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TO 'SAVE DREYFUS

THE FAMOUS FRENCH MILITARY CA8E TO BE REOPENEK.

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Paris la Greatly Excited Over It—Awful Fanl«bmeDt to Which Be li. Being Subjected.

Pans, Nov. 18.—The allegation that Albert Dreyfus, the former captain of French artillery, was falsely accused end convicted by a court martial of selling French military plans to the agents of a foreign government, continue to be widely discussed in Paris and throughout France.

From a person wEo the counsels of the family the correspondent of the Associated Press here learns that their presentation of the prisoner's case to the French government, which caused the present agitation, reveals a. thrilling romance with the gang of eo-called "journalists" and stock jobbers who beset the late .Max Lebaudy, the millionaire conscript.

It is claimed that the documents Dreyfus was charged with selling to Germany were n'e\rer really sold to the agents of thai country, but were prepared in imitation of Dreyfus' handwriting to blackmail him, his wife being a wealthy woman, and he himself being in good circumstances.

BLEED THEIR WEALTHY" JEW. The plot, it would farther seem, was conceived In 1893, when the wave of "Jewbaiting" swept over Europe. Dreyfus is of Hebrew extraction, and these jackals of Parisian society, casting about for funds, determined to "bleed this wealthy Jew."

A beautiful adventuress, whose house was the resort of a number of French officers and foreign diplomates, is said to have acted as the go-between in these shady transactions. By invitation Dreyfus was a frequent visitor to her house. In due course of time the plan for the mobilization of the French army, which had been drawn up in a handwriting which cleverly imitated that of Dreyfus, was produced and money demanded for its surrender.

Dreyfus, however, it is said, refused to pay the sum demanded, knowing that the purchase of the document would be an admission of his guilt, and would furnish grounds for future extortion, and being aware that the fact that he had' been intimate with this women, who herself was a party to the plot, -would be considered part of the strongest evidence of his guilt.

THfc PERSECUTION CONTINUED. •Continuing, the friend of the Dreyfus family iexplains that the newspapers whose attaches were concerned in the plot, have constantly maintained a warfare against Dreyfus, even up to the present time, and that la consequence the prisoner's wife and family are constantly been made, it is alleged, to extort admissions from them to be used against Dreyfus, and it is also said that advances have been made to Mme. Dreyfus, wife of the prisonef, in behalf of the antiDreyfus press, offering to cease all opposition to his release "for a consideration."

Finally, it is said that the plan for the mobilization of the French ramy, which Dreyfus is said to have sold to the agents of a foreign government, was a comparatively unimportant document, the features of which were in possession of all foreign governments and wa6 easily fabricated by experts.

THE CASE TO BE REOPENED.

Public Sentiment Demands It—Major Estt.hazy's Story.

New York, Nov. 18.—The Journal's Paris cable says: The case of ex-Captain Albert Dreyfus, the caged prisoner of Devil's Island, is about to be reopened. Hardly a fortnight ago the French government proclaimed that it saw no reason for any mitigation of the terrible sentence to which the death penalty which had been pronounced upon him by court martial was commuted.

Yet today the minister of war was forced to announce in the national legislature that the charges which have been brought by the prisoner's friends and relatives to the effect that Colonel Esterhazy is the real author of the treachery for which the excaptain was convicted, are about to be. investigated by the government, and that they, as well as M. Scheurer Kestner,-the vice president of the senate, are about to be afforded the opportunity of proving their accusations against the colonel.

If. as is generally believed, they are able to show that their allegations against Colonel Esterhazy are really true, then in that case ex-Captain Dreyfus is necessarily innocent, and his rehabilitation must immediately follow.

A dispatch to the Wgid from Paris says: Paris is in a condition of high, excitement over the Dreyfus mystery, and even if the authorities had any notion of smothering up the scandal, it would now be impossible. Public opinion demands instant action of some kind, and it is expected tliat the ministry will be compelled to bow to its impatience.

Colonel Esterhazy's story of how he received an intimation that a plot was afoot to implicate him, has excited suspicion against him instead of allaying it. His statement that he can give no clew whatever to the identity of the veiled lady who volunteered an assignation with him and handed him a letter clinching Dreyfus' guilt Is regarded as very dubious. Why this alleged lady should interest herself in his behalf and why he, knowing the supreme importance of ascertaining her identity, should have failed to make any effort to ascertain it, are questions that are being asked with much skeptical headshaking. The Esterhazy file may be tre, but if so it is one^of those cases in which truth is stranger fiction.

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HIS AWFUL PUNISHMENT.

Degraded, Disgraced and Sentenced to Solitude for Life.

"Perinde' ad cadaver!" wear away till you are a corpse! "This horrible formula of the Jesuits could never have been applied more aptly to any living being, living in death and dying in life, than to Captain Dreyfus." says a critic in La France, a Paris newspaper. 'Who is Captain Dreyfus?

