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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-06
SENIOR LANUZA'S ARGUMENT.
Attempt to Justify the Expenditures
of Estes G.. Rathbone.

to-day of the trial of the Cuban postal
fraud cases Senior Lanuza, counsel for Estes
G.. Rathbone quoted host of expenditures
by army officers i'm Cuba as an argument to
justify the expenditures of his client i'm the
matters of carriage, coachman, house rent.
furnishings, etc. Senior Lanuza declared
that Rathbone had not cashed warrants at
the bank. Regarding the warrant for $500
which Rathbone says was returned to w.
II. Reeves, Senior Lanuza said this was a
question of veracity, and that at the most
it could only be considered a shortage
Senior Lanuza expected to finish his argu-
ment to-day but he gave the court notice
that he wanted to bring up a point of law
regarding the postal code. He said that
the code was not interpreted in the same
manner in Cuba as in the United States.
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OBITUARY.
Albert Booth, Who Founded Well
known Fish Trade Firm.

CHICAGO. March 5.-Albert Booth, who
founded the firm Of A. Booth & Co, in the
fish trade. died at his residence here to-day.
For two weeks the patients arteries have
been gradually hardening, and last night
it became practically certain that the end
was near. The deceased was born in Eng
land seventy-fOur years ago and came TO
Chicago in 1850. The year after the great
fire Mr.. Booth began to extend bis business
and soon gained control Of the fish trade OF
the great lakes. IN 1880 Mr.. Booth retired
the hands Of his sons Alfred E and w.
Vernon Booth In 1898 the firm became a
corporation CA. Booth & Coz with a CAPT
tai of $5JOOOOO
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All Maryland Suffering.

BALTIMORE. March 5.-Reports from all
parts OF the State show that the storm
which has been raging here since last night
was equally as bad in the mountains in the
west and the lowlands on the east. No seri-
Gus results are as yet reported. the damage
thus far being confined to telegraph and
telephone wires, trees and trolley lines.
Railway traffic has been impeded but not
seriously Baltimore & Ohio officials in this
city tonight say that all trains on their
line are running fairly near schedule time
and that the reports of train having been
snOw-bound near Oakland are totally with
out foundation The wind has subsidized
here tonight and but little rain is falling.
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Paterson Again scourged.

PATTERSON, n. j., March 5-Although
the people of this city have thus far main
tanned a brave front in the face of the de-
struction wrought by fire and flood, there
was a widespread feeling of depression to-
day when the citizens found the streets
covered with a thick layer of snow while
a storm was still raging. with every indi-
cation that il might continue for hours 10
come. While by no means giving way to
despair, the people are sadly disheartened
at the existing state of affairs. If the
all would have been well to-day. as the
water receded steadily all of yesterday and
by IL o'clock travel on the electric line had
been resumed.
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Not Royal Purple.
New York Times.

Prince Henry made a remark last week
that is said to have caused mild dismay
among certain of his entertainers. When
preparations were being made at the
Thfrty-fourth-stree pier for "A lavish well
come TO the Emperor's brother a carpet of
a purple shade, thought to be Of the exact
imperial tinge, was obtained at much labor
and expense and laid upon the gangplank
for the prince TO walk upon. When his
glance fell upon the carpet he exclaimed:
What a handsome shade of violeti''
The remark, when reported, revived the
recollection of number of persons that
the royal purple, since the DAYS OF the
Caesars and even so early as the court of
the Persian mOnarchs before the cOnquests
of Alexander the Great was not the color
known in recent years by that name but
a crimson of a rather brilliant hue
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Traction Lines Tied I'd.

WHEELING, w. Va, March 5.-Thirteen
inches of snow fell here during the night
and morning, and business is largely at a
standstilI- The traction lines tied up
and the steam roads are operating under
extreme difficulties all trains being several
hours late.' Factories are crippled by the
inability of many employees to reach them.
Both telegraph companies are having
trouble with. wires, are the telephone
companies.
Reports from the interior of the State
tell of even heavier snowfall. Cameron
reports twenty-four inches and Clarksburg
twenty inches. Work in the oil fields is
entirely suspended. Fears Of a second
flood in the Ohio are expressed by many.
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London United Service.

