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ARTICLE XI.
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTIONS.
CHAPTER I.
Board of Election Commissioners

SECTION 1. The conduct, manage ment and control of the registration of voters, and of the holding of elections, and of all matters pertaining to elec- tions in the City and County, shall be vested exclusively in and exercised by a Board of Election Commissioners, consisting of five members, who shall be appointed by the Mayor. and shall hold office for four years. Each of the Commissioners shall receive an annual salary of one thousand dollars. Each member of the Board must be an eIec- tor of the City and County at the time of his appointment and must have been such for five years next preceding such time Those first appointed must, immediately after their appointment, so classify themselves by lot, that one shall go out of office at the end of one year. one at the end of two years, one at the end of three years, and two at the end of four years
 The Mayor shall not make any ap- pointment upon the Board at any time before thirty days prior to the time when such appointee is to take office. Two of the five members first appoint ed shall be chosen from each of the two political parties casting in the City and County the highest vote for Governor or Electors of President and Vice President, as the case may be, at the last preceding general election. The fifth member shall be chosen from the political party casting the third highest such vote at such election, if there be such third party, and if not, then at the discretion of the Mayor Upon the expiration of the term of office of any Commissioner. the appointee must be chosen from the same political party as the retiring Commissioner, consistently with the foregoing provisions as to equal representation at all times of the two political parties casting the high est vote at the general election last pre- ceding the appointment in question as prescribed in this section
 Sec 2. No member of the Doard. nor Registrar. nor Deputy Registrar shall. during his term of office, be member of any convention the purpose of which is to nominate candidates for office: nor be eligible to any other municipal office during the term for which he shall have been appointed. or for one year thereafter: nor act as officer of any election or primary election: nor take part In any election except to vote and when acting as Election Com- missioner, at which time he shall per- form only such official duties as may be required of him by law and by this Charter.
 Sec. 8. The Commissioners shall or
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CHAPTER Tx.
Department of Electricity.

SECTION 1. There is hereby created a Department of Electricity which shall have charge of the construction and maintenance of the Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph and Telephone Sys- tems, and shall be under the control of Board of Fire Commissioners and the Board of Police Commissioners.
 Sec 2. There shall be appointed by the Board of Fire Commissioners and Board of Police Commissioners, acting in joint session, a practical and skilled electrician, who shall be called the Chief of the Department of Electricity, and who shall have general supervision of the Department of Electricity. He shall receive an annual salary of twen- ty-four hundred dollars.
 Sec 3. The Joint Commission may appoint such assistants as may be nec- esSary to keep the electric and tele- phone systems in working order; but of those assistants appointed, no opera tor or inspector shall receive more than twelve hundred dollars year, and no repairer, lineman, batteryman or in- strument-maker shall receive salary of more than ten hundred and eighty dollars year.
 Sec. 4. The Fire Department and the Police Department shall each have sole control over it's own systems and wires.
 Sec. 5. Any citizen, firm or corpora tion may. for the purpose of police or fire protection, be connected with the Police or Fire Signal System, or Tele- phone or Telegraph System, upon mak- ing fair payment for the connection and use of the same. Such rates of payment shall be fixed by ordinance of the Supervisors; but no connection shall be made so as to interfere with the use of the main line
 Sec. 6. The Department of Electri- city is also charged with the duty of en- forcing all the rules, regulations. or
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CHAPTER VI.
Police Officers.

SECTION 1. The Police Force of the City and County shall not exceed one Police Officer for each five hundred in- habitants thereof. Police Officers shall receive an annual salary of twelve hun dred and twenty-four dollars.
 Sec. ?. Every Police Officer shall upon the arrest of any person charged with the commission of crime, search the person of such offender, and take from him all property and weapons, and forthwith deliver the same to the prison keeper, who must deliver the same to the Property Clerk, to be kept by him until other disposition be made thereof according to law.
 Sec. 3. Police Officers shall be health officers by virtue of their office.
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CHAPTER VI.
Fire Wardens.

SECTION 1. The Chief Engineer, As sistant Chief Engineers, Battalion Chiefs and the Fire Marshal shall con- stitute a Board of Fire Wardens, with power to inspect and report to the Board of Public Works as to the safety of buildings and other structures within the City and County.
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ders and requirements made by ordi- nance of the Supervisors in regard to the inspection and supervision Of elec- trical wires and appliances. and the currents for furnishing light, heat or power in and upon streets and build ings in the City and County.
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CHAPTER Tx.
Present Police Force.

