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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-23

mistake on the part of the hotel clerk at
West Baden. Mr.. Blatchley says he knew
nothing of any call for him over the tele-
phone. The night clerk, in explaining the
matter to Mr.. Blatchley, said the call was
first made for the state geologist. and that
the clerk got the wrong man to the phone.
The wrong RAN declined to talk when he
found he wasn't the man wanted. The clerk
also claimed that the call was for MIR.
Blatchey" and that he could not find any
such name on the register. He also added
the lucid statement that he did not call Mr..
Blatchley because that gentleman was
asleep at the time. Two calls were made
over the telephone for Mr. Blatchley by the
journal that night
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-23

The Councils resolution directing the COM
mittee on Impeachment and investigation to
inquire into the park scandal was sent to
the mayor yesterday for his signature. He
has not yet signed it. When he does so the
city clerk will notify the members of the
committee and they will hold a conference
to decide on the time of meeting. 1t is not
probable that the meeting will be held until
the latter part of next week. Mr.. Costello
was asked yesterday if the committee had
decided to employ an attorney. He said the
members of the committee had not discussed
the matter at ALL The resolution gives the
committee the power to employ all needed
assistance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-23

Concerning the statement printed in yes
terdays Journal, State Labor Commissioner
Mccormack said that the commissioners
wished it understood that in asking to be
placed under salary, they did not wish it
understood that this means a request for an
additional appropriation for the commission.
The present appropriation of 5000 a year is
ample to meet all contingencies, and Will be
slifficient If the commissioners be placed I'M
der a salary Under the present arrange
ment there Is large amount of work done
by the commissioners for which they do not
receive any pay This is in the making out
of the annual reports attending to the cor
respondence etc, which consumes perhaps
one-third of their time, but is not paid for
in any way. eH
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-23
Gsas-wen Invigorator.

On Sunday, Dec Is, the Journal printed a
statement from it's Kokomo correspondent
that William Moore, of that city, had in
vented and patented device for reviying
exhausted gas wells Messrs. Kinney Il
Simmons of this city, claim that they are
inventors of a pump and separator that
does everything claimed for Aioores inven-
ton. that the device is now in use in eighty
wells, that patents have been applied for
and that they control all rights in the n-
vqntiOp
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-23
Mrs. T,racy,s hearing Continued.

The case of Martha Stewart Catherine
Crosby Clayton Tracy, charged with obtain
ing money under false pretenses, was con-
tinued in Police Court yesterday morning
until tomorrow morning. She sent a tele-
gram to f. II. Tracy. of Irondale, Mo-, who,
She saws. is her husband. asking him to send
her $15, ''as she was in financial difficult
ties" She also sent letter to the same
person. No answer had been received last
night Mrs Tracy was taken to the jail,
still protesting bitterly against her contine-
ment and saying she had committed no
crime, but had simply incurred some debts
which she would pay.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-23
An American RecessionaI.

(Forefathers' Day; 1881
Our Father, by Thy gifts made bold,
Once more raise the anthem old
OF them who crossed wintry sea
To gain Thy jewel Liberty.
They left that high heritage
Now, in country's golden age,
May we, like them, while we do live,
Unto Thy name the glory give.
Before Thy swiftly conquering power
The nations all in silence cover:
Thy instruments were, o Lord
Shall this TO us claim afford?
Thou ledst the Pilgrims safe to land,
Yet now close by the Pilgrims strand,
Our ships swept beneath the brine
Yea, Lord, we recognize the Sign.
In humbleness seek Thy face
With contrite hearts we ask Thy grace
For him whose task is just begun,
To free the children Of the
Arthur Stedman. in the New York Tribune.
Music boxes by the hundreds of all makes
% select from at Wulschners.
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jured while getting off a car at Pennsyl-
vania and Washington streets on Sept. q
last She claims the car was started for
ward as she was stepping off, and she was
mands damages in the sum of 5000.
Phoebe NJ Hart, Administrative of the
estate of Oliver S. Hart, began a damage
suit against the Big Four Railway Conn
pany for $4,000 Mrs Harris husband was
killed at the Dillon-street crossing on Oct.
-, 1897. while on his way home from work.
him was moving at a reckless and unlawful
rate of Spaed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-23

The State Board of Charities has finally
decided to investigate the Marion county
poor farm, the County Commissioners hav-
ing made an investigation a short gime
ago The committee on county institu-
60 out to the farm next Wednesday morn
ing Sit O'clock and that IL viii be at the
state boards office Tuesday afternoon 20 re-
ceive any complaint or any information con-
corning the farm. 4. l.. Ellison is chairman
OF the committee
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-23
Indianapolis and Tax Laws.

