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The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-03-15

u6pllGu lsldlu III Jne SOutH IdclUC.
The brig has about 100 Colonists on
board, all men full Of adventure aud
we'll armed.
1t is to be hoped that tho
"brotherhood" will not run across an
island stocked with cannibals, mis-
sioparies or Y. NJ. @. A. experts"
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
Home lunch at the Anchor with
Rainier beer or other beverages
from l1:30 to l:30.
Tickets for sale for the Bristol
performances of trained horses at
Wall, Nichols Co.
The Beckley mammoth Tag was
properly hoisted and dedicated on
Beckley heights ou Saturday after
noon.
w, w. Dimond has something very
interesting to say in another column
as to Cut-glass, Silver ware, lamps
and crockery.
j. 7. Waterhouse has received
large consignment Of goods by the
Any Turner. They will soon be
ready for sale.
Capt. Oscar White and party
slaughtered 63 goats and number OF
turkeys during their sporting ex
cursion to Nauakuli.
Juan Camancho has put electric
fans into his New Market Restaur-
ant and the air is deliciously cool
Poultry from | | to 2 tomorrow.
People here are anxious to know
whether King Wells OF Wailuku
commanded the Citizens (rear)
Guard at the recent Japanese "re-
bellion," at which The Japs did not
materialize.
Mrs. Shimamurs and British Com
missioner Hawes were present
at the japanese Kinder
garten Fair. The theatrical per-
formances we're very interesting and
the Bazaar was a great success.
"Historjcal Truths may be had
at 1927 King street, il applied for
early. Although the edition was
considered large enough for all de-
mands the books are already be-
coming rather scarce.
A report that Captain King has
resigned his position as Superintend,
ent OF the Wilder S. S. Co. is entire
ly without foundation, and was prob
ably caused by certain changes made
among the officers Of the steamers,
Should the weather prove salts
factory, the postponed Cricket
match between the Actives and the
Veterans will bo played on the Ma
kiki Baseball grounds on Saturday
afternoon. Cricketers desirous OF
playing may send their names in
Captain Herbert.
The executors of the late Mr.
Bruce, OF Kinross, have handed to
his son piece of the robe in which
the body of King Robert the Bruce
I was found wrannad when the stona
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-27
JURY MAY DISAGREE.
George SkeItOn Tried Yesterday
Charged with AssauIting Mrs. Banta.

George SkeItOn Tried Yesterday,
Charged with AssauIting Mrs. Banta.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RUSHVILLE, Ind, Oct 26.-George Skel-
ton, the negro charged with assaulting Mrs.
May Banta, a respectable white woman a
week ago last night, had his trial in court
to-day and tonight the jury is wrestling
with the case. The sheriff announced at
1890 o'clock that there would be no verdict
tonight and a disagreement is now ex-
pected. Mrs. Banta on the stand said Slei-
ton was the man who grabbed her. Six
colored witnesses declared that Shelton was
on the afternoon of the 18th until 7:30
o'clock the next morning. Others testified
that he was there as late as o'clock and
three other witnesses said he was at the
boarding house from o'clock until bedtime.
The assault of Mrs Banta took place a
few minutes before o'clock. Several white
witnesses also testified for Shelton. A
neighbor woman said he carried a pail of
water from her house about $50 clock.
Another saw Shelton at his boarding house
after supper Mary Bromley said Mrs.
Banta told her soon after the trouble that
she did not know who attacked her or
whether he was white or black. Mrs Banta
went on the stand and denied saying this.
W. +. Coats, of Columbus, one of the court
house contractors. said he saw Shelton at
the courthouse between and o'clock.
Mrs Emma Mitchell, Skeletons main wit
ness, said Shelton read his Bible from
O'Clock to o'clock and played cards the
rest of the evening. The case was submitted
to the jury without argument Judge Nc
CuloughS instructions were brief. AT 100
this afternoon the jury retired
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-27
Indiana Notes.

