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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-15

ardized. Before the tariff bin putting a
duty on sugar and ending reciprocity be-
came a law the Spanish authorities had
taken action looking to the immediate res
toration OF the heavy duties on American
flour and other products which had been
admitted TO Cuban ports on very favorable
terms. In spite of this warning the Demo
cratic leaders persisted, and are therefore
fully responsible.
Let us see what the Democratic party has
done by its reckless tariff legislation. The
valuable market for American flour and
other food products in Cuba has been abso-
lutely destroyed, and Germany is threaten
ing to shut out our meats. On the other
hand. the cost of one of the great nee
essaries of life, sugar, has been increased
TO every consumer. The price Of wool has
been brought TO the lowest notch by placing
it on the free list, and American farmers
have been brought face to face with Cana
dian competition. The price Of wheat has
declined about 40 per cent. 1t will do no
good TO retaliate against Spain and other
countries. The incompetent Democracy
should rather be swept out OF power.
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POTATOES HIS ONLY WEAPONS.
How q Humorous Kentucky Dominic
Brought the Code Into Rfdicule.

BrOuGht the CO0e INTO fNlulcule.
Lexington Ky.) Transcript.
One way of combating an evil practice
is to make it ridiculous. 1t was by this
means that dueling was stopped in a GER
tain district In Kentucky some forty years
ago. At that time a travelling preacher
named Bowman, a strong, muscular man,
was conducting a series OF religious meet
ings in Kentucky. At one of them q we'll
turbance. and, being publicly rebuked by
Bowman, sent him a challenge to fight
The preachers first thought was TO treat
the matter with silent contempt. Then he
reflected that dueling was all too common
in that region, and he decided to accept
the challenge.
the choice of weapons. He selected a half
bushel of large Irish potatoes, and stipu-
lated that his opponent must stand fifteen
PAGES distant, and that only one potato
at a time should be taken from the meas
ure.
insisted upon his rights as the challenged
party, and threatened to denounce the fell
low as a coward if he made further OBJ
J~ections. Seeing no way out OF the scrape,
the desperate at last consented.
The contest took place on the outskirts
of the town, and almost everybody in the
place turned out to see the fun. The sec
by the side of each being a half bushel
measure filled with good-sized potatoes.
Bowman threw the first one. 1t struck
pieces. A shout Of delight went up from
the crowd, which Hurried the desperado,
and his potato few wide of the mark. Bow
man watched his chance, and every time
his opponent stopped for a potato another
one hit him in the side, leaving a wet spo.
on his clothes and then scattering on all
sides. The fellow was hit in this way five
times; then the sixth potato struck him
in the short-ribs, and he lay on the grass
doubled up with pain and grooming
The bystanders went wild with delight,
but Mr.. Bowman looked very sober. The
desperate was taken home and put to bed,
and there he stayed for more than a week.
And when he appeared again he was
greeted with so many jokes that life was
almost a burden to him. That was the
end of dueling in that region.
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THE MINING OF ASPHALT.
How the Popular Paving Material Is
Taken Out I'm California.

By far the most interesting, largest and
most valuable asphalt deposits yet discov-
cred in this country are the two known
collectively as the "Alcatraz," located thir-
ty miles apart on the sea coast of Santa
Barbara. The most westerly of these, La
Patera mine, some fifteen miles from the
city of Santa Barbara is of rock asphalt
um, which is mined like coal, and breaks
off in large chunks, exhibiting a perfect
conchoidal fracture. 1t ia found in thick
seams, inclosed by walls of shale, and ex-
tends to unknown depths. The main shaft
of La Patera is now down about LOO feet,
at which level there is no sign of diminu-
ton ia the supply. An interesting feature
of this unique mine is the steady asphaltio
growth constantly taking place in the
drifts. The material, being slightly plastic,
is forced into every opening by pressure
from below, so that last year more than
fifty feet of actual growth were cut away
In order to keep the workings OPEN
Lodges of this rock asphaltum extend far
out beneath the sea, and 1T is interesting
to note thai. specimens broken from the
surface Of these, where they have been
exposed to the action of salt water for
ages, show the same chemical and physic-
al qualities as do samples from the bot
tom of the deepest inland shaft.
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NOTES OF INDUSTRIES
UNUSUAL QUANTITY OF CORN TURNED
INTsO CEREALINE.
A Successful Canning Season Brought
to an End by the Frost
Stocks of Wool.

