu seven beautiful shades, all wool, 4 iuches wide, LIS QS quality CREPE DE PARIS, 45 inches wide, all wool, In a complete line of street and evening shades, 1.00 quality FRENCH VOILES, very crispy and line, 4ti inches ide in all ttQ wanted ahaifaa. Ml quality VOILE BOCTONNES, A novelty Voile, 44 inches wide, two-toned effects in brown, blue, garnet 4 SZ and green, 1.00 quality SANGL1ER. one of the new comers, will make a nobby gown, 50 inches wide, in all colors, 1.50 1 Q quality a.aF FACONNES, another new weave, bright and silky and a good wearer, 4 inches wide, all wool, In (Jft ten colors, 1.25 quality NOVELTY LININGS, all wool, 46 inches, in eight nobby com- fCk binations, 90c quality BANNOCKBCRN NOVELTIES for tailored gowns, all wool. 56 j inches wide, 1.50 quality a.ast BROADCLOTHS, made of best ot Australian wool, have a permanent finish, in six distinct qualities up to 2.25 per yard, for to-morrow, in twelve colors, 1.25 HO quality Black Dress Goods NUB GRANITE. 48 Incite 4 "-JQ wide, all wool, 1.89 quality GRANITE, 48 inches wide, all fvQ wool, fe9c quality BROADCLOTH, 52 inches wide, QE all wool. 1.25 quality W9 CHEVIOT, 50 inches wide, all wool, sponged and shrunk, 1.00 7Q quality M ZIBELINE. 56 inches wide, ff 1.50 quality aVM ZIBELINE BOTTRETTE. 50 J OQ inches wide, 1.79 quality CAMEL'SHAIR. 56 inches wide, soft, glossy finish, 2.50 f fiQ quality 9JW BCRLAPS. 4S inches wide, fQ all wool, 1.50 quality NCB CANVAS. 48 inches wide. fO all wool, 150 quality a. SO CANVAS. 44 inches wide, all QQ wool, 1.25 quality VOILE, 52 inches wide, all 1 lO wool, small mesh, 1.50 quality... aSVF N I IB TWINE, all wool, 1.75 iCXQ quality I,OV MISTRAL, 46 inches wide, all QQ wool. 1.25 quality MISTRAL BOCTONNE, 46 inches wide, all wool, 1.59 1 2S quality fimxJ CREPE, all wool, especially adapted for shirred suits, 1.00 7Q quality w CUEPE. silk and wool. 46 CQ iiuhes wide, 2.25 quality 9W

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WAGES EVERY NIGHT. A Southern Lumber Concern Solves the Labor Problem. American Lumberman. There is a certain sawmill concern in the longieaf yellow ptne district which a couple of years ago, after studying the labor problem and the question of securing efficient work from its crew, composed largely of negroes, decided on a radical change an absolute innovation as far as we are aware in its method of handling its pay roll. Instead of the customary method of paying off its hands monthly, semi-monthly, or by checks at more frequent intervals, or dally, It concluded to pay tu cash every night. It employs a time keeper for this special purpose, who makes his rounds twice a day, tiuda out who is at work and promptly at 6 o'clock on the blowing of the whistle is behind his window, with his pavjr roll and cash before him, ready to att nl to the men. In this particular mill, whose crew is large, about three-fourths i pear every night for their money. The only exception as to the dally pay roll is Friday night, when, in order that the weekly pay roll may be figured out properly, no payment Is made. On Saturday night Friday's pay is handed out except to i se who have not worked 8aturdav. They must wail until Mouday. On Mouday night

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RUGS, MATTINGS, LINOLEUMS, OILCLOTHS, CURTAINS AND DRAPERY MATERIALS OF ALL KINDS For this sale we quote prices somewhat lower than you will find them elsewhere.

