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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-18
HE SWALLOWED HIS TEETH
JAMES FORGEY TOOK BITE OF
SANDWICH AND A SUP OF WATER.
DIR. RiIus Eastman Found the Teeth
with X-Rays-They Were False and
Three in Number.

James Forgey will be more careful in the
puts in his mouth. Forgey has three false
teeth. Yesterday evening, not desiring to
go home for supper. he purchased a sand
witch from one of the street lunch wagons
He walked east on Washington street,
munching at his bun, when it suddenly oc-
Cured to him that such eating was rather
dry. AS he reached the corner of Virginia
avenue and Washington street he came
upon a pump. He took a mouthful of the
sandwich and then swallowed it with a
gulp of water from the pump. AS he did
so the three false teeth shot down his
throat.
FOrgey was at a loss TO know what had
happened. He was not sure whether a bone
had become lodged in the sandwich or
something had come from the bottom of the
well. He soon realized the difficulty when
he began to inhale the cool night air. He
put his hand to his mouth and found that
the three teeth were gone. Then he began
to feel pain below the throat He hurried
TO the City Dispensary, where he told Drs.
Foreman and Kennedy what had occurred.
The doctors gave him emetics, but they
were of little value. Forgey was beginning
to get discouraged, when DR.. Foreman sug-
gested that they go to DR.. Eastman s
sanitarium on North Delaware street,
where an X-ray machine could be used.
DR.. Rilus Eastman worked on Forgey for
some time and had great difficulty in locat-
ing the teeth, as they proved transparent
under the strong rays. The teeth were
finally found about four inches in the
aesophagus. DR.. Foreman then gave For
gey a solution of hot salt water, and in a
short time he had his teeth in his hand.
He was profuse in his thanks to the doc
tors.
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OLD POWER HOUSE BURNED AT A
LOSS OF $500.
High Water Pressure Burst Pipes i'm
w. III. Armstrong; store-A Nc
Lean-PIace Blaze.

The old power house of the Atlas engine
works was burned last evening at o'clock,
entailing a loss of $500. The building,
which frame and brick. discovered
on fire by the nightwatchman, who had
just come to work. When he saw it the
fire had gained much Roadway and threat
ened TO communicate to the main buildings
The fire department held the fire in check
During the fire at the Atlas engine
works strong fire pressure was turned
on. 1t became so strong that the water
pipes in the w. II. Armstrong store, on
South Meridian street, burst, flooding the
main salesrOom. The salvage corps ad-
Justed the pipes and covered the goods.
The loss will amount to $500.
At 4:SO o'clock yesterday morning the
frame house belonging to Paul c. Paul
son, at 1877 Mclean place, was partially
destroyed by fire. The loss to the house
and furniture is estimated at $500. Paul
son made complaint TO the police yesterday
that he was sure that his house had been
set on fire. He said that he was awakened
by someone throwing stones against the
side of his house When he came out he
could not see any one, he said. PaulsOn is
the man who was recently charged by the
street-car officials with using his house
for gambling purposes 1t was charged
that the motormen and conductors of the
McLean-place barns had been congregat-
ing in Paulsons house and shooting dice.
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WAGES OF FIREMEN.
Ordinance to BE Reported on by Com
mittee Tonight.

The ordinance providing for an increase
in the wages paid to members of the city
fire department will likely be greatly
changed by the committee on fees and sal
aries to-day and reported on favorably to-
night. The ordinance as it was introduced
provided increases for all members from
the chief engineer TO the substitutes. 1t
also provided for the classification of the
men in three grades. These grades were to
receive 81, $2.25 and $3.50, and they were to
be composed of men who had been in the
service one, two or three or more years.
1t is not likely those now employed by the
city will be classified, the committee be-
lieving rather that all should receive the
maximum and the grades would affect
those coming TO the service in the future.
Mayor Bookwalter and Controller Breu-
mig will meet with the committee to-day
to discuss the ordinance AS il stands the
increase would add $24, 900 to the annual
payroll of the department. 1t contem-
plates paying substitutes $40 month and
creates new class of subordinate officers
known battalion chiefs. 1t is believed
the administration and the committee will
agree that the rank and file of the depart
ment shall receive the increase asked for,
that the pay Of members of the fire alarm
telegraph force and the leulenants shall
be increased and that the substitutes shall
receive the amount provided. There may be
one or two other provisions for increased
pay, but the bulk will be for the rank and
file.
The action TO be taken is necessary as
the Board of Public Safety must include in
its estimates which will go TO the Council
the increases will become effective until
Jan. l. 1903
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TO HER SONS RESCUE.


