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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-05
MILLER WOULD NOT RACE.
Wanted a Money Prize Put Up-Tes-
timOniaI Bicycle Meet.

NEW YORK, Jan. A testimonial race
meet was held by cycle clubs of Greater
New York at Madison-square Garden to-
night. The final event on the programme
was to have been a ffve-mie match between
Charles Miller, of Chicago, the world s
champion, and Frank Waller, the Flying
Dutchman" Miller objected to race unless
a money prize was put up, but Waller was
willing to go on. Miller was obdurate and
Waller said, III walk him a mile if he'll
do it." 1t was finally announced the race
was off. Miller rode what was said to have
been half-mile exhibition in IS As seconds.
Charles Hatfield, of New York, and VIM. r.
Sager, of Denver, won two successive heats
in tandem match race from the Kramer
brothers. OF, Chicago, very cleverly. Harry
TClkes, of Glens Falls, N Y. the holder of
the world hour record, tried conclusions
with Harry Gibson, of Cincinnati, and Joe
Downer, of Boston, who rode tandem.
They rode three heats Of one-half mile each.
Hlkes started from the opposite side of the
track in the first heat, and won by two
yards The other two heats, in which both
machines started from the same spot, We're
won by the youngsters on the tandem.
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Indiana Notes.

The Elwood Council has increased the
mayors salary from $500 to $1,000. The
Council is Democratic.
BY a vote of to the Elwood Council has
refused to grant a franchise to the Long
distance Telephone Company, Of Indianapo-
lis, to enter Elwood
kid" Whitney was found guilty Tuesday
Of robbing Mrs. Mary Ann Nugent al Shell
byville last September and will be sent to
Jetfersonvile prison on a two-to-fourteen
year sentence.
Muncie has a new sort of criminal called
Jack the Window Breaker" He goes
about the town at night smashing windows
with a club. In the eastern portion of Mum
Gle Tuesday night the fellow smashed win
dows in a dozen different buildings. He has
thus far elUded the vigilance of the police.
The annual election of officers for the
Madison County Medical Association held
Tuesday night resulted in the selection of
DR.. G.. w. BrOwnback, of Pendleton. as
president DR.. G. Conversion, of FranktOn
vice president; DR.. A. G. Whittledge, of An
derson, secretary, and DR.. B. II. Perez, Of
Anderson, treasurer.
Moore's Hill College winter term opened
this week with the majority of fall-term
students in attendance and a good increase
for the winter months. President Lewis re-
ports that all over southern Indiana there is
a decided relief from the pressure of recent
hard times. and that hundreds of young
people are planning to attend institutions of
higher education He is of the opinion that
Moore's Hill College will have her share.
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Indiana Obituary.

GREENFIELD. Ind, Jan. 4.-Flora Wells,
wife of Samuel r. Wells, died at an early
hour this morning from a stroke of par
alysis. She was at Indianapolis Tuesday.
She felt the paralytic stroke about o'clock
while al Hinchmans Hall, where her young
est son Russell was taking a dancing les
son. She was taken home in a carriage,
but became unconscious shortly before s
o'clock and died during the night She was
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A, l.. Wether-
aid, of Frankton. Mr.. and Mrs. Wells came
from Massilon, o., to Greenfield nine years
ago, where he and his brother established
the first glass factory in this city. Mrs.
Wells was a liberal contributor of her
wealth to all good works. Her body will be
taken to Indianapolis at noon Friday and
placed in a vault for few weeks, when it
will be taken to the family lot in the Mas
silon Cemetery.
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind, Jan. AIRS.
Rhode Eubanks, one of the best known
women in the city died this morning of
pneumonia, aged forty-three. She formerly
resided at Jonesville, Ind. and moved to
this city in 1895. Two sisters reside in In
dianapolis. She leaves a husband and one
DUBLIN. Ind, Jan. 4.-David P. Moore, a
retired citizen of this place, aged seventy,
died suddenly of neuralgia of the heart to-
day. He was formerly a resident of Rising
Sun.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-05
MCCOY IS FAV0RIfE.
The indianapolis Kid Picked to De-
feat the Sailor PugiIist.

