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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-08
Obituary.

LEAVENWORTH. Kan, March Mrs.
Ellen r. Moonlight, wife of Ex-Governor
Moonlight minister to Bolivia. died this
afternoon, at her home in this city after
one days illness. Colonel Moonlight has
been telegraphed at New York He ex-
pected 10 take a steamer for Bolivia Sat
urday. Mrs. Moonlight was sixty years old
and has lived here since 1858.
LONDON, March S-The Daily News an.
nounced the death at Teneriffe of Col. A.
Il. Ellis, who commanded the British forces
In the recent expedition against the Sofas
in the interior of Sierra Leone. Colonel
Ellis died OF fever, which he had contracted
in Sierra Leone.
B1DDEFORD. Me-. March Capt Benz
Thompson, OF Kennebunkport died last
night, aged one hundred years and two
months
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TRICKS OF MEDIUMS.
Magician Kellar Tells How Some O.
Them Are Performed.

Louisville COurler-JOurnal.
Kelar, the magician, expresses contempt
of so-called spiritualistic mediums and de-
clares unhesitatingly that they are all
frauds. He says their, phenomena are mere.
ly tricks easily explained. The trick of
''reading the contents of a folded note is
performed simply by substituting piece
of blank paper for the original note by
process known TO every tyro in sleight OF
hand.
sealed or sewed envelope and writing its
answer on the outside, which many or the
advertising mediums profess TO do, said
Mr.. Kellar, requires more skill and the
aid Of chemicals The medium, on receiv
ing the first letter, first cuts the edges with
a sharp knife. Its back, upon which the
box seals are placed, is soaked until they
become loose. a duplicate envelope OF eX-
containing the note is secured and the note
placed in it, The seals of the original en-
velope are then softened by the use OF alco-
hol or ether, and then placed upon tne new
enyeloDe in exactly the same position as
formerly This is done by punching the
holes through the one on the face OF the
original envelope, which is carefully pre-
served. A good operator can DO the trick
in about an hour, but the mediums usually
have several days in when 10 WORK IL An
impression can be made from wax seal
By placing it upon an anvil, covering II
with a soft sheet of lead, then striking the
load a sharp blow with n brOad-faced steel
hammer. This is frequently done by me
diunls as II gives them an opportunity TO
cost as many seals from the lead impression
""Sbout two years ago" he continued
Mrs. Carrie Sawyer created a great ex-
element I'm New York. Her rooms on Sixth
avenue. near Forty-second street. were
crowded by believers who attended her
seances for the purpose or having their
departed friends materialized. l attended
several of her slttings and noticed thar at
tust a certain stage of the act rap would
come at the outer door. The room was
dark, of course, and her manager. Frank
Burke, would go TO IL, and. after unlock
ing IL with a great flourish. would hold q
conversation with an imaginary person on
the outside. After saying In a loud voice
It's too late, the seance is on; come
around tomorrow he would slam the door
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TELEGRAPHlC BREVlTIES.

The Phoenix works. of Phoenlxville, Pa.
which usually employ between three and
four thousand men. has closed down.
john Ceschwilm, an ex-convict, murdered
his wife Anna in a railroad shanty in the
eastern suburbs of Columbus. o., last night
At Kosciusko, Miss. yesterday the grand
jury reported a true bill TO the court against
W. Z. Radcliffe for the killing of s. A
Jackson.
julius c. Lally. secretary of the New
York, acqueduct board, committed suicide
head with a revolver.
The report that Lord Ava, son of the
ssdarduis OF DuIerln' is to marry a Canadian
d his friends, is denied.
At Chicago, Tuesday, Harry Clark. re-
Gently from Memphis, Tenn, was fatally
shot by Leslie Newton, milk dealer, who
caught Clark stealing milk.
Alfred Oxnard, Boston business man.
who disappeared last September and was
supposed TO have been murdered, is said to
be living somewhere in Maine.
The stake Of the Suburban" the great
not be reduced. as report had it. 1t will
be worth $4,000. as heretofore.
Joseph C. Brady, living four miles from
Versailles. KY. while digging a post hole.
found an old earthen kettle Containing sew,
eral thousand dollars In Mexican and
French silver coins.
At meeting OF the stockholders Of the
Louisville Jockey Club Tuesday a PROPOSE
ton from Mr.. Churchill. the owner of
Churchill Downs. to renew the lease for
three years. with privilege of three more,
was accepted.
c. s. Crawford. young attorney, was ar
rested at Abilene. Kan, yesterday on a
charge of violating a new occupation tax
ordinance by not paying his license. He
will resist action and his case will be heard
In the district court 1t will be test case.
The report that twenty freight cars be-
longing TO the G. & q. railroad had been
burned at Paint Creek. w. Va. b. strikers
Is without truth Monday morning before
dawn, an old car sitting out in the field al
Paint Greek, and occupied by an old man.
was burned.
ment Of Platte. has issued an order prac-
tically discharging the Indian company OF
the Eighth Infantry. The order was di-
rected TO the commandment at Fort Washable
TO furlough his Indians for three months
and then discharge them.
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Illinois Politics.

