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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-08
TOO MUCH PAPER AFLOAT
CAUSE OF FAILURE OF DRESSER 4
CO., COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
New York Firm That Owes About One
and q Quarter Million Dollars
Nominal Assets $75O,OOO.

NEW YORK, March I'D. Leroy Dresser
and Charles F. Riess. doing business as
commission merchants under the firm name
OF Dresser & Co., Is Greene street, made
an assignment to-day for the benefit of
creditors, to Charles S. Mackenzie. Mr..
Dresser was until a few days ago president
of the Trust Company of the Republic. A
mercantile agency estimated the pecuniary
strength of the firm at from 100000 to
100000
This is the house concerning which there
have been rumors in Wall street through
out the week. Large banking interests
concurred yesterday in the effort to extend
assistance necessary to save the firm, but
the suspension could not be averted. The
president OF one bank consulted about the
matter. said to-day that adjustment of
the firms affairs depended upon the will
ingness OF relative of one of the firm to
help II through. Such assistance, IL was
said. was refused yesterday. but later in
the day it was thought that IL would be
forthcoming and the firm saved. This was
found to-day to be impossible. so suspen-
sion resulted
Two million dollars in the firms paper is
said to be outstanding. A considerable
THE firms paper is largely held by interior
banks. l think. Some of IL is In New York.
How this will be adjusted / do not know
but efforts will, of course. he made to avoid
disturbances"
There are no preferences. Attorneys for
the assignee said that the liabilities. as
nearly as they can be approximated.
amount 10 about sl.250.0O0 and that about
half of this indebtedness is secured. The
nominal assets As nearly as can be esti-
mated In the absence of statement, ac-
cording to the attorneys. about $750. 600,
and consist OF cash. accounts receiva ble
and eauitips In merchandise The creditors
will be called together soon as possible
and a settlement offered to them, in hope
OF being able to re-establish the firm Of
Dresser & Co. In business
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CONTENTS OF To-DAY's JOURNAL.

Part One-Twelve Pages.
Page -
1-Real Grievance of Wabash Employees:
Legislature on It's Last Legs; Nineteen
Persons Drowned; Legislature Passes
Apportionment Bill.
2-Developments In the Burdick Murder
Mystery.
%Happenings from All Over the State.
5-Army Officers in Favor of More Land
for Military Post; Foreign News.
6-Sporting News.
7-Sporting News.
S-Hungry, Stoicai F'inns.
gCLocaI Labor and Real-Estate News;
10-Live Stock and General and Local Prod
uce Markets. h
11-Gossip of Wall Street; Financial Mar
kets.
12-Results of Republican Municipal Pri-
maries.
Part Two-Twelve Pages.
1-Growing of Flowers; Gambling on
Trains; The Testing of Sugar.
2-Literary News and Gleanings; Questions
s-High School News and Gossip; Indian
Signal Service.
EEditorial Page.
5-The Canadian Boundary.
6-Personal and Society News.
personal and Society News (continued)
s-Music and Drama.
s-Music and Drama (continued)
1o-Illustrated Fashions; George AIDES Fa-
BILE.
lion Some Unaccountable Things; Sphinx
Lore
N-TaIk with Sven Hedin; Tennyson's Mys-
ticism.
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CAUSE OF THE STRIKE.


PHILADELPHIA. March T-President
Buchanan. OF the international Associa-
tion OF Bridge and Structural Iron Work.
ers. who is in this city to-day. issued "a
statement giving the reasons for the gen-
eral strike against the American Bridge
Company. The statement. IN part. is as
follows:
THE company started the fight I'm Buff
faIo by subletting the rfyeting a Job
ct the Lackawanna steel plant, 10 be done
BY nonuniOn men after the union men had
done the difficult part OF the work The
company then attempted TO put nonunion
men to work fitting and riyeting On q
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ILLINOIS MINERS, SCALE.
Agreement Signed That Provides for
nm Advance of SIX Ceuts.

