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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-27
LEGAL STATUS OF POKER.
A st. Louis Jurist Holds that 1t Is a Game
of Chance, and Not a Science.

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 26.-Judge Noon an, in the
Court of Criminal Correction, decided this
afternoon, in the case of the State vs. DON
nelly that poker is a game of chance, and as
such comes under the Johnson law, which
makes gaming felony. Donnelly is man
who claims to have lost So, 500 during fair
week, in a game of faro conducted by Jacob
Gardner and Dink Davis
Judge Noonans decision will probably
have the effect of closing all pokerrooms in
the city, quite a number of which have been
running, or perhaps been permitted to run,
since the Johnson law went into effect, I'M
der the impression or belief that poker was
game of science rather than chance, and,
therefore, it did not come within the statute.
Donnelly claims to have lost the above sum
in private game of faro at one of the leading
hotels, during fair week. He 'squealed" on
the game, and brought suit against Gardner
and Davis for fraud. Donnelly keeps poker
rooms, and, to get even, Davis brought an
action against him under the Johnson law,
with the above result The fight is entirely
among gamblers, but out of it has come
decision defining the status of poker, and
the police commissioners will very likely
order the chief of police to close all card
rooms in the city.
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THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY.
Investigating Serious Charges Made Against
the Monopoly.

HARRIsBURG, Oct. 26.-The legislative COM
mittee appointed to investigate the charges
that the Standard Oil Company had paid
money to have suppressed certain testimony
obtained by the State in its suit against the
company, held another session to-day
Senator Emery, of Mexican county, was the
principal witness. His testimony was quite
long and in substance related to the doings
of L. G. Patterson, to whom he said he had
loaned while he was in Europe $4,000 to
work against the Standard Company
and endeavor to furnish sufficient
evidence upon which the State could
assess the stock of the corporation. This
money was subsequently paid back by Pat
terson Where Patterson got it the witness
did not know, but he did believe it was paid
Patterson for suppressng any evidence re-
lating to the company. He believed
Patterson to be an honest man, and knew he
had for years been bitterly fighting the
Standard Company. The Senator said, from
what he could learn, he believed the COM
pany had simply paid Patterson 81, 500 for
his peace in order to have him cease fight
ing the company. He knew of no unlawful
proceedings.
Senator Emery's law partner, A. HI. Logan,
was called, but knew nothing about the af-
fair. The committee adjourned to meet in
New York
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General Belief that Wheat Has Nearly
Reached Its Lowest Price.
An Improved Condition of Affairs Reported
from the EAst-A Couple of Indiana
Faitures-Business Notes.
LIGHT TRADING.
Brokers Complaining of the Small Volume
RuSiness

Brokers Complaining of the Small Volume
of Business.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
CHICAGO, Oct. 26.-It was a dull day on
Change. All speculative markets were de-
pressed, and there was considerable break
in short-rib sides. The decline was about &c
in the October option, which has been cor
nered to some extent for month past.
Armour is said to have the street short
for about 5,0o00 600 pounds, which cost him
&c on an average, but most of the outstanding
contracts will be settled on basis OF about
Mc profit The premium of October over the
deferred futures has ruled about Soc but this
is expected to disappear within the next few
days. Pork and lard slumped off 15c on
large receipts, and there was a decline in the
price of hogs.
1t was brokers' market in the cereals, and
the fluctuations were confined within a mar
row range. Wheat declined &c, but was
trife stronger on call, with transactions
mostly in December
Corn was dull and closed about the same
as yesterday, with firmer feeling on call,
and sales largely of May.
The other markets were lifeless and brok-
ers are complaining of the small volume of
business
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Honoring SeO,OOO,OOO.

