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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-08
CITY NEWS ITEMS.

The Metropolitan School of Music will
give a pupils recital Monday evening at
the Propylaeum.
The Rev. ]. Cumming Smith will lecture
before the Y. w. G. A. this evening, his
subject being The Yosemite Valley"
Mr.. Il. T. Sweeney will lecture tonight at
Morris-street Christian Church on THE
Golden Age" Judge u. Il. Wiley. of the
Appellate Court, will preside.
1t is said the indianapolis Southern Rail-
way Company has already purchased the
right of way it originally asked the Board
of Works to grant it. The company will
shortly confer with the Works Board.
James King, of GA North Pine street, re-
ported to the police yesterday that on
Wednesday afternoon, while his family was
absent, some one entered his stable and
stole a horse and surrey and a number
of valuable robes.
The Rev. c. w. Ruth, of SO Hamilton ave
nue., who has lived in the city for seven
teen years. has accepted a call TO the pas
torate of the First Church of the Nazarene
at Los Angeles, Cal. He will leave to-mor-
row 10 take up his new work, being ac-
companied by his family and his sister, who
has accepted a position as instructor in a
missionary training school there.
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SEALED
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will
be received by the Board OF Commissioners of
the Office or the auditor of said county. in Pc
tersburg, Indiana, for the construction of twenty
OF rock or gravel roads in Washington township.
Pike county. Indiana. according to the maps.
engineer and viewers thereon. now on file in
the auditors office Of said Pike county. Indiana.
hundred feet OF roads are divided in said plans.
specifications and engineer and viewers report
into the following divisions:
Division No. Petersburg and Jasper road;
Division No. 2-Petersburg and winslow road;
Division No. s-Petersburg and Washington
Division No. EMorgan's Ferry road; length.
SH7 feet.
Division No. Petersburg and Evansville
road. length. 1852 feet.
No 6-Cart or Union road; length, 5.9S1 feet.
division. No bid will be entertained which is in
engineer and viewers OF said roads.
The contractor or contractors OF said work TO
furnish at their own expense all materials. tools
and labor for the grading. building and com.
pleting said roads. according 10 the mans. plans
pronles. specifications and engineer and Viewers;
report therein. and shall also see that the board
Of all laborers thereon is paid. and shall pay an
expenses or said work.
Bidders shall fle bonds in double the amount
OF their bids, payable 20 the State of indiana
work. and that they viii pay Tor ali materials
and labor on said roads, ard al EXPENSES Of
boarding the lahorers thereon. ara all damages
OF any acts done by said contractor or his work
men IN said work. which bond shall be signed
BY at least two good and sufficient freehold
sureties or Pike county, Indiana, and s~atisfac-
tory proof OF the sOlvency OF the sureties upon
said bonds shall be furnished by the bidders IL
said Board OF Commissioners on the date OF
opening OF bids.
All bids Tor said work must be filed in the
Office OF the auditor o. Pike county. Indiana. at
Petersburg, Indiana, by 9 O'Clock p m. on
WEDNESDAY. III 9TH DAY OF DECEN-
BIER. 1901.
at which time said Board Of Commissioners will
proceed 20 open said bids. and let said contracts
And said board reserves the right 20 reject any
and all bids. and award the contract in accord
ence with the law and with the equity OF the bid
filed.
All bids and bonds shall be made upon the
blanks furnished by the auditor OF said Pike
county All o. said work 10 be completed BY
December 1st. 1902.
Copies II said engineer and viewers report
and the blank forms for said bids and bonds may
be obtained from W. r. Scales. auditor. Peters
burg. Pike county. Indiana. and maps. prohles.
drawings and specifications may be seen at said
auditors omce. where they are now on nile.
Duplicates % said maps. prohles. drawings.
specincations and said engineer and viewers
report. and said blank forms for bids and bonds
may also BE- obtained from Gilmore r. Cox, civil
engineer, NorthingtOn, Greene county. Indiana.
THOMAS WHITMAN.
ISEAL-l J. /. ROBINSON.
W. II.
Commissioner 81 Pike County, Indiana.
Attest: ". II. SCALES. Auditor.
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BABE SUFFOCATED BY SMOKE.
Death Came Quickly to the Little
Child of Mr.. and Mrs. Brier.

