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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27
ATHLETIC CONTESTS.
Barney Wefers Runs 12O Yards in
IL 40 Seconds.

NEW YORK. Sept. 26.-The New York
Athletic Club held it's fall games at Travers
Island this afternoon and fully eight thou
sand persons saw the contests The prin-
cipal attraction was the meeting, of BAR
ney Wefers, the wor DIS champion sprintar
with Smith Z. Afford, the Kentucky sprint
er, who represented the Lexington Athletic
Club. WeferS won, breaking an American
record and equaling a worlds record In
the first heat of the Observation-Disclosures.
ty-yards handicap Wefer was scratch
man, and Reilly, of Newark, who received
six yards, won by a narrow margin from
Wefers, in L seconds fat. Afford, with a
handicap of two yards was in the second
heat, but came in third and was of course
barred from the final heat and therefore
did not run with Wefers Wefers won the
event in IL 40 seconds beating the Ameri-
can record, made by Lon Myers who did
1t in Y seconds in 1892 and equaled the Eng
lish record held by Bradley, Phillips Ritch.
lie and DoWner who covered the distance
in the same time. Wefers broke a worlds
record in the Northumberland run as
he ran the distance in superb style in 80 g.,
seconds, which beats the English and the
American amateur records.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27
CUP OF WRATH IS FULL
MISS WILLARD'S APPEAL TO AMER
ICAN CHRISTIAN WOMEN.
Wants All to Urge This Govern N
to Cooperate with England
Against the Cruel Turk.

CHICAGO. Sept. pa cablegram from
London says that from the international
offices of the Worlds Womans Christian
Temperance Union, in that city, Miss
Frances E. Willard has sent out the follow
ing call to ten thousaIl local unions in
the United States:
MY Comrades-The cup of wrath is full
In these two terrible years, when the mas
sacre of the innocent has gone under
the eyes of our paralyZed rulers in Chris
tan lands, we have thought that men
alone could help. But it is women who arc
dying two deaths in the bloody East, and
we, their sisters, cannot longer wait. You
have nobly responded to my earlier appeal,
and. in the name of Christ and humanity.
of the home against the harem, / earnestly
meetings in every locality urging our gov
putting stop to the massacres and giving
protection henceforth to Armenian homes.
Let these meetings be addressed by the
pastors and business men and the most
capable women. Let money be raised by
systematic visitation well by collec-
ton and forwarded to our national treas
urer Mrs Helen NJ. Parker, the Wornan's
Temple, Chicago.
And may God deal with us at last as we
deal with our Armenian brothers and sis
tiers and their little ones in this hour Of
their overwhelming calamity. Yours, for
God, and home and every land,
FRANCES E. WILLARD"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27
Mysterious Disappearance.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 26.-Relatives
and friends of r. NJ Kennedy. who for
more than a year past had a real estate
Office on Market street. opposite the Palace
Hotel are much alarmed over his disap-
pearance. MIR. Kennedy left the mining
town OF Angeles in this State several
weeks ago, and since then he has aot been
seen or heard from. His friends believe
that he has committed suicide ana are maxi
ing every possible effort to obtain some re-
liable information concerning him His
father DR.. j. NJ. Kennedy, n prominent pro-
fessional man and mine owner OF Colorado
and Arizona. having his home in Denver,
has written to friends here in the hope that
ne may be able TO learn that his son is still
living. The missing man Is about thirty
two years of age, of medium height and
weighed about las pounds. Prior to coming
to this city. kennedy~was engaged in the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27
OMAHA SYSTEM CHANGES.
General Shake-Up of Officers ON One
of the Big Railways.

CHICAGO, Sept. 26.-Horace G. Burt, for
merly general manager of the Omaha road
has been appointed third vice president OF
the Chicago 81 Northwestern road with
offices at Chicago. He succeeds W. H.
Newman. who has accepted the second vice
presidency of the Great Northern railroad.
The appointment goes into effect Oct. /.
The following appointments on the Omaha
system have been announced by President
Hughitt, all taking effect Oct. 1: Horace
G. Burt, assistant to the president. with of
fees at Chicago; w. A. Scott, formerly
general superintendent, appointed general
manager and the office of general superin-
tendenr discontinued; James T. CT rl
formerly freight agent, to be general traf-
ic manager; w. II. Setnnet formerly as
sistant to President Hughitt to be auditor
of expenditures.
Announcement is made of the appoint
ment OF James Donahue, formerly freight
and passenger agent of the Gulf road to be-
general passenger agent of the ST. Louis
q San francisco at Kansas City.
The chairman of the Western Passenger
Association has granted authority TO the
roads in his organization to extend their
date of tickets for home-seekers' excur-
sions In points in North Dakota. South
Dakota and Minnesota. Tomorrow the
500 will withdraw the one way rates.
which went into effect from st. Paul to
the East and all rates in the territory OF
the Western Passenger Association will
then be restored to the normal tariffs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27
OVER 100000 ASKED.
Damage Suits in Behalf of Victims of
Bridge Accident.

