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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-01
Married a KIondiker.
AL aha Indianannlis Innrnal

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Feb. 2S.-Ephraim
L. Pounds back from the Klondille, the
owner Of rich claims, was welded yesterday
to Mrs. Ada Watson who was his play
mate in childhood This afternoon, accom-
panied by his bride, he started for London,
where he will deal with syndicate in re-
gard to his claims in the Klondike. He was
only eight years of age when he moved
from Terre Haute and since then he has
been around the world He was an expert
quartz miner in the Western States before
he went to Australia and South Africa He
went to the British northwest three years
ago. and when the Klondikegbig discoveries
whose value he knew through his long ex-
perience in gold mining. Mrs. Watson is
the widow of e. M. Watson, who was the
at the time of his death. ten years ago.
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Al to tie IndianapoIis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
NOBLESVILLE, Ind, Feb. 2S.-For four
weeks the Christian Church has been hold
ing meetings every afternoon and evening,
and at the evening services many are
turned away, not being able to get even
standing room in the large new church
building. over three hundred have united
with the church up to date. The evangel-
lists, Scoville and Scott, will probably close
their labors in q few days, as they have
pressing engagements elsewhere. The
Methodists are also having a splendid re-
Vival under the management of the pastor,
3. +. Kemp, and assisted by the Indiana
Conference evangelist Rev. J. D. Hart
sock, of Greencastle. During the past two
weeks over one hundred have united with
this church, thirty-fiVe of whom were gath
cred in Sunday. Other churches of the city
are feeling the effects of the revival.
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MILITIA IN READINESS.
A Dispatch ut Washington the Gov
ermor Does Not Understand.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Ind. Feb. 2S-George II.
Pennington, colonel of the First Regiment
Indiana National Guard. tonight wired
Company d here to hold itself in readiness
to move tomorrow morning. Nothing else
was stated. 1t is believed the company may
be taken to Versailles, where the lynchers
of the Levi gang are being tried, and many
threats have been made against the state
authorities.
Governor Mount was asked last night
about the report that militia company at
Washington had been ordered to hold itself
in readiness to move to-day. There must
be some mistake about that said he, flor
] have ordered no such step ais this. 1 left
my office early this afternoon, suffering
from a severe headache. If there had even
been Il call for troops / certainly would
have been notified. / have heard nothing
from Versailles to-day. When talked with
the attorney general over long-distance
telephone yesterday he told me there was
no indication of trouble in Ripley county
this week"
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GAS WE'LL TURNS OILER.
Indiana Price Up Another Cent, Now
Being 40 Cents IL Barrel.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
HARTFORD CITY, Ind, Feb. 2S.-The
Peoples Gas Company of this city owns a
gas well directly south of the Panhandle
depot. Two years ago salt water crept in
and separator was put in to eliminate the
salt water from the gas, and performed its
function admirably. Recently the Harry
Carroll oil, q half mile distant, was shot
and since then the gas well has been flow
ing oil instead of salt water. Indiana oil is
now As cents, having gone UP another cent
Saturday. Oil men say that if Indiana oil
reaches 60 cents there will be one of the
experienced in the State. The monthly oil
report for February shows the Blackford
county field to be in the lead in new work.
The Cudahy Oil Company intends to put in
a pipe line here, if their wells now located
come in oilers.
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Children Fight for Mothers property.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
KOKOMO, Ind, Feb. 2S-The administra-
tors sale on the old homestead of Mrs.
Nancy Wilson, near Poplar Grove, this
county, was the scene Of u cutting affray
Saturday. Thomas Bell, a son-in-law of the
dead woman, was stabbed by Thomas Will
son, his brother-in-law In dividing up the
clothing and other small property of the
old lady the children became involved in
a quarrel, which resulted in young Wilson
attacking Bell with a pocketknife Bells
face was frightfully slashed and one thrust
entered the back under the shoulder blade.
Wilson, who is a brother of County Com
missioner j. w Wilson. was arrested. Bell
is not expected to recover
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SELF-HYPNOTISM
Is Practiced UnconsciousIy by People
Day by Day.

