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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-29
NEW FORM OF GRAFT"


NORFOLK, Va. Aug 3.-United States
sailors have complained TO the Navy De-
partment of III treatment accorded them
by Norfolk police officers and police magis-
trates. The matter will be investigated.
The trouble grows out of the $40 reward
paie by bhe navy for the return of sailors
who have broken shore liberty. 1t is
charged the police caused a sailors impris-
onment for drunkenness 10 keep him of
ship overtime and then returned him as a
deserter and collected the reward. The
charge OF clubbing and brutal treatment is
also made
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TRIED TO KILL HIS FAMILY.

polls Journal.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
BRAZIL. Ind, Aug. 2S.-Early<this morn
ing William Richey went home in a state
OF intoxication and attacked his family with
the intention of numbering them. He struck
mis- wife on the head with club fraetur-
ing her skull and leaving her i'm a critical
condition: then he struck his five-year-old
child, knocking il unconscious.
The screams of Mrs. Richey brought in
the neighbors. and this, il is believed saved
their lives. The officers were notified but
Richey escaped and has not been captured
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Receiver Appoints Appraisers.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WABASH. Ind. Aug. 2S.-Receiver
Charles S. Haas, of the Wabash bridge and
iron works, has named w. T.. Wass and
w. II. Chase as appraisers for the plant
They will begin the work of appraising
the property and stock at once The re-
ceiver has continued the operation of the
plant as it was run before the failure, and
the large contracts are being completed
with no more delay than would have been
necessary had the company not failed.
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CraigviIIe's Plague of Snakes.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
DECATUR, Ind, Aug. 2s.-Craigville,
Village near her, is afflicted with a plague
of snakes. Mrs. Robengold was frightened
into probation yesterday by seeing snake
enter her kitchen and curl up under her
stove. When killed the reptile found
to be a blue racer, five and half feet long.
snake six feet long entered the home of
Rev. A. Z. Abbott and was killed by the
minister. Last week several blue racers
were killed in homes in Craigvi,le.
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and the iaborers and families attended the
fair. A big parade was given, headed by
two bands.
RICHMOND.-Polk & Co, of Indian
apolis, have just got out new di-
rectory of this city. The estimate of popu-
lation made on this basis would give
Richmond 25,000 people.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 2S.-Miss Sarah F.
Gardner, the missionary who returned a
month ago from India, where she repre-
scented the woman's Missionary Society
for twenty-four years, is dead in the Cat
skills, where she had gone TO recuperate
Miss Gardner took leading part in the
missionary work. and headed the great
Hoyt Memorial Hospital for the women of
India
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The Third McCuIIoch star.
the IndianapoIls Journal

Special 10 the Indiana polls Journal
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Aug. 2S-The
Terre Hautc Express for more than fifty
years the morning newspaper OF Terre
Haute. went out of existence to-day and Is
succeeded by the Star. but which. unlike
the Express. will be an Independent paper.
The disa ppearance of the Express leaves
the Republicans i'm this city without party
paper and without daily paper in western
Indiana betweeL Nincennes and Crawfords-
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Big Sale of Oil Properties.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
PORTLAND, Ind, Aug. 2S.-The Col.
Drake Oil Company sold all its holdings in
the Indiana field to-day to Eastern capital
lists Seventeen hundred acres of the best
territory in the State is involved in the
deal. The cash paid for property was
SIS, 800 The leases are located in Adams
and Jay counties.
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OBITUARY.
Frederick Il. OImstead, the Noted
Landscape Artist.

Landscape Artist.
BOSTON. Aug 2s.-Frederick r. Olmstead,
the noted landscape architect. died to-day
st Waverly. Mass. aged eighty-one. Death
was due to weakness. resulting from ILL
health and advanced age. A widow, two
sons and a daughter survive.
Mr.. Olmstead was native of Hartford,
Conn. lie was the architect of Central Park.
New York: of Prospect Park. Brooklyn;
Mount Royal. Montreal; the grounds OF the
Leland Stanford. jr.. University. Palo Alto
Cal: the Capitol grounds, Washington, and
the grounds of the Chicago worlds fair
He also served in advisory capacity both
an architect and commissioner in many
national projects.
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A Guaranteed Cure for Piles.

