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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-11
THE LIZZIE BORDEN CASE.

The old city of New Bedford. Mass,
is center of interest at present on ac-
count of tho Lizzie Borden murder trial
now going on there. The case is full of
sensational features. and however it
may result will be notable one in
criminal annals. The murder took place
at Fall River. a manufacturing city of
considerable Importance, but New Bed
ford is the county seat and the trial
takes place there. For more than q
hundred years New Bedford was famous
as headquarters of the whaling business.
but it's glory in that regard has waned.
1t is a quaint, old-fashiOned place of
considerable wealth and many fine resi-
dences.
Probably no other State observes as
many of the ancient formalities in court
proceedings as Massachusetts does, and
yet business is transacted with prompt
ness and celebrity. This trial is before
the Chief Justice of the State and two
associate justices. The chief sits in q
high chair and the two associates in
blue swallow tailed coat with brass
buttons and u high silk hat. When
ever the court opens the high sheriff
precedes the judges into the room and
calls out, "The Court" At this every
body in the court room rises and re-
mains standing. When the judges have
reached their places the high sheriff
says in slow and measured accents:
Hear ye! hear We! hear We! All per-
SONS having business before the honor
able. the justices of the Superior Court,
are commanded to attend. draw near,
and they shall be heard. God bless
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts"
Thereupon the court takes its seat and
everybody else does likewise. The high
sheriff preserves strict order. The pris-
oner sits in the dock. and witnesses
stand while being examined. Lawyers
are not permitted To waste time in
wranglinR. and everything proceeds in
an orderly and decOrous manner.
Lizzie Borden, thirty-three years old
anu unmarried, is accused OF having
whom she had lived from her infancy.
The theory of the prosecution is that
she killed them with Ratchet, the
wooden handle of which was broken off
SO near the blade that she must have
grasped the instrument by the iron head
She has lived a quiet, unevontful life,
and there Is nothing in her antecedents
or appearance TO indicate that she is
capable of so horriblea crime. Here is
description of her:
Her countenance II naturally heavy. Al
the brow 10 starts we'll. Her forehead is
low but shapely. and her eyes are large
and clear. she has pretty ears. small and
delicate and held closely TO her head. Her
nose 10 straight. and If il might be dis
sociated from the heavy jaws, tho wide
mouth and the thick. long aud somewhat
protruding lips beneath IL, IL could DO
called sensitive. That which makes Liz
Flo Borden's q coarse face and all that
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-11

THE New York Times learns that the
veterans in Kansas are sustaining Farm
ham Post in its hostility to pensioDs.N
AS Farnham Post declared, when it was
O post, that it desired to be one no Ion
ger eff the Grand Army favors the pay
ment of pensions TO those who do not
need then," meaning those who have
sufficient incomes to sustain them with
out pensions, it is fair to assume that all
those in Kansas or elsewhere who sus-
tain Farnham Post, and who lido not
Pension Bureau to erase their names
from the rolls.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-11

leaves it possible for her TO have commit
ted this crime are the lowT features
the mouth. the cheeks aud the chin. Here
her face is wide and full. Il seems to POS
sess little mobility, and it indicates the
possession of O sort of masculine strength
that one does not like to observe
In the face OF o woman. Butlooked at any
where else she Is seen to advantage. Her
attitudes are decidedly graceful and wom-
aDly. and her movements always easy and
refined. Her dress. dark. plain and ordi-
nary, Is rather more In the mode than one
is apt to see in New England town. Her
hat. too. was made by some one who under
stood the milliner's art She wears her
hair in the ola French twist. which. how
ever suggestive of an antiquated fashion
plate. nevertheless 9ecomes her. Ii is
weil-brushed hair. and greatly aids in rem
dering her appearance neat and ladylikc.
THIS effect Is much heightened by the
shapeliness OF her arms. so far as the pres
emf style allows them TO be seen below the
elbows. and by her long. slender. we'll
gloved hands.
Yet the prosecution have undertaken
to prove beyond reasonable doubt that
these slender, well-gloved hands drove
the Ratchet into the heads of old Mr..
and Mrs. Borden and dripped with their
blood. 1t remains to be seen if they
will succeed. Their case will rest on
circumstantial evidence. and it has some
strong points, but it may be knock ed to
pieces when the defense is unfolded.
There is an able array of counsel on both
sides. The defendants leading att0r-
ney is Ex-Governor Robinson, one of
the ablest lawyers in Massachusetts and
famous as cross examiner. The prose-
cutting attorney stands high as lawyer.
and both have able assistants. The trial
will last some time, and every point in
the case will be stubbOrnly contested.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-11