In order TO continue habit some peOrle
will put up with more misery day by day
than they would stand for any other cause
For instance, Il man may have daily
twlnges of neuralgia CT stomach trouble or
weakness Of the heart (all having tI,ir
origin III a disarranged nervous SYSTEM
and he told many times that he could be
rid of his misery by leaving of the drugs,
tobacco and coffee that cause the trouble.
But he stoutly asserts that they don't hurt
him and arc not the cause OF his trouble
Why" one man said. II left of coffee and
tobacco once for two weeks and felt like
fighting cock, but 1 couldn't stand tie
powerful desire and had to take them up
again."
such experiences show the real hypnotic
character of habit, and these habits are, 10
an extent. breaking down the race. When
a man shakes off the hypnotism he clearly
sees that bounding health and the ability
70 hold up ones head like a man, to DO
ones life duty and have the ability to carry
out business projects successfully is worth
more than all the habits on the face If the
earth when coupled with daily aches and
ais and an notwithstanding Inability 10
make things go.
Mans great object in life is happiness
ana TO portray as nearly as possible the
perfect man designed by the Creator.
Narcotic habits, like coffee ana tobacco
break him down BY as sure law as that
by which tho sun rises each morning, II is
easy to break the spell OF coffee If Pos
tIm Food Coffee is. used. for when il is
properly boiled il has the color ana favor
Of Java coffee, and yet contains nothing
but the most powerful food elements. se-
iected with especial reference to their abiI-
ity 70 restore tho delicate tissue IN brain
and nerve eenterss The trade u,srk ''lt
ms1Aes .tSd pa29d covers profound truth
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Proposed lodge of SORROW.

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 2S.--The Mexican
German and Spanish lodges of this city
have spontaneously invited their American
brethren to special lodge of sorrow to be
held on the Sd Of March in memory of the
Masons who have persisted in the Maine dis
aster, and as a mark of sympathy for the
loss sustained by the order and the United
States. 1t is a noteworthy fact that the
initiative was taken in this matter by Grand
Orator Carlos Roumagnie, a native-born
Spaniard of Madrid, who supported the
movement in speech full of feeling There
is no i'll feeling between Americans and the
better class of native Spaniards here.
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STREAM OF LIQUID GLASS
Burst Out I'm G. III. Over Factory and
Caused $4,000 Damage.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind, Feb. 2S.-The c. II. Over
& Co. window-glass factory, one of the
largest in the gas belt, met with serious
accident this afternoon and came near be-
ing destroyed by fire. The big continuous
tank in which is kept hundreds of tons of
molten glass, from which the blowers work,
burst and the contents poured out and ran
about the factory Several of the workmen
had close calls from being caught and
the emergency and with nth the " assistance Of
the city fire department prevented the
building from burning and ditched the
glass into the pit surrounding the furnace,
where it will lay and cool off, and will then
be placed back into the furnace. The great
est damage is the months loss of time to
the factory and four hundred men en-
ployed there. The loss is estimated at
$4,000 by the firm.
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overwhelming majorities OF selfish and self.
seeking masses of men, blindly following
leader TO whom they hand over the excr-
else of what is supposed to be their will
expressed by votes, TOO many men Of inllu-
ence and character have Withdrawn them
selves from all concern in the adminstra-
ton of government. And Il is the attitude
of cowardice and immortality. Conspicuous
instances of failure in the attempt to bring
about q better condition Of political man
agement are no doubt most discourag ing;
but ultimate and not immediate success IS
the wise expectation Of thoughtful men
And, meanwhile, no forlorn hope was ever
led by the kind Of man who loses heart in
the face or in the fear of failure And more
than that. personal duty is not treasured by
this rule. A man owes to his country even
his life, if the sacrifice is demanded; ana
he owes the service of his time, his ntelli-
gence, his interest, his participation in Aish
public affairs
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Revival.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BLUFFTON, Ind, Feb. 2S.-The revival
which has been in progress for six weeks
in the Methodist Church closed last night
1t goes down on record as the greatest
spiritual revival in the history of the local
church. The earnest work of the pastor.
Rev. Somerville Light was highly appre-
ciated by the entire membership. Thus far
there have been 30 accessionS during this
conference year. During the revival the
Vincent Chapter OF the Epworth League
received 67 new members, which now has
a membership of 225. the largest chapter
in the Fort Wayne district. The chapters
benevolent work this year amounts to 81, 200
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NOW SHE WILL SHINE"
Wealthy Chicago Widow Pays $21 800
for "a Single Diamond

