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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-25
LOST in A HURRICANE
SIX VESSELS AND THEIR CREWS
PROBABLY SUNK IN THE GULF.
All Were I'm the Track of the Great
Storm - One known to Have
Been Wrecked.

MOBILE, Ala, Aug. paw. K. Syson &
Co. received to-day a cablegram from Glen
fuegos, Cuba, telling of the loss of the
American schooner G. E. Bentley, lum-
Der landen, from Mobile to Cienfuegos.
The cablegram says the passengers
are safe, crew supposed to be lost.
1t is thought here that the passengers
from Mobile landed at Grand Cay
men. Eden was master Of the Bentley and
her crew numbered eight. Her cargo was
300, 900 feet of lumber. In the same hurricane
the following vessels are believed to have
been wrecked:
American schooner Starke, Captain Senes
199 tons of lumber from Pascagoula, Miss
Aug. s, for Colon. Besides captain and crew
of seven the captains wife was on board.
American schooner Flora Morong, 2Ol
tons, Captain L. Bodden, from Colon, Aug
T. for Pascagoula. Crew OF seven.
American schooner Governor Blake, from
Grand Caymen, for Cienfuegos. The Blake
was out seven weeks last Sunday.
British schooner Maggie Ella, sixty tons
Captain Parsons from Mobile, July 25 fol
Grand Caymen, crew of six and two pas
sengers, John l.. and William Eden, broth
ers, master of the Bentley.
American schooner Anna M. Slammer
Captain Maine, from Pascagoula, last July
for Colon. Should have reached her desti
nation several weeks ago.
Twelve days is the longest sailing time
to above ports. All these vessels were in the
tracks of the hurricane from the West
Indies.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-25
DEMANDING MORE WAGES
REPRESENTATIVES, OF RAILWAY
EMPLOYEES AT THE OCCIDENTAL.
0mcials of the Big Four VIII Con-
fer with Them To-Day-Twenty
Per Cent. Asked.

Officials Of the Big Four Railroad and
about twenty-five representatives of the
conductors. brakemen, engineers. fremen
and switchmen of the road employees in
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri who
have asked for an increase of about 20 per
cent. over their present wages, will to-day
begin conference at the Occidental hotel.
j. Morrey, of Nation, ILL.,, chairman of
the grievance committee of the Big Four
department of the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen. is at the head of the employees
committee sent to indianapolis to confer
with the officials and arrange a settlement
Of the employees grievances.
The Big -Four conductors, brakemen, en-
gineers, firemen and switchmen employed
in Ohio. Indiana, Illinois and Missouri, num-
Der between 5000 and 5000 men. An In
crease of anything near the amount asked
would mean thousands of dollars a month
more pay 10 the conductors, brakenen, en-
gineerS, hremen and switchmen. They de-
clare that they are underpaid and that
they must have higher wages. The con-
ference is liable TO last several weeks a
member Of the brakemen's committee said
last night.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-25
GATE OPENED TO ROAD.
CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGEo

CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE)
With. shall be changed from present grade
the said railway company shall promptly
comply with the terms OF said order, con-
tract, ordinance or other proceeding and
shall. without further ordinance or order
promptly raise or lower its tracks from and
TO such point in said city as may be de-
termined by said Board OF Works and not
nounce any right to contest the validity of
such order, ordinance, or other proceed
Ing: and should the railway company re-
fuse or fail promptly 10 begin the work Of
elevation or depression, as may be required.
and prosecute the work with reasonable dill
gsnce the said city shall have the right and
power. in addition TO any right OF forfeit
ure. 10 compel the performance OF such work
BY proper legal proceeding in any court Of
competent jurisdiction. and the said railway
company pay all costs Of such proceedings.
FORFEITURE PROVISION.
"In case said railway shall fail TO con-
struct within five years and operate and
keep in operation said road between the
city or Indianapolis and Logansport, all
rights and privileges hereby granted said
railway company shall be forfeited, and
said city shall have the right TO enter upon
the sereets. avenues. alleys and public
grounds Cthe right 10 cross, run upon and
use OF which is granted in this franchise)
and remove therefrom the tracks and 9TH
er property or said railway company.
The rights and privileges hereby granted
are made and accepted subject TO the jur-
fsdiction. authority and decision OF the
Board OF Park Commissioners of said city,
where said railway crosses Riverside Park
- she location and width of the right
of-way thereover, the price OF such right
character and dimensions OF the retaining
wall, the number, location and Character
Nd dimensions OF the subway crossing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-25
PRIVATE CAR OF THEIR OWN.
Boys Rugged 1t Up and Started 1t
Down Grade.

