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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-12
A GAS-WELL EXPLOSION
FATALLY BURNS SEVERAL PEOPLE;
ON A HENRY COUNTY FARM.
Thirty-Minute Fight Between EIwOod
Tin-PIate Strikers and Men I'm
ported by the Company.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
NEW CASTLE, Ind, Sept. ia terrible
explosion of natural gas occurred at 10
o'clock this morning on the A. ]. Bushong
farm, seven miles northwest of this city,
from the result of which two persons will
in all probability lose their lives and a
number of others be injured for life
The College Corner Gas Company has just
drilled in its first gas WELL and about fifty
of the surrounding farmers had collected
at the derrick to see the we'll capped. The
work of closing the well was but just begun
when the escaping gas, which filled the der
rick and the air about, was ignited and a
fearful explosion followed. Flames shot in
every direction and in moment the large
derrick was consumed. The derrick room
was filed with people when the explosion
occurred, and it was soon ascertained that
number had been badly injured They
are follows:
arms, hands, face and legs clothing burned
from body; fatally injured
CHARLES LEWIS, burned internally and
flesh cooked on his limbs; case pronounced
hopeless.
WILLIAM MUNDEI.L, son of Daniel
Mundell, face and hands badly burned; Will
recover.
JACKSON BUSHONG, burned on various
pal - VI TIE DOuy1 not dangerously injured.
Several others were badly burned, but
not seriously. The flesh of both Daniel
Mundell and Lewis was literally cooked Oh
their bodies, the skin and large pieces of
flesh falling off before the arrival of ply
sicians. The two Murdels were removed
to fredericksburg for treatment and the
other two to their homes, near the scene of
the explosion.
The derrick was the property of Henry
Hughes, and his loss is about $780, Mr..
Hughes could hardly be restrained from
rushing into the flames in a fruitless en-
deavor to save his property. 1t is not
known to a certainty how the gas ignited,
but the prevailing theory is that there was
spark in the forge near by, where the
drills were sharpened. The gas is still
burning, and will probably not be controlled
for several DAVIS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-12
CONCERNING LINES.
A Fruit Which Most People Know
Little About.
New York Evening Sun

New York Evening Sun.
Lines are not cultivated to any extent in
the sense that oranges are cultivated. Lit
tie or no care is taken of them, and they
are almost as plentiful in some parts of
the West Indies as blackberries are in this
country. BY far the greatest number come
from Jamaica, and until recently almost all
were imported from one or another of the
West Indian islands. Put since the demand
for them became great large quantities
have been sent from Florida, Mexico and
even Sicily. Fruit growers and merchants
fruits, the demand for them is the most ir-
regular. In the winter they find practi-
cally no market, and even in summer it is
only during not spells that they are con-
stunned in large quantities. Accordingly, the
fruit growers send but few, unless they
have good reason to suppose that the
weather here is warm, for, although they
bring excellent prices when much in de-
nand, at other times they sell so cheaply
as hardly to repay the cost of picking and
shipping them. OF course. the reason for
this irregularity is that the lime is essen
TALLY an ingredient of hot weather drinks.
Not so the orange, nor even the lemon,
for both of which there is a comparatively
regular market. But almost all the lines
imported into this city go to the hotels and
&C ction Of rickeys, though a few are en-
plcyed in making lemonadeS. or, rather,
l.meades. If the hot spells here We're of
longer duration and came at tiXed periods
there never would tie the least difficulty in
procuring lines, but as it is, they are fire.
uuently not to be had in warm weather
while during the cool spells in summer the
market is generally glutted with them.
The merchants say that the lime trade is
largely a game of chance. In the course of
a few hot rays a month ago, for instance, a
barrel, which contains from 1,200 TO 1,S00
lines sold for 800 this week barrel might
easily be had at SO or 81. During the very
hot days last year the fruit was in great
demand and scarce. bringing sometimes as
much as $25 the barrel, until an exporter in
Jamaica read of the extraordinary heat
and sent by the next steamship cargo OF
no less than 1900 barrels, or, say 100000
lines. whereupon the price dropped at once,
and cool weather coming, lines We're to be
had for practically nothing for some little
time after, as vessels continued to arrive
with heavy cargoes once a week from Key
West and once or twice a week from Florida
and the West Indies.
