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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-05
Robert Louis stevenson. Prayer.

British Weekly.
Robert Louis Stevenson composed and
read to his family. the evening before his
death. the following prayer:
We Fbeseech Thee, Lord, to behold us
with favor. folk of many families and ma
tions. gathered together in the peace of
this roof: weak men and women, subsisting
under the covert of Thy patience. Be pa
tieDt still suffer yet while longer,
with our broken promises of good. with our
while longer to endure. and fif it may be)
help US to do better. Bless to us our ex-
traordinary mercies; IL the day come when
under affection Be with our friends; be
with ourselves. Go with each of us to rest;
if any awake. temper TO them the dark
hours of watching and when the day re-
turns to us. our sun and comforter. call us
with morning faces and with morning
hearts, eager to labor. eager to he happy,
if happiness shall be our portion and If the
day be marked to sorrow, strong TO endure
It. We thank Thee and praise Thee: and in
the words of Him to whom this day is sa-
cred, close our obIa ton
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-05

The last Congress made an appropria-
ton of $4,000 TO defray the expenses of
q government commission to examine
and report upon the route of the pro-
posed Nicaraguan canal. The commits
ZION will consist of one army engineer.
one naval engineer and one civilian, and
will be appointed at once and embark
from Mobile on the United States war
vessel Montgomery in time to reach
Greytown by the 18th inst The appoint
ment of the commission will show that
the United States government is keep
Ing sharp eye on the Nicaraguan canal
question. and the fact that the Mont
gomery will reach Greytcwn day or
two before Great Britain expects an
answer from Nicaragua to her recent
uItimatum is an interesting coincidence.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-05

A comparison of the maps of to-day
with those of forty years ago will show
that the boundaries of British Guiana
have been materially enlarged by nib
bling into and appropriating territory
from Venezuela. In quiet, stealthy
way England has been violating the
Monroe doctrine down there for a long
time. Her present claim to Venezuelan
territory. based on a fraudulent survey
and forcible occupation, is simply con-
tinuation of her established policy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-05
Boston Transcript

We have great admiration for the news
paper descriptive writer. To be sure, II is
seldom that his description is "a bit like the
thing described. but that signifies nothing.
To describe a thing accurately implies only
an inferior. mechanical mind: the true ar
tlst Is not bound by slavish slAbservience
70 the rules OF the unimaginative copytst
He scars. There Is nothing OF the practical
IN his writings. thank gQodneSsi He ia
excruciatingly way of. Hence our love ana
admiration for the descriptive writer But
let him not make himself too cheap. too
common. Let him write not 400 often
not oftener. say, than once In lifetime:
and II u 20 please him. let that once IS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-05
prof. BFuner probably Murdered.

GREENSBORO. Ky. April 4--The family
of Prof. Charles Bruner. who met such a
tragic death In Hancock county last Sat
urday. now believe he was murdered and
the woods fired to conceal the crime His
charred remains were found Saturday
morning on the road from the school to his
home He had wallet containing $40. and
wore an overcoat and rubber coat The
were found which are evidence that he
was robbed and the money not burned
There was hole in his back, which. con-
nected with other facts. leads to the heller
that he was foui1y dealt with An investi-
cation will be made.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-05

The monometallists are of two kinds
those who want a gold standard and
those who demand the free coinage Of
silver by the United States alone, which
would cause silver recommendation in the
United States. The real bimetallist is
the man who would have free or equal
coinage under ratio fixed by the COM
mercial nations of the world
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-05
Suspended, in Fact.

81 had sort of thrty-second cousin who
came West some years ago. said the tour
ist gentleman. II understand he went by
the name of Gunshy Joe. / fear that Jo-
seph did not lead a very upright life
Right you air. assented Rubberneck
Bill. '.Still, kin say that he died up
right death, bein in vertical attitude at
the tine''
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-05
The Messenger's story.

