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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-19
UNDER TRUANCY LAW
FIRST CASE FILED AGAINST PAR
ENTs IN THIS COUNTY.
Newman Failed to Send His Children
to SchOol-Evidence in Odd
Fellows Suit.

Truant officer Smith yesterday filed
petition in the Circuit Court asking that
Morton Newman be punished under the
new law requiring parents to send their
children to school. Newman is the father
of Ollie and Ida Newman, both of whom, it
is averred, are of school age.
The truant officer charges that he has on
numerous occasions served notice on New
man that he must send his children to
school, but he has refused to comply with
the request. The court is asked to impose
the penalty provided by law This is the
first suit of the kind brought under the
new law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-19
THE COURT RECORD.


1S20S. Blair VS.. Curry. F9 yette c. G. Pc
tition for rehearing overruled. McCabe, J.
Il. Where the bill of exceptions contra
diets the order book entry as 20 the order of
events the bill of exceptions importing alb
transcript has been filed in this court there
cannot by any documentary evidence in
tected into the bin Of exceptions although
both parties may make such an agreement.
3. Where the complaint 6iscloses that the
defendant held possession of a certificate OF
sheriif's sale, without any title TO the same
and refused to produce the same TO enable
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-19
snewveII Escapes from hospital.

Fred Snewvell, who was under a sentence
of ninety days in the workhouse and was
transferred to the City Hospital on the 18th
for treatment, walked out of that institu-
information as to his destination He was
a barber by trade, and at the time of COM
mitment gave his address as 421 South Me-
ridian street. The police are searching for
Snewvel
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-19

Yesterday the Board of Works failed to
award contract for sewer in Market
street, from Pine street TO State avenue. TO
M. M. Defrees, the lowest bidder, because
he was not present to make an affidavit re-
citing that there was no collision between
himself and other bidders. His bid was the
lowest of several submitted. Some months
ago the Board of Safety awarded con-
tract for furnishing the Gameweil police
alarm service without any atfidayit Of this
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-19
The Electric-Light Ordinance.

There was a meeting OF 80 Council COM
mittee on contracts ant franchises last
night 1t had been calle. 4er the purpose
of considering Mr.. Little ordinance regu-
lating the price of elel &c lighting. The
session of the committee W. s very lengthy.
Representatives of the .dng newspapers
were denied admission 10 the meeting and
nothing can be accurately said as to it's re-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-19

sort being required, and the company was
permitted to make the affidavit some days
after the contract was awarded. Phis was
held by the deputy city attorney to be
Substantial" compliance with the charter.
Following are the bids that were made on
the Market-street main sewer: NJ. NJ. De-
& Co., $4.55; w. r. Mercer, S4.95 e. lineal
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-19

The Supreme Court adjourned yesterday
till March % on hearing of the death at
Greensburg OF John d. Miller. formerly a
Supreme Court Judge 1t is reported at the
Statehouse that Lot d. Guffin. a Greensburg
attorney, will probably succeed Judge Miller
in the Ninth judicial circuit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-19

In divorce suit brought in the Superior
Court yesterday by Maud Mae Kelley
against John F. Kelley sensational charges
were made. Mrs. Kelley was married to
the defendant in December. 1897. She says
that Immediately after their marriage KEEL
ley induced her to accompany him to Chi
cago, where they lived for several days in
q prominent hotel. The plaintiff AYERS that
during their sojourn in Chicago the de-
PENDANT in an insolent manner told her he
did not love her, that he loved another
girl" He also declared he was tired of her,
and within a few hours she found herself
a deserted bride. She says the defendant
left her in destitute circumstances, with
she can never live with the defendant again
and asks that the marriage be set aside.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-19
A WOman'S
Burden.

THIS as a story Of a addressed TO II
as plain statement Of /czs too strong IN themselves
to require establishment, too true to be dOu6ted too an
Styuci5e to be passed BY any 5ob0 aRbye-
ctzes tie 5az4e Of good health.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-19

declined to grant Maud Bradley "a divorce
from James K. Bradley. On the contrary
the court advised the young people to make
it up between themselves, which they did
for the sake OF a four-year-old child.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-19
MUSICAL AFFAIRS.

