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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-17

port was further discussed by Superinten-
cents Mills, Short, Moore. Wood and
others.
AT the afternoon session report on the
School as Related TO Art was presented
by w. r. Snyder and Mary f. Nicholson.
The report was reviewed by Prof J. l..
Loves, and the review was followed by a
general discussion lasting the whole after
noon
There was much complaint expressed by
number of the members of the associa-
ton on account OF the way the programme
was allowed to drag They insisted that Ii
lessened the interest that has heretofore
been manifested and were afraid IL would
have tendency 10 reduce the attendance
at future meetings.
In the evening the meeting was held in
the large ordinary of the Denison Hotel.
Most all of the members of the assocfa-
ton who are in attendance at the present
meeting took their suppers at the hotel.
and after the meal was concluded remained
seated in their places Several brief
speeches OF welcome were made 10 new
superintendent who have just become
members of the association.
After a few informal talks by some of
the older members of the association Judge
w. u. Robinson, of the Appellate Court,
delivered an interesting address TO the
association on "Shylock." His paper was
given the closest attention, and when he
had concluded he was warmly applauded.
The meeting will close with this morn
ings session, which will be devoted to q
Report on Spelling Book" prepared by
w. +. l.. Sanders. The report will be dis
cussed by the association.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-17
SCHOOL BOARDS SESSION.
Bills Amounting to s23.I73.2O Were
Ordered Paid.

At the meeting of the School Board last
night the business director was granted
permission to pay bills amounting TO s29.-
1920 out of the following funds: Special
fund. IS. 1914; Manual Training School
fund, $3.50: Library fund, $l,711.sl; build
ings and grounds fund s2S,53l.05. The d.
rector reported that he had appointed
Nicholas Brown janitor at school building
No. %, to take the place of Gustave G.
Witt, who was transferred to the Manual
Training School building. The director
also reported that he had discharged Chas.
III. Funk, assistant engineer at the Manual
Training School, and had employed Charles
Edmunston in his place.
The board granted the use of the Manual
Training School hall TO one of the former
classes Of the school for an entertainment
to be given the night of Nov. 80.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-17
A BULLET in HIS BRAIN
j. j. CORY KILLED HIMSELF NEAR
THE BIG FOUR TRACKS.
His Family Lives at Lebanon, Ind
George A. McGarrahan's Death
Mrs. Watson Dies.

a man supposed to be ]. J. Cory, a ma
chinist, was found dead beside the Big
Four tracks in the rear of the J. B. Allfree
plant, on Northwestern avenue, about
o'clock yesterday afternoon. Lafayette
Skeen, OF 1116 Roach street, North Indian
apolis, while riding a railway velocipede,
found the body.
BY it's side lay a 3S-caliber revolver. The
bullet, which entered the right temple.
passed through the head and came out just
back of the left temple. Letters in his
pocket indicated that he had lived some
time ago at 2459 Station street, Brightwood.
The letters were of the date of Oct. ] and
prior, and were from his wife and daughter
at Lebanon.
He had on his person watch and peck
etbook, in which there were two pennies
The body was removed to the morgue and
there viewed by the coroner, who notified
the authorities at Lebanon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-17
A NEW GAME LAW.
Persons Residing Outside the State
VIII Have tn Procure Licenses.

Indiana spcrtsmen who are accustomed
to seek the haunts of geese and ducks
in the region of the Kankakee river are
much interested in some proposed legisla-
ton that will preserve the game from out
side hunters. This legislation, If adopted,
will protect game all over the State II
will be in the form of a new game law
and will make IL necessary for all per-
sons living outside the State TO procure
license to hunt in Indiana. The bill will
probably be introduced by Representative
Whitcomb. although il is not understood
that he will prepare the measure.
1t is pointed out that many other States
have such a law, and it is operated sue
cessfully. Those who are agitating the
adoption of such a law in Indiana are es-
pecially concerned about the game i'm the
Kankakee district. Such n law in Indiana
would be particularly inconvenient to Chi
cago people who hunt in Indiana Every
spring and fall thousands of Chicago hunts
men visit the Kankakee river and shoot
ducks and geese.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-17
TRAGEDY At A FEAST
EDGAR HAYS, A SALOONIST, SHOT
HIMSELF IN A DRAMATIC WAY.
He Had often Declared That He
Would Commit Suicide-Some
Peculiar Features.

