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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-15
Indinna Notes.

ELWcOD.-A party of Peru business
men. headed by +. T. Reasoner. Henri
Meinhart, r. A. Edwards and Hugh Nc
CaffTey. On Wednesday made an inspection
Of the lines of the Union Traction Com
pany, the parlOr car Martha being placed at
their disposal by General Passenger Agent
Baldwin for the purpose. The company
is preparing to extend Its n"orth-and-south
line from indianapolis 10 Kokomo on 10
Peru and has asked the Council there for a
franchise.
LAFAYETTE-The body of Carrie
Stinglemyer. the domestic in the family or
one OF the Purdue faculty. who disappeared
about two weeks ago, was found in the
Wabash river on Tuesday. All the eX-
traneous circumstances point to suicide,
but d suspicion of murder has been aroused
and careful investigation is being made.
No tangible evidence has developed within
the past twenty-foHr hours.
Observation-Disclosures & Andrews, Dayton,
o., architects, will receive the contract
for preparing plans for the new four-story
Commercial Club building that will be
erected in this city in the near future. The
building will be located at the corner of
Main and Jefferson streets and will cost
$4,000.
COLCMBUS.-The congregation of the
Tabernacle Christian Church of this city
has extended a call To its pulpit to the
Rev. Victor l.. Doris. Of Georgetown, Ky.
Mr.. Doris has accepted and will assume
the pastorate on Sept. /.
DARLINGTON.-A commercial club has
been formed here for the purpose of de-
vising a series of popular entertain
ments, with the view to attract a larger
amount of trade from the contiguous terri
tory.
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ATTENDANCE NOT LARGE
CHRISTIAN CHURCH CONFERENCE Is
NEVERTHELESS INTERESTING.
Epyvorth League Convention at Thorn
town-Eciectic Medical Associa-
tons Convention Adjourns-
DeciaI to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTB, Ind, May 1.-THE at
tendance at the sessions of the annual
meeting Of the Indiana Association Of the
Christian Church has increased to 200, but
is still short Of the number for whose en-
tertainment the members of the denomina-
ton in Terre Haute had made preparation.
The report of the secretary, w. Z. M.
Hackelman, showed that 101 churches had
contributed to the association funds, enti-
Ting them to 1T5 delegates. The total re-
ceipts for the year were s., 297. w. S. Moi
fatt. treasurer, reported a balance of 500
on ham President Joseph Franklin, OF
Bedford, sent a letter of regret that, owing
to physical infrmities, he would not be
able to attend the sessions of the conven-
ton. A. w. Conner, of Indianapolis, was
elected president pro tenn.
The convention has been addressed by
Professor Jefferson, of the Kentucky Uni
versity, and Professor Lhamon, of the Mis-
souri, University at Columbia. besides hear
ing many Indiana men. The programme
to-day included addresses by A. B. Phil
putt and A. l.. circuit, Of Indianapolis. AT
the evening session G. w. Muckley, of
Kansas City, spoke on Exten-
SION" B. L. Smith, of the National Mis-
sionary Society, and A. Mclean, also OF
the headquarters at Cincinnati, spoke on
Missions at the days sessions. The final
session will be held tomorrow morning.
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ECLECTIC MEDICAL MEN.
They Close Their Thirty-Eighth Con-
vention at Fort Wayne.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, May 1.-THE In
diana Eclectic Medical Association closed
it's thirty-eighth annual meeting here to
night with a social session at the First
Baptist Church. The programme included
vocal and Instruments music and addresses
by the Rev. ]. n. Field, W.. P. Breen and
Professor F. ]. Locke, the last named of
Newport, KY. officers were elected as
follows: President, Carl G.. Winters, In
dianapolis; first vice president. f. NJ. Bald
win, Indianapolis; second vice president
@. r. Hauz, Sellersburg; recording sec
rotary. H. V. Blosser, Chalmers; CORE
spending secretary, w. p. Best, Indianap-
oils; treasurer, A. S. H~ollingsworth, Ur-
bana.
The next convention will be held in In
dianapolis next May, just before the Ma
tional Eclectic Convention meets there.
Professors ]. x. Scudder and w. Z. Bloyer,
of Cincinnati, and Professors III. S. Tucker
and Finley Ellingham. of Chicago, partici-
pated in to-day's discussions. DR.. w. f.
Curryer, of Indianapolis, won high praise
for a description of his new operation in
hysterectomy without clamp or ligature.
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AFTER TWENTY-FIVE YEARS.