SPRINGFIELD. ILL.,. March IA strike OF
1000 coal miners In Illinois was averted
this afternoon when the operators and
miners of the State in joint conference
signed an agreement for the year, COM
mencing April 10. 1905. The miners receded
from their demand Of nine cents over the
indianapolis scale in the first district OF
northern thin vein. and ten cents over the
same scale in Williamson county. and the
agreement as signed is for q six-cent raise
over last years prices, all over the State
This Is the raise agreed on at the Joint na-
tional conference of operators and miners
at Indianapolis.
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Swan for Their Lives.

PITTSBURG. March 7.-The ferryboat
Neptune. plying between Allegheny and
the West End. sunk in the Ohio river
near the foot of CHARTERS street by the
steamer Margaret to-day The crew and
passengers had to swim to the Allegheny
side in order to save their lives The Nep-
tune was crossing the river from the West
End and had board besides the crew
some eight passengers. The latter were
workmen on their way to the mills in low
or ALLEGHENY.
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DOORS BATTERED DOWN


NEW YORK, March Fifty prisoners
and an immense quantity of gambling ap-
paratus were captured tonight in stimuli
taneous attacks on two gambling houses in
West Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth streets.
The police forced an entrance into both
places by battering down doors with axes
and sledge hammers, having previously
drawn cordons around the house to prevent
the escape of any of the inmates. All the
prisoners, many Of whom were in evening
dress, were driven in patrol wagons to the
police station, where most of them were
released on bail. One of the houses was
reputed to be kept by Lou" Belts and the
other by Tim" Quigley. While the raids
were going on the patrons of a number of
other gambling houses in the district fled
To the street
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HUNTINGTON. W. Va. March TEN
thousand miners Of the Elkhorn and Flat
Top coal fields. on the Norfolk & Western
railroad, will be given voluntary increase
in wages Of ten cents on ton, beginning
April /.
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NEW YORK. March 7.-Samuel d. Day.
OF the firm of Samuel ID. Day & Bros,
bankers and brokers' of this city. who went
into liquidation In 1897 to-day filed volun-
tary petition In bankruptcy. The liabilities
are S9S9. .026. and the assets $55,l7a
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NEW YORK, March 7.-Gen. William
Booth, founder and head of the Salvation
Army. sailed for England to-day on the
Campania. Owing to the injury to his knee
there was no demonstration by the local
corps.
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but one Of the watchful Republicans 1ore-
table Slack's motion. and the speaker put
the motion TO table on viva voce vote ana
declared it carried before the ayes and noes
could be demanded.
THE APPORTIoNMENT.
This closed the incident and the bill Is
ready for the Governor. 1t provides the fol-
lowing apportionment:
Senators
Lake; st. Joseph and Laporte; st Jo-
seph; Elkhart; Lagrange and Noble; Steu-
ben and De Kalb; Kosciusko and MarShan;
Whitley and Huntington; Allen and Adams;
Allen: Grant, Blackford and Wells; Grant
Miami and Howard: Cass and Carroll; w "a,
and Starke; Newton; Benton and WHITE
Tippecanoe; Warren, Vermilion and Foun,
tain Montgomery and Parke; Clinton ana
Hancock and Henry; Delaware; wayne;
Randolph and Jay: Johnson. Brown ana
Jackson; Bartholomew and Decatur: hush'
Fayette and Shelby; Marion "a; Marion,
Hendricks and Boone: Morgan, Putnam
and Owen; Vigo; Vigo and Clay: FrankIln.
Union, Dearborn, Ohio and Switzerlah1'
Jefferson, Jennings and Ripley; WASH
ington. Scott and Clark; Floyd ana nar-
rison; Lawrence and Monroe; Dubois, Mar
tin and Orange; Spencer, Perry ana SraW-
ford; Greene and Daviess; Knox ana n- Su,-
livan; Pike and Gibson; Vanderourg' van
derburg, Posey and Warrick
Representatives
Lake; Lake and Newton: Porter and La
porte; Laporte; ST. Joseph (9; ST. joseph
and Starke; Elkhart %; Lagrange anu anu
Steuben; De Kalb; Noble; koSclusko, Allei
90; Marshall; Huntington; Whitley, kosci-
usko and Huntington; Wabash; Miami;
wabash. Miami and Fulton; Cass; Cass
and White; Jasper and Pulaski; Benton Mnt
and Warren; Fountain; Tippeeanoe; mons. or,,
Clinton: Howard; Clinton. Howard and
Carroll; Boone; Hamilton; Hamilton ana "a
Tipton: Grant (2); Grant and Blackforo
Delaware (2); Madison 90; Wells: Adams; |;
Jay; Randolph; Henry; Wayne; WAYNE
and Fayette Franklin and Union; Rusn
Shelby; Marion (s): Marion and Hancock;
Hendricks; Putnam: Parke; Vigo lz); Vlgo
and Vermilion; Clay: Clay and Owen;
Morgan; Johnson; Sullivan; Greene, Mon
roe and Brown; Bartholomew; Decatur
Dearborn and Ohio: Ripley and Swltzer-
land: JEFFERSON, Scott and Jennings; Floyd;
Clark; Floyd Washington ana clark,
Jackson: Lawrence, Martin and orange
Harrison; Crawford; Spencer; Knox; Da,
viess; Knox, Daviess and Dubois PIKE ana Ii
Gibson; Gibson: Posey; Vanderpurs VJ'
Vanderburg and Warrick
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NEFARI0Us TRAFFIC.


