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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-04
MANY LIVES IN DANGER
THREE PEOPLE PROBABLY BURIED
UNDER FALLEN WALLS.
Others Hurt In Escaping from Burn
ing Building-Panic I'm
Chicago Factory.

CHICAGO, July 3.-Three people are be-
lieved TO be dead beneath the tottering
walls of the Western Paper Stock Com
pany's plant, which burned to-day. The
dead
BARTHOLOMEW sPARKIEwIETz. fif-
MRS. JOSIE DOYLE. twenty-one years
sTEFFINA BAGDIS.
Courageous work by several people re-
suited in the rescue of a large proportion
of the one hundred women and twenty men
who were employed in the building, but
eight of the more impetuous and frenzied
ones were badly hurt in escaping from the
blazing structure. The injured are: Anna
Petrol. back; Agnes Cnewski, burned about
feet and hands; Alberta Biens, back in
jured and left ankle sprained; Agnes La
buda, scalp cut and shoulder injured;
Frances Drapa, back injured; Maggie
Zgeda. feet burned; Frances Scubada, over
come by smoke and body cut and bruised;
Frances Novak, feet burned and body
burned and bruised. All of the injured
women were taken TO st. Luke's Hospital,
about two hundred feet from the scene of
the fire. The fire is thought to have started
from spontaneous combustion among some
old rags In the basement. The building
stood at 1452-145S Indiana avenue and was a
four-story brick structure. The flames
quickly spread to the upper floors by way
of the elevator shaft and stairway. The
highly infiammable nature Of the stock
caused the building to fill with dense
smoke, rendering escape difficult for en-
ployes in the three higher stories. The &C.
cupants of the building became panic
stricken and rushed TO the windows. Those
who went 10 the front, where there was a
fire escape. were able to make their way
TO the sidewalk by a ladder from the Sec
ond story On the south side of the burn
ing structure. however. many of the fren-
zied women leaped out of the third-story
windows TO the roof OF a shed. 1t was at
this point that most OF the injured suffered.
On the north side of the building several
women escaped down a ladder raised by
Mrs. George Caldwell and Miss Rend resi-
dents of the neighborhood Josie Kuta, one
of the, girls employed in the picking room,
says she believes several of her companions
failed &c escape from the building. Sparkle
wietz was last seen rushing toward the
elevator shaft on the third floor. but, being
old and feeble. he was borne back by the
frightened women and men and has not
been heard of since. He was foreman of
the establishment.
President Frederick C. Tyler, of the West
ern Paper Stock Company, said the loss of
the concern would reach $50 900 on the build
Ing and $4,000 or $4,000 on the stock. The
building was insured for $4,000 and the
stock for $4,000.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-04
AN OMNIBUS INJUNCTION
ISSUED AGAINST THE STRIKING MN
ERS OF CARTERvILLE.
Action Taken by federal Judge at
Springfield, H., to Protect n Re-
ceiver-Other Labor News.