Beethoven and Schubert programme
will be given at Plymouth Church next
Sunday evening by the quartet consisting
of Mrs. Fremont Swain, soprano; Mrs Ed
ward Simpson, alto; Mr.. Homer Van Vie,
tenor, and Mr. Frank V. Steele, basso and
director. The quartet will be assisted by
Mr.. Edwin Igelman, celloist, and Miss Nell
ly A. King, orgaIist. The following is the
programme:
Andante (hfth symphony .........B Beethoven
Juplidte OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Schubert
Quartet
MY Sweet Repose" ...............S Schubert
Mrs. Swain.
Serenade Ccello solo). Schubert
Mr.. Igelman
Mature Alteration .......... Beethoven
Mr.. Van Vie.
Song of Penitence" ............B Beethoven
Mr. Steele
"A Calm Sea and Prosperous Voy-
age .,....... ......................B Beethoven
Quartet.
PoStlude, Hallelujah Chorus. ........
......... ........ ............. Beethoven-Best
A recital was given last night by A. H.
Schellschmidts orchestra class at the home
of j. Wachstetter. Besides the orchestra's
numbers. solos were given by Miss Laura
Burns. Gustave Stark and o. b. Safer. The
orchestra class includes besides these
Georgia Allfree, Frank Dell Elmer Ertel
Ed Allfree, Carl Piel and Lorenz Wach-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-19

Is on tap to-day everywhere. Better than
ever. Bottled by the Home Brewing Com
pany for family use. Telephone 1850.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-19

For that tired feeling you must enrich
and purify your blood. Hood S SaTsaparilla
Is the medicine you need.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-19
Trial of Rice and sadie waugh.

John w. Rice, a married man, and Sadie
Waugh, voting woman, were found living
together at No. SIT Kentucky avenue and
were arrested. Two charges were placed
against them, but one was dismissed. They
We're fined in Police Court and appealed to
the Criminal Court. Yesterday the case was
called for trial, and their attorneys filed
plear in bar. The case will be tried on this
petition. Judge McCray overrued the de-
murrer of the state to the petition. Rice
has a wife and one child living in Hendricks
county, where he is we'll connected. He
came to Indianapolis, and renting a house
at SIT Kentucky avenue, installed the
Waugh girl there. Their manner of living
excited the neighborhood and they were ar
rested 1t is claimed that Rice some time
ago created a sensation in his neighborhood
by attempting to commit suicide by taking
morphine. A number of witnesses were
summoned from Hendricks county, where
Rice formerly lived The court will not
take up the case again until next week.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-19
b. and l.. Stock Assessment.


argument in the case of Albert S. Harm
Monroe county, a case involving the right
of the taxing authorities to assess running
building and loan stock that is not bor-
roweG upon. The appellants argued that
inasmuch as such stock has not been Sc
lected as subject of taxation by the Legis-
lature and also as there is not adequate
means provided by law for aScertaining it's
value there is no more ground for tax
ing it than there is for taxing life insur-
ance policies, which the Supreme Court re-
Gently decided were not subject to taxation
under the law. The counsel for the State
advanced the same argument for taxing
the stock as was advanced for taxing life
insurance policies, maintaining that only
property specially exempted by law is I'M
taxable, and that the means provided by
law for ascertaining the value of the stock
are sufficiently adequate.
Smoked Herring and a Damage Suit.
Damage suits were filed in the Superior
Court yesterday by Rose and Paul V. Skill
man, husband and wife, against Anthony
Prang, a grocer at Massachusetts avenue
and Oak streets. Mrs. Skillman in her
complaint, AYERS that on Feb. Is last she
went to Prang's grocery and purchased
quantity of smoked herring" which she
proceeded to dish up for the table. She
AYERS she ate small quantity of the fish
and soon afterward became violently i'll.
Two physicians were required to save her
life. She charges that the fish which she
ate was the cause of her illness. Mrs. Skill
man demands 5000 damages. Her husband,
in his damage suit, says his wife was i'll for
thirty days, and at one time her life was
despaired of. He charges that the herring
purchased of the defendant was decayed
and poisonous. He demands $1,000 damages.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-19

The State Bank of Indiana VS.. VIM H.
Kershner ct al; on notes. Submitted to
court. Evidence heard. Finding for plant
if. Judgment against defendants for 81,
052. 81 and costs, without relief.
Petition of Indianapolis Desiccating Com
pany for condemnation of right of way for
lateral railroad Dismissed by petitioner
and costs paid.
Center Lodge, ]. o. o. F., VS.. Grand
Lodge, 1. o. o. F.; partition and injunction.
Evidence continued
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-19
Criminal Court.

