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Very Substantial Increases Wanted,
and q Compromise Agreement Prob
ably VIII he the Result.
EFFECTIVE USE OF A HOSE
WATER WORKS SUPERINTENDENT
ROUTS A SECTION GANG.
Young Man Ordered to Leave Goshen
No Truth i'm a Glass Trade Report
Muncie to Raise a Factory Fund.
al 70 the INDIANAPOLIS Journal,

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BRAZIL. Ind, March 1.-THE operators
and miners scale committee Of the block
coal district met at the offices of the Brazil
Block Coal Company at $50 this morning.
The miners presented the following de-
mands:
Pick Mines-First, that all tracklayers,
tfmbermen, drivers and all other inside
day men receive $2.56 per day; second, that
the wages of firemen and pumpmen shall
day, based on an eight-hour day; third,
that reference to the Supreme Court of
the United States be stricken out of the
clause on payday question; fourth, that
blacksmiths receive a 121a per cent. in
crease based on $3.50 per day; fifth, that
the operators take care of all brushing in
the entries when loaded in the cars by the
miners.
Machine Mines-First, that the day ma
chine men and helpers and motormen re-
ceive l212 per cent. advance; second. that
the scale on low coal be paid In machine
mines; third, that the loader shall receive
cents and the machine men cents, pro-
vfded the machine men the company
take care of the bug dust, otherwise the
loader shall receive the full 10 cents.
Many Of these demands will not be con-
coded by the operators, especially the adj
vance for the blacksmiths and the first
demand of s2.56 for all inside laborers, as
the operators say the timbermen, accord
ing to the scale adopted at Indianapolis,
are entitled to only $3.50 per day. The
third demand also will be opposed.
Many of the miners think that no settle
ment will be reached until the scale is
signed in the bituminous district.
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Levee. Holding spIendidIy.

vICKSBURG. Miss. March 11.-At a con-
ference of levee engineers and freight Off
Gals OF the Valley road in this city, to-day,
the Ievee men urged the railroad men to
give big shipment OF sacks and other ma
terials the right of way from New Orleans.
This material is badly needed for strength
ening weak places in the embankments
along the Louisiana side in the parishes of
Concordia. Tensas and East Carroll.
E. c. Tollinger, assistant general engineer
of the Yazoo (Miss.) board. says all the
levess are holding splendidly, the steady
rains of the past few days being the most
serious cause OF alarm. These rains have
greatly weakened new work. However, he
is confident all danger points can be held.
Two United States snag boats-the Arthur
Hider OF the State Levee Board and the
Colonel Potter-have been placed at the
disposal Of the levee officials for patrol
duty. The water Is rising steadily at the
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NEW ORLEANS. March lit is gen.
orally admitted by government, state and
city authorities that the Mississippi river
will in all probability break all records
before the present flood begins to recede.
The gauge here tonight shows 1875 feet. a
rise OF one inch in the past twelve hours.
This stage IS just one foot below the high
water record, and every precaution Is be-
ing taken to prevent serious damage, and
TO prepare for emergencies. All the levee
lines are being thoroughly inspected, and
large forces of men are at work day and
night to strengthen weak places, and guard
the banks by night and day Though all
the authorities admit that a record stage
Is, probable, they maintain that the levee
system is higher and stronger than ever
before and that the banks are prepared to
withstand the extra strain.
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Indiana Notes.

MUNCIE.-C. Hanika & Sons Company,
architectural iron manufacturers of Celina,
o., are preparing to build large plant in
Muncie during the coming summer. 1t will
cost about $4,000. The Hanika Company
owned a plant here five years ago, but 1t
was destroyed by fire. The growth of the
company's business necessitates the new
plant. The Celina factory will continue to
be operated.
MADISON.-Richard Johnson and Mich
olas Horuff, who were last week granted a
Madison to the Ripley county line. went to
Versailles on Wednesday. to consult with
the authorities there for a franchise
through Ripley county.
GOSHEN. K. Lilly, of Indianapolis.
has sold his stock in Wawasee Inn, the re-
sort hotel at Lake Wawasee, where Mr..
Lilly also has cottage, to Clinton G. Wig
gins, who has been proprietor of the hotel
for several seasons. The consideration is
not known.
MARION.-The report from Cincinnati
that the body of a woman found in a canal
had been identified as Mrs. Nellie Mckin-
stry, of this city, is untrue. Mrs. McKin-
stry Is alive and well at the home OF Mrs.
Anna Carpenter at Bellevue, KY.
TELL CITY.-The City Council has
ordered the marshal to take stringent steps
to see that the saloon keepers observe the
law to prevent the sale of liquor to minors.
and also the sections in relation to sales
Of liquor out Of legal hours.
PORTLAND.-Mrs. Adolf Schug, a
woman with two children living near
Geneva, stabbed herself in the breast with
a butcher knife on Tuesday because of con-
tinued poor health. The wound probably
will result fatally.
BEDFORD-Everett Hawkins has been
awarded damages in the sum of 81 200
against the George Doyle Stone Company.
Hawkins had leg badly broken while in
the employ of the company. He sued for
5000.
GREENSBURG.-Fire in Minor Gaston's
dry goods store at WeStport caused loss
of 81 500 which Is fully covered by insur-
ance. A mouse and a match In the coun-
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MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.