Some interesting experiments have been
recently carried out I'm Norway 10 ascer-
tain the amount of resistance offered by
parapets made of snow to the penetration
of rifle bullets. II was found that a wall
OF snow four feet thick. the snow being
neither rammed nor frozen. was proof at
nifty yards distance against the bullets
OF the Krag-Jorgensen rifle. Snow, there
fore IL must he concluded. has a greater
resisting power certainly than soft wood.
and one nearly equal TO that of loosely
piled-up earth. The Norwegian rife. it
must be remembered is sighted up 10 $500
yards and with caliber of 6.5 millimeters
has a velocity of 1880 feet. and therefore
is 10 the full at least as powerful a weapon
as that of any other army.
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ST. LOUIS. March 5.-Judge John q. IT.
win, of Edwardsville, Ill, received word
tonight that a decision had been reached
in the celebrated Madison, Ill, poolroom
case. which Judge Martin W. Schaefer, Of
the Circuit Court, has had under advise
ment for six weeks. The decision was a
victory for the State on all points. The
effect will be TO keep poolrooms from OPP
Grating in Illinois towns opposite St Louis
The restraining injunction secured by the
State becomes permanent
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DANGER IN THE PHONE.
Man Killed by Electricity While Using
the Instrument.

DULUTH, March 5.-James ]. McKusick
was killed tonight by a shock of electricity
while talking through a telephone. Nc
Kusick was at his home and stood on a
steam register in order to use more con-
veniently the telephone While engaged
in conversation he suddenly turned up his
hands, his body seemed to Stiffen and he
fell dead at his wife's feet. 1t is supposed
the telephone wire crossed other electric
wires and that McKusick, standing on
metal, completed an electrical current.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-06
Ryan and O'Brien to Fight.

KANSAS CITY, March 5-Tommy Ryan
to-day received a proposition from r. x.
Gray, matchmaker of the Southern Ath-
letic Club at Louisville. to box twenty
rounds with Jack O'Brien, the middle
weight champion of England, for the mid
dleweight championship of the world, the
contest to take place before the Southern
Athletic Club Derby night, the first week
in May. Ryan tonight wired his accept
ance of all terms of the proposition except
that he insists that OBrien must weigh
in at the middleweight limit at the ring
side. O'Brien wants TO weigh 160 pounds
at o'clock in the afternoon. There is 10
be a side bet of 81 800.
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"Mother of the Regiment"

FORT SCOTT. Kan. March 5.-Mrs
Caroline Clark, said to have been the oldest
white woman resident Of Kansas, died at
her home near Hammond yesterday aged
eighty-One years. She came TO Kansas in
1885, locating at Fort LeavenwOrth where
she married a nOncOmmissiOned officer in
the regular army. During the civil war
she accompanied the Sixth Kansas Cavalry,
served water and coffee 10 the men on the
battle line. and was known as the Mother
of the Regiment A special bill to permit
her burial in the national cemetery here is
now pending before Congress.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-06
Maximum stage at Cincinnati.

CINCINNATI, March 5.-The Ohio river
appears to have reached the limit of the
present rise-50 $40 feet Captain Bassler,
local forecast official, says it will be
practically stationary for the next twenty
four hours and will fall slowly on account
of the heavy snowfall in West Virginia,
kentucky and southern Ohio.
Reports from Kentucky show from ten to
fifteen inches of snow. At Maysville. even
omnibuses have been compelled to abandon
their trips Here the snow was from three
to four inches deep and was accompanied
by high wind, which produced many drifts.
Street-car traffic was not disturbed.
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RAM8LERS' HIGH SCORES
THEY SET FAST PACE IN GAMES
WITH DEwEYS.
First Division of Prospects Gave
Leaders a Drubbing-Graf's High
Averages-The Scores.

