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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-08
At HIS BROTHERS HOME.
President Is Spending the Last Week
of His Vacation in Somerset, Pm.

SOMERSET. Pa, Sept. 7.-President and
Mrs. Mckinley and party arrived here from
Canton in a special car at o'clock this
morning. and will pass the week at the
summer residence of the President
brother. .Abner Mckinley A reception
committee of twenty prominent citizens in
carriages met the distinguished visitors at
the station and escorted them over the
principal streets of the town to the Nc
Kinley home. Abner Mckinley thinks he
can prevail on the President and Mrs. Nc
Kinley TO remain over Sunday, and it is
probable public demonstration will be ar
ranged for by the citizens of the town, bur
nothing in this direction will be done until
the President has been consulted.
A great number of people called on Pres
i0ent Mckinley during the day including
George w. Pullman, the Chicago. million
aire and Senator Thurston, of Nebraska.
1t is thought that Attorney Generaf Nc
Kenna will be here tomorrow, and many
other distinguished visitors are expected
during the week. Among them IS Governor
Lowndes of Maryland This afternoon the
President and Mrs. Mckinley took a short
drive to the country in a carriage drawn
by a team of ponies owned by their niece
Miss Mabel Mckinley.
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VIEWS OF INDIANA, EDITORS.

Those Democrats who voted for Mckinley
last fall are pretty we'll satisfied that they
acted Wisely.-Plymouth News.
Why is it that under free trade everybody
is scramblng to SELL while under a protec-
tive tariff everybody is scrambling to buy?
-Greensburg Review.
1t begins to look as if the Popocrats were
determined to reafiirm the Chicago plat
form of 1896 and run Bryan on il in 1900
We hope they will.-Muncie News
If it does our Democratic friends any
good to ascribe the better times to Re
publican luck let them do so. The Re-
publicans are in control and the better
times are here.-Goshen Times.
The farmers are too busy to listen to free
silver speeches now. That species of pas
time may do for free-trade times like those
of the past three years but not under pro-
fection.-LoganSport Journal.
Now that wheat and silver have parted
company the Populists refer to the law of
supply and demand, which law some of
that tribe said they woule. repeal as soon as
they got into power.-Mt. Vernon Repub-
lican.
Money scarce, is it? Now Wen give a
large premium for a sight of the farmer
who a any time within the last five months
has taken his wheat or anything else TO
market and failed TO sell for lack of money
to pay for it.-New Albany Tribune
The free-trade shouters who are now
pointing with pride to the fact that the
customs receipts under the Dingley law
are very light are saying nothing about
the fact that this is caused by the enor-
nous mportationS of the months preceding
its OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES County Enterprise.
Last fall the Democratic statesmen were
promising the farmers dollar wheat in case
Mr. Bryan was elected to the presidency.
Now the same people are feeling sorry for
the poor laboring man because he has to
pay a higher price for flour. We are led
to infer that of Mr. Bryan had been elected
that wheat would have gone up and -four
would have gone characterization En-
quirer
For couple of months the Indianapolis
Sentinel. in mentioning the Governor of
the State, designated him as the goober."
1t is a very vulgar and loWbred way of
designating the chief executive, and it is
TO their credit that no other Democratic
paper in the State has taken up the oppro-
brious name.-Anderson Bulletin. The Sen
tinel is the most contemptibly partisan
sheet in the State.-Laporte Herald
Strikes come most frequently under Re-
publican administration. when there is
something to strike for. Under Demo-
cratic rule with half the labor of the coun-
try idle and nothing better in sight. there
is no use for strikes. Republican laws make
the conditions TO justify higher and better
wages, and the laborers of the country get
the benefits thereof by forcing up the
wages to the proper scale.-Noblesville
Ledger.
There are enough miners in the United
States il steadily employed to produce coal
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THE NORTHEASTERN PARK.

