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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1901-10-23
Why is ROYAL
Baking Powder bet
ter then any other?

Because in it's mammoth works a
corps of chemical experts is con-
stantly employed to test every ingre-
dient and supervise every process Of
manufacture to insure product alb
solutely pure, wholesome and perfect
iii every respect.
The most wholesome food and
the most digestible food are made
with Royal Baking Powder.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1901-10-23
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADvERTIsEMEsTs THIS WEEK.

Dennis X Soper-Notice of foreclosure.
Mabel N Joy-Dressmaking.
MA Clark--Greenhouse.
w r Parker Clothing Co-Clothing.
j Walsh--Shoe store.
ia NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
CF Davis-Market.
z Chapman-Confectioner
Boston:
Dana Estes Co--Geofrrey Strong.
NEW YORK:
The International News Co-sherlock Holmes.
MISCELLANEOUS:
The Century Co-The Helmet of Navarro.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1901-10-23

Zinc and Grinding Make
Devoe Lead and Zinc Paint wear twice as long
as lead and oil mixed by hand.-Advt.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-04

White River Conference of the United
Brethren Church.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
KOKOMO, Ind, Sept. 3.-The fifty-sixth
annual session of the White River Confer
ence, United Brethren Church. began here
this evening, the preliminary sermon be-
ing delivered by Rev. j. +. Shannon, of
Marion. The conference will close Sunday
afternoon. The territory boundaries are
Wabash the north, Columbus on the
south, Frankfort on the west and the Ohio
line the east. The conference has a
membership of 10000, with 129 churches and
% pastors. The total membership in the
United States is 100000; value of church
property in the conference, $225 600. The
sessions are being held in fine new church
Just completed at a cost of $4,000, during
the pastorate of Rev. w. NJ. Karstedt. The
conference has two districts, Marion and
indianapolis. the elders being DR.. Wilmore,
OF Anderson, and the Rev. Mr. Roberts, of
Upland
At the first formal session of the con-
ference tomorrow addresses of welcome
will be delivered by Mayor Armstrong in
Dehalf of the city, and Rev. h. G.. ShOuse
In behalf of the Kokomo Ministerial Asso-
citation. Bishop E B. Kephart, of Annville,
Pa, will preside. About $50 ministers and
delegates are in attendance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-04
CHAINMAKERS QUIT WORK
THEY DEMAND WAGE INCREASE
RUNNING Up TO 100 FER CENT.
Most of the Employees of the Standard
Company Are Said to Have
Struck-Unionists sued.

PITTSBCRG. Sept. "a new strike is
fused to go TO work to-day and the strike
is claimed to be widespread. The men de-
mand an increase of wages. The advance
asked for in the Pittsburg district averages
q per cent. and in the East the advance
asked runs all the way from 4 TO 100 per
cent, depending on the kinds of chains
made. The strike has been started by the
Chainmakers National Union of the United
States
The works of the Pittsburg Chain Com
pany were idle to-day The plant has been
working night and day. running sixteen
fires on each turn. At the offices of the
company the strike was termed a furry, -
and it was predicted the men would return
claimed that number of new men had
been secured to take the places of the
strikers.
About l25 Chainmakers employed in the
plant OF the Standard Chain Company, at
Rankin, also went on strike to-day. The
move had been ANTICIPATED and the re-
mainder of the plant is working As usual.
department Will also be started in few
days. About lis men struck a Columbus, O..
A telegram from York, Pa. says:
"Ninety-SiX chainmakePs struck this morn
ing at the two plants of the Standard Chain
Company. in this city. They demanded "A
scale of wages entailing an advance of 80
per cent. The shops are still running with
"A reduced force
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-04
BLACKBOARD COUNTY MARL.
Experiments show that 1t Is Valuable
for Several Wares.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
HARTFORD CITY, Ind, Sept. "a re-
port from GAINESVILLE. o.. potter estab-
fishes the fact that the deposits of white
mari in this county are of great value
Samples of the clay had been sent there
TO be worked and burned and the result has
been satisfactory. While the clays have
only been experimental with in crude way
there is every assurance that much finer
products can be made. With this as
surance il is probable that an effort will
be made 10 form company and manufac-
ture clay ware. There is a number of large
deposits in various parts of the county.
On the J. 5. Fulton farm. north of the
city, is a deposit OF fine white mari over
ten acres in extent. This bed is ten feet
deep and lies under two feet of top soil
EX-POStmaster James b. Chapman has eX-
perimented with ii to q great extent at the
CrOninger q Merrideth tile mill in this city
He is certain that it will make excellent
floor thing and light colOred building
brick. 1t is smooth, free from dirt and
burns creamy white other deposits of
this mari are found on the farms of Ex-
County Commissioner Zadok Williams and
Henry Kirkpatrick.
ON the Chapman farm southwest of this
city, is a deposit of black clay over thirty
feet in depth, which will make a high
class paving brick the equal of any made
from Shale rock.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-04
TRADES UNIONIsTS SUED.
Employers Want Damages Because
Plants Were Picketed.

