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The times., 1899-04-23

! stole enough to make up for ten years Of
! righteous behavior. In Cuba he stole 4
gold watch belonging to a staff officer and
was shot and badly wounded in the side
while trying to get away with his plunder
Everyone admitted that the punishment
was Just, but as it had not been admins
tered in due military form Jim was placed
in a cage and put out to board with col
| ored family until he recovered.
/ Late in February the members of the
light artillery company were discharged
and sent home. Knowing the depths OF
depravity which Jim could display upon
slight provocation, Smith refused to take
his crow back to Maine. and as the co,ored
family had become attached to the bird
he very gladly left him with them The
day Smith reached home his father ad-
dressed him thus:
''See here. George. you've been away
having good time for nearly year.
You've seen Cuba and Havana, and
you've worn good clothes and talked to
whole lot of big bugs. Now. you'll
just strip off those store duds of yours
and go out and tap the maple orchard
In two days he had tapped more than
800 trees. At first the harvest was bad.
but after a rainstorm which barred the hi Is
the sap flowed freely, keeping him employ
ed all day and far into the night
One warm morning this week, when Re
was very tired and sleepy he heard soma
newly arrived crows cawing and scolding
among the woods. This led him to r.
member the abandoned sinner VIII ch he
had left in Cuba few weeks before HI
whistled few bars of military music and
then gave fairly good imitation of taps
All the crows but one flew a'oft and
made wide circles overhead. Tho solitary
exception eroaked susp;ciously for a min
ute and, spreading his wings, few down
and alghted upon Smiths shoulder.
Hello JIM" said Smith, patting the
prodigal upon the head. I'VE are both in
disgrace. so l reckon we'd better fight it
out together. Let's go home and see if
they'll use you as tough as they have me-"
At least, this is the way Smith accounts
for his action in bringing crow home.
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THE HISTORY OF A CROW.
COurt-Mnrtinled. Condemned, and
eFrom the New York SUI

From the New York SUM
When private George Smith, of Compa-
ny l.. First Maine Volunteers. went to
Augusta last July to be mustered into the
service of the United States, he took along
young crow. According to a time-hon-
ored custom in Maine the crow was named
Jim.
For week or so he was called Dear
Jim," or '.Saucy Jim." or DANDY Jim, -
according to the way his conduct impress
ed the soldier who addressed him. Later,
when his gluttonous and thievish propen-
sites had become prominent his Christian
name was made the centrepiece of various
profane words which ATTEMPTED to convey
the contempt in which the regiment held
him.
After being in Camp Powers two weeks
Private Smith was taken down with mea-
sles and was sent to the hospital where
upon Jim, freed all moral restraint. par-
sued his vicious course so industriously
that nearly every man in the regiment had
heavy bill of damages against Smith by
the time he had recovered.
Il can't pay it, boys" said he, as he
looked over the long list of articles which
the crow had stolen. Whats more. 1
wouldn't pay If I could. Catch jim and
if you find him guilty shoot him.
The next day Jim was tried by court
martial, found guilty on every count ard
sentenced to be shot in the presence of
the regiment. They trussed his wings to
his sides, hauled glove over his head to
blindfold him, and tied his feet TO the
head of a cracker barrel which was placed
20 rods down the field.
Just as the detail was marching out to
shoot him, Brigadier General Newcomb
asked for half hours delay, saying that
the governor intended to grant pardon
few minutes later the pardon arrived
and Jim was taken back to camp in tri-
umph and gorged with hardtack and mo-
lasses until he was too heavy to fly.
Private Smith was still weak from the
effects of measles when his regiment was
ordered to Chickamaugua, SO he was trans
ferred to a company Of light artillery and
sent to fort near the mouth of the Ken
lucky River. While stationed here Jim
became so immersed in the delights Of
clam digging that he forgot to steal
In December. when the company was or
dered to Savannah, Ca. Jim went along
and between that time and February,
when the men were sent to Havana, he
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tion Of Congress, approved October l. 1890,
authorized the Postmaster General to test
at small towns and villages" the practi-
cabiiity7 and expense of extending the free
delivery system ito Offices of the third and
fourth class and other offices not now en-
braeed with the free delivery The sum
of $4,000 to be taken from the amount
appropriated for the free delivery service.
was appropriated for the experimental
service. Postmaster General Wanamaker
reported that this departure was at once
successful. The sum appropriated yielded
net proceeds of over $3.50. due to in
creased business, and the salaries of the
postmasters of the offices experimental
with were raised in the aggregate over
81, 900.
The departure was so popular that when
it was feared that the appropriation might
not be continued by the Fifty-second Con-
gress private arrangements were made by
the people in more than one of the affected
communities by which the service should
be continued. Mr.. Wanamaker was
strong friend to rural free delivery. On
this subject in his fourth annual report
he said:
The old mail system is really colonial. The
Government takes pay for delivering letters with
out delivering them. 1t obligcs people to go or
send for mail, and that means in the winter or
stormy seasons, and for families of aged people,
the going without letters periodicals. We shall
look back with asionishment before many years
that the present system had to be suffered SO
long.
The concentration of labor which would be in
voived in the employment of person to do
what formerly required perhaps fifty. is great
business advantage TO the rural dweller. Cores
pondence would be stimulated, and reading would
he encouraged. The long evenings would be
lightened and the working days would be bright
ened. The farmer receives his periodical his
prices current, and such special information as
he desires. The grown-up children stay at home
more readily, and the old place is N every way
made happy. The family is in touch with the
rest OF the world.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Heath. in commenting on rural free deliv-
cry as it affects fourth-class postmasrers
and star route contractors says:
The old-time opposition to rural delivery, pro-
ceeding from country postmasters, with grocery
store attachments. and from village s;orekeepers.
has lessened, but still makes itself manifest in
spots
Postmaster General Bissell opposed rural
The times., 1899-04-23
BucoIic Eutcrurisc.