SECTION l. All members of the present Police Force In good standing in the Department at the time this Charter goes into effect. and the Park Police shall continue therein without
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Civil Service examination; but all new appointments and all promotions made after this Charter shall go into effect shall be subject to and governed by Article XIII of this Charter.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-11

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rare Bargain; at Sweeney Loan ofhee. SOo
Main street.
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FOR THE NEW CITY DIRECTORY.

The publishers having completed the
"a nyass for the new city directory request
ali pc,s.ns making changes In Their frm
names. business or nigident locations TO
pct!fy thrm at once In order that they
NAV make the proper corrections for the
directory, Address 1907 Preston avenue.
city. Morrison & Fourmy Publishers.
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Marriage Licenses.

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sHERITrs' DEPARTMENT.

Taken mp by l. e. EHedge. three miles
west Of Genoa, Texas. two aorses. one iron
gray and one bay; or and 6 or years
old the bay horse is branded triangle with
anchor under 1T on left thigh, the gray one
ia branded an inverted w with the figure
3 by the side and under It.
Strayed or stolen from e. II. Doescher,
Drummer addition, Harris county. ono
white mare years old, medium size; also
one bay horse. medium size. years oid'
had on bell; also one bay mare, years
n,d medium size branded w: reward 80.
A. r. Anderson, sheriff Harris county,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-18
NEXT w. c. 7. u. CONVENTION
White RibbOners Will Meet in Seattle,
Wash, in 1899.

ST. PAUL. Mimi, Nov. T.-What is
known as the post executive committee or
the W. C. T. u, to which various matters
of business are referred by the convention,
was in session in this city to-day. Seattle
was decided on as the next place Tor mold
ing the convention, the time to be about
the middle of October, the exact date being
fixed later. Mrs. Stevens, the president, an
nounced that Miss Powderly, the stenogra-
pher who served Miss Willard so faithfully
for fourteen years, would be retained in her
position. Attention was called to the fact
that Miss Pcwderly is a Catholic. The SUI
perintendents who were by the convention
added to the executive commitIee were well
coined into the body during the day. Ac-
ton on Mrs. BenjaminS resolutions to cut
loose from all affiliated interests was de-
ferred 1t was announced by the new pres
ident Mrs L. NJ N. Stevens, that she
would remain at headquarters in Chicago
until Christmas, and would then divide her
time between her home in Portland, Me-,
and Chicago.
The committee refused to grant the re-
quest of the Willard Temperance Hospital
trustees for call for donation OF 10 cents
a member for the use of the hospital In
view of the action against the temple the
committee did not think 1t should attempt
to raise money for any other aft1liated IN
tereSt. The appointment of Mrs. Francis
Graham, of Ohio, as railroad superintend-.
ent, to succeed Mrs: G. M. Woodward, OF
Nebraska, was confirmed. The committee
completed it's work and all the officers and
delegates left evening trains for their
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MERRlMAC HERO HONORED.
Feast for o. w. Deignan and Also n
Petition to Congress.

DIES MONIES. Ia, Nov. 1.-THE Grant
Club, of this city, banqueted Osborn W.
Defgnan, of the Merrimac crew, this even
ing. He left Stuart on his return to the
Resolute, at Brooklyn, to-day. When he
arrived here at o'clock this evening he
was hurried through the crowd to the club
house, where a public reception was held,
Col. E. G.. Pratt, president of the club, in
PRODUCING him. After the banquet the fea-
ture of the evening was the introduction
of memorial to Congress by Hon. John
Herriot, Of Stuart, treasurer of the State.
The preamble to this memorial calls atten-
ton to the recognition which the Merrimac
crew has been given, and says that 1t is OF
special pride to Iowans that the man who
steered the Merrimac was Iowa boy. 1t
the states that it is Deignans desire to en-
ter the Naval Academy at Annapolis, but
he is prevented by aga requirements. The
resolution then asks the members of Con-
gresS to pass q special act to permit Deig-
nan to enter the academy. The resolution
was received and adopted with cheers. Short
and appropriate speeches were made. In
stead of making a speech Deignan produced
the boatswain's whistle which he used on
the Merrimac, and, after he had given ex-
amples of the signals used, he presented 1t
to the club. Deignan left at 9:35 on the
Rock Island an immense crowd following
him to the depot.
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STATUE OF SHERIDAN.
Sculptor Wards First Model Not Sat-
isfactOry to Himself.

