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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-01
HE CUT SCREEN DOORS.
Detective Thornton Arrests Shrewd
Thief at Chicago.

Detective Thornton yesterday arrested
William Davis, colored, on charge of
grand larceny. Davis is, as he admits,
the party who cut screens and entered
number of houses in the northwestern part
Of the city last week. Last Friday after
noon Thornton was on a street car on his
way to the City Hospital to see a friend,
when he saw a man who has quite
criminal record walking hurriedly down
Blake street. Thornton, from the past rec
ord of the man and from his actions,
thought that he must be up to one of his
old tricks. The man walked for some dis
lance south on Blake street and then dis
appeared down an alley. Thornton went to
the City Hospital. and a short time after
he arrived there learned that the house
at No. 162 Blake street had been robbed.
The thief gained entrance by cutting the
front screen door. The detective at once
decided that the known thief he saw sew
eral moments before was the offender in
secured sufficient evidence that a man
named William Davis was the one wanted.
He found that Davis resided at No. llG
by the wife of Davis that he was at No.
i5S Thirty-siXth street Chicago. Thornton
number yesterday morning at o'clock, in
company With a Chicago officer. He found
Davis in bed. but awoke him and informed
him of his errand. Davis broke down and
confessed all.
On the way to this city he said a part
of the stolen goods was in the custody
of his wife. Thornton found that she had
a watch taken from No. PA West New
York street. and also a small amount of
money. Mrs. Davis will not be prosecuted
on a charge of receiving stolen goods, as ii
is believed that her husband eXerted an
unusual influence over her.
While working up evidence Thornton
learned of the manner in which Davis
robbed No. l2i Minerva street. Several
women residing across the street We're
sitting in their yard one evening. when
they noticed a colored man walk hurriedly
TO the front door of No. 124. The screen
door was locked, but the other door was
not. The family were in the back part or
the house. Davis pretended to knock, and
then tipped his hat, apparently to a per-
son who had answered the summons. He
pretended to converse with the occupant,
but all the while was not idle. With one
hand he cut the screen and unlocked the
door He kept his body between the place
where he cutting ana the women
across the street, that his actions could
not be seen. When he unlocked the door
he opened il and entered. He stepped i'm
side. and in few moments appeared at
the door again, smiling, and as If talking
70 a person in the room. He opened the
screen. and, after tipping his hat several
lay" He left the yard and walked rap
idly down the street Shortly afterward
the family at No. 124 discovered the loss
and told the women residing across the
street. Explanations followed. Superin.
tendent Powell credits Davis with being one
Of the slickeSt thieves that has been in
custody since his administration.
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men were drinking men. He asserted that
this was wrong in regard to a large pro-
portion of the men, In addition TO this, he
said these men are known 10 be the
warmest-hearted and most sociable of any
class OF men in the country. He said he
had on many occasions seen travelling men
a service for. the little blue ribbon, He
said he hoped the blue ribbon would be-
come the emblem of the association.
Carey Mcpherson, the president of the
the association. He said that the MEM
bership list enrolled 753 names, with many
prospectives. He challenged like organ
ization to show such growth and era
Of prosperity within such short time
after organization, the association having
been organized two years ago. He said it
was the boast OF the association TO be at
the head Of such insurance associations
within several years.
H H Prather secretary and treasurer
of the association, then read a report OF
showed that the income for the past year
amounted to $,1l5.6l. the expenditures
s, 2o2 s.; leaving q balance In the treasury 1y
to the election of officers. Carey McPher-
son. president; r. r. Walden, vice presi-
dent, and H. H. Prather. secretary and
treasurer. were reelected. George Geiger,
George w Barth, c. w. Letter. j. II.
Noonan and L. w. Cooper were elected di-
rectors for a term of two years. The five
remaining directors, who held over for one
year. are p. ]. Kelleher, Z. f. Wells. II.
T. Spain. j. c. Norris and B. f. Brough
The association, after ordering 1900 copies
of the work of the session printed, ad-
journed until the meeting next year.
The members and a large number of
friends spent the time in dancing and
i'm games until O'Clock last evening when
and the Lean Mems Club played a game of
baseball.
The game closed at the end of the third
inning, when the score was 10 to in favor
of the Leans.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-01
The July Pompeiian show.