CHICAGO, March THE executive SOM
mittee of the Republican State central COM
mittee met at the Grand Pacific Hotel to-
day and decided that the central committee
won over Springfield as the place at which
the convention should be held by but one
vote. 1t was also decided to contest in the
courts the constitutionality of the appor-
tionment. legislative and congressional,
made by the last General Assembly, the
executive committee pledging the money to
defray the expenses of the suit. a resolu-
ton was adopted asking senatorial and
congressional committees not to call con-
ventions until after the holding Of the State
convention.
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COOPER HAS A CINCH
Neat Trick by Which He Worked
Delegates in the Fifth.
Howard County Primaries Show 100
Democrats FlOpped-AnOther Trag-
edy at Jacksonville.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

DANVILLE, Ind, March THE selec-
ton Of Robert Wade as postmaster here re-
veals a cunning scheme of Congressman
Cooper to manipulate the delegates of Dan
Vile to secure his denomination. 1t is un-
derstood he has worked the same trick
throughout the district Cooper had named
editor King, of the Gazette. for the place
but the local Democracy rose up and held
an election. resulting in the choice of Wade.
Still Cooper refused to let any mans name
be confirmed until he had patched up a
deal with the local machine and got his
delegates He still wanted King for the
place but the result of the election was sent
to President Cleveland and Wade has been
appointed
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MURDERED ON THE HIGHWAY.
Another Mysterious Crime COMMITTEE cd
Near Jacksonville.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind, March 7.-Wil-
liam Bowman was murdered by highway
men last night near st. Joseph's hill, ff-
teen miles away. Particulars are meagre,
but it is thought that Bowman robbed
and afterwards shot Bowman was in the
city yesterday and assisted in the hunt for
the assassin of Stephen Geer. He was
known to have considerable money on his
person. Bowman left for st. Joseph's hill
on business in his buggy via New Albany,
and ii was between these two places that
his body found with a wound in the
abdomen and his pockets rified- There is
no clew.
The Geer assassination Is still shrouded
in mystery. The only clew of Importance
obtained by the officers is regarding a
neighbor who had some difficulty with Mr.
Geer few days since. The man was
among the first to arrive on the scene of
the tragedy. He also had shotgun from
which one load had recently been dis
charged. He explains this fact by saying
that he had fired it off a few days since
for amusement. The funeral of the dead
man took place to-day.
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A FEMALE PUGILIST.
Mrs. "Denver Ed" Smith Pummels a
Sport in True Bruiser Style.

DENVER, Col, March Jack McAuliffe.
champion lightweight of the world. who
was recently mixed up in a street fight with
Young Mitchell in San Francisco, arrived
in Denver to-day. He spent the day in con-
vivial enjoyment in company with Denver
Ed Smith and other sports, and tonight
in Smiths saloon, Mrs. Smith, who perhaps
thought her husband and his friends had
taken a drop too much, began pelting them
with beer glasses. McQuaid, Of Providence,
r. l., a friend of McAuliffe attempted to
pacify the enraged woman, and she pro-
ceeded to pummel him in most approved
fistic fashion. The police quelled the dis
turbance but made no arrests. McAuliffe
left tonight for Chicago.
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Indiana Notes.

