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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-02

midsummer that the best dressed
woman is the one in plain tailor
made gown; but the productions Of this
season are not confined to the simple
coat and skirt models. The English
women are especially addicted to the
severe style in tailor-built gowns, but
the French woman's tailor dress is a
thing of beauty. embracing every OPP
portunity for decoration. One striking
example is a green cloth dress with
yellow and green brocaded silk vest,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-02

petunia velvet revers, and vest OF
black satin embroidered with black ana
gold. The special feature Of this waist
is the corners Of the revers turned back
on the puffs Of the sleeves. The Elton
coat is part Of black cloth gown. linz
ed with cerise silk. Black braid COM
mencing at the center of the back
points off on either side Of the front.
where 1t is fastened with steel but
ton, and the rest is of cream white bro
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-02
THE Boys ROOM.
As Artistic In It's Way MS the One
Occupied by the Girl.

Occupied by the Girl.
A boys room is often the dreariest of
places, scantilly furnished with the odds and
ends of the household possessions, but at
least one boy had an attractive kingdom. 1t
was hall bedroom, but in this case large
one with two deep window seats. The walls
were covered with red. gray and gold paper,
The room being low.studded, there was no
frieze, but what was far more effective, there
was a frieze of unmounted photographs, 8 x
IL inches. These pictures included such sub
jects as the Gifted Tower" Native Wrest-
lers Of India" Heidelberg Castle Wind
of California" and many other subjects made
familiar in history and geography. Photo
graphic reproductions suitable for frieze for
school or home are especially prepared by
two New York art publishing companies at
very low sum. Sets of ten pictures, the
size mentioned above, can be had for GO cents.
This frieze at once lent originality to the
boys room. The single bedstead of iron, with
brass trimmings, spread of red and white
chintz exactly matching paper; window seat
practically hidden behind ruf1ed white mus
lin curtains. An oak chiffonier had been
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-02

insertions of batiste embroidery show
ing between. Accordion plated frills
Of the silk edged with lace trim the
shoulders A waist Of checked glace
silk shows tabled trimming on the
front and collar and cuffs Of white silk
edged with lace.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-02

stained sealing wax and there was a quaint
arm chair in that same fashionable color
The bookcase half-cab!net and lf-sheives
was of bamboo and red mating. the cabinet
holding such curios and souvenirs as the
boy had picked up on his summer vacation
boys first gun and fishing tackle. A red and
white Bekhara rug added warmth to the gray
painted floor. The room was ideal and may
suggest scheme OF decoration to some
mother planning to tx up her own boys
room.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-02

cred and spotted pique, made in the
plain masculine style, either single Or
double breasted, is we'll liked for morn
ing wear. but in more dressy effects
there is no limit to the diversity. Vel
vet and silk vests embroidered with
Jet, Jewels, applique lace, and silk
braids are not unusual with tailor
gowns, but the lighter. daintier kinds
are more generally orn. Cream lace
net over white satin, with jabot
frill OF accordion plated net down
the front is a pretty idea, and tucked
Hnen lawn trimmed with maltese lace
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-02
Prize Contest!
The St. Paul Gas Light Co. invites


Stove
should be as fuel for cooking purposes IN
cnceo an other form of fuel
will be awarded The first prize for the best ten reasons
the second
in gold and $40
May Sd and May 31s nc
Light Co. be the judges of
published in daily of June
will published
otherwise requested.
of
useful references
will from the price
stock that purchased by them for
between the dates above named.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-03
PHYSICAL EDUCATION.
Director BOOs Advocates the Amer
lean System of Teaching Athletics.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug. 2.-The dis
cussions and lectures at the convention Of
the North American Gymnastic Associa-
ton of Physical Directors brought to light
a strong element that favors the more
rapid introduction of American ideas into
the German system of gymnastic instru-
ton. Herman J.. Boos, director of the
gymnasium in the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology and Normal School of Phys
ical Education at Boston, brought the dis
cussion to a crisis this afternoon with an
address in which he referred to the games
to which the Americans are devoting them
selves, among them basket ball, handball.
battle ball and a game known as tambour-
inc ball. He said the Americans were max
ing more records than the Turner'S in all
branches of athletics, and that the turner's
eXpounded IN their system If hey wished.
Mr.. Boos was taken to task for his rad
1cal departure from the rules and views
that had stood years of test as a system
that developed the mental and physical
qualities tremendously. His opponents
characterized the American record breakers
as freaks, not fitted for anything else but
@. "A. Schlaefti tonight delivered an adj
dress upon The Future Of Our Associa-
ton" in which he maintained that the
German system should be developed slowly.
and that not every fad that might arise
should be at once adopted. DR.. Frank
Phster, of this city, reviewed two papers
on athletics written by Europeans. The
national revision committee made its re-
port, recommending minor changes in cos
tune and athletic programmes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-03
PANAMA CANALS CONDITION.
British Consular Report Upon Its
Status and Outlook.
London Times.

