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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-09
OBITUARY.
Frank ConGer, Vice President of the
American Bridge Company.

american A1EAusc
NEW YORK, March S.-Mr. Frank Con-
ger, of this city, died at Detroit early to-
day Mr.. Conger was taken i'll last Mon
day with the grip, which later developed
into pneumonia. He was on his way from
Saginaw, Mich, to Little Rock, Ark when
taken i'll at the Wayne Hotel. The re-
mains arrived at Croton tonight, and the
funeral services Will be held Monday or
Tuesday.
Frank Conger was born May q, 1S49, IN
Groton, Tompkips county, y. ", in log
cabin, the son Of COrydOn and Mary Brown
COnger. His father died Nov. 20, last, at
the advanced age Of seventyfiVe years.
Mr.. Conger was a high-degree Mason and
Odd Fellow. president of two banks at
GrOtOn, until recently president of the
Universal Safety Tread Company of New
Jersey, president of the American Visible
Typewriter Company OF Delaware, presi-
of the COnSer Manufacturing Company
and the COnger Produce Company of Gro
ton. He was a member of the Engineers
Club and the Lawyers Club of New York
city the Union League Club of Brooklyn.
the Duquesne Club of Pittsburg and the
Pencoyd Club of Philadelphia. While not
interested in politics TO the extent of seek
ing office, he was an ardent Republican.
Mr. COnger was the originator of the
American Bridge Company, concern do
ing a business OF $2.000O0o annually pre-
vious 10 it's absorption by the United
States Steel Corporation. lie was one of
the vice presidents and the general mama
ger of the highway contracting depart
ment before that merger.
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A Plan That Failed to work.



Speaking Of suicide which isn't at all so
easy thing to accomplish as it appears
to the layman, inasmuch as an overdose
of many a poison is perfectly harmless,
the average bullet wound far from fatal,
and divers and sundry acts of violence not
TO be relied on, l am reminded of one of
the most brilliant women in Washing
ton. who made up her mind years ago,
that life wasn't worth living, SO she de-
termined to take Epictetus's advice and
pass through 1.-The open door" She was
only a girl overstrained, too brilliant to
be eVen-minded. too sensitive to endure
the commonplace.
Vulgar methods of suicide dispeased her
She didn't wish TO attain notoriety, but
she did wsh--Or thought she dd-to die
SO one cold. sleety night late i'm au-
tumn she went early to her room, opened
her window wide, and, divesting herself
of all but a thin muslin garment, sat i'm
the darkness on the window SILL to be
chilled by the rain and sleet She was
a delicate slip of girl-just the sort of
girl whom everybody expected 10 die young.
The driving sleet seemed full of the seeds
OF consumption, or OF pneumonia at the
least. She sat there for hours till the
very marrow Of her bones was chilled
Then she crept into bed, firmly expect
ing TO awake hOpelessly i'll. She did awake
on schedule time. but she wasn't i'll. In
fact she hadn't much a cold in her
head 20 show for her attempt at suicide,
and she has never tried II since.
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Wages of Textile workers.

FALL RIVER. Mass, March s. - The
Manufacturers Association of this city to-
day announced its decision not to increase
wages above the rate previously set-name-
ly, a fraction above per cent. The OPP
eratives had demanded an increase Of 10
per cent. The manufacturers contend they
have done all that business conditions will
warrant.
NJ. d. Borden posted notices to-day an
nouncing that weavers' wages In the Iron
works mills hereafter would be reckoned
on forty-stx yards of cloth to a cut. This
is a concession to the demands of the
various textile unions for a standard Of
forty-six yards. Hitherto cuts have been
fifty yards at the Iron-works mills, for
which 20l4 cents was paid. The new rate
will be LIS cents for forty-six yards
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FOUGHT IN THE MUD.
The Newton Brothers Made 1t UncOm-
Portable for John Long.