Why, two years and a half ago his bitter fate stirred up two continents. Upon the grave charge of h&viug furnished documents relating to the French national defenses. Albert Dreyfus, a captain in the Fourteen Hi Artillery Regiment of the French army, detailed for duty in the ministry of war, was convicted, sentenced to imprisonment for life in a fortified place, and was then drummed out of the army, degraded and disgraced, in the presence of 5,000 troops.

The fortified place to which Dreyfus was taken is the "Island of the Devil." part of the Cayenne penal colony off the coast ofFrench Guiana.

Dreyfus, says the writer in the French paper, a man of S6 years of age, is a human iuii. physically and morally wreeked.Whenever he takes*his daily exercise in the open si By his every step is watched by a guard woo is silent and armed to the teeth then the. exile walks for a few minutes, and finally redrags his weary limbs to one of the- numerous promontories of volcanic origin which surround Devil's island on all sides. There he sits for hours, listlessly gjuing toward the horizon of the sea, where In the midst of the turbulent waves lies Su Joseph's island, like a black dash. The crosses upon it show its purpose—the ceme,tery of the condemned. ^Nothing can stir the exile from his ic-

spondency. Moral torture bas broken him as much as the murderous climate of Guina. His /ace Is deeply marked by tne furrows of suffering and despair. His former profuse hair is gone and only a few withered strands remain, which fall, long and unkempt, upon his shrunken neck. The hovel which serves as his shelter stands within a moat, and the latter is surrounded in turn by a stone wall.

THE WATCH NEVER RELAXED. The watch upon him is never relaxed, either day or night. Only once in a day he is 'permitted to speak, and then only to his torturers but a single time in a year he is permitted to communicate with his friends by letter, which, of course, is perused before mailing by his chief jailer. In two points only have the cruel provisions made expressly for this consideration of his extreme physical weakness he is no longer attached to the chaill and bar of the ordinary gailey convicts, and the warship Jouffroy, the station vessel of the penal colony, has been sent back to the principal pore.

All other extreme measures mode for the prisoner continue in force. The mail steamer which formerly touched at the Salut tslands is permitted to do so no longer no ves.sel is permitted to anchor in the bay, except the Pourvoyeuv, which is used by the administration of the colonies to provision the convicts and their keepers. Formerly this was done by tfae steamer of the Cayenne company, but since Dreyfus' arrival at Devil's island this service had to be abandoned.

For Dreyfus alone a separate corps of guards has been organized, and even if the chimerical idea of filibustering expedition to liberate the prisoner should materialize, his fate would be sealed, for his keepers have the peremptory order to saoot h':n should escape or liberalion be attempted.

Yet, immured in a living tomb, his body racked by the excruciating pains of malar al fever, his mind darkened by enforced isolation and silence and by iho relentless cruc-Hy of his torment.0, the jrisoncr has nope.

This hope is based upon the ceaseless efforts of his friends, headed and inspired by his devoted wife, that he may secure a new trial.

INFLUENCE OF HOLMES.

What the "Autocrat" Has Done to Make People Hate Shams. Among the titles ef Dr. Holmes to gratitude and enduring remembrance which recall themselves to us there is one which hope no one will soon lose eight of, and which perhaps ought to be called his influence as a civilizer. He not only showed us, it seems to me—and I am thinking of some of his more didactic poems, of the opening chopters of "Elsie Venner," of countless passages in the "Autocrat" and the "Professor"—what a fine foundation we Amerloans have to build upon, but he was the toieans of inciting directly a itoUltitude of readers to work toward ideals of real and sincere culture, not the sham article, which have never in our literature been put into such sane and comprehensive form.

I should like to see a muster, and I am sure it should be a large one, of the men now in middle age whose mental tone has beon, consciously or unconsciously, considerably influenced by the kindly castigation unlil they seemed intolerable of 6hams ami half baked pretenses that otherwise they might have gone on tolerating by the flashes of unmalignant wit in which even small boorishnesses and meannesses were suddenly shown up in so unmistakable alight that it seamed impossible ever to commit them again by the numberless cumulative touches by which an ideal of the gentleman was built up, wholesome, sensible, unpriggisb, attainable by every gjioere, sham hating man, yet also full 01 quiet high things, charity, consideration for others—a "man of gentlo will.'Scribner's Magazine.

Western Association Remain* Unchanged. Cedar Rapids, la., Nov. 18.—Th? meeting of the Western Base Ball Association here today was a very peaceable one notwithstanding it was supposed that it would be a stormy session. The circuit remains the same as last year. It was rumored there would be an effort made to displace Rockford and Peoria with Sioux City and Omaha, but it did not come about. It is rumored there will be another meeting in two weeks at which Sioux City, Omaha, Lincoln and Topeka will be represented. T. J. Ilickey. of St. Joe, was re-elected president, secretary and treasurer and George M. Lincoln, of Cedar Rapids, vice precident. *S. F. Frick, of Des Moines, and Varney Ander^ son,, of Rockford,. were appointed a. schedule committee.

