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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-07
Mary Jones Annlies.
To Dear Director Merriam of the Census:
want to take the census down in Mattagumpu


To Dear Director Merriam of the Census:
1 want to take the census down in Mattagumpus,
can give you good credentials
And / know the full essentials
OF making up census that will please and
I'm a spinster and I'm proud to say I've reached
It's an age Of good discretion
That perhaps Is confession.
But it shows I'll take the census SOS to liven
every page.
For I understand my neighbors mighty we'll
i can give you every detail that is really fit TO
tell
I have had a good occasion to examine every
For rye neighbored pretty steady since I've lived
I cen give you lots of items that you'd get no
other way
Not lot of musty fodder and statistics dry as
hay,
But some spicy information that is strictly up to
date,
And the best of all you'll get it as get 1T, fresh
I've notion of a census that will make the
But you've got to pick your people IL you want
il taken well,
For a fool enumerator will go browsing round
And he'll never think to question any on
their gowns.
He may sit around and gossip for hour in
And forget to note the curtains are Of imitation
lace.
Bankers Ann
Has run away to Boston with a wicked married
man,
And I'll bet ne won't discover If he hunts a solid
week
How it happens Mrs. Atkins and her husband
do speak.
But I've got it. You have IT IL you'll pay
me we'll TO tell.
And gracious. Mr.. Merriam, how your census
books will SELL
Now 1 want TO take the census down in Mat
tagumpus. Maine.
/ strong on education
Ard I've lots of penetration
And I'll guarantee you plenty In very lively
strain.
II will be the kind OF census that will stir the
dusty bones
Twill 20 ringing down the ages,
Folks will pore above the pages.
And YOU re welcome. dear director, to the tin
Yours. Mary Jones.
-LeMisfon Mel Journal
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silent prayer followed, closing with con-
gregational recital OF the Lords prayer.
preaehed nv Rex sermon We" GunsauIus Of
Chicago. from the text, And an inscription
was written and placed upon the cross. say
ing in letters of Greek. and Hebrew and
Latin. This is the King of the Jews. st
Mark Xxx, "a. DIR. Gunsaulus dwelt on the
significance of the fact that Pontius PLATE
crucifixion 10 inscribe the title of Christ
in three languages. I'VE must exalt day
Christ this king of kings and lord of lords.
who dragged the Greek, pulled the Roman
and compelled the Hebrew TO write upon
fact. that He was King OF the Jews. The
Greek language Is the language OF intellect,
the Hebrew is the language of the human
heart, the Roman Is the language or the
human will Superlative intelligence, pro-
found emotion, resistless villa combina-
ton of all these is necessary TO express VIII "a
the atonement. Some OF you in this audi
ence are Romans. some are Greeks. but
your natures more Of the human heart and
human emotion. IL is the hour for the
Christian Endeavor Society to take the
language of the Roman. the language OF the
Greek and the language of the Hebrew and
write in the name Of intellect the name OF
resistless will and the name OF humanity;
This is our King. The King of Kings and
the Lord of Lords Mans imperialism and
Gods imperialism is not only as strong as
a powder cart, but it is right thinking and
ment of civilization
DIR. Clark appointed as members OF the
committee to whom shall be referred all
matters of business and resolutions Secre-
tary John w. Baer, G. Il. Holdreoge' Oh
Illinois, and Rev. DIR. Dixon, of Gault' ont-
The afternoon was devoted to denomina-
tionaI rallies and to conferences on lines OF
work auxiliary to Christian Endeavor.
Bible study conference was led by Prof. w.
c. Moorhead d. D., of Xenia, o. A con-
ference of personal workers was conducted
by II. 3. Glib.
A numerously attended conference for
Junior Christian Endeavor Society workers
and superintendent was held under the
leadership of Miss Kate Fl. Haus, Oh ST.
Louis, Mo. More than thirty denomina-
tional rallies were held in as many
churches. addressed by many leaders, min
isterial and lay, upon a great variety or
topics.
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GREEN GLASS PRESSERS.
