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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-05
Cattle Changed Routes.
New York Times

Advertising agents can be trusted to see
the possibilities of any incident and often
display talent that raises their trade al
most or quite to an art. "A peculiar speci-
men of ingenuity in this line comes all the
way from Oklahoma and is issued in the
interests, real on supposed, of the Rock
Island Railway. 1t seems that while four
teen carloads Of cattle were in the Santa Fe
wards at Reno awaiting shipment over that
line. the animals suddenly took it into their
heads to break down a length of fence and
rush wildly across the prairie. What their
motive may have been is not known, but
they brought up at the Rock Island yards
and rushed into them in a tumultuouS and
Irresistible manner. Having arrived here
il was considered more convenient to
change the shipping plans than to drive
the steers back where they came from, and
as a result the Santa Fe earnings for that
week were not quite SO large as they would
otherwise have been. The Rock Island peo-
nile are said to have been much impressed
bv this Illustration of what they regard as
bovine good sense in the choice of routes
TO the butcher and according to report
thew mediate sending out a circular call
ing attention to it. If they do it is almost
certain that their rivals will issue a re-
ioinder to the effect that really intelligent
cattIemen choose to direct the handling of
their traffic for themselves, and do not in
trust it to the decision of crazy Texas
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-05
Indiana Notes.

The Twentieth Indiana Regiment will hold
a reunion in Laporte next Wednesday and
Thursday.
The Richmond City Council, at its meet
ing last night, passed an ordinance abolish
ing all the wine rooms of that city.
The Wayne county grand jury will be
called in special session to investigate the
assault and robbery of John E. Gray, of
Cambridge City, for which four young
tcughs of Cambridge City, including a son
of Mr.. Gray, are now in jail there.
BY the death of bachelor brother at
Greenville, o., DR.. Prezinger, of Elwood,
has come into possession of property and
cash amounting to 100000. In the property
list is included the finest hotel in Greenville.
DR.. Prezinger win move to Greenville and
conduct the hotel.
Cyrus Hull formerly of Chicago, but now
of Princeton, Ont, has, after many weeks
of battling with the Chicago police and his
former employees, been discharged on a
charge of forgery against him by his en-
ployers, Hay q Walker real estate dealers
and contractors. with offices in the Stock
Exchange building.
At Buck Falls, in the Creek nation
George Wilson. aged siXty-five years, mar
ried a sixteen-year-old girl, and in the abb
sence of Henry Grouse from home the
couple went to live in the latter's furnished
house. When Grouse returned and tried to
eject them Wilson shot and killed him and
then took to the woods.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-05
LITTLE TOWN IN ASHES
FULLY FIVE HUNDRED PEOPLE
HOMELESS AT AUSTIN, PA.
Only Five Houses Left I'm the Place
Water Scarce on Account of
DrOught-HOtel Burned.

WELLSVILLE, N. Y. Oct. 4.-The little
numbering town of Austin. Potter county,
Pennsylvania. was about destroyed
by fire this afternoon and evening
About o'clock team drove
into the livery of r. w. Phillips with
load of straw. The straw struck against
lighted gas jet and in a moment the
whole building was ablaze. The livery of
T. A. Gallup, just north, was soon in ashes
and the fire spread to the business portion
1t was found necessary to blow up the
wooden building occupied as a drug store
by George Heimig in order to keep the fire
from the mills. A south wind was blowing
and carried the fire to the Methodist Church
and parsonage, the Presbyterian Church
and new opera house. The flames then
turned toward the long line of wooden dwell
ings, mostly occupied by employees of the
big Goodyear sawmills, and soon eighty
houses had been burned to the ground. The
big pumps, which are supplied by a main
pond near the village and which are used
only in case of fire, We're found to be entire
ly useless on account of scarcity OF water
the pond being at this season extremely
low. A special train was run from Costello
neignborlng village, which carried to Aus
tin ali the ire apparatus which could be
procured in that town.
Turner is the street on which all the
dwelling houses were situated. Tonight it
is smoldering mass OF ruins. Only five
dwelling houses are left in the town. Fully
$40 persons are homeless and are seeking
refuge in the few business houses on Main
street. Insurance men who are upon the
scene place the loss at from $l60,000 to 1925 =
600. Tonight the town is infested by a
gang OF tOughS from outside places and 1t is
feared that considerable OF the property
saved will fall into their hands.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-05
NO INSANITY PLEA.
SeIf-Defense, Ferriter VIII Claim
Light Sentences In Morgan County

