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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-01
OBSOLETE HORSE CARS
Used by Washing tOnians Yesterday OF
Account of the Great Fire.

WASHINGTON, Sept. S0-Firemen were
still playing on the ruins of the immense
central power station of the Capital Trac-
ton Company at 10 o'clock this morning.
Nothing remains of the massive Six-story
structure save a part of two walls of the
building. The fire was one of the largest
ever known in Washington and nothing APP
preaching it from a spectacular point OF
view ever has been seen in this city, where
large fires are rare occurrences. The exact
cause of the fire remains unknown though
il has been established that it broke out in
Gettnger's printing office on the second
hOor The total loss is roughly estimated 10
exceed three-quarters of a million dollars
The loss of the Capital Traction Company
VIII be %bUe,OUU or more, OF Which quar-
ter of million was caused by the destruc-
ton of the building and the remainder by
loss OF machinery and equipment. The COM
pany carried in the neighborhood of $500
700 insurance in local and out-of town com
the Firemens' of Newark, N. j., and the
ONE FIRE Insurance Company, of New
YORK, carried a large share of the insur-
anCe 1t IL the purpose of the Traction Com
9any to begin at once the erection of an
other power house building and as soon as
possible it will reopen its rapid transit sys-
tenn.
Horse cars were put in service again to-
day and the department clerks and bust
ness men along the company's lines were
carried to work behind mules and horses
hastily gathered for the purpose. The loss
10 the hrnlS having quarters in the power
mouse building Will aggregate upwards of
sl5OOO0 The Lanston Monotype Company
lost $4,000 or more. principally machines
and tools. The fire viii throw thirty of it's
employees out of work.
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NOT A MURDER.
Plain Case of Assault and Battery on
the South Side.

At II o'clock last night a telephone mes
sage was received at the station house say
ing that murder had been committed at
the corner of Grove street and Virginia
avenue, and that the murderer had been
captured. Bike" Patrolmen STREET. and
Lancaster were at once dispatched to the
place. and Sergeant Kruger was notified
when he called up from Meridian and Nc
Carly streets, mile away. The sergeant
did a great bit of sprinting He arrived to
find that there was no ground for the muir
der rumor. James O'Brien, a plumber, who
lives at John Murray's saloon, was in GUS
tody. He explained that ne had had words
over religion with Edward M. Van Pelt, of
Van Pelt & Carson, plumbers. for whom
O'Brien worked. The quarrel led to blows
and OBrien knocked Van Pelt down. In
falling Van Pelt's head struck a street car
rail and was pretty badly cut. ByStanders
had carried him home when the officers
reached the scene. He was not very badly
hurt so far as could be judged in the abb
sence of a physician. Van Pelt's story did
not agree with OBrien's. The. latter de-
clared that there had been no quarrel, and
that the assault was totally unprovoked
John Murray says that the men were ar
gung politics about the time he closed his
place. at IL o'clock, as they had on other
occasions, and he paid on attention 10
them.
After Van Pelt was carried to his home,
No. / Grove street. short distance from
where the trouble occurred, O'Brien start
ed to walk away. Mr.. Carson, Van Pelts
partner came me-, up about TINS TIME ana IN
of his partners injuries could be learned
lie says that O'Brien offered no resistance
and agreed to consider himself under ar
rest
Van Pelt is man OF family. O'Brien is
about fOrty-five years OF age. The officers
say that he was once an inmate of the in
sane asylum O'Brien was slated for as
sault and battery.
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Driving Club Races.

