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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-23
yENTRILoQuIsM FOOLED HIM.
PatroIman Tomiinson Chased n Negro
as "a Result OF IL.

Last night John Barlow, a fireman. and
o brother of policeman George Barlow,
went into a saloon on Indiana avenue. and
while there Patrolman Tomlinson stepped
into the place. Barlow is somewhat of d
ventriloquist, and he thought he would
have a little sport with the officer, with
whom he is well acquainted. He walked
over near the door. and, throwing his voice
SC as TO sound as though 1t came from out
side, he said
''romlinson. if you come. outside l will
beat you TO death"
The voice sounded exactly as IL it came
from some one outside the door, and the
policeman made a bold dash for the door.
As fortune would have 1t, a colored man
was just passing the place as the officer
dashed out of the door, and the colored gen.
tleman, seeing a blue coat and brass but
tons coming his way, ran. That, of course.
settled the matter in the mind of the stall
wart policeman, and he gave chase. The
two are said to have run over most of the
territory in that end OF town. when Tom,
triumphantly for the place from whence
they started. The negro pleaded that he
the more he begged the tighter became the
p,liceman's grasp on his arm. At the sa-
loon, however, Tomlinson was persuaded to
release his prisoner, and that person lmme-
dia tely repaired to the. police station.
whonc he put in his complaint that patrol
mn Tomlinson was drunk and had chased'
HIM all over one end OF town. After Bar
low had recovered from his convulsion of
laughter he followed the colored man to
the police station, arriving just as the me-
gro had finished his story. Then Barlow
explained the whole matter to him and
Captain Campbell. For a minute the negro
looked skeptical, then said, in an injured
sWelI, dat was a mean trick, dat is all /
kin say fer you. Here / don gone and
and / don had to spend the evening rum
MIN from a policeman
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LEFT WITHOUT FUNDS
no PROVISION FOR ARIZONA or
FICERs AND INSTITUTIONS.
General Appropriation Bill Failed TO
Pass the Legislature Owing to n
Fight Over One Clause.

PHOENIX, A T.. March 2.-Amid scenes
of wild disorder the eighteenth session of
the Territorial Assembly came to an abrupt
termination at / O'Clock this morning. After
a bitter fight the bill creating Navajo coun-
ty in the northeastern part of the Terri
tory was passed by both houses. The gen.
eral appropriation bill was Their taken up in
the House and every scheme TO delay it's
passage was resorted to. The object of this
delay was to kill all chances of the removal
of the penitentiary from Yuma to Prescott,
for which the Santa Fe Railroad Company's
agents have been making a fight, opposed
by the Southern Pacific Company's lobby
lists. They prevented the taking of a vote
until after midnight, when the session
lapsed through Imitation. Speaker Carpen-
ter arbitrarily adjourned the House. Nearly
all territorial officers and institutions are
thus left without funds for the coming two
years. An extra session can be called only
by Congress at its next session.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-23
IA STATE COMMANDER
Six Men Already Mentioned as Pros
pective Candidates..

