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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09
New York Evening Sun.

New York Evening Sun.
This is a Brooklyn idyl. BY no possibility
could 1t have idyliized anywhere else. Its
hero is an elderly Brooklynite whose chief
pastime is that of many elderly Brooklyn
mef--pallbearing: In the published ac-
counts of such affairs he, of course, figures
as honorary" but so continuous has the
performance become that it might almost
be called professional. BY far the larger
share OF the mans time is taken up in this
way. Nobody knows at just how many fu
nerals he has served as pallbearer, but 1t
about 1t is that it doesn't seem to pail The
idyl opened one afternoon last week when
the elderly Brookynite CHANGED to call upon
some friends. He announced at the outset
that he couldn't stay very long, as he was
due as pallbearer at a funeral in a certain
church at such and such an hour. His
hostess regretted that this was the case,
but recognized its exigencies. There was,
however, an out-of-town visitor present,
and whom he had chiefly come to see. In
the delight OF renewing his acquaintance
with this old friend the Erooklynite seemed
to forget how time was flying. More than
once did the hostess remind him that he
was in danger of being late for the funeral,
but for once the Importance of such
an occasion was obscured. The flow
sat there and talked on and on and It
was all the hostess could do TO get him
to depart at all. The next day he called
again at the same house Ii was noticeable,
spirit, and it wasn't long before he saw
fit TO relate the following: 1T was very
queer about that funeral yesterday he
said II didn't realize that the church was
so far from this house. and the consequence
was that when ! got there the services were
half over. OF course / just took my place
with the rest, though, and everything went
off all right until / stepped into the car
riage Then a very curious thing happened.
The procession began to move toward a
cemetery that knew was one in which the
departed had had no interest. Why, we're
going the wrong way cried, but the other
pallbearers assured me that we were not.
He is to be buried in the Blank cemetery
they said. / began to suspect something l
made inquiries. My suspicious were not I'M
fnunded 1t was the wrong funeral, or, rath-
er, another funeral. The function in which
] was to have participated over and
i gone before / arrived at the church This
one had followed on its heels and l. enter
ing in the middle of the service, very nat
lirally COMPOUNDED il with its predecessor.
was of course, easy to- rectify my error.
II had to do was to apologize and jump
.om the carriage Butsit taught me a les
fson," concluded tile elderly Brooklynita 1T
was a new version of the old story-busi-
ness and pleasure should not be Mixed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09
THREE
WOMEN
Testify to the Value Of Munyon's HOmOe-
OpalhiC Remedies.
Mrs. ShaWman, Mrs, King aud Mrs, Lighter Tell
Remarkable Stories.
Mrs. shawman. 41a East Nineteenth street.

Mrs. Shawman. 40 East Nineteenth street.
Indianapolis, Ind, says: For a month l
was troubled with terrible pains Ia the side.
produced by pleurisy. In fact, when / be-
gan using the Munyon treatment was
unable to take a long breath, the pain was
so dreadful. A few doses of the little pellets
gave me complete relief. and in a few days
/ was entirely cured and have not felt a
trace of the pain since"
Mrs. Samuel King. 4S4 st. Clair street.
indianapolis, Ind, says: Our baby had
pneumonia and we could see no hopes for
her life. We gave up our physician and
treated her with the Munyon Remedies. We
were astonished at her prompt improve
ment. She was entirely well in few days:
We feel that the Munyon treatment saved
our baby's life
Mrs. Lighter, 70 Olive street. Indianapolis,
Ind, says: Il was in poor health for a
long time, suffering from heart and brou-
chial troubles and tainted on the street a
gone. l had several hemorrhages, and my
regular physicians ted me they would not
give me cents for my life. This was my
condition when | began using the Munyon
thing wonderful. In short time l gained
1914 pounds NV cough disappeared. My
strength returned. My voice has been re-
stored and l am completely cured. Had IL
not been for the Munyon Remedies l would
not have been alive to-day"
DON'T PAY BIG DOCTOR BILLS.
Don't risk your health perhaps your life.
Wnen you can consult a skilled specialist,
on any disease, absolutely free of charge.
No Matter What the Disease,
MunyOn Has the Cure
Open all day and evening; sunday,
10 to IL.
Majestic Building, Pennsylvania and
Maryland Streets.
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The county commissioners have allowed
Prosecutor Wiltsie $500 for services in prose-
cutting John Ferriter, at Martinsville, and
James Burton, at Greenfield Attorney
Black of Greenfield who assisted John 0.
Spahr in the defense of Burton. has sent in
a claim for $500. Attorney Black had
some assistance from other Greenfield at
torneys The commissioners allowed Crit
fthS & Potts $500 for defending Ferriter.
and they will probably pay the Greenfield
attorneys the same sInount, The entire eX-
fpense of the Burton case has not yet been
submitted to the commissioners. The Fer
ritter trial cost Marion county $1.406.1O.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09
MISMATED COUPLES.
Various People Asking for Divorce
DEGREES.