Rose Sldllman VS.. Anthony FRANCE; dam
ages. Superior Court, Room 8.
United States Encaustic Tile Works VS..
VIM. ]. Mather ct al. suit on account. Su-
perior Court, Room g.
Raphael KirSchbaum VS. william G. Hol-
land ct AL; suit on note. Circuit Court
Maud Mae Kelley VS.. John l.. Kelley; suit
for divorce. Superior Court, Room e.
Joseph Varon VS.. Ella Varon: suit for d.
vorce. Superior Court, Room g.
Paul ". Skillman VS.. Anthony Prange;
damages. Superior Court, Room !.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-09-22

the coracle. and CROPPED my way STUN
blingly out of the hollow where | had
supped, there were but two points visi-
BILE on the whole anchorage.
One was the great fire on shore, by
which the defeated pirates lay carous-
ing in the swamp. The other, mere
blur of light upon the darkness, in
dicated the position of the anchored
ship. She had swung round to the ebb
her bow was now toward me-the
only lights on board were in the cabin;
and what | saw was merely reflection
on the fog of the strong rays that flowed
from the stern window.
The ebb had already run some time.
and had to wade through the long belt
of swampy sand, where l sunk several
times above the ankle, before | came to
the edge of the retreating water, and,
wading a little way in, with some
strength and dexterity set my coracle,
keel downward, on the surface.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-09-22

saw, all these buccaneers were as cal
lous as the sea they sailed on.
AT last the breeze came; the schooner
sidled and drew neGrer in the dark;
l felt the hawser slacken once more,
last tibers through.
The breeze had but little action on
the coracle. and was almost instantly
swept against the bows of the His
PAMELA" At the same time the schoon-
er began to turn upon her heel spin
ming slowly, end for end, across the
current.
| wrought like a fiend, for l expected
every moment to be swamped: and
since | found could not push the cor
acle directly off, now showed straight
astern. At length | was clear of my
dangerous neighbor; and just as gave
the last impulsion, my hands came
across the stern bulwarks. Instantly
l grasped it.
Why | should have done so can
hardly say. 1t was at first mere in
stinct; but once l had it in my hands
and found it fast, curiosity began to get
I'S HppSi MANU. anu l. uelbIIllHeu 1
should have one look through the cabin
window.
l pulled in hand over hand on the
cord, and, when l judged myself near
enough, rose at infinite risk to about
half my height, and thus commanded
the roof and slice of the interior of the
cabin.
BY this time the schooner and her
little consort were gliding pretty swift
ly through the water; indeed. we had
already fetched up level with the camp
fire. The ship was talking, as sailors
say, loudly, treading the innumerable
ripples with an incessant weltering
splash; and until got my eye above the
window sill | could not comprehend
why the watchman had taken no alarm.
One glance, however, was sufficient;
and it was only one glance that burst
take from that unsteady skiff. 1t
showed me Hands and his companion
locked together in deadly wrestle, each
with a hand upon the others throat.
[To BE Continued
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-09-22
BUFFALO HERDS IN OLD DAYS.
There Is IA Great Difference Between
Seeing 10000 Animals and
One Lone Bull.

