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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-25
A New Confidence Game.

Last night, about o'clock, a stranger
called at the grocery at No. 365 Virginia
avenue and ordered 9S cents worth of gro
ceries, which he asked to be sent to
number on Dougherty street, &C. o. D."
He also stated that he had only ten-dol-
lar bill at the house, and requested the boy
delivering the goods to bring change with
him. The driver, boy named Heblen, soon
drove up to the above number, and was met
at the gate by the stranger who asked the
boy to give MN the change S1z, after
and get the bill. Heblen turned to the
wagon to get the groceries. but as he did
so he suspected a confidence game. He i'm
mediately went into the house. but the
stranger had fled. The case was reported
to the police.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-25
Lawrence Township RennhIicnns,

The Republicans of Lawrence township
will meet at Spring Valley schoolhouse,
north of Lawrence, on Saturday afternoon.
April Z, at o'clock, to nominate the fol-
lowing-named township officers: A town
ship trustee a township assessor, two JUS
tees of the peace and two constables A
call has been issued by the township COM
mittee, Messrs. George W. Bolander, Frank
McIlvain and John Sargent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-25
A Policeman I'm n Row.

Last Monday patrolman Curran, who re-
sides on Dorman street, became involved in
a dispute with Herman and Erhard Krack-
enfels. brothers and neighbors, over some
dirt that Curran was hauling into his yard.
The parties came to blows. The following
day Curran Swore out warrants for the
brothers arrest, charging them with as
sault and battery, and the brothers followed
suit Yesterday afternoon Justice of the
and costs
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-25
PREACHER GETS DAMAGE.
Rev. Reuben CIine's Character Vindi-
Gated by n $50 Verdict.

The jury in the Cline-Myers SANDER suit,
which occupied the time of the Circuit
Court all last week, yesterday returned
verdict for the plaintiff. He was awarded
damages in the sum of $50. Nearly half the
congregation OF the West Union Baptist
Church was dragged into the case which
was the elimination of a trivial quarrel
between Rev. Reuben Cline and Isaac My
ers, a member of the pastors flock. Cline
brought suit for heavy damages, alleging
that Myers had termed him a barrel
house Christian and other undesirable
names.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-25
Judgment for an Assault.

Judge Bartholomew yesterday awarded
Mary Casey judgment for 500 against
Norah Buckley, the defendant in a suit to
recover damages for an alleged assault
Mrs. Casey and Mrs Buckley reside on
Tennessee street near Norris A few weeks
ago these excellent ladies involved them,
selves in a general family brawl and as
the evidence showed, Mrs. Casey was pretty
thoroughly used UP.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-25
The Ice Cream Freezer Found.

A patrolman yesterday discovered the
ice-cream refrigerator that was stolen from
the residence Of J. +. Hester on Thursday
night, the night of the marriage of Mr.
Hester's daughter, in the willow swamps
on the east bank of White river, near Nc
Carly street This substantiates the belief
that the ice cream was stolen by neighbour
hood bOVS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-25

in 1885 but it's citizens are at work to that
end j. II. Milliken, chairman OF a local
committee, Nj y. Bowden. president Of the
louisville Commercial Club, and Americus
Whelden. prominent Grand Army man,
have informed Adjutant-general SmOck that
they will attend the Indiana Encampment
to win its support in their effort to get the
national meeting.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-25
Iron Hall 20 Per Cent. Dividend.

Judge Klein yesterday handed down an
opinion. at St Louis, in the case of the
Supreme Sitting of the Iron Hall, ordering
that the funds held by the receiver of that
order in Missouri be turned over 10 the
receiver at Indianapolis. \ dividend of 20
per cent. IS assured Immediately.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-25
building Permits.

Building permits were issued yesterday as
follows:
s. Hotz. brick addition, East and Coburn
streets, 500.
j. G. Pierson. Manual Training School,
Meridian and Merrill streets $1,000
street. 1900.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-25
Fined for Fast Driving.