John Long. of SSS South Missouri street,
Ed Newton, of All West Merrill street, and
Frank Newton, of 5i1 West Merrill street.
were arrested at Senate avenue and Merrill
street late last night and sent to police
headquarters. All were charged with
drunkenness, and the Newton brothers
were further charged with assault and bat
terry. They were caught by Patromen Nc
Carly and Dolby in the act Of beating Long.
who was down in the mud under them.
When he appeared at the police station
blood was running from bruises on his head
and he was covered with mud. He had
been roughly handled having been beaten
and kicked. He said the Newton brothers
had tried to take his money, a weeks pay
of 50. less what he had spent for liquor,
which was sufficient to make him wabbly.
The brothers denied this and threatened
to get even as soon as they got out of the
workhouse, a place OF which they talked
Familiarity and to which they confidently
expect TO be sent
The policemen had seen the brothers in
a saloon and Long on the street going to-
wards home few minutes before the fight.
SO busily engaged We're the brothers in
pounding Long that they did not observe
the approach of the officers who pulled
them off of Long.
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MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.

NEW YORK. March S.-Arrived: St Paul
from Southampton, steam yacht Prinzessin
Victoria Iuise. from West Indies. on cruise
via Charleston Sailed Kronprinz VIII
helm. for Bremen. via PlmOuth and Cher
b0urg; Amsterdam. for Rotterdam. via
ToulOgue: Umbria. for Liverpool. Trave
for Neples and Genoa; Minnehaha, for
london; Carthagenian. for Glasgow Penn
sylvania. for Hamburg.
HAVRE, March S.-Arrved: La Cham
payne. from New York Sailed: La Gas
cOgne for New York.
ANTWERP. March S.-Arrived: Fries
land. from New York. Sailed: Haverford.
for New York.
GLASGOW. March S.-Arrived: Mongo-
Ian. from Boston. Sailed: Norwegian, for
Boston
GENOA. March S.-Arrived: Kaiserin Ma
ria Theresa. from New York.
HAMBURG. March S-Arrived: Graf
Waldersee, from New York.
LIVERPOOL. March S-Arrived: Cam
panla, from New York
cHERBOURG. March S-Sailed: St
Louis, for New York.
LONDON. March S-Arrived: Manitou.
from New York
BOSTON. March S.-Arriyed: sylvania.
fxSm Liverpool
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CANNOT GET A COMMISSION.
Gunner Joseph Hill Lacks "Profes-
siOnaI Qualifications"

SAN FRANCISCO. March S-Joseph Hill
gunner of the United States training ship
Pensacola and survivor of the Maine, has
received official notification from Washing
ton that he is ineligible for a commission
in the United States navy. The notice says
he passed with credit the moral. mental
and physical examination, but that he was
lacking in professional qualifications"
Hill thus meets the same fate as Gunner
Morgan. whose application for a commits
sion was adversely passed on last year.
Hill at present occupies the highest rank
in the list OF petty officers, and his pay as
gunner would be more than that of ensign.
In speaking of the matter to-day he said
that, while he was sorely disappointed, he
was not discouraged, and he means to get
the commission If further effort will do il.
Under the act of March, 1901, enlisted men
of the navy under thirty-five years of age
who can pass the examination are eligible
for commissions when vacancies occur, and
Hill says that he comes under that pro-
vision.
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why He Didn't Jump.
Portland Oregonian.


Here is one that a young man who knows
a good story when ne hears it heard one
railroad man tell another in depot up the
line the other day:
We picked uD new Irishman some
where up-country and set him to work
brakin' on a construction train at cents 4
mile for wages. One day when him an me
was the train she got away one o.
them mountain grades and the first thing
we knOwed she was flynn down the track
at about ninety miles an hour. with nothin
in sight but the ditch and the happy hunt
in grounds when we come TO the end. |
twisted EN- down as hard as 1 could all
along the tops. and then OF a sudden / see
Mike crawlin' along toward the end Of
one of the cars on all fours with his face
the color OF milk. l thought he was gettin'
ready TO jump, an 1 see his finish if lie
did
. Mike I says. for Gods sake don't
jump
HE clamps his fingers on the runnin'
board to give him chance to turn round
and, lookin' at me contemptuous. answers
Jump. is 1t? Do yez think I'd be afther
junfpin' an me maxim money fast as /
am p
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a woman who, after looking around his
gallery, picked out one of Mr.. Joness land
scanes and ordered IL sent to her home.
She had admired the painting so greatly
that the dealer was pleased, and he thought
that one who so much liked an American
work would like it all the more if she
knew the locality of its subject. So he OBJ
served TO his customer who had come in
her carriage, that the painting a pic
turesque bit of Jersey.
do you mean the isle Of Jersey?' she
asked, as she looked again admiringly at
the canvas.
"Oh, no; New Jersey" was the reply,
and before the man got a chance to say
more he was cut short by his patron, who
turned her back upon the picture and
faced him with the severely abrupt declara-
ton that she wouldn't have 1T in her house.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-09
Freight Handlers Strike.

