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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-16
EIGHT LUCKY KLONDIKERs
On Their Way Home with Pockets
Full of Nuggets.

CHICAGO, Aug. 15.-Eight happy, healthy
and wealthy Klondike bonanza kings, fresh
from the frozen treasure fields of the upper
yukon valley, spent a day in Chicago yes
terday All are homeward bound, with big
buckskin bags of virgin gold and double
eagle coins, and with pockets bullying with
costly gems and keepsakes for the loved
cnes a. home.
The combined wealth of the party would
foot up more than 81 100000 within con-
servative estimates and more than 100000
IN nuggets and cash was carried as bag
gage
The lucky men are: c. L. Myers, of Pres
colt, Ariz.; NJ. c. Worden, of WATERFOWL,
N j.; n. e. Picott of Montreal Canada;
II. c. Anderson, of Portage, Wis; A. d.
Grey. of Grand Rapids Mich; f. Dore, of
Montreal: Thomas Moran, of Montreal;
French Joe DeoTache of Montreal Since
they landed in Seattle a month ago these
men have been interviewed and entertained
and bored almost TO distraction, and it is
little wonder they are tired of the hyster
zeal spasm of public curiosity which at
tends Dame Fortunes sudden favorites. BY
hiding their identity in assumed names and
remaining in their rooms all day they Sc
cured a little rest and several managed
TO get out of town before being discovered.
Six Of the eight were registered at the
Great Northern Hotel and Palmer House.
Albert ID. Grey is looked upon as the
luckiest man in the party. A year ago he
was a country schoolteacher in Wiscon-
sin town. To-day he modestiy estimates
the value of his holdings in the Klondike
district at 100000, but he admits that
amount in cash would not tempt him to
sell out. His friends say he will be worth
a million when his claims are worked out
Mr.. Grey is twenty-five years old. Last
year he started on a pleasure trip to
Juneau. Alaska. His funds gave out. and
he was forced to go TO work. He joined
party Of thirteen "tenderfeet," and went
up the Stikeen river and helped to cut
new trail 10 Lake Tesln.
Before the lake was reached eleven OF
the party gave up in disgust. Grey and his
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-16
YOUNG GIRL MURDERED.
Her Body Found in a Pasture Near
Her Fathers House.

RUTLAND VT, Aug. 15.-Dora f. Cush-
man, fifteen years old, daughter Of Dr. A
j. Cushman, of Lincoln a mountain town
in Addison county. found dead in a
pasture near her fathers house this morn
ing and it is believed she was murdered
She left home ostensibly to pick blackber-
ries yesterday afternoon. Alarm was given
at night because she did not return Par
ties searched for her all night, and her
body was found by her brother this morn
ing. The body had no marks to Indicate
foul play, but there was blood on the leaves
near by and circumstances direct suspicious
to Smith Davis, young man who had paid
attentions. Davis fled and is thought to
have passed through Rutland last night.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-16
OUTRAGES BY WHITECAPS.
Two Men and Woman Merci1essly
FlOgged by Kentuckians.

CINCINNATI, o., Aug. 15.-For three
months a band of whitecaps have been
causing terror in the vicinity of Kensing
ton. KY, and a determined stand will be
made against them by the people of that
section. About two weeks ago they called
a. the home of Edward BOlan. the super
intendent of Kensington subdivision, and
by force compelled him to go to the woods
with them. They then whipped and beat
him in a most brutal manner. Later they
found a man named O'Hara camping on
KensingtOn lake with a woman who he
claimed was his wife and beat both the
man and the woman shamefulIY.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-16
NAMES CORRESPONDENTS.
Mrs. Langtry's Husband Includes Sew
eraI Royal PersOnages.

