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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11

affected. He cannot raise his hands to his
face. and food and drink are given him by
nurses. His fingers are bandaged and he is
scarcely able TO move. Mir. Craig has been
suffering intensely for two years. He con-
tracted rheumatism I'm the army, and IL has
troubled him more or less since he left the
service. He has tried dozens of doctors
and has been to all the medical springs,
but has obtained little relief. At last,
hearing of the ability of the home physi-
clans, and finding that he was entitled to
admission, he went to Marion.
For two terms he was county clerk of
this county and was then appointed re-
ceiver of the Glover Leaf. Retiring from
that position he purchased the Indianapolis
Sentinel and was its editor for some time.
lie was a strong and fluent writer and
made himself felt over the State At length
he organized a. stock company, retained
controlling interest, but drifting into min
ing ventures he disposed OF the Sentinel
and s. T.. Morss obtained control. Since
then Mr.. Craig has been in many callings,
his last occupation being the management
of the Bedford Quarry Company. His Ill
health forced retirement. Sickness and I'M
fortunate ventures have reduced his wealth.
AT one time he was worth, it is said, $780,,
000 Since leaving indianapolis he has been
q resident of Chicago
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AMATEUR OARSMEN.
Ten Eyclx and Other Crack ScuIlers
to Row at Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 10.-Interest in
the twenty-ffth annual regatta of the Ma
tional Association of Amateur Oarsmen,
which will be held on the Schuylkill river
course next Friday and Saturday, was
heightened to-day by the arrival of E. H.
Ten Eyck the winner of the diamond souls
at Henley. He reached here this afternoon,
accompanied by score of relatives and
friends, among them his father, James A.
Ten Eyck Young Ten Eyck visited the
Pennsylvania Barge Club which will be his
headquarters during his stay. He did not
go out on the river preferring to rest after
the journey from Worcester, Mass.
The indications are that the regatta will
be the most successful ever held. Many
out-of-town oarsmen are already here
training for the various events. Among
these are the institute senior four-oared
shell crew. of Newark, n. j.; Willis Hough
and c. l.: Harris, of Detroit; f. f. Scholze,
of Providence, r. J.; the Worcester, Mass.
high school eight and the Weld crew, of
Cambridge, Mass. This crew is composed
entirely of Harvard undergraduates The
regatta viii mark the silver jubilee of the
association and the entry list is the largest
in its history. Among the crack scullers
who will compete, besides Ten Eyck, are
Butch Thompson, Mcguire, Ryan, White
head and JuVenal. DR.. Mcdowell, OF Chi
cago, who was defeated In the semi nnalS
at Henley, is entered. but so far as can be
learned he will not race. This is a disap-
pointment to many oarsmen who are anX-
ious to see him measure strokes with Ten
Eyck in American waters as the doctor
declares he was not in the best condition
senior eght-oared shell race promises to
be very fast The University of Pennsyl-
vania has entered the varsity eight, the
crew that has rowed in all but two of the
Poughkeepsie regattas, and Coach Ellis
Ward is confident of showing the other
crew the way in this event. All the visit
ing and local oarsmen took advantage of
to-day's fine weather for practice spins
during the day and evening.
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SQUEEZED BY A TRUST
CIGARETTE SELLERS AND CoNSUM-
ERS ROBBED By THE OCTOPUS,
Which Is Making the Increased Inter
Bleed the People out of 81, 100000.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

special 10 the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Aug. lot is estimated
that the increased tax on cigarettes i'm
posed by the new tariff law will yield the
government $2,5OO0OO additional revenue.
but the Cigarette Trust has marked up the
wholesale price of it's productions about
$500 900, and the retail trade is being called
on to pay the entire amount. The Internal
Revenue Bureau is receiving many COM
plants and the trust is accused of improp-
erly using the increased tax as an excuse
to grab million and a half from its Gus
toners, whereas it should have been con-
tent with its previous enormous profits.
The revenue bureau is helpless in the mat
ter and the people who think themselves
skinned will have to fight it out with the
trust. The number Of cigarettes manufac-
tured last year was slightly in excess of
four billions ~ 2 which cost the consumer
smokers will burn up $25,0 100000.
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The Case of President Andrews.
RT,oOk1VO Eagle