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind, March 22.-Muncie has
begun to don her holiday dress of red,
white and blue, which she will wear i'm
much profusion next week in honor of the
State G. "A r. -Encamprnent and the w. r.
{. and Ladies of the G.. A. r. The work
of decorating Main and Walnut streets.
the principal business t~horoughfares, was
begun yesterday, and to-day the first con-
Segment of colors uniformly decorate those
two streets. This is only a starter, and
before the boys in blue arrive next week
Muncie will present a very loyal appear
ance. 1t is the intention to have the most
profuse decorations here that have ever
been displayed in honor of the State or
SANITATION. The committees have about fin
isned their work. a rate of one fare for
the round trip on all railroads in the State
has been secured, good coming to Muncie
on and after Tuesday, the 2sth. and to
return home on or before the 29th.
The candidates for commander are be-
coming numerous, and up to date are as
follows: H. Nj. Caylor. Noblesville; III. b..
Shirley, Wabash; j. w. ELAN, Valparaiso;
r D. Harris, shelbyville; Andrew Fite,
New Albany. and J. s. Dodge, Elkhart.
Williams Post, G. A. r., of Muncie, has
nominated r. /. Patterson, of Muncie, for
vice commander, and this is equivalent to
an election. Mr.. Patterson is a Grand Ar
my man of very wide acquaintance. and he
is known as the Army Poet He is also
ex-poStmaster of Muncie. So far there is
but one candidate fer the office of president
Of the w. r.. c., and no one has been an
nounced as candidate for the presidency
of the Ladies of the G. A. r. Mrs. Eliza
j. Crister, of Greensburg, is the sole as
pirant for the w. X. G. honors. All that is
grand success is a continuation of fine
weather.
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1876. and Is the official Democratic paper of
Monroe county. The purchase prize was
1,5U0.
has brought suit against Ora Busenbark.
demanding 5000 damage for breach of
promise.
Wednesday during a parade by the Juve-
nile Band. at Warsaw. a horse ran over
the ten-year-old son of A.. l.. Goshert, and
the boy died THURSDAY night.
w. C. Baker, the manager of the New
York Installment Company, of Elwood, has
been indicted by the grand jury for en-
bezzling funds belonging to the company.
The Panhandle has been made defendant
in a $4,000 damage suit, filed by the parents
of David Ferran, a deaf mute. who was
killed north of Elwood last year while
walking On the track.
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BOSTON, March ~22.-"Steye'' Brodle. OF
Bowery fame, made application to-day for
permission TO bury the body of Clara
Hathaway, the suicide. Medical Examiner
Draper. tonight. said that he was willing
that Brodie should bury the body of the
Hathaway woman. ifsno one appeared hav-
of Diapers permission. Mr.. Brodie has
made partial arrangements for the funeral.
which VIII take place on Sunday afternoon.
If present plans are carried out. II will be
held from the Undertaking rooms on La
Grange street, where the body has lain
since Tuesday, and viii be conducted with
Protestant rites. Mr.. Brodie stated, to-
night. that the only reason he had for
was that the case attracted his interest
and he could not bear to see the body con-
signed TO the potter's field.
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oil Development in the State.


Greenfield Republican.
the counties of Adams. Wells. BIackford,
ington, and in other counties there are for
ty-five oil wells which have been developed
from gas wells. Oil leasers are now busily
engaged securing territory. and before snow
flies in the fall the Indiana oil field will
be developed and found to extend from
Terre Haute on the west to the st. Mary
and Mercer county fields in Ohio, with In
dianapolis in the center of the south edge.
There are paying wells near Terre Haute
and. good wells exist near Noblesville. 1t
will also be found that few counties will
SurpasS Hancock as an oil field. 1t VIII
be developed in due time. Now to show
what profit there is in oil wells We quote
the following: Oil is now worth Big cents
a barrel. During December the Indiana
oil wells averaged for each well per day
2S1a barrels; January. 25l2 barrels, February,
24ls barrels. Thus you see it would make
easily $1O per week. Some of the wells
up in Jay and Wells c~ounties average $50
barrels daily, SO those people know what 1T
means to strike OIL and strike 1t rich.
New wells are being put down right along.
In January there were 222 wells completed.
with ninety-nine dry holes or gas wells, and
an output of 3,150 barrels daily. In Feb uary
and a daily output of 2,25 barrels. There
are now in March in process of drilling loo
wells and rigs up for III more. We do
not know the exact number of wells in the
State. but it can be seen that they are in
creaSing rapidly, and as each producing
well means about 800 a week it can readily
be seen how oil wells will add to a county's
wealth. We trust and believe that it will
be struck rich in old Hancock, and If so
we will know in it's fullest sense the mean-
ing of that term: That man has struck
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-23
CHANGES.
The Terre Haute Company Makes n
Reduction of SIS.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE Ind. March 22.-The
Central Union Telephone Company here has
announced a reduction in the tolls to take
effect April /. The rate had been s4S for
residences within a half mile of the ex-
change, with an increase of So for each
quarter of a mile beyond the half mile. The
rate for business houses has been $50 for the
half mile. This has been reduced to $i2 for
a mile and the residence rate has been re-
duced to $50 for a mile. There is a pro-
portionate reduction for the longer dis
tances. The rate for each quarter of a mile
is 81 instead of So. The Harrison Tele-
phone Company, which got a franchise
from the city a month ago, had done MOTH
ing looking toward the establishment of an
exchange, and some of the city officials
had begun to be a little doubtful about the
new company, when the Indiana president
appeared here yesterday and said the work
OF construction would begin within four
weeks. The rates stipulated in the fran
chise are SIS for residences and $50 for
business offices at any distance within the
city limits.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-23
ALASKAN BOUNDARY DISPUTE.
England Entitled to Territory
- lIuixsaad LIZ the I-uited Gfates.

