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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-27

I.ondon Invention.

London Invention.
Science is ever adapting materials from
the vast laboratory of nature to practical
use We have almost arrived at a
discovery of malleable glass. At all events
glass is now ranked among our textile
fabric In Venice a manufacturer is turn
ing out bonnets by the thousand from glass
cloth They have the simmer and bril-
liancy of silk and of nearly any color.
They are impervious to water.
For a long time in Russia has existed
tissue manufactured from the fiber of a
peculiar Harmonious stone from Siberia.
BY some process ii is shredded and spun
into fabric. soft to the touch, and of ex
qusite pliability, durable in the extreme.
When soiled, as it is indestructib.e by fire,
it is simply subjected to heat sufficient
TO drive out all dirt. In the case OF glass
silk, however. 1t will not stand such ex-
IRENE heat IL may be made clean again
by simply brushing with hard brush and
soap and water, when it is none the worse
for being either stained or soiled.
The material is now to be had in white,
green, lilac, pink and yellow. 1t bids fair
TO become fashionable for evening dresses.
The new fabric is rather costly. 1t is also
made for use as tablecloths, napkins and
window curtains. 1t is even claimed that
glass is capable OF being made into fabric
which may be worn next to the skin with
out the slightest discomfort. An Austrian
is the inventor Of this new textile.
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The MIGHTY FALLEN.
Stock of the Once Wealthiest OIL COM
pany mt One Cent a Share.
Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.

Bids were made on Change yesterday for
Columbia OIL Company stocks at cent a
share, but no sales. The par value of the
shares is so. There are ten thousand
shares. and If the bids of yesterday are TO
be taken as basis of calculation the entire
stock or the company would be worth 500.
How are the mighty fallenr'
The Columbia Oil Company was at one
time the greatest oil company in the world
Its dividends have amounted to millions of
dollars. From the wells of this company
have poured forth the wealth that has
made millionaires and laid the financial
foundations OF families which to-day stand
reaped the golden harvest are still living.
honored and old, but more have passed
away, leaving behind fortunes on which
their children and grandchildren may live
In 1866 the oil business was new and the
oil excitement high Then. the. Columbia
capitalization was 100000 The dividends
paid were enormous. amounting to over %
per cent. year. The dividends were de-
clared every month. They ran 4. 5 and per
creased to s., 800. 000- The percentage of the
dividends was reduced, but the aggregate
increased. Out of one farm alone FIVE mil
lion dollars worth of oil was taken
The value of the oil varied from MOTH
Ing up to 50 a barrel according TO the
amount of supply and demand and the
difficulty In getting the oil TO the market.
There were no pipe lines in those days
and there were few. If any, iron storage
tdnhS III the OIL reSlOnS. Inc oil business
was new and drillers did not know how
10 plug the well and stop the oil from vast
ing. In fact, they never thought of stop
ping X, as the flow seemed inexhaust-
able. Some of the wells flowed as much
as 1000 barrels day. That required 1900
barrels 10 put the oil in. The barrels could
not be procured.
At one time oil was worth % cents a bar
rel and barrels We're worth s. apiece at the
wells The oil men simply could not handle
the immense product, and, as they did not
know how 10 stop IT, they allowed il TO run
Into the creek. Ii flowed into the river and
old residents say that at times the entire
surface OF the Allegheny River at Pittsburg
was green from shore to shore with the
fluid All this before the Standard oil
Company was dreamed Of
Then the wells began 10 play out New
wells were found, but a greater danger than
failing wells appeared The Standard OIL
Company was organized. Little By little
il pushed all others TO the wall. The Column
bia Oil Company was no longer the greatest
oil company. Its dividends dropped of and
IL was found necessary TO reorganze H.
The capital stock was reduced 70 $4,000.
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Shifts So ms to Light the Track when
a Train Rounds a Curve.