William Du Hallway a member OF the
boar of directors of the Western Life In
surance Company. brought suit yester-
day for divorce from Nora Du Hallway,
to whom he was married In 1881 He says his
wife remains away from home at unseason-
able hours and neglects her children The
plaintiff asks for the custody of the chill
dren.
Elizabeth Stratman wants divorce from
Henry Stratman. She was married to him
in June, 1896. She AYERS that on Aug. Il
last, while she was absent from home, her
husband procured transfer wagon, and.
driving up to the gate of their home, car
ried out and carted away nearly all of their
household furniture. She says the defend
ant also refused to live with her.
Elmos c. Hill is the defendant in a suit
for divorce brought by Sarah L. HILL They
We're married in 1876. The. plaintiff says
she has lately had to support herself by
dressmaking and keeping boarding house.
The defendant, she says, has abandoned her
and the last she heard of hir he was in
Chicago.
The divorce suit of Cynthia Light against
Robert 9. Light, of Broad Ripple, was tried
in the Circuit Court yesterday evening. The
defendant was not present. Mrs. Light tes-
titled that her husband had not treated her
kindly. They have not lived together con-
stantly since Thanksgiving day, 1896. Judge
Allen took the case under Amusement. Mrs.
Light asks for the custody of the two chill
dren and for 1,2O0 alimony.
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the City Hospital in herdics 1t was the
only time he ever failed to foretell the vote
correctly.
A unique position in American politics is
that of Mayor Quincy. He is the practical
politician in his State and thorough-going
spokesman. And yet, being Quincy and a
Harvard man, he is an ex officio mugwunp.
The members of the Browning Club and
the Boston Reform Club all swear by him
as a civil-service reformer. They can't see
how a gentleman of his pedigree can be
anything else. He has got more offices for
the South Boston and Charlestown Patricks
and Michaels than the late p. Mcguire ever
pretended to get. All the time the Back
Bay reformers have counted him as one of
themselves and kept him supplied with
haloes. The wool has been pulled over their
eyes from the beginning Mr.. Quincy's
genealogical tree and his cold storage man
ner cover . deal of practical politics. The
present mayor is the third Josiah Quincy
TO be mayor of Boston. His father and his
grandfather both set the example. Happily
Mr. Quincy is a bachelor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09
RIVAL OF ANCIENT EGYPT.
DIR. w. II. Holmes Tells of the Won
ders of Yucatan.
Washington Post.