$ WASHINGTON. Nov 17.-For several
years arrangements have been making for
the erection of a statue of Gen. Phil Sheri-
dan in this city, the statue to be the gift
of the Society of the Army of the Cumber-
land. During the past three years ]. Q. A
Ward, the American sculptor, has been en-
gagged on the model of the statue 1t is his
expressed ambition to make it the greatest
work of his life. and since he has been
working upon it he has put aside every
other commission. The officers of the
statue committee of the Army of the Cum
berland are General Barnett, of Cleveland.
chairman; Gen. Fl. c. Corbin secretary, and
Secretary of War Alger, treasurer. Not
having heard from Mr.. Ward for some time,
General Corbin few days ago wrote him
inquiring what progress was being made
upon the statue To-day he received a re-
ply. of which the following is an extract:
IA year ago had the large model well adj
Vanced, but found that it would never salts
fy me, so l pulled il down and made new
studies entirely. These are now all COM
pleted, and / have made preparations for
setting up the large model again, which will
not be changed. This report will no doubt
the society. 1t will be difficult for its MEM
bers to understand how any sculptor should
require so many years for such work.
did not myself expect to occupy so much
time with ii, but it has been an honest oc-
cupation of my time, for there has not been
q month wasted in idlenesS or devoted to
other work. IT, however, can peacefully
complete this statue Of Sheridan and work
happily on ii l shall not regret my Sacrifve
of time and money"
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THE QUESTION OF THE HOUR.
Notable Speech by Senator Lodge ON
the Nations Foreign Policy.

BOSTON, Nov. Ex-senator Lodge, in an
address at the Boston Boot and Shoe Clubs
banquet last night, said: II come now to
what l think the government ought to do
The success of the English-speabdng race,
which has carried it all over the world, and
made it the great Industrial and commercial
people Of the earth to-day has been due to
the principle Of self-help. But there are
certain things which the spirit of Ameri-
can enterprise must look to the government
to do. You cannot expect men to carry
your products and to extend your trade
by establishing themselves in distant por-
tions of the earth unless you have a gov
eminent that is ready to protect them at
all times and at all hazards.
I'VE want no commerce at the cannon's
mouth, but we do want it understood that
wherever an American is engaged in bust
ness he is to re protected, and that there is
navy of the United States big enough to
guard him wherever he sees fit to CO. There
fore, l say that we need a large navy as
a protection to commerce on the sea as
well as on the land.
THE question that confronts us is larger
one than what we shall do with the Philip
power unless we hold those islands. We are
to-day the greatest power in the Pacific
ocean. We hold one entire quarter of the
ocean, except the outlet which England has
in Canada. We hold the halfway house
in Honolulu, where all ships must stop when
the Nicaragua canal is built, as ii will be
Are we going TO allow the ports East to
be closed to and open to Russia. France
and Germany alone? Or are we going to
stand up and say with England and Japan
the ports of China must be closed to all
or they must be open to all?
1T is going to be a struggle in my judg
ment, between the maritime nations and the
nonmaritime nations. 1t is going to be a
struggle to see whether the people who
speak the English tongue are to go to the
wall, or whether they are to have their
share in the commerce of the earth wher
ever they fly their flag. / believe that the
United States is entitled to its share of
the worlds commerce. 1 do not believe
that we should be shut out from it, and
do not think that there is the least danger
of war anywhere If are far sighted
enough to make it known to the world just
what we want and just what we intend to
do. Let our government have wisdom in its
foreign policy and it's treatment of our
merchant marine, and the genius of Ameri-
can invention and enterprise will do the
rest"
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And Sailed from the Island of Malta
for POIa, Where He VIII Take
Train for Berlin.
DREYFUS NEEDED In PARIS
COURT FINDS 1T IMPOSSIBLE TO
EXAMINE HIM AT LONG RANGE.
Belief Expressed that He VIII BE
France-England and America.

