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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-03-10
SHE DID NOT REFORM.
Mrs. Freeland. Pardoned by the Pres
fdent, I'm the Tolls Again.

WHEELING. W. Va. March "A dis
patch from Terra Alta says that Mrs Jud-
son Freeland was arrested there to-day by
a United States detective for passing raised
bills. She had passed three OF the bills in
Grafton and Fairmont. raised from two
dollars to twensies. Mrs Freeland who
is well connected in this State. has a record
as a counterfeiter. She Is the same woman
arrested IN Chicago in December. 1898, with
her husband for similar offense. They
were tried i'm March. 1884, and sentenced
to three years each In the Illinois State
prison at Joliet. but Mrs. Freeland was
pardoned by President Cleveland In Decem-
ber. 1891. and returned to her home In this
State. where she has been living ever since
More arrests at Terra Alta are expected 10
follow to-dey's capture.
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THE TORRENs SYSTEM.
First Transfer OF Real Estate Under
the New Illinois Law.

CHICAGO. March 9.--The first transfer
of real estate under the Torrens law was
made to-day. 1t took just thirty minutes
to transact the whole affair. The cost of the
transfer was s. On the whole deal, it is
estimated, saving was affected OF three
weeks time and A7 In cash over the old
system of transferring real property The
sale was made by Mrs. Marie r. Hopp to
Thomas Schotes, and the consideration was
S6.000 When the registrars Office was first
opened Mrs. Hopp placed her property under
the Torrens system and got certificate
Of title. The cost Of doing so was ST. The
only expense in transferring, after getting q
certificate of title, was S. Hereafter that
will be the cost whenever that property is
sold. The average cost of transferring real
estate Is said TO be $50 under the old system.
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WARLIKE PROCEEDING.
200 Winchesters Sent to Fulton. Ky,
to Hold Negroes I'm Check.

PADUCAH, KY, March 9.-Mayor d. A.
YeIser tonight shipped to the city marshal,
at Fulton, KY, in response to a private
telegram two hundred Winchesters that
were used here during the negro riot three
years ago. There are geat fears of an
already taken place. The trouble was
caused by a policeman attempting to arrest
a negro and having to club him before he
the whites and blacks is very bitter. The
authorities are trying to keep everything
quiet and refuse TO answer telegrams. 1t
was rumored here tonight that serious
encounter had already taken place, but this
could not be confirmed.
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DEBs EFT AL. FREE.
Nolle Prosse Entered I'm the Cases
Against the A. r.. u. Leaders.

CHICAGO. March s.-The case of Debs ct
al is at last out of the United States Court
at Chicago. To-day General Black, district
attorney, appeared before Judge Grosscup
and entered q nolle PROSE-. This was the
prosecution of Debs and fellow-officers and
members of the American Railway Union
for interfering with trains carrying the
United States mails. The trial was nearly
completed last February. when one of the
Jurors was taken Ill and a postponement
was necessary Meantime the defendants
were sent TO Jail and punished by Judge
Woods in the famous contempt case.
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FATHER AND SON DEAD
And Two Revenue OfHcers Wounded
the Result OF Fight.

WINSTON. N c.. March e.-In a fight be-
tween revenue officers James Smith and WAL
ter Davis and Bob Jordan and his son Ban
ner. At Kernersville. eleven miles from here,
early this morning. Bob Jordan was killed.
his son died tonight and both the officers are
seriously wounded. The officers went to Jor-
dams home In search OF blockade whisky A
keg found When an attempt was made
10 force an entrance TO the house the Jordans
resisted and the firing began
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CHICAGO. March 9.-Late this afternoon
Mrs. Cummings. OF No. 3i3 Fourteenth
street. identified the dead body OF the man
found in barrel yesterday, with that OF
an infant. as that OF her husband. He had
been an inmate of the poor house for two
years. The police have abandoned the
theory of murder. II being known that the
mutilation was done by medical students.
dents finished their work with It an ex-
pressman was paid to take II away. He was
too lazy to bury IL and dumped the barrel
w1lerc II was found. The body OF the i'm
FAINT was also given to the expressman to
- buried.
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Notes the Fire

