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THE INDIANAPOLIS OUHNAL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1899. 3 New York Store KlMllic(l 1S53. Sole Acent for flntterlck Patterns. Easter Millinery Easter Wraps aniGowns Easter Gloves Special showing this week. Coming? Pettis Dry Goods Co Economical ttk People Who never spend a dollar except they pet full value, or better, are the people we know, Princess Tatent flour, and are satisfied.

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22, 24, 26 and 2S East Washington St. 3JJ IYFNTRT Dn A-E- BUCHANAN Uhl 1 1U 1 32-33 When Building. amusements" Kna-IIh "The Charlatan. A theatrical season in which the great American talking pantomlmist, Dewolf 1 topper, did not contribute his share of gay-ety would seem dismally vapid, and Sousa's new opera, "The Charlatan," which he Lrovght to English'3 last night. Is only another of those modern musical txtrava-ganzas and comic operas constructed for tho tole purpose of permitting Hopper to make a night of It.

Uc Is to the winter festivities what the annual visit of the circus or the return of the victorious hall team is to the slow dragging days of summer. Sousa's new opera has been preceded by all sorts of reports since it began the season in the East, but the fact that Hopper wa3 to arrive with hi ever brilliant company of singers and assistant funmakers was charm enough to satisfy local amusement seekers und they were out in the usual number to welcome tho extravagant star in all his satanlcal grotes-queness. Hopper feeds on encores and curtain calls and it cannot be seen that he dines any less royally in his new production. He takes the audience into his confidence in the am saucy manner that has been his trade mark since the old days of "The HIack Huzzar." and people enjoy beady effer-vesene with as much relish as ever. He is even called to the footlights for two of his rapM-nre shrapnel speeches instead of one.

Hopper talks shop on these occasions with the innocence of an overgrown boy and his success in thus making free with an audience has encouraged him to introduce the tame pleasant habit during his topical song about the willful frog, wherein he is assisted by a male chorus. The vocal numbers furnished Hopper in 'The Charlatan," while they give him admirable musical opportunity, are turned into comedy with the customary license and a particularly high top note which he strikes on one occasion with grand opera spirit, serves as an excuse for a joke at his own expense. Hoprer has another chair trick in "The Charlatan." and introduces other evidence of magic powers that tits the character he assumes in the new piece. He also wears several costumes of weird and original design and handles his legs with graceful terpsichorean alertness. In addition to this the star is surrounded with an assortment of beautiful women, several of whom can sing with the best in their line.

Nella. Jerg is an ideal prima donru. both in voice and statuesque personality. Her songs are not so advantageously written as "they were in "El Capitan." the sleighing song particularly being unsulied for spectacular effect. Her silver notes in the hlrh register are the ones that enable Miss Bergen to win the audience.

Eittle Alice Judson Is a new bundle of soubrette femininity in the Hopper organization, with canary bird voice and a shyness that Is fascinating. Adim liouvier Is a stage beauty in a picturesque role and has been attracting her share of attention this season. Little Alfred Klein in a Fauntieroy suit is a valuable help to the comedy element, nd has become so familiar a ricure in the Hopper company that he was given a nattering hand on his tirst appearance last right Edmund Stanley wins the hrst encore with his well-rendered marionette song r.bout the "Knight and the Philosophic Iidy." a running description of the novel puppet show that opens the first act. Sousa's "Matrimonial Guards march song is the most taking number In The Charlatan." but it is only one of several that had to be repeated last night. Director II.

A. Cripps has the choruses trained like a machine! and the beaut fully costumed groups are a continual picture. The Charlatan" will be given at to-day matinee and the engagement closes to-nignt. Note of the Staffe. The last performances of Iloyt's "A Stranger In New York" will be given at the Park this afternoon and evening.

"The Glad Hand" follows to-morrow afternoon. The courhee-couchee at the Empire, which was not mild enough for the Purity League bt)A not energetic enough for the Monday matinee crowd, was cut out last night. The first matinee of "The Iron Master" will given by the Grand Stock Company this afternoon. It will interest Beater-Boers to know that the Saturday matinee will be the two-hundredth performance of the stock company. Paper Carnival nt Itlnk.

The paper carnival drew quit a large crowd to the Cyclorama Rink last night. The men's prize was won by George Wise, who was attired in a complete costume of wall paper. The women'? prize was taken by Mrs. M. McFarland, whose elaborto costume was mad entirely from Thursday night will be "ladles night at the rink ami no man will be allowed on the flwr uftei? a partner to one of the privileged sex.

Lire AMQrnnce seeurltlea. The Indiana Life Asuiance Company yesterday deposited securities to the amount of IS.0OO with tho auditor of state and Li now prepared to transact business. This Is the first company to secure a certificate from fj. st4l fumr new Insurance of lhe company submitted fnl evidence to the auditor that THOUGHT HE SAW A BURGLAR Maine, hr- MUtake, Shot George Bailey In the Hand. George Ratley, who lives rear Zlonsvllie.

was shot through the hand last night about 12 o'clock by a man named Maines. Maines. living at No. 422 North West street, clerks in a drug store at Indiana avenue and California street, working until midnight. When he went home last night, while pasting a window, he saw within a strange man.

As the house was robbed a short time ago he thought it was another burglar inside, and he pulled a revolver and fired through the window twice, one of the shots taking tf- The Pllco called, but. as it was nearly a case of mistaken Identity, no ar- rre. maap- naily was at the house invitation of one of the boarders, who accompanied him there after the theater. PERSONAL AND SOCIETY. York WilIiam Jhnson has gone to New Mr.

William M. Ayde'otte and wife left, yesterday, for San Francisco. Miss Mary Sayles will return from Vasser J-rklay to spend the spring vacation. Miss Elizabeth Hughes will go to Iiloom-neld baturday to remain until Tuesday. Mrs.

