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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-22

Anthony Comstock, of New York. with
Inspector Towlson, of the postoffice. force.
and Deputy United States Marshal Waters,
went 10 Haverhill. Mass, yesterday and
arrested Edward w. Lang on the charge of
sending through the mails a book alleged
TO be obscene.
While trying to separate two of her sons.
Noah and John Piper, who were engaged
in a drunken fight, at Honey Creek, Wis,
Mrs. Jonathan Piper, seventy years old,
was stabbed in the back by one of the men,
the blade penetrating her left lung. 1t is
feared Mrs. Piper will die.
Charles Lindville, rent agent for Presi-
dent Stephen Rawson of the Union Trus.
and Savings Bank, Chicago. shot and killed
himself in the office of the bank yesterday
So far as known his accounts are correct.
and no reason is KNOW for the suicide.
Lindville was forty years old and married.
Masked burglars held up the family of
Mrs. Vincent Norton. five miles north of
Martins Ferry, O., and, after mistreating
the hired man. George Martin. and son.
ransacked the house. The same gang held
up John Pastors. a storekeeper, at Port
land. but help arrived in time to beat them
off.
Deputy Marshal Alex. S. Whiteley was
killed at Augusta. Ga, yesterday in at
tempting TO arrest Lum Scott for Illicit
distilling. Scott was also killed. The Of
fcer. with his posse. came across the Illicit
distillers In a barricaded house and a fight
ensued. Others of the party were hurt.
but not seriously.
Milo Gregory, aged twenty-six years, was
hanged at Kenneth. Mo, yesterday for the
murder of his employer, Joseph Covert,
Feb. 20. 1899. He shot and killed Covert.
who was a sawmill owner. in a dispute over
the value of an iron wedge. In a writer
statement to-day Gregory say that the
Killing was accidental.
An attempt has been made 10 burn three
bridges on the line of the Chattanooga.
Rome * Southern between Cedar Town and
Carrollton. Ga. The bridges were all found
burning at the same time, and il is be-
lieved 10 be the work of incendiaries. An
organized band of bridge burners is sup
posed 10 be operating IL that part of the
country.
Internal revenue officers have raided an
alleged Illicit distillery in the basement of
the Seven-story tenement at 2ll Eldridge
street. New York. Loewenstein.
the landlord. and Joseph Levy. the j~anitor,
have been arrested and arraigned before
United States Commissioner Shields. who
held them in $500 bail each for
ton. Two stills were found in operation.
each new and capable Of turning out $50
gallons of liquor a day. In the basement
$500 gallons OF mash was found in various
stages OF fermentation.
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SUICIDE OF NAY COMSTOCK.
Girl Who Owed 81 and Was Afraid to
Ask Her Fathe for Money.

CHICAGO. March 2l.-The body of MAY
Comstock, of Benton Harbor. Mich. the
young music student. who. it is believed.
committed suicide by jumping into the lake
off Sixty-third street. was found this after
noon. buried in the sand ON the beach near
the Fifty-ninth-street pier. A policeman
who was patrolling the shore saw a piece Of
cloth in the sand about three feet from tho
waters edge. Closer inspection showed an
elbow incased in the sleeve of a red shirt
waist A little digging brought the body
OF the dead girl 20 view. II is supposed
she committed suicide because she had run
into dent to the extent of 81 and dreaded
tC ask her father for the money.
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CHEESE USED AS A GAG.
Possible Cause of Death of n Man
Whose Body Was Found i'm n River.

CHICAGO, March IA piece of cheese
four inches long, three inches wide and
three-fourths of an inch thick is thought to
have been the cause of the death of Charles
G.. Carlson, of South Chicago. who disap-
peared Christmas eve, and whose body has
been found i'm the Calumet river. When DR..
Joseph Springer held the post norton ex-
animation to-day the piece of cheese, un-
masticated, was found in the stomach. The
theory advanced is that the cheese was
used as a gag by assailants of Carlson, and
that when he was thrown into the river the
thrush of water and gasping forced the
piece of cheese down. his throat and into his
stomach. Stephen Burke and Robert Fes-
ter, two young boiler makers, who are
known to have been enemies of Carlson's,
have been arrested charged with the muir
der
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-22

