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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28
COFFINS PAID FOR.
Many Healthy People Have Already
Arranged Their Funerals.
San Francisco Call.

There are at least 200 people walking the
streets of San Francisco, in good health
aIreatiV arranged the details of their fu-
nerals. They have selected the collins in
which they will be buried. and paid cash
for the same. as well as for the burial
plat hearse. etc. Nearly every undertaken
in the city has several contracts of this
kind and all of them are made by people
who are supposed to be in rational frames
of mind. Age seems TO cut no figure, for
some of the contracts are signed by men
in the prime of life, who are noted for
their cheerfulness and good dispositions.
They have simply provided Tor tnelr 1u-
nerals 10 assure lneInseiVGS onau ~ ~, ~.
have decent interment. The undertakers
think it nothing out OF the way, put look
upon it as sensible forethought. And ac-
cording to stories told it has proved so
in many cases. Men without families nave
dropped dead on the street. and had IL not
been for their arrangements with the un-
dertaker they would have been buried in
the potter's neld. Some people have made
arrangements for the minutest details or
their funerals even to the advertisements
in the newspapers. There are a few people
who have not been content with selecting
their homes. Such cases are rare, how
ever oo,,.r.s 90
that kind said undertaken MetZler, when
speaking of the matter. and in a great
many cases they have proved to be good
things. 1t is a sensible thing for anybody
to do who has not family to look after
them when they are gone.
Il have collins in those cases there, said
least six years ago and paid for at the
time. 1t may be six years sixteen years
before they are wanted, but when the own
ers need them they vii be ready. and
will fulfill every part of the contract. 1t Is
not so long ago that / fulfilled a contract
of this kind after / had had the contract
several years. When the man made it he
looked ready to die. and no doubt thought
he would live only a few months. In this
case the casket fine one. and he paid
cash for it. He also made arrangements
for the grave, hearSe carriages, shroud
and every little detail. He left letters say
ing that | would be his undertaken and of
course | was notified at once and did all
/ agreed to-
But there are cases where l have to find
out about the persons death myself. l al
ways keep watch of those events, of
course. and soon I know of a case
l have been paid for / go at once and at
tend to it. In more than one case l came
surprise to poor relatives. who We're
almost crazy wondering how they were GO
ing to bury their dead. All kinds of people
make these contracts-rch and poor, sick
and we'll Some. think they going to
die soon. and some are preparing for a
thing long way Off Sometms both are
right, and sometimes just the reverse hap
pens. You cannot tell anything about it.
If a man is going to die on a certain day
he is going to die. and if he isn't why he
won't That, | think, is the reason that
many people want to be prepared for death
when ii does come.
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SHOTS EXCHANGED.
Militia,nen at LeadviIIe Attacked by
Striking Miners.

LEADVILLE, Col, Sept. 27--At 9:35
o'clock tonight General Brooks telephoned
that an attack was in progress on the Car
Donate Hill reserve of the Leadviile Water
Company and that shots were being ex-
changed between the militia and rioters.
AT $40 lively fusillade began at the Bonn
mine and was continued for ten minutes.
The sounds resembled number OF shot
guns. seemingly from one place, answered
by rifieshots from different pointS near
by. few minutes later Lieutenant Yer
deckberg telephoned from the Bonn air
mine that four shots had been fired at a
picket, who returned the fire and called
for the corporal of the guard. When the
corporal ran out two shots were fired at
him, and they were returned. after which a
squad started in pursuit of the assailants.
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Cable Notes.