New York Sun.
The Improvement in railroad appliances
has been going on almost uninterruptediy
during the last few years, and, in Advance
of the representatives OF all other nas-c1s.
Americans have taken the lead In pat
ented contrivances. But an Engiishman
employed in the Dunsmuir railroad shops
has contrivei an invention which, although
very much TO the safety of travellers on
railroads. 1t is an automatic headlight
which adjusts Itself to the requirements
of railroad travel on curves, where there
is now the greatest danger of obstruction.
rail, q tie, or q sleeper misplaced, 10
accidents show, to wreck a train, and the
present system of headlights on locomo-
tiyes does not provide any measure OF Sc
curity against such encumbrances they
be placed on curves
In going round curves headlights on To-
comotives, being made stationary, throw
the light straight ahead, instead Of throw
ing IL so that IL follows the track, where
the light should be at all times The aut-
omatic headlight, however, Is suspended on
that holds 1t being fastened to the smoke
stack, and one at the bottom, attached TO
the boiler head From the bottom or the
headlight two chains run 10 the ends OF an
extending arm, which is connected by a
rod that runs TO the pilot wheels truck.
the outside wheel FORCES slightly aheac.
and this moves the rod and chain enough
to move the headlight so that the reflection
liz cast directly ahead the track or
1,650 railroad accidents I'm 1896, just SIS were
due to derailments. usually on curves, which
use of an automatic headlight. except IN
isolated cases, where such derailmerts se-
suited from the spreading Of tracks, fresh
cts. or the breaking OF bridge or trestle.
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KNOWN AS A WASHER
sCHOoLTEACHER HAUk MAKES A
PARTIAL CONFESSION IN JAIL.
A Doctor Implicated I'm the Death of
Grace McClamrock - Attempted
Lynching at Sullivan.
speclal to the InaIanapoIIs journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
CRAWFORDSvILIE, Ind, Jan. o.
Coroner Barcus returned from Covington
last night, whittier he went 10 see Philip
Hauk. the school teacher who is charged
with causing the death OF Grace McCiam-
rock, and who was arrested by the Horse
thief Company and taken to Covington by
Marshal Grimes in order to save him from
mob violence. Hauk is said to have told
the marshal and newspaper man the en-
tire story OF the affair, and his connection
with the crime. IL places him in a bad
light He also implicated a doctor at Cow
ington in such language as to leave but
little doubt as to who the doctor is. Hauk
Is ''dudish'' and effeminate in his tastes
and Is a man who has always been a
''masher'' among the girls. Mr.. McClam-
rock opposed his going with his daughter.
but the girl had her way. The girl died
without a word escaping her lips as to who
had been the cause of her ruin. Hauk
had undoubtedly been led to believe that
no evidence of crime could be detected
even by a postmortem examination, and
when he was informed that he was mis-
taken, he seemed to be very much affected.
He has made a partial confession which is
too vile to print The feeling against the
doctor who performed the operation is as
bitter as IL Is against Hauk.
F. b. McClamrock, the father of the muir
dered girl, is prominent and wealthy
farmer of this county, and Grace was his
youngest child, bright and beautiful, and
merely school girl attending the district
school near her home. While Hauk was in
jail here previous to being taken TO Coving-
ton. the marshal had several arguments
with excited men who seemed bent on deal
ing out justice with swift hand and the
vigorous protest of the marshal had much
TO do in pacifying these men. There is
little doubt that there would have been
trouble last night had Hauk remained here
In jail. The doctor connected with the
case will be placed under arrest Monday
morning Hank several times while in Gus
t0dy OF the marshal started 10 cry. but the
marshal told him to stop that and take
his medicine like a man. The coroner has
not made his verdict yet. but says he has
sufficient evidence to hold Hauk and the
suspected doctor also. The doctor in the
case had trouble over a woman once and
his wife left him. Hauk is a nephew of
the late Lucky" Baldwin, the millionaire
and famous race horse man of California.
The funeral of Miss McClamrock was held
this morning at her fathers residence.
seven miles north of this city, and was
largely attended The funeral sermon was
delivered by Elder Trotter. and the re-
mains were inferred in Oak Hill Cemetery,
near this civ
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COUNT DE GARMO'S BROTHER
Refuses to Believe the American Was
Killed at johannesburg.