1.-The Last Days of Pompeii,' a drama
tized version of Bulwer Lytton's famous
story, will be presented as an elaborate
play at Herculaneum Park, opposite the
State fair grounds, commencing July T..
A summer theater has been erected there.
and during the month Messrs. Hamilton &c
Herndon will give the production. The
scenery and costuming will be elaborate.
a number of well-known vaudeville and
dramatic artists have been engaged.
Among them is the danseuSe Lillian Hern-
don. who will appear in a grand ballet
led by Nine. Rosa Cherito, late of
Kiralfys BLACK Crook company A
band concert and vaudeville entertainment
will be given each afternoon al 4 o'clock.
The drama will begin at in the evening,
concluding with the eruption of Mount
VeSuvius and a display of fireworks.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-01
III Was DIR. Earns Lot.

DR.. s E. carp was yesterday served with
notice from the Board of Health to cut the
weeds on lot owned by him on Patterson
street. For week past the health officers
have been serving notices by the scores
ordering property owners to cut the weeds
on their property. Yesterday Sanitary In
spector Bergman was up in the northwest
part or the city serving these notices. One
woman upon whom he served notice took
exceptions to H. She pointed out TO the in
spectOr lot near by upon which the weeds
were fourishing. IAN do yez see those
weeds?" she said. The officer answered
that he was able TO see tneIii. well. thot
lot belongs to DIR. Earp;' why don't yez
serve yer notice upon him. Il WILL"
answered the officer Upon his return TO
the office he secured notice and left it at
DIR. Earp's office.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-01
THE GOVERNORS INTERVIEW.
He Laid Down the Straight Law ia
Striker Shields.

Sn1elus.
Governor Matthews is much gratified
over the apparent peaceful end or the
strike at Hammond. Contrary to his ex-
pectatioDs he was disturbed but little dur
ing the early part of last night end re-
tired to rest at 10 o'clock. Several tele-
grams from the scene of riot received
early in the evening served TO put the
Governor at ease. Yesterday evening he
was informed that the Pennsylvania Com
pany expected trouble with men at East
Chicago and Whiting. Lake county, but
later learned that the company's en-
pioyes are not identified with the Ameri-
can Railway Union and are looked upon
with disfavor by that Organization Late
Friday evening the Governor received a
dispatch from Sheriff Frederick at Ham,
mons, who said that he could not secure
a posse at Hammond. but thought he could
get Crown Point citizens 10 act later
telegram announced that the sheriff had
made an effort with twenty-five men TO
move the cars. but was resisted. At
o'clock yesterday morning the sheriff con-
fessed his inability to cope with the strik-
ers and asked Governor Matthews 10 send
aid. The Governor, desiring To ascertain
the exact situation, Immediately dis
patched Major Defrees to Hammond The
latter was not only 20 inform the Gov
ernor TO what steps had already been
taken towards quellIng the disturbance
but was 10 find out something OF The char
acter OF the men with which the officials
have had 10 deal and If 1t became neces-
sary to send troops 70 locate quarters for
them at a point where they could do the
most effective work. In connection with
the visit OF Major Defrees TO Hammond
the Governor said last night:
II had made up my mind TO not do any
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-01

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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-01
A SHOOT ON THE FOURTH.
College-Avenue Gun Club Hangs Up a
Number of Prizes.

