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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-12-16
CHRISTMAS
ADVERTISERS
THE BRAKES REFUSED TO WORK.
Express Dashes Into Coal Train-Fireman
Scalded to Death and Engineer Fatally Hurt
Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
NEwBURG. N. Y. Dec. 15-The Chicago
limited express of the Hudson River rail-
road, leaving New York at 4:50 o'clock p.
NJ, and making no stops between New York
and Albany. ran into train Of three coal
cars ana an engine and tender at Fishkill
station tonight. Both engines were
wrecked The fireman of the express. John
Smith, of Albany. was scalded to death,
and the engineer, James Kelly. of Albany,
was so badly scalded that his life Is des-
paired of. Several of the passengers were
cut by glass from the windows and others
bruised by the concusslon, but mono were
fatally injured. corps of ply slcians from
Fishkill and Mattewan are attending the
sufferers. The Rev. Father White has per-
formed the last rites of the church for
Kelly.
coal train was switching. with semaphores
set for danger. The tracks were wet and
the air brakes of the limited refused to
work. There is curve in the road just
below the station. The train was going at
half speed when it struck the freight with
such q crash that 1t shook the houses
and opened the doors in the vi
cinity. The locomotive of the limit
ed struck the tender of tho switch
engine sideways and toppled over The
tender turned upon its end. The tender of
the limited locomotive was partially tele-
scoped into the com nbination car, which
then mounted coal car in the
freight train. Two men who were
in the baggage compartment of the
combination car barely escaped. They
made their way ont through the broken
bottom of the car. The combination car
was the only one broken in the limited
train. There were no passengers in the
smoking compartment. all having gone TO
the buffet car for supper. In that car the
people were pitched headlong in all direc-
tions. and almost every bit of crockery in
the car was smashed. Several men cut their
hands by breaking through the windows In
their fright. aud one man had his wrist
broken. John Dillon. one of the men in the
baggage compartment, had his shoul-
der dislocated. When the brakes
were applied suddenly some of
the PASSENGERS antici pated what was
coming and braced themselves for the
shock. One man laid his little son on the
floor and stretched his own body over the
lad 10 shield him. The accident happened
almost under she bridge below the station,
where the track from the switch-y ards
joias the main tracks.
The blame for the accident is now laid on
engineer Kirk, Of the express. who Is said
TO have run by the danger signal He IL
fatally injured. IL is reported that many
prominent people were on the express train.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-12-16
BOLD ROBBERY AT CHICAGO.
Mail Wagon Stepped by Highwaymen in the
Center of the City and the Sacks Rifed.

CHICAGO, Dec. 15.-Jesse James's exp ploits
were duplicated tonight in Chicago. On
one of the leading thoroughfares five dar-
ing highwaymen suddenly surrounded one
of Uncle Sans biggest mail wagons, and at
the muzzle OF revolvers forced the postal
employees to throw out several sacks.
The bulky government vehicle was
then sent flying on its journey. the
occupants being threatened with instant
death if they made outcry or stopped. So
complete was the surprise effected by the
bandits that the mail drivers failed TO
utilize the services of large bull dog.
which was beside them on their seat.
Near midnight the stolen mail sacks.
split open and rifled of their con-
tents. were found on Superior
street. in the North division of the city.
fully three miles from the scene of the
robbery. At that hour every available
man of the city detective force and the
postoffice inspectors staff were straining
every nerve to obtain clew to the identi ty
of the highwaymen or their whereabouts.
The wagon was on it's way to the main
postoffice with mail from the stock.y ards
and southwest stations. 1t was in charge
of john Creighton. an experienced driver,
who, after collecting his valuable freight,
drove down Blue Island avenue to Hal
stead street and then turned east on Water
street. He was half way to Desplaines
the sidewalk. One seized the horses
by the reins, while the others covered
Creighton with revolvers and commanded
him 10 keep quiet. The team was then led
to the alley extending north from Mather
street, and there, while one of the men COW
cred Creighton with a revolver. the others
forced open the door of the wagon, and
hastily selecting the registered pouches
from the others made off through the alley.
Creighton's guard kept the captive COW
cred for five minutes. and then left him.
The thoroughly frightened driver, whip
ping up his horses. drove as rapidly as
possible TO the main postofiice. where he re-
ported the affair. An inventory was then
made of the contents of the wagon. and it
was found that the two registered mail.
pouches from the stock-ynrds station and
that from the southern station and Blue
Island-avenue station were missing. The
value of the contents the officials were un-
able to determine, but IL was known to be
heavy.
Driver Creighton in the dark was unable
to distinguish the features and scarcely
the forms of his assallants except the one
who stood guard. The latter was about five
feet, ten inches tall, and wore dark cap,
pulled down over his eyes. Some time
after midnight n rumor was current that
one of the robbers had been arrested, bnt
tho report was denied by Inspector Schaack.
AS nearly as can be estimated the robbers
secured in the neighborhood of 5000 In
currency and about 100000 worth of non-
negotiable paper sent by the Drovers' and
the Stockyards National Banks to their
correspondents. The latter item will be of
little use to the bandits. but will cause an
endless amount of trouble and confusion
in the financial circles involved.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-12-16
huge ADVERTISING BILL.
The Attorney General Refuses to Pay What
He Regards AZ Excessive Charges.

