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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23
A Manila Hero Returns.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MORRISTOWN. Ind, Sept. 22.-This place
has a Philippine hero in the person Of
James Nelson, who hast just been dis
charged from the regulars there and ar
rived home. Nelson enlisted three years ago
in Indianapolis and was assigned to the
Twenty-second Regiment. which was then
stationed at Fort Crook, Nebraska. At the
breaking out of the Spanish war his regi-
ment was ordered TO Cuba ard participated
In every land engagement. 1t was in the
thickest of FL Caney and the colonel Of the
regiment was killed a short distance from
Nelson. TIL regiment was returned to Fort
Crook and was sent to Manila They had
no soner landed than they were drawn up
in line of battle and until the rainy season
there was hardly a day but what they had
more or less skirmishing with the natives.
Nelson started home Aug. Il. During his
three years Of service he has travelled $4,000
miles.
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IRON AND STEEL MANUFACTURES.
Increase Of Exports C~Oincidental with
Growth of Pig Iron Production

Special 10 the Indianapolis journal.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 22-The rapid
growth in exports of manufactures of iron
and steel and the simultaneous decrease in
the Importation Of manufactures of iron and
steel seem TO have been coincidental with a
similar growth in the production of pig iron
IN the United States. A statement just pre-
pared by the Treasury Bureau Of Statistics
places In parallel columns the figures show
ing the growth in the production Of pig iron
in the United States from 1880 to 1898 and the
imports and exports of manufactures of
iron and steel in the corresponding years.
This shows that the production of pig iron
in the United States has grown from 1885. 191
tons in 1880 to IL. 1884 tons In 1898. and Mr..
]. Stephens Jeans. secretary OF the British
Iron Trade Association. estimates the pig
iron production In 1899 at 100000 tons.
Meantime the export of manufactures of
iron and steel has grown from $14, 716, 524 in
the firscal year 1880 TO 500. 1853 In the fiscal
year 1899. while the importation of manu-
features of iron and steel has fallen from
81, 266s 6S9 in 1850 TO $l2,09S .239 in 1893. The
table fOllOUS-
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KEY VESTS EPIDEMIC.
New Cases of Yellow Fee
yer and Five Deaths.

KEY WEST, Sept. 22.-The new cases of
yellow fever number thirty-eight and deaths
five. Three of those who died were chill
dren.
were reported to-day. This is thought to
be due to the fact that the weather has
turned very cool. To the same reason is
attributed the fact that two deaths occurred
today
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MOTOR BICYCLE RACE.
Weller and Judge Defeat Fourier
and SteensOn.

BALTIMORE, Sept. 22.-Charlie Miller
and his riding mate. Joe Judge. tonight
defeated Fournier and Steenson at the
artford-avenu bowl track in a. twenty
five-mile motor race for the championship
of America. Miller and Judge won their
race by the length of a motor. doing the
IL AS seconds faster than the previous
American record, made by Miller and Judge
at Manhattan Beach track, New York, sew
eral weeks ago.
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American Agents, A.socia ton.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind, Sept. 22.-The third an
nual convention of the American Agents
Association of the United States and Can
d will be held tomorrow, and it Is ex-
pected that about fifty delegates represent
ing that many locals will be present. The
officers are: President. Charles H. Sidener,
Covington, KY; vice presidents, s. T.
Wright, of Ontario. William Jamison, OF
Rochester. Henry Friedman. of Indianapo-
lis. Ira A. Brown. of Chattanooga and
Charles Leytz, OF Duluth: secretary and
treasurer, Milo j. Harris, of Hamilton;
general organizer, T.. r.. Garrity, of Gov.
ington. Ky. Muncie being the h%eadquar-
tiers for the Woman's international Union
Label League, the organization having
been made here, the member nave ar.
ranged to banquet the visiting delegates
tomorrow night.
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Cable Notes.