The question of Sunday opening of
the worlds fair assumed new phase,
yesterday, when Chief Justice Fuller
entered a suspension of the temporary
injunction granted by the United States
Circuit Court. AS the injunction closed
the gates on Sunday its suspension opens
them and the fair will, accordingly, be
open to-day. Further argument in the
case will be heard and final decision
rendered by the Court of Appeals on
NEXT Thursday 81
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-11

The vegetarians had congress, in
Chicago, last week. but it is not shown
that the movement had the immediate
effect of decreasing business at the
stockyards of that city. If the vege-
table-eating reformers want an object
lesson in favor of their own fad. how
ever, they cannot do better than to
recommend possible disciples to visit
the Chicago slaughter houses. The
visitors will desire an early opportunity
To take the anti meat nledge.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-11
DOESN'T KNOW His BUSINESS.
Boiler Inspectors Mistake Throws 500 People
0ut of Work Two Days.

On Thursday last the new boiler ins psctor
notified the Parry Manufacturing Company
that ne would be obliged 20 condemn one
of their boilers. it beng cracked. Suppos-
ing the boiler inspector knew his business
the works were shut down on Friday and
Saturday and eight hundred men and boys
were idle. A large force was put at work
at once TO repair tho boilers. and after the
surroundings oil the boiler were removed
an examination showed that 10 IN
good condition. with not sign of crack.
To say that the officers OF the Parry Manu-
featuring Company were provoked does NOS
coyer
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-11

WHEN men who were soldiers turn
their attention to that branch of current
art that represents phases of the civil
war they are apt to detect faults and in
congruities not patent TO other observ-
ers. A recent number of hiRh-class
periodical contained picture supposed
to represent q squad OF Union soldiers
on the march. with their knapsacks
loosely hung over their shoulders by u
strap, much as a certain class of tourists
carry travelling bags. "The boys wore
their knapsacks Duckled up tight. and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-11

1t will be interesting TO compare bis career
with that of his father. Alpbose Daudet.
ut will show whether &c In better. as some
say, for q man of letters 10 have TO fghe
his way. like the elder Dandet. or like
lola. for instance. or TO launch out on the
sea with the ballast of u couple of millions
of francs" The elder Daudet. according
to Mr.. Sherard. spent three years of utter
penury in Paris. with battered boots. and
often no socks. and many days whore thers
WAS nothing to eat
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-11

ONE Adolph Erdman, who was re-
moved from the office of Treasurer of
tho United States Soldiers Home in
California by the national board. on
been "reinstated" as pension examiner,
from which position he was dropped a
few years ago. by Secretary Hoke
Smith, because he is from Georgia.
Thus does the work of pension reform
march grandly on.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-11

A CORRESPONDENT of an Eastern pa
per declares that in matters of religion
this is not free country. and puts the
imprisonment of three AdVentists, for
working in their fields the first day of
the week, in evidence. If the writer
had been more explicit by stating that
this occurred in Tennessee his evidence
might have been declared defective.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-11
TbE fNDIANAPoLIs JOURNAL
SIXTEEN PAGES

TRAIN rObberies have become so fire.
people no longer regard them as events
of sufficient importance to be tele..
graphed To thu press outside the State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-11

A WRITER in one of the Journals religious
exchanges, who undertakes TO show what
an expensive habit smoking is says "We
will suppose that person smokes two five
cent cigars per day. and being q good man,
does not smoke on Sunday. This would
amount to sixty cents per week. OF S3l.20 per
year." The suggestion that good man may
smoke two OF gars a day. six day In the week.
and none at oil on Sunday, 10 delicious
biz of can't.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-11
struck nv = Car

