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the grand jury was instructed to investigate
the matter thoroughly, but this body was
discharged without having returned an in
dictment against w. c.. Rush or any of the
score of citizens whom he implicated in his
confession. In his statement to the attOr-
ney for Luther Norris the Paramount sa-
loon keeper, he said he placed dynamite
bomb under the saloon building owned by
Morris, in the north end of town, in 1893
and that twenty-one prominent citizens and
church members were guilty either in as
sisting him do the work attending meet
ings held for the purpose of devising some.
means for destroying the saloon. 1t was
surprise when the grand jury failed to in
dict any of the parties concerned, but
technical question of law is supposed to
have saved Rush. Rush said he blew up
the building and the next night fired the
debris The dynamiting charge comes under
the head of malicious trespass which is
outlawed inside of two years. The grand
jury was confronted with the question:
Did Rush commit arson when he set fire to
the ruins Of this building? Under the stat
uteS of Indiana arson holds good for ninety
nine years, but evidently the jury decided
that he did not commit arson, as there was
no roof on the building at the time. Prose-
cutting Attorney Amsden recently took his
office and he may call the attention OF the
November grand jury to the facts.
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THE "OMAHA KID" WON.
Jack O'Brien Bested by Oscar Gar
diner in a Eiffeen-ROund Bout


diner i'm Fffteen-ROund Bout.
NEW YORK, Nov. 1S.-At the Polo
Athletic CLUB tonight, Oscar Gardiner, the
Omaha Kid, bested Jack O. Brien, in a fif-
teen-round bout. They had previously
spared two draws The attendance was
1,5O0. Both men worked hard and fast from
the moment they shook hands. Gardiner
was the quicker, his work being clean cut
in every way. He landed some very hard
upper cuts on the chest and neck with his
left, any one of which would have been
sufficient to undo any ordinary man, but
OBrien was in excellent condition. He re-
ceived the greater bulk of the punishment
in the first ten rounds, but kept on gamely,
although he was bleeding from the mouth
and his nose and eyes were badly injured
from the frequent viSitationS OF the Kid S
left hand. In the eleventh round Gardiner
crossed his right heavily on O Brien's face
badly. At the close of this round O'Brien's
face was well puffed up and his left ear
was very much swollen, while Gardiner did
not show mark other than a red spot
over his left kidney. Gardiner sent in two
hard lefts on the face in the early part of
the fourteenth round but missed right
swing for the head. which, had it landed
might have ended the fight O'Brien played
for the wind and landed some good short
arm blows there but Gardiner countered
heavily each time on the face. Both men
came up in fairly good shape Tor the M
teenth and last round. O'Brlen forced the
fighting, but Gardiner was always on the
alert and held his man safely. he never
lost one opportunity of getting IN his telling
left hand blows and had O'Brien very weak
when the gong ended the bout. Gardiner
referee declared the Omaha man the
winner.
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The story of Nantucket.
Godey's Magazine.


Nantucket is supposed to be the land first
visited by Gosnold, but this is disputed.
The early name of the island was Man
tukes, given it by the Indians. The tradi-
tionS of the latter tell Us that Mashope, a
warrior, formed the island by dumping his
pipe in the ocean. The frequent fogs in this
section were likewise attributed to the
smoke from Mashope's pipe. The entire
island once belonged to Thomas Mayhem,
to whom it was decided in 1871 by the Earl
of Sterling. Eighteen years later Mayhem
conveyed to nine others equal portions, re-
tanning the section known as Masquetuck
Neck. The ancient records show that the
consideration received by Mayhem was ESQ
of lawful money and beaver hat for him.
self and another for his wife. The original
grantees were Thomas Macy, Richard
Swain, TriStram Coffin Thomas Barnard,
John Swain Christopher Hussey. Peter Cof-
fin, Stephen Greenleaf and William Pile. The
names of these original proprietors are
honored ones in the history of Nantucket,
and many of their descendants are closely
identified with the Nantucket of to-day.
A fact not generally known, or least re-
membered, is that Nantucket was once
called Sherburne and belonged to New
York This was over two centuries ago.
About the year 1905 the name was changed
to Nantucket, under which name it's whale
fisheries were developed and the sea-girt
isle became known throughout the civilized
world. A curious history. this steady
growth in population and Importance, until
the middle of the present century, since
which the decline has been as steady, if
not as rand.
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Fl MIDNIGHT TRAGEDY.
Richard MandeIbaum Shot by James
NJ. Kirk in New York Hotel.