In no month since Indianapolis came into
prominence as a center for manufacturing
cerealine products has so large a business
been done as in September. Both the cerea-
line mills and the Indianapolis hominy mills
were run TO their full capacity. Since the
1st of October there has been a little slow
ing down to make repairs, or or account Of
the scarcity of corn required. In the month
OF September the cerealine mills converted
49, 200 bushels OF corn into cerealine prod
ucts. or an average of $500 bushels per day,
and the Indianapolis hominy mills shipped
III carloads of manufactured corn products.
One of the singular features of this bust
ness Is that there has been an increased
home demand for these products, while the
export demand has not been as large. In
fact. only about Is per cent. Of the goods
the two establishments manufactured were
exported.
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Is llned up as follows:
Hillsdale
Notre Dame


TOLEDO, o., Oct. 13.-To-day Governor
Mckinley returned to his own State. He
was given a welcome home that was en-
tirely in keeping with the splendid recep-
tions he has met abroad. He spoke at
Paulding this afternoon to a large audience
composed mainly of the farmers OF Pauld-
ing and the adjoining counties, and after
the meeting he was conveyed on a special
train to Toledo, stopping en- route at De-
fance, Napoleon and Liberty, and making
a short speech at each place. the Governor
was accompanied from Toledo TO Pauld-
ing and back by Secretary of State Taylor,
State Auditor Poe and others. The people
of Toledo, despite the inclement weather,
congregated in great numbers at Memorial
Hall, filling that place to the utmost with
an exceedingly demonstrative audience
which gave Mckinley a more than royal
welcome home after his triumphs in the
West. A big procession was on the even
ing's programme, but ii had to be aban-
doned on account of the rain. In the morn
ing the Governor goes to Columbus.
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NEWS IN SUNDAYS JOURNAL.
Summary of the Principal Events
Printed i'm the Issue of Oct. IL.

The Kafirs nave succeeded in invading
a portion of Laurence Marquee.
Chief Justice Bleckley. of Georgia, ten
dered his resignation to Governor Northen.
A wholesale forgery of Chinese certifi-
Gates has been discovered at FL Pasoi Tex.
w. C. p. Breckenridge was suspended
from Mount Horeb Church until Feb. I,
1896.
The Viking ship was formally presented
to the Field Columbia Museum in Chi
cago.
James O.. Broadhead, minister to Switzer-
land. and ambassador Bayard arrived at
New York.
A Wabash passenger train was wrecked
near Springfield, Ill. The engineer was
slightly hurt.
Thomas B. Reed opened the New York
Republican campaign with a speech at
Cooper Union.
Three drunken slavs at Maltby. Pa.
shot and killed a boy and mortally
wounded two girls.
The American Board Of Commissioners
of Foreign Missions adjourned to meet
next year in Brooklyn.
+h The kin King Of ssrvia wi will be a que guest t,s Of
is said to have political significance.
Rev. Mr.. Cauley was killed at Roxton,
Tex, yesterday by Green Butcher. 1t is
reported that Cauley insulted Butchers
wife.
Senator Vest offers s95O.Co to any one
who can show and prove that he is worth
100000 as a result Of senatorial expert
ence.
Charles e. Anderson. private secretary
to Norman Fay, OF Chicago, was held on
a charge Of embezzling $4,000 from his
employer.
Assistant Attorney-genera Thomas says
a number of new bond investment swim
dies have been unearthed by the Postoffice
Department.
A compromise has been effected on Ger
man Anarchist laws. No special acts will
be passed. but the present measures will
be vigorously enforced.
Ex-SuDerintendent Dixon. Of the State
deaf and dumb institution of Kansas,
charges Mrs. Lease with advising him to
plumber the State OF $4,000.
Clever confidence men a been perpe-
trating wholesale swindles 'on ST. Louis,
Chicago and Cincinnati merchants by
means of bogus New York drafts bearing
the name of a Jacksonville Qll.) banking
firm
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%InduStriaI Notes.

