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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-29
Minor municipal Notes.

A petition was fled asking for bridge
across Pleasant run at Linden street
A petition was filed for the opening of
East New York street from Harvey street
to Archer avenue.
A remonstrance was filed against asphalt
ing North Delaware street from Home aye
nue. to Seventh street.
The people of Liberty street want the
asphalting of that street postponed until
water mains can be laid.
Final action taken on resolutions for
cementing the sidewalks of Massachusetts
avenue from Ohio to st. Clair street.
The foreman of street repairs was order
ed to repair State avenue from Washing
ton street to Pleasant run ana Dillon
street from Meek to Prospect street.
The Board of Public Works yesterday
made an. offer OF $l,35o Tor a lot az the
avenue, to be used for new fire engine
house.
"A water main has been ordered laid in
Twelfth street from Capitol avenue to Mis-
sissippi street. with a hydrant at each end,
and in Liberty street from Market to Wash
ington street.
pany was notified yesterday that If it did not
act more promptly, when ordered to place
streets in repair, the Work would be done
by the city at the companys expense.
A remonstrance containing forty-five
names has been filed with. the Board of
Public Works agansts the Tentb gtre of
with asphalt. The demonstrators want
macadam street.
A remonstrance was filed against improv
ing Louise street from Keith street to
Orange avenue. All former action CT the
board was rescinded and papers ordered
prepared for improving the street from
Newman street to Orange avenue.
Petitions were filed asking for water
mains in the following streets Windsor
street, from Clifford to Stoughton venue;
Maple street from McCarty to Nc iris
street; johnson avenue, from Washington
to MICHIGAN street; Ingraham street, Valley
Drive and Holloway avenue, from Hillside
to Gertrude avenue
The following improvement specifications
were ordered prepared; II irst aliey east of
Ramsey avenue, from Clifford avenue to
Monroe street; Fifteenth street from Col
lege avenue to Illinois street; Fenr en- an
street from Palmer street to Grand ave-
nue., grade and gravel; first alley west of
College avenue, from Tenth. to Fifteenth
street sewer; Warren street, frcm Michigan
avenue to Bates street, brick sidewalks;
Buchanan street, from Virginia avenue to
East street, asphalt.
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KISSING AT THE WINDOW.
proceeding Which Attracted a Big
Crowd ON Broadway.
Washington Post.

4
Two overamorous young persons eated
a sensation in New York last Friday
h ,,,!s,,, ~ appearing at the window of
House and kissing each other with great
industry and evident relish during a space
Of some, fifteen or twenty minutes. The
and Broadway. 1t was quite late in the
evening, and the passing throng soon
s took note e OF the earnest oscuation and
back to Seventh avenue with their steady
company. idlers with nothing particular
home or for the club, well-dressed couples
fresh from dinner at Delmonco's, old.
obscure-everybody in fact, proceeded to
swell the mob and to contemplate per-
formance which possesses tender interest
rendered all the more interesting by the
obvious Inconsistencies. of the perform
We're hopelessly blocked. ali traffic f s''s Was
around on the outskirts Of the steadily,
over their. own impotency.
Meanwhile the two. kissers stood inno-
arms, and kissing away with an animation
beautiful to behold The crowd kept tab,
to she record or
exhibition of ardor struck it's fancy. Men
cried '..go it," women sighed in sympathy.
away or 'let go' as the notion seized
them. But the two impassioned ones at the
window went on rolling up the score and
beggaring competition in a fashion never
before witnessed by so large and SO en-
thusiastic and SO demonstrative an audi
ence.
Finally an employee of the house, sent
by some one to ascertain the cause of the
excitement perceived the performance at
the window and FASTENED to report to the
office In a moment the couple We're OBJ
served to move apart and apparently hold
a colloquy with some one not visible from
below. Then the young lady looked out,
saw the dense throng in the street. re-
caived uproarious applause and promptly
tainted The next instant the young man
appeared again, threw out his chest very
proudly, received three cheers, with tiger.
and pulled down the blind. The show was
overland mighty entertaining show it
must have been while it lasted.
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COST OF A FRANCHISE
BOARD OF WORKS OUTLINES a PRO-
PosAL TO TELEPHONE COMPANIES.
nnaIIy Into City Treasury-Low
Schedule of Rates.