The ingalls, Zinc Company opened gas
well yesterday that is one of the very best
drilled in that section.
The Matthews Land Company has located
a factory there for the manufacture of beer
bottles that will employ twenty-four blow
ers.
Buck Stanley, the temperance orator, has
just closed a series of meetings at Paragon.
While there he organized Good Templars'
lodge with one hundred members.
A Wayne county jury last evening in the
case of John Evans, of Greensboro, charged
with assault on Erastus Stackhouse with
intent to kill returned a verdict filming
Evans S. for assault
The fly wheel on the engine that drives
the machinery in the John Knife grist mill
at Hartford City burst last evening and
went crashing through the roof and walls
Mr. Knife and SON had a narrow escape
William Abbott felled, near Madison, a
poplar tree measuring eight feet across the
which 10000 feet of lumber was sawed. 1t
is believed to have been the largest tree
in Indiana.
Henry Easton, the twelve-year-old son of
Andrew Easton, farmer living near Clin-
ton, was fatally injured yesterday by fall
ing from the limb of walnut tree dis
lance of twenty feet He was unconscious
several hours.
crushed out of him at Evansville yesterday
while digging a trench for a water main.
1t took twenty minutes to uncover him
and he was then dead A widow and seven
children survive.
Cassius Reese has resigned as captain of
the Earlham football team and has been
succeeded by Oriel Bnford. Lister, the
coach who spent three weeks at Earlham
helping the team, has returned to his work
in the Indianapolis University.
Delaware Camp. of the National Chief
tains' League, in the order of Red Men,
was instituted in Muncie Monday night by
National Organizer Neal, of Terre Haute,
with forty charter members. This is the
second lodge of the new order
John Larkens, aged s.xty-eight. was in
stantly killed last evening by a Muncie
street car 1t is believed to be case of
suicide The man walked directly in front
of the car. Larkens abandoned his family
in Ireland many years ago and nothing is
known of them.
Beginning to-day the annual convention
of the Episcopal ministers of Southern In
diana will be held at st: Paul's Church, in
Jeffersonville. The session will last three
days and the matter of establishing a
southern Indiana episcopate viii be brought
up. In that case the official residence of the
bishop will be at Jeffersonville
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-27
DRUGGIST RINKER'S TRIAL.
1t Concerns the Plot to Blow Up Red
key Odd Fellows Hall.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
PORTLAND, Ind, Oct. 26.-This after
noon ore of the most important criminal
cases in the annals of the local Circuit
Court was put on trial. 1t is that of John
Rinker, who is charged with conspiring to
blow up the Odd Fellows Block at Redkey
with the view of procuring the insurance
on a stock of goods. The calamity would
have involved the destruction of thousands
of dollars worth of property and the loss
of several lives had it been successfully
carried through. Rinker, who has been in
the Decatur Jail for several weeks, was
brought here this morning. He will make
a strong fight. His father, from Marion, o.,
was here some time ago, but refused to go
on his bond. The accused was part owner
in q drug store at ReCkey, and a few
months previous to his arrest fire was dis
covered in the back room, but was extin-
guished with only a trifiing loss. Three
nights previous to his arrest on the morn
ing of Sept. 4, it is alleged that he planned
to blow up the Odd Fellows Block, in
which his store was situated, with the ex-
pectation that it would take fire immedi-
ately after the explosion. The next day, the
story goes, he talked to Charles Crandall
about the matter and 1t is alleged that
the latter agreed with Rinker that he would
do the job for $50 and SIS was paid. When
the time came Crandall was on hand, but
Rinker is said to have been unable to raise
the money Crandall will turn states evil
dence. Both men are in Jail,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-27
A PENNY's WORTH OF GAS.
Success of the Slot Machines i'm South
London Households.
London Letter in New York Sun

