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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-01
Reclamation Story Denied.

BosToN. March Hon. Frank Jones,
chairman OF the board of directors of the
Boston and Maine railroad. says that there
is not one bit of truth in the story that
either the general maDr2sr or the general
superintendent had resigned ID. ". san
born, the general superintendent. denied
Il so far a. he was concerned. and added
hat he had not heard that his brother wa,
. retire fro ''-- .--'c~0l management
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-01
An Tnonnortune Moment.

Office Boy Ito Mister, I
wouldn't advise you to try to see the
the boss now; he's in an awful rage.
Drummer-What's the matter with
him?
Office Boy-He's trying to put point
on his blue lead d-pencil.-Truth.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-01
Too Slck TO Re Remnr.h

NEw York, Feb 2s.-Young James q
Blaine, Jr., who has been sick with scarlet
fever at the New York Hotel for the past
few weeks, is said to be in no condition 70
be removed. The boy lives there with his
mother, Marie Nevins Blaine. and her
parents The hotel was closed few days
ago after the guests had bean notified 10
leave
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-01
Hound to Bs Right.

what could you have been thinking
Of. to engage yourself 20 three men?"
well. mother told me my fancc must
he rich. intelligent. handsome. and of
the best moral character and a.
couldn't hope for all these in one man, |
had TO take three. Harlem Life
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-01
Chicago Grain Notes.

oUoTEE by A. r. wEEDEN
The London wheat market quiet and
unchanged.
Liverpool wheat market quiet and un-
changed
CHICAGo-Car lots TODAY: Wheat, 2O3:
corn, l4l; oats, 115: hogs. 10000. Esti.
mates tomorrow: whea, 260; corn, $50:
oats, $50; hogs. 81, 900.
The agricultural report on crops issued
at Washington, is published, and shows
promising outlook for wheat this year.
Bradstreeps visible wheat east of the
Ro kies: Deer .ase, $4,000; Pacific coast
decrease. o2o,o1O; corn, increase, Cos. 600;
oats, decrease, ll2.00Q
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-01
The FINANCIAL NEWS.
Local stocks.

The demand for first-class securities is
still good.
The sales today scill indicate a ten
dency toward slightly lower figures.
the lowest figures for two months.
New York. New Haven and Hartford Is
quoted at $225, ex-rights aud rights at
$50. This is ten points below the recent
sales
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-01
CON DITION S.

To the lodge. club. circle. social.
charitable. political. literary or
other organization In whose be-
half most coupons arc turned In
within the limits of this contest
the News" will pay $500 In cash.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-01
&2O.OOO I.n.a.

PORTLAND. Me, March IA stubborn
fire In NJ. a. JewelI's block this morn.
ing damaged the building AMI stock to
the extent OF about $4,000.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-01

At 10 o'clock this morning Hose ex.
tinguished a slight blaze ia a pile of run
ish In GeIb a N'rton's restaurant.
Damage slight
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-01

NO ANNEXATION.
THE TRE4TY WILL NOT BE RITI
FLED By THIS SENATE.

Think Best to DO is Not known by
Anybody.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-21
ENERGETIC WOMEN.
The Successes They Have Attained In
Various Lines OF Work.
PHILADELPHIA Times

