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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28
HUNTINGTON's MAYOR
Found Guilty on One Charge-COunciI
EniOincd by Judge watkins.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
HUNTINGTON. Ind, July H-Another
session of the Council was held last night
in the farcical Impeachment proceedings
against the mayor. 1t was the worst exhi-
bition of partisan malice and imbecility yet
INDUCED in, and was a disgrace to the
Council and the people. Hearsay testimony
was admitted questions We're asked of
witnesses in a leading way. and then wit
nesses would refuse to answer The pur-
pose was to pretend that they had testi-
mony but that it could not be utilized.
The Council met again this morning to
conclude the testimony, hear the argument
and vote. but unexpectedly adjourned I'M
til tonight before announcing a verdict
At to-nights meeting the Council sus-
tanned the charge as to collisions, with
gamblers by two-thirds vote. The Of
Tense is alleged to have occurred nearly
three years since, and the mayor is al
legged to have promised one Jim Hazard
that his poker room should run unmolest-
cd. The other charge, except fraudulent
census returns, were rejected. The charge of
fraud in taking census received majority
vote, but not two-thirdS, one of the Dem
ocratic councilmen, a. A. Weber, refusing
to vote.
bers of the Council were surprised by the
sheriff reading notice of a, temporary in
junction granted by Judge Watkins, of the
Circuit Court. restraining the Council from
interfering with the mayor in the further
discharge of his duties, and restraining
the Council from any effort to remove
the mayor and appointing another mayor
in his stead until the injunction proceed
served upon the four Democratic council
men TO appear at the September term of
the Circuit Court TO answer a complaint
filed by the mayor for violation OF the
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MARYLAND DEMOCRATS.
GOrmanites Anxious to StraddIe the
Money Question i'm Their Platform.

BALTIMORE, July 27.-The Democratic
state convention will meet at Fords Opera
House tomorrow at noon to nominate can
dldates for controller and clerk of the
Court of Appeals. A new state central COM
mittee will be chosen and its chairman
will be designated by the chairman of the
convention. a great deal of hard thinking
is being done by the party leaders over
the construction of the platform. 1t has
been decided that the monetary question
must be ignored, or "straddled. If the
leaders can control the convention as they
wish there will be a noticeable absence Of
any reference to the great bone of CON
tention last fall. Should the silver element
in the convention not be satisfied with this
scheme a concession may be granted so far
as to declare for a currency based upon
gold and silver at some ratio TO be deter
mined after the results of the conferences
upon the subject now being held in various
parts of the world are known.
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Dividends Reduced Passed by I'm
pnrtnnt New England Industries.

BOSTON, July 27.--Hon 7. Jefferson Cool
idge, treasurer of the big Amoskeag cotton
mills, of Manchester n. H., one of the
largest plants of the kind in the world,
says regarding the shutting down of the
mills, which was announced yesterday:
I'VE have made up our accounts for the
first six months of the year and find that
we have no money and have not moved our
goods, so l have ordered the mills closed
for the month of August at least" The
dividends of the Amoskeag mills have been
reduced during the past twelve months
The closing of these mills will affect about
six thousand operatives.
BOSTON. July 27.-The directors of the
Lymon cotton mills, OF Holyoke, have voted
to pass the regular semi-annual dividend
of per cent which has been declared
every six months for twelve years. Treas
urer Parsons stated that the business for
the last six months had been exceptionally
poor The capacity of the mill is 100 600
spindles. of which 6, 600 splndles have been
shut down. The mills will continue par
TALLY closed down until there is a better
demand
FALL RIVER, Mass. July 27.-At a meet
ing of the directors OF the Wampanoag cot
ton mills this morning IT was voted to close
the mills for two weeks during August. The
stevens mills shut down Saturday night
for month and the Richard Borden mills
will be again curtailed next week. These
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Control of Greek Finances.

