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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-26
WILL ERECT WAREHOUSES.
Ten Million Dollars to BE Spent by
SchenIey Estate Agents.

PITTSBURG, Oct. 25-W. A. Heron &
Sons, local agents for the estate of Mrs.
Mary Schenley, who resides in En- gland,
announce that s1OOOO,OOO will be expended
in the immediate improvement of the
Schenley property at the point. Plans
have been completed for the erection of
forty seven-stOry warehouses on the land
bounded by Penn avenue and the two
rivers, doing away with a large number of
old tenement houses and giving Pittsburg
an up-tO-date warehouse district eXcelled
by no other city in the world. Demolition
of the old structures has already begun
and building will be prosecuted rapidly and
without interruption.
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ARBOR DAY AT EARLHAM.
Elaborate Observance at the Friends
SchOOI-Some of the Speakers.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind, Oct. 25.-Earlham Col
lege observed Arbor day to-day In way
never before equaled at that institution.
The exercises began in the morning in
Lindley Hall with music, scripture read
ing, prayer a poem by Prof. w. n. True
blood and an address by Prof. D. w. Den
MIS- This afternoon the exercises opened
with a college rally on the lawn, college
songs being \ feature Trees were hrat
planted for the Christian Associations, with
addresses by Lawrence Hadley and Miss
Anna j. Kersey. A tree was next planted
in Ionian grove, Albert 1. Copeland making
the address, For the planting of the tree
in Phoenix grove Ruby Davis read paper,
Laura Lee Hedges read poem and Agnes
w. Neave made the christening speech.
Trees also were planted by the History
Club, Mathematical Society, Anglican CLUB,
day students and by the various classes.
Among those who took part in the pro-
grammes were Prof. c. w. HOdgin, Anna
Kendall, Howard NJ Trueblood, Clarence
ID. Painter, Louis f. Ross. Benjamin Kelly,
]. b. Gordon, w. o. Trueblood, Harry
Bowen and Edward +. Wood.
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Marauding Tramp i'm Jail.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, Oct. 25.-Yesterday a
tramp appeared at the door of the Holiday
farm residence near Brookston. Mrs. Holli-
day, who was alone at the time, refused to
grant his request and the tramp thrust an
ugly looking revolver in her face and made
himself at home for some time. The
woman aroused the neighborhood and a
posse started a man-hunt, which ended last
night at Otterbein, twelve miles west of
this city, where the tramp was captured.
He refused to diyulge his name, and was
turned over to the BroOkston authorities.
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Indiana Obituary.

BLOOAIINGDALE, Ind. Oct. 25.-To-day
the funeral OF DR.. James =. Tucker, aged
eighty-two. was held at the family resi-
6ence two and one-half miles northeast Of
this place. Twenty years ago Or. Tucker
was one of the leading physicians in this
part of the State. but owing 10 i'll health
duties. He left eight sons and daughters.
MUNCIE. Ind. Oct. 25-The funeral OF
Policemen Deems was held this afternoon
III was one OF the largest ever seen in Mum
Gle. with the local police force and the
knights CT Pythias In charge. Mayor Dun
lap. Of Anderson. and fifteen members Of
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Other Fires.

CHICAGO. oct. 25.-The fve-story build
ing at No. 545 Wabash avenue. occupied by
the Woods Motor Vehicle Company. was
destroyed by fire tonight. Loss, 800, 200.
OF this amount l.. I. Grant of Honolulu,
will lose $4,000. He recently sent a large
consignment of electric vehicles from that
city and they were stored on the top floor
OF the building undergoing repairs
DAVENPORT, Ia, Oct. 25.-The Chris.
Mueller Lumber COmpany's sawmill burned
to-day. Loss. $4,000; insurance, $40, 500
This blaze runs the city's fire loss close TO
"a million dollars this year. including two
sawmflls, one immense lumber yard and
three sash and door factories. There is a
strong belief that most of the fires were
of incendiary origin.
GAINESVILLE, o., Oct 25.-The plant of
the GAINESVILLE Art Pottery Company was
destroyed by fire tonight. Loss $4,000, in
surance $4,000 one hundred and fifty men
are thrown out of work. Three bystanders
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were caught by falling wall. and one OF
them, Charles Conn, was fatally injured.
IRON RIVER. Wis. Oct. 25.-Fire in the
lumber yard of the Alexander x Edgar
Lumber Company. in this city, to-day de-
strOyed 12,000.OO0 feet ofelumber. The loss
IS estimated at Sl60,000T fully covered by
insurance.
ST. LOUIS, oct. 25-The extensive estab-
lishment of the Samuel Cupples Wooden
Ware Company. southwest corner Of Spruce
and Seventh streets, was damaged 5000
By fire to-day. Fully insured.
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National Live Stock Exchange.

