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Indiana Notes.

Charles Vandeventer, near Worthington.
died OF spinal meningitis yesterday after an
Illness of one week.
The third annual district meeting of the
Rathbone Sisters was held with Dorcos
Temple at Edinburg yesterday.
The Nineteenth Indiana Regiment will
hold its annual reunion in Franklin Tues
day and Wednesday Of state fair week.
Last Tuesday John Reiff, a Willian1sport
carpenter. fell from a ~second-Story WINDOW
of a house he was building, sustaining in
juries from which he died Wednesday. He
was about ffty-fve years old and leaves a
widow and a family of children.
The Marion hub and block factory has
been sold to r. p. Stone. a carriage manu-
facturer of Chicago. The factory has been
idle for about six weeks. IL will be started
again with a large force of men and be
known as the Keystone Hub and Block
Company.
Assessors D.. Burket, of Huntington coun-
ty: ]. c. elmer, of Miami. and Thomas
Winslow, of Grant, and W. f. Swain. audi
tor of Huntington county, met state Tax
Commissioner Wingate in Wabash. yester-
day TO AXE up the subject of securing uni
formity in the valuation of property IN the
Eleventh congressional district for taxation:
They were in session all afternoon and
agreed on a schedule of values which VIII
be adopted i'm all the counties or the dis-
trict.
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quently into the melodramatic style Of the
play than any other member OF the COM
pany. Miss In Verne Is a character actress
OF considerable merit and IL is largely due
TO her that the play wins the sympathy
of the audience While she Is serious enough
In the dignihed portrayal OF the unsympa-
thetIc role. -unsympathetic because II sug-
gests too strongly at times the familiar
woman suffragist. she can also administer
delicate touches of comedy and will give a
much more satisfactory performance in
time. The part is fat and will build up
rapidly.
The company is uniformly even and each
member deserves more extended notice than
can be given here. Miss Kate Fletcher was
really excellent as Mrs: Davis. wife of the
mine foreman and mother of Nellie Davis.
an ingenue part very neatly played by Helen
Weber. Miss Weber made somewhat of a
Lit in her tender and natural love scenes
with Clyde Hess, who has the part of a son
OF the rival candidate TO Hannah Bassett.
The role given 10 Miss Weber is too broad
ly drawn for refined dramatic work, and
the author should take out some Of the
lines that suggest the approaching need OF
a midwife. Miss Villa Martin has q sort
trayed. but also too broad at times. 1t Is
an ungrateful and villainous part. Edwin
Gardner. as the editor. IL broadly tarcicai,
getting many laughs for mis- inartistic fool
cry.
Harrison weatherall is the rival candidate
to Hannah Bassett in the play. and he Is
shown TO have broken vows with Hannah
twenty years before and * TOW attempting
to win an election by further viiiainous
means. He discards his son. who Is secretly
the husband of the mine superintendent
daughter. and Weatherall, ST., with several
other characters, spend too much time in
a disgusting attempt to show that this girl
Is not as good as she should he. This vul-
gar parading OF a girls Interesting condi-
ton" before the audience IS too bold for good
taste. Ii forms an interesting motive for
Observation-Disclosures dramas. but il requires
an adept playwright TO dish up the subject
for refined and educated people. Mr.. Arm
strong as Weatherall is only a fairly good
villain. Frank Hartwell, who plays one or
those familiar stiff-leg comedy fat men,
keeps within his role. as we'll as. Warren
Ashley in the part Of the miners president.
There is a boy part thrown in for diversion.
played by Jesse May with a good deal OF
the dash that made y. S. Wood the king OF
boy actors" at forty years of age.
"A Woman's Politics will remain at
English's the rest of the week, with a Sat-
urday matinee.
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HISTORIC NEwGATE PRISON.
A New Courthouse WiIi Speedily Re-
place the Structure.

IonuOU Ddliy
Without a voice being raised in its de,
Tense, Newgate Gaol has been tried, found
guilty and sentenced 10 demolition. Such, In
effect. was the announcement made i'm the
House of Commons on Thursday by the
Home Secretary.
The black. forbidding fortress at no
ahs'a British fahe workman. Who. VIII .owbaG
and shovel. Will clear a site for a INV Cen
trail Criminal Court Newgate. which is a
government prison. VIII De replaces oS a
repleta with every modern convenience. The
gaol having been removed. and a new court
house erected In its place the turn OF the
Old Bailey will come. and the ground IL now
cumbers will be offered in eligible sites for
city warehouses.