NEW YORK, Nov 13-During a quarrel
just after midnight at the Girard House, on
West Forty-fourth street, Richard Mandel-
baum, thirty years old, a guest of the
house, was shot in the groin by James W.
Kirk, thirty-one years old, also a guest of
the house. Kirk was arrested and locked
up and the injured man assisted to his
room. 1t is not known what led to the
shooting. but it was rumored about the no.
tel that a woman, believed to be Mandel-
baums wife, was believed to be the cause
of the affair. The police notified the coro-
ned and he went to the house and took the
injured mai S ante-mortem statement. Kirk
refused to talk. He was richly dressed, and
had considerable money in his pocket. He
gave his residence as No. 122 West Forty
fourth street, and said he was d manufac-
furer and unmarried. The police say they
could learn nothing of the causes leading
up to the shooting. Kirk is said to hail
from Denver, and has gained a great deal
of notoriety, that he evidently enjoyed on
account of his snowy dress.
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FEVER GERMS NOT YET DEAD.
Eleven New Cases of "YeIIOvv Jack"
and Two Deafhs 2 New Orleans.


NEW ORLEANS Nov 13-There was a
slight increase in the number of new cases
of yellow fever reported here to-day eleven
being announced. There were two deaths,
as follows: Edward c. Mitchell Jennie Col
Inns. The situation here is steadily growing
better, and very little attention is now be-
ing given to the record of cases and deaths
Advices from the county parishes and the
surrounding States say that there is a
steady relaxation of quarantine restric-
TONS and considerable impetus is being
given to freight business. New Orleans
people who have been away are beginning
to return. The Louisville & Nashville road
has put on its coast train again. The re-
moval of the Texas quarantine on Monday
will allow the Southern Pacific steamship
and railroad lines to resume traffic. The
Board OF Health will continue its bulletins
for some time longer, but will close its re-
port at o clock instead of 8. The reunion
committee of the Elks has assurances from
the Board of Health and the medical asso-
Citations that no fear need be apprehended.
and that all conventions fixed to take place
in New Orleans can be held with perfect
safety. The Elks are issuing vigorous cir
culars to their brethren throughout the
Union
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Ratchford Speaks to Miners.

Special to the Indiana rolls Journal.
DANVILLE. ILL.,, Nov. 13-President
Ratchford, of the United Mine Workers,
addressed an audience of miners and many
citizens at the grand opera house this aft
ernoon. He did not touch on local matters,
but confined himself to general discussion.
in which he favored annual meetings be-
tween combinations of operators and
miners to fix the scale Of wages. Since the
strike vas settled here the employees of the
Pawneo and Himrod coal companies, which
are under the same management, have been
out a number of times on account of local
differences. They are out now, but it is be-
lieved the trouble will be adjusted without
much delay by the local combination Mr..
Ratchford's forcible and conservative
speech favoring arbitration and insisting
on law and order, met with approval from
miners and operators. He came here on in
vitatiOn to deliver an address, stopping off
on his way home to Columbus, o., from
northern Illinois.
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Acquitted of Tressoass.

