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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-23

LOUISVILLE July 22.-The Colonels quit
after the fourth inning to-day and the Bos-
tons fattened their batting averages con-
siderably. Miller was substituted for Dow
ling in the seventh inning. Attendance,
1.500. Score:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-23
National League standing.
VARIETY PERFORMANCE.
Prize Fight, Rotten-Egg Throwing
and Two Ball Games, All for SO Cents.


and Two Bali Games, All for so Cents.
PTTTSBURG, July 22.-The $500 people at
the ball park to-day saw prize fight, an
umpire rotten-egged and two good games,
all for one price of admission. In the third
inning of the first game Sheridan gave
batsman his base on balls and when he
went out behind the pitchers box to watch
second Hawley said something to him and
Sheridan struck Pink blow on the cheek
Hawley retaliated. and. with two we'll
aimed blows, knocked Sheridan down and
out. Hawley was put out of the game and
Hastings substituted
In the second game Hawley was put ! 4
to pitch. and Jennings, the third man up,
was given first on what Sheridan called
an illegal delivery This set the crowd
wild, and in a few minutes a shower of
ill-smelling eggs fell around the umpire
and he had to stop the game until Captain
Donovan could come in from the field and
restore order. Both games were we'll
played. Attendance $500. Score of first
game:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-23
OTMTTCT DIR. A. E. BUCHANAN
UENlIDI sa.ss When Building
EASY ONE FOR HOLSTERS
COMING CHAMPIONS HAVE NO Diff
Guilty IN DEFEATING MILLERs.
Phillips Pitches Good Ball and Hog
TripIe-WatISins Claims WiImot.

Indianapolis S-MinnenpOIis :. z
Grand Rapids. Est. Paul. L
Columbus ....16-kansas City,. =
Milwaukee :. 9-DetrOit $1,000.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-23
Colts Bunched Hits on Rusie

CHICAGO. July 22.-To-day's game was
an even thing and a pitchers battle for
six innings, each side having scored one on
errors. The Colts won out in the seventh,
on a punching of two singles, followed by
Everitts long hit for four bases. great
catch by Callahan in deep center, and the
unusual number of fielding chances ac-
cepted by the locals were the features. At
tendance. $500. Score:
~. r IL Il
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-23
SLAUGHTER OF CoIoueIs.

Double play-McAllister and Wallace Wild
ptch-Orth. Umpire-Emslie. Time-2:10.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-09
Great Coal Miners Strike.
100000 Men are out In Addition TO
222,OOO Iron, Steel, and Glass Work.

The circular OF the executive board Of the
United Mine Workers requesting all members Of
that body to drop their tools and cease toll forth
with, was obeyed on Tuesday. 1t Is claimed that
62 out of = railroad mines are closed. The on
GERS Of the Miners Union place the number Of
men involved at 900, which, added to the go
O0O IRON steel, and glass workers who they claim
areialready out foots up to the astounding total
of 595, 900 men. a conservative estimate on this
basis would place the number Of persons directly
affected by the strike at 100000, including fami.
lies, tradesmen, etc.
But while the leaders of the miners who have
struck for higher wages in the great bitumnous
coal districts declare that the situation is satsfac
tory, there are reports which seem to show that
the miners in West Virginia would not stop work,
while only about onehaf Of the men in the Ohio
fields were willing to obey the order TO strike.
The Miners Union is weak also in Kentucky and
other states and in Illinois at least 1900 Of the
10000 men employed did not 20 out In Indiana
400 ont of 12O1 miners voted To Join in the strike
Estimates of the total number OF men who will
join in the demand for higher wages vary but il
is not believed the figure will reach $4,000
If this number keep up the fight for only ten
weeks and then win the Is per cent advance they
ask for 1t will take more than . W. eks Of steady
work at the increased rate to get back the wages
lost during the ten weeks Of the strike.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-09
3RMONT PHOENIX BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1897.
The Reynolds Divorce Case.