An eighteen-months-old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Brier, living at 2l35 Barth avenue.
met death yesterday afternoon by burning
and suffocation, while the mother was
absent at the neighborhood grocery. When
she went from the house she left the babe,
fastened In a chair, and a daughter three
years Of age in the kitchen. On the floor
was a pile of kindling wood and paper,
which the little girl evidently set on fire
IN some manner. Her clothes caught hre
and also those of the babe in the chair.
The girl as soon as the fire broke out ran
and closed the kitchen door.
Mrs. Brier, returning from the grocery.
saw the smoke issuing from the house
and ran screaming 10 the rescue of her
children. She found the house filled with
dense smoke. She rushed in and carried
out the chair and the babe, which was at
that time dead. The little girl suffered
from the smoke. She was unable to tell
how the fire started and the facts could
only be surmised. The babes death. ac-
cording TO the verdict of Deputy Coroner
Knox, was due more to suffocation by
smoke than to burns. The house was not
damaged much by the fire.
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Proving a Great Money Garner.

1t is stated that the annual report of the
Great Northern Railway is arousing con-
siderable interest by reason of the phe-
nomenal showing made in economy of man
agement. The report shows that, notwith-
standing a decrease of 2.S cents per ton
per mile in freight charges, an increase
Of revenue per freight mile of II cents is
shown. or, in other words, the revenue
per freight train mile of the Great Northern
in the year ending June 80 was $3.2S, which
is said to be larger than that of any i'm
portant railway system in the country. The
last Issues of PoOr's Manual for 1901 gives
the average for all railways of Northern
and Western States as 9.S cents per ton
mile; for Southwestern states 1912 cents,
and for the Pacific States 1913 cents. The
result of the years operations was that,
after paying Z per cent. dividend on SOS, 6S2, =
$50 of stock, there remained a surplus Of
$1,6S9 064. Such a record in a year of crop
failure, it is stated, astounded Wall-street
financiers and caused them to look with
marked respect upon what a few years ago
they scoffed at as the Hill method.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-08

The activity in the stock of the Pere Mar
quette road, and also the Michigan Central,
is thought to be the result of contemplated
consolidation of the Pere Marquette
with the Michigan Central by the lat
ter absorbing the Marquette lines. When
the present Pere Marquette system was
organized by the absorption of the Chicago
& West Michigan and the Chicago e. In
diana the belief prevailed that 1t was solely
in the interests of the Vanderbilts, and that
there was a distinct understanding that
the latter should take the entire property.
Not only was this declared to be a fact,
but it was .substantiated and insistently
stated that Vanderbilt money was used
and made possible the merger. When the
negotiations which preceded the merger
were in progress it was believed that the
whole transaction was in the interest of
the Michigan Central and would eliminate
in the ownership of that property, which
would enable the Vanderbilt people to en-
ter new territory, which would be valuable
as a feeder,
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Personal, Local and General Notes.

NJ. E. ingalls,. president of the Big Four,
is spending ten days in New York.
The Vanderbilts are expending large sums
of money on the West Shore road, more eS-
pecially at its terminals.
Erie shopmen at Meadville to the num-
Der of 400 have been granted an advance
of 10 per cent. in wages.
Charles NJ. Hayes. who has just retired
as president of the Southern Pacific, will,
with his family, so to Europe, to be absent
two months
C. E. Schan, general manager of the
Big Four lines, was in the city last even
ing en- route home from Chicago, where he
spent two days.
The Southern Indiana Railway has re-
ceived 100 new coal cars, and has COM
menced loading them with coal for distribu-
ton to connecting lines.
During the coming year the Pennsylvania
will build 200 engines and spend So 600, 900
in improving its motive power. Most of the
work will be done at its own shops.
President Monserrat and NJ. S. Corners.
general superintendent, and other officials
of the Hooking Valley Railroad. have put
in the week in an annual inspection.
Colonel Samuel Moody, after three
months illness. was on Wednesday at his
office for the first time. He will not be
able, however, 10 take up work for some
weeks.
Charles a. MOssman, who on Saturday
retired from the legal department of the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 10 engage
in the practice of law. had been with that
company thirty years.
The receivers of the Detroit & Lima
Northern have filed a report for September
and October In the United States Court. IL
being their final report. The receivers will
now likely be discharged.
1t is stated that the earnings OF the Lake
Shore for the present fiscal year will net
Is per cent. on the cOmpany's capitalfza-
ton The stock recently sold at $500 per
share. the highest in its history.
TIL Chicago x Eastern Illinois still has
its steam shOvels and gravel trains in
service distributing ballast md other rail-
way supplies. The road is entering the
winter in the best condition in its history.
V. Drummer, general manager of the
Mexican Railway. gives 9otice OF the APP
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-08
Alleged Discrimination.

]. r. Guild, of Medaryville, Ind, was the
main witness yesterday in the investiga-
ton which is being carried on in Chicago
by the nterstate-commerc Commission. He
asserted that the railroads had completely
driven Western hay out of the Eastern
markets and compelled it to seek markets
in the South. As the result of the new
classification, he asserted, thousands of
acres of marsh land had been made un-
productive and many farmers in the West
had been driven TO abandon the raising
of hay as a commodity. Mr.. Guild limited
that the railroads had deliberately raised
the rates on hay because they were inter-
ested in elevators and in products which
came in competition with hay as feed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-08
NEW INDUSTRIES.
Headquarters of q Telephone Conn
pany to Be in n SchooIhouse.

The formation of several new Indiana
industries was recorded in the secretary of
states office yesterday. The Greedy Lum-
Der Company will engage in the lumber,
fuel and cement business in Muncie with
a capital of $4,000. The directors are AL
bert, Frank II. and Clarence E. Greedy.
The Richmond School Furniture Company
announces that in addition to the business
indicated in its corporate name it expects
to manufacture lawn mowers and to op-
crate wood and iron working departments.
The capital is 10000 and the directors are
Robert b kersey, George NJ. Spencer and
William +. Spencer. jr.
The main office of the Browns Chapel
Telephone Company will be in Browns
Chapel schooihOuse. in Hancock county.
The directors are Eli A. Parish, Lucellus
G. Order and Charles Z. Sipe.
Under the foreign Incorporation law the
New Albany Ice Company OF Louisville,
KY, filed articles yesterday. designating as
It's agent Theodore NJ. MOritz. of New AL
bany, Ind. Articles were also received from
the Columbus Carriage Company. of Ham
ilton, o., the resident agent of which Is
Percy w. Lewiston.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-08
INSANE PATIENTS SUICIDE.
George Ellis Hanged Himself with +,
sheet ut Central Hospital.

George Ellis. thirty-six years Of age.
killed himself yesterday morning at the
Central Hospital for the Insane by hang
ing himself with a sheet. He was admitted
TO the hospital on Aug. Z and had been
most OF the time very quiet and of a
melancholy disposition. Yesterday morn
ing he was about the ward as usual and
went TO his room at the breakfast hour.
His breakfast was handed In to him and
ne closed the door. He was found a half
hOur later hanging 10 the transom. His
parents reside in this city. on Bradshaw
street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-08
A Frequent Southern Mistake.

The mob turned out q hundred strong
Two miles outside the town:
There were men and women. black and white
And one a saddle brown.
Whose arms were tied behind his back
And gagged was this quadrOOn-
While develish yells went from the mob:
Let's hang the blasted cOont'
The tree was reached in quick-step time.
And gun sounds rent the air;
The man was hanging-the guilt avenged-
And not q single prayer
When, To- a horseman cries. My friends,
You've done your work too soon!
The sherin's got the cuss in Jail.
You've stretched up the wrong coonf'
Santa Monica tCall Outlook.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-08
GOVERNORS OUTING.
He Will Spend n Few Days I'm Hunting
in Southern Part of State.

Next week has been set apart by Cover
nor Durbin as a vacation period. On Mon
day he will set forth on a hunting trip in a
private car in company with E. H. Trip,
of this city, Thomas Rodd, chief engineer
of the Pennsylvania lines. and w. A. Mar
shall, of that roads legal department. The
hunters will spend a day in the vicinity OF
North Vernon, after which they will &c
TO Scott county to visit Captain English
on the English homestead. near Lexington.
The remainder OF the week will be put in
at various points along the line of the In
dianapolis & VincenneS road
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-08
Garland Stoves and Ranges
POPULAR PRICES
Willig's Cash Furniture Store,
I4I West Washington street..
LIST OF LETTERS
Remaining I'm indianapolis P~ostOfBce
Thursday, Nov. z, 1901.

II not called for IN two weeks these letters viii
be sent 10 the dead letter Office. Persons calling
for letters in the following list will please say
they are advertised. give date OF list and pay
cent for those obtained. Free delivery OF letters
by carrier TO the addresses residence can be
secured by observing the following rules:
First-Direet letters plainly TO street and num-
Der.
-Second-ReQuest your correspondents TO DO like
wise.
Third-Have written or printed request for re-
turn OF your envelope, giving street and number.
FOurth-Cse ink when addressing letters when
possible. and leave sufficient open space at top or
envelope for stamps and pOstmark.
Letters addressed 10 persons known % be tran
silent should be marked Transient IN lower
left-hand corner Of envelope. a. b. g. General
Delivery or similarly addressed letters are
.fctItiols' and not deliverable.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-08

Gus & MAYHEM. Practical Opticians.
8 Monument place. English Hotel block
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RESIDENCE.
He Leases the Property of A. HI. Snow
on North Meridian Street.

The residence formerly occupied by
Alpheus II. Snow. at No. Sic North Merid-
ian street. was leased yesterday by Gov.
Durbin, who will move into it with his fam
lily within a few days. As showing the diff
ficulty that surrounds house-hunters in In
dianapOlis. the Governor remarked that he
was compelled to accept a lease on the
Snow residence with a prOviso that he
would agree 10 a ninety days notice to
vacate after the 1st of next May. the prop
erty being for sale.
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HE FAVORS THE STOKER.
w. E. Stevenson Says 1t Abates Smoke
Nuisance to a Great Extent.

w. E. Stevenson added his testimony yes
terday in favor Of the stoker plan CT re-
ducing the amount of SMOKE that issues
from chimneys. The Stevenson building
and the indianapolis cold storage plant.
with both of which he is connected, have
been using stokers in their furnaces for
months past and Mr.. Stevenson said yes
terday that they not only reduce the smoke
nuisance TO a minimum, but effected an
actual saving In fuel bills that will in time
more than reimburse their owners ON &C
count of the cost of installing the system.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-08
sTOCKYARDs NEGOTIATIONS.
Samuel e. Rauh Is, as Usual, NOncom-
mitfaI on the Subject.

1t is understood that negotiations are now
in progress for the absorption by the Union
Stockyards Company of the Interstate
Stockyards Company. Meetings have been
held recently. When Squires & Co. gave
their affairs into the hands of a receiver
800, 600 OF the Interstate stock was put on
the market and it is known that the Union
interests took it in. Samuel E. Rauh,
president of the Union company, was asked
last night if ii were true that he owned a
controlling interest in the Interstate yards.
He declined to answer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-08
Governor at Grand Rapids, Mich.

Governor Durbin went to Grand Rapids.
Mich, last night to attend to a private
business matter. Before leaving the city
he announced that his tour OF State in
s;itutiOns Will close tomorrow when ne and
State Auditor Hart will visit the Institute
for the Education of the Blind in this Csty.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-08
VITAL STATISTICS-NOv. z.
Births.

VIII and Dolly Cox. city. boy.
John and Gertrude Post. 1919 Fenniman street,
boy.
Walter and Grace Greenland. 900 Camp street,
boy.
Leonard and Emma Charpin, 51 Beville ave-
nue.. boz.
George and Bertha NIarIowe. 1925 West New
York street. boy.
George and Vida COttman. Irvington, boy.
Guy and sophia AlbertsOn, 1923 English ave-
nue.. girl
Edwin and Edison Folsom. 14ls Park avenue,
girl.
Thomas and Mary Murray. 1923 Reisner street.
boy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-08
Two Young BOys Arrested.

