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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-01
Former Is Weil-known Actress
aud the Latter Is Manager of the
Philadelphia Inquirer.
MISS BENSON'S MARRIAGE
NEW YORK SOCIETY MAN JILTED
by A SWELL CHICAGO MAIDEN.
Myrtle b. Hoissington's Hnsty We'd
ding-Vievs of WelI-Ixnown WOm-
en- on Divorce Reform.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2S-Col. James
Elverson, jr., to-day confirmed the report
that he and Miss Eleanor Mayo are to be
married. Eyes, it is true that am to be
married to Miss Mayo" said Colonel Eli
version. THE wedding, which will be a
quiet one, will take place in New York
city about the middle of April Miss Mayo,
who is singing in Chicago this week, re-
tires permanently from the stage on March
16 She will go to the home of her parents
in New York to make preparations for the
wedding
Miss Mayo's career on the stage, while
brief, has been noteworthy. She possesses
beautiful voice, and, while singing in
concert about a year ago, her voice at
tracted the attention of Willard Spencer,
who was about to produce Princess Bon
ME- Mr.. Spencer made fattering offers
to the young singer, and although loath to
adopt the professional stage as a means
of livelihood, she finally accepted, and made
her first appearance in this city last spring.
scoring an immediate success. This season
the company has been on the road, and
everywhere it has appeared the Philadel-
phia success has been duplicated.
Miss Mayo is the daughter of Frank
Mayo, the well-known actor, who has just
completed dramatization of Mark Twain's
SuCceSSrul story, ''Pudd1n- WILSON,
which will be produced this spring in New
York. Colonel Elverson's acquaintance
with Miss Mayo dates back little over
two years, when he met her at reception
in New York. When she came to Phila-
delphia to sing in Princess Bonnie the
acquaintanceship was renewed and the
young people soon became fast friends and
finally lovers.
The prospective groom, who celebrated
the twenty sixth anniversary of his birth
to-day, is one of the most popular young
men in Philadelphia. He is general manager
of the Inquirer Publishing Company, which
paper his father purchased six years ago
Colonel Elversons success as a newspaper
man has been almost phenomenal. BY his
untiring energy he has made the Inquirer
one of the best newspapers of the country
At the annual meeting of the Associated
Press in Chicago, when the territory COW
cred by that organization was divided into
four grand divisions, Colonel Elverson was
chosen member of the advisory board OF
the eastern division. He is also an active
member of the American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. After taking a short
bridal trip Colonel EMERSON will bring his
bride to the home he has prepared for her
in this city. Late in the spring the couple
will go TO Europe for an extended tour.
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There are some things which are past
finding out, and one of them is why the
Democrats in the Senate made a
stand as a party to prevent the repeal
of the proviso appended to the act of
the last Legislature which enabled Green
Smith to appropriate to his own use
not less than SIS, 900 of the school funds
during the past two years The meas
ure has been denounced by local officers
and meetings and by Democratic as well
as Republican papers, and yet the Demo-
cratic members of the Senate made a
party stand for it yesterday as If some
great principle were involved. Perhaps
the hold-over Democratic Senators We're
trying to vindicate themselves and the
last Legislature for pa ssing such an act
If this was not the case what was their
object? Do they expect that some of
their number may be encouragement
in the by and by, and that, in such an
event, they would be delighted to at
tach to themselves the ignominy which
will cling to the late Encouragement
for raiding the school funds? Even If
the Democratic Senators have afforded
the people of Indiana ample ground for
entertaining such a suspicion by their
action on this bill, the Journal will not
believe it until it has more evidence.
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HOW UNCLE SAM IS WORKED.

