Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 129, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 May 1904 — Page 4

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STRONG ANTI SOCIALIST BOOK IS SUMMARIZED BIT A FBI PHILOSOPHER Eise and Fall of Government by Universal- Suffrage Depicted bv.a Labor Writer.

DANGER IX PATERNALISM Salvation of the Race Forecasted in an Aristocracy of Work by Brain and Hand. BpecUl Corre?rondence of the Jourral. PARIS, April -tf. George Brandes, an m!nnt French philosopher, has furnished the following summary or condensation of a. remarkable and fantastic work, as yet -unpublished, by Daniel Halwy, a noted French economist and "the author of the "History of the . French Workman's Party." Halwy Is a nrra tKlie,ver In the trreat future of the proletariat, and has "written the book as a warning against the aggressions of both capital and : ib"r. The ummary follows: In 1925 the nourishment-for-all "Albumin" was diseovf red. a pleasant food, tornfining the taste of rich meats, frei-h vegetables and delicious sweets, a food that, 'through' flavoring extracts, could be turned 3nto roast, sonp or dessert at a moment's tnotice and in either capacity tickled the -most luxurious palate. Albumin cost originally twelve centa per pound, and the "world greeted Its coming with wild enthusiasm. At last the spectre of hunger, etalklng in the workman's quarters, was 'abolished. ....... The poor, who. heretofore, had lived mainly on bread and potatoes, at once discarded these "staffs of life" for the new food and as It no longer paid to cultivate them, they soon became articles as rare and expensive a3 were Indian birds' nests twentyHve years before. The successive ages of "steam -and electricity had not made good their early promise the reduction of the workday to proper limits, allowing the hand laborer to spend part of the day with his loved er.es. Albumin rr.&e superior to preceding ages. Food having become "dirt cheap'' there was'no incentive to toil from morn till night, and the four-hour day was established in the United States, France, Great Britain, Germany and all other European countries outside of Russia, which continued to be despotically ruled. The Jour-hour workday had its run until the "improved" albumin saw the light, an improvement that cut the price to two cent3 and a half a pound. After that wages Fank lower and lower owing to the competition of Russia, China and other Asiatics "whose industrial instincts had awakened and were kept at feverheat by their grasping autocrats. BALEFUL COMPETITION'. Competition compelled workmen to ask, of their own accord, an Increase of working hourse, and in 1335 they were glad to ;work ten hours per day for a CO cents wage. All went well until agitators and demagogues made It their business to harp on the "happy days when big wages were the rule, the time previous to the invention of albumin. Then all the big cities arevQlted. This means that practically the whole country was in an uproar, for the new foodstuff had already killed agriculture and husbandry. Who would take to farming when one can procure an abundance of food and drink in exchange for a lew hours' turn at a machine? While the country districts became depopulated, the population of cities swelled to unheard-of figures. During the riots thousands of factories were . burned and their owners and managers killed. A general war of all against all seemed imminent, when Congress caused a temporary stay of hostilities by decreeing that thereafter ex hours should constitute a legal workday, the compensation to be no less than 1) cents. The workmen were satisfied with the decision, out it soon turned out to be worth less than the paper it was written on. Competition proved stronger than the law; neither aid wages rise nor work hours lesson. Rioting as a consequence ensued anew, and Congress, frightened, bewildered, decreed that albumin be free to all. To tarry out this measure forcible expropriation was decreed and the capitalists who until then had controlled the output of the nourishment-for-all were deprived of their plants, factories and business without compensation. Until then they had made vast fortunes out of the popular necessity they were rich enough and, anyhow, "the welfare of the state demanded that the staff f life be freer than air and water used to be in the good eld days." From that time on albumin was distributed gratis to all who cared to ask fOr It. Hence all want was abolished and man could do with his time as ht pleased. At first only the poor partook of the benefitwhich pleased them greatly,- rilling them with gratitude toward the state. But the noble sentiment soon wore off, the beggar took to horse and demanded charity as his good right. .DEGENERATE MORALS. Public morals suffered in more ways than this. The great masses, perceiving that they could do without industry, gave themselves up to lives of pleasure. Theaters, music halls and all other places of public resort were overworked, two and three performances a day being Insisted on. while corruption ruled assembly and households. Insanity, already largely increased during the. electrical age, now became as common a disease as consumption was at the time when factories ran without interruption, and twelve hours constituted, a day's work. The victims of alcoholism, of morphine, opium, tobacco, and other