Ira and James Shipp. two young boys.
were arrested yesterday by Detectives Kin
ney and Lancaster and charged with petit
larceny and entering a house to commit a
felony. They were found spending pennies
freely, and were suspected of being the
persons who broke into Fred Warmers
shooting gallery, on South Illinois street,
and robbed the slot machines of SO. 40.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-08
Deaths

William Braun. hfty-six years, Ill Buchanan
street. cancer.
MaGde Salmon. thirty-two years. 1872 East
Tenth street. suicide.
AlonzO L. McClain, one year, 2l24 Pleasant
street. meningitis.
Edgar silvey. four years. 1894 Arrow avenue.
Group.
Daisy Fem. thirty years. New Jersey and
Vermont streets. p~nthisis- -
Bertha Brady. twelve years, 2S West Merrill
street. typhoid fever.
Clara Strange, one year. 25 Clinton street.
dysentery.
Patrick Moran. nifty years. Washington and
West streets. cerebral congestion.
George Steibing, twenty-fOur years., lOlo West
Vermont street. phthisis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-08

s7.6ls.G
INC FOLLOWING o@ficers were elected. ~

The following officers were elected: ,John
II. Holiday, president: Louis Hollweg.
vice president: Volney r. Malott,. treasurer:
Nathan Morris. secretary. Executive COM
mittee-JChn n Holiday. Bement LYMAN.
the Rev. Francis ii. Gavisk. Volney T..
Malott, Hugh II. Hanna. Charles Martin
dale, Louis Hollweg, Nathan Morris. Thom-
as III. Spann; Charles s. Grout, general
secretary.
At the conclusion Of the regular business.
the president. John II. Holiday. the Rev
II. &. Meserve and Charles S. Grout wee
appointed TO select a committee to take up
the question OF mendicancy as 1t relates TO
the city and county.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-08
Politics Increased the Mail.

The report of the postmaster for the
month of October shows that nearly one
half million more pieces of first class mail
matter were handled in the local postofice
than during October Of 1900. This increase
is accounted for by the municipal election
recently held. The report shows a de-
crease in the second and third class mali
matter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-08

one of the members. withdrew. and during
the last year five others have withdrawn.
There are now six "Cut-rate" drug stores
in the city. There is said 10 be a move
ment on foot to establish a combination of
the larger downtown stores in order to eff
feet a rate war on drugs, cutting prices so
much that the "cut-rate" stores will be
glad to return TO the former basis of SELL
ing at regular prices.
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Came to See the Play.

Royal E. Purcell. editor of the Vincennes
Sun, was IN town last night to see "Alice
Of Old Vincennes." Mr.. Purcell was in the
State Senate last winter. but says he will
not be a candidate again. Senator Purcell
says a large party of Vincennes people
will probably come to the city tomorrow
TO attend the theater.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-08
TO MANUFACTURE UNDERWEAR.
1t Is Reported that a Factory Will BE
Built in North indianapolis.

1t was stated yesterday on reliable au-
thcrity that a factory will shortly be
erected in North indianapolis for the pUr-
rose of manufactI r;ng undni wear Fifty
pers ons will oe given employment by the
new enterprise.
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VIII Furnish the Bond.

The Union Surety Company of this city
will furnish the bond of $4,000 to be given
by the Union Traction Company of Indiana
for the faithful performance Of the con-
ditions imposed upon it by the interurban
day night.
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Poultry and other Produce.

prices paid by shippersD
Turkey hens. 6llc per 10 toms. SIC; hens. &C.
cocks. Sc. young chickens. 6i=c; ducks. &C.
Cheese-New York full cream. l3c: domestic
Swiss. lie: brick. lie: lmburger. 13c.
B~utter-Choice roll, nQl2e per 10 poor, No. 2
S4l0c.
ESss-ISc per dozen.
Beeswax-3oc for yellow. &c for dark.
WoOl-Nerchantable medium. l6c. bury and
understandable. 3G5c less. coarse grades. lac.
fine merino. l0Gl2c; tub washed. 24Q2lc.
Feathers-Prime geese. Doc per 10. prime duck.
zoe per 10.
HIDES. TALLOW. T
Green-salted Hides-So. 1. &c. No. 2. SIC: No.
1 calf. lOizc; No. 2 calf. sac.
Grease-White. &c. yellow, axe. brown. 2Ae.
Tallow-No. l. Enc: No. 2 &C.