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infr. after a short Illness. She was seventy years old and quite well known. New Candidate In Twelfth District. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE, Ind., Dec. 17. Republican politics In the Twelfth congressional are getting exceedingly warm to the five candidates already in the field for delegate to the St. Louis convention. Another was added to-day. Henry Hanna, a leading attorney, for. years prominent in politics here, was announced as a candidate. Mr. Hanna's preferences are first for Mr. Ree6 and second for Mr. Harrison. He has long been an admirer of Mr. Reed. He also ati' mires Harrison . for the record he made' when President, for his abilities as statesman and lawyer, and should either Ret tha nomination he will be an influential suk porter. Mr. Hanna has never asked a'?;.thins of his party, but has, been finally persuaded In this case because those urging it believe he will be a man of value in the national convention. . RocLport Mob Bluffed Away. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ROGIvPORT. Ind., Dec. 17. At 2. o'clock this morning: a mob appeared at the county Jail and demanded of Sheriff Nunn that he deliver John Tlnsley, the colored desperado In jail, charged with assault and battery with, intont to kill Deputy Marshal James Fagan. The sheriff, with revolver in hand, stood in the jail door and appealed to the mob to disperse, and assured the participants that they would have to kill him to reach Tlnsley's cell. Seeing the sheriffs determination, and evidently desirinr to do him no harm, the mob disappeared. Before leaving' the leader told the sheriff thev would return soon, reinforced, and warned him not to Interfere. The mob dropped a s'.edse in the jail yard, and several hundred persons have viewed it to-day. Much excitement. AValmali College Trustees Meet. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CRAWuRDSVILXE. Ind., Dec. 17. The semi-annual meeting of the board of trustees of' Wabash College was held this afternoon. Besides the resident trustees the others In attendance were Dr. W. P. Kane, of Bloomlngton, 111.; William P. Hubbard, Indianapolis; Dr. Hutchlngs, New Albany, and C. I. Landls. Delphi. The resljnatlon of Blackford Condlt, 'of Terre Haute, as a trustee, was received, but not acted on. A committee, composed of JuJse Hubbard and A. D. Thomas, of thl3 city, was appointed to draft a memorial concerning the death of Hon. J. M. Butler, a trustee. The report of the president was quite lengthy, and brought out the general progressitrentss of the college, and the treasurer's report showed the finances to be in good shape . Pnere'a Slnyer on Trlnl Ajrnln. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARTINSVILLE. Ind-. Dec 17.-On the night of April 2S, ISM, Hiram Gregory, of Brooklyn, was shot and killed by Elbert Page. Page was tried and convicted at the November term of court following, and sentenced to serve two years in the penitentiary. He had served six month?, when he was erantcd a new trial by the supremeCourt. Tho second trial is now on in the Circuit Court here before Judge Hadley, or Danville. The State's attorneys are Prosecuting Attorney Joseph Williams, of Spencer; Holsteln & Barrett, of Ind.anapolls, and Harrison & Renner. of this city. Ihe defendant is represented by 'ks. Sherlev and Oscar Matthews, of this city, and John C. Robinson, of Spencer. The Kellnr Taken to Terre Ilante. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. fftOCKVILLE, Ind.. Dec 17. Sheriff Mull to-day took Daniel Keller, Anna Keller, his wife, and Maggie Keller, sister to Daniel Keller, to Terre Haute, where their trial has been venued. The Kellers did not talk much. Thev are charged with the murder of Clara Shanks last July. The girl was missed lor two days and her body was found in a pool in Wolfe Creek Falls, near the Fountain county line. The Kellers were arrested for the crime and bound over to court after aa exciting preliminary trial, when the people talked lynching. It Is a murder about which there is much mystery and promises to be an Interesting trial. ' Tried to Force the Girl to Marry Special to the Indianapolis Journal. DANVILLE, Ind.. Dec. 17. Warrants were taken to-day for the arrest 6f Wil liam Gillaa and William Johnson ttr con

