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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-07
B~RADSTREET,S REVIEW.
Weather Affects Retail Trade and
Conservation Rules

NEW YORK, Nov. 6.-Bradstreet's to-
morrow will say: Trade and industry is
quieter on the whole. Unreasonable weather
conservatism in providing for future re-
quirements restricts jobbing trade. Rela-
lively most activity Is found In the South,
where the growth of the cotton movement
at the high prices ruling stimulates business
at many centers. In industrial lines reports
of curtailed production Of evidences of new
demand not pressing as sharply as hereto
fore. Food products are easing off, and fin
ished iron and steel are leading the down.
ward movement of manufactured goods, but
demand lead to the hope that the automatic
check to demands long exercised will be re-
moved.
Iron and steel bars are active and West
ern jobbers make So per ton by filing or
ders from store rather than from mills.
Wire products are likewise active. Reports
Of cuts In rail prices are not substantiated
but some extensive business has been done
in rails for Asia. Lumber Is steady as a
whole, though white pine is rather quieter.
Export business is good. Hardware is nota-
bly, active the country over, which leads to
the hope that lower prices of materials gen.
orally will induce demand to r~eawaken.
Wheat, including flour exports for the
week ending Nov. 5, aggregate 4.240, $50 blu,
against 1894, S73 bu last week, 5,755, 557 bu this
week last year, 5,464, 645 bu in 1901 and 3,155,-
507 in 1900. For the eighteen weeks of the
cereal year, they aggregate 5S,241 ,92S blu,
against e5. 5l3.4 asa in 1902, 1O7, ga, 492 in 1901 and
e3, 2S4, 239 in 1900. Corn exports for the week
aggregate 1,459. $50 blu, against 1892, PA blu
last week and I,44o.s47 a year ago., !Os,2S4
blu In 1901 and 3,2S7, 627 in 1900. For eighteen
weeks Of the present cereal year they aggre-
gate 10. 9O2, 697 blu, against 1857, S9S bu I'm 1902,
49, 626 bu in 1901 and 57,054,7s5 bu in 1900"
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Business of Fuel Dealers and Sellers
of Heavy Wearing Apparel Not
Up to Expectations.
REVIEWS PESSIMISTIC
MORE STEEL MILLS AND FURNACES
IDLE AND PRICES LOWER.
Railways, However,, Continue Pros.
porous and Farmers Have Been
Benefited by the Warm Fall.

NEW YORK, Nov. 6.-R. G.. Dun & Co.'S
weekly Review of Trade tomorrow will
say: "Unseasonably mild weather is MAX
ing 1t possible for farmers to secure much
late grain and cotton that seemed doomed
by early frost. but, On the other hand,
trade is dull in heavy wearing apparel,
fuel and many lines that should now be
vigorous. While in the long run business
may be made up and the Nation will be
benefited by the increased crops, the imme-
date effect is unfavorable. Manufacture
ing activity has increased at cotton mills
and several minor industries, but in iron
and steel there are more idle furnaces and
mills. Building permits are decreasing,
and structural work is not prosecuted with
the vigor that was seen last year. Lumber
is firm, despite the moderate demand. The
railways continue prosperous, earnings for
October surprising last years by 60 per
cent.
disappointment has been experienced
by those who believed that quotations for
iron and steel would go no lower. Bes-
semer pig at Pittsburg holds fairly steady,
but forge and Southern foundry irons are
on 25c to SOC a ton, while many forms of
steel in finished conditions or partly man.
ufactured are weaker in price, although
conditions are good in so far as the size
of stocks is concerned. Sheets, plates, bars
and cut nails are among the articles on
which reductions are reported, and steel
billets were put nearer a parity with pig
iron, the pool price being reduced from
81 to $23. Rails are maintained at S2S for
standard weight, the railroads constantly
placing small orders. Reports of extensive
export sales are heard and contradicted,
but 1t is certain this branch of trade is
reviving as prices become more attractive
to foreign consumers. With the extensive
restriction of blast furnace activity there
is reason to look for steadier markets in
the near future, and throughout the indus
try it is believed that large contracts will
be placed whenever buyers are satisfied
that no better terms can be anticipated.
Less pronounced conservatism is shown by
purchasers of cotton goods, and there is
evidently more desire to secure deliveries
without looking for concessions in prices.