The houses on South street opposite suf-
fered slightly from the heat and sparks.
Notwithstanding the hour, four or FIVE
hundred people were attracted to the scene.
Had the wind been from the west 1t would
have carried the SPARKS and flames across
the alley to the uain927ading md the plant
OF the Parry Cart Company.
At times the streams of water would not
reach the second floor of the building. The
pressure was not steady and without the
engines 1T was nearly useless.
Two engines were put to work on one
cistern at the corner OF Capitol avenue
and South street and In five minutes time
useless.
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tween Spaniarsls and Insurgents.
HAVANA. March s-The insurgent bands
commanded by Napoles. Alberto. Rojas.
Machado and Aieman I'm obedience TO orders
from General Gomez have left the district
Of placetas. province OF Santa Clara. and
heye moved into the province Of Matanzas.
IN order. II Is said. to protect the passing
Of the insursent forces under Cones ana
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MOUNT STERLING. O., March e.-Weslev
Passwaters to-oay shot and wounded his
divorced wife In the mouth and shoulder
and then shot himself. probably fatally. He
Is prominent citizen. He objected to her
possible reu2oSxiaGe-
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9th r PLANT. saved.

The Pondexter Manufacturing Company,
manufacturers of corn planters and other
agricultural implements, escaped without
loss Their factory was at the juncture of
the two alleys, and for a time after the Par
ry annex, in which lot Of valuable phaetons
ready for market were stored. caught fire. it
seemed that the Poindexter plant was
doomed. Mr.. Pondexter said last night that
his firm had sustained no loss, or, at least.
that it would be slight. A member of the
firm of Parry & Co. said that the stock of
vehicles stored in the annex were uninjured
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RECALL. the wheel works Fire.

Twenty-three years ago to-day Dan
Glazier, uncle Of John GIazier, who is now
captain of No. 10 fire company, was killed
in the Woodburn-Sarven Wheel Company
fire. He was chief Of the fire department
at the time. and was killed by falling
wall. That was probably the most disas-
trous fire that had occurred in the city at
that time. 1t swept the entire half block
south of the old part Of the present Atkins
plant
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company on the burned quarter square was
but a heap of burning material, and the.
flames had far gone down.
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One of Largest rlasss1S the Country.

The office of 4. C. Atkins & Co.. proprie-
tors of the Sheffield saw works, is at 202-
2l6 South Illinois street, running south from
South street Elias c. Atkins is president,
Henry C. Atkins vice president and super
intendent, William H. Perkins secretary,
Merritt A. Potter treasurer. The entire
plant, which is one of the most extensive
in the country. was probably of the value
of a half million dollars. Several hundred
men are on the pay rolls. large number
of skilled mechanics being employed The
reputation of the saws made here has ex-
tended to all parts of the country and
abroad the company having a particularly
large trade in the South in the numbering
and milling district. There is one large
branch department at Memphis, Tenn.
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DROVE oUT CoTrAGERs.


On Capitol avenue, south OF the paint shop.
a number OF small cottages were in the line
OF march OF the fire. A score CT more of ex-
cited men and women, awakened from their
dreams by the changing of the fire gongs.
rushed from their houses attired in their
night clothing. Some OF the cooler-headed
ones returned and dressed and then began
carrying out their household effects. The
mud along that portion of the street was
half a foot Deep and the cottagers were
compelled to pile up their furniture within
ten or twelve feet of their dwellings. already
catching fire from the flying sparks.
Firemen with lines of hose from the
chemical wagons walked along the north
side of South street and the west side of
Capitol avenue. plying water upon the sides
of the building. which every moment threat
ene,i to burst into flames. Some people were
thoughtful enough to climb on their roofs
with buckets OF water. ready to extinguish
the flying sparks as fast as they fell. A
family Of hucksters had several horses in a
rickety old stable back of the grinding and
polishing rooms. They had hard work to
lead the animals out of the burning stable
to a place of safety.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-08
JAPANESE HEMP.
A Cheap California Article Substituted
for AN Expensive Calcutta Jute.