Guy II. Reynolds has secured an order in the
supreme court conditonally setting aside judy
ment taken in default against him last month by
Lillian Allen in q suit for annument Of her alleg-
ed marriage with Reynolds. Miss Allen, who Is
the daughter of ex Police Sergeant Allen, testified
that while she was visiting Saratoga in the sum
mer Of 1881 she met a dashing young man and at
his request went through a secret marriage cere
mony with him. She had lived in various places
with Reynolds as his wife, but finally discovered
that at the time he married her he had wife v-
ing Reynolds offered no defence when the case
was tried before Judge Beach, although he had
liled an answer denying that he had ever married
the plaintiff, and judgment by default was en-
tered against him. Reynolds recently asked for
an opportunity to defend the case, and Judge
Lawrence has granted the request condition
That the defendant pay all costs and disburse-
ments IN the action and consent to refer the case
and proceed to trial on three days, notice. If
these conditions are not agreed to the motion
viii be denied with costs. Reyuolds's immediate
relatives in Rutland were large benefciares un-
der the will of Fayerweather, the millionaire
leather merchant.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-09
The Charlie Ross Mystery.
The Boy was Murdered According to
the Statement of Nephew of One of
the HIdnappers.

the HidnRppers.
The Charlie Ross mystery which has bailed
the police and attracted more or less public at.
tention for the past % years, has at last been
cleared up if reliance is to be placed upon the
statement of Ellsworth Mosher, nephew of VIII
liam NIosher the chief of the desperate gang
that kidnapped the boy, and son Of Gilbert
Mosher, the thugs brother, who put the police on
the kidnappers trail.
In the basement of the house at So Grand
street, New York, or the adjoining house on the
corner of South 5th avenue, the wife of the GRIM
inal chief had restaurant, and IL years ago
workmen, IN tearing out the old basement walls.
found the skeleton of boy That skeleton, Gil
bert Mosher told his son, was all that was left Of
Charlie Ross, and Ellsworth Mosher now for the
first time discioses the statement.
William Mosher and his accompce, Joseph
Douglas were killed during a burglary. Gilbert
Mosher and Christian X. Ross, the father OF the
stolen child who spent his fortune in the search
for his boy, are also dead. Ellsworth Mosher is
an industrious laborer. who feels keenly the as
sociaton of his family with the crime.
After William Moshers death his wife applied
to Undertaken John II. Mum to take charge of
the body. Mum recognized the woman, having
previously worked with the Moshers, and he
asked the chief of police to trail her feeling sure
that she would lead to where Charlie Ross was
hidden. Had the policemen followed Munn'S ad'
vice the boy might have been recovered alive,
but instead William Westervet, who had COM
plicity in the crime, was arrested and sent 10
prison and the woman slipped away.
About the year 1881 the cellar Of the house
where Mosher and his wife had kept a restau-
rant caved in, disclosing the bones. They were
supposed to be those of Charlie Ross, and the
statement of Ellsworth Mosher bears out the sup
position. IL is probable that when Mosher and
Douglas, the leaders of the gang, were gone their
pals-probably the woman and her brother-were
left with the child on their hands. They did not
dare restore him, for detection could hardly fail
and they were not bold enough to continue &c
look for the ransom money. So. TO save them
selves, they murdered the boy and hid his bones
in the cellar
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-09

Eight people were drowned in Lake Michigan.
at Chicago, on Sunday, while bathing at various
places along the beach.
Special dispatches from Bombay say that from
GOO TO 1000 rioters were killed during the recent
rioting in the vicinity OF Calcutta.
Rainfall that almost amounted to a cloudburst,
caused about S201 900 damage In Duluth, Mimi,
and vicinity Friday night. Two miles of pave
ment and 20 bridges were washed out.
The Roman Catholic church at st. Jonquaire,
Quebec, was struck by lightning Monday and
badly wrecked. There was large congregation
present and a panic ensued one person was
killed and several badly injured in the rush for the
doors. The altar was overturned and the priest
thrown to the ground.
Five Indians died at Malone's Point, Mimi, last
week as the result Of drinking pain-killer, hair
oil and other preparations containing alcohol
The Indians had just received their payments and
Bought at Maioae's trading post. The surviving
redskins thought -Aet5ne-w wac 70 blame for the
deaths and for a time serious trouble was feared
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-09
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Wonderful Klondike.
The Placer Mining in Alaska is the
Richest the World Has Ever Known.