Returned to Marion to Find
the Writer Dead.

Especial to the Indianapolis Journal.
= MARION. Ind, May IA letter, yellow
:And musty with age, has been received
1rom Cleveland by the Wigger Buggy and
Sdarnsss Company of this city. 1t was ad-
Siresssd to s. l. Van Dusen, No. Is st.
Sclair street, Cleveland, and was written on
fAug. 1. 1880. by J. II. Wigger, Of whom the
present firm is a successor and who died
sn 1896. to Mr.. Van Dusen. in answer TO an
application for a position in his store in
1this city. Van Dusen had written for the
position and Mr.. Wigger answered, telling
fhim TO come; that he had a position for
Saim. Mr.. Wigger never received a reply.
q Tho letter was returned TO the lgger
to-day with a note of explanation from the
.Post6flce Department. The old federal
abuilding at Cleveland is being torn down,
Sand in this work the letter was unearthed
E.from a crevise where it had become lodged.
A attempt was made TO find the addressee
kin Cleveland. but without avail. and the let
liter was forwarded TO the POstoftice Depart
3ment. which sent il to the firm in this city.
a lapse Of twenty-five years the let
4ter, which was never received, returned to
I ind the writer dead. AS no person could be
Mound vino would claim the letter IL is sup
yposed that he also is dead The letter con-
ttained one OF the 3-cent stamps which were
kthen required 20 carry a letter.
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SUBDUING A BULLY.
How n Railway Conductor Finally Got
an Answer to a Proper Question.
Baltimore Sun.

DdlllblOIS gun.
The following story of how a bully was
cowed on a railroad train by a nervy con-
ductor is told by d. Eldridge Monroe, of
the Baltimore bar:
II was coming eastward over the Santa
Fe Railroad one night in the fall of 1871.
The train stopped at Dodge City, which was
then the most important point for the ship
ment of cattle in southwest Kansas. Some
of the worst characters on the frontier
made their headquarters there. Quite a
number of passengers of the true frontier
type boarded the train. Among them was
a fellow who particularly attracted my at
tention, because of his burly form and
coarse, and, l could not but think. cow
ardly, features: He was dressed in typical
cowboy style. He wore a suit Of deerskln,
profusely adorned with tassels made of
the same material. Bully was written in
his undttractive face and was shown in his
every movement. The conductor of the
train, a very courteous and efficient man,
rather small of stature, named Bender,
some time after leaving Dodge, came
through the car collecting fares. Bender
had some nasal trouble, which made 1t APP
pear when he spoke that he was talking
through his nose. He drawled out his
words very slowly, and altogether his ut
the Dodge City bully and asked him for his
ticket.
Got no ticket he surlily replied.
Where are you going" drawled Bender.
"'Goin' where l please, and it's none OF
bully.
you've got to pay your rare or get on
this train; and l want to know how far on
this line you're going again demanded
Bender.
"I tell you I'm not tellin' you or any
one else where I'm goin',' replied the bully,
at the same time placing his right hand on
one of the two pistols of large caliber con-
spicuously displayed in the holsters at
tached TO his belt.
''The bully during the colloquy had en-
phasized his words with the coarsest pro-
family. The other passengers in the car
became not a little excited and were evil
IDENTIFY curious TO see what the end would
be.
when the bully thus threateningly gave
his ultimatum Bender eyed him coolly for
a moment in silence, then passed on, col
lecting his fares. In perhaps a half hour
Bender came into the car from the direc-
ton of the express car with a double
barrel shotgun, cooked, and before the
bully had time to offer any show of de-
Tense Bender had him covered, the muzzle
of the gun being within two feet of the
bully's face.
Now. where you going?' asked Bender.
coolly drawing out the question through
his nose.
"T-Tm goin' to get off, replied the
thoroughly cowed bully.
the train came 10 a halt. Bender, keeping
his man covered with the cooked gun, fol-
lowed him until he saw him jump from the
steps of the car into the darkness, at least
twenty miles from the nearest station.
Then the train moved on and the paSSen-
gers resumed their normal quiet"
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MANY ARE GRADUATING
INDIANA HIGH SCHOOLS TURN OUT
NEW wORLD-wINNERS.
Offers Them an Opportunity
Southern Indiana Contests in
Oratory and Athletics.
special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
LADOGA, Ind, May 1.-THE fourteenth
annual commencement of the Ladoga High
School was held at the Ladoga Opera
House tonight. The address to the class
was by Prof. w. w. Pfrimmer. the poet of
the Kankakee. There were sixteen mem
bers of the class, equally divided between
the sexes. This is the largest class in the
history Of the school. Superintendent j. I.