Hervey Bates has returned from a visit to her daughter, Mrs. Perrin, at Lafayette. Mr. John Plum and family have taken possession of their new home' in Morton Place. Mrs.

A. Wallingford will go to TJIoom-Ington to-morrow to visit her mother, Mrs. Coffin. Mrs. Fran Van Camp has gone to Fhelby-ville to attend a reception given by Mrs.

Ovid Adams Mis Agnes McCulloch Is home from Lake Erie College, and Miss Annie Dean will return to-morrow. Mrs. Ofcorge 1. Burgess and son. of Memphis, are visiting Mrs.

C. C. Burgess at No. 2025 North Capitol avenue. Mrs.

W. F. lender has returned from Toledo and Mr. Landers from New York, whero they have for ten days. Mr.

Oliver Wlllard Pierce will go to Lafayette Saturday, where he will give a recital before the Matinee Musicale. Mrs. John C. New will entertain at dinner evening for Miss Inman, of New York, who is visiting Mrs. II.

S. New. Mrs. E. K.

Crlley will give a tea to-morrow afternoon at her apartments in the Ifotfl English in honor of Mrs. W. H. Dil-dine. Mrs- Thomas Dean gave a thimble party Monday afternoon in honor of Mrs.

Ada Thomas, of Martinsville, who Is visiting Mm Hollenbeck. Mr. and Mrs. H. If.

Frledley and son will go to Bedford Saturday, where Mrs. and Master Frledley will spend a week. Mr. Friedley will remain only a short time. Mr.

and Mrs. William Hardie will go to Lexington. this week, to be present on the occasion of the hrst anniversary of tho marriage of their daughter, Mrs. C. C.

Bos-worth. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, of Springfield, will spend next week with Mr. and Mrs.

H. H. Howland and Mr. and Mrs. Sharpe, jr.

A number of entertainments will bo given for them. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Swain have taken possession of their new home, at Delaware and Twentieth streets.

Morton Place, and have for their guests Mrs. Swain and Mrs. McDaniel, of Shelbyville. Miss Lillian Marquardt, of Des Moines, arrived yesterday to join her sister. Delia Marquardt, at W.

F. Elliott's, and after a short visit they will go to New York to join, a party of friends and sail for Europe to' remain six months. Mr. and Mrs. Julius Wocher have Issued invitations for the marriage of their Klsa Bertha, and Mr.

Kobert M. Churchrran to take place Wednesday evening, April 12. at o'clock at the family residence, No. 1313 North Alabama street. The ceremony will be followed by a reception.

The at-home will be No. 28 East Twenty-tirst street after May 1. Mrs. John C. Dean gave a coffee yesterday in honor of Mrs.

R. Robert Greer. Marguerites were the floral decoration for the table and they tilled the fox-glove vases scattered over the cloth and were tied to the cards by bows of yellow ribbon. The light was from yellow candles set in buttercup and crocus candleholders. The guests with Mrs.

Greer were Mrs. J. P. Dunn, Garrard Comly, Mrs. Paul IT.

White. Mrs. Harry S. Mrs. F.

P. Herron, Mrs. J. Ililus Eastman, Mrs. William F.

Landers, Miss Bright Armstrong, Miss Ella Malott and Miss Dorothea Van Camp. Mrs. Olln C. Wilcox gave a company yesterday afternoon In honor of the birthday anniversary of her sister. Mrs.

D. C. Griffith, of Irvlngton. The party was a surprise and twenty-five friends of the hostess were present. There was a "United States" guessing contest and the prize for it.

as well as a birthday souvenir for Mrs. Griffith, were handsome plates painted by Mrs. Wilcox. The decorations were spring flowers with pink carried out in the Mowers and refreshments, served in the blue dining room. Mrs.

Wilcox was assisted In the dining room by her niece. Miss Edith Griffith, and Miss Edna Stevenson. The guests from out of town were Mrs. Bender, of Muncie. and Mrs.

Charles Greenstreet, of Chicago. EASTER MUSIC. Ttev. William A. Quayle will rehearse an "Easter Dream" at Meridian-street M.

E. pong next Sunday night. Hall-place M. E. Church, morning: "The Risen Lord" Green Full choir.

"Bright Shines the Golden Sun" Salter T. W. S. Belcher. Evening: "Christ Is Risen from the Wagner Full choir.

"He Lives Who Once Was Slain" Schonacker Mr. Case. Miss Dunn and choir. "My Faith loks Up to Mr. Belcher and Mr.

McNeely. Central Christian Chuich. Quartet. Mrs. Philip Goetz.

Mrs. II. IT. Howland. Mr.

Haughey. Mr. F. Taylor. Mrs.

F. Edenharter. organist. Morning: "Hosanna" (quartet), Granler; "As it Began to Dawn" (quartet). Buck; "Fill the Font with Roses" (quartet).

Warren. Evening: "Christ th Lord Is (quartet). Buck: "The (Magdalene" (request, quartet). Warren: "Every Flower That Blossoms" (soprano Shelley. First rresbyterlan.

Quartet. Misses Galvln and Dice and Messrs. Van WIe, Green and chorus of twenty voices: director, Edward Nell; organist. Mrs. Charles Hansen.

Morning: Prelude chaminade. "Falntly nnd Soft." Schnecker: "King of Glory." Coombs. Mr. Edward Nell: Saving Mc-tim," Tours, soprano obligate Miss Georgia Galvin: postlude. march in C.

Calkin. Evening: Prelude and fugue in G. Mendelssohn: "Faintly and Soft." Schnecker: "King of Glory." Coombs. Mr. Nell; Saving Victim." Tours, soprano obligato.

Mi'' Georgia Galvin; offertory. "Chorus of Angels," Clarke; "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth," Handel, Miss Georgia Galvin: "Nearer, my God. to Th" Gabriel, ladles quartet, Mrs. Schelke, Miss Galvln. Mr Nell, Miss Coyner; "Pilgrim's Chorus." Wapner; philharmonic postlude in flat.