Two of London's most notable buildings
will thus disappear, and the scene of the
public orgies which the executions outside
Newgate provided until 1868 will take on a
kindlier aspect. The ugly walls. blackened
by the dust OF a hundred years. will no
longer recall the good old times when. TO be
hanged for theft was merely the final Incl
dent i'm a criminals career. And with its
demolition the air OF spurious antiquity
which Newgate wears will vanish. For New
gate is not the ancient edifice IL seems 10 be.
Ii has barely more than a century and a
quarter of history TO boast. II was hardly
finished when. in 17S0. the Gordon riots first
made il famous, and. although as an insti-
tuition Newgate Gaol has a record stretch
stronghold is only the latest survivor OF a
series famous In criminal annals.
Newgate prison has a good deal to recon-
mend il 10 popular interest. For did not
little Jack Sheppard twice make good his
escape from Its dreary cells. before an I'M
brilliant career. Within its falls Lord
George Gordon died a victim TO the gaol dis
temper. years after the n Popery" riots
he'd failed. The attack upon the gaol, the
temporary success OF the rioters and the
fire started by the frenzied followers OF the
mad agltator. which nearly resulted IN the
destruction OF the entire building. will not
be forgotten SO long as "Barnaby Ridge"
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PERSONAL AND SOCIETY.

Mrs. e. III. Trip has discontinued her re-
ception day for the season.
Mrs. Arthur D. Gates will go TO Chicago
next week to make a visit.
Mrs. A. NJ. De Souchet has gone to Terre
Haute TO make a short visit.
Mrs. e. A. Hendrickson and daughter are
visiting friends in Evansville.
Mrs. II. o. Calls is visiting friends in
East Walnut Hills, Cincinnati.
Mr.. Robert Keller entertained a party of
gentlemen at cards last evening.
Miss Frances Ellis is visiting friends In
Louisville and will remain several weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Coleman are not ex-
pected home from Memphis until next
month.
Mrs. William Claiming Gushing and SON.
and family.
Miss Ketcham. Of Robinwood. gave a
flower luncheon, yesterday. in honor of Miss
Florence Day.
Mrs. James II. Smart and daughter Mary.
of Lafayette. have returned home after a
short visit here
Miss Martha Bradshaw has gone 10 Pitts
burg to join a house party to be given by
Miss Martha Stockton.
The Misses Taggart. of Park avenue. gave
a small luncheon, yesterday, in honor OF
Miss Hill. of Richmond.
Mrs. May Wheeler Shattuck and daugh-
ter. OF Denver. Col: are visiting Mrs. j. X.
Hussey, at Woodruff Place.
1lfCle NO. Il OF 1e0tIdi-dNeDue SnuTCn
will meet this afternoon with Mrs. w. II.
Bowen. No. 1913 Park avenue.
Mrs. May Wright Sewall has issued lnvi-
tations for a breakfast. Thursday, May IL.
In honor of Miss Florence Day.
Mrs. A. p. Stanton will receive inform
ally. Monday afternoons. for her daughter
in-law. the bride of MIR. Almus q. Ruddell.
Mr.. Newton Booth Harrington will return
has bs Ms~ E aefk for Th seversl 0 Weeks afxt a= MssR; ns
for the publication OF his stories by Nc
Clure.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. ii. Levey entertained a
number of friends with a BOWLING party,
last evening. al the German House. i'm honor
OF Mrs. Kern's visitors, Mrs. Hackney and
Mrs. Palmer.
Capt. John r. Wagner and daughter Alice
Legion entertainment this evening and will
be the guests of DR.. and Mrs. L. A. Wag-
ner while in the city.
Miss Grace Osborne left yesterday for
Erie. Pa. where she will be the maid OF
honor at the wedding OF a cousin May II.
Miss Osborne Will spend the summer in
visiting in and near Erie.
Mrs. Welz. of ST. Paul. who has been
with Mrs. Henry Severin and Mrs. A. Nj.
Kuhn for several weeks. has returned home.
Mrs. SEVERN and her granddaughter. Miss
Bacrman. will go to Germany this summer.
Mr.. Hugh MCGOWAN and family. of Kan
sas city. who are 10 reside in this city, will
occupy Mrs. Ada NJ. Carey's house, at the
corner OF Delaware and Thirteenth streets.
during the absence OF Mrs. and Miss Carey
in Europe.