London Letter in New York Sun.
The introduction of the ''penny-in-the-
slot" gas meters in the households of South
London seems to be an unqualified success.
Under the slot system the consumer can
obtain 2714 feet of gas for penny. An or
binary burler consumes about five and one
half feet per hour, that a pennyworth
of gas will light UP room just f1ve and a
half hours. The number of coin-meter
consumers has now reached $1,000, and the
average takngs from each are SIS per an
mum. BY Christmas the company's total
receipts from this source are expected to
reach some 81, 900 600 a year. Some curious
results OF the system have been noted by
the engineer of this gas company. Occa-
sionally there has been an actual dearth
of copper money In South London. This
can readily be understood, for though the
money is collected about once in three
weeks as much as ten tons weight in cop
pers have been removed from the machines
at one collection. Then again. prior to the
introduction of the ''coin-meter," Sunday
was an extremely slack day for gas. But
when thousands of dinners are being
cooked on the gas stoves. is erormous-so
great in fact, that at times 1t has been a
problem to get sufficient gas through the
mains. Another excellent result from the
companys point Of view has been the
equalzing of the summer and winter con-
sumption. Formerly there was a great dis
parity, but the consumption of gas for
cooking in summer months has worked g.
marked change.
1t is not surprising to learn that there
have been attempts to cheat the penny-in-
the-slot meter. In the meters first sup
piled the weight of the penny set the
mechanism in motion. but with the pattern
now in vogue 1t is necessary TO turn ham
die after dropping in the coin, and If a
penny with a piece of Irvine attached is in
troduced by any person Of felonious pur-
pose, the knowing machine simply cuts the
cord and annexes the coin with the cool
ness of living gas collector. It Is. OF
course. out of the question for the evil
disposed TO effectively cheat peLny-in-the-
eliot machine which is put up in their own
a
Gus coins. since the imposition is detected
the first time the collector calls, and resti-
tuition Is promptly demanded.
But as a matter of fact the gas COM
pany's collectors declare that they have
scarcely any trouble They are on the best
of terms with their customers. and the dis
honest are few. Frequently when no penny
Is at hand the consumer win use q token
or two-shilling piece. and then when the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-27
LIFE IN sKAGUAY.
Wild Scenes and a Rough Life Where
Everything Goes.
Harper's Weekly.

Harper'S weekly.
There is shady side of life at skaguay;
everything goes on in broad daylight or
candle light. After supper every tent is
lighted up, and the streets are crowded
pack train is filled with people, among
whom / recognized several of my friends,
who are drawn hither, like myself, by the
loon in town, is thirty by fifty feet. Enter
ing through a single door In front, on the
right hand is a rough board bar some ten
against the rear wall, which there are
a few glasses and bottles. The bartender,
who is evidently new to his business, apol-
igizes for the whisky, which is very poor
and two-thirds water, and sells for twenty
i've cents. Cigars of a two-for-five or i've
cent sort that strain ones suction powers
to the limit are sold for fifteen to twenty
five cents each. They keep beer also on
tap. After the lecture we received on the
steamer from the United States customs
officer, we are at a loss TO understand how
whisky can be sold openly under the very
eyes of the officers. But that is story in
itself Along each side of the tent are
three-card monte rouge ct noir, and other
lay-outs, but not faro layout in the
place. nor in the town. The gamblers are
doing big business.
A big straping fellow in a yellow Macki-
nav Jacket trying his luck at craps is
pointed out as having lust come in over the
trail from Klondike. Whether he had any
dust with him cannot learn, but he was in
fine health and spirits. Every man whom
1 have seen from Klondike has had
splendid complexion and seems strong and
robust. This fellow has voice like
lions, deep and resonant. Surely the Yu-
kon cannot be so terrible If it does this to
men, or else it's tale of death is that Of the
weak and sickly. AS they used to say of
the Kanakas, they Were all strong and
healthy because they were thrown into the
water by their mothers almost the day
they were born-consequently none but the
strong survived.
Across the street the sound of a piano
and the moving figures of men and women
through the windows remind one that there
is a dance tonight, as on every night. This
plano is the only one in town, and its ar
four women in the place are not even of the
painted sort; even paint might have COW
cred up some of the marks of dissipation
Clumsy boots beat time on a dirty floor
but not with much enthusiasm. The dance
house of a mining town! Such a thing as
shame is not even thought of.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-27
GLASS PRICES BOOMING
BELIEVED THAT WINDOW-GLASs
FAMINE CANNOT BE AVOIDED.
Wife Murderer Newton Kempfer
Caught Brazil street Car
Block Coal Miners Trouble.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