Edgar Hays. saloon keeper at Virginia
avenue and Cedar street, shot himself in
the left breast with his revolver about IL
o'clock last night. He had been drinking
all day and asserted that he had family
troubles and took that method of freeing
himself. The deed was done in the kitchen
over the saloon, where he lives. The gun
he used was 80 caliber revolver. which
was found under the bed. The bullet en-
tered the left breast just to the left and
below the heart and went through his
body.
Last night banquet was given in the
rear of the saloon for his opening. All
day long, it is said, Hayss wife cooked for
the affair. The spread was at its height
about 1920 and women and men were
feasting at long table decorated in flag
bunting. 1t is said Hayes was drinking
and several times approached his wife. At
one time 1t is said he told her TO come into
the yard and see him kill himself. Then
he went upstairs. The crowd below was
hilarious when shot was heard I'm the up
per rooms Mrs. Hays Immediately faint
ed. She said she knew Hays had shot him
self, as he had several times threatened to
take his own life.
Presently Hays came walking into the
room where the men and women were din
ing. A dark spot was noticed on his coat.
and when questioned he said it was cigar
ashes. He remained in the room a while
and then went back upstairs. Nothing
seemed wrong with him and the men sup
posed he had fired his gun for effect. AT
length two or three men went upstairs
and found him lying on the kitchen floor.
He was helped into a front room and
physicians were summoned. He was very
weak but conscious, and talked about the
shooting. He said he shot himself and
threw the revolver under the bed. He di-
rected the police where to find IL.
"A little mystery surrounds the shooting.
The revolver when picked up showed the
appearances of having been fired. but
when opened there was no discharged
cartridge. The cylinder has seven cham
bers, and six OF them were loaded with
cartridges, while one chamber was empty.
Hays was questioned and declared he did
not remove the cartridge. He is just as
positive that he shot himself. but at one
time said If the cartridge was out of his
revolver somebody else must have shot
him. Yet it is believed he did the deed
himself because he knew what had been
done with the revolver and he had threat
ened to kill himself. Hays's wife was
taken to the home Of a neghbor. 1t is said
Hays has been drinking for several days
and was jealous of his wife.
AT O'Clock this morning Hays was weak
but the physicians do not think the wound
is necessarily fatal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-17
FELL DOWN ELEVATOR SHAFT.
George A. McGarrahan, a Clerk, Was
Instantly Killed.

George A. McGarrahan, a clerk at the
Star store, on West Washington street,
was instantly killed yesterday morning
about $50 o'clock by falling down the ele-
vator shaft from the fourth floor of the
building TO the basement. His head was
crushed and many of the bones of his body
were broken.
There were no witnesses to his fall, and it
is not known how he got over the gate to
the shaft. The gates work automatically,
and the elevator was at the fifth floor.
McGarrahan had gone from the first floor.
where he is employed, to the fourth floor
to get articles to replenish his stock.
The body was taken to the city morgue
by City Dispensary doctors and later turned
over to an undertaken. McGarrahan was
twenty-three years of age and had been
employed in the store for about three
years. He lived at 451 East Washington
street He has a brother and sister living
in the city. His parents are dead.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-17

Tomorrow afternoon, at 2:30 o'clock, the
members of st. Joseph's congregation will
meet in the Y. Nj. L. Hall, on East North
street, to make final arrangements for the
special excursion which they intend run
ming to Fort Wayne at the time of Bishop
elect Alerding's conservation. At this
meeting arrangements will also be made
for the farewell reception to be rendered
to Father Alerding, and also the reception
TO Rev. Francis Dowd, who will assume
the new duties of the parish. Bronson
Council, Y. NJ. l., will meet in its hall
Wednesday evening of next week to make
arrangements for the councils trip TO For,
Wayne. Tomorrow Division No. 7, An
cient Order of Hibernians. which was re-
Gently organized, will attend o'clock mass
at ST. Josephs Church.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-17
Annual Meeting Held.

At the annual meeting of the Manufac-
iurers' Natural Gas Company the follow
ing officers and directors were elected for
the ensuing year: President Samuel Reid;
vice president. George Merritt; secretary,
Hugh Mex. 'Landon; treasurer, F. A w
Davis. The directors are: Samuel Reid
George Merritt, +. A. w. Davis. T.. C. At
kins. John NJ Shaw, III. NICK. Landon
c w. Moores, L. A. Morris, NJ. A. Potter
and Benjamin Hetherington.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-17
A scrie. of Sermons.

Tomorrow evening, at the First Baptist
Church, Rev Thomas j. Villers will begin
a series of timely talks on City Perilss'
The dates and special topics are as fol-
lows: Nov. IS The Peril OF Drink" Nov
%, THE Peril of Gambling" Dec. 2. THE
Peril of Loafng;" Dec. 9. THE Peril of
Profanity" Dec. Is, THE Peril OF Riches .
The music will be led by a quartet and
chorus OF fifty voices.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-17
HARRIS WILL RESIGN.


II IL announced that Hon. Addison c.
Harris, minister TO Austria, viii resign
his diplomatic position and return TO In
dianapoiis TO practice law. His friends
say he will probably continue in Office I'M
al President Mckinley's new administra-
tion begins. Before leaving Indianapolis
hr. Harris stated that there IS not enough
activity about the Austrian mission TO suit
him. Being used TO an active life he thinks
ne can find Il here BY again taking up
the practice OF law. Mr.. and Mrs. Harris
VII sal from New York on next Wednes-
day on their way 20 Austria.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-17

Florence Fisher played Klein's skating.
Miss Irene Aldrich Griegs Album Leaf
and Heler's I'll Penseroso. and the Misses
bloomfield, Williams. Foudray and Jacobs
rendered Hofmann's march, Opus los. No
l. with marked skill on two pianos AT
times there was noticeable in the work OF
the pupils slight constraint, due doubt
less 10 the exactness essential In the work
OF the studio, but which will wear away
after one or two appearances in public.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-17
Removal of the Meadow Brook to
HnsfOn.

This famous rabbltry that has done such a
hourishing business in this city find IL TO their
interest TO consolidate their indianapolis branch
with their larger branch in the heart of Boston,
Mass. Their address will be 374 fremont street
that city. They speak in highest appreciation II
the treatment accorded them by the public i'm
Indianapolis and the State. They report their
sales as having been enormous while here in
the past six months. Their purpose is to run but
one great rabbitry during the winter. thus cur
failing expenses. Remember their Eastern ad-
dress, that those desiring TO make purchases or
gather information OF any character pertaining
to the great industry can procure the same
PROMPTLY.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-17

Mrs. Mary Watson, of 1ls North Liberty
street. who took an overdose of morphine
Thursday night, accidentally or with the
intention of ending her life, died yesterday
morning from the poisoning. She was six
ty- three years of age and had for many
years been partially crippled with rheu-
matism. She leaves her husband and a
daughter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-17

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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-17
California.

Four personally conducted tourist cars,
via Illinois Central Railroad, for San Fran
cisco and other California points every
week For information write to r. HI.
FOWLER, T. Z. A, L. c. r. r., Louis
vile, Ky.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-17
Feed your horse JANEs,s pustless Oats

Insure with German Fire Insurance of
Indiana General offices 20 South Delaware
street. Fire, tornado and explosion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-17
DunIap's Celebrated Hats
At Seaton's Hat Store.
BIG FOUR EXCURSIONS.
Sunday, Nov. 18th.
a 90 Tcrre Haufe md Return

Under the auspices of the knights of
Columbus.
Special train leaves Indianapolis at 7:3O
m; returning leaves Terre Haute at II
D.. m.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-17

a new SO Piano for sss at wulschners.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-17

DIR. j. Is. KIRKPATRICK.
Diseases of Women and the Rectum.
PILES cured by his safe and easy method. No
detention from business. Once. 81 East Ohio.
The St. Johns herald., 1900-07-21
RECENT INVENTIONS.