SWANSEA Wales, Sept. "A commo-
ton caused at to-days session of the
trades union congress here by the action
of some employers in endeavoring to re-
cover damages, under the House of Lords
decision of July % last, from labor or
CARNATIONS for picketing by their unions.
\ delegate from Blackburn was served with
a writ yesterday restraining him and the
members of the Blackburn branch of the
Weavers', Winders' and Wrappers Associa-
ton from picketing Banister & Moore's
works, where strike is now in progress.
Damages and costs were claimed Besides
this suit the Taff-Vale Railway is suing
the Amalgamated Society of Railway Serv-
ants for 100000 damages, incurred as a
result of the strike of 1900. These suits will
be strenuously defended, but their serious
ness puts in the shade almost every other
topic of discussion.
President Bowerman to-day devoted the
principal of his address to this topic, de-
claring that union funds were threatened
with establishment. and that the position
intolerable. He said the parliamentary
committee favored an alteration of the
constitution of the union with the object
of minimizing their liability.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-04
Affairs of the Friends.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind, Sept. "a few years
ago there was request from six quarterly
meetings. headed by Marion, asking the In
diana Yearly Meeting of Friends TO set off
a new yearly meeting, the sessions of which
should be held at Marion. The petition was
denied At the session to be held the last
of this month the request will be renewed.
1t will come this time from but three quar-
terly meetings-Wabash, Marion and Fair
mount. The petition will go to a committee
to report next year and as that is also the
time for the General Conference, it is prob
able the request will go before that body
and will be the first case of the kind to
come before the Five Years Meeting, which
is created by the newly-adopted constitu-
ton that the yearly meetings in the United
States and Canada will then be working un-
der. The General Conference will in all
probability be held in Indianapolis. The
last General Conference was held there.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-04
FOR INDIANA's EDUCATORS.

to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WABASH, Ind, Sept. 3-Nearly two hun
bred teachers are present at the sessions of
the Wabash County Teachers Institute
The leading speakers are Prof Petty, mu-
sic; Prof Bonebrake, Cincinnati pedagogy:
Prof. Hippensteel Of North Manchester.
and Prof. ). l.. Halves, of Bloomington
sociology.
MUNCIE Ind, Sept. 3-The third term
of the Eastern Indiana Normal School
opened this morning with an enrolment
OF about 80. The faculty consists of the
following instructors this year: President
r A. kumler. dean and instructor in
psychology and pedagogy, J. A. Shafer:
Greek and German, Prof. NJ. ~ Sherrick
mathematics and science. +. g. Louicxs
Latin. Miss Juan Kumler; English and
Oratory, :. l. COnnOT; business James
Street; shorthand and tyDewTitng. Miss
Alice Bender; piano. Miss Matte r. Kun
Ter and Miss Anderson, harmony. Mrs.
Mark Helm. voice. r. W Kraft. mandolin
and orchestral music r. w Garrett.
BLUFFTON Ind. Sept S.-The law en-
acted by the last Legislature regulating
the salaries OF school teachers will result
I'm the shortening OF the terms of school in
eight OF the nine townships OF Wells COIN
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-04
General Labor News.

