davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-11-06
G. A. r. MAN DEAD.

keokuk Ia. Nov. Sd. W. Bunker. OF
"alesourg, ILL.,, junior commander of the
Illinois G. a. r.. was stricken with apo
p'exy at the Riverside sanltarium at
Hamilton. ILL.,, and died in a few hours
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-11-06
MINING MAN DEAD.

Spokane. Nov. 5-A. L. NcCIains so,
retary and treasurer Of the Rambler.
cariboo Mining Company. died here last
night Of typhoid fever.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-11-06

York. Tho passengers were Informed az
10 what htd occurred and there was no
c1citomcnt among them at any time.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-11-06

marked courtesy. IR effect upon tho
Spanish representative was marked.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-18

The greater part of the business trans
acted by the B~rightwOod Town Board at
its meeting last night was in completing ar
rangements for the hauling of gravel on
the streets that are in bad condition. A
resolution was adopted authorizing the
street and alley committee to employ all
the teams available for the purpose of haul
ing gravel upon the streets, and the mar
hal was instructed to watch the hauling
and spread the gravel as soon as it was
placed. Bills amounting to 5000 were al
lowed for the hauling of gravel that had
already been placed upon the streets. Mr..
Doty, or Putnam street. asked to have sew
eral loads of gravel hauled upon the side
walk in front OF his house, which he re-
ported as being lower than other portions
of the street, and the board informed him
that his request would be granted. II. ".
Smith asked for permission TO lay a drain
from the cellar of his new building. on
Pendleton avenue. to the sewer just west
OF the building, and considerable discussion
was occasioned by the request, as the sew
er, though used by the town. is a private
one, running through j. ]. Valdenair's
property. lie refused TO allow the proposed
drain To be run into il as his private prop
privilege of the right OF way through his
property. TO the town for $500. The board.
however. concluded to let the city buy IL
when IL came into possession. IL IL desired
the use OF 1T. The only other outlet Mr..
Smith has Is TO tunnel under the tracks OF
the Big Four Railroad Company. and this
method would cost him considerable money.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-18
THE LEAGUES AT OUTS.
Minneapolis May Stir Up a Big Base
ball Row.

There is now a probability of open and
hostile warfare between the Western
League and the National Lague. and base
ball circles are looking forward eagerly TO
the outcome. Ii is asserted on what is
claimed good authority that the Western
League has decided 10 stand by the Mime
apolis club in it's refusal to abide by the de-
cision OF the board of arbitration in the
Hutchison case. 1t is declared that the
Minneapolis club will play Hutchinson and
that the Western League is prepared to
stand by it in spite of the ruling of the
board Of arbitration.
The Western League, it is claimed by a
Minneapolis paper, has never been very
friendly toward the big league, and most of
the baseball magnates have secretly be-
lieved they would be able 10 come out ahead
OF the fight should they make war on the
National League OF course. this feeling
has never been shared by the owners of
the indianapolis club on account of the
close relation of John T. Brush with both
leagues. Minneapolis has all along sided
with indianapolis, but now il is believed
this club has gone over to the large major
ity. The fact that Minneapolis is on the
warpath is probably 10 be made a sufficient
reason for the Western League TO open the
light again. The decision TO do so was
probably made at the recent Detroit meet
ing.
IL is said the clubs are prepared to be
blacklisted and hope that this will be their
fate. Unless the national board or arbitra-
ton shall change its decision regarding
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-18
DEPUTY WORRELL DISCHARGED
The Investigation of Statistician's Of
flee Begins To-Day.

