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Natural G-s Extensions.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
HARTFORD CITY, Ind April 1S-The
improvements being made by the Fort
Wayne Gas Company will make the great
est gas company in the State when COM
pleted. Besides the gigantic pumping sta
ton to be erected on the Lewis McGeath
farm, five miles north of this city. the
company will drill about 100 new wells
and lay twelve miles of twelve-inch pipe
line. j. M. Reasoner. of this city, repre-
sentative of the company. has been in the
vicinity of Paramount and Matthews for
a number of weeks and has secured the
right-of-way from a point north of Mat
thews running twelve miles southwest into
Madison county. where it will connect
Anderson. The right of way has been
granted from all the farmers through
whose land the line will be laid. The work
will begin Immediately and will cause a
great outlay of cash. The drilling of the
new wells will also begin in the near fu-
ture, and will be located in Blackboard,
Madison and Grant counties. The company
is making a great effort to furnish the
towns on it's lines a better service, and to
that end is investing several hundred thou
sand dollars. When the new wells and
Millie pumping stations are completed 1t
Is expected there will be an abundance or
gas for the pipestem towns. The heavy
investment of the company shows 1t faith
in the future of the gas supply.
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Gov. Mounts Letter to the BarthOlO-
new County Association.

Special to the Indianapo polls Journal
COLUMBUS. Ind, April 1s.-The Bar
tholomew County Sunday School Asso-
citation is celebrating it's twenty-ffth ami
versary in this city. A two days session
was commenced this morning with "a meet
ing at the Presbyterian Church, which was
largely attended. All Protestant denomi-
nations in the county are represented in
the association. The following letter from
Governor Mount was read at this morn
ing's session.
ITO T. A. Moore, president Bartholomew
County Sunday School Association, CO.
lumbus, Ind:
Dear Shallow me to congratulate
your county upon having attained it's silver
anniversary in the Sunday-school work.
Experience and observation confirm the be-
lief that careful study of the Holy Scrip
lures and loyal obedience to Gods law
will better equip us for the duties and
responsibilities of life. / have found the
infallible rule of faith and practice con-
tanned i'm the Scriptures of the Old and New
Testament a safe guide to me, not only
in determining my obligations to the Sun
day school, church and fellow-man, but in
business matters as well. Also, through the
dangers of army life, the duties of home
and the responsibilities of official position.
l therefore warmly commend the noble
efforts you putting forth in the pro-
motion of Bible truth.
1.-The fruitage of the work represented
by this silver anniversary will doubtless
be a golden harvest. He that goeth forth
with weeping bearing precious seed shall
doubtless come again with rejoicing bring
ing precious seed with him.
Trusting that your labors will be
crowned with abundant success, l am,
Very respectfully yours,
JAMES A. MOUNT"
Letters from Abe S. Reel, president Of
the Knox County Sunday School Associa-
ton, and other prominent Sunday school
workers drought the State were read. AT
the afternoon session the anniversary adj
dress was delivered by Rev. u. T. Sweeney,
and short talks were made by others. The
session tonight was held at the Nj. T..
Church, and a great crowd attended. An
excellent programme was rendered. The
sessions tomorrow will be held in the
Tabernacle Christian Church. at which
officers for the ensuing year will be elected.
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Movements of steamers.

NEW YORK. April 1S.-Arrived: Bremen,
from Bremen and Southampton; Amster-
dam. from Rotterdam; Teutonic and Cufic,
from Liverpool. Sailed: Oceanic, for Liv-
erpool: New York, for Southampton: West
ernland, for Antwerp
SOUTHAMPTON. April 1s.-Arrived: st.
Louis, from New York. Sailed: Saale,
from Bremen, for New York.
BREMEN, April 1S.-Arrived: Kaiser VIII
helm de- Crosse. from New York. Via Cher
Lourg and Southampton.
HONG-KONG. April 1s.-Arrived: Kin
shiu Maru. from Seattle; City of Dublin,
from Tacoma, via Hlogo.
GLASGOW. April -1s--Arrived: Sarma-
tan. from New York: Grecian. from Phil
sdelphia.
SIDNEY. n. S. w, April 1s.-Arrived:
Mariposa. from San Francisco. via Homo
lulu.
CHERBOURG. April fs.-Arrived: Phoe-
nicia. from New York, for Hamburg.
MOvILLE. April 1S-Arrived: Ethiopia,
from New York. Tor Glasgow.
BoULOGNE. April l6-Sailed: Batavia
from Hamburg. for New York.
ROTTERDAM. April lS-Arrived: Rot
terdam. from New York.
LIVERPOOL. April Is-Sailed: Belgen-
land, for Philadelphia.
LONDON. April ls.-Arrived: Manitou,
from New York.
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GRUMBLING AMERICANS.