The Attorney-GeneralR Refuses to Pay What
He Regards as Excessive Charges.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 15.-The Court of
Private Land Claims. which was estab-
lished under the authority of an act in the
last Con gress, has already gotten itself into
rather an unpleasant predicament. The
law provides that the act under which the
court was organized should be published in
the cities of Denver, Santa Fe ana Wash
ington. Chief-justice Reid. of the new
court. instructed his clerk to make the nee
essary arrangements TO have the publica-
tions made according to law. and the clerk,
without consulting the Attorney general OF
any one else. authorized the publication in
the cities named in the act. The law was
printed In full IN Spanish and English for
side of the Washington Post. Now the
bills for this publication have come in, and
the local paDer here asks S9,4l6 for its
space. The Denver paper wants $4,000 and
the Santa Fe paper $4,000. The accounts
have gone to Attorney general Miller. who
positively refuses TO pay them, He says
that no contract was entered into; that the
papers have been allowed to charge just
whatever they saw tit. and that he has no
money with which TO pay the bills The
total bill for advertising is upwards of
$4,000. while the entire appropriation made
for the court is only $4,000. The Attorney
Congress, and II is likely that their bills
will be very materially scaled down. and
that they will wait many years before re-
ceivlng their pay.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-12-16
Chief OF the Forestry Division.

CHICAGO, Dec. 15.-World's Fair National
Commissioner Thos. Is. Keoah. of South
Carolina, was to-day nominated by hi
rector-geneTal Davis as chief OF the forestry
division of the fair. Mr.. Keogh is oresiden {
of the Greensboro * Norfolk Midland rail-
way. He served as secretary of the national
Republican committee when Don Cameron
was chairman. and has been actively iden-
titled with all the national political cam
paigns of late years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-12-16
DIDN'T KNOW III WAS LOADED.
Eva Price Dies from Wound Inflicted by Her
Lover While Playing with Pistol.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal

Special % the Indianapols JournaL
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Dec. I5.-Eva Price.
aged sixtee years. died to-day from the
effects of pistol-shot wound inflicted Sun
day by her lover. Howard Leach. at Pimen-
to, in this county. The girl was at the
home of relative of Leach. where they
met because her father refused TO permit
his calls. and the two were playing with
the pistol, which they did not know was
loaded The bullet passed through the
girls right. lung
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-12-16

Special TO the Indianapolis journal
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-Congressmap Il.
@. Mills of Texas, is ill with the grip at
Willard's Hotel. He has been sick for o
week. His physicians pronounce Mr.
Mills's lungs somewhat affected and pneu-
monia is feared to be imminent. The ply
sicians have ordered absolute quiet and
rest and no one is admitted to his room ex-
cept his attendants.
Speaker Crisp is suffering from an attack
of tine grip in a mild form and did not
leave his quarters at the Metropolitan
Ho tel to-day to visit the Capitol.
Secretary Foster has SO much improved
that Dr. Hamilton, who has attended him
ever since he was taken sick, left Washing
ton to-day for Chicago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-12-16