NEW YORK, Aug. 14-Details of the pro-
posed suit of Edward Langtry. who be
lieves he is still legally the husband of the
Jersey Lily" are lacking. 1t is known,
however, that Mr.. Langtry claims that he
was never served with notice of the pro-
ceedings in California, and that even if he
was, it is without the power of any Amer
lean judge to annul any marriage consum-
mated in England, both of the contracting
parties to which were subjects of Great
Britain. He has always refused to recog-
nize the California decree. Now that it is
announced that Mrs. Langtry is to marry
Prince Esterhazy de Galantha, of Austria,
Mr.. Langtry has decided to bring suit. He
threatens to name as one of the core
spondents the Prince of Wales, down whose
royal neck the Lily at one time slipped
piece of ice in a playful way at a sup
per. She was cut by English society after
that and came to America to star as an
actress. The other correspondents will
probably be Sir Robert Peel and Squire
Abingdon Baird, who died in New Orleans
a few years ago. The latter, rumor has it,
half million dollars on her TO make up
for the beating. Sir George Whetwyn, who
had fight with the Marquis of Lonsdale
quis in the divorce suit Lord Rosslyns
name may also come in for its share of
the notoriety.
Counsel for Mrs Langtry in this city
claim that there is nothing in Mr. Lang
try's threats. A H. Hummel the divorce
lawyer said that her divorce is perfectly
regular and was obtained on the ground
that Mr.. Langtry had never supported her.
One point, however, was not generally
understood by the public, Mr. Hummel
said, and that was that the divorce was
not effective for one year. Mrs. Langtry,
he further explained. is a citizen of Cali
Lake county, California, that cost her $780,
900 in cash. 1t has proved a profitable in
Vestment, and owing to the fact that it is
watered land is now worth 5000 900. Mrs.
Langtry also owns real estate in Salt Lake
CITY N ni
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-16
The Late Sir Isaac Holden.

LONDON, Aug. 15.-One of the most re-
markable of the English self-made men of
the century, Sir Issac Holden, son of min
err died last week. He began life as weav-
ers boy, educated himself and became a
schoolmaster and then a bookkeeper in d
tweed mill. He invented first woo-comb-
ing machine which made his fortune at for
ty. He also invented the lucifer match, but
this idea he did not patent. When protec-
tive tariffs abroad injured the Bradford
wooden trade he opened mills at Calais,
Rheims and Lille, where younger branches
Of his family have since made fortunes. He
lived to be ninety years old, though d man
of extremely delicate constitution. lie at
tributed his long life to his spare diet, which
consisted mainly of fruit and vegetables.
He had Strawberries his breakfast table
all the year round his one extravaganza
being his expenditure on the cultivation of
fruit. He was a little man of emaciated
figure, but great nervous energy, controlling
all his undertakings himself. He accepted d
baronetcy from Mr.. Gladstone, whose policy
he supported for many years in Parliament,
but he refused peerage. lie is said to
have died a millionaire.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-16

JACKSON, Miss, Aug. 15.-The remains
of the late Senator James Il. George. who
died at Mississippi City yesterday reached
This city at 2 p. m. and were met at the
depot by an immense crowd of citizens A
line of march was formed and the remains
conveyed to the rotunda of the Capitol,
where they will lie in state under a mill
tary guard until tomorrow, Immediately
fiowery bier in the Capitol the lid of the
coffin was removed and a ceaseless throng
of people passed in line to view for the last
the remains of the late senator will be
taken to Carrollton. Miss, for burial by
the side of his wife, who only preceded
him to the unknown a few weeks ago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-16
Noted Tenor Dead.

NEW YORK, Aug. 15.-Albert L. King,
the famous oratorio tenor, died at the home
of his sister, Mrs. Edwin Quick, yesterday.
Probably America has never produced
more remarkable tenor voice than Mr..
King s-phenomenal in its range as sweet
as that of a boy soprano, and yet as full
and virie and manly as one could wish for
in a genuine tenor. That acknowledged
musical authority. Sir Charles Halle, said
when Mr.. King sang in England that it
was the first time he had heard the voice
of Mario since the death of the great
singer, and when Tamagno heard him he
went to him, and taking him by the hands,
come from an operate tenor-'I wish l had
your voice" But for Mr.. Kings uncon-
trollable nervousness, and an uncOnquerable
bashfulness on the stage. he would doubt
less have been among the greatest living
operate tenors, but he chose the Oratorio
field, in which he made his mark.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-16
MINERS CACHE $4,000. 900.
Capt. George Roberts Asserts the
Tales of Rich Finds Are True.