The representatives of the Phoenix Tele-
phone Company called on the Board of
Works yesterday morning to learn some
thing about what would be expected in
turn for a franchise. The board had al
ready drawn up a proposition TO be sub
nitted to the Central Union Company next
Tuesday, and it was given to the Phoenix
company representatives simply guide
TO what they might expect. This PROPOSE
ton drawn up by City Attorney Scott.
and is a mere outline of suggestions as to
what the board expects of telephone COM
pany, and is not in any sense contract;
although the board will insist on having
the final contract drawn up by the city at
torney. The Phoenix representatives took
the long document away with them, and re-
turned again in the afternoon and held a
private consultation with the board.
The more important features of the prop
osition that telephones in business
houses shall not cost more than SO a month
and in residences not more than 81, these
rates to be for all distances within the city.
The city is to have the use of as many in
struments as it needs at $3.50 month.
Where two instruments are used on one
line and only one has direct connection
with the exchange the charge for the ex-
ira instrument is to be not more than $3.50
The company is to pay into the city treas
ury $12,0 00 a year. All wires in the down
town district are to be placed under ground
and the company Is to build conduits of
sufficient size to accommodate all other
wires in the city for the use of which the
company is to have just compensation. The
franchise is TO run ten years. These are the
more important features of the boards
proposition.
The representatives of the Phoenix COM
pany concede everything in the proposition
except the payment of $12, 900 year to the
city and the limit of ten years, which they
thought too short time. They argued that
they had made their contracts with their
subscribers at the lowest possible figures
believing that low rate to the subscribers
was preferable to special tax and CORE
spondingly high rate. They said they could
not afford to give 81 and s. rate and pay
$4,000 year into the city treasury.
The Phoenix company will now prepare a
proposition to submit to the board 1t is
year or thirty-year franchise and a gradu-
ated scale of payments to the city, or a per
cent. of the gross receipts.
Next Tuesday the representatives of the
Central Union Company will be heard by
the board. Besides the local mana ger, it is
expected that the general counsel of the
company and some of the other officers will
be here. The board has already announced
that exclusive franchise will be granted
to any company. A contract will be made
with the company that will concede the
best terms to the city, and the territory Will
then be open to any other company that is
willing to come in under the same kind of a
contract. The board has also decided that
whatever turn events may take, the wires
of the city must be underground before
January, 1896.
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POLITICIAN REPENTs.
He Confesses His Sins and Asks TO He
Restored to the Ministry.

BEDFORD, s. D.. March 2s.A sensa-
ton will be created in South Dakota polt-
ical circles by an event which occurred here
to-day. This was the appearance before the
full board of the Methodist Church here, at
his own request, of Orville 5. Basford,
chairman of the Republican central State
committee. Basford reviewed his past life,
confessed backsliding in leaving the church
for politics and begged to be reinstated to
fellowship that he might secure his former
pastoral calling. Basfofd has been polit-
ical leader here for some years. He was
once a minister in good standing. but went
back into the world He hopes TO get into
the Missouri Conference. His reconversion
Is the sensation of the day because of his
past political associations.
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DEATH OF I. /. HAUGHEY's MOTHER.
She Never Knew of Her Sons Misfor-
tunes-A NonogenariaD.

Mrs. Haughey, the venerable mother of
Theodore p. Haughey, died at the home
Of her grandson, Louis G. Haughey in
Chicago, yesterday afternoon. The word
was received by the family in this city
last night, and while the news was not
entirely unexpected, yet it was somewhat
of a shock. Mrs. Haughey about nine
ty-four years of age, and has been i'll for
the failure of the indianapolis National
Bank she had been at the home of her
grandson, Lewis, in Chicago, and 1t Is
thought that she has never received any
knowledge of her son, Theodore p.
Haughey's conviction and imprisonment.
The remains will be brought to this city
for burial, arriving here at O'Clock this
afternoon, and will be probably taken al
rectly to Crown Hill Cemetery. 1t iS
thought that Theodore p. Haughey may
be brought back to attend the funeral.
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BALL CLUB AT PRACTICE.
severe Practice Stiffens Up Joints
Condition of the Grounds.


