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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-08-15
CAUSING A STIR.
American Flag Society and A. p. A
Worrying Over Mr.. MOrehead's Creed.

American Flag Society and A. II. A.
Worrying Over Mr.. MOrehead's Creed.
CINCINNATI, Aug. 14.--A bitter creed
agitation broke out here tonight. r. Il.
Morehead, aged thirty-five, died at 9 a. m.
to-day at his home, No. 155 Central avenue.
He was a member Of Washington Council
of the anti-Catholic order known as the
American Flag He affiliated with A. p.
A. men, but could not belong to that order
because his wife is Catholic. To-day IL
was announced that Morehead died a
Catholic and that the family did not want
washington Council or other local lodges
of the American Flag to participate at the
funeral. The lodges insisted on their uSuai
service for members. Their request 10 De
at the cathedral Saturday morning was
also denied. The members of the order heid
an Indignation meeting tonight at wnlcn
II was publicly questioned whether More
head died Catholic. Members of the A.
p A. are taking part In the agitatlon.
Moreheads s cashier in his restaurant is also
a member of the American Flag he saiu
Morehead was unconscious Tor some iine
before the priest was called to administer
the last rites and that he died unconscious
He also asserted that the family would not
allow him or any other members or the
order to see Morehead after his conditlon
became serious. The officiating priest Is uh-
able TO state whether Morehead was con-
scious or not and stated that ii Is not
material point in his duty as he was called
nv Mrs Mcrehead. The members or the
American Flag and the A. p. A. are caus-
ing a great stir over the case.
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NEWS DEALERS AND BOOKSELLERS.
Annual Convention of the National As
socfntfon-Nominat for Omcers.

BROOKLYN, Aug. 14.-The National AS
sociation of News Dealers and Bookseilers
continued their sessions at Wilson's Han
to-day An executive session was held at
noon and the reports of various committees
for the year acted upon. The nominating
committee. which was in session during the
morning, reported the following nomina-
tions in the afternoon: For president, l. f.
Martin, of New York; for vice president. b.
j. Barry. of Baltimore: second vice presi-
dent, A McNie. of Winona, Minn.; secre-
tary. Alexander Linn. of Providence. r. L..
treasurer. Frank H. Salisbury. of Provi-
dence, r. l.; sergeant-at-arms. Benjamin
Lewis of Boston. 1t is understood that
this ticket will be elected without opDosi-
tion The Office of president was offered to
7. Lunt. of Brooklyn. and p. j. McGrath
of the same city. but declined. For the
future there will only be one secretary.
Several minor changes were made in the
constitution of the body. The committee
on resolutions called the attention of the
convention to the fact that certain maya
zine publishers had not allowed the dealers
the legitimate discount and that others
were Offering special inducements to pri-
vate people in order TO increase circulation.
A committee was appointed to confer with
publishers regarding the matter of depart
ment stores.
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LARGEST ON THE LAKES.
Of the Steamer Zenith City,
405 Feet Over ALL


CHICAGO. Aug. H.-With the breaking
of the time-honored bottle and flow of
sparkling champagne. the steamer Zenith
City gracefully glided down the ways at
the yards of the Chicago Ship Building
Company this afternoon and took her
place in lake commerce as the largest
steamer on the chain of lakes. Owned by
a syndicate of Duluth capitalists the great
boats launching was graced by the pres
ence of large party of men and women
from the northern city, in whose honor
II was named. Careful preparations had
been made for the event and promptly at
$3.50 the steel monster was released from
its place in the yards. Miss Fleming.
daughter Of John G.. Fleming Western
agent Of the Carnegie Steel Company,
broke the bottle of champagne over the
bows and with the usual accompaniment
OF cheers and hand clappings. baptized
the steamer Zenith City. A large fleet of
small boats and pleasure yachts was pres
ent TO greet the new craft and the Dig
nifty OF the United States government was
represented by the revenue cutter Calumet
The Duluth delegation was headed by A.
b. Wolvin. who will he manager of the
steamer. Every part of the Zenith City
is Of steel, except the masts and the cabin
finishngs. II Is not intended for anything
but freight carrier and will go once
into the iron ore traffic with an occasional
change 10 grain, her home port being
Duluth, MINI. The steamer is 405 feet over
all
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MAMMOTH AMPHITHEATER.
The Corbett-FitxsimmOn Building Ia
Cover Eight Acres of Ground.

