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(VOL. XXXIV. NO. 266 daii nnn npnrc IIIIILiiunu ui liiu SUIT TO BBTU1 LAIIDJT DESIRES Condemnation Proceedings Against Owners of Land in Center and Jackson Townships Are Instituted. DEFENDANTS WOULDN'T ; TAKE PRICE OFFERED Company Agrees to Accept r Proposition of Commission ers Concerning Poor Farm Land Required. Four suits for the appropriation of real estate by the Indianapolis division of the Pennsylvania railroad ays tern .haye been Instituted in the circuit Court by John L. Rupe, attorney for the railroad. This is but a beginning of the company's plans of acquiring the necessary land along its right of iway In order to widen the same so that it can carry out its plans of (double tracking between Richmond and Indianapolis. Three of the suits are against property owners of Jackson township, the . plaintiff a in two of which suits own property in Cambridge City, The defendants who own property in Cambridge City include Benjamin E., Mary nd George Drichel, Mary and Harry fj. Bond, William Schroeder and ffosiah Weigler in one of the suits and Charles A. and Susan Bertsch. Mary E. Wright and Catherine Drischel in the other. Mrs. Margaret McCaffery Is the" defendant in another of the suits. The defendants in the fourth suit are property owners in Center township. Including John C. Noorman and Charles W. King, Daisy N.. Orie JB. sad Charles Meek, Mary and Fred JB. Weber and Clarence M. King. The defendants of suits who live in ITackson township " are ' understood to be opposing the widening of the right of way because it will damage their property. The company will also elevate the tracks until they are on a level with, the second story windows of the residents. Defendants Ref use to Sell. . . Mrs. McCaffery who owns a farm In Jackon township : has about . six acres which the company desires. There are about two and a half acres in Center township which the com pany desires and has brought suit to obtain. The amount of property , in Cambridge City is not so large, being portions of lots owned by each defen dant. .:, The defendants in each case have been visited by the agents Tor the rail road. In each instance the defendants nave refused to sell their property, The company asks for the appoint tnent of appraisers by the court in or der that a value may be placed on the land and the property owners forced to sell bar court action. County Farm Case Up. Sheriff Meredith and his deputies bave been busy serving notices on the defendants today. They are expecting other suits which will keep them busy serving notices for several days. , . County Farm Case Up. The question' of selling 12 acres of the county poor farm was up before the county commissioners today. ', The proposition made by the board that the company remunerate the county to the extent of $3,000 and allow water privileges has been accepted by the company according to a communication received by the board today. Although the - sale of the land could be settled out of court, it has been agreed bj John P. Robbins. attorney j : for the board and . John I Rupe, attorney for the company, 'that a friendly condemnation suit be Instituted in the circuit ' court.' This is for the purpose of obtaining .a clear title ' to the land. One of the members of the board stated that the suit was also brought1 for the It is probable therefore that it will be tried first and whatever decision the court renders will be effective in other suits, against land owners. PUT Oil -COMMITTEE Congressman Barnard ' Sur- : prised by Appointment on Banking Committee. REGARDED AS AN ' HONOR Judge William O. Barnard, of New Castle, representative from the Sixth Ind.ana district, has been selected for a place on the banking and currency committee of the lower house. He was appointed by ' Representative Edward B. Vreeland of New York. The appointment comes in the nature of a surprise to Judge Barnard as he being "a now member was not an applicant. It is considered a high honor to be a is to b sr of this committee.