BOSTON, March s.-Four hundred and
fifty freight handlers employed in the
freight houses of the New York. New
Haven & Hartford Railroad at South Bos-
ton struck tonight because of the refusal
of the company to reinstate several men
who had been discharged for refusing to
handle freight delivered by the r. S.
Brine Transportation Company. Although
a strike of freight handlers had been
threatened for the past two or three weeks.
IL was from an entirely unexpected quarter
that it finally came. The strike is expected
to be far-reaching in its effects.
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NEGROES ARRESTED.
One Had Been SIashed with a Knife
by the other.

The arrest of Charles Bradley and
Charles Durham, both coored, last night,
was due to their quarrelsome dispositions
and their inability to stop quarreling. Pa
trolmen Tomlinson and Bates were walking
on the street, and when quite a distance
away heard charges and countercharges
of one cutting the other with knife. When
they met the negroes they were stopped.
Each denied that there had been any trou-
BILE, but when Durham was searched a
bloody knife was found on him. Further
investigation showed that Bradley had
been cut badly across the hand and on the
arm. The cut on the hand. he said. was
caused by his grabbing the blade of the
knife held by Durham.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-09

VIOLENT DEMONSTRATION BY SYM
PATHIZERs AT NORFOLK.
Cars BOmbarded by n Mob and Nom
uniOnists Beaten-SeVeraI Per-
sons Injured.

NORFOLK, Va, March s.-After. per-
haps, the most violent demonstration Of
the strike sympathizers since the strike
began. lasting for three hours at the cor
ner of Main and Church streets, in which
a mob Of 1000 or 1000 bombarded cars, beat
nonUnion employees. and in hundred other
ways showed their feeling against the Nor
folk Electric Company. the Chamber of
Commerce committee having in charge the
arbitration OF the strike made its report
shortly after midnight, having been in ses-
sion for ffty-six hours. The report stipu-
lates that the employees shall be bonded as
prescribed, So per cent. of the old employees
shall be taken back to work, and that twen-
ty-four of the nonunion workmen shall be
retained whether they become members of
the union or not.
Several people were hurt tonight by the
missiles thrown through car windows by the
mob. nonunion motormen and conductors
beaten and badly used. windows and electric
lights in the cars that were run after dark
were demolished, and several men now rest
behind the bars in the police station. hav-
ing been arrested by the police and other
officers
Corporal Truxton, a grandson of Commo-
dore Truxton, fought a hand-to-hand con-
test with a strike sympathizer on the rear
platform of a car in view Of a thousand
people. and held his man, whose name was
Lee Curtis. 1t was necessary to bring a
revolver into play in order to do it.
1t has been impossible TO ascertain, up
to late hour tonight, how the strikers
as body regard the report of the arbi-
tration committee. but Hugh Gordon Miller
counsel for the strikers, expressed the
opinion they would abide by the decision
and return TO work. A meeting of the
strikers viii be held tomorrow, at which
the whole matter will be argued. The mill
tia viii remain until decision is reached
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viennese Pleased with Mccormick.

VIENNA, March S-A high official here
discussing the decision to raise the mission
Of Austria-Hungary at Washington to an
embassy, and the consequent raising of the
United States mission at Vienna to an en-
basSy, said: Minister Mccormick, who has
made a particularly favorable impression,
would be most acceptable as the first United
States ambassador to AuStria-Hungary.
His efforts TO establish good relations be-
tween the two countries have contributed
to the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS initiative I'm this
respect and we expect the best results in
the future. Mr.. and Mrs. Mccormick have
gained a position in Niennese society quite
unusual in so short a time"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-09
The Dubois Agreement.
New York Times.