1T is announced that the Muckross estate,
embracing the Lakes of Killarney, will be
sold at auction Nov. 20.
Emperor William has refused to accept
the protectorate Of the Bismarck Museum
at Stendal. a town of Prussian Saxony.
Twelve fresh cases of what Is believed to
be bubonic plague have occurred at Magude
a small place on Delagoa bay. Two of the
cases resulted fatally.
The Emperor and Empress of Germany
have contributed $4,000 marks TO the Red
Cross Society for the relief of the suffer-
ers by the recent floods in Bavaria.
Colonel Won Langenmantel. commander
removed from his post on the charge of
having forbidden the cadets to cheer for
Emperor William.
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BARRIERS LICENSED.
Michigan T~OnsOrial Artists Must Pass
Satisfactory Examination.

LANSING, Mich, Sept. 22.-The new law
providing for the licensing of BARRIERS In all
towns in Michigan of over 10000 Inhabitants
went into effect to-day. The commission
has been organized and is ready to proceed
to business. The law provides that all bar
oers now engaged in the business shall oe
entitled to license upon making application
to the commission and paying a fee of 81.
Hereafter, however, all persons who desire
to engage in the business must pass a salts
factory examination before the state COM
mission as to their proficiency as to the
use of the razor, as well as Of disinfecting
tools so as to prevent disease from being
sDread
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Street Car Dynamited.

CLEVELAND, o.. Sept. 22.-Another Big
Consolidated street car was dynamited to-
night. The explosion occurred on the Wade
Park line in a lonesome place near the city
limits. The car was rapidly running toward
the city when a loud report was heard. The
explosion smashed the front wheel on one
side. The car jumped the track, ran across
the other track and was stopped in the gut
ter of the street. There were only two pas
body was seen about the place where the
explosion occurred and there is no clew to
the perpetrators.
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Tool a Shot at "Peeping Tom"
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
HAGERSTOWN, Ind, Sept. 22.-For sew
eral weeks a mysterious character has
been observed at rare intervals prowling
about the alleys of the residence portion of
town. prying open shutters and peeping
into women's bedrooms. He has been
watched for. but has evaded everybody who
attempted to catch him until last night,
when he was seen to approach a window.
at the home of William WINNER. on East
Main street. He had made several visits to
this house before, but was never identified.
Last night Mr.. WINNER was at home
shortly after the curfew rang and was in
formed by his daughter that the pepper
was at the window. Mr.. WINNER took his
revolver and ran into the alley in time to
see him and take a shot at him. The fell
low escaped without harm. but Mr. VIM
mer recognized him.. For the present he re-
fuses to give the name. but says the pepper
is a well-known young man about town.
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Indiana

HARTFORD CITY, Ind, Sept. q. The
funeral of County Commissioner Thomas
T. McGeath, aged sixty-four, was held at
his late residence, In Harrison township,
this morning at 10 o'clock. His death was
due to typhoid-malarial fever. The deceased
was one of the ~best-known farmers and
politicians in this section. He was president
a widow. seven sons and one daughter.
MARTINSVILLE. Ind, Sept. 22.-Dr.
Jarvis ]. johnson, a resident of this coun-
ty for fifty years. died this afternoon,
aged se~venty-one. The doctor has served In
the legislature and in county offices. and
during the civil war was a emb of the
surgeons staff In the Twenty-seventh Indi-
ana. He was one of the most prominent
men in the city.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Sept. Pm. F.
Carr, an old citizen, a retired wholesale
liquor dealer, and a man of wealth, died to-
day, aged sixty-three. Paralysis was indi-
rectly the cause of death.
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went 20 Kswanna, fifteen miles I'm Fulton
county, and would not take 2s,1 cents. he
then drove sixteen miles to Monterey. in
this county. and objected to Is cents. He
was then out two days time and hotel ex-
penses, but from there he went thfrty-six
miles to Knox. Starke county. and sold his
corn for 27R cents a bushel, which brought
him $40. and on his arrival home he had
Travelled 16 miles. was out fve days time,
hotel and feed expenses and 81 in money.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23
Indiana Notes.

