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The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-30
WILL USEEEE.

Some of the New York hanks are so lordly that they wont look at a man who makes small deposits. But lately, it is said, there has been change of attitude toward the depositor of moder- ate means. How the big deposit busi- ness works has been illustrated during the last week, when there has been a high rate for "calI money" Just at the moment when the banks were besieged with requests for loans, some wealthy depositors turned lenders themselves, drawing out their balances to lend at the fifteen per cent. level The thing was done openly, and although it led to strong language and hard thinking on the part of the bank officials, they had to pay out the money as soon as the checks were presented. In this way $5O0,0 balances of the morning dwin- dled to 5000 at night, the depositors demanding their money at the moment when it was most valuable to the banks. But with the bank having half-million dollars belonging to thou sand depositors, the situation was alto gether different. Three-fourths of that sun1-the amount over and above its re- serve-was absolutely secure, for under no conditions short of panic could so many depositors become disturbed to the point where they would take their money out of the bank It is also pointed out that the same thing applies to, accounts kept in New York by the small out-of-town banks. They are quite as valuable in the long run as the large balances kept by "reserve-cen- ter'' institutions. In the one case, the New York bank feels sure of retaining two-thirds of the funds belonging to a hundred correspondents; in the other, any sudden demand may lead to whole sale withdrawals.
 It is cheering to see "the small man" get some recognition. He is a deserv- ing chap, but Ire has been overshad- owed lately by the big man.
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R.

Have you ever led double life?"
 she tremblingly asked. Well" he answered, "I once said ! my prayers in Evanston and made my | money in Chicago. ."-Chicago Record
 Herald.
 You can't eat your cake and have it, too" Oats right" answered MT. Erastus l Pinkley, but, on de yuthuh hand, if you eats yoh chickens do dosn't run no ] risk O habbin' 'em stole Washington Star A Satisfactory Man.-New man-Here are some poetic contributions which
 came in to-days mail. I am not up on poetry. Editor-Good! I don't want you to 1 be up on it. I want you to be down on | it.-New York Weekly. Unconventional-You spoke of Gloob-
 CT as being queer" Is he mentally ! unbalanced?"
 Not exactly that He's merely ec- centric and peculiar. He gives in his property to the assessor at the same figure he has it insured for'-Chicago Tribune Deacon Snow-Does I unerstan', par son, dat yo' opinate dat Adam wuz a | colored man? Parson Johnsing-Yo' diagnose nah views c'reckly, suh. Deacon Snow-Den I .s'pose yo low dat dat apple wuz in realty watah-
 million.-Philadelph Press. They named her Eloise While she an infant lay; Names count for little; she's The wife of Bill" to-day,
 And sews and scrubs while he's Out passing time away. Chicago Record-Herald. You can't go home when it's raining like this. You had better stay and have dinner with us!'' "Oh. it's not so bad as that!"-Gold-
 en Days.
 Bill-Did the giraffe have a long ill., ness? Jill-Yes, he had a sore throat.-Yon-
 kers Statesman. What is this leathery stuff?" the diner asked, when the second course of the dinner was served. That is a flllet of sole, sir" replied the waiter. Take it away" said the diner, after attacking it with his fork, land see if
 you can't get me a nite tender piece of
 the upper, with the buttons removed" What to Eat.
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crowd was dispensing when the judge called them back.
 There is another matter to attend to- he said. "On this mans body was found $50 and a six-shooter. It is con- trary to the law of Texas and to the peace and dignity of the State to carry concealed weapons. Therefore I conlis- cate the revolver and fine the deceased $1. The costs in the case are $49, which just settles his estate."-From the St. Louis Star.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-30
HOPE ON, HOPE EYER.

It's always darkest just before day. and it is pretty dark now. It didn't rain all the time yesterday and last night, so perhaps we may escape drowning. But freezing and starving seem to be still relentlessly lying in wait for us. However, let us not de- spair. Perhaps some of the Christian or un-Christian gentlemen who work in coal are even now maneuvering to help us. After what they have done to us they ought to let up little. There are some faint indications that they will soon. Let us hope that the faint indications will increase to plain signs, anl the plain signs to certainty of relief. It will be easier to calmly discuss "the relations between labor and capitap' if we are sure of being warmed and fed. It will also be safer. Perhaps when the strain is over the relations between pol itics and labor and capital can also be calmly and proftably discussed. Just now calm discussion halts before right eous indignation.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-30
SOME CHICAGO JUSTICE.