The Sultan of Turkey has sent an auto
graph letter to Emperor William.
Ii Hung Chang arrived at Yokohama yes
terday and Immediately re-embarked for
Tien-Tsin
A ferry boat. while crossing the river
Tyne near Shields on Saturday night sank,
and seven passengers We're drowned.
AS result of the gales on the French
coast the steamer Magdalena foundered
near Bayonne and the crew was drowned.
Japanese newspapers deny the assertion
published in London that Russia and Japan
have agreed upon a joint protectorate in
COrea.
The London Times announces that Cen
eral Meredith Reads daughter Countess
De Fores, has given birth to a daughter
at the Chateau Marclaz at Thanon
1t is learned that during the massacre at
Eaguin six hundred Armenian houses were
pillaged and burned. A gun fired as a
signal for the outrages to commence.
The Car and Czarina, Queen Victoria
the Prince and Princess of Wales and
other members of the royal family at
tended services at Crathie Church yester-
day and drove out in the afternoon
The dowager Czarina, with her children
who has been visiting her parents. the King
and Queen of Denmark, at Copenhagen, has
started for Libau on board the imperial
yacht Polar Star.
request contained in an Armenian address
praying for authority to convoke THE Ma.
ticnal Assembly TO elect a new patriarch ir
place of Matteo IZemirlian. resigned
Thousands of persons attended the meet
ing at TipDerary Sunday in favor of am
nesty TO the Irish political prisoners. For
the first time since the split in the Irish
patty John Dillon and John Redmond APP
peared on the some platform John Daily
the re cently-released oynamiter, als) spoke
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28
GIVE UP THE EAST.
Closing of the Bryan Henduuarte ra
Means just That

washington special.
The final closing of branch headauarters
here means formal abandonment of the
entire East and logically a quoting of
the Bryanite claims regarding this section
of the country. Mr.. Richardson who was
first placed in charge was called TO Chi
cago. and his successor. Mr.. Howell. soon
left Washington to take part i'm the Geor-
gla campaign turning the keys over
to FRANK Morgan. delegate to the Chi
cago convention, who had helped turn John
X. McLeans support over to Bryan. Mr..
Morgan is an aggressive young man, but
his principal duty was listening to the
long Winded reports of the visiting politi-
clans from Maryland and North Carolina 1t
is Just as profita BILE to have these startling
predictions sent in writing to Chicago. and
so the office has been closed, and Mr. Nor
gan has gone over to the congressional
headquarters to help Senator Faulkner.
The history of the Washington headquar-
tiers is interesting. Chairman Jones dog
matically urged that the campaign should
be run from this point: here was the store
house of facts with which to refute the
claims of his opponents. the local press
here was believed to be much more friendly
than in Chicago. and Jones could live IN
his own house, and German could come
down daily from Laurel. Md. These and
other arguments fully satisfied the national
committee. but candidate Bryan insisted
that the headquarters should go to Chicn-
CO. though he consented to humor the old
fogies of his party by permitting the es-
Enlistment of a branch headquarters here.
The branch started in aggressively, but
has come to an untimely end.
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HEROISM OF A FIREMAN.
sprang from Flying Locomotive to
Save q Woman.

NEW YORK. Sept. 27.-Charles Wilson a
fireman on the Northern Railroad of New
Jersey braveiy rescued a woman yesterday
at the risk of his own life. a train on the
Northern road was coming out of the Ber-
gen tunnel, and train on the New Jersey
& New York road was approaching the
tunnel bound for the depot. when a woman
was noticed standing on the track. Both
trains were going fast rate. The wom-
an seemed parayzed from fright. and did
not move from the track. Fireman Wilson
jumped out of the cab of the Northern
train and fell in a heap on the track of the
New Jersey & Northern. He was some
what hurt, but not seriously. and quickly
resuming his feet dragged the woman from
out of the way in the nick of time. She had
been picking coal on the track. and did not
notice the approach of either train until
both were within few yards of her.
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Bryan and New York.


