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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-19
WEBSTER STATUE UNVEILED.
Ceremony Participated I'm by the
President and Cabinet.

WASHINGTON, Jan. ia distinguished
gathering of public officials. including
President Mckinley and his entire Cabinet.
representatives of the Senate and House,
the judiciary of the Supreme Court and
other branches of public life, participated
to-day in the exercises attending the I'M
yelling of the colossal bronze statue of
Daniel Webster, executed by the Italian
sculptor, Trentanove, and presented to the
United States by StiIson Hutchins, of
Washington. The statue occupies a posi-
ton on Scott Circle, but prior TO the actual
unwilling the ceremonies of presentation
and acceptance were held at the Lafayette
Opera House AS the President and Cabinet
came upon the stage, the entire audience
rose, while the band played Hail to the
Chief"
chaplain of the Senate, Rev. DR.. Milburn,
Senator Chandler. in behalf of the two
branches of Congress, read Mr.. Hutch
mss presentation letter and added a brief
but glowing tribute to the craftsmanship,
the oratory and the patriotism OF Web
ster. Secretary Long then accepted the
statue in behalf of the United States.
Senator Lodge delivered the Grafton of the
day The formal ceremonies concluded
with benediction by Rev. Mr.. Couden,
chaplain of the House.
The President and most Of the other dis
tinguished guests then proceeded to Scott
Circle. AT IL o'clock the statue was I'M
yelled. The drawing Of the veil was per-
formed by Jerome Bonaparte, great
grandson of Webster, assisted by Mr..
Hutchins and Miss Katherine Deering.
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MONNETT CRITICISED.
Reply OF the Continental TObOccO
Company to Charges in the Suit.

COLUMBUS, o., Jan. 1S-The suit Of the
State the relation of the Attorney Cen
eral against the Continental Tobacco Com
pany, involving the constitutionality of the
Valentine-Stewart antitrust law of April
10, 1898, was submitted to the Supreme
Court to-day on briefs arguing demurrer
to the petition. The brief for the Continen-
tai Company criticses former Attorney
General Monnett, who brought the suit, for
the profuse use of the words illegal"
unlawful" colorado" Compulsory"
coercion" methods" schemes" IMAM
ipulations," practices" etc, expressing
the pleader's opinion and condemnation of
certain acts which, in the main, are de-
scribed by insinuation alone" The SUI
preme Court of Minnesota is quoted as
saying that 1.-The courts influenced by such
terms of Elusive meaning as 'monopolies,
trusts, 'boycotts, Strikes, and the like,
may be led to transcend the limits of their
jurisdiction" The brief characterizes Mr..
Monnetts language as mere assertion and
is not regarded as a real obstacle in the
way of a legal defense.
The Attorney General, in his brief
charges that the pretended transfers of
different plants to the Continental Tobacco
Company mere fictions, as the fran
chiseS of the several corporations remain
dead and useless in the hands of the d.
rcctors, and that these transfers were
made over the protest Of the minority
stockholders.
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FELL 40 FEET.
Two Men Killed and Three Injured by
Parting of an Elevator Cable.

NEW YORK, Jan. 1S.-A freight elevator
In a storage warehouse at One-hundred-
and-twenty street and st. Nicholas
avenue fell to-day. killing two persons and
injuring three others. The killed were
Michael Mclean and Patrick Leddy. The
injured are Bernard Cahill, James Riley
and Richard Burns.
At the time of the accident the elevator
was at the ninth floor Of the building and
had Just been loaded with five wheelbar-
rows Of friedrich. There were five men on
the elevator. Just as the elevator started
Down, one of the cables broke letting the
elevator loose, and it went down to the
basement with frightful rapidity. The es-
timated total fall is 40 feet. The elevator
was crushed to splinters. On the way down
ii tore out the brick partitions and did
so much damage that the iron counter
balance weights were loosened, allowing
them to fall on the top of the elevator.
The weights killed the man in the elevator.
manner. The injured men bore no marks
on their bodies nor were any of their bones
broken. They were all unconscious, how
ever. and were moved to a hospital. They
are in a precarious condition. The ply
sicians at the hospital said that they were
internally injured and the chances OF their
recovery were slight The superintendent
of the building. Thomas Berry, was ar
rested. He claimed the elevator was reg
ularly inspected and no warning was given
OF the parting Of the cable.
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MUST PAY THE DUTY.