BERLIN, Nov. IAN official telegram
received here from Valetta, Island of Malta,
says the Emperor and Empress of Germany
have sailed for Pola, at the northern end
of the Adriatic sea, from which the party
travel overland direct for home. 1t is ex-
planned that the Emperor decided upon this
course because the temperature of the
Mediterranean has become considerably
cooler, and the danger to the health of the
Empress by sudden change from north
ern to a southern climate is thus lessened.
When Emperor William passed the Island
of Rhodes, where the Khedive of Egypt is
staying at present, the Emperor teiegraphed
his regrets at being unable to visit Egypt,
also thanking the Khedive for the prepara-
tions made to receive his Majesty.
LONDON, Nov. 18.-The Times editorial
ly this morning halls Joseph Chamberlain
as the apostle of better understandings
with the United States and Germany" add
ing that it rejoices that, in view of the part
the United States are likely to play in the
far East, a cause of possible irritation has
been removed by Emperor Williams change
of plans as to his homeward journey. With
regard to Anglo-American cooperation in
the far East the Times says Its effective
ness will largely depend upon our ability to
do our share of the work and to protect
our own interests without calling upon our
friends"
The Berlin correspondent of the Times
says: THE German attempts to deny the
reality and significance of the Anglo-Amer-
lean friendship are now being abandoned.
There certain impOnderabilia, to use an
expression of Bismarck,s; which the citizens
of both countries residing abroad have al
ready begun to appreciate as the first proofs
of the united influence of the two powers
in the affairs of the world"
The Daily Mail says this morning: IAN
important result of Emperor Williams tour
is an agreement on the part of the Sultan
to give his benevolent sanction to the Zion
list movement. This agreement between the
Ottoman ruler and the German Emperor is
still more important as indicating the
friendly intimacy of the two monarchs and
it's probable influence on general politics."
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MUNCIE'9CHILD MURDER
EVIDENCE TENDING TO FAsTEN THE
CRIME ON FRED GLAND.
John Flora in JefTersOnviIIe Re-
TriaI-DanIz Runners Confession.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.


MUNCIE, Ind, Nov. 1.-THE funeral Of
little Andy Bodemiller. the murdered child
whose body was found hidden in a gravel
pit took place to-day and was attended by
a big crowd While the police still have
the boy, Fred GLAND, locked up, no further
evidence has been found against him. and
it is believed friends of his father, Saloon
Keeper GLAND, will make out an alihi for
him. The boy denies his first confession.
and the little neighbor boys who told the
story of seeing the shooting have been
silenced by their parents who make out the
children knew nothing of the affair.
Samuel Jackson. the colored bartender at
the GLAND saloon, who was suspected of
being the person who assisted in trying to
cover up the killing, was brought to police
headquarters to-day and cried like child
His footprints were found to be far too
large to fit any of the tracks made in the
soft ground near the box in the gravel pit
The police are again searching to ascertain
where the box that covered the body came
from. The people who first identified it as
one taken from the rear of their home are
not now so positive, and the belief is that
the box came from some ones kitchen.
Thls idea was developed after Detective
Milton Fort, of Indianapolis, had seen it last
evening"
AH0 POllce nave turned up evidence to-
night that points stronger than ever to the
GLAND boy as the murderer The boys
mother has commended all along that Fred
die did not have revolver. This afternoon
she took an old friend into her confidence
and asked him to meet her husband who is
being looked for to arrive from MARYLAND
on every train, and inform him of the situ-
auon before the police get hold of him
ana told him that a revolver was secreted
under a bureau. The man gave the infor-
nation to the police, who then went to the
mousse and found the weapon. 1t fits the de-
scrlption given by the Belts boys who first
told the police, Just before this find the
ofacerS found another revolver in a vault
In the rear of the GLAND residence. They
have also discovered that Samuel Strauss
recently gave young GLAND a revolver. 1t
was learned to-day that GLAND was once
mixed up with several boys who hanged
the little Bodenmiller boy to the limb of a
tree until his tongue protruded. They
claimed 1t was for fun, but there is evil
dence that the boys did not like Andy
because he wore long golden curls and was
a ''woman's boy"
At midnight Thomas Gland arrived home
from Maryland and went direct to the iaiI
to see his son. The boy was expected to
make confession and had intimated as
much, but when questioned by his father
Fred stated that his former confession was
a lie, and thai he did not kill the child