President Parry, of the Commercial Club,
has appointed a committee, consisting of
Messrs. George Wolf Joseph Kebler, John
J. Price, Charles N. Thompson and John r.
Welch, to consider the existing tax laws
with reference to their effects on the inter
ests of Indianapolis. The report of this COM
mittee will be submitted to the directors.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-23
Mrs. FoltzenIogeI,s sudden Death.

Mrs. Elizabeth FoItzenlogel of 1415 Charles
street, died suddenly yesterday afternoon at
o'clock. She had not been ill and was
around the house as usual yesterday A fit
of coughing caused pulmonary hemorrhage
and she died almost instantly. Before the
hemorrhagc could be checked she had lost
over a gallon of blood. A husband and sew
eral children survive her
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-23

State Geologist Blatchley says the state
ment printed in the Journal several days
ago to the effect chat he would not answer
the telephone when called up at West Baden
for an expression on the charges made
against oil Inspector Aall, was due 10 a
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-23
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE GAS CENTER LAND COMPANY
NOTICE,

The annual meeting of the Gas Center Land
Company viii be held at the company's Office
indianapolis. Ind Wednesday. Jan. II. 1899 for
the election Of directors and the transaction of
such other business as may properly come before
the meeting. The transfer books VIII be closed
Dec. ~, 1885, and remain closed until Jan - 1889
w. r. HACKEDORN, Secretary
Indianapolis, Ind, Dec. s. 1898.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-23
FORMER indianapolis PASTOR.

Prof. NJ H. Richards who was pastor of
the First English Lutheran Church, in this
city. in the '70s. and made many friends
during his soiourn here died at Allentown,
pa quite suddealy on the 18th inst. He was
professor OF literature and English language
At the MuhlenbeTg College, at Allentown, at
The time Of his death.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-23

In the Superior Court Caroline NJ Huffer
began an action for damages yesterday
against the Citizens Street-railroad Com
pany. The plaintiff AYERS that she was In
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-23

For Chapped Hands, Face and Lips
Use Roseolne Cream 1oc Free SAMPLE boxes at
all druggists.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-23
To Natural GcSCOnSumerS

The Indianapolis Gas Company assures
its patrons that il is making every effort
in its power TO maintain an adequate sup.
ply, but gives notice that any consumer
with the supply can have the
paid by him in advance refunded
from the date OF returning his mixers to
this office.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-23

q F. KREGELo. FUNERAL DIRECTOR. has
= resumed business at his old establishment. 223
north Delaware street. Everything new and conf
piete. Office telephone, No $50.
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FOR sALE-REAL EsTATE.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

AVANTED-Nen OF good standing, intelligence
Tor the sale OF acetyiene generators There is big
money for good men with some means to start
ADDRESS HARRIS-HART COMPANY, The Deni-
son. Indianapolis.
The times., 1898-09-01
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER I, 1888.
The Cnse of Gen. Miles.