Safety Appliances for Krtilro uIk. Washington, Nov. IS.—The interstate commerce commission desires to correct the recently published statement tsat only the New York Central and Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroads are fully equipped with "saftey appliances. Cut of 436 roads that have reported to the commission in the matter of safety appliances 75 roads, or 17.20 per cent will be equipped wit'i automatic couplers by January 1, 1898. Out of 435 roads 60, or 14 per cent, will be equipped with train brakes by the same period, and out o! 517 roads, 96 per cent or almost all will be provided with power d.ivlng wheel brakes on locomotives.

Colonel Holloway'n Position. Special to the Indianapolis New3. Washington, Nov. IS.—John Karel, of Chicago, who w»9 'Co'-oae'l AY. R. Hoi'.oway's preas can-sul general at St. Petersburg, arrived here tcday. "I received a friendly letter from Colonel HoKoway," sa:d Mr. Karel, "expressing a desire for me to remain until he arrived tlv re, tout 'had already arranged •to sail. He wiJl find a rigorous climate, and may -b# disappointed at 'the financial results o* lill efflec. The cost of living is hig'h. anl The saUfy only $8,000. Th« fees have never been over $38 any year since I had the office. There ara many dteounda for financial assistance from Ames-loans, who have become .randed abroad, that are hard for a man with a hcaix t» psatet. Socially the place is. line. Americans are respected abroad, whi.e cur relations with Russia arc especially pheasant."

Marries Her t«ry. St. Louis. Nov. 18.—Mrs. Josephine Schillig. reputed to be the wealthiest woman Port Gibson, Miss., and O. A. Cason, also of that city, were married here this afternoon. Three years ago Mr. SchiUig died. He was a rich banker, and left his widow an immense fortune. Mr. Cason was his (private secretary. The widow at once went abroad, and has just returned. The couple had corresponded, and met here by appointment.

\ounc Grant's Oelaratioo.

San Diego, Nov. 13.—In an interview in the Tribune, U. S. Grant was asked as to the desire of Californiaos to have him represent the state in the United States senate. Mr Grant said: "Unless the party leaders believe me available, I am not a candidate if they do. then I will use every energy and every honorable means to succeed. Obtaining public honors by dishonorable means shall never be charged up against my aame."

Young Deo by Resigns.

Washington, Nov. IS.—Charges Denby, Jr.. of Evan*ville, Ind., who has been secretary of legation a Pekin far twelve years, has resigned his office to accept the management of a new commercials syndicate that has been fenmed to promote trade between the United S.ates ar.d China. Jlr. Denby is now in this country completing his arrangements and will return, to Pekin about the let of January with a cargo of samffles of American machinery and other merchandise which are needed toy the Chinamen. He has the advantage of a wide acquaintance among the mandarins, he has the confidence of the government officials and is able ro speak the Chinese language auemly.

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MANY WERE INJURED

WRECK ON THK KANSAS CITT, FT. SCOTT & MEMPHIS ROAD.'

Several of TVem From Atwood, Ind.—The Train Went Off tb« Track and Oae Car Into the Blrer.

'Ka'nfrBs' City, Nov. 18.—Train No. 2 on the Kansas City, Ft. Scott Memphis, which left Birmingham last evening for Kansas City, w&s wrecked, just west of W lliford, Ark., at 3 o'clock this morning. The combination coach, chair oar and sleeper went over the bank, the river combination car going inti Spring river. The chair car and sleeper were both consumed. One passenger was fatally injured and about thirty or more leas seriously injured. It is believed none of the latter will die.- The list of injured follows:

Fatally: J. L. HOOVER, Pleasant Hill, Mo. More or'less seriously: Leopold Pollick, Little Rock, Ark. Clarence Murphy, Atwood, Ind. J. R. Morris, Baketsfleld, Mo. C. A. Ravenstein, wife and baby, Atwood, Ind. C. E. Merriweather, Sulphur Rock, Ark. "Ed Webb, Vernon N&)k, Mo. J. J. Altzchel, Little Rock W. j. Grant, Salem, Ark., briused and cut about .head M. T. Price, Beall, Ark., Injured about head W. B. gen, Oakland, Ark., injured about head and hands W. H. Boatner,. tjeeton, Mo., injured about head M. C. Hogen, Oakland, Cal., injured about the head Weatley Ivins, Atwood, Ind., injured about head -Mrs. A. D. Perkins, Hiral. Ark., extent.of injuries not known R. S. Guy, Monterey, Ind., arms hurt -Mrs. Smith, arms hurt Mrs. Prince, going to Ft. Smith, extent of injuries not known -her. son, a boy,-hurt about face and arnds M. Bailey, Fair Play, Ark., foot injured Mrs. Arnett, Mammoth Springs, Ark., back sprained W. -, Shesabel, Videtta, Ark., head injured.

HOW IT OCCURRED.

No. 2 is a fast through train from the South. Between Williford and 'Hardy /he Memphis tracks parallel the Spring river, a little stream running out of Mammoth Springs. The train was composed of the engine, mail and express car, baggage car, combination -coach, chair car and sleeper.