Acting under the direction of the Gov
ernor, the attorney general and auditor will
begin to-day an investigation into the ac-
counts of the Bureau of Statistics. Statis-
tician Thompson viii turn over to them all
papers and vouchers, giving them what as
sistance he can.
John Worrell, the deputy statistician, who
brought the charges of malfeasance, was
discharged from the office yesterday morn
ing. 1t developed that he based his charges
upon the fact that the amount of the checks
issued by the statistician did not agree with
the amount of the appropriation drawn.
During the absence of his chief, Mr.. Wor-
rell had got into his desk and distracted
several bundles of Cancelled checks which
he canvassed and made up the figures upon
which he based his charges. The %statisti-
clan declares that part of the money paid
out for the expenses of the office was paid
by check, but most of the salaries of agents
were paid in currency. 1t is also charged
that during his absence, at the same time
that the Cancelled checks were taken from
his desk, the expense book in which he
kept a daily account of the office expenses
was also distracted and has disappeared.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-18
STATE TRUANT OFFICERS
COMPULSORY EDUCATION LAW Me-
CEssITATEs APPOINTMENT OF 400.
Secretary of state Board of Charities
Not Anxious to Participate in
Selection of Them.

Secretary Bicknell, of the State Board of
Charities. and Superintendent Geeting, of
the State Board OF Education, are looking
forward with not a little terror TO the time
when the compulsory education law shall
go into effect and they will have to partici-
pate IN the appointment of in the neighbour
hood of four hundred truant officers. The
law requires that there be a truant officer
for every Incorporated town and city and
leaves the appointment of these officers to
be made by a board of five, composed of
the county superintendent, two other local
school officers, the secretary of the State
Board of Charities and a member of the
State Board of Education. This member of
the State Board of Education must be Sc
lected by the board, but Mr.. Geeting has
a natural presentiment that he will be it
Il did not know that the law tangled me
up in this matter of appointments" said
Secretary Bicknell, of the State Board of
Charities yesterday, until 1t was upon It's
final passage in the Senate and 1T was too
late for me to put in a plea to be left out.
/ regret 1t sincerely. 1t is entirely outside
of the field of the Charities Board, and
there is really no reason why any OF the re-
sponsibility of appointing these officers
should have been put upon our board. Fur
thermore, IL is going 10 be dfhlcult 10 Keep
entirely clear of the little local political
squabbles that these appointments will en-
gender. The pay of the truant officer Is "
a day, and there will be something or q
scramble for IL. particularly in the smaller
towns. The county superintendent are po-
ltical officers and they will have their
friends after them for these appointments.
The efficiency of our board would be greatly
crippled If the people were to get the i'm,
preston that IL was in any wise pontlcal
or that 1t had any political leanings. The
duty. however, will have to be accepted for
the present. but two years hence L shall
certainly ask for a modification of the law"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-18
HI BICYCLE SHOW.
Formal Opening TO-Night-First Ever
Held i'm This City.

Tne first bicycle show ever held in this
City will open this afternoon, but it is not
expected that there will be many visitors
until tonight. The exhibits will all be In
place before night, and most of them will
be in position by noon. Those who attend
this afternoon will find plenty TO see, but
there will be no music until tonight, when
the formal opening will take place. Each
evening and afternoon, beginning with to-
night, there will be a promenade concert
by a brass band
The visitors will not find simply an ar
ray of bicycles scattered over the hall for
their inspection. The hall has been divided
into booths and aisles. The booths viii be
on raised platforms and most of them Will
be canopied. All will be finely decorated
and made attractive with bunting and flags
and other things that are pleasing to the
eye. There will be in the booths finished
wheels, wheels in parts, pieces in process
of construction, raw material used in the
manufacture and all kinds of SundrieS,
including attachments for bicycles, bicycle
clothing and the thousand and one things
that a rider finds will serve him some
good purpose and add 10 his pleasure.
The Wheelway League will be represented
in a booth. where buttons emitting the
holder to the use of the bicycle path will
be sold. This booth will be attended by
several young ladies.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-18
THE EVANSVILLE SLATE
SENATOR JOHN r. WHITE MAY BE-
COME THE NEW SUPERINTENDENT.
Governor Announces All the Other
boards OF Control for the
State Institutions.