ST. LOUIS. Mo-. March Testimony be-
fore the grand jury to-day in the investiga-
ton of charges that a trafhc In girls exists
in the Fourth police district was TO the
effect that girls were sold like slaves and
that a price of 800 was paid for each good
looking young woman received. Futher
testimony was to the effect that girls are
secured and held prisoner.
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LEGISLATORS IN A HURRY.
Adopted Memorial and Named Mem
hers tn Attend n Live Mans Funeral

CANTON, s. D., March 7-State Senator
NJ. z. Rudolph. OF Canton. whose death
was reported at Pierre during the closing
hours of the General Assembly, Is not dead.
When the Legislature heard the report OF
his death it adopted appropriate resolu-
tions, and appointed a committee to attend
the funeral Later IL was learned that
Senator Rudolph was not dead.
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House had concurred in the Senate amend
ments to the apportionment bill He de-
manded the ayes and noes on his motlon'
but one OF the watchful Republicans fore
stalled another roll call by a motion 10
table Slack's motion. and the speaker put
the motion to table on a viva voce vote ana
declared it carried before the ayes and noes
could be demanded.
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THE APPORTIONMENT.
This closed the incident and the bill Is
ready for the Governor. 1t provides the foi-
lowing apportionment:
The semi-weekly messenger., 1903-05-05
NORTH CAROLINA.