While driving across the strset-car track
at the corner of Market and Illinois streets
yesterday morning Samuel Miller was
struck by a oar aud thrown from his We
hiole. One of his fest was badly mashed.
and he suffered other injuries. He was
taken 10 has home. 1T No. OF West MiehA-
gan streoL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-11

THE verses by Oliver Wendell Holmes
read at the recent anniversary celebration
of the Boston Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation are going the rounds of the news
papers headed "Dr. Holiness Last Poem"
Did he say it was his lasts If not, 10 it not
rather unkind to assume that no will
write no moref
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-11

WOMEN have so little share In political
conventions that wherever il is possible
for them to take an active part they are
usually well represented. In the Pro-
hibition party women have been allowed
a voice from the beginning. and the
voice has been literally exercised. This
makes the fact more remarkable that in
the Prohibition State convention in
Pennsylvania. last week. not more than
twenty-five of the -four hundred dele
gates were women. What is the mean
Ing of thisP Are the sisters weary of
politics so soon. or is 1t that, having
sounder judgment than men. they are
beginning TO see the futility of making
mankind virtuous by force of civil lawi
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-11

THE New York sun, referring TO the
fact that the government has ordered
lerge draft of marines to re-enforce the
crews of the Boston and the Adams at
Honolulu, says:
Our government cannot undertake to say
what Hawaii shall or shall not do III her re-
lation TO foreign powers. without at the
same time backing uD the authorities
W hich 1t recognizes at Honolulu. Is can
not furnish that backing without having u
suitable landing force of blue Jackets and
marines in the harbor. and this force il ls
taking steps to MAINTAIN. The memorable
logic of events leads TO the extension of the
republic which lives under the stars and
BtrIpes-
This is logical view of the situation.
If the government attempts To establish
q prOtectorate it viii find there is no
constitutional provision for such
thing, and if it attempts to say that no
other power shall gain a foothold in
Hawaii it will have to back up its posi-
tion with force.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-11
rha IeadtnU Ouanrj

''HOw do you" began the first Chicago man.
He would have ended the sentence with do"
had not tho other Chicago man broke in with:
"a Oo-lah-l leah, OF course."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-11

Wibble-Pd like TO know what reason you have
for calling beer an aristoeratic drink
Wabble-wen, it comes within the pail. is the
chief reason.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-11

THE Des Moines (Ia.l Register contains q
notice OF the death In that city. u few days
ago. of DR.. Joel L. Hendricks. who former
ly resided in this State. The deceased was
one of the beat known scientific men Of his
time. and as "a mAtheInstician had few
equala During his life he CORES pended
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-11

A CONNECTICUT bachelor who has long
had the front door of his farm house
adorned with the legend, Live single aud
you will be happy" has recently married
and taken his sign down. A young and
enterprising Christian Endeavorer worked
the reform. There is u great deal in Chris
tisn endeavor if you 60 about it the right
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-11
BUBBLES In FHb ALI
Food for Thought.

Ell WONDER" said Old Father Time. "what these
mortals would think if were to take notion TO
put i'll only eight hours a dayi"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-11

with and possessed the esteem of many
scientists Of world wide reputation. DIR.
Hendricks was q native of Pennsylvania.
but obtained his medical education In
Ohio. From 1850 to 1850 he lived in De
Kalb county. this State. where he held
several public Offices. and was president Of
o local academy. After he went TO Iowa
he published a mathematical journal called
The Analyst. which had for Its contrib
utors some of the foremost scientific men
of the day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-11
Useless EGorf.

First Train Robber-Wel, what did you gitl
Second T. R.-Lemme see. Twenty-seven
pawn tickets, half peck or picture cards, sixty
cents In silver and plated watch chain with
nail tied to the pocket enc of it. That's ALL
First L RI told you it wasn't no use TO hold
up O train comm from Chicago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-11
Grown Folks WAYS.