Itching Blind. Bleeding or Protrudine
piles. Your druggist viii refund your
money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure
you. SO cents.
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Vile. The Star is one of the chain OF
papers being established by George K. Nc
Culloch.
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KiIauea Becomes Active.

HONOLULU, Aug. S.-The volcano of
Kilauea shows increased activity Clouds
of smoke are ascending from the crater.
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Bar. Their. r. III. Wind. Weather. Pre-.
a. m. .29.S4 10 90 Swest. Cloudy. 80
Z p. m. .29.S6 70 So West. Clear. 90
Maximum temperature. so: minimum tenn
perature, 20.
Comparative statement of mean tempera-
ture and total precipitation on Aug. IS;
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Three c,tins who live in a fairylike nook,
And never had seen any boys,
OIce read of our Fourth of July in, book.
And promptly their own quiet woodlands
forsook,
10 share in the fun and the noise.
By the light OF the moon they crept out on
And 'ns aerFiiy TFH sang on their way,
Asking politely of each passerby
How far they must go to meet Fourth OF
July.
Till they came to the dawn of day.
WHAT a different song these three elins
sang
As they limped their way homeward
that night.
They mad heard how the bells in the
steep.es 60 "Clang!"
Torpedoes and crackers go "Rattlety
bang"
And the rockets 60 up out of sight.
For one little elfn by chance got astride
Of giant torpedo nearby;
On a hinge cannon cracker the next took
ride;
Nraber three to the tail of rocket was
And all three were blown up there sky
high.
On the way coming down each el6n de-
clared
He had seen quite enough of the sky,
And promised himself, il he lived to be
spared,
He would stay there on Fourth of July.
Yet this was not all, for they met on the
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The Crusade In Brief.

The further down you can drive the sa'
loon, the further away you remove tempta"
tion.
It is said that s7S out of the 1000 news
paners in Kansas will not accept liquor
advertisement.
Saloon licenses in Minneapolis, Mimi.
cost $1,000. The laws OF Minnesota allow
no seats or tables in aloons and 10 treat
ing.
The licuor dealers OF New Zealand seeing
in the votes at the last election the hand
writing on the wall, have resolved on re-
forming their ways, so tar as obedience to
the laws is concerned.
There is one liquor shop for every sew
ertv inhabitants in Normandy. Taking ac-
count OF children and abstinent women and
men it NAY be said that every liquor dealer
is supported by twenty-three people.
OF 325 Presbyterian ministers, 247 are abb
stainers Also out Of 663S ministers and To-
cal preachers among the Free Methodists,
Methodist New Connexion and Bible Chris
tians, 5602 are abstainers, and 50 are all the
students.
Haverhill, Mass, under license, during
the last five years, has gained IN popGia-
tion 2230. Brockton, under no-license, dur
ing the same period has gained IN popuia-
tion 699S. The town officers OF Brockeon
declare that it's gain is largely owing to Its
no-license policy attracting residents and;
manufacturers.
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course, continued to be very much Ii
evidence, and toasts were drunk and
responded to at the dinners which were
provided on every village green or city
common. George Washington" THE
| Constitution. The United States" and
THE daughters Of America" came in
for a goodly share of attention in ora
ton and in toast. Squirrels. chickens
green corn and vegetables Of the sea-
son" were piled upon the tables, and
were free to all, while firewater as well
as fireworks abounded. The introduc.
ton of the "oration," however, chiefly
distinguishes the celebration of 1883,
and dates from that time.
The fiftieth anniversary was the "ju-
bilee," and was the most elaborate of
all celebrations up to that time. Three
Of the signers Of the declaration were
still living although the weakness OF
old age prevented them from taking an
active part in the festivities. The strug-
gle Of the South American countries to
throw off the yoke of Spain and the
popular sympathy with Greece helped
to inspire the American people Bands.
bells, cannon and professions abound
ed, and the GRAFTON held q conspicuous
part. Josiah Quincy was the orator
in Boston. Edward Everett in Cam
bridge, while in Washington an hon
orable member delivered a great
speech before greater crowd from the
steps of the Capitol. New York had
not yet made so much of the grafton as
had some Of the other cities. but did
not lack in enthusiasm. A long process
sion marched from the Battery to
Washington Square. and was there re-
viewed by De Witt Clinton the Gov
ernor of the STATE. Ten thousand peo-
pie were in the assembly and aided in
disposing of the ''ox feast" which had
been provided. The enthusiasm
throughout the land was intense. The
Monroe doctrine" the liberty of
man." the oppression of effete mon
archies," were expressions used not
only by the orators. but by all men.
Doubtless the Jubilee" provided a
mighty impulse for the nation. then
inst passing ont from its childhood.
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A Sad Downfall.