Roedcr. CITY NEWS NOTES. The Ruckle Post Dramatic Club will give an entertainment at Pc Ilefontaino Hall tomorrow evening. Dr. C.

I. Fletcher will deliver his illustrated lecture on "Cuba and Porto Rico" at Fletcher-place Church this evening. From STalloMlnic llr Trcih. Frank Noltlng, aged thirty-three, died yesterday at the Insane Hospital. Coroner Nash decided that his death was due to exhaustion.

Noltlng raved constantly and refused nearly all food offered him. Last February Nolting swallowed his false teeth and thev were removed by an operation which is thought to have been the cause of hi in-sanitv. He lived at Columbus and the body will be sent there for burial. l'nlr DaniaRr. A cemmltte from the State Board of Agriculture, consisting of Charles Downing, of Greenfield, J.

L. Thompson, of Gas City, and H. B. Howland, of this city, went to the fair grounds yesterday to fix the amount of. damages resulting from the encampment of the One-hundred-and-slxty-first Regiment and the troops following.

The State has paid fill for damages by the troops preceding this organization. Harlow's Wound Moderate. The following enlistments were made yesterday at tho recruiting station: Edward Keck. New Goshen, William Dreher, Tecumseh, Lewis H. Smith.

Frankfort, Herbert Augustine, Terre Haute; Bert Williams, Fountalntown, Harry Iamb, Fountaintown. Charles W. Rolen. Marion. William C.

Wagoner, Kewanna, Arthur C. Troutman, Kcwanna, Ind. A telegram was received by Captain Black from Washington, as follows: "Cablegram March 'Ji shows Alfred Harlow, Third Artillery, wounded in arm. Nature of wound moderate." From this it is understood that Harlow l. not at all dangerous.

Wounds feera to he rated fatal, severe, moderate and slight, the two latter not being at all alarming. PIANO FOR THE CHILD. Probate Department Called on to Exercise liiuftunl Wisdom. Judge Allen and Probate Commissioner Walker have a perplexing problem on their hands. A widow the mother of an elght-year-old girl has asked permission to purchase a piano for her daughter out of the funds which are being held in trust for the little one.

"Hie child Inherited from her grandfather's estate and the mother wants to spend one-half of this amount on a piano. She came down to tho courthouse yesterday and submitted her request to the probate commissioner. She said the child had shown an unusual talent in a musical way, and she believed that a piano was just the thing to develop this talent. When the probate commissioner learned that the child was but eight years of age he frowned on the mother's proposition. He said he did not think a girl had any use for a piano until she was fourteen and he was not of the opinion that the money should be spent in this way, since the mother has no funds of her own.

The woman then isited the Circuit Court and had a talk with Judge Allen. She endeavored to convince th court that a part of her daughter's inheritance could not be expended in a more judicious way than In the purchase of a piano. Judge Allen said it whs a matter that would have to bo seriously considered and promised to see the probate commissioner. "You'll make me very happy if you consent." the woman remarked as she left the courtroom. SEALSKINS FOR EASTER The Present Outlook, Jndglnsr from the Early Morning Weather.

High and low-priced srring fuits will probably lis in their original folds this Easter according to the outlook early this morning, with a thin coat of snow on the ground. Ono man who inadvertently wore a pair of spring trousers yesterday and did not go homo until lato last night felt that he was legless by tho time he reached his door. The weather grew colder and windier all night, and the streets were in condition to be a lasting Joy to horseshoers at the break of day. The old reporter, due with his annual story about the first robin, which ho always printed as a "scoop" on the other papers, was caught sighing and putting a piece of manuscript about the crocuses away in a pigeon hole of hjs desk. He looked forward to happier days.

A man of anarchistic tendencies declared it was his solemn belief that tho gas company and the Weather Bureau were in league to bleed the people, because, ho said, a spell of cold weather always came on at the first of every spring month, compelling tho retention of mixers and the consequent payment of bills for thirty days longer. CHICAGO BEEF LOWER. ClaJmn Made ly the Local Wholesaler Aealnnt It. The action of Chicago wholesale meat dealers in reducing the price of dressed beef sent Into Indianapolis has aroused considerable resentment among the dealers here. The Indianapolis wholesale dealers have been selling the best beef at 9 cents a pound and until recently the Chicago dealers sold their beef hero at the same price.

Now they are selling beef in Indianapolis at 7Vi cents a pound and the local wholesalers allege it is of an inferior quality. Some of the larger retail meat dealers complain that many of the smaller establishments are buying the Chicago beef and have already begun to cut prices. Harris Charged -with a Vile Crime. Matthew C. Harris, who lives at No.

1024 Fayette street, is locked up at tho police station awaiting an investigation of certain stories which have been told to the police. Tho fourteen-year-old daughter of Mr. Harris upen questioning has admitted that her father has been guilty of a grave offense. The reports to police headquarters were made by neighbors who had heard of the matter through Harris's housekeeper, and Detectives Kinney and Thornton, after bringing the girl to the station and securing a confession, arrested Harris. Fire Damucre to Carter's IlrntC Store.

Tho fire yesterday morning in Frank H. Carter's drug store. No. 15 West Washington street, caused a damage of about $1,000, tho greater part of which was done by water. 'The fire Is said to have started from an overheated furnace in the basement.

Th stable belonging to J. B. George, rear of 1513 Park avenue, was damaged yesterday by fire. Loss about $73. A defective Hue in the house of Mrs.

Warner, 1412 Fletcher avenue, was the cause of a slight blaze yesterday. Matl Weighing Ileglns. About seventj'-five weighers of mall went to work in Indiana 3-esterday. The mall is weighed at the stations, on the trains, and that which is put off at tho stations is deducted from the gross amount. It is expected that about thirty days will be consumed.