Mrs. A. r. Gates gave a spring flower
luncheon yesterday 10 twelve ladies. The
flowers were arranged I'm a narrow parterre
the length OF the table and were OF various
colors and kinds. and the flower favors
We're OF spun glass In coiors corresponding
with those used Ia the center.
Mrs. +. s. Newcomer and daughter are
with Mrs. b. d. .walcott and family. Miss
Newcomer will leave, Monday, for New
York. to join Mrs. Harris and sail for Eu-
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nENTTCTD DIR. A. E. BUCHANAN
OAAsAANA 3z-33 When Building.
ADJUSTMENTS.
Ensifsh's-~A woman. Politics.

EnRlfsh's-"A woman's Politics.,
The new play, "A Womna's Politics." I'm
which Miss Lucille La Verne has elected to
present herself as a star, had It's first real
test at English's last night before an audi
ence distinctly friendly. Each member of
Miss La Verne's company was given en-
ccuraging recognition, the climax at the
end of the three several acts met with cur
tain calls and the new star herself was
given a iattering call after the play was
over. The audience showed considerable of
that friendly and forgiving spirit which
marked the home-iike crowds that learned
to enjoy the work Of the Grand stock COM
pany this season. Such sentiment is pa
triotic and nice to behold, and If ali future
audiences can be relied on to be equally
friendly Miss La Verne's venture may be-
come a success. This Is simply a statement
OF fact, and is not meant TO disparage Miss
La Verne or Mr.. George Foster Plat, the
author of "A Woman's Politics.
The play Is plainly a serious effort in the
popular-priced comedy school and there Is
where IL belongs. Ii seems to have been
written with a purpose to illustrate political
permitted TO take a hand in politics on
equal terms with men. Plays with a pur-
pose must either be literary and given with
high artistic finish or they must be melo-
dramatic and common. Miss La Verne has
the role of Hannah Bassett, a maiden
lady with considerable gray In her hair,
q lawyer by profession and a candidate for
the Legislature. This side of the Missis-
sippf the people are not educated to the
idea OF a woman running for a legislative
Office and the subject Is likely to be con-
sidered ~farcical. or IL the author insist on
being serious a high-class audience is apt
TO yawn. The subject was artfully handled
by Charles Hoyt In "A Contented Woman"
and was acceptable only by reason of its
farcical treatment. This same treatment
saved May Twins Kate Kip" where
Glen Macdonough handled the same subject.
Mr.. Platt's Is the first attempt now
called TO mind where the author
insisted on treating the subject seriously.
1t was a daring venture. and while il is
not an unqualified success, he has made a
play that will appeal to a certain class of
play goers- The author has done some very
good anna writing in "A Woman Poll
tics" and with some necessary editing. get
ting rid Of certain stereotyped features. he
may make "A woman's Politics" eventually
acceptable TO first-class audiences. In its
present shape X has a distinctly popular
priced" tone.
Miss La Verne honestly conceives the
Hannah Bassett character and gives II a
hfe-hke Interpretation. dropping less fire.
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NOT NECESSARILY SETTLED.
The Public VII Have Its Own Opinion
of the Beef investigation.
Philadelphia Times

f"nlldQeipnid Times.
1t is one of the common errors OF both
the army and navy coterie of Washington
that they never learn how impossible II is
TO deceive the American people. The first
quire into the army %rations, was composed
of men Of high character In their respective
communities. but who has ever taken the
p nIIie Sp dT9'e Tb tes'r we're rspor apn po ratli for 20 q
purpose: they were environed by admins
tration influences leading only TO that pur-
pose, and they fulfilled the purpose to the
end, thereby FORGETTING the confidence of
The military court, appointed under mill
tary rules TO repeat the inquiry, knew that
Department desired only the vindication of
Secretary Alger and the severest condemna-
ton of General Miles that could be plausibly
duty: tire Wal Department is indicated:
General Miles Is smirched and they doubt
less assume in military. circles in Washing
ton that the question is settled.
Some one who is close to these mistaken
officials in Washington should be able TO
tell them that in the issue between General
Miles and Secretary. Alger, the admins
tration Is on one side and the people on
the other side. The people know that Gen.
Miles is the one conspicuous officer of the
army in the West Indies who never made
a mistake, who never sacrificed his men.
who looked carefully TO the supplies of his
soldiers, and who saved Porto Rico by won
derful celebrity of movement that gave IL TO
us by conquest before the treaty of peace.