LINOLECMS. 3,000 yards, all new and fresh goods, very large assortment of patterns, sell regularly at A A 55c. Our special price FLOOR OILCLOTHS, all widths, medium weight, tile patterns, 2 1 27c quality Ä CHINA MATTINGS in plaids and checks, very heavy, f w 25c quality 1C7 BRUSSELETE RUGS, 27x54, reversible and fringed, A" 75c quality SMYRNA RUGS, 30x60, all wool, extra heavy, choice of last season's patterns, up to $3.00 a Q quality V VELVET RUGS, 6x9, rich Oriental patterns, just the size for reception halls and small rooms, it -.i 1G.0Ü quality I1,ÖV BRUSSELS RUGS, 9xlOVi sire, in Oriental and floral patterns, ( 14.00 quality WW BRUSSELS RUGS 9x12 size, very heavy quality, only have one seam, large aaaortaent of patterns, I A 11 20.00 quality WILTON VELVET RUGS. 9x12, very handsome designs aud colorings, very satisfactory for wear, f ZLi i 25.00 quality A CURTAIN SWISSES, yard wide, in Jacquard figures and stripes, 1 1 very sheer, lic quality CABLE NET, yard wide, very fi heavy mesh. 25c quality Colored Silks CREPE DE CHINE. 25 inches wide, all silk, black, white and cream aud a good line of color, regu- 70 lar price 1.00 MTP SILK VESTINGS, the latest QQ fad iu silks, 1.25 quality JOSP FANCY SILK WAISTINGS, in all colors, 1.50 a fk quality .. MW TAFFETA ROYAL, a new soft, durable silk, especially adapted for shirt Walat suits; it comes in black, white, cream and a full line of fill colors v LINING SILKS, black, white, cream and a full line of colors, 50c quality Black Silks TAFFETA. 54 inches wide, 'guaranteed" 2.60 quality, on 7q sale at laJTlP TAFFETA, 42 Inches wide, "guaranteed" 1.60 quality, on sale 1.3Q TAFFETA, 36 Inches wide, "guaranteed" quality, on sale PEAU DE SOIE. 36 Inches wide, all silk, 2.00 quality, on Q Mia at PEAU DE SOIE. 36 inches wide, all silk, 1.50 quality, on l.IH PEAU DE SOIE, 27 inches wide, all silk, 1.25 quality, on QS sale at PEAU DE SOIE. 21 inches wide, all shk, 1.25 quality, on JQ sale at MrP A SILK and VELVET A T SPECIALS BLACK TAFFETA. 36 inches wide, bargain table f l I all silk. 1.3y quslity, on the 1W BLACK TAFFETA. 20 inches wide, all silk, 69c quality, on the fij j bargain table -JVJ BLACK PEAU DE SOIE, 21 inches wide, all silk, S9c quality, on fÄ the bargain table veJ METALLIC PRINTED VELVETS A full line of colors and patterns, 75c quality, on the bargain ACk table WHITE SILK WAISTINGS, one of the latest creations of the season, regular price LH yd., to our out-of-town shoppers mzß Lad es' Tailor Made Suits A number of new garments will be placed on sale to-morrow. When looking about for something in this line you will do yourself an injustice if you fail to look through our interesting lines. Specially reduced prices on several small lots of Fine Suits SUITS, of all-wool novelty cloth, made in the newest long coat style, Satin Roma im lined, were 15.00, only a few left, while ii it they last WaUW SUITS, of mannish Cassimeres and Blind Cheviots, made up in two of the most desirable styles; skirta are satin lined and perfect hanging; 18.00 and 20.000 qualities, 1 z. (U while they last lOeWV SUITS, of rine Zibelines. Broadcloths. Etamine. Cheviots and high-grade novelties: a grand collection of handsome styles; marked down from ITJ.on 2J.00 and 24.00 19.75 SUITS, of French Broadcloth. Zibelines and high-grade Cheviots, handsomely trimmed with braids, silk and Velvet; Ion coats made with full and shell blouse, straight and half fitted fronts, lined throughout with fine Taffeta silk; skirts trimmed to match the coats; elegant garments, at 32.00. im. 21.08 21.00 a-d 22.5 payment is made for both Saturday aud Monday. In abandoning their former system of payment this concern thought it wise also to abandon Its store or commissary, though uow its members say that if they wished to run a store they believed that they could do so as successfully as under the old system. Such a radical change in handling the pay roll will probably be looked at scornfully by most of our Southern readers, yet the members of this concern profess themselves to be not only satisfied, but highly pleased with the results. All around them th. ir neighbors are complaining of lack of help. Many niilla are running short handed, and there is a constant struggle to g.-t hold of what men are available and willing to work. Efforts are made to import help from other States. Yet this concern turns away men every day. It loses very few of its men. always has a full crew. and has its pick. Furthermore. It is able to run every day in the week. It is not troubled by men laying off to recuperate after 8unday or afl-r the rtrst of tne month. This is the way that one of the members of this concern explains the happy effect of the innovation: 'The negro is a curious creature. He is utteriy improvident, and when lie gets money he must spend It at once. The less he has to spend the less chance Cher Is for him to get drunk and unlit for w.-t k Then he la mora contented when he tan Jingle money In his packet every day. As he ia Improvident, he must have either the money or credit to buy the few things that he absolutely needs. By our method he has enough money to supply his daily wants, but uever accumulates enough for a spree.

