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Had TT ON Hi BRAIN
ANDERSON DOCTORS CUT AN OLD
BgLLET OFT OF A MANS HEAD.
m Man Receives $1,000 for
JefersonyfIIe White Caps in Jail.
to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
ANDERSON, Ind, March 19.-This after
noon a surgical operation was performed on
John Dehority, an employee of the North
Anderson Box Company, at St. Johns Hos
pital. A strip of the skull two inches long
was removed from the top of his head and
d bullet that has been imbedded in his
brain for ten years was secured. The case
- considered most remarkable. AT the
time the gun shot wound was received it
was supposed by Dehority that the leaden
missile had been removed. The wound
healed and gave him no trouble until with
in the past two weeks, during which time
he has suffered two epileptic fits and much
violent pain. The bullet was 1attened and
had become securely impedded in the bone.
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Strong Accusations Made by the
Young Mans Attorney.

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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, March 19.-The pros
ecution to-day concluded the introduction
of testimony in the trial of Isaac Bridges
for the murder of Mrs. Montgomery. At
torney HaTniIl, in his outline of the defense,
said it would be proven that not only did
Mrs. Montgomery entrap young Bridges to
get the money he had inherited, but that
her husband was in the conspiracy. The
husband was in the court room. HamiIl
said that after the family had robbed the
boy and the woman who had made him
believe she loved him cast him off he be-
came insane and shot her. Mrs. Montgom-
ery's father admitted on the stand that he
himself had borrowed money from him,
which he yet owed. Frank Logan, a friend
of Bridges, testified to being in Bridges'S
room when Mrs. Montgomery and another
woman called, and said they told him,
while Bridges was temporarily absent from
the room, that they could get, anything
they wanted from Bridges. The woman
who was with Mrs. Montgomery at that
time was the same who was with her the
night she was assasinated when returning
from the theater. She testified for the State
that she had never met Bridges, but knew
him by sight only.
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.sToOk THE WRONG MEDICINE."
Why This Ill So Often Appears
In the Daily Newspapers.
New York Herald.

New YORK Herald
1t is an odd trait in human nature that a
man who has been ordered by his physi-
clan to take paregoric viii never take IL IL
there is any carbolic acid or prussic acid
in the house that he can absorb in prefer
ence.
statisticians who have studied the thing
declare that an invalid VIII search the
whole house for a poisonous drug and
drink it rather than the medicine ordered
by the doctor. The death notices in the
newspapers in cases of that kind are gem
orally headed, Took the wrong medicine"
A man arrived at his home the other even
ing. and, glancing on the bureau, saw a
bottle Of liquid that he had been ordered
by the doctor TO take.
THAT looks like the stuff, said he, but
I'm not sure. AS i was locking up the cell
lar L saw behind an old shelf a blue bottle
that, looked as though il hadn't been
Acid Now, that bottle on the table looks
exactly like the one l drank out of last
d dlSn5' 2at t S5ih d ! have Is sn w ,dea that fhe the do ssnm
means for me. / don't know how the dick
ems IL got down there when it's meant for
me to take, or how this bottle that isn't
meant for me to take got on this bureau:
But I'm not going to take any chances. III
just go down into the cellar and make sure,
and III throw this stuff out of the window"
Then he cautiously went down stairs and
took the sulphuric acid, and he was buried
in due form after an ambulance surgeon
had done his best and the coroner's ply
stefan had made q complete investigation
1t isn't only children who make these
biunders. Doctors will tell you that they
have only TO label a bottle Lotion, Tor EN-
ternal Application Only to make sure of
it's being drunk. II a patient gets a bottle
of corrosive suplimate to put on a felon on
his great toe and doesn't use ii all he will
carefully save it. Ten years later a doctor
gives some cough mixture to him, and then
he goes and hunts up the corrosive sub
Innate bottle, plays three-card monte with
. and the cough mixture, gets them thor
:. ;hly. mixed UP so that he can't tell one
6-m the other, and then when he feels that
tigntness across the chest that tho doctor told
HIM about he swallows a part OF the corro-
lect the life insurance. BY no accident -
the cough mixture ever taken-it is always
the corrosive sublmate.
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Prizes for American Artists.

n NEW YORK, March 10. The jury of tho
Society OF American Artists has made its
selection for the two awards which are
made at each annual exhibition of the So
ciety. The custom is to- make these awards
before the exhibition is open to the public
scape, painted by an American artists under
forty years of age, has been given to Childo
Hassam. VIM. M. Charess picture "A
Friendly Call" was selected by the jury
under the terms of the Shaw fund. This
fund approprlates 1,500 for the purchase
of a figure composition, painted in oil by
an American artist, which becomes the
property of the donor of the fund.-
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LORD Roseberx seriousIy nm.