PARIS, July PA dispatch from Con-
stantinople says that as the result of the
initiative of Germany. backed by Austria
and Italy a clause has been drafted for en-
bodimeHt in the peace treaty whereby Eu-
copean financial control will be established
at Athens. The various foreign officers are
now considering the clause.
BERLIN, July 27.-The Cologne Gazette
says that several of the powers, including
Germany have adopted the standpoint that
the evacuation of Thessaly by Turkey cam
not be demanded unless indemnity by
Greece is paid or guaranteed. AS payment
OF indemnity by loan is out ofthe ques-
ton, the only alternative, the Gazette says,
seems to be international control of Greek
finances and unless some such guarantee IS
Greece and Turkey it is questionable
whether Germany will recommend the Sui
tan TO accept the treaty.
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AMONG THE GEYSERS.
Christian EndeavOrers Sightseeing
in Yellowstone Park.

MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo., July
N.-The first lot of Christian Endeavorers
who have been waiting on the coast for
the gates of the Yellowstone Park to be
opened to the general public has arrived
here. They number $50. Among other ar
rivals is a party of thirty-one Eastern ex-
cursionists, travelling in a special Pullman.
They include some of the well-known men
and women of Philadelphia and the State
of Delaware. The party was organized by
DR.. F. B. Hazel, a prominent physician,
and is known as the Hazel party. Last
night DR.. George Pentecost the evangelist,
of Yonlxers N. Y, addressed the soldiers of
Fort Yellowstone He had an audience
numbering over 500 people, many coming
from nearby towns. He was captain OF
the Eighth kentucky Regiment during the
war and used incidents of his army life
to illustrate his sermon. Af'0r the service
the soldiers rendered him arewel re-
cepton in the barracks. rst of the
Pennsylvania EndeaVor de >es arrived
here last night after tourine lie park and
took their special train for the East
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the State. Besides he has means enough
to support any that might be unfortunate
enough to be thrown upon the world.
Greencastle has not escaped and daugh-
ter No. bObbed up here serenely last
night. She and her alleged husband, with
two children, drove into the city in
prairie schooner and lost no time in try
Ing to work into the good graces of the
Presbyterians They first visited the home
of Rev. Weaver, but that gentleman, hav
ing read the Journals account of the actions
Of the other daughters, was ready for
them. They received no assistance, but
spent the night in this city This alleged
daughter of DR.. Hunter was about thirty
five or forty years of age, coarse featured
and would weigh fully two hundred pounds.
From the Greencastle incident and the
others mentioned al seems that there is an
organized gang of such workers within the
States borders this week, as the party
here would not have had time to travel
from northern Indiana to this city since
the episodes of Sunday in that section.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala, July 27.-The Sloss
Iron and Steel Company blew in their No.
furnace at Birmingham this morning, and
the Tennessee Coal. Iron and Railroad
Company will blow in their third furnace
at Besemer. The Oxmoor furnace of the
latter compa ay will go in blast in a few
days, and the rolling mills at Birmingham
and Gate City are also preparing to re-
sumo The new steel furnace is in daily
operation, the output having proven an
excellent soft steel, and the steel is ac-
cumuiating at the Blrmir CHAM rolling mill
to be rolled as soon as the mills resume
operations. The coal and iron markets
show great Improvement since the settle
ment of the wage question altogether.
Birmingh am is in splendid trim for fine
fall and winter business.
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Henry County Mans Experience in
Dom hruGer's Domain.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
NEW CASTLE Ind, July 27.--William
Booth, of Cadiz, this county, arrived in this
city to-day direct from Johannesburg,
Transvaal, South Africa, where he has been
sojourning during the past three years. Mr..
Booth is a young man, machinist by
trade. He was at Pullman during the strike
in 1894, and went from there to Omaha to
hunt employment Not meeting with sue
cess in his search, and having become ia
vorably impressed by reports of the gold
developments in South Africa, he purchased
a ticket for Cape Town. Arriving there he
proceeded to Johannesburg, in the gold
country one thousand miles above Cape
Town. Here he found employment imme-
diately and has been successful. He has
acquired a thorough knowledge of the coun-
try and the people, and describes the Beers
as sturdy, quiet and fairminded, but in
tensely patriotic and determined to govern
the Transvaal without foreign interference.
They are not particularly Industrious, and
prefer cattle raising to more laboriCIs en-
ployment. They take no interest in mines
or mining, being quite content for the uit-
landers foreigners) to gather all the gold
they can, provided they behave themselves
and pay the taxes levied. In the recent
trouble between the Beers and English Mr..
orally, was with the Beers, for they we'll
understand that the purpose of Cecil
Rhodes, DR.. Jameson and others engaged
in the uprising was to bring the country
under British domination. The Beers, Mr..
Booth says, take great delight in aiming
their musl<ets at the red-coats and shooting
to kill He describes the Jameson raid
having been very exciting occurrence
and very disastrous to the British. Mr..
Booth left Johannesburg May 10, coming
home by way of the Red sea, the Suez
canal and Europe. After a visit he will re-
turn about Oct. 1. He is much pleased with
the country. likes the people. and is de-
lighted with the climate which, he says,
resembles that of Southern California. 1t
is no place for a poor man to go, how
ever, unless he has a good trade. There
is no such thing as placer mining. the gold
running in quartz reefs and requiring cap
ital to mine it. He has also visited the
diamond mines of that country, but de-
clares he would not work in them as the
wOrkmen are compelled to work within a
stockade and are watched and searched like
criminals in order to prevent them from
carrying away the precious stones.
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North vernon's Medicinal Wen.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
NORTH VERNON, Ind, July 27.-The
North Vernon Pump and Lumber Company,
whose mills are located near the central
part of this city, bored well on the street
line of their premises last spring TO OBJ
tain water. At a depth of seventy feet
four inches a strong vein of water was
struck that now furnishes an abundant and
never-failing supply. The remarkable fea-
ture connected with this we'll is the medic
inal properties of the water, which is sim
liar TO that at West Baden and Indian
Springs Large numbers of persons affect
ed with kidney trouble or constipation daily
resort to the waters of the well, which
peVer fail to afford relief. The water from
the we'll is very cold, and the taste and
smell not disagreeable. but the beneficial
effects produced by its regular use are ind s.
putable and well established From early
morning until late at night believers in the
medicinal virtues of the waters from this
well can be seen moving in throngs to and
from the well.
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Venezuelan Affairs.