poisons, dignified by the name of luxury, were more numerous than ever before in the history of the world. , Thus It became patent t,o allthat the overthrow of poverty did not and could Xiot result in the hoped for millennium: with food aplenty and . for jiothlng rra.n was as far from universal happiness as ever, or perhaps a little further. And as visual the masses confounded cause and effect and turned against their benefactor: science. As in the period of automobiles, a speed-limit was established, so vox populi demanded that science submit to certain ref trictions. It must stop doing the extraordinary. . Now, since the invention of albumin made life easier to live, the number of educated people and thinkers in general had vastly increased and these men and women working hand in hand with progressive artisans, chemists, architects anef other professionals and tradesmen tried hard to stem the tide of idleness and corruption. But their efforts went for naught. In the stormy sea of the seething masses, the temple where they worshiped was like an Insignificant coral reef in midoeeain. Finally they resolved on a united appeal to their erring brethren and called an international congress men that passed laws against the use of alcohol and similar poisons, betides appropriating vast sums to educate the reople to the fact that the benefits science confers are illusory unless coupled with discipline and divorced from self-indulgence. Fine words, spoken to the wind! The masses would not listen to the voice of reason nor stop on the down path. During a previous period all prisons had been turned into asylums, now there was need of both prisons and insane asylums in every town and city, as the number of persons who lost their reason in consequence of excesses and that of born Idiots, owing to degenerate parentage, increased, rapidly. DEMAGOGUE LEADERS. . The government was meanwhile In the hands of demagogues, leaders of trie masses and pandorers to man's worst vices. At the lustance of the moneyed parties who controlled them, these men were re-elected year after year, forming a sort of permanent oligarchy for, while nominally representing all the people they carried out the will and pleasure of a few only. These bad men had the ear of the people, while the small sect of thinkers and advocates of decency, to which allusion has been made, persisteutly failed to obtain a hearing from their fellow-men. And small wonder; they advised liberty la place of license and property to supersede rottenness. "Discipline and order" was their motto. It looked as if Socialism .had. had Its, day Cd. though still upholding the old faith.

these thinkers did not hesitate to blame universal suffrage, degraded by demagogy for the low state of public morals. And they protested that instead only actual workeis with hands or brain should exercise the franchise while idlers should be strictly excluded. While the battle of words was still on the Inevitable happened. The punishment of long-continued idleness and licentiousness took the shape of the most horrible plague that ever visited Europe or the United States, a plague worse than pestilence and cholera combined. Albumin-fed and overfed indolents, unnerved by drunkenness and narcotics, died by the hundreds of thousands. Terror struck the masses, and many of those spared by the terrible disease were killed by fear. In one month's time Paris put four hundred thousand under the sod, London might have filled the channel from British shores to th French with the corpses of her dead. New York was forced to confiscate the great preserves of the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers to get room, for the neeesrary crematories. Terror bred confusion, confusion begot superstition. Someone raised the cry that the scientists, whom the plague rassed by because they led decent and laborious lives, had poisoned albumin, the food for nil, aud many good men fell victim to popular fury in all parts of the "civilized"' world. As for the rest, the history of the glacial period these two hundred thousand years past repeated itself. When the cruel glaciers spread over the universe, all weak organisms perished, only the strong and hardv survived. Europe now witnessed Urrible reckoning with the unfit, and those that did survive formed into a severely organized :-ocial aristocracy.SOCIAL ARISTOCRACY. This social aristocracy consisted of workman's unions and scientillc societies. Their councils prevailed in all public affairs, universal, suffrage being no longer a factor in legislation. Finally United Labor and Science redivided the survivors in three classes. All of impure and impoverished blood, all blighted by immorality or hereditary disease, mental or physical, were put in the third class, which the two upper classes did not in the least hesitate to oppress. While procrastination was restricted or forestalled, the besotted or diseased members of the third class were permitted all the alcohol, morphine and similar poisons they craved, and in this wise the dead load of two millions of. unworthy human beir.RS was gradually, yet quickly, disposed of. When the last of these paupers in mind and body was buried, the parliaments of the civilized nations passed laws forbidding the sale of alcohol, morphine, opium and narcotics on pain of death, and all distilleries, factories and plants where such poisons had