DR.. E Benjamin Andrews, the Eagle is
informed, shreWdly and cleVerly induced a
committee to put into writing a respect
full request, which was to be verbally made
and informally talked over between them.
1t was, we are told. then put into writing
with the cheerful and honest awkwardness
of practical men," who presumed that the
written form need not be diplomatic nor
cautious, nor specially discreet especially
as the understanding was that it was to be
private. With al its honest axkwardness
on its presumably private head. it was CIV
en- to the public mot by the committed and
acco npanied by as smart" lofty and
Spartan a letter of indignant resignation as
was ever written. That was also made
public mot by the committee) The pri-
vate protest of the fragment of the faculty
to the surprised and pilloried trustees was
phrased up in the same severe and absolute
style-and published hot from the oven!
Those who think that the trustees are
plutocratc schemers and conniving poll
ticians and the president and his frag-
ment of the faculty unworldlywise limo
cents secluded in the still air of delight
full studies, are at liberty to do so. DelusiOn
has constitutional rights in free republic.
But men who can believe that can believe
anything.
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ENGINEER RElDT DEAD.
August ROth's Body Found in Genev
Wreck-The Ohio Wreck.

AUGUST hOtn bOuy round I'm Geneva
Wreck-The Ohio Wreck.
Special to the indianapolis Journal
PORTLAND, Ind, Aug 10.-The body of
the unknown young man who was killed in
the G. r. & l. wreck at the Wabash river
bridge near Geneva, yesterday, was identi-
fled this evening from letters and papers in
his pockets as August Roth, of Newport
Ky. Roth looks to be about eighteen years
old. Engineer Barney Reidt died late this
evening. He was burned internally, in ad-
dition to other injuries.
For the past thirty hours two work trains
with large crews have been clearing away
the wreck. The first regular train to pass
over the new bridge constructed to-day
was the north-bound vestibule, at 1915
Q clock tonight. How Engineer Reidt and
Fireman Gallagher escaped instant death Is
wonder. The others of the crew are not
seriously hurt. This morning the Wreckage
was got out of the river, and there fioated
20 the surface the body of the boy who was
missing. The only bad cuts were about his
head and face. All trains during the night
went around via Lima, O.
AT O'Clock this morning the passengers
VINO had been in the Grand Rapids &, In
dlana's second wreck on the Cincinnati
Jackson & Mackinaw. near Coldwater o.
arrived here and tell the story of their eX-
perience. None was hurt, but they were
badly shaken up and clothing torn. The
engine and tender and every car except the
baggage car left the track Engineer An
dersor and Fireman Golden jumped and
saved their lives. but George Greenwalt
of Greenville. o., who was plotting the train
over the strange track, was crushed to
death. When the engine left the track
Greenwalt jumped and was run down.
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HnIIaUeIpNId IIINtS.
The three sons of the late Senator Daniel
w. Voorhees,, of Indiana, are preparing 81
volume that will include with a biography
of their father, all of his most important
speeches and three lectures prepared by
him in his last years, when he contem-
plated going on the platform under the di-
rection of lecture bureau. One of these
lectures is on Thomas jefferson; another is
entitled THE Holy Sepulchre; or, Law
yers View of the Divinity of Jesus OF
Nazareth" The third lecture, "On the
Pubic Men of My own Time" is incom-
plete. though he had concluded his remin--
iscenees of Lincoln, Grant and Kossuth all
the most valuable part of the small estate
left by Senator Voorhees, who. in his busy
lated little for himself.
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Changed Literary Methods.

