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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-27
TRADE, INDUSTRY, LABOR.

The Schenectady, N. Y, Trades Assembly
last night raised the boycott against the
Schenectady Railway Company.
The Hamburg-American Steamship Com
pany has decided to add two steamers to
it's New York-Mediterranean line for the
winter.
The Vossische Zeitung confirms the report
that the United States Steel Corporation is
negotiating with the Austrian and German
steel and wire syndicates toward dividing
up the neutral markets so as to, avoid COM
petition therein.
1t is reported at London that the Morgan
shipping combination has issued a circular
offering Az per cent. mortgage bonds in
lieu of cash payment to the shareholders
of the White Star line, this action, 1t is
supposed, being due to the stringency of
the gold market.
The unsettled condition of the foreign ex-
change market at the City of Mexico con-
tinues. The banks and private bankers
scarcely know how to sell exchange. most
Of them refusing any large business pend
ing more definite Information. There IL no
settled rate. some transactions were made
at LIS premium yesterday.
The National Zeitung of Berlin announces
positively that an agreement on the tariff
bill was reached at a conference held at
Chancellor Won Buelow's residence Tues
day evening with the leaders of the ma
jority parties in the Reichstag. 1t is said
10 provide for an increase Of the govern
ment's figures regarding the mailing bar
ley duty.
Sixteen batteries of quick-iring field guns.
numbering ninety-six guns in all, have been
ordered from the krupp works as the COM
mencement OF the rearmament OF the Turk
ish artillery. The War Ministry is also au-
thorized TO purchase 10000 small caliber
Mausers to complete the present establish
ment. With wagons and ammunition for
the artillery. the orders entail an outlay
OF S,9o0,00.
A four million dollar steamship ompan
has been organized at Copenhagen TO estab-
lish regular service between that city and
St. Thomas in the Danish West India
islands. The route will be fed by a num-
Der of smaller vessels, which will connect
ST. Thomas witt points on the coast OF
Venezuela, Central America and Mexico.
The company will also engage in m
in these countries.
Justice Fitzgerald. in the Supreme Court
OF New York, yesterday issued an attach
ment for Sl.O00.000 against the property in
that city of the I~nternationa Power COM
pany, a New Jersey corporation. The at
tachment was I'm favor of John f. Plummer
in a suit he has brought against the Inter
national Power Company and Joseph n.
Hoadley TO recover 81. 100000 for breach of
contract. Plumme asserted that through
his efforts the American locomotive Works
Company was formed. He said he had en-
gineered the financing of the company and
believed himself entitled TO 1.000.O 900 for his
J services. "A statement over the SIGNATURE
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China was a large buyer of silver in Lon
don, but now the balanc of trace Is re-
versed, and instead of China taking silver in
return for tea. silk and other articles i'm
ported into the United Kingdom, she has TO
ship silver in payment of foreign articles.
Chancellor of the British Exechequer
Hitchie, speaking at Croydon last night
foreshadowed the possibility of the coun-
try having TO provide still more money for
the development of the Transvaal, and also
gave a promise of a probable reduction of
the income tax in the next budget.
Commenting upon the departure for South
Africa OF Colonial Secretary Joseph Cham
berlain. the LondOn correspondent Of the
New York Tribune cables: 1.-The signifi-
canoe OF all these tributes lies in the fact
that the old parliamentarian. who has be-
come the strongest individual force in pub
lie life, has gone out with a special COM
mission from the crown and Cabinet to set
tie affairs in South Africa as he likes. Pre-
mier Balfour's personal authority will be
strengthened by the withdrawal of the mas
terful spirit of the colonial secretary from
politics during the next six months. The
educational bill will be carried without the
aid of Mr.. Chamberlain and the programme
of the next session with the Irish measures
and the London school reorganization as
the chief features will be known as exclu-
Sively the prime minister's.
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PAID HIS DEBT.
Soldiers Gift to a Police Sergeant
Who Befriended Him..

