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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21
GOOD GAS WELL STORY.
New York Has Gusher with 5000
Pounds Alleged Pressure.

SYRACUSE, N. Y, July pa special to
the Post from Baldwinsvile says: Another
immense gas well has been developed on
the Binnlng farm, one-half mile northeast
of Baldwinsvile. 1t is by far the most pro-
life we'll yet found here. BY actual test
to-day the volume of gas flowing from it
amounts to over five million cubic feet ev-
cry twenty-four hours. The pressure is in
tense and must reach three thousand CD
pounds to the square inch. The we'll is
down $3.50 feet. 1t has been sunk into the
Trenton rock two hundred feet, where the
great deposit of natural gas was struck.
No such deposit has ever before been dis
closed in this State and it is even said by
experts that the flow exceeds any discoV-
cred i'm other States.
The force of the gas which proceeds from
the boring is so enormous that ii viii lift
weight of two hundred or three hundred
pounds placed over the opening. 1t throws
out particles of rock from a depth of 225O
feet one hundred feet into the air. When
the rock is thrown out the particles are
driven through pieces of soft wood as
though they were shot from a gun. The
well Is now being piped and packed.
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Sir John SkeItnn.

LONDON, July 20.-Sir John Shelton, the
author known by the nom de plume of
Shirley" is dead The late Sir John Skel-
ton was born at Edinburgh in 1881 and was
educated at st. Andrews and Edinburgh
University. He was an advocate of the
Scottish bar but retired on account of i'll
health and accepted the office OF secretary
of the poor law board. for Scotland, hich
office he held from 1868 to 1891. Since 1894
he had served as vice president and chair
man of the local government board (Scot-
land.) After his retirement from The Scot
fish bar he was a constant contributor to
aH be menGaed AmonS f works
Campaigner at Home" The Essays of
Shirley 1.-TWO volumes), "Macland of Leth-
ington" 1.-TWO volumes) Mary Stuart"
The Table Talk of Shirley Re minis
cences OF J. A Froude and Others second
series of Table Talk" and Works on
Poor Law and PUBLIC Health"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21
THE INTERSTATE DRILLS.
SeeIy Rifles Made IL strong Showing,
but LlOyds Fell Down.

SAN ANTONIO. Tex. July 2O.-Camp
culberson, with its 1lOO tents and $500 SOL
diers, presented a panorama of brilliant
scenes from dawn until midnight to-day
In the forenoon the state troops drilled by
companies regiments and brigades for the
prizes offered by the State. Captain L. c.
Bates, L. S. A, delivered a lecture before
the commissioned officers on guard mount.
In the afternoon the Seely Rifles. of Gal
weston, and the Lloyd Rifles drilled for the
interstate championship. The Lloyds put
up ragged drill, and are out of the race
The Seelys, however drilled fauItIesslv
and unofhoial critics noticed only five in
dividual errors, and as far as known no
captain or company errors were made The
company was steady. and both in the man
ual and field movements moved like clock
work. Their drill is conceded to be better
than that of the Thurston Rifles yesterday
Governor Culberson arrived In camp TODAY
and with Brigadier General Graham. u s
A, reviewed all the troops this afternoon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21
HOW DIR. RYDER DIED.
Georgia Mob Sheds White Blood as
QuickIY as Black.