A Cheap California Article Substituted
for AN Expensive Calcutta Jute.
The Manufacturers and Producers AS
soclation will soon branch out in a new di-
rection by organizing a home product cl ub
in Bakersfield, Tulare County, that will be
an auxiliary to the institution in this City.
AS soon as the Bakersfield club is organ
lied that body and the parent organiza-
ton Will make an investigation into the
possibilities OF cult tivating Japanese hemp.
In several parts OF the United States this
fl brous plant has been raised with success
l n the Middle States it grows six feet in
height. but experiments in Tulare County
show that it attains height OF fifteen feet
and two crops year can be gathered. In
that county an acre of the uelta ground
will produce about 1900 pounds, worth s
cents per pound. The cost of production
is not over $50 an acre.
The intention is to have the Japanese
hemp take the place Of jute for bags, twine,
etc. A man in Bakersfield claims that he
has perfected machine that cleans the
fiber ready for commercial purposes.
The local officers of the association have
sent letters of inquiry to Mr.. Rutherford
OF the Oakland Jutemills and to the super
intendent of the jutemills at San Quentin
with the view OF learning II the hemp from
the Japanese plant can be substituted for
the Calcutta jute now being used. If so q
new industry Will Immediately spring up
IN this State.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-08
How A CONFEDERATE
PRIVATEER WAS CAPTURED IN
SAN FRANCISCO BAY.

pending and nearly twenty others. We
put them all under arrest and took the
Chapman right in tow to Alcatraz. The
prisoners we turned over to Captain Win
der, who was a Virginian but remained
loyal and they were all locked up.
Captain Lees went back to the hold of
the schooner, and he picked up lot OF
little bits of paper that he had seen there;
He picked up every scrap there was, and
by putting them together he obtained the
entire letter of marque. 1t had been
issued by Jeff Davis to Rubery, II my I'M
preston is right or perhaps to Harpend-
ing. Slowed away in the schooner was
splendid equipment of arms.
Mr.. Farwell paused to recall what there
was in the outfit, and then he went on:
"The pirates had two big brass how
ltzers-12- pounders-a lot OF sea-rllles anu
other guns, swords, a Colts navy revolver
and bowie knife 10 each man aud COM
plete supply of ammunition. The equip
m ent was valued at $4,000. 1t was the
intention, we afterward learned, 10 go
down to the Mexican coast somewhere and
take on some additional big guns.
''You see, the California steamers used
to take about S2,000000 in gold at every
voyage in those. days, sailing twice
month, and the priyateers INTENDED 10
capture two of the steamers, take the gold
and general cargoes and then SINK the
vessels. They figured that they could
capture the steamship Oregon and an
other of the steamers before word could be
sent to the authorities, aud then go to
Victoria and divide the spoils.
1--WE began proceedings against the
prisoners, and Harpending, Greathouse
and Rubery were convicted and sentenced
TO ten years imprisonment. The others
were not tried. Judge Hoffman tried the
cases. Harpending tried the insanity
dodge and tore his hair out IN handfuiS,
but he was examined by DR.. Mclean and
others, and he finally gave it up.
"Soon after that President Lincoln is
sued an amnesty proclamation. Harpen-
ding and Greathouse were brought before
the court then by their lawyers on writs of
habeas corpus, and they were released.
Rubery, being an English subject, did
not come under the terms of the proelama-
ton, but he was liberated through the
intercession OF John Bright.
The Rubery case was regarded as estab-
fishing an important precedent, and it
was recently brought up in England-in
the Mrs. Maybrick case think.
"Greathouse was rearrested on the same
charge later there being some question as
to the legality of his release, and he was
placed at Fort Lafayette in New York
harbor. He escaped by swimming ashore
from the island, and he got away to
Europe.
1.-The following year was in Paris and
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-08
CATAKRH of the BRONCHIAL TUBES

CATARRH of the BRONCHIAL TUBES.
When catarrh of the head and throat is
left unch eek ed it extends down the wind
pipe into the bronchial tubes and in time
attacks the lungs. Speedy and inexpen-
sive cure by the Copeland system.
"Have you cough?'
''Are you losing flesh"
"Do you cough ct night|'
"Have you pain in side?"
"Do you take cold easily?"
SIS your appetite variable2"
"Have you stitches in side?"
.'Do you cough until you gag?"
''Are you lows spirited AT times?"
"Do you raise frothy MATERIAL"
"Do you spit up yellow matterW'
"Do you cough on going to Ded?"
"Do you cough in the morning."
'Is your cough short and hacking"
''Do you spit up little cheesy lumps?"
.'Have you disgust for fatty foods?"
'sIs there tickling behind the palate?"
'Have you pain behind breastbone"
"Do you feel you are growing weaker"
SIS there s. burning pain in the throat?"
''Do you cough worse night and mornings"
'Do you have TO sit up at night to get
breath?''
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-08