IN
New York Herald.
Police sergeant John DAILY, of the East
Thirty-ffth-street station. cast bread upon
the waters four years ago. and now 1t has
returned to him in the shape of a Filipino
bolo and a peculiar-shaped Malay talisman.
which has fine chasings on its golden circlet
and h~ieroglyphics on its red stone center.
Both the bolo and talisman are loot from
the Philippines and were given 10 the
sergeant in token of his kindness to two
soldiers In April. 1898. He was then at the
Tenderloin station. One night two soldiers
walked in with a tale of tribulation. They
had come to town on leave and had been
fieeced.
They had to be pack to Fort Slocum by
6 o'clock the next morning or face court
martial and perhaps be penalized by degra-
and the other a corporal in artillery service.
Sergeant DAILY gave them 81. j.,
He heard no more from the distressed
artilIerymen until a stranger walke into
the East Thirty-fifth-street station. when
the sergeant was busy with the blotter.
well, sir?" said the sergeant. looking up:
The stranger stood before the desk and
saluted.
Sergeant DAILY, 1 believe said the
Yes DAILY. with official
brusqueness what's up?"
This Is for YOU" said the stranger
throwing the bolo on the desk, land that,
too" tossing the talisman after it.
TIL ergeant unsheathed the bolo and
looked at the twenty-five-inch blade in
amaZement. He was about to ask Who's
been killed with this?" when the stranger
threw an envelope upon the blotter. re-
marking, II owe you s2-there's principal
and interest with my compliments-for you
are the best ever"
1t was the sergeant of artillery, now a
lieutenant. The Spanish war having begun
a few days after their adventure in New
York he and the corporal, he told Daily, had
been ordered post haste TO Cuba before pay
day arrived. From Cuba the artillerymen
had been sent to the Philippines. and the
corporal Is there yet.
After the sergeant won his commission
and was granted a furlough he returned TO
New York, and he told DAILY that about the
first thing he did here was to hunt for his
police benefactor. The bolo is from Luzon
and the talisman from Mindanao. In the
envelope was a five-dollar gold piece.
NO" said Sergeant Daily, "as he is a
commissioned officer l won't tell his name"
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RAIDED BY RATS.
Courthouse at the Madison County
Capital Filled with the Pests.

Capital Filled with the Pests.
Anderson Qnd.) Herald.
Custodian Clark Dusang, of the court
house, is confronted with a problem which
he may have to ask the County Commis-
sioners to help solve. That is how to get
rid of the countless numbers of rats which
now infest the %county's building. Custo-
dian Dusang said this morning there are
millions of rats in the basement, and about
as many in the garrett. He hadn't counted
them, but he vowed they were there. as
he had seen them, big, fat, vicious rats.
He ought TO know, because he is like the
early worm. early at the courthouse of
mornings, when he goes over the building
before offices and courts open Tor the busi-
ness of the day.
ARE there any rats?' he exclaimed. "Oh.
Lord, the place is full of en-. and they are
eating up the booths which have to be
stacked like lumber along the north cor
ridor of the basement"
The rats are not only eating up the
booths. but they are gnawing holes through
the walls in the basement and eating their
way through the ceiling from the garnet
The building is alive with them. This
morning, when Custodian Dusang went to
the courthouse at 5 O'Clock, a regiment of
rats scampered over the cement floor of the
basement and disappeared in the bile of
booths and rubbish which has accumulated
in the north corridor. The rodents fill the
ladies' toilet room, and in fact they are
everywhere about the building.
New steel cabinets have been placed in
the courtrooms for the safe-keeping of
briefs and other law papers. The steel cab
inets fool the rats. The rodents play hide
and seek on the iron steps leading from the
basement TO the county offices. and they
are becoming so bold that it will be un-
safe for children to go into the basement
unattended.
Custodian Dusang said this morning that
he would stock the courthouse with cats.
and IL they do not clean out the rats he
will try more severe means. Poison cannot
be used, because the animals would die on
the premises, and then live rats are more
agreeable than dead rats that cannot be
reached by the cremRtory man. Custodian
Dusang will make war on the rodents to-
morrow by turning all the cats loose he can
secure.
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PARIS, Nov. 26.-The funeral Of Mrs. Gore
took place at the American Church at 2
o'clock this afternoon and was attended by
a large crowd, mainly Americans. The front
of the church was packed by an assemblage
of people attracted by curiosity, including
many students. The body was in a plain
oak casket covered by a black pail, having
on il the initial c.. 1t was taken TO the
church in an open hearse which was fol-
lowed by three carriages. Mr.. Pacquet,
representing Mr.. Gowdy, occupied the first
carriage. The others were empty. None of
the relatives of the deceased was present,
and there were no mourners. Five beautiful
floral offringS, one of them being from Mr..
Gowdy. were placed around the casket. The
service was conducted by Rev. DR.. Thurber.
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strong Charges Made by Illinois Citi-
xens Against the Recalcitrant
Sullivan OmciaI.
SALE OF LAND UNDER WATER
AN ENTIRE SECTION BRING A PRICE
OF $40 AN ACRE.
Suit Against a Theatrical Company
In the state-Big TeIe-
phone Mortgage Filed.
Il to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
SULLIVAN, Ind, Nov. 26.-The citizens OF
Robinson. ILL.,. to which place Sheriff Dudley
took the negro ravisher, James Dillard'
last Thursday from Lawrenceville, aver
that the negro objected to coming to Indi-
ana without requisition papers, and that
when the sheriff left that city with the
negro X was for the alleged purpose Of TAX
Ing him TO Marshall, Ill, TO await legal
process A prominent attorney called up
the Journal representative here to-day,
from Robinson. and substantiated these
allegations.
The Robinson Argus. in its issue to-day
says: rhe sheriff, with three or four as
s~istants. went to Lawrenceville, got the
man, and on the morning train came to
Robinson. where he Dillard) was placed
in jail with intent to take him to Sullivan.
- When the time to go to the train
arrived the prisoner declined TO leave the
State without requisition. claiming to be in
nocent OF the charge laid against him. Some
little time was spent in parleying and dis
cussing the right OF our sheriff to surrender
him under the circumstances. Sheriff Hus-
ton declining to hold him, the Sullivan FAR
ties got a surrey and by force carried Tim
away"
The Argus further says: Governor Dur
bin has revoked the commission or Snerln
Dudley for allowing the prisoner to be taken
away from him. This is in accord with a
law passed by the Legislature OF Indiana az
it's last session. The sheriff has appealed
for ar investigation and hopes to be re-
instated TO his office. 1t is probable some
evidence might be had from our city. Inc
protests of the prisoner against being taken
without a requisition n the force USED, as
we'll as the treatment he received at the
hands of DerSOnS not officers OF the law, OF
OF the sherif's posse. and this without re-
buke, would hardly be favorable TO the
sheriff. The Argus editor was not present
when the man was removed, but the infor-
nation. which comes 10 us from a relia-
bic source, Is TO the effect that II was an
outrageous case of Kidnapping
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Indiana