MONTREAL. Dec. 15.-Two of the best
known French Canadian Senators in the
Dominion are dying. Senator Chaffers is
seriously i'll at Notre Dame Hospital. while
Senator PsQuette has received the last
rites of the church at his home. Both are
Liberals. The former Is sixty -four years Of
age and the latter 10 sixty-one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-12-16
Cablerram from Minister Eran.

WAsHINGToN, Dec. 15.-Secretary Blaine
has received long cable message from
United States Minister Egan at Santiago.
Chill, but refuses positively to say any
the substance of the comments of Senior
Malta, ChilIan Minister of Foreign Affaire,
on the recent Official utterances of the
President and Secretary of tho Navy in re-
gard TO the Valparaiso incident.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-12-16
STREET DUEL OYER A KISS.
South Carolina Preacher and an Injured Hus.
band Meet and at Once Regin Shooting.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal

kTtClaI 10 tIe IEIliaHAIOils JOuIHAL
RALEIGH. n. c.. Dec. 15.-Rev. j. t. Aber-
nathy. the Snow Hill minister who was
shot by w. L. GrInsley for kissing Mrs.
Grimsley. met the injured husband on the
street yesterday. and both opened fire with
revolvers. four shots taking effect in Aber-
nathy's face and one in Grimsley's thigh.
Both men are seriously wounded. Great
excitement prevails in the Snow Hill Sec
ton. Both men were arrested. Alternately
resigned his pastoral charge immediately
after the former difficulty.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-12-16
American Shipping League.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-At a council
meeting of the American Shipping and In
dustrIal League in this city to-day each of
the five departments was represented.
Hon. J. II. Murphy, of Iowa, vice-presi-
dent of the Mississippi Valley department.
was chosen chairman. Among the officers
elected for the States as vice-presidents
was L. w. Halford, of Indiana. A memo
rial to Congress was adopted. praying for
the passa ge of th> tonnage bill. which was
presented and urged in the last Congress
by Messrs. Amos Cummings and John M.
Earouhar. of New York.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-12-16
MINOR MATTERS.


Judge Woods Booked for Promotion, and
Judge Monks for the Formers Piece.
Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal
WAsHIN GToN. Dec. 15--Had the Senate
committees been announced the President
would have sent In a number of important
nominations to-day. 1t is probable they
will be received tomorrow. 1t Is conf
IDENTIFY believed that Judge Woods, of the
United States District Court of Indiana, will
be promoted to that circuit. and that Judge
l.. }. Monks. of Winchester, will be the
successor of Judge Woods for the district.
as announced in a special TO the Journal
on Sunday night. Most of the other NOM
nations mentioned yesterday will likely
be made, probably including that of Ste
phen B. Elkins of West Virginia. TO be
Secretary of War. Congress 10 ex pected to
edjourn from next Saturday TO Monday,
Jan. 4. The House committees will not be
announced before January.
Patents Granted Hoosier Inventors
Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-Patents were to-
day granted Indiana inventors as follows;
Charles Anderson. assignor to South Bend
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-12-16
SENATOR KYLE Is A SCHEMER
Tried to "Play" Both Sides of the Upper
Branch of Congress for "Suckers."

Republicans and Democrats Besought to Con-
slider Him in Arranging Their Represent
alton on the Committees of the Senate
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-12-16
War to the Knife at Crested Butte.