ATLANTA, Ga, July 20.-Dispatches re-
ceived from Talbotton to-day confirm the
reported lynching near there last night of
DR.. w. L. Ryder, who murdered Miss Sallie
Emma owen at Talbotton year ago.
When the case against Ryder was called
yesterday Judge Hart. on the evidence that
the leading counsel for Ryder could not be
present on account of sickness, continued
the case until the regular term in Septem-
Der. Ryder was to have been returned to
Muscogee jail on the 1920 p. m. train and
was taken to Waverly Hail. the nearest
station from Talbotton, for that purpose.
A few minutes after the deputies arrived at
the station mob took the prisoner from
the officers and returned with him to
point just across the county line and there
lynched him. His body was found hanging
from limb at an early hour this morning.
Deputy Sheriff Murphy, who was in charge
of the prisoner, says that in the company
of Mr.. Boswell and Dr. Ryder he reached
Waverly Hall just before dark in car
riage, and that the prisoner was seated
in the rear seat. He sat on the left of
Ryder and Boswell on the seat in front
Just after dark Boswell who was looking
out of the carriage window, exclaimed:
Look out; there is a man on a horse.
There they comet" he shouted, and in an
instant the two deputies were on the ground
and found themselves covered by pistols.
The mob ordered them to throw
up their hands and deliver their
pistols. This Murphy says he re-
FUSED to do at first. but his pistol was
snatched from his hands. Then he be-
gan to plead with the crowd Tor the safety
OF the prisoner, but was Immediately or
oered to shut up. Ryder made but little
resistance to the mob, and while they We're
dragging him from the carriage did not
utter word. The prisoner was placed in
another carriage and driven back to Tai
bot county ana hung to tree just over
the line in Talbot county, near the house
Of J. c. Willis. The mob while returning
with Ryder from Waverly Hall met
by Sheriff Richards and his posse. but ow-
ing 10 the darkness the sheriff could not
distinguish the persons. nor gain any cleW
to their identity. Richards was informed
by the men who had Ryder in charge that
he was too late. He pushed on to Waverly
Hall only to find that he had been misled.
The action of the mob is ascribed to in
dignaton of the people at the case being
continued. 1t is also said that the friends
of the prosecution had given up all hope of
ever bringing Ryder to the gallows by rea-
son of his being insane.
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A. A. RIVET DROWNED.
Body of Old Indianapolis Man
Found in the River at Toledo.
spc ciaI to the indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
TOLEDO, o., July 20-The body of A A..
Rivet, an old Indianapolis merchant, who
came here some time ago, has just been
found in the river. 1t is a case of suicide
or accident
Mr.. Rivet was at one time engaged in the
dry goods business in Indianapolis. About
seventeen years ago, with his brother-in-
law, Charles Pardridges, he kept a store on
East Washington street and afterward
moved to West Washington street The
firm established the Trade Palace which
Robson building on the north side of Wash
ington between Meridian and Illinois
streets. Mr.. Rivet was in business at this
point but a few years. The venture did not
pay financially and both proprietors re-
moved to Chicago. Since then neither of
them has lived in Indianapolis. An Indian
apolis merchant who knew Mr. Rivet said
yesterday evening that he understood a
few years ago that Mr.. Rivet was employed
as floor walker in store somewhere in
Illinois. o,t5
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21

Special to the indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, July 2o.-Opposition to
the confirmation of Terrence V. Powderly
as commissioner general of immigration is
taking form. He is honored with the ran
corous hatred of dozen OF. more conspicu-
Gus professional labor agitators of the
walking delegate grade, and they are max
ing a great deal of noise. 1t is not believed,
however that the opposition will be effect
i've. The Senate committee on immigration
attempted to secure a meeting to-day to
consider the nomination of Hon. L. V.
Powderly to be commissioner of immigra-
tion but failed to obtain quorum. The
meeting developed the fact that contirma-
ton will be opposed by some senators on
the ground that Powderly's appointment is
distasteful 20 the labor element. Another
attempt will be made to take up the nomi-
nation Tomorrow,
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HnO6PS D111C cure nausea. indigestion,
AAOO0 y AkA0 biliousness. Price 25c

health year ago but when he was per-
fectly we'll he had been a good workman,
able to command constant employment.
Sickness made it impossible for him to do
a full days work, and he was very glad TO
say to his employers that he would be will
ing to work as well as he could and receive
pay for the work done.
me UNION mere stepped IN and insisted
ceive a full days pay or nothing He de-
clared that he could not earn full days
ployers to insist that they pay him so
much.
They were willing to pay what he asked,
full days pay for half days work Ps Ne Neil {.
son lost his job. therefore, nor was he able
to get any employment, since the union
men would not work in any place where
he was employed. Starvation was before
him, and rather than become a charge upon
the community he hanged himself yester-
day
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21
Reeds Weight.
Washington Letter.

