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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-08
Indiana Notes.

ANDERSON.-The members of the First
Methodist Church in this city gave a recep-
ton Thursday night in the church in honor
of DR.. c. G. Cissell, the new pastor, who
comes to this charge from Goshen. The
church was thronged with people, and the
new passionate begins under the most favor
able conditions. Happy speeches were made
by members of the official board of the Ep-
worth League and by DR.. Cissell.
CONNERSVILLE.-The Daum Sanatori-
UNI property. formerly the home place of
ex-United States Treasurer j. N. Huston,
has been sold to DR.. w. ]. Porter, of this
bers. of Indianapolis. The consideration is
$4,000. The doctor will take immediate pos
session and continue the sanatorium.
sHELBYVILLE.-Al Peak and Mat Ar
mold, saloon keepers of Waldron, have been
refused liquor licenses by the Board
signed by a majority of the voters of Lib
erty township being on file against them.
This is the first time in forty years that
Waldron has been without a saloon.
WINCHESTER.-The Woman's Club Of
this city, literary organization. has select
ed the following officers for this year: Pres
ident, Mrs. Eleanor Barnes; vice president,
Mrs. Emma L. Smith; recording secretary.
Mrs: Mae Williams: corresponding secre-
Mrs. Catherine Meier.
DECATUR.-Free city mail delivery has
been promised for this city, to begin Sept
Is. Decatur is the only county seat in the
Eighth district that has not got free deliv-
Is into a new building which is to be
erected this summer. The past years bust
ness was $11 400.
BEDFORD.-Plans submitted to the
County Commissioners for the building of
a new jail and jailer's residence have been
selected the one accepted being that Of c.
A. Krutsch & Co., of Indianapolis. The
structure will cost $4,000.
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Meet of the High
Schools on Jordan Field.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, May lone week
from next Saturday the Athletic Associa-
ton of Indiana University aim to make
Jordan Field the scene OF an athletic meet
OF state Importance. The occasion will be the
first annual Indiana interscholastic meet. at
which the championship of the Indiana
high schools in athletics will be decided
High school track teams and athletes from
all the prominent schools of the State have
been invited to make entries and nearly ev-
er4 leading high school has expressed an
intention OF being present.
A representative of the association has
just returned from trip through the
northern portion OF the State, where the
leading high schools were solicited to make
schools promised to send teams. High
schools far north as East Chicago and
South Bend and to the south to New AL
bany and Louisville will be represented.
best athletic material now to be found in the
high schools where any attention at all Is
given to athletics, and from the number and
location of the high schools that have prom
ised entries the meet will be thoroughly rep
resentative of the State of Indiana.
There will be fourteen conteSts-dashes,
long runs, high apd low hurdles, discus
throw, shot put, vaults and relay races. To
the high school scoring the highest MURDER
of points silver trophy will be given
bearing an inscription Championship in
Indiana University Invitation Interscholas-
tic Track and Field Games, 190S. There
will he three places in all contests, the first
counting 1--WE points. second three and the
third one. The winners of first place in each
contest will be awarded gold medal, to the
second silver medal and the third a
bronze medal. A special prize will be given
for the relay race, but this contest Will not
be counted towards the championship.
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GOVERNOR DURBIN PLEASED.
Entertainment Are Completed.
Special to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal.

AndersOn's Arrangements for G. A. II.
Entertainment Are Completed.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ANDERSON, Ind, May 7.-Governor Dur
bin was here to-day and expressed himself
as being very well pleased with the plans
for the entertainment of the encampment
of the G. A. r. next week. The Governor
and his entire staff will be present and
participate in the parade. George Parker.
county clerk, was requested to secure
mounts for the Governors staff. and has
succeeded in securing forty Of the finest
horses in Madison county.
The drawing for the positions in the big
civic parade that will occur Wednesday
night took place to-day. The uniformed
bodies drew first petitions and were as
signed as follows: Red Mems League,
knights of the Golden Eagle, Catholic
knights of America, Patriarchs Militant,
Uniform Rank knights of Pythias, the
Muncie Zouaves. The second division will
include the bodies of men not in uniform.
They are the Red Mems Lodge, Knights
of Golden Eagle, Odd Fellows, Knights of
The finishing touches were given to-day
to the electric display at the courthouse
and public square.
The Trades Council has decided to allow
no union men to participate in the Grand
Army camp fire to be held at the Grand
Opera House next Wednesday night They
have boycotted the opera house and will
is understood that some union musicians
have been employed for the amusement OF
the old soldiers and there may be trouble
on account of their participation.
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TIN PLATE WORKERS ADJOURN.


