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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17
WOMEN'S CLUBS.
A Meeting Called for Oct. Ii to Form
IL State Organization.

At the instigation of Mrs. Henry d.
Pierce a movement has been undertaken,
by the Woman's Club of this city, toward
the formation of state federation of wom-
ems clubs. A committee, consisting of Mrs.
H. d. Pierce, chairman; Mrs. G. c. Hit,
president of the Woman's Club; Mrs Grace
Julian Clark, secretary; Miss Harriet No
BILE and Mrs. Morris Ross was appointed
to take the initiative and several meetings
have been held to formulate plan
AS a result of the preliminary meetings,
each womans club and organization in the
State will be invited to send delegates to
this city for meeting Oct. 13 and II, when
action will be taken regarding the organ
ization of such d federation. There has
been some opposition expressed by those
who feel that the Indiana Union of Literary
Clubs meets all requirements. Those who
are in favor of the state federation believe
that it is bound to come and for that rea-
son think that the Indianapolis Woman s
Club which is one of the Oldest and strong
est in the State, should be the one to take
the first step. The feeling throughout the
State is not known and cannot be definitely
ascertained until reports from the clubs and
societies come In. Club meetings rarely be-
gin before the first week in October and on
nitely determine how extensive the fedora
ton feeling is. The meeting of the Nation
al Federation of Clubs in Louisville is
doubtless largely responsible for the inter-
est that is felt in the federation move
ment. There was large representation
sine then there has been u quiet growth
toward the present step.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17

The more that is learned of the so-called
park system the more certain is the convic-
ton that the whole thing is muddle 1t
was a muddle when the mayor put an end
to further planning, appraising and pur-
chasing No one knows just what price the
appraisers have put upon any piece of prop
erty which was referred to them for valua-
ton. Appointed by the Circuit Court, the
appraisers, if they were ready. were stopped
from making a report to the court as pro-
vided by law. The records of the board
show that the portion of the land in the
original scheme belonging to MIR. Taggart
and others was dropped to bring the esti-
mates inside the $3.50, 600 On the other hand
it is asserted on the best authority that
after the tract had been officially cut out
of the system the majority unofficially pro-
ceeded as if the tract referred to would be
included in the system.
In this connection there is a curious cir
cumstance Some weeks after the board had
revised its boundaries of the park system
the Council voted the 100000 to purchase
land and $4,000 for labor. The next morning
the Sentinel published the tracts of land in
Guided in the system for which money had
been voted and that list contained the
tracts in which it has been alleged that
the mayor is interested. 1t did this three
weeks after the cutting OUT by the board
Where did the Sentinel get its list? A day
or two subsequent the Sentinel revised its
boundaries. leaving out the Taggart tract
This means that somebody conversant with
the affairs of the park commissioners gave
these boundaries to the Sentinel and conse-
quently gave those which the majority, by
some means intended to be those of the
park system, and that subsequently it was
discovered that the Sentinel had told too
much.
1t was stated not long ago that no city
has ever secured a park system that did
not develop scandalous deals. 1t was hoped
that indianapolis would form the exception
The present condition is not fiattering The
boundaries of the proposed park system are
not yet clearly defined. To get the appro-
priation through the Council the board prac-
tically consented to the purchase of two
tracts of land outside the system in order
to secure two or three votes necessary to
carry it, The diversion of the money to pur-
chase these small parks and the setting
aside of s5G0OO for labor has put the board in
a position where it cannot purchase land in
the northeast of the city, tract which
is already a park. Thus bribery has already
gone so far in the securing OF the Council
that the plans of the park system have been
modified and partially abandoned
What Is needed is to get rid of the pres
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17

In spite of the prompt and energetic ac-
tional, it begins to look as if the yellow
fever had gained a foothold in the South
and would become epidemic. The foothold
is slight as yet, but probably sufficient to
furnish a nucleus. In New Orleans the dis
ease seems to be spreading slowly but sure
ly, while the appearance Of several cases
at Mobile and other points indicates that
it is pretty widely disseminated. No doubt
the health authorities will be able to re-
strict it's progress very much, but they will
is possible that the strict quarantine estab-
lished against New Orleans and other
places where it has appeared may confne
the disease to the quarantine limits, but
even this is doubtful. In 1884, when the
disease entered Texas from Mexico, break
ing out at Brownsville the government ap-
propriated 100000 to prevent its spread and
the infected district was so strictly quaran-
tined that not a single case appeared out
side of the quarantine line In the more
has been found very ef1icacious in restrict
ing its spread, and as quarantine methods
are better understood now than ever before
it may be still more efficacious. The dis
ease has generally appeared in September
though sometimes as early as July, and
almost invariably continues until its prog
ress is stayed by a hard frost
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17