Colombo Letter in New York Post.

Colombo Letter in New York Post.
After one has spent two or three decades
of his life in travelling on American rail-
ways and living in American hotels con-
trast and comparison of the travelling Ia
cilities and conveniences In other countries
come inevitably. Then. too. one now meets
American travellers everywhere. and IL is
always interesting to note their varied con-
trasts and comparisons. / confess that
about the biggest nuisance / encounter in
my travels is the American who is forever
instituting these comparisons In a loud tone
of voice, and always most unfavorably to
the land which he may be visiting. From
encounters with such people, ceduce and
allege that no man has really benefited by
his travels until he has come TO realize
that the mere fact of difference in costume.
habit or custom, does not necessarily con-
stitute inferiority.
AS a rule. those who do the most COM
planning are those who have spent most OF
their lives in comfortable homes. But there
are few Americans who have not had an
occasional experience in American hotels.
To the greater number Of such, the hotels
OF the East and the Far East seem rather
scrubby affairs. Some OF the hotel build
ings are fairly beyond criticism. but IL Is
quite true that from the American stand
point, the menu is very disappointing
affair / know an endless number OF hotels
in American towns and cities OF 1880 TO
5000 inhabitants, that set far more
abundant and elaborate table than any,
thing which have yet encountered In the
Far East. In some places. the contrast be-
tween the pretentious and sometimes I'M
posing hotel structure and Its shabby Dill
of fare is quite striking. That may be said
of Raffies hotel I'm Singapore. and the Grand
Oriental in Colombo. At Raffies, one dimes
in q vast marbe-floored arcade, with mas
siye white columns running up to the white
arches All is white, and all Is cool. In
its space and architecture, the place might
be a temple or the corridor of statehouse.
The whole effect is quite fine and imposing.
But the meal was even worse than those OF
the Oriente in Manila. The Colombo AFFAIR
brings I'm the same contrast. But i pray
for deliverance from the inevitable Ameri-
can who goes about telling all whom he
meets how much better a dinner he can
get at San Francisco. or Chicago, or New
York. for a quarter OF the money He Is
quite right in his statement, but he Is none
the less offensive in making IL.
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Political Notes.

The Populist state convention Of North
Carolina yesterday instructed it's delegates
to vote for w. j. Bryan.
Tom L. Johnson will vote for Bryan at
Kansas City, having been elected a dele
gate at Cleveland yesterday.
acknowledgements" Hill and "Me-too'
Murphy will be two of New York's dele
gates to the Democratic convention at
Kansas City.
The Republican convention of the Sew
enth Ohio congressional district adjourned
last night after the 351st ballot. Weaver
Wilson, Walters and Marchant are the
candidates.
Congressional nominations: Twenty
fourth Pennsylvania, +. z. Achison, Re-
publican; Seventh Kansas, c. l. Long, Re-
publican; Tenth Ohio, Stephen Morgan
Republican,; First New Jersey, H. d. Lou
denslager, Republican.
w. w. Heard, Democratic candidate for
Governor of Louisiana, carried every par
ish in the State, though in three or four
the vote was close. The sugar district was
almost solid for the Democratic ticket and
the Legislature is also solid. The constitu-
tional amendment, authorizing the city of
New Orleans to issue bonds for water, sew
erage and drainage improvements, carried.
The Alabama Republican state conven-
ton will meet in Montgomery to-day. Ac-
cording to an agreement signed in WASH
ington the chief contestants for the state
Craftsmanship of the Republican party were
to appoint ten men as contest committee
they to elect the twenty-first. The commit
tee met yesterday, but could not agree on
the extra man and no contests were heard.
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Speedy Punishment.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
SHELBYVILLE, Ind, April B.-At
o'clock this morning Merchant Policeman
James Magill arrested William Lyons in
the store of J. @. De PREF & Co., with
sack of revolvers in his hands. Lyons fired
four shots at Magill, and although the
store was lighted the bullets went wild.
Lyons, early in the night, pried off a win
dow at Ensminger's saloon and broke open
the cash register. Entrance was gained to
De Prez's by breaking the plate glass in the
door with club. Circuit Court was in ses-
sion, an indictment was found by the grand
jury, Lyons pleaded guilty, was sentenced
to prison for from two to fourteen years,
and will arrive at Jeffersonville by half
past Z tonight. Lyons was raised in De-
catur county and served a term in Michi-
gan City for burglary, and was also sent
from Marion county a short time ago. Ly-
ons was identified by Detective Grady, of
the Big Four Railroad, as well known to
the Indianapolis police. On his person were
a number of bits and files and a short piece
of hose, used by safe-crackers to insert
powder in locks, and bunch of skeleton
keys.
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Other Deaths.