They know also hat when General Shafter
would have retreated from Santiago, Gen.
Miles was hurried to the front to execute
the peremptory orders against retreat and
save the army from disgrace. The most
difficult OF all things in politics Is for politi-
cal power In Washington TO attempt to fool
the American people.
1t Is given out by the friends of Secretary
Alger that General Miles will be relieved of
his position as commander-in-chief Of the
army. If President Mckinley is prepared
for political suicide he will bow to the COM
mands of Incompetence and corruptionists
and strip General Miles of his military hon.
ors. but when the President decides 10 at
tempt to dishonor General Miles he should.
within the same hour, announce his retire
ment from the contest Of 1900. William Nc
Kinley is the one man who can make Geo.
Dewey the next President
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WABASH, Ind, May A long letter re-
ceived from w. M. Blackford, attorney for
Eli Fisher, of Treaty, this county, under
sentence of death for murder at Lewis
town, Mont, and whose execution is set
for May Il, states that he has made ap-
plication TO the Governor of Montana for a
respite pending the appeal of his case to
the Supreme Court, and has received as
surance that the petition will be granted.
Mr.. Blackford has engaged Attorney Stran-
ahan, of Butte, to come to Lewiston and
prepare the papers in the appeal and has
also retained Judge De Witt, late of the SUI
preme Court, to take charge of the case in
the Supreme Court. Mr.. Blackford says
there is little question of a new trial being
granted and that this almost certainly
means acquittal for young Fisher. Another
hundred dollars, making 1925 in all, was
sent by Wabash sympathizers to the Mon
tana attorney tonight.
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How the woodpecker Knows.

How does he know where to dig his hole,
The woodpecker there. on the elm tree bole!
How does he know what kind of a limb
To use for a drum or TO burrow in?
How does he find where the young srubs grow
I'd like to know
The woodpecker flew TO a maple limb,
And drummed a tattoo that was fun for him,
mo breakfast here It's too hard for that
He said. as down on his tail he sat;
''Just listen to this: rrrr rat-tat-tat"
Away to the pear tree. out OF sight.
With a CHEEKY call and a jumping fight!
He hoped around, till he found a stub,
All. here's the place to look for a grubi
It's moist and dead-rrrr rub-dub-dub-"
To a branch Of the apple tree Downy hied.
And hung by his toes on the under side
- Twill be sunny here in this hollow trunk;
It's dry and soft. with a heart OF punk.
Just the place for a nest!-rrrr runk-tunk-tunk."
1T see said the boy. Just a rap or two.
Then listen, as any bright boy might do.
You can tell ripe melons and garden stun
In the very same wsy-its easy enough"
William j. Long.
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An interesting link between two genera
tons. the name of Dan Godfrey is lovingly
regarded by those of mature years, for it
was to his waltzes that most of them
danced in their younger days and 1t was
from the Mabel waltz that American in
genuity took the popular air to which they
fitted the words Of Mother, May / Go Out
to SWIM" The present generation will find
his waltzes I'm nearly every musical port
folio and Dan Godfrey Is the originator Of
all those amusing pieces played by Sousa
and other great American bands in which
the members are represented as coins on
a strike and marching off, leaving one soli-
tary drummer or trombone player with the
deserted leader. The arrangements of God
frey are played with military bands the
world over. Thoroughly up TO date. Lieuten-
ant Godfrey has written for his present
American tour a new nautical number en-
titled England and America" which rep
resents the union of the British and Ameri-
can fleets, an event which actually hap
pened in Samoa the other day. This num-
Der will be heard at the concert on May
s by Lieut.. Dan Godfrey and his
British Guards land.
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Fighting for a FRANCHISE.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BRAZIL, Ind, May A big fight is on
here between Smith & Joseph, of Terre
Haute, Mayor Collins, of this city, and
Stone & Webster, of Boston, for a franchise
over the National road west to the county
line for a street-car line from this city to
Terre Haute. Lawyers representing the diff.
ferent applicants spent yesterday afternoon
and to-day arguing their cases before the
County Commissioners. Mr.. Collins will
doubtless be awarded a franchise for fifty
years, as he offers a bonus OF $3.50 a year
for the first five years and $500 thereafter
for the life of the franchise. A prominent
Vandalia official said to-day that if the
franchise were granted the Vandalia would
at once parallel its tracks and put on gaso-
line engines TO run cars to and from Terre
Haute to compete with the electric line.
