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Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-04-05

pAILR0AD lands for sale by the undersigned
IL and payments received on contracts. Mr.
John d. Bassett, Pres, Adams Co., bank will
conduct the business in my name during my
absence, per orders from Mr.. Cooper.
BENZ. MARTIN,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31
LARGE BUSINESS TRANSFER.
ID. p. Erwin q Co. Sell Out to HaVenS-
Geddcs Company, of Terre Haute.

transfer of the business of d. p. Erwin
& Co., jobbers and importers of dry goods,
has been made to the Havens & Geddes
Company, of Terre Haute. The new COM
pany will take possession Wednesday, 1t is
understood that the consideration is about
100000, but because an inventory of the
Erwin & Co.'S stock has not been COM
pleted, it is not yet possible to name the
exact amount of the purchase price. Mr..
Erwin said, yesterday, that the reason for
the sale was that he wanted to retire from
the control of great dry goods business,
with its arduous details. and devote his
time to his other interests. In a few days
after the deal has been completed, Mr.. Err
win and his family will make trip to Eu-
rope as has been their custom for several
years
Mr.. Erwin will be a stakeholder in the
new company and will be one of it's officers,
probably vice president. Alvin S. Lockard,
another member of the Erwin Company,
will also probably remain in the new com
pany. The other member of the old com
pany is Charles S. Erwin, of New York.
The HaVens q Geddes Company is COM
posed of Elisha Ravens and Robert Geddes,
of Terre Haute. The big fire at Terre
Haute destroyed the wholesale and depart
ment store of the Ravens u Geddes Com
pany The company had wished to estab-
fish itself in this city and an agreement
was, therefore, easily reached with the Err
win Company. Mr.. Erwin will build the
site of the Havens & Geddes Company
building, the property being included in
the purchase price.
The HaVens 81 Geddes Company will bring
to this city its plant for the manufacture
of cheap clothing, which employs about $50
persons. The company's territory extended
as far west as Iowa and Missouri. and the
Erwin Company sells to merchants in the
States adjacent to, and including, Indiana.
The combination will require an increased
force of employees The Havens 81 Geddes
Company's travelling men will probably be
retained and added to the Erwin Companys
force. They may, however, continue living
at Terre Haute The Office force of the
Terre Haute company will be brought to
this city. The new company will lease
from an insurance company, which owns
the property occupied by the Erwin Com
pany on the Meridian-Street side, and from
Mr.. Erwin, who owns the McCrea-street
side.
The history of the business of d. P. Err
win q Co. is almost the whole history of
the wholesale dry goods business of Indian
apolis. 1t was started by Webb, Kennedy
g. Co, in 1889. Mr.. Erwin came here and,
in $780, organized the firm of Johnson &
Erwin. Previous to his coming here he had
been a member If the firm of LOckard, Ire
land a. Co., Of Cincinnati. The firm of d. p.
Erwin K Co was created in 1884 Three
years later a widespread fire destroyed the
building of j. p. Erwin & Co. In a few
days Mr.. Erwin had bought in the business
of Byram, Cornelius & Co.. and IN 1890 the
Jog to la South Meridian street. Since then
the business of Erwin. Daisy & Co., of Gin
cinnati, has been combined with the Indian
apolis concern.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31