William Weingart was fined in the Crimi-
nal Court, yesterday, for reckless driving.
He was arrested last June at the instance
Of Christian Benke and fined by Justice
Daniels. The case came to the Criminal
Court on appeal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-25
Mrs. wallace Gets Her CbiId.

Margaret Wallace. mother of Cecil Wal
lace, the child taken in charge by the
Board Of Children's Guardians, and over
whom there has been much litigation re-
Gently, appeared in the Circuit Court yes
terday and proved to the satisfaction Of the
court that she is the proper person to have
the care and custody of the infant. Judge
Brown ordered the child returned to the
roOthpP
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-25
snxs He Fonnd the Coin.

Alexander Myers. the colored lad. ar
rested for trying to pass n counterfeit dol
lar says he found the coin while walking
along the Belt railroad He was held in
$500 by United States Commissioner Van
Buren,. yesterday. 10 await the grand jurys
action and. in default of bail, was taken
hnc n iaM
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-25
BELLS DESERVED SENTENCE.
Alleged Theatrical Man VIII Serve
Five Years I'm the Penitentiary.

Booth Bell, alias George Kidd. the the
atrica1 fraud, who took improper liberties
with the young woman who sought a posi-
ton in his company, will spend the next
five years of his career in the penitentiary.
The jury in his case returned a verdict yes
terday morning, after celebrating forty
six hours. Bell will apply for new trial.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-25
Bnu Game Next Sunday.

The Louisville Dippens will come up and
open Manager Harrington's Sunday ball
grounds at Brighton Beach next Sunday.
The game set for yesterday was Cancelled
on account Of the change in the weather.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-25
Marriage Licenses.

Marriage licenses were yesterday issued
to David b. Stanley and Matte Bell Cham
ness, Luther Morris and Ella Atherton,
Alvin L. Brewer and Olive n. Arnold.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-10-10
SHORTHAND WON HIS TITLE
Isaac Pifmnn Has Earned His
K~niGhthoOd by n Busy Life.

Isaac Pifmnn Has Earned Hfs
KnighthOOd by n Busy Life.
When Queen Victoria one day last
week with a stroke of sword and for
NAL courtesy exclaimed, Arise, Sir
Isaac Pitman," she not only conferred
the knighthood on the aged inventor
of phonetic shorthand, bue illustrated
thatfact that in England honors are q
reward sometimes long delayed. Sir
Isaac Pitman is now 81 years OF age,
and k~nighthood, although it carries the
lowest title In the realm, and that
lacks the hereditary principle, comes to
him as a graceful decognition OF q LIES
work well done.
For sixty-seyen years he has worked
ten to fourteen hours a day, almost
without a vacation. His phonetic
shorthand was not q pure invention,
but he undoubtedly did more to ex-
tend and popularize the art and to
bring 1t into 3 than any other. man.
Shorthand comes down to us from the
ancients. The first crude hieroglyphics
In Egypt were a kind or shorthand,
while Penys' Diary was written In q
system used In his day.
In 1887 the system OF Isaac Pitman
was published. He popularized the art
by cheap publications, which brought
schools of shorthand into existence and
made his system the standard. Dick
ems, who had been q reporter In the
house of commons. has drawn In sDa-
vid Copperfield" an amusing picture OF
the struggle of the early shorthand
writer's before Pitman's day, when the
art lacked the clearness and brevity
which he gave 1T, but it In q curious
fact that the official stenographers OF
the house of commons use the system
OF Quincy to the present day. Pitman
however, justly deserves the title OF
sssThe Father OF Shorthand" which faI
eclipses in. glory that which the queen
has conferred upon him, for, as La
bouchere says: Every coal HEAVIER ir
these days is a knight. New YorA
World.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-10-10