Kansas City Star.
At the rate Of about thirty miles an hour,
several small boys rode down the Westport
car line on Grand avenue from Twenty
sixth to Twentieth street on an imitation
o'clock last night Officer Welsh, of No.
police station, who witnessed the trip,
took possession of the car, but the children
ran before he could arrest them.
The car, which is now at No. station.
is a monument to the ingenuity of the
American boy. 1t Is a platform of pine
planks mounted upon broomstick axels.
Small rim wheels, similar to the large ones
used on a street car, were fastened to the
wooden axels. Wooden pins were used 10
hold the wheels in place. The distance be-
tween the wheels was carefully gagged to
make them fit accurately on the car rails.
The builders of the queer craft had even
made allowance for a Slight shifting of the
wheels.
The westport car line runs down grade
from Twenty-sixth to Twentieth streets,
and this spared the boys the trouble of
devising electric apparatus. The boys had
no gong, but one of them sat on the front
of the platform with a stick in his hand
and shouted ''Ding Dingt' at every cross
ing.
When the car passed officer Welsh ii
was half concealed in a cloud of dust. The
children were laughing and shouting, little
realizing the danger of a collision. po-
liceman shouted for the car to stop, but
the youthful motorman's only answer was
the warning:
ding, Dingi'
When the car finally stopped, the boys
ran and Welsh took the car off the rails.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-25
SAVED IN AN ODD MANNER.
Alarm of Fire Given by Whistle of
Old Speaking Tube.
st. Louis Post-Dispatch,


The persistent whistling of a long-unused
speaking tube led to the discovery early
Saturday morning of a fire in Mrs. Emma
NJ. Lindenburgers boarding house at No.
1880 Windsor place and the escape OF sixty
guests. Miss Louise Boehmer, owner of the
house, who occupied a front room on the
second floor. was awakened about O. clock
by whistling sound in her room. Investi-
eating, she found that the noise came from
the mouth of a tin speaking tube that ran
from the kitchen.
Miss Boehmer realized that something I'M
usual must have occurred. AS she opened
the door OF her room she was met by a
gust of smoke. She hurried across the hall
way to the room occupied by DR.. S. Luton,
who ran to Grand and Finney avenues and
turned in alarm. Miss Boehmer went
from door to door throughout the big three
story house. arousing the sleeping guests.
who fed into the street. All had time to Sc
cure most OF their valuables, but did not
linger for many clothes.
The fire had originated in a hallway be-
tween the kitchen and basement probably
the result of spontaneous combustion OF
gases generated by paints and oils left in
the hallway. This hallway II close 10 the
kitchen and about the center of the house.
The speaking tube has one opening close
by II Is supposed that the air strongly
compressed in this room by the heat and
the gases sought an escape through the
tube and caused the sounding OF the whistle
at the other ead.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-25
"YEGGMEN."