MILWAUKEE, Oct. 26-Alex. Mitchell, pres
ident of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railroad, and whose wealth is esti-
mated at $2O,000 600, was rendered
grand reception and banquet
to-day by leading citizens in honor of his
safe return from Europe. A Lighthouse
squadron and citizens in carriages escorted
him from the depot to the Academy
of Music, where Hon. E. d.
Holton delivered an address of welcome, and
Mr.. Mitchell responded. AT the Pankinton
House, in the evening, one hundred favored
citizens sat down to a banquet and toasts
were made and replied to. A telegraphic
letter of regret from Samuel ]. Tilden was
read ana also regrets from many prominent
Eastern capitalists.
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THE INDEsTRUCTIBLE MULE.
In the Service Since 1919, and Now Practi
callY on the Pension List.


cally on the Pension List.
WAsHINGToN, Oct. 26-Lieutenant Kobbe,
stationed at Mt. Vernon barracks, Alabama,
has reported to the War Department that
white mule which had been at that post
forty-five years, was about to be sold, and
the officers requested permission to buy
him and keep him at their own expense.
The petition went through the regular chan
nels, and General Sherman submitted the
case to the Secretary of War; with the fol-
lowing report:
II have seen that mule, and whether true
or false the soldiers believe it was left at
Big Spring, where Mount Vernon
barracks now are, at the time General
Jackson's army encamped there about 1919
or 1920. Tradition says it was once sorrel, but
now it is white from age. The quartermas-
ter's Department will be chargeable wi tn in
gratitude if that mule is sold, or its care or
maintenance is thrown on the charitable
officers of the post 1 advise that it be kept
in the department, fed and maintained till
death. I think the mule was at Fort Nor
gan, Mobile Point when 1 was there, in
1922
The Secretary OF War thereupon made the
following order:
LET this mule be kept and well cared for
as long as he lives"
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A Short Strike.

KANSAS CITY, Oct. 26.-The switchmen's
strike, inaugurated yesterday, is practically
ended tonight. A large body of men re-
ported for duty this morning, and Others fol-
lowed during the day. 1t is probable that
two-thirds of all employees are now at work.
Officials met this afternoon and adopted a
resolution that wages should remain as
heretofore; that all men who report by l
o clock tomorrow will be taken back, and
protection will be given them if needed. 1t
is thought that by tomorrow the trouble
will be over. The movement was instigated
by adventurers from St, Louis and Chicago,
and had no hearty support.
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THE PENSION AGENTS.
Why the Fitzgeralds Were Suspended by
the Commissioner.

the Commissioner.
Washington Special
This was Fftzgeralds' day in Commissioner
Dudley's court. Nearly the whole gang was
recommended for suspension. First came
N. W. Fitzgerald, the head of it, who within
short time has entered suits alleging that
his character has already been damaged in
amounts aggregating 1920, 600. The state
ment at the Pension Office is that the frauds
he has peen detected in are the worst of all
those lately discovered. His suspension,
which has been approved by Secretary Tel
Ter, conveys with it that of his brother, s.
G, Fitzgerald, who is the other member of
the firm. N. w. Fitzgerald, who has pro-
fessed such Indignation over the charges
that he was implicated in sending fraudu-
lent G. O. d. express packages and has
charged this offense to his brother and his
nephew, is now squarely caught in this
method of swindling through the express
company. The offense also involves that of
taking double fee, which the law makes
high misdemeanor, and punishable, upon
conviction, with fine of $500 and imprison-
mentf for two years at hard labor, or both, in
the discretion of the court For pressing
the claims of confederate soldiers, he has
probably made himself liable to prosecution
for attempting to defraud the Treasury.
Another one OF his relations by marriage,
not heretofore known as such, namely, J.
W. Flenner, was also suspended to-day for
writing to an Indiana soldier that he was the
only agent who would be recognized by the
Pension Office to settle his claim.
Another branch of the Fitzgerald firm,
operating under the name of E. H. Geltson
& Co., was also recommended for suspension.
This firm is mainly owned by N. w. Fitz-
gerald. In his own circulars he recommends
this firm as the "Messrs. e. H. Geltson &
Co.," although the Geltson is Miss Emma
Geltson, long clerk under Fitzgerald. This
so-called firm has been largely a mere con-
trivance to assist in the general swinding.
1t occupies rooms with Fitzgerald in his own
building, and the work is practically that of
one concern. Jenkins A. Fitzgerald is dis
barred for fraud in G. o. D. packages
announced several weeks since, in
spite of the fact that Colonel Bob Ingersoll
has made an argument for his restoration.
The only known remaining member of the
Fitzgerald combination not yet recommended
for suspension is w. r. Fitzgerald and he has
lately been arraigned for sending deciving C.
0. d. express packages and for practicing un-
der all assumed name. His suspension awaits
the arrival of known evidence, and in few
days he will likely follow the rest of the fam
lily into retirement There will then be four
able-bodied men, averaging about six feet
high, who will have plenty of leisure to as
sault correspondents who have heretofore
denounced them for the swndlers which they
have now been officially declared to be.
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A SENSATIONAL SUICIDE.
Tramp Throws Himself HeadlOng Into an
Intensely Hot Glass-Wor Retort.

