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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-25

BIRMINGHAM, Eng, Sept. 24.-The or
gan of Joseph Chamberlain, secretary of
state for the colonies. the Birmingham
Post, says the government of Canada, early
in 1898. will make large purchases of heavy
field batteries and a number of defense
guns the latter being for new scheme for
the defense of Montreal and the river be-
low that city Special instructions to this
effect the Post adds, were issued immedi-
ately after the return to Canada of Sir Will
fred I,aurier the premier.
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Chance for American Physicians.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.-The subject of
premature burial is just now attracting in
kerest in Italy. according to a report of
United States Consul Mantius at Turin. He
says that, realizing there is at present no
Infallible test that may be applied to
prevent the horrifying cases of persons
buried alive, a number of prominent physi-
clans and laymen are at work preparing
reports on the subject. These will be made
the striking feature of the medical depart
ment of the national exposition next April
at Turin. Reports of similar kind are ex-
peeted from all over the world, as prizes
will be offered for the best solution of the
problem, and the consul says inestimabe
good to the cause will result if the people
of the United States interest themselves in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-25

WASHINGTON, Sept. PA telegram
was received at the War Department to-
day from Lieutenant Colonel Randall, at
Seattle, Wash, announcing his departure
on the steamer Humboldt for st. Michaers
last night. The party consists of thirty
two men all told.
All manner of suggestions, mostly more
less cranky coming to the War
Department looking to the establishment of
winter communication with Dawson. They
include locomotives, patent sleds and ele-
waited roads. A Boston firm has come for
ward with what appears to be a practicable
offer to deliver large quantity of food
supplies at Dawson for a lump sum- They
propose to make use of new route. name
", via Copper river, which lies we'll to the
westward of Chilcat pass, and assert that
this passage is far superior in point Of
practicability for horses to any other.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-25
New indiana Postmaxters.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 24.-Fourth-class
Indiana postmasters were appointed to-day
as follows: Bradford, Harrison county,
Frederick Rookie, vice Clara Habermel,
removed Carthage. Rush county, w. L.
Walker, vice L. B. McCarty, removed;
Celestine, Dubois county, Ferdinand
Schneider, jr.. vice r. S. Meschede, re-
moved: Clymers Cass county, Franklin
Dickerson vice Fannie Hinkle removed;
Evansville, Brown county, j. P. Browning.
vice j. c.. Setser, removed: Ham
ilton, Steuben county, r.. p.
Swaidner vice A ]. Stout, removed:
Horace. Decatur county, c. E.. Sturgis.
vice o. NJ. B. Samuels, removed; Napol-
con, Ripley county, A. G. Griffith, vice q.
+. Frank removed; Neil Creek, Jefferson
county, George Shinness, vice j. b. Teww,
removed New Marion, Ripley county j.
T. Spears, vice William Chandler, removed;
Ohio Falls. Clark county, w. N. Reynolds,
vice J. NJ. Snelser, removed; Sugar Branch,
Switzerland county, S. r. Heath, vice
Henry Likely, removed; Young America,
Cass county, Ezra Kahl, vice d. A. Staley,
removed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-25

mer vacation. His son, DIR. Andrade. has
also returned from trip TO Venezuela,
where he went TO take part in the national
ton of his uncle. Gen. Ygnacio Andrade
brother of the minister. to succeed President
cles house. in Miranda, during the early
part of the campaign, and then went TO
Caracas, where the election of General An
drade was celebrated by Il huge procession
and other demonstrations. The election
gave much Satisfaction DR.. Andrade saws.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-25
Crossed After a Hard TussIe.