NFIUf IIIV -NVTfIshI etHIe JtltIIIIsIsI
postolioe established in small
Western village and native was appointed post
master. After a while complaints were made
that mail sent out from the new office,
and Inspector was sent 70 enquire into the
matter. He called upon the postmaster and
asked why no mail had been srrt out. The
postmaster pointed to big and nearly empty
mail bag hanging up in corner and said:
"Well, amt sent it out cause the bag amt
nowhere nigh full YET
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Just for Today.

Lord, for tomorrow and its ills
/ do not pray;
Keep me, my God, from stain OF SIN.
Just for today
Let me both diligently work
And duly pray;
Let me be kind in word and deed
Just for today.
Let me be slow to do my will,
Prompt 10 obey;
Help me to mortify my flesh
Just for To-day.
Let me no wrong on idle word
Unthnkfng say:
Set thou seal upon my lips
Just for today.
Let me in season, Lord. be grave,
In season gay;
Let me be faithful 10 thy will
Just for today.
Lord, for tomorrow and its ills
] do not pray;
But keep me. guide ma. love me, Lord.
Just for today.
From, the Sunday Masazin'
The times., 1899-04-23
4 Possible Improvement.

(Frnm Iife.t a.
First Rloudiser (shivcring like eornpopper)-.
I g-isl: ! was half frozc.
Second Einndikcr-T Thunder! What for?
''Bee.t,se I'm nineteenth frozc. uow.''
The times., 1899-04-23
Executed In. the Open.

ing caused the death of his wife. He was
given a jury trial, found guilty of murder,
and sentenced to be hanged
The times., 1899-04-23

First Assistant Postmaster General
Heath, in commenting on rural free deliv-
cry as it affects fourth-ciass postmasrers
and star route contractors, says:
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THE TRAVELLING PosToFF1cE.

Postmaster General Bisse
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-26
Robert Roe WIN Cnse.

A case is on trial in the Circuit Court in
which it is sought to break the will Of the
late Robert Roe. of Malott Park. Marga-
ret f. Huff, Mary A. Webb, John w. Daw-
son and Elijah Dawson are the plaintiffs.
TIL defendants are Catherine j. Hammond,
Jesse Roe and John F. Roe. John w. and
Elijah Dawson are grandchildren OF Robert
Roe. The other parties to the suit are his
children. Mr.. Roe died on Aug. 6, 1885, and
his widow died during the summer of 1898.
1t is charged that Robert Roe. when ne
made his will, twelve days before his death,
was of unsound mind. In his will he divid-
ed 35 acres of land among his children
and the children of his dead daughter, Mar
tina Dawson. The plaintiffs claim there Is
some confusion in the descriptions OF the
different parcels OF land and that the
document shows unmerited discrimination
against some of the benefciaries. -
1t is the claim of the defense that the Will
was dictated without plats while the aged
testator was unable TO leave his bed, ana
that, considering these facts, the document
is clear enough. Robert Roe was eighty
two years of age at the time of his death.
AS to the share which Jesse ard John Zoe
received, it is claimed by the defense that
they were justly entitled to all they re-
ceived. Jesse Roe, IL is asserted, was Tor q
long time in bad health and deserved con-
sideration at the hands of his father. wnile
John Roe always remained at nome ana
looked after his fathers interests.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-26

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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-26
FOR ALTERNATING AFFECTIONS.
Cress Obtains n $4,000 Verdict Against
Charles Jordan.