REDKEY, Ind. Nov. 26.-George Fertig.
aged sixty-ive. a wagon maker. while on
his way to work about 10 O'Clock this
morning. fell dead from heart disease. Men
who saw him fall went TO his assistance
and summoned a physician. but life was ex-
tinct before the latter arrived. Mr.. Fertig
was prominent in local c. A r. affairs
MUNCIE, Ind, Nov. 26.-Allen Cain, aged
sixty-five. died yesterday at his home south
of Muncie after a long illness. He was a
well-to-do farmer, and left a widow and
five children. He will be buried Thursday
morning at Economy.
CENTERVILLE, Ind, Nov. 26.-Jeremiah
Swanord Is dead here at the age Of eighty
nine. He was q ~well-known farmer and
longtime resident OF Wayne county.
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MYSTERIOUS LAND SALE.
Entire Section, Practically All Under
Water. Brings $40 an Acre.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal
LAPORTE. Ind, Nov. 26-According to a
warranty deed filed here to-day in the office
of County Recorded McCurdy, real estate
located I'm Lake Michigan and under water
is exceedingly valuable. James L. Reade
and his wife. Alice Reade, convey for SIS
600 to wesly H. Cook. VI. D., and wife.
Nellie Cook. Section IL I'm Michigan town
ship. Laporte county. all of which $40 acres,
with the exception of four and a fraction
acres, is under water. The part not covered
by water is a barren waste of sand. All
those party to the conveyance are Chicago
people.
The property is located a few miles from
Michigan City, and a number of years ago
was sold by the late Mortimer Nye, of Ia
porte. to John Hughes. of Chicago, for a
nominal sum. A mortgage for $1,000. COW
ering the same property, and given by
Wesly Cook and wife to James l.. Reade
and George w. Allen, of Chicago. was also
filed The mystery which enshrouds the
transaction is added to by the fact that
sellers and buyers made requests that the
matter be kept from the newspapers.
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Indiana Notes.