The inside history of the Senate vote
to appropriate s150.00O for what is
known in Washington as the Blaine
property shows it to have been a piece
of favoritism in which the public in
terests cut no figure. The property re-
ferred to includes a large lot eligibly
situated in the heart of the city, on
which there formerly stood house
which had some historic interest as be-
ing the one in which Secretary Seward
was assaulted the night of Lincoln's
assassination, and in which Mr.. Blaine
died. Mr.. Blaine bought the property
ten years ago for $4,000 and improved
1t considerably. After his death it was
In the market for some time and was
finally leased for ninety-nine years to a
syndicate of Chicago parties at a yearly
rental of $1,000 for the first thirty-nine
years and $4,000 for each of the remain
ing sixty years. The lessees proposed
to erect a large and costly structure,
including an opera house and business
rooms. The historic mansion had al
ready been torn down and the work of
erecting the new structure was about to
begin when Senator Don Cameron APP
peared on the scene. He lives in a fine
house just north of the Blaine property,
and the removal of the old building gave
him an unobstructed southern outlook.
He thought it would be nice to preserve
this, and probably thought, also, that
il would not be pleasant to have an
opera house SO near, SO he conceived the
idea of having the government buy and
hold the property. An amendment was
accordingly offered to the sundry civil
appropriation bill appropriating $150000
for the purchase of the property. Every
body knows how the Senators stand
together and when it was found that
Senator Cameron did not want an opera
house built on the old Blaine lot it was
suddenly discovered that the government
ought by all means to own the property.
1t was historic ground, ought not to be
desecrated by an opera house, would
soon be needed by the government, and
so on. There was considerable opposi-
ton to the purchase, but Senator Cam
eron is popular, and the courtesy Of
the Senate prevailed. The amendment
was adopted by a vote of 81 to %. In
addition to paying Mrs. Blaine $150,0O0
of the lessees shall be acquired by con-
demnation, and that the title to the
government shall be cleared up in the
courts. 1t does not appear that Mrs.
Blaine had anything to do with the
transaction, she being satisfied with the
lease previously made. Senator Cam
eron was the promoter of the scheme,
the obvious purpose of which is to en-
nance the value of his property and
preserve his southern outlook. 1t is
said the property as it stands is not
worth at the outside more than $4,000,
while it is proposed that the govern
ment shall pay $150.0OO. besides damages
to the lessees. which will probably
amount to $4,000 or $4,000 more. But
it is not so much the amount as the
principle involved which makes the
transaction censurable. 1t is typical
illustration of the various ways in which
the government is worked to serve pri-
vate interests. The amendment should
be killed in the House.
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ANNA GouLD,s RELIGION.
The TO-Be Countess VIII Not join
the Catholic Church.

the CutnOnc Churcn.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2S.--Miss Anna Gould
will not change her religion when she be-
comes a countess and adopt that of her
husband, who is a Roman Catholic. This
denial comes from the lips of Miss Gould
herself. "All our family are Professionals"
she said. MY sister Helen is a Presby-
terrain. and my sister-in-law, Mrs. George
Gould, is an Episcopalan. have been
under her care since left school, and am
of the same religious faith. We attend st.
Bartholomew Church. Il am firmly at
tached to the Episcopal Church, and have
no intention of leaving it for any other:
Although Count de Castelane is rigid
Catholic he has never approached me ON
the subject or asked me TO change my
faith. He is content to leave me entirely
to my own desires in the natter
Miss Gould said sne greatly admired the
Catholic form of marriage ceremony. and
preferred it to any other The nuptials will.
accordingly, consist of a civil contract, pre-
ceding the regular Catholic service, to be
performed by Archbishop Corrigan. Al
though the Marquise de Castellane is de-
vout churchwoman, 1t is understood that
she is very liberal in her views concerning
the union of persons of different religions.
and Will offer no objection TO the Countess
Caste lane retaining her utilization with
the Episcopal Church.
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WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON AND
INDIANA