NEW YORK. March 11.-Arrived: Eth
opla, from Glasgow; Butcher, from Ham,
burg: Sicily. from Naples; Statendam.
southampton; Oceanic, for Liverpool.
LIVERPOOL. March u-Arrived: Bo-
hemian, from New York. Sailed: Cedric,
for New York; Noordland for Philadelphia.
CHERBOURG. March u--Sailed: Kron-
prinz Wilhelm, from Bremen and South
ampton. for New York.
ALEXANDRIA. March IL Arrived !.
kaiserin Maria Theresa, via Funchal
SICILY, March 11.-Passed: Yelgrayia
from New York. for Hamburg.
LIZARD. March 11.-Passed: La Savoie.
from New York. for Havre.
ANTWERP. March I-Sailed: PENN
land. for Philadelphia.
NAPLES. March n.-Sailed: Common
wealth. for Boston.
BREMEN, March 11.-Arriyed: Main.
from New York
LEGHORN, March 11.-Arrived: Algeria
from New York.
GENOA. March 11--Sailed: Lombardia.
for New York
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will operate on q daily schedule between
Manistee. Ludington and Milwaukee. and
1T is thought Two will operate between
Manistee and Chicago and Milwaukee and
Chicago. The purchase price Is not named.
The trustees OF the Cincinnati Savings
society announce that the depositors IN
that bank have voted in the majority To
merge with the Union Savings Bank and
trust Company. As the Cincinnati Saw
lngs Society is mutual company and a
merger can only be accomplished by 1t
nrst liquidating, the trustees have recon-
mended that the society be liquidated and
nave called meeting of the depositors TO
De held June l6 to vote upon IL. The assets
OF the Cincinnati Savings Society amount
to nearly $6.000,0O0, and those of the Union
Savings Bank and Trust Company sl1.00O.-
600.
j. T.. Lanning. as receiver for the Mon
mouth Trust and Safe Deposit Company. of
Asbury Park, n. j., has made application
for the appointment of a receiver for the
bury Park. The liabilities of the company
are given as $4,000 and the assets $4,000.
The assets consist principally of the bank
and office building in which the Monmouth
Trust and Safe Deposit Company was To-
Gated. The trust company owned $4,000 or
the $4,000 capital stock of the realty com,
pany George II. Kroehl is president ana
Albert Twining vice president of the realty
company. Both were officers of the trust
company. Chancellor Magic granted rule
to show cause March "a.
speaking at a meeting or the ASSoclatlon
OF French Industry and Agriculture
Wednesday night, former Premier Meline
said he thought that there were some in
dications of a termination to the long Eu-
ropean industrial crisis. which had been
due to overproduction, the fall in the price
of silver, the American trusts, the German
cartels and other causes. He declared that
If the American trusts continued their
operations the European nations would
be compelled to take defensive measures
against them, and he advocated as a rem
edy the formation of small trade combina-
tons like those which served to unite Ger
man industry and the permanent establish
ment of French business houses abroad
on German lines.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
OF the American Tobacco Company was
held Wednesday in Jersey City. The old
board of directors was reelected. with one
exception, Charles N. StrotZ being chosen
to succeed Thomas F. Jeffries, OF Rich
mond, Va. After deducting all charges and
expenses the net earnings for the year were
S,450,54. The stockholders of the Consol-
idated Tobacco Company also held their
annual meeting. The old board of directors
was reelected. The report of the assistant
treasurer showed total earnings of $l3,291,-
459. AT the annual meeting of the Conti-
mental Tobacco Company the old board or
directors was reelected The treasurers
report showed net earnings, after deducting
all charges and expenses, of $11, III, 934.
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TRADE, INDUSTRY, FINANCE.