Excepting as an ingredient in drinks lines
are made little use of in this country. A
considerable number are picked in salt
water, and by some persons they are consid-
cred a great delicacy. But no attempt TO
sell them in this city has ever proved sue
cessful 1t is not to be accounted for, but
it is nevertheless a fact that Boston is the
only place where they are in demand Here
however they are eaten with relish. the fac
tory girls especially, it is said, consuming
them in large quantities.
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A New Narcotic.



A reporter recently interviewed DIR. AL
berto Lopez HermoSa in regard to the new
narcotic discovered by DR.. Fernando Alta
mirano and which for some time past has
been in use with excellent results at the
insane asylum for women of which DR..
Hermosa is the physician. The principal
of the asylum had for some time been con-
cerned by the large number of deaths
among the inmates caused by congestion Of
the brain following the excessive use of
to overcome the insomnia which is the fire.
quent accompaniment of insanity. He
therefore requested DIR. AltamiFano prin-
try and discover a narcotic which would
DR. Altamirano at once answered that he
already had such narcotic as was desired
IL consisted Of an extract prepared by Sc
cret process from the seeds of the white
zapote. DIR. Lopez Hermosa told the re-
porter that the dose for the insane was
from fifty to sixty centgrams administered
all at once The results are very satisfac-
tory After half an hour to an hour the
patients fall into a quiet and refreshing
sleep. DIR. Hermosa has also applied it to
hysterical women. and its soothing effects
are very remarkable. 1t Gains the nerv-
Gus system during the periods of excite
ment which are frequent both in the case
OF hysterical and insane women. For hys-
terical wonlSa the dose Is ten centigrams
mixed with thirty centigTams of bromide
Of sodium, potassium, or camphor, admin
istered every half lour until the hysterical
symptoms are brought under thorough con-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-12
MAY Import Glass Workers.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
PENDLETON, Ind, Sept. 1.-THE trouble
between the glass cutters and fiatteners on
one side and the blowers and gatherers on
the other among glass workers is already
having tendency to break the control of
the glass interests by the employees. 1t is
current among manufacturers that unless
this trouble is sooh adjusted that foreign
labor will be imported SO that the window
glass factories may start. Manufacturers
at Elwood are talking of doing this now.
If the factories do this l.. A. 300 will re-
ceive a hard blow. Manufacturers say they
would rather not be driven TO such straits
as il would necessitate dealing with in
dividuals rather than with an organization
plished TO settle all difficulties soon.
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CURES FOR INSOMNIA.
'Don't Keep Yourself Awake II
Trying to Go Asleep" Is One.
81. Louis UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

ST. Louis Giobe-Democrat
One of the gastronomic magazines has
an article giving some comprehensive d.
rectons regarding the cure of sleeplessness.
1t is sensible in admitting the complexity
OF a case of insomnia and of the doubts
often connected with its origin. man
may apply all his knowledge and that Of
his medical adviser and yet be unable for
a time to overcome the tendency of the
mind TO drift along in helpless conscious
ness through the long hours of the night.
But there must be a cause for this per
verseness and a remedy for 1t, though the
cure may not be found without a perse-
vering quest. The American needs a full
share of sleep. He works hard with brain
and nerves and is apt to play as hard as
he works. To lie in bed with the wheels
Of thought running on waste material is a
sort of torture as well as a danger to
health. Napoleons faculty Of going to
sleep on the instant was one of the great
est advantages he had over the command
ers of the other side.
According to the magazine authority
the worst enimies of sleep are worrying,
overwork. overeatlng, indigestible suppers
and the habitual use of stimulants and
drugs The cure includes strict attention
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-12
How the NichoIsons ESCAPED.

Special 10 the indianapolis journal.