"Woolen goods are even more adversely
affected by high temperatures. Many New
England shoe factories have concluded fall
business and are taking inventories. Hides
nave declined in a few ISOLATED cases, but
the general impression is that the market
has reached bottom.
There were 26 failures this week in the
United States, against 253 last week, 29
the preceding week and 1S8 the correspond
ing week last year."
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MIR. BRYAN
Glad the Judge Did Not Decide
Against Him on Moral Question.

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Nov. civilian
]. Bryan reached this city late to-day from
Lincoln, Neb., and at once went to the
offices of his attorneys, where he read the
decision in the Bennett will contest which
Judge l.. w. Cleaveland handed down ear
lier in the day. After Mr.. Bryan had con-
ferred with his lawyers he decided to make
a statement, which follows:
9TH decision of Judge Cleaveland in the
Bennett will case is in my favor on all the
moral questions raised by the heirs, and
against me on the law points only. The
judge finds that no undue influence was ex-
ercised on Mr.. Bennett, and that no in
holds, however, that the letter to Mrs.
Bennett cannot be proPated with the will,
but he expressly discla!ms any intention to
decide whether or not the twelfth section
can hereafter be held operative in estab-
fishing a trust; he says that the construc-
time of the probate. The court In effect
declares that the bequest would have been
good if ii had been made direct, as Mr..
Bennett suggested, but hat under the de-
cision the letter cannot be probated in the
absence of proof showing that 1t was &C
tually in existence at the moment when
the will was executed. If the bequest fails
il will not be the fault of Mr.. Bennett, but
my fault, and this point will be determined
by the higher court, although my attorneys
have not yet decided in what form the
question will be raised. / am much better
pleased with the decision than l could have
been il the court had decided for me on
the legal point and against me on the
moral question involved. His decision on
the question of undue influence is full. en-
phatic and all that could be desired. 1t is
a complete answer to all the insinuations
of the unfriendly papers,"
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l~egatees outside of the widow and his heirs
at law, but the ~testator. besides making lib
eral public and charitable requests, made
generous provision for relatives, which
would nave received nothing but for the
will.
Measured by Mr.. Benefits devotion to
Mr.. Bryan and to the principles for when
both had contended the bequest of $4,000
to the Bryans. to take effect after the testa-
tors death. does not seem more unusual
than the gift of 5000 offered 10 Mr.. Bryan
while they were comparative strangers and
actually paid during Mr.. Benefits life.
The court nnds that neither the first
clause OF the will, or the letter therein re-
ferred TO in the twelfth clause OF the Will,
made a part OF the will. Even though the
law in this State is. as Ii seems to be in
most jurisdictions that such a paper. under
certain conditions, may be Incorporated by
reference. this letter is objected to on other
grounds. Even If it be conceded that the
twelfth clause in this will refers to the ex-
traneous paper as being in existence at the
time of the execution of the will, the au-
thorities agree that the paper referred TO
must in fact be in existence at the time
of the execution of the will. Was the letter
in the sealed envelope In existence at the
time of the execution of the Will? This
question is nswer by the first sentence
of the letter itself. 1t reads: In my will:
just executed, L have beqveathed to you,
etc.
''Thus the typewriter document was pre-
pared in Nebraska two or three days before
the execution OF the Will, Out tnls 9pe-
written draft was not designed TO be the
letter to be referred TO in the will, and can
not be considered as such.
The Judge cites legal authority In support
of his contention that the letter cannot be
regarded as a part of the will and goes on:
I'm view of the plain recital In the letter
itself. il is difficult to see how. without an
utter disregard of the authorities, this letter
can be incorporated into the Will, and this
court therefore finds that the sealed letter
cannot be admitted to probate as a part OF
the will. 1t is not, however. in the province
of this court, in prcbating a will. to con-
strue It's provisions. Hence the twelfth
clause. whether operative or not, will be
admitted to probate as a part OF the will.
and in thus refusing TO probate the sealed
letter as a part of the will this court does
not wish to be understood as expressing
any opinion as to whether the letter, without
being probated. can have any legal effect
as a declaration of the trust attempted to be
created by the twelfth clause of the will"
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tan Church. I~rvington, district No. 10. will
be addressed by Rev. K. ~. Ealpenny, Mr..
Jason Elstun and Others p-..sr,.,
Church, district No. II. wis be addressed by
Mr.. w. c. Hail. Mr.. E. =. Matthews and
0' tuesday. Nov. al-Morr!s-street Christian
Church, district No. ID, SIN be ADDRESSED
fur and Miss Beulah Buchanan.