From the reports the average amount of mall will be computed and the contracts let to railroad companies on that basis. Ineorporated. The Ball Brothers' Glass Manufacturing Company, of Muncie, was yesterday Incorporated with a capital stock of $300,000. The directors are Frank Edmund George William C. and Lucius L.

Ball. Other incorporations were the Parker Fuel and Supply Company, of Parker City, capital stock $3,000. and the Jasper Public Library Association, of Rensselaer, Jasper county. Outgrowth of a. Strike.

Harry Webber and Frank McDonald, charged with assisting in an assault upon a man named Heffner, were discharged yesterday. Leonard Ciane, who, it is charged, did make the assault, has not yet been found. The trouble was the result of Heffner taking charge of a machine at the Indianapolis chain works at the time of the strike a short time ago. Another Smallpox Visitor. The physicians at the City Dispensary are having opportunities to study-smallpox.

Another case was brought before them yesterday morning about 2 o'clock. The man was C. M. Gates, who said he had arrived in the city about 11 o'clock the night previous. He was locked in the surgical room until about 9 o'clock in the morning, when he was sent to the pesthouse.

Badly Ventilated Rooms. Dr. Hurty has just completed an essay on tho causes of nervous breakdown, and he holds that it is not due to hard work or overwork, but to work in badly ventilated rooms. He believes that woriy may cause it, but the primary cause in his opinion is bad ventilation, which does not permit the nerves to be built up by fresh air. The Dor That Started an Engine.

John Kennedy, the' lad who started an engine, causing it to collide with another engine and breaking out a brick wall, was lined Jl and costs and given a workhouse sentence of sixty days, which was suspended, there appearing to be no malicious intent in Kennedy's actions. Iloard of Health Vaeanelen. This morning the Governor, secretary of state and auditor of stato will meet to fill the vacancies on the State Board of Health caused by the expiration of the terms of Dr. Davis, of Richmond, and Dr. Forrest, of Marlon.

Both gentlemen will be reelected. One Reason. Philadelphia Times. Ono reason why It's impossible to say whether winter's backbone is broken or not arises from its persistence la wearing Us ulster. HE LEAVES TWO WIVES WILLIAM REEn HAS TAKE A Sl'D-DEX BIT TIMELY VACATION.

Dr. J. TJ. Keller, Shot hr His Wife n.t Ehrmondnle Ioist Week, Will Help I'rotfcnte HerState News Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW ALBANY.

March Reed, of this city, has two wives living without a divorce from either and has left the city to avoid arrest on a charge of bigamy, preferred by the second wife. Since last August, when he married the second woman, ho has been dividing his time between the two and neither suspected the duplicity practiced by Reed until a few days ago. Reed was first married about ten years ago ar.d has been living on West Main street In this city. Iast summer he met Miss Tina Relsing, who lives at Twenty-first and Madison streets. Louisville, and proposed marriage and was accepted! The ceremony was performed last August near Corydon, Harrison county, Indiana, where the girl was visiting relatives.

When she returned to her homo In Louisville, he gave some plausible reason why he could not spend all his time at her home and since then he has spent his time first with his New Albany wife for a few days and then crossing the river remained with the other. His scheme worked well until last Saturday when wife No. 2 was taken ill and her brother came to this city in search of Reed. Ho was directed to Reed's house and was met by wifo No. 1.

Not suspecting anything, he inquired for Reed and on learning ho was absent requested that ho be notified of the Illness of his wife in Louisville. Mrs. Reed was astounded and informed the brother that she was Reed's lawful wife and exhibited a photograph of him which was identified by the brother as that of the man who had married his sister. To-day, a warrant was issued for Reed's arrest. Reed had learned of the brother visit and left the city.

Reed has a reputation as a heart crusher among women. On two occasions in the past five years he has been engaged to girls, but his scheme was blocked before the ceremony. One of h'is intended victims resides in Scottsville. ten miles florth of this city, and the other lives here. In the case in this city.

Reed went to the home of his prospective bride accompanied by the minister. The brido had learned of Iteed's other marriage and ho was driven from the house at the point of a revolver. IXHIAXA OBITUARY. JndffeJ A. Moore, Prominent for Years nt Greenshurg.

Special to the India.naioli9 Journal. GREENSBURG, March W. A. Woore died to-day of disease of the kidneys complicated with paralysis, aged sixty-one. He was born and raised in Franklin county and was deputy auditor of this county from 3iC0 to 1864.

He served in the One-hundred-and-thirty-fourth Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, began the study of law with Judge S. A. Bonner in 1S64, was admitted to practice In 1SCG, elected a representative from this county in 1S06 and became Judge of the Common Pleas Court in 1S70, which position he held until 1873, when that court was abolished. He was elected state senator in as a Republican from Decatur and Rush counties. He also served several terms aa county attorney and one term as councilman.

He was in the active practice of the law from lSi until a few weeks previous to his death. He was a member of the Odd Fellows and a member of the purchasing committee of the present site of the I. O. O. F.

Home to be erected this year. He leaves snirviving his wife, a daughter of Dr. Selman, of Indianapolis. Fnneral of Jndfje Cravens. Special to the Journal.

MADISON. March 2S. The funeral of Hon. John R. Cravens took place this afternoon from the family residence on the hill.

The Interment was in Fairmont Cemetery. The pallbearers were William IT. Powell. M. C.

Garner. Edward E. Powell. J. W.

Cornett, t. M. Strader and John McGregor. Tho olMciatlng minister was Rev. Barnard, of the First Presbyterian Church.

Judge Bear adjourned Circuit Court at noon and the members of the Jefferson county bar attended in a body. Lived Nearly a Century. Srial to the Indianapolis Journal. SALEM, March 28. Sarah Pitts Davis, who was buried here to-day, was in her ninety-eighth year.

She was born In North Carolina in ISCiI, came to this county In and lived near the place where she died over ninety years. She was married to Elias Davis in 1SlH. He died in 1S7. They were honored citizens and the parents of a prominent family of the county, and have a large number of descendants in this and othe-r States. Other Deaths In the State.