Governor Mount yesterday announced
the boards of control of all the State be
nevolent institutions but one. the Southern
Insane Hospital at Evansville. The slate
under consideration for this hospital. If IL
is finally decided to make a change in the
management. Is IS follows:
Senator V. p. Bozeman. Republican,
John Nugent. Republican. Evansville.
John B~iedenkOpf. Democrat, Spencer
cou2t-.
This slate contemplates the selection OF
DIR. Johr II. White. of Spencer county. who
represents the Spencer-Warrick district in
the State Senate, TO succeed DIR. Thomas
as superintendent of the institution. The
other candidates are DR.. j. w. DeForrest,
of Boonville, and DIR. j. w. Compton. of
Evansville. On March s. the last day Of
the legislative session, a meeting was held
In the Republican state committee rooms
attended by Senators White and Bozeman,
Clamor PelZer, Otto Kolb and three or
four other politicians of the First district,
and they agreed to recommend this board
TO the Governor. though it was not then
understood that all of them would favor
the appointment of DIR. White. However,
since the recommendation was made, it
has developed that Senator Bozeman and
Mr.. B~iedenkopf are favorable to him. Sem
ator White is in the city looking after his
fences. When asked on Tuesday evening
by a Journal reporter what brought him
TO the city he said he had run up TO see
a child of a %neighbor who was here in
school. Asked several direct questions
about whom he favored for one of the
Southern Hospital board, he said he was
not mixed in the fight, but some of them
were favoring a man from Spencer county
whose name he had forgotten. He thought
however. ii was "a man named Beau
champ He expected the appointments to
be announced yesterday. but it is not i'm
possible that the matter will be left open
until after the Evansville city election,
which falls upon April 5.
The old Scholz-Posey contest has made
its appearance in this question. Nugent
Is a representative of the Scholz interest,
and when the Posey people found that his
appointment had been recommended. Mr..
PoSey and others came UP in haste TO
recommend Charles Heilman. but they
have about settled in the belief that Mr..
Nugent will be appointed.
There Is still strong pressure upon the
Governor against any change in the man
agement at all and while the State Board
OF Charities is taking no part in the con-
test, IL is said that the board has said
that 1t had M fault to find with the
Thomas management. On the other hand,
IL has been shown beyond doubt that the
institution is run in the interest Of the
Democracy in Evansville politics.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-18
HELPED BURY BOOTH.
Oae of the Six Men Sworn to Secrecy
Is Dead.

Yesterday morning John Parshall, aged
sixty-.ive years, died suddenly at his home,
at 4O5 West Eleventh street. It is sup
posed that heart disease was the cause. EIe
ate a hearty breakfast and shortly after
ward fell to the floor dead.
He was one of the soldiers who pursued
John Wilkes Booth. the assassin of Abra-
ham Lincoln. Immediately after the ira
gedy, and killed him.. He was also one Of
the six men who were sent to bury the
body where none could find it, and was
sworn TO never tell its resting place. AS
far as known, he is the fifth of the six men
TO die.
He also was a member of the famous ex-
petition that was sent TO dislodge Brigham
Young and install in office his successor as
Governor of Utah. The successor had been
appointed by President Buchanan and was
denied the right to the office by Young.
Parshall drove one of the ammunition wag-
ons that went. With the troops.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-18
DIDN'T PAY COUNTY LICENSES.
Saloons That Tried to Evade This Pay
ment Closed.

As a result of the investigation into the
license question set on foot a few weeks
ago by Deputy Prosecutor Walker seven
saloons have been closed by License Inspec-
tor Manning for failure to procure county
licenses. AT the time the investigation was
begun 1t was found that there were thirty
three saloon keepers in the city who had
secured their city license by depositing the
amount of the county license fee with the
county and agreeing to secure the county
license at the next meeting of the COM
missioners. This they failed TO do and were
running without the county license They
mediately, but several of them failed 10
do SO. although the commissioners have had
two meetings since then at which the Ii
censes could have been secured. The result
was that seven of the saloons. the only
ones that had not bought county licenses,
were closed by tanning.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-18
A DANE KILLED BY A TRAIN.