w oSHill6lOH IOSts
DR.. William III. Holmes delivered a de-
cidedly interesting and entertaining lecture
on THE Ruined Cities of Yucatan'' before
the, National Geographical Society Friday
night at the First Congregational Church.
The lecture was illustrated by numerous
stereopticon views taken from photographs,
diagrams a. sketches made by DR.. Holmes
and his Pc on their recent tour through
the country of Yucatan and the islands con-
tiguous to its coast. The church audito-
rum was crowded, in spite of the damp
weather, and much interest was manifested
in the statements CT the speaker concerning
the strange try and its people.
which he member to Yucatan. Hav-
ing a stea It their disposal they investi-
gated the lands and the j, mainland and at their
dian and Mexican blood live in small huts
and straw houses. There are no streets
or roads on the islands, from the fact that
there are no horses. donkeys or other
draught animals. DR. Holmes described the
waters of the surrounding bays as far more
far-famed Bay of Naples. One night the
ship on which he was a passenger was am
chored off sand bank in thirty-tve feet
of water. AS the bright moon rose in the
heavens the shadow of the ship sould plain
~ be seen on the bottom. small boat
putting out from the shin seemed travelling
in the air the water line being invisible
and the shadow being cast far below on
the bottom of the bay. On one of the
islands the partial ruins Of once magnlfi-
cent stone building were found.
On the mainland in Yucatan DR.. Holmes
declared that there were yet many HsLIiVc
indians who have not been conquered by
the Mexicans. the number being estimated
in round figures at 100000. many OF whom
live in a state of standardization. In de-
scribing the geological formation of the
land, DR.. Holmes said that he had Travelled
in the country for month and came
across no running water in that time. There
is much water under the earth. however,
and it is secured by the inhabitants by
means of natural wells, some being as large
as 800 feet in diameter, some rs feet in depth,
Yucatan he declared is a semi-desert
In their general architectural aspect.
Dr. Holmes said the ancient buildings OF
Yucatan closely resemble those of the
Egyptians All the buildings were erected
upon substructures or pyramids almost
equal in height and massiveness to those
of ancient Egypt The walls Of the lower
portion of the buildings were plain, while
the upper structure was covered with
sculpture of architectural designs and gro
tesque masses. In spite of their primitive
ness. DIR. Holmes said it was easy TO rec
ognize an aesthetic tendency among the
ancient inhabitants of Yucatan from tho
fact of their desire to decorate all of their
buildings and other structures.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09

Hardware


"Talking about a fine and discriminating
taste for whisky" said the old gentleman
over in the corner of the store recalls to
nv mind an incident that occurred up in
the Catskills last summer friend of
mine was entertaining a number of gentle
men who prided themselves upon their keen
sense Of taste in the whisky line. and sub
seouent events showed that they were JUS
titled in their boast. The host had just re-
to he found and opened 1t with aHticipa-
lions Of pleased commentator. from his
friends One of them drained his glass,
smacked his lips and said critically
THAT'S mighty good whisky. but l can't
understand the taste of iron that goes with
it, The other one said: Yes. | noticed
that and also detected a slight taste of
leather The host was quite chagrined. and
when his friends had departed determined
to Investigate He emptied the keg, and
there in the bottom found a small leather
covered CARPET tack"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09
Declared Insane.

An inquiry into the sanity of Mrs. Lavina
Pheging, of No. POLL Columbia avenue, by
commission consisting of Justices of the
Peace Lockman and Nickerson and Dr. e.
c. Reyer, was held yesterday. Thirty-five
witnesses were called in to testify. The
husband was present with an attorney, pre-
pared to show that his wife is not demented.
1t was claimed Mrs. Pfeging has been very
nervous and imaginary and has been shoot
ing in the neighborhood The evidence
showed that the woman has been subjected
to considerable annoyance on the part of
boys, who threw stones at her house, which
caused her to run to the door and fire a
shotgun. While the members of the COM
mission agreed that Mrs. Pheging has been
greatly annoyed, they were of the opinion
that she is of unsound mind.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09
Eined for GnmhIine.

Robert Moody, Harvey Walker and Wal
ter Williams. .colored, arrested in the rooms
of the Capital City Club" on Indiana ave.
nue., were fined in Police Court yesterday
morning for gambling. Three other colored
men, arrested at the same time, were dis
charged. No arrests have been made in
connection with the Cleveland Club gam
bling establishment.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09
Bank Litigation.

In the bank litigation, in Room /, Superior
Court, yesterday, most of the day was de-
voted to reading the transcript of the tes-
timony of William H. English given in the
former trial of the case. The first trial was
held twelve years ago. Mr.. English was
president of the old First National Bank in
1877.
Late yesterday evening the defense placed
John l.. Ketcham on the stand, but the
plaintiff objected TO the first question asked
the witness, and the remainder of the SEES
sion was taken UP by argument.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09

Washington Pos

WaShlnSton Post.
An Ohio reader writes to the Post to So
Icit its opinion to the best production
from the pen of the Hon. Whitelaw Reid
The Post has no hesitation in pronouncing
Mr. Reds ode to his old friend and col
league Lemuel Eli Quigg, his masterpiece
For the benefit of the inquiring Ohioan the
same is herewith reproduced
IF | were Lemuel Ely Quigg,
(Lem Ely Quiggi Lem Ely QuiggD
If | We're Lemuel Ely Quigg,
III tell you what I'd do.
I'd crawl into a woodehuck hole;
Gan auger hole. q gimlet hole)
And pull the hole in. too!'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09
Hutington Police Board.