An army officer viii commonly go to
a good deal of trouble TO escape being
the subject of a court of inquiry. When
there is no doubt that he has commit
TED the offense with which he is charg-
ed and no doubt as to its gravity, he is
& proper object of compassion unless
he is a bad man.
But this is a peculiar case. Gen.
MiIts seems TO be guilty Of having
spoken lightly of the War Department
TO a newspaper writer, knowing his
words would be printed, and Of hav-
ing given publicity TO official docu-
ments which it is the privilege Of the
Secretary of War alone to publish
And yet his friends show no concern on
his behalf, and are chuckling over the
dilemma into which, they aver, this
violation of etiquette has thrown the
War Office.
They remark on that amazing state of
affairs which makes civilian politi-
clan the superior officer of an expert
enced soldier in time of war, and psr-
mits him 10 force into execution The
immature ideas of an amateur
They charge. with what degree Of ac-
curacy we cannot say, that because Of
an abuse OF such authority, the army
that Gen. Miles rescued from disaster
at the hands Of the ensmy at critical
time, and would have saved from the
ravages Of disease, has been returned
TO its own country a wreck
But in spite Of all this Gen. Miles ap-
pears to have committed the offensa
with which he is charged. He is no
raw recruit, but a trained soldier who
has been wounded in three battles and
who knows what is due from an offic ar
TO any civilian who may temporarily
be his superior. Unless he had been
fully prepared for some sort of trial or
investigation, unless he desired it, he
would not have talked for publication.
He held his tongue when the exaspera-
tion must have been great and he vas
well able to restrain himself when he
spoke-assuming. of course, that he
was accurately reported by the news
paper man.
obviously, then, Gen. Miles wants
an investigation. We do not think his
motive is personal knowing that he
viii continue TO be the head Of the
army when the present Admin stration
has ceased to be, he could we'll afford
to ignore even a considerable wrong,
especially when the War Department
appears to be extremely unpopular.
We believe his heart is full Of indigna-
tion because the army was sacrificed
in disregard Of his orders and sugges-
tions. and that he has no hope of an
investigation that viii fix the blame
except by making himself amenable to
discipline.
The times., 1898-09-01

sentence the grief and indignation Of a
nation. The country has put up with
excuses, and apologies, and explana-
tions which do not explain, as long as
i. has any intention of doing. 1t is in
the position of the pious old farmer
through hoodlums who stole his pigs
and chickens. He was at prayers one
night. when he heard a suspicious
noise in the barnyard, and hastily con-
cluded mis- petition in this wise:
Lord Thou hast blessed us in basket and
in store, in seed time and harvest in flocks and
in herds-Mirandy, go get me my gun and III
ketch them rascals right nowi
Somewhere in the War Department
there is mismanagement and criminal
carelessness, and it is time to find out
where. If it were only the peoples
money which was being wasted, that
would be a small matter, although in
itself it is rather serious business
tnat the Government should be cheated
by dishonest contractors. But it is the
fact that in spite of exorbitant prices
paid for food and clothing and trans
portation, in spite of war taxes, and
high salaried officials, and the delays
which exasperated major generals who
waited for e-enforcements-in spite Of
all these things, our men have suffered
for want of the common necessaries of
life. They have starved in land of
plenty. They have been deprived of
their hard-earned money while there
was plenty of gold in the Treasury. In
a land where food is more abundant
than anywhere else in the civilized
world, they have been unable even to
get pure water. In country where
every year the medical schools turn out
more physicians than can find patients,
wounded and feVer-stricken men have
suffered for want of plain nursing. 1t
has been said that an army surgeon
cannot be made to order, and that men
of special training are needed for army
hospitals. This may be true in the
case of wounded men and yellow fever
patients, but typhoid and malarial
fever are diseases which almost any
physician OF any experience mas hs'u d
chance TO treat. At any rate, even IN
inexperienced physician might very
we'll be better than none, If he were
intelligent enough to obey orders, and
il appears that in every camp men have
died for want of ordinary attention.
There is no use in trying to explain
this thing so that it viii reflect credit
upon all parties concerned. Some
things can be explained in that way,
but not this.
The times., 1898-09-01
Fix the RIau,e

When it becomes evident that inno-
cent men are suffering through the
neglect, mismanagement, or corruption
of those in authority over them, the
natural impulse of human nature is to
break somebody's head for it. 1t was
this impulse, with the additional
strength of a personal and poignant
anxiety, which led the father of one of
the volunteers to write, succinctly, to
Secretary Alger: IF my boy dies am
going to kill you"
That father concentrated into one
The times., 1898-09-01
How the sick Come Homo.