Mrs. Fred Williams almost caused her
own death yesterday afternoon in trying
10 save her three-year-old boy from being
trampled by horse. In consequence Mrs.
Williams suffered from a severe shock that
for a time her attending physicians
thought would result in death.
Mrs. Williams. who has been Ill for some
time on account Of a weak heart, went TO
the woods near Eagle creek yesterday with
her husband and their son. They were re-
turning home about $50 o'clock, walking
from the creek to the end OF the street-car
line at Mount Jackson. As they neared the
along In the roadway, was almost run over
by a spirited horse driven by a cOuntryman.
The boy was overtaken by the horse, which
almost stepped on him. The mother, when
she saw the plight of the boy, ran to the
middle Of the road and tried TO save him.
The boy, however, escaped from beneath
the horse and arrived safely on the north
side of the road. The mother terrified and
frantic. fell PROSTATE in the road, but es-
was cautious. Mrs. Williams was carried
unconscious from the road by her husband.
Sympathetic women in the neighborhood
worked with the rigid form Of the woman,
sign or life Yet remained. DIR. Con-
verse was called, and after working with
the woman for half an hour restored the
heart action sufficiently for the woman to
be taken to her home, 81 North Senate ave-
nue. I'm the city ambulance, in care of DIR.
night and had not yet regained total con-
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LILLIAN RIESS'S CRIME
YOUNG GIRL CONFESSES TO HAVING
ROBBED HER EMPLOYER.
Says She Came to This City from Ed
inburg to Earn Her own
Living.

Detectives Asch and Manning yesterday
morning arrested Lillian Riess, a seven
teen-year-old girl, employed as a domestic
in the home of Robert Keller, at 541 North
Alabama street, on the charge of grand
larceny Saturday night Mr.. and Mrs
Keller went down town and left the Riess
girl in charge of the house. When they
returned at 10 o'clock the front door was
open and all the lights were out. The girl
was not at home. When the lights had
been turned on the house showed that a
thief had been at work. The drawers of
a dresser had been pulled out and the con-
tents strewn on the floor. Other small ar
ticles had been thrown to the floor and the
several rooms presented scene of con-
fusion. Half an hour later the girl came
home, and was surprised when Mr.. Keller
told her that $40 in money, four diamond
rings and a watch had been stolen. The
girl assisted in search of the place, and
went TO her own room. She returned and
said that her watch had also been taken.
She told Mr.. and Mrs. Keller that her
absence from the home while they were
away was occasiOned by her going to a
store on Massachusetts avenue. where she
made payment on some clothing she was
buying. She told straightforward story
of leaving the place locked, and said that
everything was in good condition
When the detectives arrived at the Keller
home yesterday morning the girl at once
became nervous and tried TO elude them.
She was brought before them and closely
questioned. She told several conflicting
stories. and it was decided to take her 10
the police station. where the matron might
have a talk with her. AS the girl was
brought into the office of Matron Gregoire
she pretended to limp, which was regarded
as unusual The matrOn was asked 10
closely search the girl. which she did. A
poCketbook was found which contained
S. in money and receipts for $33, which she
i clothing and
a watch were also found. The girl. when
confronted with the evidence confessed to
TO the theft She said she had left the
| house open TO make Mr. and Mrs. Keller
| think that some outsider had entered the
| place. Her own watch she said, she took
/ back to the jeweler from whom she pur-
/ chased il. The girl said her home is in
/ Edinburg and that she came here one year
/ ago to make her own living
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PATROLMAN ARRESTS EIGHT.
Montgomery Slipped Up on a Gang of
Negroes Shooting Craps.

Patrolman Montgomery yesterday under
took the difficult feat of arresting eight
negroes and succeeded. For sometime Mont
gomery had been annoyed by reports of men
and boys shooting dice in what is known
wild Cat Chute" in the northwestern
part of the city. He tried several times to
round up the gang. but there were al
ways three or four look-outs. Yesterday
at noon he knew the men were again play
ing in old two-story house and he de-
termined to catch them. He was obliged TO
make his noon call in front of the house
where the game was in progress. From a
second-stOry window a young colored wom-
an was keeping watch on Montgomery. He
knew this and made a detour of the Fall
creek bottoms for about two miles When
he finally made his appearance in the alley
toward the stairs to give warning. Mont
gomery hailed him and the boy ran from
the place and Montgomery walked up
stairs
He opened the door and there seated on
a quilt stretched on the floor were eight
negroes playing dice. They were too busily
engaged to see the entrance of Montgomery
and the latter yelled out: Boys, you're all
under arrest" One big colOred man. who
snatched for the money, said: How did
that big yellow coon get in this placer AT
ward a window TO jump to the ground.
Montgomery pulled his revolver and told
him If he started TO escape he would surely
get shot. He then lined the men up and
marched them 10 the patrol box, where he
called the wagon.
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SHOT AT A GIRL.
John Ducl<wOrth Tried and Failed to
Kill Mamie GoOdin.

With a large supply of liquor, which had
a tendency to create a feeling of jealousy
in his breast, John Duckworth, a section
hand living at Bridgeport, made an at
tempt on the life of Mamie Goodin last
night at her place of employment on West
Washington street by shooting at her. He
missed. The girl. who is employed by Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Sunnyfield at their home
in Mount Jackson, was returning from
ride with Mrs. Sunnyfeld and her children.
AS they drove into the yard she noticed
man crouching along the hedge. AS Mrs
Sunnyfeld passed into the house the Good
in girl was behind and stopped on the front
step to adjust a rug She turned to one
side as TO listen TO a conversation that
being held near the side of the house.
1t happened that Duckworth, who was
talking, had asked Austin Kelly, a laborer
employed by Sunnyfied, where Charles
Ketrow was. The latter is said to have
supplanted Duckworth in the affections
of Miss Goodin. AS DuckwOrth talked to
Kelly he held a revolver in his hand. The
girl stepped 20 the corner of the house and
asked who the men were. The only reply
she got pistol shot that sent bullet
close to her cheek The left cheek was
powder burned
The girl screamed and ran into the house.
DuckwOrth ran to the barn, where he
met Sunnyfield, who was engaged in put
ting up the horse. Duckworth asked Sun
nyfield to go into the house and see if the
girl was shot. The latter appeared at
the kitchen door and cried to Mr.. Sun
nytield to come into the house. DuckWOrth
jumped over the fence and stood in corn
field He called for the girl TO come out,
saying he would do her no harm. She
called back that she was afraid of him, and
he then ran from the field across Wash
ingtOn street and into the high weeds near
the old distilery. The police were notified
and Bicycle Policemen STREET. and Kitzmil-
1ar X Detectives
Splan and Haley, went to the place. They
made a search of the underbrush, but could
not find Duckworth.
The girl said she and Duckworth had
formerly been sweethearts, but she had re-
jected his attention She has been en-
ployed by the Sunnyfeds for some time.
Duckworth knew of Ketrow working for
Sunnyied and thought the girl and Ke-
trow had become enamored of one another.
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COUNTY HEADQUARTERS.
Republican Executive Committee
Meeting-DemOcratic Conventions.


Chairman Elliott, of the Marion county
Republican committee, expects to open his
headquarters in the Lemcke building this
week. He will have rooms on the second
floor of this building. Within the next few
days the chairman will call the executive
committee together and consider the best
means of selecting candidates for justice
of the peace and constables, since it is nee
essary TO have a convention or hold an
other primary in order that the number of
justices of the peace and constables may
be in accordance with the provisions of
the law.
Chairman Spencer, of the county Demo-
cratic committee, has opened his head
quarters in the Thorpe block. Chairman
Spencer is preparing TO issue a call for
primaries to select delegates to the con-
gressional convention and the joint sena-
torial convention, which will be held in this
city on Sept. g. The Marion county De-
mocracy is willing that Morgan county
should select the senatorial candidate and
IT is announced that the nomination will
probably go TO John C. McNutt, of Martins
Vile.
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Case of Lockiaw mt Hospital.