special TO the indianapolis Journal
CRESTED BUTTE, COL, Jan. 15.-The indi-
cations are that bloody battle cannot
long be delay ed. Since all overtures for
an arbitration have failed. both company
and strikers have taken more demonstra-
tive stand. The former has ordered lumber
and already begun the erection of bunk
houses for the protection of the men who
will take the place of the strikers. This
evening oneIhundred Winchester rifles, with
$500 rounds of ammunition, were
dumped from freight car and
were Immediately taken possession OF
by Sheriff Shores, aud bis deputies.
Fearless men are now on their way 10
Crested Butte from Pueblo and other places
to handle these rifles in projecting the
property of the company and the lives OF
their employees. The strikers are holding
secret meetings tonight. all proceedings
being in the Italian and Austrian Ian
guages. They avow that they will fight TO
the death for what they consider TO be-
: their rights. and that they will allow no
imported men TO take their places. In
other words. they insist that their de-
mands shall be complied with without ex-
ception there will be war TO the knife.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-12-16

Edwin +. Barker, Vevay. car coupling;
John NJ. Brewer. Salem. cultivator; John
w. Cahill. assignor of one-haf to J. Hold
inGsworth. Lochiel, seeder and cultivator;
Joseph F. Erwin, Fort Wayne, laundry
conveyor: Harry G. Huntington. assignor
of one half 10 w. A. Wilhite. Ladoga, auto
matte gate; John A. Maui, assignor of one
half to w. r. Gordon, Lafay ette. window
or door blind; Vanzandt Morgan. Wrnamac.
wick-trimmer; Albert NJ. Murray. Goshen.
kitchen cabinet; Volney Parks. Fort
Wayne. car coupling: Thomas z. Sanborn,
Indianapolis, valve mechanism; William
Fl. Ward. Noblesville. kraut-cutter; Fred
erick Z. WiseiegeI. Indianapolis. apparatus
for washing and drying hair. feathers, etc.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-12-16
Haif-Biood Indians Are Citizens.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-Assistant Attor-
ney-general Shields. of the Interior De-
partment, has decided that Jane Waldron,
who is the daughter of a white father and
o half-blooded Indian mother. was born
citizen of the United States and that her
claim that she is an Indian by virtue of be-
ing born of an Indian mother. cannot be
allowed. Neither can she longer be per-
mitted to draw rations and annuitiee, as
such. from the government. nor can she re-
ceive lands IN severalty. 1t is said that the
Indian bureau that this case practically
decides from five hundred TO one thousand
similar cases in all parts of the West In
many cases. however, the right OF a half
blood to be regarded under the law as an
Indian is fully acknowledged in number
OF treaties.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-12-16


KNIVES. Forks and spoons ~ Msrcy's.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON. Dec. 15.-Representative
Bynum has completed the bill providing
for the erection of public building In In
dianapolis. and Will introduce it in the
House at the first opportunity. A copy of
the bill has been furnished Senator Turpie.
and he will introduce it in the Senate to-
morrow. The bill is drawn to meet the
two suggestions that have come from
the persons interested In the scheme.
The first section authorizes the
Secretary of the Treasury to purchase
new site and erect a new building at a cost
not exceeding the sum of million and a
half dollars. Section 2 authorizes the Sec
retary if he shall, deem 1t to be to the best
advantage of tho public interests, to use
the present site and erect a building at
cost of one and n quarter million dollars.
To begin the work the sum OF 1000 is
n onvro faA
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-19
AN EDUCATED MINISTRY.
To the Editor of the Eagle.