The latest reports from the Yukon and Klon
dixie gold fields in Alaska tell of wonderful dis.
coyeries. In the Klondike diggings it is said that
as high as $500 and even $500 had been taken out
or a pan of dirt, surprising all records made
last fall, when from $500 to $500 was produced
from pan. The yield surpasses ANYTHING ever
recorded in the history of gold mining Ii is rs.
timated that millions will be brought out this fall
me hlondike fever is extending all over south
eastern Alaska, and hundreds already well pro.
vded with good paying mines and business are
preparing to pull up and 20 to the Klondike
, Inc hlondlke is tributary of the Yukon which
lows INTO the big river above Forty Mile Ii is in
the British territory. The first strikes were made
there about two years ago. and they were so rich
mat the stories of them which reached the min.
ing settlements at Forty Mile and Circle City
were ridicued. The result was that throughout
the summer there was no rush to the wonderful
new uiggings' Men came into Circle City or For
" Mile and announced that they had taken
S4O, $50, or even 800 from a pan Of dirt on the
hlonulke, and the only result was to raise
laugh. The men who told the stories laughed,
700, TOOK their supplies and went back But
their laugh was best, for they told the truth, and
those VINO ouldn't believe it only left them the
more time to pick the best for themselves.
In the fall when the camps filled up " it'll the
men from the other diggings, but no one came IN
from hlondike, II began to dawn on Circle City
and Forty Mile that perhaps after all, there was
truth IN the wonderful stories. Then began a
great rush for the Klondike. II was like the old
days of placer mining in California, and the
whole stream was staked out i'm less than a week
Then the Edorado, little branch of the Kon-
dixie was prospected, and there the rich Berry
claims are located, from one of which s2i0 was
taken from one pan of pay dirt
The world has never seen such placer mines as
those OF the klondike. California in its very best
days was nothing like it. Placer miners will
work claims with great energy that pay 10 cents
on pan but claims on the Klondike all last sum
mer averaged a dollar pan Miners wages in
the Yukon country had been SO day before the
klondke strikes. Last summer they rose to an
ounce day, and even more. They can't
get the dust very clean by their primitive meth
DDS, so an ounce up there is worth only about
SlG5O.or SIS but that is big increase on SO.
The rush into the klondike dggngs this year
is the greatest Alaska has ever seen. Thousands
of men who knew absolutely nothing about placer
mining went over the Chilkat Pass and down the
Yukon Most Of them are bound to fail. The
diggings were all staked out long ago, and it is a
game that men without eNperenCe.cannot play.
They've got to get experience in some other
place
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-09
A Thief of Notable Connection.

= A.. Gordon blair, who captured at the
Union station in Boston two weeks ago with $500
worth Of property in his possession belonging to
Butler Smith, the well-known hotel man, has
written a confession of his crimes. He claims to
be Lawrence p. Graham, the son of a commander
in the United States navy, and a cousin Of Adj
miral Meade When he was seven years old his
father was in command in the United States
steamer Passac at Washington maynard, and
he lived three years ABOARD the ship. When his
father was ordered to Europe Blair sent to
the university of Notre Dame in Indiana, after
ward to the military college in Burlington, y. j.,
and then to the college OF Notre Dame in Mont
real There he forged the treasurer's name to a
check, but his father settled the affair. Later he
wandered about good deal and served terms in
Wimantic, Conn, and at Blackwells island for
his crimes. He has spent his summers at New
port, Cape May, Bar Harbor and Narragansett
Pier, always being received by the best society.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-09
Another "Hero" Killed by Jumping
from Brooklyn Bridge.

The 23d man to make the experiment of jump
ing from Brooklyn bridge was W. c. Keebe, for
merly a sergeant in Coxey's army, who met
death from his foolhardy leap Sunday. He had
a reputation for jumping from masts of vessels,
but his ambition TO become a freak in a museum
could only be realized through plunge from the
Brooklyn bridge, so he began preparation for the
event three weeks ago The bridge police re-
ceived Tip" of the coming event Saturday
night and policemen were detailed to watch Kee
BILE, but he succeeded in eudDg them He was
driven TO the centre of the bridge, climbed to
the top of the rail and leaped off feet fore
most. His body made two complete revolutions
before it reached the surface, l40 feet below,
when il struck with splash, disappeared ard
was not seen afterward He was an Englishman
30 years old, and unmarried The driver of the
coach and seven Others who were stationed TO
watch the police we're arrested,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-09
Boy Stole Ride on IA Balloon and
Dropped to Death.