Cyrus Robbins. twenty years old, is in the
City Hospital showing the symptoms of te-
tanus, or lockjaw. Eight days ago Rob
bins ran a nail in his left foot. He went
at once TO the hospital, where the wound
was treated. His progress has been salts
factory until yesterday, when the incip-
iency of the disease was noted. LOckjaw is
not necessarily fatal but physicians regard
recovery from il as something seldom 10
be expected. The hospital physicians are
making every effort to arrest the develop
ment OF the disease. Robbins lives at 3Ol
North Canitnl aVenna
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CAMERAS
The III, LIEBER COMPANY.
20 West Washington Street.
TALKED OF JEREBOAM
SERMON BY REV. A. l.. WILKINSON
AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
A Ruler of Old Compared to Wash
fngton and Lincoln-A Man of
the People.

The Rev. A L. Wilkinson, of Ann Arbor,
Mich. conducted services at the First Bap-
fist Church last night His sermon was
upon the prediction before the death of
Solomon Gid the secession Of the ten tribes
OF Israel on the elevation of Jereboam.
Jehovah revealed himself to the people of
Judea as their king and they were ruled by
him until they began to feel the need of a
visible ruler. Then Jehovah appointed Saul.
His continuance depended on his fidelity to
the laws of Jehovah. He departed from
this fidelity just as Solomon did later Then
came the prediction that at Solomons death
his kingdom should be rent asunder and
only portion left for his son to rule. The
prediction said Jereboam should become the
king of the new nation.
Provided with this prediction. Solomon
drove JerebOam from the country. But
when Solomon died the ten tribes revolted
and sent to Egypt for Jereboam to lead
them. He did return and the predictions
were all punctually and completely fulfilled.
Mr.. Wilkinson judged from the knowI-
edge of Jereboam that while he was a
great. strong man he was moved through
the programme with all possible human
selhshness and worldliness. He planned his
government with all astuteness as To it's
defense from its uncertain neighbOrs, and
he went about the conduct of his office
with political sagacity and statecraft. He
was in all senses a worldly ruler. But
wtthal he obeyed the law that made him
ruler, and his traditions and regulations
survived through all the dynasties until the
end OF the kingdom.
Thus it was that he practiced that
Righteousness which God requires and at
the same time ruled with all temporal po-
litical discipline. He was fOrearmed with
the prediction Without 1t his course might
have been the same. He was man of the
people like Lincoln, but Lincoln went to his
Office without any divine prediction but
with abiding faith in God 1t so
with Washington. He was armed with no
preditions. He assumed the uncertainties
of the conflict that the unrighteOus acts of
George III brought between England and
her greatest colony with a firm faith that
God would aid the right. And God moved
through Washington and Lincoln just as he
had through JerebOam
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ROBBED A TAILOR SHOP.


The tailor shop OF w. G.. Schneider. in the
Morton Hotel. on Monument place, was en-
tered by thieves yesterday morning at l
o'clock and 500 worth of made-up clothing
stolen. The men who did the job were ar
rested an hour later by Patrolmen ellis
pie. Kimple Rockerfellow and Dugan.
Kimple and Gillispie. in walking along
Wabash street. noticed two men coming
down the Big Four tracks. The men had
large bundles under their arms and this
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DEATH OF A NURSE.
Miss Edith stevens Contracted Fever
from n Patient.