The following are the entries for the
Business Mems Driving Club races to-day:
Three-minute class: Barn Belt, Jesse
Fletcher; Nellie r., Joseph Rink; Dick s.,
Q. d. Shower: Areiai G. e. Shower; Black
Dan, T. c. Whitcomb Sallie e., d. b.
Shideler.
2:35 Class: Dilatory, Jesse Fletcher: Lo-
gan, George Koehne; Lady Shower, c. u.
Shower; Blackstone, d. b. Shideler; Dora s.,
w. w. Baker; Flossy L., w. N. Short
2:25 Glass: Myrtle May. Bert Pendleton;
Jim Blaine w. B. Blair; Charley Boy. c.
e. Shower; Frank j., F. F. Jacobs; Biliey
Harlan.
Free-for-all: Cassie Fletcher Jesse
Fletcher; Robert c., J. c. Eipe; Emma
Wilks, S. r. Holt; Jim B., w. B. Blair; Pat
Murphy, Alvin Cavett.
There are several new horses for these
races. Ladies are admitted free.
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EDWARDS, Miss, Sent. 30.-Dr. Dunn, OF
the State Board of Health, gave out the
following statement tonight: There has
been one death from yellow fever to-day,
that of C. II. Noblin. There are twenty
nine cases officially reported for the day
as follows:
Whites-Miss Cora Martin, Agnes Ivey,
Miss callie Gold, Mrs. Iyey, Miss Claudia
Holcombe, William Broomgood, A. j. Lewis,
Martin, Matthew Schmidt, Mrs. A. j. Dav-
idson, Mrs c. p Colmery, Mrs. S. p. Hold
gems, Jessie Havenkott J; w. Tatum. w
III. Harris's child, H. ]. Ustin.
Colored-Ira Parks. j. II. Prosser, Law
renee Smith. Rebecca Pitchford, Anna
Russell John Andrews, Mary Palm. Ed
Gibson.
Deaths to-day, /; total deaths to date 3;
valescent and discharged. 1s5: number now
under treatment, 121.
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MOBILE. Ala, Sept. So.-The official bull
letin of the Board of Health shows two
deaths and six new cases of yellow fever.
All the new cases are located in the infected
district. They are:
CHARLES A. GAROD, Charles between
Seventh and Chatham.
NJ. HALEY, Savannah street, near
Charles. efss
J. l.. SHIEFLET, State street. west Of
Kennedy.
MISS CARRIE HEITER, Jackson street,
between Government and Church.
MRS. AGNES HOFFMAN,, Savannah
street near Jefferson.
MRS. IDA ROSSELLE. st. Vincent's
School, Cedar and Savannah streets
One death was that of Andrew Chris
holm, Bayou street, between Selma and Sa-
vannah. Total cases to date. IA total
deaths to date, II; discharged, "a; now I'M
der treatment %.
The death of the twelfth victim of yellow
fever is reported tonight, that of Mrs.
Agnes Hoffman, of Savannah street, in the
infected district.
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KICK" FROM "CANUCKS."
They Don't Want an Armed Yankee
Vessel ON the Great Lakes.

TORONTO, Ontario. Sept. SO-The Mail
and Empire in an editorial article to-day
says: I'm 1917 the United States proposed
to Great Britain that the naval force to
be maintained on the lakes by each govern
ment should be confined to the following
vessels: On Lake Ontario. one vessel not
exceeding a hundred tons burden, and
armed with one eighteen-pound cannon. On
the upper lakes, two such vessels, similarly
armed On Lake Champlain, one vessel. Ii
was further proposed that all other armed
vessels should be dismantled and that no
further vessels of war should be built or
armed on the lakes. To all this her Ma
jesty's government agreed. Now the United
States is sending to the upper lakes the
war ship Yantic, Of 800 TONS as training
vessel. She is not to be armed when she
passes through the canals, as that would
Violate the agreement, but a rapid-hring
battery is to be placed on board Of her at
Erie, Pa The attention Of the government
at Ottawa is directed to these facts. We
have no war vessels on the lakes and do
not want them. Why should the interna-
tional agreement be broken by the United
StateS2'
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PEARY TALKS AGAIN.
He VIII Make a Determined Effort to
Find the North Pole.

