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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-28
Gave Kipling One of His Plots.

Civ ANC"G.
Ralph Greyson, of Gloucester, Mass, who
gave Rudyard Kipling the plot of his Cap
ain Courageous" Is al the st. James
Hotel.
"Kipling visited Gloucester, Mass, five
years ago." said Mr.. Greyson, Gin search OF
a sea plot. and in this way we met. My
father has been commander of a fleet of
fishing smacks and, therefore, was we'll
provided with all sorts of sea adventures
and him among others Mr.. Kipling often
conversed with, being introduced by me.
Fathers chief adventure eventually was
selected by the great author.
1T was a real fact. A boy who had fallen
overheard twenty-five years ago from a
transatlantic steamer was picked up by my
father. He was the son of wealthy English
parents. as events proved. a pampered
youth, but he was made to do his work on
the smack like any sailor, for there was
need of them. The smack was called Selma
Il. and she did not return to Gloucester for
three months afterwards. Meantime the
boy had been given up as dead and his par
ents were. OF course, Frustrated Great was
their Joy at his restoration TO their bosoms
and no small reward came along as a gift
to the sailors. 1t was a good thing for the
youth, too. for the hard work made a man
of him and he is living a useful life. we un-
derstand. Finally Kip,ing got hold of him
and he is immortalized in fiction"
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STATE LOST A POINT.
Motion to Strike Out Evidence i'm
Pherson Trial Overruled.

FRANKLIN, Ind, Dec. 2I.-This morning
Judge Buckingham heard argument on a
motion in the Pherson murder trial to
strike out the evidence about the piece of
board and the hairs found on 1t. He over
ruled the motion and the evidence went to
the jury. The State then rested its case.
r. NJ. Miller made the opening statement
for the defense. He said it would rely on
the failure of the State to show a motive
for the crime. He referred TO the long
friendship and intimacy between the two
men, continuing on the day of the murder.
On the day of the killing, at Knapp's
house, Pherson asked Knapp when he was
coming out, and Knapp said he couldn't
come. until the next day. Pherson went
home, got an early dinner and went to
Greenwood whence he started home about
3 o'clock. The troubles of his laughter
Clara at Whiteland, and the partial insan-
ity of his wife, were events which had dis
turbed his mental poise. His army record
and his poor health were presented.
A statement concerning early intimacy
OF Knapp with Ruth was not permitted to
be made. The discovery of Knapp's decep-
ton, taken with his other troubles, was
said TO have caused temporary insanity,
and Pherson's act was said to have been
justified by the circumstances.
Editor Swan, of the Greenwood Era, said
that Douglas Dobbins told him on the day
of Pherson's arrest that Pherson' was Of
unsound mind Dobbins denied having SO
stated yesterday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-28

The legislative committee, accompanied
by Governor-elect Durbin. visited the East
ern Indiana Hospital for the Insane, at
Richmond, yesterday. The needs of the in
stitution were fully set forth by DIR. s.. T..
Smith, medical superintendent, but no ex-
preston as TO recommendations was made
by the committee. The financial exhibit
presented by DIR. Smith was so we'll got up
that the committee pronounced il the most
systematic document of the kind yet en-
countered. Other state officials will be
asked to adopt the same form. The re-
quests for appropriations are the same as
those in the report of the hospital already
published. The Governor-elec met many
friends there.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-28