CINCINNATI o., Jan. 26.-Count Charles
p. DeGarmo. who was reported killed re-
Gently at johannesburg, in the Transvaal,
in one of the battles, used to live in Cow
ington, Ky. His brother S. c. DeGarmo,
teller of the Northern Bank, in Covington,
does not believe he was killed. His reason
for this disbelief is that he received a letter
from Charles p DeGarmo, dated Dec. g.
1896, at Delagoa bay, announcing the in
tention of the latter to sail for Egypt at
once, to spend the winter in Cairo. He be-
lieves Charles went TO Cairo.
How he got the title of count is matter
of conjecture. 1t may have been assumed,
and it may have been applied by others.
He is a director of a pure food exposition
that was to have been given in Johannes
burg in December but postponed till
April on account of hostilities.i Charles De
Garmo was the originator of card adver-
Using in street cars, and was also a leader
in pure food expositions in the United
States.
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,ial to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
RICHMOND, Ind, Jan. 26.-The Hon. s. f.
Nicholson has been here the past two days,
delivering an address each evening. While
here he gave out some statistics as to the
effect of the legislation. He estimates
the total number of saloons in the State last
September at ten thousand During that
month fully one thousand were refused IL
cense under the Nicholson law. He says
that this legislation has given an impetus
TO the work of temperance that the State
has never before known; that he has been
in seventy counties and has found that the
law has won thousands and thousands of
friends
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Tin, bubu

To be thin, for a baby, is
to be deprived Of its natural
ease; to suffer and not be able
tofeel it; towear a sad pinched
face; to live on the edge Of
sickness; to grow imperfectly;
and to lose the power Of re-
sisting disease. When a baby
is thin it needs more fat than
It gets from its food; it is
starved, fat-starved. Scott's
Emulsion is the easiest fat
Il can have; the fat it needs.
80 and r.oo at all druggists
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Sr<cial to the Indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Jan. 9.-Mavor
Ross has RENTED the remainder Of the
Jail sentence imposed on Charles Lutz, who
was accused OF assaulting girls on the
street. on the payment OF the fine of sos
and COSTS Lutzs's fellow members OF the
Order of Red Men raised the money and
sent committee 20 the Mayor. Lutz is
10 be restored To his position as receiving
clerk In large wholesale house. where
his employers and fellow-employes have
never believed that ne was the man who for
more than year had been catching hold
or girls and hugging them on the street
IN the early morning while they were on
their way TO work in the overall factories
At the time OF his trial seven girls testi-
fled that he was the one. but six OF these
have since told his wife. who has been
constantly trying TO secure his release, that
they might have been mistaken, as they
were confused when they were in the court
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Jan. 26.-The
board OF trustees of the State Normal
School yesterday reelected Murray Briggs.
of Sullivan. president of the board. Lewis
Martin secretary and W. r. McKeen, of
Terre Haute. treasurer. The board ac-
ceptei the Few builcing from the contrac-
tor IL was decided TO employ assistant
teachers for the spring term. Ii was also
decided to consolidate the departments Of
German and Latin. beginning with the next
school year. Professor j. j. Schiicher. now
of Mount Morris ILL., will be selected for
the head OF the department. He is OF Ger
man descent a graduate of the Wisconsin
university and took a post graduate course
OF two years in the University of Chicago.
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Losses nv Fire.

I4AMBERTVILLE, y. j., Jan. 26.-Fire en-
tirely destroyed the rubber companys re-
claiming mill here tonight, together with
the valuable machinery in the building.
causing a loss OF $4,000, which is fully COW
cred by insurance. Cause OF fire unknown.
Fifty men will be thrown out.
ST. JOHNSBURY, VT, Jan. 26.-Fire to-
tally destroyed Une Avenue House a four
story frame structure next 10 the Howe
Opera House, tonight. This building was
finally saved. although badly damaged To-
tai less, $4,000, partially covered by iasur-
ance.
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Alexandria Steel Works to- Resume.
Special to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal

ANDERSON, Ind, Jan. 26.-Work will be
resumed in the sheet department of the
Union steel mills. near Alexandria, to-mor-
row. This department has been closed for
some weeks and the resumption will give
employment to nearly two hundred men.
This mill is one of the largest steel plants
in the West, and when all departments are
In operation more than one thousand opera
tives are necessary. The wage scale was
recently increased
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FAIR WEATHER TO-DAY.
Stationary Temperature FOrecasted
for the Central Stntes To-Day.