ST. LOUIS. April 1S-Thomas NJ. Page.
president of the Page & Krausse Manufac-
turing and Mining Company, died at his
home in this city to-day of heart disease.
Mr.. Page was the author of a number of
books and contributed many articles to
various magazines. He served a men,
Der of the Shelby Grays, Memphis COM
pany, during the civil war.
CLEVELAND. o.. April Isl. NJ Nc
Kinstry, grand secretary of the Royal Ar
canum. died to-day of apoplexy, with
which he was stricken while in his office
yesterday afternoon. Mr.. McKinstry was
fifty years old. and resided at Goo Clark
avenue, this city.
NEW HAVEN. Conn. April 1S.-Commo-
dore Richard Peck, secretary of the New
Haven Steamboat Company, and one of the
oldest and best-known steamboat men in
the country, died tonight in his eighty
nth year.
BUDA-PESTH, April 1S-Charousek, the
well-known chess player, is dead.
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MURDER IN SECOND DEGREE.
Life Sentence for Frank Purcell, Who
Killed RufO Ross While Drunk.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
PRINCETON, Ind. April is. - Frank
Purcell was found guilty of murder in the
second degree and given a life sentence
to-day by the jury. after being out four
hours. Nine jurymen favored first-degree
verdict and hanging as the penalty. but
were unable to get a general agreement.
Purcell, his father. mother and sister broke
down completely and wept bitterly when
the verdict was read The defendants at
torneys made no motion for a new trial.
and sentence was passed by Judge Wei
born.
Purcell shot and killed Rufo Ross at Au-
gusta JAN 13. He was drunk and shot
Ross without provocation. Ross was eigh-
teen years old and Purcell is nineteen.
Purcell lives in Washington, Ind. Ira Light
and Andy Meltry are on trial. charged
with being accessories after the fact
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DETROIT Mich. April 1s.-Sullivan NJ
Cutcheon, ex-speaker of the Michigan
House of Representatives and prominent in
local business circles. died at his residence
here early this morning. aged sixty-seven
years. Mr.. Cutcheon was born I'm Penn
broke, N. II. While superintendent of
schools at Springfield. H., in 1858, he be-
came an intimate friend of President Lin
coin. Mr.. Cutcheon was chairman of the
Michigan delegation at the Republican
national convention of 1868, which nomi-
mated General Grant for the presidency
He was also chairman of the committee
which revised the Michigan Constitution
in 1873. Mr.. Cutcheon was United States
district attorney for Eastern Michigan
under Presidents Hayes and Arthur.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BRAZIL, Ind, April 1S.-The meeting of
The delegates of block coal miners and
operators held here to-day resulted In
settlement of the grievances. and work in
the block coal field will be resumed to-
morrow. The proposition made by the
operators on Monday was accepted after
the operators he'd agreed to some trivial
changes. AS it now stands the miners will
receive their pay semf-weekly and have
the privilege of buying powder in the open
market. The other portion of the agree
ment will be about the same the one in
force last year, except the price to be paid
per ton for mining coal. Both the miners
and operators are well satisfied with the
agreement.
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Indiana Notes.