Special to the Indianapolis Journal
ANDERSON, Ind, May THE national
meeting of the tin plate workers, which
has been in secret session here for ten days,
completed it's labors this afternoon and adj
journed to meet next year in Columbus, o.
The delegates decided to establish their per-
manent officers headquarters at Wheeling,
w. Va. The election of officers was just
before adjournment and resulted as follows:
President George Powell, Wheeling, w.
Va; secretary and treasurer, c. p. Lawyer,
Wheeling; vice presidents, Martin Mooney,
Anderson; b. L. Bartlett, New Castle, Pa;
III. e. Barrett, McKeesport, Pa; Benjamin
Teegarden, Martins Ferry, O.: trustees, ].
E. Elder. New Castle, Pa: E: e. Katter-
The scale will be presented by President
Powell and Secretary Lawyer to the man.
ayers of the American Tin Plate Company
at a meeting to be held in New York on
June l. The scale, with single exception,
applies to all the mills alike, and that ex
ception is the plant at Elwood- President
Powell and Secretary Lawyer left tonight
for Elwood. and will hold a conference there
with District Manager Bennett tomorrow
in an effort TO adjust that part OF the gen.
eral scale. 1t is generally believed by the
representatives that there viii be no trouble
in securing settlement.
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WEATHER FORECAST.
Fair To-day and Tomorrow, with
Fresh East to Southeast Winds.

Fair To-day and Tomorrow, with
Fresh East to Southeast Winds.
WASHINGTON, May 7.-Forecast for
Friday and Saturday:
Indiana-Fair on Friday and Saturday;
fresh east to southeast winds.
= 1llfnois-Fair on Friday and Saturday.
Warmer on Friday in north portion; fresh
southeast winds.
Kentucky-Fair on Friday and Saturday;
warmer.
Ohio-Fair on Friday and Saturday;
warmer; light variable winds, becoming
fresh southeast
y.owe- Michigan-Fair on Friday. Satur-
day increasing cloudiness and warmer;
probably rain in north portion; fresh
Iewa-Fair and warmer on Friday Sat-
-cxday fair, except showers and cooler in
west portion.
South Dakota and North Dakota-Fair and
colder on Friday. Saturday fair.
Nebraska-Fair on Friday and Saturday:
colder on Friday I'm north portion, and in
southeast portion on Saturday.
Wisconsin-Fair and warmer on Friday
Saturday fair in south, showers in north
portion; colder; fresh TO brisk south winds,
becoming northwest
Minnesota-Showers and colder in west
fair and warmer in east portion on Friday
Saturday Showers colder In east portion:
fresh to brisk south winds, becoming north
west
Kansas-Fair and warmer on Friday. Sat-
urday fir and colder.
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have enticed or kidnapped the boy from
home. The arrest was made i'm the yards
of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
Railway at Lawrenceville. small station
nine miles west OF here, in Illinois. The
boy unless he followed, but the sheriff was
too quick for them.
Wilmouth is believed to be the same fell
low who a year ago kidnapped Davies, who
was finally regained by his parents at a
small town in Kansas after a sensational
cross-cOuntry chase. Davies first told Sher-
if Carr he was Frank Lynn, but later said
OF Kansas City. The tramp denied having
kidnapped the boy and says he Joined him in
Nation, Ill. The boy acknowledged that
he was forced to beg wherever they went
and said he feared the tramp.
Word has been received from his mother
and she will be here this morning to take
her boy home He is in rugged health, but
says he had to endure many hardShipS.
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Important chronological Work.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND. Ind, May 7.-Dr. Clark
Wis5ler, OF this city, who is connected with
the American Museum of Natural History,
and who spent a large part of last year
among the Indians of the Sioux tribe in the
study of their decorative art and religious
symbolism, has been selected for another
important piece of work of that nature. He
is now in this city on his way to visit the
Dakotas, the eros Ventres, the Arapahoes
and the Blackfeet. The problem he has is
to work out the fundamental principles of
design and of Interpretation. as two distinct
subjects of study. DR.. Wissler has re-
ceived since his arrival here a remittance
of 81 600 from the Royal chronological Muse
um, of Berlin, Germany, to be expended for
a general collection of primitive Indian
relics. Accompanying the order are in
structions from DR.. Carl Won Steinen, di-
rector of that institution, to prepare a
memoir on primitive Indian handicraft DR..
Steinen is one Of the foremost ethnologists
of the world.
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Other state Neurology.