Three or four months ago the citizens or
the First and Second wards were stirred up
over the discovery that the $S50,O0O which
had been borrowed to construct the park
system had been expended before reaching
the desirable lands in the northern portions
Of those two wards. In their Indignation the
people of those wards fell upon the Park
Commission, but soon ascertained that I'M
der the Taggart regime the commission had
little to do in deciding on the lands which
were to be bought. They found that two
tracts having no connection with the park
system had been purchased to insure Demo-
cratic votes in the Council to carry the
loan through that body, that $4,000 had been
set aside for the payment of labor and ma
terials to be used in the park, and that the
remainder of the money, about S2S0,00O, had
been set apart to purchase some parts Of
the White river bottoms and land on Fall
creek. A committee went to the mayor.
1t found him enthusiastic for the extension
of the system over the proposed territory
in the northeast. His smile was never more
engaging than on this occasion, and if he
did not convince every member of the COM
mittee that he was more enthusiastic for
the northeast project than any Of them it
was not his fault.
1t would not have been a difficult thing
for the mayor to have had the $4,000 which
had been diverted from it's true purpose
by the Council, with his knowledge and
probably his consent, placed where it could
have been used for the purchase of the
lands north of Wards l and q But he did
nothing of the kind. He hoped to have
this money to expend for labor before the
election in October on portion of the pro-
posed system before it's limits had been
determined Failing to bring this scheme
about, it occurred to Mr.. Taggart and his
friends to hang up the park enterprise an
til the courts should decide upon the con-
stitutionality of the creation of the Park
Board
There the matter stands. There will be
money to purchase the detached lots and
the bottoms in which certain Democrats
are interested, while the $4,000 is where the
mayor and his board can proceed to expeno
it upon much-talked-of boulevard.
If the people of the First and Second
wards propose to have any share in the
matter they should before or at the cleo
ton, bring Thomas Taggart to terms Even
now he could have his Council rescind its
vote appropriating the $4,000 for labor and
have it set aside for the purchase of terri
tory in the northeast, as money has been
set aside for other purchases. If this is not
done before the election, the people Of those
wards will find themselves being laughed
at after the election. The better way is to
make sure of the defeat of Thomas Tag
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of a person. but was considerably confused
when cross examined by Attorney Phalen
as to his testimony at the preliminary near
ing IL was shown from the record OF the
hearing before the justice that Hengst mad
admitted his ignorance as TO whether tho
cry was that of a human being or an ami
NAL To-day he said he was quite positive
it was the CRY of human being.
Fritz figel, who worked for Luetgert May
4, told how he had emptied barrel Of
ashes in the alley. and officer James smith
testified as TO having found particles OF
bone and two corset steels in the pile OK
debris where the ashes We're empted
Frederick Augustus Schuetz testified as
to the former quarrels between Luetgerr
and his wife, in which Luetgert had threat
ened to take her life. The witness is seven
ty-one years old and feeble He is so deaf
that Interpreter Liebig was compelled to
stand close TO his side in order to repeat the
questions of the attorneys The defense
felt that they had undermined testimony
to a large extent when they gained an ao-
mission from the witness that he was ons
hundred feet away from Luetgert at tho
time of the quarrel. How so deaf a man
could hear low tones one hundred feet con-
siderably mystified the defense. and they
felt exultant over securing the evidence
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MANY FIRMS WILL CLOSE.
indianapolis Day at the state F"ir
to Be Popular.