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park-.Tennessee.s Pardner.,

II is seldom that patrons of the Park
Theater see a drama which has a consist
ent story and which is not merely a col
lection of ~overworked opportunities 10
drag in sentimentalism and fling it at the
audience, but "Tennessee's Pardner." which
opened yesterday afternoon for the rest of
the week, is a remarkably happy exception.
Since its production in the East, several
years ago. the play has been presented from
Maine to California, and has made its own
er large profits. 1t Is advertised as having
been suggested by Bret Harte's story of
the same name, but the truth is that the
story of the play is not in detail like the
famous Western writer's story. Neverthe-
less, the play is the work Of a man. with
brains, better brains than most melodrama
builders. The scenes are laid in A mining
camp and the play opens just after the mar
rage OF an honest miner and a San Fran,
brother. The husband does not know of
his wife's past, but his partner, a high
toned gambler, does. The woman resolves
TO be honest, and she strives against her
brothers determination to rob her husband.
The love story OF a fatherless girl and the
.high-toned gambler runs through the play.
The play Is put on in the style IL deserves,
with regard to company n scenery.
Estha Williams and Jane Corcoran have
the leading female roles, Miss Williams be-
Ing the reformed adventures and Miss Cor
coran playing the part Of Tennessee Kent,
the orphan The work of both is that of
bright women who have the right TO be in
the theatrical profession. Percy Plunkett
does a piece of character work in the part
of q brow-beaten husband and accomplished
and agreeable liar that seems by its clever
individuality TO mark the actor for high
class vaudeville houses. Walter Ryder and
Walter Fessler play the ''pards" excellent
ly. The Golden Nugget Quartet does double
duty Its members use their voices in a
style seldom heard by Park audiences and
play subordinate parts In the play. All
through the cast Is well chosen. People who
have followed the Grand Stock Company all
season will not be disappointed in the least
II they see a performance of Tennessee
Pardner," which is produced with much the
same fidelity and carefulness and with a
company that does not suffer in COMPARE
son.
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waSSOnsS
Buying
Mems
Shirts

The alleged funny men, at
a loss for a new joke Gas they
usually are). fall back on the
old, old one about the man
whose wife bought his shirts
and neckties.
Now there are a great many
women who buy such articles
here for their husbands and
brothers-and 1.-THE funny man
to the contrary the husbands
and brothers are always
pleased. Reason? Oh, there
are many-prinCipal one
because the styles of mems
furnishings here are not of
the loud. usual furnishing
store variety, but such as a
gentleman would prefer to
wear, and a lady admire.
Another reason is the smaller
cost.
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when Sheriff McCreary. of Upton county,
rafded the Harin home. he found a coun-
terfeiting outfit. killed Charles Harlin and
captured Buck Milo Harlin escaped and
Joined the Fourteenth United States regu-
lars under the name of j. G.. Soden. He
wounded In battle. once in the capture OF
Manila and once by the Filipinos. He was
discharged for disability and came home
with the stripes of first sergeant. His aged
mother met him here and they boarded a
train for the far West, where Harlin says
he has a job on a railroad. Their departure
removes the last of a family that has given
the officers trouble for twenty years. The
Harlins were half brothers and cousins of
the notorious Hawkin boys. Buck" and
Babe one of whom murdered City Mar
shall Joseph Kelly. of this city. The other
was lynched at Shelbyville eight years ago.
after shooting the S~helbyville marshal. An
officer saw Harlin at the depot to-day be-
fore starting. but did not know him.
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is read. The incidents which Dickens
wrought in his story are probably the most
exciting which Newgate gaol has known.
Since then the long and dreary record OF
hangings within and without the walls has
perpetuated the evil name which Newgate
has always borne. 1t was In 1850, ten years
after the present building was begun, that
hanging at Tyburn vas abolished in favor
of hanging in front OF Newgate gaoI. For
the next eighty-eight years the condemned
criminal satisfied legal demands and the
public craving for morbid excitement by APP
pearing for execution or reprssve. on a lit
tie platform erected just outside the walls,
until a healthier public morality put an end
TO the CHASTITY scenes.
For the past thirty-one years the public
executioner has done his work behind the
frOwning walls which look out on Holborn
viaduct and Newgate street, and executions
have almost ceased to excite the popular
imagination. Now the gaol itself Is to dis
appear. and criminals sentenced in the new
Central Criminal Court, which will arise
from its ashes. will be taken elsewhere TO
suffer Imprisonment or death.