John Hickman's sawmll. at Worthington,
was destroyed by fire Tuesday. Loss ST.
eco; no insurance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Meeks, OF Muncie,
celebrated the forty-eighth anniversary OF
their marriage Monday.
Reason Butler and VIM. Wheeler, resid-
ing in Knox county. last week had their
each.
a meeting OF the Grant county bar was
held Yesterday at Marion and appropriate
resolutions passed on the death of Judge
Lyman Walker
vile. while playing at the approach TO the
new Ohio bridge, fell distance of seventy
feet and was fatally hurt.
Gas we'll No. was drilled in at Pendle-
dleton yesterday, and it is much the strong
est OF any of the Pendleton wells which
are all above the average.
The Democrats of the Sixteenth judicial
district Tuesday at Farmland, nominated
judge, and Thomas H. Campbell Of Shell
byville, for prosecutor.
Al Hoover and Frank Hollingsworth, OF
EdwarCisport, Knox county, were sentenced
to two years each In the penitentiary for
larceny. They stole clover seed, hauled it
to Washington and sold it
Gen. Lew Wallace delivered an interesting
lecture Tuesday evening at the " NJ. c. A.
Hall in Charlottesville, on Mexico and the
Mexicans." The proceeds of the lecture will
go TO the charitable association.
The Shelbyville Lincoln League has fitted
up permanent headquarters and will dedi-
cate them with a rousing meeting on Thurs
day night March s. Hon. John l.. Grifiths
of Indianapolis, Will be the speaker.
Bloomingdale Canning Company was or
ganized Tuesday. H. NJ. Brown. presi-
treasurer; j. T. Staff, manager. 1t will inn
medlatey erect the largest plant In the
State.
The commissioners of Pike county have
decided TO build new county jail and
sheriff's residence at Petersburg. The new
part of the people of Winslow did not
materialize.
Randolph Republican county primaries
were held yesterday and many Demo
themselves hereafter to support the Repub-
lican ticket. The result will not be known
until to-day.
Sheriff John Roemer, of Brookville took
Stephen r. Dilks and Harry Swift to the
State Prison South Tuesday. Dilks goes
to serve twenty years for killing Marion
George at Buena Vista, and Swift begins
a five-year term for burglarizing the home
Of Thomas Brown at Laurel
Yves Hauck, city treasurer o: Terre
Haute, started this week over the State as
an active candidate for the Republican
nomination for Auditor OF State Until
Monday there were three candidates in the
Eighth congressional district for this nom
ination, but Elwell. of Fountain county,
and Riddle, of Vigo county, have withdrawn
in favor of Hauck.
Prosecutor Hamill OF Terre Haute, has
decided to enter a nolle prosequi in the
with Harry Hamill for the robbery OF
Tribble the Clay county farmer, who fell
among thieves while on a spree in that city
and was robbed of 5000. Hamill was ac-
strongest against him, ii was not thought
advisable to proceed in the other cases.
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Movements of steamers.

NEW YORK. March ARRIVED: Edarn
from Rotterdam; Manitoba, from London;
laurie from Liverpool; Lepanto. from
Antwerp: Chester. from Southampton.
SOUTHAMPTON. March ARRIVED: Al
Ter from New York. Sailed: Lain. for New
York
BOLOGNE March 7.-Arrived: OLDHAM,
from New York, for Rotterdam.
PHILADELPHIA. March 7.-Arrived: AS
syrian. from Glasgow.
GLASGOW. March ARRIVED: Peruvian.
from Philadelphia.
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WiIIets Removed by LeweIIing.

TOPEKA, Kan. March THE Governor
has removed John F. Willets from the State
Board of Pardons. No cause assigned. VIII
lets was the Populist candidate for Gov
ernor in 1890 against Humphrey, Republican.
and is an ex-national lecturer for the Farm
ers Alliance.
A. c. Baker. recently chief clerk in the
Labor Commissioner office, will succeed
Willets. The reason for the removal is
generally understood to be because of Will
lets's statement that he would fight Lee
welling'S denomination to finish.
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Other Deaths.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
SEYMOUR, Ind, March DIR. w. G. A.
Rain, prominent physician, residing at
Brownstown. died Tuesday at New Albany,
Of brain disease. aged seventy-four. He has
been master Mason for almost fifty years
He leaves a wife, two sons and three daugh-
ters One of the sons, Ralph Balm, is a
resident Of Indianapolis.
FARMLAND. Ind, March Joshua Star
buck, a wealthy farmer, and of the
pioneers of Randolph county, died at his
residence in Buena Vista, six miles south
east of here, last night of lung fever. He
was about sixty years old.
MARTINSVILLE, Ind, March 7-Joseph
Williams died at his home in Cope, Morgan
county, Monday of pneumonia. He was In
his eghty-fifth year. He had resided in one
locality for the last sixty-five years.
ELKHART, Ind, March Mrs. John 3.
Stephens one of Elkhart's best-known res
idents. died last night, aged sixty-four, after
q long Illness
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The TascOtt Myth.

