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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-31

taxes alleged 10 be due for the years ISa2
To 1901. They We're required 70 give indem-
nifty bonds for the fun amount due from
each.
The Municipal Counci OF Havana has
rejected all bids submitted for the sewer
ing and paving contracts. taking the post
tton that IL had previously expressed dis
approval OF the specifications and condi-
tions OF idding that the present bids ia
VOlve grave errors; that the Municiaal
Council does not have al It's disposal ne
necessary funds despite lis great efforts 10
obtain them. and that the city cannot make
contracts IN the premises uaul the money
Il provided.
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SOMETHING OF A MYSTERY
Connected with the Death of VI. j.
Grady at Racine. Wis.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
HARTFORD CITY. Ind. Oct. 9.-The
news received here this morning from Ra-
cine, Wis, announcing the finding Of the
dead body of NJ. j. Grady, the wealthy
real-estate dealer of this city. aroused
great interest. Mr.. Grady was the most
extensive real-estate dealer here. He left
here Saturday night for Detroit, and his
presence in Racine in so short a time is
regarded as unusual. The telegram con-
tanned only meager details, stating that
the dead body of a man with an artificial
limb had been found in the water and pa
pers on his person identified him as M. j.
Grady, of Hartford City. The description
is complete and his brother-in-law, AlonZo
Shewalter, a local merchant, left at once
to bring the body to this city. His wife
had left but a few hours previous to the
arrival OF the telegram for Wilmington, o.,
their former home, to attend the funeral
of a friend.
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MattOx Guilty of Granddaughter.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Oct. 30.-The jury
in the trial of Alonzo Mattox for the muir
der of Tied" Britton at Alum Cave in Au-
gust of 1898, after being out nineteen hours
brought in a verdict this morning for man
slaughter. Under the law the sentence will
be from two TO twenty-one years. The jury
was widely divided at the start, as the evil
dence was very conflicting as to the claim
of self-defense. The defense will ask for a
new trial. This will be done on a number of
grounds. The most important is that Judge
Piety, in the course of the trial, remarked
that the defense could put MattoX on the
stand if it wanted to prove a certain fact,
and, although the judge Immediately re-
called the remark, the lawyers for the de-
Tense say the decision of the Supreme Court
leave no doubt that il was an error on
which a new trial must be granted.
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QUARTER CENTURY OF PROSPERITY.
Hendricks County Farmers Insurance
Association Makes Report.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
DANVILLE, Ind, Oct. 80. The Hen
Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
bricks County Farmers Cooperative In
surance Association has just rounded out
its twenty-ifth year in a very prosperous
condition. 1t is the third largest co-opera-
tive insurance association in the State and
che of the pioneer institutions of the kind.
1t has 1854 members. an increase for the
year of 1917. The amount of property in
sured is So, 425, 4c6, IN increase of $7S,G7.
The losses by fire in the year just ended
amounted to 81, 167. SO. In the whole period
of it's history the annual assessment for
loss averages a fraction less than 20 cents
on 800. George Scarce is president and
Simon Hadley secretary, both having
served in that capacity for many years.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
VALPARAISO, Ind, Oct. 30.-The City
Council of Hammond met last night and
took action against the Roby race track,
where a fifteen days meet is now on. After
permitting pool selling there without in
PREVENTION for the past few years the City
Council has decided to put a stop to the
under a statute of 1897 to order the chief
of police, captain, sergeants and patrolmen
to seize any apparatus, device or other
articles used in furthering pool selling or
gambling at the Roby tracks. They also
are ordered to arrest all persons found at
tempting to sell pools or assist in so doing
and to put them in Jail until released by
due process of law, and also to lodge COM
plant against such persons.
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Coast and Field Artillery.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. Col. Wallace
Randolph, chief of artillery, has made his
first annual report. 1t is a review of the
organization of the additional companies
of coast artillery and batteries of field ar
tillery under the army reorganization law.
He refers TO the reorganiZed artillery
school at Fort Monroe as promising good
results and says that the increase of the
artillery has made each artillery post a
school of instruction. Colonel Randolph
says 1t is proposed to undertake upon
an EXTENDED scale drill operations next
summer, utilizing as far as possible the
different militia organizations that are in
terested in the coast artillery work.
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Democrat Appointed Justice.

WASHINGTON, oct. SO.-The President
to-day made the following appointments:
Ju~stice-Frank L. Osborne, North Caro-
lima, associate justice, Court of Private
Land Claims.
Navy-Lieutenant commanders, Clarence
A. Carr, John A. Bliss; l-ieutenants. Leland
y. James, John Stict; gunners, Ion Hill,
Charles Herdahl.
Hon. Frank l. Osborne. appointed to sue
coed Judge Fuller as associate justice of
the United States CouT of Private Land
Claims, Is, like his predecessor, a Democrat.
He is a resident of Charlotte, N. c., and
was formerly attorney general of North
Carolina.
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Indiana Obituary.