WILKESBARRE, Pa, Nov. 1S,-The jury
returned verdict of not guilty tonight in
the. case of eight miners who were charged
by the Lehigh Valley Coal Company with
trespassing on the company's property and
with intimidating workmen. The men on
trial were the leaders of strike at Avoca
in October. and the company caused their
arrest on the allegation that they entered
on the company's property and by hltimi-
dalton prevented from going to work the
men who had been engaged to take the
strikers places. The defense was that no
violence had been committed. In addition
TO the acquittal of the strikers the jury di-
rected that the prosecuting company shall
pay the costs of the suit.
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M. O,CONNoR q co. CAUGHT.
The Wholesale Firm Interested i'm the
Failure of Shower at Homer.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
RUSHVILLE, Ind, Nov. 13.-The whole
sale house of NJ. O'Connor & Co., of In
dianapolis, to-day instituted suit by it's at
torney F. r. Hord, of that city, asking that
a transfer of town property and store stock
made by Henry E. Shower, of Homer, this
county, to his wife, Rosa Shower, be set
aside. The property is worth $1,000 or &c.,
SIS. The plaintiffs claim that Shower was
indebted to them in the sum of $l44M when
he executed the transfer to his wife, and
that he does not now possess sufficient prop
erty to satisfy the claim OF the plaintiffs.
This is the first suit to be Tiled in the
Shower matter. Shower is a Hebrew and
located in Homer about twenty years ago.
He was successful i'll business and became
popular in the neighborhood. Among the
first men with whom Shower interested
himself was James V. Hilligoss, wealthy
farmer They bought grain together and
Hilligoss left the keeping of the books to
Sklower. Year after year, instead of taking
his dividends, Hillgoss, on Showers adj
vice, permitted his money to be reinvested.
Business reverSeS have fallen on Shower
in the last few years, and when he decided
his property TO his wife HilligoSs was left
out in the cold. Mr. HilligoSs estimates his
loss at $4,000. He is the heaviest creditor.
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For the most psrt, they of the homely,
old-time sort-SWeet pea, mignonette,
bachelors button, ragged robin. larkspur,
candytuft-all the quaint company that one
linds in the regulation old-fashioned gar
den, but never in such profusion as in this.
The house is small. the study, its one room
shown to visitors apparently taking up the
whole structure. With the exception of the
books. everything in this study is just as
Celia ThaXter left it three years ago when
she died. The books it was found neces-
sary to remove, so the silken curtains vail
ing each of the many cases hide empty
shelves. Pictures, bric-a-brac desk, tables
and all else are as she left them. What
most impress the visitor are the great vases
of Howers-fifty of them-that are kept
overlooking with blossoms from one season S
END to the other That's nothing to what
Mrs Thaxter used to have" says the old
woman who serves as cicerone. She al
ways had $50 vases, $50 filled fresh every
day! But although we try to keep things
just as she left them, that was too much,
so I had to drop the one hundred, and, to
tell the truth, it's just as much as l can
manage to tend to the fifty
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If any of ye know just cause or impede
ment why these two persons should not be
joined together in Holy MatTimony ye are
to declare it, or forever after hold your
peace" IF physicians obeyed this solemn
adnonition IN the marriage ceremony and
protested with the honest and scientific rea-
sons in their possession half of the unhappi-
ness sickness and death in the world would
cease to exist. The man or woman who has
developed symptoms of that dread disease
consumption should not marry until cured.
Consumption should bar the way to welded
life. 1t is a crime to transmit to future gen.
erations the death dealing germs in the
blood of the consumptive.
Many physicians pronounce consumption
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they were given up by the doctors and all
hope was gone. Druggists sell it and moth
ing else is Just as good"
There cannot be too many good, practical books
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Worlds Dspensary Medical Association Buffalo,
M For cloth binding, send 81 stamps.
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Movements of stenmers.

NEW YORK, Nov. 13.-Arrived: st. Paul.
from Southampton. about thirty hours be-
hind her record. Sailed: Massachusetts. for
London; Campania, for Liverpool: La Bre-
tagne, for Havre; Rotterdam. for Rotter-
dam; Kaiser Wilhelm IL for Genoa; Cam
brian, for London; Thingvalla. for Copen-
hagen.
SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 13-Sailed: st.
Louis, for New York.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 1S.-Sailed: Indi-
ana, for Liverpool.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 1S-Arrived: Bowie,
from New York.
LONDON. :Sov. 1S-Sailed: Kensington,
for New York.
HAvRE. Nov. 1s.-sailed: La Champagne,
for New York.
BREMEN. Nov 1s.-sailed: Karlsruhe,
for New York
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Indiana Notes.