In Room /. Superior Court, yesterday the
damage suit of William Cress against
Charles Jordan was tried. The plaintiff was
suing Jordan for alternating the affections
Of Mrs. Cress. After hearing the evidence
the jury decided that Mrs. Cress's affections
we're worth $3.50 to her husband and a YER
dict for this amount was announced. The
result of the trial aroused considerable in
terest among lawyers and others about the
courtroom, and brought out several opinions
as to how much n woman's affections are
worth to her husband, from a financial point
of view.
Some time ago in Room 8, Superior Court,
Mrs. Cress was granted a divorce from her
husband. The latter fought the case and
at the time considerable evidence was
brought out concerning Mrs. Cress and
Jordan, the defendant in the damage suit.
Cress declared during the divorce trial that
Jordan was responsible for much of his do
nestle trouble. Jordan was formerly en-
gagged in peddllng potatoes about the city
and it was asserted by Cress that the ped
dler by his daily visits to his (Cress's) home
gradually won the affections of Mrs. Cress.
Cress in the divorce trial testified that he
followed Jordan's potato wagon about the
neighborhood in order TO catch him in some
tidAutSllHc HftellDS WIN MIS-. CreSS. lie
said that the cry of 'po-ta-toes" always
brought his wife to the window. Once he
had q rough and tumble fight with Jordan
in the presence Of Mrs. Cress. Judge Carter
gave Mrs. Cress the divorce, however, on
evidence which he believed to be sufficient.
"A few days later Mrs. Jordan called TO see
Judge Carter and told him her husband had
gone away. She intimated that he might
have como xxr;+A NJ 3d. CL-4I- RI
the divorce trial Cress sued Jordan for heavy
damages.
The defendant now lives In Anderson and
was not present at the trial yesterday. Moth
ing was said as to the whereabouts of Mrs.
Cress. Judge McMaster, in giving. his in
structions to the jury suggested thaFif they
found that Mrs. CresS was cold and indifer-
ent toward her husband before the potato
peddler came between them, this fact should
be taken into consideration I'm estimating
the value OF her affections. The jury was
not long in fixing the amount at s.. 800.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-26

The Buffalos will arrive this morning.
Nothing more has been heard from Lynch
The season so far has been rather disas-
trous to slow-ball pitchers.
Pitcher Frank Killen has been released
by Manager Irwin, Of the Washlngtons.
.'when the team strikes its batting gait
standing line in the Cincinnati papers.
President Colt has a letter from Foreman
announcing that he will be here to-day TO
discuss the situation.
1t took eleven innings for st. Louis TO re-
tain that loo per cent, with a score OF 3
to 2. This is real midsummer ball.
The Milwaukee Sentinel says Nicol does
not seem able 10 throw the ball from confer
field with any more vigor than last year.
What's the matter, "Watty?' is your
system awry this season? The Pirates do
not look well at the bottom OF the column.
This is the time of year when a club may
drop from q high place in the first division
to a low place among the tail-enders with
much celebrity.
There is said to be great likelihood that
bug" Holiday will become the proprietor
Of a highball emporium and bat" factory
in Cincinnati
The national game is getting a strong
foothold In England. "Hout!" and odd
it,, ole man" are likely soon TO be common
echoes in the British welkin.
Hogrievar has a heart-to-heart talk with
President Colt every day, the hve months
salary for four and a half months work.
of course. being the point at issue.
In addition TO making unaided except by
the fence both runs that won the Colonies
the battle, Hans Wagner made hair me
hits-four hits out of four times at bat.
The park will be put In readiness to-day
for to-morrow's game with Buf1aio. Whicn
Will open the league season. IL Is intended
to have the usual twO-tallyho, Grassland
onenirg of the season. There are still some
arrangements to make as 10 the opening
ceremonies at the grounds.
There IS nothing like a manager being
a good utility man." says Lave Cross. man.
ager of the Clevelands. Il had three catch
ers all complaining OF bad arms. None or
them were tit to catch. L donned the mask.
and after / had put two nice throws down
to SECOND two OF them were ready for work.
They got well in a second They thought
there was a chance or my going back TO
catching and of some one losing his Job
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-26

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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-26

Edward Jackson, SIG Chestnut street, ar
rested by Captain Dawson and Sergeant
Hyland and by them charged with stealing
a bicycle belonging to Charles Mueller, was
sent to the grand jury by Judge Cox yester-
day.
Mary eastman, charged with setting fire
TO the house Of Mrs. Mary Flynn, "a South
West street, was also bound over to the
grand jury.
Miss Mary Miller, a young woman from
Anderson. was fined $40 and costs on a
charge of petit larceny. She had been steal
ing small articles from the When clothing
store, and several of them were found on
her person when arrested.
William Cassiday, 1924 Chestnut street.
for shooting within the city limits Sunday
afternoon was fined 81 and costs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-26
A REPLY QUICKLY FILED
SUPREME COURT NOw READY TO ACT
OK THE NEWS CASE.
A Jury Puts n Value of $500 on
the Affections Of Mrs.
Cress.