ST. JOSEPH. Mo. Oct. 25.-The thir-
tenth annual convention Of the National
Live Stock Exchange convened here to-
day. The exchanges of Chicago. Omaha,
St. Louis. Sioux City and INDIANAPOLIS were
represented. Peoria was admitted TO mem
bership President w H. Thompson. of
Chicago. could not be present owing TO
the burning OF the Hammond plant at
Hammond. Ind, of which he is general
manager. y committee reported on how
the defeat of the anti-butterine measure in
Congress was secured. and the report was
apurOvpd
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suit for Millions Dismissed.

NEW YORK. oct. 25.-Judge Coke. in
the United States Circuit Court to-day
az the conclusion Of The hearing in the
case Of James p. Withrow against the
Carnegie Steel Company. Limited. OF Pitts
burg. Pa. (nOw a constituent of the United
States Steel Corporation. dismissed the
bill OF complaint for want of jurisdiction
over the defendant company. The suit
was brought for the alleged infringement
OF two patents connected with the manu-
facture OF bessemer steel. and asserted an
aggregate claim OF between $4,000. 600 and
s5OO00. 900
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the police force attended, with the super
intendents and patrolmen from Alexandria
and Elwood forces.
VINCENNES. Ind. Oct. 25.-Mrs. Will
helmina Eberwine one of the oldest resi-
dents of this city. died to-day at the age
of lightweight. She was born in 1913, IN
Hanover, Germany; came TO the United
States in 1889 and to Nincennes in 1910. Her
husband Christian Eberwine, aged ninety
four, survives.
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Dewey Resigns a Presidency.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-Admiral George
Dewey has resigned the Office of president
of the Metropolitan Club, the most ex-
elusive social organization Of the national
capital His resignation is said to have
been for purely personal reasons and was
rendered a week ago. As president the
admiral was required to attend the weekly
meeting Of the board of dire ctors on Sat
urday afternoon. which, owing to his resi-
dence in the country. was often a matter
of considerable personal inconvenience
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FOUR DEAD, OTHERS MAY DIE.
Many Casualties Caused by the Wreck
OF the burlington Train.

OTTUMWA, Ia, oct. z5.-Four more vic
tins Of the Burlington Railway wreck at
Exline are dead. Two more are expected
to die at any Observation-Disclosures J. A.
Scovern and Miss Sophia Patterson. Those
who died to-day: John SilVerwriGht, Of
Kansas City: James Mace, CniOnvile, No
Lyman Marion, Lancaster Mo; AIRS. NJ.
Freeland, Browning, Mo. Six others were
seriously injured and twenty-five persons
slightly hurt. All the injured except the
two mentioned will recover.
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BOTH SONS GONE.
One Committed Suicide, the Other
Probably Killed by Accident.

Special 20 the Indianapolis Journal
WABASH. Ind. Oct. 25.-Will Shannahan
committed suicide early this morning at
the home of Edward Heyer, near the canal
basin Shannahan served in a Kentucky
regiment during the Spanish war, and at
the close of hostilities enlisted for service
in the Philippines where he made good
record. He returned TO the home of his
father. Mike Shannahan. a former mar
shall of Wabash and has been here and at
South Bend ever since. Lately he took to
drinking, and this is responsible for his
act.
Three days ago Mr.. Shannahan received
a letter from a young man named Parker,
who said that he and another son of Mr.
Shannahan. George. had been in "A wreck
on the Great Northern road, in Washing
ton. some time ago, and that after the ac-
cident Shannahan had disappeared. Parker
thinks he was killed and wrote 10 inquire
IL the father knew anything concerning the
missing lad. who is younger than Will
Mr. Shannahan believes George Is dead.
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CITIZENS HELD AT BAY.
Robbers Looted with One Hand and
Held Revolver in the Other.