Jennings, Ashley j.. Company c. 15sth Reg
iment.
Kinney, Frederick. Company B. 157th Regi-
ment.
Letter. Charles E., Company L, 16lst Regi-
ment.
Lowell. Clifton. NJ Company B, 18th Regi-
ment.
Lucas, Converse. Company r. 16Oth Regi-
ment.
Luse, Warren s. Company II, 18th Regi-
ment
McMulIen Harry A. Company D. 15Sth
Regiment.
Mitchell. Harry. Company NJ, 15Sth Regi-
ment.
Moon John A Company L. 15Sth Regiment
MotherWeIl. Michael. 2Sth Light Battery.
Overly, Macy. Company d. 18th Regiment
Perkins Harry o., Company f, 18th Regi-
ment.
Perkins. Lafayette B., Company B. 18th
Regiment.
Perry, Charles, Company c, 157th Regi-
ment.
Resebrough, Frank, Company X, 16oth
Regiment.
simon Charles. Company C. 18th Regiment.
Snyder, James F., Company l., 159th Regi-
ment.
Snyder, William. Company B. 157th Regi-
ment.
stultz Sherman, Company b, 18th Regi-
ment.
Stevens, Ira s, Company B. 15Sth Regi-
ment.
sweeten, Charles s., Company NJ, 159th Reg
iment.
Vauter, George, Company T, 1GOth Regiment.
Wiley. Clarence, Company D. 15Sth Regi-
ment.
Wynn Oscar Company L. 16Oth Regiment.
Making a total loss. so far as reported of
hfJy-two officers and men, and divided as
follows.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31
Right Over NATURAL Gas.

There is every indication that a fight will
be made in the Legislature over the natural
gas of the State. A citizen of this eity
who returned from New York yesterday
announced that all the gas companies of
this State and Ohio had combined in a pool
to secure two things which are regarded as
essential to their we'll being. The first fight
will be brought by the local consolidated
companies against the Indiana and Ohio
Pipe Line Company. This fight will be- pri-
marily, the work of the Manufacturers As
soication of this State, which is up in arms
against the pipe line companies because Of
their pumping immense quantities of gas
out of the State into Ohio and Illinois. 1t
is claimed that the gas is being dragged
from the manufacturing companies, which
have located in this State on account of the
gas, and sent out to supply nonresidents
of the State, with the result that the peo-
pie of the State are in want of the fuel
produced in plenty within their own State.
In allying themselves with the manufac-
tereTs, the gas companies will incidentally
attempt to work in some legislation requir-
ing the of meters In this way, If the
legislation passes, both parties to the action
Will benefit, but nowhere in the plan has
any evidence been found which would lead
to the belief that the people will benefit by
it, whichever way it goes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31
At JAIL AND WORKHO0SE.
Physicians Have Been Busy Vaccinat-
ing Prisoners.

The vaccination of prisoners at the county
Jail was begun yesterday under the SUPER
vision Of DR.. Ridpath. Seventeen prisoners
barred their ans to the needles and virus
yesterday, and the work of vaccinating will
be completed to-day. There are sixty pr!s-
oners in jail at present, and none nas raised
a complaint against the operation Those
who have scars indicating recent ard sue
cessful vaccination will be passed for the
present If they do not desire TO be revacci-
mated. but should smallpox continue to
spread all will be vaccinated, regardless of
these evidences. The quarantine against
visitors established over the Jail several
days ago by DR.. Ridpath will not be re-
moved, even when all are vaccinated.
The prisoners at the workhouse have all
been vaccnated. the work having been COM
pleted on Sunday One hundred and sixty
one men and twenty-One women were vaccl-
mated. DIR. F. II, Moore vaccinated the
men and DR.. HasleJ the women. There was
no protest from the prisoners all taking
their medicine without fiinchiEg. Visiting
days have been suspended at the workhOuse
during the prevalence of the disease in the
CITY.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31

murder is reasonably prompt and the pen
atty is set by the law and not left to the
jury, there are no lynchings. The person
found guilty of murder in the first degree
in both those States is reasonably sure of
hanging or electrocution in a brief period
after conviction. Make punishment ade-
quate and certain, and trial prompt, with no
expert counsel paid by the county to evade
justice, and there will be few lynchings,
and fewer homicides. Make the death pen
atty certain for murder in the first degree,
and for others emphasize the enormity Of
the crime Of life-taking by isolating them
from other convicts in the penitentiary, AMI
every issue of paper will not contain an
account of murder
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31

