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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-27
THE CHAINLESS BICYCLE.
Big Fight Probable Over Validity O1
the Old League Patents.

TOLEDO. o.. Oct. 26.-The chainless BIZ
cycle question is going to develop one of the
biggest fights, it is claimed ever witnessed
in the bicycle business. The fight, it is
said, will between the Columbia people and
nearly all Of the other manufacturers who
are coming out with sn 1898 chainless
wheel. There are number of factories
where chainless wheels will be manufac-
tured. although none of them outside of
Colonel Pope, appears to be anxious to
place a chainess wheel on the market
Among those that may be mentioned out
side of Pope and Lozier are the Syracuse,
Stearns. Western wheel works, Yost, Spald-
ing and others. This combination recog-
nized the fact that Colonel Pope has pur-
chased the old league chainless patents,
under which the original bevel-gear ma
chimes were manufactured, and decided to
test their validity and value. A syndicate
was organized, a prominent Western con-
cern taking the initiative, and the other
manufacturers were sounded on the SUBJ
ject. A fund was Immediately raised to
make a thorough investigation. Expert
patent attorneys were employed and near
ly $1,000 was expended in carefully investi-
eating the premises. One of the manufac-
turerS who assisted in raising the fund
has received a letter from the syndicate to
the effect that the attorneys have reason
to believe that the league patent or bevel-
gearing patent will not hold.
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is MRS. LEUTGERT ALlVE2
The Missing Woman Reported to Have
Been Seen Recently.

CHICAGO, Oct. 26.-"Within the past
twenty-four hours we have received infcr-
nation that may make another trial of
Luetgert unnecessary" said Attorney AL
bert Phalen to-day. II will not reveal the
name of the informant. nor the location
of the city in which he lives at present, but
it is within 200 miles of Chicago, and the
man is an ex-official of the place He is
pcsitive-absolutely positive-that he has
seen Mrs. Luetgert within few days. The
information, together with his identihca-
ton, is startling in its directness. But We
have been startled so many times by SINH
lar reports, only TO be eventually disap-
pointed, that l will not believe the report
until see the woman he says is Mrs. Luet-
gert We are investigating the story of this
informant. We have learned that he is
cool-headed and reliable person, and his
story may at last solve the mystery. But
l will believe the woman whom he identi-
fies as Mrs. Luetgert is she when Luetgert
says so, and others of the family corrob-
crate him, and not before.
1t is believed that TINS information did
not come from Davenport, Ia. Soon after
Mrs. Luetgerts disappearance report
reached Chicago that Sne was seen In Day
enport, and also in Rock Island, Ill, across
the river but investigation proved the re-
port untrue. Attorney Phalen called at the
states attorneys Office to consult with
States ATTORNEY Deneen and Assistant
States Attorney McEwen with reference
to the Luetgert case. Mir. Deneen, how
ever, was not at his Office, as his health
has been somewhat affected by the long
strain of the trial. Mr. Phalen said he
would much rather have the case continued
for a while, but if necessary he would as
soon begin tomorrow any time. No
steps looking toward an application for bail
for Luetgert have been made, nor will any
be until after another conference between
the states attorney and the lawyers for the
defense.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-27
FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES. .
why Notc+ of the Bank of Costa Rica
Were COunterfeited.