SEATTLE. Wash, Sept. 24.-John Vance
government instructor at the Indian School
at Neah Bay. arrived from Skaguay to-
day on the steamer Alki. Mr.. Vance was
at Skaguay last Friday. He says the pros
pectors and miners who have been con-
gregated at Skaguay the last few weeks are
all now we'll over the summit. They have
had a hard tussle but got through ali right
The trail was almost a solid mass of mud
but it could be traversel. Mr.. Vance had
heard nothing of the snow and rock Slide
reported from Port Townsend to-day as
having killed eighteen men.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-25

LONDON, Sept. 25.--A dispatch to the
Daily News from Berlin says: 1.-THE police
have arrested a match boy ten years old
who turns out to be member of a band
of youthful incendiaries responsible for the
sensational and mysterious series of house
fires during the last two years. The leader
of the band is boy of fourteen, and is be-
leved TO be insane. The arrested boy has
confessed that he threw burning matches
into the storerooms of stores in order to
see the fire engines run. This morning
(Friday) another great incendiary fire oc-
CURED in the street where stands the house
in which the boy was arrested.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-25
No whisky for Gold Seekers.

PORT TOWNSEND. Wash, Sept "a
Four hours were spent here by customs
officers in searching the steamship VILLA
mette previous to her departure for Alaska
The search was rewarded by the discovery
of one hundred cases of whisky. which were
seized. The steamer carried full cargo of
freight and 10 passengers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-25

down with torpedo boat No. &c off Cux-
haven: '"The heavy blow that has fallen
upon you afflicts me also most painfully /
shall faithfully cherish the memory of your
beloved son. on whose character and abi-
tiles such high hopes were placed. May
God strengthen you in this heavy grief"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-25
he IndiananolIs Journal.

SpecIaI 70 the Indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind, Sept M.-The miners
benefit ball. given at the pavilion at West
Side Park, last night, was attended by
nearly one thousand people. and Melted the
destitute families of the strikers over $780,
This will bring the amount of the dOna~
tions from Muncie to the state committee
to the sum of about 5000, and If the call is
made the sun will be swelled to $1,000, the
amount MuncIe promised to donate in the
start.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-25

LONDON, Sept. 24.-There is an alarming
outbreak of typhoid fever at Maidstone,
Kent, due to drainage from a hop pickers'
encampment polluting the water. The tenn
porary hospitals there already contain $40
graphed for additional doctors and nurses.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-25
six Hundred Mlners auit.

SCRANTON. Pa, Sept A.-Several hum
bred miners in the Edgerton, Last Chance
and Eyebrow mines of Simpson & Watkins
have struck and six hundred miners are
out. further strike is threatened In the
big Northwest mine. also owned by Simp-
son Il Watkins. The Edgerton men went
out on Monday but returned to work pend
ing conference with Superintendent j. L..
Crawford Their demands being refused
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-25

MADRAS, Sept Blowing to the floods
having washed away bridge of the Ban
lore-Mysore Railroad, near Madur, an
engine and five cars filed with passengers
wers preciptated into the river, causing
great loss of life.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-25
Emperor Millinm.s Conhnlence.

LONDON, Sept. Pa dispatch to the
Times from Berlin says that Emperor VIII
liam has sent the following telegram of
coincidence TO the Grand Duchess of Neck
lenburg-Schwerin upon the death of her
son. Duke Frederick William. who went
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-25
INDIANA LAYMEN's CONVENTION.
How the Recent Gathering is viewed
by Il Church Paper.

We are glad TO say that the spirit OF the
was earnest. and that there was
scarcely an excess of speech, except in very
exceptional instances. The lGymen believe
that they have just claims upon the ex-
tended church service. and no one should be
surprised that there is a disposition TO en-
phasize these claims. Sad, indeed, would
be the state Of that church whose laymen
were apathetic with respect to active lay
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-25
worse, than Greek bullets.

fever is ravaging the Turkish troops in
Thessaly Six thousand men have already
been inValided home and four thousand
others are awaiting transportation back to
Turkey.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-25
Enrtv KiIIed and NIanv Ininred.

LONDON, Sept. PA private dispatch
from Rome says that about forty persons
were killed and many injured by an earth
slip at the Sulphur mines, near Girgenti
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-25

WASHINGTON. Ind, Sept 24.-Mont-
gomery coal miners went to work in a body
to-day. The price paid for mining will be
the same as before and the miners will be
charged less for their powder and oil.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-25

this morning, they did not go to work. The
Last Chance and Eyebrow men had made
the same demands, which had to do with
the dockage system. superintendent Craw-
ford has informed the men that the mines
will be closed for the winter if they do not
resume work. The men will meet to-mor-
row.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-25
The Nicaragua Revolution.