MARTINSVILLE, Ind, May THE body
of Calvin Plat. who was seventy-nine
years old, was brought here to-day. He
died yesterday in Noblesville. Mr.. Platt
was a resident near here for many years
until recently when he went to Noblesville
to live with a daughter. His body will be
inferred at Mahalasville tomorrow.
Mrs. Isaac c.. Baher. aged seventy-two.
died last night at her home in this city
of pleuro-pneumonia. Her husband, two
sons and three daughters survive. The
sons, Salem and Charles Baher. and a
daughter, Mrs. Golding, live in Indianap-
Oils
MUNCIE, Ind. May 7-Louis Everett,
aged sixty, one OF the old and well-known
citizens of Muncie, died to-day at his home
after a long illness. He was resident of
the city for forty-two years. most of which
time he was in business here. He was a
veteran of the civil war. He was a native
of Connersville. He left widow and one
son.
ELwOOD, May Mrs. Eliza Dubois, a
pioneer resident of this city and prominent
i'm Methodist Church circles, died this
morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Owen Austin. She was sixty-four years
old.
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LONDON TIMES PRIZE.
Proves to BE Merely a Shrewd Book
Advertisement.
London Letter.

LONDON Letter.
The literary event of the week is the an
nouncement by the Times OF it's great COM
petition scheme. At first we felt inclined to
scott at the scheme, we thinking prize COM
petitions somewhat unworthy of the dig
nifty and pretensions of the Thunderer. now
we are willing to praise ii as the choicest
of all the lodges invented by the Endyclo-
paedia Britannica syndicate. Only tc an
swer three sets of questions, only to work
up your answers from 'some great work
of reference" only to succeed-and there Is
a three years scholarship at Girtoa for
Louisa, or an exhibition for Harry az Ok
ford Surely in many a stately English
home there is to-day much castle building
on the flimsy foundation of the Times
circulars-much cogitation also as to the
ACCESSIBILITY of procuring 1.-THE very best
work of reference without which no COM
petitor can hope to excel"
Candidly, am consumed with admiration
for the geniuses who are responsible for the
scheme. Their advertisements, so bland so
suavely Turing, are, more refreshing than
critique by Walkley an article on the
drama by III. A. Jones.
Could anything be more beautiful than
their philanthropic pose, their indifference
to gain. their passion for the public good?
And could anything in life be more instruc-
tive than their way of forcing upon a guile
less public what that public does not want?
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Obituary..

Ell ORC. Mex. May 6.-August Sahlberg,
a multi-milionaire mining man, is dead.
Sahlberg came to FL Orc ten years ago
from Montana. He was without money or
friends, and after many months of hard
labor struck the vein of what is now the
famous Esperanza mine. which in a few
years yielded him fortune of more than
Sl5000.0 600
PITTSBURG, Kan, May John T. Nor
rison. a coal operator. died at his home
to-day OF Bright's disease. He was con-
sulting engineer of The Missouri Pacific
Railroad in 1880. He owned valuable coal
mines in Missouri. Kansas and the Indian
Territory. Burial will be at st. Louis.
NEW YORK, May 7.-George G. Williams,
president of the Chemical National Bank
died at his home on Eighteenth street to-
night of heart disease, superinduced by
grip.
BALTIMORE. May ALEXANDER Frank
aged sixty, senior member of the banking
firm of Frank. Rosenberg & Co.. of this city
died here to-day from a complication of dis
eases
SAN ANTONIO. Tex, May 7-Charles H.
Egbert. United States consul to the State
of Durango. Mex. died to-day of tubercu-
losis. He was a native of Streator. Ill.
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A MATTER OF TWO CENTS.
1t illustrates the Rigidity of the Law
in the Postal Service.
Cleveland Leader.