INGALLS,, Ind, Sept. 1.-THE shaving
mug marked "W. Nicholson" spoken of In
last nights dispatches in connection with the
Denver & Rio Grande and Colorado Mid
land wreck, belonged to Watson Nicholson.
from this vicinity. Mr.. and Mrs. Nicholson
were en- route to California, where he goes
to teach school near Santa Paula, and were
only married two weeks ago. They were
on their wedding trip. They escaped from
shaving mug was found, all their baggage
was lost. Mr.. Nicholson wires from Los
Angeles that himself and wife are safe.
MRS. Nicholson is from Fort Wayne and
June
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-12
United After Thirty-Tvvo Years.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
JEFFERSONVILLE,l Ind, Sept. 10.-In
the dry goods store of J. L. Hopkins a
brother and sister who had not seen each
other for thirty-two years were reunited
to-day. AS Mrs. Fred Morgan was max
ing some purchases a stranger entered and
asked the proprietor if he knew a Mrs.
Fred Morgan. Captain Hopkins replied by
asking him if he would know her. The
stranger answered that he thought he
would, as she was his sister, but that he
was sure he would recognize her voice. Mr..
Hopkins then called the woman customer
and began talking to her AS soon as the
stranger heard her voice he started for
ward and called her by name. Mrs. Nor
ing to her brother, who had long been
mourned as dead. He had left home when
twenty-five years old and his family never
heard from him afterwards His name is
William Httchmau, and he is now a mer-
chant of Pittsburg.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-12
Fatal Crossing in PendIetOn.

Special to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal
PENDLETON, Ind, Sept 1.-THE east
bound passenger train on the Big Four due
at 1923 a. M, while approaching the sta
ton here this morning, at the crossing of
State street. ran into J. P. Jones, a leading
merchant, and threw him with much force
from the track. He was badly injured and
may die. There is a large cash in his head
and internal injuries are feared. The cross
on the railroad Large grain elevators and
switches on which usually stand cars OBJ
scure the approach Of trains and accidents
occur frequently. Recently a farmer driv-
ing across the tracks was run into and
narrowly escaped. There is an electric bell
of warning but it does not always ring.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-12
William BrinkIey.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
COLUMBUS, Ind, Sept n.-William
Brinkley, manufacturer, and one of the
most prominent business men of this city,
died here to-day. He was seventyeight
years old and for the past fifty years has
owned and managed one of the best-known
and largest furniture factories in the State.
He was a pioneer of Bartholomew county.
The funeral will be held Monday at 2
O. clock, Rev. G. l.. Curtiss in charge. Mr..
Brinkley was born in Usage county, North
Carolina, March 2, 1919 He lived from 1890
until 1889 in Virginia, when he came West.
a farm. In 1912 he learned the carpenter S
trade and worked in a sash factory. He
came to Columbus in 1851 and in 1858 start
ed a sash and door factory. He was large
ly responsible for the Columbus water
works and was a man of great industry.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-12
Peter Funk's Costly Trip.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
CONVICTION, Ind, Sept. 11-Peter Funk,
an employee of the Indiana Mineral Springs
Company boarded Wabash freight train
at Attica Friday morning for Danville ILL.,,
from which place he was going to Chicago.
He got in car which was already occupied
by several men. He had $50, with $26 of it
secreted in his stock. When near Summer
the men asked him if he had any money
and he replied that he had three or four dol
lars. They knocked him down and rifled
his pockets, getting Sc, and then threw him
from the train. Funk was found next
morning by a section gang. His head was
badly peeled, and the physicians think he
is injured internally. He is now in the hos
pital at DanVille.
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,cial to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
HAGERSTOWN, Ind, Sept. 1.-THE wife
of Herbert King. a freight brakeman on
the Big Four Railroad took a headache
powder last night and nearly died from the
effects. DR.. N. f. Canada, one of the at
tending physicians examined one of the
powders like that Mrs. King had taken and
found that it contained acetanelym in large
proportion. The effect of this drug is to re-
duce the action of the heart. The physician
says that the increasing prevalence of
heart disease is attributable in a large
measure to the general use of so-called
headache cures, which do not cure head
ache at ALL but render the heart action
slower and make the nerves insensible to
mir
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-12
BEET-sUGAR REFINERY.