Tndianapois day att the state fair prom
ices q greater attendance than even the
most sanguine dared hope for two weeks
ago when negotiations were completed 1or
the great Star Pointer-Joe Patcnen race
and the $4,000 was offered for their effort
to beat two minutes.
The city will witness the closing of most
of the business houses on this day. Inc
special committee having this work IN
charge has received answers from over 25O
business firms stating that they will close
for the half day Friday, Sept. IL. The
unanimity of feeling is unusual and many
Of the people state that their places OF
business will be closed for the whole day,
thus giving more than the committees re-
quest The following is an additional list
to the one already published of those who
will close:
Advance Thresher Company Indiana
Bermudez Asphalt Company, Horace Nc
Kay, A Metzger Agency, Peter f. Bryce,
Smith Day & Co, the keyless Lock Com
pany. Railway officials, and employees
Co., j. r. Budd & Co, Evans linseed Oil
works, Henry Russo Huntington d Page,
C. W. Cakes, Gregory q Appel Mleehl ga
the BraGstreet Company, Climax Baking
Powder Company, Thomas Madden, Son &
Company W, 3 Holton Manufacturing
Company ]. S. Cruise, Union Fruit Com
pany, Townsend Bros, Indianapolis Paint
and Color Company, Richardson &
Lumber Company, H. G. Adams,
Greer Wilkinson Company, Parry Manufac-
turing Company, Eli Lilly q Co., c. +.
Sayles Interstate Life Insurance Company,
Mutual Life Insurance Company of New
York. the John Hit Lake Ice Company,
Capitol Paper Company j. c. Mccain,
BLrnes & Lewis. the Miller Oil Company,
Schrader's china store, Hoosier Manufac-
turing Company indianapolis. Harness ts5s
smith & Co, Schnuil 4 Co., Column
bus Butter Company A. j. Mayer & Co.,
James c. Dickson, Nutz & Grosskopf, In
lenbeck Island Coal Company. Standard
Rope and Irvine Company, George &. Beck,
Indiana Millers Mutual Fire insurance
Company, Foster Lumber Company. Henry
Coburn Lumber Company, Crescent Oil
Company William Eaglefie ia Company, the
Cordon-Kurt Company, the McElwaine-
Richards Company, McCOy-HoWe company,
Indianapolis Manufacturers Carpet Union,
Williams q Hunt, Joseph Allerdlce u Co,
Clark & Roberts. George w. Pangborn. T.
J. Christian, Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company, Huber Manufacturing Company,
the c. F. Hunt Company Ewald over, n.
burton, Folks Best Jersey Milk Company,
American Brewing Company, A. NJ Fitch
&. Co. the Grocers Manufacturing Com
pany George Pau & Son, H G. Long
cident insurance Company, Noblesville Mill
ing Company, Indianapolis Mercantile and
Trust Company, Batty a Co. SEVERN. Os-
termeyer & Co., National Electric Com
pany Empey & Loftin. Schoheld, Shurmer
e Teagle Newark Machine Company, j. A.
Isgrigg. j. @. Voss, James r. Ross x Co..
7 L, Reach, o. Is. Ensey. Standard Dry
Kiln Company. Hanover Fire In
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-08

Chicago papers are protesting against the
extravaganza of the School Board. In its
annual report, just issued the superintend-
ent sets forth that the city needs forty-one
new school buildings, which will cost 81, 49,
Oo0. To meet this want he proposes that the
city shall borrow $2,OOO,OOO, and then that
an additional tax of 81. 900 shall be levied
for the purchase of sites and for building
schoolhouses to provide for the annual in
crease of the citys population. The theory
OF city school boards generally seems to be
that the chief end of man is to be taxed for
the maintenance of an ever-growing and in
creasingly ornamental school system.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-08

Col. W. r. Holloway leaves to-day for
Washington to qualify for his office as con-
sui general to st. Petersburg, and will sail
for ST. Petersburg next week. Colonel Hol-
loways long residence here has made him
widely known in the city and State and all
who know him are his friends. He will be
missed on his departure. 1t is difficult to
picture this ardent American in a foreign
environment, but being the warm-hearted,
genial gentleman that he is he can be de-
pended on to offer American visitors to ST.
Petersburg during his term every official
and personal attention possible. That he
will do his duty by his government goes
without saying. The best of wishes go
with him.
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DECEMBER AND MAY.
General LOngstreet and Miss Ellen
Dortch to Wed This Afternoon.