SpeclA 10 the indianapolis journal.
ANDERSON Ind, Oct. 26.-The window
glass situation has reached a crisis. In or
der to keep up with the manufacturers adj
vances the Jobbers' Association announces
that it will put another advance of per
cent. into effect next Monday. There was
an advance last week which amounted to
about per cent. They have seen fit to
appoint a standing committee to advance
prices during the next two months to keep
on an equal footing with the manufac-
turers. In the last twenty years stocks
have never been reduced to such point
as they are to-day. Nothing short of
glass famine is on. The Commoner and
papers of the industry, estimate that there
are not to exceed o0O, 900 boxes of window
glass in the country, while the monthly
demand is 1000 boxes. This glass, as a
general thing, is being held for still higher
prices, and probably 80 per cent. of it is not
desirable size or grade. If the glass were
all put on an open market at prices which
week.
Seven small plants have been able to
start in a meager way by the blowers and
gatherers getting men to fill the cutters
and hatteners places, but their ability to
do this is about TO its limit. These seven
plants have only about sixty pots out of
Isis in the country, and their product IS
hardly q drop in the bucket. Window glass
is 80 per cent. higher than 1t was fifteen
months ago. Indications are not Eatter1ng
that plants will be put into operation before
December, and prices are bound to go
higher
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-27
MIR. wYCKOFF AS A FARM HAND.
Experience of a. Young Man Trying
Different Kinds of Work.
1ir
Scribner's Magazins

1 wait for pause in the work, and try
to screw my courage 10 the STICKING point:
and then tell Mr.. Hill that the landlord
at the tavern has sent me to him in the
belief that he needs a man, and add that
l should be glad of the job. Without pre-
liminary questions Mr.. Fill engages me on
the spot and makes me an ofrer of board
and lodging and seventy-1ive cents a day,
which, he says is the usual rate on the
farms at that season. / close with the bar
gain, and ask to be set TO work lInme-
diately. minute later l am walking up
the lane with message for Mrs. Hill TO
the effect that / am the new hired man,
and that she will please give me-. to take to
the pond. a certain broad hoe" from the
wagon house.
Mrs. Hill understands the situation at
once; she makes no comment, however, but
goes with me to the wagon house, where
she points out the hoe among the other
tools in a corner. She has said nothing so
far, and l feel a little uncomfortable, but
now she turns to me with a frank direct
ness of manner that is very reassuring:
Il amt got room for You in the house,
but / guess you'll be comfortable sleeping
out here. You can fetch your grip and I'll
show you your bed.
Pack in hand, / follow her up the steps
to the loft of the wagon house, and she
points to q cot near the farther WINDOW,
and a wooden chair beside it.
Some time to-day I'll make up your bed.
and if there's anything you want you can
tell me-" This is her final word, as She
leaves me to return to the house. slip on
my overals and take note of my new quar-
ters. Windows at both ends of the loft
provide ample ventilation The cot IS COW
cred with a corn-husk mattress, as clean
and fresh as q cock of new hay. The very
floor is free from dust. The rafters hang
cob, with their outer husks removed and
the inner husks drawn back and neatly in
terwoven, the whole effect suggesting sta
lactites in a cave. The air is fragrant with
the perfume from slices of apples. that are
closely threaded and hung up to dry in
graceful festoons from rafter TO rafter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-27
Thousands are Trying 1t.

In order to prove the great merit OF
Ely's Cream Balm, the most effective cure
for Catarrh and Cold in Head, we have
prepared a generous trial size for 10 cents.
Get it of your druggist OF send l0c to
ELY BROS, Sc Warren ST., N. Y. City.
Rev. John Reid, Jr., of Great Falls,
Mont. recommended Ely's Cream Balm TO
me. can emphasize his statement, 1T
is a positive cure for catarrh if used as di-
rected. "-Rev. Francis w. Poole, Pastor
Central Pres. Church, Helena, Mont.
Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged
cure for catarrh and contains no cocaine,
mercury nor any injurious drug. Price,
so cents. At druggists or by mail.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-27
HAVOC at Cape May.