Warfel has been at the head of the local
schools for fourteen years, and much of
their success has been due to his u~ntiring
effort.
ELWOOD, Ind, May 1.-THE annual
commencement of the Elwood high schools
will be held in the auditorium of the High
Schoo building on the evening of Thurs
day. June 5. The commencement address
will be delivered by Prof. c. n. Kendall,
superintendent of the Indianapolis schools,
his subject being Education and Life"
There are fourteen members of the grad
uating class, one of the largest in the his
tory of the school. The baccalaureate
sermon will be delivered in the First Meth
odist Church on Sunday evening, Jun l.,
by the Rev. L. G. Howe, of this city. The
class play, 1.-The Merchant of Venice" will
be presented at the opera house on the
evening of May %.
PORTLAND, Ind, May 14.-Mayor Sam
uel Jones. of Toledo, o., delivered an ad-
dress to the graduates of the Geneva High
School this evening. The Ohio mayor was
heard by a large audience, and brought out
a number of new and novel points.
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LINGO OF THE CIRCUS.
Terms That Are Meaningless to Those
who Speak Only English.

Detroit Free Press.
Circus people talk a jargon that would
be unintelligible to the upfnitiated. To
those in circus life the manage or the
head of any enterprise is always "the
main guy" while those in subordinate
positions are simple guys" The tents
are called tops by circus men, and they
are subdivided into the big top" the
animal top" the kid top" the candy
top" and so on. The side show. where
the Circassian girls. fat women and other
curiosities known as freaks are shown.
is termed the kid show and the man
with the persuasive voice who seeks TO
entice people TO enter is known as a bark
err or a "spieler."
The men who sell peanuts. red lemon
ade, palm-leaf fans and concert tickets
are known as butchers" while that class
outside Of the pale of the law are guns"
or "grafters.' To get a persons money
without giving an equivalent is 20 turn
them" A countryman Is either a "rube"
or a ''yap." The musicians with a circus
are known as wind TANNERS" the train
men. canvas men and other laborers are
to another is always known as a Jump"
The show ground is called the lot" and
the dining tent, where the circus people
get their meals. is the camp"
An acrobat is known as a "kinker," and
all things that are used in the ring, such
as banners, hoops and the like, are called
objects" Those who lie on their backs
and juggle children on their feet are
"Risleys." and If other objects are balanced
on the feet they are barrel kickers."
Money is referred to as "coin" or cash."
and the one who pays the salaries is either
the ghost" or the man in white" A
trunk is called 'keester," and a valise IL Q
turkey To get away quick is to do a
'+Vamp,'' and of those who are forced to
leave they say got the hurry" Those
who have been long in the business are
'.old landmarks" and a new addition TO
the profession is either a butt in" or .
Johnny Newcomer" Food Is called
chuck" and they say an intoxicated per-
son is "soused. A fight is a scrap"
but any trouble that cannot be handled
by the regular officers is a "mix-up." and
a whistle is blown. at the sound OF which
each employee grabs a stake or other
handy weapon and yells Hey, Rube,"
which is the call 10 arms.
A proposed victim is known as a sucker"
TO the confidence men who follow the
circus. and flaming a guy is TO make
sure he has no weapons on him before they
proceed 10 get his money. To ''frisk" q
train is 10 arm a lot of husky employees
with stakes and search the cars for
crooks and 'sure thing men. There
is no chance for argument at this time
IL you see one OF these worthless leaving
in a hurry and ask him where he is bound
he will generally say, ITO the tail and
uncut"
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Indiana Obituary.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. May 4-Henry G..
Olds. aged siXty-two. died at noon to-day
after five years illness due TO paralysis.
He suffered the fifth stroke in six years
last Sunday. and failed to regain strength.
He was president of the Olds wagon works
OF this city and had been identified with the
wagon industry all mis- life. He left a wild
ow and four adult children.
SHELBYVILLE, Ind. May 14-Mahiah
a, widow of Lieut.. 5. r. Robertson. died
at the home OF her daughter. Mrs. Joseph
Law. on East Jackson street. yesterday. of
general debility. She was born in Penn
sylVania on March 9. 1S22. She left five
children. Funeral services will be held at
the home of her daughter on Friday after
noon. the Rev. W. r. Smith. Of the West
street Methodist Church, officiating.
