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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-26
NEW TRACTION MERGER.
PfttsburE Companies to He ConsoI-
dated-Terms of the Exchange.

NEW YORK. May 25.-It said. un-
officially, here that the terms of the merger
OF the Philadelphia Company. of Pittshurs
and the Consolidated Traction Company. of
the same city, have been agreed on TODAY.
The belief OF those intimate with both cor
porations is that the new company is To
be organized under the laws of New Jer-
sey. with 100000 capital stock. part of
which Will be per cent preferred Ar
issue of per cent. bonds also is contem-
plated. This will be secured by depositing
Ia trust the stock OF the constituent COM
panies as was done in the steel consoli,la-
tion.
The terms 70 be offered TO the stockhold-
ers OF the two companies are stated 10 be
Al follows: Each share of the PHILADELPHIA
Company TO be exchanged for $50 in the
new fives. $40 in the new preferred and $40
In the new common; each sic share of the
Consolidated TO be exchanged for SIS in
fives. $40 in preferred anal $40 In common
Of the new company.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-26
New Northern Indiana Railroad.

SpeciaI 20 the Indianapolis Journal
ELKHART, Ind, May 25.-A r. Boards
ley, NJ U. Demarest. Elliott Crull, j. w.
Fieldhouse and w. b. Pratt, local capital
lists, who include some Of the strongest
business men and manufacturers of this
city, have signed articles OF incorporation
of the Toledo. Elkhart & Chicago Railway
Company, with a capitalization of 500 OOl.
TO set in motion the project OF building a
steam railway line from Elkhart TO Mont
pelier, o., distance of about seventy-fiVe
miles. with a branch line TO run from Nap
panee. Ind, 10 Benton Harbor Mich. via
Wakarusa and Elkhart. The Wabash will
be tapped at Montpelier and Wakarusa
and the object Is 10 open up country east OF
here that has no direct connection with
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-26
STAY OF EXECUTION
Granted on Sentence I'm a Porto Rican
Postal Fraud Case.

SAN JUAN, p. r., May 25-Judge Will
liam H. Holt, of Ponce. has granted stay
in the execution OF the sentence of Harold
Crowley, pending an appeal. Judge Holt
will release Crowley under 5000 bonds.
Harold Crowley, of Lockport, N. Y, son
of ex-Congressman Crowley, was sentenced
May 2l to serve four years at hard labor
on a charge of misappropriating postal
funds.
Ramon and Carlos Julia, formerly post
master and assistant postmaster at Juan
Diaz who were recently arrested on the
charge OF embezzling postal funds, have
been tried and found guilty. Carlos Julia
has been sentenced to serve one year and
one month and Ramon Julia to serve four
months at hard labor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-26
BUYS COAL LANDS.
Mr.. Hanna's Company Acquires q
Yearly Capacity of 1,OOO, 900 Tons.

TOLEDO, O., May 2.-M. A. Hanna K
Co. have secured options on almost the
entire Massillon coal district. The output
of the properties included in the deal
amounts to over a million tons per annum.
AS the land is largely upon the Wheeling
Railroad 1T is thought that the deal is
part of the one by which George J. Gould
secured control OF the Wheeling. The
Pocock Coal Company has put a value
upon its property which the agents say is
unreasonable and several OF the owners OF
undeveloped coal land have also refused TO
come 10 terms I'm closing options. The firms
which have accepted the terms OF Hanna ez
Co. the Massillon & Cleveland Coal
Company, the Howell Coal and Mining
Company. James Mullins the Drake Coal
Company. the Albright Coal Company T.
II. Krauss & Co. and the Ridgeway- Burton
Company.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-26
STUDENTS CELEBRATE.
Chicago Undergraduates Jnbilate
Over OIympfan Games Selection.

CHICAGO, May 25.-Students of Chicago
University. assisted by delegations from
Northwestern and Lake Forset universities,
and all the other colleges and high schools
of Chicago, tonight celebrated in vigorous
fashion the selection of Chicago as the
place of holding the Olympian games OF
1904. All the week hundreds of students
have been celebrating, and tonight they
gathered a big pile of tar and oil barrels
and everything else that would make "A
good blaze. The result was a bonfire which,
in size and power of illumination, was not
far behind lumber yard fire. Around this
1900 students marched, cheering and max
ing a most terrific din with all manner of
horns and megaphones A burlesque pro-
gramme of the Olympian games was car
ried out the victors being awarded i'm
mense laurel wreaths. Speeches were MADE
by Professors Stagg and Thatcher, OF the
university faculty, H. j. Furber and 9TH
ers. Fully 5000 people witnessed the sport
which was kept up until long after mid
night
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-26
wealthy Old Man Beaten and Robbed

CHICAGO, May 25.-As Lewis w. Stone,
a wealthy real-estate owner, entered the
barn at his home, 4316 Michigan avenue,
last evening, TO feed his COW. he was
beaten, choked into insensibility and
robbed. His recovery from injuries suf-
fered in the attack Is uncertain. At the
age of eighty-four years, he employs no
agents, but makes his own collections. In
planning the attack upon the old man the
in the barn and find a months collections
estimated at $1,000. in his pocket The as
sault may cost the life of the hale old
man, but the cash results to the robber
were only s1. Mr.. Stone had made de-
posit of his collections in bank the day
before
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-26
ANOTHER REPORT.
Cuban Convention Takes Another
Think on the PIatt Amendment


HAVANA, May 25-The majority report
of the constitutional convention committee
on relations was withdrawn to-day, and
there was substituted for IL report Trawn
up by five delegates-Senors Giberga, Ber-
riel. Quesada, Tamayo and Villuendas This
report is signed by the last three named
constituting a majority of the committee
on relations. 1t accepts the Plat amend
ment adding appendix including Secre-
tary Roots explanation, which is quoted
as being Official and explanations from
Governor General Wood, authorized by
Secretary Root, with additional explana-
tions OF Clauses 3, 4, 5. 6, and as pre-
vlously cabled. 1t refers to Clauses l and 2
and states that the stipulations therein
contained are internal constitutional linn
itations which do not restrict the power of
the government of Cuba TO freely celebrate
political and mercantile treaties with any
ration. nor in its power to contract loans
or debts, except with regard to being bound
10 subject itself TO what is established in
the Constitution and what Is laid down in
the two clauses. The report will be voted
on Monday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-26
BURIAL OF JOHN R. TANNER.
Elaborate Funeral Services at SPRING
field To-Day-The Programme.

SPRINGFIELD, H.. May 25-Former
Governor John r. Tanner will be buried to-
morrow with full military hcnors. major
generals salute of thirteen guns will be
fired at sunrise, one each half hour during
the day. and thirteen at sunset. The body
will lie in the rotunda OF the Statehouse
from s to 1:30 o'clock, when it will be
escorted by military and civic bodies to
St. PauTs ocathedraL Bishop Seymour
will preside and will pronounce the bene-
diction Archdeacon Frederick w. Taylor
rector of St Pauls, will read the first part
OF the service. At Oak Ridge Cemetery
Archdeacon Taylor will read the committal
service The Hon l. N Phillips of Bloom
ington, will pronounce the eulogy. Taps"
will be sounded and three volleys OF mus
kerry fired
Governor Yates has invited Governors
Shaw, Of Iowa; Lafollette, or wisconsin,;
Docksry, of Missouri; Durbin. OF Indiana:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-26
TOO FOND OF CHAMPAGNE.
Theatrical Manager Drinks Twenty
Three Bottles Of Wine and Dies.

CHICAGO. May 25-A fondness for cham
pagne is the direct cause Of the death of
Matthew j. Flynn. well known in theatrical
circles as a manager of vaudeville and bur-
lesque attractions. Wednesday night Flynn
drank the contents of twenty-three bottles
of champagne. The next day he was re-
moved from the hotel 10 the Washingtohian
Home, but he never rallied. and to-day
came the announcement OF his death.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-26
TilIman's Blur Called.

GAFFNEY, S. c., May Ex-senator Nc
Laurin, when asked about the designations.
said: "Tillman made a bluff and 1 called
him. All desire is free. fair and open
fight on the issues upon which we differ.
L earnestly hope that all others will keep
out of our race and run for the other sena-
torship. so that Tillman and l may meet as
man to man and fight it out"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-26
EMBEZZLEMENT ALLEGED.
Frank Siegel Charged with Misap-
preparation of SI45,4s6.

KANSAS CITY. Mo-, May 25.-Utley
Wedge. receiver of the Siegel-Sanders Live
stock Commission Company, of which
Frank Rockefeller is the principal share
holder, has made an affidavit before a
justice of the peace OF this city charging
Frank Siegel. late president of the com
pany, with embezzling a total of $l45 4S6 "a
of the companys money. Receiver Wedge
in his affidavit, gives the various dates on
which the alleged Interpretations were
made and the amounts involved in each
transaction. The receiver has sworn out
another warrant for Siegers arrest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-26

SAULT STE MARIE. Mich. May Is
The projected sixty-mile airline from ST.
Ignace to this point is to be built by
corporation TO be organized under the
name of the Northern Michigan Railroad.
The right of way has been more than half
secured. The Grand Rapids & Indiana,
a Pennsylvania-control road. is supposed
TO be behind the project.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-26
SUICIDE OF A RUSSIAN.
He Owed Ten Million RoubIes, and
Threw Himself Under a Train.

a
ST. PETERSBURG, May 24-President
Altschensky. of the Kharkoff Chamber of
Commerce, committed suicide to-day by
allowing a railroad train to run over him
near Petersburg. He was financier Of
great influence. His death was due to
financial difficulties and will embarrass
many institutions.
He owed the Volga-Karm Bank 10000
or 100000 roubles. and was president Of
the Agricultural Bank. The deceased owed
about 100000 roubles. his creditors includ-
ing the A. II. Meyer Discount Bank. the
Moscow Credit Company and the Kharkoff
Commercial Company. He controlled the
Donetz-Yuryeff iron works. which concern
is undercapitalized. The Imperial Bank
will protect those who have suffered from
the death of NJ. Altschensky.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-26

Chicago. and also to provide a line 10 give
Elkhart competitor of the Lake Shore Tor
Chicago business Stockholders at La
grange. Ind, and Angola, Ind. the largest
towns on the main line, are 10 sign the
articles OF incorporation before the election
OF directors and officers is held here next
week. The promoters interested are n.
Leone Miller, of FairmOunt Ind, o y.
Baker. Of Marion. md, and .. q. Wales.
OF DoWagiac Mich
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-26

CLEVELAND. May 25.-The Leader to-
morrow will say: Il. f. Loree, fourth
vice president of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company. has been selected as president Of
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The official
announcement will be made next Wednes-
day, the appointment TO take effect June !"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-26
SHORTAGE OF $4,000.
City Treasurer and Former City Clerk
of Colorado Springs Arrested.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Col. May %
Moses T. Hale for nine years city treas
urer of Colorado Springs. was held in $4,000
bail by Justice Ruby to-day to answer TO
the charge of misappropriating funds of the
city amounting TO $50. 600. Charles r. Smith
a former city official, was held in 5000 bail
as an accessory TO the alleged embezzle-
ment.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-26

Northwestern. The Pennsylvania Railroad
Is selected as the route TO Washington
from Chicago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-26

Beckham. OF Kentucky. and Bliss. of Mich
igan, and they are expected 70 be present.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-26

A. d. Defenbach, deceased. upon which
were based the indictment returned charg-
ing conspiracy to defraud, naming DR..
August NJ. Unger, Francis Wayland Brown,
Frank H. Smiley and Marie Defenbach as
defendants are as follows:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-06
TRICK OF AN ~ENGRAVER.
Mules Head on T~en-DolIar Note Ac-
counted For.

New Orleans Times-Democrat.
by the way" said a banker from Missis-
sippi, Il have seen much comment in the
papers recently on the fact that there is
a mules head on the United States 10
dollar note of recent issue, and for a long
time / was very much puzzled about the
matter and could find no satisfactory ex-
PLANTATION of it. The mules head had been
plainly engraved on the note. That was
certain. l advanced all sorts of theories
about the matter and heard other men do
likewise. | heard many curious theories
advanced by men who were trying to ac-
count for the appearance of the mules
convinced the government had the mules
head put on the note in commemoration of
the fact that Sampson had killed a mule in
the late war at Matanzas. and he said good
naturedly, as that was the only thing he
killed during the war, he supposed the gov
eminent had put the head of the mule on
the note in order TO keep the event fresh
in the minds of the people. This. Of course,
is merely the funny side OF the question.
BY inquiry / have found out why IL was,
and the singular thing about the matter is
that so many persons engaged in the bank
for il. 1t was all caused by the mistake of
an engraver. Whether or not the mistake
was intentional / do not know, but at any
rate 1t was a clever prank, and the depart
ment did not enjoy the joke. Really the
mules head on the note is an eagle. The
so that the wings dropped after the fashion
of the mules ears. The tail OF the eagle
is up, and this gives the picture almost the
exact appearance of a mules head. This ia,
so | understand, the way the thing hap
pened, and after a more careful examina-
mystery of the mules head so far as Uncle
Sans money is concerned
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-06
INACCURATE ILLUSTRATIONS.
Four Different Pictures, Supposed to
Illustrate the Same scene.
~Philedalphia Times.

hiiSid lpHld llIncS.
For more than ten years American news
papers have been irving to illustrate the
news of the day. some of them employed
regulations on the weekly periodicals, and
the result was a twO-fold disaster. Not
only was the news not illustrated. but the
artist by the necessarily quick work lost
what fame he had gained under better
conditions. The Improvement Of the half
tone process accomplished something occa-
sionally, but even that is a speculation,
fore the loss of late news. In the evolution
thus far the only satisfactory result is in
a supplement which is not printed with
the same rush as the news sheet. With
this exception, newspaper Illustration is
practically a failure. and every editor adj
lnits ii, even if he uses 1t on the score that
his readers want pictures.
Just what some readers are getting in
the way of pictures is well shown in GER
tain classes of daily papers being printed
this week. On the table are four concur
rent publications with illustrations Of the
same scene at the same hour in the same
criminal trial now going on in a neigh
boring State. No one of them has the
slightest resemblance to the other. ex-
in the case wears shades over his eyes.
The principal female figure has a different
dress in each journal; she wears hats that
are not related to one another, and her
four faces do not appea TO belong TO the
same family, much less 10 the same in
dlvidual.
And that is only one case of the many.
find out that the paper that is strong on
pictures is apt TO be weak on news. And
news is the purpose for which a newspa-
per is printed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-06
MATS FOR HORSES.
Denver Man Saves His nimal Feet
b. n Sensible Plan.
Denver Tribune.

Denver Tribune.
When Frank Steltzmiller decided. two
years ago. to place mats under the feet OF
his horses-he is the driver Of the express
wagon which stands at the corner of We'll
ton and Seventeenth streets-it was with no
other motive than TO ease the feet OF the
animal. But one day last week there was
a lady who walked all the way from the
stand TO ask him TO take her trunk TO the
depot.
II have noticed your kindness to the
horse" she explained, land / think 1t de-
serves reward"
Steltzmiller says that his busine has
increased noticeabiy since he adopted the
plan of putting the mats under the ami
malls feet.
why | did il. and a good many tell me that
they bring me all their jobs because they
want to encourage the scheme, said the
expresSman Yesterday. Il didn't think OF
anything but the horse when l put the
mats here. One day a man came along
and asked me if / adopted the plan 10 save
the pavement. 1t was such a foolish ques-
ton. l told him yes
Since the eXpressman originated the plan
a number of others have adopted II. and
there is some talk Of the Expressman's
Union passing resolutions asking all men,
bers TO do likewise. a member of the
Board of Supervisors recently declared
tina an ordinance should be introduced
compelling the expressmen 10 place some
thing under the feet Of their horses in or
der to save the pavement. There is hardly
a corner in the city where the asphalt has
not been dug up by the restless animals.
Steltzmiller takes old house mats and
chains them to an electric light pole where
his horse stands. so that they may not be
stolen. Every morning he soaks the mats
and they keep cool all day. He declares
that the horse has been In better condition
since he adopted the scheme than ever
before.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-06
%UNINvENTED INVENTIONS.
Great Problems for Which Solution Is
Sought.


F. F. Coleman, in Everybody's Magazine.
Every home and workshop teens with
profitable suggestions TO the man with open
eyes and mind.
The fortunes OF Mr.. Carnegie. the Rock
feilers. the Armours. and all their associates
were founded on just such observations.
The cost of refining kerosene oil is paid to-
day from the despised sludge acid which
used 10 foul our rivers and ,harbors- The
old waste of the slaughterhouSes brings in
killed.
Nature has waste products still waiting
for use. Prairie wire-grass was one of
these. 1t is now made into handsome furni-
ture and furnishings. Corn-stalk pith is
made into filings for warships' hulls. TO
close water-tight the holes made by an
enemy. tssaE ef 4t
Fin a substitute for the elastic Para
rubber, and your fortune is made Celluloid
and oxidized linseed oil are fair substitutes
for some purposes, but nothing has yet been
found that possesses the true elastic prop
critics OF rubber from Para. There is still
nothing like leather" for shoes, but the
inventor may find a substitute 10 his profit.
The automobilist is waiting anxiously for
a satisfactory power to drive his carriage.
The same power would solve the vexed
question of cross-town cars in New York.
The Metropolitan Street-railway Company
is spending thousands in experimenting
with compressed air and storage battery
cells. but these are only makeshifts. Steam
railroads need q similar power to operate
independent cars for suburban service.
Liquid air and acetylene gas both offer
new fields for the inventor. Although liquid
air can be made for perhaps 5 cents a gal
lon, as yet not a single commercial use has
been found for il. Mr.. Pictet. of Geneva, a
pioneer in the liquefying of gases, has pro-
posed 10 use the process for separating the
nitrogen and oxygen of the air, and market
ing each of these for special purposes. A
factory i'll New York has the same objects
in view. Carboaic-acid gas. frozen put of
the atmosphere, would also be a product
of the process.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-06

complete and perfect in the way described.
This is true OF mental as well as bodily
exertion. A minute or two minutes OF
quiet, with closed eyes, IL possible, with
your tension relaxed and the gearing OF
the machinery thrown of for the moment.
will help and refresh you greatly. Here.
again, more may be gained II the ability 10
relax mentally can be secured in a fashion
similar TO the withdra wing OF muscular
tension. Learn 10 empty your mind when
not using IL.
This will not only help for the purpose
of temporary repoSe. but may be made
useful in bringing about sleep. IL can,
like the trick of muscle relaxation. be ac-
quired and made habitual. You will then
be less liable TO have your days work or
worry pursue you TO bed and fasten upon
you, TO the banishing of all possibility Of
going 20 sleep; or If you escape this follow
you into the land of Nod and hagride you
in your dreams. Napoleon 1 Is hardly TO
be held up, perhaps, as an ensample OF
conduct, but his appetite for work was
enormous, his power CT concentration well
in hand, ready for use at any moment, and
he could always sleep. no matter what his
troubles or anxieties. OMeara quotes Ma
poleon as saying about this last faculty
that all subjects were arranged in his mind
like drawers in a cabinet. and when he
had done with one he closed the drawer,
and would as soon expect the drawer OF
his desk 10 open OF itself as any subject
he was done considering 10 turn up In his
MIND again. ar 10 follow him to bed and
prevent his sleeping.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-06
vi DAY.
Precautions Taken Against Poison
and assassination.

Z. P. Lyle. in Everybody's Magazine.
Abdul Hamid's programme for the day
is a journal of coWardice. He rises by 3
o'clock. for he limits to the utmost his
lapse into the helplessness Of sleep. He
takes a cold b~ath-vapor baths and mas
sage might reduce his poor skeleton yet
more-and after the bath comes coffee and
cigarettes, both made in his presence and
both kept up all day long. He is a very
busy man, but his affairs are mostly spies
reports and TRANSACTIONS of foreign press
comments. The real business of state may
drag for months and years. In solitary
splendor he eats ~gingerly of his dinner.
Imposing pages bring on the viands in SOL
emn procession. The plates are under seal,
just as they were sent from the Kitchen.
The kitchen, by the way, is an armored
box, with iron shutters. The august diner
often asks an attendant to taste this or
that, or uses the same precaution on the
Gogs and cats around him. He suffers from
stomach troubles. so in a few minutes the
repast is finished.
Abdul retires late. From behind a screen
the grand master Of the wardrobe reads to
him fearful tales of blood and murder.
His sleep is unqulet and nervous. He
wakes up frequently and calls aloud for
company. or he mounts to the roof and
scans the neighborhood with a glass. If
he has a bad dream a sorcerer must come
TO interpret ii for him. He is afraid of
the dark. and his residence is always as
light as day. Often an orchestra plays till
late 10 break the dread silence of night,
and his guards must tramp incessantly. so
that ne can hear the FOOTBALLS. In times
of trouble he often goes f~orty-eight hours
without sleep Then follows a terrible
nervous crisis. An instance was at the
time OF the escape of his brother-in-law,
Damad-Mahoud. to Europe. His rage over
the attention drawn on him during that
affair knew no bounds.