Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 276, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1903 — Page 2

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ProUohly hflnrr and Cooler on Sanda y Konthrmt to Float Wind. WASHINGTON. Oct. 2. Forecast for Saturday and Sunday: Indiana Fair on Saturday. Sunday probably 9 how era and cooler; fresh southeast to east winds. Ohio Fair on Saturday: warmer in northern portion. Sunday increasing cloudiness; fresh northeast winds, becoming southeast. Illinois Fair on Saturday; warmer in northern portion. Sunday showers and cooler; fresh southeast winds, increasing. Wisconsin Rain on Saturday and Sunday, fresh to brisk east to southeast winds, Increasing and becoming east. Lower Michigan Fair on Saturday, except abowers in northern portion. Sunday bowers; fresh east to southeast winds, increasing. North Dakota Showers on Saturday; oder in south portion. Sunday fair and Warmer. South Dakota, Nebraska and KansasShowers and cooler on Saturday. Sunday fair. Minnesota Showers on Saturday and Sunday; cooler Saturday in western portion and in southern portion on Sunday. Iowa Showers on Saturday and Sunday; cooler on Sunday. Kentucky Fair on Saturday. Sunday fa jr. except showers In extreme west portion. Local Observation on Friday. Bar. Tern. R H. Wind. Weather. Pre. I a. m.. 30.18 20 South. Cloudy. 0.24 p.m.. 30.1 5S 02 East. Cloudy. 0.00 Maximum temperature, 72; mlnimr.ru temperature, 2. Comparative atatennr.it of mean temperature and total preciptu tlon on Oct. 2: Temp. Pre. Normal 62 0 9 Man 0.24 Departure for day tie Peparture for month 13 departure - Ince Jan. 1 28 CJ9 Plus. W. T. BLYTHE. Section Director. Yesterday's Temperatures. 7 a. m. Max. 7 p. m. Abilene, T.x $ H H Amarillo. Tex 62 76 Atlanta, Ga 64 84 bO Bismarck. N. D N 02 Buffalo, N Y 56 66 06 Cairo, 111 64 84 80 Chattanooga, Tenn 61 84 7 Cheyanne. Wyu 38 68 5o Chicago, 111 S8 62 62 Cincinnati, 0 62 78 70 Cleveland. 0 62 64 60 Columbus, O 00 74 66 Concordia, Kan 64 86 Darenport. la 53 6S 66 Denver. Col 78 70 Podga City. Kan 80 Dubuque, a "t 64 64 Duluth. Minn 50 48 El Paso. Tex 5 90 70 Galvestou. Tex SO 82 80 Grand Junction. JoI H S3 62 Grand Rapids. Mich. ... 52 62 58 Havre. Mont 44 J 56 Huron, S. D 2 74 Helena. Mont 44 66 52 Jacksonville. Fla OS 74 Kansas City. Mo 66 86 80 Lander. Wyo 60 50 Little Rock. Ark 8 fW SO Louisville. Kv 64 86 78 Marquette. Mich 42 f,2 .'.2 Memphis, Tenn 70 ', 84 Modena. Utah 40 60 44 Montgr,me.y. Ala 64 88 S2 Nashville. Tenn 61 88 80 New Orleans. La 7 4 78 New York. V. Y 62 7S 68 Norfolk. Va 90 80 72 North Platte. Neb 58 88 80 Oklaht ma. O. T 66 U 76 Oman; . Neb 62 86 7 Palestine. Tex 72 86 "Ml Parker .bürg, W. Va 64 70 Philadelphia. Pa CO 7 M Pittsb irg. Pa 66 74 68 Pueblo, Col 60 76 Qu" Appelle, Assin 42 54 50 Rapid 'ity. S. D 2 76 62 St. Louis, Mo 62 82 78 fit. Paul. Minn 52 M 60 Salt Lake City. 1'tab.... 4H 52 42 San Antonio. Tex 72 M 84 Santa Fe, N M 54 64 Shrevfport. La 70 H M Springfle'd. 11 64 70 Springfield, Mo 66 84 76 Valentine. Neb 54 Si 76 Washington. D. C 68 70 MVlcl.a. Kan 68 86 78 September Meteorology. Following is a summary of meteorological conditions for Indianapolis and vicinity ajuring the month of September: Atmospheria Proooure Mean, 30.12; highest. 30.39 on the 19th; lowest, 29.82 on the tfth. Temperature Highest, 90 on the 7th; lowcat. 40 on the 18th; greatest dally range. 29 on the 7th; least daily range, 8 on the 17th. Meaj for this month in 1871, 62; 1872, 66; 1871, 64; 1874, 6; 1875. 63; 1876. 64; 1877. 66; lflS, 67; 1879. yv 1880, 65; 1881. 74; 1882. 66; 1S83, 3; 184. 7. .65; 1886, 67; 1887, 66; 1888, 63: 189. 64; 1890. 6J; 1S91, 71; 1892. 67; 1898, 69; 1894. 70; 116. 71; 1S6. 64: 1S97. 1; 1898, 70; 1199, 66: 1900, 71; 1901, 67; 1902, 64; 1903, 67; mean of this month for 33 yearä, 67; average daily excess of this month as compared with mean of 33 years, 0.4; accumulated excess since Jan. 1, 12; average dally excess since Jan. 1, 0. Wind Prevailing direction, south; total movement 6,959 miles; maximum velocity (for Ave minutes). 37 miles per hour, from the south on the 10th. Preciprtatlon Total this month in 1871, 0.S9; 1S72. 2.81; 1873. 1 74; )s74. 2.09; 1875, 1.34; 1S7. .; 1877. 5.04; 157S. 3 35; 1879, 6.94; 1880, LH; 1881. 3.25; 18S2, 0.71; 183, 2.72; 1884, 3.09; 1885, 3.50; 1886. 3.43; 18S7. Ill; 1888, 1.23; 1889. 3.79; 1890. 7 31; 11. n 74; 1992. 2.42; 189S, 3.03; 1894, 1.82. 1896. 7.46; is96. 8.17; 1897. 0.79; 1898, 4.2J; 1991. 2.54; 19U). 2.95; 1901, 0.66; 1902, 5.33; 1903. 1.18; average of this month for 33 years, 3.01; deficiency of this month as compared with average of 33 years. 1.8S; accumulated deficiency since Jan. 1. 6.60. Sunshlue aud Cloudiness Number of dear days. 19; partly cloudy. 7; cloudy, 4; on which .01 Inch or more of rain fell, 5. Frosts (Dates of Light on the ISth, 19th, 25th, heavy, aone; killing, none. MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS. LIVERPOOL. Oct. , Arrived: Commonwealth, frum Boston. Sailed: Canadian, for Boston; Celtic, for Queenstown and New York. PLYMOUTH. Oct. 1 Arrived: Koenlg Albert, from New "York, for Cherbourg and Bremen ahd proceeded. HAMBURG. Oct. 2 Arrived: Graf Waldersee. from New York via Plvmouth aad Cherbourg. NEW YORK. Oct. 2. -Arrived: Fuerst Bismarck, from Hamburg. Sailed: Arabic, for Liverpool. i'HKRho,' FIG. Oct. 2 Arrived: Auguste Victoria, from New York via Plymouth, for Hamborg. ST. MICHAELS, Oct. 2 Passed: Lahn. from New York, for tiibralter, Naples and ISLE OF WIGHT. Oct. l.