TACOMA, Wash, Aug. 15.-Capt. George
Roberts, who will command the City of
Seattle, which leaves this port in a few, days
for Alaska, has Just returned from Dyea.
He says that two months ago there was,
to his certain knowledge, gold to the
amount of nearly $3O0O,000 cached in the in
terror, ready to come out this fall. He
says it is estimated at Juneau and Sitka
that the Portland will bring down on her
next trip, arriving at Tacoma about Aug.
20, not less than $4,000, 900. Captain Rob-
ertS says the stories Of the richness of
the Klondike region are not overstated, and
that there is no doubt that the greatest gold
discoveries of the century will be made III
Alaska within the next two years.
A Seattle special states that with $102, coo
in gold dust Richard Butler, of Ellsworth
Mimi, remains in the Klondike. He and his
four brothers have five claims, and the $1Oz,-
900 came from only one. Butler has an init
mate friend here, John T. Cochrane, of
Louch, Augustine & Co. When the Port
land arrived with 81 100000 on board of her
Cochrane asked friend of Buffers how
Il understand he has cleaned up 100000
and his dump is not entirely worked out
yet" Cochrane was seen to-day and asked
about it. He said that the statement was
correct and that Butler, when on a visit
to Seattle last year, had told him thai he
thought he had about 100000 in sight.
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Tax Commissioners should take 1t into their
official heads 10 adopt the notion Of the
inherent value of every invention which
has found Judgement in my inventive head.
and tax me up IN the direction Of a million
aire | doubt very much whether they
would materially affect the chance Of my
being in default with the landlord on next
rent day, or materially improve my credit
with the butcher around the corner.
Indianapolis Aug "a INVENTOR.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-16
EIwOOd Industries.

Srecial to the Indianapolis Journal
ELWOOD. Ind, Aug. 15.-The American
Plate-glass Company will put sixteen addi-
tional pots in operation this week. making
a total Of forty-eight pots working $50 men
day and night. The Union steel plant and
the Kelley AK factory are working day and
night and employing, respectively, 500 and
500 hands. Oil-well leases in this county
now amount to IS 600 monthly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-16
Overland by Balloon.

OAKLAND. Cal. Aug. I'm. Aver, a
real estate man of Oakland, proposes to es-
tablish balloon service between Juneau and
Dawson: J. A. Hugson is with him in the
scheme, and a $ soon as he can induce those
interested in the scheme to subscribe $1,000
he will do so. NJ. Aver, who has evolved
this plan, is old balloonist and says the
scheme is practicable. He says the trip
from Juneau to Dawson City ought to be
made in tWenty-four hours.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-16

Special to the indianapolis Journal
NEW ALBANY, Ind, Aug. 15.-Joseph &
Joseph, proprietors of the New Albany
forge works, employing nearly one hUn-
dred men, yesterday announced that he
reduction of 10 per cent. in the wage scale
made about two years ago, would be re-
81 To
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-16

NEW YORK, Aug. 15.-Colonel James r.
Haskell inventor of the multicharGe gun,
died at his home at Passaic, N. j., to-day,
aged sixty-five years. He had been i'll for
several years. His principal troubles were
mental, the result of business troubles of
years ago. He was paid 100000 by the gov
ernment for his invention.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-16

CLEVELAND, O.. Aug. 15.-An average
advance of 81 a ton in the price of struc-
tural steel has been made by the mills in
this city within the past three or four days.
and another advance is looked for. A rep
resentative of the Cleveland Rolling Mill
Company said to-day that he would not
be surprised to see the price go up 81 a
ton more within the next thirty DAYS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-16
sisnor G. Costa.

ROME. Aug. 15-signor G.. Costa, min
lister of Justice. is dead Shortly before he
exnired he sent a touching deathbed tele-
gram of farewell to King Humbert Mar
quls Di Rudfni, the premier, will temper
arily assume the portfolio.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-16
Mrs. Gertrude Tompkins.

ROCKLAND, Me, Aug. 10. - Mrs Ger
trude Tompkins, wife of Eugene Tompkins,
the theatrical manager of Boston, died sud
denly of heart failure this morning aboard
the steam yacht Iawarra, which anchored
here over Sunday. bound for Bar Harbor.
Mrs Tompkins had been in apparently good
health until within a few days. She was
found by her husband lying on the floor
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-16
ALL REPORTS ALIKE.
OConcluded from First Page

building at cost of s., Co., and $500 high
school building is also being constructed.
The crops in the county this year are the
happy. Grain dealers in this city are pay
ing IS cents for wheat. Last year the farm
ers were compelled to sell their wheat for
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-16
Ladue Organizes a Syndicate.