VANCOUVER. b. c.. Sept 26.-The fear
full disaster at Point Ellice bridge on May
last, when an electric car loaded TO the
fullest capacity dashed through the bridge
was recalled TO mind yesterday, when Min
lister ID. G. Mcdonnell on behalf of the
relatives of those who were killed served
writs, in all some twenty-five being issued,
s400, 600 and $500 600. The corpora ton of Vic
toria and the Consolidated Railroad Com
pany are named defendants, being
charged with joint negligence. In most of
the cases the administrator of the de-
CeaSed's estate brings the action ION behalf
of self and relatives of said" etc The
cases will come up in November 1t is
proba bic that ii motion will be made to con-
soidate the cases in groups; that is, cases
where personal injury is alleged, to stand
together, and the same where the claims
each class
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27
A GRATEFUL SPANIARD.
Left $1.5OO,OGO to American Girl
Who Nursed Him In Cuba.

NEW YORK, Sept. 26.-Miss Elizabeth
Almy, who is twenty years old. and lives
with her sister at 256 West Forty-third
street has been advised by a Havana law
yer that she is sole heiress to the estate OF
Jose Martinez a Spanish planter in Cuba.
which is valued at 81, 100000 She and her
lawyer will go to Cuba in about two weeks
to take possession OF the property
Miss Amy returned four months ago from
Cuba. where she had been visiting some
cousins who lived on plantation adjoining
that of Martinez in Mantanzas. While there
Martinez fell III, and Miss Almy nursed
him. Senior MartineZs two sons were Killed
by the Soaniards, and the old planter fled
to Havana, where he soon died of "A broken
heart He left his fortune to his former
nurse in grateful recognition of her kind
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27
Defining His Position.

Harlem Life. -
Waiter-Soup, sire
Thespian-No: confound your impudencei
L m star.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27

real estate business in Salt Lake He has
a wife and two children living In the East.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27

TOWANDA. Pa. Sept. 26-J l.. Compton,
of Waverly. y. Y, was found to-day in a
dying condition on the Lehigh Valley
track. He had been shot IN the
back of the head and robbed A tramp,
who says his name is Phillips and his home
is in custody on suspicion. He
has a pistol wound in his leg, but cannot
explain how it was received.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27
THE TURNPIKE REBELLION.
More Toll Gates Wrecked ny "a Mob
OF Kentucky Farmers.

HARRODSBURG, KY. Sept. 26-In this
(Mercer) county last night mob wrecked
the toll gates on the Cheese Lick, Forsythe
Mill Eldorado and Mayo turnpikes At
the Cheese Lick gate Andy Yokum the
keeper was aroused from sleep ard forced
TO get his ak and chop the pole down. The
N oh was heavily armed with shOtguns and
more toll they would return and dynamite
his
Arizona republican., 1896-04-07

FOR a charity festival in Brussels re- gently. the sculptors got up a novel ex- hibition of statues executed in snow in one of the parks.
 CURIoUsLY enough a huge statue of Ii Hung Chang, ordered and paid for in his most prosperous days, has just been finished in Germany.
 IT is but eight years since Leopold Won Ranke, the German historian, died, but the hundredth anniversary of his birth is already at hand. It is pro- posed to celebrate it by erecting mon ument to him at Wiehe, in Prussian- Saxony, his birthplace.
 A BUST of John Couch Adams, who shares with Leverrier the honor of dis covering the planet Neptune, has been set up opposite the bust of Sir John Herschell, in the great hall of St. Johns college, Cambridge, the college of which both astronomers were fel- lows.
Arizona republican., 1896-04-07
SALABLE TURKEYS.
The Old-FashIoned Gobbler Gives Place to
 Medium-Sized Bird.