Did you ever think of authors as bust
in New York. Well, no one is likely to
think of them in any other wise nowadays-
more's the pity. He goes on TO tell how
they have their offices with typewriters,
daily papers, reference books. etc, where
they work six eight or ten hours day,
meet their publishers and transact all their
business. The effects on the quantity of
copy produced and perhaps on the financial
returns, are marked, but so far as literature
goes garrets have been more productive
than business offices. A good brain, steel
pen, a bottle of ink and a quire of paper
are all the outfit required for literature.
and it often happens that writer does
his best work with the stub Of a lead pencil
before he has any great volume of business
to transact.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11
Bicycle Disadvantages
Chicago Chronicl,

The very popularity of the bicycle threat
ems to be it's own ruin a means of Tecrea-
have taken to it has resulted in it's abuse
and the consequent physical injury to the
riders But the immortality which some
clergymen predicted would result from BIZ
cycle riding has begun to make Itself APP
parent. The bicycle has already furnished
the means of many Opponents, and the
schools where bicycle riding is taught have
in many Instances been the scene of unde-
sirable alliances between people who would
not otherwise have met. Just as the CHAR
acter of the roller skating Kinks soon made
that form of recreation unpopular, so the
riding academies will render wheeling
questionable AS a. means of locomotion
and rapid transit bicycling will hold its
own, but already there have begun TO APP
pear disadvantages which were unlocked
for when the sport first started
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Patents Granted Indianians.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.-Patents were
issued to Indiana inventors to-day as fol-
lows: William L. Ames and T. Gray. Terre
Haute piston for rotary pumps, blowers,
ETC.; Matthew Arbuckle, Indianapolis. foun-
tain brush John Delane. ir. and r
Blue, Terre Haute, switch mate; Joseph p.
Eek, Muncie, furnace-charging mechanism
George Haswell, Fort Wayne. combined
Elkhart, panel door; James N Parker, Elk
hart, wire stretcher; Joseph L. Potter, In
chine; Britton Poulson, Fort WAYNE. bllncn-
ing machine; Edward Robards, Stilesville,
nj
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11
Parliament Deals with FIeas.

In spite of the grandeur of it's past and the
antiquity OF it's traditions, which imply I'M
rivalfed parliamentary experience, the Brit
ish House of Commons remains devoid of
any sense of proportion or fitness of things.
For al the very juncture when it was I'M
able to find time for the discussion of the
serious condition of affairs in India the sit
uation in Africa and at Constantinople and
the Bering sea difficulties with the United
States, not only hours. but even whole days.
were wasted in debates on so-called yer
mnous fir destined to give legal au-
thority to parish and municipal authorities
to deal sanitarily with paupers who might
happen to be infested with feas and other
less reputable Vermin.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11
Turks stin Causing Delay.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 1O.-The peace
conference met again to-day at Tophaneh
Kiosk and Tewfik Pasha, Turkish minister
for foreign affairs, submitted fresh pro-
posals regard the evacuation of Thessay.
the indemnity and other issues involved.
This is likely to cause tedious delay.
The difficulty seems to turn on the QueS-
ton of evacuation The powers informed
Greece that Turkey lacked the means to
withdraw her troops from Thessaly unless
asked the Greek government if it could not
advance this sum. Greece replied that such
a course would be impossible except by the
aid of d foreign loan, which the proposed
scheme of control precluded.
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Anderson Y. VI. C. A. Home.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
ANDERSON, Ind, Aug. 10.-The Y. NJ. c.
As new home in. this city was completed
last night and accepted by the association.
They will occupy it at once. 1t is the first
Y. NJ. c. A. home Anderson has ever had
and it is complete in every particular. Be
sides the parlors, reading and lecture
rooms, all neatly furnished, are bathrooms
and a gymnasium. Thad Stephens, who
has been in charge of the home at Kanka-
kee. has been sent to Anderson to take
charge of the management of it. Major
DoXey and others have made liberal dOna-
lions and there is sufficient subscribed to
make it a great success. The initial mem
oership is near the five hundred mark. A
special physical culture director will be
sent to Anderson by the State officers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11
CathoIic Renevolent LeCinn.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, Aug. 10.-The
eighth annual convention of the Indiana
branch of the Catholic Benevolent Legion
convened at Library Hall this morning
with good representation of delegates from
all parts of the State. Vice President
Zwissler, of Kokomo, is presiding. City At
torney Shambaugh, in the absence of
Mayor Sherer, delivered the welcome ad-
dress; Right Rev. Bishop Rademacher fol-
lowed with an interesting morning address
to the delegates. At ] p. m. the body adj
Journed to Robinson Park, where the visit
ors were entertained this evening by the
local members of the legion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11
HERR ANDRES BALLOON
SUPPOSED TO HAVE DROPPED INTO
THE ARCTIC OCEAN.
Collapsed Air Ship Reported to Have
TO Adopt Gold Standard Oct. L.