DALLAS, Tex, Aug. 1.-THE Athletic
Club has cleared and swept twelve acres
of ground for the great prize fight. Eight
of these acres will be covered by the great
ampitheater, which will have $3.50 seats.
The remainder of the ground will be fer
parking carriages, wagons and buggies and
for lunch and refreshment stands. Ten
carloads of lumber per day are now ar
irving and being piled up along the track
of the Texas & Pacific. The building will
be staked of and work begun next week.
So far as the buildings and grounds are
concerned. ample preparations are making
for the largest assembly of people ever
gotten together on the Western continent
The thermometer to-day again registered
102 degrees in the shade without a breeze
blowing.
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CASUALTIES OF A DAY
DEATH IN VARIOUS FORMS CLAIMS A
NUMBER OF VICTIMS.
Several Disastrous Explosions and
Drowning Accfdents-The Deadly
Threshing Boiler.

ARDMORE, /. T., Aug. IA boiler of
a portable engine on a thresAer blew up
near Oakland, twenty-six miles east of
here. to-day, instantly killing VIII Craft.
Lee Norwood and Pink Norwood and seri-
ously injuring seven others, number of
whom cannot recover. The Norwoods are
father and son. Craft was the band crt-
ter. A list of the most seriously injured
follows: VIII Tippett, fatally scalded; c.
H. Hamm. fatally bruised and scaided;
James Wilken, scalded and bruised; j. p.
Walker badly bruised; Claude Howell,
scalded and bruised: T. p. Carter, severely
cut on head and ankle. and badly bruised
- Short, the engineer. fatally scalded.
Half dozen others received burns and
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SUGGESTION TO HAWAII.


MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi. Aug. H.-Capt.
Judson n. Cross, a prominent attorney of
this city, mailed TO President Dole, at
Honolulu. this afternoon, letter contain
ing a novel suggestion as to how Hawaii
might annex herself to the United States
without presidential Intervention. His prep
os.tion is that Hawaii elect delegates TO
the American Congress and demand that
they be seated on the same basis as their
peoples delegates Congress Captain Cross
says, would seat them and that would set
tie the matter. He maintains that there
historical precedents and logical rea-
sons for such course of procedure.
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TWO COINCIDENCES.


CHARLESTON, w. Va, Aug. 1i.-Au-
thorities to-day were informed of two very
similar departures by government officials.
Mr.. Walker, postmaster at Bee, Putnam
county. eloped with Mrs. Stovers wife of a
near neighbor. He left a wife ana five
children. Mrs. Slower IS the mother of
eight children. She took a seven-months-
old baby with her. She is thirty-one years
old and Walker is thirty-six. He is one
of the most prominent merchants in Put
nam county.
In the other case Albert j. Salisbury
postmaster at Clay Courthouse, eloped
with Mrs. Goss, each leaving several small
children. Salisbury is reported short in his
accounts by the federal inspectors.
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READY FOR THE TORCH.
Elaborate Preparations to Burn q
Clothing Store mt COvingtOn, Ky.

CINCINNATI, o.. Aug. 14-william
Gildehaus, a veteran clothing dealer Of
Covington, KY, was forced to assign to-
day by the sensational discovery of a plan
to burn his building. The police discovered
an elaborate arrangement of buckets Of
coal oil and strips OF cloth connecting with
piles of clothing. All his policies of in
surance were cancelled and he assigned
to ID. A. Glenn. He says his goods were
worth $4,000 and had $11,50o insurance. He
offers $500 reward for the arrest and con-
viction OF the incendiary.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Aug. A--Over one
hundred members of the Knights of Tabor
and the Daughters of the Tabernacle began
four days meeting here to-day. They
Texas and Missouri. The object of the or
ganization is the religious, educational and
material advancement of the negro race.
and it represents a major portion of the
intelligence and progressiveness of the
colored race of the country. a. B. Moore
is presiding.
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RACE OF 9O6 MILES.
Four Cowboys to Start from Chicago
for Atlanta This Morning.