NEW YORK, March Accommodating on
the Associated Press dispatch from st. Pc
tersburg that another high official had been
shot at, the Herald says: "In view of the
control exercised by the Russian authori-
ties upon Geographic dispatches, the fact
that a dispatch worded like the foregoing
has been permitted to leave the country
suggests many possibilities. First and fore
most attention centers on the chief per-
sOnality in the dominion, the Car himself,
the more especially because of the rumors
which were current in Berlin on Tuesday
last that an attempt had been made upon
the life of his Imperial Majesty
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and the true God for the following four
years by a majority vote"
Proceeding to sketch the history of the
conquest of liberty in teaching. Comte De
Nun exclaimed: NM. Waldeck-Rousseau
and Millerand are Jacobins and are seek
ing to enforce the ideas of Danton, but
where Napoleon failed, NJ. W~aldeck-Rous-
seau will not succeed, eve though he Sc
cures a parliamentary majority. The prop
osition of Article XIV can never be carried
cut, even though it should be voted by the
chamber We demand that parents shall
not be deprived of the light to bring up
their children as they wish, and the con-
gregations are alone able TO give moral
education"
The speech was received by the Rightists
with prolonged applause, and debate was
adjourned.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-22

NEW YORK, March ARRIVED: Penn
s%Nlvania. from Hamburg. BoulOgne and
Plymouth. Sailed: KensingtOn, for Ant
werp; L'Aquitaine, for Havre; Barbaros-
sa, for Bremen.
QUEENSTOWN, March 21.-Arrfved: Ger
manic. from New York; Commonwealth.
from Boston, for Liverpool. Sailed: leu
tonic, from Liverpool, for New York.
PALERMO, March 21.-Arrived: Auguste
Victoria. from New York. via ports, return
ing from Oriental cruise.
BOSTON. March 21.-Arrived: Saxonia.
from Liverpool; Corean. from Glasgow.
KINSALE, March %, 1885 a. m.-Passed.
Cutie, from New York, for Liverpool.
ANTWERP, March 21.-Sailed: Neder-
land. for Philadelphia.
ROTTERDAM. March 21.-Sailed: Rotter
dam, for New York.
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Gen. w, Ill. Wallace.

COLUMBIA, S. c., March 21.-Gen. VIM.
ii. Wallace. one of the historic figures of
this State, died at Union to-day, aged sew
enty-four. He volunteered as a private in
the Confederate army and was a member
of the Legislature which brought secession.
He was promoted to brigadier general and
commanded a brigade. In the South Caro-
lima political revolution in 1876 he was elect
ed speaker of the House by the Democrats.
A dual government was maintained by the
two political parties until the Democrats,
led by Generals Hampton and Wallace,
finally won. General Wallace was for six
teen years a judge and retired in 1892.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-22
OBITUARY.


CHICAGO, March 21.-Michael C. Leary,
a charter member of the Board of Trade
and during the civil war one of the heaviest
operators in grain in the country, died last
night. aged seventy-two years. During the
civil war he was a partner of B. p. Hutch
inson, Familiarity known as Old Hutch"
and the two ran a corner on corn which
proved a financial success. Mr.. Leary was
born in Essex. Canada, and came to Chi
cago in 1856. When the Board of Trade
started he was one of the original members.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-22

MILWAUKEE, Wis, March PIE. NJ.
Shape. one of the oldest telegraph men in
this country, died this morning of acute
pneumonia. Mr.. Shape has been chief OPP
orator of the Western Union Telegraph
Company at this point for the past thirty
five years, and served throughout the civil
war as operator on the staff of General
Grant. He was a member of the Society
of United States Military Telegraph Corps.
also a member of the Old-time Telegraph
ers' Association, and held the record as
one of the most perfect Morse transmitters
in the history of the telegraph. When Mr..
Shape entered the Milwaukee office of the
Western Union Telegraph Company it con-
tanned but fourteen wires, which was the
total telegraph facilities of the city of Mil
waukee at that time. 1t now contains over
one hundred wires and employs a force of
forty-five operators.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-22
SIX SKULLS UNDER FLOOR.
Grcvysome Discovery I'm One of the
Oldest Houses Of st. Louis.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, March 2l.-Workmen
who were tearing down an old and his
torical house on the west side of Third
street, just north of Clark avenue. in ac-
cordance with an order from the Board of
Health, to-day discovered six skulls under
the floor separating the first and second
stories. The house, which was once a fine
residence. is said to be one hundred and
twenty-five years old and one of the first
built here. Nobody now living knows how
the skulls came where they were found.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-22
Early Morning Fire.

At an early hour this morning fire started
in a three-story building at No. AS East
Washington street. The fire originated on
the second floor from an overheated stove.
The ground floor of the building was occu-
pied by Simpson, a photographer, and the
upper floors by a Mrs. Baker as a rooming
house. The iremen were able to speedily
get the flames under control and il is
thought the loss will be small.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-22
The Marriage i'm Illinois.

HOOPESTON, ILL.,, March 21--Dr. Ed
ward 7. Buck, son of Composer Dudley
Buck, of New York, married Miss Daisy
Deane, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. I'll. "A.
Deane, in this city on Feb. p last. the
Rev. f.. j. Regennas, of the Presbyterian
Church., officiating. Buck first met Miss
Deane in indianapolis. Immediately after
the wedding they left for northern indiana.
Mrs. Bucks parents i'm this city had heard
nothing about his marriage TO Miss Under
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Choices. MnterinIs

Only are used for the brews of the An
heuser-Busch Brewing Assn. St Louis. L.
$. A. and ample time II given them 70
properly mature before offered 10 the pub
lie. Their well-known brands are served
at all hrst-class Hotels, Clubs, Cafes and
Bars. ]. l.. BIELER. Manager Anheuser-
Busch branch, Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-22

ALBUQUERQUE, N. M, March Civ.
T. Sapp. the famous ossifed man, of Leb-
anon, Ky, is dead in this city. While still
a child Sapp's muscular tissues entirely
wasted away, and every joint in the body.
except those of the left shoulder and of
the hands, became solicited. For thirty
six years the helpless statue of a man has
been on exhibition.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-22

Milwaukee Sentinel.
THIS dialogue took place in Milwaukee re-
Gently:
Young Lady-can I sell you tickets To
the Messiah?
Well-known Banker-I think not. have
seen il. and / bought tickets OF you.
Young Lady-But / never sold you any
Messiah tickets.
Banker-Yes, you did. and I went 20 the
Pabst Theater and saw IL. That was the
comic opera In which Harry Klingenfeld
made such a hit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-22

READING, Pa, March 21.-Rev. DIR.
Frederick A. Muhlenburg, one of the best
known Lutheran clergymen in America.
died here to-day, aged eighty-two years.
He was the first president of Muhlenburg
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FAIR AND WARMER TODAY.


WASHINGTON. March 21.-Forecast for
Friday and Saturday:
For Ohio and Indiana-Fair on Friday.
with higher temperature. Saturday. partly
cloudy: fresh southwesterly winds. becom-
ing variable.
For Illinois-Falr and warmer on Friday.
Saturday. probably fair: westerly winds.
shifting TO fresh southerly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-22
III. III. Whitlock.

CHICAGO, March 21.-H. III. Whitlock
Western manager of the Delaware and Re
lance insurance companies. died here to-
Gay after a short illness. Mr.. Whitlock
came to Chicago from Omaha in 1895.
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Proof that He's Not.
Brooklyn Eagl

Brooklyn Eagle.
TIL New York World calls William
Mckinley a dictator. II he were a die
tator, he could prevent the New York
World from calling him one. Why. we
understand that the good man does not
even dictate 10 his stenographer. He
merely mildly makes suggestions 10 him.
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View.
Chicago Times-Herald-

Chicago Times-Herald.
David 4. Hill has come out I'm favor OF
the Beers. This Is a matter that the Beers
may well view with alarm. The regularity
with which MIR. Hin has ia recent years
been on the losing side Is not TO be forgot
ten or ignored
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-22

Whites transfer is regarded as a pro-
motion, though II Involves no increase OF
salary. Mr.. White IS regarded as one or
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-22
j. T. POWER & son.
Only Agents for Indianapolis
Telephone 1904.
a. North Pennsylvania Street

it would just fit into my studio. What 90
you want for lt?'
81 can let you have that for feO.O00." said
the dealer, and a silence like a pail fell on
fha artists
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Have your curnao : looked after and re-
paired. THOMAS f. HADLEY,
New Phone. lo06. LAG Kentucky ave.
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BURTON ALE

What the Interstate Medical Journal
says, Page 449, Sept. 10, 1900:
"Burton Ale, on account of being scienffn-
cally brewed and ripened, is free from the acid
tiles sometimes found In similar products"
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LocnI ob-errntion. ON Thursanr.

Bar. Their. Ri. Wind. Weather. Pre-.
a. m-.z-4 % % S'west. Cloudy. T
1p. m--29-90 81 ~ S'west- Pr. cldy. 001
Maximum temperature. 50: minimum tenn
perature. q.
Following IS a comparative statement of
the temperature and precipitation March 2ls
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-09
with his family and four mules to care for

with his family and four mules to care for
till the season opens up again.
What do We do during winter? Just the
best We can. few of come to George
town and find work as laborers, living in
our cabins and saving house rent in this
way. 1 believe most of the boatmen who
spend the winter here get jobs as stable
men or transfers. One thrifty canal man
who owns his boat has a wagon and does
hauling. In this way he makes his mules
pay for their feed all the year. Others
have tried this, but there is sharp compe-
t1tion in hauling during the winter months,
there being little in that line to do, and
many to do it. By far the greater number
of boatmen spend the winter with farmers
along the canal This is a cheap way of
living. They do their share of such farm
work as goes on in cold weather, chopping
and hauling wood, clearing land, building
fences. ditching, etc. Their mules get lit
tie fodder and hay and are in pretty good
shape for towing when boating begins. The
children of the boatmen get all their school,
ing between seasons, and it is to give the
children the best schooling possible that
quite a number of the men lay up in
Georgetown. Some spend the closed season
at Cumberland. Hancock. Seneca and other
towns, so that their children may go to
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States Fish COMMISSIONS Bulletin for 1900
Illustrated. Washington: Government Print
ing Office.
INTRODUCTORY LESSONS IN ENGLISH LITER
AZURE; for High Schools and Academies nv
q. Mcneil, president OF the Seventh Wis
consln State Normal School. and = A Lynch
teacher Of English In he Central High School
Superior. Wis. New York: American Book
Company.
A LITTLE GRAY SHEEP; a Novel Ry Mrs.
Hugh Fraser, author of The Splendid Pnr-
SIENNA etc. Philadelphia: ]. r. Iippincntt
Co Washington: William Ballantyne & Sons
IN SPITE OF FOES: or. Ten Years Trial nv
Gen. Charles King, q $. PbiIsdelnbia. i
Is. IApplncott Go. Washington: William Bal
lantyne d Sons.
DAUNA1'S TOWER: Novel. BY AdeIIne Ser
geant, author OF "A Rise I'm the World rt,-
New York: F. NJ. Buckles & Co. Washington:
Brentanos.
NEW CENTURY PRIMER OF HYGIENE. FIRST
book Tor Pupils Use. BY Mrs. Jeanette Win
ter Hall. New York: American Book Com
pany. h
CABiNET SECRET; a Novel By Guy Rootblv
Illustrated: Philadelphia J. b. LIppi1cnit
Co. Washington; William Ballantyne q sons
THE SHADOW OF MAN: Novel Nv r W
iornung- New York: Charles Srrihnrrss S,,ns
washington: William Bsilantyne Sons.
THE LEANEN OF LOVE; Novel nv R.-rI
Goldie London: George Routledce A. 90
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What the Boatmen Do When Naviga-
ton Ceases.
WINTER IN THE GEORGETOWN LEVEL
Profits in the Business Are Never
Very Large.
PLENTY OF HARD WORK