CHICAGO, Feb. 2S.--Mrs. Celia Wallace,
widow OF the wealthy iumberman, j. s.
Wallace, of this city, has added to her mag
nificent collection of jewels tho second lar
gest diamond in the United States. The
price paid for the precious stone, which is
only surpassed in beauty and intrinsic value
by tho famous Tiffany diamond, was $2l,-
900. The jewel was the property of a for
mer Governor of Wisconsin. Mrs. Wallace
is the woman who offered to adopt and ed
Ucate the young Cuban girl. Miss Cisneros,
at the time of her visit to Chicago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-01
The Ferris wheel Inventors Remains.

PITTSBURG, Feb. 2s.-The remains OF
George w. G. Ferris, known throughout the
world for his daring invention and con-
struction Of the great Ferris wheel at the
Chicago worlds fair, are still held at the
crematory OF Undertaken Samson, in this
city, for the unpaid funeral exDenses con-
tracted over year ago. Mr.. Ferris was
practically penniless at his death, but car
RED insurance to the amount of S25 600
IEls, II is said, was more than eaten up by
the numerous claims left
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SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 2S.-The entire
proceeds from to-day's attendance at the
mining fair, the largest exhibit of matters
relating to mining ever held OH the Pacific
coast, which has been attracting crowds
to Mechanics pavilion for the past month
are to be devoted to the relief of the fam
lilies of the victims of the Maine disaster
An extraordinary programme of military
nature was presented for the occasion
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SETTLED by HAITI.
ItaIy's Claim Against the Little Re-
public Paid i'm Full.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Feb. 2s.-The Ital-
ian claim has been settled by Haiti paying
the full amounts demanded. The French
government is now pressing a claim for
damages for violation Of Treaty rights of
French citizens. President Simon Sam will
visit Racmel and the provinces on March G.
The long pending claim of Italy against
Haiti, just settled, was the case of an Ital-
ian merchant at Port de Paix, whose ves-
sci and cargo, worth $4,000, were. it is al
legged, illegally seized and sold by the
Haitian government
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-01
Mexico Gold Mine venture.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
BLUFFTON, Ind, Feb. ga stock COM
pany is being organized in this. city to be
known as the National Dredge and Min
ing Company, with capital stock of $780,
000 with q paidup value of 10000 They
have an option on one hundred acres of
river bottom in New Mexico which pros
pectorS have demonstrated are rich with
gold
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-01

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind, Feb. 2S.-Wesley Hensen,
aged sixty-four, committed suicide by hang
ing last night in his barn, four miles west
of Muncie. When found at o'clock this
morning by his son his body was cold. Mr..
Hensen owned five forty-acre farms in this
county. The act is attributed to the slight
arrangement of his mind Superinduced by
continued i'll health.
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Mrs. sweigert Found Hanging.
eciai to the indianapolis journal.

Special to the indianapolis journal.
NEW. CASTLE. Ind, Feb. 2S.-Mrs. John
Sweigert, living south of this city, at
tempted suicide while visiting at the home
of her mother, near Cambridge City, yes
terday. She went into an outbuilding to
crack some hickory nuts and was found
there hanging from Il rafter. She was near
ly dead and it required five hours of labor
TO bring her back To life. She Is mentally
unbalanced and win be committed TO East
Haven ASYLUM.
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BOTH WERE INNOCENT.
Neither OF the SeminOles burned at
the Stake Was Guilty of Murder.