CHICAGO, Aug. H.-.t'our cowboys will
start from the 40 Mining Camp" in a
race to Atlanta, Ga, at a. m. Tomorrow
Friendly rivalry is the cause of the race
Of 9O6 miles. The contest is for a purse Of
5000. and is between II. G. Payne and
Harvey Campbell, representing the stock
yards, and Henrico Shultig. Spaniard
and Arthur Bingham, alias BILLY the
Kid" and a Chileno, representing the
" 40 Mining Camp" The rules of the con-
test provide for registration at the yari-
Gus postoffices en- route and the telegraph
ing of such certificates to the city.
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Three Men Drowned.

MIDDLETOWN. n. Y. Aug. H.-There
was a tragedy at Highland lake, near FL
dred, Sullivan county, on Monday night.
Willism Taeterow. brother-in-law of Pro-
prietor Devenoge, of the Mountain House,
with w. Pilgrim, the chef and the pastry
cook of the hotel, whose name is unknown,
were rowing on the lake in company with
two other men. The boat was capsized and
They were unable to reach the shore. The
water is said to be one hundred feet deep
at this place and all efforts to recover the
bodies have proven fruitless.
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charged with poisoning a negro woman
named Nancy Leathe, who died some days
ago. To-day the body was exhuned. and
the contents OF the stomach are being an
alyzed. The charge is that Howard poi
soned the woman, and was attempting TO
poison Priscilla Henry. another colored
woman, who is said 10 have been his mis-
tress. 1t is asserted that he was aftcS the
property OF the Henry woman, which was
valued at 500 600.
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Didn,t olive Rooreyelt Pointers.

NEW YORK, Aug. 14-Among the callers
at police headquarters to-day. was Mayor
Swift, OF Chicago Mayor Swift met Pres.
dent Roosevelt. wfth whom he chatted for
some time. MY visit was OF an informal
nature he said. as he went away. I'D
give Roosevelt any pointers on reform?
Well, hardly. He needs no instruction fram
me-" Mayor Swift is on his way to Maine
where he will see ex-Speaker Reed
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the advisory board Of Jackson county last
night resolutions were adopted offering sub
stantial aid to their Nebraska friends. One
of the most reliable members of the order
told a reporter to-day that IL the Omaha
police commissioners wanted five thousand
men they could get them in Kansas in less
than twenty-f0ur hours.
do you mean that you are going up there
with Winchesters TO raise a war; was
asked.
''You don't think we would go empty
handed just TO look on, do your" was the
reply.
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A London Paper. Views.

LONDON, Aug. Recommending on its
Sew York dispatch which details fo-day's
doings OF the Democratic silver conference
at Washington and the impulse TO returning
prosperity throughout the United States.
the Daily News. In an editorial. says The
dispatch would furnish a good text for the
speech which Lord Farrer is anneunced 10
deliver az next Saturdays meeting OF the
Golden Club. Nobody ever believed that
the wage earning class OF the great Ameri-
can cities would abandon all devotion TO
the solid dollar. The tendency 10 turn
against protection Is the more interesting
because less generally expected. Six months
ago the election of another protectionisf
President was confidently counted on. our
infos ,is that the prospect
rs now changing. An enormous increase OF
trade follows the passing of the Wilson bin
and proves, In rough and ready way, most
effectively 10 the electors that Mckinley did
not hold the only key 10 the industrial
paradise. IL II not clear that there n any
man Of suficient power and popularity =
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: MORGANTOWN, w. Va, Aug. l4-John
Black and sons were threshing yesterday.
when the boiler exploded. killing three
men and injuring four others. The killed
ale: John Spotsnage, Cultin Ammons and
John Blair. The injured are: Ross Blair.
John SpotsERge, jr., Leroy Wade and VIII
liam Ammons. Curtin Ammons was struck
by piece OF boiler and literally torn to
pieces. His legs and feet were found un-
der the barn. All Blair's clothing was
torn from him except his shoes.
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ANXIOUS TO KILL cAMPos.
4 Mexican Offers Himself as n Martyr
to the Cause of Cubans.

to the Cause of Cubans.
NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-THE Ward line
steamer City of Washington arrived to-day
from Havana. She had few Cuban passen-
gers and none was identified as of impor-
tance. The officers said that all was quiet
in Havana when the Washington sailed
last Saturday. News of the insurrection
was more difficult to obtain in the Cuban
capital than in New York. The attitude or
the Spanish seems to be passive just at
present, the military waiting on the ap-
proach of cool weather before undertaking
a vigorous campaign.
Francesca Coralo, a Mexican, called on
NJ De Quesada at the revolutionary head
quarters and offered his services as fight-
err Quesada told him that ii was against
the law TO recruit men in the United States
and declined to deal with him To re,
porter Coralo said: Il speak Castiiian and
/ can put on the uniform and pass for a
Spanish soldier. In that disguise will 60
to Camposs tent and kill him. OF course
! shall be killed by his guards, but / do
not fear death anyhow.
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Worse than Horse Thief