LONDON, March 2o.-The Times says it
is officially informed that Prime Minister
by the lack of sleep. Even d change of
air from London to the country has pro-
duced little effect in this respect and he is
quite unable to attend to any but the most
urgent business.
Editorially the Times says that universal
condition of Lord Rosebery. The gravity
of the case must be apparent to every one.
1t may be presumed that yesterdays coun-
ell was more preoccupied with the Prime
Minister'S health than with the Speakership.
The official announcement that Lord Rose
gent business shows the necessity of alb
solute rest, for urgency itself implies a
necessity and mental strain. which in certain
definitely
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BALrIMoRE posToFFIcE CASES.
Opinion by ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 0Iney
on Illegal Appointments.

OpIn1On ny 0Iney
o N Illegal Appointments.
WASHINGTON. March electromagnetic
eral Olney has sent to the Postmaster-gen-
eral an opinion in the case of the appoint
ment of seven men in the Baltimore post
Office, the legality of which was questioned
by the Civil-service Commission. He holds
that the first appointments were legal. The
civil-service complication over these ap-
p~ointments grew out of a presidential or
der made ON Nov. 20, extending the civil
service law over clerkships and other places
in postofices. Prior to this order the post
master at Baltimore had relieved seven
employees and had appointed their success
sors, but the removed ofhceholders held
OF their successors. The department. there
upon refused on Nov. z to approve his APP
and a new complication arose
when the postmaster gave his new men
places as watchmen, intending to promote
them. subsequently the postmaster recon-
sidered his action and decided to stand on
the legality of the first appointments. The
Encouragement holds that the notifica-
lions of Nov. l of the removals and APP
p~ointments was sufficient and operated be-
fore the order of the President, placing
these offices under civil-service rules. took
effect. He quotes an opinion of Attorney
mail clerks to sustain this view. rhe fact
that the postmaster allowed the umben
to remain in office after they had been
notified of their removal gave them no title
to positions which had already been filled
by the appointing power.
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magazines. the publications for which the
second-ciass rate was designed. Mr.. Bisseil
ME very much In earnest in this He went
g. many OF the leaders in Congress with
us suggested reform when the last session
convened. Il was told" said he, that II
eerfere with the financial measures and all
the time which Congress could give to legls-
latien other than appropriations would be
nevoEed to finances. | could not, OF course,
interfere with matters of such moment by
pushing legislation in which there was less
interest Had Mr.. Bissell remained in the
Cabinet 1t is probable that be would have
made "A hard fight for the legislation recom-
fnended in his last report on this subject at
the next session of Congress-.
1t is a source of qualification to the re-
Iiring Postmaster-generaf that the work of
the department is up to date and everything
ready for Mr.. Wilson to take hold. OF
course the last two years of an administra-
ton are not SO hard as the first, especially
III the policy of the department is not to
be changed in any particular. yet there will
be enough to do. ut Is not the patronage
or the making of appointments. said Mr..
Bissell. that entails hard work on the head
OF a department like this. 1t is to spend
judiciously the s., 200. 900 SO that the people
Will get the best possible mail service; to
see that the vast machinery or the DEPART
Hent is run for the best interests of the
whole people and to study all questions that
promise Improvement. That is what causes
the hard work and necessitates careful
watching at all times"
Mr.. RiSsell is duly aprreciative OF the
favorable that have been made
on his administration of the department
since his retirement was announced. 1T is
very gratifying" he said, ito know that
satisfactory when so many people are di-
rectly interested in it's results"
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WILD BEASTS NEAR WABASH.
WOOlIy Tale of a yarmint that Farm
ers Never Saw Before.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WABASH, Ind, March 19.-Along Mill
creek, in the western part of this county,
farmers have set a trap for a nondescript
beast, supposed to be the companion of
one killed Monday by a son of John Baus-
man, a farmer living in the neighborhood.
The boy went out duck shooting and his
dog frightened up a queer animal, which
came on the lad, who fired, the ball lodg-
ing in the brain of the beast, killing it
instantly. The boy called his father and
they skinned the creature and brought the
pelt TO Wabash. The skin is about five feet
in length, the color of the hair is red and
white and the nose is jet black. The legs
are very short and terminate in queer look
ing claws, while the ears are very short
like those of a fox. FIR. Bausman seems
to think the brute is a cross of
dog and fox. A large number of
farmers and others examined the skin and
early settlers were positive that nothing
like 1T has ever been seen in this locality.
Last evening a party of hunters secured
the vicinity where the animal was shot,
to scare up others of it's kind, if possible,
and they were successful, one being found,
which ran into a large aperture in the
hillside, where a trap was set to catch 1t
alive il 1t comes out.
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Obituary.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, March 19.-Rev. II.
r. Howard, ID. D., of Tullahoma. died to-
day. He was a distinguished member of
the Knights of Pythias, Masons and Odd
Fellows, and held high official positions in
the grand bodies of these orders in this
State. His remains will be taken to Port
land. Me-, for interment.
MENASHA, Wis.,, March 19.-Postmaster
Curtis Reed, the founder of Menasha, died
last night, aged eighty years. He was
born in Westford. Mass, March IS. 1876, and
came to Wisconsin in 1886. He located on
the present site of Menasha in 1845. He was
a brother of Ex-Governor Harrison Reed,
of Florida.
TORONTO. Ont, March 19.-Rev DR..
Davies, bursar of Trinity College for the
past ten years, died suddenly to-day.
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To the ..Funny FeIIows.v.