About 4:3O o'clock yesterday evening
Peter Nelson. a Dane. t~wenty-three years
old, was run over by q train on the Belt
road at the Twsnty-fourth-street crossing
I'm North Indianapolis and received injuries
from which he died last night. at the City
Hospital. Nelson had been I'm this coun-
try but about ten months. He had been
staying with his uncle. August Miller. who
lives near Emerichs-ille. Nelson was a
gardener and found employment on his
uncIe's truck farm.
Just how Nelson met with the accident
which ended IN his death IS not certain.
He was not seen about the track by any
one who Is able TO tell how IL happened.
He was conscious when taken by the city
ambulance to the hospital and said that
he tried TO board the train The wheels
passed over both his legs. severing them
above the knees. 1t was not thought pos
sible TO save the mans life. and no effort
was made to afnDutate the Stubs of the
legs. The man was 30 weak from the loss
of blood that he would have died in the
operating room. AS IL was he lived until
$50 o'clock last night.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-18

Hutchinson, ii cannot we'll do otherwise than
blacklist Minneapolis. Then the other clubs
of the league which have agreed to stand
by Minneapolis may come out openly and
protest against the action and in all prob
ability receive the same punishment as
Minneapolis. 1t is then easy for all the
clubs 10 withdraw from the agreement
has connected the two leagues. As
to the probability of the national board
reconsidering its action regarding the
Hutchinson case. there is little. 1t is claimed.
The board will meet again April u, but
inasmuch as il is generally conceded that
the original agreement between Chicago
and Minneapolis. which sought to save
Hutchinson for Minneapolis, was a mere
subterfuge for violating the national agree
ment. it is hardly likely the board can re-
verse its ruling made at the Baltimore
meeting. If it does 1t will clearly discrim-
mate against st. Louis and would likely
cause trouble within the National League.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-18

lice and fire forces, and people dealing with
them extend them credit by reason of such
connection.
Seamon was cautioned TO settle some
claims against him and allowed by the
board to continue on the force. Last even
ing he went 10 superintendent Colbert. and
the latter says he criticised the policy OF
the board and questioned it's right to enter
into his private business affairs. Super
intendent Colbert thought a man who
would not pay his debts and would criti-
else the action OF the board for trying to
make him do so ought not to be on the
force. and he determined 10 give the board
a chance to investigate and ascertain If
Seamon is this kind of a man. Seamon was
suspended pending the Investigation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-18

Patrolnan Seamon was suspended last
evening by Superintendent Colbert and will
be required to appear before the Board
of Safety. Yesterday morning he was be-
fore the board on account of some unpaid
bills. 1t is a rule that all city employees
shall be required to pay debts accruing
during their service. The Board of Safety
has never yet gone back of an employees
actual period of service and required him
TO pay bills contracted previous TO his con-
ncction with the city, but the board In a
measure makes itself responsible for all
the obligations of the members OF the DO
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-18
Both sIeep. and wakes a, NfCbt.

o Bray, forty-three years old, a char
acter well known to the police and not I'M
familiar with the workhouse, was declared
insane yesterday. The finding of the in
sanity commission, copied verbatim. is as
follows: II talks incoherent, is destruc-
tive. sleeps at night and is wakeful at
night. Has delusions.' Bray is an old SOL
der without a home and has been a source
of much trouble to the police. During the
last three years he has been arrested more
than fifty times, usually for drunkenness.
He would go TO the workhouse TO serve out
a fine of 81 and costs. but often got re-
leased before his time was up on promises
to do better in the future.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-18

point the boards for the Northern Prison
and Southern Hospital. the police boards
Tor Elkhart. Muncie. Anderson. Richmond
and Terre Haute: a Democratic member or
the State Board of Tax Commissioners; an
Inspector OF factories under the child-labor
law; two members of the board OF arhltra-
ton under the new arbitration law and the
members of the state medical board under
the new medical law. A delegation OF Terre
Haute physicians called upon him yester-
day afternoon in behalf of the appointment
OF DIR. Currier. of that city. as a member
or this board. and a number or the phy-
sicians who were in the last Legislature
would like 10 be memherS of IL.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-18
GRABBED HER POCKETBOOK.
Mrs. Edward johnson Was About to
Give the Beggar a Dime.