NEW ALBANY, Ind, Oct. S0.-Henry
Watkeys. formerly superintendent of mo-
tive power of the Monon company, died to-
day at his home in Rochester, y. Y, from
the effects of a stroke of paralysis suffered
several days ago. He lived in this city
while holding his position on the Monon.
He was superintendent of motive power OF
the New York Central road for twenty-five
years prior to his Monon service. He was
seventy-two years old and left a widow and
eight children.
BEDFORD, Ind. Oct. 3O.-Mrs. Sarah
Duncan Newland died this noon at her
home in this city, after q long illness of
stomach trouble. She was a daughter of
Judge William Duncan. a pioneer attorney
of Lawrence county, and a sister of Judge
Clay Duncan, Of Monroe county. She was
sixty-nlne years old. She married DR.. j.
Wesley Newland, one of the best known
physicians in Southern Indiana, fifty-three
years ago. He survives.
RICHMOND, Ind. Oct. 30.-Henry j.
Hayward, formerly a resident of this city,
dropped dead in Chicago. His age was
ffty-nine years. The body was brought
here this afternoon for burial. Mrs.
Mary Reagan, aged seventy-seven years.
died this morning at her home in Green's
fork. One son and three daughters sur
vive.
ELWOOD. Ind. Oct. 30.-Jonathan Rig
don, aged eighty. one of the first settlers
and oldest inhabitants of the north part
of Madison county, died at his home In
Rigdon last evening. He was a lifelong
member of the Methodist Church and
prominent in it's councils. The funeral will
be held on Friday.
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Lighting Contract Awarded.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
BRAZIL. Ind, Oct. Sl-After a long ses-
sion last night and a special session this
afternoon the Council awarded contract for
lighting the city for ten years to the
Brazil Brewing, Ice and Power Company.
of which p. d. c. Ball. of St. Louis, is
president. The company will erect a light
ing plant here at once. The Stone * Web
ster Company. OF Boston. which owns the
electric street-railway and lighting plant
here, was the next bidder. Its contract .or
lighting the city will expire on Jan. l, and
as the new plant will not be in operation
till April. the city will be in darkness three
months.
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Cards Case with the Jury.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
GREENSBURG, Ind, Oct. S0.-For three
days the case of the State against William
Gard, charged with assault and battery
with intent to commit murder, has been on
trial in the Circuit Court. The defendant
lives at Clafksburg and it is alleged that
he to kill a young man named
Linville by stabbing him with a knife.
Gard declares he did the cutting in self,
defense. Linville has partly recovered and
is the chief prosecuting witness. over fifty
witnesses were examined before the case
went To the jury this afternoon. A deci-
sion has not yet been reached.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
ELWOOD. Ind. oct. 90.-James NJ. Kurtz,
thirty-six years old and unmarried, the son
of William Kurtz. of Elwood, was found
lead at Fowlerton. Grant county. where
he was employed. Death resulted from an
overdose of morphine. taken to secure re-
lief from headache. The body was brought
here to-day.
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Going to south Africa.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND. Ind. Oct. @.-James c. Bor-
ton. son OF Jesse Borton. OF Webster. this
county. and Robert r. White, a young at
torney Of this city. have gone to Brook
lyn. y. Y. and from there will sail for
the Transvaal. White is widely travelled
and Borton was in the Philippine service.
They will engage in business in South
Africa.
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Walters to BE Deported.

WASHINGTON. Oct. 3O.-The thirteen
German walters who arrived in this country
early this month on the steamer Monaghan
have been ordered by the Treasury Depart
ment to be deported. Upon landing in New
York the walters were arrested under the
contract labor law. After an Investigation
Of the case il was held that they were here
in violation of the law. They took an ap-
peal to the secretary of the treasury. lie
issued the order to-day for their deporta-
ton as contract labOrerS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-31