The Ramblers set fast pace In the In
dependent League games last night, the
first division rolling three scores above 800,
the highest being 99S. and the second divi-
sion rolling one score above 900. the team
as a whole taking six games from the
Deweys. Graft rolled three high scores.
making an average of 2lO %. The Hoo
Hoos won four games from the Electrics.
and the Compeers took four from the Mel
rose team. The first division of the Pros
poets won three from the Tish-i-Mingoes.
but there were only four men in the Sec
ond division of the Prospects. and the
Tish-i-Mingoes won. The scores follow:
RAMBLERS VS.. DEWEYS.
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PHILADELPHIA. March 5.-Congress-
man r. X. Polk, of the Seventeenth Penn
sylvania district, died suddenly in this city
last night of paralysis. Mr. Polk who
had been a sufferer from the af1ictiOn for
some time, came here last Monday from
Washington for treatment. He was accom-
panied by j. j. Wells, of Shamokn, and
registered at the Hotel Walton. Yester-
day afternoon Mr.. Polk went to a massage
physician for treatment, but he died in
the Doctors establishment late last night.
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Sick Benefits for saIvationists.

SPRINGFIELD, o., March Sat the
meeting of the officers of the Salvation
Army at Columbus IL was decided. on the
suggestion of Col. r. Echols, of Cleveland
to begin the organization OF "A benefit order
as an auxiliary to the army. Three thou
sand members have already been secured
in this State. There will be sick benefit
and life insurance features. Sick benefits
will be s. Der week
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MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.

QUEENSTOWN. March 5-Arrived
Eordland. from Philadelphia. for Liverpool
TeutOnic. from New York. for Liverpool
and both proceeded. Sailed: Saxonia, from
Liverpool, Tor Boston.
NEW YORK. March 5-Arrived: Pre-.
toria, from Bermuda. Csvic. from Liver
pool. Sailed. Philadelphia. for Southamp-
ton; Southwark. FOR Antwerp; Oceanic. FOR
Liverpool.
PLYMOUTH. March 5.-Arrived: Graf
Waldersee. from New York, for Cherbourg
and Hamburg. and proceeded.
SOUTHAMPTON. March 6.-Arrived: St
Louis. from New York
LIVERPOOL. March 5-Sailed: Waes.
land. Tor Philadelphia.
HAMBURG. March 2-sailed: Phoenicia
for New York.
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PROSPECTS VS.. INSTANTANEOUS.
washington Alleys.)
First Division
First Division
S. H. S. BOYS TRAINING.
Baseball and Track Teams Prepar-
ing for Season.

The Shortridge High School viii have this
year one of the most successful baseball
and track teams it has had in recent years.
A number Of last years most prominent
players On the baseball team will be seen
again this year wearing the blue and white.
Carl Gibbs and Maynard Allen will be the
battery. and among the prominent players
who will try for positions on the team ara
Oscar Berry, Wanyard Masters. Harley
Mckinney Walter NOnnegut. Robert Scott,
Harland Boser. Hazelip Clark. Walter
Gipe and Max Wiley. Manager Allen has
the names Of eighty boys who are going TO
try for the team.
The track team will be chosen next sat
urday for the coming indoor meet with Y.
NJ g A. large number Of boys are now
training daily at the Y NJ. {. a. Among
those doing the best work are Mckinney,
Masters HOldsOn and Shank The relay
team Will probably be selected from the fol-
lowing candidates. Masters, Mckinney,
Shank, BOsler. HOldson, Posey, Clark.
Gates and Barry.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-06
Two Feet of snow in kentucky.

LOUISVILLE. Ky, March 5--The heav-
lest snow Of the season fell yesterday after
noon and last night in the eastern. south
eastern and central portions Of the State.
Reports from the mountain sections of the
State say that the snow is the heaviest in
years. In number of places IL has reached
a depth exceeding twelve inches, while at
West Liberty, In Morgan county, two feet
is reported.
Three inches is also reported at Knox
Vile, Tenn, and a light fall IS reported at
AsheVille
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Fierce Gale and snowstorm.

WHITE HALL, n. Y. March 5.-The
worst blizzard of the season struck eastern
New York this evening. Reports from
Crown Point, Fort Ticonderoga and other
lake points state that fierce gale is rag
ing with heavy snowfall. The storm is fast
extending south.
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RIVER RISING SLOWLY.
No Damage Yet Mt EvansviIIe-FOrty-
Foot Stage Expected.