SPRINGFIELD. ILL.,, July 3.-The United
States has now taken hand in the mining
troubles at Carterville This afternoon. on
the application of Charles II. Bosworth.
ceiver of the st. Louis and Big Muddy Coal
Company. of Carterville. who was appointed
in the Federal Court as such, Judge Allen,
in the Federal Court. issued an omnibus in
junction against John Piana and others, re-
straining them from in any way interfering
with the receiver or any OF those employed
at the mine in its operation. Armed with this
Injunction Chief Deputy United States Mar
shall Watts, accompanied by Deputies Wier,
Dowell, Spring, Williams and Eaton, have
gone to Carterville to enforce the injunc
ton. State President John NJ Hunter, OF
the United Mine Workers Of America, left
to-day for Carterville
State Secretary-treasurer Ryan, of the
United Mine Workers of America, called on
Acting Governor Warder this afternoon. he
having just returned from Carterville. Mr..
Ryan admitted that If the troops had not
been sent TO Carterville there might have
been serious trouble, though he complained
mat Sheriff Gray was not at Carterville for
twenty-four hours preceding the arrival of
and accompanied to Cartervlle Mr.. Ryan
asked the acting Governor 10 see If a con-
ceiver Bosworth, of the st. Louis and Big
Muddy Coal Company, and the miners off,
Gals at Cartervile, with a view of arbi-
trating. Acting Governor Warder said that
he would be pleased to have the trouble set
tied by arbitration. and said he would see
Judge Allen and have him endeavor to in
duce the parties to come together with
view of arbitratng, the mines being under
the receivership of the Federal Court
Colonel Culver. of the Fifth Infantry. ILL.,
noiS National Guard returned this afternoon
from Carterville. He stated that while all
was quiet there at present IL was his belief
that If the troops had not been sent there
Manager Brush of the st. Louis and Big
Muddy Company's mine, and the men under
him would have suffered badly at the hands
of the strikers.
Judge Allen. of the Federal Court, also
called on the acting Governor and asked
him TO keep the troops al Carterville and to
cooperate with the federal authorities until
the deputy marshals sent there could arrest
the ten ringleaders of the strikers for whom
warrants were issued this afternoon and
which deputies are now on their way to
Carterville TO serve. Acting Governor War
der said that he would lend the federal au-
thorities all the aid in his power. but ii Is
probable that as soon as the federal author
tiles are in full control the state troops will
be withdrawn.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-04
FLINT GLASS VICTORY.
Swayzee Factory. Largest NOnunfon
Concern, Signs the Scale.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MARION, Ind. July 3.--After four or five
years of continued effort on the part of la
Dor unions, the SwayZee glass factory. at
Swayzee, this county. has been unionized.
The agreement between the firm and union
was signed Saturday night and this morn
ing the plant started with a full force of
about two hundred hands, under the rules of
the union. The plant was the largest non
union glass factory in the country and the
fact that it has been unionized is big
achievement by the union. The factory also
has several machines in operation and these
are also worked by union operators. Presi-
dent Dennis Hayes, of the green-glass work
ers union, has been trying in vain.
since the factory first began operation, five
years ago, to bring ii into the green-glass
union. The factory will operate under the
rules of the f1int-glass workers union, a
different organization from the one Mr..
Hayes is connected with. and the agreement
was brought about by T. w. Rowe, organ
izer, and I. j. McElherron, executive MEM
Der of the union. The Swayzee glass fac
tory was kept idle for several months this
spring account of a strike, which prac-
tically ruined its business for this season.
The former nonunion employees went into
unless the firm would sign the scale. 1t has
always been thought by large number of
the more considerate glass men that a set
Element could have been brought around al
that time If the proper policy had been
pursued.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-04
OPPOSITION TO M'LEAN.
A. w. Thurman May BE Made the Tail
of the Bryan Kite.

CINCINNATI. o.. July 3.--Dispatches an
nouncing conference in Chicago. yester-
day. of w. II. Hinrichsen Of Jacksonville.
ILL.,. r. NJ. Ditty. of Columbus. o.. and 9TH
ers with Samuel b. Cook. of the ways and
means bureau of the Democratic national
committee at which IL was thought the next
ticket would be W. ]. Bryan. of Nebraska.
and Allen w. Thurman. of Ohio. caused
quite a stir among the Democrats here. AL
though Col. James Kilbourne. of Columbus
and others are making active canvasses for
the Democratic nomination for Governor
II is claimed by the Democratic leaders here
that john r. Mclean. proprietor OF the Gin
c!nnati Enquirer, will be the nominee of the
state convention at GAINESVILLE next month
and, in any event. that he will be the Ohio
man presented TO the next Democratic ma
tional convention IL is thought by the lead
crs here that the conference in Chicago was
In anticipation OF the Mclean movement.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-04

never was on sea or land. and at the high
est convincing trust and expression of
Those large codes, which men. or great or
good,
Interpret and make felt or deeply feel"
Mrs Southworth did not have this. but
then she wrote for the New York Ledger
and the Philadelphia SATURDAY. Evening
Post, under an earlier ownership, for both
or which she was exactly suited. She had
prodigious circulation. She amused millions.
She corrupted and injured nobody She did
her particular variety of work so well that
no literary craftsman could read any one
of her books without learning something as
TO the way TO get at people by simple, di
rect. continuous narrative.
If any one. IN the pride of literature as
such, thinks Mrs. Southworth's kind OF
work is easy to do. he or she had better try
it. There is about $4,000 year waiting for
any one who can. The talent for pure mar
rative, uncaressed by grace. form or inspi-
ration is as rare as any other unusual gift.
1t comes to few, and while il is the least of
all the powers of expression, when at its
lyeliest 1t Is. on the whole, the most lucra-
tive.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-04