Self-Defense, Ferriter VIII Claim
Light Sentences In Morgan County.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MARTINSVILLE. Ind, Oct. Aft John
Ferriter be sentenced to hang or to serve
life sentence for the murder of Patrolman
Ware he will have the unenviable distinc-
ton of being the first to suffer thuswise at
the hands of a Morgan county jury, for
within the recollection of Judge G. w
Grubbs who has lived in the county many
years, neither penalty has yet been inflicted
The county, and, singuarly enough too for
an Indiana hill county has been disturbed
comparatively little with brawls or affairs
leading to the shedding of human blood.
The Ferriter case is the first one, with muir
der as the charge. ever venued from Indian
apolis Two years ago was the most re-
cent murder trial heard in the Martinsville
courthouse, and on that occasion the de-
PENDANT escaped with a two years sentence,
subsequently being acquitted when he re-
ceived new trial on the overthrow of the
verdict in the Supreme Court. This ARRAY
was a well-rcmembered occurrence at
Brooklyn. where Albert PAGE killed Hiram
Gregory on the main street of that town.
the shot entering the victims back. Gregory
was the son of an ex-county treasurer
There We're extenuating circumstances that
led 10 so light verdict. The Supreme Court
reversed the case. principally on the com
mon law instructions TO self-defense
given by the lower court Deputy Prose-
cutor John E. Sedwick does not recall a
murder case, other than the one Just mem
toned. within the last decade.
The prosecution enters the Ferriter case
In an atmosphere not conducive to rigorous
punishment IL the light sentences that have
prevailed in years past may be taken as a
criterion. Unless the slayer of the Indian
apOltS patrOlman be hanged or sentenced for
life. Prosecutor Wiltsie will have little sat
isfaction in the verdict as he realizes how
inmate sentence law would he in this case
The prisoner is under thirty years of age
and, if convicted of manslaughter would
have the benefit of the wo-to-fourteen-year
feature of the law. In fact MIR. Wiltsie will
tell the jury that if it do not give the pris-
ouer the limit of the law ii had better turn
him loose, for light sentence would be a
travesty on justice
Messrs. Griffiths and Potts contemplated a
plea of insanity. TO be coupled with that
OF self-defense. They announced however
just before the trial that the only plea would
be self-defense, their contention being that
Ferriter had been so severely assaulted by
Patrolman Ware, who used his mace that
he was dazed and shot in Self-defense be-
leving that the policeman intended TO follow
up the assault with more brutal treatment
Mr.. Witsie will be able 10 show on the
other hand, that Ferriter had proceeded at
least seventy feet with the officer after
the officer had struck him for the last time;
that Ferriter had become tractable, prom
Using the policeman to accompany him
without further trouble. The policeman had
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-05
How the Busy Bee Doth.
Leslie's Weekly,

At this time of the year, when people are
returning from their vacations, when many
are coming home to rest after a season of
activity and dissipation, and when many
more are returning with freshened energies
for the battle with the world, it might be
well to remember that there is such a thing
as OVERRIDING and undoing ones self even
after the annual recreation The prosy
moralists. from our boyhood's days to
mans estate, never tire OF quoting the ex-
ample of the busy bee who improves each
shining hour and gathers honey wherever
he may find il. OF course, the interests of
virtue demand that this active worker
should live to a good old age and go down
to an honored grave with the love and es-
TEEN of animate and inanimate nature But
listen to the testimony of the latest writer
on this interesting insect. ''fhe bees life
is rather short, he says; mot over forty
five or forty days long in the busy season
of summer. In winter, however, a period
of comparative idleness, II is estimated to
extend over a greater LEM y IF time, but
with the exception of tn, 0een no bee
lives to be a year old.
This is an age of grim r u and these
facts about the little pee N 5eriously dis
courage the lessons of or youth They
show that when the oee works overtime
slipping from the innoceag flowers, possibly
including a few wild oats, he is shortening
his little life, but when he strikes a sea-
son of comparative idieness he lengthens
his days. 1t is well 10 work. but in the in
terests of the mortality rate, do not work
too hard.
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business OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