Late yesterday afternoon another brief
was filed in the Supreme Court in the In
~dianapolis News litigation and this one was
by the attorneys for Major Richards. The
brief was in reply to that filed the day be-
fore by Ferdinand Winter, as attorney Tor
Charles r. Williams and Delavan Smith.
Yesterdays brief claims that all the rec
ords of proceedings in the lower court show
that Mr.. Winter acted as attorney for both
Mr.. Williams and Mr.. Smith. The brief ex-
presses regret that any controversy has
arisen between opposing counsel as to what
has taken place between them, and then
further states that the first record shows
that Mr.. Winter made special appearance for
Delavan smith for the purpose Of object
ing to the jurisdiction OF the court and the
service: but all records after that show him
tn have continued to act as attorney for
both. The brief claims that courts have
held that an appearance entered for one de-
PENDANT under such circumstances, presup-
poses that the attorney acts for both in the
balance of the case unless 1t is otherwise
specified. Cases to this effect are cited. The
brief continues. that when the receiver was
appointed, under the agreement set out in
in court and heard the statements made,
heard 1t stated that Charles r. Williams
and Delavan Smith were interested as well
as Major Richards. AT that time he said
nothing against the service and jurisdiction
Of the court and took no exceptions to the
proceedings. He agreed with ii, when. If the
question of jurisdiction and service was to
be raised. that was the time and opportunity
to raise it. Not having done so, it is con-
tended that this question cannot be raised
now.
On the point of all parties to the suit hav.
ing taken money from the receiver, the BRIEF
holds that the receiver is simply the repre-
sentative of the court and that IL is the
court who is in control of the property. The
receiver can pay nothing without the permis-
sion of the court and he is the courts per-
sonal manager. He can pay nothing except
on the order of the court and hence accept
ing money from the receiver. is an admission
that the court represented by him has juris-
diction. The brief closes with the request
that the appeal may be dismissed. and that
the orders of the lower court may be car
ried out without the necessity of making a
brief on the merits of the case.
This closes the arguments on the motion
10 dismiss the appeal and the papers in the
case are now in the hands of the judges of
the Supreme Court. The last brief was filed
and taken at once to the rooms of the
judges. A decision on this point may be ex-
pected any day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-26
WILLIAM EICHoRN's CHILD.
His second Wife Files n Claim in
Court for CARING for 1t.

Several years ago William Eichorn, of
this city, was granted a divorce from Emily
Eichorn. His complaint alleged cruel
treatment. AT the time his wife was an
inmate of the Central Hospital for the In
sane, and she Is still confined there. In his
petition for divorce the husband alleged
that his wife was not a fit person. to nave
the custody of their child, but the court
did not give the child to the father. Eich-
orn married again. and the child, who had
been living with the relatives of it's mother,
finally came to live with its father and
stepmother. Eichorn died in March of this
year. and since then his second wife has
cared for the child.
Recently, the second wife. Mrs. Sophia
Eichorn, filed a claim in court against the
Indiana Trust Company, guardian of Mrs.
Emily Eichorn. the first wife. The woman
asked that she be allowed 5000 for caring
for the first wife's child. Probate Commits
sioner Walker heard the case yesterday.
but reserved his decision. The fact de-
veloped yesterday that at the time the d.
vorce was granted to Eichorn the court was
not aware of the wife's insanity. When
the divorce suit was filed a summons was
made out for Mrs. Eichorr and was left at
the last place she had resided. When the
case vas called for trial she was, of course,
not in court.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-26
New Suits Filed.
Attorney General and Trusts.

There have been persistent rumors that
Attorney General Taylor will soon begin
action against divers and sundry trusts.
over a month ago Mr.. Taylor publicly
stated that when the rush of business re-
sulting from the Legislature was over he
would investigate the trust law in this
State and that he might bring a suit in
order to test that law. AT that time he
stated that he feared the law was not suffi-
cient for the purpose and he expressed re-
gret that a suitable antitrust law had not
been passed by the last Legislature. He
made no positive statement nor has he
done so yet.
Yesterday, in response to a query as TO
rumor that he had stated he would soon
begin actions against the standard OIL
Company and the Steel Trust, ne declared
that he had never made any such state
ments. He is not considering the subject
any more than he has been for the past
six weeks and has made no more positive
declarations than those referred TO above.