The combination car has a partition in the middle, one end being used as a' smoker and the other for colored passengers. When near Williford the engineer felt the train leap forward, and found that it had parted between the two day coaches. The last three cars bumped over the ties, the chair car and sleeper turning over on their side and the oombination car finally going into the river.

The most intense confusion prevailed. The engineer backed up the front part of the train and the work of rescue was immediately begun. The terror of the passengers who had gone down into the stream with the combination car was soon heightened by cries of alarm from the chair car and sleeper, both of which soon took fire.

The intense darkness added to the confusion and it was some time before an organized effort at rescue was put into effect by the train crew and those of the passengers who had been able to extricate themselves without aid. The passengers in the burning cars were luckily rescued before the fire had reached its height, and few those cars were injured.

RESCUING THE INJURED. It soon became apparent that the chair car and sleeper could not be saved and all efforts were put forth to rescue the unfortunate passengers of the combination car in the stream. Screams and cries for help were heard on all sides, and because of the darkness, rescue was difficult. As the flames from the two burning cars became brighter, the rescuers were enabled to work to better advantage.

Luckily, not one person was drowned, and it was not long before all had been accounted for and were being cared ror as well as possible. A telegram to Thayer, twentynine miles distant, brought a relief train in an hour or so, and the injured were taken to that city and placed in the hospital. Shortly before noon today Chief Surgeon Pettijohn of the Memphis road and Claim Agent Crater left Kansas City for Thayer and will bring the injured to this city.

The cause of the accident has not been ascertained, but it is thought that some portion of the forward truck of the smoker gave way. This will not be known positively until the wreck which is in the river has been recovered.

Atwood, Ind., in which several of the people injured in the wreck, whose names are given in the above dispatch, is a little town in Kosciusko county.

The train crew escaped injury. The wreck is the first one of a serious nature in the history of the Memphis Road, and if Mr. Hoover dies he will be, according to the statement of General Passenger Agent Lockwood the first passenger ever killed while riding on a train on that road.

In a Burnlne Freight Wreck. Huntington. W. Va.. Nov. 18.—In a freight wreck twenty miles south on the Norfolk & Western Railroad Ben B. Myers, engineer, of Kenova, was covered by debris, which caught fire. He was so "badly burned that he will die. Three others were injured, but not fatally.

Fx SOCIETY.

Miss Agnes McNabb, at her Bome on North Seventh street, entertained Wednesday evening, in honor of Miss Grace Brewer, of Tiffin, Ohio, who is the guest of Miss Lilian Jones. The evening's ehtertainment was very unique and highly amusing.^ The boys were ushered into the dining room where a light lunch was served them, while tho girls in their absence enveloped themselves in skees aud donned the. mask. Cosy corners were artistiially arranged throughout the house. Each girl fully disguised occupied one of these nooks. When all was in readiness the boys were shown in from the dining room and were told to propose to each girl six minutes, at the end of that time he was either accepted by being gi\ftn a tiny heart or rejected was -his proposal by a little mitten. After ea«h boy had proposed to all the girls and received his decree, their number of'hearts and mittens received were counted and four boys we*e found to tie for the first prise. By drawing

Arthur Stone received the first prize, a siiver key ring. Joe Richardson was awarded a pair of red mittens as- a consolation* prize. The guests were: Misses GraceBrewer, Lillian Jones, Gertie" Douglas, Effie Dobbs, Hill. Bessie Townley, Gretchenff Crawford, Birdella Smith, Messrs. Frank Jumper, Appelton, Smyth, Froeileh, Arthur Stone, Harper, Hamill and Joe Richardson/

Las evening at 7:30 o'elock, at. the home* I of the bride's parents. Mr.- and Mrs. Peter Best, of 913 South Fourth street, was celebrated the nuptials of Miss Amelia Best and Mr. Frank Aldred, of Nashville, Tenn. A circle of about twenty friends and relatives witnessed the ceremony, which was performed by Rev. Worth Tippy, of Centenary church. Miss Jennllee Samuels played the Mendelssohn wedding march as the btidal party entered the prettily decorr ated /parlor. The attendants were Miss Grac? Bidaman and Mr. A. G. Slemmons. The bride wore a beautiful gown of brown wi'hlrlca blue trimmings. A wedding sup-

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per-was »sarvs(L~iB- the--dining- room which tu bright with floral decorations. Ifr. Aldred is §l jtiOminent business man at Nashville, TCbfi. Mr. and Mrs. Aldred Will remain in this city uatii Monday, then will termrjr cWttch. 3*iss Genevieve 'Samuels go to Naslhriile, their future home. The following wera among those present: Mr. and 'Mg, Peter Beat, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Best, MiwBs Mayme Jones, Celia Hughes, Amelia B&chtold, of Martinsville, HI., Genevieve Samuels, Grace Bidaman, Messrs. Chas. Ault, Robert Samuels, Alvin G. Siemens and :a*uce Beet.