The Sentinel thinks the placing of
statue of William Henry Harrison in
the statuary hall at Washington as
representative of Indiana would be a
stupendous joke, because:
Mr.. Harrison had no official connection
with Indiana except as territorial Governor,
appointed from Ohio. He was also Gov
and Illinois, which included in Indi-
ana Territory, His home was in Ohio. He
gress. as well as in local OFFICES. He was
appointed to the foreign service from Ohio
He was twice nominated for President from
Ohio, and the second time elected. He is
buried in Ohio.
This is not quite exact historically.
and is inferentially misleading. If it is
intended to say that Harrison was ap-
from the State of Ohio that is not SO.
He was appointed in the year 1900, and
Ohio bid not become State until 1903.
He was Governor of Indiana Territory
from 1900 to 1872, holding the office I'M
der three Presidents. During this en-
tire period his official and family resi-
dence was at Vincennes. and he was
closely identified with the territorial his
tory and development of the State.
Nearly his entire military career was
covered by the period that he was Gov
ernor of Indiana Territory. His cele-
brated expedition against Tecumseh was
organized at Vincennes, and the battle
of Tippecanoe, which made him popu-
lar idol. was fought and won on Indiana
soil. He resigned the governorship of
Indiana Territory in 1872 to accept a
commission as major general in the reg
ular army. and did not become citizen
of Ohio until after the close of the war
of 1912. From that time till his death
he continued to reside in Ohio, and his
remains lie in that State, but certainly
there would be no improperly in In
diana's honoring him as a representative
of the territorial period when he was
Governor during twelve years of the
sixteen that Indiana was a Territory.
George Rogers Clark. whose statue has
just been erected on Monument Place,
was never a resident of Indiana for a
day. even during the territorial period.
The troops with which he performed his
exploit at Vincennes We're mostly Ken
tuckians, and at the conclusion of his
military career he returned to Kentucky
and lived there till his death, and was
buried there. Clarks exploit at Vim
cennes took place three years before the
Territory of Indiana was created. and it
is not known that he ever set foot
within the limits of the Territory after
it was created. Harrison's identifica-
ton with the early history of the State
was beyond comparison greater and
closer than that of Clark
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crippled presiding officer or two and
cowed the Senate into passing his
amendment designed to bring the gov
eminent to a standstiil. That he did
not do something shocking is due to the
magnanimity of the statesman who
would 'raze every custom house and
put American labor on the same plane
with European" 1t is very magnani-
nous in Senator Mills that he has con-
sented to defer his purpose to compel
the Democratic administration to sus-
pend payments.
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woodbury,s Career I'm Denver.


DENVER, Col, Feb. 2S.-Thornton Wood
bury has been practicing law in Denver
for three years. Before settling in Denver
Woodbury. made a trip around the world
with his brother. spending year in out
of the way places and exploring spots little
frequented by travellers. In his wanderings
he went 1900 miles up the Nile, where he
became possessed of two scarabei which
played somewhat important part in his
Denver history On his arrival in Denver
he became acquainted with Myrtle Ray
mond and they We're often seen together.
Two years ago he evinced a strong desire
to marry her, but his friends succeeded in
became entangled with Ray Washburn.
to whom he gave one of the scarabei, set in
a ring, wearing the other himself. These
are exceedingly hard stones of a light
greenish color, carved in imitation of
beetle, and bearing on the under surface
the hieroglyphcs of the Egyptian Pharaoh.
In whose dynasty they were made. The
two owned by woodbury. were said by
Psychologists TO be the finest discovered
for many years. While Woodbury. and
Ray WaShburn were OH the best OF terms
Myrtle Raymond passed through the city
on her way to San Francisco Woodbury.
saw her, and the old fame was rekindled.
burn. This woman has since followed him
about threatening to kill or disfigure him
for life. This fact is said to have FASTENED
Woodbury'S departure. 1t Is said here that
Woodbury.. together with sister and two
brothers, win come into an income of $780,
600 year when his mother dies. The fam
lily owns $2.000,000 worth of real estate in
New York CITY.
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The Newcastle England) Chronicle,