Annual Meeting of the League Now
Being Held at Marion.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MARION, Ind, July 6.-The annual con-
vention of the Improved Green Glass Press
ers League of the United States and Can
ada, the members of the league being more
commonly known as the white liners" is
in session in this city. Representatives are
present from all parts of the United States
ard Canada. The local union is composed
of the employees of the stamping works of
Wilson & McCulloch. The first session was
held Wednesday, being called to order by
the national president, Frank L&afferty, of
Muncie. A committee on credentials, COM
posed Of Messrs Edward Conroy, William
Bro0me Chris Beck, James Hope and Chris
Trainor was appointed, and by it the regu-
lar committees were named. The chief bust
ness before the meeting is the drafting OF
resolutions under which the men must be
employed during the ensuing year and to
settle on a scale of wages. Another feature
of this years business is the proposed &C
ton in regard to better legislation In the
interest of labor and the adjustment OF
trusts. The national financial secretary and
treasurer's report shows in the national
treasury $57,2S16 GA Expenses for the past
year were s14,7S2 The gain in the treasury
during the past year was S3O1.f. The Of
ficers of the national league are: President.
Charles b. Jones, of Montreal, Cam; imam
cial secretary, Patrick Kelly, of Marion;
corresponding secretary, James r. McClaln,
Of Muncie; recording secretary, Thomss
Aiken of Philadelphia; treasurer, John Nc
Guigan, of Muncie.
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SINKING OUT OF SIGHT
PART OF WABASH COUNTY BUILT
OVER SUBTERRANEAN LAKE.
Fish Law Being Violated I'm All Parts
of the State-Green Glass Press
erS in Session.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
WABASH, Ind, July 6.-Another big sink
hole, which swallows up earth, stones, tim
Der and everything else dumped into it. is
giving the County Commissioners more
trouble The new hole is along the highway
in Pleasant township, four miles from Lake
ton, and the road supervisors, having been
unable to bridge across the hole. which
stands several feet deep in water, have
turned the problem over to the commission
ers, who were out looking at the spot to-
day. Six miles from the sinkhole, at Boil
var, the Big Four had quicksand, which
absorbed its track and into which many
thousands of cars of filling were dumped.
Six miles north of Bolivar the Wabash
County Commissioners had several hum
dred feet of highway drop out of sight and
were compelled to bridge the chasm. and
at Disko, four miles west of the present
hole. the Chicago & Erie Railway for three
years hauled train loads of gravel and put
under part of it's track to keep it from
falling through but gave UP the struggle
finally and built three miles of new track
around the hole. 1t is believed that all the
north part of Wabash county is over
Subterranean lake.
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WINONA BALL CLUB.
One of the First Results Of Prof. Du
Bridges Energetic Presence.


Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WINONA LAKE, Ind, July 6.-The as
sembly and summer school have finally
opened and the daily entertainments are at
tended by large crowds. The number OF peo-
pie on the grounds now far exceeds that OF
any previous year. Tonight at o'clock
reception at the Inn was rendered to the
students and faculty of the summer school
The schedule of courses for the summer
school was posted this morning and the va
rious departments got down to work. The
registration shows 1S7 Students many of
whom are taking two or three courses. max
ing the number of courses entered consid-
erably larger. The thirty-one instructors IN
the school are all here. The management
has secured Prof F. a. Du Bridge to take
charge of athletics for the summer. Prof
Du Bridge for several years had charge OF
athletics at Lake Forest University, and Tor
the past year has been athletic director or
the Young Mems Christian Association of
Terre Haute Prof. Du Bridge organized
a Winona ball team this afternoon.
The Daily Winonian. paper published
here in the interest of the assembly, by
Charles B. Moore, business manager of the
organization, is a neat little sheet and Is
meeting with success.
The Schmicke Orchestra, Of Cincinnati,
has been engaged for the summer and ar
rived the first of the week.
Late arrivals at Minnewawan Inn-Bernice
Beeson. Bessie Beeson, Bentonville; Mrs.
James B. Clark, Nellie Clark, Bloomington:
Mrs. George Halman and daughter. Mrs.
Vernon Gould Mrs. j. w. Smith, Mrs. /. p.
Gamer. Mrs. O. B. Moore. Rochester; Har-
riet F. Cook, Matte Rogers, Washing ton /;
]. C.. Stinson Terre Haute; Susie f. Craven,
India L. Martz, Hartford City; b. w. Ever
mann. Washington, d. c.; Ord Avermann,
Burlington; o. w. Sharpe and wife, Hart
ford City; Miss Il. lessen, Miss f. Danach,
Kentland.