Prof. G. F. Kenaston. superintendent Of
the Charlottesville city schools. has re-
signed.
The Sullivan City Council has granted
Claude III. Crowder, of Indianapolis,
franchise for the erection of a plant for
the heating of business houses and resi-
dences by steam.
Michael O'Neili an old Irish resident of
Liberty. left yesterday for Philadelphia,
where he will embark for Ireland His sis
ter. Mrs. Mary Maddigan, aged eighty-five.
recently died. and the brother, with whom
she had lived for many years, was forced
TO seek his boyhood home across the sea-
The third rural free delivery route in
Rush county was started Monday. with
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The Indfannpolf. Southern.

Mr.. Charles E. Barrett, the secretary OF
the indianapolis & Southern Railroad,
spoke yesterday at the courthouse, in
Nashville, Brown county, to a large crowd
of people on the prospects of the proposed
road. Mr.. Barrett spoke very encouragingly
of the road and said that the line would be
completed within one year. Petitions were
presented for signers, asking the holding of
elections to vote tax, and the one. for the
township in which Nashville is situated,
was signed by eighty-one freeholders in
less than two hours. The citizens of Brown
county are encouraged at the prospects of
the road being built.
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Decision Against the city.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MARION, Ind, April 1s.-Judge Brown
lee, of the Superior Court, to-day handed
down his decision in the case of the Mis-
sissinnewa Mining Company against the
City of Marion. The suit arose over the
attempt of the City Council to regulate
the price of gas to consumers, thereby
coming in contact with the new schedule
Of prices adopted by the company last fall.
The decision in short, enables the company
TO fix rates at any and all times, and de-
MES the right of the city to interfere.
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other Deaths.

RICHMOND. Ind. April 1S-Mrs. Matilda
Haberkern, aged seventy-six years, a we'll
known resident, died to-day of pneumonia
man, is son.
CRAWFORDSVILI.E, Ind, April 49,
Miss Elizabeth L. Kennedy, daughter of
Hon. z. s. Kennedy, of Charlottesville, died
suddenly Wednesday morning from heart
disease.
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Lewis Cline as carrier. The route is TWEEN
ty-six miles long and serves over seven
hundred people Ii goes within two miles
of Knightstown. and takes business from
that office, which has caused a protest at
Knightstown.
a banquet was rendered to Stephen ].
Bailey Post, Grand Army of the Republic.
of Portland. Monday night by the Woman
Relief Corps, the pleasure of the affair
being further added to by the presentation
of handsome flag TO the veterans. Mrs
Rose Wilson. president OF the ladies' or
ganization, made the presentation. and COL
John w. Headington responded
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OBITUARY.


CHICAGO. April 1S.-Captain Porter
Deardoff. prominent member of the Loyal
Legion and George II. Thomas Post, G. A
r., died of heart disease last night. Capt
Deardoff was born in Ashland county
Ohio. in 1s4L AT the time of the civil war
he was living in Goshen, Ind, and en-
listed in the Second Indiana Volunteer In
fantry. He served three years and ten
months and came out as a captain in the
Seventy-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry
He left widow and three children-Mrs.
H. G. Bishop, wife of Lieutenant Bishop
u. s. A.; Miss Deardof and Miss Abbie
Deardoff. The funeral will be at Goshen,
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Linton VIII Become n City.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LINTON, Ind, April -S.-Yesterday's cleo
ton in Linton TO determine if the town
should be Incorporated a city was car
ried in the affirmative by a vote of $50 to Sc.
Linton will now advance to a city form of
government as soon elections can be
held to choose the different officers The
government will probably consist of six
or seven councilmen, city engineer, mayor
and chief of police, with five deputies. AL
ready water works and street improve
ments are under consideration and will be
acted at the proper time.
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DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN.
Mrs. Jane Bridges, Who Lived Seven
Months Beyond One Hundred Years.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
CARPENTERSVII.LE. Ind, April 49,
Mrs. Jane Bridges died here last evening
of the infirmities of age. She was one
hundred years seven months old. Mrs.
Bridges was born in Fleming county, Ken
lucky. in September. 1899. She came to this
State more than fifty years ago with a
family of FIVE children, three of whom sur
vive her. She leaves one brother, three
sons, thirteen grandchildren, thirty-one
Observation-Disclosures, and two great-great-
grand children. Mrs. Bridges was a men,
Der of the Presbyterian Church and lived
n consistent Christian life.
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NEW YORK, April is. - Fire to-day
caused loss of about $4,000 in the mat
tress and iron-bed factory of Charles III.
Rogers & Co. The fire was discovered in
the cellar, near the engine room, by
Charles Scales. boy employe, who ran
up to the third floor, where there were
thirty girls at work, and notified them of
the fire. The girls left the building quietly
and safely.
Fire early this morning destroyed Morris
Diskin a. Co.'S box factory in Jersey City.
Loss $50 600
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal
RUSRVILLE, Ind. April 1s.-Robert HI.
Searles, agent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton
& Dayton at Rushville for nine years. was
dismissed to-day without notice. He says
the cause of dismissal is unknown to
him. and the first intimation came when
II. A. Mcintosh, of Liberty, the new agent,
to-day made demand for the keys. Mr..
Searles is an experienced railroad man and
has served the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton for seventeen years, coming to
RushyiIle from Cincinnati.
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Arrest oe a Counterfeiter.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
PARIS, Ill. April 1s-The police Of this
city made an important arrest this after
noon of a counterfeiter named James Low
and an entire outfit of tools. Low. who is
about forty-five years old, and his wife
have lived in this city about two years.
The last week they have been quarreling,
and the woman told a neighbor about her
husband counterfeiting silver coins. The
neighbor Immediately reported the fact to
the police and the arrest followed. The
dies used were mostly quarters and dimes.
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BARCus.s STRENGTH IN vIGO.


Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. April 1S.-Later re-
turns show that James S. Barcus has
thirty-one of the thirty-five delegates from
this county to the convention which will
meet in Greencastle May Is to nominate
a candidate for Congress on the Repub-
lican ticket. The primaries were the most
largely attended of any held by the party
in Terre Haute for long time, and where
there was any particular effort to elect
anti-Barcus delegates the larger was the
attendance and the larger the majority
for the Barcus delegates. In most or the
wards the selection of his delegates was
a foregone conclusion. Mr.. Robert II. Cat
lin. his only opponent at the primaries,
says he will most certainly continue In
the race.
The phase of the situation that is caus-
ing most comment to-day Is that the work
ers of both factions were working for Bar
Gus. Men who were bitter factional and
personal enemies were seen working for
him. few weeks ago when he first an
nounced himself as a candidate MAORI
ty of Republicans thought he would not
make a showing in this county that would
warrant the use of his name in the con-
vention. To-day after he has captured
the county, the same persons say that he
is not only going to be nominated, but
elected by the largest majority ever cast
in the district for the Republican party.
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Andrews VIII Go to Nebraska.

CHICAGO. April 1S-Dr. f. Benjamin
Andrews. superintendent of the Chicago
public schools. who lately offered the
position of chancellor Of the University of
Nebraska. has decided to accept the place.
He tonight presented his resignation as
superintendent of schools, TO take effect
May /. After that date he will take two
months vacation and will go to the uni
versity at Lincoln on July l.
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order against the appropriation of ss50.oo
for the construction of the new Naval
Academy at Annapolis and increasing the
limit of cost to s.. 500 900.
Mr.. Mudd, of Maryland, controverted the
remarks of Mr.. Cannon in support of his
point.
Without deciding the point of order the
committee rose.
May was set aside for the consideration
of the free homes" bill.
The conference report on the urgency de-
ficfency bill was agreed to.
At 5:2o p. m. the House adjourned.
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Gochenour for Joint Senator.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WABASH, Ind, April 1S.-At the joint
senatorial convention Of the Republicans
OF Wabash and Fulton counties, held this
afternoon at North Manchester. Senator
Joseph c. Gochenour. of Roam. this coun-
ty, was nominated for joint senator. There
was large attendance, the spirited contest
for the honor between Mr.. Gochencur and
Mr.. Essick attracting voters from the two
counties. Rome c. Stephenson, of Roches-
ter. was made chairman when the con-
vention assembled at 2 o'clock. Mr.. Sisson.
of Fulton, placed Mr.. Essick in nomina-
ton, and Cary Cowgirl, of Wabash, rem
dered a similar service for Mr.. Gochenour.
The ballot resulted 80 to %. Wabash county
had thirty-seven and Fulton twenty-five
votes in the convention, and seven Wabash
county votes went to Essick.
The Democratic joint senatorial conven-
ton meets tomorrow at Laketon, this
county, and Milo Meredith, of Wabash, will
be nominated by reclamation.