heretofore been brewed, were confiscated and razed from the face of the earth. This necessary task being accomplished, social peace once more ruled in Europe and America, but tneir peoples had n sooner settled down to the enjoyment of short workday and plenty of food, when, once more and for the last time, the horizon was threatened by a war cloud. The Russian Empire, exhausted by the long and bloody struggle between autocracy any the people, went under as a stable government after a hundred years of turmoil, the Turks and Mongolians prepared to assume the place of Czarish intolerance. Then all free nations, small and big. realized their duty and danger in the face of Ignorance and despotism, and with the sympathetic backing of America, the United States of Europe was formed, that put an end forever to these menaces. The lirst Congress of the United States of Europe assembled on Jan. 1, 20C1. On the same day a fanatic murdered the greatest chemist of his time. Tilüer, and Congress abolished the practice of chemistry except for scientific research. FRAUD IS ALLEGED BK THE DEFEATED FACTION

Republican Primaries at Charleston, V. Va., Carried by W. O. Dawson. TROUBLE AT THE POLLS CHARLESTON, W. Va., May 7. At the Republican primaries here to-day, W. O. Dawson, for Governor, carried the city over C. F. Teter by about 2,500. The Teter men say this is about TOO more than the actual Republican vote, and that the result is due to the fact that Grant Hall, who was the manager of Teter and conducted his selection for secretary of state, was refused representation at the polls and for that reason during the afternoon compelled to give up the tight. It is charged that Dawson, through the executive committee, controlled the election ofttcers. The Teter faction that was managed here by what is known as the Hall-Fielder organization, realizing the conditions that confronted them, determined on the desperate expedient of preventing the holding of an election in all the precincts where either a clerk, a commissioner or a challenger was refused. In pursuance of this order many men were sent to the polling places early with instructions to get representation or stop the entire proceedings, but in only one ward was this plan successful. It was accomplished at the city hall, in the Fourth precinct, where Grant Hall himself went with a large number of armed men and sat upon the ballot box. At one time the police who were charged with working for Dawson, attempted to capture Hall and his men, but after drawing their guns, they abandoned this precinct and the voters were rus.ied over to another ward. It was charged at the Fifth ward voting place that scores of strangers and herds of negroes were protected in the voting booth. The police and other citv officials were charged with participating In the mobilizing of voters for Dawson. All sorts of charges are made to-night about the way the negroes were voted and the way repeaters were used. Many strange . negroes are still ' in the city, and all sorts of charges .of .fraud are made by the defeated, faction. INDIANA OBITUARY. COLUMBUS. Und., May 7. Miss Adah Hawley, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. K. D. Hawley, died at hr home in this city last evening at the age of twenty. She was one of the most' popular young women in the city and possessed a voice of rare sweetness. Dr. Max C. Hawley, of Indianapolis, is a brother. MUNCIE. Ind.. May 7. Mrs. Clara J. Moore, widow of Charles W. Moore, for many years a prominent attorney of Munde, is dead at her home in this city at the age of sixty-eight. She leaves ono son. Chavles E. Moore, and a daughter, Mrs. W. R. Youse, both of Muncie. CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind.. May 7. Mrs. W. S. Miller died this morning of heart trouble. She was a daughter of Jere Kceney. an old resident, and ä sister of Dr. Star Kceney, of Indiana polls. The funeral will be held Monday morning. BOONVILLE. Ind.. May 7. James Karger, a pafnter. prominent in local labor circles, fell dead here to-day while eating dinner. He had been suffering from heart trouble. TIPTON, Ind., May 7. Mrs. Sarah Lannert. agod eighty-eight, a pioneer resident of this part of the State, died at her home south of th& city last night. ; Crlmlual Assault Charged. Special to tha Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSON VILLE, Ind.. May 7. Charles Long, son of a well-known farmer of this county, was placed in jail to-day on the charge of criminal assault. The victim of the alleged assault is Miss Lena Davis, daughter of Frank Davis, and the crime is said to have taken place a week ago. Both are of well-to-do families.. Fait Run, Deftplte an Accident. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BELLEFONTAINE. O.. May S. Big Four passenger train No. 4 made the fifty-eight-mile run from Union City to Bellefontaine, including one stop. In. sixtytwo minutes. Just after leaving Union City the train ran over three cows and killed them, which makes the run more remarkable. Train Wrecked, KitKineer Killed. RICHMOND, Va., May 7.-The southbound passenger train on the Richardson, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railway was wrecked at Quantico and Engineer Davis, of this city, was killed. Fireman Franklin paved himself by Jumping. Express Messenger Herring was slightly hurt. The train ran Into an open switch und on to a turntable.