MANAGUA. Nicaragua, Sept. A-The
revolution is declared suppressed. Presi-
dent Zelaya, however, continues forword-
ing soldiers to the various departments af-
fected by the instruction Troops are
guarding San Juan del Sur, Rivas and
Granada. 1t is reported from RiVas that the
government of Costa Rica has proclaimed
a state of siege The cause is not given.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-25

The City Of Panama has contracted for
q modern system of water works having
up to this time relied upon rainwater els
terms and bad wells.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-25
The General Idea.
Kansas City JournaI.


From all accounts, Merode is a young
woman who covers her ears with her hair
and is otherwise mostly without covering.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-25
FLIGHT OF MAD MULLAH
HEADQUARTERS OF THE FANATICAL
PRIEST TAKEN BY BRITISH.
Tribesmen Losing Faith in Their
Leader Because He Failed to Close
Muzzies of the Encmy's Guns.

LONDON, Sept. 25.-According to special
dispatches from Simla, the British, who
on Wednesday captured Radmanai Pass.
held by the Haddah Mullah, with a large
force of Mohmands and Shinwaris, have
pushed on from the pass and without OPP
position, have occupied Jarobi the village
and headquarters of the Haddah Mullah,
who has fled. 1t is believed that the cap
ture of the village and the flight of the
priest will break the back of the opposi-
ton of the tribesmen and render unneceS-
sary the further advance of the British.
Owing to the protracted campaign
against the Mohmands, General Sir Will
liam Lockhart, commander of the Punjab
frontier force, and in supreme control of
the punitive operations, has decided to
postpone the general advance against the
Afridis at Tfrah, their summer headquar-
tiers, until Oct. 8. The Afridis are encamped
in strong position a rugged plateau,
which it will be most difficult to scale, and
they are assembled there in great force.
According to intelligence received from
SANTANA an advance body of over two thou
sand of the enemy has arrived in the
Khanti valley and is watching the move
ments of the British troops. The Afridis
are spreading a report that the Ameer of
Afghanistan has demanded hostages from
them and will help them if hostages are
given.
The news from the Mohmand expedition
is very satisfactory. General Jeffreys, who
is meeting with little opposition, is de-
stroying the enemies Notifications and viii
lagos. The tribesmen appear cowed and
overtures of surrender are expected very
shortly. 1t appears that they lost over
seventy killed and a large number wounded
during the night attack on Gen. Sir Bindon
Blood's column, their heavy defeat de-
stroying their faith in the mullahs, who
had promised to close the muzzles of the
British guns by divine means
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-25
n.rr cure Liver lis; easy TO
Notice to Contractors and Builders Of
Gravel and MacadaEized Roads.


Notice is hereby given that the Board OF Com
missioners Of Orange county, Indiana, will. up
TO o clOcn D. m. of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-25
suicide of A. c. Lewis.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 24.-Abram C. Lew
is. president of a concern styled THE
American Cotton Investment Company"
with offices in this city. committed suicide
to-day in his office by shooting himself
in the head. He left a note to a lawyer
friend stating that business troubles had
caused him to take his life and another di-
rected to my wife and child" The letter
to the lawyer indicated that Lewis and his
company had lost considerable money by
the failure recently of several large bucket
shops. Lewis was about forty-five years
old. German by birth and a resident OF
Boston prior to coming TO Washington.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-25

WASHINGTON. Sept o. = Minister An
drade. of Venezuela. is back from his sum-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-25

receive sealed proposals for the construction
the following named roads in said county to-
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-05-29