The British consular officers at Panama
and Santa Martha describe in their last re-
ports the present condition of the work on
the canal across the isthmus and of the
railway connecting the Atlantic win the
Pacific. The new canal company, formed
III Paris in 1891 to continue and complete
a ten-lock canal rising to a maximum alti-
tude of 1873 feet s inches, in place of the
original sea-level scheme of NJ. De Lesseps,
has made good progress with the small cap
ital at its disposal, and the reduced canal
trough, or cunette, in the Emperador and
Culebra sections IS now assuming definite
proportions. Although the end in view was
the final completion of the canal, it could
hardly have been supposed that this great
undertaking could have terminated and the
canal opened for maritime traffic with only
G2,500,0J0 of which only about half was to
be spent on the canal proper. The work is
of a purely experimental character, in order
10 demonstrate that a lock canal is feasible.
1t consists of a watercourse ninety-eight
and a half feet wide at the surface, with
half that depth of bed. About $50, 000, 0GO
have been raised since the inception of
the scheme sixteen years ago for the pur-
pose of the canal and have been spent in
Colon to Panama was constructed in 1875
by Il company registered in New York. of
which Mr.. ASpinwall was the leading spirit.
The concession expires in 1866 and costs the
company S250, DG0 a year. Almost the whole
Of the shares are held by the canal COM
pany. During the ten years preceding 1898
The company paid an average dividend of
1a per cent. per annum, but during the last
four years the net earnings have been APP
piled to the purchase of three large ocean
going steamers and otherwise to improve
and protect the COmpanys interests as car
riers, The traffic from the Pacific TO the
Atlantic has decreased recently, owing to
small crops and the competition of tramp
steamers that carry produce through the
Straits OF Magellan at cheap rates. But
there is an increase in the traffic from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, owing to improved
arrangement with steamship companies on
the Pacific coast. Last year nearly 2S), OOO
tons of goods and 100000 passengers were
conveyed by the railway.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-03
STEWARDS SAD CONDITION.
A SIack-Wire Performer Terribly In
jured at OsgOOd, Ind.

Dell Stewart. t~wenty-three years Of age.
living at 1017 North New Jersey street, was
found at the Union Station last night help
less and almost unconscious. DR.. Thomas,
of the City Dispensary, was called and re-
moved him to his home, giving him medical
attention. Stewart is a slack-wire perform
err and was at Osgood, Ind. last week. On
Friday he attempted to walk, or rather
slide, down a wire fastened to q tree about
seventy-five feet from the ground, and
slanting at an angle of As degrees. He be-
came ~entangled in the limbs of the tree
just as he started and fell from the wire.
He struck other limbs in his course down
ward, and when picked up he had several
broken ribs and had lost great patches OF
skin and flesh, which were torn off by the
jagged ends of the limbs. For some reason
he apparently received little medical atten-
ton.
Saturday some friends put him in a wagon
and drove to Greensburg, a distance OF
about fifty miles, with Stewart lying in
the sweltering neat. He remained in Green's
burg until yesterday, and last evening he
reached this city, scarcely knowing who or
what he was. AT the Union Station his con-
dition was noticed by Police Sergeant Hy-
land, who called at the Dispensary for as
~siStance, and Stewart was removed to his
home. His condition is serious, although
it is believed he will recover.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-03
THE AUGUST
Look for MeteOrs About the 9th and
10th of the Month.
Philadelphia Record.