IS Oil THE PROGRAM E. G. Hill to Speak at Silver Anniversary of American Florists Society. WAS THE FIRST SECRETARY ONE OF CHARTER MEMBERS OF ORGANIZATION GREAT TIME IS ; PROMISED MEMBERS AND OTH ERS WHO ATTEND. E. G. Hill, the well known florist of this city, will attend the Silver anniversary of the Society of American Florists which will be held in Cincinnati on Tuesday, August 17th to the 2 1st inclusive. He will deliver an ad dress on the "First Meeting of the So ciety" on August 20. In 1884 Mr. Hill was elected first ' secretary of - the society and was later made president. Extensive preparations, are .being made to entertain the visiting florists in Cincinnati. A reception will be held at the Zoo on the first day of the celebration after. which there will be a fireworks display. Officers will be elected on August 19. B. T. Galloway of Washington, D. C," will deliver an address on the third day relative to the work of the United States Department of Agriculture as effecting floriculture. A barbecue in charge of the Cincinnati society will be held at Co ney Island. LAW NOT VIOLATED "Black Hand" Letter First One Written in Italian Inspector Has Seen. IT CONTAINED NO THREAT . Postmaster Spekenhier has received word from Inspector Fletcher that the mysterious letter received last week by F. Mercurio was not a violation of the postal laws as no threat was made. The letter simply asked for the modest sum of 1,200,000 francs, or about $2JO,000. Mr. Fletcher stated that this was the first letter he had ever seen which was written in Italian. He stated that many letters were received written In Spanish or English and that it was an old game slightly modified. The matter will be dropped unless further developments arise. TO GIVE FESTIVAL. Webster, Ind.,' - Aug. . 2. The ladies of the Methodist church of this place wlil give an ice cream social and lawn fete, Saturday evening, at the church tor the -benefit of the eikreh. All are cordially Invited to attend. THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Partly cloudy; local, thunrferator uta,

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Typical street scene' in Barcelona, Spain, during the political outbreak. Barcelona is the center of the present revolutionists movement. The lower picture is that of King Alfonso, who, In order to crush revolt, has called Gen. Weyler, known as "Butcher" Weyler.. He was In command of the Spanish troops in Cuba, and was relieved shortly before the Maine was blown up in Havana harbor.

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TO ITS GUESTS Naval Power of Great Britain Assembled at Cowes to Honor Russian Czar and Czarina Upon Arrival. PEACEFUL HARBOR IS CROWDED BY WARSHIPS Precautions Taken to Guard Monarch's Life Against ' Possible Assassins Poli tics Being Talked. Cowes, Eng., Aug. . 2. The mighty naval power oi Great Britain is as sembled off Cowes today guarding the Czar and Czarina of Russia on their visit to King Edward. . Accompanied by a powerful naval flotilla of Rus sian 1 warships, the Russian imperial yacht Standart. with the Czar and Czarina on board, steamed into the harbor this afternoon from Cherbourg, accompanied by the booming of cannon and the fluttering of flags. The, present visit of the Czar is making international history. His mission is one of diplomacy, a mission of such moment and of such delicate diplomatic texture as not to be trusted to the ablest diplomats of the great northern empire. Resembles War Setting. The usually- peaceful ; harbor of Cowes today resembled the setting of a drama of- warrfarerr-Ringed In a semi-circle about the Standart lay the greatest naval strength. The dun hulls of the great Russian battleships formed in close for action, about the Standart while fringed further out the Atlantic channel squadrons of the British navy sood at anchor in the roadstead. Torpedo ; boats ' and destroyers and swift and grim, steamed up and down the harbor watching every craft that entered. The magnifi cent sight attracted thousands : of spectators vtd the water front. This being a bank holiday excursions were run into the ' town bringing people from far inland. The streets throng with police and government agents. Hundreds of Russian police came from Cherbourg ; to watch for suspicious persons and to prevent socialistic out breads. 'The visit of the czar is the most portentious event national England has experienced for a long time. King Edward's tact is sorely tested by this Imperial visit a visit that may make world history. The czar is rounding out ' a series of visits which started when he met Emperor William of Germany in the Baltic The next trip was into - Swedish - waters to visit King Gustave of Sweden. Following that the Emperor attended the unveiling of the monument upon the battlefield of Poltava. Last week the Csar came Into German waters, touching at Kiel and visiting Prince Henry of Prussia. On Saturday the Standart with Its naval convoy arrived at Cherbourg for the visit with President Falleries of France. . Arc Talking Politics. The Information was given out that politics would be touched upon but lightly during the course of the visits. I Nevertheless politics has been dis cussed and deeply. r ; Never have . such ' elaborate precautions been taken to guard the Ufa of