Condition of the Grounds.
The ball club renewed practice yesterday
morning and put in about five hours at
hard work. All the players are feeling the
effect of their severe practice. They are
all more or less stiff. Yesterday Mccormick
injured his knee slightly, but it is not suf-
ficient to keep him from playing in the
game with the Artillery team tomorrow.
Newell did not arrive yesterday. as was
expected. President Watkins received a
letter from him saying that he had been
called to New York on the day he was to
have started for this city, and that he
would leave New York in time to reach here,
by Saturday or Sunday. Cross continues TO
show Up well in the box, and the specta-
tors, of whom there were over five hum
dred yesterday. have concluded that he will
make a brilliant season here.
Yesterday the ground was in fine condi-
ton for playing; 1t is almost dry. and in
its usual condition in the summer. 1t is
not damp enough to allow heel to sink
into it, yet it is soft enough to be little
Springy.
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THE FOREIGN ESTATE MYTH.
The Promoters Have Transferred the
..Great Fortunes" to Germany.
We


For many years INSCRIPTIONS lawyers
and others have made a good living out
of credulous- people in this country who,
they asserted were heirs to large and I'M
claimed estates in England, which might
have been more justly styled estates in the
moon. Despite the fact that the American
legation in london and the governor of the
Bank of England time and again pointed
out that there We're no such immense sums
of money in existence, ana that even If
there had been an act Of Parliament Of
1869 bestowed upon the crown all unclaimed
lands that had been IN ehancery d9r over .
reaped by the swindlers. contrary to all
precedent, hope deferred did not make the
hearts OF the claimants SICK, and. although
some of them died paupefs they never
wavered in their belief that their, heirs
would eventually n 3eSnaidn lih fba1 the
opinion of the promoters OF these confidence
games, the English field is unproductive, and
lures new A woman in Ohio has received
notice that she is one of two hundred heirs
to an estate in Germany valued at $780,
c00000, and on the same day that the good
news came TO her Texas man was in
formed that he was one. of four heirs to a
fortune of so. 100000 left by an uncle in
Brazil. The usual process will undoubtedly
be carried out in these cases. There will
be assessments levied and rosy-colored re-
ports submitted, and then, presto, all will
vanish.
When the French Academy of Science
defined a crab as a red fish that walks
backward the celebrated naturalist Cuvier
was asked his opinion Gentlemen" said
he. 1.-THE crab is not red. ii is not fish
and ii does not walk backward With those
three exceptions your definition is perfect
Outside of the fact that there are es-
tates as valuable as those mythical ores.
and that there is no money 10 be distrib-
uted the stories told about them are alb
solutely true 1t is easy to inherit millions
from relatives who have died in foreign
lands, but il is not easy TO collect them.
This is all the more to be regretted be-
cause the heirs are generally street-car
conductors, or bricklaTers, or factory hands
or waSherwomen, and, therefore. need the
money badly
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superintendent Byrne. ON Detectives.

HarperS Young feOple.
The good detective is man of resources
He must know how to adapt himself TO
emergencies that are liable to arise sud-
denly, demanding to be as promptly met
A detective who hesitates Is lost, or his
ease is, which is the same thing. The
blackmailer Welles, who wrote threatening
letters to Jay Gould, eluded all the traps
we set for him., and had fairly exhausted
our patience and ordinary resources, when
the novel experiment wis tried OF moving
upon him masse, as 1t were. Noticing
that all his letters were stamped at one
,ostoffice station, and having trcked him by
an advertisement ia the personal column
OF newspaper into sending one the next
day we posted letter carrier at each let
ter box in the district, and a detective be-
tween every two. The letter carrier had
KEY to the box, and WIS TO open II every
time that letter was drQoped. and before
the person who dropped II WIS out or sight
raise his hat as signal TO the detective
watching him. IL not he was to slip rub
her band over II that the next might
be more readily identified. 1t took some
Two hundred men 10 carry out this plan,
but Ii succeeded, and hlackmail ceased TO
In an hour we had our man.. 1t Is result:
that count in the detective business, ana
Justly No effort or sacrifice Is too great
TO achieve such an end.
The bogus hero of the story books has
led more than one boy astray, ana MADE
Wanted srnartness could repair were he
real Nv advice to the boys OF to-day. N
they will take il. is TO let the lynx-eyed
sleuth with the catlike step severely. alone.
no many boys who were full OF promise
once he has served as the introduction 10
business which neither they nor he rel
fGhp
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-29
PAPER HOSIERY.
Stockings and Gloves Made from This
Product among the Latest Novelties.
The Glove