On the evenings Of the 9th and 10th of
the month keep a lookout for meteors,
or shooting stars" directing attention
of the heavens. After three or four have
been seen it will become obvious that they
all shoot from the direction of one par
ticulare point in the sky a point below
the constellation Cassiopeia. This point is
marked on the planisphere Meteor Ra-
diant." 1t may be located pretty exactly
by running a line from the frst-the upper
most-star in the w of CassiOpeia to the
fourth star and ~prolOnging the line to a dis
lance about equal to that Of the two stars
Perseus; hence these ineteors, which annu-
ally are seen at this season in greater or
less numbers, are called "Perseids."
MeteOrs are now known to be simply
PARTICLES or small masses of matter, vary
ing in size perhaps from that OF a marble
TO that OF a paving stone, when circle
around the sun like the shOrt-period comets,
in highly elliptical orbits, some of which
cross the earth's. path. They move IN
in practically the same orbit. These parti-
cles of matter being struck by the earth
and entering its atmosphere with a velocity
fifty or one hundred times that of a rifle
ball, are quickly consumed by the heat en-
gendered by the friction of the air, their
tracks being lighted up momentarily by
meteor systems is now recognized. AL
though the meteors belonging 10 any par
ticular system always move in the same
direction after entering the earth's atmos-
phcre, or nearly the same, and their tracks
are therefore parallel with one another, yet,
from the law of perspective, they appear
to %radiate. from some single point; The
position Of this point, or radiant" gives
its name to the system. These Perseids
seem to come, as just stated. from a
point in Perseus; the Leonids. the Novem-
Der meteors, from a point in Leo; the Ori-
onids from a point in Orion, and so on. OF
late years the annual display of Perseids
has been remarkably fine, the meteors fire.
quently being of a great size and leaving
long trails. Keep a lookout for them.
Mercury has been an evening star since
July Is and will continue TO be an evening
star throughout the month, attaining its
greatest elongation east-27 degrees is min
utes-on the 2oth.
Venus is a brilliant morning star, about
three hours in advance of the sun.
Mars and Jupiter are both evening stars,
in the constellation Leo, Mars a little to the
east Of Jupiter. Both set before 9 p. m.
Saturn and Uranus ere evening stars, in
Libra, just within the grasp of the Scor-
piOn's claws. Saturn appears as an orange
yellow star of the first magnitude; Uranus
of the sixth magnitude. and therefore Wis
ible to a keen-eyed observer. is a trife
over ? degrees a little east of south from
Saturn. Both planets can be seen together
through an opera glass. Neptune, in Tau
rus, is a morning star, rising between l and
9 a. m.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-03
HAVOC OF LIGHTNING
NUMEROUS BARNS STRUCK by ELEC-
TRIO BOLTS AND BURNED.
Valuable Stallion KiI~Ied-James Me-
LaughIin, the Slayer of George
Robinson, still at Large.


-F~+ft ~ VIZ lRAAR az
PORTLAND, Ind. Aug. 2-Wind, rain
and hail swept over Jay county yesterday
evening and last night. and was accom-
panied by terrific lightning. which did
much damage, no less than a half dozen
barns and their contents being destroyed.
Persons who had taken refuge from The
elements east of town say that from where
they stood they could see three barns on
fire. Those of Mrs. Clouse and Squire
Richards were destroyed, and a horse
burned to death in the latter. Augustus
Cagenheimer's barn was struck and the
roof stripped off. 1t Bryant a horse which
was eating in the yard received a stroke
and fell dead.
WABASH, Ind, Aug. "A heavy thun-
derstorm passed over this city yesterday
afternoon. A barn on the farm of George
Wilson. south of the city, was struck by
lightning and burned, together with its
contents. There was forty tons Of hay.
two hundred bushels of wheat, besides a
large quantity of oats and corn in the barn.
This, together with the harness, wagons,
etc, lfoots up a loss of over $1,000. There
was but $500 insurance on the barn.
HAGERSTOWN. Ind, Aug. 2.-Last night
at 10 o'clock a severe storm swept over a
small territory three miles north of here.
The house and barn belonging to William
Williams was unroofed and otherwise dam
aged his valuable orchard was entirely de-
stroyed and hundreds of forest trees in the
vicinity were blown down, besides a great
quantity of fences. A large barn belong
ing to Nathan Lewis was struck by light
ming and entirely consumed by fire.
GREENVILLE, o., Aug. 2.-Three large
barns and contents located a few miles
west, east and north of Greenville, be-
longing to Mrs. Griffin, William Reck and
Daniel Snider, were struck by lightning
and destroyed during the electrical storms
last night. The loss in each case is about
a,5oo; partly insured. Six horses and three
cattle persisted in the Griffin barn. 1t was
the most severe electrical storm ever wit
messed here.
RIDGEVILLE, Ind, Aug. 2.-During a
heavy rainstorm, accompanied with wind
and lightning, the barn. attached to Rich
ards Hotel, at Lancaster, Jay county,, was
struck by lightning and burned with con-
tents, including one horse.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-03
T~ELEGRAPHIC BREVlTiES,