England Entitled TO TerritOry
Claimed by the United states.
WASHINGTON, March States
territorial rights in Alaska, as against the
British claims there. have again been
brought to the attention Of the State De-
partment. 1t is true that under the reports
of the American boundary commission and
the Maggie Canadian boundary commission
of last year England lays claim to large
and valuable portions of Alaska, both in
the interior and on the seaboard, which had
previously been regarded as American ter
titcry. 1t is also true that both survey
commissions came tn very nearly the same
conclusion regarding the questions which
they had been appointed to settle. There
were. however. Emergencies between them
overlooked. The fundamental fact to be
kept in mind regarding Alaska and the
joint British and American survey or II IS
that the boundaries will not be finally set
tied until they have been made the subject
of diplomatic negotiations between the
governments at London and at Washingto ton
under terms of the treaty of 1875 between
Russia and Great Britain, by which treaty
our own tights must be determined. since
the completion Of the surveys it Is the ne
gotiating authorities of the two powers III
interest that must attempt to determine
the validity of their respective claims IN SO
far as they may conflict, and the English
desire that the line shall be drawn so as
to cross some Aof the broad iniets in the
southwest through which they can obtain
direct access to their own domain from the
sea, and near which they can establish
Notifications that may yet be seryiceable to
them.
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The North-side Republican Club. which has
grown to be one of the social organizations
of the city. entertained its friends, last
night, at its handsomely equipped home.
No. 424 College avenue. The entertainment
was of a musical and literary character,
consisting of whistling solos by Miss Laura
McManis. OF this city, and readings and
recitations by Miss Corneila May, OF Gin
cinnati. These ladies kindly volunteered 70
contribute to the entertainment ana per-
haps five hundred people enjoyed their ar
tistic renditions during the evening. Miss
McManis gave the first number on the pro-
gramme. a piano selection, Waltz de Con-
cert She was followed by Miss May in a
humorous recitation entitled. Election Of
70 The whistling solo. robin Adair."
by Miss McManis, was generously APP
piauded, as VAS the pantomime, Nearer,
NV God, to Thee" by Miss May. The pro-
gramme was extensive and WAS thoroughly
enjoyed. A large reception committee wear
inc pretty white badges, saw TO II that eN-
erybody was well entertained. and that no
one left the club without having been served
in the dining room. Among the guests were
many ladies'.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-23
FAULTY GAS MAINS.
Alleged go Have Been the Cause of
ElwOod Explosions.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ELWOOD, Ind, March PAS a result
OF the recent natural-gas explosion in this
city, which wrecked the City Building and
injured four men belonging to the Elwood
Trust Company's store, which was de-
molished. damage suits amounting to S25,-
900 have been filed against the company
whose mains caused the explosion. The
plaintiffs are A. G.. Tebbs, j. NJ. Graham,
David Miller and George Burke, who al
lege that the explosion was due to bad
mains of the company, allowing gas to
escape under the building. and that they
were damaged the above sum through the
wrecking of their store and personal in
Juries received Should they win a num-
Der of similar cases will be filed against
gas companies by the victims of other ex-
plosions. There are two companies whose
mains pass the building in question, and
both claim that 1T was the others mains
that caused the explosion, and some diff
Guilty is anticipated OF his ground. The
cases are in many respects tests, and there
Is considerable interest attached to the
result.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-23

NEW HAVEN, Conn, March PA SEN
s%ational episode of the Probate Court to-
day was the demand made by Mrs. George
Al. Lyon for the custody of her husbands
body. Lyon, who owned considerable prop
erty, died yesterday. He was a son of the
late DR.. John l.. Lyon, of this city. About
two years ago young Lyon was adjudged
incompetent any was placed under a con-
servator. and his wife was not allowed to
live with him. A few moments after he
died, Yesterday, his mother appl ed to the
Probate Court and obtained custody of the
body. To-day the wife made a counter
claim, alleging that the custody was hers
by constitutional right. Her attorney will
apply for an injunction restraining the
mother from removing the body from the
city, which is her intention.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-23
-FOUR PEOPLE INJURED.
Result of a Fire in the Business Part
of Farmland.