John F. Joyce, of RushvilIe. has succeeded
William NJ Sparks as deputy prosecutor
for Rush county. Mr.. Sparks resigned on
account of private business, which requires
all his attention.
Deputy United States Marshal Arch
Spring, of Olney, Ill., at Vincennes. Satur-
day, arrested Joseph Fisher, an old horse
trader charged with .'bootlegging'' whisky
without license in Illinois. He took the
prisoner to Springfield for trial.
William Prather, administrator of the es-
tate of his son, Newton Z. Prather, has
brought suit for $4,000 against the Big Four
Railway, at Martinsville. for the death of
the latter. Mr.. Prather claims that his
sons death was owing to faulty car, on
which he was loading logs.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
tIisN5SELAER, Ind, Nov. 13.-This city
is putting ia water works system to cost
$4,000. The city has also contracted for
complete fire apparatus, without in any
manner consulting the wishes of the fire
men of the ely, and as result rather
dramatic scene was enacted in the hall of
the City Council Thursday night, when the
whole fire department Resigned in body.
The firemen were very much offended and
chase apparatus without in any manner
consulting them. What the result OF this
action will be remains to be seen. The feel
ing between the Council and the fire de-
partment is very bitter.
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DAYTON, O., Nov. bon Nov. IL 1t was
announced that Kid Mccoy, the prize
fighter, was training in the Y. M. c. A.
gymnasium at Dayton. Secretary Sinclair
says the statement is false and adds:
prize fighters are not admitted to the use
of our gymnasium If any of them desire
to reform and merit Identification with a
Christian organization, they will be adj
where they will be taught to pound iron
and thus to earn an honest and respectable
1iVin0.'
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Sold for S1.OOO.OOO.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 13.-The property
rights and franchises of the Oregon I'm
this morning under an order of foreclosure
issued by the United States Circuit Court.
The property was knocked down to John
l. Waterbury and T. Jefferson Coolidge, jr.,
who were the sole bidders for 81, 000, 900. An
allowance of 81, 500 was made for attorneys
fees. A similar sale was held in Seattle on
Nov e.
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Barrett Law May BE Unconstitutional

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
TERRE RAUTE, Ind, Nov. 13.-Judge
Stinson has rendered decision which prac-
tically questions the constitutionality of the
Barrett law. Under the law the owner Of
property fronting on street to be improved
may be assessed the full value of the prop
erty, and if this does not equal the cost
of the Improvement, land to a depth of $50
feet back may be assessed In case here
the owner of land back of that which had
been assessed the full value was sued for
part of the assessment, and Judge StinSon
decided for the defendant In speaking of
the case, Judge Stinson said: 1T is only
a question of time when the constitutional
ity of the law will be attacked and possibly
it will be held to be unconstitutional. The
courts have many such cases as this one
on record and it really does seem as if it
were hard on a property owner to assess
a benefit which will absorb the value of the
prOperty."
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Charles Keffer Shoots Smith Keifer
and then Escapes.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
NORTH VERNON, Ind, Nov. 13.-Charles
Keifer, the nineteen-year-old son of Smith
Keller, a well-to-do citizen of Scipio, this
county, shot and killed his father early this
morning with a double-barrelled shotgun.
The father and son were quarreling, and
the boy, who held a gun, drew up and fired
a load of No shot into his fathers breast.
Mr.. Keifer fell to the ground and died in
stantly. Some of the shot penetrated his
Hayden, few miles away, and got his sis
ter to take her back home. On the way
he met his brother with horse, and, turn
ing his sister over to his brother Charles
took the horse from him and made his
escape.
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The plankinton Bank Case.

MILWAUKEE. Nov BIN the Circuit
Court, to-day District Attorney Brace
filed motion asking Judge Johnson to dis
miss the indictment against Frederick L.
Day, president of the defunet Planklnton
Bank, giving as his reason that no conyic-
ton could be secured. The indictment IN
question was returned by the grand jury In
1898. There is little doubt that the order
will be issued and litigation against Mr..
Day in connection with the Planklnton
Rank case will cease.
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WooIen NILS Shut Down.