Charles Fox and William M. Mackey. of
Stringtown, w. Va, quarreled and fatally
shot each other.
,Kreig II. Collins won the tennis champion
ship of the West yesterday or the KenWood
courts at Chicago.
Whitelaw Reid called on Secretary Sher-
man at Amagansett, l.. l., yesterday. Mr..
Sherman will remain at Amagansett anoth-
re week.
James Harvey, who was, on July 10. con-
victed of the murder of his wife, Ida, on
Dec. Is last, was sentenced at Wilmington,
o., yesterday for life by Judge D. B. Van
pelt.
The directors Of the Peabody cotton mills.
of Newburyport, Mass, have decided to
close the mills indefinitely after using the
stock now on hand, which will take about
four weeks.
A small tornado passed through the north
ern part or Greene county, Iowa, yesterday
morning, sweeping away barns. houses and
stacks of grain. Several persons are report
ed slightly injured.
At New York last night Peter Barcio, an
italian youth of eighteen, shot and mortally
years of age, who two years ago killed
Barcio's father in a street duel.
Harry Blaylock. a w~ell-known jockey,
had a stroke of paralysis at Hamilton,
Ont, Sunday, and fell from the hayloft
to the floor. He was taken to the hospital,
where physicians say he will likely die.
William Saddler and William Parks. Gar
rard-county (Ky) farmers, were struck by
lightning ana instantly killed Sunday aft
ernoon. They lived miles apart, but in the
same county, were killed about the same
time and by lightning from the same storm.
Rear Admiral James N. Miller, who has
arrived in San Francisco, will sail on the
steamship China, which leaves Thursday
for Honolulu, where he will relieve Rear
Admiral BeardSlee as commander of the
Pacific squadron of the United States navy.
Ground was broken yesterday for the
pneumatic mail service for New York,
which the postoffice contract requires shall
be in operation by Oct. l. The excavation
was begun in Park Row at the point where
the tubes are to run into the general post
office. The tube system will provide two
lines between New York and Brooklyn and
eight other lines in the former city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-03

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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-03

Charles Elrod, If Crawfordsvilie. was
seriously injured 10 a runaway on Sunday.
Company L, Second Regiment, State
mlltla, OF Kokonlo, has gone into camp On
It's own hook. The State was too poor this
year TO pay the expenses OF the usual
camp drill and camp life. Their tents are
pitched at Lake Manitou.
Burglars entered the home of A.. c. Van
4;@ o'clock yesterday morning, and stole
q N~-luable gold watch and a silver watch
ana a sum of money. They also helped
themselves to what they wanted to eat.
John Penn, who was acquitted of the
charge of train wI'ecking only a few
months ago, was again placed in jail at
Portland, his alleged offense being bur-
glary. 1t IS claimed he ransacked the
residence of ]. L. Sheritts. at Dunkirk.
Penn waived examination and was placed
under bond.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-03
RAILWAY ROBBERIES.
Detectives Arrest a Gang of Young
Men, and One Has Confessed.

Last night Detective Milton Fort, of the
I. & V. Railroad, and Patrolman Hughes
arrested three young men, and one of them
has confessed to the robbery of a number
of freight cars on the 1. & V. road. The
police consider this a very good job for the
detective and patrolman. who nave worked
together on the case. The confession en-
abled the officers to recover a wagonload
Of merchandise from a stable in West In
dianapolis, where it had been hidden. The
men arrested are William Morris, a wagon
maker. aged eighteen years; Fred Hackle-
man, a matchmaker. aged nineteen years,
and Ira Collins. a photographer, aged eigh-
teen years. All live in West Indianapolis.
The 1. & V. freight trains are made up
in the Panhandle yards east of the city
and pass around the Belt road TO the L.
d v. There the trains pull on to the Y
and the engineer and conductor 60 to the
telegraph office at the crossing for orders
before proceeding. According to the story
of the detective and the confession one Of
the men would await their opportunity
early in the evening when the trains car
rying cars Of general merchandise could
be expected and have d wagon in readiness.
When the train stopped they would select a
car that by the marks on its sides and
the seals on the fastening showed it was
loaded with general merchandise. They
would hurriedly break open the car and
load into their wagon whatever seemed
valuable. Sometimes the trains would
stand at the crossing for a considerable
time while waiting for orders and the
thieves had ample time to get a full wagon
load.
Detective Fort suspects that the goods
nave been sold to some one who knew he
was buying stolen property. The officer has
been watching closely and expects to be
able to make an arrest for receiving stolen
goods in a short time. 1t is not known
how much merchandise has been stolen in
this way, but the amount of shortage on
this division has been quite large recently,
and it is believed all of it was stolen in
West INDIANAPOLIS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-03
COFFIN Nails" TO BE HIGHER.
Manufacturers Have Decided to In
crease Price of Cigarettes.

NEW YORK. Aug. 2.-The Journal and
Advertiser says: Cigarette manufacturer
have decided upon an increase in the price
of cigarettes A letter of notification is now
going through the mails. The advance in
quotations is about Is per cent. on the
whole list, from Turkish to the common
brands. Turkish cigarettes that were sold
from 81 to SIT will now cost the dealer
from $3.50 to 5000, according TO the brand.
Louisiana perique advances from $5.15 and
$5.75 to S615 and $3.50. Brands of domestic
make which dealers bought for $3.50 per
thousand have been increased in price to
$4.10. The advance is ascribed by the man
ufacturers to the increase in the internal
revenue tax"