Plan to Establish Large Plant at
New Castle.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
NEW CASTLE Ind, Sept. 1.-THE citi-
zens of this community are becoming great
ly interested in a proposition to locate a
factory here for the manufacture of beet
sugar. A meeting of business men and
farmers was held in the courthouse this
afternoon and on Monday man will be
here to submit plans. 1t is thought the
factory will be sure thing, the plan pro-
ncsed being the formation of a stock COM
pany composed of farmers and business
men. Sugar beets have been cultivated
here. and yields of fifteen tons to the acre
bottoms They can be cultivated with
profit where the yield is one-half that and
the promoters of the enterprise have no
fears along that line.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-12
Miss Mundy Assaulted hy a Trnmp.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
SHOALS, Ind, Sept. 11-Miles Doyl, a
native of ireland. tramping through this
county to-day made an assault on Eliza
beth Mundy. young woman sixteen years
old. The girl was passing near a road lead
ing past her fathers house when she was
accosted by Doyl, who caught her. The
girl made a desperate fight and succeeded
in giving the alarm to her sister and two
other girls in the vicinity. They came to
her and frightened the criminal, who broke
away and hid in the brush. He had choked
the girl until she was almost unable to
speak and had torn most of her clothes
from her The three girl companions of
MISS Mundy at once gave the alarm TO the
villain. catching him two or three miles
from the scene of the outrage. Doyl was
have a preliminary hearing next Tuesday
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-12
Death in a clover HuIIer.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
GREENCASTLE, Ind, Sept. 11.-Jacob
McVey, a prominent farmer of the north
eastern part Of Putnam county, while OPP
Grating clover huller yesterday afternoon,
met horrible death. He attempted to walk
across the top of the machine, when one
of the planks broke, throwing him into the
rapidly revolving wheels. His leg was
crushed to a pulp from the foot to the hip.
Physicians were hurriedly summoned but
McVey died before they could give him re-
lief. McVey was about thirty-five years
old He was a son of E. Vincent McVey
and had been married but a few months
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-12
Indiana Victims I'm the Wreck.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind, Sept. H.
Among those killed and injured in the rail-
road wreck near Newcastle, Col, Friday,
were Mrs. Alexander Hartman and two
little boys. who were killed, and her hus-
band, Alexander Hartman, who was so
badly injured that he will die. Rev. Hart
man is a native of this county, his par
ents residing at Otisco. He is a graduate
of Hanover College and was on his way
west to recuperate his failing health.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-12
Indiana sheen Gro,yers Benented.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
GREENCASTLE, Ind, Sept. n.-John W.
Robe, of this city, for several years secre-
tary of the Indiana Wool Growers Associa-
ton, is keeping close tab on the effects Of
tariff legislation on the sheep and wool in
dustry, and at this time gives out some in
teresting facts. Mr.. Robe reports the farm
ers of Indiana well pleased with the new
measure, as it shows an advance on wool of
from 80 to So per cent. and on sheep Of
from 50 to 100 per cent. Mr.. Robe says:
MANY sheep dealers are buyers in the
large markets. and are stocking up rapidly.
From indications 1 believe the coming year
will show quite an increase in sheep over
the State. There is no reason why Indiana
should not produce the best sheep in the
world From many quarters in my extern
Sive correspondence over the State hear
of higher conditions and assurances of bet
ter times for the sheep industry and think
this is a good time for farmers and stock
men to invest. With the great reduction in
numbers in the past few years prices must
advance before those who are out and want
to get in can be supplied. Good breeding
ewes are scarce and hard to find 1t will
not be long before 1 hope to see prosperity
returning 60 an industry which is 1ndiS-
pensa by linked with the history and pros
perity of mankind"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-12
Life Insurance Agent Found Dead.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MARION, Ind, Sept. I'D. F. Gerard
was found lying unconscious in a grove
near the York Inn yesterday afternoon. He
was taken to the hospital, and died in a
short time afterwards. He is supposed to
have been poisoned, but whether 1t is
known to have had money Friday morning,
but none was found on his person. He was
Company and has always been straightfor-
ward in his dealings. His home was at
GreenVille O
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-12
KILLED in MauIe.n Mine.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
PRINCETON, Ind Sept. u-Bradley
Dunville, aged twenty-three, miner en-
ployed in the Maule Coal Companys mines
here. was killed by falling slate to-day.
