The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-18
HENRY S. IVES DEAD
The Famous Napoleon Of FL
nance" a Victim Of Consumption.
He Dies at AshevilIe, n. c., After Long
Illness-Points from His MeteOric Ca
reer-Death of Gen. Shepherd.

AsHEvILLE. n. c.. April l7.-Henry S.
Finance" died here at 7:30 tonight. Ives
reached Asheville about two months ago
from Florida in an almost dying condition;
and has hardly left his bed since. He leased
a residence in the suburbs and lived quietly
with his wife and few servants. The
cause of his death was consumption.
Henry S. Ives was well known to stock
brokers and railway managers as a "fnan-
cial meteor" who suddenly shot out of the
eastern sky and exploded when he struck
Indiana. In other words, when Ives con-
fined his operations to Gotham he was in
the swim. but when he started out West
on a railway wrecking tour and tried to
gobble the c., II. G. d. and Vandalia lines.
he struck snag that wrecked himself.
Ives was once q member of the firm Of
Henry S. Ives & Co., New York,
which failed for s15.OOO0OO in August. 1881
In September, 1889, Ives was brought for
trial before Recorder Smythe for overissu-
ing 5000 shares of Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton stock. The jurors announced them
selves unable to agree 1t was believed
that a new trial would he ordered. but
Ives effected a compromise with his cred
itors at about five cents on the dollar. and
got out of Ludlow-street Jail on March 81
1880, after a years incarceration. lie
promptly went back to Wall street, spent
in a state of nervous prostratiol ny send
ing out rumorS that he had secured control
Of this or that prominent road. But in
June, 1884, ne was atuGcileG ny hrmnrrhdge
and after tina: got ont OF active business
life. He appeared to have saved plenty Of
money from his wreck, and entertained
lavishIy when ne married Miss Lillian Ger
trude Sears, a comic opera singer, In Kew
York. Nov. %. 1892. The, OLD indictments
declared himself at peace with the world
In February 1888, his name appeared IN
connection with scheme to control the
Cleveland, Akron q Columbus railroad,
but he failed to do anything with the plan
on account of his reputation, and since
then the public has heard nothing OF him.
Ernest I<nnbe.
BALTIMORE, April 17.-Ernest Knabe,
the distinguished musician and piano manu-
facturer. died this morning CT heart failure
superinduced by the grip.
Mr. Knabes renown as musician ex-
tended throughout the coun,ry and he did
as much as any other man Of the time to
advance the of musical culture In
the United States. Hundreds of wel-known
musicians owe their fame and position to
the start given them by Mr.. knabe, who
was as large and broad in ,lis charities as
ne was noted in the business pursuit
nence. The deceased was the eldest
son of William Knabe, who founded the
great piano manufacturing firm IN 1887.
He was q member Of the Merchants and
Manufacturers Association, the Germania
Club, the Merchants Club, the Journalistic
Club and was either an active or an honor
airy member of every singing and musical
society in Baltimore and other cities. Mr.
Knabe was an exceedingly successful busi-
ness man, and leaves large estate. His
home was always an artistic center and
almost every noted artist who has ever
visited Baltimore had been his guest He
was d personal friend of Won Bulow, D. AL
(.rlIe fell FrSChaikOVSkY. NiCkiSh
Pauline Lueca, Minnie Hauk, and other
noted musicians who have made American
tours.
Brig.Gen. Oliver LathrOp Shepherd.
NEW YORK, April 17.-Brig. Gen. oliver
Lathrop Shepherd, a retired officer OF the
army with q brilliant record, is dead at
his residence. No. 2013 Lexington avenue.
He had been i'll a week, having caught cold,
which resulted in pneumonia.
Oliver Lathrop Shepherd was born in Sar-
atoga county. New York, eighty-one years
ago He graduated at West Point Academy
in 1870, entered the service as brevet sec
ond lieutenant of the Fourth Infantry in
July, and in October following he was made
a full second lieutenant Of the Third In
fantry, and served in the Seminole war in
Florida and the Texas frontier. In the
Mexican war he served with great gallant
ry in many noted engagements, and rose
to the rank of lieutenant colonel In 1861
he was appointed colonel OF the Sixteenth
Infantry and fought to the end of the re-
bellion- In 1865 he made brigadier
general 1t was General Shepherd who held
Fort Defiance in New Mexico with $50 men
when il was besieged by 1000 bowling Nav
ajo Indians.
Carson Lake.
NEW YORK, April 17.-Carson Lake the
well-known political writer, died Saturday
in the Middletown State Hospital for the
Insane He had been an inmate of the
hospital for thirteen months, suffering
from general paresis.
Carson Lake was born in Ohio about fifty
years ago. About twenty years ago he
married Miss Ollie Elizabeth Heller, of
Akron. o. When she died she left him
five daughters. In 1883 Mr.. Lake married
Miss Emily Moeller She became "a much