The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K
g. b, of New Zealand. now visiting
England, says in the Illustrated Lon
don News:
81 call myself o conservative Old
machinery won't drive q new world.
The old changes and must be replaced.
Take the woman's vote, which Ii now
q hard and fast and excellent fact In
New Zealand. You'll have it in Eng.
land by and by, but for the present you
are losing half the intellect OF the ma.
tion. and more. / make bold to say. than
half the virtue of the nation"
The News describes Sir George Grey
as zone Of the greatest English procon.
suls CT the century, the first statesman
i'm the affection and achievements OF
Australian democracy" This testi.
smony is all the more weighty in the
case of New Zealand, where not only
the white but the Maori women as vel
are admitted to the franchise, a reliance
upon principles of justice which should
&hame Americas uniform expediencJ
and distrnst of equal rights-Bostor
Woman's Journal
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-10-10

The sultam Tnken 0ut Behand the
Harem 20 Hear Texas Logic.

The sultan Taken Ont BehAmd the
Harem 10 Hear Texas Logic.
1t Is with unfeigned pleasure that we
announce that the American Minister
to Turkey, Alexander Watkins Ter
reIl- our Alec-has achieved "a signal
diplomatic victory" where more expert
enced diplomats had tried and failed.
1t appears that the Sultan OF Turkey
has an idea that the proper place for q
woman Is at home in the harem rolling
cigarettes, coloring her eyelids and 9TH
erwise making herself attractive to her
lord and master. The wives of various
missionaries In that benighted land
take a different view of the matter and
aspire to pick up a little pin-money by
saving bodies while their husbands are
garnering souls. They desired to prac-
tice medicine, but the Unspeakable
Turk spoke, and the burden OF his
brief remarks was "nixy." The French
Talleyrand went to him and remon-
strated, but 1t was no use. The Sultan
Ldu uidnG up Ills K1t1l, anu uC Adu hSL
Their time nor inclination to remodel
1t in accordance with fin de steele
architecture. Then John Bulls best
man visited him and protested against
his blawsted prejudice, d~oncherknow,
but the Sultan saved wood and said
nothing. Emperor Williams bediz-
ened emissary put In his oar, but with
out avail. The Russian Minister plead
ed the cause OF the she-Hypocrates,
but pleaded In vain. Then u Alec
DOTTED his beaver to the beauty I'm dis
tress and babe it be OF good cheer. He
took the Sultan out behind the harem
and talked Texas logic to him. He ex-
| planned at length that woman Is as well
qualified as her big brother to feel q
| fellows pulse, look at his tongue and
send I'm q bill. The sick Man of the
| East could not withstand the persua-
sive eloquence that induced Texas to
accept the alien land law and the ap-
pointive kermishen, and finally yielded.
Our Alec was forthwith crowned with
bays by the pretty practitioners and
hailed as the modern Leander, who had
| successfully stemmed the stormy tide
of oriental prejudice to serve the high
priestesses of the little liver pill and
Latin prescription. Minister Terrell
has shed a ray of refulgent glory upon
Texas from the far away banks OF the
troubled BOsporus, and the Express
viii urge that the next legislature
make a liberal appropriation for a sta
tue commemorative OF his victory
Perhaps the best design would be Oul
| Alec mounted upon his mouse-coloreC
mule, the faithful animal led by Dians
and his path stTewn with immortelles
by DIR. Mary Walker and Mrs. Lease
| San Antonio TEX Express.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-10-10
In Place ef Whlta shirt..

Every woman enjoys the sense Of
daintiness which d spotless clean white
petticoat gives But not every woman
can afford this luxury. The Laundry bin
which surely stares her In the face il
appalling. Less expensive and almost aa
dainty are the new undergarmentss Of
linen dimity. They are ecru In color
and made with q deep rufiie tastefnliy
embroidered in dark shades of silk.
Skirts of black mohair on MORGAN
wear much better than the petticoats al
silk. They have much the same effect
when made with silk ruffies. Don't
make the rufies OF old silk which you
may have In the house, left over from q
gown which has seen better days. There
il no economy In il. The ruffies will be-
come worn before you have had the skirt
q week. It pays to buy good silk fo1
this purpose.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-10-10
NOT WANTED IN KENTUCKY.