CHICAGO, March 7.-According to story
current here to-day. Tascott the alleged
murderer of millionaire Smell, visited Chica-
go i'm disguise during the worlds fair spend
ing a week Tascott is now said to be nego-
tiating through detective to return openly,
giving evidence on condition OF not being
molested Tascott is much changed in ap-
pearance and is said to be running a drug
store at a. Michigan lumber camp.
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Mrs. EOY Destitute.

CHICAGO, March 6-Mrs. Andrew Foy,
who gave sensational evidence for the State
in the Cronin murder trial. is suffering at
the hands of her landlord, who to-day
caused notice to be served that she must
vacate the premises occupied by her. She
is in a destitute condition. Andrew Foy,
and receives good wages, but refuses to
contribute to the support of his family.
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Noted Case Reversed.

DENVER, Col, March THE Supreme
Court to-day reversed the decision of the
district court awarding Cecil A. Deane a
verdict of $4,000 damages against s. w.
French for alienation of the affections Of
Mrs. Deane, and remanded the case for a
new trial There have already been two
trials of this suit. AT the first trial YER
dict for 100000 was awarded Deane. The
second trial resulted in a verdict for s45.-
00O but the court reduced the amount to
$4,000, which Deane agreed TO accept.
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Found Floating I'm the River.

DETROIT. Mich, March Late this
afternoon the body of Frederick Swan. an
insurance solicitor, was found floating in
the river. His two coats and hat were
found upon an adjacent wharf, and all ap-
pearances indicate suicide. Swan was once
employed by the Michigan Mutual Life In
surance Company. He had been discouraged
and somewhat diss;pated of late. He was
about sixty years of age.
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IT Is Strange

That people suffering from Piles will endure
them for years or submit to dangerous, pain
full, cruel and expensive surgical operations,
when all the time there is n painless, certain
lasting cure, which gives instant relief and
costs but trife. 1t is called the Pyramid Pile
Cure and can be found at all drug stores. Any
druggist Will get il for you If you ask him.
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100 Democrats Have FIOpped.
nocfnI 20 H. Irllinnnrn1ir ro,,rrn1

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
KOKOMO, Ind, March AT the Re-
publican county primary election here
Tuesday the following ticket was named:
For Representative. S. e. Nicholson; clerk,
II. NJ. Cooper; auditor, Milton Garrigus;
recorder. Pat F. Fitz; treasurer. c. A.
Styer; sheriff, w. III. Sumption; surveyor,
Ellsworth Hunt; coroner, j. II. Arnett;
commissioners, john T. Wilson and J. T.
Ratcliff. The ticket will be elected by 1900
majority. Nearly one hundred Democrats
voted and gave written pledges to be in
line this fall
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CHICAGO, March THE funeral of Ed
Williamson, the well Unknown baseball player
at Calvary Episcopal Church, drew together
a large number Of his old-tlme friends to-
day. Fred PETER came from Louisville 10
act n pallbearer William Sunday was
mainder.
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REDSKINS READY TO SELL.
Major Kidd Called to Indian Terri
tory to Treat with the Nations.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WABASH. Ind, March Mai. NJ. II.
Kidd, who last December was appointed
by President Cleveland to a place on the
commission to treat for the abandonment
of the tribal relations and the allotment CT
lands In severalty by the five civilized tribes
OF the Indian Territory. has been called
back 10 the Territory by a telegram re-
ceived to-day. Major Kidd, in this dispatch,
is advised that the Choctaws. who have held
commission. are ready 10 open negotiations.
and that the Chickasaws will be prepared
to receive the commission in a few days.
Major Kidd thinks the action of the ChOc-
Jaws will greatly facilitate the work Of the
commission, which few weeks ago seemed
almost interminable, If not hopeless. He
will Join Senator Dawes and Mr.. McKennon
at Muscogee, i. T., this week.
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Better Than n Spring Poem.

NEW YORK. March THE jury selected
for the sixteenth annual exhibition of the
Society of American Artists met to-day for
the purpose of selecting the two pictures TO
which TO award respectively. the Webb and
Shaw prizes. Its choice for the Webb prize
of $500 for the best landscape painted by
an American artist under forty years of
age fell upon Spring" by Chas. A Plat
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WANTS TO BE AN ACTRESS.
leila Nicolaus Applies for Position,
but Fails to Get 1t.