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a monarcn. six areaanougnts rormea a guard of honor for the Russian autocrat, which was a distinct departure from tradition because formerly only an armored cruiser was given over for such use. King Edward and Queen Alexandra met their royal guests at Snithead. They came here late last week for the naval review on Saturday and their presence lent additional importance to the position of Cowes upon the map of Europe. The most splendid sight the human eye could fall upon will be presented tonight when the great war vessels are lighted upon with their thousands of lights and thgjr searchlights are allowed to play upon the town and the horizon. Tomorrow all will steam away save four warships of the dreadnought type. HUNGER FOLLOWS THE E! Exposure Leads to Suffering And Thousands Are Dying From Starvation. FRENZIED APPEALS MADE DYNAMITING . RESORTED TO TO RAZE CRUMBLING WALLS AND PROTECT POPULACE AGAINST ADDED DANGERS. Mexico City, Aug. 2. Fully 6,000 persons are today suffering from ex posure and hunger along the southern coastt of Mexico betaween Oaxaca and Acapulco many of them slowly dying of stravation. Frenzied appeals for aid have been made from Guerrero. The sufferers packing proper clothing, shelter and food are living in the fields. At both Acapulco and . Chilpancingo where shocks late Saturday finished the work of destruction, the suffering is Intense. : Crumbling walls of dangerous insecurity were blown down by dynamite and many persons " have tried to construct rude shelters from the mass of debris. The country . is swept by, tropical storms of wind and rain, adding to the discomfort. V - ! v Seventy-three shocks bave been felt since Friday. , In the heaviest shock the water in the harbor ebbed thirty three feet and then rushed landward, smashing piers and boats." President Diaz has been asked from various southern points to give Imme diate aid. Medicines are needed sickness has broken out which may ravage the countryside - causing loss as great as the quake. Funds are being raised and tents and provisions being collected here for shipment. Many , tourist are leaving . for the United States fearing further shocks in this city. ATTEND PICIIIC OHITEVMEIi Sunday Schools Joined in Out ing in Woods. ; A large delegation from . Richmond attended the Sunday school picnic held yesterday in Nathan " Graves' grove near ' Whitewater. Representatives from schools In all parts of - Wayne county attended the celebration which was a most successful affair In every particular. It is estimated that the crowd numbered several hundred. The Rev. Bernau of Indianapolis and the Rev. J. W. Zerbe, pastor of the Methodist church of Fountain City addressed the assemblage.