ELWOOD. Ind. May l4-Arthur Lund.
one OF the most widely known glass work
ers in the gas belt. is dead at his home at
Orestes. He was widely known to the
trade as Midget on account OF his dimin-
utive stature. His parents live at Streetor.
H., and the body was sent there for burial.
MUNCIE. Ind. MAY 1.-THE death Of
Mrs. Ida Smell. wife of August Smell. oc-
CURED at the family residence in this city
this morning. She had been in for several
weeks. The body VIII be taken 10 Poplar
Grove, Marshall county, Indiana, to-mor-
row for burial.
BLOOMINGTON. Ind. May 14-Mrs.
Henry &. Garner. aged seventy-hve, died
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.MONG THE MISSING.


Especial to the Indianapolis Journal.
> LAFAYETTE. Ind, May 14-B. j.. Klos-
.terman. a freshman at Purdue, whose home
2s in Louisville, KY, has mysteriously dis
sappeared and the police are hunting for
sshim- His mother arrived here from Louis
fville this afternoon in response TO word
Announcing the disappearance. and is pros
Etrated over the affair. Young Klosterman
Hrecently figured in a disturbance which
fled to the arrest of a party of students.
SNo cause. aside from this. can be assigned
ffor his sudden disappearance.
PORTLAND. Ind, May thames Dull,
1sixteen years old, of Greene, has been gone
%from home since last Thursday evening.
She stepped out of the house. simply wear
fing his working clothes. A buggy was
fheard TO dash hurriedly away, and young
kDull was seen no more. His father, Levi
xDulI, has offered a reward for informa-
Stion concerning him..
y ELWOOD, Ind. May 14.--John Cant. for
fseveral years a valuable member of the
Elocal police force, but who resigned several
Eweeks ago.. has mysteriously disappeared,
fleaving his wife and two small children in
4destitute circumstances. His family and
kfriends are unable to account for his
Xstrange disappearance, and there is a fear
gin some quarters that he has met with
ffoul play. He was a man of about forty
fyears, OF handsome physique and good
Echaracter.
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LAKE ASSEMBLY
sEw BUILDING PROJECTED AND
:, SCHOOL PLANS COMPLETED.
kwanderinEs of nm Old L~etter-Two-
/ Pound Girl Born at
al Persons Reported Missing.


srecial 10 the Indianapolis Journal
y WARSAW. Ind. May Nv. H Bast'
Supervising architect OF the Home for
zJnited Brethren Ministers, 10 be erected at
axe. to-day advertised for bids for
/ he erection Of the building. The plans for
structure will call for a two-story
Of fifty rooms. Several lots have
voeen secured in the central portion Of the
&srounds and work on the building will be
&egun at once.
& The Moody memorial building at Winona,
3recteG by the Rev. ]. Wilbur Chapman,
ahss been rendered by him 10 the Winona
I Agricultural and Technical School. which
TO open on Sept. 1. The Patrons Of Hus-
Of ndian will erect a building on
ground in memory of the late Governor
4 Mount, and in il will be located the agri-
cultural department Of the school. Efforts
ssre being made to secure ag overnment ex-
!, pertinent station. The school is to be inter
UNCONVENTIONAL, and il is said enough funds
already have been pledged TO pay the
for five wears.
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SOUTHERN INDIANA SCHOOLS.
They VIII Meet in Athletics and Ora
tory at Bloomington Next Week.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, May 14.-Exten-
sive preparations are being made for the
coming annual meeting of the Southern In
diana Athletic and Oratorical Association,
to be held here the 23d. The high schools
of Mitchell, Bedford, Orleans, Salem, Paoli
and Washington will be represented each
by an orator, two musicians and also on
the athletic field. 1t is expected that sew
eral hundred persons will be here from
these towns. The exercises will be held
on the Indiana University grounds.
Liberal prizes nave been offered. Gold
and silver medals are provided for individ-
ual winners in athletics and a handsome
SIS banner will go to the winning team
from the university. Twenty-Five dollars
for a first prize and SIS for a second prize
have been offered in oratory. Four $40
prizes and four s. second prizes have been
offered for the different classes in music.
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ST. LOUIS, May 1.-THE plant OF the
ILL.,. was burned TO the ground to-day.
causing a loss estimated at SlO0,O 600, which
is only partly covered by insurance. p. ID.
Summers, superintendent of the plant, was
burned about the head and face while fight
ing the flames. One hundred men were
employed by the company. None of these
except Mr.. Summers was injured.