The gas plant at Morristown has been
sold by the Fuel and Light Company TO a
Nashville company
The farm residence of Willis Moore, south
of Terre Haute, was destroyed py nre. LOSS,
$1,000; insurance, $500.
The ministers of Portland have passed a
resolution condemning the holding OF old
settlers meetings on Sunday.
The death of Miss Lulu Boldt Thursday
was the sixth from a gasoline-stove ex-
plosion in Terre Haute in the pas year.
The stove dealers say that 1t Is not the
fault of the stoves.
At Sellersburg. nine miles north OF Jef-
ferSonville, a commercial club has just Deen
organized with the following officers: +. j..
Strack. president: Theodore Stockdell, sec
rotary, and Albert Lesch. treasurer.
The Railway Cycle Manufacturing Com
pany. making railway inspection cars, has
just received an order for thirty-hve ma
chimes from Hamburg. Germany. More
than a hundred have been shipped to Ger
many this season.
Oliver Shivar, aged seventeen, while out
hunting. near Plymouth, Friday. dropped
his gun and the weapon was discharged,
the entire load passing through his wrist
and hand. tearing a hole an inch In diam
eter, which may necessitate amputation.
The s2O,O 900 damage suit against the Indi-
ana Natural Gas Company, resulting from
a natural gas explosion that wrecked the
home of Charles Nun, at Kokomo. killing
his wife and injuring a number or women at
a party in the house, has been compro'
missed for $1,000.
Dave Estell, the Knightstown gas-well
~reviver, who injects new life into aban-
doned wells with chemicals which eat out
the clogged pores in the Trenton rock, sue
cessfully revived a gusher for the Delhi
Manufacturing Company, at Anderson, this
week. Forty quarts of nitroglycerin were
also used.
Forty-eight cars of cattle were received
at the pens of the Majestic distillery In
Terre Haute. yesterday, from Amarillo,
Tex. There were 1.2iS head. Five thousand
more head will soon arrive for feeding this
winter. The Majestic Is a big house: and
will soon be running at a capacity OF S,OU
or 1900 bushels of corn daily.
The Anderson antitrust nail plant was
put in operation yesterday. All OF the anti
trust factories are crowded with orders and
nave TO run full capacity. The trusts
plants there and at one or two other
points are closed, and IL Is announced they
will remain down until the price on steel Is
lowered. 1t Is now selling at A3 q ton, or
$50 more than a year ago.
The first practice game Of the Eastern
Indiana normal School eleven took place II
Muncie yesterday. with Coach Frank GAS
In charge. III. Gass was at one time with
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23
MUST BE UNIONlZED.


CHICAGO, Sept. 2.-At the meeting of
the Building Trades Council tonight the
entire matter of action in regard TO the lay
ing of the postofice cornerstone was re-
ferred to the strike committee. The men,
bers of this committee declared that unless
everything in connection with the making
and laying Of the stone is 'unionized'' a
strike will probably be ordered two or three
days before the date set for the opening
Of the fall festival. The proposition of the
members Of the G.. A. r. to provide a union
made stone was not submitted to the meet
ing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23
Survivors of the seventy-Third.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
LOGANSPORT, Ind, Sept. 22-The sur
viving members of the old S~eventy-third
Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry last
evening closed their annual reunion in this
city by the election Of the following Off
GERS: President, w. E. Gorsuch, South
Bend; vice president, H. c. Morgan, South
Bend; secretary and treasurer, Z. K. Barn.
hill, Plymouth; executive committee, w. z.
Gorsuch, H. c. Morgan, J.. w. Teele, J.
Y. Slick. Christian King. John Caulield
and c. A. Pratt. 1t was decided to hold
the next annual reunion at South Bend and
an overture for a reunion of the celebrated
mule brigade" to which the Seventy-third
was attached, was presented. Col. /. N.
Walker, of indianapolis, was made a COM
mittee of one to consider the advise bility
of seeking such a reunion. with Instructions
to report to the secretary in due season.
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Split i'm the Catholic Legion.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
FORT WAYNE. Ind, Sept. PA move
ment will be made by representatives of the
Catholic Benevolent Legion in Indiana, who
will meet in this city Sunday afternoon.
to secede from the National Council and
form an Independent State organization.
This question comes up largely through the
fact that the assessments for deaths In
other parts of the country are three times
as great as in this State. The Indiana
people will endeavor to get a better class
of risks by combining the order to this State,
and thus lessen the cost of insurance to the
members.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23
sCHOOLBOYs BURNED TO DEATH.
of Straw and Rails That
Became n VeritabIe Pyre.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
PARIS, ILL.,, Sept. PA frightful accident
occurred two miles west of Kansas, Edgar
county. yesterday at the Flenner school
house during the noon recess. The pupils
had constructed a playhouse Of straw and
rails. leaving one small opening. Several
children were inside, when suddenly the
straw was ignited by a match and the whole
structure was burned. Six children were Sc
verely burned and Ralph Nay, aged six,
died to-day. Herman Redmon, aged eight,
Is not expected to recover.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23
LIQUID AIR TRUST.
Trfp1er Company, with a Capitalize.
ton of $1O,OOO,OOO Perfected.