-Passed: Ryndham. from New York, for Rotterdam. Wireless Reports. NANTIVKKT LIGHT SHIP. Oct. 2. The steamer New York, from Southampton snd Cherbourg, for New York, waa seventy miles east at 8:15 p. m. CROOK HAVEN. Oct. 3 Umbria. from New York, for Queen to .vn and Liverpool, off here at 2.30 a. ra. ReeeUer for a Lumber Company. BEAl MONT. Tex.. Oct. 2. District Judge Pope to- '.a named J. E. Hooks as receiver for the Turner A Nabors Lumber Company. Incorporated, with a capital of fQOO.OUU. The company controls a number of mills at different points in Esat Texas. W. H. Turner, one of the bondholder, was the petitioner, and alleged an indebtedness to himself In at 100,000.

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PUZZLE SEW YORK POLITICAL SITl'ATIOX i.KHUIM. MURE PERPLEXING. 1 Fusionist Sow Declare Their Purpose to Hfmovc QMOl and Fornes from Their Ticket. DEMOCRATIC PARTY SPLIT BRONX DELEGATES HAVE REVOLTED AGAINST Ul i MW. Break Dae to the Fnalon Question Republican to Nominate .ew Candidate. NEW YORK, Oct. 2. Action looking towards the elimination of Edward M. Grout and Charles V. Fornes from the fusion municipal ticket was taken to-day by the Citizens' Union and the Republican organizations. Calls were Issued for the reassembling of the conventions of those bodies on Wednesday of next week, the purpose being to declare vacant the nominations of Grout and Fornes for the offices respectively of controller and of president of the board of aldermen. Asi sertlng that this action cannot be legally taken. Grout and Fornes will appeal to the courts for an order that th-ir names must be printed on the official ballot in the Republican and Citizens' Union columns. Thuir contention is that the functions of the delegates to the two conventions terminated with the adjournment of the bodies to which they were chosen, and that they cannot be revived by tho acts of committees, such as is proposed. The Greater New York Democracy, at the head of which is John C. Sheehan, has practically broken away from the fusion movement, on the representation that behind fusion there was a plan to Republicanize the city administration. Failure of efforts to secure the renomination of Jacob A. Cantor, Demoetat, as president of the Borough of Manhattan, was the reason assigned for the break, which was followed by the secession of the Bronx delegates from the Greater New York Democracy. The revolt was headed by Stanwood Men-k-ii. John C. Sheehan, as a member of the C inmittee appointed to confer with the otlter fusion elements OB the choice of city candidates on Sept. 24, reported that he had vainly attempted to secure the nomination of Mr. Cantor and denounced the whole fusion programme as an attempt to Republicanize the city of New York. J. T. Cronin, of the Twenty-second assembly district, who was on the committee with Mr. Sheehan. made a similar report in which he accused R. Fulton Cutting of insulting the Irish voters of the city. This statement precipitated a general tumult, which ended only when Mr. Menken left the hall, followed by all the Bronx delegates after he had vainly tried to read a statement which was eventually laid on tlutable with the reports of Sheehan and Cronln. The statement offered by Mr. Menken, signed by M. Linn Bruce. Robert C. Morris, R. Fulton Cutting and other fusion delegates to the conference, denied that Mr. Cutting had made the remarks attributed to him and denounced the report as a brazen attempt to discredit the fusion cause. After the meeting Mr. Menken said that he and his colleagues would form another organization. Secretary Manchester of the Republican county committee to-night announced that the Republican county committee would be reconvened at Carnegie Hall on the night of Wednesday. Oct 7. and that at that convention candidates would be named for controller and president of the Board of Aldermen to take the places of Edward M. Grout and Charles W. Fornes. Sheldon to Succeed Glbba. NEW YORK. Oct. 2 Senator Piatt today said that George R. Sheldon, of New York city, would succeed the late Frederick S. Gibbs as Republican national committeeman from New York. Low Boomed for tho Presidency. CHICAGO, Oct. 2. President Harper, of the Univeraity of Chicago, started a boom for the presiuency of the United States on behalf of Mayor Seth Low, of New York, to-day. The New York chief executive was to address the students of the university in Kent Hall, and when President Harper stepped forward to Introduce the distinguished visitor he said: "We once had with us in Cnls hall a Governor McKinley, who became President of the United States. Later we had with us a police commissioner (Roosevelt) who became President of the United States. To-day we have with us the mayor of a great city, and may he not also become President of the United States ?" " The last words of the speaker were drowned in the yells of the students, and It was several minutes before Mayor Low could check the vociferous cheering. BIRTH RATE IS TOO LOW LEADING FRIENDS AT MARION SPEAK FOR LARGE FAMILIES. Early Marriages Urged aa a or recti ve of What Is Regarded aa Church and National Evil. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION. Ind.. Oct. 2. The First Friends' Church auditorium was filled to overflowing at this morning's services of the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Frlenda, and all the business sessions are marked with the greatest religious feeling. The tent was dried out to-day after last night's rain and is again being used. A steam-heat system Is installed In the tent. At to-day's session the statistical report of the Yearly Meeting was read by Daniel Lawrence, of Spiceland, secretary of the committee. The reports from nine quarterly meetings were imperfect, but out of the data furnished the secretary a report of interesting statistics was compiled. It was shown that the death rate of the Indiana i Yearly Meeting exceeds the birth rate. This has been true ever since itot. uuring tne lasr-year the deaths exceeded the births hjt sixteen. The letters root ived by the chun h exceeded those issued by thirteen; ccrtiricates issued were fifty-five more than received; the members received by request are 204 more than those released by disownraent. resignation and discontinuance of names. The total membership this year is 20.278. The various phases of the report were eoaaidsrad by the session. Francis W. Thomas spoke on the item of death rate ami deplored the fait that präsent tendencies are to discourage early marriages. He stated that it w:i.. nut only hur, h but .i national Issue, and expressed himself as fully in sympathy with tho Roosevelt Idea ..t encouraging large families. The reports from the fifteen quarterly meetings in the main showed a satisfactory atate of affairs. While a lack of unity was ahown in a few, the greater majority showed excellent conditions. The name of the Long Lake gu irterly Meeting has been changed to Traverse City juurttrly Meeting. Speaking on the foem of prayer brought out in the quarterly meeting report. W. P. Angel, of New Castle, stated that In family gatherings he would urge that the short) r form of prayer be used. It waa his belief that he who prays longer than five minutes "usually asks som thing that he does uot expect the Lord to give." The report of Treaaurer Charit G. Car

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penter of the Indiana Yearly Meeting was presented this afternoon and shows the receipts and expenditures of all departments of the Yearly Meeting. The report shows the following items: Assets. Stock and material, $10,3S.29; real estate, $130.147.4; Invested funds, $109,815.00; cash. J6.IW1.02. Due from Quarterly Meeting Dublin quarterly. $315.62: New Garden. $31.20; Spiceland. $i:.Cl; Vandaiia, $14.55: West Branch, $76.13; Westfield. fJo.58; Van Wert. J2S7.30. Account overdrawn. $792.99. Amos and Hannah Bond (Int.), $J8.50. Total assets, 1231.153.2S. Liabilities. Indiana Yearly Meeting, $109,976.29; general fund. $4.401 JM. The endowment fund of the church shows a very flattering condition. It is distributed as follows: Foreign missions. $17,140.88; Indiana Bible Association, $100.00; Women's Home supporting fund. $16.000.00: Women' Home improvement fund, $15.000; book fund, $4.000; ministers' fund. 113,000; missionary board, $34,677.50; Shawnee fund. $7.000: loian and Phoenix societies, $1,000; Amos and Hannah Bond fund, $1.:'; Elizabeth Reynolds, $420. The total of all funds reaches the amount of I122.23.S.38. The amount due committees and interest accounts is $4.537.38. The total of the liabilities, therefore, is $231,153.2. The cash receipts from various sources amount to $52.669. at At to-night's session most of the time was taken up in Bible study. The Rev. R. W. Radabaugh, of Plainrield, president of the publishers' association of the Yearly Meeting, delivered an address on Bible study. In which work he has been engaged for thirty years. Ho called for a general circulation of the Bible. He declared that the lesson leaf should be driven from the Sabbath schools and that the Bible alone should be used In instructing pupils. He said that no one had ever been able to entirely master tho Bible, but that they should dig into it as the miner does the earth. The annual report on the Bible schools was submitted. It shows that there are in the Yearly Meeting 131 schools, 758 classes, 8,000 pupils and 1,363 teachers and officers. The programme to-morrow follow?: 8 a. m., devotional meeting; 10 a. m.. epistles from Iowa. Canada. Kansas; evangelistic and pastoral; miscellaneous: 2 p. m , SplceInnd and Fairmount academies; Earlham College; 7:15 p. m.. Christian Endeavor. Baptist Chureh la Prosperous. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind.. Oct. 2. One of the most prosperous churches in the city is the South Ninth-street Baptist (negro), which has remodeled both the church and the parsonage and has them entirely free of debt. The Rev. H. C. Randolph, who has been pastor two years, has brought the church into this prosperous condition. FATAL BLOW WITH FIST