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DI3POSED OF WITHOUT DELAY. Tb Tbree-Committee Plan Adopted by the House After a Partisan De bateMr. Johnson Speech. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Decs. .-Representative Johnson again took a prominent part in the House debate to-day, preceding the adoption of the resolution establishing three election committees. As on the previous occasion. Mr. Johnson took occasion to reply sharply to the statement and allegations of exSpeaker Crisp. Mr. Johnson said that he always enjoyed seeing the monotony of the House broken by a ray of humor, but that he thought there had been a little too much levity in the debate, considering the Im portance of the question involved; that there had also been, in his opinion, a great deal said in the nature of partisan crimina tion, which threw no light on the subject. and that ha wanted, if possible, to get the debate back Into proper channels. The right of a member to his seat, he said, was a question of the highest privilege. It should be met and determined always at the very threshold of a legislative session. This was Just to the contesting parties and Just to the people. No member who was not legally elected should be permitted to hold on to a I seat. Every minute that he did so constltuted not only a wrong to the contesting party, but was a misrepresentation of the people who had elected him. Mr. Johnson said that the statistics showed thirty-two contested election, cases pending, and that every old member of the House knew that It would, Judging by past experience, not be possible with only one committee to dispose of over one-third of them. Mr. Johnson also declared that the adoption of the proposed rule would discourage trivial contests and the usuroation of spatsi m n-wti 4 the usurpation of seats to which candidates were not elected; that it would also be a saving of money paiu every term of Congress to members finally ousted from seats to which they were not entitled, but who drew pay for all th t! them. The speaker said that the Constitu tion imperatively required Congress to Judge or the election and quahrtcation of its members and that it would be a dereliction for Congress to disobey this Injunction; that three committees were proposed, not to do injustice, but to do Justice: and that the argument of Mr. Crisp was wholly by way of anticipation, when he opposed the action for no better reason than that he feared that the Republicans would use the three committees for partisan purposes; that the gentleman had been unable to make any other argument against the proposition and offered nothing whatever himself towards the solution of the difficulty by which the House was confronted In the matter of con tested election cases. Mr. Johnson further said that the honor of a seat in Congress depended not in the mere fact of its manual possession, but on the clearness of its title and integrity and ability with which it is ttlled, and that no man who had a Just cause need fear to submit it to an early adjudication of the House. Mr. Johnson tnen replied to certain statements made by Mr. Crisp, during the course of his remarks and concluded by declaring that, so far as . ne was concerned, ne proposed to be governed in the matter of contested election cases solely by the law and the evidence, and that he knew enough of the members of the majority to believe that they were all of them animated by a similar motive: that whatever had been tne Dast uraetiefs the time had now arrived when a man should neither be seated nor unseated because of his politics, but a nrecedent should be es tablished which would be alike honorable to the House and Just to tho country. An Associatea i-ress aispatcn gays: while the time of the House was mainly absorbed to-day in a debate on the Republican plan to create three comur'utees of nine members each to deal v. th the election con tests, its Interest was centered on the President's message. The debate on the lection committee plan was fruitful of partisan discussion of election methods in the House and the Republican policy of dealing with contests in the Fifty-first Congress. The principal speakers were Cannon, of Illinois, Dalzell, Johnson, of Indiana, and Powers, Republicans, and Crisp, Bartlett. Wheeler and Bailey, Democrats. The discussion drifted into the Kvans-Turney gubernatorial contest and Mr. McMillin in quired what that had to do with the propo sition "to make a hydra-headed elections committee," and asserted that there were na contests from Tennessee. There followed a good-natured running fire between Messrs. Cannon and Cox, af:er which Mr. Crisp announced that ho was opposed to the plan, and charged Mr. Cannon with seeking to excite sectional prejudices and not stating facts in bis attempt, ine pro portion of contests against Northern Democrats was greater than against Southern, he said. He had read extract? from the lt?rord showintr how the Republican ma jority in the Fifty-first Congress had dealt with election contests. 