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This little reservation though it is half as tig as some States in the Union has lain fallow, as it were, because the white man could not break into it.- White men lhing around its borders on every side have been able from the roofs of their Immense red barns to look over into the promised land which they misht not cuter. And now they .re to enter it and take possession and of them are standing in Hue for a heritage that cau only accommodate 2, GOO. EXTENT OF THE RESERVATION. The Rosebud reservation is about thirty miles long from north to south, and not quite so wide east and west. It lies on the west bank of the Missouri, in the southeast corner of South Dakota, occupying almost all of Gregory county, oue of the largest in the State. Some line streams water it; the rainfall has averaged twentyeight inches for twenty-eight years; the soil is exactly like that which a few miles away in Northwest Dakota is worth J-sO per acre, and the surface is perfect from tho viewpoint of the prairie farmer. Along the small streams there is Just enough fringe of timber to solve the fuel and fencing questions for new settlers. In short, it is a3 near perfect as a bit of new country well could be. There is, indeed, a wide, even a painful, discrepancy in estimates of the value of these acres. President Roosevelt objected to the bill first Introduced to sell the lands to settlers at $3 per acre. He was sure they were worth more. The South Dakota congressional delegation brought to bear in rebuttal a wonderful array of evidence showing that the lands were poor and it was doubtful if they were worth $3; but as a mark of special favor to the President, especially as ho announced he would veto the bill, they would make it $4 per acre. They wanted the President to know, however, that they were losing money on every acre at such a. price and wouldn't think of doing It if it wasn't that they rather liked him. So the President signed the bill and the land will go at 54 an acre. LAND SHARKS READY TO BUY IT. The real-estate men and land "sharks." who are waiting to buy out the "commuters" interests, manifestly have plenty of money. They advertise that they will give $20 or $30 per acre for any of the lands when title can be passed. That will take fourteen months from the opening. The homesteader who draws a quarter section must pay $1 per acre cash, at the end of three years 76 cents more, and 75 cents more at the end of the fourth, fifth and sixth years. That makes the $4. But if after fourteen months he wants to commute he can pay up all the deferred amounts and add $1.25 per acre to it and take a patent for the lands; net cost, $5,25 per acre. Bonesteel is the capital of the Rosebud Reserve. It was founded by the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Railroad Company for this express purpose. It had no other excuse for existence, and for nearly four years after it was started it didn't have this, for there were discouraging delays about opening the land.