Paper gloves and hosiery are named as
among the very latest novelties. Stockings
which shall sell at cents a pair pro-
posed. In fact, the experiment of making
paper stockings has been going on for sew
cral months and the party engaged therein
believes that paper mittens or gloves would
possess advantages in their season. The
goods are light and airy and very COM
Portable in summer.
When finished and dyed. their appearance
is similar 10 ordinary fabric goods. The
knitting Is from paper yarns. The paper
yarns made pretty much after the plan
of making common paper twines, except
that the former are put through certain
special processes. The principle is that of
making a sort Of n nap on the yarn. This
is done automatically. Ordinary paper Irvine
yarn l. too smooth. but a good sggins
up gives the yarn q nap, and this imparts
softness. After the knitting has been done
the goods are placed in a sizing bath made
from potato starch and tallow, which inn
parts solidity and durability to the texture.
With p2per passenger car wheels, paper
water pals. why not paper socks and stock
inss?
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BOSTON, March 2s.-In the presence of
one thousand persons at the SUFFOLK Ath-
letic Club tonight. Paddy Fenton, of East
Boston. was given a decision over Eddie
Connolly, the St. John wonder. in the last
round of fifteen-round contest. Two min
utes and thirty seconds had elapsed in the
fifteenth round when Connolly punched Fen
ton in the groin. Fenton staggered and
dropped his arms and, amidst cries of foul
and excitement among the seconds. the gong
changed and referee Spencer Williams an
nounced that he awarded the contest to
Fenton There We're Kisses and applause
and Fenton was heartily cheered while he
lay in his chair grooming with pain.
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- Tunner VS.. Bowel.

OTTAWA, Ontario, March ze-lhere
still great uncertainty regarding Tue poi.
ical situation. AS the matter now s.ana7'
~ &c case of Tupper VS.. Bowel. If the
minister of Justice triumphs there will be
aissor,tion. as he feels that the Conserva-.
60. ,artv would be all the better for
f f1ye J pars of opposition or until the Man
itoba school question is out OF the way.
prennier Bowel insists on session peIore
d;ssolution I. is thought mere tnaI
PREMIER Greenway. of Manitoba, has acted
dscreetly in the interests or ms slae o, Tue
school case in adjourning the LEGISLATURE
nrrII' NAV O. instead of acting hastily by
returning the order rejected to Ottawa;
AZ the dominion Parliament meets April
IL the Ottawa government will now pc
forced to make its policy known IN 1he
speech from the throne and subsequent ue-
hi
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New York Commerclal Advertlser.

New 1Ofk COnmefclaI AuVtftIser.
The only reason why the women or VIII
Jamestown, in Massachusetts. voted against
Miss Alice Carter, daughter OF the presi-
dent of Williams College. I'm her candidacy
for school commissioner. the popu-
larity of her male competitor. Nobody de-
MED the fitness of Miss Carter but DR..
Lloyd the handsome physician who was on
the other ticket. got all his women patients
to go TO the polls. His majority was large
and was chiefly due TO the women.
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Sullivan VIII Train at Once.

BOSTON. March 2S.-John l.. Sullivan is
now able to be out, and announces to his
friends that he has resolved TO so into
training at once to meet either O'Donnell
or Kilrain. Sullivan prefers meeting ODon-
nell for the reason that Corbett has stated
that ODonnell can beat any man in the
world, barring himself (Corbett) AS for
kiirain, Sullivan says that the task of de-
feating him would be easier than before
The ex-champion has almost fully recov-
cred from the effects of his illness and
looks better than for some months.
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Marion Has "a wrestler.