Winona Hotel - Henry Webb Johnson,
South Bend; A. Fl. Bellinger and wife, Fort
Wayne; Mrs. Dixon Edgerton and children,
Indianapolis; E. T. Yarnell and family Fort
Wayne; Maragret Coulter. Chicago; c. c..
Lasby, Indianapolis; Mrs. Nellie f.. Wood,
Piqua, o.: Margaret Shuler, Mabel Sanders.
Indianapolis; w. n. Fryberger, Goshen.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind. July Cdr. A N. New
ton. aged eightyseven. died this morning
of senility at his home in this city. Two
daughters Mrs. Ida Lemon, of this city. and
Miss Lila Newton. of Chicago. survive. The
deceased has been a resident Of Richmond
fer sixty years and was an old-time dentist
Daniel Huff, aged eighty-three, died this
morning at his home in Fountain City. He
was one of the most prominent pioneer resi-
dents of Wayne county. He was born in
North Carolina in 1916 and came to Wayne
county at the age of three with his parents.
John and Mary Huff. He was especially
active in the Underground railroad" work.
for which Fountain City was one Of the
stations. and was also prominent In the
Woody. wife of ex-County Commissioner
Solomon Woody. of Fountain City. His wife
was Jane Nixon, a sister of William Penn
Nixon. Of the Chicago Inter Ocean.
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STORM SAVES TIE ROBBERS.
BlOOdhounds and n Posse Have q Hot
Chase I'm Vain.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
PARAMOUNT. Ind. July 6.-Thieves en-
tered a residence in Gas City Wednesday.
about noon, securing about $50 in money.
Marshal Griffin gave chase and so hot was
he after them that they did not take time
to go to the bridge, but swan the river
go yards above the dam. Griffin plunged
in after them. The desperadoes reached
the opposite bank considerably in advance
and caught an interurban car for this city.
but dropped off a half mile north of town.
Half an hour later Marshal Griffin arrived
here literally soaked from his bath in the
Mississinewa and having two bloodhounds
In charge. These were put on the trail and
posse of constables and citizens soon fol-
lowed The trail was followed four and
half miles west, where a heavy rainstorm
made it impossible for the dogs to trail
farther, and the chase was abandoned. A
small army of men was in pursuit.
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DiscfpIea of Christ.

CINCINNATI, o., July 6.-The Disciples
of Christ will hold their jubilee missionary
convention in Cincinnati Oct. 1873, and ten
thousand delegates are expected. All parts
of the United States and Canada will be
represented. as we'll as the West Indies,
Great Britain, Japan China and India. In
fifty years the Disciples of Christ have
grown from 100000 to over a million, and in
that period they have given for nome mis-
sions about $4OO0,000 and have planted over
1900 churches. At the same time they have
given 81 100000 for foreign missions, their
agents being at work in all the great
heather fields of the world.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind July 6.-Coroner e. K
Watts to-day filed his verdict on the sudden
death Of Sylvester Partridge last month Pat
ridge was being treated by Mrs. Lydia w.
Hazlett. who heals by the laying on of hands
repeating mumbled expressions. unintelligi-
BILE to others. She had treated Partridge for
typhoid fever and pneumonia, and on the
morning of the day he died claimed the dis
ease had disappeared and that he was suf-
fering from only weakness. The autopsy
ordered by the coroner showed that Partridge
died OF paralysis of the heart, and the ver-
dict states that had he been given proper
medical attention he would In all probability
have recovered. The verdict states that Mrs
knowledge Of medicine or anatomy. 1t is
not known what the outcome OF the case
will be.
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to him throughout the trial. but. after his
acquittal. Leonard seemed anxious to break
off his match with the Palmer girl and took
to another She caught him in grove on
the river bank in company with other girls
the first of this week. and fight ensued.
She made for Clara Vansickle, Leonard s
new sweetheart. and struck her on the head
with club. laying open the scalp. Miss
Palmer then had Leonard arrested on pa
ternity charge. and the wedding now seems
to have settled the whole trouble.
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Juggling with Public Property.
special TO TIE Indiananolis Ionrnal

COLUMBUS. Ind, July 6.-The board of
managers of the Frances Comfort Orphans
Home petitioned the Board of Commission
ers few days ago to transfer the home to
a private corporation, the present board to
be the officials The taxpayers at once took
up the matter, with politics the dividing
line The Republicans opposed the action
while Democrats favored it. The case was
strongly contested two days and the COM
missioners called on County Attorney NJ.