ELYRIA. o., Aug. 14.-Wiiliam j. Clark.
in jail here as an alleged horse thief, was
to-day recognized by Laura May Hershey.
aged twelve. George ". Nanweiks. so
called by himself July 3, when ne employed
her as companion for his wife i'm Mass.l-
lon. Before arriving there he criminally
assaulted her ard frightened her into 81
lence. and then soon after abandoned her.
Her home is In Wayne county.
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One Killed and Another Injured.

ALBANY, y. Y, Aug. H.-By the explo-
sion Of large boiler in the paper mill
and postal card manufactory of Wool
worth & Co., at Castleton, ten miles from
here. to-day, James Lawton, the watch
man, was killed, and the engineer was
SO badly injured that it is believed ne
will die
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DENVER, Col. Aug. lex Mayor NJ ID.
yanhorne was killed to-day by falling from
a third-story window of the Grand Central
Hotel, of which he was proprietor. He was
Mayor of this city from 1893 to 1895, and had
previously served term on the board of
supervisors. Mr.. Nanhorne came to Denver
in 1881, being at that time and for several
years afterward an agent i'm the employ of
the United States Treasury Department.
After the war he engaged in the hotel bust
ness in Alabama and later in Chattanooga.
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steamer Dracona Ashore.

MONTREAL. Aug. 1.-THE Dominion
government telegraph service reports the
steamer Dracona Is ashore seven miles be-
low Fame point, in the Gulf OF st. Law
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SOUTHAMPTON, Aug 14-Arrived: AL
Ter. from New York. for Bremen.
BOTLOGNE. Aug. H.-Arrived: veen-
dam from New York.
LIVERPOOL. Aug. H.-Arrived: Teutonic.
from New York.
LONDON. Aug. H.-Arrived: Manitoba,
from New York.
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May Employ the HeIiograph.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Aug. 4.-Captain
Kanute, well-known coast pilot, who
has just returned from a trip through the
southern part of Florida, states that Cubans
have under confederation plan TO establish
communication with the insurgents in Cuba
by means of the heliosraph, or sun-writing
system. 1t is stated that Key Topaz, a Brit
ish possession about twenty miles from the
Cuban coast. could be secured for this pur-
pose 1t has a lighthouse, from which a
view of the island for $50 miles inland can
be seen.
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German Workmen Drownec

KEEL, Aug. Ii. "A terrible accident oc-
CURED at the Germania ship building yard
to-day. A number of workmen were re-
turning across gangway TO the shore
after their work had been completed on
new cruiser, when the gangway broke
and all the men were thrown into the
water. Eight bodies have been recovered
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The ST. Louis bronx. Her Record.

SOUTHAMPTON. Aug. 1.-THE AIperican
line steamer st. Louis arrived at this port
at 2 o'clock this afternoon and has broken
her best eastward record. The St. Louis
left New York on Aug. Z, clearing the Sandy
Hook lightship at LII D. m. Her time of
passage was days, 10 hours and minutes.
Her best previous eastward record made
July last, was 8 days. % hours and min
utes The best eastward record is held by
the Fuerst Bismarck
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Cut on n Bark,s stern.

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-THE North Ger
man Lloyd steamship Stuttgart arrived to-
day with the bark Elcano VI. Williams in
tow The steamship ran into the bark twen-
ty-five miles off Davis south shoal light
ship during dense fog yesterday The
bark's stern was cut clean off, Her wheel
was also carried away. The Stuttgart was
not injured to any extent. She stood by
the bark until O'Clock. when tow lines
IL 60
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some Killed nnd Some Drowned.

LONDON, Aug. H-A special dispatch
received here from Tunis says that a col
lison has taken place near Galetta between
a number of barges loaded with iron and a
ferry boat which was crowded with peo-
pie. Some of the latters passengers were
killed and many were drowned.
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a Negro. Life I'm Danger.