From various points along Mr. Bryan's
line of march reports come that he is fall
of violent Indignation over the New York
situation and that he thinks he is being
sold out in every quarter 1t was reported
this afternoon at Democratic headqu> rters
here that under Bryans personal squirting
Chairman Jones would issue a pronuncia-
mento reading. Mr.. Thatcher off the head OF
the ticket in New York and demanding II
new nomination. Mr.. Bryan has denounced
the Thacher letter repudiating the silver
plank in the Buffalo platform as mon
strouS and ''unpardonable. Chairman
Jones has been unfortunate thus far in be-
ing snubbed and turned down whenever he
has undertaken to mix into local affairs in
any State and it is known that he has no
appetite for New York experience of the
same sort. However. he may muster suifi-
cient courage to go ahead in the carryip &
out of the expressed desire of the presiden-
tial candidate. Wholly incapable of appre-
ciating the overwhelming weight of New
York sentiment against free silver, Mr..
Bryan has insisted up to this very hour
that he could carry New York. and feeling
thus. there is some excuse for his belief
that he has been betrayed, Mr.. Bryan Will
be in New York tomorrow and Demo-
cratic complications in that State will come
a climax then. doubt.
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blows, though they may not like them any
more than the delicate women would in
worse things .han blows. And all the time
how pathetically they hope for the man 5
reform; how careful they are to tell of
him any good thing they may,
A knowledge of a few such cases does
not leave in ones soul much pity for the
poor drunkard. When every excuse is
made in his behalf-when we are persuad-
ed, if we are capable Of such persuasion.
that the mans inhibitory faculties are
paralyzed atrophied by the smell of
liquor. so that the power to say mo" is
as completely neutralized then as if it did
not exist at alive still can only wonder
that the SOBER sight of this woman'S living
death does not cali into existence in the
mans heart a conscience at last which
liquor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28
4 Democratic Position.

An old-time, all-the-time Democrat from
Adams county asks the Record how it can
explain it's apparent Inconsistency. a
friend of a revenue tariff. in advising vo-
tiers to support Mckinley in preference to
Bryan.
The answer is easy:
The Record prefers Mckinley before
Bryan because Mckinley stands a plat
form opposing the free coinage of silver q
the ratio of Is to l. 1t is a choice between
a protectionist President pledged to the
maintenance of the public credit and a pop
ulstic President pledged to partial repudi-
alton of public and private debt, to the
subServience of the executive to mob die
ence of the judiciary, and to the abridg-
ment of the right of contract.
But the Record supports neither McKin-
ley nor Bryan. 1t should be known in
Adams county, and in every other county
that there is a straight Democratic ticket
in the field. and that the candidates stand
on a straight revenue reform, sound
money, old-fashioned Democratic platform
Hurrah for Palmer and Buckner, Down
with Reputation and repudiationists,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28
THE NATIONAL GAME.
President Young Says Interest i'm
Baseball Is SprenslinE.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 26.--President Nick
Young. OF the National Baseball League.
in answer 10 questions, said to-day that
revcr before in the history of the g.ime has
the general interest in baseball pccn as
great during the season just closing.
The interest, he says. is rapidly spreading
all over the country, and. while steadily
growing in the big cities has Increased SO
IN the smaller cities and towns that tho
attendance at minor league games far ex-
ceeds previous years. But for the fact OF
TINS being a presidential year the crowds
would have been even larger. The National
League. Mr. Young said is in good shape
for bright and successful start in tho
spring and this is also true Of the minor
leagues, and he knew of nothing that could
prevent the year 1897 from being a very
prosperous one for baseball. The
contract season closes Oct. /: then
there are three open dates aft
or the schedule season which will
The Baltimore and Cleveland clubs will
play three games for the Temple cup at
urday. An of the clubs had done well
financially during the season. Mr. Young
said. The greatest falling off in patronage
was probably in Philadelphia, and yet the
attendance there was very large. The
changes i'm the personnel of the clubs. MIR.
Young thought, would be comparatively
make only one change. as far as he knew.
Tannehill, of Richmond, Va, was to-day
purchased by Pittsburg for next year,
Philadelphia has purchased George Carney
OF the Syracuse team and also Samuel Gila
len, OF Detroit. The next contract season
VIII begin April ] and end Oct. H. the cham
plonship games beginning about May and
ending Oct /.
Reds Did Not Play.
CINCINNATI. Sept 27.-The Reds had
two games billed to-day with Chicago. Both
were postponed on account of rain.
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Northern Settlers in Georgia.

WaSHIfISlOIl f7USI.
Down in Irwin county, in southwest
Georgia, adjoining the county in which
live, is a big colony of Northern people.
said Mr.. NJ. l. WEIGH to Post man at the
National. IA big syndicate bought n large
tract of land and by judcous manag
ment contrived to get up "A boom that
brought in hundreds of families from Illi-
nois. Michigan. Ohio and other Northwest
ern States. The great bulk of these immi-
grants are well pleased with their adopted
homes and many more of their neighbors
and relatives are coming to join them in
the South.
They have established town named
Fitzgerald. that is scarcely more than a
year old, and already boasts of a popuia-
and other up-to-date features. The country
round about is very productive, and is
especially well suited to fruit growing. The
native citizens heartily welcome this in
flux from the North for they realize that
immigration has long been the chief need
of the Southern States.
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movements of Steamers.