NEW YORK, Sept. 9O-The whaling
steamer Hope arrived at her dock in Brook
lyn to-day. Lieutenant Peary and a party
of friends were on hand to meet her. On
board the vessel were Albert Operti, the
artist, who accompanied the expedition;
j. d. Siggins, taxidermist; DR.. e. Sohn,
ships surgeon; Robert Stein, of the geologi-
cal survey at Washington; Peary's servant,
Lapphenson; six Esquimaux, and four
dogs, the crew and the celebrated meteorite.
One of the first persons aboard the Hope
to-day was Lieutenant Peary, and he eager
ly grasped the hand of Captain John Bart
lett, the veteran Arctic commander. who
has taken the Hope on half dozen north
ern voyages. In an interview, Lieutenant
Peary said: 81 took observations to ascer-
tain just how much further north it would
be possible to navigate, and also visited
the settlement of Esqumaux known as Arc
tic Highlanders, tribe of 200 who live
some go miles north of Melville bay. There
are only 200 in the entire tribe. and l am
acquainted with every man, woman and
child. l picked out ten strong young men
and women and instructed them to prepare
for my coming next year l want to say
north pole or die IN the attempt But
shall make a determined effort to find 1T,
and / shall have practically unlimited funds
at my command and five years time. The
Arctic Highlanders will do anything l ask
them. They are Injured to hardship and are
the very people | need. The ten couples
have picked out will begin at once to pre-
pare food for three years ahead, consisting
of walrus and seal meat.
II shall sail to the most northern limit
possible and then make landing, and on
sledges carry all the necessary outfit for
a permanent camp to the most northern
land limit. 1t is known that land exists
as far north as latitude SO degrees. How
much farther it extends | shall have to de-
termine and when l reach that point
Ha1 al
it my base of supplies. ] believe the pole
can be reached inside of two years. be-
lieve, too, that / shall be able to sail as
far north as Sherard Osborne, 800 miles
north af Melville b3V.'
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TEXAS SCARE OVER.
Suspicious Case at Houston Pro-
nounced Not Yellow Fever.

nOunced Not Yellow Fever.
DALLAS. Tex. Sept. S0.-For the first
time In two weeks the people of Texas are
on their feet again. The official decara-
ton of Health officer Swearingen that the
suspicious case at Houston was not yellow
fever has been almost Immediately followed
by the raising of the extreme quarantine
measures which have been in force in many
counties and all the towns below Corsicana.
BY tomorrow night train service within the
State will have resumed something like its
normal proportions and the hundreds of
railroad employees now out of work will be
afforded opportunity of returning to
work But the damage done TO business by
the inexplicable Generalization of the peo-
pie Is incalculable. and even with a return
70 former conditions the recovery must be
SLOW
Not In 1873 or 1883 were the people of Texas
as whole scared any more than in the
present instance, in face OF the fact that all
the leading physicians of the State con-
stantly assured them that there was not the
slightest ground cor apprehension of an
epidemic IN the State so long as present
quarantine regulations inaugurated in the
State against Louisiana are maintained.
Inc extremity Of the methods employed is
Illustrated IN the handling OF the mails.
More than fifty Texas towns refused to per-
NIT mail from any quarter OF the world TO
be handled, and many places have been alb
solutely cut OF from the rest of creation for
four or five days. citizens being unable to
know what was going on outside except
such meager bulletins as We're posted by the
railroad companies or the health authorities
Everybody seems to have recovered conf
dence all at once, and tonight every town
in Texas is open to the rest OF the State
VI course the restrictions against Louisiana
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CHARGED WITH BURGLARY.
Two Franklin Young Men in SerIo6D'
Trouble.

Loney Lester and Joe Harrison, two
young men claiming to hail from Franklin.
Ind, We're arrested last night by bike
Patrolmen STREET. and Lancaster on a charge
of burglary. Shortly before midnight two
young men were walking up South Della
ware street opposite Max p. Koeckert's
shoe store. They saw two young fellows
standing in front of the show window.
After they had passed they heard glass
crashing and saw the fellows running away.
They followed them down to Madison ave-
nue.. The police were notified and arrested
Lester and Harrison, the young men who
witnessed the robbery being positive in
their identification. The proprietor of the
shoe store said that two pairs of shoes were
missing.
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VICTORIA, B. c., Sept. SO.--The steamer
Tees has returned from northern British
Columbia ports. She brings prisoner
named Gordon, held on suspicion Of having
murdered Thomas Jones, his partner, while
on prospecting tour up the Skeen river.
The crime is very similar to that of Butler,
the Australian murderer, for Gordon is be-
lieved to have decoyed Jones into the wild
He was arrested at Hazelton by r. E. Lo-
ring, the Indian agent, when attempting
said Jones had returned by way of CUES
nellie and afterwards that he was drowned.
Gordon had no money when he started, but
$500 was found sewed in the lining of his
coat when arrested. Search is being made
for JOneS'S body.
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Turned Back by a Mob.