TOPEKA, Kan, April 4.-Messenger j. W.
Jones, one of the tranmen who was wound
ed in the Rock Island robbery, gives this
account of the hold-up: when the train
was brought to standstill I opened the
door of the express car to see what was up.
At that instant I saw seven men rise up
from the grass in little ravine along the
track. One of the robbers shouted to me,
Take your head back or I'll shoot 1t off. L
robbers opened fire on the car, at least one
hundred bullets perforating it. ! was sit
ting on g. mail sack with my Winchester
across my knee when / was struck in the
left wrist and leg by bullet. My arm fell
limp at my side. Then the robbers smashed
in the door and worked fully an hour try
ing to open the safe. Failing in this they
While they were in my car some one carry
ing a lantern appeared some distance from
the car. One of the robbers said, Watch
me put that light OUT Then he fired in the
direction of the light and it disappeared at
once Another robber said Wen show the
Rock Island people they can be held up as
we'll as other roads.
The delay caused by the robbers trying to
open the express car gave the passengers
an opportunity to stow away part or tnelf
valuables. What they handed to the rob-
berS was such amounts as they chose 10
give up The negro porter was forced TO
carry a small sack and go in advance of the
bandits. Bailey kept with him to see that
everybody "chipped i'm and Wyatt held his
Winchester ready to shoot anyone VINO
dared to interfere.
The Rock Island has offered reward of
81 900 for the arrest and conviction OF each
of the robbers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-05

During the time that the Republican
party Had control of national affairs an
ufivarying feature of the monthly debt
statements was the decrease in the debt.
Now they as invariably show an in
crease. During the month of March the
increase was $2S sos. 100
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-05

3The first thing you want to git into your
head soon as the swelling has gone
down., said the badheaded philosopher to
the newly-elected young man, lis that your
election didn't happen SO much from a de-
sire of the people to get you in from
desire to get the other fellow out"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-05

If the instruction in Cuba continues
much longer. the government authorities
will find it exceedingly difficult to pre-
vent the organization and sailing of fill
clustering expeditions from the United
States This has been the experience in
former instructions, and it will be pref
ty sure to repeat itself
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-05
RattIesnake Bill Killed.

WICHITA, Kan April 4.-News was
brought into Hennessey late tonight by one
of the posse p,irsujRe the Rock Island train
robbers of fight between the robbers and
deputy sheriffs on the Cimarron river. The
pursuing party, under command of Marshal
Madsen, came upon the robbers as they
were hunting a crossing and Immediately
opened fire, killing one robber and wound
ing another. The robbers were taken una
wares and fired at random on their assall-
ants none of the shots taking effect. The
robbers then took to the brush and the
marshals were sent to cut off the avenues
"Rattlesnake Bill,''a notorious territory
outlaw His body was brought into. Hen
nessey at II D. m. At first the dead man
was supposed to be Sylvia an escaped
train robber wanted for other hold-ups,
but it was later learned that Sylvia is in
is said talked with him at Fort Worth a
few hours before the train was robbed at
Dover, nearly two hundred miles from
there.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-05

There was a man once who was op-
posed to all monopolies that he was not
In. England favors arbitration for all
disputes except those to which she is a
party.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-05

Mayor-elect Swift, of Chicago, talks
like man who knows what is expected
of him in the way of municipal reform
and who is ready to begin the work in
brave and determined spirit
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-05

The result of the recent election in st.
Louis leads the Post-Dispatch of that
city to say that 1.-The Republican ma
jority is SO large as to indicate that ST
Louis has taken it's place definitely in
the list of Republican cities
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-05

The assertion of Cuban authorities
that the insurgents have only few hun
cred men in the field does not consist
with the fact that Spain has already
sent many thousands of troops to sup
press the instruction and is preparing
to send MANY thousands more
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-05

1t is evident that the Spanish apology
which Secretary Gresham demanded SO
emphatically has been misdirected. Mr..
Gresham should call at the dead letter
Office for ii.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-05
Nothing strange.