DOVER. Sept. 27.-Passed: Kensington,
from New York. for Antwerp: Schiedam,
from Amsterdam. for New York.
NEW YORK. Sept. 27.-Arrived: PENN
sular from Lisbon. Sailed Manitoba, for
London.
BROwHEAD. Sept 27-Passed: laurie,
from Live pool for New York.
SCILLY, Sept. 27.-Passed: Aller, from
New York, Cor Bremen.
HAvRE Sept. 27-Arrived: La Tour
aine. from New York.
QUEENSTOWN. Sept 27-Sailed Cam
pania for New York.
LIVERPOOL. Sept. 27.-Arrived: Umbria.
from New York
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28

MILTON, Pa, Sept. PA disastrous
freight wreck occurred Saturday night on
the Philadelphia & Reading railroad. nine
miles southeast of here. An empty engine
and tender collded with a heavily laden
coal train, throwing eleven coal cars off the
track and burying engineer Mitchell of the
former beneath the ruins. Fireman Kelly
who was on the same engine jumped off
but was so badly injured that he died too
A man by the name of Burlew, who was
riding the train. terribly bruised
The wreck. it is said, was due to disobedi-
ence of orders
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TWO FREIGHT WRECKS,
And the Body of Bra KEENAN, Supposed
to BE Under the Debris.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.-An extra
freight train bound for Washington was
wrecked on the main line of the Baltimore
& Ohio this evening near Riverdale Park,
eight miles from this city. Nine box ears
were smashed and piled up in a heap and
the other twelve We're badly damaged.
Brakeman W. L. Morgue,. of Baltimore,
twenty-three years of age. and unmarried.
is missing, and his body is believed to be
under the debris.
Another freight wreck occurred on the
Pennsylvania road between Baltimore and
Washington to-day. On a grade near Sow
ereign five freight cars became detached
from train and rushed down the grade,
where they were derailed and piled up in a
heap. No casualties were reported, but
traffic was DELAYED for some time
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28
In the West.
Kansas City Journal.

AS matter of fact the causes which are
operating in the Eastern and middle States
against Bryan and free silver are also
working in the West and producing the
same kind of results There are thousands
of Republicans in the silver States who can
see no reason for abandoning their own
party, which they know can be trusted
for the wild and irresponsible aggregat ton
following Bryan. which they know cannot
be trusted. However much they may hon
estly believe in the free coinage of silver
they do not believe in free trade or in the
overturning of the Supreme Court or in
Tilmanism or in anarchy, disgrace and
ruin.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28
Party Politics Barred.

CLEVELAND. o., Sept. 26.-At to-day's
and Joiners it was decided by an over
whelming majority that party politics must
not be discussed in the local unions. 1t
was provided that any union man who goes
10 work while strike or lockout is pend
ing shall be subject TO a fine of $25. The
vote necessary to order strike was raised
from a majority of the union to two-thirds.
Hereafter each union will be entitled to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28
SHOT TO DEATH.
CoIOred Man RiddIed with Bullets on
the Streets Of Georgia Town.