ORLEANS FARMER DIES AFTER BEING I CONSCIOl S ELEVEN DAYS. Was Struck by Ilia Nephew in a Qnar rel Over a Land Deal Merchandise Sale Law Nullified. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ORLEANS. Ind., Oct. 2. As a result of a fight with Alvin Oldham, a blacksmith of this place, Ephraim Elliott, a farmer three miles east of Orleans, died this evening at 8 o'clock. On Monday morning, Sept. 21. Elliott and Oldham quarreled over a land deal which Elliott was advising Oldham's mother, who also Is Elliott's sister, to make. Oldham insisted that his mother should not make the deal and when she told him that the deal was already made, Elliott Jeered at Oldham. Oldham knocked Elliott down with his fist. Since that time Elliott had been unconscious most of the time and gradually grew worse until this evening when he died. Elliott was sixty-seven years old and Oldham Is about thirty. Cars Robbed at North Judaon. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NORTH JUDSON, Ind., Oct. 2. Last nght, while a fast freight traiu was sidetracked for coal and water on the L, L & I. Railroad at this place, one of the meat cars was broken open and considerable meat was taken. Several robberies of this kind aaVS taken place here. The authorities seem powerless to apprehend the guilty, but it is not believed that local persons have anything to do with the thefts. Slashed Kin Tormentor, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WARSAW, Ind., Oct. 2.-Word has Just reached this place to the effect that Arthur Griff th, the mathematical prodigy of Milford, this county, on yesterday resented the taunts of John Martin, SMllford business man, and used a knife onhim, splitting his bom and cheek, causing disfigurement for life. DECLARED I' N CONSTITUTIONAL. Section of Statutes of 1001, Regarding Sales of Merchandise Stocks. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SHOALS, Ind., Oct. 2. In rendering his opinion in the case of the Pattersou-c5ar-gent Company vs. Mitchell to-day, Special Judge Hiram McCormick declared unconstitutional Section 6637a, Burns's revision of 1901, which provides that the sale of a stock of merchandise in bulk by a dealer shall be fraudulent and void as against creditors of the seller, unless five days' notice is given before the sale. Judge McCormick said: "For two reasons wc hold the statute unconstitutional: First, it attempts to do an Impossible thing, to limit the ownership of a special class of personal property, doing away with absolute ownership, an essential characteristic of personal property which must and will exist regardless of the enactment of statutes by a General Assembly. Second, because It is in contravention of Section 68 of the Bill of Rights, Constitution of Indiana, in that it attempts to grant privileges to a certain class of ci editor? those of dealers in merchandiseand this class is again divided. "That the act in question was intended especially for a certain class of wholesale merchants, there is little doubt, and that the General Assembly that met two years later regarded that law class legislation und attempted to remedy It by repealing that law and the enactment of another on the same subject, making its application more general. The class of citizens which this law seek3 to grant especial protection to is certainly able to protect themselves without special laws in their behalf." e LABOR CONTRACTS LET. Prison Board Also Approves Appointment of Deputy Wurden. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MIC1 UGAM CITY. Ind., Oct. 2 The Board of Control of the prison met to-day and be.-ides approving the appointment of Frank Sewell as deputy warden, to succeed M. M. Barnard, who resigned some weeks ago to accept the position of assistant superintendent of the Jeffersonville Reformatory, let the contract for the labor of one lr.ndrt d prisoners for a period of six years beginning Oct. 1. 1904. Three months' bids for labor for four hundred men were advertised for and contracts were awarded to three of the bidders of one hundred men each, the bids for the remaining one hundrsd men being rejected because they were im-gular or too low. The contract awarded to-day was to the Mount Arey Stone Company, of Logansport, Ind.. at 521- cents a day per man. The 1..-W Oon tract! will bring the State about $11,000 annually over the old one. Meeting oi Plantation Shareholders. Special to the Indianapoll Journal. EL.WOOD. Ind., Oct. 1 Nearly a hundred officers, directors and shareholders in the Pan-American Planters' Company, which is developing a plantation in Mexico, held a meeting here to-night to make arrangements for a trip of Inspection which a large number of them will make to the plantation in January. Prominent among the visitors wen the president of the comI jLany ex-Governor Charles Foster, of Ohio,

who waj secretary of the treasury in President Harnson a Cabinet, snd James Brydon. of Mexico, the manager of the plantation. Ttv? meeting waa followed by a banquet at the Hotel Stevenson. 'ver $70,0i)0 worth of stock is held In and around El wood and G. L Gllpatrick and M. L. Ploughe, of this city, are directors.