The College-avenue Limited Gun Club
will give a merchandise shoot at clay
pigeons on July at the club grounds on
Fall creek at the end of College avenue.
There will be six grand events, with ten
valuable prizes in each event, the total
value of the prizes aggregating nearly
$500. One diamond badge for the cham
pionship is valued at $50. This is given by
the Marion Gun Club, John r. Pearson,
d. =. Erwin, Albert Sahm, G. W. Fair
banks. 8. K. Elliott, CT. f. McGinnis and
the College-avenue Gun Club. A Winches-
ter rife, hunting coats, gun cases, fly rods.
clocks, silver clubs, hunting shirts a gold
badge cigars and other articles of value
are among the prizes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-01
A RING Salesman Missing

On Friday night Edward Anderson left
the city, and his present whereabouts are
unknown. Anderson was a rug sales
man, and for a time had partner in the
business. The partnership was recently
dissolved and he had no place Of business,
selling the rugs by house-to-house can
vaSs. He resided on South New Jersey
street between McCarty and Bickine
streets, and inquiries at his home devel-
oped the fact that he was out of the city
and his family did not know when he
would return. No cause is known for his
sudden and mYsterionS denartnre
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-01
Murder I'm His Henrf.

AS detective Thornton was passing a
saloon or Indiana avenue near the "Yel-
low bridge last night he saw Robert
Thornton. colored, facing a colored man
with drawn revolver. Detective Thorn
ton rushed toward him and arrested him
on q charge of drawing a deadly weapon.
The prisoner said that lie and = man got
into fight in the saloon and the latter
drew a knife and attempted 10 cut him.
Thornton said he went TO his home and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-01

Richard Fletcher, colored, borrowed a
quarter from "Parson'' Williams, also COL
ored. residing. on Maple street, yesterday
afternoon. Fletcher told "Parson'' that
he had just arrived in the city with two
carloads of horses and was out of rnarey.
He said he intended 10 buy something TO
eat with the money and promised 70 pay
in two hours. The time expired and Par
son. saw Fletcher and asked him for tire
money. When IL was not forthcoming he
had him arrested on a charge of obtaining
money under false pretenSes. The police
learned that Fletcher's errand to this city
was as he reported.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-01
Births.

John w. and Katie Smith, $50 West
North street, boy.
John and Elizabeth Smith, 80 Benton
street boy.
John and Annie Hammer, Is Daugherty
street boy.
Nose and Annie Bernstein, los Eddy
street. boy.
Fred and Jennie Thomas, 154 Hoyt ave-
nue., boy.
John w. and Cora Keffel, 142 Davidson
street, boy.
Fred c. and Cora A Gardner. 292 Broad
way, boy.
Mearmmean Annie Handberry, 558 West
North street, boy.
Edward and May Heitkin, city, boy.
Total births for the week, 40.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-01
The Shoes Fit.

Mike Donohue went into a secondhand
shoe store on Indiana avenue last night
and tried on pair Of shoes with a view
TO purchasing. Seeing that the shoes were
a perfect fit he ran out of the store with
out paying for them. The proprietor pur-
sued. and by his screams attracted the
of patrolmen Boylan and Heidle-
man. who. after hard chase, captured
Donahue and arrested him on a charge OF
petit larceny. n.t,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-01
DAILY VITAL STATISTICS.
Deaths.

Lewis Bilger, thirty-one years, 2S6 North
Pine street, consumption.
Laura r. Flora, thirty years, Nineteenth
street and Columbia avenue, consumption
Infant Bell, 400 North Brookside avenue,
stillborn.
Marie Buckhorn, seventy-seven years, G5
Buchanan street, old age.
Total deaths for the week, Al.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-01
MARRIAGE Licenses.