LEBANON. Mar-h 2S. Hiram Bren-ton, one of the best known citizens of Clinton township, is dead. Mr. Brenton was born In Nicholas county, Kentucky, and was about eighty-seven years old.

He leaves two children, a son and daughter. Mr. Brenton had lived In this county nearly all I is life. He was the founder of Eliza ville. Ths town was named after Mrs.

Eliza Millikln. wif? of the surveyor, and cister-in-law of Mr. Brenton. HUNTINGTON. March IT.

Marston, for forty years a railro-ui engineer, and In charge of a passenger locomotive at this point ever since tho Erie Railroad was opened, died Sunday He was a prominent member of the Engineers' Brotherhood. His remains were taken to Cleveland last PENDLETON, March 2. Atlsha Iewis, aged tighty-five, an old resident of this county, died at his home in Markle-ville, six miles east of here, yesterday. Mr. Iewis was born in Rrown county, Ohio, April 6, 1S11.

but moved to Rush county, Indiana, in 1S19 and to Madison county in 1SCA. RICHMOND, March 25. Allen Roller, a prominent resident of Greensfork, aged fifty, was found dead to-day at his larn. It is supposed that death was due to heart failure. A wife and one son.

William, postmaster at Greensfork. survive. TERRE HAUTE. March 2S. The death of Mrs.

Sarah Pfau, who was buried at Youngstovvn, this county, to-daywas due to the shock caused by the death of her aged husband last Friday. He was eighty-six years of age and he eighty-four. DECATUR. March Samuel Dutcher, aged eichty-seven. died at his home near this city last night, of eld age.

He had been totally blind for the past four years. THE SCIIELL GAME BROADENS. Wabash Ageney Furnishes Another Chapter in the Swindle. Special to the Indlanapoii9 Journal. WABASH, March Wabash business men have had some relations with J.

F. Schell, president of the collapsed J. F. Schel! Investment Company, at Fort Wayne, and are among tho few who were not swindled by his daring frauds. The AtkVi-son agency here has his record for years back.

About tea years ago he was the presiding genius In the formation of a raMing company, which did an extensive business at Camden, Jay county, but it proved a ruinous investment for the half dozen rich farmers lured Into the enterprise, and when it failed, with liabilities of $30,000, and no money to speak of, Schell glided from under, escaped tho wTath of the victims and sought fresh fields at South Whitley. Here he embarked in the loan business. He represented the Atkinson loan agency, of this city. In that and surrounding counties, and turned In a prodigious amount of new business. The agency was suspicious of him and one day when a check was tent to him to pay a mortgageor at Warsaw, it was not delivered to the borrower unil he was called to account.

Later two ch'cks. one for and another for were mailed him to de liver to borrowers at South Whitley, and these were never turned over. The Atkinson concern promptly made good the amount and went after Schell with vengeance. Then followed his failure at South Whitley. From South Whitley he went to Fort Wayne and began his meteoric career In that city, which has just closed with the wTeck of the Investment Company and the prospect of a long term in the penitentiary for the daring plunger.

He opened a small office In Fort Wavne. with the reputation he had earned at South Whitley overshadowing hira, ted. strange to say, lived down his tarnished fame, made money and delighted the South Whitley creditors by paying every dollar of his previous debts. Then he wanted to become a Napoleon of finance, and unsuspecting fanners in all directions will have to pay his blils, ATTE3IPTED MURDER. Dr.

J. D. Kelley Wjll Live to rroseente Ills Wife, Who Shot Him. Fjeola-l to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, March Joseph D.

Kelley. who is now thousht to be well on the road to recovery from the pistol shot wound Inflicted by Mrs, Kelley at Ehr-mandale a week ago. has filed an affidavit against her for shooting with intent to kill. The doctor says he Is moved to prosecute her because she has misrepresented their relations and placed the blame on him for all their troubles. At the time of the shooting it was learned that Mrs.

Kelley had rich and influential relatives in the East, but she refused to give names or places of residence. She admitted that she married the doctor ten years ago as the result of a romantic acquaintance, but said he. ha4 made lite miserable for her. A few days ago the police received a telegram from New York asking if Dr. Joseph Kelley had been shot.

The message was signed A. A. Adams. To-day Mrs. A.

A. Adams, who is a sister, ami another woman, who is said to be her cousin, are with Kelley and arranging to employ attorneys for her defense. Dr. Kelley says his wife was so jealous of him that she intruded on hi3 patients while he was attending them until In each place he lived his piactice was broken up. Mrs.

Kelley says that the doctor was jealous of her and that when some one told him that she had been receiving attentions from a neighbor, he came home and upbraided her, whereat she went for the pistol and shot him. Dr. Kelley has told the story of their romance by which it seems that he wrote a letter to her when her name, Miss Alice Watts, of Keypcrt, N. appeared in a newspaper account of a college commencement exercises. From this sprung the acquaintance which resulted In marriage, to which her parents were much opposed.

A VOLUNTEER DROWNED. Harvey Cook Went Down in Smith Lake nt Head of Lost River. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SALEM, March Cook, late member of Company One-hundred-and-fifty-nirth Regiment, and better known as "Diddle" Cook, was drowned in Smith lake, the head of Lost river, at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Cook, with Charles Plews, Andrew Brown and Coll Spurgeon, went to this pond to hunt ducks.

An old boat was found and Cook and Plews took their guns and rowed far out into tho marsh, which is filled with trees and underbrush. The lake, or pond, covers in the wet season about one hundred acres. After getting out into deep water the boat filled and sunk. The men waded and swam and Plews reached shore utterly exhausted after throwing away his gun. Cook got on a log and was safe for a time, but left this and attempted to make land.

Ho went down in sight of his companions. The body was not recovered until noon to-day and brought to Salem. Cook was a young man who had lived about Salem all his life and was twenty-six years old. BLOCK OOAL B1IXERS. District Convention To-Day to Consider Operators Proposition.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BRAZIL, March 2S. A district delegate meeting of block coal miners will be held here to-morrow to reconsider their action in voting to reject the operators' proposition to adopt the Pittsburg scale, providing the miners would prop their rooms. Some of the leading miners claim that the men did not fully understand the offer when they voted in the negative. Should the vote to-morrow favor the operators' proposition, a joint conference of the scale committee and operators and miners will bo called and the scale for the year, beginning the first of next month, will be signed.

However, this will not end the trouble altogether here as the machine question is yet to be settled, and the operators of the machines will demand an Otherwise. It is claimed that It would be cheaper- for the owners of mines) to produce coal by these machines than have it mined with picks at the present prices. Looking for Rhlnehart. SpIal to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, March 2S.

The two brothers of Howard Rhinehart, who until two months ago lived at Ellsworth, just north of the city, believe that his disappearance from Marshall, 111., iince last Monday is due to foul play. Frank Rhine-hart went to Marshall to-day to make a thorough investigation and perhaps to open a new grave in the cemetery where Howard was employed. Two months ago Howard married a sixteen-year-old girl in Marshall and soon afterward secured employment under Superintendent Mclntyre of the cemetery. The brothers say that on March Howard started for the woods near the cemetery to do some woodchopping and that there is no trace of him since. They are displeased with the apparent indifference on the part of the young wife and of Mclntjre.

There was a new made grave which was not accounted for when they were at Marshall several ago and tlpy may try to have it opened. Ttto Runaway Girls Found. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, March Misses Zoe Spaulding and lizzie Bales, two sixteen-year-old girls of Montpelier, left their home the tirst of February and have been evading their relatives and friends, who have been trying to locate them. This morning Chief of Police Lewis found Miss Spaulding in tie Webster block, where she was stajing with a married woman by the name of Auch-stein.

She was taken to headquarters, where she told several different fctories until finally she admitted her identity. She said she had been staying in Gas City until about three weeks ago, when she came here. Tho Spaulding girl's mother will come after her. The Bales girl has been living in North Marion, but no effort is being made to have her return home. The Spaulding girl said they lett home to join an opera company, but after showing at Warren, fell out with the company and then came to Marion.

A Saulre and Not a. 'Squire. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSON VILLE, March 2S. It has developed that II.

D. Rodgers, of Charlestown, has been acting as a magistrate, when, in fact, he was succeeded in March. 1S0S, by Slsney Conner. The facts were brought to light when three young men were fined by Rodgers Monday for intoxication. The records at the courthouse show that the County Commissioners appointed a successor to Rodgers on March 24.

1MS. It seems that he has never recognized his successor, however, and whenever an opportunity afforded itself he has conducted court and has even married several couples since the time of the appointment of his successor. It is likely that some action will be taken in the matter. Trolley Lines Consolidated. Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

GOSHEN, March 2S. Articles of Incorporation were filed here to-day for the Indiana Electric Company, a reorganization under one management of the old Indiana Electrlct Railway Company, the South Bend and Mishawaka Company and the General Power and Quick Transit Company. The Indiana Electric Company is capitalized at $1 and is now running the South Bend, Mishawaka, Elkhart and Goshen local lines with interurban service between Goshen and Elkhsrt. and between Mishawaka and South Bend. The completion of the line between Mishawaka and Elkhart early this spring will give through service from Gosheji to South Bend via Elkhart and Mishawaka.

Tramp Found Dead in a. Darn. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MITCHELL, March 28. An unknown man about sixty years old, pref-umably a tramp, was found dead in a barn belonging to Thomas Stroud, west of here, this morning.

Undertaker Murray took charge of his remains, awaiting identincation. In his pockets were found 65 cents, but no papers that might lead to his identity. Farmer Bloom Give Himself Tp Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HUNTINGTON, Ind, March 2. Thomas Bloom, a wealthy fanner of the southern part of the county, came to thia city last and surrendered himself to the sheriff.

Thursday zdht of last week he hot Jajztra Res.4, an oil driller, who was alleged to have been stealing from his barn. Bloom shot to wound, not kill, his man. but so near was he to his vlrtlm that the wound has flnce caused death. Bloom was threatened by mob violence at his home and came to Huntington to be lo'iged in the jail for saiety. The circumstances of the shooting are generally regarded as unjustifiable, although It Is believed that Bloom had no murder In his heart when he committed the rash act.

Mitchell PostoCice Bobbed. Sperfal to the Indlarmpoil Journal. MITCHELL, March 2. -The post-office at this place was burglartxed night, the thieves securing about $700 in money, stamps and registered mail. The burglars broke Into a toolhouse on the Monon Railroad and secured tools with which they gained an entrance through a rear door of the building.

The safe was blown open, the explosion shaking the buildings several blocks away. Some thought thii explosion, which took place during a storm, was a heavy peal of thunder, while others, thousht it an earthquake. There is no clew to the perpetrators, it Is thought to be the work of experts Shot a. IMtek and Died. Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

BRAZIL, March 2 Thomas Alt-kins, aged thirty-eight, died suddenly under peculiar circumstances to-day. This morning he observed some wild duck on the pond near his house, and as he had no fire arms, he hastened to a neighbor's, borrowed a gun, then returned homo and killed one of the ducks. His good luck excited him to such an extent that he dropped the gun and started to run for the duck, but fell dead in a few steps. Dr. Sourwine pronounced his death due to heart aisease, caused by excitement.

A Poverty-stricken Leather Thief. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. AUBURN, March A. Crocker, of Grant county, who was arrested Saturday at Fremont for stealing leather, pleaded guilty yesterday and was sentenced to three years in prison by Judge Hartman. Crocker stolo in al! twenty-two sides of leather in Garrett, St.

Joe, Churubusco and Alvordton. and sold it in more than a dozen towns around here. He is sixty-five years old. He was poverty stridden aud driven to theft for a living. Work on Odd Fellows Home.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENSBURG, March 2S. Mr. Clyde Powers, of Indianapolis, and Mr. Jeckels, of Andersen, are here to-day, the former making a survey of the I.

O. O. F. farm and laying off the foundation of the Odd Fellows' Home building, the contract for which was let last Wednesday. The contractors will beln work next week and the cornerstone will bo laid May 17.

Slander on the Village Choir. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COLUMBUS, March 23. One night last week some one entered the Methodist Church at Ohio Chapel, this county, and burned all tho song books and wrecked the church organ. The vandalism was not discovered until Sunday and the good people of that neighborhood declare that prosecutions will follow.

The church in that neighborhood has always been annoyed. Dick Hixon IlaiiKti Hlmjtelf. Special to the IndiaJiapolis Journal. FOWLER, March 2. Dick Hlxon, of Boswell, hanged himself in his barn yesterday.

He stood on a box ten Inches high when fastening the rope. The cause of the act was possibly poor health. He was thirty years old and leaves a wife and child in comfortable circumstances. Indiana Notes. The country home of John F.

Dynes, a former resident of Indianapolis, was destroyed by lire Monday night near The first time since the birth of Centre-ville, Wayne county, in 1S17. the village after this week will not have a saloon or "quart shop" within the corporate limits. Linton Republicans met Monday night and nominated the following town officers to be voted on in May: Marshal, James Hall; clerk-treasurer, Clint Sherwood: councilmen, A. D. Maddox and B.

F. Stover. The organization of a paper mill company, with a capital stock of was perfected at Brownstown, this week. The construction of the building and placing of machinery will begin at once and everything is expected to be in running order by August. Last Thursday, while Mrs.

George Her-camp. north of Brownstown. was preparing dinner, the cook stove overturned, falling on her two little children, aged four and six. killing the younger and burning the other so badly that there is little chance for recovery. The Hagerstown Council has granted a franchise to Kepler Kenny to build an electric road.

The franchise is exclusive in character, but is not operative until the inter-urban electrio railway which they are building is completed to within a mile of the corporate limits. The spring term of the State Normal School began yesterday with good prospect for an attendance of l.S. notwithstanding the standard of admission has been restricted to thoss who held three-year teachers licenses or arc graduates of commissioned high schools. Mayor Elmore, of Crawfords ville. vetoed the action of the Council last week granting the Bell Telephone Company the right to erect poles in the streets and alleys.

The veto was not sustained by the Council, however. The mayor claims that the Bell Company had no franchise, this having been forfeited. The Rell Company is putting poles up all over the town. Joseph R. Williams, ex-recorder of Kosciusko county, is short in his accounts He recently went out of office, and an Investigation showed he had failed to turn over all the money.

Ills bondsmen. John W. Chapman and James II. GIsney, have agreed to make good the shortage and there will be no prosecution. Williams says he Is at a loss to know how the discrepancy occurred.

The Converse Journal, the paper founded in 1SH3 bv Abe L. Liwshe, now deputy auditor of the treasury for the PostoCice Department at Washington, has been sold to Schuyler Miller and Ford Wailick, of Peru, the former being connected with the Peru Republican. The new proprietors take Immediate possession. Miller Draper, the retiring owners, bought the property of Mr. Lawshe six months ago.

For Cuban Women. Havana Letter In New York Mail and Express. Mrs. Kathleen Kennedy, representing the Methodist Episcopal Church, has left for the S'ates to complete arrangements for the establishment at Matanzas next fall of a monster woman's exchange and mutual benefit socletj-. After a short stay in Chicago Mrs.

Kennedy will seek financial aid ki New York. Before leaving Matanzas the lady gave a charitable performance at the Santo Theater. Major General Wilson arxl his staff. General Sanger and the civil governor and alcalde of the province were interested spectators. A chorus of 100 Cuban children, who.

after many days of practice, had committed the words of "Old Glory" to memory, sang, and a number of Cuban lads participated in a drill In which they made the outlines of the American flag. Mrs. Kennedy estimates that there are 30,000 women and girls In the city of Matanzas who are in destitute clscumstances. although anxious to earn a livelihood. It Is Mrs.

Kennedy's plan give all of these work next fall, the Idea being to get charitably Inclined persons to donate a building where the women and girls can make laces and other things for exiort and sale to tourists. In addition, it is her hope to establish a garden farm ar.d other branches of Industry on the order of Tuskesee and to promote a home for boys. Matanzas is probably one of the most beggarly cities of the Pearl of the Antilles. Rev. II.

W. Baker, of No. Conteros street. Matanzas, has also Interested himself in the work and Intends to mako a personal appeal to the people of the United States. A Prophecy.

Harper's Magazine. It Is Faid that one day, when Cromwell was but a mere lad. as he was lying on his bed In a melancholy mood, a gigantic specter appeared to him and fcald. "thou shalt be the greatest man in England!" Heath says it was a dream; Lord Clarendon and Sir Philip Warwick sieak of it as a vision. But whether dream or vbinn it made a profound impression on the youth, so much so that his father requested Dr.

Berrd Oliver's schoolmaster to flog him Feverely for "persisting In the wickedness of such an assertion." The HoKgtrwr. only deepened tb impression. He told his uncle Stuart of the prophecy, and was warned that It "was traitorous to relate It." Hut when he had seated himself upon the throne of England he frequently spoke of the occurrence, and was fully persuaded In hU own mind of Its prophetic and supernatural character. Gettlno Aeqaainted -with Kansas. Louisville Courier-Journal.

Kansas has proved although It needed no proof that when It comes to a test she is Just lLke tho othen cf thef United States America. Che Is a chici of the eagle Wasson's Dressmaking AND Ladies' Tailoring Two leading-departments in the State, and rightly so. The perfect fit. individuality and cxclusiveness of a gown from these rooms have made them a standard for stylish women throughout the city. Your spring order should be booked without delay.

You'll receive prompt attention now. H. P.Wasson&Co. Dental College Department of Dentistry, University of Indianapolis, S. V.

Comer Delaware and Ohio Streets. Receives patients from 9 a. in. to 5 p. for all kinds cf Dental work.

The fees are to cover the cost only. SEALiCfeTnCILSrTAMI. fit 0 jMtelU hVtAJAUCwUKFU HAD bfcJt.CP ELKS I gy4 TELOSS. 15 SMEKID1AN SI Gc TO fW and a forty-fifth cf the stars. When a war came and there wa real blood to Fhed.

Kansas was right alonjsde of Tennessee and renn.ivania. Nobouy but the Filipino was surprised when the Kansas reclment Saturday swam the river and tn.k th Mockhou.v-e which the Insurgents had fortified and as a leper hospital. The Filipinos don't know Kansas, although some of them are- much letter acquainted with her since the introduced herself to them Saturday. If they had not been so ignorant they would have been no cau.e for astonishment at Kansas' conduct; they would have understood that charslns leper hospital was a email matter to the boys who think it nothing to light Into the money devil in his lair, and that Fwimminir rivers Is trivial to thoe who have leeu swimming in pore ever Flnce they quit swimming in catnip and paregoric. 1MMAX NAMES OP TOW.S.

The Aborigine In Ialnsr, hat Will lie llemenihered. Self Culture. The Indian was a born story-teller. Every lake and river, every rock nnd everv plain had its story, its incident, its legend. The Indian pave ever those names that recalled these legends to his mind, if the Indian names of the Enlted States were taken on by one, and the traditions connected with them collected from the white inhabitants, a wealth of legend nnd romance would be secured.

Such a compilation would be a most important contribution to folklore, and a treasure trove to poets and novelists for all Poor Lo! he has nil but passed away. Tee-re City, Valley and Sachem's Head, show that ho was once Atnonc us, qp do Indianola, and Indianapolis. Indian bay, and Indian bayou. Indrnn bottom, camp, and creek, Indian dippings, falls, pap, grulch and head. Indian mound, neck, ridge and river, Indian rock, run, springs and town, Indian trail and Indian valley.

He has left behind him his Kinniklnnick that he used to Fmoke, his moccasin that he used to wear, medicine lodge that he used to visit, and the wampum for which he bartered his poriy or his beaver skins. He has left behind him alo the Indian names of many familiar objects, though the memory of these meanings have all but been forgotten. Mondamln means corn; Wawa. wild goose; Oieecheo, the robin; Dahlnda, the frog; Roanoke, a sea.hell; Chieag-o. the wild onion; Omeeme, a pigeon; Wawbeek, a rock.

etc. The Indian has left him hundreds of muleal allitrative nanus, in which the consonant or vowel sounds are doubled. Good examples are Wawaka, Wawa see, Kankakee, and Kenneku.k, Tuscaloosa, and Tallahassee. Ocklocknee. Ohonje.

and Oshkosdi. Mlnnetonka. and Massaheslc. Contoocook. Iogootee.

and Uatchechub-bee. We like to roll his Kennebunk ar.d Cuttvhunk. his Nantucket and Washusett. his IIckapoo nnd Tetonko over our tonrue. for tho mountain breezes and breath of the prairie are in them, and ill indeed could we spare them.

Cromwell's Mother. Harper's Magazine. Tho sympathy existing between this mother and fon Is one of th most beautiful traits in Oliver's personal history. They loved each other with a passionate affection that ro time or change lessened. nd when arrived at the summit of his power, though she was then upward? of ninety years of age.

he appointM her royal apartments in Whitehall, and visited her every day. Noble quaintly says. "She occasionally yet offered the Protector advice, which he always heard with great attention, but acted is he judged proper." It 1 pleasant to think that this fine old lady died happily before her son's power bgan to wane. It Is pleasant to think of the great Protector kneeling to receive hr dying bkssirg and of her last smiling words to him and bis children "A good night, dear!" There 1 yet a portrait of her at Hlnchlnbrookc. which shows us a handsome woman, with a face full of character, and a rather melancholy expression.

Her dress Is that of a gentlewoman of the time a white atln hood, a inarl necklace, and a neckerchief edged with rich lace. The mantle is of grten satin edged with gold lace, and fasuned with a Jeweled clasp. Ilural Mall St. Louis Fre delivery of mail In the rural dlstrics has given great satisfaction In the few districts where it has been tried, and the postal authorities mean to push It along. The appropriation has been increased from I a year to JW.uo which sum will be ampl for all purposes during the exieriment Ai stage.

The greatest impediment to the efficiency and popularity of the new service I bad roads. In the Western and Southern State are so muddy and that It is difficult to lay out a practical route of twenty-live miles which must bo made by one horse. of course, is a cuhjct state concern. Eut there i no doubt that the movement row under way will within a few years result in a good road frstem all over the country, ar.d as this Is accomplished deliveries will be extended. It i not too much to believe that within the next quarter of a century postofTWs will be confined to the country towns, th cros roads offices being abolished, and the farmers will have their letters brought to their doors at least once a day.

A dash of Fruit Juice on GrapeNuts 0 0 0 Fetcliine: "You ought to advertise for xp to eat fruit Julca on Grape-Nut. I like them ry much that way. I mix fruit in nd eai a sort of fruit pudding. hich Is ery delightful to Tny palate, and I find th food of a mo.t nourishing character. Since Its na I have been relieved of constipation." TLts was written ty a man In Huffalo, N.

Y. A nice fruit Juice, such as comes from canned peaches, pears, makes a delicious diih of Grape-Nuts, and another favorite Is to make a puddlnff with sultana ralfcini, euca as given la the direction ca the package. When a man or woman once eats he (or ehe) thereuin J-Vn the Grape-Nuts army, and never rt jrv.u it..