10 Jne EolUor OF the EdsAS-
At one of the camp meeting services
Rev. Smith, the evangelist, made some
remarks on education. He had been asked
the question, IF young men in the minis
try should stop their work to attend
college?" He said education was good
thing, but young man was stronger and
more efficient if he would continue in the
work. Schools ereinclined to destroy the
spirituality, and a young man becomes too
much absorbed In acquiring intellectual
attachments and many more were very apt
to backslide who went to college. He said
young man would acquire culture in his
work and accomplish more by continuing
in active labor in the field. He said there
was project to run train of cars with
an engine that would scoop up
the water as it ran and not
stop at tanks and stations TO
take water. He advised young men in the
work to fill their boilers as they ran, scoop
up the water as you go and not stop to
pump water at stations (college), and lose
precious time for Christ, and mayhap lose
your spiritual power. Rev. Hartley. OF
the First N. E. church, here interrupted
Bro Smith, and said he desired to say a
word. He found it a hard question, when
young man, to decide as TO whether he
SQOulu 20 10 a GueOlOStCaI 4uSVIkubO VI NoH-
tinue in the workout finally decided
upon going and went to Garrett Biblical
Institute, where ne found every means Of
grace and the best opportunities for adj
vancement in spiritual life, and the teach
ing and guidance of holy men. He believed
man was better equipped as a
laborer in the vineyard of the
Lord. and strong to do evangelical work if
he was trained in such an institution, and
he had found it of very great benefit to
himself 1t was not lost time nor did 1t
lessen our influence as evangelists and
workers for the Lord Rev. Hartley I'M
doubtedly was right. The time for back
woods preaching has gone into the past
with the old pioneers who depended as
much on their muscle rs their mind. The
puipits of today want to keep time with
the march of education, aed unless they
do preachers will find the pews empty and
the churches given over to owls and bats.
Why not adopt Rev. Hartley's suggestion.
young ministers, and go TO college, and
then run a train and scoop the water as
you rum" for you must labor even after
the attachments you may get in school:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-19

| ject for discussion now in a few weeks,
and | for one know almost nothing re-
garding it at all. / am an Indian girl
with some white blood in my veins,
though it does not show much. like
to fool with history, and often ask my
parents about our lineage to know if
possible how high it was, but they al
ways look out at window and gradually
turn the conversation toward the late
war. ! am quite sure that some of my
parents were from Cape Cod, for I can
not help feeling an interest in trade and
bewailing most bitterly the numberless
instances in which my people was done
uD from business standpoint, swapping,
as they did On several occasions, con-
gressional district for bottle of spirits
and red martingale ring. Oh, it is in.
deed tough to think of now when one,
for instance, goes out as far as Pullman
and Calumet to find lots selling for far
more than we got for the whole state Of
Illinois. read your get offs, or gets off
rather, that is printed in the papers, and
though 1 am rather depressed most Of
the time owing TO the wrongs Of my
people, find that can add to that feel
ing very much by reading after you.
Please tell me all you can in regards to
Etruria, or anything else that seems to
be fostering on your mind, and oblige.
How do you like my writing?"
Etruria or Tuscia was an ancient
country of Italy, extending from the
Tiber and the Apprentices to the Mediter-
ranean sea. The people who lived there
were called Etruscans.
The government Of the Etruscans was
simple, being confederacy. It is now
no more. But why rake up old person
alities or stir up race prejudice now
that all is friendly again? Etruria was
ruled by sort of board of supervisors
chosen by twelve cantons, which COM
prised the Etruscan confederacy. Each
canton had the divine right to secede
from the others by paying its dues and
the bill at the restaurant.
The church and state were almost
identical in Etruria and almost every
thing was opened with prayer. The
EtruScans, however, worshiped Tina
or Tina, hence the expression making
of one ''a little Tin god" Tina or Tina
was undoubtedly Jupiter, and here origi-
mated another expression which may be
traced at once to the Etruscans. To call
down the wrath Of Jupiter or TINA grew
at last till it became simply, instead of
II will call down or sic Jupiter on
you," eff you do not do soand so, will
put TINA on you"
Thus the thinking mind is ever at
work tracing out the origin Of things
until at last we reach the point where
we know SO much that brain collie is a
very common occurrence among US
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-19
The Excelsior Woman.


She could sing like any siren, and write poetry
like Byron,
She could tell you all the mysteries of astro-
nomic lore;
She had memoTized Euripides, had been to the
antipodes,
And could talk so we'll about it that you'd
ne'er think her a bore.
She was young and she was pretty, she was
stylish and quite witty,
And her family tree was planted when the
Druids lived and fought;
She was rich-as rich as Crpsus-but not tickle
or capricious,
And in all her life she never did thing that
she hadn't ought
She did not. like other women, practice wiles
that men thought inhuman,
And her culinary powers were unlimited,
ween;
While I 1.-Two shan't forget her-no one could
who e'er had met her;
But alas! 1 only made her sweet acquaint-
ance in dream.
Albert E. Hunt.