CHARLESTON, w. Va, Oct. 4.--Janies C.
McGraw and Kate A. McGraw of Harper's
Ferry, made an assignment to-day of all
their property to Jas. M. Mason, jr., for
the benefit of their creditors. The assign
ment covers the brewery which was built
by Mr. McGraw about three years ago,
costing $40, 600 and other real estate in Har-
per's Ferry. estimated to be worth $40, CO.,
and about $4,000 of personal property.
LOUISVILL1., Ky, Oct. 4.-The Phoenix
Brewing Company, one of the oldest brew
ing companies in the city assigned to-day
to c. c. Vogt. with liabilities of $3.50 600
and assets slightly in excess of this sum-
President c. A. Weber states that the fail
ure was caused by the filing of a number
of attachment suits aggregating $4,000 by
Cooper & Co.. Cincinnati firm.
CHICAGO. Oct. Am the Federal Court
of Appeals to-day Judge Woods handed
down an opinion sustaining the action of
Judge Grosscup in appointing receiver for
the G. H. Fargo Shoe Company, and setting
aside the preferences of the United States
Rubber Company. l.. w. Candee & Co., and
the Metropolitan National Bank
CINCINNATI oct. 4-Sachs & Morrison
wholesale clothiers. Pearl street assigned
to-day to Max b. May. Assets stated to be
$4,000; liabilities, $4,000. Chattel preferences
were given to the amount of $500. Unex-
pected losses ON contracts are said to be
the cause of the assignment.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-05
IT'S WEIGHT IN GOLD.
A New Discovery Which Is Worth
That Much.
To Any One Amlctea with piles.

The Pyramid Pile Cure the new. painless
remedy which has been so remarkably sue
cessful in curing every form of piles and
rectal diseases, has recently been placed on
sale at drugs lsts and ii is safe to say that
when its extraordinary merit becomes fully
known, there will be no such thing as surgi-
cal operations for the cure Of this obstinate
and common trouble.
Mrs. NJ. c. Hinky of COL Mississippi
street, Indianapolis. Ind. says: / had been
terrible sufferera from piles foE fifteen
years and no remedies benefited me, until I
saw an advertisement of the Pyramid Pile
Cure; / got a package, also a package of
Pyramid Pills and used both according to
directions l was astonished at the immedi-
ate relief obtained and now 1 honestly be-
heve the Pyramid to be the only certain
cure for piles.
That you may realize how bad / was, I
will say that was confined to my bed and
went before the college physicians here who
said my case was a new one for them and
wanted seven eight hundred dollars to
undertake a cure; the great pam had
brought on rupture, and L knew an oper-
alton would be death to me on account of
blood poisoning. Nearly every one here
knows OF my terrible suffering from piles
and feel that cannot praise the Pyramid
Pile Cure enough and the Pyramid Pills
Also My husband will join me in highly
recommending the Pyramid. my daughter
was cured by one box only. For several
years / weighed but about ninety pounds,
now I weigh 100 and feel in perfect health.
This seems to be the universal testimony
of every sufferer from piles who have ever
tried the Pyramid; it is the safest. most
painless pile cure yet discovered; contains
no opiate, morphine, cocaine, or any poi
sonous ingredient whatever, has a soothing,
healing effect from the first application,
and the moderate price places it within
the reach of everyone needing treatment.
The Pyramid Pile Cure is sold by druggists
at so cents and 81 per package and the
Pyramid Pills at % cents per box.
Send to Pyramid Co., Albion. Mich. for
free book on cause and cure of piles.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-05
MRS. MAHAN WANTS DIVORCE.
Herself and Two Children Driven Out
with a Shotgun

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RUSHVILLE, Ind. Oct. 4.-William E.
Mahan. sixty-five years years old living
near town. drove his wife, son and daugh-
ter from his house early yesterday morn
ing, drawing a shotgun on them and threat
ening to kill them if they should return
Mahan remained in the house after his
family left, and at II 80 o'clock fire broke out
in the dwelling and Mahan is said to have
been seen running from the house. The
building and everything in 1t was destroyed
The loss amounts to 1000 with insurance
of $50, in the Rush County Farmers Insur-
ance Company. The insurance company is
probing the matter, and the facts will be
presented TO the grand jury next week
Mahan is man of violent temper, and is
given to frequent debauches. He owns a
farm and personal property worth $4,000
He was married twice, his first wife secur-
ing divorce from him. His family can as
sign no reason for his unnatural conduct
Mrs. Mahan came to town this afternoon
and instituted proceedings for divorce on the
plea of cruel treatment She sets up the
act of yesterday as one of the main points.
and asks for 5000 alimony 81, 500 for the
education of her son and daughter, and $500
for attorneys fees.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-05
Other Fires.