Speaker Reed is growing heavier every
day, as frequent trials on the scales testi-
fly. The speaker is rather sensitive on the
member of the House with whom he is on
familiar terms, asked him a question the
other day which showed the speakers SEN
sitiveness on the subject even though he
answered with his habitual dryness of wit:
Say, Mr.. Speaker" asked the member,
chow much do you weigh?'
Reed. The member laughed incredulousy.
You must weigh more than that" he ar
gued for l weigh two hundred myself,
and I'm not as big as you are"
"Oh, well,' drawied the speaker, mo gem
tleman weighs more than two hundred"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21
Lynching and a Race war:

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, July 20--A special
to the State Herald says: A race war is on
at Riverton, Ala. a town of 600 inhabitants.
and serious results are feared. A negro at
tempted a criminal assault ON Mrs. S. Z.
Vaughan, an estimable white woman Mon
day afternoon, but was. beaten off and the
neighborhood aroused. A searching party
is said to have caught the fend and iynched
him. but this they did not admit. After
the lynching the whites became incensed
and threatened to eXterminate the negroes
Both sides are arming, and one white man
has been seriously injured. Mrs. Vaughan
in a delicate condition and her death is
! Smentarily expected.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21
Death Penalty for Assault.

RICHMOND Va, July 20.-Joe Fife, a
negro who attempted an assault on Mrs
Marks, of this city. on Thursday morning
last and on that afternoon attempted the
same crime on Miss Russell, of Norfolk
who was visiting in a suburb of Richmond
was tried in the Hastings Court to-day A
verdict of guilty with the death penalty
was returned by the jury, and Fife was
sentenced TO hang on Aug. 70.
Jackson Wilson, negro. who attempted
an assault Thursday night on Miss Gillian
OF York county, was arraigned in York
county court to-day ana pleaded guilty and
the grand jury gave him the death penalty
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21
General Notes.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, July 20.-The Treasury
Department to-day received a contribution
to the Conscience fund of $40 signed
Alexandria, Ind
The treasury statement to-day shows:
Available cash balance 1921, O4S 1856; gold re-
serve, $143, 52S, 054
The President has directed the removal of
Charles NJ. Shannon, collector of internal
revenue for the district of New Mexico and
has selected A. l.. Morrison as his success
sor
Secretary of the Treasury Gage has ac
cepted the invitation of seventy of the most
prominent business men OF Boston to at
day evening at the Hotel Tuilerrs in that
city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21

WASHINGTON, July 20-Representative
Mitchell, of New York, has introduced in
the House bill to establish a currency re-
serve fund for the redemption of United
States and treasury notes of 1890. The fund
shall aggregate at the start $3.50, coo 900, OF
which not over $1OO,OOOOOO shall consist of
gold and the remainder of United States
added to from time to time as the treas
ury's cash balance exceeds $75 00O but
shah never aggregates more than $2OO,O00,
000 The fund shall be used TO redeem
United States and treasury notes which
shall not be reissued except in exchange
for gold to be deposited in the reserve fund.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, July 20.-Ex- Representa-
tive ]. D. Leighty. of st. Joseph, arrived in
town this evening. He did not come by in
vitation strictly speaking, yet 1t will be
matter Of great surprise if he does not ear
ry back with him commission as pension
agent for Indiana. Mr.. Spencer's resigna-
ton was written for last Thursday or Fri
day, and in the event Of his refusal to COM
ply with the polite request. or in the event
of his ignoring it, he will be removed. That
is settled. He may be given a day or two
more grace, but probably not more.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21
Smallpox scare in AIabamu.

BIRMINGHAM. Ala. July 2O.-Acting
Mayor Pearce requests the Associated
Press TO promulgate the following card
from the county health officer: THE only
four decided cases of smallpox in this city
have been removed. Other suspicious cases
are being taken to the pest house The
people are being generally vaccinated
Within forty-eight hours every suspicious
case will be out of the city and the most
vigorous measures Will be used. There is
no need Of alarm. All vaccinated people
are safe and this remedy we are enforcing =
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21
Commodore Pythian retired.