PINCKNEY, Mich, Oct. 25.-The citizens
of Parkers Corners, a hamlet near here,
were held at bay last night by a gang of
armed burglars while they robbed the safe
in L. f. Peetss general store. The men
dynamited the safe, and the explosion,
which wrecked the store, awakened the
citizens. There were four men in the gang
and they successfully held the residents
off with their revOlVers until they had
cleaned out the safe Before they left
town the robbers also cut the telephone
wires leaving the hamlet without COM
municatiOn. 1t is not known how much
they secured from the SAFE but il is
thought TO be considerable.
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Obituary.

DENVER. Col. oct. 25-Horace Morrison
Hale former president of the University
OF Colorado and father of Gen. Irving Hale.
who commanded the Colorado volunteers
in the Philippines, is dead at his home in
this city of heart failure. The degree of
Ii. D. was conferred or him by Ohio
Wesleyan University in recognition of his
distinguished career as an educator.
DIES MONIES, Ia. Oct. 25.-Dr. Charles
r. Stoner, a prominent physician and
recognized authority I'm bacteriology, died
to-day from an attack of typhoid fever
He was fOrty-three years of age.
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Woman Fatally Injured.

TOLEDO. o.. Oct. 25.-This afternoon a
freight train on the Toledo Belt Railroad
backed into an East Broadway street-car
as the latter was crossing the railroad
tracks. Mrs. David Stewart was attempt
ing to make an exit from the car by the
rear door when the collision occurred. She
was injured about the neck and spine and
died shortly after being removed TO the
hospital. Several others were slightly in
iured
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MIL Will BE Reiuvenated.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind, Oct. 25-The American
Sheet Steel Company has decided not to
dismantle the bar mill connected with the
Midland steel works. as announced last
summer, and the mill is being repaired to
put in operation as soon as possible. Men
who left the city are being sent for to re-
turn to their old places.
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Has a Small Balance on Hand.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Oct. 25.-The Terre
Haute Baseball Association held a meeting
and put $40 away as the net profit or the
past season and for use in starting next
seasons club. Several applications were
received for the position of manager. The
association will employ playing manager
next season.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind, Oct. 25.-After nearly two
days of elaboration the jury in the Mat
thews-Neff damage suit brought in a YER
dict tonight allowing the plaintiff 81. Will
liam Matthews demanded $4,000 from Will
liam II. Neff, n wealthy manufactures, on
charge of alternating the affections of Mrs.
Matthews while Matthews was working for
Neff in his factory at Cowan. Matthews
must paw over 500 of costs.
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victims of the Locomotive Explosion.

SPRINGFIELD, H., Oct. 25.-The boiler
of a Wabash locomotive, No. no. hauling a
train of freight cars. exploded early to-day
two miles north of Body. Thomas Evers
of East St. Louis. fireman, and Thomas
Holland, of Clayton, H.. brakeman were
instantly killed and Engineer +. NJ. Don
nelly, of Decatur, was injured, as was also
George Anthony, who was riding in the
first car.
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STRIKE OF FIVE HUNDRED MEN.
Quit While Stickney Was Leading
Vanderbilt Through the Shops.

OELWEIN, Ia. Oct. 25.-While President
Stickney, of the Chicago Great Western
Railway, was showing Cornelius Wander
bilt. Stephen S. Little and w. a. Read, Of
New York. through the shops OF that rail-
road here 500 men walked out. They de-
manded the removal of a foreman, who,
they say, is brutal toward them. The
strikers included boiler makers and ma
chinists, blacksmiths carpenters and help
ers. The company declines to grant the
demand of the strikers
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over Eighteen Knots an Hour

PHILADELPHIA. oct 25.-The Russian
battleship Retvizan returned to-day to
Cramps shipyard from her trial trip. Rep
resentatves OF the builders who were on
board say that on the homeward trim the
ship was given second twelve hours test
and that she equaled the speed of more
than eighteen knots an hour that was cred
tied to her on the trip to Boston from
BROOKLYN navy yard.
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FAST TIME By A TRAIN.


NIAGARA FALLS. n. Y, Oct % j.
Fierpont Morgan and party arrived here
this evening in his special train over the
Michigan Central. The train made re-
markable run from Detroit to this city.
The distance. 227 miles, was covered in
three hours and twenty minutes. Mr.. ami
Mrs Morgan stopped for a few hours in
Buffalo and then proceeded to New York.
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NO CANTEEN AT POST. .