EXCELSIOR, Mimi. Oct. 4.-The Hotel
Lafayette, at Minnetonka Beach, a huge
wooden structure, owned by the Great
Northern Railway Company, was burned
to-day. 1t was unoccupied, except by the
Waterman The Lafayette was built in
1880 and finished in 1882, and every year
since has been a resort for prominent peo-
pie from all parts of the country. 1t was
West, being 745 feet long. IS feet wide and
80 feet high. The total area of floors in
the building amount to three and one-half
acres, or five acres including the kitchen,
laundry and servants quarters, which were
all detached from the main building.
There were three hundred bedrooms. No
figures have yet been given out as to the
loss but the insurance is said to be about
$751;
WINONA, ILL.,, Oct. 4.-Fire, supposed to
have been started by tramps, destroyed the
stock barn of Burgess Brothers last night
Thirty horses, many of which had taken
premiums at the recent State fair at Spring
field, were destroyed Loss, $4,000, insurance
on harm alone.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-05
RAILWAY FOR ALASKA.
Overhead Trolley Line to BE Con
structed Early Next Year.

Overhead Trolley Line to Be Con-
structed Early Next Year.
NEW YORK, oct. 4.-Captain John Irving,
of the Victoria and Sitka Steamship Com
pany, commander of the Islander, is at the
Fifth-avenue Hotel. Said Captain Irving in
an interview to-day: There will be a rail-
road over the passes and down the Yukon
to the foot of the White Horse rapids before
midsummer next. This enterprise is partly
responsible for my visit to New York. 1t
will be an overhead trolley, chiefly for
freight, and will simplify the trip to Daw-
son City to such an extent that we shall
carry goods down the Yukon instead of up
the river from ST. MichaePs. On my first
trip to that port early in June, l shall carry
lumber for barges which will be taken to
the upper Yukon After the railroad is
built our boats will rarely descend below
Fort Yukon. The barges will be hoated or
pushed down stream from the end of the
carrying trolley and towed back. We shall
be able to make several of these short trips
per month. There will be no fear of pro-
visions running short them
''Will the building of that freight trolley
be an expensive undertaking." was asked.
"On the contrary, it will be very ineXpen-
sive, replied Captain Irving. However,
it will not carry passengers. The system
employed so successfully for transporting
ore and coal will be used. The packages
will not exceed 100 or 200 pounds, and will
be carried on an overhead wire, propelled
by a series of endless cables. Elevations
and steep grades are not factors in this
method of transportation. The trees
along the route will serve to sup
port the carriers. A large store
house can be erected at the terminus, and
the goods shipped through all ordinary
winter weather. This will do away with
the hardships of the trip. Any man can
walk over the Chilcat pass if he is unin-
numbered. Twenty miles of climbing from
Dyea takes him over that obstacle Then
the lakes and river do the rest. We will
undertake to deliver his supplies ahead of
his arrival
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-05
Destruction in Manitoba.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Oct. 4.-Reports
continue to pour in from all parts of the
province of destruction by prairie fires. In
some districts not a farmer escaped loss
by the fiery wave that swept over the coun-
try. Appeals were made in all the city
churches last night for aid for those who
suffered loss in the bush country east Of
the CITY, This was where the two women
and five children lost their lives and many
other families had thrilling escapes from
fires which hedged them in on all sides.
Several families lost homes, crops and all
live stock and as they are new settlers
they are left destitute. On Saturday after
noon the fire ran TO within one hundred
lions of the city and firemen had to be
called out to beat out the threatening
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal
FORT WAYNE, Ind, Oct. 4.-Allen coun-
ty is now suffering from a drought which
will cost the farmers many thousands of
dollars this fall During the weeks this
county has been without rain the sun has
scorched the vegetables, and it is impossible
to find pasture for the cattle save in the
immediate vicinity of streams. All the small
water courses have run dry. The ground is
too hard to pillow for wheat and the time
for sowing has now gone by. A few farm
ers. and a very few, who sowed wheat early
in the season have fields dotted here and
there with green where the wheat has come
up. but there is not enough to be worth
harvesting Unless heavy rains come this
week there is small prospect for Allen coun-
~ farmers next year.
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PEAT BOG INUNDATED.
How an Illinois Farmer Saved His
Land from Fire.