Jacob Hoffman and Annie Wanger.
Bruce Binager and Alice Goodall
Charles E. Sanders and Anna u. Calkins
Peter Henzen and Anna Hickey.
William Caldwell and Dulcie A. Thomas.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-01

got the revolver and returned to The
saloon for the purpose of killing him, and
about to do so when arrested by de-
tective Thornton. The second man in the
affair will be apprehended.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-01

The best horses will appear in the races
at the Fair Grounds July 8 to g. Great
sport expected. Admission, 50 cents.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-01
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The advocate., 1894-06-06
GREAT GOVERNMENT THIS.
TIE LINN COUNTY FARMER MAKES
A FEW REMARKS
Addressed to an N. O., But a Good Stump
Speech For Every Section Of
the Country.

from Illinois:
The resolution submitted by you to
the house of representatives for COM
mittee to inquire into the depressed
condition of the business and indus
tries of the country, the movement OF
great masses of the unemployed towards |
the capital seeking relief and other cog |
nate questions, will entitle you to the
Craftsmanship of that committee, should |
it be ordered, and therefore, take the
liberty of addressing you to suggest
some considerations pertaining to the
subjects embraced in such inquiry as
may not occur to you in connection
Herewith. And first and foremost, as
an initial point, remind your honor
able body that Mr.. Jefferson, whom
many of its members defy, and whose
teachings they profess to follow, under
took to found and frame government
here in the interest Of and for the pro-
lection of the common people. And
that Abraham Lincoln, at whose shrine
another portion of you worship, de-
clared this a government of the people,
by the people and for the peOple-an
by that he meant, the whole people and
particularly the plain people, of whom
he always spoke in Difference, as he
confessed himself one of them, having
descended directly from their loins.
And both Jefferson and Lincoln held
that the interests of labor were greater
and higher than the interests Of capital
and money; so that the highest duty
and purpose of government was to aid
and protect humanity first and property
afterwards. And in this they were
true representatives Of the Savior whose
mission on earth was in behalf Of the
weak, and lowly, and poor, and who
showed no sympathy with the money
changers and those swelled up with
pretention and riches.
But with US, all this is reversed, so
that the weak and lowly have actually
to commit crime in order to secure the
attention of government to their ne
cessities and get food to sustain their
fsmishing bodies. The poor, but hon
est, man must starve, for the govern
ment won't intervene or come to bis
relief till he turns criminal and perpe.
trates an act that arraigns and consigns
him to prison. Strange anomaly! AS
tonishing confusion.
Apropos Of Mr.. Lincoln, l have be-
fore me a republican document en-
titled "The Voters Library" dated
February 27, 1892, containing a speech
of j. S. Clarkson, chairman of the re-
publican national committee, on Lin
coin, in which he says: speaking OF
Abraham Lincoln, I would not talk OF
him as the great ruler, but as the great
est Of American workingmen. Iwould
turn to his boyhood, when working
with his own hands, he learned in pov.
erty that free.masonry Of human feel.
ing which is never otherwise acquired.
would turn to the days when face to
face with want and hardship, his own
heart touched the cross of human suf'
fering, never after to lose its sympathy
with sorrow nor to cease its opposition
to wrong. When tired of the advice OF
cabinet and congress, he sought refuge
and instruction from those whom he
called the plain people. He
The advocate., 1894-06-06