KENT, O., Oct 26.-Yesterday a tramp
whose name is thought to be Samuel Beihl,
committed suicide in a very sensational
manner. He was standing about the glass
works of Day, Williams & Co., where the
men were engaged in filling the retorts. He
was smoking a pipe as he watched the
operation. After placing the retort in the
furnace, which was necessarily heated to a
great degree of intensity in order to melt
the sand, soda ash and other substances
used in the composition of window-glass,
one of the workmen told him to stand aside
as he wished to get at the furnace. 80
do l." he replied, and throwing his pipe on
the ground he plunged headlong through the
ring whence the melted glass is taken, and
passing over the pot, landed on the intensely
hot Goals that surrounded it. So sudden and
unexpected were his movements that no
effort could be made to restrain him. The
heat was so great that death must have been
instantaneous. A single breath drawn In
that fiery furnace would shrivel the lungs.
As soon as possible the body was removed
with an iron rake, pieces of flesh sticking to
the Goals. As promptly as this was done it
was not quick enough to prevent q great
part of the flesh and bones being consumed.
The head arms and limbs were almost incin-
Grated; the flesh so burned from the trunk
that the vital organs-the lungs, heart and
liver-were exposed, as were the intestines.
1t was a horrible sight to those who We're
gathered around, and one that will not be
soon forgotten,
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK.
All Speculative Activity Centered in Wheat,
and Prices About on Bedrock
IN tba Tndfa