Miss^idFu Johnson of North Eighth street entertained a number of her friends with a progre^si^p anogrtm party Wednesday evening. The guests present were: Misses Jferian B&a'cn, Alice Moudy, Bessie Scott, Nellie Crwsen, Grace Ebel, Orbie Davis, Anna Marvin^ Hattie Whittenburg. Alice Rogers, Messrs." ^Osborne, McCibben, Bert Lyon, Tom Dlckerson, Charles Larson, George Phillips and Ned Austin. A number of regrets were received.

The Treble Clef club held its meeting last Monday night in the Y. M.. C. A. hall. There •was a large attendance and several newt selections were taken up for the first time. The club decided In favor of the organization of a Federation based on the constitution submitted by Mr. Wisely, Mrs. Kemp and Mrs. Adams by a unatxirftOuS Using vote. Mesdames Frank Wagner, Bertis McCormick, May Merring, Geo. Houghton and Miss Taylor wpre elected to membership. The next meeting of the club occurs on November 30 th/ i-,-,

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Tuesday evening Mrs. George Watkins, of South Twenty-fifth street, was pleasantly surprised by friends, it being her 62d birthday anniversary. Music, recitations and old fashioned games, furnished the evening's entertainment The guests were: Messrs. and Mesdames Chas. Lockman, E. Woolen, W. Woolen, SanJrey, Soules, Neal, Will Fugh, T. C. Whitlock, Alfred Pegg, John Irwin, Charles Ferguson, Mrs. Lockman and daughter, Mr. Chas. Stewart and daughter, Mrs. T. J. Patton, Mrs. and Mies Winehardt, Miss Alexander, MIsbcb Whitlock, Mr. Fred- Patton, Mr. Robert Alexander, and Mr. Charles Whitlock. ..."

Mrs,. Benjamin Hudnut, of this city, who is visiting at Lafayette, was given a card party by Mr. and Mrs. Alfred H. Dwer of that place.

Mrs. Edson W. Kidder assisted her mother, Mrs, J. J, -Harrison, of north Pennsylvania street Indianapolis, Wednesday evening, in entertaining the members of Roberts Park church, with a missionary tea.

Mr. and Mrs. James M. Tune entertained delightfully a few friends after the DeVere concept Tuesday evening for Mr. Arthur Ber^es^ord, who is a friend of Mrs. Tune's. Thg ,^Yening's entertainment naturally took the^iqfm of an informal musical. A three cours^, luncheon was served. Among those pr^s.etjt were Mr. and Mrs. Allyn Adams, Airi Dittrich, Miss Jessie Perdue, Miss Lord, of Springfield, Mo., who is Mrs. Tune's guest, Miss (aude Paige, Mr. Dittrich, Mr. Fred Paige, Mr. Beresford, Mr, Howard Updegraff and Mr. Fritz Reimgn.

•Mr. and Mrs. Finley C. McNutt will celebrate their wedding anniversary this evening at their home on South Center streat.

Mrs. Dr. Schell w'ill entertain this afternoon in honor of Miss Mitchell of Bedford.

Professor Oskar Duenweg will give a reception to his pupils this evening at his academy. ,,

Mrsr. 'W. W. Adamson will entertain bc*r friebds with a cai'd' party this afternodn.

Ft Wayne, Ind., Nov. 17.—At the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Justin N. Study this afternoon at 4 o'clock their daughter, Mies Edna Study and Mr. Joseph D. Harper of Terre Haute were united in marriage. The wedding was very quiet, the Rev. A. W. Seabrease of the Episcopal Church officiating. The bride is the eldest daughter of Professor Study, now superintendent of the public schools, recently moving from Richmond. He is a member of the state board of education. Mr. Harper is a son of Mrs. Elizabeth Bradford Harper, formerly of this 8tatQ, but now of Durango, Colo. Mr. Harper is professor of ci,vil engineering at Rose Polytechnic Institute.

The Dirigo Dancing Club gave its regular monthly dance at Duenweg'6 Hall last evenv.

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CliVer were onited in mairiage Wednesday evf&ing at 7:30 o'clock by the Rev. W. N. pu'fln of Montrose Church. The ceremony, wh^ch took place at the home furnished by ihet'groom, was witnessed by the relatives »ind a few friends only. They will take no trij$* but will go to housekeeping at once ato.1401 South Ninth street. Mr. Cliver is an employe of the Moore & Laugen Co. and is well, known in the city.

Mr. and Mrs. Louis Gerhardt gave a recepiion Wednesday evening at their home, 620 South Thirteenth street, in honor of Jeremiah Fitzgerald and bride.

Announcement is made of the weflding of Miss Jennie Woodward and Mr. Amos Huxley, which will occur next month. Mr. Amos Huxley is a well known young man in the'employ of the Vandalia ticket department.^ ..

The Johnnie Cinch Club met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Zeigler, on North Eighth street, Wednesday evening. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. John Weinbrecht, Mr. and Mrs. John Adams, John Kadel, Miss Emma Horn, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dengler -and Mr. and Mrs. Chancey Hutibte The flrst prizes were won by Mrs. John Adams and John Kadel. The booby prizes were won by Miss Emma Horn and ChaHcy" Hubblfe

Mr. Charles-Werner was given a surprise Wednesday evening at his home. Tenth and Linden. "The occasion was' his 51st birthday^ Mr. Werner was presented with a handsome chair.

Miss Gertie Slmms, Wednesday being her birthday, was given a party by her friends on that evening. Present were: Amos Brown, Nancy Robinson, Mable Myers, Len Oliver, George Purdy, Isaac Vanderhook, Roccene Morris, James Morris, Willie Fugett, Mamie Panwn. John Morris, May Cline, Fred Starks, Orval Conine, Roberta Conine, Charley Purdy, Melmer Wiggins, Gertie Burger, Willie Scott and others.

About 100 friends of Mr. and Mr. Silas W. S nod grass gave them a pleasant surprise Wednesday evening at their home, corner of Fifteenth and Third avenue.

A UNION SERVICE.

Churches of Terre Haute to Unite for Thanksgiving Services.

All of the Protestant churches of the city will unite On next Thursday in a grand Thanksgiving service. The joint meeting will be held in the First Methodist church, and Rev. W. W. Witmer, of the Central Christian church, will deliver the sermon. The collection taken at the meeting will go to the Ladies' Aid Society and other charities of the city. The music will be in the hands of the First church choir.

MUSIC CLDB-MEETS

AN UNUSUALLY LONG PROGRAMME RBNDBRfcD list RVRNINO.

Tbe Meetlnc For Narrexnber 4th fascponea Until JLMt Night aad Made a Part of That For Noraraber ISth.

The printed programme of the work for 1897-8 planned by the Terre Haute Musical Club has just appeared. It is a neat affair from the standpoint of typography and embraces a large variety of subjects of interest to musicians. Two meetings are held by the organization each month. Papers are read on musical questions and the club enjoys a little of the delectable thing about which it thinks and talks. In plainer words, at each meeting there are performances upon the piano and other instruments by members of the club.

According to the programme the first meeting of the new year was to have been held on November 4th. For some reason it was postponed and last evening a long programme was rendered including features meant for November 4th as well as those for November 18th. The session began early and lasted until late. It was held at Paige's music store on Main street and W&s largely attended. The following is' the programme that was' to have been given November 4th:

MISCELLANEOUS.'—

ChaaBts Sand ParoCas TSChalkowaky felilfl RWhardson, -Mrs. H*.zc!din«, Miss Schwedce, Mrs. Oluner. Current Ev«mts ....."Mrs. Donham (a) KraKDW'iak Faderewski (to) Nocturne '. Chopin (c) Hark! Hack! The Lark Schubert-Liszt

Mrs. MoUenftauer.

Thine Bohm Miss Paige. (a) Romanza KVrtltag (b) Scene cbe Bail

Jet ...DeBeriot Mr. Richardson.

Caprice. 'E&paenol Moskowftki Mrs. 'Mdlienhauer. Chairman .Mrs. Ray Jeuckcs

The programme for November 18 was as follows: MISCELLANEOUS.'. (a) Spuming Song Lltolff (to) Moments Musi: ale a Moskowski

Mies Rlhoad.es.

(a) Romanze (Faust) Gounod (b) Torreadtor Hbla Trot&re Mr. Mcwhinney. Duo, 'Nocturne Thern 'Misses Richardson and Schwedee. Current Eve nits .....Mias Floyd Evening Gabussl (Mr. aud Mr*. D»n Davis. Vofcn Solo Selected

Mr. Breinig.

(a) Berceuse Gtodard (b) Snow (Flakes Cowen (c) At Parting Rogehs

MSss Ivtos.

(a) Btud-e u\Ilg jionne Sehubt (b) Tendre Aveu Sohutt Mias Pence.

At last evening's meeting Mrs. H. V. Allen acted ad chairman. There is a differen chairman at every meeting. While the programme was long it was not tiresome. On the contrary, it was much enjoyed throughout. The next meeting will be held December 2d and the last meeting of this year December 16th. At the first Gade will occupy the attention of the, club and at the second Beethoven. At the meeting December 2d Mr. Schellschmidt of Indianapolis will be present and will play a cello solo. During 1898 the club wilt consider Mendelsohn, Schumann, Grieg, Chopin, Raff, Schuber and various American composer?.

The officers of the Terre Haute Musical Club are as follo'ws: President, Mr. Ernest G. Alden vice president, Mr. Spencer F. Ball secretary, Mrs. Walker Schell treasurer, Mr. R. L. Alder -libririun, Miss Sarah B. Floyd..