s GUTHRIE, o. T., Feb. 2S--Ever since the
burning of the two Indians for the murder
of Mrs. Laird, at Maude, i. r., it has been
asserted that Lincoln McGeisey, the young
est of the two, was innocent, and all the
evidence brought out at the hearings has
served to corroborate this assertion. 1t is
row learned that special agents of the gov
eminent have secured evidence establishing
a complete alibi for Sampson, the other
victim, proving he was forty miles from
the Laird homo at the time of the murder.
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force the laws it was his duty to inter-
vene. He denounced in most scathing terms
the insulting remarks that had been made
with regard to a promise of a pardon to
Kelly and convinced every ono that there
was absolutely no ground for such a malic-
ious falsehood. Ripley county had never
asked for aid or it would have been given
most promptly He showed that the Wit
ness Kelly had been warned before being
taken to the coroner not to tell If he knew
any one of the mob For him TO have done
so would have meant his own death at the
hands of that same mob.
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RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 2S.-Gen. w. f.
Taliaferro, Mexican war veteran, and
commander Of the Virginia troops during
the John Brown raid, major general in
the Confederate army and an ex-judge, died
at his home in Gloucester county last
night.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind, Feb. 2S.-This morning
while the three-year-old daughter of John
l.. Sellers was playing near a stove in the
absence of its parents her clothing caught
fire and was burned off. The child died
two hours later. The six-year-old daughter
of Michael A1cDuff was fatally scalded from
her neck down this evening with the con-
tents of pot OF boiling coffee.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-01
Many Made Homeless by Fire.

NEW YORK. March 1.--Fire that broke
out at midnight in a four-story tenement
mouse. No. III Harrison avenue, Borough OF
BROOKLYN, damaged property to the extent
or $4,000 and made seventy families tempo
rarily homeless. Several smaller tenement
houses were destroyed. A number of per-
sons We're slightly injured by falling walls.
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CHICAGO, Feb. 2s.-DanieI Levi Boone,
son of DIR. Levi Boone, one of the
early mayors Of Chicago. and
grand nephew OF the noted Dam
iel Boone is lying dangerously i'll
at his home in this city. He is the last
surviving man descendent of the famous
Boone family. Mr.. Boone has been an in
valid for the past four or I'VE years.
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Contract for s1e,4e4 Church.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
PORTLAND, Ind, Feb. ga. A. Fletch-
er, of Martins Ferry, o., was this after
noon awarded the contract for building a
new Methodist church in this city, at SIS, AGA.
There were fifty bidders
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John Robertson.

BELLOWS FALLS, VT, Feb. 2S.-John
Robertson, a prominent paper manufacture
er, died yesterday at Palm Beach. Fla. He
was II member of the firm of John Robert
son & Son, the Robertson Paper Company
OF Bellows Falls and w. a. Cole q Co., of
Putney. VT.
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Chance cor ) noycott.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
ANDERSON. Ind, Feb. 2S.--Anderson
merchants have decided to put q free hack
system into operation between this city and
Middletown, and the merchants and people
of that city are rising IN arms against any
intrusion upon hcns trade. They threaten
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-01

Philadelphia RECORD.

Hysteria Is an anfallIble symptom of
weakness. That's why the shrewd adver-
Users long ago stopped shrieking in order 10
try the finely moduated. confidential tone
which beats squareiy on the drum OF the
public ear.
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Col. Matthew C. Gal,ov.x

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Feb. 2S.-Col. Matthew
c. Galloway, founder of the Memphis
Avalanche and afterwards editor of the
Appeal, died tonight in his seSenty-eighth
year.
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Bishop Doane. in North American Review.
sVisest and best Of all the marks OF i true
patriot is the possession and the practice
Of an intelligent interest insfhe public affairs
Of his couatry. Hopeless IN the face OF the
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Chairman Bigler, of the Republican COM
mittee for the Eleventh district has issued
call for the meeting OF the committee in
Wabash Thursday. March >, to fix the time
and place for holding the congressional
convention.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-01
Northumberland Well Struck.