NEW YORK, Sept. 22.-The organization
of the Tripler Liquid Air Company. with
a capitalization of &c. 600, 900. has been COM
pleted. The company is organized for the
purpose of acquiring all patent rights. pat
ents and processes for the manufacture
and utilization of liquid air for all purposes,
as developed by Charles E. Tripler. The
officers of the company are: Charles E.
Tripler. president; Frank j. Cannon, vice
president: Philip K. Reynolds. secretary;
L. A. Kirkham, treasurer.
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shooter Elliston WON.

DETROIT. Mich, Sept. CIV. r. Ellis
ton. of Tennessee, won the international
championship and the Gilman
and Barnes trophy this afternoon at the
Rusch House grounds Mackie. Budd. Gil
bert. Crosby and Elliston We're tied for
first place with fifteen birds each and Ell
liston won I'm the shoot-off. killing twenty
three straight. There were three other live
bird events. one each at five. seven and
ten birds.
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Pardon for ThOmp May.
ial to the Indianapolis Journal.

ANDERSON, Ind. Sept. Ex-Governor
Mount will be approached tomorrow by
Madison-county people. who will ask for
the pardon of Thomp May. leader of the
notorious Goodman gang, which was round
ed up at Summitville five years ago by
Captain Coburn and a posse of deputy sher-
IFS. Coburn was shot In the melee and
Dick Goodman. the leader. received wounds
ing away his life. Dick and his father were
pardoned some time ago. May was given
nine years and has served about five, with
a good prison record. II Is thought that
Coburn will be one of the men ask
ing for his release.
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ALGIERS. Sept.

ALGIERS. Sept. 22.-Max Regis. the FORM
er mayor of Algiers, and a notorious Jew
batter, during the night left the villa just
outside of the town In which he and a party
of adherents had been ba~rricaded for some
time, fearing arrest by the government. He
Is said to have gone on a boat bound for
Spain. Eight of his companions were ar
rested.
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LIVERPOOL. Sept. 22--Arrived: Ger
manic and Servia, from New York; Lake
Huron. from Montreal.
CHERBOURG. Sept. 22.-Sailed: Au-
gusta Victoria. from Hamburg and South
ampton, for New York.
QUEENSTOWN. Sept 23.-Arrfved: Cm-
bria, from New York, for Liverpool.
NEW YORK. Sept. 22.-Arrived: Olden-
burg. from Bremen
HAMBURG. Sept. 22.-Arrived: Palatia,
from New York.
GENOA. Sept. 22-Arrived: Ems, from
New York.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23
Mai. r.. p. FInney Asks Divorce.

VIII. ~. +. FInney ASks DfSoTCc'
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
NEW ALBANY, Ind. Sept. 22.-Maj. Rus
sell p. Ffnney. one of the best known resi-
dents OF this city, to-day filed suit for d.
vorce from Minnie G. Finney, naming sew
eral correspondents. TIL Ffnneys were mar
ried in 1890. The suit has created a sensa-
ton. although Ii was not unexpected by a
number who were familiar with their do
nestle troubles. Major Finney Is a promi-
nent Republican and was chief of the fire
department for several years. He Is now
holding a clerical position in the govern
ment depot at Jacksonville. He has trav-
eled extensively, having made two trips
around the globe.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23
SHOWERS To-Day.
Fair Weathc ON Sunday, with Fresh
Northerly Winds.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 22.-Forecast for
Saturday and Sunday:
For Ohio-Rain on Saturday. followed by
ciearing; cooler in southern portion. Sun
day fair; fresh n%ortherly winds on the lake.
For Indiana-Showers on Saturday. sun
day fair: fresh aortherly winds.
For IllinoisEFair Saturday and Sunday.
except showers in northeast portion on Sat
urday: warmer on Sunday in northwest por-
tton; fresh northerly winds.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23
Polytechnic sophomore Kidnaped.