-?, and meantime the booms at Bonesteel waited and starved and petitioned their delegation in Congress. The railroad company extended its line to the edge of the reservation, expecting the lands were to be opened at once. But first the Indians were obdurate. They didn't see why the white men should be so anxious to pay more than their lands were worth, and steadfastly and repeatedlv refused to sign the contracts for sale to the government. Then, when at last clever agents secured the aboriginal consent, the President stepped in. He used to own a Dakota ranch, and flattered himself that ke knew something about land values out there. He caused another long delay. Bonesteel had nearly 5,000 people, three banks, brick blocks, big stores, two newspapers and a guaranteed future before it was six months old. As its future re"ceded Bonesteel shrank till it got down to TOO inhabitants. That was its size when, a fortnight ago, the bill to open the reservation parsed on terms that assured it would be signed. Then Bonesteel looked up again. The saloons reopened, the -bis frame shacks and hotels resumed business, stocks of goods that had been locked up were displayed again, the real estate agents got busy, the price of cocktails went back to a quarter, beer rose to 10 cents a drink, and, final and unquestionable evidence of the return of prosperity, the poker ante was in a night boosted from the apologetic penny of penury to the dignified dollar of affluence. Bonesteel was itself again! WILL BE A LOTTERY. The opening is to be about July 1 exact date yet to be announced by the powers of the General Land Office. There will be no "rush." It will be by lottery, which doesn't cost so many lives, but otherwise has Just as many possibilities of disappointment and heart burnings. Fifty thousand people are expected to register for the drawing. They are comlDg from all over the Dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska even from Illinois, Kansas and Missouri, for there isn't a real estate speculator in the middle west who doesn't know of good, things awaiting the lucky ones in the Rosebud lottery. The nearest land office now is at Chamberlain, but the general land commissioner, Mr. Richards, has practically promised to open a new one at Bonesteel to accommodate the rush. That will mean as high as 15.000 at a time, for weeks together, to be cared for in this prairie mushroom town of pine shacks and tents. But they will be cared for. Three years ago, when the first boom was at Its height, circus tents were erected for hotels, and hundreds slept in them. They will be raised again now. It is said, although arrangements are not yet announced, that a variation will be adopted in the drawing methods, which will make them more satisfactory than in the earlier land lotteries at the Kiowa. SERVANT ACCUSES MISTRESS OF THEFT Mrs. Mary Leurs Says She Gave Girl's Money to the Late Mr. Leurs. NEW YORK, May S. Mrs. Mary Leurs. of 45 West Sixty-fifth street, was in the West Side Court last week on a summons secured by Kate Gafney, a servant in her employ. Kate said Mrs. Leurs was keeping from her $2.of the savings of her lifetime. She produced a receipt from Mrs. Leurs. who admitted she once had the money, but said that the major portion of it had been paid to her husband before he died, in May, 1). He had left her penniless, and what she owed Kate, slue said she wA3 willing to pay cs soon as her husband's insurance money, 112.000, was paid to her. John Edwards, the cashier of the SlegelCooper Company, showed an account In which it was stated that Mrs. Lours had drawn out momJy deposited with the company since her husband's death; She, however, declared her husband had drawn it nil before his death. In order to have this discrepancy . of . dates . straightened out. Magistrate O'mmen adjourned the examination until Monday paroling Mrs. Leurs on her own recognizance.