Great cities are seldom pre-eminent for
any particular line of manufactures Their
industries are too large and diversified for
any one of them to show marked superior
ity over all the rest. Now and then great
industry of some city is taken from 1t.
When ships were made of wood, London
was the greatest shipbuilding center of
the world. Then iron ships came into use,
and London has lost her shipbuilding
trade, which has been transferred to the
Clyde, the Tyne and tho Wear, right at
the sources of iron and coal supplies.
The great vessels in which most ocean
commerce is now carried have severely af-
fected the interests of some ports. Cities
that once were seaports are now inland, as
far as any great amount of ocean traffic is
concerned. The largest ships of commerce
could once sail up the Avon to Bristol and
the Severn to Gloucester. The far larger
ships that now carry commerce cannot
reach these places, but are compelled to
stop at Avonmouth and Cardiff. Cargoes
were formerly landed as far up the Thames
as London Bridge, but steamers now have
TO stop at the docks, some miles below that
point. Bremen was once one of the world s
greatest commercial cities, but her water
front is now too shallow for deep sea YES
sells, and her port is at Bremerhaven, sew
eral miles below Hamburg, accessible to
all classes of vessels, though 60 miles from
the sea, has reaped tho benefit of Bremen's
misfortune, which, however, has not de-
priyed the latter city Of q large carrying
trade.
The making of-a town or city may some
times depend upon what seems at first a
trivial circumstance SILK weaving is con-
fined to towns where the streams are par
ticularly free from impurities. Some wa
ters are better than others for silk dyeing,
and this fact gives Leek, England, its pre-
eminence, for its waters are among the
best for dyeing purposes in Europe. Bur
! ton-on- Trent is famous for its ales. It's
superior water for brewing purposes is itt
sole advantage. e.-Chautauquan.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-05-29
STRONGER THAN IT LOOKED.
The Pull OF a Mustard Plaster Il Not II
the Thickness Of It.


wilkins complained Of not feeling very
we'll His landlady asked for the symp-
toms.
"Oh /" she returned, put on a mustard
plaster and you'll be all right in the morn
ing"
Ho took her advice. He went into a
near by drug store and asked for mus
tard plaster,
The clerk took ono out and began to
wrap it up.
"say, that's sandpaper. want a mus
tard plaster''
The clerk explained that it was a mus
tard plaster; that the old plaster Of the
mince pie pattern had gone out Of style.
"This is just as goodP" queried the
doubter. TITS hot all right, ] suppose2"
Don't worry about that, smiled the
clerk meaningly ringing up cents in the
cash register.
wilkins was sleepy when he got home.
He was sleepier than ever when he had
orawlcd into bed with the olammy plaster
on him and q big towel backing it up close
against the cuticle He dozed perceptibly
as the plaster warmed up
"In go to sleep, he thought "f II
gets too hot, I'll wake up.
"Yes, pll-wake up-if gets too hot''-
Mr.. wilkins was snoring, and clock
away down the hall was striking TO-
It was 4;30 o'clock in the morning when
wilkins began to feel the return Of con
soiousness.
1t was mixed and confused with dream
in which he had seen a miner standing
over him with pick and felt that great
hole was being dug through his ribs.
wilkins snorted, turned over and writhed
with a grimace Then he pulled the cloth
ing far from him, sat up and said, "UghP
At 2 o'clock he was in the drug store
again. He was bending over to keep bis
clothing from touching him.
The right clerk was still in charge, and
he grinned broadly.
"Let me see the place, " be suggested
even before wilkins spoke
There was a brilliant parallelogram,
by inches, just under the third button Of
wilkins vest, and as the air touched II
/ Wilkins WINGED.
! you'll have TO be very careful or you'll
have a bad blister there said the clerk.
"Blisterl Say, 1 can stand it. Tell mC
the truth. How deep is that holeP"
Nonsense. Go out and get big, sof
linen handkerchief and I'll fix you up.
wilkins paid 85 cents for the handker
chief and 25 cents for a cool, mussy paste
which the clerk smeared on one side of it.
"Now if you let your flannel next tt
that you may pull the hide off with it,
warned the clerk in parting.
And wilkins walks down these morn
ings to keep the elbows of wabbly stree
car passengers out of his ribs.
"Feels as if 1 was all boarded up OF
one side, he con1des to his friends.
Incidentally he says that mustard plas
ter isn't such cheap remedy after all
| ChicagO RECORD.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-05-29