The convention which has been called by
the Indiana Anti-saloon League will hold
its first session this evening in Plymouth
Church at 1880 o'clock The convention will
be opened by devotional exercises led by
Rev c. w Tinsley, D. ID. A quartet COM
posed Of Miss Edith Darnell. Miss Gertrude
Barber Mr.. Walter Robinson and Mr. c.
Scott Walker will render the songs entitled
Has Father been Here2" and wine Is a
Mocker" President G. ). Burroughs ID. D.,
viii discuss the subject Our Colleges and
Saloons" The subject THE Pastor ana the
Needs of the Hour" will be presented by
Hon. u. T. Sweeney. -. ID. There are othef
important and interesting phases Of the
programme this evening, and all Order-lov-
ing people are invited 10 be present The
sessions tomorrow morning and afternoon
will be held in Plymouth Church and the
evening session will be held In the Capitol
legislative hall, as previously announced.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31

Patton made weak attempt to have the
emergency. clause striker out so as not to
interfere With the delivery of spring orders
by nurserymen. but il was not adopted.
Engrossed joint resolution No. by Sena-
tor Early: Giving the General Assembly
the rigls to determine the qualification
necessary to practice law.
No. l3S. BY Senator Gilbert: For the pro-
lection of fish and the prevention of the
pollution of streams.
No. 12O. BY Senator New: Regulating the
administration of county poor asylums.
AS anticipated the committee on public
buildings and libraries reported a substitute
bill for those introduced by the Union of
Literary Clubs and the State Library As
soclation., Both of the organizations eX-
pressed themselves as satisfied with II.
During the reading of the report Senator
Hawkins made motion to request the COM
mlttee 10 present a bill authorizing the
purchase of modern passenger elevator
Tor the capitol. 1t was concurred in.
The committee on banks will report ia
Norably on bill No. 239, requiring all private
banks to make reports concerning their con-
dltion to the state auditor, the same as is
done by state banks
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31

w. Rodney King, who stabbed Abraham
Turpie, in the rear of the Normande Cafe,
Sunday night, appeared in Police Court yes
terday morning to answer a charge of as
sault with intent to kill His case was con-
tinued until Feb. 8. Turpie is still in a
critical condition.
Willie Porter was sent to the workhouse
from Police Court the charge of petit lar
ceny being brought against him.
Sentence was withheld in the case OF Will
liam Jackson, charged with assault and bat
terry.
The case Of Charles Harmonng, charged
with assault and battery on his wife, was
carried over Until Feb. >.
Ella Fierce, charged with having attempt
ed an assault with a deadly weapon, was
sent to the workhousc.
Mamie Carter, charged with profanity.
was sent 10 the wOrkhouse She completed
a six months sentence Sunday morning. a
few hours before she became involved in
trouble again.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31
AYRON w. REED.

1t is probable that within an equal length
of time no other man ever created so deep
an impression or left so lasting an influence
on the people of Indianapolis as did Rev.
MyrOn w. Reed during his seven years res
idence here. All classes of men with whom
he came in contact were drawn to him. His
church was filled by those who went to lis
ten to him, and Gin his audiences were al
ways to be found many who could never be
persuaded to attend the regulation religious
service. The intellectual and the illiterate
alike found something for themselves in his
sermons. for they were remarkable produc-
tions both for their thought and their style
-epigrammatic, full of poetry, pathos, hui
NOR, wit, wisdom and the truest religion
every one touching somehow upon the very
heart of life. He had no graces of oratory;
it was the words, not the manner of his
speech, that carried weight. His addresses
read as well as they sounded in delivery
not at all a common thing. If he had de-
voted himself to literature, with his mental
equipment and his insight into the souls of
his fellow-creatures he might have been ia
nous wherever the English tongue is
known, but it is doubtful if he knew his
own powers in this direction 1t was only
through the repeated urging of discerning
friends that he was finally led to offer some
of his essays for magazine publication and
to collect enough for the little volume re-
Gently issued. One who has editorialiy ham
died many of his manuscript sermons testi-
fies that he had but little skill in so para
graphing and punctuating them that they
would best convey his meaning
But it was not his sermons, unusual
though they were, that made Mr.. Reed so
widely loved; it was his personality, his
manliness. his boundless sympathy for hui
manity. Like One greater than he, men
loved him because he first loved them. His
heart went out to the down-trodden and
oppressed, and he took up the lance in their
behalf, not always wisely, perhaps, but al
ways earnestly and unselishly 1t was his
disposition to believe that the under Cog
was always an innocent victim deserving
of rescue-an assumption by no means in
variably correct-and this belief brought
him in his later years into curious com
pany. When he entered politics it was
against the advice of some of his best
friends, but even they never doubted the
sincerity of his belief that as a congress
man he could best secure certain benefits
to laboring men, whose cause he especially
championed. He was unconventional, un-
ministerial in manner a law unto himself,
but he was man with a great brain and
great heart, and in his course through
the world he made a multitude of people
glad that he lived. 1t is fifteen years since
he left indianapolis, but so close did he
come to the lives of those who knew him
that the news of his death brings to them a
Keen sense of personal loss Though they
seldom met him, they were the happier for
knowing that he was in the world. Now
that he has passed out of sight on the "on-
ward trail,'' they will not forget him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31
INCENTIVES TO HOMICIDE AND
LYNCHING.