Gazing on the scraggy remnants Of
buffalo in an inClosure at Glen island
a Colorado tourist in the east said:
They are buffaloes, don't dispute
that, but they are not the kind that
used to make the west look like a NOV
ing sea. l reckon you have read a
great deal about extinct buffalo. Ten
years ago | heard that the last buffalo
had been killed-the last one in cap
tivity. But the buffalo, like the Indian,
dies hard. And | read about the last
Indian long before l began shedding
my hair.
There is a herd of buffalo in Col
orado that has been knocking about
for 80 years at least, and a man in that
state who has made the buffalo life
study tells me he knows of two herds.
In 1865 there was big herd in the
country known as Middle Park. AS
the country was settled by whites the
buffalo fell back. Hunters followed
that herd to Big river, but in the win
ter of 1875 the weather was so severe
that the hunters gave up the chase.
That was the great snow winter in
Colorado. The snow was so deep that
buffalo couldn't get around. That's
an actual fact. But it never gets too
deep for Indians. That winter a band
of Indians went after the buffalo and
killed more than could be brought
away. Next spring a lot of whites
went out and got the tallow from the
dead buffaloes and made money out
of it.
The white hunters brought back
the news that the Indians had killed
every buffalo in the herd. But that
was like other buffalo stories. a few
weeks later a herd was found on the
headwaters of Troublesome river. 1t
was a part of the herd which was snow
bound. White hunters killed some
of this herd and brought the meat
to market and got into trouble for
it. because there is law against kill
ing buffalo in Colorado. This law op-
crates against a white man, but an
Indian can hunt and kill anything he
likes and the law never touches him.
THE last man ! saw who had seen
buffalo in Colorado told me that he had
cOun tea ten OlHaIOeS up OF the NOfln
Park slope. That was four years ago.
Think of it! He had seen buffalo. be
cause he had counted 'em. Ten of 'em!
I wonder what he would "a thought
If he had seen 10000 in a herd, And
I can remember the time when it took
10000 to make herd. But never
again will any man see such herd.
Whom buffa In n q ri : ppt ScattPrpd they
don't even multiply."-N. Y. Sun.
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suddenly cut, is thing as dangerous
as a kicking horse. Ten to one, if l
were so foolhardy as to cut the His
PAMELA" from her anchor, / and the
coracle would be knocked clean out of
the water
This brought me to full stop, and
if fortune had not again particularly
favored me, / should have had to aban-
don my design. But the light airs
which had begun blowing from the
southeast and south had hauled round
after nightfall into the southwest. Just
while l was meditating, puff came,
caught the "Hispaniola" and forced her
up into the current; and, to my great
joy, l felt the hawser slacken in my
grasp, and the hand by which held it
dip for a second under water.
With that L made my mind up, took
out my gully, opened it with my teeth,
and cut one strand after another, till
the vessel swung by two. Then l lay
quiet, waiting to sever these last when
the strain should be once more light
ened by breath of wind
All this time / had heard the sound
of loud voices from the cabin; but, to
say truth, my mind had been so en-
tirely taken up with other thoughts
that l had scarcely given ear. Now,
however, when had nothing else to do,
l began to pay more heed.
One l recognized for the cockswain's S,
Israel Hands, that had been Flints
gunner in former days. The other was,
of course, my friend of the red night
cap. Both men were plainly the worse
of drink. and they were still drink
| ing; for, even while l was listening,
one of them with a drunken cry opened
the stern window and threw out some
thing, which / OWNED to be an empty
bottle. But they were not only tipsy;
it was plain that they were furiously
angry. Oaths few like hailstones, and
every now and then there came forth
| such an explosion as thought was sure
to end in blows. But each time the
quarrel passed off, and the voices grum-
bled lower for awhile, until the next
crisis came, and in turn, passed away
without result.
On shore, l could see the glow of the
great campfire burning warmly through
the shore-side trees. Some one was
singing, a dull old droning sailors song,
with droop and a quaver at the end of
every verse, and seemingly no end to il
at all but the patience Of the singer. l
had heard it on the voyage more than
once, and remembered these words:
But one man Of the crew alive,
What put to sea with seyenty-fiye."
And | thOupht it was diAV rather
too dolefully appropriate for company
that had met such cruel losses in the
| morning. But, indeed, from what /
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-09-22
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL

Professional etiquette prevents
French judges and judicial officials
| from riding in omnibuses.
| Sister Ellen Joseph, of Baltimore.
enjoys the distinction OF being the old
est religieuse in the country. She has
| just passed her one hundred and sew
enth birthday.
A Toronto dentist gratuitously cares
| for the teeth of children whose parents
are too poor to pay for the service
| Last year he attended over 1000 chill
| dren.
Robert Planqdette, the composer of
rip Van Wrinkle" and the Chimes Of
Normandy" has been made a chevalier
of the Legion of Honor by the French
president.
Midshipman Morres, of the Vizcaya,
mourns the loss of a collection of near
ly $4,000 postage stamps, including
many rare European varieties, which
were destroyed in the Spanish ship.
Richard z. Rothwell, editor of the
Engineering and Mining Journal, has
received the gold medal of the Societe
d Encouragement pour pIndustrie Ma
tionale of France.
George b. Richmond who died at
Lansing, Mich. was the original in
ventor of the electric telephone which
was in use before the Bell patent was
filed. He never realized anything
from his invention.
A soldiers widow, a resident of Phil
adelphia, died there in 1877. For 13
years she had been pensioner. 1t has
just been discovered that her daughter
has been persoEating her for the past
p years, and drawing her pension.
Two little pigs caused contention
between couple of neighboring farm
ers in Shannon county, Mo. Each
claimed both pigs. They went to law
about them, and when the costs had
amounted to $40 the litigants compro-
missed by each taking pig.
Charles Brasso, now in Havana,
writes to a friend in New York that
the Jack flag" of the Maine is now Of
fered for sale in Havana by IA Spaniard,
who wants $1,000 for it. The Spaniard
showed Brasso a written offer from
Spain of $1.5C0 for the flag.
The chaplain of one of our war ves-
sells, Oh learning that there would be
a naval battle on the morrow, is re-
ported to have uttered this prayer:
"Oh, Lord, shield US from the shells Of
the enemy, but If any missiles do come
to our vessel, l pray Thee that they
may be distributed as prize money is
distributed, mostly among the Off
GERS"
a rude remark by William jennings
caused Justice Robert NJ Bowling, Of
Kansas City, to adjourn court for Is
minutes. They went outside, and in
less than five minutes Jennings was
vanquished man, with battered face
and two black eyes. As the Justice was
about to resume his seat on the bench
he said: "Any man who insults this
court will have 10 fight"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-09-22
DREAMER AND SCHEMER.
Napoleon Thought He Could Win
Glory in Mexico.

When the Mexican empire was
planned our civil war had been raging
for nearly two years. From the stand
point of the French rulers, the moment
seemed auspicious for France to in
terfere in American affairs. The es-
tablishment OF great Latin empire,
founded under French protection and
developed in the interest of France,
which must necessarily derive the prin-
clpal benefit OF the stupendous wealth
which Mexico held ready to pour into
the lap of French capitalists-of an en-
pire which in the west might put a
limit to the supremacy of the United
States, as we'll as counterbalance the
British supremacy in the east, thus op-
posing a formidable check to the en-
croachments of the Anglo-Saxon race
in the interest of the Latin nations
such was Napoleon's plan, and L have
been told by one who was close to the
imperial family at that time that the
emperor himself fondly regarded it as
"the conception of his reign"
Napoleon III. labored under the dis
advantage of reigning beneath the
shadow Of great personality which,
consciously or unconsciously, he ever
strove to emulate. But however clever
he may be, man who, anxious to appear
or even to be great, forces fate and
creates impossible situations that ne
may act leading part before the world.
is only schemer This is the KEY to the
character of Napoleon Ill and to his
failures. He looked far away and
dreamed of universal achievements.
when at home, at his very door, were
the threatening issues he should have
mastered. The story is told of
him that one evening, at the Tuil-
cries, when the imperial party
were playing games, chance brought
to the emperor the question: What
is your favorite occupation?" to which
he answered.: "To seek the solution
of unsolvable problems" 1t is also re-
lated that in his younger days fa-
vorite axiom of his was: Follow the
ideas of your time, they carry you
along; struggle against them, they over
come you; proceed them, they support
you" True enough, but only on condi-
tion that you will not mistake the shrill
charms of a few interested courtiers
and spectators for the vioce of your
time, nor imagine that you precede your
generation because you stand alone.
He dreamed of far-away glory and his
fatterers told him his dreams were
phetic.-Cornelius Stevens, in Cen
tury.