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
HARTFORD CITY, Ind, Dec. 27.-The L.
A. 500 blowers and gatherers employed in
the trust plants known as the Gem and
Klondike, at Dunkirk, are on strike. George
f. Moore. superintendent of all the trust
plants. gave two league cutters places
there after President Burns had decreed
that the men should not go to work. When
they assumed their duties the Burns men
quit work. 1t is a clash of authority be-
tween the trust and l.. a. 300. 1t is said the
latter organization intends TO dictate who
shall be employed and who shall not. and
Moore does not propose to yield to the labor
organization. Burns has been sent for to
pass on the case.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-28
An Honest Man in England.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
WINAMAC, Ind, Dec. 27.-The Bank of
Winamac received a letter on last Satur-
day from Southampton, England, dated
Dec. 4, signed John Whale. No.. 4 Trinity
Terrace, Trinity road, and reads as fol-
lows: Enclosed you will find a bank note
for 800 that / found in a sack of American
oats at my employers store. 1 have taken
il to the American consul here and he told
me to send il to your bank. In case of any
reference you may write to Mr.. Thomas
Knowlton, I. c., 11 st. Mary street, South
ampton, England" The bank note is a
Sank of Winamac draft. given April %,
1899. and was made payable to Thomas w.
Richards, of Pontiac, Ill. 1t was lost while
handling oats.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-28
Nearly Ready to start h Cars.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ANDERSON, Ind, Dec. 27.-Charles L.
Henry, manager of the Union Traction
Company, is using every energy at his
command to open the line from Muncie and
Anderson to Indianapolis by the 1st of jan
uary. The test of the power plant. made on
an all-night run of the big engine last night,
was entirely successful. To-day experts
tested the convertors and reducers at Fort
vile, Lawrence and Yorktown, and if these
machines are in working order Manager
Henry will be in readiness to send cars into
indianapolis with his own power as soon
as the Indianapolis street railway makes
the connection at the end of College avenue
with the Union Traction Company's tracks.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-28
AMERICAN LEAGUE NO. 2.
Organization Not Completed Yester-
day-Nonconficting

CHICAGO. Dec. 27.-No definite organiza-
ton was accomplished this afternoon By
the baseball men who came to Chicago 20
promote the American League. No. >. The
standard of salaries. bylaws and the gen.
eral lines of the final organization were
discussed, but a telegram from Manning,
OF Kansas City, saying he would be here
with his representatives early tomorrow,
caused the magnates to postpone final ac-
ton until his arrival. Ban Johnson. presi-
dent of the American League, spent the day
with the minor league men, giving advice
and keeping things moving along smoothly.
IT is the intention to have nonconficting
schedules in all cities where the American
League has two clubs or where the Amer
League a club.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-28
heavyweight Thieves Arrested.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
ANDERSON, Ind, Dec. 27.-One of the
boldest attempts at robbery ever made in
Anderson was that of Albert Rogers and
Leonard Bowles, who were caught last
evening in the act of taking three tons Of
weights from the gas plant in the heart Of
the city and scarcely a square from the Jail.
The men drove up to the tanks and began
removing the weights and loading them into
a wagon. When demonstrated with and
finally taken before the police superintend-
ent the men declared they had purchased
the weights as old iron from C.. K. McCul-
lcugh, former operator of the plant. Mr..
Mccullough ordered the men held, and they
later confessed TO their intent to dispose of
the property unlawfully.
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ARE WI A SET OF THIEVES?