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MAY CONFISCATE PROPERTY OPOII FAILURE TO PAY County Treasurer Expects the State Examiners to Take Drastic Action to Get Personal Tax Collected. MANY OWNERS NEGLECT DUTY IN WAYNE COUNTY Condition May Necessitate Wagons Backing to Doors And Hauling Personal Pos sessions .Away From House. By reason of the refusal of tax payJ v ' ers wno own ony personal property to pay their tax, it is probable that this county will be the scene of seizures of property until the owner redeems it by paying the delinquent tax. It would not be at all surprising to County Treasurer Albert Albertson, if the state examiners would order this done when they investigate the books and find thousands and thousands of dollars of tax on personal property no: paid. The examiners had found conditions in this respect very bad in Ma rion county and the method followed in remunerating the county has been for the treasurer to send out the tax wagons, back up to the residence and secure the property. It is held by the official until the tax on it is paid. This means has been the only effec tive way found of forcing owners to pay. The owner suffers the humllia tton of seeing his goods taken from his house. It has been found that pride works wonders in this respect. Some of the worst violators in that county have had to pay tax accruing for several years on their personal property. May Confiscate. Property. The same conditions are evident . In this county as shown by the books In the treasurers office. Almost any page of the county . xecords containing the tax charged to owners of personal property may be turned to and more unpaid tax assessments found than those upon which the tax is paid.' In fact the average appears to be from hasty scrutiny of the books, about one paid tax assessment to five unpaid assessments. On some pages it is "much greater. The amounts vary from a few cents to several dollars. If a total of the unpaid tax was obtained, it would be found to amount to several thousand dollars and sufficient to make the tax rate of the county decrease several cents. Before retiring from office, ex-county treasurer B. B. Myrick collected $20,000 in back taxes on per-! sonal property. Persons who refuse to pay their per sonal tax likewise are negligent about their poll tax and if the custom of sending the tax wagons around to collect the personal property is adopted, sufficient amount of property will be taken to cover the poll tax assess ments. It is not known by Mr. Albertson when the state examiners will Inspect Wayne county's 'books, as they have found so much work in Marion county that they are delayed considerably In visiting the offices in other counties. It is probable that the examiners will not make an appearance here until late in the fall and possibly after the first of the year.' Treasurer Mskes Effort, Mr. Albertson and his deputies have followed the same custom as B. B. My rick. Those against whom the county holds unpaid tax bills on personal property have been notified hy letter. Many of these demands have been fol lowed by payment of the tax. Howev er the largest majority of persons back In their tax payments have paid no attention to the notices, f Mr. Albertson says , that husbands often protect their personal property by transferring any real estate which they own to their wife's name. They then neglect to pay their personal tax. Horns Doenrdms Ptsc9 or Coardxr food, and if yen have a Esosa te East, yea aavs congeaiai ana pM Want Ads are gsst sohcti ads wm as both tricks la ewiek

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IILI IIILILU UI I IIUIIL New Jersey's Executive Used This Means for First Time m In State's History. PRISONER IS BUT YOUTH (American News Service) Trenton, N. J.. Aug. 2. The execu tion of Walter Zeller. convicted of complicity in the murder of his grand father, was halted at the state prison today upon receipt of a long distance telephone message from Gov. Port at the summer capitol at Sea Girt. This is the first time a reprieve has ever been sent over a telephone. - The gov ernor yielded to the appeals of Zeller's heart-broken brother. Zeller is only 18 years old. The reprieve is for 30 days. . The county can . not make an assessment against the real estate because it is not owned by the person against whom a bill is held. However, in case , " inr nronertv. the back personal and Ux lg assessed against him and held as a lien on the property by the county. BARCELONA WAS BATHED 111 BLOOD Late Dispatches Say 1 ,0 Are Dead and 25,000 Are Injured. REVOLUTIONISTS EXECUTED GIVEN COURTMARTIAL TRIALS AND CONDEMNED TO BC SHOT CATALONIA ANARCHY. IN A STATS OF London, Aug. 2. -Censured dispatch-

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eral of Barcelona estimates thews - and persons were killed and twentyfive thousand wounded In suppression of the revolt in that city. Order has ; been restored st Barcelona, streets being cleared and shops reopened. REVOLUTIONISTS EXECUTED. Paris. Aug.- 2. One hundred and "T . TcV across the border. The state of Cat - Ionia is In state of anarchy. FIGHTING STILL CONTINUES. London, Ana. 2.The fighting be - tween the trooos and the revolution - Ists in Barcelona still contmnes to - dar. and that section of the eltr ecu - Died by the rebels is constantly swept by the cannon of Montjuleh fortress. It is reported that forty rebels have been shot without trial In the Montjuleh fortress, among them being Emiliano Igleslas, editor of the Progresso, the organ of Deputy Leroux. lead er of the Barcelona republicans. GIVEN OEW'LIHSB Saloon licenses were granted to Hen ry Lennard, William Asa Greene and Hugh P. Taylor, all of this city, today at the meeting of the county commissioners. No complaint was registertd against the establishments. CHOIR OF JUVENILES. Daring the summer months. - the choir of the First M. E. church Is composed of the younger members of the church. The regular choir Is tak ing a vacation. The innovation Is proving very success foL or Esard ts