Chicago justice will be as famous as Jersey justice if it keeps on. Its latest appearance was in what is known as the great beefsteak suit. This doesn't mean that the beefsteak was great, but the suit was. A Chicago man, a dentist, ordered a beefsteak in restaurant, but after tasting the meat that was served declared it was not fit to eat. Such pressure was brought to bear on him that he paid for the steak, demand ing, however, that he be permitted to take the meat away with him. His re- quest was not granted. It was found out in the course of the proceedings that the request could not have been granted because while the controversy was in progress hungry cook had de- voured the steak. The man appealed to the courts to recover the fifty cents
 The decision of the judge was in the plaintiffs favor. Because the waiter took away the steak to which the dent ist objected" the justice said, and did
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-30

mouth. refusing to allow him to touch them with his hand. Then he buried the coins and told Moore he was cured, but warned him against looking for the coins, saying that if any one dug the place up they would very likely instead find couple of dharkdiels"-insects credited by the ignorant and supersti- tious with the power of evil. The police subsequently dug up the ground where the coins were supposed to have been buried but none was found there. The prisoner was held for trial.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-30

not return it the customer was not re- quired to pay for 1t, and therefore was entitled to a return of the fifty cents which he had paid. When customer pays for food at a hotel or restaurant he may eat it at the table or carry it home with him, all notices on the walls forbidding the carrying away of uneat- en food to the contrary notwithstand- ing"
 Probably few would want to carry away uneaten food from a Chicago res taurant, but it is we'll enough for those who frequent them to know their rights.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-30
SETTLED THE ESTATE

An attorney from Houston, Texas, J. D. Bryant, tells this story of Judge Roy Bean. justice of the peace in the Lone-Star State, who is known better as the law west of the Pecos River"
 He held coroner's inquest on Mexican who had been found dead near the Pecos River The jury brought in a verdict of accidental death. The
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-30
ADVERTISING RATEa

Situations. Wants. Rents. and other snan Advertisements. One cent Word each in- sertlon. Five Cents Word for full week iaeven CitQssl.
 Display advertisements. per Inch. one ia, sarsI0u, Si %: each subsequent insertion, fO cehIs: one week. s3.20: one month. $1O; oHe ysar. $41
 Obituary Notices. in prose CT verse. AZ cents per line. Notices cf Blrtns. MAr.r ages. Deaths. anG Funerals. 60 cents eacR' Local Notices, 1h per line.
 yeariy adYertisefs are limited to their OWE immediate business (all matter 10 De un0biectl6nabie), and their contracts do nOs trrIuAe Wants To Let. For Sale. etc.
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THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
For GoVernor.

For Governor, ABIRAM CHAMBERLAIN, of Meri- $#be den.
 For Lieutenant Governor, HENRY ROBERTS, of Hartford
 For Attorney General, WILLIAM A. KING, of Willimantic,
 For Secretary of State, CHARLES G. R. VINAL, of Middle
 town.
 For Treasurer, HENRY H. GALLUP, of Norwich.
 For Comptroller, WILLIAM E. SHELBY. of Bridgeport. For Congressman-at-Lnr GEORGE L. LILLEY, of Waterbury. For Congressman, Second District. NEHEMIAH D. SHERRY, of New Haven.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-30

The average number of accidents re- sulting from climbing the Alps, as pub lished by the Alpine Club at Berne, and embracing a period of eleven years from 1890 to 19O1-has been twenty-sev- en. This year sixty-three Alpinists have met with death. Important plans tourists and others.
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Fur Alterations.