Harvey Parker of Marion, wants to
wrestle the winner of the Hale-Schumaker
match. He issues his challenge for the
winner. for catch-as-catch-can match.
with the strangle and full Nelson hold
barred He Is not particular about the
place but wants ii to be where large
purse NAV be offered.
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NO MORE PRIZE FIGHTS.
Three Pugilists Convicted nf Phiia-
Lelpbia-I.aw to BE Enforced.

deIphfn-I4HW 10 DE
PHILADELPHIA, March 2S.-The jury IN
the case of Charles McKeever, Charles Nc
Carthy and Jack Fogarty, charged with en-
gaging in a prize fight at the WINTER Sir-
Gus Building, on Jan. "a and rs last. came
in with a verdict of guilty this morning,
after being out two days. This viii put an
a,d m boxing contests in this city. as the
case was a test of the law. superintendent
linden has said that he will enforce the
law which means that no more fstic en-
counters will be allowed to take place at
the southwark, Non PAL or Girard ath-
nlied for a new trial The fights which
Caused the trouble were between "Bulr'
Mccarthy, of this city, and Horace Leeds.
Of Atlantic City on Jan. "A, and AIcKeever
and Leeds on the 18th Thus far Leeds
has escaped the clutches of the law.
Fogarty, Mckeever and Mccarthy were
Zach held in 81 600 bail TO keep the peace
in the jurisdiction of this court and out
side OF IL.
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Prize Firhters Fined.

WATERTOWN. n. V. March 2S."Jack''
McGouldrick, of this city, and Ike Far
rell, of Rochester, lightweight pugilIsts.
We're to-day sentenced to pay fine OF $50 or
to go 10 Jail for six months for engaging in
prize fight near this city Jan. IL Nc
Gouldrick paid. Farrell goes to- Jail.
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Merchant Police Force Powers.

Captain H. p. Thomas, of the Merchant
police force, yesterday asked the Board of
Safety to renew the police powers of the
force for one year from April 1. Police
powers are granted for only one year at a
time to Merchant police There will be
only one change in the personnel of the
force. Aionzo Lowell will take the place
of ii. r. Steinkenhler in district No. u.
The petition was granted.
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At Atlanta-Atlanta, o: St. Louis. A.
At Montgomery, Ala.-Cincinnati, 10;
Montgomery. 0.
At New Orleans-Baltimore II; New Or
leans, 0.
At Houston-Lousyille, 16; Houston. l.
At Memphis-M Memphis, IS; Cleveland, il.
At Observation-Disclosures IL; Pittsburgh.
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Bonrd of safety bills.

The Board of Safety yesterday approved
bills from the various departments under
its control as follows Fire force-Hose
fund.- s694.14; repairs to apparatus AMI har-
ness, $S2.ls; repairs to buildings and els
terms $4205; Illuminating gas, s5451; soda
and acid $l29.46; new horses. sl35: horse
shoeing, 5000; furniture, ST: telegraph de.
partment. $25l.25; miscellaneous slS5 o.
Hay market-Salary, S100; printing N75
Office supplies-Printing So so
Station house-Stable rent $50: fuel gas
$3.50; lighting. sS34s; horse feed. s321
building repairs, N4I5; COW pound Sc: pris.
cners' meals, s6S.SS; incidental expenses.
$6S.42.
East Market-Salaries $2l9. 25: gas. $176 81.
repairs TO buildings. $50: cleaning build
inGs, $50; current expenses sl13s; print
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Della Fox will have a new operetta by ].
Cheever Goodwin and William Furst.
That good title, THE Sidewalks of New
York, Is having play written aroend 1t
by Scott Marble.
The farce-comedy In which Frank Bush is
20 star next season will be called The
Real Thing" Davis & Keogh will be his
managers.
Eddie Foy il TO shelve "Of the Earth
at the close Of this season. He viii APP
pear next season In an up-to-date version
OF Robinson Crusoe.
Actor Srale has issued protest against
modern pla5E whose themes impure.
And yet Air. Cranes recent production OF
''The Merry Wives Of Windsor was quite
an artistic, IL not a financial success.
Otis skinner staged Romeo and Juliet
In Chicago last week. He played Romeo
and he Is going 10 play II many times more.
skinner Is young and romantic actor we'll
adapted By temperament and training to the
role OF the impetuous and amorous offspring
OF the hoase Or Montague.
Ethel Barrymore. daughter .of Maurice
barrymore. recently made her debut I'm E0s-
tnn as Laslr Kate Fen1eli In ''The Raubie
NOD. with her uncle. John Drc-ss Although
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saton for a short time for the purpose of
demonstrating the utility of the machine
manufactured by the company 1t is
pany's machine will need no sprinkling.