All Speculative Activity Conferred in Wheat,
ana Prices About Bedrock.
Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
CHICAGO, Oct. 27.--All the speculative ac-
tivity OF the markets has latterly been CEN
tering in wheat. The weeks official report
of the visible supply of wheat was expected
to show big increase, but only footed up an
addition of 43O, 900 bushels, while the amount
on passage decreased $50, 600 bushels. In the
absence of any export demand, this was con-
strued to indicate big milling demand, and
good many local operators bought on this
theory. Leading traders are inclined to
think that we cannot have any permanent
advance for some weeks to come and this
idea makes bulls as well as bears indifferent
and uncertainty prevails with very few out
side orders. The British grain statisticians
are gradually taking that 6,O00, 900 bushels
of water out of the amount of wheat on
passage from California, and hence the
further reduction of $4,000 bushels this
week, which makes another reduction of
about 100000 bushels in sight and, with
last week, over 100000 bushels. This
proves that we have seen the maximum "in
sight" already. Next week will give us our
maximum visible supply also, after
which a decrease in both will continue.
A leading exporter says that he considers the
present prices within one or two cents of
the bottom, as France will buy wheat at %
@24 francs, and considering the short crop
and the fact that this is the average price on
an average crop, he has orders at these
limits, which are about on Il par with our
markets. A large London house in the
Russian wheat trade sent orders here by
cable to-day to buy options Of No. red in
this market However, as the end of the
month approaches the bulls grow more and
more conservative, knowing that values will
probably be still more depressed when the
time comes for the delivery of cash options
OF course the bears grow correspondingly
more ferocious, and claim the bottom is not
yet reached. There has been no money of
late in shipping wheat to tide-water by rail,
but half a million bushels have been ship
ped from this city since the close of Septem.
Der to the supply of interior millers, We
need, however, either a decided falling off
in supplies or positively active foreign
demand to give us any foundation for adj
vance, and there are no clear indications
OF either influence coming into play in
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of disloyaIty to the government, except in so
far as the Mormons were determined to obey
what they said was the voice of God rather
than the commands of men; but they would
never resort to resistance. The Judge did
not believe that martial law would avail,
or that any good results would follow
from the employment of troops. If an army
were sent to Utah, it would have nothing to
do He was certain that under no possible
circumstances would the Mormons take up
arms against the government AS for aiding
the marshals, the judge said that while un-
dsr some peculiar circumstances there might
be popular excitement that would cause
resistance to the marshals in any ordinary
state of affairs the United States marshal
could arrest John Taylor George Q. Cannon
and John t. Cairne and take them to
court without any assistance. Governor
Murray is the head and front of the extreme
gentle element that insists on the immedi-
ate overthrow of polygamy by any and all
means, and he has made himself intensely
hated by all the Mormons. All federal Off
GERS who go to Utah get into trouble. They
are EJtween the devil and the deep sea- if
they are on good terms with the Mormons
they are hated by the gentiles. The Judge
did not think it would be possible to get
possession of the endowment house records,
as they could be conveniently lost if it
should be necessary to keep them out OF the
hands of the government officials. He
thought the opening of the Pacific railroad
and the death of Brigham Young had weak
ened the polygamous feature of Mormonism,
and legislation would help destroy it, though
ne did not entertain expectation of
immediate disappearance. The one thing
that he was very certain about was that the
problem was one of extreme difficulty, and
he did not want to resort to any measure
foreign to our system of government and
ideas of civilization.
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THE POLYGAMISTS.
The Roseate View of Judge Carlton, of the
Utah Commission.

The Roseate View of Judge Carlton, of the
Utah Commission.
Washington Special.
Judge Carlton says that, while no statistics
on the subject of plural marriage can be OBJ
tanned, the result OF careful inquiry by him.
both in Salt Lake City and the farming re-
gions, satisfies him that polygamy is decreas-
ing. Four-ffths OF the male Mormons he
says, are not and never have been in polyg-
amy About a thousand officials of all
kinds have been elected under the super
vision of the commissioners, and, while
nearly all of them are Mormons, not one is,
or has been, in polygamy. Homogeneous
Mormons, however, believe fully IN
polygamy, and he has not very
strong hopes that the homogeneous
Legislature recently elected will enact
any laws hostile to plural marriage. The
register of one settlement appointed by the
commission, told him that the only anti
Mormon votes cast at the last election were
cast by himself and his wife, and the Nor
mons cast about 500; but, while plural mar
riage used to be very common in this solidly
Mormon community, he was confident that
not case of the kind had occurred for a
year, and he attributed this to fear of the
Edmunds law. The Judge found no evidences
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q The Money-Order Department..

WASHINGTON, Oct 26.-The report of the
superintendent of the money-order bureau
of the Postoffice Department for the fiscal
year ended June 80, shows the total number of
money orders of all kinds issued to be 9,273,-
SS2, aggregate value, $l25, ,O47, 23S; total num-
Der paid 8, 751 or; value, $120, 407, 46S; amount
of fees received, 81, 272 060; increased value
of domestic orders issued over those of the
preceding year, So 800, $50, or 346-100 per cent.
Increased fees received, $48 Iii, or 457-100
per cent. The ratio of improper payments
to the total number of orders paid was as is
to 273,34
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Ohio Republicans Still Thankful.