country, and the thousands who were
engaged in railroad construction in the
flush times Of a few years since are
now turned adrift to a man; and every
line of railroad has within the last year
cut off large portion of its repair
gangs and section hands, as we'll as
other employees, while the coke and iron
furnaces, and indeed many of the man
ufactories Of all kinds have discharged
great numbers of hands; and even
farmers, losing money under the pres
set regime, are not employing the help
of other times. And all these abund-
antly account for the tramp of the mil
lions in search of labor and bread in
the land. The public press in its every
issue confirms this statement and
leaves no doubt on the mind of any
candid observer as to the condition and
good faith of the thousands in the
emergency they are called on to en-
counter. This days papers declare 1000
men discharged from the Canadian-Pa.
cifC on account of slack business. Can
Wolcott tell them where they can step
into a job? And how he or anyone
could suppose that such change had
so suddenly come over the spirit and
animus of so large portion of the peo-
pie of the country that from industri-
Gus and quiet workers as heretofore
they had all at once rebelled at work
and repudiated it without cause or ex-
cuse and took to the road from pure
cussedness, abandoning their families,
and sacrificing their self-respect, is
past my comprehension. No; nothing
but hunger and inability to appease or
satisfy it and provide for their families
could have led to such an alternative.
In arguing case of this kind, and in
indeed, every case that Involves the
actions of masses of men, it is well to
put ourselves in their place and view
the subject from their standpoint. Then
let the heart do its duty as well as the
head in determining the remedy and
the course to be pursued in the pre-
misses.
Why wonder that foolish man can't
see why, if government could call out
and feed and clothe and organize and
pay millions of men for purposes Of
destruction, it can't organize and feed
and clOthe and pay other millions for
the purpose Of construction, seeing
that every day they would produce
twice as much as they would consume;
and 3 millions of men unemployed is a
loss of from 3 million dollars to 6 mil
lion dollars of solid wealth daily to the
country. Statesmen, of course, can
explain and justify such policy, and
such a result, but common tramps
can't be expected to understand it. AS
to Coxey's demand that the govern
ment enter upon system of rOad-mak-
ing, ETC., pronounced by many an
utterly foolish and impracticable idea,
the whole political talk when the writer
was boy was in connection with road
making by the general government,
and the great national road highway
which many from Ohio and Indiana
are personally acquainted with was the
main topic of discussion, and the veto
of the Marysville road bill that had
passed congress created great excite
ment and denunciation. So that
The advocate., 1894-06-06

lated ahead. In Chico the price ad-
vanced by them 80 a ton with 100000
tons on hand. For months the opera
tors were storing coal until they had
vast supply in all the cities and towns
along the Ohio and Mississippi and
elsewhere. Then they put wages down,
forced a strike, and began advancing
the price, and thus millions have been
made by the operators, while the miners
suffer at one end and the consumers at
the other.
Now how long is mankind to be vic
timized after this manner? And our
Oppressors are not always our own
countrymen. In one county in Penn
sylVania a dozen nonresident owners
of coal lands pocketed is million dollars
royalties last year, and the Scheuley
family of England, receives annually
~ million dollars rental from their
property in Pittsburg. In this l say
nothing of one man in Chicago who re-
ceives from his property in that city a
yearly revenue greater than 1000 good
Illinois farmers together. Now, think
you, if the founders of our states could
have foreseen such results and such
abuses as these, they wouldn't have
provided against them as they would
if they had supposed it possible that
anyone or a few could ever mOnopOlize
the atmosphere and make all others
pay for a little Of it to be dOled out to
them by some grand m0gul-the spawn
of an age of greed and aVarice9 And
if they could have tOreseen that Jay
Gould would have been endowed with
the ownership and control of the prin-
cipal highways of the country and per-
mitted to toll all the people according
to his good will and pleasure, in virtue
of such possession, think you they
would not have blocked such game in
it's inceptionp And would Jefferson
and company have permitted the
Rockefellers to seize and hold the great
oil reservoirs of the earth, provided by
Gods benefeent providence for al
His children for He is no respector o1
persons) and prey upon poor humanity
to the tune of hundreds of millions
hesped up in Golfers that represent q
proportionate amount Of poverty and
suffering?
The radical and real problem with
which we will have to cope, the ques
tion which underlies all others, il
whether the soVereigns of this country
shall be permitted to be crushed into
the earth by capital. In a word, shall
become serfs in the hands of wealth
and at the disposal of power. If so
then the soul has gone out of our insti
tutions and nothing but the shell re
mains. But trust this is not to come
to pass. If heroic remedies are indis
pensible to save and revivify the SOW
ereigns, then let heroic remedies bt
administered, and 1 fancy we shall fine
them necessary, for the patient has got
so low that only the very elephant o.
} medicines will resuscitate and restore
him. Nothing short of a reorganiza
, tion Of the structure of our govern
ment and system adopted to thu
|, times and the changed circumstances
which confront us will answer tht
emergency.
You will be expected to report, Mr.