Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 318, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1903 — Page 2

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER". 14, 1003.

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GOOD I00TBAIL WEATHEE.

Skies Will Smile n Gridiron Contestnntt in Indiana To-Dny. WASHINGTON. Nov. 13. Forecast for Saturday and Sunday: Indiana Fair on Saturday and Sunday; light to fresh variable winds. Illinois Fair on Saturday. Probably fair on Sunday: light to fresh variable winds. Ohio Partly cloudy on Saturday and Sunday with rain In south portion; fresh northeast wind?. Kentucky and West Virginia Fair on Saturday and Sunday; light to fresh variable wind?. Iwer Michigan and Wisconsin Fair and cooler on Saturday. Sunday fair; fresh west winds. Minnesota, and Iowa Fair and colder on Saturday. Sundav fair; fresh west winds. North and South Dakota Fair on Saturday. Snow and warmer on Sunday. Nebraska and Kansas Fair on Saturday. Rain and warmer on Sunday. Loral Observation on Friday. liar. Tern. R.H. Wind. Weather. Tree. 7 a, m. .30.os 31 x N"w-st. Cloudy, im 7 p.m.. J). 13 Z$ 73 NVast. Oar. Trace Maximum temperature. 42; minimum temperature, Zl. Orcparatlve statement of the mean temperature and total precipitation on Nov. 13: Tern. Vrff. fcVrmal 4i oil Mean Trace Departure 4 ).14 Departure- for month 2J (.72 Departure since Jan. 1 8 4.47 Plus. W. T. DLYTIll!. Section Director. Yesterdny Temperature. Stations. 7 a. m. Mar. Abilene. Tex 10 M Amaxlllo, Tex S 74 Atlanta. Ga öl lüsmarck. N. D 1) Zl Buffalo. N. Y 4) 44 Calrx 111 2 S3 Calsrary. Alberta 2 8 Chattanooga. Tenn 40 74 Cheyenne, Wyo 21 40 Chicago. Ill 3-) 33 Cincinnati. O 42 IS Cleveland. O 40 42 Columbus. O 41 Concordia, Kan 2 50 Davenport. Ia 3J 4? Denver. Col- 30 0 Dcxlce City. Kan S) C? Dubuque. Ia 23 4t Duluth. Minn Ti Z2 Kl Po. Tex IA 7ö Galveston. Tex 70 76 Grind Junction. Col 3H Grand Rapids, Mich 31 4! Havre. Mont ... 3 14 Huron, tf. I ... 18 3o Helena. Mont 6 hi Jacksonville. Fla tt ?i Kansas City. Mo Zi 41 Lander. Wyo H 42 Little Pock. Ark 41 71 Louisville. Ky 41 54 Marquette. Mich 24 24 Memphla. Tenn IA &j MoJena, Utah 28 54 Montgomery. Ala 51 75 Nashville. Tenn 40 65 , Nw Orleans. Ia 65 84 New York. N. Y 44 P, Norfolk. Va 4S r. North Platte. Neb 21 U) Oklahoma. O. T 42 P2 Omaha, Neb 22 4S Palestine. Tex m ? Parkemburj?. W. Va 3S G2 Philadelphia. Pa 40 W Pittsburg-. Pa , 41 50 Pueblo. CcJ 2N 62 Qu Appelle. Awsdn 5 ?4 Rapid City. 8. D 1? 2S St. Louis, Mo 2S 4 St. Paul. Minn ?4 34 Salt Lake City. Utah 21 4 San Antonio. Tex 2 M Santa Fe. N. M 34 60 Shreveport. La 54 M Sprlmrfeld. Ill 34 ZH Springfield. Mo 42 60 Valentine. Neb 23 31 Washington. D. C 31 62 Wichita, Kan 23 44 7 p. m. 70 r.4 2 IS 41 53 4 62 SO 73 42 24 35 :i 4S 43 40 :? (H 72 6 35 i? J 4 12 70 4 34 70 4T, 30 61 50 72 52 74 52 56 St t4 42 74 4f 51 4 4$ 10 42 23 42 SO 50 7S 34 43 24 54 4t WILL SELL EAR FOB $5,000. -x German to AuUt Wealthy Man In Slaking Himself Presentable. NEW YORK. Nov. 13. Search by a local . physician and surgeon for a human right - ear of a certain shape and size, the owner of which was willing to part with the organ in return for $5,C00, has been concluded. Hundreds of persons applied In answer to the doctor's advertisement. Each was examined and the right man was found In the person of a German restaurant keeper, whose turn of Ill-fortune recently had made him ready to sacrifice both ears. If necessary. The man to whom the ear will . be transferred Is a wealthy mino owner who lost, his In an accident several years ago. . The miner, having acquired riches, now wishes to marry and wants to have his beauty restored first. MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS. QUEENSTOWN, Nov. H.-l a. m.-Ar-rlved off: Etrurla,. from New York, and Mayflower, from Boston, both for Liverpool, and proceeded without communicating on account of a gale prevailing. NANTUCKET LIGHT SHIP. Nov. 13. Oft here: At 11:50 a. m., La Savoie, from Havre, for New York; at 11 p. m.. New York, from Southampton, for New York. NEW YORK, Nov. 11 Arrived: Fuerst Bismarck, from Hamburg. Sailed: Celtic, for Liverpool. LIZARD. Nov. 14.-3:30 a. m.-Passed: Philadelphia, from New York, fpr Southampton. v GENOA. Nov. 11 Sailed: Prlnzess Irene, for New York via Naples and Gibraltar. BROW HEAD, Nov. 'll Passed: MayCower, from Boston, for LiveriooL - MOVILLE. Nov. 11 Sailed: Fumessla, from Glasgow, for New York. Trip of Snnday-School Workers. . "BOSTON. Nov. 13. For two days there has been In conference at the Hotel Thorn- , dyke the central executive committee of tne world' fourth Sunday school convention, which Is to be held in Jerusalem April 18. 13 and 20. 14. The plans provide for a seventy-one days' cruise of the Mediterranean, culminating In a three days' convention in a great tent Just outside the walls of Jerusalem. The present bookings include 2J0 women, nearly CÖ0 laymen and about 100 ministers from both England and America. Asphyxiated by Gas. SPRINGFIELD. 111.. Nov. 13.-A. D. Bellmcr, supposedly from Kansas City, was found lying unconscious in his room at the Annex Hotel. Taykrville, this morning, with the gas in his room turned on. It was vldentlv a. case of iiirl!. r , ..-.. alter bcin discovered. From letters on his person it was evident he had been corresponding with a young woman through a matrimonial agency, with a view to marriage, and was on his way to Edinburg near Tajlorvllle. Tramp Saaprrtnl of Forery. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 11-fienrre w Carthe. a supposed tramp, now serving a thirty days sentence In the county jail for vagrancy, sufficiently resembUs the description of a man wanted for mulcting a New York bank of flOO.omj to make his return to that city to answer to the charge almost a certainty. Carthew was visited at the Jail by men who have a photoirraph and minute description of the forger and they ay the pri-ner is the man as nearly ma uuiic idu mi injiii me icscriptlons. Army Post Celebration. DES MOINES. Ia.. Nov. 11 The celebration of the $U.j,o! army st here began to-day. Tha exercises were participated in by Congressman Hull, General Bates and other oillcers in the regular army. The programme Included two football parades, an automobile parade, a barbecue and ilagraUIag at th army post, at which it is estimated .Oo) persona were in attend ance. an. I exercwei at the Auditorium tonJsbt. Ooveruor Cummlua wan the priocioi speaker. .