Revelations About Men Who Are Row
ing and Desperate Bank Robbers.
New York Herald.
Within the last few weeks James
Forbes chief of the mendicancy depart
ment of the New York Charity Organiza-
ton Society, will put in circulation a book
that tells the story and personal record of
the "Yeggmen." or professional migratory
beggars of the country, whom Mr.. Forbes
regards as the most dangerous class of
criminals in the United States.
They are not the harmless mendicants
who infest the streets of every city. but
rovers of a desperate sort, who take their
name from John Yegg, a Swede, who was
the first tramp known, and also a safe
breaker in this country. There are now
$500 of this class in the United States, and
Mr.. Forbes's book will contain full de-
scription of 1,4O0 Of them.
New York city is their headquarters, and
there are eighty rooming houses in Man
haitian and Brooklyn where none outside
their class can rent rooms. Besides these
rooming houses they have several head
quarters in the lower part of the city. Each
Yeggman has his ''moneker,'' or the soubri-
quet by which he is known by all the others
and there exists among them code of prin-
cipies which is strictly lived up to- One of
the fixed laws is that a Yeggman must
never hoard. If he refuses TO divide the
fruits of his begging or bank robbery with
his pals the word 'Dang or grease is
passed along the line, and the miser is dis
posed of. Bang means that he is to be
shot, and grease means that he is to be
dropped between freight cars some night
Mr. Forbes has the records of several muir
ders that have been committed In New York
among the Yeggmen which the police were
never able to explain.
During their earlier years the Yeggmen
travel far, robbing banks and stores, and
when disabled, usually from accidents in
stealing rides on freight trains, they dis
play the stump of arm or leg and con-
belong TO good families and are well edu-
Gated, but. once they have taken the Yegg-
mans OATH they rarely return TO an honest
life.
Mr.. Forbes's book will be sent to every
police headquarters and charitable society
in the country. Speaking of his work yester-
day he said:
''IVere il not for the Pinkertons these
men would be absolute terror to the
country So long as they have their limbs
they are rollicking bandits, who would as
soon blow a mans brains out as look at
him, and sheriffs' posses and country po-
lice are but play for them.
Another class of hOboes are known as
gay cats They will do little work, such
as breaking strikes. but a true Yeggman,
never Some of them become very infiuen-
tial in the fraternity, and regarded as
leaders, but as rule they are all on one
plane"
Many Yeggmen have their bodies tatooed
when they take to the road. and these iden-
tifying marks are noted in the ], 400 pedi-
grees in Mr.. Forhes's book.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-25
TO OPEN WITH PARADE.
Guardsmen's Carnival Will Begin
Next Monday Night.

The carnival to be held next week on the
streets surrounding the Statehouse will be
opened Monday night with a grand parade
in which four military companies Of the
indianapolis battalion OF the Second Regi-
ment Will take part, followed by the various
animals OF the Gaskill-Mundy Carnival
Company and a number of civic societies,
which have volunteered. The parade will
begin at o'clock Monday night and will
start from the main gate OF the carnival
shows. 1t Will take in the principal down.
town streets, returning to the carnival
grounds in time for the opening free show
which viii inaugurate the opening OF the
weeks fun There will be fourteen shows
IN all, 20 which an admission fee will be
charged Aside from these there viii be
several free attractions. The purpose OF the
carnival Is to raise funds to build an armory
Tor the Indianapolis battalion
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-25
WILL SELECT BUSINESS AGENT.
Bartenders VIII Meet Tomorrow
Night in Germania Hall.

The local union OF the Bartenders' Inter-
national League will meet tomorrow night
in Germania hall to elect business agent
for the city. The union Is new one and
has not as yet had a duly-elected business
agent, although George Losh has been act
ing as the body's walking delegate and
will no doubt be formally elected to-mor-
row night. Mr.. Losh has been untiring in
his efforts to advance the interests of the
young union and has been recognized as
well fitted for the place. as the results OF
his work show.
The union was formed several weeks ago
with a membership OF twenty-eight and
now enrolls over three hundred bartenders-
When Mr.. Losh began his work there were
about twlve union Dartenders idle; now
every union man is employed. The growth of
the union in its four meetings has a record
unnrecedented in the city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-25
TO SUCCEED VAUGHN.
Mgr. Bourne May Become Archbishop
of Westminster.

ROME, Aug. A.-The Congregation of the
Propaganda met to-day under the direction
of Cardinal Gotti, the project. After some
discussion it was decided to propose to
Pope Plus that he appoint the Right Rev.
Francis Bourne, Bishop of Southwark, Eng
land, as Archbishop of Westminster, in sue
cession to the late Archbishop Vaughan.
LONDON, Aug. A.-The decision of the
Congregation of the propaganda to propose
to the Pope the elevation of Bishop
Bourne of Southwark, England, to the
what surprised the English Roman Catho-
lies. He was the third choice of the bishops
who nominated him by a majority of only
one vote. Since he became Bishop of
Southwark, Monsignor Bourne had been
energetic, but he has been considered
arbitrary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-25
CRUEL GERMAN SERGEANT.