CLINTON, Mass, Nov 1s.-The wooden
mills Of the Bigelow Carpet Company shut
down tonight for an indefinite period. The
wooden mills employ over 800 people. The
other departments of the plant will run
with a reduced working force for some time.
The cause of the curtailment is the depres-
sion in the carpet manufacturing industry.
The mills have been shut down at intervals
during the past four years.
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Indiana Obituary.

WORTHINGTON, Ind, Nov. 13.-John H
Johnson. a prominent citizen of this place,
died last evening of dropsy of the heart.
The deceased had served two terms as
sheriff of Greene county. During the war
he was a member of the Fourteenth In
diana Volunteers. His wife, four sons and
two daughters survive him.
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind, Nov. 13.-Mrs.
Mary Daugherty. aged thirty years dropped
dead at her home on Missouri avenue. this
city, tonight She leaves husband and
one child.
KOKOMO. Ind. Nov. 13.-Mrs. Lucinda
McCool, wife of James McCool, a pioneer,
died to-day of Bright's disease, aged sew
enty-One.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal
RUSHVILLE, Ind, Nov. 13.--The Sterling
grocery, one of the largest grocery stores
in town. was closed by Sheriff Price this
evening on a judgment rendered by Judge
Mccullough in favor of NJ. O'Connor g. Co.,
of Indianapolis. The amount is about S6fe.
The store was owned by Eugene l.. Floyd,
who came here about year ago from Shell
byville. Floyd is son of Dr. Arthur w.
Floyd, who is his sons hacker. Recently
Floyd executed a mortgage to his father
for 81, $50 on the grocery stock ana another
on the stock of the Enterprise Coffee Com
pany, of this city, for the same amount.
The Enterprise Coffee Company does
wholesale coffee business 1t is not included
in the suit of the Indianapolis parties The
court set aside the mortgage to the senior
Floyd Other Indianapolis firms with which
FLOYD has been dealing will make effort
to get slice of the Floyd stock.
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Two Arkansans Die with Boots On.

FOREST CITY, Ark, Nov 13-A double
tragedy occurred yesterday in the Egyptian
neighborhood. Joe Sartin and George Skip
per met in the road and began shooting at
each other. Sartin got the first shot and
emptied his revolver into Shippers stom-
ach. AS Skipper fell to the ground he
raised on his elbow and emptied a load of
buckshot into Sartin's back. Both men died
shortly after the shooting.
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No strike ON the ohio River road.

CLEVELAND, Nov. BIN reference to a
rumored strike on the Ohio River road,
Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers, said that he had no Au-
thority to order a strike and that in his
opinion the situation was not serious
enough to warrant one. 1t was reported
unless the discharged engineers-Tayl or,
Shigsley, Bartell and Creel-were rein
stated
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Two Miners Crushed to Pulp.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BRAZIL Ind, Nov. 13.-At the No. mine
of the Brazil Block Coal Company, at
Perth, this afternoon, August Vanso and
Dominick Ulick, two miners. were killed by
falling slate in their rooms in the mine
while at work. They were buried under ten
tons of slate and their bodies were crushed
to a ShapeleSS mass. A force of men are
now at work digging the bodies out.
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MARION ELks RECEIVE NOTICE.
Grand Exalted Ruler Detwiler Ex~
pected to ReOrganize the Lodge.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MARION, Ind, Nov. 30. A. Sprague
exalted ruler of the local lodge of EIks,
received notification this morning that the
charter had been forfeited for initiating
Fitzsimmons and refusing to expel him. A
private telegram from Grand Exalted Ruler
DetWller states that he will soon be in
Marion to investigate the whole affair. The
local Elks are disposed to try the matter
mere and carry it to the Grand Lodge if
necessary. The contemplated visit of Det-
Wller is interpreted as an attempt to reor-
ganize the lodge and prevent the affair from
going to the Grand Lodge. Meanwhile, of
course. the local b. P. o. E. has no official
existence