5ected to the proposed expenditure on the
defenses at Halifax and Bermuda. adding
ne firmly believed all the West Indian
Islands would soon belong 10 the United
States as the inevitable result of the present
var. The Inhabitants OF the British West
Indies. Mr.. Dillon said. would find they
must OF necessity join the United States
since nature intended those islands TO form
part OF the United States. The people Of
the islands will ultimately say So" declared
the Irish statesman. land Englishmen
would not be so foolish as to resist. III they
did they would have to advance more loans
10 the Islands and they would soon tire of
that Do believers in an Anglo-American
alliance imagine that they are promoting
good feeling by erecting these fortifica-
llons2 %
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-04
GLASS WORKERS TRUST
BLOWERS, CATERERS, FLATTEN-
ERS AND CUTTERS To COMBINE.
Flint Glass Union Wins a Big Victory
at Swayxee-AIexandria Steel
Mills Sign the Scale.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
HARTFORD CITY, Ind, July 3.-What is
believed TO be the first step toward the
amalgamation of the four trades in the
window glass industry has been made by
the Window Glass Workers Association
blowers and gatherers) The executive
board has officially invited the officers of
the Cutters League of America and the
Flatteners' Association to send delegates
to the convention of l.. A. 300. which takes
place at Pittsburg, beginning July IL. The
report that the officers of the blowers and
gatherers' association had requested the
cutters and fatteners' officials TO CO.
operate with them in making wage settle
ment is not authentic, but ii is believed
such a proposition will be extended. This
is the first instance that the parent or
ganization has recognized the cutters and
tatteners' organizations, and it shows the
breach between the trades Is not so great
as it was. 1t is believed that If President
Simon Burns of l.. A. 300. be defeated this
year the four trades will be reunited, as
there is general belief that more good can
be accomplished with the forces united.
Burns is held responsible for the disruption
a few years ago, and the cutters have no
liking for him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-04
TO SUCCEED THURSTON.
Mr.. Meiklejohn VIII Be Candidate
for United States Senator.

CHICAGO, July 3.-First Assistant Secre-
tary of War Meikeljohn is a candidate for
United States senator from Nebraska. to
succeed John NJ. Thurston, whose term ex-
pires on March 4. 1901. Mr.. Meikeljohn said
this evening he would be guided by
events. Mr. Thurston iras stated he is not
a candidate for Vice President, or any
other Office. and that he expects 10 resume
the practice of law" he said. Il believe
there is no doubt Nebraska will swing back
into the Republican column next year"
Speaking of the Philippine situation the
secretary said: BY the time General Otis's
request has been fulfilled he will have an
active army of 10000 men. Under the Pres
idents last order we will recruit ten full
regiments ana send them 10 Manila so they
will reach there about the time the rainy
season is over. They will be recruited from
the country at large. differed in the higher
ranks by regular army officers. but in the
lower ranks by men who have served in the
Spanish American war. There is no truth
in any of the reports that General Miles
or General Brooke will be sent to relieve
General Otis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-04
COLUMBIA AND SHAMROCK.
English Writer Compares the Yachts
and Gives Dimensions.

LONDON, July 4.-The Daily News this
morning publishes an article with illustra-
tive designs comparing the yachts Columbia
and Shamrock. The writer gives the fol-
lowing as the dimensions of the cup chal-
lenger: Length. 132 feet inches; length
on water line, SO feet 6 inches; beam, "a feet
inches, and draught 20 feet He says the
Shamrock's sail area is 14,125 square feet
and her displacement 147 tons. According to
this authority she is constructed of nickel
steel and manganese bronze. He says:
There Is a strong resemblance between the
two hulls. The Columbia's fine keel is more
aft and she has more graceful fore line
than that of the Shamrock. 1t is probable
the latters sail area will be enlarged dur
ing the preliminary trials. She has a finer
model than Valkyrie III, and will cut easier
through the water. She is much lighter
than that yacht, has larger sail area and
Is by far the most dangerous competitor for
the cup that ever crossed the Atlantic. The
Shamrock stands a very good chance of
proving the victor"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-04