The Ottawa Guardian quotes from Ia
coma (Wash.) paper a pitiable tale of 9
former Kansas man, once prosperous and
prominent lawyer, who was given three
months sentence for vagrancy by Wash
ington court:
"Though yet in middle life and bearing
evidence of the once tall and powerful
frame and imposing presence, the shattered
body seemed on the point of utter collapse
trembling hands awaiting for the summons
of the court-the summons to make his
plea to the charge of vagrancy And. what
other plea was there for him without home,
hope, health or money, with nothing in
the world but ruined constitution and
consuming thirst for fiery liquor, than that
of guilty. Yet in years past he had been
known as one Of the best brief lawyers In
the State: -.
main standing more than few moments,
he sank, half fainting, into chair. as he
waited the decision of the court. Several
on the same charge, or that of intoxication,
and had been given light sentences in the
hope that he might taste of the bitterness
of life sufficiently with the burning liquor
to throw the damning glass away. But
there had been no halting place for him on
the downward path, though the dreg: Of
failures worst compounds were drained to
the last drops. To the court it seemed
needful for enforced abstinency to prevent
death, perhaps, to give the broken lawyer
three months as common vag.
Whether the word meant little or much
to the suffering man was not expressed in
his listless, hopeless face, and with drag
ging step and trembling limbs he shuffled
q h00t-
blacks, also vaggers like himself, but with
few days of imprisonment and long years of
life before them, and still full OF sympathy
that youth gives to the unfortunate" 80.
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Drunken woman's Despair.

There is something terribly pathetic in
the statement made by Matron sehmed-
ding at the Wayne County Jail, Detroit,
the other day. Speaking of woman drunk
ards she said:
when a woman hears the cell door
clang behind her because OF drunkenness,
the chances are Overwhelming that she
will come back rather than reform.
'The unhappy woman who comes here
through other causes may weep softly, vow
to live better, and on her release 60 way
to a life thereafter free from sin, but for
her enslaved through drink there is little
hope.
'She may spend her durance behind iron
bars in cursing the demon that mastered
her and vowing to shake off its hold, but,
once free, her troubles lead her to the bot
tie again and again, and we become tamil-
lar with her face as a regular time.server,
until one day the ambulance instead of the
patrol wagon answers the officers sum.
mons, and she goes TO fill Dauper's ssgrave"
Yet all indications point to an increase
of intemperance among women.
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Three crippies in pitiful plight.
They also had been there to see things ex'
plode-
A taitlesss young squirrel, a three-legged
And a crow with tail feather turned
white.
A very wise owl was scow.ing close by
As the woeoegone party drew near
Remarked, while winking and blinking one
eye:
Didn't tell you so, that the Fourth OF
Is the fooly fool day of the year,"
But an eagle swooped down from tower
ing pine
And said with ta,ons uncur.ed:
"The day is all right, this country is mine;
IT'S sad to be crippled, but sadden to
The Fourth fourth of July leads the world.
"And now, my young friends, allow me to
That the flag you saw borne on the
breeze
Is the flag of the free, and we celebrate
The Fourth of July, while the crackers de-
bate,
With just as much fun as we please.
"Be careful, old owl, lest my temper you
stir;
This country cost more than one eye,
And is worth all it cost, though owls may
demur,
We invite everything in horns, feathers or
fur
To share in our Fourth of July"
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Tho Rum Business Defined.