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riTv n crnnn IU1 1 1 LLLbllUIJ HAS IliFLUEIlCE nesuIl vM Qe E(fectjve , Marion County as Probably To Have Bearing on Stab Senatorship. .--. . : V BOTH PARTIES HAVE MOTTLED CANDIDATES' Charges Made That Corpora tions, Breweries and Other "Interests" Are Behind Some Candidates. Indianapolis, Aug. 2. The eyes of both political parties In Indiana are turned on Indianapolis this week because this city will hold primaries next Thursday to nominate republican and democratic city ticket o be vot ed for at the cttr election next No vember. The result of the Indianapolis city election this year Is of the utmost Importance to Indiana politics. for It will hsve a great bearing on the control of the legislature at the next' session. Marlon county has five senators and eight representatives la the legislature, and It Is almost safe to say that the party that carries Marion county will be very likely to con trol the legislature. Four of the sena tors are democrats and are hold-overs. They were elected last fall, served In the session last winter and will serve again In the next session. Senator Cox Is the only one whose term has' expired. He Is a republican and a successor to him will be elected next year. At the last session they were I all democrats and the democrats will make a heroic effort to . win at the coming city elections In order to build their machine to elect eight democra tic representatives again next year. The republicans are equally determined to carry the city election In order 1 publfeane neat State Wide Influence. This is why the city election In this city this fall will have state wide sig nificance. No one can tell now what will happen at the city election, how- . for both parties have put up a weak list of candidates for the nomin ations for the dty offices. There to little difference la the quality or the makes the outcome problematicaL 1 " tuomuwi. pitaees or canaieatee. The republican candidates for the I nossinstiou for mayor are W. N. Hardl ensaa. naming 1 "" Pk? w mayor 1"" resrs ago and was defeated, be1 cause, he says, the republican adminjuui previoae m tee election was so unsatisfactory tnat u arove msny republicans to vote the demo cratic ticket. Harding is a first class lawyer, one of the leaders of the In dianapolis bar. He Is rich. There IS no better speaker In the dty than Harding. He stands strong with the colored voters, of whom there are 7.000 In this dty. It Is charged, however, that all of the spedal Interests of the dty are behind .Harding. Includ ing the ana company, the street car company, the water works and the breweries. Shank Is a peculiar fellow. He county recorder of Marlon county tar four years and left a cl There Is a popular superstition sheet town that he is honest, and this has never been disputed. But he Is a no vice In the political game. Shank la an auctioneer and runs a storage warehouse. When he announced himself as a candidate sor the nomination for mayor he was generally regarded as a ioke and was not taken seriously, but he has made such an unique campaign and made1 each , an usual speeches all over the dty that he has rallied behlad him a large force of voters." - - Mayer le Laying Low. , One peculiar feature of the sttaatioa Is that Mayor Bookwalter and the rest of the dty administration does not appear on the surface to be takmeT any hand in the campaign.' This is so unlike Mayor Bookwalter and his followers that their attitude Is not waderstood. At first K looked like they were for Harding, bat la the4aat week or so they hare laid down completely and are not doing a thing, so far as can be seen. . ..'..-.' The denaocratle situation Is Just aa They also have two candMstos for the nomlnstlon for mayor. Charles K. Clark and Charles A. Gaoss. Clark Is a lawyer and has been In local poli ties for severs! years. He is the can didate of the Taggart ring which has controlled the party for years and has dictated every nomination. 4 The antlTaggart element of the party is opposv tng- him for this resson. Another thing that is being ased against Clark Is the fact that he has bean the attorney for a bftaUtkfe paving concern ta New York which has done mcd street work la this dty. W. f! L XSasret the democratic dty chairman, is t state agent for the pavirx

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