1 he three committee plan was finally adopted by a party vote. Republican Senatorial Caucus. WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. The Republican senatorial caucus to-day adopted the action of the committee on committees with but very little opposition. The chairman and the personnel of the most' important com mittees have been given in these dispatches. Thero has been some talk' about the finance committee of the Senate being organized In the interest of free coinage, but thi3 com mittee wao a free coinage committee In the last Congress. The retirement of Mr.' McPherson makes it even stronger as it stands now. The Republicans add one free coinage and one anti-free-coinage man to the membership. After the action of the committee on committees had been adopted there was a long discussion over the proposition to change and shorten the name of the select committee to Inquire into the claims of citizens of the United States against Nicaragua, it being claimed that the prop osition to change tne name might take the Nicaragua canal bill from the com mittee on foreign relations, to wnicn members of that committee objected. A call for a Republican caucus to-morrow will be asked for the purpose of nominating officers of the Senate. Patents Granted Indlanlnna. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. Patents were granted to-day to the following residents of Indiana: John C. Ballew, Evansville, assignor of one-half to .Frontier iron works, Detroit, saw filing machine; George E. Blake, Greencastle, vehicle wheel rim; Willis W. Charles, Evansville, and It. W. King, Wichita, Kan., compound railway rail; Thomas Duncan, Fort Wayne, electric motor; William C. Dunn, Logansport, bicycle; George It. Ellis and W. Helfenberger, Indianapolis, metallic fence post; Robert W. Farrell. Vincennes, switch-working mechanism: Hiram H. Glbbs, Indianapolis, cushioned horse shoe: Peter E. Good, Etna Green, as signor of one-half to II. Zimmerman. Leesburg, tnrasning macnine; ivin it. vnaaier, Peru, stitching Jack; Samuel Mann, Mllford. furnace one-hal; sors for grate; jonn a. Myers, assignor of half to E. P. Blaun, Monroe City, scisfor splicing purposes; lii rsewsom, i-a-fayette, means ror irrigation; wMoses n. Ward, assignor to C. D. Knisely and E. J. Kundard, Auburn, cnurn. Three Ifooslem Get House Placet. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. The following appointments of Indlanlans have been made In the House: Representative Leighty has appointed Hugh Stewart, of Tort Wayne, to be a messenger at $1,200 per annum; Representative Hemenway has appointed Home J. Dillingham, of Boonevllle, to be a folder In the document room at swu.per annum; Representative Hatch has appointed Capt. D. M. Graves, of Morocco, to be a folder at $900 per annum. Captain Uassett Still Alive. WASHINGTON. Dec. 17. At midnight j Captain Isaac Bassett. the veteran doorkeeper of the Senate, who has been sinking all day and evening, was still alive. His pulse had ceased to beat and his death was momentarily expected. Mar Festival Reorganization. Tho May festival chorus held ita second rehearsal at High School Hall last night. In a short address Prof. Arena mentioned the matchless organization apparent in the chorus of the last festival and advised a