We do not think the War Department
would positively disclaim all interest
in and responsibility for the unneces-
sary pains our sick soldiers have been
and still are compelled to suffer. II
would be strange if it should deny all
sense of duty toward the sick who are
neglected by the medical men now
holding commissions and receiving pay
from the Government through the de-
partment. Therefore, we call its at
tention once more to the fact that at
least four-fifths of the soldiers who
were in Cuba. and perhaps as high
percentage Of those who are in the
infected camps within the boundaries
Of the States. are really unfit for duty
and are liable to be placed on the sick
list or even the hospital list-for there
is a distinction between the two.
We do this because large movements
of troops are contemplated and provi-
sions should be made for more COM
Portable transit than is common in the
case Of soldiers. But preceding that
The times., 1898-09-01

should be sudden and radical reform
in the methods Of transporting the
very sick and dying.
We, have already suggested to the
War Department the expediency of in
terviewing certain commissioned Off
GERS and sympathetic clerks In the Pen
sion Office as to the privations Of the
very sick soldiers who have passed
through the Capital City and arrived in
New York. Besides those, we have to
note that more than a hundred con
valescents." so called, of the Ninth and
Fourteenth New York regiments, made
the three days journey from Camp
Thomas. at Chickamauga Park. to New
York, without rations of any kind,
without doctors and nurses, and with
out medicines. Many were so feeble
that they had to be carried to and from
the cars, and but for the kindness
of people along the way they would
have starved.
Another lot of two hundred and sixty
sick soldiers, on the same three days
journey, We're packed into ordinary
day cars with single doctor in charge
of all. AT Cleveland. generous citizens
found that the men had been shipped
without food and were without money.
Some of them lay on the floor in the
aisle, being unable to sit up. A number
of Cleveland doctors examined them
and found twelve critically ILL., Their
temperatures ranged from 103 to 105
degrees. Six were surely dying. The
officer in charge of the train was told
the facts, which he admitted, and was
asked to allow the twelve sicllest men
to go to the hospital in Cleveland. be-
cause the long journey might prove
fatal to all. He refused. Several were
delirious. But for the delicac.es given
to them by the people of Cleveland.
those who were able to eat would have
gone hungry to the end of their long
trip.
These things are in painful harmony
with what the people of Savannah
have seen and what the helpful women
here have witnessed. 1t has been going
on in the same way for weeks From
the different camps soldiers far adj
vanced in typhoid fever have been sent
North in day cars on slow trains with
out food or medicines and without doc
tors or nurses. But for the enterprise
of the city of Philadelphia, there would
have been more. The comfortable hos
pital train fitted out at the expense of
the municipality has brought scores
of Philadelphia sick men home from the
Sou uthern camps in comparative s4fety.
The times., 1898-09-01

The action of Blanco, in refusing to
permit the Red Cross people to land at
Havana the stores intended for the re-
lief of the starving people without the
payment of heavy duties, cannot be fitly
characterized except in privacy. The
President should have turned that malig-
nant Spaniard out of Cuba on the sign
ing of the protocol. The war was partly
to save Cubans from starving to death,
and hundreds have died from hunger
since the peace was instituted. 1t was
mistake to leave Blanco in command at
Havana-a mistake to which The Times
called attention at the time
The times., 1898-09-01
A Brooklyn suggestion.
From the Brooklyn Eagle)

Vr0m the Brooklyn Eagle)
We understand that Secretary Alger is in
favor OF the remorseIess investigation of Surgeon
General Sternberg's department, the medical bu-
reau OF the army, and of the quartermaster's de-
partment under charge of Gen. Eagan. The time
to investigate these departments was before the
war. The period at which they should have
been revolutionized, failing such previous investi
CATION, was during the war. Failure either to
investigate or TO revolutionize them until after
the war will satisfy no ones sense of justice
The blunde.s OF those departments have been
the cause of the loss of life or of health to about
ten times as many Americans as the Spanards
hurt
The times., 1898-09-01
Executive Chamber,
Honolulu II 7 Aro 10
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plen-
ipotentiaFy of the United States of
The Troubles of the Sugar Trust.