The discoveries made by our English
cousins that have come over TO the fair IN
regard to the business clevernesS or Amer
lean women and the curious positions they
hold and creditably I'LL are reported TO the
home country with apparent SURPRISE Fer
instance, Miss Rosenbury, one of the most
remarkable women in tie urited States
Treasury Department. is held up for rauch
admiration. Her work is to identify the
for redemption. She has had thirty years'
experience, and was sent TO New Orlean4
to examine the charred notes that remained
after fire at the mint.
Other women are quoted with amezement
at their unique capability In Bufralo q
woman runs a STRENGTHENING bureau; IN
Kansas City a woman Is the head OF the
fire department.; In New York woman
owns and conducts a livery stable; another
ness; still another in New Hampshire 70
president Of a street-railway company,
while Chicago has woman embalmer.
But English women are quite as enter
prising in their way, as American women,
For instance. they achieve distinction an
hunters. Lady Hopetoun, wife OF the Gov
ernor of Victoria, has been killing deer In
Auckland. Mrs. Alan Gardner has been
making record in India for hunting Chez
tabs. shooting and spearing panthers ana
sticking pigs; and Mrs Tyacke has, with
her husband. shot the largest number q
bears ever killed in one season In KulyL 10
the central Himalayas.
Mrs. Arundel-COlliver has been supeT1n<
tendent of the clearinghouse branch OF the
pOStoffice, and one or the best paid female
officials under the crown She entered the
service as telegraphist about twenty year,
ago, and the great extension of female ern-
ployment in the department soon after gave
her rapid promotion. The dowager Duchess
Of Londonderry has recently been appointed
q church warden. The Countess OF Car
Isle employs at Castle Howard women
gardeners Miss Murdoch and Miss Buck.
two women students at the Manchester
New College. oxford, have been invited 20
undertake the joint pastOrate OF the Uni
tartan Church at Cleveland o. English
women have furnished shining lights for
the lecture field; they crusade tremendously
as temperance reformers; they travel indie
fatigbly over the globe robed
in most unbecoming sensible clothes:
they wrap themselves In
maFkable garments and penetrate un-
explored regions; they spring into renown
as Alpine biologists and in Australia they
succeed as agriculturists.
Therefore that American feminine enter
prise should Great English comment Is as
fattering IL is astonishing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-21
SHE HELD THE FORT.
Mrs. Walsh Gives the HaughyiIIe Town
Board a Tongue Lashiup.

The Town Board of HaughviIIe held its
regular session last night. and settled for
time the prolonged trouble over scales
put i'm by grocer kligensmith on Grand
View avenue. There have been numerous
demonstrators. chief among whom was Mrs.
Walsh of Sheffield avenue. KIigensmitb
presented a petition TO the board. signed
py long list of persons who fully agreed
that the scales were not a detriment 10 the
general public safety. Mrs Walsh who
was present. in vain tried To show that the
scales were a detriment. The board agreed
To allow the scales 10 remain if within five
days kligensmith would make suitable ap-
proaches- This action of the board aroused
Mrs Waish's ire, and she broke out i'm de-
nunciationS against the board After listen
ms some rev minutes the board retuested
order. but in vain. Mrs. Walsh was there
To have Der say and she had it, Marshal
Mrs. Walsh Was not TO be conGuered At
last she nnlshed. with this final Sentence.
the board and kligensmith are all in The
push; they are all the boys. you know
Keep on threshing us poor people till Nav
ana then look out for yourselves"
The ordinance for the Improvement of
Bismarck avenue from Grand View aVennc
To the northern corporation line 23lO feet
In all. was passed. and bids will be received
for the same Jan. 3. The marshal was in
Structed To see that the roadway between
the double tracks Of the street-car com
pany be kept up 10 the proper level The.
cost OF making the Holmes-avenue cross
ing. as far as completed. was Sf605 of
which the part over the l.. u. & W. tracks
was $3.50. This part viii be refunded To the
town by that company. The never-failing
hlll OF 80 cents for the burying OF a dog was
presented and allowed. Other bills to the
amount Of s. allowed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-21
TO PAY SIXTY CENTS
The Dividend indianapolis Nation
al DepOSitOrs Will Receive.
Jan. Realty That Mr.. Peirce
Transferred.