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HE AltllESTS MARSHAL OF CAKDOX, StrFEUEVG "WITH SMALLI'OX. DUeniie Spread Rapidly Probation OllicerVi Dilemma First Snowfall iu .ortl Indiana Cities. . I Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BRAZIL, Ind., Nov. 11 Smallpox Is spreading rapidly at Carbon, north of here, and the town probably will be quarantined. The health officer of the town. Dr. Bell, is making a hard struggle to prevent an epidemic. To-day ho discovered the town marshal broken out with the disease and ordered him home. The marshal refused to go, and Dr. Bell arrested him, took off his star and placed him under quarantine. Then he ordered all schools, lodges and churches closed until the course of the dis ease Is checked. Probation Ofllcer' Dilemma. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Nov. 13. Delaware county has a probation officer, but has no place to confine juvenile prisoners. Yesterday two boys, Ray Jones, aged twelve, and Elmer Evans, thirteen, were arrested for robbing the till of a fish and produce house. The boys confessed and were turned over to Miss ilhelmlna Wallace, probation offlcor. Sho has no place to keep them and has been forced to pay for their lodging and board out of her own pocket. The law prevents their being taken to the county Jail. A special meeting of the police commissioners has been called to consider the situation. THE FIRST SNOWFALL. Several Northern Toivn Report Pre cipitation of the Heautlfnl. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WINAMAC, Ind.. Nov. 13. At noon a heavy snow begun tcj fall and it is still falling to-night. DELPHI, Ind., Nov. 13. The first snow of the season began to fall soon after noon to-day and has been falling fast since. At least three inches covered tne ground at nightfall. MUNCIE. Ind., Nov. 13. The first snow cf the season in Muncie fell this afternoon about 2 o'clock. There has been a decided drop in the temperature during the day. The cold FDell has decreased the gas pres sure to the extent that all the coal dexilers In the city are unable to fill their orders with extra wagons. MARION, Ind., Nov. 13. Snow fell In Marion this afternoon from 1 o'clock until 5. but the flakes melted as fast as they struck the ground. BLOOMINGTON. 111., Nov. 13. Snow commenced falling in central Illinois this morning, the first or the season, ana indi cations point to an all-day storm. Reports from contiguous counties show thai the storm is general. DES MOINES. Ia., Nov. 13. The first snow of the season fell to-day. Reports Indicate that the fall covers the greater portion of the State. OMAHA. Nov. 13. A light snow fell over the eastern part of Nebraska early to-day. the first or the year. Teacher Arrented for Assault. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind., Nov. 13. Prof. Henry Clayton, principal of the Thirteenth-street ward school building, was arrested this afternoon upon an affidavit filed In Justice Weesner's court, charging him with assault and battery. The charge is preferred by Rose Dunathan. aged fourteen, a pupil un der his instruction. The child, because of a throat affliction. Is unable to sing. The teacher Is alleged to have become angered when the girl did not sing with other mem-. bers of the class, and it is cnargen tnat ne knocked her fronuher seat by striking her pn the head with his first. Elvrood'a Annual Police Ball. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELWOOD. Ind., Nov. IS. The annual ball given by the police department here was held last night, thirty visiting officers being present from Kokomo, Marlon, Alexandria, Tipton. Anderson. Muncie and Logansport. The affair was held in the Apollo, and 250 couples participated Jn the grand march, which was led by Supt. J. N. Nuzum and wife, of the local department Following the ball a fine banquet was spread for the visitors. The department will clear more than $500 on the ball, to be applied to tne purchase of new uniforms. Accused of Embtnlement. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Nov. 13. Thomas Tierney, collecter for the wholesale fruit house of J. D. Studebaker, of this city, was ar rested and placed under $500 bond here today for embezzlement. Tlerney came here a year ago from Indianapolis and was arrested for peddling shoes from a mall order house without license. Studebaker, though a stranger, befriended Tlerney and not only helped him out of his trouble but took him in his employ. Tlerney confesses a short age of $85, but it Is believed a much larger sum has been stolen. Married After Many Years. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW ALBANY, Ind., Nov. 13. A courtship broken off sixteen years ago and a reconciliation effected this week were fol lowed last night by the marriage of John H. Miller, formerly of this city, now a prosperous business man of Pueblo. Col., and Miss Hannah Mansell, of thi3 city, the Rev. H. H. Allen performing the ceremony. Mil ler came to this city several days ago to visit friends and called on Miss Mansell. The old love was rekindled and the mar riage resulted. They left last night for Pueblo. , Masonic Council Instituted. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind.. Nov. 13. A council of royal and select master Masons, numbering fifty, was instituted here to night by Joseph I. Schumacher, of Indian apolis, grand illustrious master. There were visiting Masons from nearly all the surtounding cities and after the work there was a grand banquet. The Masonic lodge of this city has increased its membership more this fall than ever before in its his tory. Fine Horse Crippled by Huntera. Special to the Indianapolis Journal ELWOOD. Ind.. Nov. 13. Reckless hunters from this city crippled a fine $200 horse on the farm of B. B. Johnson, west of Aroma, yesterday, so badly that it was killed later. Farmers of that vicinity at once held an indignation meeting and adopted an ironclad agreement not to allow any stranger on their lands with a gun through the season. Legacy for a 3HsnIiik Woman. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. UNION CITY, Ind.. Nov. 13.-A letter received here to-day by Marshal Waite from Washington, D. C, requests information as to the present residence of Mrs. Mary D. Surtzer, who formerly lived here. She is the mother of Lieut. J. R. Lewis, and as such a legacy awaits her. Indiana Obituary. CANNELTON. Ind.. Nov. 13. The body of George Kroush will be interred at this place, it arrived to-day from Little Rock, Ark. Mr. Kroush was an early settler of i'trry county and lived here tho greater part of his life. He was eighty-two years old. He wcut to live with a daughter at Little Rock about a year ago. EVA NS VI LLE, Ind.. Nov. 13. Mrs; Eliz abeth Ploeger, wged sixty-two. one of the best-known v.omtn of the city, died sud denly, to-day. UNION CITY. Ind., Nov. 13. Mrs. Esther Roland, a pioneer woman of this city, died to-day. She was seventy-one years old. Indinnu Note. ALEXANDRIA. On Tuesday evening th Modern Woodmen of El wood will bring their team and a candidate to thin city, where he will be Initiated, after which the Unices lil fraternize in a social session. Thu true-

tlon lines In this section have proved the greatest fraternal aid that the societies have

had and every week brings to the city visit ors from out-of-town lodges. HARTFORD CITY. Since the city has become noted for its absence of crime and singularly few arrests have been made, tne City Council reduced the night police force from two night officers to one. iicnry Reynolds was dropped from the force, and in the future this eitv will be policed by City Marshal Nelson Worley and night offi cer Henry Byars. RICHMOND. Amos "W. Butler, secretary of the Board of State Charities, and Carrie G. Rexford. a member, visited the Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane Thursday and on Friday were at the Wayne county poor farm. They were well pleased with the new building for men. which will ue ueoicated Sunday afternoon. PORTLAND. The Hunson-Wescott Com pany, which has been engaged in the mercantile business here during the past three years, announced on Friday that it will go out of business. The company came here from Bloomington, Ind., and has been very successful. ELWOOD. Forty members of the rathfinders, together with the degree team from Kokomo, were here Thursday night as guests of the local lodge and initiated a class of fifteen candidates. A banquet fol lowed the work. BEAM CASE ARGUMENTS ELOQUE.Vr ADDRESSES PRKCEDED THE CHARGE TO THE Jl'RY. Conviction or Disagreement Expected Lltslngrer Jury Disagrees Last Evidence in the Myers Trial. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HAMMOND, Ind.. Nov. 13. -The flood gates of impassioned oratory were opened to-day by the attorneys in the Truman Beam case, and never in the history of a Lake county court has such an appeal to a jury been made for a man's life as were made to-day by Beam's attorneys, Daly and Crumpackcr. Equally remarkable was the fiery denunciation of Beam's life and relationship with Martha Lawrence, his alleged vicltm, made by the senior counsel for the State, Senator Agnew. Judge Tuthill instructed the Jury to-night, and the case went to it immediately. A conviction or a disagreement is expected. Litsinger Jury Disagrees. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BRAZIL, Ind., Nov. 13. After remaining out all night the Jury in the Litsinger murder trial announced to-day that it could not reach a verdict and was dismissed. The Jury stood nine for acquittal and three for conviction. Letsinger's bond was fixed at .O1), which he promptly gave. Letslnger and Dennis Butcher engaged in a quarrel at Bogle's mine, near Jasonville, on the 17th of last June, and Letsinger shot and instantly killed Butcher. - Myers Case I ears the End. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CHAD FORDS VILLE, Ind., Nov. 13. The State introduced several witnesses to-day to establish tho quiet disposition of Brant Sloan, the man killed by James I Myers, who is on trial for murder, and then closed the evidence. Clyde Jones addressed the Jury for the State, followed by Judge Thomas for the defense. To-morrow M. E. Foley and Prosecutor Murphy will speak and the caso will go to the Jury in the even ing. 1 . STITCHES IN HIS HEART. Marvelous Piece of Surgery tit a Lon don Hospital. London Dally Mall. The wonders of the East in the shape of the Mahatma now at Oxford who is able to stop the beating of his heart are rivaled by a wonder of the East End who has been shot through the neck and stabbed in the heart and yet lives to mystify the medical profession. John Long, who survives these two vital accidents, lives in Hackney, and his caso was mentioned in the papers when it was announced that through the marvelous sur gery at the hospital he survived the operation of having his heart stitched.' A representative of the Daily Mail who saw him yesterday was told that at present he feels as well as ever in his life. In Long's own words the story loses none of its astonishing features. "A drunken foreigner picked a quarrel with me on Mar 30 last. He flourished a penknife, which I tried to get away, but he stabbed me iu the region of the heart. I felt no more pain than if the knife had passed between two fingers without cutting