A charter has been issued at Dover. DEL,
to the Kirby Securities Company, Chicago,
capital stock, $lOOOO,OOO.
The stockholders of the Manchester Mills
Corporation. of Manchester, N. H, have
voted to accept an offer made by T. Jeffer-
son Coolidge, Of Boston, to purchase the
property of the company for 100000.
The directors of the Western Union Tel
egraph Company have declared the regular
quarterly dividend of IA per cent. A state
ment issued estimates the net revenue for
the quarter ending March 81 at $l.S50,0O0.
Capt. E. L. Buchwalter announces that it
has been definitely decided TO establish in
Springfield, o., permanent headquarters for
the American Seeding Machine Company.
combination of all the leading grain drill
factories Of the country.
At a meeting of the board of directors of
the American Ice Company in New York
the following officers were elected: John d.
Schoonmaker, president; b w. Hunt, Wes-
ley M. Oler and r. w. Hopkins, vice presi-
DENTS e. d. Haley, treasurer, and Robert
A. Scott, secretary.
The Denver Office Of the American Smelt-
ing and Refining Company has authorized
it's agents to announce that on and after
lead in ores would be 1915 per 100 pounds.
This is an advance of g cents per 100 pounds
over the smelter rate for the whole of 1902.
Governor Bailey of Kansas has signed the
stockyards bill and it will go into effect at
once. The bill reduces the yardage prices
on cattle at Kansas City, Kan, 2S per
cent. 1t is reported the officers of the
Kansas City Stockyards Company are
thinking of moving the yards into Missouri
on account of the law.
The fine large cane and beet-sugar refin-
ing plant of the California and Hawaii
Sugar Company, at Crockett, Cal, is to be
shut down indefinitely. This means that
between three and four hundred men will
be out of employment, and the town of
Crockett will suffer very serious setback
The San Francisco Chronicle says that on
the best of authority ii is stated that the
plant has been bought by the Spreckles
Refining Company for the sugar trust.
At Wednesdays session of the National
Coopers' Association at st. Louis the fol-
lowing officers were elected: President, NJ
d. WEIGH. Omaha, Neb.; vice presidents,
Henry Krug, Baltimore. Md; Henry Heg-
CERT, Peoria, ILL.,, and A s. Ray, Chicago:
secretary and treasurer, Walker ]. Well
ford Memphis, Tenn. Executive commit
tee-J. Fulton, Terre Haute Ind; George
f. Meyer and Edward Hidden, St Louis
and Max III. Ritswolder, Peoria, I'll.
Announcement is made at the office of
the Kitzinger Lumber Company. in Manis-
tee. Mich, that a deal has been closed in
Chicago which brings the ownership of the
Pere Marquette steamers Two. Three and
Four into the hands OF August Kitzinger
Capt John Smith and Captain Bondeis
who comprise the company at present oper-
ating the steamer Covell between Manistee
and Milwaukee. Steamers Three and Four
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Bar. Their. R-H. Wind Weather. Pre-.
7 a. m. .3042 40 81 North. Cloudy. 900
2 p. .SoA "A "a North. Cloudy. 600
Maximum temperature. A; minimum tenn
perature, 81.
Comparative statement of mean tempera-
ture and total precipitation March 8:
Temp. Pre-.
Normal ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 40 OIL
Mean temperature and total pre-
tlbltdtItH .-...-..............s... II U.UU
Departure for day................ Il oil
Departure for month. .-........... s72 >O.09
Departure since Jan. 1............ As s0.04
sPlus. w. T. BLYTHE,
Section Director.
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MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP.
Bill to Empower Cities to Own and
Operate Street Railways.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, March ia bill to
authorize cities to own and operate street
railways was amended to-day by the SEN
ate committee on municipalities and or
dered reported to the Senate with a recon-
mendation for its passage. 1t is under
stood the amendments were made st the
suggestion of Graeme Stewart, Republic
an candidate for mayor of Chicago, and
that the bill in its amended form will con-
stitute his platform on the traction ques-
ton. One of the amendments adopted to-
day changes the title of the bill SO as to
give to cities the power to lease
as, well to own and operate
street railways. Another amendment pro-
videS that ordinance authorizing
lease for longer period than five years
shall go into effect until the expiration of
sixty days from and after it's passage and
If within such sixty days there is filed with
the city clerk petition signed by 10 per
cent. of the voters at the last preceding
election for mayor that such ordinance be
submitted to popular vote, then the ordi-
nance shall not go into effect unless the
question of its adoption shall first be SUBJ
mitted to the electors and approved by
majority of those voting thereon.
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CENTRALS VS.. STONE p.
(Turner Alleys.)
Division
Division.
FOUR BOUTS ARRANGED.