HALLE, Prussian Saxony, Aug. Pa
Sergeant Wilhelm Nebelung, of the First
company of the Thirty-sixth Infantry reg
iment has been arraigned before a court
martial for maltreatment of the soldiers
under him. He was charged with beating
the men with a broom handle. Other bru-
talities are charged against him. When in
bad temper he would tear the buttons
from the mems coats and compel them to
sew them on again. He forced the soldiers
to go through rifle drill on their Bonded
knees until they were exhausted, and on
other occasions he made men take rifles
in their mouths and crawl around on all
tours. The court took the case under adj
visement and called for additional testi-
mOnY.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-25
MAIL CARRIER Is MISSING.
c. IT. Mcdonald, OF Washington, In
volved i'm Writ Girls Trouble.

As result of the investigation by Coroner
Tutewiler of the death of the infant child
of Daisy Writ who, at the present time, is
confined in the City Hospital. C. T. McDon-
aid a Washington, Ind, mail carrier, is
said to have left his post of duty and fled to
parts unknown. Mcdonald, according to
letters found among the girls effects, was
the father of the child. and in the letters
he advised the girl TO kill the baby If 1t was
born alive, il is said.
The disclosures made by the coroner of
the Washington mans connection with the
affair caused a sensation in that city and
yesterday he failed to appear for duty
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-25
FERDINAND IN DANGER.
Must Declare His Policy or Bulgarians
May Depose Him.

Mubt DtcIHre NE TOIIcy OF buIBdrTaHs
May Depose Him.
LONDON, Aug. "a deputation left So
fla last Friday to visit Prince Ferdinand.
who is in Hungary, to invite him to pub
licly declare his Macedonian policy, says
the Berlin correspondent of the Morning
Post. The prince will be allowed ten days
to reply. II the event of his declining IL
is understood the deputation bears the man
date from the Bulgarian people to depose
him.
A dispatch from Uskub to the Daily Mail
reports that a very able-bodied man in the
European vilayets of Turkey will be called
to the colors, sufficient proof Of the
gravity Of the situation.
AS a result of Russias demands, all the
officials proven guilty of great cruelty in
the Vilayet of Kossovo by the Austro-Rus-
sian consuls two months ago have been dis
missed and punished.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-25
ZIONISTS MAY ACCEPT.
Britain Has offered Land I'm East At
RIGA for a Colony of Jews.

LONDON. Aug. 24.-The English Jews are
deeply interested in the announcement
made by DR.. Theodore Herzl. president of
the sixth Zionist Congress at its opening
yesterday at Basic. Switzerland. that Great
Britain in view of the collapse of the prof.
ect 10 establish n colony on the Sinai
peninsula. had offered the Zionists a large
tract OF territory in East Africa for col
onization by the Jews, who would be given
an autonomous government under British
suzerainty. While some opposition is ex-
pected they believe the congress will ac-
cept the proposition. 1t is pointed out that
there is a great difference between the ac-
QUESTION for the establishment OF Jewish
state. as originally contemplated by the
Zionists. and the proposal OF the British
government, which simply contemplates the
establishment Of q Jewish colony In a Sec
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-25
FELL FROM HOTEL BALCONY.
]. Burke, Big Four Trainman, Got 9
Hard Jolt This Morning.

j. Burke, of Cleveland, O., Big Four
trainman, fell from the balcony Of the
Occidental Hotel about 1 o'clock this
morning. but escaped serious injuries. He
was carried into Ferger's drug store in an
unconscious condition, but had partially
regained consciousness when City Dispen-
sary Drs. Mackey and Jeffries arrived. He
was taken to the City Hospital. 1t was re-
but his friends, who are stopping at the
Occidental, say that he had been drinking
too heavily and fell from the balcony.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-25

said railway: the right to demand addition
tons and materials to be adopted and used
In any of said work In said park and TO
determine whether or not sidings or
switches, in addition to the main line, shall
be permitted In said park. And the said
railway company shall be subject at all
times to the reasonable control of rules
and regulations of the said Board OF Park
Commissioners
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-25
STEAMSHIP COMBINATION.