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PERU IS PREPARING 10 OUT Troops Ordered to Protect Disputed Territory and May Cross Border. LIMA, Peru, May 7. The general staff has ordered two line battalions and one battery of machine guns to proceed to Alto Jurua, by way of the river Amuoya, to repulse any Brazilian troops there may b in that territory and one battalion, with two machine guns, has been ordered to.Chanless, on the river Purus, to sustain Peruvian sovereignty there. The general staff has ordered that Iquitos be placed In a state of defense, that the harbor be mined and that a division be formed there of 3,000 men, which shall, under certain circumstances, accupy Tabatinga and Manos, Brazilian towns on the Amazon. RESIDENCE ROBBED PROBABLY BY PROWLERS North Illinois-Street Residence Entered During Absence of the Family. Another robbery of a residence was reported to the police early this morning. The home of Ira L. Sawin, at 1S07 North Illinois street, was entered while the family was away, and a quantity of clothing taken. The robbers entered through a rear window. Detectives Manning and Simons were detailed on the case, but could find no one about the scene of the robbery. The officers think tho work was that of prowlers, and not professionals. NONAGENARIAN UNDER BONDS TO KEEP PEACE BROOKLYN, May 8. Magistrate Steers, sitting In the Fiatbush Police Court, was astonished when two white-haired and bent old men appeared before him, the one accused the other of - assault. They were William GreenlQugh, eighty-two years old, and Martin Dowd, ninety-two years old, both inmates of the Kings-county almshouse. The pair had a fight on Wednesday night. "He struck me first, your honor," declared Greenlough. Nc I didn't; he hit me first," said Dowd. "They tell me you are quite a scrapper," remarked the court, turning to Dowd. "Well, returned the nonagenarian, remlhiscently, "I used, to hold my own pretty well." The ancient Dowd was bound over to keep peace for six months. THREE GOULD LINES WILL BE MERGED PITTSBURG, May 7. The Pittsburg. Carnegie & Western, the Cross Creek and the Pittsburg, Toledo & Western railroads, Gould incorporations in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio, forming the new line into Pittsburg, will be merged under the name "Wabash-Pittsburg Terminal Railway Company." The first step in this plan was. taken at a meeting of the stockholders to-day. and the plan will be completed at another meeting on Tuesday. The road will then acquire the new line which has been built by the Pittsburg and Toledo syndicate. Close to J25.0O0.000 has been advanced by this - syndicate for the work, and a thoroughly modern road, with minimum grade and curvature, has been built for sixty miles through an exceedingly rough country. It will be opened for traffic next month, ...

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CONDITION OF .HOSPITAL IS SEVERELY CRITICISED 'Report Submitted to the County Commissioners by the Board of Charities. The County Board of Charities and Correction made a report yesterday to the County Commissioners on its recent visit to the City Hospital. The report calls attention to the fact that the hospital has no fire escapes and that the third floor is occupied by women and babies who would be in a bad plight if the building should catch fire. The stairway leading to this floor is crooked and it is hard enough to get patients to the floor, let alone get them down in case of fire. It also states that the elevater Is unsafe and that the entire plumbing and heating plant is In very bad condition. It is said there is not a water closet or a bath tub In the entire building that a well person would use much less öne that is sick. A few of the complaints made are, that the clothes of the patients and the linen belonging to the hospital are all kept in the same room. This condition is called to the attention of the Commissioners. In regard to the old building the Charitie3 Board says it is in a very dilapidated condition and that the floors and the kitchen are very bad. The board remarks that it has noted this condition for a number of years, but nothing has been done. Taking the good side of the hospital, the board noticed the fact that in the new building everything is kept in good condition and that the nurses have good rooms and keep them in good condition. The board thinks the nurses and officers of the institution are doing the best they can under the circumstances, but need the co-operation of those in authority to make the hospital what it should be. At the time of the visit of the board there were 143 paUents in the building, eighty-one men, fifty-two women and sixteen children and babies. BOY TURNS DETECTIVE TO RECOVER PIGEONS Sergeant Crane Surprised by the Demand Made Upon Him for a "Cop." Leonard J. Palmer, 414 North Illinois street, discovered last night that his very best pair of fan-tail pigeons had been stolen from the birn at the rear of his father's home. Leonard' turned detective, and soon had evidence which convinced him that a certain boy was guilty of the theft. Then he hurried to the police station, and, marching bravely to Sergeant Crane's desk, burst forth: "I want a cop. I want him to make a run with me." Sergeant Crane looked in surprise as the youngster delivered himself in such unmistakable terms. "Well, my boy, what do you want of a cop, and where do you want him to go? What's the matter?" inquired the sergeant. The remainder of the story came in one long unbroken torrent. "A boy has stolen my fan-tails, and they're the best fantails I had. He- Just came up to tho barn, and reached his arms in. and ran away with them. I know who he and I've got witnesses to prove it. you let me have a cop aud I'll catch him." Sergeant Crane notified the district man to meet the boy at a certain corner, and the little outraged owner went hurriedly to keep the appointment. Dlnhop Huntington 111. NORTHAMPTON. Mas-., May 7. Mrs. Archibald Sessions, of this city, has been summoned to Syracuse, N. Y., because of the serious illness of her father, the Right Rev. Frederic Dan Huntington, the venerable bishop of the Episcopal dioceca of central Neu YorL.