Smallwort-Old man GRIPPE, the chattel
mortgage man, got a needle in his hand
this morning and the doctors had to cut it
out.
Ford-Nothing strange in that. They
would have to do the same thing had it
been nickel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-05

Mrs U. s. Grant has already paid her
income tax to the government without
waiting for the decision of the Supreme
Court. The Grant family are rather
noted for loyalty.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-05

While the merits of the Monroe doc
trfne and its applicability to particular
cases are being discussed 1t is worth
while to remember that there is another
doctrine Thomas Jefferson In his first
inaugural address. delivered March 8.
1901. enumerated among the principles
which should guide the government:
i'EoEal and exact Justice to al men. Of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-05

The American people want all the dol
lars it is possible to get, but they want
one dollar to be just as good as every
other dollar.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-05
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
Doubted 1T.

Minnie-I wonder if there is any truth in
this theory that tobacco will kill microbes?
Mamie-Of course not. Charlie Litewayte
has been smoking a pipe for more than
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-05

Bimetallism must be International
There can be no other.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-05
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

The G. Q. p. elephant is a verftable
Jumbo this year
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-05
ROBBED IN OKLAHOMA
rock ISLAND TRAIN HELD UP BY
FIVE DEsPERAD0Es.
Express sIessenEer wounded, but His
Safe Observation-Disclosures
Forced to Pay Tribute.

ItENNESSEY. 0. T., April 4-Rock
Island train No. was robbed near Dover
this n orning. Two robbers boarded the
engine just as the train was leaving Dover
and covering lac engineer and fireman,
commanded them to stop at certain point
about 800 yards from the water tank The
engineer, who was little excited, went
about one-fourth of a mile before stopping
and narrowly escaped losing his life as
consequence. One of the robbers fired at
hin, Just missing him aud the ball went
through the cab window. Conductor James
Mack. not having heard the shot, started to
ind crJ what wrong and was Cow
cred as he approached the engine and told
to climb on. to it. The bandits robbed him
and We're then joined by three other robbers
who had come up to the train. A demand was
made Tor express messenger Jones to open
the door. This was refused and fusiliade
wounded in the wrist. He attempted to
escape from the opposite side of the car,
but Was captured by guard on that side
anu made to crawl under the train An at
TENT was then made to open the safe, but
nothing could be done. The robbers pro-
ceeded to hold up the passengers of the
$500 in money, six reyolvers and number
of watches and rings. The passengers in
bers were last seen from the train going
west from Dover, all mounted, the leader
being upon mettlesome grey horse.
When the train arrived at kingfsher
Sheriff Burchett and United States Marshal
Madison, of Ell Reno, were notified and
earried TO- the scene OF me En- notaaup py
four miles west of Dover, where the CHM
arron river had been crossed, and are
of the robbers could be obtained. but they
are supposed to be led by Dick Yeager, an
outlaw who has headquarters in Cheyenne
county. If the posse come up with the
robbers a fight will probably occur.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-06-14
DININISHEDDESPERAD0
Bill Cook Not Such a Very Bad
Man After All.