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GRANITE ART SQUARES. 9x10,. in medallion and small figured designs. 4.50 quality (ooa to a y a buyer) a CJ CURTAIN SCRIM, yard wide, 5c quality 3 COTTAGE RODS, white corrugated, with silver trimmings, 15c w quality EXTENSION ROD8. extend to 40 inches. 5c quality NOTTINGHAM LACE C1UTAINS about ten pattern?, quantities are small, usual prices up to y 4.00 mJw ARABIAN. IRISH POINT AND BRUSSELS NET CURTAINS, an enorme us assortment of patterns, tome exclusive effects. 5.00 and 6.00 qualities KßmKJß BOBBINET CURTAINS. 3 yards long, trimmed with lace, gathered OK ruffles, 1.50 quality SWISS CURTAINS. 3 yards long, in dots, figures and stripes, gathered ruffles. 1.25 quality M Kj TAPESTRY PORTIERES, in heavy ottomans and reps, heavily fringed, in w designs. 5.00 quality, on 1 0 sale at O.O COUCH COVERS, in the Roman stripes, fringed all around. 2.00 f IB quality a.s TAPESTRY TABLE COVERS, yard square, in red, blue and green Oft 50c quality Velvets COSTUME VELVETS. plain and changeable effects, SSc quality fw(J on sale at.. mm BLACK COSTUME VELVET, 24 inches wide, guaranteed "fast black, ftU 89c quality v w BLACK COSTUME VELVET. 27 inehes wide. 1.25 quality oa HQ sale at METALLIC CHAKOBAWil VKI.YKTS. all the desirable effects. HQ 1.00 quality on sale at w ILLUMINATED VELVETS, th HQ latest 1.00 quality on sale at M Table Linens and Bed Spreads TABLE DAMASK. Maatffcaji. double acta lam:isk. two yard wide. HQ 1.00 quality v a pk INS to match. 24 Inches aqua 3.00 uuality 2.15 Per doaen .... TABLE LINENS, bleached, extra super mercerised, beautiful design.-. fQ full two yards wide. 90c quality v NAPKINS to macth. 21 Inches square. 3 o, quality- 2.00 Per dozen TABLE DAMASK, h.' If bleached, two vanls wide, all pure linen, l.oo fxQ quslity TABLE DAMASK, bleached, 60 inch, s wide, splendid designs, 30c Q quality 1 BEDSPREADS, hemmed and fringedl Marseilles design. IM If) quslity vr BEDSPREAD8. hemmed, ready for u-e. Mars. iüos designs. 1."" 7 ?l quality Wash Day Bargains Only to be found in our Basrments WASH BOILERS, extra heavy tin and cover. 50c quality W WASH BOILER, extra heavy, galvanized, large size, 75c &Q quality wwWASH BOILER, blocked tin and p-did copper bottom. 1.00 HQ quality M w CLOTHES BASKETS, extra Ftrong willow, oval shapes, 12 3 4 75 were ... 45 29 55 39 65 now 49 59 69 7 NEVER 60 "hallenge," I RON I NO TABLES, folding. 1.00 kind CLOTHES PINS, best quaiil PER HUNDRED CURTAIN STRETCHERS. SAG. essy to set up. 1.00 quality B E NC H W R I N l E RS. "( suitable for two tubs, 2.B8 quality WASH TUBS, extra ized: heav l y galvan2 3 79 65 irons 10 now 45 55 SAD IRONS. "Mrs. Pottss," 3 to the set. niektl-plated, 1.25 quality, per set FLOOR MOP. extra heavy. 15c quality AMMONIA. Blocks "Jumbo," Ion bottle for DANDY LAUNDRY SOAP. large cake STARCH, lump, beat quality, pt r pound SANTA CLAl'S Laundry Soap. LARGE CAKE STARCH. ELASTH'. per packe GOLD DUST Washing Powder, 4 package (TO LADIES ONLY) Vs-gal-10 .2-, pound 15 Consequently he works practically ever day and works cheerfully and falthf xy.T Experience in worth any amount of mera theory, and there may be In the above outline of thia method of handling the pa jr roll of a Southern lumber manufacturing institution suggestions of value to some of our readers. It is true that one of the ebb f advantages secured being given the prefereiM c by labor would not accrue if all adopted the same methods. But there ia little danger that this will be the case. In addition to questions of expeditn y. the policy of doing some things that would not be desirable or appreciated with a better ; class of labor rests in thia Instance on a r. al benefit, riot only to the institution itself, but to the employed. It hi an adapt Hon of ine., to etuis and or podcles to con ditions that is worthy of consideration. Don't I e Wlrelrs . Philadelphia Press. Mrs. Langtry aud Siguor Marconi were dining .t Different tables iu a restanrait in New York c- - the otner night. The actrtEs saw ne fuveutor for the tirat time. What a wonderful man he Mrs. Langtry said. ' What he has doue seems man clous. Only 1 can t say that my ow experience with the wireless telegraph was a complete ucceaa. I had dined with a friend the night before I left Luidoa. and when we passed a vessel 1 telegraphed by the new method, 'The ocean does not part us.' 'Tea days later I had the telegram back from my friend with a reuuest to explain what it meant. It read, The ocean baa ae pauta ou.'