WASHINGTON, July 20.-Commodore
Robert L. Pythian, superintendent of the
Naval Observatory, will be placed on the
retired list of the navy tomorrow. He en-
tered the navy from Kentucky in 1853 He
will be succeeded as superintendent of the
observatory by Commander Charles H
Davis, who was the special escort of the
Princess Eulalie on her visit to this country
during the worlds fair, and is now a mem
her of the naval inspection board.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21
Mrs. WinsIo,v's soothing syrup

Has been used over fifty years by millions
of mothers for their children while teething
with perfect success. 1t soothes the child,
softens the gums, aiays pain, cures wind
collie, regulates the bowels, and is the best
remedy fer diarrhea. whether arising from
teething or other causes. For sale by drug
gists in every part of the world. BE sure
and ask for Mrs. Wmslows Soothing Syrup
rs cents q bottle.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21
Vermont to Nebraska by Boat.

BENNINGTON, Vt. July 20.-Ernest Ed
son, eighteen years old, left to-day for Ne
braska in tWenty-foot boat made by him
self. He will go down the Waloonac and
then 10 Troy From that city he will go
to Buhalo by the Erie canal and thence
by the great lakes, the Mississippi and Mis-
souri, rivers to Nebraska.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21

EUFALA, Ala. July 20.-Excitement pre-
walls at Conner, this county. over the un
ton patented exclusively by negroes. Two
white men, strangers appeared there and
alteF making inquiry descriptive of the To-
cahty as IL stood thirty~iIve years ago
vent TO an old landmark and measured
thence TO spot, where they commence9
digging. They soon took up a box and left
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21
At Half Mast for Crocker,

SAN FRANCISCO, July 20-All the flags
in this city are at half mast to-day as a
tribute to the memory of the late Col. Chas.
F. Crocker. A simple service, attended by
a few of the most intimate friends of the
deceased was conducted at the Uplands
at San Mateo during the morning, and the
remains were then escorted to this city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21

with it. one remarking to the negro who
had shown them the landmark that the box
contained $4,000.
John w. Seay once owned the plantation.
He died in a Confederate hospital in Misis-
sippi in 1862 and is known to have had
money which has never been accounted for.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21
A workingman's Suicide.


Had Charles Nelson been driven to take
his own life by the exactions and tyranny
of his employers we should have seen in
some of the newspapers sensational ac-
counts of the grasping and soulless capt.
talist who drove a man to death by paying
him starvation wages; but Nelson took his
own life rather than starve not because
employers were unwilling TO pay him liv-
ing wage, but because the carpenters union
would not let him earn It,
He was made somewhat intirln by ill
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21

De trOit Journal.

OtIIUIL JUUI IIII
"Balkedr Kissed the villain, in chagrin.
The heroine contemplated his discomfit-
ure not without pity.
"Knickerbocked," She whispered to her
self.
For, if it were not permitted to her to
clear her skirts from suspicion, she might
at least wear something else.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21

NEW YORK, July 20.-It is more than
likely that there will be a shipment of gold,
the first in almost month, before the end
of this week. The exchange market has
been strong all week, and two of the lead
ing gold shipping houses are expected to
engage gold at the subtreasury or bars at
the assay office in day two.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21

HARTFORD, Conn, July 20-The con-
troller Of the currency at Washington will
at once be notified that the Mercantile Ma
tional Bank of Hartford viii SO into voiun-
tary liquidation Aug. 2, 1897. II win require
mora than two months TO reach a settle
ment with the creditors, although every
dollar is now ready.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21

Please to inquire and you will find that
Glenn's Sulphur Soap is held in the highest
esteem, both by the people and the medical
pn9 biemishes Sold by ali druggists
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye black
brown, SOC.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21

WASHINGTON, July 2O.-It is semi-offi-
cially announced to-day that President Me-
Kinley will withhold his currency message
until after the conference report on the
tariff bill has been adopted by the Senate
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21
Inventor Rnhcnck

BOSTON, July 20.-James F. Babcock in
ventor of the fire extinguisher bearing his
name, and a well-known lecturer died to-
day at his home, in Dorchester, aged hfty-
three years. He had filled several state
Offices
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21
OBITUARY,
Jean IngeIOw Passes Away in Her
Seventy-Seventh Year.