Now 1ork Times.
Mrs. Dubois, wife of the senator from
Idaho, is an enthusiast on the subject of
child culture. Before her marriage she
was a Kindergarten, and she has made
child culture her life study.
when We were married" she said re-
Gently 10 a friend, the senator and
MADE only one ante-nuptial agreement.
What was thatP' asked the friend.
we agreed" said Mrs. Dubois. that
after we were married he should never talk
culture to him. And we have kept that
agreement scrupulOusly ever since" she
added impressively
Aou are an exceptional couple to be
able 10 keep such an agreement" was the
comment.
But we have kept it," said Mrs. Dubois;
that IS, We have kept it 10 this extent
the senator never talks politics TO me-"
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GENEVA, Switzerland, March S.-The
canton authorities here have prohibited a
Red Cross procession, which was TO have
taken place tomorrow, as they fear anti
British demonstrations. The members of
the Red Cross Society proposed to carry
flag draped with crepe a protest against
the alleged violation of the laws Of warfare
by England in South Africa.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-09
Schooner Burned by wreckers.

SAN DOMINGO. Republic of San Do
mingo. March SIT is reported here that
the British schooner Cavalier, ashore on
the south coast has been burned by ma
tives, who intended 10 plumber her.
The Cavalier was a three-masted schoon-
er from Halifax, n. S. According to the
shipping report available she was wrecked
Jan. rs at Petit Trou while on her way TO
New York. She had on board half a cargo
of wood. Petit Trou is a maritime village
OF Hayti, eighty-seven miles west of Port
au-Prince
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-09

FRANKFORT, Ky, March S.-The lower
house OF the General Assembly at noon
struck out OF the revenue bill all proposed
increases OF the rates OF taxation OF life
Insurance companies doing business in Ken
lucky, allowing the present law TO stand
The House adopted section assessing an
annual tax of one-eighth Of 1 per cent. on
the capital stock or corporations doing bust
ness in Kentucky which have organized in
other States. IL reaches the corporations
organizing out OF Kentucky TO secure pro-
lection OF the federal courts.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-09
The shemaka Earthquake.

BAKU. Russian Transcaucasia, March
s-The official report OF the committee
which has been investigating the recent
earthquake at Shemaka shows that 126 VIII
lagos, with total of 9.0S4 houses, were in
cluded in the area OF the disturbance; that
3,456 houses were destroyed and 1880 dam
aged. Besides the dwellings 4163 farm
buildings, eleven churches, forty-One
mosques. eleven factories and three school
houses were seriously damaged.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-09
BOER MAGAZINE FOUND.
Important Discovery by Canadian
Scouts in Orange River Colony.

LONDON, March S.-Lord Kitchener, in a
dispatch from Pretoria, dated to-day, re-
ports the discovery of a BOer magazine in a
cave nOrthea stward of Rietz, Orange River
Colony. containing 10000 rounds of rifle
ammunition, hundreds of shells and fuses,
200 pounds of powder, a Maxim gun, helios,
field telegraphs and quantities of stores.
Thirty-five Beers have been captured in
the same neighborhoOd since March 4. The
magazine was discovered by Canadian
scouts, commanded by Colonel Ross.
The Natal Legislature has adopted a res
olution in favor of compulsory military
service.
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other Deaths.

BOSTON. March S.-Uriel IT. Croker.
author of several standard books on legal
subjects died at his home here to-day. Mr.
Croker was sixty-nine years of age lie
was prominent in charitable and philan-
thropic work connected officially with
many financial and public Institutions and
a member of various patriotic and social
organizations
ST. LOUIS, Mo. March S.-John Lindsay,
former chief of the ST. Louis fire depart
ment. died to-day after long illness. Pre-
vious TO 1885 Mr.. Lindsay held the position
of chief, and for more than twenty years
he was a member OF the fire department.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-09
Strike of SeaIers.

ST. JOHNS, n. F., March S.-The crews
of the sealing fleet. numbering about 1900
men, went on strike to-day. demanding
increase in price for the catch from s. per
hundred weight to 81 The strikers paraded
the streets with flags and proceeded TO
government house to lay their case before
the Governor. Sir Cavendish Boyle. The
demonstration was orderly. The ships will
be unable TO sail Monday morning unless
an adjustment is effected before that time.
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Mrs. mini. Again Critically III.