Quenched a Fire on a Bridge. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSON VI LLE. Ind.. Oct. 2 The prompt action of Willlnm Derry, of this city, foreman In the Big Four yards, early yesterday morning probably prevented a serious disaster. While looking toward the Big Four bridge Derry discovered flames leaping from it, and knowing that a train load of soldiers from Michigan was about due to cross the structure, he hastily turned in a fire alarm and snatching two buckets of water ran to where the bridge was nlire and began fighting the flames alone. Reinforcements soon arrived and the lire was extinguished. It was learned that coals from an engine had set the wooden floorirg on tire and a number of crossties were ablaze when Derry arrived on the scene Ready for the Fnlr. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYHTTE. Ind.. G-t. 2. Lafayette's fall festival will open Monday, the booths and platforms for the different performances now being in course of erection. Although the Main-street pavement is not completed that thoroughfare will be so nearly finished that it can be used and almost every other street in the business section of the town will have its quota of midway shows. At the courthouse square a large platform has been built for the drawing of premiums, which will take place daily. The Merchant's Association has expended much time and money to make- tho festival this year a greater success than ever before. Will InauKurate a Fair. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PAOLI, Ind., Oct. 2. The citizens of this place are arranging to have a county fair here next year and are negotiating for a tract of land to be used for that purpose. They will build a regulation track that will equal any in the State and to erect building on the ground, with water in each department and modern in all respects. County i airs were abandoned here several yens ago because they were unprofitable, but it is thought they can be made profitable now. Badly Hurt in Bridge Accident. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Ind., Oct. 2.-Mr. Lucinda Whlteaell, of Paw Paw township, lies In a critical condition, the result of an accident which befell her last evening. Driving home from Rich Valley, a small bridge gave way under her buggy and she was hurled some distance, breaking three ribs and suffering other internal injuries. The chances are said to be against her recovery. Tetanus Follows Vaccination. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind., Oct. 2. Laura Mayhugh, aed eleven, daughter of Jay Mayhugh, living in North Marion, is suffering with lockjaw and death is expected to result at any time. She was vaccinated one week ago. A germ of tetanus gained entrance through the open wound of the vaccination and worked into the system. Indiana Weddinars. SWAN I GAN-BROWN. EVANSVI LLE, Ind., Oct. 2. The marriage of Miss Emma Brown, of Huntingburg, Ind., and Thomas Swanigan, of Chandler, O. T., took place this evening at the home of the bride's parents at Huntingburg, the Rev. F. A. Priest, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, officiating. They will live in Oklahoma. Damage Verdict of $7,500. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. MUNC1E, Ind., Oct. 2.-The jury in the case of Mrs. Rebecca Miller against the Big Four, a suit for $10,000 damages, to-day returned a verdict for the plaintiff and awarded her damages in the sum of $7,500. Mrs. Miller tripped on a loose board at the Big Four crossing In this city, and in falling permanently injured her knee. Burned iu Gnnollne Explosion. Bp dal to the Indianapolis Journal. PKRTJ, Ind.. Oct. 2. Henry Rentzel was terribly burned this afternoon aud probably will die. He was caught in an explosion of gasoline iu the water tank pumAouse at the Chicago. Cincinnati & Louisville station. The gasoline supply Ignited while the engine was being started. Earlham Oratorical Society. Sptclal to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Oct. 2. The executive committee of the Earlham College Oratorical Association has begun preparations for the annual debate, which will probably be with De Pauw University some time In March. The prima iv oratorical contests have been set for Nov. 2S and 2. Reunion of Two Regiments. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JONESBORO, Ind.. Oct. 2.-The One-hun-dred-and-first and Seventy-fifth Indiana Regiments have been holding their annual reunion here for two days and veterans from all over the State took fcart. A caniotire was held at the Methodist Church on Thursday evening. Indiana Obituary. WINDFALL. Ind., Oct. 2. Mrs. Rebecca Hickman, aged seventy-live, died very suddenly at her home on Posey street in this city at 12:20 o'clock this morning of heart failure. She seemed In her usual health when she retired last night. She was born in Ohio and was twice married. Five children survive. FRANKLIN. Ind., Oct. 2. Announcement has been received here of the death at Tun -wiler, Miss., of Mrs. Nelson Pittman. She formerly lived in Franklin, her husband being a prominent business man. The body will arrive here for burial to-morrow. Indiana Notes. ELWOOD The election of Weldon A. Finch, oL this city, as major of the first battalion ' of the new Seventh Regiment, U. R.. Knights of Pythias, means that this command will go to Louisville next year and participate in the $5oo prize drill for battalions. The First Battalion, of which Major Finch will be in command, is composed entirely of Madison county companies Elwood, Alexandria. Orestes, Summltvllle and Anderson. By the use of the electric lines the entire bodv . tn be mobilized for drill in half an hour's time. WABASH. There was a meeting of the county superintendents of the Eleventh district here on Friday. Those present were 11. D. Shideler. of Huntington county; A. B. Thompson. Grant; Flnlev G ig -r. Blackford; I. S. Sullivan. Miami; John W. I.. wis, Wabash. Cass county alone was unrepresented. State Superintendent FaRsett A. Cotton presided and a general discussion of school management took up the entire day. A dinner was given the visitors at a local hotel. FRANKLIN Company D. of the Seventeenth Indiana of the old Wilder brigade, held its annual reunion Thursday at P. W. Brown s, in this city, after a dinner and speeches. John Gubliar was elected pr- .- dent of the organization the coming r and W. H. Einher secretary. SI II ILBY VI LLE. The local lodge of Rebekahs has received an Invitation from the Fidelity lodge, of Indiana j. lis, to confer the work before that lodge on the evening of Oct. 26. Owing to the lodge meeting here on that evening it is hardly probable tha: the invitation will be accepted. MCNCIK. Thieves entertd the saloon of John Conners in this city Thursday night and broke open a new PM cash regtoti r, which was empty. The cash register v.u.battered to pieces. !. A PORTE. The Rev. M. C. Baada. pastor of the German Lutheran Church Otis. Laporte county, has accepted a call to Joncsville. Ind. V let I ins of a Cane Knuh. MW ORLK.WS. Lr.. Oct. 2 -Loeber Landau, sixteen years old. of tho freshman class at Tulane Fniversity, was fatally Injured during the cane rush between the freshmen and sophomores to-dav. He had his skull fractured. Harry Mulligan, a member of the same class, was slightly injured. A Gl' AR A TEED COM FOR PILES. lt. hing. IHlnd. Dleedlng or Protrudln Plica. Your r1ruRi!t will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT falb U cure you m 0 to It days. 50c