Special to The Indianapolis Journal.
FARMLAND. Ind. March 2.-About ,
o'clock this afternoon fire broke out in the
millinery store of Mrs. Emma Burres, de-
stroying the stock of goods and building,
and also the adjoining building, occupied
by Barker & Mills's harness shop. The
contents of the latter building. which was
owned by John A. Green, were nearly all
saved from the flames. The residence of
DR.. L. N. Davis, south of the business
rooms, was slightly damaged. The Farm
ers' and Citizens, Bank, which adjoined
the burning buildings on the north, mar
rowiy escaped. The losses are as follows:
Mrs. Burres, building and contents. 81, 5e8.
with $500 insurance.; John A. Green, build
ing. $500, with $500 insurance.; Barker &
Mills, harness shop, $500, fully insured; DIR.
Davis, 5000, with no insurance. The Farm
ers' and Citizens Bank building was dam
aged about $500; fully insured. The fire was
.cau-ed by an overheated stove in the
millinery store. Mrs. Lille Clayton, G. E.
Retter, j. r. Meeks and g. w. Gadbury
were slightly burned while removing goods
and fighting the fire.
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..Innocent, Man Hanged.

T~AHLEQUAH, /. T., March 22.-Walter
Barker was hanged in the Jail yard this
afternoon for the murder of Johnson Reese
in Going Snake district several years ago.
On the scaffold Barker made a short talk,
in which he said he was innocent of muir
der, and that he killed Reese to prevent the
latter from robbing him.
NATCHITOCHES, La, March 22.-The ex-
execution of Joseph Valsin, colored. for the
murder of Major Anthony, colored, took
place to-day within the Enclosure of the
Jail. The scaffold was erected on the south
side of the Jail and walled in with plank
so as to cut off the public view. The con-
demned man protested his innocence till the
last
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-23
The Community Terrorixed.
fo tho I-udiauapaIjs Iouro,

MUNCIE, Ind, March 22.-For a week
farmers residing between this city and
Yorktown have been afraid to venture out
after dark and the children have absolute
ly refused TO attend school because of a
camp of about thirty Mexicans with a
small managerial including a couple of bears,
half a dozen wildcats. a cage Of monkeys,
large snakes and other dangerous animals,
which they charge a small admission to
see. Two weeks ago one of the wildcats
escaped near Middletown. Henry county,
and Ii has since been causing a reign OF
terror to people in that locality. Since the
band has been investing the locality poul-
try yards and smokehouses have been suffer
ing. To-day the police of sMuncie left for
the scene of the camp to make the campers
move on out of the county. In the crowd
are q number of women.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-23
Asked to Explain.

NEW YORK, March PA special to the
World, dated Havana March p, says: The
commander of the Spanish cruiser Condo
de Venadito has been called to Havana to
explain the Alliance affair.
A detachment of the coast guard, COM
posed of five men of the Simancas Regis
ment, was lured into an ambush and cut
to pieces by insurgents, who attacked them
with machetes. A small party of insurree-
tionists has passed through the suburbs of
Guantanamo. Another party, commanded by
Periquito Perez, attacked the, coffee planta-
ton of Ermitano, in the suburbs of Yatares.
1t was repulsed aud pursued by volunteers.
1t is known that the leader of this band of
insurgents, a negro named Guiltaman, has
died of wounds received.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-23
Reformers In the Right place.