ID. Emig, who is a Democrat, for his adj
vice. He instructed them that there was
no law to warrant such action with public
property, and cautioned them not to make
the transfer. This morning the commits
sfoners decided to make the transfer and
this afternoon signed the contract. An in
junction Is threatened at once.
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Indiana Notes.

Rev. G. L. Berry has resigned the pas
torate of the Baptist Church at CamDriase
City. and will enter the work at some other
point.
One hundred and eight men are working on
the water works and electric light plants,
which are in course OF construction AT
Brownstown-
BENJAMIN F. Pointers residence near
Brooklyn, was destroyed by fire Wednesday.
Loss. 81. 500: insured in the Home OF New
York for $500.
George Gordon. Of Auburn. has sold the
Daily and Weekly Auburn Dispatch to Smith
and Higley, of Butler. Both are able men
and will continue the business.
Portland is preparing to give a mammoth
street fair on July Is and y, A,tra sa
This will he Portland's second annual fsir
Rev. Father Coulter. of Indianapolis. has
been appointed assistant priest at 81. Mary
Catholic Church, Richmond. succeeding Rev.
Father Shea who has gone TO Henryville,
Ind.
Mrs. John Evans drowned herself in a els
tern at her home at Elizabeth yesterday
morning. She was mentally unbalanced and
had at one time been an inmate OF the
asylum for insane
The Terre Haute street fair for this year
is now assured. The canvassing committees
have been very successful in securing sub
scrptions to the $4,000 fund which Is to he
raised TO cover all expenses. The week Sc
lected is the one beginning Oct. ..
The Old Hickory Chair Company. OF Mar
State in the Union and many countries of
Europe changed proprietors yesterday. r.
w Woods sold to +. l.. Brown and Ralph
s. Barrett. two young business men.
Peter and Polly Curtis. one Of the most
highly respected couples in the west part
of Morgan county, have disagreed after Nv
irg together forty years and bringing Up
family OF twelve children. Mrs. Curtis sues
for divorce. alleging cruelty. He is worth
$4,000.
The Logansport and Wabash Valley Gas
Company's property in Wabash county Is
valued for taxation by the Wabash County
Board Of Review at $4,000. increase OF
$4,000 over last years valuation. The COM
pany objects and will appeal TO the State
Board for a reimbursement.
The Treaty Creek Stone and Lime Company
of Treaty has disposed of its property 10 j. II.
Smith. of Fowler. Ind, and George Hub
bard. of Martinsville. Ind. The company
has been i'm business over a quarter OF a
century dealing In lime. lumber. screen
doors and all kinds of builders materials.
The consideration named n the transfer is
stated at $4,000. and the owners will
take possession at once. John h. Latchem,
president of the company. Will take the man.
agement OF the Wabash bridge and iron
works. in which he Is a heavy stakeholder.
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COLLISION WITH HOSE CART.
Mrs. Coolies Carriage Overturned and
Four People I'm the Had Mixup.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
GREENFIELD, Ind, July 6.-A carriage
driven by Mrs. James Goble was run into
and completely demolished by the hose wag-
on making a run TO a fire tonight. Mrs.
Goble, her two children and her mother,
Mrs. John Stokes. from Protection. Kan,
were thrown out and Hugh Goble had both
bones of his left leg below the knee broken.
No serious damage was done the other &C.
cupants. The women are badly shaken up
and Frustrated with the shock.
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overmeyer Has Opposition.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
SEYMOUR, Ind. July 6.-Politics are al
ready warming up in the Fourth district,
although the campaign is a year Off. The
manner in which John .Overmeyer Is going
after the nomination for congressman,
building up his fences and stringing his
wires all over the district, is attracting
considerable attention. He has sounded his
keynote and announcement through the
North Vernon Sun. his organ, and the same
has been taken up by several of the Demo-
cratic press of the district. The Columbus
Times, edited by j. N Marsh is displeased
with Overmeyer's candidacy and is publish
ing all his misdeeds
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Temperance People Appeal the Case.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WINDFALL. Ind, July 6.-Francis Stage,
of this place, has been granted a license
for saloon over a remonstrance signed by
majority of the legal voters of the town.
ship. The majority Of the signatures were
signed by party having the power of at
torney to do so and the commissioners in
this. as in the other cases. held that the
voters could not delegate the power to sign
the remonstra1ce Dy power of attorney, and
granted the license. The temperance people
have decided to risk their cause on sigma
lures attached by the attorney and will APP
peal. They feel confident of a reversal in
the Supreme Court, If not before.