LONDON, Aug. A.-Herr Ballin, director
general of the Hamburg-American line,
presided at meeting of directors of the
German Atlantic Steamship lines at the
Savoy Hotel here to-day. 1t Is the second
meeting of the kind held in London this
month. Secrecy is maintained regarding the
proceedings, but it is understood that the
meeting was held in connection with nego-
tiations for the Anglo-German combination
in the Atlantic trade, which started with
the decision of the Hamburg-American line
to make Dover port of call. and in which
the German Emperor is said TO be deeply in
terested as a means of promoting an Anglo
German commercial entente.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-25

The board of auditors of the United Mine
Workers arrived In the city yesterday and
began the quarterly auditing OF the or
ganization's books. The task is a big one
this term, and will probably require
Ali of this week and a good part of next.
The board Is composed OF the following
members: Joseph Pope. of Bellville, Ill;
John j. Mossop. of North Lawrence, o.,
and Patrick Fitzsimmons, OF Olyphant, Pa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-25
PENSIONERS OF INDIANA.
Vast Sum Disbursed by Local Agency
to Veterans of the state.

The sum of s10.245.2s6 was disbursed at
the Indianapolis pension agency during the
fiscal year, 1903. OF this amount $7.O53 is
charged to the Mexican war. s2.s17 to Indian
wars. and s11s15l to the Spanish war I'm
der the. general law $685.. s23 was paid out
at Indianapolis and under the act OF June
~, 1880, better known as the new law. &c.,
0S8 400 was disbursed. The pensions charged
to the war of 1872 at the Indianapolis
agency were paid to widows. More than
$4,000 was paid TO survivors and 500 600 to
widows of soldiers of the Mexican war.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-25
Hattie Missed Her Roll.

Mrs. Hattie Mickens. 407 North Senate ave-
nue., called the police yesterday to her home
and said that John Duke had robbed her Of
pocketbook containing about 81. A
search was made for Duke by Bicyclemen
Hull and Griffin and he was found and
placed under arrest on a charge of petit
iarceny
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-25
LITTLE BOY DISAPPEARS.


Abner Fultz. the eight-year-old son of
Mrs. John Fultz, 255o Madison avenue dis
appeared from his home yesterday at noon
and up to the present time has not been
found. The police were notified last night
and searched the city for him. but iSeir
efforts were fruitless. 1t Is though. at
the police station that the boy spent the
night with some playmate and will prob
ably return home safe and sound when
the notion strikes him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-25
FOUGHT 70 A DRAW.
Bout Between Johnny Regain and
Tommy Fe1tz InconcIusfve.

KANSAS CITY, Aug. A.-Johnny Re-
gan, of Brooklyn, and Tommy Feltz, Of St.
Louis, fought a twenty-round draw here
tonight. Both men finished fairly strong.
although Regan had the better of the con-
test throughout In the nineteenth round
Regain landed right swing to the jaw
and Feltz went down, but was UP almost
Immediately. Feltz's left eye was almost
closed during the latter part of the con-
test The fight was fast and clever from
beginning to end. Regain weighed in at lis
pounds, while Feltz weighed III. Fetz is
matched to fight Neil for the champion
shin.
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ton of the British Empire needing develop
ment. When in London DIR. Herzl called
at the Foreign ONCE and consulted with
the officials there respecting the Sinai pen
insula. but Great Britain not willing
to do more than to make the proposal an
nounced by DIR. Herzl
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-25

PHOENIX, Ariz. Aug A--w E. Murphy.
chief clerk in the Office of the Surveyor
General OF Arizona. has been relieved on
telegraphic instruction from Washington
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-25

and has been succeeded by Thomas Arm
strong, formerly in the drafting depart
ment. Murphy was charged with collecting
double fees for certain work, claiming that
the government did not supply funds to
keep UP with the work and an extra charge
was necessary to pay the clerks overtime.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-25

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