RALEIGH, n. c., Oct. 30-At Winston
Salem, the three men charged with robbing
Mr.. William Richen. of Chicago, of $3.50
were examined to-day and bound over to
court. In default of $500 bond each they are
in jail. During the trial the men who regis
tered from Washington, ID. c., claimed that
that place was not their home. E. L.
Hammond said he was from Columbus, O.,
but his wife was now at Pittsburg, Pa, the
place William Schade claims as. his home.
James Buckley is a native of Indiana. The
three said they had been travelling for sew
eral years conducting games at fairs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-31
An Elusive Kiss.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
FORT WAYNE, Ind. Oct. 30.-E. ]. Kiss,
inventor of a gold and silver extracting
machine. in which he had enlisted some
local capital, has left here without expla-
nation TO the investors. They are alarmed
and nave sent out tracers for him. He Is
not connected in any way with the pros
porous Hicks Gold and Silver Extraction
Company. using the Hicks patents.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-31
Voyage of the Floating Dock.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3O.-Rear Admiral
Endicott, chief of the Bureau of Yards and
Docks. received a telegram to-day stating
that the big floating dry dock destined
for the naval station at Algiers, La, passed
Key West at 4 o'clock yesterday. The dock
still has about 800 miles TO traverse. 1t is
learned here that the arrival of the dock
Will be made the occasion for a big aquatic
demonstration, it being planned to have a
fleet of steamers meet the dock at the
mouth of the Mississippi and accompany it
up the river to Algiers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-31
President schwab at EIwood.

Special to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal.
ELWOOD, Ind, Oct. 30.-President
Schwab, of the United States Steel Cor
poration; President Graham. of the Amer
lean Tin-plate Company, and other officers
of the former corporation were here to-day
inspecting the tin-plate factory. They
found everything satisfactory. They said
no special significance was attached TO the
visit. They went from here 10 Gas City.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-31
Barn and Contents Destroyed.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal
VALPARAISO. Ind, Oct. S0.-Sparks sup
posed to be from a Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road engine to-day set fire TO timber, and
the fire was communicated 10 the barn of
Joseph Bender, of Porter county, destroy
ing il with its contents, including gram.
utensils, buggies and other articles Of
much value. The loss is 5000.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-31
American Coal i'm France.

WASHINGTON, Oct. SO.-Consul General
Skinner. at Marseilles. under date of Oct.
4 informs the State Department Of the ever
increasing success of American coal in the
French market. During the first half of
1900. says Mr.. Skinner. 4O7,7 tons of En-
glish coal arrived at Marseilles, as against
7.1S9 of American. From January 10 July
OF this year. however. the figures stood
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-31
GOVERNOR AT FORT WAYNE.
He Inspects the Prosperous Home for
FeebIe-Minded Youth.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, Oct. Ex-Governor
Durbin and State Auditor Hart were here
to-day and inspected the School for Feeble
minded Youth. They inspected the new
building going up for the care of a certain
class of feeble-minded women and ex-
pressed approval of the workings of the
institution.
superintendent Johnson will turn back
over $1,000 of the appropriated maintenance
fund and over $4,000 of receipts from vari-
Gus sources.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-31
More Game Law Prosecutions.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
ELWOOD, Ind, Oct. 90.-Deputy Game
Wardens King and Jeanette, who have
been working in this section for the past
several weeks, made two more arrests yes
terday, although they succeeded in cap
turing their men only after a chase of sew
eral miles across the country. The illegal
hunters were Kaaper Duchetau and Hugo
Blanc. two Elwood glass workers. They
pleaded guilty to hunting without a license
and were fined $3.50 each.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-31
No Advance Expected in Coal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Oct. 30.-It is be-
lieved here that the usual Nov. l advance
in the price Of coal at the mines in Indiana
will not be made on Friday. The warm
weather of the past two weeks has upset
the calculations of the operators. and it is
believed there will not be another advance
before Dec. l unless there should be a
severe cold spell of some days duration in
November.
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at $50. 800 tons English and 81. 622 tons Amer
lean. The only disquieting element in this
trade. Mr.. skinner says, is the necessity
transportation of American coal. However,
he records a more favorable condition of
the freight rates, due, il has been sug-
gested. to the fear on the part of the British
ship owners Of American competition IN the
carving trade.
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stopped. Tomorrow morning the street
commissioner will put a gang of men at
work repairing the streets torn up by Mr..
Marott.
At the next meeting of Council ii is eX-
pected that franchises will be granted TO
the Wabash River Traction Company and
to the Wabash Valley Traction Company,
and the fight then will be on in earnest.
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wabash Valley EscuIapianx.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Oct. 3O.-A large
delegation of Terre Haute physicians will
go to Paris, H., tomorrow to attend the
ffty-ffth annual meeting of the Esculapian
Society of the Wabash Valley. Several
Terre Haute physicians are on the pro-
gramme for papers. The society is the old
est medical organization west Of Pittsburg.
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Might Advertise Again.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind, Oct. 9.-William Lit
tlefeld, Of VoIga, S. D., who yesterday
married Mrs. Nellie Smith in this city, is
now looking for his wife. Soon after their
marriage Littlefield gave his wife money
to do some shopping and she left the city.
1t is thought she went to Muncie, and he
left for that city to-day in search of her.
Littleield is a young farmer and came to
marry Mrs. Smith in answer to a matri-
monial advertisement.
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Third Casualty of the Kind.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
KOKOMO, Ind, Oct. S0-Godfrey
Schwenger. a baker and restauranteur of
this city, fell from a ladder tonight. crush
ing his skull. He will die. This is the third
fatality from falls here in two days.
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Seriously Ill i'm Atlanta,

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
GREENSBORO, Ind. Oct. S0.-Noah T.
Rogers, who represented Decatur county
in the last legislature. is sick i'm "A hos
pital at Atlanta, Ga. Mr.. Rogers was UNI
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-31
Two Carpenters Killed.