NEW YORK, Oct. 26.-The trial of
FREDERICK Mora, Ricardo De Requesens
and Louis Houseman, charged with coun-
terfeiting notes of the Bank of Costa Rica
to the amount of $1.000,0O0, was continued
in the Federal Court to-day. Testimony
was given as to the sale and shipment of
the sofa in which, it is claimed, the coun-
terfeit money was hidden, while on it's way
to Costa Rica Giarado Iglesia, inspector of
the custom house at San Jose, Costa Rica.
testified to the opening of the sofa and the
finding of number of one hundred pesos
counterfeit notes in it. William H. Bohma
identified two lithograph stones from which
the alleged counterfeit notes were printed.
He also told of the printing of the notes.
Mrs. Augusta Reneman, of Pittsburg,
was the next witness. She told of De
Reduasens requesting her to accompany
him to New Orleans, and of his giving her
a satche containing bright new notes of the
Costa Rican government. She had loaned
De Reuuesens about 5000 while in New Or
leans. De PequesenS told her that the new
bills had been made by Mora for political
PURPOSES He admitted that they were
counterfeits but said that there was no
harm, as Mora would redeem them when
he was made President of Costa Rica. Upon
arrival at Port Limon she concealed the
bills about her person and carried them
ashore. She said that she had been engaged
to De Requesens since Thanksgiving day
Of last wear.
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was wallet contain ug six ten-dollar bills,
two-dollar bill anG Casualty Insurance
Company ticket such as is sold at railroad
stations. It was made out for the usual
sum of $500 in case of death, but very
curiously the name, or rather the last
names of both payer and beneficiary, was
missing. The card read, so far as could
be deciphered, Ike r." as the pur-
chasers name and Mrs. h. as
the person to whom it was to
be paid. The railroad officials are of the
opinion that the man boarded the train at
Rochester The contents of the car, other
than the body, showed that the people had
made a rush for their lives. There We're
womenS shoes and hats, six mems hats, a
womans coat, eight gripsacks of various
Kinds, two mems coats and many small
garments.
Another interesting event of the day was
the raising of the express car, from which
it was alleged that large sum of money
had been lost by the dropping to the river
bottom of small safe General Superin-
tendent Van Valkenburgh, of the American
Express Company, was present. When the
car came 20 the surface 1t was seen that
it was the most badly damaged of any that
had yet been taken out. AS soon as possible
the car was searched by inventory and then
Mr.. Van Valken burgh gave out this state
ment: None of the valuables in the car
was lost The big dynamiIe-proof safe was
intact and fastened TO the wall in its proper
place. The small safe, which 1t was thought
might nave dropped out Of the broken car,
we found in a corner, and the only thing
OF value known to be missing is small
package of jewelry."
Inc engine was dragged out OF the river
tonight just before dark and President
Chauncey M. Depew and the three railroad
commissioners, with Assistant Secretary
Edward McEntee, saw the operation. The
divers had locat ted the tender early in the
afternoon and brought it up without its
trucks. When, shortly after o'clock, the
engine came to the surface of the river,
it was seen that the trucks were missing
and that the front boiler and the guards
were smashed into an unrecognizable mass.
The men on the lighter saw clothes dang
ling from the front, and when the lanterns
could be brought to bear it was found that
the rags Gov cred human body. The body
was wedged in front Of the boiler, where
the engine number plate is, and had to be
dragged out. There is much speculation as
to how Tompkins came to be on the front
of the machine. The fact of the finding of
the fireman's body tonight in the position
in which it lay has led to the belief that
the engineers body is somewhere in the
locality. The fact that the front trucks of
the engine are yet in the river precludes
any possibility until tomorrow of deter
mining whether a broken truck caused the
accident.
Superintendent Mccoy, of the New York
Central, said tonight that the story told
by section boss to the effect that he had
left the road because of its unsafe condition
was falsehood and that the man who told
1t had been discharged for drunkenness
Mr.. Mccoy also denied the statement that
the roadbed at the scene of the accident
was known to be in bad shape.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-27
PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION
200 Delegates at the Opening of the
Twenty-Fifth Annual Convention.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 26.-The twenty
fifth annual convention of the American
Public Health Association opened at the
Hotel Walton to-day. The sessions will
continue until Friday next. The 200 dele
gates in attendance represent the health
authorities of all parts of the United States
and Dominion of Canada Mexico, and sew
eraI of the countries of South America
President DR.. Henry B. Horlbeck, of
Charleston, S. c., presided.
The report Of the committee on steamship
and steamboat sanitation was read by DIR.
Frederick Montizambert, general superin-
tendent of quarantine of the Dominion of
Canada. The only paper read at this ses-
sion was. contribution to the study of
yellow fever from a medico-geographica
point of view. The paper was joint pro-
duction by DR.. Eduardo Liceoga, president
of the Supreme Board of Health of Mexico,
and his colleague, DR.. Jose Ramirez, secre-
tary Of the board. The paper was read by
Dr. Albert L. Gihon medical director u. S.
N. The object of the paper was to remove
what it claimed was the erroneous impress
sion that yellow fever was epidemic in the
early summer along the gulf and Pacihc
coasts of America. The paper was briefly
discussed by Dr. William Bailey, OF Louis
Vile, DR.. Samuel d. Durgin, of Boston,
and others, and 1t was then decided that
yellow fever should be made the special
subject of discussion at one of the sessions
of the convention.
At the afternoon session the report OF
the committee on sanitation, with reference
to plumbing, drainage and ventilation or
public and private buildings, which was
prepared by j. w. Hughes, of Montreal,
was in the absence of Mr.. Hughes, read
by Crosby Gray, superintendent of the
PittSburg Board of Health.
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KILLED In A CHURCH.
Policeman Shot by n Burglar Who
Was Caught Robbing the Poor Box.