This world has too much grief and pain:
Too many tears by half;
And so, my blessings do I give
To those who make me laugh.
Then let the croakers pass along;
Their talk is but a chaff,
While strength is in the playful words
That stir the lightsome laugh.
True. serious moods must have their place.
For work is life's great staff;
they toll best who now and then
Send forth the merry laugh.
And so. since shadows form of life
BY far the larger half,
Our fervent blessings let us give
To those who make us laugh.
Clara j. Denton, in Demorest.
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WORKINGMEN AT WAR.
Score Injured in ~ Fight between
Unionists and NOnunionists.

DOWAGIAC, Mich, March 19.-This city,
which is the location of the immense plant
of the Round Oak stove works. was the
scene late this afternoon of serious strife
between union and nonunion men. Lester
Cooper, a nonunion laborer, was struck with
an AK and probably fatally injured. In
the melee, which became general, a score
of workmen were seriously injured. Ar
rests have been made, and it is feared
serious trouble is imminent. The Round
Oak Stove Company, until a recent lockout,
employed union labor exclusively. The
present trouble is the outgrowth of differ
ences between employers and employees.
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Indiana Notes.

The Anderson City Council has granted a
franchise to the Harrison Telephone Com
pany. The Bell company has announced its
intention of slashing prices to a point that
will kill all competition.
Mrs. Peggy Bailey, of Mount Etna, Hunt
ington county, or Saturday celebrated her
Kentucky in 1895, and has a clear r~ecollec-
ton of Incidents which happened ninety
to the age of 1O6, while a sister of hers
died at 11A.
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Brutal Oyster schooner Captain.

BALTIMORE, March 1~9.-Captain Jefer-
son Mears, of the oyster schooner General
the brutal treatment of Edward Merrill.
one of his crew. The boy was stripped OF
his clothing when the wind was blowing a
gale and the mercury was nearly zero. His
wrists were crossed and tied firmly to-
gether and he was thus triced up to the
rigging and he was then severely whipped.
When cut down his thumbs were frozen.
The United States authorities are looking
for the men who assisted the captain in
his brutalitieS.
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LINCOLN, Neb.. March 19.-After being
out forty-five hours the jury In the Davis
was discharged. The jury stood seven to
five in favor of acquittal. the same as on
set for a new trial at once. This is the
case wherein George Davis, a negro, Is
accused of wrecking the Rock Island ex-
of eleven people.
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WHITE CAP MYSTERY SOLVED.