PLATTSBURG, N. Y, Aug. 15-Joseph
Ladue, of Dawson City, Alaska, has just
returned here from New York, where he
has placed his mining and city property in
a syndicate composed of New York, Ca
madam and English capitalists. Included
in the property transferred to the new cor
poraton are city lots and sawmills in
Dawson City, placer mines and a quartz
mine which Mr. Ladue believes is the
mother lode from which all the placer gold
of the Yukon has become disintegrated.
The ore from this mine has already as
sayed 5000 a ton. The company will be
called the Joseph Ladue Gold Mining and
Development Company of the Yukon, and
act as president and general manager of
the company, and will return to Dawson
machinery and a large force of men to OPP
crate II
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-02
An Important Decision.

Judge Sharpe filed an opinion in Circuit
Court ut West Branch in the case of Geo.
n. Hauptman, and David y. Wright VS..
the township of Horton ct al, to set aside
certain taxes assessed on complainants'
lands for certain reasons assigned, one Of
which was that the Board of Equalization
neglected to meet on the >rst Of the two
days prescribed by law that they shall
meet, and on which day compliments
agents endeavored to be heard before the
board. The board did meet OH the second
day. Judge Sharpe holds that, while the
failure Of the board to meet on the first
day might have caused the complainants
considerable Inconvenience, ii did not de-
prive them of their constitutional right to
be heard. and that they should have pre-
sented themselves en- the second day. un-
less informed that no meeting Of the
board would be held, and holding the
taxes valid for that reason.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-02

Government. which caused the present
agitation, reveals a romance with the
gang" Of so-called journalists and
stock jobbers who beset the late Max
Le6audy, the millionaire conscript.
The plot, it would further seem. was
conceived in 1898, when the wave OF
Jew batting" swept over Europe. Drey-
fus is Of Jewish extraction, and these
jackals of Partisan society, casting about
for funds. determined to bleed this
wealthy Jew" A beautiful adventures,
whose house was the resort of number
of French officers and foreign diplomats,
is said to have acted as the gO-between
in these transactions.
BY invitation Dreyfus was a frequent
visitor to her house. In due course OF
time the plan for the mobilization of the
French army, which had been drawn up
in handwriting which clevcrly initiated
that OF Dreyfus, was produced and money
was demanded for its surrender. Drey-
fus, however, it is said, refused to pay
the sum demanded, knowing that the pur-
chase Of the document would be an ad-
mission of his guilt and would furnish
ground for future extortion, and being
aware that the fact that he had been
"
was a party to the plot, would be consid-
cred part OF the strongest evidence OF his
guilt.
Friends Of Dreyfus assert that the
newspapers have constantly maintained
warfare against Dreyfus, even up TO
the present time and that in consequence
the prisoners wife and family are oblig-
ed to keep secluded.
L. f.,1urinu ha
most terrible punishment inflicted by a
civilized nation upon a human being. Four
years ago he was a rich, brilliant Partisan,
captain In the army, attached to the
general staff Suddenly he was arrested
and without legal procedure condemned
by council of war to exile for life in
French Guiana. He was charged with
betraying French military plans to for
eign government, understood to be the
German. The sole evidence against him
was brief note, alleged to have been
found In the waste paper basket OF the
German embassy.
Although the trial of Dreyfus was alb
solutely secret, his condemnation was of
the most public character conceivable.
The unfortunate man was taken to the
Champ de Mars, the largest parade
ground In Inrls, WDere 4,OO troops were
drawn up In line. Dreyfus stood In the
midst of them. After the judgment of
the council OF war had been read, lieu
tenant took the sword of Dreyfus and
broke 1t across his knee. and then cut the
buttons, epaulets and other marks of mill
tary rank from him.
Then he was sent to his place OF exile,
the Devils Island, off the coast Of French
Guiana, In South America. There yei-
low fever is permanent. On this island
he IL condemned to spend the rest Of his
life, watched day and night by three old
soldiers, not one Of whom may ever speak
to him. Latteriy his hut has been inclos-
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-02
Shot His Father.