The arrest of letter carrier at Louis
count for cents collected on a postage
due" stamp indicates once more how strict
ly the laws are enforced by federal officials,
especially in the postal service.
OF course the letter carrier may not be
punished severely If he is convicted OF this
violation of the law, but the fact that he
was arrested for the alleged theft of
cents indicates that every federal law for
the punishment of a crime is made to be
enforced and not merely to cumber the
statute books. And that, by the way, Is the
for the authority of the general govern
ment than there is for that Of a state or
municipal government. Those who violate
the federal statutes know that punishment
is sure and certain. A man who would not
hesitate to violate a state law or a mu-
nicipal ordinance involving heavy penalty
would hesitate long time before attempt
ing, for instance, to cheat Uncle Sam out
of cents by putting Cancelled stamp upon
a letter.
Such respect for the power of the gov
eminent is wholesome This would be
better country in every way IL there were
the same respect for the state laws AMI or
dnances. There is too much Of DISPOSE
ton to disregard fiippantly the laws and or
dinances, and the growing sentiment of dis
respect for the courts and the officials who
enforce the laws is undermining the former
good citizenship of the Republic surely and
seriously. Every lesson Of respect for law
that can be taught by the punishment of
only upon evildoers, but upon those OFF,
Gals who give lax enforcement of the laws
in disregard of their oaths OF Office and
the public welfare.
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$ozoD0N1
TOOTH POWDER
The best that Money and 9Re
Experience Gan produce. ~
At oil stores, or by mail for the price.
HALL 4 RUCkEL NEw YoRx.
COlOred Bartender Had a Rough Time
with Angry Woman.

Lilly Clark, an Indiana-avenue belle. En-
tered Buckner's saloon, at No. 439 Indiana
avenue, at IL o'clock last night full of
whisky and grievances against the werld.
In some way she associated Buckrer's
colored bartender. Herman Wright, with
her troubles and after a brief argument
notable for sizzling adjectives and an
alarming vocabulary threw beer bottle at
Wright.
Wright reached for his revolver and, as
he says, fred it at the floor to attract the
attention of the police. The ballet, how
ever entered the heel of Lillian, to her
pain and anger. Her screams aroused the
peaceful neighborhood and in a few min
utes numerous patrolmen appeared out of
breath from running.
Both were taken to the police station,
where Wright was locked UP for shooting
with intent to kill and Lilly for drunken
ness.
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INDIANA OBITUARY.
James j. Sering, Who Was Born in
Madison Seventy-Two Years Ago.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
MADISON, Ind, May flames j. Sering
died yesterday at his residence in this city
after a long sickness. He was native OF
this city and was seventy-two years old.
His father John Sering. helped lay out the
town of Madison. He was the first elder or
the first Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati
the first cashier of the first bank In Mad
ison and the first postmaster OF the city.
James Sering was a student of both Wa
bash and Hanover Colleges, but did not
graduate He fiat-boated on the Mississippi
and participated in the Walker expedition
TO Nicaragua. He was city clerk from
1863 to 1867, county clerk from 1865 to 1876
and afterward was city engineer. At one
time he was deputy revenue collector. and
for many years was bookkeeper OF the
National Branch Bank.
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Big Paving Contract Enjoined.

Special the Indianapolis Journal
NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind, May t.
After a spirited contest four weeks ago
the City Council of this place awarded
contract to Bridges G. Grossnickle for paw
ing tbree-fourths Of a mile of Main street.
The contract amounted to $4,000 and called
for brick pavement. The contractors pur-
chased material and had delivered a por-
ton of IL on the street preparatory to be-
ginning work. An injunction was sought
by Mrs. Elizabeth Mills and last week
Judge Shively decided in favor of the plain
tiff on the technical grounds that the let
ting was not advertised according to law.
The Council now finds itself confronted
with the possibility of a damage suit by
the contractors on one side and the judges
restraining order on the other. The Coup
Gil decided last night to carry the case to
the higher courts and also to readvertise
for bids according to Judge Shively's de-
ciSion
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LIST OF LETTERS
Remaining I'm indianapolis Postomces
Thursday. Nav 2. I9o3