The Old-FashIoned Gobbler Gives Place to
 Medium-sized Bird.
 All commission merchants agree that it is the medium-sized turkeys that sell the most readily and are the most profitable. The birds should dress eight, ten or twelve pounds, according to the proportion of toms and hens, they say, and should look plump and clean. These birds are the first se- lected, and the others go off more slowly. At over fourteen pounds re- duction in the price is demanded, while birds at eighteen or twenty pounds are almost unstable at greatly reduced rates.
 Of course there Is some demand for large turkeys for hotels and boarding houses, but the private family will have none of them. for two excellent reasons: First. the oven ln the average city, house is too small to accommodate such lordly bird and, secondly, the size of the family not being in propor- tion, its members would rebel at the turkeys too frequent appearance at meals. It would be well for the tur- key raiser to keep both these points in view and regulate the size of his birds accordingly. He will save in feed and get better returns for his flock. The day of the enormous gobbler is past N. Y World
Arizona republican., 1896-04-07
HOW TROUBLES ARE DIVIDED.
Neither Sex Has a Monopoly and They
 Vary Chiefly in Kind.


 Troubles are pretty evenly divided, after all, says the Philadelphia Times. A girl may go nearly distracted when she feels that the band of her dress skirt has come unfastened, but think of the misery of the man when the but tonhole in the neckband of his shirt rips open and lets his collar and neclztie slide u71 t0 "a~ ~~' has to fold her hanus nan to ask her to go to the th1aler with him, but when she does go she has the comfort of making the man spend a lot of money That consoles her to certain extent. A girl has to entertain stupid callers whether she wants to or not, because society demands it. A man has to dance with girls who can't even walk gracefully, because if he did not his hostess would consider him rude A girl carries her life in her hands when she tries to get within a rod of a bargain counter, but she can walk along the street in peace. Half dozen bootblacks don't yell: ''Shine, sir; shine?" o1 ';os heaps of trouble W.>-- ..eI Ip.eA4on and her front hair, but she doesn't have to have a razor go travelling over her face every day. A girl is very likely to spend weeks in planning the construction of new hat, but when she does get it people don't sit on it, as they always do on men's headgear. Perhaps that's be- cause girl doesn't leave her hat lying around on sofas and chairs.
Arizona republican., 1896-04-07
ENGLISH SPORTING LITERATURE
About One-Sixth of the English Periodi-
 calls Are Deroted to Sport.

About One-Sixth of the English Periodi-
 calls Are Devoted to Sport.
 It may give some idea of the place of sport in English life to the sedentary American to say that is difficult to find an Englishman between IS and 65, in fair health, and not supported by the rates, who is not performer at some kind of sport Or interested in some phase of it. Of the CTS reviews and magazines of 8 nonreligious character printed in England, says the Forum, one ill si-i is largely devoted to some form of out-of-ttoor sport or occupation.
 Between 1880 and 1885, according to a private index kept in the British mu- scum, there were 26S books published on the one subject of sport or athletics; between 1885 and 1890. 412, and, al though the figures for the last five years are not at hand, the number of books on IL ''rolnises to De even Islrs !, .4, >--.-oSG 1urUy books on golf alone appearing during the last five years. Nor does this list include books on topics germain to the subject, such as books dealing with voyages, geography, history, biography and trade, of which there were 73S pub lished in London in 1893, and probably more than thousand during the last year.
 In a word, John Bull loves the fresh air. He is sportsman, an athlete, a soldier, a sailor, traveller, colonist, rather than student, and all the fig ures bear me out in making the state ment. During those horrible days in the Crimea, these sport-loving young barbarians" were ''all at play when they were not fighting; racing their ponies, getting up cricket matches, and off shooting such game as there was One family-the Pelhams- have hunted the Brocklesby pack of hounds for more than 175 years.
Arizona republican., 1896-04-07

 Addition.