Jeffers0nyflle Brother and Sister Ar
rested on n Charge of Arson.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
JEFFERSONVILE, Ind, March 49,
Mrs. Matte Shepherd, a well-known wom-
an of this city, and her brother, George
Willis. were to-day arrested on warrants
charging them with arson. The arrests
grew out of the White Cap notices left
at the house of Mrs. Coward. of Claysburg,
and the burning of Mrs. Coward's barn,
after several attempts. Although a poor
woman, Mrs. Coward became SO alarmed
over the safety of herself and family that
she moved from the neighborhood. She had
paid her rent several months in advance
and her forced move is a great hardship.
The citizens are very indignant over the
outrageous affair. The trial of Willis and
Mrs. Shepherd, it is thought, will develop
something startling. Willis, at the time of
his arrest, was out on bail, having been
arrested two weeks ago, charged with be-
ing an a~ccomplice to the numerous rober-
les which nave taken place here lately. A
preliminary hearing will he held tomorrow
morning.
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Indiana. Deaths.

ROCKVILLE, Ind, March w
Barker, who lives at Marshall, this county,
was found dead at Judson this morning. He
was a teamster, and hauling timber for
Joshua Robbins. He was over fifty years
old, and leaves a family.
MUNCIE, Ind, March 19.-Nord was re-
ceived last night announcing the death of
Cad Wright, aged twenty-three, at Denver,
where he went a few weeks since with a
case of consumption. He was the only son
of James Wright.
CORTLAND, Ind, March 19.-Ienry Kin
sey, a pioneer, aged seventy-six, died to-
day. His father owned the farm now oc-
cupied as a national home for soldiers at
Dayton, where the deceased was born and
raised.
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ENCOUNTER WITH TRAMPs.
Gang Pursued by 100 Armed Men and
Six Captured.

Associated Press Dispatch
BREMEN, Ind, March was a
desperate encounter to-day with a gang of
tramps, resulting in the capture of six after
a hard fight. Jacob Miller. a farmer. was
held up by a gang at Littleton. a village
seven miles north of here, on the Wabash
railroad, and robbed of a large sum of mon
ey. He traced the robbers TO this city.
where a warrant was issued for their ar
rest. Marshal j. c. Kaufman. with two
deputies, proceeded to make the arrest,
and found the gang near the b. q o.. de-
pot. In attempting to make the arrest the
outlaws fired at the officers. Shots were
exchanged rapidly from both sides. Citi-
zens, with revolvers and shotguns, soon
came to the rescue of the officers. when
the gang fired promiscuously into the
crowd ana began retreating their way out
of the city. Marshal Kaufman. during the
street fight. ccAme near being shot down, a
number of bullets passing through Ills hat
and clothing. Frank Nehr a United States
Express driver. who happened to be driv-
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bacco. $40, 7s1. 741. an increase of s1.os6. 800.
fermented liquors. $50, lis. 7es, a decrease Of
$l2o. 09s: oleomargarine 81. 10a.2 ZIG, a decrease
1886. 800, an increase of S43,34. The total
receipts for the eight months were S1o9.-
oSz 4ss. an increase of S.lso,622 During the
aggregate decrease in the receipts from the
receipts OF February, 1894, of 81 ,701, 445.
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Oil In Madison County.

ALEXANDRIA, Ind, March 19.-Indica-
lions of oil have been noticed in various
sections of this county. and a diminution in
the gas pressure. 1t Is thought. will be fol-
lowed by scores of oil wells. which as
wealth producers will far exceed the pres
eut natural gas output. To-day's Alexan-
dria Times announces strong indications of
oil in the wells in a western addition to
the city. One Of them, belonging to the
Lippincott chimney factory, discharged
several barrels of oil last week, the flow
being so strong at times as to weaken the
gas flow and to interfere seriously with the
furnace fires. Spectators are purchasing
all available oil leases. and will hold them
to await DEVELOPMENTS.
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Admiral Ting Said to Be Alive.