ELYRIA. o., Oct. so. A. Mcdonald and
Joseph Kolb. carpenters at work on the
new Catholic schoolhouse here. were killed
to-day. A scaffold upon which they wee
at work broke and they fell forty feet and
struck on some stones.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-31
Took Poison to End His Trouble.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
KOKOMO. Ind, Oct. 3.-Sick and de-
spOndent, S%ylvanus Kidder. aged thirty.
swallowed morphine tonight and died from
the poison. HIS wife is dying Of consump-
tiOn.
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PEORIA, ILL.,, Oct. 3O.-Prof. James B..
Garner, instructor in chemistry at Bradley
Polytechnic Institute, in this city, has re-
chair of chemistry in Wabash College.
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able to occupy his seat in the last Degisla-
ture, owing 10 an attack OF rheumetism
and has never fully recovered. Recently he
went South. thinking a change of climate
would benefit him.
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Fair weather.

Guess-work is all right when you can't
get the sure tip. All made-to-order cloth
ing is g~uess-work, but in our stock your
exact fit is waiting for you.
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NO Guess
Work

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all heavy weights. light weights, medium
weights and feather weights are here.
Look at the newest fad in black and
white overcoats at $4,000 and $4,000,
yokes or without
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-01-22
A MIsCHIEvoUs MILDLY.
Feats and Tricks of Rear Admire
Francis Gregory When
Midshipman.

Mr.. Park Benjamin's recent histor
of the United States Naval academyf
full of the kind of information
which readers delight, and which d
as-dust historians scorn. Solid FAD
are vivified by accompanying anecd9
and tradition, giving glimpses of
life of the American midshipman a.
his successor, the naval cadet, from Il
revolution to the Spanish war. The
show him to have been always gallan
always lively, and always very much
a boy even under serious circumstance
says Youths Companion.
One characteristic tale is told
Rear Admiral Francis Gregory when
midshipman, during the war of 1912.
He attempted single-handed to bio
up a British frigate in the ST. LawrenC
by means of a torpedo. Clad only
his underclothes, with a cord lOf
enough to reach across the riv
fastened by one end round his neck ar
attached at the other to the torpedo, J.
swan to the vessel.
Although belated by being swept fl
out of his course, he at length reacne
her, scrambled up on her rufder, DIRE
up his torpedo and had begun to attaC
it, when he heard the boatswsdu' IS pipe
"All hands up anchor!"
That meant failure, for she would /
under weigh before he could fin16h, an
then his undertaking would be fmpo:
sible; so he slipped back into RE w;
ter unperceived, and still towing hi
dangerous companion, swan bes& t
the American shore.
"That was the heroic part of the III
dertaking," says Mr.. Benjamin; eth
boy part followed. He was obliged t
remain in concealment until nigh
fall, and during the interval h
ruminated in disgust upon the fatiu I
of his expedition until he made up b
mind he would get some personal graf
fication, if nothing else, out of It.
$50, having discovered an abandone
lime-kiln near by, he lugged his tol
pedO there, packed in stones and brio
over it, and in the silence of night fire
it, The CONSERVATION which the tel
rife explosion created throughout tn
surrounding country was immense, all
the keen enjoyment thereof by Nit
shipman Gregory went far to consol
him for his earlier disappointment"
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For abOws i've rinutsx nothing
more was said. Then Goddard broke
the stiffness.
81 have thought of suicide" he said
THAT could not possibly help you
or her" declare. the priest.
Il am withheld even from that cow
ardly act because the shock would kill
her. Don't you see how 1 am buffeted
about by the consequences of my
crime?"
81 see l see. And for the same rea-
son you cannot tell her that she is not
your wife"
mo, that would kill her. DR.. Flem-
ing said she would not be able to bear
the slightest shock or excitement"
when did you see him?"
81 have not seen him since he exam
ined Blanche"
SLOW did you find out that Blanche
has this-this terrible disease?"
81 have just told you that Jeanne
told me that DIR. Fleming had con-
fided it to her. he enjoined it on her
to keep it even from me, and by az
means from Blanche"
ITO Be Continued