CARACAS, Venezuela, July 27.-F'rancisco
Castillo having declined to be a candidate
for the presidency, the success of General
Andrade is considered almost certain.
DR.. Juan Pietri, the envoy extraordinary
of Venezuela to Germany, who has been
in Paris for some time with the object Of
restoring diplomatic relations between
France and Venezuela. arrived here on the
18th inst, with the protocol ad referendum
tack on the protocol, without knowing
what it contained, A Cabinet council will
the protocol is looked upon with favor by
the Venezuelan government. Article 4, gov
Cancelled
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Passed stolen Money Orders.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
FORT WAYNE, Ind, July 27.-For the
past month Postoftice Inspector Holmes and
an assistant from Cincinnati have been in
this city and neighboring towns tracing
Frank B. Vogel, who is charged with Sc
curing payment on United States money or
ders. These orders were stolen from
small postofice near Cincinnati. The swim
dler would wait until the postoflce was
closed in the town he was working" then
he would go to a store, buy a hat, tender
the money order and get back in money
the difference. To-day Marshal Rose, of
Angola, Ind, nabbed him in Fremont, Ind.
forty miles north of the city, and he VIII
be held here until some of his victims can
come here and identify him.
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THOSE PIoUs FRAUDS.
Man and Woman Try to Repeat the
WinOna Trick at GreencastIe.