The Huntington Police Board case was
argued before the Supreme Court yesterday.
Last spring census. was taken of the city,
showing it to have more than ten thousand
population, and game under the metropoli-
tan police law Suit was brought to enjoin
the board from taking charge or the police
force, but the lower court sustained a de-
murrer to the complaint. 1t is charged that
the census was fraudulent
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09
Up-to-nnte Heathen.


New YORK Evening sun.
How much is there In it for ne?" asked
the project of Foochow, when it was sug-
gested that there ought TO be street.
cleaning department in the ancient town.
il is impossible to spring any surprises upon
the heather, especially the Chinese part of
them Our finest inventions are only things
that they have forgotten.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09

The Tolleston Club. of Chicago, yesterday
filed bond for an appeal to the Supreme
Court of the United States of it's case
against John Clough and others, involving
the title to lot of land along the Calumet
river.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09
only Passing Fair.
Chicago Times-Herald.

In a recent political speech in New York
Mrs. Lease solemnly remarked: Il want to
be fair That's a Commendable desire. but
we doubt whether Mary. ever will be regard
ed more than passing fair.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned.
who directors of the Indianapolis Infirrnary
OF indianapolis. Indiana, corporation organized
under the general laws of the State of Indiana
have filed In the Office of the clerk of the Marion
Circuit Court q petition for the change of the
name OF said corporation to indianapolis San
atorium and Surgical Institute
FREDERICK A. WILMANS,
QUINCY VAN HUMMELL.
HENRY VAN HUMMELL
Directors.
H0ltzman & feathers, Attorneys.
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FOR EXCHANGE.

FOR EXCHANGED six-roomed house in Day
ton. o., for a small house in indianapolis. In
quire of SICK & HEATER, Real Estate, Day
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09

The Northwestern Miller gives the flour
output at Minneapolis, Duluth. Superior and
Milwaukee, last week as AGO. $50 barrels.
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<~CSN@cON~-~~e~N~1NI~~~~
FOR SALE-The Union Trust Company drustee)
offers for sale 81 shares of the common stock
of the Belt Railroad and Stock Yard Company of
Indianapolis. Sealed bids for the whole amount
or any part will be received up to and including
Dec. 10. The company reserves the right to re-
Ject any or all bids. IL. NJ FOLTZ. Secretary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
FOR RENT.
FOR SALE.


FOR RENT-Corner Ash and Vine. Newly p
pered. A. A. ARERS, 59S North Illinois.
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Holtzman & Leathers. Attorneys.
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boiled goods; must be skilled, thoroughly reli
able and sober; want man capable 10 take charge
OF departm ent. Address, with references, t
JOHN ]. PERKINS & Co. Cincinnati. o.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-01-21
FLED FROM DEATH.
The City Of Bombay Deserted BY Half Its
Population.

Over half the population OF Bombay, esti-
mated to. amount to about 900. 900, has fei
from the plague, and the usually crowded
streets, docks and bazaars are not recog-
nizable. Business In piece goods, metals,
crockery and hardware Is at q standstill. The
courts are deserted and the judge and off,
cials have gone to n healthier cline. Many
OF the native doctors, graduates Of the col
lege. have fled. and those remaining refuse
to attend plague cases, or when they do at
tend to them will not touch the sufferers,
dreading contagion. Clerks and others
whose vacations call them to the city daily
removed TO suburban stations. where the
people are mostly living in matched huts.
II is estimated that 500. 900 persons are en-
camped at Andheri, whence they will soon
be forced to migrate owing to the lack OF
water and sanitation threatening to breed
cholera. The cemeteries are already filed TO
OVERLOOKING and the wind Is spreading the
contagion. The nights are made hideous by
cymbals and melancholy dirges, Often diff
Guilty is experienced in burying the dead.
friends and relatives refusing to carry the
corpses. Ia some instances women have as
sisted In carrying the dead bodies. A large
number Of plague corpses at the Tower OF
Silence, the Parsee burial places, have
been eaten by the vultures inhabiling 1t.
Corpscs have been found in the streets.
The official returns show that up TO We'd
nesdGy evening there were 1894 cases o
bubonic plague and 1895 deaths from tina
disease,
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-01-21
CONDENSED ITEMS.