But, notwithstanding they are now in the city itself, there are few lots for sale yet at prices corresponding with the 'Sound
 Money Doctrine" of President Cleveland and
 his cuckoos, which means that kind of dollar which will buy two dollars worth of
 property. These lots are near the new elec-
 tric car line which is now in operation. The
 lots are in the city and their occupants do
 not need to ride into town, but the presence of electric street cars is popular and adds market value to the property. Inside of five years this will be business property. Buy lot now for a residence and when business crowds you out the rents will SUD-
 port you in house outside in some addition where you can keep horse and drive into
 town and collect your rents. Terms, cash 5 in one year, in two years at 10 per cent interest.
Arizona republican., 1896-04-07

ir- oGULr.Ono , ART.
Connecticut western news., 1896-04-09
Prof. W W. Dayton.

Iwfliamantic Daily Chronicle December 2o,l
 The entlrtsiument presented at Loomer's last evening. by Professor W. W. Dayton and his company was varied enough to suit all tastes. The princ:- pal features were, of course, the Pro- fessor's so-called "e1pose of Spiritual ism" and hypnotic test The csbnet act was a great one, the Professor allow. ing members of the audience to not only tie him securely but to enter the closet with him and hold his hands. while not only portion of his own clothing was removed but thst of the investigate" by the mysterious sin iuenees" lowering about At one time Mir Dayton borrowed the coat of one oi the committee and, entering the cabinet alone, had the sleves and lapels of the coat sewed together. No sooner had the doors been closed than the coat came flying over the top of the cabinet into the arms of the owner. And all this with the medium" bound hand and foot and the lights not turned down once. The hypnotic exhibition. while very amusing. showed the Professor powers in this direction to be very re, markable.
Connecticut western news., 1896-04-09
POINT FRS.

Read 0. H. Pesse's new bicycle adv.
 Read Miss Kithe A. Whites change of adv.
 Horse, carriage and harness for sale. See adv.
 Work horse and canopy top surrey for sale ar exchange. See adv.
 Read notice of sale of land belonging to the estate of Henry E, Wetherell, dece'd.
 A. l.. Clsrk's change of adv. shows that he can read the signs of the times and knows what people want at this sea- son of the year.
 Now is the time and Fuller < Peet's store is the place to purchase housefur- nishing goods, a new equipment for your farm, or to replenish your ward robe. See adv.
 Spring and autumn, summer and win- ter, you can find seasonable and stylish clothing iu all sizes, colors and prices st Hotchkiss < Eggleston's Today that enterprising firm call your especial at tention to their new line of spring gar ments.
Connecticut western news., 1896-04-09
The Coroner's Verdict.

Coroner .Higaius rendered his verdict last week concerning the snow plow col lisiou at K~nt Furnace March l2 Tue coroner finds that the south bound freight left Cornwall Bridge one hour and fifteen minutes beniud time. The freight conductor. Mills, understood that au extra train was following bim. but had no official notice, nor did the snow blow conductor. J. H. Murphy. have official notice that the freight was ahead of him. Ut may be said, how ever, that the freight, being & regular train, 1t was the duty of the snow blow people to be on the lookout for it.l The coroner finds that the il i.gmsn, Frank F. Hall. should have gone back Is tele- graph poles and that he only vent back seven poles also that the deaths of Con- ductor John Henry Murphy and Road master Jeremiah Nolan were caused by the criminal omission. negligence and csrelessness of Hall in not going back far enough, but that said Halls omis- sion, etc, were unprerIedissted and without malice.
Connecticut western news., 1896-04-09
The Agassix Chapter.

The meeting of the Aeassiz Chapter entertained by pr and Mrs H. L Ross Tuesday evening was of unusual iater- est The miscellany brought out iufor. nation relating to the gypsy moth, Americas national air, propagation of seedless oranges, etc. The program con- sisted of voluntary contributions, viz: Birds that sing on the nest, " The subsidence of lakes in Minnesota. " and especially a very valuable written paper by Mrs Adams, giving & general sum- mary of the recent scientific test with the calorimeter at Wesleyan university, at Middletown, in the interest of gov ernment experiments.
 The following persons were elected the officers of the association for the en. suing six months: President, James l.. Bragg; vice president. Mrs R, D Peirce; secretary, Miss Grace Rorsback; treas. urer, Miss Miunis Peirce; executive committee. Mrs Frank Hitchcock. Miss Louise Bragg and Lester Fl Adams.
Connecticut western news., 1896-04-09
Band meeting next Monday night.