NEW YORK, Jan. 1S.-The board Of
classification of the United States general
appraisers to-day announced a decision
overruling the protest of the Franklin
Sugar Company relative to the assessment
Of countervailing duty on raw sugar i'm
ported by the company from Germany.
The German government pays a bounty
on sugar made in Germany, but under
Section Of the Dingley act it is provided
that in cases of importation of such goods
a countervailing duty equal to the bounty
paid shall be assessed, in addition to the
ordinary duty The question at issue in the
present case was as to whether the coun-
tervailing duty should be assessed accord
ing to the weight of the sugar when IL
left Germany, or its weight when IL
reached this country.
General Appraiser Howell. who wrote the
opinion of the board, pointed out that the
law provides that the additional duty must
or merchandise is imported in the same
condition as when exported from the
country Of production, or has been changed
in condition by manufacture or other
wise" The bounty paid was estimated on
the original weight and to calculate on a
less weight, Mr.. Howell points out, would
prevent the collection of sum equal to
the full amount of the body. The case
was appealed from the decision of the col
lector at Philadelphia.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-19

Work Advancing on the Projected
RichmOnd-EatOn Line.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind, Jan. 1s.-Interest in
electric line projects was revived here to-
day by the announcement that the work of
securing a right Of way for line from
Eaton, O., to his city has just been COM
pleted. Eastern capitalists, either Cleve-
land or Philadelphia, are back Of the pro-
ject and 1T seems have been working so
quietly that they have accomplished great
deal before making themselves known. The
material for the construction is said to
have been ordered. The line will be indie
pendent, it is claimed, of that now in oper-
alton between Eaton and Dayton, o., but
will connect with that and also with the
local line, thereby gaining entrance to
the heart of the city. There is a report
current that it is the intention to construct
a line through from Cincinnati via Rich
mond to Muncie. A line is already in oper-
alton between Cincinnati and Hamilton. If
the line between Eaton and Richmond is
built 1t will furnish another link in what
will no doubt be eventually a complete
line between Indianapolis and Columbus,
o. 1t is understood the line between In
dianapolis and Greenfield will be extended
to Richmond.
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WANTS SEvENTY-FIvE MILLION
Chicago Wishes q Deep Waterway to
the Gulf Of Mexico.