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tf THERE ARE NO SAFER INVESTMENTS A for your money than the farm aal citr mortgages that we have for sale. In 21 years we have sold over eighteen million dollars of these mortgages and have never lost a dcllar of interest or prlnclr! and have never foreclosed a mortgage flnct we have been in business. Phonr. New 1C4; Old black 4126. C. N. WILLIAMS 4L to. Bankers, No. 10 East Market SL.IndlinarO"1 We allow three per cent, on deposit-. FRIENDS AWAITED HIM AT POLICE ST ATI OX Ed McCartj. 51S East Market street, found many friends awaiting him In th turnkey's office when ho arrivel tre under arrest for assault and battery Isst night. It ia said that McCarty d: n t live with his wife and that upon mt::.5 her last night they became involved in aa argument, which led to blows, liystar.den called the police and McCarty was the enter of an interested crowd at tha r.irk Theater corner while waiting for th patrol wagon. His friends were kept waitlr.t t the police station as the wagen made another trip before returning and rk -? a colored woman in North Indian-poll, who had been "taking a couple of tlrlnkJ after a hard day's work." CITY NEWS NOTES. The W. F. M. S. of Mridin-stret Church will meet to-morrow aftm.-v-n 21 2:30 with Mrs. K. M. Campbell. 105 Wiruff Place, Middle drive. The Women's Missionary Society of th" Fourth Presbyterian Church will mt Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. M-lv:.. Helnez on Central avenue. The Naomi Auxiliary will bo entertained by Mrs. Mary Irish, 1316 Olive street. Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Irih will t assisted by Mrs. Humphreys. Mr?. Hick and Mrs. Bauer. The "Aye Aye" Club will give a dar.r Wednesday evening. May 11. at St. Jr'."?M Hall. 615 East North street, for the tnt.t of the Sherman Council. Y. M. I . Ut-ul team of the Commercial Leajrue. All numbers of the league are cordially invite! u attend the dance. The choir of the Central Chriftiia Church was entertained by Mr. Iluen M Gibeny after the regular Saturd.iv t-ver.ir.J rehearsal last night. Mr. MGih'-ny w-s a ?- sisted by MIfs Katherine Bauer. M'ra nis. Miss Woodruff. Mrs. McGlNr.y. Mrs. Bauer and Mr. Earl Holt. Dr. Clark's Sunday-school class ft V.t Central Chrl-tian Church will gn an f: ' tertalnment Friday. May 13. and everything connected with the entertains'?will be connected with number 13. T. class is called the "Lucky Thirteen Unfl'f Thirteen Flags." and the admission l will be 13 cents. The Habakuk Club will meet at tl.e hrr.e of Mr. Ora Fisher. 1-5 Harlan Mreet. tomorrow evening at 7:5) o'clock. The t.'-' is from the Trinity Congregational Churo The officers of thf club are Mr. Fri'i Robinson, president. Mr. Frelerlk Lvail, vice president, and Mr. Allen Garret, secretary. The state's attorney of Ohio county be assisted in the prosecution of tfc lespie murder trial by Henry N. Sf tar.. this city. The negotiations f--r tne .. himself with the ca-o. The Women's Missionary Society ef t First Baptist Church will meet Friday i.j Mrs. W. L. Griffith, 1611 Proadway. 'I1"irifflth will be assisted ty .Mrs. r. Minor. Mrs. Ella Hollenberry and Mrs. .m. E'atton. The subject. "Forces of Parkn ind Light." will be discus?ed by IrT: ii iiiui woiuiiii no irauri, an i i , , be read bv Mrs. Dearborn, Mrs. Iusand Mrs. N. M. Wilmoth. IIa by Choked to Death. tpert-l to th IndlAn-poIla Journal. TIPTON. Ind.. May 7.The two-year-cU sen of Joseph Dunn, south of this city choked to death yesterday. The chill heating hickory nuts and a piece of RV? lod;ed in its throat. Before U cou.U

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