and Rubery and one or two men forward
were all that seemed to be there.
'tGreathouse came up to me with big
show of anger and wanted to know what
business / had there.
You go below 1 replied, and con-
sider yourself under arrest
"He grumbled, but he did as he was
ordered Rubery and the others were ar
rested, too.
Captain Lees then took candle and
began exploring the ship. He got in
through a bulkhead somewhere by taking
out a plank. He stayed in there min
ute and then he backed out to where we
were and he said:
Il don't think there are more than
twenty-five or thirty of the ID scoun-
drels in there That was just the ex-
preston he used.
1--WE went up on deck and took the
main hatch off, and there we found Har-
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-08

1t was in 1861 said Willard B. Far
we'll ofthe California Pioneers Society, as
he settled down in a fine old easy-chair to
tell about the capture of pirates on the
bay of San Francisco during the War OF
the Rebellion.
Eyes, l am sure that was the year. I
was Naval Officer of the port ct the time.
Captain Edward Travers was ship
broker, and he came to me one day in
February and said he had been employed
10 buy q vessel for some men who were
going to turn pirates under the sanction of
the Confederate Government.
1.-The war was going on, and the men
that Travers represented had planned to
1T up the vessel as a privateer under a
letter OF marque from Jeff Davis.
Il asked Travers to keep me informed of
everything that was done, and ne said he
would. He came the next day and told
me that he had bought the schooner J. NJ.
Chapman for Aubrey Harpending, Ridge
ley Greathouse and young Englishman
named a. Rubery. These were the pro-
lectors OF the prlYateering enterprise.
For about three weeks Captain Travers
made daily reports to me, with informa-
ton OF the guns, ammunition and sup
pies that were purchased. | called in DR..
John I. Mclean, now of Alameda, as he
was Surveyor Of the Port at that time. He
ana | co-operated, and we knew about
everything that was going on aboard of
the schooner
well, at the end OF three weeks Travers
notified me that the Chapman was going
to sail next day. The sloop-of-war Cyane,
Captain Paul Shirley, was in the harbor,
lying over toward Goat Island, in about
what is now the track of the Oakland
ferry steamers. l arranged with him a
code of signals, and he held two boats
crews OF heavily armed men ready for ac-
ton at moments notice.
Then [ chartered the steam tug Ana
sha and stationed her at the Clay-street
wharf, with fires banked. l called Captain
Lees OF the Police Department, and he,
DR.. Mclean and | went aboard of the tug
10 remain all night. The Chapman was
at the Pacific-street wharf, l believe.
"A about 3 O'Clock in the clear morning
OF March Is, | remember it well, we saw
the Chapman haul out into the stream
and drop anchor to wait for the breeze
She had not cleared for any port. We
gave the signal to Captain Shirley, show
ing two red lights from the head of the
wharf, and started after the schooner with
the tug Anasha. We got to her just about
as the two boats from the Cyane came up
from the other side
I'VE all went aboard, but Greathouse
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-08
k SUMMER PROGRAMME
The Olympic Club Athletes
Will Meet the Multi
nomah Flyers.
Games That Will Be Held Here in
April-Cross-Country Run
and Clambake.