The executive committee is composed of Mr. John Aikman, Mrs. S&muel Bridwell and Mr. Spencer F. Ball. The programme committee is a& follows: Mrs. John E. Lamb, Miss L. Eva Alden, Miss 'Elizabeth Ivins, Mrs. Dan Davis and Miss Sarah B. Floyd. The membership committee: Mr. A. Z. Foster. Miss Alice Warren, Mrs. E. T. Hazeldlne, Miss Lena Weinstein and Mrs. Ray G. Jenckes.

Members—Mr. L. P. Alden, Mr. E. G. Alden, Miss L. Eva Alden, Mis. Helen V. Allen, Mr. R. L. Alder, Mr. John Alkman, Mrs. John Aikman, Mrs. W. W. Adamson, Mr. Spencer F. Ball, Mrs. Spencer F. Ball, Miss Mary Beach, Mrs. George Brosius, Mrs. W. H. Baker, Mrs. S. L. Bridwell Miss Lucia Brokaw, Mr., Dan Davis, Mrs. Dan Davis, Miss Josephine Dougleee, Mrs. A. H. Donham, Mrs. William Donaghoe, Mr. A. Z. Foster, Mrs. Sarah B. Floyd. Mrs. W. O. Fishback, Mrs. Emil Froeb, Miss Grace Foote, Mrs. M. A. Howe, Mr. E. T. Hazeldine, Mre. E. T. Hazeldine, Mrs. Charles Hamill, Miss Anna B. Hoffman, Miss Carrie Hyde, Miss Bertha Hoberg, Miss Elizabeth Ivins, Mrs. R. G. Jenckes, Miss Grace Jenckes, Miss Lillian Jones, Mrs. W. H. Jackson, Mrs. Marcus Kidder, Mrs. John E. Lamb, Miss Helen Layman, Mrs. W. R. Mall. 'Mrs. Edgar Miller, Dr. C. L. Mees, Mrs. Samuel McKeen, Mrs. Walter Murphy, Mrs. Fannie OBoyle, Mrs. Charles Ohmer, Miss Elizabeth Pushee, Miss Vena Richardson, Mrs. S. M. Reynolds, Mrs. Walker Schell, Miss Otelia Schwedes, Miss Vivian Strother, Miss Beatrice Srnders, Mrs. Allen Thomas, Miss Nellie Talley, Mrs. J. M. Tune, Mrs. John Warren, Miss Ailce Warren, Miss Fannie Warren, Miss Katherine Wiley, *rs. George Wheedon, Miss Lena Weinstein.

Associate Members—Mrs. W. C. Eicbelberger. Miss Kate (^arvin. Mrs. Anton Hulman, Mrs. W. O. Jenkins, Mr. Jay H. Keyes, Mis. J- H. Keyes, Mrs. J. H. Kleiser, Miss Edith McKeen, Mrs. George Maier, Mrs. Charles Minshall, Miss Helen Minshall, Miss Jennie Steele, Miss Martha Williams, Dr. J. P. Worrell. •Honorary Members—Mr. Peter Breinig, Mr. Harry Richardson.

HENRY CLAY JOHNSON HANGED.

He Murdered an Inoffensive St^ Louis Newsboy. St. Louis, Nov. 18.—Heenry Clay Johnson, murderer, was hanged at 6 this mornign for the murder of William Amend, a newsboy, whom he shot on the night of August I. 1896. He died gamely. The murder was (he result of a game of "craps," which was being played in "Newsboys' alley" by a number of newsboys and. Johnson, who had a bootblack stand near by. Amend was not playing but Johnson for some unknown reason, claimed he was cheating, and shot him dead. Amend was an Inoffensive toy, and his murderer was known aa a bully among the newsboys and bootblacks.

Hanped Bjr a Mob. '*1'

Bryan, Tex., Nov. 18.—Last night, at the Allen farm, near here, while gambling for pecans, a negro named "General" Chetham was stabbed twice and killed. Another negro, Tom Sweal, was arrested for the crime, and while b^ing conveyed to Milllcan by a posse was taken from his guards and strung up to the limb of a tree. The vigilantes are said to have been negroes.

A RIVER STEAMER BURNED.'

The Bluff City, One of the Finest Boats on the Mississippi.

Sit. Louis, Nov. 18.—The magnificent new Anchor line steamer Bluff City, one of tbe finest and newest boats on the lower Mississippi, which left here on Wednesday, bound for New Orleans, with forty passengers and 1,000 tons of miscellaneous freight on board, was burned to the water's edge at Chester. 111., "59 miles below here, at. 9 a. m. today. All the passengers aad crew escajied to land without injury, but nothing on board was" saved. The loss, which is total will aggregate $100,900. A number of

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When the flames reached the powder mag-* azine there was a tremendous explosion, which shattered the beat and caused It to sink to the bottom of the^ river. Numerous window panes in buildings on shore were broken, and the town of Chester was badly shaken.

MlSSIHtr PEOPLE.