EVANSVILLE, Ind, March 5.-The river
is rising very slowly here, and shows a
gain of only two feet in twenty-fOur hours.
All packets haXe been delayed by the
heavy winds of last night. No damage is
reported. River men now say they look
for a stage of 40 feet. This will be the
highest point reached here i'm the last three
years. Thousands of bushels of corn is in
crib I'm the bottom lands, and forty-foot
stage will destroy this. Many farmers are
moving their corn. The Wabash is out of
its banks near New Harmony, and an
other foot rise will do some damage.
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Tobacco Factory Deal.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. March 5.-John Doer-
hoefer of this city, who was for MANY
years the Louisville manager for the Amer
lean Tobacco Company, and who started
the tobacco factories that afterwards
formed the nucleus of the Continental To
bacco Company, to-day bought for $3.50 GO-
the controlling interest in the Manufac-
turers' Tobacco Company OF Louisville
which IL an independent company.
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Couple Asphyxiated by Gas.

MILWAUKEE, Mach 5.-Gus Wehner.
employed by the Universal Publishing Com
pany, of Chicago. and an unknown woman
were found dead at a rOoming house at 24O
Market street this afternoon. Death re-
suited from asphyxiation. The couple re-
tired at 10 o'clock last night The circun-
stances surrounding the case Indicate that
the gas was turned on accidentally. Web
ner is said to have brother living in APP
plefOn. WIS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-06
MAROCSY STILL LEADS.
Has Lost One Game Less Than Pills
bury I'm the Chess Tournament

MONTE CARLO, March 5-Of the eight
adjourned and drawn games of the inter-
national chess masters tournament, now
in progress here, the committee ordered
number to be contested to-day. The start
was made as usual at 8 a. m.,. and when
adjournment called, at 1 p. m, the
following results had been attained: Wolf
had beaten Popiel. Teichmann had de-
feated Tchigorin, Schlechter and Albin had
drawn. The record UP to date follows:
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Meeting of Lumber Dealers.

CHICAGO. March 5.-Speakers at the
tenth annual meeting of the National
Wholesale Lumber Dealers ASSOCIATE ton
held here to-day declared that while bust
ness in the past year has been prosperous
prices have been unusually high because
of the growing shortage Of the supply of
lumber President Lippincott in his an
nual address predicted there would be a
further rise i'm prices Of the product un-
less the supply was replenished
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T.. Il. Sampson.

TACOMA, Wash, March 81. +. Samp-
son, prominent in railroad, real estate and
insurance circles, postmaster Of Tacoma
under President Arthur and holding differ
ent public positions in the city and county.
died to-day, aged fifty-fOur years. He was
drummer boy in the FOrtieth Wisconsin
Regiment i'm 1854
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m. The record up to date follows:
sportsman's Show Opened.

NEW YORK, March 5.-The annual
sportsmans show was opened to-day in
Madison-square Garden. y large pool of
water had been placed in the center of the
garden, and this was stocked with fish.
Many live birds and animals were exhibited
and a large display of boats was made.
A programme of sporting events including
fly casting, has been arranged for every
afternoon and evening during the show.
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SAN DOMINGO, Republic of Santo Do
mingo, March 5-The United States minis
ter. William f. Powell, who has lust re-
turned here from the United States is using
his good offices in order to bring about a
settlement Of the Sala claim for $4,000 cash.
and has also been endeavoring to arrange
a settlement of the affairs of the San DO
mingo Improvement Company of New York.
The negotiations have fair prospect of
being successful
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and there is no sign of a cessation, but the
wind is blowing a gale. Trolley cars are
stalled here and there throughout the city
and the rural districts are completely tied
up. Sleighs have been along the lines TO
rescue the passengers in the snow-bound
cars. Railway operations are practically at
a standStill. Some of the wires that were
repaired yesterday have been blown down
again and all is confusion.
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Failure TO do so on or before the close OF
this meeting, March 10. 1902. win cause
the horse Dagmar, and himself as well,
TO be ruled off the turf"
Winners and odds: Lady Buckley, to
i: Tom Kingsley. Is 10 /; Fallella, 10 /
bristol at II TO ). Disqualified; Bill Nixon,
to 5: Felix Bard. Is TO 10; Pharao, TO ?
SAN FRANCISCO, March 5.-Oakland
winners and odds: Cambaceres, 30 TO l;
Duke of York 80 to !: Malaspina. 10 10 l;
Hungarian. 10 !; Janice, even; John
Peters, u to 1.
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Deep snow in Virginia.