MUNCIE.-The new Roosevelt school
building in Congerville. a suburb of Mum
Gle, was dedicated Wednesday afternoon.
Addresses were made by county and city
officials. This Is the first school In Muncie
TO have a course In manual training. MISS
Belle Thomas is instructor In the girls
manual training course and Charles II.
Brandon teaches the manual work OF the
boys. The building was completed last fall
at a cost OF SIS, 600.
RUSHVILLE.-Late Tuesday night the
jury returned a verdict in the Glenn Jump
SON robbery case. The defendant was found
guilty and the punishment fxed at four
months Imprisonment in the county jail,
Acknowledgement for two years and a fine
of 81. Frank Norris, who was implicated
I'm the same case and was convicted dur
ing the last term of court, was given a
two to fourteen-year sentence In the Re-
formatory.
SCOTTSBURG-Suits nave been fled
against Warren A. Smith for damages
amounting to $4,000. Annie Richey asks
for 10000, and her four children ask for
5000 each on the grounds that the husband
and father. William G.. Richey. was killed
at or near Smiths saloon in the fall of
1899 by Jacob Dezarn. After the shooting
Dezarn left the county, and is still at
large.
PORTLAND.-The corner stone of the
new Presbyterian Church will be laid
Thursday afternoon. These ceremonies
will not be attended by any lavish display,
the Rev. j. s. Axtell, pastor. the church
officials and congregation simply p%artici-
pating.
MIDDLETOWN.-Harvey Letter, Of
Muncie, has been here for the past three
days buying the right of way for the Union
Traction extension to this place and has
secured all but two or three of the proper
ties needed for that purpose
RICHMOND.-The Odd Fellows lodge at
williamsburg. Wayne county, on Tuesday
night celebrated the semi-centennial of it's
founding. The lodge was instituted Nov.
%. 1852. There are now ~forty-nine MEM
berS.
GOSHEN.-ElZa Lucas, aged twenty
eight and single, attempted to end his life
by cutting his throat with a knife Tuesday
night, but was unsuccessful. He is subject
TO epileDtic attacks.
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SUIT FOR
Filed Against a Big Theatrical Com
pany at Peru.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
PERU. Ind. Nov. 26.-The original Chi
cago company. playing The Storks," ar
rived here tonight without baggage or
scenery. and no performance could be given.
Manager Fred Webb has begun suit for
damages.
The house was sold out several days ago
a. y a seat. and to-night's production was
10 have been noteworthy. not alone for
Peru. but for theater parties from Hunt
tnEton. Wabash. Rochester and other
places. The company. of nearly a hundred
people. arrived by special train from Jack
son. Mich. this afternoon. but by some
mistake. the reason for which has not been
jackson, together with two property men In
|cnargc and empty ones were brought In
|Dtead. 1t was too late TO get them to Peru
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Other Deaths.

COLUMBUS, o., Nov. 26.-Former State
Treasurer William T. Cope. sixty-six years
of age. died at his home here tonight as
a result CT a paralytic stroke, suffered last
Friday. Mr.. Cope was a. former State rep
resentative and well known throughout
the State. He leaves a widow and two
sons, DR.. Harry Cope. of Columbus. and
Edward Cope. a banker at Cincinnati.
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich, Nov. 20
Sheriff ELECT James NJ. Fahustock, of Pitts
burg, Pa, died at the Egnew Hotel here
to-day after a brief attack of pneumonia.
His sister, Mrs. Mcbride, and DR.. j. NJ.
McLane, of Pittsburg. were with him when
he died.
LONDON, Nov. 6.-The Most Rev. John
Macvilly. Roman Catholic archbishop of
Tuam and primate of C~onnaught since 1881,
died to-day at the age of eighty-five years.
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Received a Prison Sentence.

Special 10 the Indianapolis journal.
TELL CITY, Ind. Nov. 26.-Arthur Gar
rett. colored, who shot Hilliad Wallace. an
other negro. at a baseball game at Can
Melton, Ind, was tried for assault with in
tent to kill and the jury returned a verdict
OF " TO twenty-one years in State prison.
The negro whom he shot recovered, but did
not appear during the trial.
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FILED AT LEXINGTON.
MilIion-DolInr Mortgage on Indiana
and Kentucky Telephone Lines.