Tommy.-I think grown folks is o awful nui-
sance.
Jimmy-What fort
Tommy-'Cause when Teller tries TO talk TO
them and entertain 'em they tell him to run
away. but when he is eDjoyin hisself all by his
self then they always want To come monkeying
around and bother him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-11

Mr.. CARL FABER. of the famous lead
pencil manufacturers family of Nurem.
berg. Germany. is visiting relatives In st.
Louis The Faber family have been in tho
pencil manufacturing business for several
generations. the present firm employing
one thousand men aud turning out 1.152. 900
pencils per week. Mr.. Faber says that all
the cedar wood used in the manufacture of
high grade pencils is now imported from
this country. principally from Florida.
The cedar forests of Europe. he says. have
long since been depleted and he predicts
that unless the wasteful destruction by
American manufacturers is stopped all the
good pencil wood will have been exhausted
In q few years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-11

SAM WILSON. ''the lone train robber." as
he likes TO be called. and who is now in Jail
in default Of boil. wants TO go into the show
or lecture business. He is the man who.
unaided and alone. recently held up and
went through o train on the Missouri Pa
cific and got away with the contents of the
Adams express safe. Here 10 his card:
To Whom 1t May Concern:
Anyone wanting TO use me, or des iring my serv-
ices for six or eight months, or longer aud will
20 my bond at Union. Mo-, the Goth or 9th
inst. will please call or write me at the jail per
tanning 10 the same. None but those meaning
business need call OF write. / will 10 anywhere
with the right party.
SAM WILSON, the Lone Train Robber.
Here is o chance for some enterprising
Snowman. A blood and shunder play with
Mr. Wilson In the part of the lone train
robber would be u great hit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-11

AMONG the relatives who attended the
funeral of Edwin Booth was his only sur
viving brother, Dr.. Joseph A. Booth. Of
New York. He is the youngest son of
Junius Brutus Booth. and now in his fifty
fourth year. He stands we'll in the medi-
cal profession, and though he and the great
actor were never closely attached. they
were on perfectly friendly terms. DR..
Booth is attending physician in one of the
New York dispensaries and lecturer on sur
gerry In several other institutions. 1t will
be news to most persons that the deceased
actor had younger brother.
Smyrna times., 1893-11-15
The Bare Feet Fad.

The fad of bare feet when "restiug
off, is pretty generally hooted at by
the slow coaches yet it is doubtful if
any other one fad is more directly re-
generative.
Get off your shoes and stockings for
a couple of hours each day and give"
the toes chance to breathe'-as one
woman expressed it-and to exercise
themselves. You will find that a de-
lightful change Is taking place in your
tired and torpid shell and do not our
spirits respond with awful precision to
the physical states
The liberated feet will repay you in
any one or all of the following ways !:
The unfalling ache that for a long time
has each day taken possession of your
head will-unless other factors than
nervous" and depletion are at work
make its final adieu; heart beats will
grow stronger and more regular the
sinking spells" will grad sally disap-
pear; the wan look and pale lips will
respond with roseate tintings to fuller
and freer respiration the very carriage
of yourself will undergo rejuvenation,
for the muscles of foot and ankle-sadly
lacking inImobility with us in our care
less inattention-will, as fast as they
gain elasticity, lend it to the entire
body.
Lighter spirits, improved digestion,
cleared heads and clearer vision will
wait on the daily rest from shoe and
stockings. Indeed doctors now make
a special point of the salutary effect of
the bare feet on the eyesight.
In Cambridge-that hotbed of wis
dom and enlightenment it is quite
the thing for the young professor to
keep their little ones unsh0d till the
days of kindergartens come.
There is a doctor high in repute in
one of our Northern seabOard States,
whose only soma healthy, jocund lit
tie chap of ten or twelve-never, 1 am
told, has worn shoes and stockings ex-
oept to church or dancing class,
While you are giving your gasping
feet their daily air bath, pirouette
about on your toe tips for fifteen min
utica or so. Or if this light, fantastic
tripping seems TO you beneath your
age or dignity, depend on the massage
you give your feet to establish good
circulation. 1t is we'll to start vigorous
circulation Immediately the feet are
barred: otherwise chilled feet and q
cold may result-PiOneer Press.
Smyrna times., 1893-11-15
Jones's Solution of the Polar
Problem.