Mr.. Undervvood,s story OF .. Political
Campaign I'm h Blue Grass
State.
ed lieutenant governor OF KENTUCKY
on the same ticket with Luke Blac.i.
burn Is an amusing story teller, particu
larry when he Is started on the subject
of political stamping In Kentucky.
'Our people, said he to an Evening
Post man not long Z don't like
snobbishness," i remember fone time
when / was stumping N of the noun
tain counties, / bought SIS worth of
nickles and carried them In my saddle
bags. At every log cabin i would ride
up and ask for a drink of water. Out
would come q little boy or girl with a
gourd dipper of warm water. i would
take a swallow then drop a nickel in
the dipper. The little one would run
In and / would go on. The child's
mother would come out and have the
generous gentleman pointed out. The
consequence was / got the vote of the
house. Well, morning i rode up to
a house and a little girl brought me
out a dipper of water. / felt in my
pocket and discovered that / hadn't a
copper.
Little girl said 1, I generally
have a nickel somewhere about me,
but i haven't today, 30 I'll give you
| what is the next best thing for a girl,
and that's a kiss and / got down off
my horse and kissed her for my WI
little blue-eyed girl at home. Another
little black-eyed girl here showed up,
and I had to kiss her for a niece Of
mine she looked like. BY this time,
another little girl showed up. half a
head taller than the rest, and, not to
be impartial, / kissed her; when /
found that four or five other girls had
gathered, and I was in for 1t. So. be-
ginning with the smallest, I kissed each
one. The change In statue was SO
gradual that / didn't notice that the last
one was a full-grown young woman-
and right handsome at that-until /
had kissed her. Looking up, / saw that
there were two or three old ladies
laughing at me, and, thinking that ]
had made a bad break, j lifted my hat
to the young lady and begged her par
don and explained how II was. She
didn't seem to mind 1T much, but the
old ladies kept laughing, and one of
u ~AIAh 1Au "AJy NdAA Ap ~ pa .
wife
" Well, / thought, I'm In for it.
That knocks out all my votes i'm this
neighborhood.' l inquired at the next
house who Bill was, and was told that
it was Buck Holmes, the hardest citi-
zen in Carter County. Next day I had
to speak ut the courthouse, and when
I came up / noticed a gang OF about
twenty-five rough looking fellows of
at one side, and a big sfx-foOter talk.
ing to them and gesticulating with both
hands.
Who's thatg / inquired.
That's Buck" Holmes and his
gang was the reply. Gold chills rar
down my back and / shifted my revol
yer around to where / could reach II
without trouble, and then sauntered
up to oyerhear what he was saying.
" Well, I'm blankety BANKED ]
heard him say, If he don't catch my
vote. No snob thar. gentlemen. jess
as 500 kiss a poor mans wife as q
rich ones! That settled it. ana i got
$50 more votes in that county than any
other man on the ticket
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-10-10
FIRST SIGHT OF RED HAIR.
How 1T Aroused the Wonder of Colo
rado Indians Years Ago.