Five thousand persons at Blair Park Oakland,
Cal, saw a small boy steal ride on a hot air bal.
loon, and fall 1900 feet to his death, The boy was
Bertram Hill years old. the son of Chauncey
HILL an architect, of Los Angeles. He had been
telling his playmates that he was going to a bal
loon ascension, and intended to steal ride. His
guardian Miss Clancy, took him to the ascension,
and the little fellow pressed to the front of
the crowd to watch Chas. Conlan, an
amateur aeronaut, who filling the great hot
air bag. When the balloon was released and shot
skyward, the crowd was Mortified to see the child
cinging TO one Of the weight ropes at the end of
which was large bag OF sand designed to turn
the balloon over after the aeronaut had made his
parachute jump The lad was high up on the side
of the balloon, 35 feet above the aeTonauts trap
exc, and 25 feet out
Conlan gestculated frantically to the crowd as
he flew upward. Women sobbed and screamed,
and as the balloon dritted rapidly northward men
followed in teams and afoot A mile and a naf
from the park and at an altitude of 1900 feet the
boy was seen to shoot downward from the side of
the balloon The body was found IN soft ground
with hardly bruse upon it.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-09

The Hardwick Gazette has been sold to Charles
Lamond of Allegheny, Penn.
An oil stove exploded al H. G. Peabody's house
in Pittsford Sunday. setting the rear Of the build
ing afre. Damage to the amount of Sl2OO was
caused before the fire was extinguished by the
hose company.
Arthur Kenson, employed at the Elizabeth
copper mines at South stafford, was killed by the
premature explosion of a dynamite cartridge
Friday He was holding the cartridge and pre-.
pairing for a blast when the explosion occurred
He widower and leaves one child.
Gen Ripley Of Rutland caught in Lake Dun
more last week lake trout weighing II pounds.
II is said that one was caught many years ago
weighing II pounds. With this exception Gen
Ripley's trout is the largest ever taken az Dun
more. Gen. Ripley was the pioneer of fish plant
ing in the streams and lakes of the state, and de-
serves his good luck,
The 44th annual commencement of the medi-
cal department of the university of Vermont was
held at Burlington Monday, when a class Of So
became physicians and surgeons. Twenty
four students were "plucked,' nearly all of the
unfortunate failing to pass the rigid examination
in chemistry given them by Prof. Rudolph Au-
gust Witthaus.
The somewhat unusual honor has fallen to DR..
Charles l.. Dana, of having been offered pro-
fessorship of nervous diseases in both of the
great medical colleges of New York, Bellevue
Hospital Medical college and the University
Medical college Dr. Dana has accepted the
chair in the Bellevue sclool. DR.. Dana, who is a
native Of Woodstock, has held important posi-
tions with several medical institutions and is
widely known as writer on nervous diseases.
Julius Bushway was frightfully injured at West
Hartford Monday night Of last week and his
death followed on Wednesday. He was return
ing from the Plattsburgh excursion and when
leaving the train from which point he was TO
drive home, he fell part way beneath the cars,
the wheels cutting of his left leg below the knee
His right leg was also fractured He was taken
TO the hotel and his injuries dressed but he fail
ed rapidly. He leaves one daughter and :severA
sons.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-09
The 18th Vermont Veterans In Reunion
at SNVnnton.

All Swanton gave a greeting TO the veterans Of
the 9Th Vermont regiment at their annual reun-
ion in that town last Thursday. Many Of the
houses and business places were beautifully deco
rated At the meeting in Grand Army hall Capt.
;. +. Brown Of Swantou made an address Of vel
come and President Sturteyant and Col Brown
Of Montpelier responded. These officers we're
elected: President Col. Henry O. Clark Of Orange.
y. j.. vice president : A Andrews Of Nergennes.
secretary. John II Lyon ~ Colchester. treasurer,
Col II W. Allen Of Burlington; executive com.
mittee r W. Sibey and c. NJ Booth Of ESSEX
Junction aud.James b. Scully Of Burlington.
The regiment will erect a monument at Gettys-
burg and designs from two New York firms
were examined. The old soldiers marched around
the park and halted in front Of the soldiers mon
ument for brief exercises 10 the afternoon. They
were escorted by Company X, commau ded by
Capt Geo. G.. Blake and Lieut. $ F. Brown, and
led 10y Thut Whppes drum corps. AT the even
ing session an address was delivered by Rev. T.
J. Ranslow Of Swanton, Miss Mamie Tohin gave
a recitation, and Comrade W W Holden Of
Mortified read poem. Remarks were made by
Capt. Lonergan Of Point 81. Charles, Canada
Rev Dr. Dutton Of Poultney and others.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-09