DANVILLE ILL.,. Oct. 4.-John Goodwine,
jr., has opened up his giant six-inch well
two miles east. This well was bored when
artesan water was first found in this vi
cinity but it furnished such a volume of
water that Mr.. Goodwine became appre-
hensive that it would undermine his farm
and inundate his premises and stopped it
up. During the prevailing dry spell peaty
bog on the farm, located in the middle of a
large cornfield, caught fire. The smoke
from the burning bog was suffocating, and
as the SOIL which is of the vegetable forma-
ton, was burning several feet below the
surface, all ordinary means of quenching
the fire failed. AS a last resort Mr.. Good
wine ordered his employees to open up the
big well and turn it into the burning bog.
When the rocks and piling were with
drawn and the well opened powders weigh
ing six pounds were thrown out and a six
inch stream of water, rising to an altitude
of twenty-five feet was soon running. The
volume of the well was measured, and it
was found that it was flowing So 400 barrels
or over 2, 600,0 600 gallons of water day. The
well had been flowing but two days when
the burning bog was submerged Hundreds
of people visit the we'll daily.
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pay. time came Saturday night they were
paid by the piece. They say that this re-
duces their earnines q per cent. The en-
poyers state that il is the custom TO pay
by the piece in every otner factory of the
kind IN the country, and that they are sim
in paying thus. After the boys were paid
off Saturday night they held a meeting in
the grove near the factory and appointed a
committee to confer with workmen in SINH
lar lines at Alexandria. Peru and Elwood
with view to the formation of a union
Another meeting was held in Middleton
Hall yesterday to give further consideration
to the matter. The employers say that IT
viii be but a few days until the places are
filled and the factory running again as
usual.
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Indiana Obituary.

SHELBYVILLE, Ind, Oct. 4.-George w.
Isley, one of the best-known citizens OF
Jackson township died of typhoid fever to-
day at noon. He served as auditor of Shelby
county from 1875 to 1879. The funeral will
be from ST. George Lutheran Church under
the auspices of the Ancient Order OF United
Workman.
John Coleman, aged about ninety-one
years died at his home in Washington
township from the effect of fall. He was
a pioneer of the county. His surviving chill
dren are Mrs. Charles Williams, of Chi
cago; Mrs. John Maddox, of Morristown.
He was the grandfather of Mrs. Nadive.
who was murdered at Flatrock two weeks
ago.
JEFFERSONVILLE Ind, Oct. 4-The
prominent residents of Washington county,
is dead at the age of eighty. His brother,
Benjamin Meade, died a few weeks ago at
the advanced age of eighty-four, and word
has just been received that Aunt Katy
Farrell, sister, had died at her home in
Red Bird, Mo. The three were the only
surviving members of one of the most
prominent families in this part of the State.
KOKOMO, Ind, Oct. 4-The body of
Miner T. Thomas, of Galveston, one of the
most prominent residents of this part OF
the State, who died at Minneapolis, Satur-
day night, were shipped home to-day and
the funeral services will he held at Calves
ton Baptist Church at 8 o'clock Tuesday
afternoon, conducted by Daniel Pratt G:
A. r. post. He leaves a wife and one child
and brother DR.. William Thomas, of IN
dianapoliS.
BRAZIL, Ind, Oct. 4.--Michael Huffman.
aged eighty-six, was found dead in bed
at his home, in Staunton, this morning.
Mr.. Huffman was as well as usual when
he retired last evening and it is supposed
that sudden attack of heart disease
caused his death. He was among the old
est residents of the county.
PLYMOTH, Ind, Oct. 4.-The funeral of
Uncle David Cummins, who died on Satur-
day, aged .eighty-four, took place on Sun
resident of Marshall county sixty-two
years.
SEYMOUR, Ind, Oct. AIRS. Thomas
Godfrey, sixty-eight years old died at her
of the stomach. She leaves husband and
five children.