The fashions for the coming season, now here, enable us to offer you the latest ideas upon which to base a1= terations.
 Skilled designers and workmen===the original fur pelts, freshly dress ed==the best materials and the advantages of modern sanitary work rooms===c O m bine to form an exceptionally favorable situation for satisfactory work, the results of which will please you.
 The prices upon work placed now are low.
 Note the address.
 Dtu0ksAGQ
 EbapsL sernsr State srest
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-30

At Ballygore police court, County Galway, Ireland, the other day witch doctor was charged with having ob- tained money by false pretenses. The accused was small farmer in the dis trict and the prosecutor another farmer named Moore, 'who had been ill The accused met Moore and told him if he carried out his instructions he would he as sound as a rock. As first install
 ment he demanded about F shillings from Moore to get through the prelimi- naries and when he came to the real "cure" he said it would be necessary to have gold, silver and copper coins. The sick man provided a sovereign, a g. shilling piece and a penny. The witch doctor then stripped him, wound him up in a sheet and placed him sitting in chair in which were two red-hot bricks. The patient underwent terri bic agony, but he bore it patiently while the witch doctor went on his knees and uttered some unintelligible prayers. Af
 ter the burning the doctor put the coins separately into the sick mans
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-30

Explorer Peary says he could discov- CT the North Pole if he had $200, 000 Two hundred thousand dollars would enable a man to discover much. With it he might even discover little an- thracite coal.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-30
ANOTHER KANSAS INCIDENT.

It is cold day, and a warm one too, when something interesting doesn't happen in Kansas. The other day two young farmers were arrested at Fort Scott while rolling in the mud in an effort to fight each other. It developed that they were driving along when a dispute arose as to which was the drunkest. Each claimed that he was drunker than the other. At last to set- tie it they agreed to get out of the wagon and fight. Of course, on the theory that the drunker a man is the less he can fight, the man who hoped to prove his contention had to be lick ed, and so it appeared to the two young men. Well" said one of them tri- umphantly after the rumpus was over, The licked me, and that proves I was drunker than him.
 This contest and this reasoning indi- cate what effect rum may have on the Kansas mind. Sister Nation might find a text in the incident.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-30

Things grow some in Missouri. The Kansas City Journal says: "The larg- est apple in Boone county has been found growing on a tree in a millet patch on the farm of Mrs. E. A. Jones. The tree was small, and was not SUD- posed to have any fruit on it; but this apple, which is of the Ben Nevis va- riety, is fifteen inches in circun1fer- ence and weighs pound. The millet around where it grew was eleven feet high"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-30

A man who is in business in Chicaeo and who has been visiting in Kansas City wrote a letter the other day to a chum in the Windy City that surely breaks the record for lengthy letter writing. He had promised to write "a good, long letter." so he procured a coll of thin white tape paper, such as is used by the telegraph companies on their ticking machines, and proceeded to work, writing 8 single line lengthwise on the tape from beginning clear through to the little wooden center. The letter was in the neighborhood of 45O feet long.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-30

The St. Helena papers report an in- feresting incident in connection with the departure of Boer prisoners from St. Helena. Lieutenant Colonel Hind the commandant of Deadwood Camp, headed deputation of the exiles to the governor, and presented a handsomely Illuminated address in an artistically carved casket. They thanked his ex- 8cellency for the kindness and consider
 ation they had experienced, and in par ticular for the ''seasonable proclama- ton" he had issued, exhorting the in- habitants to treat the prisoners of war with the respect due to an honorable foe. They also desired to acknowledge the noble manner" in which the resi- dents had responded to that appeal.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-30