HUNTINGTON. w. Va, May 14-Fire
broke out in r. w. Kennedy & Co.'S lum-
Der mills at Ceredo. six miles west of here,
to-day, destroying the entire plant, the sub
station of the Camden Interstate Railway,
twenty dwelling houses and all the lumber
in the mill yards. The loss is estimated at
100000. probably one-third covered by in
surance.
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RIOTING IN ITALY.
Peasants Wound Gendarmcs and an
Anarchist shoots at a Cardinal.

ROME, May H.-NewspaDer kilograms
which nave reached here from Bari. on the
Adriatic. report the rioting of 5000 peasants
at Putignano. in the district of Apulia. as a
result of labor disputes. The rioters burned
the houses where the octroi taxes are col
lected and attacked the Town Hall. Seven
gendarmes were wounded in a vain at
tempt to quell the rioting. The gendarmes
then had recourse to their firearms, and as
a result a woman was wounded. Forty ar
rests were made and order was finally re-
stored.
1t is reported here from Bardolino, near
Verona, that an Anarchist has been ar
rested there for firing a rifle at Cardinal
Bartolomeo Bacilieri. the bishop of We
roma. The cardinal was not hurt.
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Called to a Theological Chair.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LAFAYETTE, Ind. May 14.-Rev. Her
bert N. Denslow, rector of st. Johns pis-
copal Church., received a telegram to-day
stating that he had been elected to the
chair of pastoral theology in the Episcopal
Seminary of New York city. The election
is a great honor to Mr.. Denslow, but he
has not yet decided to accept it. When
seen to-day he said he would not take the
chair until he had conferred with Bishop
Francis, of this diocese. Mr.. Denslow is a
Yale graduate, and also took a course in
the. Berkeley Seminary. He came to this
city last December from Muncie. The po-
sition 10 which he has been appointed is of
life tenure.
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Two Roads want Subsidies.

Sspecial TO the Indianapolis Journal.
= BLOOMINGTON, Ind. May 15.-There is
considerable railroad agitation here grow
King out of the effort of both the Indianapo-
Ills Southern and the proposed Oliver line,
4from Martinsville to Bedford, TO secure a
n per cent. tax in Bloomington and Perry
townships. which will amount to over $780,
zoo. Inasmuch as at six different times
krailroads have been voted subsidies and
Shave never been built, the citizens demand
athat a bond be given. This request the In
Indianapolis Southern has thus far refused
Ito comply with, and the indications are
4now that the divers will be voted the en-
stire 2 per cent. tax. as they offer TO put up
ga cash bond of $4,000 and TO begin work
..within thirty days.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE. Ind, May 14-Dr. j. f. Loves,
the promoter of the traction line that is
being projected from Union City to Mum
Gle, has announced that work on the line
will proceed no further until he has held a
conference with George r. McCulloch.
president and general manager OF the
Union Traction Company. DR.. Loves says
he desires TO gain Mr.. McCullOch's per-
mission to enter Muncie by way of the
Union Traction C~Ompany's lines and will
seek the conference for that purpose. Mr..
McCullOch is now in the East.
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additions made by the stores Of Marshall
Field and Schlesinger's during the last
two years show, he says. what advertising
does. The result OF advertising" says
Mr.. Peck. lis not always direct II Is Gu
mulative. Give me a sum OF money Tor
a years advertising and will not under
take to show a big business for the first
two months. But i will guarantee TO show
a big profit before the end OF the year
But they all tell the same story. In fact.
does not largely advertise, and there is not
among them all "A big advertising store
which has not the same tale TO tell OF a
constantly and hugely increasing business.
OF course. good buying Il always indis-
pensable. and the great stores ransack the
world for suitable goods. But then, as Mr..
Wanamaker once said. The better 1 ad-
vertise the better l buy"
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
FRANKLIN, Ind, May 14-Frank Young.
Henry Smith and George Lewis. colored
men, supposed to be from Louisville. were
to-day sentenced to the J~effersonville Re-
formatory for two to fourteen years for
burglary. Noah Jacobs, of this city, was
sentenced 10 serve one 10 three years for
petit larceny.
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Thrown Into a Barbed-wire Fence.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
PARAMOUNT, Ind, May 14.-William Dy-
son and a young woman were severely in
jured east of this city in a runaway acct
dent by being thrown into a barbed-wire
fence. Both Dyson and the young woman
were the recipients of hundreds of wounds
and were almost denuded of clothing by
their contact with the wires. The horse
they were driving was frightened by an
utOmObi