NEW YORK, March ia special dis
patch from Shanghai says: Chinese papers
here say that Admiral Ting, who was re-
ported to have committed suicide at Wei
Hai-Wei, is still alive. 1t is said that the
three collins taken on the war ship to Che
Foo contain the bodies of Liu, the cap
tain of the Ting-Yuen; Chang. who was IN
command of the garrison at Lou Kung Tao,
and Tai, commander of the land forts at
Wei-Hai-Wei, but Admiral Ting, it is as
serted, was smuggied away. The Chinese
troops are running away from Shanghai
kwan toward flemish and Picking.
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DENVER. Col, March 19.-Dr. Cuneo,
Italian consul, has returned from Walsan-
burg, where he made a full Investigation or
the recent lynching of his countrymen, who
were charged with murder. He says every
assistance possible was offered him by Che
county authorities. He Will not discuss. the
nature of his report TO the Italian embas-
sador, but 1t is evident he believes 1t will
prove satisfactory.
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National FraternaI Union.

CINCINNATI, March 19.-The Supreme
Lodge of the National Fraternal Union with
Supreme Chancellor John b. Peaslee pre-
siding, has been in session. here to-day
nual reports. Most of the delegates are
from Ohio, Indiana and kentueky. There
are ninety-two lodges In the United States
with a membership of over 1000. The dele
gates and officers were banqueted tonight
by the local lodge. The session continues
to-morrOw
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SNOW. ana Rain i'm the wcst.

KANSAS CITY. Mo-, March 19.-Snow to-
the depth of Ave inches fell here this aft
ernoon and tonight. The weather is nor
Reports from the South and Southwest in
dictate a rain ranging from one TO one and
sixty-six, hundredths inches. The telegram
wires in all directions are practically uu-
workable, Wichita. Kan, and Indian Ter
ritory points have been entirely cut oft
from the rest of the country. The direct
wires from Kansas City to Denver are ali
down and that section of the country can
only be reached by the Northern route.
Communication with Topeka. Kan. was cut
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Deadly Explosion of a boiler.

FORT WORTH. Tex, March 19.-The ex-
plosion of a saw mill boiler near Eight
mile creek, south of Carthage, is reported
TO have killed six persons and manned as
many more. The explosion was distinctly
heard three miles away. Particulars of the
affair have not been received.
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Eleventh ward primaries last Friday even
ton of Saturday, whereby Mayor Major
was renominated, will be declared void. In
the examination to-day Ii was discovered
that five of the anti-Major delegates In the
ward IN question were counted out. whereas
they had a minimum majority of IS over
the others, and the Major delegates de-
said TO have prevailed in the Second and
Fourth wards, and tally sheets of these
Will be gone over tomorrow by the board.
The anti-Major men point to the fact that
the convention refused to appoint a commit
tee on credentials as evidence that fraud
prevailed in the primaries. ~ u
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Plenty Of ivory i'm Africa.

WASHINGTON, March 19.-According TO
q report submitted to the. State Depart
ment by United States Consul Morris, at
Client. the sale of ivory at Antwerp, the
principal market of the trade during seven
years amounted to i, 1921 pounds. valued
pounds, as against 493, $50 in 1893. The re-
port says there is no reason to fear the
exhaustion of the ivory supply, the ivory
crop of centuries being still in the hands
OF natives, who have boarded it by hiding
the tusks in river beds and under the
soil. There are besides estimated to be
about 81. 600 eiephants living.
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Restrictions on Imports Of Cattle.

LONDON, March 19.-The Gazette to-day
publishes the cct rehearsing the restrictions
placed upon landing and slaughter of cattle
from the United States, Canada and other
countries, except those from which the i'm
of the latter comprises all European coun-
tries, Morocco, Natal, Portuguese Africa
and Zuzuland.
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Affection for Her Sons Slayer.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

RICHMOND, Ind, March 19.-Thomas
Covalt, of Hagerstown, who shot and killed
Joseph Welker a few da"s ago, was ar
rested yesterday and last night placed in
Jail here, charged with involuntary man
slaughter. Mrs. Welker, the mother of the
young man who was killed, will not be-
lieve that Covalt killed her son in any 9TH
er way except by pure accident, and she has
a warm place in her heart for the unfortu-
nate young man, even expressing a desire
to adopt him and have him take the place
of the dead son.