Tucker & Dorsey are experiencing a tenn
had sixty men at work and were working
nightly until 8 O'Clock.
Reeves & Company. manufacturers of
threshers, engines, etc, have leased, for a
term Of years, the large buildings on South
tennessee street recently occupied by Blair
& Baker.
President Bennett, of the indianapolis
Stove Company, states that the company
is now working 100 men out of the usual
$50. He said their sales were exceeding
1893 but not up those of 1892.
Swift & Company will this week open
business here. The new cold storage house
on Kentucky avenue is completed and some
lively competition in the sale Of dressed
meats is now looked for among the four es-
Establishments of this kind.
Olaf Olsen, proprietor of the indianapolis
machine and bolt works, will this morning
start up his foundry. putting fifteen men
at work. In his machine shops he is now
employing sixty men. half his usual force,
and has work to keep them busy for the
present.
Rumely & Company. manufacturers of
threshers, engines, etc., have torn down
the old frame building ley have occupied
and Georgia streets, preparatory to erecting
a three-story brick building covering the
entire ground
A. A. Heller & Son are just completing
an addition to their carriage works on
North Tennessee street. The building is of
brick. one hundred feet long by fifty wide
anu lWO SUITES nigh. lnty tAptCl ~ Hdu-
ufacture carria ges and buggieS as well as
to do repair work.
Ellis & H~elfenbsrg report business good.
They are employing as many men as al any
time since their works We're established.
This company sells a good deal Of its work
in the Southern States, and report that since
the State fair their iron fence trade, es-
pecially in Indiana, has improved.
When In Germany, d. NJ. Parry, president
of the Parry Manufacturing Company, pur-
chased a two seated carriage n a dray
OF native manufacture and he has them on
exhibition at his works The carriage viii
weigh fully twice as much as the American
build of the same plan. All the iron WORK
is done by hand and IL has a clumsy look,
but is of substantial character. The dray
Is not as heavy as the American dray. II
has four wheels and Is lower than the
American build.
The new company which takes the In
dianapoliS Cabinet works will not manu-
facture their own veneering. 1t is stated
that one of the great leaks with the works
when under the Collins was the department
OF veneering. which only the most exper-
fenced can manufacture with profit. In
dianapolis has become quite noted in this
industry. The Pullman company for years
has purchased most of It's veneering
from our manufacturers There are two
large veneering manufactures here and
they have a capacity to turn out twelve mil.
lion feet q year.
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(From Sundays Second Editjnn.)
Joe Pafchen's First Break.

SIOUX CITY, Ia, Oct. 13.-This was the
last day of the interstate fair race meeting.
The track was fast and the weather warm.
zoe Patcnen mace Two temps TO lower
mHe the pacing was very poor. He went
three quarters in fast time, but in the home
stretch slackened his speed and finished in
2:051a. Time by quarters: :3lA, 1:021a, 1:341a,
20512. Patchen broke or the last quarter
Of the second mile, but went under the
wire in 2:06 nat. Curry drove to the first
quarter In 80, to the second in 1:02 and the
third in 1885, leaving him 30A seconds to
tie the stallion record held by John r.
Gentry Of 2:03%. AT this point the second
pacemaker turned in, but came too close,
and the great PAGER left his feet for the
first time this season, or another worlds
record would undoubtedly nave been bro
ken. The PAGER La Belle, who lowered her
record to PIP on Thursday, cut it to 2:O9
to-day: Summarizes:
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Elliott Defeats Carver.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Oct. 13.-Even the
most enthusiastic admirer of DIR. Carver
cannot now doubt the superiority of j. a.
r. Elliott over him at pigeon shooting at
thirty yards rise and fifty Yards boundar-
les. All question In this direction was prac-
tically settled at Exposition Park to-day
by Elliott taking the third and last match
Of the series by a score OF 80 TO 90. In adj
dition to his winning the decisive shoot, FL
liott's record of 19 birds out of 200 in the
last two matches is something that will go
down In trap shooting history as marvel
Gus. DR.. Carver was not In particularly
good form. On the other hand, Elliott,
asiie from his single miss, the twenty-ninth
bird, seemed surer than on Friday.
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Traffic Notes.

