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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-16

Twenty-first judicial circuit. At a meeting
of the bar of Covlngton, held at the oft1ce
Of Lucas Nebeker on Jan. IL, Hon. ,. r.
Wood was on motion selected chairman
and Lucas Nebeker secretary. It was
moved, seconded and carried that Charles
NJ McCabe, Lucas Nebeker and Fred BOOrd
constitute committee to prepare and sub
init 10 the meeting a proper resolution ana
other protest against the proposed annexa-
ton OF Benton county to the Twenty-trst
judicial circuit The committee, after con-
sultation, reported to the meeting the fol-
lowing resolution which, on motion, was
unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That it is the sense of the
bar of CovIngton, Fountain county, that a
certain bill introduced in the House where
by it is proposed TO detach Benton county
from the Thirtieth circuit and to annex the
same TO the Twenty-frst circuit, and to au-
thorze Boards of Commissioners TO make
allowances increasing the salary OF the
judge ought to be defeated, and should not
become a law; that we object and protest
against the passage of SAID bill upon the
"F'irst@Because it is a notorious fact that
said movement arose out of quarrel be-
tween the bar of Benton county and the
judge of the Thirtieth circuit.
Second-Because the Twenty-irst and
Thirtieth circuits are now of about equal
size as to voting population, as shown by
the returns of the last general election
whereas upon said change being made the
proposed circuit, composed of Fountain,
double the size of said. proposed circuit COM
posed of Jasper and Newton counties, both
as to voting population and business. In
support of the foregoing objection we cite
the following facts: The vote in the Thir-
tieth circuit was: Jasper, 3.135; Newton p
1888; Benton, 3,126; total 9O4. The vote in
the Twenty-first circuit was: Warren, 2,703;
Fountain. 5,7S6; total, S.499; difference, 555
The Thirtieth circuit, with Benton de-
tached, would have 5,S0S. The Twenty-first
circuit, with Benton annexed, would have
1l,615; difference. 5,S07.
''Third-Because we regard the PROPOSE
ton to vest in Boards of Commissioners the
power to determine, control and make APP
preparations for the salary of circuit judges,
in whole or in part, or to any extent, with
or without q petition of twenty, or any
other number of persons as being wrong in
principle and dangerous and demoralizing in
practice and effect"
Another committee was appointed to pre-
pare bill to present to the Legislature to
create a separate circuit for Fountain
county This bill will be placed in the
hands of the county's representative, and if
it does not meet with favor Fountain will
ask to be attached to Montgomery or some
other county nearer it's class. There is a
general feeling here against having this cir
cult enlarged, but it has been suggested
that Warren might be joined to Benton,
thereby leaving Fountain a circuit within
itself
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-16
PEOPLES EXCUSES.
Rev. Mr.. Smith breaches from Parable
of the supper.


of the supper.
Rev. Geo NJ. Smith, pastor Of the Hall
place NJ. f. Church, preached last night on
Parable of the Great Supper" ST. Luke
xiv, 1924" There is perhaps no more wick
edness in Indianapolis than in other great
cities" said he in part. "but if the angel
of death should pass over this city and
sweep into the grave all the careless and
prayerless and then come back and sweep
into eternity all the Incorporate and pro-
fame, and then return and leave only those
who are truly devoted to Christ what desc
lation there would be in many home and
on many a street. We do not know, God only
knows the hundreds who are churchless and
Christless. While the angel of death delays
and the hand Of justice trembles soon to
fall in awful vengeance, Christ in plying
love says Come unto me and be We saved
zoe lids or the earth. for | am God and
there is none else And they all, with one
consent, begin to make excuse There are
two facts which make the excuses of the
parable very absurd. First, the great feaSts
at that time were given in the evening, and
second, the invitations were given on the
previous day, so those who desired to at
tend could arrange accordingly. The excuse
of the man who had bought the piece of
land as we'll as the excuse of the one who
had bought nVe yoke OF oxen. IS made more
absurd by the fact that he declares he had
made the purchase. The time to have gone
to see the land and prove the oxen was be-
fore the purchase was made. The third man
had married wife and therefore could not
come If the invitation had been to
funeral or a dry lecture the excuse would
have been more valid, but we cannot inn
agine a more appropriate place TO which
newly married couple could go than to a
feast. These excuses, absurd as they are
are on a par with the excuses which are
keeping people out of the Kingdom of Christ
to-day. There are many who insist that the
reason they are not in the church is be-
cause there are hyposrites there. / know
several persons who make a great deal of
this excuse who are both Incorporate and
profane. Before a person claims to be too
good to be in the visible church OF Christ
he should be as pure an angel and as
spotless as the immaculate Son OF God
Otherwise he is himself a hypocrite. Some
OF the most abominabe hypocrites that
walk the earth are outside the church.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-16
MANGLED UNDER A TRAIN.
Oscar TrinbOem, of the Circle Park
Hotel, Killed.