He Tells the Story of His Life-Newspapers
Have Exaggerated His Exploits-Was
Sunday School Scholar and Good Pres
byterIan Before He Went Astrsy.
Wicked Bill Cook Is a fake. He Is
masqucrader, an impostor. He cannot live
up to tho height Of his overwhelming rep
utation. He was not born great. He did
not achieve greatness. He has had great
ness thrust upon him. He must collapse
at the first prick Of the historians pen.
So says Warden Mcintyre Of the Albany
penitentiary. So say all his assistants.
Theirs is no mere snap Judgment. 1t Is
the calm, sober, carefully weighed opinion
of experts in crime, Of connoisseurs, says
New York Herald correspondent, who re-
Gently visited Cook at Albany.
Cook himself deprecated his exaggerat-
ed reputation for wickedncss in his talk
with the reporter. II haven't been good
man since went scouting" he began,
"but 1 haven't been anything like the
tough or the terror that have been paint
ed The newspapers have told lot of sto-
rics about me that arc not true. have
never killed man in my life, and have
never drawn gun upon one except when
I was attacked and have been forced to
depend upon myself, and didn't go scout
ing (this was Bills cuphemism for outlaw
ry) until I was driven into it. am 81
years old-born in 1S73 on the banks of
Fourteen Milo creek, not far from Fort
Gibson. My mother, good Christian wo-
man, died when was IL. She brought up
us childrcn-my sister, my brother and
me-to be good Christians like herself.
II went to the public school for two
years ut Fort Gibson and learned to read and
write. 1 also went to Sunday school, and
Twas q good SunllaT school scholar. I was
brought up Presbyterian. believed, and
used to pray, and liked to 60 to church
and pray and sing and If l had followed
out what l was taught 1 should never be
where l am. But intend to do better
now. Tho past is past.
"My brother was like myself and went
wrong with me. But my sister was always
good girl. Yes, know the stories that
went round about her. l have seen the
newspaper accounts. She never got drunk.
She always behaved herself like perfect
lady. Why, she never had revolver in
her hand. She was a good rider, like all
the women Of the territory"
1t is obvious that this cannot be the
truth. The stories told about Lulu Cook
have been too circumstantial in their de-
tails to be absolutely without foundation.
"How did you first 60 wrong?"
"well, the usual way-bad company and
liking for wild ways. When my mother
died, the family was scattered. My sister
went to live with some relations. My
brother and 1 became cowboys. kept all
right until was Is or so. Then began
to drink and gamble and to associate with
wild young fellows, and so I went from
bad to worse until 1 got to the full end of
the rope. But did nothing against the
law until was about 19, when I was ar
rested for selling whisky to Indians. /
made confession and was let of with o
flnc."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-06-14
Ruined by the Mince Pie Habit.

Archibald H. Bill, the Salvation Army
captain of Ellenville, n. Y, who was in
Jail at Kingston for several months charg-
ed with forgery, and who claims that his
downfall is owing to his inordinate love for
mincc pic, has been placed in the state asy-
lum Mt Middlctown. Bill forged the namo
of the late John G. Dubois to a note for
81, 900 on the Home National bank Of Ell
lcnville, for which he was indicted last
February. He held prayer meetings in Jail
and believes that he should go to prison
instead of to the asylum. He says that in
1871 he went voluntarily to the Blooming
dale asylum to cure his appetite for mince
pie, of which he was a helpless victim. He
used to pawn his clothes in order to gorge
himself with mince pic and coffee. He
prayed one day for the power to restrain
his appetite, but at night he broke into
house and ate all the mince pie he could
find. He was theological student at Au-
burn.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-06-14

Spring of 1895 has travelled beyond the broad horizon
/ of Time but all remember with vlvdness many
remarkable things which occurred during its three short months OF
m among other things its remarkable weather. the great ag
taion about reducing the cotton of the South
great agitation the United States courts de
the income law, the decision of Judge Go on the dis
pesar registration laws of South Carolina and the great and
important financial question All of these have been before with
distncness during the past three months But just here wish to
call your few facts that you not familiar w but
equally interested n During the first week of March, became
of the fact that the price of materials advancing at
terrific and especially this true to shoes and standard
articles goods Just this thought that
lust then the time for make that would be OF
of profit friends and customers next a So as
thousand dollars hands, determined to invest the
whole of it in shoes and dry goodabou SSooo This
did these articles the lowest had ever known them
Three weeks aewd the styles of shoes had bought advanced
per pair and having put nearly $4,000 shoes be-
uneasy fear the shoe companies would not fill their con-
be delivered JULY sat down and wrote all OF them as
follows care going fill ORDERS regardless of recent rise
according To which received the following reply
Eyes BUT WE DON'T WANT ANY
MORE ORDERS AT SUCH PRICES"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-06-14