&AAC NOACS
The Peoria & Eastern is doing a good
business. Its west-bound traffic is about
as heavy as its east-bound on the western
division Last week 56 loaded cars were
sent west. against 36S brought in.
inbound business with the Lake Erie &
Western is I'm excess OF outbound. the road
last week bringing In $50. against 25 load,
vegetables from northern points over the
l.. L. & w. are heavy.
The Vandalia last week brought in 97
and forwarded 1,0i7 loaded cars. The re-
cespts over this line of tropical fruits and
tr-anscontinental freight fully make up the
loss in coal traffic with the Introduction OF
natural gas at indianapolis.
The Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton is
doing a good business, but would make a
more favorable exhibit had it more cars
at its ommand The Xandalia and the
day.
The four Pennsylvania lines last week
received and forwarded 4.07 loaded cars.
q decrease of ninety-seven cars. as COM
pared with the week preceding. The Pan
handle proper. however. handled at Indian,
forwarding SH, being the heaviest business
of any week since 1892.
1t Is said that no system OF roads in the
country Is showing as large a tonnage on
the mileage covered as does the Big -Four.
Last week the four divisions received and
forwarded at indianapolis a total OF 1857
fewer loaded cars than We're handled at
this point in the week ending Oct. 6. Two
OF the four divisions last week show an in
creased loaded car movement.
The Monon continues to make q favorable
exhibit. especially north-bound. Were its
south-bound traffic as heavy as north-bound
its weekly statement would be even more
satisfactory. The Cincinnati, Hamilton a
Dayton turns a good deal of business for
the northwest 10 the Monon- George Bre-
count. since appointed commercial agent
OF the Monon at Cincinnati. has trebled
the business from that section
Personal, Local and General Notes.
B. Cowden has been appointed general
freight agent OF the Alabama East and
West road.
General Agent Blye, OF the Trunk-line
10 a Se.0o0 legacy.
The Indiana Car-service Association in
September handled 1876 cars. the largest
business In any month of the last seven
teen
A handsome sum or money has been
raised to equip Cornell University with a
railroad plant similar TO that of Purdue
University.
An official OF the Big -Four states that
had the company the cars IL would to-day
be handling a larger coal tonnage than any
other road Ia Ohio, Indiana or Illinois.
w. A. Cuykendall. who was one OF the
early locomotive engineers on the Bee Line
and the Indianapolis & Cincinnati. who
went TO the Santa Fe fourteen years ago,
- visiting relatives here. He says that
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IudiauauOlis.

Purdue defeated the Butler football team
by a 30 to o score on the Ohio-Street
grounds.
Marion Club and Thirteenth ward Repub-
leans adopted resolutions of respec, to the
late Aurelius j. Joyce.
John w. Richard was appointed receiver
for John w. Secord, manufacturer OF ma
chinery On South Pennsylvania street.
Ex-President Harrison and party re-
turned Saturday evening from the trip to
Evansville. The statesman received ova-
tons all along the roads from that city.
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Notre Dame, IA; HilIsdale, O.

SOUTH BEND. Ind, Oct. 13.-The foot
ball season at the University of Notre
Dame opened this afternoon with an in
teresting game between the Notre Dame
team and the Hillsdale Mich) eleven. in
which the latter never scored a point.
Not-e Danes men lined up against their
opponents and took three touchdowns
and one goal without yielding anything
in return, the score standing IA to o. The
visitors made a determined rally in the
last half and had the ball on Notre Danes
goal line when time was called. Notre
game. showing that the university has an
eleven which will make a hard fight. The
teams lined LID as follows.
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GAS CITY, Ind, Oct. 13.-The great tin
plate works of the Norwood company. at
this place, will resume work Monday, Oct.
Is, after a shutdown OF one week pend
ing an agreement of wages between the
company and its employees. The same sched-
ule that has heretofore been in effect will
continue for an indefinite time the en-
a later date that may be accepted by the
other tin-plate workers Of the gas belt.
The management still maintains Ii cannot
afford 10 operate the plant without a re-
duction of wages, but state that while
other plants in the gas belt are in opera
ton policy requires it to continue. whether
at a profit or loss.
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TO Baltimore, Md, always finding II a
good market. Last week he shipped nine
teen carloads there. according to his
usual custom. Yesterday he received a
letter from his commission merchant stat
ing that on account of the tremendous
amount OF hay sent to Baltimore from
Canada since the tariff bill was passed
there was no market for his consignment.
and IL would scarcely sell for enough to
pay freight. Mr.. Boggs was further in
formed that his nineteen carloads OF hay
were in the Baltimore yards. subject TO
the shippers orders Squire -Boggs is
thoroughly disguised with the Democratic
Marty and IT'S destructive legislation.
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Indianapolis Horse Market.