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Gamblers Get Their Orders.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
HARTFORD CITY, Ind. July s-The off,
GERS have again ordered all the gambling
houses of the city closed. The order was
issued on last Saturday night, and the fol-
lowing day the crap tables. roulette wheels
and other devices were boxed and stored
away. The officers state that II they are
again put in use they will be burned in the
street The saloon men also received notice
that the closing hour and Sunday law must
be observed. The orders being strictly
observed.
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To Fight the Glass Trust.

special TO the indianapolis Journal
HARTFORD CITY, Ind. July 6.-Another
cooperative body Of workmen are prepar-
ing to build factory here. the product OF
which will be tank blocks. fiattening
stones. pots and. In fact. everything i'm the
clay line uGed in glass factory. There Is
big demand for this kind of material and
the men propose to build large plant TO
furnish cooperative glass plants which are
pelng Disseminated against by other fac
tories afraid OF the trust.
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LUTHER HUGHES DYING.
Cousin of Hex Hughes and Former
Sheriff of Ripley County.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
VERSAILLES. Ind, July 6.-Ex-Sheriff
Luther Hughes, of Correct, is dying of
Bright's disease, being in an unconscious
condition. Several members of the Masonic
fraternity are in attendance. Mr.. Hughes is
about fifty years old and has, for the past
two years. been travelling over the State in
the interest of a fertilizing company. He
gained considerable prominence while sheriff
by the arrest of Tom Foster. of Osgood,
who was convicted of being the leader of a
gang of horsethieves His case was reversed
by the Supreme Court, but before a new
trial Foster fled to Canada and is now a
prominent business man there. Hughes is
cousin of HeZ Hughes. who was tried at
Cross Plains for participating in the quin-
tuple lynching two years ago.
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Mischief wrought by seine..

CHESTERFIELD. Ind, July Sit is es-
timated that four thousand pounds of fish
were taken from White river. within dis
lance Of two miles each way from the Ches-
terfieId ford, on July 4. Both sides were
lined with men using seines, who caught the
fish by the bushel What they could not sell
nor use were thrown away TO decay At the
rate by which fish are now being dragged
from the river, the stream will be depopu-
lated by the list of August. There is much
complaint over the latitude given the seine
by the new fish law. It drives the pole and
line fisherman out of the business.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
BRAZIL. Ind, July 6-Forty-seven years
ago Mrs. George Hadley and her sister were
left orphans in Warren county, Ohio, when
the former was three months old. They
were adopted in different families and did
not hear of each other until yesterday. when
Mrs. Hadley received letter from her
iong-lost sister, whose home is in Chatta-
nooga, Tenn. Her name is Mrs. Barton and
sne Is the general manager of the Lookout
Mountain Sanatorium
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Eight Aged Brothers Living.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MADISON. Ind, July 6.-The eight sons of
the late Elias Stapp are all living, as fol-
lows: William. aged eighty-five. in this
city: Joseph. aged eighty-three, in Law
renceburg; Jephtha. aged eighty-one. in Ne
braska; Sanford. aged seventy-nine, in
Kansas: John, aged seventy-seven, in ILL.,
nois; Simeon. aged seventy-five, at Hope.
Ind: David W.. aged seventy, at Des
Moines Ia, and Dewitt, aged sixty-seven,
at Chattanooga. Tenn. William and Joseph
were born in Kentucky. the other six in
Madison.
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Dynamite and Sefnes Being Used
Throughout the State.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WABASH, Ind, July 6.-Dynamite In
large quantities is being used in the Wa
bash and Eel rivers. in this county Fisher
men nightly explode charges in secluded
spots. and many dead fish. which they fail
to secure. float down the streams. 1t is said
that within the last week hundreds of
pounds of fine bass have either been killed
or stunned with the explosive and taken by
the laws violators People along the
streams are preparing complaints in several
cases The offenders. il is claimed, are men
from the gas belt. who spend their vacation
fishing