ATLANTA, Ca, Sept. All arrange
nents have been completed for the mar
rage of Gen. James Longstreet, the ia
nous Confederate commander, and Miss
Ellen Dortch, assistant state Librarian
which is TO occur here Tomorrow The
ceremony viii be performed at $3.50 o'clock
at the Governors mansion, by the Rev.
Father SchadeWell of the Catholic Church,
q special dispensaton having been secured
from the bishop of the diocese TO permit
it's soleEnnization in private. The State
house officials and a few other distinguished
guests will be present. Immediately after
the marriage General and Mrs Longstreet
will leave for Porter Springs. q north Geor-
gia resort, where they will spend the honey
moon.
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Company. William H. Armstrong &
Fletcher aTauee Ca arSe7 WiIc o2paHs judd,
Daniel Stewart Company, Capitol Lumber
Company H. c, Newcomb E. c. Andrews,
& Mortified. Heaton, Sims & Co. Joseph
r. Haslinger,. the Home Brewing Conn
pany, Francke & SCHNEIDER, indianapolis
Company the w c. WATSON Company.
Castor Bros. Terre Haute Brewing Com
Engle & Son. Henry H. Fay, A. Minter,
Shellhouse & Co. Glens Fails Insurance
Company H NJ. Hadley, Indiana Rubber
Company Brown Extract Company, John
Guedelhoefer. Snow-Church Company, Stilz
q Miller, National Cash Register Company,
Holiday & Wyon, Parke, Davis & Co.
Dean Bros. pump works, John w. Neu-
mann & Co, Vail Seed Company, Indian
apolis Light and Power Company, Robert
Equitable Life Insurance Company of Iowa,
Holt Ice and Cold Storage Company, W. e.
Prick & Co, j w. Buchanan, Central
symmes & Co. ]. s. Farrell ( Co, II
Piummer. Christian off & Co.. Moffat &
M fTFdSe Iay iI a5 SMITH In clemens n
=. Shower, John NJ. & Newton Todd, ID. f.
Fleener George Merritt & Co, g. M Rails
celsior Manufacturing Company, G. Tim
norman & Sons. Klee Coleman x Co., John
G. Dunn, indianapolis desk, file and paper
box factory Eberhardt Tent and Awning
Company Clark, WySong & Voris, George
Hitz & Co., Indianapolis Tent and Awning
Company Haugh- Noelke iron works Dag
gett & Co, Joseph Ratti, the Herancourt
Brewing Company, Indianapolis bolt and
machine works, G. II. Shower, j. A. Ever
1T, Ballweg & Co., Smith & Skinner NJ l..
Brown.
Arrangements have been made to have
Meridian street sprinkled from the city linn
its to Thirteenth street and the last-named
street to the grounds The Citizens Street.
railroad Company will sprinkle the streets
over which its lines of cars run to the fair
grounds, thus making the ride to the
grounds comfortable one. The new sta
tion of the street-car company within the
Enclosure at the grounds is about COM
pleted. People will be carried to within $50
feet of the grand stand and within easy
walking distance of all the department
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-08

While Mr.. Bryan is travelling about the
country trying to revive the free-silver
corpse the farmers of Nebraska are re-
joicing over the best crops they have had
for years and are paying off the mortgages
which Bryan said last year never could be
paid without free silver. The Nebraska
wheat crop this year is estimated at 3d.
100000 bushels. If the farmers had sold this
quantity of wheat on Aug. 10, 1896 at the
top quotation for September delivery, they
would have received $16,575O0O in gold or its
equivalent. with which they could have
bought. at that time, 24,S62. 500 ounces of
silver. The same crop sold on Aug. 10. 1897.
at the top price for September delivery
would have bought $26. &c., 500 in gold or its
equivalent. which would have purchased
SO. $4,000 ounces of silver. With such facts
as these before them the Nebraska farmers
will not be fooled again by Mr.. Bryan.
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yenience. Such being the case with this
harvest. it is but reasonable to presume
that it will be the case in the harvests yet
TO come, and therefore, that the evil which
it is sought to remove by relaxing the re-
strictions upon the issue of bank circulation
is imaginary. In fact the agitation in be-
half of the banks does not proceed from the
people, but from bank stockholders and Of
ficers, who naturally desire to add to the
profits of their business. and they are
backed by a class Of would-be borrowers,
whose credit is bad, but who hope that
when the banks are allowed to issue money
that costs them nothing they will be more
disposed to lend it without exacting secur-
ity than they are at present. This is the
whole extent of the demand for what is
called currency reform, and like that for
the free and unlimited coinage of silver it
should be sternly refused
Mr.. Marshall is generally an interesting
end instructive writer, but he seems to
have very erroneous ideas in regard to the
scope and purpose of the currency reform
movement. That movement first took prac-
teal shape in the sound money conference
held in this city in January last and is far
from being a movement in favor of wild
cat banks or needy borrowers. The confer
ence referred to was the largest assemblage
of representative business men ever con-
vened in the United States, and its pro-
serve the best business interests of the
country. There were comparatively few
bankers in the convention and still fewer
borrowers present or prospective. The
currency reform movement which they in
itiated and which has received the hearty
approval of President Mckinley and Sec
rotary Gage. does not contemplate the issue
~ hnY 1y of N
ing any more than it does the issue of
fiat money by the government or the free
and unlimited coinage of silver. On the
contrary, it aims at placing the currency
system of the country on a basis that will
either make these evils impossible re-
move the temptation to practice them. In
the passage above quoted Mr.. Marshall has
done great injustice to one of the most
cCmmendable movements of the day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-08