Special to TIE Indianapolis Journal
GREENCASTLE. Ind. July 27.-The ar
ticle in Mondays Journal from Eagle Lake
describing how couple of pious frauds
had imposed upon the Presbyterians of that
place, was read here by Rev. w. x. Weav-
err of the local Presbyterian church Rev
Weaver is personally acquainted with the
Rev. James Hunter. of Ohio. whose daugh-
ter the woman in the case claimed she was,
claiming that she was in destitute circum-
stances and was forced to seek aid. Rev
Hunter is not old enough to have a daugh-
ter of the proportions represented by these
travelling frauds. and he certainly has not
as many daughters as are developing over
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Case of Alleged Petrifaction.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
HARTFORD CITY Ind, July 27.-Several
hundred people visited the old cemetery in
the northeast part of the city yesterday to
view the body of a petrified woman, ex-
humed for the purpose of refinement in the
new cemetery. The body is that of Mrs.
George w. Smith, buried about ten years
ago. 1t is as solid as stone and the size
it was the day it was buried. The trunk of
the body and the face are quite full and
robust, and are said to look quite natural
by those who knew her in life The casket
in which she was buried had decayed and
the earth around the body was perfectly
dry. This is the second petrified body taken
from this cemetery, the other being that of
Mrs. Mary Lemon, eXhumed several years
ago after a burial of three years.
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Would Not Marry.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
NEW ALBANY, Ind. July 27.-Nicholas
Warrisse and Marie Kronne were sweet
hearts ten years ago in Alsace, France.
Warrisse came to this county and prom
ised to send for Miss Kronne when he had
made a fortune. He started a bakery in
this city and has been very prosperous.
Four weeks ago he sent for Miss Kronne.
She arrived few days later, and they
were to have been married to-day at St.
Mary's Catholic Church. Many of their
friends had assembled at the church when
the prospective bride changed her mind
and refused to marry Warrisse. She had
become homesick and dissatisfied with the
situation, and Warrisse, almost heart
broken over the turn of affairs, could not
dissuade her from her purpose. She will
start on her return to France tomorrow.
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MOors Intimidnted.

TANGIER, July T.-The United States
cruiser Raleigh returned here this morning.
Consul General Burke reports that he has
been received everywhere along the coast
with marked respect. He has not yet
ceived an answer from the Sultan to the
demands made upon him growing out of
the recent irritating attitude of the natives
toward American citizens, but the reply is
expected daily and it is understood that the
government will make all the concessions
asked. The demonstration made by the
Raleigh has evidently had the desired eff
feet and the Moors will hereafter show
more consideration for the persons and
property of Americans in Morocco.
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ShockinGIy MangIed.
he Indianapolis Journal.

Special 70 the Indianapolis JOURNAL.
KOKOMO, IND, July 27.-This morning
Delmar Duncan, aged eighteen, of Erwin
township, was working with a threshing
crew near Young America. In passing
around the machine he was kicked by
horse. The force of the kick threw the
young against the machine and his
hand was caught in the cyclone straw
stacker. The arm was drawn into the gear
ing up to the shoulder and the flesh stripped
fl ON the bones. The fans move at veloc-
Oy of 1000 revolutions a minute. The doc
tors say there is a possibility of recovery,
but the Injuries is expected to be fatal.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala, July 27.-There are
now twenty-eight cases of smallpox at the
pesthouse on Red mountain, two miles from
the city. The tWenty-eighth case was de-
veloped this morning and was Immediately
sent to the mountain. There are about ten
suspected cases also at the camp of de-
tention, but none of these has yet shown
eruption. The most vigorous measures are
being put into force by the health and city
authorities to stamp out the disease and its
further spread. AS soon as a suspicious case
is found it is hurried out of town, the bed
ding where it came from burned and the
premises diSinfected.
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jackson COunty-seat Case.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
SEYMOUR, Ind, July N.-The County
Commissioners this afternoon recalled their
order for a special county-seat election on
Aug. 3. This clears up the legal muddle in
which that call had thrown the contro-
versy, since Seymour contended that the
call was illegal and that whatever the re-
suit might be it would be void and had
decided to ignore the election on that date
The mandate orders the call to be issued at
the September term of the commissioners,
and this mandate will be obeyed. This
clears the way for the final struggle in
which the people will decide by ballot
whether or not the county seat shall be
removed from BroWnstoWn to Seymour.
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Britain VIII Build More Ships.