CHICAGO, Jan. 1S.-The Post to-day
says: Congress will be petitioned by the
drainage board to complete the great arti-
fetal waterway from Lake Michigan to
the Gulf of Mexico. The lowering of the
bear-trap dam at Lockport yesterday prac-
tically marked the completion of the great
project to the limit Of the jurisdiction of
the sanitary district. The United States
government will now be asked officially to
take charge of the waterway and to de-
velop the Illinois river below Joliet so that
deep-water navigation may be possible. An
expenditure of 100000 is estimated as
necessary to finish the inland water route
which connects the Atlantic coast with the
gulf. A committee on federal relations of
the drainage board will draft a manifesto
to Congress, In which an exhaustive report
will be given of the work that has been
accomplished, and of the value of the canal
as the principal link in the waterway to
the Mississippi"
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Mrs. Walter McConaha, living south Of
Centerville, in Wayne county, was serious
ly burned yesterday while starting a fire
in the kitchen stove.
Joseph Sylvester, farmer living near
Pendleton, his daughter Pearl was prob
ably fatally injured.
Every effort is being made at Anderson
to adjust the rod mill mems strike. A
general closing of the steel company's plant
at that point is feared.
Special Agent Rathbone is investigating
proposed rural free-delivery route out of
Pendletion, and probably will report IA
vorably on the project.
Three carpenters of Muncie who were at
work on a new house. were badly hurt yes
terday by the collapse of a scafQld on
which they were standing.
The Owensburg tunnel on the B. & B.
branch of the MonOn has been reopened
for traffic, after being closed two weeks
by the collapse Of the roof.
The Wabash postmaster has been in
formed that three new rural free-delivery
routes will be established in Wabash
county within few weeks.
The Muncie Commercial Club is taking
steps to raise $4,000 for the erection of a
general hospital, the city at present hav-
ing no institution of that kind.
Sherman Parsley, of Elwood, who is
wanted I'm Ohio cities for the alleged sale
of property that did not belong to him,
Estella Smith. school girl of Danville.
ILL.,, was killed by a switch engine on the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad yes
terday morning. She was on her way to
school,
The big pumping station near Elwood,
which has been idle several years, owing
to legal proceedings, was started Wednes-
day, and is successfully pumping gas to
Lafayette.
The Richmond committee. having the
State Christian Endeavor convention in
charge, wound up it's affairs Wednesday
night. Receipts and expenditures balanced
within a few cents.
The Farquhar Milling Company's mill at
Lima was destroyed by a mysterious ex-
plosion Wednesday. George Lanphier, the
fireman, was fatally scalded by escaping
steam. The loss is $1,000.
S. F. Jones. city editor of the Marion
postal service in the Philippines. He will
leave for Washington to-day to be in
structed regarding his duties.
Word has been received at Noblesville
of the death at San Francisco of Andrew
Mckenzie, Hamilton-county soldier, who
contracted a tropical fever while serving
in the Philippines. The body will be buried
at Anderson, Sunday.
The Jackson County Farmers Institute
tendance Milton Trusler, of Corners
vile, +. Z. BowleS, of Noblesville, and
John w. Cooperrider of Scottsburg, are
the principal speakers.
Mrs. Maggie F. Titus, wife of Mail-carrier
Titus, of the Marion Soldiers Home, left
her home in South Marion Sunday after
noon and has not been seen since. 1t is
believed she is mentally unbalanced, and
feared that she may have made way with
herself.
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IRISHMEN AT THE FRONT.
Senator Carter Says They Are the
Pioneers of Freedom.

NEW YORK, Jan. 1S.-At the banquet of
the Irish Historical Society tonight Sem
ator Thomas II. Carter, of Montana said:
1T has been the fashion, not alone con-
fined to the historian, but the newspaper
well, to claim that this is an Anglo
Saxon country. This nation cannot trace
its origin solely to the puny Anglo-Saxon
race. new race has sprung up on this
virgin soil. more worthy than Saxons. Teu-
tons or Celts. Whenever freedoms flag
was flung to the breeze it was by an Irish
man or there was an Irishman near by"
G. w. Van Sicklen, of the Holland So
ciety, who wore a Boer flag, was called on
for speech. Telling Of the ''humbug of the
British friendship for America" he said
it was not true that Germany, France and
Russia were about to intervene during the
Spanish war, and also that Ambassador
Porter, Justice Brewer, Secretary Hay and
the Russian minister had all publicly de-
MED that there was any foundation for the
report
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CONVERSE, Ind, Jan. 1s-James Fennel.
a pioneer of Upton and Howard counties,
died at the home of his brother-in-law,
this morning, at the age Of eighty-five
years. Mr.. Fennel was great hunter In
his day and travelled over the greater part
of the Western States on hunting expedi-
tons. He started on a trip through Ken
lucky, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and OKLA
homa, about sixteen months ago and re-
turned about Christmas, driving the entire
distance in a buggy.
ELWOOD, Ind, Jan. 1S.-Oliver Richards,
sixty-five years old, and nearly all his life
a resident of Elwood, died last midnight.
of heart trouble, without previous illness.
fed with Elwood's business life, and was a
Mason of high degree.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, Jan. 1S-James G.
Woodwork, aged sixty years, assistant
cashier of the old National Bank, died
to-day after long illness. During the
civil war he served as first lieutenant in
the Twenty-fifth Massachusetts Infantry.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-19
Grocer Frightened to Death.