a few years ago, says the Boston
Budget, there was in law school. not
a hundred miles from Boston. avery
aged and eccentric professor. Gen.
eral information" was the old geptIe-
mans hobby like Gen. Garfield he
held 1t for incontrovertible that if q
young lawyer possessed a large fund of
miscellaneous knowledge, with horse
sense he would be a success.
80 every year the professor nut on
MS examination papers a question verv
lar removed from the subject of crimi-
nal law. One year it was, "How manv
Kinds OF trees are there in the college
yard? The next, "What is the make
up OF the present English Cabinet -
tInaIly the professor thought he had
invented the best question of his life :.
Name twelve animals that inhabit
the polar regions"
The professor chuckled as he wrote
this down. He was sure that he could
PLUCK" half the students on thai oues-
ton. And it was beyond a doubt that
that opprobriOus young loafer, Jones.
'87, would fall.
But when the professor read the ex.
ANIMATION papers, Jones who had not
answered another question, was the
only man who lad solved the polar
problem. This was his answer:
Six seals and six polar bears"
Jones got his degree with distinction.
The professor said man who could
give such an answer would cause the
shades of Webster and Choate to turn
green with envy.
Smyrna times., 1893-11-15

lions of working men will get higher
wages. We do not want to share a
divided home market with Europe
we never did and we never will. And
I think the people will SO impress their
wishes on Congress that some day talk
of free trade will be lost art among
Democratic exhorters."
NO FUTURE FOR THE POPULIsTs.
A final touch on the subject of new
political parties led the Senator to
speak of the Populists and he spoke of
them with some degree of humor.
There is limit beyond which no
such political organization can go, "
he said, land I think the Populists
have reached theirs. They can never
get ahead of the vote they polled in
the last Presidential election, for they
reached then the solid wall of con-
servative citizenship, beyond which
such progress as theirs is impossible.
The fanatics and the charlatans of
other organizations may Join them, but
there is no danger in their ambition to
control the government. I do not be-
lieve that Mr.. PETER will ever be cleo
ted President of the United States and
l do not think that Mr.. Cameron will
be unwise enough to accept a Presi-
dental nomination on any such non
descript platform as the silver news
papers have built for him."
The Senator said that it was not pos
sible now to discuss the future with
any degree of accuracy, but he believes
that the next Republican nominee will
be elected President. To his mind
Senator Allison is one of the brainiest
men in his party and he admires Nc
Kinley for his magnificent victories in
Ohio. But he says that three years
which intervene between now and
convention time may change all the
conditions which exist now.
Smyrna times., 1893-11-15

First Assistant Postmaster General
Jones announces in his annual report
that the experiment of free postal de-
livery in Villages. which has been in
operation for two full years at an an
nual cost to the Government of $4,000
600, and which so long as it was a
novelty seemed to promise good results
has proven failure.
Smyrna times., 1893-11-15

The prospects of the prize fight, for
it is nothing less, between champions
Corbett and Mitchell taking place at al
seem to grow slim. After the autho-i-
ties of New York so emphatically re-
fused to let it come off at Coney island
the Olympic Club, of New Orleans,
was agreed upon. The Crescent City
heretofore has almost enjoyed a mo-
nopoly of such events, but it appears
the present Governor has strong opin-
ions against such brutality when he
says: Il shall prevent its taking place
in Louisiana at all hazards"
Smyrna times., 1893-11-15
The Bomb in Barcelona .

The explosion of a bomb in the
Lyceum Opera House, in Barcelona,
Spain. carrying death, untold suffer.
Jug and fright to scores Of innocent
pleasure seekers, was one of the most
wanton outrages ever perpetrated by
an apostle OF anarchy in any civiizled
country. The horror of the damnable
deed is thOusand-fold intensified bv
Its utter lack of any intelligent pur.
pose The victims were private plea.
sure seekers, against whom the most
fanatical foe of law and government
could have had no possible grievance.
None of the victims were or could
have been the instruments of TYRANNY
toward any class, and the only motive
that can be assigned for the diabolical
deed is a bloodthirsty desire for the
causeless slaughter of those who were
fortunate enough to have money to
spend for innocent amusement,