CAPE MAY. N. J.. Oct. 26.-The north
east storm continues here and the tide this
morning was within three inches of being
as high as that of yesterday. The wind
continued to blow all through the night at
the rate of thirty-six miles an hour, and
shows no sign of abatement. The tide at
o'clock, high water, covered as much ter
ritory as yesterday, excepting that 1t did
not reach the front of the Stockton Hotel
while covering the land on the other three
sides of the structure. The tide about $50
o'clock broke over Madison avenue in three
places, and a half hour later covered that
thoroughfare at every point. The tide has
eaten away a portion of the drive in front
of the Pennsylvania Railroad excursion
house and washed over Poverty beach,
north of Madison avenue, for a stretch of
three-quarters of a mile. The waves are
washing across the meadow for mile and
breaking within two hundred yards OF
Washington street, on the north part of the
town. At Cape May Point the waves are
still eating away the bluff, and at South
Cape May the only places left are the main
parts of the houses themselves. The
amount of damage done cannot be told until
the tide lowers. No word has been heard
as to the damage at Holly beach or Angle
sea, but the tide can be seen through strong
glasses washing across that beach.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-27
OFFER a coMPRoMIsE.
Operators Concede Only Part OF the
Block Coal Miners Request.


Special to the indianapolis Journal.
BRAZIL, Ind, Oct 26.-The block coal
operators held a long session here to-day
to consider the demand made by the miners
for the operators to check off the fees and
dues Of the miners belonging to the union.
The operators generally are opposed to the
system. The bylaws adopted by the
miners union here threaten to cause much
trouble, especially the clauses prohibiting
nonunion men from working in the mines
and forcing persons who are not practical
miners to pay $40 before they can work in
the mines. The result of the operators
meeting is stated in the following resolu-
ton adopted:
Resolved, That the operators agree to
collect such dues for the organization as
the employees shall personally authorize in
writing, but no employee shall be subject TO
any intimidation or coercion that refused
to join the organization When not au-
thorized in writing such collections shall
not be made. 1t shall be understood and
agreed that in case of any intimidation or
coercion to force men into the organization
collections for dues shall stop by all the
operators"
1t is understood that these collections
shall be made by all the companies at the
offices of the company, and not by the
check weighman. This is in direct opposi-
ton to a clause in the bylaws of the or
ganization, which states that no nonunion
men shall work in the mines; consequently
the difficulty remains unsettled.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-27
NAVAL ENGINEERING.
Report of George w. MeIviIIe-Liquid
EneI Inafend of Coal.

WASHINGTON, Oct 26.-The gradual re-
placement on war vessels of the familiar
cylindrical boiler by various ferns OF the
water tube boiler constitutes the most i'm
portant fact in marine engineering at this
time, according to Engineer in Chief George
w Melville who has just published his an
nual report to the secretary of the navy.
For torpedo boats, he says, the advantage
Of these boilers were so evident that they
quickly displaced the old types and have
now been used for several years exclusively
for this kind OF craft.
Touching liquid fuel, with which many
nations are experimenting, a substitute
for coal, the report gives an interesting his
tory of those made in this country. In
cluded in the list is the test made by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company about ten
years ago, which, while proving the prac-
ticability of using crude coal oil for fuel
for boilers, demonstrated that the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad itself would consume more
than one-third of the entire output of coal
oil at that time, If it were used for fuel
instead of coal. Nevertheless, the balances
of advantage are so greatly in favor of the
liquid fuel for small craft that the bureau
expresses the intention OF making use of
coal oil on torpedo boats.
Commodore Melville makes strong argu-
ment in favor of building our ships IN
future in classes, so as to secure the great
advanta ges that follow the training of men
for whole classes of ships instead of for one
vessel and also the ability to use duplicate
parts of machinery. 1t is recommended that
the machinery of ships laid up in reserve
with skeleton crews be subjected every six
months to q dock trial with full steam pres
sure to make sure they are ready for use
ct short notice.
The bureau has been making some in
quiries as to the possibility of procuring
large merchant ships in an emergency TO
serve as machine shops for fleets, and hav-
ing secured list of some suitable vessels
now submits an estimate of $4,000 for ma
chine tools TO be laid aside for lifting one
of them out when needed.
The engineer in chief has good deal to
say in his report on the subject of person
neil and ne insists that he is warranted In
urging, after many years of careful obser-
walton and study, two things as necessary
TO the highest efficiency of the engineer
corps First, an increase of numbers of the
corps from 1875 officers of all grades to about
three hundred, so divided as to the vari-
Gus grades as to give fair promotion; Sec
ond the comforting of actual rank and titles
with the names of the corps attached as
is the case for the staff officers or the