ST. LOUIS, March 22.-The election re-
formers of St. Louis were given a general
surprise to-day by the appointment of some
of their most prominent supporters and
members of the reform movement, as judges
of election in the spring election next month.
Among those appointed are ex-Secretary of
the Interior John w. Noble; ex-Secretary
of Agriculture Norman j. Colman: presi-
dent of the Wholesale Grocers' Association,
of the Merchants Exchange, and nearly a
hundred others of almost equal prominence.
AS the appointing power has absolute au-
thority the gentlemen named will have to
serve
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-23
DIR. Pitxer's Sudden Death.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
Upton, Ind, March 22.-Dr. A. B.. Pit
ger, a prominent citizen, died this morning
of heart disease. He was about fifty years
old. He served in the observation-disclosures
eighteenth Indiana Regiment three years.
After the war he stud&ed medicine and en-
tered the practice at Sharpsville. where he
met, with success. miss he was elected
1882 was a candidate for the office of Auditor
of State before the Democratic convention.
He was a prominent Odd Fellow, and left
a $1,000 life insurance policy. Until his
health failed he was engaged in the prac-
tice of medicine.
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SThe woman in Blnck Arrested.

WASHINGTON, March 22.-Miss Mary De-
laney, of Milwaukee, was arrested at the
Efsmere Hotel to-day, charged with hav-
ing attempted to fire ST. Dominic's and st.
Patrick's Catholic churches yesterday with
kerosene and paper. She answers to the
description of the tall woman dressed in
black who was seen in both churches, and
the odor Of Kerosene was on her clothes
when she was arrested. She is about thlr-
Iy-five years old and came here to lecture.
She claims to be a Catholic and to have
spent much of her life in charitable work
and as a hospital attendant In Milwaukee.
Her sanity Is questioned.
MILWAUKEE. Wis, March 22.-Mary
Delaney was for a long time a dressmaker
here. A few years ago she became insane
and was sent to the county asylum, but
escaped, and as she was not violently in
sane no attempt was made to place her
under restraint again. Later on she at
tempted to found a home for girls ON
Eleventh street, but she got into financial
difficulties and the project failed. Miss De-
fancy lived for a time in Seventh street
near Sycamore, and while there got into
some difficulty that caused her arrest. She
brought suit for false imprison-
ment. She is insane. mainly on religious
subjects those who know her say.
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TO SUCCEED SAGASTA.
Concluded from First Page.

port. The Liberal accuses the American
press of fostering rebellion and hostility
to Spain and of Partially to the rebel cause
which the newspaper says is sup
ported mainly by funds gathered from
the cigar manufacturers of Tampa and
Key West. The Liberal declares that an
enormous quantity of arms and ammuni-
ton was landed in Cuba previous to the
outbreak by American fishermen and urges
Spain to impress America with the adj
visibility of not favoring filibusters and to
require a more friendly attitude on the
part of the American consul at Havana
Government officials, who have been in
terviewed here, say that they do not be-
lieve an American schooner has been sum
by a Spanish war ship. r.
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Another Faith-Cure Victim.

Los ANGELES, Cal, March 22.-Mrs.
Ella Samis, the wife of a Whittier black
smith, gave birth to a child two weeks ago.
During her confinement she was denied the
usual medical attendance and even skilled
nursing. Instead of providing medicine and
nourishing food, her husband, a Christian
scientist, summoned a practitioner of that
belief, whose sole treatment consisted in
praying for the young mothers recovery.
After three days of this treatment a VIC
lent fever set in. Even then homely rem
edies were despised, prayers constituting
the sole treatment. The woman died this
morning, and the husband will be sum-
moned before a Ncoroner's jury to explain
his action.
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u,,k from Disea.ea Cows.

SAN FRANCISCO. March 22.-Every COW
of a herd of eleven at the State University
dairy, on the outskirts of the city, has been
condemned by the inspector of the Board of
Health, who has ordered the animals killed
on account of tuberculosis. All the cows
had the disease in ar advanced stage, and
the proprietor admitted he had been serv-
ing customers with the milk, although he
knew the cows were diseased He had
bought some of the cows for s. each. The
authorities will probably arrest him on ii
arirpinaJ nhaPUa.
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Rev. DR.. w. ID. Yonce.

ROANOKE, Va, March Prev. DR.. Will
liam Brown Yonce, professor of ancient
languages at Roanoke College, dropped dead
from apoplexy, about 8 O'Clock this even
ing, at the Lutheran Church. at Salem, Just
before the commencement of services. he
was in his usual health, apparently, till a
few minutes before his death. He was
sixty-eight years old and a native of south
west Virginia. He had been q professor
at Roanoke College since 1856. He was a
widower and leaves three grown sons.