LEXINGTON, Ky, Nov. ga mortgage
was fled in the county clerks Office here,
to-day. by the Independent Long Distance
Telephone and Telegraph Company. of Del
aware, TO the National Trust Company. of
Louisville. Ky, in trust TO secure the is
sue Of 100000 of per cent. first mort
gage gold bonds. for thirty years from
Jan I next.
The property mortgaged Includes the
plant In Louisville and equipment. the lines
from Louisville through Shelby. Franklin.
Fayette, Anderson. Henry, Owen. Carroll,
Gallatin. Trimble. Bullet. Hardin, Meade,
breckenridge. Hancock. Tayicr and Larue
counties In Kentucky. also Floyd, Barthol-
omew and Crawford counties in Indiana,
with al branches and equipment.
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of j. H. Hoadley was given out at the office
OF the international Power Company In
which all the allegations in Mr.. Plummer's
complaint were denied.
The committee OF the Coal Miners Fed
Grafton Of the Loire. France. held a meeting
yesterday and resolved in favor of the re-
sumption of work at all the mines in the
district next Friday. After the decision of
the congress of the Miners Federation Of
the Nord and Pas De Calais Nov. 16 to
abandon the strike in those departments.
the only coal region of importance still
holding out was that of the Loire, and with
its decision the general strike of the coal
miners OF Franc which was declared on
Oct. 9 and which at one time involved over
10000 men, came to an end.
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MARRIAGE AN OFFENSE.
Women Guilty of 1t Cannot Hold Gov-
eminent CIerkshfps.

Women Guilty of 1t Cannot Hold Gov
eminent CIerkships.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-Marriage is a
serious offense. according to an edict issued
by Postmaster General Payne and to the
recommendations of Adjutant General Cor
bin, of the army, who says that no officer
should marry until he has reached the
grade of major. Postmaster General
Payne's order requires that hereafter all
women clerks who marry shall report the
fact to the department, in order that they
may be ~reappointed under their new m
An additional paragraph in the order says
explicitly that mo appointments in such
cases will be made
This means in substance that any woman
clerk who marries forfeits her position in
the Postoffice Department. Postmaster
General Payne, a married man himself,
does not believe in his clerks marrying hus-
bands unable to support them. His order
has created a sensation among the women
of a manageable age in the government
departments.
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and-six' on her tongue-or with the de-
laine" on her back, for that matter; and
possibly penny now a sole survivor"
will soon go the way OF all Criticism"
flesh.
1t is worth noting. however, that I'm the
publishers and advertisers vernacular the
penny papers still cut some ice. 1t Is
easier to say than "one-cent papers"-and
the ALTERATION, as in the case OF penny
postage" has no doubt helped to preserve
its currency. We won't promise the Blade
that we won't be caught using the word
again. There are still occasions when the
language would be p~erceptibly weakened
by dropping the word.
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STRUCK BY A BICYCLE.
Prominent Columbus, o., Woman
Badly Hurt at Lafayette.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, Nov. 26.-Mrs. A. ID.
Smith, Of Columbus. o.. h is the guest
of her mother. Mrs. Ira l. Reeves, wife
of Commandment Reeves, of Purdue Univer-
sity. was badly injured last night by being
run down by a bicyclist at Columbia and
Seventh streets. Mrs. Smith, who is ar
elderly, woman. had attended a reception at
the Lafayette Club. and, accompanied by
her daughter, was returning TO the latter's
home. The bicycle which struck her was
ridden by a boy. and although he was
thrown off, merely remarked that he hoped
she was not hurt and rode of. The injured
woman was assisted to her daughters
home. Her head was badly cut and the
shock seriously affected her.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 26.-The Crown
Prime OF Siam had an exciting ride along
the Sea drive to-day. The horse which
he was riding bolted and. although the
prince kept his saddle and was at no time
In danger. the members of his party had
a few nervous moments. A park police
man stopped the runaway. and the prince.
changing horses with one OF his staff. re-
turned to his hotel.
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Accused of Stealing s25 900.

NEW YORK, Nov. 26.-Lawrence Muir
ply. formerly treasurer of the Journey
men Stonecutters' Association of New
York, was arrested tonight charged with
the larceny of 5000. Last August MUIR
pny was asked to turn over his funds TO
the new treasurer. 1t is alleged that he
failed to do so and he then left the CITY.
Murphy was supposed to have gone TO
England, but tonight he entered the meet
ing place of the association and was ar
rested