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I It iCTION LINE OPENED BETWEEN KOKOMO AND GREENTOWN. Rapid Construction Work on the K okomo, Marion v Western Progress on Indianapolis Northern. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind.. Oct. 2. Kokomo and Greentown are now connected by trolley. The line of the Kokomo. Marion & Western has been completed from Kokomo east to Greentown, and the first car was operated between the towns to-day. Tho tenmile run and return was made in thirtyfive minutes. The road will be completed in time for Marion people to come to Kokomo for their Christmas shopping. This is said to be the only stone-ballasted road in operation in Indiana. The Indianapolis Northern Company has begun track-laying in Kokomo. but is not making the speed in construction that the Kokomo, Marion & Western Company la showing. Will Establish a Button Factory. Sjeclal to the Indianapolis Journal. LAWRENCE B I RG, Ind., Oct. 2. Messrs. Guttman Bros., of New York, who, for P I era months have been desirous of establishing a pearl button factory In this city, are at last about to complete the preliminary arrangements for locating here a plant, which probably will emoloy from BOO to 3i)o hands. E. M. Lee, president of the Commercial Club, to-night stated that about fifty citizens had pledged themselves to pay the sum of 10 per annum to apply on the rental of a building suitable lor the purposes of the factory, which emergency fund shall be available only in the event of some citizen enjoining the city from paying the rental. The City Council has made all the needful concessions. Higher Price fos Broom Corn. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PARIS, 111., Oct. 2. It begins to look as If the growers who have bjfen holding out for $125 per ton for their broom corn would get that money much sooner than has been predicted. Within the last few days the price has jumped from $10) to $116 a ton and the market is growing stronger every day. Some of the new crop is being bought up at $115, that price being quite a temptation to the growers, especially those who have but a few tons and operate on small capital. The harvest in the central Illinois district still progresses nicely and the crop is being rapidly put into the bale. Bought 3Iachines in Richmond. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind.. Oct. 2. Three men from Bogota, Colombia, were here yesterday to buy machinery of a local threshing rirn:. They were Senors Francisco Paz, Pedro Nunez and Francis M. Quinta, the hater accompanied by his son, Louis Quinta. The visitors expressed themselves as greatly impressed and astonished at what they saw in this country. Senor Paz is a celebrated engineer in Colombia, as well as an expert machinist, and he is very enthusiastic over the machinery he has inspected since his arrival in this country. Oil Company incorporated. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Ml'NCIE, Ind.. Oct. 2.-The Columbian Oil and Gas Company, with a capital of $500.000, filed articles of incorporation today with the recorder of Delaware county. The territory in which the company will drill for oil is composed of the counties of Delaware, Randolph, Grant, Hancock, Blackford, Wells and Jay. The headquarters of the comrany will be in Marion. The directors are William and George Finn, Thomas Given, W. K. McMullen aud Josiah Rhodes. (rain Assoelntlon Meeting. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE, Oct. 2. The Eastern Indiana Grain Association at its meeting he re last night selected President Niezer. of Monroeville, and Secretary Egly, of Berne, as its delegates to the national meeting at Minneapolis on Oct. 6, 7 and S. The association discussed the clover seed situation. The quantity, while very large, is poor in quality and the price higher than the conditions Justify. The word was passed to its members to buy only in small quantitHS. Telephone Company's Election. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Oct. 2. The Richmond Home Telephone Company has elected A. C. Lindemuth president to succeed P. J. Freeman, resigned, and E. H. Cates, of Richmond, and L. M. Flesh, Plqua, O., were chosen directors to succeed Messrs Barber and Brailey, Wauseon, O. Long-distance connection has been established with Louisville, Ky., and the United States Company ..-ill hnilH in frnm T"liii.trn Ci o-leour nection with all important Ohio points. Wood Famine at Paoll. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. PAOLI, Ind., Oct. 2. A wood famine Is already imminent here for the coming winter and last winter's scarcity of this fuel will no doubt be experienced again this winter. There is little wood cut and to engage wood of the farmers at any price seems im;sible. The prosperous times with the farmers makes it more protitable to thorn to do other work and they are unable to get laborers to cut wood at any reasonable price. Canning Season Is Closed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SHELBY VI LLE, Ind., Oct. 2. The canning factory, with the exception of the labeling department, has closed for the present season. During their run it canned nothing but sweet corn and since opening have put up &UMM cans of these goods. Fifteen people are now at work in the labeling department and there are about 1,500,000 cans to label before the work la completed. Fort Wayne Postal Receipts. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE, Ind., Oct. 2. The postoffice receipts for the closing1 quarter were $4-,I'7.'., an increase over the corresponding quarter of 1902 of $5.142. Postmaster Page says the increase is not abnormal in any particular but simply indicates the splendid growth of the city. The total receipts for the car will be about $200,000, second only to those of Indianapolis. OUTING FOR CHILDREN. Hundreds of Little Ones Will Enjoy the Day at fiartleld Park. The matron of Garfield Park, with the assistance of Patrolman Slate, of the city police force, will to-day give the children who frequent the park a farewell party. During the summer months a matron has been provided for the children who spend the afternoons in the park, aud the policeman has been stationed there all summer to attend to thir wants and to see that thev M i- properly cared Tor during their afternoon outings. Both the patrolman and the matron, since they were placed on duty guarding the little ones, have become very niu( h attached to them, and as to-day will bs Um last day ! the season, the two custodians of the children's safety decided to give their charges an additional outing. Several hundred little boys aud girls, it is rSpected, will be present, and a rousing time has been promised to the youngsters. Farh mm Deputy Sheriff. Sam Farb, the professional bondsman yesterday figured in a new role, tn that he aas made a deputy sheriff and started for Jeffersonville with two prisoners, whom he will turn over to the authorities of the Reformatory this afternoon. Before starting on his journv.v Farb procured a revolver and a heavy club, so as to be prepared if bis prisoners got unruly.

