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INDIANA OBITUARY.
DIR. Jacob II. Wefst, of Richmond, EN-
inent Physician and Surgeon.

DIR. Jacob n. weist, of Richmond, EN-
inent Physician and Surgeon.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind, May H-Dr. Jacob r.
Weist died Unexpectedly tonight at his
home in this city of heart trouble, from
which he had been suffering only a few
days, although he had been in poor health
for some time
DR.. Weist was born in Preble county,
Ohio, in 1884 He attended a course of
lectures in Cleveland Medical College and
was graduated from Jefferson Medical Col
lege, Philadelphia, in 1861, and in 1878 re-
ceived the degree of A. M. from ST.
xavier's College, Cincinnati. He opened
an office in Richmond in 1861. In 1862 he
was appointed assistant surgeon of the
Sixty-fifth Regiment, Ohio Infantry, and
was later transferred to the Fourth Ohio
Cavalry. In 1863 he was commissioned
surgeon of the First United States colored
troops. His services assistant surgeon
were with the army of the Cumberland.
He subsequently became chief operating
surgeon in the First Division of the
Eighteenth Army Corps, and finally was
acting medical inspector and medical d.
rector of the Twenty-fifth Army Corps.
DR.. Weist achieved a wide reputation as a
physician and surgeon. and made num-
Der of valuable contributions to medical
literature, not only on surgery, but on
hygiene and sanitation. He served as city
health officer of Richmond and was Sec
rotary and president of the Wayne County
Medical Society; president of the Indiana
State Medical Association; a member of
the American Medical Association, which
he represented in the International Med
ical Congress in London, in 1881: was one
of the projectors of the American Surgical
Society, assisting in its organization in
New York in 1880. and serving as its secre-
tary. The surviving family consits of a
widow and one son, DIR. Harry III. Weist,
who was associated with his father in
practice
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TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

Sir Thomas Upton has subscribed 81, 900
to the Press Artists League exhibition at
New York.
The steamship Chancellor cleared at New
Orleans yesterday for Cape Town with 900
mules for the British army.
James A. Shore. a well-known distiler,
who owns a plant at Flag Springs. Mo-.
is dying from the effects of a scalding.
He was leaning over vat to attach some
piece of machinery. and losing his bal
ance. fell in.
Miss Sarah Kapenburger, of Plymouth.
o.. attempted suicide at Cleveland yes
terday by jumping from the window Of
her room. on the fourth floor of a hotel.
She struck the sidewalk with terrific force
and was badly injured. 1t is said she has
been suffering from a 6eranged mind.
caused by grief over the death of her
mother.
The Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company
and Joseph Boyer, of st. Louis, manufac-
turer of pneumatic tools, have entered
suit In the United States Court at Phil
adelphia against the Philadelphia Pneu-
matte Tool Company and the Keller Tool
Company. charging infringement of the
Boyer pneumatic patent. An injunction
and an accounting of profits and damages
are prayed for.
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Managers of the Municipal League
Criticise Mayor Ashbridge.

PHILADELPHIA, May 1.-THE board of
managers of the Municipal League to-day
considered John Wanamaker's allegations
that Director of Public Safety English had
threatened to attack his personal charac-
ter unless newspaper owned by Mr.. Wan
amaker's son ceased it's criticism of the
city administration. The board of manag-
ers adopted resolutions declaring that 'un-
less the attempt at intimidation was made
by the director of public safety, as the
mayors authorized agent, and by his ex-
press orders. it is the plain duty of Mayor
Ashbridge to disavow all connection with
this outrage and to institute an investiga-
ton into the conduct of the offending Of
fetal. and in event of charges against him
being substantiated to dismiss him sum-
marily from office; further. that i'm event
of Mayor Ashbridge being unable to dis
avow responsibility for this action of the
director of public safety. 1t is his duty to
resign his position as the executive head
of the city of Philadelphia.
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CITY NEWS NOTES:

Mr.. Richard Lieber returned yesterday
from a trip to Europe.
A large list of new members were
elected to membership in the Commercial
Club yesterday. There are now about 1.oO(
members.
The Indiana Wagon Company yesterday
filed articles with the secretary of state
increasing the capital stock of the com
pany from $15OOO0 to 100000.
The Peoples Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, of Connersville, an assessment life
company, was yesterday granted license
to do business within the State.
The recital of graduation in the artists
course Of the Metropolitan School of Music
will be given Friday evening by Miss
Helene Kunz, assisted by Miss Maud Lang
staff.
There has been a change in the date OF
the entertainment that was to have been
given at the Propylaeum tomorrow night
for the benefit of Grace Cathedral. II will
occur Tuesday, May Y, at o'clock In the
evening.
Miss Grace Harrison. clerk in the Of
flee of the State Board of Health, yes
terday rendered her resignation to DR.
Hurry the secretary of the board, who
accepted 1T very unwillingly, as Miss Har'
rison has proved very efficient in the dis
charge of her duties.
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Indiana Notes.

A little daughter of George Moore. of
Centerville, was kicked to death by horse,
Saturday evening.
William Marlatt. Williamsport barten-
der, has been stricken with smallpox, and
Is in quarantine Marlatt walked the streets
until after he was broken out.
A colored man named Elsey, from Shell
byville, KY, an employe of the b. & o.
s. W.. was beheaded by a train on that
road near Mitchell, Sunday night.
Robert Seagar, of Richmond. has been
appointed a cadet from the Sixth district
to the Annapolis Naval Academy. E. N.
Whetsel, of Fortville, is the alternate.
The Ontario silverware works, of Mum
Gle. has resumed operations with $50 hands
employed. 1t has been shut down several
weeks because OF a strike In the grinding
department.
AT Warsaw. a jury awarded $1,000 to
Willis Shaw in his suit for damages against
the Lake Shore Railroad Company. Shaw
was a fireman on the road and was struck
by the projecting spout Of water tank.
The West Lebanon high school COM
mencement took place Saturday night. Su-
perintendent Harry Evans gave diplomas
to Allen l.. Bremen, Monta Viola Bremen.
Edna p. Murray, Grace p. Day, Harley De
III. Reynolds and Katherine e. Grenner.
The commissioners of Jay county have
revoked the contract of j. w. Lalley and
A. l.. Jaque, given to them last year. for
the construction of a Jail. The building was
to have been ready for occupancy May /,
but only the excavations have been made.
Thomas Coward. of Jacksonville, whose
legs had become badly misshapen on &C.
count of accident. had them broken by
the surgeon recently and put into a case
to be Strengthened. He is now able to get
about on crutches. with no malformation
in his lower limbs.
A telephone message from Martinsville
ILL.,, yesterday afternoon. arrived at the
clerks Office in Terre Haute just in time
to prevent the issuance of marriage
license to William Stanley and Olive Max
well, of Martihsville. The message was
from the girls father.
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Other Deaths in the state.

SPICELAND, Ind, May H.-Miss Ada
RUSSELL died last night at Richmond, where
she was taking treatment for cancer Of
the head. Her age was sixty-three years.
She was the daughter of DR.. Lundy Russell,
a noted physician of Chester county. Penn
sylvania. She was a teacher of kindergar-
ten, and for years was associated with her
sister, the late Susan RUSSELL in the man.
agement of the Children's Home at this
place
KENTLAND. Ind. May I.-Mary Agnes
Strohm, wife of Harry A. Strohm, editor
of the Newton County Enterprise. was
buried at this place at 10 o'clock to-day.
Mrs. Stromh died very suddenly at st.
Elizabeth's Hospital. in Lafayette. on Sat-
urday morning She was born in Kentland.
July "a. 1874. A new 5000 home had just
been completed and waited her when death
closed her career.
WABASH. Ind. May A-Mrs. w. w.
Stewart. wife of former County Commits
sioner Stewart. died this morning at her
home four miles north of the city. after a
brief illness. She was seventy-six years
old. Her married life covers a period of
nearly fifty .-ears. She came to Wabash
county forty-flve years ago. Mrs. Stewart
was the mother of six children, all of whom
survive.
of Jasper Teegarden, a well-known resi-
dent of this county, occurred to-day at his
home. near Collett. Pike township Mr.
Teegarden was victim of erysipelas and
consequent blood poisoning. He was born
in Darke county. Ohio. in 1852.
CENTERVILLE, Ind. May 14-John Nc
Coy. one of the pioneer citizens of Wayne
county. died at his home near Center
vile. Saturday evening from the effects of
fall. aged ninety-two years. He died on
the farm where he had lived for seventy
five years.
WASHINGTON, Ind. May 14.-Frank
Bradford. one of the best-known residents
OF Washington died at O'Clock this morn
ing, aged fifty-eight years.
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mountains. which had already been pro-
visioned- He remarked that he hoped the
burghers would stand firm. but he feared
they were too broken in spirit. 1 gathered
from him that the whole available force
Of the Transvaal was now in the field. the
final communicating having taken place last
Thursday, and that IL is only the powerful
magnetism Of President Kruger getting
his burghers together"
At the British hospitals in Bloomfontein
the deaths fror. enteric fever average
from eight TO ten daily.
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HAS GONE TO NEW YORK.
Mr. Nicely Suddenly Called East by
His Attorneys.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
MUNCIE, Ind. May H.-Charles f. w.
Nicely left Muncie for New York late this
afternoon to be present at his preliminary
hearing in the Cuban postal embezzlement
case Thursday. His departure is one day
earlier than he had arranged for. until
the alleged confession of Corydon Rich
was made public, and his attorneys asked
him to go East at once. Before leaving,
Nicely called on several business men, tell
ing them goodbye and assuring them that
he would be home again soon, and quite
a number of his friends were at the station
to him off on the Big Four train to
New York. He will arrive there to-mor-
row afternoon.
Harry Richey, of Muncie, who gave up
a position in the Muncie postoffice to ac
cept one In Cuba under Nicely, and who
quit there and accompanied Nicely home
two weeks ago, to-day said that he knew
absolutely nothing of any defalcation or
trouble, saying he left the island because
IL was too hot for him there. He has his
old place in the Muncie postoffice, and
was the last man TO confer with Nicely
this afternoon, the men being closeted
quite awhile.
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STEM AT HEILBRON.


KROONSTAD. May 12.-President Steyn
has gone to Hebron. not Lindley. He has
declared the former the new capital. -Four
hundred burghers have given up their arms
here and in this neighborhood. Although
the bridge across the Valsch has been de-
stroyed. good deviation exists where the
road ran before the bridge was constructed
Transvaalers are reported to be massing
at the Vaal.
The Standard and Diggers News at
johannesburg shows that dissensions exist
in the Transvaal Volksraad.
Railway repairs are progressing rapidly
The town accepts the occupation quietly.
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Mason Ignored.
Philadelphia Press.

One of the most significant things about
the Illinois Republican platform Is the
absence of any mention of Senator Mason
There appears, in fact. TO have been a
studied effort TO avoid all reference to
him and to make this silence as conspicu-
Gus as possible. Senator Cullom's public
career Is most heartily approved and he
Is Endorsed for reelection. and the services
of the Republican representatives I'm Con-
gress are recognized and cordially COM
mended." but not word about Senator
Mason. The only conclusion that can be
drawn is that the Illinois Republicans are
ashamed OF the course of their junior sem
ator. the great majority OF the INTEL
ligent people OF the country are, and have
repudiated him as representative of the
party This rebuke Of Senator Mason n
- just - II II severe and singing.
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BEDSTEAD FACTORY FIRE
LEADING MARION INDUSTRY DE-
sTROYED BY THE FLAMES.
Waterman Badly Injured-Smallpox
at Oakland Cfty-Noted Surgeon
Dead-Child Fatally Burned.
rec,al to the IndIanapolis journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MARION. Ind, May 1.-THE iron bed
stead factory of Harwood & Barley. To-
Gated in West Marion, was destroyed by
fire at 10 o'clock tonight. The fire orig
mated from a gas explosion In the base
ment. ]. b. Speach. a night Waterman
was badly injured by the explosion, and
his recovery is doubtful. The loss to the
company will reach $4,000, with $4,000 in
surance.
The building was a three-story brick
160 by 166 feet The loss on it will reach
R5,0O0. with small insurance. This Ii
the second year the firm has been in bus
mess, and it had come to be recognized
as one of the leading concerns of its kind
in the country. The company has beer
doing a $4,000 business annually.
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BETWEEN ROBERTS AND KRUGER.
Correspondence I'm Regard to Treat
mcnt of Prisoners.


LONDON. May H.-The War Office has
published dispatch from Lord Roberts
dated Kroonstad. Sunday. May 13. giving
the correspondence between Lord Roberts
and President Kruger, relative to the al
legged ill-treatment of colonial prisoners.
The TransvaaPs reply was to the effect
that there was no difference in the treat
ment of the colonial and other prisoners,
and that few who had contravened martial
law. or who had tried to escape, or who, 1t
had been suspected, might try to escape,
had been placed in jail for security. Other
wise they had been treated like the other
prisoners of war. Regarding enteric fever
the government of the Transvaal said IT
was prevalent among the civil population
as well as among the prisoners, and that
every remedial measure had been taken.
Lord Roberts replied April % that he was
glad to receive President Krugers assur-
ances and pointed out that no difference
was made by the British authorities i'm re-
gard TO the Boer prisoners against whom
there must be reasonable ground for suspi-
cion that they would try to escape, adding
that such exceptions gave room for abuse
by officials without the knowledge of the
authorities.
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on Jackson street. The building was Quilted.
The loss will be from $4,000 to $4,000.
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LAST MEETING OF SEASON.
Political Equality Society Will Have a
Booth in New York.

The Political Equality Society held its
last meeting of the season yesterday after
noon at the Propylaeum. The resignation
of the president Mrs ]. L. Ketcham, was
read and accepted and the election of an
other president was postponed until next
fall. 1t was decided at the meeting that
Indiana would have a booth at the suffrage
bazaar to be held in New York in Deem
Der. Each State will be represented by a
booth. The principal feature of the after
noon was a paper on 1.-THE Price of
Progress in Ideas" by Mrs. Grace Julian
Clark. Music was furnished by Miss David
son and Miss Lille Adam. The meeting
adjourned to meet the second Monday in
September.
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VICTIMS OF TREACHERY.
Additional Casualties Among the Cav
airy Reported by Lord Roberts.

airy Reported by Lord Roberts.
LONDON. May 1.-THE War Office has
received the following dispatch from Lord
Roberts:
'Kroonstad. May 10-There were
more casualties in the cavalry division on
May 10 than reported by me. 1 have been
unable to get an exact account of what
occurred, as the commanding officer. Cap
tain E1lsworthy. was killed and two officers
were wounded at the same time and have
been sent to the rear. But IL would appear
that a party of our men. going to kraal
on which white flag was flying. was sud-
denly attacked by large number of the
enemy Two officers. Captain Haig. of the
Sixth Dragons. and Lieutenant Wilkinson
or the Australian horse, were made pris-
oners and twenty-one men are still unac-
counted for. Some of them may have turn
ca up. as the cavalry covered considerable
distance May 10. and reported missing have
been rejoining during the last few days"
The foregoing dispatch refers tothe losses
sustained in the Inniskllings May 10, de-
tailed In the dispatches OF Saturday last
The troopers were fired on while unsaddling
their horses. having approached the kraal
unsuspiciousiy as white flag was flying
from il.
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REDUCED TO ASHES.


MARINETTE, Wis, May H-Fire started
in the lumber and cedar yards of the C. H.
Worster Company at Fisher. Mich. twen-
ty-eighr miles west of here. at noon to-day.
and tonight the town is in ruins. A high
westerly wind prevailed The loss will be
over 100000. partially insured The c. H.
Worster Company. of Chicago. which
owned nearly everything in the place. is
the heaviest loser.
The fire started in the lumber yard early
this morning. and in a short time the big
sawmill. planning mill. schoolhouse. forty
dwellings. hospital. two lumber yards and
a number of other buildings were in ashes
Two hundred people are homeless there to-
night.
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Visited Several Cities and Is About to
Die at Oakland.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
PRINCETON. Ind, May IA smallpox
epidemic seems imminent at Oakland City.
James Parke, twenty-one years old, has
the disease in the worst form, and many
persons have been exposed. Parke con-
tracted the disease in Louisville, where he
was employed until about two weeks ago.
when he went to Huntingburg. Ind. There
he became sick with the smallpox. He
eluded the authorities and went to Oak
land City. where he met old acquaintance
and exposed many persons. AT this time
the earlier state was developed.
He and all those exposed are under
strict quarantine. Parke is not expected
to live. The citizens are much incensed
at Parke bringing the disease into the
town.
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Country Churche. Df.cu..ed

Prof c. B. Coleman led the discussion on
the subject, 1.-THE Problem of the Country
Church at the regular Monday meeting
Of Christian ministers. held in the parlors
of the English Hotel yesterday morning
He said the principal trouble was that
there are too many Of the churches and
that effort should be made to combine
forces. Rev. w. j. Burner, of Irvington,
who divides his time among several little
country churches, said that, as a rule the
country church does not lack the money to
keep 1t up. but that the congregation lacks
the interest. Several of the ministers
Joined in the discussion.
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MAFEKING ATTACKED.
The kaf1r Quarter Burned-Boer
Women Anxious to BE Armed.

The kanlr Quarter Burned-Boer
Women Anxious to BE Armed.
PRETORIA. May II. via Lorenzo Mar
Ques.-A war bulletin has been issued here
announcing that the British are advancing
against the federals at Heipmakaar and
Tonders mex.
The burghers this morning attacked Ma
feking. The telegrapher at Malopo says that
q heavy rifle and cannon fire was heard
before o'clock to-day and that the sKaffir
location was In flames within an hour
and was destroyed At 10 o'clock, he adds,
everything was quieter.
At meeting of $50 Afrikapder women
held yesterday IL was resolved to ask
the government for arms and ammunition
and suggest that they do the work of men
officials IN the town, who they declared
Ought to be fighting at the 'front.'" The
resolution was carried unanimously
The Nolkstem asserts that the British
prisoners in the hands of the Beers will
first feel the effects of the embargo placed
on timed meats and clothing destined for
the Transvaal at Delagoa bay.
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British Soldiers Temperate.

LONDON, May 14.-At the annual meet
ing Of the army temperance association to-
day. Maj. Gen. Sir George White. the de-
fender of Ladysmith, presiding, a letter
was read from Lord Roberts. dated Bloem-
fontain. April TO- during the course of which
the writer says: There never was a more
temperance army than that which marched
under my command from the Modder river
to Bloemfontain. Nothing but good can
result from so many soldiers being brought
together I'm an arduous campaign when they
see how splendidly our temperance men
have borne up against the hardships and
dangers they have had TO face"
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A delegation of anti-saloon people from
Oaklandon filed into the County Commits
sioners' court room yesterday TO appear in
support Of remonstrance against John
Ludwig, to prevent him from securing IL
cense to sell liquor at Oaklandon- The re-
monstrance was filed by the power OF at
torney and the applicants attorney said
this was TO be tested. The commissioners
sustained the remonstrance and the case
will likely be appealed to the Circuit Court
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Ind, May 14.-Saturday
night dynamite bomb was placed in the
yard of Professor j. S. Westhafer. of the
Montgomery schools. The bomb exploded
and nearly tore down the Westhafer resi-
dence Windows were knocked out in
every house for block around. A great
hole was torn in the ground. With the
exception of a severe shaking no one was
injured. The report of the explosion was
heard for six miles. 1t is not known who
are the guilty parties, or what reason
they had. Professor Westhafer is not
aware of any enemies.
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lation of false reports as TO the true pur-
pose Of the committee. The object OF this
reception committee, he declared. was not
10 help the widows and orphans I'm the
Dutch republics. but to develop an agita-
ton which will be felt at Washington. and
which, when IL Is known abroad. will be of
assistance in aiding Europe to give some
countenance TO the Boer republics.
Mr.. Van Siclen interrupted Mr.. Egan and
holly declared that he was making a mis-
take in everything that he said as regards
his own committee. IL was finally an
nounced that when the Maasdam arrives
a committee will go down the bay a
revenue cutter 10 receive the delegates.
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CHICAGO. May l4.-one death and four
prostrations were caused by the heat to-
day. The official maximum temperature to-
day was S. The Thermometers on the street
level were or degrees higher
NEW YORK. May 1.-THE highest official
temperature recorded In Greater New York
to-day was s. degrees. This is the highest
temperature recorded on any May IA since
the local weather bureau began keeping IT'S
records in 1s72- The temperatures in the
streets were much higher. Three prostra-
cay.