1t is announced on direct authority that
the aggregate dividends TO be declared in
settling the affairs of the indianapolis Ma
tional Bank will amount TO 60 per cent. on
the total amount of deposits. Thus the de-
positors will only lose 40 per cent. of the
amounts trey had intrusted 10 the safe
keeping of Haughey and others. 1t has
been believed since the failure that the total
dividend would be less than this, many be-
lieving that it would not exceed 80 per cent
The accountants in whose hands the COM
pilations of assets and liabilities have been
placed have figured to the closest point
possible the amount which will finally be
paid the banks creditors.
Controller Eckels stated yesterday to the
Journal correspondent at Washington that
he had determined to Immediately declare
a dividend of % per cent. on the approved
claims against the assets of the bank, pay
able as soon as the checks can be sent out
and returned to Washington by Receiver
Hawkins. The checks will be mailed from
Washington for the creditors of the bank
to insure payment as near the LIST OF
January as possible. Mr.. Eckels declined
to estimate the percentage of the claims
which will finally be paid the creditors of
the bank. Receiver Hawkins said yester-
day that he would have sufficient money
on hand Jan. L to pay the % per cent. divi-
dend
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-21
WAR ON INSURANCE COMPANIES.
San Francisco Merchants Determined
to Secure Payment of Losses.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. Ca peculiar
battle has developed here between some
thirty insurance companies and wholesale
merchants. About four months ago Byers
& Rich, wholesalers of Woolens and ladies'
furnishings, burned out. The firm claimed
a total loss of over 5000 600. The under
writer's refused to pay their losses and The
fire marshal preferred a charge of in
cendiarism This charge well COM
bated that no criminal action was taken
and several of the interested insurance
companies finally paid the losses. The
thirty assurances, whose risks ranged from
5000 to 5000. in all aggregating $l39, 600,
held out. however, and have since pre-
ferred other charges of fraud the part
OF ByerS < Rich. Other wholesale men
have now taken up the fight of the accused
firm and are Waging war against the COM
panies who refuse to make good the loss
1t is stated that over 100000 in risks in the
thirty companies involved have been can
celed here. Prominent merchants declare
the war will be continued. They claim
however, that they are acting simply for
their own self-protection; that they believe
in the innocence of Byers & Rich, and that
the companies involved would probably
serve them in a like manner.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-21
ANYTHING BUT ROPE
Prendergast's Attorney Tells the
Sentence He Will Accept.
Willing His Client Should Be Impris-
Oned for Life, but Will Appeal
from a Gallows Verdict.

CHICAGO, Dec. 2O.-The defense in the
Prendergast trial Is confident that the fact
that the jury was separated when the
members were allowed 20 vote in the
mayoralty election for a successor to the
prisoners victim will entitle Prendergast
to a new trial if the case goes against him.
Attorney Wade said to-day that there was
no doubt that the separation OF the jury
would give a valid excuse for taking the
case to a higher court. He created a
sensation by announcing in court he would
accept any form of punishment for Prem
dergast but the rope. II will not contest
any other form of a verdict said the at
torney, land the prisoners family will ac-
cept sentence for life i'm prison or an
Institution for the insane. / will suggest
such a disposition of the case 10 the jury,
but the prisoner must not hang. 4 Will
contest a death sentence in the higher
courts"
Dr. Meyer was called by the State to-day
ard the defense caused a sensation by
claiming him it's wiuess. The Doctor
was not in court when called, and bailin
was promptly sent out to bring him in, but
he did not come Several witnesses who
had had business dealings with Premier
CAST testified that they considered him
donce of minor importance. No strong
points were brought out either for or
against the prisoner. The attorneys now
believe that by Saturday all of the evidence
will be in and arguments Will be made dur
ing the early part of next week.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-21
ASKS FOR A RECEIVER.
Henry O'Hara Makes Charges Against
Car Company.

CHICAGO Dec 20.-Henry OHara, OF
st. Louis, to-day filed bill in the Circuit
Court asking for receiver for the Hicks
Stock Car Company. a concern with, he
says, IAN alleged capital stock OF 5000, ="
The principal offices of the company are in
Chicago. With proper management, he
says, the concern could make money, but
through it's present officers and managers
it is now indebted to the extent of 5000, 000
part of the sum being secured by mortgages
its present assets do not exceed 100000;
Il at the corporation has little or no money
on hand TO meet its current expenses with
and that it has defaulted $4,000 OF the mort
cages. The complainant also claims that
the defendant bought cars of him and stin
owes him $4,000 for these The presldeof
of the defendant corporation IS r. c. Ed
wards, and it is alleged that he and the
other officers OF the concern have issued
stock to their friends and the members of
their family on which not a cent has ever
been paid. The bill further claims that Ed
wards alleges that the corporation owes
his father, John Edwards, 10000 and that
for this alleged debt the corporation has
given John Edwards 80 cars. on which he
draws 5000 per month mileage, and the bill
goes on 10 assert thai stock has been issued
50 as TO avoid stock liabilities for debts
j.. j. Edwards, president of the Gonna ny
denies that the allegations contained I'm the
bill are true He declares that the com
pany is not insolvent, and that none OF its
Creditors are In sympathy with the move
m ent TO secure a receiver
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-21
CITY NEWS NOTES.