LONDON, Aug. u.-According to dis
patch to the Daily News from Copenhagen,
Captain Nortensen, of the bark Ansgar,
bound from Dublin to Omega, at the mouth
of the Omega river, on the White sea, re-
ports that on July Is, when about two days
sail east Of North Cape, the northernmost
point of Europe, then being in arctic
waters, he saw collapsed balloon, which
he believed to be Herr Andrees.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11

BERLIN, Aug. 1O.-A special dispatch has
been received here which says that a great
fire has destroyed the greater part of the
Russian town of Matislavl west of Moghil-
Off in the government Of Moheeley, on the
River SoZh, an affiuent of the Dnleper.
Two hundred houses have been burned and
a famous Jewish synagogue and six Jewish
SeminarieS have been ruined.
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Mrs. Ii. FRANK Rratton.

SEecial to the Indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind, Aug. 10.-Mrs. B. Frank
Bratton, aged fifty-two, died of paralysis
tonight She resided in Muir Gle all her life
and was the widow of one of Muncie's best
known merchants, who recently retired
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11
QUITTING THE FARMS.
Workers at GainfuI Occupations In
creasinE-A Rise in the Social Scale.

creaSinE-A Rise in the Social Scale.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.-Comparative
figures compiled by the Department of La
Dor, in the form of deductions from the
last census of statistics relating to work
ers at gainful occupations, point to the
fact that persons at work, especially fe
males have increased very much faster
than the population at large. AS result,
the statement shows that the proportion of
workers relative to the total population and
to the whole number of people of the re-
SpectlVe ages was considerably greater in
1880 than at the preceding census periods,
and that this increased proportions is APP
parent for each OF the great classes OF oc-
equations except agriculture, fisheries and
mining. All this, tle department sets out,
shows very clearly the constantly increas
ing dissemination of our population 20 tol-
low agricultural pursuits, tendency ma
terially fastened, doubtless, by the wide
application of machinery to the processes
OIL agriculture. Despite this Discrimination
and the recent oVercroWding of manufac
turing commercial centers, the analysis
demonstrates that the increased proportion
Of workers is found generally in the higher
walks of business life and in those occu-
pationS which call for skilled labor, prin-
Cipally, rather than in the lowest or more
laborious forms of employment. The con-
ClusiOn is accordingly stated to be inevita-
BILE that the great body of workers has, as
a whole, progressed and has perceptibly
risen in the social scale of life.
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Argentine and British Crops.

LONDON, Aug. u.-According to a dis
patch to the Times from Buenos Ayres the
wool crop is officially reported as superior
in quantity and quality to that of 1896,
sowing wheat and flax are so per cent. bet
ter than year ago and the grain is de-
scribed as in splendid condition. The
is some fear Of a visitation of locusts
The Times in an article dealing with the
English harVests, says to-day: THE long
drought and the recent storms have con-
sderably diminished the earlier prospects
of fine crops but the net result of the re
ports and figures before us seems to indi-
cate a harvest of fair quality and guam
~
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Special to tie indianapolis Journal.
Upton, Ind, Aug. 10.-Within the last
week several barns have been destroyed by
incendaries and half dozen others fired.
The fires usually break out about o'clock
in the evening. Last evening the barns of
Mrs. Mary Ogan and A. S. Mickey were
set on fire and were entirely destroyed.
threatening much surrounding valuable
property. A largo quantity of hay. oats,
buggieS and two horses were burned. An
extra fire patrol has been placed over the
city to protect property. For the last three
years about this season epidemic of
barn burning breaks out in this city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11
Indiana Notes.