Special to tho indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Sept. 22.-Last
evening a party of freshmen of the Rose
Polytechnic Institute captured Samuel
Burge, OF Toulon, ILL.,. a member of the
sophomore class, and took him to the woods
north of town. He did not appear this
morning at school. but 1t is understood that
he arrived home safely. Last year, when he
was a freshman, the sophomores captured
him. It is understood the present sopho-
more class is preparing to retaliate on the
freshmen.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23

PARIS. Sept. 22-Sir Richard HEM Col
Inns. lord justice of appeal of the British
High Court of Judicature, and one of the
members of the Anglo-Venezuelan boundary
arbitration commission, gave a dinner this
evening to his associates in the tribunal and
to the counsel involved. Mr.. and Mrs. Ben
jamin Harrison and Chief Justice Fuller and
Mrs. Fuller were present.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER %, 1879.

the Indians University team. The Muncie
High School football team has arranged
Richmond. Oct. q; Anderson. Oct. IS: In
d~ianapolis, Nov. IL, all games to be played
in Muncie. Other dates will be played away
from home. The Indianapolis Training
School will be the capital city opponents.
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PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 22.-The strikers
at Cramps shipyards were Joined to-day by
the blacksmiths and their helpers who have
been at work at the dry dock. Several ma
chinists and joiners who at first refused
to join the nine-hour movement also de-
serted their posts. Although the black
smiths who left the dry dock yards to-day
were only five In number. the detection in
cluded all employed at that particular point
and resulted In a total suspension 81 work.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. Sept. 22.-The
servant-girI question continues to grow
more serious here daily. and a majority of
the housewives are initiating the example
of Dom Paul Kruger's wife in doing their
own homework. The chances are that they
will have to continue to do so, as no relief
is in sight.
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NEW YORK. Sept. 22.-Private C. Oswald.
of the First Infantry. who was transferred
to Swinburne island last Tuesday from the
United States transport Buford, died to-
night of yellow fever.
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BUENOS AYRES. Sept. 22.-The Argen-
tine Senate agreed to-day to the financial
proposals of the government. involving a
conversion Of the currency at the ratio of
"A gold centavos to a paper dollar, and the
formation of a reserve by means of various
measures. including a l per cent. reduction
in salaries Of all officials.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23
Antitrust Spoke Factory.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, Sept. 22.-Henry G..
Kohrman to-day completed the organiza-
ton Of a stock company to manufacture
hubs and spokes independent Of the trust.
The company has a capitalization Of $50
and much more behind 1t. j. w. White,
president of the White National Bank. was
elected president. A factory will be erected
on the site where a trust factory was
burned a few years ago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23
OIL PRODUCERS COMBINE"

DrIIIIm& 10 CedSe lot SIX MOntnS 10
Force Price to 81 a Barrel.
TOLEDO, o., Sept. PA combine" of
the oil producers to stop drilling in Ohio
and Indiana fields is assured. The operators
of the Lima district have been seen and
have practically agreed to enter such a
combination, and drilling will be suspended
for six months. The Indiana operators, 1t
was understood to-day at the Toledo Oil
Exchange. are agreeable to the proposition.
1t Is proposed to run the price of oil to 81
by the 1st of April.
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An Indiana farmer who Is an expert In
agriculture is said TO have produced a
hybrid variety of wheat that reproduces it
self one hundred fold. IL his experience with
the first sowing proves 10 be the ordinary
yield. the Crookes prophecy that the world
has reached the limit OF wheat production
kas received another stunning blow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
wINAMAc. Ind. Sept. 0.-John Walder-
smith. a prominent farmer In this county.
hauled a load Of corn to this place and re-
fused - cents q bushel for It. Ttsa he
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23
a CITY Boys, strike 1. on.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
GAS CITY, Ind, Sept. 22.-Seventy-fve
boys employed at the United States glass
factory, who went on strike Tuesday. re-
turned 20 work to-day. The trouble arose
over the employment of men to do boys
work. and who were paid more. over IN
men were affected by the strike.