NEW ORLEANS, Sept S0.-President
Oliphant DR.. Carter and DR.. John Guiteras
reached the city. early this morning. They
had left yesterday to meet DR.. Swearingen
and other health officers with view of
raising the quarantine embargo against
freight, and had a very tough experience.
At Raine mob with shotguns prevented
their further progress, and they were or
dered to turn back which under the cir
cumstances, they were compelled to do.
During their trip they had gathered up
some twenty-four representatives of health
boards and held a meeting at Cade al
which they fully discussed the situation
here and elsewhere and adopted resolutions
tending to relieve the congestion of freight.
DR.. Guiteras takes his experience good ma
turedly, although surprised at the terror
that is evident IN some of the country dis
tricts. he Will stay here at the st. Charles
Hotel and will await orders before making
an attempt 10 proceed to Beaumont.
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until the arrival Of the Humboldt with the
troops for the garrison. The disabled steam
ship Eliza Anderson will remain at Una
laska until next spring.
The steamer Portland was at Dutch Har-
Dor when the Rush left Unalaska. Coal be-
ing scarce, she was unable to continue her
voyage to ST. Michael's, but the passengers
were sent north on the Alaska Commercial
Company's steamer Bertha. The Portland
will probably return to Seattle without pro-
ceeding to st. Michael's The steamer
frames and machinery she carried will be
landed at Dutch Harbor and with cargo of
planking to replace that lost on the schoon-
er Huenene will be sent north so that the
steamer for the Yukon can be built at
Dutch Harbor during the winter. The Rush
$3.50 seals and three American schooners
obtained S75 skins.
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ARRIVAL OF THE RUSH.
The Revenue Cutter at San Francisco
Situation at St. MichaePs.

SAN FRANCISCO. Sep 30.-The revenue
cutter Richard Rush arrived from Alaska
to-day, bringing the latest news from ST.
Michaers and the Yukon that came to Una
laska from the north by the steamer
Bertha The Bertha left st. Michaels on
the 14th of September. On the 18th the
steamer c. II. Hamilton, belonging to
Chicago corporation, returned to st. Mi
chaels and reported that she was unable to
ascend the Yukon river above the flats near
Fort Yukon. Her passengers and cargo
were awaiting the arrival OF the Alaska
Commercial Company's steamers Margaret
and Alice for transportation to Dawson
City. These steamers being of lighter
draught. got to Dawson probably about the
10Th of September At st. Michaels. de-
spite the presence of over three hundred
persons, order prevailed and the presence
of the revenue cutter Bear was regarded
as an additional guarantee 10 prevent any
trouble A number OF the Hamilton's pas
sengers were landed at Minook creek,
where quite big strike is reported and
plenty of provisions was left for the whole
party. The Bear will remain at St Michaeis
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SPRING VALLEY. ILL.,, Sept. sO.-Relief
was given out to four hundred families to-
day. Northern Illinois miners are more de-
termined than ever. They are at present
regarded as the mainstay of the great ma
tional strike. If they go to work at wages
lower than the scale the miners of Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio, 1t is claimed. will have to
accent q relative reduction. There are proh.
ably ten operators in Illinois who must have
broken away from the Operators As
ISOLATION, and are paying the scale. Ten
per cent. of the wages will be kept off by
the employers and given to the support Of
the strikers. If reports are true there viii
be several mere breaks from the Operators
Association in a day or two
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Charged with burning a ship.

PENSACOLA, Fla. Sept. SO.-After
trial lasting several days United States
Commissioners Tunison decided to-day to
hold Karl A. Karisoen. young Norwegian.
who shipped carpenter on the British
ship Favonious on voyage to Rio Janeiro
from this port, for the burning of the ship
at sea, eighteen miles off this port on the
night of the 18th inst. The evidence against
Karlsoen was mainly circumstantial. He
was so much opposed to going on the voy-
the day before the ship sailed. The prisoner
was remanded 10 jail TO await the order
of the President, who will be asked by the
British minister to extradite him for trial
in England.
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Seven Cases of Fever at the Little
Town of Clinton. Miss.