W,;son News: Mr.. t. T. Britt reports
that or April 14th, three quarters Of
au hour after the storm 1T Gar:anG,
Sampson county, halIStoneS 3X3 il
inches were as thick rs flies around q
molasses barrel. This is given as q
fact
Rocky Mount Motor: We learn just
before going to press last night that by
unanimous consent Of the bar Judge
Brown will adjourn Nash superior
court next Saturday for the term,
which was a two weeks term. This is
done for the benefit o. farm work.
which is behind owing to the recent
rains.
Wilson News: We saw yesterday at
Mr.. Ed. Nutall's under one brodOer 10
cream white chicks just from an i9cu-
i.atOr, the result Of d single hatch. 1t
vas a pretty sight 20 see that many
biddieS huddled IN one place. There
are several incuDators III tOWn s,nd
many of our people are taking live
lv interest in raising chickens.
Winston Journal: Our readers will
remember a reference in these columns
to the condition of Charles Reich, who
was bitten by horse which had con-
tracted hydrOphObia from the bite OF
a dog. We are glad to know that ne iS
improving. Mr. Lehman. who applied
the mad stone, reports that the stone
adhered to the wound over 104 hours
This he says is about thirty hours
longer than the stone usually sticks
Special to Wilson News: Rocky
rfc?Irt. y. c., Apr 2S.-Mr. w. d.
Ayer:, living on n. Il. II. Dunn's
TIaCc eight miles northwest Of ROCKY
Mount accidentally shot himself yes
terG&y while out hUrt'u[. He struck
the PaTamer of his gun against some
Ting while IOadin-, the contents en-
terine his head AMI body. HIS head
was ter ribIy mu:;larel. DR.. White
head. of Rocky MJG1t, was sen: for
an1 dressed the w0Uh.!s.
Gastonia News The prOsr rec;s fer a
crop of wheat thi: y=ir are exceeding
ly poor The Heat',cr was warm in
the early spring and the crop started
eff nicely. Later il IurI;ed cola. Now
ile SralkS are covered with rust and
flies and the fields offer 4 poor pros
pect for q crop of wheat. Goats are not
promising, but not 50 gloomy us wheat.
The potato crop is Il little late and The
aug is sitting on top Df the row watch
.ng for the first :r1cI leaf. Yet he
peOEIe of CASTOR cCunty will combat
these difficulties and Will make plenty
OF farm products u supply themselves.
Special to Charlotte Observer: Dur
ham. April 28.-The court house was
again packed tonight, the occasion be-
ing = nasS-meeting for the nominal
tiOns = a ticket for aldermen by the
regula." The crowd was about equal
to tn. last night, when the reform
moveI..snt put out a ticket. There
were Il few short talks, in which one
speaker said that the other side had
named the issue and that he was in
favor of accepting it and fighting out
the question at the polls. There was
great enthusiasm and the meeting to-
night, taken in connection with that Of
last night shows the great interest in
the fight now on. The ticket contains
the name of one who was nominated
last night G.. NJ HerndOn.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1903-05-05
Josh Billings Wit.

r. r. Beatty of WashingtOnville. \.
Y, told me this story the other day,
says writer in the New York Press:
Il was we'll acquainted with Josh Bill
ings and his family when he was an
aucsioneer- He once sold a lot of cows
for a MIR. Haight who lived near Hack
enSack. generally known as Deacon
Haight because OF his strong religious
priciples-in which not a great deal OF
confidence was reposed. One Of the
COWS made a bolt and ran square over
Joshua. knocking him down Hs arose
in his wrath and began swearing.
whereupon Deacon Haight stepped UP
and said: ''Tut-tut, Mr.. Shaw; you
ShOvtt not swear Josh scratched his
head and remarked: We'll, deacon.
you pray a little sometimes and 1
swear q little sometimes. but 1 think
neither Cf US means much by it"
The semi-weekly messenger., 1903-05-05
Question Answered,

Yes, August Flower still has the
largest sale of any medicine in the
civilized world. Your mothers and
grandmothers never thought of using
anything else for Indigestion or bill
Neusness. Doctors weyr scarce, and
they seldom heard OF Appendicitis,
Nervous Prostration or Heart failure,
eac. They used August Flower to
Clean out the system and stop fer
tne7tation Of undigeseed food, regulate
the action of the livs-, stimulate the
nervous and organic action Of tbs
system, and that is al they took when
feeling dull and bad with headaches
aid other aches. You only need a
few doses Of Green's August Flower
in liquid form, to make you satisfied
there is nothing serious the matter
with you. You can get this reliable
remedy at all drug stores. Price 25c
md Is c.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1903-05-05
SHOES. SHOES. SHOES.
AT
Will MINCTON'S BIG Racket STORE,