PHOENIX y. T.. Oct. 25.-Cavalry troop
ers stationed near Holbrook, in a drunken
riot in that town, ended with an attack
upon the house of John Blevins, deputy
sheriff. Blevins was fatally and Exc
Perkins painfully wounded. The soldiers
also shot at the wife and children of Blew
ms. Three of them have been placed under
arrest. The people of HolbroOk attribute
the tragedy to the abolition of the canteen.
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CHINESE STARVING
NEARLY ONE MILLION OUT OF FOOD
IN TWO. PROVINCES ALONE.
Committee of COnsuIs at Shanghai
Organizing for Relief work-Po-
IiticaI Riot at Cadiz.

SHANGHAI, Oct. 25.-According to relia-
bic reports received by the British consul
general Mr.. Warren, 00.0O0 persons in the
province of An-Hui and 100000 i'm the prov
ince of Kiang-Su are on the verge of
starvation. and the famine is spreading.
The available funds are insignificant The
Chinese have contributed $3.50 and the
foreigners CT, 500 A committee of the con-
suls is being formed to aid the sufferers.
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Higher Rate for Factories.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
KOKOMO, Ind, Oct. 25.-The Chicago
Gas Company. which supplies Kokomo with
fuel, has announced a raise in factory rates
from cents to cents per 1000 feet The
company has been supplying many fac
tories with fuel at the original rate, but
to-day all manufacturing concerns feeding
from the Chicago pipes We're notified that
after Nov. 1 the price would be increased
IN \ cents
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
DECATUR, Ind, oct. 25.-Noah Bixler, a
seventeen-year-old boy, whose home is at
Berne, has invented a device by which he
is able to send wireless messages. He has
been working at the machine several
it has done good work Although he has
not yet given it a test at any great distance
he has been able TO send messages from
one side of town to another without the use
OF wires
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Snuntfers Must Move.

ANADARkO. O. T. Oct 25-TrOOp D.
commanded by Capt. O. w Forbes. crosse
the Wichita river to-day on a trip through
the Wichita resery alton 10 remove squat
teTs Dozens of sQuatters. among whom
We're many who lost out in the Klowa open-
ing last august had removed their tents
during the night and late yesterday
majority OF them are practically penniless.
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Loves Young Dream.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE. Ind, oct. 25.-Abige
Grimes. aged seventy-four. of Clay county,
and Nancy Golden, aged fifty-eight of
Terre HaUte, were married by a justice OF
the peace and left his Office hand in hand.
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Guilty of Beheadins "a Man.

OKLAHOMA CITY. o. T., Oct ga
verdict of murder in the first degree
against Thomas Curtis was brought in
here tonight. Curtis was convicted of
cutting off the head OF William J. Flick
whose head was found in a pillow slip at
the bottom Of the Canadian river near
this city. three years ago.
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Sewer system Contract Let.
pecial to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ROCHESTER,, Ind, Oct. 25.-The Board
of Town Trustees awarded the contract TO
E. Wood & Co, OF Decatur, Ind. last night
for the construction of a system Of sani-
tary sewerage in this place. There were
six bidders, Wood & Co. securing the work
at Sl94gS so
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No DInerence. Then aud Now.

New York Evening Telegram.
Papers announce. Negro Dimes with the
PRESIDENT" Certainly; he ls no more proud
low than when he ate on the march and
in the trenches before Santiago with the
,allant black troopers Of the Tenth United
states Cavalry.
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sure Thing.


Boston Advertiser.
Some would-be smart Aiecs in attendance
NJ r. NJ Shepard's Tammany meetings
have a way OF interrupting his speeches by
calling out: where g. the shepherds
crook9" Ii Is a particularly foolish ques-
ion. because everybody who knows New
FORK knows that at every Tammany gath
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Hall Game n Manx vi, u.

LONDON, Oct 25.-Hall Game has been
elected to represent the town of Ramsay
in the Manx Parliament, receiving 40S votes
to 19l cast for his opponent, a local lawyer
named KermOde
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Serious Riot at CRdiz.

CADIZ, Spain, Oct. 25.-A demonstration
in favor of the mayor. who was recently
dismissed from his post. led to series OF
conflicts to-day with the police. Many per
sons were injured by stones ana with
weapons and numbers of people were ar
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co,omhin Rebels Take a Town.

NEW YORK. Oct. 25.-According TO the
Herald advices have been received in this
city from Colombia TO the effect that the
have taken the town of Tu-
maco. on the Pacific coast. near the Ecua-
dorian frontier and are now marching
toward Guapi, which Is near Buena Ven
tura.
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FATALLY BURNED.
A Little Girl at New Albany and o
Tramp Near Vincennes.

Special TO the indianapolis journal
NEW ALBANT. ird., oct. Catherine.
the ave-year-old daughter of Joseph Cooper.
was fatally burned to-day while playing
about a bonfire OF leaves. Her seven-year-
old sister Ruth and neighbor, Mrs. Albert
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Williams, also We're badly burned while
trying to extinguish the blazing garments
of the girl.
VINCENNES, Ind. oct. civilian
Foreham. an aged tramp. was burned last
night while asleep by camp fire north of
the city and oied this morning.
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Severe Loss to vincennes.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
VINCENNES. Ind, oct. 25.-The Vim
cennes garbage reduction plant, just COM
pleted, mile outside Of the city limits,
burned tonight. The loss is soO.O1l.
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FAIR AND WARMER TODAY.
sunday Also Fair, with Cooler Wealth
err I'm Northern Indiana.

WASHINGTON, Oct 25.-Forecast for
Saturday and Sunday.
For OhiO-Fair and warmer on Saturday
Sunday fair; light TO fresh southwest
winds.
For Indiana and Illinois-Fair and warm
or on Saturday. Sunday fair, with cooler
in northern portion; fresh southwest winds
shifting To- northwest
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Popular Again.
Kansas City Jou'

Kansas City Journal.
The old remedy whisky. burdock and
wild cherry bark for warling on most any
old disease. is coming back into fashion
AT Concorda. except that the burdOck and
Wild cherry bark are no longer considered
necessary.
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stops the Cough
aud Works on the Cold.

Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets cure a
cold in one day No cure. no pay. Price
- cents
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WE'D AZ aRtVE~
Biz INK

81 know | would have long ago
been In my grave" writes Mrs. )
II. Newsom, of Decatur. Ala, Hif
it had not been for Electric Bit
tcrs For ttree years | suffered
untold agony from the worst form
of Indigestion, Waterbrash, S,om-
ach and Bowel Dy spepsia. But
this excellent medicine did me a
world of good. Since using it
can eat heartily and have gained
80 pounds. For Indigestion,
Loss "f Appetite, Stomach, Liver
and Kidney troubles Electric Bit
t"rS are a positive, guaranteed
cure Only soc ut Crawford Bros
and j f. Mackey & Co.'S drug
store.
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Educate Your Bowels with Cascnrets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
AZ. 2oc. III q. 9. O. f"u, druggists refund money.
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Confessed Five Murders.

Lake City, Fla, Dec. g.
Thomas }. Hampton, colored,
who committed double murder
at Fort White, this county. nine
years ago, was hanged here today
for the c. inc. The doomed man
showed the most remarkable nerve
and smoked a cigar to the very
moment the black cap was adj
lusted. In his statement lust be-
tore the execution he confessed
to five murders, one of a con
ductor ON train in Lexington
county, South Carolina, in 1887,
n homicide that has for the last
IL Years been n mystery. Other
murders were committed i'm Gpor-
gla de was working in tur-
pehtlne camp when the Fort
White crime was com mitted. lie
esca ed and was only recently re,
captured.
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Slashed His Throat With Razor.
Special to The State.

w AhO s,tSNO-
Charlotte, IN G., Dec, s j.
. Hood, a well known bnsipess
man, slashed his throat with
razor this morning with suicidal
intent, az a result, it is said. Of
hrooding over "A recent business
loss of some S13, 0O0 in recent
business venture. Hoods broth
er was cut in trNiog 20 di~arm
the would he suicide. Hood de-
clares that he will yet end his
existence. His inability to sever
the wind pipe saved his life. He
made six cuts in attempting to
pierce, that organ. 1t was with
difficulty that the police aud
doctors could attend to his wounds.
He asked them to let him die.