Henry Kammerer shot and killed his
10-year-old father, John Kammerer. nj
their home nine miles from Benton Har-
Dor. The two men had an altercation
over the plowing Of some ground, and the
son threw stone at his father, who re-
sented it. They went to the house, and
without warning, the son picked up a
3S-caliber repeating rifle and fired at his
father, striking him just above the heart
The old man started to escape, and an
other bullet struck him in the stomach
He fell and the son, supposing he had kill
ed him, stepped into a shed and shot him
self. The shot did not prove fatal, and
seeing his father rise. he fred another
shot at him, then, turning to the shed, he
took down a shotgun, and, after setting
fire to the shed. blew his brains out by
discharging both barrels.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-02

shaker" had a chance to grasp his and
squeeze II to show his good will he could
escape serious discomfort and all actual
pain. President McKinley-the Ohio man
is fertile in resource-has another way;
he holds his hand level with his waist
with the back of ii up and in this attitude
1t is only possible to get a firm grip on the
fingers, which does not hurt nearly as
much as pinchi3g the rest Of the hand.
But the handshaking lasts through the
term, though not in such exorbitant
quantities. 1t is not the only trouble. The
letter writing iend gets in his direful
work-to the extent Of some 800 letters
a day. They ask all sorts of things. from
an autograph for log cabin quilt to the
loan of money enough to buy poor girl
n piano. Then, if the President is not
prompt to send them all they have re-
quested, they write again to tell him what
a mean man they have now learned he is.
Private citizens take their turn with
charitable and religious organizations in
begging for money. and woman in North
Calolina telegraphed one morning: Il
have six little children and they want to
throw me out Of the house. l have no.
where to go. l want protection" The
autograph collector is numerously in evil
dence-scores of them every day of the
1,461 which make up presidential term.
A pile of cards and bushel basket full Of
albums are the first things that greet a
chief magistrates satiated eyes every
morning when he comes into his office.
Then there is the man who wishes to have
the opinion of the President of the United
States on the best method of keeping cal
Gimme from coming off on the clothing,
or the woman who has just discovered n
new process for fried cakes or sally lunn.
and is willing to involve the White House
cook in her joys. Think of four years
of that sort of thing!
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-02
Minor State Matters.

The ithaca opera house is being rebuilt
into business block and the town will
have no play house.
The wife of Supervisor Oscar Utley OF
Vienna fell, breaking two ribs and re-
ceiving several bruises.
Bay City's beet sugar factory will un-
doubtedly be built .he ensuing winter,
and be ready for next years crop of beets.
The Eastern Gencsee Teachers Asso-
citation has elected j. Russell president for
1893, and will meet at Goodrich next
year.
Tommie Scott, young son of Fred
Scott of Port Huron, was run down by a
team while wheeling and seriously in
jured.
Rev. James NJ. Provan Of Shelby will
probably accept the unanimous call ex-
tended him by the Buchanan Presbyte-
rian Church.
Peter Peterson of st. Joseph, who at
tempted to murder his sweetheart, Miss
Eliza Harris. July 4, was sentenced TO
eight years in prison.
The Escanaba street railway has shut
up shop and quit being anything but n
right of way. Cause.-The owners are
tired OF losing money.
The stock Of the Jennings dry goods
establishment at Lapecr has been sold to
G. j. Cudworth of Armada. Mr.. Jen-
nings had been in business for forty years.
Adler Franks, n farmer living FIVE miles
out of Port Huron, was instantly killed in
n runaway accident.
Hillsdale is to have new industry in
the shape of an aluminium comb factory.
Fred Hayden, alias James Hayden, was
sentenced at Howell to ninety days in
the Detroit house of correction for an
assault on Postmaster Brown of Brigh-
ton.
Three large wildcats were killed near
Alger last week. There were four to-
gether, but one got away. They were
very large and fierce. They bring boun-
y of 50 each.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-02
FIRST BLASTS or WINTER.
Snow Storm of Great Severity Sweeps
Over Nebraska.


A snowstorm of great severity swept
over Nebraska Thursday night. The
weather was mild all day, with drizzling
rain. Toward evening the mercury drop
ped to almost zero and u gale from the
northwest swept the fine PARTICLES Of snow
in every direction. Not great quantity
of snow fell, but what there was piled
in huge drifts, impeding all kinds of
traffic.
In the extreme western part Of the State
regular blizzard prevailed, and great
damage Is threatened to stock interests.
This Is due to the fact that the grass il
covered with hard coating of Ice,
through which 1t will be quite difficult for
cattle to break in order to secure food.
The great damage from the STORM comes
from the menace to the stock interests.
The many thousand sheep being fed In
the State are In particular danger. Still,
as long as the herds are housed, which
Is the case with most of the large
lunches, great damage will not occur.
The open range is the place where the
greatest loss will be certain.