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FOR A GROCER'S MURDER KATHAX RAXKI TO BE PIT OX TRIAL AT LAPORTE OX TUESDAY. Ills Accomplices in the Killing of Koontnuan Were Sent to PrisonMrs. Drake's Case Xot Dismissed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAPORTE. Ind., Oct. 2. Judge Richter in the Laporte Circuit Court to-day set for trial on Tuesday next the case of Nathan Rankin, charged with murder In the first degree in the killing of Groceryman Koontzman at South Bend last December. Boone and Mallory, companions of Rankin in the crime, were given life sentciu s for their part in the murder. Boone being sent from the St. Joseph Circuit Court and Mallory from the Laporte Circuit Court. Boone died soon after arriving in prison. Rankin aided the State in securing the conviction of the other two. but the State will push the charge against him. Mrs. Drake's Case !'ot Dismissed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COVINGTON, Ind., Oct. 2. The petition which has been in circulation for the past two weeks to dismiss the case against Mrs. Elmiro Drake for the alleged poisoning of her hupband, Robert Drake, was presented to Judge Robb yesterday. In a very forcible maner the judge refused to consider such a petition, stating that it was a dangerous precedent and to act in accordance with it would be an act of injustice. The second trial of the case will take place at the November term. Acquitted of Assault Charare. I Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WARSAW, Ind.. Oct. 2. William Stratford, a colored man of Indianapolis, employed as bartender at Robert Eppert's resort, Wawasee Lake, was acquitted in the Kosciusko Circuit Court here to-day of the charge of assault and battery with intent to kill, Stratford's victim being Charles Connor, a giassblower of Marion, a member of a party In camp near the resort. "Sufficient provocation" was the ground for this verdict. Brown Will ot Be Punished. Special to th Indianapolis Journal. EVANSVI LLE. Ind., Oct. 2. Edward Brown, the slayer of Grant Dennis, will go inary trial of Erown to-day that Dennis unpunished, it being ahown at the prelimthreatened his life and attacked him and that he shot the former In self-defense. Dennis lived a couple of weeks after the trouble. THE DICK CAME BACK. Colorado Man Hns Been Shooting the Same Bird for Three Years. Denver Post. "I got another shot at him yesterday, but he got away again." said E. M. Gale, the candy man, to an old friend he ran against on Sixteenth street. 'Shot at who?" was the surprised rejoinder. "No who; it was an it. but I call it him the lone mallard; didn't I ever tell you about him?" "Never; tell me now." "Why, the lone mallard, the big duck that leads the charmed life, comes to the lake on my Weld coun y ranch twice a year and teases me and flies away again." "First I ever heard of him." "Well, be still and you'll hear some more. In the first place, he's the biggest duck I ever saw biggest on earth, and I'll bet money on it. I saw him three years ago no, two years and a half ago it'll be three years next spring. I was out after ducks and I'd rather hunt ducks than to eat." "Or to drink?" inquired his friend. "Don't get funny. 1 said eat. but, as I waa going to tell you. I am always hanging about that lake during the senron, and one day I sighted a big duck coming up from the south. He looked as big as a turkey, and really. I'll bet he weighs twelve pounds, and there's many a turkey that don't weigh that. He splashed down in among a lot of smaller ducks that had floated up to within easy shooting distance from the blind that 1 was crouching behind, and I made up my mind to get him. "I had a good gun. 11 bore, and my shells had heav y charges of No. 6 shot in them. Well, I had no sooner stood up than the lone mallard saw me and rose in a hurry. When he was about twenty feet up I let drive with my right barrel! He didn't so much as flicker. Then I let him have my left, and I felt sure I hit him. but he Just kept right on. I thought he would circle and come back, but he didn't. His ticket seemed to be a through one, and his stop-over privilege was limited. "I didn't think anything more about him till the following fall, when he came along again one day and dropped into the water right where he had lit the spring before. This time I got two more shots at him, and I knocked a feather out of him, hut that was all I could do with him. H didn't wait for any more trouble, but pursued his way north. . Ever since thak time, twice a year, that old duck comes quacking along, and I've shot him till I know he must be half full of lead, but I can't bring him down. Generallv you find a big duck leading a whole flock keeping his place at the apex of the triangle thy form in their flight, but this old fellow travels alone. Doubtless he has his sweethearts here and there along the line of his route, but he shuns all so while on his aerial voyages. ' I have been laying for him for a woe past, and yesterday, when he came piling down from the north, I was ready with a Hew gun and shells loaded with No. 5 chilled shot. Til put an end to his fooling this time. I ?aid to myself, as he swooped down into easy reach of me, and then I let loose at him In oariuHt. I Snot at him three time. HM last shot certainly taking effect in his left wing, for he went off lame on that side, but the tough old rascal managed to flap away, and I suppose by this time he is pretty near to Texas. "I dou't know what to make of that bird. I can say without boasting that I arn a i good shot, but I can t do anything with ; this ph. nomenal fowl. 1 think there must be a duck doctor somewhere down South, j who patches up my old friend and fits him for running the gauntlet with me. "But I m going to get that duck some day. I've got that big green feather stuck up over my desk, and I'm bound to have the rest of them if 1 have to use a Gatling gun."