NEW YORK, Oct. 27-Policeman Freder-
ick Smith, of the East Fiftieth-street sta
tion, was shot and killed this morning in
the Church of the Holy Redeemer, on Third
street, between Avenues A and B, by a
burglar who was robbng the poor box. He
was caught and gave the name of Fritz
Mayer forty-five years old, no home When
the crowd, which soon grew to large proper
tions, learned that Smith was shot they
made an attempt to lynch the prisoner.
Roundsman Schulum and three policemen,
attracted by the excitement, had all they
could do to prevent the crowd from wreak-
ing vengeance on the murderer. AS it was
fifteen policemen who arrived as reinforce
ments had all they could do to land their
man safely in the station. He was hit on
the head by stones and clubs by several peo-
pie in the crowd
The murdered policeman was SO near the
burglar that his face was badly burned by
the powder. The bullet which was of 3S
caliber, passed through the jaw and came
out at the back of the head. The prisoner
was covered with bloou from the beating
he received at the hands OF the mob. They
struck him with stones, clubs and all sorts
of missiles, and it is said that several of his
bones are broken, and perhaps he has re-
ceived a fracture of the skull, though no
examination has been made.
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TAKEN FROM THE RIVER.
Two More victims of the New York
Central Wreck.


GARRISONS, N. Y, Oct. 26.-Twenty
lives are now known to have been lost in
Sundays accident on the New York Central
Railroad and eighteen bodies have been
found The body of an unknown man was
recovered to-day. as well as that of the
fireman. The day coach of the Inflated
train was raised to-day and in it was found
a victim not hitherto included in the list
of dead. The engine was also brought to
the surface and with it the body of Fire
man John Q. Tompkins tightly wedged be-
tween two masses of iron. For some hours
this afternoon, prior TO the raising of the
day car. it was believed that several more
bodies would be found. Shortly after 8
o'clock the large derrick brought up the
When the water had drained out of the
car those watching the operation saw at
one of the windows human hand and Just
beyond the feet sticking out from under
one of the seat tops. The wreckers tore
aside the debris md soon had the body out
No more bodies we're found.
The body removed. the seventeenth since
the wreck and the twentieth known victim
was that of a man, thirty-five yeers of age,
dark with a dark, short mustache He
was dress in gray wooden shirt dark
blue vest and trousers black necktie and
yellow socks. The shoes had been removed
and so had the coat. and it was evident
that the man had been sleeping when death
came. In one Of the pockets of the vest
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TELLER WRITES A LETTER.
He Would Like to See George Elected,
huf Has No Hone.

POTTSVILLE Pa, Oct. PA letter
bearing on political conditions generally
from Senator Henry NJ. Teller, of Colorado.
has been received by William Wilhelm, rep
resentative of the Republican Silver party
in this county. Among other things, Sena-
tor Teller says:
II have never said I thought there was
little hope for bimetallism. That is one of
the many falsehoods of the gold press. l
have said there is No hope for it under the
Mckinley administration, and am conf
dent that nothing will be done for the plain
people of the country during this adminis-
tration. have no interest in the fight be-
tween Tammany and the Republicans.
do not hope for George 5 election, athS9 ath9ugn
II would please me greatly II ne c0uiu pe.
The election of Tammany Will not lnulcate
that the Democratic party OF the country
is going to abandon silver.
''The Democratic party is committed to
silver and will continue on that line, ana
the gold, Democrats Will go to the Repup-
Iican party and under the influence OF the
gold Democrats it will degrade and debase
the party to such an extent as 70 make
the old liberty-loving Republicans leave IT,
l expect to see the Republican party IN the
hands of the gold Republicans and the gold
Democrats and under the domination ana
control of the worst element ever In Amer
lean politics.
Il do not care what your Pennsylvania
platform says about the per capita circultt-
uon Governor Hastings ana all the tte-
publican leaders of your State understand
that that platform was made to get into
office on, and / expect to see the influence
of your State given and your senators and
members of Congress brought TO bear on
Congress to retire the gTeenDacks ana
treasury notes and let the banks and bank
ers of the country issue whatever paper
money they think the country needs, and
that issue will then be determined by the
interest of the banks and bankers and not
by the interests of commerce or the people.
The fight of silver is still on and will be
until we get a righteous monetary system,
and we never will have until we get open
mints for gold and silver at rate to be
established hv law
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-27
CLAIMS OF THE PARTIES.
Managers of All the Candidates Con-
Gdent of Victory,