strong forte. We sell more ladies'
shoes than any other kind. Grover
shoes at s1.25 and $500 a pair
J. richardson's shoes from 81 SO, 10
s2.25. The best line in the city.
Our World beater-the Vicious at
$50 Every pair warranted to give
satisfaction.
Wolfe Bros. shoes at s1.25.
The Southern Belle shoes made for
southern maids at $3.50 pair.
We have other styles in dongola
shoes all solid at s1.0O a pair. A full
line OF ladies' slippers at 75c, s1.o0
s1.25 and up TO s275 a pair.
Colonial Ties for Ladies and children
in hne patent leather stock, for 75c 10
SIS. Our shoe department we claim
to be second to none and we sell the
best Of shoes at the lowest prices. We
guarantee to give satisfaction or give
a new pair instead. We make the fac
tory stand behind US and we 4epI BE-
hind the shoes.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1903-05-05
STATE PRESS.

Are the effects of Willie Hearst's
presidential boom felt in Surry coun-
y? The Mt. Airy News is positive in
its prediction that the chief of yellow
journalists will be the next democratic
candidate for observation-disclosures
Patriot.
If those who are slandered could
bring their vile accusers before mag
istrate as quickly and make them eat
their words as quickly as Rev c. F
Greaves did at Reidsville there would
be less base talk about good people
GastOnia Gazette.
The mere fact that property is bring
ing no returns on the investment IS no
argument that it should not be taxed
There are numerous vacant lots IN this
town that are paying nothing on the
investment but you just try to buy
one of them and you will learn more
/ than we can tell you.-Durham Herald.
There are still a few democrats left
VINO believe that a democratic tariff re-
vision would mean the removal of the
tariff in SO far as was possible from
goods produced in this country and it's
transfer to goods which were bound to
be imported. In other words, a tariff
designed to produce the necessary rev.
enue with the minimum Of protection
State Press
The advice that Senator Hanna gives
! organized labor does not mean that it
must truckle or that it must surrender
any of its rights. 1t simply means
that those hotheads who are prone 70
bring on q clash between the employ
er and employee should be repudiated.
He puts the case very clearly when he
says the best lawyer is the one who
can keep you out of cOurt.-Goldsboro
Headlight.
The kid king of Spain, at a reception
in the palace, Of the international
medical congress, disposed of the yari-
Gus natiOnalities in different parts of
the palace, placing the Americans and
Cubans in the dining room. This IS
construed as an Intentional Insult, and
we think, upon very f1imsy grounds.
We can't answer for the Cubans. but
the average Americans feelings are in
no very great danger when he is lined
up along side a table bearing all the
delicacies of the season.-Greenville
Reflector
The number of army officers going
wrong and defrauding the government
is almost daily multiplying and must
be q source of humiliation to the army
Of the country. Numerous have been
the charges and Investigations in the
Philippines and Porto Rico. and al
though it was reported that the cases
IN Porto Rico had been arranged by
those high in authority and smoothed
over, the grand jury declined to accept
the arrangement and proceeded with
its duty and several indictments
were made. The latest sensation comes
from Alaska where several army Off
GERS are under investigation by q court
martial charged with making use of
commissary supplies for their individ-
ual profit. All the officers at the Skag-
way post are implicated, and will be
investigated. 1t is high time that dis
honest officials should be properly dealt
with and punished.-Durham Sun.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1903-05-05

While we carry almost everything
else in every line, we also carry an
Immense line of shoes. In our shoe de-
partment, we make an effort to sell the
best and sell the best values at the
least price. All solid goods-no shoddy
makes. We have added to our stock
a line Of fine shoes, patenG colt. calf
box calf ana vici. The prices run
$780,, $500, $3.50 and S4.OO a pair. We
have q big Inc of Oxfords for II ~
a real nice Looking one for s1.25. Can
mems dongo3a Oxford for $50 ,,he
best patene leather Oxfords for $500
and $3.50. We sell the Adanan1 Box
calf shoe for $500. White Bros, Box
calf for 1875 The Battle axe shoe, as
solid as its name, s1.25 pair We
carry a full line OF children's shoes.
Soft rn0ccasins at 19c Kid slippers at
10c. Childrens high shoes at 25c. a
full fire Of Wolfe Bros shoes at 3Oo
Childrens shoes all styles up to 81 3
a pair.
In Ladies shoes-This linz is our
The semi-weekly messenger., 1903-05-05
Break the GLASS.

George Coleman. who runs d New
York Central train between Buffalo
and Niagara Falls, is perhaps as we'll
known as an conductor running out
of Buffalo. He says that he has seen
man funny sights ana carried many
queer people but the most amusing
incident of his career occurred the
other coming from Buffalo.
"A typical countryman," said Cole
man to a Buffalo Express reporter,
got on at La Sale with a ticket tor
Buffalo He tOOOk a seat directly un-
der the box of tools VAiCh is provided
in all passenger coaches for use in q
case of wrecks. and which has d sign
over il: In case of accident break the
glass After riding some little distance
he decided to open the window. but
very cdreIessly failed to latch it, leaV-
ing il free to come down on his fingers
at the :irst jolt of the train. which 1t
promptly did. After releasing his hand
he took the small sapling which he car
ried for a walking stick and getting VI
on the seat, proceeded 10 break the
glass in the tool box. | ran up seized
him by the coat tails. pulled him dOWr
and shouted in his ear: Those tools
are for use in case of accident only
To which he exclaimed, with an expires
sion of disgust and pity for my igno
rance: We'll. didn't 1 jist mash m!
finger in that window thar If tina
amt an accident I'd like to know"
Il can see our finish if bottles o
chIoroform are placed in each coach
as suggested by Mrs BOOth-Tucker
concluded
The semi-weekly messenger., 1903-05-05

A cheap remedy for coughs and colds
is all right, but you want sometime
that will relieve and cure the mere
severe and dangerous results Of throat
and lung troubles. What shall you
do? Go to a warmer and more regular
climate? Yes, if possible; if not pos-
sible for you, then in either case take
the ONLY remedy that has been in
troduced in all civilized countries with
success in severe throat and lung
troubles. "Boschee's German Syrup"
1t not only heals and stimulates the
tissues to destroy the germ disease,
but allays Inflammation. causes easy
expeetoration, gives a good nights s
rest, and cures the patient Try ONE
bottle. Recommended many years by
all druggists in the world You can
get this reliable remedy at all drug
stores. Prica 25c. and 75c
The semi-weekly messenger., 1903-05-05
A Farmer Strengthened Out.

a man living on a farm near here
came in short time ago completely
doubled up with rheumatism. I hand
ed him a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain
Balm and told him to use it freely and
if not satisfied after using it he need
not pay cent for it, says c. P. Ray
der, of Pattens Mills, n. Y "A few
days later he walked into the store as
straight as 4 string and handed me a
dollar saying, give me another bottle
of Chamberlain'S Pain Balm [ want
in the house all the time for it cured
me- For sale by all druggists.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1903-05-05
y Startling Test.

To save a life, DR.. T G.. Merritt, of
No. Mehoopany, Pa, made a startling
test resulting in wonderful cure. He
writes. "a patient was attacked with
violent hemOrrhages, caused by ulcera-
ton of the stomach. | had often found
Electric BitterS excellent for acute
stomach and liver troubles so l pre-
Scrlbed them. The patient gained from
the first, and has not had an attack in
IA months" Electric Bitters are posi-
lively guaranteed for Dyspepsia. Indi-
SestiOn, Constipation and Kidney Trou-
bles. Try them. Only soc. at r. r
Bellamy'S
The semi-weekly messenger., 1903-05-05
Too Great n Risk.

In almost every neighborhood some
one has died from an attack of collie or
cholera morbus, often before medicine
could be procured or a physician sum-
moned. A reliable remedy for these
diseases should be kept at hand The
risk is too great for anyone to take.
Chamberlain's Collie. Cholera and Diarr-
hoea Remedy has undoubtedly saved the
lives of more people and relieved more
pain and suffering than any other medi-
cine in use. 1t can always be depended
upon. For sale by all druggists.