NEW YORK, Jan. 4-Indications are that
Mccoy will be a slight favorite when he and
Sharkey meet next Tuesday night, owing to
the opinion of most experts that Sharkey
was beginning to tire IN his recent match
with Corbett when the Californians second,
Con Mcvey. presented the decision to Shar-
key by entering the ring during the progress
of the ninth round This has made the pub
lie bit shy about backing the sailor. On
the other hand 1t Is argued that McCoy's
condition in all his previous bouts has been
Of the best. that he Is a cool and heady
fighter. and likely to offer little opportunity
to his opponent to mix matters and thus get
In telling work IA the early stages &c aha
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Prof. Moorehead,. Lectures.

The Rev. DR.. Moorehead, of Xenia, o.,
began a series OF discourses at the Seventh
Presbyterian Church yesterday afternoon at
3 o'clock. He took as the basis of his read
ing a portion of the fifth chapter of Ro-
mans, his theme being 1.-THE Fruits of Justi-
fication." At another service held at 1880 D.
m. the doctor took for his theme the book
of Ecclesiastes. He will give readings to-
day at and 7:30 p. m. AT last nights serv-
ice DR.. Moorehead spoke in part as follows:
The word ecclesiastes means preacher.
The writer describes himself as the son of
David, King of Jerusalem, LIP But one
son of David was capable of writing such a
book viz, Solomon. In the first book of
Kings Qv, SO-3S) is found description of
his mental gifts and requirements. He was
a moral philosopher, poet, botanist zoolo-
glsts architect, statesman and leader Few
men of that ancient time were as richly en-
dowed as Solomon for discussing the deep
est and most difficult problems of human
life, the government of the world, the per-
pleXities, contradictions and antagonsms
everywhere besetting men, The STYLE of this
book is one of sadness. 1t is one of the most
sorroWtul of the Bible. Doubt, perplexity
apparent skepticism we encounter in it
often (see ill., 10; tx, 2-l1, etc.) 1t is not the
voice of abstract right or truth we hear i'm
1t, but rather the bitter utterance of one
VINO mas known much, felt much, tried
much, and who has found little to crafty
his deepest self.
What is the design of Ecclesiastes? Its
key is found in the peculiar expression,
Under the sum- an expression that occurs
no less than twenty-eight times in it and
does not appear elsewhere in the whole
Bible Under the heavens and Upon the
earth are found ten times so that alto
gether there are thirty-eight statements in
II which indicate its earthly character. The
wise man here is trying everything under
the sun 10 discover how much there is or
what there is that can secure happiness. He
finds after an exhaustive analysis that how
fair sOever may be the promises of amuse-
bring happiness. In his own strong phrase
1t is all vanity and veXation Of spirit The
preacher proves his proposition. FIRST by the
worlds monotOny, Chapter l. second, from
its pleasures Gil, 1-3); third from its works
Iii, 4. 81; fourth, from its aestheticism Oi
y; fifth, from its wealth Iii, g. 81; sixth
from its knowledge Iii, r. 49, He estab-
IsheS his thesis by wide survey of his
fellow man Chapters and So He has
studied profoundly the regularity of natural
law, the wrongs and expressions of society
ments of righteous and wicked and the
hypocrisies that men practice The further
he pushes his observations the deeper be-
comes his perplexity and his doubt He
actually seems to hold that death ends ar
Gii 49, that chance governs all things
under the sun GX, H. The final solution
of all these Vexing questions is given at the
very close of the book Chapters r. Is and
l4) Here he rises above the sun and finds
that in the fear. and love, and obedience
of God our happiness and peace are Sc
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-05
SHOOTING OUT AN OIL WELL.
The shooter Called Upon to Display
Nerve at "a Critical Moment.
New York Sun.

4NtW IOIk Ou0s
Everybody out Of the derrick shouts a
grlmy figure. The warning is familiar in
the Pennsylvania oil regions. a steep hillside
IS dotted with tall oil derricks rising above
the forest trees. Save for the derricks the
scene IS purely one of primitive forest. The
soil IS virgin. None of its treasures has been
sought except for the OIL When the possi-
Dllty or further oil development has been
exhausted some farmer of another genera
ton will strip off the timber, giving over the
land to agricultural pursuits But no farmer
of the present generation will do this. He
is called farmer" for the same reason that
native of Kentucky is called a Colonel"
and is content to lease his land to the oil
producer for his eighth of the possible pro-
duction.
The owner stands at a safe distance from
the derrick watching the operation of shoot
ing" the well. Down 600 feet the well has
been drilled. 1t is not an opening large
enough for a man TO fall into He could
scarcely get his foot into the opening. Down
almost the entire depth an iron casing runs
The we'll has the same diameter in cross
Is the derrick, through whose floor the cas-
ing projects At one side are the giant
wheels, which are in reality the reel for the
catle running over the block at the derrick's
top down into the derrick. where il meets the
heavy tools whose raising and lowering, a
half inch at time, has drilled the well At
WHICH nave furnished the power for the
drilling process.
Oil viii not flow into such a small cavity
as that made for the pipe. 1t must be en-
larged by an explosion of nitro-glycerin
lowered IN the tuDeS or smells When once
the force of the underground explosion has
been felt large cavity will be made, the
surrounding rock will be crushed, and
streams of the crude petroleum will flow in,
to be pumped out and refined.
The little group of well-side employees is
gathered at the derrick. Under the trees at
a safe distance is "A wagon. from which two
horses have been unhitched. A large box is
fitted TO the wagon. with compartments,
each holding two-galon of nitro
glycerin From these the shooter has
taken eighty quarts. Three long sections of
tin tubing have been filled with the fluid
Each shell, as filed. is lowered to the bot
tom of the iron tube. The shooter has sim
ply 10 light his ''squib'' and drop il in the
Well Constructed upon the principle of the
firecracker, its explosion VIII set of the
nitro-glycerin. As the "squib" strikes the
first tin tubing a cap will explode H. Then
viii come the explosion. Everybody out of
the derrick again shouts the shooter
lighted squib in hand. The little knot of
spectators breaks for shelter They may be
drenched with the oil that always gathers
in a well prior to shooting, and flying bits
of rock have been known to strike people at
well-shooting.
The shooter volts for moment then
hurting his quib into the open mouth of
we'll he runs lOr lne wood. He looks back.
The gas in the mouth has taken fire. When
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-05
Starving the STRIKERS.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
KOKONO, Ind, Jan. 4.-Kokomo Jail has
eighteen fasting inmates. The sheriff is try
ing to starve them into working on the
stone pile. Ten days ago the gang refused
to lift hammer, saying work and us fell
out years ago" The striking vags were
locked up in close cells and are fed on bread
and water. The officers are gradually re-
ducing the allowance of bread. but give
are now getting two and one-half loaves
of bread daily. The Weary Wilies' show
no signs of giving in. and declare they will
From their cells they can watch the other
prisoners devouring the liberal allowance
of roast beef, coffee butter, beans, fruits,
and other choice viands, the aroma of
which floats tantalizingly through their
quarters.
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Family Ate Poisoned Meat.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind, Jan. A.
Last Sunday mysterious case of poisoning
occurred in the family of Mrs. Lydia Wal
lace, a highly respected citizen of this place,
resulting in the death of Mrs. Wallace and
the threatened death of her son and two
daughters. The family ate fresh pork which
had been purchased from a meat peddler,
and within a few moments all who ate were
taken violently i'll. Mrs. Wallace being
seventy-two years Old had not sufficient
strength to rally and after much suffering
died at an early hour this morning. The
condition Of the other afflicted members of
the family is improving and they will prob
ably recover. AS a test. a piece of the
pork was fed to a large rooster last even
ing and death quickly followed. The case
will probably be investigated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-05
MONNETT OUT OF MONEY.
Has Not Funds to Carry on the Fight
Against Oil Trust.

CLEVELAND, o., Jan. 4.-The taking Of
testimony in the Standard Oil case was not
resumed to-day before Master Commits
sioner Brinsmade That the case was not
resumed to-day is due to the fact that the
state attorney general has filed a motion
before the Ohio Supreme Court to Gust Mr..
Brinsmade from his position as master COM
missioner This motion is set for hearing
before the Supreme Court tomorrow Mr..
Brinsmade has received the following tele-
gram from Attorney General Monnett:
cant resume the case Thursday. Haven't
any money to pay expenses" Not only
will Commissioner Brinsmade file an an
swer to Monnett's custer motion, but the
Standard Oil Company win do so as well,
so Mr.. Brinsmade said to-day. Attorney
Virgil P. Kline, representing the Standard
Oil Company, went to Columbus this after
noon to personally file the companys an
swer with the Supreme Court.
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the oil comes derrick and machinery will
be destroyed. He hastens back All this
time the squib is descending. Presence at
the well side a the moment of explosion
means death. He throws his hat over the
opening. The gas flame is cXtinguished.
He has saved his employer a tidy sum OF
money. He thea seeks his own safety. He
is twenty feet away. light report. "A roar,
then a loud report follows. The ground is
shaken From the mouth of the. we'll a
shower of oil spouts 1t grows. 1t is thirty
feet In the air above the derrick. 1t hovers
a moment. and then dies away Fragments
of rock and bits Of tin tubing have accom-
panied the rushing food Of OIL
Back comes the shooter to the derrick
He gathers together the cans which once
contained the glycerin. These he heaps to-
gether and explodes, as the law requires
lest some incautious wanderer should come
10 grief through inadvertently kicking one
His work IS done. With his team he drives
to the magazine in the remote forest,
where. taking on new cargo, he prepares
to shoot another well. The well he has just
which, when once fitted, enables the owner
to add from three TO ten barrels of crude
oil, according 10 the capacity Of the well, to
his production.
A shooter driving along a lonely road is
frequently blown into space by his load or
nitroglycern Shooters are Of two kinds
the careless and the careful. The careless
joke with death at every turn. They knock
the cans together, laughing al the bystand-
ers' terror. they bump their wagons over
rocks and stones. A strict regard for the
truth compels the statement that very sol
dom are they blown up II is usually the
careful man. whose own nervous fears
make a nightmare of his llfe who gets
killed. Yet the men ia general are so ac-
customed to this life. with its possibility Of
death at any moment. that they refer to Il
in "A matter-of-fact way
Some oil men once stood upon q hilltop
near road along which shooter was
shortly expected to pass. Suddenly there
was an explosion from part Of the road
obscured by the trees OF such violence as
to throw every man in the party TO the
ground
We'll" remarked a drller arising and
busting his clothes, that must have been
Bill Agnew. lie was expected bout this
time"
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G. n. wilcoxon Indicted in Illinois.

SPRINGFIELD, III, Jan. 4--The United
States grand jury to-day indicted c. N.
Wicoxon, of Decatur. for using the mails
for fraudulent purposes. Wilcoxon was
formerly superintendent of a street-railway
line in Nuncie, Ind. 1t is charged that Will
coxon secured a position with the Decatur
street-railway by a fraudulent use of the
mails; that he had letter heads printed bear
ing the name of mythical company, the
Richmond Eaton Traction Company, of
Richmond Ind. and wrote TO Ferguson,
Offering him q position with that company.
Ferguson resigned his Decatur position and
was succeeded by Wilcoxon. Upon going TO
Richmond Ferguson found that no such
company existed.
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A Trust Fund Cor the POOR.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
RICHMOND, Ind, Jan. A statement
was made public to-day regarding the be-
quest made to the city of Richmond by Rob-
ert MORRISON thirty-five years ago. He died
in 1865, and among the provisions of his will
was one that $4,000 should be kept in trust
for forty years, the interest to go to the
poor and the principal to go to the city at
the end of the period. named to be used as
Of the fund have loaned it successfully up
to this time at an average rate of 6 per
They have asked the City Council to borrow
it at per cent. until the principal belongs
to the city. Up to this time the fund has
produced about $4,000 for the poor Of the
city.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
NEW ALBANY, Ind, Jan. A charge
of desertion which has been resting against
Jacob Finley, q civil war veteran who died
several years ago. has been removed and
his widow will apply for pension. Finley
enlisted in the Mississippi Marine Brigade
and served several years. In 1864 his boat
was SINK in the Mississippi at Memphis
Finley reached shore and returned to this
city under the impression that the sink
ing of the boat let him out of the service
Congressman Zenor has notified Mrs. Finley
that the disability has been removed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-05
Killed by a BLOW ON the Jaw.

NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-George Tyler, TWEEN
ty-one years of age, was killed in an i'm
promptu prize fight tonight in Jersey City
by Thomas Foley, young man about twen-
ty-three years of age. The two had an I'M
satisfactory sparring bout a few days ago
and decided TO settle it tonight. In the
first round both men received a good deal
OF punishment and toward the close Foley
landed right swing on the point of Tyler's
jaw. Tyler dropped and after being counted
cut was taken 10 a hospital, where he was
pronounced dead. His neck was broken.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-05
Minnie French Dies of Apopiexy.

NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-AIinnie Alice Evans,
one of the sisters known as the French
Twins" and the wife of Charles E. Evans,
proprietor Of the Herald-square Theater,
died suddenly at her home in this city to-
day. The greatest reticence was manifested
by the family regarding the circumstances
attending Mrs. Evans's death Mrs. Evans
and her sister were stars on the vaudeville
stage twelve years ago or more, being
known as Minnie and Lena French, re-
SpecuVely. The last-named married 'Old
Hoss" Hoey. who was Mr. Evans's partner
i'm several plays that were given all over
the country, notably "A Parlor Match" An
autopsy on the body of Mrs French showed
that she died from apopIexy
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-05
Fatally Stricken in the Engine Cab.

Special to the Indianapolis journal.
ELKHART, Ind, Jan. 4.-HoIace Weber
one of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Railway Company's oldest and most trust
ed engineers, fell from his cab seat with an
attack of heart disease, just west of South
Pend at $50 o'clock yesterday and died at
Lis home in this city last night His fire
man. All Carpenter, brought the train into
South Bend, where he got assistance in re-
moving Mr.. Weber. One of the unfortu-
nate mans feet was caught in the quadrant
of the engine, and it was with difficulty that
it was disengaged. He was brought to Elk
hart on the train He was sixty-one years
DID, and during the civil war served in
Company c, of the Eighteenth Michigan In
fantry.
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Henry Irving's oFinish" in sight.

LONDON, Jan. 4.-The future of the fore
most actor and playhouse in England is the
leading subject talked about now and has
been since Sir Henry Irving's Illness at
Glasgow cut short his tour and compelled
him to take a winters rest and to abandon
his season at the Dyceum Theater which
is now occupied by the Carl Rosa Opera
Company, and which is singing to "cor-
poraIs guard" There are rumors that Irv-
ing may retire from the stage and sell the
house. A number of papers to-day report
that George Edwards will acquire the Ly-
ceum and ESTABLISH a brilliant comedy COM
pany. \ representative of the Associated
Press has been Informed from the best
source that Irvings plans are not to retire
from the stage but to abandon his career
Imperatively advised him to drop the cares
or management. and as the distinguished
actor is feeling his age it is impressed on
nm that he is entitled to lighter labors.
When the suggestions were made he
promptly acquiesced in them and soon after
approached Charles FrOhman with a nro-
ne should himself continue to play there
nut Tor shorter seasons. He also suggested
an American tour under Mr.. Frohmans
management. Charles Frohman replied that
after carefully considering the proposal he
mad come to the conclusion that 1t might
be difficult to arrange for attractions which
would maintain the high prestige of the
I4yceum throughout the year; so that while
thanking Sir Henry for the compliment he
Ielt competed 10 decline the proposal The
question OF an American tour under Froh-
mans arrangement is still under considera-
ton The Lyceum seems TO be a white ele-
phant Mr. Edwards is anxious for fewer
enterprises, instead of more, and if he wins
ms suit for the control of Days Theater i'm
London, he intends TO SELL Sir Henry is
passing the winter at Bournemouth on the
south coast and is steadily improving He
viii start on his provincial tour at Easter
and go TO the United States in the autumn
70 revive some or his most famous sue
ccsses Miss Ellen Terry is organizing a
company of her own and will tour the
provinces.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
GREENSBURG, Ind, Jan. 4-Thomas II.
Stevenson applied for an injunction to-day
against County Clerk W. d. Tackett and
the Board of County Commissioners to pre-
vent the commissioners paying Tackett 5000
for indexing the records of his Office, alleg-
ing that such an index is not necessary. The
office has been conducted heretofore without
an index
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-05
Last Night's Fires.

Between midnight and ] o'clock this morn
ing fire broke out in the upper part of large
house at No. zoe East Eleventh street and
the roof was burned before the flames were
extinguished. The family of S. f. Stagg
which occupied the house, had a narrow es-
cape from the flames. The loss was $500
About the same time house at No 29I5
North Meridian street was damaged to the
extent Of S3a BY fire In q closet.