III not called for in two weeks these letters VIII
De sent 10 the dead letter Office. Persons calling
Tor letters in the following list viii please say
they are advertised. give date OF list. and pay
cent for those obtained. Free delivery OF letters
by carriers To the addresses residence can be
secured by observing the following rules:
tlrst-Direct letters plainly TO street and num-
Der.
Second-Request your correspondents 10 do like
wise.
Third-Have written printed request for re-
turn on your envelope giving street and number.
Fourth-Use ink in addressing Letters when
possible. and leave sufficient space at top OF
velope for stamp and postmark.
Letters addressed 10 persons known 70 be tran
stent should be marked Transient In lower
ft-hand corner of envelope. "A. B. C. Gen.
erai Delivery, or similarly addressed letters
fictitious" and not deliverable.
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home, early last Tuesday morning, still
hangs between life and death, with the
chances about equal either way. Dr. III.
NJ winans said to-day that the symptoms
were more encouraging, but that no predic-
ton OF the outcome could be made. The
police and public alike remain baffied by
the tragedy. The family still holds to the
burglary theory, but no trace whatever of
a burglar has been found. No one Is adj
mitted to the Patterson house Even the
turned away.
To-day there has been talk of calling the
grand jury to Investigate the case Prose-
cutor Dearth said that such a course was
probable. 1t is believed he has informa-
ton which the police do not possess.
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Lodge Members Sued for Debt

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ELWOOD, Ind, May IA suit that has
caused something Of a sensation in indus
trial circles was filed before Magistrate
Field here to-day, In which the Century
Biscuit Company of Indianapolis is plant
if. Two years ago, while the strike was
in progress at the tin plate factory here,
ton, after being refused credit at the local
stores, established a grocery of their own.
on the cooperative plan, the money being
taken from the lodge treasury year
later the store failed, and a number OF
debts were left behind. The Century Com
pany. one of the creditors, has sued ten of
the leading men of the lodge, men who are
personally responsible. and will endeavor to
collect the account from them.
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AFTER-DINNER PHILOSOPHY
Az Set Forth by Simeon Ford, the
New York Hotel Man.


GOLFERS weekly.
In the twenty-three years of our exist
ence we hotel men have seen many polit-
ical upsets. We have seen the ra.scals
turned out and the good people come in.
and we have rejoiced. We have seer the
good people turned out and the rascals
come back again, and we have rejoiced
still more. We hotel men like change.
That's what we are in the business for!
All these different parties accomplish
something for good. Some make the city
good. some make the business good, and
some are caught with the goods on them.
But whate'er betide. the landlord pu-sues
the even tenor of his way, seeking no po-
litical honOrs, asking no official favors,
quietly eluding jury duty, unostentatiously
swearing off his taxes. with malice toward
none, with charity toward all, content with
life, liberty and the pursuit of boarders.
There are plenty of men in this room who
can reach right up and pluck the stars
out of the armament and transfer them to
the blue field of Old Glory, and who can
refer to G. Washington and A. Lincolr and
A. Gruber and other dead ones and arouse
tremendous enthusiasm; but what's the
use? / have gone home from dinners so
full of patriotism that / couldn't get IN the
front door, and so have slept in the vesti-
bule on wire doormat, and I have got
up in the morning with the word Wei
come printed on me, but never could see
that was any better for 1t.
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CASE OF JOHN Ii. ROSE.
Defaulting Wabash Treasurer on
Trial-An Losses Made In.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
WABASH, Ind. May THE case OF John
b. Rose. the alleged embezzling treasurer
of the city of Wabash. was called in the
Wabash Circuit Court this morning and al
most the entire day was spent in the selec-
ton of jury acceptable to both sides. The
special venire of twenty-four men was ex-
hausted soon after noon and resort was
had 10 securing the country for others. At
$50 the Jury was completed and Prose-
cutting Attorney Brewer. who Is conducting
the case alone for the state, made the OPEN
ing statement.
The courtroom was filed all day and
great interest Is manifested In the result