For years Ir IA has been prominent. as
a State to buy good horses. but in
the last year it has come into more prom
inence through auction sales, which were
first established semi-weekly in this city by
Blair & Baker. Two more large sales barns
have now been established, and in the
month of September over fifteen hundred
horses were sold in Indianapolis. A large
per cent. of these were shipped away from
here. one firm shipping forty-five carloads.
Buyers now attend these sales from East
ern. Southern and Northern markets in con-
siderable numbers. At tine last sale eighty
horses were purchased for export, a new
feature in the business for Indianapolis.
The three sales stables have a capacity to
care for twelve hundred horses at one time.
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A dispatch from indianapolis states that
the Touring mills of that city are COM
planning about the loss OF their trade with
Cuba. and that the candidates for Con-
gress In the State are to be pledged to re-
taliate against every country that discrim-
mates against the products of the United
States. The proper retaliation Is against
the fat-witted leaders of the Democratic
party. who deliberately destroyed reclproc-
ity, knowing that our growing trade with
Cuba. Germany and France would be jeop-
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FfeDdfsh Negress.

PARIS, KY, Oct. 13.-Henry Hall, col
ored. was murdered in a peculiarly brutal
manner by his wife, who has been arrested.
About a week ago, after being beaten by
his wife, Hall attempted suicide by drown
ing, but was rescued. His wife took him
hone. stabbed him in the side with an Ice
pick. filled the wound with cotton and
sswed it up with an ordinary needle and
thread. To-day Hall died Of the stab.
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JEW YORK, Oct. ia new starting de-
vice was successfully operated at the Mas
peth race track this afternoon A gate was
erected across the track at the nve-furlong
post. Two races were started with II to-
day. In the first a field of five was dis
patched in a line, while in the second a field
of ten, which stood before the apparatus,
was sent away beautifully. After three
gongs are sounded the gate swings forward
and upwards and the racers are enabled TO
90 off in a bunch.
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Canning Season Closed.

The frosts Of the last few mornings have
cut off the tomato and other crops, and thus
ends the season with the packing houses.
Van Camp e Co., Tuesday, dropped from
their pay rolls between six and seven hun
dred people, mostly women. and have but
eighty now at work in the soup and catsup
departments. The American Canning Com
pany has shut down after having one of the
best seasons since it was established, thus
throwing between two and three hundred
out of employment. Three months ago it
was said that less corn and tomatoes would
be canned than usual, but directly the re-
verse Is the case. Larger quantities of
both have been canned than ever before, as
both the Polk and the Henry canning COM
panies make equally favorable reports with
the two first named.
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Electric Car Passengers Hurt.

KANSAS CITY, Oct. 12.-An electric car
Oh the Armourdale branch Of the elevated
railway ran away on the Seventh-street
vfaduct, in Armourdale, to-day, and a
score Of passengers were slightly and four
seriously injured. r. w. Morris. c. A.
Hunt, Charles Prill and conductor G. l..
Stone were badly but not fatally hurt.
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New YORK sun.
Lives there a doctor who could bring
about a cure In the case of the Gar, We
have no doubt that the Car would be
willing to give such a doctor millions.
make him a prince. build him a palace
beside his own upon the Neva and order
the Holy Synod TO canonize him as soon as
ma shuiffed OF his mortal coil. There is a
great chance for the doctors.
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China Not Suing for Peace.

LONDON, Oct. 13.-Sir Halliday Macart-
ney, counselor of the Chinese legation in
this city, in an interview to-day, declared
that the report that China was suing for
peace was untrue. He added that any such
proposal is not within sight by a long way.
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Mr.. voorhees,. Read This.

Last spring the price of wool was so low
that some of the dealers purchased more
largely than usual and stored 1t, looking
for better prices, but as yet have been I'M
able to get even as high figures by 2 cents
a pound as they paid for their wool. In
fact. of late they have been unable to get
even an offer for it. One firm now has
stored in the southern part of the city
go. 900 pounds of wool. and the firm has
about abandoned the idea of getting out of
their seasons wool business without con-
siderable loss.