Oscar Trinboem, an employee of the Circle
Park Hotel, was mangled by a train at the
Madison-avenue crossing of the j., NJ. & /.
Railroad at o'clock yesterday morning,
and died two hours later at ST. Vincents
Infirmary without regaining consciousness.
He left the hotel and caught the outbound
j., NJ & l. train at $3.50 o'clock, as was his
habit. He tried to get on at Madison avenue
to walk 10 mis- home at No. 246 East Morris
street. He fell under the wheels. John Gavin,
fiagman. found him lying by the track. He
was put on an engine and taken 20 South
street and then moved on a stretcher TO the
innrmary He was twenty-three years old
and had a wife and one child. The family
came here a year ago from Columbus, Neb.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-16
Union veteran League Elects Officers.

There was a public installation Of the Of
ficers Of Encampment No. so. Union Veteran
Legion. and Ladies' Auxiliary. No. p, Sat
urday night. Mrs. Ella D. Zinn, past ma
tional president. Installed the officers of the
auxiliary, as follows: President, Mrs. Emma
nj. Sullivan; senior vice president Dora
Stiert: junior vice president, Miss Gillland !;
secretary Mrs. Mary Ray; treasurer, Mrs
Lilly Gilbreath; chaplain. Mrs. Belle Hos
nan: conductress Mrs. bessie Mcclure;
guard Mrs Woodward: color bearer Mrs
Louis Kern.
Past Colonel Thomas b. Linn installed the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-16

Mrs Ursula T. Bohlen. the widow Of the
late p. A. Bohlen, who was a well-known
architect of this city. died yesterday at her
home 1910 Broadway Mrs. Bohlen came to
man border. She leaves three children. Mrs
Augusta Marten. Mrs. Louise A. Berger and
Oscar ID. Bohlen. Mrs. Bohlen was eighty
one years OF age at the time of her DEATH
which was caused by paralysis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-16

Mrs. William Courtney, who lived at 1919
Ash street. died yesterday at her late resi-
dence of blood poisoning. Her maiden name
was Anna Shepherd and she was born in
Parkersburg. Ind, June 81 1851 She moved
to Charlottesville in 1871 and a short time
later came 20 this city. The funeral services
VIII be held a 10 o'clock this morning and
the remains will be taken to Charlottesville
for :nterment.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-16

0ei Is,o 20 'irS aS oc
James r. Ross; major b. c. Shaw: sur
geon, DR.. G. T. Bedford; officer of the day,
Charles Montgomery; chaplain, J. w. Hos
nan; quartermaster, G.. 6. Long: adjutant,
Thomas n. Browning; officer of the guard,
ID. L. Wright; surgeon major, Frank NJ.
Hay; quartermaster sergeant, r. j. Hudel-
son: color sergeant, James n. Stevens; sem
tirel, PAUL. Lendormi; bugler, T.. w. Nc
IntOsh
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-16
SAFES FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN.
One Way Trustees Spend the Taxpay-
ers' Money.