them, but I had a fearful fight to draw breath, and boon lost consciousness. After my case had been pronounced hopeless by a local doctor, who gave me half an hour to live. I was taken to the London Hospital, where Mr. Furnival, a visiting surgeon, per formed au immediate operation. "Three ribs had to be cut through, and part of the breastbone had to be removed. The gall bladder was placed on one Eide, and the lungs disturbed in order to get at the wound. Three stitches were put la the heart, and the pericardium emptied of the blood that had got into it Then I was told I made rapid recovery, and after two months was discharged from the hospital. "Doctors used to crowd round me while there in order to see my heart, which could be observed beating at the bottom of a wound three Inches across. "This is where I was stabbed." and Long showed the outward and visible signs of his marvelous escape. Across the chest was a red soar between six and seven Inches long, with marks where stitches had beeu put in, but in the center was a depression which throbbed with a sort of "double knock," the actual beating of the heart only a short distance from the surface of the wound. Long wears a shield of block leather and alumiulum with straps over his chest to prevent any injury to the wound. The shooting accident occurred about four years ago when he and a friend were ex amining a revolver. Obituary. BERLIN. Nov. 13. The death is an nounced at Ober Kunewals Kunewalde, near Dresden, Saxony, of Wilhelm Von Polenz. The deceased had made numerous visits to the United States, and wrote a book entitled "America, the Land of the Future," in which he spoke enthusiastically of that country. DES MOINES. Ia., Nov. 13. R. F. Findley, aged forty-six, died in a hospital here last week, penniless. Nothing was known of Finlcy except that he had a brother at Pittsburg. To-day, J. B. Finley, the Pitts burg millionaire banker, arrived in Des Moines and claimed the body. KANSAS CITY, Nov. 13.-R. W. Hilliker. who has been prominent In the business and political life of Kansas City, Kan., fdr forty years, died to-night, age'd seventythree years. He was elected mayor of "T . . 1 . . I n 1CV1 .1 Wl 1 XVitllsaa v-iii, nan., ii4 icwd anu jiciu many minor political omccs. lie was a banker. CHICAGO. Nov. 13. General Hamilton B. Dox, for thirty-eisht years cashier of the Hibernian Bank, died to-day of pneumonia. General Dox was eighty-four years old. and in point of service, as well as years. was probably the oldest bank official in the United States. HELENA, Mont.. Nov. 13. Herman Klein, sixty-one years of age. is dead of heart disease. He was a pioneer of Mon tana and was probably one of the wealth lest men in the State, lie was president of the Unioa Bank and Trust Company of Helena. Crump Cloning; II In Ilrwlilrnre. PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 13.-The last picture in the world-famed art collection of Charles H. Cramp, the shipbuilder, will be sold to-day at auction. The sales have been in progress several days, and most of the works went at a great sacrince. This sale precedes the cIoeIus of the Cramp man Ion, which stands in Kittenhouse square, the most aristocratic quarter of the city. No explanation of Mr. Cramp's action iu closing his house has been made public. Stampede to ew Diggings. SEATTLE, Nov. 13. The steamship City of Seattle, down from the north, reports La France, tho largest of the Yukon river boats, due at White Horse with 1Ü0 passengers. Stampeders are still headed for the new White Horse diggings. A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES. Itching. BllnJ. Dlcedlng or ProtruJIne Piles. Your diufTslat will refund money If PAZO olNTililNT full to cure jtu ia to 11 days.

FIVE PERSONS INJURED

PROBABLY FATAL EXPLOSION - OF XATIKAL GAS AT MAIUOX. Lineman Elect roeuted Child Fatally Scalded In Chocolate Men Mangled in Corn Shredders. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. . MARION, Ind., Nov. 13. In an explosion of natural gas at 4:30 o'clock this morning at the home of Benjamin Hight, 811 South Nebraska street, the following persons were injured: r v T"u.' umiitp ntrnii ti-ontv.fiinr. a fift and -" - Vf iMI.itvU CA KJKJ L4 V 111 J 'Jf - face; inhaled flames; recovery doubtful. BENJAMIN HIGHT. aged fifty-one, Vi;iil bands and feet; condition serious, but probably will recover. mhs inniTT nL-if f tipnlamtn Illcrht. aged thirty-nine, burned about legs, arms, face and head; condition critical, dui pruuably will survive. CATHERINE- 1IIRIIT. aced eight, right hand burned; not serious. JAMES HIIIT. need six. left leg burned; not serious. Natural gas had permeated the ground and worked Its way under the foundation of the house from rotten pipes in the street There are no gas connections in the Hight home and wood has been burned for fuel instead of gas. At 4:30 o'clock this morning Hight arose and when he struck a match to light a lamp a terrific explo sion " resulted. The house was badly wrecked and before the occupants could escape the structure was enveloped in flames. Eight rescued his children, and his wife and White made their way through the smoke and flames to the outside with out assistance. All the occupants of the house, except Hight, were asleep when the explosion oc curred. They escaped from the building Ur in ihir niirht clothes, and these were burned from their backs. Hight and "White, their bodies enveloped in llames, ran madly about tne sireet um neighbors, awakened by the concussion of the explosion, ran to their rescue and took them into their homes and summoned physicians. The men were almost crazed with agony. Mrs. Hight fell unconscious in the yard, where sho was found by rescuers. Her hair was burned on ana ner ciumts were burned from her body. Large pieces frrm th bodies of the In jured as they were picked up. Ambulances removed the injured to wio iaauuu t.pitai. . Thn T T I o-H A-artAWnf! . a SCVCn-rOOm COttage. was destroyed by flames. The loss .Ko. Ktill.llnrr Q n.l rontpntS Will TCaCh $1,800. About 7"0 insurance was carried. Mrs. George Hight, one of the victims, died at 12:30 o'clock this (Saturday) morn ing, j Factory Fire nt Shelbyvllle. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SHELBY VILLE, Ind., Nov. 13. This citywas visited by a fire this morning between the hours of 2 and 3 o'clock, which de stroyed the Eagle steel range factory and all its contents. The fire started in the northeast corner of the building, which is farthest from the engine room, and in which was stored a large number nf ranees. ' Insurance to the amount of $3.500. was carried on the destroyed property. Of this amount a policy ior :,ow was neiu in the Security Insurance Company, of Newark. N. J., and 1.000 In the American Insurance Company, of the same city. The net loss will reach at least $10,000. The origin of the fire is unknown. Dubois Couuty Town Scorched. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. EVANSVILLE, Ind., Nov. 13. One store and three residences at PortersvIIle, Dubois county, were destroyed by fire last night. Loss, JS,0Oe. with no Insurance. BRIDGE OF MISFORTUNE. Fountain City Structure the Scene of it Clin In of Accidents. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PORTLAND, Ind.. Nov. 13. A bridge which spans the Nolan's Fork river in the village park at Fountain City has had a part in an unusual chain of misfortunes during the last few months. While the patriotically inclined citizens of the town and country surrounding were celebrating the Fourth of July this year, too many started to cross the bridge at the same time. The bridge collapsed In the middle, and over a hundred people went scrambling through into the water. Luther Horn, of Bethel, sustained a fractured leg. Miss Mae Overman a fractured arm. and a half dozen others were seriously hurt in various ways in the crashing timbers. The Town Council thought to make the passageway more safe by the purchase of a new steel bridge. In setting some of the heavy steel structural work, a few days ago, one of tho workmen fell and fractured his arm In two places, and yesterday Barlow Price, a well-known citizen of the town, thought to offer the workmen some assistance. He had been at work but a short time when a king bolt left its place and the heavy structure fell on his leg, crushing it severely Just below the knee. v SHREDDER ACCIDENTS. Grant and Wells County 3Ien BInngled In the Marlilnes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BLUFFTON. Ind.. Nov. 13. John Studabaker, Jr., a wealthy land owner of this city, while paying a visit to one of his farms south of Bluffton climbed on a corn shredder to watch the machine work. He noticed a stalk of corn clogged in the machine and reached too closo to the knives to remove it. His left hand was drawn into the machine and was terribly mangled. Later it was amputated at the wrist. Mr. Studabaker's father Is the wealthiest man in Wells county. MARION, Ind., Nov. 13. Forrest Sheeley, aged nineteen, lost his right forearm today while working with a corn shredder. The accident occurred near Falrmount. The arm was crushed to the elbow, and was amputated. IX PRESENCE OF BRIDE. Superintendent of Telephone Killed ly Fall 1 ii k Across n Live Wire. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. URBANA, 111.. Nov. 13,-Frank Lester, superintendent of the Home Telephone Company, was almost Instantly killed this afternoon by falling across a live wire while working on a pole. The accident happened in front of his own home, and his wife, to whom he had been married but two weeks, was a witness of her 'husband's tragic death. The body of the electrocuted man Vas discovered hanging across the wire by Ray Stephens, who at once notified the oillcers. The power was shut off and a block and tackle used. to lower the body from its position across the wire. Little Girl Badly Hurt. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. DELPHI, Ind., Nov. 13.-A little girl named Leathe Utley, seven years old. whose parents live In South Delphi, had a narrow escape from death this morning, while on her way to school from her home near the Catholic Cemetery. She started across he road near the entrance of the cemetery. There was a buggy' going one way and a wagon with a team of heavy work horses the other. Doth drivers were driving at a fast speed. When the buggy passed, the little girl, not seeing the wagon. stepped In behind the bujrjy to cross the road, and right in front of the team, coming on a fast trot. She was hurled to the ground, trampled on and run over by the wagon, but escaped with but a broken arm. Feet Crushed by n Train. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELKHART, Ind.. Nov. zz. Harry Franklin, a tramp, lost hl3 left foot and half his right foot under car wheels this morning. He and others had ridden from Toledo in a box car. and he was the last to Jump out on reaching the Elkhart yard. He ,wua

helpiess because cold, and his body fell parallel and close to the rail. Ernest Kelly, of Huntington, Ind., a traveling companion, seized him to pull him from danger, but his effort was misapplied, for in pulling at hi? shoulder it pivoted Franklin in such a manner that his feet were thrust under the wheel. Franklin, who is at the Elkhart Sanatorium, is unable to give his residence.