How 1T Aroused the WOMdeF OF COAo-
RADIO Indians e Ago.
~ was in Colorado In 1873" said
Harvey G. Smartwood Of Canon City,
Colo. to a reporter for the Washing
ton Post. before the influence or the
white man was utterly dominant. The
Indians around what is now Meeker
had seen but little of the white man
and knew comparatively nothing OF
him or his ways or habits except from
hearsay and tradition. / mean to say
that there were many Of them to whom
the white man was as much OF O curl
osity as an Indian would be to a New
York BOwery boy. As you see, nature
saw fit to give me q shock OF armin
colored hair. When I first went among
the Indians they all thought that 1t
was painted, just as they universally
paint their own bodies and faces and
heads. An old chief came up TO me
one day and looked at my hair very
carefully. Ugh said he. and then
turning to the guide who had U party
In charge, he asked him to ask me
where i got the kind OF paint b o
would cofCr and not be greasy on look
dauby, The guide told him my hair
wasn't painted, but he wouldn't be-
lieve him. He came over and once
more closely scrutinized my locks, run
ming his hand over them and then
looking at his fingers. i didn't know
what he was after. ] had an q
that he was calculating how nice my
red scalp would look hung about his
dirty old body, and was inclined 10 re
sent 1t. Our guide. however, laughing
ly told me what the old chief had sud.
Two or three more of the bucks gath.
cred about MS, and they and n guide
had a powwow. Finally the guide
asked me IL I would object to putting
water on my hair. He said the In
dams wouldn't believe 1t wasn't paint
ed until they saw that water wouldn't
wash the color out. OF course, ] took
| some water and rubbed It on TEy hall
and then showed my hands to them
lit took four or five days OF wondering
examination to convince them shat
hadn't found some particular bIfe paint
and got myself up In O bright red sui
of hair"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-10-10

Mamma"
Fretfully the golden head tossed upon
the pillow. vainly the great, bearded
man sought to sooth the child to
slumber.
Mamma"
The man sat silent In the darkness,
and q tear crept down his cheek.
Mamma"
He rose and gazed from the window
into the dimly lighted street. The
house seemed progressively silent.
mamma"
Child, child
He was bending low over the bed,
now.
don't make this society racket any
worse than necessary"
CHANGING ait his watch he estimated
with q sigh that the dance programme
had probably proceeded nc farther than
the York.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-10-10

New crepons are deeply crinkled and
marked with pin-head dots. New nuns
yeilings have satin stripes OF a con-
trasting color. New grenadines in
black. ecru or cream color have. baya-
dere stripes of chiffon an inch wide
and deeply crinkled.-NeW ~lutestring
silks are among the REVEALS of quaint
old-fashioned fabrics. soft to the touch,
vet stoutly v and figured with
chine designs and dashes OF vivid color.
New taffetas are In black. with fine
cross stripes OF color In pink and nile
green. New ecru satins show clusters
Of tiny black dots; new liberty satins
are strewn with small blocks OF white
in irregular groups, while new light.
colored peau de sOles are very effective,
powdered with black triangles.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-10-10

INVESTMENT.
Every dollar deposited in a city
lot or a farm will be there for you
when needed for your own use, and
will earn many more dollars by
INCREASE In VALUE.
The foundation of many q
fortune has been lain by
the purchase OF a city lot. Ii you
have a family, sthen by all means
you want q home. If you wish to
live in the city, buy a lot, or more
than one If you feel able. and COM
mence at once to improve it By
planting trees on it il nothing
more, and building on it as soon
IS practicable. You can make Z
Joan for the parpose Of building II
.lyon own your Lot. II you are ,
farmer and expect TO retire soor
and secures farm, on come to Til,
IN for the purpose of educating
ur chill dren thcn you certainl,
8Nk 4EaS&@&E &@&@
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-10-10
KneM II nrother.

Struggling Pastor-Brother Skinfiint
intends to give our new chapel window
n beautiful memorial window.
Wife-He probably wants something
to look at when the contribution box
goes around.-New. York Weekly.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-10-10
Refrowressions.

Talkmm-Prof. Gamer says that mol
keys DO not actually converse, but con,
ine themselves to single remarks on
matters Ut importance.
Thinknm-Dear me! How man has
degencrated-New York Weekly.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-10-10
Gala Comfort.

Jones-It win be all the same a hun.
dred years from now.
Smith-Wel, / don't find much con
ISOLATION In that. 1t is just a hun
dred years since Louis XVI was gull
lotined. What good does that do him
now?
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-10-10

All indications point to a continue
ton Of the Immense sleeves that fash
ION has elected for two eason past.
a long as their vogue Is unchanged
the open flowing cape will be . lead
ing wrap.