According to reports received concerning
freak bills about to be introduced into
the General Assembly, it would seem that
there is TO be a race between the county
and township reformers and the township
trustees throughout the State to decide
whether the former can save money fast
enough TO keep pace with the new schemes
evolved by the trustees on which to spend
money. Senator Patterns proposed bill to
allow trustees to equip the homes of school
children living at points remote from the
schoolhouses with telephones, which will
take the place of textbooks in teaching the
rising generation, has been shown to be a
good thing for the telephone manufacturers,
who will no doubt cherish the memory of
the senator from Jackson and Washington
counties The opportunities which will be
placed within the reach of township trustees
by the Patten bill can only be properly APP
preciated when compared With another
measure, as Yet indefinite in shape, which
Will emanate from Wells county as a result
of a peculiar situation iii that county.
Some time ago two township trustees of
Wells county became filled with a haunting
fear that the textbooks used by the school
children might be destroyed by fire some
time and that 1t was their duty to provide
against such a catastrophe. Accordingly,
both trustees conferred with the manufac-
turers of fire proof safes" who agreed TO
furnish each pupil with a safe in which
all books could be placed each night to
protect them from loss by fire. for the mod
est sum of $l3 each. Both trustees agreed
to the proposition. and several hundred of
the safes were bought and put to use in
the schools and the bills were paid out of
the township levy. 1t now develops that
the boxes were really worth about Sl50 at
the highest figure. being made altogether
of cast iron and in no sense fire proof. Many
of the citizens of the county feel that the
taxpayers who paid the bils were mulcted
TO an eronmous extent and that some one
made an immense profit through the sale
of the safes" This feeling has driven
many heretofore conservative people TO the
support of the work Of the county and
township reform commission. while another
faction adheTes TO the trustees, and will, it
is said. introduce bill to legalze such acts
of township trustees by charging their
powers in the matter Of governing the town
ship schools.
Several of the senators who discussed the
anticipated measure last night said il would
now be in order for some constituency to
request the introduction of bill authorizing
the purchase of horseless carriages for the
use of pupils in the country districts.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-16

Rt. Rev Bishop Chatard's condition yes
terday showed an Improvement over that
Of the night before but the case Is yet a
serious one. The bishop Is stin paralyzed
and only part Of the time is conscious.
Prayers were said in the churches yestef-
day for his recovery. His brother from
Baltimore viii return home this afternoon,
II the bishop continues to improve.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-16

Samuel Mitchell. a eolored night watch.
man at Bake & Krauss's coal yard. re-
ported TO the police that he had caught
kid" I.athers, also colored, stealing coal
early yesterday morning and that the young
man had attacked him with knife, cutting
his face. Lathers escaped.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-16

Insure with German Fire Insurance of In
diana. General offices, 20 South Delaware
street. Fire, tornado and explosion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-16

Gray iron castings, Ellis & FIeIfenberger.
Phone 95s. 800 S. Senate avenue.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-16
Fountain County Lawyer. object.

Special 70 the indianapolis Journal
CONVICTION. Ind, Jan. 1.-THE Foun-
tain county bar is wrought up over the pro-
posed "tacking on Of Benton county to the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-16

VIM. II. COburn Coal Go.
Anthracite coke and soft coal. Telephone 2H5.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-16

Feed your horse JANEs's Dustless oats.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-16

Fine Cameron Pianos at wulschner's.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-16

wegman pianos carlin & Lennox. . E. Mkt st.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-16

Everybody smokes Y. b. cigars.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-13
CARRIED HER SICK CHILD.

Policeman Hawkins of the Gregory
street station found Mrs. Hopkins, of No.
z19 Washington place, New York, about
$50 O'Clock last night walking about the
trolley sheds at the foot Of Exchange
place, very much excited. Mrs. Hopkins
carried a seven months old infant in her
arms.
Policeman Hawkins walked up to her
and tried to discover the trouble. All she
would say was:-
MY baby is very sick"
HaWkins looked at the child and found
1t was in an Unconscious condition. Mrs.
Hopkins was taken in a car to the Greg
cry street station, DR.. Rector was sent
FOR. After a hasty exa1ninatlpf he found
the infant was suffering from summer
complaint. After medicine had been adj
ministered Mrs Hopkins left the station
for New York.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-13
FACE AFLAME.
Horrible Sight on Newark
Avenue Where Morris
Davidson Appears.
DEADLY GASOLINE STOVE
Result of Filling One With a
Burner Lighted-victim
Will Probably Die.

Morris Davidson, twenty-five years old,
of No. 273 Warren street, a tailor, in the
employ of Harry Davis, Of Newark ave-
nue., was probably fatally burned at H:so
/ o'clock this morning. 1t was due to MS
| carelessness. The stove on which the
pressing irons are heated, burned low and
| Davidson started to fill the tank with
gasoline. Instead of extinguishing both
| flames he permitted zone to remain lighted
and began to pour the gasoline at the OPP
posite. end of the tank. He had poured
only a little In when a few drops spread
| and caught fire from the lighted burner.
In an instant the flames communicated
to the can which exploded with a deafen-
ing report, scattering blazing oil over
Davidson. His clothes in flames, his hair
a torch, rant.c with pain and completely
deserted by his wits, Davidson ran
| screaming into the street. Newark ave-
nue. was crowded with pedestrians. As
| Davidson. a veritable human torch, ran
among them, mon and women scattered.
In bis agong Davidson dug his fingers into
a telegraph pole, then turned and seized q
man who was passing. The man broke
his hold and he was in danger Of under
going the same fate. A man who was
cleaning windows nearby dashed a pail
full of water on Davidson before anyone
could stop him. The water merely spread
the flames.
A horror stricken crowd saw the mans
horrible condition but did nothing to
help him. No one seemed to know hat
to do. Davidson ran up the street and
then bach again. Meanwhile Policeman
William Heath. of the Gregory street sta
ton, had been attracted by the mans
screams. He realized in an instant the
right thing to do and did it. Rushing into
the tailor store he seized one of the large
and heavy cloths which are used to cover
the rolls of cloth on the display coun-
ters. He then dashed back into the street
ard holding the cloth. mattador fashion,
ran on Davidson. and enveloped him in
it. He wound ii tight. and throwing the
burning man to the sidewalk. rolled him
over and over until the flames were en-
t.rely -extingrished. This Heath did
without receiving so much as a burn
himself.
Davidson was in such agony that the
police did not wait to summon the am
bulance but put him on a stretcher in
the p-atrolwagon and drove at ~breakneck
speed TO the City Hospital. There it was
found that the injured mans condition
was critical and the chances Of his re-
covery slight. Ills head. face and neck
we're horribly burned and his features
scarcely recognizable.
His right arm was in a frightfnl condi-
ton. The flesh was nearly burned away.
In places My a few shreds remained.
His right wrist wa $ burned through to
the bone. His entire body was bis
tered.
Several women who witnessed the scene
tainted. shop girls on their way to din
ner sickened at the awful sight.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-13

Pursuant to and by virtue of an order of
the Orphans Court of the County of Hudson.
New Jersey, made on the ninth day Of June,
A.. D.. 1899, the undersigned, ADMINISTRATIVE Of
the estate of John b. Bruins, deceased. will
sell at public vendue- to the highest bidder.
on Wednesday,. the 18th day of July, 1899. at
two O'Clock in the afternoon, on the prem
ises:-
All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land,
situate, lying and being in Jersey City. Hud-
son County and State of New Jersey, and
may be more particularly described as follows:
Beginning at a point in the southeasserly
line of Jackson avenue, distant forty-fve and
eight-tenths feet northeasterly from the north
easterly corner Of Jackson avenue and kearney
avenue; thence running % southeasteriy sew
enty-two and fifteen one-hundreiths feet, more
or less, to a point in the northwesterly line Of
lot number three go, in block number severn
teen 90, as laid down on the New Map or
C~laremont, Bergen Heights. Hudson County,
New Jersey, made by g. / Van Horne sur
veyor and Civil Engineer, Town of bergen,
Hudson County, N. j., August !, 1851 which
point Is distant forty-hve and TWO one-hun-
dredths feet northeasterly from the northeast
erly line Of Kearney avenue, in a line at
right angles to said Kearney avenue; thence
ca southwesterly along said last mentioned
line of lot number three CD eighteen feet;
thence f) n~Orthwesterly to, along ana beyona
the northeasterly side of a building now on
the premises adjoining southwesterly hereto
seventy-two and three-tenths feet to the south
easterly line Of Jackson avenue: thence %
northeasterly along said line of Jackson ave
nue. nineteen ard seventy-nine one-hundredths
feet to the point or place of beginning
Also all that certain lot, piece or parcel
of land and premises. situate. lying and being
in Jersey city, in the County of Hudson and
State Of New Jersey, bounded and described
as follows:-
Beginning at a point in the northeriy INC
of Virginia avenue. distant two hundred ani
sixty-nine feet and eight-tenths OF a 1907
{269.8 ft) westerly from the corner formed
by the intersection of said northerly line OF
Virginia avenue with the westerly line 81
Bergen avenue, and from thence running Ql
n~ortherly at right angles to Virginia avenue
one hundred and Lightweight feet and eleven
hundredths Of a foot GSS.11 fte TO the iine OF
| lands now or formerly of Ramp; thence {9
westerly along said line of lands now or for
merly Of Rapp twenty-five feet rs ftp thence
ga southerly on a line parallel with me course
first run one hundred and eighty-eight feet and
eight one-hundredths Of a foot dsS.oS - 70
a. easterly along said northerly line Of Vir-
ginia avenue twenty-five 90 feet to the point
MARY BRUINS,
Administrative
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-13
MUSIC HADN'T CHARMS
Janitor Who Didn't Like Singing
Gets Into Trouble.

Fritz Somerville. of No. 34 Adams
sire set. Hoboken. was convicted Of as
sault in the General Sessions Court yes
terday afternoon. somerville was Janator
of the fiat numbered above. MIS-. A.
Walters, a tenant of the fiat, who was
the complainant, said that on April 70.
her daughter Sadie was singing. The
janitor didn't like the song, and SAID
sadie's singing reminded him Of the
squealing of a pig.
He later on came to the door" said
Mrs. Walters. and knocked. ] opened
it and somerville and nay husband COM
menced to quarrel. somerville pulled a
knife and cut me on the hand
Her testimony was corroborated by her
husband and daughter. Somerville de-
clared the whole matter was one Of
spite. ana that he used the knife in self
defense
Sentence was suspended.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-13
HIT BY iron WRENCH.
Italian T~rackWalker Seri-
ously Injuries Young
MoKugh.

Joseph McKugh, sixteen years old, OF
| No. 273 Van Horne street, lies in the CITY
Hospital. suffering from a compound
fracture Of the skull. He is in a precartous
condition.
McKugh was injured in a most peculiar
manner and for apparently no reason ny
Frank Kollosok, an italian trackwalker'
who lives on Second street. Koliosok Is
EMPLOYED on the Newark Branch of the
Central Railroad. He inspects the tracks
at night. from Hackensack trestle to the
main branch at C~ommunipaw.
About half past FIVE last evening" young
McKugh in mDan with Frank
NIaecker. Thomas O'Hara and William
DoIan, was walking on the east bound
track toward Van Horne street. The
trackwalker was about one hundred feet
ahead Of the lads. The quartette were
having lots of sport in their own way, and
were laughing loudly.
Kollosok evidently was unde the I'M
preston that the lads were making sport
Of him. He waited until the four reached
him and had gone by about four feet.
Then he flung a big iron wrench at NC
Kugh,s head. The tool weighs about SIX
pounds. It landed on the boys right tenn
pie fracturing the skull and rendering him
unconscious. The flow Of blood from the.
wound was enormous.
Kollosok started off down the track
when he saw what he had done.
While Dolan and Maecker were carry
ing their injured companion from the
track to his home, a great crowd gather
ed. Patrolman Egan who was on Wood
ward street. a short distance away went
after the italian. Kolosok was arrested
at Pacific avenue, several blocks from
where he threw the wrench.
It looked as though it would go hard
with the prisoner for a time, the crowd
being very anxious to get at him. The
policeman kept them off, however, while
he telephoned for an ambulance and the
patrol wagon. In the meantime Mckugh
had been taken to his home. He was
later sent to the City Hospital.
Sergeant Finnie of the Communipaw
avenue station took the prisoner to the
hospital later, but the wounded boy was
in no condition to identify his assailant-
He gave a statement. however, saying
that he knew of no danger of being hit.
He does not ever know what hit him, he
says.
McKugh's companions say that Kollo-
sok had no cause FOR such violent action.
The lads apparently had not the slightest
intention of wounding The Italians feel
nigs, judging from their statements
Kollosok could give no account OF the
affair, being unable to speak English hu.
emily enough. He was held on a charge
of atroeious assault and battery He is
thirty-hve years old.