There has been patented a handy ink blotter, which is designed to be carried on the hand while writing, having a flat plotting surface and provided at one edge with curved plate which fits the wrist and is provided with broad elastic band to hold it in pace.
 Liquids will not spill over in filling bottles if an improved funnel is used, the tube being inserted in a rubber stopper to fit tightly in the neck of the bottle. with small tube inside to ex- haust the air and an internal stopper which cuts off the flow when the bottle is full.
 A Frenchman has designed a neat disinfecting device for purifying rooms. comprising a cup to be suspended over the top of lamp chimney or gas jet in which the liquid is placed for evapo- ration, with horizontal fan above the cup to be revolved by the heated air and spread the disinfectant.
 An Iowa man has patented a storm front for buggies, having a steel frame extending upward at the rear of the dashboard. provided with spring con- troiled window, which can be raised above the dasher, the remainder of the frame being covered with a water. proof curtain extending to the buggy tOp.
The St. Johns herald., 1900-07-21
AETTY GREENS SUCCESS.
She Does Not Believe in SpecuIatiOa, and Does Everything wIth
 Ali Her Mind.

Hetty Green was recently induced to talk to a writer for Ladies' Home Journal of her business methods that have won her $60.000,0CO or more. The secret of her success is worth know ing: 'I don't believe in speculation as rule" she says, "and I don's speculate as much as people think. When offered so many shares of stock at so much I buy one share and then send out to see what it will bring If it's a good advance buy the rest If not, don't. This was my plan when I used to deal in horses. would get a days option on a horse. and see what it would bring before buying it. I attribute my success chiefly to the rule of always buying when everyone wants to sell. and sell ing when everyone wants to buy. There's price on everything I have When that price is offered I sell. never buy anything just to hold on to it. Not muchl And I try to steer clear of Wall street. Anyone who hasn't a whole fortune to back his deals had better do the same. I do everything with all my mind. If there is a lawsuit on hand go into every detail of 1t with my lawyer. It's the same with everything else"
The St. Johns herald., 1900-07-21

1t is barely possible that had the worlds fair lasted a year or two the
 Ferris wheel might have paid for ii-
 self. This is based on the assumption that it would have continued to be
 novelty for 12 months or more As il
 was the gross earnings of the wheel
 during the fair were Ss12, 100. About i one-tifth of this went to the stockhoid- ! CTS as profits. The power necessary to operate the big wheel would have run 3 cotton factory of 100000 spindles and
 5000 looms and employing 5000 opera lives. The boilers of the power plan, consumed coal like an ocean liner. No other single feature of the great ex-
 position represented such an expendi- i ture of energy.
 But the fair lasted only six months. and the Ferris wheel ceased paving i dividends with the closing of the ex-
 position gates. Had it gone from its
 place on the Midway direct to the scrap pile or to Coney Island. as was at one time suggested. more than one Chica-
 goan would have been some thousands
 of dollars richer today. The wheel that was such drawing card on the shores of Lake Michigan. where the. surroundings were somewhat propor- toned to it's size. was moved to the
 North side of the city and placed in a space so small that the cars hung over other property while the wheel was re- Eolving.
 There it has turned occasionally for the last few years. eating up coal. piL ing up cost. an eyesore to the neighb bor- hood and white elephant to its own CTS. What has the big wheel cost to date? Deducting the sum paid to stock holders during the worlds fair, and counting as part of the cost what it has lost to its owners. it is safe to say that si. i.0oO, 900 will not cover the total. To move it from Jackson park to the North side cost alone si75.0Oo, and it is figured it will require an expenditure of at least s25.G0O to take it down and re. move it frUin where it now stands.
 With the passing of the Ferris wheel the questions naturally arise: Why was if built? What has if accomplished? Has it proved any new and useful prin- ciple in engineering? Aside from it's being the concrete of an idea conceived by its designer. the Ferris wheel m. doubtedly was built to make money Those who invested iD it purposed talk ing advantage of the popular craze for novelties and fads. but the investment was too large to permit the popuIaf craze to outlast it.
The St. Johns herald., 1900-07-21
A FAMOUS BIG WHEEL
Probable End of the Great Midway
 Feature.
The InventiOn Of Ferris Has About Served It's Purpose and Wtil
 Soon Find its Way to , the scrap Heap.