NEW YORK, Oct 26.-With only five days
remaining in which to complete the work
of the municipal campaign the political sit
uation in Greater New York continues to
afford large opportunities for conjecture.
So far as the betting is indicative of results
Tammany appears to have the best of it,
although there are offers of Republican
money on terms that should prove alluring
to those who have cash with which to back
up their predictions that Van Wyck will
be chosen the first mayor of the great mu-
nicipality. The odds on Van Wyck against
the field are quoted at betting headquar-
ters as to l, but at the rooms of the
Republican campaign committee it is said
that those who have desire to bet against
General Tracy can be accommodated with
even money to any extent they may desire.
That the strength of the Citizens Union
movement is not held in contempt is shown
by the space which is given in the journals
advocating one or the other of the regular
political parties. Columns, and even pages
are devoted to assaults on Mr. Lows record
as a public official and the head of Co.
lumbia University. While the Jeffersonian
Democracys strength, within certain limi-
tations, is conceded on all sides, it is only
among the most enthusiastic adherents of
Henry George that the claim is made that
he will be elected. The real Importance OF
his candidacy lies in the source from which
his votes will be drawn.
The Georgeite campaign manager has vir-
tually abandoned the claim to regularity in
the following sentence: "Tammany Hall
claims to be the regular Democratic organ
ization of this city and county. We dispute
that claim. and although they have pos
session Of the title, which is nine points of
the law, they have not as yet received one
word of approval from Senator Jones or
William j. Bryan, who are the leaders OF
the National Democratic party to-day and
don't think they will get it,
hn1I ko a fnfO tn
orally contest win win by plurality vote
only. The total vote may be 525 coo The
secretary of the Citizens Union asserts that
Low will win with 10000, Van Wyck re-
ceiving 600 and Tracy and George 100 900
each. The Republican claim is of 10000
for Tracy, $4,000 for Van Wyck, 900 for
George and 60 600 for Low.
After an hours conference to-day with all
the district leaders in the Republican head
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WORK OF CRIMINALS
DYNAMITE USED TO WRECK THE
NEW YORK CENTRAL TRAIN.
President Depew Thinks a Cartridge
May Have Been Rammed Down
Into the Roadbed.
TWO MORE BODIES FOUND
REMAINS OF THE FIREMAN wEDGED
IN FRONT OF THE BOILER,
And the Body of Isaac Rettenberg
Discovered I'm the Day Coach-AII
TWO MORE BODIES FOUND
REMAINS OF THE FIREMAN wEDGED
IN FRONT OF THE BOILER,
And the Body of Isaac Rettenberg
Discovered In the Day Coach-AII
Express Money Recovered.