Crather 4 Caverhills warehouses at Mon
treal were destroyed by fire. Loss, $780,
600; insurance, 5000, 600.
Masked men, In an attack on VIM Row
lands home, near Macon, Ga, killed Mrs.
Rowland. A mob with bloodhounds Is in
pursuit.
President Thomas S. Hastings, OF the
Union theological seminary OF New York,
has resigned. Rev. Cuthbert Hall, OF Brook.
Ign. will succeed him.
William 7. st. John, treasurer OF the Dem
ocra,ic national committee. is very Ill at his
home In New York, the result OF overwork
In the recent campaign.
The Treasury deficit for the first half Of
January Is s6.s6O. 963, and for the fiscal year
to date, s44, 76s, $50.
Over 500 citizens OF Leadvillc, Col. have
enlisted In the state militia, and when armed
and uniformed will take the place OF the
guards now a. the mines where tho men are
on strike.
William Ferguson, corresponding secretary
OF typographical union No. 8, OF New York,
md Jacob McKenna, a fellow workman, were
accidentally asphyxiated by gas In o Brook
Ign hotel.
Charles II. Cunningham, president OF the
Warwick electric company, Of Detroit, was
indicted for forging Judge Hamllton's name
to a check for $3.50 0 Friends say Cum
ming ham IL insane.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-01-21
GARCIA WINS A VICTORY.
The Battle of G%abuquito Ends in a Cuban
Triumph.

One OF the most brilliant victories nchiev-
cd by tins Cubans since the beginning OF the
revolution was won last Wednesday at Gabu-
quito, near Manzanillo, according to advlces
received by the steamer Oiivette, which
reached Key West Fla. Jan. II, from Havana.
1t seems that Gen. Calixto Garcia, with n
strong force OF insurgents, has made his
headquarters at Gabuquito for some weeks.
Gen. Segura. with 1000 Spaniards, was
operating near Munzanillo and determined
20 attack G%aDuquito, although the Cubans
were strongly entrenched. Segura's plan
was TO storm the place, and he led his men
TO the charge in person. but the Cubans greet
cd the Spaniarts with such Il deadly fire
from rifles and Hotchkiss guns that the latter
retrcated III great disorder. Sogura rallied
his men ana another charge was made, but
the llro OF tho Cubans did such execution
that the Spaniards were driven back. Segura
was unable TO rally his men for another ut
tack, and withdrew. 1t is stated from Cuban
sources that the Spaniards' loss was 800 kill
ed and about 400 wounded. Among the kill
ed 1t Is said there were many Spanish OIL
GERS, and Segura himself is reported slightly
wounded.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-01-21
HIGHER WAGES WANTED.
Rates Increased in tho Scale Adopted by
The Miners.


The National miners convention declared
for n sharp advance in the price OF mine Ia
Dor. The committee on wage scale made Its
report. and so far as consideration had pro-
ceeded at the hour Of adjournment, the re-
port was adopted without material amend
ment. The scale report so far as adopted is
as follows:
"Resolved. That the price for pick min.
Ing shall be CO cents per ton in Pennsylvania,
GO cents in the Hooking valley, GO cents in
Indiana, IS cents in the Grape Greek dis
trict, and the rate OF 1894 for the balance Of
Illinois.
Resolved, That the price per ton for
loading and drilling after machines in Penn
sylvania, Ohio and Illinois be three-flfths Of
the pick mining rate, and that the price per
ton for entering, cutting and loading mach
inc coal In Indiana shall he four-ifths OF the
pick mining rate in Indiana. and the price
for all other machine work shall be ad vanced
In proportion
The clause OF the report not noted upon yet
is the following:
"All day labor wages shall be advanced Mt
the same rates. In the Massillon and in
Jackson district there shall he a diIeren-
OF nine cents per ton over the Hooking
valley"
The constitution was amended so ms to
abolish delegates-at-large; to require the
election OF officers to tnke place Immediately
after the convention is organized.
A plan for n general defense fund produce
cd by and to be used by all union labor in
ono federation, was reported and endorsed
by the convention.
j. A. Cairns, ex-president OF the Pennsyl-
vania organization, wbO wGS expelled
threatens to create trouble.