The Indianapolis Athletic Club, the or
ganization that promoted boxing contests
at the Empire Theater last summer and
fall, will conduct boxing carnival at the
Cyclorama Rink Wednesday night March
Is. The first bout will be given promptly at
$50, and the entire programme will be con-
cluded by 1890
The principal contest will be between
Eddie Santry, of Chicago, and Adam Ryan,
Of Philadelphia. They are matched for a
ten-round bout to decision. Santry was
seen in this city last summer, when he met
Young Mowatt early in July, and the fol-
lowing month met Ole Olson. Ryan be-
longs to the same class, and is a clever
boxer.
The club has secured as semi-windup of
six rounds bout between George Quinn
and Johnny RuSe, two clever bantam
weights of Chicago. They will weigh i'm
at los pounds. and are the best men I'm their
class and weight In Chicago. There will
be two preliminaries of four rounds each.
which will bring together the best men in
Indianapolis. In all there will be twenty
four rounds of boxing, and all of the bouts
promise to be very interesting. The seat
ing arrangement at the Cyclorama is excel
lent, and every seat in the building will be
within twenty-five feet Of the ring. The
ring will be placed in the middle of the
polo floor, and will be elevated four feet
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WEATHER BUREAU BULLETIN.


oHO"h
WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE Weather
Bureau this afternoon issued the following
bulletin: 1.-THE Ohio river will probably
crest at Evansville during the next few
hours at something under forty-three feet.
AT Paducah a stage of forty-six feet is in
dicated within the next two days. At
Cairo the rise will continue during the
next two or three days at decreased
rate. reaching fifty feet and possibly
slightly over. The lower Tennessee will
begin to fall i'm two or three days, while
the Mississippi will rise slowly. From
Cairo the conditions are more threaten
ing since Tuesday. The rise is progressing
at an increased rate, and thirty-eight feet
Of water is expected The levees are being
patrolled and thus far remain in good con-
dition. White river has continued to rise
rapidly, while the Arkansas is also near
flood stage, and the effects of these waters
will be felt in the main river within
short time. Below Helena the rise will
continue steadily and maximum stages will
probably be reached as follows: Arkansas
City, 81 feet: Greenville, 40 feet; Vicks-
burg. 80 feet.
The Mississippi below vicksburg will
continue to rise for the next three or four
weeks, while the Red below Shreveport
and the Ouachita will continue to rise for
several days. No changes are at present
indicated for the forecast previously issued
for the New Orleans district"
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the report This enbankment Is fifteen feet
high, or three feet higher than the hign-
water stage OF 1891 and is a new leyee.
Its average base Is 100 feel through. OH
GERS Of the mail steamer Betsy Ann are
authority for the statement that frame
buildings In the low lands have been washed
away. Residences have been torn from
their foundations and some have been
caught and held by the trees. The owners
and occupants were glad to escape with
their lives. Deer, bears and other animals
have been driven TO the high lands and are
being slaughtered in large numbers.
The weather Is threatening. The river
gauge Is 46S being Is above the danger
line, and rising. Every mile of levee on
both sides OF the river is being patrOlled
and closely guarded. The prospect for
making early crop this year has been
effectually killed.
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DENVER, Col, March 1.-THE Evans
block, at the corner of Fifteenth and Law
renee streets, was Quilted this morning by
a fire that broke out In the basement bak-
cry of the Hurlbut Grocery Company. The
total loss Is estimated at 100000. The Hurl-
but Grocery Company's stock, valued at
$50 600. was destroyed
PORTLAND, Ore, March I1.-Fire last
night damaged the stock of Canning. Wal
lace & Co.. wholesale druggists TO the ex-
tent OF $4,000 and partly destroyed the
Is $4,000 fully covered by insurance
CLEVELAND. o.. March u-Fire and
water did 10000 damage 10 the works Of
the Ajax Manufacturing Company tonight.
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WEATHER FORECAST.
Fair To-day and Tomorrow, with
Slowly Rising Temperature.