for the Central States To-Day.
United States Weather Bureau forecasts
for indianapolis and vicinity for the twen-
ty-four hours ending IL p. m, Jan. 27-Fair
weather on Monday and Monday night;
nearly stationary temperature.
General Conditions = High atmospheric
pressure prevails. The temperature fell
east and rose west of the Mississippi, from
10 to "a degrees, from western Texas and
Kansas northward; freezing temperature
continued from South Dakota, Missouri, IL
linois and the Ohio valley northward; zero
and slightly lower in Manitoba. Light local
snow fell near the lower lakes.
FORECAST FOR THREE STATES.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-For Indiana
Partly cloudy: light westerly winds, becom-
ing variable.
For Illinois-Fair; warmer; variable
winds, becoming southerly.
For Ohio-Partly cloudy; light westerly
winds
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-27
Girls Capture the Prizes.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WABASH, Ind, Jan. rs. - There was a
large attendance last night at the high
school oratorical contest. given under the
auspices of the Wabash Oratorical Society.
The judges were Prof. Walter Irwin, North
Manchester; Prof. A. H. Douglass, of I.c-
gansport; Rev. Harry Nyce, Peru. Miss
prize, $40 in gold. for the best grafton, and
Miss Blanche Beitman the second prize for
second best grafton, SO in gold. Miss Marie
the best essay, and Miss Mabel Rohrbacher
second $40 in gold, for the second best es-
say.
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Lord Douglass Wants a BOX.

Ell PASO. Tex, Jan. 26.-Dan Stuart this
morning received telegram from Sacra-
mento. CAL, asking if box could be re-
served for Lord Sholto Douglass, son of the
Marquis of Queensberry. Stuart replied to
his Lordship: LAS the glove contests will
all be under the rules of the Marquis of
Queensberry, it will not be inappropriate
for his son to be at the ringside. Box
asked for awaits your pleasure"
Lord Sholto Douglass is said to have in
his possession the original parchment on
which The Marquis of Queensberry had the
fighting rules engrossed
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An Old Clothing House Fails.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, Jan. 26.-The firm
Of Heller & Frankel Globe Clothing House,
executed chattel mortgage last night COW
ering all its stock to Robert B. Hanna,
trustee, for the benefit OF certain creditors.
This is one of the Oldest ciotnlng houses
in this part OF the State and the embarrass-
mens Is due to light business. Heaviest
creditors are in Philadelphia and New
York. Liabilities are $4,000; assets, $4,000
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>F~N.oi ~ the Indianapolis journal.
SOUTH BEND. Ind. Jan. 26.-The Y NJ
& A, or this city, celebrated its four
teenth anniversary to-day. Eight of the
city churches opened their pulpits to the
association The churches at which these
exercises were held were the First NJ E.,
Grace. Reformed. First Baptist. Christian,
English Evangelical. United Bretn-
rem and Trinity Presbyterian.
Among the speakers were E. E
Stacey. Indianapolis; j. w. Burns Fort
wayne: Z. A. Knapp and b. F. Stephens
tlkhart; l. Nj. Cook, Logansport; Wilberr
Ward. A II, Turner. Harry Keller, Myron
Campbell. r. ID. Webster. r. r. Peck. Chas.
Summers, e L. Howard, W. o. Davies.
r. NJ Hatch, J. z. Lewis n. N. Snyder
William McCurtin, III. A. Pershing, b. r.
Thomas, s. T.. NJ Coulter, s. C.. Lehman
and l. c.. Whitcomb. of South Bend. At
o'clock this afternoon large mass meeting
was held at the association building The
association Is making a move to erect a
blIfIdinn
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Lynx mt Large I'm Montgomery County
Special to the Indianapolis Journal

CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, Jan. ga
man came to this city this morning and
said that he was chased by some wild an
imal last night as he was returning home.
He was going along the road west of
TOWNSVILLE. when the animal jumped out
from woods and took down the road
after him. His horses became frightened
and ran away, but the man kept them in
the road. After chase of nearly a mile
the animal disappeared in the woods There
have been several reports lately of some
wild animal roaming over this part of the
county, some thinking il lynx or panther.
1t Is now proposed to organize a hunt and
capture the animal.
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Medium Adams still I'm Jail.


elc~f~E 70 tIIC HEE1IHHIdtJUIIS JUuTIlttI.
ANDERSON. Ind. jan 2s.-Messrs. ]. n.
Vault and A. V W. Pickard. of Crawfords-
Vile. are in the city in the interest of DR..
Harry Milton Adams. the medium" who
was arrested and brought here on the
charge OF criminal libel against Elder
Covert, OF this city. The men arrived late
last night, but were not successful in getting
Dr. Adams released. He will be taken be-
fore Squire William r. West Monday MORN
ing for preliminary trial. and his friends
VIII then furnish the necessary bond. Elder
Covert bitterly denounces Adams and those
who were allied with him. Adams says he
has all the letters that passed between him.
self and Covert during their correspondence
and at the trial will give them to the court
and to the public, when a genuine surprise
wiz be sprung on the elder.
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Unknown Suicide Identified.