Our Fall and Winter Opening of Paris Hats and our own, takes place Wednes- day and Thursday, October First and Second. You are cordially invited to come. The entire store will brilliantly reflect the new Foreign and American modes of IoO2-1o03 .:-".
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-20
ROUGH ON "BOODLERS"
FIVE MORE GIVEN FIVE YEARS
EACH IN THE PENITENTIARY.
Former Members of the st. Louis
House of Delegates Convicted of
Bribery-Others to BE Tried.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Dec. 19.-The joint trial
Delegates which began Tuesday ended to-
night in verdict of five years in the peni-
tentiary for each man. The defendants
Mr.. John A. Sheridan. Charles Denny.
Charles Gutke, Edmund Bersch and T. E.
Albright--were convicted on charges of
bribery in connection with the passage of
the Suburban Street-car Company bill, to
accomplish which 1t was charged $4,000
had been placed on Deposit to be used as
required. The five defendants filed motions
for a new trial and each man was released
on bond.
These cases makes fourteen bribery cases
that have been tried as the result of the
Investigations Of municipal corruption.
Thirteen convictions have resulted, one
case having been acquitted on the order of
the judge. The testimony offered by the
state in the joint cases all tended to show
that a combine existed I'm the House of
Delegates to control legislation, by which
means the members of this combination
could secure money for their votes. Other
former members of the House of Delegates
notably John X. Murrell were placed on
the stand and testified for the state.
The next case on the docket is that of
Charles F. Kelly, the former speaker of the
tive until arrested recently in Philadelphia
on his return from Europe. His case is set
for Jan. 3. He was indicted on two charges
OF bribery and one of perjury.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-20
TO INCREASE REVENUES
RAILWAYS WILL MAKE SHIPPERS
PAY FOR WAGE ADVANCES.
Commodity Rates to BE Raised About
Per Cent, Which Will Yield
Millions of Dollars.

CHICAGO, Dec. 19.-After repeated con-
ferences traffic officials of lines east of
Chicago have determined to make extensive
changes in commodity rates. which will
amount to a general advance of. about )
per cent. and will add many millions of
dollars to the aggregate revenues. The new
schedules will be placed in effect soon as
arrangements can be made after Jan.
and by Jan. 10 all changes will be operative.
The most radical action is to be taken with
reference to commodity rates, for, it Is as
serted. fully so per cent. of these are to be
taken out, and the commodities which they
affect placed back in their respective
CLASSES. These changes, however, will not
affect 80 per cent. of the volume Of traffic
which now moves on commodity rates, as
the main commodities, such as grains, are
TO be left where recent increases in their
rates placed them. Committees are at work
now making the changes and preparing for
the issuance of the new tariffs.
The traffic men justify their action sole
ly upon the ground of increased cost of all
articles entering into railway construction
and uses. Western lines contemplate a
material increase in rates Jan. /. 1t was
announced to-day that arrangements had
been completed for a restoration on Jan.
/ of fully 80 per cent. of the reduced tariffs
which had been filed since the issuance of
the United States Court injunctions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-20
SHOT TO DEATH BY POSSE
DEPUTY FISH COMMISSIONER SLAIN
BY ARMED CITIZENS.
He Fatally Wounded n Justice of the
Peace and a City Marshal and
Was Pursued.

KEOKUK, Ia, Dec. 19.-City Marshal r.
w. Coulter and Justice A. E. Musgrave
were fatally wounded tonight at Farming
ton, Ia, by George Stillwell. a deputy fish
commissioner, who was afterwards shot TO
death by a posse. Coulter attempted to ar
rest Stillwell on a warrant charging him
with disturbing the peace. Stillwell shot
Coulter in the stomach and in the shoul
der. Stillwell then ran UP the street and
shot Musgrave in the head, because, it is
alleged, the justice had recently sent him
to Jail for fifteen days on a charge of dis
orderly conduct. Stillwell then went home,
reloaded his revolver, took rifle and
started across the country, with a posse
OF armed citizens in pursuit. When the
posse overlook the fugitive. he took a po-
sition behind tree and held the citizens
at bay for nearly an hour. Stillwell was
wounded several times and dropped to
his knees, but continued to shoot until a
bullet stuck in the barrel of his rife. The
posse closed in Stillwell, rid6ling him
with bullets. None of the posse was hit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-20
GERMANY WILL ARBITRATE.
Influenced by the State Of Public
Opinion in the United states.