It is a business which should be opposed
by every clergyman in the country.
It is business which every merchant
and business man should hate and detest.
It is business which is the standing
dread of every true mother.
1t is a business which is the constant
fear of every thoughtful father.
1t is business which is the horror of
every life.
1t is the business which makes ninety
per cent. of the business of the criminal
courts.
1t is the business which makes ninety
per cent. of the pauperism for which the
taxpayer has to pay. -, :,
It is a business which keeps employed
an army of police in the cities.
1t is business which put out the fire on
the hearth, and condemns wives and chill
dren to hunger, cold and rags.
1t is the business which fosters vice for
profit, and educates in wiclledness for gain.
Drunkenness comprises all other vices.
1t is the dictionary of vice, for it includes
every vice.
Drunkenness means peculation, theft,
robbery, arson, forgery, murder, for 1t
leads to all these crimes.-Religious 1nteli-
gencer.
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It is done in water colorS on satin ana
silk, it is printed on cotton and paper
An example in crepe paper figures IN
the centre of the cut. This is q large
box (two-pound,, and layer of cotton
under the paper gives a richness that
would otherwise be wanting. This 10
we'll. as the silk flag boxes cost fifty
cents each. Small. plain paper flag
boxes may be had as low as eight
cents.
The silk flag also figures on tiny
pate cup which costs a quarter. and Is
tied on with ribbon after it is filled
A flag is on the top Of some little cigar
cite boxes which are filled with candy
torpedoes. and cost q dime complete.
The same may be said of some catchy
little bonbornieres that look like alum
inium.
Lest YOU think the Stars and Stripes
have it all their own way. We'll take
a look Mt other more warllke speci-
mems. Naturally. the firocracker takes
first place. The giants tigure rs full
.ledged candy boxes, Dut those upon
economy bent may have just as pa
.riotic sweets for five cents. These are
IN the shape of tiny vanilla stick candy.
strings being inserted so that the bunch
is braided together in real Chinese fire
cracker fashion.
Boxes in drum shape-indeed. like
real drrms-are to be had as low az
twenty cents. while little roll labeled
Declaration of Independence tops som.
simpler affairs.
Chocolate figures in number Of
ways. A good-sized square of thi>
favorite flavor is in the knapsack. Tiny
chocolates are also in the little dime
packages of torpedoes.
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ple gave three repeated nuzzaS. 1u"
kings arms were torn down from their
place, and then the proclamation was
read before each of the five battalions
on the commons. In the evening.
which was clear and starlight. bontlres
were kindled, cannon We're fired, bells
were rung. with other demonstrations
of JOY upon the unanimity and agree
ment of the declaration"
On July 8 washington himself direct
ed the celebration which was held in
New York The declaration was read
in the presence Of tie army, and the
assembled people INDUCED in displays
very like those of the preceding day in
p Philadelphia, although the New York
celebration went step further, for in
their enthusiasm the people tore down.
beheaded and melted the statue of
George III. in Bowling Green. 1.-The
troops long having had an inclination
so to do"
The news was hurried forward 10
Boston. and the messengers made such
incredibly fast time that they arrived
Ou lle 1cllI VI Liz pSpplC hNiN
dressed in their holiday suits" and
with the soldiers thronged tle streets.
Exactly at / o'clock Thomas Crafts
arose in the town house ard read aloud
the declaration. and the men stood up
and repeated the words Of their officers
and swore to uphold the rights of tIraiT
country. The town clerk read the dec
laration from a balcony to the crowd.
cat the close of which 4 shout. begun
IN the hall. passed to the streets. which
rang with loud huzZas. the slow and
measured boom Of cannon and rattle
of musketry." Then there WAS ban
quet in the council chamber Ito which
all the richer citizens were invited.
while great quantities of liquor were
distributed among the people. and in
the evening there was general illum-
ination Of the entire town. There was
. no statue Of King George to be broken.
-: but the people did the next best thing.
= for they tore down the lion and the uni
corn from the east wing Of the State
House.
One of the unpublished letters of
John Adams gives the following de-
scription: THE thought of taking any
notice of this day was not conceived
until the I'd Of the month and was not
mentioned until the Sd. 1t was too late
to have a sermon. as every one wished.
80 this must be deferred to another
year. Congress determined to adjourn
over that day and to dine together. The
general officers and others in town
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4 number OF the Sood stores nave
sweets packed away in suitably pa
triotic receptacles.
AS rule, though. you must select
your box and then have it filled with
vour favorite sweets. All the boxes
are catchy. a number are very cheap.
while, Of course, others run up as high
as one desires And whatever th4
shape, red, white and blue is the color
scheme. ANY and every possible pa
triotic emblem figures. How the de-
signers must rack their brains to b.
forever presenting novelties!
Old Glory is served up in as many
ways as the candy which it cloaks.
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speaks for himself. and in the language
of the sex (accordng to its traducers)
is just too sweet! This brave boy is
not necessarily in brown. If you pre-
fer he will don strawberry breeches
and a bisQue blouse Indeed. he is
so accommodating as to adapt himself
to any color scheme. even If it he far
from Ia malitaire.
Slangy ones refer to the torpedo ice
as hot stuff. 1t is desirable for those
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News of the Tollers.