Salaried employees of the American Tin
Plate Company in the Wheeling district
were yesterday ordered by telegraph &c
report to Cambridge TO help operate the
plant there. 1t is said all will obey the
order.
After being on strike for nearly -four
months the 400 car-repairers in the Ashley
shops of the Central Railroad of New Jer-
sey, yesterday reported for work All viii
not be taken back. as a number of new
men have been employed.
The organized electrical workers OF
Pittsburg and Allegheny went on strike
yesterday because of their failure TO en-
force a wage demand on ten days notice
The result is that all building operations
Ringing on the completion of the electrical
work are tied up.
John T. Butler. of Buffalo. president OF
the National Association of Allied Building
Trades Unions. stated yesterday that there
was positively no truth in the story that
the executive council of the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor had held a conference In
BuHalo Monday night relative 10 the big
steel strike.
As result of a mail vote of the members
OF the International Association OF Cigar
Makers II has been decided 10 postpone for
three years. or until Sept. l. 1891 the con-
VentlOn which was 10 have been held In
Baltimore next week. The vote was taken
during the last two weeks in August. and
the result has just been announced.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-04
Packing House Men May Strike.

CHICAGO, Sept. "a strike of 1900
skilled workingmen in the packing trades
throughout the country is threatened. The
last day for the packing firms to give an
answer to the recent demand of the butch
ers and meat dressers for an increase of 10
per cent in the present scale of wages ex-
pired tonight.
President Michael Donnelly, of the
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workmen's Association, announced tonight
that he would try to secure a definite re-
ply tomorrow from j. Ogden Armour, of
Armour q Co, and Gustavus Swift, of
Swift & Co. Among the signs regarded as
Ominious of a strike is the fact admitted
tonight by Mr.. Donnely that a large hall
is being sought in the stockyards district
as "A headquarters for the seven local
unions. numbering 1900 That no ultimatum
has yet been issued made clear by
President Donnelly. But he did not conceal
that he has been disappointed at the failure
of the packers to answer within the Stipu-
lated time the demand for d revision of the
wage scale on the basis of the 10 per cent.
increase.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-04
He Danced His Life out.

LAPORTE. Ind, Sept. 3.-Excitement
and overexertion in dancing caused Louis
Bakers death to-day. Last night he at
tended a dance at John Raylander's house
near StillweIl, this county, the merriment
being continued until a. m. He then went
10 bed, and hour later rose to do his
chores on Fred Dorne's farm, where he
was employed. Half an hour later he was
found dead in the barn. Coroner Bowell' $
examination showed that Baker had
danced himself TO death.
Michael Fitzsimmons, aged seventy-hve
wears while walking on the street to-day
Stumbled and fell, striking his head against
a stone. He died five hours later at the
Holy Family Hospital.
John Kizer, aged eighty-fOur years, was
thrown out of a buggy in a runaway, and
ne will die. The horse had frightened at
Frank Badur's carriage, and Badur, On
reaching home, was tai ken with perltonltls
as a result Of the shock of Witnessing the
accident.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-04

~. In the eight townships the trustees
have cut the term OF school from seven
months 10 six months a year. The In
creased wages will. even then. il is claimed,
result in a deficit Of $500 in each town
ship. In Nottingham township the wages
CT teachers increased, on an average, from
81 SIS TO g. 33 "A day.
PORTLAND, ind, Sept. 3. - Forest S.
Cartwright of this city. winner OF one Of
the Eastern Indiana High School Oratorical
Association contests and of a State High
School Oratorical Association contest, left
to-day for Toledo, Ia, where he has been
named as instructor of rhetoric and oratory
in Liberal United Brethren college, which
will have an enrolment this year Of five
hundred.
ELWOOD Ind. Sept AT the meeting
of the City Council last night 5. Il. Harting
was elected member of the school board
10 succeed the late ID. +. Lesson. The
board has just let the contract for a new
dollar ward building.
r. DANVILLE, Ind, Sept. 3.-The fall term
of the Central Normal College opened to-
day with a good attendance. All the regu-
lar courses are filled and indications point
TO a very successful year
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-04
LncnI Obseryntions ON Tuesday.

Bar Their. r. II. Wind. Weather. Pre-.
z a. m. 1920 81 50 North. Clear. 90
Up m..30.1S IS "a Neast. Clear. 90
Maximum temperature, So; minimum tenn
perature, So
Following is a comparative statement of
temperature and precipitation for Sept. 8:
Temp. Pre-.
Departure from normal ........... s2 10
Departure since Sept. 1 ........... a 80
Departure since Jan. L ............-113 -9.63
'Plus. w. 7. BLYTHE,
Section Director
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-04
BIG PLANT FOR MITCHELL.
Pennsylvania Company to Build "a
100000 Cement Factory There.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MITCHELL, Ind, Sept. 3.-Mitchen is
soon to have a new industry in the form of
a cement plant, covering about twenty-one
acres of land and employing three hundred
men. The Lehigh Portland Cement Com
pany, of Allentown, Pa, has purchased 200
acres of stone land near here and will COM
mence work on mill buildings in about
three weeks. 1t Will require two hundred
men four months to erect the buildings
Grading has been begun for sidetrack to
convey material to the site of the plant
which will be situated within the corporate
limits of Mitchell The erection of the
plant will involve an expenditure of $500, co.,
and II Will have a capacity OF 300 barrels
per day.
The company will operate its own electric
light plant, using forty arc lights and two
hundred and fifty incandescents 1t will be
one OF the largest plants in the West 1t
was secured for Mitchell by Noble l.. Moore
and John w. Edwards, jr., and Special
Agent III. a. Trendley, OF the Baltimore <
Ohio Southwestern Railroad.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-04
DIR. CALDAS GUARANTEED.


NEW YORK, Sept. 3.-Among the pas
sengers who arrived to-day by the steamei
Mexico from Havana was DR.. p. Caldas,
the raziian who went to Havana to test
a yellow-fever serum of his own discovery.
DIR. Caldas says he had yellow fever at Rio
de Janeiro thirty years ago, but was I'M
able to produce evidence to that effect. He
failed to satisfy the sanitary authorities
al Havana that he was immune from yell
low fever and therefore they refused to
issue TO him certificate which would pass
him through quarantine. He was sent to
Hoffman island for observation. DR.. Cal
das, through an interpreter said he would
embark on the first steamer for Brazil.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-04

ROCHESTER,, n. Y, Sept. 3.-Over 1000
delegates and alternates were present when
President d. H. Leahy, of New York city,
called the twentieth annual convention of
the National Association of Stationary En-
gineers to order in the Council Chamber,
City Hall, to-day. The most important sub
ject TO come up for discussion probably will
be the question of whether the association
shall be resolved into big labor organiza-
ton or maintain independence and freedom
from labor entanglements. There are 347
lodges, with a membership of 10000 in the
association. In connection with the con-
vention there is a machinery exhibit on a
grand scale in Fitzhugh Hall, and most
of the big machinery manufacturers in
the Unuited States have sent exhibits.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-04
ELwooD PLANTS TO REOPEN.
Three Glass Factories There to Re-
sumo in n Few Days.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ELWOOD, Ind, Sept. 3.-The controversy
between the men and the management of
the McCloy lamp chimney factory in this
city over the factory rules for the coming
fire has been settled and the plant will be-
gin operations on Wednesday. after a shut
down Of two months. The factory en-
ploys nearly four hundred men and boys.
The local plant OF the Macbeth-Evans
chimney factory, one of the largest plants
of the kind west Of the Alleghenies, will
resume partial operation a week from next
Monday. All but twenty-five of the hand
shops nave been laid off and the men dis
charged, and in their stead paste-mold
ware will be made. The factory formerly
employed six hundred men, but only about
four hundred will work there this season.
The plant of the ElwoOd Bottle Company,
which has been idle for the past two years,
since IL was abandoned by the Nivison &
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-04
NEW CONSTITUTION ADOPTED.
Only Twelve Ala inns Voted
Against It-PeopIe Must Ratify Ii.

MONTGOMERY. Ala, Sept. 3.-The new
Constitution was adopted in the counstitu-
tional convention to-day by a vote of 1872
to II. Frank S. White, of Jefferson, was
the only Democrat who voted against il.
Alabama's new Constitution will go into
effect as soon as ratified by the people. This
morning the new Constitution was read at
length from the parchment copy and after
wards delegates came forward and signed
their names to it. alpha betically. The con-
vention adopted resolutions authorizing
Governor Jelks to spend $1,000 in giving
publicity to the new Constitution.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-04
ether Fires.

ALLENTOWN. Pa. Sept. 3.-The plant
of the Lehigh Foundry Company, at Full
lertown. Pa. was totally destroyed by IRE
to-day Loss $4,000: insurance partial.
The structure was new, and was fully
equipped employing 400 men. The COM
pany will rebuild
NEWMAN. H.. Sept. 3.-The fire which
this morning threatened TO destroy the
business portion of the town was confined
to ten frame buildings, the most important
being a restaurant, butcher shop and the
electric-light office. The fire started in the
restaurant. Loss. $1,000 well insured.
HANCOCK. Mich, Sept. 3.-Fire to-day
DESTROYED the sawmills of Armstrong
Thilman Company here. Loss, 100000; par
tiallv insured In addition TO the buildings
burned the entire summers cut Of hard
wood pine and finished lumber was de-
Stroyed.
CALUMET. Mich. Sept. 3.-Fire in the
business portion of South Lake Linden
burned over nearly one block, and caused
a loss of $4,000.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-04
Commercial Travellers Picnic.

The commercial travellers OF Indianapolis
have engaged Washington Park for Satur-
day, Sept. IL, and will give a picnic. There
will be a big ball game between the two
teams composed Of the Fats and the Leans.
There will also be a foot race for silver
cup between Riley Hunt and Walter Lind
lev distance. seventy-6ve Yards Harry
Halderman will be the captain of the Fats
and will occupy first base. while Willie
Murphy will captain the Leans and play
left field Sam Smith. Morris O'Connor.
Charles Albrecht and Johnnie Madden will
do the twirling, while Dick Smith and Pete
Trone will do backstop work. The boys
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-04
Yesterdays Temperatures.

w. T. BLYTHE.
Section Director.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-04
Asks for n Receiver.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LAPORTE, Ind, Sept. S.-Samuel +.
Cochrane. stakeholder of the Leslie Lum-
Der Company of Michigan City, to-day
made application in Laporte Circuit Court
for a receiver. making various charges. the
principal one of which is that Guilford
Leslie, the principal stakeholder. has di-
verted some of the company's money to his
own use. The company has a paid-in cap
ital of $4,000, has been in business a little
over q year. and, according to the COM
plant the profits the first year were Sill 0O0.
but no dividend was declared The mill
was recently closed, and Mr.. Leslie is now
conducting pure-food plant at Jackson,
Mich.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-04

Weuskopf Company. Will also resume opcr-
atoms Wednesday as q cooperative fac
tory. of which City Councilman Philip
Hamm Is the manager. 10 will employ
about $50 men and boys
At the meeting OF the Gas Belt Labor
Day Union at Alexandria the delegates
representing the leading organiza tiOns Of
ElwOod gave notice Of the general desire
on the part OF the ElwOOd labOrers 10 cele-
brate Labor day at home i'm the future. II
is doubtful If Elwood has any representa-
ton at all at the Wabash gathering next
year which promises TO mark the end of
the gas belt celebrations and the return
10 local affairs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-04
Asking Men to Go East.

Special 10 the indianapolis Journal
MARION, Ind. Sept 3.-LOuis Follett'
formerly manager of the Moorewood plant
Of the American Tin Plate Company at Gas
City, now connected with the New York
Offices of the company. has been at Gas
City the last two days trying TO induce
some striking employees Of the mill there 10
return with him East and assist in break
ing up the strike by taking places vacated
by strikers. Follett came TO America with
Gas City men from Wales a few years ago
and, having such friendly relations with
them, he thought he might succeed in such
a plan, but so far he has failed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-04
A FIGHT IN COUNCIL.
Goshen's Mayor struck by Council.
man After WrangIe.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
ELKHART. Ind, Sept. 3.-There was a
quarrel in the Goshen Council Monday
night, when Mayor b. F. Deahl's veto of a
hot-water heating franchise was discussed.
Attorney w. l.. Stonex, who represented
the company of local citizens who asked
for the franchise, answered the veto by de-
claring that the mayors motive was to
secure a franchise for a company repre-
scented by himself and his brother, Anthony
Deahl. He also accused the mayor of en-
deavOring to influence councilmen to OPP
pose the ordinance. The mayor challenged
the statement and at StOnex's request
Councilman Orlando Hamilton and George
Swank corroborated it, declaring them
selves to have been the members sought to
be influenced. After the formal session of
the Council, Mayor Deahl and Councilman
Hamilton renewed the dispute, and Hamil-
ton struck the mayor.