The house of Robert Ridway. five miles
south of Wabash, was destroyed by fire
yesterday. Origin unknown; loss, 81, 900; no
insurance.
The cornerstone of the Trinity English
Evangelical Lutheran Church at Rockport
was laid Tuesday night. Rev. S. S. Waltz.
of the First English Lutheran Church of
Louisville made the address.
The Washington county teachers insti-
tute is in session at Salem this week con-
Quoted by the new superintendent. S. H..
Hall. The instructors are Prof. w. Z. Hen
~, state librarian; or. II. j. Hey, of Bloom
ington: Prof ]. f. Mack of Greenfield;
Prof. f. NJ Stalker, of the State Normal,
and Rev. n. Carr, of Franklin College.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11
John II. Hendrix.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
GREENCASTLE, Ind, Aug. 10.-John H.
Hendrix, aged ninety, died at his home in
Putnamville Sunday night. Mr.. Hendrix
was one of the pioneers of Indiana, moving
to Putram county in 1881, where he resided
up to his death. He leaves six children as
follows. Mrs. Fannie J. Cooper of Put
ramville Mrs. Mollie Waldron, of Terre
Haute; Mrs. Martha Parks, of Hutchinson,
Kan; George w. Hendrix, of Tangier;
James w. Hendrix, and Mrs. W. N. Show
ers of Bloomington
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal. Aug. 10.-Soly
articles TO meet Peddler Palmer before the
London National Club, oct. Is. for purse
of 5000. 1t is understood that the men will
weigh In at l22 pounds each. Smiths sig
nature was secured by w. r. Kibbler, who
represents Doc" Ordway OF the London
club. II Is stipulated that if Smith is de-
feated by Griffin in this city, Aug 20, that
the match with Palmer is to be declared of.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11
Severe Storm ut washington.

WASHINGTON, Aug 10--A severe wind and
hailstoTm visited this city shortly after o'clock
poured down and overlooked sewers made streets
running streams and in the business center
of1ce building being, constructed. Street-car trqf-
hc was suspended, electric plants were materfally
affected and delays were experienced at the de-
pots The storm came from the middle west,
switched of here. A rainfall Of 2.S4 inches was
reported to the weather bureau tonight from Au-
gusta, Ga, and telegraph wires were also inter
fered with
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11
The Presidents Order Obexed.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.-Heads Of de-
partments are placing rigid construction on
the Presidents last civil-service order, and
those who failed to secure reinstatement or
promotion before the order was issued find
themselves in bad way The order is
construed as absolutely prohibiting the
creation of vacancies to make room for pro-
motion or for reinstatement, except under
charges formulated and submitted to the
party marked for decapitaton. One ex-
official who has served as chief clerk of a
department under four administrations and
has been bluntly informed by the Cabinet
minister at the head of the department
that it would be impossible to remove or
would stand the test Of the courts
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11
strawboard Filth Kills the Fish.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
SHELBYVILLE, Ind, Aug. 10. - Blue
river, where it runs through this county,
has been a paradise Tor fishermen. A few
years ago it was planted with young bass
and trout. These fish had begun to propa-
gate freely and the sport was enjoyed by
hundreds. A. few days ago the strawboard
works at Carthage, in Rush county, be-
gan to empty its refuse into the river and
to-day the water is red as blood and filled
with the carcasses of dead fish. Animals re-
fuse to drink the water.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11
New X. of p. Drill Company.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ELWOOD, Ind, Aug. 10.-A Uniform
Rank, knights of Pythias. is organizing in
this city with a membership of thirty. and
will be under command of ]. n. Nuzum,
recognized as one Of the most capable drill
masters in the United States. Mr.. Nuzum
several years ago organized Canton Elwood,
/. O. o. F., and in five years, without
single defeat, captured the championship
fair, title the canton still holds Mr.
Nuzdm expects to have his new company
in good enough trim 10 capture first prize
al the national tribunal to be held in 1ndi-
annapolis in August, 1893. The rank has Sc
cured an elegant drill place and will put in
three nights each week getting in shape.
In 1900 Captain Nuzum will take both his
uniform companies to Paris and contend
for highest hOnOrs at the great exposition.
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Local Epidemic of Dysentery.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ANDERSON Ind, Aug. 1O.--Dysentery,
which has proven so fatal at Muncie, Mar
ion and other gas belt points, has broken
out in this city One physician had five
calls to-day and a dozen cases are reported.
The disease here has the same Characters
tics as at Muncie and Marion, and some of
the cases are very serious. 1t is thought
there is something in the water which is
causing II to spread throughout this section
of the State Other parts of Indiana do not
seem to be especially affected.