To the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal:
Mr.. Benedict. of the Indianapolis Gas
Company, was evidently out Of order the
other day when he said the people of In
dianapolis were stealing gas; that is, he
was supplementary. 1t is an offense in
Parliament, or in Congress-. to tell q fellow
member that he lies, and the offender is
called to order at once, but If he says
the honorable member tells an untruth he
is permitted to proceed. or course, nobody
imagines it is because there is any appre-
ciable difference between the two express
sions. but the latter is more euphonious.
hence less offensive. Mr.. Benedict ought
to have said we are p~ilfering gas, or some
thing of that kind, and there would have
been no ~offense; or, he might just have said
We have bored out mixers or wholly re-
moved them. thus getting more gas than
We contracted for, without characterizing
the onense, and no one would have OBJ
jected. 1t was not what he said. but the
way he said ii that gives offense. Besides,
steal Is plain Saxon and differing IL
French. you see.
But is the indianapolis Gas Company I'm
a condition to read Us a homily on honesty.
Let me tell a story. A little over seventy
years ago a stalwart pioneer entered a
quarter section of the rich lands i'm Madi-
0At& 11~a& ~ A2AlAt oAlIEA
the fashion of the times. Every year the
opening" grew larger and neighbors came
nearer. By dint OF hard work and close
economy and driving hard bargains he
easily kept the lead of the little community
OF settlers In his accumulations. He had
corn to sell when nobody else had, or To
trade for a lot OF half-starved shoats or a
lousy calf. or IN old dry COW. which he
would fatten and sell at a large profit
So successful was he I'm this industry that
he soon became known among the Madi-
son county settlers as the cattle king, so
that whoever had a STERLING TO sell grayi-
tated 10 the king as naturally as one now
gravitates to the stock yards with a fat
hog or beef. OF course. he grew rich and
bought more land. and his two boys. rs
they grew into manhood. developed into
shrewd traders: they could buy as cheap
and sell as dear as the king himself. much
to the joy OF the father. Though they
early set up for themselves and I'm some
sense became the business rivals of their
father. there remained a kind of community
OF interest that made them play into each
others hands. at least as against out
siders. For instance. when their output
became entirely too great for the Indian
arolis market they would unite their herds
and drive them to Cincinnati. sometimes
realizing fabulous profits. One spring the
fathers health would not allow him TO
go Will the drove. but he could trust the
boys to cope with the Cincinnati butchers.
and he sent his herd along with theirs.
They were gone more than two weeks and
when they returned they had a doleful tale
10 tell about the crowded state OF the
Cincinnati market. and how they finally
had to take whatever the butchers eS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-28

Madison County Auditor Commissions
a Defeated township Assessor.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ANDERSON, Ind, Dec. 27.-Adam Huff
man, assessor-elect of Stony Creek town.
ship, came to Anderson yesterday for his
commission and found that O.. p. Grim.
the Democratic auditor. had issued the
commission to his Democratic opponent.
whom he had defeated at the recent cleo
ton by over 160 votes. Auditor Grim held
that as Huffman did not qualify within
the time prescribed by law it became his
right TO appoint an assessor for the town
ship. and he named the Democratic nomi-
nee, j. X. Julian. Huffman will enjoin the
newly appointed assessor from performing
the duties OF the office, claiming that he
had not been officially notified that he must
qualify within a given time.
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q C L D D
Rain VIII Turn Into snow and the
Temperature VIII Drop.

WASHINGTON. Dec. ~27.-Forecast for
Friday and Saturday:
For Ohio-Rain or snow in northern, rain
In southern portion on Friday. Saturday
colder and fair. except snow iurries near
the lakes; variable winds becoming fresh
10 brisk northerly Friday night.
For n~linois-Colder on Friday with snow
in northern and rain turning into snow i'm
southern portion. Saturday fair, fresh
northerly winds.
For Indiana-Much colder on Friday with
rain turning into snow. Saturday fair. fresh
northerly winds.
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CARRIE NATION IN JAIL.
CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.)

jail tonight, whence she issued a mani
festo ito the friends of temperance every
where in which she acknowledges there
was method in the apparent madness. II
came to the Governors home town." she
continues, ito destroy the finest saloon in
it, hoping thus to attract public attention
to the fragrant violation of a Kansas law
under the very eye OF the chief executive of
the State"
mate. 1t was finished with stucco secured
from the worlds fair buildings and many
blocks of IL are shattered. The painting of
Cleopatra" cost Mr.. Noble, its author,
nine months time painting it. and was still
his property, being rented by the saloon.
1t has been seen at nearly all the street
fairs from Canada to the gulf.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-28
CAUSED BY A CORN.
Suit for $4,000 Damages Filed i'm the
Adams Circuit Court.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
PORTLAND, Ind, Dec. 27.-An action
out of the ordinary has been filed in the
Circuit Cou OF Adams county, John
Reynolds, a section hand on the Glover
Leaf Railroad. being the plaintiff, and G..
w. Roop, a shoe dealer. the defendant.
Reynolds says he had a corn on his toe.
which panied him so badly that he coulI,
scarcely work, and that Roop cited several
instances in which he had successfully
cured them.
According to Reynolds's allegations Roop
operated on his corn, pairing II down with
a shoe knife and then applying a lotion.
The complaint states that this treatment
caused blood poisoning to set in, with the
result that the toe had to be amputated.
Reynolds now wants damages from Roop
in the sum of $1,000.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-28