George Grant. aged twenty-nine, giving
no address. was arrested last evening by
Patrolman STREET on a charge of highway
robbery. Mrs. Edward Johnson, of %
Massachusetts avenue, was walking along
North Delaware street when a la asked
her for a dime with which to get some
thing to eat She started to give him the
money and he tried TO grab her pOcketboOk.
made his escape from the woman down
the alley. Later Grant was arrested in a
restaurant. and is said TO be the robber.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-18
TOO MANY WIVES.
A KOkOmO Man Arrested on a COM
plant from Indianapolis.

A dispatch from Kokomo says Paul w.
Bossart, assistant manager of the Ameri-
can Telephone Manufacturing Company, of
that place. was arrested yesterday by Of
ficer Welty for having too many wives.
The arrest was based on information of a
Mrs. r.. A. Bossart, of indianapolis. who
claims to be the legal wife of the accused.
For two years Bossart has lived at the
Columbian Hotel in Kokomo with a woman
who passed as his wife. Bossart gave
$1,000 bond for his appearance for trial.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-18
verdict for Abattoir Company.

Judge Harvey instructed the jury in the
case of William Thorn against the Indian
apolis Abattoir Company and others for
$40. 900 damages TO bring in a verdict for the
defendants. He held that Thorn had failed
10 fix the responsibility on any of the de-
PENDANTS. Some time ago Thorn was in
injured in a gas explosion at the abattoir,
and claimed IL was the fault of the COM
~ VI
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-18
Widow of Late VIM. NJ. Blake Dead.

Mrs. Mary +. Blake. of this city, widow
Of the late William II. Blake. died Tues
day at the home of her daughter. Mrs. b.
ID. Haugh, OF Anderson. She was sixty-four
years OF age and most of her life had been
spent i'm this city. The funeral will be at
the residence of her daughter. Mrs. Edwin
Francis, No. ll3S North Pennsylvania
street, this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-18
Dunlap's Celebrated Hats.
Seaton'S Hat Store.
The Opening Season.

Gust. Rosberg, the merchant tailor, %
North Pennsylvania street, has opened the
season with a roomful of tastefully-draped
spring suitings and overcoatings. Visitors
are treated to an exhibition of the choicest
designs and textures of imported and do
nestle fabrics. The line of fancy cheviot
suitings is especially attractive. All the
other lines shown are up to the hour. You
are invited to inspect them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-18
For Family Use

You cannot get a better brand of beer than
the Home Brewing Company's Columbia"
1t cannot be excelled. Bottled by its maker.
1850.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-18
Bowen-MerrilI Fire Anniversary.

Yesterday was the ninth anniversary OF
the disastrous Bowen-Merriil Company fire.
In which twelve fremen lost their lives.
Following their custom. the company yes
teruay sent q chsck Iof siVy 70 Mayor rag
fur4.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-18

Insure with German Fire Insurance of In
diana. General Offices. % South Delawar
street. Fire, tornado and explosion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-18

as a r~estorer has no equal
Cooks Imperial Extra Dry Champagne /
pure, delicious and fruity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-18

Good Coffee.
r. NJ. Mueller, 81 Mass. ave. Tel. 575.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-18

Feed your horse JANES'S Dustless o
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-18

Furniture at lowest Drices-wm. L. Elder.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-18

McGilliard Agency Co. Fire Insurance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-18

The commencement exercises OF the Physio-
Medical College of Indianapolis viii be held to-
night at the English Opera House, instead OF the
Grand, as previously announced. Tie public in
Vited-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-18

Fine harness. f. L. Harrington. 81 f. Market 81.