BERLIN, Dec. 19.-The answer of Ger
many to the arbitration in behalf of Vene-
zuela, received through the United States
government, is its acceptance. The de-
livery of their reply to the United States
for transmission to Minister Bowen is de-
layed for day or two for tactical reasons,
probably through the expectation that an
other solution may be found. possibly by
President Castro yielding. Four days ago
the idea of the German government was in
favor OF rejecting arbitration and that Is
understood here to have been the temper
OF the British Foreign Office. While il is
impossible TO trace the steps that led to
reversal or this view, ii appears that the
state of public opinion in the United States
so far as Germany is concerned produced a
revision of the first idea
A semi-official statement in the Nord
Duetsche Allgemaine Zeitung says: "A
local paper has published cablegram from
New York saying: The greatest excite
ment prevails here. The entire press holds
Germany to be responsible for the present
situation: Germany Is attacked in hos
tile articles, while Great Britain is praised.
The newspapers insist that Germany in
tends TO acquire colonies in Venezuela and
Brazil. We have noticed similar tele-
grams in English papers" says the Nord
Duetsche Allgemeine Zeitung, land If
these statements are representative of the
feeling in the United States with even ap-
proximate correctness we would have sin
cerely 10 deplore that the American press
shows itself accessible to wholly unfounded
suspicious of German policy. The govern
ment or the United States long ago was
categorically Informed that Germany is
seeking nothing in Venezuela beyond salts
faction for just claims and compensation.
Ihe Anglo-German cooperation is based
upon the similarity of the interests af-
fected. and only wilful prejudice could de-
tect difference in the proceedings of the
two countries. The course of events will
demonstrate that the intentions of the Ger
man government are free from adventurous
motives"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-20
WAGES TO BE INCREASED
ENGINEERS AND FIREMEN TO RE-
CEIvE 100000 MORE A YEAR.
New Scale to Take Eject on the Chi.
cagO & Northwestern and It's
Branches on Jan. L.

CHICAGO, Dee. 19.-Increases in wages
amounting to 100000 a year are to be grant
ed the locomotive engineers and firemen
employed by the Chicago & Northwestern
Railroad and its branch lines through an
agreement reached to-day between officials
of the railroads and committees represent
ing the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers and the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen.
The new scale will go into effect Jan. L.
1t provides for Increases of approximately
S per cent. in the pay of the members Of
the labor organizations. The engineers
will receive from $3.50 10 $40 for each run
from So 30 TO $3.50. The high rate is paid to
the men who run the larger and newer en-
gines. The number of these engines is con-
stantly growing, and Ii is said a ma jority of
the men will receive the $40 rate.
The advances made TO the firemen are
not as large proportionately as those OBJ
tanned by the engineers. The company has
the work of cleaning portions of freight
engines, and this concession is regarded
as important as the increase In wages. I'm
der the new scale the firemen are to receive
81 25 to s215 for eacn run of one hundred
miles. The present scale is from 81 20 to
$20.
OF the firemen and engineers who are
benefited by the new agreement $500 are
employed on the Chicago a Northwestern
Railroad. The other 800 are employed OH
the St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha and the
Elkhorn, Fremont a. Missouri Valley Rail-
roads, which are under Northwestern con-
troll.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-20
DEADLY TUBERCULOSIS.
It's Victims Numbered I'D for Month
of November.

tuberculosis killed more people in In
diana during the month of November than
any other disease. Its victims numbered
279. There were S25 cases of typhoid fever
and 146 deaths. Cancer caused ninety-four
deaths.
The total number of deaths reported was
2,406. The number in the corresponding
month last year was 2, ,402.
Deaths from other causes were as fol-
lows: Diphtheria. SO: scarlet fever, "a:
whooping cough, II; diarrheal diseases 81 ;
cerebro-spinal- l5: puerperal
. fever, 10: influenza. z: violence. l26 There
were 355 deaths of infants under one year
of age. or Is per cent. OF the total and
the deaths of those who were sixty-fiye
and over numbered $40 or 25 per cent. of the
total.
Smallpox. for the twenty-second con-
secutive month. led the list as most preva-
lent. The number of cases I'm October was
2sS and In November AL. There were
fewer deaths, however. I'm the last named
month, the figures being nineteen I'm Oc-
tober and two in November. Thirty-five
counties were invaded In October and forty
In November. Rheumatism was the second
most prevalent disease. then in order OF
prevalence follows tonsilitis bronchitis
typhoid fever, pnumonia, Influenza scarlet
fever. diphtheria and diarrhoea.
The city death rate in November was
1875 and the county rate was 81.