WASHINGTON, March 11.-Forecast for
Thursday and Friday:
Indiana. Illinois and Kentucky-Fair on
Thursday and Friday; slowly rising tenn
perature on Thursday; light southeast
winds, increasing.
Ohio-Fair and warmer on Thursday.
Friday fair; light variable winds, becoming
southeast
Lower Michigan-Fair and warmer on
Thursday. Friday increasing cloudiness;
light variable winds, becoming fresh south
east.
North Dakota-Fair on Thursday, except
rain and colder in south portion. Friday
fair.
Nebraska and South Dakota-Falr on
Thursday. Friday rain and colder.
Kansas-Fair and warmer on Thursday.
Friday fair. except rain in northeast por-
ton.
Iowa-Fair and warmer on Thursday.
Friday fair, except rain in west portion
WiscOnsin-Fair on Thursday; warmer
IN east portion. Friday fair in south. rain
In north portion: fresh southeast winds.
Minnesota-Fafr in east, rain and colder
In west portion on Thursday. Friday rain
or snow and colder; fresh east winds, be-
coming northwest.
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The Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
HARTFORD CITY, Ind. March 1.-THE
dispatch from Pittsburg to the effect that
outside window glass manufacturers had
rquested a conference with the trust, and
that 1t was possible war in the trade
might be averted by an early closing Of the
factories all over the country, is declared
to be untrue by all independent and Coop
erative window glass manufacturers here
So far there has been no reduction In the
price of glass by the trust. but a few job
bers who had stocks on hands have become
alarmed and are selling at a cut.
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CLEVELAND, o., March 1.-THE prices
the Lake Superior district and controlled
by what was heretofore known as the Ore
Association have been fixed for the ensu-
ing year. The books for the various con-
Germs have been opened and 1t is said that
the total sales to date from the Merchant
mines have been upwards of 100000 tons.
1t is likewise said that the Ore Associa-
ton, as such, has passed out of existence.
The Bessemer old range Ores which last
year sold at s425 ton will sell through
all offices this year at $3.50. The Bessemer
Mesaba ores which sold at $3.50 last year
will sell the coming season at 81.
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Death Caused by strychnine.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
SHELBYVILLE, Ind, March 11.-Dr. r.
w. Terhune coroner of Johnson county,
has received from a chemist the report of
the analysis OF the stomach and liver Of
the late John Barlow, who died at his home
near Acton on Jan. Is as a result of strych-
nine poisoning. The coroner has filed his
report of the inquest in the case, stating
that the death of Mr.. and Mrs. Barlow was
caused by strychnine. Mrs. Barlow's
stomach could not be analysed, as the un-
dertaker had already used embalming fluid
The Barlows were old and very wealthy
people and died within few hours Of each
other.
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WARNED TO LEAVE GOSHEN.


Special to the Indianapolis Journal
GOSHEN, Ind, March 1.-THE parents of
Robert Wurster, whose wife, Pansy Mon
tavon, last Saturday ended her life by TAX
ing carbolic acid because of bad treatment
by her young husband, as narrated in her
divorce complaint filed two days previously,
to-day published a statement in the local
papers denying all charges made against
their son. They also made ugly insinuations
against the dead girls character that has
aroused the community, the feeling pre-
yiously having been intense. The young
man has been warned to leave the city.
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Freshets In Eastern Rivers.

BOSTON, March 1.-THE rivers of east
ern New England are beginning to show the
effects of the warm rains which have pre-
vailed for several days The Merrimac.
the Gotten mill river of New Hampshire and
Massachusetts,, and the Penobscott and
Kennebec, in Maine, are rapidly rising and
Threatening serious damage. In Maine there
Is apprehension in the numbering regions
There are 20. 900 900 feet of logs ready to be
hauled to the rivers, which, Ii is said, will
have to be left in the yards unless the
floods subside and freezing weather comes.
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Indiana Obituary.

DUBLIN, Ind, March 1.-Rudolph Burk-
EFT, aged seventy-seven years, an Odd Eel
low for over half century, died this morn
ing at his home at Mt. Auburn, half a mile
east of Dublin, of heart failure He was
born in Ohio on April 8, 1896, but had lived
in the vicinity of Dublin nearly all his life.
He left one daughter.
SALEM, Ind, March I1.-John Baynes,
farmer northwest of Salem, was found dead
at his home yesterday afternoon, the body
lying on a pile of fodder. The decision of
the coroner was that death was caused by
heart disease, to which he was subject. He
was about fifty years old and left widow
and four children.