NEW YORK, Oct. 26.-The Herald and
World this morning quote Chauncey M. De-
pew, president of the New York Central
Railroad, as saying that the wreck at Gar
rison's last Sunday was caused by a dyna-
mite explosion. ANY one who is familiar
with railroading," said Mr.. Depew, knows
that the continued pounding Of trains over
a roadbed has the effect of beating it down
till it is like rock. That roadbed has been
in use for forty years, and the fact that
it was like a rock is shown by the fact that
Immediately after the wreck, before the
workmen had filed in any, the break
showed a clean cut perpendicular cleavage.
The popular notion that this was due to
a landslide is not borne out by this. When
there is a landslide the bank takes
the shape OF an inclined plane
The fact that this was found as
it was shows that the break
must have been formed in an unusual way
The only thing that could have done It
would have been stick of dynamite
rammed down into the roadbed. That would
have done it.
II don't say that we have any evidence
that such was the case, but when i sent
word to our detective, Mr.. Humphreys, to
make Investigations along that line he told
me that he had reasons to suspect some
thing of the sort before. So ordered that
a thorough Investigation be made. You
must bear in mind that an hour before this
wreck another and heavier train passed over
the road in safety; that thirty minutes be-
fore that a train went up on the other
track, and noticed nothing wrong, and that
nobody heard any report. Whatever caused
the accident. 1t is certain that the engine
went clear over the obstruction and was
injured after it left the track"
This view was corroborated later by a spe-
cial engineer who had come with the party.
He examined the engine and found that all
its injuries are what are considered super
fetal among railroad men, Neither the
main nor side rods were broken, and the
pilot was practically intact. showing. Su
perintendent Mccoy declared. that the
gine had only been injured in rolling down
the embankment after it left the track
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-27
UTE INDIANS KILLED.
Five Reported to Have Been Shot by
Colorado Game Warden.

DENVER, Col, Oct. 26.-Governor Adams
has received the following message from
Meeker, Col, via Rifle. Oct. 25: Game
Warden Wilcox tried to arrest Utes on
Snake river, five miles from Lily Fark
They resisted and fired on the Wilcox
party. No whites injured. Several Indians
killed and wounded. Our sheriff. with posse
now away In west end of county assisting
Game Wardens Mclean and Lyttle. Gen
eral Otis should order Duchesne troops out
at once to corral Indians and save further
trouble Much alarm here" The Governor
said he did not apprehend any serious
trouble, and would not at present order out
any state troops.
General Otis was inclined to discredit the
report of a conflict in the absence of a re-
port from the officers at Fort Duchesne
He said there were no soldiers at Fort
Duchesne who could soon reach the scene
of trouble. Lily Park. on the Bear, or
Yampa. river, has been the scene of most
of the game depredations of the Utes ever
since the Ute war of ten years.
The trouble commenced last week, when
the White river uncompahgre and Uintah
JtSil on their annual fall hunt. The White
ryer CteS are exceptionally ugly, and
nave been apparently anxious to pick
trouble with parties of whites with whom
they have come in contact These Utes
were in the Meeker massacre and have
never been anything but ugly and waiting
for an opportunity to do mischief. There
are several hundred of them now in the
State. Game Warden Wilcox with a small
party, started out TO warn the Indians
that the game laws must be observed The
game warden was resisted, and finally fired
upon by the Indians Then a serious en-
counter followed in which five Indians were
killed or wounded 1t is reported that
Game Warden Wilcox's party also suffered
severely.
a dispatch from Rifle tonight says: ..rhe
details OF the trouble are as follows: War
den Wilccx had gone to Lilly Park to ar
rest some Indians who had been reported
as killing game Warden Wilcox took =
posse OF seven or eight men and went TO
Lilly Park, thirty miles north of Meexer.
and found quite large encampment of IN.
dams. lie was trying TO induce the Indians
to move back to the reservation when n
sQuaw In the outfit fired a snot at tho off,
Ger. In the excitement which followed Cant
Shaw, Of Bear river, was struck a stunning
blow on the head with the butt of a gun
IN the hands of one or the Indians. The Of
fcers. thinking they were about to he
murdered. opened fire on the Indians. who
Immediately took TO tho brush Ia the direc-
ton Of their reservation. Sheriff Wuber of
Meeker, to whom word was at once sent.
took posse and started for the scene of
the trouble.
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POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, Oct. 26.-Body
No. II, which was found in the day coach
this afternoon, was identified tonight as
Isaac Rettenberg of New York, thirfy-two
years of age a dealer in eyeglasses His
father lives at 3712 Webster street, Cleve-
land. His insurance policy was payable to
his mother, in Cleveland. Rettenberg was
on his way to New York to attend his
brothers wedding. The unknown woman is
still unidentified, but telegram of inquiry
about her description was received from
Cleveland tonight. The bodies OF the eight
Cinnamon were tonight sent to New York,
where they will be buried by the Chinese
society, the president of which claimed
them yesterday.