Whom the curtain has mado its final fall
after an operatic performance ut the Met
ropolitan and the beiewelod audience has
dispersed, % queer scene is enacted A
company enters and spreads itself out in
boxes and orchestra STALLS overhauling
chairs, searching floors, prying under
cushions peering into corners as though
hunting for the strange demon who com
pels even the brightest Of operatio stars TO
occasionally sing flats where st1rps arc
written. But the members OF The com
pany of seekers are I'm search Of something
more prosaic than demons They nro look
ing for the almost endless variety OF arti-
oles that a grand opera audience nightly
leaves behind. Any one connected with
the house can join in the search and every
one whose duties permit invariably does
so, for there is some valuable cleaning to
be done at tho Metropolitan after the en-
raptured and entranced audience has de-
parted.
For one year the property is kept in the
opera house safe, labeled with the name Of
the finder, and duly entered in book kept
for the purpose. If unclaimed at the end
Of the year, the article is presented to the
finder by the management as a reward for
his honesty.
Among the queerest articles at the Met
ropolitan which await a claimant are
false tooth with heavy gold Plate attached,
two silk hats, whose owners must have
been strangely entranced with the music
TO go home bareheaded an elegant lace
mantilla, which must have cost at least
$780, a gold bracelet, the broken clasp of
which shows the reason for it's loss; a dia-
mond ring, gold chains of various pat
terms, apparently torn off in the scramble
for the door, opera glasses by the dozen,
black, blue and fancy colored garters by
the score (some with handsome gold clasps,
engraved with monograms that it has been
found impossible to IDENTIFY; canes and
umbrellas by the hundred overshoes, car
riage shoes, gloves and pooketbooks, lined
and unlined.
One of these pool1etbooks, picked up by
CLEANER was found to contain $500 in
greenbacks 1t was handed in with the
rest Of the findings to the manager. Its
careless owner, a Japanese connected with
the consulate, claimed It the following day.
The honest finder went unrewarded. But
they are accustomed to that sort Of treat
ment at the Metropolitan. New York
Press.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-05-29
The hangers From EseapIng Gas

So many people suffer from headaches,
extreme lassitude and disinclination to
make any mental effort, condition which
amounts to positive inertness, that med
ical men have been investigating the why
and wherefore of this state of things in or
der, if possible, to find a reason, and, fol-
lowing that, a remedy for this annoying
and discouraging condition.
Among other facts brought to light 1t
appears that many headaches and much
discomfort are traceable largely to the poi
sonous effects of gas of various sorts.
Ordinary illuminating gas has, as is
we'll known, the properties that produce
asphyxiation, and even though the vic
tins may survive the accident of inhaling
a large amount of gas, the headache,
nausea and prostration following such an
experience are distressing in the extreme.
1t is often the case that people who live in
houses lighted by gas suffer serious conse-
quences without being aware of it. They
do not inhale enough to attract their at
tention but the poisonous vapor slowly
but surely undermines their health and
produces headaches, congestion and long
train of unsuspected evils. Especially is
this the case where what is known as
water gas is used. This gas is made by
heating hard coal to a white heat, theI
passing steam over it. The carbon decom
poses the steam, and then, uniting with
the oxygen, forms gas known as carboniC
oxide, which is deadly in the extreme.
The immediate cause of death from car
bonic oxide is that it destroys the rec
blood corpusoles in the animal body
These red corpuseles convey oxygen tC
every portion of the system. The oarbonit
oxide destroys the oxygen, and in oonse
quence there is a sort of suffocation Of the
blood, which results in death in very
short time.
There are many instances of death from
gas poisoning in houses illuminated by
other means. In several cases it took
long time for the authorities to discover
that the gas escaped through defective
pipes and made its way through the eartl
into the dwelling and slowly sapped th
vitality Of the unsuspeoting occupants.
| New York Ledger
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-05-29

Mr.. D. p. Davis, prominent liyeryman
and merchant of Goshen, Va, has this to say
ON the subject of rheumatism Il take
pleasure in recommending Chamberlain
Pain Balm for rheumatism, as l know from
personal experience that it will do all that is
claimed for it, A year ago this spring my
brother was laid up in bed with inhammatory
rheumatism and suffered intensely. The
first application of Chamberlain's Pain Balm
eased the pain and the use of one bottle com
pletely cured him For sale by GruhleI
Bros, druggists.