SPARTA, Ga, Sept. q. = Harris Boone,
colored, was shot to death by a party of
citizens at this place early Sunday morn
ing. Harris had raised disturbance, and
when Town Marshal Bowen ordered him to
desist, the negro shot the officer. Citizens
enraged at the assassination of David Sill
YER, q few hours before. by a negro, riddled
Boone's body with bullets. Parties are
securing the country for the assassin of
Silver. If caught he will be lynched.
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Suffers work in bartholomew.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
COLUMBUS, md, Sept. 27-Hon. Marcus
r. Sulzer, Republican candidate for Con-
gress, closed a weeks campaign in this
county at Hope last night. The crowd was
so large that no hall in the place could have
accommodated half the people. He spoke in
the public square to at least 1900 people,
and held the undivided attention of the au-
dfence throughout. AT the close of his ad-
dress he was loudly cheered. He has had
the largest and most enthusiastic meetings
ever given a Republican candidate in this
county The people, irrespective Of political
affiliations, are prais.ng Mr.. Suffers speeo h
es and good social qualities, and from the
impression he made he will undoubtedly
carry this county by handsome majority.
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The cruel newspapers are publishing the
horrid story that sweet girl graduate
in a neighboring town read an essay on
physiology in which she said: THE hui
man body is divided into three parasitic
head, the chist and the stummick. The
head contains the eyes and brains. if any.
The chist contains the lungs and a piece
of the liver. The stumnnick is devoted to
the bowels, of which there is fve--a, e. j.
o. H. and sometimes W and "
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closest attention and repeatedly and vigor-
ously cheered. He completely and thor
oughly answered Poellist Robinson, who
spoke there short time before. This is
Robinson's home township, though he is
cations are he will not carry the usual
Democratic vote here and will come no.
where near carrying the township. The
crowd that listened to Mr.. Duncan was
twice as large the one that came out
to see Robinson when he was at Gwynne-
vile few days ago. The Arlington Band
and the Morristown Quartet furnished mu-
cir
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Philadelphia Times (Dem)

Philadelphia Times Dem.)
An enthusiastic old-time Kentucky colonel
who attended the Bryan reception at Lex
ington, and who had become greatly en-
thu sed by the mixture of Bryan and Bour-
bon inspire io' grasped Mr.. Bryan by the
hand with all the fervor of the most gen
Crods kcntAcky hospitality and said:
30 ors Bryan, sab, by gad sab. this was
a. grand demonstration. sab; altogether the
grandest ever had in Lexington. sab since
Jumbo was exhibited" This tells the storv
of Mr.. Bryan's immense meetings.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28
The Two Campaigners.

Philadelphia Times (Dem.)
OF the two plans of campaign Mckinley's
is certainly the more dignifed and each
is significant of the attitude of the can
didate and of the public attitude towards
him Mckinley will be elected by no effort
of his own. but rather by a spontaneous
popular movement, while Bryan goes
around stirring up noise and touting for
votes. only 10 fail in the end.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28
Mr.. Ketcham speaks to 5000.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WARSAW, Ind, Sept. 2I.-Attorney-g gen
eral Ketcham delivered speech here yes
terday afternoon to an audience of about
three thousand people. The meeting was
composed largely of farmers and was the
most enthusiastic one held here this cam
paign The great majority of the farmers
of Kosciusko county are all right for honest
money, protection and reciprocity. The
speaker was escorted from the Hotel Hayes
to the public square by the Mckinley and
Hobart Wheelmen, the Mckinley and Ho-
bart Campaign Club, the Young Men $ Re
publican Club and the Fourth Regiment
Band The Warsaw Glee Club furnished the
music.
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business here in Kansas and for a fact
all over the West. and prices for all farm
products are ruinous" The honest farmer
in the State that has suffered most of any
i The Union from Populsm closed by say
ing: II fear unless he East and Middle
States have their senses and elect McKin-
ley we will see still worse He Is doubt
less reassured since he got the news of
the Vermont and Maine elections.
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Hon. John c. Chaney,s Meetings.

Special the indianapolis Journal.
VINCENNES, Ind, Sept. 27.-Hon. John
c. CLANCY. of Sullivan, spent the past
week speaking in Knox county. He has
spoken at Brucevile, Monroe City, Bick
nell, Sandborn. Ennison and Freelandsville.
and has been greeted by big crowds The
crowds increased each night as the news of
and forcible speaker and has done excel
lent work for the Republican cause in Knox
comfy
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Gardiner's Meeting at MITCHELL.
to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
MITCHELL, Ind, Sept. 2-Fully 700
people listened last night to an eloquent
and patriotic appeal for the support of pro-
lection and sound money by Hon. w. X
Gardiner of Washington. Judge Gardiner
is we'll known all over the State, his name
having been mentioned at different times
in connection with the candidacy for Gov
ernor and his excellent presentation of Re
publican principles elected frequent cheers.
One feature that added much to the en-
thusiasm of the meeting was the arrival of
an old-time decorated campaign wagon
which brought a glee club of eighty people
from Orleans, Ind.