Sister Hurt by n Fall. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE. Ind.. Nov. 13. Sister Frementla, a member of the order of St. Francis, fell Into a gravel pit on North Eighteenth street last night and received a fracture of the left leg above the knee. She was on her way to St. Anthony's Home, the new institution for aged people. In Ferry street. Sister Marka. who was with Sister Frementia, also fell into the pit. but escaped with severe bruises. The pit is thirty feet deep. Crushed Under n Log;. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JONESBORO. Ind., Nov. 13. William Lemons, of Jonesboro, aged fifty. Was seriously and perhaps fatally injured 'at noon to-day by being crushed by a log, which he and others were trying to place on a wagon. A chain broke, allowing the timber to fall on him. The log passed entirely over his body. The accident occurred on the James Johnson farm, five miles east of Gas City. Crushed Under Load of Brick. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PAOLI, Ind., Nov. 13. Mrs. EH Faucett. the wife of a prominent Sunday-school worker living near Bonds, this county, is dead as the result of falling from a wagon loaded with fodder. She was on the loaded wagon against the protests of her husband, who was with her. The team started suddenly and threw her on her head. She struck a stone, fracturing her skull. Fatally Scalded In Chocolate. Special to the Indianapolis Journal.' EVANSVILLE, Ind., Nov. 13. This afternoon the three-year-old child of Wesley Summers, a candymaker, fell into a kettle of boiling chocolate. The mother dragged the child out of the kettle, but not before it received burns which the physicians say will result fatally. Died from Fractured Skull. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind., Nov. 13. David . M, Hicks, of Newkmarket, while riding on a wagon loaded with brick, last evening, fell off and the wheels passed over his head, causing death in a short time. Jle left a widow and five children. DERAILED NEAR BUFFALO PENNSYLVANIA TRAIN WRECKED AND ENGINEER POSSIBLY KILLED. Twenty-One Passengers Injured, Several Seriously Two Men and & Woman May Die. BUFFALO. N. Y., Nov. li.-A Pennsylvania passenger train which left Buffalo at 11:13 for. East Aurora was derailed a quarter of a mile east of the city line at midnight. Four passengers were injured, two of whom may die. The engineer is missing, and it Is feared he is under the wreckage. A man named Lockwood, whose home Is in East Aurora, was brought to the emergency hospital early this morning. He has a fractured skull. An unknown woman was brought in soon afterward. She Is unconscious, and If is believed she will die. Later. There were twenty-one passengers on the train and all were more or less injured by the shock of the wreck.' The body of engineer Alonzo Cole has been found under the wreckage, but whether he was dead or only unconscious could not be learned. The man brought to tbe emergency hospital has been identified as MIIlington Lockwood, a well-known Buffalo stationer. He was on his way to his sum mer nome at East Aurora. The woman was also Identified. She is Mrs. William B. White, of East Elma. Byron D. Gibson, of East Aurora, was badly injured. HUNTING COLORADO BEAR. Brnln Furnishes Good Shooting Until Snowi Drive Htm to Cover. Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph; The spring season for Colorado- bear Is comparatively brief, as the fur is In prime condition only for a short time after the bears come out, says Illustrated Sporting News. They take Immediately to a vegetable diet and strenuous life, which soon works olt the layers of fat and by June 1 the fine winter coat becomes thin and more or less shaggy. By September, however, the fur is again in good condition and from then on hunting is good until real winter sets in and the first big. lasting snowstorm sends bruin hunting for shelter. The latter is not necessarily in "a dark den In the rocks or in the cave formed by the roots of some fallen giant of the forest," for the falling giant is seldom considerate enough to form anything which could seriously be called a cave and good rock dens are few and far between. If winter comes on gradually, the bear will take some time In selecting a really good den. but if it sets in suddenly and in earnest with a big snowstorm, the bear will ''hole up" In any sort of shelter; fallen trees, piles of brush, bushes or ledges of rock and almost Invariably on the northerly side of the mountains, where the snow lies longest and they can sleep till the melting snow trickles in on them and drives them' out. The method of hunting is the same in both seasons, but the feeding grounds differ. In the fall they collect where the berries prow, but in the spring one runs across their tracks almost anywhere, as they are then constantly on the move and feed on the bark of young alders, willows and all sorts of water plants, fish, frogs, ants, etc. Having collected your outfit, you send the pack train of dogs, with the cook, wrangler and one guide, on a day ahead and then follows a long ride with the head guide to where the camp has been made. You eat a tremendous dinner and crawl into your sleeping bag at half past 8 or 9 o'clock. The next morning you have breakfast and are saddling your fresh pony (for every man must have at least two mounts) as the sun peeps over, the mountains. Strung out in single file, dogs (only the terriers are not coupled), you ride for perhaps half an hour, when arfialt is made, cinches are tighteued and the magazines of your 30-40 "Winchester or Rouamnian Männlicher filled and the rifle replaced in the scabbard under your right knee, trigger down to protect the foresight. Then you remount and line spreads out and you move on, the dogs still coupled covering some "draw" (small valley), and all looking carefully for "bear sign." At the School of Diplomacy.. New York Post. "Where Is Panama?" "Somewheres eaat of Suez at least, there ain't no Ten Commandments there." "What are Its principal productions?" "Revolutions and canals." "How is transit on the isthmus kent open?" "By refusing to let the natives go across." "What rights, then, have the natives?" "The Tight of revolution for the benefit of the foreigner." Explorers I'rohably Perished. ST. JOHNS. N. F.. Nov. 13.-The mail steamer which has Just returned here from Labrador brings no news of the expedition to explore the interior of Labrador, headed by Leonidas Hubbard, Jr.. of New York assistant editor of the Outing. Ail the settlers believe the party perished. A tribe of Montagnals Indians, trappln In the vicinity, recently visited the coast and say they saw nothing of the Hubbard expedition, although the Indians went 150 miles inland. Widow Wins an Insurance Suit. LEADVILLE, Col.. Nov. 13. A suit of Importance was decided here to-day in the case of the widow of A. Cooperman against the United Moderns. The latter. Just before the death of Cooperman, canceled his policy, alleging that the policy holder scoured admittance by misrepresentation. The Jury decided that the disease on which the alleged misrepresentation was charged was not of long standing and awarded the widow the Judgment.

CONCERT SEASON OPENED

THE 3IAENXERCHOR GIVES A BRILLIANT MUSICAL EVENT. Two IUk Choruses nnd Several Soloists Give Splendid Programme Concert Followed by Dance, The Indianapolis Maennerchor opened Its concert season last night with a brilliant musical event In which two big choruses, fifty men and about sixty worsjtn, did effective work. The concert was under the direction of Mr. Franz Bellinger and some of the best known musical people of the city assisted. The work of. tho choruses was particularly striking and showed the results of thorough training on the part of 1 Mr. Bellinger. The latter was congratulated on all sides after the concert on the result of his efforts. The concert began at 8 o'clock and after It came the usual supper and dance. The stage was prettily decorated with palms and flowers. The women of the chorus wore pretty, light colored gowns and made a striking appearance in contrast with the dark evening garb of the men.- Mr. Bellinger never appeared before his people to better advantage than last night. He had perfect control of the singers and the concert proceeded without a single hitch. Oliver Willard Pierce, piano soloist, played two groups of well contrasted numbers. "The Romance," by Rirasky-Korsa-kow, was a gentle poetic selection and was especially pleasing. The march by Roff, In the last group, was brilliantly rendered in Mr. Pierce's best style. Mjs. Charlotte Adam-Raschig, who has been in Berlin for a year, was one of the tololsts, and if there had ever been any doubt about her standing as a soloist and popular musician in Indianapolis, that doubt was dispelled by the ovation she received last night. She sang "Elsa's Dream" from "Lohengrin." and sang it beautifully and effectively and with great expression. She responded to two encores. Mrs. Raschlg appears exceedingly well and her voice has gained very much in dramatic power. Mr. Pasquale Montani, harpist, played "The Farewell" and was encored. The women's chorus sang the Spring song, which was well received. The phrasing was particularly good. The male chorus gave four numbers, receiving numerous encores. Since last year a number of new voices has been added, strengthening the chorus very much, and the men showed the result of hard drilling in the last few weeks, the Ave Marie number by the male chorus being accurately and beautifully rendered. VICTIMS OF THE WRECK. All of Them Except II. O. Wright Are Convalescing. With the exception of H. O. Wright, of Pendleton, Ind., all the victims of the Purdue special wreck, who are at present being cared for at the different hospitals In the city, are convalescing and a few weeks will see them well out of the city where they met with their great misfortune. II. O. Wright,' while suffering no physical pain, is in such a condition that his recovery is despaired of and his death, while it may be. some time off, is predicted even by the physicians and nurses who have him in charge at St. Vincent's Hospital. The excellent work of the doctors at the various hospitals in saving the lives of those placed in their care is commended and the nurses at the different institutions have been the recipients of many notes of thanks from the parents of the injured boys. At the City Hospital all of the injured will recover, but at the time of the wreck few of those who are now confined at that institution were expected to live any great length of time. All the patients at St. Vincent's hospital, with the, exception of Wright, will recover and none wilj be crippled, it is said. McManus, at the Deaconess Hospital, is resting well and in spite of his broken legs is cheerful and has as hearty an appetite as he did before the fatal tragedy. Several of the young men w!ll leave the city to-morrow. . Will Have to Explain. Lillie Masm, 319 West Fourteenth street, and Mary Green. 422 Indiana avenue, both cdlored, were arrested last night by Patrolman Carter, who slated them at the police station on a charge of robbing Frank White, colored, of West North street, of about $20. The women, after taking the money from White, turned it over to Bert Hopkins, 305 Indiana avenue, it is said, but Hopkins was arrested before he could get away. White was also placed under arrest on a charge of loitering and the colored people will be given a chance to explain all about it to Judge Whallon, of the Police Court, this morning. Died at Age of Eighty-Two. Mrs. Maty Eugelke, eighty-two years old, died yesterday at her home, 1201 North Senate avenue, from the effects of old age. She had no relatives living who are known to friends In Indianapolis. The funeral will be held under the direction of Flanner & Buchanan from the residence on Monday afternoon and the interment will be at Crown Hill. Woman Drops Dead. Mrs. John Altman. 2114 Madison avenue, dropped dead at home last evening from the effects of heart disease. She Is survived by several children. BERTI LLON HEGGAIIS. National Movement Started to Drive Oat Impostor. Milwaukee Sentinel. Professional mendicants, charity windlers and grafters who work in Milwaukee will be photographed and bertllloned like desperate criminals. The task will be done under the direction of Gustav Frellson, agent of the Associated Charities, who will ask the co-operation of Chief of Police Janssen In an effort to record all the professional beggars. Mr. Frellson has decided to employ the Bertlllon system upon the request and advice of the officers of the Charity Organization Society of New York city, the most efficient society of its kind in the United States. The organlaztion recently adopted this method and now publishes photographs and Bertillon measurements in its Confidential Bulletin Issued Oct. 15 and Just received in Milwaukee. In a letter from ex-Detective James Forbes, special agent and chief mendicancy officer of the New York organization. Mr. Frellson is asked to secure from the police such photographs and descriptions of professional mendicants that he thinks should be published in the bulletin. Mr. Forbes says the movement looks toward the national elimination of such professionals. "We recognize." says Mr. Forbes, "that this publication is a modest effort, but hope it will be eventually the nucleus of a much fuller census of the migratory mendicants now roaming over the country begging, plundering and killing as the occasion may offer." Among the photographs In the October issue of the Confidential Bulletin Is that of Mrs. Jean Elizabeth Hunter, of Milwaukee fame. The report says: "Mrs. Hunter claims to be the widow of a prominent Milwaukee merchant and Maeon, and to have lost her money; solicits upon behalf of aged father, invalid sister, consumptive stepson, destitute nieces, etc She has lead a checkered career and has been known as the wife of several men. Her statements as to aiding poor relatives are reported false; she has been arrested for begging and paroled. Affects an eccentuated style of widow's Karb; 1m histrionic In manner, and thoroughly unreliable." Mr. Frellson yesterday told a long story of the woman's history. Sh worked among the men of the Chamber of Commerce and collected considerable money fifteen years ago. Then she went .West and secured a fortune of $.000 from a rich Denver man upon discovering his illegitimate son. She married a man named Kinney and the two

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tor over a quarter 01 a. cwutury PREPARED BY t went through the fortune, living n grand style. t "If is to protect the people ant rifflclals of the country against such peophtas these that the plan has been formulated," said Mr. Frellson, yesterday. "I havf decided that we can do no better than to '."follow in the footsteps of the New York orjrinization and establish the Bertlllon system Jnere. Of course it will be costly to instal'.; one and I shall call upon Chief Janssen ail a?k his co-operation. If he is willing wi will use the Bertl'.lon apparatus-In the polije station for takinj the measurements. t "Milwaukee is almost free fro:i professional beggars, but occasionally tey come here, as Uhey do to all other la?e cities. If all the societies of this natule In the country will co-oierate with the ."jtew York organization, a great system will be built up and the time will come when hese people will be driven to the penitentiaries r into honest pursuits." ÄSSMiSSSMMSÄBSSMSBBBSSBSSSr IIO.XOItED BY KAISE&. . j Miss Florence Wlckham Incited to Sin Before German Emperor. New York Herald. , Miss Florence Wlckham, a Pennsylvania girl, has been honored by the Klser with an invitation to sing before hin and has been offered an engagement at the Weisbaden Opera House. Miss Wickrjim is the daughter of Judge Wlckham. of 4ae Superior Court of Pennsylvania, and' is a remarkably handsome and talenvd young woman. ; f Hard work has been the secret tf her success, for without that her magnii:ent voice would never have been heard in if'yal opera and never have won the unstlrted praise of Germany's greatest musical clitics. "The Prophet" was the operaj in which pretty Miss Wlckham made he first appearance before royalty and t?.e critical public iu the world's musical cenfer. Berlin. As Fides she was the center of t attraction for all eyes and ears. 1 Heretofore Miss Wlckham's nalie has appeared frequently in Pennsylvania papers as one of the leaders of Key.-f.one State society, not as a famous opera s.iger. She was oae of the most beluiltul and popular girls In the circle in Jwhich she moved, not merely by right of :ur. wealth and station in life as the daughter of tne head ol Pennsylvania's bar, buttoecause of her many cflarming gifts and Jiaracteristlcs, which made her indlspeaslule to the smart set of which she was a mlmber. She went into everything ill s wholesouled, Irresistible fashion wllch swept everything before her, and wheij she determined to make something of ht$ voice ne lost none of her energy, in carrying out her decision. Speaking of her career, Mis$ Wlckham said: ; "To Philadelphia I was sent t begin my studies, and there I received tnder Müs Groff. a well- known vocalist, tfc trimming, pruning and generul humbiijg process which proved of so much heb j me when I went' abroad. t "1 think Miss Groff must ha e received the treatment that I underwfat when I came to Germany," she said lawhJng, "the process of hardening and endurance that is the lot of every luckless studei under the German master for she seeped determined to take all the conceit lut of me and I will admit that with al the praise and lauding 1 had received at rtiome 1 had a fairly good opinion of my abilities. "She was a splendid teacher. 1 hough, and I have never ceased to be graceful to her for her tireless care In training my voice. She brought out the best therttwaa in me, . a ft . " I and though I never received iralse unless as well earned. I was never allowed to think that it was not worth wlele "Work, and hard work, at tUat. was the keynote of my existence. I ftould never have accomplished by ordinary $ effort what I did in the few years 1 wa with Miss Groff. "5 "When I came abroad, howtf'er. to prepare myself for opera, and pi, myself In the hands and at the mercy o one of the best vocal teachers that Pari and Germany could öfter, 1 found that my American training was not a clrcum.ance to th vigor of the methods employed by foreigners. f "Oh, you cannot Imagine thf discouragement and despair to which I w3a constantly a prey during that time. J "Praise! Why, I was convired that the small grains of approval I "ad received while studying in Philadelphfi had been far, far more than I deserved. "And yet, considering the 3sult of my recent appearance in 'The Pr-fhet,' which was really, except for the few minor occa sions when I sang In conceri, my Initial entrance into the great worll of music, three years of constant hard vork and uncertainty seem far overbalance by the success 1 made in Berlin." 4 The young American had undoubtedly deserved the praise the music losing Germans have unreservedly given her, Ind not only her wonderful voice, but her jwerful dramatic ability as well, have ifade her the reigning favorite of the younr singers In opera. f The same earnestness whic carried her through the hardest trials ou her student days has given the tall, ttitely youngsinger the power in singing and acting which made her critical audience rise from their seats in their enthuslasnl The people who had gone prepared to be Indulgent In their reception cM Miss Wlckham's initial effort found thtfr mistake in the beginning, and the three treat arias of the opera were bo splendidly t endered that at the end of the final one Jhere was no doubt in their minds that the Ymerican girl was a great elnger. Fake Employment Scents. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Isadore Türe and Joseph rlrcnner. alias Sam Kaplan, were Just realizing that their prospectr for profit from the f World's Fair Employment iiureau were ujusuany guoa when detectives and postofl'.e inspectors wound up their business lu a few moments. After their arrest the men ifade no denial that they had no means oft securing the position they promised the prospective customers, and that after thti had secured sufficient deposits as "guarantees of goo4 faith," they would have left if ie city. Turs and Brenner came toifSt. Louis tea days ago from Seattle, Was., and advertised extensively In papers 5: other cities that many positions at the world's fair could be secured through heir agency. When the applicant wrote tlem he would be promised the kind of position he wanted and be sent an applhfttlon blank to be filled out. i When this blank was prop? rly filled put and returned the applicant Vould be defl nitely promised the position Ad transportation to St. Louis, so that he tluld report for work at least a month before! he opening of the fair. A deposit would tx" required as "guarantee of good faith." 'the men admit they intended to leave the ci'y before their obligations fell due. ' The Inspectors and detectlv ia raldlngtht offices in the Pozzonl bulking secured a large suprly of mail. Th men will b charged with using the malhf with Intent t9 defraud. Idea of a Ilati. s New York rress. ' Stricken with heart failure when told ha must take a bath before h-t would be admitted to Bellcvue Hospita. John Davit, rifty-three years old, one of jhe best known "panhandlers" and free-lunii route. walkers In the Bowery for almoft thirty years, died yesterday when on h' way to the bathroom in a cheap BowerjS lodging houe. It was one of the proud masts of Da.lt that he had not bousht a Jneal in . thirty years. In all that time he s.d he had lived on 5 and 10-cent whisky anojthe free lunch which went with it. Day, after day ha would beg at the "L" stolon stairways and In the business district until he had obtained enough money to liy whisky and to get the lunch that went vth it. He was always careful, however. keep a day ahead in his whlky mone(and to hold 10 cents in reserve for a night lodging. .Seeing that bad whUky aa getting the belter of Lavls the clerke at the Kavoy lodging house, No. 10S Bowery, yesterday advised him to apply at ll llevue for ad mittance. I "But you must have a lu h first or they will not take you," said thicIfTk. This seemed a hardshipjto Davis, but finally he consented to go hrounh the ordeal. He Just had started toward the bathroom when he dropped dea-