LONDON, July 20-Miss Jean Ingelow,
the distinguished poet and novelist, died in
London last night She was in her seventy
seventh year, having been born in 1920
Sir John Charles Bucknill one of the
founders Of the volunteer movement of 1859
is dead. He was in bis eightieth year
The evening times., 1897-05-01
JIM MAY FIGHT AGAIN.
Rumur Says Curhett VIII Box in "A
I.imited-Round Contest.

New York, May lit is rerorted on
good authority that Jim Corbett will be
seen in l;mited-round boxing contest in
this city before a great many weeks pass
by. What makes the rumor appear all
the stronger is the announcement, although
unofficial, that William A. Brady has his
finger ia the pie of the Palace A C., and
that be, with others. is putting up the
$4,000 purse for which Maher and Sharkey
are soon to fight.
1t is said that S2,5O0 of the purse has
already been placed ia the hands of ''Al"
Smith and that the second installment is
to so up within the next eight days and
the remaining $4,000 on the day Of the
contest.
Although the fighters and their man
ayers refuge To divulpe the name Of the
club where the fight is to come off, it
would seem that the Palace is the club,
as long as the Broadway is out it, those
being the only two clubs in the city where
the arenas are large enough for a bout
of this magnitude. If, then, this turns out
to be true, il shows how successfully Arthur
Lumley, who lately secured the manage
ment OF the Palace, doomed MaEer aud
Sharkey into line with nice pleasantri2s
And if Billy Brady is really interested in
the Palace Club il can be depended on that
COrbett will be seen in ring costume there.
Brady's shrewdness has never been ques-
toned. lie knows that Corbett can make
a lot OF money 10y engaging ia contest
here, and he is just the one TO put such
q scheme through.
The evening times., 1897-05-01
"Darkest Womanhood.,

Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett, national super
inteudent and organizer of the Florence
Crittenton missions and hCmes for caring
for reneatant women, VIII speak under
the auspices Of the national society in this
city at Luther Memorial Church, Vermont
avenue and Fourteenth street, tomorrow
night at O'Clock. Mrs Barrett's sub
ject is, Darkest Womanhood; and the
Way Out Of 1t, or the Remedy" Mrs. Bar
rett has won a fine reputation as a public
speaker, not only 10y her address on White
Slaves" at the Christian Endeavor con-
vention here last summer, butin her scien-
tifc papers heard before the national con-
ference OF charities and corrections for
some years past. Mr.. Charles S. Morton,
private secretary Of Mr.. Cnttenton, the
founder of the Florence missions, will also
speak There viii be appropriate music
and a fine audience is assured.
The evening times., 1897-05-01
GENERAL SPORTING NOTES.


Four of New York's boxing clubs will
run all summer.
Prudent, so to Il shot. ran second at
Newport yesterday.
starter Pettingill is advocating the use
of the recall flag as protection for the
public.
Neary rode three winners at Elkton yes
terday, and landed Harry c. second in
another race.
Bust Up went to the post 60 to 1 at
Forsyth yesterday. The track was muddy
and Bust Up finished second.
Steve O'Donnell is matched to fight Alex
Greggains at San Francisco twenty rounds
on June for purse OF So, 500.
Spike Sullivan and George Dixon have
agreed to fight twenty rounds at 133
pounds before the club offering the best
purse.
Jim Judge, Of Scranton defeated Sam
Tonkins, of Astoria, l.. L., In four rounds,
Thursday night at the Fifth Avenue Ath-
Ietic Club The bout was scheduled to go
twenty rounds.
Patsey Frederick, Of Providence, and
will be the star attraction at the Polo
A thletic Club, New York, tonight They
Will box twenty rounds
The veriscope reproduction of the Fitz-
simmons-C -Corbett fight will probably be
presented at the Academy OF Music, New
York, on May IT. The managers are hold
ing back the presentation here until they
can secure a copyrightin England.
Jockey Charley Rciff met with very
painful accident while the horses were at