Next Monday evening, at s o'clock, the
Maennerchor Society will give enter
tainment at its hall for members only.
The event is announced a 'Kranzchen."
Word was received in this city, yester-
day. of the death. at Topeka Kan, of John
Anderson. formerly of Indianapolis, and "A
brother of ex-Councilman George Anderson.
He was a member of the Seventy-ninth In
diana Regiment during the war.
Through an error last Sunday it was
stated that the Model Clothing Company
would give a new suit of clothes to the
first prisoner entering the new Jail The
manager OF the Model desires il stated
that no such promise was made, and that
the report was entirely erroneous
The next of the Y NJ. G. \. health talks,
free to men, Will be given Friday evening,
Dec. %, by DIR. c. V Morgan, professor of
clinical surgery in the Central College of
Physicians and Surgeons, on THE Curse
of Heritage" This interesting subject and
the ability of the speaker will doubtless
insure good attendance. DIR. Wcolen will
address the young mems Sunday afternoon
meeting on 1.-THE Rock" being the third
i'm the series. Rocks in Business Life. >"
Mr.. f. F. Soule will sing In Heavenly
IOVp Abiding"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-21
Mass Temperance Meeting.

An error was made in yesterdays issue
as To date of the State Anti-LiquOr League
meeting and the lecture of John G. Woolley.
1t should have read Dec. y instead of II.
1t is expected that excursions will be run
from various points in the State to give the
friends of temperance and especially the
Christian Endeavorers an opportunity to
hear the lecture by John G.. WoOlley. who
is acknowledged To be the greatest temper
ance lecturer in the field since the death
of John y. Cough. Mr.. Woolley was, at
one time, a prominent lawyer in Minneapo-
lis but fell q victim to strong drink and
reached the lowest stage of the gutter
drunkard. He was rescued through a
wealthy New Yorker and has since de-
voted his life TO the temperance work. In
dianapolis is exceedingly fortunate in Sc
curing him for an ''off night for he is en-
gagged for three hundred consecutive nights
by the Christian Endeavorers of Illinois at
$50 a night The lecture at Tominson Hall
Dec. q, will be free and standing room
will be al premium.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-21
AMUSE " ENFS.

In THE Diamond Breaker" which will
be seen at English's tonight and the re-
mainder Of the week. the mechanical effects
are novel and sensational. one act repre-
sents the interior Of a Pennsylvania coal
breaker in fun operation. with mammoth
fly wheels, iron cylinders, betting, shafting
revolving cables. elevated railroad tracks
coal cars. and the ponderous breakers crush
ing tons Of coal. In this act. the hero is
Knocked insensible by the villain and thrown
headfirst into the breakers. At the critical
moment he is rescued by the heroine who
comes down thirty-foot sliding pole Miss
Eteiha Wardel heads the cast The plav
has made hit elsewhere.
The greatest business the Park has had
this season Is being done this week. the at
traction being Hopkins's Transoceanic Spe-
etalty Company. which gives the most novel
and entertaining vaudeville performance
seen here. IL will remain ali week
There VIII be special Christmas rnatinees
at all the theaters on Monday and the adj
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-21
MR.. LIEBER'S BEER.
Superintendent of Police Powell De-
clines to Receive Gift.

When Police Superintendent Powell went
10 dinner, yesterday, he found rare sur
prise in store for him. On his rear porch
was n of extra fine beer, gaily dec
GRATED with red. white and blue ribbons,
and bearing the card: with compliments
of Albert Leber.' The Superintendent
failed to appreciate the gift or the humor
Of the situation. He was constrained to be-
lieve that had superintendent Powell been
plain Mr.. Powell he would hardly have been
favored with Mr.. Lieber'S generosity. He
promptly forwarded the following polite re-
gret to the sender:
MIR. Albert Leber: Dear Slr-On arriving
at my residence at noon to-day / found
there had been delivered at said place by
one of your drivers, dozen bottles of beer
with card bearing the following inscrip-
ton: Compliments of Mr.. Albert Lieber.
Indianapolis Brewing Company" Thanking
you for your good intentions / must decline
to accept presents Of any kind and respect
fully request that you kindly send for the
goods named. 1 am yours respectfully,
GEORGE w POWELL.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-21
DRUMMERS HOMEwARD BOUND.
The Registers at the Hotels Very Light
During Christmas Week.