WOODBINE, Ia. March S.-Mrs. Hills
mother OF Rev. Dwight Hills, OF Brooklyn,
who last October. was stricken with par
alysis. and was expected to die. is again in
a critical condition. The physician in at
tendance reports her az being very feeble
her appetite and speech being gone and
has small hope Of her recovery. Rev. Hills
has been notified OF his mothers condition
and is expected TO arrive here in a short
4rr.n
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-09
Railway strike Averted.

ROME, March S.-The railway strike
which has been impending for some time
past has been averted by the making Of
mutual concessions, resulting from the
strong pressure which the government has
exercised on the railway companies and
their employees. 1t is reported the gov
eminent has agreed TO appropriate 31,O00,-
600 lire for a workmen's fund to offset GER
tain claims of the men. The government
decree calling TO the colOrs all railroad
employees belonging to the mobile and ter
ritOrial armies will, it is announced, be
revoked tomorrow.
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BATES ORDERED TO CHICAGO.


OMAHA. Neb.. March Seen. ]. c. Bates.
commanding the Department Of the Mis-
souri,, to-day received orders to assume
command also of the Department of the
Lakes on the retirement of Gen. L. S. OTIS
General Bates had not been anticipating
the order and believes it to be only tenn
porary 1t is understood at army head
quarters that General Macarthur, now In
command OF the Department of Colorado,
will assume command of the Department OF
the Lakes on the appointment OF his sue
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-09
New Trust Company Formed.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
CONNERSVILLE, Ind, March S.-The
Merchants and Farmers Trust Company,
composed of local capitalists, capital stock
$50 600, met this afternoon and elected the
following officers: Francis T. Roots, presi-
dent; +. w Ansted, vice president b. +
Thiebaud, cashier; f. r. Beeson, assistant
cashier. The company will be located in
the old Citizens Bank building and will
begin its business career April 8.
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Assaulted by His Roommate.

The refusal of William zeigler, Is North
West street, TO give his roommate, Tom
Corners, dollar last night resulted in
the arrest of both. Zeigler claims he has
been holding up Corners for a month
or more, while he has been out OF work
Last night Corners asked for a dollar, but
did not get it. The rOOmmates Quarreled
for a time, and then Zeigler got into bed
There he was assaulted, he claims, by
Corners. who still persisted in demanding
the dollar. They are charged with assault
and battery
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-09
Cecil Rhodes Improving.

CAPE TOWN, March S.-Cecil Rhodes.
who is residing at the seaside suburb Of
Muisseuberg, is benefting by the absolute
quiet insisted upon by his doctors and his
condition to-day is somewhat improved. Mr.
Rhodess heart has caused anxiety. His
two years trouble from that organ have
been accentuated by the recent heat.
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KNOXVILLE. Tenn, March S.-Mitchen
Mizely. In jail on the charge OF murder.
and George Taylor and Isaac Woodsey,
wanted for small offenses. broke Jail a
Rutledge, Tenn, tonight. When the jailer
went 10 feed them they Overpowered him.
took his pistol locked him in cell and
denarted
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-09
Consumers Enter a Protest.
Portland Oregonian.

Free trade I'm pulp and lower duties on
paper-this is the American Publishers As
ISOLATION tariff proposal, and il is the fair
est yet promulgated by any industry. We
have plenty of plans for free raw materials
and high duties on finished product, and
reciprocity on somebody else's goods in ex-
change for favors to mine. The difference
in the case OF paper is that for once we
hear from the consumer instead OF the
tariff-beggar.
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summer Home burned.

ST. PAUL, March S.-The summer resi-
dence of Michael Doran. the well-known
Democratic politician, at Cottage Park,
White Bear lake. was destroyed by fire
to-day The residence, unoccupied at pres
ent, cost 100000. 1t was insured for $4,000
The cause OF the fire Is not known.
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New \ OK SUN
Bolton Jones had this condition OF mind
on the part OF so many picture buyers
brought home to him in two concrete in
stances. than which nothing can better en-
phasiZe its existence, its virulence, or its
righteousness. A dealer-and he was one
OF the leading ones in New York-whO
liked TO sell American paintings and tried
to do so upon opportunity. was visited by
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-09
Cabinet Crisis in Spain.

MADRID, March S.-The Spanish papers
agree in declaring that a ministerial crisis
is almost unavoidable, and they express the
opinion that the announcement that a crisis
has occurred will be made after the Cabi-
net council to be held March 10.