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
HONOLULU, Dec. 19.-Honolulu is about
to have a temperance crusade led by the
w. C.. 7. T.. and the Ministers Union. Two
representatives of the w. c. T. u, Miss
Jessie McKerman and Miss Ada Murcutt,
are expected here on the steamer Coptic on
Dec. %, and after they have started. the
agitation Rev. DIR. Chapman, of the Anti
saloon League of Oakland, will come. He
is expected early in January. 1t is part
of the plan Of the crusade TO diffuse senti-
ment in favor of the bill of Congressman
Iittlefield, of Maine, to absolutely prohibit
the sale of intoxicants to the aborigines
of the Pacific islands over which the United
States exercises control.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-28

NEW YORK. Dec. 27.-Arrived: Mesaba.
from London: Teutonic. from Liverpool.
Trave. from Brennan. Sailed: III. H.. Meier,
for Bremen.
CHERBOURG. Dec. 27.-Arrived: Graf
Waldersee. from New York. for Hamburg.
QUEENSTOWN. Dec. 2z.5Sailed: Cymric,
from Liverpool. for New York.
BOULOGNE. Dec. &.-Sailed: Cap Frio.
from Hamburg. for New York.
LONDON, Dec. 27.-Arrived: Manitou,
from New York.
MovILLE. Dec. z7.-Arrived: Ethiopia.
from Glasgow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-28
INDIANA OBITUARY.
Myron r. Harbour, an Aged Resident
and Pioneer Fort Wayne Teacher.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
FOR WAYNE. Ind. Dec. 27.-Myron f.
Barbour. aged ninety years. died at his
home here from the infirmities of old age.
He was a native OF New York. a descend
ant OF the oldest families i'm New England.
He came here in 1895 and taught
the first public school in this part
OF the State. He was a man of
during his life amassed a comfortable for
tune. He collected the funds for the
building of the first public school and the
first Presbyterian church in this city. He
went TO California I'm 1919 and remained two
years. +. l. Barbour. OF Larwill. is a
nephew of the deceased. Mr.. Barbour was
a leading Republican here since 1856.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-28
Councilman Exonerated.

CLEVELAND. o., Dec. 1.-THE trial of
Councilman John r. O'Donnell before the
Cleveland City Council came 10 an end to-
night when. by a vote of 13 TO s. his col
lea CUES decided the charges against him of
accepting a bribe TO vote 10 award q con-
tract to the Gamewell Fire Alarm and Tel
egraph Company, of New York, had not
been sustained by the testimony. Director
of Law Hogsett accused the Council of ut
terly disregarding his advice and an
nounced that he would refuse to take part
in the trials OF Councilmen Stuer, Purdy
and Henry.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-28

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
UNION CITY, Ind. Dec. I'll. III. Slime,
who was a major in the Union army in the
civil war, received injuries to-day which
may prove fatal In crossing the street he
slipped and fell, striking his head on the
curbing and fracturing his skull. Major
Slime, who wrote 1.-The History of the
Army of the Potomac" was, for many
years, connected with the Treasury Depart
ment at Washington. He lives near this
city on what is known as Historical
Farm the place containing a shrub or
tree from every important battlefield re-
corded in history
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other Deaths in the state.

WORTH1NGTCN. Ind. Dec. 27.-Mr.
Abram Spainhower. a prominent citizen of
this place. died al his residence this morn
ing after an illness Of several months. He
was eighty-four years old. and had lived
In Worthington more than forty years. A,
one time he was commissioner OF Greene
county. For many years he had been the
senior elder In the Christian Church. also
a prominent member OF the Masonic lodge
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-28

CHICAGO. Dec. Z.-Dan A. Stuart. the
big Texas sport promoter. who successfully
brought off the Fitzsimmons-C orbett fight
at Carson City after he had been sup
pressed in Texas by an extra session of the
Legislature and after Congress had out
lawed the light in the Territories, passed
through Chicago tonight en- route TO Carson
City from the East. IL Is said he intends
TO bring on another t%op-notch carnival in
Nevada.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-28