LONDON, July 27.--In committee of sup
ply in the House of Commons to-day
Right Hon. George Goschen first lord of
the admiralty announced a supplementary
naval estimate OF $500 90 which, he said,
was necessitated by rapid additions to for
eign navies 1t is proposed to utilize the
amount mentioned in the immediate COM
ditional very fast armored cruisers of II, $50
tons each, capable of the double duty Of
taking part in action with battle ships and
protecting the lines of communication. In
addition to these 100000 will be spent for
new torpedo-boat destroyers. The compile
ton of the ships now in course of construc
ton will be accelerated so as to leave the
coming year free for the new DESIGNS.
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Nnx he Andrce,s Rnuoon.

ROTTERDAM, July 81. - A letter from
Captain Lehman, of the Dutch steamer
Dordrecht, appears in one of the papers of
this city to the effect that he saw a curious
object floating in the White sea on July It,
which was neither a ship nor a dead whale
but resembed balloon, and Captain Leh-
man suggests that it may have been An
dree's balloon which he saw.
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, July H-Lieu-
tenant Svendenborg, son-in-law of DR.. Nor
denskjold, the arctic explorer, reports from
Ascension that if nothing is heard from
Herr Andree in six weeks 1t is not likely
that anything will be heard from him this
wear.
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High Insurance Rates.

NEW YORK, July 2.-President Sheffield,
of the fire department, is endeavoring to
convince the Board of Fire Underwriters
that the present fire insurance rates as APP
piled to this city are extremely high. He
says that while the number of fires here
have increased owing to the increase in
buildings and population, account of the
efficiency of the fire department, the aver
age loss per fire has been greatly decreased.
The fire loss, he adds, has been reduced
nearly one-half in the first six months of
the last three years and there should be
some reduction in the rates.
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Exercises at Winona.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WINONA PARK, Ind, July 27.-The ex-
ercises at Winona to-day were largely of
popular nature. The opening service was led
by Rev. G. l.. Macintosh of Indianapolis
Prof. Grilley, the impersonator, gave a re-
cital at the morning lecture hour and this
evening there was a second exhibition of
the magnscOpe and music by Prof. Claude
Marco and orchestra.
sorn ron ~ wIU Is SUI
ton, was removed to her home to-day.
Thursday morning Hon. John l.. GriIfiths
will lecture.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
SHELBYVILLE, Ind, July 27.-The Re-
tail Grocers' Association has planned for
next Tuesday monster picnic, to which
everybody in Shelby and adjoining counties
is invited. They viii have dancing pavil-
ion, furnish lemonade, popcorn, warm can
dy, peanuts etc free TO all who Will come
All the business houses in this city will be
closed and thousands will take part in the
narade and Dicnic
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Special to the indianapolis Journal
HUNTINGBURG, Iud., July 27.-Win Cof-
frey, recently released from the Prison
South after serving term for stealing in
KLox county, was arrested near ireland to-
day by a deputy United States marshal for
sending obscene letters through the mail to
his wife at New Albany, from whom he is
separated. He was lodged in the city Jail
here and was taken TO Evansville tonight
where he will be given hearing to-mOr-
row. He was working on the farm of
Prosecuting Attorney Cox at the time of
his arrest
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"seething with Rebellion"

LONDON, July 2S.-The Daily Nails
Cape Town correspondent says no news
has reached Delagoa Bay of the expedition
sent by Governor Albuquerque, of Mozarn-
bque to relieve Chamtsootu fort. 1t is
rumored that the garrison while pursuing
the retreatng rebels were caught in am
bush and massacred. The whole of GAIA
land the correspondent says is seething
with rebellion and the Portuguese forces
are few and incapable.
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Texas Fever killing Cattle.

MANHATTAN, Kan, July 27-Texas fe-
Yer broke out last week on the G. 2. Dewey
cattle ranch ten miles south of here. Dr.
Mayo, state veterinary surgeon, pronounced
it to be such early in the week but gave
out no report. He telegraphed for the
state sanitary committee, who confirmed
DIR. Mayo's report after two days investi-
CATION. Some twenty-five animals have
died and many more are infected. The dis
ease is, however, confined to the one bunch
of cattle, the ranch being an isolated one.
and as positive quarantine has been de-
clared there is little chance of a spread of
the fever