The directors of the Olympic Club will
try their utmost to create stirring inter
est in outdoor sport this summer. If the
athletes will appreciate the good work the
officers OF the club and the Pacific Athletic
Association are doing in their behalf there
will, most assuredly, be boom in athletics
this year.
Captain Leonard Gill OF the Olympics
has arranged the following extensive pro-
gramme of sport, which should attract the
attention Of athletes who will be given an
opportunity OF proving to the sport-loving
public what they are really capable OF ac-
complishing in field and track athletics.
Commencing on April 5, said Captain
Gill, "a 100-yard handicap race, open to
all amateur IN members of the Pacific Asso-
citation, will be held at the outdoor grounds.
ION April II 220-y yard handicap Will be
held, and on a pril IL half-mile handicap
will be run. The two men winning the
greatest number Of points IN those events
will receive respectively beautiful gold and
silver medals.
1.-The idea in giving those races is to
bring out the latent talent from among
the mem bers, and to encourage the boys
to go ahead and practice assiduously for
the championship games which, pre-
Il propose picking rattling good team
OF ten athletes from the local fraternity
with the object of paying Portland, Or, a
visit in June. The president of the Multi
nomah Athletic Club is very anxious TO
place team which will represent Oregon
in an all-round outdoor athletic competi-
tion against a team from the Olympi
Club.
1.-The latter team will, of course repre-
sent California. 1t is through COMPETE
tions of this kind that an interest in clean
athletic sport will be aroused. Possibly
Los Angeles may also be included in the
programme Of games that will be arranged
later on to cover various parts of the coun-
try.
.'Just as soon as the weather will permit
of a tramp in the interior l will order a
cross-country run from San Mateo 10 the
beach, where the boys will enjoy clam
bake of the most elaborate kind. On the
evening of the 31st inst. championship
wrestling tournament will be held at the
Olympic Club, and the weights will be 125,
140 and 15S pounds.
ANY of the entrants who will scale more
than the last-named figures will be classi-
fled as heayy-weights. You may note
therefore that athletics will receive al i'm
petus this spring and summer"
pic Club presented the famous head bal
ancers, the Panther brothers, with a gold
medal, valued at $3.50. last evening at the
Orpheum Theater. The directors and pro-
fessors of the Olympic Club, who had wit
messed the wonderful balancing feats of
these famous athletes, placed their sigma
lures to a card, on which was printed in
golden letters words complimentary to
those daring and famous German athletes
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-08

SIS the breath foul ?"
''Is the voice husky?'
"Do you spit up slime ?''
"Do you ache all oyer?"
"Do you blow out scabs ?"
''Is the nose stopped up ?"
"Do you snore at night ?''
"Does your nose discharge 2"
''Does the nose bleed easily ?"
''Is there tickling in the throat ?'
"Do crusts form in the nose ?'
'Is the nose sore and tender z"
"Do you sneeZe a great deal z"
SIS this worse toward night?
"Does the nose itch and burn ?''
"Is there pain in front of head p
SIS there pain across the eyes ?''
SIS there pain in back OF head ~
ais your sense OF smell leaving 2"
ado you hawk 10 clear the throat 2"
"ls there dropping III the throat? 2"
sis the throat dry in the mornings"
care you losing your sense of taste ~
"Do Won sleep with the mouth open ?'
"Does your nose stop up toward night y
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-08

while I was walking along the street a
man came I'D to me, smiling, and held out
his hand. How are you, Mr. Farwell? p
he said. 1t was Greathouse. He was good
natured and he showed no animosity on
account Of his arrest.
"Harpending was afterward in the big
diamond mine operations at Arizona, and
he has been successful in California gold
mining
At the time of the stirring adventures
related by Mr.. Farwell the schooner Chap
man was commanded by Captain Low.
The captain was not aboard at the time OF
the capture of the ship, but he YVES after
dence.
The records show that the Chapman had
taken a cargo of quicksilver, worth 5000,
clearing for an Eastern port. Barron d
Co. were the owners of the quicksilver, but
the priYateers would have succeeded the
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-08

She was splendidly built schooner, of
beautiful lines, and was rapid sailer.
At the time of the capture OF The Chap
man in this harbor there was general
attempt, though feeble and without any
prospect of success, to ''fire the Southern
heart throughout the State. report of
threatened uprising was made by the
Sheriff of Napa County, who warned the
officers of Mare Island of a plan, nurtured
at Napa, of capturing the navy-yard.
There was also project OF taking posses
sion of steamer at Sacramento, secretly
advancing and taking possession of the
arsenal at Benicia and then hurrying on
TO add Aleatraz and Fort Point to the
Confederate strongholds.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-08

firm in that capacity if they had got
out of the harbor.
Uniforms were found in the schooner
and there was copy of the oath by which
all the men swore that if any member OF
the party should prove recreant they
would not rest until they had killed him.
The names of the men in the priyateer-
ing venture, aside from those already men
toned, are: First Officer Libbie, Thomas
Reole, Joseph w. Smith, Alfred Almond,
Henry c. Boyd, r. H. Duval, w. D..
Moore, ]. w. McFadden, William NJ.
Maron, John E. Kent, Albion I. Crow, D..
w. Brown, John Fletcher, James Smith,
George w. Davis and NJ. H. Marshall.
An official report that was made to
Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, is as
follows: