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Other Deaths.

SULLIVAN, nd, Nov. 2s.-Captain Will
bur Van Fossin died at his home In Had
din township yesterday of Brights disease
al the age of sixty-three years. he was
captain of Company c, Fifty-ninth lndl-
ana, and organized hat company at the
outbreak of the civil war. He took an
active part in politics, and was the hrst
commander of Frank Neff Post, q. A. X,
of this city. He was unmarried.
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind, Nov. &.-Jere-
miah Jacobs, of Utica township, probably
the Oldest nativ-born resident OF clark
county. is dead at the home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Sanford Weir, of Sellersburg, OF
pneumonia. He had been i'll but a few days.
He was eighty-two years old. Nov. 10 Mr..
Jackson and his wife celebrated the sixty
first anniversary of their wedding. His wife
is eighty-one years DID,
MARTINSVILLE, Ind, Nov. 2S.-Walter
G.. Stout, aged seventy-one years, died at
his home near Wilbur last night, after a
prolonged illness. He was born in Tennes-
see, but has been a resident of Morgan
county for more than sixty years. He was
"a prominent Republican, and was a dele
gate to the first Republican State conven-
ton.
MUNCIE. Ind, Nov. 2S.-George P. Av-
cry, a retired farmer. was found dead near
Heekin Park this morning at daylight. His
family and the police searched for him all
night, fearing that he had dropped dead
from heart failure while searching for a
COW. This was found to be the case.
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GAME OFFICER SHOT DOWN.
He Was Trying to Arrest a Desperate
Negro I'm P%ittsburg.

PrTTSBURG, Nov. 2S-An exciting street
duel or Wylie avenue. to-day. between Po-
liceman G.. NJ. Forbes and Wilson Yancy.
colored, resulted in the officer being
wounded four times, from the effects OF
which he probably will die. Forbes has ar
rested Yancy on two different occasions.
the negro going to the workhouse each
time. The last sentence expired yesterday
and Yancy returned to his old haunts. The
story Of the duel is to the effect that
Forbes and Yancy met on the street and
passed some remarks. When the policeman
had turned to leave the negro drew a re-
volver and put a bullet into his shoulder.
open. to draw his revolver, Yancy fired
again, this time cutting through the chin.
He fired a third shot, but missed, and as
Forbes sought refuge in a nearby saloon
q fourth bullet was lodged In his back. The
negro retreated across the street and as
came to the door to renew the battle.
Yancy was waiting on the opposite side OF
the street. The two men, with revolvers
cooked, moved slowly down the street.
awaiting a good chance TO fire. Forbes fired,
but missed. Yancy returned the fire. hit
ting the officers right wrist and knocking
the revolver to the ground. Forbes pluckily
caught ii up with his left hand and fired
again, but without effect. AS yancy was
about to shoot again, William Miller, a
member of the Eighteenth Regiment, crept
up behind him and dealt the negro a terri
fc blow on the jaw. which knocked him
into the gutter. Others came to his aid and
the negro was subdued. Forbes staggered
up, saw that Yancy was handcufed. and
then COLLAPSED.
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CITY OF


Special to the indianapolis Journal.
BEDFORD, Ind, Nov. 2S.-The year 1899
will long be remembered by citizens OF
Bedford as the most prosperous in its his
tory. During the eleven months to date
more than $500, 600 has been expended with
in it's corporate limits in pubic and private
improvements. The Southern Indiana Rail-
road shops. massive iron and steel struc-
lures. took 100000 of this sum. Other
buildings were the new stone schoolhouse,
costing $50. 000; two stone churches, $15,0Oo
each; two passenger and two freight
depots, and a large number of dwellings.
There were laid several miles of stone side
walks and nearly a mile and a half Of brick
pavements. The Southern Indiana has re-
laid its entire line, and has established ex-
tensive yards here. The general Offices of
the road are here, and the work of its Of
ficials, in connection with the prominence
of Bedford'S relations with the line, are
heartily appreciated by the citizens. The
fast-growing popularity of Bedford stone
as building material is emphasized by the
fact that more than twenty-five thousand
carloads have been shipped from here dur
Ing the year, or an average or eighty car
loads a day. Bedford has five railroads,
including the Belt line. which reaches all
the Quarries where the stone is obtained,
and serves as a feeder to. the trunk lines.
The quarry payrolls are very large, that of
the John r. Walsh quarries alone, for the
month of November, amounting to $47, 900.
Bedford has a population of eight thou
sand, and bids fair to have twenty thou
sand in the near future. 1t is situated in
the heart of the Indiana bluegrass, and
the surrounding agricultural communities
are easily accessible by the finest of gravel
roads. The Loogootee oil field is also trib-
utary to the city.
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TOLD HIS OWN STORY
NORRIS ON THE STAND IN THE
MURDER TRIAL At MUNCIE.
P~ostofices Robbed Mt Lawrenceville
and Wabash-New Tin-Plate Mills
at ElvOod-Death of Col. Hurd.
.cial to the indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind, Nov. 2S.-With the testi-
mony of the defendant in the Morris muir
der trial to-day the evidence in the big
trial Is virtually in. TIL introduction OF
testimony for the defense was completed
this evening and tomorrow morning the
rebuttal evidence will be heard. This will
require nearly all day. but there is not
much ground to cover. The defendant tes-
titled TO repudiate the statement of his
former friend, Charles Stephenson. who al
leges that Morris confessed the killing to
him. Morris denies every allegation that is
eliminating and explains his movements on
that night very differently from Stephen
sons testimony, but fails to present cor
robative evidence, while Stephenson has
lone this. The defendant claims he was
with Stephenson and the dead man, Hamil-
ton, until Stephenson left him at midnight
to go home, after having had a fight. With
Hamilton, Morris says, he e to the rail-
road south of the city, and there left Ham,
ilton, who wanted to go to a disreputable
house, and that he never saw him after
that. About an hour elapsed and then Nor
ris claims he met Stephenson and accom-
panied him home. He explains his wander
ings about the country north of the city
next day by saying that he started to walk
to Marion via Hartford City. After walk
ing ,wo miles north of nIuncie he came
back to the corporate limits and lurked
about the bank of the river, north and
east Of the city, until night, and then
stayed at the home of a friend a mile east
of the city, catching a freight train for
Redkey next morning, thence to Marion.
He explains these actions by saying he had
been drinking the night before and did not
want his mother TO see him drunk.
His story was told in a straightforward
manner, with a decided CULVER to the voice.
He was on the witness stand for five hours.
At times he displayed a temper, even to
his own attorneys.
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The Contract Signed for Holding 1t
at North

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
WABASH, Ind, Nov. 2S.-Au questions
concerning the location Of the great an
nual meeting of the Dunkard Church Of
America next year was dispelled to-day,
when the church committee signed the
agreement with the citizens committee at
North Manchester for holding the gather
ing there. BY the terms of this contract
the meeting is to be held in Harter's grove,
at that place. commencing May %. 1900. The
local church agrees to erect all the build
ings needed and furnish water. electric
light, police and walters gratis. 1t also
guarantees that transient lodging rates in
the town shall not exceed p cents per night
and thai transfers TO and from the grounds
will be 5 cents. The local Dunkard
churches will be rendered free for commit
tee work and the other denominations nave
offered the use of their edifces, without
charge. for regular services. There Will De
free telephone service, local and long-dis-
tance. and the Wabash Railroad will put In
a 500-foot platform and will stop it's trains
at the grounds. The Big Four will build
a board walk from its station to the
grounds.
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TRIBUTE TO THE BOERs.


LONDON. Nov. sc. w. Stevens. a
war correspondent of the Daily Mail, in a
letter by post describing the battle of
Nicholson's Mex, bears eloquent testimony
TO the humanity of the Beers. He writes:
The Beers had their revenge for Dundee
and EIandslaagte. They took it, full meas
ure. in kindness. rs Atkins (the British
soldier had tended their wounded and
succored their prisoners there so they
tended and succored him here. One com
mandant wished to send the wounded to
Pretoria, but the others. more prudent, as
we'll as humane. decided to SEND them back
10 Ladysmith. They gave whole men the
water out of their " bottles; they gave
the wounded the blankets off their own
saddles and slept themselves on the naked
veldL- They were short of transport, but
they were mostly armed with Martins, yet
they gave the captured mules for hospital
panniers and the captured Lee-Metfords
for splints. A man was rubbing a hot sore
on his mead with half a crown, but nobody
offered to take IL from him.
some of them asked the soldiers for
their embroidered waist belts as mementoeS
OF the day. It's got my money in it, re-
piled Tommy, and the captor said no
more"
Stevens writes almost Historically or
the hosting OF the white flag by the
British officers, implying that 1t was done
in fright. he says that in one case the
British soldiers refused TO see 1t and kept
on firing.
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GUY TOWARDS FUNERAL.
Burial Of Gallant Soldier Who Fell
in the Philippines

OMAHA. Neb., Nov. 2s.-Major Guy How
ard. who was killed in the Philippines last
October, was buried here to-day with mill
tary honors, interment being in Prospect
Hill Cemetery. The funeral was strictly pri-
vate and was conducted at the residence Of
Judge J. M. Woolworth, fa~ther-in-law of
the major. and included only the burial
service of the Episcopal Church, read by
Bishop Williams, assisted by Dean Faire.
Military funeral rites had been observed In
Manila Oct. %. At the conclusion of the
service the body was borne to the cemetery
In charge OF six noncommissioned officers
of Fort Cook, and an escort of one hundred
men. commanded by Captain Purcell, of the
Tenth Infantry. At the funeral were Gen.
o. -. Howard and Mrs. Toward, the par
ents; Miss Howard a sister: James, Henry.
Chauncey and John Howard, brothers; Gen.
Charles Howard. an uncle: the wife. Mrs.
Howard, and relatives of Mr.. Woolworth's
family; army officers from headquarters In
this city, and intimate family friends.
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DREAM OF THE BOERS
MIR. BALFOUR SAYS 1T Is A DUTCH
EMPIRE IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Declaration of War, He Asserts, Was
Not n Blow to the Cause Of Lib
erty-Tribute to Americans.

LONDON, Nov. 2s.-Arthur ]. Balfour.
government leader in the House of Com
mons, addressing the National Conserva-
tive conference at Dewsbury to-day, re-
PEELED the charge that the governments
motive in the war in South Africa was the
acquisition of the gold fields
He asked II, during the last hundred years,
any British statesman had dreamed of tax
ing the colonies for the benefit Of the
mother country. Britishers were now sac
rificing the lives of those dearest to them,
he asserted, for the sake of the security
n honor of the empire. The first acts of
the drama were being played In Cape
Colony and Natal: but the denoument would
be played, he trusted, in dominions not now
subject to the crown. tCheers.1
Il have now come TO the conclusion" he
said, that the declaration of war by the
Transvaal and the Free State was not any
~despairing struggle for liberty but a bold
bid for empire; a bid TO make themselves
the nucleus of a Dutch speaking, para
mount power in South Africa and to ex-
clude forever the hated Britisher from the
dominating influence in that part of the
world. The people have risked their all
on the stake of war;. and it is Incredible
LAAlA SUN " non WYNN ~ ~
prevent the uitlanderS getting a vote. Their
cream may be Madness. but IL is intelligent
madness when We consider the whole Sit
ration and the military difficulties that be-
set Great Britain in a South African cam
paign. They have vainly counted on the
British system, and another reason may be
found in their profound contempt for Brit
ish arms.
Passing to a high eulogy of the bril-
liam bravery Of our troops, the courage,
patriotism and endurance of the small
colony of Natal, so tranScendently dis
played and the patriotic spirit of the col
onies' generally he continued: Last but
not least may we not on this occasion ex-
press our gratitude to our American friends,
who have done all that is possible In q case
like this, namely, have provided and
equipped the Maine, not only in the inter-
ests of humanity but, as 1 well believe. out
of sympathy for those engaged in this great
fight"
In the course Of an eloquent peroration in
which he said that he was not entitled to
lift the veil hiding the future, Mr.. Balfour
expressed confidence that an era Of peace.
prosperity and freedom would follow these
dark struggles"
Sir Edward Clarke, Conservative member
OF Parliament for Plymouth since 1850. and
from 1856 to 1892 solicitor general, has ad-
dressed a letter 10 his constituents an
nouncing his intention to retire at the next
general election, in view Of the fact that he
is not in agreement with the governments
policy.
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LABOR RIOT IN CHICAGO.
Strikers Badly Beaten by Negroes
Who Superseded Them.

CHICAGO, Nov. ga riot occurred this
evening at the intersection Of Indiana ave-
nue. and Thirty-ninth street, where for
some weeks there has been a strike on the
large intercepting sewer being constructed
by the city. There has been numerous
fights between the strikers. who are union
men, and the men who have taken their
places, the latter being, for the most part,
colored men. The strikers have beaten sew
eral of the colored men badly, but tonight
the tables were turned. the strikers were
beaten, dubbed and chased out Oh the
neighborhood. The injured are William
Tuck. a striker. cut about the head by an
iron bar, resulting in conclusion of the
brain, may die; officer o O'Conner. toe
of right foot cut of by a bullet: Officer
William Fox. right hand severely cut with
q razor.
Tonight when the colored men left their
work trouble with the strikers started as
usual. In a short time IL was a battle. The
negroes made a determined onslaught upon
the union men and cluvs. iron bars. stones.
razors and revolvers were all brought into
use. All the windows I'm a drug store on
the corner were smashed by bullets. A riot
call was sent in and two patrol wagons.
filled with officers, were sent to the scene.
They arrested twenty-eight colored men.
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THE SUNKEN MAINE.
General Brooke in Favor OF Raising
the Battleship.

NEW YORK, Nov. pa special to the
World from Washington says: Secretary
Long and Major General Brooke, military
governor of Cuba. disagree as to whether
the army or the navy should remove the
wreck of the battleship Maine in Havan
harbor. Secretary Long, when told to-day
that General Brooks regards the wreck as
a menace to navigation and advocates its
removal, said: The Navy Department has
nothing to do with removing the wreck; 1t
is purely a military matter and should be
done by the army engineers. III General
Brooke wants it removed l do not sup
pose there will be any objection!
AT the War Department. it was said no
advices had been received from General
Brooke regarding the Maine. He Is In favor
of removing the debris and recovering the
bodies of the hundred or more dead sailors
by building a huge caisson around the
wreck. After the recovery Of the bodies
General Brooke would either destroy the
Maine or raise and tow it to some spot
where ii could be visited by sightseers.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee claims there are yet in
the Maine more bodies than are buried in
the cemetery at Havana. He favors taking
out these bodies and then destroying the
wreck"
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AS MIR. DODGE SEES 1T.
Philippines Must BE Pacified First,
Disposal Comes Afterward.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ELKHART, Ind, Nov. 2S.-James s.
Dodge, past department commander of the
Indiana G.. A. r., an avowed candidate for
gubernatorial nomination, has received in
quiries from all parts of the State to ascer-
tain his views on the Nations duty in re-
gard to the Philippines. In answer to one
of these letters, from an ex-Congressman
of a central district, he has written the fol-
lowing:
You ask me If I am in favor of holding
the Philippine islands permanently, and /
will answer that 1 am in favor of whipping
anybody, anywhere and at any time who
assails the flag; and when law and order
has been restored. and peace established on
a firm foundation, then the Congress must
decide what shall be done with these
islands. 1 stand ready to oppose their re-
turn 20 Spain or to the control Of Aguinal-
do or his cohorts, but as to whether we de-
sire or need them as a part Of the United
States. 1 do not know, but am willing to
leave that to the Congress, and 1t will be
time enough for them to decide that ques-
ton when the rebellion has been ubdued.
/ may be wrong, but 1 do not regard the
question Of expansion or anti-expansion as
being before the American people at this
time; the question Is simply this, shall we
accept the consequences of the war with
Spain, a war that every man in Congress
and all the people said should be waged?
Shall We finish the struggle or shall we sus-
pend hostilities and recede from our task
before 1t is finished. AS to what shall be
done with the islands, that, in one sense,
Is a reconstruction question-not literally
so. but very similar, and while there were
many things done and many laws enacted
In the old reconstruction period that did not
Feet my approval, yet 1 stood by the gov
eminent. and there may be laws passed
by Congress in reference to the disposition
of these Islands that will not meet my en-
tire approval, yet so long as Congress and
the administration will uphold the flag and
co. end Tor an honorable supremacy of the
government of the United States in any
country where our flag has been lawfully
unfurled, l am for the government, no mat
ter what political party controls: but when
armed resistance to lawful authority has
ceased and peace restored, then / will be
willing to take sides as to the disposition of
any territory, or other responsibilities that
may be acquired as an incident to the strug-
gle. First, honorable peace; then, fair and
generous treatment of all who submit to
lawful authority"
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Col. Bell Routs Two Brigades Of Fill
ipinos and Captures Artillery.

MANILA, Nov. g, 1910 a. m.-Colonei
Bell has defeated and scattered the brig
AIDES of General A~lejandrino and General
San Maguel. The engagement took place
on the summit of a mountain, the insur-
inability Of their position that they had their
families with them. The Americans cap
tured all the enemy's mutions and artil-
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George w. Gunder, of Wabash, will estab-
lish a Sunday society and literary Journal
at Anderson.
B, j. Steifel. of Butler, filed a petition in
bankruptcy at Fort Wayne. Assets are
scheduled at $500 and liabilities at 5000.
1t Is reported at Marion that A. l.. Laushe,
formerly editor of the Converse Journal, is
TO establish a Republican morning p at
Wabash.
The little child of James McCammon, of
Sullivan, who was accidentally shot by his
father last Thursday, died yesterday as the
result of the wound.
The body of George w. Craigniiller. an
inmate of the Soldiers Home, was found dis
membered on the Big Four tracks. south Of
Marion, yesterday morning. Craigmiller
was a member of Company II, Fifty-first
Indiana Infantry. He was ffty-five years
old.
The Wayne-county Fair Association af-
fected a complete reorganization of It's
board Of directors and elected new officers,
except a treasurer. L.. NJ. Pierce was elected
president, Hugh Allen, vice president;
Lewis Bowman. secretary; Knode Porter,
treasurer; M. II. Fox, superintendent, and
Elias Hoover, assistant superintendent.
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DEALT IN WASHED STAMPS.
Arrest Of q New Yorker ON q Charge
of the Revenue.

NEW YORK. Nov. d. Badeau,
forty-two years old. who has conducted a
stamp store at No. y Broadway for the
past sixteen months. was arrested by fed
eral officials to-day. charged with buying
and selling washed internal revenue stamps
He was held In $500 bail. The large num-
Der Of errand boys ana Junior clerks In
brokers' offices who frequented Badeau's
store directed suspicion TO him. Internal
revenue officials allege that he has been
buying and selling washed stamps at the
cleared about s30.0O by HIS transactions.
and that the government has lost twice
that amount because OF them. Five thou
sand revenue stamps, worth from I'll 10 80
Badeau's store
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LIBEL SUITS FOR $450,00O
Filed Against the Detroit Free Press
by and Others.

DETROIT, Mich, Nov. ~2s.-Announce-
ment was made to-day that libel suits
amounting to $780, 900 were about to be be-
gun against the Detroit Free Press by Gov
ernor Pingree and several others. Governor
Pingree claims $4,000, Assistant Corpora
ton Counsel c. D.. Joslyn 10000 n Assis-
tant Corporation Counse Eli r. sutton,
SlO0, 00O. Speaking editorially, tomorrow
morning. the Free Press viii say that until
the complainants have recited their griev-
ances in court, which they have not done
as yet, detailed reply is impossible, but
that in all matters I'm which they have OPP
posed these individuals the opposition has
been for what the Free Press considered
the public veal. Personalities were en-
ployed no further than was thought neces-
sarv TO attain n righteous end.
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OBITUARY.
Calvin Dewolf, One of the Earliest
of western AbOlitiOnists.

CHICAGO. Nov. 2S.-Calvin Dewolf, one
of the earliest of Western abolitionists.
was found dead in bed at his home
here to-day. aged e~ighty-four years. In
1910 Mr.. Dewolf was secretary of the Anti
slavery Society Of Chicago, and later one
of the founders of the Western Citizen, an
anti-slavery organ influential in the West
ern States. 1t was while actively inter
ested in this paper that he, with others
was indicted on a charge of assisting a
young colored woman. a slave under the law
OF Nebraska, In escaping to Canada. Mr..
Dewolf gave bond, but the case was dis
m:sssI by President Lincoln's attorney gen.
eral.