Special TO the IndlanapOlfs Journal.
NEW ALBANY. Ind, Jan. 26.-The re-
mains of the old man who committed sui
eide last Friday were identified to-day by
Reader Leach, of Louisville, as those of
his unc.e, Fred Holdenhaus. residing on the
Bardstown pike, below Louisville. The
mains were taken to his late home.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, JAN 26-Last
night at midnight every slot machine IN this
city was set aside and will not be used
any more for the present at least. This
was done in accordance with an order from
the Mayor, who last Tuesday notified the
people that it was unlawful to run these
machines and gave notice that after last
night the use of them must be discon-
tinued. The Mayor had one of them in his
own store and said that he would be the
greater loser.
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Mnumee Ice Gorge wrecks. a bridge.

TOLEDO, o., Jan. 3.-The ice gorge In
the Maumee river about eight miles above
the city broke about $50 o'clock Tonight,
and, in running out, carried away two
spans of the new bridge in course CT con-
struction. The bridge was supported by a
trestle work on the ice. and the loss Is
estimated at $4,000. The ice in the tribu-
tary river Is running TO the lake. but no
serious damage Is expected.
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Broadbent, near nelghbor. for 5000 dam
ages. Hilton alleges that Broadbent has
been circulating the report that the poison
was put in the well by Hilton himself The
filing of the suit was a surprise 10 the
friends of both parties in this city, both
being prominent residents of the county.
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KOKOMO. Ind, Jan. 26.-Saturday Mrs.
p A. Sassaman, wife of the well-known
contractor, died. after a long illness. pass
Ing away at the home of her brother Hon
Joseph Gray, at Galveston. Deceased was a
pioneer resident of this city
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INDIANA OBITUARY.
Miss Elizabeth HessOn, Once Abe Lin
coins Sweetheart.

ROCKPORT. Ind. jan 26--Mrs. Eliza
beth Hesson died yesterday, at her home.
near Lincoln City. She was born in Mer-
Ger county. Kentucky. in 1911. In her girl
hood she lived near the family Of Lincoln
and was once Abe Lincolns sweetheart.
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BROKE INTO JAIL.
Mob at Sullivan Attempted to Lynch
Grant Atterbury.
A uo f<~l

<xSSoCfdttu TESS II
= SULLIVAN. Ind. Jan. pa mob to-day
endeavored TO lynch Grant Atterbury, who
Is under arrest here on a charge of assault
ing his sister-in-law. The door of the iail
was broken down and an entrance forced.
The sheriff confronted the mob and threat
ened to kill the first man who came up
stairs towards the cell room. The mob
matted and finally withdrew, but Threatened
10 return within twenty-four hours. After
bury strongly asserts his innocence and the
only evidence against him is that blood
mounds followed a trail to his house.
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Rev. ID. A. Robertson Critically III.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
SOUTHPORT, Ind, Jan. 26-Rev. d. A
Robertson. of Southport. while engaged in
successful revival in the Methodist
Church. became i'll with pneumonia and is
now critically Ill. Strong hopes are enter
tanned for his recovery.
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Deaf Mute Killed by the Cars

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
KOKOMO, Ind, Jan. 26.-John Troyer, of
this city, was killed by the cars at Council
Hill. ILL.,, Saturday. He was a deaf mute and
graduate Of the State Deaf and Dumb In
stitution.
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A Farmers Wife Fatally Burned.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON. Ind, Jan. 26.-While sit
ting in front of fireplace sewing carpet
rags. last night, the clothes of Mrs. Joseph
Allison, aged sixty-nine wife of a WELL
known farmer caught fire, and she was so
badly burned that she died TODAY.