The Newcastle England Chronicle,
speaking of the effect of the Democratic
tariff upon the worsted and wooden trade
of the Bradford district, says:
The change in the United States tariff has
had a very beneficial effect on Bradford
trade the returns for the consular district
the value of exports to the United states
during January, compared with the first
month of last year In December the in
crease was 26S 229 pounds A feature of the
new trade is the increased demand for tops,
or combed wool.
That is, the exports from Bradford to
the United States in fabrics, in January,
1885, were $l,916.325 more than in jan
uary, 1894, and $1,S41,145 more last De-
cember than in the corresponding month
of 1893 Here is s3,757,9S0 worth of goods
which could have been made at home
by the skill and mills we how have.
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George rogers Clark. Ancestry.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
In connection with the erection of the
statue of Gen. George Rogers Clark IN
Monument Place it may interest some or
your readers to know that ne came honest
~ by the qualities which make his memory
revered, and that his career proves. to some
extent. the doctrine of heredity- Mary Rog-
ers who married John Clark, and became
the mother of four revolutionary heroes,
one of whom we have honored by a statue,
and another of whom was one of the path
finders for the advance guard OF Amer
lean civilization in the expedition of Lewis
and Clark. claimed lineal descent from
the Smithfield martyr, that John Rogers
tn his faith. i have meyer seen 1t stated
in print, but it is family tradition treas
ured by the descendants and kin.
r. s. ROBERTSON.
Eort XNayae Ind Eeh. q.
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The fact that the advocates of bimet-
allism in Great Britain have raised $780,
600 for the prosecution of campaign in
favor of both gold and silver as money
goes to show that not all the capitalists
in that country are in favor of the gold
standard. The further announcement
that the English bimetallists propose to
increase their working fund to 100000
indicates that the friends of a double
standard in Great Britain are very
much in earnest
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MAY GO ABROAD FREE.
When Mrs. w. h. ynnde-biIt Sails Her
DIVORCE Suit Nay he Decided.


NEW YORK, Feb. 2S.-That the divorce
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. X. Vanderbilt is well
now under way is generally conceded by
those who, as friends of both, should be
supposed to know. The impression with
these is that the testimony has already
been given to referee with closed doors.
His friends say that W. X. Vanderbilt VIII
let the case go by default.
When Mrs. w. *. Vanderbilt sails for
Europe Ash Wednesday she may be a free
woman as far as matrimonial yoke is con-
cerned. That is If her divorce Is not actual
ly granted, it will be on the eve of it. 1t
takes but short period to procure d.
vorce in New York on statutory Srounds
when no defense is made.
The fact that Mrs. w. Il. Vanderbilt has
purchased a residence on the southwest
corner of Madison avenue and Seventy-se
and street has already been published This
is a fine colonial double mousse, OF yellow
brick faced with gray stone and new with
all the latest improvements Mrs W. Il.
Vanderbilt will return to this side in August
and pass her usual six weeks or two months
at Newport,
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The country should join in vote of
thanks to the Hon. Roger Quarles Mills.
Senator from Texas, that he did not in
sist upon holding UP the government
of the United States by compelling the
passage of his proposition to repeal all
laws empowering the President and Sec
rotary OF the Treasury TO negotiate loans
to keep the wheels of government in mo-
ton. True, the presiding officer ruled
the proposition Of Mr.. Mills out of order
as not germane to an appropriations bill.
but then this fierce person might have
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-01

The increase of the enrolled voters
in Center township from 1880, in 1889,
to Bill, at the present time. tells the
story of the steady growth Of this city
during the past six years. This means
an increase Of population of 10000, at
last. And the best of it is that it has
come without any booming. or gratuities
to secure new industries.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-01

Senator Haggard says that his pur-
pose in pushing the proposition to have
the trustees for the State institutions
appointed by board of State officers
is not because he is animated by de-
sire to have the boards made partisan.
He does not want partisan boards, and
he expresses a desire to have the
subordinates in the benevolent institu-
tiong put under a merit system. That
lis, he is in full accord with those on the
ether side, except that he would have
the Republican State officers select the
boards instead of the Governor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-01

The promotion of Rear Admiral
George Brown TO the head of the navy
is just cause for congratulation to the
people of Indiana. He is a native of
the State. and during his entire naval
career from cadet to admiral has main
tanned his interest in the State and its
people. On whatever seas or in what
ever port citizen of Indiana found Off
Ger Brown he was sure of warm well
come. He has always sought to de-
serve and retain the good opinion of In
diana people, and they in turn have
had every reason to be proud of his
career. The Journal feels sure that 1t
voices the sentiment of a great number
of Indiana people in extending to Adj
miral Brown hearty congratulations.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-01

The appointment of Congressman
Wilson as Postmaster general is entirely
natural under the circumstances. His
term in Congress is about to expire. and
his personal and political relations with
tlIe President are such as to entitle
hira to this recognition. He is a man
OF decided ability and undoubted in
tegrity, but it remains to be seen if he
possesses executive ability of the kind
department
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Regardless. of Facts.
Philadelphia Press.