The Great Mystery Which Sarrounda Thilf. Disappearance and What Becomes j| of Them. .Jl "Scarcely a day passes that we do not read in the newspapers of some man or woman who is reported missing and in the majority of cases these people forsake happy homes without any earuly reason for doing so and their fate ofj:en becomes a mystery." "The cause of these disappearances ha» excited widespread discussion of late, an«| some of our best novelists have founded thrilling romances on this strar.se subject. But no one has yet been able to find an an* stver to the question, 'What becomes of these missing people?' "Perhaps the best explanation of the mystery may be found in the words of a New York physician who is a keen observer. According to his theory tnese people are sufferers from various disastrous maladies from which they gain no relief. Th-ilr surroundings eventually become unbearable to thtm. In their diseased imaginations they fancy everybody is an enemy although surrounded by friends. Driven to despair, they at last forsake their homes, and become wanderers on tho face of the earth or else—which is very probable—commit suicide." "Any person who is not in perfect health is liable to meet with this terrible fate. Even those who fancy themselves strong, well and mentally sound may become unhappy, morose and despairing. The piousness of these facts should cause every man and woman to stop, consider and see If le or she is really well. There are so many dreadful diseases that, show no symptoms but ruin the life even before we know it. The worst of all troubles of this kind arises from uric acid poison, which, being in the blood, not only causes rheumatism, nturaU gia and gout, but often affects the mind c.r the vital organs. Now, the cailse of urlo acid in the system or in the blood is because the kidneys are either too weak or too diseased to throw it from the system. When the uric acid is not discharged it remains in the blood, poisons the body and often the mind and causes disease and too fre-. quently death."

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this uric acid? This can only be done by helping the kidneys, which may have been weakened, to throw it out and chat j.iickiyi\M "You, reader, who scans these pages may1"1 be in precisely this condition and yet not realize it, but if you are awakened and realize the sense of these great truths, you must' know that there is but one great and reliable discovery of the present day that cim help you in sjich a case and that is Warner's Safe Cure. All the columns of this paper could be filled with the grateful htatementa of men and women not only in America bj_t all over the world, who have been not aloha assisted but absolutely cured by the use of this great modern, scientific remedy. It is pure, and pleasant to take, it produces a prompt and agreeable effect, tnd it iur* nishes relief •whenever used."

Borinr the Bore.

Thero you have it," laughed the bank er as ho closed the door. "You persist in doing the talking and a bore will run every time."—Detroit Froe Press.

Fight In'Ohlo is Over.

New York Nov.- 18.—Senator'^iinna of Ohio was asked today asvtt the Situation la Ohio. He replied: ''Why, me.fight jn Ohio is over."

Asked as to the attitude of Governor Busbnoll and Senator Foraker in the recout contest he said: "Oh. I can't say anything about that. It would be very bad taste." Senator Hanna expects to return to Ohio next Sunday.-

There la a ClaM of People

Who are injured by the use of coffee. Recently there has been placed in all tbe grotery stores a new preparation called GRAl-V 0, made of pure grains that takes the place of coffee. Tbe most delicate stomach re-, ceives it with out distress, and but few caa tell it from coffee. It does not cost over one-quarter as much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15c and 25c a pack-, age. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O.,,

Guardian For Mt»a Clsnero*. Special to tbe Indlanaoolis News. Washington, Nov. 18.—Mrs. John A. Logan has agreed to accept the guardianshipu of Evangeline Cisneros, who was rescucd from the Spanish prison. Mrs. Logan Hill qualify in the Orphans' Court of Washington tomorrow. Her Cuban ward will be admit-1 ted to the Academy of Visitation in Washington.

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Como in and see how I get rid of bores. You've often asked my recipe and I about to deal with one of the most virulent of his type.'' It was an old banker speaiking, and he showed his guest into the private office. "Hello, Orpey!" began the bore ab sight. ".Tust dropped in to have a talk about poor Lipsey. I suppose"— "Yes, of course, neglected his business,.r, gambled away enormous sums of money, fell a victim to the terrible curse of Intemperance, dissipated his fortune, and even lost his home. Too bad!'' "Awful! But did you hear''

Certainly. Tried to drown his sorrows in deeper potations than ever, lost bis trial situation in a commercial house, was branded a bad egg and left to his own resources. Drifted away into a great city, family suffered, he braced up, found honest employment, won friends and was doing well, everything considered." "That's right, but"— "So I heard. Back with us again: He* has a fine position, looks like his old self. ... and everybody happy." "Do you think he'll"—

I know he will. A few old calamityitcs think otherwise, but he's all right. Wo have him for dinner tomorrow night. Goes to the Uppios next night." "No? I hope"— "That's all right. So do the rest of us." "Well, good day. Pretty busy these times."

WiUkmsion, Mich., Nov. 18.—John Burgees. a youth of 19, last night shot and killed George Hart at Meridian, a hamlet four ', miles west. Hart, who was engaged »otf| marry Burgess" sister, disguised oi«'.!£ a cowboy and tried to frighten Burgc-R?. beraate angry and killed the supposed tramp.!?

It is estimated that over $40,000,000 a year are spent for manuring pvirpctfcCS in the United States.

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