Mrs. Thomas Harrington Of Holyoke, Mass,
fatally burned Tuesday. The fire was start
ed by blaze from Kerosene that Mrs Harrington
was using to make fire in the stove.
a boiler explosion occurred on the farm of W.
W. Allen near Huntsville, Tenn. Tuesday as the
result OF which nine persons were killed and five
badly injured. Mr. Allen and his men had lust
finished threshing wheat and were preparing to
leave the field when the explosion occurred.
Some of the victims We're manged beyond Iecog-
milton and pieces of the boiler were blown 100
yards
A electric crashed through high draw
bridge two miles south Of Detroit, Mich Wednes-
day, and seven passengers were carried down
stream Mrs. VIM McCelland, and three chill
dreu, names unknown, were drowned. Three
male passengers and the conductor and motor.
man escaped by jumping nut were injured. The
cause of the accident is not known, but il is
thought that the motormau was racing with a
suburban railroad train which completes with the
electric line for traffic
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-09
A Boom In the Slate Industry.

Great activity prevails among the slate quarries
and slate producers in western Vermont. The
men are working ten hours day and new help
is being put on. orders for slate continue to
come in rapidly The past week was a notable
one in the production of slate. The weather was
propitiuus for the work, and there was no little
strife between the gangs Of men ~ the different
quarres 10 see who could turn out the most slate
The best record made in one day was by owen
Brothers Of Granville, who put out 81 squares of
finished roofing slate \ Boston syndicate is
purchasing all of the red slate territory It
cure at North Granville and Pawet The com
pany proposes 10 erect on the river, near the
former place, Of the largest paint mills in the
country, the paint being made from the sla e
rock This paint will be largely used 10y railroad
companies on their buildings and rolling stock,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-09
Three TraInmen Killed Near Woods
Vile. n. H.

A Boston & Maine freight train was wreck ed
four miles north of Woodsyille y. H., on the
White Mountain division early Tuesday morning,
and three men were ked-Patrick Lennon, en-
gineer, Whitefeld; Bert Pebbles fireman, Woods
vile; o. G. Lang brakeman Berlin. The train
suddenly went down into lagoon of mud and
water beneath the track at Poor's brook, one
with the wreck and their bodies were badly mu.
tilated. The heavy cars fell upon the locomotive
and crushed il. Three Of the cars were destroyed
and others damaged. A section Of the track l50
feet long had been washed out by cloudburst,
but the rails were in position in front of the loco
motive when II reached the treacherous spot.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-09
NInnchester,s New Librnrv.

The Mark skinner library building at Manches
ter was dedicated Wednesday Rev. DR.. z, g.
Pratt Of Dorset presided. There were musical
numbers, poem by Miss Cleghorn Of Manches
ter and addresses by Judge Munson Of Manches
ter, and + 5 lshman of Chicago. The people Of
Manchester are very proud Of their beautiful new
Willing of Chicago to her father Mark Skinner
No expense has been spared To make the institu
ton model in every particular. Its rooms have
been hung with many large and valuable pic
lures, some of which were once IN Judge skin
ners home, and over 1900 volumes, some OF
them rare and valuable. including the private
library of Judge skinner. have been placed OF
the shelves. The stock room is large. with two
tiers of book stocks making room for 10000 vol
umes.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-09
BIG Operations in Essex County For
ests.

The Burgess Suphite Fibre company Of Berlin.
y. H., has recently bought large tracts Il land
in Essex county Of G.. II. Fitzgerald and others.
Judge II. II. Lucas Of Island Pond,th company 5
agent. is in the woods large part of the time
looking over the work running lines, etc. Il.
W. Marsh Of Norton has big contract and has
$50 men IN his camps. located between Averill
and Island Pond His brother, r. F. Marsh has
charge Of the business l. Brighton and Morgan
and the pulp wood will be loaded on the cars at
Norton, Lake and Island Pond. 7. Spauding y
Co. have - men employed on the east bank OF
the Nulhegan river This firm drives its wood 10
North STAFFORD where il is loaded on the cars.
Frank LaRoche Of Norton has 60 men at work in
the southeastery corner OF Lewis and the wood
obtained there is loaded on the cars at Weulock.
The whole amount to be- cut on these several
contracts is 10000 cords. The mill at Berlin uses
$50 cords day.