Massachusetts in 1869 was the first
State to establish q bureau of labor
statistics.
Union iron molders at Dayton, Ohio
have received an increase in wages ol
five per cent.
Farm laborers in Montana have
formed a union and demand $3.50 q
day of nine hours.
Telephone linemen at Alexandria
Ind, have received an increase OF
twenty-five cents day.
Quarrymen at San Francisco, Cal.
will receive an increase of twenty-five
cents a day on September I.
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THE GREAT. DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANcE.

Poem: The Lovers Address to His Be-
loved-A Pitiable Tale Of Formsh
Kansas Man, Once Prosperous Law
yor, Who is Now . vagrant.
Whisky bottle, how I love thee, ''''
Dear delight beyond compare;
Thou to heights of bliss doth lift me,
'Bove the mists of earthly care!
Let me clasp thy form symmetric,
Let me touch thy lip divine,
Whence there flows aroma subtle,
Soft, exquisite, rich and fine!
In draught of joy ecstatic
Let me drain thy sweetness deep,
Then to all the world oblivious
l will lay me down to sleep.
Oh, the visions Of softly sailing
Down full streams of fragrant wine
Unto shoreless seas of whisky
Smooth, and soft, and oily 6nel
Would pawn my books, my treasures,
Pah! sacrifice too tame;
For thy company I'd barter
Health, and wealth, and friends and famet
Hearts, forsooth, were made for breaking. g,
Why not break them, sweet, for thee?
Gold and silver made for spending,
Why not spend them merrily?
As for health, when death doth beckon
With his cold and bony hand
Toward the darksome lonely valley,
Toward the rivers chilly strand,
We will pledge him in a bumper,
Thou and I, my whisky sprite.
All, but heaven, what is this vision,
fhoco
Writhing, coiling, creeping, glaring,
All, they drag me to the brink!
God, oh, God, they pull me downward, -.
Whisky, help! I sink! I sink!
Frank A. Frost, in The Advocate.
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Financial Scandal in Hayti.

The Minister of Finance of Haiti has
refused to prosecute the inquiry into
the financial scandal at Port-au-P Prince.
and has rendered hislesignation, which
has been accepted by the President,
who Is determined to proceed rigor-
Ously against the accused.
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who don't care to have the things
they cat too highly colorcd Yet it
boasts the colQrs. The delicious sphere
itself Is first done up in wax paper.
Then comes this neutrality-suspicious.
effect called the torpedo. 1t is of
crimpled tissue paper, ribbon-tied as a
matter Of course.
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Saddeat of SIshts.

Elizabeth l.. Banks, the American girl
who writes of London as she sees it by day
and by night. says that the saddest sight
one sees from the tops of the London
buses in the evening is that of the women
these women may be counted by dozens
and hundreds, and often as they stand by
the bar babies in arms are to be seen. 4he
seriousness OF the drink evil among Lon
doa's working classes was horrifyins to
this American woman, as she saw j. for
the first time