ural rights, and they have simply made up
their minds not to submit to it. They
don't make any money out of the business,
as q rule, and yet they keep on building
new stills about as fast rs the old ones are
broken up by the revenue raiders. Nearly
all of them are ignorant farmers, cultivat-
Ing the barren lands of the mountainous
districts in which they live. Their wants
are few, living as they do in q country
where the luxuries and extravagances of
fashionable communities have no exist
ence, and they manage, somehow or other,
to pick up simple livelihood out Of tho
clefts of tho rocks.
"They spend their days in a monoto-
nous, uneventful way, pretty much after
the manner of poor farmers the world
over. The country in which the moon
sinner lives is sparsely settled, which makes
his life, if not solitary, at least retired
one, his only associates being the few
neighbors whose abodes are within the
limits of the horizon which bounds his lit
tie world 1t rarely happens that he travels
beyond the limits of this horizon, and eK-
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-06-14
DRY GOODS.

My stock of Dry Goods includes every
thing that comes under this broad head.
AS to the qualities, my stock comes fully
up to the demands of this section, and it
is not likely that any one will kick at my
prices except competitors and that don't
bother me. I will give you few items,
as space forbids full catalogue.
Light Cloths and Tweeds for ladies'
wear in black and colors.
Black and Pinted Satines in all colors
and styles.
Tweeds and Cassimers for childrens
wear.
Kerseys and Jeans for mems wear.
Linen Duck and Brown and Bleach
Drills, Cottonades, White and Printed
Lawns, Mulls, White and Colored PIX,
Striped Nainsooks, Striped Lawns, Chal-
lies, Prints of every description, and in
fact, everything in this line, we've got it,
and we want to sell.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-06-14

What about Martha PlttmanF
"That's al newspaper story. liked
the girl, but all the talk about my want
ing to MARI her Is not true, and that
about Pittran refusing his consent and
all Is rot. Martha had nothing to do with
nv fall. l found that, do all / could,
was not able to live down my old reputa-
tion. People thought was bad, and my
brother and they accused us OF all sorts OF
things that we never did. At last they
said we were horse stealerS. So we deter
mined last June to draw our pay when 1t
came duo ard go somewhere else. We
started for Tahlrquah. On the way we
met Cherokee ELL. That was the first
time we had ever seen him. 1le told us
that we and him were wanted as horse
stralcrs by the Indians. We asked him to
20 with us to our sisters house. He came
with us. Sho is married to man named
Harden and lives near Fort Gibson.
"On the second day, after dinner, he
went out on the porch. AS I was standing
by him he started, looked around to me
and said:
'Yonder they are, boys!
"Just then heard the whoops. 1t was
O vigilance committee of 13 Indians who
had come to take us for horse stealing.
We determined to fight. We shot, and they
shot At last Jim said, I'm woundedn
Then we decided to fly. Cherokee Bill got
his horse, and and Jim jumped together
on another. We loped on over the fields,
the Indians after U.s. shooting We got
away from them, but jim was shot In
seven places. had to leave him with Bill
on the banks Of Green river and go six
miles up to Fort Gibson. where I got doc
tor. He came back and picked the shot
out of Jim. Then we took him down to
Fort Gibson to friend of ours. But the
ferryman who took us over the river gave
US away to the marshals. They routed us
up, took my horse and arrested Jim. Bill
and escaped on his horse, but the mar
shals followed and held us up. They killed
Bills horse under him. We made for the
fields and caught couple of mares pas
tured there, and so got away from them.
Then l was desperate. I had become an
outlaw through no fault of mine. I knew
that was in the fire and had no chance
to get back even into the frying pan, SO
threw everything to the winds, and l be-
came a robber."
Hero Cook paused. OF his exploits he
evidently did not want to say anything.
All he would add was that he had not done
one-half of the things that had been attrib-
uted to him.