LEXINGTON. KY, Aug. 14-To-day Mrs.
Hudson was assaulted by negro near
this city. Her screams attracted the at
-tent'on OF men working in the field near
by. The negro escaped before they ar
rived. The neighhors secured the fields an
day in search OF the negro. Blood hounds
named Harp. alias Mud Danbefand was
caught at midnight. Mrs. Hudson is high
ly connected and Is in serious condition.
III she identifies Harp tomorrow as the
goilty person II is generally believed he
VIII be lyncheI
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HANGED BY A MOB.
Samuel yinsOn and His Son Charles
Lynched im WashingtOn Stnfc.

Lymched 1n W0sh1ngtOm state.
ELLENSBURG, Wash, Aug. 4-Samuel
Vinson and his son Charles were lynched
at an early hour this morning for the mur-
der during a drunken row on Sunday of
Nike Kehlopp, a saloon keeper. The ringing
OF the firebells was for the crowd 10 assem-
BILE. and within three minutes a mob was
battering down the doors of the county
JAIL 1t took an hour and half TO over
power the guards and force an entrance TO
the jail. The victims were walked three
blocks to a tree. The elder Vinson was
soon strung up. Then some one said TO
Charles Vinson:
Your pa is up there; go aud see him"
The two men were hanged TO the same
limb, their faces six inches apart Both
bodies were allowed TO hang after the mob
dispersed. The sheriff was aware of the
plan to lynch the Wilson's. and although he
had extra deputies on duty at the Jail. no
violent measures were taken against the
mob. Charles Vinson conspired with others
10 hold up Northern Pacific train last
April. He informed on his coafederates.
who were caught at Their rendezvous. He
had previously served a term In the State
prison.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo-. Aug. 1.-THE Star
this afternoon publishes a story to the ef-
feet that several thousand A. p a. mem
bers in Kansas City are watching the con-
troversy in Omaha with great interest.
II leaked out to-day that at a meeting of
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ST. LOUIS. Aug. N.-Thomas r. Howard.
descendant of the American branch OF
the English Howerds. and q broker OF
many years standing, Is under arrest
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The Seizure of the Petrol.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 1.-THE course pur-
sued by the government after the seizure
of the steamer Petrol yesterday by the
customs officers at Key West seems TO
indicate that it is disposed in this instance,
at least, to give the Spanish government
no cause to complain of its treatment.
The Petrol was seized because it had no
certificate showing that ii had been legally
respected during the year. The captain.
however, stated that the papers had been
lost overheard in a storm. He also stated
that although the vessel carried an Amer
lean flag at her masthead, she was in fact
Spanish vessel, having been purchased
by the Spanish government, and was then
on her way to Cuba to be turned over to
her owners. Assistant Secretary .Wike did
not care to raise the question of her own
ership, and so telegraphed the collector at
Key West that if the captain would make
oath 10 his statement of the vessels pa
pers having been lost at sea to release
her, otherwise to assess the minimum fine
NJ S10
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HAVANA, Aug. H.-Captain General
Martinez de Campos reviewed the munich
pal colored firemen to-day and the latter
Immediately afterward left for the front.
De Campos has issued an order addressed
chiefly 10 the rural authorities instructins
them that they should advise the military
authorities the moment an insurgent band
appears in their respective districts and.
If possible. name the leader of the band.
Persons who have joined the insurgents
and who have subsequently returned home
without surrendering TO the authorities are
notified to do so, and those who fail TO
comply with this order are to be tried by
court-martial.
Lieutenant Solanne, at the head of de-
tachment of forty men belonging to the
squadron of commerce of Havana, has been
engaged with the insurgents commanded by
Bermudez and ValkeZ at Cierrecita, in the
Remedies district of the province of Santa
Clara. The lieutenant captured four pris-
oners and twenty saddled horses. with pro-
visions intended for the insurgents.
Insurgents to the number of four hundred
have attacked Port Ramblazo. which Is un-
der construction on the way TO Puer-
to Principe. garrison consist
ing of one sergeant. one corporal and
seventeen guerrilas made heroic defense,
until Captain Mercdo, with forty-five in
fantry and wenty guerriilas, arrived to re-
lieve them He forced the insurgents to
retire. leaving behind them two dead and
their firearms and machetes. The troops
lost four dead and twelve wounded.