It has recently found powerful rival in the
Arbuckle Company. which has built and opened
great sugar refinery in Brooklyn Another re-
fnery on Long Island. to be operated by the
Doscher Company Will be ready for business in
October. Still another refinery that will make war
on the sugar trust has Just been completed in
San Francisco. Thel trust now produces about
three-fourths of all the refined sugar used in this
country. but it. is estimated that its powerful
competitors who are in the field will take
away nearly half OF its business The rapidly
growing beet-sugar industry is also giving the
sugar trust trouble.
The times., 1898-09-01

''Oh, yes said Congressman John
Wesley Gaines, of the Nashville district,
at the Shoreham, II am in Washington
to try and have some of the soldiers of
my State looked after. If any of the
boys 'rough-housed,' as the police say.
there must have been some good excuse.
Tennesseeans are as brave as they are
tall. and / hope TO secure for them the
same justice which was extended to Gov.
Black by Secretary Alger''
Mr.. Gaines is a red hot Bryanite, and
has nominated Gen. Joe Wheeler TO be
the candidate with him on the next Dem
ocratic National ticket
The times., 1898-09-01
Big Values, but Badly Broken Lots in
Shoes for EVERYBODY.

43 pairs of Ladies' Black vici Kid
Hand-sewed Oxfords and Tan Lace Shoes
patent leather and kid tips-the ONLY
sizes left are 2, 2 1-2. 8 and 8 1-2-and
the values are $50. a.75 and 50. 90
Your choice of any of them. 1OC
SS pairs of Misses and ChiIdren's Black
and Tan Oxfords. Shoes and Slippers.
They are this seasons styles, but the
sizes are very much broken. Reg
ular 81 and s1.25 values for... NC
So pairs of Mems Russia Calf Lace
Shoes and Black Satin Calf Lace Shoes
scattering sizes and in most of the best
lasts of the season. Whether YOU get n
bargain depends solely on what size YOU
wear and your promptness. for these are
$3.50, 50 and s3.25 Shoes that we're d 10
offering for ....................S SI.SO
The times., 1898-09-01
To Honor Roosevelt.
(From the New York SUM-

At the entrance 10 Col. Roosevelt's country
grounds at Oyster Bay, beside the drive, where
every visitor might see it. there stood last
week stick about four feet high, surmounted
by small and very dirty American flag. Nailed
to the stick square piece of cardbord, on
which ws printed in struggling letters
''In honor of Col. Roosevelt -
''Who placed that there?' asked visitor OF the
cabnan that brought him to the house.
The children OF Oyster Bay said the cabman,
with grin. ''You see, they wanted TO do some
thing TO welcome the colonel back, and they got
up this sign, and about twenty OF them marched
out here with it. When they got to the entrance
to the grounds their courage failed them, and SO
they stuck the stick in here and retreated.''
The times., 1898-09-01
a Trucir TaIe of Ten

The Beetle was blind, and the Bat was binder,
And they went to take tea with the scissor:
grinder.
The Scissors-grinder had gone away,
Across the river to. spend the day,
But he'd tied his bell to the grapevine swing.
The Bat and the Beetle heard it ring,
And neither the Beetle nor Bat could see
Why no one offered them any tea,.
So polite and patient, they are waiting vet
For the cup of tea they expect to get.
Carolyn Wells, in St Nicholas.
The times., 1898-09-01
Three Lots of
Mems Pants at Special Prices.

In the Mems Clothing Department in the
SakS building We imagine such an offer
ing as these three lots is the most welcome
bargain opportunity 10 the most OF YOU.
They are Pants, that if We ever carried over
stock, are good enough to be carried-rut
we dont-and they must be sacrificed. The
Saks guarantee sticks to them, in SPITE of
the littleness Of the prices.
Lot Of Mems Wool Pants. in nea.
Brown and Gray and Black effects. that
are cut out and will lit perfectly: good
value at - Simply 10 close e. -
them out We have marked them pL.ZO
Lot Of nearly 800 pairs of Mems Pants.
in Gray and Black mixtures and small
stripes; perfect fitting and satisfactory
wearers. Reduced from $50 81 l0
70 .--..-..--.-....----.--- .-----..-- ~
Lot Of regular $3.50 and s8.75 Fine cas-
simere Trousers, in stylish patterns.
dressy and neat; fashionabIy cut and
tailOT-made- Choice Of what are cf 90
left Of these lots, for-..---..........S L. ~
The times., 1898-09-01
Surprising Achievement.

From the Detroit Free Press)
''What is luck, Uncle Jim2''
Luck? Well, it is when boy turns out to be
as smart as his grandmother said he was''