PORTLAND, Ind, Feb PA mammoth
oil we'll was finished by Let's & Hardison,
on the McNutt farm, in jackson township,
this afternoon. The well is said to be good
for two hundred barrels of oil daily.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-01
Oil Well Failure.
! tn the Indiananolis Iollrnal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BLUFFTON, Ind, Feb. 2S.--Well No. 2,
at Ossian, ten miles north of this city, has
proven a failure. Salt water was struck at
100 feet in Trenton rock.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-01
FORMER billiard Communion.

CHICAGO, Feb. 2S.-Frank J. Parker, the
old-time billiard player and at one time
billiard champion of the United states died
at his home here to-day of paralYsis
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Kansas City Journal.
1t is said that Alfred Austin writes ~
his verses in the daytime. This is hold.
Most great crimes are committed under Tie
cover Of darkness.
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Pntri0tisni.
Washington ca

W dsHIIBLUIi I Lat.
The Spanish omelet Will ut once disap-
pear from the menu OF every patriotic tay-
ern keeper.
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Life Insurance for Firemen.
Snecial to the Iradiananolis Journal

IL
ANDERSON, Ind, Feb 2S.-Citizens OF
Anderson to-day presented every member
of the Anderson fire department with a
one-thousand-dollar life and accident in
surance policy, paid up one year. Two re-
FUSED to accept the gift.
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to boycott those who patronize the free
hack and come to this city to purchase their
goods. The hack begins its rtsn tomorrow.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-11-12
WorId,s Fnir for ST. Louis.

St. Louis, Nov. 2.-The directors of
the Worlds Columbian exposition, who
arrived in ST. Louis Monday from Chi
cago 10 hold their annual reunion,
were entertained by The local recep-
ton committee at social functions
Monday night and Tuesday morning,
end departed Tuesday evening for Chr
cago. IL the afternoon they met the
local committee arranging for the cele-
bration of the centennial of the Louisi-
ana purchase in this city in 1903, and
en- the advice of Director-General
Davis and his associates it was decided
10 give a worlds fair here in that year.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-11-12
UNDER A NEW RULE.
Salvador. Nicaragua and Honduras
Unite to Form United states
of Central America.

San Francisco, Nov. 2.-The steamer
Acapulco, which arrived from South
America Tuesday, brings news Of the
coalition of three Central American
states, Salvador, Nicaragua and Hon.
duras, which will be conducted under
common administration to be known
as the United States of Central Ameri-
ca. The Inauguration of the new
regime was to be ushered in Tuesday,
according to the Acapuco's passengers.
and a grand celebration in honor of the
event was to be held at Amalpa, which
is to be the seat of government. Under
the form of the government the admin
istration passes into the control of a
representative from each of the repub-
lics-Dr. Salvador Callegas, of Saliva
dor; DR.. Miguel Angel Ugarte, of Hon
duras, and DIR. Manuel Corrolel Matus,
of Nicaragua. The three gentlemen
mentioned above will continue in power
until the 14th of March next, when they
will formally elect president of the
United States of Central America who
will hold Office four years.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-11-12
TO BE SENT TO NEuvIrAs.
order t.s~ea for the Movement OF
rsseps 60 Cabn About Mo-
vcmbcr -.

| Washington. Nov. 4.--Secretary Al
rpr ,ssned tho first order looking 10 tho
military occupation of Cuba by the
tspl,eA states troops The order was
issWs>i ea,y after very careful consid-
eratlaa Of the reports of the military
officers now In Cuba. and of the Heckcr
hoard and other expert commissioners,
which have been In the field. The or
der looks to the occupation OF two
points to begin with. namely: Neuvitas
aud Puerto Principe, but the occupa-
tion viii be extended as rapidly as the
Spanish evacuation proceeds The or
der directs the movement to begin at
once, but according to the calculations
Of the department 1t will scarcely be
possible to make the first landing be-
fore November %.
II was explained at the war depart
ment that this first movement of troops
to Cuba was ordered in advance of tho
date originally intended for the rea-
son that the Spanish evacuation com
missioners had unexpectedly notified
the American commissioners that they
intended to evacuate Puerto Principe
on the ED of the present month. Con-
sequently 1t became necessary to have
United States troops on hand in Cuba
to replace these Spanish forces to main
tain order and protect life and prop
erty