JACKSON. Miss. Sept. 30.--The State
Board of Health has received a telegram
from Clinton ten miles west of here, and
midway between this city and Edwards,
acknowledging that there are seven cases
of yellow fever at that place, four in the
Ellis family and three in the family of Rev.
j. l.. Pettigrew. There have been rumors
afioat concerning Clinton for the past week.
but every effort to run these rumors down
has resulted in a fiat denial on the part
OF the Clinton authorities of the existence
OF yellow fever there. The State Board has
been trying for three days to send DIR. Dunn
from Edwards to Clinton but the plan has
mlscarried on account of the refusal of the
people of Bolton to allow the expert TO pass
through that place. The city authorities of
Bolton to-day wired the state board that
Or. Dunn would not be permitted to pass
that place on a hand car. but that he might
go through on an engine and coach, at full
speed. As result OF this lack of co-opera-
ton with the state board DR.. Hunter, the
health officer at Bolton, has resigned. 1t is
feared the delay in getting an expert to
Clinton will result in a wide spread of the
disease at that point.
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family of yellow-fever refugees from
Louisiana is stopping at the Bates House.
1t is composed of Mr.. and Mrs. I. Lebermuth
and child. They had been abroad during
the summer and had attempted to land at
New Orleans. but quarantine would not
permit it, They went up the river to their
plantation at St. James, and were not per-
mitted to land there. The only thing re-
naming for them to do was to seek refuge
in the North They have health certificates
and no fear is entertained by local physi-
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CRIPPLE CREEK, Col, Sept. SO.--Joe
Wolfe has had donated to him by Joseph
Ladue. the bonanza king of the Klondike,
a half block of ground in Dawson City, on
which he intends to erect a mammoth
hotel. His partners in this enterprise are
fifteen Chicago business men. Mr. Wolfe
for everything needed in the provision line.
Mr.. Wolfe is the only person who ever
succeeded in pulling of a genuine Mexican
mer of 1895
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WEBSTER CITY, Ia, Sept. 30.-A de-
structive fire is raging in Twelve-mile Lake
township, Emmett county, and is sweeping
everything before 1t. The fire is travelling
IN northeasterly direction. 1t Is estimated
that over 1900 tons of nay have been
burned. Several residences have also been
consumed
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CHICAGO, Sept. S0.--In the Circuit Court
to-day Judge Burke dissolved the Injunction
against the Brotherhood of Electrical Me-
chanics issued some time ago by Judge
Gibbons. The injunction was the result of
a factional fight in the organization, which
began last July and was to restrain the
use of the seal by one of the factions.
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Moro serious at Biloxi,

BILOXI, Miss Sept. 3O.-Things have be-
gun to look more serious here. There was
one death yesterday, that of T. F. Gill, for
merly of Perry county. Missouri, and bust
ness man of this city, and one death to-day,
that of Miss Anna Hughes, formerly of
Chicago. There were twenty-four new cases
10
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The State Board of Health has no infor
nation concerning the supposed case of
yellow fever at Mifflin, in Crawford county.
The secretary stated yesterday that if such
a case did exist there was no cause for
alarm in the fact, as it was impossible for
the plague to take root in this climate.
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Miners MOI Indictea.

PITTSBURG. Pa. Sept 3O.-The grand
jury to-day ignored the bills against the
miners leaders. who were charged with
riot and unlawful assembly by T. b. Dear
mitt as a result of the trouble at Unity
Among those named in the four informa-
tons that came before the grand jury were
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strike of Over 5000 Miners.

MONoNGAHELA CITY, Pa. Sept. 3d.
The river miners, in convention here to-
day, decided to strike until the conditions
of the settlement effected at Columbus con-
convention and the differential usually pre-
Vailing on the Monongahela river are
agreed to. The suspension. which will be
practically a total one. takes place at once
and affects between 10000 and 6.OOG men
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NASHVILLE, Tenn, Sept. 3O.-A negro
who came to this city from Huntsville, Ala,
last night was taken up as a yellow fever
suspect and carried to the county pesthouse
five miles below the city, where he was
completely isolated. No fears are enter
tanned here of any infection from the South