Philadelpn1a Press.
Their services says the New York
Evening Post of the bankers who supplied
the bonds in 1878 for resumption, twas
paid for in double treble the commission
obtained by the present syndicate Was il :?
The Evening Post had better look UP the
facts. The widest margin OF profit in the
advance OF the bonds sold in 1873 for nearly
a year was per cent In two years this
margin was per cent. This year in three
weeks ii has been Is per cent, and the
instant profit was per cent. Why not tell
the truth?
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THE INnIANAPoLTs JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places
PARfS-American Exchange In Paris, SO Boulevard
de Capucines.
NEW YoRK-Gilsey House. Windsor Hotel and
Astor House.
PHILADELPHIA-A z. Kemble cor Lancaster
ave. and Barring st.
CHICAGO Palmer House, Auditorium Hotel and
r. o. News Co., 81 Adams street
CINCINNATI. Il. Hawley & Co.. 154 Vine st.
1oUIsvILLE-C. Il. Deering, northwest corner OF
THIRD ana Jefferson sts., aud Louisville Book Co.,
st LoUIS-Union News Company, Union Depot.
WA6HINGTON. d. C.-Riggs House, Ebbitt House,
+ WIZARDS Hotel and the Washington News Ex-
change, 18th street. bet. Penn. and 4 street.
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The advocates of a State soldiers home
cannot fail to recognize the valuable SER
the passage of the bill, with the appro-
priation. The measure did not have
plain sailing by any means, and might
have failed if the Senator from Tippe-
canoe had not devoted much time and
tact in smoothing the rough places
which the measure has encountered in
an economical Legislature
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PITTSBURG. Pa. Feb. IS The 80 nmlt-
tee appointed at the recent meeting % win
dow glass manufacturers In Colunbiss e. .e-
wise ways and means for the formation OF
a combination of the leading windoys glass
interests OF the couutry met in this a.! to-
day. Several plans we've discussed. bot no
information was gwen TO the pubic Tho
members of the committee .preselat are IL.
SeLers Mckee. jones A. Sham5efs and
William Loefffer. OF PENNSYLVANIA 4. IL.
Johnson and =. X. Wells. India X. s. l.,
Bodine. New Jeraev A. n. BenpsSf New
York. and Walter Swindei OF MaeNLana,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-01

1t seems strange that the Democrats
In the Senate. with few exceptions,
should vote against a military bill APP
proved by a Democratic Governor and
prepared by Democratic Governors
Democratic Acknowledgement
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Artists, Contrnct..
Chicago Inter Ocean.

Chicago Inter Ocean.
larger liberty than other workers, but
If an architect should contract 10 build
a six-story building and then decline to
go on with the work unless he were al
lowed to cut it to four stories. TO meet
his ideal there would be no hesitation
about calling in another architect. II Mr..
MacMoEnies cannot furnish peace group
Indiana ought 10 give other scu.pters an
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been coated the same as man. and if this
bicycle business keeps she will be
trous--''
The dinner bell rang. and in the mad
rush ensuing the rest of the Cheerful IDIOTS
speech hit the empty air.
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Unexpecfed Enects.

Uncle Josh-Tell you what, wouldn't
sell that there boss fer all Of three hun
nerd dollars.
Uncle Sill heerd about you gittin' re-
ligion last revival, but / swow I never
thought it would make you that conscien-
tiouS
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VIII Pay the Price.
Pittspurg chronicle-Telegraph.

I'ItCSUuES NJIIUEIItfFt SItEt< tI7II .
Mr.. Howells says that one who has
not reid at least one Of his novels need
hope to receive his autograph. There are
autograph hunters, however. who are reck-
less enough to go through such an experi-
ence for signature