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continuance of the same policy, assuring the chorus that It would lead to still great er perfection. At the conclusion of Prof. Arens's address the chorus perfected Its re organization. Monday night was decided upon as the regular rehearsal night. There will be no lapse of rehearsals on account of the holidays. The following committee on membership was then selected. Mrs. Jameson, Mrs. Watson, Mr. Andrew Smith and Mr. J. II. Humann. Tho rules under which the choru3 did such effective work at tho last festival were unanimously readopted. HE HELD TWO LIVE WIRES. A Brother of Sergeant Loire In a Crit ical Condition. Beck Lowe, a brother of Sergeant John Lowe, has been employed by the atreetrailroad company for a number of years. Since the Introduction of the electric sys tem he has been employed about the power house. Yesterday afternoon he accidentally caught hold of two live wires and was un able to let go. His hands were terribly burned, and the shock rendered him uncon scious. He was thrown to the ground, where he lay for some time before discov ered by fellow workmen. They succeeded in , releasing him rrom tne wires ana ne was pent home. He Is In a very critical condition, but it is thought he will recover. Colbert nt Home Again. Superintendent Colbert arrived home from a week's trip through the East yesterday afternoon. During his absence he visited Washington and New York. The superintendent says he saw Congressman Henry and spent some time with him on the floor of the House. Mr. Henry seemed at home in his new surroundings. The superintendent's trip, he says, was in relation to purely personal matters. "Mr. Winlow, Southing Syrnp Has been used over fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, llvvs pain, cures wind colic, regulates the bowels, and Is the best remedy for diarrhea, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow Soothing Syrup. 25c a bottle. Put them down. Remember that If coughs, colds and other affections of the lungs and throat are not met in the beginning with the proper antidote they may soon become fatal. Put them down with Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar. It la infallible. Sold by all druggists. Pike's Toothache Drops cure in 1 minute. ijuWomenwis And Women Only Are most competent to fully appreciate the purity, sweetness, and delicacy of Cutxcvra Soap and to discoTcr new tises for it daily. In the form of washes, solutions, etc., for distressing Inflammation, irritations, and weaknesses of the mucous membrane, or too free or oHenslvo perspiration. It has proved most grateful. CniccBA Boat appeals to the refined and cultivated everywhere, as the most effective stln purifying and beautifying soap, as well as purest and sweetest for toilet, bath, and nursery. Sold throughout th vorM.aml rpelatty j ErjIh id Aov'tean rhctnUM la all tti rijncip! cil. DriUvh drpr ti V. .Niwaitr Kmi, 1. Err r-Mrt-.. Jxwdoa. Funis tava ft tiiia. twi?., bo It , Uotun, v. b. A.

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O'Clock Only special inducements: Children's Suits To-night, from 7 to 9 oalj, we N shall offer fifty K Children's h Junior Suits sizes 3 to 7 worth $3.50 and 5i ior Men's Pants if To-nigh t, from 7 to 9 only, we (f (shall offer about 150 pairs of fine a 0 0 all-wool 4 odds and ends of lines that sold at A $4, $4.50 and $5, for A v Muffler Sale To-night, from 7 to 9 only, ya we shall offer 25 dozen Cash- K mere Mufflers, worth 50c, 75c, V $1, for A v not to smoke? question, try a AUl'SEUENTS. Xmas :: Theaters Grand, December, 24 and 25 STUART ROBSON. nTpeiday Nlfcht The IUt!." Xmas Mttlnes aaS ilgta "cioTernmeut Acceptance. English's, Dec 23, 24 and 25 XMAS MATINEE Tim Unrpliy in Hoyt's "A TEX4S STEER" Park, December 23, 24 and 25 FLORENCE DINDLEY , in "Tho NewCptnln, Mate All Xma matinee prices 6ame u night. Se&ts to morrow at lue itmiruKe. PHICES. 10c, 20c, 30c MAT I MIC! DAILY. This Afternoon and To-Nlsht Tfce scenic success of the season, THE HMGHT SPECIAL To-morrow.. ..THE FKODIGAL FATnEE, Ever) body goes to tlie PAItK. Seat st thw Pembroke. Matinee nt S. TMht at 8. 10c, 13c, 23c. 13c, 23c, 50c. - Tfce Original anl Only Nick. Roberto HumptyDumpty and - Double Specialty Troupe 3 CLOVUNS 3 CrlmalJI, Dromeoand Pedro, Next II. X. eainon's Kxuav&ff&nza. YALE GLEE and BANJO CLUBS GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Monday Eveoinx, Dec. 23. Adrance sale opens Thursday mornlny, at rcnbrcl ArcaJ. ItEsr.ItVED SEAT fl.00 OE.NhllAL ADMISSION' Wc Cutlery A beautiful lot of pearl-handla goods for Holiday Presents. LILY & STALNAKER. IS D f C ATI 0 HAL. A Nitlonil Reputation 45 Years' Sticilri UK VAST A STRATTON S business urlivEnsrr u YLf& itulMtrg, r mo-leird. Ma;rniHent Quarter larg jHsrinanrut t acuity. I luet lnuen la Oat tralitutr. & atudetiU annual!?. Jw hb.I-uu tulering Oallf. VUltors IflTrteu. Mctator for asj MzhlfeUiwrol . liLLU, rrc:ruiO

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