PANA, Ill. July 3-Beyond repeated firing
in some sections of the city, claimed by po-
lice to be acts of miscreants attempting to
cause trouble. which terrorizes residents in
those districts, there has been no unusual
excitement. A company of negro miners
who formerly worked in the Pana mines
arrived on the Illinois Central train this
afternoon. They were intercepted near the
Union Depot by a crowd of twenty per-
sons who stated the situation in Pana and
the feeling against negroes. and ordered
them TO leave town Immediately. The ne
groes stated they had escaped from their
company during a riot at the Brush mines.
near Carterville. and told the dangers
through which they had passed. They were
perfectly willing TO leave the city IL union
miners would furnish transportation. With
out further parleying the delegation
marched the negroes to the city limits and
they were compelled to hastily leave. This
Ii is reported is the treatment which will
be given all blacks who attempt to stop in
Pana.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-04
Jester Says He L. Innocent.

MEXICO. Mo-, July 3.-Alexaader Jester.
accused of the murder of Gilbert Gates. ar
rived here during the night from Tecumseh,
o. T.. in charge of Sheriff Melton. Lying
on cot in his cell at the county Jail Testers
attention was called to some interviews
printed about him. and he said he would
make true statement
Did you ever kill anybody in Kansas or
Missouri" he was asked.
mo: God knows / am no murderer.
Then you are not the Alexander Jester
wanted?"
There is some mistake"
How could your sister conceive of such a
letter al she wrote, accusing you of the
murder?'
You will have to ask her. She got mad at
me-"
How can you account for all of the cor
roborating evidence pointing to you as the
murderer"
There Is money back of it,
Jester Is too poor TO hire lawyer. God
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-04
MRS. sOUTHwORTH's TALENT.
1t Was the Rare One Of Telling a
story for the StOry's Sake.


Philadelphia Press.
All the young and most of the old want a
story and nothing but the story. For them
1.-The everlasting universe of things
Flows through the mind and rolls its rapid
waves
without a suggestion of order, of sequence
or of climax. This far true of Mrs.
Southworth that the manuscript OF her ear
ly stories is said to have been written like
an uncial of the fourth century. without
lowed word as in the rapid utterance of
swift narrator.
This is what a majority of people want.
They yearn for two people young, one pref
ty and the other handsome, separated by
fate's invidious bar. she rich and he poor or
he rich and she poor-it is of no conse
quence-and then in about 10000 to 100000
words. in which something happens every
five hundred words. they want the two peo-
dramatic disappointment. There must be
few characters. The upper world of wealth
and ease must be in evidence. The talk must
be swift and rapid. The plot must turn on
events and acts which all CAP follow and
not. as in Vanity Fair" for instance. on
character, which comparatively few can un-
cerstand. If the characters. particularly the
rhale and female profagonists, are sharply
defined. II incident succeeds incident, IL the
story drives straight ahead and the agree
able appetite of love and romance is salts
fed. this is enough.
Mrs. Southworth did this sort of thing
better than any woman writing In this
country. and any but two or three writer's
anywhere. Her work vas not literature"
for this calls for form. order sense of
impending and inevitable fate, the light that
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-04
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Maj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles is the guest Of
field, o. ' '-' man anu "'ie ~
At Springfield, ILL.,, last night Charles
Ballington shot and killed his wife while in
a state of intoxication. Darlington was ar
rested. They had quarreled frequently.
The American colonies in the various
July by balls, dinners and picnics. Many
prominent Mexicans will participate by in
vitation.
Sioux City is 20 have a big race meet
the Riverside Park Amusement Company.
Ten thousand dollars In purses has been
hung up.
Kingston and Port Antonio. Jamaica. have
prepared an informal but enthusiastic OBJ
servance of the Fourth as compliment to
F1orida's generous exhibition of Anglo
American sentiment on the Queens birth.
Lieutenant Commander Ward, of the
cruiser Panther, who is at Philadelphia,
positively denies the report that there was a
mutiny on board ship and that number of
the crew were put in irons while on the
voyage from San Juan.
An excursion train with the National
Press Association, consisting of ten sleepers
and $50 excursionists arrived at Huntington,
Ore.,. yesterday. The train was met there
will reach Portland late tonight
John d. Flower, of Flower & Co., said
yesterday that SO far as he knew no con-
solidation had been effected or was now pro-
jected between the Metropolitan Street.
railway Company. the Manhattan Railway
Company and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Company.
The Toledo Commercial was sold, yester-
day, by the Security Trust Company, in
whose hands the paper has been as receiver
since May 9. The new purchaser is Hon. G..
w. Hull, a former collector of internal
revenue under President Cleveland. The
politics of the Commercial in the future will
be independent. The price paid was $50. 900.
The naphtha launch Dandy, with twelve
men on board, which was reported missing
Sunday night, was found stranded near
Rockaway Beach yesterday. All on board
were safe and beyond hunger and wet
ting by the surf which broke over the
stranded craft at intervals, they had suf-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-04
IMPORTANT LAND DECISION.
Judge Shiras Says Title Is Vested In
the Innocent Purchaser.