They had a case of lynching in Texas re-
Gently. They have had them before, and
nothing was ever done about it, but this
time it is different. The mob in this case
took a prisoner, who was charged with muir
der, out of Jail while his trial was in prog
ress, and shot him to death The grand
jury met at Dallas shortly after, and the
presiding judge Gordon Russell, had this to
say in his charge to that body:
| tell you, gentlemen, it is time to call a
halt in these things. / shall make no apol-
ogy for what | have said. / shall set my
face resolutely against mob lawlessness, and
shall exhaust every prerOgatiVe of my Of
fetal station to prevent and punish it. [
declare to you that long as l am judge
in this district no body of men, however
influential or powerful, shall be permitted
TO clutch the duly constituted agencies of
organized government by the throat and
hold it at bay. The verdicts of the mob
never mean punishment; they mean ven
geance. They are the expression of anarchy
and revolt against law. They are shameless
and brutal assaults upon civilization itself.
Don't tell me that the courthouse trials are
uncertain. The remedy is not in mObbng
the prisoners, but in casting out the cow
ardly and corrupt juror who will not enforce
the law. An unhealthy public sentiment
will turn loose one criminal, and sometimes
the men who help to secure the acquittal
will make that miscarriage of justice an
excuse for lynching some less fortunate Of
fender
The grand jury thereupon returned indict-
ments against twenty-five members of the
mob, and by the time the court is through
with them the probability is that lynching
as a pastime will be much less popular in
that vicinity. If the authorities in Ripley
county will take the same stand they will
do much to remove a stain from the State
that its lawless citizens have placed there.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17
MARKETS ON PUBLIC STREETS.
A Supreme Court Decision Pertinent
to indianapolis.

The State Supreme Court yesterday rem
dered decision to the effect that city mar
kets must be conducted on lands owned or
leased by the city and that the streets can
not be used for market purposes. The case
decided was one in which Mary +. Smith,
of Richmond, obtained an Injunction
against the town, restraining it from using
the street in front of her house for mar
ket. Mrs. Smith charged in her complaint
that the arrival of gardeners kept her
awake at night and that the flies attracted
by their wares were a great annoyance dur
ing the day The Supreme Court affirmed
the granting of the injunction.
The city of Indianapolis leases the public
street for market purposes, and under the
decision of yesterday it appears that the
city can be compelled to cease renting stand
privileges along Delaware and Market
streets. adjacent to the East Market. The
East Market has spread over much Of
the streets as to become a nuisance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17

Those ministers of the gospel and purvey-
ors of morals who are supporting and urg-
ing others to support Mayor Taggart be-
cause he is such a good man should ex-
plain to their friends that he employs Sun
day now in visiting beer picnics in order to
utilize the votes of the attendants They
should also promise that as soon as the
election is over his Honor will be found in
the house of prayer every Sunday. "All
things 10 all men" can be quoted TO defend
participation in the Sunday beer excursions
OF course. these same men would anath-
ematize a Republican candidate doing any
thing of the kind
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17

The State Board of Health of Illinois is
severely censured by the Chicago press for
taking steps TO establish a quarantine at
Cairo against the yellow fever 1t is claimed,
on one hand. that there is not the slightest
probability or danger OF the disease prevail
ing so far north, while, on the other hand.
the health authorities say that, If the high
temperature of the last two weeks should
continue it might easily do so. A member
Of the board calls attention to the fact
that on Tuesday last the records of the
Weather Bureau showed higher tempera-
tnre in Cairo and Chicago than IN New Or
leans or Galveston. and he thinks with
the present unusual conditions of tempera-
ture il would be criminal for the Board of
Health not to take all the precautions pos
sible." Health authorities believe in pre-
yention, and, AZ; a rule they are right. In
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17