It is said that Postmaster General Gary
is strongly in favor of the establishment
Of the postal savings bank system and will
urge il in his annual report. He has been
In correspondence with the postal authori-
ties of other countries and has accumulated
a large amount of matter relative to the
operation of postal savings banks elsewhere
which he will use as an argument in favor
of their establishment in the United States
The conditions in this and other countries
are 50 radically different that ar argument
drawn from that source is apt to be mis-
leading. Almost every country town in the
United States has one or more banks of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-08

for the world. There are enough miners,
if working one day in six to mine sufficient
coal for the United States and then some
to spare. And this condition can never be
altered or bettered by a strike, no matter
if every mine worker in America would
enter enthusiastically into the effort. There
are too many mines and too many miners.
Several thousand miners should seek other
hope to earn a fair living pursuing bust
ness that is as precarious as the coal bust
ness has become. Strikes VIII not benent,
cannot benefit Observation-Disclosures Gazette.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-08

Mr.. Harding's speech delivered in the
First ward last night, and printed in this
issue Of the Journal, is a ringing keynote
for the Republican municipal campaign 1t
deals exclusively with city affairs and in
very vigorous fashion. No one can read the
speech without being convinced of Mr.
Harding's honesty of purpose. strong con-
victions and ability to administer the city
government on the line of progress and
rnfnrr,,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-08

Now that Prince Luigi has assembled the
highest mountain on this side of the water,
etc.-NeWs.
But he hasn't. Mount st. Elias, as meas
ured by him, is 1920 feet high, while Mount
Logan, on the Canada side of the Alaska
line, is 1854 feet high In South America
Cotopaxi and three or four other mountains
are bove 10000 feet, while Chimborazo ex-
ceedS 20 800.
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Too Numerous to NIention

you newspaper fellows are great toad
ies,'' said the cynical visitor. You fall
over one another trying to get stories about
successful Klondikers but why don't you
write up the fellows who have failed?"
I'VE haven't the space"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-08

Uncle Sans annual shooting match,
which, by the way, has not been held for
three years past, will begin at Fort Sher-
idan, near Chicago, on Sept 19 and con-
tinue two weeks. All the troops in garri-
son in the Department of the Missouri and
the cavalry stationed in the Department
of the East will participate. the object be-
ing to test the merits of the new rifle and
the craftsmanship of the men.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-08

All the trade eenters report more and
heavier orders from country merchants
than for some years past. Knowing that
the farmers will expend much of their prof
its from this years crops in farm improve
ments and lettering up their families,
the retail merchants of the agricultural dis
tricts are doubling their orders.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-08

Real estate is always the last thing to
feel the effects of better times, but agents
and dealers report increasing inquiry and a
general bracing up of the market. Note
and bond brokers and investment agents
also report decided increase in invest
ments, both permanent and speculative.
Confidence Is growing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-08

If William j. Bryan could read a Demo-
cratic newspaper he would not go about the
country talking about falling prices and
that falling prices will affect wages ere
long. The papers are full of the story of
improving prices and larger demand upon
which prices depend.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-08

Interest in the Luetgert trial in Chicago
now centers in the prospective testimony of
witness who will swear that he met and
had talk with Mrs. Luetgert in New
York after the night when she is supposed
to have been murdered. Counsel for the
defendant say that this will clear him.
while the prosecuting attorney says he will
prove the story a fabrication.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-08

The prompt and vigorous action of the
medical authorities of Louisiana and of the
United States regarding the supposed out
break of yellow fever in that State shows
that the public welfare in respect to cpl
denies is intelligently and vigilantly
guarded
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-08

Many Northern cities are doing a great
deal of street paving, but Indianapolis is
the only one that seems to be mashed
on block pavement. Creosote Is very
fetching argument with some people under
some circumstances