JEFFERSONvILLE, Ind, Jan. Is. -
Charles E. Smith, a grocer at Sellersburg.
was frightened to death this morning by
a noise he supposed was being made by
burglars trying to enter his home. His
wife heard the sound, and. thinking her
husband was asleep, shook him and asked
him if ne heard burglars trying to get into
the house. He said he had been listening to
1t for an hour. Procuring revolver, he
started in the direction of the sound, and.
reaching the center of the room. retraced
his steps to the bed, threw himself across il
and expired without uttering a groan. He
was known to have weak heart, and the
excitement caused the rupture of a blood
vessel. Smith was thirty-five years. old.
No trace of the burglar was found, and 1t is
believed the noise was MADE by rats.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-19
THE OUTLOOK IN INDIANA.
Probability that 1t Will Go Republic.
an Next Year.
New York Mail and Express.

New York Mail and Express
Indiana cast it's electoral vote for Nc
Kinley in 1885, and il is reasonably safe
to conclude that she will not reverse her.
self in 1900. Still, the State is regarded
as among the doubtful ones. and OF course
the Democrats will make special efforts
TO carry Ii this year OF unusually large
significance. 1t is encouraging, therefore.
to read what the chairman of the Repub-
lican state committee OF Indiana has to
say touching our partys prospects in that
field. He is not making any boasts. He
merely shows that the InGiana Republic
ans do not purpose to be beaten in the
campaign of this year by what is known
as "oyerconfidence." That is an exceed
ingly good sign. Our party has lost not a
few battles which il might have won but
for the conviction which IL entertained
when the hostilities began that IL had q
sure thing.
The chairman admits that this Il go
ing to be the hardest campaign In many
years." 1.-The State can only be carried
by the most thorough organization" To
this he adds the comforting assurance that
the most thorough organization will be
made. Such a spirit, such q determine
ton, viii give us a victory in Indiana
Taking nothing for granted, polling every
vote which can be secured by hard, per-
sistent work, the Indiana Republicans
will succeed in keeping their State, where
it rightfully belongs, in the Republican
column.
McKinley's plurality over Bryan in In
diana in 1896 was a little over 1900. The
vote on the state ticket I'm 1898 substan-
TALLY correspondent TO these figures, the
Republican candidate for secretary of state
having been elected by plurality of 1926.
These returns demonstrate that the coming
contest is likely to be close one, the
changes favoring the Republicans. We be-
lieve they are going to win, and they GER
tainly will IL the rank and file take the
some level-headed view OF the situation
that the chairman of the Republican COM
mittee takes. Resoiute work in every cleo
will he no6 nv
Anything less will give the State TO the
Democrats. A word to the wise is sufficient.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-19
WILL FIGHT MATCH TRUST.
National Company Preparing to Start
Opposition Factories.

CHICAGO, Jan. 1S.-Negotiations are I'M
der way by which the National Match
Company, another concern in opposition to
the match trust, will open its first factory
in Evanston. ILL.,, early in March. The most
modern machines, on which the American
and foreign rights have been purchased
outright, will be installed it is said, and
the first output will average 100000 boxes
a day. Plans for immediate extension
have been perfected. and within the year
three more plants, 1T is stated, will be
established in the Middle West Patents
on improved box-malSing apparatus also
have been secured and four hundred-acre
tract of timber land in Georgia purchased.
Boston capitalists are heavily represented
in the new competitor.
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DID NOT REPORT CASES
OHIO DOCTORS BARRED FROM
PRACTICE IN ALLEN COUNTY.
Subject to Arrest Hereafter-New Vot-
ing Machine Observation-Disclosures
Strike at AndersOn-Obituary.
special to the indianapolis Journal.

FORT WAYNE, Ind, Jan. 1S.-Ohio ply
sicians have been debarred from practic-
ing medicine in Allen county by order of
DR.. Carl Proegler secretary of the county
Board of Health The officers of the county
have received orders to apprehend on sight
any practitioner from across the state line
found attending a patient in the county.
The reason for the order is that Ohio doc
tors have been attending smallpox patients
in the northeastern part of the county. near
the state line, and have failed to make re-
ports of them. The consequence is num-
Der of cases of smallpox have gone un-
ouarantined
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-19