SALEM, Ore, Sept. ia letter received
here from Frank Singleton an employee of
the American Trading and Transportation
Company, located at Fort Cudahy. sixty
miles north of Dawson City says hundreds
around Dawson are already unable to Sc
cure grub stakes, supply companies refusing
to give them credit for the coming winter
Singleton says the gold commissioner has
arrived at the Bonanza creek district, 10
which he has given the name Troandike, in
stead of Klondike. Although there are
plenty of king salmon taken from the river
the fish are selling at Dawson City at $40
each. one selling as high as $50.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17

tative ard the Park Board will not make
any material changes
1 find that on Thursday. March a. the
Sentinel said: The mayor will sign the new
park ordinance to-day is this not inspira-
date steps to advertise the bonds Does
this not sound like il came from headquar-
tiers? Again, The Sentinel published a COR
rect list on Tuesday morning. but yester-
day. by some mistake the Dean property
in the Fourteenth ward, was mentioned in
the list OF tracts that had been dropped
Does this not demonstrate that some one
with authority had revised the statements
of the organ? Does II not show that had
any errors crept in other than that rela-
tive to the Dean property. that correction
would have been made? / appeal TO you,
my fellow-citizens is not Mr. Taggart
squarly contradicted by the record of his
own making?r
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17

1879 more than four thousand persons died
of yellow fever in Philadelphia and other
Northern cities during the three months
from August 10 October, inclusive. 1t
might prevail in any Western city during
such heat as that Of the last few days,
provided it could pass the rigid guarantees
farther south and get a foothold AS a
change of temperature seems at hand the
Illinois health board may abandon its plan
of quarantine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17

Beer was as free as water at Mozart Hall
last night. The occasion was a meeting OF
the Taggart Democracy. The German
American Democratic Club patiently lis
tened to speeches by Henry n. Spaan and
John w. Hoffman and at the conclusion
the members were rewarded. The mSeting
wound up with free beer in copious quanti-
ties City Clerk Stuckmeyer and his chief
deputy, August Tamm. were there to see
that everybody was refreshed from the keg
At IL o'clock, when there was no more beer
in sight, Henry Victor, proprietor of the
hall, closed up the place
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17

ent muddle. The mayor has, under a tech
nical pretext brought the whole matter to
dead halt. 1t will continue until after
the election. What will be done then no one
can tell Having come to a standstill why
not have a committee to investigate the
work of the board. the Council and the APP
praisers, that the taxpayers may know all
the facts2
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17

Senator Gear, OF Iowa, former business
man and well posted in business conditions,
says the days of 7-per-cent. loans on farms
money they want at per cent, and most
OF them do not want it at any rate. Iowa
farmers have got a surplus" says Senator
Gear THE banks are full of money and
the farmers will do the lending" Which
is why we remark these are Republican
times
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17

The people of Madison county, Illinois, as
sembled at Edwardsville, the county seat,
on Wednesday to jollify over freedom from
debt. In 1876 the county debt was $500, OOO,
and the last bond has just been paid off.
These are Republican times.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17

The list of Democratic nominees for the
Councif in the respective wards is said to
be the worst ever presented to the voters of
Indianapolis If any Democrat thinks
otherwise, will he name the year when the
list contained so many cheap little men, to
say nothing Of the unsavory clement?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17

A dispatch from the little town of Farm
ington, Mo-, says Mr.. Bryan charged
and received $500 for speaking at the county
fair in that town. 1t is in little out-of-the-
way towns like that that freaks Of the
Bryan order command big prices.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17

Every nan in Indianapolis who would
have telephone if he could get it for $40 a
year should remember that the business
mayor has made it impossible by giving the
franchise to a corporation which can ask
whatever price it desires for the use of an
instrument. There is nothing like bust
ness. mayor. even if such come high.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17
She KneM Refter.

The perfect man., said the brown-eyed
girl who was reading a Sunday paper,
should be six feet two and one-half inches
in height.
What nonsense said Mrs. Bryde Ed
gar is only five feet nine"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17

The action of the Democratic state con-
vention at it's meeting on Wednesday is
construed in New York as a reputation of
the Chicago platform, and is therefore. in
tensely disappointing to the Bryanites.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17

Those persons and papers which have
been presenting President Andrews, of
Brown University, as a heroic martyr have
cause to be angry, now that he consents to
retain the place he resigned and its emol-
uments. Fortunately, the incident has
closed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17

There are hunting seasons and hunting
ton the President hunted ducks, working
men hInted jobs and money hunted its hole.
Now the President is hunting calamityites,
jobs are hunting the workingmen. and
money is hunting investment.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17

I got great star coming-a great star, y
said the vaudeville manager. "She is is a
peach
What is her speciality" asked the tick
ct seller.
Princes and dukes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
NEW 1ORk-Windsor Hotel and Astor House.
CHICAGo-Palmer House and p o. News Co..
"a Dearborn street =
fC1NClNNATl-J. X. Hawley & Co., 14 Vine
street.
LOUISVILLE-C. II. Deering northwest corner
OF Ihirsi and jefferson streets, and Louisville
Book c., 256 Fourth avenue
ST LoUIs-Union News Company, Union Depot.
WASHINGTON. ID. C-Riggs House, Ebbitt
House, Wizards Hotel and the Washington
News Exchange, Fourteenth street, between
Penn. and + street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17
MRS. MASSEY'S RETURN.
The Local Manager of the Collapsed
Get-Rich-QuicIS Concern.

Mrs NJ. e. Massey. who conducted the M
dianapolis branch of the f. 5. Dean Company.
returned TO the city yesterday for the first time
since this get-rieh-quick concern went 70 the walt
SIZE has been ip New York since that time until
a week ago, when she settled IN Chicago She
returned 10 Chicago last night While here she
stopped with her brother on Lynn street but at
his home last night they said she had gone OUT
With her brother. and long waiting fo= her was
unavaing. None OF the people who have been
so anxious 10 hear from their claims against the
concern heard VI ner presence here.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17
Very Likely.

First Hen-I have been having my fortune
told.
Second Hen-And what did she tell you?
She told me that misfortune was liable
to come to me from a tall, very dark man.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17

If the president of the mine workers had
called off the strike forty days ago the
miners would have received the same prices
for mining as they will now receive, and
all the bloodshed and some Debs-Sovereign
oratory would have been prevented.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17

Private adyices from Porto Rico report a
desperate state of things in that island,
with conditions ripe for revolution. With
three rebellons on her hands at once in as
many different islands and with bank
rupt treasury and tottering government,
Spain would be in bad way indeed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17

Truth" must have forgotten it's name
when it said that indianapolis newsboys
had been induced to boycott that publica-
ton. Truth should know that the quality
OF the gayety it is adding to the campaign
is mild. Every one is grateful for it,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL,
indianapolis, Ind.

=. Persons sending the Journal through the mails
ia the United States should put on an eight-page
paper a ONE-CENT postage stamp; on a twelve
% sixteen-page paper a TWO-CENT postage
rates
All communications intended for publication in
TINS paper must in order to receive attention, be
accompanied by the name and address OF the
writer II 1t is desired that rejected manuscripts
pe returned postage must in all cases be inclose6
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17

Is there business man who knows any
thing about the matter who will indorse the
voting. of $4,000 to be thrown away on
Pogue's run?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.

End-Of-the-Summe Dialogue.
Maid of Athens, ere we part,
Give, oh, give me back my heart"
Take it then, you hateful thing,
But all the same I'll keep the ring"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17

If the bankers whom Truth abuses would
be interviewed as to the cause of the hostil-
ity of its candidate. he might get excited.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17

Miss Hampton, of Lafayette, is guest
of Miss Gertrude Moore.
Mrs. Francis Wilson went to New York
on Wednesday with Mrs. e. M. Johnson.
Mrs. John Smith has returned from sew
eral weeks visit with relatives in Ken
lucky
Miss Moddie Jeffries will leave on Friday
for Worthington, Ind, where she will teach
this winter.
Miss Nettie Campbell is home from Flat
River, Mo-, where she was guest of Mrs.
Elizabeth Powell
Mr.. and Mrs. Ludlow and family re-
turned yesterday from Michigan, where
they have been spending the summer at
MacataWa.
Mr.. John S. Butler is expected home from
Central America this week. He left Puerto
Cortez on the lottery boat, but is de-
tanned in Mobile by the quarantine Mr..
left it in charge of Elmer Toner for the
Wintpr.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17

In what particular feature of the city af-
fairs has Mayor Taggart displayed high
business qualifications?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17

ing, and shows a murderous spirit tina
should be dealt with according to its terri
bic deed.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17
Does Not Increase the Reserve.

S. ecial to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Sept 16.-Considerable
surprise has been expressed among the
uninitiated at the failure of the large
quantities of gold which have been brought
into the country from Alaska to appear in
the treasury gold reserve. An amount sup
posed to be in excess of 100000 has been
brought into the United States from the
Klondike but nothing or next TO nothing
out of this great sum has turned up in the
reserve so far as may be judged from re-
ports of increase by the San Francisco
office The treasury officials explain this
by the statement that the Alaska gold when
presented at the minis and assay offices Is
paid for in gold coin, which is deposited by
individuals in the banks shipped to
various parts of the country and placed to
the credit of private accounts. The Klon-
dixie gold increases the sum total of the
wealth of the country, but cuts no figure in
the official reports affecting the treasury
reserve. 1t is like pouring a pail of water
into a reservoir and taking pailful out
again.