COLUMBUS, Oct. 26.-The Republican State
central committee met to-day with nearly all
districts represented. Measures to settle up
the expenses of the campaign were discussed,
and a committee on ways and means was APP
pointed, with Governor Foster rs chairman.
A resolution was adopted returning thanks
to the chairman and secretary of the execu-
tive committee for their efficient service, and
expressing belief that on purely national
issue Ohio shall remain as ever securely Re
publican,
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Apaches surrendering.

BOWIE, A, T., Oct ga courier from
Lieutenant Hunters camp, Silver creek,
brings advices that seventy-five hostile
Apaches surrendered to Lieutenant Hunter
last night; that eleven more were coming in.
They will all be brought here.
Major Nicholas Nolan, OF the Third Cav
airy in command at Fort Apache, died yes
terday. He was on his way to meet his wife
and family coming from Texas,
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GENERAL NEWS.
Construction of Seven New War Vess ell
Recommended.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.--The naval advisory
board recommends the immediate construc-
ton of seven naval vessels. One of the class
of the Chicago, now being constructed one
of the class Of the Boston. and five of smaller
grade, the whole to cost $4, 283 OO0 1t is
recommended that two of the smaller vessels
be built on the Pacific coast The board also
recommends the completion of the monitors
Puritan, Terror, Amphitrte, and Monad-
mock, at a total cost of So sos, 400.
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A Female Lawyer as a Pension Agent.

WASHINGTON Oct. 26.-The Commissioner
of Pensions has discovered Irregularities in
the practice of Belva A. Lockwood, a female
lawyer, who has a large number of cases
pending before the pension bureau, and it is
understood the question of suspending her
from practice before the bureau is now be-
ing considered by the Commissioner and
Secretary of the Interior
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The Dinsmore Suit.

TRENTON, N. j., Oct. 26-In the Dinsmore
suit against the Central Road of New Jersey
entire morning was consumed in the United
States Circuit Court in a desultory argu-
ment between Gowen and Robson for the
railroad companies and Conkling and Sew
ard for Dinsmore. The question was upon
fixing the day for hearing the argument
upon exceptions entered by the complaint
to the answers of the defeuse. The court
finally fixed Monday next
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A Church Owns a Sugar Plantation.

SALT LAKE, Oct. 26--In the report of the
Mormon missions in the Sandwich Islands,
published by the Church, to-day, a member
ship of 1900 is shown. The King was pres
ent at the Septem Der conference The island
church owns a large sugar plantation, and
the mission is hourishing
To-day, David, son of Apostle Rich, was
sentenced to the penitentary for robbing
Zion'S Savings Bank
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department respecting the arrival of China
men at San Francisco. ut would seem from
newspaper reports" he said, that the
Chinese government is issuing an unusually
large supply of traders certificates, but, of
course, as the statutes permit traders to land
the collector of the port is without authority
to prevent them from doing so, and it would
certainly be a very difficult undertaking to
attempt to distinguish Chinese traders
from laborers"
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A Verdict Against the he Western Union.

KANSAS CITY, Oct 26-In the United
States Circuit Court, Jacob Sanger, of Grundy
county, No, obtained verdict of Sc, 600
against the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany. Sanger was crossing a railroad track
at night, mounted on a mule. He became
entangled in the wires, which had dropped
nearly to the ground, and was thrown by the
animal. He claimed $4,000 on account Of
injuries
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WHEN INDICATIONS.
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the number Of Shot in the Glass Globe No.
exhibition in the window of the
WHEN CLOTHING STORE,
in fancy Saddle and Road Horses, Gynha2a an~ 1} Ky
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RANDALL:
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reduction of one-fourth of a cent per bushel,
to come out again. The men who had gone
to work were not represented at the meeting,
and it was announced that reduction had
been accepted at another pit. For this reason
no action was taken. The miners are dis
couraged, and will likely all accept the re-
duction.