His head, hips and back were horribly
crushed. This is the eighth fatality that
has occurred In this mine during the past
year. Dunville was unmarried and lived in
Laswell, Ky.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-12
Indiana Notes

The finance committee of the North YER
non Council has disposed of 1000 of electric
light bonds at premium OF $3.50, or 12ls per
cent. premium.
Mr. A. NJ. Higgins, of Terre Haute. who
is president of the State League of Repub-
lcan Clubs. has received notice that he has
been appointed a member of the advisory
board of the Commercial League of Amer
lea, the organization of commercial lawyers,
for the State of Indiana. Lewis Newberger,
of Indianapolis, is chairman of the board
for this State and Mr.. Owen N. Heaton, of
Fort Wayne, is the third member.
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Philadelphia. Record.

PnldueIphld IttCOTu-
up at Stromskurg." says our esteemed
rural contemporary the York Times, "a
farmer sold his wheat. paid his mortgage
and floating Indebtedness, bought his wife
a new range and sewing machine, took 800
to go to Buffalo and give himself and his
poor tired wife an outing. and had $500
left When he had finished all the business
he wiped his brow with his shirt sleeve and
remarked 1 voted for Bryan last fall. but
I'm did glad he wasn't elected
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Eaton.s New Glass Factory.
al 10 the indianapolis Journal.

Special 20 the Indianapolis Journal.
MUNCiE. Ind, Sept. ia new window
glass factory is to be located in the gas
belt, and the factory has been secured by
the town of Eaton, where the first natural
gas well was found in the Indiana field,
ten miles north of Muncie. Emil Baur, I'M
til recently secretary of the Star Window
glass Company OF Eaton, has purchased
the remnants Of a defunct window-gl
factory at Fostoria. o., and will rebuild IL
at Eaton giving employment 70 LES hands.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-12
The Angels Imposed on Her.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
JEFFERSONVILLE,I Ind, Sept. 11.-Mrs.
Mary Crow, of this city, is much disap-
pointed because she is still in the land of
the living. She had made all preparations
to die last night. week ago she went
into trance, and says she saw Jesus and
was shown around the streets of heaven,
a place so beautiful she could not find
words to describe it. She claims that she
was told she would die Friday night and
was confidently and anxiously awaiting
her demise when she expected to be taken
n a raf In
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the real needs and condition of the miners,
but has received no reply. No receipts have
been received for the last three drafts sent
in, and the committee have decided not
assured that the money is an actual neces-
sity. They have already sent in nearly $500,
more probably. than any city in the State
with the exception of Indianapolis. and are
willing to send more if ii is really need
ed but will make no more collections until
xNnrd has been received from Mr.. Conner.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
RENSSELAER,, Ind, Sept. 11.-James F.
Watson, aged forty-eight, one of the old
est formers and business men of this coun-
ty. died last evening from a complication
Of disorders starting with pleurisy. He had
held several offices of minor importance in
this county including that of commissioner.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-12
DR.. l.. IL. TAYLOR.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
DUBLIN, Ind, Sept. 11.-Dr. L. B. Tay-
lor died suddenly last night about 10 o'clock,
aged nearly sixty. The deceased had been
one of the practicing physicians here for
thirty years. His father before him was a
physician and a minister in the Methodist
Church. His brother Aurelius is a doctor
stationed at an Indian mission in Nebraska.
The deceaseds only son, Charles Taylor, is
oils.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-12
ono Dead of Heat REGISTRATION.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
rERRE HAUTE, Ind, Sept. 1.-THE
thermometer to-day registered 10l in the
shade Harry Withers a workman on the
new building at ST. Marys of the Woods,
died suddenly from the heat. Since Tues
day the Thermometer has been above So.