HUNTINGTON. w. Va. March 5.-The
snowstorm in West Virginia continues.
Eighteen inches has fallen here, twenty
four at Logan. twenty at Point Pleasant,
thirty at Dingess. three feet at Wyoming
and five feet is reported in the Cheat noun
tains The Guyandotte. Twelve Pole, Tug,
Kanawha, New and Big Sandy rivers are
all rising, the latter very rapidly
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Two Travelling Men Killed.

URBANA. o., March 5.-Frank NJ. Smith.
of Springfield, and George l.. Cunningham
travelling statesmen for a music house in
this city, were killed near Hagenbauch sta
ton tonight. The men were driving across
the Panhandle Railroad track when their
vehicle was struck by a fast passenRer
train and they were hurled against a teIe-
graph pole and instantly killed
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Railway Tracks i'm Bad shape.

snowstorm set in at noon to-day. The
snow drifted badly and caused the entire
force of men who were clearing the tracks
Of the New York Central Railroad to sus-
pend work. 1t will probably be a week be-
fore the New York Central tracks can be
used for through traffic.
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the Republicans in the House pursuing
the course they were pursuing IL the
premises"
There was not "A single thing. Mr.. Cannon
further remarked, in the Presidents words
or his attitude which in any way reflected
on himself or the dignity Of the House OF
Representatives.
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Decorations Damaged by Snow.

BOSTON, March 5.-The heavy storm, the
center Of which was off the Carolinas,
struck Boston at noon to-day. Snow fell
throughout the afternoon. The storm in
terfered somewhat with the decorations Of
business houses in honor of the visit Of
Prince Henry tomorrow.
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WEATHER FORECAST.
Fair To-day and TO-MorrOw, Winds
Becoming Variable.

WASHINGTON, March 5.-Forecast for
Thursday and Friday:
For Indiana-Fair on Thursday and Fri
day; light north winds, becoming variable.
For IIlinois-Fair on Thursday and Fri
day; variable winds
For Ohio-Fair Thursday and Friday;
fresh north winds. becoming variable.
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BATTLE CREEK, Mich, March 5.-The
remains of Abner Case, of Bath, n. Y. who
was burned to death in the Adventist San
itarium here Feb. IS were found to-day by
workmen who were excavating in the ruins
A portion OF the skull and few bones was
all that was left
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National League Case Postponed.

Delaney Nicoll, who has q court engage
ment in Albany, the agreement on the de-
murrer in the baseball case has been post
poned until Tuesday next. The Brooklyn
Chicago, Pittsburg and Philadelphia clubs
have decided TO file the same demurrer that
was filed by A. G.. Spalding.
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Fourteen Houses Destroyed.

PITTSBURG, March 5.-Fourteen frame
houses at Schoenville, a suburb of Pitts
burg, were destroyed by fire at o'clock
this morning, rendering $50 people home
less. The occupants We're got out safely and
generally saved their household goods. The
loss was $4,000 The fire caused by an
exploding lamp.
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shortage OF Fresh Meat.

NEWARK. ". J.. March 5.-There is a
serious shortage OF fresh meat here owing
faIo and Scranton. Cars consigned here
from the West have been stalled since
Saturday and as a result the wholesale
price OF meats has advanced 80 cents a
hundred pounds.
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LONDON March 5.-Leonard Lewiston,
the banker of New York and formerly
president OF the United States Metals Sell
Ing Company, died of pneumonia to-day
at the residence of his son-in-law, Charles
Henry, in this city.
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George PbeIan Knocked Out.

HARTFORD, Conn, March ~5-Tommy
DAILY, of New York, knocked out George
Phelan, of Portland. Me, before the Ma
tional Athletic Club tonight after fight
ing one minute and fifty seconds.
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Thirteen Inches of Snow.

BELLAIRE, o., March 5.-About thirteen
inches of snow has fallen here. The cleo
tric-car lines have temporarily suspended
traffic and the railroads are more or less
crippled.
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$. II. :. second Five Defeated.

The second Y. NJ. G. A. team defeated the
second Shortridge five at the Y. n. c. A.
gymnasium last night by score OF IL 10 ?.
Each team scored two goals from field. biit
Bauman made five goals from foul, while
Pratt pitched but three. The teams lined
UP as follows: