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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-21
FREDERIC R. COUDERT,
EMINENT LAWYER, DEAD
Held Many Positions During His
Life, in Which He Served
His Country Well.
DIED IN WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON. Dec. 9o-Frederick R.
Coudert. the well-known lawyer of New
York city, died here to-day from an affec-
tion of the heart, with which he had suf-
fered for several years. He was seventy
one years Of age. Mr.. Copdert. with his
wife and unmarried daughter, was spending
the winter in Washington. where he hoped
to escape the severity of the climate of the
more northern city. In addition to the
members of his immediate household there
were with him when the end came Mrs.
Fred Benedict, of New York, a widowed
daughter. and Mrs. Col j. B. Rellinger, a
married daughter. Frederick X. Coudert,
jr., a son, is expected here tonight from
the South. Funeral services will be held
at st. Patricks Cathedral in New York
city, Tuesday morning next, and interment
Will be made at Calvary Cemetery in Brook
lyn.
Frederick Rene Condert was born in New
York in 1892, of French parentage. He
graduated from Columbia College in 1850
q. u. d.. Columbia, 1887: l.. l.. d.. Seton
Hall and st. Johns College, Fordham)
was admitted to New York bar I'm 1853.
Deceased was the head of the law firm of
Coudert Bros, was prominent public
speaker and lecturer. He was delegate
GI Mew aoaK Snamner OF Commerce to the
framing or International rules of general
average in 1871. Was a member of Presi-
dent CleVeland 5 venezuela boundary COM
mission, &6-S; was government director
OF the Union Pacific Railroad, 1855; gov
ernment receiver of the Union Pacific Rail
road, 1925: counsel Of the United States
before the international Behring sea COM
mission in Paris. 1895. He also presi-
dent OF the United States Catholic History
Society, president of the Manhattan Club.
member of the Bar Association OF the City
OF New York, of the Columbia College
Alumni Association. He also received
among many other decorations that of the
Cross Of the Legion OF Honor of France.
The deceased resided at 155 West Fifty
eighth street and had his once at Il Broad
way, New York.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-21
ONE LIFE PROBABLY LOST
Early Monday Morning Fire in a
Baltimore Factory.

BALTIMORE. Dec. 21.-The plant of the
McShane Company, manufacturers of
plumbers supplies. caught fire after mid
night. A dozen fire engines hurried to the
scene and at o'clock a. m, after a hard
fight. the fire was under control. Hard
work by the fremen prevented the spread
of the flames to other buildings. which in
cluded a United States bonded warehouse,
wherein are stored $1,000 barrels Of whisky.
The officials of the company estimate the
loss at $4,000
1t is feared that the watchman, Andrew
Burns. fifty-five years old. lost his life: he
has not been seen since the fire started at
o'clock this morning.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-21
BRYAN ARRIVES At CARS
CAPITAL ON HIS TOUR
Count Tolstoi Wanted the Nebras-
kan to Take Siesta-Guest of
Ambassador Mccormick.

ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. O.-WE1. Jen-
nings Bryan arrived here to-day. Mr..
Bryan said he spent fourteen hours with
Tolstoi Friday last. arriving before break
fast. He rode half an hour with Tolsto
who then insisted tlat Mr.. Bryan should
take siesta while the author wrote
Tolstoi's physician laughingly said he wa:
sorry that the author had curtai1ed his
daily exercise through the fear of tiring
Mr.. Bryan The conversation between
Tolstoi and Mr.. Bryan took the widest
range.
While Mr.. Bryan was dining with Am
bassador Mccormick at restaurant to
night, the servants rushed in with the news
that Mr.. McCormicks house was on fire
1t turned out. however, that only Chin
ney was ablaze and the fire was soon ex
tinguished.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-21
CONSIDERABLE ALARM
AMONG STEAMBOAT MEN

EVANSVILLE. Ind. Dec. 2o.-Owing to
the heavy rains Of last night in this section
there is considerable alarm among steam
boat men for fear the large gorges between
this city and Louisville will break loose.
The gorge at Three Mile island has been
gradually breaking for the past two days.
but considerable of the ice remains intact
yet. The rainfall along Green river was
heavy and that river is expected TO bring
out the heavy ice within the next twenty
four hours There is lots of ice along the
Wabash river and a rising river viii force
Ii out into the Ohio and the boats along the
former river may be greatly damaged
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-21
DAMAGE BY ICE AND
FLOOD 1T CINCINNATI
Harbor Steamer Sunk and in Fair
Way to Destruction-Other
Vessels Icebound.

CINCINNATI, Dec. 2O.-with the Ohio
river frozen over and great gorges at many
places, the rise of nearly three feet to-day
threatens danger TO all kinds OF craft.
The steamer Courier is ice-bound at
Hanging Rock and many men are employed
trying to liberate her by blasting. The
Miami river and the Licking have been
emptying Ice into the Ohio freely to-day.
The harbor steamer Ada W, valued at 5000.
and owned by b. J. Riggs. Of Newport, KY,
was sunk here in ten feet OF water to-day
by "a runout' of ice from the Licking. and
Ii the present rise continues her upper
decks will be carried away before the hull
can be raised.
If the thawing weather is accompanied by
a rise there Will be much damage.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-21
EMPLOYEES PUZZLED
OVER SLIDING SCALE
Don't Quite Understand Effect of
D., L. & w. Company's 7 Per
Cent. Advance for December.

wILKESBARRE, Pa, Dec. oo.-The Del
aware, Lackawanna & Western Coal Com
pany will pay its employees per cent. ad-
vance on the sliding scale for December and
this is puzzling some of the mine workers.
who do not knew whether IL means drop
in the scale for the current month or not
Since the sliding scale went into effect
this company has computed the advance
due the miners in advance Of the figures
OF Charles III. NELL and paid the men the
increase during the month IL was earned.
The other companies have waited and PAID
the increase In the following month after
the official computation was made.
The Delaware, Lackawanna < Western
succeeded in getting the correct amount
paid each month. except In November,
when they paid per cent. while the COM
missioner decreed per cent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-21
PREFERRED DEATH TO
APPEARING FOR TRIAL
Alexander Huff, Suspended New
York Postal Official, Killed
Himself by Shooting.

NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-Alexander HUFF,
the suspended superintendent of foreign
mails in the New York postoffice. who was
to have been brought 10 trial before the
Federal Court this week for robbing the
mails, killed himself tonight by shooting.
Huff had been worrying for many weeks,
the approaching trial weighing upon him.
He gave his family no hint OF his inten-
tion to kill himself. Huff entered the postal
service in this city in 1875.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-21
SCHOONERS LOST IN
a FIERCE BLIZZARD
Three Vessels Wrecked Near St.
John. N. F., and One Believed
to Have Foundered at Sea.

ST. JOHN. N. F., Dec 2O.-During a fierce
blizzard yesterday the schooner Susan was
driven ashore off ST. John Her crew, after
twelve hours in an open boat. made port
this morning, badly frost bitten.
The schooner Mary Ellen went ashore at
Trepassay. The crew clung to the rocks all
night and suffered terribly from exposure.
The schooner Fashoda went ashore at
Green's Pond. The crew escaped.
It Is feared that the schooner Dictator
has foundered with her crew of seven men,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-21
SIX WE'RE ASPHYXI4TED.
Open Window Did Not Save the
Victims from Death.

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 2o-Six persons
were asphyxiated by Illuminating gas last
night and the coroner concluded that the
cases were all accidental.
In most instances window was open
In each room In which gas was escaping
and the coroner called attention to the fact
that IL Is supposed n fatal result cannot en-
sue where fresh air also has entrance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-21
EPIDEMIC SUBSIDING.
Deaths Are More Frequent on Ac-
count Of y Re1anSec

BUTLER. Pa, Dec. @.-The typhoid
death list was increased to a total OF sixty
nine by three additional deaths to-day.
Three new cases were reported to the COM
mittee this evening.
The physicians OF the city report steady
Improvement In the general situation. ex-
cept that as the epidemic subsidies deaths
become more frequent among those who
have had relapses and occurrences OF the
disease. =
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-21
COURT At SCENE OF
CRIME TO SAVE NEGRO
Virginia Justice Presides by Light
of Fire Prisoner Is Accused
of Starting.

NORFOLK, Va, Dec. 20.-To save Charles
Bynum, negro. from lynching Justice
Morris, Of Driver, Va, held court at o'clock
this morning by the light of the fire the
negro is accused of having started.
Bynum is charged with having set on fire
the barn of John Bond. In the fire several
fine horses. a number of vehicles. farm i'm
plements and several thousand pounds Of
cotton were destroyed Bynum was bound
over for trial.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-21
MURDERS HIS WIFE
AND KILLS HIMSELF

CHICAGO. Dec. @.-While crazed with
liquor to-day Fred Phugradt, a machinist,
shot and killed his wife and then commit
ted suicide. Mrs. Pflugradt was lying sick
in bed with her week old baby when. with
out a word of warning, her husband stag
gered into the room and opened fire. The
woman was shot twice in the side and lived
but a few minutes. Pfugradt then shot
himself in the heart The child was unin-
iured
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-21
GALE ON THE COAST
Threatens Destruction of Stranded
Submarine Boat.

NORFOLK. Va, Dec. D.-A sixty-miie
gale Is sweeping the Virginia and Carolina
coast tonight. but no reports OF shipping
disasters have been received al the wealth.
er bureau. 1t is feared that the heavy
may seriously jeopardize the safety OF the
submarine boat Noccasin. ashore at Curri-
tuck. The Moccasin has been buried six
feet by the wash OF the sand and II Is re-
ported the waves have badly affected her
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-21

PARKERsBuRG. w. Va, Dec. @.-Bur-
glars entered the county jail last night and
stole gold watch and chain. a lot OF cloth
ing and some money belonging 10 Jailrf
Rush Stephens and Jasper Frazier. They
gained entrance by raising window in the
residence portion of the tail and passed
several persons. who were asleep IN the cor
rilora.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-21
SENATOR HANNA SICK.
Has a Bad Cold and Confined t.
His Room-Nothinp Serious.

NEW YORK. Dec. Ex-senator Marcus
A. Hanna. who was too sick to attend the
banquet of the national executive commit
tee OF the Civic Federation last evening was
confined to his room at the waldorf-Astoria
all to-day.
He Is being attended by DIR. Calvin
Adams. who said tonight that the senator
had severe cold, which was In no wav
serious, but that he had advised Mr. Han
ma to remain within doors for the present.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-30
An Alabama Sunny Jim. .

UT wal oldT.
 The Montgomery, (Ala.) Advertiser, no matter what happens, contrives to extract therefrom something consoling, something hopeful for somebody. In fact we in- cline to the theory that the editor of the esteemed Advertiser is the original of all the Sunny Jims that now bless this vale of tears. To have a disposition like that sweet and unspotted from the rasping, warning influences of an editorial career, Is a beautiful miracle. Proof of the ben eficence of the editor of The Advertiser, If 1t were wanted, can be found in the fact that Its charity Is wide enough to take in that class of outcasts commonly called old bachelors. The editor who can bachelors. has acquired a perfect title to halo and other crown rights of saint hood. This very thing it is that the edi- tor of The Advertiser has done. He says:
 Senator Platt's marriage at the age of 70 should encourage young fellows of 50 or less that there's still hope for them"
 GentleneSS and kindness like that are contagious. So we find it possible to echo this word of hope for old bachelors, and pass 1t on to the few cattle of that kind yet to be found in Portsmouth. If old man Tom Platt, 70 years old, and a tough moral proposition. can find a woman self sacrificing enough to take him in why up, old boys. It is true the harvest is passed, the summer gone and you are still outside of the pale of human iov and usefulness. But the door of hope is not yet slammed shut. You may be SO, baldheaded and snaggle-toothed. Ali that's discouraging, to be sure. But re- member Tom Platt and the inscruta ble ways of the average woman One of them took Tom. Another of them may take you. Who knows.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-30
Eyes
Did Not Close For 1s
 Week.
Heart Trouble Baf1 fled Doctors.
Dr. Miles'Heart Cure and
 Nervine Cured Me.

There is nothing more necessary to healtl| than sleep, and rest. If these are denied you) if you rise in the morning more tired than when you went to bed, there Is an affection o7 the nerves plainly present. If your heart i1 weak, or there is an inherited tendency i1 that direction, your weakened nerves wil1 soon SO affect your hearts action as to briua| on serious, chronic trouble. Dr. Miles Nef1 vine is nerve tonic, which quiets the ucrvesl so that sleep may come, and it quickly Tel stores the weakened nerves to he sith anS
 strength. Dr. Miles Heart Cure is a prea2 blood and heart tonic which regulates the ac1 tion of the heart, enriches the blood and in,l proves the circulation.
 Some time ago I was suffering severely| with heart trouble. At times my heart would seemingly stop beating and at others it would beat loudly and very fast. Three to fous| hours sleep each night in ten months was alI| l could get. One week in last September l never closed my eyes. I got Dr. Miles Nervina| and Heart Cure at drug store in Lawrence- burg, after spending $3oo.oo in medi. cines and doctors in Louisville, Shelbyyille l Frankfort, Cincinnati and LawrencebureJ and in three days have derived more benckfi from the use of your remedies than 1 god from all the doctors and their medicines. II think everybody ought to know of the mar vicious power contained in your remediesS-I W. H. HUGHES, Fox Creek, Ky.
 All druggists sell and guarantee first bot tie Or. Miles Remedies. Send for free book on Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address, Dr. Miles Medical Go, Elkhart, Ind.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-30
"silent smith,s0 Novel Honse.

James Henry Smith of New York. known among his friends as Silent Smith," is planning to have a novel house party when his new Fifth avenue man. sion is completed next winter Every man who turned a spadeful of earth, laid brick. drove a nail or daubed a
 brush on the house is to have an in vitation. Even the bricklayers' clerks, the hodcarrlers, will be cordially invited to come and bring their wives. It will not be an exclusive affair at all MT. Smiths other friends will have invitations and there will be quite coming together of all kinds of society. Mir. Smith has no notion of patronizing the workingmen by giving this party. He thinks the men who build houses have some equity in the comfort to be derived from them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-30
OLD STYLE MANNERS.
Difference in the Old School "Yes,
 Sir" and "Yes, Madam"

Deferencs in the Old School "Yes,
 Sir" and "Yes, Madam" Chicago Inter-Ocean.
 Mrs. Martha Foote Crow, dean of women at Northwestern University. is re- ported to have informed the young ladies under her direction that she does not approve the phrases. "Yes, sir" and Yes. ma'am," because they are "old- fashioned"
 With reference to "Yes. ma'am," Mrs. Crows condemnation will be generally approved. It is merely an impoliteIy slipshod rendering of Yes. madam" and never was in good taste or fashion, old or new And doubtless Mrs. Crow is cor rect in condemning Yes, sir" and "Yes, madam" as "old-fashioned."
 Yet few who remember the old style manners as practiced by those to the manner born can regard a verdict which records the passing away of those phrases without a natural sigh of pen sive regret.
 There was something in the tone in which a gentleman of the old school said Yes. sir" or ''Yes. madam" whose place in social intercourse those who remember 1t can hardly believe will be supplied adequately by any other forms.
 In his utterance of these words such a gentleman recorded a conviction of the Ol dll SCnllcllSIi, lNbdtdlSSc OI the accidents of wealth or station, and of the deference due to all women. sim ply because they were women, so simple, natural, and instinctive that no explana- ton or argument was needed to support or defend it.
 In his use of those words he recorded his instinctive conviction that politeness, whether to equals, superiors. or infer iors. was neilner a tribute of respect to ,IAa A- ,1-...- but was made necessary by self-respect In himself, and was just tribute to the self-respect of others.
 Standing thus upon the broad founda- tion of mutual self-respect. the old style manners smoothed the path of life be- cause they implied a real equality be- tween all well-bred men, and real def erence of such men to all women that is not apparent when the name of the per son addressed is substituted. and that vanishes altogether when plain Yes and No are tIsed
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-30
Mrs. Kealy Has Surrendered,

Mrs. Kate Kealy has at last evacuated her house on the grounds of the An napolis naval academy. and it will not be necessary for the Atlantic squadron to sail up the bay and disperse her by force. For some time she has been locked in her old home and refused to leave the place. which the government had bought, and the situation was an awkward one. But either the diplomacy of the officers or the staleness of her pro visions caused her to strike her coIors and make an unconditional surrender.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-30

into by which the Wabash was to receive 2s per cent annually of the output of the Carnegie Steel Company in consideration of railroad being built into Pittsburg. The United States Steel Corporation, of which J. Pierpont Morgan is the head ana front. and one of Gould's bitterest enemies, has now that contract to fulfill.
 This one tonnage contract Is enough to guarantee the financial success of the new line from the start, and the most peculiar feature of the whole matter is that the money comes from the very men
 who most strenuously opposed the en- trance of the road into Pittsburg.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-30
: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1903.
LAW AND JUSTICE.

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has laid down the law in plain language that ''the workman must have the unrestrict- ed privilege of working for such employer as he pleases at such wages as he chooses to accept" This is the whole argument in a few words and the laws of every State should be equally definite and posi- tive. This was a case where a labor or ganization attempted to prevent non union plumbers from working at their trade. The ostracised men carried the matter to the courts and were sustained, as the opinion from which we have quot- ed shows. If non-union laboring men will follow the example of their Philadelphia brethren, the courts will give them jus tice. we predict, and without injustice to others.
 From one point of view it may be un- fortunate that the law should be invoked to decide on what should never cause any diHerencesof opinion, namely, the right of a man to work for his living but it Is more unfortunate that the working men themselves are responsible for all the trouble Instead of helping each other, they are divided into factions and those who belong 10 unions seem determined tn control, and to deprive non-union men of any rights whatever Intelligent men among the labor organizations should have been able to foresee the time when their intolerance would become unbear- able. and when the strong arm of the law would have to be called in to protect those whose rights are assailed.
 If there is one principle dearer than an- other to the hearts of the people of this country, it is their devotion to independ- enee and their determination to maintain It. For this wars have been fought, mil lions of money expended and many thou- sands of human lives sacrificed-an be- cause the American people refuse to be governed without their consent. This lova of freedom is as strong in the heart of the mechanic or other laboring man as in the hearts of the high and wealthy. perhaps more so. And it is because of this feel ing that men insist on doing just what the Pennsylvania court decided they have right to do. If that right is denied trouble ensues and bloodshed is the re- suit. Let the courts everywhere initiate the Pennsylvania tribunal and declare in language which cannot be misunderstood or evaded that "the workman must have the unrestricted privilege of working for such employer as he pleases at such wages as he chooses to accept" This is right, it is justice, it Is common sense and 1t Is carrying out the principles for which our Revolutionary ancestors fought. Any thing short of this is rank tyranny and no working man should submit to it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-30
Won't Stand Negro Teacher.

A few days ago a negress school teach CT was appointed to the George Francis Train public school. one of the largest in Omaha At noon the pupils reported the matter to their parents. The attendance for the afternoon was only 50 per cent of the normal On the next day still more deserted, and the ultimatum has gone forth to the school board to take away the negress or we will close the school in which she teaches by keeping our children away"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-30
Must and Will Win.


 It is true Cleveland would have that third term proposition to meet, and we are opposed to d third term proposition, but We are also opposed to even ssc- ond term for Teddie. In fact, we. did not want him there the first time, but hcw could body help it. The thing to win. let that man be Cleveland. German, Parker or any one else so long as he is d true Democrat. We just must win ard win we will if Grover Cleveland is nomi- mated.