Wednesday, Nov. 25~-Hosyard-place M. Il.
Church. district No. I, wiIs be addressed by
Mr.. c. NJ. Lemon, DR.. W. c. Engle and
others.
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
Each district will be permanently organ
lied at the time of the rally and every Sum
day school in the city Wis be brought into
direct touch with the great Sunday-school
world. The Marion county Sunday-school
convention will follow thesrallies. The ses-
sions will be held in tie First Baptist
Church Nov. q and IS. Marion county has
some OF the most expett Sunday-schooi
workers in the Mississippi valley and they
will have prominent places In the following
programme:
Friday Afternoon, November d.
General ~Topic-'The slnday-school AS
ISOLATION"
2:I5-'The Organized W4rk-Its Aims and
Benefits" the Rev. e. Whsley Halpenny.
2:45-"A sunday-school Syndicate In Ma
rion County" Mr.. W.. c. Kali.
3~:l5-Appointment OF committees.
3:3-Reports Of the work by townships
and districts.
Friday Evening. November H.
General T~opic-Sunday school Manage
ment.
7:45-Praise service, led oy the Rev. 7. J.
SHARKS of a well-Grganized Sunday
School," (Five-minute tatks.)
(al aSchooI Sunrevision. Mr. Charles r..
Coffin.
C) Good Programme Mr.. James N.
Ogden.
(c) "Punctual and Reg liar Attendance"
the Rev. Austin Hunter.
(d) Good Music" Prof. J. M. DUNCAN.
(e) Systematic Giving Mr.. f. F. Nc
90 Church Attendance!r' Mr.. A X Hoi-
Instrument of Evangelism" the Rev. c. b.
| Newman, pastor Third Christian Church
Announcement and closing words.
Saturday Morning. November 2.-
Special Session for Teachers.
9A5-Praise service. with Scripture re-
iS~"The Book We Teach" Judge J. w.
io:so~.The Child in the Midst" the Rev.
n-Round Table Conference-"The Sun
d~ay-school Teacher" conducted by Charles
+. Coffin
Saturday Afternoon. November 2s.-
Special Session for senday-school ON
GERS.
1:So-Praise service.
1:45-Round Table Confsrerce-'The Sun
| day-school superintendent" conducted by
Mr.. z. P. Matthews.
2:ls-Reports of committees and election
of officers.
2:45-Address. the Rev.. e. Wesley Hal
S:i5.The Primary Department Hour.
Address by Mrs. K. Wesley Halpenny,
State superintendent OF primary work.
An hour with the Primary Union
Devotions-Mrs. Edwards.
Junior Outline-Mrs. Swan.
Primary Lesson-Miss Elenor Kirby.
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twenty feet long. The inside, foyer, man.
ayers office and ladies' parlor, is sixteen
by fifty feet. Stairs from each side of
foyer lead 10 balcony.
The size of the stage is thirty-seven feet
deep, by ffty-one feet wide. Curtain OPEN
ing. thirty by thirty feet. From stage to
rigging loft. ffty-ive feet. Ample dress
ing rooms and toilets are provided. The
ir .erior of auditorium will be finished
in the French classic style. with six pro-
scenium boxes giving a perfect view of the
stage.
The house will be equipped with a perfect
system of electric lighting and heated by
steam. The scenery and drop curtain is
being painted in Chicago by a ~well-knawn
artist and will be a work OF art. The en-
tire house is to be frescoed and finished in
white and golG leaf.
The front portion of the building, forty
two by ffty-hve feet. will be occupied in
the second and third stories by the Il. p
o.. Elks The second floor arranged for bill
lard room. parlors. reception room. toilets,
etc. The third floor is devoted to the Lodge
Hail. forty by forty feet. ante-rooms. par
Iors. toilets, etc,
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.

BLUFFTON, Ind, Nov. GA new opera
house is being erected in this city on the
corner of johnson and Washington streets.
1t is to be ffty-five feet wide by 14c
feet deep and sixty feet high. The sides
and front will be faced with Ohio buff
pressed brick with elaborate buff Bedford
and Canadian marble corners. The front
will show a square tower on the right
hand corner. with a slate roof final and
castellated cornice of stone. The front
of the building will be finished by a GAL
vanized iron Mansard roof covered with
slate and topped out with iron crossings
and finals.
The auditorium Is on the main floor on
a level with the street. On each side of
the main entrance are located two store
rooms with an entrance to the second and
third stories through the tower to Elks'
Hall. The size Of the auditorium is fifty
one feet wide by s~ixty-three feet from the
foyer 10 the curtain line. and is arranged
for main floor and balcony with a seating
capacity of 500 persons.
The entrance, foyer finished in marble
and stained glass. will be ten feet wild by
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GENERAL GREELY's REPORT.
Telegraph Lines Constructed 4
Alaska Under Great Difficulties.

WASHINGTON. Nov. 6.-General Greedy,
chief signal officer of the United States
army, in his annua report to the secre-
tary of war, shows that during the year
the system of military telegraph lines and
cables in Alaska authorized by Congress
has been completed. and consists of 1,74O
miles. General Greedy very
highly Captain Burnett. who was In charge
of telegraph construction work in Alaska.
and his assistants, Captains Mitchell and
Gibbs. In speaking of the extreme diff
culties encountered in running telegraph
lines in the far north General Greedy
says: Very early springs. late autumns.
enormous snowfalls, summer floods, i'm
passable canyons, and, last of all. a gold
fever which stripped one officer of every
civilian employee save one, have alternately
impeded progress, but the energy and re-
sourcefulness of the officers in charge of
the work lave met and overcome diff
culties which seemed nsurmountable."
1t is said that one line was pushed along
a route pronounced impracticable, and an
other across a country that never before
had been trodden by the foot of a white
man.
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They Call This "DecOrative."
New York Evening Post

In the studio OF one of the younger artists
OF this city there is an odd conceit in the
matter of decoration which catches the
eye of every one entering the place. Upon
the studio floor near the surbase on one
side of the room is a series OF footprints
apparently made by a person with very
muddy SHOES. These footprints indicate
that two steps were taken on the floor
and that then the person making them
walked up the wall. as the footprints as
cend that vertical surface with the same
certainty as that which marked them upon
the floor. The footprints also show clearly
against the white OF the ceiling. But half
way across the ceiling the pedestrian has
cast a shoe. the shoe itself being left in
the track IL made; that is. the shoe is fas-
tened With its sole against the ceiling, and
the footprints continue beyond IL. The only
difference now Is that one of the prints Is
that OF a shoe. the other that or a bare
foot. a few feet further on the walkers
other shoe is cast, and, like its fellow, is
fastened u the ceiling. And from this
point 10 the upper ledge Of the window,
out of which the ghostly visitor passes,
the footprints are those OF two bare feet.
The illusion is very striking. and the artist
has been asked times innumerable how he
did IL. After saying that the shoe prints
were easy enough, he adds: II made the
bare footprints by lying on my back on top
OF a ladder and nrcssing my feet against
the ceiling
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New Castle Qnd.) Press.
New Castle has a citizen who has as
highly a developed sense of hearing as is
accredited to the Indians who prowled over
our lands a few centuries ago. This man
is none other than our old friend. Buddy
McGrath, and he can hear a train coming
sooner and father han any man in town.
Several times each day he will move out
into the street and begin to flag before
any onse else around has heard anything
like a train. B~ystanders will cock their
ears and presently they will hear a dull
roar i'm the distance and in a very short
time a big passenger train will come rush
ing I'm and stop in front of the station.
Habitues of the station have come TO watch
Buddy instead of listening when they
want TO know if the train is coming, as he
is always sure.
When asked how he hears so much better
than everyone else around him, he replies
modestly, Il don't know how l do 1t. |
suppose it is because L am always listen
ing for it," But persons who have been lis
teniug and have failed TO hear anything
and then seen Buddy march oct 10 warn
p&ssers-by of the approach of the oncom-
Ing train cannot understand it. 1t looks
as though this was another instance of
wonderful aural development and goes 10
show that the claim that modern life dulls
all of our faculties Is not altogether true.
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Mild Weather Makes a Soft Market
influence Of western Strike.

CHICAGO, Nov. 6.-The Black Diamond,
official organ of the coal industry, review
ing the Western coal trade, tomorrow will
say: while prices on standard grades of
Western Goals have not declined to any i'm
portant extent, there is an abundance of
coal on track. A continuation of the pres
ent phenomenally mild weather for any
considerable length of time would undoubt-
edly have an influence towards demoralized
prices, but with the colder weather which
developed Wednesday night this is regarded
as a rather remote contingency. The
anthracite trade is dull and featureless and
in some instances the first two days of the
week were the quietest experienced the
present year by the large shipping interests.
Weather conditions are also responsible for
this dullness, but with any turn to a cooler
temperature it is to be expected there will
be a fairly good demand, the market being
in good, healthy shape to meet these condi-
lions.
The transportation situation throughout
the West has shown some improvement
during the week. Ii is announced that rail-
roads supplying steel plants with coal have
been relieved OF some OF the pressure for
immediate supplies owing to the curtail-
ment of iron and steel production. This
has released some of the system cars used
by the main trunk lines and has made them
"a " ~ OA& ~ LH& vi ~
charitable coal. Should the cessation of op-
Grafton at the steel plants continue for any
considerable length Of time it would have a
considerable influence on all Western trans
portation interests and would undoubtedly
furnish some relief that otherwise would
not have been experienced. The greatest
danger from the improvement in transport
tation exists in the fact that operators may
overproduce coal while the mild weather
continues and that prices may suffer as h
consequence. while on the other hand if
there is severely cold weather any increase
in transportation facilities will be of
benefit.
Outside of weather conditions the devel-
opments of the week have been favorable
TO prices remaining steady. Ii was an
nounced on Wednesday that President
Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers, had
ordered a strike OF the miners in Colorado,
Montana. Wyoming and Idaho. The num-
Der of miners involved Is estimated at from
Zoo TO 5000, and this strike. If of long du-
ration, ought TO have an influence on tht
prices OF Western coal. The States named
furnish a large proportion of the coal used
in Nebraska, Kansas and western Iowa, as
we'll as I'm the States where IL is produced.
They also furnish a large tonnage OF coal
for Western locomotive consumption which
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To the Editor of the Indiana soiis Journal;
In to-day's Journal. ~sptaking of Mayor
elect Mcclellan. of New FORK. you say:
Mr.. Mcclellan was born in Germany,
where his parents had gone on a visit. He
is an American citizen all. right. but is he q
natural-born one7"
This question would seam to be conclu-
sively determined in the negative by the
authorities collected In Moon on Removal
of Causes" Paragraph us. Notes 1 and ..
especially by the case sf United States
VS.. Wong Kim, Ark, 1e9 u. g.. e49. In which
foreign-born children Of american citizens
United States by virtue only OF the legisla-
ton of Congress upon the subject OF nat
uralization. u. &. MOON.
Kokomo Ind. Nov. G.
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at Whitewater, Wayne county, and
Beruca j. Tuell at Clarksburg, Decatur
county.
Rural free delivery will be established at
Chrisney. Spencer county, Dec. L. on the
recommendation of Representative Hemen-
way.
Lewis H. Bailey was to-day appointed
postmaster at Hines. Adams county. Ind.
vice Adah NJ. Mauller, resigned, and ]. p.
at Kitchell. Union county, Ind
vice William Oxer, resigned.
X x
Oliver P. McLain has been commissioned
postmaster at Alert, Ind.
JOHN E. MONK.
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MURDER DUE TO POLITICS.
Bowling Green Justice shoots and
Kills an Irate Kentuckfan.

BOWLING GREEN. KY, Nov. 6.-Magis-
trate Elijah Upton to-day shot and killed
Tom Stewart. a well to do farmer at Rich
ardsville, in this county. Thu shooting was
the result of the issuing of a warrant by
Squire Upton for Stewards arrest on the
application of the latter's son, following a
quarrel over politics.
Stewart had been voting the Republican
ticket, but last Tuesday announced his in
tention of voting for the Democratic NOM
inee. His father entered a decided protest,
which angered the young man, and father
and son came to blows. Stewart declared
he would nave his. father arrested and
swore out a warrant before Magistrate Up
ton. The boys father heard of the sons in
tention and sent word to khe magistrate
that If he issued a warrant he would kill
him on sight. Stewart and Upton met on
the street to-day and after some words
the latter shot and killed Stewart.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.-The secretary of
the navy to-day signed the orders dismissing
Midshipmen Joseph Drummond Little. John
Henry Loiand and Earl Worden Chaffee
from the service of the United States. All
three ~midshipmen were members of the
first class at the Naval Academy. They
were convicted by urt-mart on the
charge of hazing. Little was appointed
from Ohio, Lofiand from Iowa and Chaffee
from Wisconsin,, all in 1900.