1t will not do, in discussing the remedies
for lynching and homicide, to forget the i'm
portant fact that our constitution, laws and
their enforcement are not designed to check
the commission of such crimes. In GRIM
inal cases the jury is judge of the law as
we'll as the fact. This means that the pro-
visions of the law relative to homicide and
murder are often ignored the jury assum-
ing the functions of the legislative branch
Of the government In one case in this
county in which young man killed a spe-
claI policeman without provocation. in the
presence of a multitude the first jury dis
agreed and the second gave the murderer a
period in the state prison often exceeded
in the case of horse stealing. Again, as
has often been stated in the Journal, the
whole revenues of the county are at the
command OF the man who commits murder
unless he is wealthy. He can employ expen-
sive counsel and they can delay the trial
from time to time. They are allowed TO
bring testimony to establish emotional in
sanity" which is nothing but anger. In one
case the defense was allowed to submit tes-
timony affecting the character Of a muir
dered wife, the assumption being that I'M
faithfulness on her part was a warrant for
murder. To say that a considerable part
Of those who take life escape punishment,
and that majority escape punishment ade-
quate TO the crime. is to express "a current
opinion which statistics viii support. The
uncertainty and inadequacy Of the punish
ment Of the crime Of murder. with the de-
lays in bringing murderers to trial. are the
leading pretexts for iynching in Indiana.
IN States like Massachusetts and New
X0Fk, where the trial OF those indicted for
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31

The report that New York combination
with abundant money will be here soon TO
get control of the natural gas companies in
this State. with a view of securing from
the Legislature meter law, seems to lack
the element of reasonableness. but in these
days of wild promoters and crazy booming
there may be something in it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31

Mr.. Kipling has evidently been rejecting
on the colonial development of the United
States and in connection with that move
ment has considered the experience of Eng
land. The result is a poem called 1.-The
White Mans Burden" which is not alto
gether cheering to those who are anxious
for the country to assume new response
bilities The following extracts from the
poem which appears III full in the February
issue of McClure's Magazine, Indicate its
character:
Take up the White Mans burden
Send forth the best We breed
Go, bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
TO wait. in heavy harness.
On fiuttered folk and wild
Your new-caught Sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.
Take up the White Mans burden
The savage wars of peace
Fill full the mouth of Famine,
And bid the sickness cease;
The ports We shall not enter,
The roads We shall not tread,
Go, make them with your living
And mark them with your dead.
BY all We will or whisper,
BY all We leave or do.
The silent sullen peoples
Shall weigh your God and you.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31

Those persons who are alleged to have in
cited Aguinaldos agent, Agoncillo, to send
the pretender dispatches advising him TO at
tack our forces in Manila by furnishing him
funds with which to pay the expensive tele-
r~ph tolls should read the United States
statutes defining the crime of treason.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31

The speaker of the Colorado House, de-
string to participate in a debate, called Mrs.
Lee. a Denver member, to preside. 1t was
a stormy debate. but the speaker pro tenn.
held the body in check and won applause
for her ability as a presiding officer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31

A bill was introduced in the Pennsylvania
Legislature by one of Senator Quays
friends which deprives the State of the
right to have jurors set aside in misde
meanoF cases, and Senator Magee remarked
that lit is unfortunate that this bill should
be in the Legislature while a distinguished
citizen of Pennsylvania is under indict-
rnenf.n The senator is right
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31

The New York World says that thousands
are getting rich out of stock speculation.
Inasmuch as the speculation does not add
a dollar to the real wealth of the country,
the thousands must be getting the spare
cash Of more thousands who are losing
,oona1y
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31

If those who are opposing the township
legislation would express their motives they
would confess that they are in favor of a
system which enables township trustees and
their favorites to make more out of it if
they are unscrdpulous than it win be posi-
bic when all appropriations are voted by a
township council
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31

The opponents of Senator-elect Clark, in
Montana, declare that he spent $25OOOO to
insure his election and that they have evil
dence to show where 100000 of it was ex-
pended. They will contest his right to the
seat before the Senate. Both sides are OPP
posed to s'the crime of 1873"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31

The Washington Post, which would like
70 help the Democracy if it could because
of the past, remarks in it's disgust at it's
latest antics in Congress that 1.-The Demo-
cratic party is still engrossed in the pleas
ant pastime of hamstringing itself"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31

Mr.. Howells says 1.-The best English in
the world is spoken in southern Ohio" Mr.
Howells never lived in southern Michigan;
in southern Ohio, which probably accounts
for his strange hallucination.-Detro Free
Press.
The late Myron w. Reed used to say that
the very best English in the world" was
spoken in Indiana. Let us call the language
belt the Central West and Wen all be i'm it,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31

Aguinaido, who has twice sold out his ma
tive country to Spain for a substantial sum
of money, and was in rebellion when our
ships entered Manila because the amount
paid was not as large as promised, has
been hailed as the George Washington of
the Philippines"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31

1t is said that Colonel Ingersoll was very
near being converted to the dogma of flu
ture punishment. 1t was when the agent ran
away with the receipts of the box office
Those who are intent on the conversion OF
the agnostic should attack him through the
box office.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31

Both parties are pledged to give the State
some system that VIII insure more satisfac-
tory results from primary elections. Next
TO township and county legislation a pri-
mary election law is important.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31

The new political party of farmers that
a few men are trying to organize in Illinois
will be found to consist of a few men who
have failed to get office in the other parties.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31

1t is unfortunate that the French people
are SO forgetful of the past and so little fit
for self-governmerS that some of them go
wild over the demand for an emperor
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31
international Amenities

You Americans" said the Scotehman,
suffer from an itch for notoriets"
AN itch for notoriety." responded the
American. with spirit. is better than a
notoriety for"
But at that point they clinched.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31

Whatever else the anti-expansionists in
the Senate do or fail to do, they are receiv-
ing the hearty approval of Mr.. Aguinaldo.
who threatens 10 attack our army in Ma
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31

An exchange approves of the opinion of a
London writer TO the effect that colds are
the result OF over-eating. There must be an
immense amount of something like gluttony
this season.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31
PerhaDS.

Tommy-Paw. what does the paper mean
by calling Mr.. Bugghaus an sxlO politi-
clan?
Mr. Figg-I presume it means he is not
exactly square.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31
RnreIy.

What kind of workingman are you?'
asked the easy one, after giving up the
dime. Common laborer?'
Nav" said Dismal Dawson. "Uncom-
y,o,,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.


Watts-I believe lotteries ought to be run
by the government
Potts - Great snakes, There is enough
doubt Of their honesty now
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31
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