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OF NOTRE DAME FDLCATIOXAL. DAY and NIGHT SCHOOL The Fifty-Fourth Year. Spec a! Sates. B Indianapolis USINESS UNIVERSITY Entire Floor When Building. E. J. HKEB. Prsa Five times largest in this state; second largest in the world; half rate for short time to make it lartrst.?sitiona secured. Call, ptiroeor write H. D. Vceis,Kx-4tate Supt. Mas Inatrn., Pres. NOVEL DAMAGE SUITS LARGE SI MS ASKED BY A ST. 1 Ol IS SECTHIT1E9 COMPANY. Circuit Attorney Folk and Grand Jnry Charged Coiublnlna; to Destroy PlalntiaT'a Business. ST. LOUIS, Mo.. Oct. :.-The Rlalto Grain and Securities Company to-day filed suit in the Circuit Court against Sherrir Joseph F. Dickman, Circuit Attorney Joseph W. Folk and his assistant, W. Scott Hancock, for $30,000 actual and $30.000 punitive damages. The members of the present grand jury are named as co-defendants. The petition charges that on Sept. 30 the defendants "maliciously combined to destroy the business of the Rialto company and to bring the plaintiff into disrepute by sei .- ing the books, accounts, letters snd papers of the company; that they broke open desks, rifled and pillaged the premises, all of which was unlawful trespass." Simult - with the filing of the abovs petition Maj. Hugh C. Dennis, president of the Rlalto company, filed a suit against the samt- defendants for $36.000 actual and 125,000 punitive damages, charging that th-y caused him. on Sept. 30, to be taken throuKÜ the streots of St. Louis to the Four Courts, "depriving him of his liberty aad subjecting him to great odium." CONFESSION OF A YOUTH. Says He Assaulted a Thlrteen-Year-Old Girl and Later Killed Her. Gl'THRIE, O. T.. Oct. 2-Half burled la weeds by the roadside, her throat cut from ear to ear. the body of Mary Prokosh, thirteen years old, was discovered to-day near her home in northern Payne county. Isey E. Rogers, seventeen years o.d, hss confessed that he aanaulted the and afterwards helped to kill her because she declared that ehe would tell her parents. Kagers has implicated Frank Quluness and a youth of the name of AI alley, now In Jail at Stillwater. Rogers is In Jail at Perry. MAKING WASTE PLACES FERTILE. Storaaje Reservoirs I'lauued I nder the IrrlKstlou Act. Portland Oregonian. The United States geological survey Is working steadily upon preliminary plans for irrigation In States and Territories where there arc arid land sections that may bt reclaimed to agriculture under the new national law. These surveying parties have had a busy season, and many of them will Continus in the field until snow flies, or as long as they can do effective work. Th' law sets aside the proceeds of the sales of public lands in the regions covered for general Irrigation work. I'p to the close of the last fiscal year the money thus set aside for this work amounted to about $lS.000,00ll The annual receipts showed a steady increase. The total for 1S01 was $3.144.Sfl. for 1902 It was $4,565.516 and for the year ending June 30. 1903. ft was equal to the proceeds of the two former years. The States and Territories entitled to irrigation money from ths sales of their own lands separately arc Arizona, California, Colorado. Idaho, Kansas, Montana. Nebraska. Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota. I'tah. Washington and Wyoming. The report is interesting, as It touches upon reservoirs, dams, artesian possibilities and the undertow of largs streams whose beds are dry in summer. The government, after careful consideration of the Irrigation problem and Its possibilities, decided last year to build what ans known as the Sweetwater dam and the St. Mary system of canals In Montans. the Gunnison tunnel irrigation works In Colorado, the Truckee system in Nevada and the Salt river dam in Arlsona. The aggregate cost of these five enterprises Is ostamater at $10,00o,00u. Arid lands in the regions where these works are to be undertaken are now practically valueless, except for grazing, and for that purpose will not bring $1 an acre. The great Increase la value of these lands through irrigation Is predicted upon the fsct that land In tho same localities that Is supplied with water seels now for $50 an acre and upward. On an average an acre of irrigated land will support one person In the Unite! States there are C0O.O80.O00 seres of vacant land, one-half of which la suitable only cor grazing Enough water runs to wasto In these arid and semi-arid regions every year to Irrigate 75.000,000 acres. It Is cear that a matter so extensive must be dealt with systematically and that Its preliminary steps must be carefully taken. Ths five projects above noted rest upon formef investigations and engineering reports, as ihat no risks are Involved. The lands la luded in the tracts in which theso operations have been decided upon have been withdrawn from settlement, to be reopened again when water can oe applied to them for agricultural purpceus. " Secretary Hitchcock a the beginning of lan year indicated tho part that the national government proposed to take in Irrigation as follows- "Water should bs brought to the point where the settlers can, with ihelr own labor, or by co-operation, construct ditches and laterals to reclaim the desert land. With the requirements of actual settlement and cultivation, to be followed by the payment of ths oosg of storing water, the speculative element will be eliminated, leaving the ground free to bona fide settlers." This policy may be said to have been fairly Inaugurated and its continuation cannot fall in time to be of immense value In making fertile tho waste places of the continent. a