Miss Edith A. Stevens. assistant superin-
PENDENT of the Indianapolis Training School
for Nurses, located at the City Hospital
died yesterday morning at o'clock from
typhoid fever. contracted from a patient
she had been attending. Miss Stevens
graduated from the Indianapolis school in
1897. She took a postgraduate course in
the New York school. and returned 10 take
the position OF assistant superintendent OF
the local school.
Yesterday afternoon a short funeral serv-
ice was held at the city Hospital by the
Rev. Joshua Stansfield. after which the
body was shipped TO the girls former home
IN Hamilton. Ontario.
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Eugene Cowles VIII begin his weeks en-
gagement at Fair Bank this evening. and
with good weather this week he will prob
ably attract the largest crowds OF the
season 10 that park. He has always been
a favorite In Indianapolis. and tonight he
viii sing some OF the songs heard here
when he was with the Bostonians and
later with the Alice Nielsen Opera Com
pany. He will sing the anvil song from
robin Hood, Annie Laurie" and For
gotten" of his songs. He will
probably sing the gypsy song from The
Fortune Teller"
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Henry ID. Coons, twenty-seven years old.
of this city, died at Lafayette yesterday.
He was a member of the One-hundred-and-
hfty-eighth Indiana Regiment during the
Spanish-AmeTican war. He lived part of
the time with his sister. on North Illinois
street and part of the time with his broth
er, Fred Coons, on North Noble street. He
had been in Lafayette but a short time. The
body will be brought here by Frank a.
Blanchard this evening for burial.
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caused the policemen to become suspicious
AS they neared the men the latter ran,
throwing their bundles in the alley In the
rear OF the Medical College OF indiana. Inc
policemen shot at them as they ran.
One of the men was chased several blocks
and ran into the arms Of Merchant Police
man Fitzgerald. The other man kept run
ming until he reached a chicken house on
West street where he tried 10 hide. Rock
erfellOw and Dugan. seeing the man run
into the place, went in search of him. The
men arrested gave their names as Ernest
Ross and John Dupree. Peter Holt, col
ored. was arrested last night.
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Some Interurban Ordinances the
Mayor Has Not Signed.

Mayor Bookwalter last night corrected
the statement that all the interurban or
dinances had been approved by him. Those
of the Greenwood and Greenfield companies
are without his signature and will, he says,
be without it until both companies pay
to the city controller their car tax from
November, 1901, to the present time at
the rate of cents a car. During that pc
Rod the Union Traction Company was pay
ing cents a and the mayor believes
the other roads, which had just as much
use and benefit of the streets, should pay
the same. The mayor says these payments,
approximating $3.50 each, must be paid be-
fore the ordinances are signed by him. The
other ordinance unsigned is the Indianapolis
& Lebanon, which did not reach the mayor
with the others
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BIG FOUR ROUTE.
Excursions Sunday, August Gath.
Louisville, $3.50 Round Trip.

Special train will leave Indianapolis
Union Station at a. m. Returning, leave
Louisville p. m.
LAWRENCEBURG, AURORA AND WAY
POINTS.
81 OR LESS ROUND TRIP.
Special train will leave indianapolis
leave Aurora at 100 p. M; Lawrenceburg
Z 80 d. m.
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Martin Need. forty-eight years Old died
yesterday morning at his home. 112O Chest
nut street. He had been III but a short
time. He leaves a widow and five chill
dren. The funeral will take place to-mor-
row afternoon.
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81 .25-Cincinnatia and Return-$1. %,
Via c., III. & D., Sunday, Aug. 9th.

Two special fast trains the first will
leave at $50 a. m, making no local stops;
the second will leave at Ills a. m, stopping
at Rushville, Connersville and Hamilton.
Leave Cincinnati returning, $40 p. m. Base
ball, Cincinnati VS.. Pittsburg, two games.
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PENNSYLVANIA LINES.
S1.25-MadisOn and Return-S1.25,
Sunday, August 24th.

Special train leaves Indianapolis 7:30 a. m
Returning, leaves Madison p. m Steam.
boat excursion up the Ohio river from Mad
ison, twenty miles and return, 25 cents
round trip.
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so. you will want to keep in touch with
home The simplest and best way to do
this while absent is TO have the Journal
follow you by mail Leave your order for
the paper before starting The address will
be changed as often as desired
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EXCURSION TICKETS
Via Mopon Route

To Colorado, Utah, Wisconsin, Michigan
and South Dakota resorts on sale daily.
For particulars see agents or address r P.
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SHACkLETT;
The Evolution of Statesman.
BY Walter Barr.

story of Practical Politics and
the Lobby. Publication will begin
i'm the journal OF Tuesday, Aug. 10.
This story WILL NOT appear I'm the
Sunday journal.
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VANDALIA LINE.
VANDALIA LINE.
81 .OO-Terre Haute and Return-S1 90
75c-GreencastIe and Return-7Sc,
Sunday, August "a.

Leave Indianapolis 7:25 a. m. Returning,
special train will leave Terre Haute at
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Between Indianapolis and Springfield, Ill.