AZ the holidays approach the number of
travelling men registering at the hotels
decreases daily. This is the time of year
that the man of many trunks checks his
ba6ga sc for home and HES himself to the
family. fireside to spend a few weeks in
renewing acquaintance with his wife and
members OF the home circle The end of
the year brings 10 him "a month or SO of
much-needed rest. The house for which he
travels is now engaged in taking an in
ventory of stock and balancing up the old
years business, preparatory To entering
upon the new year. Hence this season OF
the year is looked forward To by travelling
men with more real pie; sure than any
other class of citizens. as many OF them
are on the road for from three to five
months without a single visit home.
Were il not for the annual conventions
of the State teachers. trustees and County
Commissioners associations next week the
downtown hotels would be almost desert
ed said hotel man last night. The
three principal hotels depend for the most
part on drummers for their regular patron
age.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-21
IN FAVOR OF Monsoon.
Testimony Of scotch Professor I'm
the ArdInmOnt Meystery Case.


EDINBURGH, Dec. 2O.-Lades again
formed the main portion OF the spectators
to-day i'm the court room where Alfred j.
Monson is being tried charge of muir
dering his pupil Lieutenant Hambrough.
When the prisoner entered the court he
glanced sharply around, his gaze finally
resting on the jury. The defense called as
its first witness this morning DIR. Hay, pro-
fessor of medical Jurisprudence at the Aber-
deem University, who testified that he, In
company with DR.. Saunders, of Edinburgh,
had examined the productions bearing on
Lieutenant Hambrough's death and that
they had experimental on models OF human
heads. animal skulls and freshly killed
horses, using amberite and SchutZe black
powder. Two guns were here produced in
court, which the witness had examined five
weeks after the death of the lieutenant.
DR.. Hay also testified that from the place
where the body of the young lieutenant was
found he saw shot marks in tree not
mentioned by the crown which were at
least three months old, and he was of the
opinion that the line of fire was nearer the
dyke than indicated by the crown. The in
ference of the crown expert i'm regard TO
the line of fire. said the professor. appeared
to be drawn from the fact that no head
interposed between the gun and trees. Pro-
IeSSOr Hay, continuing his testimony, said
that if Lieutenant Marlborough was shot
from behind while walking he would proba-
bly, have fallen on his face and IL shot while
standing he would probably have fallen
backwards. Stevens, the agent of the Ard
lamont estate, explained to the witness
where the body was found, and he Dr.
Hay), was unable TO reconcile the state
ments then made to him with the crowns
theory that Lieutenant HambrOugh was
shot from the gap. Assuming that the body
was moved, after it fell, persons unused TO
making close and accurate observations
would not traces OF blood
The Lord Justice here interposed and said
eide.
The witness then gave a long technical de-
scription of how the accident might have
happened, and expressed the opinion that
the injury which caused the deceased's
death was accidentally inflicted. Witness
then proceeded to support his conclusion
with highly technical evidence as to the
nature OF the wound and also produced
photographs of the result of firing at vari-
GUS heads and gave further technical evil
dence regarding his various experiments
with guns According 10 DIR. Hay. the alb
sence of blackening around the wound did
not indicate that the gun was fired al
distance and he supported this opinion with
an account of his experience with the guns
used at Ardlamont: Witness inferred that
deceased'S head was due TO the fact that
the shot was fired at a distance less than
four feet.
An ex-game keeper named Speedy testi-
fed that nearly every tree in ArdlamOnt
wood was marked by bullets fired by the
that part of the country. The witness be-
lieved that the gun was fired accidentally
and that the distance was not more than
two feet
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-21

very clever specimen of tapestry paint
ing is on exhibition at Bryant's music store.
1t is from the brush of Nine. Edith Petet,
whose studio is on North Illinois street
The piece is of some singular merit, being
a work of art and not. as is usually seen on
tapestry-a merciess daubN which is par
doned because it covers a still less merci-
full piece of cheap cloth, but is a painting
worth a more artistic setting ard is en-
titled 1.-The Sheik's Daughter" The paint
ing represents an almost nude reclining
figure i'm the background with a pitcher
carrier in front A beautifully executed
clump of dahlias furnishes warmth behind
the flesh tints which predominant the pic
ture The Oriental colors are rich. but not
heavy. Tapestry painters in this city might
nrnlit by taking a look at this nrnluciiOn.