| When the Ferris wheel is sent to the {: scrap heap-a thing likely soon to hap pen-the greatest engineering vagary
 of the century will have passed into i that oblivion reserved for fadA flying
 machines and perpetual-motion con trivances. Not that the great Ferris wheel is any of these. says the Chicago
 Post. but simply because il never could eerve any practical use. because it em- bodies no distinctly new principle in engineering and because it has q mar. veIous faculty of emptyin9 he coffers
 of those who try 10 make its huge bulk
 earn even d small part of the cost of maintaining ito say nothing of the cost Of original investment.
 AS one of the wonders of the worlds
 fair of perhaps the chief wonder the Ferris wheel stood unique. lts great size. marvellous consf ruction and distinct novelty made it not only the er6wning feature of the midway but the gossip of four continents During the continuance of the exposition more than a million and half of visitors from all quarters of the globe rode in it's suspended cars and from height of 264 feet caught bird's-eye glimpse of the fair grounds, the lake and the dis tant city.
 Though less than a third the height of the Eiffel tower of the Paris exposi- ton. the Ferris wheel was a much greater wonder. The EiffeI tower was merely continuous projection of sue cessive towers one upon another. Given 8 suitable base. it's const rucfion simply meant the stringihg of iron and steel straight into the air. But in the Fer tis wheel something new in construc- tion was accomplished-new because of it's great size. It was the projection of gigantic circle. carrying thousa nds of tons of steel and iron suspended from an axle and readily movable by the application of machinery. To have built the Ferris wheel simply to stand upon it's periphery would have been a comparatively simple task. To sus- pend this mass of metal from a central point and give it motion was the con ception of genius.
 About S25,0O0 was spent in plans tests. etc.. before the actual construc tion of the wheel began. Some 30 firms took part in it's making and Chicago firm saw to it's erection. When read, to be turned the Ferris wheel had cost $j62, ,O00 and had consumed abou' S.000,OOO pounds of iron and steel. Tn, movable part of it weighed 4.2O0.OT pounds. and ii required two engines O. 1000 horsepower each to keep it turn ing. And so nicely adjusted were al the parts. so we'll balanced was tn, great steel circle with its 36 cars. capable of carrying 2.l60 persons. tha' 1t was under as full control as a sew ing machine or pony engine. Once or twice during the worlds fair the mt- tive power needed adjustment. but tn. only results so far as the public wa. concerned were humorous incidents. which gave the newspaper men a few columns Of anything but Gull reading matter.
The St. Johns herald., 1900-07-21
THEATRICAL GOSSIP.

Henry Guy Carleton is dramatizing "When Knighthood Was in Flower for Miss Juha Marlowe
 Mrs. Langtry in letters to Eng fish friends has admitted that her American season resulted in serious financial loss.
 The Peruvian government, at the in- stance of priests, has prohibited the performance of the Passion Play' at Callao.
 F. R. Benson and his touring troupe, who have been acting in Shakespeare's plays at the London Lyceum in Sir Henry Irving's absence, will appear in Paris at the Gymnase in July and Au- gust.
 Statements to the contrary notwith- standing, Sara Bernhardt is now, ac- eording to the New York Times. about 56 years of age. She was born in 1s44, and not in 1S47, as her recently pub- Eshed chapter of "reminiscences de- elared.
 Two more Quo Vadises" have late ly come into the field. This makes ten altogether. The play founded on the Sienkiewicz romance used at the Cas- tie Square theater in Boston was put together by Marie Dorval. The ver- sion used at the Alcazar in San Fran cisco is unsigned.
 The tallest women on the American stage is Miss Mary Full. who, besides her decided histrionic talent, has won worlds fame as the favorite model of some of the foremost American sculp- tors for their goddesses of liberty. Miss Tull's height is considerably over six feet