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Dec. 27.-Contracts
have been let by the North Baltimore Glass
Company for an addition to the plant re-
Gently erected here, which amounts to
$4,000. The factory when completed will
be one of the best equipped I'm the coun-
try and will make a speciality of manufac-
turing all kinds OF bottles.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-28

latter getting the third-class work. There
was but one other bid submitted. that of
Levey Bros. indianapolis. This concern Of
fered to provide costly records at a cent
each, and to Autograph and print 2-cent
stamped envelopes for 81 per thousand.
though the stamped envelopes alone cost
at the postofice S21.6 per thousand. Tn
bids on other articles. however. were high.
in order to equalize the proposal
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-28

CHICAGO, Dec. "a corner in beans is
the latest novelty in the Chicago market.
II Is being engineered by the Albert Dick
inson Company. Within two weeks the
price has risen from 1874 per busheI to s.. 20
and dealers predict a further advance TO
$3.50 within a fortnight. Heavy purchases
by the government are said 10 be at the
bottom of the boom in prices.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-28
Train warmly welcomed at Muncie.

MUNCIE, Ind. Dec. 27.-The first train
on the Muncie extension of the Chicago.
Indiana & Eastern road. just built here
from Matthews. arrived this evening, and
there was great footing OF whistles. The
passenger train of three cars brought in
thirty-six passengers and took out several.
The road connects with Panhandle trains
direct for Chicago at Converse.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-28

Special 10 the indianapolis Journal.
WABASH, Ind. Dec. H.-The contract for
the printing and stationery of Wabash
county for the year 1901 has been awarded
to William B. Burford. of Indianapolis. and
the Plan Dealer Company. of t1is city. tho
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-28
The Age and Youth of Higsin.on.

Boston Journal.
1t is hard to realize that Col. Thomas
Wentworth Higginson Is seventy-seven
The ardor that sent him to fight at the
head Of n brave black regiment for the
principle which his pen and tongue had
advocated has kept him young long after
most of his contemporaries
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-28

Troy On. " Budget.
A Minneapolis man has Invented a teIe-
phone that can be used without wires. IL
improvement continues at this pace in a
century or two we may get q telephone
that will not. nine times out of ten. say
busy when We ask to be put In COM
munication With some one.
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Local observations ON Thursday.

Bar. Tn. Ri Wind Weather. Pre-.
Z a. m-...3424 "A 90 S'east. PIT cfdy. GOO
7p. m....S0O "a % N'east. 1t. rain. 0l9
Maximum temperature. s5: minimum tempera-
ture. ..
Following Is a comparative statement Of the
mean temperature and tota. precipitation for
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druggists refund the money II n falls 70 cure
=. W. Groves signature u On esch box. -
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c. F. r. wAPPENHANS.
Local Forecast Official
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BATCH OF FRESH NEWS
HOT FROM THE WIRES AND SERVED
WITHOUT TRIMMINGS.
A Little of EverythinG, and Certain
Who Like Facts Cut to the Bone.

Manitoba's South African contingent OF
volunteers was given a welcome on its re-
turn TO Winnipeg yesterday.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-12-31
FORTH AND BACK.

II struck us forcibly the other day
when one of our great scholars spoke
OF man as pacing forth and back. :"
says the Philadelphia Record.
How many times have we heard OF pac-
ings back and forth?'
Though you may contend that this is an
unnecessarily small point. yet 1t is fact
that most people when starting out TO
cover short pace a number of times do
not make their first turn backward like a
crab.
Invariably do they take few steps for
ward. and then. turning. rctrace them.
Hence, they go forth and back, and
forth and back, and so on, until their
emotion or exercising is over.
And IF things So" to use one of
Koko's never-failing reasoninss, why not
say SOP"
Stop moment to think of IL, and you'll
agree that IL is ridiculous to start a thing
backward, and about as easy as to start
climbing n tree from the top.
Novelists with restless heroes are cspe-
cially requested to take notice.