Band meeting next Monday night.
 Easter and ulster were in harmony this season.
 Western Star Lodge, No. S7. F. < A. M,, at Norfolk. Conn.,. will celebrate its centennial next September.
 -E. L. Ives has returned to Man ming, la, but Mrs Ives will remain here week or so longer, visiting rela- tives.
 Miss Lucy Brewer. who has been attending the Sheffield high school. has entered the school of Dist, No. ,, in this village
 -Messrs Ostrander and McCsrty began work on the roads ou Monday with the town team. Bennett's hill was taken in hand first
 -M Mrs Hiram F Idly has returned after an absence of several weeks. Miss Eddy Is expected to arrive tonight, Mrs s. A. Eddy will return next week.
 The columns of THE NEws are open to any who wish to reply to the article contributed by Inhahitant and pub lished inTHE Nkws of April ? Frederick and Otis T. Julian are both now with the Last Stroke" Co, which is doing such successful busi- ness at the Star theatre New York.
 At the meeting of the Canaan Saw ings Bank last week dividend of per cent on the earnings of the last six months was declared to all depositors.
 The annual meeting and roll call of the Pilgrim Church will be held at o'clock this evening. At 6 o'clock the members have a supper in the church parlors,
 To day is the S1st anniversary oi General Lees surrender to General Grant at Appomattox. Next Tuesday is the Slst anniversary of the ssssssi' nation of Abraham Lincoln. We are told that there are only POO feet of fire hose in this village. Now will somebody please tell us how many feet of fire insurance policies there ars in the village. also the relative cost oi fire hose and fire insurance policies per foot.
 The Winsted local telephone ex' change has l74 subscribers In aidi tion it connects with the Norfolk ex, change which has SS subscribers; also | the Canaan exchange which has 4a sub scribers, "and still there's more to fol. low on each local exchange Let the good work go on,
Connecticut western news., 1896-04-09
STATE NEWS

Two fiocks of wild geese. one finck mum bering 50, were seen flying over Torrineton on Monday.
 Michael McCue, s5. of Collinsville. after having been on a spree for some time. cut his throat with a rszor on Monday and died soon sftsr. He leaves . wife and three small children. been appointed sheriff of New London county In the place of Sheriff Hawkins, deceased. He was the late sheriffs right hand man. He has been county com- missioner of New London and mem Der of the Republican state central com- mittee.
 John Bass. aged 45, died in the police station at New Britain. last Friday from the effects of lose of rough h-on-rats. Bass was out of work and had been drinking hard of late. He leaves s wife and four children.
 Mrs Abigail Wheaton, aged 9S. died 8, her home in Danielson last Friday. She was probably the oldest resident oi Windham county and leaves many rela. tives-
 A new hospital for Mssons will soon be built near the Home in Wsllingfcrd It Is proposed to make the new hospital & mudel institution of its kind. It will be about 80 bv 50 feet in aiza and like the main building. two and half stories high. It is estimated that building and I equipment will cost between SS0O0 and Sl0. 900.
 The Baptist Christian Secretary ceased to exist with last weeks issue It's subscription list and good will have been transferred to the New York "Ex aminer."
 Col Wilbur F Coe of West Winsted Fourth Regiment. c. N. c has beer placed on the retired list with the rsut ! of colonel and side-de-camp on the stsf of the commander-in-chief. A plucky woman is Mrs c. B. Dsvi i of Winthrop, who has resumed her con tract for carrying the United States mai between Winthrop and Deep River. Sb' has never missed a trip since she hs had the contract. One day last summe she poked 39 sdders out of stump snl killed them. then put the snakes in he wagon and carried them to Deep River New Hartford Tribune.
 The assigned estate of O. c. Dayton of Winchester, paid 100 cents on th dollar to the creditora
Connecticut western news., 1896-04-09
Charles H. Hunt.

THE NEWS of April briefly recorded the death of MT Charles H. Hunt, of New Boston. Mass but even that brief announcement was sufficient to notify many that they had lost an old and re- spected friend. Mir Hunt was 65 years of sge, and for S2 consecutive years had kept the hotel at New Boston. He k survived by his wife and daughter. Mrs Ellingworth. Mir Hunt was a man we'll fitted for the. place he occupied, and be won many friends. He was always pleas ant and agreeable. Many have heard say "let us go to Charley Hunts and get dinner or spend the night" He will be greatly missed. Not only will the family circle mourn his loss. but so will the travelling public and pleasure seek. CTS who have so often enjoyed his hes. pitality. A FRIEND.