NEW YORK, March Mrs. leila Noco-
laus entered Roster & BiaPs tonight, &C
companied by William Calhoun, actor.
She asked for Mr. Bal, and was shown
his private office. Mr.. Bal is authoity for
the statement that Mrs. Nicolaus wished
him to engage her to perform a sketch
written by Mr. Calhoun. She was told that
it would be impossible for him to make her
off
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INDIANA DEATHS.
Capt. William Lyme, WelI-knOwn
Fort WAYNE Mason.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
FORT WAYNE, Ind, March Last
night occurred the death of Capt. William
Lyme. an old resident OF this city. He was
one Of the chief movers in the enterprise Of
building the Masonic Temple in this city.
He was born in London, England, came to
this country and served through the war,
becoming captain of Company E in the
Fifty-ninth New York Regiment. The fu-
neral will take place Thursday with Ma
sonic ceremonies.
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Dctroit's Dog show.

DETROIT, March THE second annual
bench show of the City Of the Straits Ken
mel Club opened to-day, and Will continue
the remainder Of the week. The exhibit is
said TO be the finest ever held outside of
New York and Chicago. About five hundred
dogs OF all breeds are shown.
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Angeles Camp Stage Robbed

MILTON, Cal, March News has just
reached here that the Angeles Camp stage
from this place was held up this afternoon
by two masked men three miles from Elk
horn station. The treasure box rifed of
its contents and the passengers relieved of
their valuables An extra stage and a sin
gle rig were also stopped and the passengers
in the stage robbed. The occupants of the
buggy managed to hide their valuables. Off
GERS have started for the scene of the rob-
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PraiSc for Watson.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
DANNILLE, Ind, March flames E.
Watson, the eloquent young Republican
from Rush county, addressed the Lincoln
League here, last evening, with a speech
that was regarded the best political talk
ever heard here.
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Gloomy for Anderson Democrats.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ANDERSON Ind, March THE young
blood of the Democracy was put in control
OF city Democracy by the election OF j. Z.
May chairman and F. p. Foster secretary of
the city committee tonight. Secretary of
State Myers and brass band failed to at
tract crowd or kindle enthusiasm. The
mismanagement Of city affairs, electric
light plant and gerrymander was Endorsed.
The outlook is decidedly gloomy for Democ-
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The Three Youngest Conyicts.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
JEFFERSONVILLE. Ind, March T.
Mike Campbell. Clarence Stringfellow and
Charley Mcbride, three sixteen-year-old
boys from Daviess county, were received
at the Prison South this evening TO serve
one year each for larceny. They are the
youngest criminals ever confined in the peni-
tertiary. This makes 500 convicts in the
Denitentiary at present. being the largest
number ever confined there at one time.
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Sabin I'm the Field for Senator.

MINNEAPOLIS, March 6.-Dwight NJ
Sabin, of Saltwater, who went to the United
States Senate in 1888 after defeating Will
liam Window. who had served in the Sen
ate for thirteen consecutive years an
nounced positively to-day that he would be
Il candidate for the Republican nomination
against Senator Washburn when the I.ecis-
lature meets next January.
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Randolph County Primaries.

WINCHESTER. Ind, March THE fol-
lowing were nominated as the result of the
Republican county primaries yesterday: For
Representative, Andrew J. Stakebake; pros
ecuting attorney, c.. l.. Hutchens auditor.
William Wiley; treasurer, Joseph DeVoSs;
sheriff. Drahan commissioners OF Middle
and Western districts, Thomas II. Clark and
10
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Bankers Son Syvindled.

NEW YORK, March Frank NJ. Yer
non, who gives his home as Chicago, and
says he is nineteen years old, was held In
$1,000 bail at Jefferson Market Court to-day,
on charge of swndling Eugene Kelly, jr.,
of No. 10 Washington square. out of $10S
by means of a forged letter Young Kelly
is a son Of the well-known banker.
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Ex-President Harrison Lectures

SAN FRANCISCO. March 7-Ex-Presi-
dent Harrison yesterday delivered the first
of his course of lectures on law subjects
before the students of Stanford University.
the Constitution Of the United States, and
was for the students of the university ex-
clusiveiy. To-day the lecture was repeated
for the benefit Of the public.