DUBUQUE. Ia. July s.-Judge shiras. of
the Federal Court, decided the famous
O'Brien county. Iowa. land case by ruling
that title in disputed land is vested in the
innocent purchasers. A land grant was Civ
en- the Sioux City & Pacific Railway. condi-
toned on the construction of road into
Minnesota. Building stopped at Lemars. OF
the grant. twenty-one thousand acres are
In OBrien county and eight hundred in
Dickinson. The company sold much of the
land to settlers. but its failure TO extend its
road forfeited the grant. The lower courts
decided the United States Supreme
Court sustaining the decision. The lands
were reopened and settlers went in and
seized property purchased from the rail-
road. After many years OF litigation the
court now enters decree holding the origi-
nal purchasers entitled to retain the land
occupied by them. The case involves title to
twenty thousand acres of the best farm land
in Iowa.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-04

flee emphatically denied to-day 10 the cor
respondent of the Associated Press that
Emperor William has offered Prince Her
Washington or any other diplomatic post.
Booker T. Washington. the colored found
er and principal of the Normal Industrial
institute at Tuskegee. Ala. lectured yes
terday In Essex Hall. London. on THE
Negro Problem in America The chair was
taken by Joseph III. Choate. United States
ambassador, who introduced the lecturer
The Coburg Diet has adopted bill where
by the Duke of Albany becomes heir to the
duchy of Saxe-Coburg -Gotha In the event
of the extinction of the Albany lineage
Prince Arthur of Connaught succeeds. or.
on Prince Arthur of Connaught's extinction.
the heir of the Prince of Wales succeeds.
Prince Observation-Disclosures is made the
Duke of Albanys regent
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-04
CATTLE MUST BE TESTED.
No Importations without Injection of
Tuberculine.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, July 3.-The rules
and regulations prescribed by the State
Board of Livestock Commissioners govern
ing the importation of dairy and breeding
cattle with reference to tuberculosis among
cattle has been amended and now provides
that cattle offered to any railroad company
for shipment into the State must be tested
with tuberculne by veterinary Inspector
and test of temperature shall not show a
reaction to the tuberculine test to exceed
1.50 in excess of the highest temperature
taken before injecting the tuberculine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-04
NO DRUG TRUST.
Representatives of Middle West
Firms Refuse to Enter Combine

KANSAS CITY, Mo-. July 3.-Representa-
tives of twenty-six wholesale drug firms in
the middle West. having actual capitaH-
cation of $4,000 and doing probably one
fourth Of the wholesale drug business of the
country. a meeting here to-day voted
unanimously against joining the proposed
drug trust. The firms represented are
numerically one-third of the number which
the trust promoters had expected TO secure.
Chicago. Minneapolis St. Paul, 81. Louis.
Memphis. Kansas City, St. Joseph, Sioux
City, Omaha Lincoln, Atchiscn and Denver
were represented. Other cities were repre-
sented by proxy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-04
STATE SENATOR SHOT.
william Flanagan Killed by w. G..
PilkingtOn in Virginia.

RICHMOND. Va. July 3.-State Senator
William Flanagan. who was also common
wealth attorney for Powhattan county, was
shot and killed at Powhattan courthouse to-
day by W. G. Pilkington. The shooting was
the outcome of quarrel over the recent
canvass for United States senators by a
direct vote.
Specials from Powhatan Courthouse late
tonight quote Commissioner OF Revenue
Goode who was in conversation with Pix
ington at the time of the assault, as sayir G
Flair nigan had Pilkington by the throat
when the latter fired the fatal shot. Pilk-
ington and Flanagan were opposing candi-
dates for commemorative attorney in the
late election for county officers. Bitterness
engendered in the canvass was the cause
of the tragedy A special coroners jury in
dicted Pilkington and he was brought to-
night to the Richmond Jail for safe-keeping.