Boating is hard work and poor pay, but
times is better than they was" said man
who sat on the towpath near Georgetown
yesterday
He was one Of a colony of boatmen who,
with their families, have wintered in the
Georgetown level of the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal. Ten boats are strung along
that level between the Aqueduct bridge and
the junction of the Conduit and River
roads at the foot of Foxhall Hill. Till a
few days ago the bottoms of these boa IS
rested In the yellow mud, the water having
been withdrawn that the canal between
the Georgetown Iock and that above might
be cleaned. Because of inequalities in the
bed of the canal each of these boats was
listed either to one side or the other. max
ing a ragged, inharmonious picture. The
water has since been let in and the scene
improved.
Rough hawsers. chafed and knotted. run
from the wooden cleats on these clumsy
craft to thorny locust trees on the south
bank. or to stakes driven in the towpath.
Planks reach from decks to shore.
Though the tide of travel on the Conduit
road moves up and down within few feet
Of these boats. and the dust of the high
way sweeps over them, they appear far re-
moved from the activities of life. It's
pretty close said the man on the tow
path, "but it's pretty far; you have to go a
long way up or a long way down to get
across. Few people know about the Gull
vert under the canal, where Foundry
branch runs through
Tranquil Scenes.
There are tranquil scenes along the tow
path. Groups Of the boatmen's children
play there. Shaggy mules stand. about,
avoiding what wind and seeking what sun
they can. Fowls fly between the mule
houses and the towpath. where they crow
scratch and cackle. Clothes lines hung
with the weeks washing are strung over
the boats from end to end. Red flannel
lends touch of color here and there
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Smoke rises from the black tin stacks and
from the cabins in the morning and the
evening comes the scent of frying bacon.
AT noon there Is the odor of boiling food.
Well said the man on the towpath,
I'VE live about The same as other poor peO-
pie. Other people don't seem to know
much about US. We kind of go along the
edge of the world. instead of through it,
The man who made this observation was
a type of the canal boatman. whom The
Star man met in a stroll. He had been
tOughened by long exposure to the weather.
His face and his hands were as rough as
his clothing. and his muscles as strong as
the pipe he smoked. He had been plying
between Cumberland and Washington so
long that he could not recall the year when
he made his first trip, though it was he
said. before the war. Like most of his fell
lows he appeared part mariner and miner,
part citizen and rustic. part farmer and
stockmdn. each Of these qualities being
tnctured with a gypsy flavor.
always n Boatman-
80 You want 10 know about boating?'
he said. Some Of US are better off than
others, some work harder than others some
drink harder than others some spend more
than others. some save more than others
and some have more than others. There
are good many OF the ways of the world
in canal boating. Some of US are born in
come into the business because they can't
find anything better to do, and some leave
II because they do find something better to
do, but the rule is once a boatman, ALWAYS
a boatman-' Many Of our fellows get fits
of blues when things go wrong or freights
get low, and complain that boating is not
what it Was, or what it ought to be, but
dyspepsia isn't confined to those men who
travel on canals. There are lots of lawyers
who think they would like to be doctors
and some newspaper men who think they
were born u be statesmen think we boat
men live as long. get as many meals and
wear as good clothes as labOrers who don't
move about We do.
The ariStOcrats of the canal are those
who own their own boats. They make a
good living boating grain, hay and general
merchandise, and those who are ShreWd do
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Turning Point in Hi. Career.

From the Chicago Tribune
The third magazine publisher to whom he
had sent an article entitled 'Recollections
Of Phrygia. with Some Facts Concerning
the Slave Trade in Athens" having declined
It with thanks, Aesop threw the manuscript
into the fire.
Truth may be stranger than flction.''
he said, but there isn't any money In It."
So he began writing fiction, and shortly
afterward. as you remember, he had lied
himself into a soft place at the court or
Croesus, h.
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a good deal Of trading on their own ac-
count, buying and selling live stock, gro
cerieS. etc. The coal-carrying boats are all
owned by one or the other of the coal COM
panieS. the bOatmen as a rule owning the
teams. The coal freighters are paid a fixed
sum per ton This varies from year to
year. The freight rate last season was 65
cents ton, and I have heard 1t said that
the rate for the coming season will be 10
cents The average boat will carry 124
tons. and man with good luck may make
the round trip in fifteen or sixteen days
six days down. six days up and three or
four days for loading and discharging.
Small Profits.
cat last years rates he would make So
a day. He would have to travel day and
night to do this, feed four mules and nav
at least one helper. though 1t would he
very hard to make a trip like that with
less than two helpers These men would
cost him SO a month and board. He has
no rent 10 pay, but his grocery bin and
= feed bill must be looked out for Then
not many men ever make the round trim In
sixteen days. Twenty days would be near
er the average. So you see that would re-
duce his profits considerably And when
the season closes down he is out of =
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doing with four. and the day boats with
two mules. 1 don't know whether this
change has been brought about by the boats
getting lighter or the mules getting heavier
but in most instances a team of four mules
is drawing what six mules used to draw
The difference is they don't draw the load
as fast. When a loaded boat is travelling
two miles an hour she is doing all that can