CHICAGO, Jan. 1S.-Former Secretary Of
State Judge w. r. Day, Of Canton, o.,
who was a member of the Paris peace
commission, and who came TO Chicago
tonight to attend the banquet of the Sons
of Ohio, was asked what he thought Of
the Senate resolution ordering that the pro-
ceedings of the commission be made pub
lie. ION that point L agree with Senator
Davis as opposed to publicity OF the pro-
ceedings," he said. while there was moth
ing that the commission had to hide, it
was understood that the proceedings, be-
ing Of a diplomatic nature, should be kept
private. and cannot see that any advan-
tage could be derived by making them
public"
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striking out the committee amendment to
authorize the director to contract for extra
printing with private contractors. The
whole fight was on that amendment. The
influence of the public printer and the labor
organizations of the country were en-
ployed against II, and after lively debate
of several hours IL was overwhelmingly de-
feated. The publication Of the reports of
the twelfth census therefore will be made
BY the public printer, as in the past
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percentage. AS the Colorado senator says,
IL the war is for the uplifting Of the Fill
pinos il is for noble purpose. and he In
right in saying that dollars and cents
should not be made the basis OF this coun-
try's action regarding the islands. Neither
should they stand in the way OF doing jus
tice to the Inhabitants of Puerto Rico. but
the chances are that financial considera-
tions will have great deal OF influence In
disposing of both questions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-19

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, Oct. 1S-Hon. John
l.. Griffith. of Indianapolis, addressed a
large audience tonight at the City Hall,
assembled as the guests of the Tippecanoe
Club, the leading Republican club of the
city. His subject was Lincoln" and ii
was handled with all the forceful ability
and oratory for which Mr.. Griffith is noted.
The club hopes to have all the other can
didates for Governor as its guests at sue
ceedinsy receptions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-19
RISE In INDIANA OIL.

Crude Price Is Increased by Three
Cents-Activity mt Alexandria.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MONTPELIER, Ind, Jan. 1S.-The long
looked for rise in the oil market came
to-day and the price went UP as if it was
attached to a balloon. Indiana and North
and South Lima each received a raise of
cents, while the Eastern crude remains
unchanged. The muddy roads and the in
creased cost of drilling are largely re-
sponsible for the increase, which has put
the market at the following figures: North
Lima, $780, South Lima, $1.15; Indiana, s1.15.
ALEXANDRIA, Ind, Jan. S.-There are
a number of oil men in the city from Pitts
burg, Pa, and some of the Indiana oil
towns. They are prospecting among the
wells that were drilled here two years ago
and say they intend to commence produc-
ing oil here in the near future. They claim
they can do so without wasting the natural
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-19
NEW VOTING MACHINE


Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ANDERSON, Ind, Jan. 1S.-The Ander-
son Foundry and Machine Company, of this
city, finished last night a voting machine
that has stood every test which could be
made. The machine was invented by
Messrs. w. r. Cunningham and Thomas
Mayors, Of Frankfort. Ind, and is the re-
suit of more than five years of incessant
toll and research. Mr.. Cunningham COM
pleted his drawings early last year, and
took them to Chicago, where they were
intrusted to j. S. Berg, a skilled mechanic
and machine builder. Berg afterward re-
moved to Anderson and identified himself
with the foundry and machine works here.
The machine Is simple and very easily
operated. The voter can vote a straight or
mixed ticket, as he wishes, but not more
than one vote can be registered by the
same person, as the machine is self-locking.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-19
Second Arrest Has Been Made.

FRANKLIN, Ind, Jan. 1S.-Charles Mo-
ran, young white man. was arrested in
Indianapolis and brought here last night,
charged with completely in the assault on
Sadie Moran. for which Hillary Moore. the
colored janitor at the North school build
ing, was arrested Tuesday night. Moore
Is still in jail. The janitor says he found
Moran and the girl, who are cousins. in the
school building after dark. Moore has al
ways borne a good reputation. Both he
and Moran are married. An extra guard
has been placed about the jail to guard
against mob violence.
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ANDERSON, Ind, Jan. 1S.-Thirty pol
ishers in the Wright Shovel Company's
plant struck to-day on account of the dis
missal OF William Kelley. one of the two
head polishers. The superintendent claimed
Kelly disobeyed orders in starting his ma
chine too soon. A strike is threatened of
probably two hundred of the three hun
dred employees. The works are the largest
shovel plant in the country.